The Rock Island Weekly Argus from Rock Island, Illinois • 2

jMONDAY, EVENING, OCTOBER 1 1855. Lectures for the VTe notke in our exchanges that, in Xe t-Dffkhj flVfii'tiliiiraii. north and sooth. Geographical parties cannot remedy these local eviU. Voting altogether at the north against the south would tiled bat section.

exasperation, and lighting would bo civil How plain it Is, then, to calm common sense, tion of the anti-blavcrj- fusion monMer to swallow both At first it was arranged that the fuion party cry le two olitical impossibilities; restoration of, the -Miouri compromise and no inure slave just one half of flie deTcafed Wilmot Tiroviso. nothin-r nothinjr less. Apttenl to Democrat aad Uaiow Mt HCNinot Sortnexa lusion aud Sectiou-nlisin. From the Virmcrnry of and Suffolk. Adopted by the Ward and County Coitviuitetty nnremion, IJrUlirr, I 55.

lure f.dlcn unon times th.lt try men's Lh Catholic. Owe Temporal ce the." Pope 1 1 At the provim-ial council reenUy held it. St. Louis, an kddress, wss issued by the arch bishop and bishops of the province of St. LouU to the clergy and laity of the province.

TW address is in itself redolent of piety and ehris. tiau hupjility, and breathe forth the tnia spU every state sovereign, except in the grants made to the Uuion by the constitution. Licet men to ollicc who when they taka the oath to supfort iho constitution of Massachusetts, will respect the hill of rights which prohibits tiniiptu.iry laws and cruel and unusual puninhmcuts to destroy the property and personal rights ofcitizcus." Men, w1m wlien ihey wcar to siipixrt. tho constitution of the United States, have no pieutaL reservatico to evade it by uullilying laws, whicli. its najjoaal legiL-ture has passetl and iLs judiciary solemnly affirmed.

1 KVKIN, OOTOlSUt 27, Appeal ttljnM-rmi nnd Ma. We.eoininrncc, to-d iv, the piih'kation ad.lrr-. of the 8u.T.lk county coni-t mitten. The IUon -it under-I I s'ool to bo from the of Hor. Lksjaminj vli.tt.

It is a strong, wetl put, nol.Ie government vihich for scv-piper, an will rank atoonjr the ablest of the I cnty year have employed the statcsir.amhip t.ro hv fion of jb.iiMiori So lii-dt'v do the irmnittee value if. that thrv liave ordered twenty thousand copK-s to printed for gene- r.tl circn'atiou. fatiati ism of "unlinlitctrgr Massa busetu, Tin a I dress review tl question of the dav onee the cradle of national lib holds out witl. master hand, fit portray clearly anj n-. higher aspiration in citlr tUeMr lrty or-i i 1 iro or todir it- f.red.iy the pneahy and eleii.eiit ot nrth- r- brl, tha (f ern fusion it pre-H'ttJ what will be the room ,1.,.

Mn nude to f.n-'ar ilie -onsti- i oviintn.c. uaf por tion of it, we feel induced to publish, a it tanis tho most pointed aud most rauthoritatira contradiction of a slander wLicVliai becn Jo, dutriously propagateil against eatholic citixena l.U tl.k' .1. nf nf flu ffAlwl in m-rT -l wiuuvi ue snow notuing oraeri It relates to the temporal power of the. pop, ami in ftHtfrianrA wKisK a 2.. in all civil as well as ecclesiastical matters by wmuEiiui iwu iiiunu, iu sunjoinou cm.

pUatical denial of this charge, coming froavtho' arcl.bisliop ami bishops iu council assembled will, we trust, forever hereafter put at rest th scnscleer aad imalkiotis, falsehood, t. ex. tract is as folio 3 "Un willingly do we allude to this frivolout, and unworty pretexts which are alleged br the enemies of the church, in justification of their hostility. You are held up to the suspicions aud hatred of yout fellow-citizensat persona holdin? doe trine And nMwmlvIn. incompatible with your obligation as citizens; 1 of this republic.

"We Deed not tell you, brethren, that the church Imposes upou you no pilh gations incompatible with your allegianca to the government ur.der Which you live, or that your religious principles are the best guaranty your country can have, that, hereafter, as bar. lot'orc, you will bo fouud faithful to vour duties as a ciiixen, while you are jealous of your obligations as christians. You know that all power from God that society is constituted on iii vine basis that every offense against" th Liw of vonrcruintrv nirxnii I and tliat, consequently, you are to obey, ot only tor avoiding the puniohment which the aiagisfrato inflicts on the transgressor, but from the higher of Nor is this obligation frustrated or weakened of its effects by the paramount obligation of observing the divine law. You know tliat while rendering to Ccasar what is Ceasar'g, you must give to God what he necessarily demands. Alt who profess the christian rcUgion acknowledge-this i.a fi.jsi nuiiv vkiiury ultv ivib to utc suggestions of their own individual conscience, or to the direction of some urely human tribunal to ascertain what conscience requires, ia the event ot a real or apparent collision be-; tween the duties as citizens and as chrutiant, you have an authority to guide you, which tlw promises of Clixist show to be a certain means of avoiding mistake, and which, even to the- who do not recognize its divine character, must if calmly reviewed, be regarded -a safer than the dictates of the individual reason, and more wortWy of confidence than airy other' tribunal vu n.

uiui iviiHuia ma err vtie may forbid hat the law of God cotmnaods; they lilay command what tle law of God for- I i i I a. jh oius. tv ncnever sucrr in-parttrre' Irorn tbe truth and justice present itself if tho form of Law, the christian roust remember, the principle, and inriUfee the example of the apostles, and must oltey God rather than man. The author ity of the church in regard to such matters' is nothing more than: the application of a principle whieli is admitted, as well by those who re ject tier authority as by her most faithful chil- It is only by an, entire misrepresentation of these principles, aud by confounding things es seutially ditlerent, tliat the tie on el ot tho church can represent her as hostile to the well-being of society, or her children as unworthy of the blessings of civil liberty. The exploded calumny of a divided allegiance, which alone it is said, catholics can, consistently with their principles, give the government of their country, now seriously renewed, as if it had not already been refuted by every kind of argument, as 'well a by the" testimony of history aud experience.

We are mortified to be obliged to refute a charge which argues extreme ignorant or extreme malice in tliose who prefer, it. We owe no temporal allegiance, to the bldiop of Rome. We recognize in tho government under which we live tho power establisb-i. i i i. t- iu all that concerns the civil order, and always to obeyed, whenever its rvqui rente nts are not obviously opposed to the laws of God.

Wt maintain, indeed, the superiority of the spin-" tii.il over the temporal order. awiinuiio that the temporal ruler is bound to conform bis enactments to the divine law. We mainUia that the church is the supreme judge of aS questions concerning faith and morals, and that, in the determination of questions, tha Roman Pon tiff, as 1car of Jesus Christ, coa-stitutes a tribunal, (ram which tlierc is no appeal, and to whoso award all tho children of the church must yield obedience. If this ap--pear incompatible with the allegiance we owe to the civil ruler, it can be only in the minds oi those who ignore the rights of conscience, or suppose that in the most difficult aud momentous questions, conscience has no certain rule bv wLncli to be guided, and who, ia denying too paramount obligation of Cod's law, would establish, tmder the of liberty, the, most revolting despotismA-that which absolves power from its most obvious and sacred obligation of obeying Him from whom all power descends I and substitutes; furj the duty of moral obediecea submission toforct that cannot be successfully Xlsist 1. Par ho Un, defrrarlinf- iniimi Kn.

ever speciousli- preseutcd, from the children of a'churcU wh'ui, vrhilo giving to God what tj-longs to (iod, lias ever given to Ceasar what belongs to Ceasar, and principles, practices legislation, have been derived civilization and lilery, which ungratefully ijjr nore thc4-oririn. 1 4 i Iexx4ti.vania Official Vote. The Ilarrisburg Union, (publishes the olhVial rots for canal commissioner at the recent election in tliat state, comjiared with the Vuto for gorereor one year, ago: Governor whig and k.n., Of.OOs Bigler, deiuocrat, PollcK-k's majority. Canal 1'Iuumt, dem-, Xicholson, opp-S ,31,00 lG1.23t Ilumer's majority, Denugain, Legislature, Senatf -House, i 11,534 opp. dem.

16 17 a rnnilllim If not their OUI' "iMrtitfH have lioen breaking tin. new parties arc In-ina formed. Kvery clique is inventing plat- Jho. Ot.le an exclusive patent to govern them. Instead of the tunda- of tin constitution and the "us great republic, and it bcyon-t dl pi-credent iu histoiv, we art' to be narrowed do by one-idea demagogue, to the native or the w-ctioiial tn: iu, to iiullify the J.w of lint 1'aited States, lo bivak the.

of our taflier when tl formed tln solid eonijiftel of lfe L'miiX, ml tci inib-iitiite the ttlivU' uf vret iniduiglit conn-cilii the aetiot a leiriVlature ehMvn Ly ihi? m-iiu-, arid the JvspoliMu of uiobn for tandin tlw to-ivw ot an ni.H'j.H.-naeui juui- yl ni her time, hin lrten el bv rovaliit, revolutiouii-t, federal it, lem- i i wrais. national rt'tuiblieans, whi and eoili tioni.it, but never until -now by hoic- The fruit of. that rule wliieh ipruiig tip in a ni'jht to wither in a day, have ticcn by the people and burned to nshc on their lip. It wliolu elements of pirty jower wtre religion bigotry, -it red of foreign liorn, hostility to the'south, and war upon tfto Union. Call it the jftrfy or Refusion jxir ly; givp It the aue candidate, or two et of candidate, it i the tame loral party, the wmo men of one idea, the Miie againt the diznitv of -the common wealth, the jupremc law of the laud, and tfie of the L'n- ion.

Now if the old juirtie were to be broken up, hall the teotJe aL'iin liitruit mirli another ne party whi. A party which, while pry- tending to be the prtv ft freedom, d.mic to its follower the rtt of private iudnnent. and coimik'1 them to nwenr to vote liiriii -n ttiey Snow uutnl, silectet oy a secret deMtic council, whose will is lo Ik their law. "A party devout iu real n-rf to knowledge that it cannot tolerate religious til erty nor jiolitical right in a and yet fraternize and fust with scolTen who wout tlio holy sk-ripture becnuo they teach ubiuis-jsion to and maiit rate, an I clamor for "an anti-slavery coii'titution, and an anti-slavery t'iblw, and an anti-la very flol. A part so intemtKTate in ita temperance, lawless iu it law nuking, that it enthrones a ij in place of moral amnion, and strikes ilown all "standing laws" anl all guaranties of the constitution, which protect the minority as well a tho majority in tho enjoyment of life, property, the pursuit of happiness.

J- A party, tliatutlder pretext of stnetimonious purity invadesjthe private doiuicil, the home that ts every mu's castle, and then is compelled, by the lore of pubjie opinion, to resolve itself iuto a secret iii position upon tlr. immorality and indecency of its owfu committees of investigation. A'-rly which in one act makes war upon the L'aioa, to Jif lawless violence the return of a to his master, and iu another act rluecs to jiolitical lavcry every tnan who flees from, the tyranny of the old world to find a home in the new, solely because he is not native born A party th it l'harisee like, gives lectures and long prayers to the south on the violation of a legislative compact always open to legislative repeal, and then trample on the constitutioiutt comtact north and south, which can never be repealed or disregarded, under the oaths of the constitution. A party, finally, dead to all obligation, that in the face of tho decisions of the suprume court, the opinion of i's chief law officer, and the vote of its own governor, vote to remove a judge for having obeyed lAs oath of oTiec in enforcing the laws made in' pursuance of that co istitutional compaL-t, and pisses "the personal liberty bill" to make. '-treason against the nited States" lawful in this commonwealth Deeply as wc may deplore and deprecate the acts of lawless men in Ktna, what acts can.

we find recorded there, in outlawry out-Ilerod these Shall such a new party, or any party, however called, having a its 'paramount idea cither of these eleweuti of bigotry or disunion, have the misrule tfeis aiiciut commonwealth tor another year of anarchy in legislation, and ijsue another codn of crude, disjointed, reckless, unconstitutional at'ts, which the people cannot understand, nor the lawyers eonstnie, nor judges exjiound, nor- juries enforce So far as the uecrel order" is concerned, inr this state and in every state, this question isal-readv answered in the negative by the know-nothings thenwlrcs. "The ber tecoml thought of the people? has already' come to judgment. The tide ot Tollv has no to ebb out lon be fore' it Readied iu flotJ. and has no From Maine to Texas, through Virginia, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Indiana, north. West aud south, tlie whole track is strewn with their Kiow-nothingism is abandoned as a prefidentiid hobby, before it had run its -appointed course of a single year.

The managers saw this before it was supei etl by their followers. Hence the scene was to be shified. A new political farce was to lie put upon the stage, and with the same old actors, who haveagiin anil again been 'hissed oil" by an abused public. The same cliques, the sanw aspirants, the sme disappiintisl from old parties, 'who devised the know-tiothing eonspiiacy ag.iitist the rights of the people to secure place for now Imv seecli that same people to become again their iiuiiible followers train-lH-'arers-in a luihler and more open conspiracy against the Union, which they call Jfution. It began with the dissensions of the convention at IliHadclphia.

Tlie ni tioiiitl men in that con vein ion vainly -struggled to find a national lmsis of xtliticsl action. The frresoilcrs, who had deiuiiumalized that Jarty friKii its inception, came home resolved oo a sectional northern party. The Virginia election followed, and then it was invle manifest that the democracy bred, and that tlie south could not 1h deluded by know-iioihiiigisiti in'o conmiifing partial suicide. The know uolhtng lewlers at the north fin ling their strength departing, In-gan to cast abvut for some new centre of ing linc4o tlieir tlisliono'tti power iu the states they Ind alrt-ady i-rtinpitwl, and to acquire power iu the states thev stilt hoped to' subdue. Kveu thl ind.

finiteiiess uas ttw definite for the poliev of the ne pu-ty 1 lenee the firt plank of the fusion. nUifortii, the restoration of he iliuri eo.1Iu-o.u.Se, Im. lH-en la, and alt the statesmanship of the whole combt- nation opposition to ademocratkj administra- tion, lias been-resolved into a vague nothiugisui of retnttce to uiftrewtu, oj the flare a new phrase tor ism, and opposition to the drmncrulir jxirtij, "which means just as muc or just as little as cau be made of it to construct a northern sec-tonal party for jiarty success. I Kveu the "Maine law," which was their ca-tkolicon in niomls, as antiVavcry now is to le in politics, ha been laid aside by this new parte, aineefifs magicians and swo hsayers 1 have siu'ii tlie hand writing on the wall iu the. uivUi-eraUe Maine election.

Since that uprising of the cop'e, so significant of the fate of fusitMl even in New Kngland, we are gravely told by the temperance fcealots of the new party that the Maine Jaw was unwisely mixed up with anti-slavery in that state, and therefore the've-puhlU-ons" of Massachusetts must echew it, lest thev also share the like defeat! Yes, fellow citizens, temperance, statesmanship, constitution, Union, nationaliry, law -aiij gospel are to be abaiukued for negro phiUtn-throjij by the leaders of this "fusiou" move-nient who call thcmswlves fi-pulJieun Why have they chosen this time honored name, when their wliole statesmanship is to lie dcvotml to tlie blacks, and not to tlie white citizens of this trreat republic of thirty-one states? Then; would indeed be significance in it, if they would add the fitting cithet of bhub repidtlicnus. Historv teaches us this by exuiujile; and conservative men of the Union would do wisely profit by it, France would have been a re-, public this day but for her red republicans; earnest but misguided men of faiiath-al aud ultra ideas, who sought the impracticable in government, and lost all they liad of freedom by demanding universal eouality am! individual personal sovereignty. ust the black republicans of our day, the sectionalists and disuuioti-ists of our land, would rashly destroy' this glorious republic of states, and deprive the white men of national regubucd by law," il they cannot bring aUmt llieir radical theory of iiidivi'lual'equality which is to elevate the slave to fraternity with his iiuutcr. 'Hem are some of the ingers of this new conspiracy against the Uuion. What is the remedy Where are we to look for the conservative principle, the conecntratioi.

of nanoti- alitv which th.s moveiiM-iit ilemauds, for the safety and perpetuity of tlie republic There is but one answer. Against this fusion of discordant political elements the national; democratic party can alone be relied on to make a suocessfnl stand. It has done and is eminently doing so, with fidelity, firmness aud constancy through its present national and constitutional president; und it will, with like moans and energy, continue to upW.d tho const it u-tion and the supremacy of law in the future. It is hopeless to calf upou any other party than the democratic party as a national organization, not to suffer itself to be dissolved by this political solvent of the quack statesman of the day, called There are honorable exceptions to the general denationalizing of the whiz party. The great memories of, Webster and Clay arc still held in reverence by a whig party in issac'itisctt and some few of the free states, llut even could the Union wliigs redeem Mas achusetts, can they prevent the absorption of the whig party as a Union part)', in kr.ow-nothingisiu at the south and anti-slavery at the north? There can be 'but two real parties in the next presidential contest national and sectional, law and higher law, or no constitution, union or disunion.

The democrat party will hold the fl ig of the Union as tho only 'party having on the nimv. platform, tlie same principles with the same candidates, a national party in every state of the Union. -Around that flag every Union man must rally if be would not." direcr'y, or indirectly, give aid and comfort to this fusion of "rrjmbli-enns" to destroy the llcpublie. And to what od end can this new fusion party come? Even if the whole of the jicople of the north should consent to' comn down to this one idea of resisting the admission of new slave state, it would I simply a contest for an impossibility ur.der the it ulion. Its lnsis is false, because it denies to the new state thus attempts! to be restricted in its sovereignty, equality wilh the old states.

It is impracticable, bocausejf a congress of northern alwli-tionists, with a like executive, should compel a. territory to exclude slavery from its constitution, as a precedent of adinissiati into the Union, the people of the flew state could instantly change its constitution and establLOi slavery, and there is no power in the nation to interfere therewith. There is nothing new in this one idea which the fusion party now claim to "paramount." The Hartford convention tried it and wrecked the federal party. We went all over this anti-slavery d'ina in the Wilmot jiroviso, and Iie.it them on it north snd south. The national idea of the' people of tliis whole country will always repose in its conservatism, ujion tho only sound resolution of the slavery question, Xox-INTKn-FKUKXCK Iir UO.MinESK IN STATI? AXITKH-UITOU V.

Hence tho difference between the democratic party of the whole Union, and the sectional pirty of anti-Iavcry, rests on the fundamental principle of the of self-government inherent iu the people of every legally organized political community Under the constitution and thus this anfi-sfavery issue is an issue made up outxiite of tho constitution, and outside of the' Uuion and this makes the sectional quarrel between states, and the scfetionat quarrel a it territories. Formei Iv it was attempted to be to Ixmisana. MMsouri, Florida, Arkansas, Texas. Ju-t it happens to be a'oout Kansas. The a'Kiliiion propagandists of began the coutest by the iucororution of aid-cmigra-tion societies not so much to settle Kansas as to make tunas an abolition The slavery propagandists of Missouri got up combinations to invade tho territory ami make it a slave state.

Itoth are alike disregarding the true principle of the Nebraska hilt, which leaves the (irud adjustment of the slavery question there, as a purely local wsue, to the actual and -lertuancnt ettlers. There are wrong-headed men on both sides, and jxTsonal rights are violated, but it is a local difficulty and not a 'national concernment, Tlie states or the United Statas cannot take sides and mtcrfrre no more than they could lynch law ot California' or the know-nothing mob at Iouisville. These, local evils work out their own cure, witlwut a resort to civil war. Yet the anti-slavci men rail at the president fiir not sending an army to Kansas to dissolve the president is not a despot, and has no power to invade state or territory with a standing army, liut they sir lie called out the utiiitarr to enforce the fugitive law in Iloston. So did Washiiigtoa iu the whiskey rebellion iu; I'eua-syivauio.

The president sworn to' execute the laws of the Uuion; aul when process under a law oi the United Slates is resisted his duty necesiry military fbrve ia aid of the civil process. Hut juj legal protress under a law of tho United States is resisted iu Kausas. 2u marslwl or governor or legislature has called for au a ruiod poiie to enforce law, or the militia to rejiet foreign invasion or suppress domestic insurrection. puuislimeut of lawless men rests with the judiciary, not wilh the The actual settlers of Kansas will ultuB'ite'y settle these local 'J organic Jaw of the territory provides a jcace-ful remedy. If a lawless, le-iislature enact un.

ark, Ohio, the elergymeu together other 1 imminent citizens, have agreed to give, the coining winter lecture each mainly his-tork-al the whole to! be tree to all omers. Why cannot the people of llock Island be treated to a similar jrepast The klea is an excellent one aud there is pluntv of talent in our nudst to siipp-y; a lecture twice a month during the winter. f'As we said in our daily of Thursdaytast.it is not absolutely necessary we sliould grow iuto dry mummies and morose just because wo happen to live; in a hard working world. Neither is jwiiie to pivo up our leisure hours to beer-drinking or billiard playing or any other of the drinking or laying of the town. Very many, doubtless, of those who.

resort to low indulgences might be withdrawn 'from them entirely by judicious amusements, ealcu-latea to improve the taste and elevate the nature. And the young might be kept from hurtful influences In the same We need no better proof of the utrlity of amusements Mhan its power of taking hold upou every many its congeniality with human nature. If some citizen interested in this matter would call a meeting of those friendly to such a movement, aud have a committcq appointed to invite those of our citizens who are to write and deliver a good lec'ure, the people might then receive the benefit of useful information and pass a very agreeable winter. have no doubt die re are men in our society who would deliver one or two froo lectures the coming winter and thus aid to elevate the tone of morals and intelligence among the people. There is the Iter.

Dr. Hayes, Hon. Joseph Knox, Rev. Mr. Sawyer, Kev.

Mr. Wilson George MIxter, Uev. Mr. tVorthmgton, Judge Drury, 1L M. Marshal, I'.

Gregg, and maiiy other professional and eminently practical men in our midst who, if they would favor such a plan, eculd do much to benefit ioeiety at larg, to promote harmony and kindly: feeling among our jieop'e, and exert a healthful influence upon the young. The New York Tribune says, tho expense of weekly lectures, when distinguished speakers are iu ited from a distance, is beginning to cause murmurs in. many quarters not always unjust." Thus, the Rev. Henry Ward Beech-er, having been hired to give twelve lectures, independent of all societies, in" western cities for $125 per uight, tho speculator in brains has fixed his price for Cleveland at bOc per ticket, which is lomplalned of not without reason. Still those who don't choose to pay it have perfect liberty to stay away.

Tbey wall then lose nothing by Mr. B'. visit. If any person thinks favorably of this or any other plan to. provide cheap, useful and cutortainin2 jiastiuies for tlie people during the coining winter, we hope they will send us a call for those interested in the subject to meet and adopt measures to that Improvements ia the Third Ward Tlie great improvements made in the streets ahd sidewalks ia the third ward in this ciy, by J.

D. Carruichael, the efficient supervisor, form a prominent feature among the changes our city has undergone the present season. The niuch-tafkcd-of sloughjias tioarlr disappeared, and one year more, at the same rate of improvement, will uuuibur that great eye-sore among the things that were, as iar as that ward is-concerned. Orleans street, from Jefferson to Broadway hai been rawed two-and a half feet and a gxxl carriage xoiid made tho whole distance, withdrawing a long share of the travel from Rock river street. Sidewalks have also' been cou-s rue ted the whole distance; Madison 'street has been ra sed to the grada a good wide bridge constructed, and several sidewalk bridge.

Adams street Las been opened fur public travel, and a good bridge consj-teted. Dock street ha. also been opened for travel, and a substantial culvert constructed; the full width of the street. i Broailway has been raised, to the grade the full width of the street. The improvements on the levee, and the Mc-Ailauiizing of Illinois street were also made under the superintendence of Mr.

Carniichacl. Let the same amount of improvements be made another year, that have been made this jear, and our city can then 1oast of as Cue streets and side walks as any in the west. ttijF" Tlio Ch'trch Journal, the ablest orgn of the episcopal church, edited by John II. Hopkins, son of Bishop Hopkins, -of Vermont assisted by several other episcopal clergymen, has published a striking article on the folly and fanxiieistu of the rohibitory law. Iij argues that everything is good, if used in that the Maine law it no remedy for intemperance; tliat the aim and end of its supporters i a bad one that it is folly in the extreme to attempt to remedy evils of excess by forbidding altogether the moderate use of things that of themselves are protuctive of benefit; that the wine used at the supper table in Cana of Galli-lee, aud all other wines mentioned in lie scriptures, were intoxicating, and that the.

tan of the Alm'ghty rested not upon their use, but their abuse wine-drinking is not the worst of social evils, but (as we have often said) gluttony far ex ceeds it and that it is nonsense to prohibiten. liquors to the healthy and allow tlre.n to the sick, The Uhitrch Journal deals a 8e-ero blow; its article will shock the fanatics, but the argument is marked by sterling good sense throughout, i1 A (Jkk'y Kagle. On Sattmlay last a large grey eagle was killed by Dr. Gregg, Gen. Tux-bury aud Mr.

JoLu II. while a hunting excursion near Mr. Glen's, oo Ro-k river. The length of the wings, tg to tip, measured tixftet teu inches. The blfJSyis Hyiug when discovered.

Mr. Baker a. Gen Tux bury both fired on htm at nearly tho same time, which brought hiin to the ground at some distance from them and near Dr. Greirg, who, when he first saw supposed it to bo a tur key and shot him the third time, Ilii was then so disabled that ho could not get away. The dogs eo.uing up, attacked him but scut howling away and the bird was at last kUlod with clubs.

Ho fought bravely to tho hut, but was obliged to surrender to the superior skill and force of the hunters. Wo are under obligatiou to Gen. Tuxbury for a largo quid trout a wing of the proud bird, which wo shall preserve with care and use it to record tho triumphant electiou of a democratic president, nc year. fj Catt. Jamks II.

Wahd, commander in the United States navy, left, iu the eastern train of ears on Saturday cveuiug, to Like coui- maud of the United States sloop oi" Jauies- town, now ou the coast of Afi icar that this sectional fusion party of the north cau do no gooC to tlic slave or to the country. The wlmle 4' tlleir party policy comes down to the solution tlie political problem, bo long tlie two sections, nortu anu soutii, van stand cnnn-nalloii, Irritation and coIiLionf before they shall come lo the shock of civil' war ant! disunion. The north is to combine tn a grard -foray npon the south, and ti her' to the sectional rack, while these fusion doctors, bo much wiser than AVashington who warned us against geographical parties, are to feel the jiulsc of the Union and tell us how much torture it will Lear before the patient expires! i In plain language, this new fusion anti-slavery party, is to swallow op every arty except I he. democracy, ia to start for re vulut ion or a northern confederacy. So that, after forty vears, we are, here in New England and New Vork, carried "back to tke old onspiracy for a noKhern -i-ou federal ion against the south, which John.

Quincy Adams has left upon record went so tar iu the old federal democratic collision lictwccn north and south, "that the prnjju.iat lui'l vi made to an individual to lie placed at the head of the militnrtf movement trhivk it tm.i foreseen icvuld be teceurif for carrying it iuto erevutiuu." letUT or '2. Adams to Harrison Gray Otis, V' 7- When such an isSme Is made up ai the north, the Houth must" unite in for self-preservation We tit the north have only an abrtract xeitfiuteiit, they at the south have, interests, property, life, involved in thi struggle. "J- itse' at the north on aiiti-slavery as "tlie paramount issue. lireak up all business and social interowurso between north and all national tuturcsts, all federal relations, ait advancemcut and cxmnsiou of the country, and narrow down all great ideas and enlarged statesmanship into hatred of the south and persecution of inen foreign born And what then 't The geograpliical parties are- fo. m-ed Washinglou warned his conntryuien against as the grave of the Union, and the ark of the Uuion will sotelv in the hands of the men of the north, whose love of the Union and the white race is stronger thau their false philanthropy for the negro.

Who can doubt the result of such, an issue. fearful as it will be, it made lo sustain the Union and the faith of constltutiou, will rwpiire but twenty-nine' electoral votes from all the free states, and the democracy and the Union men of tlie north will command many more whenever they are required to put down the treason which this fusion conspiracy is cc-n-ciK'ting lor the next presidential election. Maine has given her pledge, lViinsylvaiiiaaiul Indiana hate spokeu, aud even if Ol.io seems now to hrtve desertel to the black Hag, the free west will prove loyal to the UnionJ To what end theu is this fusion of all other issues in a luere sectional anti-slavery opinion at the north that cannot abolirh slavery in a single sjate or territory where the people, wish to have it, whether they remain in, or are driven out of. the Union What is to be the des- ty of the twenty-five iiii. lions of whites while tlie country, arraved iu two hostile sections, fighting over the servile condition of three uiii- lions of blacks? What benefit are the uier- chants, mechanics, ma uutacturers, farmers awi laboring men of thj north to derive from this sectional war aUmt a race whose o.itu.al condition can no moru we changed by it tliau the lithiopian cau change his skin or the leopard his spots Go a step farther and etand ou the brink of tliat precipice over wind lm wisest siatesmeii have shuUdetvd to look into the gull of disunion.

SupKse the fusiou-auti-Uvery north should conquer the south in a sectional crusade, of teu or twenty ycrs, by maintaining a majority of abolitioiiiaUiu congreSj and a sectional president Will the conquered south submit Clearly not. It holds them lower in the -scale of men than their laws rank the slave, to hojc for such submission. They are men, "high-minded iiieii," and i will secede from congress, and what then aVhy, "SKT THE IKHiS ox them!" exclaims a northern senator, a great leader in this new tesion move-meiit, who proclaimed this treason in Maine. Vcs. "I KY HAVOC AXI LET M.lr.

Tilt: OK WAR." Tliat is the fu-ion stittesman's remedy tos ive the Union, unt that is civil war. And the farmers, mccliaiiirs, aud la I -en of the north arc to be the "doj.i" to be set 'upon tint south by your senators Wade mid Wilson aud their whippers in of and civil war! And what then? If you 'fight and daily sacrifice lietacombs of white uieu in the cause of nejrro freedom, have you abolished slavery Not unless the white men of the south are extcrmtu-ate l. i' But suppose there is no fighting arid the separation is jeiiceul. What then 3 The liest' we can hae of it will bea northern which wilt criuit no slave state tf joiu it, aud a southeru republic, which every state and territory that lioids or des'rt'S to have domestic slavery will join. And this southern republic and these new slave states will keep and hold their slaves wilh a stronger hamUth in '-now and in the end the northern republic! mu-t either fight the southern, or make a treaty to deliver I-up her runaway slaves I A lOpulation we shall be obliged to get rid ot; when tney hare overrun tho north wilh pauper lalxir.

Fhmu these I utile and terrible issues of blood, disttiicinberment, and national degradation, those who love their whole country, those who are American indeel, can turn only to the democratic doctrine of self-government aud nonintervention the constitution as it is, and the' Union as It was licforu abolitionism disturbed it. And where is the standard of. the Union aruund which tticy can rally The whig jmr-tv at the south is lost by this incessant war of the north ujvm their iloinestic institutions. The know nothing party at the north is but a new name for anU-slavery, with one more idea added. It is a party with just tiro ideas to free the blacks and to make wh ite xtare of all emigrants and forxign burn Xo 'party but the democratic party has a national existence or can hold a national convention without disruption.

That party ssys to the north, keep all your rights under the onstitution. It says to the south, keep all yeur rights under the constitution. It holds north, south and west in the common bond of a comnion union, alike sacred to all. 2 i It says to the jeople of every territory, reg-nlae your, own domestic ctmi-v-rnsi frame your own coiuiiuitiou, and come into! the Union, waca you hive tho recjuisitj popul.iti 1 1 a tiicir rights uf sovereignty which each stale uow enjoys. It says to nil partiis, put an end to this slavery agitation aud give room tor enlarged legislation for the whole country and for its advancement iu the manifest destiny that lies before it.

It rays to each state, improve the coudition of yourown people and ecase to internitKldle wit fiie-coiiccrns of other states or territories, jit says tu anti-slavery, in all is forms of fu-siijn and confusion have you' tried bitterness and strife and denunciation long enough totewt their imbecility to advance tlie cause" of freedom of the colored race, lleturn' to the constitutional compact and tho christian, temper of our fathers who made it; and if: indeed you love the slave, try tlie venial influences of kindness, brodierly lovoand true phiLiiithropy.and cooperate with tlie south in their voluntary efforts to meliorate the condition of tho slave Lihor which is their inheritance! Iu tuis sjurit'we apeal to the democracy on .1 i.i -l urn tuumrv, iu ino Union 1u-b ot tlie north, tothechristiau eoplc- of the north, who have not, lost their love of couutry iu bigotry to foreigners aud haired to tlie south. Let us take care of ourselves and our bwtt states, anil cease intermeddling with tho domestic concerns of others. Let us begin the work of redeeming Massachusetts, not by the party cry repeal of the Nebraska bill, which cannot bo repealed, aud would en'uet nothing good if it could lie repealed, but by restoring tho fundamental-principles of cur Uuluu wLii.li leaves liuixa HACK MASSACHCFETTS 1XTO THE Uxtox ltestore Massachusetts to the sobri ety, the liive of law and order, the mci regard for ndigious liberty which have hitherto- given her a name and a praise among her sister states, where she now stands dishonored by bigotry, sectionaliTn and bad legislation. Make a national irtv in this goiil old common weatui wihcii can claim utx- taouiood with a national teunocTatie party in eyerv other state of tho Union and whether wc sliall be here in a majimty or in a minority, we shall stand with and iu that great constitutional party which will hereafter, as it hitherto fiath done, wiselv reffulate and control the tmii-s of the i-ouutry, and secure to it tcsjKct and honor abroad, and peace, prosperity ana douiestie tranquility at home, it. F.

II ALL KIT. JAMKS CHEEVKU, Cuinm SILAS FIERCE. Committee. STEFI1EX D.MASSEY,' I1EXJ. J.

GEIUUSII, From the SprinpfieM KegUter. Douglas at Decatur DECATl'lt, Oct. 22d. Euk. Rkoistkh: Notwithstanding the unfavorable state of the weather the people of Macon turned out in full force to hear Judge Douglas to-day.

Our town was filled with the 'sovereigns' from the "rural district. lieing compelled to speak within doors, it was impossible for all to hear him. Tho large room selected, however walilled to its utmost capacity, and tor throe hours the large audieuee was held engrossed with the magic cloqueuee- aixl powerful arguineuts of the gitled senator. lbs remarks were mainly directed to a vindiaica-tion of the Nebraska law, and most ably did he advocate the sound principle of tliat law and the wise aud patriotic folicy of its enactment. Every sentence carried couvktiou with iu lie pointed to the present complexion uf parties and the shaping ot' political alTairs, the conceu-tration.

of the odds and ends of factions into a sectional organization, and the duty of patriots without distinction of party, to rally to a common standard for the maintenance of the constitution and the preservation of the Union. lie then took up tlie know nothings aud cx-exposed the heresies and anti-republican ten dencies ot that faction, commenting in seaming terms on the aims, objects aud corrupt designs ot" its leaders. His remarks were received with cheer upon cheer through the course of tlieir delivery, indicating, in terms unmistakable, that the people of Macon county have no taste for underground alliances with either tho Fred Dougl or tin! Hindoo schools. They are true to tho principles of the constitution, ami believe in the doctrine of self-government as laid down in the Nebraska law, and spit upon the bigotry which make the accident of birth or tho reli gion belief of the individual, cause of exclusion from political right and privilege. The visit of senator lfciuglas to our town wilf lie long remembered.

The sound democracy of our county he.ird his remarks but to be deeper impressed with the correctness of their poli-cal faith. National men of the whig party lizard them to lie confirmed in the belief' that to fuse with black republicanism is treachery to their former professions, anil tliat tlieir true course is td align themselves with the democracy in the common cause against abolitionism in its warfare upon the fights of the states and tlie sanctity of the constitution. After judge D. concluded hi remarks a series of icsolutions were adopted similar to those adopted by the democracy at Chicago recently, wliK'h were published in jour jiaper last week. They embrace tho true principle of tho national democracy, and constitute a platform rrp-on which every democrat and national man in the country, not tainted with abolitionism, can rally in the contest of next year.

The old' Trojan of Union county, John S. Il w-ker, was present at the meeting, and, upon a "loud call of the crowd, made a few remarks in his pecnliai tityle, in which he alluded to what might Iks expected of Egypt when the great battle for principle conn's on in promising, what the Egyptian democmcy will fully endorse, majorities of thousands in all the counties of that reg'on, for tho men ami measures of that glorious democracy which lias, through good and evil rejiort, maintained its proud position as the party of the country the bulwark of the Union. MACON. Important Decision in the United State District (L'ourtInteresiinj to Meambout Owners and Merchants. Yesterday motnins in the United States district court, the opinion of Judge Wells was delivered' and a decree entered in favor of the complainauts, in the rase of the Memphis insurance company vs.

Oliver Garrison aud Daniel H. iarrisn. The it.rs In the case were Messrs. (Jeycr and Dayton, for the. complainants, and Messrs.

(Janttand Field, fur defendants. case aud tha decision we briefly state as 'follows: In the year 18 JD, a largo amount of cotton, three hundred and eighty-eight twies, valued at was at Memphis and other jKiints in Tennessee, for New (Jrleaus, on the steamboat '-Convoy," of which boat the defendants-were A bill of lading was given by the liat, under which thecottou was to lie carried and delivered "danger of ricer only, Tlie boat, and cargo with it, in the month of Fi-liruary, were destroyed by fire, which it was admitted did nut arie from any fault or negligence of the master, crew, agent, or owuers of tlie at. The Memphis insurance company had insured the cotton against "Ln by fire" They paid the loss and brought this suit against the owners of the boat to rjcover the value' of the cotton, claiming be. equitably subrogated, or entithd Vi all th rights of the original owners of such" 0. 1tton.

The court held: i lt. That the complainants were entitled fo to in ttpiUy, to recover, if the defendants were I aTile. 2d. Tliat the exception in tho bitT of lading of Ajangers of the river only," did not include fire fire was not a danger of the river within the meaning of the bill of lading, though it did proceed from any fault or negiigeuce th st managing the A decree was n'tidcrcni against tlju defendants for the value of tae cottotl. This decision is highly important to our commercial people generally, and will occasion much comment among steamboat owners and others north and south.

The cae hangs upoiT a very nice point, aiid jierhaps a majority will not bo willing to admit the distinction made between daiwcrs of tho river and dangers on tho river. The question will, doubtless, bo carriel lo the supreme court of this United St. I.ifd ItfnitK-rat, 23.7 One of the most respectable and influential men of St. Clair a gentleman who voted and got all his friends to vote for Lyman Trumbull at the last November election, told us this morning he was present at the democratic mas meeting in Chicago on Friday night the loth and heard Senator' Doug-la He says ho has hoard Trumbull "skin" lawyers befcnc now, as bo thought to perfect km, out of all the surgery he ever witnessed he has swoii nothing lo compare with tho way Dmglas cut Up his colleague, tho lion Ly-mau on the referred lo. There were about 3,000 persons present, and the roars of applause which greeted tho "little every now thrust at his oppoucut showed that all Chicago is not lost yet.

4 Jlelloillti, 'j'rlbuite. 63? The fact that John Van Itureii has spoken in commendation of Gen," l'iercu's adinin- 1. uiakcj the free soilcri very nervous. if tliis jtortiitou vleinont (ilioul triuinph -Tud it tliat the only piw-it of reltiiig it. Is the tleinoeratie party Tt II iuv fall that no peron into whrxe hnd it will ne-h-et to rod it rl 1 City Ktecllon.

i Ou Xl'imbr. the Othof XovimWr, one week. i i from Aloud ly, the voter ot tin eity arc jli- fied to ehorto a to ahleniimi iu the firsts inthe jteeoud, and one in the third. We presume that no convention will lie held by any party for the of presenting landidate. h'an never deen the ease with Oiir city election, but candid ite have gen-urally been annoanee through; the pMni, without aiiy refcren-e to pirty It i tiui'o thoie who are going to run for those ofli-' cuf were announced, the jieoplc mxy have an opportunry to their m.iirietioii, aud meriu for the o(Hee.

()ur col- uiiiti. ar on tr 11 to annnunm tlK.in-H.lvt 1 i i ht 11. J. Cobb, will be. i a candidate for alderman in the second yi iiti lv trlnta ti.tn it t)it-' Jere.

S. Suiith will be a candidarj! for re-idcction in the thinl ward. Itoth'aro excellent nivMi and would dichrrge the duties of the office wltli energy and fidelity to the city. Who IS AT Fai lt? Thursday evening; John Y. llynes, Ki master at Mill Creek, called on us to know why the package of the 11 'publican had not been received at his olli--e that ra rning.

lie said that a copy of our p- per which.gojs in a single wrapper arrived. 1 v.wi.,h i ii- a t. r.ii...:.. from the ost nitster at IVairiefield r. p.l'h.uitiKnKtii, Oct.

25, 18.V1. Coi D.tXFditTit 'Jhar Sir: The llepubli- can for this week is not received. What is the reasou Yoiirs llespectfully, J. Fi rzi'ATUicK, I. M.

The regular pack igor for each of the offices, named was sent to the post 6lTLa on Wednesday afternoon before 5 o'clock. 1 iieir non-roeeipt must be owing to carelessness, '-or pome-thing worse, in the post oflicc in this city, or Camden. Tbey should have been received at both placet nooa on Thursday. We believe the papers were retained in the pot ofUce in this city, and shill believe so' until the contrary is shown. I The last numljor of the Davenport Courier comes to us crowded witli spicy, pltjuant "and interesting original matter.

It is one of the best of our exchanges and we are tf'ad "to learn that it is well patronized and -supported by our neighbors over the river. It cuts and slashes away at vice in every form, and must be a icrfect terror to evil doers-It scores the backs of those low theatre ae- tor whohavo reccatly been performing there; hits the' know nothing city authorities several I sundry official short-comings, and it is really a Very useful and entertaining paper. 1 Iere is the way it pitches into a kind ot crime for which our neighbors the river are geUing up considerable, reputation: "With humility and shatue we record the -ia( i oi -lue c.iiiiuihiiiiii;iit. ui iuiuu or mur iiuiisy? ot ill-tame in prominent localities in this city all of which are known to the city police and the marshal, and yet these hells are permitted to engulf our young men by scores. la-t Sunday evening a middle aged man from the lost his confining ijO, at one of these places, not a stone's throw from the north-west corner of Washington square infamous brothel is next door to a (school When iliall we have city officers that Hrill do their duty?" I 1 1 Judge J.

Wilson Duchy, of ihis eity, returned home on Saturday last, having completed the tour of his circuit His last court was, at Carroll county, the following notice of which we fi.i 1 in the ll-'piiblicun printed at Mt. Carroll: Circuit Court The autumn term commenced oa Tuesday moaning last, and will jirobably close to-day, (Thursday). Considerable t-rim tial busines has come tho court, ani a portion of it has been cariled through. We shall ierhap be able to give some digest of the matters on the next week. Judge Drury presi les with entire sxtisf.ir-tion to all parties, exhibiting the good qualities of the gentlem in, jnd able jurist iu Lis dei-i-aions.

Tae ilecislotvof Judgi Breffsc on the repeal of our license law, by the act of last winter, which was rejected by tho last spring, eamu before thex-ourl iu t'e caseof K. Living -ton r. the Judge ruled thai the license law were Hotrepeului by the act of last' winter. II deemed it needles to give a lengthy opiuion, but meuti jued the following 'j. 1.

That a dea 1 act cannot repeal a liiing stat-u'c. 2. That the people voted on the wWe law, anil rejected the whole of it, inolu ling that clatise which repealed the license law. Hi wior farther intimaU-d, tint only for i ac iiiusi cogrni reason coui'i iiu woni wni the decisio'i ot Judgu Ureese; the re-stricted. traffic in ti.juor, until the next session ot the IcgiMaturej.

wosila bo proudctive or very bad consequences such consequences as no goal jiflgj flight to coiisent to, utiles pressed by tlie pU'at-iit letter of the law. II apprehended, however, that in this case there was no jksibility of doubt tint the license laws were in full force. C-i Xo Chicago p.qters were put in our box lay evening or Friday, though other pec-Iple in town got To anylxj ly but ourst It the reason might not be ovidcut, but to us it is very plain. Max DkownKU. Que of the deck hands on the steamer Lamartine.

accideutally fell frcsai the boat ii.t i the river this nwruiug oiid was drowned. Wo did not learn his tsamc aud liis oiy iiaa nH Lwen recovcreu wueu our pa cr ts cut to press. Jmo.v unit is It" is said the raiiixa4 Jul nds working on the bluff at the foot tf tU tity are roUing out car-load afu carload of liiii ore, the genuine article, and baildig up the grade wilh ft. It lies in a huge liias the surface of tan bhiT, aud oppa-leatJy 4H f5. Theu caina Uw; cry of breaking up corrupt the legislatu rv and hang the Missouri parties tu form an new I pcrs! Thev know Urtrcr.

Thev know tliat part v. 'Hie para'ite frecs'iilors who alw.trs feed upon other pirties, agviti look the leaI of the movement, to mould it to their canning pu Ke i ever a minoHty rule the majority. Disappointed whigs ami denationalized democrats Injcamc sudden converts to undefined expectations of individual prominence. A great no.theni party was to inaugurated uj -on a mere sectional MMituneut of OpjKsi ioii to slavery, which couid have no lawful basis of political action, cither in the state or tho nation. IJverybody was to disagree with everybody in evei-ythiug except this northern sectional sentiment.

Laterally, as has sjkI iwHtical prrty without any ti t. llnsas rustox the Aaron rod to bet rans furuiel into a eruat uorthera viper to swallow up the lesser vitiem, including know-uolhiug- iui, iwwii, auouuoutsm, ana evcu tlie once- Denu majority on j-int ballot, Ivifl.KOAW ActtDEXT BtlAVEBT CT A Huakkuas. On the morning express the Galena road, going at Oak Bridge a lady, while stepping from one car to another, slipped and fell between tlio ears." The ev wcromovin slowly at the ime and tha wheels IKissxl over both her Wgs, U'-stwcen the knees and ankles, sovering them from the body. Tba brakenvan of tke train, immediately jumped fron-tlie cars, and under tbemoviDff train, pulled thowroman under the" brake rtd and lustainoil hi-r until the train stopped, aad thus saved her life. It was' ouJ of tho most, daring acts probably ever done by any man on a similar occasion.

The woman was taken h'to a house at st itlon, and Mr. Currier, the conductor, immediaUdr despatched a locomo- tive to town for meilical assastanco. Xo b'e blame can be attached to any person con- nected with the train. A surgeon on boaid dressed tho wornan's wounds temporarily. '-y Chicago Democrat.

Small LoAvks. The high price of flor. of late, has caused the bakers to dituiitiBA hc size of tlieir loav considerably, but thosss Xew Brunswick, X. J-. seemed to have reax-n- to.

following extract from an exchange will show. A baker oT that place ia pnlng hi roan serve bis oustouiHTs, stopped at tlie door kno, kel. when the lady within -Wtio is riiere and Vii answered. iV1.trtoyoowntr--'To leare 'WmU vou need mk soctt fuss boutt put it through the keyhole. 1 nunomi, anu respected whig party, loo re- tunslitutiunal laws in Kansas, as a lawless Icg-sccUlIo to be classed in such a genu while It jilature lias jut done La Massachnsetti, the had great heads to guile it, but which tirexi of courts wilt pass upon them.

bead and brains had turned upon its nationali- i Tui. is the rt-medy, like the peaceful retnedy Jy louth and north, and like the snake iu the of Jaw and constitution, provided for all evils able consented to let the tail go fornio-it ulltj in our democratic institution. Sot by vio-ilruu iirto the mouth of know-not hiwgisni auiM Icm c. not by usurpation of military despotisui thure shewed patiently wi lting the by theprcttdent, uOt by civil between the.