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l)c (Oregon ftnjus. w. i. turn; iuiro u riorsinoa. oaaoory city i SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1856. lit HUM fclecllo. The retull of tlto October election la ri)n)lvhind luJiana Jiu oiiild II pirtle. No intelligent man, wt be litre, who ti well posted a to tho condi tion of ltiing in these 8hih, had scarcely hope that tho ilium democrat would carry Pennsylvania by tho smallest ma jority, or that ilto chance much taller fur thoin in Indian. Tb now of ovor 3,000 majority in Peninylvania, and iomo 0,000 or mora in Indiana, h.u elongated tho scowling visage which were wolully contracted by ike atwi (mm Maine, and produced iau'fuctioo among oflico liunt ri aad political gmbIrthatbowi llielf in redoubled duroiivnaat ilia shrine of Dae hu by ionic, and a irriocomic grin by other. Tho r'tult teems to linva decided tho Novembor contest, In the mind of tho latcd Putbancers, and arrangement are already being made fur a nice divioiuo o( the poiU that belong t Ilia Territory. Tho pro'pect, we inut admit, i dark for tho friend of true democracy and the per petuity of free institutions. Tho probabil ilie teem to bo against us, yet wo are by no means without hup. Only about 400, O00 vole wcro pulled in Pennsylvania at the Octobur Election, which luck probably 00,000 of what were pulled in November. In the October election of 1610 the Whigs loit the Slato by 4,0 I'J Votes, but carried it in November by 849 majority. Id the Slate dec. ion of 19 !4 the Whig made a gain from the October to tho November clectiona nf 5,08.1 Vote. In 1819 the democrat elected tliuir Cnnul Commis sioner by 2,030 majority in October, yet in tho Presidential election following, Gen. Taylor carried thuStuto by 11,337 major- ity, allowing a Whig gain in three week of 10,073. In 185:2 there wan also a Whig gain from October lo November of 27,532. From thi data, wealiouM not bo surprised to hear that Fremont hut carried Pcnrwy l vnnia by a respectable nmjurity. The Quukora, it i mid, foiled to vote nt the October election, a usual, but would rule for President. T6 offset these chnnres, we must consider that State pride will probably oporalo in Buchanan's favor, as this is the first time in tho history of the Cmcrnmenl that Pennsylvania hut been honored with furnishing a candidate fur iho Presidency. Let tho result go a it will, tho issuo i now fairly made up brtwoen the old f.u-l-iuiicd conservative demucracy rallied upon tho constitution, nnd lighting under the atari and stripr-s, and tho falsely called democratic organization which now cm todies the element of an aristocratic negro driving despotism. Tho problem that has ptuzled the political sages of both hemi spheres as to tho capacity of our people for maintaining frco institutions, will bo solved by the permanent triumph of cither of these- parties. Tho great mass of the young men of our country am on the side of right, and if tho rising generation are educated as they should be, and trained in the paths of virtue, they will soon renovate tho government, already drondfully dis jointed, if it is not reduced to a perfect wreck, under the control of old fogy natives and foreign pnupors. If I hero are virtue and intelligence enough among us to support free institution, tho corrupt nnd wicked party, that Buchanan now stands at the head of, is suro to bo crushed undorllsown weight of political corrup. lion. Our duty for the fuluro is plaiu. Let no man be discouraged by a defeat, if such a disaster has happened to us this time. We must doublo our diligence and work whilo the day lasts. Wo need documents. Every man ought to do what he can in got. ting proper reading matter before tho peo ple. Jo Lano i now flooding tho country with the vilest of political reading. Why not counteract these evil inllucneoa by cir. dilating Iho truth. It is vain to think that Oregon can bo carried for real dem. ocrncy, unless iho friends of sound doctrine make an effort to eulighleu tho pooplo by tho right kind of reading matter. Our cause is a just onn ; wo have truth on our sido J and if wo can onco get our principles firmly before tho public mind, we aro suro of a victory. Our opponents are liberal in there expenditures, and untiring in their exertions, while wo aro not more than half awake. Ii is strango how much nioro jonlous the advocates of error always are than tha friends of truth. A falsehood by iomo means or other get over a large ex tent of country, before the truth is ready even to runko a start in pursuit of it. We lay then to our fiicnds, victory sooner or Inter is our. If then there aro seven hun dred men in Oregon who havo not boned their knee to Haul, lot them bo men and show their color. " We want no canard in our rank ( Tlirjr will llir color fly." To I'.ormpondrols. A. Beach, Trier, 111. We believe you are indebted to John ("arrows, of Albany, O.T., for the favor. Rev. W. lllain next week. The communication from Albany, giving an extended account of the Fox trial, will appear next week. Several other communications are on hand, which we ahull look over soon. A week's absence from borne Lai placed us bihindh.m J. hHI fcteclloa. The Governor has iwued writ onler Ing ihe election ef a repreientaiive In Yam hill, to lake place on the 8ih of December, only a week after the Legislature meets. Tho writ 1 dated on the 11th init., jutt a month lacking three day previous lo ibe electiou. The law allow tea days after an election for bringing in the returns. If (line be a complicity between iho county official and ibe head of department, the newly elected member in Yamhill will be ready to itart for the teat of government about Chrinmis. Why Yamhill county should have been thus deprived of ber right iu the organization of the House, is wry easy to be seen. She i lutpectcd of biing -'aiiii clijuo," and If 10, of course she has no mere rights in the dark-lantern caucusing which shape tho end of the pariy lu ihe opening of the seion, than Jackson county had In tbo lato deuocratio gambling in reference to the aeat of gov. srnment. It ii truly buini'ia'.ing to a lierman lo live under a dynasty where corrupt roltea clique rises superior lo the prople, and where their sovereign will is disregarded lo the extent that no election even is made a mockery, end the" return1' of such an election, which express tho pro. plo'e will, are by tome unuccoun table hocui pocus got out of the way before they are allowed to u legally" speak in the people's behalf. tJT The report of the Republican meet ing in Yamhill was not received in time for las', week's issue. Our friend on the other sido ef the river aro not probably aware that mail mailer reaching Portland on Wednesday r'ghl slows not reach this city (ill Saturday night. Instead of having a daily mail from I'oilluud ns we ought to, we gut a mail only on Wednesday and Saturday. The mnil steamer runs daily between Oregon City and Portland, nnd we ought to Imve a daily mail. At least the mail reselling Portland on Wednesday fiom tho Soti'h, ought to bo sent up here iho next day, Insterd of lying over till Saturday. The Portland postmaster once gavo our Oregon City postmaster a regular lampooning in our presence, for not for warding the mail on Thursday, whioh ar rived here from the South too late logo down on Wednesday morning, the regular mail day. lie said it was the duty of iho postmaster to vend it down when there was a daily boot. Whether the law required him to do so or not, w e admitted that cour tesy and a dosire to accommodate the peo plo iu Portland ought to induce him to do it; nnd wo interested ourself in ihe mailer to tho extent that we got tho post mnitor hero to promise to send (be mail along tho first opportunity after it arrived. Dut it seems that this, like ninny other rules, only works one way, nnd that is downstream. Our mail lies snoozing in Portland from Wednesday till Saturday evening, and nobody seems to care about disturbing its slumbers. Buy tt. Thomas II. Teuton's "Thirty Vtari View," is now for salo at McCormick's Book Sloro in Portland. XJTMr. Mihvain has just received a very heavy lot of s'oves and hardware. which he is selling off rapidly. IU in forms us that ho is offering great iuduce uicnts to up country merchants, as well as thopcojlo generally. jt3T Tho Rev. Win. Brown of Spring field, III., is on ihe stump for Republican ism. Billy llrown is the greatest orator in 1.., -i : t ui,u sreuuu ui uia couutry. OCrTho third session of the Thirty-fourth Congress commences next Monday. lUpnUUou Meeting 1 amulU. Pursuant to publio notice the friends of a republican organization, assemble at the court houso in Lafayette, on November toil), 1S."0, when upon tho house being called to order, W. B. Daniels was chosen chairman, and G. L. Woods secretary. A resolution was presented calling for tho organization of a republican party in Yamhill county, which was accepted. On motion a oommiltee of five was ap pointed to draft a platform for the meeting. The commit too consisted of the following named persons: J. M. Rolando, J. R. MoBrido, T. R. Harrison, S. C. Adams and S. M. Gilinore. The committee, after a short absence, reported tho follow ing preamble and resolutions, which were adopted, viz : Whereas : Old party lines and political divisions havo bcomo obsoleto, and the new issues aud new measures of public policy which divided the organization known as republicans, perfected at Phila delphia, in June last, from those who op pose them, comprise all thoio which are of extensive interest at the present time to the American people, and as we believe iIiosh issues and measures are of vital in terest la ua, and as we also approved ef the principles laid down by that parly at that time, we do therefore Rrtoht, That it is highly important that e organize a republican party in Oregon, and we therefore adopt (he plat form laid down by the republican party at Philadelphia on the 17th of June last, as ,'Sbasi of our political creed, believing that upO favorable ultimate decision of the questions rmbraced in lint summary of political principles depend the perpetu ity, prosperity aud glory of the Ameri can Union, auJ especially of the Territory of Oregon. Jtttolrfd, That the importance of the great Pacific railroad, which shall connect the extreme eastern and western portions of the American Union, to Ihe people of this t:rri!orv, make it the iotercet and dut of It citinmt to epuue the party of i' e nation which openly lukoi ground in favor of the "grealeat project of the eze." by not only inserting a plank in ill platform approving it, but in selecting as a candidate lor me presidency a msn bet ter qualified by travel and experience to know it necessity, and wlioli personally identified with In complexion more fully than any other man living. Rttulvtd, That the present wicked ad ministration, by precipitating the country into a useless ezitoiion. by disturbing with " ruthless hands" a compromise that bad in "or;trin akin to the constitution," is responsible for the Mate of civil war and anarchy which hsi dved tho green fields of Kansas Territory with ihe blood of brothers. llctohti, That we bolieve the institu tion of African slavery ns it exist in the Southern itetei of I hi cosfederacy, i a local and sectional Inslitutiou, an evil which necessity may tolerate where it ex isU, but which nothing can justify the gen eral government in extending into territory frco from Its presence, and holding thrie opinions, we fully endorse the wisdom of the act of Congies organizing nur terri tory, which, by applying tho principle in corporuled by Thomas JeH'ersun in the Or- dinonceof 1787, prohibitingslavery in our territory, and that we look with ularni at all attempt lo nave the mine drcturcil ntli er null nnd void or repealed. It would be ounci that would be dangerous to our pre' rnt pence, and threatening lo all our bright prospect for future crentness. I'.esolvcd, That wo are for free territories and free slates, fur free Urros and free la bor, five society and free schools, free thought und free discussion, frco speech nnd free press, free rcli"ion nnd free votes fur frtrmtn, Frfmint, and freedom. littolved, Hint we earnestly invito nil who entertain these sentiments, whatever may have been their political associations, to unite with us for (he support of our principles, to doubt the filial sucerss of which u to doubt the triumph or truth anil justice over falsehood and wrong. On motion, cuny commi:tee was ap pointed, consisting of i lie following named persons, to wit: G. W. Burnett, J. R. NfelirioV, S. C. Adams, T. R. Harrison and G.L. Woods. On motion, ihe republican platform, as laid down at Philadelphia in June last, w as read by the secretary. The following resolution was introduced by Dr. McBride, and after discussion was adopted by the meeting : Jlcsoleed, That we are opposed to in terfering in any way with slavery in the stales where it now exist. On motion, it was resolved that we rec ommend a Territorial Convention of the republican party be held at Salem on the second Thursday in January next. On motion, J. R. McBride was chosen corresponding secretary. On motion, the convention proceeded to nominate a candidate fur the legislature to fill the vacancy occasioned by Ihe resigna tion of A. P. Ankeny, member elect. S. C. Adams was nominated bv acclamation. On motion the secretary was requested to furnivh the papers of the territory with a copy of the proceedings of this meeting for publication, wirh request that they in sert the same, On motion, adjourned. W. B. DANIELS, Chairman. G. Loyd Woods, Sceretnry. Public Meellnc. A meeting of the citizens of Washing ton county was held nt Ilillsboro Oct. 21ml, lSOO, in pursuance of a publio call, the meeting was organized by appointing Z. S. Bryant, chairman, and II. II. Ilicklin secretary. The object of ihe meeting being to take into consideration the propriety of orga owing the Republicans in said county, the Philadelphia platform was called for, read, and postponed for the present. 1st, Resolved, That a committee of throe be appointed to correspond with simi lar organizations of other counties. E. D. Shattuck, Lawrence Hall, and II, SI. Ilicklin, committee. 2nd, That a committee of five bo ap pointed to visit the precincts of the county and hold meetings therein with the citi zens, end to ndvocato a full organization, E. D. Shattuck, Lawrence llall, Levi An derson, II. C. Raymond, nnd John Har rison, committee. 3rd, That a committee of five be ap pointed to meet and confer with the Clackamas county Republicans on tho 29ih inst. 4th, That the proceedings of this meet ing be forwarded to the Poriland and Ore. gonCily papers for publication. Adjourned to meet again at tho call of tho corresponding committee. II. II. IliCKLiN, Secretary. 03" The U. S. Mail steamer Columbia arrived at Portland on Monday evening last. We mo indebted to Wells, Fargo iSt Co., and to J. W. Sullivan, of San Fran cisco, for files of the latest papers. C.alltorala ElteMoa Returns. The following is the Presidential vote of the State up to the latest returns, which are nearly complete : The whole vote of the State foots up 102,892, which will be increased some 2,000 vote. Buchanan. 49,709 Fillmore, 34,047 Fremont, 19,07 Burhanan over Fillmore, 13,721 Buchanan over Fremont, 30,691 Fillmore and Fremont over Buchanan, 3,358 The Legislature will stand as follows one Asemblyman to be heard from in the Tulare and Fresno District : Dem. Am. Rep. Senate, 13 13 3 Assembly, 60 8 11 Total, it News from the Atlantic States. PsN.nsvLVA.fU Election. The return show that Pennsylvania has gone for the democrats by about live thousand majority, iu a vote of between four nnd five hundred thousand. The democrat claim to have elected fifteen out of twenty-five members of Congress. Grow, Republican, I re elected by eight thouinud majority. Philadelphia, Oct. 17 p. h. It I ascertained that 0000 American vetri were cast for tho democratic ticket in this city and county. The most unblush ing roguery ho been shown in Philadel phia, and tho vote will be contested. Wm. II. Ilunn, republican candidate for District Attorney, look the first step thi morning in ihe Court of Common Plea. The re publican believe they can itrike nff sev eral .huusands of the democratic vote by contesting the returns. There are loud erica of vengeance against Forney. The Republican und North American Committees are in session together nt the former's rooms. They hare been joined by seven members of the Fillmore Com mittee, and the whole body is now discuss, ing tho forma' ion ef an electoral ticket. 1 1 o'clock p. m'. Afior being in session during five hours, iho Republican and Noilh American Slate Committees, with a poii ion of tho Fillmore Committee, hove agreed upon n ticket which it i boliovrd will eutiiely lako the wind out of tho sails of the pro slavery Fillmore leaders. The following is the Union electoral ticket, nominated upon the basis proposed by the Union Stnlo Committee, in their oiH for a Union State Convention, to bo held at Harrisburg on iho 21st Oct., to wit: Twen'y six names in common ; tho twenty- seventh name to be different on tho tickets voted for by the I'illmoie and Fremont men respectively, the voto of the electors, if chosen, to bo cast pro rata according to the vole given for the twenty -seventh name respectively. It was also agreed that the electoral ticket lo be voted for by the Fre mont men should be headed by tho name of John C. Fremont, and that to be voted for by the Fillmore men by tho noma of Millard Fillmore. It is reported I lint tho following rcsolu lions passed at the Fillmore and Donelson Executive State Commilteo to-day by n majority of 20 in the committee of 22 : llesolvcd, That we deem it inexpedient to make any alteration in ihe Fillmore, and Doiielson ticket in this State, nnd we are firmly convinced that any interference with it would be the means of giving the Stale to Mr. Buchanan instead nf dofimting him. Resolved, That wo decline to accept ci ther of the above propositions of the Norih American Stalo Central Committee, satis- leu mat the electoral ticket already in the field is tho only one on which nil opposed to Mr. Buchanan can successfully unite, nnd pledge it to uncompromising onnosition. and lo defeat, under any and all circum stances ef his election. Onto Election. The Republicans have carried the State by a majority over the democrats ranging from 30,000 to 40,000. The American vote was about 20,000. The democrats fluim to have gained eight Con gressmen. Lowis D. Campbell is re-elected by a trifling majority, and Sam. Gallo way in the Columbus district Is defentei! by S. S. Cox, dem Indiana Election The Buchancers claim to have carried Indiana by from five to seven thousand majority. Thv have probably gained four Congressmen, and olected Willard Governor over Morton (Republican) by a small majority. Ham mond, dem., is also believed to be elected Lieut. Gov. The Legislature, from prcs ent appearances, will be democratic. Florida Election. Tho Savannah pa pors say that both the democratic and American parties claim a victory in Flor ida. Kansas Election. The 'election for Delegate to Congress and n embers of ihe Legislature came off on theOili of Oct. The free State men refused lo vote, as ihey considered the election illegal. Tho pro slavery candidates were of course all elected without opposition. The result so far as heard from is as follows: For Delegate, J. W. Whitfield, 1194. The election is said lo have gone off quietly. Vermont. Tho following is the official vote of Vermont at the September elec tion : Wholo number, 45,083 Fletcher, (Republican,) 34,052 Keyes, (Buchanan,) 11,601 Fillmore and scatteriug, 270 Political Complexion of the New or Tulr. ly-Firib Congress. PRESENT CONS. NEXT CONO. Dcm. Opp. Dem. Opp. Missouri, 2 5 4 3 Arkansas, 2 2 Iowa, l i j Vermont, 3 3 Maine, 15 6 Florida, 1 1 South Carolina, 6 0 Pennsylvania, 0 10 15 10 Ohio,' 21 8 13 Indiana, 2 0 6 5 Total, 21 C3 42 42 21 42 Opp. maj. in old Cong. 42 In new Co. tie. Democratic gain in ten States, 42 We have taken the above from the If. , Herald, as it gives the darkest side of the picture. It gives the Buchaneers nine mo'e Congressmen than a similar table tr.ade by the Tribune. In the ninth, tenth, fifteenth, and seventeenth districts in Ohio, the Tribune claims that Republican I Congrftsimcn have beea elected. It elaims Iho same from the seventh, twelfth, fif teenth, sixteenth, and twentieth district! in Pennsylvania, which tho Herald 0U0 givoi up at lost. Hon. John M. Botts Urn'sta to Fight a Du.a. The nolo written by Hon. John M. Uotti in reply to a challenge to mortal combat by Roger A. Pryor, editor of the Richmond Enquirer, i brnvo, manly and ensible. Ho ay tho disparity in their age nnd social di-posiiion would prccludu him from accepting ihe challenge, ami ho nobly add that if ho had dn Mr. Pryor such wrong as could not bo otherwise at oned for, he would not permit a false prido to prevent him from making an acknowl edgment. jfjrA Richmond. Vn., correspondent of tho New Orleans. Delta says lliat inco Hon. John M. Botls deliveied his celebra ted speeches, " it is 110 uncommon thin; to hear men Iu this city stand up boldly and avow themselves in favor of Fremont. They make no secret of their preference for him over Buchanan." OCT Tho Southern Buchunicr papeis re veal a plan which is sure to prevent Mr. Fillmore's nnmo from coming into the House of Representative;!, oven if ho should set sufficient electoral vo'cs lo de font tho choice of Fremont or Buchanan. The Buchanan electors nt the Fouth will, enough of litem, givo tht ir voles to D. S. DicVmson or somo other pro-klavery Dem o'.'ia', io carry his name into the House of Representatives instend of Fillmore's There is certainly a possibility of thi, for thcio is es much hostility lo Fillmore among tho Buchanan men of the South ns there is to Fremont. Tho Fredericksburg Recorder, one of the most ultra Democratic papers in Virginia, lecenlly declared : " Were we compelled to choose Seward or Fillmore for President, wo would not hesilnto a moment to prefer the former." Tho Atlanta (Ga.) Intelligencer, a lead ing Buchanan paper in tl.nl Stale says : " For our pnrt, we do not scruple lo say it, we would rather sen Fremont, traitor as ho is lo tho homo of hit birth, President of tho United Suites than Mr. Fillmore." CCrAta meeting of tho Baltimore Pres bytery, held in Washington recently, it was votud, on motion of Rev Mr. Atchison, u Georgetown, that nn overture bo sent to tho synod of Baltimore, which meets in Winchester next week, lliat they set apart tho third day of November next,(ttie day preceeding the Presidential election,) lo bo observed throughout iho bounds of the synod as a day of fasting and prayer, in view of the alarming state of thing grow ing out of iho alienation nnd hostility of feeling between iho different sections of iho country. It is said that iho synod of Virginia have received similar overtures from Iheir Presbyteries, and that both synods will undoubtedly set nnrt the same day, lo bo observed throughout their hounds. OCT Georgo W. Johnson, ono of the largest sugar planters on the Mississippi, below New Oileans, who died recently has left nn es'atc valued at not less than 4700,000. llo lins by bis will manumitted all his slaves 200 in number. They nre ail H bo sent lo Liberia in four years af;er his denth, nnd rnch p;;s i to be furnMied with 830. OiT Tho Washington Union contains the correspondence between tho principals and seconds of the proj, cliny duel between Mr. Botts nnd Mr. Pryor. Mr. Bolts pro posed a meeting to take place near Wash ington, weapon pistols, distunes len paces, which Mr. Pryor accepted alter demurring to tho delay. Appended to iho corres pondence is a card from Mr. T. P. Chaise man, Mr. Pryor's second, in which he states that every endeavor was mado to evade the vigilanco of the police. lie closes by saying that, being satisfied from these facts and others that any attempt lo secure n hoslilo meeting between B. B. Botts and Mr. Pryor will bo thwarted by persons not connected with tho matter, but friendly to Hon. J. M. Bolts, and is also satisfied Irom the physical condition of B. U. Botts, as exhibited on the field, that Mr. Pryor ought not to shoot at him, he can thorefore have nothing more to do with the matter. Letter from Una. Edward Stanley, r norm Carolina. The Alta California publishes an ex tract from a letter received by Win. Hayes, Esq., of San Francisco, law partner of Mr. Stanley, from Hon. Edward Stauley. The letter is dated Philadelphia, Oct. 3d, 1850 : "My own preferences nre for Mr. Fill more, for whose personal kindness to me I am much indebted; and with whom, down to the period when ho joined the Know Nothings, I agreed generally in opinion on public affairs. (I do not believe Mr. Fill more can bo elected.) Between Mr. Buch anan aud Col. Fremont, I hesitate not to say, it is better for the whole country that I T- .1 11, . . . V01. rremoni snouiu oe elected. ; is my decided opinion that it is better for the South that Fremont should be elected than that Buchanan should be. I treat with contempt all the charges made against r remont, that he is an abolitionist, dec, Ac, Harrison, Clay, Taylor, Scott, and Fill more have all been so denounced bv nar- lisans opposed lo their election. Tha imi1 of the North have been justly incensed at the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and at the abominable legislation in Kan sas ; (so excited are they on these subjects that Brooks's oulrsge on Sumner has as 1 bare heard experienced Democrats sav lost Buchanan a hundred thousand votes.) Fremont is nominated by those who oppose these measures ; he will be supported by nearly all those who have opposed them, (and oppose Buchanan because his friends oppose them,) and they compose, I believe, a large majority of the people of the North ern States. But this docs mt make Frc. mont an abolitionist. Neither Is ha to br so regarded, because he is supported by a portion of llmin. Soma ef ihern support1 Biichnnan, and their votes elected polk ; but thi doe not make him an abolitionist.- "A to nil these III rent that tho Union' will bo dissolved if Fremont, U erc(ej , they are worse than ridiculous. There U a great deal moro dunger of a dissolution should Buchanan be elected. It wt( threatened litest the Union should be di. solved in 1833, on account of the Tariff, In IS37, wheti I first entered Congress, it was threatened, because abolition petitions had been presented. It was threatened in 18.'i0, should California be admitted is free State. 1 1 ii threatened now Uj Km of the iume men by some who fear they may lose office ; by iomo who will not get high place if Buchanan should be de. fettti'd. The people of the Northern States aro pat riot io and sensible, and will ( caio these madmou shall do tho country no mischief. "1 am outof publio life, and wish lo r. main so; but my opinions I will not con ceal ; I shall never bo kfiaid or ashamed le express them. I linve expressed the same opinions in North Curolina among my old friend; and, you muy rely on it, there are thousand who agree with mo. "If Iho contest is between Fremont and Buchanan, I shall support Fremont. I have not written ihi with any view to pub lication; but lmvo no objection to your making my opinions known, a you may think ndvikahle. "Tho pro.sptct i now that Fremont will bo elected. Pennsylvania Is very doubtful; und, from whut I learn, moro likely to go for Fremont limn fur Buchanan. I hav never, since I have boon in publio life, seen iho lime when so ninny Democrats admitted I hero win danger of their defeat. 'I have not written as much on politics before iu many a month ; I shall not again, soon. Very truly, your, Edward fjrANLBr.' Tuc Souxoiniis for Tim Atlantic Telegraph. Tho following aecount, ad dressed to the editor of the Illustrated Lo don News, will be read with interest: Not a singlo rock has been met with, not a particle of gravel or sand has been brought up, but it appear ns if nature had provided a bed "soft os a snow bank," le use Maury's own words, for the express purpose of receiving n telegraph cable. Lieutenant Derrymnn snys that he is sat isfied dial the lead, w ith the sounding ap paratus, has frequently buried itself ten or fifteen feet deep in this soft material, nnd he doubts not that the cable w ill like wise sink nnd imbed itself in a similar manner. Tho greatest depth attained his been two thousand nnd seventy fathom, (about two and third miles;) butpcihapt the most remarkable and at the same time Iho most satisfactory result i the perfect confirmation which theso poundings give of tho opinion expressed by Lieutenant Maury os lo the existence of a great flat or level nt tho bottom of tho ocean, un paralleled by any thing on iho surface of 1 lie earth, and which he proposes to nume "Tho Tnlf graph Plateau." for more ihnn thirteen hundred nvlcs the bottom of the Atlantic, in the direct line of our track, is found by these soundings lo- present an ulino-l unbroken level plain. Nature has thus plucod no obstacle in the way of thi great undertaking, which may not by cau tious 1 or.'nieranco be overcome; nay, rather (if wo except tho enormous Iuntfllt of lh" cnldo which will be required) it would seem that tho tine to be followed by tho Atlantic enblo presents absolutely fewer engineeiing fdifliciiltie than the shorter route(tliough more complex, from tha nature of Iho liot'om,) on whijh th Mediterranean c-ibte must be laid. Interesting DiscoVEitr. The burial place of the ancient Scythian kings be been discnveied by the director of ihe mt. sem at Kartell, in Southern Rossis, near tho fmntteU of iho Crimen. Many curi ous articles of goiri, silver and earthern ware were discovered within the tomb, wire') ro to bo transferred 10 ICertch, to enrich the museum there. Steamships. Though but eighteen years have elapsed since Ihe first vessel wholly propelled by steam crossed tbo At" lantiu, now there nre fourteen lines of steamers, comprising forty-eight vessel, plying between Europe And the United States. Out of these forty-eight steamers' btittwclvo nre of Amoriean construction. Tho foreign companies have lost four of their steamers, and we the seme n urn bor. XtTThe Now York Herald, of the 4lh instant, stales that the Rhode Island Re publican and Know Nothinz Sia'.e Conven tions met at Providence on Tuesday, and united upon a ticket for Presidential elec tors. KrTlio English claims on Mexico, which a British fleet has been tent to en force, arise out of debt owed by Mexico to British capitalists. Its amount ii 51,208, 250, th whole national debt amounting t $102,638,012. In the way of interest, this entnils upon Mexico an annual pay ment of $3,933,300. More Court Etiquette. The English seem to have a particular horror of any thing yellow. Professor Mahan shocked the assembly at the Queen's levee by hit yellow vest, and now some American at the Court of the Emperor of Russia, have disturbed the nerves of the correspondent of the London Daily News, by wearing yel low plumes in their chapeaux. He say they were the most stared at individuals in Ihe place, which is nothing singular, for a live Yankee generally manages to make himself noticed wherever he goes. An equal breach of etiquette, in the corres pondent's opinion, was, that the Ameri cans, on leaving ibe imperial presence, turned their backs upon the Emperor. He congratulates his country that English men only retired with their faces to royal ty, walking backward like a craU Minnesota. It is estimated that at the- present time the territory of Minnesota con tains a population of one hundred and forty thousand souls. This is probably an under estimate, as last winter an official reckoning made the total one hundred and twenty thousand. It is calculated, however, that by the close of ihe emigration season of the year 1937, the aggregate will be three hundred thousand. If this be so, Minne sota will enter the circle of States with three members of the lower house of Congress, She is ii entitled to tne.