‘V1’-K WT‘ ‘iIil.@-..@dé[email protected] Norwalk, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 1856. FOR. PRESIDENT JOHN c. i-armour, OF CALIFORNIA. l-‘OR VICE PRESIDENT, WILLIAM F. JOHNSTON, OF PENNSYLVANIA . son PRESIDENTIAL nLncrons. At Large——-HENRY DUTTON, JULIUS CATLIN. Isl; Dist. THOMAS CLARK, of Coventry. gd -", Emnn SPENCER, of Middletown. - Dd -1- Wm. A. Bucxnvcunu, of Norwich. 3 Jtli ‘- SAMUEL W. GooLo, of Cornwall. ’ American National Platform. I. Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and in- separable. II. Freedom of the ballot-box from foreign influence. III. Freedom of conscience. IV. Freedom of speech. V. Freedom of the press. VI. Free Territory and Free Kansas——No advantage I0 accrue to Slavery from the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. VII. The improvement of rivers and the construction and improvement of harbors, as well upon the great lakes as on the seaboard. VIII. The immediate construction of’ a railroad across Aiuerican territory to the Pacific States, bv such aid on ihe part of the Government as may be necessary to ac. .,oiiiplish such result. ' H1-21\'R\' CLAY _oiv SLAV!-JRY.-—“I have said that lnever could vote for it myself, and I repeat that I never can, and never will vote, and no earthly power will ever make me vote to.spr.ead slavery over territory where it does not now exist./'—IIem'y C'Iay’s Speech, Rh. 6, 1850. “I FEEL there is nothing which the civilized world, if they take notice of so humble a person as myself‘, will reproach me with, when, 1 say, as I said the other day, I had made “D my mlnrl, for one, that under no circum- stances would I consent _to the farther extension of the area of Slavery in the United States, or to the farther increase of ‘slave Representation in the House of Repre- se-ntatives.”—Speech of Daniel Wcbsleron Oregon Bill. ’48. . ‘ ‘ Tns Asoiirios or Dom-zsric Smvnnv is the greatest ob- ject of desire in these Colonies, where it was iinhappily introduced in their infant state.”—-Je_fl'erson. in1774. ' ‘-_I unuinL\' concur in all movements which have for W011‘ 0104‘-cts ‘ to repair the mischiefs arising from the violation of good faith in the repeal of the Missouri Compromise.’ l am opposed to Slavery in the abstract and upon principle, sustained and made habitual. by long settled convictions. ‘ *- While I feel inflexible in the belief thatit ought not to be interfered with where it exists under the shield of State Sovereignty, I am inflexibly opposed to its exten- I101] on this continent beyond its present limits.” Joniv C. Fm-znoxr. “ I-‘ass LABOR is the natural capital which constitutes the real wealth of. this great country, and creates that intelligent power in the masses alone to be relied on as the bulwark of free instltI1ti0nS.”—-JOHN C. FREMONT. Norwalk Fremont Club. There will be a business Meeting of the Fre- mont Club at the Rooms recently occupied by D. B. Booth as a Law Office, over the store of C. T. Cornwall, (next door east of D. Stephen- son’s Hotel,) this Tuesday Evening, Sept. 16, at 8 o’clock, to make arrangements to attend the Mass Meeting at Redding, on Thursday. We hope every member of the Club will be present. S. LYNES, M. D., Pres. A. H. BYINGTON, Secretary. I South N orwalk Club. A Meeting of this Club will be held at the CABIN, this Tuesday evening, at 8 o’clock, for the purpose above named. There will also be a PUBLIC MEETING in the Cabin, on this Friday Evening, (Sept. 19th,) at 7 1-2 o’clock. Judge PORTER, of New York, and others, will address the People. WM. T. CRAW, Pres. J. VAIL, Sec. ‘ Miiss MEETING OF THE FRIENDS OF FREEDOM! —On the— ' Camp Ground at Redding! ! Thursday, Sept. 18th, 1866. There will be a Grand Mass Meeting of the Friends of Freedom and Fremont, on the Camp Meeting Ground, Bedding, as above, commen- cing at l1 o’clock, A. M. - Judge Cunvnn, and several of the most gifted and eloquent Speak- ers of the day, will be present. Communica- tions have been received from Hon. EDMUND P1-:r.xINs, of Norwich, and Judge Ki:LLoGG_. of Waterbury, that they will be present and ad- dress the people. To Honest Fillmore Men. For, to dishonest ones—to those who talk Fillmore and mean Buchanan-to those who, knowing lbetter, go about retailing the miser- Jiie falsehoods of the E.rpress—to any who, iii ough blind stupidity or servility, may -.:-urne among us to re-issue stale falsehoods, :2 mat the religious faith of this or that candi- date, to all such we have nothing to say, but the well-meaning citizens of this vicinity who for one reason or another, have thus far held aloof from the great cause now identified with name of Fremont, yet who, loving liberty and free institutions, will not give their sutfrages to Buchanan and bondage, and who therefore, have suffered themselves to be classed as sup- porters of Mr. Fillmore—to such, we have a word to say at this time'. It seems to us, that nothing, not even the unblusbing meudacity of James and Erastus Brooks, can any longer keep from your knowledge the fact that the electoral vote of every State in the Union, is to be given eith- .er for Fremont or Buchanan. The effort which is now being made, is simply to induce you to throw away your votes, and thus give iCounecticut up to the slave-driving, rufiian. Locofocoism which now rules in the high pla- «ces of the land. You are asked to throw away your votes, and thus permit an institution to ‘-2 extended over an area as large as all New igland and New York together, an institu' 2%’-n which suppresses the common school, xv ich stifles the freeman’s lips, which, in a -it-' rd, whithersoevcr it goes. establishes there ' ‘ ~: civilization and manners of South Caroli- . in preference to those of your own noble .i.te. lie are aware that you are told that the v 1':-ction may be thrown into the House of ii. presentativcs, but remembering the results 3.'i.‘.el1tly exhibited in Kentucky, North Caro- ":3: l., Arkansas and Missouri on the one hand, .'Il v’. in Iowa, Vermont, and Maine, on the oth- --z we ask you, as candid men, what State is E possible for Mr. Fillmore to carry? In the . '.-mes of the State of New York, ‘t is true, he "?‘.'lobrain many votes, but in the numerous six-al counties, the inhabitants whereof ma. e ‘l] the greater portion of the population of =.‘f'.:.- entire Commonwealth,he has hardly a '-:l*«:.w of strength, and the victory which ll.-'v~lsItS Col. Fremont in the Empire State will ?:-w» more sweeping than any Presidential can- «’i~‘:.ite has received for a generation. In the :l-informed political circles of all parties, ‘:2:- idea that Fillmore can obtain a single -.:;<=-1 toral vote has been abandoned. Erastus 1;:-I oks, seeking the honor of being .9. candi- -lr.:.-2 for Governor of New York, and pecuni- -1-ri y interested in the fortunes of the Express, :3:-. a it for his advantage to strive to keep up delusion still, the Loco Foco politicians -;-...:i press rejoice at seeing the opposition to. utianau dividing its forces, however small .=thut division may be, and, of course, do their "best to draw off votes from the cause of freedom, righteousness and truth, by exagge- trated accounts of Fillmore meetings, and .Fillmore strength at a distance. We have ',-before us letters, warning us of a scheme of :the Loco managers to draw off 5000 votes in Connecticut to Fillmore, in which event they .rely upon Buchanan’s obtaining the necessa- ry plurality to give him the State. Do you really wish this? There are some of you, whom we know, of whom we do not believe that the fregoing question can be answei-ed aflirmatively. To such we appeal, and prob- ably for the last time ; we have neiiliei-space or inclination for directing our efforts agaiiisl. those who profess a common hatred of the wretched Loco Focoism of the day with our- selves, against that commoii adversary we intend to struggle till it is overthrown, as it surely will be, on the 4th of November, but with you we would prefer to strive shoulder to shoulder beneath our banner, and under one leader. for the great principles of free- dom aud humanity. Mon; Border Rufllanism. On Friday evening the Buchanan men of Norwalk had a meeting at which an unusual degree of enthusiasm was manufactured and kept up till a late hour of the night when it adjourned. We might reasonably have sup- posed that this would havc satisfied the most clamorous ranter in the party, but no ; the “spirit that workcth in them,” must needs ex- emplify itself, so aliue was formed and march- i ed in solemn procession to the residence of Hon Oakey Hall on East Avenue, and there in his absence from the state, they proceeded to insult and terrify his wife and little children with lu gubrious howls and groans .' Now we simply desire to ask honest, think- ing men of any party, and all parties to note from whence these things come, and whither these puplic manifestations of mobocracy and lawlessness, now being perpetrated under the name and cover of a great political party in all parts of the country, are precipitating our government and our people!—We appeal to every good citizen, whose party zeal has not withered up and consumed his decency or his manhood, to note from whence these outrages come .' Is it not the very essence of Slavocra.- cy invading the Jvorth, in the same manner that it seeks to force itself over territoriss consecrated, by the most solemn ‘compact, to Freedom forever—establishing itself in Kau- sas by the most gigantic frauds and eiuelties —destroying Hotels because they shelter free- state men—demolishing printing otfices, that declare preferences for Freedom-robbing and butchering free settlers who have offended or injured no one—tarriug and feathering quiet clergymen, shooting down a grey haired Mis- sionary of the Methodist Church who raised his voice in protestalion of the outrage— breaking up Quaker schools and missious——dis- solving deliberative bodies, breaking up pub- lic gatherings of peaceable citizens and dis- persing them at the point of the bayonet,—in short, crushing out free worship. free speech, free labor, and Freedom of every sort, and es- tablishing insteadfone of the most atrocious ' despotisms that ever disgraced any .nation on the face of the globe—-and we eanestly ask WHO are the prime movers in these things? In all candor we ask if, without an exception, they do not originate from one and the same party,—the friends and supporters of Mr. Bu- chanan and of his measures? By these men, in Kansas, their opponents are shot down and butchered, in the southern states lynched and expelled, at Washington assaulted with fists pistols and bludgeons in the Capitol and street, at Baltimore their convention broken up by a mob, at Westport (not Missouri, but here in old Connecticut) they are hooted and stoned, and in Norwalk their dcfenceless wives and unofiending children, are frightened from their slumbers at midnight by the groans and howls of a hundred men .’-—and even a near neighbor separated only by a few rods of space and an honest difference of opinion, who of all others should have protected the family of his absent fellow citizen from insult, leading the Van-—pity that he had not aroused a very ’Zanthipe, instead of a lady of refinement and sensibility. These violations of the immunities of pri- vate life, simply for differences of political opinion, here in Connecticut, are enough to sicken one of society and of his species, and if a great political party find it necessary to re- sort to such acts of rowdyism to bolster their cause, desperate indeed must be their condi. tion, and if intelligent and enlightened com- munities are willing to excuse or paliate these outrages, then the sooner we relaps into the barbarisms of Feudal times the better. We are glad however for the credit of our town and of our common humanity to know that every Buchanan man capable of that emo- tion, is most heartily ashamed of this latest exhibition of Border ruflianism. pw DRED,” the new work by Mrs. H. B Stowe has been sent us by Camp, who has just received them. We have no time to ex- amine the two volumes but the Courant pro- nounces it superior to her Uncle Toms Cabin. THE PUBLIC HEALTH IN DANGER.—We have been requested by several of our citizens to call the attention of our Authorities (if we have any,) to the fetid, green, stagnant pool at the foot of Mill Hill, between the Bakery and Hubbell dc Co’s grocery. If this be not speedily attended to, fevers and dysentery may reasonably be expected among us at an early period. Speakers for the Fair. In the line of Addresses our Fair this year will greatly surpass any of its predecessors. Rev. Wm. Cliff of Stonington,Mr. Goldthwaite of Norwich and Henry C. Vail of Westches- ter Co. are among the speakers, all of whom. are eminently practical and eloquent men and will draw out the populace. The season has been the most unpropitious for Fruits and Vegetables of any we have had for many years, but any deficiency in this re- spect will be more than compensated for in the increased attractions of the Artistic and mechanical displays. Our merchants and manufacturers are taking an unusual interest in the Fair this year and we anticipate a spir- ited competition. The show of Cattle and hor- scs also promises to be exceedingly fine. ' We trust no merchant, mechanic. artesan or manufacturer will allow so favorable an op- _portunity to exhibit the products of his skill, to pass unimproved. p- Those City Lots advertised by Mr. Parsons, (W. E. Bissell Agent for Norwalk,) are going off like hot akes. The prices are so extremely low, the titles indisputable, and ‘ locaticn so eligible that few hesitate to pur- chase when their attention is called to the matter, Governor Dutton and many of the leading men in New Haven were among the first purchasers. Mr. Bissell, we learn, has disposed of nearly one hundred lots here. Smuckers Life of Fremont Among the numerous Lifes of the gallant Pathfinder, which have been presented to the public favor, none in our opinion surpasses that just issued by those enterprising publish- ers, Miller, Orton, Mulligan dz Co., of 25 Park Row, N. Y. Whatever may be the result of the present political contest. Fremont will live in history. ysr Hon S. D. Inglinm, wboAwo.s.Seore1;ui-y of the Treasury, under Gen. Jackson, and ,one of the staunclicst Democrats, supporters John C. Fremont. Mn. Su.\iNrii.—Hou. Charles Sumner left Ci-esson, his retreat in Pennsylvania, on The Maine Victory *0 The result of the Maine Election is summed up as follows : RI-]PUBLICA.\‘ l\I.i.ioni'i'v non Govsiixoii 23,000 SENATE-—-ALL REPUBLICAN, except one or two men. HOUSE—-Fons-rirrus REPUBLICAN. CONGRESS—Six Rni=UBi.ic.iNs—none of any other party If that is not a victory to be proud of, there is no use of being proud. By the way, we preceive the Regis- ter now says Mr. Haniliu’s defection caried the State. A short time ago it said his defection was of no consequece whatever. In 1840, when all the States but seven went for Harisou, Maine gave him only abot 400 majorety, and never in its history has it before rolled up such a tre- mendioiis majority against the so-called Democratic party. The Biiclianaiicers are in a minority of.25000 plurality over them, It. cannot be douibted that every Northern State will follow the lead so gallamly given by the Pine-Tree State. The Fair. At the meeting of the Agricultural Society on satur- Il.-i_v afternoon last, .liiilge Butler, President, in the cliaiv, it was Voled, That an invitation be extended to the South .\’or.valk Military Company to come out on Thursday the zlfitli inst., and escort the Trains of Cattle to the Fair Grounds, and ntlierivi.-ie participate in the deni- onstrations of the occasion, and that .lolin H. Smith be ii committee to convey said invitation. Von-cl, Tliat Judge Butler be a committee to invite the leading singers of N ovwalk and South Norwalk, to _]0lIl in favoring the audience with glees and songs du- ring the several evenings of the Fair. Voted, That John B. Knapp and Gillbert K. Rilier be a committee to procure the free transportiition of Stock and articles for the Fair over the N. Y. & N. H. Rail- road, and \Vin. C. Street andJ. Camp be a similar coni- mittee to confer with the efiicers of the Daubury Road. Voted, That Charles F. Osborne be a committee to solicit a purse for prizes for Target Prizes to be presen- ted to the South Norwalk Military Company. Mr. Speaker Banks, in his speech at Wal- tham, the other day stated what is not gener- ally known—that the appropriation to pay the expenses of the Bogus Kansas Legislation was defeated at the late session. The Senate. it seems, yielded that point. fiflhe best Answer Yet to Mr. Choate’s Letter.——The returns from the Election in Maine. All the gentlemen nominated on the Fill- more State Ticket in Ohio have declined.- Bear that in mind when you read the N. Y. Express. g‘ A Welshman writes to the Cincinnati Commercial that there are in the United States over 200.000 Welshmeii, the half of whom can be set down as legal voters, and who, with but few exceptions, are Fremont men. The Welsh have two weekly newspa- pers, and three monthlies, all of them for Fre- mont. From The Jersy City Daily Sentinel. Fremont Meeting. - The meeting last night at the Club Room was ‘not only crowded, but an enthusiastic: one. Every week there seems to be a still greater crowd seek- ing information respectlng the violations of Compromlsess, and the insiucerty of the so called Democratic party. Robert Gilchrist, Sea, was called to the Chair at eight o'clock, amid much applause. The Chair then introduced the Hon. 0. S. Ferry. of Conncticut, who aderessed the audience for upwards of an hour and a half, being frequently interrupted by the cheers and applause of the auditory. The speaker com- menced by drawing a vivid picture of the Convention wliicli adopted the Con- stitution, Washingiou presiding. Frank- lin addressing the house. He for- cibly illustrated the sincetrity of South- erners of 1775, while he proirayed the degredation of the Southerner of ’56, who made Slavery his idol, and who bowed down to it, meekly, vet deter- mined to spread the cuse over every inch ol_Free Territory. The speaker alluded to the fact of such men as Howell Cobb of Georgia, Jas. L. Orr of South Car- olina, comming into any and every Northern State, to teach us that we should hate liberty and love Slavery, while a Northern man who would dare to go’ to their State, and preach the doc- trine of " love Liberty and hate Slavery” would subject himself to a coat of tar and feathers. Is this not plain argu- ment aiid fact? That we love liberty so well and are so true to the Constitu- tion, that we neither fear the preaching of their doctrine, nor interfere from malice with its dissemination, when our doctrine of liberty is not allowed to be preached in South Carolina or Georgia- Mr. Ferry at great length appealed to the workingmen and to the mechanic, and we have a very strong suspicion that many of them were then listening to it, if we may judge from the immense cheering with which the speaker was greeted; We cannot with justice to Mr. Ferry, give any adequate account of his address, so full of argument, dates and facts was it. He premised his speech with the assurance that this was to be its character, and no sensible man could confute a single statement. The meeting adjoiirnded with nine hearty cheers for Connecticut, ditto for Maine, and ditto for New Jersey and Fremont. During the evening a salute of thirty- one guns was fired, tar barrels burnt, and rockets let off all of which was cheered by the boys in the Buck and Breck procession—by mistake. *1’ [[?’A Fillmore Club has been organ- ized in Westport, comprising W. Lyon President, and S. Moulton, Jr., Secreta- ryl A Mother —Who can look coldly on a mother. Who after the unspeakable tenderness and care with which she has fostered him through infancy, guarded him through childhood, and deliberated with him through the perplexities of man- hood, can speak irreverently of a mother '2 Her claims of affection on her offspring are founded in nature and cold must be the heart that can deny them. Over the grave ofa friend, of a brother or ofa sis- ier I would plant the primrose for it is emblematic of youth, but over the grave of a mother I would let the green grass shoot up uumolested for there is some- thing in the covering which nature spreads upon the grave, that wili become the abiding place of decaying age. A Dead Loss.——When the democracy were getting up their grand torcblsgh: procession they appropriated three hun. dreil dollars to pay for banners on which were to be inscribed mottoes descriptive _of the joy which they expected to get from the Lumber State. But things went all wrong, and the democracy were "laid out flat." So the banners were not used, and the three hundred was a bad iiivesinient, In this connection as they say in plew Englcnd, it is pleasant to quote what the organ 9.f,the bigger‘ illi- ving democracy says of the result ',in Maine :—-" There is a greaideai of noise over this little affair, lint there is no harm done.” No! Perhaps not! Wail ill! the 5th, for Washington, not fully restored, but very much improved in health. N ovember.-—.N.. Y. Herald. From the S. Louis Democrat. The Rulliau Assault on 0ssawa- tomie. Sentiment ofprisoizers who were cap- tured by the pro-slavery party. A party of some five or six Illinoisans and Indianians, who had gone out to Kanasas to settle, returned to this city yesterday morning on the steamer Polar Star. having been captured at the battle of Ossawatomie by the forces under Gen. Ried, and after being detained a day or two in cnpitivity, were conducted to Westport, and there placed on board the steamer to be taken out of the State of Missouri and accompanied with the threat. that if they ever ventured back to the Territoy of Kansas, and were caught they should instantly be hung or shop Learning of the arrival of this party, we had an interview with its men on board the steamer Baltimore, on which they had taken passage for Alton, Illi- nois. Their several accounts agree so perfectly that we have condensed and embodied all their statements that we might present our readers with a coin- plete and reliable naraiive of the terri- ble conflict at Ossawaiomie. The town of Ossawatomie was com- poseclof from thirty to forty houses, and was a thriving place before the Kansas difliculties, and had a population of about two hundrad. It is situated be- tween the forks of a branch oftlie Osage river and the Potowatoniie river. The distracted state of the country had occa- sioned an almost total desertion of the town by the families living in it, and at the time of the fight it was occupied by about fifty armed Free State men and a few women and children. At six o’clock, on last Saturday morning, just after sunrise, a Pro-Slavery party of about 400 men, under General Ried, made their appearance before the town; having in their command a piece of artillery, and most of them mounted. As soon as the Free State men de- scried the Pro- Slavery force, they put themselves under command of Captains Brown and Updegraff, formerly of Ohio, and sought shelter in a growth of under- brush about three hundred yards distant form the town. The Pro-Slavery force maintained their ground at about a half- mile,'aud commenced firing with their cannon, which was loaded with grape and canister shot, and slugs. They had an advantageous position, and each dis- charge of the gun raked the ambush of the Free State force with fearful effect, One of our iufomanis states that he saw three of his comrades fall at once; they returnd as brisk a fire as they could, and wounded several of their enemies. Af- ter some ten or a dozen discharges from the arillery, a company of about eighty of the ProSlavery force dismounted from their horses, and having surrounded the place of retreat, made a charge and com- pleted the entire rout of the Free State men, several of whom, in attempting to cross the stream along which the fight raged, were shot in the water and were either instantly killed or so badly wound- as not to be able to save themselves from death by drowning. One of our informants states that he saw the body of Capt. Brown in the water. He knew it was him by his coat and hat. Seven of the Free State men were captured,after which the town was set on fire and entirely destroyed. In marching back to the camp on Bull Creek, the prisoners were subjected to very cruel treatment, and two of them, the one nauied Williams and the other " Dutch Charley,” were taken out ofihe the camp and shot by their infernal en- emies. The latter was aHungarian and had fought under Kossuth, and since his remeval to this country, had lived in Kansas, and taken a very active part with the Free State party. He was present at the battle of Black Jack, and after the capture of The Pro-Slavery party was appointed to guard the pris- oners, one of whom was: man named Coleman. This Coleman was at the battle of Ossawatomie, and after the capture of the Free State men, recog- nized “ Dutch Charley.” He demanded that “ Dutch Charley.” be delivered up to him, and taking him out shot him dead. Frederick Brown son of Capt. Brown, was also killed. He was one of the picket guards of the Free State camp at Ossawaiomie, and being surprised, he was shot through the heart by a preacher named Martin White. After being kill- ed, andwhile lying on the ground, with the mouth relaxed and open in death another shot was fired down his throat. LATER PARTICULARS FROM LEAVENWORTH. The steamer Emma which ariived here yesterday with later news than that by the Polar Star, brought down quite a number of the citizens of Leaven- worth, who had been compelled to give up their homes and fly for their lives. We learn that the mob under Emery have possession of Leavenworth and have put every man of the Free State party, and many who are but moderate Pro Slavery men, to the test, follows ; “ Will you take up arms and fight the d—d Abolitionists, or will you quit the territory ?” The alternatives are ter- rible, and a majority have adopted the latiei. some of whom are now in this city, having brought away their families and left all their possessions behind, without the least security in the world that they will be preserved. [From the St. Louis papers Scp.5th and 6th.] run Mimosa on MR. PHILIPS. We liavejust seen and conversed with Mr, J. L. Aberneihy. of Rushville re cenrly a resident of Leavenworth, Kan‘ sas, who left that place on Tuesday last the 2nd instant, who brings not only the latest but the most exciting intelli~ gence we have yet received from that scene of disorder and law|essness.— He says that on Monday last the, city election was held in Leavenworth.- Tlie Free_State men, fearing a collision and violence, withdrew their ticket, and took no part in the election. The Bu: chanan party appointed fifty men to guard the polls and exclude all Aboli- iionlsts. There was much rioting and disturbance during the whole time.- One Free;State man, unaware of the withdrawal of ihe ticket, went to the polls. and was shot at four times by the Buchanan men, but escaped without in- jury. Soon after this affair sixty-five of the ruflians marched to the house of Mr. Phillips, the gentleman who was iinched some time ago for defending McRea, against whom the rulfians have always retaied a bitter enmity, and demanded- ibe arms he had in the house, and that he should surrender himself a prisoner. He refused, and they at once began fir- ing on the house, in which there was no man but Mr. Pillips and his brother. Mrs Myers, :1 daughter of Mr. Freyber: ger, of Connersville, in this State, was in the house at the time, and bullets bailed through the house. She passed through here this morning on her way to her faiher’s. After firing awhile the rufhans broke lino the _house As they were ‘inountiiig 'ihe'sta_irs‘,Ehilli_ps shot two of them with his revolver,‘ and was mime- diately riddled with bullets. Two balls entered his eyes, and four charges of buck shot were driven breast. His brother was wounded in the arm, and on Tuesday, ,when Mr. Aberuetliy left, was thought to be dy- mg. The Ruffians after completing the murder of Phillips tried to fire the town, but were dissuaded by some of the more moderate of their party. All the Free- State Men could be seen on the streets, were then taken prisoners. Capt. Em. ery then had a proclamation read on the corners of the streets, warning all Free- State men to leave the place by Tuesday morning, as all found after that would be shot. Mr. Abernethv and about seventy five Free-State and moderate Pro-Slavery men who refused to take arms or approve the acts of the Ruffians, left the place at once, on the Martha Jeweit. They were taken to Weston, where a part were kept, and the rest ordered to return. Mr. A. was of the portion who returud. They came back part of the way to Leavenworth on Mon- day eveuing and reached the place on Tuesday morning. Then they were im- mediately ordered away again, and be started on his journey to this State, Tl-IE RUFFIANS’ ACCOUNT. 'I‘he latest intelligence from the Terri- tory is an account of an attack, by our party upon a compan yof 300 Free-soil- ers at Ossawatomie, on the 20th u|t.— Thiriy Abolitioniets-—am01lg whom was whe notorious villain-leader, BuoWN— were killed and several prisoners taken. The pro-Slavery party had four men wounded. The " enemy” are reported to have made their resistance with ex- ceeding cowardice throwing down their arms vamosing almost at the first fire. On Monday, at Leavenworth City, four men were killed —two of each pariy—in a sort of general fracas; and about one hundred citizens of Weston went down that afternoon, on the ferry boat Lewis Burns, to assist the quelling of the dis- turbance. Monday night three or four -houses were burnt at Leavenworth, creating considerable panic among the inhabi- tants. About fifty of the F ree-State residents were notified to leave, which they did with precipitate haste. Several fled from their home with such of their effects as they could readily secure. On Sunday night a row occurred in a gum: bling:house, which resulted in the death of a man by the name of Rocnns. "Ac- cidents” of this nature are, however, of so common occurrence In the Territory as to hardly excite attention or remark. Numbers of the Pro-Slavery party are detailed to intercept the Yankee provis: io wagons, and it is almost impossible for any further supply of stores to reach Lawrence. unless some new demonstra- tion on LANi'~:’s part requires the Pro- Slavey leaders to concentrate their men. Five of the Free State men who were taken prisoners at Ossawatomie were sent down on the "Polar Star, and their passage paid by their captors -—a novel, and certainly most humane, method of getting rid of such trophies of victory.- Who shall say that the Border Ruffians are not largely generous. @r'l‘he “ notorious villain leader,” spoken of above isa native of Litchfield County in this state, apeaceable citizen and Christian man, and a brother of Mr. J. R, Brown who has just opened in Norwolk a wholesale Flour store.—[ED. GAZETTE. From the .N‘. Y. Courier and En quircr. Flowers of Southern Chivalry. South Carolina chivalry was in full bloom at Columbia, in that State, on the 29th ultimo, when the chivalry of Co- lumbia opened wide its arms to receive the Hon. PRESTON S. Biiooxs. On the evening of that day a dense crowd stood in front of the Court House at Columbia and gazed up iifidmiration at the scene presented upon the Court House balco- ny. On the balcony stood the Mayor of Columbia, presenting to the Hon. PRESTON S. Buooxs a Silver Pitcher, a Goblet, and a Hickory Cane with a gold head, made a speech in which he gave Flower the First, of South Carolina chivalry, in these words : CoL. BnooKs—Ou behalf of the citi- zens of Columbia, it becomes my pleas- ing duty to present to you this pitcher, goblet and cane, as testimonials of our high appreciation of your ecent conduct at Washington City. They were pre- pared tome time since for presentation, but supposing that it would be more agreeable to you to receive them here in the midst of your own fellow citizens, they have been withheld for this occa- sion. I trust, Sir, that I may be per- mitted to add that it is not alone, that you have visited with merited castiga- iion the vile slanderer of the State which gave you birth, that we delight to honor you, but because your conduct throughout the trying scenes through which you have since passed, has been orable men, and to justify our pride in claiming you one of Caroliua’s noblest sons. The Mayor of Columbia ceased, and amid cheers from the multitude, the Hon. Preston S. Brooks, in a long speech in response to the Mayor, scat- tered among his admirers more flowers of chivalry. We need only cull a few. Mr. Brooks’ Flower the Second was as follows: He thanked the citizens for the com- pliment paid him on this occasion, and for the sympathy which his course had received. It was the spirit which actu- ated him to do the deed, more than the deed itself, which deserved their com- mendation. It was a deed which was the result of a high sense of duty, and any man who held his honor above re- proach would have acted, under similar circumstances, precisely as he did. The deed to which Mr. Brooks here refers as the result of a high sense of duty. was to commit a premeditated and deadly assault on a Senator of the Uni- ted States, when that Senator is not in a position to defend himself; and such was the assault which Mr. Brooks says any man who held his honor above re- proach would commit just. as be com- mitted ii. This, certainly, is a most beautiful and delicate flower of chivalry blooming modestly in the bed of honor. Flower the Third given by Mr. Brooks, was of this des- cription : - He would not say there was no honor or moral courage at the North; he knew there were some men of as true courage at the North as elsewhere.-— But what he wished to say was, that the moral tone of mind which would lead a man to become a Black Republi- can, would make him incapable of cour- age, and would involve a loss of all honor and moral principle whatever. And yet from a Northerntliepublicau, rendered, according to Mr. Brooks“, do tlirougli his such as to win the applause of all hon-. deficient in courage by Republicunisin, Mr. Brooks when called upon to face him, and prove his (Broolis’) courage by deeds not words, receded like a Sllil(l0\Vy traveler on the edge of the horizon.—-- This third flower of Mr. Brooks’ chival- ry, is a flower with the petals so closed over the piszils that no one can see its stamen. ' Flower the Fourth holds up its head and opens its blood- red leaves after this manner: He rather wished the Army Appro- priation bill would not pass, because it would effect the removal of the United States soldiers from Kansas and leave the people of the South free to go there and cut the throats of Lane and his abo- lition comrades. We know the black Republicaii platform; it is our duty either to counteract them or meet them boldly, face to face, and battle for our rights The bloody roses of York and Lau- caster pale before this blood red Kansas rose which Brooks holds up to the ad- miration of Columbia Chivalry. Flower the Fifi/i blushes in this wise: When he said lately in the House of Representatives that he had it in his power to raise a revolution, it was no egotistic boast. He felt that he had done as much as any one man to con- centrate the feeling of the South, and when he spoke of revolution, he knew that had he stepped forward and smote one of their Abolition crew in the House their enmity to him would have precip- itated them against him, and then his friends would have covered the floor of the House of Representatives with hu- man blood. This is a modest flower, an humble hedge flower, but with immense hedge thorns all arouudit to lacerate all who shall dare to touch it. Flower the Sixth expands thus: He was a co-operation disunionist-- the same as he was in 1851. He felt convinced that South Carolina would respond to his position. -l= as it ‘ *5 % On the second Monday in November next the great question would be deci- ded. For his part, if Fremont, the traitor to his section, should be success- ful, it was his deliberate opinion that on the fourth of March next the people of the South should rise in their might, march to Washington, and seize the ar- chives and the Treasury of the Govern- ment. We should anticipate them, and force them to attack us. This is a rank flowei-—the flower of treason and disunioii. It is a poisonous flower, but held in the hand. and ‘the following incantation said over it 2 “The King of France, with fifty thousand men Marched up a hill and then marched down again”-— and the poison becomes harmless. Flower the Seventh Buchanan, the speaker frankly admit- ted, was not his firsi, second or third choice, but ,his last. His fii-st choice was Franklin Pierce, because he had manifested a disposition to givethe South her constitutional rights. After Pierce, he was in favor of Douglas—a true friend, who had perilled his life by his his position on the Nebraska bill, and who had the smoke and scars of the bat- tle upon him. There must be compromise every- who-.r-in society, in law, rind in politics Buchanan was the standard bearer in the coming contest, and the platform up- on which he stood was the right one for the South. If its principles were car- ried out, the Government would be res- tored to the condition of a Constitution- al Administration. Why should we re- fuse to take a part in the battle? If we are bound to have civil war, and if we must dissolve the Union, we must do it with a full appreciation of the con- sequences. He thought there would be no child’s play when the conflict did come. 0 This is a Democratic flower, given by Mr. Brooks for all true Democrats to wear in their button holes-a Brooks white flower to distinguish the marriage between Northern Democracy and Southern Slavery Extension. A Plain Flower. We need not gather any more of these flowers, hut in leaving this garden of South Carolina chivalry, we can only say in all seriousness, that Preston S. Brooks, in his speech at Columbia, filled the measure of disgrace attached to him for his assault on Senator SUMNER: and the citizens of Columbia, S. C., have filled the measure of their disgrace. in thus honoring him, and applauding his boasting, and his uudisguised treason to the Union. Well says the Baltimore Patriot, “If our Southern friends ini- agine they honor themselves in thus honoring their representative, we shall not trouble ourselves to enquire how it is that, in gaining these laurels, he has lost his reputation.” Heads I Win, Tails Yon Lose.- The Buchanan and Fillmore parties seem to be playing with each other the very in: teresting game described in the above caption. The Buchanan presses and politicans are constantly expressing the conviction --in which, indeed, most sen: sible people endorse them—that Mr. Fill- more has not got, in their own expressive language, “ the ghost ofa chance.” The Louisville Joilmal, the great champion of Know Notliingism in Kentucky. in favor of Fillmore for the Presidency, and of the extermination of foreigners, throws back the taunt, and irrevereutly exclaims that " old pelter, meaning the venerable Mr. Buchanan—lias not got the ghost of a chance against Fremoiit. If, says this doughty champion of Fillmore, The contest were left to Fremont and B11- chanan, Fremont would get the whole one hundred and sevnty-six electoral votes of the Free State. Cincinnati from his supposed availability at the North, he has not a particle of strength in the North and he cannot carry a single Nor- them State. An old Latin maxim says that II: is right to learn, even from our enemies. We have no doubt that the assertions contained in the foregoing paragraph are perfectly correct. We expect to see them verified—independemly of the hy- potliesis—-in November next, when it will be made perfectly clear that neither Mr. Buchanan not Mr. Fillmore have éfve; iisjii~- 'tb'e gnos;-oi ii chance. ’f7.)}*i){é .ih}rJ£.//.9 Gdz/-fie.’ " What. is it to the people of Connecti- cut whether the territories of mo Uuiieul States are Free or Slave territory '.”’ was a question I heard an honest, well mean ing, but ill informed deinocrat put to an advocate of free S0ll a few days since ; and probably there are many who think it of little consequence whether Kansas, Nebraska, or the whole territory of the county, becomes Free or Slave States. A little attention to facts would satisfy those who think it is none of our busi- ness In Connecticut what the character of the government of the immense nu- settled between the States of Missouri and Arkansas on the east, and California on ’ihe west, may become really is our business. In 1850, the pop- ulation of Connecticut was 370.792, of which number 78.139 were born out of the State, and 37.473 out of the United States At the same time, there were in the other States and territories of the Union 154.891 persons born in Connec- ticut, that is, more than one third of the people living who were born in Connec- ticut, had found homes out of our be- loved old State. The annual emigra- tion from Connecticut for the last twenty years, has been more than 5000, of which number about 4000 each year have gone to the western States and territories, and probably for the next fifty years an increasing number will annually go out from us to seek homes and fortunes in the far West. Where are they to go? The expeiience of the past shows that few will go into slave-holding States.- In 1850, there were of Connecticut birth in Ohio 22.855-while in Kentucky there were only 448. There were in Illinois 6.899—in Mis§ouri 742. Why this difference ? simply because no free white laborer will go into a Slave State to settle. Land of the same quality is sixty per cent. cheaper in Kentucky and Missouri than in Ohio and Illinois, and were it ninety per cent. it would not in- duce Northern settlers to purchase. Is it not something to the people of Con- necticut ihen whether the territories are free or slave? The annual emigration into the United States from Europe, for some years past has exceeded 300.000, and may be estimated for years to come at as large a number. Where are they to go’? They have the same aversion to settling in Slave territory as the peo- ple of the Free States ; while in 1850, Connecticut had 37.473 of foreign birth, North Carolina had but 2.524—while New York had 661.301, Virginia has 22.394—Obio had 218.512, and Georgia only 5.907—Illinois had 110.593, Mis- souri 12.474. The foreign population of Connecticut at the present time cannot be less (probably more) than 50 000.—- The foreign is fast crowding out the na- rive population. We must have verge and scope for the yearly increase. The swarms that go out from the old hive must have a place to light. If Kansas becomes a Free State it will rapidly fill up with settlers from the Free States, but if it. becomes a Slave State, no yan- kee farmer will seek a home there.- The idea is entertained by some that if Kansas becomes a Slave State, Nebras- ka will not. and there is ample room yet for free laborers. What reason have we to suppose that the slave-ocracy will be satisfied with Kansas. The pretext of the Missourians for their raids into Kansas, and their dri- ving out free settlers, is that their prop- erty in slaves will be endangered ifKan- sas is a free State, in consequence of the immediate proximity of territory ; won't the same objection apply to Nebraska, if Kansas becomes a Slave State '? But it is said the South have equal rights in the territories as the Norih—granted, but what do we mean by equal rights '.' No one objects to settlers from the South enjoying every rightand privilege that settlers from the North can have in the territories, what we object to is the establishing an institution which will effectually keep out settlers from the North. Facts prove that the emi- gration from the Slave States is greater into free than into slave territory. In 1850 there were in Ohio, 85.762 persons born in Viiginia, while in Kentucky were only 54.694; Indiana had 33.175 born in North Carolina, while Missouri had 17.009; Illinois had 4.162 born in South Carolina, and Missouri 2.919-— showing clearly that that class of the white population of the slave States, who have life and enterprise enough to emigrate, prefer free to slave territory. People frequently talk of the destiny of our country, and make estimates of what our population must be at the end of the present century, and what. ii. will be in one hundred years, ‘and as our population has doubled in each thirty years, for the last sixty years, it is not unreasonable to suppose that in 1-J00 our population will reach to nearly or quite 100.000 000, and the same ratio of indrease will in 1956 reach to more than 300.000.000. Is it. not vastly im- portaut in view of this vast population, that our institutions should be such as to secure the greatest amount ofthe means of life and enjoyment? Our slave pop- ulation in one hundred years. at ilie rate of increase for the last. twenty years, will reach to more than 26.000.000.—— What is to become of tiiem? Their condition physically, morally and intel- lectually, is doubtless iiuproving. Can they be" kept in abject bondage forever Tliese are mattersliiot only of rnomeni. to the South, but to the North also. It is important to the North that a limit shoulgl be put to slave territory. But, it may be asked, what will become of the South if they have no outlet. to their in- creasing slave population? I a‘nswer regions when the evil of the upon tliein, let. the pressure find reliefin sending back to their native land, Africa, the surplus which is found unprofitable, Lei the general government be at me charge of transporting all they may be required to do, and the evil, if not cured, increase presses may be mitigated and made endurable. s "i'l:»- .- -_j"(,'-I’ of slaary extension, which is the great question at. issue in .ihe appl‘Oil-’:lllll{_'_‘ Presidefllial election, beconics more important the more it is exmnined, and would all the people of Connecticut examine it thoroughlv. I believe there would be but one opinion, and mat opinion, that it must be stopped, that the future interest and well being of their children, and their children’: children demand that it should be stopped. it ‘or the Norivalk Gazette. WESTPORE‘, Sept. 10th, 1356, A. H. BYINGTON. ESQ.—-In me ]a§t number of the Norwalk Gazette (SBPL 9th,) I notice an article headed “Border Ruffiaiiism in Westport," and signed “Freedom,” at the close of which is appended w hat appears to be an editorial statement as follows : The names of Dr. Burr, with that of a prominent merchant of Westport, was given us, on the occasion referred to, but although we observed their presence among the dis- graceful outlaws who perpetrated the outra. ges, we cannot believe that either gentleman could so far sink his manhood, as to in any wise approve the disgraceful affair, much less can we believe they were instrumental in its promotion. I wish to ask you if by this statement you had reference to me in any respect, and if you had, I have to request. that you will communicate to me the name or names_of the person or persons who gave you my nariie as being concerned in the affair as here quoted. Your early attention will much oblige Your obedient servant, ‘ S. MOULTON, J11. Q We most cheerfully give Mr. Moultou the benefit of his implied denial, in the above letter, of any complicity in the disgraceful proceedings at Westport. It will be easy for the public to believe that he did all in his power to suppress the riotous proceedings of the mob. _______.,_____ Freemen’s Glee Book. This is one of the best collections of Cam- paign Songs yet issued. It is compiled by Henry Camp, Esq., whilom of Norwalk, and published by that wide awake firm, Miller, Orton do Mulligan of Auburn, N. Y. Mr. Camp sang from it (as he alone can sin g,) the Freedom Rallying Song, set to the tune oftbe Marseilles Hymn, on the occasion of the re- cent mass meeting at South Norwalk. Pol-ter’s Spirit of the Times. The flrst number of this new sporting Journal came to hand last week, and we recognize in it all the attrac- tive features which can give a. resistless claim to uni- versal public favor. It is issued every Saturday morn" iug at Nos. 346 and 348 Broadway, New York, by Wm. T. Porter and George Wilkes, Editors, at six cents a number. The friends and patrons of the old “Spirit,” will find an improvement upon it in the “new.” We wish the enterprising proprietor the fullest measure of success. , A Useful Document. No person who takes an active part in the pending canvass should fail to procure a closely printed pamph- let of 165 octavo pages, prepared by HORACE Glmi-21.1-Ii‘, and published by Dix & Enw/inns, No. 321 Broadway, embracing a clear‘ full, documentary History of the Struggle for Slavery Eccterision or Restriction, from the Declaration of Independence to the present day. It is a most admirable and useful work, All the laws, re- ports. speeches, and documents necessary to put the subject in a clear light, the votes upon each proposition the dates of each movement, etc., are given with accu- racy and in copious detail. It has special interest and value as connected with the pending canvass. The New Spirit of the Tz'mes.—Wil liam T. Poi'ter,so long the editor of that leading sporting paper, the New York Spirit of the Times, is about to establish a new sporting and literary paper, to be caled Porier’s Spirit of the Times. He announces lbat he will be assisted bv the contributors who have added so much to the value and reputation of the old pa- per. For the Norwalk Gazette. Nouwsmr, Sept. 9th, 1856. Fiunnn B.-—I have been a Democrat all my life. This campaign I have been some what hesitaiing. as I have not had an opportunity to listen to the speeches that have been made here in old Nor- walk, I wished to hear both sides and then draw my conclusions. Last evening I heard both sides, and drew my conclu- sions most emphatically. I last evening attended your Fremont Meeting, and from there I went to that on the Hill.— Now I will compare the two if there can be any comparison in such a case.— In the meeting of the Fremonters I sat till quite late. and listened to the sound logic force and eloquence of Mr. Peck’s and Mr. Fei-ry’s remarks. I went on the Hill, and what did I hear there '? Merely the cackling of a political game cock, Ex-Member of Congress from Ohio, though the Lord knows how he was elected, I don’t. I went there with the expectation of hearing some of the arguments answered that I had just heard advanced by Mr Peck and Mr. Ferry, but instead of ans, wering arguments, he "uttered the most ingenious tissues of misrepresentations” and denied facts which are known to be true. It was a bitter pill even for the Democrats to swallow. In conclusion, I would say, that in mv humble opinion Fremont is the man, and I may say with Mr. Peck, that "a few more North-east storms, such as we have had from Maine, will place him in the White House.’ Now A FREMONT!-IR. ASSAGE CE RTIFICATES and FOREIGN DRAFTS. Drafts payable in any part of England, Ireland and Scotland-— also, Drafts on France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Prussia, Poland, Russia, Nor- way, Sweden and Denmark, for any sum from $5 upwards—sold at this Ofiice. Oxygenated Bitters. The annexed Statement of Prof. A. A. HAYF3, M. D. State Assayer, is ample testimony oftlie scientific man’. nor in which this medicine is compounded and rec. oinmenils it to Professional Men, as worthy ‘a. fair trial in their practice : An opinion having been asked for of me, in conse- q u_ence of the formula for preparing Oxygenated Bitters being known to iue, I express the following in form : The composition of these Bitters incliidesftliose medi- cinal substances which experienced physicians have low»- resorted to for special action on the svstem when def: }'"‘.“g.°d I-’.l'_F*?,"'“‘Si D{v'~"‘-pepsin, Agnes, dud Ge’neral Debi-1- ity‘. resulting from exposiire or cliinate influence. ' These are rendered pei-manent"*a'ud rem‘:iin’a'cti'-.-s, in this preparatioii, as a couseijuende ofthe seientific'r‘iian'* ner in which they are combined. ‘ " It was a well‘ founded inference that the pri-pziratioii, “sea 1“ ‘‘“'‘e’°l‘ 01' smaller Hoses vioiild prove 'a v-'liiIJl¢; General llleditine, ivliicli experiimcc has ‘de‘i'nou%f_ D7931’- IP ‘hi-9 medicine, no metallic salts can be found, by the most delicate chemical trials. Respectfiilly. A. A. HAYES, .u. D.. Assayer to the State of Massachusetts. No 1 Pine_Sti'eet, Boston, ltith llec. I850. Si-nu W. FOWLI-J & C0,, 138 \\':i-iliingtoii -Sfl'1"?t» B°3t"'“: Proprietors. Sold by their :l.l.’l‘llt‘-‘ 0\‘9l'.VWllt‘l‘9- Sold in Norwalk by J. .-i. \\'i:i-:n. u.nd BEER!-I & Son ; G|-20- W. SMITH, South Norwzilk ; l.ockwood _& Haight, Stamford ; J_ W_ Taylor, Weslport ;Samuel Pike, South- port, and by Druggists generally. __.___———-——:—““'—?— To Nervous Siilferers. AR;-ti;-ea (;1,,tg_,.,,,;.n, restci-eil to health in a few days. after many _veaI‘5 07 l-:l'*‘“‘ ““"‘"°“-“ -‘“fl°l'l"g: I3 anxious to make known the means of cure. Will send free) the presci-iption used. Direct the Rev. Joan M. I)AG.\‘4l.I., No. 59 Fulton-st, Brooklyn. -V'- Y. ,“-, 2m3_6 - ‘ - .' ‘ I, I
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