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Traveler. Rock Biver Ceafereaea the M. E. Chareh. To'the Editors of the Democratic Prist filEVEKKLYPBESS BOARD OK rPERTISORS.

Kocx Islakd, I1L, Sept 10, 1855. To the Edititn of the Demoeraue Vmm Rock Island, Sept 11. too clearly that they abate not one tot or tittle of their prejudices against slavery by living in I proximity to it, excelling even native Abolition- ists (who con fine their sgitations principally to The annual session of the Roek River Confer. i-aTTSIIAV IIT Hl'EAKH 1 a "MUM- ence of the M. E.

Church, fur 1855, commences in this city to-morrow, (the 12th,) and as I am here iu Rock Island for a time, I will post your MI CLAKK PIKr.r.l. The X. T. 7Vsrand several other of oss-temporarie have been hoaxed by the reported reelerti oa of Atchison to the United States Sea-ate from Missouri. The story had ita origin in the proceeding ef a sheas Legialature organized by some wide-awake young suea at Jefferson City, who have been amusing themselves by a dose imitation of the doings of their seniors.

The real Missouri Legislature wilt not be in ass-eion until next winter. Fran tbe Xemhm Eacte and Knqrilrer. Ptorrtca anixrmtioa mm4 Slavery. Is the influx of a half million of foreigner in-j to this eoantrr, annually, compatible with tb existence of African Starerr ia the Sooth is an inqmiy pregnant with the fate of the Sooth and her high Virilization, and an inquirv which wily demagogties would pi ad It erade if in their pow-I er; lor, if upon a philosophical consideration of this question, it should be determined that this in-j flux of foreigners will hare a tendencr to hasten the period when African slaTerr cannot exist ia the South, then all their tnxrioui pleadi ag for the admission of foreigners falls to the ground. And richt here, before proceeding further with this It may not be uninteresting to that portion of your readers whose business or inclination leads them to travel, to peruse a passing sketch of objects along the route of the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad.

Before entering upon the descriptive, however, let me pay a just tribute in another direction. Arriving in Chicago from the north, I stopped at the "Foster House," kept by M. H. Baxter, Esq, and was particularly Term. I luUiInz Mates.

lvn'-' i readers now and then concerning its doings. I would say, however, that the business of a conference is of but little interest to the general reader. When we look at the assembling of two CM 10.UU A band of fifty hardy young men were in the city to-day bound for Fort Leavenworth, in Kansas. From one of their number, Mr. William 1'hillipson, we leara that the entire party is from Syracuse, X.

and that vicinity, and under the direction of II. G. Otis, who has the government contract for building dragoon barracks at Fort Leavenworth, they go out there to erect the government buildings. Such a band of vigorous, intelligent and industrious young men is worth to that abused Territory more thau a gold mine. Yet the infamous Atchison and Stringfellow, standing at the portals of that new Territory, and waving the burning brand of slavery, would keep back all who would dignify and render respectable the labor of the husbandman and mechanic.

Worse than all, an Ohioan, Wilson Shannon, once the Governor of the proud Buckeye Stato, meets those alaverv propagandists on his entrance as Governor into" that Territory and proclaims himself in favor of making that Territory the land of slavery. Cleveland Herald, Wth. The above is very suggestive. The overshadowing evil of slavery consists in the fact that it nunarea ministers, at first thought one would small ml- Hln Oft TSAR. a(v wn i iu uic Kmrn mwr pppuenwm to alaverv.

And just here the portineat inquiry arises, is there sny reason why we may not take the antilvavery platforms of these Southern foreigners as an index of the opinions of the great mass of foreigners in America? Is it not reasonable, indeed, that anti-slavery men in the South, wbo hear and see both sides of the question, should have even more conservative views than those of the Xorth Then, if these platforms are an index of their sentiments, rent God soar tUurtiiag the fact, that half a million of theae earn annually to our shore, to svell the poorer of the Xorth, and occupy th outlet of tlattrv: whilst the South, in the fullness of her folly snd blinded by party prejudices, ia lending eneourauement to the advances of this annv of aliens, which is even now acting its part in the grand programme of the North, of hedging in the South as with a wall of fire. a kactvi or Alabama. think there would be much of interest, but when made acquainted with the detail of the business. ii is ramer auti to outsiders. As the occasion presents an opportunity, it may not be out of place to look for a moment at litel will lie ily 1" a rotnreij envelope mail totir rWk- hy acconipa -y will ix no mf r.i.

'2 ii Trtl. si n- fmnliar with the project of pleased with the air of comfort pervading the establishment The gentlemanly clerk, Mr. Batch-eldor, tendered me the freedom of the bouse, and was most courteous in his attentions. Travelers visiting the Garden City will find the Foster ss comfortable a place of tarrying as any, and possessed of all the agreeables properly belonging to a first class hoteL At 2 o'clock P. M.

on the day of mv departure. the general business of a Methodist Conference. I am persuaded that no assembly of any kind has a more systematic mode of procedure. Even li.r carving a new repuouc our legislative bodies might learn lessons of dis lying upon their I stepped upon the platform of the cars at the ttiev do not con- rhiii v. T.ri--'it, I1 tafThe Auburn (N.

American aays Fitzgerald, the murderer, seems to be tbouroughiy oonvinced of the horrible enormity of the crime of which he is guilty, and the commisston of which he freely snd fully confesses. He is in a perfect agony of mind, snd spends the most of his time in the perusal of the scriptures, snd ia audible prayer. He weeps very much, groans frequently and loudly, makes self accusation of hi folly snd his guilt, snd gives every outward manifestation of repentance. J-S-- Two laborers left their work (haymaking i oa a farm near Chelmsford, England, recently, to see th review of lhe Essex Yeomanry, and on the complaint of their employer were sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment at hard labor. Major Palmer, the commandant, asked the Home Secretary to remit their panisament, but Sir George Grey declined.

Do laborer ia England have to obtain a pass when they wish to enjoy little recreation? This looks l-ke Our Country Comspoedence. The Farm ana CI. Garden, and field Culture of Strawberries Stamxnate and Pittilate Varietit. The cultivation of the Strawberry does not appear to be well understood except by the professional gardener; it is therefore of importance that a little light dawned on this rather mysterious subject to enable every occupier of a garden plot to indulge in this delicious luxury from the products of his own skill and labor. The soil should be deep and well drained, slightly shaded if inclining to the south, but a northern aspect is better; it need be only moderately rich, as too rich a soil gives too much vines.

We prefer not to use- any manure in the preparation of the ground, but to add it by way of winter covering to protect the plants from heaving, and in the spring raking off the coarsest and working the finer particles in among the roots with an iron-tooth rake. Spring is much the besmime to make the beds, requiring less labor thau any other season though it may lie done at any time when the frost is out of the After the ground is well worked by plow or spade a foot deep, the plants are set in rows two feet apart and a foot in the rows. The time of blossoming is the best, when you ueed commit no error in mixing the sorts, as some are very nice about keeping the pistilate and staminate plants in separate beds. Of the value of this distinction we are not disposed to give an opinion at present, as we are well satisfied with the bearing qualities of both and as we hare had both varieties in oar garden since we have attempted the culture of the berry, we could not vouch for all that is claimed on this head. To those curious ia such matters, we would refer them to the arguments of S.

Loogworth and others in tb Hoftti eultvritt, and the no less able and pithy arfe; cles of the talented editor of the Prairie Farmer. For ourself, we have discarded numerous varieties of both staminate and pistilate for their Sad bearing qualities. Perhaps they were misiuated without corresponding affinities, and the fault lay in our bad selection. Be this as it may, we have settled down with both grades, and have uniform good crops, with the exception of the past summer, wheu our bi-ds had a southern ex in Ill irmugn mey uouni-, i.liii.iti Iv t. make their republic as br.a'l as 1 whol' Mexico.

Their in Orleans, the lielta, goes 'h- ilirect annexation of the rrv i 1 1 i'h reasons pro and con, Mtr or- introduced to make a r.i iit smee with it annexation is a tri t.i a portion of its urusues ana aegraaes Ireemen. Wc do not wonder that ourcotemporary feels that Ohio suffers from disgrace reflected from Gov. Shannon. The infamy of his late declaration, that he would exert all his influence to introduce slavery into Kansas, is rendered all the more glaring when viewed in connection with the splendid triumphs of free labor which have made Ohio the noble State she is. The citizen of such a State once its Governor with the contrast which Kentucky presents impressed on his memory, it seems almost incredible that be could "have given utterance to the declaration above referred to.

But if Gov. Shannon, and Atchison, and Stringfellow have rendered themselves infamous by seeking to convert free into slave territory, their infamy is as nothing to that which attaches to the act of paving the way Tor the possible accomplishment of so gigantic a scheme or wickeduess. While Ohioana deprecate the bet that their own State furnishes patch from a conference of Methodist preachers. All business is done in answers to questions, as 1. Who are admitted on trial 2.

Who are admitted to full connection D. Are the preachers all blameless And so on, for about a dozen questions. When the first question is asked by the presiding officer all applications for admission are presented and disposed of. When the third question, as I have numbered it above, is asked, each preacher's name is called, and then all complaints and other matters connection with his case come up, and the man is disposed of according to representations at that time. And thus every item of business is called at its proper time, and no time wasted by waiting for business and besides it is known at any stage of the Conference what part of the business is gone through with.

The business, though dull to outsiders, is of all importance to the ministers, and many connected with the church, and for all such as are interested, I will r.i' Ji'ui'J ilml, in in material the mirieiation seven millions I VI. i i.mi a unn neniiiiTiii nnis. "ii l'-'ry repuW'c, ii, wi-rf ill for defense or oflenBe, 'ni lii-Hi Hutu'-i' 1" tn'-M country, ana utrid mi the r.M! hich our "mani-L -Je'-tin eoiriiel.i un travel. The onlj urtM.n whether the gain would not bo more hv the inconveniences and ulii'-li would' he experienced in the The r-Hr or Ifeir. We have heretofore expressed our belief that Cairo ia destined to bseome a great and populous city.

Its facilities for water transit, its railroad system, now in process of development, its genial climate, and the magnificent country with which, by means of the above named avenue, it is placed in commercial relations, all combine to render easy of solution tbe question of Ita future greatness. Within the last year about one nuodred building hare been erected, some of tbem large and substantial edifices, and at the present time many improvement are ia progress. Among the warehouses now going up on the Levee are some intended for the wholesale grocery trade a trade which Cairo will henceforth control quite ss effectually as it ever has been done by New Orleans or St. Ijearis. 5 But it is not our purpose to speak at length of the advantage and prosperity of Cairu, so much aa to draw attention to the advertisement of T.

Staats Taylor, to be found in our columns thia morning. It will be seen that quite liberal iuducenieuts in the way of time are offered to purchasers. Meanwhile, to such as are seeking information respecting this locality, the following, from the N. Y. Srj'er and Enquirer, will prove of interest Cairo city, as our readers well know, is at the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivera, and is lhe southern temif tiua of the Illinois Central Railroad.

There have been unbounded pains taken bv rival interests to discredit Cairo; it has been called a city under water, an unhealthy bole, where pestilence and death make their abode. Rut experience hae demonstrated that it has nut been overflowed for a arrest num- depot of the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, and sped away toward the south and west The country in the vicinity of Chicago is and uninteresting, and it was not until we had proceeded some twenty or twenty-five miles, that the scenes through which we passed awoke more than a temporary feeling of curiosity. For some distance, however, before we reached Joliet the objects passed assumed (to me) a more interesting aspect, and the eye of the traveler, but for the speed with which we were borne along, would have rested with satisfaction upon rolling lands skirted with pleasant groves, fine farms adorned with finer residences, and occasional streams whose waters irrigate a soil of unsurpassed richness. I regret that I had no opportunity of seeing Joliet, except from the cars but your readers hare had occasional gUmpses of its location and business thrift, and a lengthened notice may very properly be omitted here. It is a pleasant city, and speeding on toward the attainment of a commanding position.

Beyond and west of Joliet we passed the villages of Morris and Marseilles, and at five o'clock reached the county seat of Lasalle County, delightful Ottawa, where I purposed to tarry for a brief period. Ottawa is a place of considerable importance, with a population numbering some 5,000. Until recently, the town has been almost destitute of schools but a better feeling has arisen ou this subject, and an appropriation of some $16,000, which has been made for the purpose, and is being judiciously expended in the erection of suitable buildings, bids fair to redeem its character in this particular. At this place, the Illinois and Fox Rivers unite their waters. The canal also passes through the town, (crossing the Fox River just above the point of junction by means of the pliant tool for executinu- tsar Oa Saturday last the Supreme Court of Pennaylvsnis, sitting at Philadelphia, ia final decision, denied th appUeatioa of Pas more Willianisoa kt a writ of habeas corpus.

is now imprisoned for a contempt of Court, for disobeying a writ of hhees corpus, commanding him to produce the bodies of certain person alleged to be lares. The decieioa leaves Williamson to remain in jail for aa indefinite period. yf Rev. A. T.

Norton, of lbs Presbyterian Church, Alton, ba beea appointed to the office of CiHrreeponding S.retary and Financial Agent to the Cariiuville Theological Seminary; and be has con en ted enter upon the ditties of hi appointment s. oon the congre-galioa to which he ministers can be otherwise supplied. i lioplllatmn. If jir.p.-:irs ih tliM the chief characteristic of nr piilific- il is its wonderful adaptit-i in tin-irani't and most peculiar circum-y'lin- Tlinf iif accommodating i-vi-rv phase of lite which Augustin titi-rr' to ancient Danes, belongs riiim pi' aluo In Brazil or Honu- 'Vu -Ii, i-iniitriri-to e-ef the "upper hand" as ir'flUi hi t'lilit'irruii Kansas, and whereTcr ttii-i popnlaliou acknowledges "uti'i-nor iiitflifnc, and gradually adopta Stir iileus. The Mexicans are by no iKini trfiihli'soiiie or un-Arnerican a people a -hi- M'irm'itia, and yet we have experienced in the government of Utah up to Irideeii, thp former have none of the wild fcrintii'iHm find hriitul animosity to the heathen" xb rn the followers of Joe Smith tul hVailiih, and time and wisdom would t'i down their national peculiarities to plant slavery in Kansas, we, as Illinoians, have still greater cause for shame and indignation in view of the lact that it was one of our Senators who rendered that scheme possible, lie was not alone in this work, but the burden of guilt rests chiefly upon him.

If he conceived the plot without suggestion from others, he may well tremble at the terrible responsibility which he has incurred if he was but a tool directed by more scheming heads, the part which he has acted loses a kind of Satanic dignity which it would possess noder the first supposition, and becomes contemptible as well as obnoxious to the severest censure. We ought always to discriminate between principals and subordinates in this matter. Gov. Shannon, Atchison, Stringfellow are answerable only as subordinates. If they succeed in overrunning Kansas with slavery) Senator Douglas, President Pierce, and their coadjutors and advisers must figure as the chief criminals ill the national indictment.

And if, providentially, their plot should be defeated, they will be none the less answerable for having planned a great wickedness and done their best to consummate it. ber of years, and that after the completion of the The Congress, tb llg ship of Commodore Breese, commsnder of tbe Mediterranean squadron, arrived at Gibraltar on tbe 14th of August, twenty-six day from New Tork. She was to sail oa tbe loth of august for Marseilles. All on board were well. nl ineni lino me uigniiy ot cilizensnip.

annexed. Suppose American MIi(Ki ut a fine aqueduct) and is supplied by a feeder of nearly four miles in length from the latter stream. Sufficient water-power exists here to afford all desirable facilities of this nature, and a portion of it is advantageously improved. The city has adopted the prohibitory liquor law, and there seems every disposition to enforce it The neighborhood of Ottawa affords a number posure, and a severe drouth filled up the measure of our disappointments. The large early scarlet appears to give almost universal satisfaction from Maine to Kansas, and from the Lakes to Cape Sable.

It is early, a profuse grower and bearer, with a flavor peculiarly adapted to give an agreeable piquancy to cream and sugar. Later sorts should be planted to extend the season of this fruit. The first season after planting we get a few berries, while the next season should give a full crop. After the fruiting season is over, the bed should be spaded up in alternate strips of a foot wide, burying by this process one half the plants the new runners will soon cover the ground, and the following seasou the other strips should be treated in the same way, Iu ihis uiauuer the bed is constantly renewed with young, vigorous plants, and the soil thereby kept loose and in good condition. The winter covering of well rotted manure should be attended to as soon as the ground is frozen in the fall.

This will keep the plants in good condition and prevent winter killing, especially if the ground is a little moist The propriety of keeping the beds free from weeds will naturally occur to auy one, and should receive the proper attention. The field culture of strawberries being on a much larger scale, a different system of tactics is required, and a renewal of plantations will be found more profitable than the spading and mulching process. After the ground is prepared, the plants are set in rows about two feet apart each way, and kept clear of eeds the first season the next season they produce abundant J- The Gmrier and knqvtrer learns that proeecuttona are about to be commenced in tbe United Stales District Court for the Southern District nf New York against tb gCemden aad Amboy Railroad Compaay, ia behalf id several of those injured by the recent accident. l-f There seems to be steady stream of emigration from tbe United Statea to Europe. Tbe packet ship Touawooda sailed from Philadelphia tor Liverpool a few days sgo, with ten oabia aad two hundred and sixty -seven steerage hfian-gers.

It is said the Fnsioniftta in New York in-tend to ooniinste Willism C. Brysut, of (he Eccnina Post, aa a candidate fur Secretary of State. They may nominate hint, but it is aot probable that he would accept tbe nomination. The monster steamer now building oa the Thames, a few inilea below London, la to make ber trial trip in tbe Spring to Portland, aud is to be loaded for the Canadian Ursnd Truuk Railway Company. new and improved levee, now iu the process ot construction, aud upon which several hundred laborers are actually eugaged.

there ia no greater probabilitv of its 'being submerged thau we will not sav the city of New Orleans but the island of New York upon which we live. Aa to the unhealthiness of the place, not a spot on the line of the Illinois Central Railroad seven hundred miles has. since the commencement of that great work, proved more healthy. We hare fftoI authority for taying that Cairo i a healthy a Xew Those standing objections, which rivalry and envy have conjured up to frighten away settlers from Cairo, are overcome and destroyed bv the experience of those who have resided at Cairu, and had frequent access to it in the last five years. While the objections are dispelled and overcome, there stands Cairo, at the bead of the permanent navigation of the Mississippi and the mouth of the Ohio, positively the moat central point in all the vast West.

Ita advantages are bejrinning to be seen by practical business men. More than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth tots bavc been solil within the past year, to persona desiring to improve them one quarter of the purchase money paid in cash, at prices which would be very regftectable for lota in not the least populous wards in the city of New York. A new hotel of large dimensions, the first occupied there, has been open only for four weeks, and has been filled with guests, more than could enjoy sleeping accommodations, for nearly the whole period up to the present time. (The leasee, wbo took lease of tbis building for only five rears, bss been offered three thousand dollars in advance on his lease in cash, with an offer to take the furniture at cost. llouses snd stores are going up with great rapidity.

It ia no exaggeration to say that from thia time onward, real estate will advance aa far and as faat in Cairo aa ever it did in Chicago, that wonder of cities, ancient or modem. of points that possess an interest to the traveler. The Mineral Springs, some seven miles below, have become quite a resort during the summer months. A commodious hotel, owned by a company in New York city, offers a pleasant retreat to those in search of comfortable quarters, and I believe is well patronized. A mile or so from tbis house, on the opposite side of the Illinois River, may be seen the "Starved Rock," so named from a romantic occurrence of which it was once the interesting scene.

Tradition informs us that, in one of the numerous and bloody wars that sprung up between the aborig inal inhabitants of the country, the remnant of ly; while with no further attention they produce a partial crop the following season, when the J-rf" Twenty -five catlje were found dead in Luzerne I-, a few day aince. Tbe disease of which they died is supp.ieed to bare originated from some Impurities drank from tbe staguant pools, without being accessible to auy pule water. ground turned over and followed by wheat or other crops. In all cases new land should be used, as that is much freer from weeds, which is a very important item. a nearly exterminated tribe made this rock a place of final retreat, against the overpowering numbers and superior skill of their foes.

The ascent to the summit was by a narrow path, just sufficient to admit the passage of two abreast and so completely protected that all attempts by the enemy to surprise the besieged party were useless. Here, hemmed in by the besiegers, the little handful of despairing warriors maintained a position uutil their supply of provisions was exhausted when, in the madness of hunger, subject, we will remtsrlc that the spasmodic efforts of the leaders of the dry rot partr to strangle this great American movement has' a strong tendency to constantly remind all intelligent Americans of the strength of onr principles and encourage us all to look hopefully forward to the time when they shall be embraced by all true Americans. The North we fctke to be There are many there we know who are not political Abolitionists but the moral and political sentiments of the whole Xortk are evidently opposed to the institution of slsTery. If proof is wanting to establish this, it is tb be found in the fact that in all the Statea north of Mason and Dixon's line slavery has either been inhibited or excluded, which shows also what their moral and political sentiments will lead them to do with the institution when they possess the power. All will recollect the programme fulminated in Ohio a few years since bv that great embodiment of Northern feeling, Wm.

H. whilst standing before an Ohio audience, with all that effrontery so characteristic of fanaticism. He tells them that no more slave Slates must come into this Union that the substratum of free States must be laid iu all the Territories to the end that all shall come into the Union opposed to slavery. Thus, says he, hedging in the 6outh as viiA'a wali of jirt hindering the expansion of her peculiar institution, and, as a consequence, smothering it out. This we take to be the ultimate design of the North with regard to slavery, and hence the effort of the New Kngland Statea to colonixe the inviting Territory of Kansas with her owu people, whilst the more conservative and less enthusiastic portion of the North, of which the Philadelphia Idgr is a fair representative, rebukes tbem for their imprudence, and holds toward them the following significant language: "Kansas this paper) is a fair soectmen of the forcing' system of building up States.

If armed emigrants from the East had not been sent there to forestall political war upon the subject of slavery, the European emigration, seeking its natural channel, would have flowed in that direction and built uy a free Slate in the Territory. If the North doe. n.it intend to smother out why is the sentiment of that section so averse" to its introduction into new Territories at all Would there be one slave more or less bv the expansion Thus asked Charles I. Ingersoll in his speech upon the admission of Taxas into the Union. tint," said his Northern brethren, who opjrOsed it, tVie Ttukumre gives it room lit expand, which is imparting unto it the elixir of eternal life, for as long as it has profitable outlets we cannot kill it.

We must Hrrttttiterii to destroy it." Here will be fouud the same idea as expressed bv Mr. Seward in his programme. It being clear that the object of the North the whole North is to circumscribe the area and thus destroy the institution of slavery, it well becomes southerners to investigate the sources of the power by which she is working out this result. Iu addressing ourselves to tbis inquiry we took iu vain for any natural cause for this great Northern preponderence of power we look iu vain for any reason in nature why the population of the North should be greater than ours so much so as to enable her to send forth colonies from her redundant population to eople new Slates. But by reference to our census reports we find that about half a million foreigners come annually to our shores and seek homes in the North, as naturally as like begets like.

Deriving their information in the old world of the new principally through Northern channels, they come here with prejudices already deep seated iti their mind against the institutions of the South principally on account of the great Northern idea they have already imbibed that slaverr comes in competition with, and degrades white labor. With these feelings toward the institutions of the South, they generally seek some Northern port, where they possess themselves of outfits, together with plenty of advice from hind mongers and Abolitionists, as to where they could best settle and establish themselves. Hence, the great Northwest, in whose lands New York was aud is largely interested, is so thickly settled by foreigners that they are in a nurjority in many places. And particularly is tins the case in Wisconsin and Northern Illinois, those sink holes of infidelity and abolitionism, in the former of which agrarian ism nourishes, and in the latter the prophet SUpken was stoned and refnsed the liberty of speech. With these facts staring us in the face, we are forced irresistibly to the conclusion, that this foreign emigration is the main source of the power destined to be wielded to the destruction of Southern interests.

It is unimportant to as whether these emigrants rote the Whig, free-soil, or Democratic ticket, at the North, or in what part of that region they settle. But it is sufficient for us to known that the North absorbes a large portion of this foreign population. That it goes to swell the measure of her power, and lengthen the shadow of her States, flinging it even now from the Atlantic upon the tranquil bosom of the great sea of Balboa. It is sufficient for us to know that these foreigners go to swell the influence of the North as a section, which already extends from Ocean to Ocean, with millions of outlets through which it is borne South. We say this should be sufficient to awaken the jealousy of the South, and catc her to mul: an tffort Ut liy th ax at the rott this trt eriltfor this half million of foretgnrr, addtd to the natural tnrreasr of th Xortft, wifl am-trv redly enalJr her to hedge in as with a wall of jirt, anf sm4thr out larsrif forever.

Demagogues ueed not tell us that Americanism has abolition affinities that Know Noth-ingism is popular at the North this all amounts to nothing. If the secret feature there has been subsidized to the unholy purpose of electing Abolitionists to high places, it argues nothing against Americanism as developed in the Philadelphia platform. These men of the North have often borrowed the livery of Heaven to serve the devil in the pulpit lhe Bible the holy religion of Jesus have all been made'subsidiary'to their base designs. The law of God the higher law (as they call it) has been invoked to justify them in violating an oath to support the Constitution of the United States, by a representative of those who are insincere in all things that does not tend to the worship of their wooly-headed God Abolitwnism. If proof is wanting of this, none stronger could be furnished than is to be found in the election of Seward to the United States Senate.

Bitter in his opposition Americanism, be denounced Know Nothingism with a virulence paralleled only by the terrible phillipics of his Tennessee neophyte; yet some deserted their standard openly renounced the order and gave him their votes; whilst, according to Greeiev Democrats stood ready and pledged to cooperate in the same dirty work should their services be needed. But let us back to the enquiry. thisaunivil influx of half a miUion of foreigner compatible with the existence of African, Slavery in th South? The great anchor of hope for a large portion ot the Anti-Slaverr men appears to lie ia this foreign emigration. Thev argue upon sound principle of political economy, that tbis large increase of foreign laborers will eventually bring about such compensation in labor that it will become so cheap as to dispense with slave labor on account of its expensivenesfl that the strength of slaverr lies in its privilege of expansion that this emigration will hinder this by reason of ita occupying the outlets of slavery that the necessities of the superior race would cause the inferior law to give way by as certain a law as that the stronger force would repel the weaker. Who does not recollect the magnificent picture drawn by Dr.

Ross of East Teenessee, before the Presbytery at Buffalo two years ago, of the United States one hundred rears beoce a I ld, he bad it, with long tailed, treacherous devils of Chinamen from the Celestial Empire, filling the place of slaves and laborers blacking boots, driving the plow and coach, hewing the shaft and laving the architrave, with Africa redeemed and enlightened the leopard's spots all changed, and the Ethiop's skin Japbeth fully enlarged and the daughters of Ham clothed in pure white linm, feeding the young elephants for their greasv lords upon the banks of the St. Paul. And verilv thia dream is not without it philosophy for certain it is that, if there was the number of while population in Tennises to the jnan mile as there is in Massachvsttts, African slavery could not rit here as it ds9 now. Thai this in flax of half a million of foreigners permtum-wiW revolutionise society in the South evident. Let us con template, for a moment, that this emigration is snfEcient to aettle a State rery year with the population of MisaSptM that this is nearly all added to the North, which ia and laofry that this forma an addition to For field culture the large early scarlet and the Iowa, or as it is sometimes called, the Washing ton, are favorites among the staminate sorts.

Hudson (Methvin scarlet for very late,) Hovey's Seedling (in some localities,) Crimson Cone, and several others, among the pistilates, are more or J-TT" A brother of the little girl wbo ws so brutally treated by ber stepmotber at Canton, baviug removed his sister to plsce if safety, returned snd sdmiuistered a severe i-astigation to tbe unfeeling woman with a raw bide. Served her right. they at length fell upon each other the weakest of course becoming a prey to the despair-engendered cannibalism of the rest To supply them less cultivated. McAvoy's Superior, a new variety originating at Cincinnati, is also attracting considerable attention. Rcral.

selves with water, they lowered buckets to the river, over a perpendicular precipice of about one hundred feet in height Their enemies severed the ropes, and the buckets floated down the Tuesday, Sept 11 Board met pursuant to adjournment Minutes of last meetiog read and approved. Reports of Clerk of Circuit Court and Court of Common Plena of Jurv and Docket fees received by tbem referred" to Committee on Judiciary. Petition of citizens of Chicago for the establishment of reform school referred to Committee of Poor House and Paupers. A large number of bills were referred. Superintendent Prendergast of Committee on Judiciary, reported adversely to paving bill of D.

Mcllroy of $400 concurred in. The matter of the bills of Messrs. Blackwell and Martin, $500 tor Mr. Blackwell and $250 balance of a $750 was laid on the table after some debate, and a motion to pa Mr. Blackwell's bill was lost.

Supervisors Salter, Peck and Smith made reports upon road appropriations expended in their towns, which were accepted. report of Dr. Chesney, County Phv-sician, was read and accepted. Supervisor Prendergast offered an order for the enlargment of toe fountain basins in the public square to thirty feet diameter which wrs tabled ayes 25, nays 5. Supr.

J. H. Gray, from Committee to settle with Treasurer, reported that they had fouud his accounts correct thev had cancelled county orders, jury certificates, and coupous to the amount of The Committee recommended the passage of an order, that cts on each $100 be levied for the year 155; concurred in and order passed. On resolution of Supr. Michie it was resolved that iu the event of the County Attorney having to go to Ottawa to attend the Sripreme Court in the Plank Road case, the Board will pay all reasonable expenses.

The Board then drew the names of the following persons to serve as Grand and Petit Jurors of the November term, 155, of the Circuit Court viz: osAtm jusr. S. Parker, A. O. Wood.

Sandford Johnson, C. D.Fitz. WeatChiiafto; N. P. Iglehart, Samuel Howe, Wm.

M. Butler, F. Uadduck, Charles Cleaver, South Chicago John Soraghan, John Dewitt Patrick Kelly, Michael Divenv, Xorth Chicago; L. Burroughs, Ridgerille: Tboi Brown Niles; Michael Murphv, Pains; John Kittering, Lemont; Lambert Blum, New Trier; J. W.

Walton, Maine; Geo. W. Adams. Worth; James Buck, Orland; Kuel Phillip. Sorthfleld Ira Cooper, Klk Grove.

PETIT Jt'RT I'lRST WKEX. W. (t. Macev, Lake; Wm. Xoble, Bremen A.

G. Skinner. Wheeling: S. M. Johnson, Schaum-bug Henrv Rodeker, Lvons Emmerson Baker, Thornton 'W.

F. Johnson, Palatine A. I). Gif-ford, Hanover Peter Minor, Proviso; Thomas Scott, Bloom Chas. Cnurch, Barrington; Geo.

Coleman, I.eyden Edward Brown, Jefferson Wm. Bartlett, Rich; N. Norton, Bowe. John Phillips, W. Chicago A.

D. Gage, J. P. Chapin, D. J.

Ely, J. K. Botsford, S. Chicago Jas. Cos-tello, Daniel Mnllins, lohn Sweeny, N.

Chicago. Secono Week. PETIT Jt'RT. Weslev Jones, Kidgevtlle; Geo. Dedrick, New Trier, W.

H. Kcnnicott Northfield; E. B. Van Black, Wheeling; M. Sunderland, Palatine; N.

R. Sabine, Barritifftoti; Wm. Emerson, Leyden; Peter Bnrritt, Hanover; G. Peck, Schaumberg; R. H.

Miner, Elk Grove; H. W. Phillips, Maine; Lucius Snell, Niles; Francis Williams, Palos; H. S. Rexford, Worth; J.

G. Small, Lake; VV. It. Knapp, Lvons; R. W.

Whipples, Proviso; .1. P. Batchelder, Rich; John Miller, Bloom; Caleb F. Sweet, Thornton: R. N.

Dav, Bremen; George Cox, Orland; W. R. Derby, Lemont; Tnthill King, S. Chicago. Board then adjourued to meet at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning.

Wkdvesoay, September 12. Board met The delinquent road tax lists of the various towns were presented anil referred to Committee on Roads and Bridges. Certificates for town taxes from the various towns, were referred to Committee on Towns and Town Accounts. The Treasurer's account was read and referred to the Committee on Finance. On motion of Supervisor J.

H. Grur, it was Ordered, That in the event of any deficit of the County Treasury the Finance Committee, in conjunction with the County Clerk, be empowered and instructed to make such special loan as may be necessary until the receipts of the annual taxes. Suprs. Campbell, John Gray, and Daniels made report upon road appropriations expended in their towns. Accepted and filed.

Supr. Prendergast of Com. ou Jndiciary, reported in favor of refunding certain taxes to Devitt. Concurred in. On motion of Supr.

Cool, it was Jietotrtd, That there be a sufficient number of copies of the Practical Treatise on the Powers and Duties of Justices of the Peace and Constables, (by E. M. Haines.) purchased at the expense of the County, so that each Justice and Supervisor may have a copy. Supr. John Grav moved that the order passed lost June, fixing the rate of Tavern Licenses at $100, be rescinded.

Motion to lay on the tabla lost, to 20. Supr. Gray's motion was carried by ayes and noes, as follows Ayes Booth, Baker, Brobson, Cammack, Campbell, Daniels, Draper, Dotv, Gormlv, Gray, J. H. Gray, Minier, MeHugh," Miller, O'Kane, Prendergast Sauter, Walter, Weiler.

Wavman. Nays Castle, Cool, Johnston, Osterhoudt Peck, Schoville. On motion of Supr. Doty the rate of Tavern Licenses was fixed at fifty dollars from the September term of this Board. Ou motion of Supr.

J. Gray the Clerk was instructed to issue no license to extend after the first day of June next. On motion of Supr. Prendergast the Clerk was instructed to refund to those persons who have taken license for one rear at $100 the sum of $50. Supr.

Pendergrast moved that the action of the Board upon the subject of licenses be reconsidered. Supr. Booth moved to lay the motion on the table. Carried. Petition of Supr.

Bacon for fifty dollars to put in a draw in a bridge in his town. Referred to Committee ou Roads and Bridges. Board adjoured to Thursday morning at nine o'clock. Thursday, September IStli. Board met.

Supr. Scoville of Com. on Jail and Jail accounts recommended payment of the following bills: J. H. Grev Mrs.

Burns Jas. Andrews A. B. Wheeler $15; C. B.

Fitz $15 D. Walker A Son 15; J. W. Renley $42 Ira Snow 26 E. A.

Webber C. T. Bouge $27. Concurred in. Super.

Sauter of Com on Towns and Town accounts recommended that the following snms be levied upon the different tax rolls for the year 1355, being bills audited by the several towns South Chicago North Chicago 2,50: West Chicago Jefferson 650; Thornton Lemont 171 Northfield Orland 474.64; Palatine; 308.44; Bremen 250; Lake 141.96; Levden 98.20; New Trier 129.S2; Niles 676; Ridgeville 150; Maine 445; Rich 68.50; Lvons 150 Proviso 75 Palos 4o0 Worth 100 Schaumberg 300; Bloom 556.78 Elk Grove 29 Wheeling 738; Hanover 125; Barrington 15il. Concurred in. Super. Smith of Com. on lads aud Bridges recommended paying bill of Throop I A $20.

Concurred in. Snp'r. Michie, of Committee on Poor House and paupers, reported the following preamble aud resolutions on the subject of a Reform School. Whereat, The grounds and buildings known as the "old Poor House property," of this county, are greatlv needed for the establishment of a Reform School for the reformation of vagrant youth, and Whereat, It is believed that such a school would most effectually prevent much of the pauperism and crime which now exists, thus saving expense to our eonntv, and Whereat, The said' land greatly needs a tenant who will look after its interest and improvement therefore, be it Setdned, Bv the Board of Supervisors of this Countv, that the committee to whose oversight this property is intrusted, be instructed and are hereby empowered to grant a lease of said pro-pertv to the city of Chicago for the term of five vears, without rent for the purposes herein specified and set forth. (The lease to be forfeited unless the school goes into operation within a year.) Retolved, That an appropriation of $500 be made by the county fur the furtherance of this object to be expended in repairs and improvements of buildings and grounds to be paid when said school goes into operation.

Concurred in. Report of County Physician presented, accepted and placed on file. Report of Clerks of the Common Pleas snd of the Circuit Court on Docket and Jury fees accepted and filed. On motion of Sop'r. J.

H. Gray, painted window blinds were ordered to be placed on the south and east sides of the Poor House. Snp'r. Castle, on Committeee of Equalization of Taxes reported and recommended. First That the Railroad Companies be assessed in conformity with the lists as returned.

Second, That the town of Elk Grove be decreased two per cent; Wheeling decreased fifteen per cent; Northfield raised twenty per cent; Maine raised ten per cent; Thornton raised ten per cent, and that the other rolls be eontunaad as returned except Third, That a new sasemment be made for the town of Proviso, to be assessed bv Peter Minier, and returned by 1st Monday in December. Concurred in. Board adjourned to Friday 7 clock, a. n. 1 r-; Irse orBallraas If Malm.

Four hundred tons of railroad iron have bean stolen near Pittsburg within the last few months valued at $16,000. It was cut up in short piecea, packed ia barrels, and sold for old iron. Above thirty of the employees of the Portage Railroed are implicated ia the robbery, twenty-six of whom have been arrested. It was the old-tasb-ioned fiat bar, taken Bp to be replaced with raiL Thirteen barrels of the stolen won bare been recovered, and the police have every proa-pectof recoveries: thirty-six barrels more. i i jy A reverend gentlemen in New Tork a few Sabbaths since, seeing poor woman tottering pone of the aisles of his church, waiting in vain for soma of his ouaufregation to ofler her a seat, penned in hia serzaoa, deaeanded fines the pulpit showed her into hia pew, and qmatly returned to his desk ogsia.

give items as they occur. I would premise, however, that the most important business is transacted at the closing up of the and generally the preachers themselves will report before the Pre could do it. While the day of the opening is delaying, I will write a few out of the way thoughts. Perhaps eulogies on preachers are not promotive of their individual good, but permit me to say that, take them all and all, for common sense, for an ability of making good use of-what they know, for go-aheaditiveness, there is not a body of men in Northern Illinois that, can compare with this same Rock River Conference. There are all kinds of men young and old, with large hearts and driving dispositions, ready to enter heartily into the work of their Master.

There are many of them that would make their mark in any situation. The actual business, especially speech making, is generally done up by a few. Among the whole company of about 180 preachers there are but thirty or forty that ever make speeches and it is not always the most prominent men that make the speeches either. P. Judsox, of Evanston, is the most thorough business man of the body, and, perhaps, did not the onerous duties of Secretary fall upon him, he would be speaking often er than he does.

As it is, he seldom speaks but when he does you may be sure he is on the right side and says something to the purpose. Luke Hitchcock, once stationed at the Clark Street Church, may be put in the same list with Mr. Judson. They two are the most clear-headed men iu busiuess matters of any. Many who are prominent as Ministers never speak on the conference floor F.

A. Reed, of the State Street Church, is one of these. Hoopeb Cekws, take him all in all, as a Methodist preacher, is the most loved and most prominent man in the Conference. There is no one point in his character that is noticeable. Every quality of his is excelled in the Conference; but take him as he stands, a pious and meek minister of the Gospel, he does not often meet his equal.

He has a well balanced head and a noble symmetry of character. He sometimes speaks in conference, but does not generally produce a decided impression. He carries the staid manners of the pulpit into the Conference, and where all are in a hurry to get home, pointed remarks are relished better than labored speeches. His brethren would much rather hear him preach a funeral sermon or mission discourse than listen to his discourses on the Conference floor. Few men (if men may be judges) will bring up more sheaves at the great harvest than this same Hooper Crews.

Next in the hearts of all stands Sias Bolles. He is the man of all work in the Conference ever ready, ever interesting. His brethren are always putting him up to talk at anniversary meetings, and they never get tired of hearing him. Never does he fall a whit behind any illustrious stranger that may be present There are all sorts of characters in the Conference. W.

Flowers, presiding Elder of the Joliet district, the most eloquent man (that is, has fluent language) I ever heard, and I have heard all manner of men. There is little originality of thought or matter; he is only preeminent fur humility and eloquence. His voice is sweet and musical his manner never awkward, and in the reading of a hymn he will make you weep. He dug himself out of the hills of Virginia, and though lacking education, is a polished speaker, In Johh Lvccock the Conference has another species of talent He is the greatest debater on doctrinal points in the West. A.

E. Phelps, now dead, ouce might bear the palm, but since he is gone Mr. Lnccock has no equal in the State. I for one do not admire theological debates, but if they must come, Mr. Luccock is the man to manage them.

Debates are fashionable in the Southern part of the Conference, and every year Mr. Luccock has one or two with distinguished men of opposing creeds. The methodist ministry of the West have not been very prolific in writing. They have had too much hard work to do to mind the pen. Poor place to write on horseback but since the country is being settled and circuits are becoming smaller, many of them are taking to the pen.

The Rock River Conference has several young men who are making a fair show in the scribbling line. Jfone of these are yet prominent enough to be called by name. Most of the preachers however refrain from the pen, wisely thinking the preaching of the gospel their chief calling. Among the junior preachers there are some that will make their mark in the world. There are young men that it does one's heart good to look upon, and if they are firm and do not fall out by the way, turned aside by the thousand winds that blow, they will stand forth so that some future chronicler may speak of them with pride.

There are a few of the fathers remaining who rode these prairies in the times that tried ministers' souls. They yet linger in the conference room as relics of past yearn. They yet cling to many of the traits of pioneer preachers, and it were well if the juniors would sit at their feet and learn of them more than they do. God bless the few gray-bired men that remain in the field! LahoStxk. The Rate at Which Waves Travel A paper was read by Prof.

Bache before the American Scientific Association, stating that at vinv nn morninp of the 23d of De Mrs. Fsnny Parte died in Philadelphia on tbe 23d at tbe advanced age of K'S years Her funeral was attended by twelve children, forty-eight grand children, oa hundred and eight great grand children, and a large number oi children nf the fifth generation. I-tf The shipments of freight over the Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad fie- tb month of August, bow aa immense increase over the preceding mouth. During nine days, la.Bo barrels of lour a era sent East, in addition to a large quantity of other freight. stream.

Blankets were then torn into strips, let down, and drawn up saturated with water, and thus their burning thirst was satiated. But all this availed nothing. Their hunger became still more ravenous, until the despairing creatures, delirious with fever, plunged headlong into the stream below, and thus terminated the war and their sufferings. "Starved Rock is a point of interest also from its location affording, from its summit a view of Ottawa above, and Lasalle and Peru below, with the splendid bridge of the Illinois Central Railroad at Lasalle, and a beau tiful and varied country on all sides, teeming l-v" The London correspondent of th Aa ttonal Intelligencer any tbe expense to Great Britain of tbe war have far outrun the estimates tbe expense of tbe Nsvv being no less Ibsa OOO in exoea. Marble Moaaturnt Mawlns MarMne.

Some four weeks since there sppeared in the Scientific American a proposition, from Mr. Manly of Vermont, offering to give for the patent right of a machine that would saw two aides of a block of marble t'iperina at the same time. We hare now before us a model of a machine invented by Mr. Jas. IIallikuswokth, of tbia city, which appears to us in every respect well adapted to the purpose.

It ia very compact and simple iu construction snd srrangemeut, and equally durable. He has taken, as we are informed, the necessary stops preparatory to securing a patent. The machine is not only capable of sawiug two sides of a block of marble of the same taper at the same time, but will saw a greater on oue ide than on the other or one aide straight while the other may be sawed at any desired taper at the same time. A number of additional saws may be used iu sawiug straight slat's, while the center saws are cutting the monument blocks iujtering or the saws may all be run at straight work as simply and effectually as in lite old methods of sawing. The adjvttahUity of the machine to any degree of tajier Is extremely simple and perfect, not even requiring a rule to set the saws to the desired taper, while its simplicity is such that an inexperienced workman can readily adjust it.

Should the spplicant be successful in obtaining a patent, a full-sized machine will immediately be built and put in operation a a practical test of capabilities. Mr. Hollingsworth is a gentleman of great practical skill aa machinist, aud is one of our most estimable citizens. We think bis invention will not ouly secure the 10.0o0 offered by Mr. Manly, but that when its actual working capacities, its extreme simplicity, and the numerous other sdvantages which it combines, shall have become known to marble manufacturers, a much larger sum will be gladly paid fis the right.

The invention waa the result of but a few hours study. The Sdentijlc American containing Mr. Manly's proposal was received on Ssturdsy evening, and on the following Wednesday. Mr. Hoi-lingsworth's "caveat" wss on its wsy to with life and industrv.

Both La Salle and Peru possess advantages. which may be noticed in a future letter. At present, however, I must omit what it would please me to write, and hasten to a close. -e In consequence of tbe slaughter upua the Camden sod Amboy Road, the snick sod bonds of thst Company have depreciated ia Philadelphia flu per ehare sad a per rent oa tbe b'eid. I left Ottawa last Monday for this city, to spend few weeks on the banks of the Mississippi, and then return toward Chicago.

The country be tween the Illinois and the Mississippi, along ine r.f .1. 1nlr Island a 1 1 rrwi.l IB nar-KanS AS 4T Prince Cam no, of Rome, will, it is said be created a Cardinal during the prcniit month. He may yet be made Pope, and tbua realize of tbe asptrmtuMi of tb Little Corporal hia aiedilationa at St. Helena. rich in all the elements of prosperity as any portion of the State.

Flourishing villages are springing up at different points, possessed of i llii- iiruiy dishaiided, and a mere police i'i itH jilare. Suppose, further, the American constitution placed in the the r'rting generation and made as riiiliar children as their alphabet. aithout infringing the rights of the State, ril-n "fpuMie education engrafted Hpou i-pfiersl p-ilicv. The consider the immense whicli would cross the Rio Grande itself on Mexican soil. Consider ijrm rcial iiitercur.se which would be the iiimex ition.

Consider the inevitable li miii.iiii'e nf the American mind over an inferior and 'insw-er fairly if the dangers of alimled to un- so insurmountable as first sight. IIh Vurk 'hi- Eitquirer is also I inn. jEiilniii, hut it isiiiuch more cool and in calciilitting the conseiuences than the U'liv we be so eager to snatch I'lifia truii Spam at the expense of a hundred -with a territory about two-mt'li the extent of New York, a large portion Nhirli it mountains and barren while we niu lime Mexico fur the asking, consisting of iw-ntv riiipiilnii States, lying directly upon tin- least of which would bo en-i te admission into the Union To be sure, hi lifli'i n-sixteeiiths of the people of Mexico ffi.imm i.r have more or less Indian blood in 'hi'ir vents, lint they would of qourse be and then the remaining whites, with lijlii Snxon element which would by this ii.imd its war there, could very easily i trn, the country. Hut ll.o C'oiriVe is surprised that the special .41 of slavery extension should labor for um-xation of Mexico. They should re-rufiiihrr dint the Mexican people have always tun opposed to slavery, and having furnmlly abolished it, how could it ever be L.Mivhnl among them If the States of U.iirn ihoiilil come into the Union as free and States, the whole power of the 'mill would be swamped in Congress.

While -air cotemporaries differ widely in their it seems to be generally conceded itat Mrjici. will at no distant day fall into the Tiii, l.v tit- C.rei! of gravitation. The same iip.mg fi.rward on this continent wliich well sketched in an article which we have fruni the New York Evening Poat in tin- abmirptii.n of the smaller by the Iar-ifir ..1 Kurope. All weak, unstable nation- iti-'j. iiml in the end be merged in the few pow-Ttd mill ones which will remain t.

t. iii tu- world. Mexico must soon obey 'I'll1 irre.ii-tiljlo tendency of things the weak, Mracti i republic ill he absorbed by the large iai powerful nne by which it is overshadowed. Bu- here is a very different thing it is in Knrope. There the smaller Stitte iit-ciimeH tin- mre appanage of the strrtoger ui'i censes in have any direct control of its des-'iiiv With us, every portion of territory the I'nion becomes a sovereignty, or a dwtwuf sovereignties.

Texas will ultimately, mulpnibabilily, he divided into two or three rseh division which will be as sov- mi, the original "Lone Star." All of the ffmnries embraced in that portion of Mexico i t.i In- the treaty of peace, will before v.ri. fnlH lul lhe witu tlle fn -wtpenJence and sovereignty of the Old Thirteen Jlihe Revolution. So it must be with Mexico. Shfcam.nl hsaduiitu-tl inU the Union in the Territories or States, upon a perfect 'with those which now compose it. It that we should have annexation ai-iti any other principle without changing our -rrrnmnit from republic to a despotism.

'hen, th Mexico is annexed. Kach v'i ciiin1B or(fanize(1 in conform-. a majoritv of its population. brieve ih, in snppo(1jng ill n. whe cimtry Would be to "e'ui" Those persons at the South, ten-fore, who advocate the annexation of Mexi-" v.ew of thereby greatlv extending the slavery, will find themselves sadly dis-ij'W-Jwaj and ever, weU-winW of hia race that event rejoice that the step which the certain means of extending pv1 time, proved fatal to o.nr,, everywhere.

It would of necessity nioag lh, 1(fMlcis to huten on inms" taiirr ell'ete civili- hk-h now evisu there by our own social 'HbebetterpoHion 'T constitutes iu The -e1" lvery. moral intellectual. Th0 existence of sI" Mexico would bat hasten its doom. W( Southern llllaota. f- referred to th.

tZ OUtheru Pirt of State, 45uTi Dr. Norwood, ns that we had oItJ.0r hM UOt feU himself at l.ber- Got to private per- enjinel him to 'rr'fZj 11,6 is now removed, cnrteooly answers all pro-W witn geology of the Sftoi, COOTm'n referred to. Dr. Nor- lh coal bta in ci laTir CrtuntiC8' 'y'-s the "tM tH 7 9ome which now bin8 4e' eInt- In lhe former VUw numerous, and taken cmJ in th'cknese kt Thl 'gest seam being nine feet a now being worked, and CoettTX. excellent quality.

InJact- i SCara of lu thickness, b'' ingle sen, ila Ute through "wwrf U' Iiorwoo, Pei- great con- vantages that are rapiuiy Deing ueveiopeu nuu the traveler gazes and wonders, and his imagination kindles a picture of the distant future, enlivened by an amount of business and an aggregate t7 Tbe aggregate amount contributed to tbe fund for tbe relief of the Norfolk aad PortssBoatb aunerers ie aow sot amen short of hundred hones nd oVdlara. of happiness not to oe exceiieu iu any quaner ei the globe. Illinois is destined to be the rich Sept 11, 1855. An ArteMiAn Well at Onarea. Onaroa, Beit.

101 h. 1865. To the Editors of the Democratic Press I should have written you again, long ere this date, but sickness has compelled me to lav aside pen and paper for several days past, but I am now fast becoming myself again," and desire to say something which interests people generally, and new-comrt in particular, inasmuch as they are prejudiced against this country on account of many as they term tbem inconveniences," of one of which I am about to speak. I visited, ia company with othe rs, yesterday a well of water located some two miles from this settlement, and recently made by Mr. Samuel Harper, upon his farm the water of which is the coolest and most pure I have seen in Illinois, (also there is undoubtedly plenty of it) or even in New England.

The well is recently made, and is tubed some ninety or one hundred feet, at no very great cost as Mr. H. tells me. The workmen were digging the day upon which the water was discovered, and all at once the iron bar slipped from their hands and passed into the ground out of sight and a stream of pure water gushed forth like a torrent, filling the well and running off in a large and rapid stream. Mr.

H. has a tube in this well now, rising some five or six feet above the ground, through which the water passes in a fine and tteady stream. The water is quite cool, but from my taste, I judge it is a little impregnated with sulphur, or some other kind of mineral. Mr. H.

intends to have it analyzed soon, in Chicago. The well will supply his whole farm with water. So if you see one of the objections which people have to this country, that as they say no good water can be had, ia being overcome. When people have taken pains to dig deep, and get below the surface water, good water is had here, in almost every" instance. The experiment of boring has been now tried snd proved effectual, and therefore good water is had on several farms iu this vicinity.

Sturges, Bigelow Co. have a fine well of water, located some three miles from this. The IC.R.R. Co. own abundance of good land all about thisvicinity, and adjoining these farms, and upon which just as good water can be had and undoubtedly all along the line of the road, good wells can be made.

Strangers coming to this country wjth the intention of settling, would do well to take a look at these lands, and also at these wells of water. Strangers who desire to know of these locations, can apply to B. T. Ingraham, Esq.A'retary Land Department C. R.

wbo is well posted," snd will give sll necessary information, the quality of the land, 4c, and then they can have a ride over one of finest prairie regions in Illinois, under Mr. Com-Stock supervision of the I. C. R. R-, one of the best managed roads, by the way, with obliging conductors, A-everything to make a trip desirable, as well as agreeable.

Wu trust all strangers (and also friends) will come and see us, snd the country. -The latch-string hangs out" 'We win at least treat them to a good drintaf good water. Truly, c- -y- It ia said that since lbs prevalence Jt th fever st Norfolk, tbe birds have avoided that neighborhood not una being seen arithia the limit of the city. est State iu the Confederacy, and the emigrant who, years ago, first broke the soil on her prairies or felled the monarchs of her forests, may nnnnlation here, whose numbers Final Word. We shall not waste words on the Tribune.

We loathe a resort to personalities, and never indulge them save when a sense of duty compels it. Wc hud hoped, under Its new management, that paper would become a fair, courteous and manly competitor for public favor. We are disappointed. Misrepresentation, either by inuendo or by open and direct avowal, has characterized every reference which the Tribune has been pleased to make to this journal. But while confessing our disappointment we do not complain.

Our position before this public cannot be affected by any pharisaical cant from that quarter. We leave our readers to judge whether the Press has or has not shown itself independent in the fullest sense of that much abused word. What man or men, what clique or party trammel, has'ever deterred it from a prompt and unequivocal condemnation of the wroog and commendation of the right But enough. We differ radically with the Tribune on the duly of freemen. Our convictions arc clear, and we have a living faith that time will verify their correctness.

We act iipou these convictions. The Tribune characterizes our action as servility the result of personal hate on the one hand, or of fear ou the other. May not the imputation be a key to the niner life of our asaailant? We know not. To sit in judgment on human motives is no prerogative of ours. A fondness for that vocation is indicative of a spirit perturbed by hidden secrets.

We leave to those whom weakness or native proneuess to vice impels to its practice, all the enjoyment which it affords. We envy them not, nor shall we disturb them by frequent exposition ofj the nature and cause of their distrust of others. Unhappy men they of all others can realize that "there a tyranny worse than that of Roman Neros and Russian Czars that there a slavery worse than chains can make, or whips and knouts enforce." But we trust the Tribune comes not within this category. We also express the hope that in the following passage from the writer whom it quoted yesterday morning, the Tribune perceives no likeness of itself: Every popular government, from ancient Athens to modern America, is infested by a class whose lusty bawling of "libertv," "rights of the Kople," and the like, is but the deep mouthed ytng of their greed and hungry longing to devour. We dismiss the subject.

Correspondence of the Press. RtM-k Rlvfsr Conference- Rocx Islan-d, Sept. 12, 1855. The Kock River Conference commenced its annual session in this city this morning. An hour was spent iu very interesting sacramental exercises, after which the Conference proceeded to business.

Bishop Jones in the Chair. P. Judsou was elected Secretary, S. F. Denning, Assistant.

The hour of 8 o'clock in the morning was fixed upon for meeting, and the hour of 12 M. for adjourning. D. Swormstedt, reported the business affairs of the Western Book Concern, and of the Methodist Book Depository at Chicago. The Book and Periodical interest was reported in a very prosperous condition.

The M. E. Cturcb. is doiu ji great work in spreading a wholesome literature over these Western lands. The Conference elected the following Committees COMirrTTH OH MISSIONS WITHIX TBI BoCXDS or thb CoxrxoxxxcE The Presiding Elders of the several Districts.

Committee ox Education. Thomas Williams, J. C. Stoughton, A. W.

McCansland, A. W. Stewart, J. P. Vance, P.

Judson, C. M. Woodward, M. L. Hanev, H.

J. Humphrey, J. B. Quinby, H. Richev, J.

Chandler, P. T. Rhodes, J. V. Chaffee, J.

C. Pinchard, J. S. Frost, T. North, J.

W. Stog-dill, A. L. Adams, D. Casaday.

COMMITTSB SCHOOLS. E. StODe, C. F. Wright, R.

K. Bibbins, H. Whipple, D- A. Falkeuberry, TJ. J.

Giddinga, Cv Row-lev, N. H. Gregg, E. Ransom, M. Committee ox Tract Causk.

S. Stover, F. Smith, S. J. Havermall, B.

H. Cartwright, O. A. Walker, J. Morey.

Committee ox Slavery. H. Crews, E. H. Gammon, J.

Baum, W. McKaig. C. M. Wright, J.

P. Brooks, J. Borland. Z. Hall, O.

A. Walker, C. W. Batcheler. Committee oh Church Extxxsioh.

S. Seari, Anderson, Winstow, B. Applebee, J. B. Craig.

Committee ok Temperaxce. S. Gayer, J. C. Stoughton, E.

Stone. Ox Bible Cause. E. BacheleJ, G. G.

Worth-ington, Boyd Lowe. The two Secretaries and J. P. Brooks were elected a committee to print the Conference Minutes. John Dempster, President of the Biblical Institute, Evans ton, proposed to deliver a lecture on Theology, daily, during the session of Conference to the junior members.

The Conference adopted the offer, and the lecture was appointed forl P.M. M. L. Scudder, general agent of the Bible Society, after being introduced, addressed the Conference on the subject of his mission. At 13 M.

the Conference adjourned until to morrow (Thursday, 13th.) The afternoons are generally devoted to the aessiona of committees. Besides the regular members of Conference there are many visitors here, but they are too numerous to mention. Bishop Jones is the most attractive man yet here. One gets the idea 'of dignity, of aristocracy, on hearing of a Bishop, but Bishop Jones is a tab- specimen of the unassuming humility of great men. LaxoStx.

Exnmfuti. The exports of specie from New York to foreign ports, for the week ending the 8th fast, were making a total, since January 1st, 1855, of 2S, 408,714.. Same time 1854, same time 1853, same time 1852, $18,775,811. Andrew Smith, who murdered his wife in Washington township, near Toledo, a few day ainee, baa bees arrested. shall outvie the densest of the Eastern States, and whose prosperity shall exceed theirs, as they now now exceed the poorest and most sparsely I-jS Tbe Missouri Slate Agricultural Fair ia to be held at Booovilie on the first of October.

Two hundred premium are to be awarded, of tbe aggregate value of 4.M. Klaaer settled regions of the newest territories. The Chicago and Rock TslandJRailroad is second nnn the State, in the amount of its busi IT The first Hebrew tempt erected ia ate. Lotna, for the uses of the coegragsttea Bosi Et, wss ennaeerated oa Friday last, with pproprite ness, the promptness and fidelity of its management the perfect smoothness of its track, and the safety with which passengers and goods are transported by it I think the heaviest freight trains I have ever seen are those that daily pass X-ef- New Hampshire, which usually raises very little wheat, will have enough th present seaaoa to supply one -half of it pt frit flour. between the two cities, torty, ana even m'j, heavily-laden cars are frequently drawn over the route by a single locomotive and the number of accidents occurring will compare most favor ably with other roads.

Allow me, in conclusion, to say a word re-n Rock Island House." at which I am We learn by the last California arrival that Col. Kinney's party were at Saa Juao del Norte, oa the Slat ult. He had just concluded a coo-tract for the Sbepard grant of thirty-five Bullions of seres of land on the Mosquito coast, and sent aa agent to Granada to get, the grant coafinted by the Nicaragnaa Government, and also to ob-taia pensissioa to settle in Chootales. He was very aengnice ef aueciss. He had erected a frame building of two stories for printing-office, sad would pobluta a paper soon, the sasierials having arrived oa the English steaanrof lhe 31st, with Consul Fabeos and thirty men.

Tewa ef Walk. We sre indebted to M. Osterboodt, iCensna Commissioner for the towa of Worth, for the following returns from that town Total Wnnber of InbaMtajits 1-SU Mlntta School ios Vain mi Maaatactorss ryeeuct. Livestock ezi In 1954 the population of Worth was SSS being sn increase in five years of 62. The flourishing village of Bine Island, wbieb is within the town ot Worth, contain a population of 722.

IW Tbe enmmiaeionsrs to seleet a place for tbe erection of building for sa inssas asylass in Western Massachusetts hsve derided ia fsvor of Northampton. OSr The peupt of Rook Island, by a anaai-naoes vote, aa Saturday laat, adopted a proposition to Waa the credit of that city to the Rock Islaad and Peoria Railroad ia the auz of tAO.OOO. stopping, and to advise those who visit this city to test the truth of what I say- It is the best hotel in the place, and will soon be the most spacious. The proprietor, Mr. Dowitxr, is now making extensive additions to bis premises.

A large wing, containing about forty Jrooms, is near XST The value of taxable property in Whiteside County tb prssst year Last year it was iscrassa ly finished, ana toe rroni poruon uu place to an elegant three-story brick structure, which will render it the largest, aa it is now em cember, 1853, an earthquake occurred at Simoda, 19" The ProvrDCtl Agnenitnral Society of Lower Csaads hold their saanal fair aad exaa-bitioa at Sberfavooke, oa Friday and Saturday phatically the best conducted hotel in mock island. The landlord and his two clerks are most attentive to the wants of their gaests. Pleasant i Krtnntifnl larder oomoria- MIS La (Base. ing everything substantial or luxurious, a near proximity to steam ooai lanuinga, ienj, a At th uniform eoartesT that ehar- Messrs. Back Cfeanaaaero, at La Salle, have jnst got plsmag-mill into operation at the Canal Basia, which wiU plane 17,000 feet of tooting per day.

They are also lamber-daalers, and Xmu ucpvb aetsrixes the treatment of customers, unite to The Pari Unson ot Aug. tl, hasaa uru-ci upon the re-enaersttoe ef eanvfa to Fiasco "oa tb beat of s'risndly truster from Great teW A totat stock compaay baa bea formed ia Londoa with a esptlaj of teoO.OOu, for tha purpose of eoaveruag tha alag er refass of Iras great BsriKtiea for carrying en make it a most agreeable tarrying place. Yours truly, Fiixnuj). The Pern ChrtmteU, from Tfc. vw York Herald learns, from a relia srttolee for which saarbt ts table stabs, mantel pace, Ac.

ble correspondent at Madrid," that a private hv France. England and which we condense these particular, says they are about to procure two ran of stones for floor-ring-mill, the engine of the planing-mill being of snfficient power to drive both. Lawse Arrival mt Uil at DeAre. The propeller Gea. Taylor, which srrved at that port an Monday, says the Frea Prtm, Brass lake Hapexior, brought down two haadred aad fifty-one tons of copper, as follows: Cuff Mine.

MS bW. JM" ma. jl abai SDi- with the Dominican Government which her natural increase mat toe popuiauou i North, iu many places, is already so dense that it finds egress south, thus inereaeiDg the population of whites to the blacks and we can form some idea of this engorgement of America with elements inimical to the institutions of the south. The eahn and settled modereUon of the nund ia scareelr competent to convince the madness snd folly of the Sooth in lending encouragement to this emigration, and it seems only comparable to the follv of the general who having it ia his power to hinder recruits from passing to hia enemy should voluntarily and without a ctmtideru-tum, permit them to pass to bis camp and thus nut litRn'his enemy's power to outflank and crush him with the frwtn of his own folly snd madrT- We look in' vain to discover soy obligation we owe the Xorth, to encourage this admission of foreigners; no equivalent can be found coming from her in the practieal workings of this Government, for the whole emeam of 11 aupuuit devolve wpoa the Oaailh. In time af seaee.

the South being the great eooaomer of imported gooda, of course pays the tariff which is added to their cost. In time of war, should oar commerce be destroyed snd direct taxation be resorted to, southern property being in a snore tangible shape than northern, the burden would again fall upon the sooth. Thea why should the Booth encourage thia adventitioas incrtaes of the power of the Korth, when it is evident ftoaa examples already art, that it will be used crushing ber dearest interests, destroying ber civilization, desolating her fields, and turning her into a mere pfovmcelyinej at the fcet of the arrogant and pre samutuons North. It is adleto taih about the conservatism of thtse IbreignerB; the desolate fields of Jamaica and IfArUniqne attest too strongly that political mbo-htitnirm iUejf a tbreiga exotic which fanati- i- tvananlaat te ear political on the island of Siphon, Japan, ana occasioned the wreck of the Russian frigate Diana, which was thea in port The harbor was first emptied of water, and then came in an enormous wave which again receded and left the harbor dry. This occurred several times.

The United States has self-acting tide gauges at Saa Francisco and at San Diego, which record the rise of the tide upon cylinders, turned by clocks; and at San Francisco, four thousand eight hundred miles from the scene of the earthquake, the first wave arrived twelve hours and sixteen minutes after-it had receded from the harbor of Simoda. It had travelled across the broad bosom of tha Pacific Oeean at the rate of six and a half miles a minute, and arrived on the shore of California, to astoxUah the scientific observers of tha coast surveying expedition. The first wave, or rising of the waters, at San Francisco, wan seven-tenths of a foot in height, and hated for about half an hoar. It was followed by a aeries of seven other waves of less magnitude, at intervals of an boar each. At Saa Diego aimilar phenomena were observed, although on account of a greater distance from Simoda, (four hundred miles greater thantoSan Francisco,) thtr waves did not arrive so soon, and were notqnia as high.

Tease Beetles. Two hundred and four towns in Vermont give Royce, Fasionist, for Governor, Clark, Democrat, scattering, 4,099. Of the Representatives elected, as far aa heard from, 0 are 'Whigs and Free Soflera, 1 gf Pound apples fifteen iaches ia etrrncnter-esee have grown the prmst season ia the chard of Mr. Asses fsssryer, swsr disbar. Moetgoeaery County ia-The La Cresas and MUwsstkee stoiiread izebea completed to itortford, snUss front Milwaukee, aad yesterday eornuiga xcerxsos bhaanoa' Uem of Lw a4 Orer.

The views of Gov. Sbanon upon slavery extension were very dearly developed in his speech at Westport, Xo, a portian of which we have pre-sentedto our readers. His idea of the ciaracter-istics of la w-ebiEsg community are given to the world in his reception speech at Shawnee ptnv sion, which we give mnofher column. -There is not," he declares, "a more law-abiding people in the United States than the great mass of the eitixenaof Kansas." shall not undertake to say the Governor is not right here, tbongh a different sense from what" he intended. The bona fide "citizens" of Kansas are as peaceable as the settlers of new.

countries usually are, so far as we know. The deiranciatiotts of mob violence Kansas, winch have leen so general and so just, bar. not been aimed at th. citizens" of the Territory, but at the armed interloper, from its Olustnoaa parent," as Missouri was denominated by the Hon. O.

H. Browne, in his wd- eusne to Gov. Shai Wo have yet to see rtaher the Governor will be able to execute the laws of the MooLcfTttwetnTe without any aid from j- The wheat stacks of Mr. Isaac Wines, bring near Pittaoald ia this SaUa, wa fired by wheat nhe the latter, lor a certain conuei, itself to the following eouditioM, via: 1- So settler, from the United Statea, of any dans or eolor, shall be encouraged to hold lands or take up their residence in St Domingo. 2.

So land for mining perpc-ea, taetoriee. er coal depots, shall be sold, leased or ceded, either to private American companies or to the Ajliericmu Government without the prior consent of the French and IIISSSIS II it tor lb first Urn. ft. ajrtesa Mine. bbt kan 9 Tb total value of real aad personal property in Hchsytor Coaaty.

as sssssssd for is ttMJM iausssi ance It, British Letters containing money having been tjBT-A Wrge esi of CoMseclkaa tobece is te take peso at Hartford a (be lh nze. ntned st ssissi il between Fraakfort, lad, and Indiaa-apoiis, a decoy letter waa sssovled to by the C. 8-Mail Agent, to nce the thief, who was foaad to be Hasan Drake, the Posts! sr of tbeColtsx Hc.Wa ef theSSMe. In the British House of Commons, recently Mr. Heywood, the member for Icaahire, gave notice that he abonld, at the next session, move U-ieatv.

uraviair that aer Jllv me coat gea- SwtUm Illinois, and says there i papers Hires thsSasaoag He was atustiB, hrncnrht aesore the o' better Majesty will be graciously pleased to appoint a lhe ntneasdings et tboas anti-alavary at of the mountains. ad held to bast ia the saaasf of tot eiii uars the Bovtbsra tnelsrveysf thai of iWhmnon, AAwanmUal aae m. uuiiiijiiasifin to mqxurs mw thorised version of the Bible, end to tP pto for the further revision ef that trsaelatton. TahMtxranoxn ww hr constructed across the I Simplon, whare Kapowon took ao tobrtddaerronroad. I.