East Hampton, August 24, 1860. Letter From an Enterprising Massachusetts Village. …
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Rosa, Or the Parisian Girl.-…
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Duane’s Sod Seeding Maching.-…
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A Walk Among The Mountains.-…
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The Magazines.-…
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Thackeray.-…
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Railroad Accident.- Louisville, 25th . There was a collision this morning between an express and freight train on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, near Bordentown Junction, seriously injuring Joseph Smithers, messenger of the Adams Express Co., and wounding the engineer and fireman.
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From Buenos Ayres.-
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Personal Items.- The editor of the Hartford Courant has been to Stony, Creek, Branford, and has discovered there James Douglas , Senior, who is in his 107th year, and the oldest man in Connecticut.
It is reported that Mr. Douglas designs, after visiting Norfolk, Va., where he was on Saturday, to go to Richmond and Petersburg, Va.; thence to Raleigh and other towns in North Carolina, and in a fortnight to return to Baltimore and address the citizens in an elaborate speech; then he goes North again preparatory to going home….
In California there is much ill feeling expressed towards Mr. Douglas by the friends of the late Senator Broderick. At a public meeting in San Francisco, according to a correspondent of the Sacramento Bee, ex-Governor McDougal denounced the Illinois Senator in the several manner, for his indifference concerning the fate of Broderick….
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Vegetarian Demonstration In Honor of The Wherry Ocean Navigator.- A dinner was given by the proprietors of the water-cure establishment in Laight street, in honor of Mr. D. U. Martin, who arrived there on Thursday last from Boston, having made the trip in a wherry.
The dinner consisted of a variety of delicious fruit and vegetables; there was no meat on the tables and no condiments excepting salt, and the drinkables consisted of iced water and milk. On sitting down the guests, expecting “a vegetarian reception” were surprised at the tempting variety displayed on the tables.
Mr. Martin gave a brief and interesting account of his novel voyage, and said in answer to the question which had lately been put to him so frequently,- “Why did you make this voyage?”- that in the first place he made it to show that a man can stand physical fatigue on vegetable diet, and secondly, because he took pride in rowing in his boat, which was named the “Fraternity, “ a society of young men, followers of Theodore Parker, whom he very much admired. He also stated that he always had been very fond of adventurous excursions….
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Philadelphia Republicans Attacked By Ruffians.- On Thursday evening a number of clubs and ward organizations connected with the People’s party of Philadelphia proceeded by ears to a Republican meeting at Norristown. The entire body numbered eighteen hundred or two thousand persons. On the way out, while slowly passing through Manayunk, those who were stationed on the platforms were assaulted with showers of bottles, stones, mud &., while sand was thrown into the windows of the ears, and several persons were almost blinded.
While the torchlight procession was in progress, the Philadelphia men were insulted, and after the procession had broken up, some fifteen men rallied under the cry of Bell and Everett, and attacked one of the Clubs, but the ruffians were quickly dispersed. The train started for home at about 1 o’clock, and was attacked with missiles of all kinds at various points on the road. A man named George Hawthorne was knocked from one of the rear platforms by a heavy missile. The train was stopped, but Hawthorne could not be found, and at last accounts he had not been heard from.
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A Monster Balloon. Mr. C. C. Coe, of Rome, N. Y., is now constructing a monster balloon, with which he hopes to succeed in his project of aerial navigation. In September last, while endeavoring to disengage a balloon from a tree, he met with an accident, in consequence of which he subsequently suffered amputation of one of his arms. In April last he commenced work on his mammoth balloon, which will be finished in about to weeks. There are 8700 years of cloth in this aerial ship, over this is the netting, weighing 900 lbs. The balloon when initated is 208 feet high, its diameter is 118 feet, and to fill it requires 1,731,000 cubic feet of gas. The car and basket are 39 ½ feet in circumference, and 13 in diameter, made of rattan, and to be carpeted with Brussels carpet, and seats to be on the inside similar to those in an omnibus. Over 22 miles of sewing have been down on this balloon; its lifting power is over 69,000 lbs. Mr. Coe intends to go to St. Louis or some other Western city, form whence he will proceed East by means of that easterly current he is so sanguine of finding.
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A Powerful Blow.- In recoppering the guano packet Josephine, now at the wharf, the sword of a sword-fish was discovered broken off in the hull of the vessel, under its counter, and about four feet forward from the rudder post, it having passed through the copper, the felting and a three inch oak plank. Judging from the size of the weapon, where broken off, it must have penetrated some 15 or 18 inches into solid wood-work of which the stern is composed. In passing through the oak plank, the sword opened quite a large crack, which, had it been in any other part of the vessel, would have caused a serious leak…
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Japanese Trade.-…
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News and Miscellaneous Items.-…Some of the Duxbury boys a few days since captured one hundred porpoises- some of which weighed 600 pounds- and obtained their oil, after which the bodies of the fish were consigned to the compost heap…
Prentice says there is but one kind of trade that your true fire-eater doesn’t regard as plebeian and vulgar- and that is the slave trade…
As the Upton stage was approaching Milford, near the town farm, on Tuesday morning, it was met by a half dozen cows, one of which attacked the leading horse, severely goring him in the fore shoulder, and throwing him out of the road into the gutter. The cow was driven off and the horse bled severely from the wound….
The Richmond Whig thinks it necessary to entreat its Whig friends in the South to treat Mr. Douglas with civility and courtesy, if he visits the Southern States, and not to subject him to the insults which Gov. Johnson received in his own State….
A day or two since while Joseph Hall, residing at New Brunswick N. J. was in the act of removing a cap from a pistol which was loaded, holding the muzzle toward himself, the pistol was accidentally discharged, the contents entering the right side, just below the ribs. He lived but 15 minutes after the accident. The deceased was 22 years of age…
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Arrest of Bristol Bill.- …(arrest of the) notorious English burglar and cracksman, William Warburton alias Bristol Bill (in Vermont)…
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Southern Italy.-…(Italian Revolution)...
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Foreign Items.-… (French soldiers on their way to Syria)…
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Political. –
Mr. J. C. Breckinridge has consented to address his political friends of the Lexington (Ky.) Congressional District, in which he resides, to refute the accusations made against him by Judge Douglas at Concord, and Mr. Crittenden at Louisville. In his letter accepting the invitation to speak, Mr. Breckinridge says that he feels it “would be unjust to his principles, his friends and himself, to remain longer in silence beneath this torrent of defamation; and he hopes to repel every charge which has been made, to the satisfaction of all candid and honorable men.”
It is the belief of many sagacious politicians that when the South becomes reasonably sure that an election of President by the people can be prevented, (of which there is not a very flattering prospect at present) so large a proportion of the Southern States will vote for Breckinridge and Lane as to make the last named the second highest candidate before the United States Senate, if that body should be compelled to make choice of a Vice President, to subsequently serve as acting President.
Many Southern men seem to entertain the idea that Mr. Lincoln will be elected President, and Mr. Douglas has accordingly been interrogated, on his tour through the South, as to the course he would recommend the South to pursue, under certain circumstances. His answers to the questions at Norfolk, reported by telegraph, were manly and emphatic. Mr. Douglas can evidently accomplish more good at the South than he can at the North at the present time.
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The Visit of the Prince of Wales To Boston and Montreal.-…
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Foreign Intelligence.-…(Austria threatens all out war on Garibaldi if he takes Naples or organizes an expedition against Austrian possessions…An Austrian flotilla waits off the coast of Naples to evacuate the King)
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Syria-…
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Peru.- …President Castilla of that Republic narrowly escaped assignation at Lima on the 26th…
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The Mexican Question.- The Daily Times states on the best authority, that the Mexican question is on the point of being peremptorily settled by decisive intervention on the part of France, England, Spain and Prussia, who have signed a convention for the pacification of Mexico, to which they propose to obtain the adhesion of the United States but which they will carry into effect without, if it be refused.
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From the Coast of Africa.- Advices form the African Coast per steamer Vanderbilt say that the captain of the bark Edwin of Salem has been accused of killing some Krogmen and attempting the live of others. The commander of the U.S. steamer Mohican was investigating the case. The King of Dahomey was about to sacrifice 2000 men to the memory of his late father.
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Mr. Douglas Interrogated At The South. – Mr Douglas has had an enthusiastic reception in Norfolk. He spoke in the presence of 6000 people. In the middle of the address a slip from the Norfolk Argus containing two questions was handed to him. The first was—Would the Southern States be justified in seceding from the Union in case of Lincoln’s election?- To which Mr. Douglas emphatically answered “No”.
The second question was- If the Southern States should secede upon Lincoln’s inauguration before he commits any overt act against the Constitutional rights of the South, would he (Douglas) advise or vindicate resistance by force to their secession?
Mr. Douglas answered emphatically that it was the duty of the President, and all others in authority under him, to enforce the laws passed by Congress and as the Courts expound them and he would do all in his power to aid the Government of the United States in maintaining the laws against all resistance to them, come from what quarter it might. In other words the President should treat all attempts to break up the Union as Old Hickory treated the Nullifiers in 1832.
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David Upton