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110; BENTTY, Proprietor:-
EtirOD.
DB.. S. 23. 311,IIMPFER,
4 - 1, .PFIChI in North Ihmoverstreot adjoiniug
J Ir. Wolf's store. °lime hours, more par
ticularly from 7 to 9 o'alock, A.M., and Iron)
5 to 7jo'clocic. P. M. LiunclB'sl
Dr. YOMEN 8. SPRIGGS,
OFFERS his
_pr_Ofessional services to the
pcoph of Dickinson 'township, and vicinity.—
Residence--on the Walnut Bottom Road, one
mile cast of Contreville, 10)21 ypd
G. 11. COLE,
ATTORNEY Al' LAW, will attend
promptly to all bu,iness entrusted to lulu.
Olfice in the room lortnerly - oceupied by Wil
liam IrVine, Eaq,, North llattover St , Carlisle.
April '2O, 1852.
DR. C. S. BAILER
RESPECTFULLY . offers his professions
services to the citizens of Carlisle and our
rounding country.
011ioe, and residence in South Hanover street
directly opposite to the " Volunteer (Alice."
• 'Carlisle, Apl 20, 1853
Dr. GEORGE Z. .7311ETZ,
WILL perform al
operations upon th
teeth that may be re
required for their preservation. Artificial Iced
inserted, from a single tooth to anentire set,
the in Ist scientific principles. Diseases of
mouth and irregularities caretully treated'.
lice at the residence of his brother, on Nortl
Pitt Street. Carlisle
dEORGE EGE,
jusTicE OF THE PEACE. OF
FICE at his residence, cornet of Nlain aired
and the Public Square, opposite Burltholder'b
Hotel. 111 addition to the duties of Justin eol
the Peace, will attend to all kinds of writing
such as deeds, bonds, rnovtgag,es, indentures
articles el:agreement, notes; &c.
Carlisle, an 8'49
ViTILLZAIVI H. .lEltiEl'Z,
Drug - giai, Carlisle
LT AS just received a large and well selected
AA stock of American,
French and English
Chemicals, Drugs, Medicines,
Dye-Stuffs, &c. At this store Physicians can
rely on having their prescriptions carefully
mnopounded.
DR. X. C. LOOTVILS,
Dsrs, WILL perform of
- ..4lll. a. „,operatiotts upon the
T'oeth that are mph.
red for their preservation, such as Scaling, Fihng
Plugging, &c, or will restore the loss of them,
by inserting Artificial Teeth, Trom a single tooth
to a full sett. Kr o'lice on Pitt slim, a few
tbors south of the Railroad I-Teter Dr. L. is
e'nt from Carlisle the last ten days of evc
month.
Fresh Drugs, Medicines Rm. Eke
I have just received from Thiladel.
phia and New York very extensive
additions to my former stock, eiulra•
cir Ging nearly every article of Medicine
now in use, toge,,ter with Paints,
Oils, Varnishes, Turpentine, Perfumery, Soaps,
Statiorierr, - .Fine -- eu r tiery- :- Fislting - -'Pricltle;-
Bruhes of almost every description, with
endelss variety of other articles, which I am (It.-
--tormined-to-sell-at-the-vmt-v-Lo-w-sp--priees.
All Physicians, Country Merchants, Pedlars
and others, are respectfully requested not to pass
the OLD STAND, as they may rest assured
that every article will be sold of a good quality,
and upon reasonable terms. _ __ _
S. ELLIOTT,
Main street. ~arlisle.
Mav 30
F. N. ROSENSTEEL,
HOUSE, Sign, Fancy and Ornamental
Painter, Irvin's (lormerly Harper's) Row,
next door to Trout's Hat Store. He will at•
tend promptly to all the above descriptions of
painting, at reasonable prices. The various
kinds o t fgreillingallende &IP og_
any, oalc, walnut, &c. , 'in the imprdved styles
Carlisle, July 14, 18A2—ly.
CHURCH LEE AND RINGLAND
AND
STEAM SAW' MILL
EW CUMBERLk - ND. RA.
712.1.1 SPORTJTIOJX.
Tli g undersigned are now prepared torreight
n-
41a torehandize Irom
phia and Baltimore, at re•
... S.W .. duced rates, with regularity
and despatch
4DEPOTS.
Buzby & Co., 345 Markbt Street, Phila,
George Small, "Small's Depot," 72 Nort
Scoot, Baltimore.
nn2t WOOD WARD & SC lIMIDT.
I=2=9
3bIIN W. DELL dr. CO.,
&ND
GENERAL ,COMMISSION dERCPANTS
HO WARD STREET,
Opposite Centre,."---
1y BALTIMORE
TRANSPORTATION.
kTfIE uddpraigned are now prepared to freight
~ % z• - ~.:....-.... merchandise from
A la opiia
mec"-- A . "r; lila Phi dI I and
'Till -- -- - - - Baltimore, at re
duced rates, with regularity and despatch. '
•
;DEPOTS.
Freed, Ward '& Freed; 315 Market Street
Philadelphia -
A. H. Barnitz, 76 North Street, Baltimore.
Michael Herr, North Street, Baltimore.
' sop326m . S. er. D. RHOADS.
10,000 PIECES!
w HAVt2 just opened the largest assortment
A of WALL PAPERS ever opened in Car•
lisle, consisting of about o,ooopieces of the
latest French and American designs, ranging
In pries from 5 cts to $1 '75, also Window Pa•
pus and Fire Screens, Plain Green and Blue
Papers, &c, Persons wishing to purchase any
of tho above can save at least 25 per cent by
calling at - JOHN P. LYNE'S
Hardware Store, West Side of North Hanover
Street, Carlisle.
Carlisle Female Seminary,
MUSSES PAINE will - commence—the,
IVA SUMMER SESSION of their'SeMinary
on the second Monday in April, in a new end
commodious school room, . next door to Mr.
Leonard's, North,lionpver street.
Instruction in thelinguagea ant 4 rowing, no
extra charge.,
Music tough; by an experienced teacher,at,
an extra charge., (sept3tO
•
Gas Fixtures and Lamps.
LIEIDRICK, HORNEY & BRO., No 221
N.2d'Street, near Vine, Phila , having
had many years practical experience in the
-- business-and-all-work-soldby us.. is manufac•
• tared under our Immediate Supervision, we are
enabled to offer to purchasers superior artistes
in every branch. ot our trade. At our Store
may be fOund in every variety.of style and
finish. Gas dt,Larap CHANDELIERS, PEN•
D A N T S, SIDE. BRACKETS for Halls,
Churches, &c; the Improved Pine oil Lamps,
together with a tine assortment of Fluid; Lard,
'
- and Oil Lamps, Girrindolea, Parlor Night , end
•' Rending• Limps, Sequel Holoere•eto. On.
hand Lamp",Glassee t Globes,,Wicks. shades atc.
All 'work warrantadon no sale.: Faciory.N9.
'96 Noble straer,:near. Fourth.' Remember
Store No 221'N. 4d St., next door to '.l Stewat
Dopuy'a Carpet Store may2Ur
2 Annl t i riteratitre, Clutratimt, patitito, Agritulturf, %Hints .and Cen t ui 54itinotin.
THERE ARE TWO THINGS, sArrll LORD BACON, WHICH MAKE A NATION GREAT AND pRospED9IIS—A FERTILE SOIL AND BUSY WORKSHOPS,—TO WHICH LET ME ADD, KNOWLEDGE AND FREEDOM.—Bis hop Hall
LET VS MAKE IT UP, LOVED ONE I
41 Join then your hearts nod hands, and let the pas
DI! ns n grave which gives not up its dead
To evil thoughts•"— SHELLEY.
Let us make it up, Loved One ! forgetting the past,
Anil, as tve loved ore', let its love to the last;
Oh ! if thy heart Is like mine, nn failing can blight
Affection that's lived e'en through misery's night:
I haVe erred in , trange madness, hut angels in hea•en
Will Joy as thou sayer;—"forgiven, forgiven,
Let's woke It up ; Loved One."
Let lie make It up, Loved One! lire's pathway la lone
Since no more on my ear Rills thy low, gentle tone:
'Then ray thou nirgivest—that the poet Is forgot,
Like a glove tshiull forever hides every dark thought;
011: grasp my hand warmly, and speak with soft
breath
ll Forgiven thou art, and, for life and for death,
Let to matte It up, Loved One I— though erring I be
Naught can Win me to goodbess save pure love and
Without thy kind smile, I must drive o'er We's main
A prey to dark sorrow—the victim of pain;
Thy n say thou foigivest, arid oh let me hear
These sweet words of kindness CM soft on my ear
"Let's make It up, Loved On.
Let u■ make it up, Loved One: and banish hale
gloom,
Forgiviiig each other, as we draw nrar the tomb ;
Let 0, live for the funire—forgenoig the pact—
Our life's but a shadow, oh ! why should hate last 1
I have erred In strange madness, but angels in heaven
Will joy as thou sayesti—' , lorgiven, forgiven,
Let's make it up, Loved One."
Let us make it up, LovedOne!l have erred It la true—
Ilea ven's boon Is forgiveness—l Implore It of you;
Then hear thou the Great Teacher, whose words are
'• Forgive,
If fOrgiven ihotid'at he and in Paradise live:""
So, grasp my hand warmly, and, in lov . e, let me hear
These sweet words of healing full eel% on my ear—
" It's all made up, Loved One."
*The reader will be kind enough to under
stand distinctly that this is purely a fancy
sketch. It is just the kind of " talk," however,
that a very unsopld,ticated lover would use to
ids mistress after a "regular tiff:" The au
thor is dinfortunate.enough not .to have a
" Loved One;" and there is more than a strong
probability that he will remain in the same
deplorable predicament for a considerable
length of time. Eye-teeth are cut but once
in a life-time.
gperrij U 3-11araultti.
UNIVERSITY HONORS A TEST OF
The common opinion that college hcinors are
no-test-of—merit,—or-any indication of success
in after life, having been advanced in a recent
speech in the British Parliament, Hon. J. B.
Macauley replied as follows:
" If I understand the opinions imputed to
that noble lord, he thinks the proficiency of a
young man in those pursuits which constitute
a liberal education, is not only no indication
that he is likely„, in after life, to make 0 dis
tinguished figure, but that it positively raises
a presumption that in after life he will bo over
acme those contests which then take, place.
I understand that the noble lord is of opinion
that young men gaining distinction in such
pursuits are likely to turn out dullards, and
utterly unfit for the contests of private lifo
and 1 am not sure that the noble lord did no
say it would be bettor to make boxing or crick
of a test of tituess,_than a liberal education.
must say, that it seems to me there never wits
a fact better proved by an immense mass o f
evidence, by an experience almost unvaried,
than this—that men who distinguish them
solves in their youth above their colomporaries
in academic competition, almost always keep
to the out of their lives the start they have
gained in the early part of their career. This
experience is so vast that I should as soon ex
pect to hear any one question it as to hoar it
denied that arsenic is poison, or .thit brandy
is intoxicating. Take the very Simplest test.
Take down in any library the Cambridge Cafik
cedar. There you have the list of honortii!for;,
a hundred years. Look at the list of wrangl
lers and junior optlitls, and I will venture to
say that for one man who has in aftey life dis
----tinguished himself among the junior - op - tilifirs,
you will find twenty among the wranglers.
Take the Oxford Faleng j Or, look at the list of
first class men, and compare them with an
equal number:id' mon in the third class, and
soy in which list you find the majority of men
who have distinguished themselves in after
life. But is not our history full of 'instances
which prove this fact? (dear hear,.) Look
at the church, the parliament or the bar. Look
to the Parliament, from the time when parlia
mentary government began in this,country—
fromthe days of Montagu and St." John to those
of Canning and Peel. You need not stop
there, but come down r io the time of Lord Dor-.
by and my right hon. friend the Chancellor of
the Exchequer. (Hear, hear.) Has it not
always been the ease that the men who were
fiat in the competition of the schools have
been the first in the competion °flab? (Hear,
hear.) Look also to India.. The ablest than
who ever governed India was Warren Hastings'
and was ho not in the first rank at Westmin
ster? (Cheers.) The ablest edit servant 4
over knew was Sir Clnirles Metcalf, and was
he not a man of the first standing at Eton?
The most distinguished member of the arieto
°racy' who ever governed India was-tord Wel
lesley. What was his Eton reputation?
(Hear, hoar.) But I must mention—):,cannot
refrain from mentioning—another noble and
distinguished Governor. General. A few clays
age, - while the memory of the speeoh„to which
I have alluded was still fresh, in my mind, I
read in the Murex O ' atztOrigicnaier a very elo
quent and classical ode,
„Which the University
of Cambridge rewarded with a gold •medal.
The subject was, the departure of, the house
of Braganza from Portugarfor Brazil. The ,
young poet, who was - then only Seventeen, de
scribed in very - Herndon language versifi
cation the departure of the lhat, and plottfed,
BENJ. DAllitY
the great Portuguese navigator, Vasco db Go
ma, and, the grert Pnrtuguesa joet thun f oons,
hovering over the armament urhichvvas to con
vey the fortunes of the Portugueie Inonarehy
to a aow'hemiephoia ;- and withldetisurc, no
Original putt!,
DT EDWARD STILRR ROE
Lei's make it. up, Loved One
CARLISLE, PA.; WIEFINESDAY, - SEPTFM3Fit 28. 18 53:
altogether umningled with pain, I read at the
bottom of that compoifition the name of the
Ilan. Edward Law, of St. John's College. I
must say I flaw with some: considerable plea
sure that the name of Lord Ellenborough may
be added to the long list of those distinguished
moo who, in early youth, have, 'by eminent
academical ow:loess, given on augury of the
distinguished part which they were afterwards
to play ; and r could not but feel some con
cern end some surprise that a nobleman so
honorably distinguished in his youth by.atten
tion to those studies, should, in his maturer
years; have descended to use language-respeot
ing them which I think would. have bettor be
come the lip's of Ensign Northerton, or the
captain in Swift's poem, who says;
"Your Neve& nod Blutarchs, and Omura and stuff
fly George they doll'eslgulfy this pinch of snuff;
To give a young gentletnnn right educatlosi,
The ornty's the only good school In the nation."
(Laughter.) The noble lord seemed, from his
speech, to entertain that opinion. (A laugh.)
" My schnolnrVeter called me a dunce and a fool,
But at con 1 was always the cock of the School."
(Loud laughter.) But if a recollection of his.
own early academical triumphs did not restrain
the noble earl from using this language,
should have thought that his filial piety would
have had that effect. I should have thought
that he would haye remembered how eminently
splendid was the academical career of that
peat and strong•mindedlnagistrato, the late
Lord Ellenborough: and, as I have mentioned
him, I will say that if there be in this world a
trying test of the fitness of men for the com
petition of active life, and of the strength and
acuteness of their practical faculties, it is to
be found in the contests of the English bar.
Look at Lord Mansfield; Lord Elden, Lord
Stowell; Sir Vicary Gibbs, Lord Tenterden and
Lorsl_Ly_n_dlturs t —.Tako_e er._.th o.—co mmo n
law or the equity bar. The present Lord
Chief Baron was senior wrangler; Mr. Baron
Alderson was senior wrangler: Mr Justice
Mauls was senior wrangler ; Mr. Baron Parke,
was eminently distinguished at the university
for hip . mathematical and classical attainments;
Mr. Baron Platt was a wrangler, and Mr. Jus-
tics Coleridge was one of the most eminent
men of his time at Oxford. Then take the
equity bar. The Lord Chancellor was a
wrangler; Lord Justice Sir George Turner
was h'gh in the list of wranglers ;. all the three
Vice Chancellors were wranglers: Sir Lana
celot Shadwell was a wrangler, and a very
distinguished scholar; - my friend Sir James
Porker was a high wrangler, and a distin
guished mathematician. Can we suppose that
it was by mere accident they obtained their
high positions? Is it not ,possible to believe
that these men maintained through life the
start which they gained in youth? And is it
an answer to these instances to , Bay that you
can point to two or three men of great powers
who, having neglected the struggle when they
were young; have afterwards exerted them
selves to retrieve lost time, and have some
times overtaken and surpassed those who had
got far in advance of them? Of course there
are such exceptions; most desirable it is that
there should be, and that they should be not
ed, in order to encourage men who, after hav
ing thrown away their. youth from levity or
love of pleasure, may be inclined to throw
their manhood after it in despair; but the
general rule is, beyond all. doubt,-that—which—
I have laid down. It is this—that those men
who distinguish themselves most in academical
competition when they are young are the men
who, in after life, distinguish themselves most
in the competition of the world."
.CLEUGYIIIIGN AS INVENTORS.
Thoinvontor of gunpowder was Constantine
Anelzen, a monk of Friburg, and the Rev. Mr.
Forsyth, a Presbyterian clergyman, invented
the application of detonating powder to fire
arms ; thus two " men of peace" were confes
sedly warlike inventors, and their: disoovorios
have had a most important effect on the des
tiny of nations. The Rev. Dr. Cartright, an
Episcopal clergyman in_Eugland, was the in
ventor of the power-loonsOtnother ipvontion
which has produced most wonderful results in
beuefitting man, and which, like the radical
and republican doctrines of Major Cartwright
—the divine's brother—has had a tendency to
level tLo comforts of a large class upwards.
The,Rev. EUoch Burt; of Connecticut, a Can;
griegational clergyman, was the inventor of
seg - of the best improvetnents over made on
gingham and harness looms. The Rev. Dr.
Nott,•of Union College, N. Y., a Presbyterian
clergyman, is the Inventor of a number of ex
cellent improvements in stoves, and was, the
first to apply the waste heat of smelting-furn
aces to economical purposes—an invention
which has been revamped abroad, and become
famous as a re-importation, within a few
years. ,The' Rev. R. Storting, another Pres
byterian, clergyman, was the inventor of the
flot Air Engine, and the invention of balloons
is ascribed ,to Francis Lana, a' Jesuit. We•
have no. doubt but the list of Reverend Inven.
tars could be extended to a considerable length.
We are well acquainted with two clergymen,,
active pastors and excellent preachers, who
spend,mauy useful hours in mechanical pir
anha, and t who can plan and construct nu9chin
(lo and cabinet work with a skill equal to that
of ntanfroputahle practising mechanicians.•
Scientific Am4rican. ,
IDDLATI101:18 01.111113T.WilTY.—The Chinese
revolutionists it would seem are as much puz
zled as more civilized nations to porta& the
difference betiveen the Papist invocation and
worship of saints, and a breach of the second
commandment. It.is staled in the Paris pa
pers, that'on the 25th of March; while the
Catholics were "adoring the cross," at Nan
kin, with the customary Coed Friday mettle
'Male, the Chinese entered, broke the crucifix,
overthrow, the Alter, and then wished to have.
their prayer recited—at'the same CM° preson-,
ting them with books in which it le wrikten.—
This . being refused, they seized and executed
numbetkof them ; out of six hundred, fifty
were slain, or burned to death.' The clue to
thee° excessee'le, thiit the Chinese mistook the
worshippers in a chapel adorned with images
for idolateri.;-.olf:they had ever read the'com
mend whichlikOhiiAte the bowing down to any,
graven imege,:or the likeness of anytiiihg in
heaveri;carilt or. wafer, it lanot strange Or*
should Laic+ tio '"'' "
Fart for gax—patiero
THE PUBLIC WORKS.
We give below an extract from a speech re
cently. delivered at Huntingdon, by Col. A. K.
.I'Clure, the Whig candidate for Auditor Gen
eral. It is a capital argument, put in good,
clear, strong and sensible phrase; and shows
that the Colonel has in him the true matter.—
What a blessing it would be if we should sue
coed in electing such a man with such opinions,
to the administrative • post for which ho has
been nominated:
"But it is not only our National policy that
retards our progress. Powerfully as it has
contributed to that end, we have been cherish
ing a State Tolley that has been no less fruit
ful of injury. Our State administration,
which came into power pledged to economy
and reform, seems to have no higher ambition
than to swell our indebtedness. It must grate
harshly upon the ears of those who repudiated
the 'eminently successful administration of
William P. Johnson, when they are told that
their great champion , of retrenchment is likely
to increase our State debt at the rate of a mil
lion 'a year. Nearly his first official not was to
sign a bill for a loan ; and at this time, with
nearly half his term before him, the lolins ha
has sanctioned amount to nearly $3,000,000 l
I grant that this amount has not been added to
the funded debt of the State, for $1,00.,000
was borrowed to pay -$1,000,000 of debt; but
when it is remembered that,nearly all of the
balance is to swell our enormous indebtedness,
tell mo how the bbld professions of the admin
istration are to bo reconciled with its official.
acts. It will not do to say that Gov. Bigler
and his par_ty_lMvo merely "anticipated the
revenue" to meet present demands, We have
been " anticipating our revenue" until wo
have forty two millions of debt upon our
shoulders! And nine times- out of ten when
our administration modestly_dernands that our
revenue be anticipated, tße plain English of
the request is more debt. --Noy is the and of
the chaptor. yet visible. The Nbrth Branch
Canal ie yet unfinished, and the Allegheny
road is just commenced. Both are in the hands
of the democracy ; both have been used to re
ward political merit without regard to cost;
and when both are completed, our debt must
be swelled from three to. five millions under
present management.
If our publio improvements would justify
this outlay, and give reasonable assurance of
remuneration, even then I would not be pre
pared to approve an increasecef our debt; but
when I consider that our improvements have
ceased to boa sourco'of Revenue, and that they
are claimed and used by the democracy solely
.for personal and political aggrandizement; I
could wish that I had a voice like - thunder to
protest against it._ Let us glance at our pub
lic works. Our present debt of $42,000,000
as appears by the records, dates its foundation
about 1821, when publio improvements became
the order of the day. That it'has been in
creased principally in the construction and
maintenance of our public works, is not to be
denied; and what has been our revenue ? The
interest on our debt, at five per cent is over
$2,000,000, and our improvements have for
the first - time yet - ro nelt its half that sum.—
That they might yield a million or mono, I am
fully persuaded ; but under the, present system
of management they are a curse to the State.
Prior to 1848. as far back as I have examined
tho official records, our public works were
kept up at a cost ranging from $600,000 to
$700,000 per annum. Since then they have
never required lose than $1,000,000 annually,
and sometimes they have cost us over $2,000-
000. I will give the revenue and expenses for
the fast five years :
1848. Total revenue,
Expenses,
Balance over exponsee, 626,000
1849. Total revenue, 1,000,000
Expenses, 1,000,000
Balance over expenses, 600,000
1850. Total revenue, 1,709,000
Expenses, •
1,600,000
. Balance over expenses, 209,000
1851, Expenses, 1,900,000
Total revenue, 1,700,000
— Balance over revenue, 200,000
1862. Expenses, 2,800,000
Total revenue, 2,000,000
---\
Balance over,rovenuo, 800,000
By this official statement, taken from the
Annual Report of the Auditor General, we
see that during the last five years, our public
improvements have yielded the Commonwealth
an aggregiitt of only $825,000, or but $165,000
per annum, which would not pay the interest
on $3,500,000 of our State debt at .five per
Cont. It is true that during the years '5l and,
'52, a little over a million was appropriated to
the North Branch Canal, which, if deducted
from the expenses, would leave $500,000 of
ravine°, instead of $500,000 of excess 'expen
ditures; but a single feature in the statement
of expenditures presents everything in 'confu
sion, and renders it impossible to do t exact
justice to.the subject. Since the cost of main
taining the publio works hes been increased
so alarmingly, certain eipenditures are With
held from the public each year, and crowded into
subseqtient statements in the moat vague anti un
satisfactory wander.
Take for instance, tho yearlBso, which ap
pears, nooording to the Auditor Cleneral's
port, as
~ yielding $200,000 from the public
works above expenses; but in report for
'5l we find over $OOO,OOO in the statement of
expeuaes • for that year, as having boon paid
for debts, pribr to December 1850! Bo a.true
statement for 1860 would have shown that the
expenses ..for, that., year w0r0,'790,000' more
than the revenue! Turn again to tlio - report
for '52, and we 50(1 . V:0:000 paid for "sun—
dry expenses prior t? 'lB5O ond 1851 l" This
swells the expenses, for 1860 to $2,400,000
•when we had but $1,700,000,0f revenue, and.
when the Auditor General was . made to repert
a nett revenue of $200,000; . an4 for:the year
.
1851,, mukos an . aotual outlay of $1,970,000
exclusive of the $900,000 saddled on it tor th'e
previous year., ,And , what of . 002 ;191;to can
tell whether a million will merge ,etpe-
for some future statement? or who can say
that there are not several millions of floating
debt that is yet unknown to our official re
cords, which have boon contracted for our
public works? The managers of our improve
ments were afraid to let the cost for thkyoar
'5O come before the public in one year, or even
in two; for we find in the statements both for
'5l and '52 sundry expenses paid for that year.
And may there not be unsettled accounts still
back for '5l P—at least what. assurance have
we that tho expenditures for 51' and '62 have
been paid ? But to take the very beet facie
this butter can present, we can arrive at no
other conclusion,• than that independent of all
extraordinary appropriations for prosecuting
new works, our public improvements are oink
ing the Commonwealth every year deeper and
deeper in debt! Notwithstanding the mystery
in Which the reports aro purposely involved,
this fact is apparent, and admits of no denial ;
but they can, and they doubtless do, withhold
from the publio the exact amount of debt they
annually throw upon the State.' In the brief
space of five years we see the cost-of main
taining our public works swelled from $700.-
000 to-over $2,000,000; and if this species of
democratic progression is to be continued for
five years more, it will require the sale of the
'works, and exhaust all . ,the proceeds, to pay
the debt inou'Pred in merely keeping them up
This condition of affairs has been brought
about by the most unbounded profligacy and
corruption. For yoarc our public improve
manta have been made a mere rendezvouz for
the pampered
-pensioners of the democratic
party; and the moans of fostering the most ex
tensive and high-handed villainy. So notori
ous have the officers on our putffio works be
come for dishonesty, that an honest man
-scarcely-aspires-to a-position - connected-with
them; or if ho does accept one, it costs him
whatever reputation for integrity he may have
acquired. They are prostituted into a vast po
litical engine, and made to contribute only to
the political power and private fortunes of those
controlling them. They have been destroyed
as a source of revenue, because the private in
terests of_officers and their friends have to be
advanced at whatever: cost the Common
wealth. And yet, year' after year, with., this
fostering corruption clear as noonday, the peo
ple of the State have, thi•ough the force of
party drill, sanctioned it with their votes. Ap
proach a liberal member of the opposition par
ty, who is familiar 'with the management of
our improvements, and li•vrill tell you that it
has corrupted the whole body politic as far an
Its influence extends, and that those who can
not breathe the contamination, either silently
or approvingly, must fall bertellth the merciless
proscription of official power,
Such has been the history of our public
works, and nothing but a thorough revolution
of the system can result in substantial good.
Wo have tried reform, but as often as one
abuse has been corrected, a wider and bolder
channel of corruption has been Opened. We
have tried legislation to close' the countless
avenues of fraud which load frdm our improve
ments to the treasury, but every effort has
beets orippled by the controlling influence of•
State patronage. We have appealed to the
people to crush the whole system of robbery
by . which_ they have to suffer, but party disci
pline has been too potent for the cause of
truth. We have tried to sell them, and the
people 'manfully seconded the effort by an im
mense popular majority ; but democracy could
not spare the patronage and the power 'they
afforded, and the plainly expressed will of the
people was insolently disregarded. At last
hopes were entertained that we were to be re.
Loved of this blistering. stain upon our char
acter, and this dealroying oankor preying
upon our vitals. A company compose l d of a
number of the most wealthy and enterprizing
gentlemen in the State, offered to lease cur
publio works for a term of years, andpay, I
believe,. a million annually for the use of them.
This proposition,' by which the State would
have been the gainer of the whole amo,unt ten
dered, it was hoped by alklisinterested per:
eons, , would be accepted. But again democra
cy . interposed—it was net. yet glutted with
official plunder. The offer was rejected, and
democracy continued its career of profligacy.'
But by Whom was this offer made? Among
the gentlemen composing the company, were
several ex-Canal Commissioners, under whose
management of the improvements the State
realized little or nothing. As publio °Moen,
they could bring no revenue to the State ; but
as individuals, with tho same resources, they
could calculate a liberal profit for themselves,
and then afford a million of dollars annually
for the lease. Why was it that Buell a strange
discrepantly existed ; between the proceeds of
the publio works under their •direotion, and
the offer of the very men who controlled them?
Can it be 'explained in any other way than
that this sum is annually squandered by our
agents? I have considered this matter care.
fully, and I must charge . 'it upon the Democratic
party, that the men they' keep in power are swind
ling the Commonwealth out of millions of dollars
annually!! If lam wrong, I shall be glad to
make the - correction; but a general denial will
not suffice. Fo'r years this corruption has
boon conceded by the candid of all parties, and
if explanation is Possible, it is high time it was'
furnished. I haio shown how the expenses
of oar publio works have,been` more than trot).
led in five years, and that a fair exhibit of any
current year has not been presented tolhe
people of tho :Statel , 3 that titan ; and if this
conduct is defensible, I beg the dennieratio
Party to let us have the defence.
$1,550,000
1,026,000
And,what a spectacle doee this present? To
moo our noble old Commonwealth ‘ dragged to
the very verge of bankruptcy by the habitual
villiany of her agents, and the people edit fol
lowing the'beliests of .party blindly to sustain
it; The general system of transaoting business
on our public works, would 'nloke a an in
privato entorprizo despised in any community,
and our,dourtewould seize, blia n folon. He
would be dretideds if his iii:6'.totOb Were
i3entamlnotion, and until hii operatittudooUld
bo confined to the walla "'of. moon; hospitable
Orison, us'iiodWould 'not be satisfied:—
But he is Odttgent of theitate ferebothl—he
gonAttitlli:and
,13hOres his plunder liber-,
hie docOMplibes, and publio Opinion
seems to' haya grown strangely indifferent to
this eseotod of rohbory..—Anithow-long-wlll
Itio_expensea
the people of the State, by whose hard-earned
taxes this profligacy is supported, stand idly
by, and permit it to run its highest career? Is
there no remedy for this official villiany ? I.
answer that there in but one hope of substan
tial reform, and that iv the uncortnrizexAr,
BALE OP THE PUBLIC Weans I And until this
is effected, the indications are' - that the same
fatal abuses which are now practised, and
which have been prootisod for years, will be
practised still. I grant that wepannot realize
the omit of their construction—that we must
lose heavily in the sale, but we can reduce our
State debt nearly ono half, and destroy the
great cause of its increase, without. reducing
our revenue.
3111ErEllantoug.
THE LAST FLY OF SUMMER.
'Tie the last fly of summer
Left buzzing alone;
All its blaok legged companions
Are dried up anditono.
Not ono of its kindred,
No bluo bottle nigh,
To sport 'mid Abe sugars,
Or in the milk die.
I'll not doom - thee, thoU lone one,
A victim to be,
Since the root are all vanished,
Como dine you with me.
Thus kindly I scatter
Some crumbs of my bread,
Where thy mates on the table
Lie withered and dead.
But soon you will perish,
I'm sadly afraid,
For the glass is nt sixty
Just now in the shade.
When wasps have all vanished,
And -blue-bottles - flown;
No fly can inhabit
This bleak world alone.
ORIGIN OF THE TERM YANKEE.'---The follow%
leg curious information, respeoting the origin
of the term " Yankee," is given in a work by
.Wm. Gordon,, on the history of our indepen
dence; and published in four octavo volumes in
London, in 1783:
" It was a cant, favorite word with farmer
Jonathan Hasthigir, of Cambridge, about 1713.
Two aged ministerial, who were at the college
in that town, have told me they remembered
it to have been then in use among the students,
but had no recollection of it before that period.
The inventor used it to express excellency.—
A Yankee good horse, or Yankee cider, and
the like, were an excellent good horse, and
excellent eider. The students used -to hire
horses of him; their intercourse with him, and
his use of the term upon all occasions, led them
to adopt it, and they &ye him the name of
Yankee John. He was a worthy, honest man,
but no-conjuror. Yankee probably became a
by-word among them to, express a weak, situ •
pie, awkward person ; was carried from the
college with them when they left it; and it was
in that way circulated and established through
the country (as was -the case in respect to
Ifoblton's choice, by the students at Cambridge,
in Old England,), till, from its currency in New
England, it was at length taken up and un
justly applied to the Neo Englanders in corn-
Mon, es a term of reproach."
A PERSON WITH NOTHING TO DO
➢lost miserable, worthy of prcifound pity, is
such a being. The most insignificant object in
nature becomes a source of envy. The birds
warble on every spray in oectacy of. joy ; the
tiny flower, hidden
,from all• eye, sends forth
its fragrance Of full happiness; the mountain
atream dashes along with a sparkle and mur
mur of pure delight. The object of their
creation is accomplished, and their life gushes
forth in harmonic work. Oh plant 1 oh stream!
worthy of admiration, of worship, to the
wretched idler! Hero the powers ye never
dreamed of, faculties divine, - eternal; a head
to think, but nothing to concentrate the
thoughts ; a heart to love, but no object io
bathe with the living tido of affection; a hand
to do, but no work to be done; talents unox
°raised, capacities undeveloped ;. a human life
thrown away, wasted as water poured forth in
the desert. Birds and flowers, ye are gods to
such a mockery of life! Who Can describe
the fearful—void of such an existence, the
yearning for an objeot,qhe self-roproaoh for
wasted powers, the weariness of daily Bee,
the loathing of pleasure, of frivolity, andPthe
fearful consciousness of deadening life; of a
spiritual paralysis, which hinders all response
to human interests; when enthusiasmi ceases
to arouse, and noble deeds no longer pall forth
the tear, of joy ; when the world „becomes a
blank, humanity a far-off sound, and no life is
left but the heavy, benumbing weight of per
sonal hopeless and desolation. Happier far is
the toiling drudge who coins -body and soul
into the few poor shillings that can only keep
his family in a long starvation; he htUi hope
-unceasingly to light hid, a duty to perform, a
spark of love within him that cannot die ;• and
wretched, weary, and unhuman as hie life may
be, it is of royal worth ; it is separated by the
immeasurable distance of life and death from
the poor, perhapa pampered, wretch "who is
cursed for having no work to do.
GAECIIAN TIIIIIIITN TO CLAY AND WEBSTER.—
In tho (leech House of ftepreeentatives, on the
37th of December laa, Mr. CUARAIONEIIIO;
deputy from Lands, proposed that the donee
should expreee its regret on hearing of the
death of 'two of the greet men of the United
'States, nemely, HENRY CLAY and DANIEL
WznaThtt, and that names he inscribed
on the peribolue Of the. Chamber. .., He deliv
ered a,glowing eulogy on their ohm:Wore, and
referred .most feelingly+ to the reliefwhich this
'country afforded to feeble Greece in-1822.
ROI3ESPIEMIX ' a Guistsrufs.--Among a /ot,
of old lumber recently sold at auction in Par
le, was the guillotine of tho Reign of Torrff ,
and the basket belonging tout, into which" the'
headi of its victims dropped; under , the bloody
syStem of Robespierre, inoluding the head Of
tlMt heartlehi betoher himself.' This machine,
frame wark,ailtling knife, and basket, certified
by a government efflaer, were sold •at
qualm, beforeSu immense• crowd of specita:
tore; for fifty frolic* and directly afterthe sr- '
tioles were comititted'to a bonfire, nada ' l'he'
°beets of the people.—
VOLUME LIV. NO 1
THE SABBATH
A history of all the lives of all the oriminale
ever sentenced, imprisoned or executed, would
show that a disregard of the Sabbath was one
of the leading steps in their .progress to ruin ;
that in company with those who, like them
selves desecrated its time, they had taken the
le Watery etep in vice • that eventually led
them to the commission of crime. And We are
taught to beliefelhat the patentee well as the
child is ,responsible for these negligences,
those sine. How easy a matter it is to destroy
all desire in the child to dishonor this day, if
you only commence in season. First evil im
preseione are easily eradicated—foul weeds
sown in a good soil are quick to germinate,
but aro easily destroyed when they first spring
into existence ; but allow them to grow up and
go to seed, and the fruits thereof are scattered
in. every direction, to multiply. Kind parents
teach yonr.boys to regard the Sabbath. The
lessons taught us in the serene quiet of that
holy day in childhood, though not taught by
a parent—a mother—are still indelibly im
pressed upon our memory as though it were
but yesterday we received them. If they do
not go to church, keep them within doors, that
they may not prove enemies to themselves, and
nuisances to those around them. FeW can
enjoy the quiet of home with a gang of boys
in front of. their dwellings, playing games and
laughing, shouting, cursing and swearing, es
pecially on the Sabbath. "Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy," is ono of the
Commandments.
FINDING A WIFE'S TONOUL-Mr. lip affront
his wife, who to punish him, resolved to act •
dumb when he was present, 'and so well did
site maintain_her.resolution-tbat-a-week-passed---
•and -not a word did she utter - in his presence.
She performed her household duties as usual,
bu6'not a word did she speak. He tried to coax
her out of her whim, but in vain. At last he
tried the following plan to overcome her reso
lution, by working on her curiosity, the most
ungovernable of female propensities, Return
ing one evening fronihis employment, his lady
sat there as usual, mute. The closet was ex
amined, the bed-room, drawers, boxes and
shelves; everything that could be possiby
thought of was overhauled.
His wife was struck With astonishment at
unaocnuntabie•behavior, and so ho pro
ceeds in his search. She became very 'Nerv
ously anxious to find out what he was in snarch
of. What could it be? , She looked in his
face, if possible, to glean from his expression,
the object of his search ; but no go, he was as
sober as a judge.' Ile lifted the edge of the
carpet, looked under the table-cover, and fin
ally approached her chair, looked under it,
and even going so far as to brush her dress
partially aside, as if what ho sought might be
hid there. She could _ stand it no lofiger. She
burst out—
" Bob, what aro you looking for ?"
ile smiled and answered .
" For your tongue, and I'vo found it."
MATRIMONIAL TROUBLES OF CLERGYMEN:—
The Supreme Court, in session at Greenfield,
Mass., has granted a divorce to a lady, the
wife of a clergyman, on the ground of his hay.:
ing deserted her. Sho was allowed $lOO ali
mony per year. The hushandi it is said, de
serted his wife because she charged him
,with
preaching in - bad grammar, and had. advised
him to give up preaching until he knew more.
Another ease is pending before the same tri
bunal, in which the wife of a clergyman prays
for a divorce on the ground of illtreatment and
neglect in sickness.
A WONDERFUL Boy PEDESTRIAN.—There is
in Paris, a boy of 17 years of age, who trivels
long distances without stopping, with incredible
ease. Ile undertook some weeks since, upon
a bet, to walk round the city in four hours,
following the military road, which borders the
fortifications. This road is exactly 48,833
pirde, or 24 miles and two thirds. He accom
plished the distance in 8 liOure and 48 minutes.
fiee•The baneful effects of a populati class
of publications, are illustrated by the'faots e'-
lioitod on the92amination of Chapman, the
%ondish murderer of Mr. and Mrs. Cozzins, in
Massachusetts, last week, that he had been
stimulated to'suoh deeds, by reading the lives
of Dick Turpin and Captain Lightfoot, whose
career he desired to immitato.
• Tun LADIES TURNING Deerons.—A Cincin
nati exchange says: ,4 The,4uocess of Doctor
Caroline Brown in the practice of the medical
profession has already had a sensible effect on
the ladies in the country round about Cincin
nati. Six young ladies, of_good families and
superior education, have applied for admission
to the Eelootio Medical college at the next
term.
, AN ORTLIODOX Doa.—There is a dog at Green
field, Mass., who is striotly sectarian in his ,
religious notions. Ms master is a Baptist,
but the dog is a Congregationalist, and, after
accompanying-his master to the Baptist church
he goes regularly to the Congregational ohurch,
himself, and sleapsiduring the entire . service.
PARISIAN BALLOON FRAT.-Mr. Godard. of
raris, has arrived at the .acme of toronautio
achievment. He has come down in a para
chute, on horseback. Ito desecendedfrom the •
height of about a mile. The pony touched
ground 'without being the least frightened.—
Two years ago, to go upon horseback was a
marvel.
Women EIGHTS.—In Conneotiont thewo
men are going ahead finely. The {Vitiated
Herald ataterkthat a lady of that•villigo called
on a gentlemen to pay a claim ahe had against,
him, which, on his declining ,to do, produced
a
horse •whip. The man retreated into a store
and brought out two friends, but she whanged
away and licked 'om"-all.
Der Senator GEYII, of Miowuri . we are in
formed by the St, Louis lidelligencer, was, at
the latest dates, so seriously hisliome in
Missouri, that his systetia Wail thought to bo
too much impaired to 'encourage any Strong
hoinaOf his Tenovery. " '
ttEgt.. , Afriau•itttetoptod to soiroi • favi.irablo
opportunity a few daya 'strum, ~ ,but his-hold
alippod, and ho fell to the grOund oonaldotahly
igjdred:'