BY H. BOWWAIV.
NEW SERIES.
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GOOD TEMPER.
There's not a cheaper thing on earth,
Nor yet one halt" so (iear ;
'lis worth more than distinguished birth,
Or thousands gained a year.
It lends the day a new delight;
Tis- virtue's firmest shield;
And adds more beauty to the night
Than all the stars may yield.
It maketh poverty content;
To sorrow whi-pers peace;
It is a gilt from heaven sent
For mortals to increase.
It meets you with a smiie at morn,
It lulls you to repose.
A (lower for peer and peasant born,
An everlasting rose.
A charm to banish grief away,
lo snatch the brow from care;
Turns tears to smiles, makes dullness gay
Spreads gladness everywhere;
And yet 'tis cheap as summer dew,
That gems the lily's breast;
A talisman for love, as true
As ever man possessed.
A = 'miles the rainbow through the cloud
When threat'ning storm begin
As music 'mid the tempest loud,
1 hat still its sweet way win*
As springs an arch across the tide;
W here waves conliicring foam.
So come-: this seraph to our side,
1 bis angel ol our home.
hut may this wondrous spirit he
With power unheard before '
I MS charm, the bright divinity i
Good temper—nothing more.
Good temper—'tis the choie.j ejft
I iat woman homeward brings
AT : can the poore.t peasant lilt
lo blis- unknown to kings.
Iron) the Detroit Free Artie oo ]<!•;-
UTTER FROM i,E\. (iS.V,
On Anoiv-A oi/ti/iffism and the Power of
' ongresa in the. Territories.
DETROIT, Arc,. 22, 1
To THE EDITOR OF THE FREE F'i:N<s
sir—The public journals contain a letter da
ha 1 nlsMma' v U cy"",i(f &ft, ll< 1 lU>" mlN h'cjb
;• ri. ivt-s, tv the papers of the day, that "Gen
'•r.tl Cass has approved the platform of the A
inerican order, as proclaimed to the world by
the convention at Philadelphia." I had obser
ved the statements to which Gen. Houston al
ludes,"and had let them pass unnoticed, for it
would he a hopeless tusk to endeavor to correct
all the misapprehensions and misrepresentations
to which it is rnv lot, as well as that ol all oth
er public men, to be exposed iii these days of
party strife. And, indeed, ] could not suppose
that such assertions would deceive any one w ho
had heard or had read my remarks in the Senate
if the United States, 011 the sth ol February last,
upon tiie presentation of the resolutions of the
legislature of Michigan, instiuct inn tlm Senators
of that State to vote for an act of Congress pro
hibiting the introduction of slavery into the Ter
ritories of the United Stat-s. Upon that occa
sion. while declining to comply with those in
structions, I took the opportunity to express
my sentiments in relation to the new political
move which sought to acquire and exercise pow
er bv secret combinations, hound together hv
tlu sanctions of an oath, which, it is said, inade
it the duty of its members to surrender their in
dividual convictions to the expressed will of a
majority of their associates. I then observed:
•• x tran2e doctrines are abroad, and strange or- (
eanizations are employed to promulgate and en- |
force them. Onr political history contains no ,
chapter in the progress of our country as
hiat which is now opening. The questions of
constitutionality and policy, which have been
so long the battle-cry of parties, are contemptu- ;
"iislv rejected, and intolerance, religions ami po
litical, finds zealous, and it may be they will
prove successful, advocates in this middle of the
nineteenth century, boasting with much self
complacency of its intelligence, and in this free
country, founded upon immigration, and grown
prosperous and powerful bv toleration. s * *
Ae want no new parties, no new platforms, no
new organizations, and the sooner these danger
iiis efforts are abandoned, the better will it be
forttj, and for those who are to follow us in this
heritage of freedom."
I might well suppose, after the expression of
th">e views upon the floor of the Senate, and
onuer circumstances of peculiar responsibility,
inat any further action on mv part would be
unnecessary to prove my consistency, as a dis
ciple of the school of Washington, and Jeffer-
V| n, and Madison and Jackson, in the rejection
cfadangerous innovation, inconsistent with all
principles those patriots taught, and which,
•n eiiect, aims to transfer the great political du
} of an American citizen from the light of day,
here it should be exercised in this land of free
dom,to secret conclaves, as to wise and patriotic
' 'cision. But the extract from the letter of Gen.
JUstun lias shown me that these reports have
'eceived more credit than J believed, and
1 is consideration lias induced me thus publicly
{ ' notice and to contradict them. My opin
|,jn% indeed, upon any subject, are but of little
• "sequence, except to myself ; but if they are
v arth referring to, they are worth the trouble
waking the reference a true one.
I have no sympathy with this plan of politi
co! organization—none whatever, neither with
"" u.nans it employs, nor the objects it seeks
attain, its secrecy, its oath bound obligations,
control of the Lailot box, its systems of pro
scription, striking both at political rights anc
religious duties, and its inevitable tendency tc
array one portion of the community against
another, and to carry deadly feuds into every
corner of the land, of which we have just had
a terrible proof, written in characters of bl<x>d
and are doomed to have manv more, if this
movement goes on, fir this is but the first in
stalment of death, and how many others are to
follow and to what extent, and when the last j<
to be paid, and alter what lamentable vicissitudes
is known only to Him who foresees events
and can control them—these characteristics
mark it as the most dangerous scheme which
has ever heen introduced into our country to
regulate its public action or its social condition,
it is the Orangejsm of a republic, scarcely bel
le: in piiuciple than its monarchial prototype
of a republic whose freedom and equality justi
} d* little a* they invfte the introduction of a
machinery whose operation is concealed from
public observation, but whose consequences are
, as clear as they are alarming,
fieri. Houston gives credence to the report that
approvt the '•platform ol the American order
as proclaimed to the world by the Convention
at 1 biladelpliia." I am aware that chants
have been made, both in the name and in some
of the principles oI this new organization. But
these chancy do nnt r e mOV e my objections to
it. its spirit of exclusion and intolerance re
mains, and with it, its evils and its dangers.
It is a Ixjok to which I cannot be reconciled,
whatever addition, whether the new one or the
old one, is offered to me. There is, indeed, one
principle laid down in that Convention which
meets my concurrence, and that is, the declara
tion that "Congress ought m t to legislate up
on the subject or slavery, within the territory
ol the I nited States." J ,-egret, however, that
the body which thus pronounced against the
exercise of the power did not also pronounce a
gainst its existence, hut carefully pretermitted
to use its own words—the expression of any
opinion upon that point. Still, J approve it's
action upon the subject, so lar as it goes. It is
a step in tlie right direction, and [ should re
joice to see it followed by every political party
in our country, it is a step, too, towards tlm
security ot political rights—this opposition to
the legislation of Congress over the internal af
fairs ot the people of the Territories, and, among
otuers, over the relation of master and servant,
or that ot husband and wife, or parent and'
child; lor these matters ol domestic policy are .
subjects Which should be left to the Territorial i
communities, and to divest them ol the power |
to regulate them is an act of unmitigated despo- ,
tisin. I lie negation of all^ower of interference <
by Congress in the internal government of the <
j , • -
rejoiced that,after years of opposition—ol oblo
quy, indeed —it is fast establishing itself upon
impregnable grounds. The misapprehension
which lias prevailed upon this grave subject is
the ino>t extraordinary political event of*my
time. One would naturally suppose that in this
country the dogma of the right ol internal gov
ernment by an irresponsible Legislature over a
distant communify, unrepresented in the ruling
body, would find hut little favor, ami that the
power to establish and put in operation a gov
ernment might well be defended, while the
power to control all the concerns of human life
would lw left without an advocate. The differ
ence is broad and practical, and should be the
dearer to us, as it was the very consideration
urged by our revolutionary lathers in their con
test with tiie mother country, which began by
argument, but ended by arms. It was asserted
as early as 1774-, when the Continental Con
gress declared that the English colonists "are
entitled to a free and exclusive power of legis
lation in their several provincial legislatures,
where their right of representation can alone be
preserved, in all cases of taxation and internal
polity, &c." In that givat struggle, the patriots
who conducted it conceded to the British Par
liament the authority to organize colonial gov
ernments, but denied their 11 ght to touch the in
ternal polity ol the people; and for the support
of that great principle, denied and derided as it
is now,they went to war.
I observe that a highly respectable and intel-
ligent gentleman, Gov. Hunt, ofXew York, in
a letter just published, speaks of the Nebraska
bill as "based on the absurd theory of territorial
sovereignty." I never heard a man support
that measure or approve it fur such a reason.—
Gov. Hunt has mistaken the sneers ol its ene
mies for the view sot its friends. Ihe Nebras
ka bill rests upon no such theory—upon no the
ory at all, but upon the stable foundation of tlm
federal constitution, and of the natural rights of
man.
I know of no one who claims sovereignty for
the Territories. All concede their dependence
upon the I nited States. But within this rela
tion there are mutual rights and duties, and the
questions—what power may Congress lawfully
exercise, and are the people ot the Territories
divested of all rights ?—must be determined, not
by politico-metaphysical considerations arising
out of the attribute, of sovereignty, but by the
constitution of the United States. To the law,
and to the testimony. By that constitution, the
general government is a government, not only
of granted, but of limited powers, and Congress
can exercise no authority which is not given by
the great chatter that brought it into existence.
Let any man put his finger iqion the clause oi
that instrument which confers this power of in
terna! interference, and 1 will abandon the prin
ciple, long as it has been cherished by me.—
And that is many years, as will appear by refer
ence to the Globe of Match 31st, 183*2, which
contains an article written by me, and entitled
"A Review of the Opinion of the Supreme
Court in the Cherokee Case." In that article I
observe that the clause of the constitution au
thorizing Congress "to dispose of and make all
needful rules and regulations respecting the ter
ritory or other property of the United States,
refers to territorial rights, and grants no jurisdic
tion over persons. Among oilier things I say :
" Hie power to dispose of, and make needf
' "j S arit ' re glations respecting the territoi
and other property of the United States, and tl
power to exercise general jurisdiction over pe
sons upon it, are essentially different and ind
pendent. ibe former is general, and is riv*
HI tne clause referred to: the latter is specia
and is found in another clause, and is con fin.
to the federal tract, the District of Columbia
and to places purchased by consent of the Leo
isluture ol the Stale i n which the same shall b<
for the erection of fhrts, "magazines, arsenal:
doc* yards, and other needful buildings." Thi
is the same doctrine subsequent!v advocate!
arid more fully developed in my Nicholson let
Jer. I repeat that this power of internal leg is
lation cannot he found in the constitution,
vain have been the efforts, by prfsssng into it
service a thousand and one expressions in tha
instrument, to prove it to be there; a diversity
or reference which, of itself, furnishes a sfrom
presumption against the authority, even if then
were no other grounds of objection.
Judge McLean, of the Supreme Court oftfv
tilted Stales, in some considerations published
bv lum upon this subject, and to which I have
• L"where referred, well remarked, that "there
IS no specific power in the constitution u-hioh
t authorizes the organization of Territorial <mv-
ernments." /Ie adds, "1/ this power be impli-;
ed from the specific power to regulate the ilis- .-
position of tlw public lands, it must under the
a rue rule, be limited to means suitable to the
end in view. If Congress go bevondThis in the
organization of a T.-rritoiial government, they
art without limitation, and may establish 'a mon
archy. Admit that they may organize a <r,v
eminent which shall protect the lands ptirchas- i
' ar "' provide tor the administration of justice a
among the settlers, it does by no means follow i
loat they may establish slavery." Judge Mc- ,
Lean here brings the Constitution of the" United
States to the support ot the good old revolution
ary doctrine, that the right to establish colonies
or territories does not carry with it the just
power to interfere with and regulate the domes- '
tic concerns of the people who inhabit therm He i
pronounces slavery to be one of these concerns, i
saying that "It is a municipal relation of linii- la
ted extent, and of an equally limited origin. It e
is a domestic relation, over which the federal f!
government can exercise rio control." v
J have never known the time when the Do- Id
mocrafic party was called upon by higher con. p
sideratrons to adhere, faithfully and zealously, to u
tlmrr organization and their principles, than
they are at this day. Our confederation is pas- c
sing through the most severe trial it has yet un- j.
dergone. Unceasing "fforts are making to ex
cite hostile and .sectional feelings, agains? which
(hi ys of this Constitution are nomhereEf. the
continued assaults upon the South, upon its char
acter, its constitutional rights and its institutions, j
and the systematic perserverance and the bitter 1
spirit with which these are pursued, while they
warn the Democratic party of the dancer,
should also incite it to united and vigorous action.
They warn it, too. that the time has come when
all other differences which may have divided it
should give way to the duty of defending the
constitution, and when that great party, coeval
with the government, should he united as one
man for the accomplishment of the work to ,
which it is now called, and before it is too late.
It is the American party, for it has neither sec
tional prejudices nor sectional preferences, and
its care and its efforts extend wherever the con
stitution of its country extends, and with equal
recard to the richts and interests of all. 1 be
lieve the fate of this great republic is now in its
hands, and, so believing, 1 earnestly hope that
its action will be firm, prompt and united, yield
ing not one hair's breadth of its time-honored
principles, and residing to the last the dangerous
efforts with which we are menaced: and, if so,
the victory of the constitution i doubt not will
be achieved.
I a;r., sir, respectfully your
Obedient servant,
LEWIS CASS.
A TerriSle Tragedy.
We find the following account of a terrible
tragedy, which recently took place at Lyons, in
the letter of the French correspondent of the
London Literary World:
A frighful case of hydrophobia is described in
the Lyons journals, which, if the facts are cor
rectly stated, would go to prove that this fatal
malady can remain in the system as long as four
years without development—a much longer pe
riod, I believe, than has ever been authentically
shown to have taken place between the injury
and its consequences: but there is some doubt
as to tlm real nature of the disease, though un
fortunately none as to the dreadful catastrophe
which took place. A young farmer named
Peyron, about twenty-five years ol age, in the
department of the Rhine, was married a few
weeks ago to a neighbor's daughter. Ihe young
couple had been long attached to each other:
hut the parents ol the bride had refused their
consent on account of strangeness of conduct
occasionally observed in the young man, who
otherwise was a most eligible match, his parents
being comparative!v well off, and the son him
self generally of exemplary good conduct. His
passion for the girl became at length so violent
that lie declared he could not exist without her,
and meditated suicide: went to thp parents ol
the young woman, and after some entreaty,
prevailed upon them to agree to the match.
Young Pevron at once recovered his spirits,
the young woman was delighted, and the mar
riage was celebrated with ali the rustic pomp
and ceremony common in that part of the prov
inces, concluding with a grand dinner and the
inevitable ball. The gayeties were kept up
until daylight, when the company separated.—
The new married couple were lodged in one
wing of the farm-house, separate from the main
, building: but, in some time after they had re
■ tired, cries were heard from >hp nuptial cham
ber. At fust they were unnoticed; but at
Freedom oflaght and Opinion.
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BEDFORD, PA. Ff MORNING, SEPT. 7, 1855.
Ingth they increased to fearful shrieks, and the I
jther and mother, alarmed, hastened to the i
torn, followed by ttit* farm servants. The cries
jere bv the time they arrived changed to j
tarcely audible groans from the poor girl ; and,
ii breaking open the dooi, she was found in the
ironies of death—her bosom lorn open and la- i
rrated in the most horrible manner, and the '
Retched husband in a lit of raving madness and I
tovered with blood, having actually devoured a !
prtion of the unfortunate girl's breast.
J A crv of'horror burst forth from ail prevent, j
jid he was dragged from the room after a most
Anient resistance, it taking no less than six men
i hold flint down. Aid was instantly sent for:
id before the doctor could reach the spot the
hhappv victim was no more. Young t'eyron
jas put under treatment, and a straight-waist
t.at was attempted to be put upon him ; but his !
•niggles and screams were such that the doctor, i
nprehensive lest he should expire in the assis
• tits' hands, ordered them to desist. The imfor- j
inate man had by this lirtw become so weak •
•.at he was easily conveyed to b< d, and died at !
>ur o'clock in the afternoon ol the same day j
ithout having for one moment recovered Ins
ansciousness. It was then recollected, in
iswer to searcliing questions by a physician.;
■tat somewhere abuut five years previously he
ad lieen bitten by a strange dog, and taken th<-
sual precautions against hydrophobia. Hut al
>ough the dog was killed, it had never been ;
itisfactorily shown that it was really mad : and :
r ill consequences resulliiig front the bite, his i
ienrts concluded that it would come to notb- j
lg, and the incident had been altogether fdr
fptten.
i It was considered by the doctor that the cir
nm.stanc.es preceding the marriage and the t x
itment of the occasion itself had roused the
itent virus, which fiad so long laid dormant in
be blood, and led to the terrible outbreak of
enzy which had ended so tragically. On the
iedicul report being laid before the authorities,
he extraordinary nature of the case naturally
ixcited much attention and considerable cou-
Yoversv the opinions ol the heads of the pro
ission being, after lull inquiry, that there was
in hydrophobia whatever in the case, but root
ed insanity, and that it was shown to exist by
the occasional aberrations of the unfortunate
young man, as before mentioned : and that his
diseased temperament and too violent passions,
powerfully acted on by (lit* circumstances, led
lo the fata) consequences narrated above. This
-.ad catastrophe has given rise to a fierce medi
cal controversy in some of the professional
journals on the nature of hydrophobia, from
which it would appear that, although instances
rsf remarkable cures of this frightful malady are
known in i ranch.
Correspondence of the Buffalo Daily llepiiblic.
A WELL TOLD STOKY.
PGRRV- VIU.AIM, V. Y., Aug. 13, LS5F>.—
I his part of the country is wild with excitement.
The immense snake, with various descriptions of
which the papers have been crowded for two
weeks back, is at length captured. You have
undoubtedly heard all the particulars of his ap
pearance, the many doubts and sneers as to the
existence of a lusus natural of tiiis character pi
a lake but tour miles long and nut quite three
quarters ot a mile in width. At any rate it
lever has been doubted. Daniel Smith, an old
whaleman, came here about two weeks since,
after hearing of the appearance of the creature,
aid while here had the good fortune to see him.
He immediately sent to \evv York for an old
shipmate of his and his "irons," and on Friday
hst both arrived with harpoons, cordage and
everything necessary to caich a monster.
.Many strangers who were stopping at the
\ f alker Hon se in this city, attracted to this part/
o the country by the excitement in regard to
t|e monster, ar.d who had obtained no glimpse
q him, laughed at them for their pains; but
ley kept on with their preparations in spitefft
steers and jeers. Boats have been stationed
o'er the lake lor upward of right days, and the
ho whalemen had a sharp look-out kept all
tje time besides watching themselves.
I his lake has several outlets, th" -largest of
illicit runs through this village and finally
j implies into or becomes Gejiesee river. Jn the
vanity of this outlet he was seen first, and on
Sin day came to the surface, displaying about
tjrty feet of his lone",-sinuous body, remaining,
hwever, but a very few moments. The boats
vere on tile watch all Sunday, night. The
I V'alernen had ItiOO'iwt'of strong whale Hue
i their boat, the end of wffich ran ashore and
fctened to a tree.
On .Monday morning everything Was on the
tprt. The shhfes were lined with towiliVpeo
; and strangers, and over body seemed much
, tcited. About nine o'clock the animal made
| f appearance between the whaleman's boqt
sd the shore, revealing twenty or thirty feet of
'■ j k length. He lay quiescent uj>on the surface,
hen the whaleman's boat moved slowly to
irds him—.Mr. Smith, of Covington, poising
, Lilly-iron in the air, (a Lilly-iron, is n patent
. : Irpoon, a heavy cutting knife hejng attached
. I the middle to the end of the iron by a rivet, j
f soon qs the knife enters the body of an ani- ;
t kl this moveable Made turns at right angles in j
ie wound, and being entirely blunt and flat on !
|-j jo-side it is impossible to extricate it except j
: | cutting out.) When they had got about ten I
ft from the animal the iron whistled through ,
? f air and went deep into his body.
- In a moment, the whole length of the mon- j
i I ir was lashing the air, at a bound revealing his
-1 io!e enormous length, ami then making the
• : iter boil in every direction, be described rap
a foaming circles and arcs of circles, with such .
- jwiltness the eve could scarcely follow him.
e j ten he darted oft' in another direction towards
air upper part of the lake, the suddenness of his
- -jvement almost dragged the hciat under vva
r jf. Line was gradually given him, and, afipr
it ij* space of half an hour, it wqs plain that his i
strength was almost exhausted. The whale
men then came ashore and gradually hauled the
line in. The body was within fifty feet of the
shore, when renewed life appeared to have been
given him, and with one dart he carried neatly
all the line out. This was his last great effort.
He was slowly dragged asshore, amid the wild
est excitement" and tumult ever known in the
vicinity of silver lake. Four or five ladies
fainted on seeing tlie. monster, who, although
ashore, was lashing his body into tremendous
folds, and then straightning himself out in his
agonv, with a noise and power that made the
very earth tremble around him. The harpoon
had gone entirely through a thick muscular part
of him about eight feet irom his head.
The snake, or animal, is fifty-nine feet nine
incites in length, and is a most disgusting look
ing creature. A thick slime covers his hideous
length, a quarter of an inch thick, which, after
being removed, is almost instantly replaced by
exudation. The body of this creature is varia
ble in fcize. The head is about the size of a full
grown calf's: within eight feet ol the head the
neck gradually swells up to the thickness of a
foot in diameter, which continues for fifteen
inches, and then tapers down the other way,
constantly increasing in size, however, as it re
cedes from the head, until the body ol the mon
ster has a diameter of over two leet in the cen
tre, giving a girth ol over six feet. It then ta
pers off toward the tail, which ends in a tin
which can be expanded in the shape ot a bin
until it has three feet across, or closed in a
sheath. Along the belly , from the head to the
tail, are double rows ol fins, a loot in length
—not opposite each other, but alternately plac
ed.
The head is a most singular affair. Ihe eyes
are very large, white, staring and terrific. At
tached to edge of the upper and lower
litis, which are like those of a human be
ing, a transparent film,or membrane is seen,
which, while it protects the eye ottbe animal,'
i does not interfere with its vision. He has no
nostrils or gills, apparently. Ihe mouth of this
serpent, or whatever it may be, is underneath
—is almost a counterpart ol the mouth of a fish
called a sucker, possessing the same valvular)
i powei, pursed up—but it can be stretched so as
: to take in a bod v the diameter of a foot or a foot
and a half. .No teeth can be discovered. A
hard bony substance extends in two parallel
lines* around the upper and* lower part ot the
head. His color is a dusky brown on the sides
and hack, but underneath the belly it is ola dir
ty white. It is sinuous like a snake, but has a
longils back, and on each side, a row of hard
substance, knob-like in shape—the largest rais
ed four inches from the surface of the body, ex
; and before night Hiincfrecls and hundreds of peo
pie from the neighboring towns and villages had
collected to see this wonder. The animal still
! has the harpoon in him. It passed through the
1 muscular portion of the back, and touched no
mortal part. He lies in the water, an ingenous
contrivance of ropes having been placed on him
while lie was on shore, keeping his body in a
curve, preventing him from getting away or
proving dangerous. He can use but his head
and tail, with which he occasionally stirs up
; the water, except when he rears it up as if look-'
i ing around, and presents a most fearful aspect.
W hen rearing he expands his mouth and exhib
its a cavity, blood-retl, most terrible to look up
on. Ashe does this, air rushes forth with a
! heavy, short puff, I have no more time to
write yon. The hotel is fall, and people have
a great difficulty in getting a meal at the village.
Some of them go up to Castile to get their meals.
The whalemen contemplate keeping the mon
ster in fiis present position until an agent of
Mr. Bariium arrives, who has been telegraphed.
He is expected here to-night. Very truly* your
ph iend and subscriber. o.
A Den of Kuow-\ofhigs.
7 lie Morris County, (N. J.,) Depiocraiic Ban
ker, says:
"A den of Know-Nothings is
!of chickens shut up for market. When the
' right time comes the coop is shut up—Mr. Pres
ident covers the top entirely over—leaves an
j air hole in the bottom—takes his dark lantern
j —goes sometimes to the nearest and sometimes
; to the highest market, and disposes of" them al
-1 together. When the bargain is complete, the
I money counted and pocketed, then, if
they are brought to light, counted, and turned
into the possession of the purchaser : if Know
; Nothings, then Mr. President savs: 'Brethren,
the good ot the Order and the obligations you
have taken require you to vote for Mr. ,
(the purchaser.')
To keep your obligation, you must not go
from this, y;ur place of concealment, until hon
est men are jn their beds, and until night's sable
mantle will screen you from detection in ma
king your retreat. Take the tickets I now give
vou, and on election day go the polls, vote ,
th ein and nqolheis. Co singly and noiselessly. !
Let no one s*e the ticket I now give you, nor
must you tell any one that you are going to ;
vote this ticket. II your former political friends,
not members of this order, offer vou their tick- !
ets, receive them, and by your conduct, if not
by your words, induce them to believe you are
going to vote rjs you formerly voted. If they j
draw you into conversation upon that subject
calm and put to rest any suspicions they may
have as to your fidelity to your former party: j
remembering, as I trust you will, that in no
way can your solemn obligations be observed I
and kept without voting this ticket, nor with- I
out keeping all, not of our order, entirely igno- j
rant and without suspicion of our objects and !
movements.
I now dismiss you until Friday evenino* next,
after election, when you will again meet here
to consider the result of tbeaefection, and to im
pose proper punishment upon such members as
may so tar neglect my present instructions as
not to vote this ticket."
TEBMS, S3 PEB YEAR.
VOL. XXIV, NO. 4.
"The brethren, of course, obey instructions.
The purchaser gets the votes he paid for, and
Mr. Manager has the quid pro quo—or feels sat
isfied he will get it. This is the way the Or
der has been, can be, anu will be used. All
those 'Americans' who wish to make merchan
dise of themselves, and have their votes sold
tor the profit of others, like calves in the sham
ble, had better join the Order at once."
Train the Washington L'nion.
Another Kuow-Aotliinff Outrage.
The atrocities committed by the know-noth
ings of Louisville have recently been feebly im
itated by the Know-Nothings of Sidney, Ohio.
The following letter appears in the Ohio States
man of the 22d instant :
SU>.\EV, Shelby Comity, Ohio, )
August 19, }
DEAR Sin: Last night, about 11 o'clock,
tin* Catholic frame church was made a pile oi
ruins. A keg of powder was put under the
building, with a train scattered along the street,
which was fired with burning shavings. There
is no doubt the incendiary deed was commiled
hv a set ol Know-Nothing rowdies, such as
have just wrought devastation in Louisville.
I trust, lor the welfare of our country, that
the better class of the American people will
soon arouse to a proper sense of what this aw
ful spirit of blind persecution for opinion's sake
is fast leading to. Ihe better class ol Know-
Nothings here appear to look with disgust upon
these terrible proceedings ; but who can tell
whether thev are sincere. The real friends of
religious liberty in our community charge,
without reservation, that the destruction of the
| Catholic church here is one ol the lruits of the
Knovv-Nothitig crusade.
The blowing up of the Catholic church will
ido for a commencement. The election in Ohio
i takes place on the 9th of October, which will
the Knovy-.Nothings of Sidney
Munitv of exhibiting their proficieucy in sucV
light entries as murder and arson, byway of'
enforcing their favorite doctrine, that "none bu
; Americans shall rule America. "
While Know-Nothings are blowing up Cath
olic churches, and shooting and burning
men, women and children, it would be as well
to pause a moment for the purpose of ascertain
ing whether any retaliatory steps have been la
ken by those who profess that faith which is
now the special object ol the murderous perse
cution of Know-Nothingism.
The Norfolk correspondent of the Baltimore
k American (Know-Nothing in its proclivities,)
\rfites as follows : /
"The praise ol Mr. G Keeffe, the CatholTc
| pastor of St. Patrick's church, is on the lips of
|_ .. oo well as Catholics
! untiring exertions in nursing and attending to
j the wants of the sick and dying of every class
and persuasion."
Another correspondent of the same paper
: writes as follows :
"There are five Sisters of Charity nursing at
the hospital, and from what you know of these
self-sacrificing and truly pious women, vou can
readily imagine that the sick lack no comfort
that indefatigable and judicious attendance can
administer. Indeed, by the establishment of
the hospital, and "he attendance there of the
Sisters, not only an immense amount of suffer
ing has been spared the poverty-stricken crea
tures who have been taken there, but manv a
life has been saved for which there would have
been no hope otherwise."
The New York Express, a leading organ of
the I*now-Nothings, bears the following testi
mony ;
"Ail honor to the noble-hearted women who
stand bv the bedsides of the sick snd dying in
j the fever-stricken cities of Norfolk and forts
i mouth ! All honor to Miss Andrews, and the
j Sisters of Charity, who have left, or are feav
: ing, a wholsome atmosphere, to brave the storm
i of death there tor the sake of doing good ; but
j shame—eternal shaine—upon those false Chris
tian professors whose craven hearts have urged
them to seek safety in flight !"
We will not designate the class of "lalse
Christians" justly obnoxious tQ the censure of
the Express, but we will indulge a faint frope
that the piety, zeal, and self-sacrificing spirit of
Catholic clergymen and Catholic Sisters ot
Charity, so beautifully and noblv displayed
throughout the whole of the prevailing epidem
ic in Norfolk and Portsipooth,may he the means
of securing in at least two cities of the Union
the safety of the persons, dwellings, chur
ches oi Catholic citizens.
A CATHOLIC CIII UCU BLOWN Ur.—The Cath
olic Church at Sidney, Shelby County, Ohio,
was blown up by powder on the night of the
18th. We copy the following from a letter to
the Ohio Statesman:
Our village has been in much confusion since
yesterday morning, caused by the blowing up of
the Catholic church on Saturday night.
It was one of the boldest and most daring acts
1 that I have known, being done on Saturday
j night about 10 o'clock, the church standing on
ly the width of a street from a dwelling house.
EXPRESSIVE IF NOT ELEGANT. —Gen. Geiger.
!one of the speakers at the late K. N. Conven
tion in Ohio, must have been greatly disgusted
at the nomination of Chase &. Co., by the pre
-1 vious Convention. The Reporter says—"He
! compared the nomination of the 13th of July to
, a splendid stew, made of fine game—squirrels,
j rabbit*, woodcocks, quails, turkeys, &.c.—and
some One coming along and pitching a skunk
into the pot: hide, hair, smelling bottle and all."
A WISE ANSWER.—T'You must not play with
that little girl, my dear," said an injudicious
parent. "But, ma, I like her: she is ? good
little girl, and I'm sure she dresses as pyetty as
I and she has lots of toys." "I can't help
•tfklfmy dear," responded the foolish mother :
"her father is a shoemaker." "But I don't
play with her father—l play with her; shy
ain't a shoemaker."