The , Democnttic Watchman.
BELLEFINTI43, PA
FRIRAY MORNINk, JANUARY 3,1858
CARRIER'S ADDRESS TO THE PA
TRONS, OF THE DEMOCRATIC
.WATCHMAN..
Ajrain we bail the New Year's natal day,
e Alen helm Idthe Old Year pass away,
NAGA with Ili weighs - - tiT Vey
With care: ~
Ohne with It too, our country's sad despair,
For brightly gloW — the that once were
While joyous voices shookthe •ictor's hymn !
Come! let us, looking on the fearful post,
The future's horoscope essay to oast,
And wisdon taughtrby sad oxperihnce, lobo
For time to come s t guaranteo from pain.
What say the stars 7 Shall we behold in
oresie
, The preoious storm; of pleasant visaged
POl6Oll ?
Be. sweet Proiperity, that maiden bland,
Crowned the bright Queen of our united
land?
A people gathered in the bonds of love
? Anxious by deeds, their friendship's seal t ,
prove?
i:Pc'stesoci" of these shall war with fiery mood,
Beek last hot hate to quench In pools er blood
And With,_ its biasing brand, to madly,
1100114.7-
Our bleeding ootratry to perdttion'e verge
Thank God, not so' The sky grows °lam.
awe
That once was clouded, passed-fh our dia
They who were sleeping hate awoke to how
That yet Democracy defies each foe—
That yet its brawny arms have rtrengtlf to
wield
The old-time weapons, that it acorns to
yield ;
Though round it rave the dastard,' who
would tear
From its proud fotm,the laurels resting there
What or the night 7 Despair on every side,
A ghoulish bridegroom sought his shrinking
bride,
While waiting patriots trembled with the
fears
Borst ef`tbe fertile womb of war's saditaars
But breaks the morn! East hies away des
pair
To the dark refuge of its native lair,
No mural to fright the hearte that sought
stay
The blomt:' band so mealy raiaeor-to slay
Let the mu•' tyratits who—so they hut gain
Their eud-- re naught for right or virtue
laio,
Take warnin: , r , km the past' the fearful
'Put
Loaded with guilt—nnot in the remise" east,
Where truth sits viatehtu I of the rising
- flame-- '
The bloody record of their vaunted shams
While mittlnese ruled ihe people, there up
rope
all its Indeutinneam, that worm of fuck
To Astli and honor, blear eyed - BIGOTRY:-
Nurtured beneath New England's chilly
y
That fur a ''one Mai" would virtue Pell,
Or Heaven treneficin llltn n Meting hell
Long railed it o'er the land—bloated with
pride
It howled that uothing could its course be
tide, -
That in tts power nueuro no xtorm eau
break
Its arch's keystone, of its timbers shako,
Rut P ion arose, that gallant ho+t of Itlght
Arrayed and armored for the veining fight,
Which rushinrto the charge, watt blow on
blow,
Bent to ttte earth Ire erewhile boeeting foe,;
Mange., rowel aloft her potleruu. club of
ft wag,
And all ale lacd reeponded to the jar
Then reeled old TOAD, then KOLAT with
dismay
Heard how had gone the fortunes of the day,
Then Cam like one who rennet keen his
Test
Bent has weak knees, ee'n on the judge'■ seat,
Then STANTON,W ild with undisternided rage,
With ANDY sought in bailie to engage,
Whil• rose at oar. from the why.lii.thstenl
Of trembling radicals one long drawn
"pheugh"'
'Dealt CALIFORNIA too upon the barks,
Of negro worshipers, Its rousing whanks,
Till like Apollyon by-the Pilgrim bet.
Bach one sought safety in a quick retreat . •
But when with Penn's grand state, New
' ,York
Added their torrents to the rushing tide
Already rolling as if bent to sweep
The whole black horde into oblivion deep,
Theo execrations blistered every tongue,
That Sambo's praise, ant Freedom's dirge
had sang!
Oh, glorious triumphs ' that presage the
doom
Of throes Who wrapped their country In the
gloom
Of doubt. and debt, and sought—and not in
vain—
The South to letter with a despots chain ;
ttts blessed ! and glory in the hoar
Tlest!Reff'ved the magic of thy living power'.,
We had our chart—laid out by wiser men
?ban haunt the shades of A holition't den,
Whieh followed would, despite opposing
,fate,
Havesafety brought unto the ship of State,
But when a herd of bigots,- -bigot sent,
In deeds of hate fled (or their passions vent;
And led by blather from the men who
sought,
In bloodshed profit, and from misery
wrought •
Their badge of power, when men like these
have place
Within the Senate, who but sees disgrace
Marked for oar portion ! who, that trembly
• not,
Whoa on oar honor rests such fearful blot
Bah I What Is liberty to those who know
Naught of Its beauty—blinded to its glow ?
Who pledged by gave, long ages past, to be
The faithful bondsmen of a race born free,
Fulfilled their m ission till by devils driven—
New Egland's robber herds usurped their
heaven;
Taught those to U. and steal who stood be-
fore
Ia by. and intriaithfo Ito the ours ! •
Hoe Pnisaars leirought aalvation for the race
And proved his Mamma for a hiders place ?
Aye, If relief from labor be a boon
When want must follow—let mankind at
111.110
Their harp. to sing his Kailas! Samsun 's
ring—
The oountry'a cursed Judas's—and fling
Along their path the branches that pro.
claim
" Here ride the motes of our country'■
. - shame."
Aad what bare beteg their victories 1 do !ea
Their degrade** wow, who once were/rei !
Deprived of every aerre4l right:L:4l*ft.
Of that Which WU, 11101* inurteut•haii-ild
Xbi oih thatgave them food—eUndemned
to kneel
As serv ile doves, at despoti iron beet,
They feel the horrors of war's feartul blight,
And hopeful, wall the dowolog of the light
T hat mod thole twhiwi
Tile bls=ight of IfeeedlotoWootilag•day.
to that whi4 pat sagsoe boner•
That WO *peog ii #ig the arkow, groPe?
That rots the • le Whew, white, swelling
Ogee sptoaalo witch the wlae wor'ld ' s chagg•
log gales
That clogs the wheels of industry, and
bears
Aloft a-ktaxsaitr stained-with crime.= Iowa?
That give to.deenlationm graßp,lhe plains
Where plenty roved, the queen of het do
mains?
That on the poor, taxations weary load,
Piles, while applying wants destroying,
goad ?
That gluts the firth, while they who work
Mitt strive
Doubly, to win the food that keep' alive
Their helpless little •nee? If this can be
A boon in truth, let every freeman's knee
Bend to Be gainer., and by their about' attest
That tyrants aro of rulers all, the beet l
Down with the White man' Let ?he negro
•
soar,
And they who were the mongers. kneel before
'Their quandom stares; then Liberty indeed
'Shall at her alters foot a viotim bleed
Then shall enlightenment and 66111.1C0 fly
The course; or stricken In Coluini , ia die:
And that dear soil, which Ly our father's
For years has glowed beneath the warming
Of Peace and Progress, /11.41 the Ilaytian's
land
B• •made s desert 'neath war's wasting
brand'
• • • • I
Deepite of nlllOOlO6 little hope remains
Vol. those now rtruggling la Tnen STEVEN',
ohainA,
But not .p A nn, nor "reeonstuotion's might
-
Rests the raJtt power that yet shall banish
night
from the horivon of. the suffering South,
Or swatter verdure where now burns
drouth!
Thal : power is with the reopi.r., and ere
long—
Mark well the propheey—one ratopon
song-- •
A song to thrill the world with Joy, nhall
To the Tar 7Cnitla of our country's sk iew ,
kr burden this :—" The white !nun now
free"
For re-rthil t itehol ryes DftmOCßAcl.
Even prim Boston. metamorphosed is,
And for the 11 , 111 ell has dotted its Yankee
pit,
Boston, the home of rare or eolnumn
Of men in petticoats and trow,ered women,
Where witches once on broomsticks rode
the air,
And amorous 1ief101,44 wooed their wives
with prayer'
Oh' change 1»-he ndtrOted ' the more that
•
wale
;lad hoped to will the battle they but e won ,
The vilest sinners may repent, we Xll4,lff r
"And scarlet wool be washed as white as
wnow,.
But what cons erteil Boson ' What eoulil
win eo
Their hearts no steeped in every iam's vin,
Who taught by PUILLIVN awl by st arae
nuti,ed,
The bond,' they wore ro daringly hate
burst I
Perchance, like 14liers, they became die
mmyeil
In counting WET the profile of their trade,
b or mithing is there to convince the will,
Like empty meal tuba, or an empty tut',
And they who scorn all other reasons, may
When money e abort, he quickly brought to
bay
If all true e , nve,rts be, tit,4l opeed the hour
When every li , rrt Milan own great reasons
power,
And the fawn. who has o ruled the roast.
Ito to the devil tram their place• to—ed
While they who worshipped b•Nno, nick
with
Pale with ,li•guat at mention of hi, name
Hail RO ' act may thy advent pro% o
The upentnir of an ere made leer lore,
Love leer out owe, of it :m0... v -1.1/e [nen wtth
Lore
The old worlds knowledge to i\ e new worlds
shwa
And reared where ones, the tercet •read
shade
Tlie mighty pyrramids of art and trade
To'all our gatrunts poisce and happy lives
Obedient n no and daughters, happy wile.,
All goys that halo life and crown with gold
The brown of youth, and glorify the old '
For us, and for our future, let our past
Be held &pledge! while life with us shall
last,
As we have always done, so shall we do,
Ever to promise and perforinan re true'
True to ourselves, eur Country, and our Cod
Beady to lipase the lash Of wield thescod,
An duty bids, till tune that work. decay
To kindred dust con,igns our perished clay
Patrons and friends the carrier hid■ adieu
To wale.e doggerel, as well as you,
And it" when this, his annual song, you Sean,
You think it poor, just hest it ir you can
CHAR/AS It. M./LAN
Jau. 11868
Alt utll6ll or IiTANTUACB IeTIMII.-.-
Mr. John W. Keyes, formerly editor
of the Circleville Democrat, departed
his tile on the 25th of November, in the
insane asyliim in this olty This unfor
tunate gentleman u another added to the
long list of brave, good men who hare
been murdered by inches by the Radical
party Mr Keyes wan the editor of an
independent newspaper, which dem:lli
ad liberty with fearless manhood. Fur
this he was dragged itfl to prison and
treited so brutally that reason Loitered
from her throne, and be became a rav
ing menisci. All effpris to restore him
failed ; he sank down inchildish
imbeotl
ity into the grave. His family, left dis
consolate and broken-hearted,and crush
ed-with ty ranCastroke. He was impris
oned during, the infamous reign of David
Tod—under-the terror of Mr. Lisoolnl
dynasty. lie is gone ; uo more will the,
harsh grate of the prison door fall upon
his ear ; no longer will the shriek of his
family pierce hie ear, nor the rude
touch of the sentinel drive him away.
Ile has gone to meet his pereeouNro,
Columbus (Ohio) Critic
—Maynard, it white negro or Testi
pet .and one of Rrownlow s Rump ruf
fians, has introduced a resolution, that
negroee ought to be appointed on our
diplomatic corps abroad. Tttie would
giro us au odorous representation altd:, -
tether in foreign landti—of negroes and
such white menus would °consent torerve
with negroes ! One instinctively slope
his nose at the bare mention of such a
crowd.
Gloomy 'Protipeeta for the Laborer.
i te
-.DVie liter" nearly s , % 1,0 A,
_ e eatiktr lif dtatts i ts
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• ~.. ger t ftba - Ivo! ; 4 ~,
. k t : u .
o label., w •so 4 ,,0 ' •
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late eamOlt ot i 'ew i l
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eg tater, it .e ", . .n ~ .
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oyetset 1 "Oa ' f t , 1 ' n
la saiipekvikkil ti ' I iet 1 4 I ''.
The leading *anti , es MI . 001 kg
thele intoelaind iiikit fficallliattatilfor
a mechanic or working man to obtain
employment of a,ny kind : In ibat pity
-alone more than-fifieenhandra4faboring
men are unemployed, many of 4t - Om de
pend on flair (Lily wages to support
their families." In Pittsburg, the pro
prietors of several of the glass histories
have closed their works until their em
ployers agree to aleduction of wages.
Some of the factories in Pelawars coun
ty, Pa.. have reduced the wages, and
the rumor indicates a further reduction
or stoppage. The workmen in the ma
chine works at liordontown have been
discharged, and thrown out ofemploy
meat. The Louisville Journal says that
t here are-pore people out o f employment
in that oily at present than was ever
known before
We might extend this oheptee to al
most any length, and tell not the half.
And yet with these fasts staring in their
faces the mongreliats persist in their
dastructive scheme of riftionstruction,
destroying the interest of the south And
business and commerce at the north.
Fifty thousand men and women who
have been accustomed to earn their liv
ing by daily toil are now out of employ
ment in New York says the World.—
.e — Tr fire - bilertiffiti — Cagentrt
dollars per week for each person. Five
hundred thousand dollars, which these
met, and women in mass are accustomed
to receive every Saturday night, is
therefore withheld from them In the
meantime tboy must lave. Thrie who
are members of trades unhefind that
the union funds are altogeth r too small
to afford them much teller A few who
have laid up a - Portion of their earnings
during the past summer against a rainy
day,find that it never rains but It pours.
that a good deal more than these
savings will be required to shield them
from want The la* number who have
spent their all. of money are compelled
to pawn whateveradispettsiblo clothes or
rinkets they hive "'rapt, to mortgage
their services next springier immediate
loans, to resort to every conceivable ex
pedient in order that they and others
dependent upon them may be spared
from de.peratioe.:, the poor-house, and
wrong-doing., for the sake of bread and
household fires. Some yollog men and
young 'seinen are provided with homes
among their relati•es The last are the
only blest
This condition of the industrial classes
will gel train...bad to worse Very soon
NO Khali hear of workingmen's and work
ingwomen's- meetings Long proces
tinny, carrying flags with Mullets poe
tical, laconic, indignant, and rerhaps
threatening, will parade through the
thoroughfares. l'roperty owners will
.begin to feel uncomfortable. Meetings
of another class, presided over by
dts
tinguished citizens, will in turn be held
at ewer Institute, the Academy, and
elsewhere Temporary measures of re
Hof will be adopted, and citizens at
large will be called upon to contribute.
There will be soup kitchens, lodging
houses rented and thrown open, visits
of members of societ tes to places of suf
fering, and instanc e s of manly charity
on the port of individuals All this
will not alleviate more than half the
evil. Crime will Increase, Just as it has
in winteri past, when the state of affairs
was not quite so ugly as the present
prospect. Thieving, burglary, highway
Lobbery, 'argon, and murder—these last
Sresortrit of people who are willing to but
cannot woqi, and have au equal aversion
to starve or to beg, are the inevitable
revenges that the city will bring lir ln
itself for lack rf instant precaution
Ilven prompt measures now cannot
wholly sufice. But something may he
I done to keep the wolves, Hunger and
Crime, at bay --Er
The Plunder and the Dlii f trihes of the
Mongrel
The Tribune, and other Mongrel ahreis
of the extreme African complexion, are
fiercely indignant that so many 41,0
have shared In contracts and enriohed
themselves out of the pleretous pluwd.
of the Ilticeln party, have al last gone'
back on theist new friends and voted.
with The Democrats at the late election...
There is a sharp passage in olassical
history which exactly touches the case
It is to a letter of Philip to his son Al
f xander. as follows "Plague on it,
what consideration led you into the hope
that yew could imagine that they whom
you have co'rrupted with money would
be faithful to you The men of whom
the Tribune complains Vat into the
Mongrel parbps, for what they could
..make." They adopted the plunder of
the party without adopting its prmeipier
Tbe,principles of that party are perfect
ly abhorrent to vast crowds who have
been running with the plunder machine*,
with the greatest apparent seal, for the
last five or six years. It is the silliest
delusion that could possibly take poe
session of the minds of the Tribune folk
to suppose that the swarms 'who have
been .voting with ahem during teeir rev
olution hare any faith in or respect for
their doctrines. Ccuild they make mou
ey out of the operrAion, they, would see
every negro skinned and lend a
hand at the business Now that the
froth of the excitement has passed away.
and they are let down upon the hard
bottom of Mongrel politics, they make
off as fast as ties from too near a pion
lenity to a hot ehdrel Instead of get
ting batik those who deserted -this, fall,
greater crowds are yet to leave them.
It is not enough to say that the princi
ples of the 'Mongrel party are unpopular
with the ma . they are odious and
detested to the last degree. The next
PreeiJent lid election will give their doc
trines such a trying that there will he
nothing but a few scraps lift in the hot
torn of the oaldron —Day So o k
To WHOM 0011 THIS GOVER
Lobo the white man. }tibia gives e
portion of hie minting to suppoWirolli
maintain its credit. or to the negro, who
la fed ind olmhea by the 'Freedmen'.
Bureau. for the support of which nearly
a hundred millions have - already been ap
propriated by Congress? •
"What Shall be Done for. New Eng
_fond.
. 7 • I:7' r i
Under thia ,,,, t he;Then , ergtat i
nuttiiii J 044 , nlii 3 Os , dok
-1
full of isart'fte * d dOtatAllintei; Ilit4l
to read, mid, indri pitiful 0 centantplate.
It sq.!, c „.I k ,4
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tit nO ishit , ol 4 .lhe edittatry is Itlitastry
at UAW•ubD,lhapblktio anretaiinetli
tive iii i it" ln
ItrOestm/tiilit,lnd theti• jotnt
producti so poorly poi(' for, an hero in
New England at the present time. The
epeeialtlea 41 oorzakilled :tatrturi sihreh
were once it souree of wealth to the cap-
itallsts and profltable-einployment to the
people, are now a drug in the ; market,
soil refuse to go into consumption at any
price. They are relatively much cheap
er than the agricultural products of the
West an& South, or the raw. mineral
roductn ofthe Mddle Staten.
Not only- are our ninnufactories closed,
or running on shortaime, and our me
chaniem and laboring uken • by theinsands
thrown out of employment, but our coin
mereinl classes are suffering immense
losses from the stagnation of trade and
ithrinkage
.in merchandise values. The
litter are obliged to "early" not only
the products of New England commerce
and industry', but also, to a great extent,
those itrevery other stvetion of the ct.uri
try. Hence, upon ,tit it mkoulders the
depreciation in -prices prinetpally falls
And the siidation is itli as in rendered
still wore severe and trying, from the
fact that our foreign commerce and its
dependent interests some one in n de
pressed and crippled condition. In fact,
the noble Lase ok-ixipieting anti slii_p
ping merchants, once the pride and
boast of' our New Engiandt seaports,
whose ships plowed the satire of every
sea anti poured into our markets the
nealth of tqery clime, are now:Yalas,
falling into comparative 'decay
-Our inexcantile marine, swept from the
ocean during this late nar„ involving a
loss of millions of capital not shared by
any outer section of the country, shows
no signs of recovery from the blow, The
high cost of labor. and the unfriendly
policy of the government in indorsing a
tax on tonnage, and discriminating
agaimd ship building materials, have
prevented any attempt lo repair that
heavy loss Our sliipyurilm all along the
coast, voce re.mtlatil atilt the lively
chortle of the ale tot the harnmer, are
nose silent and to litary as our grille
yards The Canadian Reciprocity Treaty,
%litchi once brought a large aunt priifula-
He trade to our seaboard nuirkets—on
eltnting cheap Imola.' -fur ship budding
--alms been .ulividally abrogated, and Ilia
raw produetst of Canada and the Mari-
I into Provit.co4; , Which 'Mem once sent
here 14).-4111. Tut our Warat,...flitlia
goo lt• aunt'llome inanutat.inr, , , now pass
I % iis to other market.,
This is a taint pieturt of thoilastern
situation, and of whet New England pat
been culled to sutler on ..ecount of the
War and its serfueneeri. -
.1 pretty picture indeed', nod true to
life lint the Buiirtrn pit yoves . no
Moulin of relief alnly it rutpr a is -look
ing for a turn in the tide,' and is ••lout-'
tug to Congress to uanect•ssu'
ry obstacles which stand in the way of
restoraticn " lu other worth', it in look
ing to rebuke ein and become - pure and
holy We suggest that it keep on v o ting
the Radical Jacobin trcket ut \lassuchu
melts Keel' Sumner. 'Wilson, IlOui vt ell.
Butler ,in Congress Keep tip the
- organized hell in the South Keep
the ruggers up nod the whites down.
Stick to the nigger Bureau, go in for
impeachment, gis e tin n few more bonds.
a little more tariff, 11 few 'none “greet
morel 't.fea.l,•' 16 few more ttuhrteks for
free•loiu, u little more suarage tor Sam
ho. a little more "human rights' —in a
horn —a few more sut•kep. at, the public
teat, hi' more loyal, •'trooly loll," Keep
"outside the Constitution, yontitteate,
obfusticute and obliterate lieep tip the
fires of sectional hate and re:engr, ptG
on the fuel Keep the wheel razes of the
Rump wall oiled, roll on their car. :ill
aboard, put on the steam and drive
straight along—to the devil, and we will
have ell the good times, the blessings,
c.perily and honor described by the
Bulletin, izreatly our reused In fact, we
shall all goon be very happy 111 abarchy
Confusion %ore° -confounded will noon
reign every where I riumpliant, old cloven
foot will be chained for a thousand
years, and we will lave the millenium
right off. The only obstacle la the
way of),lns happy consult:alien in the
MinhhOrli, everywhere present "Copper
heads" who, strangely enotivh, saw the
whole from the beginning, and- foretold
exactly what would come to pass.. They
have stubbornly stuck by the country,
aindopposetl its enemies in ohedience to
its only true bioil whose prophets they
are. They intend to keep on, ripply the
reverse the steam, obstruct the
Itatlical path mid throw tffeir err zy, bed_
lam train okii“. track. Does t h e Bulle
tin see the rlinedy for the evils of which
it complains ? if not, then let it keep
on inquiring "What shall be done for
New England '- II l'alriut it Union.
Joan Pori —This man, who wan ig
nominiouniy beaten by the Confederates
during the war, in now bullying the
people ~t' and Georgia lie le
dine discribed by General Franklin, in
a letter which we prinied yesterday, as
did the Presa It In worthy of a special
notice Gen Franklin no inn will dia.
credit . '•Unring ilie trial, [Fitz Jhon
Porter 1..] I Itioitglit it proper to inform
Porter that Generale John F Reynolds,
George Ii Thomas and myself would.
if requested. go before the court sad
swear that we WI/111,1 not' believe Pope
or Roberto under °alb. I had consulted
General Reynolds before I made thq pro
position lie consented to go himself
sod 1 - bought Uenertil Thomas would
have no hesitation to giving sunk evi•
deuce I wan my-nit well convinced of
General Thonias4 ofTiVion of Pope's
veracity, from what I had often heard
him ray before the war."—.Apr.
----The bard timer and milli of 1867
were. brought 'on by the credit rystem
and orerdrapiug. The hard times of
the'prennt year, and the orash of next
year gre the result of Radial Arecsui
struotion," whioh has destroyed indus
try ie. ten States of the Union • cut off
all income from exports and ' destroyed
the immense Southern market for'the
products of Northern workshops, mills
and factorigno
—ContradiailOty—flaw eon a man
be 'lt once fast, loose, and tight ,
Easy-Golog Democracy
ht
L
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0 701
bit
*.lt
int
artily ttree,..—
l along the broad road of the world's poet.
-pkt. tie, too, --w kit - eertain Democrats_
When the - Territorial question came up,
and Zieneral GAM invented "popular
sovereignly," how easy ii was, anti hoar
they 'denounhed the Free Soilere, and
all others who had some conscienee, and
eew at a glance the miserable sham of
"popular sovereignly."„ Again when it
becankt necessary to reject, the vicious
legislation of 1820, and repeal the Mill•I
eouri restriction, and Mr. Douglas in
vented the "great principle" of the Ne- 1
breaks bill, how these people jumped on'
to it, and sailed along !halt until they
were brought to the very edge of a
Trightftitprectpice by the stepn of
'Lincoln. But though start and
alarmed for a while, they soon fe I into
the old oharinel — they went with._ the
war party—not because it was right—oh
no. but to get control of it. That, they
thought, wee the popular current, and
they drifted with it, and promised us
that when secession was first put down,
they would-joie us and put down , Aboli
tion. Well, secession is put down, anti
now•wilt they aid us to 'put down Aboli
tion ? On they/contrary, they 'declare
-1-Iw - Abottion has etornynered the Bwat
tliannelvis, everybody, [Nil accomplis h-
ed its object, and instead of putting it
down, they actually propose to PII tmlit 10
it What then • If thin in so n( course
there in no room or necessity for a Dem
ocratic patty. What do the; moan by
the Democrii. , o party, or en oppositien
party, or a patty of any kind, if they
!propose to accept what the party lio 1
power have done 1 Why, forsooth, the
States have a constitutional right to..de
tertnine who Oral! vette Of course they
have, and they have also a constitution
al right to fix the Oahu, and determine
the relktions of their populations, as
they think best, andgit is absurd and
dishonest to make a diatinetion of the
former - !kit again, It is said they are
opposed to negro snffrage per me, hut
`surely if the'negro is to be free, he
should be free. float Ls he should re
main in his own con4l44rt our ho should
be atnalgsmated in ours But the truth
in, we hit•o reached the titmost limit of
this easy-going 140100,10 y, that has
brought such 'initial calamities on the
country We must now become real,
stern, sincere. hardworking Democrats,
or loose everything. - our et•iliaation as
well as our liberty We mutt grapple
with the Abolition monster, or he ruined
by hint—in a word, we Willi have the
whirs constitutional Utfion of llittA. or
utterly penal) RS a nation —Pay /lon*
--The NorwiCh.(billetin, whieh oft.
ever tells gunod story ihso c the truth, is
reponsible foi the lollowtng
.Swapping an overcoat fur i Simi'ln,
boot ' During the trial of the case of
the Norwichsand New Volk Transports
non 'Company ligaiwo the insurance
companies for the amount of damage to
the rteamer City of Norwich by tire, the
defendants undertook, to prove that the
loss was occasioned by the eNeamri
sinking, and not by burning. making it
it marine lose, against which the fire in
surance companies did' not insure.
Tracy the pilot of the boat, being on the
witness stand, wan interrogated by
Scudder of New York, counsel for de
fendants, na to his views.
It having appeared that Tracy was
hanging on to the rudder just before the
steamer went down, Jthidder ennutyed
'Tracy, 'what do you think the boat
was worth at the Ile you were holding .
on to the ruddei •
'1 really can't tell.
•Ilut what do you think
'I didn't think anything at all about
it '
•Tracy, what would you bare been
willing to give for her nt ibat time "
'Well, i don't know, I was not buying
steamboats very muclkabout that lime?'
'Tracy, would you have beef willing
to have given the old boat that you say
you had on at the time, for the boat 7'
.Well. I don't know but I should. On
the whole, I guess I should, for I don't
suppose I should have needed' an over
coat where I was going '
Schudder gave it up, and called lee
nell. , -
---When Aaron, Burr returned to
New York city to practice law, after Sin
voluntary exile in Europe, be tound the
late Rev Jededinh Ruralist-a, then a
celebrated remaliet, holding a eerie of
protracted meetings la hie family
-church Ile attended from habit; al
ways went late, and disturbed the ser
vices by attracting to himself the atten
tion of the audience on account of his
infamous notoriety as the man who shot
Alexandre Hamilton, and who had been
tried for treason. Mr. Burebard re
solve to rebuke him openly. Tite , nezt
Sabbath. wben he rattle In and got about
half-way up tl • aisle, the cleressan
paused in ht. Ittecourse, and pointing to
Colonel Barr. said in the most scathing
manner: "You hoary-headed old sinner,
I'll appear against—you at the day of
judgment !" Tbb proud defiant old man,
standing as erect as ever, with that per
fect
Szin hie fine grey eyes oaths
eomposurit , which deserted
him, anti
occupant oft t pulpit. replied;
Burchard. 1' hove observed through a
long course of professional experience,
that very meanest class of criminals...re
those wits turn Botta's evidence !"--Ez
--Some of toe Meagre' papers are
in mental anguish vy„ith the ides that if
they "do not nominate Grant, lb. Dente-
Crate will." Hut they give themselves
unnecessary pain on this Rubies*. The
Democrats will nominate a statesman, a
man of cheracter, who willeonimand the
seepeet and confidence or ill respectable
people of all parties. There has been
enough of.blackguardism in Washington
for the last Ms years. A Democratic
President will restoreitociety is that,
place to something like its former re
speetability. This is the last Congress
where the *agrees and their Vermin will
be„the oblef.oemmante of the galierion of
both nottsitt —Pap Boat..
The Valley bet griffllt" In Mbn-
TiortltOrli.
A norreepondont of the Cincinnati Com:
nsercial, writing from the "Heiulquertere
4sltthe Yellow Stone, Ifontana,l giv es
the following deaerlption , o6the , ..Vauay
and Pace of Hell," in that Territory
Apd here, from Mt spot oxnrhiek I
standy,with my companion on this ex.,
ploring expedition, tracing my noies,l .
orink in the views, so weird, so pleasing
strange,' that even hi my wildest dreams
. evermghi-like thiairstateiL - Alf day-
light is dying en the. Yellow-alone hills,
*be sun melting down into the verge of
the horizon, shooting his 'dentin rays
far into the gloom of , grotesque tali's.
and lingering upon the loftiest peaks,
converting their rugged eurfsees into
purple and gold, the islands in the river
swell bold and beautiful in the rosy
light, While yonder dlsteint cone like
bill stands against the sky a conspicu
ous mass fringed milli fire. 'The gigan
tic mountains to the west cast their abed
owe far down into the silent valley at our
feet,while the silvery ypllow alone owe
on 'Hi venlipering way, breakin the
ir g
sombre aspect of the plain with t line
of its gleaming sealers. In Ilife alley
myetvorious wonders have been made
visible from time immemorial, of which
the mobile &Rimy never heard.• The'
Indians to the vicinity tell us it has 04-
ways been thus. Or it of this plain, or
valley, rather, which extends over an
aren of fifty miles, issue a million sharp
Jets of bluish-white flame, interspersed
with fitful puffs of pearly vapor, which
mil upward in endless turbinated obn
, n • 01l rfilliTlidielficirg a high — aliildare - ,
they d!asolve and blended wil,h the
fluctuating cloud which hangs over the
valley, as if to shield it from mortal
eyes The plain is dotted with innume
rable rumps, from whence Dome vapory
and fierreolumns are emitted In their
formation they resemble moisture vol
canoes Fire•springs like these may be
found in, China 1 and the geysers of lee
land are but, results of volcanic action
of the come nature, though of greater
force and power than the hot springs in
the valley of the lolls! Stone. One
millet help thinking (bit fiercest fires'
rage somewhere below 'the external en
velope of the p;ala, to fiNittrai tad force
flames above the surface. A gentle
man and yaaiant connected with our
party arctlhea these igneous streams in
gages escaping from a "veiled bell '
Another specialty. of volcanic notion
may be.obererved by closer investigation
of the dement hillsirhieh loom up from
the surface io,every direction Though
there are no deep criftars in their sum-
Imlts„ It ls 'an - satty "Inter to delcot a
gentle hollow in each, Mote or teas deep.
covered with crumbling , particles of
lay-i like reek. The base and sides are
Iso thickly omen with the like porous
deposits—slime of very large size, like
enormous cludery cakes, the refuse of a
, ferinderg Apnea*. A eulphnroure odor
is in the atmoephere, reminding one of
our eempaniems of his tire - Fiesta - of a
choke damp, Surrotluding the entire
plain are lofty calciferous Wis. eroded
and skeletonixed by gonna of rains or
shifting bodies dr lerefferi•,, which now
bear the appearince tat pyre
' urt4s, prisms, and reroute other configu
re! iOTIPI, Besides preparing detritus,
I which lay piled in heaps at the fool of
the cliffs, freleuf torrents had PO Cc/t
-ended and dtainantioldllie roas that one
would imagine that - a destructive fire
had waged and burned rip a till, by the
quantity of fallen columns which la/
I Scattered aroiltid in the moat Indencrib
able eotifusion In the ineteretices of
the debris there bubbled numerous sa
line springs, snit, continuing our ex'
animation further, we diectivired I
hotwater springs from whence vapory
columns continually ascend On test
ing the warmth of the water with
Faligenhett s thermometer, the mercury,
which Ste d previously al( eighty de
-
greys, shot up to oae hundred and elgh
ty degrees. The tread of our horses
feet ',minded hollow, while the noise
seemed to verbrate along'the earth like
en echo Not a blade of grass was to
be seen, excepting along the margin of
the tiny etrearna. The whole &effect
of the plain wee arid in the extreme
Ghastly relics of animal life covered the
ground along the stream 'Ma was
evidently caused by the gathering of the
bulialone in the fall to cross the Sweet
Ora's, where they luxuriant fore a sea
son, protected by the rising hills from
the bleak winds, which witla the force
of sdnoons sweep over the northern prai
ries, until the severity of the season and
the scarcity of grace compelled them to
leave, when they found their egress pre
vented by the deep snows in the passer,
and they must have perished from hun
ger and cold, leaving their bones to
be picked by hungry wolves. and to
he bleached in the sun and rain - -
No language can give any ides of the
fearful desolation of this wonderful val
ley. It struck our hearts with a naufe
less dread. Not a wolf infested the
chambered cavities of the cliffs, not a
buzzard hovered over the vicinity. All
was silent In this Valley of Death One
of the party of explorers bestowed upon
it the significant appellation of 'Aloe'
It is a rich field, however, for the-geo
logical savant. and though famine trav
ellers love to describe the splendor of
Alpine scenery, thrill upon the classic
heights of Olympus, dilate upon Lobe
-1 non. Mount of (Dory, and foster their
'imagination among the Scriptural mount
ains of Judah, there tire gran er scenes
by far in this new-horn-world of oyes—
Willi valleys ler more idyllic than any
old, Europe Cab hoist, and rivers of
greater depth and •larger volume Tray
viers have descanted long eanugh upon
the slide and melnectinly inanities of
the Orient. Let him the, infers Nsith
ennui, end the until that hashers After
vitalising realities, travel Is the 'beetean
regions of fit... Upper Yellow-etonti and
;nighty mouutainet,devannehe of eatteed
ing fertility, and' valleys gloated with
Eden lovellrese: will he Peen side by
Pith , with is plein) teeming with alcohol
isms, from which yen 11,111111110 t 1110014111
save through the ''Pass of,. liell "
Through such a pass did we gropp our
way in almost profound derhisese, as
night had set In long_hefore we entered
the ionetupefils —fiewetater ftersilveneer.
—Ten little opeoure ereekli
adl
oel pepere In Alabama, were paid 126
each per week, for four eueltesePre
week", by Ibe Alabama ittaek and 'tan
convention, fol. puhlialaMg Ike *wagtail
oonatilutieb.