~. _ G~ The Democratic Watchman. V ET r. a ILLY NM JOE W. FUEEY. ALSOWAVII EDITOR Terme, $2 per Annum, in Advance. BELLEFONTE, PA Friday Morning, July 14, 1871 DEM RATIC STATE TICKET. F AUDITOR GENERAL. GEN.WILLIAM McC,ANDLE&S, OF PHILADELPHIA FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL. CAPT. JAMES 11. COOPER, OF LAWRENCE COUNTY. Democratic County Convention The Democratic Voters of Venire County Will meet, at the regular places of holding Borough and lownehip election, on HATIIIt- DAV the 6th day of August next, between the boars of three and seven o'clock. P. M., to elect delegates to attend a convention to be bold at the Court Howie, at Bellefonte on Friday the Bth day of August, A. I): 1861. Brbich convention will put In nomination, one inedidate for Aesembly, one candidate for County Treasurer, two candidatee for Asaoci. Ids Judges, one candidate for District Attor ney, one candidate for Commleidoner, one candidate (or County Surveyor, and one can didate for county Auditor. The number of delegaiee to which each district le entitled Is as follows, to wit Bellefonte, liorough Howard . I 1/Ileac urg " " 1 pnwpolourg " 1 1 Benner, Townehip 3 Bogs. 2 Eturnoldo . . Curtin 1 Ferguson " Gregg Plaines Ralf Moon " • Howard " E gtoo " Liet, " 2 NAIIOII Mlles Paton Peon Potiet" Bosh Boole Shoe " ar In' Taylor Union Walker " Worth Hy order of the C'oonty Committee. 11. Y. BTIIZER. Choorman. E xpla(?tary. Those of our readere interested in the L. C. do S C railroad, who Ina) expect a reply to the personal charge.; against the editor of the WATenll , O4 by those who assume to lead to the narrow gauge Movement, will he din appointed. Our own a.pirationn or the party jealousies of °there have nothing to do with the building of railroad through Priii,salley. Elie people of that valley are much more Interested in that enterprine than in the editor of this paper, or the little hatreds ol the few, who, w acnumpligli their own personal would drag it into politicv, and eventually cheat thew out of the hi' I ul a WWt fur which the) NU be•Crl br,l their tummy, acid to which they are elitllle.l Newt, paper equalihtea not the road, nor will Imbuublohg cal pttlit,t nu., w their fllletlllot lot Celtic Chasen,iou in the 1) tid either the railroad ~ r war pArty. Thone who thluk they ev, go Abend \Ve mall Wise a., shah. in either a per.onAl ilea-paperdimpute t a Radical tick. Unr record ui u leg islatur in belore unr p • , 111•• y: earl eedorne ur eon !elan Jul!. am they think it right or .atom Cdnsiderable Truth 'l he Philadelphia // quucr gii,es a few %cry pert', ent factil on the railroad gauge ill the 101101% itig ehurt apace With all our pranda.dit .ens , . 1111.1 III•1111(11 1.11 Lkalrlarllielass I'4ll to ritliculuux 111 410.1 Idea- A itovul Anie,„..., „„„,,. II t h e new, 110111..1 pertaion to aught 111 VI l t 11 In, 11 g th o ul 14 , 111. iN d ' ,Men rail piefl.e.l 11, )0 oat work of &11/alerting fire natural I. ..eireen of tie country, they the ultra ■ holly .t 1 it Jull , 11151 111411, Ni I /11. 11, 111 of our (1 .•„ 1 1 111154. wow llt iti daft ' oter the Darrow gang., railroad. Ttat kis too feet tito inehe. wile are regarded aAtt the only roads to Wealth pro.perity and happily..., awl the wider gallgen area:leered art aa the relit, of It hul l ro.ll, Ii In lily Jill,/ Of Ow new 1111,111/11 ..Iglu ot tit, opliaudtg , o f the 01.1 - Two feet all” all do very well Iror hiletal linen running through grnt,ly pogo el.( rir 31141 oil gi hi tioli linen i• 111111 . 1001 It fade's 10 the mom •Irralar hums + In 0111 own r. , el region 1111 111 the InolnIlle;nioUlitalli our dintrlete of Ilia V. 0410131 errll,l lea the narrowgangs mutt stork Wonder, Ili rich end deneely poptileted itiehlitlex Lb.. Your feet eight end a hall,' or evun eta foot the latter In the g.eige of the New York and Erie --I. of her inorit tolvitytage To put the whole matter tit an few InertiaHY Darr.* gangs rt/1,(14 Wlll pay W/11.11. 11/1' /0,0114 01, and for sp. tat 111111 !teary lrfllf,• the timed gauge in intintpeutaide. As hurdler sii)e, 'our people seem to have gone 'clean daft,' over the narrow gauge railroad. Ten years ago the public, backed by railroa , I men, were just as certain that the six or Wen feet gauge for railroads was the proper width as they now are that three feet is. ?lye years ago some in vent' v e _genii's constructed a flying ni a eitle and our people at once went wild with the idea that they were thereafter to do their traveling through the and each one tinagineil lie had his aerial ship floating along unmolested by (tools, laud slides and other acci dents, incident to railroad travel. Two years later and the velocipede fever Came STOLIII(L ' AyerybOdy was a Ve i l locipediet. It was the inillenium 61 , the traveling public. No more rail road troubles—no more expensive bug glee, carriages, wagons and horses Each one was to have his own one wheeled cal, and go it just as fast or slow as he desired:- Butt it was not what the masses thought it was. It wouldn't work. .Li. failed. It has now no advocates neither has the fly• ing machine, or seven foot gauge. May not this narrow gauge excitement end in the same manner 7 We are prone to go wild on things we know nothing about. Bad not the directors of the L. C. Al. S. C. railroad better ponder well before risking the money of too people in an enterprise that is only an experiment? Would it not be -rise to 'let well enough alone— to build the kind of a road that we know by experience sill pay—an ordinary gauge. Experiments are sometimes costly. Don't Take Well The narrow gauge railroad move ment'fas not met with that favor among4te subscribers of the Mock of the L. C. & S. C. mimed company, that war anticipated by the originators of the movement. The masses of our people are not that kind who go crazy over every paper enterprire they hear of, and consequently they very pos e lively demand of the directors of the company to go on and build the kind of a road for which they subscribed their money. Out of the entire aunt her of stock holders in this county from the union to the Huntingdon county line, we do riot honestly believe it a vote were taken that two out of ten would favor a narrow gauge road, to connect with ordinary gauge rondo at Tyrone and Lewisburg. Four iilthh of the stock holders, we believe, it we are to judge from the general expres sion, would rather sink their stock in a road like other AtCilolll.l of the Conn try have a road that experience P ro.es to be suitable for all purpoirs and that trek-mat will par, if properly managed, than risk it in an enterprise that thev,or the men who are attempt ing to instruct them Anon , nothing about They know that the cur, 'we have not itioney enough to grade an ornima ry gauge road,' was gotten lip only for the purpose of inducing tiiern to accept a narrow gauge rather than get no road at all. They are not as poorly booked in the financial ern damn of the company as a couple of the directors and Is few others would he glad to think they were, arid many of them h a . e very strong eon% tetions that the narrow gauge movement was sprung anti ha• been forced along, only that a little ring in the ratlroitil arrangement--might pocket the 'filler move between the cost of grading a narrow gauge ImMi and rhr co-t of grmling one of the ordinary gam4e Their consiernol• mar be right We Jo not know Bo ne do know that 1111 (sure evil patisiiielOrtly explain wby the stunk holders of the 1. I', railroad should he put riff with a road that must he of very great inconvenience to shippers, and consequently 01 ,liennui vantage to stock holders, when they nobscribed all the money asked to build them a first class road, and then eon settled to have tt mortgaged to the ex tent of two-millions of dollars, to make up any iletle.iencies in the estimated expense of grading the road a ICW 1116111 -- " . 111V. 1'U1%111,1.3 l ' N ruri,vl," in Ihi Milne o: a very alirliCtiVe Intl:rent 11,g. work, Ly Sievrro., of the Mr 11/11,1,4Pen$11 Church, which ban J 14 -t bean 18,..11e.1 Iro.ti the i orttri of r. It M Stallard A. of Paula delploa, and to mold only by nubscrap. atoll. all thin valuable book, Rev Mr. Allen, Rector of St Julin'n Epancopal Church in than place, marl : • Ihe t1111(01.1,01 , 1 toe:ming of then,. ~"41, 1'0.1.11(1(111 11111,1 ellaraetertiale porttotoi ~r the New Testament with the power of /Irnitl epirition pereeption to dlavern their ca n, troth and the grow 101,1 IL111,11•1311, h. •I 1 iodine the triantery .01 a tootott tol per.pielotti. and lore ilite .kyle in the lien of .words. The book cahoot fail, 1 think, lobe inn it—ming nod prolitaldo to every reader '• 11ev Mr. Mullen, of the M. E. church here, also bears testimony to its worth, as hollows . hi+ „fit, by HuLnp Stevens, In 111.110 t 01 1.1011 . 10 . 0. r challenge, competition It++iylo Is high toned, free from nil 1010t01 tall his, It iiiii 110'1014 itself 4t the Intel 11,40111 1111,411 M 10101, r, tool 1111 , 11411. the attention and pat root loco of all. It glees MO pleasure to bear tenth loony to the value or uprodnetion embodying 11110•11 trueontrinene worth I" Our eeteeined young friend, Mr. J. W. Orphan, is the agent for the sale of this book in Bellefonte, and will call upon our citizens in a day or so. —We understand that die act . of Assembly requiring railroad compa nies in this c ninty to fence their roads or pay for the stock they kill has been decided constitutional by the Supreme Court. This perhaps will secure to theowners of property prompt pay ment for cattle and other stock killed by the cars. .•• • - • Mean. From the report of the railroo meeting, held in this place on Satur day evening last, as published in the Republican, we get theifollowing: lion. P. Gray Meek then took ihe floor, with the remark, that 'Though he was not a stockholder In the branch road, yet ho would say for the Info, matioh of the meeting that he had In his pocket a letter from Mr. Miller. the President of the road, stating that what money tons sub /whiled when added to what wasn't, would be amply sufficient to complete a broad gauge road. And that Its Meade Lied-only- to-stand up for the rights mid theywould get thorn Thin of course is about as fair a re port, as any one who knows Bttows— the Secretary, we believe, denies writ ing it—would expect him to make. We would not notice rt, but for the rid iculous expression it attempts to make the President of the road, .Mr. MII.I.ItR, tine. Baows knows, Inc Secretary knows, and every one else at the meeting knows, that a e made no such statement as the Republican reports. What we did nay wits to the effect,that we "had tit our possession letters Iron, Mr. MILLER, iifr.:l)e•cts, Mr. iII.AN- Clll tali and others, %%mite', at the lime the two million mortgage lull wan pending iii the Legtelaturv, urging its speedy passage, and stone_ it ii wino the amount of motley alri .I , ly subscrill cd as a basis, and the pro doge of mortgaging it to the extent asked, Attu there would be sufficient money to complete the entire road," and further, that to a letter from Mr. Nitt.i.sa ou the Ist ot July, he stated that "he was sorry the toil row gauge 2114 - M.11101( hafi been agitated, fur had it not been for „that, its coold have got along is 'Chola any more jerring,and that if the stock holders in 11114 county did not eland firm for the 4Si gauge they would hate themselves to blaine. - 'llene were our statements These are the facts. By using the two mil lion mortgage 1011, every body hunts ire have money enough to grade Its gOl it non.] iiul the rind the wets lien who are urging awl 11011111 g lot a marrow gauge - we 1110%11 the 111e11 /I /111/ ily ua !hr //WI ;mut know that the road as first prujected would hasp heel' tind,r headway lu) thus tune, if they had left the enter prier go on, In !duet of gettuni; up the mtuevuuu of narrow gauge. If they, and Blom who a atrium.] to may It word 111 lam Or Of our own 3 (muck hidderS fur tear of "trending the Pen tn.) Ivanua railroad company, do not want to ule• rue,e, it us etrange they try mm, 'mere!). reeent every "ne who doe*. not agree with them. WE lia% e reed edLlle fi lu ulg COW multientions. = Editur Democratic It'n ith TAM. Its. SIR You sine authorised to announce Ulu FIRM. of Dr. ti F Hoop, of am a candidate for Asaenibly Subject to the decieloit of the Democrat so I ontentlon hlf Doctor ,mute Into this country when but n tiny some twenty-four year. ago, and cast hie fir-41 t oto fir Ex i:oeernor Bigler, and loot u. v. r violated Detion rail( I. ith sinee nn tad I hi.. roollietitl.llll , 4,4 1, a fi rst rgeon ill the nrtny of the l'ot ttttt /so should he no ettn.itiew ell try the Isit'renie Anti-War men whose prelude en artt,an hope,huried neatli the near platform of progress in Democ racy tie is worthy and anti qualified to rep ...lent I..l . llll,inhif at llarrinburbt, lan we the I amoerney nosh town ninny for ninny years base ntood In the lack groundn nett Ina lin ponition of lon. , or profit nt the Ilan In of one fellow clitsena over the hill. we trust they Will consider our churns and grant n tp tr Iti ,-tipporl. Inn Iha man or our h 01,... 111144. pr ate eh Inc ler mini a lierget ,hapr,,tp. n. 14.4, well known in ll.e cool , ty W neon' further commendation from hie friemie, =1 ifreir Sir \VIMoot titirtillog to lll ,. horage your and little pert Veto., nn th e of Ilirl l'ent re, xi Iliirrimburg orri fingierdlully trt.g Irate to mr.ulnn. tin/ of John /I Orrt'., , 1•114 , 14.4.11 r. Sir llrvin Carrie 110/111./111/ 1•111 . 11 1,11 year. of age, worked for hi. own rolipport nod wdw atlion and now by dint idl,l, awn Inillionry 111 the bend of of,li of 1110 heel liar, In the roan try 1,011411 !hat lie ,11111114 111 of imp.otatil html pet 111 1.11 ynl 110,14, rmitiirlog the al risiinv •1 Irkllled to ropri•ent Lit in the Stub. Leifiiiin In, id 11. 114,1 ....don 110 Idko great ph It •lii+izrging Jilin i1p,,111110 111 , 11.1.4 • 1/10y I ftlit• ". A , bong ref, rreil ty we nienetoffir , fliti and mho pro Cot, erlllrnl NVlllll,gr i I the Ile( fooiit Vol li""• , Og roil Inn giiiithorieli, both Ito highly bidoyoil liy party, n. yanrrdf .114 Mr Orll, no r her the pn .r Ilt I . lllergl 1. y oar o , ln fellow W.11.1,1/111 =I --One or two jealous trolly duals who will go to a much greater extent to gratify their personal jealousies and hatreds, than to secure all enter, rise like the L. (' & S C. railroad, are at tempting to induce the people of Pennovalley to 'believe that because a charter incorporating the Lock Ibsen, Nittany Sz Sugar Valley narrow gauge railroad company was passed by the Legodatnre, that no other kind or railroads but narrow gauge roads eau be 61/111, ut tills county. They must have a high appreciation of the intelligence or the people. They might just as well tell the public,that because the editor of this paper passed a bill incorporating' another Turhpike cons• parry from this place to Pleasant Gap, that he was opposed to building any but turnpike roads in the county, and that in consequence of the passage of that act, no other but turnpike rmids could be built. Such bosh wouldtt•t come out of the cranium of any one with a thitnble full of brains. —Coffins, makes, and burial ca ses, at O'Bryan's furniture store, oppo sitilhe Court House, very cheap. Narrow Gaugs Roads At the request of D. G. Busn end H. H. Dukiwi, Foul's., we publish the following article on Narrow Gauge rail roads, from the N. Y. Tribune of July sth : NARROW 0•0011 'OLDS. The British GoVernmentnppointed, In IMO, a Commieslot to considef vhall gouge nhould he adopted for the Indus Valley and othee 'projected Railways'. After more than a year or careful ireMilkation, this Cominiaaion has reported, and within the last month the line Man authorities have decided on the width of three feet three Inchee for all State line.. 'Phis notion extended the barrow-gauge system to nearly 10,00 mile.. in aggregate length ; intending to give all needed facilities to Teat areas of territory and immense populations. It is the most important Indorsement the ear row-gouge ayatem has yet received, and will greatly Influence decisfons an to hie width of gauge, the world over. American enterprise has also undertaken the solution of the narrow-gauge problem on a grand erale, and will probely have mottle to MTN', In advance of our slower-moving neighbors Loot Autumn a company wee formed to build a railroad from get nver,Colo• rado, along the lime of the Rio Grand to Peso In Mexico. This company ham adopted s gauge of three feet, and Is pushing con etruetion ac rapidly as possible II the iron Is not delayed, the first section of RO miles, will be In operation within 30 Jaye 'rifle line le needy eon m des long, and, as It Is to depend largely on through business, will have to meet ell those questions of conetruotion, equip ment, and truuntouance that cannot oven be known until actually encountered. What particular width of gauge Is abeoluta ly the best,'lt is perhaps not possible at prevent to decide , but tav there are already projected nearly 3,010 miles of narrow gauge roads, varying hut little either way from three feet, we venture to suggest (ho eetablishment of a uniform width of hbout that measure. The confusion, cost, and calamity attending the a newton , earldom. reduction of gauge to the present standard oft feet Inches may minify, with a little forethought, be avoided to on• 'new departure.' A further inflietirm of sue.. cells tw 'eompromise-wheels'and like as relent In valng devices, should he at once pro , ided vguJn It. A National Railroad Con ven hon. or equivalent authority, should Horned' ately take cognizance of this important matter , and It would be welt, too, if a uniform standard fur pattern and weight of tad ovoid t sumo tune be agreed upon It will be obner%ed that the Indus Valley null other 'projected railways' are through line'', and in a country a here t here are roadeuf no other gauge. The• name tire the facia in regard to the Denver and El rano road, now is the course of construction. Neither of these linee are abort connecting links !where!' made Of a different gauge, as will be the 1. C. el/ ti C. road. Good News if True AP we are going to press r e are in formed by D. U. Bum, Eci., that Mr Let rem, the ehref euguncer of the L. C. & S. C. railroad, tins just informed hnn that the road, when it well be let next Tuesday, will be let to be graded ten feet wide on top of road bed. Thin la the width of the Tyrone A: Clearfield, and a great many other road beds upon which the ordinary gauge care are ruiiiiiiig. NVliat will the leatlere ui the uarrow gauge movemetit, whu ee immiti%t.l) sh.Feried that we must 'MVP a narrow galigeor nothing say to this 7 If tee have monkv enon4h to grade a road for °Mil, rn c 11.-,1•1 not the Peon. pylva,ja ruin/A! , n . , t V able to lid fill itp4 part of the contract, and put or diriary care; upon it I=l Aairruert Vicrill TO I , ITrIIITIRITICZ. —George Veld, a German, residing in Itebershurg, wan found dead in his house on the morning alter the 4th of July. lie had been drinking to ex cess the preening night, and when die covered in the nioroili4, v ss tOLLIng un a chair, with lint head down alumni to the lloor—stark dead! lty his side OD the table wan a noldier'e canteen, part ly filled with whinky, and a glass half full. Ile was along in the house du ring the night., his heartily hiving been away on a visit to New derse). They returned home the Hanle day,filit. lotiod IJO father to 'greet thou. They saw hr' face no noire, for he had already gone under the sod I M.iy the Father of the widows and the midi:lnn eon fort the afflicted faintly. - —The only advice we ever heard of the Bellefonte lawyers giving grans, was that offered by a few of them lie railroad meeting in thim place Off S.ttur day night not. They tulvihed the In. pie of Pennavalley to tank] a narrow gauge railroad. We out [Tone Ibev thought if it wouldn't accomodate the people urtb u i valley, it would at least suit the purpose of the narrow gauge lawyers about this town. E. Sellers, of Buffalo Hon, felt us sample heads or wheat y esiet • day iliat cow tined 94 hill grown gi alum of wheat each, and specimen of N\'ora ay ortle,t he Beads of which to efts. toed over 1.; inclics in length. --All) II ;liting taco in want of an ox pot ionokal foroli, ui can g 4 .t ono by II d dre4on l'ailip.laort: —A fresh lot of 10.1 , 1geS nod rttr her mote, a; (t)r..l, At 0 Br%He a, Opp° 011 e the idult. house. Roll Road Meeting. A meeting of the subscribete . to the BeDelon Branch of the L. C. &S. C. railr3ad as held at the Young Men's ChrAtian esociation Booms in this place„, on Saturday evening. D. G. Bush presided, and W. H.. Blair acted as secretary. A committee, consisting of H. N. lifcAllrefer, - E. Blanchard and M. T. Milliken, John Irlin, sr., Daniel Rhodea, B. C. Hnmes and W. P. Duncan, were appointed to draft resolutions expressive of the "sense of the meeting, who after retiring for consultation reported the following : Resolved, That as stockholders in that part of the line of the Lswipbairg and Spruce Cloak Railroad, between Wellefonie and the end of !thistly Mountain. we aredecidedly In favor of the three feet gauge, pro dded that it be adopted as the gauge of the entire line, believing, as we do,llie narrow gauge moat pmfltable to the stockholders sod most benekial to the community, Short speeches in•favor of the reso lution were made by Messers,!Amen- Atte, BEAVER, MCALLISTIAR, Ilexes and Bran, when a stock rote was taken which resulted as follows : roll Till IaIIoLUTIOW. Valentine a Milliken D. (7. Bush E. C. flumes ....... Irwin A Wi . Edmnnd (Maw M. MeCanary & Denver It C 3 J Curtin . J. D. (Marv( . ..... .- 177m1 Rhoads-. . . 3 &J. Harris . .05 - " W I' Demean ........ 05 ' Geo Bayard Wm H Blair Jno Ardell, EMI AOAMIT VIII axam.tirmiir Jno H Summerville It Son .... 20 Shares J It d ('. T. Alexander. Od " H. ..... " QM The entire number of share subsorj hers to this branch, we understand, is 1760. Showing this' ,but A small amount of it was represented at the meeting. A very significant incident of the meeting, wits that Mr. Japes SUM NAV 11. LL, civil engineer and the only pracitcal railroad man in the house,re• fused to act as a member of the com mittee on resolutions, saying he would not be committed to narrow gaugeor der any circumstances, and as, will be noticed by the vote he cast, his own and his father's stock against the ree olution. A LIVE MAN Fortin.—lf you want to see him, go to "Cheap John's," in •MeClall,'e 'Block, opposite the Bush House, Bellefonte. You can buy as much for one tkilar, as you can at any other store in Centre county for two. Itie stock coneiste of Boots and Blioes, glasewaro, hosiery, notions, clocks, cutlery and a general assortment o useful goods. Old Fogey erorekeepere Milk get up early and stay up late or they will get Lent. Give 111111 a call and be cone inzed. - —Welcome lines to the ladiee-- mtteeulinen. Among these we notice particularly our young friends Geo. 0. Boal, Jae. W. Young and A. 0. Hower. John Quincy Mama's Late Letter Mr. Adams ii riot equal to the ex igencies of the Lunen. Ile does not teem capable of appreciating the (Un ger which is threatening the indepen dence of the republic, and the liberty of the citizen. The apparent indifference to vital questione of the hour I.y meu cd his position and stump, ra to de deplored. lle lollowti 111 the footutepa of an en I.llllkillibt, and line 110 patriotie, you' 'mewling doctrine to promulgate He Sayil 'llu...feels eh) , of ' , peaking to citizen of the endive' States. Ix nut 'lire an open acknowledgment that be In not equal to the Lark 111C1/111 beoL upon it etatesinan I -ajd. Vallandigharit ha. re f(orriled tie N , rtheri, Denmentcy.' h Nqrthern Dvnt(w ii \ en. c.l 4 lipt 11' them Dew r icy w.l r.to hr a rt can the it , •ceplai .ttir pre,ent ril nation -iitiptit.“. I it. by force and fratul -be 01 . tidt aotage to to+ ? ;stu n t rrr .1 us y bow our heal i humble tottatostoon to tltot nogltt which 10t1,14 IN in it 4 grasp, no matt, r ol jo,t or ? • • ,• I,, ,owledge otir,mleeB till a 1,0 t.. 111th find overcome tl,i4 ee.tralizottion of power ; the internal policy M the pre,em the Ku Klux 1,111? I we• are to have n reform let us have ,me ui rtalliv! is not the oppietq4oll the American people ate nou imlinotthig to frlie thinehil Om er l llllelli caste en o itrome then eiiertziel i their MI it 11ughli spirit of freedom : or :mod the gall they yfre drinking be notile still mole bitter, and the tyrannit load they are staggerimr, under be made still more heti‘y and burdensome before they will male ati effort for reform 7 Mr k i i. , . , cii. , •,ot fully realize that this Union is now held together by knee and not friendship. 11 u e idled iilly by and submit with. out a mut mite to be trampled upon, we mnat acknowledge ourselves incapable of self•government and manly attlon, and give countentmee and encourage ment by our inactivity to thisltnputa• lion. Mr. Adattift thinks that 'something of a *amities is required of us all,' to produen M •plafform wide enough for ei% A fuerte.m rniten to stand upon.' 18 there nut danger in putting too man y planks into a platform and thus weaken it so that no American citizen can consistently stand upon it with WM? He says : 'No cause is worth a civil war.' Then the causes that produced a war in the days of the Colonies, and made this country a Republic, were not worth a civil war. Our great. grandfathers were in error in fighting for their independence,• and we 814 but repeat their blunder .ifwe struggle i for the rights of. the ndtvidualAreree. If we surrender our separate right s and privileges do we not give up our liberty and continue to augment and strengthen the power which now holds ue under complete subjection, no d causes a once free and independent people to bow their head" And meekly say. Great Ring, we humbly do thy bidding! This monstrous iniquity must not go on I We must take a bold and determm• ed stand for the future of our homes, Not an hour is to be lost; delay le dangerous, and may be fatal to the cause, We must free ourselves of this shackle and attempt to right the many cal wrongs under which we are stiffer. i ng. EICE=I Now is the hour to cast off our las eitude, and buckle on our Armor for work and action; to save the Repot). lie. The combinations of the present administration— encouraged by Juke. warm Democrats—are frightful. The freedom orate people—except to psy taxes to support this tyrannical ger ermnent— is a mockery, the intrigues of these men are unsurpassed by any regal court of Eerope. The ignorant have been cajoled, flat toted and hoodwinked by the cry ( - 1( `thief,' uttered by those who are Riesl ing the liberties of the people, whole their attention is drawn in anutherdi motion. 13=1 Ignorance ie alwaye a barrier to pro grew. You who 01111 comprehend and un derstand, look at the filets, and sok yourselves if the people of this country are tri-day free? Oppoeilion to the encroachments of tyrante meet originate in the minds and by the wi►l of the enlightened and educated people of the land ; the read. ete mid the thinkere. Theory of reform i a genuine reform, one that will restore the liberty of the citizen, most resound from one end of this country to the other, and in tones which cannot be mistaken, to strike terror ihto the hearts of the despots and fear mto the lace of their support Cr.. The people must be undeeehed if they ;would improve morally. intellectually, industrially, polamily and flnasetially, and become the tom ropiet among nations. It is fblly to expect from out me ant rulers anything to emulate. They have no laudable ambition; nothnig but a sordid selfishness charactentee their deeds, and tci satiate their morbid appetite is theit , only desire. Are not all ill e r doings 'confrmt• bone strong Be proofs of holy writ' that we are gradually drifting to a central. mod power / Are not these facts that are incontrovertible, Inifficient proofs that all this babble of our advancement as a nation, of progress and reform, to * sham and a falashood? The liberty. of the citizen is losing its vigor, and becoming impotent Or good, and destitute of that vitality ne cessary to {Minn equal righte to future generations and peace and proeperity to posterity. Statesmen must see that danger is imminent, and most raise their voice of warning to stay this gathering storm ; .or the fairest land, the garden apoi of earth, wilt moan under a ty rannous form of government and be watered by the tears of thousands of the oppressed who lost their freedom by negleat.—Pomeroy's Demorral. The Destiny of Heligoland Thal Haim:trek cherinhem a hope that ere he dies, tha, Pluall island, thirty tire miles from the mouth of the Elba, can he Itllliexed to Germane, is 'torn than pos.uble. No difficulty 15 i e s yi n are o account of no small a or tore. The German theory IM the • t liment of Germans., and this can only he obtained b% 111111 v and r u n Merry e"mhineii. Soppeong it rmal hie that on the chance 01 ea , ung Heligoland, Germany were to delve witr against England, it might lie that Germany, having gaiiiell the enand they intended. Their commerce eould be ruined for mita v yearn eere their merchant fleet to be deetro)ol. The linglimil fleet would have the ineunance of tile lieligoland plluta, .a ho know the mouth of the Eliae better than any other pilot., and, without landing, a man, , lainage at home and abroad could be inflicted on Germany to a Yen con aiderable amount. fiertionly Cali net er go to war to slim e ihim end Can she then tiny it ? No ! England 1)r cr rlla an inch of territory ! Cite "h e bully England out of it ? That might be done but we ,1 01 0,1, it It is 111)1 Gibraltar, it is not even fortified, and all the fiermana can do to rod aye about It standing trinilt. The inhabi tants thetneelvea are not'inclined to join a government that would almost immediately deprive them. of their lib urty, and certainly continence, with taxing them. Tax at Mall and you ar peal to his politics :he h as no objec tion to other men paying, but he himself +would rather he miller a goy eminent which never rutha him ler a cent. The in habitant s oftl la 'ltaly Land' are not taxed, and are never lilcoly to be, under the present rule. The Germans can have hut one claim to it. In 1714, it was taken by the Danes from the King of Schleswig - Holstein ; In • 1807 it passed into the hands of 'the English. .8o that all the claim that Germany can put forth is one the 'eland formerly belonged to the Schleswig-nolatei nerm.-7Pornet oy s Democrat,
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