■Waßmm' ~
BY DAVID OVER.
I f I ff t p o rt r i].
••WE'Ut: IIOMF.WIRD BOISD."
<>ut on the ocean, ail boundless, ue
We're homeward bound—homeward bound ; i
Tossed by the waves of a rough, rcstlass tide,
We're h> tueward bound—homeward tran i
Far from the- safe quirt harbor we're rode.
S- eking our Father's Celestial abode,
Pronftse of which, on us each, tie bestowed.
We're homeward bound—homeward bound. •
Wildly the storm sweeps us on as it roars,
We're homeward bound—homeward bound;
Look youd :r lie the bright heaveu'v shores.
We're homeward bound—home word uound .
Steady JU, Pilot!— stand firm at the wheel,
Steady we soon ska!' out weather the gale,
or. how we fly 'Death the I >;H-creaking sail,
We're homeward bound—homeward hound
In'o the harbor ot Heaven we glide.
We're fcoiae* at list—home at last;
>-ifi)y we drift, on its blight silver tide,
We're home at 1 ,st—home at hist.
Glory to G >d ! all out dangers ate c'?r,
VV# -land secure"on the glorified shore.
•■Glory to Gvi !" we'll sbout evermore,
We're home at last—home at test.
At the request of a friend, we publish the
following letter from the Bloottiagton (111-l
Pantograph. It gives much valuable and io
tetesting information in r-gar i to the it bate of
Illinois. We published one a few weeks ago,
fioui the same gentleman :
11TESTMFATS I* M'LEt.f COUTT
Mr. Kbit -a :—Permit ui?, through the
unins of vour most valuable journal, to present
von with a few facts touching the cropr, the
financial embarrassment of the farming com
munity io Central 11.loots, the depreciation of
real estate since the financial pressure and the
failure of crops, arid the great inducements for
inonied men to invest for speculation.
First, the emps. The wheat crop ra Cen
tral Illinois, and especially in M'Lean and ad
iieent counties, is almost an entire failure, with
the exception of those crops which are grown
uD the new broken -red, which may give, per
haps, half a crop. The oats crop will compare
nearly with the wheat er p; not quite so goo A
if any difference. The prospect for c-' a
very poor; many fields entirely too b i "-^ wa _ ro
to make any corn at all. even with *de most fa
voratle season. Here and there you *i:l find
scattered promiscuously over *he counties a
few fields that will make f- * eorz wi:h 8 g° od
season, bat those fields are few and far be
tween. The seasor still continues wer, 00.
much so indeed c^ n f nr "h® potato crop
The next th : ->g 1 desire. to notice briefly, is
the financier embarrassment of the mass of our
farutHV* community, the causes, Ac. I speak •
now especially of that class in Central Illinois. ,
H may safely be said that (with few exeep- j
ti n-?'the entire farming community it. Central i
Illinois are badly in debt for land. Lnt:l!
within the last txc years, farmers have been ;
blessed with a series cf years of unprecedent
ed prosperity. They b7e been in the habit of j
buying unimproved lami, breaking it up, and ]
pay itig for the land from the proceeds of thoi
liri-t crop, and then selling the land at quite an .
advance: consequently not only the kid glove j
farasei but tho industrious and bard working ,
farmer went deeply in debt for land They j
added farm to farm, giving tbeir promises to
jinv, maturing generally about harvest. Last j
year being a partial faiinre in the crops, many i
were unable to meet their obligations, and :
found themselves badly crippled in tbeir finan- |
cial matters; but most of them succeeded in j
keeping their heads above the wave by getting j
an extension of time until they could raise ;
another crop. But the present crop finds
them in a tea fold more disastrous condition
than last year, and the result is, men aie com- ;
pelied to sell their lands at such figures as they :
•can get, many of them at ruinous sacrifices.— j
The depreciation of lac-is in Central Illinois,;
especially M'Lean and adjacent counties,
whtcb have suffered perhaps worse than almost j
any fiber couutLs in the State, is a very mark
ed one, indeed. Many farms in the county of j
M'Lean, and even in the vicinity of Blooming- '
t'-n, that were held one y ear ago at forty and J
fifty dollars, can now be bought at twenty-five
dollars. Some of the very best improved ;
i- ri in the county can be bought for thirty
d A art per acre; other lands in about the same
proportion—owing to their relative distance ■
.'rtui railway stations.
I desire BOW to give some of the i nduee- j
ments that present themselves for speculation ;
in the State of Illinois. When we sp>eak of
Illinois as a Slate, she is to be recogn zed as
"he great State of this great Union. Sire may J
u"w be calkd the great Agricultural empori
um of the Western World. Illinois stretches
from a little North of the north line of PeoD- J
-ylvaoit, down nearly to the southern boundary :
■ \ irgiuia and Kentucky, and hence embraces
- greater variety of eiuuate and a wider range
f productions than any other State in the
' "don, its greatest length being 378 mile*,'
and its average width 150 miles. To compare .
" T with other States. iihnc-is is nearly as ' rrge
" i'i the tix New Eugi .nd States put togefh
t's i wUi her resources wel developed
A Weekly Paper, Devoted to Literature, Politics, the Arts, Sciences rsigriculture, &c., &c—Terms: One Dollar and Fifty Cents in Advance.
w <u' 1 -u-t iiu a population of fifteen million'
( Sire has now in successful operation 3,000
utiles of railway, besides several others in
progress, giving farmers every facility to put
their grain iuto market when it commands the
highest figures.
J should like, had I the ability and would it
not be intruding ou the spice allotted to me,
i to turn to the future and speculate upon what
IDiuois is destined to become in the lifetime of
the children horn in ISsß —situated as she is
, iu the central valley of this great continent, a
j climate stretching through five degrees of lati
tude, railwjy3 ami navigable rivers running in
all directions th ough the giving her
j coiuuiereial advantages not equalled by any
i State in the Union, with Chicago, the great
commercial city of the western world, situated
, at the head of the most magnificent chain of
lakes on the Globe, ud wiibau industrious and
euterpr'siug people pouring in among us, de
termined to make their homes auiid our quiet
i groves and on our beautiful prairies—but time
will not permit uic to do so at present.
That there is a marked difference in the fea
, tares of the financial pressure of 1537 and
that of 1858, is vary evident Iu '37 the
country bed no facilities for exporting its '
grain. Secondly, there was no money in the
country tova et its in lebteiccss: eon sequent- 1
]y 1: took sever .I year? for the country to ralh '
\ tr&m its financial prostration. The present fi- j
nsncial pressure finds car vaDlt? filled with |
go id and silver. There has scarcely been ape- ]
riod within the last century that so much gold j
and silver has been lying in the vaults of our j
commercial cities. This vast amount of capi- ]
tal mas! eventually seek an insv-tmcnt some- j
I where, sad I feel certain that if capitalists it; '
the ea f , who are loaning money at 5 art i 6 per !
cent., would scud it out and invest it in real
estat iu
it c m now he purchased at, they couli double- ;
their iiivc-'u; ut tis soon as the times again re
vive.
In -qea- ig f Central liiiuois as a p jiat for I
investment, 1 would refer (hose who are think
ing of visiting us especially to the eoutry of
M L an. This is one of ibegreatagticuiiur.il
conntic-s of the B:ate, sitaatv iu the cooler of |
the Siete, about midway between the tw-> great ;
j centers —Chicago and St. Lonu-—making it the !
J great centra! eouu'y of trade. Bloomigton, i
! the county gear of M i- th "t eonirai oi'y I
i trade be tween Chicago'and 3l L his, bav
i iug a population of about nine thousand, and 1
pronounced by all who visit it the raost fccau
tiful young city in the wee' lla*iog made
itself within the last eigh*- >eirs \'k" improve
; rnents are mostlv new business houses j
! are mostly built of '<* tbree antl foar et <> r - j
ies hi 'h. 'J'Lr- ausine&s rooms are fioisbed af
ter the mrw modern style, and will compare fa- j
vorablv those of our eastern eiries.— '
has three fine Seminaries of ieaim-
Aa?, one College, and the State Normal Uuirer- j
si'v, in c naection with several fine public j
schools ail iu sacceasful ' pertt'.icn These in- }
btitutions will always give Bloomington btera- |
rv advantages over every other point in the !
west.
But I have continued my remarks too far al- j
ready. 1 will elose by inviting all who wish j
to rise in honor and wealth with a rising State, j
to east their lots among a, and invest iheir |
f capital where it will piy, and I assure you that :
not one of a thousand will ever regret that he ;
became a citizen of Illinois.
B. W. LEWIS, j
BLOOMISHON, August 3, 1858.
GOING TO GLASGOW FOR IRON*. I
The developement of the fact that the na- :
tioaal admiaL-tratioo has sent to Glasgow for
$250,000 of water pipes for the Washington
| A jqueduct, when they could have been had :
! cheaper in Pennsylvania, is awakening a feeling
of bitter indignation in eastern Pennsylvania,
i Throughout the various iron counties of the
! state, the furnaces and foundries are idle, and
\ and such a job as thisswouU have given them !
| partial employment, but an administration that !
knuckles to Great Britain in the matter of the
i right of search, must carry its treachery to the
] country to the utmost limit, and add to the
j suffering of our mechanics by sending abroad
I for what could have been better made at home.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia North
American gives the facts as follows
;, Six thousioi tons of cast iron pipe were
wanted to j-npply the city of Wsshngtc-n with
water. Cougress made the necessary appropri
ation, (one of the inducements being tc supply
mechanics whh work during the present dull
; limes,) proposals were invited, and a day fixed
for their reception. When all were in, then
was brought to bear certain ink etices which
; are only known at Washington. It was nece*-
I sary that the successful bidder should be a de
mocrat, iu fact this was absolutely essential, so
that the faithful might be the recipients of de
mocratio money. Besides which, a person who
is not strictly entitled to a contract, and yet
receives it, is expected to pay his friends. Un
der this process, bids from responsible parties,
j legitimately engaged in the making of pipe,
were rejected as informal—several i's and a
few t's not beißg dotted or crossed - and the
contract awarded, at a higher price, to a gen
tleman in this city, who, Ly the directory, is a
brass and iron founder, Lombard street, below j
j Willow, where, in a building 40x50 feet, he i
carries on both professions. Now, it is as well
known at Washington as here, that a brass and j
iron founder is not necessarily a maker of iron j
pipes: that many of our largest iron founders j
never make them, aud the recipient cannot be
charged with being in the business, or intend- j
ing to go into it. The contract being duly
signed, sealed and delivered, and the Pennsyl
. vatran and Argus having duly announced in
their columns, "More Work lor PLiladtlpiua
Mechanic- 1 ," the job is quietly transferred 'o
British --ti. and the $250,900 tbat Would fisv®
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY. AUGUST 20. 1858.
done much to benefit our eoal and iron ruiaer*,
and our blast furnace nicii and iron founders,
and also our coasting vessels in tran-porUgijfl.,
to Washington, jriil be expended in building up
our rivals io England. When our own govern
ment goes abroad for water pipe, when offered
to them by American founders at a less
how ean we expect foreign government? foeomc
here? If we ignore the fact that our iron has
been pronounced superior to theirs, (by compe
tent authority) can we cxpeet them to appreci
ate ii' The injury done to us as a nation by
this trick of our democratic government ena
i;ot be estimated by millions."
BUCHANAN ikNO ENGLISH. -
The recent announcement by a dtlegate in
the Illinois Lecouiptcti Democratic Convec
tion, that Mr. Buchanan is the "President of j
tht Drr.erratic Party -eems to have bees |
made not wiihout authori'y. We find in out j
txehanges the following letter, written br j
President Buohsnan to Wm. H. English, x j
few days prioi to the Congressional Conventici)
!in his district, and used by him to faciJitoj
j his nomination. It tells its own humiliating j
J story :
WASHINGTON, July 25,*1658. j
HON. WM. II ENGLISH : Dear Sir : —Awaic J
that the convention for Dominating a Detnd- [
cratic candidate for Congress in your District; !
will convene in a few days., I cuunot refr&A j
j from expressing the hope that you may be the |
■j unanimous nominee of that convention. I: 1
i lived in your district, and had a thousavl
j votes, you -should have them all. Occupy isl;
the position you do, I consider it essential tbit
yon should succeed >a obtaining tho nowiti?
ion. A failure in this would be regarded
imeas a rebuke of uiy Administration. That :
uny be seme aspirantfor the position iu yaer
j way. If so, yea may say to theru that by
giving you a clear track bey will gain ay
favor, and may expect to be provided for io a
suitable manner. If nominated, I will thrift
a* much a.-;-i-tance into your district as jou
( may desire.
Our friend Hughes, I see. ll!1 hard row to i
j hoe. He will be liber-' 1 "*" sustained. Of this;
' voa may r.-t - —bd. i'our friend, i
JAMK> Ut'v '•
j tr? *£<ee with the Baltimore Patriot , :Lat !
language cannot be found of sufficient force tc;!
Condemn this degrading course—this Pre si- 1
decrial intermeddling with political affairs, '.n |
' support of himself aqd his party. Just such ]
: an ioterfereßee, it may be recollected, was &t-
I tempted by Mr. Buchanan some'twelve months
' ago, in his endeavors to sway the judgment of
die Pennsylvania Legislature, in electing a U,
3. Senator. The communications are quite
| similar in construction of 'language and scnti
; merit. If, therefore, so izreat a breach of
prudence was perpetrated in one case—which
is not denied—we have good reason to infer it
was in the o'ber, and are consequently, rc
j loctantly, constrained to believe the above let
! ter is genuine.
: TCRNING OI T IRDIIMC.t TO PI T
IN NEGROEB
' The Washington correspondent cf the New
i Y'ork Tablet, under date of July 9, says :
"There is a dead lock in political affairs
j here at this time, if we except the occasional
; removals from and appointments to office
The richest and perhaps most remarkable ex
ploit in this way, happened a week or so since.
■ Two worthy Irishmen, having faailies, were
employed under Captain Meigs, at one dollar
and twenty-five ctxts per day each.to attend a
: furnace in the House of Represeotati es. By i
j a recent act, the ccntioj of the apparatus was •
j trasferred to the Clerk of the Huuse, from j
Captain Meigs. An assistant to Mr. Allen,;
named Carter, and part editor and owner of
the Union, iu the absence of bis principal, re- j
moved the two Irish Democrats, and put two :
negroes in tbeir places. This is not ail. He f
even raised the pay of the negroes to fifty
dollars per month. 1 have not as yet loarned ,
whether the darkies arc free or slave ; if the j
latter the motive for the change may be easily
inferred; if the former, then negroes are better
citizens than Irishmen under a Democratic j
Administration or a Democratic Hou'e of Rep
resentatives. Anything of this kind Carter
could do, would not surprise me, for 1 have 1
some slight knowledge of bis proclivities. I
hope your highly-esteemed Representative ftom
the fourth district in New Ynrit will cause in
quiry to be made of the matter when he re
turns here next winter."
Even Lecompton Democrat? must acknowl
edge the force aod pertiocDcy of the following
from a Washington correspondent :
A good deal of astonishment is felt and ex
pressed here that Mr. Biddle Roberts, the !
Chairman of the Democratic State Committee ;
of Pettusjirania and U. S. District Attorney
for the Western part of your State, ha- as yet j
issued no address to the people. It is needless
jto say thai it is the practice of Democratic
j state Committees in all the States to issue ad
{ dresses to the people prior to a State election.
| He was appointed hy a Lecompton Slate Cou
j veotiou, and ought to speak out one way or the
(other. It is the stroDg feeling iu the South
that tbcie aball be no double-dealing oo the
Kansas issue in Pennsylvania, and that Judge
Porter shall say where he is. "Under which
king, Bezonian? speak or die!" And, as the
Administration expect every mao to do its duty ;
(TO TIIFM,) Mr. Roberts should consult the
Judge, call his committee tegctbor, n ) a!! jD 1
a? popfibie take action on the r , ' r
VARIETIES-
"Truly honesty is the best policy," said a
Scotchman ;"l know it my friend,"for I have
tried batth."
A scientific friend of ours has discovered
the cause of the potato blight a few years ago.
He ascribes it to ih- rot-tator-y movement of
the earth.
Why i a fashionable iady like a rigid eco
nomist ? Because she makes a great bustle
about a little waist.
A false friend is like a shadow on a dial—it
appears in cleat weaiher, but vanishes as soon
a> a elouJ appears.
A merry Andrew on being asked why he
played the foot, replied, "For the siine reason
that you do —out of WJU: ; you do it for want
j of wit, and Ido it for want of money."
'■l ray, fikud. are you the master of this
| house ? asked a traveler at an inn.
I "Y'es, sir," answered bonifaee, "my wife has
j been dead these three weeks."
[ ( A little boy returning home from Sunday
j School, said to Lis mother, -Ma, ain't there "a
j At/fea-c'n'.-m for little buys ! —this n/e-chieiu
I is too hard.
j "Speaking of corporal puLhmeot in school,"
t said a fair lady, "what pupil is the most to b"
[ pitied ?"
"The pupil of the eye, because it is nlmv9
j under the Dsh."
At a recent exhibition of primings, a lady
i and her son were regarding with much interest
i a picture wbioh tlie catalogue de>:ipp.tvd as
; "Luther at the Diet of Worms." Having de
| scanted at some length upon its merits, the bov
i remarked ; "Mother, I see Luther at a table,
| but where are the worm.-
I
A Poet, just as be bad finished a fuvor
:te production at midnight, exclaimed, in ecsia
i ey, that he felt his head surrounded by a blaze
of glory, lie was nt long i:. realizing that
hi? hair bad caught fire.
"Wonderful things are dene now-a-dsy?,"
says Mr. Tirntnings : "the doctor has given
Fiek's boy a new lip from hi? cheeki ' "Ah 1"
said the old lady, tuauy's the time I've known
*d no very painful
Sheridan said, beautifully. "Women govern
as; let us render them perfect ; the more they
I are enlightened, so much more shall we be.—
On the cultivation of the : r minds depends the
! wisdom of men."
PrcntU-e, of the Louisville Journal, thus
hits the present fashion cf low neck dresses.
He says : "It is supposed that angels do not
wear dresses. Our fashionable ladies are get
ting nure angelic every year."
A Tennessee editor charges tbat Misstssip
pians, as a general tule ean stand duuuing
better than auy people he ever saw. We sup
j pose they have lived so long in h uiusquito
country that they dcn't mind being bored by
bills.
An editor in lowa ha? been fined S2OO for
Lugging a pretty young girl in church.— Daily
,Jrgm. a
Cheap enough ' We once hugged a girl in
church, ?ome ten y .-ars ago, and the scrape has ,
cost us a thousand a year ever since.— Chicago j
American.
An old scltier, bnegit.g to a new corner of j
the grazing land in his neighborhood, says it
"yields two p-unds of tallow to every square |
foot, and the cows come np with butter iu one I
rile, and cheese in the other."
When Mrs Macauley published a pamphlet j
called "Jocose Thoughts," several ladies hap- j
pening to be iu company with Foote, reproba- ;
ted the title as very improper tor a woman.
"Not at all, ladiesthe sooner a woman gets
j rid of such thoughts the better !",
I -
DOCGLAS ANI> LINCOLN —Douglas has i
made three speeches in Illinois since his return,
iat the delivery of every one of which Lincoln
was present, much to the discomfort and dis
satisfaction of Douglas himself and the parti
zans that surrounded him. He is to th'm wuat
Mordecai, sifting in the king's gale- was 10
Hainan ; and he spoils all their calculations,
'by holding meetings wherever Douglas does, j
anJ exposing the sophistries of ihat henator. 1
The Chicago Prem, in view of the annoyance
: caused to Douglas by this arfangeineut, makes ,
this proposition :
"Let Mr. Douglas and Mr. Lincoln agree to j
canvass the State together, in the usual Western ,
style. We have reason to believe this would |
meet Mr. Lincoln's views. In this way the
people can make up their minds as to which
candidate right. If Mr. Douglas shall re
fuse to be a party to such su arrangement, it
will be because he is a coward. We are well j
aware that so long as be accomplishes his pur
| pose, be cares cot how he accomplishes it. But
must either go with Mr. Lincoln now, cr run
away from him as be did in 1854. Which will
■ be do ?"
We venture to predict that he will run away.
. It is no part of his programme to let both sides ;
be beard.
DEMOCRATIC POLICY. —A contemporary in- 1
forms us that the object of Mr. Buchanan in
sending sn Irish missionary to the brazer
River gold region "is to make such represents- j
lions to Governor Dougla? a? will 1
to mitigate the rigors of the- J fJ f t | je j
son Bay Company, ad >4 and traders
British Go women I tW*r
r < *P ec ' u,en Loco Fueo poli
fiiw* S lve lerrit *y t0 England, aud j
send an agent to ask than to bu "aisy '
towards the miners from the United States." 1
[From the Balto. Patriot ] (
Old Land marks—•Patriotic in
IBi—Treason *ow.
Old Records are Som*ltruss Exceedingly Un
pleasant, Particulmty *chen the Course of
those jYamrd has cry tortuous.
In 1819, a public meeting was held iu Lan
caster, the home of James Buehanan. The
meeting was held on tho 21th d.iy of Decem
ber, 1819. James Buchanan was chairman of
ihe'houimittee to draft resolutions, aud is the
auThor of the following :
Resolved, Tbat the Representatives in Con
gress from this district be and they are hereby
requested-to nse their utmost endeavors, as
members of the National Legislature, io pre
vent the exisinnce of Slavery in any of the Ter- j
rit ories or States which may be erected by Con- j
gress.
Resolved, As the opinion of this meeting, that
as the Legislature of this State will shortly be j
in session, it will be highly deserving tbeir wis- j
dom and patriotism to take into their early and ;
most serious consideration the propriety of in- '
stracting our Representatives in the National I
Legislature to use the most zealous and strenu
ous exertions to inhibit the existence of Slavery
in any of the Territories or Slates which mau
hereafter be created by Congress; and that the
■Veiwbers of Assembly from this county be re
quested to embrace the earliest opportunity of i
bringing the subj-ct before the House oi the •
Legislature. „
Resolved , That in theopinn n of this meeting
the members of Congress who, at last session,
sustained the ciuse of justice, humanity and
patriotism, in opposing the introduction of Sla
very >nto the State then endtavored to be form
ed out of .Missouri Territory, are entitled to
the wrmest thanks of every fritn i of human
ity.
Resolved, That the proceedings of this meet
ing be published in the newspapers of this 1
citv.
JAMES BUCHANAN,
JAMES HOPKINS,
WILLIAM JENKINS.
The foreg-.ing resolutions being read, vrrre ;
unanimously adopted; after which the meeting |
adjourned.
VV ALTER FK • NKT.FV. SAWWV '
Attest: WM -JENKINS, Secretary.
Wonder if this is the same James Buchanan, ;
President of the United States, who so strenu
ously urged the passage of the Lecompton
swindle. We guess it is .he same. Consis
tency is a jewel, and no mistake.
in IT TRIE. —The Eastco Free Press gives
currency to the following report :
''We have understood that the heavy con
tract for the large amount of Iron pipes needed
to supply the city of Washington with water
has been given out and that they will be rnanu- 1
factured in Scotland. It was let without re
striction and was taken by a person in Philadel
phia. Is it net a burning shame, that an Ad
ministration under a son ot Pennsylvania should
give out one of the heaviest contracts under j
its control to be taken to a foreign country, iu |
the yciy aiticle with which his own State can ;
supply the wants of the world ?"
A correspondent of the Philadelphia . Yorti 1
American mentions the same rumor He !
j tays
"The rumor to which I refer, and which has j
| at least the appearance of truth, from the fact
, that though the work on the Washington aque
i duct is to be compieated this fall, none of the
' American manufacturers have been called upon
jto execute it is, 'that the completion of the
J cast iron pipes Jor the government aqueduct at
j Washington, although taken in the name of one j
of OUT citizens, is, in reality, for the benefit of j
the Scotch lion Company, located in Scotland, j
! to be brought Jrorn thence to this country, thus j
employing foreign artisans at the expense of the 1
industry of our own people, as well as the money
borrowed by the government from them to sustain ■
Us credit at home and abroad."'
It is tut fair tbat ibe administration should ■
have the chance to deny this, if it can. We
give the report as it stand?, and repeat our in- 1
: quiry— Is it true ?
THE GENERAL "SPUNGEUY." —We have
1 ventured upon coining a word to expires? the
' status of the present administration. New j
i condtticus of affairs, like new sciences, demand
! new terms in defining them. Bigler, if we may
j believe, the Philadelphia Press, is (.art owner
of the Pennsyfvanian, which latter is a paper i
very seldom met with, but yet published daily
in the city of squares aud angles. The pro
prietors of that paper have the printing of the
post-office department. The sum paid for doing
that job is immense, amounting to thousands of
dollars. Forty-five cents on each dollar re
ceived for the post office printing is paid to the ?
person excuting the work, five cents of which
!go to Appleton of the Stare Department (
; The clear profit of fifty-five cents in each dol
; lar is distributed to the payment of
insolvent newspapers, for whrch f or
! politicans were luble. Th<- ,** h ' at liavG been
{ a F Brtof ,hc '>\ f; w months.— Pitts. Ga- j
| squandered in
Z'tte.
j RIRMOTRATIR ECONOMY.— Regular salary
of the President, $25,000
j "Extras," 31,200
Total for rite pregeut year, $50,200
This is pretty good pay.
Flowers that are always falling off are bach
j elors' buttons, according to Diogenes
VOL. 31, SO 31.
Gov. WISE ON GBEASY MECHANICS.—The
etratio Governor oL _\jrgiuia, is exhibiting
good sense in patronising the free State colonies
of Eli Thayer, and whatever teals to promoto
industrial enterprise in the Old Dominion
In a speech which he made at the funeral cere
monies over the remains of President Monroe,
at Hichmond, he said :
'■it is time that \ irginia was turning her
attention to manufactories, mechanics, mining,
and foreign commerce. No country, uo State,
cati live upon ouo only ot the five cardinal
powers ot production. She must resort to all
the five combined, and she is doing if. Go,
before you leave here, my friends from New
\ork. and look at the iron factories - that are
groniug nparoond this noble scenery, I say
that labor is not the 'mud sill' cf soefcty ; and
tb® old Colonial aristocracv
of \ irgiuia, which despised luechaoanical and
tuanuel labor, is nearly run out. Thank God
that we are begiuning to raise miners, me
chanics and manufacturers, that will help to
raise what is left of that aristocracy up to the
middle ground of respectability, [Laughter
and applause.] Look a the iron factory here;
look at the tobacco factory here—that factory
is every day stealing uiy life away with tfce
i very weed of luxury. [1 be Governor chews
• tobacco freely.]
ADVERTISEMENT EXTRAORDINARY.—We
copy from tie Richmond South the following
j advertisement. \\ e only wi-di that we were a
jyoung lady 'not ovei 17 years of age,'Rnd bad
■ 'testimonials of good character :*
§20,000 REW ARD.—An aged and child
lady is desirous of adopting a daucbter.
She must not bo over 1 ■ years of age and bring
j testimonials of good cha-scter. The yotlDg
lady iu question must be prepared to encounter
j the frotfuinesa of a feeble and diseased old
| ruatt. Otherwise she will be treated with
j the greatest kindness, her support and edtica
j tion will be most liberally cared for, and at her
| adopted mothers death she will be made heir
;to an estate worth §20,000. Any person wish
i 'Rg 'he place will please app'v ro her agent.
JOSEPH HOLTON.
; TuseuraHa, Ala., July 10th.
\ Dow IT CAME TO LIGHT--The authenticity
jof Hon. Win. Montgomery's letter to Mr
j 6outb, ordering that whiskey for 'the old chief,'
j was first denied by the papers enlisted on his
side. But the denial was 'nc go.' How dii
that tetter get air ? Mr. South states that he
never named it to the editor of the Clipper.—
The mystery is solved by the Brownsville Time a,
( Montgomery's organ, which stales that Mr.
Railey, postmaster at Brown yille, procured it
and was instrumental in Its publication. Did
Mr. Bailey do this at the instance of 'the old
chief,* and out of gratitude for the office he
hold* ? At all events, it settles two things,,
that the letter is genuine, and that the Ad
ministration has no friendly wishes for the suc
cess of Mr. M. whether it may or may not have
a liking for his whiskey.
| RIGHT ON THE TARIFF. —TIw Reading
| Journal says, "Some of tho Looofoco papers,
j well versod iu lying, have given out that Hon.
John M. Read, the people's candidate for
' Judge of the Supreme Gonrt, docs not aynipv
! thise with the movement iu favor of protec
! tion to American industry. His foimer con
nection with their own party might give color
to such an inference. It appears, however,
j that Mr. Read, evcu when acting wim the Dc-
J mocrats, did not agree to the free-trade no
tions of the paity, but for years has favored
and advocated the policy of protection, anu was
endorsed in the Convention by Heniy C. Ca
rey, the great apostle of protection to Ameri
can industiy. That ought to be enough to
satisfy every tme friend of protection that Le
is all right,"
j Bemns, a spruce young man from the city,
: was riding rut into the country a few days since
! with bis ' gal," and as the suu w is hot he stop
ped under the shade of a tree to let bis horses
| breathe. The 'skecters' were very thick and
I large, and Remus, thinking to have a little fun,
called out a farmer at work iu the field, "llal
, 10, sir; what do ynu feed your nmsquitoej on?"
"We feed 'em on city fellers and bosses."
Beams whipped up. Fact.
DEMOCRATIC TESTIMONY.— The Doylestowu
Democrat, an able Democratic paper, con'ains
the following candid paragraph
"We •-e iu duty bound tossy thai the nomi
nee for the Sn| rcn.e bench, JoLn M. Read,
Esq., is every way worthy the place he apirg
to—he is a man of fine abilities, legal [SftgjftS
and unquestionable integrity. h** '
qualifications could any wuu hi'"'
uyo r7f tbe M* Capitol at
The the Joor, constructed un
\\ of tlo Buchanan administra
s23,ooo. We suppose that the Dc
uiftctacyof the country will swallow unhesita
tingly most of the admtnisiration's expenditures
but we gucs that even they won't much like to
bolt that door.— Lou. Jour.
Plutarch says, in his life of Alexander, that
the Babylonians uaed, during the dog-days, to
sleep on f-kius filled with water. The Boston
Times adds, that in these ditys men sleep on
skins filled with bad rum.
One of tlic fiucst writers says that 'tho uighf
ly dews come down upon us like llcssiugs.'—
How very differently the daily dues come down
upon us in these hard times.