BY DAVID OVER.
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(From Mrs. Partington's "Knitting-Work.")
THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW.
Down the dark valley, alone, alone,
Has our white-winged dove in her beauty flown; ;
Her tender eyes that shone so bright,
Have closed forever to earthly light;
She has lett the love that was round her thrown;
And down the valley has fled, alone.
There were bitter tears when she passed away—
A sad, sad cloud obscured our day!
She had twined herself round each loving heart,
Till she seemed of its very self a part;
O, how we loved her!—but she has flown,
Down the dark valley—alone, alone.
She was but a fragile and beautiful thing.
A blossom to bloom in the lap of spring;
The noonday heat with its feverish glow,
And the chilly breath of the wintry snow,
She could not abide, and thus has flown,
Down the dark valley—alone, alone.
O, dark to us doth the valley appear,
And we shrink aghast from its shadows d-ear;
The earthly sense is chilled by the gloom
Of the sombre midnight of the tomb; — [moan,
Thus we gave her up while our hearts made
As she went down the valley—alone, alone.
Alone, ail alone! but beyond the night,
Of the darkened vale is a radiant light,
That breaks from above with diviner ray,
Thau shines the glory of solar day,
Which springs from God's eternal throne,
And lights the valley she trod alone!
And seraph bands in joyfulness hold,
The little wunderer from our fold,
Her gentle feet shall feel no barm,
Sustained by the angelic ami;
And brighter than the sun e'er shone,
Is she who passed down the valley alone.
Ittjnol Ifiaitrrs.
I
GRADING TEACHERS.
Truth needs no flower of speech.— Pope.
"Ah !" ejaculates a prosy Director, "wo |
have our Teachers graded, so your strictures
come too late this time!" Indeed! You
have them graded , eh ? Perhaps, de-G&ADED. j
How often we mistake a real evil for a benefit,
especially in Common School affairs. Inter- j
estcd persons cry most lustily that they have j
adopted boasted improvements, and claim that
they are, therefore, to be considered exempt
from all blame that may be attached to tho
t>ad working of the vauDtcd object. Yes,
they have adopted them, and hew tfuy have j
adopted them ? Let us see !
A few days ago, I met an old friend of j
mine, aDd in answer to my question, "How is
your son John, getting aloDg 1" replied with
vehemence, "Ob Johnny ! Johnny, he's a
smart fellow! First-rato, first-rate! He's
got at your business; teaching school. Gets
$2O per month, and Mr. Quack, across the
way, who has a first class sartiacate, gets only
$22. He gets aloDg, first-rate, first-rate !"
John is a blockhead ! an ignoramus 1 he is the
veritable Quack ! not fit for anything , of
coarse the only alternative left was to apply
for admission into the Profession. Alas! bew
frequently, how very frequently, do tho weak!
the lame ! ! the halt and the blind! ! ! find j
their way into the schools, mainly because
they are incapacitated for performing manual
labor, with the same expedition that persons of
"sound wind and limb" generally perform
such labor. How deplorable' how infinitely
deplorable! Certainly the schools are not an
asylum for these poor unfortunates, or I have
heretofore been laboring under a delusion;
particularly for that numerous class that do
not even oomprebend the elements of the En
glish Language, and who murder, and not only
murder, but mutilate every limb of the "King's
English." I atu sorry that the old expression,
"He is fit for nothing else but a school mas-
not long since been consigned to
Lethe, bat alas ! like many other relios of a
oarbarous age, it "still lives," though I feel
happy to record tbat its votaries are goiDg out
with the darkness that is now being dispelled
by the light of day, tbat light of day which is
fast dispersing the mists and fogs of Igno
rance tbat have enveloped us for so many
ages.
"JohDny !" Aye, yes, to return to John.—
"Gets $2O per month, and Mr. Quack, across
tbe way, whe has a first class sartifioate, gets
only $22." Would you believe it, my dear
reader, Mr. Quack is a graduate of cue of the
best Normal schools in tbe "Old Bay State,"
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has taught some of the first grade schools in
the East, has any amount of recommendations
from distinguished professional gentlemen, and
more than all this, ha has an experience of
eight or ten years' teaching. Unfortunately,
like many others in this scifting world, he has
desired "to see the elephant," to make use of
a slang phrase, and he has brought up in the
"Old Keystone" of the Feceral Arch, to be
graded, verily </e-graded, with "Johnny."—
What a glorious system of gradiug! Mark the
difference in the coat of the contrasted individ
uals. "Johnny" reeeives only $2 less per
month tbau Mr. Quack ! Only $8 less per
term ! "Johony" is a dead loss of §5O to
each scholar! Mr. Quack is an advantage of
lan equal amount. Bless me ! can it be possi
ble that men, who presume to bo intelligent,
will make so little distinction between the
"Starvation Point" and the "Horn of Plen
ty." But, 1 have seen the living fruits, why
j should I doubt.
Directors, will you look at this pictured It
is not overdrawn; faith there is not an iota of
exaggeration about it; just examine your Dis
tricts minutely, and I have no doubt you can
find a "Johnny" for every Mr. Quack, at
least. A friend of mine has just taken ex
ception to the name of Quack, and fearing
that others might prove equally captious, I
cannot help exclaiming, with a very respected
gentleman, named Sbakspeare,
"What's in a name ? that which we call a rose,
By any ot her name would smell as sweet."
Yes, had you, Mr. Director, voted "JohnDy"
about §lO per month, as a third grade, Mr.
§2o, as a second, and Mr. Quack §3O,
as a first grade, although ho is aotually en
titled to §5O per month, you would have
reached the bounds of common sense.—
"Johnny" would make his board and washing,
fat more than he deserves.
Let tbis policy be pursued, and incapacita
ted "Johnny," if he has any mental faculties,
will aee the necessity of improvement, aDd
"stamp it on the wings of time." W ben the
pocket is encroached upon, my word for it,
there is a sufficient stimulant to induce the
uncultivated intellect to make an effective ex
ertion. Mauy young men now eDter the
sohools, simply to put in time, and more fre
quently to secure the wages, annulling the
doctrine that "every laborer is worthy of his
hire;" let those persons receivo such remune
ration as they deserve, and in a very short
time wc will have Teachers in every stDse
qualified. — J. R. Vurborrow.
Woodberry, Pa.
ROBT. J. BRECKENRIDGE, D. D., TO j
JOHN 0. ON THE UNION.
Dr. Breckenridge, known in this section as ;
the famous President of Jefferson College, Uan
nonsburg, has written one of the ablest aud
most remarkable letters we have seen, to the
Vice President. Of course no party would en
dorse the whole of what this bold, out spoken
man says. His position however is nearer that
of the Northern Conservatives than any other.
His free criticism of the bad blunder made by
the South iu the repeal of the Missouri Com
promise would hardly be tolerated in any one
else than a clergyman. So too bis bold avowal
that secession is a revolutionary right —that the
eleotion of no man according to the forms ot
the Constitution would justify any attempt to
intorferc with the stability of the Union, bo
too his comments on parties—the absurdity of
the South claiming that slavery is carried into
the territories by the Constitution, are vividly
presented. He maintains that tho parties real
ly having eauso to complain are the citizens of
Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri;
that the cotton States have no excuse for their
dis-unica threats. He appeals to Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, to rally to the
Union, that these centrai States en cither Bide
of tho supposed line of separation cannot and
will not tolerate a dissolution of the Union.
The 1 etter is eminently characteristic of
Dr. B's stylo and manner, and wa have no
doubt would do great good at the South if geu
erally read —and no harm at tho North. The
letter is a long one—would fill four columns of
our paper— Pills. Coal. Jour.
("ROUP. —We find in the Journal of Healthy
the following giaiplo remedy for thia dangerous
disease. Those who have passed nights of ago
ny at the bedside of loved children, will trea
sure it up as a valuable piece of information: "If
a child is taken with croup, apply cold water —
ice water if possible—suddenly and freely to
the neck and ohest with a sponge. The breath
ing will instantly be relieved. Soon as possible
let the sufferer drink as much as it can, then
wipe it dry, cover it up warm, and soon a quiet
slumber will relieve the parents anxiety, and
lead the heart in thankfulness to the Power
which has given to the pure gushing fountain
such medical qualities."
Imagine the thrilling effect of a verso like
the following, upon the nerves of any hard
drinker, who might chance to read it on the
headstone of a victim of delirium tremens :
Beware of liquorl Fifty deaths I died—
Losing in turn hope, energy and pride,
The sense of shame, strength, will, all human feeling
Ere mind and body wounded past all healing,
1 reached that goal of agony and sin,
A drunkard's Grave—aud blindly staggered in.
BEDFORD. PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1860
Penngylraiia's Candidate for the
Presidency.
The following brief sketch outlines the .ife
of oue whose steady, manly and forward oourse
has clustered about him thousands of devoted
friends. It is a striking commentary upon jur
republican institutions. It murks the upward
advance of a pcor, friendless, earuest boy to a
position to be coveted by the noblest und
proudest iu our land. It tells its own story. —
A life like that here so succinctly detailed,
speaks many words of good cheer to him who
is struggling onward in his honest poverty. —
Energy, integrity and intellect here have their
reward—such qualities cauoot but succeed.—
To every young man dependent upon his own j
resources for success, this sketch has its own
message, it is the plaiu lesson ol what may
be won and accomplished when high purposes
rule the heart and conduct. For here is the
illustration ol the power of a strong and faith
ful man's efforts to lift himself up from penury
and obscurity to wealth aud honor. To the
patient and the toiling such u life has its |
teaching of hope aud advancement. And this
little history is but a glauce at the career of
him who, always true-hearted, has won the
proud title of "the poor man's friend and
Pennsylvania's champion of the rights of la
bor
Geu. Kmon Cameron was bom in Laucastor
county, cnnsylvania. Reverses and misfor
tune; ir iiis father's family oast bin; very early
in life a the world, to shape and carve out bt>
own fortune. After having removed to Sun
bury in Northumberland Co., his father uiod
while Simon was yet a boy. In 1817 ho came
to llarrijsbui r and bound himself as an appren
tice to the p rioting business, to James Pea
cock, Esq., wdo is still a resident of llariis
burg, and one of our most worthy and respect
ed citizens. Duriug this time he won the re
gard and esteem of Mr. Peacock and all his
fellow workmen by his correct deportment, his
industry, intelligence and faithfulness. His
days were devoted to labor and his nights to
study. Having completed bis apprenticeship, (
he went to Washington city, and was employed :
as a journeyman printer on the National in-1
telltgencer, under Gales & Seaton, between
whom anu Geu. Cameron there sprung up a
friendship that has contiuued till the preseut
day. When elected fo the IT. States Senate
ti a Democrat, he always voted for tL;sd gen
tlemen as printers to the St-nate, even agaiust
candidates of his own party. Returning to
Harrisburg, he purchased an iuterest in tho
Pa. lutelligencer, and thus within two years
of the termination of his apprenticeship be was
part proprietor aud editor of the paper upon
which he had learned his trade, and the load
ing Democratic journal in the State.
Aud whoever will examine the editorials of
that paper, writteu more than thirty years ago,
by Gen. Cameron cannot fail to discover a
marked degreo of ability and sagacity display
ed by the young editor, iiis furtune whatever
it may be, is the result of his industry and uc
aided enterprise ; for except a loan of §4OJ
when ho began business, from a relative, biro,
solf comparatively poor, he never had any pe
cuniary assistance from any one. That rela
tive still lives, a very aged man, whom GSL.
Cameron has for more than 40 years visited
annually, as a duty.
Iu 1834, though scarcely of competent age
be had attained such a position and influence
that his party, then in tho ascendency in tie
Congressional district, proposed to uemiua.e
him for Congress, an honor which ho prompty
declined, as iuttrfering with the enterprise iu
which he was then engaged. He was appoin
ted Adjutant General of tho State in 1828, in
office which he filled creditably duriug Gov.
Shultz's term. And in 1831, unsolicited, he
was appointed by Gen. Jackson, as a visitor to
West Point, a compliment, at that time, tn
dercd only to the most Dromiuent citizens.
To no single man within her borders is Penn
sylvania more indebted for her great systems
of public improvement and public instruction.
Through his paper, and by his personal exer
tions and influence, ho sustained and encoura
ged these great meaus of wealth and progress.
Nor did he hesitate to invest his own mrans,
| when prosperity aud fortune dawned upon him,
in enterprises of groat public importance. In
1834 he originated aud carried to suecesful
completion, tho Harrisburg, Mount Joy and
Lancaster Railroad, surmouutiug difficulties
aud prejudices which would havo appalled and
1 paralyzed a man of ordinary energy and de
termination. In 1838 he was nominated tor
Congress, but declined. He was engaged iu
public enterprises from which ho would not
permit himself to be drawn aside, by any rou
siderations of office or personal elevation. In
1851 ha was uiaiuly instrumental in the forma
tion of the Susquehanna Railroad Comjiny,
now consolidated with tho Northers Ceiiral
Railway, by which the Capital of the tftate,
and all our improvements with those ol the
State of New York There was still another
link wanting to form a direct and continuous
Railroad from this point to New York <jty,
the great commercial metropolis of tho Uiiou.
Gen. Cameron's praotical mind soon suggeited
the mode aud manner of supplying this aant;
and the Lebanon Valley Railroad Cotn|aoy
was organized and that Road built, and low
consolidated with the Philadelphia and Had
ing Railroad.
In 1832 Gen. Cameron was elected Oaslier
of the Middletown Bank, a position whirhbo
held for tweuty seven consecutive years, tie
that about the year 1854, he was at the suae
time President of the Suaquebauua Rail&ad
Company, President of the OoonnonwetHh
Insurance Company, President of the Lebanon
Valley Railroad Company, and Casher of the
Middletown Bank, besides being Direotor and
Manager in several other institutions, and a
large private business of his own to mauage
and superintend. Yet notwithstanding the vast
labor and responsibility of these positions, he
performed the duties of tbem all satisfactorily
and successfully.
When Mr. Buchanan was called into Presi
dent Polk's Cabinet in 1845, Hon. George
Woodward was the csuous nominee of the
Democratic party, as his successor, and that
party had a majority of 17 or 18 on joiut. bal
lot ; yet Gen. Cameron, by the joint votes of
Whigs and Democrats, was elected to the U.
S. Seuate.
It was the most eloquent tribute that could
have been paid to the ability aud worth of any
mau. The Campaign of 1844 aroused probably
a bitterer party feeling than ever existed in
the State, yet we find within a few short
months afterwards, the representatives of both
political parties united upou him as the most
proper and fitting exponent iu the Senate of
the U. S. of the sentiments and the represen
tatives of the interests of Pennsylvania.—
When the President aud party at the following
session determined to violate all the pledges
made to the people of this State on the subject
of protection and to strike down her industry
by the repeal of the Tariff of 1842, he never
for a moment faltered iu his course. Party
proscription could dot deter, tho blandishments
of office could not seduce bim from the path
of duty and fidelity. With au ability aud
cou~ which surpassed his opponents, and
v me admiration of bis friends, he resisted
to the last the perpetration of this gieat wrong
to his native State. Aud such was the suc
cess of his efforts, that it was ouly by the de
fection, to call it by uo harder name, of oue of
Pennsylvania's own sons, that her bumili ttiou
was accomplished.
Gen. Cameron was again eleeted to the Sen
ate of the United States in 1857. The Demo
crats again had a majority in the Legislature.
The nominee of the part_, was Uol. John W.
Forney, who, as leader of the Democratic
hosts, just had emerged from the catupaigu of
1856, covered all over with glory, and had
moreover all the influence of Mr. Buchanan
the President elect, to sustain him.
From the earliest agitation of the questions
connected with negro slavery Gen. Cameron
has sympathised with the North. As an edi
tor, more than thirty years ago, he took his
position against the extension of human slavery
ovor free territory. While he was at all times
willing to concede to the South all their just
ri 'Lts and privileges under the constitution, be
had ever resisted the increase and extension of
slavery.
And when the Democracy of the North
abandoned this just and national position and
eutercd upon a crusade with the South, for the
spread of tho "particular institution" he aban
doned that party associated himself with the
Opposition to the Democracy.
Of the course of Gen. Cameron since bis
last election it is unnessary to speak; suffice it
to say, that it has commanded the teepoct of
his opponents, and inspired the confidence of
bis friends. Few members of tbat body are
held personally in higher regard and esteem
by men of all parties The same industry that
has characterized him through life, distinguish
es him there. His quiet unobstructive manner
—his affable and courteous deportment—his
fidelity and courage—his liberal and genial
hospitality win for him tho high personal re
gard in which he is held by all his acquain
tances.
Compelled from early youth to depend on
bis own exertions, accustomed to a life of
eoustaut labor, the habit of self-reliance—un
iemittiug industry with never failing resources
are his distinguishing traits. No man poros
es clearer ideas or firmer convictions ou all
the great questions of the day, none is more
respectful or deferential in the utterance ol
them, or more determined iu aohering to them.
When be writes or speaks it is always with u
full and clear apprehension of his subject, aud
his power of concentration is such as to com
press his ideas into tho smallest compass of
words without cither obscuring their meaning
or impairing their force.
In Pennsylvania he is regarded as the cham
pion of her peculiar interests. Identified as
he has been from early boyhood with her sys
tem of labor and development, ho understands
fully all her wauts, aud sympathises with all
her wishes.
Nor has he alone encouraged and sustained
her general aud public interests, but her indi
vidual labor aud enterprise has often felt bis
helping hand. Hundreds of her citizens new
prospering in business, owe their fortuue and
prosperity to the aid aud encouragement re
ceived cf General Camoron in their early
struggles.
With the record of such a life before him,
without leproach in his puolio career, and with
out a stain upon his private character, is it
strange or surprising that the people of Penn
sylvania, almost as with ODe voice, should
seek to attest their admiration of the man by
claiming for hioi tho highest honors of the
country/ Should that claim bo responded to,
wo doubt not that his native State will testify
its appreciation of his worth and fidelity by
such at vote lift no candidate ever receive
from her people. Aud should ho be elected to
the high office of President, wo feel warranted
in saying that Lis administration would be
marked by the samo wisdom and saga.ity, by
the same patriotism and devotion the great
interests of the country, that has fjitinguish
od him through life in all his relatious,- as a
citizen and a statesman.
The editor of an Indiana paper says,'more
villainy is onjoot.' We supposo tbo editor has
lost his bo.-se.
PYEMIC ELM.
(Specimen of the Contents of tho new work
by the editor of the "Louisville Journalen
titled PRKNTICEANA, just published, and which
will be sent, postpaid, on receipt of Una Dollar,
by DERBY & JACKSON, Publishers, New
York.)
The editor of a western paper recently fan
cied himself 'a live ox:' but since oar rough
haudling of him,he is beginning to conclude that
he is only jerked beef.
The 'Southern Mercury' say that Mr. P. O.
Thomas 'has received his commission as Post
master.' 8o there's a post —office gone to P.
O. T.
A Newbern paper says that Mrs. Alice Day
of that city was lately delivered of tour sturdy
boys. We know not what a Day may bring
forth.
A lady correspondent, who professes to be
horrified at the iudelicacy of our paper, threat
ens for the future to set her foot ou every copy
she sees. She had better not. Our paper has
i's iu if
The common opiniou is that we should take
good care of childrsu at all seasons of the year,
but it is well enough ia winter to let them
slide.
A party of our friends, last week, chased a
fox thirty-six hours. They aotually "rau the
thiDg into the ground."
Mrs. Charity Perkins, of New Orleans, came
near dying of poison a few days ago. A sister
of Charity was suspected of having administer
ed the dose.
A. K. says that He expects to be able in a
short time to pay everything he owes in this
world. Ay, but there's a heavy debt that he
has got to settle iu the other world. The:e"U
be the Dtvil to pay.
Mr. Z. Round, an old and valued friend of
ours, was recently elected magistrate iu Wis
cousiu. That, wa suppose, is what our Wis
consin friends consider squiring a circle.
A Mr. J. Black, declares for the dissolu
tion of the Union. Let him have a traitors re
ward:
"Hung be the heavens with Black."
The Ohio River is getting lower and lower
every day. It has almost ceased to run. All
who look at it can at once perceive that it ex
hibits very little speed, but a great deal of bot
tom.
Mrs. Lucy Hill complains, in an Arkansas
paper, that her nephew has trampled upon her
rights and feelings. The graceless young ras
cal shouldn't he allowed to trample upon his
aunt Hill,
A Canadian paper mentions the marriage of
Mr. Joseph Sterling to Miss Anne Sterling.—
Love strokes arc not usually severs, hut this
one, it is plain, has knocked an t out.
A Mr. Bentley has beeu indicted in Alabama
for striking a stranger with an axe. He says
he did'nt know hut tuat the stranger was a rob
ber. Ho didu't know, so he axed bim.
A quizzical editor in Arkansas, who rejoices
in the rather quizzical uame of Harry Hurry,
says that 'truth is generally slow progress.'
Probably it is ucver in such a Hurry as be.
A man in our State, who attempted to hug a
beautiful young woman, Miss Lemon, Las sued
her for striking him in the eye. Why should
a fellow squeeze a Lemon unless he wauts a
puLch *
Mr. and Mrs. Brewer, of Wayne County, have
twenty-two children. Thoirs is, perhaps, the
most extensive brewery in the West.
The 'Beaver Argus' records the marriage of
John Coburn, only three feet high. No wonder
he wanted to get spliced.
A man named J. S. Bill has set up a shaving
shop in one ot our westeru cities. We know
him of old. Wheuevcr he takes off bis beard,
bo shaves a bad Bill.
An impudent annonymous correspondent,
signing himself 'Ned Bucket,' expresses the wish
that we were dead. Very well—let him show
himself in person, and we pledge ourselves to
'kick the Bucket.''
A Southern lady has abandoned the Sbaker
establishment Dear Uopkiusville. to marry Mr.
James Beau, aged seventy-five. She must be
fond of drid beans.
A handsome young fellow in New York, in
great distress for want of money married last
week a rich old woman of seventy. He was no
doubt miserable for want of money, and 6b6 to!*
want of a husband; and 'misery makes strange
bedfellows.'
A father and son, Anthony and Thomas Screw
escaped on the 25th ult., from the Wetumpka
jail. There are two Screws loose.
A lady in Montreal, on the Ist, recovered
$2,000 of a Maj. Breckford for hugging and
kissing her rather roughly. She out to set a
high value on the money she got it by a tight
squeeze.
EXTRAORDINARY DAY'S WORK One of
the greatest feats of manual labor ever achiev
ed, within our knowledge, was performed yes
terday, by Mr. Thomas Ram bo, blacksmith, of
this city. During the usual working hours,
that is, from 7' A. M. to 12 M., and from 1 to
a quarter to 6, P. M.—9{ hours—he forged
two hundred and twenty-five horse shoes! Of
this number, twenty-seven were turned out in
the first hour. This feat, by hand, would ap
pear impossible, and is almost incredible, but
Mr. Estrbo did it, and who oan beat him?
On Saturday, Bonj. Gehres, in Liberty alley,
between Third and Fourth street, made 245
horse-shoe nails in six'y minutes by the clock,
without any assistance but bis hammer. The
work was done in the preaenee of several spec
tators, who were astonished at tho rapidity and
•kill-whicb it exhibited. — Reading Gaz.
VOL. 33, NO. 7.
A Si'icr LETTER.—One Col. Morrison, of
Illinois, recently made a villainous verbal at
tack upon the gallaGt Col. Bissell, at present
tbe Republican Governor of that State. The
Governor, who is uuro popular and as much
respected as aDy other man in the State, oloses
his letter to his assailant thus:
I< l uevea lure been guilty of secretly muti
lating and destroying the public records iD a
Recorder's office, in order to strengthen uiy
owu trumped up claim to a coveted piece of
land.
"I never wrote letters over fictitious signa
tures to a helpless and distant widow, depreci
ating tbe value oi her land that I might buy
it at one tenth its value.
"1 never attempted to frighten or swindle a
family of honest and respectable orphan chil
dren, by pretending that their father's title to
the farm he had left them wes defective and
void, in order to get & chance to buy St at a
tithe of its value. Nor did 1 ever falsely pre
tend to children similarly situated that I had
a valid tax title to the land left by their ft
ther, in order to boy it in the same way. These
are practices, tricks, to which I Dever descend
ed. Had 1 done so, then might tbe honest old
Ranger, Gov. Reynolds, have well said of me
as he did of Col. Morrison. 'lf that man man
ages to keep out of the penitentiary for twenty
years, he will be the richest man in Illinois.
"Nor is there aught in the Land Office rec
ords of tbe State, the reading of which need
cause me to blush. No one can real, in those
records opposite my name, 'forgery,' •forgory,'
'perjury,' 'perjury,' 'subornation of perjury,'
subornation of perjury,' &c., 4e. Were the
fact otherwise, thou I, too, might boast of my
30,000 acres of land, and be able to offer
§lOOO for the letters of my neighbor."
W.u. H. BISSEI..
Springfield, Jan. 6, 1860.
The New York Courier, alluding indignaat
ly to the expulsion of John Gr. fee, and oth
ers, from Madison County, Kentucky, very for
cibly remarks:
"Is there a record in any civilized country,
of any such outrage as this? It paralleled
by auy act of opprearion in Aus'ria or Hunga
ry? But disgusted and outraged as we are by
this whole proceeding, the Southern Press is
necessary for the preservation of the institu
tion of slavery ;n the slavtyholtling States.—
And yet with this admission, they cooly ask as
to permit slavery to be extended into the Ter
ritories. Of course the sole object in goingc
there, is to make the Territories slave States.
And what then? Why slavery can only be
protected in slave States precisely as it
is now protected in the existing slave States.
That is by punishing with tar aud feathers ev
ery maD who dare express a feeling in opposi
tiod to it, aud driving him from the State-, and
by sending forth whole communities who do
not happeu to consider slavery a religious in
stitution. and a blessing to all who partake of
it."
The plain matter of fact is that tLe slave
power not only demands that all the Southern
region, of uiiid and genial climate and rich
soil, shall be entirely given up to the oontroi
of the institution which thus crushes our or
tramples down all freedom of utterance or
even of though*, but insists that the Northern
majority shall not only permit, but has no
right to prevent its going iuto all unorganized
territory. Is it not so!
Go is Lamas !—Oil and after the 29th of Febru
ary inst., the ladies will be fully authorized to com
mence making love t# any gentleman they may
deem worthy of their bands, hearts and fortunes.—
Tbi year is called leap year, because it is the
lady's privilege to 'leap' into the arms of the matt
she fancies To prove this, we quota from an old
work, printed in 1660, entitled "Courtship, Love
and Matrimonie." In the chapt.r eutitled "Wbeu
ye girles shall sparke ye menne," the learned auth
or thus speaks:
"Albeit, it is nowe a pari ye Common Lawe ID
regard to ye social relations of life, that as oft u
as every bosextile year doth return, ye ladies have
ve sole privilege during the whole tinrait continueth
of making love unto ye men, which tiioy may do
either by words or looks, as unto them it seemeth
proper ; and moreover, no man will be eutitled to
ye benefit of clergy who doth refuse to accept ye
offer of a la lye, or who doth in any wise treat her
proposal with slight or contumely."
Therefore, ladies, you must comply with the law,
and, bringing your captives up to the altar, give
them the benefit of clergy.
WHO AllE THE TRAITORS 1
It will be observed by the proceedings in
U. S. Senate, that the Deuioorats have formal
ly endorsed the position taken by Gov. YV ise
and Mr. Falkuer, that the election of a Re
publican President would justify "the seizure
of Harper's Ferry Aru-ory" and armed resis
tance to the Federal Government. This they
have done by confirming Mr. Faulkner as Min
ister to France. The issue was distinctly made,
and several Democratic Senators made speech
es sustaining Mr. Faulkner's views and de
claring their concurrence iu toem. e are
gratified to see that the Republicans were all
on the side of Union, and Older. Here*
after, let it be remembered that the Democrats
have recorded themselves in favor ot commit
ting the same crime for which John brown was
hung, and in favor of armed resistance to the
will of the majority constitutionallyxpreasci.
A BEAUTIFUL REPLY.—A pious uiiu WAS
one day walking to the sanctuary with a New
Testament in his hand, when a friend who mot
hiua said.
'Good morning, Mr. Prioo.
'Ab, good morning,' replied he: 'l aui read
ing my Father's will as I walk along.
'Well, what has he left you?' said his t r,en ;
'Why he has bequeathed me a hundred fou,
more in this life, and iu the world to come lite
everlasting.'
This beautiful reply was the moans of com
forting his Christian friend, who was at t'uo Umo
in sorrowing uircumstauoes.