BY DAVID OVER. P a t1 fl|. DZ?~We take tbe following from a poem by <H. L Flash." And 1 have seen deai loving eyes Grow dark in death's eclipse— The golden ringlet lie unstirred Upon the breathless lips. 0 star-like eyes! O golden hair! 0 lips that showered kisses! 1 pine for want of tenderness. And faint for your caresses. And what is lett to satisfy My spit it's ceaseless yearning— To lay tbe ghosts of murdered hopes For evermore returning? O death! my last my only boy Relentlessly you've taken. And once again the cry goes up, "My God! I ana forsaken." Forgive me, Christ! that I did use The words which Thou hast spoken— Smite lightly with Thy chast'ning rod A heart already broken. Forgive me, God! if in my pain My reason was suspended— That in the ravings of my grief 1 have thy grace offended. "Forsaken!" her that breathes the word Denies Christ's intercession- Forgets the cross on Calvary, The bloody sweat and passion. "Forsaken!" no! that word should te The Christian's brighest token, Recalling all tbe love of him By whom it once was spoken. Then let tbe tempest rage in wrath, Its utmost terror spending: Why should 1 fear, while bright abovo The bow of hope is bending? I) Earth! your pains are but a dream! O Death! your gloomy portal, Tho' thronged with hideous images. Leads on to joy immortal. And so 1 turn my eyes above To seek for consolation, And find a light ne'er seen before, To cheer my desolation. 0 Brothers! groping in tbe dark, With hearts oppressed and aching, Look upward to the dawn of God, Which high above is breaking. And thou, my friend of early days, No more shalt hear rue sorrow; 1 'll stay my passions in their course, And from them wisdom borrow. Tbe bit? "rest sriefk that coi to me No more shall find me frowning— 'Tia mine to meekly bear the cross, And God's to do the crowning. SECTIONALISM OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. As the Democratic party, so called, is, to judge from what is going on at Charleston, very near its final dissolution, it may not be unsea sonable to take a slight retrospect of some points in its history which have a bearing upon the causes of its present extremity. Notwithstanding the horror of sectionalism which for several years past has been the chief stock in trade of the Democratic politicians, and the professions of nationalism in which those politicians have so freely indulged, it is nevertheless an undeniable historical fact that iu the original formation of the now expiring Democratic party, and during its first struggle for power, it was upon appeals to sectional pre judice that this same party mainly relied for rallying its partisans. With the Administration of the Federal Government by President John Quincy Adams, dignified, economical, and uncorrupt as it was, very little fault conld be found. Just as lit tle could cbjectiou be made to the political principles which he and|hi9 supporters profes sed, since they were the principles of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, of the two latter of whom John Quincy Adams had enjoyed the fullest confidence. As to the matter of na tionality, the supporters of Adams and Clay signalised their feelings ou that score by taking the name of National Republicans—a name at which their opponents used to sneer, espe cially the epithet national, as looking to as sumptions by the Fedoral Government of pow ers not granted to it by the Constitution. The supporters of the various defeated can didates who united to form what they oailed the Democr&tie party, not being able to fiud any solid grounds an which to base their con federation agaiDst Adams and Clay, appealed to the strong prejudice against New England, to which the course of its inhabitants during the long controversy with Great Lritain bad given rise. Mr. Adams was a new England man; the New England States had unanimous ly rallied to his support; Mr. Clay, in confed erating with New England, had forfeited all claim to Southern and Western coufidenoe, such were the sectional appeals constantly in the mouths of those who called themselves Democrats, and which went a great way towards the election of the candidate on whom they bad concentrated. It is next to be observed that not only did this party thus take scotional prejudice as a stepping stone to power, but that from the very moment of its success there commenced with in its own ranks a seetional struggle which has gone on from that time to this, till at last we find the party splitting into a Northern and Southern faction which can neither stand on the same platform, however artfully construct ed, nor run the same candidate for the Presi dency. Scarcely bad Gen. Jackson formed his Cabinet before a desperate struggle arose between Mr. Calhoun aud Mr. Van Buren, as to which of the two should control the policy of the Government. In this struggle, which, personal considerations apart, turned mainly on the tariff question", Mr. Van Buren, who represented the ttieu prevailing sentiment of the Free Labor States in favor of protection to domestic industry, carried the day over Cal houn, who had beeo induced to forego his form at opinions on this subjeot and to tall iu with A "Weekly Paper, Devoted to Literature, Politics, the Arte, Sciences, Agriculture, Ac., Ac—Terms: One Dollar and Fifty Cents in Advance. the prevailing current at the South in opposi tion to an; such protection. Mr. Van Buren having been proposed as the Democratic candidate to succeed Gen. Jack son as Presideut, the Southern wing of the party attempted the same mauoeuver against him which bad been successful agaiust John Quincy Adams. Advantage was taken of the agitation of the Slavery question, theu begin ning, and principally carried on to Congress by C'alhonu and other Southern members, to de nounce Van Buren as a Northern man, unfa vorable to the interests of the South; and on this occasion, and on this sectional ground, another Southern secession, in addition to that led by Calbouu, took place from the Demo cratic party. But these seced*rs or their rep resentatives, have most or all of them 6ince gone back iuto the Democratic ranks, and it is they principally who are the leaders in the dis organization now going on at Charleston. Down to the time when, under the auspices of Tyler aud CalbouD, the aDuexatiou of Tex as became a leading question iu our politics, the Northern section of tho Democratic party had pretty well held their own. Ou the ques tion of the right of petition they had made some disgraceful concessions, but on most oth er points they bad upheld the claim of North ern ideas, interest? uud sentiments to have their fair shard of influence on the policy of the nation. They experienced their first grait humiliation when, through the treachery and ambition of Gen. Cass aud the operation of the two-thirds rule, they found themselves obliged in the Convention of IS-U to drop Mr. Van Buren as Presidential candidate. This was the beginning ol an effectual sectional pressure brought to bear upon ite Democratic party by the slavebolding interest; acting un der tho encouragement ol Northern Presiden tial aspirants. Tho nomination of Frank Pierce might seem, from the circumstance that he was a Northern man. to indicate that the Northern section of the party had again recovered its influence.— But, Mr. Pierce wa* nominated merely on the strength of his entire ana total devotion to the slavebolding interest, aud on the priuciple of holding out to eveu third aud fourth-rate North ern politicians the prospect of the highest po litical position to be obtained, not by leadership, hut by subservience. Mr. Pieroe was, iu fact, not the candidate of the Northern Democrats, but the candidate of the slaveholders, to whose la*or he "wS'e indebted for both his uoonnatiou and his election. The effect of this new scheme of political re generation was soon apparent, in the introduc tioD by Mr. Douglas of tha Kansas-Nebraska bill; the attempt to entice the Northern De mocracy into its support, under the delusive pretext of Squatter Sovereigu'y, and the effort to coerce tho reluctaut by the whote weight of Executive influence. But this was a point to which the honest and intelligent portion of the party could not be brought. Tne passage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, including the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, indicated a fixed resolution to sectionaiize the Federal Govern ment, and to make it subservient to the exten sion and perpetuation of slave labor. The in telligent Demoorats in tho Free-Labor States refused to become parties to this procedure.— Seceding at once from an organization which could no longer be considered as anythiug but a Sham Democracy, they assisted in foiuiiDg the Republican party. What is now going on proves that they did this ooue too soou. They have washed their hands of the disgrace of Buch aoau's Administration, and they have escaped the humiliations of the Charleston Convention. —JV". Y. Tribunt. FAMILY JARS AT CHARLESTON". National Democracy, as embodied at Charles ton, is fast becoming a bore, its machinery seems badly geared, and its running works sadly iu need of lubrication. This is of course a less formidable nuisance to people who are re mitted to their virtuous beds at wholesome aud seasonable hours, no matter what may be doue or undone in the heated purlieus of political intrigue ; but to editors, compelled to sit up far ruto the small hours iu eager quest of de cisive intelligence from the seat of war, writing articles which the next flash of the electric current disjoiuts and annuls, a week of this kind of performance is a dose—a fortnight would be a surfeit. If the Convention can do nothing else, it ought at least to be competent to adjourn. We trust that salutary and cLeer ing opperation will not be muoli louger delay ed. If we cannot have a Democratic candi date for President, let us at least have peace. The more important inaooeuvers in the Con vention recorded in our columns to-day, sceui to us replete with bad faith. The vote of certain professed Douglas men, including the Soft Delegation from this State, to require 202 votes to nominate, iu a Convention reduced by voluut&ry secessions from 303 to 252, is not what the eurnest supporters of Mr. Douglas had a right to expect. Clearly, if the Dele gates from tho Cutton States are to be counted against a choice, they ought to be present and acting. It is not the fault of the majority that they have seen fit to bolt, and it should not be that majority's misfortune. If Alabama and her sympathizing neighbors choose no longer to he represented in tho Convention, they have a perfect right to stay out of it; but in that case their votes ought not to count against a choice. Let those States be in the Convention or out of it as they choose; but not in nod out of it at the same time. Then, the persistent attempts of the minority to dictate to the majority in the vital matter of a Platform, do not seem to be repelled as they should. A Convention is not authorized to make a creed for its party, but simply to de clare what that creed is. The Convention, by a decisive vote, after a full and earnest dis- BEDFORD. PA., FRIDAY. MAY 11, 1860. ! eussion, has formally adjudged that the Slfcve Code dogma and its concomitants form no part of the National Demooratio creed. That to be conclusive. To attempt to coerce the majority into saying, or even half saying, to he the Democratic creed which they hfe deliberately and formally decided is not, strikes us as at once unfair and arrogant. So do lie persistent and menacing intimations of oerWlit elaveholding delegations that, if this or that is not done or forborne as they diotate, they, tv°, will tolt. To boh may, under due provoca tion, be respectable; to threaten to bolt uniJitß tle majority wdl consent to be ruled by the uiuiority must be—as the threats are eath.'rt or otherwise—either insolent or despicable. The Convention, it is said, will adjourn oWsr —perhaps to Baltimore—at all event#, to Jure, and to some other place than Charleston. Tbe better course would bq to adjourn without div, leaving every Democrat free to name his ciam candidate and make his own platform. In the state ot dilapidation and desuetude into which the Democratic organization has fallen, ins would seem at once popular and politic. trust the year 1860 will witness the last ta sembhng of a National Convention to nominate candidates for the Presidency and Vice Pretfi deocy. JV. Y. Tribune. Strange but True Lore Story. In 184", there lived in the town of Lands&iit, Bavaria, a young mechanic named Louis S—— who had just arrived at the age of twenty-cue years. He became acquainted with a young woman the daughter of a wealthy citizen, noted for her beauty and many accomplishments. The two were soon deeply in love with each other, and were liv ing in the blissful anticipation of soon enjoy frig a world of happiness in wedded bliss. The matter was mentioned to the girl's father, who bed me very indignant at the presumption of the young man, who was poor, in asking the hand ofrhe daughter of one so wealthy as be. The yoang man was driven from the house, and threatened with personal violence should he return. With a sorrowful heart au| eyes wet with tears, Louis bade adieu to Susan, for that was the young girl's name, and set sail for America on the 18th of April, 1848, in the ship Calois. The ship was out two weeks, wildly tossed on many a rolling billow, when one stormy, dark night, the 27th ol April, 1848, she was struck by as En glish vessel, and in less than twenty minutes sunk to the fathomless depths of the ocean, carrying several of the passengers and crew to "that un discovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns." Just as the vessel was going down, Louis S and John Herbi>erger, who y-^the voyage had become intimate personal friends, plunged into the briny deep, and fortunately al most immediately got upon a large plank, and were quickly carried from the scene of dissas tcr. The English ship hovered around for several hours, and gathered up a number of tho passen gers of the Galois but Louis and Hershberger had, in their frail bark got beyond hailing distance, and the vessel went on her way without them, for thirty-six hours they wero on this plank iu the mid dle of the ocean, enduring all the horrors of anxiety, hunger and thirst, when they were picked up by the since ill-fated ship City of Glasgow, bound for Philadelphia, where they arrived on the Oth of May 1848. Hersbberger hired with a barher in Philadelphia, and Louis S came on foot to our neighboring county of Stark, where he worked two months, and tlieu came to this county and commenced work at his trade, as a partner in an established shop, lie was a very tine workman, sober end industrious, and soon gained the confi dence of his customers and neighbors. Tbe result was that he soon had all the money he" needed, and some to loan, which he was always careful to put in safe hands. In the year 1850, he made the acquaintance of a farmer's daughter, of this county, and, on the 29th of November of that year he was married to her. lie continued to pros per, and, ill 1852, purchased a fine farm, ami went to farming. In June last, his wife died, leaving four children- two boys and two girls—to battle the storms of life without a mother. News had been taken back to Germany of tbe loss of the Calois and most of the passengers, and among them Louis and young Hershberger. The girl, Louis' first love, was sorrow stricken with the sad news of Louis' supposed death, for she still hoped that fortune would favor them so that they might marry at some time. '-Hope springs eternal in the human breast," and it wasthisthat strength ened the young girl to hid farewell to her lover, and pray to Heaven that he might safely be carried over the pathless ocean; but when sad news of his death reached her ear she was for many months al most frantic, her rosy cheeks gave way for a death like pallor, and her friends feared that they would soon have to follow her to the grave. Time, how ever, hail its effect, and she finally apparently forgot the cause of her troubles. Many were the suitors that applied for her hand, but she refused them all. in the year 1854, lieishberger, who was a scholar and a fine writer, wrote a letter to a friend in Ger many, giving an account of the voyage, loss of the vessel, and rescue of himself and Louis S. This letter was published in a paper in German) which fell into the hands of the faithful girl, by which she learned that Louis had been saved; but whether he was yet living, and if still true to her put her in great suspense. Her father dhct in 1858 : leaving her a large fortune. In July, 1859, she was in a store in the town ot Landshut, and while wait ing on the merchant, who was engaged to sell her some goods, she pieked up a copy of JJer Duthchc in Ohio, a paper published by brother liaby, of Can ton, formerly of this county, and in it noticed the death of the wife of Louis S. She concluded this Louis was her old lover, and immediately she began to make preparations to sail for America and seek him out. She arrived in this country, at the house of Louis, on the iilst of December, and on the 10th of last month they were made happy by being uni ted in marriage at the house of the bridegroom.— Holme* County Farmer. AN INTERESTING DIALOGUE WITH A POOR MAN. —Stephen Whitney, who died iu New York recently, leaving ten millions, was once met by Jacob As tor, when the following dia logue ensuod: "Mr. Whitney, I hear you have retired from busiooss." This was after his retirement in 1837. "Yes," replied Mr. Whituey, "I havo re tired." "And how uiuch are you worth?" ioquired Mr. Astor. "About 95,000,000," replied Mr. Whit uey. After standing and thinking in silence for a moment, "Well," said Mr. Astor, "I don't know but it is just as well to retire on that STUB as it is to be rich " ARTEMUS WARD AMONG THE SPIR ITS. Artemus Ward, the showman, recently vis ited Berlin Heights, and thus describes an in terview with the spirits there assembled : I will here observe that Mrs. Ward is & in valuable woojun—tho pardner ot my goys and the shairer of my sorror. In my atsuoce she watches my interest <fe things with a Eagle Eye, and when i return she weloums me iu a affeoshunate atile. Truly it is with us as it was with Mr. and Mrs. Jngomar in the play, to wbit— 2 soles with but a single thawt, [ 2 harti; which lieet as 1. My nabors indorsed me to attend a Spere tooul Sircle at Squire Smith's. When I ar rived I found the west room full, includin all the old wades io the village and all the long bared fellers a4sed. When i went io i was s dooted with "hear cunts the benited wan," "hear cuius the unbeleever," "hear cuws the hory heded skuffer at truth," etsattery, etsat tery. Sez iwy trends its troo iwo hear and ■itow Bring on your Sperrets. The company th&n dratved round the table and the Sirkle kowweost to go it. They asked me if there was any body iu the Sperret land which i would like to talk with, & i said if bill Tbornp kius who was onst wy pardoer in the show biz ness was sober, i should like to convarse with him a fow periods. Is the Sperret of Wm. Ihowpkins present sed 1 of the long bared chaps, and there was 3 knox on the tabic.— Sez i William how goes it? lie sed things was rather ruf. Sez i air you in the show bizness W illiaw? and he sed he was. lie sed he & John Bunion was travlin with a side show in connekshun with Shakspeer, Jonson & Co.'s cousolerdated wenagery and circus, lie sed old Bun (weaning Mr. Bunion) stird up the aucrtuils agjd ground the origin while he teoded the door. Occashuuly Mr. Bunion sung a cowio song. The circus was doin mlddlin well. Bill Sbakspeer bad wade a hit with "Old Bob Ridly," and Ben Jonson was deli tin the people by his trooly great acts of horsemanship without saddul and bridal. Sez i William kan yu pa ma that $lB yu o we? &he sed no with lof the most tremendoous knox i ever cxperinsed. 1 then kawled fur mi grandfather Si lurned tliet he was weetin with fare succoss in the peenut biznes & liked it very well, altho the climit was rutber wartn. When the Sircle slopt they asked we what i iwowt f *, 5 oiy froda ive bin in the show bizness now going on to 23 years. You dewtlis beleevc the Sperret doctrin while I think its mixt. Just as soon as a man be comes a regler out & out Sperret rapper he quits orf work, lets his hare gro ail over his face & commeusis spungin his livin. He goze round scarin the wimmin folks, & little chil dren & diatroyiu the piece of mind of every famerlee he entors. i must say the regler per fessional Sperret rappets —them as makes a bizness of it—air abowt tbe most ornaryest set of cusses i ever encountered in my life.— So sayiog i put on my surtoot and went Lome. A HARD STORY. "It is just twenty years ago yesterday," said our uarator, "that a party of us fellcs went over to Cabokia creek, on a skating match.— The day was colder than ten icebergs ail stuck together, but the ice was as smooth as glass, and we made up our minds to have a heap of fun. Bill Berry was the leader of the crowd, lie was a tall, six footer full of pluek, and the best skater in all creation. Give Bill Ber ry a good pair of skates and smooth sailing aud he'd make the trip to Baffins Bay and back i in twenty-four hours, only stopping long enough at Halifax to take a drink. Well, we go to the creek and fastened our skates on, aud after i taking a good horn from Joe Turner's flask, started off in good style, Bill Berry in the j lead. As I was tellin' ye, it was a dognonncd coid day, and so we had to skate fast to keep I the blood up. There was little breath holes j iu the ice, and every now and then we would come near going into 'em. My skates got loose, and 1 stopped to fasten 'em. Just as 1 had finished bucklin' tbe straps I heard a nois. 1 looked up aud saw something shooting along on the ioe like lightning. It Has Bill Berry's head ! He had beeu goin' it like greased elec tricity, and before he knew it he was into one of them cussed holes. The force was so great as to cut his head off against the sharp corners of the toe. "It's all day with Bill Berry," said 1. "And all right too," said Jos Turner. Just as he got these words out of his mouth, 1 looked at Bill's bead, which had beeu going it on the ice, and all at onoe it dropped iuto another bole. We ran to it, and 1 heard Bill Berry say,"quick! boys, quick—pull me out!" 1 looked into tbe bole, and there, as true as I'm a sinner, was Bill Berry's body, which had sbooted along under the ice. It was so thund eriu' cold that the bead was froze fast to tbe body, and we pulled Bill out as good as new. He telt a little uumb at first, but after skating a wbile be was as the rest of us, and laughed over the joke. We went home about dark, ail satisfied with the day's sport. About niuo o'- clock iu tbe evening somebody knocked at my door and said I was wanted over to Bill Ber-, ry's. 1 put OD my coat and went over. There lay Bill's body iu one place and his head in another. His wife said that after he came home from skating, he sat down by tho fire to warm himself and whilo attempting to blow his nose, ha threw bis bead iuto the tireplaoe. The coroner was called that night, and the verdict of the jury was that 'Bill Berry came ro his death by skatiug too fast.' " A man who LBS no enemies is seldom good for anything. He is made of that kind of ma terial which is so easily worked that every one tries his hand in it. A sterling character— one who thinks for himself, and speaks what he thinks—is always sure to have enemies; they are as necessary to him as fresh air. A BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT. I It was night. Jerusalem slept as quietly amid her hills as a child upon tbe breast of its i mother. The noiseless sentinel stood like a statue at his post, and the philosopher's lamp burn ed dimly io the recesses of his chamber. But ; a moral darkness involved the nations in its ! uriliebted shadows. Reason shed a faint glim - ' meriog over the minds of men, like the c2d ; nd insufficient shining of a distant star. The immortality of man's spiritual nature was un i known, his relations unto heaven undiscovered, : and his future destiuy, obscured in a cloud of ■ mystery. It was at this period that two forms of ethe ' rial mould hovered about the lost of God's , chosen people. They seemed like sister angels i seut to earth ou some embassy of love. The ; one of majestic staturo and well formed limb, ] which her snowy drapery hardly concealed, iu her erect, bearing and steady eye, exhibited the highest degree of strength aud confidence.— Her right arm extended in an impressive gesture upward where night appeared to have placed ber darkest pavilliou, while on her left reclined her delicate companion, in form and countenance j the contrast of the other, was drooping like a ; flower moistened by refreshing dews, and her ! bright but troubled eyes scanned them with I ardent but varying glances. Suddenly a light ! like the sun flashed out from the heavens, aud j Faith and Hope hailed with exulting songs the j ascending star of Bethlehem. Years roiled away, and the stranger was seen in Jerusalem. He was a meek unassuming man, whose happiness seemed to consist in acts of benevolence to the human race. There were deep traces of sorrow ou his countenance, though no one knew why he grieved, for he lived in the practice of virtue, aud was loved by all the good and wise. By and by i; was rumored that the stranger worked mitacles, that the blind saw, that tbe dumb spake, the dead leaped, tbe ocean moderated its cbafiug tide ; the very thunders articulated, Wis the son of God. Envy assailed him to death : Slowly and thickly guarded he ascended the Lill of Calvary. A heavy, cross beot him to ; the earth. But Faith leaned on his arm, and j Hope dipping her pinions iu his blood mounted J to the skies. THE POOR CUSTOMER. "How much butter ?" "One half pound, if you please." "And sugar ?" "Half a pound." "And those orangeo?" "Half a dozeu, sir." "You go by the halves, to-day. Well, what else ? Be speedy, ma'am —you're keeping bet ter customers waiting." "Half a peck of Indian meal, and one fine French roll," said the wowau ; but her lip quivered, and she turned to wipe away a trick ling (ear. 1 looked at her straw bonnet, all broken, at her faded shawl, Ler tbiu, stooping form, her coarse garments, and 1 read povbrty on all— extreme poverty. And tho pallid, pinched features, tbe mournful but once beautiful face, told me that the luxurios were uot for her. An invalid looked out from his catrow win dow, whose pale lips louged for the cool,' fresh oraL o e, for whose comfort the tea, butter, and roll were bought, with much sacrifice. 1 saw htm sip tbe tea, and taste tbe dainty bread, and praise the flavor of tho sweet butter, and turu with brightening eye to the golden fruit. 1 heard him ask her, kneeling at tbe smoky hearth, to taste them with bim. As she set the broken pan on edge to bake her coarse loaf, I beard her say, "By-aud-by, when lam hungry." But "by-and- by," when tbe white lids of the sufferer were closed in sleep, I saw her bend over bim with a blessing in her heart. And she laid tbe remnant of tho feast carefully by, and ate her bread unaioist e&ed. I started from my reverie; the grocer's hard eye was upou me—"l'oa are keeping better cus tomers waiting." Oh! bow I longed to tell him how poverty and persecution, contempt and soorn, could not dim tho heart's fiue gold, pu rified by maDy a trial; and that woman, with her little wants und holy sacrifices, was more iD the sight of God than many a truiopct tongued Dives who gave that ho might be known of men. SINGULAR TRADITION. Among the Seminole Indians there is a sin gular tradition regarding the white man's origin and superiority. They say that when the Great Spirit made the earth, he also made three men, all of whom were of fair complexion and that after making them, ho led them to the margin of a small lake aud bade them leap therein. Ooe immediately obeyed and came from the water purer tban before be bathed, the second did not leap in until the water bad become slightly muddy and when he had bathed he oame up copper colored j the third did not leap iu until the water became black with mud, aDd came out with its own color. Then the Great Spirit laid before them three packages of bark and bade them choose, and out of pity for bis misfortune in color be gave •.ho black man the first choice. He took hold of each of the packages and haviug felt the weight, chose tbe heaviest; the copper colored one then chose the second heaviest, leaving the white man the lightest. When the packages were opened the first was found to contain spades, boes, aud all the implements of labor; the 6ecoud enwraped hunting, fishing aud war like apparatus, the third gave the while UIBD pens, ink and paper—the engiue of the mind x —the mutual lueDtal improvement—the social | link of humanity, the foundation of tbe white 1 man's superiority. VOL. 33. NO. 19. What Democracy Is. The North American makes and elaborates some very strong points against the Democracy, which, when condensed, amount to about these: 1. Democracy is the only parry that contains and encourages, either by silence or by applause, great numbers of avowed disuDionists. 2. It is the only party that contains any advocates of the re-opening of the slave trade. 3. It is the only party that steadily takers fljibusterism, wars, and annexations, all tending to destroy good order aud the Uatou, aud all meant either to strengthen slavery, feed the lust of plunder, or retrieve a desperate campaign- 4. It is the only party that has renounced every doctrine, and broken every compromise, held good by all for sixty years, and that solely for forcing slave labor into the territories. 5. It is the oniy party that has perpetuated or countenanced so great an outrage as the three years of despotic and desperate effort to "crush out" the senti ments of (be citizens of Kansas. 6. It is the only party that has constantly and shamefully employed fraud or force at the polls. Tho very charge of such infamy has rarely been formally brought against any branch of the Opposition. The democratic contestants for scats in Con gress and the Legislature always limit them selves to defence and exculpation. But from Plaquemtue to ArcostGok, aud from oar Navy Yard to Oxford aud Pembina, their frauds are notoriously free and flagrant. 7. While no par ty is entirely guiltless of legtolative corruption and political proscription, democracy has so far nearly monopolized the business. B.*Tbe most important point of all for Pennsylvacian3, ex cepting that of disuuiouism, is that democracy stands pledged to free trade by its general prin ciples and its general action. Not all of the Opposition are protectionists; but almost all protectionists are of the Opposition, and the only hope of American Industry is through them. A DRUNKARD'S BRAIN.— The stattling doctrine taught in "Youmau's basis of prohi bition," is fully corroborated by the following passage from the Boston MedicaJ Jouru&i: Uyrti, by far the greatest anatomist of the age, used to say that he oculd distinguish in the darkest room, by one stroke of the scalpel the brain of the inebriate from that of the person who had lived soberly. Now and then he would congratulate his olass upon the pos sesseasiga cf a drunkard's brain, admirably fit ted, from its hardness and more complete pre servation, for the purpose of demonstration.— When the anatomist wishes to preserve a hu man bram for any length of time, he effects his object by keeping that organ in a vessel of alcohol. From a soft, pulpy substance, it then becomes comparatively hard} but the inebri ate, anticipating the anatomist, begins the in durating process before death—begins it while the brain remains the consecrated temple of the soul—wiiile its delicate and gossamer tis sues still throb with the pulse of heaven bom light. Strange infatuation, thus to desecrate the godlike 1 Terrible enchantment, that dries up all the fountains of generous feeling, petrifies all the tender humanities and sweet charities of life, leaving only the brain of lead, and a heart of stone. Is THE WOULD A MISTAKE /—One of the saddest mistakes which the good people hare made, is io supposing the world to be a mis take. To these people—and their number is not small—the earth is but a theatre of pain and sickness, sorrow and death. Joy is illa sive, pleasure a cheat, laughter a mockery, and happiness a thing impossible, and not cveu to be looked for on this side of the grave.— The performance of ail duty is the 'taking up' of what they eall a 'cross/ They are actually afraid to be happy, under an overshadowing impression thai they have no right to l-e hap py in this life. They believe there is some thing intrinsically baa in the world that they inhabit, and all the joy that proceeds from it. They have an idea that the moral evil which afflicts the human race has siruck in. To them life is a trial—severe, unrelenting, perpetual. All that seems good and graceful and glorious in the world is a hollow sham, for the decep tion of the unwary and the ruin of the un wise. A PROFITABLE GRAPE VINE.—A rather large story is told by an exchange, to the ef- * feot that a woman iu the county of Sauta Bar bara, California has one grape vine which, iu a single year bore 5000 bunches of grapes, yielding §4OOO. When a girl, on leaving Monterey for her present home, she picked up a vine cutting to drive her mule. This cutting she planted on her arrival, aud after a lapse of seven years, the foregoing is the result. O.*E OF TOE IRRESISTIBLES.—Anambo, an African prince, visiting England, received so many attentions from a celebrated belle of London, that in a moment of tenderness, he could not refrain from laying bis hands upon his heart and exclaiming, 'Ob, madam, if Heav en bad ODly made you a negress, you would have been irresistible" Lime is good for top dressing around fruit trees, when used in a mode into quantity, but white washing trees is in the main injurious.— Washing the trees with lye will kill the bark louse quite as effectually, and not close the pores as lime docs. Prentice aays be has heard of but one old woman who kissed her cow, but he knows of mauy thousand young ones who have kissed very great calves. Out iu Illinois au editor gives notice that "there will be no paper this week," as bis wife is using his scissors to half-sole bis casaiuiers with.
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