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FOR GOVERNOR,
Hon. WM. P. PACKED, of Lyobining.
FOR CANAL 0076tSSIONF.R.
NIMROD STRlClititikatb, of Chester.
Sbipriienta of Coal.
The shipments of coal-from the Broad Top
mines, for the week ending Thursday, June
4, were 2,412 tons, for the year 34,625 tons.
To Advertisers
TN Globe, having a larger circulation than
any other paper published in the county,
affords business men and all others having
anything to-purchase or dispose of, an excel
lent advertising medium. Its subscription
list embraces a large portion of the substan
tial farmers and thrifty mechanics and labor
ing men of the county, and those availing
themselves of its columns cannot fail, in the
end, to be amply remunerated for any ex
pense thereby incurred.
To Correspondents.
Communications intended for publication
in The Globe, must come direct to the office,
accompanied with the writer's name. And
as it is our wish to give, hereafter, as much
of the local news of the county as we can
procure, we would be pleased to have a cor
respondent in every township in the county,
who will communicate to us every occurrence
in his neighborhood worthy of note. We do
not desire a long and carefully prepared com
munication, detailing unizecessary particulars;
but merely the substance of the matter in
tended for publication, and though it may
not be couched in the choicest words nor
dressed in the most elegant style of language,
it will be thankfully received, corrected and
the author's name withheld from the public,
if desired. We should like especially to
have a weekly correspondence from Alexan
dria, Spruce Creek, Barree and Jackson town
ships, Shirleysburg, Cassvillo and Broad Top.
Clergymen and others will do us a favor by
sending us notes of all marriages and deaths
occurring in their respective districts.
AMERICAN STATE CON VENTION.—The AMer
lean State Convention met at Fulton Hall,
Lancaster City ; on Wednesday morning last,
for tht purpose of nominating candidates for
Governor, Canal Commissioner, and Judges
of the Supreme Court. The Convention was
permanently organized by the appointment
of Daniel McCurdy, of Allegheny, as Presi
dent; E. C. Wilson, of Dauphin, and Samuel
Keneagy, of Lancaster, as Vice Presidents;
William M. Nichols, of Philadelphia, as Sec
retary, and Mr. Thomas, of York, as Assis
tant Secretary.
The following are the nominations made
by the Convention:
For Governor—lsaac liazlehurst, of Phila.-
deiphia.
Supreme Judges—Jacob Broom, of Phila
delphia, and Jasper E. Brady, of Allegheny.
For Canal Commissioner—Joseph Linde
man, of Berks.
LANDLORD'S DUTIES.—Judge Pearson, of
Harrisburg, has decided that landlords were
bound to accommodate all persons who ask
for it, so long as they have room; thatit made
no difference if the applicant was a person of
mistrustful appearance—taverns were regar
ded by law as places for the accommodation
of travelers, and that their proprietors have
no right to turn any away, no matter wheth
-6r they think them able to pay for their lodg
ing or not. His Honor said this was clearly
the object of the law, and no license would
hereafter be granted. where it was known
that this part of the landlord's duty had not
been complied with.
THE VIRGINIA ELECTION.—Some weeks
must necessarily elapse before the official re
turns of the late election in Virginia can be
obtained, At present it is sufficient to know
that the democracy of the Old Dominion have
swept the State by an overwhelming majori
ty. They elected their State ticket by a ma
jority which, we think, will not fall short of
thirty thousand; they have elected their can
didate for Congress in every district, and have
secured both branches of their Legislature
by increased majorities,
WIT" We learn that the business men of
Washington City, are about raising a fund
of $lO,OOO, which they offer to any person
who - will inform them of the cause of the
National Hotel malady. Some of the most
learned of our medical men have labored and
studied hard to decipher this mystery, but so
far have failed.
PRETTYMAN'S DAGUERREOTYPE GALLERY.-
We lately visited the Daguerreotype Gallery
of Mr. E. P. PRETTYM.AN, and were shown
several as fine specimens of likenesses as we
have ever seen----certainly equal to, if not sur
passing any ever before taken in the " an
cient borough." The excellent quality of the
Daguerreotypes taken by him, is worthy of
notice, and with his extensive facilities, many
improvements, and his fixed determination
to make perfect pictures, it is no wonder that
his rooms are daily visited by ladies and gen
tlemen, in search of a truthful and unfading
likeness. He takes daguerreotypes, ambro
types and portraits on glass, at extremely low
prices. Call and be satisfied.
From the Phila. Pennsylvanian
The State, and her Destiny.
One of the great errors of political parti-
Zanship, which should call for constant watch
fulness, in order to restrain its evil conse
quences, is the idea that at present Vrevails,.
that everything connected with Government
should yield to the success of mere party no
tions, however erroneous in principle and dis
astrous in effect they may appear to the cor
rect thinker in political economy. It is a
difficult matter to avoid the tyranny of par
tizanship; but still there are pathways which
guide to National wealth and greatness that
cannot be diverted from their *ell settled
course. They are so absolute in their require
ments, that they admit of no deviation. If
strictly pursued, wealth and power are the
certain results. What State ever rose to per
manent greatness that long continued to dis
regard the rules which govern prosperity ?
Nations and Commonwealths are but exten
ded families; each requiring the same care,
and subject to the identical rules, which con
trol well regulated' families. , Political econ
omy and domestic economy are synonymous,
both having the same object in view—the wel
fare of the community. What prudent man,
engaged in business, holds on to that portion
of it which consumes the whole profits of all
other branches ? There are many evidences
of insanity beside raving, and it often hap
pens that the quietly mad are more incurable
than the boisterous maniac. So it is that
National errors, patiently submitted to, in
time become a morbid disease, admitting of
but a single remedy. The Chinese exhibit
this condition of morbidness, and the cure is
only in blood-letting. We in Pennsylvania
have just escaped that deplorable state of in
sanity by an act of wise legislation, which
should have been adopted many years ago.—
The determination to sell the Main Line of
State Improvements, gives evidence of return
ing reason, and a persistance in this course
will soon establish a healthy action of both
brain and blood.
The reasons which induced Pennsylvania
to engage in the construction of her public
works between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh,
have of late years been lost sight of, or have
not been properly considered. Not a half
century since, the great lakes which traverse
a large portion of our empire, were almost
undisturbed by human appliances, except the
ripple caused by the bark canoe, and. the rude
paddle of the Indian. Ohio was then an in
fant, helplessly feeble; and Indiana., Illinois,
Missouri, Kentucky and their prolific Wes
tern sisters, were scarcely in an embryo con
dition. Under the magic influence of civil
and religious liberty, thousands of hardy pi
oneers left the homes of their childhood and
the land of their nativity, and sought the
prairies of the West, that their worldly pros- ,
peets might be benefitted, and their conscien
ces unrestrained. Suddenly, an empire sprang
into existence. Communication by the usual
routes of bad roads and long rivers were
found to be almost impracticable for heavy
burdens. The Conestoga wagon, with its
slow movement, between this city and Pitts
burgh, and the flat boat on the Ohio river,
were then believed to be the paragons of use
fulness. A single idea in the mind of FITCH',
which was subsequently elaborated by Fun
roN, peaceably 'revolutionized all water com
munication by rivers, and oceans were made
subservient to its uses. JAMES CLARE, of our
own State, and CLINTON, of New York, saw,
in perspective, that even mountains were but
slight impediments to slack water navigation,
and that lift-locks could overcome the Alle
ghenies. The demands of trade required
that these should be scaled, and science car
ried the necessity into execution. Canals,
beginning on the Atlantic border, and end
ing in the streams which encircle the West,
buoyed upon their bosom the freighted wealth
of the East, and the latter received in return
the cereals and stock that the boundless West
produced in profusion. In its day, the con
eeption of this mode of conveyance was a.
grand one, and richly has it repaid its adop
tion. But, in time, a new and superior idea
arose, springing out of the suggestive char
acter of steam, and railroads soon demon
strated their usefulness, if not absolute ne
cessity, Canals had served the purpose of
their construction. The human mind, in its
progress towards perfection, is never satis
fied, and in contrasting three miles an hour
with thirty, resolved not to bear the former
trammel. Everywhere throughout the world
steam and the iron rail are ignoring the pre
tensions of internal water communication:—
The latter can only be subsidiary to the for
mer, and may never again rise to an equali
ty. Time, space, individual selfishness, and
general prosperity, are all in favor of rail
roads over canals, and therefore, with such
odds in their favor, steam and the rail must
triumph.
But Pennsylvania soon discovered that she
must construct a railroad, in connection with
het line of improvements, if she would con
tend for the riches of the WCst. Crude minds,
but half burthened with information, devised
a disjointed scheme of railroad, and made it
traverse the most difficult route. Inclined
planes, sufficient in number and extent to ap
pal the senses, were both projected and exe
cuted, as if in mockery of natural laws and
the hope of gain. An attempt was made to
play with mountains, as if they were mole
hills; but nature admits of no such freaks of
folly, and the consequences were seen in the
absorption of a great portion of the State's
revenue from other quarters, to maintain a
positive evil. 'How long is such a loose eye
tern to - prevail ? The taxes have become
frightful, with no prospect of abatement, so
long as the State is willing to descend to the
mere condition of a toll-gatherer. Her agents
may be perfectly honest, and we are willing
to believe that the large majority are so; but
all experience proves that it takes individual
enterprise and supervision to make public
improvements profitable. Are heavy draw
backs upon internal commerce, in the shape
of taxes upon merchandize, for State purpo
ses, to be continued forever ? We had sup
posed that our lines of canals and railroads
were constructed with the view of fostering
trade and improving the condition of our peo
ple. It would seem that we have been mis
taken. Under the destructive tendency of
former legislation, merchandise was placed
under the ban of proscription, and restrictive
measures were adopted to keep it without the
limits of our Commonwealth. Salt was per
mitted to pass free, or nearly so, over our
public works, and as a consequence more salt
took that route than was consumed in the
whole United States. Every article seemed
to be converted into salt, while passing over
our works; but became merchandise of vari
ous sorts before reaching its destination.—
This . fact alone, without considering the re
ported dishonesty of many of the State's
agents, is sufficient to explain the annual loss
of several hundred thousand dollars to the
public treasury. While embarrassment sat
heavy upon our finances, all good citizens
were willing to bear onerous taxation ; but
when the necessity for this ceased, then the
demands of trade should have been consulted,
and all superfluous taxation removed. Was
this done ? Not until the late session of the
Legislature, when a wiser policy took its rise.
New York had several years before discover
ed the injurious effect of taxing trade upon
her canals and railroads, and true to her own
interest, she immediately abolished the per
nicious practice. This was inviting trade to
traverse her limits, and richly has she been
rewarded for her liberality. We in Pennsyl
vania have now started upon the same road
to prosperity, and nothing should be permit
ted to interfere that will mar our success.—
The clamors of an interested few must not
be taken for the voice of the State; for those
who have least at stake in the community,
generally make the most noise. The wants
of trade demanded that the Main Line should
be sold, and the response from those who bear
the burthen of taxation was instantaneous
and approbatory. To Philadelphia, as a com
mercial mart, and to the State as a manufac
turing and agricultural division of the Union,
it was of the first importance that the Main
Line should pass out of the hands of thi
State, because it could never be managed,
under such control, without a great loss to
trade and profit. We shall pursue this sub
ject further.
From the Phila. Pennsylvanian
The Sale of the Main Line.
In discussing the prudential action of the
late legislature of Pennsylvania, so far as it
relates to the sale of the Main Line, we can
appeal with confidence to our columns for
years past, to prove that we have invariably
sustained those measures of public policy
which were most likely to advance the inter
ests of Philadelphia and the State generally.
That which strictly belongs to partizan poli
tics, we have never failed to use for party
purposes; but we cannot consent to aid in
making matters which belong to the aggre
gate of the people in a business capacity, sub
servient to the mere scramble for office. The
impression sought to be created by an inter
ested few, that the sale of the Main Line to
private individuals, or a chartered Company,
will be injurious to the Democratic party, is
the veriest fallacy that can obtain possession
of anything short of an addled pate, or utter
ly selfish heart. The fact is precisely there
verse. From the day of the completion of
the Public Works up to the present moment,
the bitter strife for position on them, has
caused more difficulty in the Democratic ranks
than any thing else beside. Counties which
should have been permanently with us in
polities, have suddenly changed their front,
merely because some dishonest Superinten
dent has been removed, or the political claims
of an unworthy person unregarded by Con
ventions or Canal Commissioners. Instances
are fresh in our memory where large and ex
cited bodies of men have attended the sittings
of the Canal Board, and threatened a disunion
of the Democratic party, unless their favor
ite, who attended more to their personal in
terest than he did to that of the State, was
continued in office, even after his corrupt
practices bad become manifest. It is a noto
rious fact, that wherever there was much pat
ronage along the Line, there were great
abuses, and constant danger of a, disruption
of our party. Men whose characters had be
come infamous, under the power of threats,
were held in position, and the Democratic
party thereby both weakened and brought
into discredit. The experience of every ob
servant man teaches him that, in this coun
try, where every citizen has the privilege to
vote, and where multitudes are candidates for
office, because they are supposed to have equal
claims to them, the possession of patronage
is always injurious to its dispensor. For ev
ery fortunate applicant or candidate for office,
there are at leaSt ten disappointed, who be
lieve their claims and merits superior to him
who obtained the position. This always acts
disadvantageously to a party; but more es
pecially so at this day, when the mad rush
for office, by all sorts and conditions of men,
NO. 11.
would seem to indicate that principles are
entirely lost sight of in the desire for spoils.
The official who has places to bestow, is re
ally to be pitied. Act as best he may, de
traction will follow him, and even his own
personal friends will often become censorious.
It is a maxim in ethics, that he who makes
one friend, and creates two enemies, plays a
losing game—for the vigilance and zeal of
the latter are unceasing and tireless. They
derive pleasure from the very hostility of
their labors, and are content with nothing
less than the political ruin of him who failed
to discern their merits. How much greater
the loss when ten. enemies are made for one
friend ? The poet has truly said, that human
power cannot evade the patient search and
vigil long of him who treasures up a wrong.
It is this imperfection in our nature which
makes patronage so dangerous to both per
sons and parties in this country. The masses
have begun to think, because education is
more generally diffused than formerly, and
names are fast losing their identity with things.
It is only in times of high excitement that
the judgment of the million can be moved,
and, even then, the operating cause must be
based . on seeming right and justice. It is
idle now, in the general quiescence of party
feeling, to hope for success in any measure
that runs counter to the cold dictates of rea
son. The attempt, therefore, of boisterous
demagogues and selfish officials to make the
sale of the Main Line a party measure, is
worse than absurd. It is cruelty to the party
of which they profess to be members, and an
outrage upon the rights of our citizens gen
erally, who have a common interest in the
public improvements.
We have already stated, that the object in
constructing the public works of our State,
was to facilitate intercourse between the sev
eral sections of Pennsylvania, and give us a
connection with the great and constantly grow
ing West, that we might invite trade to our
towns and cities. Where there is so much
competition between the rival States of Mas
sachusetts, New York, Maryland and Penn
sylvania, for the trade of the Western region,
there must of necessity be great inducements
held out to that traffic, in order to make it se
cure. We have the advantage in shortness
of route; but this has been more than coun
terbalanced by the continual attempts to tram
mel commerce over it with unusual taxation.
The three mill tax on the Central Road was
a folly, amounting to an abomination, because
it prevented the Pennsylvania Company from
entering into the most vigorous contest for
the Western trade. It would have been much
better had the sum raised by this objectiona
ble mode of taxation been assessed upon
some other species of property. Discrimina
tion against commerce is a ruinous policy
whenever carried into effect, and the fate of
nations sunk into insignificance, warns us of
the error. The good sense of the people, un
ceasingly importuning the Legislature, has
at length produced a curative, and the same
good sense will rebuke the petty efforts of
shallow agitators who only live in the public
eye by their senseless clamors about party
fidelity.
Nothing would add more to the strength of
the Democratic party, than to have the State
entirely free from the supervision of our in
ternal improvements. Local strife, arising
out of the dispensation of patronage, would
altogether cease and the man of correct mor
al and political principles would not have his
sensibilities wounded by the knowledge of
frequent recurrences of official delinquencies,
or the fact staring him in the face, that the
profitable portion of the line is unable to
make up the difficulty .of another portion.--
The argument of those opposed to the sale of
the Main Line, that the three mill tax would
in time pay the larger part of the interest on
the State debt, is fallacious. The continu
ance of that tax would inevitably embarrass
traffic, and in the struggle for the carrying
trade, our Southern and Northern sister cities
would derive all the advantage of our perti
nacious blindness and egregious folly. They
know that trade must be courted in these
days of competition, or it will speedily glide
into other more liberal channels ; and the con
sciousness of this fact makes them chary in
their legislation.
Business, like religious belief, should be
kept out of politics. The demagogue and the
fanatic may think otherwise, but the cool de
cisions of judgment and the settled interest
of mankind, are both clear as to its propriety
and advantage. Any attempt to make all
other relations of life blend with partizan
tactics, must bring ruin upon the party that
adopts such unwise policy and contempt and
discomfiture on the restless projector of so
dangerous a scheme. The threat to make
the repeal of the law, for the sale of the Main
Line, a question at the October election, should
be indignantly met by every true Democrat.
No well-wisher of our party could desire such
an issue, nor should the Gubernatorial and
' Legislative contest be ladened with such an
objectional question. Let us triumph, as of
old, upon the justice of our principles, and
spoil the trade of demagogues by rejecting
all selfish issues. We shall still continue the
discussion of this subject.
There is nothing purer than honesty;
nothing warmer than love; nothing more
bright than virtue; and nothing more stead
fast than faith. These united in one mind,
form the purest, the sweetest, the richest, the
brightest, the holiest, and the most steadfast
happiness.
EWe should never wed an opinion for
better for worse; what we take upon good
grounds we should lay down upon better.
The Failure of Walker in Nicaragua.
The Cincinnati Enquirer in referring to
the failure of Gen. Walker in Nicaragua, says
it predicted such a result a year ago, and that
it became realized when he failed to obtain
the sanction and sympathy of the natives
and the recognition of the Government of the
United States. During the eventful and va
riable course of his operations, the hope would
sometimes rise in our hearts that he would
triumph over the terrible difficulties in his
path. We knew the man—that his motives
were not sordid or base—that he was prompt
ed by the ambition to associate his name with
the successful experiment of inoculating His
pano-Americano decline and imbecility with
Anglo-American energy and progressiveness,
and. we believed that such a success would
be a great benefit to mankind, and particu
larly to 'our own country. The Enquirer
adds:—
As to the morality of the scheme, we could
see but little distinction between it and other
enterprises to extend Anglo-Saxon civilization
and colonization. Those who now lavish
upon Walker the vilest terms of abuse, are
themselves enjoying the results of like schemes
of conquest and colonization.
There is no better mode of determining
this point than to consider what would be the
judgment of the world if he had triumphed.
The cultivation of the waste fields and deser
ted mines of Nicaragua by American capi.:-
tal, industry and enterprise—the introduction
of these institutions, social and political,
which have achieved such wonderful results
in other parts of the country—would have
wrought a change in the condition of this
new, poor, desolate war and poverty-stricken
region which would have given immortality
to the chief who had originated and consum
mated it. Nor would the world dwell with
much concern upon the many lives lost and
treasure expended in the execution of such a
scheme.
But the enterprise has foiled, and now Wal
ker is, of course, held up to the execration of
the world.
Well, he says in his speech at New Orleans,
that he has not abandoned his scheme, and
we know he is a man of his word. When
we remember that he entered Nicaragua with
only fifty-six followers, and. maintained him-
Pelf for two years against internal and exter
nal enemies—against so many obstacles—
chief of which was the obstinate refusal of
Mr. Marcy to give him the encouragement of
a recognition by our government of his, as
the government de facto of Nicaragua—we
feel quite well satisfied that when he resumes
his position on the Isthmus,- backed by such
aid as he will be able to command now from
the prestige of his name—with the well-un
derstood sympathy of the present Adminis
tration of our Government—he will finish
the work which he has been compelled to sus
pend, not abandon. This isthmus is bound
to fall under the control of our people. Wal
ker is the mere pioneer of a movement which
twenty years hence will have achieved this
great result. Those who now abuse, vilify
and denounce him, will then change their
tone, and marvel that they could ever have
been so short-sighted and narrow-minded.—
They will then be as difficult to discover as
the opponents of the annexation of Texas
now are.
Meantime, Walker is not the man to rest
in inglorious inactivity. His intense ambi
tion and earnestness will not be content with
the usual career of youth. Devoid of the ap
petites and tastes of our young men general
ly—ardently ambitious, and purely intellec
tual—earnest, devoted, patriotic and coura
geous—utterly insensible to those ties and
weakness which disqualify men for enterpri
ses so full of the perilous, horrible and har
rowing—William Walker is destined either
to write his name in broad and legible char
acters on the history of our race, or to sink
into a premature but not inglorious grave.
A Nauseating FIU.
The Delaware County American, which
suffered itself to be drawn into the slough of
Republicanism, manifests great uneasiness
over the position of the Republican press. It
says:
Honest men must blush to acknowledge
that there are newspapers in our State which,
while they pretend to advance the right, by
distracting the just plans of its friends, en
courage the wrong. We have striking illus
trations of this in the Tioga Agitator and the
Republican of this county—the former of
which (being the more able)•fipes the writing,
the latter the publishing, and - both have open
ly violated the covenant entered into in Con
vention at Harrisburg by the American and
Republican parties. By their rapid exclu
siveness they oppose that which they pretend
to support—by their crazy policy they drive
men from a cause which they would other
wise aid. Let us have no more of this. B
is tenfold worse than the most nauseating pill.
It is only Abolitionism, and we do not see
why Republicans should object to that. It is
the complexion to which they, must come at
last.
COINING NEW CENTS AT THE MINT.—The
Philadelphia Ledger says the demand for the
new cent pieces in that city is unabated.—
Of the mode of making this coin at the mint
it says:
There are at present nine presses engaged
in making the impressions upon this new
coin; five mills are also in constant opera
tion forming the rim on the coin previous
to receiving the impression. These last
named machines are capable of making rims
upon three various kinds of coin at the
same time; at present, however, they are
engaged upon the new cent exclusively.—
About 100 persons in all are constantly en
gaged in the operation of the mint, and at
the present time the whole force are em
ployed on the "cent." Each of the presses
throw off eighty-six finished coins per min
ute. At this rate, working from nine o'clock
A. M. till three o'clock P. M., the nine
presses throw off each day the sum of $2,
786 40 in cents ; that is providing the press
es are kept going regularly.
Sixty thousand dollars of this coin, six
million pieces, were paid out on Monday and
Tuesday, and orders are still coming in from
all quarters of the Union,
even from the south
and southwest, where the old cent never
obtained circulation, the lowest prices there
being graduated to the smallest silver coin.
From the present indications the old cent
will be hurried out of use and out of sight,
even sooner than were the small Spanish
fractions of a dollar.
The Ohio Pugitive Slave Case.
The Cincinnati Enquirer gives the follow
ing summary of the facts in this. case. It is
perfectly clear that, if every county Court
may, by the interposition of a writ of habeas
corpus, nullify and render valueless the pro-,
cess of the United States Courts, that the ju
risdiction of those Courts is simply an idle,
claim of power, without the ability to render
it effectiNfe. It is not a little remarkable,
since the object of this interference is the at
taining protection against illegal arrest, that
we never hear of it conflict between the pow
ers of the State and federal courts, except in
a case in which a negro is in some way invol;
ved, and in regions strongly imbued. with
lively negreworshipping propensities. The
Enquirer says:
There has been no exaggeration of the fra
grancy of the assaults on and indignity to the
authority of the United States, and, of the in
juries and insults offered to the men who.
were engaged in serving the writs, of the'
highest court in the land. • The testimony in
the case shomithat the Sheriff of Clarkeoun
ty was fully aware of the official character
and the authority of the officers of the United
States, who had arrested certain parties,
against whom there were warrants issued.
from the United States Commissioner, in this
city, for a violation of the' Fugitive-slave
Law ; that he obtained a writ of habeas cor
pus from a county court and, with a desperado
of a police officer, proceeded to intercept the
officers, and without even exhibiting his au
thority, or declaring his character, drew his
pistol and endeavored to shoot the Deputy
Marshalls, while his Assistant actually did
snap and fire his pistol twice at the officers.
Foiled, however, in their efforts, the cry
went forth through the fanatical regions, of
Greene, Campaign and Clark—a cry invent
ed and raised by the demagogues in that re
gion, that a gang of Kentuckians were kid
napping and carrying off certain of the citi
zens. The object was to excite the passions
of the ignorant and violent, and instigate
them to join in the foray against the author
ities of the United States. The parties who
were active in overcoming the Marshals by
their superior force, and releasing the.pris
oners in their custody, were fully cognizant
of the falsehood of these pretexts, and of the
authority of the United States officers. They
acted knowingly in the matter, accompanying,
their action by words and acts of the most ag
gravating and insulting character. Gather
ing in superior force, they fell upon the Dep
uty Marshals near Xenia, armed with guns,
swords and pistols ; arrested them, delivered
their prisoners to the Sheriff of Campaign
County, and bearing the Deputy Marshals to
Springfield, where they were incarcerated
literally in a dungeon—eight men, having
the commission and authority of the United
States, the officers of the highest judicial tri
bunal under the Constitution—being crowded
into one small, filthy room, in a basement and
without windows or ventilation, and subject
to other outrages that would disgrace a semi
barbarous people.
While the Marshals were thus confined,
their prisoners are hurried off to Urbana, in
Champaign County, and, on a bogus writ of
habeas corpus against "one Churchill, a Uni
ted States Marshal," it is pretended,by a
hypocritical, traitorous and cowardly Sheriff
and Judge, that the said Marshal has been
duly notified to attend and. show cause why
the prisoner should not be discharged ; that
he has failed to appear, and the Judge orders
that his name be cried at the door of the
Court-house, when he and his Sheriff have
been already instrumental in having the Dep
uty Marshals imprisoned and detained by
force in Springfield, twenty miles off 1
Two Phases of Snow Nothingism.
We clip the following from the New Haven
Register:
"In the Senate of Massachusetts the pia
posed constitutional amendment requiring
adopted citizens to reside in the State two
years after being naturalized, before being
allowed to vote, was adopted by a vote of 25
to 9. This is Massachusetts Know Nothing
ism. In New York the property qualifica
tion for negroes is not only to be abolished,
(says the Albany Argus,) but the three years
residence heretofore required of that class.—
This is New York Know Notbingism. In
one State five years is too short a term for a
white man, and in another three years is too
long a term for a n,egro I Well, Black Re
publicanism is a queer affair."
Spiritualism.
The Boston Herald relates the following as
the last exploit in the way of spiritualism:
LIVING WITHOUT EATING.—There is a, man
in this city who has not partaken of any food
for eleven days, and intends to live without
food for the future. He has been recently
married, and himself and wife are spiritua -
ists. He sits at the table and takes hold of
one of her hands while she does the eating.
If spiritualism could but drive' away hun
ger,, what a host of believers it would have in
those "hard times."
A Grizzly Bear..
Here is a refreshing grizzly bear item. It
occured near Oroville, California: •
"A man named Field, engaged in trapping
grizzlies on Pine Creek, had succeeded. in
taking one of the largest kind, and had him
secured in a cage. Shortly after he was at
tacked by a she bear, having two cubs. He
fired upon her in the jaws, and then turned
to run. The bear pursued, and, overtaking
him, a dreadful struggle ensued. The hunter
endeavored to defend himself with his gun,
which being thrown from him, he thrust his
feet and elbows into the mouth of the enraged
beast, and thus prevented her from tearing
him to pieces. He would have been killed
had not the animal's jaws been badly injured
by the shot. Finally his dogs, attacking the
bear, enabled . him to reload his gun and dis
patch her,
"Field is so badly hurt that it is thought
he will not recover.
par-A young lady of sixteen, of distin
guished birth and fortune, is about to marry
the hero of the Crimea, Marshal Pellissier,
who is sixty years of age I It is said to be
an affair of the most romantic sentiment on.
the part of the youthful bride.
The young lady is a. fool and the old Mar
shal is another. December and May don't
assort well, and the chances are that the
young lady who fancies herself in love with
a veteran of sixty will run off with one of
his corporals of more congenial age before
the honey moon has expired.—Brooklyn Eat'.