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THE GLOBE.
Circulation—the largest in, The county
LEIINIVMDOM PLI.
Wednesday, Augut 5, 1857
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.
ton. GOVERNOR,
Hon. AVM. P. PACKER, of Lye oming.
FOIL CANAL CO3.I3IISION.ER,
NIMROD STRICKI.A.ND, of Chester.
FOR SUPREME JUDGES,
Bon. ViTILLIAM STRONG, of Berks.
JAMES THOMPSON, of Erie.
Democratic. County Convea►tion.
The Democratic voters of the respective townships and
boroughs of Huntingdon county, are requested to meet in
delegate meeting at their usual places for the holding of
the Delegate Elections, on Saturday, the Sth day of August
nee, between the hours of 5 and 7 o'clock P. M., opening
the meeting and keeping it open during the whole tinie,
for the purpose of electing two delegates to represent
them in a Democratic County Convention to be held at
the Court House in the borough of Huntingdon on Wed
nesday evening, the 12th, day of August veal, at 7 o'clock
P. M., to place in nomination a Democratic County ticket,
appoint three Senatorial Conferees, elect a delegate to the
next State Convention, and transact such other business
as may be thought necessary for the proper organization
of the party. IV3I. COLON, chairman.
R. B. PETRISEN. Secretary.
We are requested to state that the
corner stone of the new German Reformed
Church, will be laid on Saturday the Sth of
August, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The
public generally are invited to attend.
Shipments of Coal
The Shipnlents of Coal from Broad Top
mines for week ending Thursday, July 30th,
were 2,662 tons; for the year 46,378 tons.
To our Democratic Friends.
rid-81-14e want a full Delegate Convention
to nominate a full Democratic County Ticket.
Second—We want every man on the ticket
to be active, working Democrats—willing to
assist by all honorable means to defeat the
Abolition and Know Nothing Union State
and County tickets.
Third—We want every Democrat in the
county, not already upon our list, to subscribe
for The Globe and pay for it in advance.
Fourth—We want all our old patrons now
in arrears, to call and pay up, as we want
money to lay in a supply of paper for the
campaign.
Finally We want every Democrati in the
county to do his duty and we shall try to do
ours
The Public* Works
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company hav
ing complied - tvith the requirements of the
Act of Assembly under which they became
the purchasers of the Maine Line of the Pub
lic Works of the State ; rook possession of the
entire line from Philadelphia to Pittsburg; on
Saturday last. Some few appointments; tin
der the new regulations, have been made.---
The Philadelphia Division of the road, ex
tending from Columbia to Philadelphia, will
be under the superintendence of George C.
Franciscus, whose title will be "Superintend
ent of the Philadelphia Division." The main
tenance of Way Department, from Columbia
to Philadelphia, will be under the charge of
W. 11. Wilson, whose title will be "Resident
Engineer of the Philadelphia Division." The
duties of A. A. McCausland, Master of Ma
chinery, have been extended to include the
Philadelphia Division. The Office of the Di
vision Superintendent will be in Philadelphia;
the office of the Resident Engineer at Down
ingtown, the office of Master of Machinery at
Altoona. Wm. B. Foster, has been appoint
ed to the responsible post of General Super
intendent of the line between Pittsburg and
Columbia. H. J. Lombaert will continue in
the post of General Superintendent of the
road from Philadelphia to Pittsburg. Mr.
.Depuey has been appointed Engineer on the
line from Pittsburg to Columbia, and D.
Mitchel, Clerk to Mr. Poster.
A Minister Robbing the Dead
The Red Wing Gazette, of Minnesota Ter
ritory, says one of its citizens recently return
ed from a trip to the Spirit Lake, the scene
of the late massacre, and mentions a case of
brutality which would almost justify the pres
ence of Judge LYNCH: it is that of a person,
who, soon after the massacre, took possession,
in other words, "jumped" the claim of Mr.
GARDINER, whose daughter was taken captive
by the savages. On the claim was a good,
log house, (into which he moved) furniture,
&c. A few rods in front of the house, Mr.
GARDINER and his family, in all nine persons,
had been buried in one grave, -with tempo
rary head and foot stones to mark the spot.
This person, to obliterate all traces of the
former owner, enclosed the grave with his
field, and drove his plow over it, in connec
tion with the rest of the field. The Gazette
very truly says, "a deed more atrocious was
never committed by the most blood-thirsty
savage. His name is PRESCOTT—his profes
sion, a minister of the gospel—one of the
thousand other scoundrels who were writing
such heart-rending stories from Kansas, of
the outrages committed upon themselves and
neighbors, by the border ruffians."
EX-PRESIDENT VAN BUREN.—The now very
aged, but yet scarcely venerable Van Buren,
was at Mr. Marcy's funeral, with his old
bright, healthy look, and smiling as ever—
not solemn even in the presence of death, for
solemnity seems impossible for his ever hap
py face. He does not show over sixty, and
his hair is no whiter than it has been for
twenty-five years, He walked in vigor from
the capitol after the ceremonies were over, to
take the cars at the river for his home in
Kinderhook, To-day he looks younger than
ex-President Pierce, with whom, side by side,
he entered the assembly chamber.--Pew York
Express.
The Democratic State Address.
'We publish on our outside the stirring ap
peal and convincing arguments of the Dem
ocratic State Committee embodied in their
Address to the citizens of Pennsylvania. For
this noble enunciation of the aims of our
party, this proud review of its impregnable
position, and admirable sketch of the servi
ces of its candidates, the Democracy of our
State are indebted to that ever faithful cham
pion of the right, Hon. C. R. BucK.Aumr, who,
as Chairman of the Central Committee, is
bending all his energies to secure a glorious
triumph to our cause next fall. The election
takes place on the 13th October, and but ten
weeks remain for preparation. In the lan
guage of the Pennsylvanian, we bespeak for
this address an attentive perusal and wide
circulation. The contrast which it draws
between WILLIAM F. PACKER and DAVID
WILMOT, the one with a character well estab
lished and practically acquainted with the re
quirements and the resources of our State,
the other nominated on a comparatively re
mote national issue, by a party of bitter sec
tional prejudices, and unacquainted with the
action of the State government beyond his
immediate locality, cannot fail to have its in
fluence upon the intelligent masses of our
citizens. The merited compliment paid to
our candidate for Canal Commissioner, NIM
ROD STRICKLAND, for his integrity, firmness
and capacity, and to our nominees for the
Supreme Bench, WILLIAM STRONG and JAMES
TEEOMPSON, for their learning and unimpeach
able characters, will find a response wherever
they are known, and the heartier where they
are best known. And while appealing for
the support of our ticket in view of the char
acter of the nominations, confidence is also
invited upon the general grounds of policy
and. principle upon which our party stand,
and what Democrat can read the history of
that party without a thrill of honest pride,
that he is one of its constituent parts. "Ours"
most truthfully says the address, " is no new,
untried, vindictive, sectional, or suspicious
organization. It has been tried ; it is bold
and open in conduct ; it is magnanimous,
patriotic and national. Founded more than
half a century ago by the author of the Dec
laration of Independence, it has had a dis
tinguished history, has ordinarily given direc
tion to the administration of public affairs,
and planting itself early, and throughout its
whole career, upon a strict construction of
the Constitution, and a sparing use of the
powers of Government, has preserved our
American system from degeneracy and fail
ure."
A Cowardly lie Nailed.
Some of the Republican pap ers have been
making themselves disgustingly notorious by
circulating the low and contemptible lie that
Judge Thompson was a drunkard. While
we know that this specimen of Republican
tactics will only excite con tempt, yet in order
to expose this pitiful demagogueism, and to
show that there is some decency left in that
party, we take pleasure in clipping the fol
lowing manly contradiction from the Erie
Gazette of the 30th, an opposition print.
"We are now opposed to him, and shall
exert whatever of influence we may possess
to accomplish his defeat for the office for which
he is a candidate. But at the same time, we
cannot, and shall not, lend countenance to
the efforts of the Democrat to detract from his
moral standing and good name. He doubt
less has his faults, and who has not?—he
doubtless has run into excesses forbidden by
the code of morality, and who has not?—but
that he is now, as charged by the Democrat,
a debased "drunkard," and consequently " un
fit for a seat on the Supreme Rench," we pos
itively and emphatically deny. At least such
is not his reputation at home, where he is of
tenest seen and best known•. lie is deemed a
gentleman in social and personal intercourse
—a good lawyer and worthy citizen. This,
we believe, is the common estimate of him
among even those who differ from hint on
questions of political policy, and who fre
quently have occasion to speak harshly of his
political acts."
The Gazette reads its party cotemporaries
a merited lecture upon this species of conduct
and says it hopes the day will come when
they will avoid such "coarseness and vitu
peration."
The following leading traits contained
in the history of the democratic party, are
presented in a striking light, in the eloquent
passage below, taken from a letter of Gen.
PACKER, in reply to an invitation to the late
National Anniversary celebration at Phila
delphia :
" With what proud exultation can democrats
look back upon the foot prints of their party.
In the day of trial, and in the hour of peril,
that party has always done its duty. Has
danger menaced us from abroad ? The wars
which have ensued and which have covered
this nation with glory, have uniformly been
denounced as democratic wars. Have treas
onable conventions been held at home?—
Those conventions never met under the aus
pices of the democratic party. Has an at
tack been made on those great republican
principles which lie at the foundation of our
institutions—the equality of classes, and reli
gious liberty ? The democratic party was
foremcat in repelling that attack. Has the
equality of the States been denied by a sec
tional party based upon geographical lines,
and which made war on the Constitution ?
The democratic party recognizes the equality
of the States—has ever been a national party
—and has sustained with unflinching fidelity
the constitutional rights of all. The success
of the democratic party, has ever been the
triumph of the constitution.
" Have we uot, then, in view of the glori
ous past, reason to rejoice ? And looking
forward, should we not renew Our pledges of
loyalty to the constitution, and resolve to con
tinue to stand firmly by those cherished prin
ciples which have not only elevated our party,
but our country to its high position ?"
THE PENNSYLVAXIA MAGAZINE We have
received an advance cony of the Pennsylvania
Ma,g,azine. We shall speak of it next week.
Pennsylvania Politics
The State tickets of the different political
parties in Pennsylvania have now been be
fore the people for several weeks, and a fair
opportunity has been afforded to form an es
timate of their respective merits, and to judge
with a reasonable degree of certainty of the
probabilities of success.
All over the State the Black Republican
party exhibits the utmost apathy. The is
sues of the last campaign—false pretences as
they were—have all been taken away from
them. There is no more "bleeding Kansas,"
and no more "freedom shriekers." If the
Democrats had been prophets they could not
have foretold more correctly the result of the
Kansas question than they did foretell before
the last election. On that subject " Madrid
is quiet and "order reigns in Warsaw."—
The peculiar and anti-national policy of the
Republican party upon the question of sla
very has reverted upon its own head. The
enlarged view which the Democratic party
took of this question, looking to the country
as one great national unit, the integral parts
of which might have different local interests,
but, as a whole, were bound together by po
tent and controlling ties of mutual good, has
most deeply impressed the hearts and judg
ments of the masses of the people. The de
cision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott
case, re-affirming former well established ju
dicial principles, has been adopted by the
people as a rule of action, and they will up
hold the law as laid down by the highest ju
dicial authority of the land, regardless of the
insane "isms" which would advocate a "high
er law" which those who would promulgate
it interpret to suit their own contracted views
of the policy of the nation. The Democracy
has placed itself upon national ground ; it
acknowledges no North, no South, no East,
no West, but is honest in its advocacy of
those great principles, the establishment of
which is alike the interest and the policy of
every section of the country, and every indi
vidual member of the body politic. Upon
these broad national principles, the Democ
racy of the Old Keystone has firmly planted
its foot ; and around the standard of political
truth the phalanxes of the people are gath
ering with a unanimity which is as cheering
to the Democracy of the State as it is appal
ling. to their opponents. The parties arrayed
against the Democracy in Pennsylvania have
vainly endeavored by means of questions of
local and State policy to throw discord - into
our ranks. The Republicans had hoped to
make some capital out of the Bill for the sale
of the Main Line, but the Supreme Court,
by its decision, took away the most objection
able features of the Bill, and the Line is sold.
They have lost that thunder. Upon other
local questions Democracy may honestly dif
fer but they know that the whole country is
looking to Pennsylvania for an unanswera
ble endorsement of the administrative course
of her "favorite son;" and they will give it
next October with a voice that will resound
all over the country.
In Pennsylvania we have no fears for the
result of the next campaign. The rank and
file of the Democratic party are working no
bly, firmly and quietly. They will maintain
the integrity of their principles, and at the
election will pile up "an old fashioned ma
jority" for Packer, Strong, Thompson and
Strickland.—Pittsburg Post.
Kansas on Walker.
The Geary City Era, a strong Free State
sheet, thus speaks of Gov. Walker's Topeka
speech :
"The measures proposed by the Governor,
and adhered to throughout the speech, we
consider to be as near the true policy which
ought to be pursued by the people of Kan
sas Territory, as, under existing circumstan
ces, can be attained. We commend it to the
careful perusal of all who have an interest
in the welfare of Kansas, and wish to see
her become one of the sister States of the
Union, with the flag of freedom floating over
her domain.
"As Free State men, we are willing to let
the constitution, which may be framed by
the farce convention, elected in June, be sub
mitted to the people, and if the majority do
not approve of it, sink it into oblivion.—
Then we are willing to have the Topeka con
stitution submitted and voted upon; and if
the majority does not approve of it, sink it
into oblivion. Elect a Free State Legislature,
and Representative to Congress, and we have
the ruling power in our own hands—but
don't attempt to force the Topeka constitu
tion down the throats of the people. This is
the course advised by our Governor, and we
approve of it—not because Gov. Walker is
the originator and adviser of it, but because
we consider it right."
The language of the press, and the action
of the mass of the people of Kansas, best
attest the high merit that is due Governor
Walker, for his pacific, conciliatory, and ac
ceptable course.
AN OLD Darr3r.—On the 4th of July, the
editor of the Milledgeville (Ga.) Recorclv• had
in his hands a drum that was beaten at the
battles of Saratoga, Cowpens and Eutaw
Springs. The Savanah Volunteer Guards
are the fortunate possessors of this revolu
tionary relic, rendered more sacred and dear
to the American soldier from the fact that in
each battle, victory perched upon the Amer
ican standard. To give vent to his patriotic
feelings at the pleasing incident, the editor
drank to the memory of the old patriot who
beat that drum in the "times that tried men's
souls."
WIIAT NEx.r?—A machine has been in
vented for shearing sheep, the operation re
quiring but three minutes, when the animal
jumps from the machine, so smooth that.one
would suppose it had never had an outer coat
to its back. We have heard it said that it
is a, thing impossible to get wool off a hog's
back, but in this age of inventions and ma
chinery there is no saying what may not be
done, and were it not that just now pork is
in rather bad repute, one might try his hand
at something of the kind.
Two sons of "Mr. John Lundy, of Saugeen,
Canada, named Peter and Thomas, aged re
spectively 17 and 15 years, attempted to mur
der their father, on the 2(1 inst. They, under
pretence that an oz had got injured in the
woods, induced him to go there, when they
fired two shots at him, the second of which
took effect, and he fell to the ground, badly
wounded. They then put the gun to his
head, and demanded to know where his mon
ey was kept, and he told them. They then
dragged him with a rope to a tree, and tied.
him to it, after which they went to the house,
got the money (over $300), and mado their
escape.
The Demlocratie Party.
Fortunately for the Democratic party, no
very great favors are asked or expected to
wards its existance or the guidance of its
leaders, from any fanatical source whatever.
It stands on the broad and bold, yet honest,
and liberal, platform, such as the Father of
our Country would have supported and been
proud of, had he lived to witness the presump
tion and impertinence of Puritan politicians.
We are strong in principles. Who dares to
deny it? The good measures of our party
have been formed for the good of the Union.
We are free to advocate such laws and privi
leges as our country requires, and being thus
free, and being armed with a love and rever
ence for the glorious memories of our fore
fathers, we will not submit to any 'sectional
attempts to interrupt us in our duty.
The intelligence of the American people,
from the merchant to the mechanic, is by far
too great, too solid and universal for any
band of egotists and infidels to despise or
ridicule. What, pray, can we say of the
Black "Republican" sympathy, for our land
or its institutions ?—they speak to the multi
tude with their silvery tongues, and promise
to reform our political affairs—to create, in
fact, a new era among us, while in reality,
they are desirous of grasping the reins of our
Government, and making all who oppose
them, succumb by threats, to so altar our po
litical organizations, that we must eventually
bow down and endorse their opinions. They
would spit upon the Democrats, and laugh at
them, too, in the midst of their frenzy. Be
ware, then, beware of these rabid revolution
ists—these miserable and contemptible Puri
tan politicians !
It is the firm, yet indignant expressions of
the Democracy that alarm and excite the an
ger of the Black "Republicans." Argument
against the fact is useless, and the ate at
tempts to overthrow the chartered rights of
our citizens have only increased the force and
spirit of those expressions. Let them be
promulgated until our fellow-Democrats of
the - North, as well as the South, again find
themselves in the enjoyment of their original
privileges. Let each effort on behalf of Dem
ocratic power be continued with earnestness
and wisdom, so that the very voice of the
American people will be grateful to the ear
of civilized governments, and have its weight
in the social and religious as well as political
world. Let it be heard in the remotest re
gions proclaiming the benefits of liberty, and
the magnificent effects of our deep love for
the Union, and our determination to stand
by its laws, its rights and its institutions.—
Kew Fork IV-edvs.
Some of the Beauties of Black Republi-
canism
When a party keeps up a continual whine
about philanthropy, it is but fair that its pro
fessions should be practical. But if we take
Black Republicanism by its acts, we have
presented a party devoid of all benevolence
and liberality, falsifying by its acts, the sol
emn promises it makes. That party makes
long and loud professions in favor of equality,
If they are honest in them they will carry
them into effect when they have the majority.
Massachusetts is at the head of that party,
and so proscriptive is it in that State, that
the man who has the courage to act indepen
dently with the Democracy, is proscribed and
calumniated by that party. A State which
is admitted to he the head and monitor of
the Black Republican party, must be taken
as a fair index to the feelings of the party.
Some of the Black Republican sheets ex
pressed great love for the foreign born citi
zens during the last campaign, and by their
hypocrisy and mis-statements induced a great
number of foreigners to vote for the "great
cattle dealer."
But after the election is over the tune is
changed, the cloven foot is shown, and in
every instance where a State seemed to have
a Black Republican majority, they commen
ced showing their hideous deformity as evi
denced by their preying upon the elective
franchise. In the Senate of the Massachu
setts Legislature, an amendment to the con
stitution was proposed; prohibiting all natu
ralized citizens from voting until two years
after they had taken out their final papers;
and was adopted by a vote of twenty-five to
nine.
Such are the workings of Black Republi
canism in the great State of Massachusetts.
In New York, this same sham party have
tried to do the same thing, and at the same
time let the negro have all the social and
practical privileges of the white man. In
Connecticut they had the majority, and dis
franchised the poor and unfortunate man,
who had been so unlucky in his youth as to
not have learned to read or write. Thus, by
this liberty loving party, the old grey-headed
patriot who has grown up with our country,
aided her in her infancy, fought her battles,
who when young was, as a matter of neces
sity, deprived of the means of an education,
is now told by Black Republican upstarts,
that you can't vote because you can't read.
This is a melancholy as well as a disgrace
ful proscription. This same party, while in
its last struggles in Congress, voted to repeal
the naturalization law, and Banks, Burlin
game, and all the motley crew voted to re
peal that law, and these same men were per
ambulating the country asking the foreign
born citizens to vote for them, and then after
election, return to Congress and vote to dis
grace, degrade and deny citizenship to those
who seek our shores to enjoy the blessings
of our institutions with us. The whole aim
of these sham Republicans, as evidenced
even in this State in the framing of the new
Constitution has, and is now to degrade the
foreign born citizen, and elevate the negro to
a_social and political level with the white
man. In short, to make slaves of the Ger
man and Irish, and elevate the negro.-3/a
quoketa Sentinel.
A CAT CONSIGNMENT.--A New York mer
chant recently sent for a cargo of Maltese
cats from that celebrated island, per schooner
William E. Canis, of Nantucket, Captain
Smith. Fifty kittens were received on board
the schooner, as a parcel of the assorted car
go. On the voyage very rough weather was
experienced. At first the tars attributed the
rapid succession of gales to the comet, but
one old sailor told the crew that it was noth
ing outside the vessel that occasioned the
storm; that one cat was enough to send any
ship to Davy Jones' locker, and as they had
fifty on board, not a man of them stood a
chance of setting foot on dry land again.—
This was enough for the superstitious crew,
and the cats were immediately demanded of
the captain, given up and drowned. By a
singular coincidence the storm thereupon
abated. The owner of the cats has now sued
the owners of the vessel for damages, laying
the value of the cats at fifty dollars apiece,
or S:2soo.—Albany Express.
13e BRIGIITENING—Democratic prospects
Time for Conservatives to Work
The time we think is opportune for conser
vative men in all parts of the country to work,
to make themselves felt. Notwithstanding
the prevalence of the spirit of faction in the
country, the prospect for peace and perma
nent unity is by no means so gloomy as some
seem to think. We admit that there is much
disorder ; many and mighty agencies of evil
ceaselessly at work to bring ruin upon the
land ; that crime and lawlessness are fearfully
rife throughout the length and breadth of the
Union ; that many pens dipped in gall are
engaged daily and nightly in the unnatural
and detestable business of creating and fos
tering alienation among brethren, and stir
ring up hatred between the different portions
of the country ; that our great men, the ac
knowledged leaders of the old parties, who
were wont to counsel the masses in times of
trial, and to restrain the heedless, are fast
disappearing from the scene of action, leav
ing a painful vacuum in the places they oc
cupied ; that there is a general tendency to
wards the disintegration of political affinities
and the substitution of mere sectional and
geographical agglomeration in lieu of them ;
that selfishness and the scramble for office
and unfaithfulness when it is obtained, are
humiliatingly prominent among the passing
phenomena which the . times upon which we
have fallen have evolved ; yet in spite of this
and all these, we think we discover a strong
under current setting decidedly the other
way. We think there are distinct indications
that the first great step towards arresting the
threatened calamities before they are allowed
time to culminate and burst in overwhelming
power upon the country, may be discerned
to have taken, or to be now taking place in
the pause which patriotic men are making in
reference to these very contingent disasters.
It is a very good omen. The first thingneces
sary to arrest a terrible disease, one that
might prove fatal, is to be conscious of its
existence. Otherwise, there is not the least
chance for any escape. The poor victim is
like one that sings his lullaby upon the brink
of a volcano which is about to roll down its
sides waves of burning lava and engulf him
beneath the stiffening mass. The men of
sterling sense, the farmers, merchants, man
ufacturers, artisans, who only wish the bles
sings of good government in order that they
may pursue in quiet their business, educate
their children and surround their homes with
the blessings which industry and order, uni
ted with intelligence, can alone secure, are
beginning seriously, we think, to ask whither
this furious whirlwind of passion and wick
edness, if its force be not broken, will carry
us? They are beginning to inquire whether
it is safe to permit this sectional bigotry to
run riot and sport in sheer wantonness with
the repose and great industrial classes of so
ciety? To us, this is a ray of sun light from
the golden heavens, bursting through the
clouds which have to some extent obscured
.their serene glory. Men of the North and
men of the South, of the East and of the
West, though they may differ about slavery,
divinity, medicine, and a thousand other
things, are gradually opening their eyes to
the great truth that they must learn to agree
to disagree, as their fathers did ; that to em
broil themselves in an internecine quarrel
upon an abstraction, or because one party
won't do exactly as the other wishes it would,
is the height of utter folly, disastrous to all
sections and beneficial to none. The liberal
and the enlightened who must always exer
cise a controlling influence in the affairs of
the Republic, in the different portions of the
country to see the necessity of making proper
allowances for the prejudices, peculiarities
and rights of each other, and to think that
others may possess ordinary honesty and pa
triotism though they may differ somewhat
from themselves. We are quite aware that
those excessively patriotic and highly exal
ted persons who think it "treason to the
North," or "treason to the rights of man,"
-or "treason to the South," to question their
infallibility, or to intimate that they do not
possess the sum of all virtue, political and
moral, stigmatize those who are thus deter
mined to stand upon a common platform of
harmonious conservatism which is broad
enough and strong enough for the people of
the whole Union, by very ugly epithets.—
They are "old fogies," "dough faces," "sub
missionists," "slave propagandists," "border
ruffians," "Union-at-any-price" people, and
so on and so on. But the strong, liberal
settled men who do their own thinking, and
are capable of rising above the madness that
rules the hour, can well afford to despise, as
they certainly do, all this impotent spleen.
They pass by all these harmless soubriquets
as the winds which they regard not.
We regard it as an auspicious moment for
National men who intend to stand by the
Constitution through storm and sunshine, as
the sheet anchor of all our hopes, to take ad
vantage of the returning " sober second
thoughts" of the people in different parts of
the country to which we have alluded, and
make themselves felt. The disorganizers are
active. Let the conservatives be equally ac
tive. Let them present an immovable front.
Let them unite their strength, and show the
factionists that they are not to be driven from
their purpose of preserving intact the glori
ous institutions under the fostering influen
ces of which we have risen so speedily to the
rank of a first class power, under which the
widest liberty compatible with safety is en
joyed, and under which every bran - ch of na
tional industry has flourished to an extent
which has no parallel in the annals of the
world.
Some of the ablest journalists of the coun
try are calling the attention of the people to
the evils of the perpetual hum-drum agita
tion which men for party purposes, or through
a morbid hypochondriacism, are striving to
keep up, and we believe the number will con
tinue to increase till the reaction in the pub
lic mind which has evidently commenced
shall be complete. We might give many ev
idences of the truth of the several favorable
indications we have alluded to, but our space
forbids 0. Bulletin.
AN OLD COIN.—The Loudoun (Va.) Union
states that Mr. JAMES ADAMS, of Leesburg,
recently ploughed up in that vicinity a coin,
supposed to be gold, which affords a fine study
for the antiquarian. In size it is about as
large as one of our old quarters, and bears
on one side the head of CHARLES the First,
surrounded by the following inscription:
" CAROLITS 1., 1). G., Ang., Fr., Mil. Rex.,"
and on the reverse side a crown with the
words, " Unitte* "Invictx, 1648," so that it is
now 209 years old.
XtEir " Pa, what does the printer live on ?"
"Why, my child ?"
Because you said you hadn't paid him for
four years, and still take the paper."
" Wife, spank that child."
Za'Some on a plug—R. A. Miller, Dentist
To Consumers of Liquors.
Dr. Cox's Letter to Editor of the Crusader.
CINCINNATI, June Ist, 1857.
DEAR Siitl—Yours dated at College Hll,
May 26th, was duly received, but a press of
professional business precluded my respond
ing to it till this morning. You propound
several questions, relative to liquors, etc., ,in
spected by me. I will try to answer them as
propounded.
Ist Question—" What proportion of the
wines inspected are genuine ?"
Answer—Not one in fifty.
2nd Q.--" What ingredients do you find int
the adulterated 7"
port wines, as a basis, either water,
cider, vinegar, or a mixture of water and sul
phuric acid, with the juice of elderberries, ;
privet berries, beet root juice, and logwood,
with alum, technically called sulphate of
alumina and potassa, Sugar to' toter the'
pernicious mixture; and sometimes I find one
or two per cent. Jamaica rum or neutral spirite
added, and more frequently not one per cent,
of any kind of alcoholic spirits, but the warm
ing, stimulating influence of the liquor pro
duced by some of the varieties of peppers or
roots, added to the strong mixture of water
and sulphuric acid.
The above are the ingredients of all the
port wine I have inspected this spring. Sher
ry, Madeira, Muscadel, etc., are all, or at
least all that I have inspected, either mixed,
or have as a basis, water, cider, wort made
of pale malt, or a mixture of sulphuric acid
and water to the acidity of weak vinegar,
with brown sugar, honey, orris-root and neu
tral spirits, to give it alcoholic per tentage.
The above is the character of two samples
of wine, port and sherry, that I very recently
inspected, and which were sent from a store,
the proprietors of which are honorable and
high-minded gentlemen, who had paid a high
price for their liquors, got them out of the
custom-house in an eastern city, with an as
surance that they were genuine, and impor
ted, and yet there was not one drop or symp
tom of wine in either of them, the one hav
ing its warming, stimulating influence from
sulphuric acid and one per cent. Jamaica
rum, and the sherry having six per cent. al
coholic spirits imparted to it by neutral spirits,
with sulphuric acid, bitter almonds, brown
sugar, honey. These abominable mixtures
are flavored with various oils, mixed to suit
the flavor of different wines, viz : oil of lav
ender, cloves, cinnamon, bergamot, rosemary,
etc., etc.
3rd Q.—" Have you reason to believe that
imported wines and brandies are adultera
ted?"
A.—Yes, I know them to be, and can de
monstrate the facts to any one who has faith
in chemical developments. I have inspected
brandies of various kinds and qualities fresh
from the custom-houses, have seen the bills
of the Custom-House Inspector which accom
panied them, and was assured that they were
freshly imported ; and yet the chemical tests
gave me corn whisky, -with abundance of
fousil oil, or the oil of corn, as a basis, with
sulphuric acid, nitric ether, prussic acid,
copper, chloroform, guinea pepper, tannin or
tannic acid, with sometimes a very small per
tentage of good brandy added, and frequently
not a drop.
4th Q.—" Do you ever find whisky ins
pure ?"
A.—Yes, I find a great deal of whisky in
pure, adulterated with sulphuric acid, pep
per, copper, chloroform, strychnine, or traces
of it, with brucine, etc.
sth Q.—" Do liquor dealers readily give
you access to their stock?"
A.—No ; with the exception of a few hon
orable gentlemen, I find, and have found the
chemical inspection of liquor an uphill busi
ness. A large majority of the liquor mer
chants of this city repudiate the law as a
humbug ; if they permit any inspection it ap
pears to be with great reluctance, while others
will furnish me with a sample or two of their
best, but will not permit me general access
to their liquors, knowing, as I suppose, that
they will not stand the test. Some of the
largest manufacturing houses in the city will
not permit me to come into their establish
ments in the character of liquor inspector.
I have been informed that they threaten to
lay violent hands on me if I attempt to in
spect their liquors on their premises. Some
folks tight best on their own dunghill, but I
occasionally overtake a cask of their perni
cious compounds in retail establishments, to
the proprietors of which they sell them, and
then I Inspect them, notens volens, as youlllVF
yers say, and find them not fit to make hog
slop. Such have I found some of the firm of
K g & F t, against whom I have
procured an indictment in our court of CO/12-
mm Pleas.
_ _ •
I had understood that N. Longwortb, Esq.,
was the largest native wine manufacturer in
the State of Ohio. I called on him several
times, but he denied having any, either Cataw
ba, Brandy, or Native Wine. I have inspec
ted some native wines that I was satisfied
were a mixture of cider, wine, water and neu
tral spirits. lam very sorry that the liquor
law is not more specific, but so far as in me
lies, I intend to inspect, and those who ob
ject, must fight the State of Ohio.
Respectfully, etc.,
lliitAx Cox, M. D.,
Chemical Inspector of Alcoholic Liquors
for Hamilton County, Ohio.
CONDEMNED TO BE llllNG.—Exciting Scene
-The negro woman who murdered her mis
tress, Mrs. Hall, near Gordonsville, a few
weeks since, was sentenced on Monday last,
by the Louisa County Court, to be hung on
the 21st of next month. We are mortified
to learn that a scene was enacted in the trial
of this cause which should be a reproach
upon the court that sat in judgment, and
make every heart tremble with fear at the
manner in which the criminal laws are ad
ministered by our county courts. The court
announced that they stood four for hanging
and one for transportation. Under the de
cision, the woman was legally acquitted of
murder in the first degree ; and should have
been punished by transportation. But as
soon as it was known that the prisoner was
not to be hung, the crowd that filled the
court room became greatly excited, and
threats were made that if she was not con
demned to death, the people themselves would
lynch her; and one or two gentlemen ap
proached the dissenting justice,. and advised
him to change his opinion. Under these cir
cumstances, the fifth magistrate gave way,
and the woman was condemned to be hung.
As soon as the sentence of death had been
agreed upon, one of the court arose, and
stated, that as injury to the jail and danger
to the prisoner were to be apprehended from
the populace, the sheriff ought to proclaim
publicly that the court had ordered the wo
man to be hung. Proclamation was made,.
and the excited populace became satisfied
with the court.—Charlottesville (Va.,) Ado.