THE EIUNTI\GDON GLOBE, A DEMOCRATIC FAMILY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS, &C.
THE GLOBE.
Circulation—the largest in the county.
1201,11.rUEDOZ E? 2,
Wednesday, August 12, 1857
FOR GOVERNOR,
Hon. Wilt. F. PACICEity of I.yconking.
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER,
NIMROD srrnICIII.A.ND, of Chester.
FOR SUPREME JUDGES,
Hon. WILLIAM S`X'RONG, of Berks.
lion. JAMES TELOMPSON, of Erie.
Shipments of Coal.
The Shipments of coal over the Hunting
don & Broad. Top Railroad for the week end
ing Thursday ,August Gth, amounted to 2,349
tons. Total this season 48,727.
VBe.. The ceremony of laying the corner
stone of the new German Reformed Church,
was performed in this borough, on Saturday
last. The congregation previously met in the
Lutheran Church, where a lecture was deliv
ered by the Rev. Mr. McClean, of the Pres
byterian Church, after which the ceremony
was performed by the Rev. Mr. Reed, under
whose auspices the new Church is being erec
ted.
CAMP MEETING.—The Manor Hill Circuit
Camp Meeting will he held on the old ground,
near Manor Hill, commencing on Friday,
21st instant.
Democratic County Convention.
The Democratic County Convention - will
meet at the Court House this evening, in
pursuance of the call of the County Com
mittee. We believe the county will be fully
represented, and from the general interest
manifested by Delegates and the party, it is
expected that a good and strong ticket will
be nominated—a ticket that will give the
coalitionists a little trouble to defeat, if de
feat it they can—their ability to do which
we will at least contest.
SINGULAR DECISION.—Judge Thompson, of
Philadelphia, has made a decision in the con
tested election case between Mr. Mann and
Mr. Cassidy—that the election of Mr. Cassi
dy was illegal, or rather that Mr. Mann was
elected. This is rather singular when it is
understood that Mr. Mann, who brought"the
suit, abandoned it upon comparing the evi
dence, and accepted an appointment under
the recent act for the election of two &ttor
neys for Philadelphia.
A Goon PLACE FOR. LAWYERS.—Luzerne
county is some on legal business. There are
753 cases at issue on the, trial list for August
term. In these are not included the Cora
tuonwealth cases. Over four hundred execu
tions have been issued since May Term, re
turnable to August.
Democratic Nominations.
FULTON COUNTY.—The Democratic Conven
tion of Fulton county met on the 25th ult.,
and nominated the following ticket:
For Assembly—James B. Sansom.
Prothonotary—William C. McNulty.
Commissioner--John.Wishart.
Auditor—George It Sipes.
James B. Sansom is the editor of the Ful
ton Democrat, and a good man. Hope be
will be successful.
MIFFLIN ContiTr.--The Democracy of little
Mifflin met in Convention on Saturday Ist in
stant, and put in nomination the following
ticket:
Asscmbiy—Dr. Bower of Newton Hamil
ton.
Sheriff—Elliott Williams of Brown.
Register & Recorder—Joseph Waream of
Lewistown.
Treasurer—John B. Selheimer of Lewis
town.
Commissioner—John Cupples of Granville.
coroner—John McKee of Lewistown.
Auditor—Joseph Kearns.
Director of Poor—John Stoneroad.
A Characteristic Trick.
It is stated that WILMOT has resigned his
Judgeship. We hope this is so—bht why
didn't he resign sooner, so as to give the peo
ple of his district an opportunity, at the en
suing October election, of filling the office for
the period of ten years ? The reason is ea
sily given. Ile has very little, if any, hope
of an election to the Gubernatorial chair—
consequently next year, when the people are
constitutionally authorized to act, (which can
only he done when the resignation takes
place three calender months before a general
election,) WILMOT will again step forward and
be elected to the Judicial office ! Ilad he re
signed sooner, an election would have been
held this year, and his successor commission
ed for the full term. As it is, Governor Pol
lock will now appoint, which appointment
only holds good until after the election of
1858. A pretty shrewd trick on the part of
the Black Republican candidate for Governor,
and altogether characteristic of the foul party
which he represents.—Lancasterlntelligencer•
CURE FOR DYSENTERY.—The Middletown
Republican copies the following, and certifies
to its good effect, as proved by experiment :
"An old friend handed us the following
simple recipe for publication. It has been
practiced in his family for many years with
uniform success, even in the most alarming
stages of the complaint : Take Indian corn,
roasted and ground in the manner of coffee,
(or coarse meal browned,) and boil in a suffi
cient quantity of water to produce a strong
liquid like coffee, and drink a teacupful
(warm) two or three times a day. One day's
practice, it is said, will ordinarily effect a
cure.
Who Agitates in Kansas.
The Albany Atlas answers this question in
a nut shell, and the truth of its assertion can
not be denied. "It will be recollected," it
says, "that last summer, when the Black Re
publicans saw danger of peace in Kansas,
and consequently an end. of their political
hopes, they deliberately set about getting up
a war, and raising money and men, sent Gen.
Lane with an army to set the whole Territory
in commotion and fill the whole country
with excitement. The plan worked so well
then, that there is now an attempt to repeat
it. --Gov. Walker, under the instructions of
the Administration, was pursuing a course
so eminently just and fair, and so obviously
affording to all the people of the territory
their political rights, that it was becoming
evident that popular opinion in and. out of
Kansas must approve his policy, and that
Mr. Buchanan's Administration must speed
ily have the merit of having settled all the
Kansas difficulties on the basis of the organic
act. In this emergency something must be
done by the agitators, or Kansas would be
come quietly a Free State. Accordingly the
telegraph informs us that a public meeting
has been held in Kansas, doubtless at the in
stigation of politicians outside, at which "it
was determined to resist the U. S. troops if
an attempt was made to collect the taxes."—
It is also added that "General Lane had. been
sent for." This attempt to practice over again
the game of last year will prove afailuro. The
people—even the free State men of Kansas—
can understand. these matters now. Gover
nor Walker will speedily crush out this at
tempt at rebellion and every sane and rea
sonable man in the country will.approve his
action. None but fanatics will deem it ne
cessary to apply violent remedies to the dis
order of the Territory when they are in pro
cess of cure by peaceful ones."
Hazlelturst . versus Henry Clay.
The candidate of the Know Nothings for
Governor, Isaac IliznEnuasT, Esq., is a gen
tleman of observation and reflection. IR is
an old line HENRY CLAY Whig, so straight
out an admirer of the Kentuckian, that he
would vote for his bones, we presume, rather
than any living candidate. But does it ever
occur to him that in carrying out.the oath
hound pledges of the American Lodges he
does the greatest violence to the opinion of
the man he professes to admire so much ?
When he associates politically with those who
denounce our citizens of Irish or German
birth as the " miserable low rabble," and the
" scum of society," does ho remember the
nobly just tribute which HENRY CLAY paid
to our naturalized citizens, in a speech deliv
ered from his place in the United States Sen
ate, when he then spoke:
"The honest, patient and industrious Ger
man readily unites with our people, estab
lishes himself upon some of our fat lands,
fills his capacious barn, and enjoys in tran
quility the abundant fruits which his dili
gence gathers around him, always ready to
fly to the standard of his adopted country,
or of its laws, when called by the duties of
patriotism. The gay, the versatile, the phil
osophical Frenchman, accommodating him
self cheerfully to all the vicissitudes of life,
incorporates himself without difficulty in our
society. But of all foreigners, none amalga
mate themselves so quickly with our people
as the natives of the Emerald Isle. In some
of the visions which have passed through my
imagination, I have supposed that Ireland
was originally part and parcel of this conti
nent, and that by some extraordinary con
vulsion of nature, it was torn from America,
and, drifting across the ocean, it was placed
in the unfortunate vicinity of Great Britain.
The same open heartedness, the same gener
ous hospitality, the same careless and uncal
culating indifference about human life, char
acterize the inhabitants of both countries.—
Kentucky has been sometimes called the Ire
land of America. And I have no doubt, that
if the current of emigration were reversed,
and sent from America upon the shores of
Europe, instead of bearing from Europe to
America, every American emigrant to Ire
land would there find, as every Irish emi
, grant here finds, a hearty welcome and a hap
py home."
The Pennsylvania Magazine
As we stated last week, the first number
of this monthly is on our table. Accompa
nying the Magazine was a letter from the
editor, in which he speaks as follows :
"Send you Magazine. Am much annoyed
by the fact that printer persisted in making
too little margin, and hence the thing looks
like the Family Christian Almanac' Will
probably decide to have it re-printed and
begin in September with illuminated title
page." We agree with the editor that the
margin is too small, and the title page too
plain and common. The type are t beautiful
and well arranged, but the print is nothing
to brag of—it does not, at least, reflect much
credit on the Harrisburg publishers, if this
is the best they can do. As to the matter of
the Magazine we may say it is excellent,
and will do for the first, as we notice that
the best articles on filo have been deferred
for the second number. The establishing of
a Magazine in Harrisburg must necessarily
be attended with much trouble and. expense,
and has doubtless required much energy and
perseverance to get it under way, but from
the well-known ability of the editor, and his
apparent determination to make a severe
trial to establish a Magazine that will repre
sent the literary ability of our great State,
we have strong hopes of his ultimate sue
cess, and of the Magazine being just what it
ought to be in every particular. And to this
end, we recommend the undertaking to the
favorable notice of our brethren of the press,
and to the reading and literary public.
Proceedings of Agricultural Society
next week.
The * Canvass in Pennsylvania.
Never, in history of parties, have the De
mocracy of Pennsylvania occupied a prouder
position than is their's to-day; and never, in
any previous State canvass have the incen
tives to gallant action been greater than now.
Throughout all the fierce storm of, bigotry.
that recently swept over the country like a
devastating storm, threatening even the dis
ruption of the Union, the true-hearted De
mocracy of the Old Keystone never for a mo
ment wavered or lost sight of any of their
duties, but stood like a bulwark to break and
arrest the progress of the Union-destroying
sentiment, that, in an evil hour, had seized
upon and perverted the minds of the people.
Nor were their efforts either unavailing or
unappreciated. Planted upon the broad prin
ciples of a true and genuine Democracy, the
struggle was for the preservation of the glo
rious COnstitution of our common country,
and the rights of every section of the confed
eracy under that instrument. The encoun
ter was desperate ; the triumph complete.—
The Democracy of the whole Union rejoiced
with their brethren of Pennsylvania in their
victory, and with true magnanimity and pa
triotism, gave the post of honor to the old
Keystone, in the national contest which fol
lowed by selecting her own great statesman
as their standard bearer, and the exponent of
their principles. True to herself and to the
Union, Pennsylvania reasserted, by an im
mense majority, her attachment to Democratic
principles, and by her intrepidity and gallan
try placed her favorite son in the Executive
Chair of the Nation. But the strife is not
yet ended ; and while Abolitionism, Disunion
ism and Know-Nothingism are combining to
assail the administration, ere yet any one of
its measures have been developed, it becomes
the duty of the Pennsylvania Democracy to
rally with gallantry and energy in its defence,
and boldly to maintain those principles which
in the past have secured the confidence and
patriotic co-operation of the people. The
sole aim, now, of the opposition, united or
divided, is to embarrass the administration of
Mr. Buchanan, with a view to prevent the
realization of the hopes of the Democracy of
the Union, in the peaceful settlement of all
our domestic differences and the vigorous as
sertion of all our rights abroad ; and against
all these designs the Democracy should be on
their guard, for the Administration can only
fail in its patriotic purposes by the want of
fealty on the part of those who called it into
existence. The whole country is looking to
the success of the Administration as an assur
ance of the perpetuity of our republican in
stitutions, and the preservation, inviolate, of
the liberties purchased for us by the blood of
our forefathers, and to secure this success, it
is only necessary that the Democracy and
those patriotic Whigs, who so nobly co-oper
ated with them, shall prove true to them
selves and to those principles of government
which they have so nobly and manfully sus
tained in opposition to every prevailing fanat
icism and madness.
The principles of the Democratic creed
have been vindicated before the people, in
the National Congress, and in the highestju
dicial tribunals of the country-; and upon
their maintenance depends the preservation
of the liberty-loving sentiment among the
people, and the continuance of a common
brotherhood that has made us a free and pros
perous confederacy. We appeal directly to
the Democracy of Pennsylvania, upon`whem
in the coming contest all the deceptions, mis
representations, and trickery of Abolitionism
and Know Nothingism will be brought to
bear. You have rejoiced in the victory of
many a bard fought battle. You have con
tributed essentially to demonstrate the supe
riority of a Republican Government and Re
publican institutions over any other in the
world. You have chosen your standard-bear
ers in the coming contest. They aro all not
only good and tried men, but able men, thor
oughly versed in the important duties of their
respective positions under the State Govern
ment, experienced in the affairs of the State,
men of enlarged patriotism and thorough De
mocracy, and wholly worthy of the confidence
reposed in them. They are from among the
masses, and in the past, throughout all the
strife with treason and fanaticism have lent
their best efforts to exterminate the hydra
that under various forms has made war upon
the Democratic sentiment and sought to .pre
scribe the rights and privileges of the people.
It is a contest between the friends of the con
stitution and those who would over-ride tho
constitution and all law and order. The mad
designs of Abolitionism are before the peo
ple, as are also the outrages and. incendiarisms
of Know Nothing intolerance, and it becomes
the duty of every good and patriotic citizen
to lend a hearty support and co-operation in
crushing out all disunion sentiments and all
species of bigotry that would impair our pros
perity and check our growth.
No measure of the Democratic policy is
concealed. Everything is open to full and
free discussion; and the maintenance of those
principles which form the basis of our gov
ernment must ever depend upon the intelli
gence and patriotism of the masses. Herein
lies the strength of the Democracy; but they
must be wary and vigilant. The game of
trickery and deception has been already be
gun, and if their enemies are to be vanquish
ed, it can only be by a united, earnest, zeal
ous effort. The issue is with the people, and
the cause is their cause.—Phila. ~4rgus.
Henry Clay on Negro Citizenship
On the 18th of December, 1851, Mr. CLAN .
introduced a resolution in the United States
Senate, in regard to the ANTHONY BURNS fu
gitive case, in Boston, where a mob of negroes
sought to prevent the execution of the law.
Ho is thus reported in the Congressional
Globe:
"But, sir," said Mr. Clay, "this is not all.
By whom was that mob impelled onward ?
By our own race? No, sir, by negroes ;by
African descendants; by people who possess
no part, as I contend, in our political system;
and the question which arises is, whether we
shall have law; and whether the majesty of
the Government shall be maintained or not ;
whether we shall have a government of white
men or black men in the cities of this coun
try ?"
Now, if "African descendants have no part
in our political system," how can they be cit
izens of the United States? Mr. CLAY was
not attacked for expressing such opinions,
for at the time they were uttered, nobody but
a few ultras doubted their judicial and con
stitutional correctness.—Pennsylvanian.
EDITORIAL CONVENTION.--A. convention of
newspaper editors met in Danville, on the
4th inst. We shall give a synopsis of the
proceedings next week.
INTERESTING CORRESPONDENCE
MR. WILMOT TO GEN. PACZEII.
TowANDA ' July 14, 1857.
HON. War. F. PAcKra—Dear Sir: I pur
pose to spend some time, during the summer
and fall, in canvassing before the people Of
involved
inState the principles and issues
in the pending State election.
Party meetings biing out only . that portion
of the people to whom the call is made, and
the addresses are necessarily all on one side,
whereas it is desirable that the whole people,
so far as may be, should have both sides
fairly presented before them at the same time.
If it should meet your views, I propose
that we canvass so much of the State as is
practicable, in company, addressing alter
nately the same meetings. Should this meet
your assent, please to inform me at your ear
liest convenience, so that we may arrange
the time and places of meeting, order of
speaking,
&c., &c.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
D. WimioT.
GEN. PACKER. TO THE DEHOCRATIC CENTIL&L
comMITTEE.
WILLIA3fSPORT, July 18, 1857.
Iloa•. C. R. BUCICALEW,
Chairman of State Committee:
Dear Sir: I have received the enclosed let
ter from one of the opposing candidates for
the Gubernatorial office, and inasmuch as it
proposes a plan for the conduct of the cam
paign which has never before been practised
in Pennsylvania, and as the success of other
candidates, besides myself, is involved in the
election, I have thought it my duty to submit
the communication to the judgment of the
State Committee representing the Democratic
party. If it is thought to be a proper mode
of conducting the canvass, I shall cheerfully
accede to the proposition.
Respectfully yours,
Wu. F. PACKER.
REPLY OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE CENTRAL COM-
MITTEE.
HON. W3l. F. PACKER:
Dear Sir—l have laid before the State
Committee the letter signed D. Wilmot, dated
the 14th instant, and am authorized to say to
you, that in the opinion of the Committee,
you ought not to accede to the proposition it
contains. The reasons for this opinion I will
proceed to state:
The slavery question, which it is possible
your opponent proposes to discuss, has very
recently been thoroughly considered and pas
sed uponby the people of this Commonwealth.
The late Presidential canvass involved the
whole subject so far as it was proper for con
sideration by our people, and we can preceive
no utility in its re-discussion at this time ;
nor any other good reason for re-opening de
bate upon it. The position of our party is
well understood, and requires no vindication,
at least by any extraordinary proceeding like
that proposed.
A joint canvass by candidates for the Gu
bernatorial office has never been conducted
in this State, nor, I believe, in any other
Northern one, and may well be questioned
on grounds of public policy. If the prac
tice be once adopted, it will doubtless contin
ue, and party nominations be uniformly made
with reference to it. No party will venture
to select a candidate for this office who is not
qualified for the stump ; and aptitude for de
bate will hence become to be preferred to ad
ministrative ability. In short, the result will
be to confine nominations to thesclass of talk
ers, and to exclude all others. A rule of
party action which would prevent such men
as Benjamin Franklin, Simon Snyder, and 1
Francis R. Shunk, from filling the Executive
chair of this State, must be a bad one, and
to be denounced rather than adopted.
We believe there is a considerable public
opinion against the propriety of executive
candidates appearing at all before popular
meetings to solicit votes. This was first prac
ticed by Wm. F. Johnston, in 1848, and has
been to some extent followed by candidates
since. The good results of it are not obvious.
It did not originate with the Democratic par
ty, nor has it ever received any formal popu
lar or party sanction. It may therefore be
considered an cpen question in future prac
tice, and at all events as forming no part of
the duty of a candidate, imposed upon him
by his nomination.
While your opponent holds the office of
President Judge, there is a special objection
to the acceptance of his project. The pro
priety of law judges taking part in political
meetings is denied by our party, and is op
posed by sound public opinion. By no act
whatever ought we to sanction or become par
ticipants in a prostitution of the judicial char
acter. Nor will a resignation now made al
together remove this objection. Your oppo
nent has intentionally held his office until
within three months of the election, (render
ing it impossible to elect a successor the pres
ent year,) and if a resignation should now
take place, it would obviously be with the in
tention of resuming the office after the defeat
for the post to which he aspires.
The proposed mode of conducting cam
paigns may possibly be suited to some of the
southern and south-western States, where it
has been practiced, and whose population
and political conditions differ from ours; but
its introduction here would be against solid
objections, and without any conceivable good.
It is, therefore, a proposed "Southern aggres
sion" upon the practice and policy of parties
in Pennsylvania, which cannot be at all ac
cepted or permitted.
It is well that this question has arisen
when we have a candidate capable and fit for
any discussion before the people, and when
the decision can be placed, without embar
rassment, upon public grounds which control
it.
I am, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
C. It. BIICKALET, Chairman.
GEN. PACKER TO JUDGE WILMOT.
WILLIAMSPORT, July 27, 1857.
Mx. D. WxLmoT:
Dear Sir :—Your letter of the 24th inst.,
was duly received; and as it proposed a plan
for conducting the Gubernatorial campaign
which had never hitherto been adopted in
Pennsylvania, and as the interests of other
candidates were involved in the result, I did
not feel at liberty to accede to your proposi
tion without first consulting the State Com
mittee to which the Democratic Convention
has on its part specially confided the centrel
and management of the canvass.
You will receive herewith a copy of my
letter to the Committee, as also their reply,
by which you will perceive that your sugges
tion does not meet their approval, and that,
for reasons stated at length, I ought not to
accede to your proposition. It is, therefore,
respectfully declined.
I am, yours, truly,
Wm. F. PACKER.
A Case of Party Malignity
Not long since Judge DOUGLAS tendered a
grant, of land near Chicago to a personal
friend—a elergymanL--upon which was to be
erected .a University. It was gratefully ac- .
cepted ; but that friend failed in getting the
necessary funds, to prosecute the enterprise,
and finally abandoned it. A Baptist clergy
man heard of the facts. He procured letters
of introduction to JUdge DOUGLAS: He sought
him ix another State, and in the generosity
of his nature Judge D. gave to this denomi
nation what he had intended as a gift to an
esteemed personal friend. The only stipula
tion he made in the gift was that the educa
tional institution to be erected on it should
be free from all sectarian rule; On the 4th
of last July the corner stone of the Chicago
University was laid upon the grant of land
Judge DOUGLAS had donated. He was invi
ted to be present—was there—and one would
have thought that on such an occasion parti
zan malice would have shrunk back at least
for the hour—that the donor of the magnifi
cent grant upon Which they stood, would not
have been insulted in its very consecration:
It was not so, however. Even there partizan
Malignity would not down, and the chaplain
of the day, a man who had repeatedly as
sailed Judge DOUGLAS during the last canvass
from his pulpit, in the mockery of his prayer
on this occasion a Republican paper boast
ingly reports him as saying
" And, oh! Lord, we cannot help sending
up a petition even here, standing on this free
soil, on Independence day, for our poor col
ored brethren in bondage, even though Judge
Douglas is present umong us !"
The orator of the occasion indulged in an
abolition harangue, and in direct insults to
Judge DOUGLAS, and the Republican press of
Chicago have made it the pretext for the bit
terest and most malignant attacks upon him.
We think party malignity and mendacity
can go no farther than this.
Polities and Religion
The New York Evangelist, a "religious"
paper, publishes a letter dated Concord, N.
IL, in which the writer says :
"In New England it will soon become a
question for the churches to decide, whether
a Democrat shall be received into the church
or be allowed to remain in it without discip
line. According to the common interpreta
tion of the late decision of the Supreme Court
those who, endorse it by their votes or their
influence are doing all in their power to rivet
the chains of the slave, to make servitude—
involuntary, oppressive servitude—the "cor
ner stone of national government, and at the
same time, to secure the moral assassination
of a race. The Apostle Paul seemed to indi
cate that those who "approve" of such things
are more guilty than those who do them.—
Our churches cannot tolerate fellowship with
slaveholders; indeed some clergymen think
their souls in peril by associating with or cor
responding with those who consent to meet
with them as equals. If Christians at the
North cannot sit peacefully with a delegate
from the South, now can they tolerate north
ern brethern who approve of the principles of
those delegates, and vote as they vote on the
great and absorbing questions of the day?—
This aspect of the question is rising in this
State.
The New York Commercial, in referring to
this foolish and illiberal assumption of eccle
siastical power, and to the further fact that a
Free-Will Baptist deacon was expelled from
a church in Michigan a few days ago, because
he voted for Buchanan for President, and
thereby aided the cause of slavery, very just
ly remarks:
Such preposterous assumptions of the
right to dictate to a citizen to which political
party he shall adhere, and to make his polit
ical opinions the terms of his churchmanship
every man with a spark 'of independence in
his breast will treat with the contempt they
deserve. But the effect of such assumptions
will be to destroy respect equally for religion,
its ministers and its ordinances. 'Whoever
really loves religion and desires the perpetu
ity of the church, exerts himself at once to
crush such a proscriptive spirit, and will em
:phati6ally denounce the assumptions which it
Fidelity of a Slave
At a meeting of the Palmetto Association
of South Carolina, some weeks since, Mr.
Keitt, in the course of a speech laudatory of
the deeds of the South Carolina regiment in
the Mexican war, related the following in
stance of devotion in a slave who was attach
ed to the person of a brother of Preston S.
Brooks:
"When another regiment fled, and all the
horrors and scourges of war were pouring
down upon the gallant Palmettoes, bathed in
the blood of their comrades—when Shields
said "who will follow me?" and Butler said
"we will"—Brooks, yes, the stripling Brooks,
cried out, "yes we will all follow you to the
death"—and he did. The same ball which
pierced. his body shivered his musket—and a
shivered musket was to adorn the signet with
the motto sans meruisse. When this brother
left home, Brooks told him, his father said to
his old body servant, " go with him and take
care of him—l confide my son to you." How
did the good old negro act? When the bap
tism of blood was going on—when perils were
lingering around—when hot ignition of strat
agem was every where—with noneito watch
the wounded boy but this old servant, he was
at his labor of love, taking care of his charge.
Crushed bones worked out from the wound—
he gathered them up and preserved them.—
The noble spirit passed out a - ad the corpse
alone was left. What did the old faithful
slave? The regiment gave him a mule and
cart,--the soldiers helped him to make a rude
coffin. With his own hands he placed the
earthly remains of his beloved young master
in this hearse—he conveyed it to Mexico—he
carried it to Vera Cruz—ho bore it on ship
board and by railroad to his old master's
home, and delivered the body and the bones
of her child to his widowed and bereaved
mother, at the lintel of his birth place. This
is literally true. In classic story—in legen
dary annals—in ancient or modern time—
where is the equal of this touching story?"
STANDARD WEIGHTS PER BUSHEL.—Accord
ing to the Statutes of the States, and the es
tablished rules of Commerce.
Wheat, 58 tbs.; Cloverseed, 60; Rye, 56;
Indian Corn, 56 ; Oats, 32 ; Barley, 48 ;
Buckwheat, 42; Dried Apples, 28 ; Dried
Peaches, 28; Beans, 60; Timothy, 45; Flax
seed, 56; Hemp Seed, 44; Blue Grass, 14;
Orchard Grass, 14; Redtop, 14; Millet, 50;
Lucern, 60; Malt,' 38 ; Corn Meal, 48;
Bran, 20.
The Rebellion in India
The storm-clouds that rise on the distant
horizon of the East high above the summits
of the Himalaya; cast their shadows upon
the shores of England. All is. doubt and,
gloomy uncertainty; not relieved by the last
mail from India, which omly confirms in pain;
ful detail the ealarnitotie news preViously re;
ceived. Yet it is a fair presitinption that the
Worst has not been told: Discretion was ne
ver More needed than at this critical juncture
of affairs. What would become of the Hon.
East India Company's credit—a mighty lever,
most useful tit this moment—were the prompt
ings of that taciturn virtue not heeded ?--t
Company and Government, like Church and„
State are united by the adarnantine chain of
interests,, and Lord Pahnefston is on mod
friendly terms with his camp-trumpeter, tbe ,
Times and a few other leading journals;. irr
whose wake the rest follow like sheep: But
were this not, the feeling of humbled national
pride would alone be potent enough to con.;
trol the language of the press. When that
institution lowers its tone in Great Britain
from the cnstomary high key of braggadocia
to the pianissimo of admitting bitter truths,
involving great national losses, " hard facts,"
as the Times calls it ; when it endeavors to
prepare the country for the worst, then one
may be pretty sure' that the worst is most
likely to come. The idea that India has to
be conquered over
,again—a most colossal
task—is either plainly or implieilly admitted
its almost all lubrications of the press. It
lies at the bottoth of every proposition and
discussion. The loss of India to Great Brit
ain would be one of the greatest events in
history, whose ultimate consequences no hu
man foresight is able to compass. The ques
tion, therefore, what the chances are of suc
cess in reference to the re-conquest of India;
is momentous.
The rebellion broke out in the Northern
districts, and has already spread, over an area
of a thousand miles in diameter, with Meerut,
Agra, Oude, as its centre—Dude, but recent=
ly annexed to the British Empire, to pay with
the plunder, as the Times flippantly intimated,
the Crimean debts—Oude, furiously chafing
under the British manacles, all the more cut
ting for their newness. This seat of the in
surrection, protected in its rear by the Hima
laya mountain chain, many hundred miles
from the coast, compelling British reinforce- ,
meats to long exhausting marches, is too
mirahly selected, not to Sustain the' supposi
tion of a leading intelligence directing the
whole movement. It must have been plan
ned deliberately, and preconcerted: No
sooner get the Sepoys sight of a corps of reb
els, than they instantly abandon and sacrifice
their British officers. After which they march
to the next camp or garrison, where the
drama is repeated, thus spreading in all direc
tions rapidly, and sure like contagion; the:
spirit of mutiny.
Most significant and most discouraging to
Great Britain, darkening considerably her
prospects, is the fact that this terrible rebel
lion did not break out, after all, among the
people whom she most suspected of mutinous
proclivities, and whom to keep in subjection
she maintains a mighty host. The rebellion,
after all, did not break out among the famish
ed, hunger-bitten slaves of the soil, the riots
who under the Anglo-Saxon lash cultivate
the narcotic drug ; wherewith to civilize China;
it did not break out among the tax payers,
whose wives and children die of hunger-pest,
while the British tax collectors carry away
half the proceeds of a year's hard and wea
risome toil; it did not break out among the
despairing victims of as cunning, atrocious
and dastardly a system of rapacity as the
world ever saw in its worst phases of deprav
ity. Strange to say, it broke out among 'the
very pets and darlings of the British East In
dia government, those who, had never suffer
ed starvation, who had been reared in plenty,
fed, clothed and pampered in every way. As
a signal retribution, the very men who had
been systematically educated in treason a
gainst their native country, trained by British
drill-sergeants in the use of steel and bullets
to enslave their fathers, brothers and friends
—the Sepoys, were the first to break loose
from British authority. They are the fight
ing men of the land, the most formidable ad
versaries that England could have met with
there—numbering over 150,000 men, while
there are hardly 50,000 European troops in
the whole East. Were a pitched battle to de
cide the issue, England would most likely
come off victorious • but things take a very
different course. There bellious soldiery dis
perse to the South, West and East, rousing
the fanaticism of the land to the extermina
tion of all Europeans. The British cannot
pursue them, without breaking up in as many
small detachments, which -would an be almost
hazardous experiment. Then the rebels are
backed by the sympathy of the country, and,
no doubt, countenanced by the numerous, in
fluential families of deposed sovereigns.
The descendants from Europeans and Hin
does or Moslems, form also a large and influ
ential class. With the ardent spirit of the
Oriental they combine a remarkable degree
of intelligence. They are superior to- the
aboriginal races and fully capable of heading
the struggle for their country's independence.
By ties of blood related to the Hindoos, they
command their confidence and affections,
while they are animated by the deepest ha
tred of the British, who have always treated
them, as a half-cast, with contumely. Their
number, especially in the Southern portion
of the Empire,' is very considerable. They
have been increasing ever since the first con
quests by the Portuguese, in the beginning of
the Sixteenth century—for more than three
hundred and fifty years. Should the insur
rection be permitted to reach the South, the
cause of England is irretrievably lost. Now,
all depends upon whether she can promptly
and effectually crush the North. Whatever
course the struggle may take, the woild's
sympathy is not with England. It is with•
the worm that turns to sting the heel of the .
tormentor ; with the patient Hindoo, whose
agonies and sufferings were witnessed only
by the silent stars above, whose cries of an
guish and despair were so long prevented, by
the ocean's vastness, from reaching the ear
of civilized world and the heart of humanity_
—Phila. Pennsylvanian.
TUE TONGUE.--A white fur on the tongue.
attends simple fever and inflammation. Yel- ,
lowness of the tongue attends a derangement
of the liver and is common to bilious and ty
phus fevers. A tongue vividly. red on the tip
and edge, or down the centre or over the
whole surface, attends inflarnation of the mu
cuous membrane° of the stomach or bowels.
A white velvet tongue attends mental disea
ses. A tongue red at the lips, becoming
brown dry and glazed attends typhus state.
The description of symptoms might be exten
ded infinitely, taking in all the propensities
and obliquities of mental and moral condi
tion. The tongue is a most expressive as well
as unruly member.—Scientific Am erican,