THE HUNTINGDON GLOBE, A DEMOCRATIC FAMILY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS, &C.
THE GLOBE.
Circulation—the largest in the county
E2I3I'II.fiIIP,ADOT.I,
Wednesday, December 2, 1857.
Nc - w Advertisenxents.
J. S. SIGGETT S: Co., flour dealers, and commission mer
chants, Pittsburg, are before the public with their card.—
Read it, and patronise them.
.Lcillouse and Lots for Salo, by Thos. L. States.
*a-Orphans' Court Sale, by John Jackson, Trustee.
lack,.A. valuable farm at public talc, by James Gwiu, Guar
dian, &c.
vru Assignee's sale, by John IL Wintrode.
t Auditor's Notices, by A. W. Benedict.
Salo in Partition, by Grains Miller, Sheriff.
CoxoxEss.— Congress meets on Monday
next. The President's Message will be anx
iously looked for by men of all parties. It
will appear in the "Globe" as soon after re
ceived as possible.
PROTHONOTARY, &C.—On yesterday DAVID
CALDWELL, Esq., Prothonotary elect, was duly
qualified, and entered upon the discharge of
the duties of the office of Prothonotary of
Huntingdon county. Mr. C. is highly com
petent, and we doubt not that with experi
ence, he will make an able and satisfactory
officer.
MATTHEW F. CiimrnEnn, Esq., the retiring
Prothonotary, filled the office to the entire
satisfaction of all, and takes with him the
kind - wishes of the community for success in
whatever sphere he may labor in the future.
Gov. PACKER'S CABINET.—The papers are
amusing themselves with guessing who will
compose Gov. RicKnit's Cabinet. For Secre
tary of the Commonwealth, Hon. &OEN CESS
NA, of Bedford, Hon. War. 31. HEESTER, of
Berks, and Hon. JouN L. DiwsoN, of Fay
ette, are most prominently named. For At
torney General, A. B. 31'C..s.LaroNT, Esq., of
Pittsburgh, Judge Cuuncrl, of Erie, Hon.
N. B. BROWNE, and VP. A. PORTER, Esq., of
Philadelphia, are mostly spokon of, and the
Lock Haven Democrat adds the name of
Hon. F. W. HuouEs, of Schuylkill.
re-The State of Illinois is said to have
produced during the present season over 208,-
000,000
bushels of grain—more than six bush
els to each man, woman and child in the Uni
ted States! The single county onVinnebago
produced one million six hundred bushels of
loheat! and yet the whole amount going for
ward to market is less than it has been for
somo years when there were not even mid
ling crops.
ALCOHOL vs. STRYCHNINE.—Prof. Allen, of
Kalamazoo, writes in the Medical Independ
ent, that it is alcohol, and not the poisonous
drugs put into the liquors, which destroys
the inebriate. Analysis fails to show the
presence of these drugs in such quantities to
compare with the active effects of alcohol.—
Strychnine is put into the yeast to strengthen
it, in making whiskey, and promote the en
tire conversion of the sacharine matter of the
grain to alcohol, and while retained in the
" slops" in sufficient quantities to kill swine
who feed upon them, and fishes who swim in
waters contaminated by them, chemical anal
ysis proves that scarcely a vestige of the drug
passes through the dead " worm of the still."
Et:7lt is a little singular that while "hun
ger mobs" are assembling in New York, the
theatres mostly supported by mechanics are
well attended every evening. The Herald
says the receipts are nightly about 8G,000.
Nearly sixteen thousand persons being in at
tendance. The places of amusement in Phila
delphia are likewise well attended. The thea
tres have good audiences, and any fair at
traction is sure to draw a good house.
The Latest Foreign News
Notwithstanding the improvement in the
English money market, there has been sev
eral heavy failures in various branches of
business in Great Britain. Several are also
reported in France.
$220,000 in specie, were received by last
arrival.
Several Iron manufacturing firms had call
ed their creditors together for the purpose of
trying to make some amicable arrangements,
in order to avoid, if possible, a full suspen
sion.
A. panic had occurred in the English
Ercadstuffs market, and prices were declin-
IE3
There is no later intelligence from India,
and no general news of importance from any
other part of the Old World.
Latest from California
The Northern Light arrived at New York
on Sunday, with 51,750,000 in gold.
The evidence of the massacre of one hun
dred and eighteen emigrants to California,
in the southern part of Utah, appears to be
conclusive against the Mormons.
There is much excitement in California in
relation to the outrage.
The papers say that an efficient army
could be raised in California alone, to pro
ceed against the Mormons.
FROM CENTRAL AMEBIC:A.—The Panama
papers contain the proclamation of Martinez,
General-in-Chief of the Nicaraguan army,
dateci Oct. 22, declaring war against Costa
Rica. The General declares that Nicaragua
will preserve the whole line of transit from
ocean to ocean; also the district of Guana
costa. The Costa Rican General has made a
formal demand for the surrender of the fort
of San Carlo. The latter is reported to be
on the Lake in a steamer, and had been fired
upon by the Nicaraguan troops.
The Currency
The Lycoming Gazette, published at Wil
liamsport, the home of Gov. Packer, makes
the following remarks, which we presume are
the sentiments of the Governor :
"The late suspension by the banks, and
consequent derangement of the currency, will
probably result in eventual good. It will
awaken a proper spirit of inquiry, and the
public mind will be brought to consider to
what extent the present banking system is
not a nuisance. We do not profess to be
Nestors in experience, nor Solomons in wis
dom, nor yet Talleyrands in political sagacity,
but we do pretend to some little common
sense, and so far as this extends, we confess
that there appears to us in the future no prom
ise of better things, so far as the currency is
concerned, unless an inuncdiate, radical and
organic reform* of the banking system is made.
Come, let us reason together.
Constitutional money, in this country, is
gold and silver, and all bank paper simply
purports to represent these metals in coin.—
Now, to what extent is this done ? A bank
is chartered ; its capital stock paid in---So far
as it is paid in—with notes of - other banks ;
a few dollars in specie is produced, and the
bank opens and pours forth, by thousands,
its promises to pay. The public take its
notes, but do not reflect that they are a libel
and a fraud upon the face, and worse than
that many glass balls. If gently dealt with,
the holder may sustain no loss, but he must
not whisper to his neighbor that the bank
has but one dollar in specie in its - vaults for
every fifty in circulation, or he creates a panic
and forces the bank to suspend. The holder
of a ten dollar bill must not get alarmed,
when he reflects that the bank which issued
it, has actually only fifty cents on hand to re
deem it with ; but for his own safety, he must
puff the solvency of the bank, and discoun
tenance mistrust, even though he doubts him
self. Meanwhile the bank, or rather its offi
cers and managers, prosper like a bay tree.
Its notes, by thousands, have gone out, and
speculative borrowers have made money gen
erally; but, alas ! a misfortune occurs. Some
balloon speculator busts; some fast bank
President has been detected in peculation at
the cost of the institution over which he pre
sided ; some railroad has become swamped,
or cotton manufactory bankrupt. Confidence,
that only hope of the banks, becomes a little
impaired ; a few Germans and Irishmen de
sire to protect themselves, and present each
a ten dollar bill to the bank for redemption,
when lo ! it fails! No, that is not the word,
it suspends ! The news travels on the wings
of lightning to all portions of the country,
and there is a general suspension !
Well, here we are. All business at a dead
lock; laborers turned out of employment, and
all paper money subject to a ruinous shave.
Here we are—and what is to be done ? Why,
of course, legalize the suspension? Take care
of the banks, and they will take care of the
people! Such has been the practice—such
will be the practice, unless the real sufferers,
the people, will awake to a just appreciation
of their neglects and their sufferings. We
say that there is no better, no brighter pros
pect for the future before us ; that periodical
revulsions and panics will continue to rend
the country, and paralyze its business, until
the primitive currency, gold and silver, is re
stored, or bank notes made to realize to the
holder what they now fraudulently represent.
Let the present occasion he improved for good
purposes, and such legislation sought as will
accomplish the reform demanded by public
policy. To this end we shall devote all our
efforts, and we respectfully ask the people,
now the victims of soulless incorporations, to
sustain us, as we sustain their cause."
ARE UNrLU'PY ACCIDENTS MISFORTUNES?-
The Newark (N.J.) Advertiser, descanting on
Thanksgiving, and endeavoring to prove that
men have cause to be thankful even for the
accidents which seem to their short-sighted
vision great calamities, instances the follow
ing case, which goes far to prove,its theory :
" A gentleman was hastening to the city in
the cars, to take a steamer that was to carry
him to a distant port that very afternoon.—
Unfortunately, 'however, an accident occurred
to the car in which he was proceeding, by
which his leg was broken. his disappoint
ment, to say nothing of his suffering, was ex
treme. his voyage was made impossible, his
friends were on board, and the whole plan of
a twelvemonth was frustrated in a moment.
Here was an event, one would suppose, for
which that gentleman with his broken leg
and crushed anticipations would find it diffi
cult to be thankful. And he certainly was
not. He took it in high dudgeon and deem
ed himself the most unlucky and unhappy of
men, *bile a companion on board, who was
able to continue his journey, was looked
upon as a favorite of fortune. But mark the
sequel. The ship he was to embark in foun
dered at sea, and all on board were lost. But
he, on the contrary, nursed his passion and
his leg on the safe shore, commenced au ac
tion against the railway company for dama
ges, and finally recovered ten thousand dol
lars by the verdict of a jury, who think, poor
men! they are doing their country service by
contributing all in their power to break down
the most meritorious of all the enterprises in
which our countrymen have risked their labor
and their money. Thus this very unfortunate
man, who could not be grateful at the time
for a casualty, but went so far as to curse his
fate, actually owed his life to the apparently
untoward circumstance, beside getting as
much money as three impartial and judicious
men would have dared to say upon oath that
even his life was worth. Consequently, he
virtually saved two lives, and the poor rail
way, as usual, was the only really unlucky
party in the whole affair."
ISI Brigham Young, who defies the govern
ment, and threatens the armies of the United
States, is a native of Whitehaven, Vermont,
and is fifty-six years of age. His father was
a farmer, originally from a town in the vicin
ity of Boston, and young Brigham is said
never to have been at school but thirteen
days. He has manifested a very strong mind
since he has presided over the Mormons, and
has spread that imposture over the civilized
world, sending hundreds of missionaries to
make proselytes. He will probably have the
infamy of being the first individual in the
United States elevated to a gallows for trea
son. his present career is strongly in that
direction ; and the fellow, while exercising
unlimited power in Utah, has the impudence
to talk of the persecutions he has suffered.
Two women, sentenced to Le hung—Char
lotte Jones in Allegheny county, for the mur
der of her aunt and uncle, and a colored wo
man in Lancaster county, fur the murder of
her husband.
KANSAS AND THE DEMOCRATIC
PRESS.
From the Chester County Republican & Democrat
The Kansas constitutional convention has
brought its labors to a close, and the result of
their deliberations is the subject of consider
able comment by the press. It is well known
that the body chosen to prepare the funda
mental laws for Kansas, was composed of
meu favorable to introducing slavery into the
new State. They were elected simply because
the free state men listened to the advice of
the fanatics from New England, in preference
to fulfilling their duty, as they did at the re
cent election for a delegate to Congress and
members of the territorial legislature. They
set themselves back in the breech bands de
claring they would not vote, because there
were some things that did not square up with
their notions. It will be remembered too,
that these men had howled forth no other
note than Kansas must be free. They sang,
talked and thought of nothing else ; and yet,
when the time came to elect the most impor
tant body ever chosen in the territory, they
were found playing the school-boy, and per
mitted the election to go by default. Because
they chose to be stubborn, petulent and self
willed, the whole power to frame a constitu
tion was deliberately handed over to men
known to be favorable to introducing slavery
into the territory. It was important to these
men, if they said the horse was sixteen feet
high to stick to it, than to make Kansas a free
State.
The present administration, Gov. Walker,
and certainly the entire northern democratic
press, with ,many political journals in the
South, took grounds that no constitution
should be framed, without afterwards sub
mitting it to a direct vote of the people of
Kansas. Nobody but a few fire-eaters in the
South dreamed of finding fault with such a
proper course, but every one applauded the
idea, not because there was any merit in do
' ing sc n 7 airt an act of justice, but for the sim
ple ri,on that it was according to the spirit
of everything just and right in our republi
can form of government. The demand of all
good citizens upon the constitutional conven
tion of Kansas was, that the people of Kan
sas should vote for or against the instrument
framed for them, and that a majority should
adopt or repudiate the fundamental law. It
seems to us however, that the Convention has
evaded this broad principle, by assuming
that the people of that territory only desire
to vote whether slavery shall or shall not ex
ist there. The schedule attached to the con
stitution provides for an election by the peo
ple, and it directs that the ballets cast at such
election shall be endorsed— "Constitution
with slavery, or constitution without slavery."
How much better would it have been to have
had the ballot endorsed—For the constitution
or against the constitution I This would have
afforded an opportunity for men to vote con
scientiously. It is said that this constitution
is in any event to be saddled on the people
for seven years, being unalterable during
that time. We are sure the democratic party
will not be satisfied with this plan of submit
ting the Kansas constitution to the people.—
We have never yet individually sanctioned
any of the wrongs perpetrated in this terri
tory either by southern or northern." border
ruffians," and we do not intend to begin at
this late day. If the constitution as a whole
is given to the people of Kansas and they
adopt it, we go for the admission of the Terri
tory as a State no matter whether it have
slavery or not. But let the sovereign voice
be heard distinctly in regard to the whole in
strument. A fair expression of opinion at
the ballot box, by every bona fide citizen of
the territory, is the popular demand, and no
thing short of this will be satisfactory.
We publish in another column, the sched
ule adopted by the Kansas Constitutional
Convention. Contrary to what we conceive
to be the true intent and meaning of the Kan
sas-Nebraska Act, the resolutions of the Cin
cinnati Platform, the Inaugural Address of
Mr. BUCHANAN, the recommendation of Gov
ernor WALKER, tho pledges of many of the
members of that Convention, the general ex
pectations of the country, and in defiance of
the true principles of liberal democratic gov
ernment, that body has refused to submit its
work fairly to the citizens of Kansas. There
is no honest submission of the new Constitu
tion to the action of the people. It is provi
ded that they may vote for "the Constitu
tion with slavery," or for " the Constitution
without slavery," but they cannutvote against
the Constitution no matter how much they
may be opposed to its provisions. They are
not allowed an opportunity of saying whether
they do or do not desire the document framed
by this Convention to be their fundamental
law, and by the abnegation of this privilege
they are deprived of the full exercise of that
right of forming their own institutions to
which they are entitled by every considefa
tiou of justice and right. The proposed elec
tion is in a less complete and more offensive
form than that by which LOUIS NAI:OLEON
obtained the confirmation of his assumption
of the position of Emperor from the French
people. While he refused to give them an
opportunity to vote for such candidates as
they preferred, he still submitted the propo
sition whether be should or should not be
placed upon the throne. Ire at least gave
them a chance to vote him down if they desi
red to do so. This right the Kansas Consti
tutional Convention has refused to the people
of that Territory. The pervading idea of
democratic government is, that all public
representatives and cfficials are mere servants,
whose highest duty is to guard the interests
and carry out the will of a higher power—
that of the people, the only true sovereigns.
The Convention has acted as though it was
determined to fasten and make binding its
action upon its constituency. This strange
and unjust proceeding necessitates the con
viction—that it was afraid of popular con
demnation, afraid to trust its work to the free
action of the people- - -afraid to do its duty,
and to place the power of final judgment
upon its proceedings where it belonged—in
the hands of those most deeply interested in
them. If the constitution suits a majority of
the people of Kansas, they would vote for it
in any event, and it wound become their fun
damental law. If it does not conform to the
views and requirements of a majority of the
citizens of Kansas, they should have an op
portunity of voting a.g, t it. This propo
sition seems so clear, that 're are surprised
that it should be questions' in any quarter.
Even the Convention was not altogether des
titute of some idea, of the justice of this prin
ciple, for it proposes to leave the people say
whether they are to have the Constitution
with or without slavery. What right had it
to limit the power of the people to action
upon merely one question, and to confine
their judgment even upon that by narrow
boundaries? The whole power belonged to
the citizeus of that Territory. There was no
From Forney's Prebs, Phila
warrant for dividing it, and we can conceive
no just and proper reason for thus dwarfing
their sovereignty. The whole ; affair wears
the aspect of a mere trick—an unworthy ex
pedient—which should meet with no favor.
There are other features of this schedule of
an extraordinary character, but we shall not
comment upon them now. We regret and
deplore the action of the Convention, and,
considering in how slight a degree it repre
sented the whole body of the people of the
Territory, are greatly disappointed that it
did not magnanimously crown its labors by
submitting them fully and fairly to all its
citizens, and thus have closed forever the
mouths of those who have clamored so loudly
against the Democratic party on the score of
alleged frauds in Kansas, and brought the
exciting drama of its Territorial difficulties
to a final close.
From the Phila. Pennsylvanian
It is always the safest and best course to
consult public opinion on any given subject
after it has been educated and corrected by
facts, with relation to the particular case un
der consideration. " The sober second
thought" is a wise counsellor. When the
Kansas-Nebraska bill was presented to the
Nation, many doubted, not a few hesitated,
while others taking their first crude impres
sion of the meaning and intent of the pro
visions of that bill, denounced it as monstrous
and absurd, an insult to the North, and cal
culcated to fasten the chains of slavery upon
every foot of territory not covered by the
protection of State sovereignty. But in a
few months, when all the facts were known,
and the people gained time to consider the
arguments presented in favor of this great
measure of the Democratic party, all objec
tions vanished, and the Kansas-Nebraska bill
instead of being repudiated became a test of
Democratic orthodoxy, a rallying cry in the
fiercest struggle with Black Republicans for
the rights of the States, the perpetuity of the
Union. It needed time to bring reflection.—
And so it will be in this final contest with
reference to 'Kansas, in which we are now
engaged. The Black Republican journals
and their correspondents have flooded the
country with falsehoods as to the actions of
the Kansas Constitutional Convention, and it
is deeply to be regretted that these falsehoods
have been retailed by a few Democratic press
es, even when the real facts were in their
possession. In this way public sentiment
has been misled and many right-minded men
induced to take the hist step in a path which,
if followed, must lead them into the camp of
the enemy.
But "the sober, second thought" has
come and the Democratic presses speaking
boldly in favor of the Kansas Constitutional
Convention, and the mode of submittino- b the
Constitution to the people adopted by that
body.
From the St. Louis Leader, No:. 2-1
We are glad to notice that the action of the
Kansas Convention is heartily endorsed by
the Washington Union, which expressed, we
presume, the views of the Administration.
We, a few days ago, expressed views almost
identical and need not repeat them now.—
The only question on which there is any dif
ference of opinion is the subject of slavery—
and that the constitution provides shall be
submitted to the people of Kansas—in other
respects the constitution which has been
framed by the convention agrees precisely
with those which exist in most States of the
Union, indeed it is copied almost verbatim
from those of two or three of the adjoining
States. We do not believe that a better one
has ever been framed. The question of sla
very can now be settled by a direct vote of
the people of Kansas. The anti-slavery par
ty affirm that they outnumber their opponents
three to one; if so, they can settle the ques
tion at once without further agitation.
This we are aware the Black Republicans
of the North do not want, as they thereby
lose all their thunder, but the whole country
is tired of their shrieks and howls, and we
may hope that at length the people of Kan
sas will look out for their own interest, and
refrain from prolonging a disturbance which
can effect no earthly object.
From the Pittsburg, (Pa.) Union.
It would seem not unlikely, and we would
fain, at least hope, that the members of the
Constitutional Convention, have - submitted
this slavery question to the people of Kansas
in good faith, and that their sole reason for
withholding the whole Constitution from a
vote, was not from anything exceptionable
in the body of that instrument, which they
sought to keep the people from voting down,
but the proclaimed determination of the free
State majority to reject their draft, without
regard to its merits, and in fact, even to re
pudiate the Topeka humbug itself, if offered
by this Convention! We feel the more as
sured of this, because we have yet to hear a
single whisper made against the remaining
provisions of that Constitution.
The objections to that instrument are then
reduced to the one of its non-submission, as
a whole, to a vote of the people. And if
there are really no objectionable features in
the body of the Constitution, this becomes
more a question of abstract right, than of vi
tal interest. But as a matter of abstract
rigid, secured to them by the spirit and let
ter of the organic act of the Territory, that
right should not have been denied.
But in one respect, this point becomes ma
terial. It leaves no sort of excuse or pallia
tion for the insane sentiment, in which the
opposition press so luxuriate, that the people
of Kansas "should flight rather than submit
to such outrages." A dread responsibility
will attach to these misguided politicians,
who for political reasons would reopen the
past bloody history of that Territory, should
such a result be induced by their counsils.—
In the view of the case, which we have giv
en, there can be no reason why the free State
men of Kansas should not participate in the
Decealller, election, and set this vexed slavery
questit rest for ever. We will not yet
say. that they will not vote at that time, for
we do not see how they can fail to understand
that such good, and net the possibility of in
jury to their case, would result from such a
course and that, moreover, they would be
but discharging their duty to the peace of
the nation.
The result is, that the free State party—
which has undoubtedly been itching for an
excuse for staying away from the polls, and
allowing a pro-slavery Constitution to be
adopted—refuses to be satisfied, and declares
its determination to take no part in the set
tlement of the question at issue. Because it
is not to he allowed to vote down a Constitu
tion against which it cannot offer a single
vaiid objection, and in reference to any of
the features of which there has never been
any controversery between parties, it obsti
nately and factiously refuses to vote down a
clause of the instrument which it has always
professed to dislike. It is obliged to admit
that the slavery question is the only question
From the Providence Post
which has been at issue, and that upon this
question provision is made for a fair expres
sion of the people's wishes. It is obliged to
admit that, under the Constitution, it could
easily obtain possession of the State govern
ment, as it has already obtained possession
of the Territorial government. It is obliged
to admit that the Constitution itself, so far
as it is placed beyond the immediate reach
of the people, is by no means partisan in
character, or unjust in its assignments of
power. It has nothing to object to, save the
bare fact that the Constitution cannot be vo
ted down; and because it cannot be, it refu
ses to vote down slavery, or to have anything
to do with the election of a State govern
ment !
From the Baltimore Republican, Nov 25
We have Seen with regret, leading Demo
cratic journals of the North indulging in
heated denunciations of the Convention in
that, that it did not submit the whole Consti
tution to the people, and not that portion,
alone referring to the subject of slavery.—
The effect is to give comfort to the Black Re
publicans, who, entirely reckless of their
great professed object—the exclusion of slav
ery—intend to cavil upon the ninth part of a
hair to keep the subject alive, in order that
they may exhibit the bloody mantle of bleed
ing Kansas in the campaign of 1860.
If discussion or denunciation of the act of
the Convention could mend anything, then
there would be more propriety in the act,
but, as we have said, it is too late. The
Convention have completed their labors and
adjourned. When the people have acted
upon a single point, the Constitutisn will be
complete, and thus it will go before Con
gress.
We must take the thing as it conies to us,
and deal with it as we find it. What, then,
in respect to the subject is the policy of the
great national Democratic party, now charged
with all the vast and comprehensive interests
of this mighty Union of States ? The an
swer, in our judgment, is, to get rid of the
matter at once by admitting Kansas into the
Union, slave clause or no slave clause and
thus transfer to its proper vexed locality what
is no longer of practical national account, and
only serves the mischievous purposes of both
Northern and Southern disunionists.
There is a vicious element in Kansas—
treacherous and villainous-.which deserves
not the ordinary consideration or tender of
strict equity. That element is the abolition
Topeka gang of traitors, who are the mere
creatures and tools of the Sewardites of the
North, and who will do all in their power to
keep Kansas out of the Union, though it
could be admitted as a free State. Even now
it is stated that they are arming to prevent
people from voting upon the clause submitted
by the Constitutional Convention. A greater
atrocity cannot be conceived of, yet shall re
gard for such infamous wretches prevent
Congress from doing an act which shall re
lieve the whole country from annoyance and
vexation about what is of no practical na
tional account, and cast upon the traitors
themselves the business of taking care of
their own affairs, to their own good or evil,
as they may see fit?
ME PORK TRADE.—The following synopsis
of the latest news in the pork market is
gleaned from our exchanges. The Keokuk
(Iowa) Gate City, 18th inst, says: "A Pork
Packing Association has been organized by
some of the merchants and I ackers of this
city. About 5200,000 have been subscribed,
and additional subscriptions are expected.—
The object is ; in the absence of currency, to
purchase pork on the credit and paper of the
company."
From the Chicago (Ill.) Tribune, 23d inst.,
we learn that "there is now a good demand
by Chicago packers for live hogs, at S4G4 30
per 100 lbs. gross. The weather is favorable
for packing purposes, and receipts arc very
fair, being 4 475 a head in the twenty four
hours ending at noon Saturday, by rail
road."
The Cass County (III.) Times states that
there is an unusually large number of fine,
well fattened hogs in the county. Ten or
twelve thousand have been contracted, ht $6
per hundred, but it is feared there is or will
be an indisposition or inability to live up to
some of the contracts, by paying cash on de
livery."
The Springfield (Ill.) Journal, I.(Jth inst.,
says: "We are rapidly advancing upon the
period when pork must be packed, if it is to
be done this season. We hear of no purchase
being made of pork for packing. Sales of
small lots to shippers are made at $3 to 3 28
gross."
In the Louisville (Ky.) Journal, of 24th
inst., we find that, "as to prices, the few
hogs that have come in had been previously
contracted for; $5 cash for net weight could
be obtained."
In Nashville, (Tenn.) dealers are offering
from $4 to $5 net, for hogs. In Chattanoga,
in the early part of the season, hogs here
sold as high as 5 to 5A cts. gross, whereas,
now, those prices would not be given for
bogs, net. In Columbus, Georgia, hogs are
selling at 10 ets. net; at Atlanta, three pork.
houses have' recently started, viz, J. J.
Thrasher, N. L. Angler and 'Tolland and
Davis.
INTERESTING BABY AFFAIR—A WORTRY
CITIZEN IN DIFFICULTY.—Last Saturday eve
ning a gentleman residing at Jamaica Plain,
was sitting with his wife and some friends at
their parlor fire, when the door bell was vio
lently rung. The lady rose, but then sug
gested to her husband as the girl was out he
had better ;othe front door. Accordingly
he opened it and found no one there; but
there was a nicely done up basket, covered
, with white linen, at his feet, and he thought
he heard the rustling of a female dress de
parting. After looking vainly up and down
the street, and around the portal, he took
the basket into the parlor. On the covering,
being removed, a beautiful little child ap
peared, some five months old. The lady
screamed, one of the lady visitors took up
the baby and found a note pinned to its
dress, which charged the gentleman of the
house with being the father, and implored'
him to support it. A rich scene ensued be
tween the injured wife and the indignant
husband, the latter utterly denying all knowl
edge of the little one, and asserting his inno
cence. The friends interfered, and at last
the wife was induced to forgive the husband,
although he still stood to it like a Trojan,
that he had always been a faithful husband.
Finally, the lady very roguishly told her hus
band that it was strange he should not know
his own child, for it was their mutual -off
spring, which had. just been taken from its
cradle up stairs by the nurse, for the very
purpose of playing the joke, and the sur
prised husband finally joined in the laugh
which was raised at his expense.—Boston
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Proceedings of Town Counsil
OCTOBER 2.7Tu, 1857.—The house met at
the usual place. All the members present
accept the Chief Burgess.
The Secretary absent. On motion Hon.
James Gwin was appointed President protein,
and A. W. Benedict, Secretary.
A communication from Wm. J. Young of
Philadelphia with a bill of $180.50 for sur
veying instruments purchased from him in
1855, and asking payment of the same, was
read, when, on motion, one hundred dollars
of any money in the hand of the Treasurer
not otherwise appropriated, was directed to
be applied to the payment of the bill of Wm.
J. Young, for Transit &c., and that the Bur
gesses draw an order for the same. The sec
retary entered and resumed his duties.
On motion, A. W. Benedict, Esq., Attor
ney, was directed to collect as soon as prac
ticable the claim of the borough against John
Snyder, Collector.
The following resolution was offered and
seconded:
Resolved, That the Burgesses be directed
to draw Orders in favor of the several per
sons, who loaned money to the County, for
one year,--on the faith of the Resolution
that the Borough would pay the interest on
the contract price for building the Bridge at
the foot of Montgomery street,—for the in
terest for one year to each of those persons
for whatever sum they loaned, as the same
shall fall due.
And on the question shall the Resolution
pass? the yeas and nays being required, re
sulted as follows:
Yeas—Messrs. Fisher, Snare, Port, Bene
dict, Murray, Bergens, Gwin, Chairman,
7—Nails—Messrs. Win. Africa, Swoope, 2.
So the resolution was adopted and the
house adjourned:
J. SIMPSON AFRICA, Secretary
The Farmer's Position
Amid crashing banks and the financial dis
tress and ruin that pervades our country, no
portion of its citizens occupy a prouder po
sition than that of the farmer. Of all the
pursuits in which men engage to earn an
honest living, that of the cultivation of the
soil is the most respectable, the most honora
ble, the most independent. In view of the
truly honorable position which the farmers
of this country occupy and enjoy at this par
ticular time, the Providence _Post says it is
not only singular, but deeply to be regretted,
that so many of the young men of the coun
try should prefer a mercantile life or a pro
fession to that of tilling the soil. Not only
is it to be lamented, it maintains, an account
of the welfare of the young_men themselves,
but also in reference to the prosperity of the
country, for it is a truth that cannot be con
tradicted, that the best interests of the in
habitants of any country are intimately con
nected. with the prosperous condition of its
agriculture. It is the cardinal pursuit of
man, and all others must prosper or decline
with it. It is that pursuit that, will be most
likely to help us comfortably _through the
world, and is most prolific in substantial en
joyments and. real independence. We would
nut wish to he understood as speaking dis
paragingly of other callings, or to make invi
dious comparisons between the various occu
pations in which the people of civilized coun
tries are engaged. All are useful and hon
orable when fairly conducted. But we would
check the inordinate taste of our young men
for commercial and professional life, which -
now wars with a giant hand against the
wealth and morals of the nation.
And this state of things bears with great
force upon the laboring poor. For although
they can procure nominally good wages for
work, yet so extravagantly high are all arti
cles of food, induced by the limited number
of the cultivators of the soil, that it requires
their utmost exertions to obtain a comfortable
livelihood. It is not often that the poor see
harder times than they have for weeks past;
and even men of moderate property, who in
ordinary times are easy with the world, have
to scratch to get along, as the saying is. An
undue proportion of our people are engaged
in other pursuits besides agriculture, and it
is high time that some means be applied to
remedy the great evil. But as long as fash
ion is on the side of the professions and mer
cantile life, it will require a Hercules to con
quer our enemy; but it must be c„mquered,
though we have to enlist Hercules, and Bria
reus, also, to
- fight for us. And why should
our young men be so eager to leave the farm
and plunge into other avocations? Is there
one chance in a hundred that their fond anti
cipations of obtaining wealth and fanie will
be realized? How many professional men
obtain wealth and distinction? The chance
is against them, and experience has proved
it so. Theirs is a life cf anxiety and turmoil
though it may be a useful and honorable one.
Therefore we would say to young men, who
have been educated in husbandry, stick to
the farm, and if your hands are not as white
as the minister's and your bow not as grace
ful as the lawyer's, you have substantial pre
rogatives that they know not of; yes, cultivate
sonic acres, get some books and read them,
keep clear of debt if possible, and if you
are not happy in this selection you will never
be in any.
key , The Baltimore Sun, in speaking of the
mutilated portions of the body and limbs of
a man having been found on the trucks of a
car from Philadelphia, says that it appears
that on the stoppage of the train at Wilming
ton; a man was seen to go under one of the
cars and get on the frame work of the truck,
between the floor of the car and the axle, but
it was supposed that ho was one of the em
ployees of the company, and had got there
for the purpose of oiling or fixing something
that had become deranged. His object, how=
ever, was to ride free, and the result was his
death. On Thursday, an arm of the unfor
tunate man, completely crushed, was found a
short distance from Wilmington, and about
ten miles further on toward Elkton, the head
was found, but so much disfigured by mutila
tion, as to render recognition impossible.
tE,,„:%.ll.friny of our country exchanges are
complaining of the bad treatment they are
receiving from patent medicine Doctors.—
They - publish everything in the shape of an
advertisement sent them, but when they
make a demand for pay, the Doctor is not to
he found. Serves them right.