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TH.E! PHIL OS OPIIER.IS SCALE
BY J.I:YE TXYLOR
A monk,•when his rites sacrodotal were o'er,
In the depth of his cell with his stone-covered floor,
Resigning to thought his chimerical brain,
He formed the contrivance we now shall explain.
In youth 'twos piejeeted, but years atcile away,
And ero:twas completed, he was wrinkled and gray;
But success is secure tales energy fails, -
And at length he produced the Philosopher's Scales.
ZPh_at wore they ? yon ask. - YLm. shall prssatly see,
These scales ;vere not made to weigh til:gar and tea.
O.:no! for such propertioz; wondrous had th ,, y,
-That qualitieS, feelings and thoughts, they could weigh,
Together with articles, small or immense,
From mountains or planets to atoms of sense;
Naught was there so bulky, but there it would lay,
And naught so ethereal, but there it would stay,
And naught so reluctant, but in it...must go,
All which some exaMples mu., clearly will show.
The first thing . lie".weighed was the head of Voltaire.
Which retained all the wit that had ever beer. there;
As a weight, he threw in the torn scraps of a leaf,
Containing* the prayer of the penitent thief,
When the skull rose aloft with so sudden a spell,
That it bounced like a ball to the mu: of his cell.
One time he put in Alexander the Great,
And a garment that Dorcas had made, for a weight,
And though clad in armor from sandals to crown,
The hero rose up, and the garment went down.
A long row of alms houvs amply endowed
33y milvell esteemed Pharisee, busy and proud,
Next loaded one scale, while the other was pressed
33y those mites the poor widow threw into the chest.
Tip flew the endowment, not an ounce,
And down, down the farthing's worth Callle with a bounce
Again he performed an exp2riment rare—
A monk with austerltiC•s bleeding and hare,
Climbed into theseale; in the other was laid
The heart of Howard, now p‘rtly dsc.tyed,
When he found wi tit burprise, th at the whole o flits brother
Weighed less by some pounds that the bit of the other.
ty other experiments, (no matter how.)
Ile found. that ten chariots welf , ,lied less than a plough
A sword with gilt trappings rose up in the scale,
Though balanced by only a ten-penny nail.
A shield and a helmet, a buckler and spree,
Weighed less than a widow's uncrystalized tear.
A lord and a lady went up at full sail,
When a bee chanced to lialrtin the opposite scale.
Ten doctors, ten law:ere, ± , `ll. coarti. - r,„ one earl,
Ten counselors' wigs, full of powder and curl,
All heaped in one balance, and swingill!.; frail - a thence,
Weighed less than a few grains of can for and sense ;
A first-water diamond with
That ow good potato, jo.3t waded from the dirt;
ret no mountains of silver and gold would sufileo,
One pearl to outweigh, 'twits the pearl of great price.
Last of all the world wo ; rolled at the gate,
With the soul of a beggar to servo as a weight;
When the scale with the soul so mightily fall,
That it jerked the philosopher out of his cell.
,c4ittr.res'fing ariliisctlialq..
Young America Speaking the Lingo.
" Young man," inquired a puzzled trav
eler at a point of his journey where the way
diverged in different direaions, " which of
these roads will take mcs. to Manchester ?" _
'" Neither, sir ; but if you wait au hour the
stage will be along to take 3,-,;u to town for a
quarter."
" You appear to be a shrewd boy, but not
particularly charged wits manners. how
old are you ?"
"I'm bobbin' around in m 3, fifteenth year,
and as for being shrewd, they reckon me
that away, round here. I have knocked the
spots off old Daboll, and beat the school mas
ter at 'seven up' and parsing ; but when you
talk about charged with manners, I'm well
loaded and rammed too I"
"Have you parents living ?"
" Parents living? If you mean the old
man and old womaxr—no. I thank you,
they said,' and . left me to play the thing
alone."
"With whoni do you reside—l mean with
whom do you live ?"
" Well, there if you call - living, being
bound out till you're one and twenty to one
of the meanest men that ever sat down to a
boiled'dinner.• I live up the hill therc, to old
Wagoner'e; who farms it with me and a yoke
of roan stags !"
" , My young friend, your early culture
seems to have been sadly neglected. Have
you ever enjoyed Sunday privileges?"
"You'd better think so; -there isn't a
hedge-hog nor a Wood-chuck within three
miles of here ; old Wagoner leas the meat,
and I hare the hide and tallow."
. _
" What,May I call your name my lad ?"
"You can't make any mistake, call me
what you have the most of; but my genuine
name is Alpha Chesebro—for quick, they call
me Cheesy. But I have 'Wasted more time
than common ; I can hear the old. woman
giving tongue, and. I must worm off or the
old boy will be here and lick us both. So, cap
tain, consider 111 Q yours, and if you'll eddy
around some Sunday, show you fun or
pay the rum V"
'During a recent trial at Auburn, the
-following occurred. to vary the monony of
the proceedings:
Among the witnesses was one, as verdant
specimen of humanity one would wish
Ao.meet with, After a severe cross-examina
,tien, the counsel for the government paused,
:anottlieniputting on a look of severity, and
:an ominous shake of the bead, exclaimed:
" Mr. Witness, has not an effort been made
,to induce you to tell a different story ?".
." A different story from what I have told
sir ?"
That is what I mean."
"Yes, sir ; several persons have tried to
get me to tell a different story from what I
have told, but they couldn't."
•
"Now, sir, upon your oath, Iwish to know
Ivho these peisons are."
" Waal, I guess you've tried 'baut as hard
as any of them." , _
The witness was dismissed, while the
judge; jury, and -spectators indulged in a
-ltearty laugh.
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WILLIAM .LEWIS,
VOL. XIV.
=POET, OP TEE BOARD or DIRE c-
OFFICE OP THE HUNTINGDON ANDBROADI •
TOP RAILROAD AND.COAL COMPANY.
To the Stockliolders of the Huntingdon and
Broad Top Mountain Railroad and Coal
Co . 2npany.
• January 11, 1553.
In compliance with the Charter, the Board
of Directors pre-.eft the following Report fdr
the year 1858 :
The receipts from all sources have been as
follows :
1858. 1857.
.Coal Freights, $55,947 02 $42,628 12,
Merchandise, 6,629 67 6,964 88
Passengers, 5,905 38 9,236 13
Mines, 19,624 46 8,269 00
House Vents, 824 50 406 50
Mail and Express, 1,862 40 1,775 00
Miscellaneous, 1,070 67
InCrease in 1858, $2;2,634 42
It is scarcely necessary to say that for the
greater portion of the - past year extreme
prostration has been felt in all great indus
trial interests of the country, and in none
more than in the coal and. iron trade; notwith
standing this, the increase of receipts as well
as of the tonnage of the road has been' near
ly 331 per cent.
Since its first introduction into market, the
demand for Broad Top Coal for steam purpo
ses has been on the increase.
Owing to the extreme dullness of the iron
market, the demand up to October of the
past year, for rolling mills, was very limited.
Since that period orders are more abundant,
and a great improvement has taken place
both in coal and iron interests.
From the statement annexed, furnished by
Jan. J. Lawrence, Esq., Superintendent,-you
will see the earnings of the Jdoad independent
of the receipts from mines, and the expense
of.operating the same, which appears to have
been forty-nine per cent. of the gross earn
ingP. When you consider that for only a
small portion of the time there was full en
ployment fur the rolling stock, the expenses
will be considered moderate. The mainten
ance of way has certainly been low for a
road of forty-seven miles in length—being
; ;2101 less than last year, - notwithstanding
the increased tonnage. The following ex
tract from the report of Jno. Fulton, Esq.,
the resident engineer of the Company, will
show the condition of the :Road.
" It gives me pleasure to be enabled to re
port, that during the .past year no accident
11 as occurred to trains arising from defects in
track, or from mechanical structures, and
that the track and mechanical structures of
the Road are in good and secure order."
But $1263 63 has been charged to construc
tion account for new works, and a larger
amount will not be rcr i ttired the present year.
STATE N
Showin.ey Earnin [is ancl E.epenses, and Nett .
_Earnings fbr l'ear not iaclucliiw Royalty.
Coal Freight, $55,047 02
.Meleliandize Freight, 6,039 G 7
l'asen:.:e:s 5,095 03
llt.iits of Worhmed,sll3uses, 52-1. 55
Mall and Express, 1,362 40
Mist:el:al/culls (old material sold,) 203 97
---- ;1;71,520 64
-)(Drive Power
MEIM=MEI
:::.ziziterLtice of 'Way,
Conducting Tr ungnulation, I 03
3faintenance of Mire:, '252 '2l
Expenses about 4 per cent of Earnings, $37497 10
The Royalty receipts fur year not in above, are 10,024 40
Miscellaneous, 810 00
Nett receipts,
Includ;;cl in the rent of mine is $8,639
received for out-crop of coal to a neighboring
colliery.
Huninnyaon, January oth 1859.
It is now two years and nine months since,
the first opening of the Road to the mines on
Shoup's Run. The shipments of coal for
that period have been as follows:
1856,
1857,
1858,
- Although these quantities are greatly be
low our estimates, we think they will' be
found, upon examination, to be equal for the'
time to those of almost any other coal road
made to an undeveloped region. The mines
were' not only to open, and dwellings and
other necessary improvements to erect, but
the coal was unknown, except in its own im
mediate neighborhood, and a market to es
tablish for it.
As an evidence that it holds its own in
those markets where it has been tried, we
will merely state that of some twenty compa
nies reported in a tabular statement of the
coal trade of 1858, published in the United
States Gazette, January Ist, but one or two
companies beside our own show any. consid
erable increase, nearly all the others showing
a large falling off in shipments.
With the gradual improvement now tak
ing place in the iron trade, a large increase
may be looked for in the orders from rolling
mills and forges. The great market, howev
er, for Broad Top Coal is undoubtedly to be
found in New York and the Eastern States
for the supply of their railroads and manu
factories, and ocean and inland steamers.
Sample lots sent. to these markets have
- given great satisfaction, and large orders can
be obtained at the selling prices of the Cum
berland. We expect to complete such ar
rangements for transportation as will enable
operators the present season to place their
coal in these markets.
The Pennsylvania -Railroad Company are
deepening their canal from the mouth of the
Juniata to Columbia; which will facilitate
canal shipments very much.
A shippin g point on the Delaware front of
this city is badly needed; and all engaged in
the bituminous coal trade should press upon
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company the ne
cessity.of extending; their road to the Dela
ware river.
TORS.
$91,964 10 $69,329 68
69,329 6S
EARNINGS
EXPENSES
NEU
9i3 CO
q 3 5 82,
V1L232 45
$37,731 63
42,000 tons
78,512
105,717 "
HUNTINGDON, PA., FEBRUARY 2, 18591
The extra cost' of shipping from the &tiny
kill has been the main cause of the loss of a
flamber of large eastern orders the present
season.
Shipments have been made to some extent
to California, Cuba, and Rio Janeiro ; and
we look forward to a large increase for these
and other foreign ports. .
'With-the exception of one or two short in
tervals the mines have for the past year been
Well supplied with cars, and the motive pow
er' sufficient to have moved a much larger
quantity of coal.
From the collieries:new opened, if worked
with any . vigor, 1000 tons per day can be
easily mined ; and by hiring occasionally of
the Pennsylvania Railroad - Company, the
present motive power will- be sufficient to
move it.
Whether there will be a deMa,nd to that
extent is a question that will be solved by
the success of our operators in the Eastern
market.
The collieries of the CoMpany, so far as
worked, have equalled our highest expecta
tions ; and when you consider that scarcely a
commencement has been made at ,the devel
opment of the coal lands of the Company,
and that the receipts from that source the
present year amount to $19,624 46, you may
form some idea of the value of your coal prop
erty.
The selection of their lands has proved to
hare been fortunate,-as they are all located
upon two of the large runs which-cut across
the measures of the coal field, and render
them accessible from, the out-crop.
Fifteen collieries are now, opened and im
proved in the Broad Top coal region, six of
which are upon the lands of the Company.—
The remainder belong to independent compa
nies and private individuals.
As the question is often asked, " How
much has the Road cost per mile ?" you will
find by the Treasurer's statement, that the
construction and equipment account is char
ged with $1,344,881. Deducting, from this
$75,000 for the equipment, you will have
$1,270,000 as the cost of 421- miles of railroad,
or $30,000 per mile.
If you add to the 421 miles of main track
4.i miles of siding you have 47 miles of sin
gle track road, costing $27,000 per mile, in
cluding interest paid on Stock and bonds, ex
tra interest, commissions, and expenses of
every kind..
Tins,' we think, will - be found to be as low
as the same character of road has been built
for, anywhere. _ -
The loss on the sale of stock and bonds has
not been charged to,this account,
The real estate of the Company, including
their improvements at Huntingdon and Saxton
as well as their coal lands and improvements,
have cost the Company less than $llO,OOO,
and are certainly to-day worth three times
that amount.
At the last session of the Legislature, an
Act was passed, authorizing, the issue of six
thousand shares, $300,000 of seven per cent.
preferred stock, to be used at par, so far as
required, in liquidation of the unfunded debt
of the Company. This Act was accepted at
a general meeting of the stockholders, held
on the 15th of September last.
Since that, creditors to the amount of $128,-
000 have agreed to take preferred stock at
par in payment of . their 'claims, - provided the
road is retained in 'the hands of the stockhol
ders. The agreement made with them will
be submitted to you.
At the date of our last annual meeting. the
unfunded debt of the Company amounted to
528,666 49. It has since been reduced by
payments in bonds, by earnings from the
Road, and by the arrangement for preferred
stock alluded to above, to $290,221 79.
A largo unsecured creditor proposes to
take $21,000 for a debt of $42,000, which
would reduce it to a little more than ono
half of - what it was one year ago.
The Cothpany have of second
bonds now out as collateral, $140,000
The Board estimate the nett
revenue for 1559 at $BO,OOO
Less interest and cou-
Pons maturing du
ring the year, 30,000
50,000
By payin(r l' partly in cash, a good deal of
preferred stock can yet be used in liquidation
of debt. -
The.creditors of the company so far have
been very indulgent and suits been generally
avoided, but some whose own necessities are
pressing have become importunate, and to
avoid the sale of the bonds held by them as
collateral at a serious loss, and to prevent
suits.which might result in a demand for a
sequestrator, it is absolutely necessary that
measures be taken immediately to provide
funds to some extent.
We submit to your consideration, wheth
or some plan cannot be matured by
which the bonds and a Sufficient amount of
the preferred stock can he sold to ensure the
entire liquidation of the floating debt within
the year. - This done, there can scarce be a
doubt of the stock paying in a very short period.
The total receipts of the Beaver Meadow
Company, since more than quadrupled, were
in 1351 less than those of our Company for
the present year. The shipments from the
Cumberland region, though the increase had
previously been slog, were nearly quadru
pled between 1851 and 1856.
Is there any reason why the increase in
our business should not be equally rapid now
that the mines aro becoming developed and
the charaCter of coal established ? .
Bituminous COal is rapidly taking the place
of wood on Railroads, and supplanting other
coals as a fuel for steamers and steam pur
poses.
The Broad Top is nearest bituminous
coal field of the United States to the Sea
Board. Its location too iu the great iron re
gion of Pennsylvania, must secure to us upon
the revival of business a large and constant
ly increasing home market, always the most
profitable.
The total amount of stock being small,
and the interest on the bonded debt station
ary, allowing the shipments of coal to be
trebled or quadrupled with a corresponding
increase in a local business, you can esti-
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pay or not.
We refer With pleasure to the 'kindness and
promptness of Thomas A. Scott, Esq., Gen
eral Superintendent of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, in furnishing cars and other facili
ties for transportation.
The Board desire to e. press their approba
tion of the management of John J. Law
rence, Esq., Superintendent as well as of the
fidelity and general good conduct of the em
ployees upon the road during the recent em
barrassments of the Company.
The success of John Fulton, Esq., the res
ident civil and mining engineer, in develop
ing and improving the collieries of the Com
pany, has been highly satisfactory.
By order of the Board.
L. T. WATTSON, President.
LIABILITY IN BONDS AND STOCK.
First Mortgago Bonds, all sold,
Second b. " sold,
i; cc " unsold,
Common Stock, sold 10,833 shares,
The Company aro allowed to sell $300,000
preferred stock for the liquidation of their
floating debt. An agreement has been made
with creditors for a considerable portion of
this, but it has not yet been issued.
Trcasurer D - unt:ngdon and Broad Top Mountain .Z?aitroad
foul Coal Company. DR.
Jan. 1, 1859. Dol. Cts. Dol. Cts.
To Received for Stock, 430,403 21
for Bonds, 010,178 69
To Passengers, .Freights, and
Mines,
55,836 S 7
.
Tu Bills Payable, Loans, and oth
er debts, 106,019 57
Receipt-4 and expenditures on
the road for December not inclu
ded.
Bill-Pa yable, Loans, Eec., 406,019 57
from which deduct amount for
which creditors have agreed to
take Preferred Stock, 128,127 78
. -
Aai amount duo for Bonds bor
rowed of Directors and sold, 12,200 00
CR.
Jan. 1.1559. Dol . Cls. Dol. Cts
By construction and equipment
account, 1,344,831 74
Dy Real Estgto and Improve
ments at nines, 100,315 8S
By Running 'Expenses—Mainte
nance of Way, Superinten
dence,&c., 24,514 27
By Intrest Account—lnterest
on TUICAVaIS. &c.. So., 21,2v2 70
Interest ou Bonds, 2,213 75
.:23,460 54
'By inciat:ntal Bxpenses-001ce
expenses, salaries, &c., 5,741 47
By bills receivable, bonds and
stocks, 10,706 24
By balance due on stock, 5,355 is
By balance in hands of Superin
tendent, 0,143 71
By Cash on hand and cash as-
sets, , 1,950 31
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The following are the officers of the Hun
tingdon & Broad Top R. R: & Coal Company,
for the present year :
President—L. T. WATTSON.
Secretary—J. P. AERTSEN.
DIRECTORS.
Rathtnell Wilson, A. P. Wilson.
S. Morris Wain, S. J. Christian,
D. Haddock, Jr., Jas. W. Paul,
John Devereux, Jas B. Lane,
G. English, Wm. Cummings,
Jno. McCanles, . Jas. Long.
Superintendent—John J. Lawrence.
Mining Engineei—John Fulton.
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$500,000
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146,000
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277,921 70
290 ; 24 W 1,532,45 S
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Editor and Proprietor.
To the People of the United States
[From the National Intelligencer.)
Our attention has very recently been cal
led to the following letter from Batt Jones,
Esq., one of the delegates from Johnson coun
ty, in the Territory of Kansas, to the Conven
tion which framed the Lecompton Constitu
tion, one of its most ardent advocates, and
also, as will appear from his own statement
and the returns, one of the judges of the elec
tion of October, 1857, whose name purports
to be affixed to the notorious pretended re
turns from the precinct of Oxford, in said
county :
S. Louis, (M 0.,) November 23, 1858.
To THE EDITOR OF THE DEMOCRAT Upon
the returns of an election held at the Oxford
precinct, in Johnson county, Kansas, in Octo
ber, 1857, my name appeared. as one of the
judges. I never put it there, nor consented
that any one else should do so. The first I
knew of it was from. the Lawrence Herald of
Freedom. I might have made this statement
sooner, and pnbably should, but for the per
suasion of friends and the excitement which
prevailed at the time of the transaction. I
did not choose to expose the affair voluntarily
at the time ; though I should not have hesita
ted to have done so if I had been called .on
by any tribunal having jurisdiction of the
matter. In September last I communicated
the above statement, in substance, to the St.
Louis Republican, from Westport, Missouri.
I came here to ascertain whether it had been
received, but was unabled to do so. Upon
calling upon one of the editors of that paper '
this morning, he declined to publish any
statements in the premises. I therefore sub- I
mit this statement in the Democrat, and
trust it will receive a place in its columns.—
I do this in justice, not only to myself, but to
the country. lam aware that my conduct is
blamable, but would, nevertheless, have the
case properly understood. What the threats
and curses of my enemies in Kansas fail to
obtain in times of great excitement. I now
voluntarily give. lam not disposed to im
plicate others, will not do so except it be
in self-defence.
By publishing the above you will do me a
great favor.
Respectfully, nA.TT JONES.
The extraordinary character of this letter
naturally excited grave doubts as' to its au
thenticity ; but it is now ascertained and ad
milted to be genuine.
I It will be remembered that the returns
from the Oxford precinct were rejected by
our joint proclamation, issued at Lecompton
on the 19th of October, 1857. For this offi
cial act we were violently denounced by the
great body of that portion of the press of the
United States which subsequently sustained
the Lecompton Constitution ; and the genu
ine character of the rejected returns was ,ve
hemently asserted, on that occasion, both in
and out of the Territory.
Reference to the proclamation will show
that these returns were rejected because they
were clearly illegal and invalid under the
Territorial laws, and also because they were
"beyond alldoubt, simulated and fictitious."
The legal objections stated were clear and
obvious. First, these returns were not au
thenticated by the oath of any one of the
judges or clerks, although the laws of Kan
sas required such an oath to be taken by all
of them as an imperative prerequisite to a
valid election return. Second, the paper
presented to us and rejected was not oue of
the original poll-books required by the law,
but a mere statement of the votes pretended
to be given. In our proclamation we dis
tinctly disavowed any authority to go behind
the returns, for the purpose of judging the
qualifibations of voters, or of purging the
polls, or of rejecting returns formal and valid
on their face, for any reason short of actual
forgery. Under our respective oaths of office
we might have been constrained to reject the
Oxford papers as illegal and invalid upon
their face, even if, in other respects, they had
been correct and genuine.
The "simulated and fictitious" character
of these pretended returns was evident to us
upon the face of the papers ; yetwe deemed it
important, in so grave a matter, to visit the
Oxford precinct ; and we there ascertained,
with positive certainty that of the sixteen
hundred and twenty-eight votes purporting
to have been given, not one-tenth had in fact
been polled, and that nearly all the names
attached to the statement were palpable for
geries. :We know that a village of some half
dozen houses, in a precinct of most meagre
population, could not have given 1,028 votes;
and our averments in that respect are conclu
sively proved by a census, since taken by
authority of the Legislature, showing the en
tire number of voters in the precinct to have
'been but forty-three. At the election held in
August last, under the auspices of the present
Federal Administration, when the whole vote
given in the Territory was larger by many
thousands than at any preceding period, the
whole return from Oxford was but:29, instead
of 1,028, as when rejected by us.' A similar
insignificant result was exhibited at the elec
tion•in October, 1858. And, finally to re
move all doubt, one of the most active parti
sans of the Lecompton Constitution, one of
the judges whose name purported to be sign
ed to the pretended returns of October, 1857,
after a silence of more than a year, now ad
mits the forgery and declares that his name
was affixed to the paper neither by himself
nor by his authority.
The calumniators who denounced us for
rejecting these acknowledged counterfeits
must now either retract the assaults made
upon this ground, or by adherence to their
attacks, or even by silent acquiescence, be
come themselves accomplices in this nefari
ous transaction.
Upon the face of the Lecompton Constitu
tion it appears that this Oxford forgery was
incorporated, into, and made part of, that in
strument, by the legislative apportionment,
avowedly based upon it ; while the schedule
of the same instrument prepared all the ma
chinery, and provided all the means and ap
pliances for repeating and multiplying sun
ilar frauds under the proposed State organi
zation, all of which were subsequently proved
to have been efficient for the purpose "design-
ed, by the successful perpetration of nu
merous gigantic frauds in the pseuda-Stato
elections of January and Decernber follow
ing.
From information recently obtained, (of
which at the time we had no suspicion) we do
not now doubt that if the committee of the
House of Representatives had made the in
vestigation ordered by the resolution of the
last session, they would have disclosed the
fact that the census and registration, purport
ing to have been taken in the fifteen coun
ties out of thirty-eight which formed the sole
basis of representatien in the Convention,
were largely contaminated with fraudulent
and fictitious names, designed to give control
of the Convention to the same parties who
were the authors of the subsequent frauds at
Oxford, Shawnee, Delaware, Kickapoo and
elsewhere, perpetrated under the Constitution
itself. Indeed, the failure of so large a num
ber of these registered voters to exercise the
elective franchise in so many succeeding elec
tions, at which much larger votes were given,
conclusively confirms the information stated,
that a large proportion of the names returned
in the pretended registry, like those of Ox
ford and other places, was simulated and
fictitious.
NO. 39.
Now that these truths have been clearly
developed, all candid men must admit that
the Lecompton instrument, falsely called a
Constitution ; was itself reeking with fraud
and forgery, and, in the language of the re
cent speech of Senator Hammond, of South
Carolina, " ought to have been kicked out of
Congress." What that Senator has already
had the courage to concede, we cannot doubt,
will soon be the sentiment of the . whole coun
try; and "the sober second thought" of the
people of the South will eventually unite
- with the almost unanimous verdict of the
people of the North and West in stamping
this base counterfeit and imposture with the
brand of infamy and execration.
Since the election of August last, held in
Kansas under the' auspices of the present
Federal Administration, when the Lecomp
ton Constitution was condemned by a major
ity of nearly ten Thousand, we presume no
man will assert that that instrument ever
was the choice of the people of Kansas ' • or
that it was our duty to be silent, with afull
personal knowledge of all the facts,
when so
atrocious a usurpation was attempted.
However much we may regret the . appa
rent sanction given by the South to these pro
ceedings, we think the censure should fall
upon those who, with ample information on
the subject, and against light and knowledge,
persisted in urging upon Congress the adop
tion of this instrument; nor have we ever
doubted that, with an equal knowledge of all
the facts, the South would have rejected the
Lecompton Constitution with scorn and indig
nation. The imposing character of the re
commendations with which it was presented
to Congress deceived and misled many hon
orable members of both houses, who now,
upon better information, would doubtless
unite with Senator Hammond in giving that
instrument an iguominous rejection from the
halls of legislation.
We venture to hope that the bitter vitupe
ration with which we have been assail
ed -will be considered a sufficient excuse
for this notice of facts lately developed,
coming out at last to vindicatethe truth
which hasbeen partially crushed, and to con
demn the wrong - which has been accomplished.
or attempted.
R. J. IVerana.
Late Governor of ICansas Territory.
FRED. P. STANTON,
Late Secretary.
- W.a.snlxoTwq, Jan. 11, 1859. .
A correspondent, writing from Philadel
phia, to the Louisville Democrat, relates the
following :
While an aged and poorly clad female was
asking alms at the corner of Fourth and
Chestnut streets, a smart looking young sailor
passed within a few feet of her, gazing for
several seconds on her haggard face. She
approached him and extended her palm in
silence. Instantly his hand found its way
to his capacious pocket, and when he drew
it out it was filled with gold and silver, which
he forced her to accept, saying :
" There, good mother, take this; you may
as well have it as the land-sharks. 'The.last
cruise I had out of New York found me with
four hundred dollars on hand, but as the
neighbors told me my old mother was dead,
I got on a spree with the money, spent it
all inside of a week, and then shipped. again."
" Oh good, good sir ! you are to kind to an
old body like to me. For your sake I will
take it. Oh, you remind me of my poor sou
George, who shipped and was drowned. Oh,
George, George White, where are you now."
• "George White 1" hurriedly exclaimed the
now excited sailor. " Why, that's my name
And you—you are my mother 1"
With this he seized her in his arms, and
carressed her affectionately, while the big
tears of joy ran down his hrownzed cheek.—
The poor woman was entirely overcome by
the recovery of her long lost child, and wept
and groaned alternately. A carriage shortly
after conveyed the mother and son away,
leaving many a moistened eye among the
crowd who witnessed the scene.
WIPE, MISTRESS, AND LADY.—This para
graph from the German - most happily hits the
attributes of wife, mistress and lady. It is
just ne true as writ :
"Who marries for love takes a ;wife, who
marries for consideration takes a lady. You
are loved by your wife, regarded by your
mistress, tolerated by your lady. You have
a wife for yourself, a mistress for your house
and its friends, ala dy for the world. Your wife
will agree with you, your mistress will accom
modate you, your lady will manage you.—
Your wife will take -42 fare of your household,
your mistress of your house, your lady of ap
pearances. If you are sick your wife will
nurse you, your mistress will visit you, your
lady will inquire after your health. You
take a walk with your wife, ride with your
mistress, and join parties with your lady.—
Your wife will share your grief, your mis
tress your money, and your lady your debts.
If you are dead, your wife will shed tears,
your mistress lament, and your lady wear
mourning."
A NORTH. CAROLINA ANECDOTE.--COP. S--
was a splendid lawyer, and could talk a jury
out of their seven senses. lie was especially
noted for his success in criminal cases, al
most always clearing his client. He was
once counsel for a man accused, of horse steal
ing. Ho made a long, eloquent and touching
speech. The jury retired, but returned in a.
few moments and, with tears in their eyes,
proclaimed the man not guilty. An old ac ,
quaintance stepped up to the prisoner and
said
" Jem, the danger is past; and-now, honor
bright, didn't you steal that horse 2"
To - which Jem replied: "Well, Tom, I've
all along thought I took that horse ; but sine()
I heard the Governor's speech, /don't bailiero
4. Touching Incident.