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ILIST OF GRAND JURORS for a
6 Court of Quarter Sessions to be held at Huntingdon
n and for the county of Huntingdon, the second Monday
and Sth day of August, 1859.
Samuel Brickets, farmer, Jackson.
:fames Ewing, farmer, Decree.
Elisha Gil lam, farmer, Barree.
James E. Glasgow, J. Clay.
Henry Greenawalt, farmer, Brady.
Henry Graft's, farmer, Porter.
William Hoffman, Carpenter, llnnting,don.•
John Huey, farmer, Brady.
Michael hyper, farmer, Porter.
Abraham Lewis, inn keeper, Shirley.
Benjamin J. Laport, wagon maker, Franklin.
Christian Miller, farmer, Cass.
John T. Moore, miller, West,
Michael Myers, farmer, Cromwell.
William McDivit, boatman, Oneida.
David McGarney, farmer, Shirley.
Martin Orlady ' M. D., Walker.
Alexander Port, coal dealer, Huntingdon.
David Shingle, miller, Franklin.
Martin. Walker, farmer, West.
Andrew Wise, farmer, Union.
Samuel Wigton, farmer, Franklin. .
George B. Young, J. P., Porter.
James Ozburn, farmer, Jackson.
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J. S. Africa, surveyor, Huntingdon.
Samuel Brooks, Esq., cleric, Carbon.
J. Nelson Ball, mechanic, Huntingdon.
John A. Black, farmer, Clay.
Jacob Baker, farmer, Springfield.
Henry Cramer, founder, Brady.
Algerson Clark, farmer, Tod.
John Colder, sr., farmer, Porter.
Amos Clark, farmer, Tud.
John Copley, blacksmith, Wart iorsmark
Thomas Duffey, farmer, Springfield.
Samuel B. Donaldson, farmer, Carbon.
Edward Dougherty, farmer, Shirley.
George Eby. merchant, Brady.
Adam Focht. farmer, Morris.
Moses Greenland, farmer, Clay.
Thomas Green, farmer, Cass.
_Alexander Gilleland, farmer, Tell.
Jacob Hetrick, farmer, Henderson.
A. S. Harrison, J. P., Huntingdon.
William Harman, carpenter. Porter.
John R. Hunter, merchant, West.
John Hostler, farmer, Morris.
John Jacobs, butcher, Shirleysburg.
James Lightner. M. D., Shirleysburg.
„lames Lyons, farmer, Springfield.
l'urter Livingston, farmer, Barret.
Lym. mason, Springfield.
Winchester J. McCarthy, diviner, Brady.
Robert Madden, carpenter, Springfield.
Charles H. Miller, tanner. Huntingdon.
David B. Bong, tanner, Warriorsinark.
George Muller. tanner, Ilend”rsiui.
McGinley Neeley, tanner, Dublin.
James Neeley, Esq,, tanner. Dublin.
Franklin Conner, tailor, Alexandria.
Daniel Prough, laborer. Henderson.
Andrew Park, farmer, Cass.
Henry Roberts, farmer, Shirley.
.James J. Robison, laborer, Shirley.
Hun. Wm. B. Smith, farmer, Jackson.
l [envy Sheeder, fiirmer,yenn.
James Smith, farmer. Jackson.
George Sipes, Esq., merchant, Cromwell.
Jacob Sellers, carpenter. Springfield.
Samuel Secrist, farmer, Brady.
G. G. nate. constable, Carbon.
Thomas Wilson, Esq., farmer, _Barre°.
TI IVERSE JURORS—sncoND wErs. •
William H. Briggs. farmer, Tell.
Janes S. Burket. inn-keeper, Cromwell.
Christian Coasts, inn-keeper, Huntingdon
John W. Cliilcote. thrmer, Cromwell.
Jacob IL Dell, farmer, Cromwell.
Asher Drake, jr.. farmer, Clay.
Abraham Elias, farther, Tod.
James Fleming. farmer, Jackson.
Samuel Grove, farmer, Union.
John Grafting, tanner.. Warriorsmark.
K. L. Green, farmer. Clay.
Jonathan Hoover, farmer, Cass.
Peter Harnish, farmer, Morris.
Thomas Hyskill, farmer, Warriorsmark.
John Horning, farmer, Barree.
Nicholas Isenberg,, brewer, Alexandria.
John Jackson, farmer, Jackson.
William Long, blacksmith, Huntingdon.
Milos Lewis, farmer, West.
Win. A. McCarthy, teacher, Brady.
Joseph Morrison, inn-keeper,
Carbon.
James McCline, farmer, Porter.
Peter N. Marks, carpenter, Huntingdon.
George Patterson. farmer, Warriorsmark
Christian Price, harmer, Tell.
John Patterson, farmer, Warriorsmark.
Levi Itedenour, farmer, Juniata.
George Roland, farmer, Cass.
James Reed. laborer, Carbon.
George IL Stevens, plasterer. Clay.
Solomon Si!knitter, teacher. Oneida.
Alexander Scott, farmer. Tell.
John J. Swan, farmer. Dublin.
Peter Tippery. J. P., Morris.
Clark Walker. merchant. Barret..
John Weston, machinist. Warriorsmark.
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WII;LIAM LEWIS,
VOL. XV-.
trztql.
[From the lowa, City Republican.]
LOUIS NAPOLEON.
ET' - REV. o. o. 31. CLEAN
Thou man of earth ! yet scepteed, crown'd
To play thy part awhile,
Then in death's mantle to be wound,
So loathsome and so vile,
To rot as do the meanest things,
God soon shall lay thee with the }Zings,
Who like thee had their day,
And then were borne with curses deep—
A few with blessings on their sleep,
Forevermore away.
Self-worshipper ! enshrined within
Thyself, and mad upon
Thine idol—thou (lost seek to win
Worship around thy throne
Front myriads, the many colored light
Of glory draws from truth and right—
Who through the ages sing,
While trampling down in blood and fire,
_Poor human hearts, as if but mire—
" Long live—God save the liing."
Dreamer! beneath flint gorg,eons dome*
Where he whose name thou hast,
sufferance -- was seen to come,
And lay him down at last.
flow low! De seems thy pride to mock,
Pointing to that far distant rock,
Where chain'd, he saw the sea,
And long'd for freedom, till at length,
Just as the storm passed in its strength,*
Napoleon ceased to be.
His tomb, oracular to thee,
Speaks with prophetic power,
Tells of the stroke of destiny,
In his ascendant boor.
While from each field, he lost or won,
Where war's red hoof had trampled on
The fle,h and souls of-men,
&quilt:brill voices seem to say,
No one of mortals ever may,
" It 1111 such career again."
He pas, , ,ed away, and with him passed
The day of Empire then,
Such empire as in fancy glassed.
Thou seeks't with sword and pen,
And Russian hate, once more to sway
O'er millions of thy fellow clay.
Thou'rt under Heaven's ban—
And when thou'rt gone, in every clime
There shall conic forth with might sublime
The Individual Man.
With all thy 'vanity and pomp,
What bast thou but that name,
Whose very sound, is like the tramp
01' victory and fame.
That name that by the sulphurous breath
Of Battle, was pealed forth in death—
"'Vive Napoleon."
Let men but cease to call thee so,
nd soon the lowest of the low
Thon'lt be beneath the Sun.
What is thy power but a sword,
And not thy subjects trust—
Thy wisdom intrigue—and thy word
Frail as the very dust.
Pretence is written on thy brow—
For shame ! that thou ean'st wear it now,
Where Roman warriors stood.
Avannt thee! with thy mark of Cain.
And jewelled hands that wear the stain
Of Freedom's priceless blood.
::..Nlapoleon's tomb in Paris.
*The English permitted the French to remove His re
mains from St. Helena.
*Just as he breathed his last, a storm swept over the
Island.
4uttresfing Blistellitn,ll..
Wtr_tr CAN BE DoNE WITH PAPER. —A
writer in Blackwood's Magazine says, it is
wonderful to see the thousand useful as well
as ornamental purposes to which paper is ap
plicable in the hands of the Japanese. He
states that he saw it made into materials so
closely resembling Russian and Morocco
leather and pig skin, that it was difficult to
detect the difference. With the aid of lacker
varnish and skillful painting, paper made
excellent trunks, tobacco bags, cigar cases,
saddles, telescope cases, the frames of micro
scopes ; and he even saw and used excellent
water-proof coats made of simple paper,
which did keep out the rain, and were as
supple as the best Mackintosh. The Japan
ese use neither silk nor cotton handkerchiefs,
towels nor dusters ; paper in their hands
serves as an excellent substitute. It is soft,
thin, tough, of a pale yellow color, very plen
tiful and very cheap. The inner walls of
many a Japanese apartment are formed of
paper, being nothing more than painted
screens; their windows are covered with a
fine translucent description of the same ma
terial; it enters largely into the manufacture
of nearly everything in Japanese households;
and he saw what seemed to be balls of twine,
but which were nothing but long shreds of
tough paper rolled up. If a shopkeeper had
a parcel to tie up, he would take a strip of
paper, roll it quickly between his hand, and
use it for the purpose ; and it was quite as
strong as the ordinary string used at home.
In short, without paper, all Japanese would
come to a dead lock; and indeed, lest by the
arbitrary exercise of his authority, a tyran
nical husband should stop his wife's paper,
the sage Japanese mothers-in-law invariably
stipulate in the marriage settlement, that the
bride is to be allowed a certain quantity of
paper.
- Iler`tlnseets generally must lead a truly
jovial life. Think what it must be to lodge
in a lily ! Imagine a palace of ivory or pearl,
with pillars of silver and capitals of gold, all
exhaling such a perfume as never rose from
human censor ! Fancy, again, the fun of
tucking yourself up for the night in the folds
of a rose, rocked to sleep by the genial sighs
of a summer's air, and nothing to do when
you awake but to wash yourself in a dew
drop and fall to and eat your bed-clothes !
ger Never be idle. If your hands cannot
be usefully employed, attend to the cultiva
tion of your mind.
lowA Ctrr , Time 24, 1550
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The Beauty of Cheerfulness
"A joyous laugh, a pleasant smile,
How much of care they can beguile."
It is probable that the happiest people in
the world, are the individuals whose promi
nent traits of character are cheerfulness and
good nature. We may be mistaken, but it
seems to us that the ill-natured, the malicious,
the wicked, and the evil-disposed cannot be
cheerful as a general rule. They cannot feel
easy in mind. The monitor within, the con
sciousness of wrong-doing must trouble them
and cast a cloud over their happiest mo
ments. Guilt of every description will be
punished sooner or later. The malice of to
day will meet with its penalty to-morrow,
and the unkindness or ingratitude which
some individuals seem to delight in inflicting
upon friends and , neighbors will, in the end,
come back in dreadful retaliation. It has
been said that the truly good are'the only
truly happy, and in nine cases out of ten the
cheerful constitutionally, if we may -so ex
press it, are the persons- who, have little to
trouble them because of former conduct, and
then they endeavor to afford and diffuse as
much pleasure as possible, and take delight
in ministering to the comfort of their fellow
! creatures. Cheerfulness of disposition is the
real sunshine of the heart. It seems as a
mirror to reflect the spirit of the man. In
misfortune's gloomiest hour it gives courage
and hope, and robs the future of many of its
darkest clouds. But how frequently do we
see individuals who are not only notcheerful
I themselves, but who seem to envy a benevo
lent and kindly disposition in others. They
appear to exult in making bad worse, and in
mingling bitterness with every cup of joy.—
Even the prosperity of a neighbor is a source
of dissatisfaction. They never describe a
.character without giving it dark tints ; they
seldom hear of a lucky turn of fortune in the
history of a friend, without exclaiming, in a
moody and prophetic spirit—" Well, the high
er you ascend the more fearful will be your
downfall." They cannot be happy them
selves, and they seem to be anxious to make
every one around them as gloomy as possible.
Perhaps many of these unfortunates cannot
help or correct their disagreeable infirmity,
but all who desire to glide through the world
smoothly and quietly, should have as little to
do with them as possible. They are the
croakers of society, the drawbacks of exis
tence. They render circles cloudy and dis
contented which would otherwise be gay and
animated. They infuse distrust and suspi
cion. in to Minds,. which, but for their asperity
or malevolence, would be all confidence and
faith. The cheerful on the other hand, the
kind-hearted and good-natured, are the mes
sengers and ministers of joy. They are al
ways welcome, for they are always ready to
dispel gloom, to chase away melancholy, and
to laugh at the trifling cares of the world.—
They rejoice with the prosperous, are happy
with childhood, and, even endeavor to cheat
old age of its graVitY and despondency.—
Contentment is for them better than riches,
even 'as an easy 'mind is better than the
choicest luxuries of sight, sense or taste.—
Who cannot remember such buoyant and
hopeful individuals among their friends and
acquaintances? No malice, no unkinkness,
no ill-will marks their conduct ; poverty to
them has few terrors, comparatively speak
ing; they are always welcomed with a smile ;
and wherever they mingle they exercise a
kindly influence. " A quiet and contented
mind," says a modern philosopher, "is the
utmost felicity man is capable -of in this
world ; it is the very crown and glory of wis
dom. A happy disposition finds materials of s
enjoyment every where—in the city or in the
country—in society or in solitude—in the
theatre, or the forest—in the hum of the mul
titude, or the silence of the mountains, are
alike materials of reflection and elements of
pleasure. It is one mode of pleasure to lis
ten to the music of Don Giovanni, in a thea
tre, glistening with light, and crowded with
elegance and beauty; it is another to glide
at sunset over the bosom of a lonely lake,
where no sound disturbs the silence but the
motion of the boat through the waters. A
happy disposition derives pleasure from both ;
a discontented temper from neither."—Penn
saleania, Inquirer.
ANECDOTE OF THE BRITISH QUEEN.—Frank
B. Fay, of Chelsea, who visited Europe last
summer, delivered a narrative of his travels,
in a lecture to - the Chelsea Library Associa
tion last week. In the tours© of his lecture
he related the following anecdote of Queen
Victoria :
"It is reported that her Majesty has a
sweet little temper of her own, and that her
eara sposa, like a prudent man, generally re
tires before the storm, and locks himself in
his private cabinet until the sky is clear and
sunshine again illumines the classic shades
of St. James of Windsor.• After one of these
ebulitions, the Queen gave thundering
knock" at the door of the room where Prince
Albert had taken refuge, and upon being
asked, 'who's there?' responded, 'the Queen.'
`TheQueen cannot enter here,' responded the
hen-pecked. After the lapse of half an hour
a gentle rap was heard upon door. ' Who's
there ?' asked Prince Albert. Four
responded Victoria. ' . .My wife is always wel
come! was the gallant reply."
BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT.—The velvet moss
grows on a sterile rock, the mistletoe flour
ishes on the naked branches, the ivy clings
to the mouldering ruins, the pine and cedar
remain fresh and fadeless amid the mutations
of the receding year ; and Heaven be praised,
something green, something beautiful to see
and grateful to the soul will, in the darkest
hour of fate, still twine its tendrills around
the crumbling alters and broken arches of
the desolate temple of the human heart.
11E5— With a true wife, a husband's faults
should be sacred. A woman forgets .what
is due to herself when she condescends to
that refuge of weakness—a female confidant.
air A firm faith- is the best philosophy ; a
clear conscience the best law; honesty the
best physic.
-PERSEVERE.-
HUNTINGDON, PA., JULY 27, 1859,
glizttliatregits 11,tius.
The Naturalization Question
Extract of a despatch, from the Department of
State to the Minister of the United States at
Berlin, dated. July 8, 1859.
The right of expatriation cannot at this
day be doubted or denied in the United
States. The idea has been repudiated ever
since the origin of our Government, that a.
man is bound to remain forever in the coun
try'of his birth, and that he has no right to
exercise his free will and consult his own
happiness by selecting a new home. The
most eminent writers on public law recognize
the right of expatriation. This can only be
contested by those who in the nineteenth
century are still devoted to the ancient feudal
law with all its oppression. The doctrine
of perpetual allegiance is a relic of barbar
ism which has been, gradually disappear
ing from Christendom during the last cen
tury.
The Constitution of the United States rec
ognizes the natural right of expatriation, by
conferring upon Congress the power " to es
tablish a uniform rule of naturalization."—
Indeed, it was one of the grievances alleged
against the British King in the Declaration
of Independence, that he had " endeavored
to prevent the population of these States—
for that purpose obstructing the laws of nat
uralization of foreigners, refusing to pass oth
ers to encourage their migration hither," &e.,
&e. The Constitution thus recognizes the
principle of expatriation in the strongest
manner. It would have been inconsistent in
itself and unworthy of the character of the
authors of that instrument, to hold out in
-ducements to foreigners to abandon their na
tive land, to renounce their allegiance to their
native government and become citizens of the
United States, if they had not been convinced
of the absolute and unconditional right of ex
patriation.
Congress have uniformly acted upon .this
principle ever since the commencement of the
Federal Government. They established " a
uniform rule of naturalization" nearly sev
enty years ago. There has since been no pe
riod in our history when laws for this pur
pose. did not exist, though their provisions
have undergone successive changes. The
alien, in order to become a citizen, must de
clare on oath or affirmation that he will sup
port the Constitution of the United States ;
and, at the same time, he is required to ab
solutely 'and eritirely'renounde and - adjure all
allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince,
potentate, State or sovereignty whatever, and
particularly by name, the prince, potentate,
State or sovereignty whereof he was before
a citizen.
The exercise of the right of naturalization,
and the consequent recognition of the princi
ple of expatriation, are not confined to the
Government of the United. States.' There is
not a country in Europe, I believe, at the
present moment, where the law does not au
thorize the naturalization of foreigners in one
form or other. Indeed, in some of these
countries this law is more liberal than our
own towards foreigners.
-The question then arises, what rights do
our laws confer upon a foreigner by granting
him naturalization ? I answer, all the rights,
privileges and immunities which belong to a
native-born citizen, in their full extent, with
the single qualification that, under the Con
stitution, " no person except a natural-born
citizen is eligible to the office of President."
I With this exception, the naturalized citizen
from and after the date of his naturalization,
both at home and abroad, is placed upon the
very same footing with the native citizen.—
He is neither in a better nor a worse condi
tion. If a native citizen chooses to take up
his residence in a foreign country, for the
purpose of advancing his fortune or promo
ting his happiness, he is, whilst there, bound
to obey its municipal laws, equally with
those who have lived in it all their lives.—
Ile goes abroad with his eyes open ; and if
laws be arbitrary and unjust, he has chosen
to abide by the consequences. If they arc
administered in an equal spirit towards him
self and towards native subjects, this govern
ment have no right to interfere authoritative
ly in his behalf. To do this would be to vio
late the right of an independent nation to
legislate within its own Territories. If this
government were to undertake such a task,
we might soon be involved in trouble with
nearly the whole world. To protect our citi
zens against the application of this principle
of universal law, in its full extent, we have
treaties with several nations, securing exemp
tion to American citizens when residing
abroad, from some of the 'onerous duties re
quired from their own subjects. Where no
such treaty exists, and an American citizen
has committed a crime or incurred a penalty
for violating any municipal law whatever, of
the country of his temporary residence, he
is just as liable to be tried and punished for
his offence as though he had resided in it
from the day of his birth. If this had not
been done before his departure, and lie should
voluntarily return under the same jurisdic
tion, he may be tried and punished for the
offence upon principles of universal law.
Under such circumstances, no person would
think of contending that an intermediate resi
dence in his own country for years would de
prive the government whose laws he had vio
lated of the power to enforce their execution.
The very same principle, and no other, is ap
plicable to the case of a naturalized citizen,
should he choose to return to his native coun
try. In that case, if he had committed an
offence against the law before his departure,
he is resoonsible for it in the same manner
as the mtive-American citizen to whom I
have referred.
In the language of the late Mr. Marcy, in
his letter of the 10th January, 1354, to .Mr.
Jackson, then our charge d'affaires to Vienna,
when speaking of Tousig's case, "every na
tion, whenever its laws are violated by any
one owing obedience to them, whether he be
a citizen or a stranger, has a right to inflict
the penalties incurred by the trangressor, if
found within its jurisdiction." This princi
ple is too well established to admit of serious
controversy. If one of our native or natu
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ralized citizens were to expose himself to
punishment by the commission of an offence
against any of our laws, State or National,
and afterwards become a naturalized subject
-of a foreign country, he would not have the
hardihood to contend, upon voluntarily re
turning within our jurisidiction, that his nat
uralization relieved him from the punishment
due to his crime; • much less could he appeal
to the government of his adopted country to
protect him against his responsibilities to the
United States, or any of the States. This
Government would not for a moment listen to
such an appeal.
Whilst these principles cannot he contested,
great care should be taken in their applica
tion, especially to our naturalized citizens.—
The moment a foreigner becomes naturalized,
his allegiance to his native country is severed
forever. He experiences a new political birth.
A broad and impassable line separates him
from his native country. He is no more res
ponsible for anything he may say or do, or
omit to say or do, after assuming his new
character, than if lie had been born in the
United States. Should he return to his na
tive country, he returns as an American citi
zen, and in no other character. In order to
entitle his original government to punish him
for an offence, this must have been commit
ted whilst he was a subject and owed alle
giance to that government. The offence must
have been complete before his expatriation.
It must have been of such a character that he
might have been tried and punished for it at the
moment of his departure. A future liability
to serve in the army will not be sufficient ;
because, before the time can arrive for such
service, he has changed l.is allegiance, and
• has become a citizen of the United States.—
; It would be quite absurd to contend that a boy
I brought to this country from a foreign coun
try with his father's family when but twelve
years of age and naturalized here, who should
afterwards visit the country of his birth when
he had become a man, might then be seized
and compelled to perform military service.
To submit to such a principle would be to
make an odious distinction between our nat
uralized and native citizens. For this reason,
in my dispatch to you of May 12, 1859, and
again in my letter to Mr. Hofer of the 14th
ultimo, I confide the' foreign jurisdiction in
regard to our naturalized citizens to such of
them as "were in the army or actually called
into it" at the time they left Prussia. That
is, to the case of actual desertion or a refusal
to enter into the army after having been reg
ularly drafted and called into it by the gov
ernment to which at the time they owed alle
giance. It is presumed that neither of theseca
ses presents any difficulty in point of principle.
If a soldier or sailor were to desert from
our army or navy, for which offence he is lia
ble to a severe punishment, and, after having
become a naturalized subject of another coun
try, should return to the United States, it
would be a singular defence for him to make
that he was absolved from crime because, af
ter its commission, he had become a subject
of another government. It would be still
more strange were that oovernment to inter
pose in his behalf for any such reaSon.-- 7 -
Again, during the last war with Great
in.several of the States—l Might mention
Pennsylvania in particular—the militia-man
who was drafted and called into the service
was exposed to severe 'penalty if lie did not
obey the draft and muster himself into the
service, or, in default thereof, procure a sub
stitute. Suppose such an individual, after
having incurred this penalty, had gone to a
foreign country and become naturalized there
and then returned to Pennsylvania, is it pos
ble to imagine that for this reason the arm
of the State authorities would be paralyzed, '
and that they could not exact the penalty
I state these examples to show more clearly
both the extent and the limitation of rightful
Hanoverian jurisdiction in such eases. It is
impossible to foresee all the varying circum
stances which may attend cases as they may
arise ; but it is believed that the principles
laid down may generally be sufficient to guide
your conduct.
It is to be
,deeply regretted that German
governments evince so much tenacity on this
subject.. It would be better, far better, for
them, considering the comparatively small
number of their native subjects who return
to their dominions after being naturalized in
this country, not to attempt to exact military
service from them. They will prove to be
most reluctant soldiers. If they violate any
law of their native country during their visit,
they are, of course, amenable like other Amer
ican citizens. It would be a sad misfortune
if, for the sake of an advantage so trifling to
such governMents, they should involve them
selves in serious difficulties with a country so
desirous as we are of maintaining with them
the most friendly relations. It is fortunate
that serious difficulties of this kind are main
ly eon - fined to the German States—and espe
cially 'that the laws of Great Britain do not
authorize any compulsory military service
whatever.'
Letter From Hon. Daniel E. Sickles.
NEW YORK, July 20.
The Herald of to-day contains a letter to
the editor from Hon. Daniel E. Sickles, in
which he corrects a statement . made in that
paper yesterday, regarding the recent event
in his domestic relations. "The reconcilia
tion," he says, "was my own act without con
sultation with any relative, connection, friend
or advisor. 'Whatever blame, if any, belongs
to the step, should fall upon me . 1 . I am prepa
red to defend what I have done before the
only tribunal I recognize as having the slight
est claim to jurisdiction over the subject--my
own conscience and the bar of Heaven. I am
not aware of any statute or code of morals
which makes it infamous to forgive a woman,
nor is it usual to make our domestic life a sub
ject of consultation with friends, no matter
how near and clear to us, and I cannot allow
even all the world combined to dictate to me
the repudiation of my wife, when I thinkvt
right to forgive her and restore her to my
confidence, and protection. If I ever failed
to comprehend the utterly desolate position
of an offending, though penitent woman, the
hopeless future, with all its dark possibilities
of danger, to which she is doomed, when pro
scribed as an outcast, I can, now see plainly
Editor and Proprietor.
NO, 5.
enough in the almost universal howl of de
nunciation with which she is followed to my
threshold, the misery and perils from which
I have rescued the mother of my child, and
although it is very sad for me to incur the re
proaches of many wise and good people, I
shall strive to prove to all who feel any in
terest in me that if I am the first man to say
to the world that an erring wife and mother
may be forgiven and redeemed, that in spite
of all the obstacles in my path, the
_good re
sults of this example shall entitle it to the
imitation of the generous and the commen
dation of the just.
"'There are niany who think that an act of
duty, proceeding solely from affection, which
can only be comprehended in the heart of a
husband and father, is to be fatal to my pro
fessional, political and social standing. If
this be so, then so be it. Political station ;
professional success and social recognition, are
not the only prizes of ambition, and so long
as I do nothing worse than to reunite my fam
ily under the roof where they may find shel
ter from contumely and persecution, I do not
fear the noisy but fleeting voice of popular
clamor. The multitude accept their first
impression from a few.
" But in the end men think for themselves,
and if I know the human heart—in sunshine
and storm, I have sounded nearly all its depths
—then I may reassure those who look with
reluctant foreboding upon my future, to be
of good cheer, for I will not cease to vindicate
a just claim to the respect of my fellows,
while to those worthy groups here and there
who look upon my misfortunes only as weap
ons to be employed for my destruction, to.
those I say, once for all, if a man make a
good use of his enemies they will be as ser
viceable to him as his friends. In conclusion,
let me ask only one favor of those who, from
whatever motive, may deem it necessary or
agreeable to comment in public or private
upon this sad history, and that is to aim all
their arrows at my breast, and for the sake
of my innocent child to spare her yet youth
ful mother while she seeks in sorrow and con
trition, the mercy and the pardon of Him to
whom sooner or later we must all appeal."
Extraordinary Exhibition---A Man of
Leather.
[Front tho Lexington (Ky.) Observer.]
An exhibition of a very remarkable and
unnatural character attracted a small but
highly respectable audience at the Melodeon
on Thursday evening last. A young man by
the name of James Stevens had advertised
that he would do many wonderful things in•
the way of cutting himself up with knives,•
nailing his feet, arms and legs to chairs, to
the wall, &c., which astounding exploits he
proceeded to exhibit at the appointed h3ur, in
the presence of a number of physicians of
celebrity, including members of the medical
faculty of Transylvania University, and other
learned professors, who were invited to the
stand that they might detect any fraud or
deception, if practised. He began by stick
ing a handful of pins, up to the head, in his
legs, then drove an awl through the middle
of his wrist into a chair; drove a knife•
through the muscle of his leg; nailed his
foot to a wooden shoe, the nail or awl pass
ing through the middle of the foot, and so
walked about the stage ; cut his dexter finger
through the flesh exhibiting the naked bone,
and concluded by passing a knife through
his check, the blade protruding through,
his mouth. In all this but little blood' was-
drawn.
He also offered to drive a knife throngh!
each leg and hang himself from the wall,.
which the audience mercifully excused him
from doing, feeling satisfied that he could ac
complish whatever he proposed. About the
whole procedure there was no sort of humbug,
as the eyes of divers gentlemen, who were
upon the stand, were steadily fixed upon him,.
and any "unbelieving Thomas" had an op
portunity to touch the knife blade on the'
opposite side to that into which it had been
thrust, of the leg, wrist or hand: Ile used a:
few galvanic rings about his person, which
was probably
.more for show than anything
else, as they couldb effect nothing. Mr. Ste
vens looks to be not more than twenty or
twenty-one years of age. Before closing, he
proposed to operate in a similar manner upon•
any one of the audience, agreeing to forfeit'
$l,OOO if he inflicted pain. This, however,
was prudently declined. We 'saw this man
of leather early yesterday morning, looking
as fresh and whole, as though knife or nail
had never penetrated his elastic body.
Southern Sentiment.
We are glad to see that several influential
Southern papers are becoming fully alive to
the absurdity of enacting a slave code, and
the injustice and folly of the demand that
property in slaves in the Territories should be
placed upon any higher or more sacred basis
than any other kind of property. Thus the
Mobile Register says :
" The true doctrine is to regard and treat
slaves as property, and afford them all the
protection by law to which any other species
of property is entitled. The 'theory' that is in
our opinion 'untenable' is to discriminate be
tween this and other kinds of property.—
There is no warrant for the distinction that
we can find, in the Constitution or elsewhere.
We see no more claim to call upon Congress
to make a 'slave code' for the Territories than
to make a 'horse code,' and if Congress were'
to make forty thousand such codes, there
would be neither slaves nor horses in the Ter
ritories if the people did not want them there;
and if the people did want them, there would
be no occasion for any such Congressional
code. This is just one of those stubborn facts ,
that are proof against philology, casuistry, or'
The dispute is about nothing, and•
will come to nothing. Before the Charleston
Convention meet the people of America will,
find this out. Let the politicians look out,
for; as Senator Thompson, of Kentucky, says,
'it will be dangerous to stand on the outside
platform when the cars are in motion. "
With the exception of a few noisy ultraists
at the South, and the sycophants of the Ad
ministration at the North, who avow extreme .
doctrines mainly, to prove by some sort of log--
ical hocus-pocus that those who have rebuked
the treacheries of the President to the pledges
- of 1856 are traitors to the Democratic party,.
a sound and healthy sentiment prevails al--
most everywhere in the Democratic ranks,.
and a soon as it casts from itself the incubus
of Buchananism and emphatically reaffirms
its old principles, Democracy will once more
become a giant power in the nation.
gar A young man,. aged 25 years, by they
name of Otto Home, a native of Berlin in
Prussia, who was for some time a resident of .
Patterson, N. J., some three months since left
for Berlin to take possession of property worth
from. $15,000 to $20,000 left by an uncle, and'
on the second day of his arrival he was put
into the army.
The Bible Union has purchased $12,-
000 worth, or 1?0,000 copies of the New Tes
tament, for circulation among the soldiers of
the armies now at war.