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DON'T FORGET,
WALLACE Sc CLEMENT,
Have jnst received another stock of new goods, such as
DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, QUEEN SW ARE, AC.,
in the store room at the south-east corner of the Diamond
in the borough of Iluntingdon, lately occupied as a Jew
elry Store.
'their Stock has been carefully selected, and will be
mold low for cash or country produce.
FLOUR, FISH, HAMS, SIDES. srfouLDEits, SALT,
LARD, and provisions generally, kept constantly on hand
on reasonable terms.
Huntingdon, Sept. 24., 1860.
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SELLING OFF FOR CASH!!
BARGAINS IN HARDWARE.
As " the nimble penny is better than the slow sixpence,"
and smat/ profits in cash, are •better than vexing eye-sore
book accounts, JAMES A. BROWN is now determined to
sell off-the large.and splendid stock of hardware, Paints,
/to., which he has just brought from the east, at such low
prices, as will induce everybody to crowd in for a share of
the bargains.
his stock includes a complete variety of
I3UILDING-lIARDWARE, "MECHANICS' TOOLS,
CUTLERY, lIOLLOW-WARE,
OILS, PAINTS, SADDLERY,
TARNISIIES, GLASS, CARRIAGE T'LIMMINGS,
STEEL, IRON, CHAIN PUMPS, LEAD PIPE,
MOROCCO, LINING SKINS,
COAL OIL LAMPS and COAL OIL, &c., ac.,
Together with a full assortment of everything pertaining
to his line of business.
gifirAll orders receive prompt attentioo•—eV.
Huntingdon, Sept. 24, 7560
2,000 CUSTOMERS WANTED !
NEW GOODS
FOR FALL and WINTER.
BENJ. JACOBS •
Has received a fine assortment of DRY
GOODS for the Spring and Summer season, comprising a
T 517 extensive RS Bi:radiant of
LADIES DRESS GOODS,
DRY GOODS in general,
READY-MADE CLOTHING,
For Men and Boys
GROCERIES, HATS & CAPS,
BOOTS AND SHOES, &c. &c.
The public generally aro requested to call and examine
rtly goods—and his prices.
As I am determined to sell my Goods, all who call may
expect bargains.
Country Produce talon in Exchange for Goods.
BSNJ. JACOBS, ut the Cheap Corner.
Huntingdon, Sept. 21. 1860.
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PIANO FORTES,
Celebrated for superior quality of TONE and elegance and
beauty of finish. These Pianos have always taken the
FIRST P.RE3117131 when placed in competition with oth
er makers. CHALLENGE ALL COMPETITION. A splendid as
sortment of LOUIS XIV and plainer styles always on
hand. Also Second-hand Pianos and PRINCE'S IM
PROVED MELODEONS from $45 to $l5O.
.-Every Instrument warranted.
GEO. L. WALTER'S
Piano and Melodeon Depot,
S. E. Cor. 7th & Arch Ste., Philadelphia.
July 25, 1860.-6 m•
COME TO THE NEW STORE FOR
CHEAP BARGAINS.
NEW GROCERY
AND
CONFECTIONERY.
C. LONG
Informs the citizens of Huntingdon and 'vi
cinity, that he has opened a new Grocery and Confection
ery Store in the basement, under Gutman & Co.'s Clothing
Store, in the Diamond, and would most respectfully re
quest' a share of public patronage. Ms stock consists of
all kinds of the
BEST GROCERIES,
CONFECTIONERIES, &c., &c.
Fish can be had at wholesale or retail.
ICE CRIUM will be furnished regularly to parties and
individuals, at his room.
Huntingdon, Sept. 24, 1860.
NEW MILLINERY ESTABLISH
AIENT IN lIGNTINGDON.
MRS. L. A. FIAMER, Apt.
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Respectfully informs the ladies of Huntingdon and vicini
ty, that she has opened a Millinery store on Rill street,
ono door west of Dr. Dorsey's residence, where may be
found every article in her line of business, such as Bonnets,
Ribbons,Laces, Blonds, Collars, Under Sleeves, Vails, and
a genera assortment of Fancy Goods.
The ladies aro respectfully invited to call and examine
her stock.
Ladles, dresses of all kinds made in the best and most
foshionabl6 style.
liuntingdon, Sept. 24., 1560.-6 m.
Abeautiful lot of Shaker BP.onnGNVlets for
sale cheap, at D. N'S.
CLOAKING Cloths ; Tassals, Cords and
Binding, cheap at _ D. P. °WIN'S.
you will find the Largest and Best
assartmiat of Lltd Prrfts Goods at
D. P. ONTIN'S.
$1 75
TITE NI:1V STORE
JAS. A. BROWN.
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WILLIAM LEWIS,
VOL, XVI,
gly (firisi,s.
Northern State Laws---The Personal
Liberty Acts.
[From the National Intelligence; Dec. Ilth
MAINE.
The laws of this State provide that no sher
iff, deputy sheriff, coroner, constable, jailor,
justice of the peace, or other officer of the
State, shall arrest or detain, or aid in so do
ing, in any prison or building belonging to
this State, or to any county or town, any
person on account of a claim on him as a fu
gitive slave, under a penalty not exceeding
one thousand dollars, and make it the duty
of all county attorneys to repair to the place
where such person is held in custody, and
render him all necessary and legal assistance
in making his defence against said claim.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The law of this State declares that slaves,
coming or brought into the State, by or with
the consent of the master, shall be free ; de
clares the attempt to hold any person as a
slave within the State a felony,with a penalty
of imprisonment not less than one nor more
tnan five years ; provided, that the provisions
of this section shall not apply to any act law
fully done by any officer of the United States,
or other person, irithe execution of any legal
process.
VERMONT.
This State by her several acts of 1843,'50
and 1858, provides that no court, justice of
the peace,or magistrate shall take cognizance
of any certificate, warrant or process under
the Fugitive Slave Law ; provides that no of
or citizen of the State, shall arrest, or
aid, or assist in arresting, any person for the
reason that he is claimed as a fugitive slave;
,provides that no officer or citizen shall aid or
assist in the rernotal from the State of any
person claimed as a fugitive slave; provides
a penalty of $l,OOO, or imprisonment five
years in the State prison, for violating this
act. This act, however, shall not be constru
ed to extend to any citizen of the State acting
us a Judge of the Circuit or District Court
of the United States, or as a Marshal or Dep
uty Marshal of the District of Vermont, or
to any person acting under the command or
authority of said Courts or Marshal. Re
quires the States's Attorneys to act as coun
sel for alleged fugitives ; provides for issuing
habeas corpus, and the trial by jury of all
questions of fact in issue between the parties,
and ordains that every person who may have
been held as a slave, who shall come, or be
brought, or be in this State, with or without
the consent of his or her master or mistress,
or who shall come, or be brought, or be in
voluntarily, or in any way, in this State,shall
be free. It is also provided that every per
son who shall hold, or attempt to hold, in
this State, in slavery, or as a slave any
person mentioned as a slave, in the sec
tion of this act, relating to fugitive slaves,
or any free person in any form, or for any
time, however short, under the pretence that
such person is or has been a slave, shall on
mvictlon thereof, be imprisoned in the State
prison for a term of not less than one year or
m ore than fifteen years, and be fined not ex
ceeding $2,000.
ItASSACIIUSETTS.
The first of the laws known as " personal
liberty acts" in Massachusetts was passed in
1843, no less than seventeen years ago. It
was based upon the famous decision of the
Supreme Court of the United States in the
case of Prig vs. the Commonwealth of Penn
sylvania, pronounced in 1842 by Judge Story.
By this decision it was declared that the ren
dition of fugitives falls exclusively within
the functions of the Federal Government,and
that no State law can interfere with or pro
hibit the execution of the Federal law for the
purpose. Statutes in conformity with this
ruling were passed by the Legislature of
Massachusetts in 1843. In the year 1855
the provisions of this earlier legislation were
applied to the United States fugitive slave
law of 1850 ; the writ of habeas corpus was
extended to the cases of persons detained as
fugitive slaves ; a trial by jury was placed at
their command; the onus probancli is laid on
the claimant, who must bring two credible
witnesses to substantiate his claim; persons
holding any place of honor or emolument un
der the Commonwealth are forbidden to issue
any warrant or other process under the U.
States Fugitive Slave Act; jails of the State
not to be used for the detention of fugitive
slaves; commissioners to be appointed in
every county to defend the cause of alleged
fugitive slaves, &c. In the year 1858 Judges
of the State were forbidden to issue any writ
under the United States Fugitive Slave Law
of 1850.
The Boston Daily Advertiser, of the 7th
inst., remarks as follows on the subsequent
disposition that was made of these several
acts :
" Finally, in 1859, when the whole body of
our statutes was revised and codified,all these
acts, those of 1843, 1855 and 1858 were ex
pressly repealed, their substance being incor
porated in the new text. The duty of making
this codification was entrusted in the first
place, to Commissioners appointed by Gov.
Gardner, (the same who vetoed the personal
liberty act of 1855, and their work was af
terwards examined by a large joint commit
tee, composed of leading members of the two
Houses of the Legislature. It happened
some what singularly that, although the Re
publicans were the dominant party, politi
cally, in both Houses, by far the ablest law
yers in each House were Democrats of the
straightest sect, to wit: Hon. Caleb Cushing,
in the House of Representatives, and Hon.
Benj. F. Bailer (late Breckinridge candidate
for Governor), in the Senate. Both of these
gentlemen were members of the Committee
to which we have alluded ; but neither in
committee, nor afterwards in the Senate or
House, did either of them, or any other
member, propose to omit from the revision
any portion of the personal liberty acts, or
suggest that they were unconstitutional._
They remain, therefore, substantially as be
fore, now comprised in chapter 144 of the
General Statutes. Any Southern Governor
who does not wish to copy the mistaken ref
erenees of the late Executive messages of
Georgia will find the new volume of 'General
Statutes, Massachusetts, 1860,' in the Libra
ry of his State ; and any one else who desires
to make an exact reference may purchase a
copy of the volume, for no higher price than a
dollar and forty cents, of Messrs. Wright &
Potter, State printers, corner of Spring Lane
and Devonshire street, Boston."
The State of Connecticut provides that eve
ry person who shall falsely and maliciously
declare, represent, or pretend that any free
person entitled to freedom, is a slave, or owes
service or labor to any person or persons,
with intent to procure or to aid or assist in
procuring the forcible removal of Such free
person from this State as a Slave, shall pay a
fine of $5,000 and be imprisoned five years
in the Connecticut State prison ; requires two
witnesses to prove that any person is a slave
or owes labor ; denounces a penalty of $5,000
against any person seizing or causing to be
seized any free person with intent to reduce
him to slavery ; depositions not to be admit
ted as evidence ; witnesses testifying falsely
liable to $5,000 fine and five years' imprison
ment.
This State by her legislation forbids the
carrying away of any person by force out of
the State ; forbids any judge, justice, magis
trate, or court from officially aiding in the
arrest of a fugitive slave under the fugitive
slave law of 1793 or 1850 ; forbids any sheriff
or other officer from arresting or detaining
any person claimed as a fugitive slave; pro
vides a penalty of $5OO, or imprisonment not
exceeding six months, for violating the act ;
denies the use of her jails to the United
States for the detention of fugitive slaves.
The state of New York has passed no laws
having relation to the United States fugitive
slave act of 1850. Though pressed frequent
ly upon the Legislature, they have always
failed of adoption. The old and obsolete act
of 1840, entitled " An Act to extend the right
of trial by jury," extends the trial by jury to
the cases of persons arrested as fugitive
slaves ; but in the fourth edition of the laws
of the State, as prepared and published by
Hon. Hiram Denio, at present Chief Justice
of the Court of Appeals, may be found ap
pended to the chapter containing this law the
following note
" An Act to Extend the Right of Trial by
fury, passed May 6th, 1840.—The decision of
the Supreme Court of the United States, in
Prigg vs. the Commonwealth of Pennsylva
nia, 16 Peters' R. 539, establishes the doc
trine that all State laws calculated to inter
fere with the third subdivision of section 2,
article 4, of the Constitution of the United
States, are unconstitutional. Since that de
cision the fugitive slave law (Laws of Con
gress, 1850, chap. 60) has been passed, con
taining provisions repugnant to the whole of
this act. It is therefore of no force ; but as
it never has been repealed; it is here in
serted."
The State of New Jersey has no statutes
bearing on this subject save those which en
join on her State officers the duty of aiding
in the recovery of fugitive slaves. Persons
temporarily residing in the State are also per
mitted to bring with them and and retain
their domestic slaves.
The State of Pennsylvania has not formal
ly and especially legislated at all against the
United States Fugitive Slave Law of 1850,
though there was an old statute of 1847 which
prohibited any judge, justice of the peace or
alderman from taking cognizance of the case
of any fugitive from labor, "under a certain
act of Congress passed on the 12th day of Feb
ruary, 1793." During the last session of her
Legislature the Commissioners appointed to
revise and amend the Penal Laws of Penn
sylvania (John C. Knox, Edward King and
David Webster) made a report to the Legis
lature that they had completed their labors,
and the result was presented in the shape of
a bill entitled " An act to consolidate, revise
and amend the Penal Laws of this Common
wealth." That report, on the thirty-first day
of March, 1860, was enacted into a law, and
by the ninety-fifth section it is enacted as
follows :
" No Judge of any of the Courts of this
Commonwealth, nor any Alderman or Jus
tice of the Peace of said Commonwealth, shall
have jurisdiction or take cognizance of the
case of any fugitive from labor from any of
the United States or Territories under any
act of Congress, nor shall any such Judge,
Alderman, or Justice of the Peace of this
Commonwealth issue or grant any certificate
or warrant of removal of any such fugitive
from labor, under any act of Congress ; and
if any Alderman or Justice of the Peace of
this Commonwealth shall take cognizance or
jurisdiction of the case of any such fugitive,
or shall grant or issue any certificate or war
rant of removal, as aforesaid, then, and in
either case, he shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor-in office, and shall, on convic
tion thereof, be sentenced to pay, at the dis
cretion of the Court, any sum not exceeding
one thousand dollars, the one-half to the par
ty prosecuting for the same, and the other
half to the use of this Commonwealth!'
The theory of this law, it will be seen, is
founded strictly on the decision of the Su
preme Court of the United States in the Prigg
case, and does not interfere with the func
tions of the Commissioner appointed under
the United States law.
The law of this State requires State's At
torneys to act as counsel for the fugitive
slave; secures to persons arrested as fugitive
slaves, the benefits of the writ of habeas cor
pus, and trial by jury ; denies the use of
State jails for detention of alleged fugitives ;
requires that identity of fugitive slaves shall
be proved by two credible witnesses, or by
legal evidence equivalent thereto, and pro
vides a fine of not.less than five hundred nor
more than one thousand dollars, and im
prisonment in State prison for five years, for
forcibly seizing, or causing to be seized, any
HUNTINGDON, P?►., DECEMBER 26, 1860.
CONNECTICUT.
RHODE ISLAND
NEW YORK
NEW JERSEY.
PENNSYLVANIA
ILICIIIGAN.
-PERSEVERE.-
free person, with intent to have such person
held in Alaverv.
lOWA.
This State has nu legislation' on the sub
ject.
The law of this State enjoins on the Dis
trict Attorneys the duty of acting as counsel
for alleged fugitive slaves, secures to such
persons the benefits of the writ of habeas cor
pus; provides for appeal to be taken to next
stated term of the Circuit Court ; secures trial
by jury; enjoins a penalty of one thousand
dollars and imprisonment of not more than
five nor less than one year on all who falsely
and maliciously represent any free person to
be a slave ; identity of alleged fugitive slaves
to be proved by two credible witnesses; no
deposition to be received in evidence. It
is also provided that—
" No judgement recovered against any per
son or persons for any neglect or refusal to
obey, or any violation of the act of Congress
commonly termed the Fugitive Slave Act,'
approved September eighteenth, one thousand
eight hundred and fifty, or any of the provis
ions thereof, shall be alien on any real estate
within this State, nor shall any such judg
ment be enforcable by sale or execution of
any real or personal property within this
State ; but all such sales shall be absolutely
void; and in case of: seizure or sale of any
personal property, by virtue of any execution
issued oil such jui.igment, the defendant in
said execution may maintain an action in re
plevin, or other action to secure possession
thereof, in the manner provided by law for
such actions, on affidavit filed as requirefl
law, and a further statement therein that
said execution issued in a judgment rendered
under the provisions of the act of Cl:lngress
aforesaid ; and the provisions of this section
shall also apply to judgment heretofore ren
dered.
01110, INDIANA, ILLINOIS, MINNESOTA, CALIFOII
- NIA, AND OREGON.
Ist
We cannot find that these States have any
laws in force on the subject.
We have thus sought to place before our
readers a condensed statement of the laws of
the Northern States which more or less di
rectly have sought to throw any obstructions
in the way of the execution of the Fugitive
Slave Law of 1850. So far as they take
their origin in this unfriendly motive, and so
far as they have this unconstitutional effect,
we need not say they are worthy of all con
demnation, and should be repealed at the
earliest opportunity, not only as an act of
justice to the people of the South, but as an
act of justice to — the people of the States
which have too long retained any such laws
on their statute books.
It will be seen from the review through
which we have gone that very few States
haVe enacted laws directly or avowedly in
opposition to the act of 1850. Laws against
" kidnapping" properly so called, cannot be
placed in this category. Laws forbidding,
under this head, the use of State jails for
Federal purposes, however, " unfriendly" in
motive, are not " unconstitutional" and find
parallels in other cases and in Southern
States. Laws forbidding State officers to is
sue writs for the recapture of alleged fugi
tives are passed in conformity with the deci
sion of the Supreme Court of the United
States in the celebrated Prigg case. But all
laws interfering with the exercise of the pow
er conferred by Congress on the commision
ere appointed under the Fugitive Slave Law
of 1850, as is the case with the laws of Ver
mont, Massachusetts, Michigan and Wiscon
sin, are clearly unconstitutional, and as such
are null and void.
Adopting the language of the report made
by a majority of the Committee of the House
of Representatives of the State of Vermont,
at its recent session, we need but recall
the fact that the act of Congress provides for
a hearing before a Federal Judge or Corn
misioner, and that the certificate of such
Judge or Cornmisioner shall be conclusive as
to the return of the fugitive. But the third
section of the Vermont act of 1858 declares in
effect that such certificates shall not be conclu
sive, since it declares in terms that the fugi
tive shall have a right to trial by jury; and
the fourth section declares that " every per
son who shall deprive, or attempt to deprive,
any person of his or her liberty contrary to
the provisions of the preceding section, shall,
on conviction thereof, forfeit and pay a fine
not exceeding $2OOO nor less than $5OO, or
be punished by imprisonment in the State
prison not exceeding ten years."
Again, the second section of the fourth ar
ticle of the Constitution says that " no per
son held to service or labor in one State, un
der the laws thereof, escaping into another,
shall, in consequence of any law or regula
tion therein, be discharged from Such service
or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim.
&c." But according to the sixth section of
the Vermont act of 1858," every person who
may have been held as a slave, who shall
come, or be brought or be in this State, with
or without the consent of his or her master or
mistress, or who shall oollle or be brought,
or be, involuntarily or in any way, in this
State, shall be free." Surely the intent and
effect of the act could not have been more ob
vious had the law been entitled " An act to
repeal the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, and
the second section of the fourth article of the
Constitution of the United States.
In conclusion, we submit that nothing could
be more honorable to the representatives of
the law-abiding people of Vermont, and of
any State in the same category with her,
than the speedy repeal of a law impotent for
good, and potent only for evil ; a law which
could not be enforced without a certainty of
hostile collision with the rederal authorities,
and the probability if popular tumult and
bloodshed ; a law which, with others of a
like nature in sister States, is a just cause of
offence to the Southern States, and forms a
part of every candid allusion of the public
press to the dangers which threaten the per
petuity of the Union.
SEir Georgia has a population of 1,075,977
—an increase of 169,978 in ten:years.
WISCONSIN.
Editor and Proprietor.
A Strong Union Appeal in d-eorgift.
The Hon. John P. King, one of the most
popular men in Georgia, is out in an appeal
to the people against the madness of the hour.
He takes the ground that the South can ob
tain better security in the Union than out of
it. Ile says :
" It was the perfidy of States that called
the Union into existence. The Union cemen
ted these faithless, jealous, sectional bodies
together ; and from objects of contempt, when
separated, they rapidly grew into one of the
most powerful and prosperous nations on the
earth.
" These puny efforts of faithless States to
nullify the Fugitive Slave Law have been
borne down in every instance when the two
powers came in contact. Even Black Repub
lican Judges have generally sustained the
law, audit is the boast of Judge McLean that
a fugitive never escaped in his jurisdiction ;
for want of a correct interpretation of the law.
Burns was returned, at the point of federal
bayonets, in spite of the laws of perfidious
Massachusetts. This government has per
formed every duty expected of it, and has
never failed to exert its power, when called
on to enforce the constitutional rights of sla
very. For that very reason the ultra Aboli
-tionists at the North denounced it as a 'league
with hell,' and wished to get rid of it. They
are corisistant for it is their only chance to
accomplish their hellish designs. Are we
equally so, when we wish to,give up this bul
wark, without a single equivalent ? In the
Union, we have every paler of protection, by
State s.ction;Ythat we would have out of it,
and have . this additional security besides.—
Itr-theUnion our slaves are (to use the strong
language of another) as safe as if they were
in the middle of the earth.' Are we certain
that they will be equally so, under the lone
star, and the sublime terrors of the blue
cockade ?' "
Again, in regard to the precipitation with
which secession is urged forward, Pinckney
says :
On the subject of our sister States, one
question must frequently occur to us. Why
is it that we are so much mere excited and
so much more anxious for dissolution, than
the border States ? They lose five hundred
slaves by the bad faith of the free States
where we lose one, and should be more exci
ted and more anxious for a change, if by a
change they could look for a remedy. The
reasons, I apprehend, are these : First, they
appreciate the dangers of desolating border
wars, with all their attendant crimes and de
struction of life and property second, they
see no remedy in separation, but only a ten
fold aggravation of the evil. They are near
neighbors to the people of the border free
States, and understand the whole subject fully
—much better than we do. They know that,
although there are some miscreants employed
in favoring the escape of slaves, there are al
ways hundreds of others ready to assist in
their recovery, and that the difficulty of es
cape deters thousands from making the at
tempt. Insecurity to the fugitive in the free
States is manifest from the fact that the fugi
tive makes all haste to reach Canada, where
only he is safe. Now, suppose Canada bor
dered on the Ohio instead of the free States,
bound to us by the Union, instead of the
slaves now lost, they would go off in stam
pedes, with no power to molest them, after
they reached the northern shore; and this,
too, supposes perpetual peace, about as rea
sonable as to propose perpetual salvation.
Now, what would be the natural result of
all this ? From the insecurity of slave prop
erty in the border States, it would soon be
come valueless, and would be sold to the
States farther South_ The present border
States would become free States in self-de
fence. The same thing would follow upon
each border State as the free States advanced
upon them until slavery would be extin
guished or confined to very narrow limits on
the Gulf and sea coast, where white labor
could not be employed. The ultra abolition
ists are logical in their anxiety to dissolve the
Union, " as the only chance for the ultimate
extinction of slavery." But for us to give up
the security which the Union affords us, cre
ate a hostile border of six hundred miles—
with an exposed coast of two thousand miles
—without a ship or sailor, and trifling ma
terial for either, to give a greater security to
slavery would seem to me as an absurdity,
were it not for the respect I have for others
entertaining that opinion.
A REnnna.—Dr. Arnold, when at Lale
ham, once lost all patience with a dull schol
ar, when the pupil looked up in his face and
said, "Why do you speak angrily sir? In
deed I am doing the best I can." Years after
the Doctor used to tell the story to his own
children, and say, " I never felt so ashamed
of myself in my life. That look and that
speech I have never forgotten." Is not this
a very suggestive fact for many parents and
teachers, and for masters, too, who are of
times impatient and unreasonable with the
youth of this class ?
Zer General Scott is the largest man in
the American service. He is six feet six in
ches in height, and weighs two hundred and
six pounds. He is 74 years old, yet his
breath is extremely good, and his whole sys
tem apparently vigorous, much of which is
doubtless owing to his temperate habits.
gir The oldest Postmaster in the United
States, who has never been out of office since
the date of his:appointment, is John Billings,
at Trenton, Oneida county, N. Y. His ap
pointment was made on the 19th of June,
1805.
ZEir A lazy fellow down South spells Ten
nessee after this fashion---10 a-c. And spells
Andrew Jackson thus—&-ru Jar-n. He will
suit a primary school.
gegi— Why are potatoes and corn like sin
ners of old. Because having eyes they see
not and ears they hear not.
SEP' Some ono has defined an editor as be
ing a poor fellow who empties his brains to
fill his stomach.
A SABBATU SCHOOL INCIDENT.-At a meet
ing in Exeter Hall, London, where there was
a vast number of Sabbath School children as
sembled, a clergyman arose on the platform,
and told them of two bad little boys whom
he had once known, and of a good little girl
whom he afterwards learned to know. This
little girl had been to Sabbath School, where
she had learned "to do good every day."—
Seeing two little boys quarreling., she went
up to them, told them how wickedly they
were acting, made them desist from quarrel
ing, and in the end, told them to attend Sun
day School. These boys were Jim and Tom.
" Now Children," said the gentleman, "would
you like to see Jim ?"
All shouted with one voice, " Yes ! Yes ! !"
"Jim, get up!" said the gentleman, look
ing over to another part of the stage. A rev
erend-looking missionary arose and looked
smilingly upon the children.
" Nov would you like to see Tom?"
" Yes ! Yes !" resounded through all the
house.
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" Well, look at me—l am Torn, and I too
have been a missionary for many years:—
Now, would you like to see little Mary
Wood .7"
The response was even more loud and earn
est than before, " Yes I"
"'Well do you see that lady over there in
the blue silk bonnet ?—that is little Nary
Wood s and she is my wife I"
An anecdote worth laughing over, is told
of a man who had an infirmity,' as well as
an appetite for fish. He was anxious to keep
up his character for honesty, even while en
joying his favorite meal; and. while making
a bill with his merchant, as the story goes,
and when his hack was turned the honest
buyer slipped a codfish up under his coat
tail. But the garments were too short to
cover up the theft, and the merchant perceiv
ed it.
" Now," said the customer anxious to im
prove all opportunities to call attention to his
virtues, " Mr. Merchant, I have traded with
you a good deal, and hate paid you up
promptly, haven't I?"
" Oh, yes," said the merchant, "I make no
complaint."
" Well," said the customer, "I always in
sisted that honesty is the best of policy, and
the best rule to live by, and die by."
"That's so," replied the merchant, and
the customer turned to depart.
" Hold on, friend ; speaking of honesty, I
have a bit of advice to give. Whenever you
come to trade again you had better wear a
longer coat, or steal a shorter codfish."
Many amusing anecdotes of the eccentric,
but pious and useful, Rowland Hill, have
been told ; but the following, narrated to us
by one of his parishioners, is new to us.
It was Mr. habit to ride to chum),
in an old family carriage, a practice too aris
tocratic, in the judgment of one of his flock,
who determined to rebuke it.
It was customary in his chapel for notes to
be sent to the pulpit, requesting prayers for
various objects. One Sabbath, Mr. Hill was
proceeding with the reading of these requests
as usual, when he found himself in the midst
of one of the following purport:
" Prayers are requested for Rev. Mr. Hill,
that he may be made more humble and like
his Divine AtaNter; - wiro, instead of riding in
a carriage, was content to be borne on an
ass."
Uaving read the notice, he lifted his spec
tides to his forehead, and looking around the
house, observed, that it was true he had been
guilty of the fault alleged ; but if the writer
would stop round to the vestry dour after ser
vice, saddled and bridled, he would have no
objection to ride home, after the Master's ex
ample on the back of an ass.
Beauty of features in the wife is not neces
sup to render home attractive. As has
been said with as much force of expression as
eloquence of thought, ordinary features, when
lit up with the sunbeams of sensibility, gen
erally excite the same passions which they
express ; and the winning attraction of their
smile invests them with peculiar charms, like
the variegated hues with which a brilliant
rainbow tints the gloomy clouds. The proud
and dangerous gift of genius is not neces
sary. Let a woman possess what is infinite
ly more valuable—good common sense, and
intellect sufficient to direct it in the most ap
propriate manner to all the practical purpo
ses of Life—let there be truthfulness in her
nature, strengthened by a thorough, course of
mental discipline, and it will not fail to give
beauty and power to her thoughts and char
acter.
WHAT is LIFE?—The mere elapse of years
is not life. To eat, and drink, and sleep—
to be exposed to darkness and the light—to
pace round the mill of habit, and turn
thought into an implement of trade—this is
not life. In all this but a poor fraction of
the consciousness of humanity is awakened,
and the sanctities still slumber which make it
worth while to be. Knowledge, truth, love,
beauty, goodness, faith, alone can give vital
ity to the mechanism of existence. The
laugh of mirth that vibrates through the
heart—the tears that freshens the dry wastes
within—the music that brings childhood
back—the prayer that calls the future near
—the doubt which makes us meditate—the
death which startles us with mystery—the
hardship which forces us to struggle—the
anxiety that, ends in trust—are the true
nourishment of our natural being.
ZER—A sheriff's officer was sent to execute a
writ against a Quaker. Arriving at the house
he says to the Quaker's wife, who in reply
to the inquiry whether her husband was at
home, answered in the affirmative, at the
same time requesting him to be seated, and
her husband would speedily see him. The
officer waited patiently for some time, but the
fair Quakeress coming into the room, lie re
minded her of her profnise, that he should
see her husband. " Nay, friend, I promised
that he would see thee. He has seen thee.
He did not like thy looks, therefore he avoid
ed thee, and has left the house by another
path."
lIP
REAL AND IMAGINARY WANTS.- Very few,
we presume, will acknowledge how few real
wants we have, and how little it takes to give
us genuir' happiness. If we could get rid
of our artificial, senseless, and expensive way
of living, we should find ourselves better off
in purse, and in heart, Let every one who
has any ambition to go ahead in life try the
experiment next year, and see how much vir
tue there is in economy. Make your expen
ses less than your income, and see how much
you will have gained, not only in money. but
in feeling.
Wirtisctibuttoitz.
A Good Story
Rev. Rowland am..
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