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John n. Drattou, Editor and Proprietor
OABUSI.B, NOVEMBER 4, 1603.
Half Sheet. —Wo publish bul a linlf obool Ibis
wook. Tho editor, journeymen, ond “ davil” hoto
oil boon 100 much engaged in election mulloro to
pay much attention to work for tho la.t two days,
w hioh will, wo trust, bo a aoffioionl apology to our
readers for notgiring them a full sheet this week.
The Election in this County.
W« have'met the enemy and they are cure !
tICTORY! YICTOBVII
Democrats of old Mother Cumberland! 7011
h a Ve achieved 0 most signal triumph ! The ma
jority in our county for and K,*« rr.il be
over 3001 Well done. Democrats of Cumberland.
After a holly contested struggle we have emerged
with the flag of Democracy waving triumphantly
from onr battlements,and send the shout of VIC
TORY to our brethren of other countries. “As
goes Cumberland so goes the State.*’
Below we give returns from all the townships
except Lower Allen, Leesburg, and New Cum
berland. These three townships will give Scott
some 30 majority. Hopkins* majority In the
county, it Will bo remembered, was 229.
PicncE. Scott.
_ . 0 East Ward, 67
Carlisle. J Wegt Wa rd, 40
North Middleton*, 60
Sooth Middleton, 26
Weslpennsborough, 47
Lower Dickinson, 61
Frankford, 31
Carlisle District,
Upper Allen,
Upper Dickinson,
Bridgeport,
Hopewell,
Mechanicshurg.
Newvllle District,
Silver Spring,
Shippensburg District,
Monroe,
Hampden,
Total,
BEVVILIE DlSTRlCT—Official
PiKnrc,
Frankford,
Mifflin,
New Jon,
Newvillo Borough,
Westpennsborough,
The Result in the State.
The Keystone Sate!
“Now Aits ovti Brows round wmt Victorious
W hkatheb."
The eagle of VrcTonv has once more perched
upon our Standard, and the notes of rejoicing are
Bounding from every hill-top and valley. Old
Pennsylvania speaks in thunder tones for Pierce
and Kino. Our majority n il! be about 20,000!
The returns below we received by Telegraph.
Piercf. Scud.
2381
Phila. city and county,
Datrpbin,
Schuylkill,
Franklin,
Perry
By Magnetic Telegraph for the Volunteer,
Baltimore. Nov. 3. Baltimore city gives 4500
majority for Pierce. He will have the Stale by •
largo majority.
New York, Nov. 3 This city gives Vierce 10,CUtO
majority. Pierce will bate o majority in the Plato
of 30,000 III" said wo liavo carried Delaware
Maine, Massachusetts, sad Tennessee.
Columbus, ().—But fow returns in It is behoved by
a ll u,a Pierce has carried the Stale by an unprece
dented majority.
Washington. D. C, Nov. 3. — As far as hoard
from Pierce has carried every Stale.
Harrisburg, Nov. 3.—Pierce's majority in the
City and County is 23RI—-in Schuylkill 700—in
Perry 730 Berks 5000 —York about 1000—Ju
niata 100—M i fill n 200.
Scott’s majority in Dauphin 050 —in Lancaster
about 4500 —Franklin GOO—Adams 800.
Pierce's majority in the Stale will be very
Urge.
Philadelphia, Nov. 3.-lt is rumored here that
Sooll has carried Veimonl! The vole is close.
THE BEI’UBLIC SAFE!
Franklin Pierre ami William R
King Eioeled PrmldciK sunt Vies*
President of the Tinted Slates!
We cannot but interchange with our readers
hearty congratulations on this auspicious result.—
The entire life and character of Franklin Pierce
afford the amplest guarantee that in his hands the
destinies of our common country will find n safe
depository. 110 comes into power at that period
of life, when all the faculties of the mind are in full
and unimparod vigor. Having never himself
tmigfil the Presidency, but being railed, like Cin
clnnallus of old, from the shades of retirement to
assume the helm of State, he is the instrument of
no clique or faction, and is freo to administer the
duties of his high office fur the mutual benefit of
the Coonthv, Ho bungs with him, 100, a char
acter for integrity and singleness of purpose, un
•potted by a single stain. I/e lias resorted to no
mean subterfuge, to beguile his countrymen Into
his support—but relying upon their patriotism and
intelligence, he has calmly awaited their verdict,
never doubting that it would be in accordance with
right and justice. The country has not disap.
pointed him —and lie will not disappoint the court
try. The republicans may now repose in security
upon their laurels, and even our political enemies
may glean comfort from the reflection, that we have
given them a President, who will administer its
affair* upon the pure principles promulgated by
JifFERSOK and Jackson.
"I Still Lit*.” —The dying word* of Daniel
Webster ere said to bsvo been, a* lie srouaod himself
momentarily from ths lethargy of lui exhausted con.
dllion, “ J Slill Lief.'” Word* of greater significance
could not have been uttered. Daniel Webster itill
lives, end will ever live while the American heart it
■live to true patriotism and gratitude.
Mono mint to Mr. Wrbstch. —lt is already pro
posed to erect a monument to the memory of Daniol
Webster in Boston, and in its most public place—in
front of the old Court House—and looking down
Slate street. A colossal statue of bronze is suggest
ed; and would be appropriate to the subject.
•‘Graham," fur November, is on our table. It is
6Hed with highly Interesting and instructive matter
—twenty five original articles, by distinguished an
ibor*—fourteen embellishment*. Term* IS per an*
tM. '
THE RESULT IN THE UNITED STATES
PIERCE & KING TRIUMPHANTLY
DOUBTFUL WHETHER SCOTT HAS CARRIED A SINGLE STATE
EXCEPT VERMONt!
So far as heard from Pierce sweeps every
thing before him, and his triumphant election is
placed beyond the possibility of doubt. From
information received by telegraph, it is believed
that New York, Ohio, Maryland, Delaware,
Maine, Virginia, and Connecticut, have taken a
stand along side of the old Keystone. Vermont,
it is admitted, has gone for Scott, and he may
possibly get one or two other Stales! “Scott
leads the column,” —over the left!
6R6 3-12
Scott.
365
iiipomyr tuom oes.scotti
A dcapnlch from Washington, tn the PhiUdclp'iin
Ledger, djlcd Nov. 1, (tho day before tbo election,)
Baja;
• General Scoll has wilhin a few cxprcspo l
liiroflslf very confident of hi* elcclum by a largo
mnjuriiy.”
Wonder wh illhc General thinks by this tunc.—
lie rccieved “ a fire in the roar” on Tuesday fucli
he never experienced before. No cloubl bo i$
again " fired with indignation !
Washington. Nov. I. lion. Ed ward Everett, of
MmachuscUi, has received and ocrcplcd the o|»|*
ointment of Secretary of Slate, to fill the vacancy
occasioned by the death of Hon. Dtnif! Webster,
Arrest at a Bank for Demanding Specie for
Bank Notes. A case is on (rial in Now I ork, in
recover damages, laid at $15,1100, for tin; nllodged
assault and battery on the person of the plaintiff,and
foi causing’ certain ogents of iho dufnndcnU to seize
(tic person of iho plaintiff, and lake Mm to a police
stalion. for demanding specie fur country bank nolo*,
at a bank,the authorized ngent of the country hank*.
'I ho defendants being the officers of tlio bank, and
they considered that the demand for specie wns on
interference with their regular business, sent for n
police officer, and gave the plaintiff into his custody,
by whom lie was taken to prison, and detained three*
diys. It was alleged by the d-fendant that the
plaintiff brought a largo bundle of notes to the B i nk.
after pumping water on them, so that there would be
a difficulty in separating them, and demanding
specie, dollar by dollar, ond telling the defendants to
taka ihoir one fourth per cent, discount qul of each.
Tbo case is not conehidcd.
Potatoes in Ireland.— By the litcal arrivals from
Murope, wo observe that n fair overage crop of po
(aloes will bo secured in Irrlmd, and that the price*
of this staple food of the people will bo materially
under those of Ijst year.
Death and the Presidency.— Only two of the cmincl
men who have been voted for during the last thirty
years, for President, ore now alive—Van Butcn and
Cass. Crawford, Wirt, Jackson, Adams. Harrison,
Calhoun, Pulk, Clay, Taylor and Webster are now
no more. Van Boren and Tyler ore iho only living
cx Presidents.
The Cause of Mr. Webster's Death. —Tlio pnal
mortem examination of the body of Mr Webster,
proves that he was afflicted with a diseased liver, but
lh,il the immediate cause of his death was a hernor
ihuge of tlio stomachc and bowls, owing to the rnoi •’
bid condition of I lie blood in esnsequenro oflhe above
dihcaie. Evidences of dropsy In llie abdomen were
also discovered.
Crtitai. Palace in France. —The French have
resolved to go work forthwith to construct a Crystal
palace, which they hope to have completed in two
years, when they will be ready for another World's
-Fair. In the meantime, brother Jonathan most bo
allowed to hold forth at hia Palace in Now York.
A Hotel that >■ *. Ho-tbi*. —Tlio now Hotel In
Now York, called the Metropolitan, recently opcncd i
ts, perhaps, the finest and most oxlonsUo one in tlio
world. The ground cost 8200,00(1; the building
$500,000 ; the mirrors $16,000; the plate $l-1.000;
tlie carpets and upholstery 8-10,000, the furniture
50,000, making all nearly 81,000 k 000.
In any adversity that happens to us in the world*
wo ought to consider that misery and affliction arc
not loss natural than snow and hail, storms and
tempest, and that it wore as reasonable to hope fur a
year without winter, as fur a whole lifo without
t rouble.
The heaviest fetter that ever weighed down the
limbs of a captive, la os the web of a gossamer,
compared with the pledge of a man of honor. The
well of stone end tin bar of Iron may bo brokun,
but hia plighted word, nkvxr.
A Good Hit. —John Van Huron in hia speech at
Newburg, N. Y>, among other thlngs’ssid that after
November next, Gen. Scott would be delivered of all
apprehensions of ” a fire* in the rear," which had
been the nightmare of hia life—became then he
would be so fsr bsAtnd that there would be nobody
behind to fire at him.
A gentleman having a horse that started and broke
his wife’s neck, a neighboring • (lui re (old him he
wished to purchase it for his wile to ride upon. —
“ No," replied the other,“no, 1 wtllnol sell the
little fallow, I intend to marry egslomyielf."
ELECTED!
New Secretary of Stale.
TIUSMrnNO PBOCIMSUTtOS OF 00V. BIGLER,
Ttio following is the proclamation issued by Gov
ernor Rigter, recommending n day for Thanksgiving
the 2Jih of November next ;
PfNvrTi.VAvu, rh ; In iho name ond by (he author
iiy oflfH’f'ommonwcnlih of Pennsylvania, William
Ihglcr, Governor of said Commonwealth.
a rnoci.A M ATI ON.
Fkii-ow Citizens: —The Almighty ond merciful
God has continued (119 guardianship over our Com
monwealth during (lie year lhal ia past. Except in
a single community which claims our sympathies,
•The pestilence that wolkelli in darkness, and the
destruction lhal wasteth nt noonday," have not had
Ilia leave lo smile. Health has generally prevailed .
Thu lumnli of inlernnl strife has not been heard.—
Unexampled prosperity has allcmicd Iho peaceful
pursuit of our citizens. "Seed time ond harvest
hove returned our garners have been filled with
ihe finest of the wheat. Our cup of blessings
his overflowed. The rdi'cntional institutions
of our ( oinmonwoulth nro growing in the af
fections of the t people, developing iho youthful mind,
ami cli v iliog our nuti.jii.il character. General mlel
ligmre .unf morality are on the advance. Our holy
religion, i(1 rung /t its own lost it nitons, continues to
calm 1 its cticred 1 n flue nee on Ihe public mind —to ad
minister I'm consolations to the contrite and the pure ,
md inspire them with the hopes of immortality.
As n miiion, we ore at peace with all iho world,
unit eminent (y prosperous. The free institutions o'
<uir government have been strengthened by the trials
of I lie past, nnd a brighter promise dawns upon the
Inlurc. To God, most great end good, wo owe nil
uur blessings. To (Inn our thanks ore duo.
Under (Ins solemn conviction, and in conformity
with the wishes of many good citizens, I, Willmm
lii(ii.sn, Governor ol the Commonwealth of Pennayl
vatna. du hereby appoint Thursday, Iho twenty fifth
tiny of November ncxi, ns u d iy of general Thanks,
giving and Prayer throughout the State, and earn
cully tiraercb the citizens of live Commonwealth, of
all classes, that. setting aside all worldly business on
that diy.ihry unite in offering thanks to Almighty
(hid fur His blessings, and invoke the continuance
of f 1 is goodness.
(■’iron under my hind, ami llie Grral of Stale,
nl n.ifiiatmrjT. Una iwcr ty fifth dnv of October, m
(lio yen ro< our I, nrd, imf I house od e\p ht hundred and
filly (»v«* f and of IflC Colli moDWCI (ill tflO BOVOnty
tcvt trli
Ily the Governor • K S. Goonnicit,
Deputy Secrelcny of Ihe Common wealth.
A Bum's Eva Vikw or Ohkuon. —-A Icllrr to the
Missouri Republican, dated Aug. 17th from Oregon
Till-year's emigration ! b beginning lo drop in upon
us. They report great distress on the hist end of
the rotile, from the hek of grass, teams giving out,
and depredation* cormmltod by (ho Snake Indians,
West ul Furl Ilill,&.e. What the poor emigrant
will do lhis*yrur for food, after ho gets in, Gjd only
knows, Now, flour selli quirk nl $2(l per barrel,and
put after harvest when U is generally at its lowest
price. Wheal can’t bo bought for bread or seed for
le«s than $2 GO now, nnd some osk $3, $4 and $5
per bu-liol, nnd say they won’t sell unii) they gel
(hit. Thu emigrant can’t pay such prices, ho will
will not have (bo moans lo do so, and thereby must
•offer. Vmi may osk, *‘hm your wheat crop failed
in Oregon 7” No, sirs; (hero is no such a thing as
crops of any kind falling hero. Dot men's disposit
ion lo work Imp failed, hardly raising enough for
themselves of cither bread or seed—-making (heir
living, snd having some to “salt down" out of (heir
•lock, butter, cheese, pork, bacon, eggs and chickens.
Cowi readily bnhp 875. beef catllo $lO per hundred
pounds on hoof; American horses and mules $l5O
to $3OO ; bottor 5(Jc, cheese GOc per pound ; pork
thin year will bo worth $35, bacon about 50c, eggs
quick at $1 per dozen ; chickens at tho farmer’s door
$l2 per dozen, all of which accumulates on and
around (ho farm without labor. ,
Did't Know Brans.— On a Into trip of ono of Iho
Now Orleans steamers sho woe crowded with Ger.
min emigrants. As might bo expected, their nppe
tito for fruit and vegetables, after a long soa voyage,
wm most voracious. At Selma, a short distance
below St. Louis, the boat received some fifteen or
twenty sacks of castor beans, consigned (o Mr. Blow.
Tho appearance of (ho bosn, " good to (ho oyo," ex
cited the cravings oftho emigrants. Finally curiosi
ty and appetite triumphed: a bag was surreptitiously
opened, a largo pun-fa) extracted, and a huge
luncheon ol soup prepared. In n short time, the
passengers in the cabin, and the officers of tho boat,
were startled by the report that tho cholera, in its
worst form, had broken out on dock. On going
bolow, they found that Iho castor oil was doing its
work. Tho bag lay oiposod, and a large pot-full of’
this rsro delicacy steaming hot on tho table. The
thing was soon solved, and the Captain had to go
Into quarantine, because, as ho esld, tlia Dutch
“ didn't know beans I"
aPKat-gtaacfl.
In HarrUburg, on the 86th ull., by the Rev. Mr.
Williams, Mr. James Baxter Thompson, to Miss
Emilt J. Black, alt of Harrisburg, i
YrtmTel Webitei
We are indebted to ihe .Boston. Courier for the
following particulars relative to Mr. Webster’s
death: ~j.
The last hours of one so beloved as he whoso
earthly'cafOor has just closed anqid so many cir*
cumslahces of consolation were of the same oven
tenor as all : tho rest. The public orb already, in
formed of the chief features of that deeply inter*
esting scene, up to the period when Mr. Webster
desired to take.leave of ad who were in the house.
One,by one, in deep sorrow, but sustained by his
own great example, the members of his family and
the friends and'attendants came in and iook leave
of him. He'desired them to remain near his room,
and more than once enjoined on those present, who
were not of his immediate family, not to leave
Marshfield till'his death had taken place. Reas
sured by all that his every wish would be religi
ously regarded, he then addressed himself to his
physicians, making minute inquiries as to his own
condition, and the probable termination of his life.
Conversing with great exactness, lie seemed to be
anxious to be able to mark to himself the final
f etiod of his dissolution.. He was answered that
t might occur in one, two, or three hours, but
that the time could not be definitely calculated.—
“ Then,” said Mr. Webster, “ I suppose I must lie
here quietly till it comes.” The retching and
vomiting now recurred again. Dr. Jeffries-offered
to Mr. Webster something which ho hoped might
give him easd. ‘‘Something more, Doctor, more
—I want restoration.”
Between 10 and 11 o'clock, ho repealed some
what distinctly the words “ Poet, poetry, Gray,
Gray.” Mr. Fletcher Webster repeated the first
line of the elegy, “The curfew tolls the knell of
parting day.” “That's it, that’s it,” said Mr.
W., and the book was brought and some stanzas
read to him, which seemed to give him pleasure.
From 12 o’clock till 2, there was much restless.
I ness, but not much suffering. The physicians
were quite confident (hat there was no actual pain.
A faintness occurred, which led him to think that
his death was at hand. While in this condition,
some expressions fell from him indicating (he hope
that his mind would remain to him completely un
til the last. He spoke of the difficulty of the pro
cess of dying, when Dr. Jeffries repeated the verse
—“Though 1 walk through the valley of the sha
dow of death, 1 will fear no evil, for Thou art with
me; Thy rod and Thy staff, they comfort mo.”
Mr. Webster said Immediately : “The fart, the
fact. That is what I want; Thy rod, Thy rod;
Thy staff, Thy staff.”
The close was perfectly tranquil and ea«y, and
occurred at precisely 22 minutes before 3 o’clock.
The U’Donogh 'Will Case*
Tlio New Orloma Delta, roforriog to Clio litigation
growing out of this case, etys :
“John M’Donogh was himself a man of great ex
pcrienco in law, ho had boon in Iho courts Irom Ins
first start hero, and seemed to take u delight in liti.;
gallon ; ho was constantly in close communion with
the ablest of our lawyers, Pur nearly thirty yours 1
bo was continually consulting and advising with
John R. Grymos, Edward Livingston, Christian]
Roselius, and other ominont juris consults. The I
darling thought—lho great lending idea of his iifo— I
was lo lio up his property, in some sort of perpetuity. I
fur Iho benefit of some charitable instituinns. His 1
passion for accumulation—more than any real plnl 1
antropy— dictated this plan. Ho could not bear the 1
idea ol his propotty being divided, oven after death.)
His chief pleasure in lifo was tu dwell upon Us ac- '
cumulated value in years In come, nnd his estimates |
and calculations embraced decades, centuries and
■ epochs far in the distant fu'U'O. This was Ins (a
, nalicism— liis ambition It was a purely sc I fie li one.
' The idea of charitable institutions was merely inci
dental and subordinate lo the grand plan of creating
- 0 perpetual and inalienable estate—a vast monopoly
1 in onr community which would have been a cur«e. 1
rather than a blessing, to our people. To gratify tins
passion, his whole life was one uninterrupted disra-I
I gard offlll the lies and claims of a humanity for l
. which his will expresses so much lender concern ;
We never believed in the sincerity of such profess
ions ; and we should esteem it no great misfortune !
if the will were set aside. Wo can scarcely imagine ]
I a greater evil than the existence of a vast Potato, like 1
that of M'Douogh'B, inalienable in fee simple, only 1
. subject to the temporary occupation of tenants wlio
I would have no into reft (n repair and ban utify* property
of which they arc nut the owners. Such a disposition
, would transfer the rune of Girod street—where the
1 miserable hovels of M'Donngh hnvo been a portion ol
1 for the last twenty years—to many other nuisances
. our city and Stale."
The Slate Ticket.—Official Tale,
The following tnble contains the full "fficinl vole
of all the coun'iea in tlio Slate
fiim/ (vm.
a £
Coi'WTIKS. ® "2 c
« c ® c
s « * fa
8 *« c
a, tc g J£
O O . g
Adams. 1659 ill 97 ‘ld 72 2IP I
Allegheny, 6530 7146 6559 76t57
Armstrong, IH9I 11(7 I7U-I 1714
Beaver, 1692. 1555 1693 I6OH
Bedford, 2015 2026 2032 2022
Berks, 7372 371 H 75H5 353 H
Diair, 1772 2251 1693 22H5
Bracllord, 3027 215 H 3056 2122
Bucks, 5 JOS <IHIO 5118 4772
Butler, 2176 2131 2130 2163
Cambria, 1923 1190 IRIJ 1213
Carbon, 1238 671 1211 6R.J
Centro, 2753 1717 2737 169 K
Chester, 4959 5588 4962 5566
Clarion, 2149 990 2116 1012
Clearfield, 1353 758 1400 763
Canton, 1188 1002 1219 928
Columbia, 197-1 998 1968 962
Crawford, 2608 2175 2662 3197
Cumberland, 2971 2715 2927 2782
Dauphin, 3031 3165 2610 3071
Delaware, 1514 0020 1526 2001
Klk, 267 112 242 161
Erie, 2180 3257 2165 3217
Fayette, 3594 2692 3590 2668
Franklin, 3107 3123 3109 3105
Fulton, 774 019 773 616
Groeno, 2211 1227 2200 1217
Huntingdon, IGHI 0095 1710 2076
Indiana, 146-1 1912 11 GO 1999
JeHoraon, 1057 785 1033 H 36
Juniata, 1243 1017 1251 1037
Lancaster, 6688 9986 5526 9711
Lawrence, 1048 1685 1026 1719
Lebanon, 1753 2314 1737 2373
Lehigh, 3183 2483 3161 2476
Luzerne, 4894 3141 4988 2902
Lycoming, 2363 1912 2199 1798
McKean, 408 370 616 38!
Mercer, 2556 2079 2558 1958
Mifflin, 1448 1253 1487 1231
Monroe, 1647 220 1653 203
Montgomery, 5276 4163 5203 4105
Montour, 1319 787 1337 755
Northampton, 3318 2174 3331 2098
Norihumuerl'd, 2216 1393 2019 1326
Perry, 1901 1172 1952 Hl3
Phila cy. & co. 21915 212U3 23177 24045
Ptko, 652 83 G 92 50
sPoltdr, 591 175 699 IGO
SqhuylkiU, 4223 . 3747 3960 3755
Somerset, 917 2389 940 2391
Susquehanna, 3470 1349 2-147 1331
Sullivan, 354 IG3 373 163
Tioga, 2247 1293 2228 1322
Union, 1807 2555 1835 2485
Venango, 1559 859 1562 851
Warron, 1529 982 1246 1025
Washington, 3075 3740 3796 3616
Wayne, 1971 813 1999 749
Westmoreland, 4683 2551 4640 2566
Wyoming, 1093 744 1139 7H
York, 4699 3145 4586 3417
Total, 171,548 161,000 173,010 153,681
151,600 153,681
Majorities, 19,948
In fashionable life tho men most run after are the
men deepest in debt.
Amongst the thousand deceptions passed , off on
our shara riddciwaco; lot, mo direct your attention to
the deception of dignity, as it is one which includes
man; others. Among those terms which have long
ceased to have any vital moaning, the word dignity
jtfeßortes a disgraceful prominence. No word has
fallen so readily as this into ibo designs of cant, inn
posture and pretence; nono played so well tho'pari of
verbal scarecrow, to frighten children of all ages and
both sexes. It is at onoo the thinnest and roost of-
I feclivoof all Iho coverings under which duncedotn
I sneaks and skulks. . Most of .the men of dignity, who
awo or boro their more genial brethren,.aio simply
I men who possess (he art of passing off their insensi
bility for wisdom, their dullness for depth; and of
concealing Imbecility of lololloct under naughtiness
of manner. Their success in this small game is ono
of Iho alorcoypted satires upon mankind. Once
strip from theso pretenders their stolen garments—
onco disconnect their show of dignity from their
real meanness—and they would stand ehivetingand
defenceless, objects of (he (ears of pity, or (argots for
the arrows of scorn. Bat it is tho misfortune of this
world’s affairs, tiial offices, fifty occupied only by
talent and genius, which despise pretence, should be
filled by respectable stupidity and dignified empti
ness, to whom prcteoco is Iho very soul of life.—
Manner triumphs over matter, and throughout soci
ety, politics, letters and science, wo arc doomed to
meet a swaim of dunces and. windbags, disguised as j
gentlemen, stotesmen and scholars. Coleridge onco
saw at a dinner table, a dignified man with a face
as wise as tho moon’s. The awful charm of his
manner wus not broken until tho muffins appeared,
and then the imp of gluttony forced from him llib
exclamation, “Them's the jockey's for mo!" A good
number of such dignilorions remain undiscovered.
It is curious to note how theso pompous gentle
men rule in society and government. How often do
history and tho newspapers exhibit to us the spec
tacle of a heavy headed slupidjtarian in official sta
tion, veiling the strictest incompolcncy in the myste
rious sublimity of carriage, solemnly trilling owny
the interests uf tho slate, the dupe of his own übsti
nato ignoronee, and engaged, year oficr year, In
ruining a people after the most dignified fashion !
You liavo all seen the inscrutable dispensation known
by llio name of the dignified gentleman ; an embod
ied tediousness, which society ie apt not only to 10l
orate, bat worship ; a person who announces the
stale common places of conversation with tho
awful precision of ono bringing down to the Valleys
of thought, bright truth plucked on iifl summits;
who is so profoundly deep and pain r ully solid on
Iho weather, the l ist novel, or some oilier nothing of
the day; who is inexpressibly shocked if your eter
nal gratitude does r.ot repay him for the trite *
rrntion he consumed your hour in imparling, and who
if you insinuate that this claim, contented, impurtu
rsblo stupidity, is praying upon your patience,
instantly stands upon his dignity, and puls on a face. I
Yet this man, with just enough knowledge “to raise j
himself from the insignificance of n dunce to the \
dignity of a boro," is still in high fsvor even with .
those whose animation ho checks and chills whv
B Cause he has, nil any. so much of the dignity of s 1
gentleman! Tito poor, bright, good ndurid min.
who has done all in his power to bo agrees bio. joins [
in Hie cry of praise, and feelingly regrets that nature
has not adorned him, too, with dullness ns a robe, so t
(hot ho, likewise, might freeze tho volatile into re
spect, and be hold up ns a model spoon for all dunces >
to imitate. This dignity, which so many view with [
rcvcrcnliiil despair, must have twined, "two at a
birth,” with tint ursine vonily mentioned hy Cole i
; ridge, "which keeps it«elf olive by sucking the paws
1 of ns own self imports nee." Tho Duke of Somerset
j was ono of these dignified gentlemen. His second
(wife was tho mo*t beautiful woman in Englmd.
' She onco suddenly threw her arms around his neck,
| and gave him a kiss which might have gladdened
llhc heart of an emperor. The duke, lifting his
i shoulders wfth on aristocratic square, slowly said.
' 'Muditnir, my first wife was a Howard, and she never
i would hove taken such a liberty.’— Whipple,
AI’.NT II BTTT ON M tTH I MONT.
| N'iw. girls, said Aunt Hetty, put down your cm
broidery ond worsted work.dii something sensible,
and slop building air castles and talking of lovers
and honey moons : it makes mo sick l it's pcrleeily ;
onl 1 morai >|. Love is a f.irce matrimony is a hum
bug; husbands arc domestic Ncros Alexanders,]
. sighing for other hearts to conquer, after they ore
, sure ot yours. The honey moon is as short lived as
| a lucilvr match. Alter that, wear your wedding
j dress at the washtub, your nightcap to meeting, and 1
your husband wnuld’nl know il. You may pick up
your own pocket handkerchief, help ynursclt lo a
chair, ami split your gown across (he back reaching
over the table lo get a piece of butter, while he ffl
laying in his breakfast ns tf it was Iho last meal ho
should cal tins side of Jordan. When ho gets
through, he will .ud your digestion (while you ure
sipping your tirst cup of C tleu) by inquiring what
you'll li.ivo (or dinner whcihcr Iho cold limb wan
all eaten yesterday— if the cli-ircu-il is out—and
J what you g.i»u fur the last green tea you bought,—
Then begets up from the (able; lights Ins cigar
w nh the last evening’s paper, that you have' not had
; lime to rend ; gives two or three whiffs of smoke,
j thnl ore sure tu give you the headache for (he rest of
[ the day, a nd, just as Ins cnaMa ii is vanL(ling I hrough '
the door, apologizes fur not doing “ that 1111 lo errand"
for you yesterday thinks it doubtful if lie c m do it
| iij.lny —hois so pressed wuh business. II -nr of him
at 11 oVlock, taking an ire cream nt Newton's,]
while you am ul homo new lining his coat sleeves.— j
Children by the cars all day ; don’t get out lo like]
the air ; (ccl as crazy as a fly in a drum : husband
enmos homo at night, nods a Imw d'ye do. Fan 71
boxes ('hurley’s cars, stands little Fanny in t ho ror j
nor. puis Ins feel up over the grate, shutting out nil
the fire, while the baby's little pug nosn grows blue
j with the cold; rends the newspaper nil to liiinm-lf,
I solaces his inner man with a hot cup of (ea.mid,
I just os you ore laboring under the hallucination lhal
Ihe will ask you lo take u mouthful of fresh »ir with
I (inn. lie puls on his dressing gown nnd slipper*, nod
logins to reckon up the family expenses! a'lrr
which, he lies down on iho sofa, nnd you keep lime
with your needle, while he snores, till 9 o'clock.— 1
N< xl morning you ask him to give you a liltie imm.
ey ; he looks at you as if to bo sure that you are in
your right mind, draws n sigh long and strong
enough lo mil tie a pair of bellows, and asks you
what you want of if, and if half a dollar will not |
do. Gracious lung! As il all those little shoes
and stockings ond dresfoa could be had for half n
d. liar ! Oli, girls ! set yojir affections on cals, pood.,
les, patrols, or lapdogs—but let matrimony slnne 1
It's the hardest way on csrlh of getting a living— l
you never know when your work is done op. Think I
of corrying eight or nine—perhaps twelve or lliir-'
teen—children through iho measles, chicken pox,
rush, mumps, and scarlet fever—some of ’em twice
over ! It mokes my sides ache to think of it. Oh,
you iniy senmp and save, ond I wist and lorn, n o<l
dig and delve, economize nnd die, and your lm«hind )
will marry again, take what you |iavo«avi-d 1 o dress f
his second wife with, and she'll lako your “punratl ]
fur a fire board, and—but wlmt'a the uao of talking 7 '
111 warrant every one of you’ll try if, (ho first
chance you get. There's a sort of bewitchment
about il, somehow. I wi-h ono half of the world;
warn'l fools, and llie t'other half idiots—l do. Oh, 1
dear ! I
Su Juil^r.
Important from Franck.— A plot to assassinate
Louis Napoleon has boon discovered at Marseilles.—
Tho design woa to Tiro an infernal machine compos
ed of 250 gun barrels loaded with 1500 bullets. Tho
machine was secured by the polioo and tho parties
arrested.
Advices from Paris say that the first official .act
towards (ho consummation of tho Empire lakes
place si Tours on tho 15th October, where a decree
will bo published for (ho convocation of (ho Senate
to examine and report on tho addresses from the
Department Inviting tho President to assume the
Imperial dignity.
The return oftho Prince to Paris will be celobro.
ted with Imperii) pomp, and stylo of brilliancy hith
erto unparallold.
Trivial Causes or War.— Wars spring from very
trivial cause. In 1700 Spain fought throo years,
about a lot of .cal-skins obtained from Nnolku Sound.
I A fow years ago, England spent 850,000,000 in war
with China about opium and long-tailed pipes. At.
Iho present wo have a pair of musses on hand, ono
with England about codfish, and tho other with Peru
about bird-manure. In oil our rooding, wo cannot
recollect a single war that originated in anything
else than a ono-and-nino-ponnoy squabble about noth
ing In particular, Tho revolution in England was
brought about by John Hampden'* refusing to pay a
fow shillings tax as ship.monoy; white our own
revolution owes its origin to a depute about a lot of
bozos of tea.
Onoo give your mind up to tfusplcion and foor,
end there will be sure lb bo food enough for it. In
the stillest nightthe sir is filled with sounds for the
wakeful esr that is resolved to listen.
18,929
SHAM pIONITY.
DaentnedMoney,
However common may.ba ihf desire fur sadden
weblth, :i yet U may be safety bffirmdd ' that'money
is never so tntich enjoyed, or ed-pleasantly of ju*
diolously spent, as when hardly earned. 'The’exi
lertioh deed in obtaining!! ißbenfefidialalikotothe
health dnd spirits. ! U affords ploaßUfe in the.pon
teroplation, as the result of effort and Industry, of
a thing which unearned money can’ never,impart f
and the natural alternation of labor and relt\xat|oo
tends Uo preserve thebody in health, ahd.kepps
the mind from the injurious extremes of either par*
simony dr prodigality. Unearned money, op, the
contrary, as it is obtained Without any, effort,,so it
is often epebt .without a thought. There is no
iicalthful aulivity used in obtaining it; no putting
forth of those energies, the use of . which, sc
much to elevate and purify; no skill or persever-’
ance called into action; and,it is seldom that it i»
possessed to any great extent without injuring the
possessor. It induces a distaste for labor end ac
tivity: it lulls to ignoble rest in ’the lap of circum
stances; it allures to float along with the stream,
instead of tho healthful labor of stemming the tide
of difficulty; and he had need be something more
than mortal who.can possess much ot this unearn
ed money without being (n his moral nature some
what paralyzed and debased. • Naturally rampant
as are the weeds of sloth and sensuality in the ho.*
man heart, that condition in life in which (here \4
not only work to be done, but work which mnsV
'be done, will bo the safest and the best. Mope/
seldom makes men belter, either physically of
morally, and often makes them worse. Seldom l
does a man become more healthy in his body as
money increases; seldom does his mind become
more powerful as his purse becomes heavier; not
always does hie heart beat more benevolently as
his wealth accumula’es. But if money, even
when laudably gained by wholesome exertion and
enterprise, be ol doubtful or injurious effect upon
its possessor, doubly hazardous and painful must
be the possession gf that money w hich is unearned
and untoiled for, and which only leaves the dispa.
sal of time at the mercy of idle dreaminess or in
geninus mischief, and enriches ihegrnwth of those
r*nk weeds of the heart which are most success
fully checked by wholesome exercise and occupa
tion.
ELECTION KB 111 NO ABUSES.
The Washington correspondent oflho Now Orleans
ricoyun?, in conncclion with some remarks on elec
tioneering ahuocbs, lolls the lollowing story:
I will lull you an anecdote of (ho '’good old limo"
of IBUU, in Pennsylvania, when (he animosity uf
party rancorous feeling of Federalists against Uem
, ucr.us was even greater than it is now between the
parties of (he day, when the spirit of bitterness in
. the contest was not confined to the political charac
; ter or even personal hie ol prominent men, but inva
ded the sanctuary o( their homes and retailed (he
'petty scandal, real or inure oltcn invented, uf the
domestic circle,
j In those days tvr h,d a very wealthy ri iten and
politician, yclept Simon Snj d«. r, Simon Die tanner.
, Now, Simon was a good man, and a rich man ; a
j (aimer and a Democrat; he had frequented ward
' meetings and played the secretary and the cha irntsn;
' then he became a member ol the Legislature, then
' spen kcr, and fiuu Ily but 1 moat nul ant icipalc.
[ It was a raw and goaty night, Irom which you will
I infer tint the wind whistled und the rain pattered;
1 little children huddled close to I lie hearth stone ; the
Cal coach drivers—alas fur the jolly dogs of theffd
• good old days ! 1 could almost find u in my heart to
| run every cub “olTthe track,” if it were only to re
vive the race of amusing loquacity onco more—but
, toned on an extra overcoat, took un extra ’horn,' and
I drove their bays with a fury that seemed to bid defi
ance to both Mind and weather ! U was on "such a
night” that Simon's most excellent wife—we did’nf
say hdy in those good old days, neither did Wash
ington Irving, a low years he wrote Ins
his Sketch Book— his wile sit comfortably by the
blazing hickory—shall I ever sec such a fire once
more 7—and gradually lapsing into a sort of surprise
: ns to what could have become ut her excellent hit*-
band —that's a homely phrase fur these modern days ;
I why should not a lady say my gentlcman 7—whoso
habits were, to tell the honest trinh the more regular
from the pi >cid bond of affect ion that existed between
Ihcrn.
At length his step Wf. lictrd, and she prepared ftf
meet him with one ol thn most encouraging recept
ions, namely, n sweet smiling welcome, and—a good.
But Master Simon entered,with rnthet a sedate step,
shook the rain from his bearskin coat, hung up ins
lint, and scarcely noticing Ins wife, sn deeply was
ho absorbed in some engrossing subject ol reflection,
sank into a scut before the fuo without even giving
it a (>nkc, and fell at onre into a deep reverir. The
wife siw that something wsn in (he wind, although,
as her husband's connu-nanco betrayed only anxious
thought Without any triers nf vrxilion or distress,
and knowing well Ins habits, she willed patiently,
the developeincnt of the mysu-ry.
•Wi'e,’ said ho ul List, ’Kite.*
‘Well, Simon, my dear, what in it ?'
A long pause, and lni« time there waa a punch a(
the fife with the tongs —in modern days poker, the
ugly tilings, 1 hale 'em—and a biirnng up of ilia
he mi ill'n I hickory coals.
* W ili>,' nn id Simon.
'Well, husband, I am listening, what is it 7*
‘Are you on pretty good terms w ilh all your neigh
bors 7’
1 -eil ifoly. why should I h* otherwise f
The f.iut is,th«i Mrs Sn>der wm mil only a
nmiatile woirim, (nil a lidy, too, whom everybody
osiremrd.
■Sure, now, lint you Invn'l dropped any remark*
lilcly before some *p irticul.ir friend’ atioot little
Tommy Jutur' squint, or Nancy Pirn's h.mo knee,
that in ig hi Inve r.mne in iheir doling mulliors* eats ?
N 'llnng of ih >t lurid, eh V
*l.oul, no! Alj deir liu-bmd, wlnt id the nTat*
ler V
•Well, nothing very part irul ir. I was only a lit.
tic anxious to know how you stood with all jnur
neighbors, >our dc ir friends, and even your relations.
For you see. my dear Suam. I have—lo tell the
truth at once —been such a pood nulurcd soul As to—"
‘for heaven's sake, my dearest Simon, tell me si
once wh it is iho ni-il'rr, and don’l keep mo in this
nervous siirpMso. What have you been doing, ••
you sny T’
‘Oh ! nothing sn very alarming, my love"—how
. loving Ihey got lo bo. ‘I have only been prertllcd
on nt ihc meeting to night of the Domocalic Couniy
Convention to allow my name put as a candidate fur
Governor ; and nhhougb 1 am lolly prepared far til
ilia sc'ind.il politicsi jnd personal that can bo and
w ill be show ered upon my head, J sin not quite cal*
lollf* us lo wlmi ibey might sjy of you my dear wife.’
'All I but Simon, my dear,' she said ns she appro
ached In give him s wife like kisa in acknowledge,
incut of his conjugal feelings, ‘you forget that while
you are a good, eiciling, honest Democrat, 1 am
one ol the most stubborn Federalists in all Lancaster
«»*unty.*
•Thai’s true, very true,’ said Simon,*and so lot’*
try your housewifery, for Iho flavor of that vcniiorr
paste, and iho aloam of that jog,*—il was whisky
puncli, browed by Susan's own fair hands—‘added
to your odroit escape from the dilemma Iliad placed
you in, liavo so sharpened my appetite, that, units*
you have provided bounliiully, wo shall do whal we
never did bofure—quarrel over a short allowance.'
And Sipion did gul il—the abuse 1 mean—and
what Is more, he got the office of Governor for three
successive terms of throe years each, and a belter
Governor never graced iho otecutivo choir of Penn
sylvania.
Bahnuu’s Opinion about ADvxrmßiKa.— 'The foN
lowing extract la.t'kon from Frocdloy’s ** Prsclicß?
Treatise on Business.” It Is from llio pen of tb»
celebrated P. T. Barnum :
*• Advcrliio jour business. Do not hi do y oor
light under a bushel. . Whatever jour occupation or
culling may'bo, if it needs support from the public*
advortiso ll thoroughly and efficiently, in some shape
or other, that will arrest public attention. 1 freely
confess that what success 1 have had in hfs m»J
fairly bo attributed more to iho public press than (v
nearly all other causes combined,. There rn&y
possibly bu occupations that do not require advertis
ing, but 1 cannot well conceive what they are. Men
in business will sometimes toll you that they have
tried advertising, and that it did not pay. This is
only when advertising sparingly snd grudg
ingly. lloincDopaihic doses of advertising wUI .nct
pay, porhsps—it Is like half a portion of pb/s/o ”
making lho‘ patient tick, but effecting
Administer liberally, and the cure will be w* s 0 .
permanent.'* / Q
The editor of one of our exchanges /«
dies wear corsets from a feoling a of jnV
natural love for being squeezed-' /