AMERICAN VOLUNTEER. JOHN D. BhATTOPf, Editor & Pnptlrtw. CARLISLE, PA., MAY 31,1855. -DELEGATE ELECTIONS Bf «fcr«io9 to the proceedings of 11b Dot. oerttic Standing Committee, it will bc scon lint the Delegsto clcctiona in tlm several townships, tvarda end boroughs, are ordered to dome oil on Saturday, tho 16 th of Juno next, and we hope our friends will bear this in mind, and at tend to the election of true men .as Delegates. It will 1 he seen also that the County Commit tee suggests to the County Convention, (to as stmblo on the 18lh of June.) tho propriety of nominating a full County Ticket, to bo sup ported by the Democracy at the October elec tion. If the Convention deem it expedient to adopt the suggestion of the County Commit tee, it will save tho trouble and expense of con vening another County Convention, and the party can thus organise at an earlier date than heretofore, which we think, will be to our ad vantage in tho coming contest. The question, however; will be with the County Convention, andw* shall cheerfully acquiesce in whatever it may do. Fbusn.— ■We picked up on the street, a day or two since, a pocket-book, containing a few pieces of money. Tho owner can have it by calling on us. Oim Stores. —Oar merchants have all sup plied themselves with new Spring and Summer Goods. Sec their advertisements and then go and see them. Cold Mornings and Evenings —The “old est inhabitant” has no recollection of such cold mornings and evenings at this season of the year, as we have had thus far. We have had frost nearly every night during this month, but yet,owingto the dryness of the atmosphere, , the fruit has not been injured. ( Another Richmond in the Fibld.—By re ference to his Card, in another column, it will beseenthat Wm. Rbilt, Esq.. Clerk to the Commissioners, announces himself a candidate for Sheriff. Col. Robert M’Cabtnet also of fers himself as a candidate, and we hear a half dozen others spoken of. From these indications we eh*!! be at no loss for candidates for this of fice. Still Another. —Since tho above was in type, Mr. Elias Light has sent us his card announcing himself a candidate, subject to the decision ol the Democratic County Convention. Continental Vocalists. —A despatch from the agent of this company informs os that the Continentals will be in Carlisle and sing at Marion Hall this evening. May 31. Tho Continentals are great favorites with our citi zens, and are considered by good judges the best singers in tho country. We hope they may receive a greeting to-night, commensu rate with their worth. Fatal Accident. —On Friday last, Mr. JakßS M’Calip, who was engaged in digging a well in the -neighborhojd of Springfield, in | the Upper end of this county, while ascending the'ladder, and when near the top, one of the rungs broke, and he fell down the well to the bottom, a distance of about eighty feet, injur ing himsclt so much that he died in about one hewr » Lo )f after iln accident. Ml. Ilf'' Calip leaves a family to mourn his sudden and untimely death. Truly may we say, “in the midst of life we are in death. ” Life of Washington, by, Washington Ir ving.tn 3 uofunws.—Thodulj authorized agent, Mr. James Kell, is now canvassing Carlisle and vicinity, with the view of obtaining sub scribers to this celebrated work. The first vol ume is already issued, and will bo ready for de livery very shortly. It is got up in very supe rior style, and the work must certainly have an extensive sale. The very name of the au thor should be sufficient to recommend it to tho patronage of all. Every gentleman should grace his library <Mth these volunlds. XT* Sam ism Virginia, where he will re main until the 4th Thursday in May, for IVtse purposes.— K. N. papers before the election in Virginia. We think Sam has discovered that his slay in Virginia was not a very IVise acl in him.— lie got as good a kicking as ever an old rascal received, and ho now writhes in agony in his dark lodge-room. This fall he will receive a similar drubbing in this State, whichwe think will about finish him. XT* The Roct Islander , a Democratic paper published in Illinois proposes Judge Black, of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, for Presi dent of the United Stales. XT* Uonis Napoleon received Mr. Buchanan very kindly at London and expressed the hope that Franco might always bo at peace with the United Slates. STANDING COMMITTEE MEETING. Agreeably to notice given, the Democratic i Standing Committcoof Cumberland county met f at the public house ot Jacob Shell, in Carlisle, j on Saturday, May 20. On motion Benjamin Kbeidbu, Esq., of Monroo township, was called to the chair, and Isaac Risgwalt of Cailisle, i appointed'Secretary. ' Tho object of the meeting having been fita- I led by tho chair, on motion the following rcso- i lotions were unanimously adopted : ' Jlcsolued, That the Democratic voters in Ihc ( several wards, boroughs and townships of Cum- i bcrland county be requested to meet at their j usual places of bolding such elections on Sat urday, t/14 lOlfi of Jane, between tho hoars of 1 2 anfl 7 ©‘clock, P. M., and then and there I elect tw© Delegates to represent each township, j borough'and ward in tho County Convention. Aeidtved, That the said Delegates so elected T»tU'tneetT in County Convention in tho Court ' Hd(i4e,*in Carlisle, on Monday Ihclßlh of June, ' fttll o’clock, A- M., for tho purpose of appoint- Intone papatonol and two lUpmchlntlvo.DcT. ego tea* to represent our Senatorial and Ucpro soiUtiTa districts in the Democratic State Con vSrtlonV to moot at Harrisburg on thedth of JU ]feSe d, That tho Delegates composing the County Convention oforesaid, may, if they deem it expedient, also place in nominal on a full County Ticket, to bo supported by the Dcrooo ncr'&l tho ensuing general election. .Resolved, That we recommend to tho Demo crats of the various wards, townships end bor oughs td bo careful and reject all votes that may be offered by those who continue to net and vote with the proscriptive and intolerant Know-Nothings. “Those who are not for us are against ua." „ . .... Jlaaolrcd, That these proceedings bo publish* cdintheDemocralte^^er^^lmcount^.^ 1 UINaWALT, S«cfrv “PLACE RONE BBT AMERICANS OS GUARD TO-NIOfIT I” Nearly every Kpow-Nothing paper we pick up baa the above quotation for its motto, and give credit and attribute the words to Wash ington ! Washington never used (his lan guage; nor anything liko it, and we challenge any Know-Nothing editor or all of them pot to gether. to point out the passage in Washing ton's writings where he makes useof this quo tation. They can't do it, and the words they hare adopted as a motto is nothing more nor leas than a miserable mb. Wo pronounce it snch, and dare them to disprove our assertion. 1 We have read Spare's Life of Washington too carefully to* be mistaken in what we say ; and we repeat, that the roan who attributes tho phrase * ‘place none but Americans on guard to night” to Washington, is not only guilty of a wilful, deliberate and contemptible falsehood, but be at the same time offers an Insult to the memory of the father of our country, and to our people who now enjoy the privileges oar forefathers fought and bled to achieve. It is the habit of Know-Nothing editors to prevaricate—it is their vocation to misrepresent and lie—it is their privilege (they appear to think) to consider their readers fools and to tally ignorant of history. None but a Know- Nothing editor could adopt as his motto, and put in quotation points, a diabolical falsehood; nor would any other consider his readers so ig norant as to be unable to detect the fraud he attempted to palm upon them. It will not do for the miserable, oath-bound conspirators and Infidels of the Know-Nothing lodges to quote Washington in support of their infamous and damnable doctrines. No ! Washington, a man of enlarged views, a pa triot in every sense of the word*, whose writings prove that he was possessed of more than ordi nary benevolence of^fieart —who, in tho gencr ous impulses of bis nature, accorded every man /(hoi right to worship Qod according to the dic tates of/his conscience, and who had mingled ',wUb 'and shared the hardships of patriotic I ‘‘foreigner*," would, were he now living, scorn i to own os his sentiment, “ place none but A raericans on guard to night.” Side by side and shoulder to shoulder Washington, La Fatettb, Db-Kald, Kosciceo, Pulaski, Stu bbn, Gates and Montgomery, fought for A* racrican freedom. They were oil actuated by the same patriotic feeling—by the same love of liberty. And is it likely, that at the time these patriotic men were thus fighting, that Wash ington could offer so gross an insult to the “foreigners” La Fatettb and others, ns to ut ter a sentiment impugning their motives and their patriotism ? No, no, it is not likely, nor did Washington ever utter such a sentiment. The professions of the Know-Nofhings that they dread the influence of foreigners ond Cath olics, is another fraud, and is utterly destitute of truth. There is not, wo venture to say, a sensible man in tho United States, that serious ly droads any such influence. It is all hypoc risy and deception, and is another aihart tnck of corrupt men to worm themselves into office and power. There is not now in tho United States a larger proportion of foreigners and Catholics than there was in the country when the Declaration of Independence was signed.— There are not in office in tho United States as many foreigners and Catholics, in proportion to population, as there *»tre of theso classes' among the signers of the Declaration of Indo-1 prudence and fu the Convention which formed tho Constitution of the United Slates, in pro portion to the whole number of each. Tho pro portion of Catholics and foreigners in tho ar mies of the Revolution, on the American side, was fire times greater than the proportion of these classes who have ever held office in the United States. Whatever tho ovil of foreign emigration has been and however great tho dan gers from the spread ut Catholic religion, these evils and these dangers are certainly no greater now than they always have been. On the con trary. it would hare been much easier for Cath olic France, Spain and Italy, after assisting us to achicre our independence, to have interfered in favor of Catholicism, than it is for any pow er now to overthrow the firmly established Protestantism of this republic. There was no attempt to do this. Our fathers feared no dan ger, and provided, by fudnamcntal law, for per fect religious freedom. Shoulder to shoulder Protestants and Catholics had achieved tho battle of the Revolution ; as friends and equals they founded a free government, and establish ed religious liberty. Their wisdom has been proved by nearly three-quarters of a century’s experience. Any danger which might have ex isted when tho country was weak, from the spread of any religious error,has been outgrown with the giant strength which tho republic has since achieved. It cannot bo accessary, we think, to do more than to call tho recollection of the public to these facia, to enlighten them as to the purpo ses of those who, having worn out the Whig party, attempt to found a new one on tho re ligious prejudices of a portion of our people.— If there is danger from Catholics and foreigners, it existed in 1802. when tho Whigs attempted to use these classes, to quite os great an extent as it exists now, when they bawe turned rouud to abuse them. Waiting for High Pbices.—'The Village Record says that some two or three weeks ego, when wheat was selling at $2-80 and §2.85 per bushel, there were upwards of 3,000 bushels of wheat within a circuit of a mile from the White Horse, in East Whitland twp., Chester co., the holders of which declined to sell until they could obtain $3.00 per bushel. These holders were no doubt of the never satisfied stamp, and had wheat raised to $3.00, would have held back for $3.50 per bn. There is still considerable grain in diflerent parts of tho country, but wo doubt much whether, higher than present prices will bo ©Waited for it.— Navigation is now opened and wheat is coming lln from tho north and west, which will proba bly bring prices down Bomewhot. - ••• - r - Protbottwo Hotel Keepers- —Among tho acts passed by the legislature of this State, woe one "to protect llwkeepers of hotels, Inns and boarding houses," which provides that they shall not bo held responsible for tho loss of any articles of value by their boarders or guests, unless they bo deposited with them for safe keeping, nor for tho robbery of their bag gage if they leave their rooms unlocked. It gives also tho right of lien upon the baggage for board due, End renders swindling boarders 1 who come wUh mere empty show of baggage, for tho purpose of deceiving, liable to bo arrest ed. imprisoned, and fined to an amount not ox -seeding $lOO GLORIOUS OLD VIRGINIA! WISE’S HIWBIW 10,000 ! Satan's Kingdom Tumbling Down!—All the. Democratic Members of Congress elected ex cept txeol—The Soil where repose the ashes of Washington and Jefferson cannot be induced to countenance a soulless monster like Know-Nothingism!—Treason and In fidelity Rebuked , and the Lavs and the Constitution sustained. All honor to the old Dominion !—all honor to her unterrifled and unconquerable Democracy! Nobly, bravely have they fought and triumph ed over tho combined factions of Federalism, Whiggery, Know-Nothingism and Infidelity! Let tho shout go up IVora tho Atlantic to the Pacific, “All hail old Virginia, the Mother op Heroes, Patriots and States men !” Bui, to particulars. The election for gov ernor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Congressmen, members of Assembly. &c., took place on Thursday last, the 24th inst. The content was one of great excitement, both par ties feeling sanguin of success. Henry A. Wish was tho Democratic candidate for Governor, and Jambs Floubnkt the Whig and Know- Nothing candidate. Previous to the day of battle the friends of Ploubnbt claimed his election by from 20,000 to 50,000 majority.— Tho papers in the employ of the miserable anti- American proscriptive order of Know-Nothings tauntingly informed us that “Sam intended to remain in Virginia until tho 4th Thursday in May, for wise purposes." Uo did remain, and received a sound and merited drubbing from the patriotic sons of that glorious old State. He was beaten with mony stripes, and his man gled arid bleeding carcass, with foul corruption oozing otit at every pore, was removed by hia skulking and prowling followers to the darkest corner of a polluted lodge. Wise is elected Governor by some 10,000 majority, and the Democrats have also carried the Lieut. Govern or, and Attorney General by similar majorities. , All the Democratic members of Congress, ex cept two, are triumphantly elected, and the Legislators is strongly Democratic. Indeed the victory is complete for the Democrats. For once the old Federalists of Virginia vainly sup posed that by giving up their own organization and capitulating to and joining with the oath bound conspirators of Know-Nothingism. that the Democracy of Virginia would bo over powered and yield to the assault. But they counted without their host—a State that con tains the ashes of Washington, Jefferson, Patrick Henry and*MADisON cannot bn se duced from tho principles of civil and religious liberty by men who glory in darkness, and con coct treason in cellars and garrets at hours when honest men are with their families at home. Wc adopt the language {in contiimalion of this subject) of our eloquent friend, the editor of the Pennsylvanian. That able paper says: Doubly has Virginia earned the title of the •■Mother of Ucroos, Patriots and Statesmen.” While her generous and devoted Democracy survives. Treason may shake her bloody band oror 4b* reel of tSc UniOO, «ly to full pjrtt lyzcd, when it la waved in threatening gesture over a soil which has never been polluted witn the gore from her reeking fingers. All hail to the noble bosom against which the treacherous blows of a skulking focmcn rebound with vio lence to the assailant. Our appeal to her has not been fruitless. Always first in the list of States, she now lowers above them all in her pride of place. Too intelligent to be lured frotn their love of Constitutional freedom, her gallant Democracy have stayed the desolating tread of Know-Nothingisin, and it is now doomed to perish of the innate corruption which has long been festering in iis organization. Ever true le her high calling oa the just umpire between her sister Stales, faction loses its vigor when it approaches the soil which bolds the remains 1 of Washington and Jeflerson. and shrivels ipto nothingness before the remembrance of their 1 austere patriotism. The Demon of Anarchy I starves before the holy altar of civil and relig- I ions liberty, reared in Virginia for the prolce- I lion of man’s loftiest rights, and guarded by I the ever waving swords of Justice and Reason- I Back to the den of its inception, the j foul Spirit of Prejudice has been driven by Vir i ginia’s manly sons.and reeling under the strokes I of freemen, too brave to be frightened at the | hideous aspect of a prowling antagonist, and too generous to forsake the foster brethren of her household, invited to her table by the Fa thers of our Constitution, that soulless Monster i now staggers to its destruction. The pcurilc boast that with the conquest of Virginia, the whole South would yieTd to the degrading em brace of Know-Nothingism, hasonly paralyzed the tongue that uttered the foul aspersion upon Virginia’s heroic virtue. While wc arc penning this article, the mem bers of the Secret Order are fleeing to their Lodge Rooms, to seek consolation from each | othCT’s folly. Degraded miscreants,—had they 1 not read that Mount Vernon holds the ashes of Washington, and that the Author of the Decla ration sleeps beneath the tomb at Monticcllo 1 Blinded by their ignorance, and .debased by their prejudices, bad they never learned that Patrick Henry’s voice had penetrated into every tenement in Virginia, and rendered loyal to the Constitution all ucr Democratic sons f Aye sneak away to your coverts at the voice of Vir ginia’s chivalrous children, ye spotted lepers, for that voice carries a dagger to your pros nocts • but a humanizing sound to agonizing ' liberty. Immortal Virginia—the Vestal Vir-1 aina were not purer in their lives, in the days of i their greatest purity, than you in your poiili cal creed. Who dare now say. that treason can sever this noble Union, whether it comes from the madTanaticisin of Abolitionism, or the lawless violence of a misguided mob ? To Vir ginia, her Sisters can appeal wilh safety, be cause Justice, Honor, Valor and Magnanimity, are the jewels which adorn her coronet. Her position is indeed to bo envied—but it is such envy as the good of every clime and creed alone can feel. Virginia has stricken the Monster of Know-Nothingism to tho earth, and it is now wreathing in its agonies. Let our Sisters far ther South emulate her virtuous hearing, and aid in. consigning tho carcass of the, beast to tho- grave of its putridity. Virginia is safe agalitat every effort of tho unholy combination. Look at the. returns, and then, thank heaven that Virtue still lives in our land. TUB LATEST FROM VIRGINIA. The latest news from Virginia mokes VViss’a majority nearly 10.000. All tho Democratic candidates for Congress ard elected except two, and the Legislature is Democratic by a very large majority. Mu. Buchanan The Washington Star of Saturday lost Bays, that letters have been re ceived in that city, in which' our Minister to England, Mr. Buchanan, states that ho will leave his mission about the last of September, and'travcl in Europe some lime before return to the United States. THE “MHOS.” Wo have been asked by several of our K. N. friends to explain, what we mean when wo com pare tho Know-Nothihga to the |‘ThugS. M Wo shall enlighten thdrdgnomnce. 'The ‘‘Thugs 1 * formed a society of heathens, existing in India, and we think there is touch solid reason for the comparison, Toglve our readers un-idea of who the are and'what principles they profess, we copy from Eugene’ Sue's Wandering Jew, the following ’allusion to them: *'Thcre has been recently discovered in Brit ish India, an association, all the members of which pass among themselves under the title of ‘Brothers of the Good Work,’ or ‘Phanscgars,* a title which dignifies the occupation of tho Thugs, a tribe of murderers, who never shed blood, but atranglfthclr victims. ” “They slaughter every man who will not be come one of their number, making no distinc tion. Terrible oaths bind them one to another, the’violation of which is certain and inevitable death by the same means used to destroy their enemies. These oaths are to shield and pro tect them from the law, regardless of all 1 con sequences andfearlcssaa tothe future. ‘Under the same horrible penalty, no Thug dare dis close the least transaction, word or deed. Their Jjps-are sealed against the world." * ‘Devoted one to another in a manner, which, in others, would be deemed heroic; obeying ing their leaders, who call themselves the im mediate representatives of their dark deity, with blind submission: looking upon all oa enemies who do not belong to thems-dves; and recruiting, their numbers with a hideous spirit of propagandist!; these apostles a murder ous creed preach everywhere in darkness, tho tenets of their abominable doctrine,-thus cover ing the whole oflndia with a vast det." “A most remarkable feature of this 'sinister and gloomy sect, is tho mysterious band which at once unites all its, hicmhcra to c^ch-other, and cuts them off from the whole world beside. They have their own laws and usages, they sustain and aid each other, and devote them selves in common : to thorn there is neither country nor family ; they arc the loyal sub jects of one gloomy and secret power, whose decrees they follow with blind submission, and in whose name they spread themselves through every region in fullilmcnl of their dread work of "making corpses,** for so they themselves describe their apostolate of death. , # ‘•Bcsidcstho robbers who murd<r for the sake of the booty, which they hope to gain from travellers, there is a class of organized assas sins, with chiefs; a science, a freemasonry,and even a sort of religion, which has its fanaticism, its devotion, its agents. Its emissaries its allies, its fighting troops, and its passive ass r o’atcs, all contributors to:' the pood work. It is the community of ThugS or Phanscgars, deceivers or stranglers, from the words thuma to deceive, and phansna, to strangle; established on a re ligions and industrious principle. Their object is the extermination of mankind Tnnd the his tory of their origin is lost in the night of ages. “Before 1810. their-exlslence was unknown, not only to the European conqrews, but even to the native governments. Bctwctn the years 1816 and 1830, several of their bands had been taken in the perpetration of their evil deeds, and duly punished. Bat until the latter date, all the disclosure®, even of officers of high ex perience, have appeared too monstrous to fix the attention, or obtalh the credit of the pub lic. They were rejected as dreams of a disor cd imagination. And,y ( ct, for at least half a century, this social scourge has been devouring the population with a fearfully rapid develop ment. from the foot of the Uimmalchs, to Cape Comorin—from Cutch (6 Assam. “In 1830, a celebrated «hief, whose life was spared on condition thbt ho should bear wit ness against hisaccqmplices, unvoted the whole system. The association of Thugs is based upon the worship of a gloomy divini ty who delights only in carnage, and who hates, above all, the human ra,cc. Her most agreea ble sacrifices are men and women, and the more they have immolated jn this world, more she will reward her worshippers hi the next by all joys, mental and aefcua!. by wontenalwnys beautiful, and amusements alwaj's hew. If an , assassin is conveyed to the scaffold,he dies with (he enthusiasm of a martyr, because he expects his reward. To obey’,his divine mistress, he murders without anger or remorse, tho old man, the mother and the child. To hia fellow-wor shippers. he is humane,igencrous and devoted. With them he will share everything, because, like himself, they ate the ministerial and adopt ed children of ifa/iirant. The destruction of his species, apart from those who belong to his own community, being the sole object of his pursuits, he docs not regard it as a means of acquiring fortune. Booty is merely an acces sory—a very agreeable corollary doubtless; biit in his esteem only secondary/' “Whoever happened to be in India, in 1831 and ’32, must remember the fearful amazement which the discovery of so vast and infernal a machine spread throughout society. Many magistrates and provincial governors refused to believe it, unable lo comprehend how so tre mendous a system could have preyed upon the body politic under their eyes for such a length of tune, without having been betrayed.” [British India in 1831, by Count Edward de Warren. 2 vol. Bvo. 1644. Our Know-Nothing friends don't exactly strangle folks, but thero is so much that is mean and infamous in this order, so much that is on a par with the secret movements, plots and machinations of the Hindoo Thugs, that the comparison is by no means an unjust one. •We quote a few passages from a very curi ous work on British India in 1832, written by the Count dc Warren. OCT* Miss Lucy Stone has taken her time and got married. The happy man who, by Ibis act, has Jost his identity, is Mr. Henry Black well. We say, lost his identity, because he will never be known among men hereafter but 1“ as the man that married Lucy Stone.” The knot was lied under a joint protest of the par ties against the existing laws and customs gov erning the marriage relation; and stipulations were exchanged bclwccty-them for the entire freedom of the person and property of each, from the control or claim of the other. So that Mrs. Lucy and Mr. Blackwell-Stone arc not one, as a legal Action declares man and wife to bo, but two separate and distinct individuals, join ed in a sort of partnership of the aQcctions— i But the Buffalo Courier thinks the articles of agreement between Lucy and her husband arc exceedingly defective. It inquires : “What ■ provision is made for the reciprocal carrying of tho baby at night, what timo it squalls and will 1 not sleep ? No liquidated damages aro provi -1 ded for, in the event of tho loving Lucy and , Henry refusing to bo bound by tho award of 1 tho arbitrators. If Lucy puts tho baby’s 1 clothes on, ehoiild not-Henry, in equity and 5 good conscience, pick' them up find replace i them whenevpr they drop off! If Luoy patient ly endures the tyrannypftiaturo In the lacteal arrangements for tho benefit of infant humanity in search of sustenance, should,not Henry on -1 gage to feed tho babies spoon victuals from and 1 after their second tooth I {£7* The hotel keepers in West Chester hate united upon a schedule of prices to bo observed hereafter. The increases from 15 to 20 per cent, as follows: “Pinner, 50 cents; breakfast and supper, each 374 cents; lodging, 26 cents; transient boarders per day, $1 00; Jurymen and wit nesses attending Court, 91 peraay, and 04 cts. for a horse; fobr quarts of oats, 20 cents; rack of hay, 20 cents; horse to hay over night, 31 cents'} horse tooatsand hay over night, 75 cents. The Order Presented, Within a abort limo past the Know-Nothing order bos been jprosonted fojr conspiracy, and for illegal attempts to control the votes of . Its member*, byjtwo grand Juries —one in Monroe county, NeW York, and one In Buncombe conn ty,fNortb Carolina; and tho president of the Know-Nothing council at Walden, Venndnt, has been bound over to answer the charge of having administered extra-judicial oaths, forbidden by the statutes of tho State. While' wo have no sort ol doubt that tho order, the officers and members of it, are liable to indictment under tho laws ol most it not all tho States, and do servo to be punished, wo yet question the policy of such prosecutions. Wo think with tho Al. bany Atlas, that tho right to associate, secretly or openly, Is one that belongs to all citizens.— It is liable to abuse, but this will rcgulato itself. Wo would not invado Secrecy, except where crime has been committed, or tho interests of Justice require revelations of facts. Wo subjoin tho Mias 1 view: “ This was tho doctrine held by the Democra tic party, when it refused to enlist in tho cm. sado against tho Masonic order, which tho Whig party started many years ago. It will hold, un moved, tho same position, now that the same 'party has rushed pell-mell into secret societies’ avowedly organized for political purposes. “ Tho tendency of secret -societies, of a parll san character, h to corrupt tho suffrage, weaken tho security of the trial by Jury, and to Impair tho administration of justice. They constitute an clement of weakness in a republican State. But they do not, therefore, justify tho forcible Intervention of the State to break them up', or to punish their members as criminals. There is no machinery in a republican government to do this; and the effect of force is to compact tho communities assailed stilt root* closely together, and to intensify tho esjiiU de corps, (bat distia. gnish them. “ Let them havo froo scope j and they will, like a circle in tho water, spread more widely and more foebly, (ill they cud hr notbingnofs. <* But while wo say this, wo doom It just to warn good and orderly citizens of the danger to which assoslotlons of this kind subject (hem.— They are liable at any moment fo bo Involved in a criminal charge. If their leaders are guilty of overt-acts of illegality, they will find it diffi cult to repol tho presumption, that they, too, arc guilty. Tho liw proves a combination, and a common purpose and establishes the guilt to convict all tho members of this secret tfed sworn association. \ “ This Is not a theoretic dnngor, nor a remote contingency. Law-abiding citizens are, at any time, exposed to tho dangers of a criminal pro secution, hy the acts of their vicious or reckless associates. They will And too la(e, perhaps that while they have Intended fo accompany tholr secret guardians and chiefs only to the outer limits of the law, that these have passed tho boundary, and otibjoctcd them all to common dangers, as offenders against tho State,” A. sound and healthy public opinion is operat- Ing more powerfully to destroy Knovr-Nothing ism than any resort to legal moans, no matter how opon to such extremities tho order may be, can operate. All that wo have over felt inclin ed to ask Is, that tho heresies of Know-.Nothing ism might bo uncovered—that its errors might bo unconcealed, ao (hat truth should havo an opportunity to oombat (hum. Wo do not ask for legal aid to extirpate the hngo conspiracy. The popular judgment will extirpate it. One allusion of the Mias is worthy of being made a note of—that is, that tho remnants of tho old political antl-Masonic party, wherever such remnants exist, have rushed vehemently into Know-Notbingism. KN9Mort!ll?a BLISTERS. “The bosom of .America is open to receive, not only the opulent and respectable stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of ALL NA TIONS AND OF ALL RELIGIONS, whom we shall welcome to a participation in ALL OUR RIGHTS AND PUTVlLEGfiS.”— Washington. “Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, MORE than our opinions in physics and geometry. To proscribe any citi zen os unworthy the public confidence by lay ing upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion, is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow-citizens, ho has a notural right. It tends, also, lo corrupt the principles of the very religion it is meant (o encourage, by bribing with a monopoly of worldly honors those who will externally profess and conform toil. Every person has an equal right to the honor and con fidence of hia fellow citizens, resulting. NOT FROM BIRTH, BUT FROM HIS ACTIONS, and their sense of them.” —Thomas Jejferson. “ Resolved , That tho liberal principles im bodied by Jefferson in tho Declaration of Inde pendence, and sanctioned in the Constitution, which make ours the land of liberty, and the ASYLUM OF THE OPPRESSED OF EVERY NATION. HAVE BEEN CARDINAL PRIN CIPLES IN THE DEMOCRATIC FAITH, and every attempt to ABRIDGE THE PRES ENT PRINCIPLES OF BECOMING CITI ZENS and tho owners of soil among ua ought to be resisted with ilia same spirit which swept the alien and sedition laws from our sta tute books/’ —Resolution of the Baltimore Democratic Convention. ••The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the es tablishment of an absolute tyranny over these Stales. He has endeavored to prevent the pop ulation of these States—FOß THAT PURPOSE OBSTRUCTING THE LAWS OF NATURAL IZATION OF FOREIGNERS.REFUSING TO PASS OTHERS TO ENCOURAGE THEIR MIGRATION HITHER, and raising the con ditions of new appropriations of land.” [Declaration of independence. (£7* Prentice of tho Louisville Journal, is said to be a poet, but if there ain’t more truth than poetry in this notice of (ho notorious scoundrel Bennett, wo ‘give It up Tho New York Herald accuses us directly of being an abolitionist, on the ground of our denunciation of (ho Missouri invasion of Kan sas. Tho editor of tho Herald,if not tho great est liar in the country, has been for many years the most notorious one. Ho has been kicked so often for Iris lies, that, although ho is said to have become rich, wo really doubt whether ho has not received 'more kicks than coppers.’ If every slanderous lie he has utter ed wore.n coal of tiro upon his back, he would be buried under as huge a mountain df fire os ever his father tho devil was. Know-Nothino D*FiMiTiON.---“Fof)t print* of Sam*’—The know-nothing riots in Cincinnati. “ Americans must rule America”—Destroy ing ballot boxes and defying civil authority— vide Cincinnati election. " Sonk of Seventy-Six”—Firing cannon,load ed with brick bats at defenceless women and children. “Purity of the ballot box”—Destroying It where the anti-know nothings are llkuly to have a minority. “ Sam” a Native or KoMK.—Martln Luther gave this account of the order which boars very decided resemblance In many respects to the present organisation t “In Italy there Was a particular order oftViars called Fratree Irnorantict, that is, JJrelhren q f Ignorance, who took a solemn oath that they would neither know, learn, nor understand any thing at all, but answer all things with Nendo, * / know nothing,* Luther 1 * Table Talk, No. 487. [£7"A letter writer from New York Bays there Is more chance of the price of flour declin ing one dollar itffhai city, than of advancing* twenty -five cents. If so, those interested bad better make a note of the fact. Martial Mask at Fnnetalt. “The Common Council at Albany has pas sed an ordinance imposing- a fine of $lO .for each case where martial music is played by a band accompanying military or other compan ies attending funerals on Sunday.” . Music being one of the earliest arts, by its lively’inflexions and accented passages, the solemn peal of the church organ, or (he meas ured beat of tho muffled drum, as the shades of greatness receive an addition to their number, penetrate tho heart of sentiment and move it more than Studied oratory or logic oil convinc ing. By reference to sacred works wo learn that the Isrcalitcs, appreciating the power that music had over morals, wrote in poetry, and sung in chorus, with tho aid of instruments, their exhortation of virtue, considering it more efficacious in impressing tho minds of their peo ple with morality, and imparting a grandeur of sentiment. But tho beaten paths must be entirely ploughed over; everything that was at one time customary must give way, and the corporate body of a small city sets an example to the entire world, reversing a custom which existed in ancient Rome when tho hero was consigned to his grave, by trumpets and songs in praise of tho deceased, which continued through the ages that intervened down to our more simple tribute at tho obsequies of a Jack son. Taylor and other heroes of our time. But this is an epoch of reform, and the ordinance mentioned above is but one of a series of the new code. Bose Forgery Exposed, The Cincinnati Daily Enquirer of October Ist, 1854. contained an article stating that the words “if over the liberty of the United States is destroyed it will be by Romish priests.” had boon “dug out” of a letter written by Lafa yette to a gentleman in New York, shortly af. ter the last visit of the marquis to this country in the year 1829, and that the words were quo ted by Lafayette from the letter of the New Yorker only to bo refuted. A long extract from the alleged letter of Lafayette was given in the jEuguircr, from which it is sufficient fur us to quote the following: From Lafayette's Alleged Letter. “I cannot but admire your noble sentiments of devotion and attachment to your country and its institutions. But I must bo permitted to assure you that the fears, in your patriot ic zeal, you seem to entertain fthnti/* ever the liberty of the United Slates is destroyed it will be by Romish Priests} are certainly without any shadow of foundation whatever. An inti mate acquaintance of more than half a century with the prominent and influential iwiests and members of that church, both in Europe and America, warrants mo in assuring you that you need entertain no apprehension of danger to your republican institutions from that quar ter.” p The words in brackets are taken from the context and attributed to Lafayette who quoted them only to refute them! The Louisville K. N’s., aided by the telegraph, arc trying to make it appear that Prof. Morse “proves” that Lafayette used the expression above. So he did, and said besides that the fears implied in the expression were “WITHOUT ANY SHAD OW OF FOUNDATION WHATEVER.” Exchanotno Wmw-A Rrmariladi.k Trans action at mp South. —A late number of the Eastern Clarion, published at Pauldimr. Miss , gives an account of o swap negotiated in that vicinity by two of Us subscribers, and vouches for thg truth of the story. The chattels which exchanged owners were nothing less than the wives of tho parties, who were on the eve of emigrating, ns they eventually did—the one to Alabama and the other to Texas. The Clarion refrains from giving the real names of the failhlcsiy Benedicts, and calls them “Ohadiah." and “Dick.” but records the circumstances of the transaction—how they went into the woods, sat down on a log. and entered upon the busi ness; how they came near spoiling the trade because Obc’s wife was a “younger critter by a dozen years;” and how. after much chaffer ing, the difference was llnally equalized by the generous proposal of Dick to give in tho way of boot, “a cow and calf, two goats, an old gun and ox-bell.” The respective children of tho two mothers rcmalnd with their respective fa thers. and with their strangely -acquired step mothers, followed them to the Slates of their adoption. A Duel in tub Dark. —A late California paper mentions a duel whic\i wan fought be tween a Yankee and an Englishman in a dark room. The Yankee, not wishing to have blood on his hands, fired his pistol up the chimney, and, to his horror, down camolhc Englishman. Another Preacher in Oppiob.— Tho liar risburg Union of last week, says—lVc learn that the Her. Mr. M’Faddbn. of the Church of God, has been appointed Messenger for the School Department. This is a new office —one that has been 1 created to appease a few raven ous, importunate Know-Nothing beggars- ttv* Louis Napoleon hits abandoned the idea of going to the Crimea to take command of the ollicd armies. Hard Times. —The receipts of Grisi's 17 concerts in Boston, amounted to $45,000. A mocking bird was sold In Philadelphia last Tuesday for $47, and a poodle dog for $25. (O'* A letter from Paris says—“ Paris gives six days to business, and the seventh to the devil.’* ttIT" An excursion to Sebastopol is talked of bv a New York Steamboat company. Tickets $5OO. ntT" Nino thousand shad were taken at a sin gle haul at Havre dc Grace on Tuesday. Five members of the Massachusetts Leg islature have died since tho beginning of tho session. There arc twelve railroads which termi nate in and pass through tho city of Chicago, and It is said that every twenty-four hours ten thousand strangfcrt arrive in (hat city. [Xj* A good reputation Is better than a fine coat in almost any-kind of business—except wooing a fashionable lady. Tho cradle is a woman’s ballot box.- Lucy Stone. Some of them put in two votes at onco.wliicl tho New York Mercury says is illegal. C7*Tho “Soda Water” business promises to be exceedingly largo in New York tho coming summer, on tho supposition that tho liquor law will be enforced. C7*Gco. lorris, Democrat, has been chosen Mayor of Ottowa, 111., by 118 to 75 for tho K. N. candidate. H. N< £7* The crops in Illinois never looked bettor. There will be a very good yield of wheat and corn. TEE BlEtyi. Qo out among the trees in the Cretan! -V through the grove, or look into the hedet.reW« or peep under the old bridge down thelane a! go to tho bam; go anywhere, everywhere where you will, and at this season—this UnSl May season—you will And the birds— boW merry, singing birds: hard at work they are■ too building their houses—cradles rather— .sd ail tho time keeping up a concert of sweet mu. sio. Various too are their tastes in edcoli™ thcirsltcs for ,their. nealipg-placcs, some h)£ mg away from man, some coming 1 nh'to hie very door; or,like tho martin andswallo* wi der,bia roof and protection. Kohin-rcdbftili almost invariably comes into tho orctard 1 sometimes on tho trees, sometimes on .the fern* sometimes were kindly treated under' the shS ' by tho bam or house. u Tho woodpecker—the same one that wai "tapping tho hollow bench- tree”—makes taw in the old apple trees, into which for years af terwardtho pretty blue-bird creeps and ream its annual brood. ‘ The black-bird, the most ndmerona of iha family of small birds, mostly nest« i n jj,, swamp; except one variety .imitating the crow that goes into the highest trees, such as-lbi spruce with a dark thick top, where boys nor small shot cannot come. 3 . In tho meadow we And the aly nest of lb, qnail and lark and several small birds; andia the thickest bushes tho homo of the broWrt thrush. He. is a natural musician, a sw«f bird full ol glcp and cheerfulness; but the met-' riesl and most amusing Of the whole tamAv U the noisy t'ttle bobolink. . ... Wo look upon birds ns among the essentials of a landscape, and wood aa soon think of chopping down the orchard, shooting, the tur keys nnd wringing the necks oil of the barn yard fowls- or making mutton of the sheep er giving tho lambs to the dogs, ns to think of destroying or driving, them from tile premi ses. “Going a gunning” with the murderous fo lent to kill such birds ought to consign a taia to the infamy thatwc arc apt to attach to• savage or a brute who wantonly kills the finest of God’s creation. Without birds a country is desolate; with them it is always checrfuL Theirsong* weald enliven the heart of a stone or make a miser tor the moment forget his money. The association of children with birds, when taught to love them and not destroy their mats, has as direct and certain a tendency to improve their natures ns tho church or family fireside. Teach a child that.birds arc among the good gifts of God to man, and it is hardly pouiblt >rkat the child will grow up to manhood with out being possessed of gome of the attributes of the sweet songsters of the grove. And yet there are parertts who allow their children to wage incessant wop upon the birds, never thinking of the injury they arc doing their young minds, or how many destructive enemies they arc entailing upon the crops in shape of countless caUcrpillars, grubs and worms. We don’t know nf a higher Christian duty for a minister to engage In than an effort to preserve the birds in his parish. We would impress upon tho mind of every child that the command “thou shall not kill” thcfc dear little birds as wtll as thing* of a higher degree. Thou shall rot wantonly kill a single thing of all creation that (s not ne cessary for man’s sustenance, or that is not de trimental to his interest. Children should be (aught not only to lore the music of birds, but to look upon them ai models of beauty and affection to their mates and to their young. Instead of driving then away from tho house, encourage them tv coma and perch upon the window sill and build their nests under the eaves. Don’t tell us they destroy the small fruit. — Plant enough for you and them. If they do eut fruit, so they do cat worn*. and* you eta wo!l afford to give than a ft w cherries and cur rants for what they have done for you. Arou? d the City there is o difficulty in pit serving the birds because all the groves.-are In fested with an abominable nuisance in thesbax* of big boys and- .prowling.-loafi,T» day’s shooting.” • They ought to be out for a day’s shooting* . and that should be at their own Idle carcasses* with fine salt and pepper corns, and every < owner of land should be allowed by law thoa to salt and popper any of these idle vagabonds who come upon his grounds without leave to doom the birds to destruction. Formers! let your motto be—and imprets d upon all your family—Never kill a bird. [Tribune. Nullification in Massachusetts. —Hf* crowning act of the many iniquities with which the late Legislature of MaasachoaeU* hove soiled the escutcheon of that-ancient Commonwealth, was perpetrated on Monday last, previous to their adjournment, tqr tbf passage, over the Governor's veto, of a bill nul lifying a provision of the Constitution and i law of the United States. The “Personal Li* brory Bill,” as it is miscalled, designed to pre vent the execution of the Fugitive Slave Law— which Gov. Gardiner, himself an AboUfioaUt; was compelled to veto under a sense of I roper f- Uvo duty, and which the Attorney General, ah' so of the Abolition school, pronounced ancon* siitutional—was enacted into a law in the teeth of these remonstrances, by a vote 32 to S irf tho Senate, and 230 to 70 in the House. The Boston’ Post, in An article, jiisfl/ condcttftifctf this high-handed net of nullificaiiort, remarks. “The passage of this bill, legalizing . treason and rebellion, is tho crowning -proof of the ab olitionism of the K. N. Order. Uis thorough* ly steeped in thia.clcmcnl. It will hesitate at nothing to accomplish its plans. Besides Us religious persecution, besides its proscription' for birth, hero at length Know-Noihingisni h** reached tho zenith point of resistance to the laws of the land. It has wantonly tramp!™ underfoot the Constitution of the country!" How shall Hotels ns Sustained.— Tho ftf lags Record regards this as an Important qoea lion, now (hat no license arc any longer to t* granted to hotel-keepers to sell Ifqoor, tflectlag not only landlords but tho public. That honse* ot public accommodation are essential (o'lb* convenience of citizens and tho wants of have!* lers, is admitted by all.—Heretofore, tho owners and proprietors bare looked almost czclciltdy to tho profits upon tho sales of liquor for tbrir remuneration, and comparatively fow poosci, ovon where kept on temperance principles have boon ablo to make a IcapocUblo llvlnj merely by euler/aming strangers and traveller* with food and lodging.* It is obvious that tho necessity for botolii »• entertain strangers and travellers, will boJflriM great as over. It'ls right too, that those who are so essential to'public accommodation whoso hospitality Is extended to all—shocU have a fair and liberal remuneration. Tho can ing should bo not only honorable buf profilaUs- The profession has many attractions ior the* fond of public life, and, now that neither tom nor law, requires them to minister to worst appetites of men, they will pursue U * groat pleasure. But how shall Iboy bosusUl# od 7 There Is but one way,and that Is by Inert** ing their charges. This will bo expected Iff every reasonable man, In tills county .0 j* tal districts, especially, the charges (or 0" •* talumont should ho advanced. Tho trots can afford to pay'almost any price for a well airod hod, and should rofuso ‘'““Vj bo stuck Into a dirty ono. Bo also, ho sM»» pay liberally (or good wholesome food and shelter of himself and horso.—for those low lie should be willing to pay a liberal coop*" (ion. '' ’ i i
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