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.
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