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MISCHIEF-MAKERS.
OI could thoro in this world bo found
Some liftlo spot of happy ground
Where village pleasures might go round
Without the village tattling;
How doubly blest that place would bo,
Where all might dwell in liberty,
Free trom the bitter misery
Of gossips' endless prattling.
If such a spot were really known,
J)amo Peace might claim it ns her own,
And In it sbo might fix her throne
Forever ond forever.
There like a queen might reign and lire,
While every one would soon forgive
The little slight they might receive,
And bo offended never.
’Tis mischief makers that remove
Far from our hearts the warmth of love,
And lend its all to disapprove
What gives another pleasure.
They seem to take one’s part—hut when
They’ve hoard our cares, unkindly then
They soon retail them all again,
Mix’d with the poisonous measure.
And then they’ve such a cunning way
Of tolling their ill meant tales, they say
‘Don’t mention what I say, I pray,
I would not toll another;*
Straight to your neighbor’s house they go,
Narrating every thing they know,
And break the peace of high and tow,
Wife, husband, friend and brother.
Ol that the mlschiof-making crow
Were all reduced to ono or two,
And they were painted red or blue,
That every ono might know them I
Then would our villages forget
To rage and qnirrcl, fume and fret,
And tall Into an angry pet,
Willi things so much below them.
For ’tls a snd, degraded part
To tnnko another bosom smart
And plant a dagger in the bcarfe
Wc ought to love and cherish ;
Then let us evermore be found
In quietness with all around.
While friendship, Joy and peace abound
And angry feelings perish 1
3&imllamnnfl,
A STORY OF LEAF YEAR.
It is a well known fact, that the ladies arc al
lowed, by the conventional rules of society and
common consent, to take the lead of the men
every leap year; and, if they feel disposed, to
go so,far as to "pop thequestiun,” without be
ing considered rude'or forward. Although the
right and privilege is conceded to the ladies, wc
seldom hear of them taking advantage of it.—
However* one case, in which the lady did.avail
’herself of the privileges of leap year, did occur
in this city on New Ycar'a day. We will relate
the particulars, but not give the real names,for
the reason that the parlies arc residents of this
j'Ctty, and might not relish the idea of having
Ihc privacy of their domestic aflairs brought be
fore the public.
There is A Certain fashionable boardinghouse
in this city, (we will locate it on Third street,)
Micro a very handsome young widow was
boarding. This lady wo will call Widow
Chccrly, who lias a fortune of some $30,000.
left her by her deceased husband, and no chil
dren. Three young clerks, (we will name them
Smith, Brown and Jones.) who formerly board
ed at this boarding house, called upon the land
lady on New Yearn day. The widow Checrly
was m the room, and saw the young gents op
proaching. She immediately ••dressed herself
up in her bridal array.” called the landlady
and inquired the names of the young gents. —
The landlady informed her,when she remarked.
*1 intend to have one of those young men for a
husband." The landlady smiled incredulous
ly, and then went down to the parlor to receive
hervisitors. The widow followed immediately,
and witliout wailing for an introduction, ap
'ttroachcd Smith and said—
• . “Will you consent to become my husband ?”
* The young man blushed, and was very much
confused at hearing the question from a lady he
had never before seen, but he finally succeeded
in stammering out—
‘•Owing to the shortness of our acquaintance,
(very short, having never seen the lodv before,)
and another person having some slight claims
upon my affections,you will please excuse me.”
•‘Certainly,” said the widow, “I will with
pleasure, as’l did not notice this gentleman.”
addressing Mr. Brown, “bcforol apokeloyou,
nr else I would have proposed to him first.—
Will you marry me, Mr. Brown 1”
“I will,” said Brown, "the ice is now broke.
I would bavo been a married man years ago. if
I could have mustcicd courage enough to pop
thequestion ; but as you have taken advantage
of leap year, and removed thcslumbllng block.
I will become your husband just os soon as you
lease."
“Right off." remarked the widow. “Land
lady, you will please semi for mv bonnet, and
other out-door wearing apparel.’
The necessary articles were sent for, and Mr.
Drown, with his intended hanging gracefully
on his arm, started for the residence of
tor ot the Boatman's Church. When the min
ister was about to unite the couple in the bonds
of wcdlo3k,lhcy gave him their names,and each
[heard the other's name for the first time. Evo
[rything went on as “merry os a marriage bell,”
with Inc new married couple all that day.
l. Next morning, when Brown awoke, the ef
fects of the numerous drinks of the day previ
pus having now entirely worn nil, ho began to
reflects lie became serious, lie thought he
t W|iB in rathprn bad scrape—out of employment,
.in the middle of \v.sptcr, ycry little money, and
o wife depending on him for support. While
revolving (lie subject over in his mind, and not
.being able to decide what ho had better do—
run off or commit suicide—his wife awoke.—
‘•My dear,” said sho “have you any objection
to collectingn few bills 1°
Ho started, thinking that she supposed lie
had snmo money coming to him. and that she
desired him to collect a “little money, 1 ’ for her
benefit, and muttered, rather surly, “No, I
have no objections to collcot money, when there
is any coming to mo."
“I do not mean that, my dear. Oct up and
fio to my bureau drawer, and there you will
tlnd bills to the omount of $5OO. for rents duo
roo for thd.past month ; you will please collcot
them, end accept the money from moos a Now
Y^p’flgifl."
. Brown leaped from the bed. scarcely believ
ing bis ucnscs.thathohad distinctly understood
his wife, and then rushed to the bureau and
there found the bills.
When wo saw Brown ho was out collecting
Jus bills—found it a very easy |ob —and heard
him expatriating upon the benefits of umtrimo
by.—St, Louis Herald.
Kf* Sawbones, tho celebrated Gorman «ur
fhMa oucoootjpd Jn amputating <* a limb of
BY JOHN B. BRATTON.
VOL 42,
Ethan Allen,
A good story is told of that rare old repro
bate, Col. Ethan Allen, whoso services to his
country, in the “times that tried men’s souls,”
were only equalled by his daring assertions of
the right of private opinion on theological mat
ters. A well known Divincrthe pastor of the
village church, called one evening, on the Col.,
and while enjoying his true New England hos
pitality at the supper lablc r thc conversation
turned upon church matters:
Quoth the minister, ’Colonel, how does it
happen, that a man of your extensive influence
and information, has never seen it his duly to
join our society. You know we want laborers
in the vineyard : especially such laborers as
3’ou. Your example would tend greatly to
strengthen our hands, and fortify our hearts
against the dire assaults of the evil one.’
‘Well brother,’ replied Allen, ‘1 have often
thought as you do about the business, and one
day I had almost made up my mind to fall in
to the ranks, but that night I had a dream
which caused roe to give it up.’
‘Ah I’ exclaimed the minister, ‘what did you
dream ?’
‘Well, T thought I was standing at the en
trance of paradise, and saw a man go up and
knock.
•Who’s that,’ asked a voice from within.
‘A friend wishing admittance,’ was the re
ply.
The door was opened and the keeper slop
ed out.
■Well, sir, what denomination did you be
long to yonder?’
‘I am an Episcopalian,’replied the candidate
for admission.
‘Go in then, and lake a scat near the door on
the cast .vide.’
Just then another stepped up, he was a
Presbyterian, and the guardian directed him to
take a scat. A large number were admitted
and received directions where to seat themsel
ves. I then stepped up to the entrance.
•Well, sir, what arc you ?’ asked the guar
dian.
‘I am neither High-Churchman, Presbyte
rian, Lutheran, Calvinist, Catholic or Jew, but
I am that same old Eihen Allen that you prob
ably have heard of from below.’
■What ! the man that took Ticondcra'.m V
‘The same,’ I replied
•All right, Eihau,’ said he, ’just step in and
sit down wherever you please.'
PRETTY FEET.
Many women, who spend much lime ami
much money in adorning their bodies, utterly
neglect their feet. Bui no one is well dressed
who is not well shod. Even a man well gloved
and well booled may carry off a scedj* suit of
clothes. With women it is essential to any
thing like success in costume, that they should
pay attention to the decoration of their hands
and feet. The latter may be little seen ; but
they are seen. As to the extremities themsel
ves, the real slate of the case may generally bo
inference and association. It
Sj:\d_drifr hap pc n 3 that a tyomap with Jargc,
griiCeflilly and well.'
Wo have said that women with large or mia
happen feet seldom or never move gracefully.—
They can neither walk nor dunce well. And
running is an impossibility. To real grace of
movement, it would seem almost essential that
the foot should bo arched. This is Coming to
bo heller understood among us. High heeled
bools now so generally used, give an artificial
hollow to the foot. The (rightful hahil ol turn
ihg up the toes in walking is thus almost ni
tirely destroyed. Indeed, nothing is more ob
servable than the improvement winch in this
respect, has taken place during the last two or
three years. Our women walk belter than they
did. and art better shod than they were.
Our streets are consequently far less disfig
ured than they were by the spectacle of shoals
of women all showing the soles of their feet to
people meeting them from the front. These
high or “military heels. 1 ' necessarily force down
the locs, and compel the proper movement in
walking—the proper exercise of the right mus
cles. It is said, that, in this respect, the con
firmation of Fmich women is better than that
of our own. because the absence of side nave- '
rnenls. from so many of their thoroughfares,
and a very common use, in the largo towns, of
thin shoes, compels them to pick their way on
their toes.
It may. perhaps, bo thought that we have
devoted too much consideration to this matter
of the feet ; but we look upon It as the very
keystone of tbc architecture of dress, and that
any inattention to it will loosen and destroy
the entire fabric. Quw common it is to see. in
this country, the becomingness of a whole toil
et nulifled by a mistake of this kind. and. in
spile of bonnet, shawl ami gown of the best
character, the vulgarian betrayed by the bools
It is essential (hat tbc shoes should lie in keep
ing with the rest of the apparel ; but the spec
tacle of really, in other respects, well dressed
women, with heavy black bools, under dresses
of light color nml fabric, is one of the common
est in the world. — Exchange.
Enrrgellc Call to Pay lip.
Father Brownslow. of Ihe Knoxville 1 Vhtp,
concludes an earnest appeal to ddnu|nenl sub
scribers to pay up \Mtli the following nnmisla
kcablc expressions :
Those of you who can’t pay. and will write
In us, acknowhdging your imlcdledness. we
will record ns clcut fellows, ami those of you
who will not do either, wo will publish this
spring, in an extra sheet, as a set of graceless
rascals, willing to have a poor man labor fur
you for years for nothing, and pay for paper,
ink, and the hire of hands to servo yon, with
out pay.
Come to Knoxville, you lousy rascals, on a
pilgrimage, and see our little ones, “chips of
the old block.” looking daggers at us. and cry
ing for bread. Come and see us with our el
bows out, and the officers of the law leading us
about for debts created to furnish you a paper,
ami you will fork over at once !
And you hypocrites, who are members of
different churches, owing ns for our paper, how
dare you, around your family altars, night and
morning, pray to Cod, “pay us this day our
debts, as wo pay toothers Uo knows you
owe us, and won’t pay. and until you do pay,
you may pray yourselves out of breath, and
you will never be heard ! yes, you saintly vil-
Hans, you have been owing us long enough to
make us “poor, halt, miserable, blind and na
ked,” and yourselves ndo at our expense. You
get to heaven witliout paying us up—never.
Secret or Wealth.— Amos ami Abbot Law
rence began life poor; they doturmlned that (ho
strictest integrity should pervade every busi
ness transaction until their dying hour—and it
was so. Among the results arc the accumula
tion oi millions of .money, tho possession of n
namo fur mercantile integrity, worth mure to
them, to (heir children, to their ago ami nation,
than a title to dukedom; while they did, dur.
Jug life, and at death, Institute charities, which
will heap sweet blessings on thdlr namo and
memory forages yot Co come. Lot every merch
ant’s clerk on this broad earth make that same
oxpoilmont, and take encouragement from tho
assurance, founded In tho very nature of things,
(hat similar results will accrue to him.
“OUR COUNTRY-MAY IT ALWAYS BE RIGHT—RUT RIGHT OR WRONG, OUR COUNTRY. 1 ’
I HAVE NO MOTHER NOW.
DV 0. 11. CRISWELL.
I hear the soft wind sighing,
Through every bush and free ;
Where now dear mother’s lying
Away from love and mo.
Tears from my eyes arc* starting,
And sorrow shades my brow ;
Oh, weary was our parting—
I have no mother now !
I soo the pale moon shining
On mother’s white head-stone ;
Tlie rose bush round It twining,
Is hero, likc’mo—alone.
And just like me aio weeping
Those dew-drops from the bough
Long time she has been sleeping—
I have no mother now 1
My heart is ever lonely,
My life is drear and sad j
’Twas her dear presence only
That made my spirit glad.
From morning until even,
Onro rests upon my brow ;
She’s gone from me to hca\un—
I have no mother now !
An Altnchmenl.
We have heard a good story told of which an
Alabama Sheriff was the hern. Court was in
session, and amid the multiplicity of business
which crowded ii|ion him at the term time, he
stopped at the door of a beautiful widow, on
the sunny side of thirty, who. by the way, had
often bestowed melting glances upon the said
Sheriff. He was admitted, and the widow ap
peared ; the confusion and delight which the
arrival of her visitor occasioned, set oft to great
er advantage than usual the captivating charms
of the widow M . Her checks lidre the
beautiful blended tints of the apple blossom :
her 1 ips resembled the rose buds upon which
the morning dew yet lingered, and her eyes
were like the quivers of cupid: the glances of
love and tenderness with which they were till
ed resembled arrows that only wanUd a bkac
(pardon the pun) to do full execution. After
a few common place remarks;
•Madam,’ said the matter of. fact .‘sheriff, •!
have an attachment for yon.’ \
A du’per blush than usual mantled the check
of the fair widow ; the downcast eyes whose
glances were centered upon her beautiful fool,
winch half concealed by her flowing drapery,
gently patted the floor, she with equal candor
replied :
Sir, the attachment is reciprocal ’
ior some time the sheriff maintained an as
tonished silence, at length he said :
I ‘Madam, you will proceed to court.’
•Proceed to court. 1 replied iho lady, with a
merry laugh ; then shaking her head, she said :
‘No, sir ! though this is lean year . I will not
take advantage of the license tlicrein granted to
my sex. and therefore greatly prefer that yon
should proceed to court-’
‘But. Madam, the justice is waiting.’
„*‘ Lct . h^ w T t t lojn.pof.disputed, to* hurry,
matters m so Unbecoming a manner: and be
sides, sir. when the ceremony is performed, 1
wisli you to understand I greatly prefer a min
uter to a justice of the pence.’
A light dawned upon (he sheriffs brain.
‘Madam,’ said ho. rising from his chair with
solemn dignify, ‘there Is n great mistake here ;
my language has l»oen misunderstood ; the at
tachment of w hich I speak was issued from the
office of Squire 0.. and commands me to bring
3 on instantly before him to answer a contempt
of court in disobeying a supbtina in the case of
Smith vs. Jones !'
Chinese Scenery.
Thu following aidcle foreshadows the time
when u trip lo the Celestial empire will bo u fa-
Aorite excursion for fashionable tourists.
*• Two American gentlemen have recently pe-
Detailed the country fur sumo distance in the
neighborhood t ,C Shanghai. They mile as (01.
lows . “The eunntij lias been ('harming—bills,
valleys, grows, ami streams, being lound in
pleasing variety. The sides of (be mountains
are sometimes terraced very neatly, each as
cending step a cultivated field. The mountains
have a naked appeaiancu, though many o( them
are coveted with the baufboo, bo common in
tills countiy. The streams me all rapid and
clear, flowing over a pebbly or rocky bed. On
their banks uro numerous small paper mannfae
luiies. The principal machinery consists of an
overshot water wheel, w ill) a huge trip hammer,
which pulverizes the material, chiefly bamboo,
of which the paper is made.”
Of a view front I he fop of Heaven's Eye Moun
tain, which is two hundred mites southwest ol
Shanghai, and which is nearly a mile above the
level of the sea, (bey thus write: “The view
surpasses all that we had previously seen. As
far as mir vision extended. In nil directions there
were mountains. Thu intervening vnllejswere
cultivated, many «•( them ornamented hy stream
lets, which glittered in the r«} a of the morning
aim like a thread of silver. **
I’sk or a Nos> . A good ston is told of Mo
zirt, at the time he ana a pupil ol Haydn. The
I dter challenged Ins pupil to compose a piece
of music winch lie could not play at sight.—
Mo/.ait accepted the banter, a champagne sup
per was to be the forlolt. Everything being
arranged between the two composers. Mozart
took lus pen and a sheet ol paper, and in live
minutes dashed off’ a piece of music, and much
to the surprise of Haydn, handed it to him, say
ing :
“There is a piece of music sir, which jon
cannot play, and I can. You me to give the
Hi hi trial.”
Mozart smiled at tho half excited indignation
and perplexity of tho great master, and taking
(tie seat he had quitted, struck tho instrument
with such an air of suit-assurance (hat Haydn
began to think himself duped. Running along
tho simple passages ho cumo to that part which
his teacher hud pronounced Impossible to ho
played. Mozart, as anybody was aware, was
favored, or at least endowed with an extremely
lung nose, which in modern dialect.“stuck out
a loot.” Reaching the difficult passage, tie
stretched both hands to (he extreme endsofthe
piano, and leaning forward, bobbed his nose
against the mi Idle key, which nobody could
plnv.
Haydn burst into an Immoderate fit a laugh
tor, and after acknowledging tho “corn,” de
clared that nature had endowed Mozart with n
capacity for music, which ho had never disco
vorod.
Truth in Conversation. —Tho love of truth
is tho stlmuluus of all nohlo conversation.—
This is the root oi all tho charities. Tho tree
which springs from it may have a thousand
branches, but they will all bear n golden and
generous fruitage. It Is tho loftiest impulse to
inquire—willing to communicate, and more
willing to receive—contomptous oi potty curi
osity, but passionate lor glorious knowledge.—
Speech without it Is but a babble; rhetoric is
more noisy but less useful than (lie tinman’s
trade. When the lovo of truth (Ires up tho pas
sions, puts its lightning into the brain, (hen
mot) may know that a prophet Is among them.
This la tho spring ot all heroism, and clothes
tho martyr with a tlaine that outshines the (lame
dial kills him. Compared with this, tho emu
lalions of argument, tho pungencies of sarcasm,
the pride of logic, tho pomp of declamation,
aro as tho sounds ot automata to (ho voice ol
man.
CARLISLE, PA., iUIURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1856,
Who was Cain's Wife »
How often has this Inquiry been made? To
a certain class of mlhdfouch a question posses
ses mure importance the gravest investi
gatsons in theology. -Brother Weaver, of St.
Louis, in answer to a‘Correspondent, thus re
sponds through the fhfyld and Era to the in
quiny “Who wad Gain's* Wife?”
A subscriber asks this singular question.—
We answer, she was.Gnin’s wife. That’s all
we know about her. ’’ That is all the account ■
says of her save thatf'-she was the mother of
Knoch. It ia said : .tlitft Cain went into the
land of Nod: and WC suppose (hat he took his j
wife with him, as Any-.good husband would.
In the land of Nod theyjbad Knoch, and prob
ably other children not nTfew, ami grand child
ren, for they built a city'there. The city pro
bably was not so large Si Louis is, but it
very likely was A largo; housthnld of winch,
Cain was patriarch. might have been his,
own and the families Of'his children living in j
separate dwellings. •• *
What Cain’s wife’s name nn«, and who lur '
parents were we are dibtcerlili.d. She might i
have been the daught<h“6f Adam and Kve, or |
some of their children.?;. She was probably
1 closely related to CahiVOfr a sistir or a niece, or i
; something nearer than cobsin. ('..ncins marry 1
i in our day when the wpr.ld is full of sh angers, i
• U wouldn’t have been fio great a wonder for
] Cain to marry his ilnTcwere no
i other girls in the world, And no laws of mar
-1 ringe, and nobody clsiC'td claim her nthetinns. j
‘ The command was to hidrry ami multiply and !
i replenish the- earth- AnU we presume it was
pretty well obeyed, for it seems well replenish
ed now, and likely* to be. l , !
We know nothing aboiit the number of cbil- 1
dren and grandchildren ttc first pair had No
doubt it was a goodly ijunilsr both of male
and female; else who inhibited t ain's onv ned
who were the wives of finocli, Irail, Melmnrl
Methusalah and Lantech the legamrsi? We
: haven’t got the whole story of Idays- only
j a prop in the bucket. AS it were We have ihe
I descending line of generation from Adam
! downward and but Httle.^qore.
| rr Although uninforitpd os to whether the
I author of the following ctijlogy in now a tnem
j her of the present House.of Uepies, dtauves at
■ Washington City, yet we,cannot, however, but
concede that kindred spirits are there, fumi the
j exhibition of similar pcr/|hcnf and uppiupruilr
, speeches and propositions that w ere made
Jby members, whilst the| House was dally
|mg for weeks with the Speaker's chair. Wo
give it as a specimcft'ofsjrch/orcßSir.c/of/ujncc •
Foncrl Eujojy,
An delivered m the Florida House of Rtpre-
I sculahves, 1848.-+(Fcrh«lmi.)
, Ma. Si’bakkii:—Sir, opA fellow citizen Mis
lit Silas Higgins, who wanlaidy a member of
I this legislatuie, is dead, tad lie died yesterday
in the forenoon. .brqwucrcJLura...
lftfimconlmon mffmdilaT. ITis char
aclcr was good up to ihc lime of his death, ami
he never lost his voice, lie was flfiy-six years
(old. and was taken sick uforo iio died at ids
boarding house, where board can be had at one j
scveniyfivo a week, washing am! light inefud- I
ed. lie was nn ingemis cretnr, and in the *
curly part of his life had n father and motliir I
lie was an officer in our Slate tiuhiia since the '
last war. ami was brave and polite, and hi-, j
uncle, Timothy Higgins, belonged to the run ,
hilionnry war. and was commissioned as h f
tenant by General Washington, lirst I'k-kluil
and commander in clmfof theuiim and hum i
of the I'nitid Slates, who died at Mount Vn
non,deeply lumen ted by a large circle of ft lends 1
oil the 1-Uh of Deci mix r. 17119 or thenahmi's. '
ami was bumd after Ins death wnh nuliiarv
honors, and several guns was bust in bring sa- |
ilutes. i
Sir, Mister Speak, r, Sir. General Washing
ton presided over thegienl continental sandhi -
drum iiti'l polnical meeting that formed imr
Consliiuliun. ami hr was indeed a great and
good man. lie \us fust in war. fust in prime
and fust in the h.*ansofhis country, and lho‘
he was m favoi ol the I oiled States llauk, hr
was a frirnd of ed cation, ami from wlmi l c
said in Ins limudl uddiess I have no doolil hr
would have voted for the l arid’of I*.’/) if lie had
been alive ami hadu I dud some lime htToie
liaml. Ills (K at It was considered »i the tune
as rather preumlure on account of its being
brought on by an ordinary cold.
Now Sir. .Mister Speaker, such being Ihr
charnoier ot Genual Washington, I motion
that \vc wear ctupe mound the left arm of I In
legitdature, and adjourn till to morrow morn
mg ns an emblem ol our respects for the memo
ry of S lliggms who is dead, and died of the
browncrelura >esietda\ m the forenoon.
A Singular Human (icing.
We liave in iliis village one of ibe mast ‘ang
ular human being*, all th.ngs coasid red) to lie
found in this cormrol die woild. lie is a
dwarf, about eighteen \ ears of age (pule small j
ami deformed, and not rxinily an opium eater,
but a laudanum drinker. Uo bns been a vie j
lim of the habit for wars. and all altnnpls to
prevent Ins indnlgemo m the Ktupifymg drug
have been in vain. The desire fur more has
steadily gained on linn, until at the present
lime he actually drinks two ounces of landau
nm every day: and. what is still more remark
able. nil nl one (im«! Tins enormous potation
is swallowed at a regular hour, in the afternoon
10l each day: a pipe and tobacco then follow,
I ami smoking is in order till midnight, unless
1 indeed the subject —winch is sometimes the
case—falls asleep, when he is helped to bed.--
The only object for which this strange being
seems to live is this deadlv narcotic, and his
only care and ambition are centered in procur
ing the little means required to buy the two
ounce draught. As it has been fount impossi
ble to place an effectual harrier between the
drug and the drugged — the attempt has been j
abandoned, and it has been thought best here
after to interpose no obstacles in the way of I
free indulgence. In accordance with this de- ,
termination, wo understand that the victim—-J
whose yellow and hoggaid visage gives fearful ,
evidence of the presence of the coiled serpent,
which alternately writh.s and slumbers in his
bosom—has mode a contract for the daily sup*)
ply at reduced prices with one of our drug
stores, from widen he draws the ‘living death
—whoso itinuences have been likened to shndo
way glimpses of heaven lollowcd by the realities
of hell—with the most punctilious punctuality.
j Elmira Advertiser.
D7“A Indy was onco declaring Mint she could
not understand how gentlemen could amoliu.
“It curtulnly shortens their lives,” ««hl “ho.
“I don’t know that,” replied a gentleman,
“ thofu’B my father who smokes every blessud
day, and ho is now seventy years old.*
“ Woll,” was the reply. “if ho hu.l never
smoked ho might have been eighty.
K 7“ Tying a mnokerul to ><»<n it tail, and
imagining yourself a wlmle, is ouo ol t lie Hist
lessons in codllsh aristocracy.
O* What is the difference hot worn an tmr
tion and sou sickness? tine ih the sale of el
feels, the other Iho efleets of a sail.
A Cast of Circumstantial Evidence.
The following anecdote, apropos of the gold j
medals—some of them of great value—which [
the French government is distributing to the
members of the International Jury and others. !
it related by the French correspondent of the
Courier dcs Flats Unis. The scene is laid in a '
drawing-room in Paris. One of the company
was showing a gold medal which had been a
warded him .and which was worth S.OUU Irancs.
Iho medal passed from band to hand and when
half an hour afterwards, the owner askul font '
again, it could not be found. Lver nook and 1
corner was searched, but in vain. Thissnd
den disappearance produced considerable agi
tation in the company, which was select. Imt
numerous, and finall.v some one pmposed that
every one .should be switched the nun hr th
men and the women by the women. All the
, persons present mgeiiy signified their assent,
. witli tlie exception of a single individual, who
. had bun pUM nlut tint night for the tii -.1 time
ill the house. This man divlaml un cahulv .
' but very decidedly. Hint he could not consent
ito be searched. The etfecl these ptoduced mav
|Cisily be imagined. It was no longer donbtul
that be was the robber, and the genth man
i who in'mduced him was more dead than nine
'1 he mnsler of the house was about turning
the supposed thief into the street, and the ow n
er of the undid had already entreat id the com
pan.; to forget the circumstance, w lien a ladv
ha vmg risen from In r •;t, IV the musing me.
dal suddelilv fill out of one ol tlie Mnuil'TS of
herdu-.sS. into which it hail accuKmlv slipped
and Imr.cd iisilf. The seiif-alimi produced bv
this sudden dninmurinri.t was ppidigions A
cry of joj ful sm-pnsc resound- d thioughoul
the room. The individual siispeclid of the
was declarul innocent
[ Renouncing thereupon the slmcal c-ilmncss.
verging on indifference which had Inlhulo
1 chamc'cnml Ins demeanor -••This.” sa-d be.
“gentlemen, is tin* explanation of mv conduct
which doubtless set mod to you inexplicable. If
I would not consent to lie searched it was be
cause I was a siiangtT to iur\ oneprevnt,
with one i vcepiion, and because, hy a
coincidence -so strange that no one would
have h lieved it possible—l hail on mv person
a tin d.d exactly sninlm to the one that was
lost.” lie then piodmad the medal win. li if
it had been found on Inin, would liavetirmd
him a rpurlernf an hour before, but which
was now but an additional proof of bis mmi
cencc. This incident, winch I mtv.lf vv itm ss
id. is but another proof uf the uncerlainty of
human jiuigeincnt.s.
Correspondence of llie Chi ago Puss.
A.\ ELOPE 11 EM l.\ ILLI.MIIS, weie induced lo “try their lueU ” out of cun-|
Tik-i.ov, 111., J»n IKSIi. .", hwh K rni n j"y K(J M.r,n 0.. t of cast., ,
•• • out of character and out of friends, m the c nd I
There has been the most intense excitement , \V U proposal leaving, when he politely imited j
m our neighborhood the past week, occasioned us * l 0 stay for supper : he showed us Ids bill of
by the elopement of A Moucnef, Iwp, a mar- (arc. which included soup, must beef, oysters !
ried man, with the w lie of W in. Uose. lv-q .on hi .styles, ducks, venison, quffil.'llsli.'choco- I
the 2-d lust. The guilty parties both reside ; late, codec, nuts, and all the wines and liquors 1
Ihtc. . I be found inAhc best rcsUmrants. \Tiiocver
—' Mr;MonenrfhmrmjnvCd, unlit the past Sea-| admitted to the rooms, either as players or
1 son, the almost universal couilucnce ol our coin- spectalms, arc also admitted to these suppers
j numily, as a man of correct principles and ns a p, PP ; don't gamblers understand hu*
I gentleman, •'Mich has been the conlldeiice re- I M i nil untilrt- I The keeper was Impatient to
/ nosed in him Ojat several years past he has / (, n vc the House organized, so members coufd
held the office of magistrate, and other offices. ( t!rnw ( | lrir ~,,'rcnpo and make his business bet- I
and Inst fall was the democratic nominee lor I trr ( This is but one of rnanv institutions in f
repi isenlai ne to ihe Stale legislature fur this linri r „v.nnd the Tiger is bound to be fed :
and I eona county nml r..u :ih> ;»d "f «.-s n.-k-t , numgli The people starve. 1
No one (rus'ed in bun more implintlv us n m.m | - i
ol honor and a gentleman, than the injur'd 1 Why Don’t (lC Do /I?
Im.Mmml. Mr. Rose. was. up to Hie bom of Win-nth. farnu r knows that a -’ate is bd
lii'l unaccountable ilopetniut, a wunn and un- ~r nil, , aiM l h.l,orbing fixture
snspeetmg (Mend of Mi M., and had s'ood M , , l( . n]l( . r „ M ., „n,nrs nn( , t!i nn( ,
Inn. as such while others were nl>and»mng inn. , Mll calling on a e ai ,,enter he can himself make
Uoth were Masons. Moncrn f hung masUrol w lu don't he do it *
th. lodge he. eul the I line of this ealamilous af Winnh. has m. olhei fasti- gs to his gales
I.nr. and .Mr. Host holding anulhee in the mu... .„„ t j, aru (l M ,, no gainst
them am! m a single evening after supper is
Munmef leaves behind him a wife of irre „h|e in make a belie-mu- whv don’t he do it *
proaehuble churarter. a no,mm deserving of When he sees the hoards dropping from hi
; the best, ol husbands and a U.l> tn er. >img |, ntl) , uu j ()ll[ J„ n ldings. and like heaps of rub
i h n 3'- 'I he desi Mid wdeis 1 1 a.ili- vv nl. giuf h.d, 1\ n,g j.ih-d aho ,i the pi e.nws. and need
''he ls liri i" 1 ,nill ' aiiKU.g si mug. is. but id »ni x na ,j „) n J H . do a >
tliosc who will do all that is possible toi.luu I f lie is afi anl of tl.e expenses ..f nails, nml
her in her allhelmu >s alw«\s e.-\ mg nj. ihe in:, xun of Hr Frank-
Mrs. Rune, was a lady of line personal np \ .sreilu n. n a and Ihe pounds will take
pMuanee of a goo[, lannl V amialihe ol ~(• I hems, U is, 1 ' and he knows that the
Ibe elopeimnl a u.unh, r of tin Hap; m<h,’■ 1. . alm . J),- K>«- klui. aU« said thnl-mnm nun
| Hei hnshand is one of our must woi'hve.ii are pi-nunv wise and pound foolish." and he is
z- ii', esU'i-tned to all who kne., him Ih u ii' l|tll enrelul to think of Ihe pn-eept contained m
kmd and indnlg.n! to Ins wife, 100 mu h m. |]l( , vv j n he do it i
for the proud, ul.um ,-ry woman who has so Jj ~ , s a ,min!> of nearly half the manure of
bast ly desei led Inin a far low's stock 1>\ ki'pmg them shut up in
Mis Uose hfi thiee nte-e-s’ing g-i's w-n-t \ im |, msit ad of i tinning ai large tln ough lln
than nioiheihss. She lookwih Ima Ir'l- lh ,„i ~f ihe vvini er wh\ don’t he do it 1
I MV. The full, land Ins trends an- in h-' |fhe k now s i hat mail vo( his fields w onld U
piirsuil of the guilt v pat 1 1> *. wi. hI he hope ol ei, ai i v imjo ov, dhv dit > hour and I > v thei e
i icovenng the child inovalol lai ge si limps and stones, why doll I
Mis U . mauag'd to proeme Imr h'shand l>> ,i /
he absent . (hat she might he' 'n eon -11 n," -a l > ,\ iid w hen In k now > | hat hm pa.si in (S won hi
her wumon eu(« rprise Slu broke theeivsial ~, M n ,), ,li, u 'i|e 1 1;> h. d and <•! a lullei
out of Ins gold w aieh so Hint he would he com (|l , n i lU u t |„, 1,,,..),, svu tL u \\ o ,i and suhduid
pi Hid to leave il at home ns a piling* l"i h, r v , j iv | H . ~ i
She nlleil lu.s <!■ aw u«, nml look he-'lc u Ami if I no r\-M ft ft v per rent to ihe pro.
111 m 11111 vof £o|<) ,iill ihe 'iilmhh' ptoperi.' u 1 on ,] t ,, ( n | , ] m , t u,i,|s . KU ,\ ( . v ,.„ his pnslims
the house of a pot-lalilr mi' ure . l, v \he ime nt phi-lu .u h\ ihm Ihe4o 11 f
Moumel is suppusi il lo ha\e (liken n ***>?i
Milu ibh umoiinl of niuiie\ unit him h.h.u
rig 141 panns |i>r whom In- had <'i*’l< ■ •>I d m
lie ullii'iiil c ipadl \ *(S 'l'"- leaung nmi'\
ll.ilh pnrtws had he«u nmrned fur ten \«ai
I ty. Mrs Mmnu-f siis llmi (hen wir-mvir
I an unkind word passid between Ini' hnshaial
I ami hersilf: llml Ins conduct is ,-hfnwdul m
tin l deepest mystery In liit. Sin' nMiilniii's
her soul crushing misfortune to liipior Ilnsi
n/fnir (locs not lake fin air of romnnee mill u.-* , ,
it nhocks os—it grieves ami .sluggers ns-
Mrs Hose left h letter behind for lui Msici
in winch after bidding an e\ei lasting adieu .she
the heartless adulteress “hopes In meet
I hem in heaven'*' Therm he cnniimmit v de. |t
1 y sympathize with the injured pint cs. and
may (bid giant (hem strength to h< nr their
niisfoi limes, which now weigh so lnn\ilj upon
them.
Wll \l r M SI'S 11 lI'IMNKSH --lliippimss In
lie ntliinod m the necuHloimd clout In I lie lire
side, more than mho moan occupation of il ,
office, in a wife’s love inlhnaty mmc than in ■
the favor of all human beings else: in child-|
rail's innocent and joyous prattle more tluin in |
the hearing of Mattery, in i eciproealimi of little [
and frequent kindness but wan friend and,
friend, more than in some occasional ami dear
ly bought indulgence: in virtue and content
ment, more than in the anaious achievements
of wealth, distinction, and grandeur: in change
of heart more than In change of circumstance;
in full, linn trust m Providence, more than in
hoping fortune's favor; a growing taste for the
1 beauties of nature.'more than in the fee simple (
I inheritance of whole acres of land: in the ob
servances of neatness and regularity, house-j
hold virtues, rather than m the means of os
lenlalmns, and, therefore. iare display: in al
hand mauhn's cheerfulness. m.<re than in the
' lmpnw.il toneof politics; and in the friendship
of onr next door neighbor, more than m the
condescending nonce of my lord duke.
1 Sri.p-Dkmai..'--There never did, and never
1 will exist, anything permanently noble and c\-
i cellent m a character which is a slrungei to
the exercise of a resolute sell-deuml.
AT S2.OOPER ANNUM,
NO. 33,
Ifin/irngfoa correspondent of Hu Cleveland Plan,
Dealer.
A Peep into a Washington Hell.
Having heard much of the magnificence and
grandeur of the Metropolitan gambling houses,
I with several Cleveland friends paid one a visit
the other night. The entrance was through a
narrow, lighted way. opening from the Avenue.
Just east of the National. A pair of stairs at
the further end of the hall bungs you nbruptli
against a small door, fastetud on the inside:;
yon ring a bell : a colored sonant looks thro’ I
the latticed panned, to see if nil is right. If he 1
discovers a welt known customer or a frequent 1
visitor of such places, (he n hole pnrl v is ad- *
millid ; on the principle of course that a “per- J
son i" known hy the company he keeps”—j
I I am biers midi rslnnd human nature bet ter than ■
any body (Ke, and they know this old adage is I
as irne in lull as it t>, out. We were admitted ■
fiist into a room beautifully ca'‘pe'id. ficsco
puinlid, nith chairs, sofas, loungts. Ac..<r,
r »sex\m d, a huge c< litre-table, on which wm*
tho leading new spa pus of the eomiiiy.nnd
around winch sal si vend well divs-id gentle
men U'lMirely lending and discussing the nows
uf the day- Tins was hut the half of a d-nibh
parlor: the red pi mu room.as Milton would
say, ••(lie vestibule of hoi) ”
<hir guide, who «ihii wdlknown Washing
ton geiiileman. introducid ns (o the keeper o(
tin- esl abhshinuil, 1 1 llmg Inin lint we had nev- '
er I een in such a place Indore, and was led hy ■
c O.osity to explore Ins mbrnal domains He)
anpumd Ingldy dihghbd and mmmliati 1 y ,
opi-iKii up to the •inmr temple.” we cnleied 1
and found that the half hail not been told ns— !
a chanddier, costing from three (o four him. !
d.ed dollars, biillrantly hi pp, flung its glitter- |
mg rays on gold papered rtalls. satin damask'
on i tains. solas, itc. In the centre, and near!
one i nd of the room, stood a long six legged
table with a richly unbroidmd spnad, fall ng 1
in (olds neat ly to the floor ; on the w all o\u
tins laMe hung a massive gilt frame, ami large
as hie a huge crouching tiger, with eves of
glaring lire, lips apart, ami apparently rends 1
f u a spring upon hi> uusnspic mg \iontn — 1
I he cloth bung rcnioi i d h om I be table lx neat li,
revealed a • Pam I’.ank .” u nil all the imple
ments of that will known fascinating game
t'ory chips, representing ?1. -55. £25. s2s<i
ditch, lay pilul np m one corner, for the con
tcnunce of the belters : in a small lx)x beneath
lay piles of bank bills and heaps uf double ea
ghs for the redemption of these ivory issues.
It wnseaily in the tuning, and the platers
had not got in. The kiepn in t retained us with
i luhs of the table—how foolishly young men
came there as we had. out of curiosity, and
1' \ \in n s It is well known thai
the 11.-ihlandei n are great stn'kh ts for heruh
im\ lm.mrs ami (tae. hark ,wit h (he greatest
v. nerniii.n. the m igni of fimidus m'n the re
iiishincc of this le
An nmnsnij
nai-ih In In 'ld to the dignity and ant njiiil \ nl
tin rr kmdi«d. may he found in the case we
i ' A depute arose hetnern f’ntnphdl and
M I,i nn upon tins in % er-eiidmg subject
I, Lean would lint allow that the Campbells
had any right in rank with the M Linns in an
iiqui! \ who he insisiKl were in existence ns
a elan from tin beginning of the world Camp
bell had ft little mine hibheal hue than his an
tagnnis'.und asUid him il the i lan M Lean
w il-, hi lure the Hood? Lined ' what lined r
Mini M 1.1 an 'The lleod that, \on Know,
diem nnl all the uoild h.il Noah and Ins faun
Il . and ln-> Hocks.’ replnd Cninpbill. Tonh '
\on and j imr llood.' said M Lean, 'my chin
was afoie the llnnd ' 'I lime not rend in my
Uiltle.’ said Cnmphill. ‘of the name of M’Lenn
into Noah s uilc ’ 'Noali s atk retort
ed M 'Lean, in contempt : ‘who ever heard of a
M Lean Unit had not n honl of his own I* "
A Fast Woman’ —• I’m a woman, with a
woman's weakness, and having a good consti
tution. can bear a gnat deal of happiness ! If
I was asked my idea of perfect bliss, I should
snv. ‘a fast horse, a dock of a cutter, plenty of
Bullalo lobes, a neat filling over coat with a
handsome man in it. and—and one of Madame
Walsh's little French Iwnncls.’ If that wouldn’t
be happiness for one life time, I’m open to con
viction as to what would!”
Lady corrcs/igm/cu/ of the Boston Post■
1 A Lovbi.khs Uomh. —The is no loneliness.
1 there can he none in all the waste nr peopled
I deserts of the wnr'd hearing the slightest coin
■ imnwni wuh that of an unloved who- *• k
1 i.mulst her Inmily l.ku a ' 1 '
llu. ninrlilo nK'niura h |I ! L " 1,1 ' '
i'," 1 ';.
ivlncl. Hull r.-JiMg uus l '! >» llo* ■
BET. CMS. WADSWOBTH’S SEBBOS.
Slaveuv.—We recently gave several extracts
from the eloquent Thanksgiving Sermort'deliv
ered by this philanthropic Christian Divine,
and now give his views upon Southern Slavery,
which wo commend to the attention of those
fanatical Abolitionists who seek to destroy the
temple of liberty, in order to gratify their, own
morbid sympathy. The three thousand New
Lngland Clergymen may here receive a profita
ble: lesson, whilo they endure a wholesome re
buke. (Jn the subject of Negro Slavery, ho
says: •
Nor. on the whole, have wenny more serious
apprehensions of disaster from that cvcrlnst
mgly vexed question of Southern Slavery. Tho
cry of danger to our federal Union, from this
cause, is, at most, the false alarm ofovcr*Blcpt
watchmen, who in the somnambulism of a half
dream, mistake the sighs of winds through tho
banner, for the stealthy tread of armed men,
or the far peal of trumpets. Wc do not Say
that this great confederacy can never, for any
cause.be rent into fragments, and instead of
one glorious commonwealth, there arise on its
ruin, with all their anarchlal and revolutionary
accessories, two smaller confederacies, like the
miserable military republics of South America.
Cause may, indeed, arise in tho providence of
on avenging t iod, which shall rock our proud
nationality into dust, and bury in tho grave’Of
unr fiee institutions. at once the liberties of all
people, and ilie hopes of a world. This all
j may happen us wo shall insist upon, frdfn iho
jOpeiahun of the principles of the tost—that
. t iod will Mir. ly displace and destiny every in
strument that w ( i ks not out the purpose of its
I establishment.
\\ c might say. indeed. dial this Union can
never he i'.sm'li , n ; Ucause ms the resQlt.of a
gtaal organic law, winch makes it, oa the dif
ferent inimhersofn common bodv, by the great
principle nfa comm.mi life.one ami indissolunblc
f.iim-r nut a cough,inmate of States, but a
great ami ennpoMte Nsiimn. Nevertheless, aa
\ idence m.iy a c.immnn life by a dis
'»er\am-r i.i H' minibus, so tins Union, while
it cannot be peac, fully ih'*nl -td . like an ico
b'll in Hi' viu, nmv ui br ii iu m'n fragments,
* l is I'M', b\ an i-ai diquoke.
Ido not suy (hat die simll never happen, but
tills Ur do -,iy , wn li Uie dial, st, Iho CullllCSt,
and die n.c.'t ;isMir,d confidence, that this
quest imi of S’mi llnrn Ma very is not the earth*
ijmike dial lias jtuucr to sever ns.
I heie has hern, imKul, since Solomon’s lime
a ngn'ar d,sani nl'nien, • fiom whom, though
hi ay td in n mm ;ur, among u luat, with a pes
lle. \ll foolishness will not depart.”—lmprac
ticable ami malignant fools, who, like Hcros
trains, would gum for iheimalves immortal in
famy. I*y the desti nc,ion of glorious structures
hke Ihe Lpli’ sian ’1 unplo lhami. And such
are the imu, u ho\ lor Ihe sake* of black men
*>catimd thinly our d,t ooniinent. would dcs
t oy this oonk-dir.icy :aml lor the abstract and
imagmuiy r ight ol a | not li agmcnl of a race—
to ulmni i.miock', if practicable, were dcs
trncine ami d’sasirions wi.uld madly’destroy
the lust hope of a world s salvation, and bring
down, upon all i.tcs. the burden of ancestral
bondage, adamantine and forever. Neverthe
less. uiih suoli men, the great Anglo-Afiicrican
mind has no sympathy whatever. Tins ques
tion of slavei y is. confessedly, a perplexing and
disturbing thing in onr hodv politic, and about
ilinen ddf. r honestly and widely: but then
there is onegnuh i and grunderqueslion, about
which die o-. eru helming and increasing major
ity of thus people ncitr have differed, never will
differ, ami that is u and i uJlexifyU
purpose, to pr , 'rnc in ill all their energies end
then heart's int Ihind, then glorious t/nfonin
dissoluble inn I forever!
Shivery is confessedly tin evil, which no man
more deeply feels, nml more ingeniously ack
nowledges, ihun ibe intelligent slave-holder :to
whom 1119 evil was a birth right—and lo get
I rid of the thing without disadvantage lo Iho
I two races is a problem perplexing alfChrislian
philosophy. If true lo oilrselvts, the God Who
1 hath relieved us from sorer evils will work out
this problem, nml in the end make manifest to
the world, Uu* hidden purpose of wisdom and
1 love in (hat mysterious dispensation whereby
I these children of.lfn'ca haic been permitted lo
I bondage. Meanwhile about expedients for re
f rnoiing this evil, so that the blaok man and
the while man shall be mutually advantaged,
there may belaud till God reveal his own nid
d«n uiiiJoip tiiere uniat be - honest and hearty
dilletences; and }el none but a fanatic or a
liend, ever thought seriously, for one moment,
of si.li, i>g the piubU mby dissolving tho Union:
for in the liT'l place. such dissolution, 60 far
fiomliecmg the s'aie. would leave him more
hopelessly a lo idmun in 11 great Southern mil
itary c*mU d> 1 ;o 1 And m comil 1 even if it re
sulted m llie :ib 'llll :i of -hmii it would bo
treating an ml on the old luma; plan of set-
ting Mu- lo a house in get ml of a Woken saah,
or milling oil a loan's Wad lo cine Ins arm of
paiah sis.
Oh, No ' N'n ! indeed No ! Onr national
hark may be dmen. by (lod's storms, into
stiip-icvk, but n will not be on this poor peb-
I'li' uf .sluum , we break up piecc-mcal.
Wi-haw ahead. is'aprd a thousand mightier
dangns U'lun (In nM (Inrlccn colonies
against lb ni-li oppi I'svinn there were three mil
iums cl people, soai 11 nil along a wild sea board,
ami i u ii tin o. tiny Wand the pressure of dis
seven d eotiiisi K nf parl i judmiMes -of
<).i«rn!s of see' nmal encroachments On ' a
central poverntnint -of doslroyed cilios—of
stagnant I'nmimin- -nf burned ami blight
InntsU tf|.iahs.il i.idnstry-ol a crushing
Imi di n nf ih b;. imd nf a dissalh uied and disso
lute sohluiv .Ml lies pnal burden they boVo
tnnmpliaiiih . llnniipli the long conthct with
the nnghlKst war |"\ui of the vwnld. And if
thus and llama i.u em only in foi in ami name,
with In lie of i lie \i alr.y ul liei subsequent na
tional life Ainmea onl_\ grew stronger under
tins pressure in nil those i-Uments that now
eoiisumte her glory; till me. il now. standing
■ net and tnalnii in the lull i i niidinr of her
1 sti« ngl h she cannot. against Ihe empt y iircalh
;ol a limns.uni (onl- hear onwnul unbroken,nay
, nnhi tn. (Ins pool l.uiM of slawiy. Oh! away
1 n ilh Ihe dmi lil. let il e.mie from w hat quarter
I it mar: let il assume w lint form it will, of phi-
I lanthrnpv nr nlipmn. it should lie trampled
Isleinh iiiiih r fool as a hissing tepldo; and the
limn iilmiU'liiii a wlnspir dares to speak of
ili-mnion ns a jo'Sible and piachenl thing,
should hespurmd (tom the face of all hotiCKt
men into infamy and i ule, n.s n (tailor to ha
i iij ■(.,</ mi in lo Itm < > >.t.
Ptiilaitrlphia UcinorniUc Convention.
The IJiMiocincv of Philadelphia assemblcdin
conuirim. on Tmmlh_v ilie sth inst., for the
purpose of appointing dilegates to lho 4th of
Maieh i-iuivi mioii Sihsions wm InUlouTnes
ihn and W> dnr-duy. The following were a,
lining the r«-"hitam-, passid :
Jt>'nhrl, That the lh iikhtopy of Philadel
phia mo'.i h«ini dy uppmveol the ndministra
mm ot (leu I'leiee us tiuly Democratic and
rnnm-uily ealeulaud to ek\ivtc the character, of
onr country abroad and to pioinole Its harmony
mid prosper! l \ at home.
lies o/mi, That we arc proud of our eminent
fellow-citizen, James Buchanan, who. in all the
public stations he has held, has proved himself
a statesman of the highest order of abilities and
of the truest patriotism ; and while t he Demo
cracy of Philadelphia will give their hearty
support to the Dcmocrallo nominee, be ho who
ho may. they most cordially join with their fet*
low-Democrats of the Stale in recommending
him to the Democratic National Convention a*
the choice of Pennsylvania for llio Presidency
of the Union- . ~ ~
Resolved, That onr delegates to the fourth
of March Convention bo, and arc hereby In
structed to use their host endeavors to sccnro
the election of Ddegulw to the Cmcmnnlj .Con
vention, who half him the known, avowed,
consistent and linn friends and supporter* of
J Jarmh Buohaimn for the Presidency.
Resolved. Thai unr Delegates to the Fourth
lof Mnrcli ('ciim ni ion he. and hcrehy'ArcJin
) struoled to \ote in ilmt Convention tot rciwlu
iions insn uciiug the Delegates to the Cincinna
ti CVivuition to use idl iMmonihle imniiH to se
cure the nomiimlion of James Buchanan for the
1 Presidency.