VOL. 47. VMKHIOAM-YuUJNTiiKH. rPBUSItED EVEnY TBUUSDAY MOnNISd BY JOUS B. BRATTOH, Sudsciption.— Ono Dollar ami Fifty Cents, paid m auc Sf ® w^ars if'paid Withifi the yeuT; and Tiro Dollars and Fifty Cents, if.not paid within the year. These tonus will ho rigidly adhered to in every instance. No subscription discontinued until all arrearages are paid unless at the option of the Editor. ' , AuvniiTisEMßNTS —Accompanied by tljoc.vsri, and Uot exceeding one square, will. bo inserted three times for One Dollar, and twenty-five cents for each, additioual insertion. Those of, a greater length in proportion. Jofi-Paiimyfl—Such as liand-bills, Posting-bills, Pamphlets. Blanks, Labels, Ac. Ac,, executed with «oourno>’ and at the shortest notice. |Wiral. THE TIME TO 818. It scemetb hard to die at morn, , When love and joys'urb young, scarce We Vo listened to the fcalo ; The siaen hope bath sung. 'When dancing feet and songs of mirth Keep time to pleasure's merry call, It Hecm’a a dreary change for those— Thbcoffiu and the sable pall. . It seemeth hard to die at noon—- In manhood's glorious pride— 'When every life chord of the heart Is held by loved oro* by our aide. It seemotU bard to fold our bands— Our labor yet to leave.undone— And follow Death's pale messenger From realms beyond the sun> It scowetb hard to tlie at eve, ..When, resting from our.day* of toil, >Ve bold bur treasures to our hearts, And though tbo aim of Death, to foil* Forgetting that the life of wnvn Js as-the twinkling of an eye— The dashing of a.meteor ‘Athwart the troubled sky. But 'Us a blessed boon to die. At morning, noon, or night, when o'er our cherished hopes despair Hath shed a poisonous blight*’ . When all wo trusted, all Wo loved, , : Have sunk beneath Time's rolling wave ’Tis thou a blessed boon to die. And share with them tbo silent grave. In his own time God callbth all— The king must leave his throne And journey, like the poorest man, Through Death's dark realm alone j And ■happiest he whoso life can show Tho purest, most unsullied page, . though,ho were called iu early youth* Or wore tbo wintry crown of ago. hie itEsnmm a toomont, brothers, Usteiv . To tho moan that comoth up Prom tUo thiu lips of the destitute, drink Ulb’b angujeh cupj ; There icro *»rt«we as pato as *hljo9 # .!Hhoi«'ttTQ 'eolti «s Bivo"W> v Coursing on life’s dusky highway—* Look, and you will Imd it so! ■There is many a lone, !ono orphan, Beating out the march of life, 'Alid tho clamor and confusion, • All alone amidst tho strife. "Treat them, kindly, deign to love th<om> And thy mother’s feelings prove } Do not pass them coldly, saying, “Mine are all that I cun love." BiUttlldllMM: THE DEACON’S DILEMMA ’ 08, THE USB OF TUB BEAUTIFUL. Deacon TilUon hai tiic aquarest, neatest 'vnite lions- that over showed its keen angles from the mi.my clumps of old lilac hushes.— to front of it stood, on each side of the door way, two thrifty cherry-trees, which boro a bushel every season. Excepting the aforo . mentioned lilac trees, there was not a flower or shrub round' the place. Rose hushes the Deacon, thought rotted the house, and the hon eysuckle which his wife tried to train over the (porch, was torn down when the painters came, and on the whole, the Deacon said, what was me use of putting it up, so long as it did not hear anything? By, the side of the house was a thrifty, well epc garrlon, with plenty of currant bushes, go isehcrry bushes, and quince trees—and the beota. nml carrots, and onion's were the pride £ 8 ***** but ’ )lc often proud ly said, everyth,ng was for use"— there was nothing fancy about tt. . His wife nut in ti morously one season for a flower-border—Mrs Jenkyns hud given her a petunia, and Mrs. Simpkins had brought her a package of flow er seeds from Now York—and so a bed was j .laid .out. Blit the thrifty Deacon soon found that the weeding of it took time that Mrs. Til deamighfc give to her dairy, or making shirts, nnd knitting stockings, and so it really troub led h,s conscience. The next spring Tie turn ed it into his corn-field; and when his .wife mildly intimated her disappointment, . said V'lCidly, “After all, ’twaa a thing of no use, and took time”— and Mrs. Tildon being a roman, and one of, the kind of saints who al- m-!! 8 ler I er ? l)Ie . sin"er,s vexed about the incident” °, f be,n K ’"wardly night, and prayed h,iT her P ra y e . rB that turned off f om beholding vunit°v | be rlJ™ f fT- Pj? rlor .° f tho house was the most frigid asylum of neatness that ever discouraged the eyes and heart of a visitor— the four blank walla were guiltless of any on graving or painting, or of any adornment but an ordinary wall paper, and a framed copy of the declaration of independence— on each of the three sides stood four obairs-undor the “ sh , inin « mahogany table, aml an almanac on it—and ?l pa ’. r “ brass andirons illus fi7:p,.a?°;, * Th« mantle shelf above a niJr of of i? rl « [ ' t .brass candle sticks, with ThTn„I Sni !u e 7 hhtweep—and that ,was all. —no nnS" 7® v was P ,ttin and simple ,^ over y t hing for L ona nothing for show—it suited him. His when sho mOB p '?hed and .looked round it. thine „ h n Vir BeW, " ff : M , ifp he wanted Some s’ nnd ‘hen sung in the good old psalm— " From’vanity turn ofTniy ores; ' ' • . hot no corrupt design Or covetous desire arise •• Within this honrt.of mine." biiUron o^ 1 (leBiRP which this estimable chase of h “ d aeen ,‘«mpte'd. had been the pur. henuty hhli P v r PtL [ lan flower-vases, whoso with rU ° k 7 h « r heart When she went city^but b rW li a ?- d 6f r B to tho neighboring resolute?! 7 t,nß *'°rself in time she had *ml anont t! Ut her *» the allurement sugar H mon ®y W/Utli/ in buying loaf Wof 1 tho Won was good eating, and prided faimeelfonthe fXmrrifnn WUk^slmtm. TEKMS i Bacon observed, justly, diat the beat part of beauty is tliat which a picture cannot express. Lord Shaftesbury asserts that all beauty is truth. True feat ures make the beauty of the face, And true proportions the. beiuty of architecture, as true measure the harmony and music In poetry, which is all fable, truth still is the perfection. Fontenello thus daintily com pliments the sex when he compares women ana clocks; the latter servo to point out. the hours, the former to make us forget them. There is a magic power in beauty, that all confess—a strange witchery that enchants us with a potency as irresistible as that of the magnet.; It is to' the moral world what grav itation is to the physical. It is easier to write about in woman, and its all-pervading in- Huonce, than to define what it is. Woman !!o; . pi ’ elry of , th ® the same sense as tbp stars are the poetry of .heaven. Clear, ilml'i i mg ’ harmonious, they are the terres kibd planets t mt rule t,ie destinies of man- ~4 ? Pe ; lEeR ' nt 'i' stumn moating, declared that ho knew no East, no West, no,North no South.. Then,” said ' a bystander, “yon ought to.go school tfndlearn your geogra- bounties of hia wife’s table. , Few''women I . « CODiUII lifts knew better how t } sot one—and the. snowy , , .. ' . 1 * broad, golden butter, clear preserves and jet- , 10 18 '“ ere who desires to appear to his lies wore themes of admiration at all the tea- f° mv creatures precisely what he is? I have tables hi the land. The Deacon didn’t mind “ wn MUO ' l peonle-and adniired them, for they a fow cents in a pound more for a nicer hnni, ar ! : conl parativeiy few; Why does Mr. Smith, and would every now and then bring in a treat e . n 8l)mo hundreds of miles from home, talk' of fresh oystersfrom the city when they were °; ‘ us pmCO in the‘conn fry? In the etymolo dearest. Thesfe Were comforts, he said—nine £ l0( " sense of the words it certainly is a place must stretch a point for the comforts of life, j lll “ 10 country, for it is a seedy one-storied cot- Tho Deacon must not be mistaken fur a ty- tnf ? u V'Jhuut a tree near it, standing bleakly rannicnl man or a bad husband. When he on a J“H.-side, But a place in the country quietly put his wife’s flower-patch into bis BB gn ostß to the mind long avenues, great corn-field, he thought ho had done hor service ' robberies, extensive.green-houses, fine con by curing her of an absurd notion for things Sol ’vatoriea, lots of horses, abundance of ser that took time and made trouble and were of ™" tB ’ and tllat ‘ 8 t * lfi picture which Mr. Smith no use; and she, dear soul, never had breathed deBires to call up before the minds eye of those a dissent to any course of his, loud onougii to "'hombo addresses.- / Ipt him know she had one. lie laughed in his | ' |en r - Robinson talks with dignity sleeve often, when he saw her so tranquilly , a | loU * ; , M’ e . political discussions which take knitting or shirt making at those times when P‘ ac ® 'J 1 h’ B Servant’s hall, the impression oon she had been want to give to her poor little ' ve y cd 18 tl >at Robinson has a vast establisb contraband pleasures. As for the flower va- i Illen . t of Gnostics. A vision rises of ancient ses, they were repented of—and Mrs. Tilden i refa ' rier ». of a dignified housekeeper, of o bish put a handfull of spring anemones into a °P"iiko butler, of Jeamses without number, of cracked pitcher, and sot it on her kitchen ta- . unnfifctfid October*. A man of strong ithaod ble, till the Deacon tossed them out of the win-; * afc,< J n ma X QV *n think of huntsmen, falconers, dow—*‘he couldn’t bear to see weeds growing' u r»era—of a grand baronial menage, in fact. , \t-T would not think that Jlo,hinson> estab , poor little woman had a kind of chron-' * ,s hment consists of cook, <x housemaid and a ic heart-sickness, the pining of a teething Btai> .y y ; Ver for the follow tou; hut child, but she never knew exactly whaMt was W J£, * he va P or ? she wanted. If she over was sick, no man When Mr. Jones told me the other day that could be kinder than the Ueacon. He has 80^G thmg or other happened to him when he been known to harness in all haste, arid rush y as out ** to the,stables to look at. the to the neighboring town at four o’clock in the ” orBe s<” I naturally, as one fond of morning, that he might bring her gome deli- horse flesh, that it would he a tine sight to see cacy she had a fancy for—for that ho could J ‘ mes stables, as he called them. , I thought see the-use of, but he could not sympathize in , , handsome carriage horses sixteen her craving desire to see Powers’* Greek slave, a P ftir of pretty ponies for his wife whmh was exhibiting in a neighboring town. r* c * nrG ' some hunters* beauties to.look at and “ w haft did Ohristian people want of stun hn- tr ?“ G pqous fellows to go. The words used ages?” he wanted to know. He thought the even have justified the supposition of Scriptures put that down—** Eyes have they, two or . threerace horses, and several lads with but they see not—ears have they,-but they long jackets walking about the hear not—neither speak they through their • was with fury when I learned I throat. They that make them are like unto Jones’ horses consisted of a largo brdugh them ; so is every one that trustoth in them/" *^” orse rhroken winded, und a spavined pony. , There was the Deacon’s opinion of the arts; 1 h ft vo known a man who had a couple of and Mrs. Tilden only sighed, and wished she j? oor ‘^ n d farms, habitually talk of his estate.' ; could see it, that was all! onc °f thG commonest and. weakest ways of But it came to passthatthe Deacon’s eldest Va P orin g, is by.introducing into your conver- I eon weut to live in New York, and* from that Bftfcl o Q v ver.y familiarly, the names of people of ! time strange changes began to appear in the f/ you know nothing earthly about, faraily that the Deacon didn’t like ; but as , w , Ba( * lfc Ba *d Jenkins to mo the Jethro was a smart, driving lad, and making ?J ier “about the duchess being so ill! money at a great pace, he at first said noth- *y or ’ dear thing! Wc are all.in such great mg. ■ But on his mother’s birth day, down he dlB^l- ®ss about her!” “Wo ail” meant, Of came and brought a box for bis mother, which, c ? u^ e .’ *he lilrtdfid aristocracy of f)m district, I being unpacked, contained a Parian statuette Mre. Jenkins-bad lately become a of Paul and ’ Virginia— a lovely, simple group meill ber, Jenkins having retired from the hard as ever told its story in clay. ware lino and bought a small tract of quag- Everybody was soon standing round it in . opoH-moutlred admiration, and poor Mrs. Til- timtuigo a than told me that be had don wiped her eyes more than once as she ” een dfl>vn to Oatmealshire to see his tehan looked on it. It seemed a vision of beauty in course lie was nut aivare that I kne\v the desolate neatness of the best room. ml- ■ was the owner of just one firm.— “Very pretty, I s'pose.” said the Deacon, " " h , ,s 18 Pjy pnvish we have mitered," said a doubtfu.'ly—.for like most lathers of spirited y aut h qf clerical appearance to me in a rail twenty-itii-ee elders, he began to feel a little In way carriage. In one sense; it; was; but he ’ | awe of his sun—but dear nvo, what a sight yV? • ■ Upt haye said so had ho been aware that of Igivfe for a thing that after all ik .tciia the curate,Xnur'thc^le^o'rT—^ ol uouae !’ ‘ How; can Brown and his wife £efc on^ T’ a “ I said Jethro, looking at his moth- person observed to me ; “ they cannot er's suffused eycs> *• it i$ one' of the most use- will starve. Think of bey /tilthmgs that has been brought into the house P^ e . being married with not more than ei"ht this many a day.” or nine hundred a yearl”_ ‘ Wdwdi^iiifeecrhe Bee how you’re going; to make that y*oUghfc bo looked as ho made.the remark out, said the Deacon, looking apprehensive was . a thing to represent that he could at the young Wisdom' that had risen in his n^ fc Ullderst ttnd how human beings ; could d«; household. ( what he was well aware was done by multi “ Wlmt will you wager, mu,'father, that I will prove nut of your own mouth that this is us useful as your cart and oxen ?” " j ??, w y° u ’ve got a great way .of coming rc,Ull< ~ und twitching them up before they fiurly know where they are; bull’ll stan’ you on this quealion, any way.’’ And the Deacon put his yellow silk bandanna Over his bam head) and took up his position iki the uoTt seat. “ Well how, father, what is the use of your curt and oxen ?” Why I could not work the farm without them, and you'd all have nothing to eat, drink or wear.” AVell, and what is the Use of our eating drinking, and wearing?” . ” Use? why wo could not keep alive without • ■“ And whal is the use of our keeping alive ?” “ The use of our keeping alive?” • “ Yes, to he sure, why do wo try and strive and twist and turn to keep alive, and what’s the use of living ?” ‘‘Living!—why wo want to live; we enjoy living—all creatures dp—dogs and cats and every kind of boast. Life is sweet.” . “ use of living, then, is that we enjoy “Yes.” “ Well, wo all enjoy this statuette, so that there is the same value to that, that there is in Jiving; and if your oxen and carta and food n , . clothes, and all that you call necessary things, have no value except to keep in life, and life has no value except enjoyment, then this statuette is a sborf, cut to the great thinn for which your farm end everything else is designed. You do not enfoy your cart for what it is, but because of its use to got food ana clothes—and food and clothes wo value I for the enjoyment they give. But a statuette or a picture, or any beautiful thing, gives en joyment at once. Wo enjoy it the moment wo see it—for itself, and not for any use we want to make of it. Sd»that strikes the great end of life quicker than anything else, don't it? Hoy; father—haven’t f got my case ?” “ I believe the pigs are getting into the gar den, said the Deacon, rushing out of the front door. *i'r^ k* s wife he said before going to bed, ‘ Isn fc it amasing the-wiiy Jethro can talk? I couldn’t do it myself, but I had it in me though, if rd had his advantages, Jethro is a chip of the old bio*" iudtts of wiser people than himself. “ It is a cheap horse, that of Wiggins’,’’ re marked Mr, Figgins; ” ifc. did not cost more than seventy or eighty pounds,” Poor silly Figgins fancies that all who hear him Will conclude, that hia own broken-kneed. hack (bought for £25) cost at least £l5O. Oh, sil ly folk who talk hig, and then think you are adding to your importance—don’t you know that you are only merely making fools of your selves ? In' nine cases out of ten, the person to whom you ,are relating your exaggerated story knows what the precise fact is. lie is too polite to contradict you and Jell you the truth, but roly on it he knows it. . No one believes the vaporing story told by another man ; no, not even the mnnwho fan cies that, his own vaporing story, is believed. Every one,who knows anything of the world knows how, by an accompanying process of mental arithmetic, to make the 'deductions fr.ini the hig story told; which will bring it down to something near tlio.truth. Frequently has my friend Mr, Snooks'toid nicof the crushing, retort by which he shut up Jeffry upon a mem orable occasion. I can honestly declare that I never gave credence to a syllable'of what he said. Re has my friend Mr, Longbow told me ox hts remarkable adventure in the Bay of Biscay, when a whale very nearly swallowed hup. ISever once did I fail to listen with eve jy mark of implicit belief to niy friend’s nar rative, but do yon-think I believed it? And more than once’has Mrs.-O’Callnghan assumed me. that the hot-house on her “ fawther’s es teot, wore throe miles in length, and that each cluster of grapes grown on that favored spot weighed above a hundred weight, ■ With profound respect I gave ear to all she said : but, gentle daughter of Brin, did you think I was as soft as I seemed? You may just as well tell the truth at once, ye big talkers, for everybody will know it, at any rate. O"* The brightest boy of tho clas<* cxamln eil ior admission to tho Annapolis Naval Academy, was a little follow from Texan, about fifteen years of age, who hail been three [years setting typo in a newspaper olfieo.’aml baa studied mathematics and arithmetic with a dip candle in the garret of a log cabin at night. He was poorly clad when ho reached Annapolis, and on being asked how he ob tained the means to reach Annapolis, replied . that he worked for it, and that his money fall ing short on tho route, ho had got some small jobs at typo-sotting in Now Orleans and other points of Ida journey. If ho should not bo admitted, ho expected to'work his way homo again. lie is now to bo seen on board, the Constitution* in his naval uniform, with his gilt buttons and anchors, looking as bright and hopeful as if ho anticipated becoming a .Commodore, **' The Pbess vs. tiil Pulpit. —Henry Ward 1 Beecher, on a recent occasion, said: " The articles of the press go further than the .ser mon, and carry with them really more weight, certainly when one hears throe a day, which is an abomination before God and man. No preacher, who is fit to preach a sermon, is fit *q preach more than one a day-; and no man is fit to hoar more; or, if he does, he is not fit for much else. Sermons are like boys’ pop-guns.; however many wads you put in, it’s the last wad that drives the others out.” O' The Court will please to observe,” said an Arkansas lawyer, “ that the gentleman from the East has given them a very learned speech. He has roamed with old Romulus,- socked with old Socrates, ripped with old Euripides, and cantered with old Cantharides 1 but what—your honor—what does ho' knot* about the laws in old Arkansaw f” " OUR COUNTRY-MAY IT ALWAYS BE RIOHT-BUT, RIGHT OR WRONG, OUR COUNTRY." CARLISLE; PA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3. 1861. around Parist , But tlie French havejao innate nn aversion for everything VurillijSJat. they fly even this mollified rusticity, if dWr they get a chance to do so. Paris is tire pole-star to which then' hearts incessantly turn. Each boy longs to go to Purisi jlod “ make himself a Monsieur." . Girls hum to become famennes. Paris is their Golcona and Arnby, whore dia monds and gold and peWumcd atmosphere are the heritage of eveeyhody. When a lad or a lass has once lived ju Paris, there is no get ting them homo again to the country. They prefer want in the do'pilal to plenty in the country ■ and this not innly because they de light in the animation; which reighs here, and the company always,-tp-Jie found hero, but be cause they are perspadfid they shairturri up, a little sooner or a little later, a fortune that is, What they think a fortune; a petty shop, ora petty office in sbme joint stock company or under government. Success almost always comes to crown their hopes with fruition. Pretty eyes and rosy cheeks, worn by the oth er sex, never fail to command fortune. This aversion for thfercouutry may be de tected easily in the villages around Paris. The excessive rates of rent now obtained iii Pans have given a singular vogue to -the in numerable villages which broach the environs of the capital with their gay white walls. A groat many of them are- beautiful, either by reason of the extensive-view they command from their lofty hills, which load it over the whole horizon—-an extensive one—or by their being embowered in some forest full of old trijes and.delightful vistas, nr.by being laved by some broad, .'clear pond. All of them are cheap. The government has done, and is do ing its best to attract tile people of Paris to them, not only ns a means of carrying wealth to the country, but as a means of assuring public contentment by -disseminating cheap living,. This latter design is, in a measure, frustrated by the gregarious habits of the people. -They will persist in climbing stair eases and living on "flats” even in the coun try ; this necessarily interdicts the garden, orchard, cow and_ poultry yard, which play so beneficial a part in the. household of the mid die classes. Xn these houses you have neith-, ler town nor country. .-They have (apart from’ tlie rate of rent) the inconvenience of both. Each tenant (although; there is no such thing as " scraping acquaintance” allowed by cus tini, which reigns With urban tyranny there,) knows everything, about his neighbor, and everything that takes place in his neighbor’s suit of .rooms. The walls are far from making any pretention .tq cityVsolidity, and allow' one not only to hear a great many things said and dope in a rioiglihfrr's room, but their r ri’S tUo roof life " eU;^ re ok<a>e-y a charm of country GaWJty iajnterdicteijj-comiinny'inust be re ceived only in limited, number, there can be no smoking, no fond talking, update, bolster-, i °! ls v, 1(lU *’® The garden is common to all the tenants, blit it is.-so small, and there js I so little-shade in it, if One, tenant is in the garden, all the -others keep aWny, as there is | really ns .elbow .room fpr tWo hi it-; Not a e . ft f* IJt ach les i a flower or fruit, cun. be pluck ed m it. The tenants are expected to dress as much to walk in the garden as if they were at Haden .or iVourviJJe ; and it is not unusual tor ladies to .wait all the, morning in their room because their hair-dresser ius not come, l lioy dure not breathe the morning air unless then* hair has been dressed by thoir hair dresser...- . But despite nil these disagreeable things, one enjoys the buzz of company around him, one may persuade himself he is still in the | city—and those are the pleasures the French hod m the villages around Paris. A good many of the cottages are even let as furnished lodgings, but these arc commonly rented for the summer season. It/requenfly happens that the owner of the cottage occupies the fourth and ho li(nisei/ is the lodger, iheso landlords are sometimes* bachelors or childless husbands, wild are independent of fortune, and lure out a portion of their house i H V. n li 10 sa k° company. It occasion-1 ally happens that there are eccentric persons I why only let their ( Tooms upon whimsical con* * dl l as the right, in addition to the rent, (which is, of course, proportionally di minished <theref(|r,) to ;dino; and spend one evening each Veek with the tenant—and they contrive to havens many tenants as there are days in tlie they may have em-, ployment ?from Sunday till Saturday, both I inclusive. I > • 1 I have Heardof another who fed his tenants. He was, as it peeing, a retired tradesman who hail made a large fortune. Ills ambition .in this way, being! gratified, a new ambition awoke within him, and its object was to go info As lie;had no acquaintan ces in society, itjwas n very difficult task for him to. achieve, quit, of a truth, ho could hit (and you may be sure be long bent his inven-. fion,) upon no other way of reaching his end, than by purchasing a beautiful villa in some village frequented by people of fashion, fur nishing i( sumptuously, hiring a good cook, and buying a good collar of wines. This douche advertised for tenants. They came. rooms cheap,‘and boarded his ten ants ifPreiifionalJlo terms ; in which way ho was sure of breakfasting and dining with per sons in good sodiety every day for six months m the year* lie is Very properly contented with Ins success, and his old acquaintances nave preteudedjto discover upon his manners and conversation, something of the varnish of the fashionameiworld. Ido not know wheth er lie has any tincture of letters which' may have made him the more readily contented with his fortune by suggesting the names of a great many favorites of the nnoteni gods, whose year wajs divided into portions equal jjj. rcspc'ot to jimo, and uhequal in degree of !D" An old'clergy man, one Sunday, at the close of the sermon, gave notice to the congre gation that inf he course of ft week, he ex pected to go on a mission to the heathen. At this, one of the deacons, in great agitation, exclaimed: ‘‘Why, my-dear sir, you have never told us onc word of this before; what shall wo do ?’f “ Oh, brother,” said the parson, “ I don’t expect to go but of town." I _ Wi tty. —When Mr. Wilberfotco was a can didate for Hull, his sister, an amiable and witty young lady, offered the compliment of' a new gown to each of the wives of- those freemen who voted fpr hor brother ; on which fihe was saluted with a orypf "Mise Wilber force fur ever 1” when she pleasantly observed ; “ I thank you, gentlemen ; bufcf cannot agree with yon—for really Ido pet wish to be Miss . Wilborforoo >' Cheap l|oWsci. for liie Peuple, The French correspindent of the Boston Traveler thus d6sori))Cslm bis last letter, the life of tire toiycuts of tl.e cheap cottages so nUnWnniH in- the .prettjf villages that, cluster STATE op the union. SPEECH OF HON. ITM, BIGLER. / . IN THE U. S. SENATE, DECEMBEB U, 18C0. Mr. Bici.er. I took the floor, Mr. President yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of mak ing a very few remarks on the present un happy condition of the country. I intended then only to say \vhat was necessary to indi cate my own position on the great question which is agitating the people of this country, that is my only purpose this morning. I shall reserve for some subsequent occasion, when perhaps this whole subject will be more fully before us, the discussion of the main questions which it necessarily presents. Sir, it was too truly remarked by the Sena tor from Mississippi [Mr. Davis,] yesterday, that we have fallen on evil times. It is too sadly apparent that this great Republic of ours is m imminent danger of dissolution. Ine whole political, social, and commercial system is seriously disturbed, and shows un mistakfthle evidence of depression and distress, bommeree. trade, and finances are disturbed, .the banks have-ceased to redeem their notes' in specie, and the Treasury of the United States is unable to meet the current demands upon it. Indeed, sir, a genera! gloom scorns to have spread over the entire country. Why is all this? Have the great elements of pros perity, progress, and general thrift in the country, become suddenly, exhausted ? No, sir;, these'were never more abundant than now.' What is it, then? Why, sir, disguise it as yon may, this sad picture is the result of a political panic. ■. I almost shrink from enun ciating the precise cahse* obvious as I think it is to every Senator, and to every intelligent man in tho laud. The startling cause i$ that men are beginni.ng to doubt tho integrity and future existence of. tho Government. State after State has taken steps on the subject of withdrawing from this Confederacy. We hoar of Legislatures being assembled, conven tiorls of the people being ordered, all to con sider tho grave question whether our relations are’to continue or not. It; is. not singular, then, that wo have seen manifestations of deep concern and distress in .the land. Sir, this is a startling picture; hut it seems to me it is the part of patriotism and duty to iook.it fairly in the face.. My own impress ions first were, that the loss' that was said here the better.", I have changed that impres sion. I believe that the times require that the public men, the selected men of the na tion,, should come up to this great question. Let the people understand what view is taken of jt here. For one, lam prepared to sepa rate myself/as iar as possible iroih pastpreju dioes and party allegiance, and consider the condition of. the country in- a 1 spirit of devo tion to its welfare. I most heartily commend . -lha_Sen^4ci!m.cC?u necticut, [Mr. Dixon.] Without understand ing; the desires of. the men of his own party, as he has told us',-regardless of his connection with them, of his party prejudices—for I be lieve ho is a friend of tho President elect—he I has come boldly forward and taken his posi tion for tho Constitution, fin- the Gnion as ( made by the Constitution, for tho equality of f r!u t o Ca : “ nii ß? r ''. 9t ' c<! 1,r1,0n o tho oitiioiisj CCM Zr a^ B'’ 8 '’ ®' r; J oxtor >d to him the hand of fellowship, and 1 moot him in the same spirit, ana under .similar circumstances, for I have no idea-how n(y views will bo received / on this side (if the Chamber. In the spirit of the Senator from Illinois on this side, [Mr. I Douglas,] I go with men of any party, and men of every party who will devote them selves to the great work of rescuing tho conns try froin the impending danger. I • Mr. President, fur weal or for who, lam a Union man. lam for the Gnion as made by l our fathers, I am for thoOonstitutional Union as it is, and, in the spirit of the remark of the | Senator from California yesterday, I expect I to ho of and''for the Union as it is to be. | Whatever a humble individual like myself can do, or suffer, or sacrifice in tho cause of ( llie Union, shall he freely offered up. But, sir, what can ho done? I think the J motion of the Senator from Kentucky, to re fer so much of (ho President’s Message as re fers to this subject, to a select committee, is a movement in the .right direction. I thank the oenator for it. and I shall cheerfully vote for its adoption. ' . ~ I was somewhat surprised at the view taken of that proposition by tho distinguished Sen ator from Virginia, [Mr. Mason.] That hon orable Senator said ho would vote for tho res olution ns a more matter of parliamentary courtesy, because the message should he re ferred to a committee. Ho said that much, lest his vote might bo misunderstood by his constituents, that they should be under the impression that he had concluded that a rem edy for the present difficulties which beset the country could ho instituted, while, in his judgment. Congress could do nothing on tlult subject. .That honorable Senator must know that, in some way or other, any adjustment that may bo made’ on this subject, must, to some extent, ho connected with Congress. Congress must necessarily bo connected witli it, Unless it be tho question, which belongs to the States only. If it be possible to agree upon an adjustment in tho shape of a law, then Congress and the Executive will perform tho whole work; If the oommiftoe should find that it required an amendment to tho Constitution, then Congress must either adopt that amendment and submit it for the.appro val of tho States, or else, when two>thirds of the States petition Congress provision must be made for a convention of the States; so that, in any event, congressional action will he necessary. That is a reason why there should ho no hesitation whatever in consider mg the question .bore, and inquiring calmly, soberly, and earnestly of each other what can bo done to rescue tho country. Sir, I have a word or two to say to my friends on this side of the chamber— l mean those from the far-off South; those with whom I have so long and cordially co-operated here; for whose, rights I zealously contended long before I mot them on this floor; Whoso causei has been our cause in the North; and whose I cause to some extent, in the late contest for I Presidon t, fifteen hundred thousand northern men embraced. It scarcely becomes mo to un-1 dertake to judge of their case. I confess. I am, perhaps, incapable of appreciating their i precise position and feelings. X acknowledge, as they are aware', the justice of some of their complaints. I acknowledge that there has I been kept up a war of aggression upon their J feelings, well calculated to alienate them from I the people of the North j that in some instan- I cos their clear constitutional rights have been | vexhtiouttly embarrassed, and at times defeat ed; and furthermore, that the party about to nsstihie the reins of Government, in the late contest avowed doctrines which, in my judg ment,- are -inconsistent with the equality of the States; for so 1 regard the doctrine of the exclusion of the owffeV of a slave ffotn ihs common Territories unless ho leaves his pro perty behind him. But. Mr. President, is dissolution a remedy ? Is that thd be«t and wisest of all the alternatives left 1 Uaa the time come to embrace that remedy ? I think not. I said before that it was not for me to speak of what concerned them and their in terests; hut I say no more fatal step can be taken for the interests of the great State which I 1 represent hero, and, as I verily believe, far every other State in this Confederacy.. I know, sir, it may bo said—it was said yesterday by tire Senator from Mississippi, [ Mr. Brown, ] —that war, and oven death, are to be preferred to dishonor, and that a State r6iWaimn£ in this Union less than an equal, denied of its constitutional rights, is in some measure dishonored ; but my fnend from Mississippi, and those who not with him, should view this question in a more hopeful light, , i After all, Mr. Lincoln is in a minority of nearly nine hundred thousand votes, and in his election the people of the United States have not passed judgment against the claims of the South to equality andjustice. Mr, President, I want to,call the attention of those Senators and of their friends at home to n particular point in this case; Ido not care to inquire into the question of the right of secession. Whether it he a right, or whether, when a State withdraws, it is rev olution, the consequence to the seceding State, and to do the remaining States will be essen tially the same, and the remedy, if remedy there be, will, bp the same. But the point! wish to make is this: even if it bo a right, is it just to the other States to resort to that rem edy until redress has been sought and denied at the very fountain of,political power and authority, and through the precise channels ■o which this Confederacy was formed? I think not. Such precipitate notion is not just to their friends. Lot the Southern Stntes'nsk the people of this Confederacy, separate and aside from ordinary political considerations, to consider and adjust this question. Let them ask redress for their grievances at the hands of those who have the power'to grant it, and in the form prescribed in the compact under Which we live. If redress bo denied, if two-thirds of the States refuse to call a convention, or, calling a convention, if threo forths of the States decline to approve such amendments to the Constitution as the South ern States deem essential to the protection of their rights and to the maintenance of their equality in the Union, then the time will have { arrived for considering this question of dis- 1 solution. But until all other'means have] been exhausted, it should not, -cannot bo se riously entertained. Mr. President, lam ,ono of those who be lieve that the remedy for the present distract ed condition of the ‘country, after all, riiust, sooner or later, come from tho people, if it is to como at all and be permanent. I do not say that amendments should not he sub mitted here. lamby no means intending to to indicate that the effort should notbo made; ; hut Xdo say that I have little hope that mea r ouroa^gadjustment-can Congress- that will meet this ease. Itis.nardly to be expect ed that the politicians or partisans of-tho I country brought into position in thoniidst of I party struggles, committed to one stele broth er of the, controverted points,- are prepared I fu- this delicate work, it must go into other •I hands. Let the people select representatives I hn this single subject alone, and to remedy the I defects which experience has shown, and if / needs ho, give now.gcaranfees to thehggriov (ed States. Ti.on, sir, you will have siti<de ncss of purpose and pdtvintisui, and olir South'- feril ffihnds Will ascertain the real sentiments of the northern people in reference to their r gilt; and position in the Union; and while I confess that all tho evidence seems toon tho other side, I tave a belief, a firm belief, that ■ suc h a test the conservative element of the N irtli would prevail—(hat the South would be mot m a spirit of justice, fraternity, and even generosity. 'But it may be asked, as it has been already, what is to become of tho country in tho moan time ? What measures si all bo adopted to ar re t. the. progress of dissolution ? I confess, Mr. President, I am not prepared to answer that question. That is more especially fm our friends from those States which are mov ing for secession. If they know no means of arresting tho. progress of separation, then, sir, we are truly in a hopeless condition. Bu : lam not so despondent. I have still hope that if there were such indications from the North of a disposition to deal kindly on the subject: to hoar their southern brothorn fair ly and fully, and answer, if possible, favora bly their demands, there would boa fooling of reaction in the South; that men would rise i hove the madness of tho hour, and stay 1110 fatal step, at least for a brief season, un tit another eftort.Ouuld be made to save the G ivernmont, and to satisfy the southern State that they can maintain their rights within the Union, St, I am not of those who view this disease lightly. lam sensible that it is deep seated, apd to sonic extent uialignrtnt, but not incur able. It is not my purpose to talk of diatinc tve propositions now; but Ido say that tho best possible remedy that could be applied, nce f orcocr the tear of crimination in the North, would be to separate this question of s aoerij, as fur as possible, from the papular elections in the non-sliwc-holdiitff Stales. There are a class of men, we all know, in'the North wh i are zealous ami sincere enemies of shive ry, and an long as they ean disc ivor tho slight est opportunity of interfering to perform what they call a duty, they will keep up those as assults amt an unjust war upon the feelings of tho citizens of the southern States. Sepa rate them entirely, so that they can have no Connection with it, can in no way influence the question of where slavery shall he, or where it shall go, or whether it shall ho Car rie 1 into our now Terri tories, of even ffom the question of the admission' of a State,’ whether it be free or slave/ How can that bo done ? Sir, I do J not wish to bo understood as presenting any view to which I shall adhoro with .tenacity. X throw out general views for what tboy afe worth. I ara so convinced of the wis dom and tho true policy of maintaining this Confed eracy entire, that X will resort to any honorable ex pedient, any reasonable measure to save it; I thiaK the poojrto of tho North would go. yor> much' further than their representatives on the Uepubiican aide bo- rr-i* 4 : iievoj in order to accomplish this desirable end. If A young laxly,.in 1 r6niy to' hSr fAtfaUr^fl needs bo. sir, lot the territory bo divided from ocean- question why she (fid noltteaf tiififttfrrihTt'H** to ocean t north of which slavery shall not go, south , angora, aaid ‘-si 6 f-° erf which it ahull not be disturbed. Lotus have-a “ ReWaiißA V»n« n * . - . I deep gulf or a high wall buttfeon tho North rind South hndv *m if u• 't 0,0 whfin aOj loh this Siibjoof. If that will not allay tho demon of; ,Vw? U ?? ZOS . , h! * nJ ‘ 1 dnoortl, then, instead of tho present provision that ■ W lneßS ttvQ Jotf to have year band Congress may admit States into tho Dnion—wbiih ! squeezed ?” J • “ "° n °7 lU i " d “ co n eJthiin class of people to agitato “ Certainly n o*llo, but Still ionfcnow s»:srasa waft Sus tion of the President npon the establishment of tho aid ‘’■ * an l orohar(1 without bio* foet-v Then, sir, the North would be separated W " d • Bp , r .‘, ng T wl l thout ■»«»& Ahp u *> this question; the Nortli and the South, on this dis- Bona is lijfo Lebanon With its cedars turlimg element, would bo entirely free of each oth.‘i .' , l? au S htera the fireside ara like roe*- er s while nil tho other relations would remain, and : >U Sharon. loa T tnn. gr °w o . OTo r“ mon t 8° °e performing its funo-i ——:’T— • tions. Wo should retain its powor, its prowess, its ' , Nl ? doctrine is good for anything tliat '■j’t 4 ?“i 18 influfmco in tho world. Perhaps does pot leave behind it an ethereal famw* less radical obanges.may do. If.po, all the bettor. 1 ready for the planting of seeds' whinh «h.l» Xbs President of ffiolfuited States, with epaWl- j spring up and ) otic desire to settle this question, bai iuggest»d*h*» . h'e supposed would bo sufficient for the exigency.-u- U toustsay, and I_ say it.with regret, that fdonot thihk his remedies will meet the ease. I think tb» disease is deeper and wider than the remedy—in the first place, the points presented by him embrace tlie controverted topics over Which parties hare strag gled for years, the very source over which the bit ter struggle for ascendency was made in. the'late presidential contest. And! can seoso reason to an ticipate thelb adoption by the dominant party In'the ( North. Nor do I think they would reiob tho eeat of the disease if they were adopted; for my belief is, this war of crimination and recrimination is theseat of this disease; and if you'want permanent peace, you must strike atthe scat Of the disease ;.you must separate the non-elaveholding States from the. ques tion of slavery, in order that the question may have no resting-place in the northern mind. ' Honorable Senators yesterday said the hearts of men must bo changed. The hearts of men ought to bo changed. I trustin'God's numo that many of them will be changed; but that is no work Tor poli ticians or Senators. It will be idle to hope for an escape in that way. You must separate the agita ting cause, if you expect those men, who are bitter ly anti-slavery to drop the subject. lam of those who think they ought to have done so long ago.— No-man has given that feeling leas countenance thaa myself. \ have never, been in a political struggle is my life that the rights of tho South wero not a lea ding issue; and never fallen that I did not fail by tho weight of a southern issue. But, Mr, President, Ido not know that I can nse- • tally pursue this subject further. I desire to* a*y however, in reference to my own State, uotwkhstanl ding its, vote tor. the Republican candidate at the late fliectionj that it is d conservative and a just State : that our southern friends can roly with confidence upon the future action of .that Slate; . If they ask ' redress in the form in which I have any other on which tho people can act separate froln oth , er . considerations, I have not a doubt that they'Would give all tho guarantees which any roasoudhlo souths I orn man would demand; It may bo said Wat; id J, iiiinoritV, as 1 am, lam hot warranted thus to speak, fur I should not he regarded as authority; but, sir, every man of intel ligence in my .State knows that other potent influ oncos than tho more distinctive principles of the Republican party weighed in the, late election.- Xtioro Were a complication of influences against us, and artong them tho m'oat potent, next to this; sla very agitation, was tho question of tho tariff; The operatives in tho manufacturing establishments and the mines away down in the earth had felt and bo iieveu that thei policy of the Democratic party was prejudicial to their iritorpsts; Und at the late elec tion, though they were naturally With ,tho Demo cratic party, they voted in ahody- against us. . I doubt not that that vote was forty thousand in the btate. No man is warranted, therefore, in assnm tng that the State of Pennsylvania will adhere to ' the distinctive doctrines of the Republican party I,do not bolieVo d disllribtlve iSsUb <6h pressiblo conflict,” as usually interpreted in that State, would get one hundred thousand votes. No war of aggression is intended by the people of that State. She will respond promptly to any demand for consideration and for redress made in the pro por spirit by her sister Stalest and I doubt not she will avoid even the appearance of wrong by dis- - carding curtain of her statutes, which, though in tho main a dead letter, have been mado the subject of complaint; J But, Mr. President, I. should, bo glad, indeed, if Senators bn the other side—those who speak-for tba - dominant party—would indicate what their present ‘ views are. I think,,air, in the imminent peril that surrounds ns, they huglil to do at least this. It is no ordinary occasion. It is-not a time when mob may stand upon a more partisan victory. 'ff'hnt'is a party victory if tho country is to ho tomW.vio. ml’bo rlo ii'nnd.inuhs, in your commercial citici; on questionsb£ employment and broad? V/hatii a party triumph worth if the. tf ovoraffiehlihoiild not endure ? Sir, it is Worse than a delusion, . F^shiont, tho gravo responhibilitics that attach to what I say. I may bo laughed at [ for much that I have uttered; Bo it so. Ibvoojd uot have Uttered it if I did not feel that the ¥mos tm / 0,1 “, T man > faffardless of consequences, P ,° rf °o a hia P !l . rt : 1 sh all only fopcSt, there., tore, that m the remammg part of my brief official career hero, whatever it may'bo for mb to “hht'PPJ.diffetohcCß, t shall do. fam not bulitoly despondent. I cannot bring my mind bo realize a separation of these States, much mmldfoiw, 0 00ntoIU J“ lato tho consequences which 1 1 o u ir ’3 0t i'i: as ono man, address ourselves to this -Vhy ai Tc d °W fti.otlda It-oth Urn %’ South dosiro to Ropnrato train those In’ tho North who have so long stood by them? Wbjvgentle men, more men in the States of Now York and along ospouked your cause in the lot# oonfost than can bo found in all the States that are talking Of separating from the . Union. A million lifiorT hnlf of voters have, in a largo measure, iden iificd themselves with you in the issue against the Black Republican party! and it is my impression that, if this form of government remains, and the inmo issiies are to bo made four years hence, the Republican party, with its sectional flag, will bo driven to the wall ns completely as any party ever Z 3 .fn' T r" “ ‘ h l S Co, ‘ ntry ' 1 ““ n “ prophet,°nor victory »°h f . a w rOP w‘ i but 1 prudicUhat >t S the last victory the Republican party will ever gain. Let us rem ,a . la _togethor, then; lot us contend for your lights Within the Constitution and the Union, and in a short time you who are now desponding and complaining and" threatening disruption, will bo the contToUho o nrfy; • y ° U and yo " r fri<,ndfl north #ill control the Government once more; and lodif ei'e 'I 1 ' 1 /’ d solemnly■ believe, if the effort ho made in the n ht direction, tho people of this country will give Uon. wiifdtmand 3 ‘ Up * n f “" Them ’ere Legs— A son oftlißold Graiiift titatoyent down to tho city of Memphis to •>cek his fortune. 110 found; ittstfcad, a Wicca, which gradually saps lift iri d tWla form. ' » , It was with this that poor Jim Barely was picked up. And month after month it tugged, until at length ho was but the outline ofbi* tiirmer self; a pirfeot skeleton; A worthy minister saw the poor fellow, ami seeing that the king of terrors had spottea hun determined to call on him andofferspir itual consolation; lie bro'aehdd the intpor luUt sabieot siiritcwllat thlis: V Afy dear Mr. Bngely, in view of your re lations with tills life, how do you feel?" D— n sick,” waa the prompt reply. "Don’t swear, my poor friend,” Raid the parson, “and let mo ask you if you ever think of your latter end ?” ' " D ird I" said Bngely. “I ha'inf thought on anything else for morg’n throf iWoAthsr’ “ Hot, fnrti affrtid, in the right way, Mf; X hog you to pause and reflect. It Is time you lA'gin to wrestle with the. Lord,” rtio sick niiiii looked down at lilti miserable poker legs', extending before him', and with an expression of wild amazement in bis oottntfci nance'. exclaimed: | “ Hassle with the' Lord ? tfhat, with thoni era legs?’ pointing to his own; “Why parsop, he'd flip’ me to the very firnt nc J ho P arson gave him up as a hardened gin-! *' rfc NO. 30.
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