Whole No. 2556.
BLYifIYER & STANBARGER,
PRODUCE i COMMISSION
KBROHAXTTS,
Year (anal Ba*in,
Lewistown, Pa.,
Will lurcliase every description of Produce
at current prices.
ALW AY S ON nAX D ,
p, iSTKIt, SALT, FISH, STOXE COAL
of assorted sizes. LIMEBURNERSf
' ,p BLACKSMITHS' COAL.
GEO. BLYMYER,
dec 2 C. C. STANBARGER.
7K.TJTT TRESS i
HAVING accepted an agency for the Mor
ris Nurseries, West Chester, Pa., I am
jrepared to order and furnish all kinds of
Fruit and Ornamental Trees,
Apple Trees for Summer, Autumn or Winter,
Pear Trees do do do
Jhvurf Pear Trees, Peach Trees, Plum Trees,
Apricot Trees, Ornamental Trees, Grape Vines,
Strawberries, Gooseberries, Raspberries,
Lawton Blackberrry, &0., fcc.
As the Morris Nurseries are near our own
latitude, trees from them are well calculated
tor this climate. Those desiring Fruit Trees,
a-. will do well to call and examine descrip
tive catalogues,
in hi F. J. HOFFMAN.
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A O DO JEL* J(VE "TST .
rpilE Second Session of this Institution
1 will commence on MONDAY, February
_ :h. New classes will then be formed ascir
cumsunces require. Particular attention will
b' given to those preparing to teach.
1:. wishing to study and practice Music
huy t assured of the best advantages.
M S. K. YanDlzer will continue to give
instructions upon the Piano.
Kates of Tuition, 53.00, $4.50 or $6.00,
according to the grade of studies.
For further information address
luvlT M. J. SMITH, Principal.
McALISTERVILLE ACADEMY
Juniata fonnty, Pa.
GEO F McF. IRI.. i.\'l), Piincipal $,• Proprietor.
J.ICOI• MILLER. /'"/ of Mathematics, Sfc.
,Ui.sJXXIES CRIS T, Teacher of Music, S, m c.
The next session of this Institution com
mences on the 26th of July, to continue 22
weeks. Students admitted at any time.
A Normal Department
will be formed which will afTtiid Teachers the
fce-t opportunity of preparing for fall examina
tions
A NEW APPARATUS has been purchased,
Lecturers engaged, &c.
Terms—Boarding, Room und Tuition, per
si—: mi. to >6<J. Tuition alone at usual rates.
fL'f=*Circulars sent free on application.
It 01! E It T W. 1' ATT ON,
*>ollll SIDE OF HARkET STREET,
LE I STOW X, PA.
V[A> just received and opened at his es-
L taliiidimenc a new supply of
Clocks. Watches, Jewelry,
Fancy Articles, &c.,
which he will dispose of at reasonable prices.
He invites all ti give him a call and examine
in- st .k, which embraces all articles in his
line, and is sufficiently large to enable all to
make selections who desire to purchase.
{©"REPAIRING neatly and expeditiously
attended t >, and all wurk warranted.
Thankful f r the patronage heretofore re
ceived. he respectfully a?ks a continuance of
the sain.', and will endeavor to please all who
may fn. r him with their custom. feb2
EDWARD FRYSINGER,
WHOLESALE DEALER & fIA.HFACTTRER
or
CMiARS, TOBACCO, SMW,
&C., &c.,
IPiio
Orders promptly attended to. jelfi
New Fall and Winter Goods.
T) F. ELLIS, of the late firm of McCoy
1A • & Ellis, has just returned from the city
with a choice assortment of
Dry Goods and Groceries,
?'?eted with care and purchased for cash,
*hich are offered to the public at a small ad
duce on cost. The stock of Dry Goods em
braces all dsscriptions of
FALL AND WINTER GOODS
suitable for Ladies, Gentlemen and Children,
*'th many new patterns. His
(Kroccrtts
comprise Choice Sugars, Molasses, Java, Rio
and Laguyra Coffee, superior Teas, <Sfcc. Also,
Hoots and Shoes, Queensware, and all other
articles usually found in stores—all which
the customers of the late firm and the public
in E e oeral are invited to examine.
R. F. ELLIS.
Its"Fish, Salt, Plaster and Coal always on
hand.
Country Produce received as usual and the
'oil market price allowed therefor.
Lewistown, Sept. 22, 1859.
HOES, Rakes, Spades, for sale by
mh29 F G. PRANCISCCS.
ash> ipwu&ssnnim) hit <BiB<s>iß<Bia
ffiOBA£&RHMGIOUS
THE BETTER WORLD.
BY S. D. PAITBSO3.
"Oh that I had wings lik.' a dove! for then I would
flee* away and be at rest"— PS.VI.M IV—O.
Before me fairer prospects lie
In realms of pure, celestial bliss,
Which amply shall repay each sigh,
I've breathed in such a world as this.
As some tired bird with flagging wings,
.Seeks out the quiet of its nest.
So longs my anxious soui, to fling
Its cares away, and be at rest.
Ye bright and glowing stars, which shine
In the blue firmament above,
Holding high watch in spheres divine—
Spheres of eternal light and love—
Above, beyond thy mystic maze,
Shall my enfranchised spirit soar,
And there, of li. big streams of graee,
Quaff heavenly draughts and thirst no more.
Wifcwmwz
Educating the Heart-
The following remarks from a late num
ber of the Quarterly Review, with refer
ence to educating the heart before the head
is too full, commend themselves to all who
have the management of children :
It is the vice of the age to substitute
learning for wisdom—to educate the heart.
The reason is cultivated at an age when
nature does not furnish the elements ne
cessary to a successful cultivation of it;
and the child is solicited to reflection when
he is only sensible of sensation and emo
tion. Iu infancy the attention and the
memory arc only excited strougly by things
which impress the senses and move the
heart, and a father will instill more solid
and available instruction in an hour spent
in the fields, where wisdom and goodness
are exemplified, seen and felt, than in a
month spent in the study, where they are
expounded in stereotype aphorisms.
No physician doubts that precocious
children in fifty cases to one are much
worse for the discipline they have under
gone. The mind seems to have been strain
ed, and the foundations for insanity are
laid. When the studies of maturer years
are stuffed into the child's head, people do
not reflect on the anatomical fact that the
brain of an infant is not the brain of a man.
The first eight or ten years of life should
be devoted mainly to the education of
the heart—to the formation of princi
ples rather than to the acquirement of what
is usually called knowledge.
Nature herself points out such a course ;
for the emotions are then the liveliest and
most easily moulded, being as yet unalloy
ed by passion, it is from this source the
mass of men are hereafter to draw their
sum of happiness or misery. The actions
of the immense majority are under all cir
cumstances, determined much more by
feeling than reflection; in truth, presents
an infinity of occasions where it is essen
tial to happiness that we should think pro
foundly.
T~e Public Libraries.
Free public libraries have been establish
ed in Boston. New Bedford, Farmingham,
aud many other places. The annual re- j
port of the New Bedford institution, which
is the eighth since its commencement, in
forms us that it contains 1d,500 volumes, ;
and the issues to the people during the
year have been 25,224, the number of per
sons using the library being 3415. This
library was established by an ordinance of
the City Councils pursuant to the State law,
which, as originally passed, provided that
the local authorities of any place resolving
to have a free public library should appro
priate annually a sum of money equal to
twenty five cents for every rateable poll, for
its maintenance and support. .So well has
this plan worked that the Legislature has
since given permission toaii) town desiring
it to make the annual appropriation of fifty
cents per poll, instead of twenty-five, and
New Bedford has availed itself of this pri
vilege.
Here is an arrangement which places in
the reach of every town in Massachusetts
the opportunity of maintaining a good sup
ply of excellent reading, for the benefit of
all classes, and not dependent upon volun
tary contributions for support. Not only
has it been adopted in most of the cities of
the old Bay State, and rendered as much
as the common school a part of the gener
al system for the diffusion of education and
intelligence, but in the rural hamlets it has
been eagerly taken up as the very thing
needed by the people —in fact, as indispen
sable as a newspaper or a school-house, it
renders every town in Massachusetts at
tractive to the farming population for other
purposes than mere buying or selling of
produce or merchandise. It makes them
centres of learning, sources of information,
fountains of inexhaustible literary delight.
In New York State there is also a.system
i of school district libraries supported by the
public funds regularly appropriated, partly
by the local authorities, and partly by the
State government, under a law passed for
the purpose, and furnishing libraries acces
sible gratis to the public. Now, what we
wish to call attention to is the advisability
of passing an act similar to that of Massa
chusetts, by which the people of any town
in Pennsylvania, and other States of this
I Union, should, after a formal vote to that
effect, be able to establish a free public li-
THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1860.
brary, supported by regular municipal ap
propriations. Our .State stands very much
in need of' the multiplication of such influ
ences to keep its population at home, to
stimulate its progress and raise the masses
in the scale of intelligence. There ought
to bo a library in every town in the State
for the use of the people; and if this law
were enacted, many would speedily avail
themselves of it. Should none act under
it, of course it would be nothing more than
the present condition of tilings.
•Went into a Desert Place.'
We are told that when the Apostles re
turned from their first ministerial work,
our Lord 4 took them and went aside pri
vately into a desert place.' We cannot
doubt that this was done with a deep mean
ing. It was meant to teach the great les
son, that those who do public work for the
souls of of others, must be careful to make
time for being alone with God.
The lesson is one which many Chris
tians would do well to remember. Oc
casional retirement, self-inquiry, medita
tion and secret communion with God, are
absolutely essential to spiritual health.
The man who neglects them is in great dan
ger of a fall. To be always preaching,
teaching, speaking, writing, and working
public works, is unquestionably a sign ot
zeal. Rut it is not always a sign of zeal
according to knowledge. It often leads to
untoward consequences. We must make
time occasionally lor sitting down and calm
ly looking within, and examining how mat
ters stand between our own selves and
Christ. The omission of the practice is
the true account of many a backsliding
which shocks the church, and gives occas
ion to the world to blaspheme. Many
could say with sorrow, in the words of Can
ticle-1, 'They made me a keeper of the vine
yards, Lul my own vineyard have I not
kept." (Cant. i. 0). — J. C. liyle.
'OUR LITTLE DECEITS/
TSY ONE OF THE DECEIVERS.
People are much given to expending a
deal ot indignation upon that which they
designate as ' the deceit of society.' Yet
those who pretend to such ' horror of de
ceit,' are they guiltless; have they no sins
of commission in the little and large social
falsehood to which society is not to be the
father-confessor ?
We may as well acknowledge the truth.
We may as well open our heart's secrets to
the father-confessor, and be contrite for
once in our lives. We are all a compound
of dust, deceit and greed ; that is to say,
all of us who claim a special position or
social distinction.
' Ah, ha ! Jones, I am really glad to see
you!' exclaimed Smith. Smith never told
a more egregrious falsehood in his life.—
Smith, the whole entire period since he
last met Jones, has been trying to dodge
him, or hasn't thought of him in any wise,
and Jones knows this; and yet he accepts
the deliberate lie as a pleasant and custom
ary portion of our sociai etiquette. Jones
replied: 'My dear Smith—my old boy,
do you know I was thinking of you, this
morning ? I said to my wife this morning
at breakfast, ' I wonder what has become
of Smith, my old friend ?' and I had some
thoughts of calling up at your house.—
How have you been V
Smith is nearly certain that this speech
is a return lie. Jones uttered it to him as
he had uttered it to a dozen other acquain
tances that day. And after a social drink
together, the precious pair separate only to
renew the utterance of the same little
social deceits whenever they chance to
meet.
You, re der, who just now, perhaps, was
expressing such highly refreshing bits of;
moral anathemas in reference to backbiting, t
deceit, and lying; were you not just now j
in conversation with Brown ? Were you
not laughing at his jokes, gravely nodding \
assent to his judgment, taking him by the
hand and in every way using your utmost i
endeavor to convince those around you j
that of all men in the world, Brown is J
foremost in your esteem? Yet when!
Brown leaves —when, after he has resisted
your earnest and importunate, and half-a- I
dozen times repeated remonstrations !
against his departure, and has gone beyond
hearing, do you not in the presence of.
your friends (you think them friends, at
least,) pronounce Brown an infernal, artful,
irredeemable scoundrel —a Jeremy Ifidler,
a rogue, and everything that is either
mean or contcinptibte ? Certainly you do;
and it is no more than fair that you should,
inasmuch that you can safely swear that
Brown, in a circle of his supposed friends,
is annointing your fair fame with a simi
lar quality of the concentrated essence of
defamation. You and Brown knew that
you were uttering a few of those ' little de
ceits,' which are so absolutely necessary to
secure the stability of the society in which
you both live and move; separated, you are
like wild cats; drawn together by accident,
you are doves in disposition. All the
amenities (deceits) of society are extended
from one to the other; Iscariots and Ar
nolds embrace, and your falsehoods are ac
cepted as the most genial truths.
We hate with a hate that is unconquera-
hie the man we have just dined with, yet
having a due regard for the courtesies of
life, (we call our fear of what injuries he
may do us and our dread of an expose of
our own weakness —courtesies in this in
stance,) we cannot find words to express
our admiration of his character. We
leave his presence thoroughly convinced
that he is a consummate villain, and we
pronounce him so to our first acquaintance
wc encounter.
Father Confessor Society, aro we not ac
knowledging the truth ?
The ladies, too, whose ruby lips arc nev
er parted save to utter such sweet pleasan
tries, such kindly words of comfort —ah !
thev are not guilty of these sins of commis
sion. Oh, certainly not 1 What an unseem
ly churl is he who dare malign their char
acter for truth and veracity I Yet, oh,
Father Confessor, let us have a revelation
of their cloistered penitence! of the con
fessions they, like all of us, must make in
the cloisters of the mind, with unforgiving
conscience in waiting with the dreadful
scourge of remorse.
flow amiable arc the fair and fashiona
ble daughters of Eve to each other in pub
lic ; yet, how merciless in private ! ' What
a love of a woman !' says Mrs. Boles to
Mrs. Coles in reference to Mrs. Doles, 'so
amiable in disposition ; really she is worthy
of any one's esteem and confidence.'
Whereupon, Mrs. Boles in the next
breatli tells Mrs. Foles, who dosn't like
Mrs. Doles, ' "What an odious, abominable
ereaturo that Mrs. Doles is. Ido detest
her hypocritical pretences. 1 can scarcely
endure her presence. Ugh 1 I don't see
how the brazen thing can dare to face uie '
At this instant Mrs. Doles appears, coming
up smilingly to Mrs. Boles. The twain
embrace, and Mrs. Boles exclaims, with all
the apparent sincerity of' an earthly saint,
'Oh! my dear Mrs. Doles! I was just
this instant speaking of you to Mrs. Foles.
I was saying how lonesome we should be
without you here. 1 have almost made up
my mind to scold you for being so late.—
Take off your furs ; here, Mary, take Mrs.
Doles' furs, rubbers, and bonnet. No; no,
L insist; you must stay for tea.'
Ten minutes later while Mrs. Holes is
absent from the parlor, Mrs. Doles whis
pers to Mrs. Coles, ' What a smooth-faced
simpleton Mrs. Boles is. She is so vulgar
in Iter ways, and she does keep such mixed
company. Ileally, if it hadn't been that
I wanted to see you, I should not have
called. Oh, here she is.'
Such conversations are considered as
social amenities. They are not deceits.—
Oh, no ! Not the vilest and at the same time
the most absurd of sins. Ladies, we are
told, are like Metamora, and 'can not lie.'
They are only deceitful in a social point of
view, not personally. They cannot be
held accountable, personally, for the com
missions of such sins as form the founda
tion of fashionable society, and its only
maintenance—sociality only.
Now that the writer of this 'odious ar
ticle' has ventilated a sufficiency of exam- 1
pies of the little deceits of society, shall
we abolish them ? Shall we have no more
deceits, no more hypocrisy, no more sham?
Emphatically, yes ; we must have them.—
Were wc all to speak to each other as we
think, at all times and in all places, every
man and woman of us would be deadly
hostile to every one else. There would he
no friendships, no gossip, nothing but dire
and continuous sniveling, bickering and
misery. Soirees, Re unions, tete a totes,
Christmas rejoicings, New Year's festivi
ties, none ol them would we have. We
would stare at c-acli other, light like cats
and dogs; groan and growl, and mayhap
the most excitable would go mad with an
ger. Not one of us that would, were the
veil of other people's opinion lifted so that
each of us would " see oursel as ithers see
us," or could think himself or herself other
than the most abject, worthless being on
earth except —those he or she hated.
Queer hut substantial necessities, these
little deceits which we daily practice, to
which those oftenest resort who are the
loudest mouthed in condemning the great
bugbear, " The Hypocrisy of Society."
A Curious Marriage.
A novel case of habeas corpus, involv
ing curious and important questions of law,
was recently tried before Judge S. M.
Moore of the Circuit Court, Covington,
Ky. A resident of that city, named Wil- j
liam Boss, a short time since, became en
amored with his stepdaughter, Margaret
Coleman, who reciprocated his affections,
and a marriage engagement was the con- j
sequence. But the affianced pair found that j
their relationship was among the degrees
prohibited by the laws of Kentucky. But
the river was easily passed, and once in
Ohio the restraints of the law would be re
moved—marriage between blood relatives
alone being prohibited in that State. They
accordingly visited Cincinnati, were united
in matrimony, and returned home rejoicing.
The friends of the parties, however, were
dissatisfied with the nuptials, and determin
ed to separate them. The girl being a few
months under 21 years of age—the period
of female majority in Kentucky—aud till
the time of her marriage, having been uu
der the guardianship of a man named Hall,
but who had resigned as soon as that event
had taken place, a guardian named Elisha
Coleman, a relation of the lady's was ap-
pointed for the occasion, and a writ of ha
beas corpus was sued on Ross, commanding
him to produce his wife before Judge Moore,
and show by what authority she was de
tained by him. The proper evidences of
the marriage were produced, and the fact
that she was no more than eighteen years
of age, which concluded the period of her
infancy at the place where the marriage
was solemnized, were produced. The at
torneys for the guardian claimed that as
the parties were residents of Kentucky, a
marriage elsewhere, to evade the laws of
that State, was null and void. The
Judge sustained this position, nullified
the marriage, and gave (he lady intu cus
tody of Mr. Coleman.
The President's Protest.
The reply of the Judiciary Committee of
the House of Representatives to the I'res
dent's Protest against the appointment of
the Covode investigating Committee, is
overwhelming in argument and conclusive
by the precedents established. After le
capitulating the principal points ol' objec
tion raised by the President, the Commit-
tee say:
' In consideration of the high source front
which the manifesto proceeds, the Coin
mittee prefer to confine themselves to
•an examination of the postulates of tfie
paper, however obnoxious to criticism its
general tone may be on the score of taste and
temper. But they cannot restrain an ex pros
sion of their deep regret that an officer who
prides himself upon the fact that the 'people
have thought proper to invest him with the
most honorable, responsible, and dignified of
fice in the world," and who declares he feels
' proudly conscious there is no public act of
his (my) life whi'h will not bear the strictest
scrutiny,' and that he defies'all investigation,'
should forget, amid the surroundings of place
and power, and flattery, that he is but the
servant of that same people, and that he should
shirnk back in anger and terror from a sim
pie inquiry into bis stewardship. This is the
first time under the republic a Chief Execu
tive has left a recorded admission that he has
been made oblivious of the orign and ephem
eral character of his position by the reveries
of its enjoyment. To distinguish such con
duct by approbation would be to sanction
kingly prerogative, and to proclaim that right
came 'by the grace of God,' and not from
the confidence of men. The nation always
charitable in the interpretation of acts and
motives, is not prepared to overlook such a de
linquency.'
Proceeding to argue the power of the
House to institute any investigation into
the conduct of the President, the Report
holds this language:
The President, it will be observed through
out his message, assumes that tbe resolution
to which he makes reference charges him with
the comtnissit n of high crimes and misde
meaner. This was necessary to the argument !
he has advanced. It is for such charges on j
ly the House has the power of impeachment, i
The gravemen of his complaint is, that the j
accusations are of such a nature as, if true, j
would subject him to an impeachment, and I
that the House has proceeded to pass upon |
them, or is moving to pass upon them, through ,
a form of proceeding not authorized by the j
Constitution. Herein lies the fallacy, and i
that which, unexposed, might operate as the j
deception of the plea. If this wore in truth
a charge against the President, ealiing for the
form of trial prescribed by the Constitution,
then the determinations of ibis house might
possibly be open to animadvesion. Unfortu
nately for the attempted defence of that uffi
cer, there is no charge made of any grade of :
offence calling for trial of any kind. It is a
mere inquiry that is proposed. The language j
of the resolution may be cited as the best ;
proof. The committee raised is 'fur the pur
pose of investigating whether the President
of the United States or any other officer of I
the Government has, by money, patronage, or j
any other improper means, sought to influ- j
ence the action of Congress, or any Commit- ]
tee thereof,' ifcc.; also, 'to inquire into and in
vestigate whether any officer and officers of
the Government have, by combination or oth
erwise, prevented and defeated, or attempted
to prevent and defeat, the execution of any
law or laws," <kc.; and'whether the President
has failed or refused to compel the execution
of auy laws,' &c.
If no criminality is alleged, but, on the
contrary, an investigation or inquiry alone is
proposed, the question may be asked, with
ruling force and emphasis, what has the house
| to do with the law of impeachment? The
resolutions do not contemplate a judgement,
i and therefore there can be no formal trial un
der them. But, admit charges proper for im
peachment were made, would the House be
bound to submit the matter to any Committee,
and allow the accused a cross-examination, as
the President seems to suppose ? By no
means ! The Constitution prescribes no rules
for the House, but it is left perfectly free to
adopt its own. It may refer the charges to a
standing committee, or a select committee, or
it may proceed without the intervention of ei
ther. It may allow cross-examination, or de
ny it, as to its members may seem most proper
at tbe time. The precedent set in the
case of Judge Peck, upon which great
stress is laid, cannot take away the full dis
cretion allowed by the Constitution, nor make
the law either shorter or narrower than it is
written. In such a case each House of Rep
resentatives will determine for itself its mode
of procedure, without suggestions from a
'co-ordinate,' and rely upon the highest law
as its charter. There is no judge presiding
over the representatives of the sovereign peo
ple of the sovereign States to teach and incul
cate legal proprieties. When they shall per
mit even the President to do so, then there
will be a law superior to the Constitution, and
a discretion locked iu chains.
Of the discretionary right to engage in
such an investigation, the Committee say:
The constitutionality, the legality, and the
New Series—Vol. XIV, No. 24-
autln fazed expediency of the inquiry propo
sed by the resolutions being, as is believed,
amply vindicated, no question remains in re
spect" to it, except such as might address it
self to th.e discretion of the llouse. if, b|
the proceedings to remedy a mischief, agiCS'
cr mischief would be likely to follow, a
well regulated prudence would indicate its
abandonment. The President in his protest
suggests such a danger, and rests his resis
tance upon it. It is thus expressed: ' Hie
whole proceeding against him justifie ; the tears
of those wise and great men who, before the
Constitution was adopted by the States, ap
prehended that the tendency of the Govern
ment was to the aggrandizement of the leg
islative at the expense of the executive and
judicial departments.' If, indeed, fears of
legislative aggrandizement should ever havo
existed, the cause of those fears is left in
great obscurity. The history of the Consti
tution, through all the stages of its iurmation,
its adoption hy th.e several States, and the
conspicuous differences between the great po
litical parties at the time, would seem to deny
the existence of any such apprehension, lhe
strong sentiment of the democratic party,
through its whole struggle with the Federal
ists, until the election of .Jefferson, was di
rectly the reverse of the President's state
motif. In the convention that formed the
C.iiistitot tin, jealousy of the F.xecutive branch
of the proposed government was r.s groat,
even, as the kindred jealousy against the
probable encroachments of the Federal Gov
ernment op n the independence and sover
eignty of the separate States. In that body
it vv.v even proposed that the Executive should
be removable by the Legislature, without im
peachment or conviction of high crimes and
misdemeanors.
As a father manifestation of that feeling,
it was prop that the Executive should bo
plural. Madison and Randolph urgently sup
ported it as a measure of protection against
the aggressions of the Chief Magistrate upon
the rights of the co-ordinate branches of the
Government. Mr. Randolph, (Governor of
Virginia, and Attorney General under Wash
ington,) speaking upon the subject, said; 'ih©
situation of this country is peculiar; the peo
ple are taught aversion to monarchy ; all the
constitutions are opposed to it; 1\ hv cannot
three execute?' The ineligibility of the Ex
ecutive after one term was also insisted upon,
as a necessity to prevent usurpation. Jeffer
son declared his wish to be that the Presi
dent should le elected for seven years, and be
ineligible afterwards. Mr. Randolph also
made use of this remarkable expression :
' The Executives may appoint men devoted to
them, and even bribe the Legistaure.' Ham
ilton, after the adoption of the article of the
Constitution relating to the Executive, ad
dressing Governor Lewis, used a still more
striking expression : ' You nor I, my friend,
may not live to see the day, but most assu
redly it will come, when every vital interest
of the State will be merged in the all absorb
ing quei-tion of who will be the next Presi
dent.' So numerous are the proofs that the
'wise and great men' of our earlier history en
tertained forebodings of the very opposite
character to those which the President as
cribes to them, that it is difficult to resist a
disposition to attribute insincerity to
the President to accomplish the pur
poses of his protest. The suspicion on the
part of the people has become so great that
they arc continualh' reducing Executive pow
er. In many of the States the Governor has
become but a mere chief of police. This is
not, however, to be attributed to legislative or
judicial agency, but to the fact that chief ex
ecutives so use their as to produce
a tendency to a centralization of power dan
gerous to the liberties of tbe people. The
world is but a great battle field for power ;
and if universal history teaches any lesson,
it is this; 'that power is always stealing from
the many to the few,' that executive heads of
nations absorb popular rights; and that all
revolutions are on the part of the people, not
to establish thrones, but to regain that which
has been wrestrd from them by the throne.
The citizen of the United States has reason
to fear that which every other nation has suf
fered.
Curiosities. —A plate of butter fron the
cream of a 'joke.'
A small quantity of tar supposed to have
been left where the Israelites pitched their
tents.
The original brush used in painting the
'signs of the times.'
A bucket of water front ' All's Well.'
Soap with which a man was washed over
board.
The pencil with which Britannia ruled
the wave.
The strap which is used to sharpen the
water's edge.
A portion of the yeast used in raising the
wind.
A dime from the moon when she gave
change for the last quarter.
The saucer belonging to the cup of sor
row.
Eggs from the nest of thieves.
Stop Ilim .' —' Miss, can I have the ex
quisite pleasure of rolling the wheel of con
versation around the axletree of your un
derstanding a few minutes this evening
The lady fainted.
'"Buy a trunk, Pat?' said a dealer.
• ' And what for should I buy a trunk V
rejoined Pat.
' To put your clothes in,' was the reply.
< go naked ? The devil a bit of it.'
< I say, boy, stop that ox !' ' I hav
en't got no stopper, sir.' 'Well, head him
then !' ' llc'3 already headed, sir.' 'Con
found your impertinence! turn him !' 'He's
right side already, sir.' 'Speak to him you
rascal you!' ' Good morning, Mr. Ox !'
B*3^,' My son, hold up your head and
tell me who was the strongest man ?'
' Jonah.'
' Why so?'
' Because the whale couldn't hold him
I after he got him down.'