'y/bole No. 2576.
BLYffIYER & STANBARGER,
[|!iill! 11; I CO!IIM.\
IC33.OKJL ITIS,
Hear Canal Basin,
Lewistown, Pa.,
;V ll purchase every description of Produce
at current prices.
ALW AV 8 0 N II AND,
r 1.977:/', SALT, FISII, STOXE COAL
v f ported sizes, LIMFIIUIIXEItS'
" A: BLACKSMITHS' COAL.
GEO. BLYMYER,
j, 2 0. C. STAN BAUG Ell.
iiu j, luazi,
•jj "_JLS MAT crSJ CJA o
OFFICE on East Market street, Lewistown,
adjoining F. G. Frariciscus' Hardware
I-;r -. F- S- Br. Locke will be at his office
I tr.-t Monday of each month to spend the
,-eek. * my 31
XJK. A. J. ATKINSON,
TTAVIN'G pernianeiitly located in Lewis
ii i wii, offers his professional servi es
: the citizens of town and country. Office
IV -t Market St., opposite Eisenbise's 11 tel.
j; -i F-nee one door east of George Blymyer.
Lai-town, -July 12, 18GU—tf
Dr. Samuel L. Alexander,
'f lias permanently located at Miiroy,
in I i- prepared to practice all the branch
.3 - of his Profession. Office at tSwiue
jJ, 11 'tel. uiy3—ly
EDWARD FRYSINGER,
kbolesale dealer & hamiuh ker
OF
OtrnTOBACOUM,
&C., &C.,
&>Ao
Orders promptly attended to. jel6
Attorney at Lav/,
lift',.-, Vi.ttbet tsq iare, Lewistown, will al
: i-iiii-.- in Aiilllin, Centre and Hunting
. ' P > i CJ) 2t)
JDiXi' 5 hhl iJl ii J i
Eeigrist's Cld Stand
Fur the Canal Bridge, Lewistown, I'a.
Strong Beer, Lager ISeer, Lindenberger
,-.j Switzer Chccst—all of the host quality
i iistantiy on hand, for sale wholesale or re-
Vto be had daily during summer.
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MLISTERVILLE ACADEMY
£umata Cvanty. Pa.
F. MF.IHI. LVD, Piinripul S,- Proprietor.
Hit: Sill.l.Eli. Pr,f if .VatlumuHcr. Sfc.
i.LYXIE N. (kl> F, Teacher Jihisie, SfC.
IV- next session of It:is Institution com
■ i the 2tith of .'u!y, to continue 22
Students admitted at any time.
A Normal Department
il he formed which will afford Teachers the
-■ opportunity of preparing for lull exantina
\ MEW AIT A ft \TUS has been purchased,
. cturers engaged, &c.
TLI. IS —Boarding, lioom and Tuition, per
• ->IUII. ->ssto yGD. Tuition alone at usual rates.
' sent free on application.
FRIDLEY & CORNMAN'S
Patent Self-lcstlng. Self-sealing. Premium,
Air-tight
HIT €A\B t J.IRS.
Patented October 2-', 1850.
B&*T\r Krrhisive Right of Making if - Sell
: ihr.i Cans and Jars in M'jlhiiand Cen
- rovnto's i.< held by the undersigned.
r PIIKSE Cans and Jars being perfectly sim-
A pic in their arrangement, and requiring
J e mont or solder to make them air-tight,
sr. the most reliahl" and convenient vessels
' 't are in the market for preserving Fruitr
• \ egetables of all kinds.
' i. y possess th following advantages over
•J other Cans and Jars that are in the mar-
IISST— AII that is required after the fruit
■is been put in hot, is simply to screw the
"ap down tightly.
>FH)\T)—They can be opened by a single
t the cover, and the contents taken out
'".--fourth the time required by other ves
. ClßD —Besides their simplicity and ease
: adpistmeut and the impossibility of stop
Mowing out, thev show at all times the
• :t condition of the fruit by simply looking
"f !h '- tap of the cover: if the gum gasket is
: the fruit is good : if convex, the
u " '. s P'ing to spoil, but will always show
• in time to ho saved.
. ! r ry JOHN B SELIIEIMKR, at his
'■ stove, and sheet iron manufactory, Last
•'trket street, Lewistown, Pa., also by couu
A stores generally. Je 28
[ DETERSIVE SOAP is for sale at Zer
,* e 8 Cheap Grocery Store. Try it—it is the
' jirliclc ever introduced ap2l
\\ HITE Stoneware by the set, 46 pieces
' ' in a set, at $4. $4.50 and $5, warrant
' jt'Jod. Also, various other articles, such
'ilet Sets, Tea Sets, Dinner Sets. See. at
a °lG ZERBE'S.
(RANGES AND LEMONS for sale at
Arbe's Grocery establishment.
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ffiGR&M RELIGIOUS
PSALM OF LIFE.
BT LOX'iFELLOW.
Tel! me not in mournful numbers,
'• Life i.s but an empty dream!"
For the soul is dead tliut slumbers.
And things are not what they seem.
Cuo&us.
Life is real, life is earnest!
And the grave ia not its goal.
Life is real! life is earnest!
And the grave is not it- goal;
'• Dust thou art. to dust retui nest."
Is not spoken of the soul.
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow-
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow
l-'iiul us farther than to-day.
Lives of great men all remind us
We ean make our lives snblime,
And departing leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.
Footprints which perhaps another
Failing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
Let us then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate ;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.
Go to the Prayer Meeting.
Let attendance on the meetings be regu
! lar and constant. Be sure to go, if possi
ble; go and see who you can find there. If
your faith is weak, go. If your love is
chilled, go. If hope be clouded, go. If
j• >y and peace fail to raise in your soul, go.
Every proic-sed Christian, be sure if pos
sible to go, that the activities of the soul
may be stirred up arid drawn out in (he
service of Christ. If you have for a long
■ time staid away, and the Christian armor
has got rusty, go. •Prayer makes it bright,'
burnishes the shield, the breast-plate of
righteousness. Go, if only a few are ex
j pected to be there, lor if you stay away the
j number will be less. Go as did the good
j deacon, to the red school house year after
' year, and often alone; and, like him, you
uiay by and by find the pi ice tilled with
anxious worshipers at i see souls converted,
i Go, expecting the presence arid refreshings
1 of the Holy spirit; and expecting to meet
Christ there, agreeably to His promise, that
where two or three are gathered together
in His name He will be in the midst of
; them. Be sure to go, always to go to the
, prayer-meeting when possible, even at the
1 sacrifice of ease and profit in worldly
things; and you will find a rich reward
••
in it to your own soul, and see blessings de
scend upon the church of God. Go —all
i go and carry out these suggestions, and
i God's blessing will be to you, like His proiu
i ises, sure. Try faithfully this recipe.—
J Christian Mercury.
Devotion -
If we know that an individual holds com
munion with God, that fact tends to give
us confidence in him. Something within
us tells us that the praying person is one
who will not injure us, and in whom we
can safely trust. It was upon this princi
ple that an infidel, who was traveling, and
who was overtaken by nightfall in a lone
ly and dangerous place, confessed that he
was relieved of his fears of being assasina
ted. when the owner of the cabin where he
had taken shelter, led the family in prayer
before retiring to rest. The infidel slept
soundly after such a manifestation of Chris
tianity. A cabin ro fed and walled by
prayer could not be an unsafe place, he
thought. We have authority for another
pleasing incident illustrating the same
point. In exercising hospitality to a cler
gyman, who arrived at a dwelling late in
the evening, the heads of the house sur
rendered to him their own chamber. Their
little daughter, three years of age, was
asleep in the crib, and they concluded not
to disturb her. Quite early in the morning,
she awoke, and looking towards the bed
usually occupied by her parents, saw a stran
ger there. At first she was startled, and
covered her head with the counterpane.
Soon, however, she peeped out, and said,
•Man, do you pray to God V 'Yes,'was
the answer, ' 1 love God, and pray to llim
every day.' This satisfied the little inqui
rer ; she smiled, turned over, and dropped
asleep.
fIHiTOMEOm
The City of Damascus—lts Great Anti
quity.
Damascus was an important place at
bast as early as the time of Abraham, so
that it is not less than four thousand years
old. Etymologists dispute about the mean
ing of the name. It was the ancient cap
ital of Syria, and was thus the quintes
sence of the quick-witted race it represent
ed. It is call dby some the most ancient
city in the world This is, no doubt, east
ern exaggeration, but the fact that every
thing said by the orientalists about this fa
mous capital is exaggerated, only shows
how strongly its real attractions had taken
effect upon their imagination. A celebra
ted epistle of an ancient writer calls it
' the great and sacred city of Damascus, sur
passing every city, both in the beauty of
its temples andt he magnitude ofits shrines,
as well as the timeliness of its seasons, the
limpidness of its fountains, the volume of
its waters, aud the richness of its soil.' —
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1850.
Its people call it ' a pearl surrounded by
emeralds.' 'Of all the cities of the East,
it is perhaps the most oriental.'
The descriptions of Buckingham are not
considered entirely reliable. But there
has selduui anything been written with hu
. man pen more beautiful than his picture of
the plain of Damascus. He compares it
to an English scat in the country, surround
ed by an immense park. The visitor in
quires for the family, and finds that they
| have been for a year in Italy. Meanwhile
the place has been delightfully unkept.
Its rich cultivation i.s everywhere partially
grown up; the trees uutrimnied and dip
: ping their branches in the sparkling rivu
lets; the roses grown almost into trees and
I covered with innumerable blossoms. Ev
ery where is seen rich verdure, luxuriant
growth, with but such appearance of wild
' ness as to give the finishing grace to the
landscape. Such, he says is Damascus in
• in the bloom ox the year.
Damascus was conquered by David, who
I made it tributary. After being held by
j Solomon, it revolted, and afterwards was at
the head of thirty-two kings. It was sub
sequently taken by Asyrii and Persia.
After the battle of' Issus, it fell into the
j hands of Alexander the Great, and Pom
! pey annexed it to the lioman Empire.
After being celebrated for its wealth and
splendor under the Greek Emperor, it was
conquered by the Saracens, and became for
a time the capital of the Mohammedan
world. The seeptre of Islam passed over
; to Bagdad, but Damascus is still famous in
; the history of Saladin.
It was beseiged by the Crusaders in the
twelfth century, but they failed to take it.
Later still, it was captured, with cireum
! stances of great barbarity, by Tamerlane,
! and finally fell into the hands of the Turks
| under Selim I. It possesses too, a high
moral interest, for on that beautiful plain
j it was that St. Paul 'became obedient to
the heavenly vision.'
Among (he points of interest connected
with this famous city are the Damascus
blades, so malleable that they might be bent
to a right angle without losing their clas-
ticity; that they could sever down or gauze
floating in the air, or divide iron without
destroying their edge. For ages the se
cret of their manufacture was unknown.
Gen. Anossoff, in the I ral mountains, how
ever, succeeded, in quite recent times, in
making a :-word which scorned to equal the
host Damascus, 4 with a blade of reticula
ted Hues — such as always appeared on the
finest Damascus blades—in broad stripes,
and showing a bright, gilded reflection.
He cut through a gauze handkerchief in
the air, and cleft bones and nails, feats
which cannot be performed with the best
Fnglish steel.' Anderson, in his recent
travels in Siberia, states, however, that the
secret died with AuossofV, as these swords
are not now made at Damascus.
Another point of interest is the famous
Damask stuffs. They are properly silk,
though sometimes made of other fabrics.
Large quantities of silk are still manufac
tured. and the Damask roses have lost noth
ing of their immemorable beauty.
There is at Damascus a considerable
trade both with India and Europe. Front
India are brought by the Persian Gulf,
lfassora, Bagdad, and Aleppo, spices, cot
ton goods, coarse and line muslins, and gold
stuffs. English goods come through Bey
rout and Tripoli. The people are Moham
medans, Druses, Oriental Christians, Jews,
Ac. The population is about one hundred
thousand.
A Pennsylvanian Killed by a Grizzly
"Bear iu California.
On the 25th of June last, a young man
named liarkiey Woodward, a native of
Pennsylvania, was killed in an encounter
with a grizzly bear, near San Antonia,
Montgomery county, California. A com
panion narrates the particulars of the af
fair as follows-:
' It was on Monday, the 25th of June,
that this man left the place where he was
encamped to go in search of some cattle,
which appeared to be missing. While on
his rambles, he came upon the tracks of a
grizzly bear, and followed them into the
mountains as far as he could ride. Then
he dismounts, ties his horse to a tree, takes
his rifle and follows in the tracks of the
dansrerous animal until he overtakes it;
then goes to within twenty feet of it and
fires from behind a rock, lie leaves his
rifle leaning against the rock and runs for
some trees, but the bear is too fast for
him ; he has not even time to use his re
volver. The bear caught him, threw him
down and chewed his head and face nearly
to pieces, being left entirely blind. In
that most horrible condition he wandered
for about three quarters of a mile down
the creek, towards where his horse was
tied, at times walking, at times tumbling
and rolling down the rough rocks, until
through exhaustion he laid down and
died. In that state he was found four
days after being missed.
' I have taken the pains to send you this
communication, hoping that you will insert
it or part of it in your paper, with the re
quest that all Pennsylvania papers will
copy, so that Mr. Woodward's widowed
mother may learn of her son's untimely
end. I was one of the persons who went
in search of him, and I can vouch for the
truth of what is written. He had but late
ly come to this vicinity to live, and none
of his best friends know that he has any
relatives in this State. He mentioned that
he had a mother living in Pennsylvania,
but we cannot recollect in what part.'
FIIANCIS SYLVESTKR.
.—
; Long and Exciting Sf-ige of a Maniac —
An Extraordinary Affair.
About ten o'clock on Sunday night a
madman climbed up the roof of a one story
: and attic grocery at the corner of Constance
1 and Gaienne streets, and, seating himself
j on the ridge of the slanting roof, beside
the chimney, he commenced singing a wild
I air, to winch ho vigorously kept time by
beating with a tomahawk he had taken up
! with him. SuC.i an extraordinary sight at
-1 tracted a crowd very quickly, and fearful
that he would lose bis balance and tumble
! down, they shouted to him to descend
through the dormant windows, lie sur
veyed them with the most placid indiffer
ence from his exalted position, but paid no
j heed to entreaties or threats, until, as tlie
crowd increased in size, and became more
I boisterous, his passion seemed to be arous
' ed, and loosening the bricks of the chim
ney, he very deliberately broke them in
pieces on the ridge of the roof and hurled
them at the people below. A great scat
tering took place, but not. before a few were
struck and bruised with the brickbats which
came with unerring aim upon those for
| whom they were intended. After gaining
I his position with so much trouble, the mad
' man was evidently determined upon main
! taining it, ami now perhaps laboring under
; the belief that he was beseiged by the pop
ulace, he kept on coolly loosening bricks
from the chimney and breaking them into
| proper size for ammunition with his toma
; hawk. Not a man, woman or child could
now approach within any distance from him
1 without running the risk of having their
! heads cut open by the missiles which came
thick and fast from his frenzied arm. All
night long he kept his position, and so re
lentless was he in his watch for objects to
tire at that the watchman had to caution
passers by to keep under the cave of the
house, out of his reach.
When daylight came, lie was even more
j vigilant than before, and the immense
i crowd that collected frequently got too near
I him, so that a number of persons were
I struck, but not badly hurt. This state of
j affairs was becoming quite serious. The
maniac had nearly used up the whole chim
! ney in his bombardment of the neighbor
! hood, and the street was covered with brick
bats, while no one could pass unless by
crouching along under the cave of the
house, ile seemed tireless in his fury, and
answered imploriogs, commands and threats
only by a shower of missiles. Some eight
or ten policemen were on the ground with
Mayor Monroe, and the question perplexed
all how he was to be removed. A couple
of officers had made an attempt to bring
him down by getting through the dormant
windows. The roof was so steep that they
could not have grappled with the madman
without reeling off, and besides, as soon as
they showed their heads out of the window,
lie made them targets for his brickbat-
The foreman of an active up town engine
company, in this emergency, proposed to
try the effect of cold water treatment, as
he had heard that shower baths were often
u>ed to subdue very violent maniacs. This
plan being agreed upon as the one promi
sing success, a party went round to the
nearest engine-house, that of Volunteer No.
| 1, and brought their machine on the ground.
A full stream of water was turned upon ;
the madman, and whether it came with too
much force or gave him a nervous shock, he
fell off the ridge, rolled down the roof, and j
; tumbled down upon the banquette, striking i
upon the seat of applied learning, lie ;
was at once taken to the Charity Hospital i
in a carriage, and though badly jarred by 1
the fall, was not seriously hurt.—-A. O. j
| Bee.
v ®?fL>The head of a celebrated mercan
tile house in Vienna has recently erected a
mausoleum which no one, even of his most
( intimate friends, is allowed to enter. The .
walls are covered with black velvet, upon ,
which appear the family arms of the pro- j
prietor. Upon a platform slightly eleva- ;
i ted stands an open coffin, with candles of
black wax at its four corners. At the foot
1 of the coffin is a plate of silver, on which
! are the name and date of birth of the fu
| ture occupant of the narrow abode, and a j
space has been left for the date of his j
; death, and this he evidently expects within j
the coming ten years—for he has comple- '
ted the reeord as far as 180—. Daily he is j
: accompanied by his friends to the door of
his tomb; there he leaves them, enters
alone into the edifice, lies down in his cof
fin, and causes a concealed organ to play
lugubrious music. Then he goes forth to '
the world again, dines heartily, and ,
verses with a gayety of maD^ r -which
charms all his guests.
A storekeeper, a days since,
j P ur <d ia sed of an Irish w oman a quantity of
butter, the lumps o'j w hich, intended for
j pounds, he <weU; Qed in the balance and
found want ir ,0 >S h U re, it's yer own
jj au 1 * re light/ said Biddy in reply
! 11C complaint of the buyer, ' for wasn t
1 a pound of soap that I bought here my
' je lf, that I had on the other end of the
, I scales when I weighed 'em.'
A Lady Bitten Lya Rat. —The Charles
ton Evening News relates the following,
which occurred in that city :
On Thursday morning at about 1 o'clock, j
a lady residing in South street, next door j
south of the Planter's Hotel, was awakened
ii m sleep by a great noise in her room
made l>y a rat, when she set a small poodle
dog that slept at her bedside upon it, which
was soon conquered. The lady anxious to
escape the apparently infuriated thing, at
tempted to jump into bed, ar.d while in the ,
act the rat quitted his hold upon the dog,
and flying at her, seized with his teeth (he
sole of her right foot near the two small
toes, and inflicted a severe wound. Sim
ple remedies were used upon the wound,
but Friday morning there was such strong
symptoms of Tetanus appearing, (hat Dr.
Erazer was sent for, and under his care she
is doing we'll, though not entirely out of j
dangei yet. Her husband, who is a po
liceman, came home about the time she
was bitten, and with a stick, succeeded af
ter a hard encounter in killing the furious
animal, whose body measured 13 inches.
J i ickpoc/i( ts nnil their l'ructiees. — iho
New York Tribune publishes an article on
pickpockets. It says it is not an unusual
tiling for an expert to start from New York
i with scarcely any funds, travel directly
through to New Orleans or some of the
Western cities, and immediately return
with sufficient money to enable him to hvc
in idleness several months, 'i hose are par
; ticularly afraid of the Detectives, and will
I seldom attempt a job when they know them
!to be near. It frequently occurs that at
I places of amusement a thief will present
himself to a Detective, who may be there,
land beg to be allowed to go inside, lie
; promises faithfully not to ' work' the audi
ence, and if the Detective wishes, he will
wait till all the people are out of the build
: iiig before taking his depart arc. Ifthcof
ticer grants bim permission, he pays his
i money, goes inside and scats hinaselt in an
obscure corner, from which he watches the
; performance with pleasure, lie always
keeps his promise- faithfully, for lie knows
that if any one is robbed, the Detective
1 will arrest him immediately.
Saratoga correspondent of the
| Troy Times says tlmt two Huston men are
; the largest winners of'the gambling season
at the favorite watering-place referred to.
'One of them is an old man nearly sixty
years of age. who formerly kept a hotel in
Albany, and tailing in the business, in a
: moment of desperation, at the age oi forty,
took up the profession of a gambler. For-
J tune seemed to attend him from the first,
; and he is now estimated to be worth £200,-
| Oi.-'O —all of which lie has gained at hazard.
! lie has his servants in livery at the
Springs, his fast horses, carriages, and to
! one unacquainted with his profession, be
| appears a wealthy man of the world, pol
j ished and refined in his manners, and a
gentleman of abundant means, who has
! come to recruit his health by a morning
| draught at the Congress, or a drive upon
the avenue. He is reckoned to be the
I -MI: rtest and most lucky gambler in the
ttry. Few would imagine lliat he is
other than what he seems; yet he is only a
type of a large class of persons who annu
ally assemble at Saratoga, and pass for per
sons of the highest respectability.'
Frightful Accident. —A distressing acci
dent lately occurred in West Ilempfield,
Lancaster county, Penna. A Mr. Win.
Button, v "',h a waggon load of camp inect
im? fixtures, was returning from Mount
ie Camp. Three ladies were in the wag
on. The horses took fright and ran down
a hill with the swiftness of the wind. One
of the ladies, Miss Nauman, fell off, struck
a st.me, and had her skull broken in, her J
tongue split almost in two, and was other
wise injure'. Betsy Bowman had her
right arm broken just above the wrist, her
left arm in two places, and elbow out of j
joint, one leg out of joint, nose split in
two, and several gashes in her head; and
Mr. Button had his upper jaw bone broken
in a shocking manner, and received other
internal injuries.
Nwvr saic a Gold Dollar. —The Phila
delphia Inquirer says that not very long
since a liberated convict, from the Eastern !
Pennsylvania Penitentiary, went to one of
the inspectors to ask fur aid. The official
kindly gave him a gold dollar. The ex
convict took it, and after gazing for some
time with some curiosity, remarked that
when he went to prison he had never heard
of the existence of a coin of that denomi
nation '.
Many of the prisoners after their liber
ation, learn for the first time of important
political and social events which have made
great excitement in their day, aid which
liave entirely lost their novelty to the world
at large.
B®.One of our dandy negroes stepped
into a store to buy some potatoes; but be
fore purchasing he delivered the following
ion the nature of the root: 4 Be tatar. he
am inevwitably good or inevwitably oad;
dar am no medicumocrity in de combina
| tion of tatar. De exterior may appear re
! markubly exemblary, while de interior am
totally negative; but. seein' as dat you
, wends de article on your own responsibly,
j why, without suckumlocution, dis culled
1 pusson takes a peck.'
New Series--Vol. XIV, No. 44.
What hr the Free Trade Tolicy cf the
Denm. done for the Country.
The answei :o this question conies l'rom
an English St- tosnian, in such a shape us
to make u> blush fhr our country:
' In a debate in the House of Commons,
one of the speakers boldly urged, amid
repeated cries of 'hear!' 'hear!' that it.
would be better for England that her North
American Colonies should revolt and 4 join
the Tinted States,' which would render
them, he said, • more profitable colonics
than they are at present.' This gentleman
was Sir \V. Molesworth, a distinguished
member of Parliament-. He went on to
say that ' the United States of America
are in a strict signification ot the word,
still colonies of Great Britain, as Carthage
wa~ a colony of Tyre.' etc. Now our col
onies, as i term them, continued Sir Yt if
linn, 4 our colonics of the United States
arc, in every point of view, more u.-oful
to "s ihiiu all others j>ut toactlar. IE
then went on to prove this by figures,
winding up with the declaration that the
vast, magnificent market ui the I nited
States only cost Great Britain £l."),000
sterling a year. 4 All other colonial do
minions,' said the speaker re govern at
a cost of £4,000,000, wl.il. he United
States costs us lor consular and diplomatic
services not more than £l;>,oC'o a year
[h hear!] and not one ship-of-war re
quired to protect our trade.'
Breekenridge 011 the Stump.
John C. "Breckinridge, in reply to tlie
•torrent of defamation" poured up n him,
last week delivered a speech at Ashland,
the home of Henry Clay. 'J he speech
: opens with an apology for his appearance,
and an allusion to the Union, which was
met with great applause. Another apolo
i gy for his treatment of Mr. Guthrie is in
• troduced, together with a dignified descrip
| tion ot the manner in which the nomina
tion at Baltimore was forced upon hint,
lie waives the question of the regularity
! of the Convention by which 'an eminent
citizen of Illinois" was nominated. He
thinks that that question has been fully ex
i hibited before the American people, but is
i of the opinion that it was devoid not only
of the spirit of justice, but of the forms
of regularity. A very singular sentence,
breathing with prophecy, we quote as fol
j lows : ' 1 look forward with pleasure to the
prospects 1 have of sereiny vutj con it try i>r
' the S< nati of the Lotted States for the
neat six years.' He denies having signed
a ] etition for the pardon oi old Join,
j Brown, and also declares that lie did not
i support General Taylor in 1&48, and ex
plains his neglect to vote for Cass and But
ler by a little hunting anecdote, lie also,
1 in a few misty paragraphs, elaborates bis
j popular-sovereignty record, and denies fhy
he was committed to that doctrine, lie
endeavors to show the inconsistency of Mr
i Douglas. The charges of Mr. Douglas,
: that the Kcntuckian's party is a disunion
> party, the speaker ui. misses in a few haugh
' ty and dictatorial sentences, while he pro
ceeds to reply to the criticism of Mr. Crit
tenden, in thatstatesman's Louisville speech.
This portion of (he address is the most in
teresting part of the oration. The speaker
thinks there is nothing in his career to jus
tify the charge of .Disunion, nor in the ca
reer of his colleague, General Lane, to
whom lie paid a glowing eulogy, on the
•mutual admiration' principle introduced
by the General in his Independence Square
speech. Mr. Breckinridge thinks the con
test one of principle, and to an elaboration
of the principle involved—to wit: protec
tion for slavery in the Territories —a great
er part of the address is devoted.
old fellow who had become
weary of his life thought he might com
mit suicide, but be did not like to go with-
O' reiving all his enemies. So cogita
ting , ith himself, he at last removed the
noose from his neck, saying: 'Mo,'twon't
Jo—l can't forgive old Noah for letting
the copper head snakes into the ark. 'I be
nasty varmints have killed two thousand
dollars' worth of my cattle ; and when he
and I meets, I know there'll be a general
fuss. See if there an't.'
Jlitjhfalutin. —Somebody, at a demo
cratic political meeting in Delaware, very
improperly said uncivil things of Gen.
Winficld Scott, whereupon Mr. Briggs
arose in his defence. The following is his
eloquent speech:
' Mr. President —Whoever says Gen
Scott is not a patriot, should he kicked
out ot the back door of public contempt;
rolled down the, gutter of degradation ; pick
ed up with the tongs of general execra
tion, and ouried in the waters of oblivion.
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