Whole No. 2595.
LSd 12 133
OFFICE on East Market street, Lewistown,
adjoining F. G. Franciseus' Hardware
Store. I*. S. Or. Locke will he at his offiee
the first Monday uf each month to spend the
week. my3l
DR. A. J. ATKINSON,
HAYING permanently located in Lewis
town, offers his professional services
in the citizens of town and country. Office
West Market St., opposite Eisenbise's Hotel,
llesidence one door east of George jßlymyer.
Lewistown, .July 12, 18G0-tf
Dr. Samuel L. Alexander.
j) Has permanently located at Miiroy,
¥jraiid is prepared to practice al! the branch
j® es of fiis Profession. Office at Swine
hart's Hotel. niy3-ly
EDWARD FRYSINGER,
MHOLESAI.E DEALER & niIfIFACTIRER
OF
IMS, TOBACCO, MP,
&c., &c.,
Orders promptly attended to. jel6
GEO. 77. SLEEP*.
Attorney at Law,
.Office Market Square, Lewistown, will at
tend to business in Mltilin. Centre and Hunting
don counties. luv26
jyiTT-:
Seigribt's Old Stand,
Ve.rr the Canal II ridge, Lewistown, I'a.
strung Beer, Lager Beer, Lindenberger
niiid Switzer Cheese—all of the best quality
constantly on hand, for sale wholesale or re
tail.
Yi-a-t to he had daily during summer.
my24-yr
McALISTERVILLE ACADEMY
Juniata County, Pa.
■CiF.O F. McF.nil. LS I), Ptincipal Proprietor,
hit'Oli MILLER, Prat', of Mathrmalics, kc
,Vi!i d.N'.\7£ S'. CRIbT, Teacher of Mxisic, Sfc.
'J'he next session of this Institution com
mences on the 26th of Jul}, to continue 22
uetks. Students admitted at any time.
A Normal Department
ivi',l be formed which will afford Teachers the
<•■. l opportunity of preparing for fall examina
tion!.
\ NEW APPARATUS has been purchased.
Lecturers engaged, &c.
Tkrms — Hoarding. Room und Tuition, per
u-sion, $55 to s(>o. Tuition alone at usual rates.
sent free on application.
SILVER PLATED WARE,
BY IliltlLY FILLET,
No. Uii Market Strut, l'liiludrl) liia,
M AN' I FACTt'KEft OF
/'•, Virkel Silver, and Silver Plater of Forks,
Sji .onv, Ladles, Puller Knives, Castors,
Ten Sets, L'rns, Kettles, Waiters, But
ier Dishes, Ire Pitchers, Cake
Baskets, Communion Ware,
Cups, Muys, Goblets, li'c.
W:th a gm.-ral a.-sortincnt, comprising hone hiit the
'' ]uahty. intuit ot' the b*st materials ami horvily pla~
N - 'Ostiturmg theiu a son useable and u arable
' H"tei*. Steumbouts stnd Private Faniiiles*.
i Ware r< -plated ill the best manner. febiviy
WILLIAM LIND,
lias now open
A NEW STOCK
OF
Cloths, Cassimeres
AND
VESTINCS,
*hich will be made up to order iu the neat
t and most fashionable styles. apl9
New Fall and Winter Goods.
I) F. ELLIS, of the late firm of McCoy
11 • it Ellis, has just returned from the city
*ith a choice assortment of
Dry Goods and Groceries,
*'iyted with care and purchased for cash,
'liich are offered to the public at a small ad
'ince on cost. The stock of Dry Goods etu
wiiifes all dsscriiitjqns qf
Fall and Winter Goods
Stable for Ladies, Gentlemen and Children,
*itb many new patterns. His
(Krocertca
--iDtvce.Choice Sugars, Moliasaa, J*rVi, Rio
f Laguyra Coffee, superior Teas, &c. Also,
' ts and Shoes, Queensware, and all other
articles usually found in stores —all which
:r <® cuhtomers of the late firm and the public
n general are invited to.QZ&OJine.
R. F. ELLIS.
, ,': u untry Produce received as usual and tbe
u " market price allowed iherefor.
hewistown, Oetober 26, iB6O.
\ AILS, Spikes, See. —A. large and full as
t of Duncannon Nails and Spikes.
P° a full assortment of Tacks, Screws, &o.
*or sale by
C 029 JOHN KENNEDY & CO.
I, bESII Raisins, Dried .Fruit, Nuts, Oun
ces and Fancy Candy Toys at wholesale
untry stores iynd confectioneries can be
at at a small advance on city
jr,< *s, for cash.
4 i> - er,tk ner gallon for best Coal Oil, at
F. G. FRANCISCI S'S
iF&nsjsiiffi) iisria iFsnßaasanHß aw ®>ug®i£©a iraHrsißT®ia®9 &awssffiwsj 9 miffffam ®®sj | jFff 9 s>^„
Edited by A. SMITH, County Superintendent.
For tho Educational Column.
Teach Scholars to Thiak.
One of the old complaints against teach
, ers, and one that it is always safe to urge,
is that they are too apt to follow a beaten
path, to repeat what others have said, to
make parrots of their scholars. It would
be quite strange if this were not true. The
general tendency of men's minds is toward
passive reception of whatever is offered by
trusted hands. It is hard to think, to
study with deep earnestness, to investigate
for oneself; so, very naturally, the multi
tude, teachers as well as others, arc content
to pass along in respectable indolence, re
putable mental sloth. Perhaps it is un
wise to disturb the easy faith of any ; but
the question will at times occur to all ar
dent, thoughtful, truth-loving minds, what
is the use of living without thought, des
titute of mental and moral life and inherent
s'rength ? Can it be that minds are grant
el to us to treasure up the wise words and
| far-reaching thoughts of men and ages past,
] but not to search for ourselves into the ma
ny sided riddle of life? Truth is < urs,
not so far as we assent to a shapeihent of
it, but so far as we have sought out its na
; tun* and meaning, and made it our own.
The principles of an) - science are of use
to us as disciplinary instruments, only so
far as we have fully mastered them. It is
nothing that we are able to repeat them
without error; nothing, that we pretend to
teach them, unless we knoic them by steady,
conquering, assimilating thought.
How much effort is daily put forth by
the teachers of this State, to induce their
pupils to commit to memory the assigned
lessons! yet how little of all that is daily
committed and recited, is well understood,
so that it is an actual possession ol those
who repeat the words of the books! Words
are exceedingly useful as means of commu
nicating ideas, hut of w hat conceivable ben
efit are they when the ideas have fallen out
<>f them? Words, the best words are only
tools with which the mind expie-ses the
thought that otherwise could not be com
municated. Put no words must be suffer
ed to usurp the place of ideas. Pules of
grammar and arithmetic must be so care
fully explained that the}' must no longer
seem to the pupil like the arbitrary direc
tions given for the amiable purpose of puz
zling learners and bringing the answers,
but as a concise statement of the natural,
analytical process by which the true result
must be obtained.
Fellow teachers, we need to think nn re
ourselves; to have all the operations of the
schoolroom tend toward fostering in the
minds of our pupils a disposition to search
for the truth, for the principles of things,
for that which is best and essential in all
that we teach. We ought to rise above
, any petty desire to he brilliant, and to win
a reputatiou for success in teaching, and
strive to imbue our pupils with the spirit j
of honest thoughtfulness, of earnest, care
ful, candid inquiry. The world is built j
and governed in reason; all the phenomena
of Nature, and all the facts in human his- i
tory arc problems for us to solve, controlled ,
by laws which we do well to understand j
and to heed.
There is hardly a sadder sight than a
©an or woman who acts, speaks, but
never really thinks. For how many idle
words and aimless deeds must such have ,
to give acco mt! On the other hand, whom
do we revere more highly than those who
earnestly seek to know what is true and
right, and .then zealously follow whitherso
ever the Light may lead. These are the
true teachers, the guides, the correc
tors, the prophets of the world. It may
be we can give an impulse to some noble
mind, which shall hereafter be a rich bles
sing to the State and to mankind. At least,
we may incite those under our care to in
quire, to 6tudy, to think. If we do this,
we shall confer a priceless benefit upon
them, even if they never became lights in
the world. Men and women were not sent
into the world to be great or brilliant, but
to be thoughtful, truthful, and ever aspi
ring to that which is beet and jdcirest of
all—conscious unison with the Divine.
3?Qmi€M,
Speech of Mr- Etheridge of Tennessee.
Mr. ETIIERIPUE, of Tennessee, said that
if a jury of twelve honest man colud be
sworn to try the issue joined between the
two contending factions, and belonging to
110 political party, with no motive but .to
subserve the country, he could submit the
case to them without argument and have
an unanimous verdict. But, unfortunate
ly, a disinterested jury cannot be procured,
and the people are silly enough to appeal
tothistribunal forpeace. Therearetwo hun
dred and thirty-six members of this House,
but an equal number of as wise men can
be found in any Congressional district in
the country, and yet we are told that be
cause this Congress, elected without refer
ence to the present issues, will not instant
ly stay the tide of revolution, therefore
there is no hope for a free people. W.hat
•right have gentlemen here to atpurae that
they cannot settle the question? While he
would be glad to see the House do some
thing and much to allav the public excite-
THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1861.
went, yet he announced that if this House
or Congress fail to come up to public ex
pectation, before he would undertake to
overturn the temple of liberty, and crush
the lust hopes of the patriot, he would
move an adjournment of the pending ques
tions from this house to the people them
selves.
The revolution now threatening to sub
vert the country was the most unjustifiable
and unpardonable that the world ever be
held, involving the most fearful consequen
ces, and yet men all over the country are
playing with the mad passions of the peo
ple, and stigmatizing those as traitors who
would not participate in the revolution.
lie proceeded to show the madness and
folly of subverting the Government to se
cure any right without that may not he en
joyed in the Union. The personal-liberty
bills are net without excuse, but it was
due to the truth to express his belief that
they would be soon swept from the statute
books, and, if unconstitutional, they are al
ready null and void. If constitutional,
there is no right to complain. As to the
fugitive slave law, from the commencement
of the present century till now not one
dozen slaves have been rescued from the
State authorities. Why Mr. Orr himself,
of the kingdom of Carolina [laughter],
said that it was as strong as anybody wish
ed to make it; and would the fugitive slave
law be any more stringent and the people
more willing to execute it out of than in
the Union? The Northern people have
always and will ever be opposed to slavery,
and you can make no man in the North a
pro-slavery man. The strongest slavery
men in the South are Yankees, and they
no sooner go South than they marry a ne
gro. [Laughter.] lie begged pardon,
they marry a woman with negroes, and then
they commence to talk about the rights of
slaveholders. There was not a man in this
body who claims to be an abolitionist.
If there is such a one be wanted to know
if . [ Responses from the Republican side
—" Not one," '-not one.''] The Republi
cans in their platform denounced the John
11 rown raid as the greatest of crimes.
What other,.party had done this? The
people South and North do not hate one
another more than the old whigs and dem
ocrats used to hate each other, llut will
you love one another more if you separate?
You will separate on paper, but the Ohio
river is the only barrier to separate hostile
States. It you have no love now, will you
love each other better when you become
hostile nations and rivals? If our constit
uents could see all the free-soilers and
.Southern radicals here embracing eac-h
other they would not believe a word of it.
[A voice— •'* That's a fact.-' ] You bate
one another because the ins must soon give
place to the outs, when a political minority
must take up their baggageand travel from
this capitol. [Laughter.] If he could
to-day save the country by self-immolation
lie would do so, and trusted that others
would. Rut a separation would lead to
blood, and precipitate a war of longer du
ration than that between the houses of
Yuik and Lancaster. -Let the central
States be drawn into the contemplated
Southern Confederacy, and ten years will
not elapse before the slumbering tires there
in will break out with intensity. If this
is not true, then history is a falsehood and
a lie.
If, as has been charged, the Northern
people are for negro equality, that is a mat
ter of taste. [Laughter.] But while he
did not believe this, a separation would not
change their opinions. Up to 1884, free
negroes had the privilege of suffrage over
certain white men in Tennessee. Who as
sisted in making the constitution of that
State? Andrew Jackson. And before it
was amended, the latter was twice elected
President of the United States. In New
Vork, recently, a similar proposition was
voted down—twenty against one. Politi
cal equality as to white aaid black existed
in North Carolina twenty years ago, but
does not now. lie would stand by the
Government, and give his Northern breth
ren a chance to progress in political sci
ence. As to John Brown raids, he would
ask his seceding friends would they have
a more stringent code out of the Union
than they have now ? The great evil of
the times is that the people have suffered
so much from misrepresentation and per
sistent falsehood that they understand one
and less to day than the)' did fifty
years ago. The higher law men propo
gate the libels of the disunionists, while
the latter publish the remarks of Northern
fanatics as the opinions of the Northern
people. This is doing its evil wosk.
As gj evidence of his disposition for
peace, he would submit eight years longer
to the Administration of President Buch
anan. [Laughter.] He would assent to
anything—to the Crittenden, or the bor
der States' compromise, or the resolutions
which he had himself sought to introduce
here, lie would go for the recommenda
tions of the select committee of thirty
three, before he would go out of the Un
ion. Failing in this he would meet the
disunionists with oreh in one hand and
sword in the the other; and, so long as the
stars and stripes wave over Tennessee, he
would never submit to disunion. [Ap
plause.] lie proceeded to show that every
slave act of Congress which has excited
public notice and discussion has been dic
tated bv Southern statesmen and in con-
cession and guarantees the north has been
yielding everything that was demanded,
though it might be reluctantly, lie refer
red to the acquisition of Louisiana and
Florida a few years ago. 1 n 1810, before
he lived even, the clamor was so great that
the federal government had to purchase
that territory, because the peninsula must
be in the hands of a foreign power. It
cost five millions originally, and fifty mil
lions more we spent to suppress hostilities,
and millions morfe to build fortifications to
guard our commerce. After all, Florida,
with not half as many people therein as
were in his district—which can't muster
enough men to destroy her alligators—as
sumes to separate from her sisters. She
walks out of the Union, not only with our
fortifications and public lands—that is not
the worst—she leaves no prestige of the
unity of the States. Why Florida can
not protect herself from alligators without
the federal government. [Laughter] Flor
ida was purchased at the instance of South
em men. The south demanded and ob
tained Texas, and in this connection he
paid an eloquent tribute to General Hous
ton, who was now stigmatized by some as
a traitor and untrue to the south. The
south in 17ftd got the fugitive slave law,
and in 1850 obtained a more stringent one,
which, the Executive says, has been en
forced. In 1820 the Missouri Comprom
ise bill passed. Distinguished statesmen,
such as Pinckncy, hailed this as a great
southern triumph. In 1854, it was said
that this compromise was a stigma and stain
on the south, and it was removed, and po
pular sovereignty was inaugurated. What
lias the south ever asked that she has not
got ? It was but recently she asked that
slavery shall be protected. It was not for
him to say that this proposition was most
unmistakably defeated by them. No
member of Congress ovir introduced a bill
to protect slavery in the territories. Yet,
it is proposed to dissolve the 1 nion because
three millions of the people said, by their
verdict, non intervention is al! vou shall ev
; cr have.
Mr. Lincoln was not elected fully on the
| Republican platform—there was a eonglom
; eration of various interests, including the
: tariff measure. M ben a respectful state
| ment of southern grievances shall be made
out, he bad no doubt the people of the
north, at the ballot box, would grant all
| that fair-minded men should ask.
| Mr. } alia nd iff ham, of Ohio, asked, if
the gentleman s statement of the ease be
tween the slavcholding and non-slavehold
• ing States be true, ought the people of the
i free States to humiliate themselves by pro
i posing any constitutional umeudment or
additional legislation.
' Mr. /jhirtdt/e, of Tennessee, replied by
j saying that so persistent have been the
misapprehensions or misrepresentations of
northern men, high in position, as to what
would be the Republican policy, that the
people of' the couth are willing to believe
: a lie that they may be damned. [Laugh
ter.]
Mr. Yalhnnliyham, of Ohio, further
asked whether that was good reason that
they should yield what self-respect may
forbid.
Mr. Etluridgc said it was known that
the people of the south are like a tempest.
I hey were insane ; and, in the language of
Scripture, he would answer them as he
would a fool—" according £o his folly."—
If the people of one section ate misled, in
the name of Heaven, would it be just to
say that those of the other section should
not do what is right to disabuse their minds?
In the course of his remarks he read an ar
ticle from the Montgomery Mail, in which
the editor says that the policy of the lle
publieans is to turn the negroes loose, and
compel them to intermarry with the poor
whites, etc. Was it not true that Mr.
Rhett had alleged that Mr. llamlin was a
mulatto And did not Memminger an
nounce, .cm tJm pine hills, to persons of
high and low degree, including "philoso
phers' and "short boys," that 31 r. Hamlin
was really a mulatto?
Mr. 1 (dlandigham inquired whether
anything in the Crittenden proposition, or
the resolution of the border State commit
tee, or the recommendations contained in
the report of the committee of thirty-three,
is calculated to remove such a delusion as
was spoken of in the minds of the southern
people.
Mr. EthcriJge replied that men are stand
ing in the south, to-day, surrounded by a tem
pest —by a fire which feeds itself, and is
all-devouring. It jg well known that
throughout the south, where the disunion
.sentiment predominates, there exists a
reign of terror. While the Conventions
are in session in Charleston, Montgomery,
and elsewhere—while men are deliberating
on the fate of an empire—the military are
being drilled.
Mr. Lcakr, of Virginia, wanted to know
where the gentleman stood —by the north or
south.
Mr. Etheridge. I speak on the side
which has but few representative!:. I am
speaking for my country. [Applause.]
After alluding to the fearful condition
of affairs in the South, and the alarm
which the military movements occasion, he
said he would vote .for any proposition that
could for a momeht relieve the public
mind. I will, he added, return to Tennes
see to resist the wave of disunion. If the
worst cornea to the worst, and T should he
dragged to the fearful precipice, and made
an unwilling observer of my country's ruin,
I will wasli my bands ol the shame and
crime which will attach to those who wouli
overthrow the public liberty, and make our
country a despotism. I will cling to the
flag of iny country in this darkest hour of
peril, and cling to it as a saint would cling
to his god. [Applause.]
mmmqes.
The Emperor of France on American
Affairs.
A correspondent of the Baltimore Amer
ican, writing from Paris under date of Jan
uary 4th, gives the following incident as
transpiring at the Emperor's levee on New
year's day:
When the collective reception of the Di
plomatic body was over, the Emperor pas
sed slowly along the line of Embassadors
and Ministers, speaking a few words to
each in person. After a moment's conver
sation with the Persian Embassador, who
stood at the right of the Minister of the
I uited States, the Empercr approached
Mr. Faulkner, and cordially shook his
hand. The usual words of greeting were
then exchanged, after which the Emperor
asked in English—
' M hat is the latest intelligence you have
received from the United States?" Not so
alarming, I trust, as the papers represent
' Like most nations, sire,' replied Mr.
Faulkner, 'we have our troubles, which
have lost none of their coloring as describ
ed in the European press .'
The Emperor.— 4 J hope it is not true
that any of the States hare sejxtra t>d from
tho General Confederation ?
Mr. Faulkner.— 4 The States still form
one common Government, as heretofore.
I here is excitement in portions of the Con
federacy, and there arc indications of ex
treme measures being adopted by one or
two of the States. Hut we are familiar
with the excitements, as we are with the
vigor, which belong to the institutions of
a free people. \\ c have already more than
once passed through commotions which
would have shattered in to fragments any
other government on earth, and this fact
justifies the inference that the Union will
now be found equal to the strain upon it.'
Ihe Emperor.—' I sincerely hope it may
b, so; AND Til at vor .MAY T.ONCJ CON
TIM' E AN I NITKI) AND PROSJ'EfiOJ S PEO
PLE.'
Mr. laulkner then asked permission of
the Kmperor to present to him Mr. J. G.
Clarke, acting Secretary oi Legation, and
Mr. K. Boyd Faulkner, acting Assistant
Secretary, to whom his majesty made a lew
kind remarks, and then passed on to the
Minister of Denmark.
Iho account; givey of this important
conversation between Napoleon I IT. and
the Minister of the 1 uited States may be
relied upon fully. I have it from a gen
tleman who was present and who heard ev
ery word pronounced on both sides. In
dued, tin circumstances are now very gen
erally known among the Americans in
Paris, who comment upon the affair accor
ding to their individual political senti
ments, but all, I believe, concurring in the
opinion that the interrogatories and obser
vations of the Emperor were inspired by a
sincere regret at our internecine divisions,
threatening a disaster which will not be
attributed in Europe to its real sources,
and which could not fail to inflict a terri
ble blow upon the struggling populations
of Europe, looking fo our country as a
model of political liberty, and to our unex
ampled material prosperity as the most sig
nal evidence of the success and stability
of republican institutions.
A Man Killed by a Lion at Astley s
Theatre.
\ eetcrday morning an alarming circum
stance occurred at Astley's Royal Amphi
theatre, owing to the escape of the whole
of the lions, the property,of Mr. Crockett,
from their den, which occupied a place ve
ry near the stage. At about a quarter be
fore eight the men who usually attend to
cart away the manure were startled by the
loud roaring of the lions, but as they had
on former occasions heard somewhat simi
lar sounds, they proceeded with their work
as usual. The noise, however, did not sub
side, Lut on the contrary, increased, and in
a few minutes the men were horror-struck
at beholding one of the lions struggltng
with a man named Jarvey, a yard helper in
the establishment. Mr. Crockett's animal
keeper was immediately sent for, and arri
ved in a very few minutes, but he not hav
ing the power over the infuriated beasts
that Mr. Crockett had, immediately sent
for that gentleman. On the arrival of Mr.
Crockett he rushed on to the stage, where
the lion was running about with the unfor
tunate man Jarvey in his mouth, to all ap
pearance quite dead.
Mr. Crockett instantly seized a stable
fork, and dealt the lion a heavy blow on
the side cf the head, which caused it to let
the man go; but instead of running away,
he turned round and seemed inclined to
spring upon his master. Another power
erful blow, however, made the enraged an
imal turn and run away. Medical aid was
immediately brought for poor Jarvey, but
on the arrival of the surgeon life was found
to be extinct After the body nf Jarvev
New Series—Vol. XV. No. 13.
j had been removed, Mr. Crockett \\eut
1 search of the three lions who were now
i roaming about the theatre. One was soon
! running about at a remote corner of tho
stage, another was in the arena, and the
I other could not be seeu. The lioness was
; the first that was attempted to be secured,
j but this was a work of extreme danger and
difficulty, as the assistants were all afraid
|of even approaching the beast. On seeing
Mr Ciockott the lioness made a dash
through the pit saloon, whence §he rushed
up the box staircase and entered one of the
private boxes, and tuoh up a most threaten-
I ing attitude.
Nothing daunted, Mr Crockett entered
the box, placed a leathern collar round her
neck, and having secured her head, she
wa hauled out of the place by ropes, and
finally placed in security. From the prp
vate box Mr. Crockett saw another of the
animals playing on the stage with a quan
tity of ribbons and stage properties, apq
with comparatively little difficulty it was
placed again in the cage, and after a few
minutes search the third was recaptured.
At half past seven yesterda" morning the
watchman of the theatre, who is on duty
all night, left, at which hour, ho says, all
was perfectly quiet and safe. In conse
quence of the large lion being unwell it
had been parted from its companions, and
it is supposed that in endeavoring to join
it one of the three lions in the other com
partment of the cage must have broken
down the partition and thus displaced the
iron bars. The greatest excitement and
consternation prevailed for some time in the
theatre, and it required Mr. Crockett's ut
most persuasion to convince the attendants
that no further danger need be apprehend
ed.—London Times, Jan. 8.
Charles Carroll's Supplemental Decla
ration.
In the year 1820, says a writer in the
Washington Union, alter all save lie • }
the baud of patriots whose signatures - re
borne on the Declaration of Independence,
had descended to the tomb, and the void
able Carroll alone remained among the liv
ing, the government of the city of New
York deputed a committee to wait on th*.
illustrious survivor, and obtain from him,
for deposit in the public hall of the city, a
copy of the Declaration of 177* v, graced
and authenticated anew with his sign man
ual. The aged patriot yielded to the re
quest, and affixed with his own hand to a
copy of the instrument the grateful, sol
emn, and pious supplemental declaration
which follows:
'Grateful to Almighty God for the bles
sings which, through Jesus Christ our
Lord, he has conferred upon my beloved
country in her emancipation, and on eer
mitting me, under circumstance,- of i;... ,
to live to the age of eighty nine years, and
to survive tho fiftieth year of American li
dependence, adopted by Congress on the
4th of July, 1770, which 1 originally sub
scribed on the 2d day of August of the
same year, and of which I am now the last
surviving signer, I do hereby recommend
to the present and future generations the
principles of that important document as
the best inheritance their ancestors
bequeath to them, and piay that the civil
and religious liberties they have secured
to my country may be perpetuated to re
motest posterity, and extended to the wjioi.e
family of men.
CHARLES CARROLL, of Carrollton
August 'l, 182* i.
How Sumter jiay -Reinforced.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Ga
zette has hit upon a very feasible plan for
throwing reinforcements into Fort Sumter
without incurring the hazards to which the
Star of the West was subjected. Ife sug
gests for that purpose the 'Winans steam
er,' and for the following reasons. We
quote:
This vessel, as you know, is built of iron,
is iiniuensly strong and attains a high rate
of speed. She has capacity lor ell thai is
required in men and supplies. She obeys
the helm like a thing of life; has a very
light draught of water, and any pilot, ae
well acquainted with the harbor of Charles
ton as the writer is with those of eastern
cities, could take her straight to her desti
nation, without the aid of buovs to guide,
or light houses to warn him.
The hour of twilight would carry her
safely over the outer bar, and, for the rest,
she would need only the stars of Heaven.
The chances of injury from the enemy's
batteries would be greatly lessened by the
absence of daylight; but if this be indis
pensable, the dangrrof mishap must still
be very slight, for aCannonJb.ill mut strike
her exactly amidships ( the location of her
peculiar propeller), or on the precise
line of her axis—otherwise the shot would
glance as harmless from her side as hail
stones from a housetop.
&otr\n idiot at Salsburg, Germany, be
ing very fearless, an experiment was made
to test his courage, by setting him to watch
a corpse, but which was in reality a live
person enveloped, and unfortunately, cou
fined in a shroud. As the supposed corpse
began to move, the idiot told it to lay still,
and being disobeyed, seized a hatchet and
cut off first one of the feet, and in spite of
opposition, the head of the helpless iinpos
tor, after which he calmlv resumed hi*
watch ire.