Wbole No. 2649. A UUIFOH'S NOTICE.—The undfmigned, *• appointed Auditor by the Ori bans' Court of Mifflin county, to m ike distribution of the balance. Ac., in hands of John Kerna, Ad mr. Bliaa Human 1. late of Decatur township, Mif flin county, deceased, will attend to the du ties *f hi* appointment, at his office, in Lew iatown, on THURSDAY, March 13. 1862, at 10 o'clock a. u>., when and where all persons hating elaims are requested to present them, or be debarred from coining in for a share uf M i.l fund. C. HOOVE Ft. febl2—4t Auditor. Eitafe af Jacob Llntbartl, deceased. NOI'ICE is hereby given that letters tes lamentary on the estate of J A(JOR LIN TIIURST, late of Armagh township, Mifflin county, deceased, have been granted to the uudsrsigned. residing in said township. All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment, and those hav ir.g claims to present them duly authenticated fur settlement. MARY ANN LINTIIURST. febl--6t Executrix. NOTICE! ALL per* <ns knowing themselves indebted to the late firm of KENNEDY k JUN KIN, by Note or Buck Account, will please call uo or before April Ist, 1862, and settle the sauie. BY SO doing CO ST g WILL BE SAVED, t after that time the accounts will be left in the hands of an Attorney for collection. K U. JUNIUS. Surviving Partner of the late firm of KXNNCDT A JUXKIN. luewwtjwn, December 18. 1861. PATENT COAL OIL GREASE. r PiiIS tircaso is made from COAL OIL, and has been found by rep~a ed tests to be th j most economical, and at ths same time ttie best lubricator lor Mill <i"nritnr. Stag**, \V mjJijk. Carls. Carriage*. Y Bhicl>-9 ut all) kinds, and all heavy heariii.;*, kepiiij the axle* at way* cuol. and not requit ing ilaeia to be looked alter for weeks. It ha b'-eit tested on railroad cure, and with one soaking o| the waste it ha run, with the cars. 'JO.OUO inilee ! Ail railroad, omnibus, liverv nt.ihie and Expr---* companies that have tried it pronounce it the nrplus ultra It combine- the body and tluidity of tallo-*. bee-wax and tar. ami unlike general lubrica tors, will not run off, it beiug warranted to stand any temperature. I have it in boxes 2$ to 10 lbs. Also keg fttt'l barrels from JO to 400 lbs, for general u'.' and sale 1 h* boxes are more prefem bit-; they are 6 incites in diameter by 2j inches deep, and hold 2J lbs net; the boxes are clean, and hardly a caiman, teamster, expressman, miller or farmer, that woo id not purchase cue b. x for trial. F. G. FKANCISCI'S L.'wiatnwn, February 12, l!<C-2. BARGAINS! DRY GOODS AT COST, 'pa.: undersigned, being about toe in*? out I h : * choice and well assorted stock of Goods "it hand, invites attention ~f per -nil- desirous of purchasing to the advantage 'hu afforded in these times, when economy becomes a necessity, ag vrell as a duty. Tin entire stuck of Dry Goods & Queensware ts therefore for sain at cost and carriage, of fering inducements which are nowhere else offered. _ Ihe stock embrace* Cloths. Casaimeri.s. •ml Cotton Goods for Ladies' wear. He has Muslins, Gloves. Hosiery, Trim raii-.gs. and a great variety uf other article* usually kept for sale. tgL t'o any one desiring to go into the bo nnes- at a well estab'ished stand, with a per niHticiit and substantial class of patrons, he would dispose of the entire stock, at a price tr.d upon terms that would prove an object. No better opportunity for a safe and paying investment can be found. 11. 11. JUNKIX. Surviving Partner of Kennedy & Juukin Lewi-town, Jan J5 I*o2. AMBROTYPES AND tthe Gems ol the Season. IMUS is no humbug, but a practical truth Ihe pictures taken by Mr. Burkliolder r ; unsurpassed f.. r BOLDNESS TRUTH [LLNESS. BEAUTY OF FINISH, and iitkAßILJTY. Pr.ces varying according to *ize and quality of frames and Cases Hoi>m over the Express Office. Lewistown. August 23. IH6O. New Eali and Winter Goods. RF. ELLIS, of the late firm of McCoj • A Ellis, has just returned from the city *Ub a choice assortment of Dry Goods and Groceries, "tested care Rn j purchased for cash, u " At * "fft-red to the public at a small ad vance on cost. The stock of Dry Goods em irate* all descriptions of Fall and Winter Goods citable for Ladies. Gentlemen and Children, oiany new patterns, ilia ©rocrrfra t°!j ?*'** Sugars, Molasses. Java. Rio * n Laguvra Cofifee, superior Teas. Ac Also '*' l* and Shoes Queens ware, and all other • "teles usually found in stores—all which • customers of the late firm and the publie general are invited to examine. R F ELLIS Country Produce received as usnal and the m V ket P"ce allowed therefor. Uwwtown. November 6. 1861. apamswriiafl) Agus ay Edited by A* Sana, County Superintendent. Kor the Educational Column. American Publio Edaoation. CONTINUE!*. The country has great reason to lament the effect ot the kiud of instruction upon which I have remarked. The universal greed for office is nothiug but an indication of the appetite For distinction which has been diligently fed From childhood. It is astonishing to see the rush tor office on the occasion oF the change of a State or Na tional administration. Men will leave quieu and remunerative employments, and subject themselves to mean humiliations, simply to get their names into a newspaper ami to achieve a little official importance and social distinction. This desire for distinction seems to run through the whole social body, as a kind ot moral scrofula, developing itself in various Ways, accor ding to circumstances and peculiarities ot constitution. The consequence is that [olitics have become the pursuit of small men, and we no longer have the opportun tty to put the best men into office. The scramble tor a place among fools is o great and so successful, that men ol dignity and honesty retire From the field in disgust Everybody wants to 'be something,' and in order to ' be something', every body must leave his proper place in the world and assume u position which God never in tended he should Fill. .Look in upon a State Legislature once, and you will find suffi cicnt illustration of our meaning. Not one in five ot the whole number possess the first qual fication tor making the laws of a Mate, and half ol' them never read the constitution of the country. I mean no eunti mpt lor the good, honest men of whom our State Legislature is mainly com posed, but 1 wish simply to say that there is nothing in theit quality of mind, habits of thought, intellectual power, or style ot pursu.t that fits them for the great and mo mentous functions of legislation They are there, i set of ' nobodies,' mainly tor the purpose of becoming 'somebodies,'and not tor any object connected with the good of the Stute. Somehow all the students in all our schools get the idea, that a man in order to tie 'somebody' must be in public life Now think of the fact that the millions at tending school in this country have in some way acquired this idc-, and th-1 only one : in every one thousand ol these is either ; needed in public life, or can win success ! there. Let this fact be realized and it is j easy to sic that the nine hundred and nine j ty tine will leel that they are somehow 1 cheated out of their birthright They de I sire to be in public life and be 'somebody.' j but f;ey are not, and so their life grow- j tame and tastelc-s to them. They are dis- i pponited. The men solace themselves 1 with a petty justices com mi sion, or a town j office of some kind, and the women—some of theiu —taik about 'women's rights,' and ! make themselves notorious and ridiculous j at the public meetings. I think women have rights whieb they do not at present enjoy, but I have little confidence in the motives of their petticoated champions, who court mobs, delight in notoriety, and glory in their opportunity to burst away from private life, and be reeognized by the public as 'somebodies.' I insist on this : that private and even obscure life is the normal condition of the great multitude of men and women in this world ; and that, to serve this private life, public life is in stituted. Public life has im legitimate sig uificaiicc save as it is related to the service of private lite. It requires peculiar talents and peculiar educatiou, and brings with it peculiar trials; and the man best fitted for it would be the Est man confidently to as sert his fitness for it. Thousands seek to become 'somebodies' through the avenues of professional life; and so prutcMuonal lite is full of'nobodies.' The pulpits are crowded with goodish 'no bodies'—men who have no power —no unc tion — no mission. They strain their brains to write common places, and wear them selves out repeating the rant of their sect and the cant of the schools. The bar is cursed with 'nobodies,' as much as the pul pit. Ihe lawyers are few ; the petifoggers are many. The bar, more than other me dium, is t at through which the ambitious youth of the country seek to attain politi cat eminence. Thousands go into the study of law, not so much for the sake of the profession, as for the sake of the advanta ges it is supposed to give them for politi cal preferment. An ambitious boy who has taken it into his head to be 'somebody.' always studies law ; and as stain as he is 'admitted to the bar,' he is ready to begin hie political scheming. Multitudes of law yers are a disgrace to their profession, and a curse to their country. They lack the brains necessary to make them respectable, and the morals requisite for good neighbor hood. They live ou quarrels and breed them that they may live. They have spoil ed themselves for private life, and they spoil the private life around them. As for the medical profession, I tremble to think how many enter it because they have neith er piety enough for preaching, nor brains enough to praotice law. When I think of the great army of little man that is yearly WEDNESDAY. MARCH 5, 1862. coin missioned to go lorth into the world with a case of sharp knives in one hand, a magazine of drugs in the other, I heave a sigh for the human race. Especially is all this lamentable when we remember that it involves the spoiling of thousands of good Farmers and mechanics, to make poor professional men, while those who would tuake good professional men are obliged to attend to the simple duties oF life, and sub mil to preaching that neither Feeds nurstim ulates them, and medicine that kills or tails to cure them. 1 here must be something radically wrong in our educational system when youth are generally unfitted for the station which they are to occupy, or are Forced in to professions For which they have no nat ural fitness The truth is that the stuff talked to boys and girls alike, about aiming high, and the assurances given them, indis criminately, that they can be anything that they choose to become, are essential nui sauces Our children will go to the pub lie schools. They are all taught these things. They all go into the world with high notions, and Find it impossible to con tent themselves with their lot. They had hoped to realize in life that which had been promised them in schools, but all their dreams have laded, and left them disap pointed and unhappy. They envy those whom they have beeu taught to consider above them, and learn to count their own lives a failure Girls starve in a mean poverty, or do worse, because they are too proud to wu-k in a chamber, or go into a shop. American servants are absolute, all com mon employments are at a discount, the professions are crowded to overflowing, the country throngs with demagogues, and a general di content with an humble lot pre vails, simply because the youth of Ameri ca have got the idea distilled into theui that to be in private lilt*, in whatever con dition, is to be, in some sense, a ' nobody.' It is possible the schools are not exclusive ly to blame tor ibis state of things, and that our political harangues, and even our political institutions, have something to do with it \\ hat we grealy need in this country is the inculcation of soberer views of' life. Hoys and girls are bred to discontent. Ev cry body is after a high place, and nearly everybody fails to get one ; and, failing, loses heart, tempe , and content. The mul titude dress beyond their means, and live beyond their necessities, to keep up a show of being what they are not. Farmers' daughters do not love to become farmers wives, and even their lathers and mothers stimulate their ambition to exchange their station for one which stands higher in the world s estimation. Humble employments are held in conlcu.pt, and humble power* are everywhere making high employments contemptible. Our children need to be educated to fill in christian humility, the subordinate offices of life which they must till, and taught to tespcet humble callings, and to beautily and gloiily them by lives ol contented and glad industry. When public schools accomplish an end so desir able as this, they will fulfil their mission, and they will not before. I seriously doubt whether one school in a hundred, public or private, comprehends its duty in this par ticular. They tail to inculcate the idea that the majority of the offices of life are humble, that the powers of the majority of the youth which they contain have relation to those offices, that no man is respectable when he is out of his place, and that half of the unhappiness of the world grows out of the fact, that, from distorted views of life, men are in places where they do not belong. Let us have this thing altogether reformed. LADIES' DRESS GOODS. I!* VERY description—Prints, Ginghams. J Delaines. Black and Colored. Black and White, and Second Mourning Calicos, Bro che, Osmanle and Paris Lustres, Ormbra Casl meres. Gray Plaids. China Madonas, Alpaca Plaids, Black and Colored Dress Silks, and ail kinds of Dress Goods. Flan nels. Ticking. Nankeens, Crapes. Linens. Brilliants, and Bleached and Unbleached muslins. Shawls, Balmonei Skirts. Hooped Skirts, all prices. Shaker Bonnets, Cloth Cloaks, new style. Bonnet Ribbons. Dress Trimmings. Ac. Cash buyers will find it to their advantage to call and examine the Stock. (scplß) JAMES PARKER. Carpets, Grocdfies, &c. \\ T OOLEN. Linen and Cotton Carpets— ¥? cheap—Qtieensware. Hard ware. Glass ware and Earthenware, with a good stork of Groceries, as cheap as our neighbors. Please call and see for yourselves. seplH JAMES PARKER. NEW FALL GOODS. I Y assortment of Goods are of the best I.IJL qoality and the newest styles, and by attention to customers I hope to be able to supplv the wants of the community at large. Call and see and examine for yourselves. sen 18 JAMES PARKER. Lumber, Lath, Flooring. &c.. AT greatly reduced rates Studding, all sizes, at $1 26. Good dry boards at 1 50. Beet flooring at 20 00. Plastering lath, and paling, headed and not headed, reduced 25 per cent. Wishing to close oat oar entire stock of lumber, purchasers will do well to call here before purchasing elsewhere. fbs F. G. FRANCISCUS. THE MINSTREL, NO SECT IN HE WEN. Talking of sects till late one ere. Of the variou® doctrines the saints believe That night I stood, in a troubled dream. By the side of a darkly flowing stream. And a "Churchman" down to the river came When I hoard a strange voice call his name— "Good father, stop; when vou cross this tide You must leave your robes on the other side." But the aged father did not mind. And his long gown floated out behind. As down the stream his wav le took. His pale hands clasping a gilt-edged book. •Tin bound for Heaven, and when I m there I shall want my book of Common Prayer: And though I put on a starry crown I should feel quite lost without my gown." Then he fixed his eye on the shining track But his gown was heavy, and held him back. And the poor old father tried in vain A sibgle step in the flood to gain. I saw him again on the other side. But his silk gown heated on the tide; And no one asked in that blissful spot. Whether he belonged to "the Church" or not. Then down to the river a Quaker straved, His dress of a sober hue wa made; " Sly coat and pants must all be of gray, I cannot go any ether way." Then he buttoned his coat straight up to his chin And staidly, solemnly, waded in. And his broad-brimmed hat he pulled down tight Over his forehead so cold and wnite. But a strong wind carried away his hat; A moment ne silently sighed over that. And then as he gazed to the farther shore. His coat slipped off and was seen no more. As he entered Heaven, his suit of gray Went quietly sailing—away—awav. And none of the angels questioned hitn About the width of his beaver's brim. Next came Dr. Watts with a bundle of Psalms Tied up nicely in his aged arms. And hymns as many—a very wise thing- Thai the people in Heaven-all round" might sing. But I thought that lie heaved an anxious sigh, As he saw that the river ran broad and high". And looked rather surprised as. one by che. The Psalms and Hymns in the waves went down. And after him. With his MSB., Came Wesley, the pattern of godliness ; But he cried". -Dear me. What shall I do? The water has soaked them through and through." And there on the river, far and wide. Away they went daws the swollen tide. And the saint astonished passed through alone. Without his manuscripts, up to the throne. Then gravely walking, two sainis by name, Down to the stream together came. But as they stopped at the river s briak, I saw one saint from the other shrink. "Sprinkled or plunged, may I ask you, friend, How you attained to life's great encl?" "Thus. with a few drops on my brow." "But I have been dipped, as you'll see me now. And I really think it will hardly do, As I'm close communion.' to cross with you; You're bound. I know, to the realms of bliss, But you must go that way and I li go this." Then straightway plunging with all his might, Away to the left—his friend at the right; Apart they went from this world of sin; But at last together they entered in. And now. when the river was rolling on, A Presbyterian church came down : Of women there seemed an innumerable throng, But the men I could count as thev passed along. And concerning the road thev OGuld never agree. The old or the hew way. which it could Vie, Nor ever a moment paused to think That both would lead to the river's brink. And a sound of mumuring long and loud Came ever up from the moving crowd — "1 ou re in the old way. and I'm in the new. That is the false, and this is the true."— Or, - I'm in the old way. and you're in the new, That is the false, and this is the true." But the brethren only, seemed to spealt, Modest the sisters walked, and meek. And if ever one of them chanced to say What troubles she met with on the way. How she longed to pass to the other side, Nor feared to cross o'er the swelling tide, A voice arose from the brethren then: "Let no one speak but the holt/ men ; For have ye not heard the words of Paul, 'Oh, let the women keep silence ail?' - ' I watched them long in my curious dream, T ill they stood by the border* of the stream, Then, just as I thought, the two ways met, But all the brethren were talking yet. And would talk ou. till the heaving tide Carried them over, side by side; Side by side, for the way was one. The toilsome journey of life was done, Aud all who in Christ the Saviour died, Came out alike on the other side. No forms, or crosses, or book 3 had they, No gowns of silk, or suits of gray. No creeds to guide them, or MSB.. For all had put oa Christ's righteousness." Fxtracts from a Speech of Hon Andrew Johnson, Democratic Senator from Ten nessee. We make some extracts from the speech of Senator Johnson, delivered in the Sen ate on the resolution to expel Senator Bright, of Indiana, regretting the iuipossi bility of printing it in full: THE POSITION OF THE TRUE DEMOCRACY I am a Democrat now ; I have been one a.l my lite; I expect to lire and die one ; and the corner stone of my Democracy rests upon the enduring basis ot the Union. Democrats may come and go, but they will never divert me irom the polar star by which I have ever been guided from early life—the great principles of Democracy upon which this Government rests, and which cannot be carried out without the preservation ot the Union of these States. The pretence hitherto employed by many who are now in the traitors' camp has been ' we are for the Union ; we sire not for dis solution ; but we are opposed to coercion ' Ilow long, Senators, have you heard that syren song sung? Where are now most of those who s rig tboie syren tones to us? Look back to the lust session, and inquire where now are the uteri who then were singing that song in our ears? Where is Truateu Polk, who then sio-.s! here so gen tly craving for peace? He is in the rebel camp. Where is John 0. Breckinridge, a man for whose promotion to the Presidency 1 did what I could physically, mentally, pecuniarily; but when he satisfied me that he was for breaking up this Government, and would ere long be a traitor to his coun try, I dropped him as I would the Senator from Indiana? He was here at the last session of Congress; and everybody could see then that he was on the road to the traitor camp—lnstead of sustaining the Government, he, too, was crying out for peace ; but he was bitter against' Lincoln's Government.' Sir, when I talk about pre serving this great Government, I do not have its executive officer in my 1 lie executive head of the Government comes in and goes out ot office every 4 years. He is the mere creature of tiie people. 1 talk about the Government without regard to the particular executive officers who have charge of it. 11 they do w ell, we can continue them , if they do wrong we can turn them out. Mr. Lincoln having come in accordance to the Forma of law and the Constitution, I loving my Government and the Union, felt it to be uiy duty to stand by the Government, and to stand by the Administration in all those measures that I believed to be ttcceexary for the preserva tion and perpetuation ofthe Union. COERCION. How is this Government to put down domestic violence in a State without coer ciou ! How is the nation to be protected against insurrection without coercing ttie citizens to obedience? Can it be done? When the Senator says he is against the entire coercive policy of the Government, he is against the vital principle ot all gov ernment. I look upon this as the most revolutionary and destructive doctrine that ever was preached. It this Government cannot call Forth the militia, if it cannot repel invasion, if it cannot suppress rebel lion, I ask if the great objects ot the Govern ment are not at an end? Look at uiy own State, byway of illus tration. There is open rebellion there ; there is domestic violence; there is insur rection. An attempt has been made to trauster thai State to another power. Let me ask the Senator irom Indiana it the Constitution does not require you to guar aiity us a republican form of government in that State ? Is not that your sworn duty? We ask you to put down this un holy rebellion. What answer do you give us? We ask you to protect us against in surrection and domestic violence Wlut is the reply ? lam against your whole coer cive policy; lam against the enforcement ot the laws.' 1 say it that, principle be ac ted on, your Government is at an end ; it fails utterly to carry out the object of its creation. Such a priuciple leads to the destruction of the Government, iur it must inevitably result in anarchy and confusion. 4 1 am opposed to the coercive policy of the Government,' says the Senator Irutu Indiana. 'J.hat cuckoo note lias been re iterated to satiety; it is understood; men know the nature and eharactet of t eir Government, and they also know that 4 co ercion' and 4 subjugation' are mere a<l cup tnudum , idle and unmeaning slangwangitig. Sir. I may be a little sensitive upon this subject upon the one hand, wiiiie 1 know I want to do ample justice upon the other 1 took an oath to support the Constitution ot the United States. There is rebellion in the land; there is insurrection against the authority u! this Govennueut. is the Senator in m Indiana so unol sei\ant or so obtuse that he does not know now that mere has been a deliberate design lor years to change the nature and character and genius ol this Government? Do wc not know that these schemers have been delib erately at work, and that there is a paity in the South, with some associates in the .North, and even in the West, that they have become tiied ol tree government, in which they have lost confidence? They raise an outcry against 4 coerciun,'that they may paralyze the Government, cripple the exercise o! the great powers with which it ws invested, finally to change ita form and subject us to a Southern despotism—Do we uot know it to be so? Why disguise this great truth? Do > e not kuuw that they have been anxious for a change of Government for years? Since this rebel lion commenced, it has manifested itself in many quarters. How long is it since the organ ot the Governmental Richmond, the Richmond Whig, declared that, rather than live under the Government of the United States, thry preferred t<> take the constitu tional Queen of Great Britain as their pro tector; that they would make an alliance with Great Britaiu for the purpose of pre venting the enforcement of the laws of the United States? Do we not know this? — Why then play 4 hide and go seek ?' Why say, 4 Oh, yes, I am ior the Union,' while every act, influence, conversation, vote is against it? What confidence can we have in one who takes such a course? UNION PEOPLE IN THE BORDER STATES. The people of my State, downtrodden and oppressed by the iron heel of Southern despotism, appeal to you for protection. They ask you to protect theiu against do mestic violence. They want you to help them to put down this unholy and damna ble rebellion. They call upon this Govern ment for the execution of its constitution al duty to guaranty to them a reputdican form of government, and to protect them against the tyranny and despotism which is stal -ing abroad. What is the cold reply? 'I am against the entire coercive policy ; I am not for enforcing the laws.' Upon such a doetrine Government crumbles to pieces, and anarchy and despotism reign through out the land. Indiana, God bless her! is as true to the Union as the needle is to the pole. She has sent out her 'hordes'—she has sent her thousands into the field, for what ? To sustain the Constitution and enforce the laws; and, as they march with strong arms and brave hearts to relieve a suffering peo ple. whrt have committed no offence save New Series—Yol. XYI, No. 18 devotion to this glorious Union ; us they march to the rescue of the Constitution, aud extend its benefits to a people who love it dearly; and who have been ruthlessly torn Irotu under its protecting fle r is, what does their Senator say to them '( *I am against the entire policy of coercion.' i)o you ever hear a Senator who thus talks utake any objection to the exercise of un constitutional and tyrannical power by the so-called Southern Conlederaey, or say a word against its practice of coercion ? In a4i the speeches that have been delivered on that point, has one sentence against us urpation, against despotism, against the ex ercise ot doubtlul arM unconstitutional powers by that (Jonlederacy. been uttered ? (Jh, no I UaVe you heatd any objection to their practising uotonly coercion, but, usurpation? Have they not usurped gov ernment? Have they wot oppressed, and are they net now tryatinizing over thepco" ple ? The people of my State are coerced, born down, trodden beneath the iron heel ot power. We appeal 10you-lor protection. \ ou stand by and see us coereea; you fctand by and see tyranny triumphing, and no sympathy, no kindness, no helping hand can be extended to us. Your Government is paralyzed; your Government is power less; that which you have called a Govern meat is a dream, an idle thing. You thought you had a Government, but you had uone. My people are appealing to you for prelection under the Constitution. 1 hey are arrested by hundreds and by thousands; they are dragged away Irotii their homes and incarcerated in dungeons. '1 hey ask you lor protection. Why do yolX not give tt? Some of them are lying chained in their lowly prison house. 'J he only response to their murmur is the rat tlitij; ami clanking ol the chains th.it bind their limps. '1 he only response to their appeals is the grating ot the hinges ol their dun.eon. \\ ben we ask lor help under the Constitution we ate told the govetH ; uient has no power to enforce the laws.— j Our people are oppressed and downtioudtn, ! and you give them no remedy, 'i hey were I taught to love and respect the Constitution |of the Lnited States. What is their con dition to-day? 'lheyure bunted and pur sued like the beasts ol the loiest by the Secession and disunion hordes who ate en forcing their doctrine of coercion. They ate shot or hung for no crime save adesne to stand by the Constitution of the United States. Helpless children and innocent females are murdeied in cold blood. Our men are hung and their bodies left upon the gibbet, 'ihey are shot and leit lying in the gorge? ef tbe mountains, not ever* thrown into the caves there to lie, but are ieit exposed to pass through all the loathsome stages of decomposition, or to be devoured by the birds ot prey. We appeal lor pro tection, and are told by the Set.utoi from Indiana and others, *we cannot etiiorce the laws; we are against the entire ctr cive policy.' Do you not hear th irgroans? Do you not hear their cries? Do you not hear the shrieks of oppressed and d>w n troddeu women and children ? Sir, elicit? tones ring out so loud and clear that even listening angels look front heaven iti pity. A HISTOKIAL INCIDENT. Alluding to the defeat of'the Crittenden Compromise, and the scene in the Senate at the time : I sat right behind Mr. Benjamin, and I am not sure that my worthy friend was not close by, when he refused to vote, and I said to him, 4 Mr. Benjamin, why do you not vote? Why not save this propo sition, and see if we cannot bring the coun try to it V He gave me rather an abrupt answer, and said he would control his own action without consulting me or anybody else. Said I, 4 vote, and show yours* If an hottest man.' As soon as the vote was ta ken, he and others telegraphed South, 4 We cannot get any compromise.' Here were six Southern men refusing to vote, when the amendment would have been rejected by four majority if they had voted. Who, then, has brought these evils on the coun try ? Was it Mr. C.ark ? He was acting out his own policy; but with the help we bad from the other side of the Chamber if all those on this side had been true to the Constitution, and faithful to tlieir constitu ents, and had acted with fidelity to the country, the amendment of the Senator from New Hampshire could have been vo ted down, the defeat ot which the Senator from Delaware says would have saved the country. Whose fault was it? I think that is not only getting the nail through, but clenching it oir the other side, and the whole staple commodity is taken out ol the speech of the Senator Irotn California. They did it. They wanted no compromise.— Thev accomplished their object by with holding their votes; and hence the country has been involved in the present difficu ty. egju-The Journal de Fruuk fort says 1 A waster shoe waster ot Wecbv chiehiah (district of Dux) has murdered his wife and three children—a girl of six* teen, a boy of eight, and an infant of six months. After having despatched hisvio tiws t>y blows with a hammer, he out their throats. All the corpses were found in beds of the deceased, except that of the young girl, who was tied to a piece of furn iture by her hair The assassin, who has not yet been taken, had written on the pa per with chalk— 4 Debts and misery *re rWh *
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