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g a tireiftp . illarninn. fe rnari 11, 1351
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THE LABORER'S NOONDAY HYMN.
By woRDSWORTH,
Up to the throne of God is borne
The voice of prat=e at early morn.
And he accepts the punctual hymn.
Sung as the light of day grows dim.
Nor will he turn his ear aside
From holy offerings at noontide
Then here reposing, let us raise
A song of gratitude and praise.
What though our burthen be not light,
We nerd not toil from morn till night ;
The respite of the mid-day hour
Is in the thankful creature's power.
Best are the moments--doubly blest—
That, drawn from this one hour of rest,
Are with a ready he:in bestowed
Upon the service of our God!
Why should we craves hallowed spot!
An altar is in each man's cot,
A church in every grove that spreads
Its roof above our heads.
Look up to heaven! the industrious sun
Already half its ra.:!e bath run :
cannot halt. nor go astray,
Hut our tuaraurtal spirits may.
Lord! since his rising in the east
If we have faltered or transgressed,
Guide, fruin thy love's abundant source,
What yet remains of this day's course ;
Help with thy grave through life's short day.
Our upward and our downward way ;
glortf; for us the west,
NI nen we shall sink to final rest.
V olitical.
APPEAL
Of the Independent Democrats in Con
gress to the People of the V. States,
skill Slavery be permitted in Nebraska
WIS,IINGTON January .?2, 1854
F , lnw-CITUFNS • senatoro6 and repretenta-
Sr, .1 'he COTIQTet. , of the United States, it is'our
warn our cor s ,ciMencies uhenevet
,j,ttllzet menaces the Iree.Mm of our institutions
perrnal,enry ot our anion.
!-t a. we timAy
,believe, now tm.
anal :Notlclt your piogno
MEM
A: the hi , : C,utiziess. a t‘ill for the or.
'1 71 ' , I. 01 'FIV 'ow ;tory (.1 Net..raAta the
, - , •.rf 12.-04-errative4 with an overwhelming
1 . 11.4 t t.tli NV.I 4 ba..ed on the principle of
•t. •
-iavery front thi new territory. It wat
• up or euutuderation in the Senate, and
• •-,•••nr• 'iv (wird to become law.
ent sesfinn a uew Nebraska bill bas
eJ ty the Senate Committee on Terri
ttinch. should it unhappily receive the
• , 1 Cnn2r7s, will open all the unorgan
- •-• , v of lie Union to the ingress of slavery.
t 1 r .ir . ,i :t. , his till as a gross violation of a sa
ti
•.,1 rie,l,ge; as a flotilla! betrayal of preetorts
_7 ,. 5: as part anti reel of an atrocious plot toes •
- —. :. sAs! u(ocPtlpied region, erni,g,ran , s
- , 0 Olt! ‘V of id 411(1 tree laborers from:our own
• , • tl• J ( . 01.1.f.t1 It inl ,, a drealyfrigion of despot
-27 .0: abi:ed hs mas , ers and slaves. _
.ate your rnepg, tellow•clitzens, we entreat
\ I ..re u. hat country It which thin: bill, era
and reckies.ly. proposes to opefi
.•P :nti , hs% eaters ro:ner of Missouri put
• , ar.iitel of 36 ileg 30 min. north latitude
acros.s The Arkansas, across the north folk
• ,a.,asta . ::.l the titirdie4stern angle of .Texas; then
.ne orihern bounder) of Texas to the wes.
rr" ' 4; , ' of New Mexico ; then proceed along that
hle to its termination ; then again turn
'Neat and tallow 'h.>. northern line to New
‘tneo to the crest of the Rocky Mountains; then
r.or•hc•ardly along the crest of that moon
I - t e , o the line which separates the United
•rn the British posseasions in North Ameri
49th parallel of north latitude; then pur
course eastwardly along that line to the
N ire Earth riser, which falls - into the
north ; descend that river to its confluence
MissaUti ; descend the Missouri, along
14e w"'f•fl notder of Minesota, o 1 lowa, of Mission
-f p, int where it ceases to be a boundary
- e Et.; enteis the state to which it gives its . .riarnei
--s%; continue you'r southward mune along=-the'
rztem unto of that rate to the point If OM IttliCh
17"1 Fri Yru have now made me circuit ol the
7 - tvo.eitifetttloty Ci Nebraska. You have traveri-_
e • 'he ra. dm•anee of more than three thousand
have 'laced the outline (Asti area of
hOnJteil ;and eighty-6ve thousand square
••'• : more than twelve times as great as that of
r 4 o .mmenee segion occupying the very heart
itie North American continent, and target, by
'hree thousand square miles, than all the ex
, -; free ' , states, excluding California—lbis Ito
e regton• well watered and fertile, through
rh.ch the middle and northern motes from the Al
lo the Pacific must pass—:this'irtimense're
: embracing all the unourinized territory of,.
ni ion. except the comparatively insignificant
ot Inlianterntory north of Re 4 river and be
'trl Arkansas and Texas, and now for more than
rears regarded by the common couseut
' l Amene-an people as consecrated to freedom,
sanne and by compact—this immense
.region,
Sip now before the Senate, without reason and
1 4901 earns, bui in ila,grant'llisitgard'Of sowed
? '•:c . ) . and sacred faith, proposes to open to Slavery.
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The original settled policy of the United States,
clearly indicated by
: the
: Jefferson proviso of 1784,
and by the ordinance of 1787, was non-extension
of slavery.
In 1803, Louisiana was acquired by porch's
from France. At'that tune there were some twen
ty-five or thirty .thousand slaves in that territory,
most of them within Whit is now the state cil Lon
isiana ; a few, only, hiniter north, on the west ba4k
01 the Mississippi. Congress, instead of providing
for the abolition of slavery in this new territory,
permitted its continuance. In 1812, the state of.
Louisiana was organized, and admitted into the
Union with slavery.
In 1818, six years later, the inhabitants of the
territory of Missouri applied to Congress for au
thorny to form a state constitution, and for admis
sion into the Union. There were, at that time, in
the whole territory acquired from France outside
of the state of Louisiana, not three thousand slaves.
There was no apology in the circumstances of
the country for the con tinnance of slavery. The
original national policLwas against it, and, not lets,
the plain language of the treaty under which the
territory had been acquired from France.
It was proposed, therefore, to incorporate in the
bill authorizing the formation 41 - a state government,
a proviso requiring that the constitution ?lithe new
state should contain an article providing for the abo
lition of existing slavery, and prohibiting the further
introduction of slues:
This provision was vehemently and pert.na
ciously opposed ; but finally prevailed in the House
01 Representatives by a decided vote. In the Sen
ate it was rejected, and, in consequence of the
disagreement between the two Houses, the bill was
lost.
At the next sesiion of Congress the controvert'
was renewed with increased violence. It was ter
minated, at length. by• a compromise Missouri
was allowed to come into the Union with slavery,
but a section was inserted in the act auihorizing her
admission, excluding slavery; forever, from all the
territory acquired from_ France. not included to iht..
new state, lying north of 36° 30' .
We quote the prohtbitory section :
"Sex- 8. Be it further enacted, That in all that
territory ceded to France try the United States, un•
der the name of L'-uisiana, which Iles north of 36°
anti 30' of north ,i;itinle, not included within the
limits of the stale entoemplate4 by this act slavery
and invo.uwary serei.ude, otherwise than as the
punishment of crimes, shall be and is hereby for
ever foribibited "
The qttest.nn of the censtihationality of this pro' :
i! strt , mitteJ by Plegaleni Monroe to hts
cabinet.. J.hn Quincy Adarno was then Secre ary
of State: in/to C Calhoun was Secretary of War ;
W,ilttggg if ed wag Secretary of the Trea•
tC .
.Witt .vas Auotory Gette[ al E itch
el 'nese eintertl.l, Alen three of them beitnl hum
slave &met'. enve a wro•er optmen, atiiiretng its
contoittn•ntialitv. thrron t s-- , -, ' , Ft act received the
!unction tf the Prestlro h.tn---11• also, from a
dare s'a43
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Notittrig is more-rertain in his•ory than t.te fact,
that Missouri could not have been admitted as a
slave state, had not certain members from the free
states bee/econctled to the measure by the tncor
poration I this prohibition into the act of admission.
Nothing is more certain than that this prohtbi , ton
has been regarded sad accepted by the whole can't
try as a solemn compact Against the extension of
slavery into any part of the territory acquired from
France, lying north of 96 deg 30 min., and not in
chided in the new state of Missouri. The same
act—let it be ever remembered—which authorized
the formation of a constitution for the state, without
a clause forbidding slavery, consecrated, beyond
question and beyond honest recall, the whole re
mainder ot the territory to freedom and free
uistitu
(ions forever. For more than thirty years—during
more than hall the period of our national existence
under our present constinition—this compact has
been universally regarded and acted upon as invio
lable American law. In conformity with it, lowa
was admitted as a free state, and Slinesota has
been otgahized as a free' territory.
It is a strange and ominous fact, well calculated
to awaken the worst apprehensions, and the most
fearful forebodings of future calamities, that it is
now deliberately . purpmed to repeal this prohibi
tion, by implication or directly—the latter, certain
ly, the manlier way—and thus to subvert dale corn;
pact, and allow slavery in all the yet unorganized
territory.
We cannot, in this address, review the various
pretences under which it is attempted to cloak this
monstrous wrong;.but we-must not &Wogs:her omit
to notice one.
It is said that the territory of Nebraska sustains
the same relations to slavery u did the territory ac
quired from Mexico prior to 1850, and that the
pro-slavery clauses of the bill are necessary to carry
into effect the complomiees of that ;ear.
No assertion could be more groundless.
Three scipsinons of terntory have been made tl
treaty. The first was from France. Out of this
territory have been crewed the three slave states of
Louisiana, Arkansas, and Missouri, and the single
tree state of losia. The controversy which arose
in relation to the then unorganized portion of this
territory was closed in 1820, by the Missouri act,
containing the slavery prohibition, as has been al
ready stated. This controversy related only to ter
ritory acquired from France. The ad, by winch it
was terminated, was confined, by its own express
tithes, to the &IMO territory, and had no relation
-.. •
to Amy miter, •
The second acgoisitioa was from Spain. Flori
da, the territory thus acquired, cas prettied to eh%
very without a soiree', and alinnst without a mor•
MU-
The -third :was trout Mexico - The controversy
which arose from this acquisition is fresh in the re
membrance of-the American people. Out of it
Anal% the sets of Congress, commonly kaolin as
the compromise measures of 1850, by one 01 whit%
California was admitted as a free stale; white two
others, orpuizin; the territories of New r....xice
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These acts were never sapposedittr abrogate or
touch the existing delusion of slavery, from what
is now Called Nebraska. They applied to the..ter
ritory acquired from Mexico and to that only.: They
were-wile:Wed :as,a,sentement of the controversy
growing out of that acquisitiao, and of that COMM.
versy only. They must slander tall by-their own
merits.
The statesmen whose powerful Salmon vistried
the Utah and New Mericoacteynever dreamed that
their provisions would ever be appltetirta Nebras
ka. 'Even at the last session. Of Congress; Mr. Atchi
son, of Missouri, in a.speeeb in favor of taking up
the former Nebraskabill, on•the prom ing of the 4th
of March, IBsi, said " is evident that the Mis
souri Compromise cannot be repealed. So far as
that question is concerned, we might as well agree
to the admission of this territory now, as nextyear,
or five or ten years hence." • These words could
not-have fallen from this watchful guardian of sla
very, had he supposed that this territory was em
braced by the pro-slavery provisionaof the compro
mise acts. This pretension had not then been set
up It is a palpable after-thonVir.
The eMnprom lie acts themselviii ref Ute this pre
tensinn• In the third article Of the second section
of the joint re, , olniion for annexing Tens to the
United Stites. it is °sprat's!) , declared that 4. in such
state or stales as shall be formed-out of said Mis
souri compromise line,. slavery or itivoltmtary ser
vitude, except fin crime, shall tie prohibited;" (*)
and in the act for organ rzing New Mexico and set
tling the boundary of Texas, a proviso was 'lvor
poratetC on the motion of Mr. Mason, of Virginia,
which distinctly preserves this prohibition,and flouts
the bare•faced pretension that all the territory of the
United States, whether south or north et the Missou
ri compromise line, is to be °pewit) elti*ery: It is
as follows:
" Provided, That nothing herein contained shall
be construed to impair or qualify anything contain.
ed in the thtru article of the second section:of the
joint resolution for annexing Texas to the United
States, approved March 1, 1815, either as regards
the number of states ihat may hereafter be formed
out of ;he state of Texas, or oiherwtre " (t)
Here is proof. bey'nd controversy, that the prin
ciple of the Missouri act prohibiting slavery north
of 36 deg 30 min , far from being abrogated by the
compromise acts, is expressly affirmed; and that
the proposed repeal of Nit prohibition, instead of
being an affirmation of the compromitte acts, is a
repeal of a very prominent provision of the most
important act of the series. It is solemnly declared
in the very compromise acts " that nothing herein
confroned shall be construed to impair or palify" the
prohibition of slavety north of 36 deg 30 min., and
yet, in the face of this declaration, that settled
prohibition is said to be overthrown. Cad lire
sumpion Ruttier go ! To all who, in any -way,
lean upon these compromises, we commend this
exposition.
The pretences,. therefore, that the territory, cov
ered by the positive prohibition of 1820. sustains a
similar relation to slavery with that acquired from
Mexico, covered by no prohibition except that of
disputed constitutional or Mexican law, and that
the compromises o 1 1850 require the Incorporation
of the pro-slavery elauses or the IJish and New
Mexico bill in the Nebraska act, are mere inven
tions, designed to cover up from public reprehen
sion meditated bad fittih. Were he living now, no
one would be more forward,i,more eloquent, or
more indignant, in his denunciation of that bad faith,
than Henry Clay, the foremost champion of both
corn prom is el.
in Me, the slave slates eiid to the free ',Wes,
admit Mi-souri with slavery, and refrain from
positive exclusion south of 36 deg 30 min , and we
will jolt you in perpetual prohibition north of that
line." The free states consented. In 1854, the
slave states say to the,!ee states," Missouri is ad
mined : no prrthibirion of slavery south of 36 deg
30 min has been attempted ; vrehaverecrivrtlthe
lull consideration ot,our agreement; no more is to
be vained by adherence to ,t on our part; we, there
fore, ; ropose to cancel the compact It this be
not Pomo faith, what is it! Nor withoot he deep
est dishonor and crime can the free states acquiesce
in this demand.
We conless our total inability properly to define
ale the character or describe the cocrset i nences of
this measure. Language fails to express the senti
ments of ii,d,gnation and abhorrence which it in.
Spires ; and no vision, less penetrating and QOM.
prehensive than that ot 'the Alt Seeing, can reach
its evil issue'. .
To some of its more immediate and ineviteble
consequences, however, we must attempt to direct
your attention.
What will be the effect of tbis measure, should, it
unhappily become law, upon the proposed Pacific
railroa4 We have already said, that two of the
principal routes, the central and ther northern - Imi.,
erne :his territory. It slavery be allowed there, the
saitlement and cultiviutou n 1 the country must.be
greatly re aided. Inducements to the i m mi gra tion
01 f.ee laborers will be ahnosf destroyed The en •
banced.cost of constnittirit, and the diminished
pecta non of profitable, retains, will present almost
insuperable obstacles - to building the toad - at altk..:
while, even ilinade, the ditficohy aria espitnie of
keeping it op, in iiountiy . froth tiihiol thq ensrget.
is and intelligent souses walk* virtusllp excluded
will greatly impair itsuaefulttess and value.. •
From the rich taiga terriferty'also,'
patriotic statesmen haie,anticipateit that a free, in
dostimos, and c anlightehed prapulafiest -will gamic"
ahuntlani - treastues of individuat Ind-publiesteabli.
There, it has been eat/owed; erm
grants from Europe; - amt'energetic - and intelligent
tube/ors of out land, Will bomb efernishartanil
fields of useful elite*isei: if ittia - billth4llll3elornu
Invi, ottcla'ulkpkie*on rill Inni:icilgitikioisiditil
appointment. ,Ttisbligitk,ol tttavecwill
•'Act of litarch4 .4845-6%8. &atones atiarge,7lx
teoggrealeatill til.bes t 8 49-69. um { dbctllep•
tctubm 9. 1450-9, L. `•states at large, tin.
land:: - ---The litirshanta
. Congiiii - en
Act erleordffill'iharativ6leTtie f emen f ordess,
pressed by a hard enderacil nbeaksity; witrnel;and
ahoold not, work ,
beside elaver.^, - Latter eitnnor:_be
:respected whale .aity alai., of fiboiers held in
abjeet liefitlige. 11 ii tbi Veit
slavery, them make end keep a single slave, there
must be slavaslays;.inthwhete.eltive law exists,
labor mpstpecessarily s he degraded., ,
We earnestly Fel:Pleat the enlightened conductors
of new4spers printed in , tie Ger Man. and otherfor
eigu languages, to direct the attention pf theirjead
era to thialinyortent matter. „,
It is of linmeese consequeiice, • alse, to scrutinize
the geographical character of this project .
..We beg
',you, fellow-citizens, to Observe that „it
_trill sever
the east horn the West of the United States by a
wide slaveholdingbelt of country, extending .from
the Gulf of Mexico io British North America._ Ills
a bold schetne against Arneiicanfiberti, worthy , of
an accomplished architect of ruin. Texas is already
plaveholding, and occupies the Gulf Region from
the Sabine to the Ito Grande,and from the f.;ulf of
Mexico to the Red river, North of the Bed,, river,
and exiendir ;betWeen Texas and Arkansas, o the
parallel of 36 6 30min., lies the Indian , , territory,
about equal in extent to the latter state, in which
slavery was not prohibited by the act of 1320
From 36 ° 30 min,to the boundary line between our
own country and the . British possessiona r stretching
from west to east through more than eleven degrees
of longitude, and from south toporth through more
than twelve degrees offatitude, extends. the,great
territory, the tate of which is now to be determined
by the American Congress Thus you.see, fellow
citizens, that the operation:of the proposed permis
sion of .laveryfin Nebraska, will be to stay the pro
gress of the Pacific from the:lree,states theAllan
tic. It is hoped, doubtless, by compelling the ,c-hole
commerce and the whole travel between the .east
and the west to pass fur hundreds of mites through
a stave holding region, in the heart of die COntioent
and by the influence of a federal government con
trolled by the slave power,to extinguish freedom
arid establish slavery in the states and territories of
the Pacific, and thus permanently suhjugate the
whole country to the yoke of slavebolding despot
ism. Shall a plot against homani , y and democra
cy, so monstrous, and so dangerous to the interests
of liberty throughout the, world be permitted to suc
ceed I
We appeal - In the people. We warn you tha t
the dearest interests•of freedom and the Criian are
in imminent peril. Servile demagogues may tell
you that the Union can be maintained only by sub_
muting to the demands of - slavery. We tell you
that the safety of the Union can or t ly be insured by
the full recognition of the just claims of freedom
and man. The Union was formed to establish jus•
tier, and secure the blessings of liberty. When it
fails to accomplish ,these ends it will be worthless.
and le.hen it becomes worthless it cannot long
endure
We eutrest you to be mindfal of that fundamen
tal maxim of democracy, equal riots and exact
justice for all men. Da not submit to become
agents in extending legalized oppressiori and syste
matized injustice over a vast territory yet exempt
from these terrible evils. '
We emplore Christains and Chriatain ministers
to interpose. Their divine religion requires them
to behold in every mans brother, and to labor for
the advancement and regeneration of The human
IE3 r 2
Whatever apologies may be offered for the toler
ation of slavery in the states, none can he urged for
its extension into territories where it does not exist,
and where that extension involves the repeal of
ancient law, and the violation of solemn compact.
Let all protest, earnestly and emphatically., by car
respondence, through the press, by. memorialei,
resulunons of public meetings and legislative ho
dieereffil in whatever other mode may seem ex
pedient, against this enormous crime.
For ourselves, we shall resist it by speech and
vote, and , with all the abilities which God has gir.
en us. Even if ove•conte in the impending strug
gle, we shall not subnatt. We shall go home to
our constituents; erect anew the standard of free
dom and call on the people to come to the rescue
of the country from the dpmination of s !every. We
will not despair: for the cause of human freedom
is the cause of God.
S P CHASE, Senator from Ohio.
CHARLES SUMNER. Senator from MAss
J R. GIDDINGS, Repreitenratives from
EDWARD WADE. j Ohio. • -
GERRIT SMITH, Rep hour Newt • Volk,
ALEX. DEsmr, , Rep Masi.
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which has recent!} been esplied in the arts which
has more rapidly developed its
~urefulness than
India rubber. The improvements in h have-ren
dered it available for a thousand ritirposes and the
manufacture and consumption ii have grown so
large, ittat . the annual impovationti_of the crude
material reach the value of lour or five million an 7
rurally. The last use which has been made of it
is the rdanufaiure of combs, and a malty
, beautiful
article is produced ,from it possessing the
elasticity and teasel!) , of shell or bone._ the price .
not being more than one third of khe shell combs
The rudia robber is first reparedby being_decitior.
ized, hardened and cniord. Then it is spread into
sheets, of the necessary iliickness by
_machinery.
A circular saw set against the edge of the sheet
cent dinto striiirViesernbiling i n shape twocoMbs o
locked together by"th'e teet One hlow ,. of the
cutter'divige the teeth - grutdilaftarpens them,
and a
bevel, 'l . heentite surface is traisnua by, a revolj ,
itag Wheel, covered With.cicith, and thelFumbisthen
bent on a ruetaicylinder, heated whlalleant„ :The
• 0-z c'•:••..4
polisher, upon whee l jammed with *erne polish
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91 = °m g t sii4ce9.B) Plifit„o.4oftfEt i a...Pfuhso.rate
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them .1(1 general. use ; . 1 '
not
split in the teeth, and may 'be wastlefi W warm
water.
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Br fir CI-lONICS. • 4 '
ifierne-ba 'COUR' Oi footiOr in North Carolina.
AliOnfiros bl l Thehiia' titian and thus
4 11 4 00 10 iHi ovlf•sioribiP ,
and yotkgentlemea otAbe Dory, aioce ii ha. been
y fortune (good 'Or bad ( . _will not ;say) to eke,.
I
eiae myself in legal dititi I isitnrs e ' ft has 'never be
,lofe befalleo iniitopioaa Ute.ao tilireful, marked,
malicious an istssalt-,4nkore direful,, , wilful ; clap -
germ's - battery, and ft nally,amore diabolical - breach
of the peace it has seldom been your dprty to pass
upoO,,sonet - so shocking to' benevolent feelings, es
that which took. place over-au Captain .Ilice's, in
this county.. But you wilt-bear from • the witness."
The Witnesses beirl i iir orn , twb'br tfiree*ere ex
autined,'aud depose; 'Opkilad that he had ,heard
the noise.aod slid not seethe Eight i another that he
saw 'below, but didn't klowiarho shriek first; 'and
a ibba„ that he was very 'coilltlel say
much about the skrinimage. .
Lawyer Chops..-1 am -Very sorry gentlemen { to
•hatie occupied your . time I with the" stupidity of the
witnesses examined: Ilaf f knoWn, as I noir do,
ibat had a witness in sMendance who was well
acquainted with eh the circumstances of the case,
arid who was able to malth himself clearly under-
stood by the court and jui . .y, I should mu so long
baretrespassed on your time and patience. Come
forward MI- 14316114
So forward camellia witness, a fat, chubby look
ing man,.a I. leetle" corned,,and took his corporal
oath with an air. . . .
Chops—Harris, we wish r on to tell about the riot
that happened the other-day at Capt Rice's; as a
good deaf of time has been already wasted in cir
'cumlocation; we wish i'MitO be compendious and
at-the same lime as eaplant si possible.
Harris— Exactly...govorig the lawyer at knowing
wink,-and at the 14,47113 time clearing his thrroat.—
Captain Rice, he gin a t4at, and Cousin . Sally Dil•
lard, she came over to out house ar.d axed me of
any wife she mount go. 11 told cousin Salty Dil
lard that my wife was : Poorly, Nine as , how she
had alciuch - ol the rheumatics i n the hip, and. the
big swamp was up, for there bad been a heap of
rain lately, but bowsometter, as tut was she, cousin
Sally Dillard. my wile s e moot gn %Veil, codsin
Sally Dillard then asked the Al. Mose he Moutn'tgo.
li
I told cousin Sally Ditto d that , More, he was the
foreman of the crap, aid rhecrap !airman!). Male
grass; but.hovrisomever, aslt Was;slie, cousin Sal
ly Dillatd, Mouse Mout go.
Cbnps—ln the came of-common sense,.Mr flat
us, what do you mean by ibis rigmarole! DO say
' I
vibe yolikn,ow about the riot. t
ttaess— . Capirtin RFeT he
„gin a treat, 4, and coo
"in Sally tiltfard Ale otii hoise and
axed me it u3y wilt! she mocit/f4go. I told cousin
Salty Wind—
Chops—Stop Fir, if yob please,we dcm'!..sant to
hear anything about cousin Sally and your
wife—tell us about the fighf at Rice ' s.
Witness--Weil, I will sir, if you will let me.
Chops—Well sir. go on. • •
Cap'aip Rice he gitial,treat, and
cousin. Sally Dillard she came over u Our house
and axed me if my wife she inoutoit
Chops—There it is again; witness„ witness,
please lo stop.
Wituess—Well, sir, what do you wand
Chops—We want to know atoot the fight, and
you most not proceed in this imperinent Story. Do
you know and thing abut the matter before die
Court
Wainess—To be sore I do
Chops—Wel, go on turd tell it thrn—and nothing
else.
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Witness—Well, Captain Rice be gm a treat—
Chops—This is intolerable. May it please the
court, moire that the witness may be committed
for contempt; he seems to be trifling 'with this
court.
Court—Witness, you ate now before court ol
justice, and less you behave yourse..ll to a more be.
coming manner you will 'be sent to jail; so begin,
and tell what you know - about the tight 'at Captain
Witness—(alarmed,)—yell s gentlenen, Car.
Bice he gin a ueat, at el cou:4l/
Chops-1 hope the witness may be ordered into'
CUStolly.
Court—(at er deliberating )—Mr Attorney. the
court is of opinion that we may save tonne by tell
ing the w hues, to go ,on 1n his own way r Proceej,
Mr Harris with your stoey. but-stick to the point.
Witness—Yes, gentlennel ; well. Capt. Rtee he
gin a trea„ and cousin Silty Dillard she haute over
to our house and axed me if my wile ate montul
go I I told cousin Sally Deland that my- wile she
was poorly, being as how she bad the ibeentaiies
in the hip, : and !he - big swamp was nii;! but 'hew.
sombver, as it was she, cousin Silly Dtikard, my
wile she moot go. Well, cousin Sally Dillard then
asked me if Mose he mourn', go. I told usinSal
lyy Dillard as
. Ir9.se he was the laminae Of the crap,
and the mapwasompstly an thegrass, bet howsom
eser,.as it was she, etaustaZally [Manly Mose ha
moat go:
, Su theygoes otf tegetheri Mose, My wile,
am.qou l lin Sally Dipa:d, illi.y r come, to the big
swasup r and it was op, as, I . was. telling you, bist
being-as.how theta was' log...omen the big swamp ,
cousirillally Dillard and:Mese, like gentle folks,
they Wilked the, log, 'itt 'dratted
his4l,l4kad. op her clothe and *tided aiAht thus!,
cotebed a cold, ancllasibanireamatics ever since,
rinit ditriallliatttc" ttboatlileyfglkt.* I - • =
Tee Siensisrl=x&Tliblrefo el ibe -, Sabbillt
niitistaixa6evikerignieifini 44 , 3relik *. vii is
rub ~a lest 14 4 4 ; 4 1 F40 1 4- o , l l l # aii.Y7 4 6 -1 1 in one
we ito inatinefively foreet!-by hnigue.„latis well if
we obseil4 the, edive,l impelled !), Qt ital enosid ;
ennon, before intlerinalii !IS its
violation* ot , sibictvio insiistugives Dl-warning
attersisilayi of tibouiipa!raineiViatielee need's
able
Mei; iikor4 srovi—ont , Wisp)
spirife to reLltle theregv.inienny "
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The [Witch Widower.
si Mine (row was no better as elk; ort t 6
shwa before she diet Chen the was go pod at; li v e
,foce," remarked Mr. Vandeiboin!o_bis neighbor.'
"• Your wife was an onliable woman, snd• yOn
Flo great injustice to her memory," *raid Swartz.
vOt Yon know BO much ab&ut Oho 'fro s,
for?" _
not intimately .acquainted tri h her, but lam
sure that all her acquaintances loved her."
Vot right had they to love her/ May be—. 4,
"May be what?"
" May be you loved mine frow too."
" Why do you speak so strangely
Vy, von day, a pre, ugly Man, slinst like you,
came into mine house and kissed mine ?row right
bef!tre tier face."
"Were you present at the, time !" .
• "To pe swe I tros." • •
" Well, what did you do?''
"I kicked him right pebind his back."'
1 f Did he resent it?"
- " Yaw, he proke•me and the lookingiass;•aed
all the rest of the crockery in the house, 'eerft the
feather bed, into von tam smash !"
What\lid you do then ?"
"-Then ',cried murder I Hinder ! and i called fur
le grudge, and is slimy, and to police office and
constable, to come, and he run away !''
" Do Ou intend to charge me with taking sueti
ouwarrasitallle liberties with the companion of your
lissom ?"
" Me no charge notting for it now, t ecanse she
is teal and pertied "
" f will not allow you to make such insintia-
llOrld
..• You ace an old tyrant, and everybody said you
were glad when your wile died "
" Everyporly pe one lain liar "
"1 saw uo syrnp:prna of sorrow."
,1 -Me Leh more wush: Ulan if Lily peel cow has
died.".
Your cow
What a coniptiricon!"
"She was a great loss—a heavy 11,$&-!(.1 she was
so pig as dat (spreading out his arms,) arod she
weighed more tan two hundred pounds."
" Look out old man, or you will see trouble. I
doubt if your wite was ever kissed by any man al
ter bet . multiage. At eh events, you must apologise
for what you have said to me."
Voile pologise!"
" Von must beg my pardori and Ray ypti are sor
ry;you do not, I will enter:a complaint against
you and have you arrested."
" I pe sorry len "
"Sorry for what ?"
"Sony you kissed minc how."
" You incorrigible kiwi! ghat re not what you
'must, for I never did each a thing in my lac! )
o Mud! I say you pe miry that -uu never did
Each a thing."
"Nu air--you must take back %that yoartave
said."
While the Dutchmen was in this dilemma, his
friend Hans Bamberher came along, and figolty suc
ceeded in rec.mciling the parties, rhea the ttia ad
iourued to a neighbonu,g cofiee-house.
The Neil Great Eclipse.
The year 1854 swill be celebrated in time toeome
for its great eclipse. On the 29 of 'Slay, if the
menace are right, the sun will have his face veiy
considerably sponged out, by her changeful queen •
ship, the moon The aborigines of this country,
when such a circumstance happened, had an idea
that the eclipse was occasioned by a domestic
squabble among the luminaries, and the -male
philosophers turned in and beat their wises, to show
their indignation
, al. such proceedings. ahem again
thought the eclipse was a sor: of frowning expres
sion of the God of nature upon their negligence of
religious sacrifices, and they straightway masted is
dog in his skin and cut bulge i n their fl e sh to F oe.
pitiate the offended Sovereign: The lights of
science have taught us better things,. and it Mi now
understood that an eclipse is noting more than sit
accidental conjunction of the can and moon, when
they happen to pass each or let in Their way through
eternal space, a thing much easier to compieberal
than how a radish seed tunas flop an esculent pima%
It lacks only two years of a half centuty einte-an
eclipse was memorttil... or, rather, black enough
in be partially remembered,
la 1806, die sun icas darkened at noend.y, and
caned great consternation amongst the nand, par
ticularly in the witch raising p irtions of New Eng
land ;Ind, what was most remarkable, the ponltty
were deceived into the idea that is was bed time,
and quietly left off eating and took to their roosts.
In the summer of 1830 there was another eclipse
the sure which made it rather dark iti New`YOll6
and caused the Roar] of Brokers in aafjormx. Al.
this eclipse of 1854 will be -the reseih 01 a great
deal of expense, and the most extraordnittry
bination of chances, it is eSilft• ed that ... 1114 111.4,
rides wilt, in,advance, be prepared with piece., ci
• smoked glass, and other murky , mediums, and
), thus be enabled to witness its turning suing
I o ft ' without any. tliffictitty. ilie'ineantime,groist,
oppeople can keep then eyes open, anal they,e4
see vationreclif , ses in the social, commerical end
puts scar worlit, : that are quire as curionS, and artteh
mo.elamentehle; in the it can sequeuces i tn initttrla
ualsoban any Alai. will take place to the heareus.
pscuse Past
veva good enory - spropars to English rtis-erve. As
Englitheian and sideman st ere veselling, tagethet
in • a ata.l turfy `inn.Sivg The Getz as
1.1 - 4 all in his pourer, to drays: • his compsurcm i r e°
conce , sa i r o r , but s., no-porpnats:nt.nne monsestilso
*nub! %with a soperabentlance of polilsees; sired.
girls toidranipglas'aleti•ion in the taeCtitalifie
ash' oLoispigNh4sl Wien dr ,ltia Nsai‘pa i ,osji
Ppm* wakondadgoritne hi" nerkerehief a Ai-leach
E - ctern
ff.... , ,Jishniatti” - ef • Why the thielieneanas
ii!Yrktiverne '
15; . 0! cnll- tail his beesi..buis
o 1:n. .le4a bat I skini VAlses
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