(HE 031LAR PER AIM, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
TOWAM)A :
gfjursifitD fHorninn, (October 2. 133 U.
political jsong.
[Kr mi the New-York Tribune.]
FREMONT, THE CHOICE OF THE NATION.
An; The Red, IY'lute and Blue.
v,n; KKKMOST, the choice of the nation,
The ;>ride of the fearless and free,
\V. ' drink to hi* health and his station,
Tli 'Uffh Fillmore has eonie over the sea.
]! ,In art be a* '" r Freedom, remaining
On the - -i! where our liberty grew
F r our brethren in Kansas .sustaining
The tree tiae the Red, White and Blue.
Ti , r.i ere I.nids where the millions are yearning
For Freedom from tyranny's chain,
V.'j • t Kan.-.is our efforts are turning
; .>. ..Id :,t r fr-un Slavery's stain.
| ;■ Freiii"iit. he stands with devotion,
V. i swe.il> to the Union he's true ;
Hi-1:: -s d o'er the mountains to ocean,
1 .~t thClx- the lied, \\ liite and Blue.
\ - ti- ial f*"ids -hall e'er .sever
i v.. .|. whirh otir forefathers wrought;
•; . i i,.,i vi r and ever!
I >l. uii-tair.ed and miliougtit,
1-• liw"rd from l-'remont w borrow,
IN.! 1., -t : !- by Lis promise so true ;
, w wo! our leader not follow,
\ . - fag i.- the Bed. White and Blue ?
* n r ni'is are joined, then, tor Union,
f - and the stripe i are above ;
Huzza all for Fremont ai d Dayton !
• * Huzza for the men that we love!
T ... .11" si. i. when well guided,
•'Twill be found that Her timbers ure true ;
*An is 11 . will fie st- rtll hive subsided
I: it tin- a' lied the Bed. V. hile and Blue.
A 1 > I > I i ESS,
/ ../ '/■ . the Tractor*' .i*sociahun, at Burling
tun, j timber iI, 1 Sid.
BY ' !"!.!.FN if NICHOLS.
Edncntiou is a noble theme ; a theme wor
v : ! <nvcr.s of eloquence. Education
e ho isiou file between barbarity aud civili
-1 r ... I, vulgarity and refinement,and
• • mil and degradation. It has
ia - et of the highest interest in all
, ; all countric- where morality and
Y.iii i h:.- had the I• i-1 foothold. But
■ :d, it iia- la-en almost worshiped in all
'■'Mintrios. The subject will natural
. 1 a- to enquire whether we have advanced
.'i during the last one, two, three or
i-;*:ii years ? Surely we have advanc
:V education is much more general than it
r in any by-gone age. Christianity by
' 'ti dr.. influence, has rnoUed man and led
to ' v i t great energies in favor of general
o' "ii. The invention of printing ha--own
' "iture broadcast among the difft rent na
- " the earth. The Press has been the
id aid of christian and moral teacher-;.
,h and bv these influences, education has
- i from the trammels of .-n]>< r.-itiou aud ty
y. and is spreading over the world with
. .' rapidity. But all this admitted, wem .y
and inquire whether <wir educa
: u are greater than those who have lived
'N -iuiig since pas-i d away ? Jlave we
r ".'at"i' than Demosthenes? Have
11 it "i .ter more eh - j'U'iit than Pari. ?
'•••• Kn- la rs id ove the inspiration of
' li tve vi.- a po.-t to excel the plaiu
-of DAVID ? All these questions
■ • -. 1. answered in the negative,
yr-gr—s is great in education, but it is
it !-• general. This age does not
- nil r ages in the greatness of learned
l'a o-fiple rs, orators, poets, mathema
-. astronomers, atid military leaders were
rly u- great a- those of this day. Truth
-' ad to the opinion that we have no
- equal to the ancients—but it is un
'o draw si. It conclusions, ami perhaps
i toi' vi the subject to the judgment
t public.
"■ • hav'.- not imlivitlnally passed the
-< f the ancient scholars who rose
■ •'.. _antit; proportions, still we have
' ' diet r a- on in the noble cause of edu- !
I • ghest intellect is a gift of our
■ - ty <a*.,r. All men and women ean
•• ' tii _h pijint-5 of education, but
'• v .'a <-. - acquire a useful amount of
- : and w idle making.such an assertion,
in ay be felt in our progress in un
- e iiiy .-o ries of science, and laying its
u In tie* willing and iudustrioiis stu
U- t enticing the wayward v
'-iptiv-it d with the offer;
•y iiinl a MHiieimolilmg education. Now
111 oi general cdueatiou without cost.
' 1 • tiuif of Sunday schools to aid all
|'t of t!io invitation to learn. In
tae })iivt who would sing "A little
- s .1 dangerous thing," would be held
W inle all are urged to drink deep
■ j • ;t;i:'i of learning, yet " a little learn
"e ' lient thing. The mail who can
!i;v tcstaunait, finds that his little learn
•' irrcat tonsure to trim. He there learns
" ])o>>e-.>ed of an invaluable jewel.—
." h - own worth, and that he is called
" udeiit. Let learned aristocrats
a litti" learning, but Itepublieans ean
wail them. While we urge the
attainments in learning, we at the
>a y by all means get a " little learn
the greater eanuot be obtained do not
!ie >mull. r. (iet the little learning
;l ®''l the highest education if possible.
, ■{ Hard lor what is called a Guished edu
'"t always remeniber that a " little "
'"'-hiuiug of all great ones. The spell
**>* sl-ouM be well studied. It is the
| jj ial j s ,j ie grouud-work of
Liejnati who neglects his spelling
| i . illa . v fass on, or rather be passed on to
1-' dp, but w hen he writes a letter
is had. the intelligent
*' 1 !' :t y him, and pity is often mixed
ij>l The-cholar should not acquire
Mvt the other. Here we may
! very properly enquire what is education ? The
I people of different ages have not agreed what
| education really was, and in a short address
j the different opinions relative to education
could not he discussed, hut. we may give the
! outlines of what we consider the principles of
I education. In the first place we live in a Chris
i tian country, and the people of the United
States generally helieve that all education
should accord with christian principles. Not
: that particular dogmas or creeds should he
j taught in our schools, hut that the Bible should
' he generally used, arid that children should he
' taught to respect tlie great truths of Divine
revelation. That thev 'should he taught to
! helieve in the overruling Providence of a. Di
vine Being, and their accountability to# Mini
J for ail their actions. That the principles in
-1 eulcated in the scriptures should be carried oilt
in the education of the youth. That # tliey
should he taught to love and obey their pa
rents, that the strictest morality should he ob
served, that profane or vulgar language should
i not he used, and that politeness and kindness
is highly becoming in the student on all occa
sions. Adoration of the Divine Being, love
to parents, affection to friends, and a high re
! spect for the laws of our country ought to he
1 strongly impressed on the youthful mind. To
! succeed well with such an education, parents
, and teachers must he united. They must speak
( ami net with respect and courtesy to each nth
| er. The young mind is capable of strong irn
-1 pressions, and easily biased against, those whose
j duty it is to restrain and guard it from error,
j If the parent drop a word of slight or con-}
tempt ol the teacher in the presence of the
' scholar, it i> increasing the difficulty with the
i teacher and adding an increased weight to an
! already overload of responsibility. With all
f the aids and helps that a teacher can receive
from parents and tlie public, it is an arduous
and highly responsible situation* The teacher
acts as a sub-parent to the child, if i may use
such an expression, lie lfbcomes parent tutor
ami guardian for the time being. The dull, '
: the wayward, the thoughtless, aud even the;
wicked are all handed over to him together, i
and a great and rapid improvement expected
on them a!!. Many would be rendv to sav
the task was unmerciful and the result hope
, less. Not so. Teachers are formed with pa
tience and perseverance equal to the undertak
ing. They throw the whole energies of the
mind into the business of training the voung—
they have made a study of human nature. The
forward are re-trained, the feeble encouraged,
and all rewarded for every attempt at improve
ment. The study appears to be to impart the
greatest amount of knowledge with the least
possible coercion. The philanthropist is look
ing on with pleasure, and the intelligent are ;
everywhere viewing with wonder the achieve
ments made in the science of teaching.
It may not be out of place to say here, that
almost all parents remark that their children
are harder to govern after they commence go
ing to school, and that they lose part of their
filial respect. This is no doubt true, and the
united energies of parent and teacher cannot
entirely avert the evil complained of. At al
most every school there is one or more master
spirits, or mischievous boys. Those master
spirits will be attended to by their fellow play
mates and they will naturally make their im- 1
pressions on the young mind. Those difficul
ties follow education through nil its progress,
Primary school, Academy and College. The
education of our common schools, where the
young can be prepared for college, while they
are with their parents ami in a great measure
under their care until their character is at least
in part formed, appears to be the best safe
guard for the young student. It is common
to ask if it is pn>>ible for the United States to
progress as much in the next half century as i
they have in the last. This may he answered
in the affirmative. In less than fifty years l
from this date a fine classical education may
he obtained and a profession studied in our j
common schools. All the great achievements i
of the by-gone century would he equalled by
this one improvement in education. When i
speak of obtaining a high classical education, !
I do not mean that seven years is to he devo- !
ted to the study of Latin and Creek. The la
bor is not repaid hv the acquirement. Per-;
haps the principal gain in the study of the '
dead languages is the training the mind to i
studv ; but surely the same amount of study j
usefully applied, would be more profitable than j
when < x< ivi "<1 as a mere training. The know- 1
ledge of the languages no doubt gives the pos- j
sessor a great advantage over the man who
has but a smattering in those branches. We >
delight in reading the productions of our states-j
men who were fine scholars. John Randolph, !
James Nladison, John Quiney Adams, and
Daniel Webster, were all line specimens of;
great attainment* in education ; but their
greatness consist- d principally in the know ledge j
of the Kiigli.h language ; besides, we have had j
great men who were not scholars—Patrick !
Henry, llenry Clay, and Andrew Jackson were :
truly great men, without the advantages of a j
classical education. No doubt a classical edu- j
cation would have benefitted those men much, j
but they are mentioned to show that a long j
training in the d ad languages is not a! s ilutely
necessary to make great men. i lie subject ot ;
education has, received the attention, the conn- ■
tenanee and support of all the great men of
the Union. It is a subject dear to the hearts
of all true Americans. It is difficult to find a
new sentence t> utter in its favor, when the
pulpit, the press, the forum, the executive,and
the legislative branches of our country have
been vicing with each other in producing
speeches, documents, aud essays in its behalf.
Some noble hearted men have demoted tiiinost
their whole lives to the cause of education.
To name an individual amongst those, appears
: almost like injustice ; but I cannot pass this
' part of the subject without referring to one
' Pennsylvania!!, who has with indefatigable ex
ertion sustained the cause ol general education
; by every means in his power, for nearly or quite
a quarter of a century. His body, mind and
estate has been detoted to the cause with an
energy rarely equalled, aud never surpassed.
If any man in the State is worthy of the title
of High Priest at the Altar of Lducation, 1
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. o*sl EARA (iOODRICII.
would assign that honor toTuos 1 . 11. BIKKOWES,
Ksq., editor of the Pennsylvania School Jour
nal.
While all are loud in favor of
not a solitary voice raised against it, flg:
pcrlicial observer might suppose thaPuo obsta
cles were thrown in the way of its pßejagssp
and that all its management was pleJkantness.
| Alas ! such is not the case. Ajjhough none
] are found hardy enough to come out openly in
: opposition to education, yet illiberal minded
men oppose it in detail. With them the sys
tem is impeiTect. They could form a better
1 one. Competence of teachers with them is not
of much consequence, and above all school
teachers receive too much salary. They ought
.td be paid no mere than they formerly receiv
ed. It might surprise some to know that a
man uttering sucli sentiments would say that
lie was in favor of general education.
■ While we have much to cheer us on in the
' cause of education, we still have numerous
difficulties. One man who pays a high tax
does it cheerfully although he has no child to
educate, while another with a large family of
children and paying twenty-live cents school
tax will complain of oppression, and he is sure
that teachers' wages are too high or there is
something wrong in the management of our
public schools or lie would not be oppressed so
seriously with taxes. But say they are all in
favor of common schools, of educating the
poor children of the Commonwealth by public
expense, and leave that part of the subject for
an intelligent public to decide.
Lot us hope that the improvement and the
situation of school teachers which has so hap
pily commenced will progress rapidly, and those '
who devote their lives to so important an enter- i
prise will be fairly remunerated. At present,
teachers are the poorest paid class in the coun
try. Talents in all other business seem to be
appreciated higher. The man who drives the
ox or tends the swine would scorn the pittance !
paid to those who are engaged in the instruc
tion of human beings.
While we have great cause to rejoice at the
excellence of our American institutions, and
of our success to education, it is certainly the
duty of teachers to inculcate into tlie young
mind the great value of those institutions and
the necessity of guarding them from all danger
ous encroachments. To the teacher is assigned in
a great measure the duty of training the minds .
of the rising generation to love our country
aud its government. True liberty consists not
of every one doing just what he pleases, re-1
gardless of the l ight of others but in obedience !
t< and support of the laws of our country j
The fairy forms of free government, or thcim-j
piaclica"ble plaus of social society where the Jj
binding force of all laws, human and divimt.
are derided at, taught by the fools of Eurojic, j
calling themselves philosophers, ought* ?o be '
discountenanced on ail occasious. U'.n; coim**
try is at present flooded with j
philosophers whose mission appears to be to .
poison the human mind. They are easily#
known in all places by their insolent conduct. ;
I'rofuuitv, vulgarism, and a total d'sregard to j
other people'- feelings appears with them as,
the only liberty worth possessing, or the only
learning worth requiring. To teach the youth
to avoid such associations, is certainly one of j
the duties of the American l'rcceptor.
When we have recommended obedience to j
religion and law—love of parents, friends, j
neighbors and country, still we may sngge-l
tiie propriety of inculcating into the youthful
mind a high sense <>f honor. The honorable ;
man abhors a lie—lie would take no undue ad- !
vantage, lie would boldly defend a friend or ae
quaintance when defense was necessary and j
just, and above all, he would speak no evil of j
friend or foe in their absence. Slander is one
of the great evils of the world, and the per
son resorting to it may fairly be set down as
OIK- without the feelings of honor. Surely the
student ought to be instructed to avoid slander }
fraud and meanness in nil his transactions.— 1
The formation of a dignified character ought !
to be one ol the great aims of those entrusted '
with the education of the young. It is undig
nified to use unprovoked, offensive language to
those who are present, but far more so to speak ,
evil of the absent.
]aidies and gentlemen, I will detain you no
longer. A kind partiality assigned me the ho
nor of addressing you, and while 1 know that
many persons present could much more ably
perform the task, yet 1 am proud of the honor
and would not shrink from the attempt.
JJGYFIRRRA PERCHA, when verified for man
ufacture, possesses a reddish brown color. Its
most remarkable property, however, is that of
softening to a plastic state, in hot water, but
when cold recovering its toughness and rigidi
ty. Its specific gravity is somew hat lighten
than water. It cffisely resenfffl® India rub
ber in its chemical possesses
several distinct properties, one of
which is its want of elasticity. Its ductility is
such, that, at a proper it may be
extended into thin shectsor drawn into threads.
It is a powerful negative electric, and is used
for insulating positive surfaces, or developing
quantities of electricity in place of the glas
cylinder. A wooden cy ror bottle, with
a" thin sheet of gutta\ies?lTa aroflud it,
gives a copious supp!?V>f elccWPit^fluid ex
periment. One of its most imporfmit u*t\s is
that of enclosing tclegrapfiic wires when placed
under the water, so as to protect them from
destructive agents ; its strength and durabili
ty render it an article of gn # nt importance
when connected with the submarine wires.
AN EXCELLENT "PLAIN TEA CAKE. —One
cup <>f white sugar, half a cup of butter, one
cup of sweet milk, one eggs, half teaspoonful
of soda, ore of ereain of tartar, and flour
enough to make it like soft gingerbread.—
Flavor with the jniec of a small lemon. This
makes a good sized loaf.
jffjy The Richmond Whig sees no hope for
Buchanan, and recommends Democrats to drop
him, and unite on Fillmore, as the only chance
to defeat Fremont. Try it ou !
" REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER."
Buried Foreets.
"Extensive forests, covering valleT's and hill-
I sides are overturnei.*iiiid the uprooted trees
form a gigantic barrier, which prevetis yie
Jlowing oil' of the waters. Aii exteisne
, nnirfli is*fonued, particularly well adapted (jtr
t!Te growth of various kinds of nosses. *\ s'
they perish they are succeeded bv other?, oumf
l so for generations, in unceasing life and labor,
| until, in the course of time, the bottoiif under
i the influence of decay and the pressure from
( above, becomes turf. Far below lies hard
1 coal ; the upper part is light atid spongy. At
j various depths, but sometimes as much as twen
ty feet below the surface, an abundance of bog
| wood is found, consisting mostly of oak, hard
' and black as ebony, or of the rich choeolate
-1 colored wood of the yew. Such ancient for
| ests every now and then rise in awe-inspiring
i majesty from their grave. The whole city of
Hamburg, its harbor, and broad tracts of land
around it, rest upon a sunken forest, which is
' now buried at an immense depth below the sur
face. It contains mostly limes and oaks, but
must also have abounded with hazel woods,
for thousands of hazel nuts are brought to light
by every excavation, not exactly made for nuts.
The city of New Orleans, it has been recently
discovered, is built upon the most, magnificent
foundation on which a city ever rose. It was
the boast of Venice that Iter marble palaces
rested in the waters of the Adriatic on piles
of costly wood, which now serve to pay the
debts of her degenerate sons ; but our Venice
has not less than three ties of gigatic trees be
neath it. They all stand upright, one upon
another, with their roots spread out as they
grew, and the great Sir Charles Lycll expres
ses Lis belief that it must have taken at least
eighteen hundred years, to fill up the chasm,
since one tier had to rot away to a level with
tiie bottom of the swamp before the upper
could grow upon it.
A Clerical Anecdote.
Some thirty-five or forty years ago, a cler
gyman of the old school, somewhat eccentric,
came to Salem, from the country, to exchange
desks with one of the brethren in the ministry.
During the Sabbath noon intermission he said
to his daughter, " I am going to lie down ; if
St. Paul comes himself don't disturb me.''
Mr. Bentlv, who preached in the East church
who had been very intimate with Mr. Williams,
but had not seen him for several years, hear
ing he was in town, hnrried off after dinner to
make his old friend a call.
" Where is Brother Williams ?" he inquired,
ar lie met the daughter.
* He can't be disturbed, sir, not even if St.
Paul should call."
. '•! must see him !" was the impatient re
joinder, in the illimitable maimer peculiar to
Mr. I jeiilley.
Resistance to such a " must " was out of the
question.
The room of the sleeper was .designated.—
With no gentle voice* and *a corresponding
shake, Mr. Williams was aroused. He was
delighted to sec his oldjriend Bentley, reiter
ating iit the fervency of lift heart his gratifica
tion.
" i think, Brother Williams," said Mr. Bent
ley, " that you are a little inconsistent." .
" flow so? how so ? Brother Bentley !"
" Didn't you tell your daughter you was not
to be disturbed, even if Jrt. Paul called? jet
you appear glad to see me.''
" No, Brother Bentley, not inconsistent at
all. 1 was—l am glad to see you. The Apos
tle Paul ? why, 1 intend to spend a blessed
eternity with him ; but you, Brother Bentley,
1 never expect to see again.— ll tug man Jour
nal.
N'IUIIT SCENE IN A VOFNO LADY'S BED CHAM- ;
HEK. —Last Tin May night, which will be re
membered as one of the warmest of the se;f-;
son, a young lady at the " Most End" was
excessively frightened at a little circumstance
which transpired about the hour of midnight.
The young lady, whose beauty is only equalled
by her modesty, and whose " eye's dark charm "
lias caused more than one waistcoat to palpitate, i
had retired to her chamber, where, after lav
ing aside the greater portion of her wearing
apparel she committed herself to the tender
embrace of Morpheus, whose soothing infliien- ;
aided by the cooling breath of Zephyr,
who came in at the open window and fanned
lie# clients with his feathery wings. In a word,
she was snoozing finely-—or, to use the language ;
of a modern bard—
" Sleep on tier velvet cyeliils lightly pre—"il,
And dreamy sights uphi av d tier -navy breast.
While -t nT.i'am-. thru' hi r wind a soStly rroeping.
Stole to her couch, and treuiiiliug there stuod peeping.''
It was, as we saiy, about midnight when the
your Jady % wins roused from her delicious slum
#ie Iteming a noise at the window, llalf
unclot-ing 1T eyes, she was startled by the
sight of a coijVilent form, apparently strng-
gain'aduiis.sioii to ln r chamber through
the opeiiV>mhw. It struck her at once that •
the intruder lnul been caught by the rear of
his unmentionables by a nail or some other
sharp instrument, as lie seemed to be strug
gling with*a stern determination to enter. —
Her first thought was to faint—her second, j
to give the fellow a push—her third, to jump ;
out of the window as soon as he jumped in— !
her fourth, to scream, which was immediately .
carried into effect. The whistle of the loco- i
motive on tiie Iron* Mountain road, when it |
gave its first snort on the 4th of July, was but i
a whisper to the screams of the young girl.—
The whole house, and half the neighl#>rliood,
were awakened by the outyv. The ohl#"<#ks,
three female servants, ami two
rushed to the rescue, and broomsticks, indji
handles and bootjacks flashed in thc#agslight
as the household entered the chamber of the
frightened beauty. An examination
figure in the window dispelled the fearsof all,
and changed the screams of the young kidv
into shouts of laughter. The imaginary 'Wat
man " was only her own darling hnr.prd xkirf,
which she had hung on a hook near the win
dow, and which the wind had inflated and set
in motion. There was no more sleeping in the
house that night.— St. Louis Ifrrnld.
Further Evidence that Col. jFremc-nt is
Kot a Catholic.
[ From the Now V nrk FlvangtUst, Fopt.A s. ]
It is not our business to enter into the strife
of imlfrics. That is not our vocation, and we
religiously abstained from such contests,
fljull we depart from this line of strict
I But we are sometimes appealed to
1 j'or 'formation as to matters of fact, by rea
ders imagine that we may have special
means of knovvyg* the truth, in such a case
we are willing to tell what we know—not for
tic sake of party, but*of truth.* This we may
do without sacrificing our neutral aud indepen
dent chaaacter. If we can help to correct an
error, or to disabuse the public mind of a false
impression, we are doing a service to right
minded men of all parties. We dq not urge
our readers to vote one way or#the* other, but
we do wish them to vote iutelligeiMiy.
It is well known that one of* the candidates !
for the Presidency has been charged*with*be
ing a Roman Catholic. To this sHirv we nev
er gave the slightest importance, eonsiderjngit
as one of those bald falsehoods which wore '
fabricated for a party purpose, and which would
drop into oblivion, and be despised, as soon as 1
it had served its object. But as the origina
tors of the story cling to it with greater per
tinacity, thinking it a very effective weapon to
excite odium and prejudice, some good men
have thought it worth while to set the matter
at once and forever at rest. Clergymen of this
city have been applied to by members of their
churches, and by letters from abroad, to make
personal inquiry, since the public would have
eutire confidence in their statement, knowing
that they were not likely to be deceived them
selves, aud that they would have no motive to
misstate the fact.
Thus appealed to— a number uf clergymen,
though very reluctant to anything which could
bring their nams"before"the puWJW!i connec
tion with any polwtfcal question, aiuw*>\ Col.
Fremoul for the of frank conversa
tion in ngard to ktt r&igioats preftdsioft and
belt-/. This they did—not. for tlicw uwn per
sonal satisfaction—for not one*of tluffii had a
doubt about the matter - -but simply that tliey
might be able to satisfy others by an assurance
from his own lips. Among those who went
were Rev. Dr. De Witt, of the D itch Reform*
cd Church ; Professors Henry B. Smith aud
R. D. Hitchcock, of the Union Theological
Seminary : Rev. David B. Coe, Secretary of
the Home Missionary Society, and one of the
editors of litis paper, j Rev. Henry M Field, j
They were received with great cordiality, and
Col. Fremont r> ponded wery frankly and
cheerfully to their inquiries.
When it was remarked that some of our
good people were disturbed about his religion,
he replied, smiling, that he was glad that his
opponents were willing to admit at least, that
he had some religious feeling—that he w; <
not wholly indifferent to Christianity. On.- of
the ministers inquired if the account of his
early religious education and of his joining the
episcopal Church, as given in Bigclow's i.ift
of Fremont, was correct ? He replied that he
hat 1 been born and educated in the Episcopal
Church ; that he had been confirmed as a mem
ber of that Church, ami had never had a
shadow of a thought of leaving it.
When allusion was made to the persistent
assertions that he was a Catholic, he replied
that he could not imagine how such a story
took its rise, for that in fact he had hardly
been inside of a Catholic Church more than
half a-dozen times in his life, and then upon
occasions of public interest or of curiosity.
All this was said very quietly, and with no
awparent desire to intrude ids religion or to
make capital out of it, but to state the simple
fact of his religious education and belief. No
one coidd listen to this frank vet modest state
ment without feeling that it was perfectly in
genuous ; and that, with no bigotry towards
others, lie was sincerely and unatlectedly at
tached to the religion in which he had been
educated by his pious mother.
WITHDRAWAL OF MIL Burn WAN. —It is
stated that Mr. Breckinridge really made a
proposition to Mr. Buchanan, at Wheatland,
on the subject, of his withdrawal.
The plan is to get Mr. Douelsoa also to
withdraw, and unite the Democratic and the
American tickets in the persons of Fillmore
and Breckinridge. Sueli a ticket, Mr. Breck
inridge thinks will lie likely to succeed against
Fremont and Dayton.
What is to be done about the two platforms,
does not appear. Nor have we learned what
response Mr. Buchanan made to the proposi
tion.
JC-.V" A Democrat " out west " was canvass
ing the votes in cars : one gave his vote
for Fremont, rougher for Fillmore, another for
Buchanan, and At lust he came to a
white-era vatetl, meek looking passenger, '"Who
do you go fnr ?" "My friend," replied the
parson gravely, "I go for Jesus Christ." Tiie
1 h-moerat, run his finger ovt r the paper. "Sir"
lie replied, " there's no such candidate running
if there is, I'll bit fifty dollars he don't get
li ft v votes in Indiana !"
IK?' The slaveholders of the South have
twenty members of Congress on the strength
of the slave population of the Southern States.
A slaveholder's negroes are represented in
Congress in the proportion of five negroes to
three whites. Thus one slaveholder owning a
thousand negroes has the same representation
in Congress as has six hundred Northern free
men ! Is this Democratic ? Is thi> ju-t ?
Vet it is the iuHitution which the Buchanan
lien are trying to spread.
EXCELLENT FRCIT CAKE. —One cup of bnt
ter, of brown sugar, one of molasses, one
of sweet niiik, three of flour, and four eggs.
One and a half tea spoonful of cream of tar
tar, and one of soda. Two pounds of rasins,
chdjiped tine ; one nutmeg, and a little brandy
if you choose. This will make two good sized
loaves, which will keep moist without liquor
from four to six weeks w hen properly covered.
VOL. XVII.— XO, 1?.
i James Buchanan.
" -1 mmtnatun net fit to It made.''
Jumps Buchanan, of Pennsylvania, having
received the Damnation for President of the
L mted States by the office-holders' pro-slaver <1
Convention at Cincinnati, I beg leave to refer
\ n publicans and democrats to his past historv.
Ou tlie 4ih of Jvly, 1810, lie said in bis speech
j mi that occasion, that "if be thought he had
, a drop of democratic blood in bis veins, lie
would open an artery and let it out." He was
lii -1 elected to the legislature by tbe federalists
of Lancaster, in that year, and afterwards
elected by tbe federalists to Congress in 1
i 1822, 1524 and 182G, in opposition to the
I democratic candidates, Jacobdlebsbman, Sarn
: uel Houston, and Dr. John McCamaut.
Jll 182.'], June dd, as chairman &fa federal
committee, be addressed a cii%ul:y*hj Uie fed
eralists of the state, calling upon tiimi to sop
port Andrew Gregg, a federalist*for Gover
nor, in opposition to the democrat
In 1828, at t lie Yellow Springs,"Caster cotfh
ty, he refused to allow liis uainoto be used as
a democrat, saying "he was a Jackson man,
but, thank God ! no democrat General Jack
son eautiyned President Polk against him av
an unfaithful and deceitful man ; and whefi
too late Mr. Polk found out the truth of the
caution, and so expressed himself to the Hon.
Henry Horn of Philadelphia.
The democrats of the i nion should reflect
before they vote for Mr. Buchanan for Presi
dent. lie is a wily man, and will be surround
ed by bad men—men of the stamp of Brooks,
Forney, Herbert A: Company. Ills piesent
democratic pretensions are all fudge, and he
was no doubt sincere when he said " ten cents
a day was enough for a poor laborer in this
country." Working men and mechanics ? hes
itate before voting—look into " Old Buck's"
history aud give him the cold shoulder.
PATRICK HENRY.
£•2?" If any person is in doubt as to which
of the three candidates for President has the
be-t chance of election, we urge him to look
carefully through c ome twenty or more politi
cal journals a out equally divided between
flie three parties. lie will find the Fillmore
journals ai solutcly ferocious in their warfare
011 Fremont, but having very little to say
against Buchanan, and saying that little very
softly ; and the Buchanan journals in like
maimer concentrating their batteries on Fre
mont and treating Fillmore rather as the ser
viceable ally lie is than as a veritable and for
midable antagonist. Look through the journ
als of New-York, New-Jersey, Peensylvania—
in short, every Free .State where the struggle
is en rue- r and Fillmore has any real support
—you will iiml the contest taking precisely this
shape, ii a Buchanan orator or journalist
says anytlrng at all of Fdhrore, he says it
\ rv mil ky and daintily ; and so of the treat
ment of liuehnim Vhd his ph.tfoim by the
F i!more N es. This do - not imply any real
bi. nv feeling between these two parties—for
at bottom they hate each other as intensely as
lie. y Late us—but simply a common sense of
danger—a common consciousness that Fremont
is really the candidate whose election is immi
nent. If Fremont were as weak as Fillmore
i is, the Buchanan voters anil journals would
not direct tlmir batteries mainly against the
former : if Buchanan and Fillmore were lead
ing the race, their backers would bestow very
little attention on Fremont. But look at their
journals listen to their speeches—and you
will lind them full of Fremont, Fremont—his
n ligion, (or other people's surmises and talk
about it); his duels, (though he never fought
a duel), his birth and parentage ; his explor
ations, achievem uts,accounts,\e., Ate. One of
i lieui makes a speech to prove that he did not
conquer California, (which he never claimed
to have done ;) another writes a letter to show
that lie did not originally discover the South
Pass, when his own report speaks of it as al
ready well known to trappers and hunters
i when he lir.-t visited and fixed its location.—
j Fveu the " Wolly Horse "is thrown in his
, face, though he never saw nor heard of such
an animal, until Col. Benton had its exhibitor
j arrested and sent to prison as an impostor.—
| Never was a man so malignantly, so shameful
ly assailed : never were assaults so unjustifia
ble nor so harmless. The old aphorism that
the clubs and -tones arc found thickest under
j the trees that bear the best apples was never
1 more strikingly illustrated than in his case, and
the People will show by their votes that they
appreciate it. We trust the cross-fire of his
detainers will not slacken before the Flection.
8\?T"It is related of Thomas F. Marshall
' that a judge having once fined him thirty dol
! lars for contempt of Court, he rose and asked
the Judge to loan him the money, as he hadn't
1 it, and there was no friend present to whom
I he could so well apply a.> to his Honor. This
! was a stumper. The Judge looked at Tom
and then at the Clerk, and finally said : "Clerk
remit Mr. Marshall's line ; the btate is better
able to lose thirty dollars than I aui."
ORGANS OK COMII.VTIVKVKSS. —During the
Dorr war in Rhode Island, a bill was brought
jinto " organize tne army." This aroused from
j sleep an old man in one corner, who represent
ed a town in the West part of the State.
| " Mr. Speaker," says lie, " I tell you T ara
j decidedly opposed 10 organizing the army, as
you call it. Our forefathers tit through the
revolution with nothing but a drum aud life,
| and come ofT first best too ! Igo agin organs.
They'll be dreadful ouhandy tilings in battle,
now 1 tell you !"
This was irresistible, and old " Aunt Rho
de's " army remains unorganized to this day.
TEXAN GAME. —"Any game hereabouts,
sir ?" asked a sporting gentleman, newly ar
rived, of an old residenter. " Reckon so, and
plenty of 'cm. There's bluff, poker, and eu
chre, and all fours, and monte, and jest as
many others as you like to play at."
£ y There is a time for all things. The
time to " leave " i when a young lady asks you
how the walking is.