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LIFE'S A RAILROAD.
Lite's a ritilroad ! Hurryon!
41.1.v.ap, keep a-going i
}lever stop to look at flowers
Pr the road-side growing.
Never think of Anything
Rut your•pre-ent hurry,
Mhat if you ItvLld lose a truin?
Vioult'Wl, you be bully?
What'l the use of sighiug
.1.1 tor 1).• kuty. !Lying
a-Nteep logician the tree
1V here the
throw4:ll. win lin,z eat!
lyae •p the t:tzy hours,
Ant the ,low-paceil walk
tier utteou:seiuus ilimerb
lieauty changes with the times,.
°nee she chose her - shelter
In the .11.141,,wy
Lept„,t he 'still :414,11.1.1 melt her.
St,Long•er-treadlel, she ILL.lies on,
Nkm, from town to city,
In a h)eutiketive's .hope,
Nuthin,eb half so pretty.
Lite was once a trodden path,
%here the' travellers cheery
bpoke Jo all they chanced to meet
- Or--would rest, if weary.
4pikik Rest is now quite obsolete ;
, Sips or slumber take you,
Careless who be•ide you sits,
Norwalk draws will wake you
Lile's a railroad! Hurry on!
Alwap. keep ,t-roim; !
Never stop to look at flowers
By the road-shin grolVing.
Never mind what's o u the track ;
On—though headlong--flunter,
11 engine Progroh,
ThaL's ,the great dkeiter !
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Loss of Life in Great Battles.
Our Baltimore namesake gives statistics to
show the waste of human life in the unsuccess
ful attack on the Malakoff and , ,Redatt appears
to have been nearly. as great nOn the average
of the most destructive modern battles. More
than live thousand of the assailants were killed
and wounded. a vast to tortion. when we con-
sider how small. comparatively, the storming
column was. The French alone admit a loss
of thirty-eight hundred mien out of an attacking
force of twenty-five thousand : that is to say,
every seventh man was rendered incapable,
either by death ut wounds. There is. indeed.
one modern siege which was more bloody. than
this--=not actually, however, but when the
;lumbers engaged are compared with those who
fbll. We allude to the second siege of Dada
joz, in the Peninsular 'war. That famous-
Spanish fortress was invested by WELLINGTON,
at the head of twenty-two thousand men, and
finally carried by storm after one of the most
sanguinary assaults on record. In the attack
on the great breach alone not less than thirty
eight hundred men fell. Yet Badajoz was a
small place. the fort . not being larger, perhaps,
than the Malakoff and its outworks. Whoev
er would realize half the horrors of war should
read Napier's account of the fall of Badajoz.
Marengo, Austerlitz, %Vagrant, Leipsic,
Dresden, Borodino and Waterloo, were among
the most desperately contested battles of the
first Napoleon. At Marengo the Austrians
lost ten thousand, more than a third of their
whole force, while the French lost seven thou
sand, or about the same proportion. , A consid
erable portion of these were-prisoners, howev
er, while at the Man and Malakoff but few
prisoners were . taken. At Austerlitz the
French lost twelve thousand; or nearly a sixth
of their entire force ; but the allies lost thirty
thousand, or more than a third. At %Vngram
the lass on either side was twenty-five thou
sand, or about one-seventh-of those engaged.
At, beipsic the loss was forty-three thousand
on the side of the allies, out of nearly three
hundred thousand, in the field; and sixty thou
sand on the part of the French, out of one hun
dred and seventy-five thousand. At Dresden,
the allies lost twenty-five thousand, or one
sixth of their entire numbers, while the French
lost but twelve thousand. or one-tenth. At
Borodino, the bloodiest battle of all. fifty thou
sand tell on each side, or a third of those in
the battle.' At Waterloo the French lost forty
thousand, or mote thaushall;_ but a large_pore .
Lion of these fell in the rout ; yet the Enelish
Jost nearly twenty thousand, or almost a Ind
of their entire troops.
It is often said, in discussing military affairs,
that our American battles have been too tri
fling to take into consideration.. But if we con
sider, not the numbers actually killed and
wounded, but the proportion which those
numbers bear to the whole force engaged, we
shall find that those actions, thus-scorned,
were as hotly contested as even the first Napo
leon'S7battles. At Eutaw Springs, fur ex
ample, in the revolutionary war, one- third of
both armies were left upon the.Jield. At
Chippewa, in the war of 1812, nearly one-fifth
•of the British were disabled. At Lundy's
Lane, the loss of the Americans was about one
third, and that of the British equally great.
At New Orleans, where the British attempted.
on a small scale, the same rash experiment
which they have just beet, defeated in betbre
the Redan and Malakoff, the assailant lost
two thousand men out of their army of twelve
thousand. From these statistics it appears
that battles in the open field are generally
Inure bloody, though not always. thairaSSaUfts
of entrenched fseetions. The reason is, that
in the funnel case tire entire army is usually
tneraged, but in the tatter only the sun-mitt,-
cortmin. The has by thus,: act ual:y oe se i s s d
on the attack is al way a heat ter, hut+ ever, than
the average loss of an at my in the open held.
would seem. also, that, the allies w their
later repulse slide! ed a s set et ely as the Die
lish at New 1.1, leans —A defeat a Irs;l1 has
ways becn culkiderud tine 01 Ix
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The Siege of Boston—Occupation of Dor
chester Heights—Washington's First
Revolutionary Achievement.
[Extract from ti , m. E , lward Frorett's. Fourth of July
Oration at, Dorcho-dor.
But there is another circumstance which
must ever clothe the occupation
.of Dorchester
Heights with an affecting interest. it was the
first great military operation of Washington in
• the revolutionary war; not a battle, indeed.
but the preparation for a battle on the grand
est scale, planned 'with such skill and executed
with such vigor, as at once to paralyze -the
army and navy of the enemy, and force him.
without striking a blow, to an ignominious re
treat. Washington. as you well. know, was'
chosen to the command of the army in Phila
delphia, on the day the battle of Bunker - Mil
was fought. The siege of Boston had already
been limped : and those noble lines of circum
vaflation —twelve piles in compass, of which
sonic faint remains may still be traced—had
been drawn along the high grounds of Charles
town, Cambridge, Roxbury and Dorchester.
An adventurous expedition against Quebec had
failed ; partial collisions had taken 'place
wherever there were royal 'forces throughout
the country ; but nothing decisive was brought
about, and a feverish excitement pervadedthe
continent. Congress wits still condncttug the
war without the constitutional existence ; and
all eyes and hearts were turned to the army
and to Washington: Alen at a safe distance
and with nothing at stake, are prone to judge
severely the conduct of those who are at the
post of responsibility and danger. Washing
ton. himself felt the delicacy and the hazards of
his position the importance of sustaining the
expectations of the country the necessity.of
decisive results. But his army was without
discipline or . experience, save a few veterans
of the: seven years' War—without supplies of
any kind—composed of men who had left their
homes at a moment's warning, and were itn
pitient to return-, weakened by camp diseases
and the small-pox—with a stock of powder
so scanty that stratagem was resorted to by
the commander to conceal the deficiency even
from his officers. Thus the summer and the
autumn wore away, and every week increased
the public impatience and added to the em
barrassments of Washington. His private
letters at this time are filled with the most
touching remarks on his distressful condition.
In a letter to President Reed of the 14th of
January, 1776, lie says : 'The reflection on
my situation and that of this army, produces
many an unhappy hour, when all around me
are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the
predicament, we are in on a thousand accounts,
fewer still wilt believe, if any disaster happens
to these lines, from What cause it flows: I
have often thought how much happier I should
have been if, instead of accepting the command
under _such circumstances, I had taken my
musket on my shoulder and entered the t anks
or, if I could have justilied the measure to
posterity and my own conscience, had retired
to the back country-and lived in a wigwam."
At length, however, the re-enlistment of the
army was completed ; advanced lines were
thrown. up—ordnance captured at Ticonderoga
had been transported by Knox with prodigious
effort across the country-- ammunition had been
taken by Nlanly in his prize ships'—shells were
furnished from the royal arsenal at New York.
It was_Washingtoni-s wish to . cross the ice to
Boston—to carry the town by assault—and
destroy the royal army. The ice, however.
did nut make until the middle of February ; and
then it was decided by a council of war that
the town could not be assaulted with success.
It was then resolved to repeat . on a grander
scale, with full preparation and ample means,
the hasty operation which had brought on the
battle of Bunker Hill. It was determined
first to occupy the heights- of Dorchester, and
as soon as.an impregnable position was secur
ed there, to establish batteries on Nook's Hill
and other rising grounds nearest Boston. The
fleet in the harbor was within range of the
heights ; the town was commanded from the
hills below. The occupation of these points
would of necessity compel the enemy tu take
the risk of a decisive action or to evacuate the
town.
Washington, though - preferring the bolder
measure, yielded to the decision of his council,
and threw his whole soul into the work: A
plan for a grand combined movement was
matured. Tue heights of Dorchester were to
be occupied on the night of the 4th of March,
in order that, the Anticipated battle might be
fought on the anniversary of the ever memora
ble 4th of March, 1776. As scup as the con
flict was engaged on the heights, Putnam was
to cross from Cambridge with a body of tutu
thousand men, land in two divisions in Boston;
and forcing his way through the town burst
open the fortifications on the neck, and thus
admit a division of the "American army from
Roxbury. To distract and occupy the atten
tion of the enemy, the town was severely bom
barded from Somerville, East Catublidge and
Roxbury during the nights of the 2d, ',;d and
4th of March.
I am told by professional men that these
dispositions e% inee consummate military skill ;
and show that IVashington, too often compell
ed by his situation to pursue his Fabian policy,
possessed a talent for military combinations_
that entitles him to a pia - cc beside the greatest
captains of the last century.
- The 4th of `larch—time day so long and anx
iously exiiected —at length arrives. The
troops arc put in motion in the evening trout
the American lines at Roxbury- arid Dorche.ster.
Aim advanced guard of eight hundred precedes :
the carts with harem:long tools come next,
with the main body twelve hninlred strung
under Ueneral Thomas the whole followed
by a train of three hundied wagons loaded
with fascines, gabions and bundles of, hay.
They cross Dorchester neck without being
perceived, and reach their destination in two
divisions, one for each of the heights. Bun.
dies of hay wcr e placed un the side of the
causeway al the ino?lt exposed palls, as a pro
lection in ease the enemy should - discover anti'
attempt to interrupt the movement. Under
this shelter pin ties limit the. American army
passul several times during the night. without
pereelved, lhoir r :,ll it Kati hr hilt moon
light. This was tit. log, :1,, doubt, to 1.11,.. can
nonade and bornhaidio , . In of the to‘t n how the
orpoiqte gnat Let a1..0 the w hole sur
rounding country- was ill own - in a stale of
painful , xpLetation and al.,' in. Inc ,)
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GETTYSBURG, PA:: MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1855.
scriptive of the scene or of his thoughts and
emotions at what he must have regarded, at
that time. as the most eventful hour of his
life, and the most critical element of the war.
—Ttte moon shining in its full luster (they are
the words of 11'ashington) through the clear
cold air of early March, revealed every
- object
with that spectral distinctness with which
things present themselves to the straining eye
at a great juncture. All immediately around
him is intense movement but carried 'on in
death-like silence ; nothing - heard but the in
cessant tread of busy feet, and the dull sound
of the mattock upon the soil frozen so deep as
to make it necessary to place the chief reliance
on the fasci nes and gahions. Beneath .
the slumbering batteries of the castle—the
roadstead and harbor filled - with the vessels of
the royal fleet.motionless except us they swung
round at their moorins at the turn of theptid
night, tide : the beleaguered city occupied with
a powerful army and a considerable non-com
batant population. starthlkinto unnu toralevigi
lance by the incessant and destructive cannon
ade, but yet unobservant of the great opera
tions in progress so near them ; the surround
ing country dotted with a hundred rural settle
ments, roused from the deep sleep of a New
England village, by the unwonted tumult and
glare. *
The morning of the sth of March dawned,
and the enemy beheld with astonishinent loom
ing through a heavy mist the operations of the
night. Gen. Howe wrote to the minister that
they must have been the work of at least twelve
thousand men., In the accont.t given by one
of his ,oflieers and adopted in the Annual
Register, it is said'that the expedition. with
which these works were thrown up. with Elide
sudden and unexpected appearance, "recalled
to the' mind those wonderful stories of enchant
ment and invisible agency which are so fre
quent its the eastern romances."
General Howe, like a gallant coinmander,
immediately 'determined on the perilous at ,
tempt to dislodge the Americans hefor'e their
entrenchments should he rendered impregna
ble. A powerful detachment led by Lord
Percy dropped down to the castle in the after
noon, to rendezvous there, and thence cross
over to Dorchester point, and storm the heights.
A heavy gale (a —dreadful storm," it is called
' in the British account) scattered the barges
and prevented the embarkation of the troops.
This delay gave the Americans time to perket
their works ; barrels Idled with earth were
placed round the heights, an abattiß of trees
disposed around the footof the bill, a reinfince
_Meta of 2,000 ordered to the support of Gen.
Thomas, and every 'preparation made for a
decisive - conflict. —
It was then understood that the royal coin
inander, not deeming it safe to ;Ake the risk of
an engagement, had -determined to evacuate
--Boston. TO—prevent—the—destruction—of—Hp
town. Washington was willing that they should
leave it unmolested. Finding, however, after_
some days that no apparent utovetnent was
made -for this purpose, he determined without
further delay:to occupy Nook's and the
other elevations fronting and commanding the
town. This - produced the. desired effect, and
General Howe was compelled to acknowledge
the
. inability of a powerful land and naval
force under veteran leaders, to maintain them
selves against untried levies whom they were
accustomed to regard with contempt, led by
officers flow whom they affected even to with
hold the usual titles of military command.
He was obliged to acquiesce in an engagement
with the selectmen of Boston, tacitly sanction
ed by .‘Mr. Washington," that his army should
be allowed' to embark without betog fired
upon, upon condition that they would not
burr. the town.
Thus,•on the ofMarch, 17 7G, an affec
tive force of ten thousand evacuated the town,
and with a powerful fleet and a numerous
train of transports. sailed for Hallifax ; Put,-
than), with a detachment of the American army.
took possession of Boston. The beloved com
mander himself made his triumphant entry the
following day. and the first great act of the
thanes or the revolution was brought to a tri
umphant close—oh that Dorchester Neck
which our fathers selected as a place fur set
tlement. -
This event diffused joy throughontThe Union
and contributed materially to prepare the pub
lie mind fin that momentous political measure
of which we this day co►mnemorate the 791.1
anniversary.
PILAWIT 01? UNIWILIMAININ(:. - -Mr. William
Chamberlin. of Lower Red Book, N. Y., drain
ed twenty-live acics of land; at an eNpense of
::+6O per lien:, and the first three crops paid the
whole eijaise, including cost of cultivation.
lie may, then, hereafter look for a iiredil of
per acie: on each crop.-- Last season part of
this ground yielded 75 bushels of corn. and a
part - .WO bushels of potatueS, while on adjacent
undrailied fields the crops were nearly ruined
by the drought.
CosTivKmiss."--The following is a good re
cipe for costive habits : --Extract of aloes,
twenty grants: powdered ginger, half a 411achin;
powdered ipeca cuanha eight grab's : syrup,
sufficient quantity : cncx, and divide
,illO Ak="
teen pills. Dose : one, about noon. The
celebrated Abernethy is the author of the above
reel pe. - - - -
' AIONSTER GI NS —Wrought iron hubs of
nionsier size and eillihrt—are in eotirse -
facLure at the non works of Messrs. Nasulyth,
Manchester. England. ii p war i s
of three fret in, diameter and about, lAveivy lea
lung, weighing upwaids of twenty tons each,
and will discharge a blieit of at least 1,000
pound , : weight a dista.nee of five wiles.
StivEN 111 An....—Tire Trihnne
;:ivs that. in Noveinber, ?'4 , a gentleman
Baldwin mailed a letter to a grocery house rn
that city. It was. never received m heard fir
untrl laz,t week, when it. came exactly to its
destination. :01(.1- air altsciwe neady
year ! —ft-wcynid be pleasant to - huar -- That - let - - -
tei an account of its travels dunng, that
long petiod.
1: - ; The Re n , ,( ilea' :11aoor Teliaitt:i onc e held
Iticetolg and re,olved that the payou fa of
the pioduck, %‘a,, tun 'Katy a tent,
and a:•lce.i intanitoon,ly therealtt t that - they
V,01i1.1 pay wily 1 111. They IllbCr
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Sawing off a Lover's Leg.
The following story, which is calculated to
make "each pat ticular hair to stand like quills
upon the f. arful poreupine l " is said to have
happened in St. Lawrence eoonty, New York,
and is given on the authority of a
,e,•etiLlettutubf
undoubted veracity : '
t•A young man addicted to intemperate hab
its. (luring one of his periodical 'sprees' took a
sudden notion to pay it visit to his 'sweetheart.'
(hi the evening alluded to, the young lady and
a female associate were the only occupants of
the. house where she resided. About ten
o'clock in the evening the young roan arrived
at the house, considerably worse from the use
of 'beverages.' ills strange manner in ap
poaching the door excited the suspicions of
the young ladies, who - supposed the house was
attacked by robbers. lie knocked at the door,
and demanded admission ; - but - his voice not
being recognized, from the thickness of his
tongue, the .ladies refused to comply with the
demand. Determined to force an entrance he
commenced a series of assaults upon the barred
and bolted door by kicking and pounding.
After a number of desperate kicks, the panuel
of the .door gave way, and the leg of the be
sieger went through the aperture, and was
immediately seized by one of _the ladies and
firmly held, while the other, armed with a
saw, commo:et' the -work of_ amputation'.
The grasp was firmly maintained, and the
saw vigotoosly plied, until the leg was com
pletely severed from the body'. With the loss
of his leg. the intoxicated wretch fell back, and
in that condition lay the it maindet of the
In the meantime the lathes were fright
ened almost to‘featli. With the dawn of
morning the revelation was made that one of
the ladies had participated in the amputation
of her lover's leg. The wretched man was still
alive. His friends were immediately sent for,
and he was conveyed to his home, where, with
proper treatment he gradually and iuiraculote
recovered, and is now alive and well. We
hardly credited," says the editor of the journal
from which we quote, - -the latter part of the
story, and contended that the man must have
bled to death on the spot, insisting, indeed,
that it could not be otherivise. Hut we were
mistaken. The leg was a wooden one." -
Couldn't Get Him
The followin g is from the last number cif
the Sin‘thrtti . It reads like
one of llooper'6; stories:
Old John Sarchem was for many years
known as one of th 6 shrewdest men about
Moutgoniery. in fact, there were many 'per
sons who did not hesitate to say that Ins
shrewdness was nothin g ; hut rascality. The
chief peculiarity of old .
John was, that he
could prove anythin, under the face of the
heavens, if he chose 1.0 do so, in a court of.jus
tiee. gvelt-tlie-law-yers-got-to-be-afraid-of
him. (Inc of their number had a note for
t•lin) on old John, and for some
. time he was
afraid to sue on i., lest John' should prove a
set off of some sort against it, although there
was nothing of the, sort existing in reality. A
bright thought, occurred to Greenling. He
would sue in the name of Peter Squizleftliter,
and as no such man ever existed, it would- be
difficult to show that lie ever owed Sarchem
anything. * He did At the trial Sat . -chem .
proved by three witnesses that Peter fiquizle
'linter was an old "iesidenter," and was in•
debted to hint, the said John, at the'time of
Ow supposed transfer of the note, and.contin
ually since, in a sum double the amount 'JUL
it t Nobody ever took "issue" with Sarch• -
em after that !
A N INCH% NT Pima! Ex I.F.itlmseu.s 1N School
TEA6I,ING.-:-One day Isaw.alittk fellow with
his arms about a little wit At of a-girl, endeav 7
oring, if I, interpreted the manifestations right',
to iss her.
"Tommy," said I, "what are you doing
there
"Nothin', thut," spoke the bright-eyed lit
tle witch, "he wath trying to kith me, that he
wath, dun.," and she eyed him. keenly.
-Why, Lucy, what prompted him to at so
ungentlemanly right here in school " [ ask e d,
anticipatincr n some tun.
"Oh hehithched 'up here and thed he want
ed me to kith him, and I. told hint I wouldn't
kith Ouch a thunithy boy as he ids, then he
thud he'd kith me, and I told hint he dathri'l,
but he thed he teordif do it, MO I told hint I
would tell the inatliter if he did. but he thed he
care a thitap for the mathter, and then
tried to kith me the, hard," and the little thing
sighed.
"Why didn't you tell me, ns yon
would "" I asked, in a pleasant mann
"Oil I" she replied with is nah , r/ i I
cid Tint
often hee, ••I didn't care much if he did kith
anti tile IL let hint."
neve, the whole school, who had - been listen
ing intently, broke out in an uproat ions laugh,
while our It Weiler° and heroine blushed deep
ly. —Line;,nuati 7'imes.
AN Awirm ENT.—A young lady being ad
dre,sed by a gen tleMen 1111101 Older that her
stll. observed to him. the only objection she
bad to a union with him. was the probability
Of his dying beliire her. and leaving her to the
rt rows of widowhood. To which he, made
the following ingenius and delicate comfllimen
tary reply, -Messed is the man who path
virtuous wife, fur the number of his days shall
h e doubled."
Swimmtror ItAct; wrru A PlG.—The Buffalo
(.11 . . , Cribub a funny raft: trhieh recently
comer iii that city. A pig in uric of Llie ca
nal ',Oat , " jumped overboard, and the owner
followed suit to recover Ills property. Quite
a crowd collected, and it w3S swim pig. swim
()whet. 'amid cheers and laughter, until they
had nearly reach. d IVashingtort street bridge.
whet. di,,hcarterierl, slacked his elibi ts,
and the owner skized the liGitive by his ?W1 . ..
rit:ict and :,txtirell
IV,IILTS oN (.74)1%5' THAI s. .11;11,4e. F'nrrn
- er says —Air. 31 tcht.l I of- Curio/ 11 lc , writes
us that he had a cow laAstitiinier whose teary
acre cowl& tdy ctAuteti With warts. Ile
mud than Sirup) , by them in alum
water. This LIRA, aittl um col
jn~n lint think, will piove (Alecto:11." An 0:-
In t it nrttl if Mid ;11, tillE eII,OW gays that a'strong
tit' outwit of black oak bail, applit'll twic e a
.14. v, al to unihnig, for two or tlirce weeks. is
&quilts! reincify. Nat' the_
rennin
itinedv cure wart., on luau
of be.-4.
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STARTLING DISCLOSURES.
.9n Exposition If Ilse l's-inripks and Power 4
the know-Nothing Order if. Cmneeticut,
Founded on the eirtursi Experience uf Council
N,. 117, tweak(' in Lytle.
uNANUMOITS ACTION TN COUNCIL
TI - hereas, The State Council of Know-Noth
ings at its recent session in Norwich. in the
.rossegt violation of its constitution and laws,
by which it. professes to be governed, and con
trary to every decision founded upon evidence
and justice, did revoke the charter of this Coun
cil on the representation of the Presidents of
two other Councils of this town—Nos. 105 and
WS—that a majority of its members voted at
the spring election in accordance with the dic
tates of their oWn conscience without fear or
favor of any man ; therelbre,
-Resolved, That we r..nn regard the action of
the State Council in thus revoking our charter
Without even 'notifying is-of such intentien in
no other light than that of a base and tyriani:
cal usurpation of power, oppressiveolike to us_
and every subordinate Council in the State.
tirseked, That this action has fully opened
our eyes to the manifest d”stimition of the or
der to crush out both freedom -of speech and
action on the part of its members ; to utterly
disregard its assurances and obligations: pro
fessedly made in good faith, whenever it shall
best suit its secret, dark and unhalluijed pur
poses, and henceforth to regard no other law
than that of passionate impulse and arbitrary
proscription, which has ever been the last re
sort of those powers only that have attempted
to shield the Brost gigantic wrongs under the
dangerous plea of necessity and absolute au
thority. . -
Resolved, That in our opinion the timo has.
arrived for the.alarin to be sounded in the cars
of the'peq - le of . Connecticut, and to inform
them of the eXistence of a.secret order idtheir
midst which is striking a-'blow in the clatk
against our institutions of civil and religious
litierty,'and which, irsuffeted to go on, will
soon destroy all we hold most dear itt
politics and -morals.
ites,drul, That we feel that we should prove
false to our obligations toblod and our'country,
if we were to keep silent at such a time a 8
this, and that we hereby see forth to the peo
ple the billowing exposition of the Order and
the objections which arise in our minds to the
principles of itssorganization and action :
On. our admission to this Order, we hale
givin us the solemn pledge and assurance that
no obligations would be impoSed uptm us
which would conflict with those we had al-
ready taken, and owed to God and our fami
lies. For the sole reason that we acted its
were bound to do under the Constitution oil
the State. and that wo honestly complied with
our sacred obligations as electors, we were
- ejected - fronr - the -- Orderornatheinatizein
worthy of respect, undeserving of any well
dence whatever in any business transaeti"
and as deserVing only the scorn and' reproach
of all good men.— ‘Ve were subjecti.4 to the
Most fearful denunciations because' we would
nut surrender up to this most, accursed of all
despotisms our freedom of citizenship,'and de
grade ourselves down to the ignominious !servi
tude ta wearing a mastiff's collar.
Inview of - such thiogs, what honest man
would contend that, any obligations which
might be imposed by the order aro in the least
binding or entitled to one niOntelteS respect I
Who would not go rather one step farther and
say that' mail is guilty of perjury in the high
est degree" who 'would act. with Chu Order,
against his own honest. convictions
We believe if the parent for such a cause
disowns the offspring, the obligation to keep
the secrets of .tech a parent is forever absolved,
and the light -- of day should be permitted . to
penetrate - tutu-the dark recesses of this inatitU•
nun, so win tliless and at the saute time so
dangerous - end -destructive to the genius of
Amertcan institutions. It is arrayed in war
fare agamsi, the whole machinery of a republi
can government.
it has enticed the people horn their 'homes
iii the still hours of darkness, and
its nume•-
utis Owen of meeting bound them to, its foul
and fearful .purposes by administering - the
most horrid oaths with one hand resting on the
Bible, and the other raised to Heaven, to yield
themselves uort'servedly to the' control of this
secret pow er, and even to deny to their fami
lies and the•world that they bold connection
with the Order. Nu person is permitted to
hold an opinion which has not the sanction of,
the sell constituted mouth pi , ces of the party.
Within tins temple of superslwtiasst tr llracle
reigns supreme. The devotee who worships
at its shrine is cumpletely.uninanned. Ile no
longer feels nor acts his Corner self. In secret
he-steals away like a cuospirator to the place
where 'the most inveterate hatred is engendered
against the descendents an d countr ymen of
those brave wen whose heroic valor assisted
in achieving the liberties which we now enjoy:,
lii the same manner, and often at the hour of
midinght he gropes his way back to his family
again to repeat the bundled times told lie of
no connection with this order. So much false
hood in this faintly circle, where the utmost
confideuee, trutlitu hiess and harmony should
exist, has a duvet, tendency to produce suspi
cion and mistrust on the part of wives and
mothers towards their husbands and sons ;
hence we find in every town where a council
exis ts, th e tel lt ale portion of the cominuility are
speaking out, boldly, their indiguauoii against
the Oi dui w hose influence is so inannestlybane
ha upon all w ho are couneeted with it, whether
newly or remotely.
'lle w hu'iloes not here behold the sure work
ings ul demoralization and. ruin must indeed
be a pour moralist.
lout all these are evil; of small Magnitude
and consideration when compared with suave
other i gigantle wrongs w ith winch it la:Jors to
curse the land. The :,caternig of a new piece:,
oh rut piper ol a pi:collar shape oblige:, every
-brother ' w al in hilo:,cll' with a bowie-hinle
-- and - rcvulver, or other - deadly - weaposeii - and
follow the heels of their leaders even to the
sin:4l.llllga
. blood. The tintrinnati,
,tit.alni other harlot and bloody know
Nothilig riots, ale but the le-z.itailiata. workiug.,
01 true I triter, and but the ta i ;1111110:;" 0( such
: A :OW:, .1., V. CI t; C1134.70:11, 011 the soil ut Fiance.!
under Red Republican
Those who control and toanage the affairs of,
this alai apt comaa a ill it for the spoils or
er -- d
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1 gi,,us tests which have been successfully rea
-;„,,,e(1 down and removed from the statutes of
I our State, are speedily dragged from their
'.loathsome tomb and quickened into life. Nu
Catholic is to be tolerated. nu matter how sin
cerely he may revere his Maker; he is to hold
people, have no part
no office in the gift. of the
in the government nor interest in any of its
concerns, while the atheist. -deist,. debattche,
infidel; mormon and buddist is recognized as
a good and worthy brother.
They hive fearful apprehensions that the
Catholic Church will.soon_overrun and possess
the country, to the ruinnlike of republicanism
and religion—and all this too when that church
is in the most rapid decline in theoldcountry,
and while it is only continuing in • its fold a
moiety of those who reach our shores strung
in their attachment to its cause ! these appre
hensions, then, are entirely unfounded in fact
and 'opposed-to - common sense. It is only - a
kick of crafty political managers to bring to
their aid the religious •element of their coun
try, while it is generating dissensions, secta
rian animosities,-a-nd the rankest intolerance.
History and experience alike teach that no
people were ever persecuted for opinion's sale
without coming out in the end, vastly - increased
in numeral strength and favor. It is a saying
both old and true., in all ages, ‘•The blood uf
the martyr is the s-ed of the church." No
m of religion ha been put down by the
for
.pr ;.
persecution of its ofessors. '. " ,
Tins Order swears its members never to
vote fut a foreign born citizen to fill' any office
in the gift of the peoPle.• -Thus birth-place
rather than virtue and intelligence. is.tnade a
qualification for places of trust and responsi
bilityl- What an absurdity •is here ! The
Know-Nothing principles and practices would
elevate a Benedict Arnold to. place, in prefer
ence to suchmen as Lafayette, Ilarnil ton. Mont
gomery, Gates, &when, Moultrie. DeKalb,
St. Clair, Morris, a host of noble and • gallant
men who freely spent their velem , , . . •:,
their blood in our- glorious struggle for liberty.
And are th. 'people of Connecticut prepared to
adopt such principles as these !=-principles
which_ are at war with the machinery or the
American Government ! We have too much
confidence in their intelligence and honor to
believe' that they will very long submit to this
great wrong.' We feel confident that there
are at this Limo, thousands in- the Qer who
'are similarly situated to ourselves . d - Who
already see that its influence is fore it upon
every interest of our country.' We know of
many incether parts of the State 'who feel with
us in , this matter, and who' are resolved to
conic out and wash their hands of this foul
and disgraceful business. .
The foregoing is a brief Statement of facts ;
no argument is needed-to add anything. to its
force or develop more clearly the character of
an organization which, while it ostracizes all
those biiiii.on a foreigfibiKArtiWs into - its
toils thousands -of lamest and unsuspecting
Americans, and then attempts to reduce them
to a condition Of servitude,- strip them of their
individuality, degrade theta to a position of
mete machines, and compel them at the bid
ding of their masters, to disobey the bidding
of their • consciences, surrender their own
thoughts into the keeping of others,.and vio
late their • oaths of allegiance to"-the Stifle of
which they are citizens.
Others may elnxise le submit to such auto
cioua despetisur, but as for ourselves, we 'de
nounce it as contrary to the genius of our in-
StiLlitiollti t at war with freedom of thOught,
and deserving the open dentinciationor - every
true American. , .
ltea►lvcd, That the officorit and members of
this Council unix their MUIR% to the above.
lienaved, That'the papers in this' State op
tamed to this organization. are hereby
,reqiteat
ed to publish the foregoing. .
B. P. LULL,. Pm:lidos.
Daniel S. Swan, Manama;
Charlet.4l. Instructor..
'Tilt MUMS of be utetuberuare also signed.)
The K. N. Platform.
Gioiie discusses the
Nativist Platform in a style peculiar to itself.
The plain blunt sense and imp' essible humor
of John U. !lives arc visible to the naked eye,
all over the subjoined. paragraphs :
lirst clause solemnly acknowledges the
exisumee of an `.Almighty Being who rules
the. Li inverse," which, until we saw that CCM..
letiSioll of faitti we supposed was acknowledged
every where,•by all men and parties and the.
tions—by the American party even, until this
manifestation . of a solicitude, to sh , to
world that, whatever ~elite it stay be, iris tiet
atlicis Lieut. This is an instance or,overduin, ,
the thing—of overacting a part; ter, this std:
cum annunciation sottus • W be as much the
child of hypocrisy am the child 'of reli.rion. - -
11 by assert so suletniily and so fortualry What
noliody-would have questioned if they had been
silent, unless sacred things are to be invoktd
fur unhallowed purpoSes, or unless conscience,
which wakes cowards of 411 wen, was not
stinting then and there on the K. N. oracles f
The draughtsman of that list clause niust be
once Captain reader of Sha,ksticare, we think, and had in
Intl wind that celebiated police on ce Captain
liogberry, who in " Much Ado About i thing,"
say s seine things sinvtlarly coincidental with
the hfst clause of the platterin :
- Dogbei ry --,Nlasters, do you serve God ?
. ..
Conirad and Borachio—Yes, sir, we hope.
Dogberiy—VVrite down—that they hope
they serve tautl—ami write God first; for Ck s t
but biod should go before such villains!"
J the platform maker. wrote God first, and
Com da and liorachiu would fain make the
beiieve they serve Wm also. We do
itot a.ppiy Ute word to the Know
:\ OLIII be IC observed. For some of them
w bow we know we have personally much re
spect: for their point , ai opinions and fur their
piatform nom:.
THY. LAROYIST SThAMPIL AFLOAT. --The steam
er Persia. built--tor the Cunard line, and
launched attilasgow on - the - 3111ns KWH ou
pall.no-wheel line. It is said she is the largest:
si.t...mer, kith In capacity of hull and steam -
po‘L L 1., which has been built. She far excetils'
toninr.e and steam power
tin: 1,, Lai 11, than or tine ° Lifirnaltryti, and ex
ceed:, also by no less titan .1200 LOOS the tntcr
unl of the largest of the present Cu
naid Her chief proportions 'way be
subleled a l , as kit Ii s :—Length ftcxu figura-
le W ater,
tics ; 1,.k Lath 01 -ate hull, 43 feet ; breachl
all, 71 ; LlepLh, 32 lett.
l'artuigton expres,se; great appre
-114 -1.,0!_.-„leople will UR::
414 L .01. ..-4-t-;y 4e picks up annoici,
Ve/U tputte a
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