BY HENRY J. STABLE.
37" YEAR.
TERMS OF THE COMPILER.
Tyne Republican Compiler is published •
every Monday morning, by [Wats' J. &Arms,
at, ;31;75 per annum if paid in all:lance-62.00
'per annum if not paid in. - advance. No sub
scription discontinued, unless at the option of
the publisher. until all, arreaeages arc paid.
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Jolt Wong. done, neatly, elic.aply, and with
dispatch.. _
Office on South Ealtimnre street, direct
ly opposite Wampler's Tinning Establishment,
one and a lialfosquares from the Court Douse.
Public Sale
OF A DESIRABLE FARM
11E Subscriber, Exectitor of the last will
and testament of DiciflD DEAunonyie, de
ceased, will offer at Publii. Sale, on - the prem•
ises, on Saturday, the 1:!th if October next,
the following
,described Real Estate of said
deceased, viz: A FAICM,. situate in Frani:-
hn,township, Adams county, adjOining lands
of - Samuel Bucher, u j. Deardorff, Albert
Vandyke and Janies ing, c•nitaining 100
_Acres, more or less, to good cultivation and
under good fencing. The improvements are
a Two-Story Wed he rboarded
HOUSE, a good Log I;arn, an ex- - ;;;,f): :; ..
cellent Well of Water at the door, N.:‘ , 4 ,
and a thriving young O.IW IIAlt.1),
of choice Fruit. The tint is well watered.
(r...:) — Should the property not be sold on said
flay, it will then be orlen3d for RENT at pub
lic outcry. _ .
, oz:7—Sale to commence- at 1 P M,
on said• day, .when ,attec dance will be given
and terns tt►ade known by
JACOB DEA,RDORFP, Eer.
August 27,1855. td
Farm foi Sale.
THE Sulltierihdr, int; uding to relinquish
tlirruing, offers at P:rivate Sale, on. very
favorable terms,
HIS F R ,
situated in Butler township, Adams county,
Pa., on the ills hlic road :t ading trout Hunters
town to the Pinegrove Furnace, about 3 miles
trout the former place, adjoining Abraham
Fugher's Mill, and land 4 of Adam & William
Gardner, John Dull, and others, containing
.134 Acres, about 3CI acres of which are
Tyliberland, with a due proportion of Meadow;
the balance in a good stale of eultivation—x-part
of it has been lim-d. The ininro ,, einents are
a two story STONE' HOUSE, with a
Back Builthig, a large' Bank Barn, aidft:
Wagon Sited, Corn Crib, Carriage
]louse, and other outbuinlings ; running water
in the barnyard, a well' of excellent water at
the house, 'and running - water three' the farm ;
al~o.a tkriying you9g. Orchard of choice fruit.
. This property is very handsomely and
conveniently situated, and (lifers rare induce
ments to purchasers. It will he shown and
terms made known by the sithi.-criher, residing
on the farm. JEREAHAH DIEHL.
July 30, 1855, tf
Valuable Farm at Private Sale.
rr HE subscriber, intending to remove to
the West, oLrers at Private gale,
II IS VALUABLE FARM,
situated in Reading township, Adams courtly,
Pa., on the banks of Big Conowago creek,
being the best of Couo,vago land, and in a
high state - of cultivation. It contain% 136
Acres, more or less, and ad-joinslands of
Dr. C. Blish, Wm. Picking, Henry Spangler
and. John" Laydom. The improvements are a
two-story BRICK. HOUSE ,
(nearly new,) a Bank Barn, e
H'
agan'Shed,Curnerib,Granaries; t :
an excellent well of water be
tween the house and barn, and several springs
on the premises. The land is under good
fencing, and well watered; part of it has been
Pinked : with due proportions of Woodland and
Meadow, and all kinds of fruit—and is within
a mile of two Grist Mills. There is upon the
premises an excellent LIME KlLN,...and a
FLAGSTONE QUARRY not to be surpass
ed in the State: This property offers unusual
to ucetnents o bum masers.
re-drPersons wishing . to view t e arm are
requested to call on the subscriber, residing
thereon. . THOMAS N. DICKS.
July 9, 1855. 4in
Register's Notice.
NOTICE is hereby given to all Legatees
and other persons concerned, that the
iidministration Recounts hereinafter mentioned
will 'be presented at the Orphan's Court of
Adams county, for confirmation and allowance.
on Triesday, the 25/h of September next, viz :
70. The first and final account of Valentine
S. Fehl., Administrator of the estate of Eliza
beth rehl, late of Menallen township, dec'd.
71. - The second and final account of Vaten
tinel.S. Feld, Executor of George Feld, late of
ilienallen township, deceased.
72. The first account of Thomas T. Wier
man and Hamilton Everett, Executors of Jsaae
Wierninn, late of Butler township, deceased.
73. The Guardian account of Henry 13i.ttin
ger, Guardian of Charles L. Bittinger, minor
son of'4oseph Bitiinger, late of Berwick town
deceased.
71. The first and final Guardian account of
Henry Bitttnger, Guardhin of .tun M aria Bit
ti nger, minor child of Joseph Bittinger, late of
Berwick township, deceased.
75. The first account of William Bittinger,
testamentary Guardian of Howard N. Bittinger.
minor son of Joseph Bittinger, late of Berwick
ash i p, deceased..
76. The first and final account of Philip
Beamer, jr., Exi-cutor of Philip Benmer. sen.,
who was Guardian of Samuel, Mary. Israel
and Amos Orner, minor children of Felix
Orni , r, late of Menallen (IPCl`7lSed.
The 11:- ., 7 and final account of Michael
Exi , i•iit - Fir of the last - will and tdAta
mpni din Ziegler, late ofStraban township,
deceased.
74. The ;ir,t ar•emint cf . Jo:eph F uk. Act
,:f- Jacob Best, late of Germany
to‘vnsli;p.
79. The ti ~- i eeo:int of Jour: C. M inn.
Adinini..%.trawr Cornelius NleCallion. late of
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THE BATTLE OF LOUISVILLE.
••I conzrat uhte you On your GLORIoUS rICTOUY."—MAYoU
erEr.4:u •
It Ira , : an August' evening,
11'11 2 '• %sort: . . o dune, -
And —S,onuer •atl i, cotta:7e door -
Wa; ;Ming in the ;
And by him ittin un a stool, -
His little grand-chill. William Poole *
They the dead. with gluo,tly wounds
And burnt oft, borne by ;
And thou ol.lSagi he shook hiw heal,
ith a holy
°SLY DrFi:II AND IRLSII," raid he,
, •WIILI FELL IN TILE GILEAT VICTULY !"
"Now tell nie Adult 'twits all abut, ,o
Young IVi Mato ['noir , he ei
While looking in hi, gnu/ll:lairs face
With wondor waiting eyes
"Now ittont The war,
Awl what they killed the Irish for."
••Tl , oy u•e'r Samuel cried,
•-Who put them all to rout ;
But Is h.it and 1)11E1101 thorn fur
I ,•onld not uell snake out.
But Mayo, ItarbQe ritit,tll
, •TILIT TIP t$ A (iLolt I ut.76 TukY 1'
"The Thitrit anti Iti L In - ea iit PP'tCc)
Yon ery v.: to 11:trit ht i
Tin 11!h•iiith, I u, nt I.lnti t• fit% down,
Aii , l they were !oreed G. ll} :
itii their ti i% .tipt ebill,en
Nor .1.1.0 they wi.te:e to rest their Ilex" .
"With lire awl rgun-; the city round
wa,tot lar :Lo,l %% idle ;
And many au I, klt hiet her then
• A net notch I I je.l ;
11 tit th I rig , like tliat, pat lvo.v. MUST U
AT .t Vit..ToltY
"Thoy ....ay it wa: a ,hocking sight,
After the day was won,
For twenty bl.n.ly there
L:tv rottm: in the sail j
But things liko that, you 1:mm.3117.5T BE
AFTER l KNOW-N6llll3ili ri,"fUitY
"Cire;it &Jury George D. Prentiett won,
And iikri Captain St,.IIC ;"
"'Why • ery ielcvtl thing:"
QllOtil :S1.11111er‘; little , 011
"N.iy, nay, my little buy." ..aid he,
44 1 r w A FAMOUS VILTONY "
''And C vvi:Nst. s : •Americana
it./ 'hall rule ;' "
"But 1,1 - hat, at last
litv.lll Tonle.
“Why, that I earlimt t(4l, :4:61 ho;
'•Ler 'TW VLL.T , fitY :" •
*Named after the great prize-fighting bully, who wag
canonized in N.iW Yurk, awl followed to bb, grave by EI(IITY
T1L.1:4 %NI)
a'cicct
LOVE AND RATTLESNAKES.
We are not aware .(says the St. Louis Re
publican,)•that there is any Ride between
the bite of a rattlesnake and the feeling that
prompts man to "woo and wed." The venom
of the serpent, we should hardly think, would
suggest the sentiment of love, yet it may be
traced to that fatal fascination which this iden
tical animal had over our great grandame, Eve,
under whose tempting influence she bit
-The fruit
Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste .
Brought death into the. world, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden," &c.
Be that as it may, our speculations stop
here, and we leave more competent perso'ns to
trace the singular divination that, in the first
creation of the world, existed between the ser
pent and the. woman, and come to an instance
in our own day and generation, When the same
potent influence has been illustrated between
a rattlesnake and a man.
The great difference between the serpent
that. Moses wrote of and the beast we have to
record is, that the former fascinated by its
speech, while the rattlesnake we write of in
spired by its deadly langs. We were sitting
day before yesterday in the office of the Clerk
of the County Court, when a man came limp
ing in, whose entire "toggery" plainly indi
cated that he was from the "rural districts."
llrs foot was bound up with many cloths, and
looked, so huge were its proportions, like the
inverted end 'of a hominy mortar. As soon as
• H • # _ ,.
n e-remark
"Gentlemen, I have been bit by a rattler
e nake."
An involuntary shudder passed through the
whole crowd ; but he resumed—
" 'Taint much the matter now—'twas orful
ly swelled at first—in fact so big I couldn't
{fit it into a horse trough."
We looked at his huge pedal extremity, and
fancied it resembled the base of one of the
lars of the Court House.
"But," said he, -I got it in a good cause.
I. was out in the prairie in the Eelinoy, with
the splendidest specimen of a Sucker gal that
ever milked a cow or waded Cahokia. She is
a screamer, and no mistake, and as fitt as any
heifer you ever saw in a pastel., Presently I
heard a noise, and I know 'd that noise as soon
as I heard it, too. Says I, •Betsy, stand back
till I brain that infernal varmint.' She know'd
what it was, too, and didn't stop to al: nu
questions, 'cause she was harefOoted. I don't
know how it was, gentlemen, but I got the
hei (nes. and determined to immortalize myself
right that. in Betsy's presence, by pinning that
rattlesnake's head, with the heel of my bout,
into the rich site of Etlinoy. 3 draw'd a sight
on him, with his Turkey tongue lickin' out of his
nouth, and the rattles on his tail shiverin'
like a gourd full of beans with the agy. and
shot my right foot at its head ; but it snapped
—miss6d the mark—and my old brogan went
plump within six inches of his head. Them
sort of snakes ain't idle--they're hair trigger
animals, and go off instanter : so, heiore
could draw my foot, he whacked it right into
My little toe, through The cowhide boot. twice.
thundit stung, and I know 'd if soine
thin' wa,n'tWne, I would soot' be a funeral.-
••lietsy saw it in an instant, and sanl,•Jahc.
are you it'6• •Ain't I though,' says 1, an:
blossoming for the tomb d—d fast.' I fel!
right over : she ca tight me to lice arm , , and
i:3 , 1 me On crass. and :lad my boot ot - 1 in a
jiffy. -the was a :;al that know 'd you.ct% ink
:Wont medicine in tae way of roots an 1 pubs,
and in less than no time she had sine•gynistun
leaves and other vegi:talile truck, and cum
'Ctrl around my toe.
••1 tell you %t hat it is. gentlemen," said he,
"a• :-,tion as her hand toudled 4r," foot - lor
hail 11 , ) fi2lt I 1 , 1
vile, and that the battery hail hostel, the
s..rcal, went all r.vcr me. and I felt so izood
twi,;(il that I tight out. I
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my lied.. Ityme-hy we mot il l , to ;-.)
and uy foot vr - a...-,0rt.., t b.ad t 1 I‘,..su
GETTYSBURG, PA.
on her—and what a lean—l thought she was
melting away under me, so oilfired queer did
I feel. I wished a rattlesnake would bite me
on - the other foot, so she wduld have to hind it
up and tote me.—lt's no use a talking : I was
iwluv, and I don't blame the snake a darned
bit. - Now I want to marry that gal. and 1
s_ pose the Clerk of the Court can wax and eeud
ns together-- can't you ?" appealing to the
good-natured countenance - of - our anatomical
friend Thorn - burgh. The latter, howeve'r, told
him it was out of his power, but directed hint
to the ()Mee of Squire Wait. He looked some
what disappointed, hut started off.
We felt sons euriosity to learn the denoue
ment of this transaction, and repaired to the
office of the Squire, Where the following collo
quy took place :
Jake--Squire, I've been bit by a rattle . -
snake."
Squire=
"Sorry to hear it ; but I'm no doe-
Jake—" That's nother here nor thar.
11 ant to get married."
Squire—"_lh' (with an eye to buAiness)
that's a deerent thing."
Jake—" Wall, Squire, I want you to join.
Betsy and me. What do you charge ?"
Squire—" Well, as you have been bit by a
rattlesnake, put it, low—say, two dollars
and a half."
Jake--•'Whew ! I can get the thing done for
fifty cents in' Belleville, only I thought That
we Would sorter like to have it done up hi city
style."
He started for the door,' and after making a
few steps, turned around and said
"I say, Squire, let's split. I'll give you a
quarter. But reeciving no encouragement,
he limped slowly on, ejaculating that this was
"the most extravagant town" he ever saw.
Should any'doubt the truth of this narrative,
we can refer them to several gentlemen who
were present. '
OLD —The history of this psalm
tune, which almost everybody has been awls
towed to hear, ever since they can remember,
is the subject of a work recently written by
an English clergyman. Martin Luther has
generally been recoiled the author . of "Old
Hundred," but it has been discovered that it
was composed in the 16th century, by William
Franc, a German. In the course of time, it
has been considerably changed from the origi
nal; and it is said. that, as it first appeared, it
was of a more lively character than at present.
THE FASTEST YET.-A party of railroad en
gineers, at Utica. N. V., were, recently, boast
ing of the rate at which they had run their re
spective locomotives. and some of these yarns
had been uncommonly tough, when a quiet in•
dividull, who hail listened with a great deal
of attention, without saying anything, '•took,
the hat" with the following specimen of fast
running: "Why, gentlemen," said he, "the
last time- I run the Blowhard from Syracuse,
we went so fast that the telegraph poles on the
track looked like afine toullt-conib."-
A Dram' Arrr•:AL.—The Albany (N. Y.)
State Register says that the spirit of Hiridoo
ism "appeals directly to the hearts of the peo•
p!e." To which the Knickerbocker, of the
same city, replies—"lt does indeed. But we
regret to say the 'appeal' is commonlymade
with a, bowie knife. For further particulars,
read the Louisville massacre."
W. C. Bryant, the poet, in writing from
the East, says that the Mohamedans are fast
becoming Europeanized. They ale becoming
careless of the marriage vow, heat their wives.
bruise their children, associate with infidels.
and in fact are getting to be almost like Chris
tians !
T 7 Down east somewhere, a' pious old lady
was summoned as a witness in an iniptirtant
case. Being told that she must '•swear," the
poor woman was - filled with horror at the
thought. After much persuasion she yielded,
and exclaimed : -Well, if I must, I must.—
Dam !" The Court adjourned immediately.
'Speaking of double blessedness, did ever
any one hear anything so utterly audacious as,
''sehe me t. - •
rize a -rnariiae.ible young- woman — and - 20, - ;
MO dollars ?" Every girl, with a handsome
dower, is a prize to the man who wins her, and
marriage is in some sort a lottery. But the
idea of a young lady being willing to take any
one - of forty thousand tickct•holdcrs for better
or worse, is, as Dominic Sampson says, “pro
digiousl"—BuTho's
witty gentleman of this city, speaking
of a friend who was prostrated by illnem, re
marked that "he could hardly recover, since
his constitution was all gone." "If his con
stitution is all gone," said a bystander, "I do
not see how he lives at all.'• "Oh," responded
the wag, "he lives on the by-laws."—Bujja!u
Express.
A Sow REAmt.—A man was aiked why
he did not take a newspaper.
"Because," said he, "my father, when he
died, left me a good many newspapers, and I
haven't read them through yet.''
SCIIOOI. EX AMISATION.—CIass in the Gate
chistn .attend.
-Where was John Rogers burnt ?"
No answer, till Jake at the fuut of the class
ping •-; out.
"I know. sir."
"Well, where was John Rogers burnt ?"
Jake, throwing up his chat auil taking an
extra breath of I,vind—sing,s out in- a clout&
octave forti.simo,
—ln the tire !"
You say, Mr. Jones, that the prisoner
~ , tabbcd the deeealied. Was it. in the thorax or
the alAlunien ?"
"No. it- was in the street—l seen it with
in own eves."
'1 hat ‘vill do. Call the next witneu.'s
r,l7Tantadini;_r wants to know lA - hatter the
taws rdation to thefts apply to those young,
men who -steal - away about dayiiBitt from a
young ',A ()man's. WiTIdOW.
Every tree is known by fruit, except
‘rlA:ch i.-, known by its ba,r;<.
I,l'w,ot —Thref.•
de-,:.1;)) ;U.: ).‘ - Ire wryrtn,
11+, N.ll. 11 - 11:1 rtie fertilV,y (Jr ti. Refu,e
frf)11 1 !nr_..ftt, (A. hest.
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`• TRUTH IS MIGTITY, ANT'. WILL. PIIEVAII
— I" In tunes. at, the South, it required a
fine of In pound; of tobacco to make a wan
a-; conitatie.
Thinna,say -thinks :,alt can be male
1. , :c evaii,n - ation wacc.r at two cents
'Du 1.. li I tier ,kc:) if what.
, L. IL,
lIIONDAY, SEPT. 24, '1855.
America—lts Age and Antiquities.
, The only knowledge which the present can
obtain of the past, anterior to written history,
must be.gathered- from the lessons taught by
the monuments that have survived the devasta
ting wars of ignorant and infuriated men, the
crash_of the elements, and the slow corroding
power of untold time. The two continents of
this Western Hemisphere abound with these
I mute, enduring records. The labors Of the an
tiquarian in Asia, Africa and - Europe, lete
disclosed monuments of art, now in ruins, that
were reared by a people whose history has
passed down to us in written records. With
the general history of the Assyrians, the Is
raelites, 'the Egyptians, the Carthagenians, the
theeks and the - Romans, we are already ac
quainted, and all the discoveries made by an
tiquarians in their researches in those coun
tries, among the ruins of ancient palaces, tem
ples and cities, serve but to illuminate some
portions of written history that are now-dark,
or illustrate others that are imperfectly detail
ed. But such is not the ease in America.
The antiquities ,of America extend from the
_shores of the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, and
fiont the great lakes and British Provinces to
Peru and Brazil, in South America. These
ruins are not illustrated, nor even alluded to,
by any written history. Their origin is lost
to view behind the impenetrable veil" imposed
by unnumbered cycles of unchronieled centur
ies.. Immense forests growing oyez the ruins
of large cities, and . the gigantic size of the
trees, with indications that other generations
of trees sprung up and grew and decayed be
fore them, prove that these ruins preceded the
Christian Era. Neither history nor tradition
indicate the origin or the rise of those vast
mounds that are scattered over the North Amer
ican continent. They stand in silent grandeur,
monuments of a race of people who have long
since passed away, leaving no other trace of
their existence. It is fashionable to speak, of
the Eastern Continent as the Old World, yet it
is not known to be entitled to this appellation.,
Who can say that the Andes and the Sierra
Nevada arc not the seniors of the Alps and the
Himalaya ? Who is prepared to prove that the
ruins of Usmal and. Palenque, and the pyra
nods of Uholula, in Mexico, do not take the
precedence in age of the spinxes and pyramids
of Egypt, and the winged lions of Assyria
History traces the rise and fall of Nineveh, of
Babylon, and of Thebes ; but we have no re
do,:d of' the rise. progress or fall of those great
cities in Central America, which the laborious
researches of Stevens and Catherwood brought
to light. The Iman-faced bulls and the
winged lions of Ninev7h find no equivalents in
the grotesque carving in stone of hideous forms
of men and animals. Who can say that these
rude sculptures - of America did not precede
those of Asia ? But we will not speculate on a
subject that offers no basis on which even
,a
plausible argument can be erected. The ex
istence of numerous and 'immense ruins in
America of what were once large cities a fix
ed fact, and we must be content to remain in
utter ignorance of the epoch in which they
flourished. The most extensive of these ruins
are to be found at I;xtntif and Palenque, in the
southeastern part of Mexico. At Uxumal are
immense pyramids, coated with stone, and
quadrangular stone edifices and terraces. The
highest of these pyramids is one hundred and
thirty feet, and on the_ summit it supports a
temple ; on one of the facades of the temple
are figures cut in stone with great exactness
mud elegance. The hands are crossed upon the
breast, the head is covered in something like a
helmet, about the neck is n garment of the skin
of au
s alligator, and over, each body is a figure
of death's head and boneS. At Palenque are
immense ruins—a city of great extent, with the
remains of a royal palace. One temple, that of
Copan, was 520 feet by GGp, and is supposed
to have been as large as St. Peter's at Rome.
'Another temple of great dimensiens is here,
having an..entrance by a portico 100 feet long
and lu feet broad ; it stands on an elevation of
GO feet. The pillars of the portico are adorned
with hieroglyphics and other devices. Different
objects of worship have been tumid, represen
tations of the gods who were worshipped in
this country. These temples, with fourteen
i rg..-atel-man-y-other-objects-o
riosity,, stand as montafienta of ancient great
ness, to"rcmind us of the remote origin of a
mighty Empire. Tina city has been described
as the Thebes of America, and travellers have
supposed that it must have been sixty miles in
circumference, and contained a population of
3,000.000 souls. The pyramid of Uholula iu
Mexico, is described as covering forty-four
acres of ground. On its summit was a temple,
and in the interior has been discovered a vault,
roofed with beams of wood, containing skele
tons and idols. Several smaller pyramids sur
round this large one. It appears to have been
formed by cutting-a hill into an artificial shape.
Its dimensions are immense, being nearly three
miles in ciicumference and about, four hundred
feet It is divided into terraces and
slopes, covered with platforms, stages and bas
tions, elevated one above the other, and form
ed of large stones skilfully cut, and jai l ed with
out any cement. In some respects the style of
the architecture resembles the Gothic, being
massive and durable ; in others it resembles
the Egyptian ; yet the general coustrnetiva,
manner and style L.lf its mehttucture are dilli:r
ent from anything hitherto described in the
world.—l aiiimeille Journal.
Porme Pi:Am—The Knickerbocker Maga
zine bag for several, years had up a standing
reward of a bias quarter, -to be awarded to
the first man who rhyme' to window ! —The
following takes the prize. Elchaages pleaoe
copy :
T.
YE F;AKEki.
"Ye Ba!;:er gttimilled of Troffe,
IVIO-re h e wa., kneadyng in Dough,
Jlvs Ladyc Love began to I.lfe,
As she peeped thro' ye Windowe.
Y 1: T. r)vlye; svp:Ef 'll OF yr. BEETLE
"Ye el ucil Man a ;;;cede try ikc,
.1:4(.11.. , ,t wali hyrn pynned—oh !
Tl,un spai“. yC 11 , :tyl toe ye Crowae,
true ,(r, ./• up I and not proutle
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=II
Proficiency at West Point.
We recently heard from the lips of one of the
Board of Visitors at West Point, a fact which
illustrates the remarkable proficiency of the
of , the institution, not only in their stu
dies, but in the practical part of military duty.
The annual examination this year lasted for
seventeen days, and it is customary at the
close of each day for the students to give a
practical 111mA - ration of the science apon which
they have been - examined. Thus- when -the
examination of the day was upon gunnery,
there would be practice with the.guns at the
close; military movements would be illustrated
by the cadets acting as a corps, and the art of
horsemanship would be practically exonidificd
by exercises in the riding school, On one
day there had been examinations in engineering
and road building, and the *Board of Visitors
were invited to proceed to the river at half-past
live in the afternoon, to witness a practical
illustration of the examination. At the word
of command the cadets proceeded to construct
a bridge from timbers prepared for the pur
pose; and in twenty-four minutes a bridge one.
hunched and fifty feet lung, extending into the
Hudson. and resting on pontoons, where the
water was deep, lied been put. together, and
made passable for artillery and'troops. The
cadets were then required to take up the bridge.
The bridge was taken down, and the various
timbers of which it was composed piled in an
orderly manner, so as to be ready to be put up
again in an equally short space of time. This
was accomplished in exactly nine minula
- I:pan ilulunrr it was ascertained that the bridge
upon this occasion was one which was in
the train of General - Scott, in his colebrkted
march to the city of Mexico.—Bustun Journal.
The Party of Contradictions.
The citizens who are to vote at the coming
elections should demand the Know-Nothing or
acles to solve the following singular• mass of
contydictions
:--
Know•Nnthiugism is national in the South
and sectional' in the North: is secret in , New
York and open in Georgia ; Catholic in Louis:
iana and Protestant m New England ; black
in Maine and white in Virginia : it swears the
son to proscribe the foreigner, even if that for-.
eigner should be that son's father it opposes
the caucus, and settles its candidates in packed
cabals it elevates the negro and degrades the
adopted citizens ; it curses all monarchs, and
ailopts the creed of Gebrge the Third against
emigration : it abuses the. Pope, and declares
itself infidlible : it assails' the Spanish inquisi
tion, and imitates its clandestine persecutions;
it proh..sses Christianity and proscribes its
neighbor : it adores the Bible and shoots down
unolfemling citizens : it adores the constitu
tion, nu•l sets up a twat by lli t. constitution
prohibited ; it pays a premium for treason to
friendship, and alikes the brand of perjury to
all• who refuse to obey its Obligations ; it asks
for free schools, and proscribes poor, helpless
female teachers : it repudiates the Catholic and
admits the Infidel ;—to crown all, it persecutes
the most eminent native citizen who does not
approve its mummeries, and protOcts the lowest
of roilians—it discards an Edward Everett for
a Willlain Poole.—H 7 ashington Union.
Gm ii wsrox AND IltsTottv.-- , -"-General ;'am
llooston, in giying in his adhesion to the "se
cret order," justifies his course by saying the
first secret political society formed in this
country was the Cincinnati Society. that Gen.
eral Washington was one of its members, a nd
that no wan was eligible for membership in
the society unless he was an American. fien
eral Houston's knowledge of the history of his
own country roust be rather deficient for one
who . professes No much native patriotism. The
Cincinnati Society was not political at al., nor
.was it a secret organization. It was formed by
the officers of the revolutionary army, to per-,
petuate their long•cherished• friendship and
social intercourse, and , that they might at. reg
ular annual periods, communicate with cacti
other, and revive a recollection of the friendly
bonds by which they were connected. A fund
was also provided to relieve any of the officers
who might become unfortunate. Such "na
tive-borti citizens" a&-Lafayette, Steuben, and
Kos .'usiko were inemhers of the soviet . Sam
must not-g4-rio far ulf-the_track._illie
"run" successfully as the leader of ••Young
America," for youth call scarcely excuse . igno
rance or perversion of the history ofune's native
co u a try. —Ledger.
T HE Bt ye!! MUMS CHINA.-- Dr. Wentworth,
a Methodist initv,ionary, writing front Shanghae
under date of June Bth, Kays :
"At Canton the chief amusement of the im
perialists is cutting off* heads. Lieutenant
Jones, of the United States Navy, told me he
saw one hundred and fifty decapitated there in
one day Recently : This is equal to the French
guillotine or a Cincinnati slaughter house."
Mr. Williams writes ft om Canton that exe
cutions proceed at a -frightful rate." Nearly
a thousand men were butchered there besides
five or six times that, number at Spanking, the
place of the capture of the most of the unhappy
vic,thus of this indiscrithinate murder.
rj — To show what lengths the Know-Noth
ing. Abolition presses of New England carry
their treasonable, blasphemous doctrines, we
make room for the following extract from a
law number of tbe Vermont Frteman :
"Wherever slavery is found we claim the
.right to assail it ; and whoever or whatever
conies between us and slavery to defend it—
whether President fierce with his Constitu
tion,
.or President Lord with his Bible—finds
no quarters."
WE HOPE is said that ex-Senator
Borland. of Arkansas, has joined the Ameri
can party. H association can do no good to
any organization.—Phi/a. San.
Solon is in a had fix. The deprecation of
the Sun remtrtds us of the story of the chap
whose soul was refused admission to purv
tory, on the ground that it was too wicked even
for that locality.—Buffido E..rpres.
(1" - "Do you think get justice done me ?"
said a culprit to lik coun,;(l. "I don't think
you replied the other, "for I see two men
on the jury who are opposed to hanging."
'Mrs. Partington's Ike has bought a horse
that is so spirittotis, that he always goes off
in a decanter.
- 7 - 11npe i. like a bad clock. foreccr strick
in,z the hot of happiriegg, whether it has come
OF MA.
l )() iu,t Nupi)osc that auy One can a,,.1:4
1 . :1 1,• 1 1,1 1,1: uu
jay yuu:;,Lll:.
TWO DOLLARS A-YEAR.
From the Frederick Citir.eit
THE VASSALS.
.ft - 7.We were assured, a few days since, by
one of - the VICE PRESIDENTS of the Know
Nothing Ratification Meeting, held in this city
on the MI of July, -that MANY of the them-.
hers of the ceder, in this county, had never ta
ken the degrees according to the established
f o rmula of the discipline,--that 'MANY had
tieveriakerilhb - imthweontaitied in ilie
_either_ort_a Bible )r a Cross,—that , ruese_wi ro _ 2 .
the respeetabie, intelligent and controfing mem
bers of the order ;—but, that there wits another
doss, in the order, who were SWORN -on the
Bible or the Cross, and, that these were me
chanise, laborers, common farmers— Wen who
took no very active part in politics—and. that
these were the 'VASSALS' of the party, and
that they were, sworn, in order that the leaders
Might be able to wield at pleasure, large bodies
of men through the moral power of the oaths
these numerous VASSA LS had taken." This
VICE PRESIDENT assured us e that he 'iliac'
never sworn on a Bible or a Cross, but had
only given his simple proutise,and that he had, -
in this manner, without no eafh„gene through
ALL the degrees of the Order.":: Ile informed
us, also, that Mr. Joel Hall had joined the or
der only the day before the incetingof the Con
vention which nominated him for (Windy Sur-
Veyor; and that Mr. Joel Ball had taken no
oath but had only , given a verbal promise in
joining the party." lie also stated that "Mr.
Nathaniel Nelson, one of the candidates on the.
Commissioners' ticket, became a menthor only
a few days before the meeting of the Conven
tion, and was induced to join. the organization
by the promise of the nomination." These
are STARTLING facts, if true, and from the
manner in which they were communicated' to
us, we are forced to the conviction that his
statements arc but Too TRUE.—Is there not
cause hem, then, for serious reflection Here •
is an organization consisting of Iwo dames of
men—the BARONS and their "VASSALS"--e
the ARISTOCRATIC and the PLEBIAN,—
.the latter subject to the VONTROL and inept.
TION of the former,—mere "hewers of ,w., o d
and drawers of water" for their MASTERS.—
How long will the FREBMEN of' Frederick.cvuti
ty submit to this UNGRAOING pOSitiOU Shdl
we have the serfdom of the:feudal ages revived
in FREE ltsrustaoAN America, in this the.nttie
teenth century ? Shall the
,virtuous,:u.
indus
trious, unambitious mechanic--the laborious
and diligent cultivator of the soil, who tun*
the furrow with his - own hand - and the benese r ,
toiling MASS generally, be the OATILBOUND
"VASSALS' of au UP-START aristocracy ?
Shall a few ambitious, corrupt, office-seekers
"lord it nueoutrolcd over their, betters" through
the instrumentality of oaths which they im
pose upon their "VASSALS," but which these
noble BARONS (!!) scorn and repudiate as ,
ONLY to be taken and 'kept by the "'lower
classes PREEMEN continue to wear the
YOKE ? Will FREE-BORN AMERICANS
submit to be thus FErrEREB by a hand of
petty tyrants, feudal despots, Lords rich in Some
hundred acres, strong in their hundred willing
slaves, "only great in that strange - spell a
name?"
Nowewill the organs- of Know Notbingism
. ushottfar our informant's statements are
correct ? Our informant is a gentleman of
high Character—a Vice President of the Know.,
Nothing Ratification meeting. and has iu his
possession certificates from Know Nothingsof
his high moral character.
Another Withdrawal.
r) - 7•We call the attention of our readers to
the letter of Mr. S..C. Hammer, of, Sabillas.
vile. giving his experience in the "black and
Iwrrid den of conspiraturs." A few more such
hammers will knock tho• brains out of Krwour.!
Nothingisin- so effectually, that the Monster
will not even kick again. Mr.. U. is a highly
respectable citizen, whose word can he retied
on implicitly. Ponder what he says:
TO THE PUBLIC.
SABILLASVILIA. Sept. 7th, 1855.
A week ego, I was induced to join the Know
Nothing Council. When I went in. I was ask
ed "Where I was born and whether I was of
)_ " • it•vii.
degree7 - and - the - obligationr - to - Note -- or
give my influence for any man for any office in
the gift of the people, toilesa he be an Ameri
can born citizen, in favour of Americans ruling
America, nor it he be a Itotnan Catholic," but
all was done with the' understanding, that
was to be allowed to inquire further as to the
aims and objects of the Order. The initiation
was so repugnant to my judgment, that, night
before last, Itook the Constitution of the United
States into the Council with me. I there told
them, their oaths and proceedings were con
trary to that Constitution. They said to me
46t/ie eowititutionforined by GEN. W.iiSHING.
TON has been destroyed, but WE are g,oing to
restore it." I said, I believed the one I had was,
genuine, for it was signed with his name. and
argued with them the illegality and ticonsti
tutiontlity of their oaths, and told them I did
n't, believe they had ever seen the Conatitutimi,
and then. ,read the article -THERE SHALL
BE No RELIGIOUS TEST," but they tried
to stop it, saying, I had no right to discuss any
such questions there. I told theta I would
publish their proceedings to the world: and they
declared, I would have the dark and - blighting
stain of purjury resting on my soul but if I
would apply in person, at the proper time and,
place ,I should have an honorable discharge,
when 1 declared, "Gentlemen, not ono step
shall I take towards your black and horrid den
of L'onspit eters. I don't want your discharge :
I will discharge myself." Upon that propostog
to me the obligation of the se:tttl degree, by
which I was to be bound to obey rill signals or.
cries of , the Order;. and when signs of danger
were gtven TO GO -ARMED to Me place dcsig.
noted, I at, once refused - to proceed. anddeelar
ed my determination, which I now fulfil, to
publish and reveal the whole of their terrible
proceedings : for as I told them, I could have
nothing to do with agreement, which might
force me even to plunge a dagger to the heart,
of my neighbour, anal he unsuspecting at. Alt
I can, and ought to do, is to expose IL I:be
lieve such an oath as I took, is not, and should
not be binding and it is my duty as a good
citizen, a law abiding God 11:ariog man, to cast
it aside. Such an illegal, sacreligions and itn-
moral obligation, which conflict's with my du
ty as a christian and citizen, to my - God--and
to my Country, and my fellow men, r think
must he more sinful to keep than to triamp&O
under foot, and despise, as I do thjsl,:iiidjsay
to all Demoel ats. all Whigs and Iol.ltaid:alit,zn,
keep yulireives cled - rfroiu the entangled:it/Mg
1.1117, cvarful conspiracy.
SAMUEL C. HANIMER.
--- NO 52.
ikon the Frederick CiUseit.