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FREMONT'S LAMENT.
Ala :— ,, 01L : Carry ma long.n
'Vs sirup with met_
The race is almost run;
My friends may shout and curse and pouf,
Bata victory can't be won
Buchanan will win the day--
The people aro with him, I know;
And Bennett'a Iles and Greeley'a sighs
, Will only end in woe.
0, boys, carry me 'long !
M trouble% are many and great I
X wish I wore back on tho western track
To the Nlariposa estate I
The South is sadly-wrong—
'Tis all united for Buck;
lin every State, both small and great,
. ills party his all the luck.
And the North Is gloomy, too,
My backers have striven in vain,
The go it blinii. while I'm getting behind,
And iny floury in scattered like rain !
' boys. carry me 'long !
In every thing we've failed—
The people don't seem to be green;
They're "up to snulT,'' and they'll handle as rough
In neat November'. I wren.
The •'ahrfeks'' don't seem to take--
The musses don't mind them a bit;
And the Kansas flood of innocent blood,
Is bat- dead cock in the pit."
0, boy s, carry me 'long !
I'm Nick and !wry and sore,.
My heart j* bursting with pain; -
The Loco throng. •rith shout luta song,
Will give me "jest:le" again
Buchanan will win timidity, -
The people n.re * ,with him, I know.
Anil lieunett's lie-9 and Greeley's sighs,
Will only end in woe
0, boys. carry me !long !
. 'Sly troubled are many and great !
wish I were back on the western track
To the 3btripoft edtato . .
Belect 4)i5e,e114..
THE HORSE AVALANCHE,
NitON NUR RRIIINISCRNCES OF A DRAGOON
-(tell—the-story - metwar told ! ---
lfany marvels It unfold.
Thatin nature aitern to be
Summing probability;
Place on them your Own valuation.
But still give heed to the narration
It was on the march to :Victoria (I think the
Colonel stated,) and before the orders came to
reinforce Gen. Scott, that the very remarkable
a nd a - SiAmishing circumstance occurred; which
I am about to relate, and which I will endea
vor to give as nearly as, possible in his own
words: '
"Our route lar-iminciiittli3y across an ex
tensive prairie, along which our train of 600
wagons -dragged its cumbrous length, like
some monster serpentorged with prey wind
ing lazily to its lair. Save the deceptions of
the `mirage.' 'which full often cheated our
'weary troops into the hope of dimpling and
refreshing waters soon to be reached, and the
consequent 'disappointment, nothing occur
red for some time to vary the monotony
of the march. At length, about midday or a
little thereafter, u. sound like muttering thun
der, or rather like the low rumbling of an
earthquake, drew all eyes toward the right,
from whence, in the far distance, was seen
rapidly approaching a -dark Ilue, - us if of
clouds.. Faster and faster, and faster at
came, until, to thetitstonislinient and delight
of all, with a rush that shook the very earth,
twenty__thousand Mustangs sprang full in
•
view.
A mighty Piebald led the way,
Pit leader to that malts of life!
Bounding forward in front of the now mo
tionless multitude, the wild chief of the Pam
pis,- his stately- head high lifted, slowly ap
proached our cavalcade, with an air of mingled
wonder and suspicion. •
After scanning it for some time, as though
calculating our strength, with a wild angry
snort he wheeled and darted back to his trow.).
A scene of momentary ConfuSion now ensued;
but in a far shorter time than would have
been required to marshal one-fourth the num
ber of tren t the whole mass was thrown into
the form of a wedge, the leader forming the
apex, and the other Males of the troop, the
sides of tlie triangle, the feeble ones, and colts,
being thrown into the centre.
Before any one could form the most remote
conjecture as to the cause of this 'Singular
movement, at a wild cry from their leader the
column was put in motion, and then
60
30
125
As the winds cams. when forests are ren , led,
As the waves rush, aheu navies are strarled,
full on the centre of our devoted line they
broke like an avalanche. For Rome moments,
I'l om out the cloud of dust. came
'Jingled crash, and groat', And curie, and yell,
As though within the realms of bell,'
All hands had broken loose.
When the dusty canopy was lifted, sixty
wagons, with teams and teamsters, strewed
the road, mingled in with everything, horse
and foot, that came within the sweep of that
living besom of destruction, with here and
there acrushed and mangled Mustang, strug
gling wildly to follow its fellows.
At the distance of some 130 or 200 .yards,
the drove stopped in the order it had just
passed through, with the exception that the
mighty Piebald now brought up the rear.—
After gazing a few seconds in apparent exul
tation, a shrill neigh of defiance seemed to
give the signal of retreat, and the whole
swept away like a vision. No dream, how
ever, yet realized the rain which rioted around.
Except those who were with me, none
.I am
sure saw ever such a sight, the like of which,
while life lasts, I never expect to look upon
again."
The narrator's recollection, is remarkably
vivid as regards all the circumstances, from
the fact that he barely escaped himself, hay
it-1;T, been =cry nearly caught by one of the
corners of the base of the 'isosceles triangle.'
IL- was then a Captain of dragoons, escorting.
the train, and frequently speaks in terms of
admiratio'n of that brilli . cof
t e nrse Chief of the Prairie.—.Y. Y. Spirit
of the Timoe.
*.All that ig truly 0.00.1 an , l hPatztiful in
rife bloomA around the Altar .tt is e.
GETTYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA: MONDAY, SEPT. 1, 1856.
FRO![ GENERAL JACKSON'S FAREWELL ADDRESS.
In his farewell address to his countrymen
upon retiring from the Presidency, the pa
triot Statesman and Hero of the Hermitage
said:
"What have you to gain by division and
dissension? 'Delude not yourselves with the
hope that the breach once made, would ho
afterwards easily repaired. If the Union is
once severed . , the separation will grow wider
and wider, and the controversies which are
new debated and Fettled in - the hulls of legisla
tion, will be tried in the field of battle, and
determined- by the sword.- Neither—should
you deceive yourselves with the hope that the
first line of separation would be the permanent
one. * * * Local interests would still be
found there, and unchastened ambition. And
if the recollection of common dangers,- in
which. the people of these United States have
stood side by side against the common foe—
the memory of victories won by their united
valor—Ate prosperity and hainess they
have enjoyed under the preseut Constitution;
—Wall these recollections and proofs of com
mon interest are not strong enough to bind
us together as one people, what tie will hold
united the new divisions of empire, when
these bonds have been broken and this Union
dissolved? The first line of separation would
not last long; new fragments would be torn
off—new' leaders would - spring up—and this
great and glorious Republic would Aeon be
broken into a multitude of petty' States, armed
for mutual aggression—loaded with taxes to
pay armies and leaders—seeking aid against
each other from foreign. powers—insulted and
trampled upon by the nations of Europe—un
til, harrassed with conflicts and humbled. and
debased in spirit, they would be - willing to
submit to the dominion of any military ad
venturer, and to Surrender' their liberty for
the sake of repose."
"When my eyes shall be turned . to behold
for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not
see him-shining on the broken and dishonor
ed fragments of a once glorious Union—on
States diSsevered, discordant,-belligerent.---on
a land rent with feuds, or drenched, it may
be, in fraternal blood. Let their last feeble
and lingering 'glance, rather, behold the gor
geous ensign-of the Republic, now known and
honored throughout •the - earth, still full high
advanced—its arms and trophies streaming in
their_originallustrenot a stripe---erased--or
polluted, nor a single star obscured —hearing
for its motto no such miserable interrogatory
as, What-is all this worth 2—nor those other
words of delusion and folly, - Liberty.first, and
the Union- afterwards. But everywhere--
spread all over 'in characters of living light—
blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over
the sea and over the land, and in every wind
under the whole heavens—that other senti=
meat, -dear to every true American heart—
Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and
inseparable."
On Wednesday Josiah Ferris and Rufenia
Fales, young-gentle Men of this place, started
to Long Island, situated about two miles dis
tant for the purpose of fishing. They were
engaged in this sport when a large alligator
arose alongside the boat and as - quick - as
thought, dashed ahead, wheeled, turned on
his side and clasped the bow of the boat be
tween his jaws. The teeth made considerable
indentures in either side. Finding but little
could he done in this way, the monster gave
several rigorous shakes, tearing the bottom
out of the. boat and sinking it in four feet wa
ter. As the boat was disappearing, Pales
who was polling at the time struck their an
tagonist over the head, and after securing
foothold on the bottom, repeated his blows
with such rapidity as to confuse the mode of
attack ; finally after manceuvering fur some
time. his mouth extended, the alligatOr made
a bold charge upon the young man: as he ad
vanced Fales, succeeded in
.januning the pole
down his throat, and holding him thus until
Ferris, with a. small penknife was enabled to
wound him so severely as to decide the con
test. After the rictory'was won, a cursory
view of their position, forced upon them, ap
prised them of the extreme danger to which
they were exposed. In close proximity were
five or six of these hideous animals, storing
at them as though determined-to make them
their prey. The cantured one. measured fif
teen feet.— Tampa Peninsular, July 26%
"As Lice as Two Pea.."--Two brothers,
who are twins, recently- met in Jay, N. Y.,
who had not seen each other for forty-six
years. 'One is Paul Smith, of Jay, and the
other Silas Smith, of Springfield, Mass.—
They look so much alike that Silas called on
a married daughter of Paul, who of course had
never seen her uncle, and she conversed with
him for near half an hour without suspecting
that he was other than-her father.
A Rea.voi table Reamort.—Three or four times
a couple appeartid before a clergyman for mar
riage • but the bridegroom was drunk, and he
refused to tie the knot. On the last occasion
he expressed his surprise that so respectable
a looking girl was not ashamed to appear at
the altar with a man in such a state. The
poor girl broke into tears, and said she could
not help it. "And why pray ?" inquired the
minister. "Because, sir, he wont come when
he sober'."
The Mount of Otines.=—The celebrated Mt.
of Olives, near Jerusalem, has been purchas
ed by a Madame Polack, the widow of a
wealthy banker of the Hebrew persuasion, at
Koingshurg. This lady intends to beautify
the place and improve the whole neighbor
hood at her sole expense. The first thing
that she bad done was to plant the whole area
with a grove of olive trees, and thus to restore
it to the original state from which it derives
its name.
SW-A youthful reader of the nations, thus
experimented on his mamma, who was mak
itig bread, a few - days since:
"Mother, it strikes me you are' very lazy
just now."
"Il9w dare you say so? why don't yon see
- ' ?'-'-indignantl2,--returned-the
INE
"True, but that's nr!itlmr more uorlet:s than
loafing."
The. wit got no more hot cal:e.
(lay*. 0w.1;.-?, ioeh pu.n.
A Picture of Disunion.
IFROX WEBSTER'S REVLY TO ITAYNE.
Fight with an Alligator in Florida.
"TRUTH IS NIGHTY, AND WILL I'ItIiYAIL."
•rem The Baktou Coarier i of Monday.
Hon, Rufus Choate on Cie Prefidential
The Whigs of Maine held a grand mass
meetingitt the town. of Waterville yesterday.
Ron. Rufus Choate was invited to be present,
but being unable to attend, he sent a letter, in
Which he defined his position on the Presi
dential question, and avowed his intention to
vote for Mr. Buchanan. We give it below :
Besra's, Saturday, Aug. 9, 1.8 - 56.
GENTLtlit?f : Upon my return last evening,
after _a, short absence _from_ the __city,-1 found.
your letter of the 30th ult., inciting me to take
part in the proceedings of the Whigs of Maine,
assembled m mass meeting.
I appreciate most highly the honor and
kindness of this invitation, and should have
had true pleasure in accepting it. • The Whigs
of Maine composed at all times so important a
division of the great national party, which,
under that name, with or without efficialpow
er, as a responsible administration or as only
an organized opinion, has done so much for
our country—our whole country, arid your
responsibilities at this moment arc so vast and
peculiar, that I acknowledge an anxiety to
see--;--not wait to hear—with what noble bear
ing you meet the demands of the times. If
the tried legions, to whom it is committed to
quard.the,frontier of the Union, falter now,
who,
anywhere, can be trusted?
111 y -engagements, however, and the neeessi-.,
ty or expediency of abstaining from all cipeeeh
requiring much effort, will prevent my hying
with. you. And yet, invited to share in your
counsels, and grateful fur such distinetCM,
Cannot wholly decline my own opinions on ,
one of the duties of: the Whigs -in what you
.well describe as •'the present crisis in the po
litical affairs of the country." I cannot ni.w,
and need not, pause to elaborate or defend
them. What I think, and what 1 have decid
ed to do, permit me in the briefest and
est expression to tell you.
The first dutY, then, of Whigs, not Merely . 1 ,
as patriots and as citizens—loving with a
large and equal love our whole native land—
' but as Whigs, and because we are whig , s, 6 1
to unite with some organization of our coun
try:nen, to defeat aniftlisselve the new geo
graphical party, calling itself Republican,
-This is our first "duty. It Would more exactly
express my opinitin -to say, that at this mo
ment, it our only 4ty. Certainly. at
least, it comprehends or suspends all others
and - iiiin — y — jagment. the question for eat
and-every one of us is, not whether,this can-1
dilate or that candidate would be our first
choice; not whether there is some good talk'
in-the worst platform ; and sonic bad talk in
the best platfora, ; not whether thiS bout's
ambition. oithat man's servility, or boldness,
or fanaticism, or violence, is responsible fOr
putting the wild waters in this uproar, but
just this: by what vote can I do most to pre
vent the madness of the times front Working
its ruadeat act=--the very ecstasy of its mud
fleas—the permanent formation and the actual
present triumph of a party which knows one
•half of America only to hate and dread it--
from whose unconsecrated and revolutionary
banner. fifteen stars are erased or have fallen
—in whose national anthem- the old and en
deared airs of the Eutaw Springs, and the
King's -Mountain, and Yorktown, and those '
later of New Orleans, and Buena Vista, and
.Chepultepee. breathe no more. To this duty,
to this question, all 'other seem to We tii stand
for the present postponed and secondary.
And ? Because, according to our
creed, it is only the united America.- which
can peacefully, gradually. safely, improve, lift
up and hiess_with all social and personal and
civil blessings, and all the races and ail the
conditions which compose our vast and vat'l7
ous is such an Ameriean; only,
whose arm can guard our flag, envelope our
resources, extend our trade ;—und fill the ,
measure of our glory ; and heituse, according
to our conv:e ions, the triumphs of such a party
puts that initm in daeger.. This is my rea-,
eon: And for you, and ter me, and 'ler all of
us, in whose regards the Union possesseissuch
a value, and to whose fears it seems menaced
in such a danger, it is reason enough. Be
lieving the noble ship of State to be within a
half cable's length of the lee shore 9£ rock;
in a gale of wind, our first business. is to
put her about, and crowd her off in the deep,
open sea., nit done,. we can regulate the
stowage of her lower tier of powder, and se
lect her, cruising around, and bring her offi
cers to court-martial at our leisure.
If there are any in Maine—and among the
Whigs of Maine 1. hope there is not cue—but
if there are any, in - whose - hearts strong pas
sions, vaulting ambition, jealousy of mum or
sections, unreasoning and impatient philan
thropy, or whatever else have turned to hate
or coldness the fraterual blood and quenched
the spirit of national life at its source ; with
whom the Union of Slave States and Free
States under the actual Constitution is a
curse, a hindrance, a reproach ; with those of
course, our view of our duty and the reason
of it, are a stumbling' .block and foolishness:!
To such you can have nothing to say, - and
from such you can have nothing to hope. But'
if there are those again who love the Union as
we love it, and prize it as we prize it ; who
regard it as we do, nut merely as a vast in
strumentality for the protection of our com
merce and navigation ; and fur achieving pow
er, eminence and name among the sovereigns
of the earth—betas a means of improving the '
material lot, and elevating the moral and men
tal nature, and insuring the personal happi
ness of the millions of many distant genera
tions ; if there are those who think thus just
ly of it—and yet hug . the fatal delusion that,
because it is good, it is necessarily immortal ;
that it will thrive without care; that any
thing created by man's will is above or strong
er than His will ; that because the reason and
virtue could build it, the passions and stimu
lations of a day of frenzy eanuot pull it down ;
if such there are among you, to them address
yourselves, with all the earnestness -and all
the eloquence of men who feel that some great
er interest is at stake, and some mightier cause
in hearing, than ever yet tongue has pleaded
ur trumphet proclaimed. If such aninds.avl
hearts are reached, all is safe. But how
Precious how manifold are-the sophisms by
licelahey-ara-eurted-?--
They hear and they read much ridicule of
those who fear that a geographit''al party doe,
end:111 , 4,-r the Union. But can they for;ret
that our , rreatest, nicest., awl met 1101,end
start- wee 1 : 1Ls a1wa.1,4 161 i, tltd ail, LL
lion.
one felon or another, loft on record their own
- fear of such a party? The judgments of
'Washington, Madison,. Clay, Webster, on the
dangers of the American Union, are they
worth nothing to a conscientious love of it?
What they dreaded as a remote and improbable
coutingecy-,,that against -which they caution
ed, as they thought, distant generations--that
which they were so happy us to die without see
ing—is upon us. And yet some men would
have us go on laughing and singing, like the
traveller lathe satire, with his pockete, empty,
at a present peril, the mere apprehension of
Which, as a distant and bare poseibilitY, could
sadden the heart of the Father of his Country.
and dictate the grave and grand warning of
the Farewell Adsdreie.
. They hear men say that such a party ought
not to endanger the
,that
that, although it
happened to be formed within one geographi
cal section, and confined exclusively to it—
although: its end and aim is to rally that sec
tion against the other on a questiou of morals,,
policy and feeling, on which the two differ
eternally end unappeasinp—althoughi from
the nature of its engin and ejects, no man
in the section out side can possibly join it, or
accept Ace under it without infamy at home
—although, therefore, it is- a stupendous or
gan kzation, practically to take power and hon
or, and a full Share of the Government,_ from
our whole family of States, and bestow, sub
atantially, all upon the antagonists family—
although the doctrinesof human rights, which
it gathered out of the Declaration of Independ
once, that passionate and eloquent manifesto
of urevolutiouary war, and adopts as its fun
'damental ideas, apuounce to any Southern ap
prehension a crusade of Government against
Slavery, far without and beyond Kansas—al
though the spirit and tendency of its election
eering appeals, as a whole, in prose and verse,
the_ leading articles of its papers, and the
speeches of its orators, are to excite contempt
and hate, or• fear'of our entire geographical
section, and hate or dread or contempt is the
natural.impression it all leaves on the North
ern mind and heart—yet; that' nobody any
where ought to be angry, or. ought to he
frightened • that the majority must govern,
_and that die North is a majority ;. that it is
t m to one nothing, will -happen; -that, if worst
come to worst, the South kmiows it is wholl3r to
blame, and-needs the Union niore than we do,
and will bOqUiet accordingly. • •
. But do they who, holdAo this language for
gettliat the question is net to endanger the
Union, but what will do it? Is it man as_ho
-aught to- be, or man as he is,-that- -we must
live with or live alone? In .appreciating-the
influences which may disturb a political eys
tem, and especially one like ours, do you make
no allovvance for passions, fur pride, for in 7
firmity, for the burning sense of even imagin
nry wrong? Do you assume that all men, or
all masses of anon in all sections, uniferinly
obey reason, and uniformly wisely - See and
("study, seek their true interests? - Where on
earth is such a fool's Paradise as that-to ho
toned ? ''Conceding-to the people of the fifteen
States the ordinary and overage human nature, -
its good, and its evil, its weakness and its
strength, I, for one, dare not say that the tri
umph of such a party ought not to be expect
ed naturally *and probably to disunite the
States.
With my undoubting convictions, I know
that it would be folly •and immorality in men
to wish it. Certainly there aro in -all sec
tions and in all States those who love the
- Union, under the actual Constitution, as
Wash did, as, Jay, Hatuiltonand Madi
son did,—as Jackson, as: Clay,' as Webster
loved it. Such even is the hereditary and
the habitual sentiment of the .geueral Ameri
canbeart. -But he has read life and books to
little purpose who has nut learned that "bo
som friendships" may be "to •resentment sour
ed," and that no hatred is so keen, deep, and
precious as that. -- -
to be "truth with one we 10V0
l A elf work like tunduent ku the brstiu."
lie has read tlio book of our 'history to still
10s8 purpose, who has not learned that the
friendships of those States—sis-tersTinit-tival
—sovereigns each, with a public life, and a
body of interests, and sources of honor and
nhauio of its uwu and within itself, diStribut
ed into two great opposing groups, are all hu
man ties must etpused to such rupture and
duel' transformation.
have uut time in these hasty lines, and
ther e is no need to speculate on the details 'of
the modes in which the triumphs of this party
would du itm work of evil. Its mere struggle
to obtain the government, as that struggle is
conducted, is mischievous to an extent meal
eulable. That thousands of the good men Who
have joined it deplore this is certain, but that
dues
_not mend the matter. I appeal to the
conscience and honor of the country, that if it
were the slot of a great party, by every spe
cies of access to the popular mind—by elo
quence, by argument, by taunt, by sarcasm,
by recrimination; by appeals to pride, shame
and natural right—to prepare the natiou
fir a struggle with Spaiu or England, or Aus
tria, it could nut du its business mere-thor
oughly. Illany.....4eTsutis, many speakers—
inauy, very many, set a Wiser example, but the
work is doing.
If it accomplishes its object, and gives the
Government to the North, I turn my eyes
from the consequences. To the fifteen States
of the South, that Government will appear an
alien Government. It will appear worse. It
will appear a hostile Government. It will rep
resent to their eyes a vast region of States,
organized upon anti-slavery, flushed by tri
umph, cheered onward by the voices of the
pulpit, tribune and press; its mission to in
augurate 'Freedom and put down the oligar
chy ; its constitution the glittering and sound
ing generalities of natural right which make
-up the Declaration of Independence. And
then and thus is the beginning of the end.
If a necessity could be Mad - emit for such a
party we might submit to it as to other una
voidable evils,, and other certain danger.
But where do they find that ? Where do they
pretend to find it? Is it to keep slavery out
of the Territories? There is not one but Kan
sas in which slavery is possible. No man
fears, no man hopes for slavery in Utah, New
Mexico, Washington or Minnesota. A nation
al party to give them to freedom is about„ as
needful and about as feasible as a national
party to keep Maine fur freedom. And Kan
sas c Ltt that al , . •
calm within its borders ; deliver it over
to the natural law ape:it:o"u! and spontaneous
; take off the ruffian hands :
d9wn the rifle and the bowie knife ;
IL6 streLucto, and
TWO DOLLARS A-YEAR.
maws of age to eloose'for itself—and it will
choose freedom for itself, and it will have fi.r
at-Pr _what it chooser.
When this policy, so easy, simple and just.
is tried and fails, it will be lime enough to
resort to revolution. It is in part because tilts
duty of protection to the local settler was not
performed that the Democratic party has nl
rewly by the action of the great represen'.:—
five convention resolved to put out of office its
own administration. Thatiesseewill not anti
must not be lost on anybody. The country
demands that Congress, before it adjourns.
give that Territory peace. If it does, lino,•
will inevitably give it freedom.
I have justly and imperfectly expressed my
opinion through the satisfactory forms of a
letter, as to the immediate duty of the Whip.
We 'are to do what we can to defeat and di—
hand this geographical party. But by what
specification we can moat effectually contril -
uto to such a result is a question of more dill: -
culty. It seems now to bo settled that xvi ,
present no candidate ofour own. If we vote tt t
all, then, we vote for the nominees of tiro
American or the nominees of the DemocroriEf
Party.---As between them I shall not ventusn
to counsel the Whigs, of Maine, hat I deem it
due to frankness and honor to say, that while
I entertain a high appreciation of the char:l(.-
0r and ability of Mr. Fillrnote, I do not sym
pathize in any degree with the , objects atoi
creed of the particular party that nominatea
him,
and do no9pprove of their organization
and their tactics.
, .
Practically, too: the isorrtest„ in myy. jodg
moot, ishetween 3lr. Buchanan and Col. Fre.-
mont. • In those circumstances I vote En
Buchanan. Ile ints:lar experience in pill,.
lie affairs; his commanding • capacity is uni
versally acknowledged; his life is without, a
stain. lam constrained to add that he seem:'
at this moment, by the concurrence of circum
stances, mere completely than any other,.t
represent that sentiment of nationality.—tol.
erant, warm and comprehensive;-.—withi4 tat
which, without increfiSe of which, America idt
no longer America; and to posses the power.
and. I trust, the disposition, to restore .at.-1
keep the peace within our borders and NV
out, -for which Our hearts "allyearn, - which all
our interests demand, through which and by
which alone we may hope to grow to the true
greatness of nations.
Very reepeetfully,,yOur fellow citizen,
- . RUFUS 011OATE.
To E. V. Farley and other gentlemen of the
Maine Whig State Central Committee.
A 'Large Dinner:- Foripi.-The Pi ederick
(Md.) Citizen.'Speeking of -the recent Dem
ocratic Mass Meeting at- - thet place, rays
proecesion - „Was :two rniles'lengi,and - thrts
scribes the dinner: 7 --The gentleman's , table
was three quarters of asiaile•iii length, and
we,ti_ abundantly, supplied ; with . well cooked
beef mutton; hark, bt0:11, aid the lest - .of
bread. In additien to the 'above fare, ssinic
tbur thousand pies, pound, sponge and other
cake, were provided fiiitheilidies. `The con—
sumption of eix th ou san d-tion Me Of , meta. •a n
bread in due .proportion-together, with-.the
pies and cakes, may also. amide the Trader tai
form a rortionableestiiniteOf the ekteut of ti.,
appetites of person's• present.- -
Emma Nuihing,Principlcs.—ltaboold not bv
forgotten that the Augaicior Randiilato for
State'sAtterneYfor this county', last fall pm--
claimed• from the that
ofthe mow Parfy'were
politiou to the Does) Dian Dpteit. AND B uss.
was the relined and patriotic sentiment
uttered by the, distingfiiShed State's Attorney
of this county who electrifies judge,' Jurors
and others by his, elaborate' and eloquent
speeches against all evil doers. Perhaps last.
fall the,sentiment had a i:political cif e ct."--
Annapolie Republican.
sarThe
aeenranee an W the result iu old Berke:
"Otir, friends abroad may rely upon it, that
the Democrats of Old tierks were never e
united or more thorou l hi • aroused to a sete4e
of their duty If they slip done great thitgl,
heretofore, they will do greater , in. October
toil November, and come out of the' contest
with majorities which will 6trikerfriend and
foe with astonishment."
A Capital Hit,—Ttle" best thing we have
heard this year, in . a political Way, occurrod
at Meadville a few days. since.', One of tho
Black Republican Editors of that rural town.
who last year was very hostile to the Pop..
and fully persuaded that "Americans ought
to rule America," met a German aequaititapi
in the street, and accosted him something in
this wise:
"Well, John; I suppose you are going tA,
give Fremont a vote this year." . •
John studied a moment, and cooking ono
eye, as mach. as to say, "do you see anything
green there?" replied that he had nu-rote w
' , lye Fre►nont
"Why, how is that?" queried our editor
friend.•
"Because," replied. John,
hero long enough."
"Not lung enough? Why, how long have
you been here ?"
•
"Oh, about ten years."
"Well." persisted the Fremonter, "this is
long enough to vote."
"Oh, I know," said a man with the "swoet
German accent," "that I have been.here lon'g
enough to vote for Buchanan ; -but it require-.
a German to reside here twenty-one year to
make him it legal voter for Fremont."
Just about that time the editor in "pursuit
of voters under difficulties," had particular bn
siness in his office.
re`"Reflect, my brethren." exhorted u
chaplain, '•that whosoever falls this day in
battle, sups to-nights in Paradise." TT'}u•
fight began. the ranks wavered, the chaphtiz.
took to his heels, when a soldier, stopping
him, reproachfully referred him to the prom
ised supper in Paradise. "True, my son,
true," said the chaplain, "but .1 never cal
supper."
-The Great West.------The annual earning oi
the several lines of railroads that connect a:
Chicago, Illinois, with New York eity; caw. ,
$25.000,000. This fact, - taken - iu eotineeti. ,
with the vast amount of produce and inerehaz.-
water carriage, conveys some tolerable idea (..
the resources of the Great West.
treftAvoid 7 3ctuadal : fur this is ape3t 4;,f
.3:114=-411.4.
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