~._w,.-:>r - .-;.+: ~sx:~.wya: ia..~:rww :t,.~iA'~Y,`~^.fi.=+fSatl,E~Tm.~is~GTre'^T...-ai'e4r„tiY.-iT IN Indepezident Itepublican 15TEAlt PRINTING OFFICE, Below Searle% Hotel, in Hawleyk Lath ropo'Boildlog. rt - P STAINS...O jgaepeuacif itepqb)iettly. ristisszp VERT TaritiDAY, AT XONTIGER, gragcs.-, RAKAA COCFM, ST • • 14.-11. -- V.R A Z $1,50 a Mut, t 3 Airlift: Rates of . AstTertisiug. 1 / W 1813 71 atlgisialii 1 agnate,. $0 5010.75 00 1 2.512 2513 0(45 Do $BOO square) 1 0011 tO 2DO 2- 50,4 00[5 00 900 15 00 klitare- 4 , 1 50;2 25;8 013 7516 NO 50 12 00190 00 4.agOtek 2, C031X)3 7311 soia oo.h 5 0 t 5 OVIVA *Jett &gain; • • - ' --- • • - 18110 , 5000 One eat in, 1 ••• • • • 130 0tv,5600 Twelve 111ei ' of fiat size type ? J make a agnate: nett Ham of t hb atm typta—Atiatta Yearir Adutibers have the prlitkee otattitta;trt slaMent their mbetibessehhisecasionsilly without mhtUhmal Marta. Balmy% Cuts as auttatilm the bus burled at 4/ 3 Mum.. A thltuirmshts, to Mau hiactikm, must be busted la .berate Silk it ik ..4thi.dfate tieejAtitilisagall Pm-Guru t preihtest uth throe Drum , StFAX coatjaa-max.% kunst •r USN t DX ammo. mit,CA. P ' "ton with 4 .4,4 U. ..r,t f CARD. 1 Job st s h se Cres, oorr Lin slam hbotagom Mem, Jfatethtlis, bes, Pamphlets, &c., duce scatty Rad promptly. Blankw..-3ustices' and Constables' Blanks., 'mom 1... ft Lad Canhuis, be.. kept tat best- cad fur sale at the INDLromtiorr Rozvoucao rem., BUSINESS CARDS. Z Gairatt; AlritilL&SALE and ItETA IL DP—ILE:II LI FLOUR. GRAIN. SALT, Ah.. Neer 31n.ronn. Pa. Sake mom. Pratt'. Office., Inn tam conotattUyan hand the bent breads of Pkuse, by the Stet , hundred bowery >t the low ear ortritet pekes, aha Salt by the stogie Farrel or Load. All ontera he. hleteheteee .and a!Ohe pmtuptly attended ht. Pr Ca,l pekt ror Wool,Peltn, holes. and al' blade o( Farmers pmdetceld their Amon: - Neve Milthed, Pa.; Ketch ad, 1n39.-ty . • -, Giffordi , tA*EN plot , goorArr'a oh-oa Wort:oft TfrO.ll tal Gold or Sirrorplato—also on a new ufeat4.4l.l Ir,araztri. Mood Brirrorsoro ;door:tit rronirrd. Noumea, Sept- 6. 16:3:41 • .Zolui W. Cobb, D., TISMO awirpeepswed to_ 'wielder 118DICIIVE and 81 7 1USEILY, 23 has located 'angel( la ilontrew, aexl will d rldfr attend to nitienebkh he =0 Ir farmed. 01.711:8 iwer Moe& leatles Siaireiwol 5m4:01.. A.th e; ' • t o ; • XIASILTACiTRER MSADDLER. GA RVEIIII, & ""nt . s. andCA RRIAGE TRIMIILEG all Its - braarlow dont betas. Keeler & sentllaid'f. Mont:or, Mandl 1. I.E*. J. H. Smith. YI iFACT=4III.A . 1 . y VA MK...DLOAndTaLICKS. Ye lea y J..rwiry .-i4rbt., • - if • Al I ' ml :a i renZ ‘ bl l nstf c 4:lTt i l T l to 1.7.0 int rw-14.1 C•sra, Ewing, hign oFnad VII moire tenzlou. OFFICE No. 44 ate.inut Street. St Load,. Deceztarct t...1,1104.,' • • - C. Winkler, Yninntlf• Shea. Co.. Ps., ,ppo Iter. A. A 0 Arr Ititro,d;of.si; itrz:Lite • E. IL .Itokers; OTLLt evizthret. the 11JVADFACT of alt deeeerfptiona of 1171 ‘ . ...- eArtitlA.V.9o9/ 11 S.• gl,9 l St.tsll..i i t ...11 , e f , eo .. tyle grlVer2,......e.lly„....kr.titr;:iirt4 to tr.. , x . alert .0421 DO. 1 I, .111 be bapp7 to metro that enl33 ..tall rein rant anelkln; bt kb , line. 7 Yontleese,2septonlier 1.5;1858.1y Jr. Bennett. TrOR )31311/13.. Salter; Savatitinal d Vah.. rmeet ti cul• g Irangrini= ux,k, Klar ‘, :It,. . Fuxin will Native Pez%V. , .. Baits. kt... for H. t`. D e a ne! A, &roe. 1.+E8.-it ' William B. Simplon, • unarm REPAIRER. hrhir.g wortki rot the 'roe§ Moe yew, .nb the took 4.111ral workeuest. betels eorldeot that be eak tke tmket 4112Icult Joh.on Mort notice. AU work warranted to ere killeftetkev Jewelre repoked Deatlrtuld rrawetable terms. tfinp In Bekal k Wefiker'6new....iore. corner of Maio ad Tura Pilre..Aneta, betel*. Searles Rotel. Youtrove, Pa. U==lMlC==== . . . . _ .. . _ .. .. . • onanead Idea al a carrell tie radii - CU 1.1. Wa0,.....3. C. ~.up,,, , Mt tr , do a. a". , 1 wort le am he done Ia the countre, and 'north r of ondfdrame. Towanda, /rate 14 Li:el. - W. A_ enaliaucat.rs. Dcren xo Wm. El al, E. W. 111.1. rd. E. D. lirntasar. E. Groirith, B. Kharibern Toik - andta; D. S. D'aitlry, L. SeArk. C. 1) Lathrop..f. Wittenberr„...ll,ent rote. Matthve, :opt. 13, MS. 41 Wm. W. Smith At: Co., cAomtr.eoCD CHAIR 31,11CrFAC- - 11111111116 , 4 4 I anmehtuttr ...a Medal' tiler ±" r eva ' i , moiart.,„ 15:4.4f of Mal. In“mx. Hayden Brothers. W HOLESALE HEALERS In YANKEE NOTIONS. Iralstlea ac., Nor =And, Stmt. Co., Pa. CV' Merrlmidsand Pedlar, mipprard st Nor York .7014.111 g Prfer-F pin" Milford, Kily.IMS.-1T • I=I!! • - , •" , i'zoyd fe, Webster, •- otaisasinSioets. blare l"ipc, TIN i.'4l.ei. an: Slani Ira, liar ;al.. AVlrtdcor Safi. Pawl Dram, Wittilnir 8111,1, Lat. rya Lcnaber, and sP, kisaat of 8a1424 , Mantda. , Till Shup South ni: t. , ..c1i. 'Hegel, and Carpenter %op Si:. Nlclhodlg Church. Marricar, Ps, April 14, 16.2.-t1 - Dr- 0. Z. Dimock. • • . 1011171CIAlf AXD pritcrEtw. lop mazlnomtlrlacatedltleaxer .I. 4.1 Voutrume..ll2..quebstias cr.litr, PL. Vii/CE over licanos A 5.7, - 5 Stott% iffidglseg. a &vie.. IJotel. Mourose, Mu& ID, .15X. - . ,Dr, Wm. Z. Richardson WOrLD... l, Poetftl/F tender blo lonfradoutd refried to the in hohros LODEoor:mew rod Sept. orrict over Yu! I^srs Mane. NGS al the Kystone gold, 31.utdr00d.0,3-4 ... ..., ' Dr. Z. Y 4 Wilmot. - - tinktiesta of the Allopathic aml Ilaserofcrttle, Collects of ‘7l" Ile,Gclne. to nor i.ennacccilly bxaded to Groat rend, P. 0 - ~,z.roructof Milne asul Elizabeth St. aearlY .Plcoato 0, ... ,4 . Z ,...,32.,. May bat I= '-ly . Dr. H. Smith; . ItGrON DEXTIMLance and otkma pallantlat absur.honren altle„) woe. dar an...cm...in he est,. 10 Inocal ia teeth on Goss and Srcero plate.' and to Ailing ilnqribt tenth. JantnuT 19M-tt ' - - • , C. D. Virgil, ; DESIDENT DEPT! T. MOVIItriFE:F/L, .oi. 16 •••• i egt itl.t cm 1 1 :411;r Silvia Jill/m:ln the hide-1 a rte of the d rt. 1111jobi warnautea., , - ::.,:nszetiee., April ;1S .-tad . _ _ R- Thayer, DaTSICIAN !LSD SURGEON, .ILarracce. Pa. °Moe la the / Farmers store. Ift.t9 A. Bill ATroBNET h MICNEELLOR AT LAW. Office Over B. B trt<s Dnig St" Sr POCIAAANA MIZOT. ra.4l/2 Keeler & Stoddard. TA r.u.Ens rx MOTS & SLIQES, inner and -fladingo. on LP Maize 4..:111v2 door below &spa', Hotel. Efordrcor. P.-. rd • .."..cr KLCUst. ... '...0 N. IM ,OPDAMJA -,_•,, f---:- • 'William TEJesops • ' rrormrs AT LAW & - lecrairr runue- Ailam on rub: ••.. 1 ".• = l / 4 9 u , ....3lorritoss. Ps. Bentley & Fiteb, • . . 4 rrounrs AT LAW. AND BOUNTY LAND AGMCTS.— JOL Otrr loco of the court Bowe, Montrose, to. • • Z. C. Ex 1111.17 Albert Chiinberllii, TTORIcET AT LAW: AlcD-.ICISTICE,OY TBZ PEACE— .esee over rode A Co.', Store, XosTAuer. Win. - 114 . 9; , rag ". . TTORSZET AT LAW AND . C O NEB or DEED& trc ltc Fate a 4.w T0rk...111 atria tr;alinatielir ram* led Pmaiebas MUT. Case oa Pa& Agare. act. Jeriap. • ! Abel Turall, • . • lIEaLER. i c bEtiGB. JAZDIMIM,, CTLE3UCAIS, faints, OSIt. Pro... Wk. Orme" 1))7 Om*. Ihntwure, ?...toatirtnr sx...t. clacks. Stisteha% Jelrelrr. tqlOcrivoutp,,bpectatien,Jdw lhetrwrients. Trume*, Kttrsiwnneetrasucuta, Limn. Pxyrom ''. liumss, tmatioat!p. Brushes, Sims. Tau ,k..cl I:yams, arc; -- - ---.----- ------- .---2--- thandlefit Jess!sp . , DEALERS nr DET GOODS, Ready Wade ClotSog.Grgeeries sod SidliztaT, etc, rUbacinsite. storm... Pa. • Post Brottiapti iyarksrc DEr Gool*. Graormiies erooirm Hirthrome. ete.. corner of Tuniplke street ancerntAlc Are 11A-tc-nr, .I. LyozisA al k Son. , - .DRY.GOODS Gruserles, /1 ..sedwzre,Creekem " Boa% litedadecaut, Sheet %ask. AT- - : toox 11 (3113(0 baatneom—Pubhc Avenuc..liamou, . T VMS, • " Dtakttlis OS DRY Read & GOODE, Dragu,'lfedleines, rsiztu, Oils .cif liaftheum.. emeker7,:l .m. 14 C -144 ". 1414, -LC". st.e , me, Perfumery, ha' melt Bluet,..llasnuar.. P.m vetch - Wasp pt - WitUsialtlearap, 4rm2.NExser Law . Pa. Practice in &nes uma. Drgon: Warie..lVorratig sad Lucerne crAnalies. Baldwin ag A/e4i . 119 L ES?. L laud RetaL• De;hlCrs - Mum . . osss. Pock o.reed. Caudle% Claret and llseothy meal. Also .ssh.hl.F.b. such so Supscus Mulaa.4N" tgr''''" • . 6 "" .fits Publichum* ocic-duor Ikrs us.a... o ct.lSP.m...tr' • - ' • .(• Z. Cobb; DEALER ri CIROCEItIZB, St tts dors repeatly occopAed „ • & Rogers. Xastrobe,PS : , ~ . 1- s oex, March /7, ISS".-tt - . . Rani:lug Emile ' Of Poet, Cooper,*o6.- ENRY DRINKER. 4 , VI (.IItrETTING COOPER. %,....raibar 1/2 , stiC L. POST. i 'rillAyTB on Ne w York City sad Philiutelphia kJ Collections promptly made aapethit&i. - 4 Orme hours from it) st: to 8,. Messrs: iltraitat, N. Yoik. LEYEREECE,ISimunI Alle e. Kn erte% Stab 'biro- Eon. Witham Jew". irooze, . + 7 ' .. •.. , -...--,, 1. .- ~ - , ,„:. ,; , ' ,. ..1 - ,,;• : ;', ;:, . : , :. , , , ' . ...t ' , -, ,i ' '...: . "; --. . 1., .. 1 1. - i '..; . ''..: ' •-• ' ...: ' • , .... • .' ... 2 . ...: , f.., : ...; -,: :- 4'l ' ' i • , ~ , -.. 1.,- ' • l'p e . ~ , .. .4 ~.,.. •,. ,• , , ' , - .. ~, . .. x .-, . .:.:' SI -. . , . . .' • - , - . - .... „ li# - t. ; 4., :' . itt . .... If - ' . . • ~.. . . ~ . _. . ... ... ... . • ...... . ... ........ • . . ..., , VOL. 5. teiiiieillof ile4eatid keiwi c et. ARI' fittlitife I zoos alsaf in rain; he ccmeat not; And; in: here to keep the tryst alone; The,meeking South - Wind whispers in my ear Altere ofhenefed words notmwe my bwn. fhe.ii•yafaiSnit tit ifk • Aar Oen new 'Prised Rat% 6f Aptlistilipiedleedi t i el l i :landte dtee , w , Sought for her lidd - In acorn is my poor lore flung to , Dear gemOtlife, the all I . had to give, Bow is thy chalice broken At my feet! Bow thj rich, rosy wine to wormwood turned, To Mtn ashes, all thy rose leaves sweet! Soft ; o'er the fields; the floret•seadwied Spring • Mei - ei Inch khatritiledn;..wtle taighpid fluent Of bursting buds and taiii; dineatit !Mat Wank bees to hang their leafy banners Ont. Lilie lamps °Clore to pilgrims' weary feet, In shaded pathways gleams the purple sheen Of fragrant blossoms, jest as bright . As their birsisters on the sun-kissed green. Sweet Otto; +s.;ir tietit j teliet lord ems Agalnit,MY, l i m y,. Pi 141 die' pain izz , Would i aright irBm yam- j k And hope for sunshine through the heart's cold ram.' - If is a eery little word, and you may have heard it kfid etild it a ttionasild tithes; thought , leisly, until aorrow'a hour daftfli; When illl Its _ 44 waves and billows" have rolled over your own soul. -God pit) you, then! To feel that the tears, and groans, and vain longings of this weary life are - left, and , the love, the tender sympathy, the gentle caress—gone— kreier ! • , . To wake, with a star , and a disbieSe titthg; from some sweet drams), at midnight, and listen to the pattering-rain drops; and know that there are unbroked-hoines, whose loving ones niestle dose to the beloved, and smiling ly dream Oft, !tiled by the music of the bill ing rain,-4hat is to "on bat. the "tears of music," welling; wailing beer tfigt lone word --"Gonh.". , There is a bioken -htiffie yohiltr . rooted cottage.:.There are broken bearia gathered in the simple country. church, .thO' outwardly calm. Their eyes we ever turn ing to that heavy pall that hides their house hold angel. The pastor speaks of her pa tient, IbVint othetea . sy, l rangnil death, like a fired child ,— Bleepin g , to i)al:e lb heav en. How his voice trembles as he speaks to ,be sorrowing ones—" She has been a good wife, a good mother ; but she is- gone !" They bear little else‘—and the pastor prays— a touching:o4er far _these- lroken-bearted. Then, there is a silence, and the lid or ttie is•tfiti is raised, end they take " that last look, so coveted, so hopeless, that the human heart will claim on the verge of the grave." 'here are silver threads mingling in the wavy hair emootheu. - softly away' l from - the pure forelielid. f'here. is a .smile of 'gentle ness and peace on the Still, lace;white and the long-lashes rest lightly on the' marble cheek, as if in sleep; But the frozen lips an swer not those passionate kisses; the heart throbs not under the thin hands, meekly fold ed until the resurrection morn.. Gene—,on- IY the luisket left. , Kindly hands fold the muslin'tenderlY over the dead face, and fast en down the coffin lid, and the bier moves on. =I Alt ! it is.fit that the wind should wail a requiem while the coffin is, lowered into the open grave, and the heavy clods fill on it.— " Dust to dusty" the casket is gone tr;o! They go slowly and sadly back -to that low-roofed pottage, to their broken home.= The father lingers a moment on the thresh old. It sums but a day since ahr stood with him in that doorway, a bride;, and he sees again the hash of joy that lights - her fair, .3,oung Pack as he whispers,—" Our home, sweet wife:.":" Now, she is gone, and be left; and he sinks in a chair and sobs aloud.- The daughter, true to her womanhood, hush es her own gnef to soothe and comfort him, The son wanders off to `" mother's room.") There is the low couch where ,she lay,and.he rkileli by her side caressing hex' thin hand as they talked as only mother and son can com mune. There she lay when the death angel dime, and he was kneeling by- her side, cling:, ing vainly.to her hand, watching the shadow., ember face, and the fluttering lips, as the breath' grew shorter ; and she smiled—and was not ; for God took her. It all conies back to him as be kneels there, and with a crushed, desolate-feeling he busies his face in thepillows, and moans—l! Mnth er! Another I" But there comes back only the wailing echo, "Gone ! gone I' . =By and by; the grass will glow green on that and the myrtle cover it, and per roses bloom there; and, at niehtfall, when wearied and worn with life's cares and trials the bereaved will come and lajr the `aching heed on the low mound; and in those' hours of sweet communion grow calm ; feel ing She is "not !ost only gone before." "For so Ile giveth Ifis.beloved sleep." • • . rsaci. Self - argon& Qnee!'s reputation graduated by ,his self' respect- In the scale of morals, if one rates himself with vagabonds s aod thieves, he will be likely to merit- their 'reputation. : If be considers himself honey.; and wishes to be known for honesty, be will piobably acquire that character and so be reputed. honest. It is se bad sign when one says, "No !nat ter what I say, nobody cares for me. Noe, body noticei me; no matter how I look or what 1da."... If this is true of:the individual, the lack of attention and want of influence are effecter of the little, voted be has set on him self; by which low estimate he feels inclined to talk and set frrespectiveOf resulte. Would : be always speak correctly and act properly, he' would never lack the bitet kind of influence. Even now his Influence is 'weighty: but it drags down thi character( .of thcee aixrut him, as sorely as it lessens his own worth. The 'farmer and the mei:hence say; "This is good enough for us; we are mere plodders; sockty--inakea no account of -us. Why should'societyaccount to those Who will not account f o r themselves? 8o they who are of tke first importance in the World, take low grade, from their low estimate of themselves. Thieking; no nurtitrfer us; they plod oil— wit hl defective educition, rude spirits and coal* manners, while society strides abchd. If one will not learn his value, sad promote his 'own interest, who Will 1. Society I Nay. Act kr Youcaeif. 0 004, And vigt" . ° o o.? and when atecq? sees yptf. thus moving it wily respect yo „Ay" it ! will . tre to show you et4entios, • '!' ifil . E*EboEl'.._:AiglE) .12110N7 . AO'n, MR'? . @.R.AVER 7 LO 6 . : VineHat,l9-' ' DT Xi/. For tit hulTenrktit ctiniAtican. GONE. ri~<NSt~'s~aa:em.!,wS'~al+i~sF~.d'-:ar:ral?x+!<?3_ioXa7n'=a~~.+c.:~r'e;•s•~..~,: . __ MONTWSZ- PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1859. . . In respect to mental and bodily powers, to white and influence, tlyi farmer. and me tilattie might be, itt advawe of , the rest of &anklet?: , Oone helve better facilities foe develop:At eta ho'dY and doing his own think: ing than they might Itat' . d. Whet! they feel the need of this; they , begin to achlevalt. • Begin now, farmer. Begin now, mechanic. Think, with this article before you, - deliber ate, plan, decide.' Ilow can you respect yotOselfl 'HOW con you show thet by word and tlef yott4eapect yourself 3 flow can you become strong in WO, iigoraus in mind. and Influential in character? Thiiiic. ' The answer .will' do .you no good, unless you work it out for yourself. Ile,gm now; never leave the problem till it is solved.—Lije illustrated Selretlttel Always. Two country lads came early to a market town, and arranging their little stands, sat down to wait for customers. One was fur nished with fruits and vegetables of the boy's own .raining, and the other supplied with Anna end 14. The market hours passed along, and cant little merchant saw with pleasure his store steadily decreasing I and an equivalent in silver bits *Mining in his lit tle _mute)! cup. -The last melon lay on Harry's stand, when a 'gentleman came by, and placing his hand upon it said : " What a firm large meltin; I think I must have this Pit int dinner: What do you ask for it, my boy?' • "The melonds the last i have, sir -and thongh it looks very fair there is an unsound spot on the other side," said the boy, turning it over. •• therbis," said the man ; "1 think I bill ttoi talseßat," he added, lookidg in to the boy's line cipett conntenence, " is it very business-like to-point out the defetts of your fruits to customers?" . "It is better than being dishonest, sir," said the boy; modestly. "You are right,. my little fellow ; always remember that principle, . and you will find favor with Clod, and man also. You have ntalting else I wish fur this morning, but I shall remember" ;troths little' stand -in future. Are those clams fresh'" he continued, turn. to Ben Wilson's stand. " Yer, sir; fresh Ibis morning. I caught them myseif," was the reply ; and a pUrclutse being,made, the gentleman went away. " Harry? whet a fool you was to show the . ntleman that spbt In the melon. Now, you can take it home for your pains, dr tlifow it away. How much wiser is he about these clams I caught, yesterday 1 Sold them for the same price I did the fresh ones. He Wrotild neler have looked at the melon until be had gone away." "Ben, would not tell , a lie f or act one either, fort wice what 1 have earned this morning. Besides I shall be better off in the end, for I have gained a customer, and yon have lost one." • And so it proved, for the next day the gen tleman bought nearly all bis fruit and vege tables of Harry, but never invested another penny at the stand of his neighbor. Thus the season paned; the gentleman finding he could always get a good article of Harry,con tinually patronized him, and sometimes talk ed with him about his future hopes and pros pects. To become a merchant was his greitt arhbition, and when the Winter came on, the gentleman wanting a trusty boy for his store, decided 'on giving the piece to Harry. Stead ily and surely he advanced in the confidence of his employer, until, haVing passed through. various gradations of - clerkship, he became at length an honored partner in the firm. Our Fighting Edit.O. THE "John Bull" newspaper, a high Tory weekly, edited by Theodore Hook, frequent ly indulged in offensive personalities in re marking; on the conduct and character of pub. lie men.' A military hero, who would per sist in placibg himself eonspicuone before the world's gaze, received a copious share of What he considered malignant and libellous abuse in the whops of the eaid " Bull." His soldier's spirit resolved on revenge. An officer,rufd ' a gentleman could not demean bibisell by calling on a.hireling scribbler for honorable satisfaction ; no : he would horse whip the, miscreant in his own den to The "Bull" should be taken by the horns! Don ning his unifoym-, and, arming hirriself with a huge chip, he called ht - the office of the - 44.- per, and scarcely concealing his agitation, quired.for the editor. Ire was inVited.by clerk to takes seat in an inner room—be complied. and was - kept waiting while the clerk, who recognized the visitor, ran up and informed the editorial responsibilities of his name and evident purport. After an aggra vating delay, which served considerably to increase the ill-temper of the officer, the door opened, and a coarse, rough-looking man, OVer six feet in height, with a proportionate breadth of shoulders, and armed with a ter rific bludgeon, entered the room ; walking up to the surprised and angry visitor, he said, hi a voice of thunder— , " Are you the chap as wants to see me "You! No: I wish to see the editor of the paper." "That's me! I'm the worry "There must be some mistake." . " Not a morsel ! I'm the head-hitter of the Bull," siad'the fellow, bringing the nobbed end aids bludgeon within fearful proximity of the nose of the officer. ' "You the editor 1 impossible!" , "Do you mean to say as I'm tellin' a lie?" roared ibe ruffian, AS he again_ raised his "knotty argument." ",'Certainly not—by no means," said , the officer, rapidly cooling down, and dropping the horsewhip and: his wrath at the same time.. " Wary well, then, what are you wanting wi' me'?" .."A mistake, my dear sir !, all a mistake. 1, expected to meet another person.: I'll call some other tithe." And : m the valiant co plainant backed -towards dOor, bowing politely :0 the , gentleman with the dub. "And don't let me ketch you coming again without knowing- what you want .and -who you went. We're always ready here km all sorts o' customers:—ariny - or navy—civil or mititaryin4rXe i foCi, or drskoons." The officer retired, neolvini toundergo another goring by Ifni " Bull" before he again venture° to cneounter-the Ileiculean propor. tions of the fighting 'editor. . • - 'When the, clerk informed tlie occupiers of the, editorial sanetum of the visit-of the irate Axtkutel, neither 1141 - nor his Publisher 'sr. ed to face the itoiseivhip.. ,A well-known pu. Billet, the Medford of a tavern in i4e 'Vicinity; ME Was instantly vent for i a alight preparation fitted him fur the part, in which be acquitted himself with complete success. The story rapidly circulated, and the reputation of the fighting editor of the " Bull" prevented fur. tber_remonstrances front persona who fancied themselves aggrieved by the liberty of the press.. 164 the Scalpel. BONIER AND =SCUM unitotiiiiit WIIAT have been and are the contents of thislargely purchased and immen s ely popu. Jar psfloclical ? What, apart from the ad mirable enterprise exhibited in the purvey ing, Li the quality of the fare fee which there exists so vast an appetite ? In the first place, as the prominent feature, stories, novelettes, by fourth-rate . writers who were comparatively obieure, command. ing only limited and local reputations as manufacturers of harmless literary inanity, until Mr. Bonner advertised them into a ce lebrity of winch, probably, not one of them bad dreamed before the Ledger's appearance. To have talked of Cobb's . pretensions as an author then, would hate simply stamped the talker, Wahine the age of twelve, as a very simple person, and tne like, with scareely an exception, applied to the entire Ledger corps.' This, as generally asserted, as allowed until quite recently, has been most perseveringly and wrathflilly contested by Mr. Bonner.— Me has trnmpeted his writers' merits edito rially, paraded them before the public in en. tire Doges of "magnificently monotonous" advertisement, and in a word, championed them through thick and thin—all of which he had a perfect right to do, though we shall say something as to his way of doing it pres ently. Our business now lies with the Ledg er literature. We shall discuss some of its principal eharaeletiatim and as its proprietor assumes high ground with respect to its shall try him 'by the strong, simple standard of honest common sense. The writer heretofore alluded to.=-Cobb-- is the great gun of the Ledger. The an. nogneement of s a new story from his pen, we are informed, invariably sends up the circu lation of the periodical some thouiands, and our inquiries and observation of Ledges readers and purchasers have contineed us that., in their estimation, the lion. Edward Everett is a very secondarxperson compared with'the author of "the Gunmaker of Mos cow." -Therefore we address ourself to him in the first place; and as Ahat particular sto ry is now being re-printed in order to supply a demand which may justify Mr. Bonner in his assertion that "the Rea bath bounds, but it seems as if the popularity of this story had none," we select it for critical examination. Acknowledged as Cobb's crack production, nothing can be fairer than to judge of his fit entry pretensions by it. W$ have perused carefully every word of "The Gunmaker of Moscow," which, for. tunatply, is not long. We find it to be simply trash, with but a feeble echo of \Val ter Sco tticism to commend it to- notice:— Plot, conception of character, incident, style, and execution are all the mpagerest, the cheapest, and.mast conventional order. - At- tempt at preserving-the unities of time,plaee, and nationality, there is scarcely any. Yu!. garities of diction, and the. clumsiest repeti. tion of the same awkward forms of sentence are prevalent. In short, the only praise that can be honestly awarded is thatlhe rubbish is harmless; pt least, no more harmful than involving t h e sheer waste of time devoted to its perusal. Let us prove what wo assert by a brief dissection-of the story. The hero of it is a species of mild version of Scott's Henry Smith,' the Cow Chromsof the Fair Maid of Perth, living at Moscow iii.the time of Peter the Greer; not the picturesque MOscow to which Baya'rd Taylor has introduced us, but ' a verbally colorless capital, which, but for a few forlorn names, as " Kremlin," " Salobo do," etc., might be loatted in any part of the globe, at any age and_ date ; not the Czar Peter, that " strangest mixture of heroic vir tue and brutish Samoiedic savagery," who appears in Carlyle's pages, but a kind of fee, ble Haroun Alraschid ; a "sort of mysteri ous being," as Mr. Cobb's heroine Moroni- eally ealls him, (we winder he did not spell it "sorter 7 ") who, in accordan4 with tradi. I tion; zoos masquerading about his capital as afa monk, protecting, the good and punish; ing evil-doers. Well, our gun-maker, a boil' artisan who has travelled in Spain Cobb knows the facilities welch existed for this in Peter's time; now even nobles obtain permis sion to absent themselves from the "holfsoil" of Russia with difficulty,) our gunmaker is in love; as_a_heco ought to be.. And the lady, "a beautiful girl 'with nothing, of the aristo crat- in her look," with "gentleness and' love" constituting "the true elements of her soul," who "spurned that respect which - only. aims at outward show, while the heart may -be reeking with vilest sensualism," reciprocates his passion, of course. Anil, equally of conrse they have an enemy, an atrocious and mercenary plotter against their happiness. in the person of a nobleman of high position in the Russian Empire. And, still more inev itably, by the aid of 'the prowess of the gun maker (who is challenged by and fights. a duel with another nobleman,!) the constancy of the lady and the omnipresence' of the czar-rnonk, the wicked nobleman and his agents are miserably - defeated, the lovers happily united, vice punished, virtue trium phant, and iiilfr. Sampson Brass remark; all is happiness and joy."- Thus the story closes. In every line and • paragraph this produc tion exhibits all the simplicity of ignorance. Theatric rant, such as " What ho! there ! what ho ! without, I say !" alternates with palpable American vulgarism., as "fix this medicine," "I'll , fix that • matter with the emperor," (!) " he struggled some ," _ etc. The persons introduced possess but the shadow. lest similitude to manysided humanity.—' Eyery way it is the product hot of thought, or sympathy; or observation, but of weak and conventional, though perhaps neconscious imitation.' What, then, constitutes its at tractiens to two millions of read ers? • We shall try to answer. Firstly, there is a thin vein of gentle sem , -tinientality _running throughout the plot, which always comthends itself to the multi- tude, who like to have •their sympathies ex. cited. • Then it is, to them, easy—deplorably easy reading.: They are called upon to *do -nothing but read, no.. necessity for coherent thinking existing. Again, in Cobb they fee themselves " The Guuntaker of Moscow" is just the book which they would write did _*m., , -~mdr~~~ ,:z:~> ate- ~. r IZIMEE they possess the limited amount of gramma{ and English necessary, to the performance.— Hence a sensation of seltfiattery attends the perusal ; unconsciously the reader finds his opinion of his own judgmint strengthened and his taste Complimented. Naturally, therefore he will like the author who offers him all this, though perhaps ho never troub :les himself to think why. Add to which the additional incitements of puffery and adver t usement, and the whole thing of accounted for. A similar .analysis of the rest of Mr. Bonner's stock story-tellers„ with perhaps the exception of Mrs. Southworth, would pro. duce no more satisfactory resuita, • though the majority of them show indications of talents, of which Cobb is •wholly deficient. They seem to possess popularity in inverse pro.. portion to tbfrir merits. But none are strong enough to deserve,fiwther notice. We turn to the essays and editorials, the poetry. the Answers to, Correspondents—en important feature, we ihmild judge, and certainly an amusing ninsa:mtending subsequently to speak of Erdrett and the recent really ary 'acquisitions to the Ledger's Here we can effect certain amount of commendation. Many of the essays, and editorials have been marked by such good sense, thought, and scholarship as, were the Ledger readers at all.in the habit of thinking, might excite surprise, which we shared until we recognized them as appropriated, 'of course without acknowledgement, from Ad. dison and the writers in the Spectator I-- (Whenever.tbe title of that brilliant produc- tion of the Asks and thinkers of Queen Anne's days occurs, that of Ledger is substituted I.) By which almost laudable proceeding, Mr. Bonner has been feeding his enormous nur sery of adult babes and sueklings with'much stronger and more healthful food than they . suspected or desired. Ho* it harmonizes with the diluted asses' milk purveyed by the gentle Cobb, our readers may judge. But !o intimate that all the good contained in the Ledger columns is plagiarized were unjust.— On the contrary, 'Very excellent matter has appeared here, especially during the last three months; as also have editorials of the cheapest construction, the most common place morality, the stalest significance. We notice, too, as pervading these, a Mrs. Trim iner.like wisdom, which is 'exceedingly ludi. erous.. Be iigcs;l - boy and rend your Ledger and you'll be sure to go to heaven, runs, liki a latent chorus, throughout these performanc es. The poetry, with an occasional brilliant exception, seldom rises above such as is or• dinarily written by young-persona who mis. take ambition for capacity. In this we do not, of course, Include the productions of Mrs. Sigourney, the Carys, Saxe, or Morris, though none of these have favored the Ledg• er with anything worthy of witieism. • * * • * * - The Answt.rs to Correspondents deserve notice, as aforesaid, froth their peculiarity,-- Sometimes sensible, sometimes common place, sometimes so asinine a. 4 to be highly ludicrous they present occasionally ;dm we consider very objectionable characteris tics. If scantily-educated girls choose to write letters to Mr. Bonnees editors upon "kissing," "hugging," "beaux," and the like, is that any reason why their idiotic ef rucions should rect.. ive baptism in -printer's ink 7 That awkwardly constructed confes sional in Syracuse, which echoed its peni tents' peccadilloes in the market place, might have been a more mischievous but hardly less offensive contrivance than feature of the Ledger. We now come to Mr. Everett's engage. ment, a stroke of dashing and perfectly legit imate advertising policy ; for who can Sup. Pose that Mr. Bonner would, have paid the sum added-to that begging.box infliction, the Mount Vernon Fund, for such papers as our E r s-U. S. Senator has .contributed, Without the prestige of his name? That honorable eentle.r.an certainly deserves credit for un dertaking the task, and has evidently gone to work with a conscientious attempt to please and -instruct his unaemstomed audience.— Unhappily-lie appears to have endeavored to " w‘rite down" to its intellectual level, and the effect is melancholy hi the extreme. Nor, to the best of our belief, are the lover's of Cobb at all delighted with Everett. They would rather not have him, in fact. If they read him, it is from a sense of duty, which we can hardly wonder at, when we find them addressed from the Mrs. Trimmer Atand point.before alluded to. Cobb, inherently one of themselves,: never troubles them' with indefinable impres: , iions that they. are being put to school. And hoiveser agreeable it may be to be talked to by a great man, one doesn't like his thrusting a horn-book under one's nose. .We can fancy a disgustelLedy er reader mutinying almost in the words of the badgered brickmaker in " Bleak House" to Mrs. Pardiggle : " Have I read the little book wet you left? No, I an't read the little book wet - you left. It's a book fit for a babliy, and I'm not a bobby. If you was to lease me a doll, I shouldiret Imes it!" Mr. Bonner may yet find it necessary to civilly bow Mr. Everett out of his columns; ; with ell his desire to arrogate real literary merit to them, he is yet too shrewd a,man of busi ness not to retrace:what may prove a false step. The addition of the name of the Jmbassador to his list of contributors, ex panded his circulation by two hundred thou sand; with the celebrity gained, the \ affitir has - proved a pretty good business investment. Mr. - Bonner will have If that trash is not trash—that Ledger literature is the one thing needful. Great is Bonner, and, Cobb is his Profit! issues from.his autocratic lips upon every possible °musics. We refuse to join in the cry.WO totally object to it. We tell the proprietor. of the Ledger, what be probably knows and rages at, that there is a large and intelligent, mi- nority who ,mile at his pretensions, and only allude to his paper to ent.jokes on it-know ing, too, that it has a-circulation of four hundred thousand,; nay, who would do so were the number Inflated tenfold,; for they believe that there is a much blither sort of success than Mr. Bonner's, and are by no Means dazzled by it. Of course. success implies a sort. But how mean an ability it ' may' be. Throughput Arrierican life there nuts a dan gerous materialism Which preaches that' mo. ney is the gnat end And evidence of the poi: session of intellect; thaf,a man natal be s: 1 failure unless be cultninates in - the posiession of a check-book, a belie(oply'vrorgiir of 4 people prepared to acteft 4croor ME = 40:77-/ *-6: 16'. Maxims" as a New Testament: Was the divinest life ever led on this earth a -success, huunarily speaking? Whatever you will-pay the price for you can have in this . world— that is the rule. Be rich, if Yofrehoose, per Imps bybringtng ail your array of faculties to bear on one point, .as did William the Conqueror and Omar their forces, perhatii letting your intellectual and moral nature lie fallow the while.- But do not arrogate too much on the strength of it, or expect 'ap plause or admiration, or even tacit assent, to your claims from those who are accustomed to look below the surface: The confounding of excellence with pecuniary success is - both absurd and immoral*; and when some great gross instance of it occurs, Whether in the case of Railroad Hudson in. England, or Barnum or Bonner in America, a deteriora tion of honest public-sentiment takei place. Mr. Bonner simply publishes a 'popular pe tiodieal of third or fourth-rate merit, and has made a good deal of nionef by it—that •is all. He, cleverly enough, by judicious ad• vertising, as by_ securing and liberally pay ing for the occasional contriblittons of our prodijnent editors, (many of- whom, have written a Ledger article or so, anonymously,) has, eo to speak, subsidized the whole press. Invisible 'attends stretch from the Ann street office to all sorts of sauctums, binding their occupants over, to keep the peace. They do not even venture to joke at his expense note, at gest not in print. , For the Independent Republican. •IkL A V-IE - -R Y. =I Tito' men of wealth and might will strife Thy hideous form to hide, Yet we have seen it all unmasked, And know thou 'rt Eptan!s bride. While others list thy siren song,, And let their conscience sleep, To us it is oppression's voice, Webear it but to weep. We know thy deeds so dark, so vile, Of perfidy and wrong— That hardened in thy crimes end guilt, Thou halt grown bold and strong. Thou dolt bribe men of state and power From duty's path so plain, Giving, like thy infernal spouse, The promises of gain. .0., traitors to humanity !' Those honors falsely. won, Will prove barpoisoned stings to pierce, When life's short race is run. " Vengence is mine, I will repay!" The God of Heaven - cries: As groans from burdened, fettered souls, Go upwai4 to the skies. • America! let others boast Thy maiden pnrity— While Shivery detti Main thy skiMs, I still must blush for thee. Morel:oat, March 28th. 1859. • • SPEECHES OF . SENATORS WADE &SEWARD. On the new issue of" Lands for The Land. less against Niggers for the Niggerless." In the U. S. Senate, Feb. 21, 1839. [The Thirty Million Corruption bill having been under discussion for ten hours, Senatdr Doolittle of Wisconsin, (Rep.) moved to lay it aside, as even its Metals conceded that irit passed the Senate, it could not pass the house; and moved to take' up the Homestead bill which had already . Teased the House,t and only needed a vote of the Senate to become it law. Senator Toombs of Georgia, (Dem.) replied in a violent speech, denouncing the friends oldie Home. stead bill- as "two-penny demagogues"`who were '=appealing to the lacklanders." When he conclud ed, Senator Wade of Ohio, (Rep.) who sits nest to him, sprang to his feet and replied.. We glie the verbatim report of his speech and Gov. Seward's from the GonFrersional Globe, in which they appear ed, with other deferred debates of the kit week of the session.) Mr. WADE. I am very glad that this ques tion has at length come up ; I am glad; too, that it has antagonized with this nigger ques tion. [ Laughter. ] We tire " shivering 'in the wind," are we, sire over your Cuba ques tion ? You may have occasion to shit* on that question before you are through with it. Now; sir, I have been tryitt here for nearly a month to get a straight forward vote upon this great measure of land for the landless. I glory in that measure. It- is the greatest that has ever coma before the American Sen ate, and it has come novijig , that there is no dredging it. The question will be, shall we give niggers to the niggerless,' or land to the landless? [ Applause in the galleries.] The Vice President rapped to order., Mr. Wade.- I will meet that Measure. I do not tremble before them or their own tiers, or anybody else; and it does not be come gentlemen of the Senate to tremble over a measure. Sir, it is not very senato rial language. God knows,'f never 'tremble before anybody. "I do not expect to use lan. gunge that ought to be offensive to anybody here, andi will not submit to it from any. body. I moved some days ago to take up this subject. It was said then that an' appropria tion bill stood in the way of this great goes. tion being settled. The Senator from Vir. ginia bad his apprcipriation bills. It was im portant, then; thitt they should be settled at ones; "there was danger thitthey would be lost, and the Government would stop in con, sequence, and an appeal was made to gentle men to give this bill the go-by fur the .time being, at all, events, and the appeal was suc cessful. Gentlemen said the- appropriation bills myst be passed ; arid, although they were anxious for the passage of this bill, nev ertheless it Must be postponed for the appro priation bills. The ieppropriation, bills lie very easy now behind this, nigger. operitiOn. [Laughter.] When you come to niggers for the niggerlees, all other Auestions. sink into insignificsnce, But, sir, we will antagonize these measures. I appeal `to my countryman upon them. I ask the people,do you choose that we should go through the earth hunting for nigger:; for really that is the whole, Ott pose of the Democratic , party They cap no mole run their -party 'Without nigger's than you could run a steam engine _without fuel.• [Laughter.] That Is' all there is of Democracy . ; and ,when you cannot ,raise nia gore enough for the market, then you: must go abroad fishing fur ; niggers through the, whole world. Axe-you going to buy Cuba for land for the landless? Whit is there? 'Yon, will find three quarters of a million of niggers, but you will net' find' any publici land; not one foot, not an inch, I alp ei ceedingly glad the question has came Let us now seu'iho are the friends :of this land measure; let us, vote, it thtuughi rind then, Withuitt War- tiatubling,'take up:the • tniggel - ' • •:"- • " • IMES say. time Is no riches for gentlemen who are really in favor of this measure. .Tell me, - sir, that you skulked behind this-Cuba bill? It would be as/very poor story to tell those landless men of whom the gentleman saks. - These lacklanders will say to you: " When we lacked land, and you had it in your pow er to give it to us, you went ` off fishing for niggers." Will that satisfy; them It may, and It may not. I feaf-that there will be trembling in,Some quarters •nvei this ques tion. 'lope the vote willbe .taken, and I warn every man who is a friend of this bill that-now is the.timet•' now or never. Give this - Hoirtestead bill the gO-by pow and :it dies, and every man Jcnows it. • Therefore it is idle to tell me that arty mkt is 'a friend of the Homestead bill whO-will not give it his' 'support now . Mr. President, I do not like these 'Aunts and threats about fearing one question or an other. lido, not very much fear anybody. - or 'anything., It would be every uncomfortable state of mind, I sho uld think. But, air,' am in Favor of this measure. The merits pf it, I suppose, are open to diacussion. I , think t would-be easy . to 'show \that there has, n t been at any time, a measure so fraugh benefit to the people all over the anintry, this great measure-=the-Homestead bill, If gentlemen see fit, they can pass it in telytnin. utes ; and then we can go hick' to the nigger bill, and take, that up, and make the best headway we can with that. You need not be teir minut e s. in passing the bill, if you are true to , Yourselves, true to'your constituents, and faithful to_those who have asked at the hands of every honest man that this measure should pass. I say, again, there is no reason' to skulk it now. • It is fairly up. It is in con;_ tract with the other measure; and no man can fail to see that he. who votes and prefers - one to the other, had. done it becahse 'his soul was steepeil in the nigger bill. Mr. Seward. Mr. President, lan not ae-- . customed to impugn the bravery or courage of anybody in the Senate, much less to avouch my own. I think every man. in the Senate his all the courage that is required, and I certairk, have got all that is necessary for - my own purposes. I think that there are some other qualitici.besides coullge thatare essential to legislators .and Senators, and amongst these are moral courage, fidelity to the interests of the constituency who send-us here; and if all the world should accuse me of having a lack of manliness,ot sticcumbirig to influences . averse from the interests of my people, I should still think it the part of wis dotn and of duty p) maintain Waste interests. . But, sir, if there is any question of (Tor age here, I would like to examine a little deeeper than the honorabb? Senator from Georgia has gone. Who is it that is afraid 7 The President of the United States, 'with' a party triumphant, a majority in both Houses of Congress, came into power two years ago, capable of dictating and of carrying through alt his necessary measures of administration. One half of the Presidential terra has expir ed ; one half eau administration has closed ; and what has happened? The President of the United States hasb en engaged in the effort to - extent Slav - - dto build up the. interests of Slavery ' eNnited States, a during all thatlime, and witli,Signal" failure. Two free States have already come. into‘•the Union, and a third has been kept out from the Union by the influence, the power,nd the patronage of the Federal Goverpme t. ThieCongress is going to its rest, and t e President is coming before the people; and just'in that crisis the President, instead of meeting the question npen - Which be is =held :responsible and his party is held responsible to the people; and upon which they are on trial, thrusts into the Senate of the United States, a demand, first, for 830,0W,000 to be taken outtof the public money, and put into his privSto purse, to be used as he shall think fit, and in his discretion; in buying for eign slave lands to•add to thisßepublic ; and he thinks, under the smoke of, that fire, that he shall escape the public reprobation which awaits_ him. Theo, upon another day, he comes into the Congress of the United States and demands that they shall confer on . hit& the war-making power, and authorize him at his discretion, and for whatever cause he shall think sufficient, to make war against all the free Spanish States on thisecontinent, who have never, in my humble judgement, com mitted any serious offentengainst the United States, except that of abolishing Slavery throughout. their dominions; and he ex- pects, by appealing to the cupidity of the American people, that, he `Will escape an in vestication upon the domestic policy of the Administration, which has been a total fail ure. _ Where-is the railroad to the Papific ocean ,which the President promised 'in his annual message, in both his annual messages, and iu his acceptance of :he nomination , for the of 'Ace of President I Gone, sunk, - sactifiCed, inlis attempt to fasten Sl*ery on the Territory of Kansas. .Where is his protec tion' to the manufacturing interest of the State of Pennsylvania?, Ills promise of re lief to the bankrupt ? Ills promise of a res... toration to commerce Y All failed. There is not one car \ dinal measure of the presiden tial policy which 'has "been carrried - out.= There remains none for him to propose; arid 'when now, the representativeS of the people of the free States demand this last Measure, the one which they have power to carryout, which is already half :accomplished by the vote of the House of Representatives, they are to be told that they are-cowards because they dare not meet . the miserable, pitiful, false, fabulous, pretended issue which the President of the United States has forced up on us. . . Sir, I am not afraid of the President's pol icy or scheme. I haie not mistaken it from the beginniig, and do not now. I told the Senate when it was announced, that .I took It not for a giant- in armor, but-for a ' windmill with sails; and GOd knows that:we have,let the windmill play as long as the breeie last ed. 'lt is & whole month sinee,youl bare had it here playing the .windmill Upon the preju- • dices of the people, and where pre yoti nowl Say we are ,afriad to meet it Have wo not met it at every stage? Hive we not debated it until we lutveleft but six 'days of the session for anything else t except the mere miserable amusement' of pliying upon the popular eredplity, attempting Ito make thenibelieve that the President is sincere in asking that we, shall put 4'40,000,000 in his pocket; and that he can, negotiate for the pur -1 chase of the Island of Cubs, which cannot be pnrehasedsif tbe money itileft in the Treasu ry of the United Stites, Where the _Constitu lion directs it shall be platgd • There remains on this issue, nothing' but this; the Senate of the United States is so constituted, no, politically so orgitnised by the votes of partici& that it has.* preponder ,stice of votes in favor.of the interests of the .slave States-; and thellouse of bee come, at:lait, in some detree, to be, a true exponent of the interests atid send , clients of the free States. The Senate is the propagandist of slave labor; the House of. Representstiveit is tbe,body which-maintabui end demands the interests, of freedom and, free labor. The Senate, propose to:: extend the interests, of the production of die _tropics by compulsory labor In the Island of . Cuba; 'and the House ,of • Representativea l propose to Increase' tbe product of tbe „ Itooperste dime by opealog thitpublio lauds ta,-ealtiva. don by Actual settlers, who Are witting to
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