stase ( pan )Vroprittors.
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Stlett Vottrg.,
THE PRESS.
T&o JORS G. SAXE'S POEM BEFORE. THE
W. T. FREE ACADEMY
The . following is the description ho gives of
the enginery of the Press
I -
Strange ie the sound when first the•ohtes begin,
Where human voices blend with Vulcan's din,
The click, the clank, the elengorand the' sound
tit rattling rollers in their rapid round.
The whizzing belt, the sharp metallic jar,
Like'clashing spears in fierce chivalric war;
The whispering birth of myriad flying leaves,
Thenaeattered far, as on the winged wind,.
The mortal nurture of the immortal mind.
The poet thus , spoke of
LIBRARIES: • .
t love vast libraries; yetthere is a doubt
if one be better with them or without,
Unless heuse them wisely, and -indeed
knows thehigh art of what and ho_w to read.
Atlearning's fonntain it is sweet to drink;
But %is a nobler privilege to think.
And oft, from books apart, the thinking mind •
May•make'the nectar which t . cannot find.
'Tie well to borrow frdm the good and great,
"Tie wise to learn, tie Gok like to create.
And thus he speaks of
1309E-NIAEING IS THE NINETEENTH .CENTURT:
Where be our authors now ? The noble band
Dwitsdles apace from off the famishedland;
Scarcea . round dozen, at the best, remain,
Of all that once among-the author train
Wrote books like seholars; nor esteemed it hard
Genius, like virtue, won its own reward!
0, gentle Invpro!=thou whom-every fp-ace
Of wit and learning gave the highest place
In the proud synod of the old regizie—
In ali thy dreatnieg, didst thou ever dream •
To see thy craft a mere mechanic art ?•:—.
A servile minion of the bookish m ar t.
When authorship should be the merest trade,2—
And man make books- as hats and bricks are
- - made?
Did'st ever dream to see the wondrous day,
When the vexed press shOuld spawn the vest
array -
• Of trashy tomes that on the public burst.
So fast - they print the " tenth edition' first? .
Thou hest not heard their', God forbid—it reeks
One's brains enough to see their brazen backs 1
Yet thimOvilt smile, I know, when thou . art t;?id
That with ',each book" the buyer, too, is " sold ;."
That soon the puffing art shell all be vein,
And sense and reason rule the town again-!
The follow l ing is his -concluding passage:
Fin: kin the light, the Daily... Press should . be, •
;,- -7-- enkrovrant's foe, the champion of the free;
sod constant to its. sacred trust,—
Etimlit its utterance, in its judgment just;
Wise in its teacliing; uncorrupt and strong '
Sri speed the - right andfso denounce the wrong?
Long l arayit be_e . re candor must confess
•Du Freedom's shores a weak and venal press ! ;
istellautous.
From Bal ion's initori al
OUT 0F710H7 4 / 4 ,. -
BY SYLVAIMS COiW, JR.
qt is no use, Maria, I've tried -evert"
where.'
But you are not going to give up Peter '
' Give up! How can I help. it Y Within
four days; re been to every book-bindery in
the city, and not a bit of work can :1 get.'
4 But have you tried anything else r
4 What else can I try ?'". 1
'Why I anything that you'ean do.
' Yes; I've tried other things. I liavp
been to moiLthan a dozen- of my friends anti
offered to help them if they would hire me' I j
And what did you mean to do foi.
them? -
`1 offered either to post their accritinc.i,
make out bills, or attend at the counter?
• ' Mrs. Stanivood smiled as her husband
thus spoke.
6 What makes you smile rhe asked.
To think that you should have imagined
that you would find work in suck places.—
But how is Mirk Leeds r
' Ire is worise off than I am.'
Row go y ;
Ile has nothing in his house to eat.'
It was a shudder that crept over the wife's
frame now.
Why do you tremble, wife;
• 'Because. when we shall have eaten our
breakfast to-morrow morning, we shall have
,nothing.,
What:!, cried Peter Stanwood, half star,
Ling from his chair. ' . Do you mean, that l"
'I Do.;
' But our flour I'
Altgane. I baked the last this after
,
noort'-
'But we have pork.', -
• You ate the last this noon. •
Then we must starve: groaned the strick
en umrt Witting across the room.
Peter. Stanwood was a ;hook binder, by
trade,, and , had now been . out of employment
over* month: Ile was one of those who
generally mdctdatei) to keep about - square
with•therwortil, and who consider .themselves
peculiarly fortunate if they keep out of debt.
lie was now thirty, years of age, end had been
married eight years. Efe bad tree child rea
to provide for besides himself and : wife, and
this,logetber with house sent, was a heavy
thought upon his purse even when if
, work wa
plenty,but now— re the was nothipg; '
-d hiaria,'said be,
.stooping and gazing at
tit Rife in the facc,' we must starve. Lhaire
sot a singlepenoy in the world., ./ .
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lawn latavdc. Yon :may: Sad 4aiaatiiiag
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orable.- Should you make a skilling a day,
slinuld not starve:
Bfit our Lous e rent!'
Trust tome for that. The landlord flail
not turn us out If you will engage to find
sortie work to do,t will see that sve have house
F I'll inairsi one more trial: - uttered Peter,
But"yoa must go prepared to do any-
Nap' I I I 1
anything reasonable Mrtria:! .
.IWhat dOi you call reasonable 1'
Why, anithing dec;ent.' . .
The tvife t'''lt almost inclined to laugh, but
ter w
the matter too serious for: that, and ii
1 1
cidua plissedorer her facA. She knew that
he wont look about for' some sort of Work
which would, not -lower him in the, social 'scale
as be Once,ortivice expressed 'it. However,
she knefr it I.' ould be of no use Ito say any
thing to bint.l now, and she let tilt; matter. '
- ; .1 .
pass. . 1 ' .
On the following morning, the last bit of
. , •
food in the •h'ouse was pat upon; the table.--
Stan Wood could hardly realize that he was
pennylessand without food: For years he
had been gay and . thoughtless and fortunate,
making the most of the preetit, forgetting
thepast• and leaving the future to take care
of itself. Yet the truth :wai nakad and 'clear
and when ho left the h.Onse- he said . ' sonie
thing must be done: •
No sootier had the husband gone than Mrs..
'Stanwood put on her bonnet and shawl.—
Her eldest child:was.a girl seven years old,
and her youn g est four. She asked her next
door neighbor i! she would take care of her
Children' 'until noon.. These , children were
known to be good and ertietond they Were ta;
ken cheerfully. Then Mrs. Stanwood' locked
up her house and went away. She . returned
at noon, bringing some dinner. for . her chit
dren, and then went hack . again. She got:
,
home in the eveoitt; i before•her husband, ear-.
rying a I envy basket upon herarm. • -
Well Peter,' she lasked, after her husband.
had entered and sat llown, ' what luck e
._-
.., , Notliiti g 'i nothing, :' he, groaned. -‘ I
made out to ' squeefre a dinhei out of an
bid chum, but.Lean't find. work.'
And where bare fou looked to daiP, '.
` et-:—..—everywhere. i I hare been to a hue
di•ed places, but it's ilie same in every place.
I It i - nothin g Sut:cineleternal no—no—:-no.P.-
,
1 P-a
.sick and tiredlt.' .
' ,:liut what sort of .: . I .work have you - offered
• -
to dO I'. . ' - -• ! ,1- - -
' Why, I even went so far aslo Offer' to tend
a !iquor store doWn town:
The wife smiled. r • /
Noir . What ahall we do I" uttered Peter,
spasmodically. 1. • 1
we'll eat supier:first, and then talk•
matter over.' .
Supper Have you got any
BUt yoU told me you had . noni.,.
Neither had weeny this mining, brit I
have been . after. work to (14 and found soMe..
You .1 You been after work l uttered the
hushand. in surprise. . •
But how ? there? what ?'
• Why, first I went to 1 4rtiSnow's. I knew,
her girl was sick, and I.] . :hoped she might
have work to be done. I , 'went to her and
told her my'story, and she "set me at work at
once doing her:washing., She gave me food
to bring home to.My children; arid paid me
three shilfinosmiten . T ..oth I
t roug
''What I You been out washing for our
butcher's:. Wife.!' 'said 4",eter, looking very
much sorpriSed.'
Of course I have, anditave thereby earn
ed enough to keep us in food thro, to'-fnioro:v,
at any rate ;so; to-morrow .you- may come
home to dinner;
'But. how abbut the rent r
I have s+ n Mr. Simps o n, ,told him just
hour vie were *Totted, end offered him my
wftte.Vas a pledge for the payment of our
rent ulithin two months, With the interest on
all arears up to that date. I told him I . did
the business because you were away hunting
up'work. •
Sogot your gold watch ?'
`,No--be wouldn't take it. _said •.if I
would become responsable • fur the pa} ment;
be would let it ret.' -? •
Then we've itot a root to cover us and
food for to morreiv. But what next r • c . ),
what, a Curse theNe hard times are 1'
~l)on't des air, Peter, fur we shall not
starve.. I've ot ',work enough to, keep. us
alive.'
- Wbat's that r
.
- • why Mr Slow has engaged me to carry
piekage.s, I t nskets, and ~o forth; to'
rich cwitometa. He his had to give . up one
of his laoses. • -
i ,
t'.What do You - meen,-Maria I' - .
• Jest what'l vty : When Mr. Snow came
home to dinnei, I was there, and I asked' him
if he had anfr articles wbieb be wi4ied to
,end around
:, o customers.. lie did not hap-
pen. to Want:just such work done, though he
had Meant to call upon some or tte idiom who
lounge about the'markets. lie protni4iii to
give me it'll the work he could, it , ?4l I snit to
e ;there. l early ln the morning. )
',l
. 4 Weil, 11110 is a pretty go.i Mg elk turn
ea.lbutcherist.My I t • You *o 't dq any such
thing: - , - ' ,
,;-.
- ' Anti why ; riot t, ' ' -
' Why tot i i Becatise;—tiecanre---' ' ...
. . '
.` soy' 4 0 s it .will lower me,' in th ' so
ciala seelet' ' - - _
I Tito% it is. more .Ibesersble to lie stilt sod
starve, ait**ll44o6 : : MOM, 4o
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•
l irn honest bread by honest work. I tall
xott, Peter if you cannot find-work I must.--
We should have been without bread to-night
'lad not I found work today. You know
that all kinds of light, agreeable busing are
sleised upon by
. those who have particular
friendspr relatives engaged in them. At
such a titne as this it is not for us to consider
what kind of work we will thins long as it is
honest. o,' give me the liberty upon my
own deserts, 'and. the independence to be
governed , by . my own convictions of right.' .
' But, my wife,' only think—you carrying
out butcher's stuff. Why I had sooner go
and do it myself.'
If you will go,''said his-wife with it smile
' I will itay at home and take care Of the chil
dren.'
It vithar3 for Peter Stanwood, but the
more he thought upon the matter the .more
he sitw the justice and right of the path into
'Which his'wife thus led bim. Before he went
to bed he pmraisedlthat he would go to the
butch 4'F, in the.
Ana Peter StKnwOod weut„ upon his new
business.'" Mr. Snow greeted him . warmll,.
praised his faithful wift, and then: sent him
off „with .t woi baskets, one to go to Mr. Smith's
and the other to Mrs. Dixars! And the new
carrier worked all the day,- when it came
night he had - earned just ninety4eren cents.
It had:been a day of 'trials to him, - but no.
One had sneered at him, and nil hi? a:tquain
tames whom he had Ina, had greeted him
the same Its u4ttat He Was far happier than
he was when he went home the night before
for now he .was independent.
On the next day lie earned over a dollar;
and thus lie,continucti,througli - the week-aid
'at the end 00.11;4 time :•he ' had fivo • doll us
and seventy live cents in his pocket, besides
having paid for all the food (or his family
rtave some few pieces of meat which Snow
'had given him.. 'Saturday evening he met
Mark Lekdi, another book binder who 11,1 d
been disc harge , l from work with hirnself.—
Leed* looked. Careworn and rusty. • • ,
• Flow goes it asked Peter. •
• Wu% risk me,' groaned Mark. My fam
ily are half starved.'
• But can.% you find anything to do
* Have you tried 1'
4 Everywhere ; but it's no t,se. I've pawn,
ed'all my Clothes sage these I've got on:—
I have been dovn tithe bindery to-daY, and
what do you suppose the old man offered
me ?, .
What was it 1 1 • . •
Why ; he offered to let me do his hand
carting I He had just turned off bis nigger
for drunken ness, and offered me the place.
The old cu r mudgeon ! By thepou era - , I'd
a great mind to pitch him into the cart, and
run him to the—'
,Mark mentioned the.name of an individ
ual who is supposed to dwell somewhere in a
region a little warmer than our tropics,.
' Well,' said Peter, If I had been in your
place I: should have taken up with the offer.'
Mark mentioned the name of that same in-
dividual again.
Why,' said Teter, have been doing the
Crork'of butcher's boy fora'whole week.
Mark was incredulous, but his companion .
poon convinced him, and then they seperated
one going hone happy and contented, and
the other going away from home to find some
sort of excitement irr. which to drown his
misery.
One day Deter had a .basket of provisions
to carry to Mt. \V-. It was his' form
er employer. He took .'it upon his arm and
and started off, and just as he was entering
the yard ofthe customer, he met Mr.
corning out.. •
',At; Stanwood, is that you r asked his old
employer, kindlj•' •
'Yes, sir.'
' What are you up to now
I'm a butcher's boy,
• A what 1'
' You see I've brought your . provisions for
you sir. • I
am a-regular butcher's boy.' .
• li o u lung have you been at work thus l'
• This is the tenth day, sir.' - -- .
.
' Ilut don't it come herd r ,
' Nothing comes hard so long 'as it is - hon
est, and will furnish my family with-bread.
• Andihow much can you tnake a day at .
this r . 1 .• . • b
• SometitoeS over a dollar, and sometime
not over fifty'i.tents. _
• Well, now look here, Stanwood, . there
have been no less than a dozen of my old
hands hanging about my counting room for
work. : They are stout, able men, and , yet
they lie still because 1 have no work for them
Last. Saturday 1 took pity on Leeds, and, .of
fered' him the job. to Ao my hand-carting.--
I told him 1 - would give him ' 01'
dollar end a quarter a day ; but he turned
up his nose and Joked me not to inkalt him !
And yet he owned that his family were 4uf
fering. ' But do r% come to my . place, to
morrow morning, add you shall have some
thing to do, if it is only to - hold your beech
up. I honor your manly independence.
. Petergrasped the old n an' altand with
. a
joyous, grateful grip and blessed _ bum ferv e nr
Iv. , . _ ,
That-night be gave Mr. Snovr notice that
he !neat quit, :and on the following morning
ha went,to the bindery. For" two days be
had buelittle to do, bet on the 'third day; it
tieitVy job came in, and Peter Stanwood, bad
steady
,ensployment. iwashippy-44,11"*$
happy I,liattiver, for be bad learned t iro
doitypi ;Sat, vbsts-willatiats to hid ; sod
second, how mtich resource for good he held
within his own energies.
Our simple picture has two portraits to its
moral. One is—no Man can .be lowered by
anylind of honest. labot, The second—
while you ate enjoying the fraits of the - pres
ent, forget not to provide for the future ; for
no man is so sure but that the may
come when he will need the scivander
ings of the past. • _
( Religion of Itevolutioniary Men;
DT VANitaTINIC.
I know—l sigh when I think of it, that
hitherto the French'people have been the least
religious of all the nations of Europe. Is tt
because the idea of God, which arises from
all the evidences of Nature, and from the
debths' of reflection, being the profoundest
and weightiest idea of which human intelli
gence is capable, and. the French mind being
the most rapid, but the mast superficial; the
lightest, and moat reflective of all European
races, this mind has•not the force and severity
necessary to carry far and long' the greate,,t
conception of the human r understanding! _
Is it because our governments have always
taken upon themselves to think for us, to be
lieve for us,. and pray for us? Is it' because
we are and have been a: military people,
soldier-nation, led by kings, heroes, ambi
tious men, 'from haulefield to battle-field.
making conquests, and never keeping them,
ravaging, darzlini, charming and corrupting
Europe; and bringing hbme the manner, vi
ces, bravery, lightngs, and impiety of
camp, to the fireside of the people?
I know not, but certain it is, that . the na
tion has an immense' progress to make in sei
riouktbought; if bhe wishes to remain tree.--
If we look ati the charneters, compared as re
gards religiotis sentiment, of the great nations
of Europe, Atnerica, even Asia, the advan
tage is not for us. :The great men of other
countries live and die looking at the specta
tors, or, at most, at posterity.
Open the history of America, the history of
France ; read the great lives, the great deaths
the great martyrdoms, the great words at the
hour when the ruling thought of life 'reveals
itself in the last words of the dying,and corn
Washington and Franklin, fought, 'suffered,
and ascendl arttl:` . ascended in their politic
al lifeolways in q name of God, for whom
they acted and 1 tae liberittor of America
died, confiding to God the liberty of the peo
ple and his own soul.. . -
Sidney, the young martyr of a patriotism,
guilty of 'nothing, 'but impatience, and who
died to expiate his country's-dream of liber
ty, said to his jailor l rejoice that I die
innocent toward the king, but a victim, .re
signed to the King on High,' to!whotit all my
life is due:
The republicans of Cromwell only sought
the way of God, even in -the blood of battles.
Their policies were their faith, their reign
prayer, their death a psalm.
the
bears,sees,
feels, that God was in alt the movements' of
these great people.
But cross the se*, traverse La Mancha,
cotne to our time, open our annals, and libteti
to the last words of the great political actors
of the dram i ls of our liberty. One would
think that qrod was eclipsed from the soul,
that his name was unknown in the langange.
History will have the air of an atheist, when .
she recounts to posterity these annihilations,
rather than deaths, of celebrated men in the
greatest year of France! The victims only
have a God; the tribunes and victors have
Look at Mirabeau on the bed of death.—
." Crown the with flowers," said he; ". in
toxiepte me' with perfumes. Let me die- at
the sound of delicious music"--.not a word
of God. or of his soul. Sensical philosopher,
he desired only sutiretne sensualism, a last
voluptnoucness in )1h agony. •
Contemplate Madani Roland, the strong
hearted woman of the revolution, on the cart
that conveyed her . to death, She looked con
teniptuously -on. the bespotted people. who
billed their prophets and svbils. Nut % glance
toward heaven. Omly one word- for the earth
she was yiitting—" - Oh, Liberty!"
Approach the dungeon doors of the . Gi
rondins. Their last night in a banbuet ; the
only hymn, the Marseillrise
Follow Camille Dermcinlins to his execu
tion. A cool and indecent pleasantry at; the
4tial, and a longifnprecation on the road to
the guilotine, werc the, two last thoughts of
thisdying man on' his way to the last tribu
nal.
Hear Danton on the platform of the scaf
fold, at the distance of a line from God, and
eternity.. "I have had a good - time of it; let
me go_ to sleep." Then tothe executioner
- Yon will show my head to the people; it is
worth the trouble!" His' faith annihilation
his last sigh; vanity. Behold the Frenchmen
of this latter age !
What must one think of the religions sew,
timent of a free people, whose great 4Ures
seem to march in procession to anoihilation,
and to whom that terrible minister—deatk—i.
itself-recalls neither the, threatening's or prons
ices of God !
The- republic of these Ten without God,
has been quickly been stranded. The liberty.
won withso much heroism and so tau& ge
nius, has not &Kind in, France conseienee to
shelter i‘ , a God to iSettipi it ; •a people to de.
fend it against. that atheism which has .been
filled glory. All ended':it a oo3dier "n4l
semi -.spew Parobiiesalt, tmilenha 6119
courtiers. An atheist republicansm cannot
be heroic. When you terrify it, it bends ;
when you would buy it,it sells itself. Who
would take any heed! the people,ungrateful
and God non-existent! So finish atheist rev
olutions ! , '
I ` 4 A Ilionsance; la Real We.
""
Lillpot," the tively correspondent of the
• isiog Sun Weekly Visitor, tells the follOw
ng ass tree story, and states that it occur-
red in Cincinnati :
About twenty years ago—Lthe story goes—
a man awl wife (Orpreminence, by fashiona
ble position,) who had been wedded long
enough to be blessed by a female babe, dis
covered that they did not love one another as,
they should, and therefore seperated forever.
The wife took the child and sought a home
in an Eastern e i ity, where . her parents resided,
m
resuming her aiden',name and . giving her
child the same, After* divorce had been
agreed upon andobtrsined by due course of
law, the lady married, a rd the little girl was
sent to a_ relative in the ,interior of York
State wberb 11E4 education was attended to,
and where_ she lived until a few months since.
The man has continued to reside in
i the
west, and being young when he sepensted
frem his Wife, of a hale constitution, and par
tieularly careful to remove from his counte
nance, as far as possible, all traces of time's
foot prints, has kept op .a very youthful ap
pearance, considering his age. Being af
fluent circumstances, 'of good address,' and
decidedly agreeable in all the little niceties
that combine, to stamp the gentleman of
fashionable life, he was always regarded as a
desirable prize, by designing mamas. Nev
ertheless he had escaped all their snares, to
the great annoyance of pretty girls and charm
ing widows, who really thought it was the
,duty of Mr. to get married, It might
have been a settled aversion to the sex---:or it
might be attributed .to his lesson—yet, a fact
it was, that he did not marry.
But nut to be prolix, we'll cut off some of'
he little unimportant items, and 'proceed to
he story. In last June -a Miss J.—arrived
hero froM the east on a visit to a relative,
who had been a resident-of the Queen City
,
but a few months ago.. The second week of
her sojourn threw her in company with, the
grass widower of twenty years standing, who
showed by his attentissis that he was .more
than usually impressed by _ the charming
stranger. Every evening found him at her
side, and she was thought not to be entirely
insensible to his charms of person and mind.
A month glided awayta month Of courtship
which . was carefully noted and meaningly
winked at by her relative: -At length her
hand was asked in mariiage, `and the matter.
referred to her connection:•
He seemed to favor :the project, and ap
pointed an interview . foe the trio, the same
evening, they met in the parlor,when a more
formal "solicitation for her hand' was made,
ar.d while the ardent suitor was waiting with
breathless anxiety for the answer that was . to
seal his fate, the young bury was led forward
and presented to berm/Jr/father lover.
It is needless to add that both were astoun
ded ; however, it has resulted in good, the
father has settled a liberal fortune upon. the
daughter, and ere this, both are in Paris,
preparatory to making their tour of Europe.
This romance of every day life, is but anoth
er instance of truth often times being stranger
than fiction.
From the'PittAlatirg Gazette.
Political Tricks at Harrisburg.
When we saw the leading Know-Nothings
of the State in attendance upon the Republi
can State- Convention and witnessed their
efforts to force Peter Martin, the nominee - of
the Order, upon usns ofir_andidate for Canal
Commis.sioner, we became aware of the ina
bility of the Know-Nothing party to carry
the State.. Notwithstanding: the - boast of
John Williamson that it numbered 220,000
voters, and the. more .modest claim of the
Pittshtirg :Toured that it could muster 200,
000.andcould sweep the State, and the still
more modest : declaration of Gov. Johnson that
it enrolled 180,000 it tvecame apparent at that
Convention, to attentives, that they' had no
hope of carrying" the . .51ate without other
aid: Subsequent events have confirmed this
view: and eversince the'nomination of Pass
more Williamson the main effort of the
Rnow-Nothing leaders have been directed
towards effecting a fusion with the Whigs
,and Republicans, the nominal . reason being
their desire to rebuke the Administration for
the Nebraska villainy, while the real reason
consisted in their anxiety to escape froth show
ing theis weakness inithe State. With Pe
ter Martin as their candidate they very well
knew that they could not poll as manrsoes ,
as they did for Bal last year; and
,to go
heroic the world with a reduced vote would
but demonstrate that it was a dying party,
from which the prestige of power was gone.
They must escape from thisbr: become posy.
alms; hence 'tilerr great eagerness' for 'fit
sion. f.,
Moro than aweolf,ago word came to this
city frorri Mrrishurg that therit was to 1,4)
meeting of the Wbig, K. 141. 'and itCpabliCare
State Coarnitteea la that place on 'l7llunitiOY
the 27th of Septeinher, to,,ara uge fusion,
if poialible. There was not, : at that ti!oe, to
hosiors. any Reilflicien CO*Uritteiiti osigt; •
ante, bat - the movers schema douht.
lois had 01110U12104 on their *ray to got ON
• . • •
cif dp pieta gill*, sad bo rib se • untanot
too late for any exposure dabgetout to ihern
In this they succeeded.
On Tuesday last Judge Jessitp arrive-41 at .
Harrisburg. He was authorized to **lnt
a Republican State Committee. He didl so,
and sent a list of the Committee to the Thil-
adelphia papers on Wednseday morning rith
a notice at the bottom thskt the cmusOttee
would meet at Herr's Hotel in Harrisburg, oa
Thursday night, the 27th, at,7 o'clock. 77 } By
whose authority it was thus called to meet
does not appear. It is certain that the ch►air
man Judge Wilmot, did not call it; andi,the
gentleman who appointed had no further imw
or over it.
No notice was given to the members cc the
committee, generally, beyond_the telegraphic
announcement in the Philadelphia pilpers
That announcement was' not sent to any pa
pers out of Philadelphia; and it 'seems a lath-
er strange proceeding to call to gather a Com
mittee., scattered all over 'the State, ai 96
hours warning, by a mere telegraph noti:oe in
the Philadelphia daily press. I
1 -
Anticipating some such trick, lut_unarare
of the real character of the. Republican gam
mittee, two gentlemen ?f this city -conflicted
with. the Republican party, went to H4rrts
burg on Wednesday night. Their supyriie at
seeing the published list of the Committie in
the Philadelphia papers may well be imagined.
They expected a concealed scheme to betray
the party ; but were nolt prepared to see it
made;as it was transparent enough tor the
most weak-eyed observer.!
During Thursday, the intriguers we re busy
in devising the plans to carry out their - pur
pose, betraying enough, now and then; te in.
dicate its general outline. Before night it
was apparent they intended to force off all
three of the candidates then in the field, and
unite upon a new man. Their new min was
eitherj Judge Jessup or Thotnas Nicholson.. it
seemed to matter but little whicie ' - -
00hursday night the three Conimittees
rpet 7 the Whig Committee at Coverly's, the
other at Herr's. At- the assembling of the -
Republican Committee, nine members 'were
prei,ent, Messrs. Darsie, Mellvain, and Car
mault - being the only Republican out of that
number. This was less than a qiiorum, and
therefore incompetentto transact buisness;
but the majority had etermined on its course,
i
beforehand; and that -as to carry through
their plan without r Bard, to authority or
precedent.: Mr., Darsie then objected to_ the
participancy in the action of the counnittee
of men who were not members of the Repuis
can party.
, I This led to a general explana
tion of the political whereabouts of the gen
tlemen present. Mr. -, - -Benedict admitted
ORt he was a member 'of the "Ainerican"
order. Mr. Covode did the same, and that
he was also on the " American" Committee.
Mr. Nicholson defined himself to be an old
line, anti-slavery Whig who sympathized with
Know-Nothingism, but did not-deny being .a
member of the Order. Mr. Iredell ,said he
was an old line Whig, opposed to the Repub
lican movement because it was in the wrong
hands. Mr. Bradegam was tried, end betook
himself to bed. , Mr. Sellers, we believe, bad
,
not defined his position; but. his connection
with the Order is not denied. At a:later-pe
riod of the evening Mr. Stevens.; of Lancaster,
and Mr. Thomas, of Philadelphia, cattle into
the meeting, increasing the total to eleven—
still lesathan a quorum. ::
t
After some tittle spent in discussion, -the
other committees appointed- sub-gemsta hikes
of confer - epee, requesting the Republican corn,
rnittee to do the - same. The requett was
complied with. The " American" Sub-corn-j
ittee consisted of Simon Cameron, 1...mui1, 1
Todd and David Williams; the Whig. °P.A.
K. McClure, James Fox and Dr. R. 11.. Reed ;
and the - Republican of Messrs. Carmaiilt, Ire
dell and Mellvaine. These sub-committees
met together, and spent ,the night until l 2 0'•
clock, without arriving at any definite - con;
elusion. The Whig general committee then
adopted a resolution, inviting the other com
mittees to meet with them, in mass, to aseer
tainl if it was possible to agree upon .a. new
wan, and if so, to adopt him as the candidate
of the three parties conditioned upon the
withdrawal of the other candidates; if they
did not withdraw, then each party should be at
liberty-to sustain its own candidate.
.- -
This invitation was accepted, and alter,
midnight the three committees met 1 together
at Coverley's. After organization Mr. Letnn
el Todd, opened the ball in behalf of the
"Americans." • lie admitted that the" Ameri.: -
can" party was unable of itself, to carry , the
State. It was a petty, he 'said, devoted) to
principle*, and not, to men; but its auziety
was so great to rebuke the Nebraska „fraud
i
and punish its authors, that t was grilling to
forego all else-and unite with the oiher enti=
,Nebraslea . parties of , the State.; (Reducing
this reasoning to its logkalteonclusion c it - fol
lows that _ the " American" party, being a
party devotoid teeprinciples:and got - ~to: rain,
is willing to forego its principle" far the slake
of a man.: but- the main .00ticlusien to,isti
drawn from bikargumentall9n . was, Aist ,tbe
hag unable of itself , to eleat. a men, it eras* .
the -belp of the ether „pieties :to -accomplish
that- rep elt,) nit Whig party, he,laida4,,had:
peculiar measures to_Thieb it sou. ; pledged,;
and so lied- the Republican ; bat, ha_ hoped :
thai Amy , woulil_kreico4taillistinetive glees,
urea asnkunite with the "Atnerienne," Ivan
the alight iasneof reeletniatt to the Nebraska .
Mina.' cify. Teddfaciat to fospiiii why ibi s
midi ,to rajah th*Psr,i7 4441 1 v' tke
ftetiniebi lilt aia:iot' isiie `lts ippwilkoe
kin yea,
.116iivit walla beW boon not u*
.4.-- ie ,11 C.! I -f
trot. 12, Sandia 45
, .
pertinent as,now, and when hiS party : u
with thegreat Democratic, Nebraska'
of the Statei in the atipport of Mr. It
Canal Cominissio . net, who , was 4,11 - -
friend of the Nebraska tilt Some, eetilantatits
of this newly found seal would not be**
even yet. ' ~;:.•• a
. , •- ' -
AfterseMe further discussion, propraittort
ills made to go into the noudisationlef4,ll •
new candidate, but before this •was id titliA, - .
two members of the Whig committee - 'A
three Of iba Reiublican committee p r o's 4 ..
against - this joint meeting and refused toliks:
part in it. The proposition to nomirtawak
adopted, end then each comail .. '' l, ,.'
to - ballot -separtely. The Whig iOut , . Utter .,_,:::„,.
united upon Thomas .-LE. - Cochran, of, Tork,_. - -
and. adhered to him for five ballots; ill - K.,-,-,.. -
commitfee'presented first the name . -o.„ ~V.ita•
Liam li. Anderson, of Perry, (formely dein: - - ,- -. 1 :
ocratic member ,of the State Senate) - for horn'
- they *voted seve ral , times, 'abandeni him =.
for H. M. Floyd, iof Blair, and finally fo WM. .'
Jessup, but always taking to care to - vo 'for no
one but a Know-Nothing; : 1 the-Bip : limn
i c om m ittee Noted - pretty generally 'far ndge •
1•
Sesaup, changing once or twice`to i!I.: Ider
cur, of Bradford. , - --
~ - t
,=
During theeie ballotings; when ' the
tion of Judgeo r Jessup was pressed -it
jected, in the joint meeting, that "the
was a member of the Order. Mr. Limns
of Carlisle, who was the spokesmen
K.N. committee, and is understood to
the head of the Order, laid
.his hand it
.g l ias
heart, and with all the fervency- :ima '
4
'pledged his word and honor as a ' ge .
: aria
that Judge Jessup was not a menthe of-the
Order, so far iis he knew. A mete ef ilia'
Whig commi t tee itimediately le ft th 'mom,
waited upon the Judge, put'the glues ion to
him direct, and received the frank
: crime
that he was si member I So , monk r it'-
l
Todd's' word 1 honor: - . ' • 2- 4:-
Union, up o
Judge ; Tossup was fii rid to
be impossible both *awe of this" ve.lop.'
- meat and thecoursipersued in the, politt-
merit Of the &publican Committee t - 'lAbout •
2 o'clOck.on Friday morning, an onilaught
was made on the Whig Citritnittei in be*,.
of thanes Nicholson. Ho I friends'i ir(-tfint
committee averred that be was netll , l.Fm l ow-
Nothing : and although hiii refused to itiend
up before them and say so lintselfi tire - or
- three of i his person al acqtiaintancits f under- -
took to grouch - for him:- ThskoMnia4teet,ll-
nally was. brought over to him ; the -Minh-
lican Committee followed (of course,Y,and-as
soon as the fact was cornmunicated to'', the K. .
N. Committee, Mr. Tood came in, and aim-
ming a very innocent appearance, said *hit
the Anlrie 4 a pi . rty; 9 s4 o * - 111 . 8 ,04, 0 14 11- __. ;-....
sing spirit, its wi ll ingness to,forego'ita OWNI::,7: - ::
-hilted principles, and proznOte union- or'-. di' -- . '.
rebuke of the Nebraska fraud, laid Ode ail
its preferences and voted;-for Thomas riehit:•:
son 1-Ba h t as if all of thiti
! j us t. ha d not boils
-
agreed upon_ during the previous a ft ernorm, _
and they waiting for it, wearily unlit 3 ieciOk.
On Friday Morning !. , ' - - ,
Thus was the.trick successfully Poked Oil
and this done, measures were at once AliFoa '
toforce the ,candidates alremly 7 in theifielitto
withdraw. Peter Martin being on the ground,
yielded at once, and 'Mount. lienderiUn aid
Williamson. Were to he oliteljr but, deterinia
edly urged to do the liain .
It is due to Messrs. Dars Carl: unit and -
Thomas to my' that they ;p tested against
the of the &publican Committeis," de
nied its authority t 4 select 'anew mai Whihs
Mr. Williainsea waS yet_ before the !idiot)* -
and refused to takelany par(in tliebidotings.
They.contended, and very ;properly, thatlins
'duty of the Republian_ COmmittee, looking
io the purpose of its appointment, was? to pro
mote the eleCtiott of m t . Williamson instead of
defeating it
.; and therefOre they Tiati 4l . l 4r
hands of Ole whole affair leaving t6the K . i l ansr
Nothing i nterlopers on the' committee `slur
ungrateful task assigned them;
That Ore; honest, worthy;.: usterpetted , "4-
diVidual Simon Cameron; was a leading 0=
lit in the # 5
noar Nothing COtOnittee: . iintleral
Eris hand was manifest at - every step lin :dm.
whole business, and his chuckling after -it
war all over indicated by irhg a deeir inter;
est he 'took in it. Those who choose May co.
operate with him; we slain oar ' • . i ,
Anemic* or Mr heard of rooleinft '
man who went jogging akmg the_ niut
came to a turnpike: . ! 1 ' tthiskia to prtyi..-
Pay, Sir, for what 1" 'naked thol the -turnpike
man. Why for my bone tolie ,f
horse, sir! whit horse!' = Here no h'pri**.;
"!§to Horeel God bleu me, said be.
lookingllown between his legal, isthOught . 4
was on horseback." tord we* lone
of the most absent minded atrinithink ever
'net in society. - One day he Metnse , ' l l irt• the :I
street, and invited me t O
with ane t 0 .71 12 Y - 4
1 . 114 ; 1 0
~.Aii*43 . l - 4
meet. ou." But -sulttrittrut th e te mpted
he held out to , rne, - Antriaid - -I , l**- - ertN*l
to meet hint: - elsewhere.
MMtinloo4e pet. hie through ii,r l 3s l
mutteturi,, o : l lderriNmint
little•Wg; ,trwalk with.- him* fai , ; :,* -
the end of street."Wiln,AOHNlfd
getba,.vir--7-L-Pluiood• "That s' .
lain; excliimid - hd, Who lel* 'ttin 144'44
to *Apennine ; and give are : no. teatt."! _ll4
-very, nearly menet j the itinvitY on* iht die
tarlpit. He was rektingonnediaiely.'ittider
I me, apparentiy very attentinr,ithitr'enihtidy,
he tooknp his inn ite4t - he4 di'
!time of comMorrequut tripping*tOip.,444
withitimied out itralow but yr - Atulibkk,_,
Whimper, ch a se ,
` ma
hags
1 TOf-,
be at