Tag LARGEST CITLCULIIIOI 1011.13Miti
E. B. CH.M'A; ! L B. McCOLLUltiEorroas
ALVIN Woliblpshi!tr.
3loutrese, Intirsday, Dec. 90, I$U.
iltirlf our subscribers do not bring us
Route wood we will bore-revenge: We wilt
deprive them of reading the Democrat at
least for one week. We can't set type with
cold fingers,--ruir bake hoe-cake on Cold
jar We w.ould (greet the attention of on
reitiers teethe AdverOsernint•of T. B. Piriza,
son, in another cuknsugl'obrister of Dickens'
Work!. Die sen elleellent opportunity to
rs,oqre...n complete set of Dicke& Works.
targbDnE 4000 have alreaSy been ex
pen 414 by thisitnew Nothing Congress, and
strOrgaliisittion'hu vet !Am effected. The
e't purse is Wide and deep,'and whs.t
otriAllese orthies how they spend their
i! - Mr.Grow continues to vote for Mr.,
Bankt‘:: - The correspondent of , the Baltimore
Snit says there is some talk of finary drop-,
p_l4:Banks and taking up Mr. GrOW." With-
out a part of Mr. fuller's strength no one
Can 'be elected, and . we knoll! Of no reason
Why they wouhliocaier tote fer Mr. Grow
thimMr.l3o4 though such reasons may
oast We 'think this Congress engaged
as thei:inost harmless occupation It can be
far the C0UD1.7,--find AM decidedly in , favor
of their balloting for. Speaker till next Aug--
tat, ,tt:ld then adjourning With Out one. It is
clear' itis only . a Know Nothing body,
qualm:ding among thereselVes whether their
Other shall be national or sectional. .
TUE BOOK.
Gooier is here fOihnuarT, looking as nat
.
mai as ever, only a little more so. It- con-,
tains forty 7 three engravings, three , of which
:are steel, twelve full page plates, one Lith
cirapb, printed in blue and gold, one hun
dred•pages and sixty-six articles: Any per
son finding us \ $3 1 50 will receive the Demo
crat 'and Book for one year. ~
One copy one year, $2. Two -copies one
year, $5. Three copies one year, $6. Five
copies one year, and an extra copy to the per
son sending the club, making six copies, $lO.
Eight copies one year, and an extra copy to
the person sending lie club, making uine
copies , $l5. Eleven copies one year, and an
extra copy to the person sending the club,
making twelve copies, $2O. ,
Godey'a Lady's Book, and Harper's Maga
zine, both oneyear for $4.50. -
Godey's Lady's BOok and Arthur's ' home
Magazine, both one year for $3.40.
Gas Works.
We spent a very pleasant hour, last Satur
day evening, at the hospitable 'residence of
our excellent townsman„ s HESRI f Dar:vast;
examining a Gas apparatus which he
has fitted up the past season. The apparat
tukiswery simple, though of course somewhat
en'the \ flan of the City Gm works. The Gas
is generated from the oil of resin, A retort
kik* in a sort of stare, which is heated
red beat with coal. Into this retort the
main is conducted slowly by a tube ; and the
simple element of the beat decoiiiposes and
generates the Gas froruthe oil. From the
retort it is forced by .a pipe through consec-
Salve cleansing baths it reaches the gas
winter, a large tub inverted in' water. As
the Gas is genemted the grisotneter,rises till
it is filled. A pipe from this connects with
the house underground, through which the
Gas is forced by the iveighfmnf the gasometer,
arid. is thug received in the burners. It can,
of come, be conducted to any part ortbe
- house, aid made to supply as many burners
;
may, be desired. Tao gallons.. of oil, and
If a bushel of coal, Mr. Drinker informs us;
make sufficient as for hom ten , days to two
weeks bunting. The oil costs eighteen pence
per gallon. It will thus be seen that. the
- light is much cheaper than fluid, oil, or can
dies, in as ordinary family. Besides, it is
much more brilliant, safe and -comfortable in
eery respect. One burnei will light a room
''more brilliantly than a dozen cand!es. In
deed, in thicresped, the Gas\ generated by
this apparatus is far superior to the city Gas.
It Intros with a clear, beautiful' flame, com
pletely illatninating a room of anything like
Ordinary sire. : : The cost of the apparatus is
'PAO, exclusive of putting it up drc. Very
little skill is requisite in Making the, Gas.—
Fitan two to three hours : fill the gaiiome
tett . seady!or.use.
,After: spending.. as • hear:int:Very pleasant
ohat,by thhs very plearant light, we ritirn 7
ed _home f a vell-fit mood to see the visa
tie Aarkness made more visable" by fluid-
limp light. If .our Ebel suits do not cost us
oar house, the next $B5O we get we mean to
aspead for tl4§ Gas light. . -
The apparatus is manufactured by &Coals
& 1 . 3 m, 374 Broadway, -N.Y. •
Tha,atisaggie at Washington. -
We spoke last week of tie position Mr.
Banks a>: present occupies as a prominent pol-
iticisa 7 —the chosen standard bearer of the
apposition to the Democratic party in Pon-.
ess t nith an inthnstiori that we should' &peat
of 140,0 t ,earoe length in the present . - issue
tor, japet. We do , so bireause his position
exactly illustrates the Character 'of a large
class of paliticians which tiwr, turbulence of
lio,pol4alWatiirs has thrown upon 'the
fassa waits the last 'eighteen months; aid'
40,,*,, for ;his splasurriat, 'Would liaia
Psoied **it PAYeI in comp arative
:Orie-'1441-.114"f have mown
tkat i wild tiniin:Oace, nor WOUI4, thE
old ofliieratui***4olll lave ever'
baaaasaseicos of theliloss, Asill bubble
siounti,wpwasti is*Ei - -ibe
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ar,l)oll4risliquesik:itihisvtaisr of public
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Plott4 7 nature 4444 :gleir to 4 1 "; 1 4*
.-men Soon lira autthair lirief, ''Bniiisht,
ups the gargt that*, #2lO Oa asitOrrp
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ineetnetosttythethanonvOte#o4o4P"
niar events, rather than by the 'foree:of the
genius mammary to spatial* the part they are
called .to play - , light& than the deiant& amid .
"whiei they . *nova,- they ~44 a nce :avihtla tri4n
the,topmost *eta, then soon are kipt:.er sight,.
tka snow,thske on thwriier:".
Mr:Sanks took seat - in
growl as a friend and supporter of the Nation
al administration, Like all men of his tem
perament hp is zeaknts in whatever cause be
embarks; so he Ares a zealous Deimos's, one
Of the strictest of the sectifor,thotigh billing
from Mas:sachusetts, he went Abe fnll length of
the most radical 'free trade doctrines. A rad
ealons, uncompromising. Detnocrat was
4/is ME.t.Banint 019 rant ago, Anil .as such
be took his seat in ..Congress; for recollect
the Democracy were7evers-where triumphant
in 1.852,—it was the grent party of thecoun- .
_try, and then wai'ldr. I;4 l as iDatocrat
-course!
' Banks represen tai a 'Distri4, that had
always given evidence of strong aitatehment
to the doctrines of slavery restrictlon„ hence
when it was proposed to repeal thil Missouri
Compromise he was found in Apposition,
though by .no means a leader. Tie excite
ment went on, the Whig party Wes in the
last stages Of decomposition, and' the fungni:
of Know Nothingism nasspringi up from
the debts Of its remains. Mr. Batiks saw the
Democratie party being swept do *n like the
graiih - Of the field befoie the scythe il in every
northern state. His seat in CCingress he
must retain, and seeking out the dens where
congregated the mysterioiis power' l that was
so like the angel of. Death in its :visitations
upon the Democratic party, tirithOLt princi-
ple, either moral or political to stvitain
he raised his band to Heaven and took upon
his soul the awful oath of a Know,. Nothing.
With the largest professions of Anti Nebraska
semi, for the public ear, and.the 'mystic signs
and grips for private use, be was ‘riiturned.' : to
the praent Congresa, by. an overpowering
vote. And now ecimmences it• chapter in
his history that shows the weak and dangeri.
ous charaetei of the man in a light as clear
and strong as the sun' at noon tide.. It
be recollected that'all the elections in . the
northern states, local had 'general,. tilt some
time'last spring, were'swcpt.by the invisible
power of tht Order. 41 Sam" was everywhere
victorious, end his leading spirits everywhere
rejoicing inthe expectation and certain pros
pect of raising up a "great American party
that should overshatow every other, as the
'clouds overshadow the earth with -a tempest.
And where was* Mr. Banks in this hour of
trial I Was he spending his. precious time
and energies in battling the "Slave Power,"
When he saw a fair prospectof uniting the
north and south as a unit; on '}the Know
Nothing platform, by virtue of its . third de
._
iree, ignoring the Slavery, question as unfit
for the formation of 'political parties upon
Fartherest from it possible. He ietunied. to
Congress last wititer, and from' his seat in
that body sett forth to the country an exposi
tion of the position of hid party on the ques
tion of Slavery. He declared that it did not
and could not enter into i Consideration with
the Order. They regarded the Cluestion with
indifTerenc.., and asorie unfit to be agitated
by a political party. He inveighed against
sectionalism,"and sectional, parti&., and de
clared that" Saga" would put an 'end t alt
such traitors to their country as those, engag
ed in theslavery controversy on both sides
were. " Sam" was for the whole country.
ihe Union as it is, and its institutions as they
are. The American Organ, establighed by
the Ord,erit. Washington, and one of the
most pro.-slatery of all the pro-Slavery patios
in the District, went into ecstacies Over this
speech of Mr, , Banks, declare usetts
sound, andliiumphantly exclaimed,j--
" We_inean to drive Sewardisni,
alias Ab
olitionism, from the Anterikian camp, and
createfor the future an unadulterated and
patriotic Union preserving - American par
ty."
Here then we find Mr. Banks only one
year ago, in Congress, speaking to the coun
try sentiments the most gratifying to the or
gans of the Slave power, ignoring the guess
tien of slavery and placing Know Nothing
ism in the fore ground as the great question
of the day, and -as a power the mission of
which,smong other things, was to " crush
. -
out" the traitors ? north and South, who were
disturbing the country: with slavery agitation.
The National l Era, whose soundness in
the and-slavery cause will - not be questionc-d
anywhere, held.tile following language in ref
erence to this speech in its issue of Dec. 28th_
following. .It .says - ;--- • _ -
`'The speech cifllr. Banks low ant yot. lace.
reported, hut it is proper to say that itgave
great dissatisfaction to those of our Anti-Sla-
very _friends who hare suffered no obligation
to come between them and the Anti-Slatry
cause. Folloning• Mr. Benton's speech,,.he
took no notice of its position, further than to
speak a good word for the character of the
emigrants sent' out by the Eastern Emigration
Society; andOike the Order to whiCh he be
longs, he overlooked in Soto the question of
Slavery-,. Never could he have been re•elect
ed to Congress, hut, in -virtue of the Anti-
Striven sentiment; and be must hare Seen it
ctaimod throngout his State, that the Anti-
Nebraska feeling, conjoined with disgust at
the old parties, produced the singular -revolu
tion" in, that State. And yekaot a word had"
be to say on this aspect of,the change—not
word of the indignation of People at the Ne
braska entrage-4 the rebuke they designed
to administer to the Administration, for' its
Complicity in that °unapt No-Silvery Ana,
Aini-Shrrery were treated* insignificant
streetions, and the whole 'lnuit was charged ,
npon the fixed rewire of the Amide a 114911-
Amens to escape front the thraldom of this'
'lhtonef Power!
The' iffaithe sum -sod asisbuitee (of- the
speech of Mr. Batiks,
.as 'Sported to ins Ipy
those vrho hearl -and as appearstresa l
the iibiltnieta giQn Oc it, in " die ',,papira a
speech, it was remark:4.'Bo' Nadonsi, 4 . is
11,6 cant idilleeology of 'AS 'day, as i'to . -hiVA
adapted to the nasof _grow sow:vim
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1 1 4157 iii l l lololl tq rdl the FP. ei "Ai* COO',
tra Stith itceeem, saaeltiaom the- 4400
of the government for a long time to eon*,
then-he waseosatiosal;ia daalrogsage of
Isetspied isAbe
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"Mei
Know Nothings began to traae,—the tide of
their affaiis to run low, till it teeny struck
"the Trupeian;rock" at Philadelphia last
--. 4 " went !drums.. Profit hi tort - b.
ern fragilents was constructed the Republi.!
moveinenti en - the sole issue of Slavery,
wiiichlfr l :Banks. bad - declared unlit for a
party issue but six months before. And now
we find our hero in his third act—taking his
third soriserset jos eightan asestitsl The Re-,
publican party - bade fair to sweep every north
ern State, and of coarse Mr. Banks must be
long to the etrongest party ! He became a
Republicans .without .however, making any
pubfii renunciation of Knew Nothineistn
-takes hisseat in-the present Congress and as
pires to the Speakership of that body. _
With Mr. Banks brief, inconsistent polit- .
Ica! history before 'hem, .we cannot, see bow
any party can respect his manhood or give
him its confidence saw leader. His own rec
ord shows him to be one of that class of men
whose life-objeot is political power and the
spoilt of office, reckless of the means of their
attainment.: Utterly destitute of fixed prin
ciples, he tritns his sails for every, varying
breeze of popular favor or commotion. When
the Democrats were triumphant be was a
Democrat, wh en Know Nothingism swept it
down hi was a Know Nothing, pure and un
adulterated ; lead when Republicaniim bade
fair to prostrate„ther Know NOthings, then
was-he a Republican. IL was either a Know .
Nothing from principle, or he is the worst
kind of a demagogue,—a man who did not
hesitate to swear allegiance to doctrines and
to a patty, which he did not mean to keep.
And, if a Know Nothing from prirteipte,his
prdmions of universal freedom rest on a
shallow foundation indeed. Nis freedom
means, freedom for the negro, and slavery, in
conscience as well ae body, for millions of
his own race'and color!
Bnt we are t01d,." be has now thrown
Know Nothingiim to the winds." If this be
true, it but weakens his claims to public con
fidence as a public man, by showing; that he
is too fickle, and too loosely grounded in
principle, to be trusted in any responsible po
sition. Torn hint which side tip we may,end
he is either a Chattering, changing dema
gogue, or his principles are totally repugnant
to the institutions of the country. He has
advocated the principles, and co-operated in
the organizations of three distinct and oppo
sing political parties in the•short space of
two years, We submit to any candid mind,
that such exhibitions of truckulence to the
powers that be,--of changeful uncertain char—
acter, should condem the pretentions of any
man . to public' favor for responsible public
places. It shows him to be a man utterly'
regardless of the- means by which he obtains
power. : Instead of relying upon the solid
and intrinsic merits of his principles, and of
his own character a's a man of stable intellect
and courage, be seems one of the most des
and most to be dreaded of all politi
cians, whOse ideas of statemanship are meas
ured by that low cunning, that acqUires pub
lic position by a facility in accommodating
itself to the popular commotions of the hour:
Such men always talk loudly of humanity,
philantln'opy, moral reform, patriotism, and
the good of the people. They are self -sacri
ficing men ; they take office because. the' Pres
cut exigerief demands their services, and al
ways have tin "'exigency" happen just at the
time for a re-election. Whenever a distui
'lance in politics occurs, they are "betwixt
and between" the parties till they see which
is likely to be stongest. •Theo they are inva
riably on the strong side, though to be so
may require them to Change three times a
year! And then when they bhange h is
from no selfish motive. 0, no. • They leave
their old assecintions and former principles
with - regret, - but the'gTeat cause of humanity
requires the sacrifice, and,generous souls,they
lay themitelves a bleeding sacrifice upon the
•altar of their country! .
The tidy of the reign of these small great
men is nearly at an end. The sikssion Of last
winter put an end to them in the Legislatute
of this State; and we most confidently belieVe
that the present Session of Congress will put
an end to them in the nation. - -
BROOKLYN, Dec. 18, 18r.
Mcisrs. Chase (Li- McCollum :—W)U yon
please correct the error which occurred in
the Obituary notice of Miss Itswirr, as pub
lished in your per -of last week. The mis
-
take was . this :—the word " Distracted" was
publi4hed in the place of,the word "Distinct,"
in the copy, which altered the meaning of
the whole paragraph.
- -7.
.r , .Fort TIM DEMOCRAT.
.. I 1111141,111 Ct •of a Puppy.
- B. ii.Frarjer, of the Montrose Republican,
hes ai, last found his true level. - It seems by
the latit issue of that chaste and delightful
1.1 ,
!bee that he has been watching the ladies'
fa ingales as they pass his black hide on
Tu npike street,: until finally his puripy natant(
beesme rampant, when but he trots, fall tilt,
after's "fashionable lady," and runs his nose
into her petticoats, in • "pencil of a &se,"
according,to his official report of the adven- 1
tare. No one ever doubted his instinctive,
pappyittri, or his capability of performing just
such a feat, or Ida singular sagacity in pub
bushing
a program). of the performance in his
paper. That it his true level: But in his
official report of the unique affair (see last
Republican) he failed to state whether . it 'was
little freddy or some outsider that choked
him off from his "pursuit ors bone!" &ally
the .'"fashionable ladies of M ontrose" (see - last
Beptibliesn,) ought ' to present the little puppy
with Wee kind cif a tnedaU-rsomething in the
-Shape of a's bone," or a hoop, or a piece of
red flarrnel---"44onsething to occupy his mind,
Sid keep hirifirOm trotting at ther heels in
"pursuit of a liOne.* . We only 'allude to the
adventure teffioir that ,tanning puppies, as
, welf as rainiug 7 watei i Stilt fi nd their proper
I level: It Waist be a Itra; 4114 fir Wm to get
his sweet - nadir the ladies drosses—;-but he Isis
acme it, according to =his hiSt - - Repulatievisa--
chest is BOasui a the - itatiors! Great 'is
Poll* ettiti likrilfreisl
"ssts mei* isistrintl" ' `'. '
Plats, hiaj - l*Okoli - *0364 72 i eittieli
er....1,...a... ;111.ti'.: ` x:
of the immaculate Frazier, but from the bal
derdash thatiollowed the title, no one could
amve trOkis *Meaning. , The readers of the
.Relistlolietia must guess at his Meaning; and
for once:we disit, from our notions of 'strict
propriettylriillping them to guess:, "The
Breach widens'!" exclaims Frazier. Does it
sot What brech, good Hornell Can it be
possible that healludes, in that public man
ner, it a rent M his tVowsers f . If that be . the
breach that bothers . him so, he is not to blame,
foi `close-curta ining his office riindows on
Sundays, where it is said he spends the live
long day every Sunday, ; in. desperate efforts
at-patching up thase ordhrindle pants. With
-such. a•breach, and widening-too, he sass, ev
ery vestige of day light from the street ought
to be excluded by hanging up old newspapers
at the windows.* "The breach widens," does
it, I Good Homer,"do not permit it to wideu
more, for gracious sake. Quick, take time
by the horns, and pawn your soul for a 'nee
dle and thread, if you have no' money, or get
some paste from the painting office, - and heal
the breach. Do not permit it to widen. But
perhaps he miens something else after all.—
He may have been a 1 ittle fuddled when he
wrote the article, put the plural on the wrong
word, but meaning to Say, " the breeches wi
den!" What I those second.hand ones that
adead man couldn't wear out! Widening,
are they I Alas, Odi3 would think they were
wide enough before! Better have them
lengthened, Mr. Frazier, so as to cover the
clov i en hoofs. It is possible that we have not
guessed the real meaning of his ambiguous
article yet. He may allude to the breach
between him and his sweethe,Art.. Ah, 'that
is a deplorable breach, and if as lie "says, it
widens; he may be excused in giving vent to
his feelings by writing a pusillanimous article
with the drlunatic title, " the broach widens !'
But do not despair, `excellent neighbor. True
/orniers" ought not to give way to such. mis
anthropy, and such woe-begone exclamations
as "the breach widens l" Or, to the breach,
Homer, .Try her with Some *of.your poetryl
do it up nice, and put-your soul into the ver
ses if you hare any. Get up something orig
inal, and pretty, from the amorous pieces in
that stolen 'copy of Tom Moore. Ther . e.
nothing like poetry to heal such a breach.—
Poor Frazier ! •Peer misanthrope ! Try. her
with a serenade of the brass band. That will
fetch her, if anything. - But don't despair, or
go about railing that t,the breach widens!"
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Presidential Election of 1 S 66—
The Prospects at this Time.
.
If no change occurs in the political senti
'meat of the American people,is.indicaterl by
the result of the State - election held in 1855,
the next President of the United States will
certainly tki a Democrat. -During the past
summer and fall, the rullowing States have
gone democratic by decided majorities on the
popular vote. ' We give them in their order,
with the number of Presidential electors to
which tliey, are entitled : • -
i. Electoral Votes. Majorities.
Virginia, . , . 15 • • - . 10,000
Illinois,- - 11 • =e,ooo
North Carolina, • ' - .10 - 8.000
Tennesse, • . • • 12 2.000
Alabama, 12,000.
Texas, . 4 .- 7,000
Mtiinei El
~
-- (Democratic Legisiatiire and Governor.)
Georgia; - . - -10 _ I LOOO
Indiana,
,- - . 13 20,000
Pennsylvania, . - . 27 41,000
Louisiana, • . ; 62,000
. ,
1 1 / 4 1ississipiA, . ; 7 l,OOO
7
New demey, .
(netnocrotic Legislaturi by haudsome Itote.)
Wisconsin, 5 ' 1,000
1
- t . •
Totals, .144 10?9,000
.As one hand red and forty-nine electors will
choose.* President, the States that have al
ready gobe democratic, lack but five of . that
number. We presume no sane man..will
question the-ability of the Detnocracy to car
ry, in addition, the folloWing States,
Elector* Votes
Arkansas,
South Carclina,
Missouri, 9
Florida, 3
. Here we have enough and nineteen elec
toral votes to spare, nothing of our chances
(which are better than those ofany other par
ty) for carrying NeW Hampshire, lowa and
Michigan, with 15 eleeto.tal votes all togeth
er. In New. York, at the late election, the
democratic vote, hard and soft. exceeded that
of any other organization, conclusively pro
ving that our friends have the ability to car
ry that State with its thirty five electoral votes
But, granting that. State to the enemy, the
Know Nothings have only carried with it the
following States :
Ketitac'ky,
California;
Now;land, -
New York,
liassaehuntts,
The black republicans have succeeded in
Ohio and Vermont, casting twenty eight,elec
torsi votes. We have ' therefore, beaten both
badfactions, even if they ad been united, hand
somely, in the State elections of '1855, and
have, altogether, the best chance for 1836.
1n the last six months the dethocrats have
chosen no less than eight, and probably trine
Goienons of States : Wise in Virginia; An
drew Johnsolin.Tennessee; _Pease in Texas;
Winston in - Alabarna; Wells in Maine; H. V.
Johnston in, Georgia; Mcßee in. Mississippi ;
Wilklitfe in Louisiania, and j)robably 13arst?w
in Wisi.onsin. The choice of so many State
democratic •excntires indicates that the . Union
will_choose one of the same politics in 1850.
PRINCE MIMAT AT DORDINGTOITX.---This is
pre-eminently the age ef political vicissitudes:
A few years ago, there was an obese loafer at
Bordingtown, N. .; who ;lied to drink with
fellows about town; and borrow two shillings
at a time from the gentleman of the place,
while his wife kept a most respectable school
and his aristocratic aau g bter , was the' cyno
sure of all eyes at church. - Now this same:
free and easy idler, whose scores at the nor
dingtown. shops were unpaid a- few months
ago, and probably are still, has , got up , a
mimic court in the shadow of the Tuile ries,
and is followed toya retinue of Italian exiles
—be and they biliereing that ere "long, the
sceptre of-Naples will.beitthiagnuwas King .
Murat the reeend.—;-Corrtoporelesar, of
,the
Boskm.Trltisseript,Nov.l3.
Air Au eastern 'editor, in an • obituary
on a young lady who bad racentrjr - ditul, cloited
by taring-r" !Ittihad to satiable temper, and
was eauctartioaly toed ofiria aromas and other
dalitaais "... • • • - - • •- •
Jbe Mississippian publishes a letter `from
Judge J. S. B. Tns•rcrrea, of Natchez, &rig
itas, his oppiuion that Snow-Nothingisturis a
ariMinal ororrization;o i conspileuy to do an.
.unliwful :4014 dePrivirig: Roman Catholics
anditaturaliXed citizens of theii rights t and
that the /&11proi/Itieiatell renuZlif. 4 , Siinibtr
opinions by M.Ton-
Tali, Hon. Mta. B: - REM), and by Hon. J. 1).
FitizmAN, late Attorney General of Mississip
pi. ;This, to say the least, is very good
.thority, and'shoirld cause the honest Inasses.
to think •seriously opt the subject oftbs)egali;
ty of this -oath-bound Order,
. Human liberty is a blessing..not to be tri
fled-. with ; and whether that liberty is exerci
sed in afreligioutva politest, et-seta:la' way,
it is one of the most cherished rights of man.
It. is the love urit.that liath.kept. the
cassians fur ages iu their.tnountain fastitesse,
and nerved them to resist the countless busts
ofTartiryand Russia. It was love -fot this
Heaven.promised boon Which rang •in the
voice of Hamm when .he electrified =an
American Congress with' his-eloquence, : and
thrilled their, hearts 'with the sentence—
' Give tke liberty or give me death!' It was
a love for it which drove Mir fathers to liked
at Blinker Hilrand Saratoga, and conquer
at Yorktown. All past history goes to show
that the lintuan mind pants, for it,,andstrives
for it, flourishes with it, without it, pines and
deteriorates. • •
Livil liberty, is defined' to - be 'the - libSrty .
of men in a .state of society, 'or:natnral
laber
ty, so far only abridged and restrained as is
necessary expedient for/ the : safety and
interest of the society, state, or nation; A
restraint of natural-liberty, not necessary dr
exp - cdient for the public is fyraiiiiy.or oppress.
lon. It is an. exemption front' the arbitarrj
will others, which exemption is' 'secured,
by establkhed laws, -which restrain every
man from injuring or controlling - another.
The Governments ender which we live have
established laws cakulated. to preserve every
man the enjoyment' of. this liberty:. :These
laws have, in the opinion of . the distingnish
ed gentlemen. whose narnes we have, : cited,
and others, been violated by the
.order com
monly known as Know NOthings. That this
has been done, - it candid public must ad=
mit. .
The Constitution of the United States de
clares that' CoitLire.ss shall make no
,law re
spectiogthe establishment of religion - , or pro-.
hibiting the free .exercise thereof.' 'Know:-
Nailing ism declares that protestantivn only
shall be regarded As a religion, and that per
sons .professing the Roman Cattio7in faith .
shall not be permitted to bold office under the
Govern .
Thevlectiou'laws of PennsYlv,snia 'provide
that no mats shall unduly influence or :bi,er
awe.a voter iri thedicharga of - his duty.—
Know-Nothintri4m dues unduly influence and
overau e men .who - have become connected
with it, and coerces them into supporting its
Men and measure, , .: Here we have two di
lest violations of the Constitution and laws
of the country; hy' nn oath-hound political as
sociation. is it astonishing, then, that •men
who love their country, And -reverence relig :
ion, should speak out against.such an organ-.
zation.
We might pile an O:4Ra on a Pelion of evi
dence to prove that the zest of those men who'
originated and who control the aark lantern •
party has carried them outside. the .pale of
truth and patriotism, but it is not nece 7 ,lary.
The American people aye :in intelligent peo
ple, and the strongest -1 roof of . this fact is
that they can tire down treason and laugh at
incipient tyranny. The social system here
regulates itself, and it. will be but a short
time until. it will, rid itselfof the festering
sore of Know:NothingiSm.
ME WHEAT ,CROP.— 77ze prospeclAr- pri 7
ces in 1856.—Slime of the Southern papers
aro urging farmers to put as.much land as
po,sible to wheat seed., .The Lynchburg Vir•
glnian holds that - wheat-seeding in . :that State i
tiny be continued a= Lucac the middle of De-1
cember, as, exeellent wheat , has ofttn been
made, east of the Blue,Ridge, from Doom
her, seeding. That high and renumerating
prices in grain will prevail next year, the Vir
ginian considers beyond a contingince, and
yet., it adds, we do . nOt • believe from infor
mation received that an increasd breadth' of
land at all commensurate with the prospec
tive demand Tor, and price of bread tuffs has
been• pat to ,seeil in this portion' of the State.
Taking the lowest estimates of the deficien.:
cy of grain in -England.and Erance„ . .the defic
it' fur the two countries may be pelt down at
filly-two million bushels.. AS this defieiency
must be made up before the next harvest, the
question arises ; whence are.these,supplies to
come I 'lt has been ascertained that the
crops of wheat ' and rye throughout the whole
of North - Europe also are
,clefieient,' and es
pecially in the. Baltic provinces, and the inte
rior of Germany, where flour is at this mo
ment selling at 70s. tier sack. In faCt the
itriportations . of breaclstuffs ft otu these soitrees
and nil others, exCePt.tbe United States, in : .
cludinz Denmark, Sweden, Spain,' Portitgal,'
Italy and Egypt, will hardly be sufficient to
meet the &tit:ie.:icy - of 20,000.000; bushels in
Fiance. Canada and the Baltic
.pfovinctrs
are nut to be relied on for more titan six or
seven bushels,
and Italy-from which the-ei
portations of breadstliffs has, in fact,. been. pro- -
hibited—together.:with, Rev tsgyproutt the - Prowl:ices of the. Danube, can
scarcely do more than furnish the balance .of
thirteen or fourteen millions, Of the deficit in
France. Hence giving the surplus (mini the.se
sources to 'France, there still. remains the - Vatt.
uum in England 'raging from . - a' captchr of
thirty -to fifty millions of bitshels, to fill: , For
this supply the English can only look to the .
United states ; and if tie supply:---say, , forty
bushels—be obtained from this coun- -
ry; we shall send more grain to' England than '
was exported in: wheat and flourto' all - parts;
of the world during the year 1855.. . Our .ex
portations (Or that year, amounted to less than
twenty-nine millions bushels. The' quota ex=
ported to England, according to the English'
Board of Trade . returns,.Waa art average of
976,930 quarters, or less than eight' millibt;
bushels . per annum, for the eight years Ifrom
134,5 to [353 inclusive. • . ; -
Electoral Votes.
12
If then, as has been assurned,,, the
from
available surplus exported last year from Abe
United States to
.crew . 1
part of the' world
filloidd be supplied - •to Etigland, there .- Of
course will still remain'a deficit. And even
should , we' be able to. export this required
amount we shall, be as • last year without
surplus for-home consumption at the close of
the season and payingfor that purpose, psi
ics . " In C'On6lnsinn.
W ' ln will merely add die. following . important'
Gict as stated by the Virginian :-: Ouriiirvest
is,-on an arerage k month in advance of: the_
harvest of Europe,. and will con i seiptentily
come in next season just at that . peried when
a deficiency most sensibly felt ahre e
and in fact ; when prices,- ruled by actual Went
must be' irrespective of 'the , pt&spect from
Englind Or continental •Imrveg.-4/4tintora,
"'A Memphis paper' :inn - Minces the flOt
pearanee on any stage ofs Mr. lAnierot pain
ter of repute, in theohntnater of Othello, and
*Waves for -any sitorteomingik a , 'in advance
oa thsralqui th.a.L. e he.•4o,4o ll ,nt baa.; Payer
seen the Allarseter rsonted by any don,: .
• :1 4' M.
Yilei:tilt* of
The Pennsylvania Farm Journal for Decent
ris out. We see that . David M. Well; A.
will - occupy the chair of principal editor
after, this,'assisted by A. M. Sprangler, the
original editor and' propriebrw.
The journal Sar of Mr . Wells t—,,
Aa- an an them, -Mr. Wzma. is well Anima
from hiCeonneation with, the'Anual offloieri ,
tific Discovery: The Year Book of Agricul
ture, and several other scientifiic and pirpular
works. As a Chemist and geologist,-Mr. W.
Was a special pupil of Prof. Anaastz, depart
pent.of the ;Lawrdnce Scientific School at
Carrrhtige, afterwards chemist -to the Sate
Board of Agriculture and has received appoint
ments on several of the State geological sur
veye.
Ilis.report on the soils of Ohio, and his
contributions to Billiusiu's Journal, the Ameri.,
can Association for the
.promotion otScjetiee,
and other Jotirnals are well know. The aeries
Of artieles on the cultivation,' 'and niandrie
lure of American twit pier, and attracted so
much attention, were froth his pen.—They
will resume „and continued the pages
of the Farm Journal."
The *January No. will beep ftlie
ume.
Published by Sumuel,Enilen * Co., N.E.
Corner 7 dr Market St's., Phil'a.. ••
TIONORAISI.E LICOMATOII-5.7-A friend told
us recently that. our anecdotecorthe
legisla
tor who wanted' the Constittition i Aii:run
through - Ids ferin, and of his worthy'l- brother
who .ditt not think his constituents - had, any
sense, reminded him of the freaks of a
.distin
giiiSlied Michigan State Senator i who, ii his
day, was . the - unfidling source of half the f
et the _Capitol. Upon one occasion,' w ile.
some resolutions ivere• tinder discussion dela
involved an endorsement of the actio '.of ,the
Michigan delegation in Congress u n the t.a'r.
(Ititioi, this gentleman ap g . . ppoti, his
....„
feet,'ekclaiming : •
."Mr,'Preibientl—l do ,ot care a curse
about this plagues tariff •ut afraid that
the Whigs
. will get a.. •ranch.of...the. blamed
thiugsiu this State." - •
The same genti man Was !at . another 'time
made the victim of the sarcasm and irony, of
a political opponent, who, in ri• long and per-
Sonel speech against hiin, - in the Senate
her of having. Stolen the livery of Heaven tol
servethe devil in. Our friend rase to reply, vio
ly and ;trembling
.with
lie said - * • ' • •
"Iktr..President.!--4his is the first time in,
all my life that I have heen accused of ital.
ing ! My opponent says I have stolen in the
Library of Heaven I -Mr. President, .in , the
most solemn Manner; allow me to assure you,
dial did not•know there was such It 'hook
in print." •
•
• He was originally from New Jersey, 'and
Was very fond-of glorifying that. State:: Up
on - these occasionslte_always commenced as
"Mr. President, the great-State of
New Jersey, which State I had the ItOrtoi ' to
leave," &e. •
A PRETTY CO:. PLJMENT.
TheLLancaster,r r ,
&mod ?ter, a Whig .paper,
and one of the most influential - journals in
the_4tate, pays Mr. G uckalew the .following
•
Mr. Buck low's east'of mind is very sirii
lar to that of Mr. Calhoun- . .-and ,with epial
opp6rtunities for training in the Senate, we
think, the young Pennsylvanian would. be
come as'a (ignitor, fully the equal of the
great Carolinian, whom he, •so Much_ re7vm
bles in his clear and logical style of aranment
and his extraoidinary power of analysis:
For the credit of the State we 'should like
to 'tee Buokalew chosen.to represent her
.in
the United Siate,•Seuate.'
A Qt . ;Era STOri•.—l4 it true IP—Judge Mar
shall andladge. Wlshington were on . their
way-lcriKunt.-Vernen, attended by a servant
who. had, a portniauteau containing . their
c10th.... At their last stopping-place, there :
happened to be it Scotch polio.; with a pack
of goods which resembled their portmanteau,
The roads %rem very 'dusty, and a little be
fore reaching - the General's they, thitking it
haolly respectful : to present themselves as
they were.i . stopped in a neighboring. Wood, : to
change their elt•thes.:..The eplored man got
rlabwn 'MS portmanteau, and just ii4..t114 had,
pi•epared, theinselvesfor the new 'gaitnentA;
out. flew tome fancy soap and various ether
articles.belongini'Ao the pedlar, whose gimds .
had been brought-on instead of their own:
„
They were so muel(struek by the consterna- .
don of theill servant,. and the ludiermisriesi of
their own position, being there naked, tltitt
they ;burst ;'into "loud and rpeated. shouts
uf,laughter.- . Washington; who. happened - . to:
be, out upon 'his grounds near-byi heard , the.
noise, and came to see what might be theoc
casion of it, when, finding his friends 3n' that
strange plight, • he -Was' so overcome -With
laughter that , he actually rolled” upon ;the
ground. - . . , •
A Ctou N BECOME A Mamo - nisttu.-- 7 .The ,
ups 'a nd downs - of life are, cOnsiderable, as the
clown says. The Philidelphia .4rgue of Fri 7.
day last' has the: following
" :Dan Gardiner o Afitlioraire.—We stated
yesterday, that Mrs. _Tyler had, by the decree
of an-English court, become possessed (t450,-
we - tearn'from the hest authority, that
Dan Gardiner, who traveled how somata! _Atm
a elOwn for Rivers*- Deriousi circus," is an
heir to the amount of over a million of dol
lar& Ile is now a 1 resident and property
holder of this city„atuPwill be hereafter-look
ed up-tp as one of the' upper ten: -
Potsr.ntro„Orsurna.—Aa a timely warning - to
all parties interested, we make room fore. the
following which we find in a late . number
,of
the Boston Courier : ' , '
" .Ak. married , lady died-in 'Newburyport,
recently, on account of being poisoned by
oystOrs -obtained at g -ceufectionary store.
.‘ A n estimable lady Qr. our acquaintance,
residtng in Chelsea, was poisoned, a : few Weeks
sineel at a fashionable confectionery store in
this Aity, b 3 a tonal! quantity or pyster iemp,
and. great fears - 'were atone titne entertained
in ord to her recovery, though :leis:nos
out 1 f y
re!
• dAnger.: . • • ~t - • - • -••-
" , is the gederai opinion of oyster 7 tleal 7
eos t hat oysters are not poisonouawben taken
from the water, and that, More careihould'N,
taken - by confectioners agaiird using cop - per
kettles and pans, and•that the . articles. used
for coloring can dies, dm., should not get mixed
with oysters. Enamelled iron ware and tin
pans are used at, Most oyster .saloons, apd
should .. be used eons: all oni. The
,oysters
at the present times - 14e of an exeellent-'flavor
and`quality; And ifcnoked in proper veva:la:lir)
danger niay apiietendeil, from, eating them.,"
A ; WOMAN SWININIX4I, T111 ! ..14W30351PPL 7 -,*
Lloyd'a, fortheorniwg ~Ste a mboat, Directory
giVei 'a thrilling instance of the nerioraiti' for
woman knowing how to swim, When 'the
fit fatted lien Sherroci was in denies -on. the
hihwiseiPpi fivers...end the lady puweege,rB who
hitfi thrown theinselvets into the:water`.. were
drowning around the boat,the wife of`
taln Castletimnijurnped inio the ricer, with
he'r %hint in her antra, and swam ashore `d
distance of half Winne hoing - . the only wo.
u l l4Wol4.ou4Ailitileen. -She hoti,,lenmed
to swim when* birt.
'coedit:al r!loeiet of Susq:# County.,
-will ',turd its jaieritioth annual meeting in .
New Miifordpo; Wednesday the 24 of Janu
aryi neakat 9 'o'clock A. lef.
The hiteittetabefere the meeting will be,
electiee o(offieers -tnddelegates, 3d, an
anal aditi` . 4slijr., the President, 2d,_lteptirt of
Abe committee upon the Sanatory condition
of. the twenty for the past year. 4th, Origi
nal tatty hy - Dr."- Wifrnot.- -
G. Z, DIMOCIE,:Seety.
A dog, which had - Jost the whole - of- ber
intewting ramify, was seen trying to poke' a '-
jiiece-oferapelthr Ingh the handle t4t !.4doei
of inns of the•rensage 81.--
g.F..1
.e
ent of tbe il,ergifi:.
informed trent' a - . 'kV
Wise of Virginia, :hip
withdrawing • his" elai
Presidential ,nominat
Buaanati, and that,
been received from ; F,
gin, also strongly in,
Phirci -sarr. •
Christ
There will
on Christi's;
versalist
will bei,
easi
4etebraiUo ..
tppoptlatei - Riligious Services
'Ave. the 24thiest. is the Uni
urch in Brooklyn.. Tit; Church
turniCated and' deContted or, the oc-
Notice.
-*donation visit will, be given fo
eft of Rev. Z. S. Keltocroand
Parsonage in 'LyniOnvlile - oit :t1
and evening of . Thari.layk, Dec. 2
a general .and Cordial invitation *to'
given:to. all, - corpe friend gone and
.•• - •
by pony presence nod. gifts, you
the heart of the.Pretieher and rani
DonaUliosia
The frie 4 ifis pf Rev.l). C. 13 3 ,11061
speetfully invited to a Donation - a l
nonage, in Montrose, on Wedn
26th, 1855,—afternoon and exttin
Tr - 1116.0.%/1
• n Drop on the - 10th ato nft.l
Binghan'i, WinAorsi CARD, 't:l
'sod WootsEY, of Lathrop towasli
•
- " 'riOrzet.
iIE new Brick Block will be; lip
,Carnphene lights 'on Friday' Ev ,
25111, - 1856 at
linotrow, Dee. 1855 . . 1; •!
MORE NEW:BOO
The llohdays are Cow .
Jwit: in: (Call at_the Postoffice . ti
n new Beak for a holiday pr•
Old Homestea& Geoffrey Monet•pn n
less Guarditat;' Scenes in the praeiieO
York Surgeon; Doestiekicl he Wid
Papers. Rollo Clark. (Fanny Fern's..
Caste, R••markable Acironforos of
persons. Daniel Boan ti nil the Hunt:
way, aiso lots of Miniature Gift
the little onex -
Come at Last,—Proff. Stodard
Arithrueties, the last in ust,:liy the di.
gle. Sanders New Spelling Book ice.
MANAC& and DIARIES. Cur 185 ti al
sizre,(;ven Porkvt Altristues for the L.
LAW BQOKS--A new supply in,
Pardons Digest complete to 1855,—b
of other nice things too numerous to
all for sale at the Mentro‘te Post , Offie
- • .Bit A. N. DU
Montrose, Dec. 18,1853.
• f For the Holidays.
- VLEGANT. pieces ' for
ILI the Holidays. Parian Stat wry.
ees and' rases, Terra Colts in kvariet'
tifal artieles, liiithbon wares in•rariot
also elegant Dresden and Pretwll
open for, inspection. at. - H..DE
Binghamton, Dee. 0, 1855.-
- FANCY BASSETS;
A.ln ge variety alga. Work stand: witt!.
kets, Re9cuies at In* prices.
WORN" A - ArD FAIVVY -110XESi:'
, .
Ladfes Relief/le - s. Port Stormait.ok, Olerrant Piir ,
k
see, and ries," styles of Batchelti for WI :t/ .
-,- a ' • J. H. E PEU. .
' TOYS I . I :TOYS !.! TOY Hi
,
. .
Come . 41ste. come alt -and your wan % AA be
c
gratified firom a peon, to rtollars 'in' r ice from
our large stock of ToYsiwhich are no offered at
11 , ' . . , , ._ DE PEUI.
CHINA AND CROCKERY ARE&
floa , ekeepers treat
. ourselves to a esalears _
present With one of tho beaOdral seat; of Guld
Band Or Ifecerated China now' 'en exhibition at
'De Pen's. A really substantial:gift ofi, to be're !
membered in a social way. Will, you net act
upon the iu,.,ageetion and select at the , Croekery
-and Haase Furnishing stare, by '
Binghamton, Dec, 20, ISO,
Noliday".Preienti• .
lAMOND Finger Itings and Brews pins from
D
88-to $6O. A J.! VANS,
' No. 2.odd Fellows' Hrl. '
-Bingbatitton;Dee...2o, 1855.
EARRINGS,XOId Stone, .Ca k tnel,
Coral, Jet; and ull gold ea,rring,s,in variety of Pat.,
tern and price. :
MIXER: WARE—eonaprising ev
in curo..viz: • Spoorm . Foiks„--Natpliin
ewe, Pit...pike rind, - Butter .ka
SOUP Ladles, die, &c, Wairo.ted
coin
GOLD CHAINS. , —Alarg,e stoth.,N rionspet
terns, andall weights. -
Plated ,Cske,Baskets„ 'Castois Caiesticks,
Forks, SPP"L Tea Setts, &c. Pl ated table
' and Desert. Knives. Another large sedition to;
Anv.torinei 'stock. •
'• 'GOLD SPECTACLES-All ages.Ci
Coneni , e; Gold neiwitleerc auttons„sti
-Wes, Prosies, Keys, Seals„ &c.
WATCif M.—A:very fine assortmet
l and silver Watches, Huntingnud.Plair
esi • , E'
"Dirighnintoi, 11. Y.
Turoike - -
rin g E atorkhOlder" cifthe.Lenor and llama p,.
ayltirrttitke - rd coMMinv. will hold Weir
annual meetingon Monday the 7th 'day of JimP
nary,next at 10 oielock --A t M. ; at, the t tiouse Vt .
Joel Bteenhaelt Gibsoll i to elect o eers 'Pr
Bald coi:pany.for the enaiting year.
• By order orthe Board. 'I • '-
•,BEN.L. COMFORT Ber:lt
LeUeitboio, DeC. 18, itiss-51w3 7
Farm for. Sale.
STUATED about 2.tuileT stUuth tal.: at of tho
' Heeling House in the towtuthip o Dirnia:
containing 111 acres. A ti;o ,story • weping
InivatNnearly new:with surell,,and w. .'. halite; a _
30, byritt7 feet barn, built -last, atuntper,:A.,tp)t;+
sized orchani - with conaiderable grafte. 'frult.—...
Pears, and Quincee, plenty in bearing eette*lt , '
Fo, furthei rtarticultirit inquire,on' the'
a "an&
HOBART WIL L 318 --,,N=.1
+rem
'
Unlock, Dec. 15, 1133541W4* - .
. ,-- For Sala,rA Bargain- , ;- ,
tWELL built" If Cutter.
__ se hear i
,- used, Apply to ' u:,csvi,r
1 MOntrese, Dee. 11, 185541145t' ,-'
MORE NEWVOODII -
A vozll,-&. TINGIZN'S. !afros irui
CI. well •tek , eted lot of Crockery and GPM*
ware , joys redei re& -Alin it; tie* , rlot. :Germ
whleh wive setlY.rig . chell 4 -;.•
OATS *silted' at 50 cents
trade brF. 1 . 7 _13
lierpbOtaik Der.
,NPI eito,
the ben
at the
Afternoon
th; 1855
attend is
all, -that
'ay .cheer
y, - Are re
the:Par-
av Dec.
Eld. 0.
iss ELL-
ted with
ning Jae,
d - get
Y ou
.ent. The'
the Faith- -
`of 'a New
w BOMA
• w Book,)
Celebrated
,m of -Kea
!Books far
C Series of
•2, or; sTa;
lee. - AL-'
styles-and
dies: „ -
received.'
mid - 61 'lots
pion, sad.
;ices
army
.of .bea#
designs;
von now
PEU'S.
•ry article
ngst: Cod
E , t.s; Cups;
i s good as:,
aver and
,ds,Thim-
t of Gold
t ., from $9
ANS.
at litt,ta
SAL
ZES