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A. S. GERRiTsoN, Prcitiieibr,}
rA T r"P'!"'"' PPe° ll "-
.3Elt WM:7r 1:W. 3Eit
Of the Great Strugtliv, benVeen Liberty
and Despotism for the last
Hundred rears.,
THE {VAR 'OF 1812
" Above alt," says the D e mocratic
President in 81 •`eve !ewe the inest i
ble couso!aiiim of Itnowtng, that, the war
in which we are engaged is neither of
amhitiop nor vain glory. That it is waged
not, itt vi l.etion of the rights of othensbut
in the maintenance of our own. Tl ish h
was preceded by a patience without. ex
ample, under wrongs-accumulatin.Cwith
out end; and that it was finally not de
clared until every hopo of averiin it-was
extinguished; .brt he -transfer"Of t he' Brit
ish sceptre into new hands c'inging to
former councils, and until declarations
were reiterated to the last hour through
the British artny here, that the hostile
edict against our maratime commerce
would sot be revoked ;. ntly,,that they
could not be-revolted without violating
'the obligationS'of Great Britain to other
powers, as well as to her own interests.—
To have shrunk, under such circtunstan
ces, front manly .resistance, would have
been a degradation blasting our best and
proudest . hopes; it wou!d have struck us
tram the high tank, where ► he e irt nous
struggles of our fathers had placed .us,
and have betrayed the inagtacent lega
cy-which we bold-in fruit fon future gen
erations.
" It, would have acknowledged, .t hat on
the element' Which forms three fourths of
the globe that we inhabit, and where all
independent nations have equal and com
mon rights, the American people were not
an indepreshmt people, hut colonists and
vassals. It was at this moment, and with
such an alternative, that war was chosen.
Ttie nation felt the necessity of it, and
called fitr it. The appeal we accordingly
made in a just cause, to the aIL-powerful
Being who holds
; in His hand the chain of
events and the destiny of nations. Ever
ready to accept peace front the hand of
justice, we prosecute the war, with uni
ted consuls, until per - ice' be go-obtained;
and as the only means under Divine bles
sing of so obtaining it."
To this - address of President Madison,
we give the following facts from Lossing's
History of the_ sited States, every asser
tion of which will •be tyroven by extracts
from docuthents publiShedduring the war.
Mr. Lossing7says r„. .1 •:7
"The war had been declared only after
long suffering and patient attempts to
procure redreds without a resort to arms.
A minority of the people of the Republic
were m favor of this method of- vindica
ting their national honor antHmiepen
ticnce, and their representatives bad made
the declaration. It e was therefore unpat
riotic to cast obstacles in the way. Yet
it was done with fearful effect. The more
deSperate opponents. of the iviir and, the
administration, politicians whom true pa
triots despised, formed a ' peace party,'
avowedly for the purpose of einharras'smg
the' government, and compelling it to
make peace wilt Great Britain on any
terms. They controlled the press eaten-'
sivrly, and - through it -they operat cd pow
erfully on the puf; is mind. They decried
national. vitgorics, and magnified those of
the licitist. They used every exertion
to destroy the public, credit. They dis
couraged public loans, promoted smug
gliin and in every conceivable way gave
aid and comfort to the enemy without
perfltrming overt acts of treason.
Many of the clergy and magistrates
arrayed themselves ngaite.t, the govern
ment;disunion was openly advocated,
and when the brave soldier- of the %Vest
had fallen at she Raisin and at; the
Thames in conflict with the savages of the
forest breughtlniainst them by the Brit
ish, said a I..VD: at . Byfle;d, Massacitu
sests, eruliingly,';: 4 There Wetite t n . States
which have been rieleat for lIM3 abothina
ble war of murder-,those states . ;which
have thirsted los blood to drink. Their
men have failed. Their 'lamentations are
deep and loud.'
"Thus: spike the pulpit. here aful there,
whlie magistrates and public officers set
the government at defiance.- Three of the
New England. • governors refused to re-,
spond to thecall safithle President fol. mi..
litia, appealing, to the Constitution; and
the reserved rights of t he..St at es. for justi
fitztion. ghefnse,of the prisons of Unst•
sachusetis tint British pristmers , was re
fused,.and in many - 4AV New • Ettglied
stOiecrin an-attitude of • half rebellion
against the nationalgovernment; during
&greeter portion of the var." • ;
And' these tories who "cast 'obstacles"
in the way of the patriots 'who were
struggling to preserve then" magnificent
legacy e r freedotti pnycliasbil by the blood
of tlieWfathe;s', 'and'placefillf their ha4Js
in tTUSL forStuure generations"- 7 311 - ese to
ries,
bitaittiSeil those of thelkitisli",44lfeselo
riescwhoL "used every,. exeri,ion to, de
stroy the public credit, who discouraged
gavernmento-loans, who promoted-smug;
gling, and in every conceivable 'Way 'ga've
sid and comfort to Great Britain," are the
Re.oollha4* 04 1 549% r 1 -
Thoidergy Who- , atrayed
'ftliefAnlipf)
States, who advoca 'disunion, wit; Oz-
MlM=Mai
nited'wheifithet braVe'aeldititit''of newest I
fell:by the fothiihaWle and scalping knitl3 , '
in the hands -, or the savages brought
against theft by the British; are the cler
gy who led on a crusade afterwards
against, the people who conquered the
British, and tried to incite their negro
slavestp slaughter them in the same man
ner as the Indians had slaughtered them
for years before. These arc the clergy
who have helped to put the same people
under the heels of a military despotism
because they refused to change our free
government into a tnottaitchy;
New England; who with her Puritan
clergy iLopen 7 y advocated disunion ; who
stood in an attitude of 1)111 rein-M.)li
against the national government during
the greater portion of the war," loves
England just as well to day as then. For
the love of-Englind she forced the South
into seceision. ,For England she fought
four years to keep the &Ault out of the
Union. For love of England, and her in
stitutions of monarchy and artst..craey,
shy is fighting to-day against t lie free gov
ernment establitatecl by Wa-Isington and
preserved and perpetuated by Jefferson
and Madison, Monroe and Jackson.
To prove that the Federalists who op
posed the war of 1812 against Great Bri
tain, were tories,and that the Republicans
who have put the South under a mi , itary
d. Fi.cit ism are of the same party, we have
but to read the sermons and docuMents
writ ten by the riot sof 1176. The Re
publicans have treated the Southern peo
ple from first to last precisely as the Brit
ish tyrants treated the Americans, and vet
they demand that these same peop!e. shah
live them a lid be kyal to them. Why,
they themselves are the distoyalits and
traitors. One . of the patriot clergy of
1776, Dr. Stites, President of Yale Col
kge, says in 1783:
" Oh, England, how I did once love
thee! How did I once glory in thee !
I did once boast of springing from thy
bowels ! But uow, fare w el,— T a long fare
well to all thy greatness ! A political
earthquake through the continent !lath
shook off Anierica from Great Britain.—
We once thought Britain our friend; and
gloried in her protection. 0, how Rain
ful and distressing the separation and dis
memberment, Witness, all ye patriotic
breasts, all ye lovers of our country, once
lovers of Great Britain ; witness the ten
der sensation, the sorrow with which ye
were penetrated when spurned front a pa
rent's love! Can we ever love Britain
again? Can we forget the conflagration
of Charlestown, Norfolk, Esopus, Fair
field, and other American towns laid in
ashes by a Tryon and other incendiaries?
Were these the kindnesses American
brethren received from the hands of Bri
tons and their more crud associates, the
Indians and loyalists?
"Can we be soothed by being told that
this is the fate of war? As well may in
quisitorial cruelties be soothed by alleg
ing that they are salutary corrections,and
necessary fer the good of the church. Our
enemies took occasion from this fate of
war to wreak their vengeance, and to
lash us with a severity too unmerciful ev
er to be forgot ten."
Reflections for for February.
Stibteraneons Fires.
There arc certain phenomena occasion
ally observed which strongly .prove the
exist ence of stile erranean fires. Terrible
eruptions of itiflatnable matter from time
to time take place. The two most known
and most, -Considerable- mountains which
producelltese effects are tEina in Sicily,
and -Vesuvius in the kingdom of Naples.
Themccounts given of these two volcanos
are very- terrible. At different intervals
vast eruptions of fiery matter istae.—
Sometimes only .a black vapor is seen to
rise, and at. the same time is bean] hollow
rumbling noises,ofl eu F neccerled by stron g
fl t-lies of fire, and peals like thunder, ac
companied with the sensation of an earth
qttake. The vapor then becomes lumin
ous, and showers of stone and lava are
evolved, part of which falls again within
the crater, though enough of them fall
without to lay waste the neighboring
country; and..they.aresometimes whirled
to a considerable
.distance. These terri
ble explosions are sometitnes even more
violent. With the noise of thunder, tor
rents of horning sulphur, and liquid met
als, enveloped -With clouds of .ashes and
stnoke,:nre: hurled to an immense &St nom ;
rocks, upborue - by the force of the explos
ion, fall' wi)h . drentlfatrakh ; And eatar
, runs of fire pour- down the steep -of the
mouittain the deluge awe* over the
villages, plantations and cities; the earth
rocks, and they who' escape thefall
within the '7,6lphtiiiie by theiaithijitake;
or tossed'from wave to wave, and are bu
ried-in the general wreck.
0, hoW inYsterious are the' Urals of
vine:N:44one, arid to .us tia'st 'finding
out: ' WO mat,ho . still ; • and: know that
Ue is , Giid.—Stiorvii Refleitlo4.•
•
-4the Alabama.. eleetton! will take
pi t:o'oh I,ht3..,4th i 'ofTebrpary,. subject-- to
as many -committeewas .may be necessary
0 Wry; *6. :brooin,itial ,- onto :Won
and'eleot the Radical ticket.
—"Voilikits74o:7e'reiti*.PF:lB4fAvili
take rphioo,i 1,7*-w rasurnii.b ik,4011
of March: ' - •
,
'MONTROSE PS., TrtSliAlt, - OEII 11 186.
,
1 • 1,
If there ever was a fore ordained Hach
elor, that man was Major Teller.. Some
men are born to old bachelorhood—Wk.:
ers have old bachelorhood thrum; upon
thenn and to the font& eass belOnged
the Major: You could have picked him
out in u multitude; if he had been labelled;
like an an antedehivian fossil or a dried
specimdu of entomology, there could not
have been more certainly in the matter.
He was a dapper, thin little man, stithe ,
thing under five feet high, with a gkisliy
black wig, closely trimmed side whiskers'
and costume so &flatly neat that he - re=
minded you of a shining black cat ! He
took a Turkish bath in the morning, and a
Russian bath in the evening; he came
home to dinnCr at twelve precisely, and'
went to bed at eleven at night, his hoota
standing at the foot of his bed, and his
stockings at the head, and his wig eleva
ted on the gas fixture, and every chair in
the room Standing at right angles with
the wall I
It was high noon on a sparkling, win.
dv, March day when Major Teller came
home to the antique, down town board
ing house, where he had vegetated for the
last t wenty years, and went to his own
room to Lrnsh his wig for the mid day
meal. Opening the door he stumbled
over an obstacle that Was in the way:
"Oh, I beg your pardon, I=m sure,"
said the Major, turning very red, recov
ering his footing with difficulty.
It was Miss Patience I'ettit.ew, on her
hands and knees, cleaning off the oilcloth
at the door.
Now the Major was afraid of Miss I'a.
Bence—afraid of her as the pump lamb
fears the gaunt wolf, or the unotlending
robin the dire serpent. .Miss Patience
wa4 tall, lean and sallow, but she curled
her hair, and wore an art ificiaL rose over
her left ear, and sang with whistlim ,
tones to a little spindle legged piano, and
firmly believed that if she only waited a
little while longer she should get married
to somebody And because the Major
sat opposite her at the table—Mi-s Pa
tience helped her widowed sister "keep
house," and served out the gravy end
sauces—and regarded her artilieial rose
and bear's grease curl with a sort of fear
ful fascination, Miss Patience somehow
opined that she should one day, Cupid
wiling, become Mrs. Major Tel er.
:‘ It's of no consequence, Major," said
Miss Patience, recovering her piece of
soap which had skirmished out to the
middle of the carpet. " I hope your fire
isn't out."
"Thank you, ma'am, it is very good."
" I do wonder, Major," said Miss Pa
tience, with a premonitory giggle, " why
you never get married ?"
The ➢ajar retired precipitately behind
the coal scuttle, and made no reply.
" You'd be so much more comfortable,
you know," added Miss Patience, w,ing•
ing out her woolen cloth and looking so
lovingly on the M j it that he retreated
still further in to his wardrobe, where
among the swinging (fligies of coats and
trowsers he felt comparatively safe.
Miss Patience hesitated a moment, and
in that moment the Major felt all the an
ticipatory agonies of being pursued, cap
tured, brought forth, and possibly married
before he could get breath to remon
strate ! Bait she finally took up her pail
and A.:till:died. •
"Dear me, that was a narrow escape,"
thought our hero, emerging from his
sanctuary. "Some day she'll be too
much for me. Perhaps I'd better change
my boarding place. Yes—that will be
the on lysafet y. I suppose I couldn't very
well have her sworn over to keep the
peace, and really, there's no saying' what
a determined woman of fitly may not do.
I'd look out fJr a new place to morrow."
Dear me, Major, you have no tippet it e,"
said Miss Patience sweetly, at the dinner
t
Mo, ma'am," said the Major.
"i'ry to eat a little—just to please me,
Major."
" Don't you know, Majqr, that people
will say that you are in love, if you don't
rat more?" smiled the antiquated spin
ster.
This was more than our hero could en
dor ; he rose op and left Miss Pettigrew
victor of the wordy field.
I won't go back to that house if I can
bell) it," thought the Major, brushing the
cold dew front his forehead with a dim
sun silk pocket handkerchief. " her in
tentions are serious, I know they are."
And the Maj.tr, in his inermost soul re
viewed the catechism and hymns he had
learned as a child; trying to think . if there
were not some invocations particularly
suited to an elderly gentleman in great
peril and perplexity. • Bev he could not
remember anything appropriate to-. his
particular case,
4 . It's twenty years since I hare been.
inside of a' churith,'?•thought the _penitent
610:Sincer. " I wish I had gone a little.
aioroxegularly. 4 , l:yonder:if it is too late:
in .life to reform:o3!
31===
SEIM
THE BACHELOR'S 'ESCAPE.
For the Major poor old gentietna6, hnd
a vague idea that "religion" would be a
iort of safegitird aga!or.t. the 'wiles of his
fair-C.IIOIT. Deliverance from Miss Pet,
tigrew must; be obtained on sotbeiterma or.
other. ' -
".ACTilakir Teller' was , 'frantintillt - re yolk
wing these things iti , btitiltitt,'• fin ealoBl6,
=!=llM
==MINEINUMMiNNI
ME=
MUM
a midden, and,'„lnvolentary stand still.
crowd gathered in the street,
rirtf
s terilimni us.
_orse, or • an.arrested
piekioeloi, SOirip Other nucleons, round
tihielt,:,gather* . the.., rapidly increasing
aWariti•of Metropolitan loafers. Xow, of
tilkthingS,Major most dreaded was
it
' cro w,' and he loOked round nervously
for Soineineatis of escape.
Au old fashioned church, with opened
doors, and sonie_sort of servicegoing on
• inside, caught . thc Major's eye.. Ile made
an instantaneous dart for its huge; gothic
portals,_ shielded by' the inner oors of
green' baize.
"It's a good char.ce to think up some
thing solemn and appropriate, and that
sort of thing, until the crowd gets by,"
Le thought, settliu hiMself in the corner
of one of the softly cushioned pews to lis
ten to mild; droning voice of the o!d cler
gyman.
The church Waft very warm, and the
light, softened by purple and golden crim
' son glass, was dim, and the elerp : yman's
yoke rather monotonous, and Major Tel
ler was unconsciously becoming rather
drowsy, when a plump old lady came in
ant the sexton beckoned him from his
seat. .
But the sermon was over, and the peo'
pie stn.:ming—down'. the - aisle, and the
a:tor:tub, that-Is-didn't care to prbiong
.the thing and" that,ho.ha4 done a very
'laudable act, in coming,t,g, church, and—
: _Even while thezie ideal were pasieg'is•
distincily through his brain, be was borne.
towards the altar in art upward eddy of
-the crowd, and a gaunt arm thrubt thru'
his.
" Protect me, Major ! oh, save me !"
wid , pered Miss Pal ience Pettigrew. "I'm
so 'feared in a crowd "always !"
The Major strove to uithdraw his arm,
but Miss Pettigrew would not leave him.
They were standing directly in front of
the altar arm in arm. The minister - , old
and near sighted, and a little deaf, ad
vtiliced—probablY cone:uding thit hisser
.ices wt re rt quirt d.
Major Teller's blood ran cold; he tried
to protest, but his tongue seemed paral
yzed. Miss Pettigrew had captured hint
as a lamb for the slaughter, and where
was the use for further struggle ! A few
word4-7anti" appalling brief ceremony—
and Major Teller was married to' Miss
Patience Pettigrew.
" Take the market basket, my dear,"
said the gaunt bride, " and stay, you had
better carry the umbrella, too I NVe'll go
right home. Old folks like yon and me,
don't care for wedding tours, do we '?"
The Major looked piteously at hi 3 bet
ter half and made no answer. She, how
ever, waited for none, but drew him along
with a quiet determination that argued
id for the future.
"Give me the key to the room, my
dear," said Mrs. Patience Teller, "1 had
better keep it in the future."
" We'd dick up things a little," said
Mrs.Teiler, bundling the Major's beloved
papers together, and pitching his box of
cigars out of the window.
" But, Miss Patience—"
44 W hat ?"
My dear wife, I mean."
"Ah, yes. What were you about to
renirk%'"-
" My ei,gars—l
"Oh, well, I don't like smoke, and nev
er did."
" But what are you going to do with
my sippers?'
"Trying 'em on—they fit, me se, nicely.
Guess keep 'em. Semprotthis, I wish
you would take all these coats and things
out of the wardrobe-1 want it for my
dresses." •
" Mit where shall I keep them, Miss
Pa—?"
" What, did you say ?"
" Mrs. Tel.er, I would remark—"
"Oh, under the bed, or somewhere !
Pink soap, eh? 1 preler Castile,Co'ogne,
eau de Foul iI i, COW Cream. Who'd Pup
pose you were such a dandy, Sempronim?
You must have plenty of money. By the
way, suppose you give me the money to
keep, dear ! manage it a great deal
more economically than you'll be likely to
do."
" But—"
"Give me the money!"
Mujor Teller meekly put his hand in his
pocket, and submissively handtd over his
purse.
" Well, now you had better go about
your business' said the gentle bride,
" and not come home until tea time--I do
so dislike 'men lounging ' around in the
way forever ; and don't come Back smell
ing of tobacco, if you know what is•good
for yourself, Sempronins Teller !"
The Major crept silently away, think,.
ing 'how the last time he.crossed the door.
sill he was a free man, and:now—
" I'm married !" mused the,Majr4.
couldn't help it ;.it wasn't my fault.
, But here I art, no Money, no cigars, no
freedomworse thttn2ll , g4lpy slave--.six.
ty years old,,next month, and—married to
Patience Pettigrew!" . .
Re walked disconso'ately down '• the
'street, I,oth handslni his:empt rpockets;
and' his. hat ;tipped down :restlessly.over:
his eyes.
A greater bontirdo could have
linen iiiifighied than' egisied between- rtii4
needy, "wreteititql looking man,
and tlia' littio r akior
l
.Teller of six hours ago! * 1" 41.1
..17.i.:.1.3.1.:11:1,25 =0:11
lIMIEII
He Citight A fleeting glance of himself
in a mirror belonging: .t.ci some , picture
frame store, as , he sauntered by—it even
startled himself. ,
" I wont - dein, have known myself" he
muttered gloomily. " Nell I'm married
now, married to Patience Pettigrew !"
He went:doUrn with fong, determined
strides towards the shining, broad stream,
where the ships lay peacefully at ant hur
and the little, boats shot )►ither and thith
er, and the waves' eParkling like sheets of
diamonds. All these things Major Teller
saw, without marking them, as he made
fur the pier.
" Want a boa►, sir ?" demanded a stun .
dy man.
" Yes,•' said the Major, "I want Char
on's boat to row me over Styx !"
" Don't know him, sir," said the puzzled
boatman, " but, mine is sound and light."
The Major waited to hear no more, bUt
gave a blind, downward jump.
Down, down with t hat peculas sensation
offalling so familiar to us all, down, down,
until—
"Beg pardon, sir, but the church is go
ing to be shut up, and every one's gone,
Hope you had a goOd nap, sir ?"
The -sexton spekei sarcastically, but in
his tones Major.Telle4 reconized hope and
frectlona. liu started wildly. to his feet,
exclaim4lg,,
.„
"Then I'M not mairia,.after. all, sexton ?"
" Maraied, sir ! Nov nults's you're been
married in your &tam."
" That's it, exactly !" ejaculated the
Major jumping up, ," I've been asleep and.
dri arcing ! '
ISlajorTidler satisfied the sexton with a
donation whoSe liberality astonished even
that personage, and went at-once to the
---11otel,to engage rooms.
send for my things," he thought ;
"-I Won't go back to that lest Miss'Pat
ience Pettigrew should do something des
perate. I'm not married, and I don't
wean to he P'
The Major was right. Discretion is the
better part. of valor•—and Miss Patience
Pettigrew remains Miss Patience Petti
grew still Mit Maj•ir -Teller goes to
church very regularly now I
The PresidenUil Question.
The Nov York Sun , now edited by
Mr. - Dana; late of the icago Republican,
an extreme radical, thus speaks of the
Western Democratic candidate for Presi
dent. It says:
"The Democracy in the great States of
the West have declared themselves, with
singular accord, in favor of the Hon.
George H. Pendleton, of Ohio, as their
Presidential candidate. It is a choice
which does honor to their judgment. Mr.
Pendleton is a gentleman, accomplished,
endowed with tine mariners an superior
abilities, bold and manly in the-,declara
tions of his opinions, skilled in public of
fairevand superior to low intrigue and
partisan dishonesty. It he were Presi
dent, he would administer the Govern
ment in a perfectly respectable matfher, in
accordance with his principles. He has
also the great advantage of having ideas
that belong to the present day. Ile does
not, like so m uiy others, grind over the„
resolutions of f 798, or confine himself to
asserting the policy he Eidvceated ten
years ago. These new ideas of his .are
briefly; that the five twenty bonds should
Lie paid in greenbacks, and not in specie,
and that the la hole Government debt
should he subject to taxation. These are
propositions that find melt favor, espe
cially in the Western States, and it is not
surprising that they should have added to
the well founded popularity of their au
thor."
OUTRAGE BY A NEGRO.—Cincinntiti, Jan.
FranktUrt, Ky., yesterday, - a ne
gro committed an outrage on an Irish girl
aged 15, and afterwards threw her over
an embankment at the railroad tunnel,
breaking her shoulder blade, and other
wise injuring her: The negru was arres
ted and lodged in jail. To night a crowd
of infuriated citizens assembled and forced
the jtil, taking the negro, and hanging
him to a tree on the top of the precipice
where the young lady wai thrown Over.
Several shots were fired into the body
whi!is hanging. The Governor knew noth
ing of the object. of the mob ,until they
had taken the prisoner from the j til, when
liii,ordered this Adjutant General and as
sistants to rescue the prisoner, but with
out effect.
Q: '°` Our intelligent (?) contemporary,
the t 4 .cranton Republican, in commenting
on Judge Woodward's convincing speech
on the !finances, declares that his posi.
Lions may be "good law but they are not
good sense." We think, and it is the ac
knowledgMent of all sound minds, that
"gond law" and " good sense" aro con.
vertible 'and•that bad law is bad
sense. - . . .
—The-radicals carried the eighth Con
gressional District/A . .0M0 atthe lastCon
greisinriM 1800, by alnajority
4.1452. •-• ALn gliecitil election recenily.
Kidd in Oft:yawn° district; the radicals car
ried it; by: about , one thousand majority,
losing - more than ,eight , hundred , votes,
and -thelvalidt. ;great victory.
monumentit) tbo. te Bishowriop.
Wiwi bk. uti bpi put. uplift. Tguity, Qbartil,
yew ayfrik.e:.
~,r. ;ri j rri t._
4 VOEilltr 4 ' XiV, NUMBER.I.::
, A Practical Joke . on a 4gaily.t; ,
A very extensive practical kohl? wu
portrated yesterday on Mrs. t .Harrisoul
Gray Otis, a 'lady -well' known tb the
world for her numercus acts of beilevoL
lence and charity. Some wag, it seems,
had sent a large number of bogus invita
tions to , members of the hetet. ,
ton asking
their attendance at a reception to, giv
en at her residence, - No. 41' Mount Ira=
non street s yesteray afternoon. Nett
withstanding the severe snook-every large
number of persockresponded.to this invi
tation, and at one time the street in front
of her dwelling was completely, bleeped
up with their carriages. But' theie were
not the only people hoaxed.. Innumera•
ble orders were sent to artisans of all
kinds—to plumbers, painters, carpenters,
gas fitters, etc.—to come and perform lit
tle jobs of repairing about the house—each
job minutely specified in the order. Oth
er orders were sent, to coal .dealera s flonr
dealers, grocers,
etc., to bring. stated.
quantities of their. respective kinds of
merchandise, to be delivered at' stated
times. , Even the services of en underta
ker were brought into requisition to lay•
out. the , body of a supposed, dead- cbildl,
' and in response to an ativerttemeijitin
menthek of the fefifie:lribe•viere
brought to fill out the misCollinetiniitind'
variegated .4sortinent. Wha - tho author
of this strange heait, is, we- are-tinablo to
state—but all thefaote- of-the case have
been ,placed into the hands of :Di lectitre
Leeds and his assistants, who will probe ;
the matter to the bottom. The several
orders are written in as many different:
stt les of hand writing. Mrs. Otis bore thiC
infliction very quietly and did...not'allow'
the matter to disconcert - her at la . - Two;
policemen from the Third. Station were
sent to the house to turn awaythometim. -
ized persons as fast they arrived'.
On Friday night at a late, hour, a burly
negro arrived in a train from the West,.
accompanied by a white Woman. whom be
laimed as his wife. They proceeded to •
a first class hotel and the negro dethanded •
lodgings. lle was told there •-was • no,
room for him. This threw him into e
rage. He declared that he 'cared nothing
about himself, but hie wife hadbeeti.insul
ted by this refusal of a room; and he te.
rented it on her part. The hotel clerk
was not intimidated by the threats okhe
sable gentleman, and when he bad been
permitted to make as much disturbance
as would have been allowed to a white
man he was ejected from the botol.by the
porter, and with his white lady went,in
search of apartments where prejudice
against the color did not exist. had this
occurred in one of the ten Sates under
military despotism a guard of soldiers
would have been sent to take charge of
the hotel and the proprietor would have
been imprisoned.—Rochester Union, fan.
20.
A Laughable Mistake.
A lady of unmistakable beauty, but Who
was evidently not a close newspaper rend. •
er, stepped into one of our most fashion
able jewelery establishment yesterday,and,
desired to he shown some gold chains.—
After a. minute and tedious .qxainination
she selected bite of exquisite finish . and
beauty and asked t hat it be sectireltivrapt...
The coorteons clerk smilingly oboyed,.aixl
handed over the article. Ilis.suiprise
positively stunning, when the purcheser
threw down four quarter dollar notes, and
started to leave. " Filly nine dollars
more, if yon please," vociferated the exci.
ted clerk. " Excuse me, sir," responded
the lady, at the same time returning the
package, and adding " I thought this was
the dollar store !"—Riehmond Enquirer.
LOSING PAU ENC E.—The Newark 44-
yertiser (Reptiblean) rebukes the intem
perate leaders in Congress, who have ser
verely tested the patience of the people
rrid are now losing their confidence. The
Advertiser, which is good Republican att
thorily, Pays "There shou'd be less re
construction;. less attempts to legislate
courts into enforced silence, and generals
out of command. No doubt of it. The
Chicago Republican says, with reference
to the reconstructin policy of Congress,
that the people " will not approve th•
adoption of means to trample down pres
ent obstructions which may prove dao
gerous precedents in the) futnr3." Nei
ther is there any doubt of this.
Wur.m.iNc, January 28—The election
of municipal officers and conneilnien yes.
terday, resulted in favor of the Deinberate
by an averge majority of 500, a gam' over
last year.
, .
Guam. ama Hartford
Times learns that:ll6race Greeley, list ;
week, in conversation with- . a
over.
•
friend who ,was groaning ; over . , the, pros
peel that the 'radial's . ivatihthavo.fo swab
low Grant, said to him :
give yourself any troub!a: about— Giant.
lie stands , nokeliance.f whatever :Star that
nomination at. Chicago:'. , ,
—Th© Springfield Republican =pate this
ennundriini to CongresF,:f'lf thaSupreao
Conn should cleeitlii-the4wriathirda law it•
self unconst it titiona!, and-by t two4hirds
vote, what's if) bu, deno next
1)11 .- 2Zi ji\I N 'd e g ' it z or e i",pti b tb i ttq a ? "- Vai;C
MWM=l==M=l
Miscegenation Indignant.