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It is a fact to be remembered, wnoLUSALE dealers in jn this connection, that jut twenty years Groceries, Provisions, MquorSj&c. ro the Whip party, in 'National Convon- No. 80 Dey street, New York. i t Harbor, courted the alliance June 16, 1859.-ly , the rSouth. and t0. propiliatc that sec- ,,,,,- rz" tion, after suppressing a declaration ot ADDESS OF THE ' principles, nominated John Tyler. Did . not the sleeping success of lo40 prove to Republican Esecut ve lommiiicc, be a barren victory, causing bitter dis- OF PHILADELPHIA. j senHon. and ending in the extension of 'the slave power, and the subsequent trt To the People of Pennsylvania. jumpb of tbe Den,ocratic partv 7 It is an imperative duty, on the part Principle, the basis of lhe Union. of those inexorably opposed to the extcn- j . rea, uniou Ujat caQ mast ston of slavery into territory now free, to of ' , un, combination organize agreeably to the recommenda- must conforra to tion of the National Republican Lxecu- commou To a t tQ force ;nto live Committee, is.ued in Aucust laM; and unnatura, union UDCOn,enial for anta0. accordingly, the Central , Lepublican js on) court defcat. Club of Philadelphia has been form-, We must ho;vevcrbe UDderfitood as d for the purpose of earnestly advocating . ,outhern sympathy for our cause, the right of man, and toe rights 0. labor Qr vote, fo;our candidates - and the true doctrines of free government, g,, d tQ the as prooUimcd in the platform of the lie-, Southern statefemtn bv the Nation- publican party, and tor securing tne tn-, umph of thce vital principles in thc Presidential election of I860. nr. film firtrn-n?afinn. ThisClubwilldcvoteitself to tbe forma-. States. It must be built up in the spirit tionof acorrcctpublicscntiniqntonalltbe of the southern statesmen of other and creat issues of thc day, in order that the i better days. Some of thc wisest and best enrcad of the giant cure of .slavery over men of the South are earnestly with us, ibc virgin lands of thc West may be ar-jnd, under their heroic leadership, we Yetted: that the sectional and profligate f hall find a party m nearly every south party now dominant in the national coun-! orn State openly supporting our creed and cils may be driven trom power; mat jusi"' u.uv.. and adequate protection to the labor of the country may tc denniKMy Eecureuj tind that the government may recover it lost purity, by the triumph and retora-1 gaJe aud a perlect triumph of Republi tion of tbe beneficent principles of Wash- is if the State Convention, fairly isgton. Jefeerson, and Clay. Th" Club cordially invites all freemen who sympathize in these view- to (on;o all minor issues, and regardless of for mer political differences, to join the or ganization and give their exertions tow ard securing victory in the forthcoming national contest. Impartiality of thc Organization. This Club established to advance the cause of freedom, by Kboring for tbe e loetion of whomsoever The Natioal Re publican Convention slmll nominate for President and vice "President, and docs not, and shall not, permit it-rlf to alvozalc or oppose the nomination of any of the eminent statesmen who have beeo sagsested as thc nominees. Thus, this organization is opon for thc friends of all thc candidates. Relation to the People's Party. We know it will be urged that.tbe prin ciples and aims of the People's party of this State are similar to the principles and aims we have briefly alluded to Our object is to make them ideutical and to bring that party, of which Republicou form'the great mas-, into more direct and earnest c0 operation with tbe great Re publican party of the nation. Our Peo ple's party, though admirably adapted for conducting mauicipjil and State eleo tiou, is hardly fit, as now influenced, to rf . national catnoaiu. It docs wwu'iuv - r 0 1 '. .. n TloMntlTll HllR-tiionS UKJid BUW 111 ViUlJIi V W w.v. 1 . ... ft.. with th3 Republican party in tno otates rescntativc delegate in their respective ais wherc victory is certain, and by whose tricts, evidently indicating, t-o far as the vote, mainly, -can national success be a-j Committee had power, that the selecting ohioved. We should instantly take tnea- j0f delegates belonged of right to the people nures to more closely affiliate with the' of the several districts. The actual worda Republican party in those States, and if0f tbe resolution, as passed by the Cotn we, the Republican members of the Peo- j mittee, not having been copied in thc call, pie's party, composing a large portion of I and the following phrase substituted, "des tbat organization, yield up our glorious ; innate the time & mode of electing district name to conciliate those who are honestly I delegates to the National Convention," acting with us, they bould not object to 1 maj be construed into an invitation to tho bucu unequivocal aeciaraiioui 01 pi iuh - na mav assure our delesation a wel come reception in tbo councils of that great national party. Terms of Alliance with the People's Parly. Should the call of the National Repub lican Convention, the People's party of our State in order to make their dele gates eligible to Vial Convention, mustei- (JOIM v..6.-.v ther send tucm us Lx-vpuwiwii, ui pivUjjU them to principles idcUical ivith those qf Pve jtepuuiicui puiif. mv, -cans, ahull not recommend to our fellow Republicans, and other co-laborers in the CauSQ OJ ireuuuuj, iu g'i"v' j o- a! f ,a PrtnnlA's nftftt.vl Wo in-, 1U lUO USIUO U IU6 i vjiv - f j tend to work zealously in its rauks, pro - Tided tbat, in all its declarations auu , that oartv hhall openly enunci ate our principals, and labor for their success. But, while thus frankly declaring our preference to principle over a mere party name, in tbe same spirit we proolaim that we shall not acquiesce in any oall for a People's" National Convention, if such a call, in a delusive spirit ot compromise De resonea upon. '""fe,. m Bcheme would bring us m direci anwK- nism with our party in other States, and rV".'s T6Va'-nZ;?7du Oout-ide of Peuneylvarjia, there is no dis- V . . , J . ' ,uaTn onv tlOCttVC People fl party, DOr IS mere any neecasi.y for the formation of any. Noth- jnir can be coined by accepting tbe plain- .. . .i i A ... j ible sophistries, thinly disguised under nomc Qf "conservatism," which appeal to U "t0 COBciHate lhe Opposstion at thc Soiltl." Antagonistic as that Southern Opposition may be to the Democratic party, and numbering as it does some bundredn of thousand of voter,, scattered , over fifteen State", Zt cannot ca) ry 071C OJ , y. b should we jeopardize J. ' . , ,J r . our succcess in States carried uy us in jo onJ fnr ilQ.orrflJn in 1 SfiO hv ATI Conrcntion Most certainly we desire a party at thc South to co-opcrato with us. It must bo a party whose platform and leaders s-bn.ll be thc same as in the free Whut the Slate Convention oitght to do. Wc believe that the "People's prty" is well calculated to secure the vote of our ca-uism. if the State Convention, fairly called and fairly constituted, will conform to the usages of the old U big and all for mer Oituo-ition Dartics in this State, hi leaving the election qf district delegates to thc jSatwnaf Lyvcnlion with the people of the several Congressional districtn ot the Commonwealth. On thi-i essential point, we have, how ever, serious misgiving. The call of the State Central Committee "for a State Con vcntioutobe held at Flarri.-burg, 22d of February next, to indicate their choice for the Presidency, to appoiut two sena torial, an-i to dei:uate the time and man ner of tieotiug the district delegates to the National Convention" is before the people. We ak what convention is meant! I it to lhe Republican or a People' Na tional Contention that the delegates are to be accredited I We find other and more serious feature- in the call to excite apprehension, and are constrained from a sense of duty, to solomuly protest against it, sofar as it relates to the district delegates, for the reas on that the call is not in confornity with the resolution of thc comusitteo authori zing it. Thc fifteen ot the thirty-four memters of the Committee, who were present at the meeting which determined on the call, after defeating the proposi tion before them to have all .the delegates to a National Convention chosen by a State Convention, resolvod that the call for a Convention should be "to designate a time aud and manner for electing a rep km uitu, " ' . j - vvvvvv. . q - ... -WW . ... . - t coiSYEisTioisioujjJuini,uuuivreprtciuuivc delegates, instead of a recommendation to the people of tho several Congressional dis tricts to elect them We fear that tbis very remarkable discrepenoy between tho terms of the call and the resolution au thorizing it, will be considered by tho people at large as presumptive evidence of a scheme to foist on the party a a sol id and packed delegation to the National j, uonvention. ry0 therefore, remonstrate against the call as it stands, and ask that it bo amen ded so as to be in strict conformity with tbe resolution of the Committee and wish ca 01 iu puupio. " - nf tUa ,ol1 An nof. n 1 1 nl 11 1 v bind es of the people. We are aware tl)3t tho I ICI UJH Ul lut vuli . j ltoc action 0f the Convention, and that it ,8 to tue (jOUvention usen mat- mo peopie must look for tho settlement of this im portant question. How the unity of the People's Parly may be preserved. It is to be hoped that the State Con vention will consider well before it acta decisively on this vital question; and tbat ue matter what appeals, wtiat turoais, or , l, , Ka.Minn Un mflmbers. ius- " ,, T r th Pponl's jttcc to all the elements of tho Peoples STROUDSBURG, MONROE party, and to all the eminent statesmen named for tbe Presidency, will prevail, and prompt thc Convention to leave tbe selection of district delegates to tbe peo ple, to idiom only, of right, tlie selection , belongs. Such action will perfect harmo ny and preserve the alliance that has j made the People's party so formidable to j the enemies of freedom and industry. If ou the other hand, unmindful of the usage of all former parties in this State, (except that of the so-called Democratic party,) the State Convention, in defiance of every principlo of common fairness and justice, shouM appoint the representative (IdcnatesXt action will be deemed a usur- I pation, and will be resisted by the mass of the party. j It it self-evident tbat tbe unity and fu ! turc efficiency of tho People's party will I depend absolutely on the correct action ' of the forthcoming State Convention. If its platform shall boldly re-affirm unal terable opposition to the extension of sla very, express devotion to the protective system, resolve to support the nominees ot the National Convention to be called by the Republican Executive Committee, and provide for the election of delegates to that Convention by the people in their respective districts, the party will bo an irrosi-tihle unit, able to cast the electoral vote of Pennsylvania against tbe ceotton al Democratic party by a majority of 50, 000. Impreesed with theso convictions, we call on all ivho desire to wrest the govern ment from the hands of tlie profligate party . . noio in pioicer, to join our organization, , and, in a spirit of conciliation and obliv- j other's ultracisms and unite on principles held in common. How to secure Protecton to American In dustry. In this way only can we secure the suc cess of tho sound doctrine of protection, by which the inexhaustible resources of our own Commonwealth may be developed and the wealth, independence, and pros perity of tbe nation augmented. The advocacy of the reciprocal inter efts of capital and labor, working harmo niously under tbe protective system, (a system invariably overthrown by the South almost as soon as established,) belongs j naturally to tbe National Republican par ty, and the protective system can beprao- tically put m operation only ny tne tri umph of tbe inevitable corrollary of tho doctrine of free soil and free labor. Free paid labor lies at tbe basis of all our prin ciples. Hence we are in favor of estab lishing free States aud free States only, over the Western Continent, from ocean to ocean, in which labor, tbe true wealth of natious, niy vindicate its diguity and deve.iop the blessings of the highest civil ization. Adverse to slavery iu every res pect, anxious to expose its manifold evils, still, we would be content in political dis cussion to limit argumeut solely to ita o conomical feature- to an examination of it as system of labor, satisfied that in treating.it purely as a labor question, we would convince the working men not on ly of the north, tut of the South, and not only working men but capitalists of all sections, even slave-owners themselves, tbat clavery is an illogical, unprofitable, and de-itructivo sytem of labor, adverse to the interests of every man, woman, and child in the nation, who is obliged to la bor for a living. Free Homes for the industrious poor. Besides advocating a discriminating tariff, we advocate another system of pro tection to the working men, which secures them high wages, by keeping open for them tho lands of the West, to which they may emigrate, whenever, under tho influx of migration from Europe or any other oause, uuduc competition may tend to re duce wage3. The Republican party is thus specially the advocate and protector of the interests of tbe working men and women of tbe whole country, who recog nize that the present level of wages is maintained and can only bo maintained by securing the vast publio domain, as a refuge for them and theirn, whenever there are more hands than can find em ployment. j To our Southern brethren, we say, in the free Territories of our common coun try there h"all be a place re-erved for you and your children, in case that misfortune or slave competition ball drive you from your homes into exile, as it has sent mil lions, where you shall be untrammeled and undegraded again by laboring along side of unpaid slaves where tbe press, ' the school-bouse, and tbe church, those bulwarks of liberty, make men happy, prosperous, aud tree. The slander of Scctionalistn. And for these views, the views of the fathers of tbe republic, our party has been malignantly assailed as sectional, and will again be subjeot to these groundless im putations. We appeal to history to prove tbo revoreeof these charges, and are calm in tbe conviction that men can no longer be deluded. The Republican party orig inated to resist the sectionalism of the South and of the Democratic party. That party hath ruthlessly struck down the laud marks erected to freedom. Tho Republican party incorporates into its creed the principles of WASHINGTON and Jefferson, and, of more recent memory, those of Heny Clay, so far as relate to slavery; and if wo are sectional, bo were they. It will in the, end disabuse the South of all its alarms, and will co-operate with COUNTY, PA. DECEMBER 22, 1839. the South to restore the principles of the early irresiucnts. net mo ooutn aonere to the rules of government as advocated by the Republican party, and the strug - ule betwecu treodom ana slavery will ena.jionai oiunais oi ins creauou. How did this struggle commence, and who are rssponswiv. T. . . . ..... . are rssponswle, i ,s notorious t ie propag.nau.. , . . . aud deQiand(1 that of slavery have taken the lead and kept fJ Wje tQ be ft natJoU!il up agitation, and because thc men or the . ... . , ,, . jn Ji ? , ' , , , . , institution, everywhere allowable under North have concluded to have slavery CongtUntioilf kept where it is they are denounced We, g. h;thorto b all fflan. must suffer ourselves to be borne down ... . , . fy z , j , . A , , i i kind as a violation of human rights auu under the tread of the slave power or wc the flroation of uive , j atbt,.; daj. are pronounced sectionahsts and agitator.. tQ fce ,rDorraal and ,Daturalt aud Who rebelled against acta of Congress: with ,he ConslitutioD. For fostering national industry, and tried to tbe twclve tho B,avchold?n nullify constitutional leg'-lation l Who . ag an uni have djs. agitated for Texas ? Who divided up ; j d' theirbp0Wer in reversing the legis Mexico, and agitated to carry rfawry in- jfatioD of theoaDtry, in corrupting thc to that territory of ; freedom 1 Who struck; and dobachi tbc entimeDts down the Missouri Uompromise T W no;- f t. ' , r overrun Kansas, and sent devastation! and ruin into everv habitation T Who undertook to subvert tho will of the peo plo of that Territory T Who subdued the highest Court known to our institutions, and wrung from it an opinion antagoni zing all, law, liberty, and humanity? Was this tbe work of the freemen of tbc North 7 Is it not true that the Demo cratic party attempted to do all this in subserviency to tbe slave interests, and to advance tho slave power I Subjugation qf the Supreme Court. The last citadel of the fortress of liber ty has -urrendered to the slavery propagandist-, aud every branch of the govern ment now obeys their behests. The ballot-box alone is left to tbo people. The Judges of the Supreme Court, no longer representing tbe people in the fair ratio they did when the Court was established and its circuits formed, have allowed that this high tribunal to becomo sectional and partisan in its decrees. Thc vast excess of population of the free States over the population of the slave States is unrepresented. The Court, as constituted, represents territory not men. We contend that it shall represent not acres but voter. The slave States, whose population, by the census of 1S0, embracing 3,200,000 slaves, is 9,000,000. have five Judges, in cluding tho Cheif Justice, whilst the free States, with a population of 13,500,000, have ouly four Judges. At tbe dictatiou of the slave power, this high tribuual, by means of a case collu?ively brought be fore it, traveling out of the record, has extrajudicially given tbe weight of its hitherto venerated authority to the most dangerous and despotio of all tbe innova tions of tbe slavery propagandists. In tho Dred Scott decision, the Court invent ed law expressly for the occasion, ignor ing principles of tbe common law, the law of nation, the natural law, and the Divine law, iu order to invest with legal sanctity the docma that man is property by the Con-titution. In the midst of thc nineteenth century, in order to elevate and sustain a barbarism in violent con flict with thc age, the Supreme Court have reversed legal principles which have fundamental axioms from the days of Justinian to the days of Mansfield. The highest law officer of the Government is at this time defending this outrage on hu man right-, and preparing the natioual mind for the practical enforcement of the abomination. Pennsylvania Virtually a Slave Slate. Tbe slave propagandists already claim that, by virtue of tbi- decision, every foot of the United States is as much slave ter ritory as South Carolina. They are just upon the point oi mauing tne nni auu croviug demand, that, by virtue of the same decision, they have a right to hold their slaves in Massachusetts and Penn sylvania. Under this construction of the Consti tution, wo, of Pennsylvania, know not how soon the slave master may bring his chatties within our borders, and hold them among u by authority of law The question now is not bow to keep slavery out of the Territories, but how to keep it out of the Free States not how to coun teract its debasing effects at a distance, but how to avert its disolating pollution from our own hearth-stonef. It is evident, to every observing mind, tbat tbc welfare of our country is bound up in the slavery question. Its solution cannot be evaded or postponed, and par ties must distinctively declare their posi tions on this vital issue. We make no war on tho institution of slavery in the States of tho Union. We regard it as the patriots of the Revolution and the fath ers of the Constitutions regarded it, to bo a oiant evil in moral and political econo my; but whilst deploring its existence J ' . ... l. 1L . lonng its existence, it to be under the there, wo recognize -" - o . , . i protection of State Sovereignties, and not; to be interfered with in those States, ex cept by their own citizens. , firhUpvnf Hi p. Slavery Question But beyond thc pale of State Sovereign- sentiments join our opponents troops ot ty, in whatever shape it may assume, the good and true men, native nd natural question of slavery is an open question ized, Democrats, Americans and Whigs, for tbo wholo people of the Union to de- will uuite with us. . .... cide upon with the same rights and in the Let us organize at once, forget all old same manner as they decide upon any differences, and be prepared for action on other political question-through a ma- the plainest, the broadest, tho best, and iority of their representatives in Congress, the most purely national hsuo committed In this way all issues growing out of this to tho American people sinco July tho creat subjeot have hitherto been peacea- 4th. 1770. bly settled by the Congress of the Union WILLIAM B. THOMAS. President, under the Constitution, until tbe passage A. M. Walkinshaw, Secretary. of tbe Kansas-Nebraska bill. By this act n9fld- lawa to Ecnd Congress, under the misnomer ot popular fne cn' ra" , tinkeriu Sovereignty, surrendered its contrul orerU, is hardly worth the tinktnug. the subjeot of slavery in tbe Territories, udiuusiuijt iu iu urat n-n uiuu-uuui. might chance to settle a territory, but, , practically, to the Executive and Tcrri- The slave nower. no longer content with the inviolable protection to it- spo- . 0 oial chattle property under btate cover . tf c , i-; t .1 i I extending and legalizing slavery where- over the flag of our country floats, and making the blighting curse national and , perpetual. j The rapid progress of these monstrous doctrines, the defiant energy with whicb t they are asserted, and tbe unscrupulous means adopted to enforce them, alarm ; with rcasou every true patriot, lhe evil must be met the day of compromise has passed the time has arrived to settle the question of slavery or freedom in all tbe Territories of the Union, defiantly and forever on the unmistakable basis of no more slave territory. Aggressive Spirit qf the Slave Power. Resides resisting the extension of slavc rv. we must extinguish the aggressive spirit of the slave power as manifested in its lustful and piratical attempt at seizure of the Territories or our feeble tereign neighbors, and thus redeem our national character from the dishonor cast upon it by these atrocious violations of law aud common bouesty. Tho barbarous project for re-opening the African slave trade, the infamous but comprehenuive designs on Cuba and Nic aragua, the unholy conspiracies tor seces sion, and tbe formation of a Southern slaveholding confederacy both of which schemes are now opeuly advocated and covertly plotted by the slave power through its press, through its governors, judges, legislatures, members of Congress, and other prominent officials are significant facts, warning us that not only tbe fair fame of the nation, but the iutegrity of the Uuion itself is menaced by the cabals of arch traitors high in station and con trolling in influence. Tbe safety of our gloriom country depends on the efficiency oy of the Republican party. All other parties tamely bend before tbe haughty assumptions aud fierce will of the slavery propagandists, or openly act in alliance with them aud passively obey their man dates. Freedom, Free Labor, and Pro tection can be secured only by means of a party openly and solmenly pledged to their support, whoso -rank and file glow with sentiments aud aspirations that make them lovers of liberty and intense haters of defpoti-m in any and every form. Popular Sovereignly a Delusion. On the question ot slavery or no .ilave ry in the Territories, mere neutrality, as claimed to be euforccd by the doctrine of Popular of Squatter Sovereignty, is a cowardly evasion of the issue, and practi cally surrenders the subject to the impe rious control of tbc enemies of freedom. It is a doctrine irreconcilable with the well-settled principles of thc Constitution, with the undeviatiug usage of the government, is unsatisfactory, delu sive, and impracticable, because it i3 un derstood differently by differed sections of tbo country, and has not been and can not be explained satisfactorily by its au thor. The Republican party, composed of men from all parties; men who havo re volted against the iniquitous subserviency to tho slavo power, has shown, by thc graud demonstration in tho last Presiden tial canvass, that the government can be rescued from tho sectional aud profligate party who administer it. How to Triumph in 18G0. In order to be sucoensful, wo have but to bo firm, to proclaim boldly our consti tutional and truely democratic principles, to welcome with open arms all who will enlist under them, aud fight with us tbc risf. slaverv. Thus UUlllli v w J we may forever secure tho broad lands of the West for our children's children, and thc oppressed of Europe, for them to c rect thereon new States, in which tho sa cred rights of labor, freedom aud human ity kIihII forever be inviolate. Let us organize, then, for tho great . but let us ask no man to go with f.f , . f)l t.n fl!;Sontinl ole- US WUO u as uut mj.-' u"v v"-i of a UJtina neod anj a utorl. a US HUU UU3 uuu fcuu,. w " . - - bead to understand our principles, aud a hnnrt tn ohorish them. While men ot r.rnpi5ntivfi. intolerant and pro-slavery NO. 51. Care for Fits. For a Fit of Passoin. Walk out into the open air, you may speak your mind to the winds without hurting any one, or proclaiming yourself a simpleton. For Fit of Idleness Count the ticking of a clock; do this for an hour, and yoa will be glud to pull off your coat tbe next and go to work. For a Fit of Extravagance and Folly, Go to the work-house and speak with, the inmates of a jail, and you will be con vinced Who makes his bed of briar and tborn Muat be content to lie forlorn. For a Fit of Ambition. Go into "the ch'urch-y&rd and read the gravestones; they will tell you the end of ambition. The grave will soon be your bed-chamber, tbc earth your pillow ; corruption your father, and thc worm your mother and sister. For a Fit of Despondency "Look on thc good things which God baa given you in this world, aud to those which He has promised to His followers in the next. He who goes into his garden to look for cobwebs and spiders no doubt will find them ; while he who looks for a flower may return into bis house with one blooming iu his bosom. For all Fits of Doubt, Perplexity, and Fear. Whether they respect the body or the mind whether they are a load to the shoulders, the head, or tbe heart the following is a radical cure, which may be relied on. I had it from the Great Physician : " Cast tby burthen on the Lord, and Ho will sustain thee." For a Fit of Repining. Look about for tbe halt and blind, and visit tbe bed ridden, and tbe afflicted and deranged, and they will make you ashamed of com plaining of your lighter afflictions. Drawing an order on St. Panl. . Not many months ago, an Irishman fell from a load of grain in Andes, and tho wagon ran over and killed him. As usual, neighbors were kind in rendering necessary assistance in burying him. Being of tbe Catholic faith, his brethren concluded to have a "wake." A live A merican was pre-ent in aiding the friends to get ready for the funeral. Quite late in tho evening before burial, all hovered around the coffin to take a farewell look at the deceased, and ooncluded the exer cises by placing a five dollar piece in the coffin to bear his expenses in keeping out of purgatory. The American saw the operation, and when bis friends wero bu sy over their wine, removed the gold. Just before the burial, an examination was made and the coin was missing. Tbo theft was charged on the American, and he admitted it, but excused himself by saying that be had written a noto and placed it in tbe coffin, requesting St. Paul to draw ou him for tbe amount when the money was needed. He kept the money, and the poor dead man went to his rest ing place accompanied by an order and not the hard cash. Bloomville Mirror. A dishonest servant pirl, suspected by the proprietor of a New York hotel, was 'overhauled' just as she was about to de part, and concealed among ber hoops and clothing were found half a dozen cut glass tumblers, three or four glasses of currant jelly, several collar; and other wcarig ap parel; four fiue linneu handkerchiefs, two of which she used as garters, and with thc other two she secured her skirts, which were rather heavy from the weight of the ulas. ware; also two fiue sheets wrapped around her person and S15 sewed in tbe lining of her dress all of which had been stolen from various person in tbe house.' It took a long while to unpack her. jgaTAn Irishman was going along the road, when an angry bull tossed him over a fence. The Irishman recovering from a fall, upon looking up saw the bull paw ing and tearing up the ground, whereup on Pat, smiling at him said, "If it was not for your bowing and scraping and humble apology, you brute, faix, I should , think you had thrown me over the fence on purposel" Prentice suggests if the Mexicans want to learn the .secret of stable Government perhaps they had better send for Mri Rancy. It is nioro respectable to black bootsi than to black character to sew ahiraa than to sow strife. -' Tho editor of tho Boston Liberator' ' cajjs upon tue iadj08 0f?the North to niako? r i..f ; rn,,ii ini Uotl OI IIUIUIUU wiofc in i v uw. v. wj laor. He necd't expect them not to uso cotton. They will not expel so old" friend from their bosoms. "I repeat," aaid a person of questiona ble veracity, "that I am an honest man!" "Yea," 8aid a was?, "and how often will you bavo to repeat it before you .believe, it yourseif." ftST" Prido and roughness may turn one's humor, but flattery turna one' ston acu. A boy at an oxaminutiori in ant Enlirth school, was asked who discover- ed America. The answer was'xankee Doodle,"
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