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BT W. FELCH.
Give us this day our daily bread,
And pies and cakes besides,
To load the stomach, pain the head,
And choke the vital tides;
And if too soon a friend decays,
Or dies in agony—
We'll talk of '"'God's mysterious ways,"
And lay it all to thee.
Give us, to please a morbid taste.
In spito of pain and death,
Consumption strings around the waist,
Almost to stop tne breath.
Then, if infirmity attends
Our stinted progeny,
In visitation to our sins, —
We'll lay it all to thee.
Give us big busrles in the rear,
(We ask it not in fun,)
A thiug for corn field crows to fear,
And hens to roost upon.
And if we heat the hips and 6pine,
What matter should it be!
When sickness follows we can whine,
And lay it all to thee.
Give us good houses, large and tall,
To look the cabins down, —
Aud servants dodging at our call,
And shaking at our frown
The poor, hower worthy they,
We'll treat right scornfully—
Then sixpence pay communion day,
And settle up with thee.
We do disdain to toil and sweat,
Like girls of vulgar brood !
Of labor give us not a bit,
For physic, nor for food.
And if for want of exercise,
We lack the stamina,
Of those we trample and despise,
We'll lay it all to thee.
If any curse we have forgot,
That on a votary,
Fashion lets fall, withhold it not,
But send it grievously.
And if too hard, to mill-stone light
For frail humanity,
We'll never blame ourselves a might,
But lay it all to thee.
; Yes, give us coffee, wine and tea,
And hot things introduce,
The stomach's warm bath thrice a day
To weaken and reduce 1
And if, defying nature's laws,
Dyspeptic we must be—
We scorn to search for human cause,
Bat lay it all to thee.
Report ob Federal Relations.
Nr. BEAUMONT, chairman nf the committee,
eubmitted the following—Read in the House of
Representatives, Monday, Feb. 25.
The system of government formed by the
fathers of the republic is, perhaps, the most
perfect and best calculated to securo the bles
sings of civil, religious and political liberty
to our race, that ever was devised by the wis
dom and benevolence of man. To under
stand it is to admire it with profound rever
ence. All the confusion or derangement
that has occurred since its organization has
been occasioned by an ignoranco of its ad
mirable relations or hostility to its safo limi
tations Rightly administered and undistur
bed by faction, it moves on in [perfect har
mony—but guided by unskillful or mischiev
ous hands, its symmetery is destroyed and
its harmony deranged.
Like all benevolent institutions, however
calculated fo secure the happiness and wel
fare of man, it has had its adversary, the
spirit of malevolence and misanthropy, run
ning parallel with it. Thus far, however,
sustained by the patriotism of a treo people,
Under the favor of a kind Providence, it has
survived the unpatriotic machinations of its
enemies, and still stands the wonder and ad
miration of the world. It was formed by a
body of illustrious men, such as the world
has never seen before, and probably will
never see again; men who had passed
through the hardships and privations atten
dant on reclaiming a savage land from its
barbarous possessors, and who had walked
through the fiery ordeal of a seven years'
war with the most formidable power on earth
in a struggle for liberty and independence.
They were chastened by danger and purified
by suffering, and they have left to us and
posterity this beautiful monument of their
virtue and patriotism. Then let us rally a
rouud it and preserve it and hand it down to
those who may occupy our places, as fresh !
and unimpaired as we receive it at the hands
of our patriotic fathers.
To secure the continuance of this Union
which is the ark of our safety,and in [which I
are embarked so many blessings to ourselv- i
es and the hopes of the millions who shall i
come after us, is the highest duty jhat an A
tnerican citizen is culled on to peiform,
short of his duty to his God. may we
not say that our duty to our country, which
secures to us such choice blessings, and sus
tains us in tho dignity o! freemen—which !
enables us to worship llinijaccording to the
dictates of our own conscience, is blended
with our duty to our Maker !
BLOOMSBURG,' COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1890. ~ T
But this UP ion can onfy be preserved by a
strict observance of the solemn stipulations
and convenants entered into at its formation,
and by a rigid abstinence by Congress from
the exercise of all forbidden or doubtful
powers.
Quod dubitat negat is a safo maxim to
guide the Federal Government in the exer
cise of powers. It is not enough that a pow
er may be vacant; unless that power be
clearly delegated to Congress by unequivo
cal terms, it has no right to exercise it. For
the safety and harmony of the people %f
these states, it were better that such power
be not exercised, than that Congress should
set the dangerous example of assuming
powers not referrfed to it. Most revolutions
have been produced by the exercise of arbi
trary or unauthorized powers. Charles the
First collected "ship-money" and attempted
the exercise of other powers without author
ity of Parliament, and in the end paid the
forfeit of his crown and his head for the
lawless exercise of his porogative.
The British government arrogated to itself
the right to tax the colonies without repre
sentation, and to transport persons beyond
seas to be tried for alleged offences, and to
do many other violent acts against the set
tled usages and maxims of British liberty—
and it lost those colonies, and hence our
freedom aud greatness.
The Union was form((Ry thirteen inde
pendent sovereignties, so declared by the
immortal Declaration of 4th of July, 1776, &
verified by the triumph of our arms and the
treaty of 1783, acting upon the principles of
a perfect equality. They were drawn to
gether by common triumphs, common inter
ests, and the instinct of a common safety.
To promote the acts of peace among them
selves, to guard each other's individual sove
reignty, to secure the interests of a wide
commerce, to maintain the relations of
peace with all nations, and to ward off inva
sion and violence from abroad, were among
the objects to be attained by this union. It
was apparent that some power must he or
ganized to exercise certain functions which
could not be exercised by these sovereign
ties individually. To this end a government
was formed by a convention of the States,
and invested with the following specific
functions.
In articlo first of tho Constitution of the
Unitee States of America, section VIII, it is
declared "That Congress shall have power—
1. To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts
and excises, to pay the debts and provide for
the common defence and goneral welfare of
the United States; but all duties, imposts
and excises shall bo uniform throughout the
United States.
2. To borrow money on the credit of tha
United States.
3. To regulate commerce with foreign na
tines, among the several States, and with the
Indian tribes.
4. To establish a uniform rule of naturali
zation and uniform laws on the subject of
bankruptcies throughout the United States.
5. To coin money, regula'e the value
thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the stan
dard of weights and measures.
6. To provide for the punishment of coun"
terfeiting the securities and current coin of
the United States.
7. To establish post offices and post
roads.
8. To promote the progress of science and
useful arts, by securing for limited times to
authors aud inventors the exclusive right to
their respective writings and discoveries.
9. To constituto tribunals inferior to the
Supreme Court.
10. To define and punish piracies and fel
onies committed on the high 6eas, and offen
ces against the law of nations.
11. To declare war, grant letters of mar
que and reprisal, and make rules concerning
captures on land and waters.
12. To raise and support armies; but no
appropriation of money to that uso shall be
for a longer term than two years.
13. To provide and maintain a navy.
14. To make rules for the government and
regulation of the land and naval forces.
15. To provide for calling forth tho mili
tia to execute the laws of the Union, sup
press insurrection and repeal invasion.
16. To provide for organizing, arming and
disciplining the militia, and for governing
such part of them as may be employed in
the service of the United States, reserving to
the States respectively tho appointment of
officers and the authority of training the
militia according to the discipline prescribed
by Congress.
47- To exercise exclusive legislation in all
cases whatsoever, oversuch district (not ex
ceeding ten miles square,) as may by cession
of particular States and the acceptance of
Congress become the seat of government of
tho United States; and to exerciso liko au
thority over all places purchased by tho au
thority of the. Legis'ature of the State in
which the same shall be, for the erection of
forts, magazines, arsenals, dock yards and
other needful buildings; and
18. To make all laws which shall bo ne
cessary and proper for carrying iuto execu.
tion the foregoing powers, and all other pow
ers vested in this Constitution, the Govern
ment of the United States, or in any depart
ment or officer thereof."
These are the specific powers delegated
to the Congress of tho United Status by the
framersof thnt inimitable monument of hu
man wisdom, and which alone are the an
thority for its action, and the express limits
of its legitimate (unctions. And in order to
render this guarantee against the exercise of
arbitrary or undelegated poweradoubly sure,
our prudent fathers appended to that instru
ment, byway of amendment, the lollowing
articles:
Under the head of "Amendments" i*. is
declared—
•'Article IX. The enumeration ,in the
Constitution of certain rights shall not be
construed to deny or disparage others retain
ed by the'people.
Article X. The powers not delegated to
the United States by Constitntion, nor pro
hibited by it to tho States, are reserved to
the States respectively Of to the peopic.
Hence the State sovereignties are the con
stituents of the Federal government, which
consequently must be limited strictly to the
exercise of the powers delegated to it by the
States. And hence it would follow that each
State is bound to comply with and fulfill in
good faith all the solemn stipulations of that
instrument—and that any obstacles inter
posed or laws enacted by any State, in der
ogation of any of the covenants contained
in that constitution, are revolutionary, and
should be promptly repealed and removed.
No State should avail'itself of the benefits
of this great compact of tne Union, and at
the same time refuse or neglect to perfoim
the conditions andwitlihold the considera
ion of that compact.
Under the head of the fourth article in the
second section, and third clause, it is de
clared that "no person held to service or la
bor in one Stato, under '.he laws thereof, es
caping into another, shall, in consequence of
any law or rjgulation therein, be discharged
from such service or labor but shall be deliv
ered up on the claim of tho party to whom
such service or labor may be due."
This clause of the Constitution was equal
ly binding on the States and the people of
tho States as any of the foregoing articles or
clauses of that instrument, aro obligatory
upon the Federal Government. Yet your
committee feel themselves bouitd to say that
in their opinion, it has been infringed and
its solemn injunction disregarded by moro
than one member of the confederacy. This
cause of complaint should be removed, and
this reproach should be done away—not
withstanding the prejudice of some and the
impracticable chimeras of others should
clash with the fulfilment of this plain duty
to the ancient honor of our Stato and to tho
Union.
The precision with which the powers del
egated to Congress by the Slates were de
fined, and especially in the 17th clause of
the enumerated powers, is a caveat against
the assumption of any supposed or construc
tive powers. The authority of Congress and
of the Federal Government, in the apprehen
sion of your committee, is stricti juris, and
should be so regarded by those who are cal
led to exercise it. The General Government
therefore, strictly considered, cannot be re
garded as a sovereignty, but as the constitu
ted agent or guardian minister of sovreign
ties—otherwise our system would exhibit the
paradox of an imperium in imperio. The
maintenance of the State so vreignties in all
their original and appropriate functions and
vigor, as the only safe depositories of civil
rights, was unquestionably the object of the
contracting parties. Hence, every guard
seems to have been erected ageinst the ten
dency to consolidation, and the experience
of fifty years of the political operations of
our system has amply illustrated the truth of
their patriotic fears. Power is always steal
ing from the many to the few, and events
have proven that the chief danger that threat
ens the stability of this Union is the assump
tion by Congress of powers not delegated to
it. There are rightly understood, as your
committee concei"e, no concurrent powers
between the Federal and State Governments;
that is, powers that may at the same time be
exercised by the States and the Federal Gov
ernment. A powor ordinarily and appropri
ately oxercised by the States cannot legiti
mately be exercised by the Fideaal Govern
ment ; and the powers legitimately exercised
by Congress cannot constitutionally bo exer
cised by the State Legislatures. This prin
ciple well understood and respected, there
would be no clashing in our sytcm; but when
either power usurps what belongs to the
other, then arises the confusion. We res
pectfully appreh end that Congress has no
right to discuss the expediency or morality of
subjects not referred to it in the powers enu.
merated in the Federal Constitution.
The morality of every institution existing
in any of the United States at its adoption
was, so far as the General Government was
concerned, sanctioned and ratified by that
Constitution.
It is an error to suppose that the rights of
these State, or what are denominated "State
Rights," are confined to the limits of the
States. The rights of Pennsylvania as a
member of the ponfederacy, extended over
the Union and upon the high seas. Her
rights extend to all the territories of the Re
public, and no power short of violence can
abrogate those rights. And what rights she
claims for herself as amember of the Union,
she certainly will accord to others standing
in the same relation From her population
she is entitled to nearly one-tenth part of the
public domnins in all our territories: and her
citizens have a full right to migrate thereto
and settle and enjoy the land thereof, in
common and upon a perfect equality with
the citizens from other States, underthe rules
and regulations of Congress. Our citizens
when they migrate to the territories of the
United Stutes, have an indisputable right to
claim tho protection of the federal p>vem-
Truth and Right--CM and our Country.
mcnt, the common agent over their lives,
liberties and property. And the rights per
taining to Pennsylvania as a State, pertain
also in common to every State in the Union.
We apprehend that Congress has no legiti
mate power to discrinato between the prop
erly of one Stato and another; but what was
sanctioned as property by any of the States
at the time of the adoption of the federal
constitution, must bo regarded by Congress
as sacred. Thus when a citizen of Pennsyl
vania entors upon the common territory of
the Union, he has a perfect right to claim
and receive the protection or guardianship
of the United States over his person and pro
perty, as the common guardian of the rights
of the several States in that territory. And
this right is common to the citizens of all
the States indiscriminately—for Congress
has no delegated authority to discriminate
between the rights of the members of this
Union. On these principles was the Union
erected, and upon these principles it must be
maintained.
This Union is and must always be held
together by moral ties and a sense of equal
justice. Force and tyranny can never con
solidate and bind together a free people, con
scious of their rights and inspired with a
just patriotism. All bonds or manacles of a
naked power, unconnected with the convic
tion of justice, would fall asunder as flax at
the touch of fiTe, which applied to the sin
ewy limbs of American freemen. They
would spurn them as the lion spurns the
slender net of the hunter.
The severance of this Union would be
the signal of the direst calamnitiea to our
common country. The North as well as the
South—tho East as well as the West—would
share the fatal consequences of so melan
choly a catastrophe. The chiefest source of
prosperity to the North consists in their polit
ical connection with the South. By the form
of our revenue laws they enjoy immunities
that are the elements of their present unri
valled prospeity. The rich productions of
their manufacturing energies, in virtue of
our tariff laws, enjoy a bounty of more
than thirty porcont. over foreign competition,
which bounty, according to sorao very saga
cious political economists, amounts to the
enormous aggregate of fifty or sixty millions
of dollars annually—most ot which the North
would be deprived of by a disruption of the
Union.
Through iho mildness of her climate and
the ir.exhanstibletichness of her soil, produ
i ing an abundance of the so es
sential to the comfort and happiness of civili
ized man, the south would throw open its
ports and invite the commerce of the world
—and henco the north would be driven into
the open market and compelled to compete
with the "pauper labor" of all the European
nations, for the sale of her manufactures ;
the sources of her prosperity would thus be
cut off, her energies crippled, and her pres
ent nourishing condition would sink into de
cay. Besides, it would place the two great
fragments of the present Union in direct
hostility towards each other, both in policy
and prejudice. While the Union remains,
these interests, rightly understood, and di
rected by the spirit of comity, are mutual.
But dissolved, these rival interests and an
tagonistic passions must necessarily operate
to the destruction of both. Its disruption
would bo the death knell of liberty. Adark
pall would overspread the future, and no
ray of hopo would be left to guide and cheer
oppressed man in his struggles to regain his
crushed and down trodden rights. The fu
ture history of our continent would be writ
ten in blood. Wur, hideous war, with all its
horrors, wou.d stalk ovet this once glorious
and Heaven-favored land, and the spirit of
kindness and hur- ay would be quenched
in the wild frei , of social discord. The
scenes of all thai is noble, happy and lovely
—that greet and delight the eye and exait
the soul in this happy land, would be de
formed by slaughter and desolation. True,
the contention might cease by the conquest
of the weaker party. But would the con
queror but with smothered hatred and burn
ing revenge?
But a more fearful and protentous cloud
hangs over the sunny dfime of the South.
The protection afforded them by their con
nexion with the haidy yeomanry of the
North being withdrawn, they would bo ex
posed to attack and invasion from without,
but a still more dreadful foe from within.
The negroes, ayo, the negroes, acting from
their own savage impulses, or possibly goa
ded on by fanatics of a differcrt race, would
rise upon thoir while masters in all the fury
of their natural ferocity. A servile war
would ensue, more dreadful in its character
than any other human calamnity; and the
mothers, the daughters of our Southern bre
thren, and feeble age and helpless infancy
would becomo the prey of a brutal and bar
barous race, whose tender mercies in war
are more cruel than the grave. We have
seen these things in the time of profound
peaCo, while 110 extraordinary cause awaked
them to vengeance. Ami what horrors might
we not anticipate in a state of affairs which
should arouse into fearful action that fierce
vengeance which in its fury spares
neither age, sex nor condition?
Why should one portion of this Union
cherish or entertain hostile feelings towards
another ? The South and the North are all
of one great political family—one flesh and
blood—one brotherhood, bound together by
the ties of richest revolutionary recollections
—by the consideration of common sacrifices
and common triumphs—and one common
fame, if they be wise and prudent, awaits
them; but one common disgrace, if they
1 pursue mad counsels, and disregard the ad
monition of the Father of his Country.
The mission of Pennsylvania is a lofty
one. Hers is to fulfil her obligation to the
Union—to respect and maintain her own
rights, and the rights of her sister states. She
ought by no means or sinister appliances to
suffer herself to be made the instrument to
promote or advance the illicite or selfish de
signs of others who may be less patriotic
than herself. The interests of Pennsylva
nia are in harmony, and intimately blended
with the legititimate interests of every mem
ber of the confederacy. The protection of
her sister states in their appropriate rights is
the protection of her own ; for all the Statss
have a common interest in the maintenance
of "State rights" and the preservation of the
Union. She has as high a stake in the pres
ervation of the glorious institutions which
surround us, as any member of the confede
racy ; and from her position from the worth
and patriotism of her poulation, she should
stand the great protectress of the Union, re
straining, by her dignity, the spirit of fac
tion and fanaticism on the one hand, and
calming intemperate resentment on the other.
She should hush by her persuasive voice tlie
spirit of contention, and point to the Consti
tution as the only standard by which all fed
eral controversies must be adjusted. Your
committee do not despair of the Republic, ■
but fondly trust that, although there may be
a few factious and impetuous individuals
within its bosom, who would, in their mad
zeal, hazard all upon an impracticable expe
riment or naked abstraction, yet there ii a
lofty patriotism, a noblo forbearance, and an
undying lore of liberty and justice among
the people, sufficient to preserve and bind it
together against all the assaults of its ene
mies. And may God grant that it may be
perpetual.
(Signed) A. BEAUMONT,
THOS. C. SCOULLER,
GLENNI VV. SCOFIELD.
The Rich Banker.
CHRISTOPHER BUJ.LEN.—Christopher Bul
len, of the banking firm of Leyland, Bullen
& Co., recently died at his residence near
Liverpool. Mr. Bullen was probably one of
the wealthiest men in Europe, for he has, it
is confidently stated by tho English journal
ists, left behind cash to the amount of £5,-
000,000 or £7, 000,000. Although so very
rich, he was parsimonious to an extreme de
gree. He,resided in a house of his uncle,
Mr-Leyland the founder of the bank, but
although a comparatively small mansion, he
occupied only two or three apartments, and
allowed the remainder to fall into decay—so
much so, that the parlors"and drawing rooms
were tenanted by sparrows, swallows and
bate, the unglazed windows affording them
free ingress and egress.
He saw no company, courted no society,
and indulged only in one taste—the purchase
of pictures His paintings are numerous,
but he never hung them up, never exposed
them; they now remain as they did . during
his lifetime, piled up, their faces turned to
the wall. For years his health has been bad
and some t'iine ago he paid a visit to Malta,
Smyrna, &c., and returned greatly inproved
in constitution, but the expenses distressed
him, and it was only by threat of legal pro
ceedings that he was induced to pay the
physician who accompanied him £7OO.
Some time ago, a merchant in difficulties
was lamenting to him the state of finances,
when he observed: " You are happier than I
am, you have got no money, but you have
good health. I have plenty of money, but
I have bad health; 1 wish 1 could exchange
with you-
T k( Real and Ideal.
The mind of a man is like a moving pic
ture, supplied with objects not only from con
templation on things present, but from the
fruitful sources of recollection and anticipa
tion. Memory retraces past events, and res
tores an ideal reality to scenes which are
gone by forever.—They live again in revived
imagery and we seem to hear and see with
renewed emotions what we heard and saw
at a former period.—Successions of such re
collected circumstances often form a series
of welcome memorials.
! ~,r ,
FUR TUB GIRI.S.
How many foolish girls have ruined them
selves by marying young men who had
nothing to recommend them but riches. "Is
he rioh ?" has been tho inquiry, wtien a
suitor has presented himself.—Foolish girls!
Rather ask. Is he inteligent?—ls he indus
trious? Is he virtuous? Let those questions
be answered in the affirmative, and if he has
not a second shirt to his back we will an.
swer for his courso. Wealth may be lost,
but the good qualities of tho heart will al
ways remain, like tho sunshine to warm and
to bless. Remember this.
EF" "What a censorious liar," exclaimed
old Mrs. Partington, as sho read in a certain
paper an account of a new counterfeit which
was said to contain threo women and a bust
of Washington on each end. What,"said
she,"GeneralWashington on a 'bust;' 'tis
not so:"aiid the old lady lifted up her specs
and declared that she had known the old gen
tleman for the last thirty years, and she nev
et heard of his being on a bust—much less
with three women.
"My lad," said a lady to a boy carrying
newspapers, "are you the mail boy." "You
doesn't think I'ee a female boy, du? yc?"
Society In London.
That "there are more things in Heaven
and earth than are dreamed of" in the phil
osophy of the wisest of men, is proved by
every day's "experience. A correspondent
writes from London as follows of a new
phaso in life, —at least, new to us in the new
world, though we doubt not some of the
practical or progressive minds among us will
take a hint from this new mode of life:
"\Va have raany modes of getting a living
in London which you know scarcely by
name—o g. the vending of cat and dog
meat. There are upwards of three hundred
itinerant retailers of this article daily peram
bulating the streets of London and its envi
rons. Upwards of five hundred worn out
horses are slaughtered^very week*to'upply
mere retail venders, rmcn yicms tm HIT av
erage. 2 cwt. of flesh, when cooked by boil
ing. This'ts sold by the wholosale'dealer to
the retailer at 14s. per cwt. in winter' and 16s
in summer; these retailers sell it to the own
ers of cats and dogs at 2d. per lb. Some re
tailers vend as much as a cwt per day, and
the whole three hundred average'about half
a cwt. —the price is increaed for all purcha
ses below a pound in weight. Thus the fur
nishing boiled horse to the dogs and
cats of London costs their owners not less
than £50,000 a year. Humble as this mode
of getting a living is, there are many instances
on record where individuals have, by pursu
ing it, acquired a comfortablo provision for
old age- We wish that there was no more
degrading employment followed in our great
metropolis; the venders of cat and dog meat
are gentlemen compared with tens of thou
sands of their fellow citizens.
Tho Wife of Gen. Jarksou.
The influence of this woman over her hus
band is said to have been very extraordinary.
She was of obscure origen and totally uned
ucated. Yet she inherited from nature those
fine and noble traits of her sex to 6uch per
fection, that her power and fascinations
were very great. Gen. Jackson was attach
ed to her in earlylife, but by some means,
the matter was interrupted and she married
another, who proved a villain and the con
nection most unhappy. Gen. Jackson be
came again interested in her; the conse
quence was a divorce, when he was married
to her. She is said to bave'possesed none of
those accomblishments that are supposed to
adorn fashionable life; reared in the back
woods, seeing and knowing little of elegant
and refined society. Yet her fine person
strong affections and good sense, the three
great essentials of a woman, enabled her to
take and hold with irrisistible forco the pas
sions of that bold, turbulent, strong and fiery
warrior and statesman to whom sho was
wedded. It was the the Lion held in the
embrace of the Fawn. The influence she
exercised is said to have bordered on
the superstitious. He imagined that no acts
of his could succeed, or be carried, out, a
verse to her will, or in Cppoeiiion to her feel
ings. She seemed his guardian angel, by
day and by night; holding in her hands hif
life, his fate, his all. An,intimate friend of
his says, that so long as he lived he wore
her miniature near his heart, and never allu
ded to her except in a manner so subdued
and full of reverence, that the listener was
deeply impressed with her transcendent
worth.—[Exeter Nsws Letter.
Machinery Tor Washing Dishes.
Mr. Joel Houghton, of Ogden N. Y., has
invented a machine for Washing dishes' so
as "to save the women-folks a deal of trouble."
The dishes are placed in a rack and set up
right when it is carried to a vessel contain
ing water and a little soap, and by turning a
crank the dishes on tho rack are whirled in
great style to remove alt the dirt. The un
clean water is then drawn off and replaced
by clean boiling water, and the crank again
turned a few seconds. The dishes are theD
clean, andean remain in the rack, which ob
viates the repeated handling of the dishes.
About two years ago, one of our" subscribers
invented a very ingenious machine for
washing the floor. All that was nescessary to
be done to it, was to turn the handle, move
it every square yard, and supply it with
clean water. By turning the handle itsciub
ded the floor, wiped it up, ahd wrung out
the cloth. It had a spring, a drum with a
cord on it, and a few levers peculiarly com
bined and worked by cams, all operated by
a handle revolving a wheel.— Scientific Amer
ican-
WONDERFUL Memory.—Miss Mary Pace,
agec 12 years, a scholar in tho M. E- Sab
bath School in Corning, recited, from mem
ory, n lew Sundays since, 4000 verses from
the Now Testament—all of which she com
mitted to memory in one week.
BI'CIIANAN AND BLACK The Democracy of
Bedford County met in Convention on the
4th instant, and nominated Mr. Buchanan
for President; and Judgo Black, as a candi
date for Governor.
tfYou have broken the Sabbath, John
ny," said srgood man to his son.—"Yes,"
said fiis little sistor, "and mother's long comb
too right in three peiced!"
Uf" " Barber. I think this towol has been ■
in use long enough." "It has been used :
more than six weeks, and no one evet found |
fault with it before."
[Tt MlUn per Anana* .
NUMBER 7.
Shorktng -Vftirder Trial at Botton.
Daniel 11. Pearson was put on trial in
Cambridge, on Tuesday, charged with the
murder of his wife and twin children, et
Wilmington Mass., in April last. He is
on trial for the murder of his wife first.—
It was a horrible tragedy ; the woman was
discovered covered with wounds, and with
a bloody knife in Iter hand, evidently pla
ced there after death. A quantity of coarse
black hair, similar to Pearson's, was found
in the other hand. The children were
found covered with blood,one with six, and
the other with five stabs in the neck. The
prisoner is said to have been the victim of
a cruel hoax, conoocted by some villiaiw
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false to hitn.
Ihe first witness called was Nathan
Pearson, the father of the prisoner. He
had been to visit the deceased the night
previous, when she was alone with her
children in bed. The next morning, hear
ing an alarm, he went and found them
murdered as above. Prisoner provided
for deceased, but was seldom at the house.
The prisoner said something several years
ago about a separation from his wife, but
not uiuch.
The witness was treated with great del
icacy by both sides, in consequence of his
peculiar situation as a father testifying t
gainst his son on a charge of murder.
The prosecution takes the ground that
Pearson came after the father left,and com*
milted the murder, and will endeavor to
show that he was seen in thejvicinity next
morning. Ihe effort of the murderer they
say, was to make it appear,the woman had
committed suicide after killing the children.
A couple of bloody papers were found
on the table, one of which said :
"Martha —Your'proposition I consent
to, that is, to give you six hundred dollars,
and part, and you are at liberty to marry
when you please.
"(signed) D. H. PEARSON."
A despatch from Boston, Feb. 27, says :
'•The defence in the case of Pearson, on
trial for the murder of his wife and two
slain children, was reached to-day. The
prisoners counsel contend that the mind of
the acculfed is not Sufficiently balanced to
be accountable for any crime that he may
commit. It is stated that insanity has run
through the family, and that he has lacked
intelleflt since he was a poy."
MARRY IN IIASTE AND REPENT AT LEISURE.
—Every body will recollect tlio high-wrought and •'
gorgeous description of the wedding, one year
ago, of Mr. T. B. Lawrence, son of Abbot Law
rence, the Ros!on|Millionaire, and present Minis
ter of the United States "near the Court of St.
James." The Cincinnati Dispatch says :
"The descriptions were high-wrought— the
bridal array, the brilliant trossean of the bride—
Ihe magnificent jewels, and the splendid dresses
direct from I'ari-c, —even the'bridal chamber' was
thrown open to vulgar gaze, and the {nuptial
couch and Pariam purity of the sheets submitted
to gross criticism. The pick and choice of the
| 'Upper Ten, of the. whole Union wore present.—
The bridal attendants numbered many beautiful
representatives of every portion of the Union—
the bloudes of the North and Ihe brunctts of the
South. Every thing 'went >erry as a marriage
bell." The parties wont to their home in Boston.
The honey-moon had scarcely waned, when a
flare up occurred, and a separation followed.
The following disgraceful sequel? toft lie biil
liant descriptions, above noted, we find in tl.e
Louisville papers of the last Week :
'•'Aolice. Whereas *my wife, Sallie
W, Lawrence, has wilfully, and without
[ cause, deserted me, this is' to eoution all
I persons against harboring or trusting her
| on my account, as I hold myself responsi
-1 ble for no debts contracted by her.
T. B. LAWRENCE,
i "'Boston, Feb. 18, 1850.
Referring to this matter, the Cincinnati Times
well says :
"Now, see the wreck the demon jealousy pas
worked. How true it is, that happiness is not
the result of outward circumstancea ; if it were
otherwise, the rich would always be hippy, and
the poor Unhappy. An intelligent mi nd, well
balanced, and a heart disciplined to obedience to
the precepts of Christianity, alone can give peace-
A dark cloud now hangs over the heir of mil
lions, and the 'Great Western Belle,' dark ts a
pall."
fICJ-A soldier boasted to Julius CiEsar of the
many Wounds he had received in the face, Cesar
knowing him to he a coward, said :
"The neat lime you run away, you had better
take care how you luok behind you."
THE LAST.—Why was Queen Elizabeth supe
rior to Napolion t —Because the Emperor was on
ly a Wonder, whilst her Majesty was a Tudor.
WISDOM.—In our infancy wo rut our teeth;
in our old age our teeth cut lis. Such is life.
r 10-As gold which he cannot spend will make
no man rich, so knowledge which he csnbot ap
ply, will make no man wise.
ETKour boxes govern Ihe world :— the cert
ridge box, ihe jury box, the ballot box, tad tho
baud box.
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