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Sickness -.ltecovery.
Still cooped in our ctiamber by the weak
ness incident to lyphord fever, our racked
DWtwe drive the pen into poor misshapen
marks far letters) but the spirit is willing
though the flesh be weak to talk as much uj>-
on paper ee we are used to do. A fueling of
recovery cheers, and would drive the will be
yond its power of endurance. The scenery
from the window is only the sear and the
•yellow leaf, bot the fresh air which we can
jcrat move out to feel is a bftksed balm.
The world has beeu closed to us for four
weeks, ®so we have little to write about ex
cept our own reflections. Nay, not quite all
closed. A ray of light would bteak in that
seemed like a crowd of gentle quiet visitors
'front'all corners of the world, who gave their
news as neisleas us spirits. Of coure* a
mean a newspaper. Only a paragraph was a
telief as soon as (he brain could bear it, and
then to skim s column even lightly wore
away tedium and aufferiag.
Wd are glad to see that our readers have
not suffered from any want of interest in our
paper while we Were separated from them.—
lis-contents have been various and good.—
Srioh things as Cov. Wright's speech could
wot have had their place filled by anything
better. Col. Johnson's Sunday Mail Re
port contains doctrines very pertinent at this
lime in other connections. And then the
. Phrisilnn and manly'appeal of Prof. Long
sirset against the wickedness of Know-Notb
ibgism is so powerful and important that, if
well, we would have made room for it at the
coet of every tine of editorial. It was furn
ished for our columns, we are told, by a tru
ly Christian clergyman, who has our thanks
for the favor.
Nor did our paper lack in appearance ; for
in fact we were compelled to use a superior
material of paper, owing to the stoppage of
the Cattawissa Mills. That establishment is
now again in order, and we shall greet our
old friends as we were wont.
The Presidency.
The present signs of the times indicate
that Ibe voice and vote oi Pennsylvania in
the next national convention will be given
for James Buohanan. It is certainly in his
favor that ha has bad a life-long experience
in public affairs, until he has not only illus
trated and adorned the history of the repub
lic, bot his own life has become a part of
that histoty. Since first he went into the
Senate he stood in the foremost rank of
statesmen, and his would be no obscure
name for President in any corner of the
Union, not indeed in any country in Europo.
The present complicated affairs between
England and this country will afford Ms,
Buchanan another chance to d.o himself
credit; and each he will Jo if he shov'' B h ' m '
eelfequal to his vindication of lhe"Ameil' can
cause In the Oregon boundary difficulty, and*
to his management of the State Department I
during the Mqyican war.
But io this matter it muat be ever kept 10
view that the candidate tor the Presidency
is to be the representative and embodiment
of peblio policy and political principles, and
no I to be a candidate for his personal fame
It is lo be remembered too tbat in a Re
public ol 29,000,000 people, e<tch can
not have his choice; and there must be
great concessions of personal preferences
for the sake ol union and harmony, and for
the success of liberal and sound principles.
The enemies of Democracy seek, nothing
more than to create jealousy and dissension
in our ranks. They would like to see the
Democratic party so divided in sentiment,
and each part so wedded to its choice that
it could "'never unite or compromise. Bul
every true Democrat will see this, and look
ing first to principles, he will strive only in
fraternal rivalry, and rejoice in any result
thai will give Jtim a faithful and trusty stan
dard-bearer.
- The War In the East
Seems to have changed into a game between
the belligerents to see which can first bank
rupt the other. It never had an honorable
principle involved in it, for it was from the
first upon both sides a selfish fight for power
and empire. It has already cost more than
any modem war of double its time, and there
are yet no signa of the end. The British
national debt has been so much increased
that tor all lime to come the interest wilt
hang like a mill-stone around the neck of
British tabor and commerce, and generations
yet unborn will feel it a heavy incubus upon
every enßrgy and effort of life from boy
hood to the grave.
The Impetuous French in their many rev
olution* dispose of these debts in a more
summary way; and often wipe out the old
■core to begin anew. Louis Napoleon finds
ooeupaiios in the Crimea for many spirits
that would be restless and troublesome at
home, dud the war ia a sort of opening to
the nicer orthe body politic of the Empire.
The fiaaactal embarrassment in France
aod England will.louch public sentiment in
those countries on a sensitive spot. Both
government* already understand the danger,
but neither can suggest a remedy. The pan
to roust fisn the nature si Ibe case become
general the Czar of Rasaie is said to di
sect the causes through banks and bankers
which here produced this pressure in the
money market.' If so, he has his antagonists
by . the throat.
OT Gen. Wo. S. Calobaa, of Washington
county,baa been "appointed Superintendent
on the Portage Railroad by the Canal Com
missioners. The position is one of great
responsibility, and Gen. Calobaa enjoys a
high character for ability and manliness..
fanny ..
By reference lo the advertisement of Ms
(sow BROTH SM, it will be seed that arfcther
| romance frbra this distinguished authoress,
wiHb#published about the fitftt of Decem
ber. The pnhliahars regard it as superior to
| " Ruth HH," a Work which, when it ap
' peered, _crested n great sensation in the
literary world. " Rose Clark' I —lor (hat
ts the title of Fanny's new work—will doubt
' lest meet an exteasive sale.
THK Even-trot NIGHTS or AUGUST 20TH AM
21ST, 18541 and hew Judge Edmonds wa
hocusveir','or fallibility of " Spiritualism"
exposed. By F. C- Ewer.
This pamphlet from the office of the Knick
erbocker, New York, contains a fiction which
Mr. Ewer wrote lor the California Pioneer,
and upon a copv being, cent to Judge Ed
monds lie took the story for fact, and after
ward wrote lo Mr Ewer that he had spiritu
al communication with John F. Lane, the
hero of the story. Mr. Ewer was thereupon
compelled to explain that if the-Judge had
found John F. Lane, it was more than Mr. E.
had done, for the whole thing was a fiction,
and it had deceived none but those who
wished to be deceived. The book is an in
structive chapter on mental philosophy for 25
cents.
W By a foreign steamer last week the sil
ly report came that Mr. Buchanan had de
manded his passport and would leave ton
don for home immediately. The contradic
lion came along in the same steamer to say
that there was nothing in the story. England
has her bands quite full with the war in the
East end the impending bankruptcy of her
National Treasury.
' Ihe Saints In the Wilderness.
According to the last advices from Utah,
Ihe Sell Lake saints were experiencing the
effects of a financial crisis, borne of the
brethren sent out to expedite the emigration,
had tuo Governor Brigham into debt about
fifty thousand dollars, which-shows that U
tali is in pretty good credit. The holders of
Ihe drafts called on the leader, hunted him
up for fhe cash "before," as he expressed
it, "they would find time to shave their
beards," which troubled him eo much that
he went incontinently and preached a ser
mon on the subject, his text being, " from
this time forth, do not fret thy gizzard." In
this curious address he declared that he will
pay them when he can and not before. The
poor, ho said, had got the money, they must
have confidence ar.d wait. Brighain does
not appear to have any desire to repudiate,
for he offered, at the conclusion of his ad
drees, to sell sixty thousand dollars' worth of
property to pay off these claims, at the same
time he gave many a hard hit lo the'brethren
who still owed the church. He wanted these
persons to apostatize, lor they were sure, he
said, to take advantage of their brethren and
leave them in the end. Brigham seems lo
have a vein of hard common sense in his
mental composition, which answers admira
bly for the con'rol of the community which
j surrounds him.
Insanity ID Defence ol Crime.
A trial has occurted in New Haven, which
goes very far, by the verdiet of the jury, to
establish as a legal principle that crime is
Usually the result of insanity. One WilUrd
Clark was cburling a lady, and the courtship
had progressed to engagement of matriage.
But }o consequence of some disagreement,
tht' parl.'es separated, and the lady married
anolr'. er pe.'on, Mr. Wright. Clark contin
ued bis visits to the lady, and finally entered
the house i/ne da, v ,and in the presence of Mrs.
Wright, shot iter dead, then return
ed to his place oi busn'' eßß until a police offi
cer look him in charge.- The prosecution
urged that this was a deitb.*' 4 '® murder, ari
sing from jealousy and reveitg®; but the de
fendant's counsel contended th.M the act was
Ibe result of a mental de.'usion, a belief on
tbe part of-Clark, that Mr,s. Wright loved
him, and was by some unaoCL'tintaMe means
under the tyrannical power of Wrig'bt, and
that it was his duly to relieve bet'- The sub
ject of insanity was treated with all the learn
ing which medical books present, a nd acts
of eccentricity, common perhaps lo ®very
man, were construed into premonitory ® v >'
dencesof Even the father's men tal
peculiarities were dwelt upon to show tba. 1
there was an hereditary taint of insanity.—
The jury acquitted the prisoner, on Ihe ground <
that he was insane ; but it ia probable that j
the dexterity of defendant's counsel, the sy in- <
pathy oi the jury, and the morbid sensitive- ,
ness existing against hanging, had more to (
do with biakking their mihds in ihe prisoner's ]
favor than any settled conclusions in the ju- j
ry's mind of the extent of bis mental inca- i
pacity, and the nice metaphysical question
of how fay it affected bis moral respontibil- t
THE SOUND DUES. —Denmark wishes the,
Sound Dues question to be treated as a po
litical and not a commercial question ; but
she seems to have a bard time ol it to ioduce
nations affected by it commercially to give
it a political complexion. Public opinion in
Great Britain refuses to regard it as a politi
cal question, and the capitalization scheme
is Considered absurd The idea that the
maritime nations will pay Denmark six or
seven millions sterling to get rid of a black
mail regulation which she has been impos
ing upon them will scarcely pass cutrent in
this age, in which the freedom of the eeas
has become a political axiom to be main
tained at any hazard. Denmark had better
abolish tribute and depend upon industry
and taxation for means of supporting its gov
ernment.
HT The new Commander-in-Chief of the
British army in the Crimea, Sir Win. John
Codrington, has had no jrery great experi
ence in the battle field. Alma was hie first
engagement. He also led the unfortunate
attack against the Redan. He it about 50
year* of age.
HP We iuvita particular attention to the
speech of Wm. B. Reed, whieh we publish
this week. He it a Whig, but he hita Know-
Nothingiim hard-
• Endurance.
When-Wo" raoaf son 4he course k4 prqlty
evenly matched on ■ lcs>g racej, ffie anal re*
ault will be tfclernrined fot eo mtnh by which
goes ibe fastest el first, hot by wfikih has (to*
beat wiad In hohl oof. So rtr, wheiil
seems sejjled that the war wiih Bfcasia ia trot
to be OuiiMed -by the ffrWheet, OT a single
campaign, but by a long, rancoratie war, prob
ably involving other nations, the final victo
ry will more depend upon wind, or the pow
or of holding uttt, than anything else, Can
the Allies an the one band, or Russia on the
other, bfear poOtiding and continue pounding
the longestf It ia time, more than anything
else, that will defeat the conquered, and set
the seal of viotory upon the conqueror's brow.
Years ago it was remarked that war had be
come so entirely a thing of aft, science and
material, that whatever country could afford
to pay the expense of the largest army, must
win in any conflict. So it is here.
Rtissia has lost the Malakoff Tower.and
the Southern part of Sebastopol—abe has lost
her fleet, and she has lost muoh ol the pres- '
tige which the successful defence of her for
tifications for a longtime gave her. She has
lost a battle at Kara, and has probably been
forced ere tbia to give up the siege. She has
been beaten by the despised Turks in Asia,
even as at Silistria, and along the banks of
of the Da. übe. The seat of war has been
entirely changed, and driven back upon Roe
sian soil, while tier flag iscfiased from every
sea.
But for these very reasons, she has now
comparatively liqla lo lose by a cor.linusnce
of the war. And moreover, if Russia has
lost, what have ttre Allies gained 1 Their
fleets in the Baltic have jwo years done ab
solutely nothing. Last year, indeed, they
captured Bomersund, but could not bold it,
and (his year not even so much as that. Not
a man has been killed in Cronstadt. In the
Crimea they have gained battles, -but lost
men, and lost on the whole perhaps more
reputation than they have gained. England
has been notoriously disgraced in the char
acter of her officers, who appeared to have
no good quality bnt courage, no management,
no science. The whole aristocracy of Eng
land has even lost influence through tbe con
duct of these officers, and the government of
England has thus been immeasurably weak
ened in Ihe sight of every sabject. Her for
tressas and her colonies, too, are all left bare
ofsoklieis, and the militia alone are left to
man her lorls, or parade before the nophew
of the great Napoleon when he appears as
aily and guest of ihe Queen of England. All
England was, in fact, shown np to him as
most temptingly bare of "regulars" while the
heights of Boulogne were crowned with a lar
ger nrmy than ever the great Napoleon mus
tered for the invasion of England. In fact,
England, so far as the army is concerned, lies
at the mercy of France, -in a manner that she
never did before; at any rate, since Ihe lime
of Charles 11.
But what England has lost, France has not
gained in reputation. Tbo attack on Sebas
tnpoi was, after ail, a military blunder, un
dertaken with 30,000 men, .while 250,000
men and a whole year were required to cap
ture it, or rather that portion of it that has
been captured. Half the number might have
conquered the Crimea, by attacking and
nnlding Perekop and the crossing place of
the Putrid Sea. To lake the single fortress
of Sebastopol had well nigh made abankrnpt
of the French excheqner. Loan after loan
has been swallowed up,- borrowed at exhor
bitanl rates, and yet, after all, a run upon the
bank of France has almost overthrown it, and
nbt it alone, but the-whole momentary af
fairs of Great Britain. How further loans are
to be raised, it seems impossible to conjec
ture. All men of France seem now disposed
(O hoard gold in expectation of great convul
sions, or else to ship it to America for corn.
And yet all agree that the war, to be kept up
successfully, must still proceed on the pres
ent gigantic scale of expenditure. A rupture
with Austria would almost double the war ex
penses, and its interference with Sardinia
may at any moment bring this about. 11,
therefore, Rhssia can only hold out long
enough, it is possible she may yet secuta a
peace on her own terms. The Crimea may
be devastated and her frontiers laid waste,
but Russia cannot stand that, and no one
while history records the march on Moscow,
will attempt.lo subdue Russia by striking at
tbe heart of that country.
We know bul little of the resources of that
9 est empire, or what the alate of public feel
; n>> - really is. Few newspapers are publish
ed, a "d 'be tone of these is, in a great meas
ure du" ti,le d b V ,be Government. Its finan
cial resou rces are, alter all, a profound secret.
Poor in mL'ney as Russia unquestionably is,
it takes inooi" 1c ' v t bl y 1 088 10 support an ar
my with them (hatr it does with the Allies.
There is, thereto re, no telling the length of
time to which it rt">ay protract the struggle,
until France and England, weary with an in
terminable strife that vislds nothing, may be
glad to make peace on a l "* terms.
Another thing may hat ten this. Red Re
publicanism is the dread of France and Eng
land. Russia, standing at tl.' e bead and rep
resentative of absolutism in Europe, is the
natural foe of this, and the war, if continued
much further, must be made to phW into the
hands of the men of these principles. On the
other hand, Russia may be more deeply
wounded than appears, and obliged to nutke
peace at any price. A revolution there is a
summary thing—an emperor ia murdered,
and some one else reign's in his stead. It is,
as we have said, the power of endurance that
must now decide the day .—Ledger.
APVOIKTMENT. —Hon. Joseph Casey, we
learn from Harrisburg, has been appointed
by Gov. Pollock, Superintendent of the Erie
and North East Railway, which hat been
forfeited to the State, under the provisions of
the bill passed by the last Legislature, sad
recently signed by the Governor. Mr. Ca
sey bis, we understand, already entered p
--on his duties, and taken charge of the Road.
iy U. S. JONES, ESQ., of the Hollidaysburg
Standard, proposes to write, during the ap
proaching winter, history of the early set
tlement of the Juniatta Valley, and desires
such information as may assist htm in the
work.
UDdaniMrt ach >•*•
The London Times and tb*Cobdfei Illus
wited News, AeWe papers that hne the
largest daily add Weakly circulation respec
tively in hen lately assumed an
attitude towards tin Uptd Stales, in which
impertinence of tone and misrepresentation
of facts are combined with sinister skill.
This oonrse is deeply to be regretted by
all intetligspL md mpti in either
country. Pot so dffke Is the country and
race, langnage and taws between Great Brit
ain and America, Sid so intimate are the'
commercial relations, that a war betwgqn the
two nations would not only be fatal to hu
man progress, but eminently injurious to the
belligerents themselves. It would be a war,
moreover, HI which neither side could con
quer, but which would end as a drawn battle,
with both exhausted. It would be a war at
which despotic Europe would openly rejoice,
a war which would probably raise the French
mercantile marine to that height to wbiob it
has long aspired, a war which—to use the
words of Robert Hall, in reference to the
battle of Waterloo—'would put back the di
al-hand of the world's history for oentu
ries. . |
It seems but little-aboil of madness, there
fore, for influential journals, on either side,
to lend their aid In fomenting soch a war.—
Yet it is certain that articles like those we
h eve alluded to, caontijmt have soah a ten
dency. TheTaol feqtMMy appear alnulla
neously in the two leading London papers,
and that tbey are coincident with a despatch
of a comparatively powerful British fleet to
the West Indies, favors the notion that there
are others, however, besides newspaper edi
tors, who are fanning the embers of hostility,
and probably for their own personal ends.—
The character of Lord Palmers ton, the Eng
lish Premier, lends color to the idea that
these editorials, as ball as the warlike dem
onstration, are parts of a scheme intended to
bally this country. It is generally said that
neither he nor Lord Clarendon, the Foreign
Seoretary, are particularly favorable to the
United States, atyd it is universally known
that Louis Napoleon, whose tool* tbey are
to a certain extent, positively hates America.
Under such circumstances, it may require
some forbearance on the part of the Ameri
can press to prevent hostile sentiment grow
ing up toward England.
it ia income*lbis, we think, that the peo
ple of England and America have no desire
for such a war. But as we have seen a
bloody and protracted struggle bleak out in
the Orient, against the original wishes 'Of the
people of Great Britain, we are warned that
a war is not impossible anywhere, tinder the
combined influences of a blundering diplo..
macy, a demagoguical premier, and ft slan
derous and malignant press. The situation
of affairs in Central America is such, more
over, that a false step on either side might
exasperate the two nations mutually beyond
the probabilities of reconciliation. For if, as
has been surmised, the destination of the
British' West Indian fleet is to seize all the
important points on the Nicaragua coast, so
as to cut off our road to California, a colli
sion might easily arise between the English
and American flags, which could only be
wiped out in Wwstf. But we treat that the
wisdom of oor administration, the conduct
of its subordnates, and the impartiafattitode
of the press will forbear making such a
strife. On die other hand, the good sense of
the Englisk people, we hope, will prevent
any nnjost.fiable movement on the part of
the Sritiah fleet.
Should a war between Ihe two countries,
however, ever arise, America will, at least,
be able to take care of herself. . The Mexi
can war proved that we can improvise any
army whenever we wish. The Eastern war
has shown that England can not. It is not,
therefore, from any fear of Great Britain that
we recommend forbearance; but because,
feeling our own strcpglh, we think it childish
to bully or be bullied.— Ledger.
SINGULAR. ARITHMETICAL FACT. —Any num
ber of figures you may wish to multiply by
5 will give the same result as if divided by 2,
a much quicker opeiation; but you must re
member to annex a cipher to the answer
when there is DO remainder, and when
there is a remainder, whatever it may be,
annex a sto the answer. Multiply 464
by 6, and the answer wilfbe 3,323; divide
Ihe same number by 2, and you have 232
and as there is no remainder, you add a ci
pher. Now, take 347, and multiply by 5,
and the answer is 1,785. On dividing this by
3, there is 178 and a remainder; you therefore
place a 5 at the end of the line, and the result
is again 1785.
Caution to Railroad Readers.— A recent Eu
ropean magazine contains an ably written ar
ticle on the subject of the injurious effects
upon the eyes of persons in the habit of
reading while travelling in railroad cars. It
is stated that the joking motion causes the
eye to strain in catching the separate letters,
and makesthis elfict on the retina very Inju
rious. Several Instances are given in corrob
oration, where persons who were in the hab
it of reading much in railway cars had be
come nearly blind-
Accident on Ike Lehigh Valley Uailrod
Mauch Chunk, Nov. 16.—'The pdssenger
train on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, with
freight cars attached, wss thrown off the track
this afternoon, between this place and Allen
town, one of the fieight oars demolished and
a brakesman so seriously injured that he is
not expected to jecover. _ A passenger car
containing thirty passengers was thrown of
the traok but uotie of the passengers inju
red. •
Later from Vexes— Indian Battle-
NEW ORLEAXS, Nov. 10.— Later advioee
Irom Texas, received by the Galveston steam
er, brings intelligence of an Indian fight hav
ing oceuired near Fori Belknap, between the
Delawares and Camaaches. Seven of Ihe
latter were killed.
Many depredations have recently been
committed aiopg the frontier by the Indiana.
A treaty has beau concluded with the Co
manche Indiana in New and Northern Mex
ico. ■
The steamship Prometheus, from New
York, hail arrived at Corpus Chtisti.
Before the annual meeting of thle Histori
cal Society of Peonsytvaato, held at Chester
on the Bth instant, being the 173 d annivwrea
ry of (he kndieg of William Penn, ia reply
to the Mowing feast:
4, Lafayette on the battle gioun J of eld
Chester.
Mr. W. B. Reed •aid-
Mr. President—When yonr committee in
formed me tyat I was to >ay something to
answer to a toast commemorative of " Lafay
ett/j" they jocularly told me. that they had
appropriated this sentiment in view of my
krfOWn political bpiftltfns, not Whig (though
they are beooming quits historical), not Dem
ocratic—bnt I presume what Is known as a
third mysterious,subterraneous organization,
for which I am supposed to have no sffeolion;
and hence s French Roman Catholic soldier
of our revolution was assigned to me. I thank
the committee and the society for the com
pliment, for such ' I regard it, and with the
theme' they have given, will venture to say
a few words, not so much about Lafayette,
aa about the curious oscillations of that per
verse pendulum, public sentiment, on this
| very subject of foreigners and foreign sympa
thies and antipathies. What I have to say, I
shall take osie to say without offence, but
will try and tbink of the hater and lover of
foreigner* and foreign things as abstrac
tions. I thank fortune I have no oommun
loo wfahf aimer, but .with every genuine,
et, temperate Amerioaa heart io my boaom,
oan safely say I hold in equal disregard him
who, on this topic, either hates or lovos "not
wisely, but too well."
These oscillations—or swinging of preju
dice from one extreme to another—began
long ago, and if now-a-days an Irishman or
a German is the victim or the idol, Lafayette's
countrymen, the French, have had their turn
at being persecuted and petted. Just a hun
dred years ago, as I And noted in your Ship
pen papers, a Philadelphia gentleman wrote
to a friend, "May God J>e pleased to give us
success ftgftinst all copper oolored cannibals
and French savages, equally creel and per
fidious in their natures, ar.d the truth of what
they say and promise ts just aa much to be
depended on as every thing which the old
serpent said to our first parent in Paradise."
This certainly is not complimentary, but was
entirely sincere. The English cqlonists ha
ted and bunted a Frenchman in tboee days
with a right good will, having, however, some
excuse for it in the bloody scenes of frontier
butchery. Ia the fall and winter of 1755, ex
actly a century ago, occurred one of the dark
eat crimes that rests on the English of that
day, and on English America. I mean the
persecution of an exile of the French Acadi
ana. It wag that kind of Rouble distilled wick
edness, which is always the product of those
acrid elements—politics and intolerance.—
England executed the cruel order. Puritan
New England aboited and stimulated it, and
Pennsylvania witnessed some of its attendant
horrora.
And what a retribution has there been—
bow grand and beautiful is the expiation of
this deed of wrong. Lord Loudoun, the Eng
lish Commander in chief, refused to receire
a petition from the exiles, because they had
the insolence to write it in Frenoh. And
now a short century rolls by, and England's
Queen, in St. George's Protestant chapel,
(Lord Loudoun's descendants, still Peers of
the Realm and Kr.ights of the Order, stand
ing by,) puts the Garter on the knee of a
French Roman Catholic Emperor; and in the
English language, the hand of a New Eng
land Puritan poet writes the tale of the poor
Acadian'a wrongs in words that will live' as
long as the language lives; sings thera in
strains which will Bound eternally and sweet
ly long after the howl of fanaticism and per
secution has sunk to ignominious silence.
Evangeline's death scene is laid here in Phil
adelphia ; and her grave in the poet's vision
is ID the heart of the city, in the little grave
yard of her faitb, over which then rung in
harmony the mingling chimes of Christ
Church and Weccacoe. Surely, Mr. Presi
dent, the retribution of time is very certain
and very impressive.
So were foreigners, and especially French
men, treated a hundred years ago. Twenty
years roll by, and what do we see then I
The pendnlum has gone the other way—for
eigners are in fashion; and we have the Con
gress of 1774 and '75 appealing in formal and
earnest addresses to Canadians and French
men and Irishmen to come and help us, and
live with us anAbe part of ua. There was
no apparent intolerance then. General Wash
ington, when attending Congress in 1774, (so
his diary tells us) actually, on the 9th of Oc
tober, 1774, went to the Presbyterian church
iu the morning, to the Roman Catholic cbnrch
in the afternoon, and afterwards dined at a
tavern ! And the Irishman, and the Scotch
man, and ihe Frenchman, the Papiat and the
Protestant—all came and all were welcomed.
All sorts came, the good and the bad, and
the bad aoon sank to their low level, and the
good earned their reward. Hugh Mercer, the
Jaoobite, came; John Barry, and Lafayette,
and Steuben, and Kosciusco came, not to
make speeches to' hs, but to, fight with us
and for us, and no one thought of proscribing
or repelling them. If any one wishes to know
not only bow a Frenchman and a French
Prieat too, was welcomed, and what he
thought of us, let him read, and it will well
repay him, the Abbe Robina' charming little
volume descriptive of- his travels in Ameri
ca in 1781—French as it is all over, and fail
ol a Frenchman's oddities and a stranger's
mistakes—bis account for instance of the ar
my marching to the " Head-a-Fehjue," mean
ing the Head of Elk, now E'kfon, and his pit
eous complaint of a Boston Sunday, when
they would not let him play the flute, and of
his being nearly burned alive when bis house
took fire, and the hesitation on rescuing him,
because he was a French Priest: or on ltis
visit to Philadelphia, the review of tbe French
atmy 'daua une vaste plains arroaee pgr ie
SkuilkilL,' -meaning the old commons. The
revolution, from 1775'f0 1785, was generally
lbe day of triumph hnd welcome to the stran
gat-
But the pendulum moved again. Id a lit
, tie mora than ten yeara foreigners began to
be troubleaome. It was tbe lime of Europe
an disturbance, end Washington's last offi
-1 eial hours were clouded and perplexed by
meddlesome, unprincipled men from abroad,
AAjxtnd Fwchets and Turreaus, and sym
patKisers atborne. Genet (for Philadelphia
has fire of such experiments) fitted Oil
privateers ender the President's aose, and
WM caught, at it, and flopped by firmness
and resolution, without parade, though not
without a struggle. One perty at home was
all 'for France, and the one party against
it. From bad it vent on to worse—from one
entreme to another—from wisdom to folly—
the purest pub|io man next to Washington,
this country bed produced, John Marshall,
was almost expelled with ignominy from
France. Tom Pame became the pet and
and nearly the victim of bloody Frenchmen.
Foreigners got terribly at a discount and at
j last, on the 26th of June, 1789, persecution
succeeding provocation, John Adams' Alien
j law was passed, authorizing the President,
et hie absolute will, to order any foreigner
that he pleased, neck and heels out of the
country, and have htm put in prison if be did
not go.
The next spasm was of course one of sym
pathy, but the attack was slight, it was rath
er sentimental than practioal, and did not do
much harm. It took the form of admiration
of that eminent Republican and friend of free
institutions, Napoleon Bonaparte ! It passed
away very innocently, and left no traces up
on the national taste and rhetoric, which it
vitiated sadly, ft survives now only on the
pages of Harper's Magazine, or those of Mr.
or Ip the memory qfaome few Gal
lomaniacs, who think Bonapartg sold us Lou
■iana because he loved us, or that he did a
handsome thing in bequeathing a legacy to
Cantillion.
Next came—for the oecillations one way
or the other never oeased—the fever of sym
pathy with foreign nations fancying they
knew how to be free like as, the (Jreeks—to
whom we sold a few dear frigates—and the
Poles—and the whole tribe of Spanish Amer
icans—and in the midst of this, io 1824, came
as if to give us an illustration of the truerela
tion which the friendly foreigner should bear
to us and we to him, the visit of Lafayette,
the only leading Frenchm an of bis day that
had the least conception of what constitution
al freedom was—a Frenchman of the Revo
lution, not besmeared with blood—a public
man whose American career was spotless,
aod of whom, in all his career, here and
awsy, Americans are bound to speak kindly.
It angers me to hear Bonapartists, and Hour
bonists, parasites of kindred despotisms, and
English writers defame our Lafayette. We
are olu enough to recollect him —his frank
and modest tone —bis gentle, graceful cour
tesy, his words of peace and wisdom; and
we are young enough to remember the con
trast of another stranger's pilgrimage—an in
trusive mendicant, who came to see the world
to rights, and us particularly—whose bearing
to us, his silly hosts, was one vast condescen
sion.
I am now coming—for there is a regular
law in this movement—so near to our own
days and their living actors, that I am admon
ished to be cautious in what I say. There
may be within sound of my voice Repealers
of 1844, or Iconoclasts of 1844, or Kos
suth enthusiasts of 1861, for so has
swung the pendulum in those dsys, and I
should be sorry te revive here any sorrowful
memory of temporary insanity. I therefore
pass them and later gusts of transient feeling
by, with but one remark, that at the bottom
of many of them, there is often a generous
sentiment of sympathy, either with the en
slaved abroad, or with some domestio im
pulse tha exempts them from too harsh cen-'
sure.
And on all the se mutations of feeling, Mr.
President, and gentleman, History looks
calmly down and records her sure judgment,
and that judgment is, that all such follies are
very transient, and that as to foreign men,
and foreign things, and foreign principles,
there should be neither sympathy, nor ami'
patby, but strict, resolute neutrality—neu
trality of the heart—the netrality which it
consistent with kind and generous feelings,
which gives ready welcome to the stranger
who comes, but couples with that welcome
the resolute admonition that in becoming
one of us in form, he must be one of ue in
leeling. Such a stranger Lafayette via, and
happy wouM it have been for him bad be
never left the land that long ago welcomed
him. He would have been spared many an
hour of bitter anguish. He would have been
spared the orgies of Verasailea and the horri
ble fear that in bis sight and trusting to his
word of honor, a brave woman ran the risk
of being murdered—he would have been
spared (be agony of watching the ghastly
antics of revolutionary France—of apparent
treason to his country—he would have been
spared Olmu'lz—and 1815, when one gleam
of liberty was darkened by the Boutbons,
and most of all, 1830, when forthe last time
in his day, liberty was cheated. Here,
home would have been happy. Here his
grave would have been honored, and -not
be, as it now is, save by some accidental
way-farers, forgotten or scofned. There was
something very picturesque and impressive,
a few months ago, when the Queen of Eng
land stood under the great dome of the In
valides at Napoleon's tomb. The figures of
the living and the dead were sublime in the
world's eye. It was the musing of one sort
of royalty, traditionary, historical, decorous
royalty, ovet another in its bjief day quite
as imposing, bloody, lyrar.ous, energetic, im
perial royalty. But it had no higher moral
grandeur, than when the American traveler,
'swayed by honest revejence forthe Revolu
tion, stands in the cemetery of the sisters of
the Sscred Heart by the bumble, almost for
gotten grave of Lafayeue. The poor inhabi
tant below was his country's friend when she
needed friends. He was Washington's friend.
Frenchman as he was, he belonged to us.—
I beg your pardon, Mr. President, for saying
■o much, and speaking so gravely on a fes
tive occasion like this, but I am American
enough, in loyalty at least, never to speak
or think of the days or the men of the Rev
olution, without enthusiasm, not the less in
tense because earnest and reverential.
Morse's Telegraph.—The Emperor of Aus
tria, baa conferred upon Prof. Morae, "the
great gold tnedal for Science," being the
fourth he has received from European sov
ereigns for his perfecting-the maguetio tele
graph, which in He practical results ranks by
the side ef the application oi steam as a mo
live power. " .
The Heuae of Rothschild*.
A paragraph baa {teen going the round* of
the press ihdt (be Rothschilds were worth
' eight hundred millions of dollar*. X denial
of Ibis statement has been put forth. it would
be e waste of words to discus* Which esti
mate is corner. The wealth of ike Roths
childs does not consist in land* and tene
ments, the val ( ue of which might be aeeer
tainad, bat in stocks, scfttds end othir de
scription* of personal property, the amouut
of whioh no one know* but themselves.—
They may be worth the sum suggested, or
even more) and they may not he worth a
quarter of that amount, it is pnjwkbin
the range' of possibility, though it* i* not
probable that the Rothschilds may be worth
nothing at all. If, for example, tbgfs bold
the loans of themealves which they have
negotiated since the war began, the depre
ciation on those loans, which hps taken place
lately, has caused a loss of fifty millions of
dollars. Or again, a bouse like theirs, deal*
ing wholly in fluctaating securities, might
maintain its credit far years after it was ab
solutely bankrupt. Paul, Strshan & Co., is
a case in point, though on a smaller aeale.
The power of the Rothschilds may be es
timated with more certainty. It is enorm
ous. No single European monarch i atiwg
enough to oppose it* So far baok as forty
years ago, it proved too great for the first Na
poleon -, for it famished the sinews of war to
hy enemiga and thus bjonght abpnt, bis
downfall. Th£mperor, aware of this;sough!
to conciliate the Rothschilds on his retain
from Elba j but the head of that houao re
pulsed his advance*, by the significant re
mark, "there are two Napoleons in Europe;"
and time soon showed that the moneyed Na
poleon was the most powerful. At present,
the house is arrsyad against Louis Napole
on, both because he rejects their intervention
in obtaining loans, and because the war, .
which be hu ioaugu rated, is damaging their
securities so seriously. Austria, it ia conce
ded, has utterly failed to make peace. The
Rothschilds, it is generally conjectured, are
now tryiug their hands; for the disturbance
in the specie tnarket has been traced borne
ta tliem ; and there is certainly a strong
ohance of success, because nothing will make
I England so ready for a peace as a continued
pressure on the money matket.
We have alluded to the loans negotiated
by (he Rothschilds since the WM began-
These loans reach the enormous amount of
fire hundred and fifteen millions, viz:—To
England, 980,000,000; to Turkey, 940,000,•
000; to Austria, 9120,000,000; a first loan
to Russia, 9130,000,000; to Sardinia, 10,000,-
000; to England, in exchequer bills,* 935,-
000,000; and a second loan, just being per
fected, 9100,000,000. It is this last loan,
which the Rothschilds,it is said, have agreed
to make in gold, that is supposed to be .at
the bottom of the specie movement. Most
of these loans, it is to be presumed, have
been sold out before (bis, the Rotbschildt
merely acting, tn such cases, as agents be
tween the public and the governments that
borrow. Nevertheless, the house that can
even temporarily assume such a border),
within little Store than a twelvemonth, must
be one of gigantic influence, credit and pow
er. It ia nour plain ihal this same house is
on the side of peace. It apparently favors
Russia, if peace should fail to be made.—
The conflict is thus rendered more equal,
for the Allies, with the Rothschilds against
them, have, as commercial nations, an ene
my within their own borders; wbile Russia,
with the Rothschilds on her side, has a cer
tainty of being kept' in funds, and money
was that in which it now appears, she was
most deficient.
17* SICKNESS IN OHlO. —Several parts of
Ohio are said to be afflicted with sickness no
paralleled ia the history of the State. It ia
not confiaed to particular localities, but ap
pears to be general—on the hjtla ** well as
in the valleys, in towns as well as in the coun
try. In Central Ohio, where the chills were
never before known, they have been sbakiug
the people most cordially.
Spiritualism at Fault. —'t here Was a very
large meeting at the Hall, in Cincinnati,
Ohio, last .Friday evening, to witness an at
tempt to move a table without touching it,
by a spiritual medium, named Wilson, for
I the sum of 91000, uffered in case of success,
by Professor Spencer, who is delivering lec
tures (gainst Spiritualism. Of course, it was
a dead ta.lure, the medium being unable to
affect the table in any way.
Pennsylvania Coal. —lt ia more than twen
ty-five years since Pennsylvania ooal began
to be a recognized article of production and
commerce. This year the product will a
mouot to no lea* than six millions of tons.—
This as delivered at the mines, is worth at
least twelve millions of dollars—so that this
great sum may be regarded as the amount of
solid wealth dog annually at the preaentrimb,
from the bowels of the earth.— PottsviUe Reg
tsler. ,
Political Composition of the Next House of
Representatives. —The New York Herald fig- .
ores up the following as the political compo
sition of the next House of Representatives:—
Democrats 81, Southern Whigs 9, Union K.
Ns. 60, Abojition K. Ns. IS, Fusion or Abo
lition Republicans 68, Vacancies 1.
'_ =
In Benton, on Thursday, the 15th inat., by '
Elder John Sutton, Mr. CALEB O' BRIAN, to
Miss MARTHA JANE KARNS, of Benton twp.,
Col. county.
On the 15th inst., by the Rev. W. J. EVM,'
Mr. DANIEL GEREHART, to Miss MARY SHU
MAN, both of Cattawissa twp., Col. Co.
On the 12th inst., by Rev. S. Barnes, Mr.
JOSEPH W. FSEY, of Neseoneck, to Mise AN
NA C. SEYBKRT, of Beach Grove, both of LD- ' •
zerne co., Pa.
In Berwick, on the Bth inst., by the Rev. I.
Bah I, Mr. WILLIAM ABBOT, and MRS- MARY
RUHION, both of Centre township, Columbia
cdtinty, Pa.
In Berwick, OR the 15th inst., by the earne, '
Mr. SAMUEL ANDREWS, ef Mainvilie, and Miss
ELIZABETH HARTAEL, of Mifflin township, Col.
Co., Pa.
aaaißt.
In Port Noble on last Thursday, of con
gestion of the lungs, Mr. MARTI* Coovsa,
aged about 30 year*.
At his residence, in Williamspoit, on the
sth inst., of typhoid fever, Dr. JOSEFB MON
TAYNE GREEN, in the 52d year of hi* age.
In Berwick on theßth inat., HANNAH Wtear-
LIB, aged 69 years, 3 months and 27 days.