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jjioo'inluirlt, Wednesdityi Sept. 3, 1850.
I Democratic County Convention. j
The Democratic Convention of Columbia i
county met at Bloomsburg, on Monday, 25th (
ult., in pursuance ot the rules of the party, and
organized by appointing tbd following ofii- i
cere:
-__ WM. HOWELL, President;
CASPER RAHN and WILLIAM SNYDER, See'.yi: >
The townships were ihen called over and '
the following delegates presented credentials
and took their seats.
Beaver—Henry Fry, Gideon Bredbenner.
Benton —JohhjJ. Sides, Wm. Cole.
Briarcreek —William-Lamon, M. E. Jack- 1
son.
Bloom—'William Snyder, John J. Barkley.
Cattawissa—Casper Rhn, 1. S. Monroe.
Conyngham—Jacob Derk, F. It. Wolfarih. ,
Centre —Henry D. Knorr, Henry Hess. .
Fishingcreek—George M. Howell, Daniel
Stacker.
Franklic—John Hanley, Isaac Zimmer
man.
Greenwood—Andrew J. Albertson, Joseph
R. Paiton.
Hemlock—Jesse Oh I, George L. Shoema
ker.
Jackson—James Yocum, John McHenry.
Locust—William Goodman, Leonard AJ
ams.
Maine—Aaron Andrews Clinton Fisher.
Montour —Win. G. Quick, Evan Welliver.
Madison—B. F. Fruit, Keifer Smiili.
Mifflin—John H. Heller, Samuel Soyde-.
Mouotplessant-John Hower, Wm.Howell.
Orange—Hiram R. Kliiw, Abner Welsh.
Pine—Benjamin (ViiflSfsteen, Albert Hun
ter.
Roaringcreek—Charles Levan, David R.
ntvci.
Bcott—John H. Dewitl, Jacob Cosenn.
Sugarloaf—Montgomery Cole, John Cole.
There were no contested seats and eyry
township wag full*' represented.
On motion of Mr. Rahn, John Mcßeynolds
und R. W. Weaver were unanimously cho
fpm Congressional Conferees to meet other
conftM. es for making a Congressional nomi
nation ifl llle 12lti District.
The ConK£t'on iisMgroceeded to nomi
nal* a candidaSrfbT liepreseiHauve.
Mr. Snyder nominated John G. Frtfß® of
Bloom. I
Mr. Dewiu nominated Peter Enl
A vote was taken with the folloit£y ß '
suit: ' L I
FOR ENT — ME**r*. Fry, Bredbenner, Rfl*BT
Wolfarth, Hess, G. M. Howell. Stnck
it, Hanley, Zfmmeynan, Alhgttfea, Patton,
Ohl, Shoemaker, AtuTrewsTFisher, Quick,
Welliver, Fruit, Smith,Hetler, Kline, Welsu,
Levan, D. Hower, Dewitt, Closson—27.
FOR FREEZE— Messrs. Stiles, Cole, Lamon,
Jackson, Snyder, Barkley, Monroe, Knorr,
Yocnm, McHenry, Goodman, Adams, Sny
der, Wm. Howell, J. Hower, Winlersteen,
Hunter, Cole, Cole—l 9.
So PETER ENT having a majority of votes
was declared the pgfnineeof the Convention
JmrKepresentativd.
i motion bf Mr. Jackson, Stephen H.
Millev and Jno. G. Freeze were unanimouely
chosen Senatorial Conferees to meet other
Senatorial wuUerees from this district.
0n motion of Mr. Jackson, Hiram R. Kline
npd Wra.G. Quick were unanimously chosen
Keoiese nla I isrweaiafe rem to raeetjpjher sim
, ilar conferee* from this ffepreaentalive Dis
trict.
The Cowitlorv ihen proceeded! to nomi
nate a candidatrfer President ,1-c'ge of this
Judicial District. Hon. J. WOOD
WARD was named, andbyiieeiimjetion de
clarSgiie clvtice of Columbia counljr for
On motion of Mr. Monroe,
M. E. Jackson, Emenuel I.azarngsnd Wm.
Snyder were unanimously chosen (s Judicial
Conferees from this county.
The Convention then proceeded to nomi
nate two candidates for Associate Jgdw.
Mr. Monroe nominated Stephen Baldy ol
Cattawissa.
Mr. Albertson nominated Jacob Evins of
Greenwood.
Mr. Hetler nominated Samuel Crsasy of
Mifiliq.
Mr. HanUy nominated Peter Kline of
Franklin.
A vote was taken with tbe foilowingieault:
FOB EVANS —Messrs. Fry, Wm. Snyder,
Berkley) Monroa, G. M. Howell, iNfcker,
Hanky, Albertson, Pulton, Ohl, Shoefaker,
Yocnm, McHdhry, Andrews, Quick, Vuil,
Welliver, Hetler, S. Snyder, J. Hower, Vm.
Howell,Kline, Welsh, Winlersteen, Hunkr,
Dewitt, Closson—27. \
FOR KLlNE —Messrs. Stiles, W. Cole, Barlf\
ley, Rahn, G- M. Howell; Stucker, Hanley,\
Zimmerman, Afbertaon, Shoemaker, Adams,
Goodman, Fieber, Fruit, Srtith, Kline, Welsh,
l*pan, ®- Hower, Closson—2o.
BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1856.
FOR CREASY- Messrs. Bredbenner, Stile*, |
Wm. Cole, L*mon, Jackson, Wm. Snyder, .
Derk, Wolfarlh, Knorr, He**, Patton, Old, |
Yocura, McHenry, Andrew*, Fiiher, Smith, (
Heller, S.Snyder, Winlersteen, D. Hower,M.:
Cole, J. Cole—23.
FOR BAM>T —Messrs. Fry, Bredbenner, La
tnon, Jackson, Rahn, Monroe, Derk, Knorr,
Wolfarth, Hesi, Zimmerman, Adams, Quick,
Goodman, Welliver, J. Hower, Wm. Howell,
Hunter, Levan, pewi'.l, M. Cole, J. Cole—22.
So JACOB EVANS having a majority of
all the votes given was declared duly nqjni
naied for Associate Judge. No other candi
date having a majority, a second ballot was
taken which resulted as follows:
FOR KLlNE —Messrs. Barkley, G. M. How
ell, Slucker, Hanley, Zimmerman, Albertaon,
Shoemaker, Goodman, Adams, Fruit, Smith,
Kline, Welsh, Levan, D. Hower, Clossor.—
For CREASY —Messrs. Bredbenner, Stiles,
Wm. Cole, Jackson, Wm. Snyder, Wolfarth,
Knorr, Hess, Ohl, Yooum, McHenry, An
drews, Fisher, Heller, S. Snyder,. Winler
steen, Dewitt, M. Cole, J. Cole—l 9.
FOR BALDY —Messrs. Fry, Lamon, Mon
roe, Rahn, Derk, Patton Qu'ck, Welliver, J.
Hower, Wm. Howell, Hunter—ll.
Neither candidate having a majority, a
third ballot was taken with the following re
sult:
FOB KLlNE —Messrs. G. M. Howell, Stuck
er, Hanley, Zimmerman, Albertson, Old.
Shoemaker, Adams, Goodman, Fruit, Smith,
Kline, Welsh, Levan, D. Hower, Dewitl,
Closson—17.
FOR CREASY —Messrs. Bredbenner, Stiles,
Wm. Cole, Lamon, Jackson, W. Snyder,
Barkley, Derk, Wolfarth, Hess, Patton, Yo
cutn, McHenry, Andrews, Fisher, Heller, S.
Snyder, Wintersteen ■ 18.
FOB BALDY —Messrs Fry, Rahn, Monroe,
Knorr, Quick, Welliver, J. Hower, Wm.
Howell, Hunter, M. Cole, J. Cole—ll.
FOURTH BALLOT.
FOR KLlNE —Messrs. Stiles, Wm. Cole, La
mon, Win. Snyder, Berkley, Monroe, G. M.
Howell, Stucker, Hanley, Zimmerman, Al
ber'son, Shoemaker, Goodman, Adams,
Fruit, Smith, Kline, Welsh, Hunter, Levan,
D. Hower, Dewiu, Closson—23.
FOR CREASY —Messrs. Bredbenner, Jack
son, Wolfarih, Knorr, Hess, Patton, Ohl, Yo
cum, McHenry, Andrews, Fisher, Hetler, S.
Snyder, Cole, J. Cole—l 6.
FOR BALDY —Messrs. Fry, Derk, Quick,
Welliver, J. Hower, Wm.'Kqwell—6.
The name of Stephen Eivty was lb*'*
withdrawn.
FIFTH BALLOT. *
Fon KLlNE —Messrs. Stiles, Vim. Snyder.
Barkley, Rahn, Monroe-jSE'' M. Howell,
Stucker, Hanley, Ziinwlerman, Albertson,
Shoemaker, Fisher,Quick,
Welliver, J. Hower, Wm. How
el', Klino, JWrlsh, Hunter, Levan, D. Hower
Dewiu, CliNseoi) —27.
FOR CREASY —Messrs. Fry, Bredbenner,
Col. lamon, Jackson, Derk, Wolfarth,
Kr.orr, Hess, Patton, Ohl, Yoeum, McHenry,
Andrews, Heller, S. Snyder, Winlersteen, M.
Cole, J. Cole—l 9.
So PETER KLINE having a majority of
the votes ca< was declared
for Associate Judge.
The convention then nomi
nate a candidate fill l /*trim Attorney.
"crtTLE, Esq., of Berwick, was
named, and there bsing no other candidate,
he was unauimously nominated for District
Attorney.
The convention Ihen proceeded to nomi
nate a candidate foj County Commissioner.
Mr. Yocum nominated Henry Bmenben
der, of Fishingcreek. \
Samuel Rhone, of Benton was named, and
his name withdrawn. S
There being no opposition, HENRY BIT
TKNBENDER was unanimously nominated
for County Commissioner.
On motion of Mr. Rahn, SAM'L RHONE
of Benton, was unanimously nominated for
County Auditor. <
The convention then proceeded to pomi
nate a candidate for County Surveyor!
Mr. Monroe nominated Solomon
of Centre. . j
Mr Slucker noroi"Rfed Samuel Everet, of
Orag*' - "
A vote was taken winch resulted as fol
lows:
Fon NEYHARD —Maisra. BuUbnr,
-fiiliaa, win. cote, Wm. Snyder, Barkley,
Monroe, Rahn, Knorr, Hess, Hsnley, Zim
merman, Ohl, Shoemaker, Yoeum, Good
man, Adams, Andrews, Fisher,' Quick, Wel
liver, Hetler, S. Snyder, Winlersteen, Levan,
D. Hower, M. Cole, J. Cole—2B.
FOR EVERET— Messrs. I.amon, Jackson,
Derk, G. M. Howell, Slucker, Albertson,
Patton, McHenry, Fruit, Smith, J. Hower,
Wm. Howell, Kline, Welsh, Hunter, Dewitl,
Closson—l7.
SOLOMON NEYHARD having a majority
of votes, was declared duly nominated for
County Surveyor.
Tbe convention then proceeded to nomi
nate a candidate for Coroner.
Mr. Rahn nominated Nathan Drieebach of
Roaiingereek, and there being no Other can
didate, Mr. DRIESBACH was unanimously
nominated for Coroner.
Mr. Jackson tben offered the following
resolution, which was unanimously adopted :
Raolvtd, That'it ie recommended that the
Congressional Conferees of the district meet
at Wilkesbarre, on Thursday, the 18tb day
of September, and that the Senatorial Con
ferees of the Senatorial District meet at Ber
wick on the dav following.
JMr. Jackson offered the following resolu
tion which were unanimously adopted :
J. That the nomination* of the Democratic
National Convention recently assembled at
Cincinnati are heartily approved by the De
mocracy of Columbia county amf will be
cheerfully supported by them; and that, in
particular, the selection of Mr. Buohanan was
a just compliment to our State and should a
waken the enthusiasm of onr people and in
spire their efforts for the success of the great
party of the Constitution and the Union in
the present canvass.
2. That the State nominations of the Dem
ocratic party were proper and fit to be made
and may jastly command respect and confi
dence; ar.d that the nomination of George
Scott, an esteemed, popular and competent
citizen of our own county, for the office of
Canal Commissioner, was, in particular, well
advised and witl receive a ii deserve* a sig
nal endorsement from our people.
3. That the nominations this day made
being fair, regular and proper, are earnestly
recommended to the people for their appro
val at the polls, and that the members of this
convention will give to each and all of them
their undivided and hearty support.
4. That we cordially endorse the position
of the Democratic national platform on the
subjeol of slavery as the only one compatible
with national harmony and the perma
nence of the Union, that position being the
adjustment of this and all questions of
local concern by each S;ato and Territory for
itself without interference or dictation from
any quarter: That of consequence, any in
terference from Massachusetts, Missouri, or
elsewhere, with the local affairs of the Ter
ritory of Kansas is to be condemned and op
posed as an invasion of popular rights as well
as of the letter and spirit of the act organizing
the Territory.
5. That the Democratic party now as here
tofore is opposed to the proscription of any
part of the people on account of iheir religion
or place of birth, and in favor of equality of
political rights and open political organiza
tions.
6. That standing upon the doctrines of
Washington's Farewell Address ns well as
those of President Jackson's, we invoke all
patiiolic citizens to co-operate with us in re
sisting sectional parties as dangerous to the
Union and the best interests of the people,
and especially to resist that one recently or
ganized upon far.atical and spiteful passions
which is content "to let the Union slide' 1 if
its purposes cannot otherwise be accomplish
ed.
On motion of Mr. Monroe, it was then
Resolved, That the Representative Confer
ees of this district meet at Cattawissa.
On motion of Mr. Jackson, it was
That C. R. Bnckalew, Jno. Kief
er, Emanuel Lazarus, J. A. Funston, and
Stephen H. Kwar.k be the Standing Commit
tee for the ensuing year.
And on motion tbe convention adjourned.
AN INDIAN SODOM —An Interesting pamph
let has been published by Mr. Bellasis, Col
lector of Hyderabad, in Scinde, containing
an account of his examinations and discove
ries on the site of the ancient city of Brah
minabab, on a branch ot tbe old bed of.the
Indus. Tradition affirms that the city—the
capital of a Hindoo kingdom to which the
tide of Mahommedan invasion had scarcely
penetrated—was destroyed by fiie from hea
ven and by an earthquake on account of tbe
wickedness of it* ruler.
The investigations of Mr. Bellasis seem to
prove that the place really was destroyed by
some terrible (convulsiou of nature, which
probably at the same time completely chan
ged the course of the Indus. On no other
supposition can a ruin be accounted for that
was at once so sudden and so complete.—
Skeletons were found in every house that
was opened and in the streets, some crouch
ed together and there buried ; others crushed
flat by a falling weight, the pieces of stone
or brick still in some' cases buried in the
fractured skull. Numerous coins and other
valuables have already' been discovered,
carved figures in ivory, engravings on corne
lian and agate, a set of ivory chessmen, and
the like. The figures carved on objects con
nected with religious worship are Bndhist.
From (he fact of their being unmniilatej,
Mr. Bellasis considers it dear that the iconoc
lastic Mussulman invaders had not reached,
or at least had not permanently annexed,
Brahminabad at the lime of its destruction,
which he conceives to have taken place
about A. D. 1020. '
A MORAL WELL POlWTlD. —Sopbronius, a
wise teacher, would not let his grown up
SOBS and daughters to aasociale with those
whose conduct was not pure and upright.
"Dear father," said the gentle Enlalia to
him one day when he forbade her, in com
pany with her brother, to visit the volatile
Lucinda,, "you must think us very childish
if you imagine, we would be exposed to dan
ger by it."
The lather took in silence a dead coal
from the hearth and reached it to hie daugh
ter. "It will not born burn you, my child—
take it." Sli* did so, and beheld, her deli
cate whits hand was soiled and blackened,
and, as it chanced, her white dress 100. We
cannot be too careful in handling coals—
even if they do oot burn they blacken. So
it is with the company of the vicious.
DON'T CARE ABOUT THEM. —The felling be
tween the Know Nothings and the Blaok Re
publicans becomes more bitter aa the cam
paign advances. Th* Perry freeman, an able
advocate of Fillmore and Know Nothingism
thus puts at defiance the Black Republicans.
We copy irom that paper of tbe 14th inst. a*
follows:
"Some Fremonters don't like the proceed
ings of the late American Stale Convention.
Well, what of it ? Americans don't oaie
what tbe Fremonters do ; and why should
Fremonters pretend to find fault with the do
ing* of the Americans 7
Truth and Right God and our (U>autry.
floelre-
THE MEADOW GATE.
BY CHARLES SWAtlt.
The blue bell peeps berAlh the fern,
The moor its purple blwsom yields,
'Tis worth full six days' work to earn
A ramble 'mid the wood and field*.
There is an hour to eilence dear,
An hour for which a king might wait:
It is to meet, when no one'e near,
My Mary by the meadow gate.
When love inspires the linnet's breast,
How swift he speeds from spray to spray;
His song ia of his woodland nest
Far bidden from the peep of day.
Would such a nest were my sweet lot!
Would I might be some dear one's mate I
I'd ask to shaie my lowly cot.
My Mary by
There is a tide the slreenilat irek,
A full mile from its course it veers.
And into silvery music break*
What from the vale the sea appears.
Oh ! twenty miles my eager font
Would wander long and linger late,
One happy moment but to meet
My Mary by (he meadow gate.
The Present Condition of Spain.
Revolutions in Europe have'become such
common events within the last ten years,
thai it it hard to take any interest, or even
to keep tbe run of them. Bit in Spain,
which for the last fifty years has been worse
and worse governed after every change, it
requires no little patience andperseverance
to trace out the wretched complications of
intrigue, tyranny and disaster that mark the
course of events. Espartero seems to be a
patriotic Minister, who has certainly saved
the Queen and the country on more occa
sions than one. But he is for Spain what
Lamerrine was for France in 1848, too weak
for the occasion. He had advanced, among
others, Gen. O'Donnell, who, after pretend
ing liberal principles, turns out to be on un
principled, ambitious man. True, he is reso
luie ; but it is only to advance himself and
supercede Espartero, who, 100 honest and
honorable for intrigue himself, was unable
to suspect his ally in the Ministry, until too
late. Upon some pretence of taking offence
at the ooduct of another Minister, O'Donnell
contrived, at the proper moment for his
schemes, to accuse Espartero in the Queen's
presence, gel him dismissed, and the power
lodged in his own hands. The whole scene
had doubtless been anticipated and pre-ar
ranged with the Queen, who was anxious to
get'rid of a leader eo favprubjA lp the cause
of the people, and one wiio, therefore, put
such a check on her own royal\irerogratives.
Most probably, as is now asseited, the whole
affair was arranged in Paris. '
Anticipating resistance to the people, who
have no confidence in the Queen and but
little in O'Donnell, the latter had contrived
to surround Madrid with some 18,000 troops,
resolved to become the hero of a coup rf' etal
similar to that which placed Louis Napoleon
in his present position. The National Guard
rose, and for a long lime it was doubtful
what would De the issue. Hut after the loss,
some say of probably more than 1000 lives,
the National Guard has been disarmed, and
the Queen reigning in her capital, openly
rejoices, and rewnda the officers who have
committed the greatest outrage. A large ma
jority of the Cortes or SpSriiiiff "Parliament
have, however, assembled at Saragossa,
wtiere the whole people, if not the garrison,
still adhere to li terty, and have protested
earnestly against this blow struck at freedom.
In faoi, it is not yet fully decided whether
we are or are not to have tidings of another
revolution. It is O'Donnell that is timid, in
spite of his success, and has issued a pro
gramme of great moderation.
What is the cause of all these revolutions,
and what is the cure for theml The cause
is, of coiwse, to be found in the difference of
views between the Government and the gov
erned ; utter selfishness and unreliability on
tbe one side, and a keen perception of all
this on the other. The character of the
reigning monarch* of Spain may have beeu
nearly as Belfish and as bad for centuries,
but it has not been knowu so well at home
and abroad. It is, for instance, now well
known that tbe Queen, while really instiga
ting this whole movement of O'Donnell's,
has seen and applauded*#)* leaders of both
sides, in order that, whichever may win, she
may seem to be on the successful side , and
there j* no doubt that ehe has been all along
prepared to discard the losing party, which
ever it may be. What confidence can be
placed in tbch a head of the executive of a
nation as tljis, who sits smiling while both
sides cot eakh other's throats!
"In Roma" said Daniel Wehater, "pnblic
virtue fell with private morality. TTta sanc
tity of the nuptial bond ia, in my opinion,
one of tbe principal, if not the chief cause of
the superior refinement, freedom and pros
perity enjoyed at the present lime by Chris
tian nations," Judged by* this standard,
.Spain cannot he called a Christian nation.—
Certainly the tl*fpne is filled by one of the
moat notoriously profligate women of Ea
rope. For generations it has been occupied
by the most vicious of royal families, with
out truth, honesty or any other principle than
the most intense and unprincipled selfish
ness. With pride ontside and corruption
within, almost every vice and crime aeems
to belong hereditarily to this woman, akd
yet the Spaniards endure her. Insurrection
after insurrection impoverishes the countrr,
until the richest domain of all Europe his
become the poorest. Properly, life, every
thing, is insecure. Brigands occupy tbe
toad*, and aaaassination goes on unmolested,
and yat no man arises out of these troubles
in whom confidence is to braced, or who
can liberate it from this awful degradation.
But the great leason to be learned from the
prostrate condition of Spain is, that the want
of private morality is the true secret of the
downfall and degradation of any man. It
matters little the name of the Government.
It may be called imperial, monarchial, or
even republican, if conducted without regard
to the eternal principles pf truth, justice and
morality, it cannot eland. Here is, indeed,
the grest hope of onr form of government.
So long as the families of which the nation is
composed are virtuous in their domestic re
lations at home, where the power springs
from them, and returns to them, it may be
hoped that we shall ever be able to secure
men enough to conduct the government of
the country, who will not grossly or wilfully
betray its interests. Bat this, be it rAwem
bered, is the only safeguard fot us, and ev
ery other nation of the earth, th*M*ltt -§h*ll
not one day sink and become lilWMfpain.
Private morality is the root of public virtue.
—Phi/a. ledger.
Country Girts.
Mefta Victoria Fuller, of the Ohio Cultiva
tor, in a sisterly way thns talks to Country
Girls :
The farmer's daughters are soon to be the
life as well as the pride of the country, a
glorious race of women which no other land
can show, I seek oot to flatter them for be
fore they can become this, they will have to
make an earnest effort of one or two kinds.
There are some who depreciate their condi
tion, and some who have a false pride in it,
because they demand more consideration
than they merit. A want of intelligence up
on all subjects of the day and of a refined
education, is no more excusable in a coun
try than in a town bred girl, in these days of
many books and newspaper*.
Many girls are discouraged becauie they
cannot be sent away to boarding school ; but
men of superior minds and knowledge of the
world would rather have for wives, women
well and properly educated at home. And
this education can be had where the desire
is not wanting. A taste for reading does
wonders, and ait earnest ihirst after knowl
edge is almost certain to attain a sweet
draught of the "Pierian Spring.". Here is a
"farmer's daughter" fn this very room in
whieh I am writing, a beautiful refined, and
intellectual woman, in whose girlhood books
were not as plenty as now, and who obtained
her fine education under difficulties that
would have discouraged any bnt one who
had as true a love (or study.
I will slate why I think the country girls
are yet to prove the hope of this country.
The women in towns and cities are becom*
ing so universally unhealthy, and almost as
universally extravagant, foolish, fashionable,
that men are almost in despair of getting
wives who are not invalids, arid providing
them with what they demand after they have
married iliem. Unless a man has the for
tune (good or bad) to be the inheritor of
wealth, he must spend the best blootn of his
youth in acquiring enough to start Upon, as
people are expected to begin now adays.
Men even in high places would go to the
country for their choice, if they met there
equal refinement with Intelligence. Woman
are preparing to lake a noble stand in his
tory— and, they cannot do it In ignorance.
Town girls hnve the advantage of more
highly polished manners and greater accom
plishments ; but country girls have infinitely
more to recommend them as livalsof iheir
fair city sisters. They have more truth,
household knowledge and economy, health,
(and consequently,) simplicity, affection,
and freshness of impulse and thought.—
Wpen they have cultivated minds, lliey have
more chances for good sense and real abil
ly, because so much of their lime is not de
manded by the frivolities of society. The
added lustre of foreign accomplishments
conld easily be canght by such a mind from
a very little contact with the world.
- I would not speak aa though our farmer's
daughters were deficient in education.—
Many brilliant scholars and talented women
may be found among them—in New Eng
land, especially st^—but I would seek to awa
ken the ambition of all to become that ad
mired and favored class wbiob they ought
to be, it tbey will but unite refined cultore
with their other most excellent graces.
A sweet connlry home, with .rosea and
honey-suckles trained.to climb over it, with
good taste, intelligence and beauty within,
toil enough to secure health, and leisure
enough to court acquaintances with booke
and flowers and the loveliness of nature;
with peace, plenty, and love, is surely ont
of tbe Paradises which heaven has left for
the attainment of man.
" The City Better than the Connlry.
The graceful editor of the " Easy Chair,"
in Harpet's Magazine, indulges in some pleas
antry at the city fashionables, who migrate
to the country and the watering places in
search of comfort in the hot sumrtier. He
console* himself (possibly like the fox in the
fable) that they have the worst of the bar
gain, and his sage reflections may bring a
spice of comfort to the discontented ones,
who long to join tbe general exodns, but
can't. He says of the migrating citizens,
some of whom ''have gone to the little farm
houses in little hot valleys, where tbe sun
blazes all day, and the mosquitoes buzz and
sting ail night."
"Poor people! what have they done!—
Why should thay be driven from these high
streets in which lofty buildings shut out the
•ant Why are tbey bauished from these
houses with spacious rooms into which no
sun penetrates, upon whose floor ar* cool
mailings, upon which stand chairs and so
fas draped m suggestive drillings. Hera
Crolon flows from the affluence of Liebfra
umlick, from the crashed grapes of Rhine
vineyards, here rare birds sing in cages,
green trees wave before the windows; the
ice-man calls alond his refreshing merchan
dize ; and for a table spread with a clean
white cloth in tbe dim, lofty and cool dining
room, around which stand statutes marbly
calm, inspiring peace and tranquil thought,
the country has sent itsfariest vegetables and
fruits and flowers. Coolness and calmness
are the city's dowry in the dog days. What
has everybody done that everybody ehould
be deprived of tbeee rights 7
"In tbe evening everybody is dancing into
a white heat at the gay resorts, or going into
a straw bed at nine o'clock, to fight with the
mosquitoes and toss into a fever, in tbe little
hot cottages in the little hot valleys. But the
city sallies forth clad in sweet linen and light
shoes—for there k no dew, no iffbd, no dreg
gling in wet grass ami slipping on marshy
ground here—and by the light of faithful day
emulating gas—for there is no darkness, no
pitching into trees, and tumbling overslumps,
and stubbing against stones here—the city
seats itself in a bower like those Mahommed
designed (or honries in Paradise, and there
it touches the pastoral troop of the cobbler,
or lastea the sweetest country flavor in odor
ous mint. Close at hand gushes tbe spark
ling stream of soda, like >he bright rivers Ar
bana and Parphar; the fumes of Mecia in
spire the air; the cheerful pop of the beer
bottle plays through the whole like the foot
beat of happy hours passing over; and that
mildest of muddlers, lager pours its slow,
clouded current bj. No mosquitoes, no hot
dancing, no sharp draught', no mud, no drag
gling dew, but lager and luxury, cobbler and
calm."
AUT AND ITS Ft UK 1.1 TV TO NATURE.
In thai excellent book, Col. Wall's " Eich
ings of Travel," an anecdote is told of Gar
rick criticising Raphael's cartoons. The great
actor took exceptions to the attitude of Ely
mas, the Sorcerer, who stood, he said, with
his feet stretched out like a clown ; whereas
he was no vulgar fellow, and should have
been pictured, therefore, with his arms ex
tended, like a gentleman seeking aid. "I
will show yon," said Garrick, ''how he ought
to be represented." Accordingly, he closed
his eyes, and, like the blind Elymas, began
to cross the room. When he had reached
the middle Sir Benjamin West, who was one
or the company, approached him and told
not to alier his position, but to open his
eyes. Garrick's surprised exolamation,when
he obeyed, was, " 1 am Raphael's Elymas."
He had, in fact, forgot, as any blind man
would, all about the graceful, gentlemanly
extension of arms of whieh he had spoken,
and had instinctively advanced his feet and
toes, line the feelers of an insect, exactly as
Raphael had represented Elymas, the Sor
cerer.
The anecdote should be printed in capital
letters on the wall of every artist's study. I
The degroeraoyV art, about which we hear
so much, is owingte tbe neglect of nature
more than tq,aa; ipher cause. Young paint
ers, aspiring l*-h* Leonard da-Vweie, forget
made of drawing, and
jo delineate tbe human fig-
UFG&JMt sort of intuition. Or they sit for
ever at their easels, touching in and arasing
by turns, in a vain effort to secure harmony
of color, instead of going abroad among na
ture, palette in hand, and copying the lints of
the sunset skv or the gradations of a rainbow.
Or they take sketches eternally in India ink,
till their pictures all grow dead and gashtly
alike. Or they attempt to improve on Na
ture, something in the same conoeited spirit
which made the old Portuguese Marquis say',
that, if he had been consulted at the Greatinn,
he could have given, he flattered himself,
some good hints. In short,-they take every
road but the right one to reaoh the gaol, and
then complain of the public, when the fault
is in themselves.
The Jrnth of this assertion, that the degen
eracy of art is owing to the neglect of nalure >
is further shown by the popularity of modern
genre pictures as contrasted with those devo
ted to what is called high art. People buy
Landseer's dogs, because they are true to life,
and anybody, in addition, something of hu
man feeling ; but thsy would not buy Hay
don'a Regulas, because it was neither true
to life, nor to human passion. Landseer, to
continue ihn illustration, is not an artist in
the higheet walk, but he fills the highest
grade of the walk he ie in; while Haydon,
and nearly every other modern devotee of
high art, labored, or labor, in a walk for
which they want capacity, or study, or both.
For to paint heroes, in snch a way as to
kindle enthusiasm in the spectator, requires
both more skill end greater knowledge of
nature, than to paint a dog or a stag, even
thoogh may be dying, and look out
on ns eyes, that almost seem
human. Depend on it, tbe key to the degen
eracy of modern art, is a Want of fidelity to
nature, the result, in some oases, of power
to execute, but, in most, of sheer ignorance.
" HISTORY informs us LHAL Mr. Buohsnan
was "bitterly opposed to the war of 1812."
PiUtburg Journal.
He was so bitterly opposed to it that be
threw down his law books, look the stomp
and made bis first speech to rouse the people
of Lancaster to arms; company,
shouldered his musket, to Bal
timore. That is the
war in whiob his coun^^Hrajiag&d; and
such was the beginning
public and illustrious T
[Two Dollars per Annua*,
NUMBER 33,
LEITER FROM HKNU* tut,
GRAPHIC PICTURE CP BLACK REPUBLICAITLSLT.
We invite the attention of candid and intel
ligent citizena to tbo following lettei of Hen'
ry Clay to the Rev. Mr. Coltdn, on the Abo
lition qneation, now pending before the conn
try in the shape of Black Republicanism:
ASHLABD, Sept. 2, 1843.
My Dear Sir .—Allow me to suggest a sub
ject for one of youf tracts, which, treated in
your popular and condensed way, I think
would be attended with great and good ef
fect. 1 mean Abolition.
ft is manifest that the ukras of that party
are extremely mischievous, and are hurrying
on the country to fearful consequenoes. They
are not conciliated by the Whigs. Engrossed
with a single idea, they care tor nothing
eko. They would see the administration of
the Government precipitate the nation into
absolute ruin before they would lend a help
ing bend lo arrest til SfcdSf. Thttf treat
worst and denounce most those who treat
them best— who so fat agree with them as
to admit slavery lo be an evil. Witness their
conduct towards Mr. Briggs and Mr. Adams
in Massachusetts, and towards me.
I will give you an outline of the manner id
which 1 would handle it: show the origin of
Slavery ; trace its introduction to the British
Government; show how it is disposed of by
the federal constitution ; that it is left exclu
sively to the States, except in regard lo fugi
tives, direct taxes and representation ; show
that the agitation of the question to the free
.States will first destroy all harmony, and fi
| nally lead to disunion, perpetual war,the ex
tinction of the African race, ultimate military
despotism.
But the great aim and object of your tract
should be to arouse the laboring classes in
the free Stales against Abolition. Depict tbe
consequence to them of immediate Abolition.
Tbe slaves being free would be dispersed
tnroughout the Union; they would enter into
competition with the free laborer; with the
American, the Irish, the German; reduce
his wages, be confounded with him, aflect his
moral and social standing. And as.ibeul-
Iras go both abolition and amalgamation,
show that their object is to unite in marriage
the laboring white man and the laboring black
woman, to reduce laboring white men to the
despised and degraded condition of the black
man.
I would show thatr opposition to coloniza
tion. Show its humane, religious and patri
otic aim. That they are to separate those
whom God has separated. Why do the Ab
olitionists oppose colonization t To keep
and amalgamate together the two races, in ,
violation of God's will, and to keep the hlaeko
here that they may interfere with, degrade
and debase the laboring whites. Show that
the British Government is co-operating with
the Abolitionists for the purpose of dissolving
the Union, &c. lam perfectly satisfied that
it will dogreat good. Let me hear from yon
on Ibis subject. (UNBY CLAY.
A Beautiful Sentiment.
Shortly before of the lament
ed Hebov, ifir India, he preached a sermon
wich contained this beautiful illustration:
| " Life bears us on like a stream of a migh-
Ily river. Our boat at first glides down the
narrow channel through the playful murmur
ing of brook and the winding of Its
grassy borders. The trees shed their bloa-
I some over oor young selves to our young
hands ; we are happy in hope and we grasp
eagerly at the beauties around ut—but the
stream hurries on and still our hands are
empty. Our course io youth and manhood
is along a deeper and witJer flood, amid ob
jecrs more striking and magnificent. Wa
are animated at the moving pieiurea and en
joyment and indnatry passing us; we ara
exoited at some short lived disappointment.
The stream bears us on in our joys and our
griefs ara alike left bflhind us. We may be t
shipwrecked, wo caiflretbe delayed; wheth
er rough or smooth, the river hasten* lo lis
home, till the roar jf tbe waves is beneath
onr feet, and Ihe lan#-Issiona from oar eyes,
and the floods are lifted np around as, and
we take our leave of earth and he inhabitants,
until our further voyage there ia no witness
save the infinite and eternal 1"
Departed Souls. •
That there is a wotld of spirits around us
{ do suppose. Sometimes I am certain,
thereof, almost—there being eeaaona when
we thrill to tbe invisible more readily than
at others; and mysterious momsnls wherein
tbe soul is dimly conscious of an inoats affinr
ity with some other world, solemn and un
known. Whilst thns as it were "in the
spirit," have I felt what, misunderstood, are
superstitious beginnings,—l mean the super
natural appearance which, at suoh seasons,
the commonest objects assume, tbe bodily
senses being iu a manner glorified when the
soul's higher I acuities are eatir, like the siring
of a lyre, all vibrating, though only one b*
struck. Meditating on them that have de
parted this life, i|ye breeze hae seemed to
me, on a Sabbath morning, freighted with
their last breath, a penetrating power of
peace and love; and many timea have £
started among the elm trees yonder, at tbeic
voices, seemicg though repressed, to sigh,
softly in the branobee above. This mora!
meaning of nature, rising with the soot's
mood, would be most inexplicable bet that
God is all in all; la drawing nigh lo whom
earnestly, external objects, all of thsm, ee "
■raid steps, and, no doubt, were di-
I rinely AsW to serve as suoh.—Jto. W*