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Fi om the Village Record.
"LIVE FOR SOMETHING."
"Live for something;" leTthy purpose
Be as btoad as vonder sky ;
Place the standard—speak the watchward,
Point the golden arrows high.
Daring souls have gotic before th6e,
Muking smoother still the way;
"Face the danger— meet the tempest,
Crown hearts alone delay.
"Live for something," though the Father,
Gave thee not the grasping mind,
Fill tbo measure ol thy I ale ill,
• Spuming not the task designed.
They are worse tlran rfeorf, who basely
Leave the field as yet tin won ;
(lend thy car and notva thy spirit,
Though it be the signal gun.
"Live for something,hold no treaty
With thedenton of despair.
Keep thy loreltead to the sunlight,
Thou vlult see "the promise" there.
Thus die oklen prophets struggled,
Through the flatties that upward rolled,
Tims the great men ol thd present,
llavu their glowing names onrollod.
Four not; cowards may be near thee,
Willi their tongues to poison faith,
Lend no car but lace thy duty,
Even itiiio chains and death,
lluiter far to die rely ing,
On some truth the crowd had spuruod,
Than to live lorevcr eigluhg,
That i.o alone is felt unturned.
"Live fur something," make thy mission,
Worthy of n nolde soul.
Stand not trembling lest tho life bark
Strike against the lata! shoal.
Spread lite sails, and favoring breezes,
Vet shall waft thee safely on.
'Till lite "Islands of lite blessed,"
l.ift their green shores to the sun.
"Live for something from the ages
Comes a deep prophetic tone,
Speuking through time's mouldy caverns,
"Make the hidden things thy own."
Grasp nnd give with hands unsparing,
For ilia limne liath its stare;
And the world like hungry children.
Cries unceasing "Give ma more !"
"Live for something," though a Newton
Sent his great thoughts round the spheres;
Learned their secrets, lound their motions,
Stored them up (or luture yents.
Though with simple kite a Franklin
Drew the lightning to his side—
They are richer pearls ucgathered,
Greater power yet unapplied.
"Life for something," win a garland,
That shall stand the blasts ol time—
' Mid the shrinking forms arnttnd ihee,
Fearless tread tho pnilt sublime;
Then, though but u seeming cypher
In the long Eternal sum,
Thou shall sit beside the Father,
In the Kingdom yet to como.
BE FRANK AND DETERMlNED. —Novoratrect
|o bo oiher than what you are. Lcurn 10 say
•'I Jo pot know," and "I can not afford it,"
will) mod sonorous distinctness and empha
sis. Mn will then believe you when you
say, "I do know,' 1 and "I can aflord it."—
Never be ashamed to pass for just what you
truly are, and who you are, and you are on
solid ground. A map is already ol conse
quence in the world, when it Is known that
we can implicitly rely ou him—that when
ho says he knows a thing, he will do. Such
a reputation will give a man more real en
joyment, and is of far greater value to him,
thaji all the results which display and pre
tension can compass.
"A Ccr OF Coin WATER." —In one of the
interior provinces of India there is said to
be a man who every morning goes to a dis
tant trough standing, by the road side, and
filling it with-water, returns to his daily du
ties. The caravans passing that way call
and slake their thirst. He never knows
- whom ho blesses, and they never know
their benefactor. He is satisfied (hat some
weary pilgrims are refreshed by his kind-
nees, but who they are it matters not. They
will never return to reward him personally,
but his reward is the consciousness of hav
ing done a generous act.
C?" Loreu/o Dow, the celebrated itinerant
preacher, onco came across a man who
was deeply lamenting that his axe had been
stolen. Dow told the man if ho would come
to meeting with him he would find his axe.
At the meetnig, Dow had on the pulpit, in
plain sight, a big stone. Suddenly in the
middle ol the sermon, he stopped, took up
the stone, and said : "An axe was stolen in
this neighborhood last night, and if the mar,
who took it don't dodge, 1 will hit him on
the forehead with this stone!" at the same
time making a violent effort to throw it. A
person present was seen to dodge his head,
and proved to be the guilty party.
gy A young man, desirous of marrying
a daughter of a well known merchant, after
many attempts to broach the subject to the
old gentleman, in a very stuttering manner
commenced —"Mr.0 ,are you willing
to let me have your daughter Janet" "Of
coutfe 1 am," gruffly replied the old man ;
"and I wish )on would get ronieother lively
Jellrtws to mr.rry lb- rest of ihem ' '
BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY. PA., WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 14, 1857.
OUR GRAN OHO 111 Kit.
Blessed be the children wao have an old
fashioned grandmother. As they hope for
length of days, let them love and honor her,
for we can tell them they will never find
another.
There is a large old kitchen somewhere
in the past, and an old faehionod fire place
therein, with its smooth old jambs of stone
—smooth with many knivea that have been
sharpened there. There are andirons with
rings iu the tops, wherein many temples of
(lame have been builded, with spires and
turrets of crimson. There is a broad, worn
hearth, by feel that have been torn and
bleeding by the way, or been made "besutf
fnl," and walked upon Hours of tesselated
good. Tin-re are toigs in the corner, where
with we grasped a coal, and "blowing for a
linle life," lighted our first candle ; there is
a shovel, wherewith were drawn forth the
glowing embers in which we saw our first
fancies and dreamed our first dreams—the
shovel with which we stirred the sleepy
logs till the sparks rustled up tbo chimney
ns if a forge wore in blast below, and wish
ed wu l.ad so many lambs, so many mar
bles, or so many somethings that we covet
ed; and so it was we wished our first wishes.
There is a chair—a low, rush-bottom chair;
there is a little \Vheel in the corner, a big
wheel in the garret, a loom in the chamber
There are chests full ol linen and yarn, and
quilts of rare patterns, and samples in
frames.
And everywhere and always the dear old
wrinkled face of her whose firm, elastic
step mocks the fee bio saunter of her chil
dren's children—the old fashioned grand
motherrof twenty years ago. She, the very
providence ol the old homestead—she who
loved us all, ami said she wished there was
more of ua to love, and look nil the school
in the Hollow for grand-children beside. A
gieat, expansive bean was hers, beneath that
wooleu gown, or that heir loom of silken
texture.
We can see her to day —those mild blue
eyes with more bonuty in them limn time
could touch or death do more than hide—
within Jhe faintest call of every one of us,
nnd soft reproof, that seomed not passion,
but regret. A white tress has escaped from
beneath her showy cap; sho has just restored
a wandering lamb to its mother; she length
ened the tether of a vine that was straying
over the window, as she come in and pluck
ed the lour leaf olover for Ellen. Slip sits
down by the little wheel—a tress is running
through her fingers from tho distaff's dis
heveled head, when a small voico cries,
"Grandma" from the old red cradle. "Grand
ma," Tommy shoots from the lop of the
stairs. Gently she lets go the thread, for her
patience is almost as beautiful us her char
ity, and she touches the little red bark in a
moment, till tho young voyager is in a dream
again, and then directs Tommy's unavailing
attempts to harness the cat. The tick of the
clock runs faint aud low, and she opens the
mysterious door, and proceeds to wind il up.
Wo aro a'l on tip-toe, and we bog in a
breath to be lifted op, ono by one, and look
fur a hundredth lime upon tbo tin cases of
tho weights, nnd the poor, lonely pendlum,
which goes to nnd fro by its little, dim win
dow, and never comes out in the world; and
our petitions are granted, and we all touch
with a linger the wonderful weights, aud the
music of the little wheel is resumed.
Was Mary to be married, or Jane to be
wrapped in a stirond! So meekly did she
fold the white hands of the 0110 upon Iter
still bosom, that there seemed to be a prayer
in (hem there; and so sweetly did she wreath
the white roses in the hair of the other, that
one would not nave wondered had more
roses budded for company.
How sho stood between us and appre
hended harm! How the rudest of us soft
ened beneath the gentle pressure of her fa
ded and tremulous hand! From her capa
cious pocket that hand was ever withdrawn
closed, only to be opened in our own, with
the nuts she had gathered, the cherries
which she had plucked, the little eggs she
had found, the ''turn over" she had baked,
the trinklet she had purchased for us as the
product of her spinning, the blessing she
had stored for us—the off spring of the
heart.
What treasure of story fell from those old
lips—of good faries and evil, of the old times
she was a girl; and we wonder if ever—but
then she couldn't be handsomer or dearer—
but that she ever was "little." And, then,
when we begged her to sing ! "Sing us one
of the old songs you used to sing, mother,
grand ma."
"Children, 1 can't sing," she always said;
and mother bsed to lay her knitting soltly
down, and the kitten stopped playing with
the yarn upon the floor, and the clock ticked
lower in the corner, and the fire died down
to a glow, like an old heart, that is neither
chilled nor dead—and grandmother sang.—
To be sure, it wouldn't Jo for the parlor and
the concert room now a days; but then it
was the old kitchen and the old fashioned
grandmother, and the old ballad, in the dear
old times; and we can hardly see to write
for the memory of them though it is a hand's
breadth to the sunset.
Well, ahe sang. Her voice waa feable and
wavering, like a foantain just ready to fall,
but then bow sweet toned it was; and it be
came deeper and s'ronger; but it couldn't
grow sweeter. What "joy of griel" it was
to sit there around the fire, all of us, except
Jane, that clasped a prayer to her bosom,
and her thoughts we saw, when the hall
door was opened a moment by the wind ;
but tljen wo wete not afraid, for wasn't it the
old amila she wore?—to eit there around the
fire snd weep over the woes of the "Babes
In the Wood;" who lay down sido by side in
the great solemn shadow; end how strange
ly glad we leel when the robiu-red-breasl
covered them with leaves; and last of all,
when the angels took them out of the niglu
into day everlasting.
We may think what wo will of it now 1—
bnt the song and the story heard around the
kitchen fire have colored the thoughts and
lives of most of us; have given us the germs
of whatever poetry blesses our heart what
ever memory blooms in our yesterdays. At
tribute what ever we may to the school and
school-master, the rays which make that
little wo call life, radiate from the God swept
circles of the hearthstone.
Then sho sings an old lullaby she sang to
mother—her mother sang to Iter; but she
does not sing it through, and falters ere 'lis
done. She rests her head upon her hands,
and it is silent in the old kitchen. Some
thing glitters down between her fingers and
the firelight, and it looks like rain in the
soft sunshine. The old grandmother is think
ing when she first heard the song ; and the
voice that sang it, when a light-haired and
light-hearted girl, she hung around that
mother's chair, nor saw the shadows ol the
days to come. 0! the days that are no morel
What a spell we weave to bring them back
sgain? What words can we unsay, what
deeds undo, to set back just this once, the
ancient clock of time?
So all of little hands were forever clinging
to her garment, and staying her as if from
dying, for long ago she had dono living for
herself, and lived alone in us. Tint the old
kitchen wants a ptoseuee to-day, and the
rush-bottomed chair is leuanttess.
How sho used to welcome us when wo
were grown, and came home once more to
the homestead.
Wo thought we were men and women,
but we were children there. The old fash
ioned grandmother was blind in the eyes,
but she saw with her heart, as sho always
did. We threw our long shadows through
the open door, nnJ she felt them as the fell
over Iter fortn, and sho looked dintly up and
saxv tall shades in the door way, aud she
says, "Edward 1 know, and Lucy's voice 1
can hear, but whose is that other? It must
be Jane's," —for she has almost forgotten
the folden hands. "Oh, no, not Jane, for
she—let me see—she is waiting for me, isn't
she 1" and the grandmother wandered and
wept.
"It is another daughter, grandmother that
Edward has brought," says some ono, "for
your blessing."
"Has she blue eyes,, my son? I'ut her
hand in mine, for she is my latest born, the
ohtld of my old age. Skull I sing you a song
children ?" Her hand is in hei pocket as of
old, she is idly fumbling for u toy, a wel
como gift to the children that huve come
again.
One of us, men as wo thought wo were is
weeping; she heats tho half suppressed aoh;
she says, as she extends her feeble hand.—
"Hero my poor child, rest upon your grand
mother's shoulder; she will protect yon from
all harm. Come, children, sit around tho
fire agoin. Shalt I sing you n song, or tell
you a story? Stir the fire, for it is cold, tho
nights aro growing colder."
Tho clock in the corner struck nine, the
bed-lime of those old days. The song of
life was indeed sung, tbo story told; it was
bod time at last. Good night to thee, grand
mother. The old fashioned grandmother
was no more, and we miss her forever.—
But we will set up a tablet in thn midst of
the memory, in the midst of her heart, and
wtiio on it only this:
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE
OLD-FASHIONED GRANDMOTHER,
Goil bless her forever.
THE LION'S FEAR OF MAN.— Liehtenatein
says that the African hunters avoil them
selves of the circumstance that the lion does
not spring upon bis prey till he has measur
ed the ground, and has reached the distance
of ten or twelve paces where he lies crouch
ing upon the grouud, gathering himself for
the effort.
The hunters, he says, make a role never
to fire upon the lion till ho lies down at this
short distance, so that they can aim directly
at his head with most perfect certainly. He
adds that if a person has the misfortune to
meet a lion, his only hope of safety is to
stand perfectly still, oven though the animal
crouches to make a spring—that spring will
not be hazarded if the man has only nerve
enough to remain motionless as a statue,
and look steadily at the lion. Theanimul
hesitates, rises slowly, retreats *ome steps,
agair. retreats, till having thus by degrees
got quite out of what he seems to feel as the
magic circle of man's influence, ho takes
i flight in the utmost haste.
THE LADIES' DBESBES. —A Iriend of ours
alleges that a considerable portion of the
increosad importations, is the result of the
ladies needing so much more stuff for their
dresses than 'hey used to. Hessys that with
the flounoes, great clrcumferenco, &c , it re
quires juat about twice as much silk to
make a lady's dress as in the good old
times—and the ladies are no moro ooratoria
bly nor handsomely clothed. The extra
sum thus wasted, he contends, if it oould
have been saved, might have greatly mitiga
ted tbe present stale of affaite. Thus the
drees expansion has couduced to a financial
contraction.
We wondor whother the French hail not
an eye to inOroaiing tbeir silk business,
whon they * tho present iidioek>ua fash
ions?
Truth and Right God and our fouutry.
IIA HII TIMES.
Let U.l pause in life's pleasures, and count
its many tears,
While we all seek sorrow with tho poor;
There's a song that will linger forever in our
ears,
Oh, hard times come again 110 more.
Chor —Tis tho song, the sigh of the weary,
Hard times, bard times coine again
no more,
Many days you havo lingered a
rouiul my cabin door,
Oh, hard tithes came again no more.
While wo sock mirth and beauty, and mu
sic light and gay,
There are" frail forms fainting at tho door,
Though their voices are silent, their plead
ing looks will say,
Oh, hard times come again no moro.
Choi —Tis tho song. &c.
There's a pale drooping maiden, who toils
her lilo uwny,
With a worn heart whose better days arc e'er,
Though her voico would bo merry, 'tis sigh
ing all the day,
Oh, hard times come again no moro.
Chor —'Tis tho song, &c.
'Tis a sigh that is wafted across the troubl'd
wave,
'Tis a wail that is hoard upon tho shore.
'Tis a dirge that is murmured around the
lonely grave,
Oh, hard times come again no moro.
Vhor —'Tis tho song, &e.
Tlie t'liuructer I I'ollry i>l Ilcpubllciiu-
Ism 111 the Males.
The parly culling itself Republican has bean
| ill existence three years without one benefi
cial result (lowing from its policy tail leuob- I
ings. In a majority of the iVonbetn Slates it
bus had unlimited sway, and in nearly all of I
these Stales its rule has been signalized by
cotro,>iion, prolligate expenditures of the
public money, increase of taxation and gen
eral recklessness. It has brought no good
to State or Nation, but has been the parent of
unmixed and bitter evil. We need but to
turn to the condition 01-tlio several States in
which Governors or other Stale officers are lo
| bo elected this fall for the proof of this.
In Massachusetts contest is now progress
ing for Governor. N. P. Hanks, the notori
ous "Union slider," is the black Republican
candidate. He is the representative of the
extreme school pf sham Republicanism with
all its bitter hatred of tho South and every
thing southern; ail advocate of laws nulli
fying the act of Congress for the reclamation
of fugitive slaves; in favor of the removal of
Judge Coring to satisfy the demands of the
Abolitionists for a victim because he bud the
firmness lo execute those laws \?hen bis oalh
of office peremptorily demanded it; and in
lavor of building tip a sectional party at tire
North to exterminate slavery and degrade tho
South. While he an:! bis parly were engag
ed in the work of prolonging and increasing
this destructive sectional foelir.g, the iulersts
of the Slate have been suffering from neglect
and corruption, in five years there lias been
$2,610,000 of taxes levied, and yet up to the
j first of this year the public debt has increas
ed about tire same amount. This money has
been expended by tho Republican parly in
visionary improvements which have only en
riched the contractors and speculators; yet
| not a woid can he got out of Mr. banks on
| the subject of State policy. Tho slavery
question receives his undivided attention.
Now York is even in a worse condition.—
Iu that State, important State officers are to
be elected this fall. Republican rule has
produced the same bitter fruit*. Reckless
extravagance in public expenditures have
been pushed so far that the State has been
obliged to suspend operations on the public
canals. Ten millions of money confided 10
the hands of the Seward managers has been
expended ; ihe treasury is exhausted, and not
a dollar's loan can be obtained on the credit
of the State.
The Albany Argus says:
" In the list of Bankruptcies, which just now
darken the money-columns of our journals
and shed their gloom over the business ol the |
people, we may expect to seo recorded that |
of 'The Stale of New York—Seward, Weed ■
& Co., managers—suspended. Outstanding j
liabilities aoout thirty millions—third lailure !
—character bad—will have to liquidate.'—
The pcoplo have ofteu had to blush for the (
State, when it hae been iu the hands of our
opponents. l)ui they have again and again
been cajoled by promises of reform. They
will listen no longer; bnt will take the mat
ter into their own hands—drive out these
bankrupt money-changers from the Capitol,
and set about the work of redeeming New
York —redeeming its political character and
its future credit and sinking honor."
With these fruits of a ruinous and corrupt
Stale policy staring them in the face, the Re
publicans ol New York meet in convention, |
shirk Slate issues, resolve that they will re- '
sist the Dred Scott decision to the last, and I
howl over Kansas with which they have as j
much practical concern as with the domestic |
affairs of Madagascar or the police regulations ,
of St. Petersburg.
Look at the third great State in which the j
Republican party has had unlimited sway— j
Ohio has been tho prey of corrupt office hold-1
ers; her treasury baa been plundered, and i
her people need, for their future a security a
system that will prevent such depletions in
future. But Republicanism cannot pauso in
its career of universal philanthropy, to mend
the evils resulting from mismanagement ol
State affairs. They nominate Oha*e the pres
ent Governor and an avowed Abolitionist in
favor of negto equality and negro suffrage,
lor re-election, to divert th# pubhe tnind as
much'ae'poeaible from bia'a iseuee, tako a
bold atep in advance of their Republican
brethren in oilrec States, and sdvueuto the
amendment oi tho Constitution ol the Vuited
States, so as to deprive the South of the three
fifths basis or negro representation.
In our own Stute sham-Republicanism is
marked by tho same general characteristics
as in Massachusetts, New York and Ohio.—
Wilmol has to itch to say about "slave dri
vers" and "women (loggers" in Virginia,
moult about "bleeding Kansas," much about
the rule of "southern aristocracy," and mnch
about matters with which we Ituvu not the
most minuto practical concern, but not a word
on the immediate interest of (ho great State
of Pennsylvania. Not a syllable escapes his
lips in oondsinuatioti of the act of a prodigal e
and purchased Legislature that ofiered to sell
the sovereignty of tho State; not a word to
foreshadow his opinions on tho important
subject of class legislation and the granting
of special privileges; not an expression indi
cating his views on the impending contest
over the tonnage 'tax; in fact nothing that
practically touches tho pockets, (lie prospects
or the future policy of tho Slate of Pennsyl
vania.
111 Congress, Republicanism showed the
samo ugiy features as in the States. While
the member* of this party were engaged in
bewailing the condition of Kansas and utter
ing diatribes against the South, they had no
eye for internal corruption, no denunciation*
for those ol her numbers who were selling
their,votes, and prostituting their positions
for money ; but when Matteson and others
wero detected mid exposed, the greater por
tion ol the Republican members ramo for
ward with their denials, their quibbles, and
their votes, (o shield the culprits from merited
exposure.
Republicanism is not a system of political
dogmas adopted to every emergency that
may arise in the affairs of State or nation, but
being founded on a single idea it pursues that
idea while every mntenal interest goes to
wreck around it. Such is always the char
acteristic of mock philanthropy. Dickens
has portrayed the character to perfection in
Mrs. Jellabv, whose mind was completely
absorbed in the eolleciitn of funds and in
unremitting correspondence for the regenera
tion of Africa and the settlement of Baraboo
lu-Gltu, while her household was neglected
and running to rack, Iter children, dirty and
uneducated, left to take uaro of themselves,
and that every uniinpoiltint individual, her
j husband whose soul was 100 confined to
comprehend tltu advantages of African phil
anthropy—permitted to seek his meals and
his society wherever he could get them. If
the great novelist had our Banks, our SAW
nrds and our Wilmots in his eye, he could
not have drawn the character more perfectly.
What good has Republican ism done the
country! Where is the single individual
who has been benefited by its doctrines or its
practice ? on the contrary, has it not sown
dissent in the Nation ? Has it not been the
patent or extravagance and corruption in the
Status 1 Is it oot managed by profligates and
ependtlrifts! It remains for the people of
Peuttsylcania to teach the Mrs. Jellabys, who
declaim about the woes of Kansas and Afri
ca, that they have practical interests at home
to attend to without heeding the concerns of
thoso who are able to take care of themselves.
How TO KOOCATE CHILDREN.— HaII's Jour
nal of Health contains the following sugges
tive paragraph, which ought to be remem
bered and acted upon by every parent and
guardian in the land. The writer says:
" Had f the choice of only four things to
be taught my children, they should bo: To
sing well, to read well, to write well, and to
sketch well. Prefection in these will earn
their possessor a maintenance in any coun
try, and will enable hiin to amuse himself
or entertain a company, whether it be under
a rock in the desert or upon a crag in the
sea."
A Virginia Examination —Tha Editor of
tho Lynchburg "Virginian" recently attend
ed the examination of the first class in dic
tionary and spelling, at the high school of
that oily: Teacher (to Bob Sraiihers )
Spell admittance. Bob. Ad-mit, admit,
t-a-n-c-e, tance, admittance. Teacher—
Good! Give the definition. Bob. Twenty
five cents—niggers and children half-price
—front seats for ladies—no smokiug allow
ed.
*>
It is stated 'by authority' that a new fash
ion is about to bo introduced by the ladies
—no less in fact, than an immense calash
which is to be attached to the waists ot the
dear creatures, to be raised and lowered at
pleasure, lika tho top of a burrgy.
ty A somewhat eccentric, yet celebrated
Judge, some years ago, was asked by a coun
sellor to put down a certain case for tho last
Friday in tho month of March, which hap
pened to be Good Friday. His honor indig
nantly replied—"Nosir; 1 won't set any cause
down lor tha; day- There never was but one
Judge who tried a cause on that day—thai
was Pontius Pilaie,sir."
|y A New York editor says he went to
theexpensaof a new shirt the other day,
and found himself, when ho awoke iu the
morning, crawling out beiixeeu two of the
shortest stitches.
I This is not surprising when it is rentem*
; beted how very small some of the New
York editors are.
- —— —— * •
ty The price asked tor Mount Yemon
and the Tomb ot Washington is
It has been proposed in Virginia
, Freemason* utake up the money
i to ptttchaao tt byjho sutv-urriptma et oae del
I hu or less uoitt cavlt individual
SENATOR DOUGLAS, U¥ AN OPPUHI
HON PAPER.
Tho following sketch of Hon. Stephon A.
Douglas, by the editor of a Republican pa
per, the Nowburyport (Mass) Herald, is
graphic anil amusing. It appears that ho
was a passenger with Judge Douglas on a
trip in tho cars from St. Louis to Chicago, at
thu close ol the celebration of the opening of
the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad in Juno
Inst.
Tho littlo man, with a big, round head, a
brow almost as broad as Webster's, and a
cjuick, active eye, that rolls under the ltetfty,
projecting brow, watching every other man,
and not allowing a motion lo escape him—
with armj too short for his body, which is
full and round, as though it never tucked
the juices that supply Ide; and with small
duck legs, which, had they grown as thick
as his back-bune (and they would probably,
if Providence bad not foreseen lliut he would
want back bone more than legs in his battle
of life,) would have made him of respecta
ble stature; that little man is no less than the
great politician of the West, who has at
tracted mote attention in the last lour years
than any other man of the nation, and done
morn to give direction lo public affairs than
even tho President, with a million and a
hall' of voters at his buck, and the army,
navy, ar.d treasury ol North America ut his
command. It is the "Little Giant," Stephen
A. Douglas, with whom we parted company
ut Vincenues, and who hus slowly come
along, feeling the public pulse, lo learn tho
political health of the "•uckers," up to
Springfield, tho capital of the Stale.
The means of success in Senator Douglas
aro very apparent. First ho is really arid in
tellectually a great man. Eastern people
who view him only as a low politician,
should disabuse their minds in relation to
fins who is to exercise a wide influence in
the affairs of the country, and very proba
bly—(or he is yet young—to be the head of
the Republic. Hu is massive in his concep
tions, broil.l and comprehensive in his views
and in a good measure is endowed with all
those powers of mind that make a stales
man.
But lie is greater still in en orgy of charac
ter. There aro those who think that a defeat
of him next year would be his death in pol
itico; but the mat) who sprung from a cabinet
maker's shop in Vermont, and without father
or friend* worked his way to an honorable
placo upon the bench of judges, who enter
ed Illinois with less than fifteen cents in
money and not one cent in credit, and has
acquired great wealth and the highest sta
tion and influence, is not easily to bo whip
ped out. but if he is great iti mind, and
great in energy, bo is greatest in these win
ning manners with winch the world calls
him a demagogue. Scarcely a man, woman,
or child in the cars escaped his attention, or
was passed by unspoken to. At one mo
ment he talks with the oIJ, stern visaged
politician, who has been soured by thousand
defeats and disappointments, in the next to
that well-formed and genial Kemuckian, who
has just sought a free State; now he sits down
with the little girl approaching her teens,
and talks of her school studies; and he pats
the little boy on the head, anil in the pres
ence of his fond mother at.d proud father
(what father is not proud to see his boy no
ticed!) ssys a word of his mild eyes or
glossy lucks.
Again the lady is approached with a fair
word and a bland smile, and goes home
pleased to tell her husband or father how he
looks and what be says, and then half a
dozen are about him, all standing together.
He can talk religion with the priest a j well
as politics with the statesman: he can con
gratulate the newly appointed office-holder,
I who has supplanted his Iriend, tell the dis
placed friend of the "good time coming,''
when bis wing shall be up; and at every sta
: lion, more tegularly than the conductor, Mr.
Douglas is upon the platform, with a good
bye 10 the leaving, and a welcome 10 the de
f parting traveler—a shake of the har.d wi h
one man that stands at the depot, and the
toucn of a hat to another. He knows every
body; can tell the question which effect
each locality; call the name ol every farm
owner on the way: tell all travellers some
thing of the home*, ibey (eft that they nevei
I knew themselves, snd suggests what they
are adapted for in this life, and what place
they deserve in heaven.
Now such a man as that, in contact with
everybody, knowing everybody, and capable
of pleasing everybody; and at the bo :ora
wrapped up with the one idea of preferment
power, and dominion amoog men. is u.
easily to be pnt down; and his opponent;
might as well believe a: once. :hit wseo
they tight htm they tight a siroog mn— j
' little giant indeed. He would be popular tc
Boston or anywhere esse, arx' bsit We "thur
; thousand clergymen ' he denounced wouli.
have thetr hearts stolen it he saocld speai
to then: a half hour.
IVnusylvaata Legislature—• atra Sesstea
HveKissi toi,CVroiaa irv, ISS7.
j gfiKATK —The Senate **
Jer at neon by the Speaker, Mr Ftaper
The toll was caßed, and all the member
answered to their name* except Mr. Crabh-
I The Proclamation ol the ftiietaet i
i read.
I A committee of twre were ippomted to i:i
{ fc>m the House that the Senate was reed)
y oeoJ to buemese. and a committee
' utee to inform the Governor thai the Leg"
■ laiure was organised a*d ready h> tW
• auy comatwnicatiow he wwy hevo ma*.*
The lane .vatiu- ce haveiG petWi 000
' du'y. '.he Secte'i'v of 'he Vommcuwe*'
[Two Dollars per Aunua,
NUMBER 40.
was introduced, and preaeuted (be Govern
or's rneaaago. It was read and ordered to
be printed.
Mr. Jordan read a bill in place concerning
lite bank', which was mad and ordered to bo
printed. On motion it was referred to a spe
cial commiieu of seven.
Mr. lirown read two bills, one a supple
mom to tho Act of April 16th, 1860, regu
lating the banks, another, entitled an Act re
lating to tho floating debt of railroads, and
navigation companies.
lie also read a series ol joint resolutions
instructing (he State Senators and Members
of Congress, in relation to tho control and
restraint by Congress ol paper money.
A motion to ptim 1000 copies more of
each of these bills was discussed.
Tim motion to print was Anally adopted
unanimously, and referred to a special com'
mitten of five.
Mr. Wright read a bill probibiliogthe bank*
from issuing notes of a less denomination
than twenty dollars. Ordered to be printed
and referred to the Committee on Rank*.
Mr. Lewis presented a bill relative to the
banks of the Commonwealth, which legali
ses the suspension of specie payments, ar.d
fixes a time for resumption. Referred to a
seleet committee of live.
Mr. Straub presented a bill to extend relief
to the people, by suspending the collection
of debts due the hanks from the people.—
Head and reterred to the Committee of Fi
| nance.
Tho Speaker presented tho memorial of
| the Committee of Rank Presidents of Phila
' delphia, which was read and referred lo a
.Special Committee of seven.
Mr. Gezzam presented the proceedings of
the meeting ol the Board of Trade and citi
zens of Pittsburgh.
Mr. Tuggart presented a bill concerning
the Ranks, which was read and referred to
the Special Committee of seven,
i Mr. Souther submitted a resolution ca'ling
on the Stale Treasurer to inform the Senate
| what amount ol money belonging to the
Slate is deposited in the Ranks, and what
amount in Rank notes, and on what Ranks,
. are in the 1 teasury. Laid over fur the prea
] enl.
i Mr. Browne gave notice that Ire would to
| morrow offer a resolution calling on the
; Ranks for a statement of their present rondi
; lion.
| Mr. Scofield read a resolution to adjourn
m'/ic die on Monday next.
Mr. Taggart moved to amend by changing
the day ol adjournment to Tuesday.
I Pending a discussion whieli' ensued, Ibe
Senate adjourned till ten o'clock to-morrow
morning.
ABSTRACT or TIIE BILL* PaErENTED.
SKNAT kl—-The following is an abstract of
Mr. Jordan's bill, of which I00t copies wera
ordered lo be printed, and which was refer
red to a special committee:
Six. 1. Suspends the operation of all art*
declaring the suspension of specie payment*
by Hanks a forfeiture of the charter; and re
mits alt penalties for auch violation of the
charter. It authorizes loans and diwoouti,
and the issue by the Hanks of their own and
other notes for a period of daya, and re
stricts the dividends to 6 per cent, per an
num.
Sec. 2. Requires the publication of quar
terly statements of the condition af the hanks
of the Commonwealth in the newspaper*.
SEC. 3. Requires all Bank* dahng their
suspension of specie payment lo receive the
notes of all other Back* in payment tor debt*
which were sound on the 24tb of September,
under curtate regulations.
Sec 4. Requires thai the deposit* of the
State Treasurer in any of the Bank* shall be
paid in specie,
i Sec. 5. Authorizing a stay of execution
! on judgment for one year, in all case* where
the Jefeudant'* estate, in the op.otoa of a
Court, is worthy the amount ot the jndge
mrttt, or where security he given.
Sec o. That the act shall take effect im
mediately on its passage, ami the prori.-i.es
be accep ed by the Baoks w.thin sixty daya.
MR BROWNE - * PROPOSED SCPfLEMEXT TO THE
ACT OF APRIL 16TH, 1660, ktfCLATISU USU.
The First Section requires that the Banks
of Philadelphia aud Pirsburg shall publish a
weekly statement of tbetr assets and tiabdi
nee; and the country Banks, oa or before
the tenth day of each mouth, to id turtnab an
exhibit o' their attairs a* they were oa the
Monday o! eecb week of toe next preceding
month to the Auditor-General , woo i* lo as
tacge them in tabular form, and pabtreh in
c. i of the new-paper* at the sea: of Govern
ment.
Sttltoa 2 f.imh* the Bask uucieud* to 6
per owl per annum, oiear of State taw un
til said back shail have accumulated a re
serve or coooogcwt tuad, not lews than 26. aji
te fre than 30 per ceai oe toe capital stock
And therea er limits the dividends to pe
ceet. por annum, clear of at AJ h-.
ear: pi above a-tte per wti. to be paid no.
the Sta'e Treaecrr
Sac. J KEQC -es SAU RESERVE ER JOC.TIAGEE
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I'titted State* f.e.uu- *od deposed with tfte
Audi or Ger.erel ami an wjw.mmal secants
tv> :b t* uow provided by h* hjrtbe rodtuwp
uou of Lhe ujiv-s of *akl Batik*, uiJ to be ap
-plied to that pur-poew oa the tad-ire of stttsl
Sank to redeem :* notes * goMawdsilver
Sc. 1 l>o6 bit* l&ats Sarag *w*da.an
it Trust Compost of* root awaitin, or pa
cbastag bank Botes. a are* tfcnu rfteir p*
f value
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