BY D. A. Ir. 0. BtrailLEß. v 01.., Ur-a. WU. *MIL AS the subscriber intends removing to the West, he will sell at Public Sale On Tuesday the 28th day of !tiara inst., at his residence, in Hamiltonban township, Adams county, his entire stock of Perso nal Property, to wit; Dining and Breakfast Tables, Vhatirs, Bedsteads. Bureaus Corner Cupboard, Kitchen Cup board, L ooking Glasses, a large Iron Ket tle, Pots, Meat Vessels, FOUR STOVES, with pipe, one a 000kingetore, the others ten-plate, with other ardelekof household and Kitchen Furniture ; also, EIGHT first-rate Much Cows, 4 head or young catde, it lot of hogs, one broad-tre‘d wagon, one one-horse do., an old carriage, ploughs, barrows, horse gears, with numerous other Farming im plements. Sale to commence at 10 o'clock, A. M. when the terms will be made known by the subscriber. A reasonable credit will be given. JACOB WELDY. March 1, 1850.—ta MAC tikkai% BYvirtue of an order of Orphans' Court of Adams county, the under signed, Guardian of BENJAMIN Laitsw, minor sonof John Lerew, late of the town ship of Latimore, in said county, deceased, will sell at public sale, at 2 o'clock, P. M., on the premises, on Saturday the 28d day of March all the interest of said Benjamin Lerew in A Tract of Land, situate in Latimore township, Adams co., on the road from Wolford's mill to the Carlisle turnpike, containing 162 Acres and 95 l'erches. The improvements are a sss TWO STORY I STONE HOUSE, Stone Kitchen, double Log Barn, Spring House, Meat House, Wagon Shed, and Dry • House, with other out-buildings.— Also a good orchard of choice fruit trees. Attendance will be given and terms enade known on the day of sale by JACOB GRIEST, Guardian. By the Court—H. Denwiddie, Clerk March 1, 18150.—ui PUBLIC SALE. zik.s 00-Subscriber intends removing from Gettysburg, he will sell, at Pub lic Sale, on Tuesday the 26th of March inst., at his residence in East York Street, the following Household and Kitchen Furni ture, to wit : Dining and Breakfast Tables, Chairs, Beds and Bedsteads, Bu reaus, Desks, Wardrobe, Cupboards, Settees, Looking Glasses, Parlor Lamps, Stands, Pictures, (framed,) window bliods, carpeting, and irons, shovels and tongues, two excellent time-pieces, (one an eight day brass clock, the other a very handsome mantle orna ment, running three weeks,) F 01971 STOPL'S, with pipe and drum, one a Hathaway cook stove, one a new style air-tight, and two common wood stoves ; also. a first rate MILCH COW, a new sleigh. ICrthat well known SHOT GUN, with pouch, flask, Am, a pair of sew folding doors, a lot of yellow sand, a letof lumber, together with a great variety of ether articles too numerous to particu larise. Bale to commence at 12 o'clock, M.. when the terms will be made known and attendance given by WILLIAM KING. March 1, 1850.—u FARM AT PRIVATE SALE. THE subscriber will sell at private sale the FARM on which HENRY Hee sum jr., now resides, situate ib Franklin township Adams county, "chaining lands of King Wilson, Andrew Reiutzelman, and others. containing 114 e iIEIVIBOOB29 more or less. TheTWO improvements are a -STORY U 'Frame Dwelling House, I. 1 first-rate LOG BARN, with a Spring of good water convenient to the door. There is a fair proportion of Tim ber and Meadow on the farm. and, an ea .aellent Orchard. Nikon" wishing to as certain the terms. which will be reasona ble will ball upon the subscriber. The property can be viewed on application to she tenant '' 'HENRY HERSHEY, Ben Franklin tp., June 1, 1849.-ti FIRE i FIRE ...fin Delaware Mutual Sallity Insu x- ranee Company, Philadelphia, and now doing business on the mutual plan, : giving the insured a participation in the . profits of the Company, without liability beyond the premium paid. "No premium • 'notes 'taken on which assessments are *"mtrde." 'rho subscriber, as Agent for the above eiSinpany, will make Insurances, either • permanent or limited, on property and 'ef ,fects of every description against loss or idao;tage by fire. SAMUEL FAHNESTOCK. -' Gettysburg, March 1, 1850„—tf , ROUSE SPOUTING WILL be made and put up by the subseriber,who willattend prompt• Iy to all orders, and upon as reasonable terms as can be procured at any establish ;Dent in the county. - GE O.E BUEHLER. NEW, STORE ! Flour, Feed, Groceries, Cedar ware, Queensware, Confec tions, Fruits, &c. &. THE subscriber respectfuily announces to his friends and the public general ly that he has opened a Store in the room formerly occupied as a Store-room by ROBERT SMITH, and recently by COBHAM & KING, on the North-west corner of the Diamond, Gettysburg, where he will con stantly have on hand the best quality of FAMILY FLOUR, Corn Meal, Buckwheat Meal, and Grain and Feed of all kinds ; also a full supply of well selected aaooEa $, such as Coffee, Sugar, (brown. white, crushed and loaf.) Molasses, Syrup, Teas. Spices of all kinds, (ground and unground) Rice, Hommony, Chocolate. Mustard, best Dairy Salt, Cheese, (celebrated Yorkshire and common English,) Rosin, Castile and Fancy Soap, Alum, Chalk, &krauts, Salt petre, Glue, Tobacco, Segura, Crackers, (water, sugar and soda,) Sperm Oil, Lard Oil, Fish Oil, Fish, &0., &e. I have also opened a very large assort ment of the best quality of Fruits and Confections, Oranges, Lemons, Raisins, Prunes, Figs, Cranberries, Tamarinds, Almonds, Fil berts, English Walnuts, Palm Nuts, C AN • DIES, of all kinds and varieties. Also, a large assortment of Q E EJMSW: RE, Cedar Ware, Croaks, Jars, Door Mats, Baskets, Brooms, Brushes, Combs, Toys, &e., with a variety of other articles too numerous to mention—lll of which will be sold on terms that can't be beat. Please call and see my. stock. Itcr I have also on hand an assortment of PICKLES, of various kinds, put up in closely sealed jars, and warranted to be in pure vinegar. 741 l kinds of country produce taken in exchange for goods. WM. W. HihIERSLY. Feb. 15, 1850. tf ALWAYS SOMETHING NEW NEW BOOKS, &C. THE Manufacture of Iron and Steel, In all its various branches, including a description of Wood-Cutting. Coal-Dig ging. and the burnink of Charcoal and Coal ; the digging and roasting of Iron ore, the building and management of Blast Furnaces, &e., by Frederick Overman, Mining Engineer, with 140 wood engra vings, at $5. We have also just received Lynch's Narrative of the United States Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea,'‘vith numerous maps and illus trations, at $2 75. The American Fruit Culturist, with directions for the propaga- tion and culture of Fruit Trees in the nur sery, orchard and garden, with descrip tions of the principal American and For eign varieties, by John J. Thomas—em bellished with 300 accurate figures. Price 81 50. The Whig Almanac for 1850, a useful document for every person, only The Southern Harmony 12i cents price 75 cents. pCr New Music, a fresh supply. Any IT. u io not included in our assortment will be I. omptly ordered. Al. 'he late standard and miscellaneous as aft, as cheap publications, received regular') as issued from the press. Blank looks of all kinds, including Ledgers, Day Books and all the various books used in the counting room. Port Folios, Letter Paper, by the quire or ream, at very low prices, Inkstands, Sealing Wax, Wafers, Letter and Note Envelopes, in great variety, and all the va rious articles of stationery at the most rea sonable cash prices. 10:7'Remember the Cheap Book Store, South East Corner of Centre Square. KELLER KURTZ %teat% THE subscriber tenders his acknowl edgements to his friends and the pub lie for the liberal patronage hitherto ex tended to him, and respectfully informs them that he has just received from the Cities a spendid assortment of new Goods, comprising in part a fine stock of SHAWLS, GINGHAMS, DEL.SINES, GLOVES. STOCKINGS, RIB BONS, FLOWERS, COLLARS, lins, Irish Linens, dm., all of which will be sold at the low est cash prices. The subscriber deems it unnecessary to enumerate the diiferent articles which comprise his stock. He would therefore earnestly invite all to call ands:amine for themselves before purchasing elsewhere. J. L. SCHICK. Gettysburg, Sept, 28,1849.—1 f. LAW PARTNERSHIP. rrHE undersigned have entered into part nership for the Practice of the Law in the several Courts of Adams county.— Office in South Baltimore street, threedoors South of the Court-house, the same here Wore occupied by D. M. Sultana. All business entrusted to their oare attended to with fidelity and despatch. DANIEL M. SMYSER, WILLIAM M'SHERRY. N. B. During my absence Allis winter at Harrisburg, Mr. M'Sherry is also au thorizetlto attend to my old unfini,hed bus iness, and will be in constant communi cation with me relative to the same. DANIEL M. SMYSER; Dec. 21, 1849.--3 - Eir"lian9ver Spectator" insert three months, mark cost, and charge this (dice.. ALEX. IL STEVENSON, ATTORNEY 47' LAW, lIFFICE in the Centre Sqnsre, North 'LP of the Court-house, between Smith sad Stevenson's corners. GETTYSBURG, PA. FRIDAY EVENING, 'MARCH 15, 1850. STANZAS FOR THE TIMES. BY 1. 0. WHITTIZR. The "Times" alluded to, were those evil times of the pro-slavery meeting in Faneuil Hall, some yeah ago, tor the suppression of Freedom of Speech, last it should endanger the foundations of commercial society. The sentiment, however, of these admirable lines is equally applicable' to the present day, when the eftbrt to-prevent the extension of slavery into our free territories Is responded to by the South with a threat of din nion in the event of its success, and the North is told that the only condition upon which the union of the States is to be preserved, is the aban donment of such attempt, and the entire suppres lion of all discussion of the Slays question, togeth er with the enactment of a law imposing upon Northern freemen an obligation tourist in the recapture of fugitive shres! Is this'the land our fathers loved, The freedom which they toiled to win Is this the soil whereon they moved 1 Are these the rues they slumber in I Are we the sons by whom are borne The mantles which the dead have worn I And shall we crouch above these graves. With craven soul and (Weed lip 1 Yoke in with mark'd end branded scar as, And trembles!, the tidyer's whip 1 Bend to the earth our pliant knees, And speak—but as our masters please 1 Shall outraged Nature cease to feel I Shall Mercy's tears no longer flow 1 Shall ruffian threats of cord and steel— The dungeon's gloom-41m assassin's blow, Turn back the spirit roused to save The truth—tour - country—awl the Slave Of human skulls that shrine was made, Round which the priests of Mexico Before their loathsome idol prayed— !. freedom's altar fashioned so 1 And mum we yield to Freedom's God, A. offering meet, the negro's. blood 1 Shall tongues be mute when deeds are wrought Which well might shame oxtremest Hell ! Shall freemen lock th' indignant thought 1 Shall Mercy'S bosom cease to swell t Shall Honor bleed I—Shall Truth succumb 1 Shall pen, and press, and soul be dumb 1 • No—by each spot of haunted ground, Where Freedom weeps her children's fall— By Plymouth's rock—and Bunker's moo:W— -ily Griswold's stain'd and shamed wall— By Warren's ghost—by Langdon's shade— Dy all the memories of our dead ! By their enlarging souls, which burst The bands and fetters round them set— By the rasa Prwatw severe nursed Within our inmost bosom, yet— By alLaboaci—iumiedm.ielaw— Be Sere th' indignant answer—NO ! No —guided by our country's laws, For truth, and right, and suffering man, ' Be ours to strive in Freedom's cause, As Christians may—.as freemen can I Still pouring on unwilling ears That truth oppression only fears. What! shall we guard our neighbor still, While iceman shrieks beneath his rod, And while he tramples down at will The image of a common God! Shall watch and ward be round him set, Of Northern nerve and bayonet I And shall we know and share with him l'he danger and the open shame ?, And see our Freedom's light grow dim, Which should have fill'd the world with flame! And, writhing, feel where'er we turn, A world'► reproach around us burn I Is 't not enough that this is borne 1 4 ud asks our haughty neighbor more ? Must fetters which his slaves have worn, Clank round the Yankee Farmer's door I Must,he he told, beside his plough, What be must speak, and when, and how Must he be told his freedom stands On Slavery's dark foundations strong— On breaking hearts and reseed hands, On robbery, and crime, and wrong 1 That all his fathers taught is vain— That Freedom's emblem is the chain I Its life—its soul, from sfavery drawn 1 False—foul—profane! Go—teach as well Of holy Truth from Falsehood born ! Of Heaven refreshed by airs from Hell Of Virtue nursed by open. ice I Of Demons planting Paradise Rail on, then, "brethren of the South"— Ye shall not hear the truth the less No seal is on the Yankee's mouth, No fetter on the Yankes'ainess ! From our Green Mountains to the Sea, One voice shall thunder—ws Asa rise gc?The following beautiful line. aro from Ems • COOK'S Journal: "Loved at Home" , I never had a tan-pound note, I care not who may know, Nor golden brooch, nor silver chain, nor aught that's worn for show: I've lamed each Peal I've had for years by hon est daily toil, Yet few have had a merrier head or worn a glad- der smile. For I b►ee had • blasted home, beneath whose humble roof A mother's nightly prayers for me were breathed without reproof ; And whore my sisters' clustering love grew round my friendly stem, And looked into mine eyes with hope u I looked joy to them. Ye who have given my tips delight, and ye whose friendly press Hu ever held my hand is yours to welcome and tablas.; Oh, ye have Over heard me my, "Whatever else may come, 'heres no such joy on earth for men, u beiag • 'loved at home.'" If pride makiree my scanty room, soma twelve fee; sixty ten, And take down ill the chattels there, 'mould 'scarcely soil é pen But there aro Testis of mother's lover--4t letters week by , week. A wealth that Autumn better weigh than tongues can aptly speak. Ana judging nee from what I'm felti whenest I see a face • Elmilelighted of ; th path of life, I'm certain I can trace The root whence that sweet induence tan only may COMA; The inward joy tbst AU; the soul when we till AT ■OlOl THE SUN : 13TANDINO STILL:-430012 af ter the Copernican system of astronomy began to be generally understood, an old Connecticut farmer went to his parson with the following inquiry :—"Dr. do you believe in the new story they tell about the earth moving round the eon I" , - Oren, certainly." ..Do you think it according to the Scrip- tures 1 If it's true, how could Joshua command the sun to stand still 1" "Umph l" quoth the Doctor, scratching his head, "Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, did he V' "Yes." "Very well. Did you ever bear the be let it going again 1 ' • 4 , YEARLEBB AND FREE." MARRIAGE OF LUTHER. ==tl , some time a ft er, Luther same' to Me lattethon's house and requested to see Cath- arine alone. Margaret hastened to u ltilF., and gave the Message. She entre* /ter friend to re- turn witk her. "That would not eo," %Idled Margar et; "he said expressly alone ; he'undoubt ly has something very particulate; to say.— Now, Catharine, take couribgb, and open your heart." Poor Catharine weak with *ambling steps to the presence of bother. "I have sent for you. my chiki," said he, "to converse on the subject df Matri mony ; I hope you ani cdaviasiedi it , is a holy state." "Yes, sir," said Catittripss "Are you prepared tderobractiqt "No, sir," the replied. "Perhaps you have scruples' on the score of monastic vows. If so, I will mark some passages. I have written on that subject, that may set your mind at rest." Catharine was silent.. _ “I perceive that I do not make uluch Tiro gress in my purpose. lam little used to theie matters, and I had better be. direct. Do you mean to abide by your Monastic vows, or will you marry, likes rational wo man!" This direct appeal seemed to *rouse her courage. . "Even Martin Luther,", said sbe, "has no right to ask that Question without ex plaiuing hie motive.' ; "Well said, Kate," replied he, laughing. I must tell you, then. "There is a person who would gladly take you for better or worse." Catharine's color rose, and Iter eyes sparkled with additional brightness. "Now, say, has he any chance?" "You have ,uot told who he is," said she, resolutely. "And you have not told me whether you have any scruples of conscience on the sub ject ; if you have, God forbid that I should urgd yon." • . . "When I left the convent," said she, in a low voice, "it was because it would have hypocrisy in me to have remained there. I took the vows ignorantly, and almost by ompulsion ; I embraced the reformed re ligion with an inquiring and willing faith. God forgive me that I so long offered him the worship of my lips, while my heart was so far from Him," "And now ?" said Luther, after waiting far her to finish her sentence. "Now,"see replied. "I need not ask His forgiveness for Worshiping Him in spirit and in truth. lam no longer a nun." "Well," said Luther, "I suppose this is as direct an tinsw.t..r I must Vitlitict.— So, to my purpose." "But even Luther stopped short, sur prised at Catharine's emotion. "Perhaps, my dear," said he, kindly, "1 do wrong in speaking to yon myself. I had better commission Margaret. I sup pose women converse on these matters together, and yet, as I have begun, I will finish. The other day Bodenstein, the nephew of Caroistadt, came to me to so licit my influence with you. He wishes you to marry him. I told hint 1 could have no particular influence with you, un less you have scruples of conscience about marrying. lie is a clever young man, and I see no objection. Ile is very un like his fanatic uncle." He might have talked an hour without receiving a reply. Catharine's manner had changed ; there was no longer the emotion or the blush. "What shall I tell him I" "Anything you please," said she, "so that I never see him again." "Why, this is strange," said Luther, "you did not seem to have scruples of con science just now. My dear Catharine, you must not forget that you have no na tural relations here, and this young man can be a protector to you." "I wish you would' not speak of him," replied she. "Is there any one else that you would like better 1" asked Luther. She made no reply. "Nay, speak; .1 have every disposition to serve you ; has, any other person made the same proposition to you I" "Yes,' said Catharine, with a little wo manly pride ; "Counselor, Baumgartner has made the same (imprints." "Do you prefer hunt" "Yes," she replied, rising ; "hut lam as happy as I ever expect to be. My friends assure me, thatiam no burden, beta help to them ; and so I wish you geed MOrning." Poor Catharine hastened to her room. Her dream wile over. Luther: the Satire, the insensible reforMer, had awakened her from it. Margaret entered while - hor eyes were yet red with weeping. She tender ly approached. and embraced her,- but neither exchanged* word. "There is no hope for •Hodenstein," thought Luther,".it' is evident Baumgartner isthe object. Catherine is ,a child ; if thellector diei, she is without a support. except byllte labor of her hand's, anti they dronot look as if they were made for labor. I will write to Jerome Baumgartuer ; he is well known as a young , counsellor at Nu remberg:" . Accordingly he wrote : . , "1524, October Ids. If you would obtain Catharine Von Berne, hasten here before she is given to another who proposes for her. She, has not yet conquered her love for you. I shall rejoice to see you united. LUTHER." The young counsellor received this let ter with surprise and incredulity. The positive refusal of Catharine, some months before, hail left no doubt on his mind, and he thought the wises; plan was to enclose the letter to her, and inquire whether it was written with her sanction. In the meantime, Luther's friends began to urge hint to marry, particularly Melanc ton. "You preach," said he, "what you do not practice." He protested, however. that he would not be caught in the snare ; that his time was now fully occupied. When Catharine received the letter from her tbriner lover, she was filled with astonishment, and requested Margaret to speak, to Luther on the subject. lie said he had done what he _thought was right and would be agreeable to all parties; but he found there was one science he did not understand, the heart of woman. "That is true,"_ said Margaret, "or you would long since have found that Cathy. rine was yours, and now the mystery,is out." It required. all her eloquence to convince f e ather of the truth of this assertion ; he was forty, and Catharine but little over half that number of year* ; 'that she could prefer him to her Itottng suitors, seemed to him incredible. Margaret, however, had said it, and a new life opened to Luth er,'in, the affectictn of a young and beauti ful women. When he apoke to Catharine again on the subject of maiiimany. he wow more anecessful than before. He learned the histifry Othtrlottgatutchtnemt, which had become so much the reverie of her silent •hones. The bettothment took place, and tefy soon the maiviage , followed. JUDICIAL . ANECDOTE. PSDRO 1.. eighth king of Portugal, was remarkable for his steaity and and impar tial administration of justice, of which the I following is a remarkable instance:— "An ecclesiastic, in a high fitof pluteioll, killed a masa, whom he had emplciyed, for not executing something agreeable to to his The king diasenibled the knowledge of the crime, and left it to the cognizance of the proper courts, where the issue of the business was. that the priest was suspended.from saying mass for a year. At this puttyshment theAsmilrof the deceased were highly offended. „ The king caused it to be hinted to the mason's son that he, should kill the picot, which he did ; and haven fallen into the bands of justeeite was condemned to suf. fer death; but, as no capital punishment could be executed without the king's con sent, this was laid beams him: among the rest; upon which he isked What was the young man's trade. It was answered-that he followed his fatherly' (ride ; then said the king, -.1 shall. punishiltim. y= r estraittiDg him from meddling with stone or , mot tar for a twelve month. But after this he punished capital crimes in the clergy with death and when they desired that, his majesty vrould be pleased to refer their case to a superior tribunal, he answered, very calmly. "that is what 1 mean to do, for .1 send them to the highest of all tribbnals, to that of theit Maker and mine." THE MYSTERY Or THE CROSS.,--0 lIIOW full of .mystery is the death of Christ Why must the only begotten Son of God, the brightness of his glory, the expretui image of his person, become incarnate suf4 ter and diet 0 turnery of Anyalaries.,l 'An incarnate. Gqd, a suffering,Christ and . Saviour ! How fearful and terrible must the divine law be, since the assumption of . its penalty involved Such su ff erings —filled heaven and earth with dulness. How sad sin must be, since tt could only be expiated by such a sacrifice. The cross not only points tip to the mysterious heights of divine love, hut down to the mys terious depths of sin in the human heart. It stands forth equally the exponent of a mysteriously gracious Deity. and of a mysteriously depraved and lost humanity. Ch. Scc. FOLLIES Or MAN.—The author of the following dissects with with the pen as keenly as the surgeon with his knife : 4.We strip pleasure to the skin—take her cloak, frock, bonnet, bustle and all—rob her of every charm—and then Say them is no such thing u pleasure in the world. We extinguish the torch that Hope holds in her band, and follow lightning bilge into a mud puddle. By superlative fully you frighten happiness from your firesides and then say she has "left your bed and board without provocation." Thus man makes bills to tire himself with ditnbing—produ eel darkness to gru mble about-creates corns to swear at—and puts difficulties in his path in order that he may struggle with them. Well, my friends, if you cant.move without first getting fire to your shirts, all I have to say is; blaze away—anything to give a stait." A ROUX'S Orunox or A Pi.,►aa Rose. —The North Corlinian tells the follow ing aseedote•of an old,farmer of that le gion, who bad tried the plank road : "He was at first very much opposed to the plank road, and thought it would be a *este of of money to build " it. But he tame to Fayetteville with his wagon end produce, and drove on it wine miles.— When he got back to Chatham, oar erchlinrfriend asked him if had seen the plank road? "Yet," , he said, "he bad sa t in tar, "Well, did you drivtion it! " "Yes," "Well. dont you think You can carry four times as much weight •on it, wish your tour holm team. as on a coin ' mon road 1" "Oh, yes," says he, "it is 'first rate ; and its a fact, when the wagon gut to the end of the planks and struck the heavy dirt road, every horse stopped and looked round!" I A' bussoverron No Nam Tnixo.--In 1790 when the seat of government was held in New York, certain discontented and am bitious spirits, who magnified mole hills into mountains, talked strongly of dissolv ing the U,nion. The (Mi.) Southern says:—General Washington, in a letter to Colonel Stewart, of Abiggion, Va., said it was impbssible to satisfy `such men, for that, being disappointed and chagrined because, on visiting the seat of Government, they thought their merits were undervalued, they sought in a dissolution of the Union a cure fur wounded vanity. When we see men pricking up their ears at every pretext likely to justify treason to their country, and gloating over whatever has a tendency to minister to a morbid appetite for civil strife and contention, we cannot help thinking that the causes assigned by the immortal Washington for the discon tented of his day are equally applicable to some of our modern political Lucifers. A man down east was scolded by his wife, and said ifishe did not desist, he would commit suicide, or—kill hirmey its the attempt. LONCIRVITY.—We copy the subjoined singular article from the Tribune of Tues day: The following article is taken from a Norwich (Conn.)paper, printed some four teen years since— " There is now living in this town a man in the 85th year of his age, who was born on Sunday, his wife on Sunday, and his first child on Sunday ; they had a child born on every day of the week, the first on Sunday morning and the last on Saturday night. He is the eldest of four genera tions all born on Sunday, all bearing the same name, all now living, and all present at a family re-union a short time since." We aro enabled to say that the same man is yet living in good health, 'and has just entered hie Oth year. He was in New York some two years since, and on visiting Wall street pointed out the spot where he stood and witnessed the inaugu ration of the immortal Washington. lie was for a great number of years U.S. Sur veyor at the port of Norwich.lle is now the patriarchial head of five generations, the last one having religiously observed the family rule of coining into the world on Sunday. The name of this ancient man is Erasing Perkins. Several of the decendants reside in this city ; among them a grandson. James 11. Perkins, of "Odd Fellows' Hall." THE FARMER 18 NOT PROPERLY EBTI- 1 NATED.-11 is a lamentable fact that the ' farmer does not occupy that elevated posi tion in society which his occupation jugt ly entitles him to. He is looked upon as a. being quite below the lawyer. physician, divine, artist, merchant, or merchant's clerk. To be a farmer is to be nobody, a mere clodhopper, a digger of bogs and ditches, and dung heaps, .and free to wal- 1 in the "free soil" lie cultivates, provi. dad he Dever seeks to elevate himself a bove that position in which the world calls ood society." Hence comes the desire of "the boys" to escape not so much the drudgery of their employment, as from the idea that they tiro looked upon and es timated,as mere drudges. 'What - blindness, folly, and false philos ophy is this! This result of these false premises is, that the "professions" are crowded to the starvation point ; clerks not only go begging, but become beggars, or worse ; merchants are multiplied, and good old fashioned labor appears to be going out of fashion. . While wo.would give all due honors to pro. fessions., the farmer, who is the producer, of all, both in food and raiment, that adds to the comfort and sustenance of the hu man family, need not feel below the occu pation, that gain their support from the folly, pridef misery and wickedness of their fellow creatures. If the atpirations of farmers were half as strong to.elevitte their sons as farmers as it is to make them merchants or profes sional men, or perchance loafers, we should soon be taught to look to the Agri cultural class for the best bred, as welt as for the best fed men in America. Tar. Fmona's Canale,-.Wa believe in small farms and thornugh cultivation. We , believe in Inge crop, which leave the land better than they found it. .We believe in going to the bottom of things, and therefore to deep ploughing. We believe that the beat fertilizer of the soul is the spirit. of industry, enterprise, and intelligence; without this, lime, marl, plaster. bones, and green manure will be of liule use. lawyer . built him an office in the form of a hexagon, or six square. The novelty of the structure attracted the attention of come Irishmen who were passing by ; they awls a full stop, and viewed the build ing very earelully. The lawyer some -what iliigusted at their curiosity, lifted up the window, put out his head, and addres sed them : "What do you stand there for, like a pack of saucy blockheads, gazing at my of fice ? Do you take it for a church ?" One of them replied :—“Why, indeed, (.was thinking so, till 1 saw the divil poke his head out of the window !" A young lady busing purchased an as sortment of music, turned suddenly back and said to the clerk, “There is one thing have forgotten." ' "What's that?" The lady replied, "One kiss before we pars"— upon which the clerk vaulted user the counter and saluted the fair danger with a A “sturk up" sort of genius entered a shop in this city, and turning up his nose at some apples in the window, exclaimed : okra these apples fit for a hog to eat." ul don't know ; try than, and see," was the instant reply of the shopkeeper. At a parish examination, a clergyman asked a charity boy if he had ever been baptised. "No, sir," was the reply, "not's 1 knows on, but rze been wax nattd." When we hear a man—a man ! say he cannot afford to take a paper, we are in clined to tell him that he cannot afford to do without it. A man who is really too poor to take a paper, is like a person so e maciated by famine as to be too weak to eat bread. .Santbo, wiser you get dat watch you wear to meetin lass Sunday 1" 4 , 1-low you know 1 hab a watch 1" mllekase I see de chain hang out do pocket in front."— "Go.'way, nigger ! spine you see halter round mymeck, you tick dar is horse in aide ob me 1" say, Pete, some Whig stole half my pig last night." .'How do know it was a Whig, Bill I" "Because, if it had been a Loco he'd have taken the whole of it•" We lett then. "The boy at the head of the class will state w hat were the dark ages of the world." Boy hesitates. "Next. Master Jones, can you tell me what the dark ages wer e !" "I guess they were the ages before the spectacles were invented. "Go to your seats." TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUAL INEW SERIES-40:: IC: Remarks of Mr. Cooper upon the Letter of the British Minister. We give place below to the rernarke of yr. Cooper, in the Senate on Wedneatlay, .promptly rebuking the impertinent interference of Sir Hai ry 1.. Bulacer, the miniater from Great Britain!' to United States. Mr. COON'', order to bring* the subject, had Moved•the reference of the cones• pondence—it having been laid on the bablikith* previous day—to the Committee on Coutmenur..! His remarks present the subject in its true light, as we believe, althau‘h some senators sought to ' excuse Mr. Bulwer, and deprecated4to plain sitt intrerpretation of tho letter u Mr. cooper gave It in his remarks follovriang:= . • Mr. COOPER RRiii-41(11011 ..the Presi dent's message was disposed of yesterday by a motion to lay it on. the table, I had left my seat and retire d from the chamber, and I was not then aware of the extent to which the British Minister had felt himself warranted to go in making sugestiOne lative to what our domestic legislative pelf icy should be in reference to a particulii subject. lu order that I may have a Rum dation tor the romarki which I design . to submit, I will read the letter dated Jaau7 ary 3d, 1850. It is as follows : BRITISH LEGATION, WASHINGTON, Jan. 3, 1850. SIR :—lt having been represented to heir majesty's goverment that there is some idea on the part of the government of the United States to increase the duties upon British iron imported into the United States I have beets instructed by her majesty's government to express to the tinned States government the hope of her majesty's gov ernment that no addition will be made to. the duties imposed by the present tariff of the United States, which already weighs heavily on British productions ; and I can not but observe, fur my own part, that an augmentation of the duties on British pro duce or manufactures, matie.at a moment when the British government has, b' a series of measures, been facilitating the commerce between the two countries, would produce a very disagreeable effect on public opinion in England. • , I avail myself of this opportunity ts.ris new to ypu the assurance of my most dis tinguished consideration. lIENav L. Binwt*. lion. John M. Clayton, &c., Now, sir, in ender that I may say noth ing but what I design to say, I willow) very full notes in relation to that part of tuy remarks Which refer to the conduct and course pursued by the British minis ter. 1 will repeat what I have already stated, that 1 had left the Senate yesterday before the correspondence between the Secretary of State and the British Minis ter had been disposed of, and without be ing aware of the' extent to which the lat ter had felt himself warranted in making suggestions relative to what our domestic legislative policy should be. As far as the policy of one independent nation towards another is within the control of the execu- Live and subject to regulation by treaty, so far is it legitimately the object of sugges tion and discussion by the diplomatic rep resentatives of either. By this Ido not intend to say, that the representative of one nation may not make known the gov ernment of another, that its policy in par icular cases, in which it comes in conflict with the interests of that which he repre sents, might be modified in such a way as to be mutually beneficial. But Ido say, that a diplonintic representative fails in all the duties of etiquette and courtesy to wards the government to which he Is ac credited, when he undertakes toinform it that any contemplated legislative action on its part "will produce a verb disagree able effect 'on," the government "or public opinion" of his country. To do so; sir. is obtrusive, impertinent, and deserving of rebuke. We are competent to mange our own domestic policy, without hints or suggestions from the agents of other goy erutnents, however powerful, however wise in the management of their own.— It is our duty to regulate our own policy for the benefit of our own people—the whole of our own people, without refer ence ',critic state of British "public opin e ion," or French public opinion, or public opinion elsewhere. I doubt not, Mr. President, that Briuth puplic opinion is gatified by a policy which feeds her people though it starve ours ; but it is impertinent on the part of the Brinell minister to tell us so. I know there is a difference of opinion at home, on the subject of the policy referred to ; but it is a difference which we can settle at home amongst ourselves, and all the bet ter and sooner without obtrusive, unsought advice from abroad. Our southern breth ren do not all of them agree with us an the subject of this policy ; but they will a gree with me that it is of domestic eUncern, and to be settled at honie by our own Con gress, in such a manner as shall best com port with the interests of all. When Eng land through her statesmen, in a manner far less offensive, insomuch as it was' laid due and not to us, has denounced the in stitution of slavery as a stain upon our na tional escutcheon which ought to exclude us from community of civilized nations, northern men as well as southern Dieu have expressed their indignant disgust a t the cant of those who denounce us for the tolerance of that which was inflicted upon in the begining by British cupidity. lam opposed to slavery--deeply, conscientious ly, and forever opposed ; but, sir, enter taining an opinion hostile to slarery, I shall never so act as to give cause of of fence to the citizens of the states in which the institution exists, in which it is wider ted by the constitution ; and while I am opposed, conscientiously opposed *wagge ry, I wish to hear no English daninids tions of my country, not any part of it, on this account or any other. And wbss would our southern brighten ear it fluff same Sir Henry Lytton Outwit tbeeld conceive it to be his duty to tell ne , What the .‘publie opinion" of En0114./.• 6 ,- titre to the institution ofsliiiesjrt.. it to them to answer. : ltip same ate bastif* „ robiaras Bol M B4or din govitsilintin lo Oda , 0 ti c ?a q"r~.
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