BY D. A. & C. H. BUEHLER
VOLUME XXIII.I
LOVE.
Ora ! it there is one law above the rest,
Written in Vile,lom—if there is a word
That I would trace am with a pen of fire
Upon the uni.ullied temper of a child—
II there is anything that keep" the mind
Open to envie' visits, and repels
The ministry to ill—'tis Minton Love!
God his made nothing worthy of contempt.
The smallest pebble in the weil of Truth
Nu its peculiar meanings, and will stand
When mitt ' s best monuments wear fast away.
The law of Heaven i■ Lore—and though its name
Has been usurped by passion, and profaned
'Fts its unholy uses through all time,
Mill, the eternal principle is pure ;
And in these deep affection. that we feel
Omnipotent within us, can we are
The lavish messurein which love is given.
And in the yearning tenderness of a child
Fur every bird that bingo above its head,
And every creature feeding on the hills,
Arid every tree and flower, and running brook,
We see luny everything was made to love,
And how they err, who, in a word like Ibis,
Find anything to Itate but human pi do.
TIIE INEBRIATE,
In a small neighborhood, known at that
time as Delhi, in the town of Gainesville,
county of Genessee, and State of N. York,
lived, its tha year .18•!l, an inn-keeper, be
fore whom, terror-stricken, pale and ghast
ly, was related by a traveller, and in the
presence of a multitude who had been at
tracted by the excitement, the following
strange scene, which was intimately eon
nected with him, and which trim:Tired the
night previous to its relation.
The lem-keeper drank the fashionable
bowl, spending most of his time in bac
chanalian revelry ; which was considered
the cause of the disease which hurried his
devoted wife into a premature grave.
Sorrow-stricken and crushed with grief,
she found consolation only in that religion
which leads the pious to the foot of the
Saviour's Cross.
While lie, wild and delirious, bowed in
besotted worship to the god ,ddrunkelnlCßS,
it \VIA proverbial that she sung mournful
hymns, mingled with excessive weeping,
and iu humble devotion offered prayer in
the name of her crucified Lord, far mercy
and salvation to be vouchsafed to herprof
figate husband. Thus was her spirit de
voted, until it took its departure to the a
bode where
Tha wirkea meow Gout troublin
A fi./ the weary are al teat
During! the Nickness which terminated
tier earthly pilgrimage, he could not be
dissuaded from associating with the unholy
dun of revelers. Prorating thus in au
cvii course, his heart became hardened a
gainst all holy principles which head to
peace and harmony, Mill lie bee:1:110 lost in
the dens of vice, which coucculed him from
friends and home.
W ben with dying lips she entreated !lint
to tarry with her while the lamp of life
flickered in its socket, he rushed from her
embrace into the deadening shadows of al
coholic night.
Her last and expiring words were utter
ed in prayer for him, and when her voice
failed, Ale whispered blessings upon his
Lead, imploring mercy to intervene be
tween hint. and irretrievable ruin. So
strongly was he held by the enchanter's
grasp, that her death did not break the
spell ; but as soon as her form, cold and
had been born to its quiet home,
he returned to the hoarse chorus of his
bacchanalian song.
Days passed without any change fur the
better, and the seene still continued one of
inebriety and moral death. lette at night,
on the sixth day after his wife's decease,
having returned, as usual, under the be
wildering influence of his acenstotito bev
erage, he was suddenly aroused from his
wild delirium, as he asserted, by the vi
bration of the door of his apartment. The
effect of the shock produced sobriety.—
lie beheld an object moving in the I
room, as noiselessly. as if floating in mid
air.
In the specter's hand was a golden bowl,
overflowing with a substance clear as
crystal and pure us the waters of an im
mortal paradise. From its centre arose a
tender stem, and upon the stem unfolded a
blosom, white and raidiaut.-
The leaves of the flower, moved by the
breath of the being in whose baud was
the golden bowl, appeared as if animate
with intellectual life, and offering adora
tion. •
Light shining from the bowl, and in
cense from the blossom,. filled the room.—
Suddenly the being turned toward him,
11,1010 l - enveloped in light, he saw before
hi m th e living image of his departed wife.
Qyerwheluted with horror, he shrieked and
fell beck upon his pillow.
A traveller who occupied the adjoining
room, alarmed by the shriek of his affright..
tad host, hastily entered his apartment,
and beheld an angelic form, clad in shin-
ing raiment, presenting to the suffering
victim the flower, fdli of life-giving ba.
granco. Her shining tresses descended in
Ivay,y oetliue!s, visible in , tho , clear light
thateu
rrundod tor., Her countenance,
Wulrne
. ,
that of eare-worn tufttido, was calla
and serene. Her eyes beamed with love
and tenderness. She spoke softeet tter
anti° of Wtotody, sayiag '
"Than. who in the moining of may neigh -
owiltence won to, thiself In! inoikolieno
ed heart :"
As this was uttered, the man, already
overwhelmedby the presence of the appar
ition, collected his bewildered faculties by
one of those efforts, apparently preternat
ural, which the mind is sometimes known
to exert in cases of extreme terror, and
exclaimed :
"0'; God, ! am I awake? I am ! This is
reality. 0 Mary, I murdered you! You
haunt me from the dead! Terrible! I
will speak to her. Forgive me ! I know
not what I did. I pierced your heart—l
tortured your mind—l spurned your em
braces. I was mad--drunk—brutal 1
loved you, Mary, but the demon Intemper
ance held me, until you had offered your
last prayer for me—that unavailing pray
er! Then might I have awoke from my
slumber—wiped away your tears, and sa
ved you from your untimely death. But
all is lost I have no friend to pray for
and pity me now ! No hope remains !
My Mary has left me. These cruel hands,
when she would embf•ace me, tore her a
way, and flung her prostrate. She never
rose to meet again ! She sunk beneath
her loud. The thought burns my brain !
All is dark—dark—awful—no hope !
And then the mourning babe ! Its moth
er lost forever! She conies no more at its
lamentation ! Spare me, ye gods, of
guilt! And you, Mary, ghost of my wife !
let me feel Jour pardon and die in peace."
His excitement, said the traveller, was
now beyond control, and he sprang as if
to clasp litr in his arms, when she gently
receded, saying ;
You cannot approach inn, Cyrus !"
Then in a most solemn and pathetic man
tier she continued : ''l have loved you,
Cyrus—l love you still. Grieve no more
for me ; 1 dwell in bliss. My woe is pass-
NI. I'm happy and free from care. Rise,
for I would counsel thee. Thy ways are
those that lead 'o death. Ilast thou peace
in revellings ? that conscious peace which
brings true happiness ? This language
from thy quiveribg lips—the sad lamenta
tion—answereth : yea, with thee is reveal
ed the eternal truth, that there is no peace
to the wicked. Yet, Cyrus, sorrow and
remorse, like an undying worm, preyeth
upon the fallen spirit. Be thou admonish
ed—flee the enchanter ?"
As she poised above him, he stretched
forth his arms as if to clasp her flowing
robe. She paused a moment, then sung
the following, addressed to him :
"Thou loved. thou wounded soul !
\Vouldat thou ascend and gloriously shine,
O'er wrong triumphing tvitti a full eon:rol,
(lathed in the light of morn's delicious
clime
Near, near, near
Stand seraph churalist— nut fist !hark! hear !
Ingather in thy breast,
I he gulden stands of our relential hymn.
Shower on thy o' ill the i•. lion of the bl e st,
Strive after heaven, and gentlest loue•lik
win.
go. go !
The path of blissfulness thy own will show
Thine is a weary load,
The waiiht of wo upon thy soul is thrown ;
Know thou the griefremosor—tr Oct thy God.
Sweet peace o'ettluns the Iseult, still all
thy own.
Ai ice. arise, aster—
Star of stir soul. and shine in paradise."
While this hymn was being sung, varied
but harmonious strains of music moved in
unison with her voice, and multiplied in
number and sweetness, until was mirrored
before the mind, as if visible, an angelic
band, with harps and stringed instruments
making melody `from the soul of song.—
When she closed, the music died away, as
if departing in the distance.
The bowl then reappeared. Above the
flower was the appearance of birds, of
plumage unlike any upon earth. These
tilled the room with their wnrblings while
the apparition began to withdraw. Ap
proaching a door, she reached forth her
hand and opened it, and thus passed from
room to room until she came to the door
leading into the street, which, although
locked, was opened in like manner.
As s he proceeded, the inkeeper and travel
er followed her, until she came to a corner
of a building, when she turned, and, ad
dressing her pursuing husband iu a most
affecting manner, said:
"Adieu, Cyrus ; fail not to profit by
what thou bast seen and beard, lest a great
er woo than that which o'erhangeth thee
now, befall the. Adieu !" she repeated,
and waving her hand, disappeared.
Years have passed since I beard the a
bove relation, and obtained these facts, and
still . so fixedly was it impressed upon my
memory that it teems as but yesterday.—
Mountain Cove, Bth m0..1852.:
A lawyer in Ireland who was pleading
the cause of an infant, took the child in
his arms and held him up to the jury suf
fused in tears. This hail a great effect,,
until the oppoaiteijawyer asked the child,
"Whet makes you dry 1"
"He's pinching me," was the answer.
The court 'reared with latighter.
The editor of , the Troy 1 /Imes having
by some unexampled mystery become
posaessor Of an entire near suit of clothes,
his'asendereal
,ipff in'a stale of lunacy: to
Ye s tiflottl.andleitdly imegines himself to
be “taildieitting" in Paradise: Alia, his
perm brainy !" •
•
Qtrairredrte-ztaira sheltie (wetting a girl I
have, bar lieria. , acqtairtineawith ; how,
shalt IL,erma . lo 49":110ip of her [gulp I
..4iettoerL—OosioAentl her among her (emelt!
acquaintances.
GETTYSBURG, PA. FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 13, 1862.
A Broken Heart.
The interesting case of a literally bro
ken heart we subjoin, was related by Dr.
J. K. Mitchell, of the Jefferson College,
Philadelphia, to his class last winter, while
lecturing upon the diseases of the heart.—
It will be seen, on perusing it, that the ex
pression "broken hearted' is not mere ly
figurative.
In the early part of his career, Dr. M.
accompanied as surgeon a packet that
sailed between Liverpool and one of the
southern ports. On the return voyage,
soon after leaving Liverpool, while the
doctor and the captain of the vessel—a
weather-beaten son of Neptune, but pos
sessed of uncommonly line feelings and
strong impulses.—were conversing in the
latter's state-room, the captain opened a
large ehestoind carefully took out a IIUM•
ber of articles of various descriptions, which
he arranged upon a table. Dr. Al., sur
prised at the display of costly jewels, or
naments, dresses, and all the varied para
phernalia of which ladies are naturally
loud, inquired of the captain his object m
having made so many valuable purchases,
The sailor, in reply, said that for seven or
eight years he had been devotedly towelled
to a lady, to whom lie had several limes
made proposals of inarri.tge, but was as
often rejected ; that her refusal to wed him,
however, had orly stimulated his love to
greater exertion : and that finally, upon re.
Hewing his offer, declaring in the ardency
of his passion that without her society like
was not worth living for, she consented to
become his bride upon his return from his
next voyage. lie was so overjoyed :it the
prospect of a marriage from whit:ll,lo the
warmth of his feelings, lie probably an
ticipated more happiness that is usually
allotted to mortals, that he spent all his
ready money, while in London, for bridal
gifts. Alter gazing at Mein hmilly fur some
lime, stud remarking on Mem ut turn,
think this will please Annie," and am
sure she will like that," he replaced them
with the utmost care. This ceremony he
repeated every day during the voyage ; and
the doctor often observed a tear glistening
in his eye, as lie spoke of the pleasures he
would have in presenting them to his af
fianced bride. On re:it:liner Ids destina
tion, the captain arraveul himself with more
than usual precision, and disendrirked as
soon as possible, to hasten to his love.—
As he was about to step into the carriage
awaiting 111111, he was milled aside by oyti
gentlemen who desired to make a commu
nication, the purport of which was, that
the lady had proved unfaithful to die :rust
reposed in her, and had married another,
with whiom she had decamped shortly be
fore. lustantly the captain was observed
to clap bis hand to his breast, and fall heat
to.,.the ground. Ile was taken up and
eonveyod to Hs mem on the vessel. 'Dr.
M. was inimediately suilllll.meq; but, in,
lore he reached the poor captain, he was
dead. A post•mortem examination reveal
ed cause of his unfortunate deeease.— '
His heart was found literally torn in twain !
The tremendous propulsion of the blood,
consequent upon such a violent nervous'
shock, forced the powerful muscular tis
sues asunder, and life nine at an end. The
heart was BROKEN.—.IIf . Hale's Literary
Jour»al.
AN EASY NATURED PAl:NEft.—•The
True illahometult Spirit.—The Detroit
.9drerliser relates the lohott lug :
A certain gout natured old Vermont
farmer preserved his constant good nature,
let what would turn up. One (lay, while
the black tongue prevailed in the State,
nue of his men, came in bringing the news
that one of his red oxen was dead. “Is
he ?" said the old man, "well, he always
was a breechy cuss. Take his hide off
and carry it down in Fletcher's ; it will
bring the cash. An hour or so afterwards,
the man came back with the news that
"line back" and his mate were both dead.
•Are they ?" said the old man, "well I
took them of B—, bir a had debt I
never expected to get. It is lucky it ain't
the brindles. Take the hides down to
Fletcher's ; they will bring the cash."—
Aber the lapse of another hour, the man
Caine back again to tell him the ;g It brin
dle was dead. "Is he ? ' said the old man,
"well he was a very old oz. Take oir his
hide and like it down to reteher's ;
worth cash, and will bring more than any
two of the others." hereupon his wife,
who was a very pious soul, taking upon
herself the oilier of Eliphaz, reprimanded
her husband very severely, and askedliiin
if he was not aware that his loss was a
judgment of heaven for his wickedness.
"Is it i" said the old fellow. "111/. if
they will take file judgment in cattle, it
is the easiest way I can pay it."
Prince Henry, son of James H.. had a
particular aversion to the vivo of swearing
and profan•ttinn of the name of God.—
When at play, he was never known to use ,
had words ; and on being asked the reas
on
why he did not swear as well as others,
answered, that he knew no game worthy ,
of an oath. The sante answer lie gave nt
a hunting match, when the almost spent
stag was killed by a butcher's dog, that
was passing along the road. The hunts•
man tried to irritate the prince against the
butcher, but without succeeding. Ills high
nese answered coolly. "True, the dog I
killed the stag, but the butcher could not
help it." They rephed, that if his lather 4
had been served so, he would have,
sworn so as nu one Could have endured
it. "Away," said the prince, "all the
pleasure in the world is not worth ad
oath,"
SWALLOWING COUNTERFEIT MONEY.--
On Saturday two of the police of Philadel
phia arrested a man for passing counter
feit money. lie had some of she spurious
notes, with him, and as the officers were
taking him before a magnums, hp swallow
ed the ball, in apite of the, strongest efforts
to Ankfeqt hiM. • .
Penn Festutt„ who Wilt the telebni.
tad Haltitt 8011t011 that tiears hit name;
was a French Hugenot, who was battiahed
frompance by an ediot signet-10014W
religiod• fitierty,
THl ; Andiaidpal who 'pa injured by the ,
accidental, discharge hie duty
very low,—.lllch. Dispatch.
~ F EARLEBB AND FREE."
Cana FOR HYDROFROBIA.—The New
Orleans Picayune hag received from a'
friend, a planter in the parish of St. Ber
nard, a gentleman of the most implicit
credibility, a few grains of a plant some
thing like the okra plant, which is rais
ed by every fantily oftbe Spanish fish
, ermen and hunters who have so long inhab
ited the district of country, some sixteen
miles below Now Orleans city, known as
Terre aux Bmufs. These people also
raise a very large number of dogs—mon
grel curs—and cases of hydrophobin, both
among dogs and men, are at a certain sea
son of the year frequent; The inhabitants,
however, do not fent"the terrible malady,
but cure it, as they condnually and solemn
ly assert, with these seeds. Not to rely
altogether on their statements, a friend of
the gentleman above spoken of, also a res
ident of the wish of St, Bernard, had five
hunting dogs bitten by a mad dog. Three
of them were valuable, and he treated them
with decoctions of the seeds. The other
two were locked up in a small enclosure.
In less than nine days they died in all the
awful convulsions of hydrophobia ; while
the other three, though clearly evincing
some ul die primary symptoms of the
malady, such :is red spots or ulcers ender
the tongue, recovered completely, and their
111:a tvr frequently takes them out with hint
on Ids hunting excursions. 'fun seed was
originally brought from Campeachy by an
old Spanish sailor, named Antonio, sonic
thirty-five years ago. Ile heard of its
properties and took some home to Terre
aux Meets, directions to plant and
use it. it must he planted in March, but
before pluming they must be soaked in
warm water fur t welve hours. The reme
dy is to 1w prepared thus : "Take nine
of the seeds. crush thent put them into a
small wine glass full of Xeres wine, (Sher
ry.) let them infuse a few Inoue, then stir
the dose well, nod swallow it. 'flits must
be repeated for nine days."
to nig own Inlerevf
The St. Lrlliis Intelli g emer relates the
following amusing incident as having oc
curred there a le.w days ago:
One of II ea th's snrittkltligwagons,used
to dampen the otreets of our city by water
front a large reservoir. containing several
hogsheads was proceeding slowly down
Fourth street, engaged in the laudable twsk
offluoriog the dust, when the attention of
a raw Hoosier was attracted towards the
singular looking vehicle.
llti stranger!" said he, addressing
hinowlf quite audibly to the driver,"you' re
lostog all your water thltr !"
No answer %vas made by the person
addressed.
"1 sa y, .1,1 hoss," said the Hoosier,
lordoi f !Joni vniumaight plumb. Mat,
trll on, be dog-on't if tour old
till) won't be d ry, next you know."
The timer was still silent, and the
stranger again Dildresbed John.
Look lwre, you 10111, yin see, that
soinethin's broke Imise with your old lllS
tern in wheels, and that all o' your water
16 leakin' out !"
still the driver wits silent, and the Hoos
ier turned away in disgust. -acing:
allow that feller's a I,ttle the liiggxsi
fool I ever did see, but it lie is so blind to
Lis own interest as to throw his labor a
stir in that way, let hint do it and be
d—d."
Scrorms ncroitti Ilnarvny.—The follow
ing aneeelote Vas Will 111 a Very eieVer
fellow, IV Ito had heen stoney , / hat frolicsome.
lint who had recently joined the Sons of
't'rrttpc,anre. After becoming a "Son,"
lie went to Mnbli" on business, and was
taken ill there. The physician was call
ed, and alter examining hint, pronounced
him in a very dang'•rouri !minuet!, and
prescribed brandy. The hick man told
him be could not take it. The Doctor in
sisted that it was the proper remedy, hut
the patient told hint he would not take it.
The Doctor said he must or lie would have
r pawns. "We'd," said the bon of 'fent
perance, I will try a collide of spasms
first !" lie did nut take the brandy, nor
did he have the spasms, but went on his
way rejoicing.
ATTEMPTED M UDDER AND SUICID E.—On
Friday last. at Northville. eon., a young
man, named Major HfIVIPS, went to a
school. kept by a Miss NI. Buck, a respee
table y nuns; lady, NI ho had discarded
and seizing !ler in the presence of the whole
school, inflicted fire terrible wounds. with
a knife, across bar thrust, two of %Ili !licit
are supposed to be fatal. The demon thou
rail ID 11111111 and attempted to drown him
self, but Was rescued and imprisoned.
"How," said Lord A. to a friend who
wished 10 convey a matter of i mpartance
to a lady without commoincati ug direct
ly with her, •how can you be certain of
her reading the letter, seeing that you have
directed it to her husband r "That 1
have managed without the possibility of
failure," was the answer. '•She'll open it
to a certainty, fur 1 have put "private" in
one corner."
A poem 'in a Southern paper begins.
'Tye lived upon thy memory. "That is
about as bad as Jerry Bryant's boarding
house feed, where they had nothing for
dinner, had it warmed up for supper. and
what was left served up next morning fur
breakfast.
Nor Bari TO ,Tmcc.—A young gentle
man of Detroit, who leas of law been much
afflicited- by palpitation , of the heart, says
he. has found considerable relief by press-.
ing another palpitating heart to his boron.
Queer, len' t it -
A distinguished writer eapt—"Thoro
ie bto one .passage in
,the ,111014 'whore the
girls are eauscqantled 40,kiia the Into, and,
that is due, golden rule, %Whatsoever, ye
would, thiAl men stuttold , 4o, uOW you, 40
ypi! pm 84' Uutris thOralYl, ' , I , • •
4 ‘
it ' '----- '' ti ' 7. Tiiiitt t 1)
y•nu atea wont man an
ceitakti 'GC ith'ikr &ik 4ett . 4 0 . 1 0 iiP i triV l
Sri 1 . 11 ,0, 4 4 4 1 161 Fig j i iitt aliklri)
•
xn..ny, l d,l,4t i onl ./nt.
the leati th i, thicite efie )1,
Walt ler the Wagon.
Will you come with me, my Millis, dear,
To yon green mountains free I ,
Where the blossoms smell the sweetest,
Come rove along with me.
It is ever Sunday morning
When I am by your side,
We will jump into the wagon,
And we will all take a ride.
Where the moon shines like silver,
And the birds they sing so sweet,
I have a cabin. Phillis,
And anmethina good to eat.
Come listen to my story,
And it will relieve your heart.
And we will jump into the wagon,
And olivre will start. •
Do you believe, my Phalle, dear,
Old Mike and all hie wealth,
Could make you halleo happy.
Ao I with yor.th and health 1
We will have a little farm,
A horse, a pig, a cow ;
And you will mind the dairy,
And l will guide the plow.
Your lips are red as poppies,
Your hair so slick and neat,
All Sraided with dahlia•,
And holly hocks sourest.
It's every Sunday morning,
When I am by you side,
We will jump into the wagon,
And all take a ride.
l'oectlier mi life's journey.
We will travel till we Mop,
And if we have no trouble
We will reach the happy top ;
So come with me. toy
dear, my loving bride,
And we will jumploto (ho wagon,
And all tali,. o ride.
POLITICAL.
Piciorini Life of Gen. Pierce
Sumo of the Locofoco journals suggest
ele publication (il a pFetorial life of Gen
eral Scott, with certain wood cuts, which
they think wou!d be highly appropriate.-,
We thick it much more. important that
they should publish an illustrated life of
Gen. Piece): ; should they determine upon
doing so, we would advise Mon to embel
lish its pages with the following pictures
Young Frank Pierce setting on his dad
dy's knees teaching him to spell !
Frank Pierce reaching itt his pocket for
a cent. and giving it to a little urchin to buy
cattily !
Franklin Pierce emptying his pocket to
subscribe !weary-jive cents to a Sunday
School Library.
lion. Franklin Pierce, member of Con
gress front Wm" II itinp.hire, recording his
voles against the improvement of Rivers
and harbors !
Hon. Franklin pierce, U. S. Senator
froin New liarnpr•hire, mnaking a speech
againat the apprnpriariun in the vriuuw of
General 11.irrison !
Franklin Pierre, the New Hampshire
lawyer, t‘e tine in his nilire tit Concord,
- mid rending the I . OIIIIIIiSSIIIII Fent to hint
by his friend Polk, making him a liriga
(her (;eneral !
Franklin l'icres innibling from his
horse in Nlexivo !
Gen. Franklin Pierce taking a fainting
fit !
Gen Franklin Pierre writting a letter to
M Jrio Lilly in tavor of the Compromise,
and oak tug a speed) at New Boston a
gainst the Fogiiive Slave law !
Gen. Franklin Pieree holding a eonli
(fennel interview in erne room with Soule,
Barbour, Venable, Jacob Thompson, nod
other pru-slavers nes, and in another roam
engaged with Ramon!. Cleveland, Van
Boren, and oilier Free Sailers, in laying
schemes to entrap the Free Sail vote !
We think a Pictorial Life of Gen. Pierce,
illioorat ed, could nut fail to have a
large circulation.
AN Exaster.N.—Gen. Jueepn Markle
passed through Cleveland on his way to
the Lundy Lane Convention, and while
there, in reply to the remark of some of
the Scutt Boys that lie 'Was rather too old
to hear the fatigues oldie trip, the gallant
hero replied with much animation: "his
a good cause and 1 am not too old to lead
in ii !'' Such is the Scott spirit in the
Keystone. Gen. Markle was a compat
riot of Gen. Harrison in delending - the
frontier settlers against the British and In
dia ns, and in 1814 assisted with his own
hands in building the picket fort erected on
the bank of the Lake near the foot of Sen.
(tea street. Cleveland. lie stuck the first 'I
picket, and expressed a strong wish to
place his toot on the very ground then en
closed.
Gen Pierce fainted and fell from his
horse just before he got fairly into battle
against the Mexicans. He was trying an
insurance ease in one of the New Hamp
shire Courts a few months ago, in which
a witness swore that he carried-out of a
house a bureau. which was in fact heavy
enough to require Cwo or three men to re
move. The General thought he had him.
"Sir," said he, approaching the witness
menacingly, •ado you undertake to say that
you carried out that bureau alone 1" "Yes,,
General, and I didn't faint iitherr—fror,
cester .414
oc.ln counting over the friends of Goa.
Pierce why do not the Loeofocio papers
remember the London Time" 3? Why do
they not inform their readers that the
'limes and other British journals hailed
the nomination of Prance with a perfeot
"gush of enthusiasm," ou account of , his'
well known hostility to the protection of
American iabor ?
Omuta: ev A SP . IDIZR.-00 the 22d Mi.,
Mt. John Morrison, of tekestere Mass.;
was bitten on one of, his fingers by -a black.
"Wert The finger ioliir - ebbameneed
swelling, and , became very painful, olul
the'diasase , has extecided over hie aystem:
to , seeh a degree that •he liesimankinget*
ous condition. His physicians think. there
- is. but iittleirotia of hie 'recovery.
the 4 1 4. 10 A*o3‘ l 4„,ten*,14451t 11 0 ,
because tov oui iLiota.mtmsai thi(
FrictXPliroii Woo osticaltaktoctitir r; dye
gippoo, triTlfr,ll P*ol. P $ 1 ?it
ogifet,fett two pectaitliettrtkp,f,.l) l 41 ,
send (tali oriti—ie Wee.'
[From the National intallipucor
I HIER FROM BMW.
At the Whig ratification meeting in
Washington city, the Hon. WILLtARC ut.-
Lox *poke as follows:
Mr. President and fellow citizens of the
city of Worthington and of the District of
Columbia—l do net know but that I ought
to extend my gratulations beyond the Dis
trict, for it occurs to me on this occasion,
that not only is the city of Washington
out in its strength, and the District of Col-
umbia, but it seems to me from the front'
you present here to-night, that we must
have had a sprinkling from the world at
large. `[Laughter.] I thank your Chair-
MEM for stating to you that 1 come from
Tennessee. • I am a Tennessean by adopt.!
lion, although a Kentuckian by birth. I
am a Clay Whig of the Kentucky school.
[Cheeri.] And I am here to-night. as all
Whigs are - at all thane, and on all occa
sions, to hear my testimony in behalf 01
the virtues of Whig principles. [Cheers.]
Gentlemen, I will not occupy your pre—
cious time by recounting what transpired
in the Baltimore Convention, of which I
was one of the !nimble members; but stir
flee to say, whether yrm preferred Daniel
Webster or Millard Fillmore, as' I ditL or
General Winfield Scott, the selection of a
candidate is a matter of compromise be
tween the thirty-one free and independent
States of this Confederacy. No such on of
the nation expected its choice ; no locality
is to stand upon its preferences in defiance
of the great will of the
the
people;
hut in that Coneentlow the claims of every
aspirant were canvassed, and their friends
adhered to them with an unwavering ten
neitV and the choice attest fell upon Gen.
'W infield Scott, of New Jersey, whont I
proclaim to-night as the second father of
his country. [Cheers.] Yes, fellow, citi
zens, I care Ind for preferences ; I am a
Whig from principle. I worship at the
shrine of no man ; and when you say to .
me that you cannot subscribe to the nomi
nation because it is not your choiee, I.pre;
trounce you men-worshippers, who forget
what has niwoys been inscribed upon the
Whig bagger—"measures not men."
Gen tleiitew : what-is the struggle hi whicfi
you are to engage ler the next few months?
Gentlemen; Witifiohl Scott and William
A. Graham have committed to them the
banner of the tYhig party ; wink our
Democratic friends, amidst great "noise
and confusion." have ransacked the Dem
oeratie calendar from A to izzard, [Laugh
ter] and from izzard back again to A, to
find for themselves a suitable man; and
behold they . have "grabbed" a mud hauled
up "front the vasty deep" a gentleman,
—wile, they tiny; is a General tool [LIMO:,
ter.] Gentlemen; FiatikTin Pierce has been
made the Democratic Standard-beaser;
and let me now run a brief parallel before
the audience between the relative claims
of General Winfield Senn, who is a real
General, and the man whom the Demo
crats say is a General—Franklitt Pierce,
of Now Hampshire. That Mr. Pierce
may be a gentleman, and doubtless is a
gentleman, I am not here to controvert;
but if he is presented to the country on the
score of his military achievements, in op
position to our General of six feet four in
ches standing [laughter] in hie stockings;
a General covered will, honorable scars re
ceived in fighting the battles of his coun
try ; scare which: mark him from the crown
of his head to the sole of his foot; a non
who never fainted in a battle, [cheers and
laughter] if, I say, Gen. Pierce is to come
into competition with our real General, I
am here as ono of the Scott Wheys to pull
off the musk. [Loud. cheers.]
Sir, where am the achievements of Gen
era! Pierce ? I ask you where aro hie ex
ploits? I have looked in vain forlns
grave-yard. [Laughter.] I have not been
able to discover his laurels on all thelface
of the earth-2nd the Republic of Mexico
included. [Great laughter.] Not at all
doubting his courage, yet in view of the
truth of history I must be allowed to. say.
and every Democrat must allow me to re
peat it, that it is not recorded upon any
page of the history of my country ` that
General Franklin Pierce ever fought a
battle or won a victory. [Great cheers and
laughter.] There is a General ter you;
[laughter and cheers] a General of Mr.
Polk's appointment I I have been told by
u gentleman that that was the best appoitit
mein Mr. Polk made. God save the nifisk.
[Laughter.] I replied to the geutleman I
did not know about this appouttineat being
the best. He replied, " Decidedly the best.' '
I replied that I did not underatand how
that could be. The gentleman answered,
"Why because, in the first place, imbed
the candor to admit that lie was no Gener
al at all; [Great laughter,] and, in the
second place, because Ito had the manliness
to reoige his office and come home, while
his oilier , appointees had neither the man,
liness to acknowledge their deficie n cies
nor the honesty to resign (heir commis
sions." [Roars of laughter.] •
But, gentlemen. it is certain that Mi.'
Pierce was unfortunate; 1 will not say he
lacked in courage, but he was unfortunate.'
On the day of battle statue bay dint i he
fainted. will not, however, repeat that,
for it may be a slander. I understand that
that is entirely . * ;DAD** ; that Gen, Pierce
did not faint but that his horse.fsinteil. 7 —
[Pens of laughter.] I will tiOt' slender"
elendral• Pierce; hot I must confess iltat
hate no peculiar .'liklng l lo , that stock Yel ,
horses. that are: given to faintink. [Con
tinued laugter and cheering.] 'I hit now.
that faintedd-under General *ianl4l , Was not
oftlnruld eve* thaiiGaitersil 00scrodelip
og. wary 010de-field ; foci toyer heard
that, the glorious war-charger , of the. ...hero
rit Lltinly‘i`?ashe fainted anywhere.
find it recotiled 'that - One of 'hitt glorioiti
.
War-chergerrin af' certain battle was cut
ihfierthy's•Calmon ball beneath 'lna grori
lets rider:..! Het irtiitead of General Scott
Isinting r atthat was, the offset! Wily, sir,
citelpf Vis7plvkrfut g rasp_ !von, the arm of
011EMer, milted him froth hip horse,
pritioner, -debited into hip healed '
petalled , obi flying
' Uptiompts„Otteering.l • 'There-is klentr.,
ill . 1 8! 4PY 4 . ETreaueddous Alte011:1-
Gleneraall not merely entitled to
TWO DOLLARS PER fitrf Ott'!" "
• :0 ..." 0 ; •
3NUMBEI
. ,
, , ,
buttons end epaulets, lint to the • higheSt
confidence of his t country. [Renewed.'
cheers.]
But gentlemen, when you corner i• ,
Democrat in regard to Scott's military it- ,
chievemems, and he gots bard presited,h,'
will reply to you, "I am opposed to put.,
ting military . 'men into civil 0111CS8.!" I
have no doubt you are. [Laughterl r X
believe it from the bottom of my ' heart;
, .„, ,
pa
you cannot bear the idea. ut when n n.,
' had General Jackson, how was it :then I---,.
[Roars of laughter.] When yen 1 1 14 .,R•rf!r •
al military , hero who never fainted. yea ;
said, "Glory : be to Jackson !" [Tremeo l ,
dints applause and,cheering ;] nod every,,
I • Democrat when, ho dies reams to gq , lo- {
Jackson.
• [Renewed laughter'snid cheer-,
ing.] He cares leek to be in Abraham's,
bosom than to he With General lacksion,
[immense applauee.l
So - much for the military qualificatinn*
of Gen. Pierce. And now for his ciyit--
qualifientione. What are they f lie ial a
.
gainst the prutection to the labor of Amem
cane, and iu favor of buildin up Britialt
interests at our coat. He , is for strikifig„
down the . American laborer to thaleeel At:,
the European laborer. Mycountryiniss
are to be reduced from their present rate or
wages to eve or ten cents per day; He is
against. river and, harbor improvantequi.....•
His voice wee lifted in Congress ageinet
all that can nationalise American insets
aeons. Bot there is one thing in perdu.
afar to which I ,wish to refer. You're !
member the late Infuriated Gen: Harrison,
when he died in your midst, having eery.
etl his country frotn witty infancy—you'
remember when lie died in our midet, be
-
log stricken in years—the partner'of his
bosom still lingering. Gentlemen, i ion
atiliameil that , such a thing as ,I lam ebout to,
relate altouid liaVO liappeued in America t ,
and lam sure there is not - a ladv w ok 'aarei
io utter a word in favor of Gen. Pierce.
' when elle learns what 1 am about to refits. ,
' Gen. Harrison at the age of three score .'
and tenYYears, after serving, his country,
was euinincoutd,,to• his fathers. His aged',
widow was here poor and pennyless--the
wife of a patriot who had given his witole'
life and stibstance to the serviettor hi... e on,
t ry. When he died 'in your midst, and e .
magnatthnous Congress' prbposed i01 . Jih:1):,
a'filliali pitted - be; die bilallei iif hislidery,
to hie old-idow . to 0044 UPon the 're,; -
mainder of her deye, this giorieue• lnagettn-..
invites Gen. Franklin Pierce, tide eiy,itrap .
who is to over-ride every body and sitt9t 7
thing in yonder Capitol, lifted up tiisitotee
against the claim - hi' the widow to ou c h
eireurnstancino ; and yet he rests Nil e1e.,i 0 14,
to die Presidency upon the mtopumimettie,
consideration that he will starve the ridiv
lions of our countrymen by advocating ii"
free trade
,polley, an d by refueling p Miser
able pittance of a few litintlre&dollPre us
the widow of a droaameil milligkiiiirr , ; , -
Where is the honk that does not atifq, , beelt,
at ench'a picture? ,
But they say - thin - old Scant, beingli:pitt&
ly military man, wont do'. • I have no
doubt that it tviis olijieled to - .llie "Father'
of his Century." that he "would not do.','' .
[Great cheering.] I believe, hoirever;
mat itia generally undersiood that he rode
a very good President. [yeeihiritnite
cheers.] It was said orOld Isclied'n,,itilhe
same manner, that he "Would net dri..' 'O4
the American verdict gave the lie tO, il4
assertion. And when old" thirriacietifaii‘
, , ,
presented. they said. you have presented
an "old granny to the coeutry.-'., But 41.4
patriotism °fine American heart lifted - hulk
to the first ',am within the, gift. of: Any,.
people upon earth. [Oheerl9 ,B tri
:Sala
e. of d;
Gen. Taylor. The Doidoorita ',' bi
was a "rusty old blade," and they, ergtied;'
"if you want a military Mitt, "eltir!doe's
you take Gen. Scott; there," . kip' tlieY.'
"is a resit Getteepi for ydu 't, hi is not only,
skilled iii war, Win civil dialeratukr."".'
When they talked in IV/C*l4OlOM limilim''
'ju`st hold still. soil' we will viva pun? a
"hasty plate of soup? next time??, tim.l t -.-
manse applautte Ain) laughter.] l'lnt teu tb I
is. we had taken it into our heads to row
old Z,ick, and we did run him tt and I
congratulate you odd the countrtnow that
the soundness and healthineet of onr Orel.
ant condition Is attributable in hie coad:'
juror and succeseor, who is Ireriliy sirft.
praise. Now we hove theitenteil you wit ,
a Mall WhOM you said four years ago. Okla
WO ought to have run ; and, Justly leering ,
his success, you tell us that We. oughtio
have run a civilian. Brave; Democrats
Consistent Democrats ! [Cheara- •runt ,
laughter.]
Who is the civilian - whom you have
proposed t The man who refused to al
low a few hundred dollars to "Old Tip's
widow ! Wo to such qualifications I. WaS .
give you old Scott, the second iltather of
his country," and I will not occuPy pier
time by recounting his deeds of chivalry,:'
for they are %Vtlnten MI with *pen of steel
on every -American heart:. [Utniera.] . I
will yield the muted to other glindemett..— , •
[hood cries of no, no," and ""go on,-"go ,
on,"] Why. geol l emeni I haw beemoin'
Mug day and night ever mows the nontis •
nation. I. have, hardly lahl.ine dowri-ior
shut my eyea , for• the laat' , two or three '%
days, cud have tiladeilliont two speeches
a night since we inscribed the Unmet 'of
Scott on l oUr. banner. If it were .mote ter
fear of intruding. on , the patience of my
friends, I wotildnet talk you all into Ills
in favor of the immivatino. , 'Elotegliter
and (Metre.] Gentlemen, Geo; -is c ott` ,
tought,fer me before I cobld'fight lin.•-My*
self. Ile fought for my c ou ntry r heimiso
Lorne the - fleg of my country in mania
victorious field, [Cheers;] and his 'shill
not went an advocate While 'in y free . - iiiri -- .._,,'*
Mi
ew i
coo tongue
,ls loose to speak. "t' iil W .
the glorions prlnciPlei which bel*
aleskiihk• want' an advoeate'Whifol liati,:*
the power of spee'cli. CLoud sad (Mo tied cheering.] lliimbie as 1 en; tattprlll;
tending AS 1 toilet always bring le thdlis.i""
cite' zeal and de feria !nation' nevert tit y 1 dl
while there lb a shot iii the lolaker ' r It'lliefill'
cheering.]
Old Tennessee ;Aston* to show, yeti's
little spunk. of her own. : Terme/seek itetio4
never hailed ItriuppurVillit - Wiligalio44 l o
fur twonty.. , ,vooto... 4 Dix yott , lmoili iloitik;•,.
[CitherkuntrOyes."3 1)o IrtoAttgot 1100
under Andrevr ,
it V
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tlaie4l' to he Wh lig 9 rek.ittra f
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