mi. D. A. & (TA. BUEHLER VOLUME XXV. 90 YOU WANT A WELL MADE AND CHEAP SPIT OP WINTER CLOTIIING? I:nto, you can he accommodated by calling on MARCUS SAMSON, who has just opened and is now selling rapidly at his 'Store York street, opposite the flank, a 'yery large choice and cheap as. r oortment of • FALL lad WINTER GOODS, ,o which he invites the .atiention of the They have been selected with great care in the Eastern cities. have been bought ihaP for Cash, and will be sold cheap fur 'cash , -cheaper than di any other establiilimini Gettysburg. His itock consists in part of Black. Bine, Olive, and Green CLOTH COATS, with Irock.dress I and sack coats ; also Tweed._Cashnseret, and Italian cloth; also, a large mock of OVERCOATS. which can't be . heat in variety. quality or price, out of the cities ; also a very superior stock of PANTA LOONS, conoisting in part of excellent and well made French Black Doe•ekin Cassimere Fancy Cassimere, Satinet% Velvets, (lord,. Linen, anti Cotionads.— The stock of VESTS comprises every variety of manufacture—fine black Satin. Silk,• Velvet. Italian Silk, white; fancy and buff Marseilles. Summer cloth. Ste.., Also constantly on hand a largo lot of TRUNKS. Hats, Carpet Bags, Umbrellae, Boots and Shoes. Window Shades, Vio lins, Aecordeons, Guitars. Flutes, Fifes, Melodeons, Mirrors. Razors, Spectacles. Spoons. Watches and Watch Guards, silk and cotter! 'Handkerchiefs, Cravats, fine painters, Gloves, Stockings, Spring Storks, ,Shirte,,,tind shirt Collars, and a splendid assortment of JEW ELRY—in fact every thing in the way of Boy's and Men's furnishing line. j' First-rate chewing Tobacco always on hand—a t are article which chewers are requested to try. MARCUS SAMSON. Nov.lo, 1854.—tf MONEY . LOST ! TT . is an ESTABLISHED FACT, that .A - nutny persons lost money, by not pur elisaing Goods elate well known CHEAP - S SOREAhinin — Artiold,.at his old stand, on the South East corner of the Diamond, where he is now receiving the cheapest, prettieht and best selected Stock of Fall and Winter Goods, •everhefore offered to the citizens of Ad sins county, consisting in part—as fol !Nick, Blue. and Brown;Frencli Cloths, Fatiey. Felt. -and Beaver Cloths for Over (-Sonivalt,filtylea.). , filarkAuti , Espey Casisseres. Tweeds. Jeans. C,aeittet is, &e.. &c.olor Men's ware, Silks. Mous de Lame. Alpacas, Merinoes, Plain and Fancy Sack Flannels, 'also a besiniful assortment of 'Manus and Silks for Boonets, Bonnet Rib bon anti, a emu variety of other articles, all al which the public are respectfully re quested to call and examine forthemselves, believing Ow it, is only necessary to see our goods, ?rice them, and examine, to in sauce parsons to purchase. A large lot of Trunks aleo received which will he sold low. ABM. ARNOLD. Septembette, FARMS TOR SA LE) NEU CIETTYSBUIRC. No, . 1-4 60 AcrestgoodStone , House, and Barn, with other out-buildings plenty 01, good timber, meadow, and never. isiht water. N0..2-175 Acres: large Stone House, large new Barn. Shops. Sheds. earn-cribs, water, in nearly every field ; plenty good fruit, sufficient timber and good meadow. No. 3-125 ' Acres : first rate , House and Barn, end out-buildings, excel lent meadow. good running water. choice fimbee. &n. ; nenr the turnpike. No. 4.;-180 Acres: g ood large Brick House, whit out-buil ingi, plenty never failing water, at the house and in , the fieldo ; 80 Aeres excellent timber, plenty pod meadow, first rate Orchard, of all blur( of fruit, good tenant-linnet.. &c. No. 5-200 Acres : large brick /tune, with backbuildinga., large stone Bank Barn. with sheds and cribs, and all ether nut-buildings. such as dry-bonsai smoke-house. droc.,; between 50 and 00 Acres in good meadow, plenty good tim ber. good:fencing,Orchard of all kinds .of choice fruit. several wells of water. &c. No. 6-247 Acres , : near Pipe titiek. - Frederick cotintY, Isige Sfone Hone,. Bern,Brnoke•house;lspring-house. ihede, pens. 'oribs.''plenty , of water and fraiti`from 50 to -60 acres good timber— can be bought cheap,' 'No. 7.-.105 Acres: adjoining the abosiii good Mona' House, Bwiss Barn, out builtltnge ; good water, &AThese ttin Faints are handsomely situated onthe Oldie *M.] • . No. B=A Mill 'with 30 Acres of land, gnod buildings, shops, sheds, other out•buildings,A:c. Any ; wean dAsirous of buying or Bell i% properly ,will please call uron F..-E.VANDERSI.OOT, Agent. Atyelung, Pa., Feb. I7—eow forr. F. E. VANDEROLOOT, SUR OE. tUnprcrsT, will be at home here. 044 1 .1',*,Pipt two w •eks in every month. MONEY WANTED. .110,1N9 purchaaed the property I R . rfWotieupy, I will want money to pay frtr E it.in the spring. 'Chose therefore that are indebted to me either by note or book armant of long standing, will please call *Ad piy the,samts on nr before the first day Of Match _next, and oblige. Very respectfully, GEO. . _ _ - nr, Blanks of all We fur i 11001514 ,1 10114., • • • • [From (be Aibitry Alla. • • Peen' for the "BONIABOOLA GILA." A stranger preached last Sunday, A rul crowds of people came, To hear a two-hnur sermon , With a barbarous sounding name; . "Fwae all about coins heathen., Thousands of miles afar, Who lire In a land ofdarknews, Called .13orroboola Ohs." $o well their wants he pictured, That when the plates were passed, Fisch list'ner tell his pockets, And goodie sums ,were cut; . For all must lend s shoulder " To push the rolling car That carries light and comfort To "Borroboolstlha." That night their wants and sorrows loty heavy on my soul, And deep in meditation ' I took my morning stroll ; Till something caught my mantle With eager grasp and wild. And looking dm% n with wonder, I saw a little Child. A pale and ponyereature, In rage and dirt forlorn : Whet could she want, I questioned. 'lmpatient to be gone. With'trembling voice she answered, 4•We livejust down the street, And mammy she's a,4e'n! And we've nothing IA to est." Down in a wretched basement, 'With mould upon th Throe whose hull buried windows God's sunshine never fulls ; Whole cold, slid want, and hunger, Crouched near her hush. lay, I round a felling creature, Gasping her life sway A disk, a bniken table, A bed of ditty straw. A hearth all dark and cheerless— But these I scarcely saw ; Fur the muurnful a;ght before me, The sad and sick'ohl snow— Oh, newer had I pictured A scenes() full of woe—. The famished end the naked, The babies that pine for bread, 'The squalid group th,st huddled. Around the dying bed ; All this distress and sorrow Should be in lands afar ; Was 1 suddenly transplanted To "Borroboola (Asa 1" Ah, lo Lthe poor and wretched Were close behind the door. And,Lhed passed them heedleu A. thousand times before. Abu tor the cold end hungry That met me every day, While all my team were given To the puttering far sway ! There!s work enough for Uhristians In distant lands, we know; Our Lord commends hie Remota Through all the world to go, Not only , for the heathen; This was hio charge to them— .oo prea c h th e word. beginning First et Jettillitdefik." . , .God. tproulried.. , , W boieer to thee ties given A cup of pure cold water, shall find reward in Heaven. Would you moire the blessing. You need not uk it far; Go find in yonder hovel . A "Et orroboola Oswego, Decemuer, 5, 1854. A Graphic, Picture. Iles 'not God connected with all lawful avocations the welfare of the life that now and that Income ; and can we. lawfully amass property by.a course of irede which fills the land with beguats and widows, and orphans, acd crimes; which people the grava,vard with premature mortality, and the world 'of woo with victims of des pair 1 Could all the forms of evil pro duced in the land by intemperance, come upon us in one'horrid array, it would pall the nation, and put an end to me traffic. If in every dwelling built by blood, the stone in the wall should utter all the cries which the bloody traffic extorts, and the beam of the timber should echo them back, who would build such a hone° sod who would dwell in it t What if tn' every part of the dwelling, 'from the teller upward, through all the halls and chambers, babbling - and contentions, and vice, and groans, and shrieks, and ,wailing were heard by day end by night 1 What if the cold blood oozed out and atomd upon the walla ; and by preternattuar art, sit the skulls and bones 'of the rictims.tles troyed by intemperance, should stand up on' the walls, in horrid sculpture, 'within and, without . the building who wool) rear sitelt a building 1 What,' if at even litle and at nsidnight, the airy forms, of Men destroyed by intemperance, were seen haunting the distilleries and stores' where' they received the bane i followed the • trade of the ship engaged. in coin.' coerce r, walking on the • waves ; fl itting athwart the deck ; sitting upon the rigging • and sending up froirttlie hold within, and from the waves without, grOinis and lona laments, and wailinge I who would Wend such store. t , whir would tuber in such dis tilleries t who wield navigete•stich.altips? Oh, when the bky over - our .. .headt9: One great whispering gallery, brings dOwn upon us all the lamentations and woe which intempersnce'creaute, and the firm earth, one • sonorous medium of sound, sends up . from beneath the wailing's' of those the commerce of ardent spirit, had sent thither ;. these tremendous realities assailing our sense, would invigorate our conscience, and give decision to our Or: pose of reformation. But these evils are real, as if the atones did cry out of the Wall, and the beam answered it; as real as if, day and night, %railings were heard : in every part of the dwelling, end blood and skeletons were seen upon every wall; as real as if the ghortly torment the depar ted victims flitted about the ship as 31161 passed over the billows, and showed them. ' selves nightly about stores and distilleries (and we may add breweries), and with I unearthly voices screamed it, our ears their loud lament. They aro as real as if the sky. over our heads collected and brought i down about us all the notes of sorrow in the land, and the firm earth should open a passage for the wailing of despair to colts up from beneath.-11. W. Beecher. • Iy is a law which fiod Willowlike' made that ibo arrow which is slim from iha pet secotor's, biw; sloal rebciund, nod pioroit tb4.Eofoooqior's,hesrl. GETTYSBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, EBRUARY 9, 1855. . , Tne 13.0.--:-The French romancer. Clemence R4bert, expresses thus warm ly' an apprecintion of one of these every day (night) comforts, 'which in the fre quency they are enjoyed ; are some times leas highly valued than they deserve , to be: bed is cetteinly the most precious: and the moat favorable asylum. to be found here below. In fact, when I look at it and' when I think, as I step into it, how one_.ia euddenly,aa if by enchantment,, rid of fatigue, cold, wind, dust, rain, importu- note nailer.; tedious conversations, cam'. mon plate remark., pompous - assertions, bragging, putting. forth head.strong opin ions, contraductinua, discussinne, travelling stories, confidential - readings of a poem or a whole tragedy...explanations- ol bystems in long words, interminable 'monologues, and that.in. place of all there one Lis pit , tures„ thoughts, memories to be called lip, that he is in the'llii4st of a chosen society of phantoins and just to his mind, and all thine •dreami. which a fereign wri ter calls "moonlight 'of the brain;" , when I think of all this, eel look at a bed, I know not what words to make urn of to express ,m' enthusiasm and veneration. and I am almoa" ready to bow in adoration before A RIMY SCEIVE.—The fohowing rich scene (occurred in one of our 'courts of justice, between the Judge and a Dutch witness, all the way from Rotterdam : Judge.--." What's ycur native lan guage 1" Witness.—"l pe no native; l's a Notch man." Judge.--" What is your Mother's tongue?" Witneae.—‘6o, fader says she pe all tongue." Judge—(ln an irritihle tone.)--..!W hat language did you'apeak in the cradle t" Wittiess.--“I tid not speak no language in .the cradle at all; I only cried in Dnotcli." Then there wre a general laugh, in which judge, jury,, and audience . joined. The witness was interrogated no fu . rther about his natty° language. A, PUZZLED of told a good story of a M4lll on the Mississippi steamer, who was questioned by a Yen. kee. The gentleman, to humor the fellow, answered all his questions etraighifor: wardly, until the Downeastcr was lairly puzzled for an interrogatory. At last he inquired, "Look here, Squire, where was Yeou born 1" "I was born," said the victim, "in Bos ton. Tremont street, No. 44, on the Ist day of August, 1820, at five o'clock in the afternoon." Yankee was answered completely,— For an instant he was smirk. Soon. however. his face brightened, and he trickly . said : 4 .Yrtato =Wall I cailtitate yob don't I:moi ler' whether 'twee a frame house or 'a brick house. dn 1" A very green sprig' from . the Emerald Isle mitered a boot and shoe' bhnp to pur chase himself a pair of "biogans. After overhauling his stock in trade without be. ing able to suit bib customer, the shop. keeper hinted that he would make him a pthr to order. "And whai will yer az to make u good pair iv 'eni ?" was time quar ry. The price was named ; the Irishman demurred, but, after a "bating down," the thing was* trade. Paddy was about leaving the thop, when the other called af ter him, asking, "but what size shall I make them, sir t" "0.. th." cried Paddy. "'Over Mind about the size, at all 7 -rnake them as large as ye convaniently con for the money." HOW TO INCOIN AN A aIEttIOANT.—A na tive and an adopted citizen ' were dis puting the other day about their respective patriotism. Said . the adopted citizen : "I love America as much as zou du I" "Granted." said the native. • "1 love liberty. with a fervor - you cannot eacell." • *.Agreed." "1 vole conscientiously. pay my taxes before. they are due, rosier education both private and public, cherish the Constitu tion and Taws. ." 4 .1Ve11, and what else 1" asked the na• Live . pointedly.: oWhai avOidtl-o 'h m ore" Yn 'have 1 de. mandi ii the adopted eitiarn. - 6. & f i r e our , patiOna! prejulicei I and dien I you an American." A learned clergyman . in.-Maine waof ae coated in the following' manner by . an illiterate preacher; who'" despised educa tion : , • , "Sir. you have been to college, I sup. pover.. _ • ' . . "Yes, sir,". was the reply.. "I• Agit thankful,l. replied the other, Kthat die .I'mo' hits opeuled •my mouth w Winn' any- teeming," • . ~ ,J 1 similar event.", replied the latter. "occurred in Baslant's time., but, such things steed' rare occurrence at the present day." • . . . . nsrLionrins.—There are very few of God's people who have not some open or secret affliction ; lor the words, *in the world ye shall have tribulation," are not a figure of speech, but n literal•lftnii.. A mail may hare hidden troubles, air well as hidden treasures, in his 'etrong.hoi, that co one knows of but himself. We con. ceal our infirmities and our afflictions, oftentimes, more jealiiusly than wo hide our moneybags.. Whatever may be your troubles, whether afflicted in mind, body. or estate, take courage. It will not be so always. . , oLa. !". said Mrs. Partington, .4here I've. been - sollering the Inagoties of detth for, three. mortal weeks. Fir2,t. I was seized with a bleeding phrenology in the ni. left Si. o sphere of the brain, which : was, suc eceded by a stoppage of the left ventelator of the !tears. This gave me an informa tion in the hem and now siek• with the ehlornfortn niorbas.. There is ntrbles: Sing like thai of health; partieularitirhisti ..• you:arialioit:" iIItARLESS AND MB." AvrtacTiosa.—There are veryfew of God's people who have not some open or secret affliction; for the words. “In the world ye shall have tribulation," ere not a figure of speet;h, but a literal truth. A man may have hidden troublei. as well as hidden treasures. in his strong.boa, that no one knows of but • himself. Wo oonceal our infiriOitiee and our afflictions; often times, more jealously than we hide our :noney4bags. Whatever maybe yonr troubles, whether efflicted in mina, body; or estate, take courage. If wal'Oot be to a/ways. '• • • ' FOUR LIMOD 11 - lARlT4.—Theiet.are four good habits a wise and , good mail , earnest- Ix recommended in his counsels; and also by hie , o vn example, and which he consid• ered essentially necessary for management of temporal'concerns ; these are Punctu. ality, Accuracy, Steadiness and. Despatch. Without the first of these. time is wasted; without the second, mistakes the most hurtful to our own credit and interest and that of others may be committed '• without the third, nothing can be well alma ; and without the fourth, opporttinides of great advantage are lost, 'which it ii impossible to recall. • , . The•Annerletan Wllllar Tllol4l*B ClAMPBtitii: Mr ITU, STATU, your benne, tri F. . Two emblems: one or F Ame r . . Ili s Alas! the other that it wears, :, ' • ' Proclaims your nation's sham • Your high renown in glorious tws: le blazoned by your stars: ": ' • - - ' Hut what the meaning of your, ipso? They mean your nekroes' illsawl. - - !. . Reply.loe Abo v e.• , . • By GEORGE Llltly, GY MAN& EMMA lIID. whence comes verb glowing hue That tints you fitgof ..mrteer',! light; The streaming red, the deeper blue. ' Crossett with the moonbeitine pearly white I The blood end bruire--the Ors and-reti— Let Asia'a groaniug Millions speak ; The white--it lON the senior fed nom starring Erin'i naiiii cheek. ABSENT Mlitozu.—We believe there is another anecdote told of Lessipg, the cel ebrated German poet, and the same one whose absent mindedness. the .following story commemorates, wlthsh marks quite am strongly his puro sin4licity of mind. When on one o'ccasiort he returned to his own house after a briA'ab,seace, apd find ing the door .tioeured,' knocked to obtain admittance, the servant-giiteried from the window. without looking. to see who' was there, that '<iNtr. Leasing was not at home," and our hero; forgetful of his whereabouts, turnedtway; saying, "It's of no consequence, Call another sew." "A CANDLE OP. TUE lisED." —"AR Re fus Choate was cross-questsming a witness the other day in nue of otii taints, he ask id what , profession itelelkietet" Iler a live- lihood 1 1 ' The witness replied: l4 g am . a candle of the Lord—a minister of the Oa+ pal." "Of what denomination ?" asked the counsellor. ."A Baptist," replied the witness. "Then," said Mr. U., "you are a dipt but I trust not a sicked candle." ARKANSAS INSECTS.-A citizen .of-Ar knifeiiis while on board a steamer on the Mississippi. was asked by a gentleman; "whether the raising cif stock in Arkanm, was attended by much difficulty or ex pense ?" "Oh, yes,stranger—they suffer much' from insects." "Insects !--why what kind, pray ?" "Why, bears, cata mounts, wolves. and Bich? , A man will be ;hat Will most cherished feelings are.. It he encourages a' noble generosity. every 'feeling will pe . eurielied by it : if. he nurse bitter and envenomed l 'iliugbis, his own spirit Will'absorb the poison ; Mul he will crawl Among men av a burnished adder, whose life is mischief. and whose errand is death. latenovito .Puito.—lt is stated that a Frenchman named: M. Ilixander. has in vented n.contrivanee for giving the piano a prolonged animal. For many years this has been sought tar in vain. .It was im• possible to,olonin a sustained note. like the human voice or the violin. . trhe invention is said to be very-simple. : • - Drv:T foes %Vitae. —An advertisement in a Roston papery lately, for a young invn In work `in a attire, was insviered by eigh teen applicants. But one far a ' , voids nom". to travel and play on the banjo, met with four hendred and Mimi respondents, Thera must be a great many .Igeittlettien" of who ..play on the banjo." - CURE 'von Lovs.--liide in a ()inset half.a-dosen times, and litten to tit° con verration which takes place between a cou ple Who have been married ono year, whilp they think-illemselids entirely alone. 31irriage'is the , strongest tie of perpet nal'frianlehip, aral there cats be no friend. ship Wittiont confidence, no confident* without integrity. ' • - A Fthlag girl je rod—the eyes are the honk. the smile the bas, die lover the gudgeon, and marriage the butter in which lie is fried. Somebody says very beautifully : "As small planets are nearest the san, so are little children nearest toGod." A RULE WITHOUT AN EXCEPT/ON.-- , - There never yot lived a young lady, who did not like to be told she was pretty. The Know Nothings of New Efamp• shire have nominated, Ralph Metcalf. of Newport. for Govettor of that State. A - true - believer, when blessed with a smiling imagination, is the happiest ; 01 mankind. The . philnsinphy of a thousand yea!s has not ezp,ored.the chambers Ind magazines' of the soul. True freedom eoneiets in this—that each men alien do whatever he like*, without injury to another. • • Men are never en ritliculons by thp`Anal._ , i►iee which they poeensi,an by thane whinh they iffeet to , • , • • ' SPEECH OF MR, COOPER, ON Convict & Pauper Immigration U. S. SENATE, JAN. 25, 1855 On motion by Mr. COOPER, the Senate proceeded to consider the following resolu tions, submitted by him on the 23d in. slant: _ Rrsohred, That the President of 'these United States be, and he is hereby. respectfully requested . to cause the. becretary of titate and the Secretary of the Treasury, respectively, to communicate to the Senate such information as may be contained in their several departments, relating to the transportation of convicts and paupers into the United states from forer.r., countries, and what 'rimy the Governmentefo which they belong have bed in sending them hither. Alan, such in formation as they may posses/ relative to the vol. untary immigration into the Visited Slates of the above classes, the numbers of oath that have sr rived here within the la•t two years, whether sill untary or through the compulsory agency of their tuspective Governments. Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary he, and tho same is hereby, instructed to Inquire what legislation, any. tie necessary to pre. vent tho tiovernmen'ts of foreign countries, from transporting into the United State" convict' Ind pauper.: Also,Nrhether any, and what legials jspecessary to prevent the voluntary immi gration into the United tltatec from foreign coun tries of either of the above class's of Peracins.". Mr.• Oootutit.—Mr. Preatient, my ob ject in presenting these resolutions which have just been reed is to obtain, iq •tbo first place, such authentio inforination from the Departments of State and of the Treas. ury as may be in their possession, relative to the number of fin eie convicts and pan perm' arriving annually in the United States, either voluntarily or through'Ate compel• eory agency of Govern Meats to Which they belong; and, in the second placeoo pro cure, if possible, such legislAtion ,as will prevent the country from becoming the a. sylum and refuge of thieves, burglars, and paupers sent from abroad. I presume. Mr. President, Senators are aware that a policy; which scarcely seeks concealment, prevails amongst several of the 'States of onatinental Europe, in virtue of which, convicted and unconvieted Inds and paupers are transported to the Uninal States, at the expense, and by the direetion,. of theirj Governtaents. This policy which is as unjust as it is unfriendly should be 'pet an'end to by legislation, if it eanuot - be abcompliched byThegothition.— Nations in amity with us have no right to make of the Unita! States a penal colony; yet they ore ,beeotning so, by thO tolorn don with which our Government , has -re garded the practice of sending. hither pan. pots and felons. There is scarcely an em igrant ship which arrives iu our ports that is not, to some extent, freighted with this kind of cargo. This had long been an evil ; but latterly it lies, increased in magnitude. and to such an extern as,te he justly' regard. ed with alarm .'BM a month or two since, a singlewive' . landed in New York one hue dred and fift yjniiiptifirtiiiirillreen or, six teen' conviets; wearing; 'us . the' bald e++ of their conviction; chains upoh their limbs: More recently., another; vessel, freighted with a similar carp. w a s WillOknd $a bin. Island, from whenee the passenger* were minded to Halifax; fi nd from, Halifax were brotight to Nine York, by the way of Boston. - By au affidavit wide by one of these, passengers. it , appear& that they are . , natives of Switzerland, who, being unit. ble to support theinsOlves at , home, wore sent hither at tote °gnome of the munici pality to which they belonged. The fol iowing is the affidavit: ' , city nod Coust:y If Nay York, as.—We, the undersigned, being duly sworn, do depose and say out, that we and our families, whose limn. bet is 'correctly taken down opposite to our names, on the loot atlas affidavit, are natives of Switzerlan.l; that they were poor in their own 4:unfitly and cuald nut *sipped themselves there any longer ;•th.d. literal - we the map* of their village has. paid their passage money ' diiect to New York, and that therefore thei7 paimatee wo w/ has not been paid by these deponents ; that they embarked at Antwerp .m board the ship Ar cadia, which vessel was intended fo'r New York. but "sleeked at 6able Wand ; that they salted from Roston on board the passenger itiestnhoal, State o 1 Maine. and arrived it. the port of New York on board the ui.l &Mawr, on the 2.1 daY n 1 Jemmy, 1855 ; that they Me now q.iito desti tute and without any means for support, except from commissioners of captivation ; and igniter they it,, not say. , [Here follow signatures] 'Sworn belore me this thth day otholuarl, 18'55. EDWARD CASSERLY, Corsmiuiose of Deeds. But:it is net only thriftless paupers who are soot to addl.° the buitheu of our poor laws, , and•stand between native misfortune and the relief provided for it by charity.— Felons, convicts, deep-dyed is crime, are sent to this country by their Governments. I Lately; the Sardinian Geverntnentabipped to New Yorkoin beard a national vessel, 1 (the Degennes unto of. war,) t hirty.four eon victed criminals'. Whether they have yet arrived. I au* not able to say. But that they wore 'shipped for the Oil of New York there - is no doubt.` The Tribune has the following paragraPh in relation to the subject,: ..information: has teen received hem, from a pri vate source;worthy of the highest confidence, es the effect that the thirty-four person" in question ars not mere political uiretalers, but are convicted culminate of the must dimptrans description, ta ken from the prione of that country." It is a common practice•in several of the States of continental Europe to auction off to the lowest bidder, to the person who will bring them hither cheapest, their pau pers, and, in some instances, the inmates of their prisons and penitent iaries. Agents of the great passenger lines of packet ships are maintained in these States for the per- pose of making arrangements with the mu nicipal authorities of the various towns, , for the removal of their paupers to Ant-1 werp, Bremen, Havre, or other sea-port towns, with view to their trlinsportation to the United States. Tn .England, or rather Ireland, saintlier system is pursued; l and Miss Dix, amiable, benevolent, and philanthropic, us she has proved herself to be, by a life of devotion to the interests of suffering and unfortunate humanity, writes to her friends in this country (row Ireland, ,where she is now sojourning, in terms of indignation, excited by witnessing the praotiefe of the English Government, in pouring upon oar ahem the polluted pop ulation of their hospitell, aline-houses, and; Mr. President, it is time that a stop should be put to these practices on the Part of the governments of Europe, If it cannot be effected by negotiation, surely we have the power to do it by legislation, The inherent right of every community, to protect itself against the contagion of vice and crime, as well ag of disease, will bard• ly bo questioned. We , have , our quaran tine laws to protect us against the intro duction of groan-pox, cholera and other kinds of pestilence ; and these laws we en force even to the detriment of eoinmerea. But hitherto we have neglected , to guerd ourselves agaitigt a more dostrietive pesti lence than small-pox or choleie -While our sea-parts and the gates of our cities and towns have been closed against the contagion of disease, they hare been open 7 ed wiie to admit the more fatal contagion which is flowing upon us, in the shape of pauperism and crime, from the prisons and lazar houses of Europe. • Wn dread fever and the plague', and endeavor to exclude them, while “the pestilence which walketh in darkness and blighteth at midday," hug been suffered to enter without let or hin drance. It . is time we should open our eyes and look the evil in the . face ; we should eiamine our prison and alme-house statistics, and provide a remedy, cost what it may. An insult to our flag, by a failure to sa lute it with the required n u mber of guns, a refusal to indemnity a citizen for a wrong Committed on, his,persoo or property, or the neglect of some point , of national riti• queue by a foreign Government, is always followed by a demand for explanation and apology ; and if explanation. be denied, our pride takes fire, and war. ultimo ratio rectum, the last argument of Kings, is , lin . ' mediately threatened. But against empty. ing upon us the contents of . and houses of refuge,- and prisons, .we .have nothing to object , ; we are tamey aequies.: cent. for fear, that opposition, might be con strued. into hostility to, other classes. of, immigrant foreigners, whose Voles may he esteemed necessary to the success of this litirty or. that. Operated on by, .motives an unworthy and unmanly, America!' statesmen and legislators have stood , by, with folded arms, and permitted the fair ' est, heritage.that 'leaven has ever . vouch. infect 'to a people to be overrun by flits in r mates of foreign prisons, and the,cerrupted and impoverished honks of foreign. (min tills._ I am willing that this eountry should Continue to he the asylum of the oppressed of evcry, land, that, out of its abundance the virtuous needy should be led as here ' forme ; that to its institutions, they shoUld find protection lot permit' and prop eery. But Mr. President, the time has come Ashen the" door of admitisiOn should he - closed forever against ail settled and 1 legalized paupers, and all persons concici , et: or suspected of crime, who shall he sent hither through the agency of their !e -1 vpective ("Overtime:Hs. II n stop be not speedily, put to his kind of immigration. thieltiontains of public morality will he enreupted: and the publie. salely• Compro mised. Can it ,b 0 otherwits.2, when those who are brought here are the vicious, the turbulent conspirators' against order, pick. pockets, thieves, burghers, and mindereis These people are the sittlT of tvhieli oohs are made ; theY era the class which invade the purity of the htilltit-box, and intertere• with the elective franchise. In the great cities of . the Republic. in New York, Philadelphia, Bone n, Haiti . timore; St. I:ouis, and NeW 'Orleans' the evils which have grown mit'of sibs of these classes of iintnigraina have become gigaittic—friihtful. Not only have ttie irresolute and timid become a forma at the magnitudo of the mischief which threatens the piddle peace and en dangers the public morals, but firmmind ed slid tar-sighted statesinen.have likewise been appreciated the imminence . . of the danger, and the neceislty of prompt and energetic tneatiiires to arrest it. The May. or of Illicit). of Ilis , York refers to the subject in the last message to the alderman awl Members of the common council, and has, also, addressed a communication on the same siihjeet to the President of the United States. The is ail ex. tract frontons message : "It has long beeen the practice of many Gov errimente hu the continent of Europe, to get rid of convicts and paupers' by sending them to thii country. and moat generally to this port. The in crease of crime here can he traced to this cause filth eitban to detect in the criminal law, or their admin istration. An examinitiun of the criminal and pan per reetirds, show conclusively that it is hut a small proportion of these onforturiatee who are natives of thus country. One of the very heaviest bur dens we bear is:the support of these people, even when considering the direct cost ; but when esti mating the evil influences upon society, and the contaminating effect upon all who come the range of their depraved minds, it becomes matter exceedingly serious, and demanding iin mediate and complete eradication. I know of no subject of more importance ; Certainly we have the power to protect this city ag inlet the landing of so vile an addition moor population; the health. WI well as the 1111) 'and property of the people fur whom you legislete: requires some ecti nt at your hands. lam confident the General 'government will listen to any repiesentations from you raid ting to it. and interpose its national authority-in our behalf, oii the ..Idi inst.. I made ILO grigautico the 'abject of an official communication to the President of the United Slams." By the extract from the message, which I have just now' road, but a very few of the clangers and mischiefs to which the country is exposed from this class of lan• migrants have been adverted to. Buy it exhibits enough to lead to Mquiry ; and. an inquiry into poor and crianitt , tl statis tics of the country ie well calculated ,to startle the equanimity anti alarm the 141 7 prehension of every Christiao and p str i m in the lend. But before I proceed, to call' the attention of the Senate and country to the startling fae.ts which these statistics ex hibit. I desire to advert briefly to soaker mischief, not wholly, but, neverthelESs, to some extent, the result of admit ing isle the country the idle and turbulent epirits. sent hither in order to relieve MO/ own Governments of their dangerous presence. I refer, Mr. President, to the prentica now prevalent in the forger citiee,'of Organizing; volunteer companies and buts:lame:coin ! poaed wholly of fore , igners, bearing foreign nanlies t 7Weiring toretgli' unifernts; and grailang tinifor Miele veJon. Tort; Boitoir, ytkiiititt r' • ;;`J TWO DotA'lls it'lMOtit'"'"" 44, fikitrigEti 48. Oermln Yagers. Frerteh ChtiaseiiN , YPii}~ `i G'reens, Swiss Guards, do.; and I entln-' firmed that in the first named eitY brigade eoinpased entirely or 'lrititiMete, 2 runt called the: Irish httiade. this is all wrung, and would be toteilifetd by n' other GOveritinent on the fade of tie earth." • ' ' When, by the' liberal' character " institufintot; , and the Idessingei meet which °Ur !awe Cdnfer. of other Governments were invited' fp our • shores, it was never intended they shoeld enter ittto separate. organizations, CIO 'a'' ' military. or cultivate an esprit di 'corps , mono themselves, calculated to letaire • them foreigners in' feeling and inlibits,'", tbagh dwellierin oor inidst, ind"o'Whiti allegiance to our latvs. for.' signers ehould renounce all -allegiance 1n their former Governmentei both stance and in form, and identify_theinielies'' with-the country'. of their own lidOiktio'n in the more unreserved 'manner.' Let then,: if they pleAse, unite with otir iethinfeer,; nod militia organizatioes for' theParpoie of acquiring a knowledge 'of the use Of arms; bullet ihem beware of fortnirigi+ erste organixatione, by which' jealimey maybe excited, and doubts of, their weal- menu in their adopted Country, and its pen. pie; crested. Such organizationv Of natur alized citizens, officered by foreigners fn . ' strange dress, and mustering under sirsinge? flags, will never be tolerated by the " of the American people:' Their ownhati:' ter—the glorious mars and stripeithoinif over their own and. their' fathers' 'head*, both by land and sea, on many a ithiorlii' day, ir, with them, 'a holy emblem—heir', us the. Ark of the' Convent to the [Tellies of old, and associated with memories that consecrate it in every •American No heraldic blazonry, nn mailer, how'art. oient, nn mutter who 'may have borne it; '. mover what fields of deathless rehntitri'll'. mat have floated in triumph,ean aver ' compared, in our eyes, With the iiiritilet'; 'peters and stripes." ' To raise an - Other le tt) destroy the idea of unity which it rep- resents, to intimate a doubt of he perpetn• ny, and manifest a preference that is repul, eive to every reeling of our hearti. eigners, therefore, who have renounced their allegiance to Kings, and make theuit-", selves sharers with us in 'the heritage libery and all its concomitant advantage* and blessings, ehould•east behind theni the , insignia of tyranny and 'tally with 'th'eir native brethren in hearty accord;Under banner of freedom —the starry flu 'tbi' Republic.' 'lf they be Americana in heart; ; it willcost them nothing to Organize,' if need be to fight and die,' beneath itsfOldr.'' This flag hue waved over the heads of he• roes; and though it was rididtiled but a* few years Since, as a plea' of 4 ‘strii;ed bunting," tt now bats on every sett, in" proud equality with the tri-celorof France, and ihe St. George of England; its' ow affording protection tostliese "who limit, a right to claim it, iu every quarter •of the globe. Why, then, stiould tanctralized eitizena apparently repudiate it, by riilsitie another And why, abkve alb organize' separately, wlteu duty tied toted pelfer alike urge them to take their felleviethip 4 with us perfect by unity of action iii,every possible case ? If they have broitgliewith theta feelings of 'attachment to their tive land, let then: cherish them in theik', hearts, for such' feelings are amiable and exist in every generous beam. — No one , will find fault with thetn 'for indulging _ memories which carry 'them back tci` the !loam of their childhood; and'tib' doe well" complaiu, even if they should tionteii,.thei there arc thinga and' 'places dear; to hearts, in the land they have left. Ail we': ask oetheut is, that having been' received t . as brethren, they should . coeduct' them-'' selves as such, and not a rivalii of en ti epics. It may be alleged, Mr.. Presiclent,.that they are none' the less attached th oat" ini atitututions because thdy hitittrfortned 411 itary assoeiations'With" tastiest , ictqhalify,; thoinselrea ter defend and "uphoitl theta.— I do not charge them ilth a viaiit tinn to our institutions. I'have only oom. plained that 'they haverfornted'sopitratu or . ganizations ;'.that they have net, as' dtith policy and safety eeqnre, associated theta native-hot n citizens; that these sep.. - arate organizations are calculated to' p#. cite jealousy'; and that between theselor!,' sign organizations and similar native ganizations there is danger of collision; and of such a character as is frightful to 'eon= template. If; instead of being'formed 'of foreigners alone, these companies and tifit, tollions had been composed of 'ithmething, like equal proportions of natives and for... eigners; the danger that is to 'he apPre7 , r hended would cease to exist, or exist oral in a modified form. 'From these orgaidia•F tions there is nothing to be gained,'isveli by those who compose them. On, the con. trary, the 9 uspicion and "jealousy Which they excite operate to their disadvnAtege. And bore, Mr. President, allow - Me to Sly; that, while I have not questioned the trintisin of the mass of those 'who 00111)058 these military organizations; I'think there 'is reason' to believe that many of tlio . ktuli,, Viduals belonging to them are ''desiieValf characters, who:would not *greatlY'deplort,' such . c . ai is'net itupibbalilit 14 44 'the present excited state of mind. 'The great ma's of their own ootipii 4112ot—those whobome here . in' goadfallliv to seek a livelihood and a heme, fire tiet!' dom found connected with' these oatioeii: tiona as members. Engaged in subdialairl: the wilderness alba far 'West or' Orin. ing their avoeittiouit the cities an ;total they have neither time nor dieposiiidil; unite with them.' But toe ftneri _ 1 the testimony on the subject ato be; hifi 4- I lieved,•they are composed erthe dissolute, of those who, fond 'of the " e3raltr at , Mutt of military shows; hive niifiled., • I rise in view, white the number t he ttor' r. lutist men •of •businOsta, 'tb , ‘',,ittld be a guarantee for the of ortior,. is cortipanitiielt stein: Under these mutant:to^ it Is tjaaa that . stepa were Wien to o. i tect,The I I ton aware;ltrifpteßvi v nm ot fully tebtot: l36 o' °Tankard, to „ Athbit . Auld 111 n l -47. $ i • 1 i•i
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