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JOHSHAL.
, CLE ARFIELD, PA . ,
Wednesday, December 20, 1854.
JLITERAUY NOTICES.
The School Jofkkal, for December has been
received. It is a more than usually interesting
number. This periodical -commends itself,
not only to the teacher, but to the parent and
guardian. Tho. II. Barrows, Editor, Lancas
ter. - Terras, 1 per annum, in advance.
"Graham's Saturday Mail," the first num
ber of a new volume, comes to us very great
ly improved. It is now one of the neatest
and best of the city weeklies.
We have received .he Address of the State
Central Prohibatory Committee to the Legis
lature, and regret our inability to lay it entire
before our readers. It contains many valuable
and interesting statistics, and is an able
production.
The 'Democratic Union,' has changed hands,
Lauman & Co. having sold out to Jacob Zf.io
iek, Esq., who will hereafter preside over its
columns. 3Ir. Zeigler is a talented editor and
accomplished gentleman, whose only fault is
Lis deep dyed locofocoism. We wish him suc
cess in his new undertaking, but if we mistake
not, he will find that with a locofoco paper on
his back, "Jordan am a hard road to t rabel ! "
Geauam, for January, the first number of
the new volume for 135-3, has jnst been receiv
ed. It is a splendid number for the Holiidays,
containing, in addition to a number of elegant
illustrations, some of the most ably written
articles we have read for a long time. Those
who desire to obtain it for 18-3-5, can send us
their orders. S3. 00 per year, in advance, or
$3.50 for Graham and the Journal.
THE COMMERCIAL PARALYSIS.
We are daily and hourly reminded by every
thing which surrounds us, that the country is
verging upon a state of universal insolvency.
If we pick up an exchange it is only to raid
an account of banks breaking, manufactures
closing, and business men suspending. If we
go into the street it is only to meet some anx
ious inquirer for information where to obtain
money. If wo open our letters it is only to
find a dun, or an apology for non-payment of
money over due. In whatever direction we
turn our gaze, we see something to indicate
the unparalled scarcity of money that prevails,
not in anv r i c :i 1 .ir .dali but w'
175' ii'ulu"'Jo paroxysm. Oi
" mry-anTt'aerangcincnt, through which our
whole financial system is passing. The ques
tion naturally presents itself, what is the
source of this mehholy situation of our
commercial affairs ?
It will be observed that the banks and bank
ers who are suspending in different parts of
the country, Lave securities plenty, but no :nnu
ey. That the merchants, "of whose failures we
are hearing jtrcm day to "day, have prcpzrly in
abundfncf fmtrnre unable to command money.
That therr3Efagturers who are discharging
theirliands; ar.e in want of money, and that, in
short, this" valuable commodity is not in the
country. What then, has become of it ? It
has gone to pay. for the enormously excessive
influx of foreign manufactures, which we
ought to have, ourselves, in abundance. This
is plainly apparent from the fact, that, while
the financial affairs of the citizen are embar
rassed and paralysed, the government coffers
are filled to overflowing, with the proceeds of
the 'tariff for revenue.' That the aggregate
value of imports shows an excess of $20,000,
000 over the total aggregate of exports, inclu
ding specie ! That, consequently, the coun
try is flooded with French and English goods,
and a paralysis has fallen upon all the leading
branches of American enterprise. Wo have
been exporting the money which forms the
basis of the credit of our banks, merchants,
Manufactures, and business men, thus causing
a deficiency in the medium of exchange,
which renders the labor-power of the country
inactive, and permits our raw material to lie
inert in the bosom of the earth, while we are
overstocked with the waves of the foreign
producer. Let this depletion of the country
of its gold and silver, to pay for the fruits of
alcin labor, continue but for a short time long
er, aa 1 bankruptcy js inevitable.
The cause and effect being known, what is
the remedy ? Certainly not. as tho President
recommends in his message, a-still greater re
duction of the duties on imports. Nor would
such a measure accomplish the object he tie
sires a reduction of the revenue. On the
contrary, it would stimulate importations, and
thus keep up the revenue by their increased
-quantity. For years, Great Briton has been
reducing her tariff, yet her revenue from cus
toms is larger now than at any former period.
The remedy for both evils is to pursue the
same course of policy by which our country
was so rapidly resuscitated from 1852 ' to 1847
the policy of "protection for the sake pf pro
tection," and not merely for the collection of
revenue. ' Wc must stop (he drain of gold.
We must make our own cloth, our own iron,
and grow our own sugar, instead of getting
" them from abroad. We will thus' . preserve in
our own land the . medium of exchange, and
keep alive the labor-power of the country.
Then would the confidence and prosperity of
Jtmsir.ess revive. The mills and workshops
-would re-open, foreign debt and domestic
5tagnation would no longer exist, and strong
within ourselves we might defy tho world.
TTIE 'RIGHTS' OF FOREIGNERS. ,
There iaa great deal of "twaddle" in certain
journals, about "secret organizations, - con
spiring in the dark, to disfranchise a portion
of our citizens'" and "to "wrest from them
theirrighisasguaranleedbythe Constitution,"
together with , Ihe same thread-bare charge
was hurled at "us during the late campaign
of "proscription, &c." Now, the Constitu
tion does not guarantee to Foreigners, any
"rights" hatever, on the contrary, all its
provisions in relation to them, save one, which
iapermisrire, prosckibes them ! Yes, startling
as the announcement may seem to some of our
zealous locofoco friends, the Constitution of
the United States pkosckibes foreigners! -
Section 5, Art. II, of the Constitution says:
"No person, except a .vatcbai borx citize.v,
or a citizen of the United States at the time
of the -adoption of this Constitution, shall be
eligible to the office of President.
That is proscription.
Section 3 of Art. XII, of the Constitution
says :
"Xo person constitutionally ineligible to
the office of President, shall be eligible to
that of Vice President of the United States."
That is proscription.
Section 3, Article I, says:
xt , Y,ii Cnn .tir n-ir ssbnll not
J pCl &VU CILLU M nuivi ' -
have attained the age ol thirty years, am
been sine years a citizen of these United
States.
That is proscription.
Section 2, Article I, says :
Yn T,Pnn shall be a Representative who
shall not have attained the age of twenty-five.
(25) years, and been siVES years a citizen.
That is proscription.
Now there is but one more provision in re
lation to foreigners, and so far from that
"guaranteeing" them any rights," it merely
permUs them to become naturalized. It is
left entirely to the discrelun of Congress
whether to make them citizens at all.
Section 8; Article I. says :
"Congress shall hnce r-owrr to establish a
uniform0 rule of naturalization and uniform
laws on the subject of bankruptcies through
out the United States."
There is nothing whatever to compel Congress
to exercise the poer,' or to restrict its lim
its when exercised. The Act of 171K) requir-
,1 nn vmk r.rt-vious residence'. That of
1795 five years, and the Act of 179S fourteen
vears. Thus Congress may., fix either of these
limits, or may withold naturalization altogeth
er. It is a mere mutter of expediency, and
entirely within their discretion.
Foreigners derive thair -rights' to vote-, not
from the Constitution, or from their Naturali
zation, but from the regulaMons of the diiler
ent States. And it is no more "proscription"
to prevent them from voting until they ore
citizens for twenty-one years, than 'to do so
until they have remained in the Common
wealth five vears. The simple question is
whether or not it rmy be expedient.
Foreigners,, even when naturalized, have no
r!'h!' to hold o'lice, they have simply i:-,:ntis-W
Ituld it. iViAw-w'"'
say wiK taer or not they shall have it, and if
they choose to exercise that right in 'secret,'
it is nobody's business. We have the -right'
to vote fur whom v,e please, and for what rea
sons we please, whether they are religious or
political. And we have just as much the
'right' to choose between the members f dif
ferent churches, as we have to choose between
the- members of different political parties.
The talk about the "secret machinations
against the constitntion.il rights of foreigners
and naturalized citizens, "and the cry of "j.ro
scription," is all 'gammon.' It Ins no foun
dation in truth, and is only intended to catch
the unwary. Xo man who has common sense,
can read the Constitution of the United States,
and of this Commonwealth, and s-vy that their
provisions are violated by the refusal of any
citizen to vote for a foreigner or Roman Cath
olic for office. And we doubt very much
whether any citizen who loves the true inter
ests of his country n-ore than the' success of
his political party, will do it.
1X7" The Iln. C. B. Cl rtis will accept our
thanks for valuable public documents. We
hope to find him an attentive member.
EXHIBITION.
We are requested to announce that the Stu
dents of lhe Clearfield Academy will give a
public Exhibition, on Friday evening next,
in tne Town Hall. The public are respectful
ly invited to attend. The exercises will com
mence at o'clock.
OUR RAILUOAU-
We call the attention of our readers to the
letter of Mr. Montgomery, the Engineer who
rccenfl3r surveyed the proposed route for the
Tyrone and Erie Railroad, which will be found
in another column. We coincide with him
fully in the importance of fhe meeting adver
tised to be held in Tyrone City, on the 11th of
January, and hope that every friend of the
road will endeavor to be present on that occa
sion. Are have repeatedly urged those interested
in the success of this great enterprise, to ac
tivity and energy, as without labor nothing
can be accomplished. The time has now ar
rived for work, and we hope that this meeting
may be but the precursor of determined and
energetic effort on the part of all the friends
of the road. .
That the route is not only favorable, but the
very best for the construction of a road over
the Alleghany Mountains, has been plainly
and satisfactorily demonstrated by the recent
survey, and report of the Engineer. Its util
ity, as the great connecting link between
Philadelphia and the Lakes, is also as clearly
proven,- and nothing therefore, remains to
secure the success of the enterprise, but ener
gy and perseverance on the part of its friends.
Clearfield is deeply interested in the construc
tion of the road, let her be well represented
at the meeting in Tyrone, Strike the iron,
while it's hot.
v THE NEWS.
- ' From Europe.
the Collins mail steamship Pacific, Capt.
Nye, arrived at New York at half-past ten
o'clock on Wednesday morning. She left
Liverpool on Wednesday noon, the 29th ult.
The news isonc week later than that brought
by the Union. There is nothing decisive from
the seat of war.
In England, matters were in a crisis, and
Parliament would probably be summoned for
the purpose of imposing new taxes.
Since the terrible battle of I nermann, on
November -5, when the Allies lost 4000. arid
the Russians 10.000 neither party had been
in a condition to resume active hostilities
consequently there is no news.
The reported battle on loth is false.
The utmost activity is manifested in France
and England in sending reinforcements, as the
existence of the Allied army depends thereon.
Several thousands had arrived.
Austrian, Prussian and German diplomat
ists were active; but France and England have
notified that they will not now treat on the ba
sis of the four points.
The Arabia arrived out on lhe 20th.
It is reported that the PiUssians have cap
tured two English cruisers in the Baltic.
Napoleon says that a powerful diversion will
be made in Bessarabia.
The Moniteur says the siege operations were
still advancing on the 13th. The weafner had
k'couie bad, but the health and spirits of the
troops were fine.
The steamers Alps, Thames and Ripon had
arrived out with troops.
Parliment will assemble thel2lh December.
The object is to provide means to prosecute
the war. The ctiect on tr-de, says the Times,
"cau not fail to be very serious, but success
must be achieved, no matter how heavy the
reckoning."' Napoleon had issued a spirited
address to the French army in the Crimea.
He distinctly pledges himself to persevere
in humbling the pride of Russia. The Kus
sian loss on the 5th, is now estimated at fif
teen thousand killed and wounded.
The allies found five thousand Russians left
dead on the field. During the past ten days
fifteen thousand men have passed the Bospho
rr.s to reinlorce the allies. Terrible storms
had prevailed between the lllh and 19th.
The Sun JacintoJeft Bordeaux on tho 20th for
Madrid with Mr. Soule ou board.
It is announced from Austria that the peo
ple will not grant the Railway Company's loan
unless the Government joins the Western
Powers. .
The Baltic fleet had not yet returned. Thir-
tv transports are ashore in the Black Sea. At
the latest dates, the sU'ge works were suspen
ded, and the bombardment almost entirely
ceased.
The Cossacks have been repulsed in tne Do
brudbcha. On-cr Pacha has been ordered to
suspend operations .. in ,BesiarabU;i.iiUlIi:Sd.
rl5.iiu'i l.uve tli row n two strong linages t-i
boats across the foot of the north fork of Se
bastopol, with the intention of withdrawing
the garrison.
It is rumored that Austria is v. iiling to sign
a treaty with the Western Powers, but repu
diates the obligation to adopt immediate hos
tilities, and insists upon lhe assurance of sup
port, should there be an eventual outbreak
with the Czar.
From California.
N::w Orleans, Dec. 14. The steamship
Prometheus, before reported below thii city,
arrived up to-day. Our files of California pa
pers contain very little intelligence of general
interest. The mining news continues favora
ble, though the miners were, in some localities
greatly in want of water, and were anxiously
cxjiectiug rain, of which less than the average
quantity has fallen thus far in the season.
The Daniel Webster, of the Nicaragua line
if California steamers, sailed from this port
tliis morning.
The advices from San Juan represent the
revolution iu Nicaragua as still in progress,
but we do not learn that either party has yet
achieved any decided advantage.
The British sloop of war Vestal and the
steam frigate Termagant were at Grey town.
Advices from Oregon state that the numer
ous and powerful tribe of Indians called
"Snakes" had commenced war upon the whites,
and slaughtered a whole train of immigrants.
The commercial advices from S in Francisco
represent aflliirs in about the same condition
as at the state of our previous advice. It was
not anticipated that there would be any mate
rial changiffor the better until the commence
ment of the new year.
The Golden American Mean.
The New York Tribune, as the organ of the
Northern fanatics, said on Wedncsdav, Dec.
13:
The Native American pcirfy intends to elect
the next President. For that purpose it has
placed itself on pro-slavery ground. The at
tempt is not a novel one, and has not always
succeeded. We shall see how it comes out
now.
The Washington Union, as the oigan of the
Southern-factiouists, on the same day said:
The real character of the .imcricoi imfuUi
tion is forcibly illustrated by the bold effron
tery with which it seeks to impose opon (he
people of the South the idea that its princi
ples and olj'ects are consistent with Southern
interests and institutions.
With the hint that the "Native American
party," referred to by the Tribune, and the
"American Inquisition,', according to the ele
gant courtesy of tho Union, mean one and the
same thing, we leave the two extracts to bo
compared, and to decide whether the Ameri
cans have not found the "golden mean" when
it is censured by both extremes of fanaticism
and follv! Sun.
Excitement ix Danville. The Danville
(Va.) Republican states that on Thursday last
the citizens of that town were thrown into the
greatest state of excitement, on learning that
one Mathcw Weightman had that morning
committed a most brutal assault with a stick,
upon two ladies. The officers could not pre
vent the iflictiou of mob law upon him. The
citizens seized him, rode him around town on
a rail, ducked him ia the canal, and then com
mitted him to jail.
. Throng Court. ' '
Christmas next Monday. '
Sicily our town. Typhoid Fever. -. ,
Going i'ptho price of ncivspapors -
' S pie iid i 'I the sleighing: Snpw 'alout a fett.'
'Left alone in his glory tho man that wears the
white hat.
IVanted to lnoK-ih.o v&Iocdty of a mailing
account." 1 Siheixin liUuryraw cats served up in bear's
oil. Make? a fat dLsh.
Xul good for KiiifA-anian who has aoc-neuiias.
Ho don't speak what ho thicks. : .
Ilam't come yet that "gobbler" for our Christ
mas dinner. VVhoso fault is it? '
Numtrom copies of the President's Menage.
All our exchanges arc filled with it.
Doiit forgrt-ihe Prize Concerton Christmas night.
It promises to ho an interesting affair.
Qct ,the man that called for our h it last week.
We always cndnavor to fulfil our promises.
Exhibition the Town Hall on Friday evening
next. We are assured it will be very interesting.
Nev-arrival at the new restaurant of Charles
Greaff. in the basement of Hemphill s Hutu!.
Call crid see.
Fuithcr d i 1 ' yidaU J the hat of the man' what
drives the - two "male cows." It's emphatically
a '-hul team."
In loi-n the new Secretary of State. Net a bit
proud shakes hands with all his old friends,
-just aa he used to did."
ft ill undecided our devil about issuing a Now
Tear's Address. Thinks it exceedingly doubtful.
Will know by nxt week.
Anxious some persons, to know whom we allu
ded toinour ari.ir.Io.last week,, entitled :'J3usy-bod-ies."
Whoever the t'aoe fiU, can wc;ir it.
A pcflion.V'hy is a colt getting broke, iika a
young lady getting married '. Ik'-vaue he i.s go
iw through the bridle ceremony.
C,t-rrhosc friends v.ho have dropped in and
paid their subsi-i iptius. Any more of the sauie
sort? Uoors always open mi auunaucc n-u.
J, it so? 'il.e greatest rake.it is said.tuakc-tf the
bet husband on tho principle, we appose that the
greasiest drinker makes the bet temperance lecture.
A tier. t,t'e.-A young friend over the way. has had
the r-unhonius ti:Ie mided to his name of 6. O. S.
Those who desiieauo.ibtnutieu can call on Acale,
7 J...., .- T'U Isiiii; -r 'Catholic," by
!, :.;-. S,-rvc il rivbt. it s Me moat bigot
ed, intolerant, unholy, au'i outrage-jus sheet pu.
lishod m the CMutc.
F it i tilth fiir. There is an obi lady iu this vil
lage so full of sympathy, that every time her duck?
t;:'ke a bath in the mud gutter, she aii'-S their ieet
by the lire, to keep them from e::tchi'.;g coia.
' Call in Wc iuvKe our friends, in a:teiid:!iiee;-.t
Corr to give us a call. We siu.uid be happy to see
thorn.' eEpeciallv if they briu; us ne-.v s-b.-criU-rs.
The latch string is always out, give it a -qmi.
In .v cleiif-nt the Tope. The council of Pre
lales hits assembled t Rome, and is about to rati
fy the doma oi the immaculate- euciq! ion o n.
Virgin. Ve bora ho wont 'bust' Ins suspenders.
Don't lii-e '.come of the belies object lo cur
p-rn about the -baby show" intbe Luiheryn Church
a few Sabbaths slu.-e. Can't help it, w re cousi
ti.liously exposed to cattle shows of any kind ou
Sunday.
Court w as called on McmUy afternoon by the
Associate Judjrcs. Ou Tuesday morning. J"ge
Luruside took bis seat, and things are going along
swimmingly. liusinew is being prepcrv ana ex
peditiously disposed off.
A T'etr -isxi in. lhe Mr. II obi n son (J-.tir. lhe
Albany Tr:tni?cpipt is advised that this murderess.
now incarcerated in tha Troy jail, on V oJ ne.ay
uight, presented soir prison with a in'.y. -irs.
Il.ha3 been confined iu jail over a year '.
,v vr-i-c Tih'-r"d t'i th'ir Honors.
duoti e vert jm - ' i
tippling Loi.ses. We hi-po it will bo continued
There are too itia:;y of them in out county.
Above our eomjirtlien.-non the reply of lhe Clar
ion Hemocrat to onr item. Cirtf. for the soul of us,
understand what you are driring at Co!. Ilowuuy
party v. ill mako -bard times." bej'u.-v ii into p-iw-er,
wc cantiniaginc. IVrhnpsyoucnii enlighten us.
More of the U '' C:i-f. Mr. Throckmorton. who
married Miss JIadgo. siucc the conviction of i)r.
Ueale. hits made an afiid:vii !b ; from pott-nuptial
knowledge. be is satisfied nooufragc wa over commit
loii u;iGD b"7 per?on. Wc presume h cor-ltt to .:iorr.
Jia . very the ague iu sonic parts of Iowa. The
people have to slm-p with earn cobs in their mouths
to keep tbcm from shaking their teeth out. They
gather hickory nut3 by climbing a 'shell-bark"
just beforo tha -shake" comes on. n:rl by the tini'.1
its over there is not a nut left on tho tree.
A modal younr inci or.c ho ba-- plenty of bar
room credit, a l.nowlc Jg,- of the nacios of ch::m
paignc. tin unpaid tail ir's bill, a ::ispeiij-ion of
hair on tha uppir lip. no c.lu.ittrn, talent, or
capacity. and wears a pair of barber-pole panta
loons. He's 'soiitii puiikins' iu h is own estimation.
Ai.nm o' Ji.it on Wednesday evening last, caus
ed by some shaving.! becoming iguitrd from the
stove pipe in the carpenter shop of Thos. Robins.
Wc were rather amused by hearing some persons
express their disappointment tii:;t it proved it fiz
zle." We presume they would hove been highly
delighted to have seten several thousand dollars
worth of property destroyed.
Mom: Lvwi,t:ss ArorniTiox. The adminis
tration must certainly wink :it the conduct of
Gen. QfiTKAX, lor he is doing that with which
A.uiON Be k it was only charged with, but ac
quitted Uoti trial, vl.jn. (., who is the first
robber in the liUibus.bn-ing expedition, writes
to a jiontloniau in Baltimore, that it is especi
ally desirable to evade any infraction of tho
neutrality laws, and to that end it is essential
that the expedition should bo organised in
some locality adjacent to, but outside of our
borders. The invading army is to be compos
ed of five thousand men picked bloods of
the country each man is to piy hi.s own ex
penses to the place of rendezvous, and to con
tribute fill 3' dollars towards his own equipment.
Some efficient ex-ollicers of the United States
service are engaged, and thus organised, a de
scent is to be made at some point near llavan
na, where the Spanish defences arc strongest,
thus, by the very audacity of the movement,
striking terror into the tyrants who rule the
destinies of the "Gem of the Antilles." If
President I'ikrci: is really honest in the pa
cific tenor of his recent mess tge, let him call
upon the Baltimore .irgus his devoted friend
and find out to whom this letter is written,
and arraign Gen. Qcitmax for contemplated
breach of the Neutrality Laws.
QuALitiCATiox of JrKoits. In a criminal
case now on trial in tho United States Circuit
Court, Chief Justice Taney h is decide i tha
following to be the proper qualifications for a
juror to try the issue: "If the juror has form
ed an opinion that the prisoners are guilty, and
entertains that opinion now, without 'waiting
to hear the testimony, then he is incompetent.
But if, from the reading the newspper.-j or
hearing reports, he has impressions on his
mind unfavorable to the prisoners, but has no
opinion or prejudices which will prevent him
from doing impartial justice when he hears
the testimony, then he is competent."
The general observance of this decision in
our courts, coming as it does from so high a
source, and as legally correct as it is in ac
cordance with common consent, will have the
happiest effect in doing away with the chica
nery that in too many instances excludes men
of honesty and intelligence from the jury box.
Tht: Next Legislature. The Legislature
of this State assembles and organizes on the
first Tuesday in January, annually ; aud the
Inauguration of the Governor takes place
on the third Tuesday of the same month.
These are provisions of the Constitution.
ITE3IAKIA5V
" There are 357,525 slave holders in the
United States. '." 4 ;
, . No man can avoid his own company:
eo he had best make it as go'od'us possible.
Life is like a flower, which is no soon
er blown than it begins to wither.
" A want of confidence has kept many
silent. A want of sense has nude many per
sons talkative.
The editor of the Cleveland Plain Deal
er had a nice Thanksgiving present. A turkey?
Bah ! a live, kicking baby !
TYe fancy that we hate flattery, when
all that we hate is the awkwardness of the flat
terer. They have come to soling shoes with
cedar shingles veneering the wood with a
piece of sheep skin. v :
Sausage made of red flannel, boot jacks
and bind quarters of a night mare are. good
for those who like "em; but we never did fan
cy 'em.
Several iron companies in the east are
reported to have failed, and a number in this
and other States have suspended operations.
Why not increase the tariff.
; The celebrated "Docstieks," descri
bing a New York boarding-house, says you
canalways tell when they get a new hired girl,
by the color of the hairs in the biscuit.
The first American edition of the Bible
was pouted in the Indian language in 1GG3 for
the use of John Elliot's converts m .uassa
chusetts. Not a man now living can read it.
Somebodv says that a pretty woman is
a brilliant poem,' full of rhyme, sentiment and
.. ;il..fi-itions it'll ooutm m
Itll IIUUU1.1 oi
one's arms she increases to several volumes.
An old anthorquaintly remarks, 'Avoid
-.rrrnment with ladies. In spinning yarns
.i n T.-inn ; worsted and
among suns unu.
tw5tl. !;C nay consider himself wound up.
! teller in one of the oldest banking
in nhicatro is said to have disappeared
i.j., .Wnilter to an amount ranging iioni
if POO to S 70. 000. It is supposes t i-
. .i
been siuandered in gambling.
a massive sold-headed cane, made out
of one of the joists taken from the ceiling of
Tn.b.T.endence will presented, in a
few days, to Hon. Jus. Pollock, Gov
elect.
rnor
Talking of 'the Dutch of Amsterdam,'
Our Jim wants to know 'what is the difference
iw.tw,.n an Amsterdam Dutchman and any
other dim Dutchman.' Profane question, can't
answer it.
-!!. T.hit. of Napoleon having been
.nmmoned to give an opinion on the state of
r,o-onea affairs, the New York Express, with
a laudable desire to hear both sides, suggests
that refer the Crerd be called up.
seiiiTiIoiti National Convention, at Washing
ton city, on the Sth January. The object of
the Convention is to procuro an increase in
the pension rates.
Judge Watts, of Carlisle, is spokea of
for Attorney General under the new adminis
tration. He is one ofthe soundest lawyers in
the State, but it is not certain that he would
accept the appointment.
It is understood that resolutions v. iil be
offered in the House for Inquiry into the man
agement and utility of the Smithsonian Insti
tute, and as to the expediency of abolishing
it and returning the request by which it was
founded.
The New York Times expresses the
opinion that there are in that cily hundreds of
Porfugue.se merchants and others who are con
stantly ar.dl irgely engaged in the slave traffic,
make fortunes by it, and live in splendid style.
On Saturday in the Boston Police Court,
John J. Adams, formerly noted as the "Mor
mon EhU-r," but who has more recently de
nounced that doctrine and professed to become
a convert cf the Methodist faith, was fined $3
and cosds for being drunk.
Robert Schuyler, the groat defaulter,
it is stated, has bought -a place" oft the Rhine,
where he now resides, and has sent for his
family to join him. His confidential clerk
came a passenger to New York last week in
the Baltic, on his master's business.
Washington, Madison, Monroe, Harri
son, Tyler and Taylor were Episcopalians;
Jefferson, Adams, John Q. Adams and Fill
more were Unitarians; Jackson and Polk
were Presbyterians; Mr. Van Baron was of
the Dutch Reformed church, and President
Pierce is a Trinitarian Congregationalist.
The Soirees at the President's House,
it is said, will comnienca next week, and be
continued once a fortnight for the session.
By the way, wc see it stated that President
Pierce reached his "0th birth-day on the 25th
ult. Among the special guests on that occa
sion was Gen. Scott.
The Boston Times comments severely
upon the facility with which the jury credited
the testimony of Miss Mudge in theBeale case,
and says: "A dozen of those wooden heads
that seem almost to monopolize jus? business
would as the old English bishop said, convict
Able of the murder of Cain."
-The New York papers state that
Charles F. Lovsly, the Austrian Consul at
that port, sailed for Europe in the Baltic, on
Saturday, under very mysterious circumstan
ces. It is alleged that the officers were on the
alert for his arrest, on the charge of being con
cerned in certain extensive frauds and larce
nies. The Catholics of Milford refuse to obey
the commands of their priest. The priest
threatened to excommunicate them if ihey at
tended the lecture of Mr. Dohcny, a Meagher
man. They felt indignant and attended the
lecture. One of them, through the columns
of the Milford Journal, denies the right of
pope or priest iu their political affairs. -
."AMERICANISM.
During the last te nil of tho Wayne County
Court, James M. Porter, President Judge",
charged the Grand Jury against all combina
tions of persons banded together by vov,oath
or other obligations, for the purpose irhether
accorriplisnca or iwioi depriving any citizen
native or naturalized, of any right or rights'
given and secured to h'm by the Constitution
an'l ia J a tuiittiin wi. kj . ijiaies.-
TT, !. 7 f.f flr.md Inonest that no oath or r.K
ligation taken to do an unlaw lul act was, or
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CO'JlU De, IIIBU1IIS vl tvuavmn-v, lUOIlgll
. rti.T'j! 1 n- .r.Tllooll.!? f ft Qwj.aa. .1 i
no person vouivi uv v.... . ..vui luat,
i. if ti-! .a member of such a coinliini
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tion. still he could be compelled to swear who
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of others wore, it wituiii ins huoweuge, not
withstanding he had taken an , oath to keep
such knowledge secret, as such oath was clear
ly illegal and void, n the secret was io oe Kept
among the members of an illegal combination.
Juae Porter is well Known in our ouue os
one of the most wily demagogues and tr'mty -
politicians witnm us Burners, in ;?oou shlj.
inn- with no lcirtv. be has alwavs made hims.'1?
prominent by efforts to sKp into power throuU
chinks and dissentions. Thus he became Sec
retary of the Navy under the Tyler adminis
tration, but held office only uutil the U. States
Senate had an opportunity to reject him. Tho
above charge is a fair specimen of his sophist-i-t.-
n-liir li.. farrios oven to the bench. Ha
knows well enough that no combination exists
to deprive anv naturalized citizen oi consum
tional righlsj for the privilege of voting and
l,r'.,!in -(K.m not .1 -ria-ht ' but is rcirulute;!
diiicrentlv in different States, and persons may
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be aisiiualiuca tiom uoui. iie nuua iw, iuui
i'!fctnrs luiv a. lotral risrht to say lor whom
they shall cast their votes, and have as brjad
a privilege to preferanatural born to an adopt
ed citizen, or a Protestant to a Papist, as to sc.
lect Iwjtv.e.-n tne wiuie ana a coioieu uiau .
The Coiistitution of Pennsylvania prescriiies
that '-no person who acknowledges the being
of a God and a future state of rewards and
punishments, shall on account of bis religiov.s
sentiments, be disQUalifuM to ik.iu any oilcu
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or place of trust under ini3 tommoiwcaiin.-K-.it
this does not debar the electors at the noils
from voting against any one who entertains re-
lirious sentiments which are thought to be an-ti-rrT.iihlienn.
If tliere isanyapnarcntconuiet
between the Constitution and the elective fran
chise, the ballot box is the arbiter, and the wm
of the majority is the supreme law. The mn
,i jio.oit .1 rli irter nf our State urovents any le
gislation to disqualify a man for religious sen-
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tirnonts, lor that would oe an uicuipui.i-.tun ui
Church and State, but it was never content! la
ted that the choice of an elector between dif
ferent religious sects shall be debarred, lie
may vote "for a Methodist in preference to a
Baptist, a Trinitarian instead of an Unitarian,
or .i Protestant instead of a Papist, without
violating the Constitution. All this hue and
cry about illegal combinations, unlawful oaths,
and secret associations, are "weak inventions
of the enemv" to distract attention from tho
main point of controversy, which is mat. ju
Papists in this country are subjects of tha
Pope, which potentate asserts that the Ko
niis'i Church has the right to dissolve tho
fi? of subjection and the oath of fidelity, and
and therefore Papists are most dongerous and
untrustworthy American citizens.
SPEAKING OUT.
The Harrisburg Democratic Union, speak
ing of the rumored change in the federal cab
inet, says
"We know that the rumor has been contra
,ib ted: but in resard to one ne;n
James Cimpoell, Tostmaster Gen -ra', it is al
most impossible th.it the public will, so clear
ly iiiid emphatically expressed as it was at the
recent elections, and as it has iince been in
other ways, can much longer bo resisted. His
appointment was most unfortunate ; it was the
origin of dissensions in the democratic ranks,
which would otherwise have remained unbro
ken ; and his removal, even at this late diy,
after all the mischief has been done, would ho
the signal for re-union and future victory.
Other states may speak for themselves, bid in
Pennsylvania, so long as James Campbell re
in liiis at the head ofthe post office, or any
other department, unless called there by tho
voice of the people, by whom he was con
demned in 1851, we can look for nothing but
disaster and defeat."
Ma. Aeam y Naturalization Bill. The fol
lowing is the bill introduced into the 17. States
Senate on Monday by Mr. Adams, of Mississip
pi, in reference to the Naturalization Laws:
B? il enacted, S,c, That from and after the
passige of this act, no alien, shall be admitted
to beeoineacitizen of the United States unless
he shall, at the time of his application to be
admitted, declare and prove to the satisfaction
of the court having jurisdiction of the case,
that he has resided in the United States twen-ty-oiie
years, at least: Provided that any alien
who may be a resident of the United States at
tho date" of this act shall he entitled to all tlw
fV:v1 -OTiition si-eeified in the first section of
the act, approved April '11, ISO-', for which
this act is amendatory.
Sec. 2. .hid be ii futher enacled, That so
much of the third condition specified in the.
first section of the act approved April 34,
lbktll, entitled '-An act to ostsblish a uniform
rule of naturalization, ami to repeal the acta
hereetofore passed on that sul ject," as con
flicts with the first section of this act be and
the same is hereby repealed.
Pot and Kettle. TI12 administration has
a favorite fashion of adopting the plan of pot
calling kettle black ! The President in his re
cent message defends our land acquisitions
by sayiug that Europe has done so too, and
parries opinion against the bombardment of
Grey town, by hinting that other nations had
done worse. The Union pursues the same
plan, and shows that because France expelled
women and children from Balaklava, England
fired a hospital, and the Russians committed
th.i massacre of Sinope, the proud eagle of
the United States. has a perfect right to pick
up what it can on the Mosquito coast, and rend
Grevtown in its talons! All all, were horri
ble and terrible, and no sophistry can defend,
no excuses pr.lite thciu. Sun.
.
Col. Bextos's SnxK.' The veteran "Old
Bullion," announced some months since, that
he would not receive letters through the St.
Louis Post Oihcc. Reaching that city lately,
ho published iu the Democrat of the 18th, that
he fin is some quantity of letters there addres
sed to him, which he has returned to the of
fice, and that if the law is complied with, they
will be sent to the Dead Letter ofSce, in Wash
ington, where they will reach him and be at
tended to. He says: "I bad endeavored to
make it known to the public, that since the lato
appointment of Post Master in this city, I do
not correspond through this office that ap
pointment being one of those made in this
State through a criminal prostitution of the ap
pointing power to malignant and personal pur
poses, with a view to outrage and injure me;
from whiph ilMiniu T liiird a ri?r ht to protect
myself, (as far as I cau,) by refusing to open
correspondence torwardcd to una
in cirini? f!ia T A r nrt illl'in Mr. Pierce, but
the nulifiers who rule him, and have brought
thinss to their present pass -mo
the Union destoyed, the honor and peace of
ilia lAnnrrir An.? ia n TPPW 1 abroad, and has own
administration run icto tho ground.
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