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COME AND TAKE ME. Duvivieb
VOL. 1.
CLEARFIELD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1855.
NO. 45,
THE RAFTSMAN'S JOllllL.
CLEARFIELD, PA.,
Weineiay, Jane 13, 1853.
V. B Palmer's ytrrea;t Newspaper Agcency
it removed from N. W. Corner of Third and Chest
nut Street, to Urown's New Iron Building, N. E.
or nor of fifth and Chcsnut, Philadelphia.
C"A11 persons having business with tho
Raftsman's Journal, -will direct their letters to
II. B. Swoope, Clearfield, Pa.
EFIf J. R. A. will send us his name, he
can have his enigmas published. We never
depart from this rule.
A HALF SHEET.
Owing to an unforseen difficulty in the affairs
of our office, and the consequent discharge of
the foreman, we are unable to do more than is
sue a half sheet this week. It Trill be all right
by the time of our nest Issue, which our rea
ders will receive as usual.
AOTICE EXTRAORDINARY.
Wejjlesire every body "and the rest of man
kind to know that hereafter the doors of our
Printing Office are closed against loafers of
every variety and species. And tee make no
exception to flus rule. Those having business
to transact will always find some one to attend
to it properly, by calling at our professional
office, two doors east of the Journal office, up
stairs, so that it is entirely unnecessary for any
person whatever to annoy the compositors.
We have been pestered and annoyed by pub
lic loafers and drunken, worthless vagabonds,
to such an extent, that we are compelled, if
we wish to print a paper at all, and show any
regard whatever for the morals of tho boys iu
our office, to adopt this rule. Henceforth,
therefore, if we find anybody loafing about the
printing office, whether man or boy, rich or
poor, high or low, we will not only "show him
the door," but publish hi.a to tne world as a
public loafer.
GOVERNOJl OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
Governor Metcalf, was inaugurated on the
7th inst., after which his message was read in
Convention of both branches of the Legisla
ture. The message commences by advising
as little legislation as possible, and recom
mends an encouragement in the State as a
means of preventing emigration to the 'West.
" The Governor approves of guarded action in
granting corporation privileges, and suggests
beneficial changes in regard to Public Schools,
and recommends the establishment of a State
Reform School. The liquor traffic is denoun
ced as a public nuisance, the parent of crimes
and, as moral suasion has failed to correct the
evil, the Message recommends a prohibitory
law with very limited discrimination, if any at
all, in the sale of liquors. On the subject of
foreign-born influence in religion and politics
the Message is elaborate and strongly Native
American. Tho repeal of the Missouri Com
promise and tho Nebraska Kansas Act, are
emphatically denounced as violations of faith
and the infliction of a great wrong upon the
North. The Message is quite lengthy and
thoroughly opposed to liquor, slavery, and
holding of office politically, by foreign-born
citizens, without 21 years residence in the
country.
THE BABY SHOW.
Barnum's great Baby Show has come off at
last, and certainly a more revolting and de
moralizimr exhibition never disgraced even
New York. Hogs, sheep, and cattle, are ex
hibited at Agricultural shows, for the purpose
of obtaining premiums or improving the
breeds, and we suppose of course, that the
same objects wore had in view by those who
entered "specimens" in this Baby-Show.
Tho "stock" exhibited amounted in all to
143. Seven sets of triplets, eleven sots of
twins, and one hundred single babies. The
baby that took the premium of $100, as the
handsomest in the collection, is named Charles
Orlando Scott, aged four years. It is said
that he is a beautiful child, with dark lustrous
eyes, which are large and expressive; regular
features, remarkable for the soft harmony of
their outline, and a form the very perfection
of infantile grace. His hair, which is of a
light color, curls naturally over a broad and
well developed forehead. The mother, a lady
of remarkable fine apperance and much per
sonal beauty, stood beside her child, and the
group was regarded with interest and admira
tion by the thousands of visitors. The little
fellow was tastefully attired in a black jacket
with white facings, and a pair of petite buff
trowscrs. Il was constantly smiling, and
setmed to enjoy his conspicuous position on
he throne like a little prince.
THAT "DEVELOPMENT."
Our neighbor down street, in tho last num
ber of his very interesting and ably edited pa
per, in comparison with which the London
Times and New York Tribune fade into utter
insignificance, undertakes, by italics, capitals,
and false constructions, to make capital out of
the testimony which we gave before the Inves
tigating Committee of the last Legislatnre.
The evidence, as published in the report of
that committee, can be road and understood
without any subsequent explanations from us,
and it is at the learned and erudite editor's
disposal to make as much capital out of as he
may be able. But when, however, he under
taken to falsify the record, for the purpose of
injuring Alex. Caidwell, Esq., he goes a lit
tle too far; but, being as he is, a most accom
plished and affable gentleman (!) wo have no
doubt when he discovers his error he will
make the amende honorable.
Alex. Caldwell voted in tho American Cau
cus for A. G. Cvrtix, and not for Simon Cam
eron, as tho veracious editor asserts. Thus,
then, after all its travail, the mountain, as usu
al, has brought forth a mice.' The "instruc
tions" were not "changed," but fulfilled by
Mr. Caldwall to the letter.
. But the courteous editor wants to know when
and whore Alexander Caldwell received his in
structions to voto for Mr. Curtin. It affords us
great pleasure to furnish him with the informa
tion. As a Democrat, if tho editor desires to
claim him as such, Mr. Caldwpll receired his
instructions from what has heretofore been
considered tho organ of that party in this coun
ty, in the 45th number of the 6th volume of
which, we find the editor objecting to the ap
pointment of Col. Curtin as Secretary of
State, if intended to "shuffle him off the board
for the United States Senate." As a member
of the American Party, Mr. Caldwell received
his instructions from a number of American
meetings held in different parts of county,
among which we may mention one held in the
town hall of this borough,two evenings before
Mr. Caldwell started to Harrisburg, at which
the following resolution was passed:
Unsolved, That as members of the American Or
ganization, desiriag the success of American prin
ciples, and American candidates, and hay
ing full confidence in the capacity, integrity, and
attachment to the principles we have in common
espoused of Col. A. Gr. Ccrti:. wewonld respetful
lj recommend, and make known our desire, to our
Representative, Alexander Caldwell, Esq., that he
should yield him his support, in the American Cau
cus, as oar Candidate for the o&ce of United
States Senator from Pennsylvania.
We hope the editor is satisfactorily answer
ed. If he is at all "hard up," pecuniarily, we
wouldn't advise him to rely too much on what
ho will get when we offer to divide with him
all we "made out of" the United States Sen
ator businesss.
KN0WN0THING NATIONAL COUNCIL.
It is said the National Council of Know
Nothings was in session last week in Phila
delphia. Of its proceedings, of course nothing
is definitely kcown, but the Daily News, gives
tho following list of names, as most probably,
among its members. If they are, it is rather
a more respectable party, than it gets credit
for in the organs of Locofocoism.
From Maine, Louis O. Crowan, James M
Lincoln, Josiah Covell, J. L. Stevens; from
New Hamshiro, Ex-Governor Colby; from
Massachusetts, Gov. Gardiner, Senator Wil
son, Mayor Buflington, Councillor Foster, A.
B. Ely, and others; from Vermont, Hon. R,
Fletcher, Messrs. Guilford Picrpont and Hatch.
from Connecticut, Hon. n. D. Sperry, Messrs
Ellsworth and Griswold; from Rhode Island,
Messrs. Green, Harris, Nightingale and oth
ers; from New York, James TV. Barker, Daniel
Ullman, Horatio Seymour, Jr., Hon. James
Brooks, S. F. E. Mallory, George N. Sanders,
Thomas J.Lyons, L. S. Parsons, S. Sammons
G. Squires, Judah Hammond, F. H. Ruggles,
and a large number of others; from New Jer
sey, Joseph A. Scoville, Dr. Desbler; from
Delaware, Hon. John TV. .Houston, Messrs
Johnson, Pyle, Clement, and Robinette; from
Maryland, Messrs. Kicaud, Purnell, Orr, and
others; from Virginia, Hon. John S. Pendleton,
A. R. Boteler, 17m M. Burwell, A. J. Crane,
R. Kidgway, Jr., Messrs. Arthur, Bowlin,
Moore, Ellyson, and Janny; from North Caro
lina, non. Kenneth Rayner, Messrs. Sheperd,
Littlejohn, Davidson, and others; from South
Carolina, Messrs. Richardson, Cunningham,
and Russell, and others; from Georgia, Judge
Cone, and Washington Poe, and others; from
Alabama, Hon. A. F. Hopkins, Messrs. Brad
ford, and Steward, and others; from Louisiana,
John Claiborne, Messrs. Bunco, Hardy, and
others; from Texas, Messrs. narper, McCall,
and Darden; from Florida, Messrs. McCall
Randall, Henry and Johnson; from Arkansas,
Capt. Albert Pike, and others; from Missouri,
Hon. R. A. Gamble, Messrs. Harris, Hughes
and others; from Kentucky, Geo. D. Prentice,
Col. J. S. Williams, Col. A. T. Burnley, non.
H. Grider, Col. E. Bartlett, and others; from
Tennessee, Ex-Gov. Brown and others, from
Ohio. Bush White, and others; from Illinois,
Messrs. Eastman, Jennings, Dannehower, and
others: from Indiana, Hon. G. o. Orth, lion.
Schuyler Colfax, Hon. Wm. Cumback, Messrs.
Wallace. Slaushter, Henery, and Allen; from
Michigan, Moses Wisner, Messrs. Coe, Denton,
Baker, and others; from Wisconsin, R.Blanch
ard, C. W. Cook, D. E. Wood, W. J- Adams,
H. J. Butt; from California, Messrs. Olds,
Matthews, and others; from Pennsylvania, Ex
Gov. Johnston, C. O.Loomis, Hon. Thaddeus
Stevens, Hon. Samuel Calvin, J. B. Bell, R.
A. Lamberton, Simon P. Case, and a large i
number of others. 1
tntll Unttfl.
Refreshing the late rain, though we had rath
er more of it than desired.
Gol up in a hurry our half sheet this week.
We will endeavor to do better hereafter.
Humbug our hog law. There are more swino
ou the streets now, than there were before its pas
sage. Too cold tho erenings for ico-creaui. Wonder
if the clerk of tho weather hasn't got a brick in
his hat?
Not dead "Doesticks," as was reported. He's
still 'alive and kicking.' and ready to spin us an
other of his laughablo letters.
Fruits at Norfolk. On Saturday 40 bushols of
cherries, 1,300 basket of strawberries, and 100 bar
rels ot peas were shipped from Norfolk to H. York.
A singular trio. The N. Y. Tribuiu, the Pitts
burg Gazette, and the (?) Freenuu's Journal are
all delighted at Flourncy's defeat in Virginia.
In session the National K N. Council, in Phil
adelphia. A good deal of interest is manifested to
dissover its proceedings. They will be made public.
Accident. A little daughter of Mr. Solt, of Brad
ford township, fractured both bones of her arm in a
fall a few days ago. Under tho caro of Dr.
Wilson, she is fast recovering.
Ijfft town two of tho hopeful verdant speci
mens, that "bloomed, blossomed, and bore fruit" on
Saturday last - Blackberry brandy is a bad thing
for weak stomachs.
More of them. On Wednesday 937 emigrants
arrived at Philadelphia, 403 of whom were Mor
mons, bound for Salt Lake City. The doctrines of
of Joe Smith are getting popular.
Nominated. Kimbcr Cleaver, Esq., of Northum
berland Co., has been unanimously nominated by
the American Convention, in session at Harrisburg,
as their candidate for Canal Commissioner.
Neio arrival at the store of Richard Mossop
who has just' received one of the best and cheap
est lots of floods ever brought to Clearfield. Give
him a call.
Running it into the ground the ball players.
Instead of making it an amusement for the eve
ning, or leisure hours, they are at it all day, from
morning till night. It won't pay boys, especially
when flour is fourteen dollars a barrel.
Crimeat New Orleans. During the week ending
! the 23th ult., five men were convicted at New Or
leans of murder three to be hung and two sent
to the penitentiary for life. Thirteen others, char.
ged with murder, are still to be tried.
Chep jPrrtW. Iotho LoMville (Ky.) mar
ket, butter is selling at 12i a 15 ccnt3, eggs 10
cents, chickens 12 cents, growing poultry 20 cents
turkeys 50 cents, beef 7 cents, mutton and veal 6
events, flour, $10, new potatoes 00 cents a peck.
Mast stay out tho loafers that have been in
the habit of loafing about our office. We intend
to be there ourself, and we'll be very likely
to '-show, them the hole tho carpenter made," in a
way they won't much admire.
Locusts .--The woods around Eaton, Georgia, arc
full of locusts, and the continued noise they make
is almost deafening. It sounds like the tinkling of
a thousand email bells. The wings of these in.
sect3 are marked with a W., and in olden times it
was supposed that this lettor foroboded war.
The Crimean troubles. It i3 stated that Gener
als Scott and Jkssup havo, within a few days, ex
pressed their opinion that tho Allies cannot re
treat from the Crimea without first capturing Se
vastopol by a coup de main, or beating the Rus
sian armies of the interior in a pitched battle.
The Virginia. Electio n. Returns are in from
all tho counties except Wyoming, which generally
gives about 20 whig majority. According to the
Richmond Ei-juirer the majority for Wise is 10,
184, whilo tho Dispatch makes 9, 433. Tho dem
ocrats have 43 majority in the legislature.
ILjbeus corpus. Young Lamm, whole imprison
ment on a charge of stealing money from Levi
Specce of Curwcnsville, wo noticed some time ago,
was brought before Judge Shaw, on a Habeus Cor
pus, on Monday last, and after a hearing, was re
manded to jail, in default of bail.
Returned Alex. Irvin, Esq., who for some timo
past has been on a visit to Kansas. He gives but a
poor account of the country says it's scarce of
water, and scarce of timber and thinks that
Clearfield men had far hotter stay at home, than
go out there on a "wild goose chase."
A flood. The recent rain3 havo raised tho riv
or, and for a few days past a few straggling rafts,
that didn't get down on tho former freshets, have
been floating past our town on their way to a mar
ket already stocked to overflowing Some of our
citizens have started on their third trip down tho
river this spring.
Tall that letter we reooived from Tyrone, sign
ed "ono of the boy hoyse." Wo would suggest to
the writer the propriety of hi3 going to school a
little while longer before ho undertakes to write
for the papers. If it were not personal we would
p'ublish it as the greatest literary curiosity we have
ever come across in our editorial experience.
Sold, decidedly those who rail in the di root ion
of- the river, one evening last week, making our
streets ring with the cry of fire. On arriving on
the bank, the object of excitement was found to be
a cow, that, in endeavoring to swim across, was
carried down by tho current, and it was supposed
would be drowned. She escaped, however, and
the crowd assemllod to extinguish the "fire!" re
turned looking decidodly sheepish, or perhaps, we
might better term it "cowish."
Why Females favor Prohibition. In an ad
dress delivered at a Temperance meeting
in Brooklyn, Mayor Hall made the following
statement: "More than three hundred ill-used
wives have called upon mo, since the first of Jan.
nary, to complain of their drunken husbands, who
squandered all their money in rum, and left them
without the means of support." He estimated the
total expenditure for rum in Brooklyn, during the
course of a year, at near three millions of dollars-
Tot the Raftsman's Journal. I
"AWAY FROM HOME."
Mk. "Journal :" It is no new idea that has
just sprung into my head, that sets my pen at
work to day, for I have been intending to send
you a "friendly sheet" for some time, and just
now, the leisure of my present situation
prompts me to tho work. To be "away from
Home'" some times starts the mind into activi
ty, to perform long intended acts, which but
far the opportunity thus afforded would still
slumber in embryo, unknown and unfelt. .
But it is not altogether a letter of apologies,
that I design this to be; for that all-potent
principle, which is just now creating so much
stir and commotion throughout the land, has
awakened in me a little ardor, and on that, I
have a few words to say :
You, as well perhaps, as some of your read
ers may have lately seen the efforts which
seem to be made by some over zealous ones to
stamp a sectional feeling upon the new Amer
ican party, and in tho North to make it an anti-slavery
one, while, at the South the oppo
site feeling prevailing, a contrary Lias is at
tempted to be given, thus dividing into sec
tions what should be one great party whose on
ly aim should be the concentration of its whole
power and strength to effect one grand object.
Deploring much as I do the existence of that
foul blot on our name "the Institution of Sla
very," I cannot believe it has anything to do
with the object now at issue. First, let our
American Institutions become thoroughly re
organized; let our government be placed upon
the true standard of "Liberty of speech, and
liberty of thought" from which the Roman
Catholic influence is now removing it. Let us
have what we ought to have, a true American
at theHelm, with laithful assistants; not truck
lers to a false and empty foreign show, but
men of real American Integrity then it will be
time enough to look at private affairs.
Our homes, our firesides are endangered; for
let this Catholic, this Foreign policy once gain
an ascendency among us, then indeed may we
bid farewell to all Liberty then will we be de
pendant on the policy of the Head of the Ro
mish Church, to disobey which, will bring
down upon us the horrors of the Inquisition.
Look at Spain, ye who think this an over-drawn
picture, and point out the benefits of her intol
erant and domineering Church. Now I am no
bigot, and should be sorry to be counted one
but History and the present state of the Coun
tries both of the Old and NewTF orld, prove
the truth of this assertion, that Catholicism,
degradation, darkness and ignorance always go
hand in hand. Where is the learning and in
telligence of the present day 1 Where is the
light of science and truth shining forth t These
are questions that need no answersi every one
knows for himself. Has Spain produced any
great discovery, any great scientific character
within a hundred years? Has she contributed
to the Arts one thousandth part of their stand
ing? If a Catholic government discovered a
new continent, it was the superior intelligence
and skill of a Protestant people who made it
what it now is. Is Brazil the equal of the
land we live in ?
But I am wandering from the subject I start
ed with. It is proposed to mingle with this
momentus question that of Slavery. Here will
be the ruin of the American party. We must be
united, or we fall. In union there is strength.'
Our opponents are striving against us, they are
straining every nerve to overthrow us, and not
one stono will they leave unturned, to effect
our complete deaf ruction. It becomes us then
to throw aside all previous distinctions, all mi
nor jealousies, all little quibblings about these
sectional feelings, and uniting on tho broad
platform of "our America," resolve that it
shall be ruled by Americans, and no Foreign
influence shall be felt or feared among us. It
was predicted by Lafayette, that "if ever this
Union were dissolved it would be by the efforts
of the Priets of the Roman Catholic Church."
Why then endanger now, our confederacy by
destroying the American Oganization, by stri
ving to tack to its broad shoulders, the first
year of its growth, all these minor things;
rather with an unbroken front, with one ban
ner only waving over us, let us press 004 heed
ing not a slight defeat; but tarrying not, and
wearying not, until in 1856, one glorious shout
shall fill the land America once more is Free !
Oliver Olset.
Mouth of Lick Run, June 6, 1855.
PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
The General Assembly of tho Presbyterian
Church, that has just closed a session of eight
days, in Nashville, was a largo and venerable
body. Last year's minutes report a member
ship of 225,404 in 2,976 churches and 2,203
ministers. The Presbyteries number 146,
covering territory in every State in our con
federacy except Maine, in which there is not
a Presbyterian church. Besides this, two of
these 14i Presbyteries lie in China, and three
in Northern India, high up in the Ganges.
This general assembly was composed of 145
ministers and ninety-nine ruling elders,' or lay
delegates, representing the Presbyterian
church in twenty-eight States of onr Union;
Maine, Florida and California being unrepre
sented. One delegate (Rev. J. Warren) was
from Agra on the Jumna, 800 miles above
Calcutta. -
Strongly Officered. The General As
sembly of Rhode Island, one day lately, elect
en one hundred and nineteen public notaries,
and ninety-three justices of the peace, for
Providence Co. A man without a commission
must be a very rare bird in Providence.
"GREAT HEWS ! GLORIOUS NEWS!"
Was the shout of the news vender in the old
war time ; and at the sound of his tin trumpet,
the lady looked anxiously from her window,
while the maid stood with ready coin at the
door ; tho workman hurried down from his
garret, and the serving wench from the area
depths thrust forth her plump red arm to grasp
the fluttering prizes "Greiit news! glorious
news !" But the tin trumpet is heard no long
er, nor does tho hoarse voice of tho news ven
der rcsouud in our public streets ; yet the War
Gazette finds its way as quickly to our tables,
andamyriad of readers eagerly devour itscon
tcnts of joy and sorrow as they are . set forth
in the columns of the Times.
- Here it lies in the boudoir of a countess 1
the paper has been carefully aired, unfolded
and refolded, lest the stain of vulgar fingers
should havo profaned its whiteness to dese
crate my lady's touch. Here lies, bathed in
the delicious fragrance of freshly gathered
flowers, among gaudy volumes of romance,
and costly works of art, this daily record of
the world's life this chronicler of its evil
deeds and wasted hours. Hush ! the owner
of the room has entered : there is pride in her
step and glance, as "she treads tho crimson
carpet," and breathes the perfumed air;"
there is pride in each graceful movement, as
she seats herself upon the luxurious ottoman;
but there is a fearful anxiety in that trembling
hand as she draws tho paper quickly towards
her. One clauce of that flashing eye upon
the printed page, and tho color has fled her
checks, her hps and, with an aspect 01 mar
ble, terrible in its quietude, "ray lady" lies
lifeless amid the cushions.
In a small room where a thick steam lies
heavy upon the windows, and the damp vapor
clings to the rotting walls from which, the
plaster is dropping piecemeal to tho ground,
that paper has already made its way not care
fully folded, oi brought by powdered lacquey,
with reverential and cat-like tread, but Ira-
grant with tap-room smells, and stained with
tap-room beer; it was thrust in by a Kinaiy
pot-boy,, and, with a "Here, missus," deposit
ed upon the table. Removing from the froth
ing tub her snow flaked arms, the washerwo
man for such is her condition wipes her
hands hurriedly upon her apron and grasps the
paper. Easrerly her eyes follows that waer
shrivelled finger as, line after line, she spells
down the column of names, till suddenly sne
stops at oxe: again she spells it this time
aloud then, dashing the paper down, she
darts madly across the room to tho humble
bed where rests her sleeping child, and falling
upon her knees, pours out her heart in lamen
tation and prayer.
Here arc two women whom the "great news
has made equal in grief, if in naught else.
The ladv and the poor serf link hands at last
their tears flow from a like cause for the
pride of the one. and the hope of the other
both lav stretched, helpless, shot-shattered
upon that chastly battle-field.
"Glorious news !" and Fame puts the bra
zen trumpet to her lips, sendinc the echo of
her triumph through every town and hamlet
till each patriotic heart is lighted by the news
and all join in the song of jov. This we read
in the papers, but another sound strikes upon
the ear of the philosopher a sound of "lam
entation, and weeping, and great - mourning;"
tho wailing of that sea ot sorrow which comes
surging over the land the cry of the widowed
and the fatherless of "Rachel weeping for
her children," and refusing to be comforted,
"because they are not." Diogenes. ...
Tub Portland Riot. We find the follow
ing facts in reference to batnrday evening's
doings in Portland, in the Portland Advertiser
of Tuesday morning, to which that paper chal
lenges the severest investigation:
For nearly two hours the City Marshal with
six or eight of the police remained in the room
where the liquors were kept, exposed to the
insulting jeers and the dangerous misiles of
the crowd. His men were placed on either
side of the door for their own protection, and
were distinctly ordered not to fire until there
should bo an attempt to enter the room. In
the meanwhile, not only the Marshal repeated
ly cautioned the crowd to desist, but members
of the police department went among them
stating that the Marshal's police corps were
armed and would surely fire, and advising and
ordering them to their homes. The glass and
door were broken through, the police were
wounded With stones in several instances, and
a pistol or musket was discharged at them
through tho crowd before the first order to fire
was given, which was to fire over the heads of
the crowd.
Since the event more than two bushels of
stones some of them weighing more than
twenty pounds have been gathered in the
room where the police were, and which were
thrown in by the crowd before the arrival of
the Rifle Guards. In addition to the above
warnings before the police began to fire, simi
lar and reiterated warnings wero given by
Mayor Dow and Sheriff Baker. Before the fi
ring also several arrests were made in tho
crowd, in some cases of which the arrested
persons were rescued by their confederates,
and in others the individuals were taken 'off
and are still in custody.
Therefore every statement which has' been
made with the design of convicting Mayor
Dow and the Police and Rifle Guards of rash
ness and wanton destruction of life is utterly
exploded. These men defended our property
and. lives in a necessary and just manner- they
who lost their lives, (if morej' than one there
be,) did so flying in the face of the law and
authority under which we all repose.
Scppose. Suppose for a moment the Know
Nothing policy should attain the ascendency in
our national councils, how would America stand
in the eyes of the civilized world ? Times.
Oh don't ask. The thing is dreadful to con
template. The monarchies of Europe and Asia
are so amazingly liberal in admiting people
from the United States to all the rights and
privileges of citizenship and electing them to
office, that we really dare not reflect for a mo
ment "how America would stand in the eyes of
the civilized world," if she should, in pursu
ance of the Know Nothing policy, extend the
term of naturalization and prefer the election
of her own citizens to public offices. Louis
ville Journal.
DC?" A company of Cocknies are playing
out west :
"The Mysterious norphan, hor the Hout
rageous Hunkle" the principal character ap
pears on a 'orse.
THE LEGION OF HONOR.
Napoleon used to sav "Of all the orders
that have ever been created, either in ancient
or modern times, there is not one which has
been of such advantage to its founders as the
Legion of Honor. It- is my handiwork, and
mv master-piece. ; No one, either now or'ia
future days, can dispute my ngm 10 me glory
of founding it. I am indebted to it for more
than half my victories." Napoleon stated
what Mas perfectly true. ;.The hope of obtain
ing- the cross has been tne parent 01 increaiDie
acts of. valor, many of which are still unknown
to the world. Here is one among otners, wnicn
chef a" escaden used to take particular delight
m relating: -...r -
In the course of the night wnicn preceaea
the battle of Austerlitz, one of my brigadiers
wagered his watch "with one ol his comrades
that he would gain the Cross of Honor the fol
lowing day. In fact, in a brilliant charge
ainst superior forces, ne penetrated tne ene
my's squadron's, killed five men with his own
hands and carried on a standard, lie was cov
ered with blood, especially on his face, the on
ly visible part of which was his eyes. As he
was returning to his regiment tne tmperor met
him and said:
"You have done enough for once, my friend.
Go and get your wounds dressed."
The brigadier wiping rus lace witn the nag
he had captured, replied to the Emperor "I
am not wounded at all, sir. It is not my blood
which you see, but that of your enemies."
Napoleon, delighted, at tins answer, said "i
make you marchal des logis, (quartermaster,)
and I confer upon you the Cross of Honor.
The most singular circumstance mthisatlair
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is, that tne moment wueu tins ungauier was
thus recompenced, his comrade with whom ho
had bet his watch arrived, wounded by a
pistol shot, which had been fired at him by a
general omcer, wnom ne prougni as prisoner,
and whom he presented to the Emperor. "An
other Cross of Honor," said Napoleon, laugh
ing. "If things go on in this way 1 shall eith
er have to suppress the Order, or decorate tho
whole army."
MATR1KONY AND FRIENDSHIP.
It is the theory of some writers that "love"
cannot long survive marriage,' except in the
form of an exalted friendship; and even Mad
ame de Stael, the most sentimental as well aa
intellectual of women, if we may judge from
hei "Corinne," congratulates the happy pair
whose first romance has settled into reliable
friendship. There is a heartless sophistry in
this opinion. Sam Siick, who has as much
sense as wit, knocks the brains out of tho mis
erable fallacy, with tho following downright
stroke of logic. "The nature of matrimony is
.one thing, and the nature of friendship ts
another. A tall man likes a short wife; a great
talker likes a -silent woman for both can't
talk at once. A gay man likes a domestic
gal,' for he can leave her at home to nnss'
the children and make pap, while he is enjoy
in' himself to parties. A man that haint any
music in him likes it in his spouse, and so on.
It chimes beautiful, for they ain't in each oth
er's way. Now, friendship is the ether way;
you must like the same things to like each
other and be friends. A similarity of tastes,
studies, pursuits and recreations (what they
call congenial souls;) a toper for a toper, a
a smoker for a smoker, a horse-racer for a
horse-racer, a prize-fighter for a prize-fighter,
and so on. . Matrimony likes contrasts; friend
ship seeks its own counterparts.
Fanatics in Oldkn Days! The Tpmn'a
Advocate, with the true instinct which induces
every female to favor prohibition, says: "tho
readers of the rum papers and the listeners of
the bar-room logic, would conclude, if they
believed what they heard, that our forefathers
fought, bled, and died, that a few men in 1855
might sell rum and enrse tho land with pauper
ism and crime. And yet some of those 'fa
thers' were strangely tinctured with fanati
cism even at that early day. The first conti
nental Congress before the declaration of our
National Independence, uttered tneir manifes
to against rum, in the following emphatic
Maine Law English the despotism of intern-,
pcrance, as well as that of the mother country
claiming tho attention of the men of the Revo
lution." Resolved, That it be recommended to the severe
al Legislatures of the United States, immediately
to pass laws tho most effectual for putting an im
mediate stop to the pernicious practice of distilling,
by which the most extensive evils are likely to be
derived, if not quickly prevented.
Such was the "opinion" of the rum traffic,
on the 27th of February, 1774.
Mormon Emigration is flowing westward
steadily, and in notable numbers. Since the
navigation of the Ohio river opened this spring,
1500 of these emigrants passed through Pitts
burg, on their way to the city of the Salt Lake,
and others are daily expected." They are un
derstood to be from Great Britain, where Mor
mon proselytism makes steady progress., At
Liverpool,there is a Mormon agency, supported
especially forthepurpose of aiding emigration.
It has this year sent off upwards of 3,600 emi
grants, of whom it paid the expenses of 1,100.
" K" "Slocura, how is it to-day can you
take that note up ?" .
"I'm sorry to say I can't never was so
cramped in my life."
"By tbe way, you are always cramped, aro
you not?"
"I'm sorry to say I am; and yet the is a na
tural cause for it."
"And what is that V
"Why I was weaned on green apples and
water mellons'" - ,
KF" When we soe a neat pretty girl, with a
free, but innocent aTr,-with cheeks which we
can hardly help kissingahl"wffh -ft-pairof
heavenly blue eyes, which seem to repose in"
perfect serenity beneath their silken lashes;
we always wish that she was near a mud-pud-
aie, and mat we iiaa to nit ner over. '
AOCATIG. "I'm afloat I T'mnflnnt t rimoi1
out a VOUni ladv of nowerful Inne-a and flnirpra
to match, as she exercised both at the piano, v
" You're afloat, eh ?" growled an old sea dog;
"I should judee vou were afloat bv the aauall
you raised."
How little do we understand of the true
spirit of toleration. We talk of it, and boast
of its rapid advancement, while, in the samo
breath, we denounce those, who, from causes
unknown to us, shll cling to the errors and
absurdities of the past.
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