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TIE IMSHM'S JOURNAL.
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BY H. ETJCHER SWOOPE.
Claarfield, Pa., Weineaiay, July 4, 1853.
Pctxam, for July, commences the sixth
volume of tho monthly. As usual, its pages are
well filled with interesting original matter,
by some of onr roast celebrated American au
thors. , It is one of the very best monthlies in
our country. -Price S3 per annum in advance.
Dix & Edwards, No. 10, Park Place, N.Y.
More Removals. George Wilson has been
removed from tho Washington .Navy Yard,
and Michael E. Bright, a Roman Catholic, ap
pointed in his place.
Jno. Carroll, P. M., at Somerset, Perry Co.,
Ohio, a Pennsylvania Democrat, has been
removed, and Charles Elder, a Koman Catho
lic appointed in his place. Are we not going
over to Papacy fast ?
EEx-Gov. Johnston, of our State, writes
to the Tribune, warmly denying that at the
Know-XothingGrand Council he voted for the
Pro-Slavery Platform there adopted. lie says :
I did not vote for said Platform and do
not intend to do so hereafter. I opposed it in
Convention, spoke against its adoption in the
Convention, protested against it and refused
all co-operation with any National Organiza
tion that recognised or adopted it. I am now
what I have been a firm and consistent oppo
nent of Slavery extension."
The Triluue is too apt To go off half-cocked
when making such charges, and it is as savage
as was the old Attican robber, Procustes, in
trying to regulate every body's conscience by
stretching or shortening it to suit its own.
ANO.NY.MOrS THREATS.
A few mornings since, James Wajgley, Esq.,
found the following letter lying at Lis office
door :
- Clearfield, June 2Sth, !&.
Mr. Wriglet: Take notice, you had bet
ter keep your horse out of your stable at night
for there will be a fire in that corner some
night if they dont quit putting up hogs in that
stable and selling them Yours as a friend.
Now we don't suppose for a moment, that
there is any man living in this community,'
who is such an multigated hell-hound, as to
think seriously of carrying a threat of this
character into execution, and it is almost
equally difficult to suppose, that there is any
cne, who is such a consumate fool as to think
anonymous letters would intimidate the bor
ough officers in executing the law. But be
the object what it might, the writer f the
above letter, must be a contemptible scoun
drel, for permitting such a thought ever to
enter his mind, and deserves the jail or the
penitentiary. We hope the borough officers
will leave no effort untried to detect the vil
lain, and visit upon him his just deserts. Tho
citizens ought to tar and feather him, ride
him on a rail, and give him a good ducking
in the river. Be it whom it may, he is not
fit' to live in a decent community, and we
' would suggest to him the propriety of his tak
' Ing up other quarters, for if he is discovered,
these will be decidedly too hot to hold him.
OUR POSITION.
We hve received a letter from an Ameri
can friend, desiring to understand our posi
tion with regard to the twelfth article of the
Platform of the National Convention which
, recently met in Philadelphia. We thought we
: had already made the matter sufficiently plain,
but for his information, again state our views
upon the unfortunate question.
Whatever, then, may be our opinion of the
institution of Slavery, considered in a moral
point of view, we are willing to leave the
whole matter where it was left by our Fathers
-, at the foundation of our National Government,
in the absolute control of the States. We fully
, .accord to each State, in the exercise of its own
judgment, the right to determine the matter
f for . itself the same right which was claimed
And exercised in our own Pennsylvania. For
the same reason, because the institution is not
national but local, we are opposed to its exten
;. sion or introduction into any of the territories
, tinder the control of the National Government.
Hence we regard the repeal of the . Missouri
Compromise of 1820, as not only a flagrant
breach of a most sacred compact between sis-
- ter States, but an act of gross injustice to the
North, and as designed to take from the insti
tution of Slavery its local, a ndgive to it a na
tional character. We are therefore in favor of
its restitution.
We are no abolitionist, yet we certainly
think that the North haa been made the scape
goat of the South about long enough, and that
it is high time we proclaimed our determina
' tion to submit to the encroachments of Slavery
no longer. : We have rights as well as the
South, and rights too, which we have seldom
asserted. We have made concessions too fre
quently that we ought not to have made, for a
submission to unreasonable demands will nev
V er secure harmony. If we desire to preserve
' the Union, we should demand what is right,
- and we should ask nothing more. But above all
we should submit to nothing wrong, for the
pnly safe-guard of the Union is a proper res
" pect for the principles of equity and justice.
" JStill, we do not conceive that this question has
' anything to do with the American cause. Let
the members of our party hold what opinions
on this subject they choose, provided they are
true to the one great end and object of our
Organization, that, "Amebicaxs shall rule
Ajlehica." .
" TIIE DAY WE CELEBRATE."
It is but right and proper on this bright mor
ning of our Great National Sabbath, that we
should reflect a moment on the past history of
our nation, regard its present position, and, if
possible, anticipate its future. Seventy-nine
years have rolled away to-day, since we took
our stand among the nations of the world as an
independant power. At that time a feeble
people, without an organized government, and
without resources, our ancestors laid the foun
dations of this Republic. Three Quarters of a
century have but little more than elapsed the
brief period allotted to tho life of man and it
has already grown to an ocean-bound empire !
The proud bird of Jove, our national emblem,
now rises with the morning sun, ftom the blue
waves of the Atlantic, and soaring with that
sun throughout the day, retires to rest where
the peaceful billows of the great Pacific, break
and die away, having, during his entire flight,
surveyed the fruits of our republican 2rogress.
From an unexplored and unbroken wilderness,
we have a country embracing almost every va
riety of natural products, and extending thro'
almost every zone. While the evening sun
tips our Eastern hills, the broad plains of the
West are sill shrouded in mid-night darkness.
The rapidity of our progress is without a par
allel, and commerce, and manufactures, and
agrictiltr.ro, and railroads, and schools, and
telegraphs all attest our indomitable enterprise.
Upon the bosom of a continent, within two and
a quarter centuries converted to the use of
man, has arisen the noblest empire on the
face of the globe.
Bat if the rapidity of our progress has been
without a precedent, so too, the great causes of
our national development exist in no other
country we . mean our almost perfect hom
ogeneity and nationality. In the OH World
thre is no great principle of cohesion. Europe
is made up of different nations, speaking dif
ferent languages, with different manners, cus
toms, religions, and habits. But here, to a
great extent, though composed of more than j
thirty separate States, we speak but one lan- !
gtfage we have but one literature oae great
national soul. And it is this unity and this na
tionality, that form the true foundation of our
greatness and prosperity as a people". Destroy
these, and our national edifice falls to the
earth shattered into a thousand fragments. I
How impoftant is it then, if we desire to
guard and to enjoy the rich boon secured to us
by our Fathers, and which this day commemo
rates, that we should maintain the integrity of
the Federal Union and preserve our American
Nationality ? The first grows more stable with
our growth, and was never more firmly rooted
in the affections of our people than on this An
niversary of our Country's natal diy. True,
selfish demagogues raise the senseless cry of
danger, but "the rains may descend, the winds
blow, and the storm beat upou it, yet our glo
rious edifice will not fall, for it is built upon a
rock."
Bat our nationality ia in danger, for can any
thing be more detrimental than the introduc
tion of an undue proportion of dissimilar peo
ple among our citizens I Tell us not that we
can preserve that nationality, by the infusion
of an undue proportion of foreign sentiment,
foreign habit, and foreign influence i nto the
American mind. The late census shows us that
about every third, certainly every fourth man
in this country is a foreigner, or the descend
ent of a ioreigner, since 1790. And how are
we to estimate the va.st influence, social, moral
and political, which they are daily acquiring?
Is there no danger of the ascendency of a for
eign influence in our American councils? Our
government lives an 1 acts by public opinion,
and what effect must this vast body of foreign
ers, increased by the arrival of nearly a quar
ter of a million within the last year, have up
on its theory and action ?
Then, as we love liberty and appreciate the
works of our venerated ancestors, as we love
ourselves and posterity, let us resolve to pre
serve and maintain our American Nationality,
as the great sheet-anchor of our safety the
chief corner-stone of our National edifice.
Disregarding all former predilections, let us
come up to the work and sacrifice party tram
els on the altar of our country's liberty. All
Americans are brothers, sailing in the same
gallant ship of state, and all must ride into the
haven safely together, or together be swallow
ed up on the voyage.
If the time ever comes when our starry flag
shall be rent in twain when the bright record
of this day, upon which is inscribed the fifty
six signers of the Declaration of Independence,
is to be divided, it will be when our nationali
ty is weakened and destroyed. But if that un
ity and that nationality be guarded with jeal
ous care, what a glorious future will be ours !
The time is not far distant when, if we keep
the lamp of liberty burning brightly upon our
altars, we shall behold tho millions who now
bow their necks to tho despotism of Eu
rope, free and happy as ourselves. When her
kings and titles, and hierarchies, and priests,
shall become extinct; when Church and State
shall be torn from their harlot grasp, and ruined
Athens, with her frescoed palaces, oppprcssed
Italy, the land of Brutus and Dante, of Colum
bus and Gallileo ; and down-trodden Hungary,
will all be redeemed from tho night of dark
ness and of despotism, by the mild and genial
influences of our Republican liberty. Then,
and not till then, will our high mission be ac
complished, and the closing scene of the
grand drama be consur.iatcd.
FEOM SPAI2J".
Notwithstanding the Government assertions
that the Carlist insurrection is put down, there
are indications to the contrary.
A despatch sent to .Paris, June 13, gave no-.
tice that a band of 70 men left Pampaluna on
the 11th, and took the direction of the French
frontier to procure arras. A movement in
Catalouia was feared. The French mail which
left Paris on the 9th, and the mails which left
Madrid, on the 10th, were burned by the in
surgents in Castile.
The Cortes have rejected a proposition ten
ding to censure the Ministry.
TOST OFFICE MIS-MANAGESEST.
We last week published an account of the
gross carelessness of some of the Post Olfice
officials, resulting in the loss of valuable let
ters containing large remittances. We ob
serve that the subject is receiving the atten
tion of the iublic, and that the exposures
which have recently been made are bringing
out the facts. We have long suspected these
developments, and .are, therefore, not surpri
zed even at their generally unlooked-for mag
nanimity. Circumstances have occurred with
in our own knowledge, sufficient to convince
us not only of the utter inability, aiid ineffi
ciency of some of the employees of the Gov
ernment, but of their absolute dishonesty.
In addition to the two cases which we pub
lished last week, we seo a large number of
others given in our exchanges, of about equal
purport. For example: a late clerk in the
Boston Post Office says, that about four years
since he was requested by the Chief Clerk in
that Oilice, to cxamiuo the waste paper in the
cellar of that Office, to see if any missing let
ters could be found there. The lesult of the
examination was the bringing to light of from
eighteen to twenty-five letters, containing large
remittances of money, several of which were
addressed to some of the heaviest houses in
the city.
But "it is not only the carelessness of the
officials th.it gives just cause of complaint.
Recent events have developed a most outra
geous system of espionage, by which the se
cret agents take the liberty to lake letters out
of the mail bags, melt . the wafers with steam,
read and copy the contents, seal up the viola
ted epistles and then send them forward again !
It is true that the Head of the Department
declares, that this is unauthorized, tut how
comes it to have been done with their know-
lodge, and without ol jection ?
In a recent case at New Orleans, Judge
McCaleb, in his charge to the Grand Jury, de
nounced this iniquitous espionage in the most
emphatic language. He at the same time
pointed out tho penalty which attached to a
violation of the sanctity with which the law
has clotlied every communication from one
citizen to another, when once sealed and de
posited in the Post Office. i: No officer or
agent of the Government," said the Judge,
" any more than a private citizen, has a right
to open a letter once sealed and confided to
tho Department. No high functionary of the
Government has any authority to delegate such
a right or privilege to a subordinate agent."
I call vour attention to this subject the
more earnestly, because there seems to be a
strange and most erroneous impression enter
tained by some persons employed in the ser
vice of the Post Olfice Department in regard
to their peculiar rights and privileges. The
law, gentlemen, draws no distinctions between
individuals, and I have no hesitation in spy
ing that tho moment an agent of the Post
Ofiicc Department, or any other person,
to violate the sanctity of private correspon
dence, by opening a letter once entrusted to
the Post Office, no matter for what purpose,
he is guilty of an offence in the eye of the law,
and renders himself subject to the penalties
which that law has prescribed. It would be
strange indeed if any person should, under the
pretext or for the. purpose of detecting a
crime, be permitted to perpetrate with im
punity another crime equally infamous and
equally forbidden by the law."
"the news.
The Allies have captured tho Mamelon and
White Works, after sanguinary fighting, 5,000,
being killed and wounded. The French took
52 guns and 509 prisoners ; and their new po
sition enables them to shell the shipping in
Sebastopol harbor. Simultaneously the Eng
lish stormed and took the Riflemen's works in
the quarries, but lost 500 killed and wounded;
since then the firing has been slack.
The Russian account of the affair is as fol
lowing: "After two days of heavy bombard
ment, three French divisions attacked redoubt
No. 7, at G o'clock last evening, and occupied
the redoubts Kamtschatka, Selenghinsk and
Vollyhynia, and a battery between Selenghinsk
and Bastion No. 1. Our troops retook the
Kamtschatka redoubt, but the French poured
in fresli reserves and took it once more. Wo
finally remained masters of that battery the
French holding a lodgement near whence we
hope to drive them. Our soldiers fought ad
mirably, in proof of which I may state that
the enemy's loss exceeds ours. Ho has lost
2500 men, and we have taken 275 men and
officers prisoners, as well as two French can
non. -
The Allied fleets have achieved new success
in the Sea of Azoff, and have burned stores at
Tagannoy, Maripol, and Genitsck, and an ex
pedition is fitting out against Perekop
TROtt FEANCE.
A magnificent fete was given on the evening
of the 11th, in the Hotel de Ville, by the Pre
fect of the Seine to the King of Portugal.
Queen Christiana, tho Princess Mathilde, the
Lord Mayor of London, and 0000 other per
sons were present.
The most interesting intelligence refers to
Her Majesty the Empress. Dr. Locock, the
celebrated accoucheur, who has had consider
able experience in Queen Victoria's nursery,
was summoned by telegraph to Paris, where,
after consultation with Drs. Dubois and Con-
nean, it was formally announced that the Em
press is enciente.
The park of siege artillery is at length ship
ped in the American clippers Great Republic,
Queen of Clippers, Gauntlet, and Alleghanian.
The Great Republic is shipping 400 cavalry
horses. Captain d'Andigue, of tho French
staff, accidentally fell into the hold and frac
tured a limb. Two hundred dock laborers
have been shipped from Marseilles to the Cri
mea. Not fewer than 3o,000 horses have left
France since tho war began.-
Tierce's Speculators. Mr. Sidney Web
ster, the President's Secretary, and John W.
Forney, editor of the Washington Union, are
upon Lake Suporior, and last week chartered
a propeller for $300, to carry them to Superior
City, Fon Dulac, where they have .engaged in
a monster speculation. Press,
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATION.
You cannot, " Mr. Journal," expect one word
about Politics from uny one who dates from
Philadelphia to-day. No indeed, unless your
correspondent was a fiery politician in that
case he might be warmed up by a few rays of
sunshine which could bo spared without any
loss to the community "Just now. At Ljist sum
mer has come, and the dull weather of the
past month has departed. We have had no
rain for five days, except a five minute's show
er, and a clear deep blue sky arches over us.
To sum up in three, words; 'Tt "isho'tf that
tells the "whole tale. In this, perhaps," wcare
a little ahead 'of Clearfield, as well as in ' the
various minor considerations- of early vege
table productions consequent upon it. While
you may be thinking how good strawberries
and cream will taste in a few days or a week,
ire have passed them by as " things that were,"
and are now talking about the next in order.
Raspberries and currants, both of which are
making the bushes blush from their presence ;
and then tho rich, ripe and red tomato, al
ready graces our market, though somewhat of
a luxury, as they sell for 25 cts. a quart. Green
Peas are turning yellow, and new potatoes look
petty old, while corn yes, real green corn is
fast coming on, and soon will bo large enough
for the table. Yet with all these great advan
tages, what is there in a hot, dusty city in
summer, to be compared with the fine fresh
breezes, aud bright green fields that the coun
try furnishes Baked' during the day, and
a kind of par-boiled at night, is tho fate of the
citizen.
I love the bright find balmy iiir.
That floats o'er hill and dell. .
Where, free from trouble and from care,
Tn calm and peace may dwell:
The weary ,; CiV- who speeds nwny,
To find some cooler place to stay
Whose only greeting end.s with this.
Oh ! dear sir, how hot it is!"-
Some one, (no matter who) said, and he
was pretty near right, for you might meet
iwf-nty men on Chesnut street in succession
who would have nothyig to say, but " nwful '
ain"t it?" "Thermometer at 90 decs, this
morning" or some analogous speech. But to
come to facts, the heat is driving our sober
citizens out of town pretty rapidly. Some who
have their beautiful country seats have retired
to the quiet of them; others less Cresus-like,
content themselves with a few weeks nt some
boarding-house of which there are manv all
around tho cily ; while still a third class nar
row themselves down to two weeks nt Cape
May, Newport, or some such fashionable place.
But it seems very tantalizing after enjoying
cool sea breezes for a short time, to come
back to active life in a village of ovens, (as a.
city is in hot weather) it is hard to change ;
yet the life of the business man requires it.
From morning till night, he must be at his
counting-house or in his ware-room, busied
with ledgers or merchandize, and wearied in
mind and bodv bv confinement and work.
What a contrast to the free occupant of a
thousand acres, " more or cts," in your
" Land of forest and of rock,
'f mountains reared id oft to mock.
The storms" carver, tho lightnings shock.'.'
Well indeed may the sturdy farmer Isold his
plough, or sow his grain, aud envy not the
"man of wealth" who though his splendid
equipage may dazzle the eye, or his extrava
gant parties excite our wonder, yet amid it
all, care and trouble steals across his brow.
Remember,
"Weary rests the hea l that wears a crown."
But stop, this has nothing to do with hot
weather, no!. it is too hot to moralize I cant
do it.
Some of you. readers maybe interested in
some othei matters, and in fact are wishing
for hot weather to dry up the river a little, or
start the corn. Things all look promising for
a heavy crop, and the news from most of the
grain districts, is very encouraging to consu
mers of Flour. The advice3 by tho Baltic
just arrived are that wheat .has declined in
England and the prospect for the cereals in
that country is fair. Flour is selling here at
$9.00 for good common brands; though $10
and $12 may be quoted as the price for fancy
brands of extra Baltimore or Gencsse. The
different kinds of grain may be quoted as fol
lows: ;
Wheat $2,30 a 2,50 per bushel.'
Rye $1,50 do.
Corn $95 a 9S do.
Oats $05 do. ..;
There seems to be no prospect of tho grand
humbug of the "Allies," coming to an end.
In the Crimea though the French have done
something, the English seem to standstill,
and in the Baltic, a death-like stillness reigns.
John Bull has got himself in a strange predic
ament, and no doubt would very willingly get
himself out if he could, and time alono will
reveal the consequences of this ridiculous war.
But we need not find fault with our ueighbors,
or try to pick motes, or beams either, out of
their eyes, we have enough to do at home, but
I am not in a "politic'' humor to-day, so I havo
nothing to say.
I suppose if I could give you some informa
tion respecting the lumber market, it would
be as acceptiblo as anything, but on that sub
ject I am a Know-Nothing. "Timber-sticks"
and "saw-logs" do' not enter , into the general
line of trade here, though I notice from the
Eastern papers, that they are shipping timber
from Maine to Frauce, for ship building that
seems like going a great ways for it. O. O.
Philadelphia, June SO, 1855.
A Revolutionary. Patriot Dead. The
Warsaw New Yorker, announces the death of
Peter Besaazon, at the advanced age of 98
years. It says the deceased was ona of the
band of noble spirits who crossed the ocean
with Lafayette to assist the -Colonies in tho
stuggle for Independence. He was born in or
near the city of Besancon, in France, in 1762
came to America at the ago of 10 -was pre
sent at the execution of Major Andre, and re
mained in the army until the end of the war.
Mr. Besanzon was a devoted member of the
Baptist Church for fifty-one years, a member
of the Masonic fraternity, having been initia
ted by Gen. Washington in person ; and hon
orary member of tho Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, and of the Good Templars.
SPEECH OFTHE OH3'XT5JE'fsjH AY STEK .
vlri Baltirftdrer, on tho 20th ult.v, an AnxerlcaH
meeting 'wast field ia 3Ionjnincnt fijuajc',
to ratify the proceedings of the" late National
Council held in. Philadelphia: ; It was altendj
ed by an immense coucourse of persons."1 Tho
greatest enthusiasm prevailed, and a series' of
strong resolutions was adopted. ?
. Af ter the reading of the resolutions, and be
ing adopted by acclamation, tho" Hon. Kenneth
Raysek, of North Carolina, was called for,
and in coming forward, congratulated the
American party of Baltimore, which had as
sembled under such favorable auspices, and
thanked them for tho kind greeting which, he
received froru his fellow-citizens:
Mr. Rayxer, said that the enemies of the
American cause had circulated a report, that
division "existed fifouf 'ranks iti"rriiiadelphia; '
No division existed. Applause.) W -met
and parted as friends. , One unfortunate . sub-.
joct had already caused division iu parties and
churches; but in the American Convention the
North would not secede from principles so sa
cred and endeared to all American hearts.
(Applause.) The great North and South were
united in a common cause, to fight in a com
mon struggle'. Most of the Northern delega
tions, who had protested against the action of
the Convention, remained and participated in
in its future proceedings. ,The Catholics and
the enemies of the American party rejoiced
over what to them appeared to be a division
and they rejoiced as did Satan over the fall of
our first parents (Cheers and applause.) But
But they will find that, like Satan when he at
tempted to seduce the Saviour, their effort to
distract us from the truth of Americanism is
futile nnd they will return as chop-fallen as
their arch leader of the realms of darkness.
(Immense cheering.) This overwhelming audi
ence exhibits the devotion to liberty and the
laws which everywhere characterizes the Am
erican movement, which is as momentus to us
now as was that which gave an enslaved, peo
ple their freedom and independece. And lie
was proud to be one in a cause so hoi', and so
important to the advancement of Christian ci
vilization, and the yearning hopes ol the mill
ions trodden in the dust by the oppressor's
wrong. (Cheers.) It was thought that the rule,
of parties was absolute. But it is found to
be a mistake. And the -people have for the
first time in the history of this Republic, aris
en in their power to decide whether they or
corrupt partizans are to rule. (Applause.)
The question i.f :'-Protestantism presen
ted is one th.it should arrest- the atten
tion of. every thinking man.: Luther i;ever
had a higher mission than the American Party
has before it. . (Applause.) . After the first rev
olution we had a wilderness to subline, and we
had a pure and Protestant jvoplu to go for
ward to sulxlue it. But, on; by oue the recent
foes of tho land we love, .-and the freedom we
enjoy, came here with words of promise which
are Iroasurcd through years and years of inex
perience and prosperity. .ow, when the foun
tain of the world's hopes, for oountless ages,
is to ba. realized the hand that we grasp -in
friendship are armed with the weapons 'of the
assassin, and the hearts over whose surienngs
we wept, now only throb with feelings of in
gratitude. Protestant Hhcrty istofallorstand,
and on this issue we are to meet the invidious
foe. (Applause.) '.
And we are here to-night to meet the ques
tion not as an armed crowd bent on outrage
and determined on wrong but as a great peo
ple preparing for the battle of the ballot-box,
than which none is more worthy the blessings
of mankinc. Onr liberty is iu danger, and
J- o out. f Applause.) Americans
are not opposed to foreigners as a class. Xncy
may come freely to our shores enjoy our hos
pitality and bask iu the sun-light of our pros
perity; they may send their children freely to
our schools; foi l secure under the protection
of our laws, and indeed pursue the paths ol
freedom and ;:. iJiz -'tio:i to the remotest ends,
and still find rs tried friends and true.
(Cheers.) Bi:t they i-i'-.s not band together
to destroy our institutions, they must not trail
our banner of the st u-s in the dust with impu
nity. This ii id been done, and Americans w ho
love their country aboveail thingselse; Amer
icans whose hearts lead t!i-iuback to the strug
gles of their fathers to give to posterity a Union
of free and Independent States; Americans
who look forward, with hopes akin to prophe
cy, have now sworn, upon the alter of their
countrys liberty, that these things shall no
longer be and that Americans in spirit and
in truth shall govern the land of their nativity,
and the home consecrated to their holiest
memories.
A New Secret Society. The Phial. North
American says, that a new secret society, has
been organized in that city. The object is
neither political nor religious. The purpose
is simply to obtain a drink of the "ardent," in
spite of the law, on Sunday. A head-quarters
has been established in a subterranean place,
and regular signs and passwords have been do
vised. The initiated goes to a certain door
on Sunday and gives a tap. When he knows
that a person is listening, he gives the word
"Bow-wow says tho fox." The door is then
opened. The. bar-keeper then looks atten
tively at the new comer, and says mysteriously,
"Muni's the word." To this the initiated re
plies by making a peculiar sign upon his breast.
If this is satisfactory, the barkeeper conducts
hinij through various subterranean passages,
to a' vaulted apartment where a table is placed;
and as a candle casts a dim, mysterious light
around the room, the bacchanalian indulges in
"a smile," both in contempt of the law and in
deep gratification. Having quenched his firry
thirst, he retires in the same mysterious way.
The Nehraska Bill and Rei'e.vl. Tho
Journal of Commerce is calculating that one
hundred members arc already elected to Con
gress (or to be elected from the South) oppo
sed p the repeal of . the Nebraska bill, and
that but eighteen more are needed to make
a majority against touching it. We quote:
" It is not impossible, nor very improbable,
that this number will be found, (among tho
13 1 members not included in tho alove calcu
lation) will oppose? repeal, 'although some of
them voted against the bill 011 its passage.
In other words, it is by no means certain that
a bill to repeal the Nebraska law can pass the
House. But if it should, it will be defeated
by a large majority in the Seuate. And be
fore a new Congress is elected, Nebraska will
probably be knocking for admission into the
Union as a State."
If she knocks with negroes at her back,
she'll find tho door bolted and the key missin.
Post Office Robberies. There aro four
teen cases of post office robbery, and several
cases of counterfeiting coin,' on tho criminal
calendar of the Circuit Court of the United
States for the Nouthern District of New York,
now in session at Canandaicua. Willi ah Gil
mer and Wileiam Fowler, charged with' rob
bing the post olfice at Sodus- on tho night of
the loth of May last, have been convicted be
fore that Court. 1 ; ; -. !
Weevil in' Wheat The Columbia (Pa.)
Democrat says Mr. Jacob Gerard, of-Rhors-burg,
in that count, claims to have discover
ed a cure for the weevil in wheat,. , He says
that several days ago, observing that the. wee
vil was destroying his crop," he sowed over the
field a moneratc quantity of slacked lime, aud
since that time their ravages seem to have
cased entirely.
HtPOCRISY OF THE DEMAGOGUES.
The hue and cry raised against the Ameri
can party, on account of its secret organiza
tion, by certain office 'holders, office expec
tants, and the , newspaper scribblers in their
employ x is a mere flare, to bewilder and hob
goblihize their followers, for fcarthat they too
would join theorderandthus add new strength
to" this terriblo engine-- of persecution. It is
vehemently insisted upon, that, the members
of the order, are midnight conspirators and
enemies of the people; and that all their work
is covered by the veil of secrecy, and- cannot"
w ithstand the judgement of the public. Now,
we claim that all . this clamor-is based upon
false pretence,and is as hollow as hypocrisy it-,
self well can be. They say that tlie yroteody
ings of the "Know Nothings" aro carefully
CMicealed from the public; yet, itwo-iw-io
believc these very honorable journals and par
tizans, they know all t bat takes place in theso
Councils. Their columns teem with so-called
exposurcsj aud they rejoice'in the poscssion
of all that Is .said and done, by these .midnight
conspirators. ' Are they nof, then;'" condemn
ing themselves by thus acting so base a char
acter? Under the broad rays of a noon-day
sun, with light everywhere, they rri7J persist
in declaring that they are in the dark; and be
cause of this darkness, they cry out "murder,
murder!" like the vilest sinner," "who flyeth
when no one pursueth!'
They say that they know all tho secrets of
tho order! Do they ? Well, for the sake oft he
argument, we say they know them all. Why
then grumble that the society is so secret?
Are they .not guilty of the grave charge of in
sincerity and stulificatjon ? "Ah! but wo must
do thur and so to keep the rabble straight,' or
they will desert us. HVmnst tell them1 that
the Know Nothings are a Set of Spanish In
quisitors who administer' to eacli other the
most horrid and blasphemous oaths; who tram
ple upon the Constitution; and who 'are' bent
upon destroying our Iilx-rties. We must tell
them that they infL'Tid to:-wige war upon the
Dutch, Irish,-Germans 'alid all others who
come to our shores, and externiiti ito !y fire
aud sword all who are not so lucky as to be "in
the rin." Horrille picture! Demons and
traitors mingle congenially .-together to work
this terriblo mischief. This kind of language
is frequently addressed to such as they know
aro credulous and easily frightened; and so
often is the story repeated, that they who: ut
ter it: verily believe .it . themselves! .These
dreadful creat ions prey npoa theirniiuds they
can neither have repose; sleeping or waking;
ami all the horrors of Mather's Salem, witch
craft tramps upon the heels of these t unfortu
nate anti-Know N othings in everything r they
say, think or do.
Noiv such a vast deal of trouble imaginary
and groundless, is a diro and calamitous in
tiiction upon these fellows, who are endeavor
ing to keep their party from disappearing in
the fogs of some tinknowi cavern.- They cre
ate these stories to frighten the timid, '.while
they laugh (we would give a quarter to see
one of them) in their sleeves at the very false
hood they invent to reach their objects. But
we return to say, that these spooks will soon
be tound out; aud thus they will exciaini:
'Othello's occupations gone!"
THE DEATH OF ME. CLAES.
Mr. C. McCrea, who is now confined at Fort
Levenworth, on the charge of murder, for
killing Malcom Clark in Kansas, has written a
long letter to his father-in-law, in which he
endeavors to explain and vindicate his course,
lie says that a public jnecting was held, at
which a difficulty occurred between the par
iB, Olsirk and, McCrea, when the former at
tacked the latter w ith pistols and bowie knives,
and before he (Mr. McC.) could get out of his
way, his head was cut and his collar bouc frac
tured. C McCrea then seized his revolver,
ail as soon as he' recovered his balance, turn
ed. He continues :
Clark raised his stick a third time, and was
about to deal me another blow, while another
Missourian was nearly in a lino with him be
hind, and trying to fire at me.
I instantly fired at Clark, utiiking him about
the middle of the bod- the man w ith the pis
tol turned to run, but learning by the sliout.s of
Clark, who dropped his click, ' Kill him, kill
him ; I'm shot through and through," he turn
ed and fired at me ; his ball passed under my
right arm, and another shot was fired, giving
me a slight wound. -' The immediate rlight of
the first who fired at me, and the great dis
tance of the second, prevented the necessity of
my firing another shot before my friends ral
lied around me, aud they being as well armed
as my assailants, prevented any further assault
upon me. A warrant was got out by Mr.
Eames, my best friend, and I was brought here
rather for security than confinement. I have
Lccn waiting till after the clectiuc which took
place in the rejected districts the day before
yesterday. . : 1
No trick, has been-left untried; even two
Missouri lawyers volunteerd to serve me, in
order to encompass, my lifq and assassinate
me. I have been told that my wife was sick
and dying, with an ofter of a writ of habeas
corpus (a forged one,) to get me out. A mes
senger waited upon her, (my wife) whom I
had seen an hour before, to inform her that I
had directed, her to sell her furniture, go to
Iowa, and not to trouble herself by trying to
see me, as no one was or would be admitted
except this favored messenger; but, she hav
ing been admitted at all times except the first,
detected the villain, and informed him of tho
fact, with a request for his absence.
There are some twenty-five or thirtj' per
sons w ho can testify to the facts which 1 have
stated as to the nature of my defence;
I shall apply for an examination soon, so .as
to bo admitted to bail, that I may go to work,
as I dare not practice my profession at present.
LAW OF PENNSYLVANIA.
A further supplement tomi at to amend and con
solidate with its supplements the act entitled
An act for the recovery of debts and demands
"not execing obo hundred dollars before a jns
ticoof the peace, and for the election of consta
bles and ' for other purposes." approved the
' twentieth of March, one thousand eight hundred
and ten. . - -
Sec. 1. Be it enacted,. &c, That from and
after the first day of July next,' no action
brought before a justice of the peace or alder
man, shall be referred to referees, unless by
thc agreement or express assent of both par
ties to the action or their agents, which agree
ment or assent shall be noted by such justice
or alderman upon his docket.
Sec. 2. That no special allowance or writ of
certiorari to a justice of the peace or alder
man, shall be held requisite to tho mainte
nance of such writ.
Sec. 3. That from and after the passage of
this act, all summons issued by any alderman
or justice of the peace may designate the hours
of the day, by which the same shall be return
able, and if citlier of the parties fail to appear
during the time so designated, it shall be lawr
ful for the said alderman or justice of the peace
to render judgment, or otherwise determine
the same as is provided by lay.
Approved April 2Gth, 18 j.
Pnics or a Broken Heart. The lato Rob
ert C. Sauds sued for damages in case of
breach of promise of marriage. He was offer
ed two hundred pounds to heal his broken
heart. Two hundred !" he exelaimed ; "two
hundred for ruined hopes, a blasted life ! Tw o
hundred for all this? No never ! Make it
three hundred, and it's a bargain I"
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