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-BY S. B. BOW.
CLEARFIELD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 185G.
VOL. 2.-JT0. 50.
THE MAIDEX'S COMPLAINT.
I really think it is a shame
A woman can't propose,
Instead of waiting the caprice
Of obstinate young beaux ;
Our fooliwh custom ne'er allows
A timid maid to choose.
But she must listen to man's choico,
Then take him or refuse.
They tell us that when leap year conies,
This privilege we hare ;
But 'tis an idle tale I vow
AVe're nothing but man's slave.
I wish some one would make a law, '
To take effect direct,
That man should henceforth sit,
And woman should select.
"Why, if a woman now declines,
If asked some time or other,
And thus let one proposal slip,
She ne'er may get another;
But man can poke hi3 nose around,
And pick where he's inclined to,
Or he can let the matter pass,
Just as he has a mind to.
It clearly is a shameful thing,
To say the least about it.
That man alone should have a choice
Mnlo bipeds, do you doubt it ?
If custom gives the van to man,
Why don't they do their duty.
And pop the question, sans delai,
To every smiling beauty.
A ROMAXTIC STORY.
Some twenty years ago a young man whom
I shall call "Jamie," was the pastor of a large
congregation of the established Church of
Scotland. At school and at college he was
distinguished for his love of learning, and as
a minister was distinguished for his eloquence
and mental attainments. lie had been set
tled about a year, and was upon the eve of be
ing married to a fine young woman whom he
had loved from childhood, when the heritors
and several English gentlemen who were then
on a visit to the North, attended the kirk to
hear the famous preacher. He more than ver
ified his fame; he enraptured his audience.
His theme was the story of his church. Its
many disastrous wars, its martyrs, its undying
hopes, even when despair seemed to shroud it
in endless night, its unwearied toils, and its
final triumphs, were each in turn presented to
the minds of the hearers, with a power and
feeling which defy description. lie stood the
genius of eloquence personified. But there
was one among his hearers who was not bewil
dered by his glowing pictures.
The gentle hearted Belle, his betrothed,
when the congregation "dispersed, followed
him to the manse. He received her in his
study, but while conducting her to the chair
she sank to the floor and burst into tears.
"O Jamie !" she exclaimed, as he raised her
tenderly in his arms, and seated her on a sofa,
"ye has broken my puir heart!"
'IIow so, my Belle ! explain."
"Ye were drank, Jamie, and I wonder the
ciders did nae tak ye o' the pulpit ! Ye whin
ed aud ranted, and sometimes, God forgive
me for saying sac, I thought I saw the evil one
standing behind you, laughing and clapping
you on the shoulder. My poor brain reeled
I was mad and knew it I'm mad now I
cannalive out this day I feel my blood freeze.
Oh, God be merciful to me a sinner, and save,
oh, save my Jamie !"
Her head reclined upon his bosom, she ga
zed upon him for a moment, and expired in
his arms.
He had preached his last sermon. No en
treaties of a congregation who loved him no
flattering offers of future preferment tendered
by the gentry, could induce him to resume
his labors as minister.
Five or six years passed, when the writer of
this, who was his schoolfellow, accidentally
met him in London. Jamie was then one of
the principal teachers in a large educational
establishment, and was highly esteemed for
his moral excellence of character, as well as
his learning and skill as a successful teacher.
He was dressed in deep mourning, shunned
society, and when the labors of the day closed
he either wandered alone through the streets,
or retired to his lodgings. The scene of Belle's
death was ever present to his memory.
Her pure soul, he said, saw him as he was,
a poor, vain, self-conceited sinner. For the
purpose of concentrating his thoughts, and in
fusing life into his sermons, he was in the hab
it of taking a glass of whiskey before enter
ing the pulpit. The morning belorc he preach
ed the fatal sermon he felt rather nervous, for
he knew there would be strangers to hear him,
and he took nearly two glasses. What he said
or how he conducted himself no eflort could
recall the death of Belle alone had merged
in itself the doings of that fearful day. The
compliments which he received sounded in
his cars like satire and mockery, and the very
name ofliquor impressed him with horror.
He left home and came to London, where he
-Vtained a situation as a teacher; but every
thing appeared so black tohimthat he expres
sed fear he should, in some unguarded mo
ment destroy himself.
His iriend, w ho was a sailor, suggested sonic
active employment that would call into play
his physical faculties, and thus give his mind
a resting spell, before the mast in a ship.
"I like your suggestion," said he, "but I
dislike the sea."
"Then turn soldier and seek employment in
India, where there is always plenty of fight
ing." "I will," he said springing from his chair,
when my engagement expires. I will pur
chase an ensign's commission. I wonder the
thought never suggested itself to me, for my
ancestors, as far back as I can trace them,
were soldiers. Better, far better die in the
field of battle than by one's own hand." We
separated.
A few weeks since in running my eye along
the list of those who had distinguished them
selves at the battle of Inkerman, I saw the
name of Lieut. Col. . A letter from my
friend has since informed me that he had
served in India, with Lord Gough, and was
promoted for his gallant conduct in three
campaigns. He was present at the battle of
Alma, iialaklava and Inkerman, and at last ac
counts was in good health, engaged in the
siege of Sevastopol. He was still single ; his
heart was dead to love.
ABOUT THOSE BOOTS.
'Who dares those pair of boots displace
Must meet Bombastus faco to face.'
Recalling an old laugh the other day and try
ing to remember what caused it, we bethought
ourselves of an adventure that poorB (dead
now) was very fond of relating in years past.
It occurred on board the "Lexington'" on one
of her up passages from New York to Provi
dence. The hero was a Vermont lad of twenty-five,
sharp enough in a horse trade, but ve
ry verdant in everything else, who had just
sold a string of nags in New York, and was
now working round home via Providence and
Boston. He "turned in" pretty early, and
"turned out" again about sunriso the next
morning, with the idea of "going up stairs,"
as he called it. Soon after ho had put on his
coat and hat, the passengers were astonished
by a hedious outcry from "Varmount."
-"What's the matter ?" said a quizzical look
ing gentleman in green glasses.
"Matter ? matter enough, I reckon !" said
Yankee. Here's somo onrighteous individ
ual has gone and stole my bran new cowhide
butes ; cost me twenty-two York shillin's ;
and left me these ere slippers, made out o'
yaller dog skin, not worth a darn ?"
"Hush!" said the man with green glasses ;
"don't speak so loud. It's a common occur
rence on board this boat. Some of the nig
gers must have done it. Did you never notice
that all the steamboat niggers go well shod ?"
"Wall I have, old boss ! and that accounts
for it, hey ? Speak ! speak out ! It does ac
count for it, hey ?"
"Hush ! Yes if does."
"Wall, I'll holler cap'n,' and get the boat
stopped till I find my butes cost me twenty
two shillin's, York I will, by gravy ?"
"No, no ! don't make a row. If you do, the
theft'll throw 'em overboard. No, no ! you
watch the niggers, and when you find the de
linquent, take him to the captain's office and
make him settle."
"I'll settle him ! I ain't goin' to throw a
way a pair of twenty-two shillin' butes, no
how."
It affords much amusement to the man in
green glasses and his cronies to see the Yan
kee shuffling and scuffling about the cabin in
yellow slippers, dogging every darkey and ex
amining his feet. After a weary search, ho
came to his tortucnter, and said :
"I'm going up stairs to pirate around there,
and see if I can trail 'em."
So up he went and the cabin passengers
could hear his heavy tread, and scuff of his
slippers all over the deck. By and by he came
down again, just as a shiny African, with a
pair of polished boots in his hand, went to
wards 93, the Yankee's berth. Just as he was
drawing aside the curtain, to peep in "Var
mount," lit on him like a fierce "cat, seizing
him by the scruff of the neck, and yelling :
"I've cotched you, you double distilled es
sence of Day and Martin boiled down to the
spirits of darkness, and mixed up with the hy
persulphate of rascality ! After my wallet,
was you 1 Come along with uie !"
"Lem me go," said the indignant darkey
struggling to get free from the iron grasp of
his antagonist.
"Not .as you knows on, you rambunctious
old wool grower!" said the indignant Yankee.
"I've handled severer colts than you be."
And he dragged the terrified black up the cab
in stairs, followed at a safe distance by the gen
tleman in green glasses and bis companions.
Bringing the culprit before the Captain, he
told his story, and agreed to abide by his de
cision. Of course an explanation followed,
with a verdict for the defendant, and the plain
tiff sentenced topay nine-pence to the injur
ed African.
"Sold, by maple!" said Varmount.'
Here, nigger, here's a quarter, and give me
the butes ; but if I can kitch that chap in the
green goggles, pickle m ! if I don't heave
him into the Sound !"
It is needless to say that while the boots
were only half on, the gentleman in green glas
ses disappeared, ami was the first man to make
himself scarce when the boat touched the
wharf of Providence.
A nobleman was one night at a theatre in a
side box, when a person entered the same box
in boots and spurs. The duke arose from his
seat, and with great ceremony, expressed his
thanks to the stranger, who, somewhat confu
sed, desired to know for what reason he recei
ved those thanks. The Duke gravely replied,
for not bringing your horse into the box.'
As a man lives, so shall he die ;
As a tree falls, so shall it lie.
ORIGIX OF FILIBUSTERS.
Toward the end of the 17th and the begin
ning of the 18th century, before the English
navy had acquired a decided supremacy over
the fleets of the other maritime powers of Eu
rope, the seas were infested by gangs of pi
rates who treated the flags of all nations with
contempt. In consequence of the naval pow
er of Spain, bands of adventurers were form
ed, particularly on the shores of the Atlantic,
who at first were tolerated and even supported
by the powers hostile to Spain, but afterwards
turned their arms against their protectors, and
plundered indiscriminately the vessels of ev
ery country se unfortunate as to come within
their reach. They were called FillUmstcrs,
and their principal place of concealment was
in the bays and inlets abounding on the coast
of San Domingo, where they obtained assis
tance and recruits from among the half-civilized
Buccaucros.
The first fillibustcrs were Frenchmen, pos
sessing nothing but their daring courago,
which conducted them to fortune or the gal
lows. One of them, named Legrand, from Di
eppe, assembled fifty chosen and determined
followers, and sought his fortune in a bark,the
name of which was never known. Not far
from Spain, they spied a galleon, which had
separated itself from the Spanish fleet. They
approached her as if they were going to sell
fish or fruits. Legrand and his band boarded
her, entered the cabin of the Captain, w ho was
playing cards, put a pistol to his head, forced
him and his crew to surrender, and then re
turned with his booty to Dieppe. This adven
ture, says a cotemporary writer, was the first
of a series of the most incredible enterprises
during the following forty years.
French, Dutch and English Fillibustcrs used
to assemble in their hiding places, in the Is
lands of San Domingo and Saint .Kitts, and
choose from their number a chief for each ex
pedition. When they had gathered a large
amount of booty, they bought a small vessel
armed with canons, with which they captured
ships by hundreds. It was hard to escape
them, and still harder to pursue them. They
resembled ravens pouncing upon their prey
from all quarters and then disappearing in
nooks and retreats impossible of access by their
pursuers. They often laid waste the coast for
a distance of 500 miles, and have ventured fre
quently into the interior a distance of 200
miles.
In this way they over-ran and plundered the
rich towns of Chegrcs, Mecaizabo, Vera Cruz,
Panama, and the suburbs of Carthagcna. One
of the number, called Olonaias, came to the
very gates of Havana, with 20 men. When he
and his companions had returned to their ship,
the Governor dispatched a vessel of war, with
soldiers and hangman on board, to pursue
them. Olonaias took possession of the Span
ish man-of-war, beheaded the soldiers with his
own hand, and sent the hangman back with
his compliments to the Governor.
Whenever they captured a ship, they gener
ally forced a portion of the crew to take ser
vice along with them, in this manner filling up
the vacancies in their ranks made by the ene
my's bullets. In most cases, however, com
pulsion was not needed ; the adventurous life,
and the prospect of rich booty, proving suffi
cient attraction to induce the greater number
of sailors to join their party of their own ac
cord. The term "fillibustering" is now used to
designate such expeditions as the one to Cuba
and Walker's to Nicaragua.
HOOPED PETTICOATS.
This is no new invention, as fashionable
dress-makers would fain have us believe, but
dates back to the time of Queen Anne. We
find the following account of the origin of
hooped petticoats, in an article on the Histo
ry of Female Dress," published in the Ameri
can. 3Iagazinc, of November, 1740, one bun
dled and ten years ago. So it appears that
our great-great-grand-mothers were as fash
ionable as the belles now-a-days :
"On resuming the War under Queen Anne,
the sprightly Gauls set their little wits to work
again, and invented a wonderful machine,
commonly called a Hoop Fellicoal. In this
fine scheme they had more views than one ;
they had compared their own climate and con
stitution with that of the British ; and finding
both warmer, they naturally enough conclu
ded that would only be ploasingly cool to
them, which would perhaps give the British
ladies the Rheumatism ; and that if they once
got them off their legs, they should have them
at advantage. Besides, they had been infor
med, though falsely, that the British ladies
had not good legs, and then, at all events,
this scheme would expose them. Withthese
pernicious views, they set themselves to work
and formed a Rotund, of near 7 yards about,
and sent the pattern over by the Sussex Smug
glers, with an intent that it should be seized,
and exposed to. public view ; w bich happened
accordingly, and made its first appearance at
the Great Man's house on that coast, whose
Lady claimed it as her peculiar property. In
it she first struck at Court, what the learned
in dress call, a bold stroke ;, and was there
upon, constituted General of the British ladies
during the war. Upon the whole, this inven
tion did not answer ; the ladies suffered a lit
tle the first winter, but after that, were so
thoroughly hardened, that they improved
upon the contrivers, by adding near two yards
to its extension ; and the Duke of Marlborough
having, about the same time, beat the French,
the Gallick ladies dropt their pretensions, and
left the British' mistresses of the field ; the to
kens whereof are wore in triumph to this day,
having outlasted the colors in Westminister
Hall, and almost flic great generals glory.
ACCEPTANCE OF COL. FREMOXT.
New York, July 8, 185G.
Gentlemen : You call me to a high respon
sibility by placing mo in the v?n of a great
movement of the people of the United States,
who, without regard to past differences, are u
niting in a common effort to bring back the
action of the Federal Government to the prin
ciples of Washington and Jefferson. Compre
hending the magnitude of the trust which they
have declared themselves willing to place in
my hands, and deeply sensible to the honor
which their , unreserved confidence in this
threatening position of the public affairs im
plies, I feel that I cannot better respond, than
by a sincere declaration that, in tho event of
my election to the Presidency, I should enter
upon the execution of its duties with a single
hearted determination to promote the good of
the whole country, and to direct solely to this
end the whole power of the Government, ir
respective of party issues, and regardless of
sectional strifes. The declaration of princi
ples embodied in the resolves of your Conven
tion, expresses the sentiments in which I have
been educated, and which have been ripened
into convictions by personal observation and
experience. With this dcclaratiou and avow
al, I think it necessary to revert to only two
of the subjects embraced in these resolutions,
and to those only because events have sur
rounded them with grave and critical circum-
stances,and given to them especial importance.
I concur in the views of the Convention dep
recating the foreign policy to which it adverts.
The assumption that we have a right to take
from another nation its domains because we
want thcm,is a direct abandonment of the hon
est character which our country has acquired.
To provoke hostilities by unjust assumptions
would be to sacrifice the peace and character
of the country when all its interests might be
more certainly secured and its objects attain
ed by just and healing counsels, involving no
loss of reputation.
International embarrassments are mainly the
results of a secret diplomacy which aims to
keep from the knowledge of the people the op
erations of the Government. This system is
inconsistent with the character of our institu
tions, and is itself yielding gradually to a more
enlightened public opinion, and to the power
of a free press, which, by its broad dissemina
tion of political intelligence, secures in ad
vance to the side of justice the judgment of
the civilized world. An honest, d m and open
policy in our lorcign relations would command
the united support of the nation, whose delib
erate opinions it would necessarily reflect.
Nothing is clearer in the history of our in
stitutions than the design of the nation in as
serting its own independence and freedom, to
avoid giving countenance to the extension of
Slavery. The influence of the small, but com
pact aud powerful class of men interested in
slavery ,who command one section of the coun-
try,and wield a vast political control as a con
sequence in the other, is now directed to turn
back this impulse of the Revolution and re
verse its principles. The extension of Slavery
across the Continent is the object of the pow
er which now rules the Government ; and from
this spirit has sprung those kindred wrongs in
Kansas, so truly portrayed in one of your res
olutions, which prove that the elements of tho
most arbitrary governments have not been van
quished by the just theory of our own.
It would be out of place here to pledge my
self to any particular policy that has been sug
gested to terminate the sectional controversy
engendered by political animosities, operated
upon by a powerful class banded together for
a common interest. A practical remedy is the
admission of Kansas into the Union as a free
State. The South should, in my judgment,
earnestly desire such consummation. It would
vindicate its good faith it would correct the
mistake of the repeal of the act known as the
Missouri compromise ; and the North, having
practically the benefit of the agreement be
tween the two sections.would be satisfied, and
good feeling be restored. The measure is per
fectly consistent with the honor of the South,
and vital to its interest. That fatal act which
gave birth to this purely sectional strife,origi
nated in tho scheme to take from free labor
the country secured to it by a solemn covenant,
cannot be too soon disarmed of its pernicious
force. The only genial region of the middle
latitudes left to the emigrants of the Northern
States for homes cannot be conquered from
free laborers, who have so long considered it
as set apart for them in our inheritance, with
out provoking a desperate struggle.
Whatever may be the persistence of the par
ticular class which seems ready to hazard eve
rything for the success of the unjust scheme
it ha partially effected, I firmly believe that
the great heart of the nation, which throbs
w-itb the patriotism of tho free men of both
sections, will have power to overcome it.
They will look to the rights secured to them
by the Constitution of the Union, as their best
safeguard from the oppression pf the class
which by a monopoly of the soil, and of slave
labor to till it might in time reduce them to
the extremity of laboring upon the same terms
with the slaves. The great body of non-slave-
holding freeman, including those of theSoulh,
upon whose welfare Slavery is an oppression,
will discover that the power of the general
Government over the public lands may be ben
eficially exerted to advance their interests and
secure their independence. Knowing this,
their suflrages will not be wanting to maintain
that authority in the Union which is absolute
ly essential to the maintenance of their own
liberties, and which has more than once indi
cated the purpose of disposing of the public
lands in snch a way as would make every set
tler upon them a free-holder.
If the people entrust to me the adminisi ra
tion of the Government, the laws of Congress
iu relation to the Territories will bo faithfully
cxecuted. All its authority will be exerted in
aid of the national will to re-establish the peace
of the country on the just principles which
have heretofore received the sanction of the
Federal Government, of the States, and of the
people of both sections. Such a policy would
leave no ailment to that sectional party- which
seeks its aggrandizement by appropriating the
new Territories to capital in the form of Slave
ry, but would inevitably result in the triumph
of free labor the natural capital which con
stitutes the real wealth of this great country,
and creates that intelligent power in the mas
ses alone to be relied on as the bulwark of
free institutions.
Trusting that I have a heart capable of com
prehending our whole country, with its varied
interests, and confident that patriotism exists
in all parts of the Union, I accept the nomi
nation of your Convention, in the hope that 1
may be enabled to servo usefully its cause,
which I consider the cause of Constitutional
Freedom.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
J. C. Fremont.
To Messrs. II. S. Lane, President of the
Convention; James M. Ashley, Anthony J.
Blecckcr, Joseph C. Hornblowcr, E. R. Hoar,
Thaddeus Stevens, Kingsley S. Bingham, John
A. Wills, C. F. Cleveland, Cyrus Albiicb, a
Committee, &c.
IIOXESTY AXD TRUST.
The following pleasmt anecdote is from
"Glances and Glimpses," a new book by Dr.
Harriet K. Hunt, who was once a teacher in
Boston :
A cousin of mine in Charleston, having
passed away, it became proper that I should
attend her funeral. It was school afternoon.
I did not dismiss the scholars, and as they al
ways disliked a monitor, I hit upon the fol
lowing plan of leaving them :
I placed in the chair a large, old-fashioned
slate (it had been my father's,) wrote on it the
name of the scholars in the order iu which
they sat ; arranged the needle work and read
ing for I always had fcomething interesting
read aloud by some older pupil every after
noon ; and then said :
"Now, children, when the clock strikes five,
leave your seats orderly, go to my chair and
place on the slate, by each of your names, a
rxrr for good behaviour, and a cross for bad.
When I return, I shall anxiously look at the
slate, and in the morning, when you arc all as
sembled, I will read the list aloud that every -thingmay
bo confirmed. But I trust in you !"
On my return I visited the school-room, and
found but one cross on the slate, and that
where I least expected it, appended to the
name of a beautiful, open, bright, brave cliild,
who then promised much for the world the
fact of her having rich parents being her great
est drawback. She was the last child in the
school I should have thought capable of any
misconduct. Well, the next morning came ;
the list was read ; it proved truthful, but when
I came to this name, I said :
My dear child, you must explain ; why is
this? what did you do ?"
Looking up to me with those sculful eyes,
and speaking with a soulful tone, which always
made her an object of sacred interest, she re
plied :
'I laughed aloud ; I laughed more than
once ; I couldn't help it, because a slate teas
keeping school."
How to Cultivate Tomatoes. Tomatoes
are benefitted by shortening in. Three-fourths
of the mature fruit is produced upon a small
part of the vine nearest the root, say one-third
or one-fourth of its length. It is recommen
ded to stop the further development of vines
after a fair supply of fruit is set, by clipping
off the vine growing beyond. The clipping
should not be carried too far, as a supply of
foliage is required to gather food from the air.
One of the most successful cultivatorsin our
acquaintance made it a rule to let no vine ex
tend beyond four feet from its root.
In Bosnia, India, according to the Kev. Mr.
Walpole, any man of that place who may bo
inclined to matrimony, if he happened to be
pleased with any of the girls w hom he sees in
passing, throws an cmbrcidcrcd handkerchief
on her head and neck ; the girl is then obliged
to return home, regards herself as betrothed,
and appears no more in public!
There are mow five persons in tho Blair
county jail charged with murder.
CLEARFIELD, PA., JULY 50, 1S5C.
The following letter was intended for last
week's paper, but was delayed on the way un
til after our publication day. En. Journal.
LETTER FROM PHILADELPHIA.
Mocnt Vernon House, July 21, 1S56.
friend Row .- I presume that ere you re
ceive this letter, you will have seen a detailed
account of the circumstances connected with
the late horrible catastrophe on tho North
Pennsylvania Railroad, near this city, which
exceeds, in rfs frightful features, even tho
burning of the steamboat New Jersey. It has
spread a gloomy pall over the entire city, and
since its occurrence but little else has been
thought of or talked about. A large amount
of money has been subscribed, for the relief
of the sufferers the sick, the wounded, tho
widow, and the fatherless. Tho guests, boar
ders and employees of the Mount Vernon
House made a very handsome donation, for
which manifestation of their sympathy they
deserve great credit. (We Were not a contrib
utor, and can thus speak of it, as it deserves,
without being charged with egotism.) By tho
way, both the Mount Vernon and its accom
modating proprietor are in a highly prosper
ous condition, and notwithstanding the op
pressive heat, the house is well filled with
guests. It would be impossible to stop with
a more obliging, clever fellow, or at a bouso
where you will be better waited upon and at
tended to. The jteople of Clearfield manifest
their good sense in so extensively patronizing
the Mount Vernon. Wc had rather a singular
accident hero last night. A man, some sixty
or seventy years of age, employed for making
fires, &e., has been in the habit, during tho
warm weather, of sleeping upon the top of the
house on the fiat. Last night, whilst asleep,
ho either rolled or walked off, and was precip
itated head-long to the ground, from a build
ing five stories and a half high ! Yet, singu
lar to say, the only injuries he has apparently
sustained are a flesh wound on ono arm, and a
few bruises on the hack! Ho is doing well,
and is expected to recover.
Business here is very dull, of course, and
the weather is intensely hot. Last Friday, tho
mercury was up to 101 ! Sherry cobblers, ico
cream and soda water, are going down in about
the same ratio that the mercury rises, and ev
ery body seems to le bvsily engaged trying to
keep cool. Dreams of Kamskatchka and tho
Arctic Regions, of sea bathing and mountain
breezes, utterly fail to keep up the animal
spirits as high as the mercury, and one is al
most Jed to believe that the clerk of the weath
er, overcome by the heat, has ftilen to sleep,
and the thermometer gone on a spreCi
The political battle wages hot, and Buchan
an stock is decidedly below par. A frequent
topic of conversation, is the exceedingly low
schedule of prices which the Judiciary of tho
District of Columbia have prepared, to foster
that important br. nch of business. For ex
ample, at the low price of $000, one may now
beat a Senator almost to death, and stain tho
floor of tho Senate-house with his blood, for
words spoken in debate. The maintenance of
such riiflianism has become one of the new
Democratic doctrines, and should that party
succeed, they will doubtless turn the Senato
chamber into a gladiatorial amphitheatre.
The opposition to the present Administra
tion, in this city, as miht be expected, is de
cidedly for Fillmore. This is easily account
ed for by their affinities to Southern trade,
though there are many of them, doubtless, ac
tuated by more patriotic motives.
It seems that Mr. Van Buren is about to
learn something that he ought to have knowli
long ago : that it is very easy for a man to lead
a large party astray, but not so easy to drivo
them back again, or in other words, that, not
withstanding the late coup d' clot from Kinder
hook, the Democratic Free Soilers of New
York refuse to follow the old bell wether,"
and have called a State Convention, to meet
on the 21th inst., from which Mr. Buchanan
and his party may anticipate some startling
results. -
The Whig State Convention ot Virginia,
which has just adjourned, has called a Nation
al Old Line Whig Convention at Baltimoro on
the third Wednesday of September. Tho
Virginia Convention supports Fillmore, as a
Whig, and the movement at Baltimore is des
tined to exert an important influence n tho
result of the contest.
I see your neighbor" don't like one of tho
speeches delivered recently at the exhibition
of the Academy. From the statements made
in regard to Col. Fremont's gastronomic ac
complishments, if he is elected, the sapient
editor, should he visit Washington, had better
keep away from the President's levee, for it
is hinted that, among other things, the Col. is
addicted to ealiug poodles, jackasses, and such
like cattle. If his choice is made from the
length of the cars, I very much fear your
neighbor" would be in danger.
- Yonrs, .X.
Decency is a matter of latitude; In Turkey
a man with tight pants on is considered so
great a vulgarian that he is not tolerated in
respectable society. To Fpit In presence of
an Arab is to make the acquaintance of his
cheese-knife. In Russia that man is consid
ered low who refuses a warm breakfast of fried
Caudles. In this country, vulgar people aro
uch as keep good hours and live witiin their
income. So wags the world.