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CLEARFIELD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1856:
VOL. 3-AT0. 0.
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"MASON AND DIXON'S LINE."
From the National Intelligencer.
These are words which, it may well be said
without poetry, have been for years past more
familiar in men's mouth's than even the most
distinguished of the gallant band who shed
their blood with Prince Ilal on the memorable
'feast of Cnspian ; but we doubt whether one
In ten thousand of those who have been in the
habit of repeating them ever took the trouble
of inquiring how they originated or what they
meant. This was a task for the curious seeker
Into musty records and the forgotten annals of
our colonial history ; and the knowledge of
them which has been recently unveiled is one
of the happy results of the many Historical
Societies scattered over our Union. Their
learned and laborious researches have already
illustrated many obscure passages in our early
history; for, young as our nation yet is, the
country is old enough to bear within its bosom
many monuments of race iufinitely superior
In all the arts of life to the aborigines found
hereby Columbus, Cahot, or Smith, showing
antecedents of a nature and character to ex
cite the interest not only of Americans, but of
the world ; which but for their profound inves
tigations might have remained, like the origin
of the Gipsies, unknown to the present day.
If it had been made a penal oilence in any one
to utter a phrase or a word of which he could
rtot interpret the meaning, what a multitude
of culprit's wonld "Mason and Dixon's Line"
have caused to be called before the tribunal of
Justice ! And what a crowd of mingled fecl
iDgs must the repetition of them awaken in
those who can remember the evil uses made of
them by the lovers and promoters of excite
ment for excitement's sake! Those words,
we verily believe, bad as much to do in brfng
ing about the first sectional disputes and jeal
ousies as any other taunt, or all other irrita
ting taunts together, ever uttered by North or
tsouth against each other. They were the war
cry of Round-Heads and Cavaliers ; the tocsin
that invited demagogues, in and out of Con
gress to civil discord the menace of sepcrate
and independent empire. And yet there nev
er were words of more harmless import in
their origin and meaning. If the venerable
men who crossed the Atlantic for the sole pur
pose of laying down this invisible and inno.
cent line, which has given immortality to their
names, could have foreseen "to what base u
scs" it wonid be brought, we are persuaded,
little as we know of their characters, that e
ven a royal mandate would have failed in mov
ing them to undertake it.
For our attention being brought at this time
to the geographical significance "f this famous
lino we are indebted to the researches of Mr.
John II. B. Latrobe, of Baltimore, a gentle
man whose profound acquirements and litera
ry taste have contributed much to enrich the
common stock of knowledge. The subject
was chosen by him for an address before the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania ; and as
we presume but a very limited number of co
pies were printed for distribution, we shall not
subject ourselves to the charge of carrying
figs to Athens if we quote a f3W passages from
it for the benefit of our readers. Speaking of
the political tarn given to a purely geographi
cal question, he says :
"A consequence cf this state of tilings has
been to perpetuate the memory of the old sur
veyors who established it a rare good fortune
as regards their fame ; for, while the engineers
who located the road across the Simp'on have
been forgotten in the all-absorbing renown of
the master whom they served ; while, f the
thousands who sail past the Eddystonc, not
one perhaps knows who it was that erected, on
a crag in the midst of the sea, the wondrous
light-house that has now defied the tempests
of a century ; while oblivion has been the lot
of other benefactors of mankind, whose works,
of every-day utility, should Lave been their
enduring monuments. Charles Mason and Jer
emiah Dixon, who eighiy-six years ago, ran a
line through the forest, until the Indians for
bade the further progress of chain and com
pass, and whose greatest merit seems to have
been that of accniate surveyors, have obtain
ed a notoriety for their names as lasting as the
history of our country."
It was in 1763 that the proprietaries of Penn
islvania and Maryland agreed with CharlcsMa
Bon and Jeremiah Dixon to survey the bounda
ry between their respective grants ; and these
'two mathematicians or surveyors" landed in
Philadelphia in November of the same year,
and entered at once upon the work agreed up
on. According to their own account their new
line did not vary an inch eastward of that
which had been established by previous sur
veyors ; "so that, after all," says Mr. Latrobe,
f'thc sighting along poles and the rude chain
measurements of 1761 and 1762 would have
answered every purpose, had the proprietors
only thought so."
He gives a minute aecount of the progress
of this work from time to time, and thus con
tinues :
"The lines whose history has thus been giv
en were directed to be marked in a particular
manner, both by the agreements of the parties
and the decree of Lord Hardwicke ; and the
surveyors accordingly planted, at the end of
every filth mile, a stone graven with the arms
of the Penns on one side and of the Baltimore
family on tho other, marking the intermediate
."piles with smaller stones having a P on one
side and and an M on the other. The stones
with the arms were all sent from England
This was done on the parallel of latitude as far
as Sideling Hill ; but here all wheel transpor
tation ceasing in 17C6, the further marking of
the line was the vista of eight yards wide,with
piles of stone on the chests of all the moun
tain ranges, built some eight feet high, as far
as the summit of the Allegheny, beyond which
the line was marked by posts, around which
stones and earth were thrown the better to
preserve them."
All the efforts of Mr. Latrobe to discover
some information in regard to the characters
and personal appearance of these two remark
able individuals proved fruitless. "Their let
ters," he says, "are the merest business let
ters, their journal is the most naked of re
cords," and he therefore amused himself by
divining their characters from their respective
autographs. From these he very ingeniously
deduces that "Mason was a cool, deliberate,
pains-taking man, never in a hurry ; a man of
quiet courage, who crossed the Monongahela
with fifteen men because it was his duty to do
so, though he would have much preferred
thrice the number at his heels." From Dix
on's signatute he infers "that he was a young
er man, a more active man ; a man of an im
patient spirit and a nervous temperament ;
just such a man as worked best with a sobcrsi-
ded colleague."
In a note he tells us that Lalandc, in his
IiibHographie Astronomique, says that Dixon
was born in a coal mine. lie died in Durham,
England, in 1777, but Mason survived him ten
years, and according to the Encyclopedia .4
mericana died in Pennsylvania in 1787. One
of the stones that which marked the north
cast corner of Maryland being undermined
by a brook, in the course of time fell, and was
removed to form a part of a chimney to a
neighboring farm-house. Upon the stone be
ing missed Mr. Latrobe says "the Legislatures
of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware took
the matter in hand, and a joint commission
was appointed, which, obtaining the services
of Lieut. Col. James D. Graham, a distinguish
ed officer of the Topographical Engineers of
the United States, caused the work of Mason
and Dixon to be reviewed as far as necessary.
Col. Graham's work corroberatcd in all impor
tant particulars the work of his predecessors.
Some errors were discovered, however."
By the correction of one of these errors the
State of Maryland giined an addition to her
territory of "one acre and eighty-tercn hun
dredths of an acre," but whether the loss foil
upon Pennsylvania or Delaware does not ap
pear. Another of the errors corrected was of
a rather singular character. Colonel Graham'
says in his report : "Mr. W. Smith, a gentle
man who has once served as a member of the
Legislature of Delaware, resided a full hall
mile within the State of Pennsylvania," and
Christiana church, by the same re-survey, was
found to be in Pennsylvania.
These are all curious facts, well worthy to
be made the subject of an address to any his
torical society ; and the manner in which Mr.
Latrobe executed his task shows the discrimi
nating judgment of the Pennsylvania society
in selecting an individual so every way com
petent to its satisfactory performance.
OIT BOTH SIDES.
The Vicksburg, Mississippi, Sentinel, a
strong Buchanan paper, says :
"We darf. and DEFY anv one to point to a
SINGLE VOTE that Mr. Buchanan ever gave,
during his Congressional career, involving the
question of slavery, that was not ON THE
SIDE OF THE SOUTH, and opposed to the
Abolitionists."
That is the way they electioneer for Bucha
nan in the South. Now, let us give a sample
of the way the thing is done at the North.
The Providence, Rhode Island, Post, also a
strong Buchanan paper, says :
"Mr. Buchanan sever uttered a word in
defence of SLAVERY, or whispered a word
in favor of its existence, or cast a vote which
any honest man could CONSTRUE into a wish
tO SCPr-ORT TtlE INSTITUTION" !"
Now, where docs Mr. Buchanan stand on
this question ? Or, is he on both sides ? Why
not ? He was a Federalist, then a Democrat
a free trade man, then a taritF man in favor
of Congressional power over Slavery in the
Territories, and then in favor of "squatter"
power. Why may he not be even slavery
propagandist in Mississippi, and an Abolition
ist in Rhode Island or Pennsylvania ? That is
the way Locofocoism seeks to cheat the peo
ple of the North into the support of Buchanan.
An Unlucky Day for TnEJi. In Ottawa,
Illinois, the following good one was got o3.
The Democrats had a grand rally and barbecue.
An Irishman went to some of the Democratic
leaders and, reprovingly, said :
"And sure didn't ye know betthcr than to
have a barbecue on Friday, when two-thirds of
the Dimocraiic party can't ale mate f"
The Democrats ought to have more respect
for their party than to appoint a barbecue on a
day when two-thirds of it "crn't ate mate."
At the Bay State Mills, in Lawrence, Mass.
there are annually manufactured 400, 000
shawls, valued at upwards of $1,500,000. The
mills consume 40,000 pounds of wool in a day,
or upwards of 12,000,000 per year, requiring
annually, the fleeces of at least 8,000,000
sheep.
Wno CONQUERED CALIFORNIA!
TESTIMONY OF JAMES BUCHAHAH.
The following highly interesting document
was received by a late steamer from England,
ft is a ccrtiGed copy of the evidence for the
defence in the case of Gibbs vs. Fremont, be
ing the copy of depositions taken before com
missioners under the authority of the Court of
Common Pleas, London, in 1852. It will be
remembered that Colonel Fremont was arrest
ed in London on account of debts contracted
in California. The defence was, that these
debts wero contracted on account of tho Uni
ted States Government. Col. Fremont drew
bills of exchange to the amount of nineteen
thousand five hundred dollars upon the Secre
tary of State of the United States, the liabili
ties having been incurred on Government ac
count while Col. Fremont was Governor of
California. The bills fell into the hands of
persons in London, and being protested for
non-acceptance, the holders sought t hold
Col. Fremont personally liable. The evidence
of James Buchanan, of Pennsylvania upon
whom, as Secretary of State, the bills were
drawn being considered material to the is
sue, the Court appointed Henry L. Gilpin,
Hugh Campbell and Peter McCall, of Phila
delphia, Commissioners to take depositions of
wituesses for Col. Fremont in Pennsylvania.
They were to be sworn and then administer
oaths to interpreters, clerks, &c. the testi
mony so taken to be sent under seal to Sir
James Parke, Chief Justice of the Common
Pleas.
MB. BTTCHAKAITS EVIDENCE.
James Buchanan, of the County of Lancas
ter, in the State of Pennsylvania, gentleman,
called, sworn and examined, as a witness on
the part of the said defendant, deposcth and
saith, to such of the several interrogatories as
are respectively distinguished by the number
set oppssite to, and placed at the commence
ment of each of his answers thereto, as fol
lows, that is to say :
Question. What is your name, your pres
ent residence, and your profession :
Answer. My name is James Buchanan, my
present residence is in Lancaster county, Pa.,
and I am not engaged in any particular occu
pation, business or employment.
Q. Do you know tho defendant in this
cause, and how long have you been acquainted
with him ?
A. I do know the defendant in this cause,
and have been acquainted with him at least ten
years.
Q. Where wero you residing in the year
1347 ?
A. In the city of Washington.
Q. Were you then personally acquainted
with the defendant ?
A I was.
Q. Did you see the defendant during that
year 1
A. I did sec the defendant during that
year, but not till after his return from Calilor
nia, in the latter end of summer or commence
ment of autumn of that year.
Q. Was the defendant then, or at any oth
er time, in the service of the Uuited States
Government ?
A. The defendant was in the service of the
U. S. Government as Lieut. Col. of the Regi
ment of Mounted Riflemen throughout the
whole of that year; he was appointed to this
ofuce in the latter end of May, 1840; he had
been for six or more years previously a Lieu
tenant in Ihe corps of Topographical Engi
neers, in which the brevet of Captain had been
conferred upon him for meritorious service in
his exploring expeditions.
Q. Did the defendant in the year 1847 hold
any, and if any, what office or offices under the
said Government, and did he hold the said of
fices or any of them, in the month of May,
1847 ?
A. During the whole year ho held the of
fice of Lieut. Col. in the regiment of Mounted
Riflemen.
Q. Do you know who was the Military Com
mandant and Governor of California, within
the territory of the United States in the year
1847 ?
A. I know that in the first months of that
year there was a dispute between Colonel Fre
mont, the defendant, and General Kearney, of
the United States army, as to which of them
was the legitimate Military Commandant and
Governor of California, and this dispute ex
isted throughout the month of March, 1847 ;
after this time General Kearney was the un
disputed Military Commandant and Governor
of California till the beginning of June, when
he was succeeded by Col. Mason, of the Uni
ted States Army, who continued in this posi
tion until after the end of the year.
Q. Do you know who was the person in
actual command of tho land forces of the Gov
ernment of tho United States in California in
the year 1847, and in the month of March in
that year ?
A. Col. Fremont, tho defendant, was in
California at the commencement of hostilities
between the United States- and the Republic
of Mexico ; he there raised and commanded
a battalion of California Volnnteers, consis
ting of about four hundred men ; his scrvi
ccswere valuable ; he bore a conspicuous part
in the conquest of California, and, in my opin
ion is better entitled to be called the CONQUE
ROR OF CALIFORNIA than any other man.
He continued in the actual command of the
battalion through the month of March, one
thousand tight hundred and forty-seven ; but
there were other troops in California, other
troops of the United States, under the com
mand of General Kearney, who was afterwards
the Military Commandant and Governor of
California, as I have already stated in my an
swer to the eighth interrogatory. I cannot un
dertake to decide the dispute to which I hare al
ready referred, between Col. Fremont and Cen.
Kearney; but as long as the California battal
lion existed, they were under tho separate and
independent commadd of Col. Fremont, while
Gen. Kearney commanded other troops of the
United States. For the rest of the year I re
fer to my next preceding answer.
Q. Do you know whether in any part of
that year, 1847, hostilities existed between
the Government cf the United States and the
Republic of Mexico ? If yea, when did such
hostilities commence, and how long did they
continue ?
A. Hostilities existed between the United
States and. the Republic of Mexico through
out the whole of the year 1847 these hostil
ities commenced on the 24th of April, 184C,
and tho existence of the war between the two
Republics was recognized by the act of Con
gress on the 13th of May, 1846. Hostilities
continued between them until the conclusion
of the Treaty of Peace of Guadaloupe Hidal
go, on the 2d of February, 1848.
Q- Were such hostilities existing in or
previous to the month of March, 1847 ?
A. They were, both in and previous to the
month of March, 1847.
Q. -Do you know whether any, and if any,
T.hat forces of the said United States were, in
the year 1847, engaged in hostilities with the
said Republic of Mexico?
A. All the forces of the United States
were engaged in tho hostilities with the Re
public of Mexico, except such as were indis
pensable for the performance of other duties;
and this throughout the year 1847.
Q. Were the said forces of the said Gov
ernment of the said United States, in Califor
nia, or any part of those forces, engaged in
the said hostilities with the Republic of Mex
ico in 1847
A. The forces of the United States in Cal
ifornia were engaged fn hostilities with the
Republic of Mexico in the year 1847.
Q- Under whose command were the forces
of the Government of the United States in
California so engaged in hostilities with the
said Republic of Mexico ?
A. These forces were under the command
of Commodore Robert F. Stockton, Colonel
Fremont, the defendant, and Gen. Kearney,
and afterwards Gen. Kearney and Col. Mason.
The last actual resistance, of which I am a
ware, was on tho Sth and 0th of January, 1817.
The forces of the United States in these en
gagements were so disastrous to the enemy
that the leaders of the Californians, a few days
thereafter, met Lieutenant Fremont, who was
in command of the battalion of California Vol
unteers and who was hastening to the scene
of action, but did not arrive in time to take
part in these engagements, and entered into
a capitulation with him, whereby the people
under arms and in the field agreed to disperse
and remain quiet and peaceable. There was
no actual battle fought afterwards in California
to my knowledge, but the state of war between
the two Republics continued, of course, till the
treaty of peace.
Q- Do you know whether any, and if any,
what forage or other necessaries were supplied
to or for the said forces of the said United
States so engaged in hostilities with the said
Republic of Mexico ? And particularly ,do you
know whether any such supplies were neces
sary for the forces of the defendant ? and if
any, what ?
A. I know not whether any, and if any,
what forage or other necessaries were supplied
to or for the said forces of the United States
so engaged in hostilities with the Republic of
Mexico; but I do know that such supplies were
necessary for the forces under the command of
the defendtnl, and that no appropriation had been
made by Congress to pay for these supplies.
Congress could not have anticipated that Col.
Fremont would raise a California battalion
by his own personal exertions, and without
previous instructions."
Here follows a series of questions and an
swers about the drawing of the bills in favor
of Ilultman & Co., of no public interest now
except the following :
Q. Do you know whether or not the defen
dant himself individually, or for his own pri
vate use or benefit, ever received any conside
ration for the said bills or any of them; or
was there any consideration whatever for the
drawing or the accepting of the same bills, or
any or cither of them, other than the said sup
plies to or for the United States ?
A. 1 neither know nor believe that the defen
dant himself individually, or for his own prirate
use or benefit, ever received any consideration for
said bills or any of them, and do not believe
there was any consideration whatever for draw
ing or accepting of the same bills, or any or
either of them, other than to procure supplies
for tho forces under his command inCalifornia.
fllere follow a number of other questions
anil answers in regard to the bills of Ilultman
& Co., of no public interest.
Q Is there within your knowledge, any o
tber matter or thing touching or concerning
the matters in issue in this cause, or the par
ties thereto material or necessary to be known
and adduced in evidence on the trial thereof?
If yes, state freely the particulars hereof.
A. To the best of my knowledge, the ori
ginals of the bills and the copies of which are
now produced and shown to me, and are here
to annexed, marked Nos. 1, 2, 3 and , were
presented at the State Department, in the City
of Washington, for acceptance and payment.
But I do not recollect the individual or indi
viduals by whom presented. should have ac
cepted and paid these bills, from my general
knowledge of Ihe transactions in California, had
Congress appropriated any money, and placed it
at my disposal, which cculd be applied to their
payment, though it would have been more correct
to have drawn these bills on the Secretary of War.
I should have accepted and paid these bills
and had them charged in account against Col.
Fremont, to be settled for at the general set
tlement of his account as Commander of the
California Battalion, bad any such appropria
tion been made ; I know of no other matter or
thing touching or concerning the matters at is
sue in this cause, or the parties thereto mate
rial or necessary to be known and addnced in
evidence of the trial theroot.
The last answer on cross-examination is as
follows :
I have gone through my answers to the in
terrogetories put to me in behalf of the defen
dant, John Charles Fremont, a id state that I
have answered the first, second, third, fourth,
fifth, sixth, seventh, tenth, eleventh, twelfth,
twenty-fourth and thirty-sixth from my own
knowledge and observation. I have answered
the eighth, ninth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fif
teenth, twenty-third and twenty-filth, not from
my own personal knowledge and observation,
but from my own close observation of the e
vents of the Mexican War as they occurred,
and from information derived from official doc
uments, as a member of the Cabinet of Presi
dent Polk, who was President of the United
States during the whole of the Mexican War.
My knowledge of the matters to which I have
deposed is derived from hearsay in no other
manner than I have hereinbefore stated. I
have stated that I have no knowledge of the
matters iuquired of in the other interrogato
ries. J AMfS liLUHANAJN
Henry D. GiLriN, i
Hugh Campbell, commissioners.
Peter McCall,
NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BUCK.
Francis P. Blair, of Maryland, in a letter to
his neighbors, speaking of the Buck's head
and horns, which the Buchanan men recently
raised above the American flag, near his resi
dence, gives this sketch of the natural history
of the animal :
"Of all animals the deer is the most timid,
and although the head of the buck is, at one
season of the year, armed with a multitude of
points as sharp as spears, it never confronts an
enemy that it can escape with flying feet.
Tho grand antlers are the mere emblem of
warlike prowess, and evidence only of that
species of gallantry that distinguishes the
stag, and gives to a class of gentry of our ?pe
cies, the name of bucks, young or old.
The old Buck is a sort of old bachelor, like
his fellow of the woods, addicted to no mate, j
and whose insignia of horns have, time out of
mind, been held to characterize his pursuits
Is this an ensign to be exalted above that of
the country, and chosen to exemplify the vir
tues of one who aspires to the Chief Magistra
cy ? If the crow ning virtue be attributed to
the coronet which distinguishes the old buck's
head, and which now takes the place of the lib
erty cap on Democratic banners, it should be
remembered that it is a virtue that comes and
goes with the seasons. An old buck's honors
begin to bud and grow in the spring time
they are in the velvet in June, and through
out the summer. This smooth covering is
slipped off in October. In November, their
vitality is blighted, and in March, the crown
of weather beaten antlers drep from the old
buck's brow, and he hides, droops in solitude,
abandoned bv all his fellows. The hunters of
the Allcghanies and of our frontiers will ap
ply this piece of natural history, and interpret
its anjrurv."
Ocigin of Getting the Sack. Two gen
tlemen, one a Spaniard, and the other a Ger
man, who were recommended by their birth
and f crvices to the Emperor, Maximilian II,
both coveted his daughter, the fair Helena
Scharfequin, in marriage. This prince, after
a long delay, one day informed them, that es
teeming them equally, and not being able to
bestow a preference, he should leave it to the
force and address of the claimants to decide
the question. He did not mean, however to
risk the life of either, and conseqnently would
not permit weapons to be used, but had or
dered a large bag to be produced. It was his
decree that whichever succeeded in putting
his rival into this bag should obtain the hand
of his daughter. This singular encounter be
tween the two gentlemen consequently took
place, and before the whole court. The con
test lasted for more than an hour, when the
Spaniard yielded, and the German, Eberhard
von Talbert, having 'planted' his rival in the
bag, took it upon his back and very gallantly
laid it at the feet of his mistress, whom ho
then espoused.
The good or ill hope of a good or 111 life,
J i tb good er ill cholea of good III wir.
A 'ROORBACK' EXPOSED.
Every one knows how Jealously the' ppo-'
rients of Col. Fremont labor to create tho im
pression that he is a Roman Catholic. In tins
dirty work of wholesale and willful lying, with
malice prepense, the Philadelphia Daily News
exceeds all others', and the course it pursues is
only calculated to elect Buchanan. One of
the witnesses relied upon to sustain the chargo
of Romanism against Col. Fremont, was Fath
er Olivet if, a Catholic priest at Whitehall, K.
Y., who it was purported had said of Col. Fre
mont, that his (Olivetti's") certain knowl
" edge he is a Roman Catholic, and as such! I
" support him." But this falsehood was
short-lived, for no sooner did it come to the
knowledge of Olivetti, than he publishes a
letter which fully exposes the rascally false
hoods and fabrications of the dishonest poli
tieia'ns who are engaged in aspersing the char
acter of a man who is honest as honesty itself,
and as good a Protestant as ever the American
flag waved over. Here is the letter, which is
a most emphatic denial of the bold and ma
lignant fabrication abe've named, and which
also show? that catholic clergymen do marry
those who are not members of their church :
Whitehall. Aug. 28, 1856;
To the Editor of the Whitehall Chronicle:
The Albany Statesman has published a state
ment, purporting to hate been made by me, in
which I am understood to say that Col. Fre
mont was a C itholic, and for that reason would
receive my vote. Being a minister of the
Gospel, I appear before the people with reluc
tance; but as my name has been dragged into
the political arena against my consent, to give
countenance to a misstatement, no other course
is left Die. therefore say that I do not know
ihal Col. Fremont is a Catholic. I never intend
ed to say that he was a Catholic. I never stated
that I should vote fur him. I have heard of it0
evidence to prove th.it he was a Ca'holic ; th
fact that be was married by a Catholic Priest,
if such was the case, furnishes but little evi
dence that he was a Catholic. Catholic clergy'
men of ten marry these who are not Catholics.
The duties of my profession are snch as to un
fit me to take part in politics, and I do not in
tend to vote for any of the candidates for Pre
sident at the next election. In reply to tho
assertion made, whether Americans have t
follow shoulder to shoulder with Popish lead
ers, I have only to say, I have never seen an
American God, and it is a blasphemy to pro
nounce it. But I have a firm faith in the one
God infinitely perfect, that he cannot contra
dict himself or be divided Into sects ; there
fore I say there is no other name on eartn so
glorious as the name of Catholic. And I am
astonished to see the prejudice of people min
gling religion w ith politics in this Republican
Union. Yours respectfully.
Rev. Michael Olivetti.
Such a refutation of a falsehood should con
vince any reasonable man that Ihe chargo of
Romanism against Col. Fremont is false, and
that those who make if, know that they are
"bearing false witness against their neighbor."
All Coming Right. Tho South, after a
Rip Van Winkle sleep, has awakened to the
reality that there is a federal union, which can
not be endangered by the excitement of poli
tics, and that freedom of speech may be ex
ercised against the extension of tlavery as
well as for its protection under constitutional
guarantees. The New Orleans Delta confes
ses that the absurdity of Southern argument
on the subjects connected with the Presiden
tial election, "must be painfully clear to eve
ry person who liaS observed the course of Nor
thern philanthropy, inasmuch as tho Black
Republicans are fighting for the control of th
balance of power, and not for the emancipa
tion of the negro race," and then it asks :
"what interest has Sam in Sambo ? What
does Mr. Slick, of Slickville, care for Uncle
Tom T Is there any love, or respect Or kind
ness lost between them ? Look at the Five
Toints of New York for a reply; Observe
Sambo in the cellar when Sam is glorifying
him in the Tabernacle !"' Such admissions
as these are refreshing, after all the thunder
and lightning which have agitated the South
ern horizon, and seem to have cleared its at
mosphere and its political perceptions, for
tho Delia further admits as follows: "We
have to deal with the quehtion of the balance
of power and nothing else. We have to pre
serve our poliiical status, the only thing as
sailed by the North, as we w ould preserve our
very lives. Everything else, so far as the
present controversy is conceined, is mere
leather and prunella." So the Pennsylvania
may continue to cobble and hammer away on
its lap stone of abolition, but lire South will
not follow suit. Phil'a Sun.
Plais Talking. They have a straight-forward
way of doing business in Arkansas, that
is perfectly refreshing. A minister out there,
a few weeks ago, undertook to come down oa
slavery. The next day one of the Deacons
dropped him a line saying that "people in his
diggins went to church to hear the devil abused
and not slavery, and if he persisted in 'viola
ting their taste any farther," all that he had to
say W3S that geese still grew feathers and North
Carolina tar."
Andrew Jacksos was once making a stump
speech out west, in a small village. Just as ho
was concluding, Amos Kendall, who sat bo
hind him, whispered : "Tip 'era a little Latiq,
General ; they won't be contented without it,"
The man of the iron will instantly thought up
on the few phrases he knew, and in a voice of
thunder, wound up by exclaiming, "E pluri
bus unum sin qna won ne pint ultra -rrml-tum
in parvo T" The 'eflecl was" tremendous,
and tho Hooslert' shout could bs hard fo
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