u u 1 v 1' -7 Bill f en'td une , oo " i - . low.' ' Triv ioa ia? wl-. rg" orer 5 J7 Td. sin i outer-1 K- b bt 5E2- d. ei: iil her r' r-ef- on oa ich ir r I r BY S. B. BOW. WISHING. Of all amusements fur the mind, From logic down to fishing. There isn't one that you can find So very cheap as "wishing '." A very choice diversion, too, If we but rightly use it, And not as we are apt to do. Pervert it. and abuse it. I wish a common wish, indeed . My purse was something fatter, That I might cheer the child of need, And not my pride to flatter: That I might make oppression real, A3 only gold can make it ; And Dreak the tyrant's rod of steel, As only gold can break it. I wish that sympathy and lovo, And every human passion That has its origin above, Would come, and keep in fashion ; That Scorn, and Jealousy, and Hate, A n J every base emotion. Were hurled fifty fathoms deep Beneath the waves of Ocean ! I wish that friends were always true, And motives always pure ; I wish the good were not so few, I wish the bad were fewer ; I wish that paisons ne"er forgot To head their pious teaching ; I wi-b that practicing was not fc-o different from preaching. I wlh that modest worth might be Appraised with truth and candor; I wih that innocence were free Krnm treachery and slander; I wi.-h that men their vows would mind, That women ne'er were rovers; I wish that wives were always kind. And husbands always lovers. I wish in fine that joy and mirth, And every good ideal. 31 ay come, erewhile. throughout the earth lo be the glorious ileal Till tlod shall every creature bless With his suprtmest blessing, And hope be lost in happiness. An I wishing in possessing ! fOPTKIfinT SECIKF.D.J CLEAUFIELD COUNTY: OS. REMINISCENCES OF THE PAST. Dr. John P. Iloyt first saw the light in Cen tral New-York. lie removed here early and Laving married a daughter of Esquire M'Clure, waa'induced to make this his permanent home. In tU'i epidemic of 1821 he won for himself gulden opinion!. lie was a faithful, diligent, arid judicious practitioner of medicine. Un pretending, he neither assumed airs nor neg lected to acquire information from any source wi.ich was open to him. The practice of med icine was then slavish, and unproductive. It required more the devotion of a zealot than the ambition of a man of business to incite to action. Dr Il03"t soon connected the mer cantile business with the practice of medicine nt.d the former in a few years engrossed his at Ttiitiou. In . his new occupation he proved himself conscientious, attentive and accom modating, and through it increased his world ly Mure. When he commenced store-keeping s.t Cutwirisville a fine field was open before iiim, but prudence, almost reaching timidity, governed him and made his accumulations !ow but sure. For some years he has resided in Ferguson township managing his mill and farm. Here, at his leisure, he has sought to increase his scientific knowledge, and becom ing enlisted in the agricultural advancement of his adopted county, by word and by deed he has endeavored to increase the products of the earth, and direct the attention of ag riculturists tc such articles as the soil de mands. Jlis investigations have enabled him to construct a water-wheel on a principle dif ferent entirely from any in use, which has been pronounced a success and for which a patent has been secured. Mr. Iloyt has been a con sistent and moderately active politician, and having secured the nomination of his party he svas elected Associate Judge of this county, lie is a plain, modest man, whose practical common sense views are entitled to respect. Dr. A. T. Schryver is also a native of New York. He is, we believe, a halt' brother to Dr. Iloyt, and came to this county about the same time he did. In many respects the two rt-semble. Dr. Schryver did good service in li2L Some years later he left this county and practiced on the Juniata, but subsequently retcrnedar.d located near Glen Hope where he practiced his profession, and had the oversight of the Beccaria mills and of a mercantile es tablishment. In IS'A he was elected Superin tendent of Common Schools for this county, at the Crst election for that position. He serv ed faithfully during the term for which he was elected, notwithstanding the pittance which he received was not more than sufficient to bear his travelling expenses: He now resides on Clearfield Creek handy to Clearfield Bridge. x Daring the prevalence of the epidemic and on other occasions Dr. Ingalls visited the county. Shrewdness and tact in speculating distinguished him from other men. He had adopted the practice of medicine without at tending lectures. His pretentions to medical knowledge far exceeded his real attainments, but his daring was often accompanied by hap py results when a hesitating or timid course Wight have proved disastrous. The residence of Dr. Dewees at Philipsburg and his connection with Mr. Philips in his heavy land operation was the moving cause which brought John Lorain, Esq., a native of Maryland, to that place, where he engaged in ttorc keeping. Dr. Dewees had married a daughter of Mr. Lorain by bis first wife. Mr. Lorain after being sometime in business, asso ciated with Thomas Lever, who had united himself in marriage to another daugbter,whilst he resided in Philipsburg. II is only son, Hen ry, wag a wilful, wayward child, who as he in creased in years delighted more in backing a ! fleet horse, of which he was perfect master. and scouring the country, than to apply him self to business or books. Dr. Dewees had in vested his all, the proceeds of a large lucra tive practice, in the enterprize in which he and Mr. Philips were engaged. It was a large undertaking, in some respects premature. The management of their vast body of lands ; con ducting the extensive works which were con templated and putjin opeiation,and introducing the lands to those who might become settlers, required much time and a deep purse. Phil ips was rich, could stand the drain and bide his time, awaiting the expected increase. When the means of Dr. Dewees were exhaus ted and the looked for returns were as distant as ever, hed with his interest in the pro perty and I 1 himself poor. In fact so straightencv s he in circumstances that when he wouTr up his affairs at Philipsburg he had not suffigent funds to convey his fami ly to Philadelphia, ne sold to Mr. Miles of Centre county the balance of the time of a servant to enable him to do so. When in Phil adelphia, his old friends and associates Drs. Chapnian and Physic assisted him in making a start to regain practice, through which he was soon in easy circumstances. Esquire Lo rain became afflicted with paralysis, and Hen ry, it now seemed, must become the stay of the family. Through his brother-in-law he was prevailed on to study medicine. Dr. Mc Leod became his preceptor. He studied sev eral years under him and then went to Phila delphia where he received private instruction from Dr. Dewees, attended lectures at the Uni versity and received the degree of M. D. from that institution. He first practiced regularly in Franklin, Venango co. After a brief inter val he succeeded Dr. M'Leod at Philipsburg. In 1537 he made Clearfield town his home. He at first had but little competition. His range was extensive. Ilis receipts meagre in comparison with the amount of business he did and the labor and exposure incident to it. He wore himself out in the service of the peo ple, becoming old at the period when others are in their prime. Some operations outside of his practice, and increase in the value of lands, realized to him a competency. When Dr. Lorain had settled In lire and earnestly followed his calling he showed himself posses sed of more ability and perscverence than his friends deemed he bad. With him the prac tice of medicine became, a reality and to it he devoted his energies and his time. It was the object of his life. He was a physician of the old school, attentive and methodical; never leaving the beaten track to adopt new theories or try experiments. lie acted promptly and worked with a will. In that branch for which his services were oftenest required he became an adept. Nought provoked him more when attending a c.nts than officious intermeddling or a disobedience of his directions. He was honest in expressing his views had no pa tience with those who imagined themselves sick or overrated their ailments. Success crowned his efforts and he was known as a prudent and skillful practitioner. When Dr. Lorain took a position or adopled a view he hewas unchangable. Should he listen to your contrary opinions, they irritated him against you but did not convince. His opinions were radical and fixed. As lie neither compromised nor conciliated he could not as a partisan be come popular, yet through a circle of friends who knew his honesty of purpose and respec ted his opinions, he exercised an extensive in fluence in moulding the views of his party and managing public affairs. When acknowledged to be the mst influential man in the Demo cratic party, he was nominated for Congress, but his ultra views on the tariff question and the machinations of bitter rival leaders brought about his defeat. In his dress, his speech and manners he was plain ; in his habits abste mious, frugal and regular. His iron constitu tion yielded alter a painful and protracted ill ness, and on his decease in March last, his medical confreres and the masonic fraternity with which he was connected, passed fitting tributes to his memory. " (TO BB COSTIXCED.) A Remarkable Fact. Professor Mitchell, in liis lectures on astronomy, related a very remarkable fact. He said that he had not long since met, in the city of St. Louis, a man of great scientific attainments, who for forty years had been engaged in Egypt in decypher irT the hioroirvlDhics of the ancients. This gentleman had stated to him that he had late ly unravelled the inscriptions upon the coffin J . f of a mummy, now i n me Lonuun .uuaemu, anu that by the aid of previous observations, he had discovered the key to all the astronomical t-n.nlfdrrf. of the Egyptians. The zodiac, with the exact position of the planets, was de lineated on the coflin, and the uaiciowmcu they pointed was the autumnal equinox in the year 1722 before Christ, or nearly thirty-six hundred vears airo. Professor Mitchell em ployed his assistants to ascertain the exact position of the heavenly bodies belonging to our solar system on the equinox oi mat year, (1722 B.C.,) and sent him a correct diagram of them,without having communicated his ob ject in doingso. In compliance with this the cal ...i .tidwprft made, and to his astonishment, on comparing the result with the statements of his scientific friends already referred to it was found that, on the an oi uciooe., l, B C the moon and planets had occupied the the exact position in the heavens marked upon the coffin in the ionuon museum. The Pennsylvania Central Railroad has car. ried in the past 2 years, over two millions of pasSeDgVr5, without the lo3s of a single life. CLEARFIELD, PA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, BILLY FIELD'S CAMP-MEETING SCEAPE. ! "Boys," said Uncle Ben, "did you ever hear of Billy Fields' scrane over here at Rock Spring camp ground two or three years ago ?" This question was addressed to a crowd of youngsters, who were gathered around Uncle uen, as ho was seated in the town of Clinton, near sunset. It was of course answered in the negative, with a request that he should tell them of it. . "Wall, you see I and Billy and Jim Llndsey . 'eluded we would go over to Rock Spring camp meetin' three years ago- Jim and Billy were young fellers and both were crazv on the sub ject of gals-. As for myself, I went -there in a religious pint, of view. . After we got thar, we stopped at tiro; tent of one of our lriends, and after supper tyo concluded we would go down to the btand, and hear the sarmint. Billy got hold of a little gal, and ott he went ; Jim hitch ed to one as weighed nigh onto a hundred and seventy, and folleied arter them, and I, not withstandin I had come thar in religious' pint of view, thought it wouldn't be hurtin' anybody to sorter to mix the thing ; so I tuk hold of a young, bouncin' bloomin' widder, boys, that widder was about the puttiest piece but never mind about that now, and away we went arter the rest. "Wall, the preachin' went on and closed without anything happenin' ortul and sublime as Stubbs says, 'cept Jim's jinin the church, and me goin' to sleep and comin' back -without the w idder. I was sorry for it, but it war no use talkin'; I could'nt a toch her with a ten foot pole. She was as mad as a hornet ; Biily said I must 'pologise ; I mought a done it if he hadn't a told me to. He's a nice thing to teach mo perliteness, ain't he 1 He ain't got sense enough to keep his mouth shet 'bout nothin,' 'specially where I am consarned. "Wall, I and Jim went to bed, and Billy got a bed in the next room. Jim soon went to sleep, and I war lyin' and thinkin' 'bout the widder, when all at once the gals (the next room was full of 'em) commenced er Iarfin' and gigglin' in the next room at a terrible rate. I know'd they were up to mischief, for there war three or four in thar as wild as tur keys, with that little gal that Billy went out to the stand with, to head 'em, and she war all sorts. I wanted to know what they were up to, so I reaches over and shakes Jim. But then I know'd as Jim wouldn't do, 'cause he had just jined the church, and furthermore he was the most shame-faced man I ever saw. He and Billy were down on tho creek, a long time ago, and they cum upon a whole pile of gals in er swimmin,' and Jim like a fool, got ashamed and hid behind a stump. Billy look cd durn him ! keen him from lookin' he done wns, too." "What did he do ?" asked some one. "He tied up their clothes and split, bnt tbe schoolmaster round it out, and the way he wol- loped Billy war a caution to young men as walks on the creek when thar is gals in the country as have a notion to larn how to swim "Wall, arter thiukin' over these circumstan ces, I concluded that Jim war not the man l wanted. So I let him loose, and let him go to sleep again, and then went into the room whar Billy was and woke him up and explained to him how matters stood in the next room. c determined to see what was gwine on ; but how to do it was the question. Thar war no cracks to peep through, and there was no loot-hold to peep over ye all know how tents are fixed. Wall, arter studyin' awhile, Billy hit on a plan It was this: One of us was to stand on the shoulders of the other one and peep over. This was a pretty good plan, but Billy couldn't hold me up he being such a little teller, ana I such an old gourd. Billy didn't like to make the trial, but 'greed to on the consider ation that I was not to stay up too long. I war willin', cause I jes wanted to see ef 1 could cotch a sight of the widder anyhow. Wall, I mounted, and jes cotched a sight of the little creeters, spread out in a row in the beds on the floor, when Billy's wind guv out, and down I cum on Jim's paunch, and he fetched a shout and hollered 'glory !' Ihe cussed tool thought the judgment day had . come. This sorter stopped the gals for a while, but we lay as still as sqirrcls, that is, 'cept Jim, who kept groan in' and twistin' some. We sent word out to the old folks that be had the colicky. Binie by the gals commenced their frolicks again, that is, 'cept that big fat gal, that war cryin' 'cause Jim war sick. "Billy said it war his turn now, and so it was. but fallen' down had like to broke my leg. But I thought it would never do to cut the feller out of his fun, so Billy got up and commenced lookin'. I got mighty tired, but I know'd it wouldn't do to say nothin,' 'cause the gals would hear me, and there would be a rumuus. But then my old leg commenced hurtin' so I reached up and sorter pinched Killv. as a siin for him to go down. But he never moved a peg ; thar he stood, a stretch in' his neck and gazin' over at them gals. A thought just then struck me. Sez I to myself, 'didii't Billy let me fall on purpose jess now ? By jingo I bMieve he did !' So I reached up and got a good hold on him, ard when he stretched a little further over I sent him whir- lin' right amongst them gals. Did you ever 6perience an earthquake ? Did you ever dream of kinsrdom come f You orter been thar when Billy lit! Such a squallin' sich a crawlin under beds sich a hidin' under straw, you did see ! When Stubbs gets drunk he talks about a young fellow as was namei Don Juan, crawlin' under some bed fixins at an old Snaniard's house, but his fix was nothin to Billv Fields' scrape. The old folks all run up, one old brother commenced prayin' loud enough to be heard from Don to Bersheba and the way them folks give it to that young man!' "Clear out from here, you nasty, imperdent scoundrel!' said an old lady as had a daugh ter in that room ! "We will prosecute him !' said a little jack lee lawyer as never had prosecuted anybody yet nor never will as long as people have as much sense as they have got now. "How could you do so Mr. Fields V said the little gal as has been 'luded to. "Thnr tliev stood, all around -him, givin' i to him and not lettin' him say a word. 1 be gun to git sorry for Billy, and I know d fie didn't have sense enougn to gu out oi me scrape, so I walks up to whar they were siana h,,f T nnver let on for a while, but stood -inri limned without they seein' me. Bimeby .. i,i lurfr sided me out. and sez she : k it vr shame. Mr. Johnson ? Aint it a shame for honest folks to be 'posed on so by this little sneaken', quiverlm , .Andmvzal takin' on so bout him too I'll sllow her! said another old 'oman. "And my Nancy givin' him a bunch of flowers this blessed evening, I'll be bound, ".Ladies!' said Billy.. "Shet up !' said one. "Rest him !' said another. "Sez I, 'Ladies and gentlemen !' They all stopped to listart to what I had to say, 'cause yer see I could land the tariff on Billy among the old folks, if he could git me sorter 'mong the young uns. Says I,Iadies and gentlemen, I must think, afore I suffer myself to believe tbe reports about Mr. Fields, that it ar all ow- n to a mistake : as Mr. Fields no doubt would have, showed if you had only given him time. Ladies and gentlemen,' sez I,' Mr. Fields has always been 'flicted with that distressin' evil of.-walkiu in his sleep. And this arno doubt the. cause of this unpleasant accident. "ihats so,!' said Billy, as he slipped out to put on his clothes. , . 'I know'd Mr. Fields would not hae done so on purpose, said 6no little gal. . f I knowd the jMeids family long ago said .one old 'oman, 'and I know'd thar blood would not be guilty of such a thing.' 'He's had better raisin,' said an old bow egged brother. .'Billy had now put on his clothes, he come in whar we war, talkin' to the old folks and 'pologizin, to the gals for adventures as he called snomtobolatic. It war now all right and all of my own fixin'. ' Billy forgive mo -for throwin' him over for gittin' him out an other sich a scrape ! I d git him out when the cows come home tail end foremost ! I aint forgot his blabbin' out 'bout that Betsy Trol lop scrape yit !' A Good Answer. Some thirty years ago, in Baltimore, a worthy Hibernian pedagogue, named Cornelius Dwyer, kept a flourishing school, or "academy," as he was pleased to designate it, where many of the youthful Bal timoreans of that day were instructed in the three great arts of reading, writing and arith metic. While, however, Mr. Dwyer was well enough qualified for the routine of ordinary school learning, he had an ambition that his academv should be considered a school where all the higher branches could be acquired, und accord ingly kept in his advertisements and circulars, as among the branches taught, "ge ometry; trigonometry, as.ronomv, navigation, the use of the globes," etc. ; feeling satisfied that among his pupils none would be likely to a3pire to the giddy heights of these abstruse sciences. But it happened one of his patrons, another Irishman, of not much learning, but who had, in the grocery trade, acquired a competence, was desirous of giving his only son all the advantages of a liberal education ; and accordingly, one day in January, when the mercury was down to zero and below, and the bay and river bad been closed by ice, he dispatched the boy to Mr. Dwyer's institution oriearrnnor with th f-lli-win rcijnol. . "Please, sir, father says that I am to be brought up to commercial pursuits, and he wants you to teach me navigation." Mr. Dwyer was somewhat astounded at this request, and for a moment hesitated to reply, but at length broke out with "An' how does your father expect me to tache ye navigation whin the navigation is all closed np entirely ?" Singular Freak. James Trnesdell, a gen tleman of some seventy years, living in Lib erty, Pennsylvania, has been for twelve years past industriously engaged, when the weather and his health would permit, in digging ov a piece of ground near his dwelling, and car rying the stone and dirt into a pile. Here he has labored, taking one stone or shovel full of dirt at a time, until the mound has reached the height of thirty or forty feet, and is much larger than his house. Jle said as a reason for his labors that he lost a sixpense on his garden. He soon after found several sixpen ces, but continued to dig uutil his whole gar den has been carried to increase the mound. He is peaceful and industrious in his way, so his family let him work. To their oners of assistance he gives a decided negative, and digs away alone. Mr. Truesdell is a well-informed man, and talks rationally on every subject but his lost sixpence. A few days ago, in the Court at Hamilton, C. W., while Mr. Freeman was addressing the Jury, in oue of the most eloquent portions of his speech, to his horror, ho saw a broad grin on the faces of the Jury ; tlfen they seemed hivoluntarily to burst out in a loud laugh On turning to the Bench, however, the reason was evident. The Chief Justice had retired to his room for a moment, and there in the judicial chair, in all his majestjT, sat no less a personage than Mr. Robert Innes, an insane man, well known there. Bob,as he is lamiliar ly called, looked smilingly on the learned counsel, and said. "Go on, it's all right; I'll see justice done," am id roars of laughter. At this moment his lordship returned, but the would-be judge did not feel inclined to vacate his prominent position, and it required three constables to remove him. A Quarter. A boy worked hard all day for a quarter of a dollar. With the quarter he bought apples, and took them to town and sold them in the street for a dollar. With the dollar ho bought a sheep. The sheep brought him a lamb, and her fleece another dollar With the dollar he bought him another sheep Tbe next spring he had two sheep ; two lambs and a yearling sheep. The three fleeces he sold for three dollars, and bought three more sheep. He now had six, with a fair prospect He worked where he found an opportunity for hay, corn and oats, and pasturing for his sheep. lie took the best care of them and soon had a flock. Their wool enabled him to buv a pasture for them, and by the time he was twenty-one he had a fair start in life, and all from a quarter earned in one day. A courtesan, named Mary Powers, or as she has been called, "blue-eyed Mary," was buried in St. Louis last week, only the driver of the hearse and a regro sexton accompanying the body to the grave. Five vears ago she was the respected and beautiful daughter of a weal thy merchant, with brilliant prospects; she chose a life of infamy, and her poisoned body is mouldering in the grave. "The wages of sin is death." An immense pigeon roost is now estabHsg in Chenango swamp, Crawford county-. The pigeons are numbered by mil'' hunters are slaying them by thocfl, gathered - -of ground, two A lady in Brewster, Mt's, for which sha this fall from about tixfid dollars. ; hundred barrels of r received over.t"" 1859. WHO ABE THE DISUNIOMSTS! The Demecratic papers are in the habit of charging the Opposition with favoring a dis solution of the Union. This cnarge iney ac company with extracts from speeches, some of which are garbled so as to treat me aumors very unfairly, others are fabrications manufac tured for. the occasion, and yet others are the productions of men who have neither affinity nor act with our party. J. he Washington .kc- porter, in its last issue, takes the mailer in hand, and shows that there is anotner sine io the question, by quoting extracts from speech es of prominent Democrats, which it says are not the utterances of irresponsible persons out of those w ho are high In the confidence of the party, and tho genuineness ot which the eai tor is prepared to substantiate. If, hereafter, any one wishes to know who it is that favors a dissolution of the Union, let him read the Reparter's compilation of extracts, and decide lor himself. We quote : The Hon. Fayette M'Mullin late a member of Congress lrom Yirginia, and now Governor of Washington Territory a post which he holds under appointment from President Bu chanan in a speech delivered in the House of Representatives, made use of the following language : "Let me tell that member (Mr. Giddings) and this House and the country, that should this country ever arrw at that un fortunate state of affairs that the Government should pass iirfo the hands of the Korth of such a Northern fanatical character over tne way, ana that the uovernment snouia restore the Missouri Compromise or repeal tne jugiute slave law, then, in such a case, I would have to endorse the declaration of the honorable gentleman from Kentucky, (Mr. Campbell ;) that is to say, that this Union must and will be dissolved." Again in the same speech, referring to the people of the North, he says : "They suppose that the southern disunionists are continea to the Calhoun wing of the Democratic party. This sir, is the g ealest error that the people of the North have ever fallen into. And I tell you sir, and I want the country to know it I want the gentlemen from the free States, our Republicans, our Seward Republicans, our ab olitionists, or whatever else they may be call ed, to know it that if yon restore the Missouri Compromise or repeal the fugitive slave law, the Union will be dissolved." Mr. M'Mullin, having said that he made these declarations in presence of the whole Southern delegation in Congress, then added the following : "I hope that if any gentleman deems I do not properly represent the state of public feeling at the South he will correct me.' Although they were thus specially called upon, not a man of the whole Southern dele gation rose on that day or any other to dis claim the sentiments impnted to that section oi tho Union . But let ns hear from Mr. Sandidge, another Democratic Congressman lrom Louisiana : "Should your Northern policy leave us no other course to pursue, but submission to the undepicted evils in the Union, we may be rea dy with our brethren to go out oj it with the sustaining power of a cause the world will jus tify." Mr. Keitt, aDemocratic Representative from South Carolina, declared : "The States Rights party of the South are done with compromises : they stand upon the Constitution, and there they will continue to stand though imploring Administrations should topple down and par ties perish around them. They have yielded the last "jot and tittle" that they mean to yield, and if more be required they will light Administrations and parties, and, if need be, the Union itself." Hear him on another occasion : "Let the North refuse admission to a State because of slavery in her constitution, and the history of this Union is closed. We have reared this gov ernment through trial and travail, through blood and sacrifice; we have invested it with authority, have enriched it with treasures and fleets and armies, and have endowed it with Senates and courts and judges; but if it be comes the puppet of Abolitionism, if it be comes in our very midst, to us a foreign gov ernment, the South will tear it down from turret to foundation stone. Abolish the internal Slave trade and we will trample your usurpation un der foot. Repeal the fnzitice slave law, and we rvill meet you with gauntlets on." Mr. Shorter, a Democratic Representative from Alabama, said: "We tell you plairrly that we take issue with you, and whenever you repeal the fugitive slave law, or refuse to admit a State on account of slavery in her con stitution, or our equality in the Territories is sacrificed by an act of Congress, then the star of this Union will go down to rise no more Should we be forced to dissolve the Union in order to preserve Southern institutions and Southern civilization, we will do it in peace if we can. in war if ice must." Mr. Brooks, Democratic member from South Carolina, said : "The gentleman from Massa chusetts has announced to the world, that in certain contingencies he is willing to 'let the Union slide.' Now, sir, let his contingencies be reversed, and I am also willing to 'let the Union slide' aye, sir, to aid in making it slide. I hesitate not to say, that if his con struction of the constitutional power of Con gress over the Territories shall prevail in this country, I, for one, heartily endorse the sen timent." Mr. Seward, of Georgia, said : "If the question is to be settled by Congress, and de cided against the South by a majority from the North, the Government will be endangered, and the Union cannot be perpetuated." Mr. Boyce, of South Carolina, said : "The only question with me then, as to the continu ance of the Union, is, whether that partv (the Republicans) will take possession of the Nozf. If they do, in my opinion, the Union is acea Again, he says:-That party whr to the j itself upon tho position of givina when that , North, will eventually succe ihe Union i party 'does succeed, i - ' I will be at an end." - Democratic member ! Mr. rw,lii n-abama, speaking of the ! of Congress fe floor of the House, says . Republican 0-l-es of Northern majorities, , "If th-r , TV "c"u,;,, 1 unaerstana them to " ..-shall beeomp tho ctn r anii,,- ...... "piLiuus 01 , - .rolling majorities in the Northern States. which conld be inflicted 'upon j any people." u'uu I Again, speaking of the Republican nartv. ha ? a. Baja mreatens to do that tc,5.k "'Z ailCuiuiuu 10 oe made law in this "c uoSs emed in Cleveland nh: country, through tho forms of Federal 11. to a glove manufaotJ ,? r ?.d. 9h.'? a" 3? tion. then t ho mniim. tt: a . . c?. : count ,.-,. . " "icnneia. Slew -vu kuiuiiui mediates' ---jt "utiomc sKim rtn.,i. - will be an impossibility, nr. if -,-ki? J? 1 and bncksbin ins are made np - y" greatest curse YOL. 6.-JT0. 15. be done without being followed by a speedy dissolution of the Union.'7 Mr. Bocock, of Virginia, who is now talked of as the Democratic candidate for Speaker of the House, says: "When in your platform you come forward and say that your institu tions alone are entitled to the protection of the government, and that ours are to be dis countenanced and restricted by its action, then you lay down a sectional platform and array yourselves into a sectional party. You put us beyond the pale of the Constitution, and you force us to fight you by every, fair and honor able means ; and ice shall do it. . .. Judge Butler, late a United States Senator" from South Carolina, said : "1 have such con fidence in the good sense of the people of this country, that 1 believe Republican institutions might survive tbe present Union. Really it is broiien already. I would rather it should be dis solved fo-morroic I wish my words measured in preference to living in a Union without the protection of a Constitution which gives me an equality. I should tell my people so to-morrow." . A. II. Stephens, of Georgia, said : We havo got the great principle, established in 1850, carried out in the Kansas-Nebraska bill, that Congress, alter removing all obstructions, is not to intervene against us. ... and I say if Congress ever again exercises the power to exclude the South liom an equal participa tion in the common Territories, I, as a South ern man, am for resisting it." Mr. Jones, United States Senator rrom Ten nessee : "It we are not to enjoy our rights under the Constitution, tell us so ; and if we may, and lei us separate peaceably aiul decently. . . 1 tell you. in every hand there will le a knif e, and there will be war to the knife, and the knife to the kilt." The Hon. John Letcher, a member of tho last Congress, and now Governor elect of Vir ginia.said : "If you (the Republicans) should have tlio power here and undertake to pass -measures to carry out the principles which you profess, you would find that we had spirit e nough to separate from you, and make the ef fort, at least, to take care of ourselves." Mr. Warner, a Democratic member of Con gress from Georgia, says: "If the slavebold mg States should ever be so regardless of their rights, and their power, as co-equal States, as to be willing to submit to this pro posed restriction, they could not do it. They ought not to submit to it upon principle,!! they could and could not if they would." "It is in view of these things, sir, that the people of Georgia have assembled in conven tion and solemnly resolved, that if Congress shall pass a law excluding them from the com mon property, with their slave property they ' will disrupt the ties that bind them to the Union.' Mr- Smith of Tennessee : "Unless tho South can unite and doend these men of the .North who stand by the guarantees of tho Constitution for the rights of the States, the Union is gone." Mr. Bowie of Maryland : "But let this Con gress attempt to strike down the constitution al rights of the South, then you and I, and all oi us will strike, though bloody treason flourish over us." Mr. Clay, a United State Senator from Al abama, said : "I trust sir, that whenever Black Republicanism shall take possession of the Government, and weigh in its balance, and against its avarice and ambition, the honor and the rights of the South, she will not stop to impetrate justice, or pause to expostulate, but will boldly throw her sword into the scale, and assert her natural privileges in self-defence." It will be seen f rom tlfe above extracts that we have not quoted from obscure or irrespon sible members of the party, but from its cho sen representatives those upon whom it de lights to bestow its honors and emoluments. These men were all ardent and enthusiastic supporters of Mr. Buchanan and stand forth as the duly accredited exponents of modern Democracy. These declarations were not made in a corner but in the counsels -of tho nation ; nor will it do to say that they aro coupled with contingencies w hich relieve their authors from the charge of disloyalty. Not withstanding all their prating about the "c quality of the States" and the "constitutional rights of the South," their lauguage means just this : that, if the policy of our revolution ary fathers, which prevailed from the organi zation of the Government down to the year l&Hf, be re-instated, there is a settled determi nation on the part of the South the only' place where the Democratic party now flour ishes to destroy the Union. Yet the organs of the forlorn hope at the North, have tho effrontery to read lectures to Republicans upon the subject of disunion. To those w ho think -they can make anything by this mode of war fare, we have only to say, "Lay on Macduff." Wiiat the West Waxts. The Rev. Peter Cartwright, "the Pioneer Preacher of tho West," recently addressed an audience in Philadelphia, giving incidents of his life. He discoursed as follows concerning the preachers now sent to the West, iu contrast with thoso of earlier days : "Of late years, my friend, another breed of preachers is transferred to ns ; these are hys terical, dyspeptic, sore throat, blue ginger" sort of preachers. They travel amo u they are unacceptable ; they are i7"ess lum ber ; and lo ! their zeal at onc -oves like a seventy-four rigged for En,? S, to tho West, and "help the Wi-- " " ' u t . - rcu DOW m my seven. - aL'J outu taiue. .iifrri.I, J ty fifth year, I Sfd dyspeptic things dozens of th fe out-work Th,. 'f"ei man in lhe wor,d the man Titrate desires. Fealth is a desirable of., also distinction, learning iS!0 -f so are a!' combined. But he who r.n." ses eich or all of these, and still vainly desi .ore t happy. ne is not contented I ? J',0""4 infelicity. On the contrarv h has little, yet desires even Ie tV- i. pecause he has more than he needs ' JLiYT lt .b ''O" or honors, public eclat 'or "ri?r enjoyments, the result is still the san?I PTV "hat follows ? Thin rin;..i.. V. hcx, .vour wants, and you proSrtionati,5,?iy!h Jour means of gratifying C S ,tdd ; man acquiring propertv ! k. .- u . fe I'ruPerty, yet in effeet it j "uui uie position of na...i. . - iuuuons. Three thonsand inTJI." ..' r ' Ji'-i' .,ssion into e New Y- arlh' ' ' "d. gymen. 1 ' ! K J .... - . ' 5 r. . ".-is fj - t;' 1 -, E n It a i IT' . 1 r-t- r;; 2 j- --' y r- - X n