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BY S. B. KOW.
CLEAEFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5,1860.
VOL. 7.-JT0. 15.
CONSTANC.
' 'Til sweet to know we have a friend,
Unwavering aa tbe sea-girt rock ;
Where storins in rain their fury spend.
And naught but waves roll from the shock.
Unmoved, unflinching, there it stands.
(Though ocean's waves around it roar.)
Unlike the gay coquettish sahdt.
That fparkla on the distant shore.
And such a friend mcthinks is mine, .
As pure aj in the morning dew ;
Unchanging with the change of time,
As constant as The rock Is true.
THE SILENT PARTNER.
My name Js Jenkins Thomas Jefferson
Jenkins! Not a bad name, is it 1 It looks
well written or printed ; especially -written, if
you make your J's with a flourish, as I always
do. And yet in spite of it being a good name,
and a pretty one to write, I have been unable
to find a young lady who appeared to fancy it.
.None of them seem to think that "Mrs. Thorn,
us Jefferson Jenkins" would look well on a vis
iting card, and so I am doomed "to blush un
sem, and waste my sweetness on the desert air."
One evening I sat in my bachelor apartment
cozily smoking my pipe and gazing into a huge
Wood flie which burned upon the hearth, warm
ing and lighting the room at the same time.
It is wonderful how smoke generates thought.
Ike Marvel has published his bachelor rever
ies over a wood fire, a coal fire, and a cigar,
hut never has given the result of his cogita
tions with a pipe in his mouth, if, indeed, he
smokes a pipe ; or did smoke one, I mean
Tor, poor fellow, he's a married man now, and
all bis bachelor reveries and pipe-smokings
arc over. But on this particular evening, as I
at smoking, I got to thinking, and my tho'ts
took pretty nearly the form in which I have
written them down.
But, all at once, while' I sat dreaming before
the fire, I heard a tapping at my chamber door.
It was a wild night without. The wind howl
ed and shrieked like a spirit of evil, the win
dow fc.ixhes rattled, and a huge tree, which
grew close to my room, grated harshly against
the side of tiie house as if begging for admis
sion from the cold without. Who could be
timing to visit me on such a night 1 But
soon LUt an end to the mystery by opening the
door. A sable son of Africa entered, handed
me a perfumed billet, and departed. It was
directed, in a remarkably neat female hand
to "Mr. Thomas Jefferson Jenkins.'"' 1 broke
the seal and. read :
Miss Johnson presents her compliments to
Mr. Jenkins, and availing herself of the pnv
ilege which leap-3'ear gives the ladies, requests
the pleasure of his company to-morrow eve
ning. Miss J. begs the honor of the visit to
enable her to communicate a matter of pecn
liar interest to Mr. J. She deems it proper to
state this much in order that he may not ex
pect to find a partv present on the occasion. "
What could ittnean 1 My acquaintance with
Miss Johnson was a very limited one. I had
met her hair a dozen times, at as many par
ties, but never had dreamed of making an im
pression. She evidently meditated a proposal
however, and I must prepare myself for it.
Had she fallen in love with my good looks ;
had she taken a fancy to my name, or bad my
"winning ways" captivated her?
I couldn't
understand it, and so I went to bed
to sleep,
perchance to dream."
The next morning I awoke bright and early,
and tbe first thing that popped into my mind
was the occurrence of the night before.. Was
it a dream J No, for the little scented billet
was there on my table. I ate my breakfast
and tried to go abont my usual business, hut
in vain. I could think of nothing but Miss
Johnson and the'evening's engagement for I
lial determined to comply with her request
I turned the matter over in my mind in every
ilupeand f-rm, to no purpose. She was rich
and beautiful I, though not as poor as Job
turkey, had nothing to invest in bank stock.
Why should she fancy me ? I couldn't under
stand it, and so determined to avoid the issue.
I should say that my heart pulsated audibly
as 1 pulled the bell that evening at the rich Mr.
Johnson's door. I am not sure that I heard it
leat, but would be willing to take an oath that
I lelt as if it would hammer its way through
my vest. I was ushered into the parlor, where
a comfortable fire was burning. I had been
seated but a few minutes, when a rustling of
siih. attracted my attention, ana Miss Johnson
entered the room.
Miss Johnson was a graduate of a female
college, and, of course, accomplished. We
began on that original and seldom mentioned
topic, the weather, and soon glided into quite
apleassntand interesting tete-a-tete. After a
time, however, I noticed a certain nervousness
ot manner in my fair companion, which I read
ily attributed to the peculiarity of her position.
I ntil the eveninc Drevious I had not dreamed
f entertaining for her anything approaching
' tenaer passion, but my singularly suscep
"mo neart had been gradually warming to-
-r'i nor, until now I bad felt on the point of
lettering her from all embarrassment, by get
ting on my knees and declaring my attachment.
rut Jt was leap-year, and I couldn't think of
uuriering with the young lady's privilege so
I held my peace and" allowed the silence which
i ensued to remain unbioken. At length
ho fair one remarked, in a singularly sweet
tone of voice, which made my heart thump
lrd against mr rih .
"Vou are doubtless
anxious to know, Mr.
'"Kins, why you
were summoned here this
old r"t' Jenk'ns 8aid X raentaI,y coming,
U ICUOW. Rpar li r lip.valff nr? mg9 litre fl
man
"on'tbe frightened out of your wits.
II
larmg nerved mvself by this mental confab,
n parked audibly, that "I bad
some littlo
Tn!t.'.ke'J'M longer ia suspep
f,n.0s know 'hat a lady" friend bf i
se, then,
Mien in love
mine has
with you, and has deputized me
'O inform
Vnn.Af tfiA CKa fa trMtnrv
I h ! bcan.tifu. accomplished.and amiable.
hpi "aeness, which I will snow you
Drrm rou have agreed to the terms I shall
term- ,8.reniarkably eccentric. She has de
She h v marrr without an hour's courtship,
u to rd o yn and made ,nch Inquiries
wom ff .y ber' 1 am retdy t0 Pledge my
to the V fa,IIhave -aid in her iavor is true
be ,' I,er property ia ample, and will
U on V under yur control. Her family
illinB ? e best 1,1 the country. Are you
ffirm?,- rarryherr Ifyu answer. In the
1 hold ! 8 1 wiU SiTe y the.likeneas, which
lca ilM"-7 hand and thaiTOarriage will tak
Rati Poon' to-worrow. evening-."
,ll!r tight pnperj, I thonzht, to be called
on to marry, at such notice, a girl I had never
seen nor heard of until that moment, but tbe
words "beautiful, wealthy, amiable, good fam
ily, property under your control," kept ring
ing in my ears, urging me to decide in the
affirmative. I was getting old enough to mar
ry, too, and there might never be another
chance- I believe I've already remarked that
young ladies generally are not partial to the
name of Jenkins, and it occurred to me that
I'd improve this opportunity. Miss Johnson
at gazing in the fire keeping up in the mean
time a drumming on the carpet with the pret
west tune loot imaginable. 1 looked up and
caught her eye :
"Have you decided ?" she asked.
"I have, and in the affirmative," was my re
ply. In a moment the miniature was in my
hand, and I gazed upon the most beautiful
face I had ever seen. I was in raptures, and
could have gone upon my knees to the young
lady lor helping me to such an angel lor a wife
My joy was too great for words, however, and
I Jett with a promise to be prompt in my at
tendance on the following evening.
My wedding night came, and with a friend
to "see me through," I was ushered into Mr
Johnson's parlor. A dozen persons were pres
ent, we were introduced to such as were
not already known to us, and I took a seat by
Miss Johnson, leaving my friend to take care
of himself. I learned that evetything was in
reaainess ior me ceremony. iiy intended was
in an adjoining room,whither I repaired to join
her. She was even more beautiful than the
picture, and I was the happiest roan alive.
We were introduced, but I could only press
her hand. It was not to be wondered at that
neither of us spoke. Everything being in
readiness, we proceeded to the parlor, and
were made man and wife after the most ap
proved lashior.
It is not considered polite, I believe, for a
man to talk exclusively to his wife on the eve
ning of his wedding, and as my acquaintance
with my belter half was extremely limited, I
was very well content to circulate among the
other ladies, and leaving Mrs. Jenkins to be
entertained by the other gentlemen. In the
course of the evening, however. 1 trot a seat
by my wife, and tried to get up a conversation
with her, but her conduct was inexplicable.
made several remarks intended to be affection
ate- such as I imagined a newly married man
would naturally make to his wife but she
gazed into my face without answering a word
I tried again and again, with the same want of
success. V hat could it mean, she was not
dumb, for I had heard her speak several times
during the evening, and her voice was singu
larly musical. 1 had been advised of her ec
centricity, but a plague on such eccentricity
as this ! I hadn't bargained for it.
The crowd finally left, and my wife, Miss
Johnson, and myself, were alone. I determin
ed to solve the mystery ; I did so, and what
think you, kind reader, was the result? My
vife was as deaf as a post, les, sir, you
might have fired oil a cannon within an inch
of her ear and she scarcely would have hoard
it. wasn't! in a lis 7 And yet she was so
pretty, and seemed so affectionate that I
couldn't help loving her in spite of this great
defect, which, after all, was a misfortune, and
not a fault.
Mary that was my wife's name was quite
rich, and as I had control of everything, I
soon settled in as nice a habitation as our town
afforded. My wife was very clever and amia
blebut very deaf! Anything in the way of
private conversation was out of the question.
All the neighbors could hear me when I spoke
to her at all. Sometimes my friends called to
see mo, and then such yelling and screaming
were kept i p as would shame a mad-house.
I could neither read nor write on account of
the horrible clatter kept up by the servants,
in their efToits to get to Mary's ears. Passing
strangers were constantly stopping before my
house, attracted by the yelling and howling
within. The truth is, there is no denying it
I was a miserable man, in spite of all my
wealth : I had no peace of mind, and I began
to fear that the din and noise would drive me
crazy.
One morning my wife met me at the door
with a letter. It was from her aunt, an old
lady living some distance off, who proposed
to pay us a visit. She would arrive that day,
and I must meet her at the cars. I did so and
lound horror of horrors that ste was as deaf
as my wife.
I hadn't the heart to say anything to the
old lady on my way borne. I was thinking of.
what was to follow. When we drove up, Mary
was standing at tbe door, waiting to welcome
Aunt Betsy.
"I ara delighted to see you I" yelled my
wife, as the old lady ascended the steps.
"How do you do, my dear ?" screamed tbe
aunt in return, while the windows rattled, and
a pair of passing horses, unaccustomed to the
noise, were nearly frightened into a run.
When I entered the parlor, there they sat
on each side of the fire-place, and such a yel
ling! You'd have thought a whole tribe of
Cherokee Indians were present.
Aunt Betsy's visit was to last six weeks.
Every day the howling continued. They seem
ed to like tbe fun, and such a horrid din as
was kept tip from "morn till dewy eve," I
reckon I never heard. Human nature couldn't
stand it at least mine couldn't and so I de
termined to vamost the ranche. I endured it
a week, and then pretended that business call
ed me away.
It was on a dark and dismal evening that I
took the cars for . It had been sleeting for
several days, and the track was coated over
with ice. Several accidents had occurred
within a short period, and I felt a little uneasy
as 1 took my seat and wrapped my bianKet
closely around me to shut out tbe cold.
But I soon forgot the danger and fell into a
revetie. 1 thought ot wnat a glorious time
aunt Betsy and my wife were having. There
they sat on each side or the nrepiace, yelling
at one another like a couple of wild Indians,
and makintr the whole house hideous. How I
congratulated myself on having escaped, even
though for a brief season, irom tne eternal
clatter. I laughed inwardly at the idea, and
would actually have felt happy but for tbe rec
ollection that I must return to it. At length
slept how long I know not and was awak
ened by what I took to be one of aunt Betsy's
yells. I soon discovered my mistake. It vas
the whistle of the locomotive, we were on
the track, and I felt-' we-wete going down
down down. I had barely time to close my
eyee ad mntter a hasty prayer before 1 felt
the shock, 'and. found myself on the floor.
My lamp had bnrned dnt,my fire was low; ana
iwas almostirozen. I had beet) dreaming, was
Pn -my own roots, and still a bachelofl'"
HOW THEY TALK.
The opinion is gaining ground that South
uarouna win declare herself out of the Union
by ordinance, when ber Convention meets on
the lJth of December. Her leading spirits
taught to believe that "Devotion to the Union
is 1 reason to the South," have become phren
zied with excitement, and, disregarding all
consequences, will attempt to cairy out their
treasonable designs. In order to give our
readers some idea of the temper displayed by
these rash men, we append a lew extracts from
a couple of their speeches.
Hon. Lawrence M. Keitt, on the occasion of
a serenade given him recently in Charleston
after alluding to the general feeling for seces
sion which pervaded that State, said :
"We come, then, a unit in the prosecution
or mis great cause. We gcr before bistofy
and stand before the tribunal of public opinion
with a violated Constitution in one band, and
our sacred liberties, rescued from pollution, in
the other. We have a sacred cause. We are
about to break up this Union. The time for
Union-saving is past ; the time for compromi
ses is past. .Nothing, aye nothing, eicept the
withdrawal of this State from the Union which
has become accursed, will do. "We go with a
strong test before the tribunal of history. Our
fathers built tin this country. John Ilutledsre
of South Carolina did more than any man to
achieve our liberties, save George Washing
ton ; and old Christopher Gadsden another
South Carolinian initiated the great move
ment. Marion and Sumter kept the fires of
our liberty burning while in danger of going
out in darkness and gloom. Our second war
was carried through by Carolina statesmen.
We have built up this Government from cor
ner stone to turret, and now we mean to tear it
down from turret to the foundation. Why 1
nisrory wui ask us. It is because it has been
made by Black Republican fanaticism a bos
. , t . ...
me government in our very midst. Its pow
ers are about to pass into the hands of a sec
tional majority, which majority declares slave
ry shall die ; and they will put the scepter of
power in tne hands of a man who has said that
the Northern mind has been right because it
oeiievea mat slavery was m process of extinc
tion. It is because the Government is about
to pass into the hands of a man hostile to the
great interests of the South, that we are about
to tear down this Union. How shall we do it 7
His answer was by the sovereign act of the
sovereign State of South Carolina. He would
tell them what he said months ago, that if
bouth Carolina falter, the neck of this South
ern movement is broken. Because of tbe una
niraity of her people, without partv differen
ces, she is everywhere looked upon as the sen
tinel upon the watch-tower, and if she sleeps,
jno matter how wildly rages the tempest in the
otners, tne enemy will look for peace and qui
et. . . He did not mean to discuss the ques
tion or right. The Convention of 1850 said
they had the right : they themselves said thev
have the right ; he said they had the right, and
by heaven nothing but the strong hand shall
put it down. . . He said that the principle of
ine uiacK Kepublican party was, that fidelity
to the Constitution is treasonable to the high
er law. He would tell them, in answer, that
loyalty to the Union, is treason to the South.
They tell us they have the Government, and
they intend to wield all its powers for our over
throw, and they tell us that resistance is trea
son, ne would tell the people of the South
that submission is'slavery, and. when he was
called upon to choose whether he would be a
traitor or a slave, God help him, he would be
a traitor. Let us unfurl the flag, and, with
the sword of State, rut the bonds of this ac
cursed" Union."
Hon. Robt. Barnwell Khett, another South
Carolinian, in a speech before the people of
onarieston, on the lUth or November, made
use of the following language :
" 1 he last contest between the North and the
South we have just witnessed in the Presiden
tial election. With the numerical power in
both branches of Congress, it was only neces
sary, to complete their mastery, that tbe Nor
thern people should be united in using their
power. They have become united, in this e-
lection, on this principle of hostility to Afri
can slavery in the Sauth. On this principle,
purely sectional, they have elected a Southern
renegade spewed out of the bosom of Ken
tucky into Illinois and a Northern mulatto,
to be President and Vice President of the U
nited States. A naked sectional despotism is
organized over the South as hating as it is
hated with all the fury of fanaticism, and all
tbe lust of avarice and ambition, to direct its
power. I have gone through all this detail of
the various sectional issues, which have arisen
between the North and the South, that you
might understand your true position, and weigh
well your future destiny. After twenty-seven
years of steady and unscrupulous effort to ob
tain the rule over you, will the North surren
der it when acquired ? After tbe characteris
tics the Northern people have developed, in
all their sectional contests with you, what hope
can you have of any justice or safety under
their domination 1 Selfishness, ambition, av
arice, faithlessness, or fanaticism, have mark
ed their contests with you : whilst on your
part you have exhibited generosity, confidence,
disinterestedness, and a devotion to your com
pact of union with them, not without weak
ness. The truth is, the Northern people are
not fit to live with anv other people in tbe
world. They have not the least conception of
the principles of freo government. Their idea
of such a government is, that a majority shall
rule a minority. If seven men formed a gov
ernment, four have tbe absolute power over
the three. Of those wise and delicate restric
tions against absolute power, whether in one
man, or in many, by which the rights and lib
erties of all are secured, they know nothing
and care nothing. No regard, therefore, to
the great principles of free government will re
strain the exercise of their brute power ior
your destruction. . . . They say, as the rich
roan in the Scriptures, My arm has gotten me
this wealth.' Swollen with insolence,, and
steeped in ignorance, selfishness, and fanati
cism, they will never understand their depen
dence on the South until, the Union is dissolv
ed, and they are left naked to their own Re
sources. Then, and 'not till then', will ttiey be
able to appreciate the long forbearance and en
durance oFthe South." -'
After making 'some suggestions as to what
the new Southern Confederacy should be, Mr:
Rhet( proceeds in the following strain :
1 "My friends, the Union is dissolved. It baa
long: since been dissolved, in sympathy and
spirit. It is pp about to bo dissol ved, in form
and: fact. :A: few 'more 'weeks a few more
days and by the fiat of South Carollua, it will
be amongst the wrecks of past things, which,
u"'8"eu ior riooie ends, roan's Tolly and wick
edness have destroyed. Would that the fin
ders oi a man's hand could come forth, and
write upon the plaster of the wall of the fes
tive halls and palaces of the North those words
or terror Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin'
'thou art weighed in the balance, and art found
wanting' God has numbered thy kingdom,
"u imisned it' the Union is dissolved!
Would that the dread news of its dissolution
could burst like a clap of thunder over every
homestead and hamlet in New England the
Union is dissolved! Would that I could
speak, not in the voice of the earthquake, but
tuum wnisper in the startled ear of the oppres
sor and fanatic, in the still small voice of the
conscience the Union is dissolved ! The U-
nion is dissolved, and henceforth there Is de
liverance and peace and liberty for the South.
. . The long, weary night of humiliation, op-
i"1"""1! u uanger is passing away, and the
glorious dawn of a Southern Confederacy
breaks upon our view. With the blessings of
uuui wo win soon De a great people happy,
prosperous and free."
Such is the "moderate" and "conciliatory"
language of the Secession leaders ; and it is
these men, who say the Union is "accursed."
... i. n i . . .
iriiu pcaK. m ine most outrageous manner ot
the resident and Vice President elect.and de
clare that "the Northern people are not fit to
live with any other people in the world," that
are patted on the back by Northern doughfa
ces, and told that they are justified in their ef-
ions to dissolve the Union I
GEN. JACESON'S PROCLAMATION.
The followi ug extract from A ndrew Jackson's
Proclamation, in 1832, to the nulifiers and se
cessionists of South Carolina, will be read
with interest now. After enumerating the
plessmgs of union, the President says :
And tor what, mistaken men ! for what do
you throw away those inestimable blessines
ior wuat would you exchange your share in the
advantages and honor of the Union ? For the
dream of a separate independence a dream in
terrupted by bloody conflicts with your neigh
bors,and a vile dependence on a foreign power?
li your leaders could succeed in establishing a
separation, wnat would do your situation ?
Are you united at home are you free from
the apprehensions of civil discord, with all its
fearful consequences? Do our netjrhborine
republics, every day suffering some new revo
lution or contending with some new insurrec
tion do they excite your envy ? But the
dictates of a high duty oblige me to announce
that yon cannot succeed. The laws of the
United States must be executed. 1 have no
discretionary power on the subject my duty
is emphatically pronounced in the Constitution.
I hose who told you that you might peaceably
present tneir execution deceived you thev
could not nave been deceived themselves
They know that a forcible opposition could a-
lone prevent the execution of . the laws, and
they know that such opposition must be re
pelled. Their object is disunion ; but be not
deceived by names ; disunion, by armed force,
is treason. Are you really ready to incur its
guilt 1 If you are, on the bead of the insti
gators of the act be the dreadful consequences
on their heads be the dishonor, but on yours
may fall the punishment on your unhappy
State will inevitably fall the evils of the con
flict you force upon the government of your
country. It cannot accede to the mad project
of disunion of which you would be the first
victims its first magistrate cannot, if he would,
avoid tne performance or his duty the con
sequence must be fearful for you, distressing
to your fellow-citizens here, and to the ends of
good government throughout the world.
Its enemies have beheld our prosperity with
vexation they could not conceal, it was a
standing refutation of their slavish doctrines.
and they will point to out discord with the
triumph of malignant joy. It is yet in your
power to disappoint them. Thero is yet time
to show that the descendants of the Pickneys,
tne aumrers, tne ifntiedges, and of the thou?
and other names which adorn the pages of
your Revolutionary history, will not abandon
that union, to support which so many of them
fonght, bled, and died. I adjure you, as you
honor their memories, as you love the cause
of freedom, to which they dedicated their
ives, as you prize the peace of your coun
try, ine uves or its uest citizens, and your
own lair frame, to retrace your steps. Snatch
from the archives of your state the disorgan
izing edict of its convention, bid its mem
bers to re-asscmble and promulgate the deci
ded expressions of your will to remain in the
path which alone can conduct you to safety,
prosperity, and honor, tell them that, com
pared to disunion, all other evils are light,
because that brings with it an accumulation
of all, declare that you will never take the
field unless the star-spangled banner of your
country shall float over you, that you will
not oe stigmatized when dead, and dishonor
ed and scorned while you live, asUie authors
oi tne nrst attacK on the constitution of
your country ! Its destroyers you can not be.
lou may disturb its peace, you may inter
rupt tne course oi its prosperity, yon may
cloud its reputation for stability, but its
tranquility will be restored, its prosperity will
return, and tho stain upon its natonal charac
ter will be transferred and remain an eternal
blot on the memory of those who caused tbe
disorder. May the great Ruler of nations
grant, that the signal blessings, with which
He has favored ours, may not by tbe madness
of party or personal ambition, be disregarded
and lost ; and may His wise providence bring
those who have produced this crisis, to see
the folly, before they feel the misery, of civil
strife; and inspire a returning veneration for
that Union which, if we may dare to penetrate
His designs, He has chosen as the only means
of attaining the high destinies, to which we
may reasonably aspire.
The intelligence from Washington in regard
to the relations of this country with Pern is
very important. The Government of Pern
haying failed to satisfy certain claims upon it
held by American citizens, our minister, Mr.
Clay, bad demanded bis passports. In doing
ibis be acted nnd.er instructions received from
the Administration. ' Immediately upon the
receipt of this news at Washington, the Peru
vian ambassador in this country was furnished
With bis passports. This terminates ail diplo
matic intercourse between Peru and the Unl,-
ted States. The amount of tbe American
claims is $15U,V00.- It results rrom tne action
of the Peruvian Government in confiscating
tho American vessels "Georgiana" and "Liz-
zie Thompson." . -
THE LIBEBATOE OF ITALY.
The Africa brings us news of one of the
most remarkable events in history. It can be
told in a very few words. A man who, a few
years ago, was making candles on Staten
Island who a few months ago was a retired
soldier, much beloved and admired, but with
no position or command by his daring, bis
address, and bis military skill has ressued a
kingdom and a dependent island from a tyr
ranic dynasty has been made absolute dicta
tor in the realm he enfranchised, and then
summoning a sovereign who has not furnish
ed him a gun, a man, or a scudo, rides with
him side by side into the capital of the libera
ted country, transfers to him the supreme
power and finally, not lingering around the
monarch in whose hands he has placed the
scepter of half Italy, goes home to rest as
quietly as if he where turning his back upon a
day's labor. There is a simple grandeur about
the manner in which this man Garibaldi has
absolved himself ot the high and perilous
office which, all unbidden, he assumed, that
lifts him far up among those who sit enthron
ed in the world's memory. Such absolute
self assertion when he was dictating the fortun
es of his country, such absolute self-negation
when those fortunes were achieved by the
force ot his will, and the strength of his right
arm, mankind can think of only with wonder
and admiration. But yesterday he was abso
lute, at the peril of his life bis fortune and
his fame ; to day be gives his power, not back
again to those who, in their sheer necessity,
bestowed it on him that were comparitively
easy but into the bands ot another man, with
the sole purpose of serving their common coun
try. It is neither exaggeration norerrorto say
that Garibaldi has done all this ; for, in spite
of the condition cf affairs in Italy, without
him it could not have been done." It would
be poorly urged in diminution of his glory,
that where he has left order there before was
chaos, that the air which he has left ringing
with the cheers of grateful freemen, was, be
fore he breathed it, resounding with the
groans and curses of the exasperated victims
of oppession. The Italians may well cry, long
live Garibaldi, and the world's eye brim
brightly with the flood of feeling, a it follows
him, silently seeking bis island home of
Caprera. N. Y. World.
Toe Real Instigators or Discxios. The
very worst enemies of the North are those
Northern journals who ars continually misrep
resenting northern sentiment, and abusing
Kortnern people, ihey never make a state
ment which is. not either directly or indirect
ly a libel upon a great and powerful body of
.northern voters, composing a majority ot its
most intelligent, calm-thinking, and conserva
five citizens. These falae and malicious state
ments are eagerly copied by Southern Demo
cratic journals, and read by Southern people,
and tnus they contract the prejudices and hos
tile feelings towards the North, which we find
so general in that section. These nurtbern in
cendiary sheets are eternally warning theSouth
of impending ruin in case of the success of the
Republican party, and that its object is to
wage a war of extermination against their rights
and institutions. The millions of respectable
and law abiding men who constitute a party
which ia no more radical on the Slavery ques
tion than the old Whig party, and which has
elected a President who stands in the footsteps
ot tnat gallant old leader of that glorious old
party, are invariably and constantly denounc
ed as "Black Republicans," "Abolitionists,"
"Nigger-stealers," "Negro Equality men."
and so on; and thus the seeds of sectional an
imosity and civil discord are sown. We have
too good an opinion of the masses of the con
servative people of the South, to suppose that
if they correctly understood the policy and
purposes of the Republican party, any serious
cause of dissatisfaction would exist in conse
quence of the election of a Repulican Presi
dent; but not even a glimpse of the truth is
allowed to reach them through the Democrat
Ic journals. They not only falsify and dis
tort Northern opinions themselves, but will
not contradict the grossest and most mischiev
ous falsehoods on the part ot their Southern
contemporaries.
ASTUPEsnors Confidence Game. The hea
viest confidence game we remember ever to
have heard of, is said to have been successful
ly practiced in St. Louis on Saturday last, up
on a rich planter from near Nashville, Tenn.,
named T. Li. Newcorab. This gentleman, ac
cording to the St. Louis papers, is worth $100,
000, and came to that city to invest $20,000
in real estate. He made the acquaintance of
a man named Johnson, with whom be had sev
eral interviews last week. On Saturday, John
son, it is alleged, having represented himself
as a man of wealth, informed Newcoinb that
he had just closed a contract whereby he bad
agreed to furnish the city with cellular iron
pavement sufficient to pave six hundred blocks,
but unfortunately he had not ready money
sufficient to engage in the enterprise, and he
would be obliged to mortgage his real estate
to raise the necessary amount a thing he
didn't care to do. However, if Newcomb
would loan him $20,000, he would give him a
share of the promts. Mr. Newcomb, not for a
moment doubting his honesty or his story, a
greed to this and loaned him the sura of $8000
In cash on the spot, and gave the remainder
$12,000 in bank certificates, which be helped
Johnson to collect at different banks in St.
Louis. Johnson, therefore, got the twenty
thousand, immediately disappeared, and has
not been seen since.
The Socth. The Philadelphia Ledger says :
"The Southern States, not including Dela
ware, owe as State debts the sum of $131,000,-
000. To meet the interest of this debt re
quires burdensome taxes. If they should set
up a seperate confedetacy, they will require
an army, a navy, a postal establishment, courts,
&c. This would require at least half the a-
mount it now costs for tbe entire Union, say,
$40,000,000 a year. As the first step of tbe
confederacy would be to abolish the tariff and
open its ports free to commerce, it would have
to raise its revenue by direct taxation. This
is a most expensive mode of collection, and a
large amount of the sum collected, from pas
sing through so many hands, would be lost.
But whether the revenue will be raised by di
rect taxation or by duties on imports the a-
mount will com,e entirely out of the pockets of
4 l. . n 1 1 1 T!A- 1 J 11 .
the Southern people
v iiu a large aeus anq
Increased taxation, the new Government will
nnqitseir crippled in its finances, ita credit
impaired and; its people' overloaded with taxa-
tion, which are certainly not the elements of
prosperity In a Government old or nev,
PERSONAL LIBERTY BlCtS.
As a good deal of nonsense has been uttered
about the obnoxious "Personal Liberty Bills"
ot New York, Illinois, Indiana and Pennsylva
nia, among other States.it may be well enough
to say that neither of the three States first
named has ever passed such a bill at all, and
the following paragraph from the Pittsburgh
Journal, of Nov; 21st, shows what the law of
Pennsylvania amounts to. The editor of that
paper, Mr. Bigham, says .
"We have seen, in some fifty papers, Penn
sylvania denounced as one of the nine States
that have passed laws to obstruct the Fugitive
Slave Law. Now, the truth of history requires
us to say that the last Act passed in this State
was that of March 3d, 1847, nearly three years
before the enactment of what is called par ex
cellence the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. As
we reported that bill irt the Legislature, wo
may be supposed to know something about it.
The bill punished the crime of kidnapping free
negroes to sell them into slavery ; and forbade
our State officers to interfere in cases of fugi
tives from labor. Both thero things had be
come necessary by the decision of the Supreme
Court of the United States in the Prigg case.
And tho seventh section, which has probably
been the most useful of any, simply repealed
two provisions in the Emancipation Act ot
1780, by which slaves had been held in this
State for six months."
This law, which can be found1 hv the Pam
phlet Laws of 1847, pages 20S-7-8, was signed
by that well known Democratic Governor,
Francis It. Shunk. The Gth section, relating
to the use of jails, was repealed in-1852; being
deemed objectionable to the South',- and in
conflict with tbe Compromi so Law of 1850.
The balance of the law was repealed at Che last
session of the Legislature, but was almost lit
erally re-enacted in the new penal code, pass
ed at the same session, which was drawn np by
three Democratic Commissioners, Judge Knox,
David Webster nnd Judge King, appointed for
that especial object by Gov. Packer, wh sign
ed the bill when passed by the Legislatare.
While on this subject, we will make the
following extract from the able anti-secession
speech of Hon. A. II. Stephens, of Georgia,
delivered lately at the State capital. After
stating that the proper' way for the South to
act would be to lay their grievances before tho
Governors of the Northern States, he says :
"Now upon another point, and that the most
difficult and deserving your most serious con
sideration, I will speak. . That is tbe eourse
which this State should pursue towards these
Northern States which by their legislative acts
have attempted to nullify the Fugitive Slave
Law. I know that in some ol these- Staten
their acts pretend to be based npon tbe prin
ciples set forth in the decision of the Supreme
Court of the United States, in the case of Prigg
against Pennsylvania ; that decision did pro
claim the doctrine that the State ofScers are
not bound to carry out the provisions of a law
of Congress that the FederalGovemmcnt can
not impose duties upon State officials that
they must execute their own laws bv their twn of
ficers. And this may be true. But still it'is
the duty of the States to deliver Jngltivo
slaves, as well as the duty of the General Gov
ernment to see that it is done."
Those editors and politicians who talk so
glibly about pacifying the South by repealing
laws passed in accordance with a decision of
the Supreme Conrt of the United States, and
the "personal liberty laws" of States w hich
have none of the kind, should try to inform
themselves, as Mr. Stephens has done.
Taking Cold. A cold is not necessarily,
says the Scientific American, the result of low
or high temperature. A person may go di
rectly from a hot bath into a cold one or into
snow even, and not take cold. On tbe con
trary, he may take cold by pouring a couple
of tablcspoonsful of water upon some part of
his dress, or by standing in a door, or some
other opening where one part of tbe body in
colder than another. Let it be kept in mind
uniformity of temperature over the whole
body is the first thing to bo looked after. It
is the unequal heat upon the different parts
of the body that produces cold, by disturbing
the uniform circulation of some part. If you
must keep a partially wet garment on, it
would pe as well perhaps to wet the whole of
it uniformly. The feet are a great source of
colds on accoui't of the variable temperature
they are subjected to. Keep these always
dry and warm, and avoid drafts of air, hot or
cold, wet spots on the garments, and other
direct causes of unequal temperature, and
keep the system braced up by plenty of sleep.
and the eschewing of debilitating food and
drinks, and you will be proof against a cold
and its results.
The Personal Liberty act ol Massachusetts
was passed by the famous Know-Nothing Le
gislature of 1855, over the vote of Governor
Gardner. The next year, a bill was passed
through three stages of the popular branch of
the Legislature for its repeal, and upon the
rest vote, the measure had a majerify of soma
fifteen votes. The news ot the cowardly and
brutal assault upon a Senator of Massachusetts
in tho National Capttor was received the next
day and the bill for the repeal of the Personal
Liberty Act was defeated on the vote npon tba
engrossment. But for the assault of Brooks
on Charles Sumner, in 1855, there would to
day have been no personal liberty act otth
statue books of this State. In 1858. upon the
recommendation of Governor Banks, several
whole sections of the act were repealed. Tho
Governor of Georgia must be iznorant of tho
fact of the repeal (says the Boston Transcript).
as he recently cited the old act and made spe
cial mention of some of tho repealed sections
as being particularly offensive to tbe South.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher delivered a half
sermon and half political harangue, at hia
church in Brooklyn, in which bo nsed the fol-
owing curious simile: -'As men grow rich)
they grow mean. Why, I know men pious
men who actually perjure themselves abont
the value of tbelr property, that they may
save what is justly due the city for taxes. They
are as mean as well meanness has tunnelled
them from end to end, and tbe bieeest ono
lies through the heart, and the Devildailv
runs his trains through and through."
There's something raw in the air" as tbe-
man said when be threw away a bad oyster.
According to the census returns Kansas
haa a population of 109,404. , , .
Apples are selling in Western New Tork for
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