rziota,cip THAI ,NAPER. Taia.4:4oartsatt is pabLishal nosy Xonday morning, by Hamm J. Status, at $1,75 per it paid strictly to aDvaics--$2,00 per' *lmam if not paid in advance. Ito snbscrtp lioa unless at the option of the publisher, anti! all arrearaget are paid. Aorsariaanairrs inserted at the usual rates. Jos Pant/Jo done with neatness and dis patch, and at moderate prices. Orrum in South Baltimore street, directly opposite Wampler's Tinning Establishment, one aad a half squares from chi Court " Cumuli& " on the sign. the i'oef3 CoNo. Ties Primyer ef Wa.kissigtra. While the American army lay encamped in a ,deplorable state of nakcdneis and starvation at Valley Forge, a Quaker named Potts, pass ing a secluded spot, heard the yoke of some one is prayer. Stealing quietly forward, he saw Washington's horse tied to a sapling, and a little further on, in a thicket, was the chief on his knees, tears streaming down his checks, beseeching Heaven for the army and his coun try. SChere rork on rock is piled, Where lordly oaks are clasped by truth:a lines; And murmuring brooklet* wander through the pines, All is rude and wild; Where leaps from tree to tree The graceful squirrel—wbere the wild bird sings Farewell to autumn, on departed wings, And bums the busy bee; There, where no yoke is heard, SATs the low insecu', 'mid the brown'and green, And tho.e sweet bird-notes; while the leafy screen, 13r their ilea wings is stirred; There, low on bended knee, His broad brow lifted to the arching sk,,i; With folded hands, and meek, imploring eye s Ile prays, 0, God: to thee; "Father:" his heart is sad Tor those poor sufferers yonder in the camp; Disease is there ; their huts are told aad damp; They ask in rain for bread. "Father!" in yearcagone, A Christ)an mother taught those lips to pray, And yet he hears, though youth hath. passed away, That gentle teacher's tone. , Father!" what caa he dot Those hearts, unflinching 'mid the battles storm, Shrink back, appalled at famine's haggard form; flow can Tile STAMM lig true? Long shadows drape the hill ; His voice alone goes trembling o'er. the bush, Which slowly settles o'er plain aad hush, Till day's glad pulse is stilL How can he let Thee go? As Jacob, wrestled with his Lord, of old, With breaking heart, yet faith's unbroken bold, Ile wrestles with Thee now. Ilow beautiful is faith; Ile on whose wisdom leaned a nation's heart, With child-like trust repeats, "Oh, God, thou art, Speak—let the wronged be free!" The precious blessing came— • Long-suffering freedom struggled into birth— Liuked with his country's glory, o'er the earth, Echoes hit honored name. "Pray always," One bath said : - Columbia's heart entombs her Washington! But who shall Pay her freedom was not won, Because in faith besprayed? I==l All iu Tamil,. What are riches? But a bubble. 'What is fame? But toil, trouble. \\*Eustis genius? 'Ti, a spark That soon grows dark. What is beauty ? But a flower. What is love? An April shower. What is frieudslripl 'Ti, the lily Just born to die What are honors? Empty spoil. What is learning? Labor, toil. What is youth? And.unspnn thread; And how soon shred I What is language? Empty breath. What is age? Herald of death. What is time? One moment see Forerunner of eternity. se)cet 'hjiseeSiqrT. " Forty.'' This numerical, which occurs so fre quently in Scripture, and in places wl,ere its introduction is apparently at Vllliatice with passages which precede and follow it, is, in the East, constantly used as a general tertn.implying"many," or an indefinite number, as we use the words "score" or a "dozen or two." A ruined palace at Perseopolis is called " Chelininaty or " the forty pillars," though it has bat nineteen standing, and, when perfect, had two hundred and six. The Arabs also used " ono thous and and oue " in a similar manner.— Thus itoscs was in the mount forty {.l4ys, meaning many days. The Israe rites lived many, not "forty" year@ in the wilderness. This meaning explains sintuerous difficulties in scriptural his tory. The Persians, Arabs and Turks, still use the term " forty " in this sense. Gold.—We observe • that a French pkysieiae has recently published a cot me on the "Medical Effects of Gold," in which' he mentions various ways of presi.ribing it, and specifies numerous bffeets.produced by it. Among others of the leiter, he says it produces " ex hiliratiou of spirits," We h a ve no doubt of the efficacy of the medicine in this partictilar, especially if it be taken in the pockets. sir A neb man once complained in a cofice-tiotuse -that he had three daugh ters, to•wiiomise would give ten thous and dopitrylitipth- ind yet he could find Poixxiy to -rainy them. " With your l n eare, sir," Irish man who was present, artepping up and making a TOY - Volite Isow, "I' ll take two of them!' Willl".Bubby,:why don't ynd go home sack/sass year mothet sew up that AV falrbsib in your txtrweersr " Ohl you gib aott,..id 'Oman," ems the respectful sew''tur folks is oconontising, and a last longer than as patch exchan gee tat tide# " •-• Iwo??FtleP.w,4l4w. ) *WA Ag 4 boom 44 5 - • mow piguider." t : BY H. J. STAIFLB 407 YEAR. The Amount of Food Gonsumed by a lien During his Lifetime. We take the following from a late number of the London Tintee: 31. Alexis Sover, in one of his mot touching pictures of real life, represents • to us a good genius lea-ling out a Fttle aristocrat, or a yet unconscious million- , aire, to a vast plain,upon which are col lected on one spot all the delicate food ' and costly liquors which that favored! being will consume during the period of his mortal struggles, supposing him l i to attain the average age of man. The great writer throws in the addition I and 'awful touch that the animals for the support of the little boy are in that 4 1 dreadful vision endowed with life, and are gazing at their future consumer with lack luster but reproachful eye. Taking the medium consumption of his daily means, the eminent writer in "question has calculated that the boy would be surrounded and gated at by 80 oxen, 200 sheep, 100 calves, 200 lambs, 50 pigs, in poultry by 1,200 fowls, 300 turkeys, 150 geese, 400 duck lings, 263 pigeons, 600 woodcocks and snipes, 600 wild pigeons and teal, 450 plovers, ruffs, and reeves, 800 quails, ortolan, and oreign birds, also by 500 hares and rabbits, 40 doer, 120 guinea I fowl, 10 peacocks, and 360 wild fowl. In the way of fish, by 120 turbot, 140 salmon, 120 cod, 260 trout, 400 macker el, 800 whitings, 800 soles and slips, 400 flounders, 400 red mallet, 200 eels, 1 150 haddocks, 400 herrings, and 5,000 I smelts, and by some hundred thousands of those delicious, silvery white bait, besides a few hundred species of fresh water fishes. In shell fish by 20 turtle, 800,000 prawns, shrimps, sardines, and anchovies. With enumeration of the living creatures we will stop, we have not room, i to dwell upon the food upon the fruits and vegetables; we would on ly add that the liquids to promote the digestion of the above articles, enumer ated or suggistod, are counted as 49 hogsheads of wine, 1868 gallons of beer, bf/4 gallons of spirits, 842 liquors, etc. This may furnish a rough idea of the spectacle that would meet the intelli gent eyes of a little Colonel of the Grenadier Guards, if summoned at an Early age to inspect his future rations. The sight that would greet the eyes of an embryo soldier destined to serve under his command would be of a far less complicated nature, seeing that it would mainly consist of a huge pile of boiled fresh beef, in weight equal to 7,665 Its. of stringy, over boiled, fresh meat.—We have somewhat overstated the weight, and over-estimated the es- 1 culont value of this mountain of insipid flesh, because a private soldier does not i receive even 1 lb. of such diet every day; and even from the weight he ac tually receives, a considerable deduction must be made for bone and other por tions unfit for human food. A Curious Document Washington, as everybody knows, Was very methodical; and he was par ticular to have matters about which a dispute might arise,." put in writing." The article below is copied from one of his "papers," and is both characteristic and amusing. It is,an agreement with his gardener, who, it appears,was in the habit of getting "tight:" " Articles of agreement made this twelfth day of April, Anno Domini, one thousand sever. hundred. and eighty seven, by and between George Wash ington, Esq., of the Parish of Truro, in the county of Fairfax, State of Vir ginia, on one part, and Philip Bater, Gardener, on the other. Witness, that the said Ppilip Bitter, for and in con sideration of the covenants herein here after mentioned, cloth promise and agree to serve the said George Wash ington fur the term of one year as a Gardener, and that he will during the said time, conduct himself soberly, chili gently and honestly—that he will faith fully and industriously perform all and every part of his duty as a Gardener, to the best•of his knowledge and abili ties, and that he will not at any time suffer himself to be disguised with liquor, except on times hereafter men tioned. " In consideration of these things be !ing well and truly performed on the part of said Philip Bater, the said Geo. Washington cloth agree to allow him t(the said Philip) the same kind and t quality of provisions as he has hereto fore had, and likewise annually a do. cent suit of clothes, bating a man in his station•; to consist of coat, vest and breeches; a working jacket and breeches of homespun, besides two white shirts, three check do., two linen pocket handkerchiefs, two pair of linen over halls; as many pair of shoes as are ( necessary for him; fog; dollars at Christmas, with which he may be drunk j four days and four nights; two dollars l at. Easter to effect the same purpose; two dollars at Whitsuntide, to be drunk r two days; a dram in the morning and a drink of grograt dinner at noon. " For the tree and faithful peforrn ance of all and each part of these things, ; the parties have hereunto set their I hands this twenty-third day otApril, Anno Domini, 1787. ..Prim 8A7221, his X mark.. G/LiALGS WASMINGTON. Witness: Grua A. Weld:00311M Toms Lux. Jiro. PierceatMadeira.—Lottars have beau received at Washington, from ex- President Pierce, .conveying the grail ,tying intelligence that the climate .of Madeira continues to prove highly ben e *Mar to : the health of his estiniablb lsdy. .=atk•tonTitt oat into* hundred *ow both 1- inliWin pOttritibloomos. THE liar John Wesley Pollan, a married man, persuaded a young and beaUtifnl girl, of Brookville,. Indiana, daughter of a respoctable-citizen, to accompany -him to Cincinnati. In three days be returned to Brookville, when the whole town rose against him for his infamous conduct; he was talon before a maps traits bat the young lady refused to testify against him, and he was acquit-t led. But the indignant citizens escort ed him to the 0411, and, cutting a hole through the 10, lucked him ! Mir&nee a year it fa proper to pub lish the - following joke: A New Hayed paper, describing the localities of three prmine'nt -thetkstions 4f that City, says: "The litiediesl College is on the road to the cemetery ) the Divinity legalow7tike:rtia,d7 to: the pear • d the Law &Wig vo• the toed liras 'pail P' • . gentorratir, giro anti t antilt Nournai. GETTYSBURG, PA.: MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1858. A Railroad Incident Conductor Woodall, of the Little Mi ami (Ohio) Railroad, noticed a young girl in his train going East, find came to collect her fare. lie observed that she had but S 4, although she was going to New York as she said. Ile became interested in her, learned that she lived in New York, but came West to work, and had taken sick. This story was told so candidly that the conductor, who had watched the narrator closely, could not doubt its truth. 2 "If that 's the case, I cannot take your mon ," he said. " Ind d, sir, it is true." " en take your money back," was his answer, and he parsed along. Through with his collection, he relat ed the circumstances to a couple of gen tlemen passengers, and proposed to head a subscription list if they would go through the train and take up a col lection for the girl. The gentlemen readily agreed to this, and in a few minutes had the pleasure of handing to the girl some seventeen dollars, enough to pay her way to New York. She knew nothing until she received the money, when her grateful feelings gave vent, in copious tears. No one doubted her honesty. But 'Woodall was not satisfied. Be fore she left the train, he gave her a memorandum setting forth the route she should take, and a card, which he requested her to use instead of tickets. On the card was written the following : To my Brother Conductors : 7 —l have passed this worthy young lady on my train to Columbus. A subscription was taken up for her, and seventeen dollars placed in her hands by the passengers. For God's sake, don't take a cent of it. " WOODALL, Conductor Little Miami R. R. This, no doubt, enabled her to reach home safely, and with money in purse. Number of Stara. To tb e naked eye are displayed, it is believed, about three thousand stars, down to the sixth magnitude; and of these, only twenty are of the first, and seventy of the second magnitude Within the last two centuries, The tele scope has revealed countless milli on s o f stars, more and more astonishingly numerous the further the space it penetrated. Every increase in the di mensions and power of instruments, which successful improvements in opti cal science have attained, has brought into view multitudes innumerable of objects invisible before; so that, for any thing that experience has hitherto taught us, the number of the stars may be really infinite. Those rendered vis ible—for instance by the great power of Lord Rosse's telescope—are at such an inconceivable distance, that' their light, traveling at the rate 200,000 miles a second, cannot arrive at our planet in less than fourteen thousand years. The light of the sun takes 160 minutes to move to the Georgium Sidus, the remotest planet of our own solar system ; and so vast is the unoccupied space between us and the nearest star, that light would require five years . to pass through it. But as the telescope has disclosed to us objects many times more remote than such a star, the crea tion ofa new star at so great a distance could not become known to us for many thousand years. Cutting Down. , A late excellent Governor of this State used to tell a story of a fimons sportsman,. who "not only made long shots in the field, bat likewifie -at the board. In a word, he was fond of deal ing somewhat in the marvellous while recounting his exploits. Being aware that he carried thus practice to a rather unwarrantable length, he commissioned his favorite colored servant, Pete, to give him a hint when ho found him stresching the truth too much. One day, dining in company with sun dry other gentleman, ho told some prodigiously large stories; and, amo,ng the re.t, of a fox he had killed which had a tail twenty feet long. Honest Pete thought this was quite too extra vagant; and as he stood behind his master's chair, hetave him a nudge. " Twenty, did I say p Perhaps I'm a little two fast—but it was all of fif teen." Pete gave him a second nudge. ! let me see. 'Twas ten at least." A third nudge. "'Twas every inch of five." A fourth nudge. "'Twas three, any how." fifth nudge. The sportsman took all these hints in good part until he received the last; when, thinking his story was cut down quite enough, he turned suddenly to his servant, and exclaimed : " Why, hang it, Pete, won't you let my fox have any tail ?" COMPILER "TRUTH 113 MIGHTY, ♦ND WILL PHILVAIL." From the New York Duipetch How He Came to be Married. It 'ivy be funny, but I've done it. I've got a rib and a baby. Shadows depart ed--oyster stews, brandy cocktails, ci gar-boxes, boot-jacks, absconding shirt buttons, whist and dominoes. Shad ows present—hoop skirts, band boxes, ribbons, gaiters, long stockings, juven ile dresses, tin trumpets, little willow chairs, cradles, bibs, pap, sugar teats, paregoric, hive syrup, rhubard, sena, salts, squills, and doctor's bills. Shad owe future—More nine pound badies, more hive syrup, etc., etc. I'll just tell you how I got caught. I was always the darndest, most tea custard, bashful fellow you ever did see; it was kinder in my line to be taken with the shakes every time 1 Raw a pretty gal approach. ing me, and I'd cross the street any time rather than face one; 'twasn't be cause I didn't like the critters, for if I was - behind a fence looking thro' a knot hole, I couldn't look at one long enough. Well, my sister Lib gave a party one night. and I stayed away from home because I was too bashful to face the music. I hang atoned the house whistling "Old Dan Tucker," dancing to keep my feet warm, watching the heads bobbing up and down bchind the window curtains, and wishing the thun dering party would break up, so I could get to my room. I smoked up a bunch of cigars , and as it was getting late and mighty uncomfortable, I concluded to shin up the door post. No sooner said than done, and I soon found myself in bed. "Now," says I, " lot her rip! Dance till your wind gives out!" And cuddling under the quilts, Morpheus grabbed me. I was dreaming of soft shell crabs and stewed tripe and was having a good time, when somebody knocked at the door and woke me up. " Rap," again. , I laid low. " Rap, rap, rap!" Then I beard a whisper, and I knew there was a whole raft of girls outside. " Rap, rap!" Then Lib sings out, " Jack, are you there ?" " les," says I. Then came a roar of laughter. " Let us in," Kays she. " I won't !" says I. Then came another laugh. By thunder! I began to get riled. " Get out, you petticoatod sear& crows!" I cried ; "can't you get a beau without hauling a fellow out of bed ? I won't go home with you—l won't—so you may clear out!" And, throwing a boot at the door, I felt better. But presently, oh ! mortal buttons! I heard a still small voice, very much like sister Lib's, and it said : "Jack, you'll have to get up,,for all the girls' things are in there!" Oh, Lord, what a pickle! Think of me in bed, all covered with shawls, muffs, bonnets and cloaks, and twenty girls outside the door waiting to get in ! If I had stopped to think I should have pancaked on the spot. As it was, I rolled out, among the bonnet wire and ribbons in a hurry. "Sinuah !" went the millinery in every direction. I had to dress in the dark—for there was a crack in the door, and the girls will peep—and the way I fumbled about was death on straw hats. The critical moment came. I opened the door, and found myself right among the women. " Oh, my Leghorn !" cries ono. "My dear, darling, winter velvet 1" __cries another, and they pitched in—they pulled me this way and that, boxed my ears; and one bright-eyed little piece— Sal her name was—pni her arms right around my neck, and kissed tae right on my lips. Human nature couldn't stand that, and - I gave her as good its she sent. It was the first time I ever got a taste, and it was powerful good, I believe I could have kissed that gal from Julius Cesar to the Fourth of July. "Jack," said she, "we are sorry to disturb you, but won't yon see me home 1" " Yes," said I, v I will." I dad do it, and had another !meek at the gate too. After- that, we took a kinder turtle-doving after each other, both of us sighing like a barrel of new cider when we were away from each other. 'Twas at the close - of a glorious sum mer day—the sun was setting behind a distant hog-pen—the chickens were go ing to roostthe bull-frogs were com mencing their evening songs—the pol lywogs, in their native mud puddles, were preparing themselves for the shades of night—and S.d and myself sat upon an antiquated backlog, listen ing to the music of nature, such as tree toads, roosters and grunting hogs, and now and then the mellow music of a distant jackass was wafted to our ears by the gentle zephyrs that sighed among the mullen stalks, and came heavy laden with the de.licious odor of hen roosts and plg styes. The last lingering rays of the setting sun, glanc ing from the brass buttons of a solitary horseman shone through a knot-hole in the hog pen full in Sal's face. dyeing her hair with an orange-pell hue, and showing off my thread-bare coat to bad advantage—one or thy arms was around Sal's waist, my hand resting on the small of her back—she was toying with my auburn locks, of jet black hue—she was almost gone, and I was ditto. She looked like a grasshopper dying with the hiccups, and I felt like a mud-tur tle choked with a codflsh ball. " Sal," said I, in a voice musical as the notes of a dying swan,- " will you have me?" She turned her eyes heavenward, clasp ed me by the band, hid an attack of the heaves and blind staggers, and with a sigh that drew her shoe strings to her palate, said, "Yes !" She gave clear out then, and squatted in my hip—she cork-screwed and cdrtlamuxe d anti . roll ed in it. I hugged her till I broke my suspenders, and her- breath- *Melt of , onions which she ate the week btdire. Well, to-make it- Wag story abort r ebe sot. the .acei, we practiced for four Nreidre new sight koic.ora weld walk into the room to be married, tUl.wegok so we could walk ss graceful as a couple of Muscovie ducks. The night, the company, and the minister came, the signal was given, and arm in arm we marched through the cruuded hall. We were jnst entering the parlor door, when down I went slap on the oil-cloth, pulling Sal after me. Some cussed fel low had dropped a banana skin on the floor, and it floored me. It split an aw ful hole in my cassiineres right under my dress coat tail. It was too late to back out, so clapping my hand over it, we marched in and were spliced, and taking a seat I watched the kissing the bride operation. My groomsman was tight, and he kissed her till I jump ed to take a slice, when, oh, horror ! a little six year old imp had crawled be hind me, and pulling my shirt through the hole in my pants had pinned it to the chair, and in jumping up, I displa•- - ed to the admiring gaze of the astonish ed multitudes trifle more white muslin than was pleasant. The women giggled, the men roared, and got mad, but was finally pat to bed, and there my trou bles ended. Good night. Yours, J. W. B. A Laughing Philosopher. The author of a work called ig Notes Of an Army Surgeon," records the fol lowing incident as having occurred dur ing the siege of Fort Erie, in the war of 1812 : " I remember one day, in making my hospital rounds, a patient just arrived presented an ampntated fore-Arm, and, in doing so, could hardly restrain a broad laugh; the titter was constantly on his face. " What is the matter? This does not striko me us a subject for laughter." " It hi not, doctor; but excuse me— t loaf my arm in so fitnny a way that I still laugh when I look at it." " What way ?" " Our,first sergeant wanted shaving, and got me to attend to it, as I ant corporal. We went together in front of the tent. I had lathered him, took him by the nose, and was just applying the razor, when a cannon ball came, and that was the last I saw of his head and my arm. Excuse me, doctor, for laugh ing. but I never saw such a thing be fore." A Warning to Parents.—We do not .know the name of the town in Vermont where the young man resides that can't speak to his father, nor do we know that there is any ench young man ; but the newspapers say there is, - and that just before his birth some differ ence arose between his mother and her husband; and for a conSiderable time she refused to speak to him. The diffi culty was snlosegnently healed—the child was born, and in due tame he be gan to talk, but when sitting with his father was invariably silent. The boy continued so till he was five years old, when the father. having exhausted his powers of persuasion. if dieted punish ment, which elicited nothing but sighs and aoans. All who were present united in the opinion that it was impossi ble for the child to speak, to his father—and time proved their opinon to be correct, as, at a waterer age, his efforts to con verse with his parents could only produce bitter sighs and groans.—Bee ton Post. s Retribution.—lt is instructive to note bow the devices of men sometimes re tarn to plague their inventors. Louis Napoleon, who holds his tenure of des potic power at the constant peril of as sassination, because of the recent at tempt upon his life, has endeavored to obtain or the English •Government more stringent regulations respecting repub heats refugees resident in Great Britian. The effort has led to ranch discussion in the British press, and the London Times, with a coolness almost amount ing to malignity, reminds the third Na poleon that his'uni.l.3 left a legacy of 82,- 080 to Castillon, the soldier who at tempted to assassinate the Duke of Wellington, and that he, Louis Napole on, sub , equently sought out this person and paid him the legacy with interest. Snow Ra is stated that in the Canton of Glaris in Switzerland, a man aas shaving at a window, when some reckless fellow cracked away at him with a 14110N7 ball. The missile struck the razor and cut the man's throat, and he died front the wound.— Since then the authorities have decreed that whosoever throws a snow ball shall be sentenced to six years solitary confinemtint. oar A. Scotch blacksmith gave the following detinition of metaphysics:— When the party who listens dinna ken what the party who speaks means, and when the party who speaks dinna ken what he means himself, that is metaphysics." Stir T e following sentence has been ascribed to Feuelon :—" I love my family better than myself; my country better thin my family; and mankind better than my country; for I am more of a Frenchman than a Fenelon, and more a man than a Frenchman." liirThey declaim most against the world who have most sinned against it; as people generally abuee Woe() whom they huvo injured. Arne seisnoe of fretting on woll with a woman is like violin playiniF. 7 - It depends principally on the beau-ing. Wir"qlMt'aleg down the law," U the Irishman said whoa ho kuooked down. the /wigs. sirif "money makea•ibe snarl go,". what a toot .-tessitaing old jade John Jamb ,d is ,Inpno ban-4M had one.. TWO DOLLARS- A-YEA R The President and his Assailants. We deny to no man the freest criti cism upon the conduct of a public otfi cer, however high his position.. Con demn his acts, impeach his integrity, traduce and vilify his character if you will. An upright Magistrate cannot he permanently injured by malice any more than the principles of justice can be overthrown and destroyed by acts of tyranny and oppression. Truth in this country of rapid movement, free inquiry and judgment, is sure to work its way to light; and while it will exalt the honest and the faithful, it will re act, with fearful energy, upon the dis honest and the corrupt. We do not live, thank God! in a borrowed and re flected light. The public judgment in this country is full of' original force, full of justice, magnanimity, patriotism, and • truth. Misled for a day, it will again What Next? assert its power. The Lain' Objection Remored.—ln the James Beehanan iethe elective repro second section of the Kansas bill, as :it sentativo Chief of this great nation.— was amended in its passage through the Advanced in yetree; Ms whole life has I Senate, the right of the people, "at all - been devoted to the public service. He tubes Walter, reform, or abolish, o pen" manner been seated in almost every position manner as they may think proper," of honor ind trust under the govern their Constitution, is fully provided for, meat—in Congress, in the Senate, in and this amendment was inserted at the the cabinet, in high diplomatic service ( instance l of Mr. Green. the able and do abroad, and now in - the presidential (pent Senator from Mi.souri, who tio orted the bill. Latterly this was the all of the nation. Tt may be said of the him, too, what cannot be truly said of ' all men, that his eminent talents, his I principal n objection made to the measure e Baek Reublins and thr al uniikiinitthed name, his industry, .and 'y who l strenuo p usly ca contended ei that his devotion to the people, so fitly mark edthe him for the dischnitgo of high politi- the Constitution of Kernels, under the provisions of the Leconieton-Constitu cal functions as to render -his a nee ge of office an honor and a favor to his eon- i fore tion, could not be le he 1864. They we knew ally changed btha stituents. Not one breath of suspicion t his this year was a strained and false co stree t has fallen upon his name during Voir of that:inetrument: but havittg whole public ' career. Dung fort y 1 . been boldly met and vanquished on all years of public service no ono lineation their other objections, by the Demerit ed his integrity, his manliness, or - hie cy, they clunk with pertinacity to this devotion, in all that time, to the high ia* the last plank In their rickety .plat trusts confided to his administration.— form, and rested all their hopes of sue. Nominated for the presidency by te I icess before tho country on this single great party to which ho has ever been wedded and which he has done so much ' objection. But the action of the Senilf° has ont to elevate, in the midst of a bitter can- . swept this " refuge of lies" frost trated prejudices of sentional hatred - l resit in which were enlisted the conceit- - smiler them, -and they aro now 'without a solitary place of shelter from s and malevolence, no man dared to as- the which torm-o they are doomed to be visitf popular indignation wit h sail his motives, his integrity, or ' . it-- peach his public or private virtues.psooner or later.—Erie Observer. passed through that ordeal not only Greeley in Danger. ' without blot or blemish,. bet command- Tt is stated that ex-Mayor Wood, 4 ing the homage and affection of every .New York, is about to sue lionise upright citizen of the republic. Want- . for libel, on seven hundred awl ing in no fidelity to his party or his i I ( 7 l.rie i ree ty dis y tinot charges ! The Providence country, relaxing in no honest effort to v" . • Post says, in regard to the afrair: achieve the triumph of the one and the "We believe .11r. Wood in every* Bid presperity and happiness of the other, gle contest with his opponents in tWo ho entered the groat erne. he now fills courts, except that which tried the son corn mazuling universal confidence and ~i etitutionality of the Metropolitan -Po eliciting almost universal blessings up- , lice Bill, which was not a personal sif on his name and character. If alms 'rale, has come off victor. that fie him pieion had crept into the public mind been most ehamefully libelled by Greet that the government was in danger' of is beyond all dispute; and that demoralization—that there were signs I fr i° Y ;these suits Will wring the withers ol' and tokens of improper conduct on the the latter, whether they pet moneriti part of its agents—the people looked to I , the poiiket of the former or net s is James Buchanan, whose long public " equally certain. , .. and private life was 4tmelees, to bo 'w ,. I Fernando Wood is certainly ono Of hat.lc the administration - of affairs to tho the most indomitable and perseveriit purity of our national oriem. If a fear ., men of the ago, and if h© has realty between the i ful sectional strife existed , made up his mind to turn upon Greelity free and the slave States. they looked !and make him pay for the outrages he to the man who commanded the c ons- ; has sustained at his hands, we coald done of all, to mollify asp calm erities,pity Horace, much as . vrb 'di. and subdue dissensions; and to execute j alm ost n Instice to every part of our common 1 ''''''" liiin Union. If they saw the constitution imperilled by ceaselom efforts to under mine its authority, to question its wis' dues and impeach its morality,' they looked to him, who bad exhibited a life long devotion to that great compact and to the just administration tinder its provisions of the government it cre ated, to paralyze its assailants, to vin dicate its character and maintain its integrity. One short year has passed since Mr. Buchanan assumed the great trust to the exacution of which he brought nll the patriotism, experience, ability, and energy of his life. No man had been promoted to the office lie holds com manding more, or deserving more, of tho confidence of his countrymen. No man had ever entered it with less ambi tion and with a more single purpose .to discharge its high duties with absolute fidelity to the constitution and laws Are there those who, relying upon the force of truth and justice, expected• that even upon this record Mr. Buchan an wonld escape the malevolence of par t v, and the detraction, abuse, and slan der of partisans? has it ever happen ed that a high public officer, however pure, however able, however devoted to the cause of his country, has found in his deeds a shield against malice, in his services a protection against misre presentation, in his integrity a foil against slander! Surely not,. Honesty is not a universal virtne. Prejudices are not all extinct. Envy, Lttrell, and malice stilt exist. Who, then are the assailants of Tames Buchanan? Who are they that impugn his motives, question his integrity as a man, and impeach his character as an upright Magistrate ? We have a right to know them, and we have a right to understand their motives and purposes. We bring them before the country.— They are William IL Seward, John P. Hale, Benjamin F. Wade, Williarn'P. Fessenden, Charles Sumner, Stephen. A. Douglas, Thomas L. Harris, Tiorlace Greeley, James Watson Webb, Robert J. Walker, Therlow. Weed, Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison, and many others of-leeser note. These ire the men who: boar .publio testimony , against the .President. They have at . right to speak what they will. We do nut iinestion that fight.. They are wit n,ft•if, and we lieOrati them. We *ski the emit:7 to take them singly, .woigti i thiiir .eharoo4m. _enwsk*,:gisir bility r intarpt*their designs iy4 poeti, a - uiNk. the ftilliii:pf tbsi.r teilthTicl l .7.: " I f tlieib i lliteinti posdAttieliitsettlii the itvai. stitation, One leak in the trailory,-biiiiw . . , sore on lite bodyvolitic, you Aluir Imes tboir exiotence to those nminv Whore signs' of dissension between the States - and of weakness in the, bokda that bind them together t, aQ to them.,lf the Nerds.i,t,efeellyed against, thSouth,and the Sinititagainsa the _;-they have done it.lf the conititetion ha. been assailed.; they are the assailants. If corruption has crept into Congrers; they are the tempters, If the governmenthartecti denounced as-"ii league with the (WU J" it was they that declared it. If the authority of Congress haebeen rammed by insurrection in the Territoi*; it is they that peomoted it and now Justify it. If faction prevails iu the kenpte with a deliberate purpose of stopping the wheels of the t.rov ern met' t ; it is tiley that direct it. These are the men who question the integrity, malign the char. actor and misrepresent the motives of Jame Buchanan I And whersAin4key live? in the free States. What is their object? To break down the Democratic party, and thus take away the last hope of maintaining the jgdaern. meet of the Union. A majority of the people and of the States are in - the orth. Their object is to productain the northern people an irreconcilable hatred to the Southern people, and by the clash of the antagonists to over. throw the constitution. There is not a drop of patriotic blood in their veins. Their minds are either seared by preju. dice or deranged by fanaticism—the two chief elements of tjteir strength.— hatever shall he adddrl to their _power shall be taken from tho federal Union. Ile who is assailed by such men is com plimented for his patriotism and certified fur his integrity.— Washington Union. NO. 30. Gov. Denver, of Kansas. A Kitusus correspondent of the:.4 Louis Rep - übliean says of this geutit man : "Gov. Denver has-so doporteitisim self in Lis executive and individual pacity that a large majority gf the free State men have become his sincere a 4 mirers and steadfast friends; and Lan7e will find his hostile demonstrations promptly met and summarily crualte4 out, his course rebilked, and himself rw pudiated, by .much the best portion or that 'great and noble party' whessb sympathy and concurrence ho invokesso insidiously, and with a design st,ob viously nefarious, that notwithstutulink all his artful and expert lubricity; kolas plainly understood, and will be severe* reprobated by all who retain a solittow spark of the true spirit of humanity ) morality, and justice. He has Eto.tre quently, with his practised glogfirtgisi, given to the wrong a semblance of right, and thus misled the honest su u.r. wary, that a vigilance has .beeti awakened, which will render as apple. ent as the sunlight his bitter perielue malignity and his crafty efforts Vl:Waft them to assume the execution of 144 vengeance." :r A letter from Leavenworth, .Kansits,; dated March 10th, says, " the oleatimuF, was for Delegates to the new Conattin• donut Convention, and passed otriittint= ly. The vote in this plaee was foithir Free State candidates --six•handrethalng fifty—the utmost that, with all ' energies, they could gather together.— 'rho following comparison wilt lime 1 the great frauds committed at the-per einet in January last—frauds, in ft , M7,, ' parison with which Delaware ' Crossipt y or Hickapoo pale into insignificance: Free State votes in Leavenworth for SiSiteitili tern and Legislature, January, 4 0 ,........"1,Ma1h Vote against the Lecutupton Conatttatina ea the mune day, ' i,iiii Fete State vote for delegate, on /larch .. -: ,- 9tb, 1858, We Cali the especial attention those , whotredaily talking about in Kansas to thioiViitisstliftirett On the 4th of January,-wheitithii:eies stitutioo win *wed uPcilV. ' . hundred and - eighittfoirr metre laththe Preis gotta party. '. Ow " Aptivit, when the santoparty.wisiibi to- Ole& Pshilpitekte a ..., ;Convention only ii„N'llv ; - ,• vOttis - were Milt. .1104%; of fraud on the o,' 'ONO' -..* ' 7 .":7: ':poneniotr - . ~ i 7f (gig . - --, `onihittuthstut pe r ;-4 bfrikSii 4ainly anspiekitui. - • *-- ' , 1.--...:. 4 - - Who- Commits Frauds t D lIM
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