MUM 0P, 42.1 t 1 , 5 P4PER.
Tux Commie. Is.pa4listiatt every Monday
woraing, by Hairs 3, BralLa, nt sl,lb per
annum if paid strictly II ADYLICX—S2,OO per
saaum if not paid fa advance. No subscrip
tion discontiaest, traleab at the option of the
publisher, until all arrearages are paid.
...kursamiatterrs inserted at the eistial rates.
Joe Pa=TOW done with neatness and dis
patch, and at moderate prices.
.. Orrice in South Baltimore street, directly
.oppaslte Wampler's Tinning Establishment. one
-/".-alinti N ball squares from the Court nutlet--
I•
44•Coatit.aa " on the sign.
*As
Notice
TO TAX-PAYERS.—Notice is hereby sir
en that the County Commissioners will
make an ABATEMENT of FIVE per cent.
upon all State and County Taxes assessed
for the year I.S;8 that shall be paid to Collec
tors on or before liturviay, the lit day of
July next. Collectors will Le required to call
on tax p.iyers on or before the above date,
and make such abatement to all persons pay
ing on or before said day, and pay the same
to the County Treasurer, otherwise no abate
ment will Le made. By order of the Com
missioners. • .1. M. WALTER,
May 10 M`( " Clerk.
Sheads & Buehler
L Have constantly on hand, at their yard
1:" on Washington and Railroad streets,
.31 any variety of River and Mountain
Il LUMBEIt—W bite Pine, Hemlock,
E Poplar, Ash, St.c.—Boards, Plank,
It Joist, Scantling and Studding. They
are ready to fill all orders, at the short
est notice, for any amount, for `Juilning par
, poses, at prices which will surprise those
who may fat or them with a call. They have
also on hand a lot of worked Flooring, Win
d K Palings for fencing, Plastering
and Shingling Lithe. &e.
Gettysburg, May 3, 1S:58.
The 500 People
WHO bought their Winter Clothing from
FRANKLIN B. PICKING, are all com
ing back, and bringing with them their
friends and acquaintances, to examine his
XLNT assortment of Spring and Summer
Ci..thing, just opened at his new Clothing
establi-litnent in Chambersburg street, op
posite thetutheran Church. They will have
the cheapest and best assortment of Goods to
select from ever brought to Gettysburg.—
They will find every style of Summer Coats,
Pantaloons, Vests, Raglan Cants of every
quality, Frock Coats of Italian Tweed, Cash
mere+, Linen, Check; Dock Couto. &c.—
Pan LI.. of ',lack and fancy Cassimeres, Tweeds,
Jeans, Linen, Puck. Cotton, tko.
FRANKLIN B. PICKING.
April 2tl, 1838.
Ready-made Clothing.
GEO. ARNOLD has now on hand the largest
stock of Ready-made Clothing in town,
comprising every variety and size,all of his
own manufacture, which will be warranted
well made, having hands constantly employ
ed cutting out and making up. If we cannot
tit you with a garment ready made, we will
sell you the goods, take your measure, end
make you up a garment on the shortest no
tice. Please call at the Clothing'Emporinm,
where you will find Mr. Culp always on
hand, bright and accommodating. Our stock
i. large, well selected, and will he sold cheap
fur Cash.
tiettyhburg. March 20, MA.
Auctioneering.
NIMEW W. FLEMMING, residing in
" lireckinridgestreet, near James Pierce's;
G e try,h ur g, offers his sortices to the public
as a .mite Crier and Auctiomeer. Ilis charges
are moderate, and he will on all occasions en
deavor to render satisfaction. lie hopes to
receive a share of public patronage.
Aug. 17, 13i-17.
Removal.
TIIE subscriber has vemoved his Plough
and Machine Shop from the Fu :dry
building to Railroad street, opposite Tate's
Blacksmith shop, back of the Eagle Hotel,
where he is Letter prepared than ever to at
tend to eustontsrs. Ploughs always on hand
and wade to order at the shortest notice, and
Machines, Reapers, &c., repaired. Also he
will attend to cleaning and repairing Clocks.
May 10. DAVID WARREN.
Challi Robes.
rp II E third arrival of ltabes by express.—
- 1 - The prettiest styles yet offered to the la
dies, and front which they cannot fail to
please their tastes. Come immediately if you
want pretty and cheap goods. The latest
styles and patterns of side stripe robes just
received at FAH NES rocKs..
Apr G. IKIR.
Spring Millinery.
XIISS MeCREAItY has just returned from
the city, and is now opening a beautiful
assortment of Mil/id/cry and Funcy Goods, of
the ltue.st st IA I,icli she will sell at the
lowest C.l. prices, and which eh/invites the
ladies to call and examine.
Milliners who wish to buy Goods to sell
again, will find it much to their advantage to
give her a ctll, as she keeps none but the
most fashionable goods.
April 19, .13 . 8. 3m
Clear the Way
OflitFOß THE NEC F11111!—No. 1, 2
and 3 Hiding and Wagon Saddles,
Trotting. Buggy and Carriage Har
ness, Buggy, Carriage, Mule, Hair, 'ricking
and common Collars. Riding and Driving
Bridles, 3lartingals, 11.11ters, Horse Glovers
and Fly Nets of every deseriptin'n : Whips.
just received and for sale astonishingly
low•, at 111i.1.N631.1X & CULP'S, sign of the
•'BIG BOOT." Chamhersburg street.
May 10, 1:455.
Clothing.
THE bestassortment, and the cheapest, in
A- town. Call and see them, at the Clothing
Einporium of
April 5. 1858
White Goods
AND EMBROIDERIES.—J. L. SCHICK
would invite the Ladies to examine his
large variety of new style Brilliants, Cam
bria Jite.onets, Plain Cambrics, Linen, Col
lars, Handkerchiefs, &c. A iril 5.
To Get
TIIE lull 'worth of your money, make your
purchases of Ready-made Clothing,
Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Trunks, Clocks,
Violins, and everything else in the rariety
line. at SAMSON'S.
larch 29, 1858.
MILLINERY.—Miss Long.& KA.rx LITTLX,
Wijihet to inform the ladies of town and
eauntri, that she is now prepared to execute
;!Millinery in all its branches, in West Middle
street, it few doors below Mr. George Little's
store. Work done cheaper than elsewhere in
town.: 'Please call and see. fapr. 21, 'oh.
a ROdIRLIKS.-If you want a good assort
ment4Groceries, such as Syrups, Mo
lasses, flew: and Coffee, you will du well by
eismininf the assortment at
H. S. & E. H. MINNWEe.
!pug attention of the Ladies is directed to
36e targ cord splendid assortment of new
and Summer Goods, such as Delaney,
Lambs, Neal Ohall,Ginghams, domestic and
Bonnets. le., at
J. Q. GUINN & BEO'S
p ICH EILBROIDMES.—A large and
Itifol amiortntent of rich French
toms"s work
, . and Dsany other new and season
..obdir; Ast received and for sale at low
F taoriti..
at IL 8. & L. H. MINNIGILS'.
Molasses,.-- 9 ipr,doiCee, 1;11
l klids of ,Uiceit.,and every article in
$j rts&9
tboopeiglin s Wisp Mt good at Ihe 14w
Do tGlerrooirg &ore of
• 4. C. GUINN &1111.0.
}LWOW/LS-444ft Sty_lte, at.
Masa licCazares.
THE COMPILER.
gittnortatir, Ntirts and tamibl gauxnaZ.
407 YEAR.
The shortest word in the language is
the harvest for some persons to use.—
Some people are so constituted that it
is utterly impossible to pronouec a small
but important word of two letters, and
this inability has led to their utter ruin.
Indeed, most of us have at one time or
another been sufferers from a sudden
refusal of the lips to form that ugly lit
tle word NO. A bright-eyed, vivacious
young damsel, waits on you with a sub
scription book and pencil ready to enter
your name. She is canvassing for a
new periodical, a charity, a fair and
supper—if don't matter what—and
she wants your name and cash. You
abominate the periodicals as trash, are
convinced that the charity is a humbug,
and thoroughly despise the object for
which the fair and supper Is got up, but
you can't, for the life of you, say No to
the appeal of that pleasant voice and
those sparkling eyes, and you are done
at once out of your cash, and your good
temper for the next hour.
Jones rushes into your office. He
wants your attention for a moment to
a trifling matter. Ho has a note that
he wishes discounted ; the cashier re
quires another name-to it; will be all
right, you know; taken up as soon as
due ; never bear from it again. You
can't say No, and so place your name
on the fatal piece of paper. Sixty days
are gone, and so is Jones. The paper
you do hear from again, bat Jones you
don't. Tho word of two letters,- used
in the right place, would have saved a
good many hard dollars.
Every one of our readers can recall
times where the use of the little word
would have saved mach trouble, morti
fication and loss. In view of the gene
ral inability to pronounce the word at
the right time, would it not be well to
establish classes in our Public Schools
for the special purchase of practising
this expressive monosyllable
GEO. ARNOLD
Our brains are seventy-year clocks.
The Angel of Life ,winds them up onct
for all, then closes the case, and
gives the key into the hand of the An
gel of the Resurrection.
Tic-tac ticrtac : go the whet's of
thought; our will cannot stop them;
they cannot stop themselves ; sleep can
not stop them; madness only makes
them go faster ; death alone can break
into the case, and, seizing the ever
swinging pendulum, which we call the
heart, silence at last the clicking of the
terrible escapement we have carried so
long beneath our wrinkled foreheads.
1/0- 1 little urchin in the Sabbath
School at G , was asked, a few
Sundays ago, "What our Savior said
when he knew Judas had betrayed
him ?"
The urchin scratched his head a few
moments, and gravely answered, "Eter
nal vigilance is the price of liberty !"
The teacher smiled.
term the paper mill of William
Clark & Co., Northampton, a bale of
rags was recently opened, which came
from the scene of the Crimean war.—
Mow oases, sheets, shirts, bandages,
surgical 'aprons, remnants and parts of
clothing, stained with blood, told of 'Dif
fering and sorrow.
I A rich man one day asked a man
of wtt what -sort of 'a - thing opulence
was.
. " It is a thing," replied the philoso
pher, 84 wIlichvari"give a rascal the ad
vantage over an honest man."..
By H. J. STAIILB
De i'oec c s eeitpeir.
For The Compiler
T• Vale—O. her Elnipilay.
I=
What sbalLl bring thee, beloved one,
On the happy return of thy natal day?
Fifteen summers are past and gone,
Fifteen winters have down away,
And left on thy brow no marks of care,
Nor traces of trouble or sorrow there.
I bring thee a gem from my secret soul,
And give it to thee untouched and whole,
Not to be gazed on by passers by,
But to be reserved for thy loving eye—
'Tie the jewel of Love from a loving friend ;
That jewel Is thine 'till lite shall end.
May love twice for thee a garland of until,
May thy girlhood go pleasantly by,
May sorrow seer sadden thy season of youth,
May tempests neer trouble thy sky,
limy honored old age crown thy fair young
brow,
May thy days be as happy and pleasant as now.
Annie, I bring thee this simple lay,
And give It to thee on thy natal day,
It comes from the heart, (else it had not come)
It comes to thee from a loving one.
" Annie, dear Annie, now tell me true,
Will you not love me as I love you 7" .
Gettysburg, June, 1858.
Ter.Morrow.
Whete'er the grief that dims the eye,
Wlu►te'er the cause of sorrow,
We turn ns to the weeping sky,
And say, "We'll smile to-morrow."
And when from those we love we part,
From home we comfort borrow,
And whisper to our aching heart,
We'll meet again to-morrow.
Bet when to-morrow comes, 'tis still
An image of to-day,
Still tears our heavy eyelids fill,
Still mourn we those away.
And when that morrow too is past.
(A yesterday of sorrow),--
Hope, smiling, cheats us to the last,
With visions of to-morrow.
seleet igisceil4w%
No!
The Brain-Clock.
GETTYSBURG, PA.: MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1858.
Rapidity of , Thought in Dreaming.
A very remarkable circumstance, and
an important point of analogy, is to be
found in the extreme rapidity with
which the mental operations are per
formed, or rather with which the ma
terial changes on which the ideas de
pend, are excited in hemispherical gan
glia. It would appear as if a whole
series of acts, that would really occupy
a long lapse of time, pass ideally through
the mind in one instant. %'/e have in
dreams, no true perception of the lapse
of time.—A strange property of mind !
for if such be also its property when
entered into the eternal disembodied
state, time will appear to us eternity.—
The relations of space as well as time
are also - annihilated, so that almost
while an eternity is compressed into a
moment, infinite space is traversed more
swiftly than by thou ht. There are
i t ,
numerous illustrations f this on record.
A gentleman dreamt hat he had enlist
ed as a soldier, joined his regiment, de
serted, was apprehended, carried back,
tried, condemned to be shot, and at last
led out for execution. After the usual
proparations,-a gun was fired ; he awoke
with the report, and found that a noise
in the adjoining room, had at the same
moment produced the dream and awa
kened him. A friend of Dr. Abercrom
bie dreamt that he crossed the Atlantic,
and spent a fortnight in America. In
embarking, on his return, he fell into
the sea, and awakening it) the fright
found that he had not been in bed ten
minutes.
A Mixed-up Lawsuit.
An exchange paper tells of a "mixed
up lawsuit" which came off in Vermont
last fall. It seems that Smith shot a
rabid dog that was trespassing on his
lot, and belonging to one Davidson.—
Dog ran into the road and frightened a
horse belonging to one Shufelt.
Shu
felt's horse ran away, upset a wagon,
and broke a leg belonging to W. 11.
Patterson. The question now is, who
shall Patterson sue for damlges--Smith,
Shufelt, or Davidson ? As Smith had
caused the accident, Shufelt allows that
Smith should foot the -bill. Smith's
counsel objects to this By saying that
Smith was doing a lawful act in a law
ful manner, and that, as the horse vas
frightened by the dog, the owner of the
dog (Davidson) should pay the dama
ges. Davidson's lawyer claims, on the
contrary, that he is nut holden, because
the dog was not mad; and if he were
mad, ho would not have frightened the
horse had Smith attended to his own
business and let the dog alone. How
the question will come out will be
known in Juno, when the court sits.
Miraridous Escape.—At a recent fire
in Boston, a woman appeared at one of
the third story windows of the burning
building, frantic and despairing. Thne
upon the persons below called on her to
take courage and observe their direc
tions, and they would save her. They
then as many as - could join, formed a
circle, each man extending his arms
horizontally, and grasping with his
right band the right hand, and with
his left the left hand of the man oppo
site, their arms crossing. They then
told her to kneel upon the window will.
and to incline her b&ly in s uch a way
as to free her bead film the wall and to
fall sideways. All being ready she
threw herself front the third story win•
dow ! Not* man drew back—nil stood
firm, and the poor woman was receiv
ed in safety on that platform of human
hands and arms—arms nerved by no
ble hearts!
MirWe have some funny stories about
the freshets in the West, but here is one
from the Memphis Appeal, which is
trifle ahead of any of the others : "The
Kate Frisbee on her lest trip hnd among
her passengers a gentleman of Bolivar,
who was going to see a friend of his fif
ty miles up the river. his business was
this : Ono day last week he saw It non
descript sort of an article floating down
the Mississippi near his plantation; it
resembled a miniature Noah's ark, with
the hull knocked off. Curiosity led him
to board it., when he was astonished to
find himself in the store of a friend re
siding fifty miles up the river. The
contents were not greatly injured. He
tied the store to the shore, and started
off to let his trading friend know where
he might find his lost place of business."
/®-Man looks upon life just gs ho
does upon women—there is no !lying
with them, and he can't lire, without
them. Ho will run after them, and rath
er than be held, will lose his coat-tail
anti character—kiss them for love, and
kiss them for leading him into trouble.
So is life. lie partaio of its pleasures,
and then curses it for its pains; gathers
boqucts of bliss, and when their blos
soms have faded, he finds himself in pos
session of a branch of briars, which is
all owing to a little incident that occur
red in paradise when man was as green
as a tobacco worm, and as unsnspicions
as a tree toad in a thunder storm.—Ho
was told to increase and, multiply ,and
so he accordingly increased his cares,
and curses,
and inultiplied his miseries,
and peopled the world with a parcel of
candidates for perdition, and I. am one
of them.
INia-A sturdy-looking man in Cleve
land, a short time since, while busily
engaged in cowhiding a dandy, who
had insulted his daughter, being asked
what he was doing, replied : " Cutting
a Swell," and continued his amusement
without further interruption.
110111-Why can't the captain of a vessel
keep a memorandum of the weight of
his anchor, instead of weighing it ev
ery time he leaves'pOrt ? .
sore penny eared is twieo earned
"TRUTH IS MIGHTY, AND WILL PREVAIL."
A Yankee Outwitted.
A Hoosier correspondent of the West
ern (Ind.) Herald tells, in the follow
ing, a good one, how a Yankee notion
pedler. . was taken in by the Spencer
villeians, of Spencervile, in that State:
Notions drove into town and ebm
menced trade,whon a merchant stepped
up and selected goods to the amount of
one dollar, and carried them into the
stow, and retuzning with a coon skin,
salon
"Sir, here is your pay for the goods."
"But hold on," said Notions, "I don't
take coon skins for my goods."
"Can't help it now," says the Mer
chant, "the trade is made, and coon
skins is a dollar here—legal tender."
"Well," said Notions, "if them are
your laws here I guess I can stand it,"
and at once concocts a piling° get his
coon skin into something available.—
Getting the coon skin into 113 small a
compass as possible, he makes for a
soloon, and there ::oncludes to spend a
quarter. Holding one hand under his
coat, with the other he beckons up
three or four suckers, and after drink
ing all round, throws down the coon
skin and demands sovewy-five cents
change.
"Yes," says Finance, "that's a good
dollar," and handing him alive musk
rat skins, snys, "Here, sir, in your
change."
Notions took the change and started
Cool Impudence.
Yesterday afternoon a genteel-look
ing matt u allied up to the bar at the
Woodrifl . House, and called for n whis
key toddy.—lie wns served, and after
he drank the toddy. lie obtained a cigar,
and sat down by the fire and leisurely
puffed it away.—lle then called for an
other toddy, and having placed it be
neath his vest, lie calmly biltoned his
coat. pulled on his gloves, Mid turning
to the bar keeper, said—
"l am ready."
" You are are von ?" replied
the bar : keeper ; " well, sir, your bill is
twenty-five e?nts."
" I am aware oft hat fact," repliied the
patron, folding his arms and turning
his face towart; the door, " and now I
am rently."
" Reath- for what ?"
"To be kicked out. lluin't a darned
; con do without liquor—l.WV!'
served like a gent—ain't a.humed of
my poverty—take your pay, air—kick
me out."
The bar-keeper, finding that tins anti
was in earnest, oblized him with sever
al applications of hoot-toe, lustily ad
ministered. Tlio Mier bore it in good
part, and after being k 7 eked into the
street, turned round, made a polite bow
to the bar-keeper, and then, apparently
in a merry mood, sauntered down the
street.
Brute,: Lore Men more than Women.
—A writer iu the Atlantic Monthly
puts it thus:
Kate, the other day, was asserting a
wife's right to control her own proper
ty, and incidentally advocating the
equality of the sexes—a touchy point
with her—l put in :
" Te:l me then, Kato, why animals
form stronger attachments to neon than
women. Your dog, your parrot and
even your cat, already prefer mo to
you. How can you account fur it, un
less you allow there is more in us to re
spect and love !"
" I amount for it," said she, with a
most decided nod, "by affinity. There
is more affinity between you and the
brutes."
Er At a neg.ro celebration, lately, an
Irishman stood listening to the colored
speaker expatiating upon government
and freedom, and as the orator came to
a "period" from one of the highest,
most poetical flights, the Irishman said:
"Bedad, he spokes Well for a nagur,
don't he now ?"
Sothebody said, "he isn't a negro--•
he is only a half negro."
"Only half a nagur, is it! Well, if
half nagur can titlk 4) that style, I'm
thinking a whole nagur might buip the
prophet Jertnniah I"
Bringing an Obstinate Juror to his Sea
ses.—The Santa Citia: Sentinel, gives
the following account, 'of a method ad
opted recently in its town to overcome
the objections of an obstinate juror :
Persuasion and starvatipn are the ap
proved common law methods of pro
ducing the above result; but a novel
method was lately tried in this town.—
By some means, a fellow juror, an ut
ter stranger to all his brother jurors,
was placed upon the jury, who dissent
ed from the verdict agreed to by the
other eleven. They came to a joint
conclusion without delay, but the stran
ger pertinaciously held out against
them. After an hour of argument,
with no avail, it was at last proposed
that the jury should return a verdict of
"guilty by eleven jurymen, who believe
the other one to be a confederate of the
prisoner, and as great a rascal." This
ended it ; stranger saw twenty vigilance
committees in his mind's eye, and in
five minutes the jury unanimously ren
dered a verdict of guilty.
sorEverybir ly likes polite children;
worthy persons win pay attention to
such, speak well of their manners, and
entertain a high opinion of their pa
rents. Children, make a note of this.
Yes, and it would bo well if not a few
parents would take a note of it likewise.
It couldn't do them a bit of harm.=
Fireside education is longest remem
bered.
'Jeremy Taylor, speaking of mar
riage, says " It is not written that in
the beginning God created man, not
rich sad poor, philosopher and peasant,
but male and female created.he them."
Spare the Bird&
The last Legislature of this State
passed an Act of which the following is
an abstract :
That .from and after the passage of
this net, it shall not be lawfu: for any
person within this Commonwealth to
shoot, kill, or in any way trap or de
stroy any bine bird, swallow, martin, or
any other insectiverous bird, at any
season of the year, under the penalty of
two dollars.
No purson.shall shoot or destroy any
pheasant between the first day of Jan
uary and the first day of September, or
any woodcock between the first day of
January and the fourth -day of July, or
any partridge or rabbit, between the
first day of iJannary and the first of
October, under the penalty of five dol
lars for each and every offence.
No person shall buy, or mum to be
bought, or carry out of this State, for
the purpose of supplying any priOnte
or publit:houre or market, any pheasant
partridge, woodcock or rabbit, unless
the Rhine shalt have been shot or taken
in the proper season, under a penalty
of five dollars for each and every of
fence.
No person shall al.,any time wilfully
destroy the eggs or nests of any birds
mentioned in the different sections of
this acr, under a penalty of two dollars
for each and every offence.
The possession of any of the game
and birls mentioned, shot or utilei wise
destroyed out of season, shall be prima
facia evidence to convict.
Any person offending against any of
the provisions of this aet, and being
thereof l convicted by an alderman or
justice of tho pence aforesaid, or by the
oath or:affirmation of ono or more wit
nesses, for every such offence for
feit the fino or fines attached to the
same, one-half to the use of the county
in which the complaint is made, and the
other half to the two of the informer;
and if the offender shall refuse to pay
the saiitforfeiture,he shall be committed
to the jail of the proper county for
every such offence, fur the space of two
days, without bail or mainpraise: Pro.
rided, Amnever, that such conviction be
made within sixty days after the com
mitting of the offence.
•- -
Advice to Single Men.
If pm don't wish to tall in love, keep
away from calico. • You can no more
play a'ith girls without losing your
heart tl►an you can play at roulette
without losing your money. As Doody
very justly observes, the heartstrings of
a woman—like the tendrils of a vine--
aro always reaching, out, for more to
cling to. The consequence is that you
are tote. like a one legged stove at a
street auction.
var-Su me people don't know how to
a person on the street, and thus
orce one to step, first to ono side and
then to the other, as if wavering be
tween two .magnets. You should, al
ways pass to the loft of a man,
and in
variably give the inside of the side-walk
to a lady.—This will in all cases pre
vent collision. If you see any dogs on
the pavement, the best you can do is
to kick them otf—but be somewhat care
ful, bet:inns° there are puppies which
have only two legs.
'A rather plain spoken clergyman
once took for his text, this pushage in
the Psalms: "I said iu my baste all
.
men are liars."
Looking up, apparently as if he saw
the Ps:!lmist, standing immediately be
fore him, he said :
"Yoq said,so in yonr haste, did yon,
David r, Well, if you bud been here,
yo'i might have said it after mature re
flection."
Tall Afen.—Byrno, a famous Irish gi
ant, who died in Lqndon, some years
since, measured eight feet two inches.
Cornelius Magrath, who died in the
year 1700, measured seven feet eight
inches. 'Edward Malone,another Irish.
man, leas seven feet eight inches, and.
was nearly equal in stature and size to
Daniel Cardenus, a Swedish giant. Dr.
Chezelon, the famous anatomist, speaks
of a skeleton discovered in a Roman
camp, near St. Alban's, England,which
he fudged to be eight feet four inches.
Goliah of Gath, according to Bishop
Cumbeiland, was eleven feet high, and
3laximillian the Emperor was nine feet
high.
Philanthropy that Pays Well.—Tho
British reap greater advantages from
their war *von the slave trade than
they are willing to confess. They have,
by means of it, almost monopolized the
important trade in palm oil and other
products of the West Coast of Africa,
which'•by the last British return, ex
ceeded twelve millions of dollars per
year.
Size of the 'Vest —lllinois would make
forty such States as Rhode Island, and
Minnesota sixty. Missouri is more than
half al large as Italy, and larger than
Denmark, Holland, Belgium and Swit
zerland. Missouri and Illinois are larg
er thazi England, Ireland, Scotland and
Wales,
liffirAt Lyons they manufacture a
species of silk fur ladies dr;oissee so thick
and stiff as to obviate the necessity of
crinoline. The coat of such a dress is
about twelve hundred francs
soir,il lady at Mobile, having lost her
teeth, found them in the craw of a tar
key, after killing eevcn turkeys not
guilty,
ser-The last excuse for crinoline, Is,
that the "weaksr vessels" need 'much
hoopink.
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oirHe that loses his conscience has
n3thing left worth keeping.
TWO DOLLARS A-YEAR
Kansas Robberies.
The depredations committed in Kan
sas, by the Jim Lane party, are just
now the general topic of comment by
men of all parties. Wrong cannot long
exist without retribution. Men, honest
in their motives and intentions, may be
led astray for a period, but will tarn
when truth divests them of their blind
ness. The purity which appears in the
estimation of some to have surrounded
the movements of the Lane faction in
Kansas, is fast wearing away. • The fol
lowing, from • the Now York Times, a
Republican organ, meets the question
in reference to Montgomery's move
ments :
We are afraid the Journal will not be '
able fully to relieve that party from all
responsibility in the promises. Thi?
slon tgomery is an officer of the "regular
army" of Kansas, and holds a captain's
commission in the Kansas militia, or
ganized by act of the Free State Terri
torial Legislature, and of which Goner
al "Jim Lane" is the commander-in-
Chief. When he first began his operh
tions it was announced in the Free
State papers that he was protectirfr., the
Free State men from outrage,—as his
proceeding,s grew more gnestionable, it
was stated that ho found it necessary
to remove from the neighborhood the Pro-
Slavery men who had so greatly an
noyed the settlers.' At the outset ho
was admitted to he acting in the exer.
cise of the authority with which ho had
been clothed by Lane as his superior
officer. Now that he is seen to be plain
ly
a thief and a robber, the party is of
teem interested in repudiating him;
but it would act much more to the pur
pose if it ,could hang him. It is all very
well to protest and disavow his pro
ceedkngs, but this is not enough. They
must be arrested. General Lane, as
the head of the military authority of
the territory, ints full power to send
a(zainst him a force sufficient to capture
him and bring him to a speedy account
for his outrages. It' he noes not do it,
he must expect to be hold accountable
for them. So far, certainly, we have
seen no sufficient indications of a deter
mination on the part of the Free-State
authorities to put a stop to these law
less proceedings. On the contrary,
there is an evident inclination, if not to
justify, at lcust to palliate and excuse
them, upon the alleged ground that the
Free-State settlers have suffered so
much from Border-ruffianism that it is
not at all surprisinx they should them
selves in turn transgress the law.
General Jim Lane.
This notorious vagabond and outlaw
is the head of the Black Republican
party, in Ktinstis, the man who is the
tool and agent of the -Massachusetts
Emigrant Aid Society, and whose
tracks have been marked by . blood in all
sections of that unhappy Territory.—
Scarce an outrage has been committed
in Kansas which cannot be traced di
rectly to the manceuvres and intrigues
of this bad man. The desperado MONT
GOMERY, who recently traversed the
southern part of Kansas, murdering
civil,nnoffending pcople,and robbing the
public offices, bears a military commip
siva signed by this man LANE as Gen
eral of the military forces of Kansas.—
But desperate and unprincipled as LANK
was known to be, recent facts have
come to light which add fresb tints to
his diabolical character. In a late num
der of the herald of Freedom, a Black
Republican journal published in the
Territory of Kansas, James REDPATH,
the editor of that paper, and from his
political position well acquainted with
the action of LANE, says :
"We are ready to swear in any Court
of Justice, or to make solemn affidavit
of the fact, that Gen. Lane intimated
to us that if Gov. Denver challenged
him, be would have him put out of the
way by the secret outer known as the
Danites."
This secret order of Danites, are a
band of men organized by the Mormons,
bound together by the most horrid and
blasphemous oaths, Whose business is,
to remove by steel, bullet or poison any
person who may become obnoxious to
the rulers of that religious community.
To this band of organized murderers
JIM LANs belongs, and he has used its
members to carry out. his schemes of
violence' an 4) misrule in all parts of
Kansas. It is these men who "shrieked
for freedom" in Kansas, and for the
support of whom money was raised in
many of the chur'6hes in the Eastern
and Middle States. What will these
pious intermeddlers say to this expose,
coming from ono of their own political
brethren, who know, LANE intimately
Will they still "shriek for freedom,"
and send on their funds for the support
of JIM LANE, the Kansas head of the
Mormon order of Da.uttes? We shall
sec.—Pennsylvanian.
The Weather.—Dr. Oliver Wendell
Holmes, well known poem on the wea
ther, scorns to have been written ex
pressly fur the present period.
Here it is :
The weather-cock has rusted fast;
The blue sky is forgotten,
The earth's a saturated spouge, -
And vegetation's rotton.
I hate to see the darkest aide ;
I hate to tk complaining;
But hang me if my temper stands
This raining, raining, rainiirg.
An Ififidel (..bnverted.—The Fnglish
correspondent - of the Zlon's Herald
writes :
Thomas Cooper, the nqted sceptic,
And author of " The Purgatory of Sui
cides," has recently becorp a convert
to Christianity; and after having spent
thirty years of his life in lecturing and
writing against the bible, he is now
striving to make reparation for the mis
chief he must have done, by lecturing
n defence or the sacred scriptures.
It is very amusing to notice tbo vi
olent manner in which this geatiesikn
has been assailed by the opponents of
Democracy within the past few weeks.
Occupying a prominent position in the
House of Representatives and recogni
zed as the warm personal friend of the
President, ho has been made the target
for all kinds of envenomed shafts aimed
from all quarters and by all sections of
the opposition. So general has this as•
vault become that he now occupies the
enviable position of being "ono of the
best abused men in the country."
We congratulate Mr. Jones upon this
happy result. It is proof conclusive
that ho is doing his duty ata Demo
crat. It is the strongest evidence otitis
incorruptible integrity and political hdn l ,
esty. Always ready to stand up for the
great principles of his party and never
found wanting when the good old cause
needs defenders, it is no wonder that
ho should prove a thorn in the side of
those whose efforts are constantly direr).
ted to the prostration of the Democrat
ic flag. It would be strange, indeed, If:
such men should admire him, or event
be generous enough to do him juatioe....
But their attempts to drag hint down "
will only result in making him stronger
than ever in the affections of tl4 De
mocracy of his own State and through•
out the country, and he need not, there--
fore, have any sleepless nights on, ac
count of these indecent assaults upon his
good name and character.—York Ga
zette.
G
NO. 38.
The New York Tribune is for a gener
al make-up of odds and ends, a univeri
sal wipe-out of old poiitical grudges,
and a perfect fraternisation of all who
wish to have a share in the public plun
der. Tho editor of that notorious pa
per is opposed to having three peaks
in that State at the next election-V-o(-
fere to advocate there-election of Meshrs.•
Baskin and Olarko, recreant Democrats
in Congress, without why or wherefore..
Anything to make the next national
lions° of Representatives "anti-Bachan
an." The editor expects great thingi-- )
to be done in favor of the "no party"
party, in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio .
and Indiana; but there is a possibility'
that ho will be wofully disappointed.
He will please let us know by the first
mail when his "good time coming"
shall have actually arrived—says the'
Philadelphia Evening Argus.
Tho following, from the Pen . nsylva
nian, clearly, though briefly, states.the
position of our government and people
in regard to the detention and search
of American vessels by British cruisers :
The country, however, may rely up
on the patriotism and wisdom of the
President, and the hearty co-operation
of Congress, with reference to the ad. ,
it:name!' t of present difficulties, and the
prevention of like offences in tho future.
The right of visitation and search hav
ing been distinctly repudiated by the
Report of the Senate Committee on
Foreign Affairs, the whole question is
now fairly before the Government of
Great Britain, and they must choose
between deciding it forever, or coming
in open and direct conflict with this na
tion. They can no longer evade the
main issue, the right or search, by a
pretended desire-for the suppression of
tho slave tradb. The trick is stale, and
will no longer deceive oven the most
superficial observer. If they wish' to
run at on the slavery question, Na
poleorilil and his scheme for opening
the traffic in slaves in all the Frenth
colonies, is something against which tit
splinter a lance. As fur this country
and people, they are determined that
in the future no foreign nation shall
suit our nationality or board and seateh
our vessels while the rusticatel flag le
fly tug over the same. , „
Our National Defences.—The Wash.'
ington Union urges the importance of
strengthening the national defences.—
It is persuaded Clint, while the adminis:
tration is deeply sensible of its duty to
protect the people from actual aggros,
sion, or in the anticipation of danger,
there is gross inadequacy in the appro
priations for the contingency of a war.
Great Chem , . Playing.—M. "Paulsen,
the champion cheseplayer, has just
completed at Chicago, the feat of play.
ing ton simaltaneons games of chose
blind-folded. Of those he won seven,
and faired - were drawn games.
mar The old Spanish quarter dollars
are in such bad odor in some parts of
the State that they can be bought up
at 12 and 13 cents apiece.
SEirThe grasshoppers of the beat are
said to be on their way to the Mitidis
States. We have enough "plagues"
here already.
—.Sending up your plate twice for
soup is considered a breach of etiquette
among the codfish aristocrau. Adong
sensible men, it is a sign yoa are tmu
gry and reilisla.the soup.
information-The woman who in
quired whether " it is lawral to hang
clothes •oc Mason and Dixon's line ?",
has been informed that it in just atpro
per to do so as it would he to plant .
Wails around the North Polo.
sir-Never deceive-ono who has be
&landed you—never impair coafidenei
that ischerished—never, if possiblo,.it:
olate an engager/lon t.
im." Pooh ! pooh 1" said a wife to'
her expiring husband as he strove to
utter a few parting words,"don't stop
to talk." • . -
ear There is a policeman. i t o:.evary
man's conscience—oven though yoct
may not always find him on tho boat:
sir•lf distance lends enohaatakokkici
tho view, and the view ri3raoixt
turn it, can 'distance obtaiti'lleipd re.?
drool*?
Hon. J. Glancy Jones.
Era of Good Feelings.
The Cue Stated.
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