. ~ tr3lilR.l6lSl Tau 13olitata 1s palliated every Solidity amnia& by gnat' J. Pruitt, at fi 76 re 41111111111 it paid strictly to anvascs—s2 01 per seats If not paid in advance. No subscription discontinued, unless at the option of the pub lisher, natil all al-rem-ages are paid. ilirsaruttscrrs Inserted at the usual swum les PrLlTtle dont with neatness and /lir patch. _ Grows In South Baltimore street e directly •pposita liramplers' Tinning Establishment 4'Cintrann" on the sign. Win. IL. DIXELMin, .T7'011.311Y AT LA W.--4)111ai in The North erner, corner of Centre El rare, Gettysburg, [Oct. 3, 1t 1 33. tf A. J. Cover, ATTORKEY AT LAW, will promptly attend to Collections and all other business en limited to bins. Office between Pahnestocks' and Danner k. Ziegler s Stores. Baltimore street, Gettysburg, Pa. [Sept. 5, 1859. Edward B. Buehler, A TTORNEY AT LAW, will faithfully and A. promptly attend to all business entrusted Pa taint. lie speaks the Gelman language.— Office at the same place, in South Baltimore street, near Forney's drug store, and nearly Opposite Danner k Ziegler s store. Gettysburg, March 2u. D, BicConatighy, ATTORNEY AT L A W, (office one door west of flueLler's drug and book store,Charn ersbo-g Street.) ATTORNEY LCD SOLICITOR TOR INTRITI LCD PIIINIONS. !Bounty Land War rAnts, Back-pay suspended Claims, and all other claims against the Government at Wash ington, 1). C ; also it - aerie/so Claims In England. Land Warrarrtstocated and sold,or bon ght.and ttighsst prices given. Agents engaged is 10- 44ting warrants in lowa. Illinois and other western states. gfar Apply to hist persesuby o r by letter. Gettysburg, Nor. 21,'53. J. C. Neely, A busies AT LAW, will mind to collec tions and all other busi“ intrusted to is cars with promptness. Office In the S. E. corner of the Diamond, tiproterly occupied by Wm. B. McClellan, Esq.) Gettysburg, April 11, 1859. at. Wm. B. McClellan, A TTORNEY-AT LAW.-01111ce in West Mid dleAL street, one door west of the new Court House. Gettysburg, Nor. 14, 1859. Dr. A. W. Dorsey, yisORIIERLY of Carroll county, Md., baring permanentiy located in Gettysburg, o ff ers profeosional services to the citizens of the town and surrounding countryin the practice of toe various branches Ad his profession. (Ace and residence, Baltimore street, next door to The Compiler office, where he may he found at all times when not peofendarladly enraged. WIRVICIIII. Prof. atbas E. Smith, Baltimore. Md.. Tier. Augustus Webster, D. D., Baltimore Mal Pr..T. L. Was-field, Westminster, Md. Dr. W. A. Mathias, " Jacob Reese, Esq., u SI Juba K. Lougeell,Elq., u Geo. E. Wampler, Esq., " 14 Um Thomas Bowen, Gettysburg. Oct. 25, 1858. 6m J. Lawrence Hill, M. D. -pq-AS his office one itra tirt •"." door west the awf. .11eran chard' in Chambersborg street, and opposite Picking's store, where those wishing to have any Dental Operation performed are respectfully invited to c•tII. R scas: Drs.}lamer, Llev. C.. P. liEranth, D. D., Rev. B.L. Danglier, I): D., Stet. Prof. M. Jacobs, Prof. M. L. Storer. • Gettysburg, April 11, '53. Mew Millinery. MAGGIE A. HARTMAN has opened a new and fasiaksnettle )Jittinery Eatatillsionent. nt the holm of Mrs. Hensyl, Cartitown, where Abe will be ready to do work cheaper and more 'fashionably than will be found elsewhere.— /Julies will to well by calling and aeeldg for themselves. ternistnings of all tied, 'kept en hand. [April 2.1i60. 3t New Millinery laN H AMPTON.—MARY M. BEITLER would most respectfully inform the Ladies of napton and surrounding ctee ntry, that she has comtnetteed the Millinery business at the resi dence of Mr. J. A. Seitriver, it listupton, Adams c °way., where she will keep on hand, for sale, At the lowest profits, BONNETS, Fancy Rib bons, Flowers, Band-bates, Straw, Leghorn, And other Millinery Goods, of the newest and beet styles. Ready-trimmed Bonnets are at all times to be tad_ Punnet-making and Tr' mina attended to with dispatch, and chenlW. Latest fashion• received for Spring and Summer Doi:meta. lisozupton. April 2, I b 4411. 4t Another Arrival. JfG. CARR has jut( received another large stock of GROCERIES, GLASS sad 4jUkit...NSWA.I3E,CIiKESE,Ac-. to uiticla be In cites the attention of the public. He only asks a roll, convinced that be can satisfy every cus tomer. Remember the place—York street, sierirly'opposite the " Globe but." April 2, 18611, Wall Paper ! Wall Paper ! ! WE have just received from the city of Sew York a largt assortment of Wall raper of the newest patterns and designs.— Glazed, Marble and Oak, velvet and plain b.or der, decoration, fire hoard prints and window shades. Wall Paper from 9 cents per piece and upward!, R.. F. 31c1L11ESY. March 26, 1860. Gettysburg Foundry. /PISS snbscriber, hiving purchased the Foundry of Messrs. Zorbaugh, Sloat k (formerly Warrens' Foandry,) has commenced business, and is now prepared to otter to the public a larger assortment of Machinery than bits heretofore been offered. •uch as THRESH ISG MACHINES, Clover Hullers, Fodder, Cut ters, Cora Shellers, and Morgha's late improved Horse Late. Also, STOVES, such as Cook eltoses, three different kinds ; and five different sizes of Ten-plate Stores. Likewise Mill and Saw-mill Castings, and all kinds of Turning in Iron or Wood., REPAIRING of all kinds on Machinery and Castings will be dons to order on short notice. Patterns made to order ; Plough Cast ings ready Asada ; PLOUGHS, such as Seylsr, Witherow, Plocher, Woodcock, and many others not mentioned here; and eight different 'kinds of IRON FENCLNG, for Cemeteries, Porches or Yards. Jilin, Mortising Machines, one of the best now in use. This machine works with a le.ver by hand; any little boy can manage it. Call and examine our stock ; no doubt but wait we can please. Persons ought to see it their advantage to buy machinery of any kind et. home, where It is manufactured, so that they can reryeaaily get any part replaced or repaired. DAVID STE&'iER. Gettysburg; Feb. 13, 1060, CO r IS NO SECRET.—Go to New York. wateh yonr eitance id Auction and you will soon T!! the fact why it is ' that goods are sold so cheap at SA UN'S. i ire : 'HS neatly rained as tits Itz ealaior;Gallery, Gettysburg, Pa. r BONB' PICTURES, TYSONS' PICTURES, TYSONS' PICTIMS atNYHO needs a FRONK or CARPET BAG or one of those now Railroad 'tyke? Look sia. Yoa can't do better than to buy theca at SAMSON'S. Ilia a aimless article, sot necessary for the eninforgi of life, but I here ea hand a nice JIIWK A RY, inch as Gold Pencils, Breast -pitskPl;wr-rhtiti4 lc., ta, which will be sold mad prices at SAYESOIe& Tom ' PICTIMM3, ITOOse PICTIIRiS Tramuy vans:ft rp i;I T T LI iII l -7.4 v.,/ J_AMPIA_J ra . . 'A fittorratir,- ltwo and ,familg Nournal. BY H. J. STATILE 4T.D.. YEAR. wicazrze.tis clic. " %OWING 111 WILD OATS." "Sowing his wild oats "—aye ! sowing them deep, In the heart of a mother to blossom in tears, And shadow with grief the decline of her years. " Sowing his wild oats," to silver the head Of the sire who watched his first pulse throb with joy, • • Anll whose voice west to Heaves is wager for "the Loy." "Sowing his wildcats," to spring up and choice The flowers in the garden of a "doter, whose love Is as -pure and as bright as the blue sky above. "Sowing his wild oats." Aye! cheeks shall grow pale, • And sorrow shall wither the heart of the wife, When manhood thus aquanders the prime of kis life. ig Sowing his wild oats." Death only shall With ;Alen sharpened scythe; the fruits will be found In the graveyard near by, 'neath that grim covered mound. Tlff.2lo4:7l3lX4X*l\.MiMr . . "Thin Shoes—Thin 11Ikons." Yestonlilyr at 3 o'clock a young lady , of sixteen gliiimniers took final loave of 'father, mother and nit earthly friends, icieluding a husband to whom she had been married leas than halt a year. A sad half honeymoon it has bees to her i and her husband. as well as the parents who doted over this. their only child, for eves a year ago the alarming beetle elicited the whisper .of posaible oon i gumption. Like thousands of o thers in blooming youth, she heeded not, sufficiently the kind caution against little violations of the laws of health, and admired little feet. Yesterday a very dear fripnd, about her age, who instinctively hover ed about the dying bed of her youthful friend, was present when the interest ing scene einscd. During the leave ta king, which occupied considerable time, on sicockunt of the shortness of breath, the dying bride looked earnestly at her young friead and said, " Slattio, come here," and then su nuutoning her strength for an extra effort, added, " Thin Shoes, Thin Mom." At what a fearful cost was that les son learncid, and how few seem will ing to learn it for less. To-morrow, in her full wedding robes, Lizzie passes to the silent tomb, leaving with the thous and pleasant reoulhwtions of her almost faultless rife, the eloquent sermon con tained in those expressive words—Thin Shoes, Thin Sinellis---Clereland Plain dealer. Affecting Incident Baptism of a Dying Girt.—The Al bany Express' Pays :--"On Sunday morning several yonng folks wore bap tized at Rev. Dr. Idagoon's church.-- The first person baptized was a s•oung girl, perhaps aixteen years old, in the Last stage of consumption. • She was literally arrayed in her grave clothes, it. being understood that the white robe in which she was baptizixi was to be worn by her when she was placeed in her coffin. She obtained her mother's permission to be baptised, and then acquainted the pastor with her desire. She was brought to the poi. 4 in the arms of her uncle. at teuiled by her mother, and lifted into the arms of the pastor, who gently im mersed her head, after repeating the usual words. The scene was very af fecting, causing some of the spectators to sob with emotion. She was so fur gone that it was fear ed she might expire during the ceremo ny, yet atter it was performed she ex pressed a wish to be brought to tho church in the afternoon, partook of the Lord's Supper, %r hieh was granted.— After the sapper, when in another room, she Kmg the doxology 'Praise God,' and when la her carriage, Dr. Magoon asked her how she felt, she w h ispered, 'I have fought a good fight.'" Afflictive Dispensations.—Within the past six months sixteen children have died within one mile of Single's Church, in North Coventry township, Chester county---all of putrid gore throat. In that, rhoil space of time three families has lost all their children, namely—John Stacer's, Rudolph Reifsnyder's and Owen Fogey's. Lewis Spies has buried four children, bat bas two left. Sucl a sad and afflicting. dispensation has sel dom, if ever before, visited this section of country.—Potts. Ledger. Fast Walking Horses.—Tho training .1 horses to walk fast is proposed as a matter of premium for the Agricultural Fairs. The " Country Gentleman" thinks "horses trained to tra/k fast would be a greater benefit to farmers in gene ral than fast trotters, as almost all of their work has to be done with a walk. I once knew a man in Massachusetts, who, before the railroads were built, kept from two to four teams at work on the road, and never allowed them to trot at', all, and made the distance in quicker time than his neighbors, who made their horses trot at every conve nient place. Ho said that when a horse commenced to walk after a trot, ho walked much slower than his common gait if kept on a walk, and thereby loat more than be gained." sir" Perhaps Brother Jonathan does carry his hands in his pockets," said a drawling 'Yankee in dispute with an Englishman, " bat the difference be. tween him and John Bull is, that Bro ther Jonathan has his hands in his own pockets, while John Bull has his in somebody else's." Urns that thinks himself the hap piest man really is so; bat he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest, fool.. • GETTYSBURG, PA.: MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1860. Zdneating the Heart , The following remarks from a late number of the London Qnarterly Re view, with reference to educating the heart before the head is too full, com mend themselves to all who Liive the management of children : It is the vice of the nge to substitute learning for wisdom—to educate the head, and to forget that there isa more important. education necessary for the heart. The reason is cultivated atan age when nature does not furnish the elements necessary to a successful cul tivation of it ; and the child is solicited to reflection when ho is only sensible of sensation and emotion- in infaney the attention and the memory are only ex cited strongly by things which impress the senses and move the heart,; and a father will instill more stolid and *rail/A ble instruction in an hone spent in the• flelde, where wisdom and goodness are exemplified, seen and felt, than in a month spent in the study, iwhere they are expounded in stereotype aphorisms. No phyeician doubts that precocious children in fifty cases to ono and much worse for the discipline they ha,vo un dergone. The mind seems to had° been strained, and the foundations for 'insan ity are laid. When the studies Of ma tater years are stuffed into the 'child's head, people do not reflect on the an atomical fact that the brain of an in fant ie not the brain of a man.' The first eight or tea years of life should bo devoted mainly to the education Of the heart—to the formation of principles rather than to the acquirement of what is usually called knowledge. 1 • Nature herself points eat seek a tonne; for the emotions are the the livelieet and most easily moulded, eing as yet unalloyed by passion. It is from this saute the mass of men are hereaf ter to draw their sum of happiness or misery. The actions of the immense majority are under all eirenonstsinces, determined much more by feeling than reflection; in truth, life presents an infinity of occasions where i t is essential to happiness that we should think' pro foundly. A Betrothed Bride on the Ece of Mar riage Meets an Old Lover and the Best& Thereof.—The Tcr% Haute (Ind.) Er ?rem, of late date, Bays that a few days ago, a couple, Raid to be from that State, repaired to Marshall, 111., to eonlsurn mato that great cvent• in the life of yonng people—marriage. They pat up at the Wright House, and the happy, expo leantbridegroom sallied forth to procure the necessary license and a minister. In his absence, a gentle Man, who had just returned from California, examined the register, and finding{ the lady's name upon it, ho immediately sought hor presence. Me proved to be a former suitor of tho lady, and, in tact, the two were engaged to be married at the time he left for the Golden State, where he went. to seek a forteno to en able him to wed the woman of his choice. Of course there was a scone. He upbraided the fair one for bee in constancyand she wept a torrent of tears, asked his forgiveness; and vowed she would break her present engage ment and unite her fortunes with her old lover. Just at this moment the fret gentleman returned, and his astonish ment was very great at the torn affairs had taken in his temporary absencti.— Explanations followed, and the poor girl being unable to decide between the two lovers, they retired to consult about the matter, and it ended in the Cali fornian resigning all claim to the lady's band. The lady acquiesced in theis. eision, and the wedding took place m f , mediately, the discarded and self -aa ri acing lover officiating as the right-hand man to too happy groom I A Child Kept ix a Carpd Bag for Ten Weeks.—The Johnstown Echo relates the followingstrange story :—'A young woman named Ann Maria Riffle of Somerset county, was unknown to Iny one, delivered of a child on the 7th day ofJanuary last, in Cambna City, which she placed in her (=net bag, and Ictipt concealed until the 15th of the present month, when it was discovered by, a gentleman with whom she was living, during her tomp3rary absence. Infor mation was immediately made, And the girl arrested by officer Gageby, when she at once acknowledged being the mother of the child, and havtng kept it in the carpet-bag from the time of its 1 birth—a period of near ten weeks. Es- quire Flattery held an inquisition on the body of the child, and a post mortan examination was made by Drs. Lo w man and Rinaell. No marks of violence were 1 discovered, and the physicians and jury were satisfied that the child had not, come to its death by violenee. Another singular thing is the fact that there was not the least scent or unpleasant smell about the child. The mother appears 1 to bo an innocent, simple creature, and had evidently no disposition to destroy her child. She was released on bail for her appearance at Court. Bugs Killed toitA Alitat.—Make a so lution of alum as strong as water will dissolve, and apply it hot to places in fested with bags of tiny sort, in bed steads, closets, ur trees and plants, tak ing care not to apply it so as to kill tender plants, and the bugs will take strong dislike to the locality. You may brush it in cracks and crevices in lloors t ceilings, or walls of a room, or in bole* and nestingplaces of these small vermin in plants and trees. Mir A schoolmaster asked a fair pupil; "can you declines Liss T" She replied ; dropping a perplexed courtesy, "yes ; sir, Cll,ll, bUt haw to plaguily." SWhy is a oleic Jew like a diamond t Beason Ws a Ifeeptli. " ratrlll DI )(TORT!, AND WILL PIIIVATL." The Way to John Smith's. Traveler—Good morning, sir. Will you direct me the way to John Smith's? Squatter—Certainly, sir; if there is anything in the world I do know, it is the way to John Smith's. T —Glad to hear it. Please direct the way. 13.—That I will, sir. As I was say ing, if there is anything in the world I do know, it is the way to JAB Smith's. John and me moved out fin North- Carolina together; and he has got the truest pulling yoke of oxen you over saw in your born days. The way they pi/H T.—My dear air, I am in a burry to get on. Will you be so good as to di rect me ? S.—Will I? Why that's what lam going to do. As I was saying, John and me moved out together. Ile settled over there jest to 'ethei side of the ma ple swamp—bat be don't live there now. T.—ln tho name of wonder, where does he live then ? Now do, my good sir, just inform mo the way ! S.—l will that, for, as I was gaping, if there is anything in the world I do know, it is the way to John Smith's.— Why, John and mo married sisters, and he's got a jam up wife, I tell you. She can spin her six cats a day and attend to family thrifts in the bargain. And— T.—l declare, sir, I shall get impa tient presently. My business is with ohn Smith—not his wife, or her family flxins either. S.—Exactly, sir, I understand that. But, as I was saying, John's nigger man, Bob, is,,l do reckon, the ralnablest nigger.in all these diggin's. Why, ho can- pick out his 150 pounds of cotton a day, and then shell a turn of corn for mill at night. ' no's a clinker, now mind I toll you. T.—Welt, I would be glad to sec, so smart a nogro as Mr. Bob; so do, I pray, direct mo to his master's. S.—Don't be in such. a wird, mister; I can tell you something more about John's family you'd like to know. Ilo's got the smartest little gal that's in all Arkansas. She's only been to Pett9ol two years, and she has got as funlas amplification. T.—Confound John Smith's daughter and you with her! I think you havd got as far as amplification yourself.— For I asked you a simple question and you have been amplifying for half an hour on different subjects and I am yo nearer getting as answer, it seems, than at first— S.—Look hero, stranger ; don't yon confound John's darter, for she's my niece, and a smart one she is too. Bo skies, it is not respectful to talk so about tho child, seeing you know nothing about her. • T.—l beg your pardon, air, I did speak too hastily. But Dome, tell me tho way to John Smith's ; for that is all I want to know just uow. Which road shall I take B.—Tell you the way? Yes, that I will. Why my Bill knows the way to his uncle Jobe's. Bill, didn't you go to your uncle John's the other afternoon by yourself ? And didn't you ride old Dick, and carry a bag of cotton to tho gin for spinnin truck ? And didn't old Dick skeer and like to flangyou ? And— T.—Good day, sir; and may old Nick tako you, and John smith's daughter, nigger Bob and the whole family B.—The same to you and yonr'n.— Well, sich another man I nefor did sce. Why, he's as techoas as a half-skinned &l. Only to think, he kept auin' and .axin', and I kept tellin' and tellin', and he wonldn't stay to hear tho answor at fast. Well, let him go ahead; but if ho goes that road, he'll never got to John Smith's, that's sartin. An American sloop-of-war had put into an Englibh port, and the first lieu tenant went ashore to reconnoitre. In the course of his travels he entered a tavern where a number of British offi cers were carousing. They at once recognized the lieutenant's nationality by his dress, and resolved to amuse themselves by bullying him : " Well, comrade," says ono, " you belong to the United States, I see." " Right," was the answer. "Now what would you do to a man who should say that your navy did not contain an officer fit for a combat?" continued the Englishman. " I would blow hts brains out 1" re turned our lieutenant, with great cool- Bea& There was silence among her majes ty's servants for a moment; but final ly, one of them, more muddled than the rest, managed to stammer out : " W-well, I say it I" The American walked to his side, and replied, calmly : " It is lucky for you, shipmate, that you have no brains to blow out!" Struck by the dignity of the answer, the offender at once apologised, and oar hero was invited to join the mesa. Mr" Mal" inquire a youngster, in the presence of his eldest sister and her new bean acquaintance, the other even ing, "are sheep:a eyes made of iron or brass r , Why no, my child—why do you ask 7" was the good mother's re sponse. " Because I often bear of peo ple casting them," was tbs answer of the litCe reseal, whose father exclaim ed, " dear, will no one pin this shad to bed 7" ser An honest Dutchman, training his son in the way he should go, fro. quen tip exercised him in Bible lessons. On one of these occasions be asked him : " Who vas dat vould not ebleep mit Botiphar's wife r" Jhoeeph 1" " Dia is a goot boy. Tell, vot vos d• reason he vould not ahleep mit her " Dona. know—ehpoose h. vase's shleopy." Afraid of Snakes. Tn the course of tho evening, our jolly joke-cracking company got, as us ual,.on the subject of snakes. Many remarkable stories were told, some of which were interesting, while others were dry and dull. I eau give you but one at present : " We have the greatest coward about snakes up in Calhoun, that lives in America. He came from the East last Spring, and bought a fitrln close to where I live; and for the first six months in.the country, I don't think be slept two hours a night, for he felt snre a snake would manage Dottie way to got in his bed. " Ho sowed a nice piece of oat', bnt the snakes prevented his, harvesting it. Tell you how it was. When the oats got ripe; be was certain it was full of snakes, and that he'd get bit if he ven tured over the fence. "Ono day he concluded he'd take a look to sea if there wore many snakes in the patch, so he got, his old horse; and after leading him through the gap, and laying up the fence to keep ths - hogs out, ho took an old scythe math° in his hand to fight with in ease of an attack. mounted the horse, and struck boldly oat NO tLe oats, holding up both legs as high as possible. " He had'ot gone far when he saw a whaling big snake slipping along the oats after him. Away he went, round and round the patch, and away went the snake, right along with him ; some times on one side, and sometimes on the other; sometimes behind and sometimes before. Be could'ut get out of the lot because the tence ;vas up, and as the snake kept constantly with him, there was no chance but to leave the old horse, and try to keep out of its way. He went it in that way till every stalk of his oats was tramped down, and an ti I the old horse was just ab out dead, when he discovered that he'd been run ning all the while from the shadow of his seytho anstlie."-110.rle Green, in Porter's Spirit. A Sympathidng Woman. If we were c,alled upon to describe Mrs. Dobbs we should, without hesita tion, call her a sympathising woman.— Nobody was troubled with any malady she hadn't suffered. 41 She keew all about it by experience and could sympathise with them from the bottom of her heart." Bob Turner was a wag, and when ono day 11 o saw Mrs. Dobbs coming along the road toward the house, ho know that in the absonse of hie wife, he shonid by willed upon to entertain her, so he resolved to play a little on the good woman's abundant store of sympathy. Hastily procuring a large blanket, ho wrapped himself up in it, and threw himself on *sofa near by. "Why,gracious I Mr. Turner, are you sier t ' asked Mrs. Dobbs, as she saw his position. • "Oh, dreadfully, " groaned theimag inary invalid. " What's the matter ?" "Oh, a groat raany ',things. First and foremost I've got a congestion of tho brain." "That's dreadful," sighed Mrs. Dobbs. "I came pretty near dying of it ter. years ago come next spring. What else ?" "Dropsy," again groaned Bob. " There I can sympathise with you. I was troubled with it, bat finally got over it. "-Neuralgia," continued Bob. "Nobody can tell, Mr. Turner, v<bat I've suffered from neuralgia. It's an awful complaint." " I'm very much distres sed by inflammation of the bowels." " If you've got that, I pity you," commented Mrs. Dobbs; " for three years steady I was afflicted with it, and I don't thluk I've fully recovered from it yet." " Rheumatism," added Bob. " Yes, that's pretty likely to go along with neuralgia. It did with mu." " Toothache," sugested Bob. "There have been times, Mr. Turner," said the sympathising woman, " when I thought I should have gone distracted with the toothache." " Then," said Bob, who, having tem porarily. ran out his stoc kl of medical terms, resorted to a scientific name— "l'm very much afraid that. I'vo got the tethyasaurus."' " I shouldn't be at all surprised," said the ever ready Mrs. Dobba; , I bad it, when I was young." Though it was with great, difficulty that he could resist laugking, Bob con tinued : " I am suffering a great deal from a sprained ankle." " Then yon can sympathise witeme, Mr. Turner. I sprained mine as I was coming along." " But, that isn't the worst of it." " What is it, T" asked Mrs. Dobbs, with cariosity. " I wouldn't toll any one but you, Mrs. Dobbs, bat the fact ie"—here Bob groaned—" I'm afraid, and the doctor agrees with me, that my reason is affec ted—that in short I'm a little crazy l" Bob took breath and wondered what Mrs. Dobbs would say to that. " Oh, Mr. Turner, is it possible Om claimed the lady. "It is borriffl6l I know it is.—l frequently have spells of beisg out of my head myself!" Bob could stand it no longer; he burst Intoa roar of laughter, which Mrs. Dobbs taking for the precursor of a via lent paroxysm of insanity, she was led tb take a harried leave. Partington, hearing that a young masa had est up for himself, said, 64 Poor palow L Ras he no /dead that will set es fond= part of the time r And sbs alitned to be 7 1 ; 4 4 11409. TWO DOLLARS A-YEAR Couneotiont The Republicans have carried Connec ticut by a majority of about 540, after ono of the hottest campaigns over known in that State. A few more such victo. ries in New England, and the Republi can party is undone. The vote of Con necticut showa the gradual decline of Republicanism in its stronghold. At tbe Presidential election of 1856, Fre mont carried the State by a majority of 7,705 over Buchanan, and 5,090 over Buchanan And Fillmore combined.— Last year the Republican majority in the State was oier 1,800, and this year, alter the moat strenuous exortiona, and although the vote polled shows a large increase, the Republicans have only sue (seeded in saving the Slate by some 544 votes. If the reaction goes on at this rate, Connecticut is sure to cast her vote for the nominee of the Charleston Con vention. The New England States have hero. toforo boon set down as sure for the Republican candidate for President, but .this Connecticut election materially al ters this calculation. The Republicans cannot rely securely upon all the Bag -teen States, and will not bo free toA ii . reet their energies to Pennsylvania ma New Jersey. They will have tq fight the battle at.home, in the heart of New England. In this view nothing has occurred since 1856 so damaging to the Republican party as this very Connecti cut election. In presents another problem not in the least encouraging to the Republican party. If it requiresso much exertion and such a lavish expenditure of money to carry Connecticut by a majority of 540—a State which went for the Re- . publicans in 1856 by more than 5,900 majority over all opposing parties-- what•possible chance have the Republi cans of carrying the great conservative State of Pennsylvania 1 Tbe same re actionary movement which has cut down tbo Republican majority in Con necticut., operates with tenfold power in Pennsylvania, and will sweep the Re publican party from the field at the next, election like straw before a whirl wind. Well may the New 'York Tri bune exclaim in despondent tones, " Connecticut shows that the approach ing Presidential contest is . to be the sev erest ever known." It promises to be particularly severe to the Repuilfan party—much more severe than th.Fon teat of 1856. • 40. aped& The newspapers from all parts of the State come to us full of expressions of oonfidonoe in the result, next fall. The greatest enthusiasm prevails among our ranks throughout theentireStete. The Democracy are wide awake and aro making rq►dy for the contest, with_a determination that indicates victory. The utmost harmony seems everywhere. to exist, and the Opposition are already trembling in anticipation of defeat—, They know, fall well, their doom, when a united Demoorag is in the field. We say it, witat attempting the game of brag, bet because it, is our de liberate judgement, that Pennsylvania is certain for Foster, and eertalln for the nominee of tho Charleston Convention. —Carlisle Democrat. "Free Homes—ln the Senate." The New York Tribune ought to try and conceals little bettor its exultation over the prospect that the homestead bill will be defeated in the Senate.— That paper; pretends to be in favor of the bill; but if any of its friends, who support it on principle, would like to know of what sort the Tribune's friend ship is, wo refer them to the following brief but expressive paragraph from an article in that journal, headed as above " And if it (the homestead bill) 8414 be again throttled, whether by Presi dent or Senate, we shall be consoled by the hope that this 'act will go far to in sure the triumph of the friends of free homesteads in the approaching Presi dential election." Or, in terms only a very little plain er, we, (the Tribune) hope the bill will be defeated in the Senate, or vetoed by the President., in order that we may get votes against the Democratic party on that issue. Is there anything, human or divino, that the Tribune and its supporters would not willingly see sacrificed if the sacrifice would get votes for their par ty 't We need no clearer avowal to show the hollow-heartedness of its And their friendship to the principle of the homestead bill; and we believe that the same hollow-hearted demagoguery characterless the sturdiest of their pro fession of devotion to principle in ever" ease. In the precise spirit of the above avowal • would the Tribune wish that every Southern slaveowner might be. come a Legree in cruelty, in order that the "grouse of Ike slave" might get. votig *le ittitik IfOabtlegusttni. Sick moral deAvity • and politic:li dema goguery ratite, the unmitigated disgust of every decent beholder. ' TIN PubtVortiatm-A pi rjr Book Mr. Gsriey, of Ohio, recently made a grand loutish is the noose touching the " reforms" ho intended to effect in the printing department of the Govern ment; and, no doubt, some believed him to be sincere. But what will onr mkt ere think when we tall them that, with in a few days past, at the instance and on the recommendation of Mr. Gurley, chairman of the Committee on Prm Ling% ten thousand extra copies of Gev. Stevens's report (printed by order of the Senate at the elope of the last ses sion) wore ordered to be printed , by the House. Tho cost of this hook will be upwards of FIFTY ;UOUSAND DOLLARS, and the Government will pay ticice for the composition. This will materially I help the Republicans to "take care of their wounded," to use an expression borrowed from Mr. Thos. Ford, the House Printer. The members general ly could not have had an idea of the immense cost of this work at the time they voted to print it, orcertainly they would not have been willing to re-print do costly a book at a time when they seem incapable of talking about any thing but, the enormities of the "print ing plunder." We dill* the fact above stated will convince every honest and reflecting man that tho professions of eeenorey and reform so loudly made by the Republicans of the louse is a mere scheme to cover the corruptions they intend to perpetrate before the close even of the present session. That Gov. Stevens's Report is a val uable and interesting work we have no doubt; but. having already boon print ed for the use of the Government, its re publication is a piece of the most waste ful extravagance that has ever yet characterized the public printing; and, rf this s) stem is to be adopted7yon may reduce the prices of actual printing DO per cent., and yet the expenditures in the printing department will run up to millions of dollars: Tho wrong is not in the printing law; it is not to be found in the prima paid for composition and press-work,but in the extravagant ordei . > so frequently made by Congress.— Washington Constitution. NO. 45. " If ever a nation was debauched by a man, the American nation line 'boon debauched by Washington. If ever a tuition was deceived by a man, tho American .lion has been deceiv ed by Washingto , Let his conduct, then, be an example to future ages. Lot it serve to be a warning that no man iney 7 _ be an idol. Let the history of the fede ral government instruct mankind that the mask of patriotism may be worn to conceal theioulest designs against the liberties of the people.' Many of our- --- readers may know where this language comes from, but if any ono of us at this day wore to meet with -the above ex tract, without a knowledge of its source, could wo believe that it was written and pnbliehed in the United States ? Mr. 13uchanaa, in the spirited and well deserved philippic launched at his tra ducers in Congress the other day, who were too mean to make an open and direct attack upon him, alluded to Washinp;tqn's just complaint that ho had but treated more discourteously than a pickpocket. And it was so. And the best of our statesmen, the most patriotic and selfsacrificing of our public men, have incurred the most loathsome abase from a press which has lavished its praises upon the basest and most unworthy.— The quotation with which this artielo opens is from a paper published in Phil adelphia, of considerable standing and influence at, the time, called the Aurora, and the language is that with which it treated the retirement of Gon. Wash ington from public life at the close of his most honorable and memorable ca reer as a soldier and statesman. Ills " Farewell Address" was received in the same spirit by other newspapers of that day. But public confidence could not be alienated from such a man, and, with one or two exceptions, the Logisla; Lures of the States exhibited the most affectionate regard for his paternal coun sel and the profoundest respect for hia name and fame.—Balt. Sun. Topic of Abolitionists.—The Tribune, to make good its assertion that the burn ing of slaves is ono of the punishments in rogue at the South,repeats in full the account of the burning of a negro in Missouri in July last. The negro was a murderer, and was burned by an ex cited mob. The republication of Buell a story, with its harrowing details, for the purpose of exciting projudiceagainst the South, is deserving of reprobation. It is by such appeals to the feelings and passions of Northern men that the spirit of discord is kept alivg- through the land. We might as 'Fell cite the de struction of the Quarantine buildings by a portion of the Staten Islanders us the result of Republican institutions in the State of New York, or the seizure of executive power by the vigilance com mittees of San Francisco and New Or leans as the result of the union of States. N. Y. Journal cy' Commerce. Illif• II on . Howell Cobb has written a letter to his friends in Georgia, decli ning to be a candidate for the Presidefi ey. He says : "1 mast withdraw my name, uncondi tionally, from the canvass, and this let ter is written fur the purpose of announ cing to all who feel an intereet.in tho matter, but particularly to the deletatua from Georgia to the Charlestou Lkm vention, that I have done so." '-The leading men in the oyster business in Baltimore assert that there are more oysters in Chesapeake Bay at present than there were twenty years ago notwithstanding millions of bush els Lave bean removed. They says hat dredging for oysters in deep water nat ters the beds over a greater extent, and is the only way by which the quantity in the long term can be inorsased.-- Taking up oysters with •the tongs: is more economical, in timit it destroy* fewer oysters, bat it does uot spread =apply, sad ultimately athausts the M.A. rural editor was recently mar ried and prey tO starting on his wedding toar,falsed las madam that -be 'would thaw a minute dc. UM at " alt User sail ad 4/41PP No doubt there All Wei aeaa:iiiy large butis 01111k*/ #l4 II Our Country.
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