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ATTOUNET AT LAW, (Olive one door west
.ers of Bueblees drug and book store,Chain
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d'i
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ATTORNEY AT LAW.-01fice in West Mid
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'rt /louse.
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Wm. A. Duncan,
A TTORNEY AT LAW.-011;ce in the North
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[Oct. 3, 1859. tf
.A. J. Cover,
ATTORNET AT LAW, waif promptly attend
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trusted to him. Office between Fahnestocks'
sod Danner k Ziegjer's Stores, Baltimore street,
Gettysburg, Pa. [Sept. 5. I t 159.
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ATTORNF:Y AT LAW S rill faithfully and
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to turn. Ile speaks the German 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 20.
Dr. A. W. Dorsey,
rRICFRI. I I of Carroll county, MIL, having
permanentiy located iu Gettysburg, offers
is professional services to the citizens of the
town and surrounding country in the practice of
the various branches of his prutcssiaa. Office
and residence.. Baltimore street, next door to
The Complier office, where he may be fouud at
all times when not professionally engaged.
ILUTERINCSII.
Prof. 'abut R.Smith, Baltimore, Md.
Ray, Arigustus Webster, D. 1)., Baltimore lid
Dr. J. L. War6eld, Westminster, Md.
Dr. W. A, Mathias, "
Jacob Leese, Esq., LI
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John K. Lonzwell,Esq., "
Geo. K. Wampter, Esq., "
Rer. Thomas Bowen, Gettysburg.
Oct. 2.5,18:A. Gm
J. Lawrence Hill, X. D.
his office one
door west of the
Lutheran church in
Ctiambersberg street, end opposite Picking's
store, where those wishing to have any Dental
Operation performed are respectfully invited to
call Rerasexces: Dm !turner, lice. ('. P.
Kranth, D. D., Bev. 11. L. Baugher, 1). D., Ilev,
Prof. M. Jacobs, Prof. 11. L. Stcever.
Gettysburg, April 11, '53.
Notice to Stockholders.
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TOME
is hereby given to sub.wribers to the
Capita/ stock of the GETTYSBURG OAS
p
.11PANY that, by a Resolution of the Board
of Directors: payment of the first instalment on
each share of stock (one -fifth of each share.)
subscribed, pavahle on the let of May next, is
hereby required to he made to Joel 13. Danner,
the Treasurer of said Company. at his office le
his hags., in the Borough of Gettysburg, agree.
ably to the terms of sub‘cription. _ _
By the Act of Assembly relating to Gas Com
panies, if notice for the payment of sub9eriptions
of stock be not complied with, the company can
recover one per cent. per mo.itit interest on the
Amount due and unpaid
D. MCCOSAMIIIT, Seep
April 16, 1860.
Notice to Tax-payers.
FIRE
is hereby given that the Canty
Commissioners will tusks an abatectutot
FIVE PER CENT. upon all State and Count y
taxes assessed for the year 1860 that shall be
paid to Collectors on or before Noreday, Me 2d
day of ;Tidy. Collectors will be required to eat'
on tax-payers on or before the above date, and
make such abatement to all parsons paying on
or before said day, and pay the same to the
County Treasurer, otherwise no abatement will
be made. By order of the Commissioners,
J. M. WALTER, Clerk.
kpfli 21, 11360, td
Gas Fixtures.
Wlll. HELMS, of Philadelphia, the con
tractor for the erection of the Gettys
burg Gas Works, has taken the room lately oc
cupied by Col. Samson, nearly 'opposite th e
leant, for his (Ace, and is prepared to fit out at
mace say building with Gas Fixtures. He will
►n a few days have the various styles on ezhi.
bition at his room, and invites attention to
them i le those desirous of introducing the Gas
Will be eared the trouble and expense of pro
curing them from the cityir-his prices being as
low as they can be procured anywhere else.
April 16, 1860,
• Cheap Clothing.
facrROUGH ARNOLD has now got up his
Spring and Summer stock of CLOTHING,
and complete, comprising *eery Variety of
Coats, Pantaloons, Vests, kc., kc., all of our
own make. Please tall, and If we cannot fit
yoa, we can take your measare and soaks you
a garment on short notice.
April 18, 1860. 6t
David MaDam:tell,
gimp *AMR, will attend to all work
estimated 14 him promptly sad cheaply , .
dense, clear Keckler's torero, in Butler
township, Atimitiboauty, Pa.
• , ril 30, 1860.*
llt Ton do not balky* it, try them sad <marines
Toirseins. that TYSONS' PICTURES are
*set
and cheapest to had in the eonatry.—
Gallery Y. L nor, of the Diamdad, Gettysburg.
0" •of the aceompliebineats -
Guitars, Aseerdecessailes, MON, FM"'
sad all tie eseeseety Ilxbefr. Darin tbs loot
kW Writs ea boar isay be spot &lomat*.
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49" YEAR.
Some curious experiments have been
made at the Veterinary School, at Al
fort, by order of the Minister of War,
to ascertain the endurance of horses,.
as in a besieged town, for example :
It appears that a horse will live on water
alone tiro and twenty days; seventeen
days without eating or drinking; only
fire if fed but unwaterod ; ten days if
fed and Insufficiently watered. A horse
kept, without water for three days,
drank one hundred and four pounds of
water in three minutes. It was found,
too, that a horse, taken after being
fwd and kept in the netivo exercise of
the " squadron school," completely di
gested " read " in three hours ; in
the same time, at the " conscript's
school," its food was twa-tl►irds digest-,
ed ; and if kept perfectly quiet in a
stable, digestion was scarcely com
menced if► three hours.
Got More than they Wanted.—The fol
lowing is attributed to tho eclebrated
Roland iltll :
Two strangers passing a clinreli in
which he was preaching, entered, walk
ed up the aisle. and finding no seat,stood
for a while and listened to the sermon.
Presently they turned to walk oat.—
Before they had reached the door the
preacher said, •' But I will tell you a
story." This arrested the attention of
the strangers, and they paused, turned
af,rain, and listened. "Once there was
&Linen," said the speaker, " who said
that if ho had all the axes in the world
made into one great axe, and the trees
in the world were made into one great
tree, and he could wield the axo and
cut down the tree, he would make it
into one great whip to thrash ungodly
men who turn away from the gospel
and stop to hear a stork" The stran
gers thought thew had heard enough to
satisfy their cur iosity, and resumed
their walk in the street.
M. JACOBS, Pea
A Spicy Atlair.—A select party, con
sisting of a roan, his wife; and a young
male friend, recently left Fall River,
Masts-., for Troy, N. V. firhe husband
had creditors whom it was desirable to
deceive concerning the right of proper
ty in sending large trunks; so they were
checked in the name of the young man.
The three arrived safely at Trov, but
the wifeand friend pur-ned their journey
further toward the West. Not to put
too fine a point on it, they eloped,
leaving tho husband behind. They left
the baggage, too, and so' far all was
well; but, on trying to obtain posses
sion of the trunks, the man was met
with the objection that they did not be
long to him. So the poisened chalice in
tended .for his creditors returned to his
own lips. The deserted husband pro
poses to advertise that the young man
may keep the wife if he will send a
power of attorney for the baggage.
Remarkable Cure of lioekjaw.—The
New York Observer says : A young
lady ran a rusty nail into her foot re
cently. The injury produced a lockjaw
of such malignant character that her
physicians pronounced her recovery
hopeless. An old nurse then took her
in band, and applied pounded beet roots
to her foot, removing them as often as
they became dry. The result was a
most complete and astonishing cure.—
Such a Pimple remedy should be borne
in mind.
An Waal Preds,qy.—The Salem Gs
sett* speaks of a little magical wonder
in that city, only three and a half years
old, the daughter of Mr. e Btory, of Es
sex, who plays the melodion and piano
*one. Elbe plays equally well blind
folded, and as no pains have been taken
to teach her, it seem to be a natural
and extraordinary gilt. It is really
a wonder - to amber little fingers running
'over the keys, without making a min
teke, - disoosesios sweet music, some of
"wideb she sectsuparries with her labia
strThe ,imervisir ashopriss of, as
on. arming Tory socoow
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COMIC IT IND COMIII6 DOWN.
This is a simple sang, 'tit true,
Yy songs are never over nice;
And yet try and scatter through
A tittle panels of good advice.
Then listen, pompous friendeand learn
Never to boast of much renown; •
Fur Fortune's wheel is on the turn,
And some go up and some come down.
I know a vast amount of Mucks,
A vast amount of pr,de insures;
But fate has picked so many looks,
I wouldn't like to,narrant yours.
Remember, then. and never spurn
The one whose hand is bud and brown;
For he is likely to go up,
And you are likely to come down.
Another thing you will agree,
(The truth may be as well confessed,)
That •'Codfish Aristocracy,"
Is but a 'KALI thing at best.
And the fishes, large and strong,
Ma♦ seek the little ones to drown,
Yet fishes all, both great And small,
Are going up and coming down.
Oar lives are full of chance and change,
• And CHAIM you know, is never sure;
And 'twere a doctrine. new and strange,
That planet high are mo l t secure.
And though the fickle god may mile,
And wield the actptre and the crown;
'Tis only for a little Po hike,
Then A goes up cud I; comes down.
TLIs world for you and me, my friend,
Hach something more than pounds andi
pence,
Then let me humbly recommend
A little Ise of common sense.
Thus lay all pride of place aside,
And have a care on whom you frown,
For fear you'll see him going up,
When you are only owing down.
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The Endurance of Horses.
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a Atmocratir, , j two . ad tazill ,Vourual.
GETTYSBURG, PA.: MONDAY, MAY 21, 1860.
"Log Rolling."
There is a capital anecdote of James
Guthrie's first-contest for a seat in the
Sonate,the opposition candidate being
Frank Johnson, a friend of Henry Clay,
and a leader in the Whig party :
" It was the, practice in that day, as
it is now, in Kentucky, for rival candi
dates to meet ouch other in debate at
different places in their district. It hap
pened that Johnson and Guthrie had
an appointment at a place about ten I
miles from Louisville. At a mile or so
from this place a settler was at the
time engaged in raising a barn, and, ac
cording to the usage of the country, his
neighbors had collected to help him.— ;
The day was warm, and the men, get
ting hold of nn unusually heavy log,
and failing to lift it readily into its place,
came to standstill. They began to con
sider whether they should not give up
e job for the day, and try the log
when they were fresh next morning,
when one of the.party proposed that,
as the rival candidates %%mild soon be
passing along home, the whole party
should vote at the coming election for
whichsoever of them who gave wssis
: lance, be ho Whig or Democrat. It
was agreed to. Mr. Johnson was the
first candidate who arrived on the
ground. He stopped his horse, spoke
kindly to the men, enquired into their
difficulty, advised them to rest satisiSed
for the present and come fresh to work
in the morning, and, reminding them
that the election took place on such a
day, when he expected to see all his
friends, passed on. After a while Mr.
Guthrie came along. lie enquired into
the diffeulty, and heard the proposition
to adjourn until morning. 'My friends,'
said he, 'my rule is, never put off till
to-morrpw what can be done to-day;
and if one gi;ocl strong back can do any
, good, here it is.' 'thereupon he tied
, his horse ; they all went to work and
got the log in its place. This is, per
haps, the first and only attempt of
Guthrie ut log rolling. It nced scarce
, ly be added that; the whole crowd voted
for him and many others who heard the
story."
What flappene in all Cononusities is
Winter—S*44omm came into oar sanc
tum the other day, and asked us if we
had heard the news. " What newel"
we asked, lip for an "Why, a
nose-pulling scrape this mornin"' e' in our
city; fifteen to twenty oft our b est citi
zens were engaged in it, and several of
, our first, ladies took part. It was a
very unpleasant sight, indeed !" " Did
you witniais it 7" we inquired with
' eagerness, anxious to get the particu
; tars fur our "fest edishun." "Yes, Mr.
; Local, and came to give you the cor
rect. particulars." " Well, then," said
we, seizing our pen, prepared to bear
some terrible dexieuenievdt, " what caused
the unfortunate affair." " Bad colds in
the heads:" said Solomon, as ho made a
sudden exit at the door, followed by
our inkstand, that, would have made
anything but a pleasant mark ou his
nose, if it had hit him.
Retiered from Ana*ty.—There are
, many persons who givo themselves a
. great deal of imaginary trouble ; quito
as useless as that of tho man who was
afraid lie had lost money by the failure
of a bank :
As soon as I heard of it, my heart ,
jumped right into my mouth. "Now," ;
thinks I. "epgsin' I'vo got a bill on that
bunk? I'm gone if 1 havo—that's a
fact" Su I pat on my coat, and I
started home as fast as my legs would
carry mo; the faht is, I run all the wuy.,l
And when I got thtro, I looked keer
fully,
and found that I hadn't gut no
bilk on that bank—nor any other. Then
I felt easier."
Wool.—The history of the growth of
wool is very curious. Fifty years ago
not a pound of fino wool was raised in
the United States, in Great Britain,
or in any other country, except
Spain. In the latter country the flocks
were owned exclusively by the nobility
or by the crown. In 1694, g small
flock was sent to tho electors of Saxony,
as a present from the King of Spai3,
whence the entire product of Saxony
wool, now of such immense value. In
1809, during the second invasion of
Spain by the French, some of tho val
uable crown flocks were sold to raise
money. The American Consul at Lie
bon, Mr. Jarvis, purchased fourteen
hundred head and scut them to this
country. A portion of the pure, uu•
mixed Merino blood of those flocks is to
be found in Vermont at this time.—
Such was the origin of the immense
flocks of fine wooled sheep in the United
States.
IP& AL-
A Bible is a Robbers' Cave.—A rob
bers' cave has been discovered near
Walo,ga, 111. It is nine feet long, seven
wide and five feat high. In it were
benches, and a book case filled with
valuable books, among them a quarto
bible. Any number of burglars' tools
were there,
and also a pair of boots,
singular in their construction, the soles
being on wrong end foremost—the
heels being where the toes should be I
They were undoubtedly placed so in
order to baffle those who might wish to
track the wearer. There were stolen
articles l'h the cave to the value of $2OO,
some et which were recognised as hav
ing been stolen some months sine..
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Pitts*le, Mau., May 9.—The Hon.
Phisass Alen; senior editor of the
Pittsfield Sao, which. be 'banded is the
year IMO, died roatardaY) at the sr
of 114 yesre. Be was the.okiest editor
in the Union. •
Ant* striositund fur in Frederick
minty, Md., is to begin on the 16th of
October next sad maws - natal the
19th. •
"TIMM IS WIGHTT, ANTI WILL PILEVAIL."
The Meanest lii
Ho has been found I The man who
hired his little boy to go to bed without
his supper, and stole the money from
his pocket after he was asleep with
which to repeat the operation the next
day, x as rather clo:,e ; the country cus
tomer who brought an egg to the store
to exchange for a needle, and then insis
ted upon the merchant's treating him
with a Elam of wine with that identical
egg in it, in honor of his custom, (the
egg proving to have a double yolk, ho
ought to have another needle,) had terri
ble little souls,—but we doubt whether
a more legitimate illustration of down
right msanness was ever known that
ono that transpired yesterday in the
shop of John Brown, the Barber, whom
everybody knows.
A certain gentleman, well known
hereabouts, who makes Cleveland his
general abiding place, and who prides
himself greatly upon his good looks, his
reputation as a ladies' man and his
unimpeached respectability, entered
John's establishment, and wag put
through a tonsorial course ef sprouts by
the proprietor. Ile uas shaved, oiled
and brushed, and put in complete pre
sentable order. Turning to go, be han
ded Brown one cent.
" Six cents, salt, if you please" gently
insinuated our loquacious friend. •
" Look hero, my friend, isn't that a
cent T" •
" Yea, &all."
" Well, don't that come within fire
cents of yonr regular price ?"
"Certainly, aah." -
" Well, you wouldn't bx mean enough
to stand out, about, half a dime, would
yon 2"
The sable
,philosoPher allowed that
that manmed "perambulate " as sud
denly ae Med. no never would
ask him for that other five cents.—
Cleveland Leader.
gt Appearances" to Let.—A female
usurer has been prosecuted for extortion
in Paris, and of the revelations, on tho
trial, the following is a part . :—Mdlle.
Leveque had a partner, in Alm shape of
au old infantry officer of the name of
St. Cirque, who used to net as an inter
mediate agent between certain of her
'•clients" and horsolf. The kind of
business will best appear from the fol
lowing extract from a business'letter to
his fair assoicee If you have a dia
mond ring worth fivo hundred
I know a young man who wants one to
go into society. lie would rent it for
twenty francs a month. Another
friend of mine wants a tive-handred
duller note, just to show off when -ho
opens his carder's°. Ile would rent it
fur twenty-five francs a month."
The Rtnekentitits on their Muscle—AA
1 " A aril chorus" for 825 a Sidr.--a An
exciting time among the blacksmiths in
this city was witnessed yesterday.—
About three weeks since Messrs. Ken
nedy & Doyle, proprietors of n shop on
Ferry street, near _River, made a wager
of $25 with John:, Hennesy and John
McKenna, who work in the alley 'be
tween Nicer and North Second, liter
Grand Division street—as to which,
could make the most horseshoes in tun
hours. The match came off yesterday
—each patty working in their own
shop from 7 to 12, and 1 to 6, with
watches over them. Each shop was
surrounded by an anxious and excited
crowd,nnd it became reeessnry to fence
off the 'principals' with ropes. The
judges, Messrs. Peter Donelly and W.
E. Wells, had not made their decision
at 8 o'clock last evening, but the vic
tory was conceded to the down town
boys--they having made 240 shoes and
the others 201. It is said that McKenna
was sick part of the time, and again it
is claimed that the winners could not
have been changed. The wager was
certainly- a novel one, and the side bets
were quite large. The best of feeling
seemed to prevail throughout. The re
sult is equal to about three days good
work, and shows a strength .and power
of endurance quite as great and certain
ly. more laudable than that displayed
by the so-cafred Champions of the Prize
Ring.—Trost
How the Thistle Saved Scotland.—Tbe
following is related as the origin of the
use of the thistle as the national emblem
of Scotland. When the Danes invaded
Scotland, they availed themselves of
the pitch darkness of night to attack
the Scottish forces unawares. In ap
proaching the Scottish forces unobserv
ed, and marching barefooted to prevent
their tramp being heard, one of the
Danes trod upon alarge inckly thistle,
and the sharp cry of pain which he in.
stinctively uttered suddenly apprised i
the Scots of their danger, who imme
diately ran to their arms and defeated
the foe with great slaughter. The
thistle was thenceforward adopted as
the national insignia of Scotland.
.Beastifal Wit.—The Emperor Alex
ander was present at a colloctien in
Paris for one of the hospitals. The
plate was held to the Emperor by an
extremely pretty girl. As he gar° his
louisd'or, he whispered—"4lndernois
elle, this is for your bright flew" The
girl courtseyed, and presented the plate
again. " What," saki the Kaiperor,
" more r "Yes, sire.," said she, "I
now want something for the poor."
derAs oiliest* of the troited Stales
An who has traviiisii,_ Was awny
sus his opinion of Adios* :
Ws have just traveled aye* as' micb
ydke isitjinitory of Arnim*. 1312.6
asisOise,eftnn, satinibinid t ea.
spotairs3,4iiihtished ooanlry never tio.
f*wiasaidor my visiob, and itsymposo
ciiir a good . deal of what is
es ildiAlad*oustry
StrAinor4 imlitaisas Ike iiiiiportto
of “the tiger is very small,•
Ac of the Legisla.tue.
The following is believed to be an ac
curate list of the titles of all the Acts of
a public nature, that, passed the Legis
lature at its late session :
GIN KRAL LAWS
Requiring Road Supervisors and Ov
erseers of the poor-to give security.
To revive ti law relative to gradu
ating lands on which money is due to
the Commonwealth. ,
Regulating- the standard weight of
eloverseed.
Prescribing modo of authenticating
judgment. of Justices of the Peace and
Aldermen of other States.
Relative to taking testimony by Cord=
missioners of other States, resident in
Pennsylvania.
Relative to the appointment of Au
ditors.
Relative to challenging Jurors in civil
=RCS.
To prevent recovery for the sale of
ad ti I termed liquors.
To consolidate, revise and amend the
penal laws of this Commonwealth.
Authorizing Presideflt Judges to hold
Courts, out of their several districts, in
certain MSCP.
Relating to Gas Companies.
Concerning Turnpike, Plank Road
and Bridge Companies.
To repeal the fifth section of an act
applementary to an act to consolidate
and amend the several seta relatiCe to
a general system of odueation by Com
mon schools. •
To establish Froo Banking, and to
seourc the public from loss by =solvent
ban*.
An Act making appropriations for the
expenses of the Corn mon wealth.
A supplement to an act regulating
the fees of District Attorneys.
To repeal the act increasing the pay
of witnesses in S•iiitylkill county.
Erecting parts of Clinton, Elk, Mc-
Kean and Putter coutaies, into a new
county to bo called C:►jneron.
To incorporate the General Assembly
of thasUr,ited Presbylerian Church of
North America.
Resolution relative ko the regulation
of charges on Railroadn.
BILLS or 185() sumzoIDVILING TUI II-
CU/.1
An set relating to eatntos fait.
Supplement to the • act authorizing
Courts of Common Pleas to change the
names of perrons.
Supplement to the Oct for due-nruin
ing Common School 're:where.
Supp!einent to the act relative to in.
speetions,
An net to inenporati) the Pennsylva
nia Fiscal Agency.
Caught in his Own Trap,
Cornelius Wendell,;(formerly public
printer at Washington,) recent* vent
before the Black Republican Covode
Congressional Invest iguting Committee,
and without venturing to sustain by
direct evidence charges of corruption
azaingt Mr. Buchnnan, tho President,
the whole tenor of his equivocating ed.
dence was to produce the impression
that he had, at Lye instance of Me Presi
dent. in 1857 awl '5B, pxpendcil a largo
proportion of his profits as public prin
ter to Congress' and to the Executive,
in keeping up feeble Democratic news
pap er:4 and to secure the election of ad.
tninistration members of Congress.
Shortly after he appeared before the
Committee and thus .testified \ the tol
j lowing Card was reproduc4 written
by him in December, 1858, and which
appeared in the Washington Union. It
will be seen from it that ho voluntarily
and completely acquits Mr. Buchanan of
the very charges which he now seeks to
establish against him. Read it :
"A Card.—My attention has been
called to a paragraph in a letter to the
New York /nes, of the 9th instant, in
vague and Off ral terms, that the Presi
dent had caused certain money, justly
duo to some individual, to be used for
electioneering purposes. With this ac
cusation my own nacna has been so
generally used in conversation, that I
feel constrained, publicly - and emphatical
ly, to deny all knowledge or belief of any
fact which can warrant it, and to declare
that President Buchanan never did au
thorize, advise or request me, directly or
indirectly, to use either my own money or
that of any other person for any purpose
like that mentioned in the ilaragraph re
ferred to, or in any manner affecting any
public election. C. WENDELL."
Was such apiece of political rascality
ever known or beard of before? And
this is the man upon,,whom the Black
Republican members of Congress main
ly relied to convict the President of
corruption ! Surely their case is a
desperate ono.
The Paris Water- Works.—The pres
ent water-works of, Paris have been
erected at a oost of three millions of dol
lars, and aro capable of furnishing
thirty millions'of gallocs daily. It is
now proposed to construct an aqueduct
from the Somme-Sonde at a point be
tween Epernay and Chalons-ear-Maine,
a distance of nearly
,124 miles. This,
with the necessary reservoirs, will cost
nine millions of dolktm. It will furnish
about twenty millioes of gallons per
day, and the reservoir will contain two
mud-a-bait day's supplly
.Thleashig--Talked of, but seldom
'Witt—TM vasoffistion of osprke.
Locie—Dwrotioo to one's NAL
enieftWarsk ifn thc.ao who az.
pool a beauty., •
Ateetawtioa—A Monkey oo a band
organ, or bikohattor,in a parlor.
. irtNormAtpuipar Supra* Train
radson Byer Road made a row.
at anon mike iu siaOuipatoa.ketwilun
pianism and Atibav, beings; the rats
of TO nines an hoar.
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Tb. Constitationak Union Party Con-
This . body, composed of the entire
remnant of the once renowned Know
Nothing organization, convened in Bal
timore, on Wednesday and Thursday
of last week, the 9th and 10th Inst., and
nominated candidates for President and
Vice-President. For the first llon. John
Bell, of Tennessee, and for the second,
Edward Everett, of Massachusetts. As
to either of these gentlemen, personally,
we do not desire to make any objec
tion. Had either as members of the
two great parties of the country, re
ceived nominations, they would have
passed very creditably through the or
deal of a political scrutiny, and now as
the representatives of an insignificant
and feeble party, they will receive the
customary notices of respect, without
exciting any jealous feeling to make
their virtues or faults, politically, a
matter of consideration. This Con von-
Lion, also in their wisdom, adopted as a
platform, a resolution vague and indefi
nite as the existence of the party they
represented, declaring with wonderful
devotion, their utter ignorance of all
political principles, other than " the
Constitution of the country, the Union
of the States, and the enforcement of
the Laws," and pledging themselves to
the defence of this "glittering generali
ty." flow very satisfactory to the in
telligent, practical people of the United
Staves; to thepeople of the North and
to the people of the South The issues
of the day, about which ao many aro
anxious, and so many are in earnest,
cannot be shirked in this manner. It
is well the action of this convention will
result in nothing, else it night be re
quired of them to be more expicit on
the all absorbing topics affecting the
very vitality of the national govern
men t.—York Press.
OrSome have expressed surprise at
the apparently large vote received by
Judge Douglas in the Charleston Con
vention, and seem not to understand
how it was effected. The whole thing
is very easily explained.
Judge Douglas received the full votes
of New York, Ohio and Indiana, many
of whose delegates were decidedly op
posed to him, and would have voted
against him, but for the unit rule in
these States, which put the entire vote
of each State under the control and di
rection of a majority of its delegations,
thus suppressing the voice of the mi
nority. This unit rule not applying to
Pennsylvania, the Douglas minority of
this State cast 01 votes for him; but
the rule applying to New York, a mi
nority of 16 anti-Douglas votes were
also cast for him I It is thus seen that
his strength, as indicated by his 152/
votes, was not real; and it is notorious
that if all the States had voted by dis
tricts, as Penrsylvani% and most of the
States did vote, Douglas would not
have received over 125 votes, and all of
these, except about 25, from States that
are certain for the Abolition candidate.
The proceedings of the Convention also
show- that the Democracy of Oregon,
California, and all the Southern States,
(without whose electoral votes no Dem
ocrat can be - elected) are bitterly hos
tile to Douglas; and it is well known
that in Indiana, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, Rhode Island and Connecticut,
(States in several of which a sound and
acceptable national man would proba
bly succeed) there are theusands and
tens of thousands of Democrats, who,
to say the least, are strongly prejudic
ed against him, by reason of his course
within the last few years, and of the
jobbing and plundering politicians who
surround him.
It is very evident from these facts,
not only that Judge Douglas' strength
in the Convention is no evidence of
available Democratic strength, but that,
if the National Democracy would bo
certain of success, they should make
some other man their standard-bearer,
—some man who would be acceptable
to the South, as wcU as to the North,
and around whom the whole Democrat
ic party of the country, with all nation
al, conservative men who aro opposed
to Abolitionism, might and would cor
dially rally. Such a man, wo believe,
is the noble and gallant BRECKINRIDQE,
of Kentucky ; and when the Conven
tion re-convenes at. Baltimore in Jane,
.wo hope (and we are sure the Democ
racy of Pennsylvania concurs with us)
that ho, or some man of his national
and patriotic stamp, will be made the
nominee of the party.--Jeffersoniait.
Deciding a Case.—A farmer called at
the house of a lawyer to consult him
professionally. "Is tho squeer at home?"
he inquired of the lawyer's wife. He
was answered negatively. After a mo
ments hesitation a thought relieved
him. "Hobby yerself can . gi' me infor
mation as well as th' 'gaffer, as ye're
his wife?" Ttfe kind lady promised to
do so if she found it in her power, and
the other proceeded as follows: "Spse
you wore an old white mear, an I should
borry ye to gwang to mid, with grist
on yer back, an' we should gut no far
der than &dm Hill, when all at once
ye should back up, and rear up and
pitch and kneel down backwards and
your darned old neck, who'd pay
yo
for ye 1' Not I—darned Me if I would. "
The lady smilingly told, him as she
closed the door, toot as lie had himself
sewed the case, advice would be super
loons.
Addle Dam Brea.-4t was dons
when it was bogus, it was dons when
it was half done, sad pit 4-waren% dons
when it was liaisAred. Now what was
it T Of worse, you eon's guess. Witt
this do T Timothy Johnson soustad
Susan Doan. It was, Dunn when it
was begun ; it was Dunn when it was
kW wasn't Duun wheal it
was was Johnson.
4 4k, A.
4•40
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TWO DOLLARg A-YEAR.
NO. 50.
veiation.
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meat of the vote, Alabeina, fetisaiesippirib
South C arolina „ Florida, TOXRP, ArkSnl' .
aas,
and s portion of Delaware, with
drew frost the Colllentioo.
At this present writing we have no
word as to the subsequent proceedings,
and ivitliput reference to whet they
may be,wwe shall here give the two
resolutions, containing tho gist. of the
dispute, as it stands; and referring to
the proceedings for any other informa
tion required.
The follgwing is the minority vesoln
tion on the Territorial question, as adv.
ted by the Convention:
" Resolved, That the Democratic party
will abide by the decision of the Su
preme Court of the U. States over the
institution of slavery within the Terri
tories."
It is enough to say of this resolution,
that it seems to us not to affirm any
principle, and to be indefinite in its
doctrine. While the Supreme Court,
as at present constituted, woald doubt.
less decide the question constitutionally,
that, may not always be the ease. We
see every day Judges and legislators
overriding and disregarding the Con
stitution. A decision made, is ono
thing, but a decision to be made, is quite
another; and this difficulty is increased
by the fact, that the tribunal by which
the decision is to be made, may be en
tirely changed in its personel; and in
its opinions. We believe the Democra
tic party of Pennsylvania does not'
choose to endorse in advance the deci
sions of a Supreme Court, which Mr.
Seward proposes to remodel, .so that
he and the Republican party can con
trol it, and which will then become,
instead of honored expounders of the
Constitution, a mere political machine.
Wo are glad to observe that a major-"
itv of the Pennsylvania Delegation vo.
tell for the following resolution, which
is in the platform adopted by a majori
ty of the Committee. It seems to us
to contain a sound principle, expressed
clear, explicit and definite terms;
and it is the doctrine which Mr. Buchan
an's administration bas laid acd defen
ded:
" First : That the government of a
Territory organized by an act of - Con- _
gress is provisional and temporary, and
during its existence alt citizens of the a
United States have at equal right to
settle with their property in the Ter
ritory, without their rights, either of
person or property, being destroyed or
injured by Congretsional or Territorial
legislation."
That is conservative State& rights
doctrine, it is fair play to all interests,
it is what we all demand. It is the
Democratic construction of the Con
stitution of tho. United States; and
commits us to no future heresy. It is
plain, simple, definite, honest and true.
The Negro in the South..
A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial, attendingthe Charleston
Convention, has been looking at the
"institution" as it is. Ho says :
"The Southern people who addressed
negroes within my hearing during the
journey to this point, spoke much more
kindly to them than negroes are in the
habit of being spoken to in Cincinnati.
There was, as a general rule, the kind
est of demeanor on the part of the
whites, and the greatest deference and
perfect submission on the part of the
hlaeks. That intense horror of a nig
ger because he is a nigger, width wo
see in the North, does not exist here.—
A 'boy'—they call all the six-foot der*
kips down here, gray-headed or not,
'boys'—was very polite to a gentle
man and lady at ono of the South Caro
lina stations. The 'boy' was going
down to Charleston. The gentleman
said to him You're very polite and
thoughtful to-day.' The boy smiled
with intense pleasure, and replied : '0
yes, masser, I alips. polite, i allus po
lite.' That's right,' said the gentle
men, 'you're a good fellow.' And the
bow of the boy, if made by one of our
sham negro minstrels,would bringdcrwn
the house. As the lady was turning
away, she slopped and said to the 'boy,
whose eyes and ivory fibed witile she
did so : 'William, be boy in
Charleston; don't let asy of the bad
fellows lead you into temptation there.'
Those are her very words, and the tone
in which they were uttered made thorn
genuine. 'William' repeated his bow,
and if an Ethiopian statue representing
perfect felicity were wanted, he would
have answered excellently well thou to •
stand for a Model."
Blooming in the Grave.—A motallio
coffin containing the body of a young
lady who had been buried mono "thau
four...years was lately opened in Mem
phis, Tenn. The body was in an excel
lent state of preservation, the hair, par
ticularly-, was very life-like, and what
was more astonishing, a fall , bloom
camelia japonica which some affeetienato
band had twined in the tresses ,of the
girl was remarkably fresh look*g, the
leaves retaining their soft, greenish hue
to' perfection.
lliirStephen Whitney, who died in
New York recontly,leaving ten nitilioue,
was once met by Jacob Astor, whoa
the following dialogue ensued: •
4"Ar. Whitney, i hear you - hove re
tired from business." This was after
Lis retirement in 1837. • -
" Yoe," rtlilied lar. Whitney. " 1
Wive retired.
" And how much are yon .firth i'L
inquired Mr. Astor.
441.b0nt five million dollars," replied
Mr.wWhi tney.
After standinvind thiskin ha silence
for a moment, 44 Well,Pliald Meg Astor,
" i don't. know but t tbak 'lt *just as
well to retiptaik that seat salt st to be
nub."
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cousin (a boy about four yearsnf age) ,
a star, said, " That sterliimi see up
there is bigger than this woriti."
Sao be, '• no 'lnbely"
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otil"said the ,
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Iwo
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