LEWI
EG
CHRONIC
BY 0. N. WORDEN & J. K. CORNELIUS.
ESTABLISHED IN 1813....AVI10LE NO., COS.
At $1,50 Vtn Year, always is Advance.
LEWISBURG, UNION CO., PA., FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1857.
AX IXDEPEXDEXT FAMILY NEWS JoUBJfAL.
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The Cemetery.
Pep 'mid these dim and silent shades
The slumbering dead shall lie,
Tranquil, as Summer evening fades
Alow; the western sky.
The whUperin; winds shall linger here
To lull iheir deep repose;
Like music on the dewy air,
Like nightfall on the rose.
Light through the twining boughs shall shed
lis calm and cheerful ray ;
And Hope springs from the dying bed
And poiuts to perfect day.
Around each funeral urn shall cling
The fairest, freshest fliwers ;
Emblem of earth's eternal spring.
And brighter lands than ours.
Gathered from thousand homes, the dust
In soft repose shall lie.
Like garnered seed in holy trust
For immortality.
lioom for the households ! till the mora
lis glories shall restore.
And on the silent sleepers dawn.
The hours thai fade -jo more.
THE CHRONICLE.
K!).tD4T, jriw 20, is.vr.
Misnomers Xew upapcrs.
Confusion is often caused by ihe want of
i.-,:iiteness or apnropriatene.'.s in the headings
u'paV.ic journals, and there is great nousense
in tae graua ana spreading names some
i- t:L
assume, une 01 me sraa.iesi i,iiS:bii Muxn ,
w- reoollect, was printed iu a hamlet-lil.e j
t.iia, not upon any great thoroughfare, and j
hi I Ihe sounding sobeiquct of American lntil-1
Y.-.nur! It advocated some forty or fifty
important "causes." and died very -prema- .
turely' if us existence was neneuciai 10 anj ,
1 ! tiiem.
1 ne tt.i;ric--xe ij trriuutn, mm uic j
.1lim1al X.mU'ir, are similar specimens ol ejt
ensive names flourished l j insignificant sheets
ia out-of-the-way places,
b,iru to t'u!i un'ren,
A ;id warte th -ir Mri.-.-tnoB on iLe uevrt air."
Tv Lhmnera!, TUe Wh s;, Tie Vuz'ttr. The
A viein, are titles we olien sec used by the
merest country journals ridiculous, lor no
o-.e can tell by their liile what Town or State
and ia ether natious, it gives also a fair cur
rent epitome of the world's history. The Times
of London can also justly say,
AO pent-iii) U.iartmtriw-tn our jvw.r.,
hat ttit: wtiuli' Umilir uuivti.. it uurn,"
for wherever the English languaKe is spoken,
The Timet is read. The JVYie York Tribune, ;
t!;e Philadelphia 'J7me,lhe Baltimore American, j
Ac. with powerful claims to more cimpre- i
h'lMre desi?nations, are content to win re.
11 1 ne .. ,
:orn by deeds and not by names. 1 he Weekly
Tniune, ihe Record the Time,, the Auf,.,.W j
V:ddte, and other papers we might mention, '
although excellent journals, are alter all local ;
in news matter.in circu!ation,anJ in influence, j
and with snch examples as we have mention-;
cd might be less exclusive on first ace.uain-;
t'.nce. In truth, 909 out of every WOO news
.urna's issued would advance both their tin 1
itv and their credit, bv using such headings
th-y hail from, or what party they advocate. ; .j, wc nr(J 0Q tvc of a great commer. , gracd daughter, who is an orphan, and a
Tie .Vj uW LiteWgeneer, at our great Cap- ; revujsinn ()a tbis sur t he j beautifuj ;rj of gomc ge?entecn years.live
iul. oa the contrary, has a right to assume 1. 1. 1 I . u 1 t -n
, . .. , , , , .ew lork Tribune, so much has been entirely by themselves. I will give you
th name it honors ; long established, and cir-; , I ' . : . ,, ,
rU'at.n- amon- the best informed men iu this : llS aud wcl salJ. tDt unless to . a note of introduction," he added, "to the
as would express their location, or character, ' port of New York, for the last three years
or b ith "that, and nothing more." Pap'rs , amounts to 8570,000,000, of which 220,
at a National or a S ate Capital, are indeed OUO.000 were for the fiscal vear just clos
excusable in claiming a National or State
name as The Cl,be, or The L'niun, at W a-Illusion,
D. C,or The H.-trrithurg Tth-rraph, or
The Keuitnne. at Iljrnsburg: so also those at
County sites may properly take a county name; average of more than thtrlten dn'.lart per
Lui farther assumptions are generally lauha- head, fur our entire jiojtulation. We pay
ble, and sometimes deceptive. On the other a balance to foreign countrict of over forty
hand, long established papers, like the l.ycum-: m;(;ant anJ twenty millious of t'nfemr 01
,g G,z tt. The Mltonian, (the "weekly" is a ' w mJ UJ alr0(tJ Xhis
sham,) the Danrdlc lnteWscncer, Ac. A:c have 1 . , . . ,
' , . , , .. , . , . fact alone is sufficient to account for our
titles which fairly announce their objects and .
homes at a glance, and otx auom. ..:.t. crippled and embarrassed condition.
wr.1.1 as though they vapored about being a j On this dark picture there ire but two
Wot IX s llluminalar, a I'eitple't Benefactor, or i lights to be thrown, one of which is a
the Organ of all Creation. very feeble one. Though we have impor-
We are led to refer to this want of taste, or tcj CjCCSS;vcTi we navo not consumed the
iii,!"ment. or honesty, or reflection one,orallt , , .
jua0raeni, 01 ..oU .... 1 excess, nor have thc consumers purchased
hv the receipt of No. l,of The Independent, . , ... - -
by "ier',r n,ar.f!it. In New York, $35,000,000 of nicr-
Vress, issued at Lewistow n, I a., in place 01
7"Ae Aurora. e have in ourollice the head- ,
lug ol Ihe maepenaem 1 rcss, jmntcu at x.c i
burg a few years ago and there is The Inde
pendent Prcst now issued at Williamsport, 1'a.
Here, then, are two papers but a few miles
apart, bearing the name of a defunct paper in
their neighborhood a name not very appro
priate, either, for one is a decided party sheet,
and the other much more Neutral than Inde
dependent. Of course, confusion mnt result
from this duplication. We must pre&x "Lew
islown" or"Wi!ltamsport" to every allusion
to either "rress:" whereas, Williamrport Press,
or Lewistown Independent r the name of
their town prefixed to their present sufficiently
long nomenclature would sound equally well
and be much more explicit. It would be rare
if ever that towns of the same name would hit
upon the same title for a journal. The Lew
itburg Union Co. Pa Chronicle was issued
first and it was not until the Lewitburg Green
brier Co. Va. Cfcnraiefe lost some P. O. favors
mtended for them which came to us, that the
-
latter found they had unwittingly "filched from j
us our good name:" and that is the only in-1
dance within onr anowieuge wnen an appro
priate newspaper heading has resulted in hav
ing two alike.
"I'oIMlcal Freachlng."
One of the greatest afflictions of the pious
smiIs who administer Democracy through the
ijjiII, is, that preachers of the Gospel will
sometimes dare in the pulpit! on Ihe Sab-
bath! with the Bible before them to denounce
Slavery and Polygamy, after the "Democracy" i
have shielded those "institutions" under the I
ample cloak of "popular sovreignty ! If they
would only talk about Oppression in Ireland,
r Concubinage in Turkey, they could bear it
and weep over those sins, ettetohere; but to de
aonnce the same things in Democratic Amer
ica right hen at home is an outrage !
True Christians should lament whenever
an accredited teacher of the Gospel, of any
set, dishonors his calling, and proves faith
Jess to his trost ; for his downfall is a disgrace
to the Cause wVch should be he'd tacred
above all denominational or part.zan views.
P .u t ....
ui'.-d io Democrats reaiiy j
! seem to gloat with exultation over the defec-
lion of any of the thousands of clergymen who
j stood up to denounce Slavery ; they magnify
the number, and "keep fresh before the peo
i pie," all such men as a proof of the eonse
j juenrej of "political preaching." Hut they never
mention the crimes and heresies of the Cath-
olic priests and Mormon elders, ho are unan
! inioulyon the side of Slavery and Polygamy;
nor do they condemn any of the many hun
, dreds of Southern preachers who preach for
Slavery and disunion, nor the few Northern
Ministers who do the same and get Offices to
i pay for their "political preaching!"
It is frequency boasted, by the Democracy,
that the Episcopalian ministers never meddle
with politics, and are "conservative" iu Iheir
"holy calling." Now it is true the Episcopa-
1 lians are too generally neutral in this contest,
I or rather take sides with Power in favor of
1 Slavery so they did, in 1777, in favor of the
King; yet there are in 1857 sound Republicans
j (like Dudley K. Tyng) among them, as there
I were Whigs in 1777. But iheir being "dumb
i Jogs," seems not to preserve litem. "Frozen
together in union as they are, does not keep
them from putrefaction. In one paper before
us, are the names 0f SIX P. E. ministers de
posed by their respective Bishops! a much
consecrated' "freedom shi iekcrs" who. rrov-
ing unworthy, are deposed And we venture
to say, that those clergymen who denounce
slavery ?re without reg-. d 10 denomination
. ,
M pioi. , : worthy, as efficii. and as sue -
wss!ui paiirs preachers as any of the
-Am-I-my-brothi Vkeeper !" sort.
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biaig 01 UUT bOUEUy.
It is a common saying, that no man is
E0 independent as our farmer ; and, in
couvc-satjaj, thc other Jay with
a distin-
gui.sbcd broker of this city upon the pecu -
niary embarrassments of which such gen-
oral complaint has been so long a familiar wealth, finely educated, accomplished, and
sound to our ears, the saying was confir- ' evidently accustomed to polished society,
nicj to us ly a remark of his, that for ' but lives here in thc most secluded man
more than tiro years it has been ouly the : ner, knowing no one, and apparently seek
farmer or planter who has mado money. in" no acquaintances. Sbo has taken a
It scetns on all bauds to be admitted
enter upon any original investigation con-
ccrniug it. Under thc iuflucuce of the
reduced Tariff of 1S40, our manufacturing !
interest has declined during the last few
years ; aud though population and con
suniDtion have increased, few new factor-
ies iiave beea established, water pwww
befU improvedj anJ a ooJ part
,
0 f our woolen machinery has stood idle,
. . J . . , 1
Importation has been inevitably increased, !
and hence a large indebtedness has been :
incurred. Our railroads have been built
with 1 Jritish iron on bonds, until that j
mjne js neary worked out, and their stock
. , ... . rui.1(lU, ratM hpre anJ !
abroad, and have become worthless. The !
fiicial valuation of foreign imports at the ,
ed. During the last year about $330,
000,000 of imports of merchandize have
been received by this country, being an !
muie mm mim
last year, and are yet in first bands, and
may belong ic good part to foreign own
ers who have shipped them on speculation.
Iu the meantime, onr harvest in wheat,
rye, bay, corn, and all our stnles, gives
every evidence of being good.
Lfut, as a nation, we are outrageously
extravagant, and deeply in debt. We buy
too much abroad, are producing too little
at home, and are becoming like F. F. V's,
too lazy almost to work. We are build
ing railroads which arc profitable only un
til a rival is established. We are laying
out cities in the West to make fortunes
for land speculators. We must retrench,
and learn to practice industry. We must
make labor more free and respectable, and
resolve to pay as we go, even if we have
. 1 1 - ... 1
"ear calico ana pepper-ana san instead
of euk and broadcloth, and drink milk
and water instead of wine and coffee, and
live on beans and bread and saw-dust pud
ding instead of lobster salad, French pates
and turtle soup.
Industry and frugality are a sure cure
for "panic and pressure." A young,
clastic, energetic people like onrseives,
possessed of a rich, unbounded and fertile
aotnain shouia be ashamed to live at me
mercy of the Bulls and Bears of ihe Stock
Lxchange. lliilad. Timet.
The reports of Senator Sumner by the
Persia, says the Boston Transcript of the
26th, are not so favorable as his friends
could wish. His chief difficulty appears
to be in bis spine, as he is easily fatigued
by walking, and after having been seated
any considerable length of time, be moves
about,when risiug, like a veteran of eighty
years. He is now visiting the rural dis
tricts of France. His mind is very active,
and his spirits quite cheerful.
" THE BIKSLETSl"
I promised to tell you about The Ring
lets, did I ? It's not much of a story, but
such as it is, you shall have it ; and there
is no time better than now ; just draw up,
and listen. Turn down the gas; then
there'll Le light enough to be cosy, and
not enough to see my blushes.
Time A great many years ago, and
my Sophomore year in college.
Dramatis 1'trsona Philip Hamilton,
that's myself, and Margaret Winfree,
that's the girl I fell in love with.
As I said, I was a Sophomore. VcIl,I
WM voan .i., -n.i - t,.rt .1,,,
throbbed like a pocket volcano at the sight
of a handsome girl, especially if the had
curls, "fwas a fancy of mine, then, that
angels wore curls. I've lost that fancy
now.
It was our Spring Vacation. During
that time, I visited the city of Albany,
where I had an uncle living. Taking
stroll one delightful morning through the
suburbs of the city, I picked up a niiuia
ture of a bclutiful bo exquisitely painted
on ivor7- Ou the golden clasp was engra-
ved the name, "Isabella Delano."
I ap-
' plied to mv uucle for information
From
" -
1 u;m I learned that Isabella
Delano was
the name of an elderly lady who bad but
recently come to the city. He had acci
dentally become acquainted with her thro'
' his profession that of law for to him
she applied for aid in some moneyed trau
sietinn.
! '-She attracted my attention somewhat,"
j said she, "as she seems to be a lady of
! cottage a utile out, where she and her
old lady, and you can have thc satisfaction
of returning the miniature and seeing her
grand-daughter."
I was not only willing, but anxious. I
found the, cottage in a snug, quiet fpot,
ucarly bidden in shrubbery, and the flower-
k J, J
tL;Dg about) showed thc hand of taste and
, . . . 1 , ,r :
culture. A servaut took my note of intro-
. ,T , ... ,
duction, aud I was ushered into one of the
most enchanting littlo parlors that ever
graced my visiun. Two or threo rich
paintings hung uopn the walls, a guitar
was leaning upon a divan, around which
tll.,Q nt ml,s: .ro vn carelcsslv. A
rv
portfolio lay open upou the table, upon
which notes, letters, and drawings, in all
stages of execution, were scattered in pro
fusion. I had but a moment to make my obser
vations. 1 was conscious 01 a loot-iaii,
and stood face to face with the "beautiful
grand-daughter."
Mrs. Lot couldn t have been more firm
ly rooted to the place where she stood,
when she found herself a pillar of salt,than
was I before this divinity. I had thought
that I knew wbat beauty was, before,
but now I confessed my ignorance. I
shall not try to describe her. The attempt
to put ber beauty into language, would be
a certain failure. Her great point of at
traction for me was ber hair. It was nei
ther the'."ravcn black" of the novclist,nor
the poet's "auburn" (which don't mean
anything but red,) but a peculiar, rich,
golden brown a color that has no came,
stolen from thc dyes of a summer sunset.
It wasn't "put up," nor crimped, nor jig
gered, but hung in a cataract of dancing
curls. She always wore her hair in this
manner ; hence her tobriauct of " The
Ringlets." Iler eyes were as indescriba
ble as her hair. Of a color peculiarly her
own, tbey would pass under the general
name, of blue, but of an intensity at .
meaning that may be felt, not describcu.
Did yon ever sco speaking eyes J Iler
eyes would say more in a lifetime,if you'll
believe me.
Whilo I stood entranced, she spoke.
"Grandmother is ill tbis morning; she
wishes to be excused, and desires me to
receive Mr. Hamilton."
I made known my errand, and banded
her the miniature. She gave a scream of
delight, and with an "hxcuse me," disap
peared. She was gone I was, too. She soon
came back I didn't. I heard her voice
knew she was pouring out her thanks
for restoring the miniature had a vague
impression of her saying something about
her little brother in heaven but the tones
of her voice enthralled me, and rendered
me oblivious to what she said, i was in
a blissful stupor. Tstammered oat some
thing, I don't know what, and started to
go. She spoke of my nncle's kindness to
tbem since tbey had been in the city, and
urged me to stay. No ; I was in a press
ing harry. In that voice, sbo asked me
to call again, wbea she hoped her grand
mother would be better. Thnnder clouds
and grindstones ! what did I care for her
gtandmother?
I had lost my appetite for that day.
The idea of coming down to beef and po-
itaJoes,wu revolting, I did nothing all
day but think of "The Ringlets," and re
solved that the rest of my vacation should
be speut in the city of Albany. How the
time passed, yon can imagine, better than
I can tell. Day after day found me at
that cottage. The grandmother continued
out of health, for which generosity I trust
I was truly grateful. "The Ringlets"and
I were constant companions. She talked,
and I was happy. She sung I was in
raptures. She took me by the band I
was delirious. Talk, and rides, and strolls
by sunlight and moonlight and starlight
dreamlight all to me filled up the
hours, and made the days fly swifter than
the clouds over our heads.
Vacation was ended and I back to the
eellege. But her memory haunted me.
Thc monotony of college life, was intoler
able. I alleviated my misery by giving
vent to my feelings in scores of epistles to
"The Ringlets," and tha reception of a
letter written by her fair hand and such
a hand ! made me happy for twenty-four
hours of waking at least. Now and then,
too, I stole away from college duties, (my
"health" wouldn't bear close confinement!)
and basked in the gleam of my charmer's
eyes.
Just before the Summer Vacation, I
received a note from " The Ringlets,"
saying that she was about starting for Glen
Cove, to spend the summer, and desiring
me to join her there. Glen Cove was a
delightful spot, distant but a few miles
from my father's residence.
I pretended to spend that vacation " at
home," but any one desirous of seeing me
about those days, would do well to have
called for mo at Glen Cove.
That passage of my life was an ecstatic
dream. I was fairly beside myself. We
were always together, Mag and I,strolling
on the sea shore, watching the restless
tide, or sitting under the cliff listening to
the roar of the waves. Sundays found us
ever at the little stone church in the vil
lage, where she went to worship God and
to worship her.
During my acquaintance with Margaret
Winfrce, alias "Ringlets," my curiosity,
not to say my jealousy, bad been aroused
by ascertaining the fact that she was con
stantly receiving letters, superscribed in a
bold, manly handwriting. To my inqui
ries respecting tha matter, she told me
very uonesiiy, mat loose letters wen
from a gentleman, Mr. Shipley by name,
then in California, who ,bad formerly
been ic business with her father, and upon
his decease had taken charge of portions of
the estate ; that he often had occasion to
write upon business relating thereto, and
wrote to her, as her grandmother was too
much of an invalid to be annoyed thereby.
He was a very fine man, wanted me to see
him thought I would like him exceeding
ly. I thought perhaps I should not. But,
at any rate, I didn't think it best to troub
le myself unnecessarily about the unknown
Mr. Shipley. His chance for favor with
" The Ringlets," was evidently small,
while was about. So I gave myself op
to my dream of bliss, and forgot all cares
and griefs, in her presence, while she was
apparently in a state of satisfaction, to say
the least, when I was at her side.
So matters rested, when a call of busi
ness summoned me from ber. I was in
an agony of impatience during the time
of my absence, and used all dilligence,
you may depend, to accomplish my duties
and return to her, in whom my very life
was bound up. It was just at evening
when I met her again. I found her with
a gentleman, a well built, manly looking
fellow, and large enough to whip a church
full like mo without puffing. A peculiar
nervous sensation thrilled me, and nearly
rendered me powerless. She arose and ta
king me cordially by the hand, said, "Mr.
Hamilton, this is Mr. Shipley, our friend
of whom you have hoard me so frequent
ly speak."
Her frank, honest-hearted manner, re
stored me.
We sat and chatted, under some res
traint it is true, and perhaps my pulse was
a little feverish. After a while. Mr.
Shipley went in search of the old lady,
with whom he had business, and Margar
et proposed a stroll in the garden. Her
evident pleasure at seeing me again, had
quieted my alarm ; still I thought it would
not be amiss to prosecute a few inquiries
concerning Mr. Shipley.
"So your friend has returned in my
absence." I said. " Why did you not
tell me he was coming ?"
" Yes," she replied ; "he arrived very
unexpectedly. Business had called him
suddenly home."
" You seem to like him very much ?"
"O, ha b so kind to us," said she, with
the most winning honesty.
"Do you know," said I, (and my heart
began to flutter,) "do you know that I
sometimes faney you like Mr. Shipley
much better then I wish you did 1"
She looked at ma with surprise, and
then with a face as if tha most odd idea
in tha world had jut struok her, she
broke into a rippling laugh and said :
"Well, if you are not jealous ! How per
feetly absurd 1 What strange ideas you
men have ! Why. ha is old enough to bo
my father
'I know that f eifectly well, siM Ibat ,
re you sure you ouly regard Mr. Shipley
as an old friend ?"
With a look of reproach that scalded my
very soul, she asked, "And is that all the
rorifiiifncA roil rennse In me r Have Ii
ever given you reason thus to doubt my j nia. After long investigation and repeat- Settled by the psoplc of all nations, all net
faithfulness V ed references, it has been decided to give j tiuiu may claim her for their own. You
I felt as wicked as if I had stolen some- j the contract to the lowest bidJtrs aud the : can not spill a drcp of Americax blood
ttiiDi?, and wanted to fall on my knees, 1 inoat responsible men, but to locate the 1 without spilling tha blood of tie tahole
pray for my pardon, and vow myse'.r her
I slave for ever. Uut 'twas in the guruen,
and I had on white pants; so that I did
not assume the praying attitude, but, at if
possessed of a devil, wickedly persisted in
my question, "But, tell me, aro you per
fectly sure you ouly regard Mr. Shipley as
a friend ?"
She picked a rose of the purest white,
and placing it iu my band,said,with a look
and voice in which sorrow and reproach
were mingled, "When that rose blushes,
you may doubt me, but not before."
I was satisfied, I was a wretch a fiend
in human shape to think for a minute
there could be guile in that puie soul. We
found our way to a rustic scat uudcr an
old chestnut tree, and the eveniug sped
over our heads to eternity. The moon
was hurrying to its setting, and the bell in
the village church was tolling a very small
hour, as I found my way to my room, but
not to sleep.
Thc next morn, I overslept myself far
into tho forenoon, and as I came down to
breakfast, I received a billet from "The
Ringlets." It read :
" Dr.ia Phil : Mr. Shipley and I arc to be
marned to-morrow morning, at the little stone
chapel, where we have so oiten attended. This
is (honestly) very unexpected to me; I thought
it was to be deferred another year, but as we
have been engaged for three years.Mr. Ship
ley is anxious the ceremony be performed
now. We leave immediately for New York,
en route for Europe. The services will be
performed at 1 1 o'clock, and 1 shall of course
see you at the chapel.
Lovingly vonrs, Miaoic.
"P. 8. Be sure and come, as I wish to see
yon particularly before I go."
I icasn't at the chapel at 11 o'clock tho
next morning. That hour of the day found
me, as near as I can guess, some sixty
miles from that particular locality, flying
as fatt as steam could carry me, and with
a decided impression that I had been struck
by lightning.
This is my story of "Tha Ringlets,"
and this is my
Kcop your eyes wide open when you
deal with a pretty girl, especially if she
wears curls 1
The Perfect Naivettb oe the Qua
kers as Preachers, has certainly no par
allel in the eloquence of other scots. For
example, Joseph John Gurney,wben here,
was to hold forth, one Sunday. It was
oven-wise hot. All the saintly and sweat
ing world was assembled to bear him. For
two mortal hours, the congregation sat
mute. Breathing there was, but the loveli
est eyes flashed not The utmost seething
repose marked the assembly. They waited,
calm as a frozen lake, though the atmos
phere simmered with heat, for the moment
the Spirit should move Joseph. They wai
ted, and waited, and waited. Joseph sat,
mild as a Spbyux that grand eternity
loafer of the Nile. Joseph sat over again,
and did not move. Could that be the Jo
seph the eloquent, the famed, the brother
of that lovely turnkey, Mrs. Fry ? Could
n't Joseph pump up au idea, with all the
saintly antecedents of thc place? Wouldn't
the spirit of Pcnn move him ? Couldn't
he derive from thc large-hearted man (who
will live longer than Macauly yet) some
souvenir of apostolic vitality, titilating thc
roots of thc tongue and making it work in i
oracular beauty with the brain ? No, Jo
seph could not. He sat, and be sat, and
he sat. To the assembly, it was all ai
natural as blood-drops to the heart At
last Joseph arose. He arose, and thc
characteristic eloquence of his soul and
speech, did they come ? No. If e arose,
and passing a pocket handkerchief over
his streaming brow, he said, "Sinco I have
been sitting here, I have experienced a
creat poverty of ideas." Whether it was
tha weather, or whether it was weather or
no, those words of the heated term were
all that came from the renowned orator of
the Quaker persuasion. The elders gave
tho sign of the friendly grasp, and all the
younger followed ; and then the meeting
broke up, just as if the most natural thing
in the world had happened. And it was
the most natural thing therein lay its
beauty. W. H. F. Tribune,(Ldter from
Philad.)
B9Pro-Slavery Americanism in Penn
sylvania is best represented under the
similitude of a serpent. The Philadelphia
Xetcs is its head, and three or four puny
sheets in the interior constitute its caudal
extremity. It bas poisonous fangs ia its
head, but no sting in its tail. Being at
present gaunt and weak from hunger, it
will soon die of starvation, unless taken
into the "Democratic" menagerie and fed.
It is stated that certain Shamocratio
snake charmer bas contrived a device for
getting its head "in a string ;" and that
being secured, the ignoble tail will follow,
of course. Tha "animal" is to be exhibi
ted through the State by its Shamocratio
captors, in the hope of beguiling soma Eve-
like voters into the tin of voluz a;aiut
the caass of fre:dom:
Overland California Mail
The I'resiJcut and Postmaster-General,
with a wonderful show and pretention of
fairness, have virtually nullified the great
enterprise of an overland mail to Califur -
; route in a wholly iu.practii:at,lo region ana
an uuiunauuca cuuuiry. auey nave care -
1 fully throwu both the shells to the auU -
sccliuual interest, while tho tut oyster 1 lima, and aUuU 10 d-ing. r of the Judg
within it has been as carefully passed over , tnctit.
to the extreme South. The contract, as We are not a narrow tribe of men, with
awarded, names Memphis and St. Louis as
tie eastern termini of the main line, but,
in fcut, makes Memphis the only termi
nus.
St. Louis is no more a termination, un
der this arrangement, of the great route
nought to be established, than Buffalo or
Portland is. But let us see what may be
expected from the new Memphis route,
which the emigrant trains for the last
uino years have never fuund, though the
region has always been the pet of tho
Government. In order to get the utmost
possible southing at the beginning, thc
mail will go from Little Rock about 100
miles nearly south to Fulton, theuce due
west 100 miles to Preston on R.d River
in Texas, thence west two d grees south
to Fort Fillmore, near El Paso. From
Preston to El Pasj the country is niuin'y
a desert. The line touches in places the
feeble springs constituting the head-waters
of the Texan rivers. It crosses sun
dry Uanoi cilncadoiy jornydut dd muer
tros, in which, as the words imply, water,
wiMid and grass are strangers to the trav
eler, and silence and death become hu fa
miliar companions. From Fort Fillmore
to I'oit Yuma the line lies in the Gadsdun
purchase, in which there is one town (lu-1 Xot a Paradise thui, or uuio ; but to be
eson) of two or three hundred inhabitants; ; mu,e so at Q3a g00j plea?arej au(j ia
the other population consis'.s of sand flies, J the fullness and mellowness of time. Tha
rattlesnakes, a very beautiful and fliet an- sccd s.Jwn anj taa harvest musl eome;
telope, and a singular species of lizard, j and our children's children, on the world's
which has attracted the attention of naU j jubilec-moruing, shall all go with their
uralists. This region is thought to be j sidles to the reaping,
well adapted to experiments in making ar- j Then shall the curse of Babel be revo
tesian wells, npon the principle that a ! ked, a neto Pentecost come, and the Ian
generally worthless cur most be a good guage they shall speak, shall be the lan
eoou dog, being fit for nothing else. Fort j gage of Britain, Frenchmen, and Danes,
Yuma, is, of course, the most southerly and Scot3 ; and the dwellers on the shores
ftm El . 1 .1 1 , - . nM - k - -. ,1 ;
tance to San Francisco is five degrees of; about it; ItaHaas.aud Indiaas,and Moors ;
latitude and seven of longitude, say 450 j there sh.ll appear unta them all "cloven
mi'ef- , ... .. tongues," as of ere -Melville.
Tho motives and purposes of the Ad-
ministration io selecting a route like this j CoLVMBis, July 17. Two indictments
are obvious enough.and I can not perceive j ilve .ca fdUn(j ab,a;Qst Gibson, lata
why there should be any concealment; State Treasurer; one for the embezzle
about them, since the same sort of thing ! ment 0f ,ae fanjs ce t!ie geneca County
has been going on for two generations, j yt. An indictmecthas also been found
The design is to grade the way for a against Breslin, the previous Treasurer,
Southern Pacifio Railroad, under the pro- with several counts for embezzlement.
ject heretofore supported by Jefferson Da-
vis snd P. M. G. Brown, as a member cf
the Nashville Convention, of making the j
Government of the present United States j
pay for the builJing of a railroad, which
shall connect their intended " Nigger j
Confederacy" with the Pacifio. j
The North has been grossly outraged i
by this allotment to the extreme South of:
the Pacific Overland Mail route, while the j
whole nation will be pillaged of its treas-1
urc by mail contractors, who can never be i
., . ,
mail carriers. A.i. Tribune.
I
Romance Of Real Life. ;
Toe Niw York Times publishes a,
highly interesting account of a slave, 1
whose original name wa3 Tallen, and who '
i was taken from Africa by a Spanish Sia- j
vcr, when ouly 12 years old. The slaver
j was captured by a British brig-of war, :
wheu Tallen was sent on board the Brtish
brig Peacock, to serve as a cabin boy da- j
ring the war of 1S12. When the Peacock I
was sunk by tho American schooner LI or- j
. 1-10 lu I
net, in lslJ, lallen was sent, a prisoner!
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of war, to Savanah, Oa., where a party got .
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control of bun, forwarded a report to;
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ashingtoa that he was dead, and soid
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him into Slavery. After upwards of 40 1
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years servitude,dunng which time he pur-
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chased bis freedom thrice, he at last C3-1
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caped from bondage, and now, claiming to
be a British subject, seeks indemnity at '
the hands of those who have so long and
so unjustly held him in servitude.
Fattier Focsd!
A day or two since, .
Mayor Weaver received a letter dated Par
is, written in the French language, and di
rected to the 'L r.l H'gh Mayor of Pitts
burg," asking for information of tho fath
er of tho writer, a married lady, residing
in France. Mention was mado of the fact
in the newspapers, and on Saturday a very
respectable old gentleman called at the
Mayor's office and stated that he was tho
desired person. lie is a miner by trad
and has been in Pittsburg nineteen year".
When he left his native couulry, his !
daughter refused to accompany him, and
has sines been married; but not knowing
to which part of the United States her
father bad emigrated, she had never writ
ten to him, nor he to her. Tho letter
was delivered into the possession of the
old gentleman, who expressed tho deter
mination that as soon as he got tie letter
translated, ho would answer it. His
name is J&un Lsrney. 2Ktt;bvrg Czi-
i siTi":f.
Who are Our Countrymen ?
j There is something in the contemplation
' of the mode in which America was settled,
: that, io a nolle breast, should for ever ex-
' tinguish the prrjuJices of national dislikes'.
; worlii. lie tie ngln-huian, frenchman,
, utimw, imc, or scut, me European wno
: scots at an American, calls hisotrn brother
a bigoted Hebrew nationality, whose blood
j bas been debased ia the attempt to cnnobla
it, by maintaining an exclusive succession
among ourselves. Ai ; cur blood is as the
fUod of tho Am&xon, maJe up of a thou
mud noble currents all pouring into oe.
We are not a nation so much as a world ;
for unless we may cUim all the world fur
bur fciref iiU M.iej,. we are ituout
father or mother.'
For uho were our father and our moth
er? or ean we point to any Romulus and
Remus, for our founders ? Oar ancestry
is loot in the universal paternity ; and Cae
sar and Alfred, St. Paul and Luther, aud
Homer and Shakspeare, are as much ours
M WasLington.who is as much the KorleTt
as our ou n. We are the heirs of all time,
aud wiih all natious we divide our inheri
tance. Oa this western hemisphere, all
tribes and people are forming into one fed
crated tehole ; and there is a future which
shall see the estranged children of Adam
restore! as to the old hearth stone ia Eden.
The other world beyond this, which was
longed for by the dovout before Columbus'
time, was found ia the nctc ; and the deep
sea line, that lirst struck these soundings,
brought up the soil of Earth's Paradise.
i it gtatej a3 a f:J.., i;istrative of the
loose manner in which the financial affairs
of Ohio were conducted under the Medill
(Dem.,) Administration, that Breslin, tho
Democratic Treasurvr, was allowed to
hold his office for ten months without
having filed any bonds ! It b believed
that he expects to place the principal
amount of bis defalcation within this peri-
0d, and so shield these who afterwards be-
came his bondsmen.
v ; "
The Riehtnoul Vthij, ia abandoning
. " 6
Ivnow-nothingtsra for pro-slavery Democ-
ncy, inJi-res its belief that the question;
of slavery is thc only one that can practi-
cally divide parties at pros: nt; that tho
Democratic party is fuily pleJgcd to tha
support of slavery ; and that the attempt
to keep op an American party at the South,
only divides and weakens the political
power of the Sjutb. Northern Americans
slower in perceiving that the simo
thing is true of the North.
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Among the distmcnisued visitors to Bos-
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tOD last weeit, was R Gratz Brown, Editor
,
of the St. Louis Democrat, the organ of
. . '
'be tmauctption party in Missouri. Ho
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1J grandson of John Brown, the first
. b, '
Luited fetates benator from Kentucky.
"
President of the Senate in 1S03, and ds
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of the greatest- men of that Stato. His
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Dr. John M. Mason of New York.
Boil Yoi'a Molasses. When niolas-
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J IIU IVtblUiUl IV WV1I HUli Ofeliil 1 . UCIUIV
you uu it. It ta.es out tic raw tate,and
makes it almost as good a sugar. When
much nioliisscs is used for cooking, it is
well to prepare one or two gallons in this
way at a time.
.Tho Cutholio population of tha Kanka
kee YalIey,T!liuo;.s, appear to be very much
incensed ariinst BUlwp O'ilejnn, of that
j State, and laioly burned hiin ia effigy.
Ho bas been at Bourbomis to tate part
ia some relTious exercises, waju be was
met at the d'-pot with bauuers inscubed :
''Depart, you J adas.'
No publication issued from the Metho
dist prcjs had ever so rapid a sale as tha
"Autobiorjpby of Peter Cartwright," of
which tliriy Jijiisaud copies have already
been sold. .
Ia Delaware, the peach crop bids fair to
bs more abundant than il has been for
lilBT Vis.
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