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LEWISBURG, UNION CO., PA.t FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1857.
AN ISDErEXDEST FAMILY NeTTS JOURNAL.
fOB TUB LLMSWM ClIEoSICLE.
"Court Proceeding" Extraordinary.
acrpogED to az wnirrrs nr L. c x. lei.
& get your halt and Ut us take a stnil twanls the Court,
A place wftere ail the idlers in the county can resort ;
W- oannnte Vie mudus operandi, tee whtt'stn be sent,
Afi possibly acquire some Irjat K-nowhdje by Vie scene.
1tre Justi -e rijn4 with sioay supreme, within her rightful
pates;
fl r symbvl is a m-mey-baghrr mfge.-ts wetr tc sc-tb-s ;
H-nyts ain't c'ose4,at 7;-r- t.fn-e : hr count'-nanc isbrnsF ;
."V plucks h. T c'intS f itherUsS, tV trts th'M t fT'tiS.
jHtn't tdl: lot' fawL or we'C be ti-f up with a bmg re! jU,
Ji irw If impirtaiti tip-ttj.it', wh'i thf of Curt cant r. J ;
TJtty male more noise than all the nUt a a J what miy sen
ubturd,
AVer fiU to itetlow "Silence" whnt wrf arity they're heard.
In passing thri this legal dm. he cavful of your pint,
f-r here's an army of spit'yns to brrk a ttrauj-r's :h'ns ;
7) us they are niiitanrr, hut tu Litryrt t'y'rr f we,
far when attorneypbad tiiey rout adeal u wrath awi jux.
Tt's law in calf-skins dressed, and alto stme in hid.s un
tanned ;
A Ui'At.tsn, that bls at tho' 'twere t'i urn VJ hy 71 tbr land ;
it moires a witness U'H th trit with rtverenti.il owe,
And sternly hints of&ptity, while iilucittoue prcajtcs Law.
Here are sleek and pofisftjilawycrSftrainrdinparUimetiV'
ry schuolr.
And others rough andTboittrotit.cho mar W.t Hathin bulls ;
The former think Lid rhet -ric and vehmenre a disgrace ;
Tc Utter break all clasUc rules, but won't give up a case.
TU Oerkeotfrrmtsawitnrsnw,aiiiierehe fairly stops,
HhywfS out an oft-repattd oaUt whUf rising vn his praps ;
fit id witness listens till the rvtie no Insurer cau be htud,
then nodsayts," but didn't uuderrtind a Mused word.
Then ofhegoes,hyjcrl- and Starts, a'-ont tamrbuly's h-as,
JCputs what Smttk said J tnki$is sai ab-it his neighbor's
dogs;
7V lawyers tease and interrupt to get h im in ixed,-i n ! pin A im ,
And and terrify Him ttU ttttre's no m t truth Wilfiin
him.
J'oor frli"w ! sweating, leaves the stand, o'erjyycd that he is
drmt
TV enlinhtemedjury trwHfrwo nttrethm when the man bgnn.
( T'lit JaJ.ng witnrsstS. without rrQ-jrd tn v r rule,
Uxy pastf'ir litigstton," but I'd cat! it playing fxj.)
7'iert's Vte jnry sitting sitnl, listening with attentive air
At sfemn as ifst'Vtn'd t.y th. but stages nfd-fpiir ;
Tv julg by their long fares, you might think each one a
knnre,
ifr a. pris'ner trudging down to Mymring or the grave,.
Julgt Wilms Jills that middle chair, his ftatwr't calm
and ctrar.
His thuml-s thrust in his rest ann-htJ'S, htt pn upn his ear;
A gentlem-m in all rtp- tt, in business ture but sUw
Ktpedaily the tatter, as Ut Trial List doth shiw.
And seated at his eUfW is his honor Philip lihule,
A worthy farmer gutimin, in biwand sense, no fool;
Jwbft Simmt'-n. upon his left, a mon uiCnown tvfar.
It god at court and trainings, and is great vndt-jsamt deer.
Beyond the massive guarded doors the rooms of fate appear,
n here thirsty jurors oft agree on verdicts to get clear,
Ani doubtless settle many a ft How's hash by "bat or tail,"
(Xut "head or tail," that's obsolete since "reds" no more
prevail.)
WV7, let Utem do as tot met h msst. Lets tab a travA down,
I 'U guide y to a dom iril trVre rogues do atmrnnd
A sort nf half-way statvm, ndg--d between d'Sj-airand kn,
M'lert innocence can bmkfur life, but r-bds bxik fmr rpe.
These stme arched cells were made for dtaps who rude ami
lawless art,
And'ammftiate thf reckUss ones who "carry Jtv ton far;
For Uirir country's good Ovy 're trapped here, at tltc mwjis-
trate's behest,
Whert the wicked cease from troubling awl Qit weary are
atrsst
litre thy-r. safe from all outsiders when the Mrrif sets
his seal,
77 walls and windows strong and thicl; thiives caiit break
in to steal;
And, strange to say, when rogues come here, their minds
change right about
2ns'd if breaking in to toh, Viey're all ffr brraJ.ing out f
But, Omrt is out: to make U lis turn there's no need "f a Ml,
The facts announcM by bloiring thro an animated SchU :
0 yes! Oyrs! the OmsrCs adzhurned .' in hungry bmes
he lereaks,
And "fj-eunt omnes vigorously, including &b and Lex.
The Credit System.
Hunt's Merchants' Magazine says that
the only method of making money scarce,
is that which we adopt of making debt
plenty, by which money is made relatively
scarce. Two-thirds of out currency is
debt. It is a mad system of kiting bc
between tho banks and their customers,
and an enormous superstructure of debt is
built thereon, keeping almost every tra
der in danger of bankruptcy. There is
nothing else the matter with the business
of the country. Trading on borrowed
capital is the bane of our commerce.
Of all the wholcsalo merchants of New
York city, it was reported last week that
only fifteen had been able to keep above
water, aud beyond the necessity of suspen
sion, or the humiliating position of asking
for an extension. For a term, at least,
the lesson will be Salutary. People begin
to see the beauties of the "pay as you go"
plan. The creditors especially are making
a bold resolve to shorten the credits of
customers. For instance; the hardware
jobbers are against long credits to custo
mers. The prices have fallen and will
fall still lower, till they accord with the
true representative of value.
Measuring Corn in the Ear.
Having gathered and safely housed his
corn, the farmer wishes to ascertain with
somo degree of certainty, what amount
of shelled corn there may be in his pile.
There are various rules for this, all of
which are more or less serviceable. -The !
following we find in the Valley Farmer,
and is one which can be ca-.ily tested If
it provo a sound rulo, we advise our read
ers to cut it out and keep it for reference :
Arrange the corn in the pen or crib, so
that it will be of equal depth throughout ;
then ascertain the length, breadth and
depth of tho pile ; multiply these dimen
sions together, and their product by 3J.
Then cut off one figure from the ri"bt of
the last product, and the remainder will
be so many bushels of shelled corn ; and
the figure cat off will bqow how many
tenths of a bushel more.
Example. In a crib or pen of corn in
the ear, measuring ten foot long, eight
feet high, and seven feet wide there will
le 252 bushels of shelled corn. Thus 10
M 8 "J m 3j252.6.
Rents in Chicago have declined 20 per
cent on an average. There is a graceful
yielding to this necessity, almost every-
Ti l E CI I RON K'LE.
moxdav, iec. t, is.-r.
"Clover Seed Grass Seed Potato
Culfure."
We rccciveJ from the pen of "West
IiKANcii," a scrk'3 of Agricullural con-
j (ributions under the almve heads, written
for tho Chronicle. Relieving that they
will be bettor remembered, and read with
1 more attention, in January and February
next, than in this mouth, wo have judged
: it beet to lay them ly for a few weeks,
when they will appear, and will wc thiuk
! prove worthy the attention of every far
! mer.
frsWestern papers uotiee with some
evidences of alarm tho great damages
' done by grass-hoppers (or locusts) which
. , . . . .
seem to Lave been cominj? from the North
... . , ...
thence towards Illinois, io. Some writers
recommend, as tho only way t
meet mem
and perhaps prevent i famine, to raise
large flocks of turkeys, which devour them
greedily, and are fattened by them. Oth
er fowls arc also good, but not equal to
turkeys. The grass hoppers Lave been
troublesome, the past year or two, in Un
ion county, and two farmers in Kelly
township have told us that they found the
turkeys hunted the grass-hoppers readily,
ate immense numbers of them, and fat
tened easily. It is a good thing to convert
grass-hoppers into turkeys (even as the K.
X. writer described an Irishman to be " a
machine for converting potatocs-into hu
man nature !")
The Atlantic Monthly for Dec. is
full of interesting articles. One attempt
ing to prove "Kobin Hood" a myth, or
representative character, is very plausible,
but not conclusive. It reminds us of a
very ingenious papcr,published some years
ago, attempting to prove that Master Wjl
Ijame Shackspeyre was an imaginary au
thor, or at least a shrewd playman, whose
careful collections of the best plays were
credited to him whenever the authors were
not known. There is a comprehensive and
thought-breeding article on Slavery,
" Where icill it end " ( Phillips.Sampson
' & Co., Hoston.)
I t&A correspondent of the Presbyte
rian limner - Advocate says, "The lcad-
' trir mn in tininf nf a rif nr rniil aKiIifir
...b .", r . - . "Jt
of all parties, were united in support of
Mr. Ticmann," as Mayor of New York. ! Peyton Randolph, President, the following
The vote is 4,000 higher than ever before j resolution, among the others, was nnani
polled in that City, and shows a cheering ' mously adopted :
attention by the right men to a proper ob-
iect. Mayor Wood and his followers
swear vengeance forall time to come against
the respectable Democrats who voted
against the party nominee. It is likely to
make a lasting party feud.
ISJ'Tbe Munry Luminary, in view of
the fact that printers can not rcduco their
hands or "retrench" their expenses to
" keep dotcn with the times," very prop
erly urges the craft to live up to the rcsO'
( lutions ot tne JJanviile Convention, and
: stop giving general credits for papers after
the 1st Jan. 1858.
Others of our exchanges announce
; positively that they will not send papers
! on trust after 1st Jan. 185S.
A few weeks since, we tried to
"talk like a Dutch uncle" to that incor-
ngable son of a (jerman, IUccn of tho
.uaucu uunK uactie. uut instead oi i
; praising and thus encouraging tho efforts
j of youthful geDius, he broadly criticizes
I our classical performance as " hifalutin,"
dink it nix besscr ai plus too rnnt for this
. evil generation I We havo half a mind
' not to try again, but to lev him to (he
; tender mercies of the Wcissport druckcrs,
' old George F., and the Gum Valley lit
: erati.
j OSX-The Canal Board have made the
! following appointments :
i Collectors D II Neiman, Eastern: CS
Palmer, New Hope : J Swineford, North
umberland : J Piatt, Williamsport : J B
Deis, Dunnsburg : L II Litts, Pittston.
Wcichmastcrs Wm Able, W Z Olm-
stcail, Easton : J S Taylor, "Northumb'd :
Geo Manhardt, 11 6 Bacon, Beach Haven
Hiram II Brown, Pittston.
Cargo Inspector J B Docker, Bristol.
faTThc Jersey Shore papers are good
preachers some times. The Vedette has
Rev. J. A. Kelly's sermon in full, deliv
ered before the Baptist church, and an
oxtended notice of Rev. J. Mercbead's be
fore the M. E. Church; and the Byulli
can has Rev. J. Stevens', before the Pres
byterian church. The three were Thanks
giving sermons.
SSTA youngster about four years old,
was recently honored with his first suit of
pants. Parading backwards and forwards
before the domicile of his mother with as
long strides as his short legs would allow,
a gentleman neighbor' asked him seriously
"Who are you?" A man!" was the
composed reply of the toddling youth.
Fat this in your Pocket Book!
The present administration came into
power with a surplus of twenty millions
of dollars in the Treasury. We venture
the prediction that, when Mr. Buchanan
closes his term, the government will be
mure than fifty millions of dollars in debt.
Another Step !
The Wtisliinilon I'niun, Pres. Bucha
nan's organ, lias taken another "step back
wards," and baldly announces, as Consti
tutional 1) emocraey, that the sovereign
Stalet hare nut the potrer to oU'ti Slavery
without the consent of their owners ! No
doubt the demon of Oppression will re-establish
Slavery agaiu iu the Free States,
if the blindness of the name "Democracy"
will continue loug cuough to enable it to
do so.
HuTAd other of the small band who as
sembled in Editorial Convention at Dan
ville in August last, has closed his earthly
career. Kfxbkn W. Wkae, Esq. Ed
itor of tho l!!ooni9burg S7r nf the North,
died at his home on the -d inst. of con
sumption, aged u5 years. He was a man
t oi ujuru inau uruiuary auuii. ui uusuui
, . . , ,, ...
j ed character and, although a strait par
.r .1. l: -f it:
tizau, couducted a paper which elicited the
rtnpit i ul! An ntilv ltiM. his awil
: , . , ,
I parcuts auu young wiic inueca may niouru
his early departure, but his connection
with the M. E. Church iu later years was
a proof of his preparation for the great
change.
B,A friend in Nashville states that
Gen. Haskell's mental and bodily health i
has been restored and be is again at large.
Also that his mental derangement wes
not caused by intemperance, as stated in
the ?.7tuntWe,but was a hereditary disease,
developed by too much headwork. -
TOE THE UWIflBCKO CHftWHCLI.
9313 DD AftD m BUT.
In reading Mr. Ur.LPKft's Cok, "The
Criiis of the Sjuth," one is forcibly im
pressed with the high-toned views and pa
triotic principles of those noble men of
Virginia, whose -families now boast the
title of "F. F. V." a title which has be
come rather a sarcasm than an honor.
Fresh from the contebt of the Revolution,
and believing in the existence and the
justice of a Father in Heaven, the Sages
and Heroes of '76 religiously and honora
bly labored to promote, as far as they
could see tho way clear, the natural equal
ity of rights of all of God's children.
Look, for example, at the records left by
the
Randolphs of the Old SchooL
I-) ton Randolph.
On the 20th of October, 1774, while
, Congress was in session in Philadelphia,
"That wc will neither import nor pur
' chasc any slaTe imported
fter the first
day of December next ; after which time
wo will wholly discontinue tho slave-trade,
and will neither be concerned in it our
selves, nor will we hire our vessels, nor
sell our commodities or manufactures, to
those who are concerned in it.
Edmund Randolph.
The Constitution of the United States
contains the following provision :
"No person held to service or labor in one
State, under the laws thereof, escaping to
anothCr, shall, in consequence of any law
j or regulation therein, be discharged from
such service or labor, but shall be deliver-
1 np on claim of the party to whom such
scrviee or labor may be due.
To the studious attention of those Van
dals who contend that tho above provision
only requires tho rendition of fugitive
slaves, wc respectfully commend the fol
i; which, it will bo observed, was
m,nn;niMlsj a.lontPrl
"On motion of Mr. Randolph, the word
'servitude was struck out, and 'senictf
nnanimously inserted tho former being
thought to express thc condition of slaves,
and the latter thc obligation of free per
sons. Madison Papers, vol. III., p. 1069.
John Randolph.
That eccentric genius, Randolph of Ro
anoke, in a letter to William Gibbous, in
1820, says:
"With unfeigned respect and regard,
and as sincere deprecation of tho exten
sion of slavery and its horrors as any oth-t
er man, be bim whom he may, I am your
friend, in the literal sense of tnat much
abused, because it is applied to the leagues
of vice and avarice and ambition, instead
of good will toward man from love of him
who is the l'rince 01 reace.
Wbilo in Congress ho said :
"Sir, I envy neither the heart nor the
bead of that man from the Aorth, who ri
ses here to defend slavery on principle.
It is well known that he emancipated
all bis negroes. The following lines from
his will are well worth persuing and pre
serving :
"I give to my slaves their freedom, to
which my conscience tells me tbey Mtejusty
entitled. It has long since been a matter
of the deepest regret to me that the cir
cumstance under which I inherited them,
and the obstacles thrown in the way by
the laws of the land, hare prevented my
emancipating them in my life-time, which
it is my full intention to do in case I can
accomplish it."
John Randolph, it should also be re
membered, was the anthor of the Report
in Congress, against the potition of the
people of Southern Indiana to have the
Slavery restored which had been abolished
by the Jefferson Proviso of 1787 thus
denying the right of any people to havo
Slavery, even if they might desire it
Thomas IW. Randolph.
In an address to the Virginia Legisla
ture, in 1820, Gov. Randolph said :
"We have been far outstripped by
States to whom nature has been far less
bouutiful. It is painful to consider what
mijhl have been, under oilier circumstan
ces, the amount of general wealth in Vir
ginia." Thomas Jcffcraon Randolph.
Iu Mr. Randolph, of Albemarle,
in the Legislature of Virginia, nsed the
following most graphic aud emphatic lan
guage :
"I agree with gentlemen in the necessi
ty of arming the State for internal de
fence. I will unite with them in any cf-
i fort to restore confidence to the public
mind, and to conduce to tho sense of tho
safety of our wives and our children. Yet
sir, 1 must ak upon whom is to fall the
burden of tli hi defence ? Not upon the
lordly masters of their hundred slaves,
who will never turn out except to retire
with their families when danger threatens.
No, Sir; it is to fall upon the less wealthy
class of onr citizeus, chiefly upon the non
slaveholder. I have known patrols turn
ed out when there was not a slaveholder
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tho country. I have slept iu times of
alarm quiet in bed, without having a
thought of care, while these individuals,
owuing none of this property themselves,
were patrolling,noder a compulsory proc
ess, for a pittance of seventy-five cents per
twelve hours, the very curtilage of my
house, and guarding that property which
was alike dangerous to them and myself.
After all, this is lit an expedient. As
this population becomes more numerous,
it becomes less productive. Your guard
must be increased, until finally its profits
will not pay for the expense of its subjec
tion. Slavery has the effect of lessening
the free population of a country.
"The genfcman has spoken of the in
crease of the female slaves being a part of
the profit. It is admitted ; but no great
evil can be averted, no good attained,
without some inconvenience. It may be
questioned how far it is desirable to foster
and encourage this branch of profit It is
a pract'ee, aud an increasing practice, in
parts of Virginia, to rear slaves for mar
ket. How can an honorable mind, a pa
triot, and a lover of his country, bear to
see this Ancient Dominion, rendered it-
lustrioug by the nobldevotion and patri-
otism of her sons in the cause of liberty,
converted into one grand menagerie, wnere
men are to be reared for the market, like
oxen for the shambles t Is it better, is it
not worse, than the slave trade : that
trade which enlisted the labor of the good
and wise of every creed, and every clime,
to abolish it? The trader receives the
slave, a stranger in language, aspect, and
manners, from the merchant
brought bim from the interior.
ho has
The ties
of father, mother, husband, and child,
have all been rent in twain ; before be re
ceives him, his soul has become callous.
But here, Sir, individuals whom the mas
ter has known from infancy, whom he has
seen sporting iu the innocent gambols of
childhood, who have been accustomed to
look to him for protection, he tears from
the mother's arms and sells into a strange
country amoug strange people, subject to
cruel taskmasters.
"He has attempted to justify slavery
here, because it exists in Africa, and has
stated that it exists all over the world.
Upon the same principle, he could justify
Mohainedanism, with its plurality of
wives, petty wars for plunder, robbery,
and murder, or any otner ot tne atiomma -
iiuus nuu euuiuuuea VI savugB iiiues.
Does slavery exist in any part of civilized
Europe ? No, sir, in no part of it."
ll done fur the Randidphs ! Were
they now living, they would doubtless be
exiled from the soil of Virginia, and de
nounced as "Black Republicans," "Abo
litionists," "Infidels," " Disunionists,"
&c. &c.
Randolphs of the New SchooL
Among the Bogus Convention, which
(as one of its Members confessed) repre
sented but one-tenth of the people of Kan
sas, were John S. Randolph, always a
Democrat, and JJin IK Randolph, once
styling himself a "Democrat," and now
"Nuliifier." The former said little, but
voted steadily for crowding Slavery upon
Kansas against the wishes of nine tenths
of the people. John W. Randolph was
talkative, and was styled by the Tribune
correspondent, "the prominent rhetorical
divinity." We copy some of his positions,
as taken verbatim, to show how the Ran
dolphs have degenerated on the great ques
tions of religious liberty and man's rights:
Out 27, in the debate on Militia,
"Randolph of Atchison thought that a
man of 45 was too old to be run about over
tho prairies at the will of some boy of 18,
who might be captain jist for the sake of
learning military rudiments in a cornstalk
milesha company. He expected that they
wur goiu' to make a Slave State, and if
tbey was, the most of the spectators would
be children and niggers, an' he objected
to making such a spectacle of an old man
jist to make laughin' for niggers. And
he was opposed to so young men goiu' iu
the melisha. They hadn't the nerve.
They weren't able to tramp op and down
and eat the bard bread baked in 177G.
Randolph was opposed to mixin' iu this
religion. If a man is to be allowed to
dodge servin' on the milesha on account o'
religious scruples, he (Randolph) would
embrace some kind of religion himself, so
as to escape melisha duty. RaadoIph"was
opposed to tho whole bill, but especially
that part of it allowin people to be ex
empt from religions scruples, and then
making them pay to support the others
for their exemption'." Randolph"thougbt
tnat to exempt people from the duty Of
shooting people and then getting them to
pay others for doin' it, was a humbug."
Randolph was opposed to the wholo mel
isha system. Meluba always run away.
If God Almighty made a man a coward,
you could not make brave man of him.
It was not the man's fault it was the
Maker's fault." Here somebody called
Randolph to order.but tbo Chair observed
that Mr. Randolph was not out of order,
uuless it was out of order to speak in that
way of the Almighty. "Oh, well," ex
claimed Randolph, "I dou't want to git
down on tbo old man."
Oct. aO, in tho discussion on Slavery,
Mr. Randolph
"Wanted nothing but the clear-strained
rosum. Wauted to strike out the word
emancipate, and the right of the Legisla
ture to allow owners to emancipate their
slaves. Niggers were sent duwu expressly
bv the Deitv to wait on while men. He
denied that they were "human." Ilede- I rpenics o. me couee, u.u-.er mo o.ge- j,, of tta Xerrit()rT Governor
nied that it was a traflio in human flush, j f te m'lk-" He has cured many ; Kobiogon houlJ u , f Jssio of
They were a species of the longarmcd ape. cases of nervousness, head-ache, and hys- ' ,be yute 1,, ,t thc earliest mo
lt was wrong to make any provision what-: terical affections, by interdicting tho use ! ment.
ever fur emancipation. The Riblo estab- 0f coffee. 1 a resolution was alonted. reeammenJ.
lished Slavery; the speaker was familiar
with some parts of it, and referred the
Convention to Leviticus. He said the
main work of the North was this same
business of emancipation, and why should
this Convention use this word "emancipa
tion" in any case, unless we want to help
such as my friend and fellow traveler to
eternity, Horace Greeley, in what they
want to do T The niggers themselves were
opposed to this thiug of emancipation.
Tbey would vote for Slavery if they had
the chance. The safest way of submitting
the Constitution would be to the niggers
nf Old Virginia. Some of the delegates I
wanted to strike out the word "slave"
wherever it occurred and insert the word '
"property." If they would do this, it j
would gull a lot of the Abolitionists. Now i
those who wanted to do so must either I
think that they were almighty smart, or
that the Abolitionists were a pack of awful
fools. He wanted it slave all the time."
Nov. 5, on the question of submission
of the Constitution, Mr. Randolph
"Thought there were two qualifications
for a great man,; the first was impudence,
! and the second ignorance.
He wanted to
1 show what he said ; he may not remember
' all tiA Batil knt t f I n.a m nnj tKinr. Ka
All, HQ D.IUj WU .UI..V Ma wuw Q "
i wrote. CUe read from his circular.) He
i bad been in favor of submitting all of the
! Constitution or none. He was in favor of
submitting it to a vote of the true, bona
fiJe residents of Kansas, or not at all. lie
thought he was at the bottom of the class,
j u i ji- ...it l it
there was one thing hedespised, it was the
Fourth-of-July style of oiators. He sar-
castically alluded to Mr. Jones and the
Union, and the Tree of Liberty. Why,
the bark had all been scraped off it. So
many aspiring men were climbing np that
tree, and tbey turned so many somersets,
. that they had knocked all the bark off.
Speak of the Democracy for the Demo
cracy he had refused to vote for his best
friend, Gen. Taylor. For the Democracy
he had forsaken the gallant Scott, whom
be had followed to Mexico, and voted for
Frank Pierce,who was a coward and faint
ed. If the Democracy could not maintain
the cause of the South, why, let it go in
pieces. What did the Democracy do in the
Presidential campaign in the North ? Got
THREE States. Now. what was this
' scheme ? What is said? Why, here we
j have two Constitutions, one for Slavery,
and one without Well, that's a good one.
j Yes, you may laugh ; it's just humbug.
! The fact is, it's a Slave State Constitution,
j and a Slave State Constitution. That's it
1 yon may laugn. i u icii you, tne woriu
; win cuuu w laugtuug u. iu. a guess vj
'. this time the news of it is goiug on the
I lightning to the New York Tribune, and
! f oogU to be. This is a grand
numbng. It's nutfair It is supposed by
flVIUO Ul IUQ gUUVILIUbU U.1U .UAH k 11 J M.O
awful smart, or that the Abolitionists are
awful fools We expect them to vote for
H OiaVV CIKIQ 111 IU19 ITBjr. J. UCJf 1ID UVI
such fools as you suppose. But let us
suppose that they are such fools. Is it
right that we should swindle them in this
way? It isn't fair. I won't do it. If
we are to submit it at all, submit it fair ;
let them have a Free State Constitution if
they vote to beat us, ordo not submit it at
all. I tell you this scheme of swindling I their products unless thry can get more
submission will be the blackest page in , tljan tLc worlll j Tnig rulDS tun.
your history and wo will never hear the j f merchants ;n the yrest, whose
end of it. We won t make much capital . . '
out or this dodge, I tell you. These Black "-payieit break np others in the East
Republicans will get to tho bottom of it I owing to tbe avarico aud want of com
so quick that you will never cease to hear uion honesty of such mis named "far
from this dodge. Tho only consistent, mers." Should Eastern merchants and
straightforward, honest way is to make
our uon muuou am. .o sena on l0 wm;
?tZrZi: TC" ;,:;iUiu the long run benefit themselves!
at their door. This humbugging.dodging !
way he did not believe in. He wanted to
bo open and above board. 1 hey womd j
learn tnat mey could neiiuer deceive iuo
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couoirv uor iue iiack jiepuuiiuuB. ah:
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it to Congress, and be believed they will
admit us and be glad to do it."
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Nov. 7, same question, Mr. Randolph
again
"Referred to his position ; be bad been
elected as a non-submission man. Ho had
never voted for submission in any shape,
and never would. Ho would vote for sub
mission only in one way. He would sub
mit it to such of the Free State men as
had been two years in tbe Territory, and
who eonld get fourteen decent Pro-Slavery
men to swear that they were fit to vote,and
that tbey should also swear to support the
Kansas Nebraska Bill, the Fugitive Slave
Law, and the laws passed by the first Leg
islature." What a fall is here, my countrymen !
How deep, how fatal the aberration of
heart and mind, manifested by these de
generate sons of noble sires ! May the
God of onr fathers restore the ancient
landmarks, and cause us to remember and
to fear Him as he was remembered and
feared in other and better days !
Bloestoceimo Senior.
Princeton, Nov. 30, 1857.
OommanicaMd for tfca Lwlsbrf Chrcnid.
Macs. There are in the Philadelphia
Directory, 3781 names beginning with
Me. This intimates a pretty full repre
sentation from "Tbo Emerald Isle."
There are doubtless ten times that num
ber who arc not heads of families and so
are not put in the Directory.
Coffee Dr. Caron, of Pari, has been
experimenting on coffee as a bevertge,!ind
arrives at the conclusion that most of the
nervous disease, which are so prevalent,
arise from the use of coffee kiVA milk or
crm-alooe, or with sugar, it seems not
always to be injurious. "The astringent
Mr. Kincaid. Letters from our town -
man, Rev. E. Kincaid, have been received
from him, dated at Malta. He was pur-
suing "the overland route" to Calcutta,
with a large number of British officers
among hii fellow passengers.
Geography. We advise onr young
friends to improve their winter evenings
by acquiring this delightful and highly
important accomplishment. Just make it
a rule, when you see a place mentioned
j in the papers.to look it out on the map. A
better knowledge of Geography may be
gained thus, than in any other way ; and
at the same time make the study a recrea
tion. When one reads of Delhi, orCawn
pure, or Nicaragua or Topeka, and has no
idea where the place is, his ideas are mis
erably obscure.
Of what it was Composed. The
Convention in Kansas which has rested
from laboring to make a new Slave State,
had this partial and ominous composition.
Tvn(nitv "ruispd" 19 nf it menihprfl
Georgia 9. Virginia 8, Tennessee 5, South
Carolina 2, North Carolina 2, Alabama 2,
Missouri 2. Total from Slave States, 49.
From Pennsylvania there were 4, from
i Ohio 3, from Illinois 1, from Ma.-sachu
9etts 1, from New York 1, and from
Michigan 1 eleven in all from Free
S'.tes... These men before uniting upon
i onMy work, were (politically) 29
Democrats, 9 State Rights or Pro-Slavery
33, to 22 Wbigs. Now they classify
themselves thus : 37 Democrats, 1G State
Rights, Pro Slavery, c 53, to 7 Whigs
Southern not a Republican, American,
or Free State man among them emphat
ically a "National Democratic" crew
Of the CO Members, 28 voted to adopt the
Constitution, and by carrying it around
others np to 55 were obtained the rcmai-
ning 5 being Clerks, ic Occupations
21 farmers, 13 lawyers, 8 merchants, 6
hard-up printers &c, 4 physicians, 3 me -
chanics, 1 surveyor, 1 'Nirarod of Kansas,'
1 'clerk of Oxford election,' and 1 Catholic
priest Pat M'Gee, the Irish Chaplain, a
Whig formerly but now a true Democrat,
whose comical prayers doubtless saved thc
concern from uural putrefaction ! By all
j accounts, a more scurvy set of moral and
: DOi;tical reprobates never fused
Unfair and Unmanly. We learn by
more than one of our Illinois exchanges,
that some of the farmers there will not pay
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have in abundance, because they think the
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j prices are too .ow : xu.s is ran u.snun-
j C3IJT. 1UU9C IUUU CAUCICU HtJH yilKKS Wlieil
the market ruled high ; and why should I
th ot Bell b tbe same rul(J when price3
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drain the East of money to build Rail-
roads, fie., and also run in debt to the
East for Goods, and then wont pay with
pap;,. hereafter refuse to advance their
of ,0 w lh .
and also the solvent and debt paying men
of the West and the effect would be good ,
all around. 15y the way, wc see it stated
that wheatcan be imported from the Black
.
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i Sea cheaper than it can be brought by
Railroad from Chicago. We hope it may
be that tho bread-monopolizers shall be
obliged to cat it all themselves, and the
world get along without them or the pro
duce they hoard which belongs to others.
A Simple Remedy. A writer in the
Baltimore Sun, who has been afflicted se
verely in his family by that appalling dis
ease, Bronchitis, has found relief from the
following remedy : Take honey in the
comb, squeeze it out and dilute it with a
little water, and wet tbe lips and mouth
occasionally with it It has never been
known to fail, in eases where children had
throats so swollen aa to be unable to
swallow. -
Look out lor dead limbs, suckers and
sprouts on your fruit trees. It will, on
the whole, pay well if you cut all those off
this season. Then spade tbe ground well
under tbe trees, and give tbe trees a good
mulching of eoatse manure. Thus, with
the exception of a good washing, your
spring woik for your staadard trees will
be mainly done in advance.
Farther from Kansas.
St. Lous, Dec 2. At a meeting htll
at Lawrence, on the 19th ultimo, for tie
j purpose of considering the action of tho
j late Constitutional Convention, resolutions!
! were adopted declaring the Lecomptou
constitution to be a gros violation of the
expressed wishrs of the people of Kan-,
a fraud begotten of fraud, and solemnly
; pledging themselves to resist to the las;
all attrmrita to thrust it nnm thpm rriti.
dialing th(J propoged ,o u
s on t)e ,t &f r,eecmLer, and su-ge.tin
,Ut f tU Te;iot;.A Executive does n -t
imlIie4ilte,y cal, , ,pecial se,sion of the
1 jng the appointment of a local Vigilance
, Committee, and a determination to sustain
1 th9 tction of that Committee. E. B.
Whitman presided, and speeches were
j majB by Lane, Robinson, and others,
i Several of the pro slavery papers of the
: Territory have taken strong grounds
. against the Constitution,
j Sr. Louis, Dec 3. Another meeting
0f Free State men was held at Leaven
worth, Kansas, on the 21st ult
Resolutions were adopted similar to
; those passed at the previous meeting held
j t Lawrence on the 19th. Speeches were
made by Messrs. Vaugban,Phillips,lIatch
inson, Moore and others.
Mr. Phillips advised the opposition to'
rally around the Topeka Constitution, as
the M'tjna (.Vuirta of Kansas liberty.
A Vigilance Committee b being formed
throughout the Territory.
A lotter to the Democrat, of this city,
dated Lawrence, November 17th, states
that Governor Walker had said he would
! "U T "T of the legislature,
proviuing tne memoers would sign a
pledge guaranteeing they would not go in
to general legislation.
A "capitalist" in the country, soma
months ago, sent 820,000 to a friend in
the city to invest in "good endorsed busi
ness paper." It was done. The whole
amount matured during the month of Oc
tober. In all, there were about twenty
notes, and every single one was protested.
All the names as makers and endorsers
save one (an endorser) had either failed
or suspended. One note oat of the whole
batch, after going to protest, was taken
np by the endorser. Aeio York Indepen
dent. Wm. C. Rhodes, editor and printer of
the Elmira Gazette, is elected State Pri
son Inspector of New York. He is a na-
tive of Danville, Pa., where his father
1 John Rhodes, resides. If the Democracy
j had nominated Will for the Treasury or
, some other paying office, well ; but to put
him to boss State Prison birds, is no very
fat "take," and no very great compliment
, no how.
Kansas Bogus Basks. During the
debate on tho banking articles of the Kan
sas bogus constitution, it came out that
in making up a bank at Lecompton last
summer, it was necessary, in accordance
with the charter, to exhibit a cash capital
of $50,000. While the Governor connted
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one bag at a time, the other was earned
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tificates obtained.
A British clergyman, in a recent dis
course, mentioned as illustrative of tho
extent of the slaughter in India, that a
family of his acquaintance had lost twenty-two
relatives within six weeks; and
that, out of thirteen of a family party
which met last year at St Andrews, only
one it now living twelve have gone out
to India and fallen victims to the mutiny.
The Locofoco Legislature of Missouri
refused to charter a University for the
Methodist Church, North : whereupon a
Meeting at Jefferson City, the Capi-
t!llj cndorsc3 lhe pt, and Col.Garden-
hire made, capital point-blank Anti-Sla,
very speech.
Missouri is becoming Free
Soil.
Noah Seward, Esq., of Caroline county,
Md., has this fall mado one hundred and
thirty gallons of molasses, (equal, it is
said, to the best New Orleans syrup) from
one acre of the Chinese sugar cane, after
cutting and shocking a considerable por
tion for fodder.
Loring Crocket, of Barnstable, Mass.,
raised this season, on one stalk, and conse
quently from one bean, 106 pods, which,
yielded 453 beans ! This is doing pretty
well for ooe bean. Who can beat it t
Eye-Opiskrs The hard times. Hun
dreds are being convinced of tbe folly of
voting the Locofoco, Free Trade ticket, by
the stomach argument, who could never
be reached by sound logical reasoning.
New Yobk, Dee. 4. The Post of this
evening learns that Professor Mono has
retired from the direction ol the Transatlan
tic Telegraph Co. His motives for tha
step have not transpired.
There are now over $20,000,000 in tbe
New York Banks, and over $4,000,000 in
the Sub-Treasury of specio
Wearing clean flannel next the skin, is)
one of the best means of guarding against
sudden chiug's of weather.
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