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I . 3ulitles . o - : . : . .ptllt''ttio . oi..
BENNETT HOUSE,
merthport, Kean 8. MASON, Propilethr
—opposite tliellourt House. A new, large,-.eommodl
.. one end well fnrnlelied hones.. • ".
i • " ' GEO. H. M ASON,' .• " •
"Pooliorla StAiies; Tin W4tre, Yi,pitined Wate; • &:(1 ;tf t
sla• Publici SquAre, Smothilort, Pa.'
Izttze ti t i o t tile tri r a o n n n t e h r 'e brtest notice, and in
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!Da: Y..' A:. Pettiaul • would - respectfully announce . n the
'eltisens .of Stnetliport and vicinity, that he '.has :fitted
_ up an officecand is prepared.to. attend to. ell. business
la his profeszion.• Artlfictatteeth inserted 'Upon 'sof
... entitle principles, and an as to preserie the natural ex;.
',filmdom of the face' .All operations in Dental. Surgery
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done in a skillful manner. ~ '
A. J. NOURSE
Disler tnStoree. Tin• Ware, Jappened 'Ware, &0., west
find of the Public Square,' Smethport, Pa. Custom
worklone to . order oaths !honest notlee,',and In the
meafsubetentiel manner. •
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OtEA% HOUSE,
F. Bien, Propriitior. Oleini N. Y.,. Omnibus rune
'to and from the Now York and Erie Rail Road. atages
for ihnethport and Ceres ' . , • •.. .
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... . . HYDE HOUSE, .. ' . .• .•
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41. J Osoooo Proprietor. Ridgway, Pa.' This Hotel .is
now and.furtaished in modern style, has ample,accom;
' modations, and is, iti all respects, a First Class Hotel. •
• : itielsway, Elk Co. Pa. May 24,1600
ELDRED HOTEL,
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JOXV Wing, Proprietor ' This. house ii situated 'hal
.. *ay between .Smetbport and Maui. , A- .nouyenien .
an entronodious bons ~'attentive and obliging attend
.. ' ante, and' low prices. • '. ', • , .
Eldred, May 17,1889. ~ • . • .
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4nrroyor, Draftsman .Couveyoncer,. and heal Edits
♦gent.. Smethport, 11 , 10 an county, Pa: . ••
A. N. TAYLOR,
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'Disler to Dry Goods, Groceries, Pork ' Flour., Bin, Irish
Glothing 'Boots aril , Shoes.- Broettiport,
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. . WILLIAM .IAILICIN, '
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Practical 'Mechanic', Millwright, B ridge-builder, An.,
Pert Allegheny,. lit'Kein cnnuty, Pa. ' • . ' •
L. BROWN,
tEUIVIIITOR; DRAFTSMAN. CONVEY/a:Cf.:Rand !teal
istatio Agent; 01800, Williionsvlllo, Elk Co., Penn?,
tcss—
Chapin k Boyle, .Y.ples.,• • • • - *Ridgway, Pa
1/.l3.•Titcwast Struthers, Pbirren. PA
W. S. BroWnell, • Stnetlipoit i • Pa
Ron'. A. 1. Wilcox; Buena Vida. Pa
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•• • CARVER': HOUSE;.
Jou(n. gala. PrOprtetor. corner o f Water and Hickory
Atrietsi, Warren. :Pa. • General Stage Office.
FOBES. HOME,
Orrentinz the Piddle Anare.Clean, N.Y••.. Jamie' it.'
• Ifit.Lna.-Proprietom The Fobes House ix entirely new
. and built of brick,. end is furnitthed in modern , style..
The , proprietor tim.terx himself tbet hie accommoda
ions.are not aurpinxed by any hotel in Weiterri New.
York. Carriages run to and from the New York and
trie Rail Road. . • • •
BYROAD. HAMLIN.
AT Low; ,tianethncirt, 14 7 1Cean. Coniit.: Pa.,
Agent tor if . Keatint •h We Lando .Attends
oapaciailly to the'Collootion of Claimii . Examination of
' Land 'Mier -.Pa7niant of Taxing; and all buninesi rata
, 'llag to peel ' &ante. Office 0 Hamlin Block.. •
BOUGHTO3i, XLDRED,
Attorney a nd Counsellor at. Law.; Striethport, WE:enn
County,. Pa: • Huenen entrusted to hie .card for the
'mantle,' of 111 , Koan, Potter and Rik' will be promptly;
' attended to . Oboe in the Court noose,, second- floor.
L, B;
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and Burgeon,' Smethport, Pa, will attend to
- • all profeasionil calla with protopturees. Office in Snit
. well Block, second floor, • ..
THING
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Wholetale ied.Re lg. Dealer' In Staple. and. Fanc y Dry
Gone, Carpatini, Reidy Made Ololhine, and • General
• 'gunning Goode Boon and Shoes, Wall and Window
.Paper, Looking (Awes Ac. At Olean. N. y. - • -.
JOHN
. :C.' BAMI 0,
torney and Qonueellor Lew; Eirnethport,lll , Kesn.oo
' Pa; Will attend to all business In bit profession in the
• eounties of SPEesn; Potter And Ells; Office over O.K.
Sartwell & OroEliere' Store. • • . '
HAMMY HOUSE,
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;torPer.ordleeond and Liberty, streets, Warren 'Pa.. It.
A. Beason, Proprietor. • 'Traveler,' trill .And good ae:-
eownindatlonii and reasonable charges. 1 • .
URAIBEE'S HOTEL,
ik. LARAMIIi. .Proprietor,—Allegheny, Bridge, 'll1 1
.Itesn
Co • Pa.' This bouts is situated about nine mileefrom
6ceittiport on the road to Olean,end will• be found a
' convenient stopping-place, . .. :--
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EARNERS' VALLEY HOTEL,.•
y T. Goeowtil...Thls house is attested about lire
freer Sztiathport on the road to Glean. Please re partle
ind °Mullein be accommodated ou theshorteataettati
W. BROWNELL,
Disler ' to Dry Goods, Grocerles,'Orockery, Ileidoare;
pots, Shoes, Mite, Cape, Glen, Neils, Oils, &e.;
•• hut •lide of the Public' squire, Stiethpott, Ps.
EIIPORIU ILOIISE,.
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Oci., Pa, N. L. DYKE. PropriefOr
. • noinniotliono and well-forniehed house. 'Strange to
sal taavelara will end good accotinnodatlons. •• •
• " PORT ALLEGANY. HOUSE, •
Ti. Dower, Proprietor, , at Pori. Allegany, 'Me
. 11lean 0 ounty Pa. This Hotel iseituated at the Juno
, tins of the Antethnort 'and Allegany Rieerqoads, nine
• „Mies eitakof ihnetlipoet. . • ' • -
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• nteturopor, lIVICEAN Co., Pm.
HAS/MU : • : Rroprietor.
itibiraotii. &well eahmlated for the acnommodithin
tit the .Tnirelling Public; having reiently been repaired
intramodeled. Good Barns' and.Btablits. Charges rea
igonsblo..' Boxes for Olean, 131qppen and Ridgway.- •
• Onsthport,July 2, WO. .
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.70:Theie:Interested.'in Nin*g and
••. • . Nineral Lands: •
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lug 11..EAVId ears his nor/Idea amn th 6 'ion.
VI • tleirot lineal Lands In B 1 %nen • Elk noun.
ties and will give hie. opinion as to the VALux.ow
mixt .Those engaging bin eervioes will receive
all imaineasei and reliable Information.. lieel.leiiee at the
linaker Hpl lifinee. • .. •
• • Illavant, Co., June 90,1859. ' •
PRESIDENT. JAMES BUCHANAN
When - the thoughtless' populace of 'Athens,
easily excited by tbe cunning appeals and false
accusations of the'Greeir demagognes, banished
-A 1119TIDEOIj . they uncerniCioesly . reflected; i.by
what-they regarded as en.isct.of iprinishment
and. disgrace,. the- highest honor on him; and
only: covered'themselves; with deserved re ,
proachee, They preferred .to Beton to the flat
tering and passionate ,declarations of corrupt
indmercenary . politician., rather than te pen
dertlie matured counsels of- an able; honest
and tielightened 'patriot: But retribution fol.;
lowed the infamous,. ileiree of the ; ` lic'entious
Athenian Dembcracy with steps of -vengeance;
andthe great citizen who bed been - persecuted .
for, hie abilities arid' virtues,. leen received a
message . • from the duped but tepentant, people
imploring, him to, return and save .his country,'
if possible, from. the peril!. w
Of internal' .anarchy
and . of foreign invasion. There as a grand
conspiracy by the -demagogues in Athens two
thousand year's ago to'destroy ARIVIDES, be,
cause they could not bend him to their corrupt
schemes or inflame him with their senseless
passions; .and there has been great consPire
cy,
,of. - th e demagogue. in the United,
destray .I:AMES Fluckssien,beerinse he has refused
to submit' himself
. to the. venal designi•of any
,claque of politicians, or:to lend hiniself to the tta !
futiatedsenttmente•of any, ,locality.or'settion.—
The odious plotters against ARISTIDES were not
signally and.disgracefully defeated by'the
inexorable .pressrire of facto and eVents,. from
which . there vvasno .escape, and which were
thesure ' stern . witnesseeof -their wieked
ness'and. folly, . than base . been the conspiring
mob- of traitors. end tricksters', from . SEWARD
dpwn to the loweit ward or ivigwan Oster,
in their: efforts -to-promote promote a base ambition by
attempting to bring the Able, dignified and yen.
erable statesman, now in , the Chief Magistracy,
• into_lasting repreach and odium.. But under
possible view of , the'csse could , thia-batle been
done. It is true that ourdnal ifstem of gov
ernment is, so artificial and complex that n
large Majority of our people ere deplorably , ig
norant of the` character of the government of
the United . -States. Pis; indeed, difficult to
dravii'the. precise line
. which. eXhibits: on' the
brie side-the delegated 'poWeis:Censtirurting the
Federal Supiemael, end on the other the Reser 7
ved Rights indicating the inalienable and' inde-
Sovereignty of. the equal • and inde
pendent States. It: is nearly impossible. for
the-great mass of the people to be made to tin
derstand "an arrangement IA political machinery
by which-it was intended to establish at one
and the same time, for certain objects; the na
tionality of an homogenous empire, and to pre
rerve-forever.the inerradical bounderies of the ,
sovereign States comprising a Confederacy. • It
iis-ne'easy matter to define the'‘nature
tent sof . the popular principles, or idea, -in' tne
government of the Union, and quite an'impossi
ble thing for many minds to perceive the dif
ference between - certain prepositions of abstract
Democracy, and 'the limitations.ok general ot
abstract Democracy existing 'in' the checks and,
balances.of; the Conititution. While our-plan
'of government is thus a Creature of human log
ic or artificial-combination; other forms of goy-
I ernment are.; for 'the - most 'part, natural. A
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patriarchal family, a-Deinocracycif mere num
1-bers;er a despotism, areperfeetly natural syS
terns. -. It requires no..great 'mantel effort to
gtasp . the leading idea. and principles of a
it'd monarchy. When theFederril . Cenvention
established the Governmrint; thire were proba
bly not - mere than two or three thousand men,
leadinglawyers,'mercharits and planters; who
tookn.preminent and intelligent part in its con. :
-.traction. Towards these mew—in almost ev
ervinsiance,disfinguished'patriors.of The Bei/e
-lution—the general people entertained theniest
undPubting confidence. After th - e Constitution .
was ratified by the States,' the
. people, waited
awhile, to see how it Would,work, , anefinding
that it.happily served the purposes of its crea
tion, they turned.frOm the snbject in their in
duatrial occupations.; In the very 'beginning,
the inass of.citizens had but a doubtful concert.
tion of its nicer powers and principles, and
While uninterruptedly enjoying the peace, pros
perity, freedom and happiness resulting . from it,
for the• unbroken period of three, quarter. of
century, they have not:cared to inquire into its
m,ysteries, hoeing perfectly content with* the
present aclventages.of.. its•material
It follows, therefore,' indubitably, that' there
neyerYet wean field or theatre 'of bernan,.ac..
tiorr .whigh Demagoguery, by , invoking 0-
eentrifents both personal and political,--fanning
individual disappointments. encouraging ;pope- :
ler errors,- stimulating popidarpassions;
invo
king ..local or' sectional prejudices and real or
Supposed interests, byjnilefatigahly and ingte
njouely misrepresenting the motives and tem
per-of an.administration, by stirring.up against
it all manner of jealousies and hatreds on the
part of persons and communities, never aspiring
to see beyond their eireumscribed limits, by
slandering, ridiculing and lying, and..by
some
times artfully playing on the earnest and hon
est, though narrow, uncandid, end higoted feek
lugs and view's of. certain classes and sects,
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might expect. to,.win and to use for its base pol
icy so .many . dupes and blind victims, or to
reap - such profitable harvests: We insist, nev
ertheless, that this venal crew of agitators and
sectionalists. would have failed in accomplish
ing the result for which they have se vilely la-
bored, when nbneing JAMES BIIeIIANAN, under
every and all circumstances.. There is not an
impartial .thinker any Where among us, and
there is not a thinker in Europe whose. atten
tion. •haa been attracted to this, country,' Who
could be imposed on by the clamor of these kna
vish seekers after office, or by ths.wild theories
of Rf'd or Block Republicanism. ipstorrvioold
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have:riut.the matter right, most Unquestionably.
With :her unemployed hand she would. have
swept these demagogues away into theii petty
graves, .soonlo.be forgotton , and 'never to he
honored or pitied, while writing with her eier
enduring pen the restilute and powerful struggle
which a great, fearless,•arid incorruptible states
man has made to preserve his country from ru
in end the liberties of the people from desecra
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But the justification of JAMES . MUCITANAN •
come in a manner so distinct as almost to take
'the form of rsiti6utitte justice, Pour jtedrs ago
he, an enlightened, educated and , experienced
'statesman', was elected Oresident of the'Hnited
States 4. He was t Pennsylvanian, -born and
bred, strongly sympathiting with the peculiar
interests of his State, moderate in his opinions,
conservative In all his haat' of thought,• and
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, NI:.ETH.F.'OIII I .:;,: . ..III'ItEAN . .COVSTY:'.if,''THUß,spAy:,...NoyElitOtri 29, .:00,
melee s tedout , of a poPOlat icin of thirty Mitlions
of Emulator his transcend a nt tale:loond unques
tionable Moral .vvorth. moat be admjtted,
however,.: that he was riot elected without a
desperate . contest..* The :same 'demagogues,
strengtheritidsomewhitby popular iecessiomi;:
who bad opposed with. alt the 'intenee:bitter
nets that malignity could suggest, the - par/flea-.
Lion measures 01850, brought forward by CLAY, '
WEBSTER and Cstrions, and , who then. cried.
'havoc and slip the dogs Of War," endea r .
, vorea • . witir persistent effort . to consolidate a
Northern sectional disunion` party, sufficiently'
effective to place a • Young unknown men—a
creature of. their .. own-=in the Preiidential
chair cmeChis. experienced head. When be .110-
sumed the Presidential affice; be .was knowit to
be a man possessed olno:undue Pro-slavery in
, clinatioris this , was well known then, ,and
well known now. • It we's known that he had
voted for the'tariff hill, passedduring JOHN
xxd's.adMinistration, in. 1842; and that no 0118
could. be more anxious to promote,. within all'
proper ar.d reaeoriable !Monde; ifiepeculiar tar
views of Pennsylvania,. than himself.. •
This .he••has subsequently proved. He had
been a distinguished Senator, standing:always
'to the credit of our COMErionweslth, in'the front
tank of debaters. He had been an accomplish—
ed dirdomatist, serving in Rusida first.. and af
terwards in England, and leaving each import,
ant post 'with the , confidence and 'reariect of all.
During the Administrati o n IVIr,•-Polk bid
peen Secretary of. State, and:: displayed much
*skill and knowledge in the thanagetiient of the
grave affairs of the Department, that he enjoy
ed a reputation' seldom or never surpasied..by.
any 'of • hie predecessors. .What could such a
man desire as President, - hut •to Minister his
exalted .office with a strictly impartial hand,
and to secure the epplauae and affection
,of
countrymenly ensuring - the peece, prcisperity.
end glory of the Repuhlic• at hotne-and abroad.
What other:ambitious aspirationa could he have
had, after openly and• voluntarily declining to
be a candidate for re=election'. • Had not such a-
Men a right ro hope . that . his advice .would.be.
respectfolly entertained and carefully consider=
ed,.even if it .Were'ribt theught,'.on•due reflec;
lion, worthy cif.being adopted.. • •
But the' spectacle . we have • witnessetr.has
been at once Curiou.s and insufferably disgust :
ing. • We have seen Majorities of the people
from Those States• which should have 'been`. the '
last to oppose his adtifinistration teithord'ooli
an, Rood and .wfficient reason • rAra.a soh , r 'and
fermata Ingo can present for such condurt, kill
ing their voices in a lunatic , screech of passion-
ate hostility, which would be gretesquely ludi;
crops but for the ominous consequences that
have 'attended the demonstration. If they could
have thus proclaithed boasted
unpopularity-, with the ordinary impunity of
slanderers, they Arnold hitv.e been simply" Tillie- .
ulousi because they Will opt he held 'responsible
forevermore for the most serious complication,
boding disaster and ruin, to which the . Ameri
can 'Union could be - aubjected. They' have
turned'away from the'prudent and patriotic re
commendations of a disinterested, competent
and faithful public servant; who could have but
.one• interest in the matter, and that 'interest
'their welfare, to cast themselveainto the em
braces, of. the derriagogues and political herlots.
SENyiEDS; the StlttplEßE.. the VEIVS•LASES,
thr
.fleEcricas,the.GinntsGs,• the WENTwortytts.
the McNITCII)IEGS, the CAREYS. the QEEELEYS,
and tbeWEEPS.andio I the end—bu:siness
trated-Aundreds hanimpt-;thonsands itarving
—civil wintmotion'atour doors, alui„it ;,;ny.he..
Vats of war, .of Ow's and b100d... What. candid
or.tincardid man does not snow, end in hiS heart.
acknowledg e , that if the people hart supported'
. JASTEIt Ill'ettA74AN. and had repudiated ;bittern,
agogueFi. the foundations of the Union would'
be at this mornitit . es firm as the everlasting
hills-that 'stocks and.tiusiness would he every
where bright and Ininvant,-that disurion never.
would babe unfiirled'the dangerous flai.eof.dis•
integration. and that the national glriry
be es unstained as the Sun. • • • ; '
Let the :enemies of lames. Buchanan' and
Their country bring this truth .honne to their
own' convirtions—rher he could not hail° torn
the noble patrifit and ti' ly.vaiiannl stotesm . an Far
has show im
n hself to durtng rho past fear
years,if,in'demagogui parlance, hi! had.rtO'bien
Unpopular,
PariniEn Plagns , ; ExriesS:=—The general
agent of the. New York Associated Freed - Wet
in Our village a few days since for the purpose
of locating some carrier pigeons whiih the As
sociarTon are ationt to ernploy for the purposeof
intercepting the'in-boupd European steaniers,
'off Fire Island.. The. same parties fiavr, for
Many years past, employed pigeons at Walifax,
N. S . ..and at Sandy ; Rook, where, they have
proved :of great service, and .have, doubtless,
contributed in nossmall degree to•the A esocia
tion's world-widc reputatatiori.'for suCcessful
enterprise in outstripping all their opponents—
whether editors nears agents or speculatora—in
the eaaly reception of European news.--
PromPted by their' past_ success, and inspirited,
perhaps, somewhat by the expressed '.determi
nation of a majority of the' directors 'of - the
American Telegraph Company to strangle the
Associated Press, and_ themselves 'control' all
the,pews of the . old world arid the new, , the,
'Association have,' we understand, 'decided to
extend their Pigeon' Fxpress to every pOint.
along the seaboard', from New' York • to, Cape
Race, where it is possible to have the steamers
intercepted. Among the,points that
,are thus
to be covered in addition to 'Halifax;. Seedy
Hook arid Fire Island ire, we understand, Mon
tauk Point, Nantucket, Portland, St: John's,
and Cape Race.. The, breed of birds
used- by , the Association are the, celebrated
Antwerp carriers,.Which, when prcperly train
ed,
and . use..'; will, we:e're reliably assured, fly
at the rate of one mile: per „minute and uner
ringly, from the point Where they are thrown'
up, to their home. Each 'bird Carry,
when 'properly- adjusted: to its legs; matter
enough to make a column •of a newspaper...,
Lour Ldwidalimocrot• . •
The surest. way to ptavall'ori a young couple
to'get married-,is to oppose them. Tell . them
""you would rather see them in their graves,".
and.t,welve months alter their baby will pass
you 'twice a day . In a Willoyi wagon. . .
• Om Monz- Ott, !--4Ve hear from reliable_
authority that there are two or three . places .itt
the Kilizuwereek •on John Campbell's place,
where the oil risesepontaneously, and floats off
in considerable .tuantities. * "
The World'all Wrong.
. ' , able is Cireif prior sort , of a * vvorlil .io l i ve
in, liter ell! .*No•end tcilhe trials ind•troubles
and very Mile @OIL satisfactiont: . ' bid father
Solomon wasn't, fiirtwrong, on the . .whola,..when
he madri . filat famone observation of : his - about
'vanity of vanities I' *Andsfo think how *differ,
ant things !deiced when tWaS a btiyt Nothing
like experienee to knock the nonsense out of a
body, and teacii . him whet a miseiside world
this is!" ..• •
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Wonder' wile it was that fi rst let the .ex
ample offinding fault:with the.world I .Dill he
gather any inward pleasure'. from• charging 'all
his own follies and imprudence tote beautiful;
bloseciming, genl l world? Did he•ever
ine what a host of followers :end , disciples he
would have, even as far down as the nineteenth
And our philosopher heaves. Pleb that
might haVe corriefrom under Mount. Veiniviiis,
and looks ponderous gold watch,'and cnn•
eludes it is time to leave brown-stone mansion
'for hie white merble'office. •
• • Dinner at six o'cloCk, 'my *dear, as ustinl:-:- ;
I'll send hrimi3.sonne game, and a nice roasting-,
piece of mutton, .sod perhaps two: or three lob
sters. ;I wish that you * would, see that •the
cook gets the sauces end gravies all right,. 'and .
that the eoffee lirstrepg and liot when it, comes
, . . sufficient'
:on the table.. Theleast think ie . . fto
turn ray appetite now-a.dnyv--that tough pie.
crust spoiled my dinner last night. Thing's
t
didn' use 16 be so when I wa wabo!"
When yrai were boy! Do jou remember'
the bowl of blackberries : and 'milk that your
mother used to set bY for your slipper, on the
Pmilk-room shelf," and how delicious it was,
eaten on the old:doer-Stone, with the moon ri
sing above the woods, and the fire•flies
eing about 'in the gray dusk?. You.didn't Upend
your days in'a big velvet easy chair; in those•
times, we . shrewdly iitagine-L“the • world" .
taidn't such a weight of dyspepsia and indiges.
tion .to answer for. .'Do• you remember the
knot of ninbr'ageous !dd. chestnut 'trees,,io rite
.rorrter of the hay-field, where you lay at noon;
tidetied watched the' bits of blue heaven' glim
mering through the shifting.cancipy of leaves,
nis you ate your simple dinner out of a shining
tin pail? All• the spices that Sny s er .
stlreamed of couldn't make' . your cut glass silver
garnished dinners hnlf as good ' now. And
who's, to blame? The •world of course. ..
Don't You percieve, sir, that it' is you, and
not the world, that has charged? The woods
Where you we:At - liming as ahoy are still rust;
ling their golden-tipped ,leaves above t h e Mossy
haunts:where the chestnuts used :to rattle down
at. elsery breeze--the sir.; is as 'soft over 'the
rorn-fields as when yo'u came - whistling through
them fitty'years ago. Those very rainy days;
that play the 'mischief with,:.your corns and
rhumatism - now, and form part ot the general
'complaint against the world.have you forgot.
ten how solidly you. enjoyed tbeni in -the old
garret at, home,, when the pattering monotone
on the shingles kept time to - thw, pace of yotfr,
amhitimis fancies. and the turning - pages •ol
your hook? Yoa v : iyare a boy then —a • 'happy,
dreeMing boy;' now you area pursy, puffy Apo•
pletic old gentlemen. Ah, yon missed it sadly
when you.changed Ilature . for Wall street, and
diaplaced the'regimen.othlickberries.and 'milk
to make room, for, pate, epTjoio',gran; - • high-priced
wines and French made. dainties. ' • • •
. . •
Therefore lon have no. right :to. groan at the
in; , nita I it ies•ot Providene, when *year 'irtiriage
rolls past honest Miehiel, smacking link
over:hie - no - no-day I eflast among - the hennas and
Some .14f-finished buildifie; .iii,
-
ehrelia all :aglow °With robost tho'
thiq:e are, few coppers in,-his • worn pocketi:.•l6
jingle azainst one adothw . hist dinner - 'is .em
helmet! in rereMents. bro wn - paper, while
yoars . is served on frosted silVer arid Servers:—
Michael never beard of • e pate' dvfo t e
to - •find with 14 . world
yet vett. are half dis - nosed to envy Michael.
, •
When yon still risk nt Qix o!rloek as he doei
.yOu ';yvork all day, and k.ep as
tegular 'hours; and live as aiinpl.y.is'he• 4Oea--
then.you may expect to share Michael's rubby
cheek aediiinacidar strength, sod Until then;' a.
volume of philosophy won't rv.rFtiade ;you'. hut
.that there in -.omethin ;,, Out of geir in this
The . Final Destiny 'of the path
Erick's romet r whiCa revolves about,the
in 34 jeers', has been observed ti complete its
revottirion in a constantly • shortening,
Showing that it isbeing draWn inWerdS towards
tbe.strn.' This fact basted to the general con
.clusionby astronomers that *the .planets are
moving in tCresistingthediuM, far more' at en-,
Listed then our atmosphere , but still sufficien t
toeffect their motions.' If tbisis so, it follows
by strict necessity that our.earth and its sis
ter orbs are all winding spirally towards the
sun,'and that they must. eventuslly Strike
against it and become incorporated with its
mass. The time required forthirr• purpose be:
longs to. those .inconceivahle
,periods with
which'geology and astronomy. have to deal.—
The resisting medium is so.exCeeding uttentia.
ted that it exerts bute 'slight influence on
.the
comets; which are themselves. masses' 'of the
thinest vapor, and its influence would of courSe,
he verymuch less on the denee matter of 'the'
.-
Astronomical' observations, with all their
wonde , ful del cacy; have yet failed to detect
the slightest piogressive ihrirfeninfr, in the pe
riods of the revolution of any of the pla nets--
It curious, however. to note the 'multiplied
obstailes:vvhichprevent the - perception of this
fact, It does exist:, All the'reelsures of these
revolutions ire , . sbortening. with' tkie Yertilu•
tines themselyes. .11f. we begin,', for instance,.
.
with tlie .
earth, the .PrOhlem to to ascertain
whether the time ocCupiettbk the earth in .its
journey around the. son is. .gradually become,
shorter. -The first plan that . suggeiite itself' ie
to compare tit(/' with the, rotation of the
.earth
open its aaol;16 see Whether 'the year
,ocen.
pie; the same nuniber aft days, and hours amt
seconds that it dill in former, times. But if
the north is gradually cooling' it is. contracting
,in site, gaits natation. -on its axis aro be
eomingmore rapid, in other words, the day is
shortening with the year; and if' the measure
shrinks just in proportion to the thing, treasured,
we cannot tell•whether the latter •is becoming
shorter or•nor. • • •
If we take the time .of revolutions of the
moon stound the'earih es a etaudard, the same
resisting medium would Ara* the moon to
Wards the earth, end shOrteia the month also .
With the, year. If' yv'e
.reinrt evim to ,t Jess
satisfactory nieasures The sun's rotation on
its oxis; his bulk is also dimlniehitig byo lo
dietMn'of his•heat, andi the period. of , his ., Mist : *
'tion is . consequently becoming.' shotter.• in
b rief,'from the two•eanses of radiation . nrid..the
restating Medium, all the lien!' and distances
whiek could be used to Measure the earth's.
diatance from the sun (or the p*iied . of its ;en ;
revolostion) nre shortening toiether.: .'So
thet,the differences in the extent of these/ 'sive
rol .
contradictions are The only means left ••for
detecting'hy observation..thc ap,lroath - of the
earth to the - sun,. If Such iMproachis really ta,
king place. These differences vrettlil
.doubilesi
reveal themselves in the couriteof 'generations
to relltied astronomical observitMni. • • ,"
.:lithe earth . and.the eon are - graditaily he
coniing told, this winding.ef the Pa rth to t he sun
Would tend to keep up its warmth, and it, • may.
he a - wise provision tor, prolonging; hY tiorne
Millions of years, the ontinunnefr Or. - animat
lifeupon.our globe. , But this period must come
to a close; kw if there •is a resisting ,medinm,
pervading the space between us and' the. sun,
the final destiny of the earth is to curve gradn,
forwayd . tillosith' a velocity.himdreds' of
times greeter than that, of a' cannon: it
dashes: itself' with an aWftilly suftl;me yr tab into
the mole of the'surt.Siisniifie 4 nstrican,
Lincoln's Conserdaiism
. , . .
The-Black Republican press.. has. been•-hold
aid confi s dent in its agoeveretione• or the con
eeivetism.of sillenest,Ofd Ahe', 4 '. • •
They have, for thepurpose of deceiVing their
readers, been prOdigal nf their, assurances that
lie would tie s enile) tri• the. occasion, and that
every portion of the toinii, , :North `.as well as
South, would be satisfied with hii election:
The South is not 'satisfied. Secession is
now rampant. A feeling of, deep
. hOstilitY. to
the:North prevails from mountain tan to vall
ley; has taken possession of. the hearts of 'the
Sourthern masses.' 'Financial, commercial, and
mannfitcturing distress is spread over, tie
whole North.' ,The industrial daises a re'being
depriVed of the means of inplOyment and sob.,
sistence 'and °loom and desolation overspreads
the•whole country, • .
-The dark cloud of dlssoluthin-and disruption
covers the. political atmosphere,:presaging
'wrath and threatening destruction.. The .eyes
of fill men have been . •turned towards' Spring:
field,,lllinoiSi now the Mecca o' Black Reouh
lican 'advocates. , They • haVe been sabred
that their Mahomet would speak, and that :the
storm would cease.and the waves bestilled.
.But 'mark the falsehood or these lying.'prOph—
ets!: A. meeting has ne , .n held'in Springliel.d—
Abe Lincoln stands tte presence dr congre
gated thousands I& American trem
tiling With fear at the.earthgunke now dnh.eav
ing" 'and social 'existence,• and
looking forward vvith gloomy forebodings' to a
terrible feture. And what are the words.nf.
hepethat 'fill , froin the lips. of this. Minn upon
the earsef the anxious multitttde,- that listen
for'every Itecentzol his words;' what rim the' RR.:
instances that
. betivealhat he will r .
-administe
the gme arrant . in,accotilonce.vrith the provi3-
pions ancleoinnromiseS of the Constitutfon, and
inthe - spirit of the thillers . .df the' Irenublic?--
.Npn; , , none! .'rhere hestande, in the midst of
dense Masses, like the veiled prisPhet of Knras
san, CLI,IIII, cold, and unfeeling., having no sym:-
nathy but with the portending. deitruction that
.hengs °Ver. the country, and with the rn tlig
tint heart and small running, dr such natures,.
congratulateehis .deinded followers' upon. his
own 'election's:id the succeiss'of the. Republican
•
.A.man thus cold,' thus self satisfied, having.
no feeling for the delizded people who have'aid
ed in hiS elevatien; so'negative, and 'yet, under
ell•the circomstancest.so cowardly aggressive
in his rejoicings over 'the distupted state of
doun tr v ent on'by the 4 , snrcess of the Ire
publican pir..y. thus Guy! is' unworthy of the
position el Chief Magistrate ofit great nonle.
Already has he been weighed,. nieasured and
found wanting: . • • . •
.° -
• •AMUSINGIOVE AFFAIA,
. .
London corresponde n t of the NeW,Orleans
, • , • .•• .• ,
..batto furnisheithat :paper with ,
the • following
readable story,: • • • • ...'. :• •
• l•A cond sell is related of ••a :Wealthy :hanker;
'bere,'Who is very rand natured bo' inclined to
a 'trifle fast in' his 'viewti of life, lie hail; a
favorite clerk, d'yriting; roan about twentv.,.ne ;
. remarkShty handsome,' Modest 'and highly' ic.
tgliectual. roi• these qualities . , he was liked
by every one, and . the 'banker did net escap •
the. general feeling pf r00d4111'.... Ho yvo. vs .
poor as—hin salarYistl bed' no connections to
posh, his after'fotttinen, and most
'fish clerks, 'he, wnuld rise to a hundre'd 'and .
twenty pounde d' year; go on tor eicilt • years,'
at tetrpounds.a year rise, and nuarry - • wh..n he
:s..zot.tn'two hundred, petunia a year. .henceforth
to vecetate,.' and find that it additional ten
pounds a.venr-rise only kent pare with the ad
ditional babe in .hiS • household. The 'banker;
.
On 'Sander afternoons, when. no one was 'expect
fed, would aces...malty' ask the vonng man io
visit his young family at his suburban villa,•ns
the owisieria.inii of the: yoting man. was .cor
tact 'ard sci,rlever it could not hut be of ail.'
vantage to his children: This . .Was a. mistake,
evidently, but it 'genii .natured
and we .can only wish, olj
,as, that there
were many more'rommitted. l hove•not men.'
tinned that there was a heantifid Younir, dench•
ter'or ninetscen. but tint may be always unxidr- -
steed in any English family that hoe. kridwn
wedded life lOw.r, eunuch. But there were, of
Cpnrie, no - attentions on the, part of the ynoing•
man, other then exiorri,ly • d e licate, reserved
.and This will always' bus the Case.
With En tiii!h- youth,- a l A meriramt . well knoW.
Don't a-hem after thin. :The youth in,epite of
,two or th , e'e day's iryitation,to the•banker'n•
seat;; to breat.bethe , ffresh ,
and :hi(
. .
lun ,, s'or.r.indon siinke; waa_evillPntiv
and thoutti . he &dared himself well and..ro
bitate the bAnker'Shook . .his"hend. -
"1 cannot make'ont 'what t 11P. matter witfi•
iii{t 'clerk," 'said the linnker to ti rnn:-
fiere Who wax the hark office with him,
Or the vonth had just hronaht in some papers.,
•
"Well yon are raihPr Eroen, I should. pay.
for a man. of your time of life and experience,"
said hanker nnmber two. "Don't, you know
what'sthl m er . , • 'He's. in love.. , "
.
love! bith. He is rnodesty nail orrp:ietV
Self." tell 'you it is a feet; and with a rich
o!0 olaoihre,r, woail nn. motal
rtylnkvor. hiving him for a sor.•ii•le ' w.than jron:
04hnuOly old fonlv'my elmrlic-4 es
inntl no his Annighteir, =a '
nd hanged: dim,
Thnnk ynnicir thrt hind."..`z...>:; ...:•.;
AR it-bnai the hanker tinrnher tywo bad dia.
appeared, the clerks wax called in:"
i•Snoiir, you fire in Inv.,. and pinion away
for the , °Wort of yonr effeetion—that'd your!
unerit;.fif Why did
,yon.nottell me before;
"tiVr'all,.my boy. I ray you: but f'll ere Pitt
bit of advice. If the denehterle AA
worth running th. rick for.'. Look 'here; them
are „Vigo, and, twn month, leave' of. abort:tee,
Run gym/ with the girl:" ash . , don'tjnok so
stupid:. I did the came before you,. end it hal
not hurt me." ' . , • •
' The tlerk fell on hla marrow bopeg, end, was
florin the Point of making g clean breast of it,.
whe'the old man jumped up to. .avoid a scene.
Tao . y 'ling man considered : and idea,' and the
consequence was that the next day week there
was no young daughter at the dinner table et
the banker rut the gantry house. • The house
was in ronaternation and the' h for her.in .
all directions.' A, note was, however, found on ,
her &amaine table. conveying the custonriary
prayer for forgivenees,' and One, enclosed from
the, young clerk, !tiding that, believing the
banker had, Meant to give him a.. hint with re.
gird to his_daughter, Imi-41/vas not able to give
piffilic consent owing to anpearanees,'he.
had ectea on.hiWsdsgestion, .nd: that ere ""hie
father-in-law" hadieceivelthe letter, lig(the
ciark) would:be his an.n.in-law. :The pill was.
~bitter oho, and the joke a teirible one:against
hiM,,and city' men 'are very, aierae to a,joke .
egninet them sn it Nes hUshed np, and has only
to the rare of the puryryors of ,scandal and to.
your correepondent, who record, it as a Mato',
MIISCITLAR 'CHRISTIANITY.
.
W e believe in: muiculaiChristinnity: . We.
•holievethitt the Minister of muscle will fight 'a
more velient and etrongerhattle..with the pas-,
Rion. and prefuclicee nf -men. We believe that
:twit mint iv ftet enlist.e applies' to moon" is •
Well as parishionere, and that' paint'. bndies is
well as einVerni are none . the .worse an'hour
at the dumb hells or:the *eight.. .
:We hove been led to this Subject by, meeting
in the zymnaeium, as a regular attendant, a
leading end ' , torment divine -of this city. He
awing. the dumb bell 'in a manner that few
even.of•the adept can apProacl. He is fleet of
foot on the i•es,k, and note, his'half mile in .
heft time...He clittibs'ihe bidden' ROOS through
th+ bar.; walk. the treacherous tight rope, a la '
Blondin; in fine; develop. hi. muscle', with all • •
the ardor and interest of the 'youngeit Arrih•—•
Pdssib'Y Pec'keniti. or my .lady Potipbar,
-Who .attend eintch quite punetillottely, may
Imrev armor reverend friend of the: strong arm...
and cheat, , anal if 'they knew whit he wpm would..
'drop their . religion. pationrge; therefore we.
shall not gratify their eutiosity by mentioning' ,
hie name, at risk tif
. lessening the number •
• ''.Rut; serinusly, are the "Sinners the only ones ,
• totlevelop the homen (rime; by invigorating
ekerriee.?• Shall the sheep gambol all•day
on the hill-vide. and the'shephard doze.
in_the 411 • -Must be wage his great warfare
with the enemy of 'Mankind,. tied down with •
the ieii)fidarenta . of 'an enervated- and wasting
body? . Thies.he not by a vizoroue physical':
mrent,n during the week tiring to. •his pulpit' a
fronfrotor'lrolotreneth', a• new activitYand vie
lir, a . genial and kindly christianity,
' 41)1111 commend itself. to :all men, at . all times,
• and at all - placesi . Are not balf tbd sins of the
day the result of a taxi', puny, good.for.noth
. . .
WET' verily believe that if all , our ministeti
'Would flcultivate their nipsele,'.! there would
need. for voyeges to, t urripe, les/Owen
ehitis arid dyspepsia And countenances is ; white
as the neck cloths below thrlmi . that we ihnitld
have better sermons of littbath; sermons , with.
more of the milk of buman kindum in thorn,
and' clad With a new force and, power,. which
.would at once, seiie upon and bold captive-that
Most .deeeitful of all things, the - heirti . that
'religion wool+ tla striflPad Of all that Cheat's&
ism, which if not a reality,' at least has • the
outWardeeeming. : Were not , the , twelve better
fishere of man beeabse of their previous °eels*.
potion?. -• 'We .: cannot picture- Paul with 01.
bronchitiro - dyspepsia, or making long anniial .
pleasure trips over into Europe for hie health, •
fiut 'ene man, miserable Entychus. Slept 'alder .•
his preaching, and he fallout of
.a
.window in
consentince. Of Abe,. eiglit Greek fathers,':Who .
have co ne down to na as the leed , rs hut. Aml•
brose A then:l4lns and Augustine? They were
strong and robust'. and admirably adopted for
the nneom . promiling fight they mired with the
',Byzantine heathen.. '
. .
. .
We hop.. more 0 6 our mintaterg will .Ileioto
attended .to the bruin asaWell &alba
.epirit. A
v.riTr honil in a gobil t;o(ly ii;-in 'our -copinfon, a'
much better PaerifiCe thane eoed.biert in . a
miporahle bo t h'.' ..A certain'admixture of 'inno
cent animal life with the spiritual, will infuse
Ft vigor int , , it which the midnight oil shall not
mlti*. NV,* 'MAST quoslon the propriety of Po..
ter Corivirright'o groping his sormon.ot Mthly:
to flog' an insulting rowdy, or the Allegheny
.
minis'ter.who . pnunde4, th e. grace of- God into
the liethodist-ministor . -:floigirig cjackoinitb;
bat we really think n . litile mn-o muicle the
pulpit world insure less,sleepy in,th• ittt:
. .
dience, and thwt the: . tihirsical Zion
iarv,ly.to the spirltear Zion. .
.It'hee been tali fons the notion that physicc
strengih and spiritnol sanctity are' incompati.:
ble. The days of •thoee•teeble. 'saints
are narnheretl,
,t4The fond die _first,' hemostat
the geed ton nflett 'hase . pnar 'ltOmachs and.
lunge. We are the opining' that .Many. MaY • .
di fear GeV? and wait; :a thonasod . miles in .
'thousand li.trs, and that he . Willlear God all .
the better for it. We. Welcome the advent of
Kin•zstey with h'i stoat 'Anvil ilLeieb ? Beeelt.4.
with his sins wv !vat, Chapin with'his tIYSPPP. ,
!Ind ; oar Chlt, , eiitt 'divine.
swineing•his,hutalred
. . .. • ,
Tri"There t eompthier,:irieepieisllY:!woit
abitit . • .
. Ati , l it.ernwx . oe•!em . es they eel
. I liere now !--Imitireille . j:ourttal.• :•••
077 A Ore, ntind:ankl heart:are the r!edeit
inheritance.
IZE
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