Ifi 'WE GO WHERE DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES POINT THE WAY J WHEN THEY CEASE TO LEAD, WE CEASE TO FOLLOW." BY JOHN G. GIVEN EBENSBURG THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1850. VOL. 6. NO. 42. AAAA A ftl IE CIIL ANOUS. Peter Flinn's Luck. BY FALCONRIDGE. . Is that beautiful, quiet city of parallel streets, sweet butter and sweet women Philadelphia there once did live a certain native of the Emerald Isle, called Peter Flinn. His vocation was that of the most honorable, because of its usefulness to the commercial world driving a dray. Peter owned a very ancient and nowise spry horse, and an equally unstable dray, by means whereof he essayed, and by dint of great physical exertion succeeded in ob taining for his large and growing family a tolerable living. Stephen Girard lived and carried on his immense mercantile transactions at the time of which I write, and was a principal performer in my little story. The one- eyed little Frenchman the great pet of dame Fortune was not a man ol very wonderful developcment of heart and soul, or sympathy in the misfortunes, crosses or losses of his fellow beings; but now and then he was known, more through eccen tricity than ought else, to perform some very creditable and really magnificent acts of kindness and generosity towards those falling in his way. One day said he to Peter Flinn, whom he had oft, and for a long time employed upon his wharves, in hauling goods from his large ships to his ware-houses. "Pe-tair, I believe you have worked vairy hard." "Yes, sir, and be my soul I have," res ponded Peter. "Very long time; you no save anything?" said the banker, the merchant prince, the millionaire ! "Be my conscience, Misther Ge-rad, it's not a ha'puth I save at all; the devil hisself might dance his hornpipes in my pockets of a Monday morning, without disturbing a toe-nail Of IllS lUt Og!n' tho "Ji'lvpr that's there." "Two, three, five, seven of de children home, eh!" "Faix, and it's yerself that's guessed it exactly, .Misther Ge-rad; I have seven as brave boys and gals as iver ye clapped an eye upon, sir." "All, yes; I see, I see. Vairy well, Pe-tair, you shall have one chance pres ently, by and by, directly, to do sumsing bettaire zan drive de old horse and dray." "Faix, Misther Ge-rad, it's myself that's a saying it as should not be saying it, p'raps, but its few men labor harder nor longer, for the meat, bread, praties, and hay that we ate, than meself and Barney, the old hoss there; and be my conscience, it would be a God-send that would put us both, meself and the poor ould baste there, over all our ills and miseries," said the drayman. "Ah! ah! vairy well, Pe-tair; you come into my counting house by and by," and the little old Frenchman, with his hands locked behind him, stocked off to his counting house, leaving the poor drayman considerably mystified as to what the re sult of this conference was to be. "Be dad," says Peter to himself, "may be its the old feller's whim to set me up in a shop! or be gorry, to buy a new dray and horse. Oh, be my conscience, there's no tellin' what the ould gintleman will do when he takes the turn;" and thus solilo quising, alter a respectful delay, Peter presented himself at the door of the mil lionaire's counting room, and doffing his hat, in he walked. "Pe-tair," said the merchant prince, "ze brig Canton packet ship Mozart lay down at my wharf." "Yes, sir." "She have one grand cargo of tea," continued the banker. "Faix, she have," said Peter. "To-morrow, Petatr, ze whole cargo be put under de hammaire, to be sold to ze highest bidder." "Yis," Peter replies, still deeper in mystery to what or how that could inter est or concern Aim. "Vairy well, Pe-tair," continued the banker. "To-morrow morning when ze sale begin, be you dar; ze tea be put up two or three lots; one of ze merchants be gin to bid, den you bid de next " "Me! Oh, be gorry, save your pris ince, Misther Ge rad, would it be for the . likes of Pether Flinn to be among the merchants, and bidding for a cargo of tay. It's mad entirely they'd say I was!" "Nevair mind; you bid on ze tea. When ze tea knocked down yon take de whole: zen you come to me I fix 'em. Good morning, Pe-tair." And stumbling and awkard with astonishment, Peter got out, and the rest of the day he went about muttering over to himself the entire strange and bewildering part which he had to enact on the morrow, at the grand tea sale. Next day the merchants of the Quaker city assembled on one of Girard's quays, where the huge pile of chests of tea were ready for the auctioneer's hammer and the bids of the merchants. It was a con signee's sale cash was to be raised in short metre, and the whole cargo was put up in three separate lots, half cash, and balance at four months, with improved endorsements. "Now, gentlemen," said the auction eer, opening the sale, "we put up eight hundred chests of Young Hyson 4tea what do I hear for this Hyson tea? 'War ranted all through as samples, or no sale. How much do I hear? Start it, gentlemen we shall not dwell long on this tea. Forty cents a pound I hear bid; only forty cents a pound forty, forty, forty, forty cents a pound only is bid; two and a half did I hear? "Yis, forty-two and a half I bid," said Peter Flinn, in a tone of voice that fairly startled some of the merchants. The auctioneer paused. "You bid, sir?" "Yis, it's me; go ahead." "We are not selling a pound or a box, but 800 chests!" "Be dad, and sure I know that, sir; go on with it." The merchants snickered, and the auc tioneer grinned. No more bids were made, and down came the tea-800 chests. "The name, sir?" "'Pether Flinn." "Where is your house, Flinn?" 'Me house?" "Yes, your place of business." "Me house? and faith I ha?e no house; it's two rooms and a cellar I have in Wa- ther street, and me place of business is round here on the wharf." "Your endorser's name, if you please?" "Stephen Ge-rad, sir." This dubious declaration produced an other stretch of the phizzes of the mer chants, and the auctioneer in great doubt put up another lot ot five hundred chests. Down it 7 J';1, ,7' And o likewise went the third. When the sale was concluded, the merchants glided off, believing the auctioneer was certainly a "sold'' man. But on presenting the bills and notes of Peter Flinn at the desk of Stephen Girard, the old fellow cashed them on sight. The sales came to nearly 8100,000 dollars; the tea was much wan ted in the market, and Peter got rare bar gains, and before noon next day received 815,000 bonus for his bid on the cargo of tea. The cargo was soon transferred, Girard idemnified, and the poor drayman found himself with a snur little fortune in his fob. THE FUTURE OF AMERICA. Mr. Philarete Chasles, a distinguished writer of Paris, has contributed a long ar ticle about the United States, to the last number of the Revue des Deux Mondcs, of which the following are the closing paragraphs: What is America to become? It ;s not difficult to divine it. An aggrandized Europe, and what a Europe? The space comprised between the Alleghenies, paral lel to the Atlantic and the Kocky Moun tains, parallel to the Pacific, is, as it is well known, six time larger than France. If to this is added the three hundred and ninety leagues of the old states, and the new territories acquired recently from the Kocky Mountains to the sea, imagination itself is astonished at these proportions. It is the tenth part of the whole globe. Thus the American does not see his country from the belfry, but in the race and society to which he belongs. "The inhabitant of New York goes without trouble to New Orleans, and the Louisianian easily becomes acclimated in Kentucky. Provided you leave him those laws and manners which permit him the free developement of his American strength, he is happy, he feels that he makes part of a grand organic and har monious body. Laws, soil, country, man ners, remembrances, desires, institutions, pride passion, qualities, all is in harmony. The partial democracies of which the Union is composed, are as solid and as stable as the best organized states; they have their roots in the souls of the people, and their sap in the habits of the commu nity. Obscure y-esterday, marching with a bold step in the unknown, America cares little for the present, the future is her own. One fact governs her whole life: it is expansion, activity, energy, a tendency to variety, to go-aheadism. Her moral vigor, identical in its causes and in its es sence with the internal strength of Rome under the Scipios, of France under Louis XIV, of Spain under Isabella, of England since the Georges, move in a space far more vast. The American soul, profound ly identified with the institutions of the country, desires only what can and must result from the same institutions and the national manners. "Every where people work, live at ho tels, marry young, are fend of adven tures, are not much afraid of bankruptcy, or danger, or even death, and they are certain that there will be always land enough for a courageous American. "To this vast social experiment, of which the United States is thevorkshop, must be added the physical experiment that nature is incessantly carrying on. The rivers change their beds, Niagara is receding, the forests fall, prairies burn up, the temperature becomes by degrees milder and more temperate, the miasma which exhale from a newly stirred soil lose their morbid power, the means of subsistence increase.the population dou bles every twenty years, and it is yet only a preparatory work. The heroic age, the epoch of war announces itself; this strong race, which absorbs many others, is far from having filled up its bor ders, from Russian, American and the Samoyedes to the Isthmus of Panama. The tendencies of North America are, then, to conquest on the one part on the other to the expansion of the confederated groups; and not in any manner, as some English travelers seem to believe, to the transformation of republics into monarch ies. The breaking up of the confederate States into two or three groups is probable when the whole shall be composed of frac tions too numerous and too powerful for the borders destined to enclose them. Al ready the inhabitants of the Mississippi have some inclination to detach themselves ! from the States which form the Atlantic broder. Texas. California and Oregon, as yet are too little civilized, and with too small a population to be of much account, will make another sphere, which will be formed in the Union. "It is possible that Cuba, Florida, New Orleans, Carolina, and all the valley of the Mississippi will unite together, and the old non-slaveholding States of the North, in cluding Canada, will constitute a second group, and the third sterile in part, but powerful on the other hand from the mines Sf the weftl- KoifeWff,c...tb9.r.o'Itrcs civilization had not passed a line which prolonged from theGulfof Mexico to Lake Superior, and forming an angle at the ex tremity of this lake to join the mouth of the River Lawrence. ,ncluded nearly a third of North America. The point the Americans have just carried in California, crosses the whole continent from the At lantic to the Pacific, an unforeseen event, one the most considerable facts of the age, important, not only by the piecious met als which come into circulation, but by the joint responsibility which it establishes between the different parts of the new world. "Our Europe, that old country, whom the mild jester, Franklin, called without irony, "his good grandmother," what is she to become some dav, in face of the in evitable developementsof the New World? something like ancient Greece with re gard to modern Europe. The neo-Ro-mans of this worn out world, have they reason to seek, in spite of the past, the A- mencan autonomy, the germ which they do not possess This questions concerns the masters of our destinies, political men I leave it to them. If I should resolve it, and if I should say what I know, the Byzantines of my time, ever deccceived by the subtlety of their minds and the falsehoods which they practice would not fail to believe that I wish to put my hand to the affairs of the country, and that I pretend to be a philosopher, that I raay become something like the head of the party. They may be assured and t should much prefer to go and draw their portraits in some solitude, and practice what they counterfeit under some modest puritan roof near Rome in New Hamp shire, or Carthage in Massachusetts. There I would listen again to that beauti ful canticle, rude in versification, admira ble in sentiment, the motto of America, and which has never ceased to resound in my heart since I heard it England: Oh God what need we have of strength. The strength to toil, the strength to bear, The strength 'mid terrors to hope on, Strengtii feeble women to protect Strf nglh to submit, strength In endure Even pain and death vigor of arm Vigor of soul faint not. And God will keep you!" Affairs at Washington. Washington, July 14. Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, has written a letter, denying that he or Mr. Toombs, waited on Presi dent Taylor during his recent illness; and saying that he had never had any conver sation with the late President, as charged by the correspondent of the Philadelphia Bulletin. The remains of Gen. Taylor will be sent to Kentucky for final interment. Judge Hopkins, of Kentucky, it is pos itively asserted, will be the next Attorney General, though let me be understood, the new cabinet iscntirely a mattar of specu lation President Fillmore, as yet, having kept dumb on the subject. t is aru inueoieu 10 our ooiiagino" anu mueiaugable member ot Congress, the Hon. Job Mann, for the following copy of the bill as it passed the House for the relief of the soldiers of the late war with England and the Indian wars: House of Reps. U. S. ? Washington City June 2T, 1850. $ Dear Col.: From the numerous petitions forwarded to me during the present ses sion of Congress, from Citizens of your County urging the passage of an Act of Congress granting Bounty Land to the sol diers of the war of 1812, considerable in terest must be felt on behalf cf these mer itorious men, a portion of whom are resi ding in your county, it therefore affords me great pleasure to be able o inform you that an Act has passed the House of Rep resentatives, a copy of which is herewith forwarded, allowing them Bounty Land. It has yet to be acted upon in the Senate, but there does not appear to be any doubt as to the favorable result. I am very respectfully Your Ob't. Serv't. JOB MANN. De it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That each of the surviving commissioned and non-coai missioned officers musicians, or privates, whether of regulars, volunteers, rangers or militia, who performed military service in any regiment, company or de tachment in the service of the U. States in the war with Great Britain, declared by the United States on the 18th day of June ! 1812, or in any of the Indian wars since 1790, and each of the commissioned offi cers who was engaged in the military ser vice of the United States in the late war with Mexico, shall be entitled, for twelve months service, to one hundred and sixty acres of land, for six months service, to eighty acres of land, and for three months service to forty acres of land: Provided, The person so hav ing been in service shall if it shimjajdjand, or anv part thereof, regiment or corps, that he deserted or was dishonorably discharged from service or if he has received, or is entitled to any land bounty under any act of Congress hereto fore passed. Sec. 2. That each commissioned and non-commissioned officer, musician or pri vate, for whom provision is made by the first section hereof shall receive a certifi cate or warrant from the Department of J the interior lor the quantity of land to which he may be entitled, and which may be located by the warrantee, or his heirs-at-law, at any land office of the United States in one body, and in conformity to the legal subdivisions of the public lands, upon any of the public lands in such dis trict then subject to private entry; and up on the return of such certificate or warrant with evidence of the location thereof hav ing been legally made, to the General Land Office, patent shall be issued there for. In the event of the death of such commissioned or non-commissioned officer musician or private, prior or subsequent to the passage of this act who shall have served as aforesaid, and who shall not have received bounty land for said services a like certificate or warrant shall be issued in favor and innurc to the benefit of his widow, provided she was married to such officer before the conclusion ot his services, and is unmarried at the date of her application: Provided further. That no land warrant, issued under the provis ions of this act, shall be laid upon any land of the U. States to which there shall be a preemption right, or upon which there shall be an actual settlement and cultivation except with the consent of such settler, to be satisfactorily proven to the proper land office. Sf.c. 3 That all sales, mortgages, letters of attorney, or other instruments of wri ting going to affect the tide or claim to any warrant or ccrtifictc herein provided, for, made or executed prior to the issue of such warrant or certificate shall be null and void, to all intents and purposes whatsoev er; nor shall such certificate or warrant, or the land obtained thereby, be in any wise affected by or charged with or sub ject to the payment of any debt or claim incurred by such officer or soldier prior to the issuing of the patent: Provided, That the benefits of this act shall not accrue to any person who is a member of the pres ent Congress. "A pretty saint that Mr. Anthony mus1 be" said Widow Wilkins, the other day "yes a pretty saint, to be inventing dances for the young people to engage in. Saint Anthony's dance! well that beats me! But, then, why old Deacon Moody should allow any of his darters to get this dance, is really surprising specially Permely, who belongs to the Church, and never at tended a ball or dancing school in all her born days." tJrP T J - I . I . , School-Room Exercises. "John: bound the State of Matrimony." The State of Matrimonv is hounded on the North by Solitude, on the East by Doubletrouble, on the South by Sore-shins on the West by Vexation." "What are its chief products!" "Peevish babies, scolding wives, hen pecked husbands, smoked coffee, burnt hams, and sour pies." "What is said of its climate?" 4It is a'inorc variant temnprnturo than that of any other State in existence Jn that portion of it called the Honey-mcon the climate 15 salubrious and hea'tby the atmosphere ladened with the sweets of the bowers of Hymen. In some parts the inhabitants experience a freezing cold reception when 'hey expect most warmth and in some other parts is all the burning sensations cf thetorrid zone. Sometimes a fellow's house, in the State of Matrimo ny, gets too hot to hold him, and stiange to say, he travels with all speed not to, but from the poles, where cold is r;ene rally supposed exist." "Sarah, has Job n given a correct outline of the Stalo of Matrimony?" "Can't say, sir never was in that States, Bill Simpk ins gave me an invita tion the other day to travel in with iim, and when I return I'll answer the ques tion." "Well, Sarah, as Vcu seem to be igno rant in geography,! will examine ycu in grammer. Take the sentence, "marriage is a civil contract. Parse marriage." "Marriage is a noun, because it's a name And though Shakespeare asks what's in a name, and says that a rose by any oili er name would smell as sweet, yet mar riage being a noun, and therefore a name shows that the rule- established by the Bard of Avon has at least one exception. For marriage is certainly of very great importance, and being a noun, and there fore a name, ergo, there is something in a name, 11 "Good! WelLvvh.il 'na s-o e.a -rr nage "Decline it, and see." "Don't feel at liberty to decline mar riage after having made Bill the promise I have. Had rather conjugate." "Jane, can you tell Sarah in what case marriage is?" "Yes, sir, it's a common case, and 1 would'nt care if it were a little common er. And s'pose Sarah won't be married a week before it's in the printer's case. "Can you decline marriage?" Jane blushed extremely, and answerd: ;IIad rather not, sir." " Well, Sarah, what person is marriage?' "Second person, sir, because the per son you speak to is the one who is going to marry." "What number is marriage?" "Plural number now, sir, because Bill and I are two at the present time. When the parscn ties the knot marriage will l2ien be singular, because the Bible says that twain shall be one fish." "What gender is marriage." "Common gender, because male and female may get married." 'Decs marriage govern anything, or does it agree with something?" "Both, sir. It governs both mankind fc womankind, & as to agreeing it agrees with the world and the rest of mankind." "Give your rule." "My rule is that Bill shan't grumble if I buy two silk dresses.a year, and shan't have but one teaspoonful of sugar to two cups of coffee." The Word "Wilis." The won! IVhig, the present alias of the old Federal party, was first applied to it by James Watson Webb, the notorious editor of the New York Courier & Enqui rer. Webb made the proposal and found eagerly adopted. "The union of Masons and Anti-Masons, of Nullificrs and latitu dinarian constructionists of the Constitu ion, was effected, and the whole mass, comprising all the factions of the country, was rolled into one sweet and harmonious mass uncr the the general name of Whig!" As the federalists have traded extensive ly under this, theirncw title, which is now almost worn out and destined to give way to something newer and designed to be more savory with the people, we have called the attention of the Whigs to this slight sketch of the history of their pres ent name, just for the sake of information. The name of our own party is fixed and permanent, like the principles with which it is associated. And it is the honorable distinction of the democratic party, that it does not, like the Whig party, require af ter a short period, a new name to bolster it up, and give it a show of character, after having forfeited the confidence of the peo ple, under the former title. Baltimore Republican. Contentment is belter th m riches. The Frenchman and the Coal A Frenchman who had just arrive irom the land ot soups and revolutio: made his appearance a few days ago cr canal boat at bnufftown. and stoDDed Klusmeyer's. to refresh himself with "horn." After taking a hearty drink. stepped out to view the scenery, and e countered before the door a huge specim of a goat an animal he had never bfc seen. The perfumery of the goat bei rsther unpleasant to the delicate and :l fined nerves of Mr. Parle Vouz, he thrt his umbrella towards him, with a view make him "cut stick." But his goatsh showed no disposition to travel. On 1. contrary, he advanced towards the Frcnc man, with sundry "obstroperou3 moi ments, indicating a disposition to shel tight. 1 lie frenchman good natured retreated for a time, but deeming the u gentlemanly conduct of the goal an inv sion of his rights in thi3 land of liber Finally flew into a passion. vvnai you meant says he; ): smell like one t m chackass, you no to live, be gar! "Blast your ugly picture," said an Iris man on the porch, "take the baste by til horns and give him a divil of acowhidi: wid your umbrella. "Mo take him by ze horns! no, 1 1 gar! but me break my umbrella all m pi cos on his head," and the Frenchman w: preparing to carry his threat into exec-, tion, when the goat made a sudden plui:; at his adversary, who lost his equilibnur and away went both, head over heels, i: to the canal, the bank of which they hi unknowingly approached, amid the hear! laughter of numerous by-standers. YV 1: the frog-cater performing all sorts of pc kas in the water, (for the poor fello" couldn't swim) and the ba-a-a's of tl; goat, the scene was ludicrous enough. With some assistance, old Parle Vou was brought back to terra firma, but i vowed eternal vengeance on all goajs. 1 T)U a ttnrrtA We do not relish the truth the less fc being oc casionahy spiced with a little hi mor. I he following extract lrom the r port of a Committee on Hogs, read befor an Agricultural Society "down cast co: tains some excellent hits: Again, some folks accuse pigs of bcin filthy in their habits, and neglecful inthc;l personal appearance. But whether loo is best eaten off the ground, or from chin plates, is, it seems to me merely a matte of taste and convenience, about which picl and men may honestly difler. The onaht, then, to be iudged charitably. A any rate, pigs are not filthy enough t chew tobacco, nor poison their breath b drinking. And as to tneir personal z pcarancc, yon don't catch a pig playir the daudy, nor the females among thct picking their way to this muddy villagi after a rain, in kid slippers. Notvvid standing their hcterouox notions, hogs hav some excellent traits of character. If on chances to wallow a little deeper in som mire hoi than his fellows, & so carries o & Comes in possession of more of this ear. than his brethren, he never assumes 1 extra importance on that account; neithe are his brethren stupid enough to worshr him for it. Their only question seems ' be, is he rtill a hog? If he is, they Jic mm as such. And when a hog has no merit of h own, he never puts on arristocratic air nor claims any particular respect on ad count of his family connections; and yi some Hogs have descended from anciei families. They understand, full well, th common sense maxim, "every tuo nut: stand on its own bottom." A Hit at lite Times. The New York Day Book is the audi. of the following: Sudden and unaccountable disappear ance of more than One Thousand Cil zens. Between the hours of ten o'cloc on Tuesday night ana sunrise Wcdncsda morning, there suddenly disappeared froi our midst one thousand able bodied cit zens, heretofore known as the peculi: friends of Win. 11. Seward', and their pi: ccs were instantaneously filled with il warmest and most devoted friends of gentleman by the name. of Millard Fil more, formerly a resilient of Bufi'alo i this State, but more recently Vice PresA dent of the United States. Most of thos who disappeared so mysteriously held si uations in the Custom House; and, Strang to say, those who appeared the nextmon. ing as Iricnds 01 Mr. r ill more wentdirec lv to the desks of the absentees wiihoi as much as saying "by your leave." W are not informed whether the Collector" chair was filled by one of them or no but we presume from the nature of thing that it was. Why ii an unwelcome visitor hk'3 sdirde tree! Wcarcgldd when hu lctrcs T
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