II J I II I I II I I 0 1 I h I. 1 ft ' 'WE GO WHERE DEMOCRATIC I'KIXrirLES TOINT THE WAV; WHEN TIIEV CEASE TO LEAD, WE CEASS TO FOLLOW BY JOHN G. (3 1 YEN. EBENSI3UUG, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 5, 1850. YOL. C JVO. 18. l , i liiii)ini i -n ifiiMMiMiat mm ni MrSCELLAUEOUS. A C..OOD STOKY. The following story we extract from a letter to the Alabama Journal, by J. J. Hooper: Old Col. I) , of the Mobile District was one of the most singular characters known in Alabama- He was testy and eccentric, but possessed many line quali ties which were fully appreciated by the people of his dis trict. Many of his freaks are fresh in the memory of the "old uns," of Mobile ?nd all of them will tell you, tfiat the Colonel, though hard to beat, was once terribly taken in by a couple of legal tyros. It seems that Col. D- had had a misunderstanding with the gentlemen al luded to, and was not on speaking terms with them, although all of the three were professionally riding the circuit pretty much together. The voting ones, being well aware of the Colonel's irascible na ture, determined as they left one of the courts for another, lo have some sport at his expense by the way. They accord ingly got about half an hour's start in lea ving and presently they arrived at a broad , dark stream, that looked as if it might be a dozen feet deep, but which in reality was hardly more than as many inches Crossing it, they alighted, pulling off their coats and boots, and sat down quietly to watch for the old Tartar. Jogging along, at length, up came the old fellow. He looked first at the young sters, who were gravely drawing on their coats and boots, as if they had just had a swim and then he looked at the cieek that rolled before him like a fluent, trans lucent star. The Colonel was awfully puzzled. "Is this creek swmming?" he growled, after a pause of some moments No reply was made the young men simply mounted their horses, and rode off some little distance, and stopped to watch our hero. The Colonel slowly divested himself of boots, coat, pantaloons and drawers. Then he remounted with a paunch of in ordinate size, rather inadequate legs, a face like a withered apple, and a brown wig, there is no doubt he made an inter esting picture, as he bestrode his steed, with the "breeze holding gentle dalli ance" with the extremities of his only garment. Slowly and cautiously did the old gen tleman and his horse take the creek. Half a length and the water was not fetlock deep. Here the horse stopped to drink. A length and a half and the stream no deeper! Thirty feet farther, and a decided shoaling. Here Col. D reigned up. "There must," said he, "be a h 1 of a swift deep channel between this and the bank see how the water runs! We will have to dash through!" A sharp lash made the horse spring over the "watery waste," and another car ried the horse and rider safely on the op posite bank.- The creek was nowhere more than a loot deep. A wild yell from the "young uus" an nounced their appreciation of the sport as they galloped away. "I'll catch you, you rascals!"' was ground out between Colonel D r-'s teeth, and away he galloped in hot pur suit, muttering dreadful vengeance on his iocs. On, on, they sped pursuer and pursu ed! The youngsters laughed, yelled, and screamed the Colonel swore with migh ty emphasis,"while his shirt flowed and crackled in the wind, like a loose flying jib. On, on and the pursued reached a farm house on the roadside. Their passing startled a flock of geese from a fence cor ner, which as the Col. dashed up, met him with outspread wings, elongated necks and hisses dire. His horse swerved suddenly and the Col. in a moment was on the ground in a most unromantic heap, with his brown wig by his side, and his bundle of clothes scattered around! The white headed children of the house came out first and took a distant view of the monster as it seemed to them and then returned to report progress. After a little the father of the family came, and the affair being explained assisted the Col. in making his toilette: the Col swea ring and the cauntryman laughing, all the while. Dressed and remounted, our hero star ted off with a woful phiz, and was soon out of sight. G? Under all circumstances, "laugh dull care away!" Don't be in a hurry to get out ot the world; it is a very good world, considering the creatures who in habit it, and is about as full of fun as it can be. You never saw a man cut his 'ftroat with a broad grin on his face; it is a good preventive against suicide. An Hour with a Californian. We yesterday had the pleasure of pas sing an hour with our old frend, A. W. Brockway, Esq., formerly of the firm or Hays &. Brock way, 'of this city, but for over a year past a resident of Sacramento city, California. lie gives a glowing de scription of the present progress and fu ture prospect of California. No person residing in the old States, he says, can form any correct idea of the immense bu siness done in the towns and country in the neighborhood of the Pacific. And he is of the opinion that the wealth and busi ness of California ara only now beginning to be developed. The future is opening as bright as the most enthusiastic dreamer could possible desire. Most of the mining operations hereto fore in California have been confined to the wet and drv "divings,"' on the vari- WOO7 ous little streams and rivers running from the mountains. The gold dust is generally found in the sand along these streams, from two to three feet under the surface of the earth. Recently, however, the peo pie of California have been turning their attention to the business of taking gold from the quartz rock, which is fonud in great abundance on the mountains. Mr. Brockway has in his possession many specimens of gold quartz, which he exhibited to us. One lump, weighing two and a quarter pounds, containg 20 per-cent of gold, and is valued at $150. It looks as rich as Ophir! He has other lumps of quartz interlarded with veins of i gold, which, when assayed, will yield ten per cent of the prfceieus metal. He has still other lumps in which the gold is not visible to the naked eye, on account of the extreme smallness of the particles. This he calls the "flour of gold," and when assayed it yields about $15 to 100 pounds of rock. These quartz are the least productive of any found in Califor nia. The Five Cradles. A man who had recently become a vo tary to Bacchus, returned home one night in an intermediate state of booziness; that is to say he was comfortably drunk, but perfectly conscious of his unfortunate sit uation. Knowing that his wife was a.slcep, lie decided to attempt gaining his bed without disturbing her, and by sleep ing off his inebriation, conceal the fact from her altogether. He reached the door of his room without creating much distur bance, and after ruminating a few minutes on the matter, he thought he could reach the' bedstead, and hold on to it while he slipped out of his apparel. Unfortunately for his scheme, a cradle stood in a direct line with the bedpost about the middle of the floor. Of course when his shins came in contact with the aforesaid piece of fur niture, he pitched over it with a perfect looseness; and upon gaining an erect po sition, ere an equilibrium was established, he went over it backward in an equally summary manner. Again struggled to his feet and went headforemost over the bower of infant happiness. At length, with the fifth fall his patience became ex hausted, and the object was yet to be overcome. In desperation he cried ou;to his sleeping partner "Wife! wife! how many cradles have you got in the house? I've fallen over five, and here's another afore me!" Suffice it to say that his wife was by this time completely awake, and a curtain lecture ensued, which rang in his ears for many a succeeding day. Curious Circumstance. While Mr; Simon W. Cumming, ol this town, was laboring in the field a few days ago, he felt something hard pass from the inside of his nose into his mouth which he im mediately spit out, and upon examination it proved to be a brass button about half an inch in diameter. His parents and others well recollect the time when he got up his nose; it was in the month of Aug ust, 1S33, he then being only four years old. From that time forward it caused him no trouble until last winter, when he had a fall which jarred his head consider ably, and as he thinks, partially dislodged the button and was the ultimate cause of its finding its way out, after being a ten ant of his nose for about seventeen years. The button is covered with a kind of bony substance which gives it a rough ragged appearance. It has been carefully pre served and can be examined by any that feel disposed to doubt the correctness of the above statement. JVilliamanie Me dium. Matrimonial Felicity. "My" love," says Mrs. Foozle to her husband, "oblige me with S20 to-day, to purchase a new dress.'' "Shan't do any such thing, Ag nes you called me a bear yesterday!" "Law. love, that was nothing; I only meant by it you were very fond of hug ging." -You're a saucy little puss, (sound heard like the explosin of a pistol,) but here's S50." Democratic Stale Central Commitec. At a meeting of the Democratic State Central Committee, held at IWcKibren's Hotel, Philadelphia, on Wednesday even ing, the 21st of August, JOHN HICK MAN, Esq., of Chester county, Chair man, and Gdwaud Mavxaru, Esq., of Tioga, Secretary, pro tern., the object ol the meeting having been stated, and the subjoined Address read by the Chairman it was unanimosly adopted. Andrew Miller & William Deal, Esqrs., of Philadelphia county, were appointed ad ditional membeis of the sub-committee announced at the last meeting, There were present representatives from Ches ter, Montgomery, Bucks, Tioga, Philadel phia and Lancaster. The Jbllowi ng is th Address adopted by the Committee: Address of Hie Democratic Slate Central Com mittee. Fellow Citizen;: The approaching elec tion for state officers, and for members of the Legislature, and representatives in Congress, according to an honored cus tom, calls upon the Democratic Central Committee of Pennsylvania to say a few words on the issues involved in the con test, and on the general aspect of things throughout the country. It has been well said that the Democratic parly of the country never occupied a higher or more enviable position than at the present time. Out of power at Washington and al Ilar- risburg, its measures have, nevertheless, j vindicated themselves by the most tri - f umphant results, while the general policy of domocratic administrations is the polar j star by which even the whigs guide their I shattered barque, and by which alone ! they are enabled to keep themselves from political shipwreck. j A Little more than a year of experience I of a whig national adminstration, has i furnished to history- another interesting and valuable example. Coming into power with a huzza, and elated at the prospect of continual rule, the Whiglead ers themselves were among the loudest to rejoice however much all may have regretted that the immediate cause should be the sudden death of General Taylor at the termination of a regency, the mem bers of which going into place, amid boajts of ability, experience and states manship, remained in office only long enough to make themselves universally odious. Every department of the gener al government, under their ifluence, gave during that period, melancholy evidence of the ir.capacity or unworthincss of its secretary. On the one hand, our foroign relatinons were conducted in a inaner to cover the whole country with ridicule, and with such blundering awkwardness as to extract even from the representa tive of that foreign nation, which sympa thises most with federalism, the remark i.-. i I l fin mat it was weaic ana unpopular. inei Treasury Department, notwithstanding ! the intellectual giant, as ho was called, j at its head, did nothing, during the same space of time, but establish the fact that the secretary, m his war upon the sys tem of his predecessor, had forgotten the plainest rules of of political economy. In another remarkable instance, we saw one member dl the same regency urging against the government, for an exorbitant ! sum of money, most of which he received himself, having just driven a hard bar gain with his client, and then obtaining the aid of his colleagues in carrying it through its various processes, without law, in defiance cf law, and in utter disre gard of the whole course of the govern ment in similar cases. To complete the striking picture, Congress by a decided vote, including several independent whigs rebuked the regency that had supported the claim, and had agreed to its payment, in terms of the severest reprehension. The regency left office amid general ex ecration of their conduct, and at a moment when other developements were about to be made, proving, still further, their un fitness to conduct the a flairs of a republi can government. It is a fact that speaks loudly cf the in- ! consistency ot our opponents, and of the triumph of Democratic measures, at the same time, that while the last Whig State Convention refused to nominate Mr. Strohm, for Canai Commissioner, because of his vote against a just war the war with Mexico Mr. Fillmore, the new Whig President, at first entirely over looks Pennsylvania in his choice of Cabi net officers, and confers the treasury upon Corwin, whose opposition to the same war was so bitter and so uncompro mising, that Mexico elevated !im into one of her household gods, and the American soldiers buint him in effigy on the very field where he wished they might re ceive a welcome with bloody hands to hospitable graves. We refer to this significant history cf very recent events, with no desire to re- vivc unpleasant recollections, but to show to the people of Pennsylvania First, how utterly unfit the federal party are to ' administer tne laws; Secondly, how m evitably .their false and factitious course before erery election covers them with disgrace when they get into office; and Thirdly, to place in contrast with their dpctrineiof expediency and extravagance, the plaip, practical, popular and com prehensive creed and conduct of demo cratic ad'niotstraiidhs. It is in view of these facts, now a part of the history of the country, that we think every Demo cart' has occasion to be proud ol the posi tion tho' national democracy occupies at a time when placed in a temporary minority. Under these auspices, the Democrats of Pennsylvania have gone into the pres ent canvass, with renewed courage and confidence. They feel that their cause is right and just; and they instinctively re call the whig pledges and promises which preceded the election of lSPi, and com pare them with the proscription and per secution that have since broken and tram pled them foot. Convinced at the mo meat these professions were made, that they were never intended to be. fulfilled they have no regret now, savo that those who aided to defeat the democracy Jess then twoyearsago, should have only been convinced of the faithlessness of those they then confided in, by the melancholy fail ure at Washington, to which we have re ferred. Have not the members of the great Democratic party, therefore, pro found cause lor congratulation, amid the j general feeling which holds up to the j imitation of our rulers, the en lightened j example of Democratic administrations? It was under the impulse of such feel- j ings as these, that the Democratic Stato j Convention, which assembled at Wil- j liamsport on the 29th of May last, placed ( in nomination the several camhdates for j State officers, whose names you find in- I scribed on all our banners. These candi- dates deserve the support of the people ofj Pennsylvania. Two of the officers to be i voted for, have just been made elective by the Legislature, thus imposing an enlarged responsibility, upon the citizen in the dis charge of his elective duties. From similar causes, and the rapid growth and widely extending interets of our State and nation, have our elections, year after year, brought with them an in creased importance and additional risks, lest our people should fail properly to ap preciate and dilligently to defend their liberties. We point with pride, fellow citizens, to the workings of our republican system, and the official conduct, severally, of those Democrats who have been chosen to fill our places of trust, especially since the election of the lamented Francis K. Shunk. The policy of Governor Shunk's administration was the salvation of iPenn sylvania; and has been an example to all others, which it would be madness in them not to follow. The high-souled in dependence and stern integrity of that Executive, and the strict responsibility to which every officer of his administration was held, soon led to those great results, and to the establishment of that admirable system from which so much that was beneficial to the State has flown. The course of the same stateman-likc Governor on the subject of banking, may alwa-s be profitably referred to and imitated. Where is there, in this broad Union, a system of public works more economical ly and more indefatigably conducted.' The revenues of the State improvements, and the expenditures necessary to keep them in repair, constitute an exhibit into which the Democratic party might fear lesslv challenge investigation. Under Democratic administration, no greedy Galphin is found among the honest men who control your public works, audit your public accounts, or pay out your public moneys, forgetting all law anil all propriety, in their anxiety to fill their pockets with dishonest gains. Democratic policy, and Democratic integrity, lifted off the load of debt which had been piled upon Pennsylvania by the Galphins that ruled and ruined in the administration of Joseph Ritncr. No longer is our fair fame outraged by the apprehension of re pudiation. No longer are the Slate im provements used for personal and party purposes. No longer arc the Canal Com missioners engaged in gambling for votes with the people's money, in establishing "missionary funds," to reward political emissaries, or in openly corrupting the ballot boxes. The Jeffersonian doctrines of economical expenditure, honest agents, and low sajarics, has never ' been more successfully tried than by the Democratic party of Pennsylvania. Wc appeal to every citizen to give his support to the Democratic nominations for State officers composed, as they arc, of i able, honest and energetic citizens men of tried integrity and capacity; every one of whom has been endorsed by the vote of the majority of his own immediate ftl- ow citizens of those who know them best, and have known them longest. We appeal also to our fellow citizens, and especially to the Democratic party, to keep constantly in view the great import ance of electing honest and well-tried men to represent us in the State Legislature; men who will advocate the usages which have made our glorious principles trhrtn phant; -who will participate in the regular party caucuses; and w ho will sternly abide by the nominations made by the majority. A united ."Males relator is lo be eleeted in January for six years next ensuing the -1th of March, 1831, anil it is due to our State that such a Democrat shall be cho sen as will prove to be equal to the lofty responsibilities of the position, and a faith ful representative of the well known opin ions of the Democratic party. It must not be forgotten, fellow citizens, that however ample are the causes plead ing in favor of the success of the Demo cratic party, and however odious the po litical principles to which we are all op posed, victory cannot be attained without a vigorous and harmonious effort on our part. Do not let us suppose that the Whig party is disorganized by recent events and recent exposures. Wc have seen a majority of Whigs on the floor of Congress voting to sustain the Galphin infamy; and we must not be astonished to see the Whig leaders in our State, trying, in the face of recent occurrences, to ob tain the mastery in th coming contest. It is now as it always has been, a contest between the two antagonist parties; be tween the friends of aristocratic doctrines and expensive government, and the advo cates of Democratic doctrines and a frugal government; and, however disastrously the fortune of the day may eventuate to the first, it will retain nothing of its ancient vigor to contend against the last at everv htting opportunity. Therefore, fellowemocrats, we invoke 3-011 to harmony and to concert. In sev eral of the counties differences exist which prudence and patriotism may soon com pose. Will not our political friends in those counties pause and ponder upon the importance of sinking aU personal differ ences for the good of the common cause. Remember if these fueds are left opening and festering, you may hare Wliigs in your State offices; a Whig United States Senator; and a Whig Congressional dele gation, w hich, in the event of the next Presidential contest going into the House, would throw the vote of Democratic Penn sylvania against the Democratic candidate. How utterly humiliated those will be, who, failing to exercise a disinterested spirit, may aid to give victory to our ad versaries, and vho in the hour of Demo cratic defeat may be-held justly accounta ble for the fatal consequences! WSj again invoke our political brethren to exercise all prudence and care wc invoke all can didates to remember that the cause is higher than mere men and, if our coun sels shall be heeded, we may look forward to a triumph worthy of the best days of the glorious; Democratic State of Pennsyl vania. JOHN HICKMAN, Chairman. T. J. P. STOKES, Sccretaru. Edward Maynard, Scc'y pro tern. lie Hail Him There. The following sqi ib was "perpetrated"' in one of the public schools in Philadel phia county; I am not aware of its ever having appeared in print, and it is too good to be lost: It seems that a few hours exemption from mischief had greatly enlarged the bump .of "treachery" in the upper stories of the young "ideas, and took and smear ed the balustrades from top to bottom with mud, and when the master came in he very naturally laid his hand on it when he mounted the stairs. He was soon aware of his sad mishap, but said nothing about it until the scholars had all been called in and had taken their scats, when he ac quainted them of the fact, and said he would give any one five dollars who would inform him who had had a hand in it. At this moment up jumped a little red- j headed urchin who said "IJnr, you thay you'll give anv one five dollarlh who'll tell who had a hand in it: "Yes." "Now, thir you'll not whip inc, will vou?" "No!" "Well, thir' y Now you wont whip?' "You young scamp, I'll lick you if you don't telf pretty soon." "Thir y-o-u Oh, I don't like to." "(Jo on, or I shall skin you alive!" "Well, thir, you had a hand in it.'" The master gave in and forked over. Jt'an. Blade. rSTThe Legislature of Wisconsin have made it a nenal offence for the owners of land to allow the Canada seed thereon. thistle fo go to For near ightedncs8.(Jlos the eves and press t!i2 fingers gently, from the nose, outward, across the eyes. This flat tens the pupil and thus lengthens or ex tends the angle of vision. This should be done several times a day, till shortsighted ness is overcome. For loss of sight by age, such a3 requires magnifying glasses, pass the fingers or towel from the outer comer of the eves inwardly above and below the eyeballs, pressing gently against them. This rounds them up, and preserves or restore the sight. It has been already said that this is'r.o thing new. The venerable John Quiucy Adams preserved his sight in this way, iu full rigor, to the day of his death. lie told Lawyer Ford of Lancaster, who wore glasses, that if he would manipulate his eyes with his fingers, from their exterml angles inwardly he would soon be ahlc to dispense with glasses. Ford tried it, and soon restored his sight perfectly and ha- since preserved it by the continuance of this practice. Startling News from the Soulh. Washington, Aug. 22. An insurrection in which 400 slaves were to be. engaged, was discovered at Lowndes count-, Alabama, last week. The rendevouz of the negroes was fyeJ upon by the whites, killing one slave and wounding tvventy others. The slaves then fled. It is said the slaves were incited to the insurrection by an Abolitionist, for whose apprehension a reward of $0000 has been offered. Large parties are in pursuit of him. He is supposed to have fled towards Charleston. A general mas sacre is supposed to have been intended. SIndustry is the great moralize r cf man. The great art of education, there fore, consists in knowing how to occupy every moment in well-directed and useful activity of the youthful powers. From the Gcrmanloicn Ttlegraph. leonomisc Your Manure. "Let none of your manure become fire fanned," was the remark of the celebrated Judge Duel, one of the best men and most intelligent agriculturalists tins country has ever had th honor to produce. When the spring'advance early and rapidly, and the long manure lays in largo and compact heaps in the yard, there is a serious dan ger of its being injured by a violent fer mentation, a process which involves the strong ammonia, and other volatile and fe cundating gasses escape into the atmos phere, and are lost, leaving the residum exhausted of two-thirds or one hall its original strength. That such is the fact every one may easily satisfy himself by visiting the stercorary, or exposed manure heaps after a few days of hot weather in the spring, when this gaseous loss will be made convincingly apparent to his senses bv the strong, pungent, and almost sutfo cating fumes which imcnate from the heaps. In order to preserve this volatile and highly fertilising product, it is an ex cellent plan to mix all the manure as it is . thrown out, with a sufficient quantity of muck, or rich loam, to absorb and rctjin all the ammonia, w hich as I have before said, is the richest and best part of the manure. Ifihe fermentation is allowed to proceed unarrested and the decomposi tion to go on while the dung is in its nat ural and unadulterated state, this must in evitably be lost. It has often struck mo with surprise to find so few farmers who apply gvpsum to manure. Let any one enter a stable w here a large number of horses are kept, and witness the strong ammonical odor that arises from the stall and manure heaps. This is highly offen sive; vet the sprinkling of a few quarts of plaster of gypsum, will effectually prevent this nuisance- by absorbing and fixing the ammonia, aiui reuuei mi- mam.!- vm. more valuable than 11 would otherwise would be. When you find a violent fer mentation going on in your manure heaps incp nn time in covering the surface with gypsum This article costs but litile, but when applied in this manner, effects im mense good. It is probably to iu capaci ty of fixing this gaseous product of decom posing vegetable matter that gypsum de rives it principal value as an application to glowing crops. AlKM.A. Sac Lisbon Jvbj S5, IS DO.
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