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Andrew J. Rhey, Editor.
EBENSBURG, TA.
Thnrsday, December 23, 1 852.
We wish our subscribers a bappy Christmas,
find may you all enjoy it with a fat and well
erred up turkey as we intend too.
Hon. J. Glancy Jones, M. C., from this State,
will a- capt our thanks for a copy of his speech
on the proposition of Mr. Brooks, of New York-
New Advertisements.
Jno. McDevitt & Bro. Pittsburgh, advertise
Groceries and liquors for sale on favorable terms.
Robert Davis & Co., Ebcnsburg, advertise all
kinds of Stoves, Tinware, Mill-Irons and cast
ings, which- they are prepared to sell at low
prices.
Pound Dead. A man whose name we have
been unable to learn was found dead in the field
adjoining the burial ground of tho Catholic
Church, at the Summit, on Monday morning.
It is presumed he was a laborer on tSe line of
railroad, and must have died from exposure or
more probably intoxication. He was thinly clad,
had on a straw hat, light green sack coat and
Hue pants. No one present recognized him.
Excursion Tickets. W. W. Ivory, Esq.,
ticket agent at the Summit will sell excursion
tickets, good from the 24th of December to 2nd
of January, for half price. "Who would not
"jump into the cars and take a ride," when he
.an travel from the Summit to Philadelphia and
back for $0.55. Cheap as dirt.
The IVeatlier.
The last few days have been very changeable,
fit times quite pleasant, and in a few hour's af
terwards any thing but pleasant ; to-day we
have real old winter sleet falling in abundance,
And a very disagreeable day for those circula.
ting without doors. Every person complaining
with the cold, which has inundated the country,
and even invaded the editors's sanctum. But such
are the beauties of winter; who would not suf
fer a cold for the pleasure of a sleigh ride.
County Poor House.
A number of persons have lately spoken to us
concerning the erection of a Poor House, in
this county, desiring to know if such would
not be the cheapest and best method to support
our county poor. We will examine the subject
and give our views. Such an institution has, we
believe, been a saving and a benefit in many
counties where they have been founded, and
would likely exhibit the same result here. When
the building and ground are paid for, the ex
pense should be nothing the revenue, in fact,
ought to exceed the expenses,
A Circular frornXuglaiid.
A number Of Ladies of Great Britain, belong
ing to the aristocracy of that country, have for
warded an address to the women of America, in
which they allude to the evils of slavery, and ex
press the hope that the American ladies will
"put their shoulders to the wheel" for the pur
pose of ridding the land of so great an evil.
Kind, considerate creatures, these Duchesses,
Countesses, and my-lady-so-and-so are ! These
benevolent ladies, imagining that their trans
atlantic cousins, as they call us, are unable to
. manage our affairs, are desirous of doing it for
us ! Well, we have no doubt our American girls
are exceedingly obliged to them, and will as
sure them that as we were capable of attending
to. our own business during the stormy days of
'76, we are doubly competent to guard the do
mestic institutions of the country at the present
day. They had better look at home, and en
deavor to curtail the miseries of their own land.
Let them "go about doing good" in their work
6hops let them alleviate the sufferings of the !
millions who labor harder than slaves in the I
mines and factories of their own "Merry En"--
land" let them place poor Ireland in the posi
tion she should occupy as a Nation, bestowing a
Government upon her worthy of her people, and
elevating them to a better sphere, ere they ad
dress us on a matter that concerns them not.
Better for them to mind thcir own business and
we will endeavor to take care of ours.
Congress.
On Tuesday, the illness of Hoc. Win. R. King
had so greatly increased that he sent to the Sen,
ate bis resignation as President protem. of that
body. By refraining from business, his frieudg
expect that his health will be sufficiently resto
red to admit of his being sworn in as Vice Pres
ident on the 4th of March. The alarming char
acter of his disease gives little assurance that
this hope will be realized, and it is not unlikely
that the year of 18G2, so memorable for the loss
of eminent men, will add another to the mourn
ful category. lion A. Dixon, of Kentucky, has
beeu admitted to the seat in the Senate, render
ed vacant by the death of Henry Clay, by a
vote of 27 to 16. This seat was contested by
Hon. David Mcri weather. The Senate have
passed, by a vote of CI to 12, the resolution'
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conferring the brevet rank of Lieutenant-Gen
t-ral uoii Gen. Scott. The resolution was ably
advocated by Gens. Cass and Shields. In the
House, the Tariff question was still under dis
cussion, a resolution having been offered in
structing the Committee of Ways and Means to
report, on or before the 1st of January, a bill
to admit railroad iron free of duty. The reso
lution was defeated ; the question on a variety
of amendments, offered by members, was taken'
consecutively, and they were premptly voted
down. The tariff is not likely to be disturbed
the present session. Hon. D. R. Atchison, of
Missouri, unanimously chosen President pro
tern, of the Senate, in place of Mr. King.
A tumor weighing 112 pounds was taken, af
ter death, from the body of Hannah White, of
Gill, ou the 22d inst. The sack of the tumor
weighed 17 pouuds, the balance being water,
'-which, on being emptied out, filled a common
sized wash tub. It had been in existence fjr
Uvcn years. fyrirtfffitld llejjuLlican
Cheap Ocean Postage
Mr. Barnabas Bates has just issued a little
pamphlet, in which he urges the policy and pro
priety of cheap ocean postage. His facts and
arguments are of the most persuasive and con
vincing character. This indeed is a reform that
is greatly needed. It must come sooner or later.
The age requires it the wants of the people of
both worlds demand it. Why not apply the
same doctrine to the ocean as the land ? The
present rates are enormous. Mr. Bates says
that the postage on a single letter sent in a mail
steamer is twenty-four cents. If it weigh over
half an ounce and under an ounce forty-eight
cents if over an ounce ninety-six cents. A
letter conveyed by a sailing vessel to Great Bri
tain will cost sixteen cents, and when brought
from thence to the United States, the postage is
twenty-two cents. But this is not the only tax.
On the continent of Europe there is an addition
al inland postage, varying according to the
rates exacted by the different governments, so
that a letter sent to, or from France or Germa
ny, before it arrives at its place of destination,
is liable to two or three additional postages. By
a recent treatv with Prussia, the postage to that
kingdom has been fixed at thirty cents, which
is at least six times more than it should be.
The postage to France via England, is enormous.
The charge on a letter weighing half an ounce,
between Dover and Calais, two ports within sight
of each other, is thirty-one cents, which added
to the charge from New York to Liverpool is fif-ty-fiva
cents.
According to recent information the number
of transatlantic letters conveyed by steamers
and sailing Teisels, during the past year, was
about four and a l.alf Ktillion, and the postage
collected on them, nearly one million of dollars.
One-fourth of these were mercantile or business
letters, the other three-fourths were letters of
friendship. Here then we see a tax of three
quarters of a 7irillion of dollars is levied on the
exercise of the social & ITectious, and paid by the
most indigent classes of our community. It
now costs a laboring man nearly the pi ice of a
day's work to send a letter and receive an answer
to it, from his friends in Europe !
Let us contrast the difference between inland
and ocean postage. In Great Britain a letter is
conveyed to any part of the United Kingdom for
tico cents, and in the United States any distance
under three thousand miles for three cents, but a
letter carried three thousand miles by water,
from one country to the other, is charged twenty-four
cents, and if it weigh a fraction over an
ounce it must pay quadruple this rate, or ninety
six cents !
These are indeed starling and telling facts,
and they cannot be too widely circulated, or too
earnestly commented upon. The subject is one
that appeals to the best feelings of our nature.
According to the official returns, there were up
wards of two millions of foreigners in this coun
try in 18G0. The number of the relatives and
friends on the other eido of tho Atlantic may
also be counted by millions. How important
then, that the postage on letters should be redu
ced to the lowest possible point.
Recall of S.uta Anna to Meileo.
The Panama Star of the 2'2d ult., contains the
lowing important article to relation to the recall
of Santa Anna ;
We yesterday, for the first time, learned from
a gentleman who came passenger on the New
Orleans, which arrived here last Sunday night,
that a revolution had broken out on the Western
Coast of Mexico, having for its object the recall
of Sauta Anna, to again take hold of the reins of
Government.
How far into the interior the revolutionary
spirit had spread, was not known at the moment
of our latest advices from Acapulco ; but from
previous indications and intelligence from the
Atlantic side, we cannot but suppose it to be
general throughout the country,
It is well known that General Santa Anna has
been living, since his exile from Mexico, near
Carthagena, on the Atlantic side of this Repub
lie. A late paper from that city, brings us in
formation that intelligence had reached the dis
tinguished Mexican as to the feelings of his
countrymen ; and that he "would sail for Mexico
in a few days," to assume the new powers con
ferred upon him.
While awaiting, by California steamer, and
papers from the Atlantic confirmation and fur
ther particulars of this new revolution, we may
express our belief that under late and present
circumstances of Mexico, Gen. Santa Anna is
the only living Mexican, of whom we have any
knowledge who is qualified in the least degree
to be at the head of her affairs. And from even
him not a great deal of real good is much to be
expected by outsiders.
His recall to his country at this present time,
we think is mainly due to the emergency in
which Mexico finds herself placed in her rela
tions with the United States, in the Tehuantepec
and other important matters. Santa Anna is
probably the only man who can ward off imme
diate collision between the two nations, short of
n.n nctnal and immediate abandonment of the
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grounds hitherto occupied by Mexico, and it re
mains to be seen whether or not, even he can
long defer the "manifest ctestiny" which awaits
his country.
We hold our breath for further information
9Xr Pierce's Address to the Public Schol
ait.
Boston, Dec. 20.
The President elect in company with a num
ber of distinguished persons, visited the public
schools on Saturday. He addressed the schol
ars and his remarks were calculated to make a
lasting impression. The success and honor, he
remarked, in his address to tho boys, of an
American citizen depended much on his own ex
ertion. Every boy before me, whether of an
American or foreign origin, is here fitted to be
come an American citizen, and so let him im
prove his opportunities that he may become a
blessing and an honor in support of his country.
He concluded by an earnest appeal to the boys
to be industrious in tho improvement oftheifj
present advantages. I
Daniel Webster. Interesting Sketch of
his Home and Family by Himself
The New York Commercial has been favored
with the perusal of a letter, written by Mr.
Webster to an intimate friend in that city, dated
Franklin, May 3, 1846, from which we make
the extract below, and which we are sure will
be read at this time with unusual interest :
"I have made satisfactory arrangements re
specting my house here, the best of which is
that I can leave it where it is, and yet be com
fortable, notwithstanding the railroad.
"This house faces due North. Its front win
dows look toward the river Merrimack. But
then the river soon turns to the South, so that
the Eastern windows look toward the river also.
But the river has so deepened its channel in
this stretch of it, in the last fifty years, that we
cannot see its waters, without approaching it,
or going back to the higher lands behind us.
The history of this change is of considerable
importance in the philosophy of streams. I
have observed it practically, and know some
thing of the theory of the pdenomenon ; but I
doubt whether the world will ever be benefitted,
either by my learning, or my observation, in
this respect.
"Looking out at the East windows, at this
moment, (2 P. M.) with a beautiful sun just
breaking out, my eye sweeps a rich and level
field of 100 acres. At the end of it, a third of
a mile off, I see plain marble grave stones, de
signating the places where repose my father,
my mother, my brother Joseph, and my sisters
Mehitable, Abigail and Sarah ; good Scripture
names, inherited from their Puritan ancestors.
"My father ! Ebenezer Webster ! born at
Kingston, in the lower part of the State, in 1739
the handsomest man I ever saw, except my
brother Ezekiel, who appeared to me, and bo
uocs lie now aeem to me, tue ,ery uui xiuua.u
form that ever I laid eyes on. I saw in his cof-
fin a white forehead a tinged cheek a com
plexion as clear as heavenly light ! But where
am I straying ?
"The grave was closed upon him, as it has on j
all my brothers and sisters. e shall soon be
all together. But this is melancholy-and 1
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all my brothers and sisters. We shall soon be
leave it. Dear, dear kindred blood, how I love !
you all !
"This fair field is before us I could see a
lamb on any part of it. I have ploughed it, and !
raked it, and hoed it, but I never mowed it
Some how, I could never learn to hang a scythe! j Prise which are to be realized in this magnifi
I had not wit enough. My brother Joe used to ! cent structure. They deserve to flourish under
say that my father sent me to college in or
der to make me equal to the rest of the chir
dren !
"Of a hot day in July it must have been one
of the last y ears of Washington's administra-
tion, I was making hay with my father, just
where I now see a remaining elm tree, about
the middle of the afternoon. The Hon. Abiel
Foster, M. C, who lived in Canterbury, six
miles off, called at the house and came into the
field to cee my father. He was a worthy man,
college learned, and had been a minister, but
was not a person of any considerable natural
powers. My father vras his friend and support
er. He talked avrhil3 in the field, and went on
his way. When he vas gone, my father called !
me to him, and he eat down beneath the elm on
a hay cock. He said, My Bon, that is a worthy j l Arkansas, so tar as road-ma-ing to tue l'aci
man he is u member of Congress he goes to j fic is concerned. Gov. Roane, in his message to
Philadelphia, and gets sis. dollars a day, while I i tLe Legislature of his State, urges the superiori-
toil here. It is because he had an education,
which I never had. If I had had his early ed-
ucation, I tbould have been in Philadelphia in
his place. I came near it as it was.
scd it, and now I must work here.'
But Imis
My dear
father.' said I. 'vou shall not work. Brother
and I will work for you, and wear our hands
out, and vou shall rest and I remember to
have cried and I cry now, at the recollection.
'My child,' said he, 'it is of no importance to
me I now live but for my children; I could
notcive your elder brother the advantages of
knowledge, but I can. do something for vou.
Exert voursolf improve vour onnortunities
learn learn and when I am cone, you will
not need to through the hardships which I
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have undergone, and which have made me an
old man before my time.'
"The next May he took me to Exeter, to the
Philips Exeter Academy placed me under the
tuition of its excellent preceptor, Dr. Benjamin
Abbott, still living.
"My father died in April 180G. I neither
left him, nor forsook him, My opening an of
fice at Bo scowan was that I might be near him.
I closed his eyes, in this very house. He died
at sixty-seven years of age after a life of ex
ertion, toil, and exposure a private soldier, an
officer, a legislator, a judge everything that a
man could be, to whom learning never had dis
closed her 'ample page.'
"My first speech at the bar, was made when
he was on the bench he never heard me a sec
ond time.
"He had in him what I recollect to have been
the character of some of the old Puritans. He
was deeply religious, but not sour on the con
trary, good humored, facetious showing even
in his age, with a contagious laugh, teeth, all
as white as alabaster gentle, soft, playful and
yet having a heart in him, that he seemed to
have borrowed from a lion. He could frown ; a
frown it was, but cheerfulness, good humor, and
smiles composed his most usual aspect.
"Ever truly, your friend,
"Daniel Webster."
Attempted Escape of Prisoners from the
JfetersDurg Jail Terrible Tragedy.
Richmond, Dec. 20.
Benjamin Sadler, charged with kidnapping,
and another man named Jones, confined in Pe
tersburg Jail, locked the keeper in their cell,
while he was making his usual rounds, and eff
ected their escape. Joel Sturdivant, and a ne
gro man, attempted to stop them as they were
passing through the yard, when Sadler shot
both of them dead.
The citizens rallied and pursued the prisoners
and when close upon Sadler he blew his brains
out with a pistol. His accomplice, Jones was
arrested and committed to prison. The most
ntense excitement prevailed. j
Mr. Ritchie has beeu elected printer to the
Virginia Legislature.-
The Baltimore and Ohio Rallroatl.
The editor of the Petersburgh, Va., Intelli
gencer, in referring to the recent report of the
president and directors of this road says ,
In 1826, when the company was organized,
the work, we well recollect, was looked and
spoken of as of exceedingly doubtful completion.
It was dreamed barely possible tnat it might, in
the course of time, be extended as far as Frede
rick or Cumberland ; but the idea of its ever
reaching the banks of the Ohio was not serious
ly entertained by one mind in a thousand, even
of its friends. In the j ear 1830, about the 4th
of July, it was our fortune to be in Baltimore
for the first time in our life. This was more
than four years after the organization of the
company. We remember on that occasion the
enthusiasm which was then being felt at the
opening of the road to Elicott's Mills, a distance
of only some twelve miles. We never before
that visit saw a railroad car, and those which
we then saw were drawn, we believe, by horses.
Six years afterwards in returning from the
West, we traveled on the said road from Frede
rick to Baltimore, (CO miles) and then saw e
nough to satisfy us that a further extension of it
Westward would be such a Herculean task as to
render it one of the most problematical things
in the world, whether it would or could be suc
cessfully undertaken. But we were mistaken.
We had formed a very inadequate conception of
the genius and energies which were enlisted in
its prosecution. And now we have a report
presented to the company by its president, an
nouncing (or as good as announcing) the com
pletion of the work through its whole length of
S80 mile?.
So little remains to be done at its western ex
tremity, that it may be said with truth that the
harbor of Baltimore and the waters of the Ohio
- jn each others embrace,
On the 1st of the
ensuing January, the train of cars that will
leave the depot in Baltimore will, in twenty
hourg orIesg time discharge thcir freight an1
j passengers on the banks of the Ohio. In taking
up our pen to notice this splendid achievement
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1 f the pC.ple fthe Monumental City, we can
1 hut. onrtlirtllv rnncrntiilate them unnn their well
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deserved and almost unexampled success.
TueJ flave entitled themselves to the everlasting!
gratitude of the millions who will share with
! them the rich fruits of their commercial enter-
its auspices, as they must do, in a rapid and
substantial manner. They have persevered
steadily and courageously in the face of all dif
ficulties, and in despite of all discouragements
difficulties and discouragements too, which
1 would have dismayed and palsied the hopes and
I exertions of less spirited communities and now
! they have the pride of contemplating, after the
lapse of twenty-six years, the triumphant issue
of their labors. A triumph like this is worthy of
glorification, not only in Baltimore, but through
out the length and breath of the whole country."
Paclfle'ilallroad.
Ion writes as follows from Washington to the
Baltimore Sun, on the subject of the Pacific
Railroad :
Col. Benton has found a rival in Gov. Roane,
j y of the Arkansas route for the Pacific andMis-
sissippi Railroad over that of the Missouri route
' IIc docs not doubt that tbe railroad project will
be executed by this government. He estimates
the cost of the road, by the route through Ar-
Kansas, at sixty millions, ana proposes tnat tnc
1 sum be raised by subscription to the stock, the
government guaranteeing the payment of six
I P" cent, interest on the same for forty years.
Tbe Public minJ is prepared for the execution
, h7 tLe government of the great work thus pro-
posed, and it is certain that it cannot be car
! l ied through except by the strong hand of the
government. But as Congress must designate
the route and as three routes one southern,
northern, and one in the middle, will be in-
sisted upon, there is no certainty that Col. Ben
ton's will be preferred.
A railroad from San Francisco terminating
on the Mississippi at some point nearly opposite
Memphis, will after awhile, be profitable, for it
will be the channel by which the silks and teas
of China, and the gold of California, will be
brought to the Atlantic region. From Memph
is, by way of the Ohio, to Wheeling, and thence
by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, these pro
ducts will be brought in a few days, and Balti
more, instead of New York, may thus be the
centre of the East India and the Pacific trade.
llaytl.
Rev. W. L. Judd, who has spent several years
in Hayti, in a letter to the Boston Traveller,
thus speaks of the character of the people, and
the security for life and property among them:
"I hesitate not to say that I believe there has
been the past six years less murder, less robbe
ry,, and less incendiarism, at Port-au-Priuce,
than in any city of the same size, and during
the same period, in the United States. During
this whole period, and even longer, there has
been but one fire in that city of thirty thousand
inhabitants! Where can a parallel case be
found in the United States? I have traveled in
the country at all hours of the day and night,
"o'er mountain heights and in valleys low," in
lonely forests and amid cultivated fields, and
have never been treated with disrespect by the
coarsest peasant or the rudest mountaineer. In
these journeys I have never beeu refused a
night's lodging at the poorest cabin, where from
necessity or convenience I chose to stop. And
when I have called for the bill of fare, I am al
most universally answered by the expression,
Just what you choose to give." (Ce que vous
voulez me donncz, or, in the 6imple patois of the
paysan, ca ouvouluz bailie moi.) And although
it is the land of the old buccaneers, and where
the example of foreigners has exhibited more of
the violence and fraud than of gentleness and
honesty, still from Tibaron to Samana, and from
Jacmel to Cape Haytien, I know of not a single
cove where a ship may not enter, nor a single
mountain fastness where a traveler may not pass
j with gafety from robbers.
Dangers of Brand- Drinking.
In the last number of the Irish Quarterly Re
view, the weakness of poor Mafnun is thus allu
ded to :
"lie now turned for comfort anl inspiration
tho foul fiend, brandy, which has been the
cause of misery and death to so many nieu of
genius. We regret the errors of Addison and
Steele, we sigh at the recollections of poor More
land the painter, working at his last picture,
with a bruh in one hand and a glass of brandy
in the other, for lie had then arrived at that ter
rible condition i;i which iv.i.sou could visit hiiu
only through intoxication ; and Maginn, al"
though not so fallen as this, sunk deeply. The
weary hours of lonely watching brought not re
source, but that which copious draughts of the
liquid could supply. Health was fading away,
the brightest years of life were passed forever,
and as the dim future lowered, he gazed upon
it under the influence of that demon which en
thralled the brilliant souls of Addison, of
Sheridan, of Charles Lamb, and which sent the
once stalwart form of Theodore Hook, a miser
able, wretched skeleton to the grave. Maginn
we know, felt his position. He was neglected
by his own party he was forgotten by many of
his former friends, and as we looked upon Liui
in his pitiable condition, and compared what we
then saw him with what he might have, and as
we hoped would have been, we often recalled
the fearful passage of Charles Lamb: "When
you find a tickling relish upou your tongue, dis
posing you to a witty sort of conversation, es
pecially if you find a preternatural flow of ideas
setting iu upon you at the sight of a bottle and
fresh glasses, avoid giving way to it as you would
fly your greatest destruction. If you cannot
crush the power of fancy, or that within you
which you mistake for such, divert it, give it
some other play. Write an essay, pen a char
acter or description but not as I do now, with
tears trickling down your cheeks. To be an
object of compassion to friends, of derision to
foes ; to be suspected by strangers, stared a
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j be witty ; to be applauded for wit when you
I l.nvA lrn .hill - in h nallAil nnnn fx tho -r
by fools ; t j be esteemed dull when you cauno
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tcmporaueous exercise of that faculty which no
premeditation can give ; to be set ou to provoke
mirth which procures hatred ; to give pleasure,
and be paid with squinting malice ; to swallow
draughts of life-destroying wine, which are to
be distilled into airy breath to tickle vain audi
tors ; to mortgage miserable morrows for nights
of madness ; to waste whole seas of time upon
those who pay it back in little inconsiderable
crops of grudging applause are the wages of
buffoonry and death."
Mr. 1Yebter.
The London JWira closes its comments upon
the death of Mr. Webster, and the effect of his
decease upon this country, as follows;
"It is a characteristic of American institutions
that the removal of this robust and inflexible
soul would not even for a moment be felt in the
progress of political events. His place will be
filled more or less ably and things will go on
as if he had never been removed. This is the
consequence of popular institutions self gov
ernment that statesmen are the agents, not the
masters, of popular opinions and wishes, and
that there is always a redundant supply of com
petent public servants. Hence steadiness and
consistency in the policy of popular govern
inents. Individuals may be fickle and changea
ble ; but masses are ever drearily monotonous in
their aims and efforts. As children like to hear
the same tale told over again, so the multitude
like to see their rulers go incessantly through
the same routine. The watchwords of popular
party change slowly. This reflection places in
a strong light the fatuous folly of those who
dream they see the resuscitation of the empire
guarantee to France for the surcease of revolu
tionary changes. By vesting all power in the
hands of an autocrat, the French render their
national policy liable to shift and change with
all his freaks and whims. Nay, they render
that order and tranquility for which they yearn
dependent upon the continuation of his life, cer
tain to be interrupted with the interruption of
its frail and precarious tenure. In the Demo
cratic Republic of America, the survival or ex
tinction of a master mind like Webster does not
for a moment shake the public tranquility
does not perceptibly effect the steady course ei
ther of domestic or foreign politics. In the
French Empire, now, in progress of inaugura
tion, the death of even a Louis Napocon would
restore anarchy. Everything would be inter
rupted till the rivals for his inheritance of pow
er had fought it out. This is the inevitable con
sequence of the people leaving the management
of their affairs to one or a few, instead of keep
ing it mainly in their own hands. Popular gov
ernments among civilized people are more truly
conservative than despotism or oligarchies."
Billy Bowlegs in Florida.
The Newark Mercury states that a gentleman
in that city, who has a son in Florida, has re
ceived a letter from him, dated Fort Meade,
Florida, from which we make the following ex
tract. It would seem that Billy has very little
disposition to leave Florida :
Billy Bowlegs, Grand Sachem of the Seminolcs
in Florida, has returned to Tampa, and taken
passage for Fort Myers- His joy on embarking
for Fort Myers knew no bounds. He leaped and
yelled, cursed and swore, like a crazy man, and
during his caperings, he tore a new suit of citi
zen's clothes into a thousand ribbons. About
this time, a soldier at Tampa 6aid, "Now, Billy,
give us the war-whoop." Billy stood as if rivi-
ted to the spot, his eyes seemed to send forth
sparks of fire, and drawing himself up to his
full height, he exclaimed in a low, yet passion
ate voice, "By blood ! tchen you do hear the war
tchoop, your blood trill curdle in your veins!" In
reply to a question put to him by an officer at
Tampa, "So, you are going to leave Florida, are
you?" he answered, with a very knowing look,
"Oh, yes, I told them so in Washington, but
d d if I do it, though !" If he don't go, and
that very soon, too, Uncle Sam will find a way
to make them leave either by steamboat or
"by blood,!" They can take their choice.
Hon. James Campbell,
It often affords us useful instruction to Tratrjj
the movements of different individuals, espe;
ally in the political world, and endeavor to juj
from their actions of the motives and induce
raents that sway and control them. There is
at the present day, so much of utter" si-lfishne '
iu the political arena so loud professions 0f t
tachmeut to principles, that prove to If yrot,u
ions merely, where personal ambition is disap
pointed that it relieves us somewhat fromtbg
unhappy opinion we might otherwise form of
political men generally, when we find ia a maa
such manifestations of pure attachment to prn
ciple as is exhibited in the person of Hon. Jac
Campbell. We do not believe that there can be
found another man in this whole country, if jn
deed such an one can be found in the whulepa-t
political history of the country, who has exhibi
ted such resplendant, self-sacrificing devotion to
his political sentiments, a3 ho has. Struck
down as he was, bust fall, by the most unholy
combination, no cue had reason to expect ouLt
from him but coldness and indifference, ifee;
overt opposition. True, he wa? nobly sustain!
ed and fully vindicated by the gn-at Lcart of tLe
Democracy of the State, and would have Wa
triumphantly elected but for the corrupt cwabi
nations of Philadelphia; but men in defeat are
apt to consider that simply, Rn,l not the cause.
But this was not the ense with Judge Campbell.
Rising high above all personal feeling of d'gjp.
pointmeut, in the contest just past, he threw
himself in the breach to turn back the retaliate
ry blow ; and, regardless alike of personal eao,
pecuniary advantage, or natural obligation, de
voted himself to the success of the Democratic
party, with an energy and purpose never before
witnessed. The obstacles he has encountered
and the exertions he put forth, seem almost su
perhuman ; and when we say that the Democra
cy of Pennsylvania are more indebted to him,
for their success, than to any man or set of nits
in the Commonwealth, we are but doing Lia
faint justice.
We admire that man, Judge Campbell; vA
not the man merely, but his noble, exalted, ail
virtuous actions. He labors from principle
from a high sense of affection and duty tub's
Commonwealth and his country. The sel".-t-ness
of the mre politician is not found in hi,
but the spirit of a patriot is everywhere eilnbi
ted by his life and actions. Would that Penn
ylvania, and the country, had more such mca
to control their politics .' Montrose Item.
Distressing Suicide In Heading'.
On Sunday evening last, says the ReaJing
Gazette, of Saturday, Coroner Keen was sum
moned to hold an inquest on the body of a stran
ger, about 4 5 years of age, named John X. Jones
who was found about 5 o'clock, dead in hii
chamber at his boarding house, in Sevsnth sired
below Eingaman, having committed suicile Ij
suspending himself from the bed post with a silk
handkerchief. He had come to this city from
New York, only a few weeks ago, and oMaim-J
employmnt in the Boiler Works of Mes.-rs. Nt
ble & Sons. From the facts ascertained at tit
inquest, it app eared that ever since his armi.l
here, he had been laboring under great mental
depression, and it is supposed that this led Lira
to commit the. fatal act. A verdict was rcn ivrtl
accordingly. Papers found uron him disclustl
that he was one of the Trustees of the Welsh
Bapti&t Church of New York, and had been fore
man of the Novelty Works iu that city for a pe
riod of nineteen years. His discharge from that
situation, without any reason being assijrne
had preyed seriously upon his mind, and doubt
less occasioned the melancholy mood hit
brought on self-destruction. He has a brother
living at MinersviHe, and leaves an afflicted vife
in New York. The Coroner telegraphed to tie
clergyman of the Church iu whicifi her husband
was an officer, who broke the 6ad news to Ler,
and she immediately cume on, iu company nith
a male friend. The body and effects were mean
while taken in charge by the Coroner, to await
their arrival. They reached here on Tuesdaj
morning, and the same afternoon at 4 o'clock
the body was interred in the Baptist Ccmetcrj
of this city.
Mr. ICIng.
The New York Times has a Washington cor
respondent, who writes (Dec. 10th) as follows
relative to a matter which is just now the occa
sion of some auxiety in the public mind tho
health of Mr. King, the Vice President elect
"The fact that the Senate went into Executive
Session for the purpose of talking over the steps
necessary to be taken in view of his inability to
attend its sittings, shows the studious efforta
which were made to keep from the public
knowledge of his true condition. Of course,
all such attempts are futile. It would be fr
better to let the public know the actual facts of
the case. The popular mind is alwajsmore sen
sitive under the influence of an uncertainty than
with a full knowledge of tbe worst. You rosy
rely upon the statement that Mr. King is fail"
ing rapidly. True, he is not continually confi
ned to his bed ; nor was Mr. Webster until
few days before the country was shocked bjth
announcement of his death. Ilis lunss are far
gone with the disease, and entire system q-:ta
prostrated. It is possible that he may gel w
the Senate again and I am told h is very ani
ious so to do. If he should rally sufficient ly r
the effort, I have reason to believe he will tak
his seat there once again ; but only to ftnif"
in person his resignation.
G ex. Pierce's Califoexia Rise The Bos
ton Transcript says of this ring:
It is of the purest gold, weighs 1CJ ounces,
and would be a very becoming ornament for &9
little finger of the "King of Giants," ofwb00
we read in fairy tales. The ring is beautiful
chased, and hns a number of appropriate rff
resentations of scenes characteristic of the m01-"
ern Ophir. They must have artists of the fiftt
order of skill in San Francisco, to have F1
duced such a work. The cost was about
and the value of the gold is upwards of $1-
By touching a spring, a lid flies up, and you set
imbedded various specimens of California ore
This marvellous ring is well worth eeeig.
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