Democrat and sentinel. (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, June 13, 1855, Image 2

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    its full share of satire, but wo can assure the
Doctor we enjoy some f his hits with peculiar
gusto. Dr. Dixon possesses, as the reader
will perceive by the cut, a remarkable resem
blance to Louis Napoleon ; btit we sec do re
semblance in character to account for the
likeness in features. Dr. D. is much taller
ami more erect, having a far- more Military
bearing than Louis I n moral cfia acter there
is a difference that all who know Dr. Dixon
will at once recognize. Craft forms no part
cf his nature; you might as well attempt to
harness the lightning or the wiud as to prevent
him from abruptly expressing his opinion.
He is utterly devoid of moral fear, and a most
-unselfish man. We will: venture to assert
that when vou have once seen hin, you will
acknowledge that you have found the most
serious yet playful specimen of Lis protean
profession.-
The Government of the "United States-
i EXECUTIVE DEPATMEXT.
Frvitklin Pierce President.
William L. Marcy, Secretary of State.
James Guthrie, Secretary of the Treasury.
Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War.
" James C. DoUrin,' Secretary of the Navy.
. James Campbell, Postmaster General.
Robert JlcClclland ', Secretary of the Interior.
ddeb Cushing, Attorney General. .
1 "
. s STATE DEPARTMENT. , .
Consists of one Secretary, one Assistant
Secretary, one chief-clerk, twelve associate
clerks, one translator and one librarian ; of the
Diplomatic nd Consular Branches ; the Jin
reau of Disbursement. Translation Appoint
ments and Commissions ; of Roll and Archives ;
of Authentications and Copy Rights, of Pass
ports and Pardons ; the Foreign Correspon
dence, Treaties, Despatches, Laws, and the
State Library.
- Employs but seventeen persons ; and is one
of the most simple yet powerful implements of
government in the world. ;
TEF.A3URY DEPARTMENT.
Consists of one Secretary, one Assistant,
two Comptrollers, a Commissioner of Customs,
six Auditors, a Treasurer, Register, Solicitor,
and Boards for the light houses and coast
surveys.
The number of persons employed in connec
tion with the Treasury Department, in Wash
ington, is four huadred and twenty-one.
...... WAR DEPARTMENT. .
, Consists" of one Secretary, having associated
with him the Commanding General, the Ad
jutant General, the Quartermaster General,
the Paymaster General, the Commissary-General,
the ' Surgeon General, the Engineer
Bureau, and the Bureaux of Topography and
Ordnance. ' . 1
- The number of persons occupied in the War
Department is one hundred and seven. '
' f "' KAW DEPARTMENT. '
Consists of one Secretary, and five Bureaux
of Navy Yards and Docks ; of Construction,
Equipment and Repair; of Provisions and
Clothing; of Ordnance and Ilydography, and
of Medicine and Surgery, .
The force of the Navy Department numbers
fifty-five. ' -
."" TOST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.
Consists of one Postmaster General, and
three Assistants ; of Bureaux of Inspectors,
Appointments, Contracts and finance.
. There are ninety-one persons - engaged in
the General Post Office Department. '
'" DEPARTMENT O ' TIIE INTERIOR.
" Consists of one Secretary, and Bureaux of
the : Public Lands ; of Pensions; of Indian
affairs ; of Patents, including Agriculture.
" This Department has charge, also, of the
buisncss of United States Marshals and Attor
neys; clerks of United States Courts; the
Mines of the United States ; the Public and
Penal Buildings of the United States in the
District of Columbia ; the unsettled boundary
lines between the States, Territories, and
bordering nations. . . ..
' The number of persons employed in the
Department of the Interior is steadily increas
ing. It may be estimated at three hundred
ana any. .,...'' . .. '
V . ATTORNEY GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT, j
. Consists of one Attorney General, a chief
elerk and eight assistants.
Tho total number of persons composing the
servants of tha people in all these Depart
ments, is one thousand and nicy-one.
This estimate does not include those em
ployed at the Capitol, or the United States
Observatory. 1 he official particulars with
reference to them, and, also, to both houses
of Congress, will be presented in a future pa
per.-
.A Know Nothing Victory.
.The other day the whig papers were rejoi
cing over .the success of ' Sam" in the whig
city cf Cleveland, Ohio. That the people of
the caouth may know, who "cams friends
were in Cleveland, on what principles he was
successful, and by whom elected, we copy the
following statement from tho Cleveland Ex
press, the Know Nothing organ in that city.
Speaking of the election, it says: -
" TJt Colored jwpvlation generally voted
for the American ticket dag before yesterday.
In this they showed good judgment, and they
will have no occasion to regret their action:
Tiey rejoice tcith us in Sam's triumph over a
Kcah, corrvpt Nebraska, Administration.'
TJie Colored people are Natives; and much
btlter citizens than tJie Hordes of t CatJiolic
Irish tcho are yearly floating to our stores".
. The free nigger of Ohio is much better"
than the alien-born citizens I This is " Amer
ican doctrine" in Cleveland. - It goes even
further than the doetrine of tho know nothing
Massachusetts House of Representatives,
which has passed a bill asserting the equality
of negro children with the children of poor
Tvhite persons, whether native or foreign born.
Freeman of MissL-sippi, what think you of
know nothing victories and the fruits which
they are bringing forth ? Alississijpian.
InroBTAXT Discovert It is stated by the
BnSalo Republic that Mr. Couover a well
known Engineer upon the Ohio River, has
accidentally discovered that by saturating his
coal with water, and putting it iu the furnace
wet, would cause it to produce from 1 10 -to
120 poundsof steam with a; considerable less
quantity of coal than it required to make from
DO to 100 pounds when the coal was dry.
lie also finds that by - wetting his coal ; he
makes no clinkers,, has no trouble whatever
tu keep his furnace from choaking, and ucver
burns ur injures his . grato bars. .-.Those are
facts which should claim the careful attention
uf all persons iaUrcstpd in fcteauiboat- .or,
eteam engines. '
Dniinrrnt nnif Irniinrl
riciiakd witiTK::::::::::::::::::::::nEXRT c. devinb
f .IITE & D.EYINE, Editors and Proprietors.
EBEIfSBURG. .
WEDNESDAY MORNING::::::::::::::-JUNE IS.
A Glance at the Times.
Let us take a glance at this beloved country of
ours, and see how it mast appear to the thinking
portion of mankind, at this particular time- Be
ginning at the East, we find Neal Dow engaged
in a cruel and unrelenting war with tho citizens
of Portland, in the State of Maine.. A war between
fanatics and drunkards, by which they have sent
one man to the other woild, and prepared seven
others to follow in a few days, "beyond the hopes
of recovery. Cad aa the drunkard is, (and in all
conscience he is bad enough) still, he is not such
a wretch as the fanatic. The drunkard is gener
ally a good man, when in sobriety, or in lucid
intervals, but never can the fanaticbe a good
man; he has no head to think, nor heart to feel,
nor ear to hear, nor eye to smile; nothing, but the
one idea of dreary desolation to the wino-bibber,
the publican, and sinner. Such is Neal Dow, and
from what we can learn, there was no necessity
for him to shed human blood, the exigency of the
case demanded it not. If we go to the far West,
we find in Kansas, the tents of the pro and anti
slavery parties pitched there, and a war as hostile
and as deadly, as the war of the bottles in Tort-
land, waged and carried on with vigor on both
sides. Several men have already lost their lives,
and more will follow in a short time." The Mis-
sourians swear by all the Gods in the heathen
mythology, if the Kansas Emigration Society do
not cease their agitation, and keep the peace, they
will settle them by the most effectual of all admo
nitions, the rifle bullet On the other hand,
Massachusetts, that land of fanaticism, bigotry,
bibles, and bed bugs, are busy in the shipment of
Bowie knives. Minnie rifles, revolvers and Aboli
tionists to the scene of action. What the result
will be, we cannot tell, but we will'sit quietly by
and look on. One thing certain they have enough
to do in these localities, to keep their minds diver
ted from Know-Nothingism. for the time being.
In New York, too, they have partially forgotten
the Pope and the foreigner, and are preparing for
the deadly fight of the whiskey struggle. . In
Pennsylvania, too, the whiskey and fanaticism,
may occupy more space in the politics of the next
fall election, than is generally supposed at the
present time. . Our opinion is that Neal Dow in
lis blood thirsty fanaticism has done the cause of
temperance more liarm, than all the money of all
the liquor dealers in the United States could do.
In Washington City the Kaow-Nothings are tur
bulently writhing under the castigation they have
received at the hands of the Democracy of Vir
ginia, by the election of Henry A. Wise. Glory,
honor and praise be to that true hearted democ
racy, it has never faltered in the hour of adver
sity. , Surrounded as that State has been, by ev
ery recollection of our country's grandeur, in men,
in arms, and in intellect, it was meet that her
democracy should be the first to stem the torrent
of the dark lantern marauders, ller democracy
is like the pine of Clan Alpin,
"Moored in the rifted rock,; ' '
Proof to the tempest shock,
Firmer it roots in, the ruder it blows."
" Away in the Utah Territory, Brigham Young
is preaching to his brethren, his wives and chil
dren, glory to the great Jehovah on high, and
peace on earth to men of good will, telling them
that they are the little Joseph of the family of this
Union. That they loved their patriarchal parent
with a devoted filial affection, and that their pa
rent sat dozing . in an old arm chair, while their
brethren were persecuting them and endeavoring
to sell them into slavery; and now, that they have
been driven to the Egypt of the Union, may one
day be able to take their father and their brethren
out of as hard a difficulty, as Joseph the. son of
Jacob did.
In our own county, (last week being Court
week) a battle was fought between the temper
ance men, armed with the Buckalew law, and
the grand Jury, armed with honesty and common
sense; in the contest the Jury were victorious, and
drove the leaders of their antagonists into durance
vile, there to admire the beauties of creation
through the ten of diamonds.
These reflections would lead us to suppose that
our country is travelling fast into the regions of
corruption, decay, and desolation, and such will
be the case, if the pure unsullied democracy of the
country do not arise in the majesty of their power,
and save the country, as they have often done be
fore, from utter annihilation ' ; .
' The Virginia Election. .... . . '.
The RichmonJ Enquirer, in common ting on"
the fact that some of the Know Nothing papers
attribute the election of Wise to the " foreign"
vote,; although they are not ignorant of the cir
cumstance that his majority largely exceeds the
entire foreign vote of the State," says : " It is
known that a considerable jjroporticn of the " for
eign" vote was cast agaiust the Democratic can
didates. A correspondent of the Dallimore Sun
savg an examination of , the polls ia Alexandria
has ikvtloped the surprising fact that a large
mujiber of foreign-born citizens supported the
Kf-v-Nothing ticket. There i : another fact
which settles this dispute beyond controversy.
In the cities, aud iu : the counties through which
works cf internal improvement are progressing
iu lliehmond, in Petersburg, in Norfolk, in Alex
andria, in Wheeling, in Fredcricsburg, in Augus
ta, and ,iav.IyjuduQ;L-in,. short, just where the
" foreign" yoto.is. trougcst,. just there . did the
Democracy ,utiin the .greatest loss. On. ; the
other hand, in; the remote Southweit and on the
South title, where nobody ever sees a Catholic or
a foreigner, the l)emoeTay made the largest gain.
These are Cicts which the Know-Nothing papers
can no move dispute, thtm thry can wake" them
conform W their UntaWtic theory, that the elec
tion of Wise v a lite wvrk vf C.iUf..:.s aid" for-
J.
Shall Democracy Triumph in the Coming"
-; -Contest?
The time is fast approaching when the above
question must be answered, and we rejoice to per
ceive that the Democracy in every section of the
State, are determined that it shall be answered in
the affirmative. We sincerely hope the Democ
racy ot little Cambria, will not allow her to be
behind her sister counties in coming to the rescue.
She has always been faithful heretofore, even in
the hour of gloom and disaster, and .we are confi
dent her Democracy are ready and willing to go
heart and soul into the present contest, if those
selected as their standard bearers, are men who
arc devotedly attached to the principles or Jeffer
son and Jackson, ami willing to stand by them,
through good and evil report.
It has frequently been suggested to its of late,
that . the nomination of a ' fusion ticket," com
posed partly of Democrats, and partly of old line
Wnigs would insure the defeat of Know-Noth-iugism
in this county next fall, and that if this
course is not adopted Know-Nothingism will most
assuredly triumph. This may be all correct, but
we are inclined to think otherwise. , But a small
portion of the midnight conspirators in this county,
consist of deserters ftom the democratic ranks. -They
are made up, almost entirely of men who
were formerly members of tle Whig party, but
who no longer retain any remembrance of their
first love. ; We grant, there are a number of old
line Whigs remaining in tho cotmty, who still
adhere to first principles, but they are like Angel
visits, " few aud far between.". The truth is the
"party has lost its vitality, and is totally incapable
of accomplishing anything. - By far the larger
portion of its memlxrs are now secretly arrayed
under the banner of Samuel, while the Democratic
party remains " full of. its original spirit," as
mighty and powerful as when it hurled federalism
from power more than half a century ago, ready
and willing to do battle against the enemies of oxir
free institutions. Under these circumstances it is
preposterous to suppose that a " fusion ticket,"
would give satisfaction to, or promote harmony
among the rank and file of the Democratic party,'
in this county , Let us then steadily adhere to
the established principles and usages of tho party;
let us carefully exclude Know-Nothing delegates
from our convention; let us nominate a ticket
composed of honest and sincere democrats, who
are willing if required, to declare under the sacred
obligations of an oath, ' that they are not. never
have been, and never intend to be, members of a
secret oath-bound society or order, for political
purposes, and we are confident we will be sustain
ed by every enemy of bigotry ' and intolerance,
without regard to party, within the limits of the
county.";;, ; , . . .
: We do not pretend to say th;it there are not
several counties in the State, where it would be
advisable for Democrats and Whigs to unite, and
form union tickets for the purpose of crushing the
common enemy, but Cambria does not belong to
the number. Our only hope of success lies in
placing no man on our county ticket who is. taint
ed with Know-Nothingism, and in going into the
contest arrayed under the toil-worn and invincible
banner of Democracy, determined to fall, if fall
we must, ' with our faces to heaven and our feet
to the foe." ". . : -
' Shall Democracy triumph in the coming con
test? Kemember - Democrats, that the battle is
not always to the strong, and that the founder of
our party has warned us, that tie price of lib-
erty is eternal vigilance." Let us all then go at
once to work, determined to do our utmost to-
waids redeeming our noble old State, and repla-.
cing her in the proud position of Keystone of the
Federal Arch. ...
&In another column we publUh an interesting
letter from Robert Carmon, in vindication of his
character for truth, regarding a statement he had
made in a previous letter to this paper. Mr.
Cannon's statements would be always taken for
truth while he resided here. ; :.
CO" We perceive by the Alleghanian, that Gid
eon Marlett, Esq., is a candidate for Sheriff, sub
ject to the decision of the Whig Convention-
Gideon is a clever fellow, but he will have no
Whig Convention to nominate him, it will be
composed of Know Nothing?. A man depending
on the Whig party would be about as well off,
as the man that was fed on the soup boiled from
the shadow of a starved crow. ' ' ' 1 '
Court Proceedings. - .
Joseph IPDonald vs. Hugh Dugan's adm'r.
ScL Fa. to revive judgement. " 4th June, 1855, Ju
ry called and sworn.: who find for the Plaintiff
seven dollars and two cents. - '
Com. vs. Jolm P. Parish. Indictment for keep
ing a tippling house. Continued to next term.
Com. vs. Sarah Iiowley. Indictment for keep
ing a tippling house. , 5th June, Jury called and
sworn, who find the defendant guilty.. Same day
sentenced to pay a fine of ten dollars and costs.
Com. vs. Thomas Quilt.: Indictment for assault
and battery. ' June 5th, Jury find tho defendant
guilty. Sentenced to pay a fine of five dollars and
costs. .' - 11 1 . '"'''; :
Com. vs. Lawrence Cassiday. Indictment for
selling intoxicating liquors to a habitual drunkard.
Jury find the defendant not guilty. ; . yt ' .
- Com. vs." John Fustmaa & Conrad Dice. . In
dictment for. cutting timber. Juno 5th, Jury
find the defendants not guilty. J; V
; Samuel Shultz 'vs. John Singer. Sci. Fa. sur.'
Mechanics Lein. June 6tb, Jury find -for tho
plaintiff the sum of two hundred and I wen ty-five j
IrJInN - - V-;-: ' ;' -'"-' - - .' !
, Com. vs. John SFCuy. Indictment for s"i:iir
liquor to persons of in itemperant habits. G -. id
Jury return this not a true bill' . and that V:v
prosecutor, W. S-Palmer, pay the costs ofpr,
ecution.' ".. : i. f(.,.j
Com. vs. Jaa. - D. : Hamilton. Indictment .for
selling liquor to persons of known -intamporatc
habits. Grand Jury return this "not a trite bill,"
and that W.S.'' Palmer the prosecutor, pay the
costs. ' " - : - " ' ' '
II. D. .Foster, et al. vs.! JVAJam, TrefWet at-
Dept.,. Juno Cth, defendants coiiAks judgment.
Amount to be liquidated by the Prothonotary, ,.
Charles, O'Neill vs. -A. M. & E. White. As
sumpsit. J ury fiud fyr , tle plaintiff-, the aum of
eighty dollars.' j ,j r ; vVfv; ;Viu..
Com. - vS; Michael F. Hamer. v Indictment for
Larceny. Jury find the defendant not guilty. - -4'
' ' Jacob Campbell vs. Charles Litzinger's adm'rs.
Appeal. June 8th, Jury called and sworn,' who
find for the, plaintiff . the sum of. eightyWcvcn
f dollars ' "- -""-
The TJ. S. Senator Question.
The question as to how or by whom Pennsyl
vania shall be represented in the Senate of" the
United States, is one which must be met by the
next Legislature, inasmuch aa the last one failed
to elect. The people should bear this in mind in
making their nominations for the Asscrobly du
ring the present summer and ensuing fall, if they
desire to see the Old Keystone occupy the com
manding position m that body which her emi
nence in the Confederacy of States justly " entitles
her to. If we wish to be respected in that exal-J
ted Jtxxly ol legislators, and have an honorable
name and a place in the councifs of the Na tion,
we must select from tho many able men we have
amongst us, that one who by his talents and vir
tues will shed most lustre upon the station, and
thus secure for himself and his State tie esteem
and confidence of others. Above all, we must
select an honest man honest in politics as well
as in every thing else if wo wish to keep up
the . credit of our honest old Commonwealth.
No mousing, corrupt politician, such as some of
those who are aspiring to a seat iu that body,
should for one moment be thought of. No petty
bank cashier, whose highest exhibition of talents
has been to corrupt the morals and purchase the
votes of venal legislators -no patent medicine
vender, who has grown immensely rich by plun-
deriivg the pockets of his infatuated dupes to pay
for his filthy nostrums, should be a representative
of the great State of Pennsylvania. ' :
Will our Democratic friends throughout the
State sec to this matter in time. The season fr
making nominations lor the Legislature is rapidly
approaching and we have no doubt that trick
cry and stratagem, deception and rascality are al
ready at work to accomplish their nefarious pur
pose. These things ro not done openly, in the
light of day; but stealthily and underhandedly
for thi is the onlypossiblc way by which dishon
est men can hope to obtain power. By means of
their unprincipled creatures in the uffercnt coun
ties especially Mhe Democratic counties they
succeed sometimes in packing Conventions, " and
get their ' miserable tools nominated, and thus
force the people to vote for them because they
are the nominees of the party, no matter how un
worthy or undeserving they are of their suffra
ges. : - :J : :- " ' v. -
There is but one proper way to prevent such a
state of things and that is for the people to at
tend tho delegate elections, and select such men,
aud none other, . as arc known to be horejt, and
who, will faithfully, reflect their will when they
meet in the County or nominating Conventions.
We hope tur.brethft-n of. the press, throughout
the ,State, will lose no time in directing tftS attcn
tion of the people to this important subject.--
Zanrastcr Intelligencer. V '
Manufacture of Cider Prohibited.
The Rev. M. Lovejov, speaking of the late law
passed by the Massachusetts Legislature, on the
subject of liquor, holds the following language
." "A man who manufactures a barrel of cider, is
fined under this law $50; and imprisonment from
three to six months for the offense; $200 and im
prisonment for six months for the second offense.
and $200-and imprisonment for twelve months
for the third offense! - If you make one gallon of
wme, squeezed grom the currants that grow in
your garden,- and give away or sell a glass of it,
that act entitles you to imprisonment for twelve
months, and this in the old Commonwealth of
Massachuset ts, m the year of our Lord, J855 !"
There . is a. truth in the above, which cannot
but strike the human mind with peculiar force,
We have often said, the result of all such laws is
to lead to a dangerous extreme,, and. produce a
state of society in this country of the most fearful
character. Although we considered the last Mas
sachusetts Legislature capable of anything, we
scarcely b lieved a point in legislation would be
rcacheJ : so . supremely : ridiculous. Who ever
dreamed that the year 1855 would witness the
enactment of a law by a sovereign State of this
Union, prohibiting the farmer from " making a
barrel of cider f . Who tver supposed a law would
be passed to imprison a farmer for six mouths, if
he dared manufacture a barrel cf cider ?1& it
any wonder that the common senso of the people
is beginning to revolt at this outrageous hum-
buggery 1 The peoplo may be called rum-suckers
and rum-sellers, by those whose sense of jus
tice and right has been eaten out by fanaticism ;
but the time is coming when truth and geniune
morality will prevail, and laws which are but the
result of a miserable catering to fanatics bhall lie
wiped from the statue books. Democratic Union.
' ' " The Liquor Law!
The people seem to be moving in "every
quarter for the repeal of tho inquitous Jug
Law passed by the laistK. N. Legislature, and
approved by a K. N. Governor. That it
will be swept out of existence by the popular
voice of next October, no man in his senses
can doubt. We have no hesitation in pro
claiming ourselves in favor of it3 speedy re
peal. Wc have always considered Politiad
Temperance a humbug, and wc are now fully
satisfied on this poiut Whilst Kinr. of
Cambria County, was the avowed candidate
of Ike Temperance meD, he dodged the vote
on this question fearing that it might inter
fere with his political prospects in future
and many of the "men who supported the
measure throughout, drank probably a pint
of brandy, or whiskey every day they were in
Hamsburgs, io suppose that such a code
of ?nomls , can result in reform is perfectly
ridiculous. Whilst corrupt politicians are
using me Acmpciance question as a mere
hobij. the cause' itself is perishing for want
of moral aid. , .- Dealers in liquor. Beer, and
Ale, are nvtct selling in , open violation of the
luw, and, if iiijerance laws are not enforced,
what is the use of passing them ? " .. .
j ' The Old HoLDiEns;" A bounty land war
rant "of 10(f acre's' was forwarded to the Prest-
dent of the United States for military services
rendered by him luring the Mexican war. "A
similac warrant was forwarded to ex-President
Tyler,' for military services " during the . late
war with Ku gland.,'"" lion. William L. Marcy,
Sociefary of State, r receives an SO acre war
rant for military srrviecs in the same war, he
having 'already received a bounty of 80 acres
under the act of 1850. M 2 " ""
! Towa'-A friend 'who has just returned
from a lengthy , journey through ' seventeen
counties in the interior of Iowa, describes the
emigration to that Stale as beyond precedent.
They are making claims 250 miles west of
the Mississippi, are opening " roads, building
anills, fencing farms, and making the country
resound with their" industry through the ex
treme length of the Stafce. Chicago Tribvnc.
Benedict Arnold, the First " Know-Nothing."
" Fact are clticTs tliat winna diuej.
' And dor na be disputed. '
' Tub conspirators of the present day, arc f rav
er parading their historical pedigree, and a pixtfy
piece of patch-work it is. But their true parent
age which.vis historical enough has not jet
.been accurately traced. Without fee or reward
we have dug to the root of their genealogical tree,
and found it deep in New England soil, springing
straight up from the blaek heart of Brigadier
Gexehal Bexemct Arnold.
General Arnold had all the qualilicatit ns re
quired by his imitators of the present conspiracy.
He could boast two generations of native ances
tors, previous to the year 1740, when he first
saw the light in Connecticut. He had served in
tho revolution ; his wife was no Catholic nor yet
Jesuit; and his scutiments, as we shall show,
were quite worthy of Ullman, Barker, Flouruoy,
and Conrad.
Chief Justice Maislial (Life of Washington,
Vol, ,p, 49) accounts Ibr the tiilure of Wash
ington's plan of getting Canada into the confed
eracy, partly by the Know-Nothing condnct of
Arnold, "After Montgomery's death," says the
Chief Justice, " the priests were very injudicious
ly neglected;" "even General Arnold," he adds,
(p CO) was disposed to consider himself in the
presence of an enemy ;" t". e. the Catholic Cana
dians. Iu Dodsley'o Anmud RryLitix for 1781 (pp.
47 S) is given in Arnold's address to " the inhab
itants of America," after his treason an I ape,
and another proclamation i f his to " th ofiiecr.s
and soldiers of the Continental Army."
In the Address, he denounces the alliance with
France, and France herse-lf in the stroni-ht terms.
"He laments that the grt-:t iiitr-rts .f the
country were dangcrouidy saeri fired to the parti
al views of a proud, ancient aftl crafty fw, re
gards her as too feeble to establish their irulopcn
dence ; charges her rciili being cn eurwy if the
Protestant faith, &c., &c, &c."
In the Proclamation he dec-hues himi-elf in the
very spirit jf the present conspirators
" He wished to lead a chosen band of AMERI
CANS to the attainment of k.-;u-p, liberty aud
safety, and with them to sh.-ire iu the lry of
rescuuig their JSA11 v K country fu'iu the .rap
iuar hand of Fruuce, as well as from the auditions
and interested views of a deupcrate purly (that of
Washington anil Congress) am ng themselves,
who had aheady brought the cohinies to tho very
brink of destruction. 5
He further asked what America was now but
a land of widows, orphans, anl leggars ? Kent
their last stake, (jrdigion) he reprcstded to le in
such danger a to hace wo other necuritg titan tchat
depended vjion tie exertions of Hie parent cuiudry
fur d:liccrance. Ia proof, or ilUus'trutiu'n, Le as
serted a " fact' upon his own knotvlcjg;? viz ;
that he hrvd lately sen their mean and profiicrate
Congress at mass for the smd of a I2'inai CaHiriic
in pnrg'iiory, and participating in the rites of a
churcli tigainxl whose anti Christian corruptions
Uieir pious ancc-slvrs would have teitiicscl tcith
their blool." .
.. Here we have the very Mens, in almoat the
very words, of the present so-called "American
party." The same appeals to nativity and to
Puritanism, the same instigations to exclusive
associations and anti-Constitutional opposition to
the Federal authorities, are as clearly expressed
by Arnold, as they could bo by B-irkerpr Con
rad. ."Pass along thefte proofs. Benedict Arnold was
the forefather of the Know-Nothings !
;," The Thugs- . ,
-t'Thc Thugs of Iliudostan are are association
who be'ieve that it is their duty to exterminate
all who do not belong to their owu Order. They
meet iu secret lodges, aud are sworn with solemn
oaths. : They lie iu wait for unsuspecting passers
by, aud, attacking them suddenly ami without
warning, strangle them. The higher the position
and character of the victim, the more meritorious
the act. The Thug who strangles the largest
number of victims in the course of a year, is re
warded with the title of Grand Thug of the Coun
cil, and invested with despotic power. If auy
Thug refuses to yield unqucstioiu'ng and implicit
confidence to tho commauds of the Grand Thug,
they make an image or cfligy of him. which they
burn, at the same time stoning and cursing it.
This is supposed to visit him with all manner of
misfortuues. '. After this, any Thug who meets
him is bound to stab Lim to the heart, provided
he can do go "without risk of dctectiou. Every
member of the Order is sworn to deny his connec
tion with it, and, when iutcrrogaUl, to say he
knows; nothing about it.---When apprehended
and brought to justice, they claim to be persons
of the greatest morality and viituc, and justify
their acts by saying that they only wish to estab
lish the true religion, (viz. : their own.) and to
prevent foreigners, (viz. : sill who are not Thugs,)
from getting control of the country.
Hence, in the Eastern cities the Kuow-Nahings
are called Thugs, or Hindoos. Democratic Cu
ion. . ... - ' : . .' .
. i One of the Senators.
Gen. Wilson, who obtained an election to
he United States Senate from the " Know-
Nothing party in Massachusetts, . recently
made a speech to the "Order," at Brattlebo
ro,' Vermont; On that occasion he told his
hearers: i - . : -' :
' lie had no sympathy with that, narrow,
bigoted, intolerant spirit that would make war
upon a race ot men because tney uappeneu to
be born in other lands a dastardly spirit that
would repel from our ; shores tho men who
sought homes here under our institutions.
Such a spirit was anti-Amercan, devilish; ho
loathed it from the bottom of his heart."
" He further said : J ' '; . ' . 5 .
He regretted to say there were some mem
bers of the American party in favor of ex
cluding by constitutional amend ments, all
adopted citixens from office. He deeply de
plored the action of the Legislature of Massa
chusetts in proposing an amendment to tae
Constitution euiooaymg uiis uutmue. ,
hoped gentlemen who had given . their' votes
for this proposition a proposition that would
not permit Prof."" Agassis , one of the first sci
entific men of the age, to fill, under State ap
pointment, an office even of a scientific character-would
see their error and retreat at once
from a position which justice, reason and re
ligion condemned. ".What little influence he
possessed would bo given with a hearty good
will to defeat this proposition. :
; " lie also declared that the ' Know-Noth
ings" must abandon their secrecy, make open
nominations, and take a firm stand again
6lavcry and. its farther extension.
" "-o.iiiiusei.ia wromances-
.When, last week, we priuted the EUisworth -tragedy
from the Bangor Journal, we Lad suppo
sed that nothing worse could possibly come out
of new England. A day or two undeceived me,
as the following extract from the Lotion DaSg
Advertiser, of may ICth, will also undeceive any
of our readers, who may have formed a similar
conclusion :
'Yesterday morning there sailed from this port
a splendid packet-sLip, bearing the nol le name of
Daniel Webster, which fitly belongs to so fine a
vessel. Yet so many Cue chips sail out of our
hai bor, that the reader may inquire why we
make this darture the occasion Jor tuch cou
spicuoua uoUee. i? s . , i i t x
'Among the crowd of human bc-irjgs cn board
that proud vessel was one poor woman, with an
infant daughter- Her passage, and that of her
child, were paid by the rich and powerful Com
monwealth of Massachusetts. SLc left our fre
ami happy shores unwilling and reluctaut. She
wcut away against her own free will, coiistraiuecl
by force of the civil authorities of tho . State,
licr cries, as bhe begged not to be thus cruelly
banished, were, we are told, mo-t piteous, and
such as to cause the accidental witnesses of tL
scene to burn with indignation.
Tho ofience of this unfortunate woman, for
which she. was thus violently and ignomiuiously
expelled from Massachusetts, was the fact that
slie was born iu Ireland, and is called a jxivper.
Her infant daughter, who uiiconNeiou.-Jy. shares
her mother's late, is a native of the Common
wealth of Massachusetts; -but tahe too, ' partakes,
of that hard lot of jkivci ty for which it lias lrcii
reserved f r ll.iu husctls to iuaku a cikne, mbk! -a
crime which Massachusetts puuishe as no
other crime is punished in America, by banish
ment banishment froni one 's native l;unl.
m ,.r .1.:.. ... v. .i :
intolerance was Mary Williams; her infant,
Kridgct, is but a few wLsol'l. About tliu ty
five puiirs. perhaps iwi-c; were icnt a Way at
tlie same time, in the s:imc ve.-.scl, at thocxix nsy
of the SUil'". Tlwsc facts c learn from eye
witnejiios of the tn;eie, and from other ctrtuiit
aud authcMtic sources of information.
"Our readers aic aware that thcic exists Ujx.ii
our htatulc-book a law l.ih ai'tliorues any
Ju.-ticC of the Pence upon ' complaint, by a war
rant directed to, uml to In; exjin Hted by any Coii
ftabh', or any 4lur K-rvon there ileijmatel, t
cans; any pauper to bo re'uovctl out ol the Slate,
toaiiy hue ix-youd the wlieie lie belongs, it"
the Jt!-ticc thinks .n'i'r, and l.o may bocouve
in'cntly removed ; and also Shut independently c f
this piivi.-ion tif law, a jiracti-'e has aii:eii by
wliich tl e Cotuiiiissi.iiier of AIi'U P;is:-i:;er
undertakes, even .'without the warrant of a Ji;
tic-e of the Peare, to send back paujn rs in ca.'es
which he sees lit, and pay the fxpeuhes from
monev in his', haudi belonging to the State
Treasury.... . ... .... - - .
On account of the temporflry aliwnce cf the
C;:miiiisti'Mcr cf Alien Passengers, aud none of
the geutleinea in his ofilee King pustcssed t-f the
facts, wo are ui::tb!c to state which of these tw
u:cthods wifs employed as the pretext of author
ity for cfi'ec trn the rendition of tlie unfortunato
creatures who willed Testenhijr in he 'Daniel
WrliFter ; t: r cau we ttate by wlr.it .Imtice of
the Teace. if any, the warrant wa issued. . Iiut
the ticts that they were wiit away, taul that tho
HU.o paid their passage, anil that, the iteous
Cries of this p-mr woman wi?h her chil l were
fuvh as to attract the attention of tl by.--tnnlcr
as she wrm hl on board th vesrl these facts we
have certafnly asccrtainecL' 1
And this tnigi-dy was don, not mind yon well,
in a paltry fishing village, where decayed lumbtr
and every garbage of the sea mskc the fit atmos
phere fr purblind prejudice ; this r,at don? in
thecn!-yitened loton, whose julpits have tho
schoolii are the most bcpraiised c f all Anu rican
institutions.' A gunshot from Eaueuil Ilall.in
those famous waters oiico bliwk with fym-iou tax
ed tea, this dfd was lti.e. in bixid daylight.'
with a city of neatly 200,00(J ClnWiaus hkikinjr
on. Well says that zealous and fearless frietid cf
truth, the ed:tr of tie AdecrfUer : " " ' "'
No vigilance conimlttt-i rallied sit ti e rumor
of .'the embarkation ' of M-try Will s. ' Ni
yottn-r and ;nthuiasth: counstl hvrricd to- proffer
her tl eir w ri ices. 'Judges were not Klicitcl at
tinseendy Lours for writs of hnU-j s corpus; an.f
nothing was said aliout the de komiue rrJtipinidn
in her case. SlK-rilH andcoro:ierh were i tot p'aued
with jiroccfcscs t'.tat they did not like to jtryc. ,
Tlic qitiet of the city was not broken ; only a few
heart-rending1 cries disturbed tho silence of L-ni;
Wharf on Monday evening the d ed was done,
the woman was embarked, and yesterday mor
ning the vessel sailed with' her living aud unwil
ling freight." '
Hail Mary Williams been colored black Iysomo
friendly hand, an! her hair crisped before lr
seizure, sh would have been in Boston still, la
boring for ixr infant child's support. But It-ing
a white person, ' and born i'.i Ireland," the was
banished jn-mptcirily from tho prediucts of
State, which, but for the emigration of which she
was an otrav. bad riot vet bc"an to fit out sliir s
- ....
like the Daniel H hsler. Our chivalrous Kcpult-
lio tnMts on having only the picked w u and wtv-.
men of Kuropa. if there is one oir, or infirm.
or sick, t-j tho hundred, he or he is to ba uicn-.
tinentiy turned adrift upon the high was. ; Not
evcu OS) ir cent, of health and vigor, will satisfy
our wide-awake economists.- Thr one-hundredtli -
individual must be also sound asnl serviceable t
hcr "a'.?o;feiZ country," or wie's the day she is
caught Stbout Boston. . "
We have a few questions to ak' our reader"
down there. There are tiO.OOO natives of I reland.
living within one hour's walk or drive of the spot
from which Mary . Williams was torn shrirkiiifr
away, under the new Kno v-Nothing ngiute.
They produce, on an average, on with unother,
male and female, Mp 12 p r week ; they sithtaiu
the. retail' trade of Boston, to a!ir..t the wholo
amount of their earnings exprndinp, Siy $100,-
000 a wee k. Take half, or quarter that sum for
one year out of the B ton trade, and what be
comes of it ? Tube the 00,000 out of the B ston
jopulation, and where will the city stand in tho
census of 1800? And yet It is in 6Uch a city,
where, with all their numbers and industry, tlicy.,
are as powerless as Negroes, and far lcs popvdar,
that some of the most vigorous sons lB.-l.tnd ever
reared will insist on staying ' To city where
tlie whole 60,000 could not save one of their rooV'
countrywomen from the fate Mary ' Williams u-
fered, they will still ding,! regardless of all the
dictates of self-respect, Rnl all the'snggcstlopi of.
self-advancement! ' ' -. "-.?
. What are they doing in B.ton ? ', ITnriehing.
others.,' What are they- leaving after thero 7 A
perverted posterity and a hostile memory. ...How
long will they continue to prefer its back btrecU ,
and aggravated score to tU i-tt cOuutry, sod
the genuine independence of . freemen and fee-T
hocn1 American Celt, i : " -" -'"- -;"!
Iliavy Damages. Mrs. J. M, Bute, of Cam- ,
bridge, Ohio, has recovered 44,600 from the Ceu-.
tral Ohio Tucikoad Company, for ixijuries 6nstain-w
ed by her during U collifcion' on -their toad 1&k(
spring, near Zanesville. ' ' ' '- ' " '