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: v From the Pentwylvanian. '
THE BURIAL OF SAM- '
"The P..Tlowing was found on one of the jUt
tforms in Independence Square, on Saturday night,
mfter the funeral of Sam had been adjourned, by
the rain, and is supposed to have been written by
ti Warrior poet of the West.
.-Many drums were heard, and tiic fife's shrill note,
As his corse to the " culvert" we hui ried ;
Many throats were " wet," and many a coat,
On the night that the rascal was buried.
Wc buried him darkly at dead of night, .
While the rain in a deluge was pouring,
Neath no struggling moonbeams' misty light,
-Jiut the thunder incessantly roaring.
Xo unless cofiln' enclosed Lis breast; "
' We " laid him away" as we found lam ;
JVnd he lay likca loafer taking his rest
, With his tattered rags around him. - : -
To hvmn was sung, nor no prayer was said,
And we dropp'd not a tear of sorrow ;
For now that our idol was hopelessly dead,
. , We had other thoughts for the morrow.
"Tis true wc all strove to keep him alive
- With "black drops" and pi lis, each sad mourner;
JJut too much pliysic- has settled his bash,
, - And like his i'ripnl I'mlc, U'-s a "oucci" .
Z ) ir';!- and grimly wc laid him down.
In the den of his shame, d;imp an-1 hoar.-;
AVe carved n a line, we raided not a stone,
: lhit we left him almc, the Ul lory J
.And now that our dirty wink was done,"
' And with lantfiW w.; v.o'e retiring,'."
"We heard the bxmiing and distant gun
; 3"ue victorious "Ikos" v ere firing. -
Lightl v they'd lanfcii o.Yi poor "Sam," wlioisgonc,
Ami for his dark crimes will Wrate dim ;
Jiiit. little he'll rvk. and liSbtka slffp on
Vhere the h:'m li of the'traitors Lave laid him!
'Pai'i.adei.I'UIa, dime 10, 1855. I.
-SPEECH OP HON. J. M. PORTER. ;
ViTpuTdish below the resolutin p:issed at
a grand mass meetiHg i OI-l Xoithainpton
county, a few days -since," in honor of the tri
nniph of Democratic principles in the patriotic
.State of Virginia, together with the eloquent
nd "masterly speech of Hon Jamf-s M. 1'ortbr
lelivorel ou the occasion a sp?ech we hope
to see eojiied into every lViuocratic tper in
tats Cotmiionweahh-, containing, as it docs.
uiIcick and ttryunit uix of the mt pointed and
Vuluable character. James 31. Porur, wheth
er considered as a lawyer, a Judge, a States
man, a (Sentlcuian, or a Democrat, is one of
flhe mcu of whom the people of this mighty
'Common wealth have reason to feel prond
and the facts he has portrayed in fhis speech
cannot fail to enlist the earnest attention and
warm regard of the united Democracy of Penn
sylvania: Tho resolutions, too, wc worthy
the men from whom they emanate :
. OLD K-QRTHAMPTOIT HOVDia !
PaTiotic Resolutions.
Tho Democracy of Northamptaa con(y
lias assembled in its might to congratulate its
members, and our fellow-republicans through-
out the State and Union on the triumph of
nrrect principles in the election of Henry A.
ise, the candidate of tho part3", as jroverRor
of Virginia to renew our allegiance to our
lime honored organization to bear our testi
mony to the correct principles of our party
to tho ruinous results which have ever char
acterized the temporary successes of our op
poneTits; and to prepare for the coming con
test ia our own State .
; We do therefore Resolve :
t at we hail with unmixed feelings of
gratification, the glorious triumph of the prin
ciples of Democracy at the recent election in
the good old Commonwealth of Virginia. A
resnlt which has stemmed the torrent of error,
fraud, fanaticism, ancl bigotry, which had
threatened to overwhelm our land ap the
foundations of our institutions violate the
principles of our constitution and jeopard the
Union of these States, cemented by the toil
and Used of the Revolution and established
by the wisdom and patriotism of our ances
tors.;' -2- That the nniive State of Washington,
Jefferson, Madison, Monroe aud Patrick Hen
ry was tho proper field - for the defeat of the
conspirators against the constitution and laws
- ?v r c,ouatry- 14 vas the proper breakwater,'
i -i ,Saage of President Pierce, to stay
Imu !v Kn.w-Nothingism, Abolitionism,
?, J tL?r 'tolerant "issues, that had for
Sf? 8 ctlonof all that was
near and dear to the friends of our glorioua
r ?kJ? 1 68 t0 the f"e of civil and
religious liberty everywhere. . . . -. 7 j
3. That we were wont to boast that thi '
our land, was an asylutn for tlSS'S
all nations, and we invite 8ac-h hither to tab
ernacle among us promisin? them n,. v
they should be permitted to worship God ac
cording to tho dictates of their own. csnscien
ces with none to harm them or make theia
afraid.. We promised, them the enjoyment
of those equal rights won for us by our fath
erw.Taud a participation of our privileges as
citizens of this free republic; when after a rea
sonable probation they deliberately desired tq
.come our follow-citizens. and we are not
Inih?- to incur the TePr taat all these
mlilTi?' profession and promises were
T Vwbypocrkr- -
laatthc secfet conspiracy which, with-
in the last year, has been concocted by wick
ed and designing men to create prejudices and
distinctions between native bora and naturali
sed citizens, and between different religious
denominations which are not only not recog
nized, but forbidden - by the Constitution,
should be reprobated by every honest man,
who has the welfare of hi3 country at heart.
5. That the attempt to prevent an open and
independent expression of opinion by any sec
tion of our citizens in the selection of men for
office, by secretly compelling the members of
the self-styled American party to vote for
whoever a majority of their association shall
select no matter how deficient in qualifica
tions and integrity, and without regard to the
preferences of the voter, is a conspiracy against
the liberties of our country and the free and
independent exercise of the right of suffrage.
" ti. That : all secret oaths and engagements
t deprive any of our citizens of the rights
guaranteed to tkenf by the Constitution, is a
conspiracy against the rights of man and a
wicked attempt to introduce an irresponsible
tyranny and despotism among us. And every
lover of his country should stand boldly forth
to p-at stop to such an iniquitous system.
7. That this new fangled order of Kno'v
Xothings, or by whatever other appellation
they may denominate themselves, originated
in fraud, falsehood and corruption and is bat
another phase, which the enemies of Democra
cy have assumed, to offect, if they could, its
overthrow and the prostration of the equal
rights it secures to all. That glorious Demo
cratic party which has ever stood np for the
rights of the people, and which all experience
has shown, is the only true American party,
and the only party which, in this couatry,
can be safely trusted with power.
8. That the Demercy of Northampton
county pledges themselves to their fallow-citizens
of the State and Union to join heart and
hand in restoring our Commonwealth to the
hands of the Democracy at the next election,
aisd b redeem our State from the disgrace
and degradation to which she ho been sub
jected under Know-Nothing mi.srale faring
the past year; and once more to place her i
her former proud position in the front rank of
the Democracy of the Union to Ftand side by
side with the glorifs old aud tteadfast Com
monwealth of Virginia.
', Speoeh of Hon. Jatnes M. Porter.
Hon J. 31. Pokter, arose and seconded the
j resolutions, iu doing which he said :" '-
' It gives me pleasure to second the resolu
i lion!? which have just been proposed. Vir-
Sir ? l? 11 it'O 1 V i .-yvk f,l P tin f Vi rr cjit l
heen faithful among the faithless or rather I
I should av she has not suffered error or
virtue to remain steadfast to principle when
error and delusion have led so many astray.
In these limes when there is so much political
prostitution when so many are ready to sac
rifice tho right to the expedient when the
terrible doctrine is proclaimed, that political
success will sanctify political fraud, it is cheer
ing to find one green spot amidst the wild
waste of political demoralization, which a
thirst for odicc, and a love of power have pro
duced. These resolutions breathe the proper spirit.
The election of Iltiiry A. Wi.c, ths manly
and indomitable candidate of the Democratic
party iu Virginia, is a result whieh has stem
med the torrent of error, fraud and fanaticism.
It will, under Providence, be the means of
putting an end to an immoral political move
ment which threatened to overwhelm our land,
tended to sap the foundations of our institu
tions was altogether at war with principles
of our government and would jeopard the
Union of these States. , -
TIk propagation of error is always most
uoteterious when it bears upon it propositions
which address themselves to our feelings and
prejudices in other words sophisms are apt
to mislead when tticy bear the semblance of
truth and accuracy. Acting upon this prin
ciple, this new Organization has sought to seize
upou power and place on the plausible pretext,
that its object is to cause America to be ruled
by Americans. Thus endeavoring to enlist
the passions and prejudices of alarge majority
of our citizens against a meagre minority.
In fact, : America" is : ruled by Americans,
for nine tenths of our citizens were born upon
our own soil, and1 the attempt to create &a
impression that we are ruled by foreigners, is
a gross fraud. , - '' ; . " " ; '""''
Again, the members of this organization are
aware that a large proportion of our citizens,
though of different religious denominations,
are protest ants, and brought up from their
earliest infancy, to abhor many of the doc
trines, and especially the church governments
of the Roman Catholic Church, and they would
seize upon this prejudice to aid : them in their
unholy designs. lleligious disputes, , have
ever been the most violent, jind when men get
into them, thcyecm to have lost all regard
for each other's rights and feelings ; and by
their virulence have brought reproach upon
the - religion of our blessed Savior. :What
wars and massacres lias it not led to ? : And
it is not peculiar to any one sect, when they
possess the civil power, to attempt to enforce
their own particular religious tenets upon the
minds and consciences of others. The desire
to persecute for opinion's eake, would seem to
be inherent in oar nature." - It is one evidence
of tho inconsistency of man, that when the
Puritans,- who had fled from religious perse
cution in' Europe, landed upon our shores.
among their first acts they refused to permit
a Iloman . Catholic, a Quaker or a Baptist to
reside among them, under pain of death.:
All restraints by law, or the Supremo pow
er ofthe State, in the cxerciso of ; teWgwi?,
opinions are at Tvar-with the rights of man
All trammels upon conscic&t-e'arc equally ty
ranny and oppression ; and yet, they were first
removed w tj country by the organic laws
of th3 states of the Union. I believe the right
to worship God according to the-dictates of a
man s conscience, was first recognized in the
Quaker colony of Pennsylvania and the Ro
man Catholic colony of Maryland.
Understand me,' I am no advocate or apol-
ogist
for either the doctriae or the cburca
government of the Roman Catholics 1 1 am, in
my religious sentiments, an old school Pres
byterian, by birth, habits and conviction.
But I am unwilling that religious opinions
should ever bo mingled with political consid-
erations. A man s rehcious beliet ra a tnmg
between him and his God, and I believe that
with the lights before him, nsan is responsible
to his maker for the correctness of his reli
gious belief and sentiments, in essential matr
ters. - ' ' . ' .
The advocates of the doctrines of any sect
have a right to make as many religious prose
lvtes as thev release. Thev have a risht, by
all the fair and legitimate arguments that they
can nse. to 'convince - their fellow-men -that
their doctrines and plans of church govern
ment are correct. But, the religious and po
litical institutions of a country must he kept
distinct. Religion is always injured by being
brought into contact with politics. It is too
sacred a thing ever to be connected with the
civil government of the country. Both the
interests of religion and the'rights of the citi
zens are prejudiced by it. ;
To the honor of these free States, they have,
in the theory of their government, provided
for the utmost freedom of. thought and action
on the subject of religion aud equal rights to
all religious denominations. The Constitu
tion of the United States provides : 44 Con
gress shall make no law respecting an estab
lishment of religion, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof, or abridging the frecdontof
speech or of the press . . -
The Constitution of Pennsylvania says:
ail men have a natural and indefeasible riht
to worship Almighty God according to the
dictates of their own consciences ; no man can,
of right, be compelled to attend, erect or sup
port any place of worship or maintain any
minister against his consent ; no human au
thority can, in any caso whatever, control or
interfere with the rights of conscience, and no
preference shall ever bo given, by law, to any
religious establuhnienta or mode of worship.
No nerson who acknowledges the being of
a God, and a future state of rewards and pun
ishments, shall, on account of his religious
sentiments, be disqualified to hold any office
or place of trust or profit under this common-
IVt'illlU.
Again, it declares that the free Vcoramu-
nicauon 01 uiouirins auu vpuiiuus, ia
ono of
the invaluable rights of man, and that every
citizen may freely speak, write and print, on
any subject, being responsible for the abuse of j
that liberty." . :
At this day the samo- piovisions aro suW
eaaUally xvuilaiued in-the Constitutions of all
the States- .They are the cardinal doctrines
of the revolution, which first put upon record
as the basis of all true government tht all
power is inherent in the people, and that all
governments derive their just powers from
the consent of the governed. (
Agaiu, the constitution of the United Sfates
confers upon Congress the power " to estab
lish a uniform rule of naturalization," an! it
will be remembered by all, that one of the
acts of arbitrary power, which justified 4ur
fore-fathers in casting off all allegiance to the
British Kinir, as recited in tho Declaration of
Independence was his refusal to sanction the
laws for the naturalization of foreigners. Our
fore-fathers thought, and thought rightly,
that it was tho interests, as well as the policy
of this country to encourage the emigratiou of
foreigners, to settle among us. when they de
liberately expressed a preference for our in
stitutions and form of government. Our
population would not have been able, by the
ordinary increase of the human family, with
out the aid of emigration, to augment suffice
ently for the exigencies of our country. We
had much, and still have much vacant and un
improved land to bring into culture we were
not able in ourselves to spare the necessary
hands from the culture of the soil, from the
mechanic arts and sciences and above all, in
our sympathetic feelings for the oppressed of
other lands, we held out to them the hand of
invitation and friendship, to come among us
and participate ' in the enjoyments of free
thought free speech free conscience and
free rights, which wo enjoyed. Our fathers
had fled from oppression to these shores, and
felt it a sacred duty to make our land an asy
lum for all who had been oppressed like them.
The constitution of the United States makes
no distinction between natural born and nat
uralized citizens, except that the latter are
excluded from the offices of President and
Vice President of the United States.
We have therefore these things laid down
as fundamental principles of our government
while they exist, wo have no right directly to
disregard them indeed the law would not
permit us so to do. What we cannot do di
rectly f we ought not to be . permitted to do
indirectly henco it was that when filling a
judicial station I felt it my duty to charge
the grand Juries in and adjacent district that :
"If any two or moro men shall combine to
gether for the purpose of preventing any of
our citizens, naturalized or native, from en
joying tho rights guaranteed to them by the
constitution it is a conspiracy and punishable
as such by indictment. -.
If any two or more men combine together
to prevent any citizen from enjoying the rights
guaranteed to him by the constitution, on ac
count of his religious feeling, or particular
mode of worshipping God, it is a conspiracy
and punishable as such by indictment.
If any number of men, combine or form
themselves into an association, by agreements,
vows or oaths to control the opinions and
votes of any portion of , citizens, in the exer
cise of thoir suffrages, so that they shall voto
not according to their own choice or the dictates
of their own consciences, but as a majority of
such association '- shall determine, it is a con
spiracy and punishable as such by indictment.
And it is the agreementto do the act, that
constitutes the criminality, even if the act it
self be not done."
I took occasion then, also 9 say : ' That
if any person or persons, shall have unthink
ingly, unadvisedly or without being aware of
the criminal character of such an act, 'joined
such associatien or tken upon himself any
such vows, obligations, or oaths, they are not
binding upon him in law and ought not to be
in morals. He will enact the part of a good
citizen by eschewinsr all such fellowship or as
sociation and abandoning their illegal enter
prise." ' . - s
,; Upon a careful review of this subject, lean
see-nothing inlaw, or morals to induce any
change in the doctrines thus laid down,-and I
am glad to find that the same views havo been
taken upon this subject in New York and
North Carolina. It is the view which is sanc-
4 tio&ed by Jaw, by
sound policy and good
1 morals
From what we learn of this association
which changes its name as often as Proteus is
fabled to have changed his form, the members
are sworn to deny that they belong to it.
That they are to preserve its secrets and that
H' their doings are secret and in conclave:
They vote in secret to nominate their candi
dates for political ofiioos, and each member is
sworn to vote for the x-andidate who receives
such secret nomination they are sworn not
to support the nomination or appointment of
any man, who happened not to draw his first
breath upon our soil or who has been educated
or choses to worship God according to the
ritual and doctrines of the Roman Catholic
Chuch. There may be other objectionable
obligations assumed by the member but these
are enough in all conscience, to stamp their
proceedings with the reprobation of all honest
men who love the institution of our country
i In the Erst place, a high regaid to morality
will insure correct habit.? of thinking and ac
ting. A sacred regarfl for truth, is essential
tto the well being of the community. A wil-
im aisregara 01 iruui is ine iatner 01 a wnoie
system ef Crimea. Whatever tends to pro
duce such disregard inflicts" a positive injury
upon tho community. -By reducing the stan
dard of truth and encouraging immorality.
What, then shall we think of an organiza
tion which requires of its members an oath
that they will not speak the truth, but that
they will utter falsehood in denying that they
belong to it. Even the habit of equivocation,
which, would
" Hold the word of promise to the ear
"" And break it to the sense,
tends greatly to destroy the moral sense, and
who would desire to live in a community
where 6uch doctrines were generally the rule
of action ?
. Again, in their mode of selecting candi
dates, this secret, midnight voting argu-is that
there w something wrong in it. , Why seek
the dark unless their deeds are evil? In a
republican government, where the people are
sovereign, everything shoul I be open to the
face of day. In the ordinary transactions of
life, we find it laid down that the secret trans
action of business is always suspicious. Ini
political measures the people should always
know ' everything that is proposed and they
should have a full opportunity of discussing
the merits and pretensions of every candidate
who is proposed for office, openly and publicly,
iu order, tbat the best men may be selected.
In a secret, cabal, the designing demagogue
has a greater opportunity to further his own
selfish views and rob the people of their rights.
And, if ho can in " addition to this, compel
others to support him in bis iniquitous pro
jects, great indeed is tho injury inflicted upon
popular soverignty. But then, this compel
ling men to sacrifice their own opinion, and
vote as othrrs shall direct, is an utter subver
sion of the right of suffrage it is tyranny and
despotism
w net nor exercisca Dy one man or
by many men
t:ie tyranny or the many is
often more destructive of tho rights of others
than the tyranny of man. There may be
generous impulses about a despot which would
not pervade a set of selfish aristocrats or dem
trrogiKs. -The giving up of one's own opinion
of the fitness of a candidate for office and
Mindly - following lb orders of others in vo
ting, is entirely destructive of th9 right of
free choice which is the object of the ballot
box - .
The rprn nrvtinr together of men profes
sing the same political creed and selecting
from a number of aspirants those thought wor
thy of public support for office, is a proper
mode for the concentration of publio opinion,
to earry out the principles of the party, but
there is no compulsion by secret oaths in that
case, to compel a man to vote for such candi
date if he is not worthy of. publio confidence.
That is a very different thing from the secret
midnight oath bound conclave of the Know
Nothings. '.. . " .
It was the secret conclaves ; the deep and
silent intrigues of the ' tyrants who ruled
France in the reign of terror, that under the
name of liberty, deluged that fair country with
blood. Eeware that yoa do not permit like
causes to produce like effects here. i
So much for the moral and political aspects
of this organization, independent of its at
tempts to restrict the rights of naturalized
citizens and Catholics. In these respects,
their operations are as unjust in point of prin
ciples, as they aro illegal and unconstitutional
in point of law. It is an attempt, by opera
ting upon sectarian and local feelings, to cre
ate a prejudice against all persons born in
foreign countries no matter how long since
they may havo been naturalized nor how long
they have resided among os- no ' matter that
they are men of tho highest moral worth, in
telligence and virtue. No matter that -hey
have coma to this country from deliberate
choice, and havo married and settled among
you. None of these things can be taken into
consideration in a proscription that reaches
tho whole class. 1 Talents, capacity, integrity
of the highest order, and education of the most
finished kind, are all to bo set aside for the
mere accident of birth. Many of these for
eigners who have come here by choice many
who have come here in infancy with their pa
rents, and have really known no other coun
try thao this, have boea citizens of the United
States for more years than many of those who
find fault with them have attained.
I am not one of thoye, who prrfcr foreign
ers to native born citizens. But all should
have the rights which the constitution guar
antees. As it has been remarked, there is
little danger of the naturalized citkews con
trolling our elections. Notwithstanding all
that can be said upon this subject as to the
matter .of principles, there is and will be such
a partiality among the majority of our native
born citizens, in favor of themselves, that
they will not grant to the minority, which
our naturalized citizens compose, a whit more
of public patronage and employment, than
their numbers and capacity entitle them to--if
so much. There may have lee exceptions
to this, in former days, in some- of our large
cities, where both tho political parties into
which our country Jas divided, have been
courting the foreign populjjon by giving
them place and office. But this has correc
ted itself, and now they scarcely have justice
done to tbem in this respect. Such was even
tlfi case before this organized proscription
took place. But throughout the country
they constitute but a drop in the bucket of
our entire population, so that if they were
even disposed to evil, of which we have no
evidence, they would be perfectly impotent to
accomplish their object. -
The result therefore is, that this denuncia
tion and proscription of naturalized citizens,
is sheer pretense a"bug-bear, created by po
litical hypocrites and knaves, to bamboozle
political fools. A 6heer humbug to bring
unthinking men from the support of the
Democratic party, which always goes for the
support of the priciples of free government
and has in view the greatest number main
tains the right and capacity of the people to
govern themselves, extends equal rights to
all, because it holds that all men are created
equal. It is to seducs men from this party to
aid unprincipled aspirants to obtain office and
place to fatten upon the public to be fed
from the public treasury, that this prejudice
is fostered and fomented. This and the prej
udice excited against one christian denomina
tion, have enabled this organization by coa
lescing with other isms to sweep the late
elections of the States and invest them with
power, which they have in every instance 0
least, used without discretion and without any
regard to the organic law cf our country
This proscription, for opinion's sake in matters
of religion, independent of its being a palpa
ble infraction of the principles of the consti
tution of the United States and of this State,
and a criminal offence, for which, the pun
ishment by fine and imprisoumont, is non too
heavy, is calculated to set society by its ears,
and introduce a state of feeling that would
make a perfect Pandemomium of our happy
country it is an offence, against the light
and intelligence of the nineteenth century
an attempt to bring s back to the dark ages
of barbarism and superstition, ere the press
had been brought in use to spread light and
knowledge over a benighted world. If the
moral and political atmosphere of our count
ry, is thus to be beclouded, then was the
Declaration of Independence adopted for
nothing, and the toil, treasure and blood of
the Revolution spent in pursuit of a phantom,
which appeared but to deluge the oppressed
and down-trodden friends of liberty.
- This election in Virginia has cheered the
members of the Democratic party throughout
the Union. It shows, that there is a redeem
ing spirit in the people it encourages the
republican, by giving him another evidence
that the people are fit to fee their own rulers
it gives to all who have an abiding confi
dence in popular government an assurance
that confidence is not misplaced. The people
are awakened to a sense of the error and mis
representation by which they were misled.
The light of truth is irradiating cur whole
political atmosphere, and error and misrepre
sentation must fly discomfited from the radiant
light of truth.
Hundreds and thousands of deceived men
seeing tho abyss into which the meas-ures of
their deceivers were about to plunge the insti
tutions of our country, will shrink aghast
from the spectacle refuse thir aid to make
seipwrcck of the hopes of patriotism, aud
turn upon" the men who have been lurrtig
them on to this work of destruction. The
people are always honest when rightly inform
ed; they never intentionally do a political
wrong. . If under impulse and misrepresen
tation, they sometimes err from the infirmity
of human nature, they correct the evil at the
first opportunity. ..Time and the ballot box
the diffusion of knowledge and truth are great
correctives of the evils to which political so
ciety is subject. ! '
To those who have unwillingly been led
astray but have now seen tho error, and repent
of it, let us hold out tho hand of reconcillia
tion and forgiveness. To err is human to
forgive divine.
To those who, with light and truth before
them, persist in these flagitious attempts to
violate the rights dear to freemen, no fucIi
kindly feelings should be extended they have
shown the cloven foot and are unlit. associates
for the children of truth and light.
Thank God, the Democracy of the " Tenth
ixjlotC has stood firm throughout, this con
flict. To her is to be imputed no part of the
degradation to which our Commonwealth has
been subjected let us again stand together,
shoulder to shoulder, a solid phalanx in the
great army of Democracy. Let us watrh
that no traitors or hypocrites be put forth as
our standard bearcas, and wo may, at the
next session of the legislature, sweep fro-u
our statute books much of the digraccful
legislation which thaw;;kennc, corruption
and ignorance u? the last legislature enacted.
It may safely be said 'of them, that they
have furnished another conclusive evidence
that our politWl opponents never obtained
power that tbey did not abuse it, and never
got into power without being turned out by
the. people at the first constitutional opportunity.
Horiible Murder inPreston County, Va.
A horrible murder was committed in the
Gorman settlement, Preston county, on Sun
day rooming last, the particulars of which, ss
authentic as we could gather them, as follow.":
Kbcn Lipscomb, -tho husband of an affec
tionate and dutiful wife, and father of fix
chUJren, bad for some time previous evinced
a kind of in&auu petnlence and pecvichncf-s,
the result perhaps of bodily infirmitj-, (hav
ing been in ill health for the past eight month:,
aud at times thought to be partially deranged , )
on Sunday morning lat murderod his wifo
in the most shockinir manner. She was sitting
before the fire, with brTjack to the door".
Lippcomb entered the house quietly, with an
axe in his band, and coming up behind her,
struck her wilhtLc pole of tho ase, crushing
th bai-k part of her head ; then, as she fell,
with the blade of the axe, split open and hor
ribly mangled the frontal skull and face. Af
ter he had committed - the awful deed, he
seems to have been, for a time, intent on ta
king Lis own life ; having battered his head
agaiust the jamb, near by his w ife's corpse ;
stabbed himself twice in the stomach and ab
domen, besides plunging into a mill-pond near
by. He was taken to Kingwood on Monday
and committed to jail to await his trial, when
all the facts of his sanity and the turpitude of
his conduct will be elicited and weighed by a
jury of his countrymen, to wbewe decision we
would leave the case, without attempting to
forestall public opinion for or agaiust tho
accused. ;
Being in Kingwood on Tuesday morning,
we visited the prisoner in lis dreary cell, ia
company with the jailor and some of his neigh
bors. Lipscomb, a man of perhaps 40 years,
pale and emaciated, with dishevelled hairnd
bcatd tnshorn, scourged by an accusing con
science, (for he then conversed freely and
sanely) was a spectacle horrifying to contem
plate. He appeared to be penitent, and to
feel the enormity of his crime. He assigned
no reason for the inhuman act other than bod
ily and mental infirmity ; he eaid he had no
other, for said he, " the sun never ihoue on
a better or kinder woman than my wife."
It is a melancholy event, and created much
excitement in the hitherto quiet and "orderly
' settlement' where it transpired. Mjrirmga
lia Mirror, June lGtli.
Remarkable Case of Attempted SrrciiB
ny A Gkrmak Lover. A desperate attempt
to commit suicide was made on the sidewalk
in front of the French hoarding house on the
terrace, near Miller's livery 6table, last even
ing about 7 o'clock, by a German, whose name
is ascertained to be Gottleib Gork, who has
been in this country but a short time. york
was desperately in love with a comely Ger
man girl, named Augusta Vascher, who -also
came to this country recently, and had board
ed at the above house about three weeks.
She did not receive his attentions in a manner
which suited him. and he has not only threat
ened to take her life, but actually brcke into
the room where she was sleeping, on Satarday
night, and pointed a pistol at her head; her
cries, however, alarmed the proprietor of the
house, who came to her assistance and drove
Gork away.
Siuce then he went to the Falls, but re
turned yesterday, and again importuned Au
gusta to marry him. She again refused, when
he took a double barrelled pistol from his
pocket, stepped to the sidewalk, placed the
muzzle in his mouth and fired. Tho pistol
was loaded with shot, otherwise the attempt
would have been fatal. As it was, he was
shockingly nrntHsted, without effecting his
object. About three-quarters of the tipper
jaw was blown off, the roof of the mouth, and
a portion of the upper hp carried away, the
right nostril laid open, and the left corner of
the mouth cut for some two inches in as many
pluces. His face presented the sorriest sight
we have wltncs.-ed for many a day. Dr. J.
II. Tilden was called to his aid, who, after
dressing the wound, gave it as his opinion
that ifec p.Tor fellow would live, though his
face must be woefully disfigured. lifffuJo
Express, Jvnr :
ToiXTEn Kxtkact. In one of Rev. Ij. II.
Chap in's sermons is the following pointed ex
tract t "
i ' Many a mnn tht re is, v!Mhed in respecta
bility, and proud of his honor, whos central
idea of life is iuterst and '-ase, the conception
that other men are mere l-ols to bo used as
will best serve him, that God has endowed him
with piriew aud brain merely to scramble nno
get; and m in this grand universe, which is a
perfect circulation of benefits, ho lives like a
sponge on a rock, to abforlaud bloat and die.
Thousands are living so, who never look out
of the narrow circle of their self-interest; whose
decalogue is arithmetic, whose Bible is thtir
ledger; who have so contracted and hardened
and stamped th-ir natures, that in any spirit
ual estimate, they would pass for oulv s j m.i-
ny
bo'ras dollars.
Another Marvel We often hear of sows
events bo fctariling that our wonder ro'asins
excited for a long period. Anion? pranybthcr
blessings that abound in the IV est, they fre
quently have quite "a respectable hurricane."
The Cape May county (Mo.) Gaxetto reports
the whims of their latest visitor of tbat kind.
Hear it: Great number? of birds, rabbits.
Ac, were found torn to pi-rcs in iu course,
and we are informed that the poultry of Mr. "
Youri, which were not killed, were stripjMul
a naked ax if thsy Aud feeu tcahfed and
pick-rd fr the frw'nypan." This statement
would make a readable adcmla to the Arabiaq
Knigh'.s, 1
A Case or Rxcessive Modesty. On Sun
day night h young tellow weut "sparking
Snriurrfield. Mass.. and. in utfornnimf, tn
in
ter the lady's residence through the back vard
cu-
was arnvted by tho police as a burglar. His
modesty prevented an explanation, and ho re
mained iu the lock-up until Monday morning
t