i )ri If v fl THE BLESSINGS OF GOVEKNMENT, LIKE THE DET7S OF HEAVEN, SHOULD EE DISTEI3TJTED ALIKE UPON THE HIGH AND THE LOW, THE SICH AND THE POOR. m 1 m i-y- NEW SERIES. TERMS: THE DEMOCRAT & SENTINEL, is publish ed every Wednesday morning, in Ebensburg, advance, if not $2 will be charged. AIJVeUTISENIENTS will be conspicuously in- ported at the following raies, w. 1 squaro S insertions, Every subsequent insertion, 1 square 3 months, I . 6 " , t i year, $1 00 25 1 00 5 00 12 00 30 00 15 00 6 00 "col'a 1 year " " " Business Cards. Crj-Twetve lines constitute a square. Tlie Xew Son; BY GEODOE P. MORRIS. The Poets, all honor to them, make " sunshine in a bhady place." Who as he walks through the sloppy highways and by-ways of a great city d..s not mentally " thank God for pleasant weatuer." Hero we have the aspiration of many heart done into a song by Ameriac's own song writer : Thank God for pleasant weather 1 Chant it merry rills ! And clap your hands together. Ye exciting hills ! Thank Him. teeming valley ! Thank Him, fruitful plain I For the golden sunshine, And the silver rain. Thank God of good the Giver I Shout it. Bportive breeze ! Respond, oh tuneful river! To the nodding trees. Thank Uim, bird and bird'.ing! As ye grow aud sing ! Mingle in thanksgiving Every living thing ! Thank God with cheerful spirit. In a glow of love, For what we here inherit, Aud our hopes above ! Universal nature Revels in her birth, When God in pleasant weather. Smiles upon the earth ! m1 " 8peecfc.es delivered before the Demo cratic State Convention. tiAKca 4th, 185G. WM. TJ. IIONTGOMERT. Mr. Pet.3idest: I regret, sir, that the misplaced kindness of my friends has intru ded my name upon this Convention. For eeveral weeks my constant attention lias been devoted to the duties of my profession, and I am entirely out of practice as a political spea ker. It ia true that I must plead guilty of having, occasionally, in times of high politi cal excitement, participated in the discussion of the great political questions on which the nation has been divided, but the thoughts of other times, like most of the political organi sations arrayed against us; have passed away. And will no more avail me now, than would the political sentiments of Henry Clay or Daniel Webster avail the Know-Nothing Re publicans of the present time. (Cheers ) It would be embarrassing to the first ora tors of the nation to be called upon to address - you have just listened. ho would not shrink from the task or speaking alter such men as Governor Bigler, Co!. Black, and C. Ti. Buckalew, men acknowledged as the ablest debaters and first orators of the nation. I feel that it would be as the Irishman said of the frog, " taking long leaps for the length of my legs," to attempt to address you after such men. It is a very different thing to ad .?ris a Convention composed of the highest talents of Pennsylvania, from speaking in my native county, among my friends and neigbbors, from the hills, who will forgive my errors and imperfections. The whole political field, too. has been al ready passed in review, so that there is hard ly sufficient space left me, even for a ''towing Look improvement." But a short speech is as easy to make as a ehort apology. And, although I will not at this lata hour, undertake to make you a politi cal argument, you will pardon a few remarks on the life of that greatest living American statesman James Buchanan. We are em phatically a "fast people," and we all begin to feel that we have been progressing too rapidly, and the people, with one accord, de mand of Young America" to halt in his 'headlong career. We must go back to the true and tried statesmen of the past We must have a candidate for the Presidency in whom the people can confide. A man whose character will be a guarantee to the farmer, the mechanic, the merchant, in ehort, to all classes, that our national institutions and our national honor will be preserved and defended. Cheers.) We want a man for the Presiden cy, the force of whose exalted character, and and the history of whose life has inspired the confidence, and . won the admiration of friend and enemy. Such a man is now sought by the nation, without distinction of party. And such a man the people have found in him whom we all delight to call ' Pennsylvania's favorite son." (Cheers ) In past times it has been customary with our opponent, to ask who our candidate was, but such will not be the case after the nomi nation of James Buchanan. The memory of bis glorious deeds is interwoven with the -brightest pages of national history And his fame as a statesman, will live with the legis lation of the last quarter of a oentary. Sixtv-five vears aro when the broad and beautiful valley around us was comparatively a wilderness in a rude log cabin in Franklin county, James Buchanan was born. The vigorous arm of his father had felled the for est trees, and heaven's sunlight fell on the !...!. plrarinw that surrounded his humble house. A few years afterwards, if you had visited that ?pot, you might have witnessed the gambols of a flax-headed boy, in the in nocence of childhood, as he threaded the paths of the gloomy old forest, chasing the butterfly and plucking the wild flower. Who that had then gazed upon that child, would have predicted that he one day was to be the great5t living statesman in America? What a beautiful commentary it furnishes on the institutions of our country ! The log cabin boy. with the laughing check and open brow of that day has become the calm, dignified statesruau of the present, with a fame as ex tended as civilization, and a free people are about to elevate him to a position, far higher in dignity acid honor, than that held by the most powerful sovereign in Europe. (Cheers.) James Buchanan was bom in full view of the mountain ranges, whose lofty summits " rusking on the sky" doubtless awakened in his infant mind the first ideas of the sub limity of nature. The lofty forest trees in whose shade he rested from his toils, the mournful music of the wind as it swept thro' the leafless branches in Autumn the gloom of Winter the blossoms that sprang from the soil in early Spring all called for his patient study, and impressed his mind with that state i i -. ..- ly and solemn ai which in after years "held listening Senates 'c""J in awe. (Cheers.) Such, Mr President, was little James Be CIIANAN Years passed by, and the little cabin boy has become a man. And wc find hiin taking hi3 place as a member of the bar in Lancas ter county, at the time one of the ablest in the State. He was poor, and necessity de mpnded exertion, and he was soon the rival and the equal of the best of his profession. During the war with Great Britain, the English army flushed with victory threat ened the destruction of the city of Baltimore. News of the intended attack were sent by ex press throughout the land. A company of volunteers was immediately pnrolled in the city of Lancaster. Among that number, and the first to respond to the call, was a stripling lawyer, marching in the ranks as a common soldier a model for all in hi3 manly bearing and strict obedience to the command of his officers. Who is he that thus carefully casts aside his law books, and voluntarily takes up on himself the perils and privations of a sol dier's life, and enrols himself among his coun try's defenders. That stripling lawyer is young James Buchanan. (Cheers.) In 1814 the people of Lancaster county cast about them for some man in whom they had the highest confidence some man of in tegrity, ability and patriotism for a represen tative in the State Legislature. Our nation was at war. That choice, Mr. President, was James Buchanan . Thij was his first endorse ment by the people of his adopted country. In 1820, the people of that county wanted a representative cn the floor of Congress. They had tried James Buchanan in the legislature of the State and he had not dissappointed their high expectations, and thev sent him a more exalted position in the councils of the nation. In IS 23 Jame3 Buchanan declined a re election and returned his practice at the bar and was acknowledged to be the ablest lawyer in the State. In 1S34. the people in the State of Penn- svlvania desired a representative in the Sen ate chamber of the United States. They had the whole State from which to choose, but from all the erifted and distinguished men within our borders, James Buchanan was se lected not through intrigue and management but freely, voluntarily, and without solici tude on his part, he became our representative And in the Senate chamber of the U. States, in the intellectual coufiicts.'with not the great est men in America only, but we can proudly say with tno greatest men of the world, he proved hwnseJt tneir peer ana tueir equal In 1844, James K. Polk had been elected President of the United States,, and he cast his eyes over the nation to select the wisest and best of our glorious great men to assist him in the administration of the government of our country. He had twenty millions from whom to select, yet, Mr. President, his first choice fell upon James Buclianan for the highest position in his gift. His presence in that cabinet won the confidence of the Amen can people, and his safe and patriotic coun cils conducted the nation through the perils of a foreign war and added thousauds of miles to our national domain and he relin quished his power amid the plaudits of a great ful people. In 1852, the people of the United States demanded a representative at the Court of St. James. From all the great and illustrious statesmen of our glorious land, James Bu chanan is selected, and the heart of the na tion went with him over the sea. lie is now entering on a new arena The varied duties of his new situation call for a display of un tried powers. His powerful intellect must enter upon a course of discipline for the new tasks now imposed upon him. He is in daily intercourse with the greatest statesmen and diplomatists of the whole civilized world. But even there he fills tho full stnn.Urd nf l,u intellectual greatness. He stands there as he stood in his native land, the greatest of the great ; and the voice of all nations admits James Buchanan to be the most illustrious and distinguished minister at the most power- iui ourt in x.urope. At the present moment the people, not of Pennsylvania, but of the whole Union, proud of our own glorious son, are sending their voice across the expanse of waters to call the glorious statesman home, to lead the great national Democratic party in the contest of 16 and on th 4tU day of Iforcb, 1S67, EBENSBUE.G, I James Buchanan will be inaugurated Presi dent of the United States. Hi3 whole life has been one continued dis cipline for the exalted and varied duties of the proud position which he is destined to 11. As a member of this hall, in early youth, he received his first lessons in the principles of State legislation and State rights. On the floor of Congress, -be was taught, in intellec tual conflict with the giant minds of America, the rights and duties of a representative and Senator. In the Cabinet of a Democratic President he was taught how to rule a free people. And now, as our representative of his country in a foreign land, he is familiari zed with the diplomacy and diplomatists of lands beyond the sea "These are lessons by which he has been trained for the Presidency. The hand of Providence seens to have guard ed and guided the course of his life for the fulfilment of this splendid destiny. The full maturity of his cultivated and powerful intel lect, enriched by the experience of more than forty years spent in the service of his country, pre-eminently qualifies him as the Chief of the Nation. America has but one such man, and it gladdens the hearts of a faee people to do him honor. Mr. President, I have merely glanced at some of the incidents in the history of James Buchanan. We have reen the stripling boy, the favorite of the people of his adopted couniy, but they were not permitted to retain him. Pennsylvania demanded him, and he became the favorite son of our great State ; but the Nation is now demanding him from us as the chief of our mighty people. The log- cabin boy of Franklin county, in the maturi ty of his intellectual power, is to-day the eatest statesman in the world. The young lawyer of the Lancaster bar has risen step by step, always advancing with a sure and steady progress he has taken no step backward He is first elected a member of the State Legislature, next he is found in the halls of the lower house of Congress ; next in the Senate of the united States from the Senate to the Cabinet of President Polk ; from the Cabinet to the Court of St James, and the almost united voice of a free people is now calling him to the Presidency of the United States. (Cheers.) Earth's honors have been or will soon b conferred upon him. He will soon be on the topmost round of human elevation, and from it he will have bat one more step to take, that step will be to the skies. (Enthusiastic cheering.) EON. JAMES il POUTER. I suppose, Mr. President, I must bow to the will of the majority. I had not intcn ded, sir, to trouble this Convention with any remarks further than what was necessary to the transaction of our business ; and-I was confirmed in that position, feeling that should appear to great disadvantage after the able speeches that 1 heard from other gentle I t t T . 1 " men, more accustomed to speaxing tnan mv self. Young America has the country in ther charge and we old fogie3 must give way to theai, (Laughter and applause,) and all that we can ask of them is that thev take a little advice, derived from the experience of age. (jive us energy and resolrftiou to help us, backed by the experience of age, and our march will be onward triumphantly to victo ry 1 have but a word or two to say on this occasion, for I never like long speeches, and what I will eay will bo iu relation to the Know-Nothing party, and the violation by that party of the laws and constitution of our country. I perhaps had the honor, for I esteem it an honor, to be the first person to tako public ac- lion in relation to tneir conuuet. Applause. I held it to be my duty, when filling a judi cial station and acting undet the sanction of an oath to discharged those duties faithfully. to call the attention of the Grand Jury of ayne county, in Uecember, lbo4, to this organization, which I then held and now hold to the contrary to the laws and Constitu tion of the country, and a violation of those laws to a criminal extent, and I held that any member of the Association of Know-Noth ings was liable to be indicted and convicted of a conspiracy in attempting to deprive a por tion of our citizens of the rights guaranteed to them by the laws and Constitution of the United States. (Applause.) For this I was threatened by Sam and Dan to Beersheeba ; and I heard that it was their intention to have me brought before the Know-Nothing Legis lature of Pennsylvania, and have me removed from office ; 1 told them to go ahead, that I knew they did not love to hear the truth, but they should hear it there as well as in Wayne county. (Applause.) Now, sir, one of the first amendments to the Constitution made at the very first session of Congress is this, " Congress shall make no laws respecting the establishment of reli-non or prohibiting the free exercise or abridging the right of the people." lhe Constitution of Pennsylvania declares that no man shall be called to account before any human tribunal for his mode of worship- fl t 1 . . . t t . . uoa, Dut tnat ne shall uo so Ireely oc- cording to his conscience. I give the idea.-i Then, sir, we have a set of men coming togeth er and although the Constitution of the United States aurthorizes Congress and re quires them to pass laws for the naturalization of foreigners combining and conspiring to gether in secret for the purpose of depriving naturalized citizens of the rights guaronleed to them by the Constitution. There is an ex press infraction of the law, and had an indict ment been brought before me against them, assurred you of the fact m truth, they should have been convicted. (Laughter and applause.) . In that charge to the Grand Ju ry to which I have refered, I gave an extract ot the law or conspiracy from two decissions ; one made by the Chief Justice of Massachu setts, and the other by the Chief Justice of Pennsylvania ; these I quoted in my charge. "Some fellow in Massachusetts-a Know-Nothing and he was a Know-Nothing naturally ; he need cot have joined the Order to become APRIL 9, 1858. oaj (Laughter,) published an editorial article, and headed it "Judicial Stupidity," aud theu gave the extract from the churge, with the comment of "whoever heard of an overt act." ' I requested one of the editors cf a Boston paper to republish the article, and Lead it "Editorial Stupidity," and to refer him to the decision of the Chief Justice of his own State, for what I had laid down, and there I left the matter. Notwithstanding the Constitution contains provision that no man shall be disturbed ou I .(. nr.t of !. religious onmions. these i now- Nothings try to excite the worst ppirit of re ligious intolerance, by arraying tlie Protes tants against the Catholicf, and depriving the latter of ihose rights guaranteed to them un der the Constitution This I held to be conspiracy, and I think that the good sense of the people have sustained me, as the law of the country does, in that opinion. Now, how can a party with such an object in view succeed. They may excite prdjudico for the moment, but the excitement having no principle at its base, cannot last much longer. The good sense of the people has passed upon it. They have seen that it has no principle to support it recognized by 'sound sense, sound morals, or sound law, and it has passed away, and Know Ncthingisni with all its pre tensions to popularity has died away. It at one time threatened, sir, to overrun the coun try with itsdetestable doctrines ai;d destroy all our institutions, but thank God the season of reflection among the people came, and it met us reDuu in gionous old v irgmi-.. j.ue elec tion of Wise stopped the mad career of the party and it met with uothing but defeat after defeat, from that time to this. The recent election in Pennsylvania redeemed this State, aud we now behold the hails of our Legs!r ture filled by men who sustain Democratic measures aad Democratic principles, instead of the reckles band that congregated theie last year. The men who composed our la.st Legisla ture seemed bound by no obligation or moral sense. Iney wouid swear, as was eloouentlv said by the gentleman from Lycoming, (Mr. Packer) to tupport the Constitution iu one breath, and then present laws and enact them, to violate in the next. Thank God that day has gone by like the anti-Masonic excitement which once exLsted here and passed away, and now its orginators, if they have any shame in them, are ashamed. Sir, I have no patience with such a band of conspirators. The are emphatically the dark lantern party, and have, as they deserved, lost everything Uke public confidence. The day of their triumph has gone by, and they are fast sinking into that infamy which they so richly deserve. Mr. President No party can ever exist here that is not a party founded upon princc ple. No party ever existed in this Union for any lenght of time, that had for its object the destruction of the Constitution and the laws. I, sir, have faith in the intelligence of the people. They may be led away for a time by impulse, but soon reflection comes, sound morals return, and delusion passes away. I have an abiding sense, nut only in the right, but the ability of the people to govern them selves ; and excitements comiug in ouce and a while do good and give time for sober second thought, which is always right, and alwajs rectifies the wrong the people have been led into by impulse As a party, we have based our proceedings upon the sovereignty of the people, their right to govern themselves, and their capacity so to do. We bow to them, to their expressed and deliberate will, at all times, and we are perfect lv tafe iu so doinr. It never can be that any other party, without principles, can ever hate any permanent hoIJ upon the people. The Democratic party is the national party, the part- of the people, the only party than can safely be trusted by them with power. (Applause.) Our prin ciples is the their polar star, and it is only when thev pass from it, like the Israelites of old, and go hunting after fa.se Gods that they can be defeated. Sir, while they keep the polar star in view, and steer by it, they are always Fate. Eook at our opponents, where are they ? Kept together only by the cohesive power of a love for plunder, for the loaves and fishes; and when they get into power, and get into the money-ehest, they are so confounded greedy that they thrust l oth arms into the chest, and the people turn them off like robbers. . No such iudrrment has ever been passed upon the Democratic party. They are used to power-and it is no grab game with them. But with our adversaries; looi back, and see if the people, either in the government of the United States, or that of Pennsylvania, have twice successively trusted our opponents with power. There is so no such instance on record ; and the reason is, that they are not fit to be trusted with it. Applause. Democratic members of cither the National or State Legislature, recognize the right of their constituents to govern them by instructions they are there to carry out the will of the people: but how is it with their opponents? Why, sir, durinar the ex citement which took place a year ajro, thev elected a larcre number of Black Republican Know-Nothings members of Congress : and what i3 the consequence ? A revolution in the public sentiment has been brought about by their outrageous conduct, as shown by the recent elections ; and I do not suppose that one of them could again carry his district. Spoih is what this party fights for ; and its representatives in office say we have got the power, and we will exercise it to reward our followers. Now, sir, this carrying out the principles of government with a vengeance. and thank God, the balance wheel of the Sen- ate is left; and the coantry is safe from the j mad actions of such an unprincipled party. j Mr. President, P have said a word about ! Know-Nothingistn, and now I will pay my re- j spects to the Black Republicans. (Laughter j and applause ) Tho Constitution of the Uni ted States contains this provision, , Nfpersou held to service or labor in one State under the laws therefore, escaping into another, te." sir, ti.at is t iii the provisicus of in 1785 ; just as cf the Constitutif.il aciot u-a formal as any other pn.vis-ion of the Constilu- tion. Shortly after tij.it Const nu;in was adopted, an act in relation to fugitive -lao; was passed, which authorizes the racers of t ne State government to execute that law. 5-:. rome states as soca as an agination was gcit up by sibolitioni'sts, parsed lbit.nir tneir cmccrs Ironi execuln.r t;::s law which they had a right to do and I am sorry to say that such a ftatute is upon the record in good old. holiest, Pennsylvania PcnLsylvania ex ercising a power which she legitimate'- might, abolished slavery by a gradual proems--, and for years that law was the only one on the sub ject; but withiu the last twelve years since there has been a law passed prohibiting tlie officers of Pennsylvania noni . execuimg tlie to which I have al- r - . , law of the United State lu.led, and it etands u our statute books now our and I hope that some of the Senators of State who hear me, will pee to bavin a law pasted repealing it. It n a law tint is merely within the words of the Constitution, but violates its spirit, and I hope that they will blot it from our statute books; that thev will pass a law repealing it, and l.t it go to the Governor, and tec w hether he dare veto it. That law shall be repealed. Iu the yen 18 SO, the House of Representatives of this State passed a law repealing a part cf it, and it went to the Senate, and theio our opponents had a majority, and it cicd a natural death. I have no doubt that if our representatives attempted to repeal it now, that our opponents would try to km it in some way for the sake of the factions which they represent, but, sir, they should be shown that tliey might try iu vain before the close of th session. Ap plause. Well, Mr. 1 'resident, in conse quence of laws similar t the one parsed in Pennsylvania beitjg passed by the various States, Congress found it ncossary to conf-ti-tute officers of the United States to perform this duty; and then commenced the clamor against the fugitive blave law, which was nothing else than the original law ho modiiitd as to avoid this law, and all the clamor was made against it. The Constitution was a nnttor of co;.p; misc. In it the various States gave up to each o her certain rijrhts essential to them, so to allow theui to come together and forma Union of States. The compromise of that Constitution must be faitLfally preser ved, in order to preserve this Union in its in tegrity ; and every part of that Constitution is binding upon the whole Union, every State of it aud every porson ia l, a'jd nothing can bo enacted in violation of it. We have assem bled here to-day for the purpose of doiug our part to preserve the Union in its ictecrity, aud we have uiaCto our nomination with that view, and it is one that will meet the approba tion of the Democrats of the whole Common wealth, and I hope-it will meet with that of the whole Union, for I believe the gentleman nominated is a perfectly safe btatesmati, who will preserve that Constitution in its letter and spirit; and if he is elected, the .Uuion is safe ind the efforts of men who are trying to create disseusion and disunion will be defeated Now, sir, I have very little further to saj-. I have not mixed in political life or the politics of my Sute, lately. I believe I was a mem ber of a Democratic Convention pome twenty three years ago, when John Shultz was nom inated for Governor. From that time to this the Democracy have been true to the Consti tution, have been mainly true to their princi ples and true to the people, and my word for it. if tho nomination made here this dav is ratified throughout the Union, when you come to the Tenth Legion, we will roll up a major ity of six thousand for Buchanan (Ap plause.) The Pacific Railroad. From the Washington Evening Star. We have no idea that Congress w ill con summate any plan whatever for commence ment of the construction of a railroad to the Pacific. The fever in favor of such an un dertaking on Government account, or by a Company with Govi rumcnt aid in the shape of land grants, rages by no means ss high in Washington this winter as during the last. However, it matters little how anxious gentle men in public life who desire to urire the scheme may be, the sentiment of a large ma- i jority of this Congress is decidedly opposed to I undertaking or promising the aid of the Gov- crnment to the construetiou of such a work J across the vast barren and unoccupied plains j and tho mountains of lhe centre of the North j American continent. The indisposition of tne Natoinal Legislature to the scheme, is indica tive of no want of due concern for the future of the portion of the Untie-i States situated on the Ptc'fic slope. Oa the contrary, vn have every reason to believe that the present Con gress -will go much further than the last in spending the public moaey to meet tha so ra pidity gromg wants oi the 1 aciluc siuo The surveys for a Pacifiic railroad alrcn Jy made demonstrate the immensity of thff con templated work on any route, nnd the ct-rt iin great average cost per mile beyond all prece dent, owing to the want cf suitable materials, over most of the distance, and to tho difficul ties of construction in regions wholly destitute of inhabitants except the savage red man, and of animals other than the wild buff-do. Among railroad men, the experience of the last few y:ars has produced the impression tBat under the most favorable c:r;ui:istance, as at present managed, very few su-.-h works are really profitable; while, under the cir cumstances which would surround a railroad to the Pacific, it is u'terly imposib'e that its ! business could for a quarter of a century pay its expenses, without beginning to viol i a ! dividend These are ?ood and sufficient rea- ' sons .why it' mav not be exacted tl a. Cor- gress wiil do anything in the way ofinitia- Now, tmg the counstruetion of the great cent men- j tal work, which another generation not ours ' is do rined to fee completed. f The p.-iiod of its contru:tioii will depend VOL.. 4. WO. 23. iu t'io main cn the rapidity with which tho settlements west fio'n the Missouri frontier, and or-st from the Pacific coast, n;ay closely approximate. Until they do pproximat. we shall have no Pacific railroad except on piper ; then?!:, doubtless, w e f brIl have every wintc-r in Washington re pre scr.tativr of en tcrprifing companies of cor.trnptun "-is! around Wall j.ireet. proposing to Congress that they wiil Lui.j and own tho work, if Uncle Sam will make tl cm a p-esmtof the means of so doing. Nevertheless, for a mer song comparative! v. Congress can rreatly fa- ciuiaie ana insure tue satctv of the overland comi )mniur.icr.tion between the Missouri country id th.-.t of the Pacific That is. by tho ea- an;. tabli.li .timcnt cl a weekly letter (horse) express between Independence and sonic Doint mail on tho California frontier, with cr.fs of land in single sections, one tvf ry thirty miles, or wherever night stations may bo advisable over i l'l5 rcutc he overland route has been a tad one f.r two reas-oas: First, because it is not scum from attach! froui savages; and, next, be cause, aftor L-aving t'na prcseut Missouri fron tier scttlcmentF, the emigrant or traveller must trust wholly to nature in tho moet in hospitable region w'lhin the limits of our country, for any and all supplies otK-r than those he may carry with him. Such is tho extent of the travt 1 over ihs route, as thfit tha business cf supplying :t tvery thirty miles or ko with necessary f.oi and fodder, would form a scttlemf-Tit large enough to form a cordon of posts amply ablj to protect the route from tho savng.-s without cost to the Government. 1ms uoi. it will be reninibrnd from the saaciou b fprana: ra'n of Senator win. who would surely have carried it through tha last Congress to tho immense benefit of bis constituent?, had it not been defeated by an untimely effort in the Hou-o to make the mad dull ij instead of weekly. Wo hop. to s- c tho present-representative from California again bring forward this propositi., o. it beingde nionstralle that as a moans of frontier aul emigration protection, and to insure the prompt transmission of valuable 1-tters and important news between Missouri, Utah, Cal ifornia, and Oregon and Washington Territo ries, it embraces ajvan.atres of economy. ?.ce.j, certainty, &c., tupenor tj any other plan looking to s.nnhr endi that Las a vet i-ecu u.-K-tod ia the Capitol. Pat and tho Gorcncr. Govcnor Snyder, the Govenor cf the Key stone Stato, was Bitting comfortables in his pur-' lor at Selinsgrove, Lis rural abode, tho car of State sitting lightly cn his breast, for h had just left his "dinner table and fAl at pf.vy with all the world. whn a knock was heard at tho front door, and Patrick OTfaunegan was ushered into the presence tho good natured Govenor. Hiuvuer Snyder, I Miprpe,' said Pai, an attempt at an elegant tow. 'S I am called : pray ht P?rt(;J, and tcll me what I can do for you to-day ' Pat cast a look a7(t;;nl the room, rubbed hiskncM as he s.-t down on thd ed-c of thu chair, and after a few moments hesitation, ha began on this w ie : Wa'al, Guvucr, it's about six venr isln. I came to this country, and I've been n-liviu'i.11 that time up there on Lycomiu' Creek, and I thought it was about t:uie I was going homo (ill the ould country, to see my poor ould mo ther, God bles3 her ! before t.bc dies, and ll caw ana pay my respects till him." Hero Pat tooK a rest, and began airain : 'And so I'JJ be oing to Philadeify, tLdagcod long Btcp i. is to go afoot, and then I'll go jt0 New York, and ga aboard a ship, and sail til ould Ire land here he took a long look at the side board sparkling with its well-filled decanters when I s o my ould mother, and all my ould fricii'Is, I'll tell them how I called on th guvner of Pinsylyany, and how he was might y polite, and give me a glas of brandy Uj drink his honor's health t The Govenor took tho hint, nud filled a glass, which Pat emptied as soon, saying, 'Your good health, Guvner ; and long lifo till ve, and all vour kith and kind ." Down sat Pat again, and after answeriu few kind inquiries of the Govenor ho rose and spoke 'Ua all, I Vpose T must Le mo ving.' goin' from here to Philadclfy, and it's a Inn? stop to so afoot, nnd from thr.'. I'll go till New York, and then I'll go aboard a ship to ould Ireland, and there 11 tell all my ould friends that here I called on th great Guvner of Piusylvany, end he gave tn two glasses of brandy to "drink His Honor's health.' The Govenor was caught, nd pour- d out the second g'ass, which loosened the oth er end of Pat's tongre, and he went over the rigmarole again, ending with tvrki: glasses eftrandj'! 'A.' said the Govenor, 'but you have Dot had tiikkk glasses I' Put was all cut tip and cut down by this unexpected answer. He pushed his fingers through !iis hair, dropped his lower jaw, and looked like a decp'y wounded 'jiutleman' as he was. A happy thought hit him, and biig'itcn.ng up he said, 'But you wouldn't have n:e tell myou'd molher a lie. wouldyou ? Tho good Govenor was iiu'.cd for a mo ment, and th third glass passed from the tide, board into the lenging besom of the dry Irish man, who drank, and thus bega- 'A thousand thanks, Guvner ! the saints bles and the Yirrin kape von, and cive vcu ! Ions life and plenty of mch Lrnndv s tK. o:,S ,ue a1d 3"ur Honor . cn ue'0" an'' 'l s a d now Til le iroin' to Phils- lonirwav afoot, nnd lin l - C5 r' 1 1,0 .'.enor roahi stand it no longer but half - laughing, and half-mad at theimru ienr of it and his own teidincM to le coaxed, h my oulu lncnds tticre ; aud so Iin on my wv you see ; and I thought, as I had heard peol pie talkiu' a great deal about Guvnor Snyder, and what a great guvnor he was. that, I u-,.t.!,i f wca m. gucM to me co r.iM to.a nun. ts 11 was 53 far to Philadelphia, he ltd belter 1)6 making tracks ia that direction without r0" mr'1'9 'W'J
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