t
that firmness which it had cost her yearel
o squire?
Hannah was quite slime when Friend
Horton called. She arose with native
self-possession, and spoke to him as to a
brother.
The preacher struggled for utterance.
"Hannah," he nt length said, ~ 1 have
taken this long journey only upon thy ac
count. I have come to implore thee to
forget me. Thee hae had much to forgive,
Hannah; but thee cannot have suffered as
I have done. When I took the hand of
my bride at the altar, thy form seemed to
come between me and her—and oh, Han.
nah, I felt then, and have not ceased to
feel, that thou art the wife of my spirit."
"Andrew llorton—l must not listen to
this. Thee wrongs the fair girl who lives
only in thy smiles. Why did'st thou re
turn to bring new sorrow to my heart,
and to plung e thee deeper in sin?"
Hannah, returned not for this, Lot to
implore thee to forget 'Me. Thee cannot
have forgotten that inter-communication
of spirit with spirit, of which wo used to,
talk. I feel its full power now; for thy',
image is ever with me , and daily am I '
taught to feel the constancy of thy attach
ment."
"Why should'st thou return to tell me
this? I think of thee, Andrew, as the
husband of another. I pray for thy hap
piness, thy usefulness, and that thee may
be preserved from temptation. Friend
Horton, this is unworthy of thee. I for
give thee—but let us part."
"Nay, Hannah, thee must hear all. I
come not to speak of aught that might
wrong my bride; no, it is for her sake as
well as my own, that I implore thee to for
get me. When her cheek is pressed to
mine, I see only thee, Hannah. When
she sleeps upon my bosom, with her fair
arms about my neck, it is thy form, and
thy arms AO seem to entwine me.
shrink from her caresses as from a dead
ly sin, for I bestow them unto thee. Ma
ry is as a sister unto me; but thou, Han
nah, art the bride of my spirit."
Hannah turned deadly pale. and cover
ed her face with her hands, while low
moanings escaped her heaving bosom.
"Andrew, 1 foresaw all this, whew 1
warned thee of the peril of loving one like
me. I knew the nature of thy sex—de
lighting in the timid, the trembling and,'
dependent—and that should one like this'
cross thy path, the love of Hannah would
be a shackle. It is as I foresaw—but I,
will not reproach thee, Andrew; it was
thy nature."
"And most liitlerly have I suffered.
My broken vows have rung a perpetual
knell in my ears, and barred up the ave
nues to enjoyment. The loving, the
trusting Mary, bath been the victim of my
error. And thee, too, Hannah. The
blight bath fallen from me upon two spirits,
of whom the world is not worthy. Woe,
woe is me !" And he pressed his hand to
his brow, for the large veins were swollen
and rigid with the intensity of his suffer
ing.
- Hannah laid her hand gently upon his,
shoulder.
"Andrew Horton thou art called not to
ease and enjoyment, but to labor and trial.
Gird thyself for the contest, and be strong
even in the strength of the Most High.
I will strive once more to forget thee.
But, oh God ! have I not striven 7 Have
I not wrestled day and night with tears,
and many prayers ? Andrew, I will pray
yet again, that this bitter cup may pass
away from us. But. oh ! when I pray to
forget, even in the agony of my spirit, do
I not still remember thee 'I 1 will strive
yet again. Andrew, return to thy bride;
be all to her thou hast promised at the al
tar to be, that thy conscience upbraid
thee not for wrong done to the gentle and
timid, whose spirit, is ill able to bear suf
fering of any kind, far less to have it dealt
out without measure, as it bath been to
me. Farewell" She pressed his hand
gently, and left the room.
For many years had H. Newton dis
charged the duties of her sex with a pale
cheek and placid brow, sympathising in
the sorrows of all, but herself seeking
sympathy from none ; for with a mind lof
ty and exalted as her's human sources of
consolation were utterly unavailing.
She stood alone in the majesty of grief;
seeking consolation only from the Great
Comforter. But now the smile lingered
about her mouth, and the light returned
to her eye —yet her step grew feeble, and
her brow assumed a more transparent
beauty. The image of Andrew Horton
again mingled with her dreams, and visi
ted her mental vision. She felt, she knew,
that her love was still dear to him, that lie
turned to her with the fondness of earlier
days. She knew this, but it filled her
with doubt and anxiety. Had Andrew
Horton, the minister of the Most High,
dared to forget his vows to his wife, to her
whom he had sworn to love and to cher
ish 7 Or was the fair bride at rest, gone
in her youth and beauty to the bosom of
her God'.
Again, Andrew Horton, with pale
cheek and a loftier beauty stood by the
side of Hannah. He told how the sweet,
child-.like Mary, had fallen asleep, like a
young flowret blighted upon the stalk.
Ne dwelt upon Fier love, her beauty, 'till
the tears of Hannah mingled with his own.
"And now, thee wilt be my own wife,
Hannah, even as thou halt been the bride
of wry spirit. I shall acquire new strength
with a spirit like thine. Thee will cau
tion, advise, and elevate me. Thy love'
shall purify and exalt ine. Mary was as
a beautiful child, slumbering upon any bo.
sum ; when doubt and suffering came
upon me, she would fling her white arms
around me, and mingle her tears and sighs.
But thou, Hannah, wuuld'et have dispel
led my doubts ; thou would'st have led one
to the true sources of consolation and thy
prayers would have been as the dew of
Hermon to my spirit. Thy caresses
would have blessed, while they exalted
me. Wilt thou not be my own wife,
bride of my spirit?" He drew her to his
bosom—her cheek rested upon his. She
pressed her lips to his, end tier arms en
circled his neck. A deep sigh escaped
her, and her head fell upon his shoulder.
Andrew Morton raised her from his bo
som and gazed upon her face. Hannah
Newton was to be only the spirit's bride.
She was dead
ADDRESS.
Delivered by Mr. D. 11. Burnham, in
Bermingham, Huntingdon county, fa.
July 4th, 1839.
BIRMINOHAM, July sth, 1839.
Mr. D. 11. BURNFIAM.—Sir The un
dersigned committee of arrangement for
the celebration of the anniversary of our
National Independence, held at this place
on yesterday, would very respectfully so
licit a copy of your excellent remarks de
livered on the occasion, if consistent with
your feelings.
Very Respectfully,
Your Fellow Citizens.
W. CUNNINGHAM
A. P. OWENS.
M. D. REIDY.
Rddress.
LADIES, FATHERS, SOLDIERS AND FEL-
LOW CrrizeNs.
At all times, and in all ages, that a just !
tribute was due for the achievement of
great events, has been patriotically ac
knowledged—that it has been and is lauda-!
ble and highly commendable for patriots
to assemble on the birth day thereof, to'
commemorate the same.
I congratulate you Fellow Citizens, that !
through the kindness of an ever indulgent'
providence, the happy privileg e is granted
to us, of meeting to celebrate the anniver
sary of an event the most sublime and
brilliant in achievement, and most glori
ous in effect,—that ancient or modern
historic pag e has recorded, and which has
astounded a wondering world. Sixty
three years only have elapsed, since the
patriotic heroes, a feeble but energetic
band of brothers—colonists of North
America, when possessed of no resources
but what nature gave. Surrounded by
murderous and unrelenting savages of the
wilderness, whose tender mercies were
cruelty.—And oppressed by the avari-,
cious, the imbecile, and tyranic hand of a
British King and ministry. Those colo-
nista our venerable, our worthy ancestors,
the patrons of religious freedom, declared
to all the nations of the earth, that they
were possessed of certain unalienable
rights bestowed upon them by the God of
nature. Among which were, life, liberty,
and the pursuits of happiness, and to se
cure to themselves, to their posterity
those rights, "with a firm reliance on the
protection of divine • Providence," they
mutually pledged to each other their lives,
their fortunes, and sacred honours, in de
fence and support of the same.
For that heroic dechration all the pow
er that avarice could call to her aid, all the
cruelty and wickedness that malice could
invent, assailed those heroic sons of liber
ty. But after an arduous and determin
ed resistance of eight years, at the ex
pense of all the treasure and much of the
best blood of the country, the remnant of
this Spartan band, compeled the gigantic
power of Britain to acknowledge, that,
they did possess—and must enjoy, every
right of civil and religious liberty; that
they were Independent.
The patriotic spirits of our liberties,
them, while clothed with all the majesty
'and power of military law,—beheld their
beloved, their bleeding country, bowed
low down under the mighty arm of op
t* ession—destitute of all civil law,—no
order—sinking in the unfathomable abyss'
of anarchy and confusion,—vice prevalent
—every virtuous principle almost clean
gone—although they hail vindicated the
rights of human nature, and established
the independence of this great empire by
their fortitude in adversity, bravery in
battle, moderation in conquest, perseve
rance in supporting the cruel extremities
of hunger and nakedness, without any just
compensation. Now with unbounded con
descension and a magnanimity unequaled,
they laid down their arms, surrendered
the power they , possessed—without a sigh
or a murmur, into the hands from whence
they had received it, to "we the people"
the sovereignty of this happy land. 'they
retired to civil life, and their valerous
deeds, will cease to be celebrated when
patriotism shill cease to exist—energeti
cally and efficiently they contributed to
to flame and adept the immaculate consti
tution of these United States, formed and
put in execution, laws for our guidance,
under which our glorious institutions have
prospered, and do continue to nourish.
They encouraged agriculture, manufactu
ries, science and commerce, and exten
ded the hand of national friendship, to all
the civilized quarters of the globe, which
was cordially received, and gratefully ac
knowledged. To day we enjoy that lib
erty, that boon, purchased by the valor,
the wisdom, the labour, the perseverance,
and blood, of those heroes, and by them
bequeathed unto us. They have almost
all departed, and descended to the tomb,
—gone to that "bourn whence no travel
ler returns," yet their voice calls from
their low residence, and demands ; that
we should obey, support, and execute the
civil, and religious institutions of our laild.l
Posterity, yes, generations unborn, call
upon us in language the most imperative,
to hand down to them pure and uncon
taminated, our free our noble privileges.
We have received a country, a home, a
constitutional guide, yes all the blessings
that civil and religious liberty can confer
—as a gift. We are free, we are happy.
But a known dereliction at moral princi-'
pie, the depravity of the heart of man, the
gross ignorance that pervades the mind,
all tend to show that to perpetuate the!
blessings resulting from those bequests
we must be virtuous we must scrupulous-1
ly adhere to and respectfully obey the,
land--every citizen is loud in preclairn;ng
in unmeasured strains, the praise. of civil
liberty and religions freedom, while the
principle acted upon by too many at once,
shows that they entertain the licentious
idea, that an explicit obedience to the ex
isting laws is smatter of indifference—
again, others lost to all the fine feelings of
sensibility, whose minds have become es
, tranged tocvery democratic principle bold
; ly speak the language and act the rebelli
ious and seditious part, disregarding and
;this
all law, human and divine • '
all
;this is derogatory to the principles of free
government, our government is democrat- , ,
tc repulican in principle, it stands in hos
'tile array against despotism, monarchy
,and arristocracy, while it scrupulously),
!protects all the civil and religious privi
leges of every citizen, it holds all persons
!amenable to common law, it is mild and
lenient, while it discountenances corrupt
!and vicious principles and punishes crime,
it administers equal justice to all, it is
the patron the unwavering . friend of vir
!toe, all civil rights and privileges are guar
anteed, sacred and inviolable it grants the
privilege to every citizen to speak, write,
I print or cause to be printed, whatever con
science may dictate, or wickedness invent,
but at the same time recognises all men
'free and equal, and positively declares
that all are amenable, that they shall rens
der due satisfaction, and a just recom
!pence for the abuse of the privileges grans
'ted to them. This fellow citizens is the
foundation of our democratic republican
government, and upon this foundation the
noble structure of our civil and religious
institutions is reared.--Perfect liberty is
not a plant of our soil, it will not flourish
in our republic. however far specula
tion may extend, or fraud be practiced,
—yet no man or class of men are recog
nized by any principle of our government
as standing superior to, or as exalted
above, their fellow citizens in the enjoy
ment of all civil privileges, no one is per
mitted forcibly to take the property of
another and use it for his own benefit,
without making full and just compensa
fion for the same, all are required to com
ply with each and every condition of con
tracts entered into, to consider such sa
cred anti inviolable and as christians an
invition is given to all to extend the hand
of charity to those in distress; to the
needy. These are the general requisi
tions of our national compact, the supreme
law of our beloved county.—And to enter
tain the opinion, that those rules of con
duct may be departed from, may be treat
ed as a matter of indillerence, is the lan
guage of sedition, and wickedly and in
tentionally to raise the arm of rebellion,
not regarding the inherent rights of the
sovereign people, as has recently so fla
grantlybeen done is in its nature, its ten
dency, and its effect treason. The sound
of the hideous name causes the wounded
bosom of every patriot to bleed, and sends
an ago nizing thrill, of sorrow to the heat t,
and it must be discountenaced and driven
from our happy clime, as our glorious
liberties will soon, too soon cease to exist.
The glory, the arts, the science, yes, the
existence of republican Rome was oblit
erated, and every claim to freedom lost by
yielding her power to emsar, and those
that succeeded him, they invited and re
ceived the vengeance of an innumerable
host of barbarians, who overrun and de
populated their country, and eventually
blotted out every vestige of their happy!
republic. France sacrificed her republi- ,
can privileges by tamely submitting to the
intriguing the ambitious views of Nape
lean—by resigning her inherent right
to her treasure, and her army into his
hand; all of which perished in the cold
and frozen clime of Russia. Are there
no intriguitw, ambitious men in all our
oorders ?would cheerfully hope there is
none, but the hope that the whole race of
cruel designing men has become extinct,
is so delusive that it cannot be indulged,
it is a hope not to be cherished, no! the
same fearful road to the tomb of our boast
liberties, to the downfall and loss of our
noble inhet Rance, to the subvertion of our
government and glorious institutions, yea,
to the land of bondage for us and our pos
terity, is wide open before us, and there
is no possibility of escaping its all devour
ing jaws, but by rendering due obedience
to the civil institutions of our country,
and scrupulously to exact, require, de
mand, and not to stay our hand until! we
do receive a conscientious, a faithful dis
charge of duty from our servants, the offi
cers of our government,—on the supposi
tion that every citizen will be faithful to'
his own true interests, and patriotic to his
country, are the principles of our govern
ment predicated. if by unity they do
strenghten its foundations, and by purity
of principle and virtuous action, they pre
serve a just administration of government,
and (lieu eby perpetuate the auspicious, the
flourishing institutions of this yet free and
happy land commensurate to their impor
tance. Then may we with a hope of ani
mation 'look down the long vista of time'
and behold millions yet unborn, genera
tion after generation, rise up in all suc
ceeding ayes to the full enjoyment of ci
vil and religious liberty.
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I.one country,one constitution, one destiny
Humalingdon, July 24, 1830.
Deniocralic
CANDIDATES.
FOR PRESIDENT,
GEN, WM, H. HARRISON
lOR VICE PRESIDENT
DANIEL WEBSTER.
Electorial Ticket.
3011 N A. SHULZB,
JOSEPH ItITNER, Selectors
Ist Disirict LEVIS PASSMORE,
2d do CADWALLADER EVANS.
do CHARLES WATERS,
3d do JON. GILLINGHAM,
4th do AMOS F.LLMAKER,
do JOHN K. ZELLIN,
do DAVID POTTS,
sth do ROBERT SI'INSON,
Gth do WILLIAM S. HINDU,
7th do J. JENKINS.ROSS,
Bth do PETER FILLIERT,
9th do JOSEPH H. SI'AYD,
10th do J(IIIN HARPER,
I 1 th do WILLIAM M'ELVAINE,
12th do JOHN DICKSON,
I 3th do JOHN M'KEEII AN,
14th do JOHN REED,
15th do NATHAN BEACH,
16th do NER MIDDLESWARTH,
17th do GEORGE W ALKER,
•
18th do BERNARD CON NEI
19th do Gotx. JOSEPH MARKLE,
20th do JUSTICE G.FORDYCE,
21st do JOSEPH HENDERSON,
22d do HARMAR DENNY,
23d do JOSEPH BUFFINGTON,
24th do JAMES MONTGOMERY,
25th do JOHN DICK.
FLAG OF THE PEOPLE!
(Iz ,- A single term for the Presidency, and
the office administered for the whole EO
PLE. and not for a PARTY.
rp A sound, uniform and convenient Na
tional C unRENCY, adapted to the wants of
the whole COUNTRY, instead of the SI - UN
PLASTERS brought about by our present
RULERS.
rrECONOMY. RETRENCHMENT, and RE
FORM in the administration of public affairs,
1:7-Tired of Experiments and Experi
menters, Republican gratitude will reward
unobstrusive merit, by elevating the sub.-
altern of WASHINGTON and the desciple of;
JEFFERSON, and thus resuming the safe and
beaten track of our Fathers,—L. Gazette.
COUNTY CONVENTION.
The Democratic, Anti-Masonic friends
of HAnktisoN and %Vcnsma within the
several townships and boroughs of this
county, are requested to meet at their
usual places of holding elections on or be
fore Saturday, the 10th day of August,
proximo, and elect two delegates from
mch, to represent them iii the County
Convention, which will meet in the bo
rough of Huntingdon on Wednesday the
14th of August, at 2 o'clock in the after
noon, to nominate a county ticket.
And a general meeting of all those who
are opposed to the present tyranical and
corrupt Administrations of the State and
Federal Government, and in favour of
electing the Canal Commissioners of
Pennsylvania, is requested at the .Court
House in the borough of Huntingdon, at
7 o'clock in the evening of Wednesday
the 14th of August, to elect three dele
gates
to represent Huntingdon county in
tlir. State Convention which will meet in
Harrisburg on the 4th of September next,
and for other purposes.
By the county committee,
Hayti"
Chairman.
July 24th, 1839.
We have been obliged to stop our pa.
per tir one week, as we have a ►piddling
large harvest to cut and lake in, and must,
to make our reputation as a farmer equal
to farmer Porter's, turn out and help get
it in ourselves. Our readers will con
sider our excuse as a good one we hope.
"Brother Jonathan."
We have just been introduced to
"Brother Jonathan" who has made his ap-
I pearance among us from the great city of
Gotham, laden with all manner of no
tions. "Jonathan" is a strapping youth,
and is well worthy of an introduction in
to every family circle. But to the point,
Brother Jonathan is a large, aye; very
large, Family News Paper issued in New
York, and comes to us in a splendid ap
pearance, and stored with, a great and
ich variety of interesting matter. We
meet it as a friend. It comes from the
scenes of our Boyhood, and call up the
unforgotteu faces we were wont to meet
there. We bid Jonathan welcome, if our
letters of introductions are of any use to
him they are welcome, fur we Wok upon
him as a ft icnd and "Blether,"
We have given a place to the commurn• ford, was sent here with a commission in
cation of Mr. Ross. Justice seemed to his pocket. Old Jemmy Ford, of this
demand that he be heard. Our columns county, was transported over the Alle
shall be open to a reply from any who may gheny mountain, to teach the Democrats•
consider themselves aggrieved, reserving of Cambria county their duty. Sir Thom
to ourselves the right to stop at any tim e, ns Levers, a pensioner of the British
We can say to friend Ross, that we know , Queen, is madejo Lord it over the less
Messrs. Long & Co. to be right good eel- 1 proud, but more honest portion of the peo
lows, and would regret to think they in.' ple. And now the "party are in fine
!tended any injury to any one, spirits." ' They ars determined to re
'deem the county front misrule and corrvp•
Our Governor was invited to attend a
Temperance Celebration on the 4th. Ile
treated the invitation with contempt, and
we suppose himself to some "old rye."
Hellas had a return of his old complaint,
so say some of his former friends; and
they recommend that he sends for his old
clerk to take charge of his "Port Folio,"
—he wood keep the secrets of the sick
room.
Since we have proved that "Rogers
the Thiet,” was let out of Jail by the
Attorney General, the Advocate is dumb.
But is anxious to the letter of some jail
bird, who escaped from our county jail
last summer. If it is of importance that
the writer or his friends see said letter,
why let him insert in his own paper. It
is the organ of "Thieves, Drunkards,
&c." And what is more, he seems to be
willing to place much reliance upon the
words of thief. Perhaps, however that
party are only mad because he did not
stay, and get an office under Porter.
Would he not have made an elegant Jus
tice of the Peace
ANOTHER BREAK,
From the neglect, inattention, or some
other cause, another break occurred on
the canal. By dint of riding up and
down the tow path, and rushing about
town for three or lour days, the active
State Agents succeeded in getting it men
ded. No possible reason can be assigned
why it should not have been done in
twenty-four hours.
Is it not a little extraordinary that, up
to the present moment, there has not oc
curred a single break upon that portion
of the canal which was made laLt sum
mer. Notwithstanding the many char
ges of the insufficiency of the work, and
notwithstanding Porter himself, in a pub
lic message declared on his honor, that
there we• eminent danger of delay from
breaks, &c. on it. Yet has it stood thro ,
an astonishingly wet season without the
smallest break to cause detention. Is it
not a pity that the work thus insultingly
gives the lie to both. Can it possibly
arise Irotn the fact that the man from Ohio
has the guardianship of it? if the same
neglect is continued, and the same tardi
ness manifested in repairing the canal for
two years longer, our canal will be bank
rupt in fortune and in fame.
"The Democratic (Loco Foco) party of
this county are in fine spirits.—They arc
determined to redeem the county from
misrule and corruption."—Advocate and
Sentinel.
The above piece of news is taken from
the Advocate of last week. It contains
in fact some troth. Sonic of the party are
generally in the finest spirits, that can be
bought, so far it is true. But when the
above is put forth, to deceive their friends
abroad, we are disposed to say that they,
misleqd and dupe to their sorrow.
The idea intended to be conveyed, is
there are no dissentions, or heart burn
ings—no, disposition upon the part of the
people to say that they have violated eve
ry promised pledge before the elec.
lion—and more than that, they have done
the very things which they censured with
such holy zeal last fall. Some were hon
est in their complaints against the con
duct of Ritncrs ad 333 I 3 iistration. Is it sup
posed that they will now wink at, and
support a party that carry out the same
to a greater extent ? No There are
honest among them. As many at least as
would have saved the cities on the plain.
Hut they were taught during Ritner's
time that there was nothing "more horri•
ble awful" than the number of officers.
But now the number is still more increas
ed--and their salaries too. Can any con
sistent honest Democrat who wishes to
protect the rights of the people, support
the very deeds, which he censured but
one year ago?
Three years ago, and each Loco Foco
' press in the county was ringing the
' charges upon the appointment of stran
gers, over the older, and ea they said bet.
ter citizens. Oh •it was too much for
human nature to bear; and some were
willing to think them honest. But so soon
as Porter is in power, they see a Mr. Ri•
ter, who is hardly warm in the county,
told to step in, over the heads of many of
,our beat citizens. Mr. John Piper of Bed- I
!WM"
We have no doubt but they are deter
mined to redeem the county from corrup
tion and misrule. The find that they
have been the dupes of knaves, who enac
ted every scene of villiany anew which
they had learned from their predecessors.
but they have added to them all their own
villiany and ingenuity could devise. The
honest then are determined to redeem
their county; and when October comes,
Mr. Porter and his minions will hear the
stern decree of the people who "know
him."
Three years ago when any office was
filled by a man on whom slander had pro
pogated any lies, in an instant they were
sped upon the wings of the windy and
Ititner was blamed appointing men whose
characters were not good, over honest and
good men. 'low is it now? Why, Por
ter can make a Justice of the Peace out of
a detected thief, and the counter
lifting robber is made a dispenser lof law
and justice. Yet this •Advocate" would
try to think the party united. Does it
think its partisans all fools or knaves?
Can a man support whit he has once so
honestly opposed?
Let the writer of the above solve, for
the Loco Focos, watch the countenances
of seine of his party when the supervisor
booms along the towing path, like a mighty
meteor chasing a comet, and he can learn
in that smile of scorn and derision, that
they will redeem the county from corrup
tion and misrule.
Etittorfat Sbuntnuag.
A young man by the name of White,
was lately tried and found guilty of wil
ful murder. He is said to be about twen
ty-t•voyears of age, of fine appearance.
During the whole ti ial, it is paid he dis
played, all the storcism of the Savage.
Milk, and- italer.--. Brother Jonathan'
--is scolding right smart, because the
milkmen get more milk from the pump ,
than from the udders of his cows. Nertr
mind the mil k-and -water, Jonathan—stick
to the "swilchcl."
-There are four hundred and seventy
nine legal practitioners of medicine in
New York ; and one hundred and seuen
ty three undertakers.—We undertake to
say that with so great a desparity in their
numbers, undertaking is a good business
in that city.
We have neglected to notice that the
Telegraph and Intelligences, of Harris.
burg have been united. If the united at_
tention and tallest ofboth those journals
are united, we may eay that their paper
will be one of the ablest in the State.
A fellow by the name of Vail, was - find
850 and sent to jail ten days, on bread anti
water, for whipping his wife. An Ohio
paper says : fur a less offence the same
Court sentenced a man six years to the
Peneten tiary.
Porter has not yet signed the Improve
' merit Bill. That five dollar bill business
has either frightened him, or he is just
"playing possom"--to make his honest
friends think he dislikes to do it, when in
fact he may be the willing instrument of
the U. S. Bank.
[C OMM U N IC ATE D.]
Ma. llENanic•r—Sir: On a perusal of
a recent copy of Jour interesting paper.
my attention was arrested by an adver
tisement headed thus; "Very Important
to Farmers," and signed A, B. Long 4.
Co., in which farmers are warned against
purchasing machines of any kind, with the
strap passing under the horses feet (un
less made and sold by them), as the pat
ent laws will be strictly enforced &c.
Now I wish to inform those gentlemen,
and with them the public, that if the mere
act of passing the strap under the horses
feet is a trespass upon their rights: (as
they alledge), then I have long been en
offender. Yes, gentlemen, if such be
your rights, it is certainly imprudent and
unwise in you, to permit an old olkoder
like myself to escape with impunity--
Nay, you ought rather to he upend doing.
I would therefore recommend you in or
der to get what your conduct justly mer
its tor in other words, what you are justly
entitled too), to proceed immediately to
make an example of me, and thus deter
others limn committing the like depreda
tions.
It you should not find me as pleasant a