. . ~„ • , t . iht „,.,. I li. #- , 1 ~ k IF• $ WILLIAM BREWSTER, 1 EDITORS, SAM• G. WHITTAKER, *ticct Voctq. THE DUNG GIRL. From Munster vale they brought her, FIO2I the pale and balmy air, An Ormond peasant's daughter, With blue eyes and golden hair. They brought her to the city, And she faded slowly there Consumption has no pity For blue eyes and golden hair. When I saw her first reclining, Her lips were moved in prayer, And the setting sun was shining On her loosened golden hair. When our kindly glances met her, Deadly brilliant wan her eye, And they said she was the better, While wo knew that she must die. Before the sun had risen, Through the larked aiming air Her young soul left its prison, • Undefiled by sin and care. I stood beside the couch in tears, Where pale and calm she slept ; And tho' I've gazed oh death for years, I blush not that I wept— I cheek'd with effort pity's sighs, And left the matron there To close the curtains of her eyes, And bind her golden hair. Dead Leaves. The day is dead, and in its grave; The flowers are fast asleep; But in this solemn wood, alone, My nightly watch I keep. The night is dark, the dew descends, But clew and darkness are my friends I I stir the dead leaves under foot, And breathe the earthty smell; A: is the od, of d eca y, And yet I like it well. Give others day and scented flowers, (live me dead leaves, and midnight hours! Men of Labor. Men of Labor, bo the battle. Culls to action, calls to arms ; Shall yon toil be free or fenced, In your workshops, on your farms ; Plough and Mom an ringing anvil, Trowel. hammer, spade and hod— Shull they boar the curse of bondage, 0. the Freedom born of God? g.-Actt li; li \llw I', Or the Ride of the One Hundred, TNthe early part of the year 1847, busi• ness called me to Alta California. lav• ing been long a resident on the Pacific coast and being familiar with the language and customs of the people, I was selected to make a large contract of hides fur one of our eastern firms, the trade being nearly parolized at the time by the war then in progress between our country and Mexico; where a handfill of noble men were ac complishing deeds which have given them a place in history by the side of Leonidas and his braves. The Californias had be come to us a disideraturn ; although their mineral wealth still slumbered, waiting for that enchanter of modern days, Yankee enterprise, their splendid harbors, the con tiguity of our possessions in Oregon, and their facility for trade with Chinn, were a sufficient incentive. Commodore Stockton had hurried up from Callao in the Frigate Congress and Gen, Kearney had crossed the plains from the Missouri river, with a force of armed hunters, for the purpose of taking the country and holding it as a gage for a 'satisfactory' treaty. The native Californians who had groa ned beneath the imposts of a distant Gov ernment and venal Governors, had them selves invited our overtures ; but a few of th.-i* leaders, with a deadly hate towards the Yankees, and hope of reward from Mexico, were assidiously endeavoring to stir the people up to a revolt-- in many ca ses with too great success. Manuel Cas tro, a wealthy and influential ranchero, no ted for his determined opposition to all change, and enmity to the -Gringos' had ar ranged for an attack on the Pueblo los An geles, the head-quarters of Kearney, held by a small force of marines and volunteers. His agents were in all parts of the country Inflaming the inhabitants and urging them to join him. By some means his plan lea ked out. I was at•this time at the ranche of my old friend, General Martinez Vallejo, on the Sonoma Creek, my companion was Captain D—, who has since espoused one of my host's daughters. Vallejo was one of the largest landholders in California. owning some sixty square macs, with for ty thousand head of cattle and several hun. dr‘d bead of horses ; the cattle, being at toe time a man's available wealth. He had been formerly military Governor of the ',wary, and was considered fair spoil by our people, though in justice I must state that he was kindly disposed towards the Americans. The house was a substantial edihce of two stories, surrounded by n cor ral, with a stout gateway ; the household consisted of sane twenty persons. We had all retired to rest and wore wrapt it slumber, when the loud barking of dogs and the hallooing of men aroused us from our dreams. Expecting an attack from the bear party, all rushed to the court armed as well ns the time permitted, and in costume the most picturesque, as primi tiveness is usually considered so. The General, sabre in hand came last; he chal lenged the intruders with : Quiets es la ?" (Who is there.) "Xmericanose amigos, aboa la puerm.' (Americans and friends, open the gate,) was the response, a blow accompanying the words, that made the floor shake again. Fhe demand was perforce complied With; and a band of some fifty men were presen ted to our view, mounted and arrayed as hunters and trappers, and armed to the teeth. Foremost among them ono black mustang, was a small, sinewy, dark man, evidently their leader, with ' , an eye like Mars to threaten and command," a coun• tenance expressive of the greatest deter mination. and a bearing that, notwithstand ing his rough dress, stamped him as one born to command—to lead. This was Fremont. am an officer of the United States said he : am on my . way to Los Angeles; I must have horses. 'But —' said Vallejo. said Sir, I must have them ; you will be recompensed by my Government. I order you ; Sir, to deliver to my men what horses you may have in corral.' Finding remonstrance would be of no avail with such a man, Vallejo. called his vanqueros and gave the requisite directions In the meanwhile my friend D— made himself known to Fremont, having met him in Washington. . . . . have information of Castro's intention to attack Los Angelos. I have six days to reach there before the outbreak ; for that I need "those horses ; for I must be in at the death.' 'But tho distance ; six hundred :Hiles,' said 1)---. The roads -.9 shall'lo it,' ho replied, and turned a way to supervise his arrangements. In an hour they departed as unceremo niously as they come, taking with them some three hundred homes, and leaving us aston.shed at this raid, to wonder if we were yet awake, or whether it was an un• substantiated dream. 'Los Dial)los,' exclaimed the General, 'they have taken my wife's saddle horse !' so thoffiughly had Fremont's lieutenant executed his order. Prom Sonoma to Yerba Buena, the little hamlet where now stands the queen city of the Pacific, San Francisco, he nugmen• ted his stock to the number of fifteen hun dred, completely clearing the country ; and commenced ono of the most peculiar races for afight ever known. Barely put. ling bridle to devour a steak cut trout the quarter of a scarce dead bullock, driving before them their spare horses—on, on, they went. The roads at all times bad, at this season were horrible—fifty miles being a hard days journey even for a Californian. As their exhausted beasts dropped un der them they tore °lithe saddles, and pla cing them on others, hurried on leaving the poor animals to be devoured by the cayo• tos, or recover as chance might bring about. Ever at the head, the last to dismount, and the first to leap into the saddle was this mountaineer, this companion of Kit Cars on ! this pioneer of empire ! Fremont ! Rarely speaking but to urge on his men, or to question some passing native, taking the smallest modicum of refreshment, and watching while others snatched a moment's repose, was he wrapped up in 1119 project and determined to have some share in the fight ! I Through San Pablo, and Monterey, and Joseph they dashed like the phantom ri ders of the Hartz Nlountains, startling the inhabitants, and making the night watcher cross himself in terror as their bard flow mi. The river Sacrificios was reached ; swot• len by the rains, it rolled on, a rapid, mud dy stream; his men paused. 'Forward, forward !' cried he, and dash ed in himself; the struggle was a firce one, but his gallant mustang breasts the cur rent, and he reaches the opposite shore in safety ; his men after a time join him, two brave fellows finding a watery . grave, and ninny of the horses being carried down the stream; but nothing can now stop him— the heights adjacent to the Puebla appear —now a smile might be seen on the impla cable visage of the leader—'tis the sixth day and Me goal is won ! With ninety men on the last of his car avan of horses, he fell like a thunderbolt on the rear of the Mexicans. '('he little band of stout hearts guarding the presidio taken by surprise, and not having the ad vantage of the Mexicans in regard to hor ses, were beginning to waver. But cheer up, cheer again—succor is at hand, On conic those riders of Fremont—nothing can withstand their shock. With shouts of tri umph they change the battle to a route. The field is won ! The route was a complete one; and had not Fremont's men been utterly exhausted none would have escaped. So ended the Ride of the One hundred! I would say that the Government, with their usual speed in such matters, passed an appropriation to satisfy General Vallejo and others for their losses, six year's after. This put a vital end to the war, for the' they again made a stand at San Pascal, headed by Pico, still they were so dispiri ted, and Gen. Kearney with his mounted men defeated them with great loss. The govornorship of the country being decided which had long been a source of trouble between Kearney. Stockton and Mason, affairs. became more settled and the Amer ican force, now largely augmented, was placed on such a footing, es soon to "crush the head of rank rebellion,' and .Pico and Castro fled to the lower country, to fight for a time longer against inevitable fat, . " LIBERTY AND UNION, NOW AND PORZYER, ONE AND INSEPARABLE. " HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1856. gampaign niig. SONO OF FREEDOM. • FOR THE 80TH YEAR OF THE REPUBLIC. Ye who dwell in quiet hamlets, Ye who crowd the busy ways ; All who love this great Republic Is these dark imperiled days ; Does your freedom never seem Like the beauty of a dream ? Most the lightnings flash and thunder On our slumber glare and break, Ere from false and fleeting visions We to real dangers wake ? Must the earthquake's heavy tread Crush us sleepers with the dead ? From the bloody plains of Kansas, From the Senate's guilty floor, From the smoking wreck of Lawrence, From our Sumner's wounds and gore, Comes our country's dying eitll-- Iti4o for Freedom I or we fall. Hear ye not succeeding ages From their cloudy distance cry ? See ye not the hands of nations Lifted toward the threatening sky ? Now or never, lice and gain Freedom for this fair domain'? We have vanquished foreign tyrants, Now the battle draws anear ; Let not Despots have the boasting, That a Freeman knows to fear By your fathers' patriot graves, Rise I nor be forever slaves I Speak I yo Orators of Freedom, Let your thunder shake these plains Write 1 ye Editors of Freedom, Let your lightning rive their chains Up I ye Sons of Pilgrims, rise I Strike for Freedom, or she dies Give this land to future ages, Free, as God hits mode it free ; Swear that not another acre Shall be cursed with sigvery ; Strike l for Freedom mid for right— God himself is Freedom's might. Voliticat. Rlemoir of JAMES BUCHANAN, Of Pennsylvania. In the Intelligence,• of the 14th inst., we find copied from the Pennsylvanian. a very imperfect memoir of this distin guished Pennsylvanian, to which we beg leave to add a few scraps of history, omit• ted no doubt by mistake or ignorance of the facts. We shall confine ourselves at this time to a few extracts from the . 4 tne• moir," and make such remarks and quota Lions front the records us truth demands. The memoir says : "Mr. Bucluinan is in the sixty fifth year of his age, and in the vigor of health intellectually and physicelly," In 1852, Mr. Buchanan in a letter to citizens of Bradford county, put in the plea that he was too old to make then: a speech. "More than sixty years," mid asked for "an honorable discharge !" How unkind to force him into tho Presi dential harnei , s. Again : "He was born in the County of Frank lin, in the State of Pennsylvania, of hon est and industrious parents, and may truly be called the architect of his own fortunes. Having received a good education, he studied the profession of the law, in the County of Lancaster, in the same State, which has ever since been bis home. In 1814 and 1815 ho was elected to the State Legislature, where he distinguished him self by those exhibitions of intellect which gave promise of future eminence," So he was elected to the Legislature, but why not state by whom? . We will apply the record for 1815. . ASSEMBLY James Buchanan FEDERAL, 8051 Milton C. Rogers, DEMOCRAT 2502 Again : . 1820, James Buchanan was elect ed to the House of Representatives, and retained his position in that body for ten years, voluntarily retiring after the first Congress under the administration of An• drew Jackson." Ten years in Congress as a Democrat we suppose, but let us examine the record and see : CONGRESS 1820—James Buchanan, FEDERAL, 4642 Jacob II ibshman, DEMOCRAT, 3666 1822—James Buchanan, FED., 2753 Jacob Hibshman, DEM., 1940 1824—James Buchanan, FED., 3560 Samuel Houston, DEra., 3046 1826—James Buchanan, FED., 2700 Dr. John McCamanc, Diem., 2307 1828—James Buchanan, JAcKsox, '2503 William Heister, ADAMS, 3901 On the 4th of July, 1815, Mr. Buchan an, when he was a candidate for Assem bly on .he Federal ticket, deliverd oration" in• Lancaster, in which he show ed his love of Federalism and halted of Democracy, by attacking the Administra tion of James Madison. Ile said : "'Dime will not allow me to enumerate all the other wild and wicked projects of the Democratic 11 ministration. Suffice it to say, that after they had deprived us of the means of defence by destroying our navy and disbanding our army; at ter they had taken away front us the pow er of recruiting them, by ruining corn.' merce, the great source of our national ey had, by to the WARMES I"I'HANKS, of every HOW FREMONT RUN OFF WITH •ed States friend of humanity." A #opitiar i,i.r. ......, OLD BULLION'S DAUGHTER. "arrassed Neither does the "Memoir" give any "GO IT JESSIE." mment, account of how Mr. Buchanan saved to , - ,-- 7 --- -- Col. Tom Benton is a great man, sir ! super ! himself a few thousand dollars tax on a BOBBIN , AROUND. He always has been a great man since he ton ; ; large personal estate invested principally ___ has been any man at all. He was a great red :in bonds end mortgages in ',infester coun- In August last on one fine dair, man and a Senator from Missouri. with 1- ; ty forms, at six per cent interest. But the A bobbing around, around, around, a house at Washington, when Jain C. 1 following letter from the assessor explains When Josh and I went to make hay, Fremont was a poor draughtsman and all, and also show how near we came los- We went a bobbing around. mappist. Fremont would not have dared ing him as a "resident :" Says Josh to me let's take a walk, to propose to Col. Benton to run away WASHINGTON, Feb. 16, 1846. A bobbing around, around, around, with him. Such a thing would not have DEAR SIR :—I have received yours of Then we can have a private talk, occurred to hint, for he regarded Col. Ben. the 12th instant, informing me that, not • As wo go bobbing around. ton with becoming awe. Ile had passed knowing whether I considered myself a " many an evening in her company, and the resident of Lancaster, you have assessed We walk'd along to the mountain ridge, oftener he saw her the oftener he wished me as such. I had supposed that you A bobbing around, around, around, to see her. Love overcame timidity, until could have known that I had removed Till we got near Squire Slipshop's bridge, one day he found himself, hat in hand, from Lancaster nearly a year ago, and have As we went bobbing around. with heated breath, in the presence of the ever since been au actual resident of this Then Josh an d I went on a spree, great Tom Benton, asking . him for his city, where my official duties require that A bobbing, around, around around daughter. But Toni Benton would not do I should reside. I trust that at some fu- And I kiss'd Josh and Josh kiss'd me, it. lie was inexorable, and he refused to ruse period I may again become a resident do what in a few days afterwards he was As we went bobbing around. of Lancaster, but that is wholly uncertain. ready to do—Tom refused to "give lii.it „, JAMES BUCHANAN.” Then Josh's pluck no longer tarri'd, Jessie." He also forbade Fremont the MICHAEL BUNDEL, 1413 Q. A bobbing around, around, around, House ; but that the draughtsman cared By way of an ' , Appendix" we would Says he dear Patience let's get married, little for, because it was not the house he suggest to the latelligencer to re-publish Then we'll go bobbing around. wanted. Finding all persuasion useless, Mr. Buchanan's 4th et July oration of 1815 Now I knew he lov'd another gal, the young couple determined to be married also the confidential circular of June s,clandestinely, arta so they set about the A bobbing, around, around, around, 1823, and several other choice records They can'd her long legg'd crook'd shin preliminaries. They found the Protestant not unknown to the Intelligencer. , clergy overawed by the awful dignity of __---....... ..... —_ curly toothed Sal, — When he went bobbing around. Col. Benton, and afraid to act, but they I BUCHANAN AS A STATESMAN. found a Catholic pri w est, who stood in no Se after we got into church, such fear, and the knot as tied. Just be , A bobbing around, around, around, lore the decisive step was taken, and while .oy , I .1. cat and left Josh in the lurch, her last step lingered upon the paternal _a demo „anted the age Then he went bobbing around. threshold, the sweet daughter's heart year , .iie greater portion Now all you chaps what's got a gal, ned for her mother, who she was thus lea ving, perhaps, forever, and she hung her _en passed in the politi- A bobbing around, around, around, sii you him a statesmen, who Do think of long legg'd, crook'd shin, cur- head and sobbed; the carriage door stood . r contributed an original idea ly tooth'd Sal, open, the horses pranced ; another mo- Aought to political science / ment and all might have been lost. "Go it seen on all sides of almost every question, who has When you gs bobbing around. Jessie” was the word from the bridegroom, . i for whom nothing in the game of politics has been too base ? What has Re done to moat, (a great leap at that time,) the horses I „seen the title of statesman ? Was it ° tuns ttilanir. tore the pavement in their flight; the night wore on ; and individual wealth ; after they had, by refusing the Bank of the United States a continuance of its charter, embarrassed the financial concerns of the government, and withdrawn the only universal paper medium of the country from circulation; after the people had been unaccustomed to, and, of course, unwilling to bear taxa tion, and without money in the Treasury, they rashly plunged us into a war with al nation more able to do us injury than! any other nation in the world. What was the dreadful necessity for this despe rate measure? Was it to protect our lit- , tle remaining commerce from the injuries it sustained by the orders in council t No. • Commerce was no such st favorite, and the' Merchants wished no war on that account. And then again, speaking of foreigners, he remarks : 'The greater part of those foreigners who would be this affected by it, have long been the warmest friends of the Dem ocratic Party. They had been one of the great means of elevating the present rul ing (Democratic) Party, and it would have been ungrateful for that party to have abandoned them. To secure this foreign feeling has been the labor of their lcadersfor more than twenty years, and well have they been paid for their trouble fur it has been one st the principle causes of iivroducing and continuing them in power. Immediately before the warlthis Areign it had completely embod ied itself with the majority, particularly in the !Vest, and its voice was heard so loud at the seat of government that Presi dent Madison was obliged. either to yield to his dictates, or retire from office, The choice was easily mode by a man who pre ferred nta PRIVATE INTERESTS to the pub lic good, and therefore hurried us into war utterly unprepared." And then again : "We ought to use every honest exertion to turn out of power those WEAK and molt- ED men whose wild and visionary theo ries havo been tested and found wanting. Above all, WE ought to drivefroin our shore FOREIGN INFLUENCE and cherish AMERICAN FEELING. Foreign influence has been ia every age the cuase of our Re publics,—its jaundiced eye sees everything in false colors—the thick atmosphere of prejudice by which it is ever surrounded excluding from its sight the light of rea son. Let us then learn wiitlom from ex• perience, and forever baniti this FIEND from our society." liere is positive testimony that Mr. Bu chanan endorsed t' e entire platform of Native American princi iles ; and at a time too when the evils of foreign influence were but lightly felt. Since that time, it has increased four fold ; and now, when overwhelming us with its blighting curse, Mr. Buchanan stands before the world an apostate to his former political faith, as an advocate of the very evil, against which he so eloquently and truthfully warned us. And again in the same oration he said : , t What must be our opinion of an oppo sition whose passions were so drunk and malignant as to be gratified in endeavoring to blast tile character and embitter the old age of Washington ? After thus persecu ting the saviour of his country. how can the Democrats dare to call themselves his disciples?" Again, in a confidential circular got up by the Federalists of Lancaster. dated June 5, 1823, to secure the election of Mr. Gregg, for Governor, over the Demearatic candidate Mr. Shultze, Air Buchanan said: '-Mr. Gregg, although not a Federalist, has always been considered an honest and enlightened politician. a v "lie has acted n leading part in the ad• ministration' of General lliester, and de serves much of :lie credit to which it is en titled. We ore assured he resisted with all his energy, the adoption of the measures which justly gave so much offence to the Federalists of Lancaster county." The Memoir again says: "lie was the warm and ardent defender of the Administration of Mr. Moaroe, the active opponent of the administration of John Quincy Adams, and the consistent and trusted friend of Andrew Jackson." Mr. Monroe was elected President in 1816, .and again in 1821, and Mr. Buch• anus was a Federalist until 1828, when he shifted his position to a "Jackson man," and was elected to Congress as such, but not an a Democrat, as about that tune, he to secure the Federalists to vote fur him, told a prominent Federalist, that if he shad a drop of Democratic blood in his reins tomb/ lct it out," There must be some mistake, ns to his having been an "ardent defender of the adminiskratton of Mr. Monroe." On the subject of slavery the "memoir" is not very definite, and we will give his views as expressed in a series of resolu tions reported by him to a public meeting held in the Court House in the city of Lancaster, on the 28d of November, 1819. James Buchanan, James Hopkins and William Jenkins were appointed a commit tee on resolutions, and reported the follow ing among others : "Resolved, That the Representatives in Congress from this District be, and they are hereby most earnestly requested 'l'o USE THEIR UTMOST ENDEAVORS as members of the National Legislature, TO PREVENT THE EXISTENCE OF SLAVERY IN diVF OF THE TERVTORIES OR NEW ST4TES, which may be created by Congress. "Resolved, That in the opinion of this meeting the members of Congress, who at that session sustained the cause of Justice, Humanity and Patriotism IN OPPOSING THE INTRODUCTION OF SLAVERY IN THE STATE THEN ENDEAVOR ING TO BE FORMED OUT OF THE MISSOURI TERRITORY. are entitled We hoar much of the veteran states manship of James Buchanan urged by persons belonging to the so-called demo cratic party. Yes, he has attained the age of three score and ten, the greater portion of his life having been passed in the politi cal world. Call you him a statesman, who has never contributed an original idea or thought to political science who has been on all sides of almost every question, for whom nothing in the game of politics has been too base ? What has Re done to merit the title of statesman ? Was it statesmanship to defame the character of Henry Clay, and afterwards beg his goner. nue victim not to expose him? Was it statesmanship to pledge his honor to as sembled thousands, who trusted him, that James K. Polk was as good a tariff man as Henry Clay ? %Vas it statesmanship to oppose the extension of slavery as contrary to the interests of the people, and after wards at the beck of an oligarchy of slave ; holders favor its extension ? Was it states manship to advocate the seizure of Cuba to gratify the interests or whims of 8.17,000 slaveholders. though it should bring upon 25,000.000 of people the horrors of a war with England ane. France united '1 From his reedit mission to England he came hotne without effecting a settlement of the differences with that country. We vainly ask what has he done to promote the in terests of the people ? lt is time to distin guish between a political hack and a statesman. To call such a man as Jars s Buchanan a statesman, is to insult the memory of Washington, Jefferson, "Mai ! son, Franklin ; they were gods if he is or ever was a statesman, Had he been in the prime of life a states man, would it be judicious, now that he has reached an extreme old age, to place him in the Presidential chair. to bo under the control of Slidell, Jofferson Davis, Wise and Toombs, avowed disunionists, and at this moment engaged in a plot to dissolve the Union ; men devoid of principle ; men who are unscrupulous politicians, pledged to sustain the most ultra demands of the slavvocracy ; rues who say that the proper condition of all laborers, white and black, is the state of slavery, and that newspapers and common schools are a curse to the community in which they exist ?—Phila. Daily /lines. Indiana. In the State of Indiana the Fillmore men lately undertook to organize for the Presidential contest. They held a State Convention, and nominated an Electoral ticket, but the purpose of the leaders to help give the State to Buchanan was so plainly manifest that the more sensible portion of the Convention returned home in disgust. The result is that the Yin. cennes Gazette and Terra Ilaute Express which had previously battled earnestly for Fillmore. have hauled the flag down and run up Fremont and Dayton. They were, not long since nearly a dozen papers there supporting Filuore; there are now, we believe, but is at New Albany and the other at Evansville. In addition to this Cal. White, one of the electors nominated on the Fillmore ticket has declined. Ile is more honest than the others; for he avows his purpose to support Buchanan, in a direct instead of an indirect manner. It is probable that most of the electors named along with him will also decline and that the few Fillmore awn left in the State will go over to Buch anan. It will do him no good howe-er.— The Hoosier are bound to give their State to Fremont. Look Hare, DISTINGUISHED ACCESSIONS.—The 'lon. C. GILPIN, of Philadelphia, formerly Mayor, ad• dressed a meeting in the Seventh ward, last night, in favor of FREMONT and DAYTON.— The Democracy have been congratulating themselves upon the idea that he would lend his assistance to the elevation of Mr. Been. LOAN. Mr. GILPIN watt an old line Whig and took no part in the American movement. The "on Judge licid.y of Philadelphia, who has been a long-life Democrat, and is a distinguish• ed judge, repudiates the Cincinnati platform, and supports the People's Candidate. These gentlemen but precede others of equal Tint . , in theirjunction with the great swelling title of popular feeling that is now oversprending the land, Philadelphia will yet give a most ex cellent account of herself. To our friends a. broad we son, -Ito of Fowl rheer."—NO.M. phi,/ Night Scene in a Young Lady's Bed- Chamber. Last Tuesday night, which will be re membered as one of the .varmest of the season, a young lady at the "West End," was excessively frightened at a little cir cumstance which transpired about the hour of midnight. The young lady, whose beauty is only equalled by her modesty, and whose "eye's dark charm" has caused more than one •vaistcoat to palpitate, had retired to her chamber, where, after laying aside the greater portion of her wearing apparel she committed herself to the ten• der embrace of 3lorpheus, whose soothing influences were aided by the cooling breath of Zephyr, who came in at the open win dow and fanned her cheeks with his. fea thery wings. In a word, she was snoozing finely—or, to use the language of u mod ern bard— 'Steep on her velvet eyelids lightly press'd, And dreamy sights upheave() hersnowy breast, While starbeams, thro' her window softly creep. Stole to her couch, and trembling there stood peeping." It was, as we said, about midnight when the young lady was roused from her deli cious slumber by hearing a noise at the window. Half unclosing her eyes, she was startled by the corpulent form, appa rently strurygling to gain admission to her chamber through the open window. It struck her at once that the intruder had been caught by the rear of his unmention ables, by a nail or some other sharp instru ment,. as he seemed to be struggling with a stern determination to enter. Her first thought was to faint—her second to give the fellow a push—her third, to jump out of the window as soon as he jumped in— her fourth. to scream, which was immedi ately curried into effect. The whistle of the locomotive on the Iron Mountain road, when it gave its first snort on the 4th of July, was but a whisper to the screams of the young girl. The whole honse, and hall the neighborhood, were awakened by the outcry. The old folks, three female servants, and two big brothers rushed to the rescue, and broomsticks, mop-handles and bootjacks flashed in the gaslight, as the household entered the chamber of the frightened beauty. An examination of the figure in the window dispelled the fears of all, and changed the screams ditto young lady into shouts of laughter. The imagi nary ..fat man" was only her own darling hooped skill, which she had hung on a hook near the window, and which the wind had inflated and set in motion. There was no more sleeping in the house that night —St. Louis Herald. The Newspapers. The New York H. raid makes a list of all its exclianga papers, with their past and present political attachments. The results are thus stated : In summing up, it appears that Alt. Buchanan has 105 of these newspapers in his support—of which fifty•five in the South : that ninety-eight of these are old Democrat papers, and seven were formerly Whig. For Fremont, 122; and only 2 in the South ; that of the whole number, soy enty•eight were lately Whig. twelvqi2em ocrats, fourteen Know Nothing, andTigh teen aro Independent men. For Fill more, of our exchanges there are 47 pa pers—lorty-two originally Whig, four Know Nothings, and one Democratic— and of the whole number, thirteen are in the North, against thirty-four in the South the rump of the old defunct Whtg par ty in that s. , ction. We also give a list of the German press and their party affini ties. When we consider that the German papers were unanimously for Pierce in 1852, this list presents a very curious and remarkable feature in the revolution now going on in our national pilitics." VOL. XXI. NO. 34. "They'll have fleet steeds who follow," thought the young draughtsman, as his arm encircled Jessie, and he looked at that moon under which so many strange things had transpired. Col. Banton waked in the morning, descended to the breakfast table, but found no Jessie. Her room was ex plored, but no Jessie was found, and her bed had not even been occupied. There was the great Col. in a great rage, sir ! He frothed aid foamed, and roared and ranted, perhaps lie swore. Ile promised he'd give the rascal a cowhiding—he'd give him—" You had better give him Jessie," was the quiet suggestion of the mother—perhaps she was about half right. One of the grossest accusations brought against Col. Fremont is the running away with Tom Benton's daughter; yet, after all there is much to be said in extenuation. He admired the family, and felt that he must have a member of it. To have run awa) with the old lady would have created great scandal; to run away with the Col onel himself was out of the question—he took the only one of the family he could get. Old Cardinal Richelieu said to Louis XIII, when that monarch fell in love with Julia De Mortimer, niece of the Cardinal, .'if you must love somebody, Sire, lore me!" Benton was still mere unreasona ble—he shut his door against Fremont, and forbade him to love any of the family.— What could he do then but what he did ? Every pro slavery newspaper from 54 54 or fight, down to 32 20, parades before its renders the damning fact that Fremont had the audacity to run away with Col. Benton's daughter in order to be married to her. That he told her to 'Go it Jessie' at the very moment of her departure. This fact is mentioned with an air of decisive ness, as if he had run away with Col. Ben ton's pocket book, or favorite race horse. In this country, society, the laws and pub. lic opinion, all make a broad distinction, and so it stands, in respect to their tribu nals, that Col. Fremont is neither more or less fit to be President of the United States upon that aocount : and his wife is neither more or less fit to dispense the hospitalities of the Executive mansion. He will not receive a vote less because of the fact, which is of such unchallenged notoriety that denial is useless. To. Make Pure White Soap. Take soda in crystals, and put it Into a barrel, with a layer of quick-line, and pour warm water upon it, suffering the liquor to leach out in the saute manttt•:r that ashes are leached out in the woods for making crude potash. This liquor should be filtered through straw, so as to have it pure and clear. Its specific gravity should be 1,040 in the hydrometer. To every gallon of thts.lye, 11 lbs. of melted suet or white tallow should be added, and at should be kept boiling gently, in a Olean kettle, for four hours. It should then be very completely sap onified, which, can be easily tested by immersing a flat knife in it. When com pletely saponified, it will shake on the spatula. The fire should then be drawn from the furnaee, and a handfull of Balt, dissolved in cold water, thrown in. This is to • cool the soap, and seperate it from the water. It can be run off into frames, when cool put it into proper cakes. This is good soap, and is well adapted for ma king it into toilet and other soaps.—Scien rifle American. A Nice Duni FOR IlsEAKFAsr.—Take ono egg, and beat it up, add a teaspoon. ful of salt, and pour in about two thirds of a pint of water, then slice souse bread, dip it in, and fry in a little•butter. Serve while warm, and you will WI it a 9 lent dish
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