2:37 P.OSIVAT WIZ:TM .I\Z=LETON.I Office of the Star & Banner: Ckambersburg Street, a few doors West o the Court• House. CONDITIONS: li. The STAa & REPUBLICAN BANNEII illpublished Weekly, at 4 1`wo ROLLA ns per annum, (or Volume of 252 Numbers,)payable halfyearly in advance— or Two Dollars and Piny Cents if not paid untilaftcr the ex piration of the year. 11. No subscription will be received for a shorter period than six months, nor will the paper be discon tinued until all arrearages are paid, unless at the dis Dretion of the editor—A . failure to notify a discontinu since will be considered a new engagement, and the paper forwarded accordingly. M. Advertisements not exceeding a square, will be inserted TIIRF:F. 4- 6w'; for ONE DOLLAR, and 25 cents for every subsequent insertion—longer ones in the same proportion. The Dumberof insertions to be marked, or they will be published till forbid and char roil acennlintlV. ADVERTISE lEN'I'S OLARILIS OLD EST.ABLISECOD LUCKY OFFICE, N. W. Corner of Baltimore and Calvert Street', (Under the Museum.) Where hare been hold Prizes ! Prizes Prizes!!! in Dollars Millions of Millions BALTIMORE CITY, MD. NOTICE.—Any person or persons thro . out the [Trion who may desire to try their luck, either in the Maryland State •Lotteries, or in authorized Lotteries of oth er States,some one of which are drawn daily, Tickets from ONE to 'PEN 'I►OLLARS, shares in proportion, are respectfully re• quested to forward their orders by mail (Post Paid) or otherwise enclosing c.tsx or PRIZE. Twits:Ts, which will be thankfully received and executed by return mail, with tlie same prompt attention as if on personal applica tion,and the result given when requested im• mediately after the drawings. • Please address, JOAN CLARK, N. W.Corner ofßaltitnoro and Calvert Streets under the Museum. March 28, 1836. • PRIVATE SALE. T HE Subscriber intending to go to farm ing in the spring, will offer his House & Lot isms for sale, in Middletown, Freder- VII - ick Ceunty, The House is a two story Brick Building, well finished and there is also a log building on the same lot, now occupied as a hatter shop, also a small barn, together with a Stable, Corn House, &c. There is also an excellent pump of water in the yard. The above property would suit any' Mechanic, as a is situated nearly in the center of the town, but more particularly a Hatter, as there will be none in the place, after I quit the business. This will therefore, be an ex cellent opening fpr one. If the above property 'is not sold by the middle of February, it will thou be for rent. Any person desiring to purchase, will call on the sabicnber, now living on the above described property. BENJ. ROUTZA LIN. January 16,1837. 4t-42 Public Sale. IN pursuance of an order of the Orphans' Court of Adams County,will be exposed to-public sale, on Saturday the 28th of Jan. uary Instant, on the promises, A PLANTATION, OR TRACT OF LAND, Situate in , Huntington township, Adams county,two miles west of Petershurgli,(York Springs,) and convenient to . the Turnpike leading from Baltimore to Carlisle, adjoin• ing lands of Jacob Funk, Moses Funk,Peter Snyder and othiirs, • Containing One Hundred acres, more or less. The improvements are a convenient . TWOSTOR Y BRICK :•.• well finished, with . Back Buildings, Brick Sirioke.house,a large Stone Barn with Sheds. a wagon•shed, corncribs, and other out. buildings, together with newly built SilIV MILL , with a constant supply of water; a thriving young orchard of choice grafted fruit, and a never-failing well of water with a pump near the house. About AO acres of the land are cleared, of first rate ['milky, an a good state of cultivativation and under good fenceL part of which is excellent meadow, and the residue in good timber. also--Another Tract of Land, Situate in the township aforesaid, adjoining the above tract and lands of Jacob Funk and others, containing about Fort y-Six Beres, more or less, all in good Timber except about 13 acres, which are cleared dat principally under fence. • All to be sold as•tho Estate of DANIEL FUNK, deceased. Persons desirous of purchasing, will be shewn the above property by either of the. subscribers previous to the day of sale. KrSale to commence at I.o'clock r. when attendance will be given and terms made known by - MOSES FUNK, Adners de DANI. FUNK, S heals non. By the Court, JONES .4. THOMPSON, clerk. January 9, 1837. is-41 Carpenter's Compound •Fluid Exit act of 8113 C 111.112. .Just received from the ware-house of G. W. Carpenter, and for sato at the Drug Store of Dr. .T. GILBERT. UMW Wffi..2221E)0 "With sweetest flowers enriched, From various gardens w ith care." !fit-The following b.neitiful Poem, by JOHN quirrcv Annals, we extract from the New York Mirror: To fill thy page, beloved maid, Before me Fancy's visions nit, Three damsels offer me their aid, A ffect ion— Van i —And Wit. Perplext d like Paris, lo— I stand; Which to prefer, and which refuse— Now dread the task from mortal hand, Between three goddesses to choose! First Wit—a damsel perPand sly, 011 both her rivals cast a leer, Awl beckoning with coquettish cyo Proffers her pen for gibe or jeer. Seduced by her enchanting smile I took her pen in sportive piny— The gipsey laughs at me the while, And tittering, snatches it away. Next, Vanity wails my cars— With simpering whisper soft and slow— " Take but my pen—the verse shall llow," Shmseems to say -so sweet, so clear. "That 01 who rend will straight exclaim, 'glow great a hard is lost to hope. And buried beneath vulgar fame, At least an Ovid or a Pope!" Deceivers! Vanity and Wit . No more your faces show ! Fame, Folly, Falsehood you may fit; The verse oulhis page must be true. If ivords, dear Ellen, could express The wishes in this heart that glow, Bow they would burn your life to bless, Affection's pen alone can show ! Vlll2 Ei32T,Vd2Tfr-DI)Vo The Farmer and the Soldier. Boys arc apt to form very ridiculous notions regarding the splendor and delights of a soldier's life, which, instead of being one of happiness, as they imagine, is perhaps the most miserable in the world. While the youth of genius and industry is rising up in the pursuit of his peaceful and hon orable occupations, how often is his thoughtless, early companion, who has embraced the career of a soldier's life, - spending his best years in the listlessness of an unidca'd range of duty, becoming old in doing nothing, and only preparing for him self—most likely—a painful conclusion to a valueless existence!—Boys, who aro not aware of the sutThrings which often accompany the sol dier's career, may possibly profit by the perusal of the following little story, written by Mrs. SIGO un- NET', an American authoress:— It was a cold evening in winter. A lamp cast its cheerful ray from the window of a small farm house, in one of the villages of New England.— A fire was burning brightly on the hearth, and two brothers sat scar it. Several bchool books lay by them, on the table, from which they had been studying their lessons for tho next day.— Their parents had retired to rest, and the boys were conversing earnestly. The youngest who was about thirteen, said, 'John, I mean to be a suldier.' 'Why so James?' have been reading the life of Alexander of Macedon, and also a good deal about Napoleon Bonaparte. I think they were the greatest men that over lived. There is nothing in this world like the glory of the Ivor. 'lt does not seem to me glorious to do so much harm. To destroy multitudes of innocent men, and to make such mourning in families, and so much poverty and misery in the world is more cruel than' glorious.' 'Oh, but then, John, to be so honored, and to have so many soldiers under your command, and fume of such mighty victories—what glory is there to be compared to this!' 'James, our good minister told us in his sermon last Sunday, that the end of life was the test of its goodness. Now, Alexander, that you cull the great, got intoxicated, and died like a madman; and Na poleon wits imprisoned on a desolate island, like a chained wild beast for all the world to gaze and wonder at. h was as necessary that lie should be confined, as that a ferocious monster should be put in a cage.' 'John, your i 'as are very limited. You fire not capable of admiring heroes. You are just fit to be a farmer. I dear any that to break a pair of steers, is your highest ambition, and to spend your days in ploughing and reaping, would be glory enough for you. Tho voice of their father was now heard, calling, 'Boys, go to bed.' So ended their conversation for that night, Fifteen years past away and the same season again returned. From the same window, a bright A amp gleamed, and on the same hearth wan a cheer tire. The building seemed unaltered, but a tnolig its inmates there were changes. The pa rents who had then retired to rest, had now laid down in the deeper sleep of the grave. They were pious—among the little circle of their native vil lage, their memory_ was held in sweet remein- brance, In the same chairs which they used to occupy, were seated their eldest son and his wife. A babe lay in the cradle, and two other little ones breath ed sweetly from their trundle-bed, in the quiet sleep of childhood. A blast with snow come against the casement. always think,' said John, ia great deal about my poor brother at this season of the year, and eve- eta yin stormy nights. But it is now so many years since we have heard from him, and his way of life exposed him to so much danger, that I fear we have strong reason to believe him dead:— 'What a pity,' replied tile wife, 'that he would be a soldier!' A faint knocking was heard at the door. It was opened, and a man entered wearily, and leaning, upon crutches. His clothes were thin and tattered, and his countenance haggard. Then reached him a chair; and he sank into it. .He gazed earnestly on each of their faces, and then on tho sleeping children, and then on every article of furniture, us on.some recollected friend. Stretch ing out his withered arms, ho said, in a tone scarcely auiliblo—Aßrother—brotherr —The sound of that voice opened the tender remembrances of many years. They hastened to welcome o wanderer, and mingle their tears with his 'Brother, sister, I have come home to you to die. Ile Was too much exhausted to converse, and they exerted themselves to prepare him fitting " I WISH NO OTHER HERALD, NO OTHER SPEAKER OF IIT LIVING ACTIONS, TO KEEP MINE HONOR FROM CORRIIPTION."-SHA KS. 42WW/rVZULfiIiMq322 O IPdta 9 itits,0 1 21c4Ire aztayattpdtmly aatovc, °Brother," he would soy, °you have been a man of peace. In the quiet occupations of husbandry, you have served God and loved your neighbor.— Your have been merciful to the animal creation You have taken the fleece, and saved the slice alive. But I have wantonly defaced the image of God,and stopped that breath which I can never re- store. You have taken the honey, and present:l the laboring bee. But I have destroyed nian and ter is now my sorrow for the performance of such abominations." He declined rapidly. Death came on with hasty strides. Laying his cold hand upon the head of the eldest little boy, who had been much around his bed in his sickness, he said, "Dear John, never be n soldier. Sister, brother, you have been as angels of mercy to me. The blessing of the God of peace abide with you,and upon your house." So saving, he expired. Such was the conclud ing scene in the life of a being who had fondly an ticipated in the soldier's career nothing but splen dour and unfailing glory! THE DEAD Liv E.—l have seen one die: she was beautiful; and beautiful were the ministries of life that were given her to fulfill. Angelic love. liness enrobed her, and a grace as if it were caught from heaven, breathed in every tone, hallowed every• affection, shone in every action,—invested as a halo, her whole existence, and made it a light, a blessing, a charm and a vision of gladness to all around her; but she died! Friendship, and love, arid parental fondness, and infant weakness, stretched out their hands to save her; but they ' could not save her and she died! What! did all that loveliness die! Is there no land of the bles sed and lovely ones, for such to live in? Forbid it reason, religionl—bereaved affection, and undy ing love! forbid the thought! It cannot be that such die, in God's counsel, who live, even in frail human memory forever. I have seen one die—in the maturity of every power, in the earthly perfection of every faculty; when many temptations had been overcome, and many hard lesions had been learned; when many experiments had made virtue easy, and had given a facility to action, and a success to endeavor, when wisdom had been learnt from many nourishment, and to make him comfortable for the night. The next morning he was unable to rise. They sat by his bed, and soothed his worn heart with kindness, and told him the simple nar rative of all that had befallen them in their quiet abode. "Among all my troubles," said he, •sand I have had many, none has so bowed me down as my sin in leaving home, without the knowledge of my parents, to become a soldier. when I knew it was against their will. I have felt the pain of wounds, but there is nothiag like the sting of conscience.— When I have lain perishing with hunger, and parching with thirst, a prisoner in the enemy's hands, the utage of my home, and of my ingrati tude, would be with me, when I lay down, and when I rose up. f would think I saw my mother bending tenderly over me, as she used to do when I had only a headache; and my father with the Bible in his hand, out of which he read to us in the evening, before his prayer, but when I have stretch ed out my hands to say, "Father, I am no more worthy to be called thy son," I would awake, and it was all a dream. But there would be the memo . ry of my disobedience; and how bitterly have I wept to think that the child of so many peaceful precepts had become a man of bland!'' His brother hastened to assure him of the per fect forgiveness of his parents, and that daily and nightly he was mentioned in their supplications,as their loved, and absent, and erring one. , As his strength permitted, he told them the story of his wanderings and his sufferings. He had been in battles by sea and by land. He had heard the deep ocean echo with the thunders of war,and seen the ocean drink m the strange, red shower from mangled and palpitating bosoms. He had stood in the lists of Europe, and jeoparded his life for a foreign power, and he had pursued in his own land the hunted Indian, flying at midnight from his flaming hut. He had gone with the bravest, where dangers thickened, and had sought in every place for the glory of war, but had found only mis ery. "That glory which dazzled me in my days of boyhood, and which I supposed was always the reward of the brave, continually eluded me. It is reserved for the successful leaders of armies. They alone are the heroes, while the poor soldiers, by whose toil the victories arc won, endure the hard ships, that others may reap the fame. Yet how light is all the boasted glory which was ever obtain ed by the greatest commander, compared with the good that he forfeits, and the sorrow that he in flicts, in order to obtain it! "Sometimes, when we were ready for a battle, and just before we rushed into it, I have felt a fear ful shuddering, an inexpressible horror at the thought of butchering my fellow creatures. But in the heat of contest, such feeling vanished, and the madness and desperation of a demon possessed me. I cared neither for heaven nor hell. "You, who dwell in the midst of the influences of mercy, and shrink to give pain even to an ani mal, can hardly imagine what hardness of heart comes with the life of a soldier. Deeds of cruelty anirdwaya before him, and he heeds neither the sign:rings of the starving infant, or the groans of its dying mother. "Of my own varieties of pain, I will not speak. Yet when I have lain on the field of bank, and unable to move from among the feet of trampling horses, when my wounds stiffened in the chilly night air, and no one cared for my soul, I have th..ught it .1-.0 more than just, since my own hand had dealt the same violence to others,perfiaps even inflicted keener anguish than that which was ap pointed to me.. "But the g,rcatc.st evil of a soldier's life isnot the ardship to which he is exposed, or the wounds he may sustain, but the sin with which he is trirroun dedcand made familiar. Oaths, imprecations, and contempt of every thing sacred, arc the elements of his trade. In this hardened career, though I ex erted myself to appear bold and courageous, my heart constantly misgave me: God grant that it may be purified by repentance, before 1 am. sum moned to the dread bar of judgment." His friends nattered themselves that by medical skill and nursing, lie might eventually be restored to health. But he said, "It can never be. Ildy vital energies are wasted." its habitation, burned the hive,and spilled the ho- ley on the ground. You cannot imagine how b takes, and a skill had been laboriously acquired in the use of many powers, and the being, I looked upon and just compassed the most useful, most practical of all knowledge, how to live, and to act well and wisely yet I have seen such an one die! Was all this treasure gained, only to be lostl— Were all these faculties trained, only to he throw into titter disuse? Wus this instrurnent,—th intelligent soul, the noblest in the universe,—was it so laboriously fashioned, and by the most vari ed and expensive apparatus, that, on the very mo ment of being finished, it should be cast away for ever! No, the dead as we call them do not so die. They carry our thoughts to another and a nobler existence. They teach us, and especially by all the strange and seemingly outward circum- stances of their departure from this life, tha and we shall live forever Women often lose the man they love, and who loves them, by mere wantonness or emjuetry— they reject, and they repent—they should be care ful not to take this step hastily, for a proud, high minded,gifted man will seldom ask a woman twice. A French writer says that "the modest deport• ment of those who arc truly wise, when contrast ed with the amusing air of the ignorant may be compared to the different appearances of wheat, which while its car is empty holds up its head proudly, but as soon as it is filled with grain, bends modestly down, and withdraws from observation." If you err to oblige, the person you so oblige will secretly despise you. He who knows the world will not ho too bash Cul: He who knows not be impudent Don't he frightened if misfortune stalks into your humble habitation. She sometimes takes the liberty of walking into the presence-chamber of If you would add a lustre to all your accomplish ment, study a honest behaviour. To excel in any thing valuable is great; but to be above con ceit on account of one's accomplishments is grea ter. Consider, if you have rich natural gifts, you owe them to the Divino bounty. If you have im proved your understanding and studied virtue, you have only done your duty; and thus there scents little reason :eft for vanity. To defeat calumny, 1, Despise it. To seem disturbed about it is the way to make it be be lieved; and stabbing your defamer will not prove you innocent: 2.. Live an exemplary life and then your general good character will overpower it. 3. Speak tenderly of every body, even of your defamers, and you will make the whole world cry shame on thein who can find it in their hearts to injtiry one so inoffencive. ril'EME?Mal&alOo From the 31adison(Indiana)Republican Banner The Wanderer. Cowper, whose melancholy experience Aught him too well the truth he uttered, in speaking of mental derangement, says, This, of all maladies that man infest, Claims most compassion, and receives the least. This sentiment, and with it a lengthened train ofgloomy associations are always sag bested to my mind when I see that unhappy man who is daily traversing our highways, but for whom I know no other name than the one by which he is generally called— " Old Henderson." Twelve) years has he been a wanderer. Twelve years has the homeless lunatic been exposed to the pinch ings of hunger, the scorching heat of sum mer, and the bleak winds of winter. Twelve years has lie been to this community equally an ohject of terror, disgust, and pity. •Poor, poor, poor man! fallen below the brute! His reason strives in vain to find her way, Lost in the stormy desert of his brain; And being active still, she works all strange, Fantastic, cxccraole, monstrous things." Uo you know his history? •Do you know what brought upon him the heaviest curse that offended heaven can inflict on man?— Do you know what made him an outcast up on society? The cause of all this calamity to his family, himself, and Cie community, is summed up in one word—intemperance. Yes, it was intemperance that deranged his intellect—rit was intemperance that destroy ed his domestic happiness—it was intempe rance that made him an object of terror to those whom it was his duty to protect— was intemperance that cast him forth a wan derer upon the world. And still must he be a wandering and a fearful beacon to chose who are treading the same path in which he once walked. My heart is filled with bitterness, when I look upon this wreck of mind, and I shed tears of sympathy for his afflicted children when 1 think of what anguish of feeling they must suffer on his account. But are the unfortunate "Old Henderson" and h►a rela tives the only sufferers amongst us from the evils of intemperance? Has this simoom swept over no other family? Need I recall to the remembrance of this community, the melancholy circumstances attending the death of Mrs. in this place last sum mer? %Vilat cut her off in the bloom and loveliness of youth? The dissipation of her husband. Shc died of a broken heart.— Strangers watched around her bedside, while her husband was at the coffee-house pawning, the very clothes of his dying tofe, and when she whom he had dragged from competence to beggary, breathed her last. he was lying in the room, beastly drank: But I need not multiply instances. Were it necessary, I might produce a list of suffer. ers from intemperance in this place, that would startle the most unfeeling. Alas! who of us are not sufferers? What family is so fortunate as not to mourn over some one in its connexion whose .prospects have been blasted, or whose days have been ten-ruins. ted, by in:emperance? How indescribably more happy would be the situation of many families le.re to day,ifthere had never heetr any ardent spirits sold in the place! ,flow miserable will some families. now happy, hereafter he, &this sale is continued! CV& 'd From the New Monthly Repository THE TRUTH OF SONG. On! think not that the Muse's child No heartfelt angnish knows, • Because his plaint, though deep and wild, In measured accents flows. Think not his warmly-gushing; tear From fabled sources springs; The living fount of grief is near, And murmurs while she Pings. 'Tis not amidst the turbid roll Or passion's whelming tide That words escape the soul; But, when its wares subside, Deep wells of bitterness remain Within the sufferer's breast, And then it pours its anguieled strain - - That will not - be represt, Oh' never has the trembling Lyre • To passion's lay been strung, Save when the heart waked ito fire Ilatl felt the woes it sung! It may not be in our powei to excel many pco lilc in riches, honors, or abilities; but you may excel thousands in goodness of heart. Hither turn your ambition. Here is an object worthy of it. Are not the great happiest when most free from the ineumbrance of greatness? Is there then any happMess in greatness? • Why do you desire riches and grandeur? Be cause you think they will . bring happiness with them. The very thing you want is now in yoUr power—you . have only to study contentment. The consciousness of having acted by principle, and without the praise or privity of any person whatever,is a pleasure superior to all that applause can yield. It was n pertinent and forcible saying of the emperor Napoleon, that , da handsome woman pleases the eye, but a good woman pleases the heart; the' ono is a jewel, the other a treasure." Accustom yourself to strict, observance of your duty in all respects, and it will in time be as trou blesome to omit or violate it, as it is to many peo ple to practise it. No disputing about taste.—A late Gcnnessec Farmer offers the opitlion that all varieties of the apple came from the Compton crab-apple, original ly. The editor of the Manhattan Advertiser says: "What a curious tooth our mother Eve must have had in the fruit line." The correspondent of a neighboring paper, says “an old maid is not so great a nuisance as a dozen yelping dogs." That fellow ought to be hung for his gallantry. "You ask me to whom the President elect is to be married. Mustn't call names in print—. %Vhen you hear it though, you will doubtless say if the molehills him, that of course it Firs You! Hem!" Fallen greatness.—Tho stone coffin of Juliet, she of the Cupulots, is now used as a tub for peasants to wash their ballad in. Cabal's Treasure.—The boned of Thomas Paine, carried by William Cobbet from America to England to make buttons of, now lie at Norman dy farm, under distress for rent. A method of preventing iron and steel from rusting after being newly ground.—A black smith. who was formerly engaged in the manu facture of sickles, informed us, that the method ho adopted to prevent his sickles from rusting after grinding, was to immerse them for an hour, in water strongly impregnated with lime. This had the desire effect. "A SMALL MATIMIONIAL MILEZE.- 4 Arrah, Pat, why did I marry yel—jist tell me that! for it's myself that's had to maintain ye ever. since the blessed day that Father O'Fianagrin sent me home to yer house.' , Swate jewel,' replied Pat; not relishing the charge, 'and it's myself that hopes I may live to see the day when ye'ye a widow, weeping o'er the culd sod that covers me—then, by. St. Patrick, I'll ace how yeti-Apt along with.. out me, honey!' THE "NAPOLEON Cumn."—On the iris oldie eyes ofa child, who was lately exhibi ted in Oxford street, London, the following inscriptions are seen. Left eye. NAPOLEON. EMPEREUR. The eyes of ;he child are of pate blue, and the color of the letters is almost white, and appear like rays. This ell'eCt is ac• counted for by the child's mother having gazed intently .upon a five franc piece of Napoleon's, given to her brother previous to his departure on a long absence, w,hen she was in a particular situation. Darrxse.—Our friemb had better take the advice we gave the other day about bolting, for we find that a blacksmith of New York who was pay ing his addresses to a beefsteak, got a hunk in his throat, which in spite of medical aid Caused his death in a- short time. Thus we see a man led in spite of hiit teeth to selfdestruction,--and it should serve as a "caution to feeders,- and make them bear in mind the old poet, Chau-cer, The following will illustrate the'character of the puritans. At the formation of the Government 'of one of the yankee States, among other things it "Voted, That we believe in the existence of a God, who rules hie creatures by laws, and that, wrefore, we will bo governed by the sumo till we ave time to make better." In regulating the meat market they . “Voted, That all mutton that will not weigh eight pounds to the quarter, shall be 1wn&" A butcher about to kill a cow, einfdoYed an Trifluman to hold hot. The butcher aquintml, and Ortio - Lsc rsrwriitieTtie 'eerie of the Rev. SAMUEL STnoNo; accused of a con tempt of the House, was brought to a doe() on the 2d inst. JouN C. Witmer and G: W. ANDREWS appeared as counsel for Mr. STRONG. After the discussion of the•quei. tion, the follewing resolution was submitted and unanimously adopted: - "Resolved, That this [louse possesses the constitutional power of punishing kith viduals for a breach of its privileges, or the privileges of any of its members; or, for contempts, whether the same be cominii. ted in its preSence or beyond its walls." The question or jurisdiction having beee thus settled, Mr. McNuri offered it resole. tion, which was adapted by a vote of 4410 21, declaring SAMUEL S'PRONG guilty of,a contempt and a violation of privilege, and adjudging that he be brought to tho bar of the House on the nest day, the 3d inst. and be there repremanded by the SPEAKER, and then be discharged from the custody of the Sergeant of Arms. ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT.-It appears, hat several states have elected electors who are disqualified for that office in consequedoe of holding offices under the United States. 7 Several are specified among the electors of Now York, ono among those of Massachu. setts, and of those of New IFlampshire, two or three, out of her seven electors, are said to be illegally chosen. The present is a most propitious period rigidly to enforce the constitutional provision, and we hope both parties will unite in doing so. . Such a. "purging of the polls" will not vary the re sult; and even if it would, it is due to our selves and those who come after us to show ' our respect for the express declarationti of the constitution, or we may establish a pre. cedent of a most dangerous character. 'rho following is the provision of the con stitution on the subject: Article 2, sec. 1, 12. Each State shall appoint, in such manner as the, legislatuTe thereof may direct, a number of electors; equal to the whole number of senators and representatives, to which the state may be entitled in the congress. But no senator or representative, or person holding any office of trust or prat under the U. shall be appointed an elector. Right age. EMI'EREUR. NAPOLEON. INDIANA STATE HOUSE:A. correspon• dent of the Cincinnati Whig, askti—"Did you ever see the Capitol of Indiana? Ifyou have not, you have failed to see one of the most magnificient and beautiful edifices West of the Allegheny Mountains.-_-The exterior for beauty and splendor will vie with any building of the kind in the CC States. The interior is Olken neat and beautiful, at the same time possesheo more advantagei for comfOrt and convenience to a speaker p than any other building of the kind that hats yet preseuttd itself to my observation. ' DzsTrLtirm.—ln the Pennsylvania House of Representative.s. on Thursday week list, a resolution was'olfered by, Mr. MlLiflirt, , , of Chester county, proposing—on account of the extensive failure of the Jut' yearis crop—to irstruct the committee On illglietOw to inquire Into the expediency of imposshrit a wax, fora limitedperiod, on the distilletioot of ardent spirits. The resolution was twici read and a.'reed to. [VOL. 7--NO.' 43. when looking at the covuippeareitto . lotik at du* Irishman. . r., fearing „iiltt he should gat , the knock do . . instead of the cow, said in muck of a hurry, ,‘ iih,roati do you strike where you lookl" "To be ie . I do,--Where do you think I'd striker "Then you howld the cow yourself till t got out of s. , the way,st: - • . .. . A women not far from Bangor, 'being. cursed and tormented by a • drunken' hue• band, told him, at last, that if he ever cause home again drunk, she would thrOw'herself into the river. The next Sattirday even ing he came staggering home, when ifter abusing his wife for some time, he retired to bed, When he awoke in the morning, his wife was among-the missing—had as he and the neighbours thought, drowned, her self. About five years after this sad Stair' had taken place, the gentleman (who *had in the mean time refornie appointed to a land agency in the s . 111inoiL4 One afternoon having be ,rtaken by' a storm, he sought shelter Ouse by the way side. On - knocking the deor, judge of his surprise to find thasuminons answer ed by his own wife! - RIGHT OR Wnorio.—Just befoie the bat tle of New Orleans, the following dialogue is said to have taken place between two iged negroes, who were each wont to place the event in the hands Of alligher power. "I say, Sambo--dat gowin for to be d berry , bloodv fight—and all I got to say' is—may God Ormighty 'land by de rightl" "Go way, Cuill.e,—you fOoll—you got no gumpsion, I say God 'land by Gineral Jack son, right or foron." DEFERRED ARTICLES. PHILADELPHIA; Jan. 11. THE LOST MONEY ResTonsn.--Wilearn that the reward for the $25,000, some time since lost in this city, having been in creased to $5OOO, notes to the amount ; $20,000 were' yesterday addressed through the Post Office, to Messrs. J. & C. -Ger lin: Since writing the above, we have been informed that only $17,000 have been re turned; the finder having kept the $5OO r ' e• ward originally offered by Mr. Nevins,. Of this citv—the $2500 offered by the New York house—and the $5OOO offered by the Messrs. Berlin—in all $BOOO. A .pretty considerable sum for picking up a Eitraill package.—[lnquirer. • 'Leif ; y-4 SZE
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