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SATURDAY, SEPTEaEBEK 1, 1855.
Jlr. Jeremiah Cloud, of Austin county, is an
authorized agent for this paper.
A. J. Austin, esq., Philadelphia, is an author-
ized agent for this paper.
Frank Lipscomb, Esq., of Bellville, Austin co.
is an authorized agent for this paper.
Capt. M. K. SifEii, Postmaster, Caldwell, is
an authorized agent for this paper.
To Advertisers. The Texas Ranger of-
fers great inducements to business men, who
wish to avail themselves of the benefits of ad-
vertising. Being the largest paper in Western
Texas, and having a circulation in every county
in'the State, as veil as in every Southern State,
the proprietor natters himself tint 4hose who
advertise in his .columns, "will be most amply remunerated.
mW"Bfrj. iWi-'-ilr'.ir-i-tifriir.Ajg
A good practical Printer, competent
to take the foremanship of this office
can jret an excellent situation.
UpSt in consequence of our stock of
paper being nearly exhausted and not
having jet received a new supply, we
are compelled, although, much against
our inclination, to issue an half sheet,
which we shall have to continue, until
we get our new fall stock. In the mean
tiine.we shall take the necessary steps
to make collections, as we find it im-
possible' to carry on a paper without
mone3r. Erom sad experience we must
say that our collections have scarcely
defrayed our expenses, and we are now
driven to the necessity of demanding
from those, who are owing us, cash pay-
ments, or'else sacrifice what little pri-
vate mean3 we have. "We hope our
patrons and friends, whom we have
indulged several years, will pay us
promptly and lend us their influence,
and we will cheerfully serve them; other-
wise we must look to some other means
to support our family, and be freed from
the annoyance of creditors and thq in-
sults of debtors.
San Felipe, Austin County, Texas,
August 24th 1855.
J. Lancaster, Esqr,
Dear Sir :
Enclosed you will find $5 00,
which you will place to my credit. I with
you to continue in' subscription for your ex-
cellent paper, as I coinside with you in the
course you have taken in defence of the sa-
cred principles of Religious Freedom, in op-
position to the proscriptive and intolerant
bigots of the Know-nothing Order.
Tours Respectfully, . .
Jgggr Our friend may rest assured,
that notwithstanding all the tyrannical
opposition that is brought to bear a-
gainst us, to effect our ruin, because we
have dared to utter sentiments in oppo-
sition to a '-proscriptive party, Ave hope,
ever to be found advocating the cause
of civil and religious liberty.
Yvltat Does lie Mean 1
The American Organ, in its reply to
an article in the jST. Y. Herald, refer-
ring to the proceedings of the Know-
jKfothing Council in Philadelphia, says:
" "We take occasion to say to the
1 Satanic,' that we shall not deal in 'gos-
sip,1 should we hereafter see fit to un-
fold the chicanery and corruptions prac-
ticed in Philadelphia, during the year
1S55, by politicians. We say, further,
that XOT OXE TITHE OF WHAT OCCUR-
RED at Philadelphia, en' Juxe, 1S55,
has yet bees told. It may never be
told it may never become necessary
that will depend on circumstances."
The public have a right to know all
about the "chicanery and corruptions"
practised at the Convention of a party
that claims to purify politics!
Condemned Ty their own Friends.
The Xe-w Orleans Bulletin, (Wilis: K.
!$.) says of the Philadelphia Council :
"We are sorry to learn that this as-
sembly with every opportunity, and all
the appliances at hand to organize a
National party, have, in consequence of
sectional jealousies and a bigoted fanat-
icism, disgraceful to the age and coun-
try, failed to do so. The rumor that
we discredited that the Convention in-
sisted upon the religious test, and on
this account rejected the larger portion
of the Louisiana delegation, turns out
to be true.
JJSr The following table will exhib-
it the vote of the different counties for
Governor and Con cress, so far as heard
from. The returns from many of the
counties are incomplete.
-
Jf'We have had a sociable call
from. Mr. A. J. Bird, agent and corres-
pondent of the Galveston ISews. "We
arejjleased to learn from him, that the
patrons of this popular paper, are gen-
eTally very punctual in settling up.
He sometimes meets with a few bad ca-
ses who are mean enough the defraud
the poor printer.
j r Atx " American Idea.55
i In 3fiH Greek township, Union Co.
Ohio, a young man named Simpson
Price was felled to the ground and left for
dead. He had abandoned the Know 2.,
lodge in that place, and attended a dem-
ocratic meeting ; for which the "supreme
order" dendunced him as a perjurer,
and threatened him with vengence.
Things are indeed coming to a pret-
ty pass. - -Even in our own town, there
are men,-who try to deny democrats the
liberty, of speech ; and make threats, if
ii freeman expresses his sentiments in
opposition io the dangerous tendencies
of an oath bound political party. This
showstthat tyranny and despotism is j
one of the principles of the Know-noth
ing party. But, thank Heaven, they
have not, neither will they ever have
the power to carry out their Anti-A-merican
doctrines, so long as the old
Democracy stand shoulder to shoulder,
in defence of those principles handed
down by the patriots and sires of the
Be volution.
The Experience of a Knovr-
rSothing. A citizen of Morgan county, Indiana, who
had been seduced into a Know-Nothing coun-
cil, gives the result of his experience to the
public, through the Martinsville Monitor, in
the following pregnant paragraph:
"Reader, you may think you hate Know-
Nothingism; but until you arc initiated into
its sccSts, and witness something of the
height and depth of its iniquity, the solemn
mockery of its rituals, and the completeness
of its tyranny, its fiend-like indifference and
its utter disregard of moral honesty, you will
not know what to detest. Then, if you are
true to vourself. vour countrvl and vour God.
jou will have so great a detestation for the
order that you will avoia a bona fide member
as a political demagogue and shun a lodgr
nc TTnoc frpo " I
tr We have had heavy rains of late,
which has raised the Brazos to a navi-
gable condition.
. .
JT "We tender our acknowledge-
ments to Miss Reynolds, for compliment-
ary ticket, sent.
' fsgfr The'news from Europe is of lit-
tle importance. There had been no
chancre in the cotton market, and the
varwas progressing very slowly.
gSsT At the request of many citizens,
we believe it is the intention of the
Thespian corps to try and effect an en-
gagement with that favoritoand accom-
plished dancer and actress Mrs. Virginia
Smith, and also her husband, to per-
form for a few nights in this place. We
are satisfied that if Mrs. S. (who comes
highly recommended by some of the
most respectable citizens of Galveston)
consents to appear, she will draw crowd-
ed liouses.
JlpA Mammoth Barbacue, and Mass
iMeeuns: of the Democracy will be held
... . . . ji o 3 n -vr i i
-jirawusran on tne ora or iNovemoer. to
whieluall opposed to tyranny, persecu-
tionjgrpscription, and Know !Nothing-
ismareinvited to attend.
Married,
At St. Pauls Church, iu this place, on the
night of the 30th. by Rev. L. P. Ptuckcr,
Mr. S. H. Deyore, to Miss. Lizzie J. B.
Dickson, late of New York city.
You were there, Hear reader. You re-
member all the circumstances of the occasion.
It was not now nor then, here nor
there; it was neither our wedding nor your
own; but that of some young friends who
had been drawn by the cords of love aud
the prospects and promises of the future, to
take each other "for better, for worse."
They stood togethei?o take the oath of feal-
ty, aud pledged to eacb other a mutual love
and care, until death divide. The twain
were made one after the form of human law,
as they had long been by the higher law of
their own hearts. The strong man, in the
vigor of his years, pledges the best energies
of his beinff to sustain and defend the trust
ing woman, who offers him in return the
wealth of her unsullied affections. Prom all
our hearts goes, np the involuntary prayer
"God bless you" Go try the paths of life to-
gether, remembering that it is not joys a-
lone that will enter into the common stock of
your life-partnership. To divide the bur-
dens of our human condition and to scatter
light upon the clouds of eacb other's sky, is
the higher and holier mission of such as you
are now. God bless you, too, sorrowful, yet
rejoicing parents, while you give to another the
glad heart which so long has nestled near to
yours.
lifter the conclusion of the marriage cere-
mony the bride and groom, with their waiters
and young friends, repaired to the Pemale
.Academy, and partook of an elegant supper
prepared for the occasion, which was as boun-
tiful and luxurious as heart could desire.
Supper over, the ladies and gentlemen
paired off, some retreating to the basement
story, which was brilliantly lighted up, for
the benefit of the young and gay, to keep
time to the sweet sounds of music ; others, to
promonade the beautiful grove around the
academy, overbung with foliage of living green.
Here, the stars twinkled in brightness above
and the moon shone out in all its silvery glo-
ly, while tlie evening zephyrs, playing in gen-
tle dalliance about the soft cheeks of beauty
silently bore away the whispered accents of
love, as they escaped the lips' of enamored
beaux, gallantly moving arm in arm, to and
fro, with their fair dulcenia's. The scene
was enchanting to the young, aud highly grat-
ifying to the old.
Now, that this happy couple have fairly
launched out into -Jie broad ocean of life, we
trust they may be favored with a prosperous
voyage their ways pleasantness, and their
paths peace.
Anderson, 15 48C
Angelina, 20 TO
Austin, 3U 233 350 231
Bastrop, -113 2U2 3i)4i 305
Bell, 2S1 135 21)7 12G
Bexar, 16S2 G19 1711 573
Bowie. 23S 25
Brazoria, 270 25 219 71
Brazos, 52
Burleson, 255 115 2 IS 107
Burnett, 42 122 50 107
Caldwell, 321 243 2TJU 25S
Calhoun, 157 91 143 103
Cameron, 400 S5 439 40
Cass, 43S 357
.Cherokee, S95 G9G
Collin, 275 375
Colorado, 205 74 1S5 95
Comal, 207 4 203 2
Cook,
Coryell, 90 32 10G 16
Dallas, 309 221
Denton,
DeWitt, 152 79 147 7S
Ellis. 152 202 147 177
ElPaso,
Palls,
Fannin, 303 258
Payette, 509 3GS 504 308
Port Bend, 24G 33 219 50
Preestoue, 1G9 130 153 13G
Galveston, 458 241 442 251
Gillespie. 200 3S 202 3G
Goliad,. G9, 1S5 103 13G
Gonzales, 39G 410 399 409
Grayson, 255 419
Grimes, 39 58S 1GG 420
Gaudalupc, 335 250 322 253
Harris, 415 426 542 274
Harrison, 432 G37
Hays, 4t S7 44 77
Henderson, 34 211
Hidalgo, 400
Hill, . 29 74 4
Hopkins, 399 171
Houston, 322 144
Hunt,
Jackson. 107 52 105 51
Jasper, 150 44
Jefferson,
Johnson, 63 96 104 64
Kaufman, 93 209
Kinney,
Karnes, 79 71 90 61
Lamar, 416 138
Lavaca, 50 57 40 5S
Leon, 160 360 155 359
Liberty. 20S 105
Limestone, 99 126 50 147
McLennan, 64 1G6 90 136
Madison, 27 159 46 130
Matagorcla, 197 27 205 10
Medina, 250 3 251 5
Milam,
Montgomery, 183 225
ZSagadoches", 624 1S1
Navarro, ' '
Xewtou, "
Kueecs, 1G4 111 225 48
Orange,
Panola, 4GS 211
Polt, 164 144 a
Preside
BedBiver, 243 18S
Refugio,
Robertson, 43- 206 34 211
Rusk, ,1069 6G3
Sabine.
SanAugustine,270 92
San Patricio, .
Shelby, 31p 99
Smith, 100
Starr,
Tarrant, 1S4 S2 237 GO'
Titns, 302 317
Travis, 419 59S 507 491
Trinity, 65 64
Tyler, 164 177
TJpshnr, 564 220
Uvalde,
Yan Zandt,
Victoria, 1S2 105 170 113
TValker, 217 S97 209 284
Washington, 55G 520 589 519
Webb. 167 3 302 0
Wharton,
Williamson, 174 '249 218 200
Woo'd,
Sliafue.
TIhe Know Nothing Legislature of
Massachusetts has passed a law recpiir-
ineriiijreer children to he admitted to
the public schools on terms of equality
with white children. The same Lec-
ture has passed a la&r prohibiting "white
otazens u i-opin birth irjm ii-iiinc " J .
- . 1 rue .
Contradicted.
We are glad to see the statements, made
by the Goliad True American, that Dr. Ow-
ens, in company with a Catholic Priest, head-
ed a band of Mexicans, and made merry over
his (Ync Doctor's) election, at the grave of
rnnmn, pronounced incorrect; and also
tabi)ccl
A young man who called himself Reed, of the
firm of Reed Brothers, of New York, was ar-
rested in this place on last Thursday. Suspi-
cion was excited by his remaining in town
from last Priday, until that time, under tho
pretence of buying hides for his house. It
was discovered upon examination, that he
wore a wig, and that his hair, which is rather
whitish, was trimmed very short. Ho bought
some goods of one of our merchants, which
of course, he did not and could not pay for.
Ho was fortified with any number of forged
letters of credit, printed circulars, etc. He
had a few bills struck off at this office, and
ordered the insertion of his card. "When ar-
rested he acknowledged that his name was
Lombard, of Coining. New York, and he
has vended patent medicines, lie cried bit-
terly when arrested, but his tears could not
save him. lie was handed over to the offi-
cers of the law. He is a slender, consump-
tive young man and in ill health.
Stgume Mercury, July CStli.
BSr'Tliis same chap has swindled us
out of $25, for advertising.
Messrs. Clay and Prentice.
The Louisville papers contain an account
of the difficulty between Jas. P. Clay, Esq.,
(son of tho Hon. Henry Clay,) nd Geo. 1).
Prentice, Esq., of the Louisville Journal.
It seems that Prentice takinj offence at the
speech of Mr. Clay, at a public meeting, in
which he declined longer acting with the
whig party, as it had joined hands with niu-
dooism, Abolitiouism, &. , &c, charged Mr.
Clay with having sold portions of the old
homestead at Ashland, to be made into
"caues and snuff-boxes," and otherwise stu-
diously insulting himself aud family. To
this Mr. Clay gave a positive contradiction,
aud after appealing to his sense of propriety
for an apology, without effect, sent him a
challenge, which Prentice declined to accept.
Mr. Clay's card to the public, detailing all
the circumstances of the case, closes with
the following:
"Having thus placed himself without that
pale recoguized by all honorable gentlemen,
dtnnnmmMdits
Ixdeicxdexck, August !29th. 1S53.
P.uisox Lancaster,
Dear Sir :
I notice in your paper of the
25th. a communication signed "A Democrat,"
suggesting the propriety of a county and
State convention, for the purpose of effecting
au organization of the Democratic Party.
I am very much pleased with the suggestion
and hope that it will be appioved of, and act-
ed on, by the Democratic, party in every
county in the State. Now that wo have been
awakened from our dream of security in our
strength, it is highly important that we should
arouse from that lethargy that has held us too
long already, and lay our principles openly
and broadly before the people, and ask every
friend to those principles to rally to their sup-
port. This course is the more necessary,
from the fact that the Know Nothing Party
are as active now as they were before the
election. Stung by the r?sult of tho election
just passed, they will be stimulated to renew
ed exertion to carry each county and the
State at the next election. - If any one doubts
this, I ask him to notice their actions. Do
their lodges or councils meet less frequently?
Are they less secret in thsir proceedings with
the exception of their place of meeting ?
They certainly are just as active if not more
so now, than they were or have been at any
time, as far as my observation goes. Has
experience relieved the Know-nothin party
in any respect from tho charge of Proscrip-
tion that was layed at their door during the
canvass ? If it has I heve neither seen nor
heard of it on the contrary many things
have occurred to authorise the belief, that in
carrying out their principles they are more
proscriptive, than they have ever been charg-
ed with. What is it but proscription for
opinions alone, that ha; caused so many of
that party to stop their iubscription to the va-
rious Public Journals who differed with them
on this question ? Is tiere any thing in their
organization forbiding the members from ta-
kiug those papers that nposo the party ? Is
it an edict of the grand council, from which
there is no escape ? Cue would suppose so
irom tlie tone ot some o: their letters, order-
ing their papers stopt, h which they seem to
approve of the paper h every respect but its
politics. Whether this course has been ta-
ken by order of the grmd council or not, is
not for we outsiders to know. I suppose the
intended effect, however, requires no edict
from any paity to cxphin the effect can be
none other in my opinbn, than the infliction
of pecuniary loss upen the conductor of a
public journal for the expression of his politi-
cal opinions. Let this principle but once be
adopted, and farwell .o the boasted liberty
and freedom of the pres. Does not this fea-
ture in this new partydeserve serious con
sideration? May it net be but the harbin
ger of a period of whbh a man's pecuniary
success shall depend inon his political opin-
ions ? You, Mr. Ran:er, have felt personal-
ly the effect of this prescription, and while I
regret the existence ofeuch a spirit, I am very-
much grattified to see,;ou meet it in the prop-
er spirit. Go on tin loss of such support,
will, in the end, do ;ou no harm while it
shows to the Democraic party the necessity
of sustaining those pajers that sutaiu their
principles. Put, I ha'c digressed, I intended
simply to second thcall for a county and
State convention, aud ope that all Democrats,
as well as those patriotic WjBgs, who are now(
acting with us in opptatioiro this new anH
dangerous party, will -cspond to the call.
Let us meet aud unite and show them that
we can battle openly for these Republican
principles which havcplaced us on the liish
pinniclc of prosperity vhich we now occupy.
Let no one deceive limself in relation to
Know-nothingism ilpioscribes all who will
not enter its oath bund councils tho na
tive bora as well athe foreign born and
catholics. I think tb 6th. October a very
good time, and Brenhm a very good place,
for the county convecion. Will the Demo-
crats from the other prts of the county meet
us. I will write you gain in a few days.
lours rcspecttulr,
OXE O THE TJxTERniFlED
no pang when his foot-step turns avr.iy. Ah no!
for memory with her sweet ilhitory is near thee
and smiles upon you. as you ope her golden let-
tered book! The heart tlie heart how prone
ic is to cling more closely to the false than true
to set up in its chamber one bright ideal, and
when it flees or fades nx;nyl refuse "to let another
filter there. V.'ith what tenacity -trecliii"- to that
wnicu we n-ive once locd; to the first idol of
our souls: Jlov in our loc-dc!criuiu do we twine
the delicate fibres of the heart about it, and
when a day of anguish conies ; when the eye
which once beamed with ardour has learned "to
look coldly out upon us : when the warm love-
grasp has slackened, and the low -voice of kind-
ness has grown harsh and jarring to the sensi-
tive car; when the links of affection Inn c been
broken one bj' one ; when estrangement has begun
her work and wobtand in this" cold wide world,
reckless and alone how often amid the turmoil
of life amid the heartless, the beautiful, the gay
do wc look forward into the loiig blank vfsta
of years before ns, and in the bitterness and lone-
liness of our hearts exclaim -'Something to
Love" Oh had I "' Somctiinsr to Loeef
Tl;e Crusade Extcutl in? Assault on
tlie Methodists.
We have noticed the movements of the
Know-xsothinga in Xew Jersey anainst the
Methodists, aud the public meetings held at
Xew York to denounce them. It appears
that a Mr. Graves is out in a volume bavin"-
the same objectcalled " The Iron Wheel"
or Republicanism Backward and Christianity
Hcversed." A writer in the Cortland Demo-
crat quotes some specimens of the work:
'Methodism cannot be justly called a
church of Christ.' Methodism a human in
ventionis the rrrand-daurrhter of Dome
the grandchild of the man of sin, and son of
perdition; the church cannot fellowship it.
'The fiist chapter of the Discipline is wholly
untnie.' Methodism without either altar or
divinity, its members are preachers all un-
converted.' 'Methodism the Popery Protes
tantism, &c., 'The doctiineof the power of
tne Keys held by the Methodist clergy in
common with the Pope.' Thirty untruths
taught in the babtism of one iufant.'
'Masonry has equal yea, far superior
claims than Methodism to assume the title
and demand the regard and consideration of
a church of Christ.'' 'It is a society set on
foot by a man, not professing the slhrbtebt
conformity to the word of God.' 'What is
such a society but a gieat rival and antago
nistic institution to the church set up by the
God of Ileaven.'
Tlie Hoorbiieli about tiic Foreign
Flag.
"Wc last "7cek pronounced as false,
the idle and malicious slander tliat tlie
Germans at 2ev Braunfels had hoisted
a dag on the day ot election. To-day
ve publish the statement of reputable
citizens, well known over our -western
country, confirmatory of the fact. Let
every one read these statements. It is
surprising-, with what morbid avidity,
every false rumor has been seized by the
Know Nothings to disparage the loyal-
ty and republican spirit of our German
population. It turns out that the flag
about which so many lies have been
told, was a small flag raised by the work-
men upon the Protestant Church, to
show that their work was completed,
and this was hoisted too, before the e-
lection ! iSTow, will the Know Noth-
ings who have abused and villifled the
Germans as traitors, upon the strength
of the unfounded reports about the fla"
nave tlie magnanimity to confess that
they have - done worthy and patriotic
citizens an act of gross injustice? Will
they publish the correction after hav-
ing previously given currency to the
slander ?
.State Gazette.
minthrEt
to Malie one Farm
to Tliree.
IIotv'
tlin
statement that the vctes cast' by theMesi-in fcbi.3 reSion at least, I can never again, at
cans for J)r. U. were marked with erases ,,uv ulu Ul UV"U UUJ lJIUie" Ui ueuawuu,
Dr. OwensisaKnowNothin-1buthisor.po--c,onde'centl t0 akc the least notlcs of ani' !
also ainoiuUr of that Order, was the I ,' "Urtuwul luau I,,,J ""-" "
mcricaiTs lavorite caudi Hf i ca!tor ot t,,e. Jj0Ui ,lhJ ' lrnalJ wVcr m "1S
For the Tcss Hanger.
Sonietlsiijj to LiOTe.
by Jk:-Eye.
"Why does 'your hcai droop low upon your
breast Maiden, and wh move those thin white
fingers so restlessly nnng your long fair hair?
Why docs your cheek :row pale, and what i3
that which trickles thfe upon it? Ah! whence
comes the sigh which heces the snowy roundness
of thy breast, and whylo murmers die away on
that trembling lip? Wy is the constant prayer
Something to Love" irever in your heart?
''Something to Love Aj-o for he will conic
no more with his soft bla eyes and music voice
no more shall his annling with fondness and
affection around thee, fo another with a darker
eye, and softer lip has ove her spells of facin.i-
tion about him. Thy iny hand has lost the
magic of its pressure nd the "honey of thy
tongue" its sweetness: mo urcam ot love en-
chanting as it was, has cited away as daylight
fades when the darknessf night approicheth
No wonder that thy soi is desolate that you
stand upon the fearful rink of DESPAin,witli
the palling mantle of grif drawn closely wound
thee! But arouse thysel lift up thy drooping
waxen eyelid let not tlse long soft lashes lay
upon thy cheek dash th dew from thine eye
and pinion with thoso perl like teeth that quiv-
ering lip! Aye! close tho. down until the bright,
red drops stand forth btr up thy form let the
painful throbbing of thyicart be still! let thy
Pride proclaim thee fiii and kree!
Pride! alas for pridehhen Love with silken
fetters binds it down. Ah: for her who seeks to
rouse it from that deep cpose when she hath
need of it to lean upon Ar love with but,one
wildering smile one swtt assuasivc glance
one burning thrilling kii, will hold It spell-
bound there until the silkesoftness of his chains
have worn away aud theough uneven cords of
cold suspicion startles androuses it t o sleep no
more!
Firm! Aye, but not wlc Love holds his do-
minion o'er thv heart n v hile his downy
wings flutter above thy lid faithful but no r
firnj; it is formttn and wonu to be firm;build then
thy castle of firmness in e air, and Love with
but a single breath, one mccnt of his quivering
pinion, -will overthrow ai stand in mockery
upon the ruins with his;lorious eye beaming
his bright lips wreathe with smiles, and a
circle of lambent brightns shining above his
head ai he softly whibpers-o! behold me! I am
here!
Free! but not till pridhas felt the callhi"
1-11.1U13 oj agonizing uouuuuu iu iricnzy ourst
uiem smarting with the pa. .Not until scorn
has been aroused by the tinging bitterness of
cold liuliHerence, and liftser haughty head,
not till the first pang of gri has died away and
the iron hand of hrmnessias clutched 3our
bursting heart, can you sprsj up with a wild con-
ulivc bound, exclaiming-i-co, free, free!
"Somktjiinr to LovK"Look out upon the
dark browed night with hdlowing sable robes!
Fling buck those rtind-tossc amber locks: rnisp
thy dewy eyes up to the chiug sky; glcamiii"-
wiui goiucn stars, ami the, alar ofl in the west
behold the fair young creint as she hides one
silvery point behind the dk blue sen! and list
ye to the wind which cot to wootngly from
dibtnnt southern isles, sighg with sti-ange un-
earthly melody among th clustering leaves,
and stirring up the music, lisper of the spark-
ling stream, bearing upoiits gushing brenth
ambrosial sweets, and daljng with the -velvet
check of every budding flier. Look out, the
Liu-th is fair, and the hoiyjjht of j:e will shtd
a gentle influence over th and kindle up the
star of hope which shines khmly in thy heav-
en of happiness'
"Suhiclfitii" to forr " R..' 1 nn-ithcr cons
with a strong proud strp' jt thy 1 c rt i-i
not ,i on1 it if ipt, nor doi 4v r.n - 1 c .t mi .
an i inh, thercbpi usno itue of lo c up to Piv
chech. to er.ur- nit, tl erol nr.q Uwu an t.f
- ft tin. s itas . f t' t 13 w rt. ; u 1 r
"The Alethodisfc system is death to all the
institutions for which Washington fought
aud freemen died.' Mil the Methodist prea-
cuera in tms country were tones; aud yet he
SaVS a"ain C3Iethodi;m Ja nnlw CTvttr.oirrlif
years old.' 'The Methodists are the merest
puppets ever wired or worked by stratagem.
Oh, my country! how much is to be feared
for thy liberties from these?' 'The Method-
ism of Discipline is a naked clerical despo-
tism, and in essence Popery itself, and the
worst form of Popery Jesuitism.' 'A
3Iethodisfc society is an inquisition, not a
church.' I unhesitatingly pronounce it anti-
christ. The preachers are 'tyrants' 'cir
cuit riders,' 'seanlil mongers,' 'hypocrite
and deceivers.'
ut the writer does not stop here. Other
denominations come in for a. share of his pro-
scription. He says -this woman (Popery) is
called the mother of harlots and abomina-
tions. Who arc the daughters? Lutheran, the
Presbyterian and the Episcopalian churches
are all branches of the flloman) Catholic,'&c
Arc not these denominated harlots and
abominations in the above passage? I so de-
cide. I could not with the stake before me
decide otherwise.' Presbyterians' and Epis-
copalians compose a part of Babylon.' 'They
hold thedistinotive principles of Papacy in
common with Papist.' The spirit of religious
intolerance, once loosed, never states of its
victims. It is all devouring and inappeas-
able. - ' Prom the Albany Atlas.
0-00
Falsehood ixi a. IXlg2j Place.
A Know-Nothing orator delivered an ad.
dress to the members of the Order at-thp.
City of Washington, on the 4th inst., in
which he made the following statement:
"The Pope's Nuncio toSpain, before the
Cabinet of tho President was known here,
declared m Madrid, that the present Post-
master General, a Catholic, would be a mem-
ber of the Cabinet of Gen. Piercel- There
is other and abundant proof to confirm the
r tU.n.1. i.r T , ? . .
Anti American.
An epithet frequently bestowed, in these
latter days, by foreigners of recent importa
tion, and by the natives, the decendants-of
tories of '76, upon thousands of true hearted
republicans whose foreparents have been na-
tives, ' and to the manor born" for many
generations and who baptised in their heart's
best blood the many glorious battle-fields up-
on which the battles Of lih."rt.TT W.-rA fnnnfit-
and bestowed too because those to whom it is
applied will not consent that, in this govern-
ment, the principle shall prevail in opposi-
tion to .which the heroes of '76 fought and
bled, that men shall be taxed for the sup-
port of government, without being allowed to
vote in determining how their money shall be
applied. A little modesty would cause such
gentlemen to hesitate before indulging too
freely in the epithet named.
Abcnlccnjlssiocrat.
aao.
ISS'Thc only National Party is the Demo-
cratic. Even our enemies are reluctantlv be
ginning to acknowledge the fact. The follow-
ing from the X. Hampshire Statesman, the
old whig organ of that State, is in many, res-
pects undeniably true:
According to the present aspect of affairs,
the Democracy have the advntage of all oth-
er parties. They have been damaged, it is
true and beyond immediate recovery, in the
north, but they are the only men occupying
a position at all national in character
We are glad to seo that there is occasion-
all a Know Nothing whig paper disposed to
speak the truth, although we have no need
of those assutanees from our opponents
Never was there a time when the democrat
ic part stool so fair before the people as at
present. The Know Nothing order has acs-
ed as a purifier to democracy, in taking from
it all disappointed office seekers and political
demagogues, and especially has it cleansed
our party from that worse of all ingredients
abolitionism. Every species of rottenness
that fertered in the democratic organization
having been eaten out, as itnv,ere, by this
umaoo vu ture, me party now stanas tortu a
unity," free from every ' political disease
'ivho3crwbo have leftr the- partv-aittl jjoncover
to me Know no:umfs are trottituuy pictured
out by that staunch paper tho'N. Y., Day
Book. ' .
' They are made up of worn out, grumb-
ling inefficient and faithless democrats, who
hive been for many years a santftjf floating
scores between the democratic anoMvhig par-
ties working for those who paid best. They
are now almost wholly absorbed by the know
nothiugs, and perhaps before teh fall election
will be "horse foot and dragoon" in that
malestrom of politieaL corruption.
Equal
In a recent address by G. T.Stewart,
Esq. before the Ohio Agricultural Society,
he thus speaks on this subject:
Aany farmers are destroying the product-
iveness of their farms by shallow work. Asthev
find that their crops' are diminishing- tbey
think only of extending their acres of sur-
face, as if they supposed their title deeds,
only gave them a right to six inches of earth.
If they. will take those deeds, study their
meaning, and. apply the lesson to their fields,
they will soon reab'ze in three fold crops,
the act that the law has given them three G-
arms where they supposed they had only .
one; in other words, that the subsoil, brought
up and combined with the topoil and en-
riched with the atmospheric infwlnces, and
those other elements which agricultural science
will teach them to appy to their ground,
will increase three fold the measure of its
productiveness.
To show to what extent the fertility of the
soil can be increased, I refer to a statement
in the Patent Office Keport. In the year
1850, there were nine- competitors for the
premium corn crops of Kentucky, each of
whom cultivated ten acres Their average
x:rop was about 122 bushels per acre At
that time, the average crop of wheat per acre-
tin the harvest of Geat Eritian on soil culti
vated for centuries was about double that
produced on the virgin soil of Ohio. Why is
this? Simply because British farmers are
educated men and apply work wisely. Thev
pay back to the earth what they borrow ;
tbey endeavor by every means in their power
to enrich tlieir ground and in turn it enriches
them. If our farmers instead of laboring to
double tlieir acres, would labor to double their
crops, they would find it a vast saving of
time and soil, and an increase of profits.
Many of them never think of digging ID
inches into the soil, unless they have dream-
ed about a crock of gold hidden in the earth.;
but if they would set about the work of dig-
ging in earnest, every man would find his
crock of go Id without the aid of dreams or
divination.
We have great advantage over British
farmers in the fact that our farmers nearly
all hold the lands which they cnltivate in fee.
simple, while in England they, are chiefly
tenants hiring the land of the nobility, pay
ing enormous rents to the proprieters, he-
sides heavy taxes to the government. Tax-
es here are comparatively light, and our
farmers are their own landlords. Hence
they have peeu able to pay three folds wages
for labor to those in Europe, and the cost of
transportation and yet undersell the British
farmers in their own market.
.
--j-e-
opinion that this appointment was secured to
the Roman Heirarclhyfbefore the. Catholic
vote was cast for the present incumbent!"
This is wholesale lying lying with a bold
face, and stupid as bold" The oration was
published in the National Intelligencer on
the 6th inst. On the 13th inst. the editor
of the Intelligencer gives the misstatement
an emphatic contradiction, as follows:
"Having thus given currency to the state-
ment it is proper that we give equal publici-
ty to the contradiction of it by the Union
newspaper. That journal, of yesterday, pro-
nounced tho statement untrue, and asserts
that there never was and never could be a
particle of foundation in truth for so absurd
a btatcment. Wo know of our knowledge,
and from sources which put the question be-
yond the possibility of controversy, that the
above allegation must be false in form,fale in
substance, false in general, false in detail."
ThVdemoerafic party I repeat are a unity
at thofiortb and the result of the next Presi-
dential campaign will testify that they have
taken and made "bone of their bono and flesh
of theirflesh" conservative men from all par-N
ties now in existence, or in a state of dissolution."
. JSST-Thc, father of Mr. Calhoun was a
rneuiberof the Legislature of South Car
olina an adopted citizen a centleman of
talent and ability; but he disliked the pedan
try or certain young lawyers who were accus-
tomed to interlard their speeches with Cicero
quotations and scraps of adaged Latin ; and
rising one day in the assembly, he observed
that there were several plain, commoli-"s"Cnse
men in the Legislature who where uuacquaint-
cd with foreign languages, and if the objec-
tionable course was persisted in, to their'an-
noyance, he would speak in a tongue which
would be a puzzle to the most? erudite among
them, viz: his native Irish. The threat had
its effect, aud Latin was rarely -had recourse
to atferwards.
11 evolutionary Reminiscences.
In the year 1S26, after all, save one, of
the band of patriots whose signatures are
borne on the Declaration of Independence
had descended to the tomb, and the venera-
ble Carroll alone remained among the living,
the govcrnm ent of the city of New Yorlc de-
puted a committee to wait on the illustrious
survivor and obtain from him, for depositein
the public hall of the city, a copy of the Dec-
laration of 1776, eraced and authenticated
anew with his sign manual. The aged pa-
triot yielded to the request, and affixed, with
his own hand, to the copy or that instrument,
the grateful, solemn and pious supplemental
declaration which follows :
Grateful to Almighty God for the bless-
ings which, through Jesus Christ our Lord,
He has conferred on my beloved country in
her emancipation, and on myself in permit-
ting me, under circumstances of mercy, to
live to the age of S9 years, and to survive the
fiftieth year of American independence, and
Fruit as an Article of Foofl.
Were we of the South, to cultivate anti
nse fruit more as a standard article of food,
instead of eating it indiscriminately between
meals we should be all healthier pepple. We
consume too mnch meat at onr meals, neg-
lecting the fruits which a beneficient Provi-
dence has blessed us with. Were we to
breakfast on milk, and coffee, with figs and
nutmeg or Christiana melons,dine on such meats
.as the taste or purse will permit, with Tes&-
rtables to mateb"and a desert-of-'.cater melon.
grapes, apples, pears, peaches, &c, and sop-
on a enp of aromatic tea,with strawberries and
cream, we might dispense with the pastry
cook, and the Doctor, provided we would eat
no fruit between meals. It is not a little
astonishing, that with the immense amount
of frnit produced at the South, it does not
diminish the consumption of meat and bread.
There is no doubt but that the summers of
the South would be the healthiest portion of
the year, were we only to'nse fruit as a nec-
essary article of food. When we say fruit
we do not mean the trash that stand for
weeks on the trncksters stalls of the cities;
but that which is picked fresh every morning,
from our own vines and trees. ATost of our
fruits abouud in sugar, which is nourishing,
cooling and healthy, "whilst the meats con-
sumed, abound in oil, which is heating-
stimulating, and predisposing to fevers. Some-
or the healthiest people in the world live-in
the tropical regions, whose breakfast consist
of oranges, pine apples, figs or bananas
dinner of melons aud raisins supper of drieij
fruits with tea or coffee They have learn-
ed to adapt their food to the climate and
the wise provisions of Providence, and when
we do the same, weshall be a healthier peo-
ple. Soil of the Sooth.
BSuThc Buffalo Commercial Advertiser,
the home organ of Mr. Fillmore, and decided-
ly the most influential paper iu the country
that has openly and fully espoused the cause
of Know Nothingism, thus .-.poke iu advance
of the effect of the leceut State elections:
True Delta
"I.Gentry is defeated in Tennessee, and
tne .uemocrats achieve a decided success in
North Carolina, the .American party will no
longer have an existence as a national or-
ganization. Even if they win a sigual victo-
ry in Kentucky on Monday next, it will avail
them nothing, coming upon an overthrow in
the other States just named."
o.
Kc;v Orleans MarJtct.
Saturday 3Iorxixg, July 2S, 1S55.
Ordinary SlftS? I Good Mid IOaKH
JjowMiddlinjr 9 a94- Middling Fair lOi
Middling iftSj i Fair
Molasses 2Uc.
Sugar Fair to Fully Fair 747ic
Flour 7 62Jbbl
Whiskey 3" a 37c.
Pork New Mess $1S 50.
Bacon-S'Jcs IU; Shoulders S;Hamsl2c
Lard Pi line ll'cts-
OiM)' 5. Mar -:Ie
IjAuliV,,- 1 jil7z; Fi.pfrsc.
S v r Livcrr nisi oCub, riae$l 9cts
CuFr.- J'.i .1' He. f
certifv. bv mv present signature, niv appro
bation of the Declaration of Independence,
adopted by Congress on the 4th of July 1776,
which I origiually subscribed on the 2d day
of August of the same year, and of which I
am now the last surviving signer, I do here-
by recommend to the present and future gen
eration the principles of that .important doc
ument as the best earthly inheritance their
ancestors could bequeath to them, and pray
that the civil ami religious liberties tiny havm
secured to my country, may be yerptluated to
remotest posterity and extended to the ichole fam-
ily of man.
CI1AHLES CArvROLL of Carroliton.
August 2, 1S26.
Di"
T-4PE WORM CURED BY
!! JLuuie's Celebrated Vermifuge.
New York, August 2, 1S52.
jOgy A certain lady in this city 'testifies
that, after using Dr. M'Lane's Vermifuge,
she passed a tape worm ten inches long; aud
has no hesitation in recommending it to every
person afflicted with worms; as, in her opin-
ion, it far excels every other remedy now in
use. The name of the lady, and further par
ticulars, can be learned by calling on Mrs.
Ilardie, Manhattan place, or E. L. Thcall,
Druggist, corner of llutger and Monroe
streets.
P. S The above valuable remedy, also
Dr. M'Lane's Celebrated Liver Pills, can
now be had at all respectable Drug Stores in
tnis city.
$8? Purohasers will please be careful to
ask for, aud take none but Dr. M'Lane's Ver-
mifuge, All others, in comparison, are
worthless. 23
Sold in Washington, by B. F. Rucker and
B. F. Wikon. " i
e t-
Iti'-'bLii satisfactorily
'Jjc.v" tMitor t' a.
ascertained that J baker.
Sjiare Your Trees.
Civilization uses a vast amount of wood,,
although for mauy purposes it is being fast
superceded; but it is not the necessary use
of wood that is sweeping away the forests of
the United States, so much as its wanton
destruction. We should look to the conse-
quences of this. Palestine, once wooded and
cultivated like a garden, is now a desert
the haunt of Bedouins; Greece, in her palmy
days the land of laurel forests, is now a des-
olate waste; Persia and Babylon, once the-
cradles o civilization, are now covered be-
neath the sand of deserts," proTuYcedTiy their
forests. It is comparatively easv to erad-
icate-the forests of the North, as they are
of a gregarious order one class, succeeding
another; hnt the tropical foFests, composed
of innumerable varieties, growing together
in the most democratic onion and equality,
are never eradicated. Even in Hindostan
all its many millions of population have nev-
er been able to conquer' the phcenix-life of
its tropical vegetation. Forests act as reg-
ulators, preserving snow and rain from melt-
ing and evaporation, and producing a regu-
larity in the flow of the rivers draining them.
When they disappear, thnnder-storms become
less frequent and heavier, the snow melts in
the first warm days of spring, causing fresh-
ets, and in the fall the rivers dry up and
cease to be navigable. These freshets and
droughts also produce the malaria which is
the scourge of Western bottom lands. For-
ests, although they are at first an obstacle
to civilization, soon become necessary to its
contiunancc. Our rivers, not having their
sources above the snow line, are dependent
on forests for their supply of water, and it
is essential to the future prosperity of the
country that they should be preserved.
Holls. Warm an ounce of bntter in half
a pint of milk, then add a spoonful and a
half of yeast, and a little salt. Pnt two
pounds of flour in a pan, and mix in the
above ingredients. Let it rise an hour or
overnight, in a cool place: knead it "well,
make into seven rolls, and bake them in a
quick oven. Add half a teaspoonful of sal-
aratas, just as you put the rolls into the
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