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OUR COÜSTY, OÍJR STATE, THE SOUTH, AÑO fHE UNION.
VOLÚME III. COLUMBUS, TEXAS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, I860. NUMBER 51.
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HOIf* JO*H BEílLíi
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flOITL. EDWABV ETEKETT,
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** Wnrar«ft, rtperieiM hu demoiwtrtted that
iform adopted h^Uie j rtjf«nCon ventiona
h.r«Ti d gieHfart tó mrrtead
and deceive the people, Ind, at the tome time
to widen the political diviiions of the Country,
' by the creation and encouragement of geo-
graphical and sectional parties i theíeforo
•• Rtnolvti, That iti^both the part of patri-
«tum ud of duty to recogmje no political prin-
ciples other than ■ t
Tan CossTiTtrrios of the CotrsTRir,
The Union of the States, and
The esfobcemett of the Laws;
and that, ar representative of the Constitntionil
Union nwn ftf the country, in National Conven-
tion aMembled, we here pledge ofrselves to
maintain, protect, and defend, separately and
nnitedly, those great principles oí pnblie liberty
and national safety againstall eiwinjps, at home
and abroad, believing that thereby peace may
once moriy be restored to ihe country, the just
ri rhti of the people and of the State* rrcsiab-
1 Vhed. and the Government again placed in that
condition of justice, fraternity, and equality
which, un<)er the e«an«"le and constitntion of
our Fathers, has solemnly bound every citizen of
the United States to maintain 4 a more perfect
1 Tnion, establish justice, insure domestic tran-
quility, provide for the common defence, promote
ltie' general welfare, and secure the blessing of
liberty to onmelves and our posterity.'"
fnMance of Charges Preferred
Afslnt )Hr> Bell.
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My iUotlicrV Cira ve.
b oeoitob d pkíntick.
The trerribling dew drops fait v
Upon the shotting flowers —like-sonf# at test.
The stars shine gloriously -and all
Wave ine á bfeétí
, Mother, I love thy grave!
The violet, with its blossoms blue and trtfld.
Waves oter thy bes«d—when shall it wave
A bove thy child?
Tis a twééí flower—yet must " . 11
its bright l«ave to the coming.tempest bom
Dear niothct, 'tis thinéf emblem; dust
Is on thy brow.
And 1 could love to die—
To leaved untasted, life'S dark, bitterstrea¿id,
By thee, at rest in childhood, lie
And shtte thy dreams;
And must I linger here,
To stain the plumage of itiy sinless years,
And mourn the hopeé to childhood dear;
With bitter teárs?
Aye, fttutft I linger here,
A lonely branch upon a blasted tret,
Whose last frail leaf, untimely Bere,
Went down with thee?
Oft frort llfe'é withered bower,
Instill communion with the past, I tuiri
And muse on thée, the only flower
in memory's urn.
And, when the evening pale,
BowS< like a muimur. on the dim blue tt&ve,
Í sttáy to bear the night winds wtfil
Around thy grave.
Where id thy spirit flown?
I gaze above—thy look is imaged there;
1 listen, ánd thy gemle tone
Is on the air.
Oh, come, while here I press
My brow updti thy grave—and in those mild
And thrilling tones of tenderness,
Bless, írteéé thy child:
Yes, bless thy weeping child.
And o'er thy urn—religion's holiest shrine—
Oh, give'his spirit úndefiled
To blend With thine.
A* Old Election Stort.—Several gen-
tlemen were tiding in a car on one of ihe-
the Boston roads, a few yearn ago, when
ihe conversation torced on the then next
Presidential election, and the merits and
prospects of Webster, Fillmore, Cass and
ethers. After some tfme a solemn indi-
vidual. who bad listened in Bilesce, ad-
<!rM*fd the part? thus—
"My friends, yon are N wrong. Before
the election of 1860, the world wHI have
eotns to .an end, and /esas Christ will be
President of the Universe!"
Up started an enthusiastic gentleman
from the Granite State, who stutteiingly
said to the Millerite: •
"S- 'r, I'll b b bet yen t-t-ten dollars
Ifew Hampshire w won't ft g-go for hiro!"
A rot*' of laughter greeted the exit of
the Second Adventist, aa he removed to
•nether ^ar.
A
V
The Grave.—Ob, the grave! It bnries
every error, covers every defect, extin-
guishes every resentment. From its peace-
ful bosom springs none but fond tegrets
and tender recollections. Who can look
upon the grave, even of an "enetitT, and
not feel a compunctious throb that ever he
should baVe waned with the poor handlnl
of earth that lies mouldering before him!
~ the grave of tiliOSe we loved—what n
lace for meditation! There it is we call
, , j**UflJfiJiistory of the
truth and gentleness, an
dearments lavished Upon ns almost un-
heard in (be daily course of intimacy.—
There it is tire dwell upón the tt-nderness
of the parting scene, the bed of death with
all its stifled grief, its nóiselfás attendants,
its mute watchful assiduities; the l#$t tes-
timonials of expiring ¡ove, the feeble flut-
tering fewling. Oh, how thrilling is the
pressure of the hand, the last fond look of
the glaring eve, turning upon us even from
ihe threshold of existence, the faint, faiter
ing accent, struggling in death to give one
more assurance of affection. Ay, go to
the grave of buried love and meditate!—
There settle your account with yonr con-
science, of past endearments unregarded,
of that departe ! being yvho never can re-
turn to be soothed by contrition. If thou
art a child, and hast eyer added a abrrow
to the soul, or a furrow to the brow, of an
affectionate parent; if thou art a husband,
and hast ever caused Ihe bosom that ven
tured its whole happiness in thy arms, to
doubt one moment .f thy truth; if thou
art a friend, and hast wronged,by thought,
by word or deed,, tbe spirit that generously
confides in thee; if thou art a lover, and
hast ever given one unmerited ping to the
true heart that now lies cold and still be-
neath thy feet, then be sure that every un-
kind look, ungracious word, every nñgen-
tle action will come thronging back upon
thy memory and knocking dolefully at thy
soul; then be sure that thou wilt lie do<vn
sorrowing/nd repentant on the grave, and
niter the unheard groan, and pcur the un-
availing tear—bitter, because unheaid and
unavailing.— Washington Irving.
Woman's LovE.—In youth, it seems to
me, tbat we women are too much attract-
ed by tbe glitter of intellectual gifts, or of
the tinsel appearand of thém. We must
fancy a man to be more than a good, true
roan, before we can give him the love of
our imaginations. The chance is that we
live to find him something leas. WJhen
tfe have gained experience we learn to
value chiefly that before despised, solid
gold of goodness. Simplicity, truthful-
ness, steadfastness, are the qualities that
win our hearts. The girl worshipped some
imaginary hero; tbe woman worships only
God, and loves some good man, not after
the girl's passion, but with quiet, enduring
household love. Household love! dear
words! love that knows no jar and fret, but
is rest and peace. This is not the love of
dramatics, poets and novelists, because it
is too sacred, its depths defy expression, its
quiet truth is impossible of representation,
its perfection mocks at the imperfections
of language. It is the next holiesJL thing
to the love of God.—Beatrice Rington.
The ori|rinal cost of the Great Eastern
was $4,500,000; She stands charged to
the present owners At $2,150,000. Of this
amount $.500,000 is preferred stock.
Trashy t'otlou-
A correspondent of the Southern Field
and fireside, writing on the above subject,
say«: *
" Millions of dollars are lost annually bv
the coiton planters through the careless-
ness of themselves and overseers in gatli
Iling and preparing the crop for market.
I invite their attention to a few facts :
" Recently, two hundred bales of cotton
were received, in Charleston, from New
Ifórir, to complete a cargo for Spain. The
Reason of this was, the fine cotton was
warranted, and in the whole stock of about"
15,000 bales, not enough could be coi
inanded in Charleston,
qtialitv; though twe
woul
ing for Spain, had to leave Char!
gb to New York to complete theft.
1 have been inforfhed that, at New Orleans,
and Mobile, tnapy thousands of bales of
cdttoh have been sold on planters' account,
at from two to four tents per potind.—
Thousands inore have been shipped to
Liverpool thfit will not pay expenses, and
t>here advances have been made on it, the
reclamations will be a heavy tax oh the
growing crop of the planter. Think of
tbii — growing coiton for nothing, and
paying out of the next crdp for the privi-
lege! Htívir soon, at this rate, would it
take the finest property in plantation and
negroes to eat itself up?
" Let planters reject that every yéar tbe
disparity between clean, fine cotton, and
inferior, trashy cotton, gets widef* and
wider. The markets of the world are
glutted with the latter. There are but
liriiited,U6es for it, and it Will take veais
to iise up tbe present stock on hahd of
tliese lowest grades. Perhaps hundreds of
thousands Of these bales Are wholly un-
merchantable, and will lay for years in
Liverpool, as an incubus upon the prices.
They will lie there to create a false idea
of available Stock on hand, and the manu-
facturers Will Use the facts as an argument
to depress tbe prices.
"Now, it takes the sitae amount of
capital and labor, tbe sttme number of
hands and mtiles, plows, hoes,' ¿be., *o pro
duee ótie hater of bad, trtisliy
¡ cotton, as it does of fair cotton. It takes
áíhiost the same trouble to pick, and gin,
k. and the > nw f|iiainitr nf. '
g'ng junkrone to cove n, tne si
o haul itio a depor^and th< same price
for freight on cars, and on shipboard. Ye ,
in one■ case, you can command ten Or
twelve Cent per pound; in the other, you
may be compelled to take two, three* or
four cents for it* Yet taxes, overseer's
wages* clothing, doctor's bills,,' are the
saine in one case as the other.
" Now is tbe titte to think of these
filings, and take practical action on the
subject. The coiton picking season is near
at hand. Now is the time for the careful
planter to double his%icome, or cut it off
one-half,-according to the way in which
his crop is handled." •
Immortality.—In the beautiful drama
of " Ion." the instinct of immortality, so
eloqnetitlv uttered by the death devoted
Gre>'k. find* a di-ep response In ev^ry
thoughtful sonl. When ahout to weld his
yobiijf existence as a sacrifice to fate, hi-
beloved Clemanthe ask* if tiny shall met t
aga'n, to which he replips, I have asked
that dreadful question of the hills, that
look eternal—of the flowing streams, that
lucid flow forever—of the stars, amid
whose fields of azure my raised spirit has
trod in glory—all were dutnb ! But now,
as I thus gaze upon thy loving face, and
see the lore that mantles through its
heauíy, I feel that we can never wholly
perish. We shall meet again, Clemanthe!"
HalVst Journal of Health, whicb claims
to be high authotiiy in medical science,
has tak"ti a stand ««gainst married people
sleeping together, 'but thinks tltey had
better sleep in adjoining rooms. It says
tbat Kings and Queens do not sleep to-
gether, and why should other people ?
Think of the idea of separating a newly
married couple, on a cold winter's night,
because Halts Journal of Jíealth says ao.
You go to grass, Mr. Hall 1
'* Say, mamma give us ten cents.''
•'Why my son, you had a dime this
morning, what a«-e you doing with all your
money f"
"Oh, I'm backing Johnny Heenan with a
lot of Johnny Bull boys."
"Ob, that's wroug, my SQn.''
" Why, tleenan's our second Washing-
ton, going to fight the battles of his coun-
try. Where's your patriotism ? Come
give us a dime."
Says Mrs. Jane Swissheltn, "What did
the Creator give tbe lords of creation a
beard for? Certainly not to support tbe
barbers. The Supreme Being knew much
better bow to make man than a barber
did!"
Whereupon Prentice replies,"And yon
think, Jane, tbat He made us men just
right. You wouldn't have us altered for
tbe whole wor'd—would rou!"
If I J>ie First.
BV CHARLES MACK&V.
If 1. die first, love,
My mournful soul made free,
Shall 8itat heaven's high portal,
To' wait nnd watch for thee—
To wait and watch for thee, love,
And through the d«-ep, dark space
To peer with human lougtngs,
For tfjy radiant face. '
'Mid all the stars of heaven,
£i«ly shall J see—
Tbe earth dtar of my passionf
Half heaven for holdiug thee.
All heaven/or holding thee, love,
And brightest of the Spheres,
By thy smile illumined,
"Or hallowed by their tears.
If'I die firsL^ear love—
I fear be,
•V heaven wiil not be heaven,
Until it's shared with thee.
Until it's shared with thee, love,
I'll linger at the gate,
Or be thy guardian angel,
To teach ihee how to walk.
And when the hour shall come,
And thro' the yielding night,
i'seje thy happy spirit
Upsoaring, robed in light,
Mine shall go forth to meet thee.
And throuah the eternal door,
Pass in with thee rejoicing,
Made one forevermore.
A Richmond Surgeon fn Gari-
baldi's Arniy.
Vfhe following just and eloquent tribute to one
of óurfcllow,-townsman appears in the Rich-
mord Dispatch of yestorday;
"A Virgin^ Voluntekr —it was announced
in one of the city papers; a few days ago, that
a young Virginian had left Paris to serve aa a
Lieutenant in (he army of Garibaldi. This, we
apprehend, is a mistake, as wc have been'in-
fo-ined, from Sn authentic source, that a letter
has been received, stating that oar gallant young
fellow-townsman, Dr. Bradfutc Warwick, a son
of Mr. Corbin Watwick, of this city, after ma-
king a tour of the Holy !<and and Solith of
Europe, was, soou after his return to Paris,
where he intended to prosecute his medical
studies tendered a surgeon's commission in
the: in'fadiug army under Garibaldi, which he
unhesitatiiigh accepted, and at oift e took his
departure lor the seat of war. .
•'His mission is a noble one.^É^Bró motives
which actuated him deserve the^Wtnmcndation
of all his friends. He goes, not as a lieutenant
bi t as a surgeon, whose province it is to preserve
and not to destroy human life. He will be ex.
-posgijÉ^Mith as, to many hardships, btytJto little
actual danger; and, during the campqjffe how-
ever dwrt, be will obtain—though delmy pur-
chaseti^a practical experience m hie profession
which will be of immense profit to him.
''^'AUiiAMSMMcejeBoUect that one bo —hot
.the
and influence Could obtain, has been willing
make such a sacrifice in so good a cause, all
must eoncur that he deserves the praissand
syntpnthy of every freeman and lover of liberty.
" "Hit parents will feel much anxiety; but we
doubt tot he will return safely to his native land
with tlose manly elements of character which
so higlly a lorn and have won for him so many
friend**nd admirers since he has been abroad,
inore fwlly developed and ppened by the hard
ejffcneuee obtained in his new position. We
prca id for him a brilliant future."
Dr. Warwick's family and friends have, in-
deed, much cause for congiatnlatiou. 'l herto is
no puiMiit in lif« more ennobling, in every re-
spect, than than that of nrmv surgeons in time
of'wai. They are. in any war, pre-eminently
the champions of science and humanity, and in
an a<iny like Garibaldi's, they add to this an.
other title—they become leadfng apostles 6f
liberty. The rich harvest of scientific attain-
ment open before them is indeed the least of the
high inducements which tempt yonng men of
courage and feeling to such an honorable career.
The practic ■ of a surgeon's profession, under
such circumstances, calls o itVind developes all
the most desirable requisites of mind, heart and
character. 1 ike the Dispatch, we confidently
pit diet that the noble choice of Dr. Warwick
cun scarcely fail to secure a lasting pride . and
pleasure to all the dc*rones at home, who now
look fur ward with so much solicitude to its happy
event. - Richmond Enquirer.
Hero Worship —If ever mau deserved "hero
worship," Garibaldi is fully entitled to a full
share, and the following extract of a letter from
Palermo, written just after his capture of the
city and the capitulation of the Neapolitans,
shows thai he is enjoying the people's favor to
an extraordinary extent. He was recently of-
fered. by a Sicilian town, to have a bronze statue
erected to him; but he declined, asking tliein to
use llijeir money for a far better cause—that of
Sicilian independence. But to the letter:-
"In the afternoon Garibaldi made a tour of
inspection around the town. I was there, but
find it really impossible to give you even a faint
idea of the mai.ner m which he was received
elsewhere. It was one of those triumphs which
seem to he almost too much for a man The
most wonderful thing I ever saw in this way
was the reception of Napoleon and Victor Em-
anuel at Milan, just about a year ago, and I am
almost inclined to think that tbe one yesterday
was more extraordinary. Tbe entry of the sov-
ereigns was something more formal, which pre-
vented the full expression of popular enthusi-
asm They w re on horseback and surrounded
!>y their gnards, while the popular idol. Garibal-
di. in his red flannel shirt, with a loose colored
tandkerchief round his neck, aud his worn wide
iwake, was walking on foot among those cheer,
ng, laughing, crying, mad thousands; and all
•is few followers could do was to prevent him
rom being bodily carricd off the ground. The
feople threw themselves forward to kiss his
hands, or at least to touch the hem of Ins gar-
ment, as if that contained the panacea for all
their past and perhaps coming sufferings. Chil-
dren were brought up, and mothers asked on
their knees for his blessing; and all this while
the object of this idolatry was as calm and smi-
ling as when in the deadliest fire, taking up the
children and kissing tlicm, trying t« quiet the
crowd, stopping ai every niomeut to hear a long
complaint of houses burnt and property sacked
by ths retreating soldiers, giving good advice,
comforting, and promising that all the duniag's
should be paid for."
Tbe Breckinridge Record.
Tbe disunion sheets and orators of the
&pu'th have a great, deal to say abjtit Mr.
BSell's record, although he has tbe best aud
proúdest record of any man in the field
for the Presidency. We propose, to give
tbem Breckinridge's record in broken doses,
and we begin with a passage from' his Lex-
ington speech in 185tt:^
"Upon the distracting question of slave-
ry, their position is clear. The whole pjw-
er of the Democratic organization is
pledged to tbe following propositions; that
Congress shall not intervene upon this sub-
ject in the States, in the Territories, or in
the District of Columbia; that the people
of each Territory shall determine the que
tion for themsefve6, and be admitted tvto
the Union upon a footing of perfect equal-
ity with the original States, without dis-
crimination on account of the allowance
or prohibition of slavery
Judge Douglas, who ban understood
Breckinridge to be with him, heart and
soul, in his Troy speech, delivered the 25th
of last month, says: .
"Mi. BreokiutaJge pledged himself to
the same principles in bi speech at Lex-
ington, Ky., accepting tbe nomination of
Vice President. I stood beside bim on the
same pUtfoim at Tippecanoe, and heard
him maintain this doctrine—and John C.
Brecklmidge went as far in its defence as
any sqQaCer sovereign ever went. Neither
Buchanan nor Breckinridge would or could
have been elected on any other platform."
Now, in that Tippecanoe speech^' which
Douglas stood by and beard hitn deliver,
Breckinridge said:
"I happened to be in Congress when the
Nebraska bill passed, and gave it my voice
and my vote, and because it did what it
did, viz: It acknowledged the right of tbe
people of the TerHtory to settle the ques-
tion for themselves, and not because 1 sap
posed—what I do not now believe—tbat
it legislates slavery into the Territory.—
The Democratic party i *")t a pro-slavery
arty? . .
1 am connected with no party tbat has
lor its object the extensión of slavery; nor
with any to r Re Vent the people oí a
Territory from deciding the question
of its existence or nun—exi *eUCft-WÍlÍL^bflm.
for themselves."
But again, ^n the 16th of January,
1850, Breckinridge, then a member of the
Kentucky Legislature, introduced the fol
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question of slavery in the Territories being
wholly local and domestic, belongs atone to
THE people who inhabit them.'*
On the 31st of tbe same month, Rfr.
Wickliffe offered tbe following in the Ken
tucky Legislature:- t
' That slavery iu the Territories is a sub
ject which belongs exclusively to tbe peo-
ple of those Territories, but that their right
to exclude slavery'therefrom can be exer-
cised by them only- in their capacity as an
independent State, in forming their own
Constitution for a State Government."
Breckinridge would not support* this
resolution, because it did not recognise the
right ot the people of a Territory. btrt of
a State, to regulate the slavery question
and be made a minority report, signed by
himself, J. P. Bates and J. P. Metcalf,
which they accompanied by a resolution
proposing to instruct their two Benators,
Clay and ükderwoob,f'to oppose Con-
gressional interfeience with the subject, ex-
cept in two specified cases—that of tbe
foreign Slave Trade and the Fugitive Slave
Liiw, and so leave all power to the Terri-
torial people over the subject as being
wholly local and domestic."
Thus it will be seen that Breckinridge
has been a more ultra as well as unyield-
ing Squatter Sovereignly man thau even
Douglas, the champion of the doctrill, or
Cass, the author of it, but by a resolution
adopted iu a Bolters' ConvAtion, by
pack of unmitigated Disunionists, Breck-
inridge is made tbe advocate of Mprotec
tion" and a"slave code for the Territories."
Now, Breckinridge's speech in Congress
on the 23d ot March, 1854, proves thai
he was then anything but a "Protection-
ist." Hear what he say :
"Sir, I care nothing about refined dis-
tinctions, or subtleties, or verbal criticism.
I repeat the broad and plain proposition
that if Congress may intervene on this sub-
ject, it may intervene on any other, and
having thus surrendered the principle and
broken away from the constitutional limi-
tations, yuu are driven into the very lap of
arbitrary power. .By this doctiiue you
may erect a despotism under the American
system. The whole theory is a libel on
our institutions. It carries us back to the
Abhorrent principles of British^ colonial au-
thority, against which we made the issue
of independence. I have never acquiesced
in this claim, and will not believe that it
can abide the test of public scrutiny.—
Speech of Sir. Breckinridge. See Con
gressional Globe, March 23, 1854.
But the Convention of Bolters change
all these sentiments for Breckinridge, aud
by a resolution they make bná a "protec-
tiouiit." tlie a-lvocala of i*"bUvc code for
the Territories,'' atid the leaders of tiie
pir'y who have resolved u'poii griitij out
of the Union and forming a' Southern
Confederacy. v. . ...
As to record.Breckíñríd^Shad no other
prior to the Baltimore invention than
that of an ultra Vqüattéf Sé&reign and
an Emancipationist. He supported the
Emancipation ticket in Kentucky, twelve
years ago, as is well known tltere,'an<i not
denied by any intelligent men. H*nce,
the Convt ntlon of^Seoeders who**resolved
him into a práslavery níán. culd n.ore
easily have resolved Dopglas into one, for
he had been less ultra ill defence of Squat-
ter Soveieigntv.
e But B reek i i ridge is going abrpad as the-
re presen tat i ve of the fire eating Democracy
of the South, and of hij} std |m position
we can say wiib the poid?
"Now 1st us sing, lonf live the King;
Ann Gilpin, long live he;
And when be next does ride abroad,
May we all be there to see!"
. ——
Another mound Discovered.
The New Tork Express is indebted to
an intelligent young friend, of the legal
profession, in Ohio, for the following
record: ,
¿ANESTflUt, Ohy, July 27.
To {fie Editor of the Express— ,
Díar Sir : I have just been informed,
by a gentlemen from Newark. Ohio, that
there has been a wonderful diepovery made
in a truncated eone of stones near Lynn-
ville, nine miles from Newark, which beats
the Holy Stone out and out. It is no less
than the discovery of the ,body of Moses I
Tbe workmen there, un|Ér the orders of a
son of AÍr. —^—, re® o Vea the stffnes in a
segment of a circle. At the base of the
mound, bear tbe outside of-a circle, they
found, three (nounds of earth about five '
feet high. On opening one of these, they
found a coffin, about six atod a Salf feét
long, resting on sleepers, 'ike a railrbad
track, and other sleepers above. It was
made of * single log of oak, in preserva-
tion. '
On opening the coffin they fottod ibe
skeleton of a -roan, with arm* crossed. o%
bk breaat. and on his Wast twelve capper ,
rings of about tbe thickness ofa qu:ll beat
together, but soldered. Tbey were, pi ob-
#bly from the size,
coffin looks as if
as braeeletü.
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raised, they
deep, with water. The other
not yet been opened, nor has the well
examined. The coffin, with the skeleton,
has been Beit into Newark. The bones of
tbe skeleton are much broken. This is not
a h ax, as my informant is Mr. ——a
lawyer, who has seen the rings and part
of the Coffin. The cofin bad not got into
town when he left. Ytú are at liberty to
use this, if you suppress ««mes. I thought,
as an editor, you would Nee to k iow of it
at once* 'Yours, veryyuly, *
P. 8;—Mr. says he ^s in hopes of
finding tbe table of the Ten
menté.
Com Ut mid-
Josiah D is a most estimab'e gen-
tleman, upright, strictly pious,and, withal,
a staunch,thorough-going Democrat. Du-
ring the Mexican war, be was called Opon,
at a regular church meeting, to pray, and
be closed with this addition? "Be with our
army in Mexico*, whether it be right or
wrong, bless ití We of the Democratic
party are charged with making a war of
conquest, but we believe it to be a wat of
defence. But we we witt not enter into «n
argument on the subject, rtd tbr further
particulars would refer to tfo President's
message!"
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A schoolmaster in a western ttftfeg* where
the custom o(boarding around* prevails
recently received notice frott ft Dutch
matron that she " would eat him, but
couldn't sleep bin /* He will doubtless ba
careful not to venture within her reach.
Great cry and little wool, is, by high
authority, said to describe the first appear-
ance of an African infant on tbe stage of (
pfe.
Who were tbe first newspsper subscri-
bers mentioned in tbe scripture! Cain
and Joshua} for Cain took A-BelT$ Lift%
and Joshua ordered the Sun. .
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Mr. Tbeophilus Popp, of Poppvllfe, P«pp
comrtv, fancying hiimelf to l e very popu-
lar with his lady love, * popped tbe ques-
tion" to her under the poplar tree, when
she referred him to her poppy, who, when
asked for ber consent, laboring under tbe
influence of ginger pop, popped him out
of the door to the tune of " pop goes tbe
weasel I"
Canal atreet, in New Orleans, ia said to
be the most magnificent stteet in tbe world,*
being eight miles I ng aud two hnodied
feet wide. At the crossings monuments
or fountain are to be ertcted.
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