Springfield Weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.)
December 1, 1855

Page 1

This page's text is still being fetched. See the page, or reload in a moment.

Page 2

2 She ^rpttbUran. SPRINGFIELD, NOVEMBER 28, 1855. O^The Cincinnati Know Nothing Convention has ended, after taking measures to get back into the national organization. At the same time, to keep the northern sentiment of some of their con-' stituents qniet, the delegates repeated the minori ty resolution at Philadelphia. The hollowness of this is apparent in the feet, that they propose to join with those who rejected this resolution and never can I* brought to submit to It, in the com ing presidential campaign. They openly reject the aid of the republicans in giving power and success to the declarations of that resolution, but court a union with the men who spit upon it. In other words they condemn the noble bolt of Philadelphia, and bolt back into the arms of the pro-slavery party. tty The movement of the people of Kansas to wards the self-government that open Missouri ruffianism ami administration encouragement thereof had denied them, Is thus far happily suc cessful. The free state convention has concluded its labors, formed a constitution excluding slave ry, and Initiated all the machinery of an immedi ate, seh’-suJtafning. independent -tatc govern ment. By February, at the latest, Kansas will be applying to Congress for admission to the Union with Gov Reeder as her chief exponent and rep resentative. Then comes the question will she be admitted by this Congress? And around that hangs the issues of the great campaign of 1856. The Provincialism of Boston. A Massachusetts man would like to be proud of Boston. In some respects he can be. He may exult in her wealth, her general refinement, her honorable business reputation. In all these she stands pre-eminent, and they constitute a basis which might have made her the metropolis of New England at least. But there is no’disguis ing the fact that Boston is every day becoming more and more a mere provincial city, and her influence is contracting more and more within her own narrow limits. She has no extended social or political influence. Her outward sway is only the power of judiciously invested capital. She does not take the large view of affairs that is due to her ancient fame and her present preten sions, and we utter only the universal thought, when we say that Massachusetts is far in advance of Boston in all the ideas that distinguish the present and indicate the future. Boston revolves in her own narrow orbit, and in her Chinese con ceit considers all the rest of the world outside barbarians, while the world is hastening its rapid onward march and leaving her groping among the ruins and shadows of the past. New York, though immeasurably inferior to Boston in many things, has an eye to the moving world and gov erns herself accordingly. The contrast between the two cities in what may be called the ruling idea, the civic esprit du corps, is accurately represented by their leading newspapers. With two or three exceptions, the daily press of Bos ton represents State street and Long Wharf and nothing more. They do not record the beatings of the pulse of Massachusetts; they are not in sympathy with the people of the state, and their influence outside of the counting-rooms of the solid men of Boston, is not an appreciable quan tity. The New Ycrk press, on the contrary, is not an appendage and month-piece of Wall street. It is independent of the money changers and above them. It has a national character and in fluence, and sways the minds of multitudes of men, not only in the great empire state, but throughout the entire union. It discusses the topics of the day not in reference to a single in terest, but in their relations to the multiform opinions and wants of a great people. The press of New York is metropolitan, while that of Bos ton is narrowly provincial. The same difference is to be seen in other mat ters. We had an illustration of it the other day in the action of a distinguished publishing firm in Boston, who withdrew their patronage from a newspaper for its free criticism of one of their publications. Such a thing could only have been done in Boston, and we have no doubt State street and Long wharf would decide with entire unanimity that it was a very properproceeding, in entire correspondence with Boston ideas. It could not have occurred in New York. A publishing house in that city would have been much more likely to have rewarded the editor for his unfavor able criticism by extra patronage and induced him to continue his attacks, as one of the best methods of bringing the book into notice and in suring a wide sale. That will lie the effect of the severe criticism and ridicule which Longfellow’s new poem encounters, and that in spite of the il liberal policy of his publishers. The comparison between the two cities might be carried to other particulars, but ‘comparisons arc odious,’ and Boston with all her faults, belittleing as they are, is still the Pilgrim eity and the pride of Massachu setts. Would that she might make herself worthy to be the metropolis of New England. Ancibkt American History. A learned French priest, the Abbe de Bourbourg, has re cently made interesting and valuable discoveries in Guatemela, connected with the history of the wonderful people, the ruins of whose cities are scattered all over Central America. Our own traveler, Stephens, has given a very minute and interesting account of the ruins in Yucatan. The Abbe deßourbourg has discovered and translated important historical records of the race that built these cities, and finds in their language unmis takable traces of the Scandinavian and Teutonic tongues. The writers of these ancient records also deelare that their ancestors “came from the north-cast and crossed the sea in darkness, mist, cold and snow” —probably from Denmark and Norway. They came in small numbers and lost their white blood by mixture w ith the Indian races. The learned priest also obtained from an Indian chief an ancient Indian drama, which had been for centuries handed down by memory from father to son, in which the first passage of the Indians to America is celebrated and the exploits of their ancient chiefs. This the priest took down with great difficulty from the lips of the Indian and transkited it into French. M. Bourbourg is preparing his discoveries for publication, and is confident they will be considered of great im portance by antiquarians, as offering a rational solution of many of the mysteries connected with the mementoes of the primeval races that inhab ited this continent. QS?“Oharles R. Train, the district attorney for Middlesex countv, and one of the ablest lawyers in the state, has been removed by Gov Gardner, and Isaac 8. Morse of Lowell appointed i.n Ms .place. Sheriff Keyes of Middlesex, is also mark ed for American vengeance. Neither Mr Train nor Mr Keyes deserted the republican standard after having joined it, for the Gardner party, and hence their proscription. Qy Our new foreign correspondent, Mr Dunn Browne, grows piquant and entertaining as he proceeds. We have further letters of his on hand, some of which are exceeding elever. THE SPRINGFIELD WEEKLY REPUBLICAN: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1855. Kanu* Ac worth sev eral times the government price before it comes into market. There is nowhere a better prospect for mechanics. E. B. Whitman is about to start from Boston for Kanzas immediately, and will build a church at Lawrence this winter. Persons desirous of emigrating can obtain all necessary information at the office of the emigrant aid com pany, 3 Winter street, Boston. Our recent letters from Kanzas assure us that no apprehensions of violence from Atchison’s gang are now entertained. They are great cow ards and have a wholesome fear of Sharp's rifles, and now that the eastern emigrants are well arm ed, they have become quiet and respectful. The cowards may attack and maltreat defenseless cler gymen traveling alone in Missouri, but they are not likely to make incursions into the territory, except when they go over to help governor Shan non elect a pro-slavery delegate to Congress or perform some other act in the grand comedy of invader sovereignty. Or peradventnre the gov ernor may call them to his aid to enforce the laws made by the ruffianly legislature. In the course of a debate in the Topeka convention, the other day, it was stated by Mr Schuyler, the member from Topeka, that Governor Shannon, in conver sation with him, had not only expressed his firm determination to enforce the bogus laws, but as sured him that he had authority from president Pierce to dll out the military force to aid him in their execution. If an election were pending in Ohio Shannon would disavow this statement forthwith. As it is he may lie allowed harmless ly to bully the settlors, as long as he has no other occupation. So far as any administrative func tion is concerned the governor is a mere cypher in the territory, and the people tire perfectly in different to his movements.—The steamer Salem arrived nt Cincianati, a few days since, from Ke nawha, Va., with quite a number of slaves and their masters on the way to Kanzas. The constitutional convention has lieen entrap ped into a seeming endorsement of the Pierce and Douglas doctrine of squatter sovereignty. They rejected a resolution in approval of the Kan zas-Nebraska bill, but passed by a vote of 16 to 15, the following resolution, offered by Mr Delahey, the editor of the only Douglas paper in the terri tory: “Resolved, That this convention approve the principle of squatter sovereignty, and non-inter vention of the people of the states, as well as of Congress, in the local affairs of territories and states.” There were two'principal motives urged success fully to procure the adoption of this resolution: that it did not sanction the Kanzas-Nebraska bill, but the real and lona fide principle of popular sovereignty, and that Douglas and the adminis tration would withdraw all opposition to the free state movement if they would only seem to acquiesce in their pet measure of squatter sbve reignty. The convention will find they have been sold, and the assnranees of Douglas’s agent will never lie verified. The adoption of the resolution caused much ill feeling in the convention, and the republican and demo cratic parties have been formed by it. This is unfortunate for the free state movement, and will more endanger it than any opposition from without. It divides the settlers, who should have remained united in one party for the single object of making Kanzas a free state. By this unhappy division, treacherously fomented forthat object, slavery still hopes to get a foothold in the territory, and we fear tbr me result, in drc proper business of the convention we notice noth ing of special interest, with the exception of a provision, abolishing in the courts the distinction between law and equity and providing that chan cery business shall be conducted in the law courts, and a section securing to married women the control of their own property and an equality with the father in the maintenance, education and care of the children. The convention, after protracted and thorough discussion, have decided upon the immediate formation of a state government. On the 10th a schedule was passed providing that the new constitution shall be submitted to the people on the 15th of December. If ratified by the people, there will be an election under it, on the third Tuesday of January, of governor, lieutenant governor, auditor, judge of the supreme court, attorney general, and members of the general assembly. The convention adopted a resolution fixing the 4th of July next as the time within which to remove all slaves from the territory. No permanent capital was agreed npon. The con vention closed its sessions on the 12th. —The New York Evening Post states, that by a careful count ing of noses, there will be a majority of 16 in fa vor of admitting Reeder to the House as the dele gate from Kanzas. This includes no vote from any„southera state, and omits Valk, Kelly and Havens of New York, who w ill probably vote against the admission of cither delegate. The proposition to reject both and order a new elec tion will be favored by the administration, and to give a show of fairness to it, a special act will be proposed authorizing the president to employ the United States troops, if necessary, in protecting the polls in Kanzas against the ragged troops of the administration under the lead of Atchison.— The well informed reporter of the St. Louis Dem ocrat, who is also employed by the Kanzas consti tutional convention, as its special reporter, esti mates the present population of the territory at from 32,000 to 35,000. Large numbers of emi grants are now pouring into the territory from all quarters, and these figures will soon Ite far below the mark. Knnza* all Kight Again —Close of the Convention Shannon ngnin with the RnfU.-ini*. More complete accounts of the closing acts of the Kanzas constitutional convention have come to hand and we are glad to lie assured that the endorsement of squatter sovereignty was with drawn. The resolution of Delahey, the editor of the Douglas paper, was reconsidered and laid on the table by a majority of six, and the free state movement is now delivered from all suspi cion of seeking favor from the national adminis tration. It has distinctly refused to express the mildest approval, amounting indeed to little more than tolerance, of the Kunzas-Ncbraska perfidy. Among the final proceedings of the conven. tion, the following provision was added to the bill of rights, in order to prevent an evasion of the article excluding slaves, such as was success fully practised in the early history of Indiana: No indenture of any negro or mulatto made and executed out of the bounds of the state, shall be valid witbin the state.” Civilized Indians, residents of the territory, who have adopted the habits of whites, are to be allowed to vote. The state printer is to be elect' ed by the people, for the first time in any state, it is said. The closing scene of the convention is thus described by the correspondent of the St. Louis Democrat: About midnight the president said: Gentle men,—The constitution Ims been rend for the first time; those In fiivor of its passage will signify the same by saying aye." Ayo, shouted every delegate Without exception, in a loud and enthu siastic tone. I move that the constitution ho road a second time bv Its title,” said Mr Parrott. "The constitution of Kanzas,” read the secreta ry. Those In favor of Its passage, said the president, "will signifr it I>y saying aye I I never saw such a perfectly dramatic scene before, as I looked at, when the president said so. Every delegate involuntarily held up his hand, and shouted Apr— halt rising ns he gave his vote. I move that the constitution be read by its title a third time,” said Mr Delahey. it was read a third time, and again the president put the ques tion. An enthusiastic aye” succeeded. The constitution is adopted” said the presi dent. Three cheers for the first free constitution of Kanzas,” said Mr Schuyler of Council City. Every delegate and spectator immediately raised his hat; and waving it in the air, gave three times three loud, long and hearty cheers. As the sound of the cheering died away, the hour and minute hands of our watch were pointing at XII. On the 10th a caucus of the members of the convention voted that the state convention for the nomination of candidates be at Lawrence on the 22d of December, and adopted the following resolution: “Resolved, That we recognize but two political parties in this territory, namely, a free state and a pro-slavery party; and fri our party no test should lie required for office except honesty, ability, and devotion to the free state cause.” The pro-slavery convention at Leavenworth, the 14th, was attended by only about sixty delegates. Governor Shannon, —who was anxious to have it known just before the Ohio election, that he had not committed himself in favor of slavery in Kanzas,—presided over this meeting, with the arch ruffian Stringfellow as secretary and the ter ritorial judges and other officials as vice-presi dents. Shannon made the principal speech, in which he denounced the free state movement as treasonable and revolutionary, said it would re ceive its quietus in the halls of Congress, that the laws should be enforced in Kanzas at all hazards, and that the executive of the United States would stand by the law and order party (meaning the Missouri invaders) to the last. Next year, he said, we will be called on to elect a President of this Republic, when only two parties will be known, the Block- Republican and Unionist. [Loud and prolonged cheers.[ if Congress should sanction the ‘treasonable movement' in Kanzas by admitting Reeder, he declared civil war mnst inevitably follow and the whole fabric of the Union would be shaken. Shannon fully committed himself to the pro-slavery party and entirely allayed their suspicions of his soundness ‘on the goose,’ which had been excited by his Ohio letter. They now saw that he meant onl/ gammon by that disclaimer, and on motion of Stringfellow the notorious, the convention voted him hearty respect and thanks. The resolutions of Jhc convention are rather tame. They put the pro-slavery party of Kanzas forward as the special conservators of law and order and the saviors of the Union of the states; thank the democrats of the northern states “for their undeviating support of the great principles of government,” as illus trated in Kanzas, (which is highly complimentary and satisfactory to northern democrats,) and pledge themselves to support Gov Shannon in enforcing the laws of the Missouri-Kanzas legis lature. A bill has been found against McCrea at Leaven worth, for murder in the first degree. This was accomplished by the most outrageous packing of the grand jury by .Judge Lecompte. The jury as it stood before, had five for a bill and eleven against; the judge at this session added to the jury seven men known to be against McCrea, and thus secured his object. This corrupt proceeding of the judge cansed the greatest exasperation at Leavenworth. Although it is notorious that Me- Crea acted entirely in self-defence there is not the slightest chance that he will get justice under a Judge who is determined on his conviction for murder by any and all means.—Since tiic organ ization of the Topeka constitutional convention, stock in the new city of Lecompton, the capital established by the bogus legislature, has de clined one third in value. Lots that sold for 8600 have been resold for 8100, and most of the hold ers are unable to sell at any price. The free state men feel that they now stand on an impregnable basis, and as their courage rises the pro-slavery party grows disheartened. His Reasons. —William Kirk, whose importa tion of slaves from the South to Jacksonville, 111., gave the citizens of that place so much uneasi ness, sets forth the reasons for his conduct thus quaintly: “The eighteen slaves brought by me to this town, a few weeks ago, came on a visit to their relatives and friends. I have concluded to let them remain here for an indefinite period of time, in order that the children of my old and faithful servants may receive the benefits of a common English education; when that is accomplished I think it quite probable that the slaves, from choice, will return to their native home —the genial South. I have expended in the town with in the past few weeks about $6,000, in good money, and design in the Spring, should my life be spared, to build several new dwelling houses, for renting purposes. I have also been a tax-payer in this state for nearly thirteen years, and will cheerfully sustain and meet all exactions made by the state or federal government upon me as a cit izen. In politics I am, and always have been a democrat—was a warm personal and political friend of General Andrew Jackson—voted for Franklin Pierce, and embrace heartily in my po litical creed the principles embodied in Mr Doug las’s Kanzas-iNebraska bill. lam an old bachelor, having remained single all my life. This I re gard as one of the fatal errors of my younger days, and am now endeavoring to repair that wrong as much as in me lies. I would advise all persons to marry when young. The slaves I de sign to set free at my death, would be worth sev eral thousand dollars, but I would rather be a slave myself, and wear the chains of bondage, than be the means of having the chains of slave ry fastened upon one of my old and faithful ser vants by a stranger. And lam persuaded that many of the slaveholders of the South would do as I have done, provided they had the means.” Sensibly as Mr Kirk seems to talk, we venture the suggestion that he does not fully understand what he is talking about. He loses sight entirely of the great fact that slavery is a divine institu tion, and that the relation of master and slave is a natural one and altogether best for both par ties. Had he understood this ftroperty, all his twaddle about preferring to “wear the chains of bondage himself, to having the chains of slavery fastened upon bls old and faithful servants by strangers,” would have been omitted. Greatness in an Alms-HoEse. Daniel Pratt Jr., the great American traveler and one of the peoples’ candidates for the presidency, has been sent to one of the South Boston institutions as a pauper nnd vagrant. This leaves the course apparently clear for Dr Melli n and. Gen Pierce, but as we have heard nothing from the worthy doctor for some time we are not without out fears that some calamity has befallen him too. It is not impossible that Gen Pratt and Dr Mel len have bo th been disposed of in the same way, by some of the unscrupulous partisans of the third candidate, who have sense enough to see that their favorite stands no chance at all so long a, his two distinguished competitors remain in the field. Should this prove to be the case we trust that the power of Dr Mellen’s groat process, the habeas corpus, will he invoked in his behalf. The CtariMttti Know Nothing There were Just 51 delegates present on Thurs day, the second day of the convention of north ern know nothings at Cincinnati. Of these, 80 were from Ohio and 10 from Pennsylvania—those two states comprising more than half of the whole; 7 from Indiana, 3 from Illinois, 3 from Michigan and one from Wisconsin; the remain ing 7 from New England, ns follows:—Rhode Island, J. C. Knight; Massachusetts, S.M. Allen, J. M. Keith, E. R. Sawin, S. Maine, E. C. Ba ker; Vermont, E. Mattocks. Of the whole num ber only three or four were at the Philadelphia convention. The majority of the delegates from each state wore empowered to cast the whole vote of each state. We copy from the Herald’s correspondence its not very intelligent summary of what was done on Thursday: The committee on resolutions reported a con servative platform, and the ten minutes rule was adopted. This was victory for the conservatives. The black republicans are in a small minority. The platform, which requests that the national council will expunge the twelfth section, denoun ces the Kanzas act, and claims that no more slave states shall be admitted into the Union. Mr Allen of Massachusetts, offered n resolution asking the grand council to blot out the twelfth section, and make a platform upon which the North and the South could both stand without violence to the principles of the majority of the people in cither. Mr Allen thinks that the grand council nextfebruary might fix up a plan for a truly national organization, leaving each state to hold its peculiar views on the shivery question. Mr Allen is a fair representative of the moderate men in the council. On the other hand, there is a Seward fusion partv, headed bv Mr Spooner of Ohio, president of the state council. They want an abolition plat form, so as to bring ultout a fusion with the black republicans. There are two reports for a platform, and lots of amendments. A sharp debate is now going on. The name of George Law has been mentioned here, and considerably discussed in private cir cles. The idea is a popular one among the con servatives, and they think that with a strong southern man for a vice president, it would be just the ticket for 1856.” Close or the Coxvextivs ano its Re sults. —The convention adjourned at a late hour Thursday night, after adopting by a large major ity the report of the majority of the committee on resolutions. This report repeated the minor ity platform at the Philadelphia convention on the slavery question declaring that the repeal of the Missouri compromise was an infraction of plighted faith and should be restored, and if efforts to that end fail, states formed out of the territory embraced in its juris diction should come in as free states, —and then protested against coalescing with any party that demands the abandonment of the American prin ciples or a disorganization of the American party; and recommended a meeting of the delegates at Philadelphia on the 19th of February next, when the national council is to meet for the nomination of presidential candidates. The minority report was sustained chiefly by the Ohio and Michigan delegations, but was re jected. It insisted on the exclusion of slavery from the national territory, and declared that pro scription on account of birth-place was unwar ranted. It recommended the party to act openly; regarded the slavery’ question as the paramount issue; recommended river and harbor improve ments. and a generous foreign policy. AtcbUon’* Gang in Trouble. Fortunately for the peace of Kanzas, the Atchi son ruffians in Missouri are having a little trouble at home to occupy their belligerent ambition. Parkville is in open rebellion against the Atchi son dynasty. The ruffians swear that Mr Park shall not stay in Parkville; the people of Park ville have pledged their protection to him and give notice that they are prepared to defend Mr Park, and to sustain through him the cause of law and order against the rule of mob violence. The leaders of the mob respond that they will not only expel Mr Park but destroy Parkville, if any resistance is made. Thus affairs stand, and Park ville is arming for resistance and the most intense excitement prevails. The matter has been introduced into the legis lature of Missouri, by a resolution calling on the governor to use the military force of the state to quell the disturbances at Parkville. A very warm discussion took place and some severe truth was told of Atchison’s gang. The resolujion did not pass, many voting against it on the ground that the governor would act if necessary without special instructions. At Parkville, at last ac counts the greatest excitement prevailed, as also through all the western border. At Weston a public meeting of the citizens passed decided reso lutions against the ruffians and determined to aid the citizens of Parkville. There is every prospect of a serious disturbance, and it is most devoutly to be hoped that Atchison and his lawless gang will be handsomely whipped out, on their own domain. Such a result would be eminently creditable to Missouri and conducive to her fu ture welfare, and as another desirable result, Kan zas would be allowed to take care of herself here after, without interference from Missouri. Law, order and decency in western Missouri are in open rebellion against autocrat Atchison and his imperial guards. The excitement at Park ville has reached a very high pitch. A meeting has been held at Platte city by the ruffians, and a committee sent to Parkville demanding that the offender Park be delivered up to them, to be dealt with according to the code of Judge Lynch. The people of Parkville refused to yield to the de mand, and the Atchison committee left, threaten ing to return in'force and burn and demolish the town. The citizens of Parkville immediately as sembled, and resolved to defend Mr Park to the last and organized a large force to receive the Atchisonites with the honors of war. Through out the whole region the excitement is represent ed as most unprecedented, and as both parties are resolute, it is hardly possible that bloodshed can be avoided. Slaverv Lectles in Boston.—The course of lectures on slavery in Boston opened Thursday evening, at Tremont Temple, with an address from Horace Mann on the comprehensive theme, Equal liberty to all men,” which he amplified and adorned with his usual wealth of illustration and eloquent appeal. A poem by Whittier, read by Rev T. Stan- King, was greeted in its principal passages with enthusiastic applause. It was a panoramic description of the great West, as it will be if settled with freemen, or cursed with slaves. A village in slavcdom is thus truly painted: A village struggling in loose disarray, Vulgar and new, in premature dec-iy, A tavern crazy with its whiskey b awls, With slaves at auction garnirhu.a ns walls; Without surrounded by almotley crowd: The shrewd-eyed salesman, gar u ous and loud, The squire or'colonel in his pride of place Known at free fights, the caucus and the race, Prompt to proclaim his honor without blot, And nlence doubters with a ten-pace, shot, Mingling the nen ro-driving bully a rant With pious phrase and democratic cant, Yet never scrupling with a filthy jest To sell the infant from its mother’s breast. The northern panderers to slavery are thus re buked “Whom shall we strike—who most deserve our blame— The braggart southron, open in his turn And bold as wicked, crushing straight through all That, bars his purpose, like, a cannon ball Or the mean traitor, breathing northern air, With nasal speech and Puritanic air; Whose cant the loss of principle survives, As the mud-turtle even its head outlives Men of the North! Beneath your very eyes, By hearth nnd home your real danger Ites, Still dav by day some hold of freedom fails Thro' home-bred traitors fed within your walls; Men who yourselves with vote and parse sustain At posts of honor, influence and gain. The right of slavery to your sons to teach. And south-ride gospels In your pulpits preach!” Pelltical Gouip. Democrats, whig* and black republicans'—the Dully Advertiser even abetting—have fused on a citizen's ticket for city officers in Boston: Alex ander 11. Rice for mayor, and five democrats,five whig" and two republicans for aldermen, among the number being James Cheever, Sampson Reed, Otis Rich, Fnrnlutm Plummer and Eben Jackson. The contest, will bo between this ticket and a straight out American one, not yet nominated In Louisiana, the democrats hay e succeeded by over 8000 majority on the state ticket; Congress, 3 democrats, 1 American; state legislature—Sen ate, IS democrats to 14 Americans; House, 43 democrats to 41 Americans, and five hitherto democratic parishes to hear from. The Ameri cans carried New Orleans by 100 majority, ex cluding two polls where that party destroyed the. boxes before the votes were counted on the pre tense of unfair play. The democrats claim 400 majority at these two polls, and mean to prove somehow that they had it; the Americans offer to try the election over again. The substitution of the American party for the whig ns the oppo sition to the democrats makes many curious changes in the several localities of Louisiana;, heretofore strong whig counties turn up now democratic or anti-native, while old democratic counties chassez across to nativism. Mississippi was swept even cleaner than Louisi. ana by the democrats in its recent congressional and state elections. Their majority on the popu lar vote will be from 5000 to 6000 over the Amer icans, aud they have a majority of between 30 and 40 in the legislature on joint ballot, which will enable them to elect the man of their choice, whoever he may be, to the United States Senate, over Stephen Adams, nondescript, the present incumbent. It is believed that the same party have elected all the five congressmen. Alden S. Loud of Abington and Elnathan P. Hathaway of Freetown are chosen delegate* to the democratic national convention from the sec ond congressional district of this state. At the meeting appointing them, Mr Deane of Taunton, submitted a resolution instructing the two dele gates to vote as they may think proper in the na tional convention, without regard to the vote of tin- late State convention that the vote of the Massachusetts delegates shall be cast as a unit, in accordance with the preference of a majority; but, on motion of Mr Young of Pembroke, it was laid on the table, 15 to 14. The office-holders have pretty faithfully packed the delegation from this state in favor of president Pierce’s re-nomi nation. In Gov Chase’s speech at the late republican festival at Columbus, Ohio, occurs the following reference to the American party: In Ohio we succeeded by conciliation and mu tual forbearance. No man, he said, more highly appreciated the great services the members of the American party had rendered the cause of liberty than he did. True Americanism, he said, consisted in maintaining the original American idea upon which American institutions were founded. Here in America, for the first time in the history of the world, had a structure of political institu tions been reared upon the basis of equal rights for all, guaranteed by equal laws. Our fathers had invited all, of every creed and of every civil ized nation, to come and partake with us the blessings of free government. The people of America, thus made up, should rule America; and every man devoted to American institutions should be recognized as American. He favored no extension of the present term of naturaliza tion. Ali attempts to subvert American institu tions by ecclesiastical power should lie firmly re sisted, but no citizen should be proscribed on ac count of his religious faith. Toleration in re ligion was a fundamental principle of true Amer icanism.” List year, owing to the death of the lieutenant, governor of Missouri, the Senate of that state elected Mr Rawlins to that office. A few days since, when the legislature convened, it was found that the constitution required the election to be liua voce, and the votes entered on the journal. This not having been complied with, the post was declared vacant, ami another election ordered. Meanwhile Rawlins had joined the American’ party, and the Benton men, being opposed to them, refused to support him. They nominated Mr Morris and elected him. The office of special county judge in St Law rence county was vacant. But the fact was over looked, and no provision was made for it. A half dozen wide-awake gentlemen in Canton discov ered the omission, and on election day, seven votes were cast for William H. Sawyer Esq., and the board of county canvassers have declared him elected. He is a hard shell, and the success of a gentleman of that stripe in St Lawrence is so near a miracle, that the fact is deemed one of the won ders of the canvass. Albany Evening Journal. At a meeting of the central democratic union club of New York city, Saturday evening, meas ures were taken to bring about a union of the hard and soft wings of the democratic party, and a special committee was appointed to report a plan for this purpose. Texas has re-elected Mr Rusk U. 8. senator for six years from March 4, 1857. Ho is the first senator chosen for the class expiring in 1863. Biting off their own Noses.—Some of the profound lawgivers of Georgia are engaged in an amiable attempt to spite their own faces by bit ing off their own noses. We can only wish them a good time, and sttcli a measure of success as will be most agreeable to them. Because their slaves will run away, and despite the powers and virtues of the fugitive slave law will stay away, they propose to indemnify themselves for the loss by confiscating, for the benefit of the sufferers, the debts duo by the citizens of Georgia to«the citizens of the state in wldch the fugitives are supposed to have found refuge. In other words, a law has been introduced into the legislature of Georgia, providing that whenever a slave shall make his escape into a free state, or shall be car ried into a free state, the owner of such slave shall make a demand upon the governor of the state into which he shall have escaped or been carried, for his rendition, and if the governor fails for any reason, to deliver up the fugitive within the space of thirty days, then the owner shall have his remedy in a seizure of any debts that may be due from any person in the state of Georgia, to any citizen of the. state into which the lost slave is supposed to have escaped. The first and principal effect of such an insane enactment would be to cut off the citizens of Georgia from all credit in the free states—a con tingency that would be anything but agreeable to our extra-chivalrous neighbors. Another mischief would be that it would bring them at loggerheads with that law of laws, the fugitive slave law. The fugitive slave law is neither more nor less than the perfection of human reason applied to the rendition of slaves. It is the supreme law of the land, and whoever is guilty of the slightest disrespect to it is guilty of constructive treason at least. Now th is proposed enact’mcnt of our Geor gia law-givers makes a clean breach over this su preme law—treats it with the most contumelious disrespect. The fugitive slave law provides for no demand upon n state executive. Indeed, it does not recognise such a functionary at all; in its eyes there arc no governors, and least of all, any in whose hands are the issues of freedom or bondage to the fugitive. It will not do—their own safety forbids—for our southern neighbors to.set themselves up as higher than the highest law known to the moderns. Neither will it do for them to set us benighted and sinful northern ers such an example of disloyalty to it as they propose. They will have to “ease away.” Kirkland, the street preacher, has been fined S2O at Cincinnati, for using obscene lan guage during one of his Sunday discourses. Gov Reeder before the Ceopiki The democrats of Pennsylvania givo the - tinJtuishod ex-governor of Kania* n wnrm and enthusiastic reception wherever he goes While at Allentown, on Friday week, in attendance on file supreme court, he was serenaded and his ho tel was surrounded by a vast concourse of citi zens, by whom lie was called out, and an adjourn ment to tlio court house having been voted, he addressed them nt considerable length on the nf fairs of Kanzas and the crimes of the present ad ministration. Ho was cheered from beginning to cud with the greatest enthusiasm, although his audience was composed mainly of men who voted for Pierce. “His allusions to the administration at Wash ington were peculiarly happy. Without a word that conld be answered, he presented the waver ing, truckling imbecility of Franklin Pierce in u light that most effectually opened the eyes of some of his adherents. Born and educated in u free state, his preferences, he said, were of course fora similar state of things in his new home The right to prefer slavery he freely conceded to till who chose to the opening of the next Congress on Monday next. Dr E. Reed of Terra Haute, Ind., under whose professional care he has been for Severn' weeks, writes that there was a slight amendment of his symptons, which induced the hope of speedy recovery, but it proved to be delusive, and there is not now any change which would warrant it prudent or safe for him to leave his room Salmon P. Chase has removed his residence to Columbus, Ohio.—Rachel lias broken down at Philadelphia, and her physician has positively as sured her that her reappearance on the .stage, in our changeable climate, in the present condition* of her health, would expose her to the most se rious, perhaps fatal consequences; and has di rected her to seek in milder latitudes the mean of restoration. Ten Dollars a Pound —This is the selling price of choice specimens of human flesh in Vir ginia. We quote the market report of the Wash ington Union Large Sale of Neoboes.—At Charlotte C. H-, cm Monday of last week. 60 negroes belonging to the estste-- of the late John M Thomas, were fold at public auc tion for the aggregate sum of $25,400. Some other ne groes were sold at the same time, and one or two boyt weighing 95 pounds brought about 4950 each. There are no recent quotations from the Canni bal Islands. But these Virginia prices must breed a famine among the human flesh-eaters, if tin Washington Union circulates among them. Fine Time fob Doctors. —The following A presumed to be the soliloquy of a young physi cian, who hopes by the multiplication of diseases to get into practice “Considering the damp, muddy state of tin streets at this time of the year, I am equally amazed and delighted to see the ladies almost universally going about in thin shoes. Tills ele gant fashion beautifully displays the conforma tion of the ancle joint; but to the surgeon itha another recommendation. 1 behold the delicate foot separated scarcely by- the thickness of thm paper from the mire. I see the exquisite instep, undefended bv a mere web. I meditate on the influence of cold and wet upon the frame; I think of the catarrhs, coughs, pleurisies, pneu monia*, consumptions, and other interesting af fections, that necessarily must result from theu application to the feet; and then I reckon up the number of pills, boluses, powders, draught-, mixtures, leeches, nnd blisters, which will con fluently be sent into the fair sufferers, calculi;: what they must come to, nnd wish I baa the amount in my pocket.’*

Page 3

This page's text is still being fetched. See the page, or reload in a moment.

Page 4

4 She Republican. SPRINGFIELD, DECEMBER 1, 1855. The Rape bl ieM Parly. 11l the triumph of the American party in this and other states our hope’ arc disappointed.—our fears realized. We had confidence that the mul tiplied outrages of the slave-oligarchy u|>on the North were so realized, especially in Massachu «ctt#, that, when an opportunity was offered for her to act definitely In behalf of freedom, sho would not fail to do so. But the opposite is the fact. An attachment to old party names, and a desire to secure results altogether of minor impor tance. in the presence of the overshadowing ques tion of freedom or slavery, has resulted in the tri umph of a party whose opposition to the spread of slavery is at best conditional. Saddening as is thia result to the friends of freedom, it is too late to change It mw, but it is not too late nor Is it too early for those who are determined to effectually oppose tbejqrgressions of slavery upon us, to la bor with increasing earnestness to secure a union of the people upon the object for the accomplish ment of which the republican party was organ ised. There are already indications that an attempt is to be made by the know nothings of the North to unite with the southern branch which was cut off at the Philadelphia convention; and as that party has lost its most devoted friends to free, dom, it is not improbable that such a union can now be effected with little or no opposition. The American purty at the South, as manifest, ed in the Philadelphia convention, is as strongly wedded to the support of slavery as the southern portion of the old democratic or whig parties ever were; and should a union of the northern and southern know nothings be completed, it can be clearly seen that the American party, notwith standing all its pretensions of devotion to the cause of liberty, will be powerless to oppose the aggressions of the slave power. As the southern portion of the old parties ^as for years controlled their action, so will the southern rudder of the American party steer it clear of any serious col lision with slavery. Considering the uncertain position which the American party occupies as regards the question of slavery ar freedom, it is evident that the same reasons which rendered the organization of the republican party necessary, still exist; and thongh the attempt to unite the people upon the one great issue on which the republican party is based has not proved as yet altogether successfid, it must eventually triumph. The success of other parties for a time may retard the approach of that day, but they cannot prevent its dawning. It is only necessary that the people become convinced that the platform of the American party, in giv ing precedence to an object which is actually of minor importance in presence of the overwhelm ing issue involved in the republican party, is a false one,— wholly incompetent to beat back the aggressions of slavery, and restore our govern ment to its pristine purity. When they have learned, as sooner or later they will, that so long as the North fails to unite in opposition to the spread of slavery, as the South is united to ad vance it, so long will the blasting curse urge its advances upon us,—then will the republican party be viewed as it really is, —the only star of prom ise for the friends of freedom and justice,—the only means by which our country can be saved from a complete subjugation to the slave-oli garchy. AUTOGRAPHS—THE VALUE OF GREAT MEN.— There have been sales at auction in Boston and New York, within a few. days, of autographs of distinguished men. The prices obtained did not show any marked appreciation of these me morials of greatness. In Boston a letter of An drew Jackson sold for 53,37; Governor Simon Bradstreet’s signature to a deed $11,25; the auto graph of Governor Hutchinson $2; Samael Adams s4^s; Elbridge Gerry >1; letter of Gen eral Warren written a month before his death at Bunker Hill, $7,50; two letters of John Hancock $3,12 each; a letter of John Jacob Astor $2,75. Autographs of the early governors of Massachu setts brought from SI to $3 each. At the sale in New York, a letter of Washington on the affairs of South Carolina in 1790, sold for $11,25; a cer tificate of membership of the society of Cincin nati, signed by Washington, $6; a signature of John C. Calhoun $3,12, of Henry Clay 62 cents; of Daniel Webster 62 cents and another for 25 cents; a list by Benjamin Franklin of the direc tors of the Philadelphia library in 1732, $3,25; a history of steam engines and boats signed by Robert Fulton and Rol>ert R. Livingston, $7; au tographs of Madison $2,37, Van Buren $1,37, Tyler $1,62, Polk 4-1 cents, Jackson $2, Jefferson $4,75, Aaron Burr $4, Benedict Arnold er« properly belonging to neither of these classes; but there is no violence and little risk in placing them with one or the other, ns their antecedents indicate is natural. There are many members, whose tinal position between the two opposition classes is in doubt, inasmuch as they were elected as Americans, or by the aid of members of that party, while they chiefly repro sent in the causes of their election and their own personal views the republican idea of opposition to the pro-slavery policy of the administration. These wc designate as they may be expected to act on all test questions involving the ‘paramount issue* before the Congress and the country, trust ing to the future to test both their ‘back-bone’ anil the correctness of our classification: Senate, [A star i‘l indicates ruin members. A dagger (t) that their seats are disputed.] MAINE. Term expires. ALABAMA. Tenn expires. Hannibal Hamlin. 18-57 Clement C. Clay Jr.. 1869 Wita'am Pitt Fessenden, ’59 Benjamin Fitzpatrick, ‘6l NSW HAMPSHIRE. MISSISSIPPI •John P. Hate. '59 Stephen Adams, 57 •James Belt, ‘6l Albert G. Brown, ’59 MASSACHUSETTS. LOUISIANA Charles Sumner, '57 Judah T. Benjamin, 59 Henry Wilson, ‘59 ’John Slidell, '6l RHODE ISLAND. TENNESSEE. Charles T. James ‘57 James C. Jones. ‘57 Philip Allen. ’59 John Bell. '59 CONNECTICUT. KENTUCKY. Isaac Toucey. 57 John B. Thompson, ’59 •Lafayette 8. Foster. til ‘John J. Crittenden.’6l VERMONT. OHIO. Solomon Foote 'lit Benjamin F. HWr. ‘57 -JaroS Collamer, ’Bl ‘George E. Pugh. '6l NEW YORK. INDIANA. Hamilton Fish, '57 Jesse D. Bright. '57 IWta H. Seward, ’CI [Vacancy], 61 NEW JERSEY. ILLINOIS. John B. Thompson, '57 Stephen A. Douglas. E 9 William Wright. '59 ^iLynmn Trumbu!, ’6l PENNSYLVANIA MISSOURI. Richard Brodhead. '57 Henry S. Geter, 57 [Vacancy]. "61 [Vacancy], ’6l DELAWARE. ARKANSAS. James A. Bayard. '57 William K. Sebastian, ’59 John M. Clayton. ’o9 Robert W. Johnson. 61 MARYLAND. MICHIGAN. Thomas G Pratt. '57 Lewis Coss. '57 James A. Pearce. 61 Charles E. Stuart. '59 VIRGINIA. FLORIDA. James M. Mason. '57 Stephen R- Mallory. '57 Robert M T Hunter. '59 David Levy Yulee. "61 NORTH CAROLINA. TEXAS. DavidS. Reid. '59 Thomas J. Rusk. '63 “Asa Biggs, ’6l Sam Houston, ’59 SOUTH CAROLINA. CALIFORNIA. Josiah J. Evans, '59 John B. Weller, ‘57 Andrew P. Butler. '6l [Vacancy], ‘6l GEORGIA. WISCONSIN. Robert Toombs. ’59 Henry Dodge, '57 ‘Alfred Iverson. ‘6l •Charles Durkee, ‘6l lOWA. George W. Jones. '59 tJarnes Harlan, ‘6l Total—sß senators and 1 vacant scats. Administration democrats 33—opposition 25, of whom 14 are republicans, and 11 Americans. Of the democrats, 15 are from free and IS from slave states. The republicans are all from the free, and the Americans all fjom the slave states. The free and slave states are now- equally divided in the Senate: when full, the free states have two majority. ilouw Representatives [A star designates old memhpra, Di ft MAINE. 1. John M. Wood. 4. Samuel P. Bttison. 2. John J. Perry. 5. Israel Washburn Jr. 3. Ebenezer Knowlton. 6. "Thomas J. D. Fuller. NEW HAMPSHIRE. I. Jam's Pike. 2. Mason TP. Tappan. 3. Aaron IL Cragin. VERMONT. 1. 'Jamr* Meacham. 2. Justin ,S. Morrid. 3. Alvah Sabin. MASSACHUSETTS. 1. Robert E. Hall. 6. Timothy Davis. 2. James Buffinton. 7. Nathaniel P. Bank'. Jr. 3. William S. Damrell. S. Chauncey L. Knapp. 4. Linus B. Comms. 9. ^Alexander De Witt. 5. Anson Burlingame. 10. C. C. Chaffee. 11. Mark Trafton. RHODE ISLAND. 1. Nathaniel B. Durfee. 2. "Benjamin B. Thurston. CONNECTICUT. 1. Ezra Clark, Jr. 3. Sidney Dean. 2. John Woodruff. 4. W W. Welsh. NEW YORK- 1 Wm. W. Valk. 17. FrancisE. Spinner. 2. James S. T. Stranahan. 18. Thomas R. Horton. 3. Guy R. Pelton. 19. Jonas A. Hughston. 4. John Kelly. 20. ^Orsamus B. Matteson. 5. TflOS. R. Whitney. 21. Henry Bennett. 6. *John Wheeler. 22. Andrew Z. McCarty. 7- Thomas Childs, Jr. 23. William A. Gilbert. 8. Abram Wakeman. 24. Amos P. Granger. 9. Bayard Clark. 25. *Ed win B. Morgan. 10. Ambrose S. Murray. 28. Andrew Oliver. 11. Rufus H. King. 2ft. John M. Parker. 12. Killian Miller. 28. Wm. H. Kelsey. 13- ^Russell Sage. 29. John Wi Ham?. 14. Samuel Dickson. 30. *Benj. Pringle. 15. Edward Dodd. 31. *Thos. T. Flagler. 16. Georg'A. Simmons. 32. ♦Solomon G. Haven. 33. Francis S. Edwards. NEW JERSEY. 1. Daiak Clawson. 3. James Bishop. 2. George B. Robbins. 4. *GeergeVail 5. *Alex. C. M. Pennington. PENNSYLVANIA. 1. *Thomas B. Florence. 13. "Asa Packer. 2. Job R. Tyson. 14. Galusha A. Grote. 3. Wm. Millward. 15. John J. Pearce. 4. Jaeob Broom. 16. Lemuel T-dd. 5. John Cadwaladvr. 17. David F. Robison. 6- John Hickman. 18. John R. Edi?. 7. Samuel C. Bradshaw. 19. Jahn Cot ode. 8. *J. Glancy Jones 20. Jonathan Knight. 9. Anthony E. Roberts. 21. David Ritchie. 10. John C. Kunkel. 22. Samuel A. Purvianct. 11. James IL Campbell. 23. John Allison. 12. Henry M. Fuller. 24. David Barclay. r 21>. John Dick. DELAWARE OMB L Elisha D. Cullen .fl MARYLAND. 1. James A. Stewart. 4. Henry W. Davis, 2. James B. Kicaud, 5. Henry W. Hoffman, 3. James M Harris. 6. Thos. F. Bowie, fanti native whig.) VIRGINIA. I." Thomas H. Bayly. 7. William Smith. 2. "John S. Millson. B." Charles J. Faulkner. 3.Mohn 8. Caskie, 9.‘John Letcher, 4 William O. Goode, JO.-'Zedekiak Kidwell, 5 "Thomas 8. Bocock 11. John S. Carlisle, 6." Paulus Powell, 12. "Henry A. Edmundson, 13." Fayette McMullen. NORTH CAROLINA. L Robert T. Paine. 5. Edward G. Reade, 2. "Thomas Ruffin, 6.*Richard C.Puryear, 3. Warren Winslow. 7." Burton Crake. 4. L. O’B. Branch. B." Thomas L. Clrngnum. SOUTH CAROLINA. 1. John McQueen. 4." Preston S. Brooks. 2." William Aiken, s.Mames L. Orr, B." Lawrence MKdtt, 6." William W. Boyce. OEOROIA. 1.-JamesL. Seward, 5. John H. Lumpkin. 2. Martin J. Crewford. 6. Howell Cobh, 3. Robert P. Trippe. 7. Nathaniel G. Foster 4. Hiram Warner. 8 ‘AlexanderH.Stephens. ALABAMA. 1. Perct Walker, 4.*Geo%e 8. Houston, 2. Eli Shorter, s,‘Wh.liam R. Smith. 3.-. lames F. Dowdell. 6.-W. K W. Cobb. 7.-Bamptou W. Harris mibbirsippi. 1.-Daniel 11. Wright. 3.• William Barksdale. 2 -H 8. Bennett, 4. WmA. Lake. 6 *John A. Quitman LOUISIANA. 1. Georoe Eustis Jr., 3. ThomaxGreenDavidson 2. Mile? Taylor, 4. John M Sandlge OHIO. 1. Timothy C bay. 11. V. B. IL.rtcm. 2.*John Stott Hurnso^. 12. S/tmuel Gfiltoicay. Campbel. 13. John Shtmton. Matthias 11 Nichols. 14. Philemon Bliss. 6. Richard Mott, Ib.oWilUam R. Nipy, C. Jonas R. Brnrii, \B.oßdtoard BiU, 1 .*Aaron llartan, 17. Charles J. Alhright, 8. Benjamin Btaro’^ 18. Benjamin F. Leiter. 9. Cooper K. Watson, 19 *Edward Wade, 10 Oscar F Moore, HL 9 Joshwi R. Giddines, 23 9 John A Bingham. KBXTUCST. _ i I. Henry C. Burnsit 5. Joshua H. Jewett 2. JOHN P. CamfMM.. 6 ‘John M. KI Hott. 9. William L. Under-7 Humphrey Marshall wood. 8 Alex’rK Marshall. I 4, Ai BERT G. Talbott. 9. •LnANvm M. Cox. 10. Samuel F Swope. TENNESSEE. 1. AlbertG. Watkins. 0. ‘George W Jonre 2. William B. Sneed 7 John V Wright 3. .Smnuel A. Smith 8. ‘Felix K Zollichv 4. John H. Savage. per o ‘t UARLKS RKADV 9. •EMEIUM'N KtHKRIDUE. 10. Thomas Rivers. INDIANA. 1. ‘Smith Miller iMcien Barbou. 2. ’William 11. English 7. Harvey D. Scott. I 3. George 11. Dunn. 8. ‘Daniel Mate. I 4. DavU P. HoUoway. 11. Schuyler Coffas. 3. William Turnback. 10. Samur l Brenton. 11. Jenn U. Pettit. ILLINOIS. I I. ‘Ktihu B. Washburns. b ‘Wm. A. Richardson i 2. James ll Woodworth. 6. Thomae L. Harris. I 3. •Jesse O. Norton. 7’Jsmes CAHen I 4. •James Knox. 8. Lyman TrrHnt.HU. 9. Samuel 8 Marshall MISSOURI. 1. Luther M Rennet 4. ‘Mordecai Oliver 2. Gilchrist Porter. 5. ‘John G. Miller 3. ‘James J landley 6. ‘John 8. Phelps 7. ‘Samuel Caruthers. ARKANSAS. 1. ‘Alfred B. Greenwood. 2. Albert Rust MICHIGAN. 1. William .4. Howardr 8. David S. WiMridg.. j 2. Henry Waldron. 4. George W. Peek. FLORIDA. 1. ‘AnguMusß. Maxwell TEXAS. I. L D. Evans 2. ‘Peter H Bell lOWA. 1. Augustus Hall. 2. James Tiu ringtoo. WISCONSIN. 1. -Daniel Wells Jr. 2. C. C. MuMhoi-'. 8. Charles Billinghurst. CALIFORNIA. 1. J. W. Denver. 2. Philip T. Herbert. TERRITORIAL DELEGATES. [Having the right to speak, but not to vote.) Minnesota—’Henry M. Rice. Oregon—‘Joseph Lane. New Mexico—‘Jose Manuel Gallezo- Utah—‘John M BernMsel. Washington—‘Anderson. Kanzaz— -Indrew H. Reeder, disputed by ‘John W Whitfield. Nebraska— lit P. Beuneit. disputed by B. B. Chapman SUMMARY Total number of the House without the terri torial delegates 231, of which 118 is a majority. Administration democrats 77, opposition 157, of whom 117 (or just one-half the House) are Re publicans (or supposed to lie good for the admis sion of Reeder as delegate from Kanzas, and of Kanzas itself with its people’s free state govern ment), and 10 Americans (or doubtfhl for Reeder and Kanzas). Of the 77 administration democrats, 23 arc from free states, and 5-1 from slave. All the 117 Republicans are from free states. Of the 10 classed as Americans, but 1 are from free states, and 36 from slave states. The total representa tion of the free states is 14-1, of the slave 90. This we believe is as faithful a representation of the division of parties in Congress as can be made in advance. The 14 Republicans in the Senate are ‘fixed facts,’ and their ranks may be swollen by Hamlin of Maine, and on some votes by several other of the northern administration democrats. So in the House, there are a few of the 23 northern administration democrats whom the questions of the session may throw into the ranks of the Republicans, while on the other hand we fear that the fresh temptations which some men feci towards the national -Ameri can party on a basis conciliatory to the slave holding interest, are destined to swell the four northern representatives of southern American ism at the expense of the Jl7 classed Republi cans. At the best, k will be seen that while the pro slavery party of the country retains the Senate indisputably, it has not yet-clearly lost the House; but indeed, with the patronage of the administra tion and the seductions of so called national Amer icanism combined in its favor, lias still the best chance to control its decisive votes. Massachusetts Teachers’ Association. The tenth annual meeting of the Massachusetts teachers’ association was held at Lowell, Mon d and Tuesday-, aud fully attended. The annual report recommended the appointment of a general superintendent of district schools in each town and city, also the appointment of boards of exam iners, selected from the most prominent teachers, whose duty it shall be to examine all candidates for the profession in the state. Ex-governor Boutwell, secretary of the board of education, give an admirable address, which was received with unmingled pleasure as an indication of the faithful and earnest spirit with which he enters upon his new duties. A debate on the advantages of electing school committees for a longer term than one year, was participated in by Mr Wells of Westfield, Mr Hammond, lately of Monson, fa ther Greenleaf of Bradford, and others. Da’niel B. Hagar of Roxbury, wm elected president for the present year, and among the vice presidents are, E. B. Strong of Springfield, J. B. Holland of Monson, C. B. Metcalf of Worcester. New Tests. —Some idea of the way in which tilings are to be fixed when Americans rule America,” may be inferred from a recent ver. milion edict, that no man must be voted for by know nothings who advertises in, reads, pays for or in any way patronizes an anti-know nothing paper. Carrying out this liberal idea, the faithful ■will presently be forbidden to bny their pork and cabbage of any man who cannot give the grip and password of the order. There are suspicions that a few of the city nominees are not sound on ‘this goose,’ and they will probably be questioned by letter. They.must stand up to the rack, fodder or no fodder.” £J^* Mayor Smith of Boston, whose two years’ administration is distinguished, chiefly, for his volunteer and disgraceful assistance in the rendi tion of Burns, and the introduction of squirrels on Boston common, has finally been thrown over board by his own party, and Dr Nathaniel B. Shurtieff, a much better man every way, nomi nated to succeed him. The mayor died hard, as it required five ballotings, in one of which his friends were accused of cheating, to dispose of him. Dr Shurtleft’is an old know something, and was Gov Gardner’s candidate to boot. Representative Elections.—There were several elections for representatives, on Mon day, in places where by a tie vote choice was defeated at the regular election. In Ware, Samuel H. Phelps, American, was chosen by ?29 votes to 223 for Lewis. Demond, republican. In Boston, where was one vacancy, Charles C. Conley, American, was elected by 335 plurality over Thomns Nickerson, whig, in a total vote of only 3,337. At Stockbridge, a union of Americans and He publicans elected a republican k. n. over the dem ocratic candidate. XP" The excitement in relation to Mr Park con tinues very great in Platte county, Mo. When the law ami order meeting was held at Weston, Stringfellow appeared with a band of ruffians from Platte city and attempted to break up the meeting, but did not succeed. Gov Shannon’s association with these fellows is a very nice thing for the reputation of the administration. A Candid Witness.—A person who was re cently called in court for the purpose of proving the correctness of a doctor’s bill, was asked by the lawyer whether ‘the doctor did not make several visits after the patient was out of danger f’ No,’ replied the witness; I considered the pa tient in danryr as long as the doctor continued bis visiwl’ REPUBLICAN: I The Know NolW«« Party oxd Ihe Free dom Movement, (From ihe National. Washington, Kr».) It is time to toll the truth, and moot its rcspon slbilitio. When the know nothing convention at Philndclphln divided, wo did not anticipate the extinction of the oraer tn the free states. We supposed that in states where the anti-slavery sentiment was dominant, the councils would eon cede something to It for the snkc of making it tribu tary to their power; nnd in states where It was not, they would remain In full association with the national order, so that the result would be. schism, but notextinetion. In fact wo uprehended that it would be more difficult than ever for anti slavery men to deal with it. Were wc right? What has been the history of the order In the free states, from the time of the national schism It may all be summed up in one sentence—««- intermitting effort to perpetuate itself, either by making the anti-slavery sentimert tributary, or by break ing it eiou'ti. I llis his been its history, and in full view of the fact, how any real friend of freedom coul.l for a moment tolerate it, or hesitate to denounce it us the great obstacle to an effective anti-slavery union, passes our comprehension. Seehowatterly it has paralyzed the anti-Nebras kn movement in Indiana and New Jersey, and the almost inextricable embarrassments in which it has Involved it in Pennsylvania! Sec how un certain it renders the state of things in Iowa! And what a spectacle it has made of the great states of New York and Massachusetts! Had the anti-Nebraska movement,in other words, the aati slaverymovcment, been let alone, lowa, Indiana, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Massa chusetts, would have been republir-an, in fact nnd in name, and Shore could have been no doubt as to their position in 1856. Can any one now tell us where they will then stand? Your union-sav ing know nbthingism has conquered some of them, given the rest to Nebraska democracy, ar rayed them all, nominally, against the republican partv, the only’ party organized to represent and carry out the sentiment of freedom, in opposition to the policy of slavery-propagandbm. Aye— know nothingism lias divided and continues to divide the free states, and, unless its power be broken before next November, it will lay them prostrate again at the feet of the slave power. How can any anti-slavery man in Massachu setts look at the following, and not blush for the countenance lie may have given to an organiza tion, which this year has just as effectually placed Massachusetts against the great freedom move ment, as the whig and democratic parties used to do? [Here the Era presents, in detail, the statistics of our recent election.—which we omit.) Doour readers recollect’the explanation as signed last year, by our anti-slavery friends, for the astounding re volution in Massachusetts? "Oh, it was a frolic. The masses have M'»t sick of theold parties, and were determined to have a good time of it. Know nothingism they did not believe in, but they saw it could be turned to account in braining the old parties, and so they used it. It was merely a temporary excitement. They meant nothing more by it. Trast them—everything will come out right.’ Massachusetts next year will be on the republican platform,” &c. When, doubting all this, wc undertook to re monstrate, to discuss the doctrines of the new or der, to protest against its policy, assuming that tlie masses who supported it, really were misled, we were sneered at by some, denounced by others, kindly admonished by others that we were duly beating the air, for “nobody believed in it.” And so, instead of meeting the mischiev ous delusion face to face, grappling with it, labor ing to rescue the people from its grasp, they were silent, let it have free course, and the result to-day is— the triumph of Oardnerism, over repubKeanism, by fifteen thousand votes It is disagreeable to dwell upon these things, but shall we not learn wisdom by the things that we have suffered? Had the anti-slavery men of Massachusetts, last year, when the republican party was organized, adhered to their own honest, long-tried, open policy, of laboring for a noble end by right means, they would this year have carried tlie state. How long before men will learn that temporary success, obtained at the expense of sound principle, is ultimate loss —that honesty, whatever it may cost now, always pays in the long run. Wc have spoken plainly of tlie Fast—let us speak hopefully of tjie Future. Some of-our friends are disappointed. We are encouraged. We knew that tlie hour must come for the elimin ation of the anti-slavery sentiment from other or ganizations, and its embodiment in an independ ent form—that the friends of freedom could never he rallied and united on a whig, democratic, or know nothing platform. And we knew that, whenever this independent existence and action were resolved upon, there would be, in many cases, temporary reverses, attendant upon the transition state. In Ohio, the process in partwas accompishcd last year. A republican organiza tion, with the know nothing element subordinate and tributary,carried the state. This year, Ithad to tinisli what it had begun—to maintain its in dependence against know nothingism, which, fail ing to make it subordinate, organized a faction against it. We apprehended, even here, tempor ary defeat, but standing on the vantage ground gained last year, it triumphed. In Massachusetts, the republican organization last fall was a failure —the whole work of eUmination and separate or ganization was thrown upon this year. In New Yffrk, a similar state of things existed. Last year, the aniNebraska movement, availing itself of tlie machinery of the whig organization, and uniting the active anti-Nebraska clement of the state, secured the ascendency; but the republican movement was a failure. This year, that ma chinery was given up, nnd the work of organizing a republican party was fairly commenced. It is easy to see what difficulties must be encountered by an organization just formed, necessarily in complete, of materials somewhat incongruous, mid not yet perfectly fused, without traditional associations, without a Past, contending not only against an old party, strengthened by pa tronage, but against a secret order of vast pow er, with a machinery of action almost unequaled. Looking at tlie results in both states under this aspect, they are full of encouragement. The ad ministration party, in both states, isoverwhelmed —it is no longer a party, but a faction. The know nothing party in Massachusetts is no longer in the majority—Gardner’s plurality being but fifteen thousand. Last year, the majority in his favor was thirty thousand—this year, a larger vote be ing cast, the actual majority against him is about thirty-three thousand. Uist year, the legislature in both branches was nearly a unit for know noth ingism—tills year, the anti-know nothings have a majority of the House, and a respectable represen tation in the Senate. In New York, the know nothings have probably carried their state ticket by a small plurality, ranging from five to ten thousand, but in both branches of the legislature the plurality is against them. In both states, the straight-out whigs are out of sight; the adminis tration party is behind the republican, which stands foremost in the legislature of New York, and next to the know nothings in that of Massa chusetts. If, in its first effort, with an imperfect organization, too, tlie republican party has ac complished so much, making a drawn battle of it, even with its most powerful and best-disciplined antagonist, what may we not expect for it here after? Which lias tlie more vitality, love of free dom, or hatred of foreigners? Which rests on the truer, nobler, more enduring principles, re publicanism or know nothingism The one must decrease, the other increase. In a few weeks, Congress will be in session.— No miserable question in relation to foreigners will occupy its time. Every one knows that the stern issues growing out of the conflict between freedom and slavery will engross its attention The people will be aroused by itw discussions— they will be called upon to take sides for or against slavery. Republicanism and slavety propagandism, not nativism and forcignism, will be the watch-words. Let republicans be true io their own cause —thrust aside all other issues— openly denounce whatever doctrine or policy or party may conflict with their principles—organ ize, hold meetings, circulate documents, and la bor to extricate the anti-slavery men yet strug gling in the toils of know nothingism. From the time when the banner of distinct, independent action at the ballot box, in favor of freedom, was flung to the breeze in 1840, that policy has been steadily gaining ground, until at last its suppor ters now constitute one of the great parties of the Union, and are preparing to contest the presiden cy in 1856. They may fail this time, but again we repeat, their ultimate triumph is inevitable. During a severe gale at Hudson on Satur day morning the spire of The new Episcopal church, which was two hundred feet high, was blown down. In its descent it cut a frame dwell ing house in twain as neatly as the carpenters could have done it. Had the accident occurred ten minutes before, several persons would have inevitably been crushed to death, as the steeple fell in such a manner that the beds they had just vacated were crashed to atoms. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1555 Political. John Calhoun, Mr I'lerce’s surveyor general In Kanzas Md Nebraska, attended the law und or der" alias pro-slaverj- and Missouri convention in Kanzas, mid attacked the free state convention ns ‘some two dozen disorganizers and traitors,’— flm sollers mid abolitionists. If Mr Pierce mid his party at Washington will only take the same position towards Gov Reeder and the people's movement In Kamas, In Congress this winter, that his office-holders mid representatives in Knn zm mid Missouri have established, and stick to it, the republican party will elect the president of these United States next year, mid that president will be Andrew H. Reeder. Stick a pin there! William A. Lake, the single American chosen to Congress in Mississippi, defeated a democrat who voted for the repeal of tlie Missouri conipromisq, while lie himself had the boldness to declare his opposition to that repeal. This is a bright and shining light in the southern flrmmncnt. Usual ly, every man who failed to come square up to the Douglas standard of pro-slnvcrylsm, has been slaughtered by the generous chivalry, us witness Cullom of Tennessee nnd Hunt of Louisiana, who have fallen in old whig districts for voting against the Nebraska bill. John Gardner is chosen president, mid 'William 8. Damrell, member of Congress, one of the vice-presidents of the republican chib in Ded hmn.—Westfleld is about organizing a republi can chib, mid establishing a republican reading room. The motto over there is ‘don’t give up tlie ship.’—Horace Greeley says he shall spend the winter at Washington fighting for freedom for Kanzas. —The know nothings in Buffalo have for mally Vrokun ground for Millard Fillmore for the presidency in l&xi.- tn an article in the Washing ton Union, referring to the qualifications of can didates for the presidency, tlie names of R. M. T. Hunter and Henry A. Wise of Virginia, James Buchanan and George M. Dallas of Pennsylvania, Gen Cass and President Pierce are mentioned. Neither Gov Marcy nor Senator Dickinson of New Yorii, Senator Douglas of Illinois, nor Secretary Davis, are alluded to. Vespasian Ellis lias resumed charge of tlie American organ at Washington, and wants to be printer on the part of the House. Hence he talks turkey to northern know nothings. He says tlie northern councils have all repudiated the tw’elfth article of the Philadelphia platform, but thev will be still treated as brother know noth ing's in order to keep the party united. Wonder ful condescension 1 There are some men in Con gress, who remember this Ellis at Philadelphia, and will pay him their respects at Washington this winter. There was a severe struggle in Hartford, on Monday, in the election of town officers, and 2300 votes were polled. The strife was between the Americans and temperance men on tlie one hand and the democrats und ‘liberal whigs’ on the oth er hand. Neither party wop a full triumph, but the hitter elected seven of their candidates to the former five. The Times is in cxtacies, and the Courant droops. New Haven did better than Hartford in its town election on Tuesday. Over 3500 votes were cast, and the American und temperance ticket was carried by 406 majority. Town clerk, select men, &c., were chosen. It was the most exciting local election ever known in New Haven. Bridge port was also carried by the Americans and tem perance party. A large meeting was held in Faneuil Hull, Bos ton, on Tuesday evening, of the friends of the citizens’ union ticket for city officers in that city. An American mass meeting was held at Louis ville, Ky., Tuesday morning, attended by many returning members of the Cincinnati convention. Resolutions were adopted, for the union of the states, the right of private judgment in religion (to all but Catholics,) against a union of church and state, for more stringent naturalization laws, in endorsement of tlie entire Philadelphia plat form and of the Louisville mob, which they say was wholly the fault of foreigners. Tlie national American council have issued an order for a national convention to nominate pres ident and vice president, at Philadelphia, Feb. 22d, to be composed of delegates from .subordi nate councils, one from each congressional district and two at large from each state. The national council will meet at Philadelphia, the 18th, to fix things in advance for the convention. The election in Nebraska is still in doubt, but the returns indicate the election of Bennett, re publican, as delegate to Congress. From Waahingtou* Caleb Cushing’s recent opinion did not touch the Mexican drafts, as reported, but the boun dary line between the United States and Mexico, which he considers established by the concur rence of the Mexican commissioner, notwith standing the previous abdication of Santa Ana. The despatches from Mr Buchanan by the last steamer were before the cabinet on Monday. It is understood the representations of our govern ment regarding the alleged violation of the neu trality laws by Mr Crampton, have not been met in that straightforward manner our government had a right to expect. Mr Buchanan says the professions of friendship by the British cabinet are more profuse than heretofore, and expresses the opinion that procrastination has been resorted to in the. hope that something might turn up to relieve the British government from its dilemma. Mr Crampton is not to be re-called- Associate Justice Dunlop is to succeed Judge Crunch, deceased, in the U. S. circuit court of the District of Columbia. More than fifty members of Congress had ar rived at Washington, Wednesday night. The republicans and fusiouists have already consulted and arc ready to go into caucus with all the op position members for the nomination of officers, irrespective of distracting political issues. The anti-slavery Americans will positively refuse to meet their non-intervention brethren in caucus, as a distinctive American party, while several democrats threaten that if in the democratic cau cus the support of the Kansas-Nebraska bill shall be insisted on as a test of orthodoxy, they will withdraw. Scan. Mag. in Athens.—We mentioned the other day that a Boston lawyer had been treated to the luxury of a cowhiding, in requital for the luxury of billing and cooing with another man s wife. The cowbided was Josiah Porter, and the dispensers Edward O. Coburn and Frank Dalton. The case has got into the courts, Coburn and Dal ton having been complained of, examined and held for trial for the assault. Mr Porter was the principal witness against the defendants on the preliminary examination It would seem that the defendants are both the husbands of pretty wives, who are in the habit of relieving the dullness of matrimonial life by occasional flirtations. Mrs Coburn got up a flirtation with Mr Porter, while her sister, Mrs Dalton got up another with his friend, Mr Wm Sumner of Milton, a young gen tleman whose chin is yet comparatively innocent of beard. The four met frequently by appoint ment at Vinton’s, a fashionable eating house for both sexes, met frequently by accident in the omnibuses, and on one occasion had a private carriage ride all by themselves. Mr Porter hav ing received a written invitation from Mrs Co bum to call upon her at her house at a particular hour, happened to be an hour too late, the conse quence of which was that he had the misfortune to meet Coburn, Dalton and punishment as well as the lady. It is said that the note of Mrs Co burn was dictated by her husband as an expe dient for getting the anftrous lawyer into his power. One day last week us Mr Sumner, the favorite of Mrs Dalton, was sipping his tea at one of the Boston refectories, he was accosted by two gen tlemen, strangers to him, who stated that Mrs Dalton was desirous of seeing him, and that they had a carriage at the door to take him to her house. He at first declined the invitation, but was finally persuaded to accompany them. These gentlemen were Cobnm and Dalton. They took Mr Sumner to their house, where after introduc ing him to their ladies, they inflicted upon him a more cruel and brutal chastisement than they had previously inflicted upon Mr Porter. Mr Sumner, who is a cousin to Senator Sumner, has also ap pealed to the law for redress. The latest report is that somebody has turned the tables upon Mr Cobum, and given him a taste of the same fare which lie had assisted to deal ont to Messrs Por ter and Sumner. The ladies who have borne so questionable a part in these transactions are daughters of John Gove, a gentleman of wealth and respectability. Their husbands are represent ed as mere adventurers, who married them for their money, and who knew so much of them before their marriage as to cut off all claim to public sympathy on account of anything that has transpired since. Important prom Greece. The king of Greece has changed his ministry I It is a remark able fact, and one of almost equal importance to Europe, that on the same day he also changed his —shirt. Pustrh. Mr Thackeray in Nrw York. Diverse opinions seem to be entertained in- o the success of Mr 'nmckeray’s lectures on tin Four Georges. Not us to their pecuniary sncce- for that has been Incontcstablv great, the nndl ences having beemery largo, and of tlie l lghest roapectablllly, but ns to their literary merit, and their power to interest. A majority of voices, ei ther from innbllity to appreciate, or for some oth er cause, seem inclined to pronounce the effort u tailure. A correspondent of tho Boston Traveler, writing from New York, holds the following lan guage Mr Tlmckeruy is milking a capital thiui ol it, pecuniarily, by the delivery of his lecture on the Four Georges of England. He dellvcren the course once In this city nt three hundred dol lars a lecture, and lias since delivered the same lectures on the sumo terms, I believe, at Brook lyn And illiamsburg; and he is now to repeat them hero. In point of literary merit, there is no thing remarkable about these lectures. They are simply a re-hash—and a poor re-hush at that—ol what has been written about the times and tin men that fomi tlfe subject of Ids discourse. S far from a comprehensive delineation of English History and English life during the reigns of the four first sovereigns of the House of Brunswick. Mr Thaekery gives us an occasional eloquent pas sage, a good deal of stale court gossip, many thrice told tales about the men wiio left their mark upon the period, and some very unfair estimate of character—alt mingled together, so as to form a not unpalatable but still not very nourishing nor even u piquant report.” Per contra: A writer in tlie New York Time says that Mr Thackeray’s lectures are eminently successful, though we heard one president of a college say that they were not prepared with suf ficient dignity, though another learned gentleman remarked that he should not go to tlie lecture- of the Georges, as he doubted if Thackeray could handle tho subject better than Hume, and, for his part, he was satisfied with Hume; though a ven charming lady who is beautiful enough to saj anything, says they arc vulgar; thongh a doctor of divinity in the Evangelist thinks they are pro fane, and tlie Courier and Enquirer says that ani one else might have done quite as well, if not bet ter. But tlie lectures are failures of course, to those who expected that Mr Thackeray would be as dull as Hallam, as pions as Dr Cox, and as dig nified and prosy as any other doctor. But those who knew what Thackeray was, could hope for nothing better, and have no right to find fanli with him for being like himself; ho does not pro fess to be a philosophical dissector of history, but a sketcher of manners, in fact a gossiper abont history; and this lie does in his own peculiar way. brilliant, sarcastic, humorous, pathetic, broail. tender, soft, waggish, and solemn by turns. Hi delineations of the Four Georges arc the best ths: have ever been given to tho world, and Ms epi sodical touches of the churchmen, poets, orator-, quacks, faineants, beaux, philosophers, artist”, statesmen, and heroes who floated along the tide of time witli the main personages of his theme. make his lectures the most entertaining and gos sipy that were ever delivered. They occupy abot:: an hour and a half in their delivery, and the audi ence disperse, wishing they had been longer." ItZ" Next week our people will have an oppor tunity to test these diverse criticisms. Thack eray opens tlie Institute season on Wednesday night. It will.be his first appearance, on this visit and with his new lectures, bcfori? a country in distinction from a metropolitan audience. There is some curiosity with his friends m how he ‘takes in the rural districts. From California—lndian Hostilities. The steamer Star of the West, from San Jmn arrived at New York, Wednesday afternoon, with California news to the sth. The isthmus is free from cholera. In California Indian ravages were growing serious. From Puget Sound to Shasta Butte the savages had made a simultane ous attack upon the whites and massacred a large number. Volunteers were turning out in al! direction, and the U. S. troops under Major Fitzgerald, had turned out in pursuit. Nearly all the tribes north of the Columbia river have confederated and sworn to exterminate the Amer icans. A band of 1500 attacked a small force oi U. S. troops at Puget Sound under Major Heller and forced them to retreat. The latter had bee: re-enforced by nine companies of volunteers, call ed out by governor Curry and supplied with am munition by the sloop-of-war Decatur and cutter Jefferson Davis, and was about to assume th, offensive. At San Francisco, a still in the distillery o: Barnett Ashfield exploded, maiming and scald ing a dozen men and setting tire to the premises. which were entirely destroyed.—A severe gal occurred nt San Francisco, Oct. 30:h, doing dam age to the Idel'S and small eraft in the harbor. Walker’s new government in Nicaragua goes on swimmingly. A duty of 20 per cent is levied on all imports, to pay expenses, and Parker IL French bags the cash. Gen Carral who was pul licly shot, was tried by a court martial mostly composed of Americans.’ The Canse of the War Breeze. Tlie New York chamber of commerce held special meeting Tuesday, and received the repor of the committee on the seizure of the bark Mau ry. The report states that there was nothing sut picious about the vessel; that the armament wa not unusual; that the action of tlie British con sul and minister was tiie result of credulity ami misapprehension, and that there is not the slight est foundation for tlie report that there are other vessels fitting out as Russian privateers in Ameri can ports. Resolutions were adopted in accord ance with the report, and declaring that no propel amends or apology had been made to the owner of tho bark Maury nor to the. merchants of New- York and the country’, so falsely and infamously assailed. The whole affair, which has caused s< much apprehension in England, originated in i hoax by a waggisli officer of the Maury upon ai over suspicious police officer. Lute from Mexico. We have news from the city of Mexico to the 18th. Alvurez entered the city witli 5000 men and was quietly received. The garrison had evac uated the city. The seat of government is to be permanently removed to Boleno de Hidalgo. Th. best feeling prevails between Alvarez and Vid atirri. A Touching Incident.—A little girl, in a iam ily of my acquaintance, a lovely and preciou child, lost her mother at an age too early to fix -the loved features in her remembrances. She was as frail as beautiful, and as the bud of her heart unfolded, it seemed as if won by that mother prayers to turn instinctively heavenward The sweet, conscientious, prayei-loving child was the idol of the bereaved family. She would lit upon tlie Jap of the friend who took a mother’- care of her, and, winding one wasted arm about her neck, would say: ‘Now tell me about mam ma.’ And when the oft-told tale had been re peated, would softly ask, ‘Take me into the par lor, I want to see niy mamma.’ The request wa ne ver ref used; and tho affectionate child wouk lie for hours, contentedly gazing on her mother'- portrait. But ‘Pale and wan she grew, und weakly- Bearing all her pain so meekly, That to them she still giew dearer, As the trial hour drew nearer.’ That hour came at last, and the weeping ueigt bors assembled to see the little one die. The dew of dcatli was already on the flower us its lifc-suu was going down. The little chest heaved faintly —spasmodically. ‘Do you know me, darling?’sobbed close inher ear the voice that was dearest; but it awoke no answer. All at once a brightness, as if from the upper world,burst over tlie child’s colorless countenance The eyelids flashed open, the lips parted, the wan cuddling hands flew up, in the little one’s last impulsive effort, as she looked piercing into the far above. ‘Mother,’ she cried, with, surprise and transport in her tone—and passed with that breath into her mother’s bosom. Said it distinguished divine, who stood by that bed of joyous, ileatli: ‘lf I had never believed in the ministration of departed ones before, 1 could not doubt it now! ‘Peace I leave with you,’ said the wisest Spirit that ever passed from earth to lien ven. Let us be at peace, amid the spirit mysteries and question ings on which His eye shall soon shed the light oi eternity. Niition.il Jiro. ISirROVKMBNT IN Buckwkeat Floub.—To every throe bushels of buckwheat, add one of good heavy oats, grind them together as if then were only buckwheat—thus will you always have cakes light and always brown, to say nothing of the. greater digestibility, and iho lightening ol spirits, which arc equally certain. He who feed on buckwheat may lie glum and lethargic, while he on the oatmeal will have exhilaration of bra and contentment of spirit

Page 5

This page's text is still being fetched. See the page, or reload in a moment.

Page 6

6 01k Shpttbluan. REL.IGIOUB INTBtUenrCB. Rev J. H. M. Leland has been dismissed bj ad vice of conncll, from the Congregational church in Huntington, to assume the pastorate of the church in Thorndike. —Ret D. H. Bradford of Hubbardston, has accepted a call from the Con gregational church of Ray moud, N. H.—Rev C. C. Coggswell has been installed over the Cougre rational church of New Boston, N. IL—Rev A. E. P. IVrkins of I’hillipstou accept- tlic cal! of the Congregational church at Ware, with a salary of sl,ooo.—The Congregationalists at Montague have enlarged and improved their church so ma terially that they think it best to have it re-dedi cated.—Rev S. H. Amsdcu of Savoy, accepts the call of the Baptist church tit Salisbury, N. II. Andrew N. Adams, late of Cambridge divinity school, has been ordained over the Unitarian church at Needham—Kev Mr Goodhue has been I totalled over the Baptist church at South Boston* —The new and elegant house of Christ’s church, Watertown, Ct., was consecrated by Bishop Wil liams on Thursday.—Kev F. A. Hodsdou has re signed the pastorate of the I'nhersalist society at New Haven, Ct.—The Uuiversalist church of Paw tucket, K. 1., has been enlarged and beautified.— Rev Frederick Hinckley has resigned the pas torate of the Unitarian church of Hartford, Ct. The society generously offer him *SOO in addition to his salary if he will remain till March.—A new Baptist church of 106 members has been organ ized at Providence, K. 1., with Rev W. C. Rich ards as pastor. —Rev Mr Schwedcs, mysteriously missing from New York city, is proclaimed in the Religious Intelligencer to be an impostor and knave; he is tall, stout, portly, with sandy hair, full face, sallow complexion and a sear under the left side of his chin. The community, especially the female portion, an- cautioned to beware of him. On Sunday, 18th. Kev W. G. Babcock, late of Lunenburg, was installed over the Unitarian church at Han ard, as successor to Rev Mr Gilbert. —Rev Mr Knapp, hating been obliged by ill health to resign the pastorate of the Unitarian church, Brookline, after eight years’ service, his parishioners made him a parting gift of S2BOO, as a token of their gratitude and esteem.—The first church in Salem, Unitarian, has added *3OO to the salary of the pastor. Rev Dr Briggs, making it SIBOO per year. St. John’s church at Providence, R. 1. lias done an aet of unusual justice mid given a good exam ple to other churches, by guarantying to Rev Dr Crocker who has sen ed them more than half a century, a liberal support for life, together with an annuity to his family.—Lewis Broadwell of Cincinnati, who died childless, left by will the re version of three-fourths of bis estate alter the death of his widow, to the first Uuiversalist church of that city, two-thirds of the income of which is to be devoted to a public high school md one-third tb Univcrsalist sunday I. The remaining fourth goes to the city for the benefit of the widows and orphans. The whole estate is $150,000.-The South Presbyterian church at New Haven, Ct., gave 81,818 to benevo lent objects during the third year of its existence, just ended.—The religious benevolent societies of England raised more than six millions of dollars last year, notwithstanding the burdens ofthe war upon the people. Statistics showing the decline of infant baptism in Massachusetts, are declared by the Congrcga- I tional papers to be melancholy, while the Bap tist editors pronounce them highly satisfactory as signs of progress in the right direction. The Episcopal papers arc also making these statistics quite prominent, but with a different purpose from either of the others, to show how prone those who remain out-ide of the true church arc to fall into looseness of ceremonial observance. The statements are obtained from reports of the churches, and they show a marked annual de crease in the number of iufant baptisms for the past ten years, until in 1831 there were hut 1903 such baptisms in the -165 churches of the state. In 125 of the churche.- there was not a single in fant baptized, in 65 others I each, in the remain ing 245 about 5 each -an av erage of between 3 and 4to each church in the state. The same neglect of the ordinance is supposed to prevail among theCongregationalist; mid Presbyterians of the other states, indicating either a gradual change of opinion oa the subject, or a remarkable neglect of duty in the members of the churches. The’ Orient, a spiritual paper at Waukegan, 111., states that more than half the adult popula tion of that city are spiritualists.—At a spiritual meeting in Boston ou Sunday last, Kev Mr Ho bart, a Baptist clergyman, declared himself a con vert to the new faith,and “everything about him had assumed a new significance.”—The medium Hume was at Florence, Italy, in October, turning English and American heads and tables and mak ing many’ converts to the new theory of the future state.—Adin C. Estabrook of South Read ing,Vt., gives an almost incredible account of the exposure of the murderers of his brother at Meu don, Mich., by spirit agency.—The spiritualists at the West, believe that there is a youth now living in the United States, who is destined to work wonders, being the embodiment of Wisdom, as Christ was of Love. He has not yet been discov ered.—A new and extensive poem is in the pres.-, dictated by the spirit of Shelley; dosing with these peculiar lines: And I animate. I sing nomore, Though still my heart with song runs o'er. Till Thou. O Lord, shalt bid me pour A sweeter song through mortal form, As Truth is, bright; as Love is, warm A rainbow o'er Time’s closing storm. We copied recently from some religious paper, the statement that there was but a single Episco pal church in Worcester county. We were last week reminded of Christ church, Ciappvflle, and now an Episcopal friend informs us of St John's church at Millville and St»!ohn’s church at Wilkinsonvillc, the latter established thirty years ago. We are thus assured of at least four Episcopal churches in Worcester county, and there may be several others. There is probably uo single county In the Union better supplied with churches than Worcester county, anil we arc glad to learn that Episcopacy is well and honor ably represented there. The missionary ship John Wiliiams, j ust arm ed at New York, brings the paiuful intelligence that on the island of Fate, oue of the South Sea islands, two native teachers and their wives had been barbarously murdered and eaten by the cannibals, —The Baptist missions in Burmali are meeting with great success. Large numbers have been baptized, often forty and fifty at a time; at one meeting there were a thousand converts present; in the region of Toungoo 3,000 are ask ing for baptism.—Lewis Tappan, treasurer of the American missionary association, makes an ap peal for increased means. The society now em ploys nearly two hundred missionary laborers and there is an opportunity to employ many more, but the means are wanting. The society is based on the principle that the .gospel should be free from all complicity with slavery.—The Methodists have in Kanzas and Nebraska 10 mission stations, 91 preaching places, 16 Sabbath schools, 826 members, of whom 669 are whites and 127 In dians. The New Orleans Creole says that it is ver. difficult to obtain able ministers of atiy denomi nation in that city; for some reason they will not stay, and there Is scarc.-ly one man of the first order of talent in any pulpit In the city; the pas tors there are very good men, but mere samples of mediocrity in theological learning, mere plod ders in pulpit delivery.”' New Orleans is as free as the average of southern cities, but her churches must be content with plodders until they recognize the freedom of the pulpit and al low an untrammelled gospel to lie preached.— Rev Dr Fuller of Baltimore, declines the vice presidency of the Baptist bible union, because he has no confidence in the scheme of anew transla tion.—The Unitarian society at Rochester, N. Y., having no pastor at present, the members take turns in reading sermons, and thus the exerctse of worship arc kept up.—Bishop Young of Utah recently preached a sermon from th is text, “From thia time forth fret not thy gizzard,” which he de clared was somewhere between the leds’ of the bible.—Lord Colburn speaking of the want of conscience in corporate bodies, said:

THE SPRINGFIELD WEEKLY REPUBLICAN: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1855 A deau and chapter shall I* Composed ot the j best men that ever lived; they shall be unexcel’- i tionablc Iu their Individual characters, but In their collective capacity they would divide murder among them." The follow lug clergy im u in the state tare over 70 years of age; Paysuu Williston of Lastliamp ton, 92; Hcnrv Lincoln of Nantucket, 90; Jacob Norton of Billerica. 91; Abid Abbot ol West Cambridge, 90; Daniel Dana of New bury port, 81: foaue Braman of Georgetown, *5; Samuel Dana of Marblehead, 77; James Kendall of Fly mouth, 86; Luther Wright of Woburn, 85; Thomas Rob bins of Rochester, 80; William Jenks of Boston. 77; Morrill Allen of Pembroke, 79; Daniel him bal of Nedham, 77;Churles Lowellot Cambridge, 73; Brown Emerson of Salem. 76: Asa Eaton ot Boston. 77; David I. Kimball of Ipswich, 73: Amos Clark of Sherburn, 76: Samuel Sewall ol Burlington, 70; Lyman Beecher of Boston, 82. At the new Catholic church inemmptun, R. 1., 350 persons received the sacrament on Sunday last.—The Catholic ehrgy of Newark, N. J., have denounced the Irish emigrant aid societies and will not allow Christian burial to their members. —The pope has written a letter to Ute Catholics of this couture, asking their contributions for it college nt Home to educate clergy men for the United States. Bishop Timon of ButiMo.N. Y., offers furtv davs’ absolution to all who shall con tribute one York shilling or more to the fund for building a new church. Spiritual favors were never cheaper than that, only aboui three mills per day for the largest liberty. The Mechanic AVta and Science. Recent Patents: Ransom Cook of Shelburne Falls, improvement in making boriug implements; Johu 11. Hathaway of Millbury, rotary engines; Charles 11. Johnson of Boston, argaud gas burn ers; Charles Riee of Boston, improved compound projectile; Charles T. Warren of Maiden, marble saw ing machine —a machine for the same purpose by W. C. Chipman of Sandwich, another by George W. Hubbard of Middletown, Ct., and still another by IV. B. Kimball of Peterbom, N. IL; James A. Woodbury of Winchester, improvement iu planing machines; H. N. Sherman of Birming ham, Ct., improvement in forming heads ou bed stead screws; Joseph Morse of Woonsocket, R.L, improvement in giving tension to the endless band of throstle frames; Eli Horton of Windsor Locks, Ct., lath chuck; Thaddeus Fowler of Wa terbury, Ct., improvement in separating pin-. The maebiue for sawing marble, invented by Mr Heald of this city, operates to a charm, it is exceedingly simple iu construction, consisting merely of arrangemeuts of saws on separate shafts, which may be set at any angle to eacli other, aud thus saw the opposite sides of a pyra midal block at the same time. We do nut know in w hat respect Mr Heald's invention differs from some half dozen others just patented for the same purpose, but we do not see how anything could be more simple or accomplish its work better. The fair of the American institute, which lias just closed at the crystal palace, New York, was quite successful, some $15,000 having been taken above expenses. The display was less extensive than usual, but quite creditable to American art and manufactures. Among the premiums award ed were the following: a gold medal to the na tional plate glass work- at Lenox, for rough plate glass: a silver medal to Smith A Cowles of Am herst, for au upholstery shaving machine and a felloe machine: a silver medal to the Hamilton woolen company at Southbridge, for best de Jaines: a gold medal to the Fall River works, for prints; a gold medal to the Fall River limn com pany, for linen, brown and bleached; a gold medal to the Russell Erwin manufacturing com pany at New Britain, Ct., for builders' hardware. More than 30,0 W models have accumulated in the patent office, nine tenths of which might us well be represented by drawings. The commis sioner will recommend a modification of the law that will dispense with this accumulation of models and save much expense to inventors. It ■will be proposed to dispense with models on ap plication for patents and require a deposit of 810, to be returned to the inventor if his application is rejected. This would increase the revenue of the department by some $20,000 and save more titan twice that amount to inventors. The project usu tunnel and snb-mariue railway between England and France, is no longer a mere dream of an enthusiastic progressive. A body of skillful engineers have made the necessary sur veys, w ith careful estimates of labor and expense, aud they pronounce the work quite feasible. The tunnel will be 21 miles in length, including a mile und u half ou each side, in order to give the neces sary gradual descent from the surface of the earth. The tunnel w ill at no point be within 37 yards of the bottom of the channel, so that no danger of breakage is apprehended. It will be laid with a double arch, the first of granite and impermeable cement, the second of thin plates of iron pierced with small holes, so that the slightest leakage will be instantly discovered. The entire cost is esti mated at twenty millions of dollars, aud it is be lieved that it w ill be a profitable investment. Cap italists in France and England are, at all events, seriously contemplating it. Niepece, the co-laborer of Daguerre, professes to hare found means to fix the colors iu the cam era aud thus produce an exact copy of nature, not only iu form but in color. He says, I be gun with reproducing in the camera obscura col ored engravings, then artificial, and lastly, dead nature, a doll dressed in stuffs of different colors, and always trimmed with gold and silver lace. I have obtained all the colors, and, what is more extraordinary' and curious, the gold and silver are depicted with their metallic luster, and rock crystal, porcelain. and alabaster are depicted with the luster natural to them.” An American da guerreotypist announced several years ago, that he had achieved the same triumph, but as his in vention has not yet been made public, it is pre sumed that it did nut answer his expectations. Niepece may have accomplished w'hat he an nounces. If so it is one of the most wonderful scientific triumphs of the present century, and brings the discovery of Daguerre to absolute per fection. We should like to see cv idence of the fact, of the possibility of which we have doubts. —A gentleman in the interior of France, has built uu amphibious steamboat, adapted to roaming on land and water. He navigated over the common roads to a port in the Mediterranean, w here the boat walked into the water and kept straight on without any change of its arrangements. It is described as beautiful in its form; the engine of a novel construction; and the pipes so arranged that thev can be used us tnasts. Would it not be worth the pains of some of our mechanics and steamboat builders to inform themselves concern ing it.—Dr Simpson of Edinburg, Scotland, states that the safety of the use of chloroform has been fully demonstrated in that city. For six years, few operations have been performed in the hospi tals or in private practise, without its use, and during that period but one death has occurred among the many thousands subjected to its influ ence, while in the same time, among the compar atively few operated upon without chloroform, three or four deaths have taken place, either dur ing or immediately after the surgical operation. This statement, from such a sourer', is of great value. The annual report of the fire marshal of Brook lyn, N. Y., contains important suggestions in re spect to fires that proceed from spontaneous com bustion. He thinks a larger number of fires arc from this cause than is generally suspected. He finds by experiment that cotton and oakum slightly saturated with vegetable oil, w ill take fire in the open air exposed to the sun in summer. Old rags slightly oiled will also take fire in the same way, but require longer time, and sawdust still longer. Lampblack partly mixed with oil is veiy liable to (spontaneous combustion. Fires often originate from lime, w hich is slacked by exposure to damp air. Many of the unexplained fires In manufacturing establisbtnenrs no doubt originate in the oiled waste which is allowed to collect. We recollect seeing a heap of factory sweepings burning quite briskly on the ice of the canal in mid winter, where it had taken fire spon taneously.—Builders are aware that wetting bricks I before laving them adds greatly to the strength I of a wall. The Scientific American considers a i wall 12 inches thick of wet-laid bricks equivalent to one 16 Inches thick where the bricks are put I up dry. So great a difference more than rewards the extra labor. The reason given is, that bricks laid drv at once absorb the moisture of the mor tar unit leave it Incoherent, while if the bricks are laid wet the mortar dries slowly with the bricks and has time to absorb sufficient carltunic mid from the atmosphere to hanten it and unite It perfectly with the surface of the bricks.—The t rench electro chemical bath, for the extraction of minerals from the system, has been introduced in Boston and the doctors are astonished by its results. One men was put into the tub the other dav.nnd so much quicksilver camo out of him that one tumbler of the water deposited enough for a looking glass. This discovery will prove u fortune to some men, if native brass can be ex tracted by the process; au electro-chemical bath ing tub will Ik- ns good to them us a gold idlnc, for that period of recordeil time which they have a right to till in this sphere.

rhe West Rock l.biud and l»nv enporl. I Correspondence of the Republican Rock Isi.axo,lllinois, October 29. Roek Island City is beautifully situated on the south bank of the Mississippi, as the river runs nearly west here, and contains now about 8,000 inhabitants. It is niill s v t of Chicago, and connected therewith by the Chicago and Rock Island railroad, and 359 miles from St Louis by river mitigation. It is the county seat of Roek Island county. Lieut Col Lawrence with 800 soldiers landed ou Rock Island, an island here containing about 800 acres, May, 1816, and built Fort Armstrong, named in honor of John Arm strong, secretary of war. Col L. was accompani ed by George Davenport, who built the first house. The first American ladies, Mrs Daven port aud Mrs Lewis, that ascended the river to this place arrived iu August. The first steamer arrived at Fort Armstrong in May,-1823, and w ent ns far up as Galena. This novel craft running against wind and current attracted crowds of. ‘na tive* Americans' to gaze and wonder at this strange 'animal.' Major Guines came in June, 1831, and ordered Black Hawk and his warriors to remove west of the Mississippi. A war ensued which resulted in dispersing the Indians in 1832. Fort Armstrong was evacuated in 1836; its ruins of to-day serve to remind the passer by of Indian wars and pio neer dangers and sufferings. The government granted George Davenport, 150 acres, where he built a house apd lived till murdered. Here were raised the first peach and pear of Rock Island, which being preserved may be seen by the curious at the house of B. Daven port, resident of the island. The Mississippi and Missouri railway, which is to connect witli the Chicago and Rock Island road, crosses this Island and the river to Davenport City, on the right bank of the river, opposite Rock Island City- The first house built on the main land was erected by Davenport and Farnham in 1829, near the “Big Spring.” a few rods from the splendid residence of Lemuel Andrews, who removed hither about 20 vears ago. When I first visited this place about 16 years ago, it was called btephenson. There were then but few families here and not more than one or two or so w here Davenport now is with a popula tion us about 8,006. The change is great. The population of both these cities is rapidly increas ing; and so is business. Rock Island City now contains many flue public buildings. In churches, benevolent societies, literary institutions, &e., it compares favorably with eastern cities. There are two daily and three w eekly papers published here. There arc many New Englanders here as in most of the western’cities and large towns. Joseph Knox, who stands at the head of the bar in the states, removed hither about 20 years ago from Hardwick. There are about a million dollars in vested in mercantile business, and twice this amount of goods sold annually. Banking, land office business, pork and flour transactions and lumber business are all brisk and increasing with the rapid growth of the town. The railroad bridge from Rock Island city to Davenport is completed from the former city to the island, and the road is graded across the island whence the bridge is building to the lat ter citv, and will be completed as soon as spring or before. Titis is a great work; and does it not demonstrate the practicability of bridging both the Detroit and the Hudson rivers? Then may it be said, when completed, that there is a contin uous l'ail from the Atlantic to the Pacific, where the Mississippi and Missouri road is to terminate wuen completed. Let capitalists east hasten the day, with the aid of government, when this grand enterprise shall be completed. The me tropolis of New England must look to the main e!Ance for securing western business and trade. Since writing you, I have attended the Morgan eountv cattle show and fair, held at Jacksonville. There I saw a most elegant display of fine Dur hams. There was a yearling bull here, raised iu Kentucky, now owned in Greene county, 111., that was judged to weigh 1,500 pounds. He took the first premium in his native state aud the sil ver cup. J. N. Brow nos Sangamon county and the Dunlaps of Morgan arc among the best breeders of Durham stock in the United States. But as I have neither time nor space to enlarge upon this subject, I will close by saying that cen tral Illinois Is the garden of the state. t. w. xVlolsne, lII*, and its Waler Power.* Correspondence of the Republican. Molise, Illinois, October 30, Moline, located on the south bank of the Mis. sissippi, is three miles ea;t of the city of Roek Island. The Chicago and Rock Island railroad passes directly through the village. It has now a population of about 2,000. It has a great water power. Its name from the French “Moulin” signifying a mill,” is indicatU e of its becoming ere long the city of mills. Rock Island is threq miles long. The w ater of the Mississippi may be used this whole distance both ou the Island and Moline shores, fur running mills. Thus are there six miles of water power, which at seme not very distant day is to be occu pied with mills and factories, showing the capaci ty of the Father of Waters for doing what so many of his lesser progeny are doing way down east.” Cotton can be shipped to Moline cheaper than to Boston, und the bread-stuffs being a western product, may uot the day soon dawn when cotton goods shall be manufactured cheaper in Moline, than in Lowell and Lawrence If the day shall dawn when the West Can manufacture cotton goods aud farm implements for less money than New England, what w ill become of the eastern states? Why move west to be sure, as they have been doing these many years I Yesterday was Sunday, and I spent the day here, and heard Kev A. B. Hitchcock, pastor of the Congregational church, who preached the first sermon of his order here alioiit 10 years ago. He is a Boanergean preacher, well calculated to interest an? arouse pioneer worshipers. Iu the afternoon, Rev M. K. Cross, late of South Deer field. and formerly settled at Thorndike, preached a good sermon. Mr C. has been sorely afflicted since he removed thither, having recently buried his wife iu the cemetery of Moline. He has a call at Tipton, lowa, located about half way between Muscatine and lowa City. Ho is going there to supply. The citizens are erecting here a very fine school house on a mound at the foot of the bluffs, which w ill cost about $10,600; a noble investment. To give your readers some idea of w hat is doing here, I will give the follow ing statistics: lumber sawed, per annum, 8,000 000 feet; lath 4,000,000, shin gles 4,500,000, brick made 2,500,000, plows 10 500, bedstead-, 11,000, pails 4,500 dozen, tubs 5,600 nests, chairs 25,000, flour barrels 20,000. Ware and Hardwick are well represented here; and so are Amherst and Belchertown. I met Sheriff Kingman of Amherst iu the cars between this vil lage and Geneseo, on hls way to lowa. t. w A Yocms ii. CoqißiTß..A friend asked u little child of six years old, which du you lie best, your cat or your doll?’ -The little girl thought some time before answering, and then w hispered In the ear of the questioner, I love my cat best, but please don’t tell my doll? Svsrioiuus Tailok to St spmcted Ccstoxlk. ‘Make yon a coat, sir?’ ‘Oh, yes, sir, with the greatest pleasure? Th'-re, just stand in that po sition please, and look right upon that sign while I take your measure? Sign reads Terms Cash? Mir Duan Ksycrlencrw In For- eign I‘nrto. Corrsofwattonee of the Republican UAITKH NKCONtI. Extract.- from his Journal. Priduy, Hept. 1 Uh, 1851k—For the test few day s, with a strong 8. 8. W. wind, we have been rush ing through the waves nt a tn mendous rate, fre quently 12 or 14 knots an hour, getting up such a mumeiiuim Indeed thnt we begin to fear we shall not be able to put on the brakes aud stop In time to keep from rumiiug down the small Island of Great Britain (a little accident which would exert an Important influence upon the course of Mr Browne’s future travels and also upon the issue of the war.) Hutmdiip, Sept. 15th. —Great Britain may consider herself sate for the present. We haven’t momentum enough to-day to run down ft fishing smack. In fact it Is a dead calm, utM very provoking too, so uear hind. Obtained soundings to-day for the first time in about eighty fathoms water. So there Is an eastern continent here at last, if we only go down deep enough for it. My first impressions of Europe are, I must confess, rather vague and indefinite, its splendors don’t strike me vet very forcibly. If the rest of It is like that portion which I have already seen (what was brought up on a deep sea lead) 1 think the soil must be poor. Wedncsdui/, Sept. VM. -l have been sick: sick at sea: and worse than all, sick in a calm at sea, with the ship pitching mid tossing at random, in stead of regularly. Woke the other night from my first sleep with quite a number of unpleasant sensations that I was already familiar with, be sides several new acquaintances. A rod-hot nee dle in each eye: sharp knives thrust through the temples: a boa constrictor squeezing my chest aud shoulders: the hugest kind of an elephant trampling ou the small of my back: legs broken on the wheel and stretched on the rack and burned in the tire all at ones: this can only give a faint idea of the disagreeables of that night. I felt enormously •large und heavy: my head n jierfect mountain; my limbs big trunks’ of trees; my body as large as’the Colossus at Rhodes and all made of lead. I had ever so many things to do which couldn’t possibly be done; impossible numbers to count, impossible burdens to lift, impossible mountains to climb and seas to cross. Every thing that can’t be done I felt obliged to do at once. I had to square the circle, t reel deep with a river running between, on which guy, sharp little steamers some 70 fret long und nhout 3 feet wide were plying, and then the acenerv in the distance most romantic and en ehftntlng. All the hills, trees, house*, fields und hedges tor miles wound are arranged with uu es pecial reference to the v lew from Flifton Hights: oven tlic flocks of sheep. I noticed, hud men and dugs employed to keep them hi picturesque atti tudes. Tried to throw a stone across theriverbe low. The first one fell short amongst a parcel of children placing on the bank; the next just miss ed one of the little steamers above mentioned which was crowded with people; and the thought about that time occurring to me tlmt this was a rather dangerous amusement, 1 desisted and pro ceeded to invest u couple of shillings in the pur chase of some polished specimens of the rock, which is iu part computed of petrified animals and vegetables, and becomes very brilliant when proper!v polished. Yours, &c. t Dixx Bhowse. Origin of Indian Corn. Longfellow’s new poem, entitled the ‘Song of Hiawatha,’ is u romance of Indian life, in which the poet Ims endeavored to embody sev oral of the wUa traditions, in regard to one of the aborigines, into ti eonncctednaiTative. Hiawatha is the name of a celebrated personage in Indian tradition.— Possessing miraculous endowments,he was sent to instruct tlic forest tribes in the arts of peace. His simple history presents several incidents that ap peal to the imaginntion. When the time had come for him to celebrate a solemn fast, prelimi nary to his mission as the benefactor of his peo ple, hels reurcrented as wrestling, for two success ive days, with Mondamin, a strange youth, who, while Hiawatha was laying exhausted on his couch of leaves and branches, gazing w ith half open eyelids on the gleaming of the water and the splendor of the sunset, approached‘through the purple twilight, dressed in garments of green and yellow, with soft and golden hair, and green plumes waving over his forehead.’ The legend is continued in the poet’s ow n lan guage Thrice they wrestled there together In the glory of Rio sunset, Till the darkness fell around them, fill the heron, the Shuh-shnh-gah, From her haunts among the fen-lands. Uttered her loud cry of famine, And Mondamin paused to listen. Tali and beautiful he stood there. In his garments green and yellow. To and fro his plumes above him Waved and nodded with his breathing. And the sweat of the encounter Stood like drops of dew upon him. And ho cried, ‘O Hiawatha! Bravely have you wrestled with me— Thrice'have wrestled stoutly with me, Aud the Master of Life, who sees us, He will give to you the triumph 1’ Then lie smiled and said: ‘To-morrow Is the last day of vour conflict, Is the last day of your fasting. You will conquer and o’ercome me; Make a bed for me to lie in. Where the rain may faU upon me, Where the sun may come and warm me; Strip these garments, green and yellow. Strip this nodding plumage from me. I.ay me in the earth and make it Soft and loose aud light above me. Let no hand disturb my slumber. Let no weed nor worm molest me, Let not Kuhgaligc, the raven, Come to haunt me and molest me. Only come yourself to watch me Till wake, and start, and quicken, Till I leap into the sunshine. And thus saying, he departed: Peacefully slept Hiawatha, But he heard the Wawonaissa, Heard the whipporwill complaining, Perched upon his lonely wigwam Heard the rushing Sebowisha, Heard the rivulet rippling near him, Talking to the darksome forest; Heard the sighing of the branches, As they lifted and subsided At the'pussing of the night wind; Heard them, as one hears.in slumber Far-off murmurs, dreamy whispers: Peacefully slept Hiawatha. On the morrow came Nokomis, On the seventh day of his fasting, Came with food for Hiawatha, Came imploring and bewailing, Lest his hunger should o’ercome him, Lest his fasting should be fatal. But he tasted not, and touched not. Only said to her—‘Nokomis, Wait until the sun is setting, Till the darkness falls around us. Till the heron, the Shuh-shuh-gali, Crying from tlic desolate marshes, Tells us that the day is ended.’ Homeward weeping went Nokomis, Sorrowing for her Hiawatha, Fearing lest his strength should fail him Lest his fasting should be fatal. He meanwhile sat weary waiting. For the coining of Mondamin, Till the shadows, pointing eastward, Lengthened over field and forest; Till the sun dropped from Jhe heaven. Floating on the waters westward, As n red leaf in the Autumn Falls and floats upon the water, Falls and sinks into its bosom. And behold! the young Mondamin, With his soft and shining tresse^ With his garments green and yeffow. With his long and glossy plumage, Stood and beckoned at the doorway. And as one in slumber walking, Pale and haggard, but undaunted, From the wigwam Hiawatha Came, and wrestled with Mondamin. Round about him spun the landscape Sky and forest reeled together. And his strong heart leaped within him. As the sturgeon leaps and struggles in a net to break its meshes. Like a ring of fire around him Blazed and flared the red horizon, And a hundred suns seemed looking At the combat of the wrestlers. Suddenly upon the greensward All alone stood Hiawatha, Panting with his wild exertion, Palpitating with the struggle; Ail before him, breathless, lifeless, Lay the youth with hair dishevelled, Plumage tom, and garments tattered. Dead he lay there in the sunset. And v ict’orious Hiawatha Made the grave as he commanded, Stripped the garments from Mondamin, Stripped his tattered plumage from him, Laid him in the earth, aud made it Soft and loose and light above him; And the heron, the Shuh-shuh-gnh. From 1 lie melancholy moorlands, Gave a cry of lamentation, Gave a cry of pain and anguish! Homeward then went Hiawatha To the lodge of old Nokomis, And thq seven days of his fasting Were accomplished and completed But the place was not forgotten Where he wrestled with Mondamin; Not forgotten nor neglected Wa? the grave where lay Mondamin, Sleeping In the rain and sunshine. Where his scattered plumes and garments Faded in the rain and sunshine. Day by day did Hiawatha Go to wait and watch beside it Kept the dark mould soil above it, Kept it clean from weeds and insects, Drove away with scoffs and shoutings, Kahgahgee, the king of ravens, Till at length a small green feather From the earth shot slowly upward. Then another and another And before the Summer ended Stood the maize in all its beauty With its shining robes about it. And its long, soft, yellow tresses; And in rapture Hiawatha Cried aloud, ‘lt is Mondamin! Yes, the friend of man. Mondamin!' Then he called to old Nokomis And laguo. the great boaster, Showed them where the maize was growing, Told them of his wondrous vision, Of his wrestling and his triumph, Of this new gilt to the nations, Which should lie their food forever. And still later, when the autumn Changed the long, green leaves to yeHow, Aud tlie soft and juicy kernels Grew like wampum hard und ellow, Then the ripened ears he gathered, Stripped the withered huMU from off them, As he once had stripped the wrestler, Gave the first feast of Mondamin, Aril made known nnto the people This new gift of the Great Spirit. Tkr Wldaw lie dell nnd her Duped Min ister, The Widow Bedott papers, recently published, are a brilliant collection of satire and humor, somewhat in the Slick style of literature—only I'atlmr more so. Wo take a speclmt ns— |"roe heroine, Widow Bedott, has been niurried by Mr Sniffles, the village clergymw 1 under a vain expectation on his part, that ’she was rich. The light breaks upon him In u discussion about fixing up the puinoniige:] But recollect, Mrs Sniffles, this lioum is a par sonage—l occupy it rent free.’ 1 don t care If ’tls pnntonagi I say the cou gregntion might uffurd you a better one, mid for my part, I m disposed to make a fuss about it.’ Mix Sniffles, you must be aware that 1 uni not possessed of Inexhaustible means. I have never attempted to conceal from you this fact—there fore, you must also be aware that there exists au entire Impossibility of my erecting a new resi dence on tlic plan which you propose. Nor is it ut all probable that the congregation w ould be willing to make such nltenitlNns in thia as you suggest. Yet, I assure you that I have not the slightest objection to your employing your own means in the construction of a more elegant edi fice.’ My own means!’ Yes, Mrs Sniffles. lour dissatisfaction with ‘the parsonage is so great, that I have for some time past been expecting you would propose build ing a new residence; and I repent that such an appropriation of a portion of y our funds would meet ray concurrence.’ My funds!’ Your funds, Mrs Sniffles. It is a delicate sub ject anti one on which I have hitherto hesitated to make inquiry, although possessing an undoubted right to do so. I have been expecting, ever since our union, that yon would inform me how nnd where your property is invested.’ My property I’ Your property, Mrs Sniffles. In what does It consist, if I may be permitted to Inquire?’ Land o’ liberty I you know as wi ll as I dew.’ What am I to infer from that observation?’ ‘Jest what yon’re a mind to. I ain’t worth i money, and I never said I was.’ Mrs Sniffles, you are well aware that on your arrival in this place, common report pronounced you to be uu individual of abundant means, and I have always labored under this impression—an impression which, allow me to remind you, your self confirmed in a conversation w hich occurred between us in the parsonage grove.’ You don’t mean to say’t I told vou so, and you darsent say’t I did.’ A-hem—i mean to say that yog did not deny ii wlicn 1 delicatily ulluded to itu snljnt. Oil the contrary you led me to infer that such was the fact, and under that impression I was induced to accede to your proposal? ‘My proposal? What do you mean to insinni wate I should have said your —your —evident incli nation for a—a—matrimonial engagement. I deeply regret, Mra Sniffles, that you should have allowed yourself to practise upon me what I can not consider in any other light than that of a hei nous and unmitigated deception. I regard it as an act quite incompatible with your religious pro fessions? You dew, hey? well you can’t say I ever told you out and out that I was worth property; and if you was a mind to s’pose so from what I did say, I’m sure’t ain’t my fault, nori ain’t to blame for otiier folkses saying I was a rich widder? Mrs Sniffles, I lament exceedingly that yon should view it in that light. You can bnt ac knowledge that it was your duty when I request ed information on the subject, to have given me a correct account of your property? I hadn’t no property to give ye an account of? You should have told me so, Mrs Sniffles, and not have suffered me to infer that you was in easy circumstances? I tell yc agin, I couldent help what you infer red, und s’pozen I could, which was the most to blame, me for lettin’ you think I was rich, or you for marrjin’ me because yon thought I was rich? For my part I think that was rather incompatible with your professions. Ministers had ought to have had their affection sot alxive transiterry riches? Mrs Sniffles, this is a—a delicate subject, we will waive it, if you please. ‘But 1 think the congregation ought to fix up the house? I will lay it before the session, at the next meeting? Well, dew, for pity’s sake. And if they agree to fix it, I’ll go a journey somewhar while it’s a bein’ altered, and yon can board round, and Sal can stay at sister Magwire’s? Early Life of Webster. A correspondent of the New York Evening Post, alluding to the volume- of the correspond ence of Daniel Webster, soon to be published, gives some incidents of his early life; “A very pleasant par! of the correspondence are the letters of Mr Webster, written while a law student, to his broi her Ezekiel,who was struggling to pay for his education by keeping school in Boston. All the spare cash "which Daniel could earn by teaching or copying deeds had been de voted to his brother’s college expenses, but his income was too narrow to meet them frilly. .Sev eral of the letters relate to the subject of devising means for raising money to defray a debt of fifty dollars, which Ezekiel had incurred in the pur chase of books in Boston. This caused the two brothers great perplexity. In one of his epistles, Daniel, after trying to cheer ‘Zeke’ by an enume ration of the possibilities which yet remained for raising money, enters upon the following strain of philosophic consolation: ‘Samsbvby, November 4th, 1802. “I have now by me two cents in lawful federal currency. Next week I will send them, if they be all. Tliey will buy a pipe—with a pipe you ean smoke—smoking implies wisdom—wisdom is al lied to fortitude—from fortitude it is but one step to stoicism, and stoicism never pants for this world’s goods. So, perhaps, my two Cents, by this process, may put you quite at ease about cash? Again, us lale us June 10th, 1801, he writes from Salisbury, (N. H.) after having declined a comfortable office in order to pursue his profes sion: ‘Zeke, I don’t believe but what Frovidence will do well for us yet. We shall live, aud live com fortably. I have this week come within an ace of being appointed clerk of the Court of Com mon Pleas for Hillsborough county. Well, you will say, you are no better off than if you had not come within an ace. Perhaps I am—say nothing but think a good deal, nnd do not distrust the (tods? In conclusion of this letter to bis brother, of June 10th, he relieves his mind with the following ‘Fol di dol, dol didol, di dol: I’ll never make money my idol, With iny friend and my pitcher, I’m twenty times richer Than if I made money my idol; Fol di do!, dol di dol, ui dol.' It may be remurked here that Mr Webster, in tlie midst of his family, and w ith his children and grand children around, was not a little given to off-hand rhyming, and would greatly divert them by his extempore English heroics, iu which the sonorous march of the rythm would lie humor ously disproportioned to the trifling nature of his theme. But the'poet’s was not the only vocation which i the great statesman narrowly escaped. At one i time in his youth, some of his friends earnestly pressed upon him the duty of entering the Christian ministry, and he was wont to tell, with evident enjoyment, the story of his being luiviaed to assume the business of Necromancy I An old man, who enjoyed the reputation in his native village of his being a wizard, assured young Dan iel that he was ‘just made for a conjuror,’ und as there were nt that time a great many stray cattle to be found, the business offered a good opening. Jie concluded by offering to take the future states man into partnership, and to go halves with him in the profits I While on the subject of Mr Webster s history, 1 cannot forbear mentioning an incident related of his courtship, which I do not remember to have seen recorded. He was then a young luw ver in Portsmouth, N. H. At one of his visits to Miss Graee Fletcher he had. probably withn view of combining utility and enjoyment, beeh holding skeins of silk thread for her, when suddenly he stopped, saj ing, ‘Grace, we have thus been en gaged in untying kno>s: let us seo if we can tie a knot, oue which will not untie for a lifetime. i He then look a piece of tape, and, after begin ning n knot of a peculiar kind, gave it to her to complete. This was the ceremony and ratifica tion of their engagement. And now in n little box, marked by him witli the words ‘Precious Documents,’ containing the letters of his early courtship, this unique memorial is still to bo found. The knot has never been vratfl-

Page 7

This page's text is still being fetched. See the page, or reload in a moment.

Page 8

This page's text is still being fetched. See the page, or reload in a moment.