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EDITOR AN"I PROPRIETOR.
Offico on Main Street,
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HANDBILLS,
CARDS,
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LABELS,
CLERKS' BLANKS
SHERIFF'S do.
CONSTABLES do.
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'sksSli&B v;v:''' '"" :" 'hastHil, on Trade
3 'St Sireet, there i-. somethiiur new.
Tin- nndifBigw d has pure hawed of .Janus Brinnt.
ii s "itHM'ry and LiUiMr establiubnent, and invites
tie- oulilie to rie him a call, aiianTMIg them that
lie will aeeonumtdatt' theu with articles of the
liest quality, and in a sty le to suit the most fas
tidious taste. Give Seb;istonl a call, and judge
fur voilleIves,
YM. PHELAN.
Feb. tf
FASHIONABLE TAILORING.
rtfa THE aabaoriber announces
j .1 l 1 II. a I . i.
mi mi' iiiiuie e nerai iy , i iiui lit
is now receiving a large assort
ment al new
rioths, Cassimeres
A N I
tor Gcatlemeaa wear, and will
lie sold lor CM a small lirtiiit.or made to or
der aceordiiijT to t'ne latest styles. Slinji next
dior to Kims' tirocery St. .re.
S. pt. 89, 1854. 10-tf D. L. RKA.
S. M. HOWELL,
Saddle &. Harness Manufacturer,
(Three doors south of Sadler's Hotel,)
CHARI.OT rK, N. C.
THE subscriber thanktul
for the verv liberal patron-
age bestowed upon him dur
ing tlie past year, has now
Imatle more extensive pre-
Iparation lor the future de
mand tor work in his line.
and will endeavor to furnish
all that may want Saddles
and Harness, with a superior article at the
lowest possible prices. He has now on hand
a very larne assortment ot
Saddles, Itritlle, Ilarne,
SmJdU Hardware, JTluas, Buffalo
Robes, Si, ,!, Cloths. Skirtings,
II g Skims, Patent Enmndlcd
"' d Harness leather,
together With every thin- usually kept in my
line ot business.
T7-A11 kinds af Saddles and Harness made
at the shortest notice.
C7 Repairing promptly executed.
M. HOWELL.
Oct 23, 1855. 13-tf
PIANO FOfcm
MR. RAMSEY, of
Columbia, S.C.,
Piano Forte &
71 uslc Dealer,
is constantly reviv
ing a good supply o
Pianos with the LATEST IMPROVEMENTS,
which has given them the premium over all
others, t; and tij octaves from $2 50 to $300.
S to 7 $.:j'Ju to. $400. 7 to 7.i $100 to $4o0.
Carved work and Grand Pianos itom $500 to
$101)0.
Mr. R. beiHs a practical Piano Maker can
insure to his customers a pert'"- nstrument.
Colu in1 June 1J, 1S55. I'Jly
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THE HEART.
If thou hast crushed a flower,
Th: root may uot be blighted,
If thou hast quenched a lainp,
Once more it may I"' lighted;
Bat on thy heart, or on thy lute,
Tin- triug that thou bast broken,
Shall never in sweet sound again
Give to thy touch a token.
If thnti hast loosed a bird,
Whose voice of BOUg Would cheer thee,
Still, still, he may be won
From skies to warble near thee;
If ut if upon the troubled im,
Thou cast a pern unheeded,
Hope not that wave or wind will bring
The treasure back when needed.
If thou hast braised a vine,
The rammer's warmth is healing,
And its clusters still may glow
Thro' the leaves their bloom revealing;
IfUl if thou hast a cap o'er thrown,
With a bright draught filled oh! never
Shall give earth back that lavished wealth
To cool thy parched lips' fever.
The heart is like that cup,
If thou waste the love it bore thee;
And like that jewel gone,
Which the deep will uot restore thee;
And like that strain of harp and lute.,
Whence the sweet is scattered;
Gently, oh ! gently touch the chords
So SOOU fol' Ver sli;ittT d !
ill R. WD HAL A N ,
Mealier,
Opposite Hie ofct-OfHce.
ALL PRESSES? cut and
made by the celebrated
A-H-C method, and war
ranted to fit.
BONNETS
Trimmed in the latest style, at
the shortest notice.
Charlotte, Feb 12, 1856. -t
ROBERT GIBBON, M. D.
OFFERS his profinsional services to the pub
lic, in the practice of SURGERY, in all
its various departments.
Ir. (nBliON will operate, treat, or give advice
in all cases that may require his attention.
ISOffiee No. 5, Granite. Range, Charlotte.
Feb. 19, 1856. 1 y
ROBERT P. WARII,
Attorney at l,;itv,
( ( Kfice in building attached to the American Ho
tel, Main street.)
Charlotte, N. C.
Jan, 29, 1866. tf
. W. DAVIS,
Attorney 6c Counsellor at Law,
Cfi.4KI.OTTE, JT. C.
Jan- 1 , 1856. tf
K. W. IV S: STB ROOKS,
Proprietor ol' the (aiiilfbrd
POMOLOGICAL
GARDENS
AND
Nurseries,
WOULD respectfully call tie attention of
our Southern citizens to his select collec
tion of native and acclimated varieties of FTiITT
TREES, embracing some FORTY THOUSAND
trees of the following varieties, viz: Apple, Pear,
Peach, Plum, Aprieot, Cherry, Nectarine, Al
mond Also a choice assortment of GRAPE
VINES, Raspberrk-s, Strawberries, Ac. A c.
CT-All orders, accompanied with the cash,
will receive prompt attention, and the trees will
lie neatly packed and directed to any portion of
the country.
1'. S. Persons wishing Ornamental Trees can
be supplied. Address Greensboro', N. C.
Dec. 4. l.-..r,. :im'
CARRIAGE SHOP.
THE SUBSCRIBER BEGS leave to in
form his friends and the publ ic generally, that
he is stiil carrying on the Carriage
.llakln$r I5iiin'ss in all its various
branches with all the increased facilities af
forded by modern improvements. He has now
on hand a large number of BUGGIES, CAR
RIAGES, ROCKA WAYS, &c, made on the
most approved styles out of the best material,
to which he asks the inspection of purchasers.
His establishments is on College and Depot
streets, where he will be glad to see his
friends.
JOHN H ARTY.
July 2S, 1S55. 1-tf
REMOVAL.
R. W. Beckwith
has removed his Jewelry
Store to No. 2, Johnston's
Row, three doors South
ol Kerr's Hotel.
30-ly
NEW BOOKS FOR SALE
L0WRIE AND ENKISS' STORE.
THE Slave of the
Lamp, a Posthumous
Novel, by William North
Ingenue, or the first
days of the Blood, by
Alexander Dumas.
Translated from the oripimil manuscript.
Fashion and Fancies, by Airs. Stephens.
The Maroon, a legend of the Carribees.
and other tales by W. Gilmore Simms.
The Castle Builders, by the author of 'Hearts
ease," "The Heir of RadelyfTe,'' "Scenes and
Chances," etc.
The Old Inn. or the Travellers' Entertain
ment, by Josiah Barnes, Sen.
The above are all the very latest and most
popular novels of the dsv.
W'e constantly keepon hand a large and well
selected stock of stationary of every kind, and
are constantly receiving all the new books
that arc beinr published, and books that V7e
nave not. got, wc can get on the shortest no
tice.
June 99
IS
IS-t.
Congress Gaiters for Ladies,
UST Received at
Boone's Boot & Shoe Emporium.
J
r-'eb. 16, 18j5.
to State Intelligence, the News
CHARLOTTE, MECKLENBURG COUNTY,
General
SUPERIOR COTJRTS
TRICT. -SIXTH DIS-
Jndge J. vr. JEliis-
The sixth Judicial district is composed of
fourteen counties, and the courts are held :
in the following order and time :
Surry, Feb. 25
Yadkin, March :i
Ashe, " 10
Wilkes, M 17
Alexander " 24
Davie, " 31
Iredell April 7
Catawba " 14
Lincoln " 21
Gaston, " 2rf
Union, May 5
Mecklenburg " 12
Cabarrus "
Rowan " 2G
THE CINCINNATI SLAVE CASE.
LUCY STONE AT THE BAR.
The trial at Cincinnati of the fugitive
slaves, (one of whom murdered her child.)
has not yet been finally7 concluded, the de
cision having been postponed until the 12th
of March. On Wednesday thero was a
strange interlude, which created no little
excitement. The celebrated Lucy Stone,
now Mrs. Blackwell, one of those modern
female reformers who are continually inter
fering with other people's business, came
into the U. S. District Court Room, and
thrust herself into the proceedings, in or
der to instigate and justify the guilty
mother's further immolation of the rest of
her children and of herself. Colonel Cham
bers, one of the counsel for the claimants of
the fugitives, alluded to an interview Mrs.
Blackwell had had with the slave mother,
in the course of which, said the Colonel, she
asked the deputy U. S. .Marshal, Mr. Brown,
the privilege of giving her a knife, that she
might destroy herself in case she was re
manded back to slavery. Miss Stone, or
Mrs. Blackwell as she now is, replied, and
indulged in a good many epithets against
slaveholders, calling the prisoner a "Roman
mother," cVc. At the end of her tirade,
some hissed and some applauded ; after
which Mrs. Lucy Stone Blackwell, Esq.,
left the Court room.
BARNTJM.
The Prince of Humbugs has at last been
himself humbugged an honor which it is
said belongs to a Jerome Clock Company
of Connecticut. He meets in his misfortune
little or no sympathy. We say misfortune
but who knows but he and the Clock
Company have added thousands, instead of
losing anything, by this grand failure. We
will venture the opinion that Barnum can
not be out-Barnumed, and that whenever
he falls it will be like a cat on his feet.
If it be true, however, that the failure is
real and not a dishonest one, we are dis
posed to sympathise with him. Barnum is
a humbugger worthy of admiration a
Napoleon in his line not of the little, mean
tribe too often found in the world. His
failure, it is stated, has been caused un
endorsing for the Clock Company to the
amount of 450,000 dollars. The company
has failed, and it is supposed will not be able
to pay 50 cents on the dollar. Barnum
offered tojMy 8100,000 to be released; bat
the offer was declined.
It may be that in his old days he has lost
his cunning. He certainly committed an
error in publishing his auto-biography,
unblushingly avowing to the world the
trickery, the humbug, the fraud, the ras
cality, by which he had accumulated his
hundreds of thousands. And as justice is
said to be slow but sure, what could he ex
pect but that the world would treat him to
a taste of his own physic? It is but retri
butive justice providentially administered
to disabuse the world of the idea that fraud
is either successful or reputable, and to
enforce that noble old maxim, that '-Honesty
is the best policy."
GEN. SANTA-ANNA.
Since the flight of this renowned General
from Mexico, there has been much specula
tion as to his locality. It has at length
been discovered that his " Supreme Iligh
nes" is residing at Tuabaco, four leagues
from Carthagena. A correspondent of the
New York Herald, who recently had an in
terview with him, says he expresses bitter
hatred towards the United States. He is
said to be stimulating the industry of the
people of Turbaco, and loaning them small
sums of money to buy stock, to undertake
new plantations and to improve their pres
ent ones. He is endeavoring to have a
turnpike road constructed from the village
to the city of Carthagena, and is said to
have offered to contribute 810,000 two
thirds of its estimated coast towards the
work.
EXECUTION OP A MURDERER.
SINGULAR CONDUCT OS THE HALLOWS.
Jacob Ambruster was hung on the 15th
instant, at Doylestown, Pennsylvania, for
the murder of his wife. He died protesting
his innocence, and when on the scaffold
refused to shake hands with his son or per
mit the minister to pray for him. He said
repeatedly to the sheriff 4 -you dare not hang
me you know you dare not." When the
drop fell he died without a struggle. His
last words were "I want no judge but God."'
of the World, Political Information,
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1856.
ILIi-FATED MEXICO.
Since the revolution broke out, which
drove Santa-Anna from Mexico, that ill-fated
country continues embroiled in civil-war
various factions contending for the mas-
tory
The last arrival from Vera Cruz
brings news that the Revolutionists, un-
der Tumariz, have captured Puebla, mid
re fortifying it to resist the Government
troops sent by Comontort ior its re-capture.
The Revolutionists are charged with hav
ing committed manv excesses after the cap
tore of Puebla. The soldiers under Uraga
have been defeated by the Government
troops, and general anarchy and confusion
prevails throughout the country. Tamariz
is said to be very much in want of money.
THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
The annual Convention of the Protestant
Episcopal Church of South Carolina was in
session last week at Charleston. After
organization, Bishop Davis delivered his
first charge to the Convention. This, says
the Mercury, was a very learned and in
teresting address. One thousand copies
were ordered to be published. The address
shows a large amount of labor during the
year. The new church of Yorkville was
admitted in union with the Convention. A
resolution to establish a Diocesan Theolo
gical Seminary was referred to a committee
of three, to report at the next Convention.
Much business of an interesting charac
ter to the Diocese and the Episcopal Church
at large was transacted ; and the Conven
tion, after a harmonious session, finally ad
journed to meet at Camden on the 17th of
May, 1857.
FATAL WEATHER FOR SHIPPING.
The present has been the most disastrous
Winter to vessels ever knowu. The loss
of life at sea, and the number of shipwrecks,
have been most distressingly great, abroad
as well as in this country. A letter from
Capt. Freeman, of bark Yarmouth, of Bos
ton, dated Gibraltar, January 12th, says
that there were nineteen vessels, including
two American ships, nshore in Gibraltar
Bay, twenty-five between Cadiz and Cape
Trafalgar, and one hundred between Cape
de Gat and Cadiz. The number of lives
lost was reported to be five hundred. Capt.
Freeman's vessel went ashore in Gibraltar
Bay, in the gale of the 8th ult., her keel
was forced out, she was broken amidships,
and would undoubtedly be condemned. An
American bark, name unknown, was seen
back of the Rocks, previous to the gale of
the 8th, and is supposed to have foundered,
and all hands perished.
LOCOMOTIVES.
When locomotives were first built, they
weighed less than five tons. This was in
1828 ; since then passengers and freight has
increased, car after car has been supplied
for their accommodation, and ton after ton
has been added to the weight of the engine,
in order to enable it to move the additional
burden imposed upon it, until those of the
largest class upon the English roads have
attained the enormous weight of 37 tons,
and the United States to between 20 and
30 tons. The first locomotive performed
28 miles tin hour. They now perform from
40 to 80 miles. This increase shows a rapid
improvement. The first locomotive cost
$3,000. The St. Clair, belonging to the
Hudson River Bailroad, cost $ 12,500. The
first locomotive used in the United States,
was the "John Bull." on the Albany and
Schenectady Railroad. The engine is now
at the Albany Nail Factory, where it is kept
as a curiosity.
A SLAVE TRADE IN CHINA.
The "Friend of China," received by the
last steamer, says : Very few coasting ves
sels ever leave Shanghae or Ningpo with
out an assorted lot of boys and girls thrown
in to make up the cargo. The traffic in
girls is still more general, in consequence of
the prevalence of infancitide, which counte
nances the murder of female infants as soon
as they are born. Wre hear of one hun
dred girls ready for shipment at one place,
for the segar factory at Manilla, and an or
der for two thousand girls for Cuba has
lately been received. Boys can be sold at
a profit for $3 to $3,75, and girls as low as
a shilling to twenty-five cents a head.
A TERRIBLE WARNING.
In noticing the death of James C. Forsyth,
the fugitive from justice in Europe, the New
York Courier says: "Not many men have
started in life with fairer prospects than he.
Well descended, educated and honored a
member of our State Constitutional Con
vention in 1846, afterwards the candidato
of the Whig party for the high office of
Secretary of State he had every induce
ment to keep true to the line of integrity.
But he gave way to passion for gaming,
became involved, and undertook to extri
cate himself by raising money with the
forged signature of his father and his father-in-law.
Exposed, he tied, and was a wan
derer over the earth, until life became an
intolerable burden. He has died, ere he has
seen forty years, a blasted, ruined man."
Severe Weather South. The freezing
of the Mississippi river throughout its entire
leujrth is set down as a circumstance un
precedented in the memory of any one
living, and tradition fails to furnish a par
allel. "The oldest inhabitant" has for once
been deficient in a record.
Southern Rights, Agriculture,
NORTH CAROLINA.
THE COMMITTEES.
The New York Herald, a paper which
has for a long time favored Know-Nothing-ism,
says : "The anti-slavery element is the
governing power of the House committees.
The Speaker, for example, has framed the
Committee on Elections in favor of Gov
ernor Reeder, nolens volens, as the rightful
delegate from Kansas ; the Committee on
Territories of the right stripe for the Wilmot
proviso; the Committee on the District of
Columbia, qualified at a moment's notice to
report a bill for the abolition of slavery in
said District; a Judiciary Committee itching
for the repeal of the Fugitive Slave law,
and so on to the end of the chapter. Thus
organized, we are prepared either for a bill
to repeal the Kansas-Nebraska law, or a
bill to repeal the fugitive slave law, or a
bill to abolish slavery in the District of
Columbia, as the first report from these
standing committees, though we suspect
that the Committee on Territories will open
the ball according to the extremest "higher
law" doctrine of that veteran abolition
apostle, father Joshua R. Giddings."
IMPORTANT CASE.
One of the most important cases ever
brought up for adjudication by the Supreme
Court of the United States, is now before
that tribunal. The case is Drea Scott,
plaintiff in error vs. Jno. F. A. Sanford;
Mr. Montgomery Blair for the plaintiff in
error, and the Hon. Messrs. Geyer and
Reverdy Johnson for the defendant in error.
The points particularly in issue are, first,
the rights of citizens of slaveholding States
to carry their slaves into non-slaveholding
States for a temporary sojourn there, with
out the loss of their right of.property in the
slaves; and, next, the constitutionality of
the Missouri Compromise, as involved in
the question of the right of Congress to
legislate with reference to slavery in the
IT 1 t . A . 1 -
United States territories.
A BAD PRACTICE.
The practice of the Northern State Leg
islatures in adopting resolutions in opposi
tion to slavery, and then requiring that co
pies of the resolutions be sent to the Gov
ernors of the several States in the South, is
a most pernicious practice, and measures
should be adopted by the States which are
thus insulted to put a quietus upon it.
These Legislative missiles are designed,
deliberately and with malice aforethought,
to insult, provoke and exasperate the peo
ple of the South, and why they quietly sub
mit to be thus treated passes our compre
hension. Not only should the resolutions
be sent back, without note or comment, but
measures should be taken to prevent them
being sent, and when sent, should be con
signed to the flames by the Governors to
whom they are sent. And if no Governor
of the Southern States is bold enough to
imitate the example set him by the Govern
or of this State, and to take the responsi
bility of sending them back to the foul sour
ces whence they are wont to emanate, or if
any have doubts respecting the propriety
and right of the Executive to assume and
exercise the responsibility, let the Legisla
tures of the several States pass laws con
ferring the needful power and discretion
upon their respective Executives. When
this shall be done when the Northern
States find out that they can no longer in
sult the South by transmitting their anti
slavery resolutions through the Governors
of the States, they will soon cease their in
sults. The South will no longer be troubled
by such missiles. Columbia Times.
THE EQUILIBRIUM OF STATES.
Hon. R. C Wickliffe, the new Governor
of Louisiana, uses strong language in his
inaugural message, when speaking on fed
eral questions. He says :
"I hold it to be certain, if the time shall
ever come when the South shall be in a
clear minority in the Senate as it is in the
House and Electorial College, that the ag
gressive spirit of the North will direct the
legislation of Congress so that the South
will be obliged to abandon the Union. We
must always be in the minority in the
House of Representatives and the Electo
rial College; and to guard against the
wrongs that majorities are prone to inflict,
the South must not be in a minority in the
Senate.
"It is worse than useless to disguise from
ourselves the tendency of events. Here
tofore, the safety of the South has been in
party ; now its only hope of safety is in
party. Let us aim at a higher security; and
that, without a change in the Constitution,
can be found only in at least an equilibrium
in the Senate. The North struggles to
destroy the equilibrium that she may have
a like ascendency in every branch of the
Government ; we must have power some
where to protect ourselve.. The North de
mands superiority, not for its proteotiou,
but for our ruin. Whenever, therefore, it
shall be made to appear that we are not to
be permitted to guard ourselves from wrong
whenever it shall be made to appear that
no more slave States are to be admitted in
to the Union, the time of separation will
have arrived. Postpone it, and it may be
; impossible ; ourselves and our children may
i become the meanest of vassals under the
1 forms of constitutional law, and shall have
forfeited deservedly our heritage of free
doom, and the memory of our ancestors be
but a brand of our own shame."
Literature, and Miscellany.
KANSAS IN PENNSYLVANIA.
In the Legislature of Pennsylvania, the
House resolutions instructing the United
States Senators from Pennsylvania to vote
for the repeal of the Kansas and Nebraska
act, substituting therefor the act organizing
the territory of Oregon, have been given the
go-by the House refusing, by a vote of
59 to 32, to take them up for consideration ;
and afterward, on a motion to reconsider
the vote, they were indefinitely postponed
by 51 to 31. This was the action of a
Democratic Legislature. Who can doubt
what would have been the result, had the
Kuow-Nothings of that State, with Johnson
at their head, been in power.
.
GEN. SAM. HOUSTON.
The New York Evening Post has a let
ter published in it from Gen. Sam. Houston
of Texas to President Pierce. The remarks
are principally confined to advice touching
the formation of the next cabinet ; but the
most important point is, in which tho writer
declares that no consideration would induce
him to remain in Waslungton in an official
capacity or position. That would be good
news, if it could be relied on. The coun
try, more than Gen. Houston, would be tho
gainer by his staying away from Washing
ton. He and Botts, and a few more of the
same sort, of Southern men with Northern
feelings, should take up their abode in Mas
sachusetts or Vermont.
Communication:.
For the Western Democrat.
ESTELLE TO AUNT BETSEY.
Aunt Betsey :
When old folks put their fingers into
young folks' steics, they must expect to get
a scolding ; and, but for the respect I con
sider due to my elders, I would pop a little
ginger at you, by way of remuneration for
the pepper-pod you tried to throw into my
sauce to Julian ! Whether my poor mother
died of a broken-heart, I know not ; but if
my infantine memory fails not, I have a
faint recollection about some queer kind
of a Doctor, who visited her continually
during her illness. WThat was the name
Hydropathic that is it; and I think you
told me it meant cold water ; and I asked you
if that was Hydropathics uncle Fill kept
in the big jug behind the door. You know
I was young then Aunt Betsey, and not
very cautious in what I said ; but now, I j
know better, and I don't think it very par
ental in you to cast up the misdeeds of the
father, into the face of the innocent child.
May-be he would not have left home, if
you had not thrown so much cold water in
his face. And it was this very thought of
my father, that jrompted me to say, wo
man has an influence, if exercised within
bounds ; in other words, "knows when and
where to stop."
You misconstrue my sentiments. There
is no one admires temperance, in every res
pect, more than I do ! "Yes, "if I were a
man, as I am a woman, I would never drink
a drop of liquor, never, ntver, never .' "
I detest intemperance, and want of moral
control over oneself. Therefore, I refused
the offered hand of your son, and hence
my exile from your auxt-ternal roof.
You tried to persuade me to vow eternal !
love for one I looked upon as a brother ;
but I had my thoughts elsewhere. Much
good has never come of match-making in
this world ; my woman's pride always re
belled against it ! know there are gallant,
noble, generous hearts palpitating in the
bosoms of Carolinians, who know and do
what's right, but they were not made so, by
our preaching temperance always in their
ears ; but by proper, early training at
home .' .' Do all you can at home, to save
your Rome, but don't cross the Tiber, or
the virtue of the charm is lost. That great
City was also saved once by geese ; but
they awoke the watchmen, by their gentle
prattle at home in the farm-yard, where na-
ture placed them, and intended they should
be ! It is a pity dear Julian was not at
borne during the late excitement ; but I
hope he will bring about a reformation at
college, where doubtless there is as much
need for it, as in our midst. As to the point
Aunt Betsey, I can assure you, I avoided
an introduction to Dice, because I heard
you tell Julian, he was a dangerous person
to play with and to set your mind at rest
on other subjects, I am engaged to a young
lawyer, who has just plead his first cause,
and bids fair to be a judge, (of female vir
tues) and it is not, "are you determined to
get him if you can ?" but are you inclined
to accept his judgeship.
With regard to "economy," I think El
der Lovejugs daughter Jane, would run
right well in harness with Julian ; with only
the small expense of mending a trace occa
sionally, for she is right skittish some times.
I was not at meeting, on the day you men
tion, for it snowed ; but I must say the min
isters up here, quoted scripture in their
sermons, and not suoh versos of Shakspeare
as are found in Franklin's almanac ! And
now Aunt Betsey good bye; if you want to
throw cold water over the friendship exist
ing between us, go ahead I never felt the
want of a friend in this Democracy of ours,
and if you are in a passion, and want to
sprit up, do it ; ' "Independence and Union''
is my motto ; and with temperance and
prudence, I remain with all my former flip
pancy. Your unchanged,
ESTELLE.
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VOLUME 4.
NUMBER 31.
MISCE
IN"
POETRY AND MATRIMONY.
At a marriage in one of the interior towns
of Illinois, a few days since, the following
formula was adopted by the officiating cler
gyman :
As thus before the Lord you stand.
I'nited in both heart and hand.
Frm this blessed moment, both to share
Mutual love and mutual can,
When fortune smiles and when it frown,
When sickness wastes, or health abounds ;
And solemn pledge that mutual love,
Which after faithfulness shall prove,
In all those cares that may arim:
From sacred matrimonial ties ;
I now, as I have been invited,
Pronounce you lawfully united
In matrimonial bonds for life,
A husbatftT, lepally, and wife.
HP A few days since a lovely little child,
of four summers, was buried in this town.
On leaving the house of its parents, the
clergyman. Rev. M. Jay, plucked up by
the roots a beautiful "forget-me-not," and
took it with him to tho grave. After tho
little embryo of humanity had been depos
ited in tho grave, the clergyman, holding
up the plant in his hand, said: "I hold in
iny hand a beautiful flower which I trucked
from the garden we have just left. By
taking it from its parent home it has wither
ed, but I here plant it at the head of this
grave and it will soon revive and flour
ish. So with the little flower we have just
planted in the grave. It has been plucked
from its native garden and transplanted into
the garden of immortality, where it will re
vive and flourish in immortality, glory and
beauty." Ohio Farmer.
DEATH.
Death is the great antagonist of life, and
the cold thought of the tomb is the skeleton
of all facts. We do not want to go through,
the dark valley, although its passages may
lead to paradise; and, with Charles Lamb,
we do not want to lie down in the muddy
grave, even with kings aad princes for our
bed-fellows. In the beautiful drama of on,
the instinct of immortality, so eloquently
uttered by the death devoted Greek, finds
a deep response in every thoughtful soul.
When about to yield his young existence
as a sacrifice to fate, his beloved Clemaatbe
asks if they shall not meet again, to which
he replies: "I have asked that dreadful
question of the hills that look eternal of
the clear streams that flow forever of the
stars among whose fields of azure my raised
spirit hath walked in glory. All were dumb.
But while I gaze upon thy living face, 1 feel
that there is something in the love that man
tles through its beauty that cannot wholly
perish. We shall meet again, Cleintintlie."
BE NOT AFRAID.
Be not afraid of being seen in your "shirt
sleeves," or with a "brown coat" or n pair
of "stitch down" shoes on. Be not afraid
of riding in an old buggy, or dining on a
pine table, or sitting on a split-bottomed
chair, or sleeping (in the rammer-time) on
a mattress better this than to have to feed
the sheriffs horse twice a week. Bo Dot
afraid of being called stingy because you
will not buy a fine coat when you are not
able to pay for it. When you see your
neighbors fence down, be not afraid to gef,
off your horse and put it up. Be nol afraid
of being called "selfish" because you do
not visit your neighbors when you have
more than you can do at home. Bo not
afraid of being called a "mechanic." Bo
not afraid to acknowledge that you have to
work for a living be not afraid to work.
Be not afraid of being called poor when yyu
can't help it.
If you are not able to obtain a collegiate
education, be not afraid to lay siege to tho
fortress of knowledge, or to storm tho cita
del of Science single handed. When your
sweetheart gives you the "mittens" becatue
you are poor, be not afraid to "turn up
your nose" and say (to j ourself) "bless her
pretty little soul let her go!"
A THOUGHT FOR MOTHERS.
When the mother gathers her little flock
around the evening fire for instruction or so
cial intercourse, she knows not but she may
be polishing the gem that may glitter in the
future history of our country. 8he knows
at all events that if the sons live to man
hood they will become citizens upon wfabee
intelligence and virtue will measurably de
pend the future prosperity of our country.
It is the custom of monarchical nations to
educate the heir apparent of royalty with
especial reference to his future rank and
destiny. And is it of less importance that
the heirs apparent of American greatness
be educated with especial reference to the
peculiar duties and privileges that await
them ? Should they be perihitted, as it is
often the case, to grow to manhood in utter
ignorance of these duties and then be allowed
blindly to exercise the right of suffrage,
upon which so much depends? Let tho
mother then etrire by every means in her
power to have her children prepared for
their duties as American citizens.
EF" Otto Lerefoste was fined $100 In
Sew Orleans last week, for attempting to
mutilate tlie statue of Jackson just erected.
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Returned. Father Matthew has re
turned to Ireland from the Fejoo Island.
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