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VOL. IX. SALEM, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 8, 1859. NO. 15. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY L. V. BLUM. PRICE—Two Hollars a Year, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. W* No paper will be discontinued until all arrearages are paid, except jit the option of the Editor €& l^S ^^^: Six Copies for $10 Ten ” $15 Twenty” $25 All payments Invariably in advance. Any person procuring FIVE new subscUbers end remitting Ten Dollars, will bo entitled to a sixth copy gratis. TERMS OF ADVERTISING. One square, (fifteen linos or less,) first in sertion. One Dollar; and twenty-five cents for every subsequent insertion, Deductions made in favor of standing advertisements, for a square, as follows: For three months, ; For six months, For twelve months, . S3 00 * $5 50 . $8 00 Professional or Business Cards, not exceed ing five liues in length. Five Dollars a year,— longer ones in proportion. Live for Something. BY CHARLES SWAIN, L : vc for something, be not idle 1 Look about thee for employ ! Sit not down to useless dreaming— Labor is the sweetest joy. Folded hands are ever weary, Selfish hearts are never gay, Life for thee hath many duties—■ Active be, then, while you may. Scatter blessings in thy pathway : Gentle words and cheering smiles Better are than gold, and silver, With their grief dispelling wiles. As the pleasant sunshine falleth Ever on the grateful earth, So let sympathy and kindness Gladden well the darken’d hearth. Hearts there are oppress’d and weary : Drop the tear of sympathy ; Whisper words of hope and comfort, Give, and thy reward shall be Joy unto thy soul returning Shall the grateful light be shed. HUMOROUS. Jim Franklin and the Falling Stars. The meteoric shower that fell on the night of long to bo remembered by all who witnessed it. To the enlightened and well-informed it was grand, awful, sublime ; but to the ignorant and superstitious, overwhelming and terrific. Such a CvuntLss number of meteors never fell from the empyrean in so short a space ; of time before or since, the theories of Hum-I bolt and Captain Twining to the contrary not-j withstanding. A few weeks after this grand display of Are i works Jim Franklin,..or “Uncle Jim,” as he was most generally called, -was seen hobbling ; cd with a superabundance of red flannel.— Jim’s early educational advantages had been very limited. His learning from books and schools was contracted to the acquisition of a few months, by a mind not at all inclined to and by raising cotton in the flatwoods of Elbert, Where he lived, had accumulated a snug fortune. He was a general favorite in his neighborhood and but for a slight habit of indulging some times too much in the “ardent,” might be term ed an unlearned shrewd, exemplary man. thin was sitting with a number of gentlemen In the Poteiaburg Inn, bis feet nicely adjusted in another chair, with his crutches across bis lap, when 8 me one inquired why be was work ing himself in shafts? Whereupon be explain ed : “You see we bad at our house, the other Wight a small sprinkle of what we honestly tuck to be the “day of Judgment!” It turn ed out we were slightly mistaken ; but I assure you, if I’m a judge of small matters, it was a light good counterfeit of that great day, when they say there is to be a general smash up.— Many a one of us, for a while, thought, it was the genewinc coin, and, as the masons would say, “conducted ourselves accordingly.” I tuck the wrong shute at the start Now they, say; “Man purposes; and God exposes;” this may or may not be good scriptur; at the latter end of my t-pcrience I would call it good sense. “I was suddenly wakened dutin a sound sleep, not by Gabriel’s horn, but a noise mighty nigh as loud, so far; wife, chii- dren, and niggers were screaming and hollerin'’ “the day of judgment was come, the stars wur all falling, the world was burning up!” 1 sprung up, looked at the heavens; never seed sich precedencies thar before! Thar being no mountains and rocks convenient to call on to hide me I tuck a bee line with average ingine speed for the well, which I would say is nain- ty two feet deep in the clar. It’s the deepest, hole in the ground I koowed anything about. When I got there 1 found Bob and Sam, two of my nigger boys, on a quandary which of the two elements to chose. Bob a bright mu- latter, was for water ; Sam, an oomixed Afri can was for turning Sallymandy, and facin the music. Says I, “Boys, clear the track, and take bold of that windlass, and let medown in to the bowels of the yeth as soon as the natur of the case will admit of; the outside is getting unwholesome, sure I” Then, without hat, coat, vest, pants, stockings or shoes, I got in the bucket, and started; they hadn’t turned the windlass twice around when I hollered to ’em to slip the britching and let me slide. No sooner said than d ne, when I whirled, slosh, nigh unto throe foot in man could have made the trip he b; d fallen in, and he’d had start at that! “About the time the water the water. cur- No booner, ceptin to tuck a far settled around Ine; I was Riveted all but my head, I felt fire- proof, and calculated they’d have to burn low fo git me ! Now they say a man in a deep well, in the day time, can see st -rs. I allow them is fixed stars.—Them I saw from the well that nigRt was travellers, certain! Besides, if there was any fixed stars that night I never seed’em. Some said they watched the morn ing star, and as long as that stuck they had hope. “I made the boys draw me up several times, to see how things war coming on; but when one of them big blazing meteors would dart toward me, I would whurl down to the length of my cable. I soon foun’ I had gone beyant what was comfortable ; I got tired of playing bull frog, left the water, and felt like taking the fire no mutter in what quantity, of whar from !— I’ll just say right bore, if any man should have bydrofoby agin fire, and will put himself thro’ my pirformancc in that well, and ain’t cured, his disease is too deep for hydropathy, I put on dry clothes, tuck a stew of whisky and red pepper,but too late—the rumatics had me ! IS? in bracing agin fire I got busted on water! “I wa’n’t the only man excited on that oc casion, by along jump. My neighbor San, Stuart, come over next morning, and asked So me how we stood the racket? He looked sol e.mn as a preacher; said his dwelling had never been a house of prayer before; but if they did n’t make up for lost time be was no judge o’ligious exercises. He said he and his crowd prayed nigh onto four hours; they beam the clock strike three times while they were on their knees. He said the fact was, they ex- uausted the argument, and he got up, and hadn’t another word to say if the day of judg ment had cum. And Im thinking I’d cum out better if I’d relied on faith and prayer in stead of sich works as I did !” In this opinion the company concurred, and laughed long and loud at his narrative. When the noise of their mirth had ceased, some one remaiked to Jim if had been as smart and philosophical as one of his ancestors, Benja min Franklin, he would not. have been at all alarmed, and could have explained it. “1 have hearn of him before,” said Jim ; “he wur the fellow could go out, when dangeisome clouds wur surging by, pull lightning out ’em, sample it, bless you! and carry the keenest home, and put it ’way in bottles to speriment with. But he done this in the broad day time, when ho wur wide awake, which a man should be when he bandies that article. But wake him up at midnight outen a deep sleep, make the racket around him which were turned loose about me, and let him see all them stars a fal ling. If be Kill,set chipering out causes, and forget consequences, he is no kin to me! Now there is Franklin, and Solomon, and the other apostles the Scripturs speak of, war smart in their day ; but they would be nowhar with our Jother day, and seed a railroa I injine and train come a dasningin. Suppose old man Solomon had seen the like of that come snorting, tear ing, thundering by him, what do you think would be his purformances ? The way he’d! run into his temple, and slam too the door, lay; low, and say nothing, would be a caution to I his big family. Now Franklin, ho mout give; it thunder, as he dealt in the article; but Sol-j omon, not having the wharwith, would make himself scase. The old gentleman never tho’ti of sich things. Now John, on Patterson’s Is-i land, dreamed of sicb, or something like unto i them If Solomon’s dreams had tuck rection, it would have turned his proverbs into 1 I From the Bloomington (Ill.) Pantagrapih. THE RATS OF THE WEST. Immense Depredation on the Corn-Fields— Six Wagon-Loads of Dead Mats taken from a Corn-Field.—Farmers from all parts of the country inform us that their corn has been con siderably damaged by rats. The rats dig be low the stalks and eat the kernels. Mr. Hef ner, Who resides in Money Creek township, killed more than two hundred rah a short tini- agn. He counted his victims until their num ber reached two hundred, when he stopped counting and continued killing. We learn that eleven hundred rats have been killed on Jesse Funk’s farm, and Cyrus Jones informs us that bis first days work in the rat-killing business was quite successful. He put one hundred and fifty huge fellow- out of misery, and intends to favor many others with fay. same kind of treatment When we saw him yesterday, he was negotiating for a rat terrier. Jacob Heiser, who lives three miles north of Twin Grove, informs us that the rats have made a “dead set” at bis corn, and that many of his neighbors are in about as bad a fix as himself. One of his own corn fields, contain ing eight acres, has been fairly riddled by rats —some of which he thinks are nearly as large as yearling kittens. He says the entire field will not yield a-dozen bushels. Ills rats are r very tame: they come from his corn fields in the.day time, when they and the weather are dry, and drink out of wash tabs in front of his door. He was iu the city yesterday for the purpose of laying in a slock of ammunition, with which be intends to slaughter the long- tailed animals that are growing fat at his ex pense. From the Pontiac (Livingston Co.) Sentinel. The corn cribs being empty, and very little pickings to be found in the barn-yards, their rat ships have betaken themselves in a body to the corn-fields, and, in some instances, rooted up nearly every kernel. Theodore Jones, of Belle Prairie, had twenty acres destroyed, and McDowell, of Avoca, has .the same story to toll. Dr. C. B. Ostroedor, of Hickory Point,! has had very hard luck according to our infor mant. He says the Doctor told him (our in formant) that upon discovering that rats were the cause of the trouble, h.e got three and a half pounds of arsenic, and, mixing it with three and a half bushels of c-rn, scattered it over the field. The result was just as the Doc tor expected. Up to the present time he has varied off six wagon loads of dead rats, and the half is not yet removed! Out of one hole, the Doctor says, be pufled one hundred and twen- ty dead rats and a bushel and a half of corn! We rather think that the number of dead var mints might be reduced a trifle, but we publish the item just as.we get it. But the Doctor’s corn field is riddled, and that, completely, is on- Hundred miles out at sea. Yet its whole weight is but one hundred and fifteen pounds. To this boat will be attached a propeller wheel on each side, but we cannot describe the uses of this mechanical apparatus intelligibly. The balloon proper, after inflation, will be sixty feet iu diameter, and, with the car, one hundred and twenty feet high. Twenty-one hundred and fifty yards of the best oiled Chi nese silks of ordinary width have been used io this enormous vessel. The cords that form the net work which encloses the balloon have an aggregate strength of one hundred and twenty tons. The cost of the whole apparatus is some where in the neighborhood of 33,000. If en tirely inflated the “Atlantic” will hold about one hundred and twenty thousand cubic feet of gas. At leaving the earth, however, the bal loon will contain not more than sixty thousand cubic feet of hydrogen, having a buoyant pow er of twenty five hundred pounds. B fog thus half filled at starting, tho balloon will expand to its full Capacity as it ascends. Besides a good supply of provisions, inclu ding every thing which will conduce to make the voyage comfortable, the aeronauts will take with them the usual mathematical and meteor ological’ instruments, and at least one thousand pounds of ballast They will choose a mild day, and start late io the afternoon, travelling ah night, and expecting to descend somewhere on the ocean shore, between Boston and New York, early next day, when they will distribute a few copies of the Missouri Republican of the previous morning to the wondering natives, provided nothing happens to interfere with the success of the trip. The day of starting has not been decided on. PRESENCE OF MIND AND COMMON SENSE. If a man faint away, says Halls Journal of Health, instead of yelling out like a savage, or running to him to lift him up,- lay him at full length upon his back, on the floor, loosen the clothing; push the crowd away so as to allow the air to reach him, and let him alone. Dash ing water over a person in a simple fainting fit is a barbarity. Tne philosophy of a fainting fit is that the heart fails to send the proper -apply of blood to the brain; if the per.-oa is erect, that blood has to be projected horizon tally,. which requires less power, as is apparent. If a person swallowing; poison; deliberately or by chance, instead of breaking out into mul titudinous er incohersivo exclamations, patch some one for the doctor; meanwhile des run iy too true. replanting it, however. u glass oi water in any thing that is bandy, put into it a teaspooniul of salt and as much ground mustard, stir in on instant, catch a firm hold of the person’s nose the mouth will soon fly open—then down with the mixture, and in a second or two up will UcCne the poison. This will answer Fetter in' a From the St. Louis Republican, June 20. The JErial Trip from St. Louis to the At lantic Seaboard. THE LARGEST BALLOON EVER MADE -DESCRIPTION OF THE VESSEL. Some time ago we published an article rela tive to one of the grandest experiments ever tha" f P r °j ecte ^ i a this country, viz: a voyage , ] through the air from St. Louis to a point on revelations, and might have confused the Scrip- turs.” Some gentleman here asked Jim where Patterson's Island “It’s none of my lookout. I kalculate it’s a fine place for dream ing; whether good for cotton, I don’t know; but I would advise its owners to keep it hid out, lest the Anglo Saxon specie most take a liking to it, and claim it, in working up to their clear and manifest destiny I" Here a voice from without informed Jim his buggy was ready ; when by the aid of bis shafts, he worked himself out of the room, amidst the hearty cheers and farewell of his friends. Moral Suasion on a Ram.—When a friend of ours, whom we call Agricola, was a boy, he lived on a farm in Berkshire county, the owner of which, was troubled by a dog, Wolf. The cur killed his sheep, knowing, perhaps, that he was conscientiously opposed to capital punishment, and he could devise no means to prevent it. “I can break him of it,” said Agricola, “if vou^will give me leave.” — “Thou art permitted,” said the honest farmer; and we let Agricola tell the story in his own words. “There was a ram on the farm,” said Agricola, “as notorious for butting as Wolf was for sheep stealing, and who stood in as much peed of moral suasion as "he dog.. I shut Wolfup i Q the barn with this old follow and the consequence was that the dog never looked a sheep in the face again. The ram broke ev ery bone in his body, literally. Wonderfully uplifted was the ram aforesaid, by his exploit; his insolence became intolerable; he was sure to pitch into whomsoever went nigh him.— “I’ll fix him,” said I, and so I did. I rigged an iron crowbarout of a holein the barn, point foremost, and hang an old hat on tho end of it. You can’t always tell, when you see a hat, whether there is a head iu it or not; bow then should a ram ? Aries made at it full butt, and being a good marksman from long practice, the bar broke in between his horns and came out under his tail This litttle admonition ef fectually cured him of butting.” the Atlantic coast, one thousand miles distant. However chimerical or hazardous this underta king may be viewed, the attempt will assuredly be made, probably during the present week The persons engaged in this great enterprise arc, as we have heretofore stated, Prof John Wise, the well-known aeronaut, and Mr. C II. Gager and John Lamontain. Tho first two mentioned are already in this city, and the lat ter is now on bis way here with the monster balloon, expecting to arrive here by Tuesday. We yesterday had a conversation with Prof. Wise and Mr. Gager. They, are very sensible men to every appearance, and seem to have no shade of doubt as to the succe ss of their voy age. Prof. Wise is an unassuming and agree able gentleman, very reasonable in his views, and quite competent to sustain them on scien tific principles He contends that at the dis tance of from three to four miles from the earth there is a current of wind blowing from west to east which is constantly the same, never varying in its direction, and rarely in the rate of velocity. On this proposition be has experimented for years, and has not failed once to observe this invariable feature in the atmosphere. Pro this phenomenon, which w Wise discovered seventeen years ago, be conceived the idea that it was not 'm- possible to navigate the air Europe, and nurtured the d making the experiment m America to furtherance this purpose he applied to bis friends for' assis tance to procure the requisite outfit, but they hooted at the project as crack brained and non sensical. He next petitioned Congress for aid, but that body was too much engrossed with every day affairs, and paid no attention to the prayer. And thus the distinguished balloonist, not being in circumstances to lake upon him- WAR IN ITALY. CAPTAIN BONAPARTE-DARE-DEVIL SOLDIERS—BRAVERY OF KING EM ANUEL-THE EMPRESS OF FRANCE IN TEARS. The next news from Europe will be looked for with extraordinary interest. The deeds being enacted at this time at the seat of war will probably develope the whole course which bo h armies will pursue in the future, and may bring them to that point in Lombardo-Venetia where the contest will be eventually decided. DARE-DEVIL SOLDIERS. The newspaper sorrespundents from Italy, and Paris story tellers give us all sorts of re- por.s and anecdotes about the Zouaves, the purco^ and other new species of troops now iu ; Italy. The Zouaves at-Palestro, they tell us, ; got their bagged trowser legs so wet, and there- ifore so heavy, in crossing some lowlands, that ■when ordered to tho charge they cast off their 'trousers and ran to the Austrians, bayonet in hand, bare-legged! The corps has been so wild, it is also added, and so little regardful of meum and tuum, that the Emperor summoned a certain number of them, and told them he would order them back to Africa and to France, if anything of the like occurred again, where upon, it is said, they cried like children, and promised good behavior. The Turcos are a new race of men on the European field of battle, or at least, not there seen or known since the days of Hanibal, who led their ancestors into Italy. They are Ma- homedans under French officers, and sub offi cers, natives ot Africa, about Algiers, black, or wooly headed —We have the first account from them on the field of battle, in the corres pondence of the Constitutionnel, from Novarre, June 4th. McMahon’s division is made up of these troops, and others from Africa. The cor respondent had then just heard of this division at Magenta, where they attacked the Austrians protected by their cannon. “Like tigers” (pays the writer) they precipitated themselves upon the Austrians, crying “victory,” even b. fore they had discharged their guns. The attack is said to have exhibited one of the stran gest and most terrible spectacles of war. The Turcos threw themselves upon the enemy like the savages of Cooper, without mercy or quar- Soos a horrible melee occurred. The voice of the cannon even was drowned by the savage cries cf the Tuios—cries, not to chaunt of victory, nor the plaints of the dying and wounded^ All the language of Mahomet can muster of imprecations broke forth from the isolated groups where ore Turco would often be seen strung!ing*against three or four Aus trians. When; the Austrians.ran, and the strife was over, the spectacle was not less strange, i he fanatic conquerors polled upon the earth CUBA.—The following despatch to the N Y. Journal of Commerce throws a wet blanket over the hopes of those democrats who are so anxious to get Cuba :— WASHINGTON, June 13. Recently received information from Madrid of an altogether reliable character, shows that however desirable it may be for the U. S. to acquire Cuba, there is no prospect whatever of such a consummation, nor is there any proba bility of the negotiation of a commercial treaty between Spain and this country. A well bred woman never bears an imperti net remark. A kind of discreet deafness say^S one from many insults. large number of cases than any other. If, by tbis’time, the physician has not arrived, make the patient swallow the white of an egg, fol lowed by a. cup of strong coffee, as antidotes for auy poison that may lemain in the stomach. If a limb or other part of the body is severe ly cut, and the blood comes out by spirits and jerks, be in a hurry or the man will be dead in five minutes; there is no time to take or send for a physician—say nothing, out with your' hankerchief, throw it around the limb tie the' two ends together, put a stick through t twist it around tighter until the blood ceases to! flow. But to stop it does no good. Why?; Because only a severed artery throws blood out j in j ts and the arteries get their blood from the heart; hence to stop a flow, the lemedy must be applied between the heart and the wounded spot—other words, above ihe wound. If a vein had been severed, flic blqod would have flowed in a regular stream, and on the other! song, they danced the most frantic species of dances, amid bursts of laughter, and frightful cries, that startled even their companions in arms. Some of them had forced their prison ers to sit beside them, and upon these poor prisoners at first they glared, as the lion glares upon its prey; and then, with a species of fas cination, as if they pitied the poor creatures now without means of defence. In other parts of the field, they lay down upon the ground, exhausted with fatigue, and recovering their hem ! streD °^ iu ^P- ^e French writer, howev ’ er, denies that they act like beasts of prey, oi are carnivorous, but, nevertheless, he says, they are savage. Their liues at Magenta were “im mense.” Another correspondent says: The Tyrolese sharpshooters in the Austrian army wear on their bonnets a tuft of plumes which resemble very much that of the Pied moutese sharpshooters. At the battle of Pa lestro a regiment of these Tyrolese were hidden in the wheat, and the Zouaves, deceived bv flic wound, oron the other side of'the wound from!*], * L Ifo r fo deceived by the the heart, because the blood in the veins flows! w ‘kb confidence, re- towards the heart, and there is no need of sol C fo VLv " c \ fo $ eps a most murderous dis- * - charge of balls along the me The great a hurry. fo-’i 0 surprise 6 7 ^ lasted but a moment. 11 Sac a terre '” cried the Zouaves m one voice “ala baionette'" ROBBERY AND ATTEMPT TO MURDER Their Colonel did not try to oppose the torrent- AT WILMINGTON. - the smoke of the discharge was not yet dissipa’ We learn from the Wilmington papers that on Thursday morning last two men, Lewis Kiple and George Williams, were arrested for breaking into the grocery store of Mr. George Myers. Being interrupted by citizens and watchmen while in the store, they fled to a sta ble in the rear, from the loft of which they tired twice at their pursuers, one of whom, Mr. A. D. Taylor,‘had a narrow escape, as a ball passed mar to his head. Another person, a sailor named Church, was shot through the hand. The robbers were finally secured, and a number of articles taken from the store found In their possession, among others the pistol which they had fired ut their pursuers. The prisoners were very summarily disposed of, having been tried at the County Court and found guilty on the day afer arrest on five sev era^indictments for larceny, in stealing a knife belonging one person, a bullet mould belonging to/a’second, a gold locket belonging to a third, a pencil case and other jewelry belonging to a ted when the Tyroleans received the humau avalanche, preceded by its thousand steel points, and were thus precipitated into the canal, where many hundreds were drowned or bayoneted. Not a single Tyrolean would have escaped, perhaps, if the Zouaves had bad their linen instead of their woolen pantaloons for they could not swin with these, and the enemy had thrown away their guns.' planned, was forced to . forego his ’ cherished idea until some mouths ago, when be,associated with him Messrs. Gager and Lamontain—the former the inventor of a. balloon boat with air wheels, and the latter a balloon builder of Troy, New York—and the united energies of the three were br> uglit to bear on the subject. They decided to make a scries of experiments — one or two from St. Louis to New York— and if successful then one from California east wardly, and then from New York across the Atlantic ocean. The three went to work im mediately and earnestly, and in a few days we are to see what success is to attend the first The balloon now on its way here, in care of Mr Lamontain and a gentleman named Rhodes, is called the.“Atlantic,” and is by far the largest air-ship that has ever been construc ted. It was constructed on the Fair Grounds at Lansiogburg, New York. The car, or Mr. Gager’s boat, is sixteen feet long and four feet and a half in width, built vtry symmetrically, and provided with row-locks and oars ready for use in case of an emergency, It was built in New York by a most competent ship-carpenter, and will accommodate half $ dozen men five On each of the first four indictments the prig oners were sentenced to 39 lashes andsix months’ imprisonment, and on the fifth indict ment to 39 lashes; making two years’, impris onment and 195 lashes, (to be given in six months’ instalments, the first on the day of conviction.) The severity of the sentence is entirely jus tified by the character.of the offence, which on ly foiled to be murd^ for want of good marks manship, not for want of will. TIIE BRAVERY OF KING EMANUEL. The King, Victor Emanuel, it is said, was wounded in the arm at the battle of Magenta — ihe bravery of the King has gained for him the title, by election, of “Corporal” in the Third Zouaves. This magnific at; regiment has been given by Napoleon io Victor Eman uel as a body guard, since tho battle of Pales iro, in which, under the King’s personal direc tion, they performed such wonders. The title of Corporal thus conferred is a high honor, and was fo like manner conferred by the. Old Guard on the first Emperor, after an unusual exhibi tion of personal courage on bis part. Victor Emanuel already wears the French military wcual presented to him when he was in Paris tour years ago. He is the only monarch-upon whom this honor has been conferred, as the medal is only given for great deeds of personal courage on tho field of battle. Virginia.—According to the Washington election carried for Goggin eight oi the thir teen Congressional Districts into which the State is divided. Seven of these Districts, however, continue to be represented by Demo crats; the Whigs, not knowing their strength, having run a candidate in only one of the eight. The Whig gain for the House of Delegatesis forty. Tue Democratic majority in the Senate THE EMPRESS REGENT OF FRANCE IN TEARS. A correspondent of the New York Herald says that when the.news of the battle of Ma genta reached’Paris, the Empress was so over joyed that sho immediately appeared in the streets in an, open barouche, and that when vivas broke out and filled the air, and hardy men respectfully put forward and grasped the carnage pannellings, the robe, almost the hands oi the Empress/it was too much for her; throw ing aside all dignity, all state,-all, of the mon arch, everything, in fact, but the tender delicate- woman, she flung herself back in carriage and sobbed like an infant. and the also is argely decreased. The hoary head is a crown of glory, if found in the way of righteousness, it be An Old Minister.—The oldest minister in Philadelphia is Rev. George Chandler, who, in the course of bis ministry, has married 3.166 couples, and performed funeral services over the remains of five thousand persons. The Standard and other Democratic papers in this State have been taunting the Whigs for calling themselves the “Opposition.” Read the following article from the Lynchburg Vir ginian, and then say if the name “Opposition” is not a good one for all who are opposed to tho sham Democracy, which has become so corrupt that even one of the ablest Democratic papers has been forced to exclaim, “from the by-ways and highways of the government the rottenness of corruption sends forth an insuperable stench 1!” Read it, and gee why the Whigs are in oppo sition.to the Imposition party: “The Whig party, essentially, is nothing, but an Opposition party. That is really the meaning-^f the word. It was its meaning in Hngland/when the Whigs opposed the tyranny and corruption 1 of the- oligarchy—and it was its meaning in the American Revolution when those persons were called Whigs who opposed the pretensions- and exactions of the mother country. If there be any one, either in our own rinks or the ranks of tho other side, who is in any doubt of the real character of the “Opposition” to the Democratic party, we pro pose to enlighten him by giving a comprehen sive resume, which we find capitally done to our hands by an able Tennessee contemporary. Should any one, then, enquire what is tho na ture of our “opposition,” let him be answered as follows? “Opposition to the enormous and unnecessa ry increase of the public expenditures, and to the extravagances and corruptions practised under the existing Democratic rule. “Opposition to the policy of entrusting to the Executive the purse and the sword, as il lustrated by the 330,000,000 bill, and recom mendation by the President to Congress to transfer to him the war-making power in re spect to Mexico and the Central American States. “Opposition to the monstrous project of a bankrupt law, which, together with other measures of Federal aggrandizement recom mended and sanctioned by the present admin istration, Jays the axe to the root of State rights. “Opposition to Presidential interference with the freedom of elections and the right of suf frage, as exemplified in the removal by Mr. Buchanan of his own appointees to office in Illinois, because they would not war upon a Senator of the United States of his own party, for pursuing a course, as Senator, contrary to the wish of the President. “Opposition to the national indulgence of a morbid and unhealthy appetite for territorial acquisition, which, I sing sight of every prin ciple of honor, justice and sound policy,’and at tho imminent risk of war, would, by cunning and dishonest contrivances or open force, if necessary, extend infinitely the limits of tho Republic and absorb into our system mongrel populations, which after years of trial, have con clusively shown their utter inability durably to establish and peaceably to live under a free representative government. “Opposition to the further agitation of the slavery question, as leading to no practical good to any portion of pur country, but fraught with peril to the peace and perpetuity of the Union. “Opposition to the division of the country into two’sectional parties—which will be the inevitable result of the continued ascendancy and course of the Democratic party in the Southern States. ‘fOpposition to the fomenting of jealousies, dissensions and heart burnings between differ ent sections oi our common country by misrep resenting the aims and opinions of the people of the different sections in regard to oneanoth- “Opposition—determined, untiring opposi tion—to a dissolution of the Union, and to all parties, as such, which cherish and uphold as leaders men who are known to entertain the spirit of disunion in their hearts, or whoso pro fessions, doctrines, and acts manifestly tend to that result. Supposition to the wild policy of an exclu sively metallic currency, which, if carried into •effect, would, in the language of James Buch anan “at once diminish the nominal value of all property more than 50 per cent”—“would, in effect, double the amount of every man’s debts”—“would enrich creditors at the expense of their debtors”—and “make the rich richer and the poor poorer.” “Opposition to direct taxation, which is openly advocat’d by a portion of the Democrat ic party and which would be the necessary and inevtable result of the carrying out of the Democratic doctrice oifree trade—direct tax ation and free trade being, in effect, one and the same thing. “Opposition to a continuance of the Demo cratic policy of giving millions of acres of the public lands to the new States, and persisten tly refusing to grant an acre to the old States. “Opposition to the borrowing of money and the creation of a public debt by . the national government, in time of peace, to aid in carry ing on its ordinary operations, without at the same time making due and adequate provision for its redemption. “Opposition to the admission into this coun try of foreign paupers and criminals—to the voting at the polls by foreigners not naturalized —and to all evasions and violation of the nat uralization laws. “Opposition, in fine, to Modern Democracy. “Opposition ! It is, at this important con- juncture in our national and State affairs, a good name, a peculiarly appropriate name, a highly patriotic name, for a party that would save the country from the blighting effects and the fatal consequences of a longer continuance of Democrrtic misrule.” Males and Females born.—“There seems to be a universal law that more “males than females arc born.” This is sustained by the records of every nation where records have been kept • The excess of males varies with different people, but; so far as known, the ex cess is greatest in the United States. It varies widely among the different States, the excess in.South Carolina and Kentucky being more than three times as great as Massachusetts. The effect of climate and other appreciable cau ses in producing this disproportion in the sexes, is not settled. The excess is greatest in ex treme climate^Russia and South Carolina.
The Western Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
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July 8, 1859, edition 1
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