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1 G it rmm 1T!!I !S1K! WEEKLY BY CH. C. RABOTEAU, EDITOR IX "ItlLTOR. TERMS: $2 50 PER ANNLM IX ADVANCE, OR S3 00 IF PAYMEXT IS DELAYED SIX MONTHS. VOL. 111. RALEIGH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1850. NO 89. r .Hi .R A L JHj f Jul U J K7 O TLIUIS. T.is RiuiiJii Tuci will b sent to Subscribers U Two i) ulai ul lml? T annum, 11' laid ill d- rauca. J uree Dollars will b charged, U payment delaved six mjiitlis. 'l'lijie Terms will be invaria bly adUdretl tu. AUVERTISEIIEXTS. For everv Sixteen line, or lest. One Dollar for the first, and Twenty-live Cents for each subsequent in sertion. Court Ordeis, fic. will be charged 25 per co'it. higher; but a reasonable deduction will be made to those who advertise by the year. HjT Letter on business, and all Communications intended for publication is ust be addressed to the Editor, and pt paid. . Tilt: UGLY DUCK. BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON.. A highly respectable and matronly duck intro duces ir'o the poultry yard a brood which she had just hatched. She haa had a deal of .tumble will) one egg much larger than the rest, and which af ter all, prrduccd a very 'ugly duck,' who gives the name, and is the hero of the story. 'So we are to have tins tribe, ton.' said the other ducks, 'as if there were r.ot (ninth already! And only look how ugly one ia ; we won't suffer that one here.' And immediately a duck flew at it and bit it on the neck. 'Let it alone,' said the mother, 'it does no one any harm.' 'Yes, but it is so largo and strange looking, and therefore it must be teased.' 'These are fine children that the mother has said an old duck who belonged to the nobles, and wore a red rag around iis leg. 'All handsome ex cept one; it has not turned nut well. 1 with she could change it.' 'That can't be done,your grace,' aid the niothei j 'besides, if it is not exactly pret ty, it is a sweet child, and swims as well as the others, even a little better. I think in 'growing it will improve. It was long in the egg, and that's the reason it is a Utile awkward.' 'The others are nice little things,' said the old duck, 'now make yourself quite at home here.' And a, he did. But the poor young duck that had come last out of the shell, and looked so ugly, was bitten, and pecked, and teased by ducks and fowls. 'It's ao large !' said they all j and the tur key cock that had spurs on when he came into the world, and therefore fancied himself an emperor, limited about like a ship under full sail, went straight up to it, gobbled, and got quite red. The poor little duck hardly knew where to go, or where to stand, it was so sorrowful because it was so ngly and the ridicule of the whole poultry yard. Thus passed the first day, and afterwards it grew worse and worse. The poor duck was haunted above every one ; its brothers and sisters were cross to it, and always said, 'I wish the cat would get you, yon frightful creature 1' and even the mother said, 'Would you were far from here I' And the girl that fed the poultry kicked it with her foot. So it ran and flew over the hedge. On it ran. At last it come to a great moor where wild ducks lived; here it lay the whole night, and was o tired and melancholy. In the morning up flew the wild ducks, and saw their new comrade, who turned on every side, and bowed as well as it could. 'But you are tremendously ug ly !' said the wild duck?. 'However, that ia of no consequence to us, if you don't marry into our fam ily.' The poor thing ! It certainly never thought of marrying ; it only wanted permission to lie a- mong the reeds, and to drink the water of the marsh, 'Bang ! bang !' was heard at this moment and seven I wild ducks lay dead among the reeds, and the water wad red as blood. There was a great hooting excursion. The sportsmen lay all around the moor ; and the blue smoke floated like a cloud through the dark trees, and sunk down to the very water, and the dogs splattered about in the marsh splash ! splash I reeds and rushes were waving on all aide, it was a torrible fright for the poor ducks. ':."' , At last a!l was quiet, but the poor little thing did not dare to lift up its head.it waited many hours before it looked around, and then hastened away from the moor as quickly as possible. It run over the fields and meadows, and there was such a wind that he could hardly get along. Towards evening the duck reached a little hut Here dwelt an old woman, with her torn cat an l hen, and the cat rould put up its back and purr, and (he hen could lay eggs, and the old woman loved them both, as her very children. For cer tiin reasons of her own, she let the duck live with them. Now the lorn eat was master in the house, and the hen was mistress ; and they always said, 'We and the wotld.' That the duck should have opinion of his own, they never would allow. 'Can you lay eggs J' asked the hen. 'No.' , ... 'Can you put up j our back and purr I' said tn.nc.it. , . No.' ':' , 'Well, then, you ought to have no opinion of vourown, where sensible people art speaking.' jl And the duck sat in the corner, and wns very s.id ; when suddenly it took it into its head to think of the fresh air and the sunshine ; and it nad such jl an inordinate longing to swim in the water, that P h could not help telling ihe hen nf it. , jl; 'What next, I wonder!' said the hen. 'Yon have nothing to do, and so you sit brooding over ucb fancies. Lay eggs, or purr, and youH forget them.' 'But it is so delightful to twim on the water !' lid I he duck, 'so delighlfuj when it d tidies over onu e head, and one dive down to the very out turn.' . . ' 'Weill that must be fine pleasure '!'. id ihe h-n 'You are crasy, I think. Atk the ra', who is I ti. cleverest wan I know if he would like toswim on tlie water, or perhaps to. dive, tn any nuthins; of iyelf. Ask your mistress, the old I. J), arid there is no one in the world cleverer than she is ; do you think that she would like to swim on the water, and for ihe water to dash over her head?' 'You dout't understand me,' said Ihe duck. 'Understand indeed I If we don't understand you, who should ? I suppose you won't pretend to be cleverer than the lorn cat, or our mistre', lossy noihii gof myself? Dunt behave in that way, child; but be thankful for all the kindness thil has In t i tju n you. Ht-ve J i n not got into a warm Mi in, : ti l have you not go! ihe society of persens from whom something is to be learned? But you are a blockhead. and it is tiresome to have ti do with you. You may believe what I say ; I sin well disposed towards you ; I Icll you what is disagreeable, and it is onty by that one re cognises onr' true friends.' 'I think I shall go into the wide world, stij the duck. 'Well then, go !' answered the hen.' And the duck went. It swam on the water, it dived down ; but was disregarded by every other animal on account of its ugliness. One evening the sun trns setting most magni ficently there came a whote flock of large beauti ful birdsout of the bushes; never had the duck seen anything so beautiful. They were of a bril liant white, with long slender necks', they were swans. They uttered a strange note, spread their superb wings, and flew away from the cold coun tries (for the winter was setting in) to warmer lands and unfrozen lakes. They mounted so high. The litilo ugly duck felt indescribably it turned round in the water like a mill wheel, and uttered a cry so loud and strange that it was afraid even ef itself. Oh, the beautiful birds ! the happy birds I it could not forget them ; and when it could see them no longer, it dived down to the bottom of the wa ter i aiid when it came up again it was quite be side itself, " And now it became so cold. But it would be too sad to relate all the sufferings and misery which the duckling had to endure throughout the hard winter. It lay on moor in the rushes. But when Ihe sun began again to shine more warmly, when the laiks sang, and the lovely spring was come then, all at once, it spread its wings in the air. J hey made a rushing noise, louder than formerly, and bore it on more vigorously ; and before it was well aware of it, it found itself in a gar den where the seringas sent forth their fragrance, and their long green branches hung down in the clear streamB. Just then three beautiful white swans came out of the thicket. They ruatled their feathers and swam on the water so very lightly I oh ! so very lightly ! The duckling saw the sup erb creatures, and was seized with a strange feel ing of sadness. : 'To them will I fly' said it to the royal birds. Though they kill me I must fly to them !' And it flew into the water, and swam to the magnificent birds, that looked at it, and the rustling plumes, sailed towards it. 'Kill me" said the poor creature, and it bowed down ils head to the water and awaited death. But what did it see in the water? It saw beneath its own likeness ; but no longer that of an awk ward greyish bird, ugly and displeasing ; it was the figure of a swan. It is of no consequence being bom in a barn yard, if only it is a swan's egg. The large swans swam beside it and stroked it with their bills. There were little children run ning about in the garden ; they threw bread into the water, and the young ones cried out, 'There ia a new one !' And the other children shouted too, 'Yes a new one is come!' and the clapped their hands and danced, and ran to tell their fathers and mothers. And they threw bread and cake into the water, and every one said, 'The newono is best! so young and so beautiful !' Then the young one felt quite ashamed and hid its head under its Wings. It knew not what tod' It was loo happy, but yet not proud, for a good heart Is never proud, li remembered how it had been persecuted and derided, and now it had heard all say it was the most beautiful of birds. A id the syreugis !n t down their branches to it in ihe water, and the mn s.ajiie so luvcly and so warm. Then it shook its plume, il.e slender neck i lifted up, and from its Viry heart it ciied, rejoic ingly, 'Never dreamed I of such happiues when 1 was the little ngly duck.' any tho CELEBRATED TAILOHS. The late Governor Scott, of Mississippi, worked for several years as a journeyman tailor in that State, and when nominated for Governor, was car rying on a small tailoring business. Ho filled the duties and dignities of the office of Governor with such unexampled satisfaction, that the Stale of Mississippi raised t monument to his memo. ry. ... Tennessee has furnished two Senators from our illustrious fraternity. One of them, Hopkins .. Turney, was distinguished by his colleagues for the possession of a higher order of talent, while Mr. Jarnagan will long be remembered as one of the brightest ornaments of that dignified body. But, in estimating true greatness, it will, in a more eminent degreo, be found embodied in the talents arid characteristics of such men as An drew Johnson, of Tennessee, member of the House of Representatives. Ofhiinit wassaid, by one of the Presidents, that, "in point of talent, he is a head and shoulders above any other man in Ten nessee." The Hon. Andrew Johnfon Is also an excellent tailor, hating carried on business success fully for many year. As our greatest men hate either been farmers or mechanics, and even arose from moderate cir cumstances and positions, a book containing their biographies could not fail of being interesting and usefnl. Who will commence writing it f Pou't all speak at once ! TAKING A NEWSPAPER. A PRACTICAL STORY, PLEASANTLY TOIX. "Pleasant day this, neighbor Gaskill," said one farmer to another, coming into the barn of the lat ter, who was engaged in separating the chaff from Ihe wheat crop, by the means of a fan. "Very fine day, friend Alton any news ?" re turned the individual addressed. "Nothing of importance ; I have called over to ee if you wouldn't join Carpenter and myself in taking the pa;er this year. The price ia only two dollars." "Nothing cheap that you don't want," returned Gaskill, in a positive tone ; "I don't believe in newspapers; I never heard of one doing any good: and nnthiii; can be got but of them until it's read through. They would not be good for a cent if a paper came every week ; and, besides, dollars ain't picked up in every corn hill." "But think, neighbor Gaskill, how much infor mation your gals would get if they had a fresh newspaper every week, filled with all Ihe kites' in telligence. The lime they would spend in readi.ig, would be nothing to what they would gain." "And what would they gain, 1 wonder ? gel their heads filled with nonsensical stories. Look at Sally Black; is'nt she a fine specimen of your newspa per reading gals ? Not worth to her father three piimkin seeds. I remember well enough when she was one of the most promising bodies a bout here. But her father was fool enough to lake a newspa pet. Any one could see a change in Sally ! She began to spruce ':p and look smart. First came a bow on her Sunday bonnet, and then gloves to go to meet i ng. A fter that, she - must . be sent to' school again, and that at the very time when she began to be worth something about Irme, And now she haa cot a forty piano, and a fellow comes every week to teach her music.;" j "Then yon won't join us, neighbor ?' ' Mr. Alton , said, avoiding a useless reply to Gaskill. "Oh no! that I will not. Money thrown away ; on newspapers is worse than warted. I uere'r heard of their doing any good. The time spent in readintja newspaper every week would be enough to raise a hundred bushels of potato. Your newspaper, in my opinion, is a dear bargain at any price. Mr. Alton changed the subject, and soon left neighbor Gaskill to his fancies. About three months afterwards, however, they again met, as they had frequently done during the intermediate time. Have you sold your wheit yet 1" asked Mr. Alton. "Yes, I sold it day before yesterday." "How much did you get for it ?" "Eighty-five cents." "No more 1 Why I thought every one knew that the price had advanced to ninety-five cents, To whom did you sell ?" "To Wakeful, the storekeeper in It : . He met me day before yesterday, and asked me if I had sold my crop yet. 1 said I had not. He then offered to take it at eighty five cents, the maiket price ; and I said he might as well have it, as there was doubtless little chance of its rising. Yester. day he sent over his waggon and took it away." "This wns hardly fair in Wakeful, Ho came to me also, and offered tu buy my crop at eighty five. But I had just received my newspaper, in which I saw that in consequence of accounts from Europe of a short crop, grain had gone up. I ask ed him ninety-five, which, after some haggling, he consented to give." "Did he pny yon ninety-five ?" exclaimed Gas kill, in surprise and chagrin. "He certainly did." "Too bad ! too bad ! Xo better than downright cheating, to take such a shameful advantage of a man's Ignorance." "Certainly, Wakeful cannot he justified in his conduct, replied Mr. Alton. "It is not right for one mp.n to take advantage of another man's ig norance.and get his goods for less than they are worth. But does not any man deserve to HufFer who remains wilfully ignorant, in a world where he knows there are always enough ready to avail themselves of his ignorance ? Had you been wil ling to expend two dollars for the use of a news paper for a whole year, you would have saved in the single item of your wheat crop alone, fourteen dollars! just think of that. Mr. Wakeful takes the newspapers, and, by watching them closely is always prepared to make good bargains with some half dozen others around here, who have not wit enough to provide themselves with the only sure avenue of information on all subjects the news papers." "Have you sold yonr potatoes ?" asked Gaskill, with some concern in his voice. "O no, not yet. Wakeful has been making me offers for the last ten days. But from the prices they are bringing in Philadelphia, I am well satis fied they are about 30 cents there." "About thirty ! Why.I sold to Wakeful fjr a bout twenty-six cents," "A great dunce you were, if I most speak so plainly : he o (Tired me 29 cent for 400 bushel. But I declined and I was right. They are worth SO to-day, and at that price I am going to sell." " "Isn't It loo bad ? ejaculated the mortified farmer, walking backwards rid forward?, impatiently. "There are $25 literally sunk in the sea. . That Wakeful has cheated me most outrageously." "And all because you were too close to take a newspaper. I should call that saving at the spig ot, and letting out at the bungliole, neighbor Gas kill." ( 'I shontd think It was indeed. This very day I'll send off money for a newspaper; and if any one gets ahead of me nfaiu he'll have to be wide awake, I can tell him." . ' "Have you heard of Sally Black f' askeJ Mr. Alton, sfter a brief silence.' " . i "No;. Wim of hjr J" "She leaves home to-morrow . .i,d goes to R ." "Indeed ! What for ?" "Her father takes the newspaper, you know." "Yes." "And has given her a good education." "So they say ; but I could never see that it has done any good for her, except to make her good for nothing." . "Not quite so bad as that, friend Gaskill. But to proceed ; two weeks ago, Mr. Black saw an ad vertisement in the paper for a young lady to teach music and aome other branches in the seminary at R . He showed it to Sally, and she asked him to ride ever and see about it. He did so, and then returned for Sally, and went back again. The trustees. the seminary liked her very much, and engaged her at the aalar? of $400 a year. To morrow she goes to take charge of her respective classes." . "You cannot, surely, be in earnest?", farmer Gaskill said, with a. look of profound astonish nient. ' It's every word true," replied Mr. Alton. "And now you will hardly say that a 'newspaper is dear at any price,' or that the reading of them has spoiled Sally Black." Gaskill looked upon the ground for many mim- utes. Then raising his head, he half ejaculated with ft s;h : ; "If I haven't been a confounded fool, I came plaguey near it ! But I will be a fool no longer. I'll subscribe for i newspaper to-morrow see if 1 dunt't?" BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT. Stand, O man ! upon the hill-top in the stillness of the evening hour and gaze, not with joyous but with contented eyes, upon the beautiful or Id a. round thee ! See where the mists soft and dim rise over the green, meadows, through which the rivulet steals its way ! See where broadest and stilleai, the wave expands is lo the full size of the selling sun and ihe willow that trembles on the breeze and the oak that stands firm in the storm, are reflected back, peaceful bcth, from the clear glass ofthe tides. See where, begirt by the har vest and backed by the pomp of a thousand groves the roofs of ihe town, bask, noiseless in the calm glow ol th sky. Now a sound from those abodes floats in discord to thine ear only from the church tower, soaring high above the rest, perhaps faintly heard through the note of the holy bell. Al ong the meaddow skims the swallow on the wave, the silver circlet, breaking into spray, shows the sport of the fish. See the earth, how serene, though all eloquent of activity and life ! See the heavens how benign, though dark cloud, by yon mountain, blend the purple with the gold ! Gaze contented for good is around thee not joyous , for evil is the shadow of good ! Let thy soul pierce through the veil of the senses and thy sight plunge deeper than the surface which gives delight to thine. Below the glass of that river, the pike darts to his prey, the circle in the wave, the soft j lashing among the reeds, are but ihe signs of destroyer and victim. In the ivy round the oak by the margin, the owl hungers for the night, which shall give its beak and taluns food for its young, and the spray of the willow trembles with the wing of redbreast, whose bright eyes see the worms on the sod. Canst thou count, too, O man I all the cares all the sins that those noiseless roof-tops conceal ? With eve ry curl of that smoke to the sky a human hope melts as briefly. And the bell from the church tower that to thy ear gives but mute music, perhaps knells for the dead. The swallow but chases the moth and the cloud that deepens the glory of the heavens, and the sweet shadows on the earth, nurse but the thunder that shall rend the grave, and the storm that shall devastate the harvests, Not with fear, not with doubt recognize, O mortal, the presence of evil in the world. Hush thy heart in the humbleness of awe, that its mirror may re flect as serenely the shadows as the light. Vainly, for its moral, dost thou gaze on the landscape, if thy soul put not check on the dull delight of the senses. Two wings only raise thee to the summit of the truth where the cherub shall comfort the sorrow, where the seraph shuil enlighten the joy, Dark as ebon spreads the one wing, white as snow gleams the other mournful ss thy reason when it descends into the deep exulting as thy faith when it springs to the day-star. Bulweb. Truss Pantaloons. In a number of our paper, some week or two ago, we published an extract, wherein a Miss Webber argues that all marnaea hie ladies should dress just like men. To th.s a friend a married man objects. He says hi companion has had on the pantaloons for thirty years, and bethinks to drag them off now would near about kill her. Our friends thinks, and with ime justice, too, that most ladies would prefer wearing the pantaloons after, instead of 2ieIre,marriage, ss thai seems to be the custom now. Oil this lies ice say nothing, not wishing to take either side of the argument We will say, however, that if, as Mis Webber seems to intimate, the real reason why the ladies above alluded to should dress like tin men is , that those in need of husbands could be easily distinguished from "the rest of mankind," this object could be equally well accomplished by the lady wish ing to be married carrying a nea ticket on some part of her dress, somewhat after the manner of a ship wishing freight. It migli read thus "Up fur ihe Port nf MatrinumyA MM Wanted Apply toon." This would answer the ssme purpose as the breeches, and rould be laid aside at any time, without loss to the owner. Our old friend, however, wlio objects to single la dies wearing the breeches, and who haa been mar ried SO years, quote scripture to carry his argu ment, and says "II the good lady would taM peep at the 6th veise of the 22nd chanter ol Di u teroliomy, she could read as follows: The woman shall lint wear that which pertaineth unto a man neither shall a msn put una woman's garment for at! lit it do u ire abuuimslion unto the LorJ. II uuinthiro Arg'41. Correspondence of Richmond Republican. Washington, Aug. 20, 1S50. I send you, as I promised, an analysis of the vote given in the House, yesterday, against suspending the rules, to take from the Speaker's table, the Sen ate Adjustment Bills, in the order they came down from the Senate, and make them the order of the day, for this day. List of Membert voting AM Y on (he above motion. Alabama Bowden, Harris, IlubUird and logo. Arkaiiiss Johnson. Florida Cabell. Georgia Haralson, Jackson, Savage, Toombs, Welborn. Indiana Julian. Kentucky Caldwell, Johnson, Stanton. Louisiana Ln Sere, Morse, Maine Goodennw, Otis. Maryland Buwie, Hammond. Massachusetts Duncan, Fowler, Mann, Rock well. Michigan Bingham, Sprague. Mississippi Brown, Fealherston, Thon.nson. Missouri Phelps. New Jersey Hay, King New York Clarke, Duer, Gott, Gould, Hallo way, J. A. King. Preston King, Malteson, McKis sock, Nelson, Reynolds, Risley , Rutnsey, Seller merhorn, Schoolcraft, Silvester, Spalding, White. Nor:h Carolina Ashe.Clingman, Daniel, Yen-able." Ohio Campbell, Corwin, Crowe!!, Evans, Gid dings. Hunter, Root, Shenck. Taylor, Vinton. Pennsylvania Calvin, Howe, Stevens. Rhode Island King. South Carolina Burl, Colcock, Homes, Orr, Wallace, McQueen, Woodward. V Tennessee Ewing, Harris, Thomas. Vermont Henry. , Virginia Averelt, Bayly, Beale, Edmnndson, Holladay, McDowell, Meade, Morton, Parker, Powell, Seddon. Wisconsin-Cole, Doty, Durkee. To(o2 94. It will be seen from an examination of this cu- ions list of opponents to fixing a day, for the con- ideration of the Senate Adjustment Bills, that Ab olitionists and Disunionista voted together, cheek by jowl, that if they be considered in relation to their ancient party sympathies, they are equally divided, 47 being Wbigs and 47 Democrats, that 47 of them are anti-slavery men and 47 of them pro-slavery men, that, a large number of them would dissolve the Union to prevent slavery from being abolished and to hinder the escape of fugi tives from labor, while an equal number would dis solve the Union to bring about the ultimate aboli tion of slavery In the slave States ! ' Such is a just view of the feelings and views of these ninety-four members, who banded together, yesterday, in the House, to prevent the House liom settling the questions that are now disturbing the country. Nearly all of them are enemies of the Constitution and the Uuion, some designedly so, and some unwittingly so. I hope that this list will be published in every State and District, from which these recreants to their public duty were sent, to Congress by a betrayed and insulted constituency. The Senate have matured and passed several bills, eminently calculated, in the judgment of all honest men, to give peace to the whole country, and to remove from the political arena, every cause of al legation of good feeling, and here are ninety-four ofthe people's representatives, diametrically oppos ed to each other in their sympathies and general purposes, uniting together, in a factious spirit, to prevent a day being fixed for even considering these salutary measures ! Unless I mistake, the temper of the constituencies of these men, they will hurl these betrayers of their interests, forever from the seats they now occupy, when the next el ection comes on. . N'ti 1 TLh.."OURM:. The editor ol the Augusta Constitution H!, writ ing to his own journal from Coosa Springs, sys : "We understand from gentlemen, now here from Alabama, that many ofthe planters in their section of the Stale, have already notified the mer chants they deal with, that they will purchase no more articles of merchandise manufactured, or im ported from the north. Hereafter, it is their de termination to give the preference in all cases to all articles of southern or of foreign manufacture." The editor inclines to the opinion that if this example were generally followed throughout the slave-holding States, the result would tell power. fully upon northern interests, and through them on northern political opinion and action. The pocket nerve would admonish the people of the north that the north would soon be reduced to the alternative of giving uptheiranti-slavery pwpagandism their well matured schemes for hemming in and finally abolishing slavery, and their insolent intermeddling with the institution as it exists in the States, and with the relation of master and slave their organ ized societies for decoying slaves fri.rp their wes ters and for protecting the runaway, or they must give up the southern trade. There can be no qnes tion as to Ihe potency of this peaceful remedy in the hands of a united people ; and its main recom mendation consists in its being a peaceful remedy. Richmond Times. It does not admit of a doubt with us, that if one ofthe objects of Southern men could be accom plished, they would infallibly bring two free States into the Union, instead of one. Yet for this me sure men ofthe South contend, and men of the North resist It both equally blinded by the conjec tures of prejudice. This sort of thing Is truly la mentable, in profession of statesmanship, and, tends certainly to weaken popular confidence in the men who submit themselves to it. For our part we confess the suspicion that there are men in Congress, and some out of it loitering iri Washington, who are instigated by sinister de signs in their hostility and confirmed antagonism to national peace. We know this opinion ha been commonly expressed by letter writers and partisan presses. If it is so, this antagonism then, does not originate in a hope of accomplishing the ultra purposes it effects; ncr does such pertinacity of opposition betry indijferentism with respect to the Union, alone. There lurks beneath, but half con cealed, the outline of an ulterior design; but which, when once developed to the national gaze, will be shivered into fragments. The spirit and tone of public opinion has been adroitly tested, and sufficiently we should think to convince the most ultra, mischief-maker of them all, that it will not be trifbd with. There is nothing for the Disunionist is torxjtect at the hand ofthe people, but scorn and infamy, whenever the mask ia torn from his face. A traitor to his country, to humanity, lo liberty and lo God, he will be fit only for tlie ignominy of his inexorable fate. fBaft. Sun, Tut Right Course. Two negroes, supposed to be fugitive slaves from Missouri, were arrested in Bond county, Illinois, a few days since, snd com mitted to prison, until their owners should have an opportunity to appear against them. They had about $70 in tlwir possession, and said they esinr from the " Am-BottiMii," in Missouri, This is hon est, snd in sinking contrast with the course pursu ed in the free State in this latitude in regard to slave absconding from Maryland, Virginia, die. (The Illinois people evn.ee a proper idea of their constitutional duty in this auiur bytsuh actios. St. Levis, August 20. Intere'ting Sfct fnm Santa Fc and Aew Mexico The Election Formation of a Slate Legisln lure Queer pruceedings Tiro lutled Slates Senators Elected- Indiu Dej redalions J-c. The Republican has received intelligence from Santa Fe to the 16th ult. The elections, iiinli-r the State constitution of New Mexico, took place on the 20th of June; and resulted in the choice nf Dr. Henry Cinneily for Governor, and Einnnoi I Alvarez for Liemenant Governor. Win. 8. Mrs. serdy was elected Representative to Congress by 500 majority over Hugh N. Smith. Member nf the Legislature were uUo elected, and ibis laidy convened at the time appointed by the State con stitution, when sntiif curious scenes were enacted. The parties a re divided one advocsting lernic rial and the other State government. A member ofthe Senate presented his credentials snd was admitted, but, it being afterwards found that he would not vote with the majority, he was excluded from taking his seat, and his opponent admitted. Hereupon a number of the Senators and Represen tatives withdrew, leaving the House without a quorum. The remaining members took upon them, selves Ihe responsibility of filling the vacant seats with men enough to form a quorum, snd proceeded with the business. Major R. H, Whiteman and Major F. A. Cunningham, both late paymasters in the United States army, were elected United States Senators. The Indiana were continuing their depredations throughout all parts of New Mexico, An express which left Santa Fe sveral dsvs af ter this party, brought sealed dispatches and orders fur two thousand stand of arms. The wife of captain Eustin, of U. 8. A., died at Santa Fe on the 20th of July. 1 he crop in New Mexico were very fine and promising. Major Whiteman is expected to arrive here fSt. Louis,) in a few divs. on his way to Washington. Louisville, August 23. THE MISSOURI ELECTION. The St. Louis Republican ofthe 17th inst.stvs; " In no event can the majority against the election of Thomas H. Benton be less than 85 on joint bs l lot, 1 he Legislature is now stated to have the) following party complexion : In the Senate there are 33 members 7 of them hold over from the pre. vious election ; 5 of whom are claimed as Benton, ites, and 2 as anti-Bentonites ; of the remaining 26, the whigs have elected 12, the Bentonites 6; the anti-Bentonites 6; uncertain 2. The Houes of Representatives, so far as ascertained by returns received at St. Louis on Saturday, is as follows; The whigs have elected 53 members, Bentonites 25, and 9 counties are to be heard from sending as many members, and each party may elect a pot. tion of them." Restoring and preserving- the Sight. A friend who bad read the following valuable Item of infor mation, but who bad forgotten which way "to rub his eyes," for loss of sight by age, requested us yesterday lo republish the process. It is as fbl Iows.-2V. Y.PotU For near tighlednets Close the eye and press the fingeis gently, from the, nose tutuard, across the eyes. This flattens the pupil, and thus length ens or extends the angle of tision. This should be done several limes a day, till short-sightedness is overcome. For loss nf sight by ag, auch a require mnL fying glasses, pass ihs fingers or towel from the nuter corner of the eyes inwardly, above and below Ihe eyeballs, pressing ger.dy a.i:-.s them. This rounds them up and preserves or restore the sight. It has been already said that this I nothing new. - The venerable John Qnincy Adam preserv ed his sight in this way, in full vigor, to the day of his death. He told Lawyer Ford nf Lsncssier, who wore glasses, that if he would manipulate his eyes with hi fingers, front their external Mmje. inwsrdly.he would sonn be sbleto dispense with glasses. Ford Hied it, and sonn restored his sight perfectly, a nd has since preserved it by the con. '.inusnce ol this practice. - Death f Geh. k H. Cot.-vrh MetrpSis (Tenn ) p-iper announce the death in that city, on ths 10th instant, nf Gen. Levin H. Cue, after otif. , ferlng terribly for sixty-three days from the wound inflicted on him by Jos. Williams, w the fatal me leo iu cvurt there. Whe-n Simpkin's wife kicked him out of bed says he-r-" See here now ! you'd better not do thai again 1 If yon do, it will cause a coolwn T
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