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NEW SERIES--VOL. IX, NO. 17.

MBS, LOFTY AND I

'h Mrs. Lofty k««P«® carri«go, Bo do I 6ho h®» dtpple grays to draw it,

Nono have I

With my blue-eyed laughing l)*by,

Trundling by,

I hide bis face, leflt she should sec Th« chcrab boy, and envy rne.

Iler fine liuaiband has white fingers Mirfe had not JIocoaM give hit) wife a palace—

Mine, a cot

Iter's comes homo beneath the starlight,— Ne'er curcs she Mine comes in the purple twilight,

Kisses inc,

And prays that lie who turns life's Hands, Will hold his loved ones in hia hands.

Airs. Lofty has licr jewel:", Bo have I 81io wears hers upon l:er bosom—

Inside I

Sho will leave her's at death's portal I5ye and bye I shall bear mino with mo

When I dio.

Fori have lovoaud sho has gold— .jKhe counts her wealth—mine can't be told.

Bhe has those who lovo her station: None lmvo I .Hut I've one true heart beside tuc—

Glad uin I

I'd not change it for a kingdom, No, not 1 (5od will weigh it in Lli* balance,

Bye aiul bye

And the difference dctlno TwixtMrs. I.ofty's lot and mine.

THE STAR OF LOVE

Tho Egyptian story or legend of the young Sheik Houssein, is one of those beautiful bits of Eastern fiction that arc well worthy of preservation. Wo give it entire:

Thero is a moment in every man's existence on which turns his future destiny.— Thero are many such moments, for ofttimes life hangs on a single thread, and if the thread is not cut, it requires but a touch to chango tho whole direction of the future. But in every man's life there is at least one, and in that of young Ilousscin it occurred thu.s:

It was not often in those days that travelers crossed the groat desert. Few Furopcans caino to Egypt, and fewer still went to Sinai. Hut there was a time when Ilousscin was callcd to Cairo to meet a noble party of western travelers, a gentleman and two ladies, who were making a pilgrimage to Sinai and tho Holy Land, nnd who wished his protection in crossing the desert. Ho saw but the gentleman, and readily engaged to perform the desired scrvicc.

It was not until the party had left the Birketal-1 Taj that he had meet them, where they wero encamped by moonlight on the sand that stretches away to Sue/.. As he sprang from his maro, before the tent door, he was startled by such a vision as lie had never before seen, but thought he had dreamed of in his waking dreams.

She was a slight, fair, and in the moonlight, pnlo as a creature of dreams. Was this one of the houris of his fabled paradise? There was no spot in all the Heaven of Mohammed lit for an angel like this. Away, like the sand on a whirlwind, like the clouds before the sun, like the stars at daybreak—away swept all his faith in 1:lam, and in an instant the Sheik Ilousscin was an idolator worshipping, as a thousand greater than him have done, the beauty of a woman. Perhaps ho might have quenched his thirst for the unknown at some other fountain but this was enough now.— lie had found that wherewith to fill the void, and he was content.

Love was anew emotion—a sensation ho had never before experienced nnd it satisfied him. Did she lovo him? That was a question which never occurred to him.— What did he earo for that, lie was looking for employment for his own soul, and ho had found it and that was enough

The tradition goes on to describe his long crossing of the desert—how he lingered among tho hills C? Sinai how he led them by Akaba and Petra, aud detained them fawny weeks ai Jfre city of Rock how the fair Euglisli girl faded slowly away, tor idic was dying when she came to Egypt xuid bow weary, well nigh dead, he carricd her to the Holy City, and pitched their tent by the mountain of the Ascension,— Aud all this time he watchcd over her with the zealous care of a father or a brother, and the quick heart of the lady saw it ubd understood it all. And sometimes he would txy in broken words to tell her of his old belief, and his ideas of immortality, and she would read in his hearing, sublime promises and glorious hopes that wore in a language ho knew nothing of, but which ho half understood from her uplifted eye and countenance.

How he worshipped that matchless eye'. Ho worshipped nothing elso on-earth or ill Heaven.

It WM noon of the night undor tho walls of Jerusalem and in tho white tent close bj the hill, on which the last footsteps of the ascending Lord left their hallowing touch, an English girl was waiting his bidding to follow him.

Outside the tent, prone on the ground, lay a group of Bedouins, and apart from them a little way. their chief, silent, motionless, to all that was earthly, dead. A. low voice within the tent broke the still

ness of the night, but he did not move.— A voice was uttering again those words, of which the sound lias become to him more familiar already, the Christian prayer. "Sheik Houssein!"

Ho sprang to his feet. It was her voice, faint, low, but silvery. The tent door was thrust aside and as a hand motioned to him to enter, he obeyed.

Sho lay on the cushions, her head lifted somowhat from the pillow by the anus of her sister her sister who spoke the language of the desert well, stood beside her as the young Sheik approached. His coofta was gathered around his head only his dark eye flashing gloriously was visible.— She looked up into it and whispered lie half understood her before the words came through her sister's lips, as she told him the story of Calvary and Christ, aud the cloud that received the King and Savior returning to his throne.

It were vain to say he understood all this. Ho only knew that sho was telling him of her hope ere long to be above him, above tho world, above the sky and his active but bewildered mind inwrought all this with his ancient traditions, and having long ago rejected the creed that did not teach him she was immortal, as he fell back on the idea that the immortals had somewhat to do with the stars as he lay down on the ground close by the sido of the tcut listening to every sound from within, he fisdffhis eyes ou the zenith and watchcd the passing of the hosts of the night until she died. There was a rustling of garments, a voice of inexpressible sweetness suddenly sighed a low, soft sigh, the expiration of a saint and at that instant, far in the depths of the meridian blue, a clcar star flashed on his eye for tho first time, its silver radiance, and he believed that she was there.

For three score years after that, there was on the desert, near the group of palm trees and the lonely spring, a small turret built of stones, brought a long distance, stone by stone, on camels. And in this hut, or on its summit, lived a good, wise man, beloved of all tho tribes, and especially followed by his own immediate tribe, who with him rejected Mohammed, and worshipped an unknown God, through the medium of the stars, and especially one star which ho had taught them to reverence above all others.

And at length there came a night when tho wind was abroad on the desert, and tho voice of the desert was fierce and terrible. But high over all the sand hills, and over the whirling storms of sand, sedate, calm, majostie, the immutable stars were looking down on tho plain, and the old man on his tower beheld them, and he went forth on tho wind to search their infinite distances.

That night, saith the tradition, another star flashed out of heaven, beside the star that the Aral's worshipped, and the oheik Houssein was young again in the heaven of his beloved.

Let us leave him tho mercy of his tradition, nor seek to know whether lie reached that Messed abode.

I UIKNTATJOiYS Or' OA NIK T..

How doth the party sit solitary that boasted of much people. She that made boasts of greatness in the nation and of great men how has she fizzled

She weepeth sure in the night, and tears arc on her cheeks, and in tho morning there is none to comfort her.

Republicanism has gone into captivity because of great wrongs inflicted by heron the people.

The ways of Republicanism do mourn boeause few gird on the armor to do battle in her cause.

The adversaries aro chief her enemies prosper, for the people hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions.

All her beauty is departed, and her leaders are becoming harmless, for her strength is gone.

Republicanism hath grievously sinned, therefore is sho removed. All they that honored, despise her. Behold her affliction ye people, for the enemy hath magnified and exalted themselves.

The adversary hath spread out his hand and seized upon all pleasant places, and tho people have twice commanded that Republicans should not enter into the offices.

Behold Republicanism Sec, 0! yc people, for she has become vile—very vile.

Woe is me, Daniel. I am the man that hath affliction by the wrath of the rod of the people.

Near and shame is come upon me desolation and destruction upon all my hopes of gain.

I do not prosper. I am as one dead. I was dead, but I rose again, and for a time did flourish.

I becamc great I was chosen as a lawgiver, but the bitterness of my soul tempted me, and iniquity becamc my companion aud I sinned against the people.

When will the people i%ain arise in their strength and "Skulking behind Cooper Shops and Atcnings, the Dog fennel and Jimpson icceds," assert their rights and again choose me to rule over them.

Surely then, and not till then, can I hope

to become great among tho people Woe! Woe! Woe! is inc. That ti That timo will never oome.

tSTX gentleman just from Kansas reports no bard times (here. .They have uo banks nothing but gold in circulation.— Nebraska is in a very different condition! Her shin-plaster.establishments have fail* ed, and prices are prostrated.*—J/uisville Democrat.^.,...„ ,.....

DlSCJilOX CONVENTION. The Cleveland Plaindealer thus reports the concluding performances of the Disunion Convention held at that place:

THE

DISUNION SPLURGE AT CIIAPTN'S

HALL.—

The small and sweet-scented

crowd at Chapiu's Hall have played out and gone home. They got through last night, after a gusty session of two days.— The principal spouters of the Convention have been Parker Pillsbury, the heir apparent Burleigh, a hoary-headed. and rather greasy old fellow named. Foss, sister Foster and one or two other powerful females whoso names we were unable to learn, and several talented niggers from New England. It seems that Mr. Watkins, a colored man and assistant editor of Fred. Douglas' paper, ventured to remark yesterday afternoon that the convention was going a little too far, and the unfortunate Watkins was pitched into by all hands last evening. Wm. Wells, brown, first walked into the unhappy Watkins Sister Jones then came up to the scratch, and, figuratively speaking, dealt the ill-starred Watkins a sockdolagcr on the smeller and the fat and greasy Foss of New Hampshire "finished" the wretched Watkins.— Mr. Foss rolled upon the stand and told the audience that he was "rough." He then said he wasn't "polished." These jocular observations being received with great applause and laughter, Mr. Foss went in. After finishing the unhappy Watkins, ho talk confidentially with his friends, tho Republicans and it was a matter of surprise to Mr. Foss (and it certainly is to us) why the Republicans were not with the Disunionists in this convention. It must be, Foss said, that there were hypocrites in the Republican party. Mr. Foss then proceeded to infamously abuse the name aud memory of George Washington.

We are glad to saj- that somo hisses were heard amidst tho applause which greeted these dirty remarks. He—Foss —wanted the Union dissolved right off.— Ho wanted to see fires spring up in the South—wanted to seo the mansions of slave-holders on fire and dark, noble forms (meaning the niggers) stalking around, with knives, beheading white men! This delightful picture pleased the virtuous Foss, and he laughed boisterously, and rubbed his hands with frantic glee after ho had painted it.

The next speaker was Charles Redmond a colored young man from Massachusetts. As ho arose somebody in the gallery fiercely said, "Set down Charles Redmond!" and somebody else in another part of tho gallery requested, Charles Redmond to "dryup." Redmond savagely declined to cither sit down or dry up, aud proceeded to make a terrific speech. It was evident that, he had a slight misunderstanding with the editor of the Herald, for his allusions to that gentleman were not of a very comlimcntary character. He—Redmond— ventured to say that ha had seen more cultivated society than the editor of tho Herald dare aspire to. [.Sister Foster arose and vouched for tho truth of this statement.] Redmond wound up by desiring to see an immediate wind up of the Union.

A fro.ity-headed old gentleman in spectacles was tho last speaker. When wc left ho was dissecting, as he termed it, the Union,

The resolutions adopted by the convention have already been given to our readers. It, should be remembered that the principal movers in this convention, cspeially Foss, were ardent supporters of one •J Fremont in the presidential canvass nf last fall.

The Convention was down on the Plain Dealer—rayther. Foss said it was an "infamous paper Sister Jones said it was 'a develish paper and one of the f-pcak-.rs—"a culled pusscn'"—said it was a •fiendish sheet."

KF.3IAI!ivA51,C

Too

I.NSTA.VC!: OK JIKUO-

The Rev." Mr. Scuddcr, ol India, in a letter to the Christian Intelligencer, gives the following inslanco of heroism, called forth by the Indian mutinies:

Let Americans never be ashamed that nglisliuien are their forefathers, linglaud is a noble country. Her sons are heroes and her daughters are heroines. This rebellion has brought out deeds that doserve to be associated with those valorous actions which we, with throbbing pulses, read in history. In one place a lady and her husband lied in their carriage. He stood upright. She took the reins. She lashed the horses through a band of mutineers, 'hile ho with cool aim shot dead one who seized the horses' heads, and another who climl-ed upon the carriage behind to cut him dovru. On they fled, till again they found themselves among foes and a rope stretched across the road, made further progress appear impossible. True to herself she (lashed the horses at full speed against the rope, and as they, bearing it down, stumbled, she. by re«.n and whip,

MUCH DITTY.—Henry

er, 60 tho Christian Rogister says, has declared himself in fayor of omitting Sunday afternoon service, becauso ho thinks the afternoon should be devoted to domestio converse, reading the Bible and religious instrucUon, and considers Sunday-school or churchgoing four times^a day to be breaking Ae Sabbath.

tarThe

great cause of. Democracy is

onward and upward.

THE CURRENCY QUESTION-SOUND DOCTRINES.

The following resolutions, lately adopted

a Democratic meeting in Boston, enunciate sound doctrines on the currency .question: "Resolved, That the brief philosophy of tho present financial crisis is now, as it always has been, the.inflation of priccs and that bank paper, long credits and large corporations are the cause of the inflation. "That, with the country full of produce and an excess of exports over imports, this revulsion is not the fault of the merchants tho manufacturers or the laborers, who have earned all the solid wealth of the nation but of this vicious financial system, which substitutes bank paper for money and debt for capital which loans its own bills without interest most profusely when money is cheapest, and contracts and demands payment when it is dearest. "Resolved, That, the power given to Congress to regulate the currency has been wisely used, and that the Democratic policy, which established the independent treasury, (now the only safeguard of currency,) is universally acquiesced in as the soundest, most efficient and beneficial system of national finance ever devised for the credit of the country and the prosperity of the people. "Resolved, That it follows that the evil now lies in the paper system of the States, which has, in effect, abrogated the provision of the Constitution of the United States that 'no States shall coin money,' by creating fourteen hundred corporations, with power to engrave money, and expand it or contract it at their caprice or pleasure. "That this power, when held by tho United States Bank, was the moving cause of the bank suspension in 1S37 and the same power exercised by the principal State banks in letting out and then suddenly withdrawing some fifty millions of paper currency from their customers, has produced the like result in 1857. "Hence, tho question of finance in paper money becomes mainly a State question, and he will be the greatest benefactor to commerce and labor who will devise a plan of reform by which paper money as a currency shall be dispensed with, except for exchanges, or be so issued that it will at all times bo convertible into specie. "liesolved, That State Legislatures have been so profuse in the creation of banks of issue for money borrowers instead of money lenders that a mixed currency of paper, supposed to bo redeemable in specie, is so* interwoven in our financial system that it has become a disease which wc cannot at once cure without killing the patient and therefore, it is the part of wisdom, taught by hard experience, to begin tho remedy by restricting its excess, increasing its permanent specie basis and gradually abolishing its issue of bills under $10 to protect labor in the fruits of its earnings. "Resolved, That the banking system haviug caused the evil by an excessive issue of paper when nobody called for their debts, it can only aggravate the evil to resort to a contraction when everybody's debts are to be paid because the State having given the banks the power to make currency aud displace specie by paper, its sudden withdrawal inevitably deprives the merchants of the medium of circulation and compels them to fail, with ample property .o pay their debts, for the sole reason that they can neither sell their property or collect their debts in a panic, nor raise the money to adjust their balances with cach other and with the banks."

ANECDOTES OF AARON BURR.—On one )Ct asion, when a friend had met with an iliiiction, she said tohiui: "0 Colonel! how shall I get through this?" "LIVE through it, my dear was his emphatic reply.

Still complaining, she said "This will 11 me, Colonel 1 know I caunot survive /his." "'Well," said he, "die then, madam we must all die but bless me, die game!"

The following has all the weight of a solemn sermon: "One morning, near the close of his life, as he lay upon his bed prostrate with paralysis, a lady said to him in a bantering way: "Colonel, I wonder, now, if you ever were the gay LOTHARIO they say you were? "The old man turned his eyes, the lustre of which was undiminished still, toward the friend who made the remark, and lifting his trembling finger, said in his quiet, impressive whisper, which still lingers in her cars, and which brought tears to her eyes, twenty years after, as she repeated the words: "They say they say THEY SAY Ah my child, how long are you going to continue to use those dreadful words? Those two little words have done more harm than all others. Never use them, my dear.— Never uso them!"

BSFTlie newly created father of mankind was placed by the Supreme Author of his oeing in the carden, which the hand

raised them, while her husbanu weapon jOmnipotence itself had planted, "to a train freed them from those who succeed- jj-ggg

ed in leaping upon them, no was wounded, but both escaped with their lives. In another place, a young lady, the daughter of an officer, shot seven mutineers before they killed her. A captain, pressed by thc sepoys, with his good sword slew twen-ty-six of them before he fell.

\N OLD COIN.—A wealthy Israelite living near Sclma, Arkansas, has in his possession a silver shekel struck in the mint of Judea, 2750 years ago. It is about tho size of a half-dollar, but the silver is so impure that its intrinsic value i9 but fifteen cents. The owner would hardly part with the relic for as many hundred dollars. It has been in his family 560 years.

and

to keep it." Before the lieav-

ing bellows had urged thc furnace, before a hammer had struck upon an anvil, before tiio gleaming waters had flashed from an oar, before trade had luing up its scales or o-uaged its measures, the culture of thc soiTbcffan. "To dress thc garden and to keep it"—this was the key-note struck by the baud of God himself in that long, joyous, wailing, triumphant, troubled, pensive strain of life music which sounds through the generations and ages of our race.

Edward Everett.

A STEAMBOAT

Ward Beech-

NEWSPAPER.—Among

other innovations which the mammoth steamer Great Eastern is about to inaugurate, will bo the publication of a daily paper on board for the benefit of the traveling public—the regular "public" of travelers— whom she may be bearing across the ocean. But. this startling

feature

is anticipated on

the western waters of the New World, for the New Orleans and St. Louis packet steamer James E. Woodruff now sails equipped with the force and material for the publication of a regular Daily paper on board during her trips up and down the river, with a job office attached for the printing of bills of-faze and other work.

CRAWFORDSVILLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, INDIANA, NOV 14, 1857. WHOLE NUMBER 797.

MERCANTILE AGENCIES. The New York Herald denounces the "Nercantile Agencies," as dnngeroua not only to the small trader, who often finds his credit ruined without knowing the cause, but also to the merchant, who is very often led astray by reports furnished him,

and is victimized by the person coming to him with tbe best recommendations from the agency. It says if commercial firms relied less on commercial agencies and moro on their own correspondents, they would have fewer bad debts on their ledgers, and would run less .risk, of ^b(ccoining insolvent themselves. ... -L

The Cleveland Herald, in commenting on the article from the New York Herald, says:

There is truth in the above article, and more might be said, for nothing so brings into disrepute mercantile credit and character as the existence of these agencies.— The cheapness of credit in the great cities was the origin of this system of espionage, by which every merchant in the land is followed by an eye watching his steps, noting his habits, his places of resort, his family connections, his wife and children's habits, what he cats, and what he drinks aud wears. The most vague and ridiculous accounts arc recorded on the books of these agencies, and no romance in the land

jST*When .Colonel Lee, of New York, was collecting subscriptions for the equestrian bronze statue of Washington, now standing a monument of patriotism and art at the corner of Union Park, he had occasion to visit an old curmudgeon in the neighborhood, and, pulling out his subscription paper, requested him to add his name to the list. But old Lucre declined respectfully. "I do not sec," lie said, "what benefit this statue will be to me and five hundred dollars is a great deal of money to pay for the gratification of other people." "Benefit to you?" replied the colonel "why, sir, it will benefit you more than anybody else. The statue can be seen from every window of your house it will be an ornament, and add dignity to tho whole neighborhood, and it will perpetually remind you of the Fathof his Country—the immortal Washington "Ah, colonel," answered old Lucre, "I do not require a statue to remind me of him, for I always carry Washington here," and he placed his hand upon his heart.— "Then let me tell you," replied Colonel Lee, "if that is so, all I have to say is that you have got Washington in a d—d tight place!"

WHO POLLS TIIK MOST FRAUDULENT VOTES?—Tho Republicans have always insisted that rowdyism and fraudulent voting were practiced on election days by the Democrats alone. Well, our Democratic Common Council snut up all the liquor

shops yesterday, gave the rcpuolicans the

charge of the police, and what was t.ic rc-

suit? Yv liy, their nigger vote comes "P

missing some ten thousand, lliey ha\o I

not even the excuse of a rainy day when

their silk stocking voters stay in thc house..

The day was clcar, warm and beautiful—

the polls were free ol access—there

EST A colored man by the name of Clark lias published an address to "The Clergymen and God's People, of the Church," in —SUICIDAL.—Wc notice some of behalf of tho fugitive negroes in Canada.—

Ho says that many of theni are living in

OUR PRESIDENTS 4DTISINU TEMPERANCE.

In the year 1833 Mr. E. C. Delavcn, by personal application, obtained the signatures of Presidents Madison, Adams, and Jackson to a declaration against the use of

ar^cnt

spirits

Cll!.

wretched condition. These negroes were I -,vJiil«» priccs will come up and then they induced to run away from their masters by

for

them. Since

starve. Not one of them care a lig for a

negro after he's free. What they do is

from hatred, oj the master.

making altogether over thirty-seven mil- .)rjceg

The Wilmington (North Carolina) Commercial, in referring to the election news from Kansas, makes the following remarks, crcditable alike to its sense and patriot-

From the returns of the election in Kansas there is but little doubt it will be a free State when it enters the Union. The sound principles which now prevails in the country, and avowed by thc Administration, forbid complaint. this

sas alone have a right to dccidc matter. Thc people will it, so let be.

1 1 1

{©"From the tenth to the twelfth of last month, inclusive, there was no revolution in Mexico. One old Mexican gentleman hung himself, in consequencc of this state of affairs, on thc eleventh. He left a note intimating that he had been accustomed to his revolution every morning after breakfast for the last forty years, and that he couldn't live to see his country degenerate etc.

Chicago Banker asked a young

lady of that

city

what kind of money she

liked best. "Matri-money!" she replica. "What interest will it bring you?" "If properly invested, it will double the original stock every two years." .-

Each successive Presiden

has added his signature to the instrument excepting General Harrison, to whom it was not presented. Tho document is now mado complete up to this time, by the signa ture of the present Chief Magistrate of the United States, and, is as follows:

Being satisfied, from observation and experience, as well as from medical testimony, that ardent spirits, as a drink, is not only needless but hurtful, and that the entire disuse of it would tend to promote tho health, tho virtue, and the happiness of the community, wc hereby express our convic tion that should the citizens of the United States, and especially the young men, discontinue entirely the use of it, they would not only promote their own personal health, but the good of our country and the world. •*. ., ....

JAMES MADISON, JAMES K. POLK, JOHN QUINUYADAMS, Z. TAYLOR, ANDREW JACKSON, MILLARD FILLMORE, M. VANBUREN, FRANKLIN PIERCE, JOHN TYLER, JAS. BUCHANAN.

can compare with the fiction, solemnly jTirK IjAUlES- A AA ashington correspondent iri.|HoTi ln\im ne fnftta dlirtnt nr.nrifl.Tl infti'. of

written down as facts, about country merchants. ,.

IIO PRESIDENT BUCHANAN RECEIVES

tllC SoUull SaySI

"Mr. Buchanan still continues to have hosts of lady visitors, and scarcely a pretty woman comes to Washington but she must seethe bachelor President. Ilis manners towards hi3 fair visitors show that he is no 'lady's man his graceful commonplace soems to fail him with them and I have seen him evidently sorely taxed to find a few words to say to the fair dames who will find their way to his reception room. He is said to have been compelled to have recouasc to two stereotyped phrases which he invariably addresses by turn to the ladies, as he runs the gauntlet of them at reception hours. They are these: 'Madam, is this your first visit to Washington?' Answer. A pause, and then, 'Madam, I would advise you to visit the Smithsonian Institute,' after which the lady is expected to vamose."

AFFECTING INCIDENT.—Tho editor of the New York Independent, in the leading article of that paper last week, says:

A friend of ours was called upon the other day for assistance, by thc wife of a mechanic, a saddler, who had always had work enough at this season of the year, with ample wages, but who was now entirely out of employment. Tho gentleman offered to give tho husband work for a day at least, in his own cellar, splitting wood, piling coal, &«. But thc man had pawned his last coat for a trifle—as well atf his watch and all his furniture—aud must borrow another before he could come. The next day he came in the gentleman's ab-

senc(!j a'n,j

worked till afternoon when just

]ju wa.. leavin Uie

C|omosfics

bouse, ho asked the

tQ f,ive iriJ

!irul

Home

bread, if they

„ny, as he had eaten nothing till then

Another friend

W1,s

and of course thc Democrats come out far-:

thcr ahead than ever. Nothing kills oft' Crcclcyism so quickly and completely as honesty and fair play.—S\r. Y. Day-Hook.

{jic

fighting, rioting nor fraiaclulcnt\otinfr, I(jt],ors

Uiiarrje(l

of ours was coin-

He(j (hc othcr tQ

jisiuigs

ninc of thc

c,npbycd him in

ccrta]n

manufacturing a

•'SailMie ..j dismisscd'all

one's, aud (dial 1 retain the

a«.

as I can. But it was piti-

tQ suspcme aif(1

fcar

those

men ay I went up to them last Saturday night. Their faces actually whitened before me in the face, fearing that I should say 1 had no more work for them."

exchanges are advising the farmers not

t() son

the woods without money, and in a most fcre(l

w:][

such brawling abolitionists as Chase, and This ja

other leaders of the Republican party, and :out this advice aid hold on until there is have been run off to Canada in violation of1an advance in the price of produce, what law, by "underground railroads." Now, them? They will all desire to when they arc suffering almost to the point

((a]a

of starvation, these political agitators have t]lcro large surplus in the c-juntry, no feelings of sympathy

wju

they arc free, they are willing to let them j,et t]icjr

S25,0U0_,00U:

their grain—they say the price of-

too low, that if they will hold on a

sume remuneration fir their labor,

flli

vvrong, and if our farmers follow

advantage of the rise and the fact that

induce all to hasten to he the first to

raiu

t]10y

to market, and by this means

overstock thc market, and bring

(j0-lVn

fi®* Nothing can afford at a glance a clearer insight into the universal prevalence of luxury in the United States than thc fact that during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1850, we imported silk piece tcr|l"it"bo^ for you to take tliut much of goods to the amount of

othcr jan

perhaps to lotrrr figures than

they are even now. No, no, fanners, do not'act so unwisely—bring your grain in now and sell it at tho priccs offered. At 55 and GO cents a bushel for wheat, you will realize at least ten jwr mtt cost of raising and delivering

ai,vant Ci thau t() riin

silk goods to thc value of ^0,017,11..), lace:i j()Wer pr'lccg or what is worse, having it $1,(51.11,010 embroideries §4,UG4,:-:j8—

above all

nid far bct-

the risk of still

hands. Wc are aware that

are nothing

lions ot dollars. Ihcsc arc the tilings ^liey were last reason, but tliey a.re remunwhich run away with the wealth of thc coun-!

erat vfc__those

try. Our advice is that you bring in your grain

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of last year were exorbitant.

some measure relieve the con-

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grain and dispose of it at present priccs— by so doing, they will be enabled to liquid ate their indebtedness to D, and and they in turn will be enabled to satisfy, partially at least, their creditors, aud they, in turn, can satisfy others.—Burlington (Ja-

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DESTITUTION IN MINNESOTA.—Acommittee in Stearns county, headed by Mr. Ten-

The people of Kan- ''oord, late member of the Constitutional

Convention, were in St. Paul on thc 20th inst., to solicit contributions for tho relief of persons iu that county, who are on thc verge of starvation. For the past two years the crops in Stearn3 have been totally destroyed by the grasshoppers. There is not a bushel of wheat or oats in the county, raised within its.borders. Farmers but two years since comparatively wealthy, are now sufferingfrom a want of the necessaries of life. Over two thousand people, it is estimated, will require aid. The Mayor of St. Paul had called a meeting to con sidcr and adopt measures of relief.

flSTThe Albany, N. Y., Atlas awl Argus states that eleven ably conducted newspapers of that State, that supported Fremont last fall? are now bravely working for the restoration of the Domocraey to Ipowcr.

C@\Wh»t kind of sweetmeats did they have in tho"ark? 'preserved pkirs.

86F*Thc hoop question like most othors, has two sides to it.- Tho ladies take the inside, of course'.-

SSyThe sight of a drunkard ia a better sermon against tas vice, than the best that ever was preached upon it.

A MA it vi NO MAN.—Rev. J. S. Dubcs of Allentown, Fcnnsplvania, has married, since May, 1823, fifteen hundred aud six-ty-three couple!

ft2F"An Irishman tells of a fight in which there was but one whole nose left in the crowd, "and that belonged to the tay-ket-tle."

S6T"Woman is like ivy—thc more you aro ruined, the closer she clings to you.— An old bachclor adds: "Ivy is like woman —thc closor it clings to you, the moro yoii aro ruined."

'Jones," said a sympathising neighbor to a bachelor friend fibout to marry:— What in tho world put matrimony in your head?" "Well, the fact is, I wa» jetting short of shirts."

iGJfRev. John Pierpont, of Boston, after five years of careful and doliberato investigation into the spiritual phenomena, has come out and avowed himself a believer in it,

ffirThc wolves arc becoming very bold about Sergeant's Bluffs, Iowa. Ono recently seated himself on the steps of the Independent office in that city, and gavo the editor a very plcasaut, though wolfish serenade.

tSTAVhat is a dandy? A thing in paotaloons, with a body and two arms ahead without brains, and a cigar stuck in a holo before tight boots a cano a oented, white handkerchief a standing collar two broaches: and a showy ring on bis littlo finger.

iKfi-Ncver marry a girl who is fond of being always in tho street—who is fond of ruuning to night meetings—'Who has a jeweled hand and empty head—who will seo" her mother work and toil whilo sho lies in bed and reads novels, or feigns sickness—" and is ashamed to own b'er.

fSTThe l'ostmastcr General has recently dccided, that if the Postmaster docs not' give publishers of newspapers notice when their papers remain in the Postofficc without being taken out by thc subscriber* within five weeks, they are liable for tho' pay.

FKMALK LAUOR IN CALIFORNIA.—Tho San Francisco papers say there arc hundreds of servant girls in that city worth' from five to ten thousand dollars each, their ordinary wages being now $25 per month In the splendor of their dressed they far eclipse their mistresses, and a.*r the saying is "they can take Broadway down" without an effort.

SSfTlie Princeton (fll.) Democrat staterf that a clergyman of that county has just been indicted by the Circut Court for attempting to outrage the person of his wife's sister and that another clergyman has run off to Wisconsin to escape numerous creditors. Both gentlemen bitterly opposo tho Democratic party on "moral and religious grounds."

6@~A wag one day speaking of two of his acquaintances who had gone West, where thc new comers are usually attacked thc first season with ague, said: "Ncithof these men will be afllicted." "Why not?" inquired a bystander. "Because," was the reply, "ono of thenr is too lazy to shake, aud thc othcr won't shake unless ho gets paid for it."

Urs.siA Tin: ALI.V OK ENGLAND AND" FKANUK.—AS'ith nations as with men, circumstances bring about wondrous changes sometimes. A year ago France and linglaud were allies iu a-war against Russia.— It now appears probable that theso three recently hostile powers arc about to become allies. The Paris correspondent of the London Times says:—' It is reported, but needs confirmation, that, in conscquenco of a recent convention, thc Russian naral force in thc Chinese waters, which has been latelv increased, will in future combiue its operations with those of the Euglisb andFrench squadrons."

TIIE CASE ON MADELINE SMITH—START%•" LINO DISCLOSURE..—The public may bo' prepared to hear an astounding disclosure' in a few days, says the Belfast (Ireland)' Mercury, in connection with Miss Madeline Smith. Wc have boen informed, by a most reliable authority, that one of the servants at Blythwood square, in March last, has just died rather suddenly and that, on her death-bed, seized with remorse, she made a confession of thc important fact that arsenic was mixed with the coffee given to l'Angelicr on thc night of his last visit to Miss Smith. On the trial it failed to be proved that l'Angelier was at the house of his betrothed on the' niirlit in question, at all, though the servant who has now made this disclosure/ was examined for thc pro»coutioa at tho trial

A boy from the Ragged Mountain* iu Virginia met Professor •*, and presented his basket with the following explanation: "Ver don't want any chcstnuts, does yea?" "How do you know I do not want any, my little man?" said the professofr. "I nary say yer don'tI ax yer—doeJ yer?" was the very positive answer.

This was more polite than the icply of thc Quaker to one who said to him: "Yer dou't want to buy any wootf do yer?" "Friend, thoe first tellest a lie, andtvi thee nskest a question."