Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 28 July 1860 — Page 1

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NEW S-EBIiSS-VOL. XII, NO. 2:

Physical Cnltore.

BT. G. B. WINDSHir, M. "T

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From the manner in'which great truths have been recognized at one time and neglected at aniOthcr in the world's history, it would almost seem as if they had their revolptipns ljkcThe sun and "were destined

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^orfe period to shed light and

warmth upon .mankind, and at another to be borne so far from us in their orbits as to shed but a wintry radiance. The essential fact in education, that a proper culture must unite strict care for the body with a judicious mental training, was better appreciated and understood in ancient Athens in the time of Plato, than in our own time in thai tri-mountainous city, sometimes playfully called the "Modern Athens."

The present movement in behalf of physical eulture would seem to encourage the belief that a revival of some of those great convictions in regard to education, which prevailed in ancient Greece, is now about to dawn. In its full sense, education is a leading forth of the- faculties of the mind through the healthy development of those of the body. In physical culture would compreheud culture of the body in its most extended sense not of the trunk alone, but wilh it of tho neck, head, nnd limbs, and of. whatever of us is material. It is the application of, means for physical improvement, the avoidance of habits that infallibly involve physical degeneracy the development of the. bodily powers the conversion of disease into soundness, of weakness into strength, of ^awkwardness into grace,, of disproportion into correspondence in short, the elaboration and finishing of the edifice in which mind resides—that temple made of clay— that house wo live in.

Improvement of one's physical state can never be entered upon too early, and, so long as there is an atom of life and strength, never too late. Let no one despair of success in the attempt. Dr. Warren, in his little work on Health, tells us of a member of the legal profession, who practiced gymnastics for the first time and with the happiest results, when nearly seventy years old. Cornaro, the Italian, whose treatise on Health and Long Life has given hiui a ,\vorhl-wido reputation, began at forty to repair the ravages which many years of ^-dissipation had mado upon a constitution naturally infirm and, in spite of the predictions pf all his physiciaus and friends, he succocded not only in restoring the health he had lost, but in gaining a health *he had never before experienced. He was eighty when he published his treatise lived to see it through four editions, and died tranquilly in his bed after lie had u.-omplotod his one-hundredth year.

In this connection it is worth while to observe how much may be accomplished »by simply correcting single bad habit.— The legal gentleman to whom Dr. Warren allude.-", was much benefitted !y gymnas­

tics.

On the other hand, Cornaro, as he himself .states, found a panacea for all his ills, iu a careful avoidance of intemperance in eating and drinking. It is indeed

«f little consequence what path we pursue, removed and diseases already present reif by it wo can reach the desired goal, tiito,' moved or mitigated. rift/, rt jitnott/r. Sometimes it may be 10th. The increase of strength cannot inconvenient to take the best path: let us, long continue on a diet exclusively vegctathen, do the next best thiug. At an early Ible. age I was told by many that to practice a 17th. That increasing the strength made heroic, degree of self-denial, and to wc excretion take place less from the skin, from the /tMr hungry was the way to sc- but more from the Jungs and the other ure health. For many years I tried to do joininetories. this, but succeeded very imperfectly. Ij 18th. That what benefits a part of the at length resolved to attempt the next lest body benefits more or less the whole, thing, and am not sure that it was not tho 10th. That long before I .succeeded in b«t thing of all. Itwas merely this—to lifting 1,1(10 lbs. with the hands, or in shouldering a barrel of flour from the floor, 1 had ceased to be troubled with sick headache, nervousness and indigestion. 20th. That a delicato boy of seventeen need not despair of becoming in time a remarkably strong aud healthy man.

.put no extra restraint upon my appetite, to practice no very rigorous self-denial, but to eat and drink about as much as I de.sired, and then by my subsequent selfmanagement, to take care that. I should iniiko rnvsclf nerd every particle I had swallowed.

going to cxccss. It is the using nty own discretion about everything, without blindly following another's preccpt or another's example, or even tying myself down to Ttiles of my own devising. It is the carrying out of what may seem to be the expediency of the moment. It is the doing •of what may scorn best under the circuiustanccs.

But though it may be difficult for mc to •doscribc briefly and dearly what my incth" oil is, that is no argument against its effi•carv. What other method would have injured for mc au appreciable gain iu strength lay by day, month by month, and year by year, with an almost entire exemption, meanwhile, from any but the most trivial disorders? Let the following facts speak for themselves.

I was nearly seventeen years of age before I seriously undertook to improve my physical coudition. I was then but five feet in height and a hundred pounds in weight. I was rather strong for my size, but not strong for my years, and my health was not vigorous. I am now twenty-six years of age, five feet seven inches iu height, and one hundred and forty-eight pounds in weight. My strength is more than twice that of an ordinary man, and my health is as excellent as my strength.

Wbat has produced this astonishing change in my physical condition during the last nine years? I will attempt to sum up a few of the proximate causes that may have led to this result. 1st. I have breathed an abundanoe of pure fresh air almost constantly. 2d. I have exposed myself sufficiently to the sun. 3d. I have had an abundance of wholesome food. 4th. I have drank leas than a quart of spirituous liquors, anT less than a gallon of fomented 5th. I have used less than an ounce of tobacco. 6th. I have taken nearly" every day

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Having made the subject of health and strength a speciality for so many consccu-

Soon after began to parry out this prineiple, experienced a cessation of in- tivc years, and with a success that has exdigestion, and the many ills to which it cited much interest, it may be pardonable gives rise. Having found, too, that this in mc to offer the following rules for the principle worked well in the long run, I promotion of physical culture still retain it as one of the cardinal rules 1. Select if possible, for your sleeping in my method of training. apartment, a room ou the "sunny-side."

about half an hour's gymnastic exercise in I against it, without' regard to whatLiebig the open air. has said of its chemical constituents, or 7th. I have conformed to. the sustains of society only sp far as they were not it variance'with health'. 8th. Regarding procrastination as the thief not only of time, but also of health, I have shunned it as especially dangerous in all matters pertaining to' physical wellbeing. 9th. I have poisoned myself as little as possible by food contamjnatcd with lead, copper, brass or bell-metal. 10th. I have developed ,niy body harmoniously.

11th. I have allowed myself at least ten hours rest in almost every twenty-four. 12th. I have paid a due regard to bathing, without, however, rendering myself amphibious, or carrying, a good thing to excess. 13th. I have been particular that every portion of my dress should be as loose and easy as the freest action of my muscles and limbs wouldTleftiatfft.'

During these nine-years, wh'Up endeav-

oring( to promote* iny. physical welfare, I course of a whole day. have made.the following discoveries-: 1st. That whatever increased my strength improved .my health.,. „,j 2d. That one means of improving my health was to increase my strength. 3d. That the stronger Ir became the healthier I bccamc. 4th. That it was as easy for me to increase the strength of my body as itwas that of a magnet. 5th. That by developing my body harmoniously,-. I could preclude the possibility of hernia, or any other serious injury, that otherwise might arise from an extremely violent action of my muscles. 6th. That lifting, if properly practised, was the surest and quickest method of producing harmonious development while it was also the most strengthening of exercises, and consequently the most healthful. 7th. That it was better while exercising, to perform tweuty different feats oncc, than one feat twenty times. 't, 8th. That it was possible for me to take, in fifteen or twenty minutes, all the gymnastic exorcise that I should need iu twen-ty-four hours. 9th. That I could gain faster in strength by forty minutes gymnast'c exercise, once in two days, than by twenty minutes of the same, daily. 10th. That, as my strength increased, my exercise should be more intense but less protracted. 11th. That increase of the muscular power was attended with increase of the digestive. My 12th. That one means of increasing the digestive power was to increase the muscular. 1 villi. That many articles of food had formerly proved injurious to me, not because they were really umvholsome, but because was unable to digest thein. 14th. That a person may beeome possessed of great physical strength without having inherited it. 15th. That by increasing strength, predisposition to certain diseases may be

Beaumont of its digestibility. 14. Never "risefrom the table hungry," if you are not an invalid, but completely satisfy your appetite. The digestive pow'er, like the muscular, will b6 weakened, if not vigorously exercised.

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18. Practice lifting as the most strengthening of all exerciscs, and consequently the most healthful, but practice it with the utmost caution, until you cease to have any weak points. 19. Use dumb bel^.as a means of exercise, to be ranked next to lifting in importance, and let them be always ns heavy as you can convicntly handle, but use them with.great caution, nnd never for a longer time than ten or fifteen minutes in the

20. Dcvclope the body harmoniously, in order that you may preclude the possibility of hernia, or any other serious injury which otherwise might result from a violent action of vour muscular .system.

K.VCif.IMH PIOKPOCIUiTS I!V IMRIS. Three recent cases of English pocket picking and two of shoplifting again force upon one's notice the unwelcome subject of what may fairly be termed the British criminal population of Paris." r. Johnson in his poem on London, calls that capital the common sower of Paris."— Paris, in the present day, may with better propriety be styled the common sewer of Loudon, for besides the civil delinquent, who lives here in credit and in clovcr when his fatherland has become too hot to

condcmncd as guilty. Experience has t""15

taught me sincc to rcspcet the wisdom and

discrimination of the judicial decision.—

advice, and he had X'iOO in his pocket.—

And what is my mothod you will per- 2. Let the sun have access to it at least baps'inquire. It is the doing (lie right six hours a day. thing iu the right wav at the right time. 3. Keep it, thoroughly ventilated the in his eyes, to grasp the prisoner's hand in fhose^ States on the Mississippi river and It, is the obtaining a sufficiency without whole time, particularly during the night, token ot his extreme sympathy. \Yithin'i!'',s tributaries, which lies through the low-

4. Contrive however to have it thor- a mouth of his discharge, this interesting oughly ventilated, without subjecting you to too great a draft. 5. Practice general ablution at least oncc a week iu cold weather, and.twice a week in warm, but seldom oftcner in aNew England climate. In offering this rule, I cxpcct to be censured by quite a large class iu the community who secui to delight in daily soaking and splashing iu water. not having probably the slightest consciousness that by so doing they defeat every intcntiou for which water is cxtcr-. nally applied. 6. Allow yourself not less, than eight hours rest as a daily average. I allow myself not less ten. .7. Never while in good health let the temperature of your apartment, when heated artificially, get above 70 deg. by Fjihrencit. I, prefer for myself, a temperature of about 60 dcg. 8. Keep tho atmosphere of any apartment you occupy sufficiently pure, by occasionally opening windows, and sufficiently moist, when it is being artificially warmed, by the constant evaporation of water. 9. Never forget that the combustion of any inflamable substance is invariably productive of poisonous gases. 10. Never use food of any kind, if you can conveniently avoid it, that you have reason to believe was prepared in copper, brass, or bell metal utensils, no matter how scientifically such utensils may have been "protected." 11. Never use water internally and externally, that has come in contact with lead or any other poisonous substancc, if you can havo choice of that which has only como in contact with iron, gutta-percha or glass. 12. If you must use water that has come in contact with poisonous substance, neglect no expedient for rendering such war ter ap nearly free from it as possible. 13. Most uso that kind of food which you most prefer if your experience is not

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15. Avoid excessive exercise of cither mind or body, less' you create a necessity for narcotics and stimulants. 16. Avoid too little exercise for the same reason. 17. Increase your strength as one means of improving your health.

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At the bearing three really respectable '»g

London tradesmen came forward, and swore to his. antecedents in the most favorablc manner. The Tribunal condemned him to six months imprisonment. He has been rearrested in Paris and sentenced to five years'imprisonmcnt for robbing a jeweler's shop. A remarkable coincident assimilates the cases of these gentry.— They havo all delicato chests, and have been advised by their doctors to travel on the Continent. A juge d' instruction lately observed, referring to an English pickpocket whom he bad just committed

J'ai encore uu affaire aujourdhui a un de vos poitriuaires."

I@F George Dawson of the Albany Journal, who is a scientific fisherman, and thoroughly conversant with the habits and necessities of all fishes, says that their culture will very soon become as general as poultry breeding, and. where properly pursued, as profitable. But every one fails. Any pond, filled with water of any temperature, will answer for bass, or pickcrel, or perch. But the trout requires water of the temparature of spring brooks—the colder the better. They are xievor found elsewhere and all efforts to change their habits by artificial processes will prove failures. By remembering this simple fact, novices in fish breeding will save themselves a great deal of trouble

M&TA Douglas paper will be issued from Lexington, Ky., in a few days. It will be called the Sfates Rights Ke/ittickian. ..

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We copy below from an Alabama paper an exposure of the scheme' of disunion, which has been devised by. men wbcrput Breckinridge and Lane in nomination.— We publish it for two reasons: one to show the otter folly which characterises the whole movement and the next to show that these wild fanatics do contemplate a scheme, which, if attempted, must lead to a bloody though possibly brief issue. We prefer to let our readers see how an Alabama editor lashes the knaves

From the'Athcns (Alribiima)TIeraM.: The issue of the coming contest in the presidential canvass is Union or. Disunion and upon this ground we place it. The plan has been concocted and the scheme devised years ago, by some'of the ablest men in the South, at the head of whom stands li. B. Rhctt of South Carolina, anil Wm. L. Yancey of Alabama, who are the prime movers and instigators of the damnable conspiracy..- They have no hope of electing their candidates, .Breckinridge and Lane, and these'men have "been selected as their candidates, under the imposing name of Democracy, the more successfully to deceive the people of the South, draw tliem off in their support from the true

21. Never let the duration of gvinnas- Democratic ticket—thereby to divide and tic exercise exceed half hour daily or an hour'once in two days. 22. Never rise early unless you retire early or sleep with your windows closed, or have something to attend to which will not permit you to lie late. 23. If you retire late, or sleep with the windows open, lie until you feel like rising, whatever ma}' be the hour. 24. Gradually wear less clothing about yonr neck until you wear so little that you can at any time allow your neck to be entirely exposed without being liable to take cold. ••'.*. -'X.. kff* 25. .lie careful that your dress is af all times loose and easy in every particular. 26. Conform to the customs of society no further than your health will admit.

distract the Democratic ranks, and the more easily to contribute to the election of Lincoln, upon the happening of which, they will urge,that tlio contingency -has arisen, contemplated in the resolutions passdd the legislature at least of this State, that the election of a Black Republican President is good and sufficient cause to dissolve this government. This is their plan. Already are they shadowing forth in the columns of the Charleston Meacury, disguised under the title of "Glimpses of the future," the scheme of the organization of a Southern Confederacy," to be composed of six States—cotton States—to be precipitated into revolution"—ujpon the election of a Black Republican President A synopsis of the organization of the new confederacy, under the style of The Provisional General Government," as shadowed forth in the Mercury of the 28th of June last, may not be uninteresting to the reader

Atlanta, Georgia, is to be the scat of government, Mr. M. (Memminger) of South Carolina, is to be president and Mr. Y. (Yancey) of Alabama, the vice president and speaker of the assembly. Five thousand volunteers from South Carolina are to be called into active service besides the garrisons at Fort Moultrie and Siimpter, and fifty thousand volunteers and minute men (to be)

hold him, the regular professors of the science of appropriation abound in Paris ordered by the provisional government to

to an extent scarcely credible. It. may servo a little to moderate the vanity of the small public who occasionally cross the Channel brimful of their nationality to say that, if suspected by any mischance of being thieves, the very fact, of their being Knglish is an additional prejudice to be got over. Yet such is literally the case. So great is the renown enjoyed by the English for entertaining an elevated indifference to the mean distinctions between

hold themselves in readiness to march when called for, in the six States. These six States arc South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi aud Louisiana.

All debts due from merchants and other citizens to the people of the North, are to be sequestrated in the hands of the debtors until ordered otherwise by the provincial government. (But) all debtors who may desire to discharge such debts

and t.uum, that the first thing to be (t0 relieve their consciences)may pay them proved by a British subject lying'"under

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imputation is that lie did not come over is estimated will amount to forty millions to Paris for the express purpose of pick-i

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four years. 'Time was when people some- he operations of the post-offices, and colwliat suspected t& French authorities of lections, of customs, and of railroads, teleinjustice to the flnglish

prisoner, and I

tho government. These debts it

dollars—and their retention by the.

ing pockets. And few escape whom the debtors, or if paid over to the government law oncc holds in its avenging gripe. 11 operate as a forced loan of. so much, have known of but one acquittal during f\,r

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benefit of the Southern community,

[graph and express transportation lines,

have more than on'ce, in my own mind, ac-1 vessels, &c., arc not to be obstructed. But quitted a culprit whom the

Tribunal has

jtI,u receipts of both post offices and cus-

are to

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Two cases occur to my recollection. In the required payments arc to be retained the first, the prisoner, an interesting youth jin

1m Pail our to the new'south-

confederacy. Federal officers, if south-

j.erners

and trustworthy and responsible for

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bearing excellent testimonials, was*.con-!a11 Northerncrs_and Abolitionists, employ-: detuned on appeal to a year's incarceration

for stealing a sovereign. Was it likely authorities, (arc to be) dismissed and new His friends came forward and proved hisj'appointmcnts_ made. Police measures rank and social position at home but he (w'iH be) ordered to insure the watching was traveling for his health by the doctor's jl)f"

But such as arc otherwise, and

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capacity, by the former federal

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transient or suspicious Northerners

but rcccnt residence, on entrance into

Uis.senteucc was received with a.burst ofi1,10 South—who may be expelled when indignation and an English captain, an ac-1 thought proper, or required to give sccuricideiital spectator of the: scene, was

for their

loyal

moved as to rush forward, aud, with tears 1 trade of the AY estern States, and

conduct to the South.—

or Mississippi (will not be) obstructed so

individual was caught at his tricks again, j'on6 those States shall not assail or inand a second timo arrested. The other vadc the Southern confederacy—but if case was stronger still. The prisoner's wife and child boaring numerous certificates, and producing a saving's bank book and other evidence of a thrifty and regular life, almost staggered tho firmness of the jugc d' instruction. The prisoner was, nevertheless, committed for trial.-

they do, then the trade and navigation of all the Northwestern States will be entirely cut off, and will not be again opened to them until the State of Louisiana and her allies arc entirely subdued." "United States troops in forts and garrissons within the scccding States, any war vessels ly-

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harbors].shall not be molested

tlicy abstain from all action hostile

The above is a synopsis of the plan and programme of the Rhctt—Yancey^-Mem-minger—provisional government of the Southern confederacy of the six cotton States, as shadowed forth in the Charleston Mercury, June 28th, 1860—to be put in operation when the election of Lincoln, the Black Republican president, shall present the crisis, that they are endeavoring to inaugerate—apian of provisional government" just about as ridiculous, absurd and impracticable as that of old John Brown But to Wm. L. Yanccy, of Alabama, is to be attributed all the mischief which has been produced in the Democratic party and which is intended to shear it of its power, render it incapable to defeat Lincoln, as they hope, and thus secure the ends and aims of the last twelve years of his life, Which have been one long, unmitigated conspiracy against the Democratic party, as well as against the Union of these States.

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CRAWFORDSV1LLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, INDIANA, JULY 28, 1860^ WIIOhE .NUMBER. OK)

Look first at his' course in the National Democratic convention at Baltimore in 1848.': On that occasion he proclaimed the doctrine of "intervention," or *',prp-, tection," for the first time but failed to get a single. State to stand, by him. He entered his protect, seccdbd from the convention, went home and. opposed the election of the Dcm50TatiS"tftftninT!e"S: Cass and Butler.

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In 1852 he went back to Baltimore With the same proposition to "rule or ruin" the: Democracy, .and was- again voted down, even,more emphatically than before,

In 1856, he again made his appearance in the National Democratic convention, which assembled that year at Cincinnati, but-this time advocating the very reverse: of his old doctrine of intervention for: protection. He: had absolutely got up instructions to the Alabama dclcga^on of which he was the chairman, tti dcrtiaml nonintervention, and if the convention did'riot grant it to secede and, lead off the ball" of disunion, that terrible catastrophe to which al} his desires seem to tend. But the convention recognizing in theprinciple of rioiV-intarvention,"

ah old doctrine of

a majority of the party, nnanimouslylgr..ni ted the demand of Alabama, througli her spokesman, Mrr**Ytuicey, ond-so the demands ofrthis "-arch-traitor'Tind conspirator against. the Union, were a third time baulked.

But his undying hatred of the Union though for,a time artfully cloaked, even as he and his'fbllowcrs now endeavor to throw sand in tlio eyes of the people on this momentous subject was not allowed to-alum-ber or grow cold. lie,nursed his wrath to keep it warm. In less than two years after the adjournment of the Cincinnati'convention, wc find him headingllie notorious

Southern League," organized avowedly to break up the Union, as tlic followiug first articlc of its constitution, drawn up by his own hand, fully proves

ART.1. The members of this organization shall be known as The League of the South,' and our motto shall be, 'A Southern Republic is our only safety.'

About the same' time appeared the^^fol-

DEAR SIR Your kind letter of the 15th is received. I hardly agree with you that a general movement can be made that will clear out the Augean stable. If the Democracy were overthrown, it would result in giving place to a greater and hungrier swarm of flies.

The remedy of tho South is not in such a process. It is in a diligent organization of her true men for the prompt resistance to the next'aggression. It must comc in the nature of things. No national party can save us no sectional party can ever do it. But if we could do as our fathers did—organize 'committees of safety' all over the cotton States, (and it is only in them that we can hope for any effective movement) wc shall fire the southern heart, instruct the southern mind, give courage to each other, and, at the proper moment, by one organized, concerted action, we can jyeeipitato the cottou Statcs:into a revolution.

The idea hits been shadowed forth in the South by Mr. Ruffin has been taken up and rccommcnded by the Advertiser, (of Montgomery, Ala., Mr. Yancey's organ) under the name of League of United Southerners,' who keeping up the old party relations on all other questions, will hold the Boutlicrn issue paramount, and will influence parties, legislatures and statesmen. I have no time to enlarge, but to suggest merely. In haste yours, ..... W. L. Yanccy.

To James Slaughter, Esq." This was a private letter, hastily written, it is true but a subsequent one, written in explanation of it, to the editor of the Richmond South, Mr. Roger A. Prvor, he makes the matter worse by saying that iii precipitating the cotton States only into a revolution, he meant that in such move

mcnt as the revolutionary one contemplat-

cd by lnmsclf and the southern lcagures, I

he could place but little trust in the border

States—" such States as Delaware Mary-

land, Kentucky and Missouri He can- l.itIl

not trust Tennessee, he'saya, bocausc'she

so long kept an Abolitionist in tho Senate,

meaning John Bell of .course—and be- jof

or treated in a hostile manner, provided It is equally*frue* that THo not.cxpect scnger boats on the North lliver. After

or Virginia

.» 1 II. O. 1 II. FT threatening danger to these States, Or their people. But if not, then every available war measure will be put in operation against them. Should any invasion or hostile attack be made on the Southern confederacy (of these six States) by the Northern or Federal power, every means of defense aiid retaliation will be resorted to, including the sequestration or dcstruction of all Northern shipping then in these States, and all Northern merchandise or other property.

to take any initiative step towards

a dissolution of the Union, when that exigency shall be forced upon the South.— Her position as a border State, and a well considered Southern policy, a policy which

could prove more effective friends than by moving out of the Union, and thus giving to the Southern confederacy a long Abolition hostile border to watch. In the event of tbe movement being successful, in time Virginia and the other border States that ...n .1.- a. ...i.

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desired it, could join the Southern confcd-j head bulging out of the canvass of tent. eracy, and be protected by the power of!The temptation was irresistible up went its arms and its diplomacy. Your charge |his shillelah—down went the man. Forth

that I designed too and did, impeach the rushed from the tent a host of angry fel fidelity of Virginia, is untrue, however I lows to avenge the onslaught. Judge of exy.

much of truth there may be in it with re-! their astonishment when they

ferencc to those border States that I have assailant to be one of their own faction.— named." Och Nicholas," said they, and did ye Alabamians It is as clear as the noon I not know it was Brady O 'Hrit-n ye hit day sun, from the foregoing facts, that in Truth, did I not," says he bad lud: severing and disrupting the Democratic to me for the same but sure if my own party at Charleston and Baltimore, it has father had been there, nnd his head lookbeen done, to carry out the plan of disuu- ing so nioc and eonvanient, I could

ion and treason by precipitating the cotton States into revolution," conoopted by Yancey in 1858, and now for the fourth

aims are to bej^^arartltcdf by overwhelm-1 ing thaDjemoernWf party and the Unioii in i'i i.i. mk ii itiAX

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The most noticeable feature in the procession was tho several companies of Democratic Rangers, dressed in black pants, gold stripe blue jacket, gold stripe gilt buttous and military caps with star in front. The company from Mattoon number already, sonic seventy,and were mounted on horseback.

Charleston sent 150 other parts of the country 100. Great credit is due Harrison Messer, Esq., Grand Marshal, and his assistants.

Hon. John A. Logan, Hon. James Robinson, Hon. Orlando B. Ficklin, General Thornton of Shelby County, and others, addressed the Convention in tho evening. Looking out from town over the prairie, which strechvs from four to one huudred miles away, it seemed alive with men and horses.

Wc have worked hard, but never did people need, less urging to come out than now. Such,enthusiasm i. never saw be-, for. The people arc aroused, and November next will bury the Blaek-llcpttblicans so deep that they never will rise again.

Mattoon is some five years old and contains about two thousands inhabitants. A large crowd for such a town. J. T. S.

SKKTCII OF toiai:i,iis •»Mii:it- ,, in i/r. Speaking of Cornelius Yandorbilt and his California mail tyranny, the New York

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|6i?m0^f ruin,-'from wbicbthey hope Lincoln has gone lip There ia mi ieinthe image of a ^SpotTrorii Con- doubt about it. it is as certain as that"*' uy ... »i..l Linorrow morninjr. lit?"1

federScy."!'^'-'IJi'ey are domg ilul uuder the ttiC"sun will "rise to-mor name havtf inveigled has gone up! The action of the ConvenBreckinridge and Lnne into th| meshes of tiou^if.ihkRiiU,.aadJiv:crett menuC New their conspiracy/^so far^ tb obtain their York at,UtieaUc.,o{hur,day.,has jclermin-T consent tb^be i^^aa^tlie willing matru- ed that. Thc-BeH and Kverett men of Now mcrits^of-tliOT 'iinEwyiambition^tC'blf lt Yi)r^lfnT)"\rlTrg*"thartlicy ronld" not carry like latuh« tp th&6l^ghte^r^nu^us4 !oa|Iy the State fo¥ -th&ir favdritriii, rmiil^V-aring licking thedMtlaMi£eady?r^ed|to «slfcd that' adherence to. them 'would «rivc 'tfm their blood." Are you ready. Democrats jSta.'o to Lincoln, have determined to s^ive of

in carryihg~,out'th'e scfie'mcV'of Vi^rt wfrril tickolv-^liioh makes thc-.State sure for. arc so madly Tfeift npoh'ftlfd'sti'Hversion of Douglas, and which makes the el otion of this republic and the' destruction of th'ai Ijincoln impossible. good old party, which if united, rs still the It it is thus that Lincoln has ^one nj.! only national political .organization left,in iThc.ro is no help for him. Tho contest, so the country, which possesses the power, as tar as he is cotie.vrriod, is determined, l: cannot, be elected 1'V the people norby

well as "'the will, to protect the rights of every scction of the country We bclievy^drf ar6 nothe1 ?ofit rafy,! 6 fancy the echo of {fie voicfe'df tfafasb'ti is still rin'gir/g in 'ybur car—" Tlni .Federal Union—-it must be preserwd." •"I

fiBFAT .HAS* a' (I BKIIUCIMUV AT II.S.IXJIS

I:.\i N I .*i I ASTH: OACIL'KATI O.H OF Vllli.PEUPLK. MATTOON, COLES COI. NV, II.I.,, July 19.

Our mass meeting is over and hits been a success. Good judges estimate the number of people present from 14,000 to 20,000. It was "the largest-and most" enthusiastic gathering held in- Cou'ral Illinois. Wc had the largest traiu from the Ka.t, over the Terrc Haute and St. Loiiis Road, ever qarricd: .over, the road. Bands of iinusic froiii the adjacent counties were present. 'N

Hon. Janics C. Allen, lion. John. A. gan, Anthony Thornton, ot Sholby .County, and -Mr. Green, of Paris, addressed the crowd at the Fair-ground

lowing private letter piling Pellon upon filled with young ladies representing the

Ossa of proof of the treasonable designs of this American Catalinc MONTGOMERY, June 15, 1858.

-.

In the evening a grand torch-light and display of fire-works took plaoc. 'J'lic fireworks were managcd-®by Mr.-Ballard, of ^Charleston, and' riiade a brilliant display. One thousand torches were paraded in procession,.besides innumerable transparencies, mottoes, &e. A large hickory wagou,

several States, attracted much attention. Charleston sent a magnificent car containing thirty-five young ladies, whose pretty faces aud appropriate custumc made them the most prominent feature of the procession. 3Iattoon furnished a car containing six young ladies, four representing the several points of the compass, ami the other two the Goddess of Liberty and the Union.— Portraits of Douglas carried iii front and the Goddess of Liberty insido. There was a great display of banners. •_

Curi(Jhit iI iliv(1

,llcn_,v|1(.t|ier j11y

ar(, in rncann(,,:,i nr in

(jn)us f(n:iiitics. V.

j*

s|s

respect al

aIlimal !iuill:lll

have helped myself.'

time attempted,, and that their eads and versary of the defeat at aterloo.

feet hi-h.Vnd

jlu eiiaraetori.stie.s of

itv

carr

AlJnJn

cause a Tennessee Methodist conlerence indomitable encrgv, six feet of obrefused to expunge certain anti-slavcrv opinions which John Wesley had inserted in the discipline. He ennnot trust Kentucky, because Kentucky, for so many years, upheld such free soilers as Henry Clay and John J. Crittenden. Virginia he did not mention, uor did he discriminate between Virginia and other border States because his purpose did not call for it. He then proceeds to say

.s out the full pro-

purtioll to ti„. a"VCra'u

.-talue of the sons

j.Iw

six

feet of self will, six

stinacy, six feet of sharpness at a bargain, aud six. feet of masterly management in general, lie lacks six feet of education, but he makes that up. by twelve feet of natural ability, lie lacks six feet of polish, but money outweighs manners, and excuses profane language. C. V. be£an life as a poor boatman. He got a larger boat tho next time, and soon a steam ferry boat.— Next he was found owning the finest

that he added ships, aud now he is the most I quant if ics ot other ti eight powerful ship owiier'in'the United States, should not hurope then, He is the only man wc ever heard of who meat as well built his own steam yacht, of the diuien-: she not sions of a national war vessel, and drove ed stock bre

has been digested and understood, and ap-1 across the ocean, stopping at the doors of est how to condense tl

proved by the ablest men in Virginia, as I Italy, England, France, and Russia, just1 vast prairies into meat, instead of sending you yourself must be aware, would seem

a8 a

to demand that when such movement takes Xew York to leave his cards. He has a I 'he world to scatter and wastr. all the proplace by any considerable number of South- wonderful capacity of physical conquest,, ducers' profits upon transportation -Y iv ern'States Virginia and other border

which

nnrrii.A.oniriiKtl ii t*kopi/k—\v•• ii.v i»or

their votes to thOifDeiiuicrivtii .:««etiirnl

tho Mourn) should the election gu to the *lIons'\ hecau.«e a majority of the States sire irrevocably against hint. He has gone up, past redemption this makes. l)ougias't ^leetiou.not only possible, but eh*y'by the"1 pefijilo. New York is for him at the outset Tho same causes which have' giyen hint New York will give hi iu several other hitherto doubtful .Northern States. Indeed there are not more than three Northern States in which the aggregate conservative strength does not exceed the Black Republican strength. This strength lias but to bo concentrated upon Douglas as it will be, to give him all the hitherto doubtful ones. another \yay will the election of Do lights be helped. So-soon as i^fc shall becoine evident to,.,the. .Black Republicans that Lincoln cannot be elected, nnd that all exertions in thatsHchalf are but labor thrown away^: earnest exertions iu his behalf will-ceasfe nnd the masses of the pcO^ pie will give thoinsclves little.further concorn about the contest. The leaders will undoubtedly continue to make a noise, on

Michigan must now aid the election of Douglas. It is not impossible that her electoral vote may accomplish the grand result of his election. It can be given to him, and it is due to him. It is due to him as the great champion of fhpular rights. It is duo to hiui as the faithful Democrat who is proscribed and persecuted because lie has been faithful. It is due to him because by his election only can both Northern anil Southern sectionalism be put down, and an enduring Union party be preserved. It is due to him as a north-western man, by whom legitimato north-western interests of all other sections, will be promoted. And, wc repeat, it can bo given to him. But the people must do it. it is the people who have nominated him, against, a most relentless opposition of the politicians and the powers at Washington, and it is the people, in Michigan and elsewhere, who must elect him.—Detroit l"rcr. Press.

a ivniv con.iiiaH'K I'oir rm: ivi:.mt. The prospccts for the harvest in England had greatiy improved when the last.... steamer saile I but this can have but little effect upon the price of meat, which lias not touched so high a figure before iii thirty years as at last advices.

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account of their local tickets, but the'Prcsidential contest will have been practically abandoned. Thousands of the voters will stay away from the polls, and thousands of others of.the conservative surt, will gladly seize the occasion to leave the party forever and vote for Douglas.

It is too late to recall the stock which havo been slaughtered in England for want of'pasture'and fodder this spring, and it is too late to breed new supplies for the j, current year. Under these circumstance*, England will be obliged to rely, more than ever before, perhaps, upon f-ireign markets' for her fresh meat. Ordinarily she only imports about seventeen thousand head of live stock, which is a very insignificant proportion of her entire consumption no ineonideralle portion of this imported stock is brought by wafer frotn Spain and I'ortugal, a five days' voyage. Hut if that is a practical commerce, why should noti ^',- beef cattle be exported from New York to Kiigi.'ind L'hry could be taken from IIlinois to Liverpool,

we

are advised, lor

i't'l a head surely they would bear a ten days' voyage as well as five, for

if

pro-

pcrly slung and tended, they ought lopiek-i/ upfront

the la,t. half

of the voyage what

they would j.-se front .-ickness the lirsl half. The journey from the

Mississippi

three

valley

to New York is nearly as severe upon heavy animals as a voyage would be across the ocean, and yet we receive every week soon

thousand he.id of' cattle, which ",

havi* traveled between twelve and

fifteen

hundred miles to get here, from llliuoM, Missouri, Indiana, Iowa, ete. A irood i? re am it up it slings, could carry out between two aud three hundred

Keeve.-,

sand pounds

jH coach round the streets of it- the more bulky form of grain over

fills with himself, and admits of no. York llnni,!? L'oxt.

States, should remain in the Union, where superiority iu men or things. The ocean uby their position and their counsels, they and Europe are not so great as his ship- l/:.\ RN «.f A Hoy IKO.M Sr uu and C. A'. nor did he esteem anv sover-1 Hi .w.—On hrid.iy last, s:ver.d !».y were cign ou his throne as great as (!. V. I playing in a freight ear. trying which comd mi stand longest on hi? head. A little .sou ot

Too On EAT A TEMPTATION—An Irish-' Thomas Lindsrv ,-tood thus near five niininan entering the fair at Ballinagone, saw utes, when he was prevented from standthe well defined form of a large round

iug long ter gain:

found

weighing two thou-

each, between decks,

aud tali-

e.-tid,:s. Why take- our fresh

bacon

"Why should

out si

I': of her accomplishlid to

ich

the (ireut

product of its

1

the

of the

'titer boyi...Y'i'Afiuiiuediately ra:

his

1

•.ciiplaining that his head hurt him. a f- hours afterwards expired, th-j ru-jiing to h: brain causing apo-

and iu blood

Let the little !.»vs be careful ho'.V

they play.— TAwtjln (IU) I!/rjrt.

W'iln

SIUH't pin: Ui'ttNioNisTs:—At at Democratic meeting in Princeton, a number of Republicans .-'t end-i..:-d three cheers for Hreckit:Only two nt'-n were mean enough

recent I llinois, ed aud propi ridge.

not to respond, and one ot them was .John 11. iirvunr, the ljepublieau IJepreseiitative ot Bureau Cuu'.itv iu the Legislature1, and

JfirDouglas was nominated on the anni- brother of the edi'.ei" ol. the. ?vw \orli

(l-venim:

h:-t