Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 4 April 1861 — Page 1

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"^VrubHo Sales'!! Trar.sknt Advos-t?soTueu{r.\f:c.. travagant: 0. The adoption of ordifl'pcr square, for I'.rst insoriion nr.d 2 cts. Tore aeh nan CCS of secession, 1)_V Conventions Ruditior.ai ir.^ertn-r.. 1^ii0d by ordinary Legislatures—wilhard aa»5l .F«I» I's-isiliagr.

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Speei.'il Notices of s.nnniu,

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Pm-issr.R, we are r.o\ propuved Job PjiiitirifT v.-I ncauu' uapreeedentod low niic--.

Jo all Unuls ot

Business rcls.

RESPECTFULLY tender.? his scrvi-

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teeth can do well

to the citizens of Crawfordsville

JfXrand

vicinity. He gives particular at-

Mention to carious Teeth, millions of which arc now ,, Aiinualiy lost, for want of timely and judicious treatment. Those.that are in want of artificial

call .md see specimens of the

lurtniusicinrc oi

best manufacture of Porcol Kav tificial double-sat. All. work warranted.

orcclam 1 ecOs *sa ttse ^est.

All opera'.ions pertaining to the seirneo, careful

attended to, with the least possible pain. .'^sS^.Dontal 1'ooms in Empire Block, No. 1., Crawfordsville, April 1, ISCO.

S S & A N E

IMPORTERS AND MANUFACTURERS OP

"CIGARS, SNUFF,

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0 S A ®,

•South,sid^Majn, between \Vashington

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We give a few extract's

the Danville (Ky.) Review to secession. Dr. Breckinridge says:

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out aii, wing

i\:ul viispalch: and at

JEREMIAH KEEN

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^\.±ioTneT at Law. OFFICE— IyTo. Empire Block, Gre-T,

t. of the net profits

in^rpJrccoircTSpcr ot of th^net p^iitfi

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Green Sts

TT^QUliD jespcetfnlly inform the eitixens gens, -orally, that having located permanently in the pl^ee, and fcjtjJing thankful for past favors— having done a living business—and wUliing to cont'^iTlne safme-^-woulil solieit a continuiition of the

liberal patronage heretofore extended ^to the eon-

S,gM

TOBACCO AND CIGARS.

At W.holesale and Betail! Thc most choice bran da of- Tobacco and cigars will be sold at the lowest fig-

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SCHTWS'A' VAKDYEE.

Apr. -il

from lending New Yr.rk mwc'innts. of the American nation being anriihi-' ,0115 .•!. ijU

.1-1 t0ii

Conipnny will warrant.—

large

n.= that

any

Company in

the United States—all securely invested equitably adjusted and promptly paid. I. M. SMITH, Sec. C1IAS. J- MAIlXIN

Feb. 7. 1861-lr.

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3.1j. C'.OEl'BEIJL &, J. I?3. flSBJ'IXER, AGENTS. Otlicc, No. 2, Empire block, over Gregg's Hardware Store. Crawlordrsviile.

_— °L I logical consistency, in diatribes about 55R. KJBEC5v*RTSBS55GK OX $E«JES-

dav, at $1.50. i: nrfrmtet 82 v.-uii'm tho year: and j.the present difficulties and their settle-! need was urgent, and the power com- cipallv, of negotiating the fifteen mil$2.50 after the expiration of tho yeiir. No sub-i

There are immense considerations. the States and to enforce those I altogether independent of tho real mer-. against all wron,f doers. Nor its oi the great cause which is under anv consideration arising out

tl eucl ooL

J) mong:?tthese

.$ 5.00

jo'oo ur".,)1?nt ovo.r

I ton btatcb, should be tleadiasu\j'eject- the supreme iaw. which can go farthei'

0flh SS,b,

feeble, factious, and ex-

the people

_I tional liberty and security impossible,' ...

let,,,ive

of claims. Tlic best of rcfnctuvs giver, if j,.. II .Jlom ..10 most powerfuI, the mi^lj consider the nestion of coercion fmostioya i, tl most enlighteneo

of them ail.

onc of 5lfi

.Uiiifi nny I «, 1

ity whatever. thn'Fni'c^t r,i«d ehenpoit insurRiice

kaown. Call snd vend k-tf«rs of rccomrcendaiion

l'ie

(its

latcd, its sublime career cut short, its boundless possessions parcelled out.

and an ignominious retinue of numberless aristocracies, democracies, duke-

SI, 090, OOO Italv, hailed by the acclamations of

S££. -T. ". ". mankind,' i7pu^ing b^irtaTh,?:! i" that mill? Compni.v continues to insure n^nin.t loss! .of

blood f, om

the

secession Dl'. Breckinridge says

Carolina Start with the pol

ljiroU£!,]1 tj,0

tional Administration start with thc

ciety is better than the risk of collision

with any bod}- in enforcing the laus:j

of society, and public order,"and rcgu lated liberty, and the security of property and life becomc more and more impossible as thc organization of society becomes more and more perfect, By the express terms, as well by the very nature of the Federal Constitution, a secession ordinance in the South is as totally void as a personal liberty law in the iSTorth possibly can be. The

Federal Government has no more need

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IAW

t).e protitable continnance ot a- occupation of the Federal C'ily, logo

'2f "i:

very condition

J. or dnmapc in- Fire and the Pauper? of inland which men are ]«-cparing tor us and Gov. Houston. .The writer of thc letK.ivipriition unci Trnnsportfttion on term?us favor:'.- the consuming instinct of her restored I ter says: ble nTtbe natiire of the, risks and the real secnirity ]j| j-OI. ,v].:f.i. I of tlic insami and of thc

we• »i'° cxpccted to sacrifice, and in de-1

Losses fault of which she has suffered every! form of evil, in every stage of civiliza tion, under evciy kind of government.

no more legal necessity, nor any more

POWo,,«

t0 c0erce (l

x- |case than the other. There

trial—why the course dictated by Souih: nature or the ibrmof't^ opposition! I 'T

are such a^^,Oilo^\s: than to address itself to the sound dis-

1.' This method by secession annihilates cretion of th.e national government, in

*'lt: ^01.^ hJca of all force in ])ormanent tLio wa}" of determining the most j'jroi)7,oo, constitutional union, or common gov-i

0rand

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ll -/r

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bv tizcns of ie

ii inij ii iiiiin 11 i' HI HI «. .j i.

-.-e "ivo.veu pern.-, uie

i? miHiiff*

gi ee—is a nne or conduct lectvie^s An,. Qi.if..

itself insu'tino- to nl1 otl -s

•'I .V-vTi

1,-i

Mate, in one

Unpunished it really appears lo

They who km/n the past of human 1 has any remaining loyalty to thc naafrairs, and tliey who reflect on that1 tion, or any hope or desire for the reseternal logic which is of the essence of toration of the receding States to the tilings and events, know that a nation confederacy, must- see that what like this cciraiot die. It is«hardly pos sible to conceive how it can even be mur dered but die- it cannot. It would be what is meant is in effect, that theVod-

£B14:4:j,000.1 to conceive that l-ranee could oral government must be terrified or

be bJottc-d from the map of Kurope as seduced intocompleteco-operation with

What have they to offer us, in exchange for our national unity, but sorrow without an object—and degradation without a limit—accompanied with struggles and suffering for its recovery, renewed, and suppressed in blood, and renewed furevermore—until in some distant age, perhaps, it shall be restored amidst the rejoicings of all people! louehing the evils and treatment of the event of defeat, will take to arms.

Let the dominant party in South the Convention. When will the north arolina start with the political false-

ut :l sto

h00d. that the people of that State are I patriots'? It is shameful that army offi-

ood. that thc people of that State are I Palr*ots? It is shameful thatarmy offi-

citizens of the United States, ex-!

cel must

Constitution and '~ov- being able to defend themselves. For, ot' that State and let the Ka-1 oven Gen Twiggs had lost thc

c°ivimand,

correspondiug political falsehood, that I dering the army and arsenal to the sethe supreme law of the land cannot be cessionists before the new commander enforced towards the people of South

Carolina, contrary to the wishes and ^orc ^ntonio,^ has arrived from acts of this domina-nt jiarty and let!

both parties concur in the additional assert'.ng that they would prefer to political falsehood, that the ruin of so- ''vt

to deal with the South Carolina convention, in executing the post office A Georgia paper insists that the laws, the revenue laws, or any other necessaries of life be admitted duty laws—than it has to deal with thc free. We believe that in Georgia this Massachusetts Legislature in executing means breadstuff's, meat, whiskev, the fugitive slave

l!°

need, nor any power, to coerce a State,\

in regard to i:, either case but in both eases the I

effectual, and at the same time

fovereigu States, and es-1the least arbitrary, perilous, and des-

.' u!po tabiishcs "S inherent in till possible fu-• tructive method of overcoming the re,5.o..ture un:ons, the idea of anarchy, and Stance that is made. If the Presi-

dcnt in 11,0 oxercise of

&.eJ}aralc

Miterlv fatal and absurd, that the Ameri-

I a a a S a is

tional property in buildings, in cash, in of paying its debts. Mr.

o,.,» nr,* Citizens oi the United states, in pean bankers should think

avowcu

ainst

2o'f!ft I /(,« ,i\ r\ 'emment if he permits them to take and the debt should be repudiated, we I te

ioreible possession of the national fortresses, and hold them in armed hostility to the nation if he permits the officers and soldiers of the army of the United Slates to be taken prisoners of war. and treated by hostile commanders as captured enemies: if he permits .armies to be organized*, munitions of

to uetermine war to be collected, batteries to be di-

and invites iactions, ]»roportions as when it covers an armed force'of the I fall of stock 1 1 a ii O incompeicnt. to,n ^tion if he allows the mails to be Secretary of the Interior, under who:,. IIOK-S-CAPJ usurp and to abuse sovereign power:

brol Gn opcn and thc

^'°.,n

ifc

ro[11 it 6t

.iz(,fl.

tthe

menace

!atc

an(

that tile most nervous secessionist

as b!i bootll8

oitbnsivo to thc Presi-

dent as to himself. Every man who

greatest nations, and restor-! the revolution, which it was its most

conuit'.on it occupied before binding duty to have used all its pow-

conquest by Casar as to conceive I er and influence to prevent.

T!se Fcelisncr ssa Texas.

meant by tho outcry against coercion two men, repealed. A Government esis in in re on a a a is a a

The Washington correspondent of

the

n" vr\r VOPK" filling its scat of empire and of glory, intelligent German in tho interior of I Take sixty milli

Philadelphia Press furnishes a

CO.,! doms and principalities permanently translation of a letter received from an sum. and then

l^afr MIM of Tcn». ftvm which It nppen* Urat the A.'ain-'these

^te to make a stand by the side of

The result of the election yesterday

{s t]10

f(,|l0wing: 317 votes for the Un

ion, and only 14 votes for secession.— Twelve counties in thc northern part of the state have threatened, in the Legislature, to secede from Texas if the latter withdraws from tho United States. However, it must be remembered that man}" votes will be lost by intimidation especially at places where the secessionists are numerous. There they will probably be successful. We learn from private letters from San Antonio that the Union party, even in

and not recognize the resolutions of faith With this little sketch of their objeetsand designs, and the circumstances which give them a claim upon tlic generous credulity of tlu European money market, we commend these'emissaries

to all that, and support its

lay down their arms without

ho yet suocceded in surrcn-

chief, who now lies with his men bc-

t!nP

crde. I near many persons

nn ur

ufi^cr

then, of'cotu-se, nullification, secession,' A NEW CAUSE FOE SECESSION.—A sedition, revolution, anarchy—are in- Washington dispatch of the 2d of Mar e\itable products of the organization

the greatest despotisin th^n

the rule of tho seccssioni is

announces that thc Tariff bill, substantially that of Morrill of Vermont, had received the signature of Mr. Buchanan on that day. This law alone, were there no other reason, would .justify secession on thc ground of self-preservu-tion: Its passage at this time almost warrants the belief that thc Black Hepublicans purpose is to drive the remaining slave holding States out of the Lnion.—.Mobile Register.

and there. was-' spurs and shirt collar? —Lovi-sville Jour.

The TJnion, in rmv event.

CRAWFOEDSVILLE, INDIANA, APRIL 4, 1861.

ar0

1 1

v. .. v, «. iv j'

vv/Jii

ment from the forthcoming number of. pletiyto execute the Laws of the Unit- lion loan which tho Montgomery Con-

•'•In regard Staies upon cvety ctti~cn oi the nit-:gross has authorized. ed State*, whatever relation ho might MK,/ in -i Jtlie following excellent recommendahappen to occupy towards anv one of

.t general gov- lend their money to his Government, ha

ioree to be fired on with impunity, the Government and speculate on the tion to the Presidency. carried out. and Thompson, our late no other pcace measure is neccssary. Let us, then, of the border States, patient- ... ly await the developments of the new nstt,* j. itn the government itself to be tampered dian trust itec. by the vv it the foreign commerce of the eoun- honest mc )0iigaijonr, and man} -y to be interrupted, and the revenue plot to overturn the Government of the gate Administration of Buchanan—we •,nT°„X.,C)'

correspondence of I administration of that office the In

l,e internal commerce United Slat

apj.ai ea courses if, to add no more, iie permit« viding for their instruments by the be-! our wrongs, under the Constitution. oVi' ,V-'^i

l'lVPos° one ci ambassadors from secession eonven-! stowal of its offices, and taking their and without revolution or civil war.— mg all peace,ill. considerate, or even, tions and assemblies to menace him"1 decorous arrangements impossible, and with war in the capital of the nation. necessarily jeopards, in the resnltreacli-

conspirators ph)ttin£ the miiitarv

'.u-.-imjygl .1—ni_ g)lif i. ..i..||r^iu..wmrTrTTm—

missioners who are about going to Eu-

roP°

cbarged with Ihculuty, prin-

uall5ta

1 1 to E

that may be made to the execution of' this errand arc Mr. William L. Yancev,

tl.v

this discretion. Mississippi, tlmt repudiati

Slate action, is founded on allusions nt-j munitions of war, to beseized and iieiii great's pc°cii-makci'. and if^ha'Euro! Vi"c indorse Ihn cnliro address, as.

1 LjU1

proper to

J'eojj.L Dotind to )C foreihlo nossfssmn nf «lw. «... -an assure them, for their comfort, that pc will give them plenty of reasons for recommendations, and eminently firm nUf ^,OUl repaying them. They will get! in its nationality of sentiment, If js

their hearts content. A\ expect to cd als-o. but bv another route a hear of them saying to Mr. Yancey and his colleagues, Alann and Post: "You1 ask for fifteen millions? Gentlemen, you are quite too modest double the double that amount.— nllions.-' worthies' gO out to En

arsenals, seized upon forts belonging to the Federal Government, stolen our revenue cutters, broken into our mints and robbed them of their contents, entered our navy-yards and taken larcenous possession of our ships and naval stores. This certainly is a beginning which cannot fail to command the confidence of the world. The bankers of Europe will, Of course, infer that those who so scrupulously respect thc rights of property will keep their pecuniary promises that those who are so careful not to take what does not belong to them will certainly render back the money which is entrusted to their good

|M |lr|)|[T1rri|

Ci ec.ft of Hie ©osifcdei-ates. himself upon his sense of generosity. -Ihe New \orlc Evening .Post, main- wish Mcssrs. Yancey, Mann and tains that' the three Canfederate Com- Rost a good voyage to that hospitable

region.

... ..

Tho Post gives

.. ...

tions to the new "Government" and to

fe there of ,t» mam piMays, for the benefit

tllc c0ll

can assure them, for their comfort, that peace-loving and conservative lie will not the ipprobation of every Union rcsentatives of a government founded 'and conservative man South, as well as by such men as Floyd, our late Secrc- North.

icir money's worth in arguments. out and out. a Union address, worthy

Again: these men go out as the rep- of the approbation of every Union

tary of Av ar, who has been under in- son, I oil:, or Breckinridge, even the

seizocl internal commerce United States at tiie very momeiit that! can be worsted by four years of Ro

men were all concerned in aj better oh under it than the bite profii-

hy batteries erected un- they were its trusted, confidential ageu'm p'lblican misrule. Ii it shall (urn out

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^Uuioi it\ on our great water —periorming its highest functions, pro-! otherwise, we can right ourselves and

also to be numbered Zvlr. Wigf'all of conduct of the South. Texas, a famous lawyer who cheats his clients Mr. I3enjamin of Louisiana, who takes jackknivcsand watch chains and Mr. Siidoii of tho same State, who with his colleague. Mr. Kenjamin, succeeded in getting through Congress a bill putting him in possession of the Houmas claim, an enormous swindle, which Congress, at its last session, to is mark its sense of the infamy of these

rope as the agents of a Government stood for some time at the margin lookwhich makes no scruple of taking what- big piteousiy around, but the old man it can lay its hands on—a Government wouldn't come. She started in. At which has robbed the United Stales hist she got in up to her neck, stood

obtain a dollar of the proposed loan in this country. But here our moneyed men arc governed by certain old-fash-ioned prejudices. They are apt to stand upon security. It cannot bo said that they are of thc magnanimous class which "Exults to trust and blushes to bo paid."1'

On the contrary, they are a little slow to trust, and somewhat churlishly insist upon thc certainty of payment. Mr. Floyd's note of hand' for a hundred dollars, even with, tho endorsement of Wigfall, could not bo cashed in Wall street. Unreasonable, we grant, selfish to an extreme, utterly deficient in large, liberal views, are these capitalists of ours. In Paris and London, doubtless, business is transacted on different maxims. There the borrower has only to hold out his hand and it is filled, whatever smutches and stains it may be marked with. There the lender's heart warms benevolently towards tho man who comes to him without credit and without character, or even with a character which proves him utterly unworthy of credit, and throws

se ho ntl!mls l0 porene

l\!,.^7i.E^A7

i,h

C!,r?'

ind conservatism.

peril nee

Had it been delivered by Jack-

dictment at Washington for swindling cotton states would have declared it to !1 {',

ust bonds were stolen. These Administration. "\Ve nniy be linicii jy'0''1'011 fioek thau ioam^ abroad the az tire meads of heaven.

salary from its treasury. Among (he! We shall have no war unless it be fore- ., founders of this new Government are ed upon thc country by the reckless I *,0!5C

..t„. 1 1 1 •». r.. .. j.| 1 n.,. U/.„ fi, loan pig to a hot jam roeic. (Cries 011

"Wet thy Other Ead."

Now, Quaker women are usually kind and good-natured, but the one of whem we speak was an eternal scold, and whenever her husband refused to agree with her she would threaten to kill herself. Thc husband stood this for twen-

a a

but enjoy the highest degree of credit try thc old lady and sec what she wo'd I in the money market. I lie generous do. A disagreement arose, both were and liberal minded class ot creditors, positive, the wife declared she would who lend never expecting to sec either o-o to a neighboring bodv of water and principal or interest again, have here drown herself, and the old gentleman! an opportunity of lending money to hold her to 70. She started. He start-1

not seen by his wife. He concealed himself near the water and watched the motions of his wife. She approached slowly, frequently looking bade wishfully, as much-as to say, ••now do come and COMPROMISE."

She went on. arrived at the water.

there, waited, waited, waited, almost twisted her neck off looking for the arrival of her husband. He got tired looking on, so he called out, "Abigail, thee must wet thy other end or thee'll never drown."

and now slio stands there waiting to be

her try it, and she will ,„o„t certainly

one of our workmen, from his

t])C ai lck on Fort

A "High old"

and

Mr. A. Dudley Mann and Mr. P. A.'merits. Let the numerous readers of There seems to be a disposition to! Jvost, gentlemen belonging to a politi-! this paper attentively peruse this doc-j fight. eal sect who disown the oblige submitting to the law of the land longer than suits their convenience caprice. They go out as the agents of! pers, whose partizan prejudices, and a Government which has at its head bitter hostilities forbid its doing the au.leiFerson Davis, th.e great politician of thor justice. One of the unpardonable liating State—j falsehoods travelling around is, that obligation the Inaugural repudiates the decision

without waiting i'or an expression of want to put in a word, or perhaps a opinion by others, we give our senti- word and a half.

get her'-other end —A homo Tri-J+er-j ''jUlie• Sir, these hungry brats keep tugging at thc ]ublic pap. Thcv sav "let down TSac Feelisss- of the Soldiers v&lit?

The Following is an extract from a I

private letter received in this city by

brothor

in Charleston. Those are tho men with

whom the miserable traitor .leff. Davis

is to march upon thc Northern States.! .1

Sumter.—St. Louis

CHARLESTON, Feb. 20, 1SG1. "Now something about

politics. Here, every body is a soldier. I have been in the field service the past two months. A soldier, and hoic?— With shoes without soles, poor food, and worse clothing. May God have mercy. Should the North march an army down here, two-thirds of our men would join them. Dont be surprised that all people here seem to be in favor of secession. Otherwise, many a. poor fellow would be starving.— Whoever refuses to be a soldier must leave the city. Fort Sumter still stands quietly, and the garrison appear to be in good spirits. Our army have not yet attacked it. Thc asses appear to be

without fail. The commander Maj.

Anderson I have known in Florida, I

Speech.

After a long and honied discussion on the reference of abiil amending the city charier of Carondolet to a standing committee of the House, Mr. Riley obtained the floor, and thus addressed the House:

Brownlow on llic Inaugural. [From l-ho Knoxville Whig, March 9tli.] "We crowd out much matter, in type, to make room for the Inaugural Ad- ing into this thing like toad frogs in aj amazingly, but if any bo dy~ret ?"pep" dress of the new President, knowing willow swamp, on a lovely evening in pered it ain't my fault if'they are in the interest felt in .seeing it. as it avows the balmy month of June, when the the way.

MR. SPEAKER—Everybody is a pitch-

the sentiments of the author, and marks yellow light of the full moon fills with I Sir these flanclindu-'nl \mwcmnVfr

^Pl^) S*.

gat-ion of ument. and not rely upon the false and be done, come on with your corn-cobs! (Cheers and laughter.) land any exaggerated notices of it in telegraph- and lightning bugs! (Applause^.). In These are the ones that have got our lience or ic dispatches, and violent Southern pa- the language of the ancient Itoman, liberty pole off its perpendicularity. "Come one. eoino nil, liiis rock ."-hull fly, T.'S they who would l'Cnd the stars

From its firm base, in

'oneofthebest papers of the kind we IX i'Snnd mies'I tive hiiis and liners on their lovely ave seen, and we commend .t for I PW~- 'The

r,niaU

tumblei- of wa,er

enough buncombe-lather to wash the!

applause.) anient. The Speaker—The gentleman is out uf order. He must confine himself to the question.

Mr. liiley—Just retain your linen, if you please. I ll stick to the text as

i.lfc

jam

:igo

Jeff. Davis and his whole cohort of thCs5C detonating demonstrators, these

traitors seem to be in the fix of a Qua-, pereginous volcanoes, come on with ker woman of whom we once heard.— 1

you

on -you'll do.':) I want to say to those carboniferous,

'gentlemen, these igneous individuals,' ,L

combustibles! If I don't—well, I'll suck the Gulf of Mexico through a goose quill. (Laughter and applause.) Perhaps you think I am diminutive tubers and sparse in the mundane ele-

You may discover, gentlemen, fi'O'p

you arc laboring under as great a misapprehension as though you had incinerated your inner vestment. In the language of the noble bard.

'•'I was not born in a thicket, To be scared at a cricket."

ulir—our heads to thc one and

thc horizon, spanned by that azure arc of thc lustrous firmament, bright with the corruscations of innumerable constellations. and proud as a speckled s—d horse on county court day.— (Cheers.) "But how have thc mighty fallen," in the language of the poet Silversmith. We have lost our proper position. We have assumed a sloshindicular or a diaganological position. And what is the cause? Echo answers "buncombe." Buncombe, sir. The people have been fed on buncombe, while a lot of spavined, rijig-boned,

m, '. I ham-strung, wind-galled, swaneved. The South has got in up to the nock

coaxed out. She has threatened doz-1 |10S0S

en of times, an attack on Snmtcr Let

split.fboted,

t_bdli,d

ft(ld(,r cft t0 make a ?rUL., for

ask kg

assll

)1)pcl

0ur mil!Cj

arc to Take Fos-t jbag." Lo they think they can stuff

3uch

S!r

t^'

r11

tion 0ne of

It is true, that their principals ^cannot ]jemocr(tf% that ever rose, reigned or fell. But, such a maneuvro. How ~1~ 11 ir, there is too much private cutlery range to afi'ect such a

Si 50

Terms

._j delicious flood of thin, otbortal, at- i-u! n«h^^™d do

j-ig's eye!" Jind

Now, there has been a great deaf^j

bombast here to-day. I call it bom-!

like a sponge, sir a large, immeas- j'hert} sits perchea on the topmost urable sponge, of globe shape, in a Pyanc'h) but there is secession salt on -it soaks up

Tflfind lipro with tho!

stfln

ea^^nf

have desigiu

the rights of St. Louis county—the Poio-

rights of any oUier county—even the!

m01

ii county of Cedar itself' CLau^hter 11' shait to piercc his noble breast

UlC

^Vo hnH

little Southern soap and a little North-! 'P hile water grows and grass runs, ern water, and quicker than a hound

pup can lick a skillet the}' will makej ',

I allude to the starry firm-

Sir, we have lost our proper station., ur proper position is to the zenith and ^t bv blind people, and kicked across

our|'°ts

(Cliecrsaml laugh-

Sucky, or you'll have a split

buncombe down our craw? No ....

w'hleat

tinu«t^ughtcr.

ll uDnc

of the Slave Oonftdci acy to tho kind -iliout istilution, sir—yes, sir, a great mstitu- j0r Anderson is, it would attention of the European bankers.—

the,

ignorance and folly that obstruct the public highway of progress. The machine whirls thc ax is applied. Thc lookers-on are enchanted with thc brilliant sparks elicited. The tool is polished keenly edged and. while the

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is giving out thundering fast. It is beginning to creak on its axis. Gentlemen, it is my private opinion, confidentially cxprested, that all the "grit" is pretty near worn off. (Applause. •••-.

Mr. Speaker, you must excuse mo for 1113' latitudinosity and cireumlocutoriness. My old blunderbuss scatters

they know about the blessing of free-

dom? About as much, sir, as a toadfrog does of high glory. Do they think they can escape me? I'll follow them

say, if there is any fighting to through pandemonium and high water,

/Stri])CS—that

re,d'

bast, from "Alpha"' to "Omega/' (1 ^"h,ch Ihr died—denoted by the white don't understand the meaning of thei!-., 'J'ue the fieedom they attained, like the azure arc that wraps their narefer is a jrreat and magnificent oucs- l^'.%e hills and linger (Cheers.) high bird of

noble flag, the blood

our revolutionary fathers emblemed

in lts

'J'he purity of the cause for

his glorio'us tail. I fear he will no

spread his noble pinions to soar

ited. to defend heyond_the azure regions of the boreal

But let not

M'ssouri

fea*her

ni?ltn^e

HU'e

pull tho

from his sheltering wing to

j» or, what is the same, make a pen to

s5^n

a secession ordinance. (Cheers Alas, poor bird, if they drive you from the branches of the hemlock of tho North, and the palmetto of the South,

come over to thc gum-tree of the West and we will protect your noble bird-

•rM,]'j:Ulsc-) Speaker, I.,

the present.

WJsai lie uouSd tlo.

(Laughter and 1 The man that will take a newspaper for a length of time, and send it back

"rcfused" and unpaid for, would swallow a blind uog'sdinner, and then stono the dog for being blind.—Exchange. lie would do v.rorse than that, no' would marry a girl on trial and send her back to her father at the end of tho

.1 u. v. honeymoon, with the words "don't

cnif

suit," chalked 011 her bafk.—Iron City. Worse than that. He would steal

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to the other, at right angles with felons, despised and loathed by tho hon-

distempered, poll-cviled!

poljticiuhs have had tlieir

t0 th(,Pp„blic.cribuntil

there ain't

.V ^^ei which

L..1°"

!"s_ ','^1

SaVe

expense of washing, and then sue his wife's father for her month's boarding. —Advertiser.

lie would do worse than that. He would get up at the dead hour of midnight, and burn his shirt to steal corn

blind hog.— Georgetown {Ky.)

Union. Worse than that. Ile'd sell his birthright for less than a mess of pottage? and betray the confidence of every friend he had on earth. Ills soul wo'd dance a fandango on the tail of a comma. Such a being should bo winked

by cripples—respected only by

est and virtuous.—[ronton Register.

long and SSiei-4—-A Queer Couple.

The British (Eng.) Post says that one of thc parish churches in that neighborhood was lately thc scene of a gay wedding which attracted no small degree of attention from the fact that the bride was a fine young ladv, six feet (wo inches in bight, while tho happy bridegroom rejoiced in the altitude of three feet two inchcs—being one inch more than half the number measured by his fair helpmate. The words of Sheridan.'in "The Duenna." wero natureally recalled to mind by the incident: "Suro snch a p.'iir was nevorsoon,

So fit to meet by nature" The one excelling so in mcin, The other .so in stamrc."

Blowing tip Fori Sumter. The Charleston Mercury of the lSth' says: !,,

g'-catest, perhaps, cult and dangerous in

Tound. This thing won pay. Oc- and cscape with his conn asionally a big ax is brought in to be to speak of than to plan and perform.— iled up, ostensibly for thc purpose of Our Northern friends may be ver} .owin."- down the fi-narled trunks of or- sm-c hnf, hnthrf* is nrnvicloel wifli ilir

public stares in gaping expectancy of seeing the road cleared, the implement is slyly taken off to improve thc private acres of some "faithful friend of the people." What is the result? Tho obstructions remain unmoved. The

too stupid to ndertakc it* In order people curse because the car lags—or. to do that they want another Garibaldi jf j| docs move, 'tis at the expense of a or keep their mouth shut. Rumor has broken wheel, and a jaded and s.ore- apply to the Government for appointit, that it is to be taken next week, iackod team. I tell you, the thing merits therin as judicial officers. The Trr if f. rm 1

hn /irviinonrln* ilni rn. t*. __ 11 n, .*

won

-•,t

pay

the nasa

and beleive him to be a brave man. tercsted grinders will be put to the stone, instead of their hardware.— Read not books alone, but men es-! (Applause.) Iam mighty afraid the peeially be careful to read thyself. machine is going to stop. The grease

The time will comc when

promontories of these disin-

We see it suggested in Northern pa-

3'0U n^ght as well try to stuff but- pers that, if compelled to evacuate, tho

itn a hot a\\ I. (Con-j military-authorities of the Black Re

Ilic thing can be publican Government should at least

he public grind-stone is a great in- spectfully suggest that, situated as Mait would be both diffito exccuto he could arsir, there is too much private cutlery range to affect such a hostile purposo ground. This thing won pay. Oc- and cscape with his command is easier e: filed hewing down the gnarled trunks of error. and clearing out the brushwood of

g™a-stonc is a great specttu ly suggest that,

ke a ruin of 11. Sumter. W re-

sure that before he is provided with the means of transportation from the post with his command, thc condition of tho fort will be properly looked after. Wo do not suspect a bravo officer of foul play: but if his Northern advisers wero in his place, to practice the treachery they suggest and advocate, they would bitterly rue the deed.

Iniois AppSicajion for Office from tine Sece«led States.

For several weeks past reports have prevailed that many Union men in some of the seceding States intend to

truth of these statements seems to be confirmed, in part, by the fact that tho President has nominated George W. Lane as Judge of the Northern and Southern District of Alabama.— Wae-h to