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OUR COUSTRT-OWR COUKTRT'S tN'TERfiSTS AN D OaUl COUNTRY'S FIUEXD. BYC. P. CLARKSOX. HROOKVILLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1848. VOL. XVI NO. 42.

corwiws speech. We take the following extract from the speech of the Hon. Thos. Corwin, delivered at Carthage, Ohio, the 3d inst.: Your Fresidents, if one might judge from the excitation that prevails every four years, are the greatest despots in the land. But they are the workmanship of your hands and is it not a sad spectacle, calculated to dampen the enthusiasm of an American citizen to hear, in this land within which we live, the various versions given by the opponents and friends of these gentlemen of their peculiar and personal characters? It reminds me of an anecdote of a number of gentlemen who dined opposite to Detroit, on the Canada side a Scotchman being present, who had traveled over the United States. They were expressing their opinions relative to the merits of Monarchies and Republics. The Scotchman was silent, but when asked his opinion, "Ah I" said he, "the devil will fly away with your Re

publics that's reduced to a sartainty, sir and he ought to have had them long ago." W hy soT asked one of the party. "Sir," said he, "in passing through the Province of Pennsylvania, I found twa of the most infernal rascals up for candidates for the Presidency." You are mistaken they are respectable men, said an American citizen. "It can't ba so, sir I have traveled through the Province and have seen the newspapers on both sides of the question, and they are decidedly twa of the greatest rascals ever escaped the gallows." Laughter. Just so now in passing through the United States, General Taylor would be respected by one party, while he would be held up by the other as a rude, unlearned, uncouth cut-throat soldier, and nothing else. What the other two gentlemen must be, I fhere the hiatus was filled op by one of those peculiar comic expressions of countenance so felicitously assumed by Mr. Corwin, which threw the audience into the most convulsive fits of laughter- 1 know them both personally I served under one four years. The little gentleman had his foot upon my neck during that time, but with God's help he shall never have it there again. A Laugh. In speaking of these three gentlemen I have nothing to say of their private character, and when I speak of their political characters, I refer to historical facts which nobody questions. It is a common expression to say, the President holds a high office, but you who possess the right of voting for that man, hold a higher office than you can confer upon him. You write his name on a piece of paper no longer than the palm of your hand, and up starts a President for four years you create him at your pleasure and destroy him at your pleasure at each recurring election. Have you considered the power this right of voting gives you? Have you considered that when you vote on the 7th of November, twenty millions of God's creatures look up to yon as the guaidians of their interests for four years, and It may be for a longer period; and the man who votes carelessly, who says he cares not who is elected, he being the appointed guardian of the interests of this country, shall be held responsible here and hereafter for the manner in which he has discharged that duty. Applause. I do not want to revive any of the old controversies. I would be happy to know they were blotted out of the page of our country's history; but I would ask any man to consider how much power fifteen thousand men in a particular locality in the United States held, not only over the destinies and happiness of the people of this country, but over thoso of a neighboring republic. Two men were presented to you in 1844 one, in reference to the great questions then agitated, said, "elect me, and Texas, a country as large in geographical surface as the whole empire of France, shall be annexed to the United States, and shall come within the range of our Government, with or without the consent of Mexico, the parent republic. I am not going to discuss whether that were a wrone or right proposition. Another of these gentlemen, a slaveholder also, Henry Clay of Kentucky , said "if you elect me that annexation shall not take place, without the free consent of Mexico and not then 'till every State of the old Republic shall express its consent to that annexation." Cheers. I presume every body knows from the history of the past four years, that if Henry Clay had been President of the U. States, Texas would not have been annexed. Fifteen thousaud votes given on that occasion in New York for a gentleman named Birney, whom nobody expected to elect, were thrown away. It was all a farce it was not voting at all. If this country, however, was benefitted by that an nexation if it be a matter of gteat interest to the people of Ohio, that five or six States yet to be made in the present limits of Texas, shall be settled by her people, where it shall be law that any one man having a hundred negroes shall have as much political power as sixty one in habiting these plantations if it be a matter of felicity to you that that state of things is brought about, then, these fifteen thousand men did well In keeping Clay out of office, and bringing Texas in. If it be a matter of importance that we should have expended 170,000,000 dollars in a war with Mexico about the boundary of Texas if that be a gratifying circumstance to the people of Hamilton couuty, then, these fifteen thou- i sand men did well in keeping Clay out of the Presidential chair. If it were better that 170 millions of dollars should be expended to blow out the brains of a number of young men (who might now have been engaged in their ordinary avocations) instead of building school houses and appointing teachers to educate those brains a laugh then you ought to thank these fifteen thousand gentlemen of New York for these abolition votes brought about all the blessings I have enumerated. If it be a matter of congratulation to this Christian Republic that now, after an expenditure of 170 millions of dollars in conquest, we should pay 20 millions more for the purchase of two provinces, then should we be thankful to the Almighty Ruler of nations that we have got these five hundred thousand square miles and God bless these gentlemen for we have got something to quarrel about. A laugh. Really, I think these fifteen thousand gentlemen ought to make a figure in the history of the country. We shall have occasion to thank God that they were born, and lived in 1S44 (laughter) and that by throwing away their votes, they produced all the glorious results to which I have referred. You see therefore what you can do. In the

exercise of this privilege of voting, yon can but that ordinance, and how suddenly in the change the history of the world; you can change course of a few months this conversion takes the destiny of this republic you can effect for place. Why did he not account to Judge Burgood or evil the destiny of all the people on the ! net for the change wrought in his views, or his face of the earth with whom we have any con- , old class-mates in Dartmouth College? Why nection, and cheers I do not believe that the did he not write to some chosen friend in the election of President should occasion any of the State of Michigan, with whom he stood in the results of which I have spoken I do not believe relation of constituent and representative? To

the Constitution of the United States has given to any President, when elected, any such power. I know it is only by usurpation, by trampling on the Constitution they are sworn to support, these modern despots have been able to acquire such unlimited control over the great interests of the country. Whose fault is it? Yours. Had you elected the right men to Congress your Presidents would have been impeached for these usurpations. But ynu have not appointed the right guardians of your liberties there you have slept, and like many other people before you, I fear you will not awake until you find the chain these men are industriously flinging round your liberties too strong to be broken. (Cheers.) 1 remember in 1844 wheu all these things were predicted, when I was told by some of my Whig friends that I was prophesying evil; but all has been verified to the letter and more. And what is our condition now? borne of my excellent Whig friends complain that we cannot do any thing this year, because we have not a platform, (a laugh.) How can a man vote without a platform? Renewed laughter. A Whig does not know what to vote for unless some gentleman makes a platform and shows him. My friends, do you know what has become of this business of making platforms? In 1844 certain gentlemen met at Baltimore and made a platform they made it before breakfast, after all the business was done, a laugh,) and among other things, they declared all the country known by the name of the Oregon Territory was ours. They presented it to Polk, and under an amiable and complaisant disposition that characterizes that gentleman, he swore he believed it was so. (Laughter.) And what happened to these gentlemen and their platform? You had been very near a war with Great Britain lvnut that vary platform T-nrd AK.rd.an and a few gentlemen across the water, sent word to your platform makers that they had an interest iu that country, and your President saw that he had prematurely committed himself upon that question, and that a war with England on the maintainance of the platform was inevitable and what did he do? A course was adopted which should bring shame and humiliation to every American citizen, whether he voted for Polk or not. There he was, declaring te the platform that his right arm should fall from its socket before he would sign a treaty for anything short of the settlement of 54' 40", while instructions had been given to negotiate a treaty on the 49th parallel. ("Oh!") The king is a great man. (A laugh.) If you don't understand the trade of making kings better than that you should give up the trade entirely. True it was Polk could not get votes unless he was guilty of this miserable prevarication that would redden the cheek of any man in this audience if brought home to him. That comes of the Baltimore platform. Ad have we not recurrences of such scenes as these? These gentlemen who make platforms intend to commit the Presidents to them. It is a fearful power you commit to these men when you delegate them to make platforms. N ow, let us look a little at these two candidates in the North. How did these gentlemen conduct themselves towards the American people in regard to this business of platforms? I would not say any thing harsh I would not say it was swin dling, but it bears some analogy to obtaining money by false pretences. (A laugh.) I would bring these three men before you in such a way j as it becomes you to look at them, viewing them on these platforms. In the highest public situation known to the laws of this country, Van Buren openly and sedulously declared that he would not strike a link from the chains which bound the Slave in the District of Columbia,and that, armed as he was, he would smite that law with his Veto. And his reason was a good one that the South would not consent to it. He therefore was the President of the South and not of the North. He is now presented to us as a Free Soil man. I am a member of that party, too. I do not want you to turn np your noses at me, for I am the father of your church, pretty near. (Laughter!) I do not think you would have had much responsibility if it were not for me! (Renewed laughter!) I have been so laboring at it for twenty eight years that I ieei as u you all belonged to me (a laugh!) but you are a sad set of fellows. I think it is - iciiuwb. X U11UK li IS somewhere in Jeremiah that the Prophet says, "I have raised up children, and they have re-l thev have rebelled against me." (Roars of laughter.) Ifanv of you Abolitionists Bent in a paper for presentation to Congress from 1836 to 1840, it was only spit upon and thrown ander the table. Van Buren retires from public life in 1840 Abolition meetings are held in every county, and splendid speeches are made, and brother Van Buren is' lately elected a Bishop of our Church. But did he ever attend any of these class meetings of ours, or when our Abolition Electors were collecung money to support newspapers to dissem-1 inate the principles contained in this creed of, I .1 xr T- .... i u"i U1U oroiuer an uuren contribute anvthing? Not a cent! Up to the timeV the Buf - falo convention we hear of no change whatever in his position. But what happens now? Gen. Taylor is the Whig candidate for the Presidency south and north and Gen. Cass by the nomination of the Democratic Convention at Baltimore is the candidate south and north for that party. Now we shall cut off that part of Van Buren's history till we bring np Cass by the side of him. The Washington Union had labored articles to prove Cass was alwavs onoosed to the Wilmot Froviso. I can only tell what he said, and I heard him in the Senate complain because John Davis spoke till the clock struck twelve, which deprived him of the opportunity of recording his vote against the motion, his saat at the next session But when he takes what doea he do? At the close of 1847 his well considered opinions remain unchanged. What changed them in tha mean time? Will you, any of you, answer that? Did he write to any of his old friends to show them what a great change had been wrought in the course of four months? ne read scarcely anything on the subject of Constitutional law

no man north of Mason and Dixon's line did he write, but to a Mr. Nicholson in Tennessee because he lived in a slave State, and it was with a slave State this bargain was to be made. Now he comes upon the very ground Van Buren occupied in 1836, while Van Buren was looking on in New York, Gen. Cass, suddenly seen the south occupied by Taylor on the Whig side, looks about to see how it was thit Van Buren, in 1836, a northern man with northern educa

tion and parentage, and everything northern, If he had the heart, got the united voice of the south and then he (Gen. Cass) becomes a northern man with southern principles, and the principles of the ordinance of 1787 are thrown aside, and he closes his letter to Nicholson with the remark that there is no such thing as the ordinance of 1787, (a laugh.) The learned speaker then proceeded to review the delinquencies of Van Buren and to advert to the manner in which Van Buren came before his constituents, who seeing no market in the south, availed himself of the Buffalo market, the only one opened to him. This Martin Van Buren is a cold-hearted fellow, I am afraid. He never knew his Free Soil cousins till you told him at Buffalo; but he is an ignorant man, and I look over a great many things, (a laugh.) The Barnburners come flourishing this letter of his, and say here is the man for President, and in his royal condescension he will permit us to make him King. That j is one law we may pass and he will not veto it. j And ought we not to be thankful that there is , one man in the republic elected by the whole ; people, who was willing to concede to them the poor privilege of making one law, to exclude slavery from California and New Mexico. But we have a northern man by the side of this man from Buffalo, and if you give him the power he will stand by the South. Are we not the freest people in the world? Every four years we have to bargain with some petty gentleman who stands up and wants to be President? You are proud fellows, you Democrats! All sovereigns! all of you! Rather shabby ones according to this view of the question. (Great laughter.) General Cass was bribed to say the Wilmot Proviso was not constitutional, because the south ofTered him power, and Van Buren changes all his convictions because the north wants a man of a particular set of principles. Can you trust such men? The law of these mercantile, trading politicians was to sell to the highest bidder. General Taylor is a man of sincerity upon whose word we can rely one fact might illustrate his character in this respect his refusing, when only 23 years of age, to surrender Fort Harrison1 protected only by twenty men, because he had promised to the women and children of Indiana that the rude tomahawk should not invade that wilderness. (Cheers.) We want a perfectly honest and sincere man, and it is right to inquire whether we may not make a good President of Zachary Taylor. What did this old soldier say when told that he should subscribe to a platform of certain principles? If I do this 1 deprive myself of doing the only good I can render to the Whig party or to the people. If I subscribe to this doctrine, the understanding should be that I would use my influence to have it passed into a law, and I will not raise expectations that I could not ratify. I like such a man as that, who would not give up the principles of his whole life, to be incorporated into your gov ernment in the shape of President. "I do not think," says he, in his letter to Captain Allison, " the opinions of the President should have any effect on Congress on questions of domestic policy." And after further allusion to his remarks on the subject of the veto power in his letter, Mr. Corwin proceeded: I tell you, fellow citizens, although I think I have almost worshiped Henry Clay have idolized j tlle S18 Intellect of Webster and Judge Mc- ' an an'' wnld have voted with pi easure for Scott the great captain of the age, I tell yon in ! t,,e face of all tnese men, that I believe Zachary ! Taylor would administer the principles of this . government better than any of these great men. ' (Cheers.) On the subject of pledges did yon ' ever hear of Madisn giving a pledge of Wash- ! ington g'ving a pledge. On the contrary, he refll8e8 and in the language of Gen. Taylor's . le"eri aavs, go into the Executive depa rtment r the Government I shall go there un- . ' lodged and nntramelled." Mr. Corwin concluded his (Cheers.) Mr. torwin concluded his able address by al ,udingto the importance of electing a Whig j 'ce President, aud impressing the people that J tney culd not have the Wilmot Proviso passed unles Fillmore were placed in the Vice Presidency. On resuming his seat on the platform the eloquent gentleman was loudly applauded, The Chairman having announced that Mr Corwin would speak in Cincinnati, on Monday afternoon, the meeting then separated Ptthr. It is seldom we fall upon so many truths in brief as are contained in the following lines . . . . . from a rhi osonh c correspondent. Thev are 1 a short sermon, which we commend to all who are o'er vaulting in their ambition: Our ingress in life is naked and bare, Our progress through life is trouble and care, Our egress out of it we know not where. But doing well here we shall do well there, I could not tell mare by preaching a year. St. Louis Reveille. A Xfw Cnadiditfe for the Prenicency. There is a man np country who always pays for his paper in advanc. He has never had a sick day in his life, never had any corns or toothache, his potatoes never rot, the wevil never ' eats his wheat, the frost never kills his corn and J beaus, his babies never cry in the night, and his wife never scolds. the Tippler's Yoaajrer Brother. The Smoker is the drunkard's younger brother the habits are twin giants they are both alike detestable alike degrading both have the same tendencies. They are soul deceivers mind ' murderers conscience Bearers time wasters ' health detroyers misery producers money squanderers, and the sooner both are scouted iulo oblivion the better. Mechanics' Organ.

The Word telah.

Translators of the Bible have left the Hebrew word telah, which occurs so oftn in fhP.lno as they found it, and of course the reader often asks his minister, or eome learned friend, what it means. And the minister l..jj r.:j - UUU I1ICUU has most often been obliged to confess ance; because it is a matter in regard to' the most learned have by no means been i inuu. i lie larirums ami mnci ir !.. T.:i.

commentators, give to the word the meaning , gross, and made. In 184 1 1 paid the same price, neighborhood, with the following letter from his ' worU owes no proud and lazv man a "livinr eternally forever. Rabb. Kimchi regards it and, owing to a failure in the corn crops, I , brother, Trof. John B. Turner, of Jacksonville . DPnd upon it, he will not cive to von a doss a sizn to elevate the voice. Til nillhora f rl..rJ k. r.n ,(, , .. ,. . . .... f ... H JOU t t

- w. 41... O . ; a i .. . 1 1 1 n k -1 1 1 11 .1 1) 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 W I .1 T 1 11 11 anr.An n 1. i b . Bpcai tu uave regarded it as a musical note equivalent, perhaps, to the word repeat. According to Luther and others, it means 'silence!' Gesenius explains it to mean, "Let the Instruments play and the singers stop." Wocher regards it as equivalent to 'sursum corda' up, my soul! Summer, after examining all the seventy-four passages in which the word occurs, recognizes iu every case "an actual appeal or suramous to Jehovah. They are calls for aid and prayers to be heard, expressed either with entire directness, or if not in the imperative, "Hear Jehovah! or awake Jehovah!' and the like, still earnest addresses to God that he would remember and hear," !tc The word itself he regards as indicating a blast ot trumpets by the priests. Selah, itself, he thinks an abridged expression used for Haggaion, indicating the sound of the stringed instruments, and Selah a vigorous blast of trumpets. Bibliotheca Sacra. Antiquity of !Vnrrry Khymes. Many of these are centuries old. "A man of words and not of deeds," is found in MS. of the seventeenth century, in fie British Museum; differing, indeed, from the rersion now used, but still sufficiently similar tc leave no question as to the identity. The folbwing has been traced to the time of Henry V.'., a singular doggerel, the joke of which consist in saying it so quickly that it cannot be told whether it is English or gibberish: "In a fir tar is, In oak nont is, In mud eel is, In clay none is, Goat eat ivy, Mare eat tats." "Multiplication is vexation," a painful reality to school boys, was found a few years ago, in MS. dated 1570; and the memorial lines "Thirty days hath September," occur in the Return from Parnassus, an old play printed iu 1G06. The old song of the "Carrion Crow sat on an Oak," was discovered in MS., Sloaue, 1489, of the time of Charles I., but under a different form: "Hie hoc, the carrion wow, For I have shot something too low; I have quite missed my mark, And shot the poor sow to the heart; Wife, bring treacle in a spoon, Or else the poor sow's heart will down." "Sing a song of sixpence" is quoted by Beau mont and Fletcher. "Bnz, quoth the blue fly," which is printed in the nursery half-penny books belongs to Ben Jonson's Masque of Oberon, "Tailor of Bicester," was originally sune in me game called vLeap Candle," mentioned by Aubrey; and the old ditty of "Three Blind i...wc, is iuuuu iu iue curious music door en titled Deuteromelta; or the second part of Musicke's Melodie, 1606. And so on of others. fragments of old catches and popular songs be ing constantly traced in the apparently unmeaning rhymes of the nursery. We have recently seen at an auction-sale an old copy of the nursery rhymes of "Jack Horner," in its original state; not a mere fragment, but a long metrical history, entitled "The Pleasant History of Jack Horner, containing his witty tricks aud pranks which he played from his youth to his riper years; right pleasant and delightful for winter and summer's recreation," with four frightful wood cuts, not having as far as we could see, any connection with the tale. Horrible beyond Deseripeion. A report is current in this place of one of the most unholy and inhuman acts ever committed in a civilized country. It is said that two men met a lady on the road in Greene county, Ind., a few days since, and by their united efforts con fined her until they had accomplished their fiendish purposes. They then tied her to a tree with her hands behind her, and cut out her tongue, and left her thus confined. When she had suffered in this dreadful situation about twenty hours, she was found by her husband in company with some others. She remained alive after they got her home, just long enough to write the names of the persons who committed the awful outrage and then expired. It is said that some friends of these demons in human form, couveyed the intelligence of their exposure to them, and they immediately left the neighborhood. Bloomington Ind.JTrib. Sept. 9th. Tbe Vco Power, The last time the veto power was employed by any King of England was in 1694, one hundred aud forty-four years ago! Then the House of Commons took a decided stand ngainst it, aud in a few years afterwards the King approved a bill of the exact Import he had before vetoed. Here we are, with a Republican Govercment, in the middle of an age distinguished for intelligence and strong love for country, when the thrones and dynasties of the old world are crumbling about us still fighting against the power of a party, who, with a thousand false professions of Democracy on their lips, would place all power, influence and patronage in the hands of one man! We are struggling against kingly prerogative still! The people are struggling to make their own laws, and to break down that co-ordinate power in legislation to which no President is by our Constitution entitled! Hartford Courant. ETA 11 things must change friends must be torn asunder, and swept along in the current of events, to see each other seldom, and perchance no more. For ever and ever in the eddies of time and accident we whirl away. Hyperion. Yankee Coolness. A dueliest, who fancied himself insulted by a Yankee, who had won the affections of his lady love, left the room with the ominous words "Yon will hear from me, sir!" "Well, do so!" renlied the Yankee, "clad on't: writ, one in while: I .hall be rlad to hear ' from you as often as you have a mind to let us' know how you get along.

Nprrnlaiions in Pork.

A pork speculator in a letter to a friend, gives ' ilia Ulmrin.! .nnni .r i.i. nn.i . s -uu. u. ...o vr,awuii, lur . a series of years, and of the motives which governed him: n i.. u .. .t iu , ... t ... i ... i . i:m . r.. ui-ii . ... ...aucmmir. iu paid i.ou I ........ ..u u v. u v j vi J 1 t l 11 1. vu tllu uuitllOSO IUU1 r I .... ... it. . 1 ury

. u6ui rU, m uurc uuiiub iiti uuiurpj nl8. ry vaiuaDie suustuule tor rail fence. In the nrai-. corners, or stand In tha mrt.t .) ...

ignor- gross, iu 1S40 and lost 50 per cent, on it. In rie laud, where timber Is so v:.lul.l n,l m-jirrn Tour hands in vnnr hwi,u j .

which , 1S41 1 bought at Sl.75 net, and again lost about in many parts. As an evidence of the value ! mouths, doinir nothinir hot in .u .,

of one ! 50 per cent, on it. In IS li the price was 1.50 and ntilitv of iW ,a.i.t vliiln vn nmnn..i.u.t :...kl '

uey. Supposing there would be aa over supply : portion of his grounds surrounded with these '. precious time. Yon are now looked upon by in 1845 from abundant crops, high prices, ic, plant., and he gives it as his opinion that they j God, angels aud men, and devils too, aa fool exfor hogs, I did not park. My expectations were are a valuable substitute for a fence, and all they "ecenaes on the face of creation ' which ih

realized. In 1S4G I reasoned that, owing to the then low prices and apathy of every bodv, hogs would be scarce, as numbers m ould be saved over for 1847. Well, it turned out so, and, owing to the immense importations of specie for breadstuffs, everybody had money, and everybody wauted to speculate; consequently I realized 100 percent, on my purchase money. In 1847 1 reasoned that theie would be an over-supply, from the fact that crops and hogs both were abundant, and the excitement such that numbers would be driven to market that in point of age ought to be kept for this year, so I tiid not buy largely and all turned out as ( anticipated. It was a disastrous year. Coming on I the I.itllr VmA of the Iloon. His wife, one day, Bill Fudge addressed, While at the breakfast table, "I think, my dear, 'tis for the best, As seeing we are able To keep a shop just over here, Wake up, good wife, and hear it, And sell good cider, wine and beer, And every kind of spirit. And now, dear soul, I do believe You will not show resistance, But, like a trusty help-mate, give Your very best assistance. An illustration and design I know you're good at making, Pray, w hat's most proper for a sign For this 'ere undertaking!" "Well, husband dear, in matters great, . You know I don't resist you, And in the thing you're pleased to state, I'm willing to assist you. I'd paint a horn, my loving sir, It is the best, depend on't, With William Fudge, the Taverner, Half but the little end on't." ICrThere was a ball no matter by whom set in motion at McRea's of East rasciigoula, Where General Iaylorand his family are now staying, on t nday night last. It is represented by some of those present, as a scene of unusual gaiety. During the interval between two of the dances, the general with great gallantrv proiae naded round the room a durk-eyed, light-footed beauty, the very Wile of the eveuing. When the word "places!" was given by the ballet-mas ter, a fellow all hairs and grea.vs npproached her, and in a simpering tone, said, "Miss Julia, you kuow-aw that-aw you-aw engaged to meaw fo' the next set-aw. I am su'-aw General Taylaw has-aw no objection-aw." ino i.mjuua iuuhhj ai me ueneral. The General looked at the fair Julia, and pressing more tightly on her arm, remarked, "General Taylor never surrenders." The General and Julia continued their promenade the exquisite walked no he wadcled to another part of the room. N. O. Delta. A Pure Henri. The man with pure and simple heart, Through life disdains a double part; lie never needs the tfereen of lies, His inward bosom to disguise. Pennsylvania mafr forTnylor. Van Buren will divide the democracy of Pennsylvania so as to render it certain for Taylor. John Van Buren addressed the State Conven-

tion held at Reading in that Stale a few days;accu,""'ille ln l''e kitchen, remarked to an ago. At the conclusion of his speech he asked j Euglish girl who li;td recently come to her emthe democracy of Berks, if his father was not as l,,0.v t,lat the. first fat man she saw iu the street

good a democrat now as when that county cave him 4000 majority ? The questian was received by them with great applause. Cnre for II it-rap.

Travelling sometime since by railroad from h0!!e corporation justified her in informing him Columbus to Baltimore, I took my seat imme- that Missus wished to see him, if he would be so mediately in front of a gentleman who was suf- kind 88 10 st,'P '" l'd RO and was seated in fering under paroxysm hiccup to a degree I had t,le parlor. The girl called her mistress dowu never before witnessed. In a few minutes a per- ' stairs to attend to the fat man. When she had son appeared from the front of the car, and took descended she was informed he was in the parlor. a seat beside him, when he said, sir, can you "In the parlor!" exclaimed Mrs. , "and what tell me what is good for the hiccups? I have ''le doing in the parlor? ' She hurried iu, and been a Ml ic ted the way you see me since yester- there discovered a gentleinanly-lonking personday noon, and have had no rest, or relief from a aKe wi,h hat off, wait ing to hear the cause of his physician to whom I applied for assistance; I am ' detention. The lady, whose presence of mind worn out suffering. To whom the person re-! did not forsake her, immediately saw the whole plied, Sir, I will cure you in less than two min- mistake, and apologized for the ridiculous error, utes by my watch; have confidence, for I am jTne fal ",au left evidently much amused at the sure I can do it. Hold up, high above your joke. American Courier, head, two fingers of your hand; lean back in ) Wive, nnrt ( nrpri. vour seat onenins vour mouth and throat, so as Tho Chicago Journal thus learnedly PI,iloso-

to give a free passage to your lungs; breathe very long and softly, and look very steadily at your fiugers. In less than the time specified the cure was performed, one hiccup only occuring during the trial. The patient could not express his gratitude, while the practitioner onlyexacted from him as a fee, the promise that he would extend the knowledge he had imparted, as freely as he had received it, assuring him that he would never be disappointed in the result. We were all struck with the fact and many of us considered that the stranger was sent by the appointment of that Power, often designated as a particular providence. Since then I kora iffim 1 . ! . 4 inmiGinn In lir'ir-tii tllWlll lit - . . . , ,. , , ... . tienls in the same disorder and never without tliA mnst cifrniil RiieresA. mi. U on Mrrrinar. I've been afeerd to veuturon matrimony myself, and I don't altogether think that I shall speculate in that line for one while; it don't jist suit a rovin' man like me. It's a considerable of a tie: and then it ain't like a horse-deal, where if you don't like the beast, you can put it off at a raffle or a trade, or swap and suit yourself better; but you must make the beFt of a bad - i bargain, and put up with it. It ain't often you meet a critter of the right mettle, spirited, j yet gentle; easy on the bit, sure-footed and spry ; no bitin'. no kickin'. no sulkiu', or racin' off, or refusi.,' to po. or runuin' back, aud then clean limbeJ and good carriage. If abaul difficulty piece ef business 1 know on

The (huge Orange for Hedges. I We hnv linin nnrl ron.i . nnrtA Aaul Anrinfr tH '

i... . -. . iai jrnr m reunion io me usage urang iot Hecre Fences, aud from all we can learn, are j of the opinion, that they are destined to be a ve- ,.. , , . .. . ... . uisueu oy .Mr. Averv Turner, a farmer ofth is , , , V Will ) C. I Mr. A. Turner, has a considerable j are represented to be. tiuincy Whig. Iput out this spring.as you know, some miles of hedge, embracing some thousands of plants, upon my own farm and grounds. My success in transplanting was so perfect that among all the thousands of plants properly selected and prepared, which I set in the hedge to this spring, that only 111 ihree plants were found dead j ling. Whether these were at the time of weed dead at the time they were set out, or not, I can not tell. The best of these hedge rows are about three feet high; and have given me no more trouble than a corn row of equal length, since they were set. They are beautiful indeed, and have surpassed my most sanguine expectations. I have also a short piece of hedge row on its third year, which will stop any creature now on my place, from the smallest chicken or pig, to the largest cow or horse. I have no bulls or oxen, but before it has completed its third year, I will turn it out agaiust the most unruly bull or btffdo ever in the State not excepting Col. Dun!ap's, which throws all sorts of rail fences and bolted gates back upon hisshggy neck, and walks off with them as proudly as a belle with a new mantle. All, without exception, who have seen my hedges this spring, desire to get them as fast as possible. Had I time I could contract to set 50 miles to-morrow for the best farmers in tSej county, and at prices which would piy a handsome profit above all cost. I have advertised no plants for sal, and offered none; but within a few days I have had more applications for plants than I have to spare here at home next spring For example, yesterday I sold thirty thousaud provided I should have that number through the winter after filling out my own plans for hedges aud all previoos orders. My plan of sale is to sell ten thousand in a given neighborhood, and become responsible for specific directions for the setting and care of the hedges until complete iu three years, and if my directions are followed, for the loss of all plant meantime. It thus costs the furmer to set 80 rods of hedge, about $13 all completed, and as the p'auts were all selected, sized and trimmed, ready for the hetgejie cannot fail to have an impassalle fence of the greatest beauty in three years. And when he has done it, it is a hedge not a mere brush fence, such as those seed-men have been advisiug the farmers to make by sowing the seed in the hedge row. I cannot therefore properly say now that I have faith in these hedges no more than I could ay wiai i nave lann in raising earn, it is a thing which every body knows, Vhoknowsauy thing at all about it. It is no rxperimeii-ao new thing except in this State. About Boston, Philadelphia and Cincinnati in Kentucky, Ten nessee, and even in Northern Misoouri there are hedges that have been standing 8 or 10 years in unrivalled beauty and utility As you know I have had it some ten years or more, and all the stories about its not staudiug the climate, sprouting and spreading from the hedge, tc, I k now to bo wholly false and no fouuded. An Exrrllenf Joke. A lady in Spruce St., riiilrdclpliia, wishing to get closr of the offjl, fat, grease.&c, that had t0 ca" n'm ,n l'lat K'1' wanted to see him. The Eood creature, thiuking the term "fat" applied to the man's size, and not to his business, a littl while after, on going to the door, saw a man I'1'1 on lhese theme!" There U lar6e 8lreak 1 of sense in the reflections "In the selection of a carpet, you should always prefer one with small figures, for the two wel)8 of which the fabric cousists are always more closely iuterwoven than in carpeting where large figures are wrought. There is a good deal of true philosophy in this that will apply to matters widely different from the selection of carpets. A tnau commits a sad mistake wheu he selects a wife that cuts too large a figure on the great green carpet of life in other words, makes much display. The attractions fade out the web of life becomes worn aud weak, aud all the 'cav fiirures that seemed so charming at first disb 1 V. . I appear like summer flowers in autumn. Many a man has made flimsey linsey-wc Many a ,nau "as ",ade flin,80' "nsey-woolsey of himself by striving to weave too large a fig ure, aud himself worn out, used up, and, like old carpet 'hanging on the fence,' before lie has lived out half his allotted days of usefulness. Many a man wears out like a carpet that is never swept, by the dust of indolence; like that carpet he needs shaking or whipping; he needs activity, something to think of, something to do. Look out, then, for the large figures; and there are those now stowed away in the garret of the world, awaiting their fiual cou&igument to the cellar, who, had they practised this bit of carpet philosophy, would to-day be firm and bright theiBrusstls fresh from the loom, nd everybody 1 exclam.ii.lt wonderful h.wlli- i mxV"

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Tfce World own M a Living. - Would you not call that man a fool

' u . .. Whospring mio the streets on a rainy dv aoi ' attempt to swim? But he would not ba mor foolish and unwise than you are who ait i W . . jTOnre,wnim OW. me a livinr. and Isha hav-ii'" T. i. ,. . - eent living, while you thus fool awry yoar creation, which the ooner removed, the better it will be for the inhabitants of the three worlds. The world ewes me a living.' Did yoa ever come across a fat carcass of .h and Wood, who seldom stirred a dozen rods a day, who had vi u. worance engraved on his heart and sUK'JfP4 t his tonga -en4? A sterling fee,s tnat he owes the world much, and m g08 ,0 work manfully, supporting himself r ba mnA doing all in his power to make others happv, and redeem the world from misery, vice and wretchedness. You never see him lingerimr at tha corners, or planting himseiriiko a post before the quick march of industry and energy. Ha la np at early dawn and about his businen, malmr "fining man irom the chains of prejudice and sin. The earth is full of the world owes roe a Bring men. Yon meet them everywhere. They are the cause of the most of the trouble that afflicts the church and society at large. Look into a parish where there are nnpleasant feelings, and you will find they were caused by men who had nothing to do. They stir at strife, and break np c lurches. They move aboat meddling with the affairs of others, and producing uncalculaMe mischief. Yet the world they curse owes them a living' Would to Hears, they could get their living and be c.ntented! -We then might see some peaceful daya, and go into society where the tear of sorrow mod the flush of anger are unknown. My friend, are you living upon others? From this moment give a spring and go to work. i you can do nothing better, mmo into a mom and there swing till the fouls of heaven deronr the carcass that was nnt fit f-.- th. -- " uwcimi vi man. QC? What is religion? is a question eftea as ked respecting Lamartine, by the friends ef Republican France. His own answer will be heard with deep interest. He says: "I believe in Christ, because he has in trod - duced on earth the most holy, the most fraltlul, and the most divine doctrine that ever shod its beams on human intelligence. Christ baa spoken as reason speaks. The aeelrino lo known by its morality, U the same manner as a tree is known by iU fruit; lit i to of Christ ianity are infinite, perfect aud divine, theaathor of which is the Divine Word,as he so styled himself. O" Esq. at the end of a man's name, ft Ilka acurl in apig's tale more for ornament than use. From the Concinnaui Coiamrrciol. Prize Earoa fve. DEDICATED TO MESSRS. BEETt &. IUIL : Loft Tisaholy passion; a beauteous gem; a aojpjrNi on earth from a better and a brighter wad. It is the offspring of kindred Sentithe shield bearer of eternity! In power bii mighty! I 'havior, as gentle as the mir mnnng zephyrs that play at eve aronad the portals of the opening flowret. Companion af angels! child of immortality; beacon of enduring bliss! Unseen, yet seen; 'tis earth's si. fine of heaven, where all in submision bow. How sweet to bat-k beneath its rays; to quaff from that fount of fouuls those waters that hatha tho soul iu contentment's fairest livery! The reyeiler there has passed a mimic death, and tha woes of life have sank into oblivion. Fntarlty opeus her mystic glare, and the light of flit tering, enuless joys, display theircharms, whilst thought and mind before their congenial blaxa dissolve and melt, and like some pel ocid stream, softly glide, unruffled, adown the course of Urn. Love! There is magic in the very son ad; It charms aud delights, and lingers upon the oar, in tones of melody. Love! The tablet npos) . which creation stands; its spirit prevadea each shrub, aud tree, aud flower, and moving thing; 'tis light and life, for Love U of God, and God is Love. Kln-tora in 1$4 1. We do not meddle with politics, bnt tha following table will be nseful for reference, and our readers should preserve it for that purpose. We give the States that voted for Mr Polk and those that voted for Air Clay, in separata columns: VOTED FOR POLK. New York Pennsylvania Virginia Indiana Georgia S. Carolina Alabama Illinois Maine Missouri Mississippi Louisiaua New Hampshire Michigan Arkansas voted roa cur. 3G 26 17 12 10 9 D 9 9 7 6 6 6 5 3 Ohio Tennessee Kentucky Mttssach use Us North Caaolina Maryland New Jersey Connecticut Vermont Rhode Island Delaware 23 13 13 13 II 8 7 S 6 4 3 Total 10 Tol-d 105 Since the election of 1?44 there are four new states Iowa that will have four votes to giva, Tex ii four, Florida three, and probably Wisconsin will be in the Union and have, perhaps, fira votes to give. At the next election there will be two hundred and ninety-one electors, if Wisconsin should have five votes, or two-hand red and ninety if she have four. The candidate elected must get at least one hundred and fortysix votesA Tied ley. II.i)! Columbia, happy laud! For worker timesare uowathand: If I could read my tide dear, 1 would right off to Texas -teer, And thoss who meet me on the way, I have no donbt to me would say: O til iue, tilue eted stranger, Say, whither tiosi thou roam? Thr'o these cane brakes a ranger, Hast thou no settled home?"'

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