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1 X OWRCOONTRT-OUR COtNTRT'S INTERESTS AND O UR COfNTRTS FRIENDS CL AUK SOX. BUOOKVILtB, FRANKLIN CO. INDIANA, FRIDAY, FEB. 20, 1852, VOL XX. NO. 9.

HMIMAMA

AG

R CULTURAL.

ttiTrfcerries the Trnr Knd

Under this imposing title Hovey s Magazine

From the Prairie Farmer. ! publishes a story which has done pretty good jrtiOfflce .rlrltnr. travel. Ffbvey is considered pretty good authornsrt of the Patent Office re- itv. and the stortr U tni.l .i r

' ',';,. sstitl. a considerable amount bility which is Immensely taking. Notwith-

1 ...i, nreservin? in an enduring form; standing all this we lake th lihortvtn rlUrliovo

(fiwi1 "' t it. ' I " . L-n. n-hether the brown rtarter ihitinn mrh inm.ni .:it

'V su1 " " I i ...... . . . .ibntiurut licit t ill .iniui;u lliu -e"b!e typocrspViy, for which the city affects specified. During the pastseason it rained .!o)nited. are calculated tose- nil th

I1-' 'S-.I..IJ 1 .u ' 1 H- ..-

Vit n'1 1 pr iko iiciuwu iiu luugrr mau usual, ieveruie-

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.,. ...), oals the seed in strong brine

We have been somewhat surprised to learn

1 mllo i In lima Tl ll,- . I I J: 1 r . :

8 mai me trillTfc UH IKtU UIMJUTeiTU) IUr II jrowlT sure that such a salt must be, of cultivating the strawberry so as to

L Airi" 'of!e!,roy lne croP. and nave the fruit rrom six to eight months in the r . l.h :i (a ha it.AAKr:...LL . . . i. nr i 1 r

Ill' iiii.uiipniriauio jrarj uui 1110 luuuiuiy Alpine, OUC IlOVey P re.a f the brine extending far Seedling, which has now added to its other qual- '. , . .:nfihe seed's germination. Fie ities that of

rsneurs issumnriu lur unr Bonn i

K;irt nn flnnM lilnt pnn. ! W r I? TV. 1 1 r - i t it r

i.jtTVr-- . " v" 1 cauuuy, ui iuiumous, ua.i one 01

r V-T'3 of the cases of bad luck in the editors of the Soil of the South. Mr. P.

Lsluierto"'? " irrpuiS. , ys.- vt e oegan picking tlovey s Needling in

jet"Kr8tTar P,nloa m regard , march, aud our beds are now (July 2D) in full j-n-'seof Mediterranean wheat. Some ! fruit and bloom, with a prospec of continuing .,.trTvi'uaWet,au-e it defies rust and so till October." But he says nothing of his ( wjile others call it an exceelingly mode of cultivation. Fortunately we are not .-rt. Oae writer, a Mr. Rugales, of Ohio, without the information, for Uncle Solon Rob-

V- it't',r!ri,0',rT:,rit'u"-n ""''""pMior to inson, who has visited Mr. Feabody's garden,

aiul eaten the fruit, thus describes how it is done We quote from Mr. Robinson's article in the August number of the American Agriculturist. The secret has been discovered and praised by Mr. C. F. Peabody, of Columbus, Ga., one of the editors of the Soil of the South, for several years, not as a mere theory or experiment, nor accidental production, but as a science a study of time successfully carried out for profit; for he sends his market wagou into the citv laden with this luxury from March till September, and last year his vines continued to ripen fruit until Christmas. What is the secret our readers will exclaim ! W hat new variety T No other than Houghton's Seeiiling, impregnated by Early Scarlet, aud never watered, but kept continually moist by artificial watering, for which purpose he uses a garden engine. For four years Mr. P. cultivated the same va-

POLITICAL.

From the N.

Y. Tribune

The Camprnraiitr nnd the I'rnUmrr. Washington, Monday, Feb. 2, 1852. The Fugitive Slave Law is In the way of electing a Whig President. People talk about the 'Compromise measures andsoeonfuse men's minds about a thing which in itself is very simple and plain. Five acts were brought under this head and pnsed, to wit: 1st. An act for the admission of California. 2.1. An act establishing Territorial Governments for our acquisitions from Mexico. 3d. An act for the settlement of the Texas Boundary. 4th. An act abolishing the Slave Trade in the District of Columbia. 5th, An act for returning Fugitive Slaves. Two of these acts are not open to legislat ive action. We pminnt tum r.ur...:. -r . u

The gentleman who has made this discovery ,' Union, AnA we .. ,lsln,B , mil. ,

I O Ill I II IV 11.1 VI

(" The e:iti'r, who, ny i:ie way, is ur. 0f ihe New York Genessee Farmjjijijptlie chemical features of the case, sc'seastirt the qualities which render this vaiuiMe are those which cause the .',-slccW ' it auj affect its value iu the

fc-ktt. It ?ftsses, says the IJoctor, a large

mtff'z-a, iiid comparatively little starch;

Svaf.-M-wrs it nutr.tive, and the latter

ins it itrk coli revl. i lie Doctor s facts

-- ;a essentials Willi those of Mr. Ruggles,

:i;h fiatfiiand little starch characleriies is il as Mediterranean wheat. But, as ?xtor MVS, miilers, and the market and sr.ion.iUe world to, it may be added go .irMlher lhanrt-.il utility. Junes H.Giil of . Vomit Pleasant, Ohio, -i asfvlluivs:

riVuve erojis or'ginate from several causes:

; s-e.i is thrashed by machines which .:: ure the grain, so '.hat it fails to Sea lurro.vedin, leaves at least

Ij'''u,.i liii" urface, which never conies to : -.i. .t'.i rv erow at all. 3. The want of

i .-!..: '5. 4. Shallow ploughing, seldom ;,-!.: than seven inches, and scarcely cm.;!. Kiequeiitly we plotiph but once; :-:rs .v lose the crop, trom the fart that .-'ake-jiosSAs.-iou of the ground and i;es-

''. (KhfU. Our -system of cropping is is b .i the method of cropping should be

-i.-vni; secoad, oats or barley; third,- heat

: Georg- J. Toivell, of Uniontow n, Pa., h is

'. .oi of putting in grass and other light

wsiic 1, thouja not new, is valuable. He

i?sth,-m in. The brush is made lv boritxr

j .. r twelve hi-irs in a beam or scanlliug seven

iflrtio:,.' and filliiiir tliem with tiniKli

'it geod way of covering flax seed.

Ueni.nt.-r of Corn growiue, a little extract

n from a letter from Dr. Wm. Johnson, of

Hill, loiva. We copy it for the sake

:rS .ito:i nf "the lazy mail's crop."

: s koned, and doubtless is, the most

cr-a of tl.is region. Some break the : U'l, hut the general practice is to

ir y in the spring The ground i !ist-

.ip au.jh each way, and the seed plant-

.'a: rs ciioiis, t the rate of from two to

-.s in a hill. The usual method of cov

,;o;ttHiia hoe. tmt mauv cover with a

Wi'.ii but liuleaiteuliou,25to3Ubusi-

itasver.-.pe yi-hl; and hence this is par

r net t.ie Lay man's cron. W here the laud

Ufa ai.d kept clean, the average is about

i-.s; a .ii it is no uncommon, thiug to :!:osn tli) to 7(1. The price the past year 55 cents per bushel

-Lie uistofeoru, Mr. Win. Zimmerman, of

-. k,i, furaishes an item. 'se kiili ilie yelioxv and white. Ma-

"Mtiisn!. Fiough once, plant, and, if

L-i.ec, vp!oughed four or five times,) it r"Ksce 61 or T 0 bushels per acre. The cost : estimated as follows:

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i:L:iit

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Fi'encr . t

money out of the breeches pocket of Texas into

our own. In the first place she could'nt pay it If she would, and in the second, she would'nt if she could. A third act is one for establishing Territorial Governments for Xew-Mxico and Utah. This was passed without the "Proviso," and was really the only act upou which any great controversy was waged. In this the South had her ott-u way. It is ainostsugir-stive and provoking subject for comment, but we withstand the temptation and remain silent. The question ill rtr j r.J t it I. ... I .. .1 1 r

w . rnu uix-u uruppea lor two reasons; first, because the Fugitive Slave law so excited the resentment ofthe North, that it quite forgot the "Proviso" for the period immediately following the passage of the measures; and, second, because the conviction has grown general that Slavery will not go into New-Mexico and Utah. Thus acquiescence iu this act prevails even in those quarters where the stoutest determination to uphold and adhere to "Proviso" existed. A fourth act is the one abolishiug the Slave trade in the District, for which nobody now car es, and nobody ever did care. It is a small act upon a small subject, a nsweriug a very small purpose. And thus it is that the Fugitive Slave Law, the fifth aud last of the saries. and that alone.

r.eiy in ricn garaen mould, manuring liberally j realy survives.and has an active existence of all every year, aud at any time during the summer 1 the much bruited "Compiomise Measures"

Congress as one mieht leaD a norm over ditch.

at a single bound, without thought and without examination. The Fugitive Slave law was never discussed und never made a matter of any special account in all the discussionsof the time. It was not a principal or a conspicuous flower in that admired bouquet prepared by Messrs. Foote, Clay &. Co. for presentation to the country; whose soporific odors were to compose all the nervous nils 0r the nation. Itwaselmply a preen sprig tucked in behind to give variety and relier to its general appear nee. It was merely a littlo thread thrown into the shopkeeper's bundle to make up the stuff's therein contained. And as quack doctors and pat.nt medicine venders in fo r.ning their villainous compounds, put in a little of this and a little of that herb, sweet flag, yellow dock, dandelion, thistle flower, and other iugredieuts, to give an imposing air of potency to the all-healing sassafras, or other sta. pie of their medicine, so in this case was the Fugitive Slave law spinkled into the Compromise mess; of which the whole body and soul was the law establishing the Territorial Governments without the Wilmot Proviso. The Fugitive law

; received absolutely no consideration aud no ex- . animation, and was not debated or hardly alluded to in the finul passage ofthe series of measures at l ist borne on a rushing torrent through Congress. Pascal somewhere remarks that if Cleopatra's . nose had been shorter, the fate of the world might have beeu changed. Should it so turn j out that this law, in consequence ef a few over- , looked, wicked provisions, maliciously, and al-

iiusisieaiuiuviuserted, should be the cause of the untoward results we have already hinted at, it would only be another added to the catalogue ofthe instances in which small and unsuspected causes have produced great results in the world's history, from the fall of Troy downward. But we have faith to believe that the Whirrs of

the South will, in good time, see und acknowl

edge the impossibility that the Whig party can run a Presidential catididale, or the narrow and

mean issue of adherence to the letter ofthe Ku-

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Toul

h J-W.ll.wtUoii.nf s n

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Mt.j:forai.of more value to the

r m thai r-jiou than all other crops. The

""'""iia a hoe, at the rate of five or

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, ..... , ana raKe(1 together tor LS Hi a horse rake, at the rate of thirty ::ay. :A HdliarJ, of Macoupin, Co., writes. ' 4'-loired to grow 60 bushel of corn :! common prairie laud is, to plough ''K'-m the soil, and keep the weeds -Ctttt with l, l..i. .

.... i'iumii or cuiuvaiur. -"eanllschnrir.il,;..!. r. ,.. j , .

&v ..itii iui jjruiuuig.auu la'weco not

LarVst metho.i i I

'ooa as the grain ig harJj and whUe C-1 ,rd 'aVM are 6reeu- In wiudily hauled into a lot, to be 'B 'U!t'"g cattle; which being turned

' iu tra i tin i iih iiwinpr

could have moved a swath of greeu luxuriant vines, which would have made very good hay, but that was not what he wished to grow. Failing to get fruit by garden culture, he commenced the experimet which for six years past has

proved so eminently successful. Hecleared offi

a strip of low laud along a little rivulet, the soil of which is coarse sand and loose gravel, inter

mixed slightly with clay, and of course covered w ith forest mould ; digging out the roots of a

thicket growth of bushes sufficiently prepared

the land. The viues were then set in rows, six of llo vey s aud one of Karlv Scarlet, and the

surface has never since been disturbed by spade or hoe, except so far as going over the ground

once or twice a year to cut out here and there a decaying vine or bunch of grass or weeds few of which, however, in consequence of using no manure, ever make their appearance; neither d.i the plants run to viues, spreading all over the surface every year, as they did in the garden. The whole strength seems to be exerted for the production of large rich berries to such a degree that the ground is red with fruit, not green with leaves; and this is not upon a little plat but over a field of five acres. And does he never manure them? is undoubt

enly asked by every tyro in the busiuss of

growing strawberry viues. Mr. Peabody grows roots, stem and fruit. I repeat, he never manures, never digs the ground, nor turus under the old roots to give place o new ones. In the fall he gives a slight dressing of the forest, and covers the ground with leaves; these remain till decayed and serve to keep the berries clean during the long bearing seasons. This and the watering every hot day when it does not rain, is the great secret in growing strawberries, not only six months, but last year he actually had them on his table every month but two, January and February. Of course, at the north, the bearing season would not be of equal duration,

but it may be greatly extended by the same

course of cultivation.

Cranberries. The Massachusetts Flough-

Gov. Davis, in his late speech iu the Senate.de monstrated this fact at length in a most conclusive manner. Hence it is, we make the declara

tion that this law is the only thing in the way of

electing a hig President. Why it is so, is plaiu enough, as we will show

The Southern Whigs, ever since the passage of

the Compromise measures, have been fighting their battles on that platform. Their newspapers, members ofthe State Legislatures, members of Congress, stump speakers iu general, have all planted themselves upon these measures. They have given them their out and out support, through thiex and thin. They

have sustained them as the leading measures of

a Whig Administration, and by them they have elected to stand or fall. Here arises the difficulty Th Compromise measures, as we have seen, being resolved into the Fugitive Slave Law, aud the Whig party of the Southern States having planted itself thereou (aud not having yet recovered from the heats of the recent contest on the Slavery question,) it deems itself under the necessity for fighting the Presidential battle on the same issue; and imagines that no candidate will serve the purpose of uniting and carrying the purty, unless he make protestation in advance that he is a "Compromise" man; which means, in other words, that he is a firm supporter of the existing Fugitive Slave Law. Now so long as the Southern Whigs hold on to this conviction, just so long there can be no union of Northern and Southern Whigs on a Presidential candidate; and of course, considering the political complexion of the House, there can be no election of a Whig President. And thus it comes that the Fugitive Slave Law stands in the way of that result. It is well known that the Northern Whigs, as well as all parties at the North, entertain a great repugnance to the provisions of the Fugitive Slave Law. Any law for returning runaway negroes would be distasteful enough, but the

existing law is especially and justly odious. For

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i i. it. i ii miis ictKiuii, uu iui? t residential canumaie man, whose editor commonly knows what he is ' 6 1 ,c-,l,c--l,al tauuiuaw - ' ..I 1 I. .. ... ' I T .1 O. . . f

about, states that he has succeeded in producing -uum """ lu " s,"g,e cranberries in his garden. The ground was pre- he wm t0 rUn 88 Sl,ecial advot nd sup-

partd for them by running a plough twice for ' '""" " wwrl" "'"""""J P1 I & : : r t, . . , . up.

i . .1 r . .! ii no wcio iu iuii as a iiiiruillise caueach row. tiiriiincr the furrows onnosite wavs. i 6 1

, ii - j ,

1 nto the dead furrows was put a quantity of peat ,

mud, which was covered by hauling back the j

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S

p.

ssfJ.".",'rorn for 'flerent uses,

the

Mr.

Jacksonville, Illinois, says.

v Jellow is best for horses, mules

mail i

furrows over it. The vines have stood two years, and some fruit how much is not stated was gathered a little time since. We notice several other successful cases in Massachusetts, chronicled in the newspapers of late, though the quantity of fruit we judge to be uniformly small. It is possible, contrary to our previously expressed opinion, that these may be places in the northwest where the same thing may be done, possibly at a profit but we should need much uniform success on the part of others to induce us to try it again Among others who have succeeded in Massachusetts in this culture are Messrs. Needham Si. Danvers, who have a half acre of land in the crop. Farmer.

Garde Walks. In England it is a matter of great importance to prevent weeds or grass growing on gravel walks, for such is the dampness of the climate that mosses and weeds of several sorts fasten upon and completely overrun

YelltlU- fn na 4 1.. . .1 ' . . r... I . 1

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-'o iirt i ""'"""i'nii."i inau; v- urably important also in this country, it nas

lir,i bs'-els per acre; . been found there, according to the Gardener's

1 r. '

u-:vati,

on:

from twelve to fourtee n , Chronicle, that gas tar is absolutely fatal to vegRreab nn lli. M:il. ! ... , .. ... i

i " b'"uuu ; etabie growtn, and a coating 01 it spread over a

:'tspr c . y as 11 ,s r,t for plough- . walk keeps it clear as long as the tar remaius. !ch S . lilrrW'layofflhe rows To apply it in the best manner have the walk U'!ech 5 ' drP fr0m lhr 10 fivej made aud rolled hard then put on the tar with a 4ired mler8cUun being careful to j brush, and as it is offensive to the eye and the ::,r th'Vv.l,1IJ lan(1 8lJeot the furrow; olfactories, cover it with a thin coat of gravel hirl. "U lre-U9 Pl0-U.gh As 8000 which becomes incorporated with it and forms a

P1 Plon.,k r' "Brro "i nen use a , , , . . ... rr Vor r horcultivator,and go ver the hard, dry, unincumbered walk. Farmer.

LT rW. .T " !au"m"' " rrlt is stated that Jennv Lind has taken a

"ti!.l ..i.uuw vm u mree , . .. . 0:1, v -u . , .

flOUSe On IVOUIIU mil, .iuiumnipvuu,ivi m vu,i'i.. - mer residence : aud from her purchase of plate

. e ' one rhW,m.in;i .1 . . furniture. Slc. it would indicate that the report

I onian eV are always tidy. The was louuuea m iacf

tin... ,ull-si the harder she scrubs a "

f . . I'Wrivw ,.,.. : I ... L : TT-l i. ..:.i . Amm',r tA

"""a wnite-wash brashes. live long than to live well-

did ate. Hut there is no reasonable doubt of the ability of Geu. Scott to carry every Northern State that went for Geu. Taylor, with the addition of Ohio into the bargain, if he were run without reference to this issue. Such is the conviction of the best informed men from all those States. All that is wanted to insure a moral certaiuty of his election, therefore, is the support of the Southern Whig States. And so it becomes a question solely for Southern Whigsto decide whether or not we shall have a Whig President at the next election. If they insist upon incorporating such a new and ridiculous test into the code ofthe Whig party as ( not adherence to the Constitution, not ad he re nee to a proper Fugitive Slave law even,) the support of a certain specific, existing, defective,

repulsive law, theu it is inevitable that the Whig party issurendered and defeated. And what is worse than that, it is equally inevitable that a great sectional party will rise upon its ruins.

And so on the contrary, if the Whig party North

and South will consent to discard all such ridiculous, temporary issuesas the one alluded to; aud will rally to the support of Gen. Scott as

they did to the support of Geu. Taylor, standing

upon their ancient and well-known doctrines

and the well-established character of their can

didate, then will they preserve the unity and the nationality ofthe party; and if they cannot, by reason of the composition of Congress, shape the policy of the country ondomestic questions, they will at least hold the reins as to th foreign policy of the Government, and act as certain check to all vicious legislation, and preserve a pure admiuistration of our national affairs. This state of the case is no less novel than it is true. Here is the fate of a great party, and by consequence, perhaps the fate of a nation, banging upon the provisions ef Isw.ron through

live Slave Law ; and cease to intimate that

such a course isessential to success iu the South. We shall be slow to believe that any Gordian knot attaches the Whig party to auy such chariot as this. Out if it be so, we are ready for the sword of auy political Alexander which shall cut it. j.g F.

The Onans i-intinp Job-Split in the I. or t'Hiup Month Wnmncr on the Public I .nil it fiirtioii-U"rbirr nnd Fillmore-John "Ti en the Compromise. Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 1P52. The House after much ado yesterday finally got the bill for giving the printing ef the Census to Donaldson Armstrong, the proprietors of the "Union,"(a job whose enormity I have before exposed,) into the committee of the whole. The cout-sl oil it, and the various preliminary votes, give the welcome assurance of its probable final defeat. Indeed it is reckoned to be well swamped by getting it into the Committee of the Whole. This Committee is the Chancery of legislation. Now the personal, explanatory, excusatory, bunkum, thrusting, parrying, mild, savage, gentle, ferocious, all sort of speeches of the members can go on with unrestricted license Massachusetts may fight out her battles, and other States may come into the ring and fight theirs. There is every prospect, of a grand set-to between the Loco- Focc-i Seces

sionists and the Locco-Foco Unionists of the

South on this printing bill. It is a proper occasion for such a warfare, because it is essential to know what doctrines the organ is going to uphold, which is to receive the enormous fortune that this bill proposes to confer upon Donaldson it Armstrong. We are able to see no basis upon which Southern Loco-Focoism oan unite. Their divisions threaten a fatal rapture. The tact will brook no denial that the aspect of things in that quarter is very alarming. If the Baltimore Convention adopt the Compromise, Southern Locco-Foco Secessionists, or State Rights men as they call themselves, will

repudiate the nomination. If they do not, the Union Loco-Foccos will consider themselves sacrificed, and rebel accordingly. But perhaps it is not wise for us to grow too unhappy over the gloomy prospects of our opponents in the South. Though no bow of promise yet appears, it may be that the sun will yet shine out upon their pathway. Mr.Sumner made a three-quarters-of-an-hour

speech on the Public Land question. The burden of it was to establish the position that as the United States had enjoyed an immunity of taxation from the States in which its laud lie for an average of 25 years; the lands should be yielded up to those States. We iio not know how often this argument Ins been exploded; but it strikes us as wholly fallacious. The Government of the United States protects ilsownsoils

by Army and Navy.by other physical defenses, j

and by the whole machinery 01 uovernmeni.

To whom should such a Government pay a tax 1

on that soil, and for what? Is it to a subordi

nate organization created within its own limits

by its own power? Upon what principle can a State demand contribution from the United States for its own purpose of internal expenditure? The Government ef the United States is not a proprietor holding the soil therein and obtaining an enhanced price by reason of improvements growing out ofthe progress of settlement aud population. It asks but ene price

from the begining to the end of its transactions,

and this price does but li'tle more than cover the expenses of management and sale of its lauds. Why, then, talk about a State tax as . 1 f 1 n,f.nrii.tnniliin.

an appropriate cuaru r.-.-K. r.

while it remains in the General Government? The lands are held for the use of population, and disposed of to population, at a nominal cost. But

if a small surolus be left in the xsationat trea

sury, how it is expended but for uses that go

just so far to relieve the Ciaics uieiiiBoivr. num

taxation?

Say, if you please, that the National Govern

ment should dispose of its lands to population, without reference to money receipts, because

the wellh and resources of a nation are in its people and not in its material possessions or in money, aud argue thence, what legitimately follows as to your policy in the disposition of the public lands. But do not talk about the Sute Governments having acquired any equitable U. tie to them, for any inch a caee m the immunity

of taxation; for this is to declare In. effect that the General Government not only owes the duty of protection in the States, but contributions to defray the charges of their local administration. And this is a declaration that stvors strengly of what in thisage is classically denominated "humbug." We must have hair-splitting and pettifogging in the land, otherwise the occupation of the lawyers would be gone; but in legislation aud in Statesmanship let us have none of it The present position or Mr. Webster and Mr. Fillmore ascandldates for the Presidency grows daily more and more anomalous to the public apptehension. It would seem to necessitate the re-construction of the Cabinet. The Secretary has all along expected to have the Adminisistration field to himself.and to find now that he is allowed but a very small "patch" of it, is excessively provoking. And it is impossible that so much poignant chagrin as is felt, should be altogethersuppressed. Anditis not.1 So that it cannot be long, if there is no change in the position of the candidates, before it will burst out iu the open crimination. Men of strong passsioiiB, with cross purposes and keeu persoual aims, cannot meet in daily intercourse and be always amiable and polite and confiding. This is more difficult than j "To smile and smile and be a villian" , The lines ofthe President and Secretary, who are both bobbing for the same big trout , will inevitably tangle. So long as they run side by side ou the same course, they will jostle, interlock their wheels, crowd, and perhaps jockey. We see numerous signs of this ulreauv. Such a state of things cannot last, and good nature continue to prevail. Collisions will be followed , by contusions. I Gov. Davis made his speech to day on the Compromise Resolutions. He gave the truth, , and the whole truth in relation to this subject in a masterly manner. His words were few but massive. His logic is always impregnable, and his statements are demonstrations. There is j no mau in the Seuate who is recko.ied to be , so pre-eminently sensible, as John Davi. His

large, roundabout, hard Beuse, his clear, strong, and masculine understanding, always bring him to wise conclusions. If his speech of to day, so far as it related to the Compromise, could have been delivered by Mr. Webster, it would be set down as one of those ponderous and self-evident statements ofabsolute truth, that admitted of uoquestiou or debate. Gov. Davis entered briefly upon the consideration of the mischief which has resulted from the agitation of the Compromisers, and were uow resulting from their contiuued agitation, by showing that they teuded dinctly to the neglect of the great material interests of the country. In this connection and in allusion to California he to.ik occa sion to quote from the standard authorities namely: Blackwood's Magazine, and The NewYork Tribune. j. s. r.

A Thought Suggested by the .'New Tear. BT THOMAS CAMPBELL. The more we live, more brief appear Our life's succeeding stages; A day to childhood seems a year, And years like passing ages. The gladsome current of our youth, Ere passion yet disorders, Sleals, lingering, like a river smooth, Along its grassy borders. But as the care-worn cheeks grows wan. And sorrows shafts fly thicker. Ye stars that measure life to man ! Why seem your courses quicker 1 When joys have lost their bloom and breath. And life itself is vapid; Why as we reach the Falls of Death, Feel we its tide more rapid ? It may be strange yet who would change Time's course to slower speeding ? When one by one our friends are gone, And left our bosoms bleeding.

Heaven gives our years of fading strength Indemnifying fleetness; And those of youth, a seeming length, Proportioned to their sweetness. Convention CKpiritunliats.

A card in a Cleveland paper addressed to those

who are looking for higher manifestations from

the spiritual world, says that yielding to the

frequent urgent request of the spirits, a Convention of Spiritualists will be held at the Forest City; for the purpose of calling together the mediums, comparing notes, of counselli ng together in relation to recent manifestations, and strengthening the cause of spiritualism. The Invisibles have promised to be present to give such demonstrations as will put at rest the doubts and objections ofthe skeptical and unbelieving. 'A spiritual hol' is expected

Annt Hetty's AdviceOh, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots, or lap dogs but let 'matrimony alone, It is the hardest way on earth of getting a living you never know when your work is done up. Think of carrying some eight children through the measels, chicken-pox, rash, mumps, and scarlet fever, some of em twice over; it makes my sides ache to think of it. Oh, you may scrimp and save, and twist and turn, and dig and delve, and economise and die, and you r husband will marry again, take what you have saved to dress his second wife with, and she'll take your portrait for a fire board, and but what's the use of talking? I warrant every one of you'll try it the first chance you get; there's a sort of bewitchment about it, some-how.

Democratic pecnlnt'iono. It is well to read and known what the Democratic party are troubled about.and what they say about us. The following articles we capy from the Stale Sentinel: Washington Correspondence. Washington City, Jan2,1532. Sir: The result of two days rest and inquiry about the prospects of the several aspirauts for the Presidency, has opened new developments; moreand more interesting. Cass men are getting more and more sanguine of his prospects every day; indeed, it is not to bedeDiedthat the old veteran is growing in the affections of all for his distinguished ability and integrity. Gen. Lane and Douglass start off with Indiana aud Illinois for a basement; on this they are to build. If thedifferentelementscannotreconcile

For the American. The Crave Yard. Thecondilion or the grave yard in Brookville, is certainly well known to every citiren It is literally full-so full that it is impossible to bury without searching ou, here and there, h vacant spot. Those who have buried a part of their fimily, can not bury any more by their side, except in a few cases. So scarce has be. come the ground, that the Trustees of the Sooth

part have determined to charge one dollar for every interment hereafter, and it is probable the Trustees of the other part will soon do the same. In this state of affairs what ought to be done ? Some say, why do not the churches buy new grounds? Perhaps they ought to do so. But why should our churches become the proprietors of nuMic hllrvirKT imn.J.

their partialities ,0 the support of Cass, then'the Odd Fellows! or Si rZZZr comes the tug for a new man Lane has the el. j Masons 7 Why anv mnr. tl

emeuts of great popular strength; his character, Turnpike Companies ? It is im- fl.t ,1..

his firmness, integrity, and gallantry, all com- country, or very small villas.. kt.-.r a

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1. ine .ng ciiietlain should be the cacd.date by the church trustees, not because it Is a bury of that party, and this made manifest before the; ing ground, but because the meeting house Democratic Nation..! Convention meets, Lane's: stands ou it. W here this is not the case there chances will be increased; should Fillmore be ' is no more nronrietv in rem,irir, ...k

most prominent, it may augur against Lane to; lions to own, and control a grave vard than some extent. But now what can Douglas ex- ; there would be, in requiring a Turn'pike'comnot in K JniikiC.I I . 1 1

nrupgiei ton may near pa 11 y to do it. An independent corporation i uearly every one say-We can succeed with , better. Let stock be obtained to buy a suitabl,

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Douglas." This gives strength and a prestige lot, and let the stockholders elect th-i- f n,..

to his name aud chauces I hope Indiana will ; who shall coulrol the grounds. But this is ob-' preseut an unbroken frout for Lane, and to ex- jectionable. except in large cities, where the depress any choice eilher for Cass, Douglass or maud for family lots is great. The corporation Butler, would be weakening Lane's cliances.and oou dies out for want of election, &c. The would be calculated to overslaugh lan,as some stock is not profitable, and the care in the yard desire to do under the guise of pretended friend- ,on becomes every body's business, and the

snip. 1 say "pretended" friendship, for if all"is whole soon goes to destruction. The best pi not gold that shines," as is said, there is preten- fr such a town as this, is for the town tmnu

ded friendship walking under the guise oP'gold." buy a suitable lot say three acres lay a Marcy's lrieud uAs pricking up their ears, with J'artrf it offin fami y burvine erounds. of abnnt

a show ofconfideucein his strength. You may rod square, and sell them at a reasonable price expect to hear some new developments in less to those who would buy them. Let the trus. than twenty days Buchanan has written a , lg "Ppoiut a sexton and fix the price of digging political letter to Mississippi. It bids strong on graves not at the exorbitant price often dethe Resolutions of 'Dd. VINDEX. , manded for such services, which drives poor peo7 . ,PIe the necessity of digging graves for their The W V m Pr7W"CT- Wn dea''' or ah3 '" t a tax they can The Washington Repubhc, the Administra- nnnrlv h - m-i.l . . . " tion organ, on Thursday last, said: T "Z, , " Wh8t K"M ,.tv 1 . , ""d- .here now) aud let them exercise a ceneral conW e have met with a paragraph in the -tier trui 0Ver rnllll ... . . g ' C0D . ... , , tro1 ov" ll,e ground, instead of al owin? crave ofa Washington correspondent to a northern t k- i . , , luwlu8 Srw ., , , , . to be dug promiscuous y, as has been done in paper, that the friends of President Fillmore ,e oU h,n, ,, 4 " ,B 1 ,i . 1. . me 01a yard, require them to be duo- cont ruhave called upon him and requested 1 m to dt- mwi,. , ., , " " conuBu 11 . ... i. ously , except 111 the private lots. Let them re. cline becoming a candidate at the approaching quiro . J Zl residential election. e have reason ,0 believe who are brought from the country, for there U hat precisely the contrary ,s the truth, and that uo justice in our having ,0 furnish and keep op the friends of Mr. illmore have called upon him a yard for , w 'J with the view of dissuading him from the ex- f famiIy loU wouM near) fo, T Toe, 7 Ti d7erTr7 " uoJ- nJ w- i .L do i(l So much for that side ofthe hous-. The and the amount received for burials, from the Washmgton correspondent of the Journal of country would more than keep the fence in good Commerce, about the same time, wrote to this lP.iair. But if it should even be a permanent ' "The friends of Gen. Scott have inactively 0 l,'e tow. it belter to be borne in that en.ra.red h in f:.n, r ..... Wa'' ll,an 10 b Mi to the liberality of a few.

they met with an obstacle on the threshold.-Cu!" "?M 0 c

The Southern men would not come into the

measure, unless Gen. Scott should avow distinctly as the friend and supporter

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movement, but he refused to do it, unless Gen. Scott should declare himself on this subject. The General is, therefore, betweeu two bundles of fodder, and can't bite at both.

will he urged by those tax payers who regard ev-

.. rry ce"t of tax, money thrown away, yet even '"J" these may be the first to need rctiug place. or the , Now ig cerU;ny lhe ,ime ,0 acU y, oughl o r JOUeS, hav BrleH mm 91,1, J 1 ...

make the matter worse.

A CITIZEN.

XyThe New Yorkers have beat Massachusetts iu a temperance petition. One was presented to the New York Legislature, last Saturday, with only 150,0(10 names, fraying for the passage of the "Maine Law." Ohio, they wy, will beat that O. S. Jou. 4th Feb. John Doe and Richard Roe, are at last to by reformed out of the English law, where th" have flourished for centuries. Other legal fictions are to be turned out with them, and direct practl is to be introduced like that in the Sute of New York. 0When every one take cars of himself, care W take fell.

Npiril in Stark.

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It is evident that Mr. Fillmore's prospects for' ' ,7" the nomination are improving. After reading' V f any th" nty can get up better rapthe following- from the Commercial Advertiser,1"" thaa"M' '"er ;medium" for of last evening, we had nearly concluded that hi. """"'f ponders than Hine. we nomination is a certainty. If the Express can- " ' " ' iaPTodaciaZ themnot contradict the statement ofthe Commercial, T,,e raPP'gs done wonders in this connwe suppose it may lie so regarded: 1 T' V" mSt "tory physical demonstra"We learn from Washington that Mr. Seward 'I0"8 haVebeenmitolehera throuh a medium ,,ns lately declared to a circle of friends, that if "' the 'iril" to th8 bu' -Mr. Fillmore should be nomnated, he would I ""J' comP""d to yield! It was said of her cheerfully abide by the nomination, and give ! wa' the first time she was ever conquerMr. F.a hearty support. This is manly and! Sh " f f't looking woman I 11 .1 . ,,. o 1 . . i ever saw intelligent and ofa hirh moral tonehandsome on the part of Mr. S , and we trust ... . , 6 8 m lo" j, 1 iij.i ine is studying with the intention ol lecturing his friends here, and elsewhere, would do the ' . ' ' nu ui rcciunng ... ... . . , . ,. , to lier sexou 1 hysiology. I cannot beirin to same thing. W e do not see how any true whig 1 . .. , 1 63 1 uegin 10 . ... , , ,. , ., describe all the wonders that have been porforcan hesitate to pledge himself in advance, if .. ... r""" 1 m1 111 tl.ia nnilnli.

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N, .. . . . ... . v viu-ioniuvueu auieisis nave oeen conational Convention, and sustain the candidate I ,, , . ., , ... , verted by them. Individuals have been moved with zeal and determination." !. . , . u" . o . .. ,. , . ., , :n their chairs across the room, thrown out of A Seward whig friend at our e bow, suggests , , , ' '

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ii- . 1. i 't that 'cut uj' all those pranks eave her name the following scrap from Ancient History be I . ,. , 6 ... as Ann Merrick, formerly a prostitute of Cin-

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"And Joab id to Amasa. art thou in health. 'C'n"!lU- . n,e '"''l'Prance here, because

my brother? And Joab took Amasa by lh,:-rj "",uu,.,UjWD

beard mith the right hand, to kiss him. And he J

smote him with his sword in the fifth rib"'""" w "c " "ut"'lr" lu , j. 1 t r 1 t- ... have some fun with them. Accordingly in the and so he died. Buffalo Cour. I . . . ....

j dead nour 01 liignt stie would rattle and scatter IrUk ;irl. j them about the 100m. A candle was placed Mr. Took, who was lately in Ireland while oa achair, aud as the bones began to rattle, the

our Minister, Mr. Lawrence, was there, thus candle was reached after for lighting, but lo! it

gives me local Knowieage ne acquirea as 10 ine ( was gone, and a pile of bones deposited in its

girls of Limerick: j pttCe, &c. f which has occured beyond all

"Of course we admired the beautiful lasses of qUetion. I have not time, space nor disDOsi-

Limerick, a-id a larger number of handsome, and tion to tell half the story. The ranninirs have

ouen loveiy peasant gins, is nownereio ere seen, been breaking out in several churches on the

even in Ireland. Limerick is quite famous for

tho beauty of its women for their bewitching

grace, their finely formed features, their dark hair and eyes, their elegance of form and stately carriage and this is characteristic even of the poorest girls. We spoke of this matter in the hearing of our driver, but he set down the farfamed beauty of the Limerick lasses at a low figure. "Fine girls ! Ay, fine enough till their hus

bands bate Vro!" "What, lay hands on a woman beat 'em !"

"Shure they do, and don't they deserve it, too' A parcel of idle, laty, hussies thinking of nothing but the boys, and getting them to marry them." ' But the boys are fond of the girls, too." "Not half so bad as the girls they won't be aisy, sir. They won't let the boys alone! If they did, the boys 'ud never think ov them. I have been in England, sir, and seen the English girls get up in the morning and get their house tidied before breakfast, and make everything nug at home for a poor man that's the kind of a girl for wife, sir, not your pretty, idle things like thim there!" Perhaps the carman meant a compliment to his fare by this latter fine speech; though he seemed as If ke meant what he said."

Western Reserve, and the attendance of spirits is as punctual as that of the pastor. " Rneking out ofa JoitioaA somewhat ecentri: lawyer, being engaged in defending a hard case, and not being altogether pleased with the rulings of the presiding judge remarked that he believed the whole Court could be bought with a peck of beans. The Judge, of course, took this remark in high dudgeon, aud ordered the lawyer to sit

jdown, and demanded of him an apology for this

contempt .f Court, threatening him with commitment for the otTence, if he did not apologize. The lawyer after a little reflection, remarked that he had said, he believed, that Court could

be bought for a peck 01 beans: that he said it

without reflection, but wished to take it back ;

but, said he, "If 1 had put it at a half a bushel I

never would bave taken it back in the world. Springfield Republican. JET The Magyar is gaining ground rapidly at Washington. The Tribune says, he is charming town all opposition outside of the house; but inside the stolidity of the minority will guard gainst the oratory of the mighty man. OCTHow pleasant is a lovely thing a 1 ittle out of season a rote bud in winter, for Instance or t kiss in church when the deacon's eyes are closed in prayer. Stolen apples dont begin with

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