Indiana American, Volume 25, Number 38, Brookville, Franklin County, 4 September 1857 — Page 2

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Jon, w th neMneti am aeaatch , WEARLN8TKE GALLING YOKE OF PARTY , In 1S4X. a young man by th name of Blvoham, was living in Lafayette, in this State. A he was a young man of .some sprightlineaa his friend had hopea that he would some day make his mark in the world a hope in which he indulged somewhat himseh: At that time there was an almost universal sentiment of opposition to the aggreaaion of da very All parties in the North acquiesced in the proposition to confine it colts present limits. No prominent Democrat, except Jessie D. Blight, Railed In qarsthra hier the right or the duty of the people of jthe states to fix bounds to slave.- That year, this young man, warm in lbs independence of his young blood, and sanguine in the belief that the principle of free soil and free labor would sweep the North like a tornado, as it really seemed to be doing, signed a eall for a public meetfng, "OF THOSE WHO ARE UMtf ILLING TO WEAR THE GALLING Yoke of party, as prepared BY HEARTLESS, DISHONEST, TRADING POLITICIANS OF THE NORTn, AT THE BIDDING OF TUE SLAVERY PROPAGANDISTS OF THE SOUTH" The meeting came of, and he acted as secretary to it We can but admire the proud and honorable position of this young man. Full of talent and big with promise, and prompted by a love of country to enter upon the political arena, determined to be right, he spurns the ' galling yoke of party." We shall hear from that young man again. As he maturta in intellect, and ripens in experience, we shall find him battling for the cause of truth and humanity, against "the heartless, dishonest, and trading politicians of the North, who do the bidding of davery propsgandists of the South. ' Men who resist their scheming rarely succeed with politicians, yet there are men who spurn such considerations, and live and labor only to promote the welfare of their country. As time passes on, and rrd0m' battle, that begun. Biarthed from Mweding tin to od, waxes hotter, we shall take this young man by the hand, and stand with him, shoulder to shoulder, in the defence of human rights and the cause of freedom. Noble young maa! Thy position is an honorable one! Thy neck shall never be "galled." Thy strong ana shall keep thee from the yoke of the oppressor! HaiD ailBut stop. We are in a land of facts. Time has passed. Nine long years have "ToUed their ample rounds, ' and they have rolled J. J. Bingham to the surface again. Alas, 'A mbl4a in ttosntoMKiM, Has turasl th ooarat of mauj amr, A Saw-drop on the baby plant. Its wai-pod the gtmat oak for. r . " Mr Bingham turns up, but as unlike the Binghnm we were dreaming about, as it is possible to concieve of. Nothing but the fact that his identity .can be traced, would make any man believe him the same. We are anxious to know what "pebble" has turned hint from his former course, and what cruel hand laid it in the way. 0, that was a naughty dee drop that -warped this growing, now mighty oak! Could it have hssn "Mountain dewT' Was it "Honey dew?" Instead of standing the erect malt-die oak, defying the storms, and spurning t ha ''galling joke of party," we find him editor of the Sentinel, wearing the yoke of the most "heartless, dishonest trading politicians, that ever did the ' bidding of the slave propogaadists of the South." But not content with tho voks as it is, he advertises for move of the same sort In his issue of the ''th ult, he thus deline his pa.t independence. ' In our condi we have endear ed by the land-t he paxr, politically, i tli fully to he governed down for us in itfortn of principle id National Conven f. Tho policy of the we believe to be a lions 01 party, thus dei afe'iruide Poor man' How fallen! lie boasts T having worn the yoke prepared by the ouüvrn slavery propagandists.' H knows very intelligent child knows, that the "platform of principles ' by which he has been ruled for the last fifteen months, is the exact reverse of the Democratic party of 184, and of the Free Soil party of w hieb In was then it member ltut the yoke does not hurt much. Of the future he says: "Those guides and that policy we shall follow in the fatarn, believing that it is the beet for the preservation of oar institutions iu their original integrity, the general prosperity of the nation, and the happiness of the people. Such guide-.! Mut then there may be some bad leaders, what than? 0, ho can follow them. Read. "We shall manifest no preferences for men, but whoever are the caudidate and rep resentaaive of the party, when they faithlull v renect its principles and policy, we shall sustain to the best of our ability." One would think that if subserviency enough. Like tha girl who was praying for a husband, when she heard an owl say "Who, who, who-a," replied, "anybody, Lord, so he's a maa." Mr. Uiugham mys "Anybody, masters,' so he's a Democrat" But what of opinion? There are many new questions arising ou which there may be a difference of opinion. How is uniformity of opinion to be preserved? That is assy, just read: 'If there is any substantial difference of entiment in recard to the policy of the party, or its psiacpesa, we believe it to be ia to leave (lis determination of aaeh questions to the representatives of the whole i.nrtv iu Mate convention asaeuioieu - .1 wi I That expression we shall eel Kmnd to take u our 'jmd, and we believe it wlH be uaieased io by THV PAKTY. tor the wla3om, smcitv mnl judgment .d the wh.l is safer so follow then 1 1 oi ur.v poh! When Fat was catechised as to his orthodoxy, by the priest, he said, " An may it plaxe vonr riverenoe sir, its meself what behevmsjist what the church taches, it is." So with Mr Bingham Call the mavniis together and let Mr Bright expound the

tonttitatjUL aud thenceforward Hr. Binghsui will swear Uiat it is the old lint doctrine, just what he alwavs believed.

Seriously, can any intelligent man occu-1 py a more contemptible poaition? Yet that is Mr. Hinghara's position, and all of the country papers are expected to follow him. I aud the voter-, are to follow them. That is Democracy. v. vji THE JOURNAL ON CAMP MEETINGS We admire an independent, out-spoken : paper, op.u that reproves vicej and seeks to ' promote virtue, let the blow fall where it J may. We would not admit any other into ! our family. It ia nonsense to say that such ! tOTS N hateVaT allOU pUOilC Iliorajs Or the public good is their business, und the editor who, entertaining a view of the mischievous tendency of a certain thing, is afraid to express his opinion, is unfit for his place. Hence we admire the independence of the Slate Journal in pitching into Camp Meetings, lost week. Taking occasion to notice a camp meeting near this city, it says : "The day has past when camp meetings are necessary. In this age, wherechurches are large, plentiful, and commodious, camp meetings are productive of much more harm than good. The great majority of people who attend them go for the same idle curiosity that iaduoos thorn to attend a circus or any other tented show. The meetings afford a pretext for the assembling of all the rowdies and rounders in the country for miles around. More drunkenness and licentiousness attend one camp meeting of three days' duration especially if one of those days be Sunday than accompanies the assembling of the people together in any other fabric manner for twije the length of time, t is time the religions part of community was viewing these things in their proper light" Now that is plain and eut-epoken. It gives the opinion of the paper (for, be it known, the paper is a unit) in regard to camp meetings, just as it has a right to do, and, entertaining such views, just as it is in duty bound to do. If these meetings are ! twice as productive of drunkenness and licentiousness as circuses, theatres, ''or any other tented shows," the editor ofthat paper and of every other paper should condemn them. But the editor's opinion and the facts may be at variance There are thousands equal ly as talented, and equally as well informed, and quite as deeply interested in promoting good morals, who believe differently, after many years' observationWhy should camp meetings be the most pcruicious class of meetings ? Is there anything in the appropriate exercises of such a meeting that should tend to licentiousness ? Does preaching, praying, singing, and exhorting, in the open air, to a vast multitude, demoralise mors than similar exercises in a house? There are in deed large numbers of lewd menand women J who attend these meetings drunkards and j gamblers attend, but the meetings neither make them such, nor afford them unusual facilities for developing their wickedness. They simply concentrate what would be just as injurious if more diffused, and persons who roam around the out-skirts, and associate cbieny with the baser wort, conclude that the devil has a bill of sale for the whole affair. Men, accustomed to see but an occasional demonstration of wickedness, seeing its development when thus concentrated, attribute all to the camp meeting, while those who go to worship or who confine their observation to the conduct of the better portion of Lhspeople are but little annoyed br.rowdiea That wicked men and women attend camp meetings is no argument against them, but otherwise It is that suchpersons,who contemn the ordinary services of the sanctuary, may be brought within the influences of the Gospel, that these meetings are held, and there are thousands of living witnesses of the efficacy u. Uu uw o. rremwng ie attention oi . i. !- . t .I. .i . . f I wyru los-n woo nau resisted hu outem Uieumeot camp meetings,!, not past, ami never win dc. vv nue tue uevn uses SO i tu i. . min i .t i i . i so many agencies to ensnare and ruin man, the church should forsako none. That camp meetings have been useful, none will deny If Christ could preach and teach on the mountains, and in the fields, away from the confusion of the cities, his followers should do so too. With such laws as now exist in Indiana, (thanks to preachers' meddling with politics) to protect camp meeting", no meeting need be disturbed by rowdies. No congregations ever worshipped iu this oity at elsewhere, with less annoyance than did the congregation on the campground lust week, including .Sunday. The only objection to camp meetings is that poopls are getting rich so fast have so much business such large farms such large stores large shops, that they cannot take time to attend to the .feast of tabernacles. When they were poorer, or when their fathers were poorer, they could spare a week's tiuie and tho necessary funds to go to camp meeting. They have now ..nl v time to work, time to fret, and time to die, and the settlement of their estate dove to pes tho fact that, with all their haste and grudging, they leave but little more for their children than thsir less hasty fathers, whils it Is evident that they have laid up much less treasure above. With men who have time to do good, and who feel that the conversion of their children and their neighbors is an object camp meetings will ever be precious, though they may bo despised by others. ——<>——— TRUE AND FAITHFUL. Hon. John Armstrong, the drunken Post Master at Metamora, is doing his best to get subscribers to discontinue the AMERICAN. That is no doubt according to instructions, but it is a little mean, considering the pains we have taken to puff him and his institution for the last four years. See here, John, you have no right to open the AMERICAN, nor allow any of your drunken comrades to do so in your office. You are sworn to keep them till called for by the proper person. Now if you will be right clever and keep tolerably sober, and sell whisky that hasn't too much <pizen> in it, we intend to nominate you to succeed Hon. A. R. McCleery, whose time will soon be out a Senator. You are the fittenest man in the party in that county for that post .You can swear harder, drink more mean whisky, and you <love> us with more constancy than any other man, all of which are recommendations in your behalf. Come, John, let's compromise. ———<>——— ——>Messrs. J. J Faran and Washington Mcl.cun have succeed, d Mr II W. Derby in the proprietorship of the Cincinnati Kn quirer, I .1 Karan Editor

MOHE BANK FA HORM THEIR LESSON

The failure of the Trout ' in). mi ha. beet, followed by the failure of a dozen or more ; bank and bnnkcrs and the end i- not vet Nearly every day brings the news of somebank or stock-jobber or mercantile firm H'nng down. This is not strange. The causes which resulted in the failure of the Trust Company are yet at work, and others must suspeud. It is only a question of time, and with Burnt of them, the longer the delay, the greuter will be the loss And so t will ever be while the present system of finance obtains in this country. The N. Y. Tribuns, true to its old notionsof bank and tariff, attributes all such calamities to the want of a tariff which will prevent such an extensive importation of foreign good. Excessive importation is evidently the cause of such wide-spread embarrassment Itis clear that while our annual importations exceed by millions, our cxportutions. the balance must be paid in specie which will cause the suspension and breaking of banks and individuals, without end. We admit that if our present system of banking continues, a tarin'is necessary, and the higher the better. It would be necessary also that it should be a sliding tariff sliding upward as we manufacture more ami more money?) We mean such money as is now circulating. While the Democratic doctrine we will say the democratic practice for the doctrine is right, but the practice is wrong while it is taught aud "practiced that a State may go in debt twenty millions and pay seven per cent thereon, and spend the money in making canals and railroads which will not yield one per cent, and then that whoever can get hold of fifty-five thousand dollars worth of the bonds which arc evidences of that debt, may issue fifty thousand dollars of money upon them while thus the indebtedness of the nutiun is the basis of its banking operation who does not see that we can make momey without cud .'' Add to this, that any man who has daring enough, (not to say dishonesty,) to buy and sell and trade and blow until ho otcns('i)a. large amount of i land, lives in a splendid house, expensively furnished, and rides in a fine curriage, and carries a gold watch, though he owes for all of them, may put into circulation spotted pieces of paper which are called money and gull those who think splendor and extravagance arc evidences of wealth, while this practice prevails money will be plenty. Bu such money! It will buy nothing from abroad, and, being so plenty and so cheap, farmers will not take, it for the products of the soil, except at prices which will absolutly forbid exportation. Having money plenty) we will buy foreign merchandize. We will clothe our wives and daughters in silks and all kinds of worthless adornments even imported hoops, but the foreign merchant shakes his head when we offer him our currency. In vain we tell hitu it is "'amply secured" he says gold, if you please" and the gold goes. It does not matter that some banks have a ottori-epoeie basis. There is probably not a bank of issue, that has not three times the amount of money (?) in circulation, that it has of specie in its vaults. The effect of this system is to inflate the prices of every thing, lead to unsafe speculations, and ultimately to bankruptcy. It puts our articles of export at a price that excludes them from competition with similar articles of other countries, and hence exportation ceases, and we are compelled to pay the balance against us by parting with our gold and silver. This causes hanks to fail and brings on such calamities as we are now suffering. It is nonsense to say that none hut bankers and speculators suffer. They suffer least of all. The real sufferers are the tailoring and producing class. Wliat is the remedy? The suggestion of the Sentinel, and papers of that ilk, is ab surd. Some people are honest enouirh to ; make or try to raake political capital out of pv.rv cvn, TllllH th..t n..r( ,. j i j - - o - to idorifv the Demorrutii- '..rufitiilirmiil ronventhm. which nrovided for the free hank system, which was inaugurated by the Democratic Legislature of I8.rd, and put in operation by John P. Dunn & Co. Now, that a bank panic is upon us, it cries ' No Banks!" yot, when in power, it makes shin -plasters by the score. The Sentinel and its satellites are now in for an Independent Treasury. Divorce the Government from banks! Perhaps if we were a State printer, und might get some unredeemable momy for our work, we too, would advs-ate a gold and silver currency Ibras officers. This is what we understand by its proposition for an Independent Treasury. If it simply means that the Treasurer should keop the public monies in his own custody and not deposit them in bank, he is right A trust officer should never speculate, or allow others to speculate in public funds We M ievo that the money belonging to the government should be kept in the hands of the proper officers, mid paid out only according to law. But the idea of collecting lakes only in gold, is too Democratic for ua The Government should receive as money, whatever it provides at money for the people. It should take and pay out rtt poi -whatever currcn it tolerates anion.' the laboring class While they extort gold or its equivalent, pay officers in gold or its equivalent ami let the people circulate irresponsible ntuff, there will be no remedy. But pay the members of Congress und heads of departments in Kentucky Trust, State Stock Security, Wtttson'aChecks, and that kind of money, and the Constitution would soon rafiaVi the Congress to take a supervision of the circulating medium of tho entire country. Pay Suite Printers, Governors and Legislators in Bank of Covington, Albany and such money, and there would be a law iu ten days declared "a case of emergency, that would secure bill-holders. In connection with reducing our circulation to a specie basis, there must he laws punishing fraud and embez zlement. Let the officers of a bank who conceals the rotten ness of his institution, be sent to the penitentiary as any other thief, and abetter day will dawn. ANOTHER TBA1T0K In another column will he found u part ot an able letter from .lud:-- Wurden of ihio, on his withdrawal from the pro-slavery party. A party that can endorse the lrcd Scott decision and sustain the doctrine now claimed, that white men, free nu n, shnll be dragged to prison for refusing to hdp catch ft negro deserves to be forsaken by every free man. Nose but those who are willing to be dogs to catch negroes for the South will Iouk remain connected with a party which sustains and endorses auch doctrines Head Judge Warden s letter.

Vary Thankful Ter ary mall P w Tbc MlMonrl Klaetlon.

The St. Louis Leafier, last week, announ ced the triumphant election of Stewart by J'onr hundred majority ! in large capitals, adding : The Democratic party is victorious! Missouri, in this election, though nobody seemed to feel it. has been the battle ground of the Union and the field is won thank (lod! This result is not different from our expectation, from the time we learned that therrvixed returns were giving Stewart increased majorities. It is not difficulf to revise the returns where all the officers nre of the party. There is nothing in the result which Republicans should regret The mere fact of Kollins's election would not be half so gratifying as to know that in the large vote which he has received, the people of Missouri have expressed a willingness to discuss the slavery question. Rollins is not a Republican, except that he is in favor of free speech and a free press. He is a slaveholder, and has never declared himself in favor of emancipation. He considers it an open and debatable question, and is willing to have it discussed. Stewart is not a slaveholder he is merely one of the "poor white folks who doesn't own a nigger," yot who is ready to obey thoae who do. He is one of the most pitiable and contemptible chi98 of creatures, lie is opposed to discussing the question opposed to emancipation now or hereafter. With the Leadtr we thank (Jod for the result of this election. We thank him that so many have dared to vote for free spceeh and a free press, so soon after the blockading of the Missouri river and the destruction of presses, and we thank Him no less for the chostizement be is administering to that wicked State in inflicting upon tliem such a thing as Stewart for Governor. They have not yet sufficiently repented of their sins, to be blessed with a max for Governor, though there are hopeful signs of penitence. God, in mercy, sometimes sends judgments upon a people in the person of such Governors as Willard and Stewart THE LADIES' TRIBUNE We should have noticed, ere this, that Miss A max da M. Way, late of Winchester, has become associate editor of the Ladies Tribune, of this city. She is inexperienced as an editor, but she manifests the ene round talent that will win admirers in any sphere. Hope she will not too soon lose her Way and be called by some less euphonious name. Ladies of her age do, some' times The Tribun? is now ably manned perhaps we should say womaned. Mrs. Umiiekhili., tho senior editor and the proprietor's a bostjon womans rights and temperance and the junior promises to equal her. By the way," won't some strong-minded man start a paper devoted to man s rights? We think one is needed. The poor, oppressed, taxed, over-worked, led-by-the-nose creatures have no organ to defend their rights, if indeed thev have any rights any more We fear they have so long been in servitude that they dare not expect relief. Having never known freedom, they know not how to prize it, but, like the poor slave in the South, they love the very cords which bind them, and the hands which smite them they seem to love even the servitude itself, hence they eat, drink, walk, talk, smoke, chew, buy, sell, aU to please their superiors. Poor things! If somebody would start a paper just to explain to these oppressed and downtrodden men how much they are wrongedi they might be made to feel it, and by and by throw off tho yoke, though in sooth we think they would long to take it again after a little relaxation. THE SECRET OUT- NO CALLED SESSIONWe knew there must be some personal and private reason why Governor Willard does not call an extra session of the Legislature. No one doubts the absolute necessity of such a session, for the benefit of the benevolent Institutions and other interests, and ev ery paper in the State, sf every party, has urged the necessity of such a session, except the Sentinel, which dares not avow a sentiment in opposition to Bright, Willard & Co.. We were at a loss to know why the Governor remained so obstinate, until this week, when a Democratic member of the House gave us his opinion. Ho says that, according to his understanding, the prompt payment of the interest on the State Bonds is such a condition in the contract of surrendering one-half for tho canal, that a failure to pay, will work a forfeiture of the contract, und throw back upon us the canal and take back the surrendered bonds. " If," he adds, " such should be tho result, as it most certainly will bo, no person or nurty can defend Williard against the charge of having been bought by tho Bond Holders." There is iu this suggestion the most plausible ajiology for tho iovernor that wo have seen. The Bond Mulders can afford to give f.',0(M),UX) to cause a forfeiture of tho contract Hanneinan Roromartaa' to ('mmon aaaae. At a meeting of " spiritualists," an invalid was brought forward dreadfully afflicted with ulcerous scrofula that all tho doctors had failed to cure. 1 1 was proposed to apical to tho spirit land for advice, and a Ho. roeopathic physician present interrogated tho departed spirit of Hanneman as to what remedy should lie taken. Loud and distinct raps, audible to the who'e audience, told off "Ay er' s Cathar .ic Pills!" I loner .V. Y.) Whiy. The Wriirht and Bright factions, rather the Wal pole and (iooding factions in Hancock county, are preparing to embrace each other. We knew they would. So will th.' bet ions everywhere Therein i.i fulfilled the Scripture which says : " The lion and the tiger shall lie down togethor, and Jesse, the son of David, shall drive thorn." If we understand the terms of marriage, the tioodiugites marry the Wslpoleans, and henceforth agree to he called by hi- name, Is take away their reproach Kaum TEST OATHS The Kansas Free Stats says that it appears from the Kansas code just published that tho test oaths of the first Legislature were not repealed. To vote in Kansas a mat. must swear to support the Fugitive Slave Law, and the Kansas laws, and pay a Territorial tax Thst is the Isw under In- b fair play into he glvau to the Free State men, Judge (hx.kin him remgned his.ludaeship, Intake effect when hisjNuccsstoriselooted by the people Of courss that will be a Ml October.

W Governor Wise is an invalid at Jordon's Springs, Rockbridge. Virginia. Wcff All red tinted $ö's on the Lee Bank Mass., are counterfeit. Höf Mr. George Peabody has taken $o(,0U0 worth of Atlantic Telegraph Stock. Jaf The Americans of New York intend to have a State ticket at the coming election. JfaaHogs are said to b dyitaffjof hog cholera in Carroll county, Md t&F If a woman would have the world respect her husband, she must set the example. $cf The average length of life of abandoned females does not exceed ten years after their commencement of vice. 19 Mr. I. Carroll, of Soaford, committed suicide while in a drunken fit. by heating himself with a grubbing hoe. tegr The Lynchburg Virginian breaks ground in favor a new convention to revise the constitution of that State.

t& Mr. Roberts, of Aurora, Maine, shot ; a bear coming out of his cellar one night last week, that weighed over four hundred pounds. Jaf Harris majority for Governor of Tennessee will be about 11,000. The Democratic majority in the Legislature, on joint ballot, is twenty. W. P. Custis, in a recently published letter, that Washington was created a Field Marshal of France during the Revolutionary War. Weg- The Ft Smith Herald learns that the Creek Council, at its recent session, allowed Albert Pike $130,000 for his services in prosecuting their claim. täP Why was the apple after Adam had eaten it like rain water in a cistern ? Be. cause it would never have got where it wa. if it hadn t been for Eve s pouts. Imm A Miss Wood recently recovered ten thousand dollars damages for a breach of promise, from a faithless swain. High price to re-oord for wood, we think. A few years ago the ladies wore a very handy uort of hood, which was called 'Kiss-me-if-you-dsre" hood. The present stvle of bonnet has a "Kiss-me-if-vou-want-to'" look. VsW Mr. Matteson has been requested by a number of prominent Republicans in his District to resign, but has as yet returned no answer to their letter. The (Jeneral Convention of I'niversalists in the United State will hold its next annual session in Chicago, on the 15th of September. BmafThe Frankfort, (Ky.) Yeoman urges the election of J. H. Harney, of the Louisville, Democrat, to the U. 8. Senate, to succeed Thompson, American, whose term expires in 1859. tfeThe Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland) is the largest public park in Christendom. Tt i. ft hPAtifnl domain, verv handsomely wooded and watered, and contains 1750 statute acres. SäT" The New York Surrogate (.'ourt has decided that Mrs. Cunningham is not the I widow of Dr. Burdell, and has directed that letters of administration be issued to his next in kin. tW The emigration from Germany to America has taken an increased start this summer, 10,000 able bodied men having departed from the duchy of Mecklenburg cliwenn alone. An Eniriish naner tn Vti,ki An cngnsn paper staten i anKee . M !.. .v.- -i. Dwaiitcia aio bu iiui uu kite .. cnuiiu rivers they say they can jump over a sand bar, float easely on wetjgrass, and are obliged to lie at anchor when there is a heavy dew ftfciy ' Vhnt family have you?" asked the Judge of the County Court at Stockton, the other day, of a debtor against whom he was about to pronounco judgment. "Myself, wife mid a bull-pup," was the reply. MaT William Magill, Esq.. formanyyears connected with the newspaper pross in Philadeliphia and Trenton, N. J , died the otherday. He was much esteemed, and will be deeply lamented by a large circle of friends. ftir An Irishman remarked to his companion, on observing a lady pa--. "Pat, did ever see so thin a woman as that before?" "Thin," replied the other: "hotherashun, I've seen a woman as thin as two of her put together. fmv"You haven't opened your mouth during the whole session," complained a member of the Legislature to another representative. "Oh, yes I have," was the reply; "1 yawned through the whole of your speech." SWäP" The guardians of tho city of London I'nions havo offered rewards for the apprehension of no lewor than fifty men who have gone otr leaving their wives und children, nuniboring .100 individuals, to be permanently maintained by tho rate-payers. JKsT The latest dodge to "raise th i ! is for one to carry a package containing useless materials, sealed, and marked 'Ty Exprcss,' mid get the Imarding house keeper to pay the charges, iu the nbsciisi of the boarder it is directed to. fö)r Tin- ht of person. ih ceuHcd in Hmton for the week ending on Saturday last indicates a large increase in the bills of mortality over any other previous week for many months. The whole number was u6, an increase of S3 upon tho previous week. Sajr It if generally understood that the new Constitution has been adopted hy the people of Iowa, but that the separate clause, admitiug negroes to free suffrage in common with the whites, has been voted down by a large majority. Jsy (lov. (.'hose wrote to Sec . tun Cass, soliciting that the Oenoral Government address the authorities of Canada for tho extradition, under the treaty, ol John Bres lin, the (Ihio defaulter, to which (ien. Cass replied that Mr. Kröslin could not be returnM under the treaty. StoT Ion, of the Baltimore Sun, who is always politically well informed, says that the imsstion who shall be Speaker of the neit House may be considered settled. Nothing, ho says, has occurred to render the election of Col. Orr doubtful, but, on the contrary, it is more certain than it was at the end of the nessioii StaJT It is a singular fact that not only the two Tnited States Senators from Renn ay lvHtiia and the State Supreme Court Judge, but the present Speaker, Clerk and Assistent Clark of the House, tho Clerk of the Senate of Pennsylvania, and the Democratic candidate for (Iovernor and Canal Commissioner, are all practical printers

S" Rv. Dr. Daily wsars a silk gown1 when oßsdatingym President of the State Üniversiry. A writar in the Bedford Independent is responsible fhr reporting the following confab between two unsophisticated country chaps wo enmc to town to witness the performances at the late Commencement: "Geminy crimen;! Who is that fellow. Bob r " Who do you mean t" Why, that fellow what's got a balloon fixen around him, with his head a stiokin' out at the top." "Oh ! that's the head man of the whole eon. -urn ' He'sjistgoin to take a Sight' Do you see how that thing's spread out " There's a power of aas in that thing !" " Greatgoth! he '11 Boon be off ! "

HSf Messrs Johjc Shii.lito k Co., have removed to their large palatial edifice. No. 101,103, and 10." West Fourth street Cincinnati, adjoining the Custom House and Postoflice. We passed through their extensive establishment last week, and confess to being astonished as well as charmed at the extent of their arrangments, order and SVstem thdt is seen in all the a nrwirtif .tn.' n rj of their spendid establishment Thev have somp f()m. J:ilB,nn lllrtn. v,:,, ' lWA keepers, A'c. Of course, they advertise in the American. See their card in another column. Their house it. worth a visit, for its beauty and splendor alone, say nothing of the extent, variety, and beauty of their stock. Fkari. st. Cincinnati, contains some j mammoth establishments, itmon which we j notice specialy this week the heavy ImI porting Dry Goods' House, of Messrs Day A Mattock, m IVarl St. Dealers will lind , this house filled from Base to Dome, with a majnifieient stock of .staple and Kanev j Dry Ooods, in every department and variety. j One of the Firm has recently returned from Europo, where having made arrangements, with leading houses in England. France and ' Germany, they receive promptly all new , productions as they come from the Loom öive them a call. t, rt, Stj ... rcvenm.s WOBT Ana lor the good ot tue citizen, as j should be collected under a law similar to 1 that of an Independent Treasury of the j General Government, with all the safe 1 EiJüTS? arnd 71,,lchv,ha'e Pen " i .a7b 1 Pro.Tes rta " mc" . nave fovea ?0 If tre an Anti-Bank Democrat, should 8aj that, there would be some consistency in it, but for the Bright orgau -the apolo gist of the new bank, to utter such a Demo cratic sentiment it means, paper money is good enouzh for the people, but give us I State Printers and public officers generally. the '' yaller boys " and nothing shorter. The p, t-t .wwt i H;;fffi,0 wtrn .j in t rwrlit ill - f ion i n t I t v .re rt tr Stnr from 11 conniption und association ...... ... ... . .

with any hanking system or private enter- j provisions the fact that the law ha prise of any character." Sentinel. I always required Clerks to certify to Another such a stride would have plunged I the Sheriffs the officers in which vaue into universal bankruptcy. In its effort ! cancies wilt occus before the general

' to kill the State Bank, which has done a safe husiness for bill-holders, it brought into ex-

, i timato may bo lormed ol the constituistence a lot ol sh.n-p!aster institutions by tioiwjitv ,;r lh,. aw ,)t' Inw. The last which thousands of dollars have been lost named act undertakes to accomplish : ' an impossibility to make the conaThk Orikntal Housa-We are pleased to j meneoment of tlie terms of county of. seethe tables of the Oriental the new and ficer8 Uuiform,on the first Momlay ?f splendid house of Mr. Costigan, well filled . November. with boarders and visiters. None go away J The phraseology of the law is pedissatisfled. The architectural style of the culiar! After fixing the time ol the house is the very best, and the style of liv-! commencement of the terms of the inir ia in keeninir with the beautv of the sheriff, treasurer, coroner, auditor,

i noU8e JP - r o -t " Mr. Harrison, the gentlemanly fn , . .f . . u u . L -a ' , cannot be heat in his department. - We hope to meet as many of our 1 friends and patrons at the Brookville fair . on Thursday the first day of October, as can I t i. i a a ii iir- l maae ii convenient to oe mere. e nave a private word for some of them, particularly those who owe us a wee bit. e don t intend to dun any body, but still let us havo a -shake of your hand and a lock of your hair. -. D. D. Pratt, Esq., of lxigansport, is suggested as an independent candidate for .. iT... j i rmmi I.,. .,..."' r ol-mugeuarr i e is a man o, unontahihty, andwould honor die bench.He consents, we learn, to rnu. A successor to Judge (iookinshas not yet been mention ed. Hon. Judge Lockhart is so near dead tf consumption, or some other "visitation of Ood brought on by tho excessive use of bad whisky and poisoned brandy, that it is thought he will never reach Washington. We do not know unother as great a drunkard in his district to be run as a hu ceesor. The next session of the Anbury I'ni versity begins Thursday, 17th inst. Prof Nutt, and Fletcher will be on hands in due season The post office address of Professor Nutt will be (Jrcencaiitle, after the 10th Inst; as also, we presume, that of Professor Fletcher. "If you publish my article, please send me a copy or two of the pupcr containing it." Gorresponderit. Please subscribe for the paper, and pay for it, and you will e.et the stpor regularly. En The Hog Cliolorn Ik prevailing to an alarming extent in Shelby and Johnson counties. It seems to be in sonic way con nected with distileries but how much none can toll. No preventive or cure bun been discovered. Tho able article from the pen of Judge Hackleiuan which was crowded out last week, appears this week, as nJSO the arHi k from Judge Wardon. $kW The steam fire cnginu at ( 'incinnati, recently threw a stream through one hundred feet of hoso and I i inch nossle, two hundred and eighty-one feet! XS&LY THALS. S.l'i SmlUi to BrowDi U oilier lty. "Mjr 'earl; trial' 4 you rsmSr" Hrwn,Mrrowlng, turnr4 hu haad wtjr And mliail, "My n-lcml, thtn Ii MMil That vi.u liouia mai in iffrr niofr, Whan hear. ii tand Ulalt by tha ioor.'' aW'fhe Newark Advertiser of the 27th announces tho failure of the bankingdiouse of Franklin A Son, in that place It was caused by the suspension of the Ohio Life and Trunt I 'oiupany Sajr The official majority for Clingmnn. Democrat, in the Kighlh Congressional Distrietof North Carolina, is five thousand four hundred and sixty-two. It used to give two or three thousand Whig majority.

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From thr RunhviH.C0UHTY OFFICERS Much has boon said, and sometlum written, recently about tiiedotisioi the flupromv Court, that has been is to be made, as is alleged, touching uie jonKiiiuiioiiaiii v ot the law ol 1855, which attempts to regulate the cotjim. ii.-tuueut "I ÜMtjWrmjt'A,ouu4Y intimated thultl.e Su prcnie t ourt bus decided. r will dc arernc Court!: cide, that tho law of 1R55 is constitu tional; and that a new election o county Treasurers. Sheriffs Ac , wil be necctjsiiuy . Q HMsU.K nothing of anyHueb deeisi1 prospective. We have u p tinct recollection that .'hi dir Mori-i-.n who was acting as Attorn. General at the time the law was 'pnbTi.shrrf. decided that it wa 'unconstitutional, and that th.- Par filh- eoneurrrd in the correct ness of his deci.-ion ;ts tar as we hoard any kpresMon of their opinion. We know furthermore, that Judge Downey decided that the law of 1855 could n tri cut otr a part of the term of tho Clerk of Switzerland county, nor mid to it. and that tho law, so far as it related to Clerks, was unconstitutional. We take it for gr:Mltd. therefore, that tJe Sn: rem I viw hau ; not and will not do anv such tin tiling as to decide that the liegislntJire has the power to enlarge or diminish tho terms of offieom,-hose duration '8 ti3ce(1 by the eonatitntion. If the Lofrialatur a.n extend thfi Utrn at officer three niHiiths. it m:t extend it three years, and if three years, Ifafen may it not be extended forlile. ir during good behavior. The 2nd Section of the 6th article of the Constitution provides ibnt -the treasurer, sheriff, coroner, and Mirveyor. shall continue in office two years; and no persons shall be eliigibio to the office of treasurer or sheriff more tlnm lonr vears in anv Deri Od of mix vimrs - - ; the i-ird Section of thai. 5th artielo provides that swell otiioers hall hold their office tor ncli t-eriu. and until their successors shnll have beei ' "ml qualified, flic lentil S tion pn-v.de that every J 1'"""' üicuh.-u w jiou.jvi vui. auu u office, or who should bv elected be fore the taking effect of the constitutiou, shall continue in office until the term for which such persons has been, or may he, selected shall expire The or may he, selected shall expire. 12th Sec. of the Schedule provides that all vacancies that may occur in existing officers, prior to the first general election under the new con stitution, shall be tilled iat the manner prescribed by law. The 2nd Section of tho Gtb article of the constitution ; declares that there shall be elected i in eueii county, oy ttie voter-; t nereot . at the time of holdiug general elect - ; r'ii, ,.r l. jl : A j louo, iui n. ui toe circuit court, auditors, recorder, treasurer, sheriff. ! coroner and surveyor. Add to these suceeu.ng U.O OUO to UO I1C1U 1' '-"" J" 1" 111 .11.1 rtfk .t umlnit v-r.-hAM . . . . 1 a ...... am j .1 i i a er. eicra, surveyor aim county commissioners, it says -inat any ol i the aDOVe lUlinod officers to be clecled A i u . . - i a. niuttooi -iiuii uoiu incir oiiice uiitii tho first Monday in November afore said, according to their rcsactive ( u Jrw wuW ( i it WQuld Jlul operatl on tK. p. I . . f. ... HOns wlu, Wtfre ,u ürie0 ;it thü ljmo 0j j its passage, but upon the officer elec ted thereafter. But it cannot cooati tutionally operate on either. It ih simply an absurdity to assert that I tne legislature t an alter a term ol ' Ä1 TTI..I il. . ! 1 I wuitT. j-UKe uu.' case oi a eiel K, or fer?or' wh,,S( u n" 1UJl I " x UU1 ua, J run m" ,ll"r' ! nine months to bis term, or cut on ! three moii t lis of it. under the act ol u comlllem.t. un lti ; fir8t Mondav in NoveinU-r" The SuI prcme Court will decide no such ab surd principle. If the law could operate at all as before stated, it would not affect officers always iuotticc The provision of the constitution permitting otlieers to hold until their successors shall be elected and tjuali fiod, does not bear upon the tuealiun at ir.suc. That is a necessary provinion, to cover contingencies. It was necessary in I n."i' v. lieu the tegular time of tho annual election was postponed by the new constitution, from Angurt till October. Sheriffs, coroners, &c., would have gone out of offlco without such a provision. But there was no such difficulty about t lit treasurer in this county. He was regularly elected without a vac.un by death m otlierwis.;, since that olHcer vvas made elective by the oole. Since the adoption of the new i conatiUtioij, thsj treasurer has boeu , cie u(l ill lite Uctoücr election, beloro tne coinnienccnieiii oi im lernt in tin following August. The new counti tution did not change th time of the OOmmeUCOmcut of bis term, and the Legislature has no power to do so. -This is the whole Ucstion. Whatever the Supreme Court may 1 J docitlc oji a narth u far state of (hot in some particular case, we are Mutis fled, they have not and will not decide, that Mr. I'ugh, ut present our treasurer, w ho ha nerved his full four years Hinter the now constitution, must serve until I lie first .Mouda A. VT .i i duv in nulling iH'.xt .ovenioer, uierooy Hiinuiiing and making void the election of Mr Smith us his successor at the troneral election in 1856. Such a decision would be an outrugu on every princi pie of constitutional law. P. A. IIVCKIEM.VN Local Editor s ChasuctbkLoht. The local editor of the Louisville Democrat thus advertises his lost character: "Lostsomewhere between the Journal ortico and tho east wing of the Gait House, on Saturday last, the character of i local editor, done up in a yellow packag. The editor pri. l)r. rized it very highly, as it was on of bowlers best, and was prettv much the only one the owner possessed. The tinder will recognise it by its dominant traits. The mental predominate ovor the vital f unctions devotion is very full the descriptive, organs ure large, and the iidini ration lor women is almost extinct -No other traits remembered."

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.e ajrr what vm to m hip Asm r x .: ilvjfcvOaaiii t"j' ansa.- iieaQaflflr&K)l Knutoafc not i.. i reatch Scr AbolinMsmThut the 5urc gospel To preaHmkg""8 pure gospel, we aaj' Allien . ami It ;. text, lu-.r lenVe u n . . a i. I.. ..ü 'tAhA hji . hr mill 1 Kefe'fc ' tu p rBtra .Hmtti i s 1 custom was. he woat inw the yoa w to rtfu T .ilv f And there w&t delivered unt --"TrT:" ' The Spirit of the J. because he tittili am ent me to heal the t.rnk n hearted, ts. preach doliv i !uce to the eajdivfes. and recovering of t?'ght to the Uiad. to set. at liberty than that are rrniiitö? T preach the Amte) nable vear of thö Lord."- Lula iv. ir,ij T orf Wnfrm fihrikHtn Advorutrvery excellent ie;t truly; a favorite among all reaehea-v nV th aiul lo . J .er too. ir Sorxthcrr eh all eng conferen nun; : an IV and preach j " Thereto-. w bt- kiHtdrtn ,. heaven-likened unto h certain kin" I which would tube ;vinint of hia ser one was brought unto him. which owed "him ten thoufitthd talent. Rul forasmuch a ho had not tov pay, his lord commanded hhn to be sohl, ami Am irf, and rhtUiren. and all that ho had, .4 payment to Ikinnde Matt xtiii 23-25 Try your hand on that Bro. Kddy. If you fail, we may cover your retreat by an exhortation. f flirhnottd Ad-r-tv'. e k m o v . ' .vr. fir lntiiirti The text l'urniühcd bv our esteemed frisnd is tri vet: to show that so in done a- well as 1 . T HI o 11 J E I 1. T ,rhoh Family- The king did not order tiie saJc of the w ife, or of the husband, and thus divide whom God had joined. Xor did he sell the boys to be bar-keperx thi mother to bb a cook, and the daughters to lie 2. It wa- m t one uiau lor iht debts of -mother. In otiwr word. Uncle Tom " was not sold to meet the ma to red paper ofMassa Shelby. The Man who made the money and spent it, and the familv-who had arrotrantlv w O a wasted it, were sold. Ws propose that the same rule be npplied in the next sale advertised br : " hard u. 1 F. F. V. Instead of Che boy Sain, let the auctioneer put up,'" and knock doxcii the reckless spendthrift, who thus offers to sell from home, and wife, and child an innocent, industrious man lor whom the Redeemer died to sell liim to provide for means Ut buy hh fav.1 horxtr und support Iiis paramours. lI.THKtK CONDITIO If T K K SaI. K 1 They had one yeax m sevoa of entire rest. (Lev. xxv. ti. At least, thev had all its privileges. - They enjoyed all the religious privileges of the land. 3. If the masters son espoused one of the -girls ' .she was t- be treated as a daughter. It' he married another, she was to go 'fre-e withont money." Ex. xxvii. 7. 4. If the brutal master struck out an eye or a tooth of oi titer of them, he went free. Put that in the next Vir triniti bill of sale made forone of God a adopted children ! 5. If any of tnese slYQf thev could not he capturei a , r was the law uf rendition : shalt not deliver unto his m ajK-'i Here Thon tor the un his servant which is esraped i master unto thee ITe shall dwell with thee, even among you, in Unit place which he shall choose, in one of thv gates where it liketh him best.'' Duut. xxiii. 1 ft 1 ; Put that in the next bill of sale, beloved brethren of ancient Virginia. Order that no LaifTce shall imrsue with his blood hounds no culling out of armv and I iavytocbu.se along the path of the treating fugitive. No, brethren, lei lini 'dwell in in one of v in traten' retrci Kim -,ltt in !n ... s4' a V in iiicbmotid. or Norfolk, or "wlu-v it likct h him best i Tin y were all to :-o tree in f he your of jubilee. Lev. xxv H 13. Insert this in your bill of sale. in somk rKArrtcAt. txntsKxcsa. I. Tlo- underground railroad is a dangerous institution, and the North star should be aboliahed. t The best thing u slate can do when thriftless husbandry and indolent cultivation have worn out the so9. is to buy men and women, and raise men and women tu sell iu other markets . Knn-it- should be made a slave htat. as that will at nro raise the price of such property to 15,000 per heud Therefore, brethren, hurrah nun ti I II II III wiif t-l t for Walker, i trititricUow and i itus. Hern re their 4. All who ilenire to claims bv taking a li pltipert v . sv ill d their t imc w us to wilt, vamose, rot 'limes of Jesse I .oe It will sin-comb See T if rrtf pHo 174 U the iMiwer of tlie gosjH'l of Christ. J t a doviit u Written but the time is md v t ' It will ret ire before the Christianity of the niiieteentfr eenttirr, as the dew drop that sparkles nud dies in the morning blaze " Thut is, it will be "dried up Dr fee will phrase exhort. A Him ro Commkntatos. saui of an eminent rlergrwian I -It tu Kng land, who published "Hunyan's Pilgrim, oxpotsitory notes, that distributed cojiie.s am he afterward inquired if he had not the Flfj O, yes, sir " And do it" Yes, sir, 1 uudi an with hope beton the note. " 0g, I shall nneVrstsnd Rknhihli, A worth; icrgyman. upon being askod why be . old not ventni i lu an let Uou. at which the pro '' i 'tis fm Were very rtoSjaislv ivvnluet.d und iive bis vole replied, I dojnot bt why 1 should endanger my own poll to benefit another man's."

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