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TUE MARSHALL DEMOCRAT, rCBUSHED IV ERY THCRSDAT MORNING, BT IfJcBOXAIiD & imOTIIER. TERMS: if paid in advance. 1 00 At the end of six months, 1 50 If delayed until the end of the year 2 00 ADVERTISING: One square (ten Hoes or less,) three weeks,. 100 Each additional insertion, Column three nonths j JjJ 4 Column aix months,. . 10 no )i Column one yea., li Column three months, uu Coluirn six months ? i Column one year, o Uti I. Column three months 14 J) 1 Column six months, -2 00 1 Column one year, 45 00 Yearly advertisers have the privilege of one hange free of charge. ftnvnt PLAIN RULES AND AND HEIM TYPE lk hihu. CUTS, &c.,&c. Our Job Department Is now supplied with an extensive and well selected assortment of new styles plain and fancy TOB T"5TDP33, Which enables us to execute, on short notice and reasonable terms, all kinds of Plain and Ornamental JOB PRINTING! NEAT. FAST AND CHEAP; SUCH AS CIRCULARS, HANDBILLS, LABELS, CATALOGUES, FAMFHLETS, BUSINESS CARDS, BLANK DEEDS A MORTGAGES; And in short, Blanks of every variety and descrip tion. Call and see specimens. Extract from the Ode of J. R. Thompson, Esq., On the Inauguration of the Equestrian Statue of Washington, at Richmond, Va., February 22rf, 1F58. And now, my brothers, what to us rcn.ains Of solemn duty which the ilny ordains, While yet Virginia's gifU-d sons prolong, In thoughtful eloquence and lyric onpr, The for-d'ascription of a nation's pr.ii?c. Which my too feeble voice attempts to raise 7 Tis what wehere in gr ititude renew The patriot vows to country ever due, And on this holy altar firmly swear The blessed compact never to impair Which the Republic's fathers gave, to prove The boundless wealth of their undying love, Aa when a planet, first in motion wheeled, In placid circles sweeps creation's field, Nor tumult causes there, nor haply fears, The angry jarring of its sister spheres, But moves forever on its destined way, ' In liquid music with benignant ray; So may each added star, that makes in turn Our constellated glories brighter burn, Deep, ilently into its ordered place To run its radiant and unpausing race; Blessing and blest, 'gainst every shock secure, Through times 'revolving cycles to endure, Till, like Orion's belt, our ensign's bars Shall blaze with countless multitudes of Stars, Their mingled light into one halo thrown, But each a planet dazzling when alone ! But Time, alas! still crumbles into dust, The brazen column and the marble bust; Dashes the image from its pedestal, And weaves for mighty States the funeral pall; Thus the proud statue, which we raise in bronz And wreathe to-day with Freedom's gonfalons, May moulder into ruin, when the State Which gave it birth is waste and desolate. ButtruÜ uninjured shall forever stand, And deathless mind can mock the spoiler's hand: And so, wherever Law shall build its fane And Learning push its humanizing reignWherever o'er the future's misty seas Men shall revere the name of Socrates, And generous youth with rapture dwell upon The shining page which tells of Marathon Into what climes remote the sacred ark Shall yet Le safely borne in Freedom's bark, Freighted with legacies of worth unpriced, The truths of Luther and the creed of Christ, There Washington shall live, and there enshrined Within the vast heart-temple of mankind. Our honored Commonwealtn shall still receive The purest worship grateful love can give Her praise according millions shall proclaim, And earth's remotest age shall bless Virginia's " name! , ' Califorkia all Right.- The Democracy of California are tip in arras against the Lecompton swindle. Following the example of that notorious cheat, the Legislature of California,' in opposition to the wishes of the people, passed resolutions in favor of Lecompton. The Democracy have, therefore, been compelled to take the matter In hand, and they are 'lolding meetings to denounce Lecompton all over the State. Ned 'MeCorlle, ex-member of Congress, formerly of Ohio, leads the van. Oat of forty-seven Democratic papers in the btate, there are but three for Lecompton. XSTA person -who tells you of the faults of others, intends to tell others of your faults. v Hate a care how you listen.

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The Territorial Question. Col. Jons C. Walker, of the Laporte Tiroes, has, in the following article, placed the ral position and the genuine principles of the Dmocratic party on this greatly mooted question in the clearest possible light. Hear him "The Bill of the Conterenco Committee, providing for the conditional admission of Kansas into the Union, passed both houses of Congress and became the law of the land, on the last day of April. May young and beautiful robed in flowers and sunshine, opens her smiles upon a tranquil country. The suspense of a nation is relieved. The battle has been drawn an armistice agreed upon. Few will rejoice in a settlement so temporary. History will wreathe no laurels fo' actors in the "compromise." It give-, tia time to reflect," but establishes no ruie for the regulation of the Territories of our country. Th relations of the citizens of the Territories to the citizens of the States of the govemmect of the Territories to the government of the Confederacy, are yet undefined. The Territorial question is yet unsettled. Let us hope that the Yictory won to a great principle, by the virtual reference of the Kansas Constitution to the people for whom it was framed, may lead to the final adjustment of this question on a fair and liberal basis. The subject is yet a new one to the American people. It is not easily disposed of. In a monarchy, where the right of the few to govern the many is generally conceded, the question is a plain oue. Not so in a Republic. The people here are the source of law. By the theory of our government they are the sole basis of power. But the people of the Territories have been discarded. With no legitimate example before them, that furnished by the history of England was followed by our earlier Statesmen. Congress controlled the Territories of the United States lis Parliament the Provinces of the mother country. From the very day, however, of the ac

quisition of Louisiana, to the adoption of Ii..- MUsotiii Compromise, the annexation ot Tt-XAS, and the conditional admission of Kansas, this usurpation by Congress upon th! inherent and inalienable rights of the people, has involved the country in trouble, and threatened the destruction of our iovei timent. In England the strtiggta between the people and despotism was long and arduous. Step by step they advanced upon receding power. Link by link they broke the chain which fettered their liberties. At length, maddened with a sense of wrong, they arose in their might and wrenched from an unwilling despot the) Marina Charta of British rights. In this country, the Battles of the Revolution deci ded the independence of the States. But the public domain was held as the spoils of war. Its inhabitants were protected but their rights as freemen were ignored. To control the Territories has been the end struggled for by the two great sections of our country. Congressional Sovereignty, involving the right and duty of Congress to control the instituiious of the Territories was generally recognized. The people of the Territories were forgotten yet. the story of their wrongs has been answered. Justice battled their oppressors. Principle bas won tem a victory. Year by year the battlements of Congressional Sovereignty have crumbled. The Malakoff of Congressional tyrany was stormed when the Missouri Compromise was repealed. Its Sebastopol was taken when the Lecomton Constitution was sent back to Kansas to be breathed into life or buried in death by the act of the people. Wrecked in the North by the Kansas Nebraska Act; routed in the South by the bill of tho conference Committee, which makes the admission of Kansas dependent on a vote of the people, there is no place left in our country where Congressional Sovereignty may now find a lodgement. Popular Sovereignty has triumphed but the question is yet unsettled. It remains for the Democracy to discharge this duty. Thät-they will be equal to the task we have never entertained the shadow of a doubt. Yet, it is difficult of performance The line of Demarkation between depot sm and Republicanism mu: b diaiinciy drawn. General laws must regulate the government of the Territories and define the relations of their people to the government of the Confederacy. In Territories where the population is below an established standard where legislation-is impracticable a military govern ment, despotic in its nature, must give or-j

der to people. In Territories where the, population 6hall reach, a given standard where it is of a character to enable the peopie to enact the laws which shall govern them, they should have an equal Sovereignty with that of a State in the Union. In that condition the people of the Territories should form their own Constitutions and make their own laws. They should elect all their public functionaries, except such as are appointed by the Federal Government within the States themselves. Thus popular sovereignty would be vindicated. . The'theory of our government vould be reduced to practice as well in the Territories as in the States. When '.he population of the Territories, organized in their own way with a Republican form of government, shall reach the ratio required for a member of Congress, they should, without further ceremony, be declared States-in the Uuion. A plan like this, designed to regulato the Territories of the U. States by a uniform standard, must ultimately be adopted by our government. This done, and all barriers to the indefinite extension of our public domain will be removed. The domestic institutions of the people will be settled by those directly interested in their character. The sectional agitation attendant on the admission of new States into the Union will te known only in the history of the past. As has been said, this task will devolve upon the Democratic parly. The Republican party is a good Brake but a poor Motive-power. Ti.eir principles afford them no basis on which to build a superstructure. They must move on in mid-air. Like a kite on the sea, if they fold their wings, they sink in the waves if they attempt to rise, they are lost in the whirlwind. "They sink into ruin if they return to the doctrine of the sovereignty of Congress in the Teritorries. They will be lost forever, if they attempt to fathom the realms of popular sovereignty. The Republican party cannot settle the Territorial question. The people know this. They look to tho Democracy for its adjustment, on a basis which will give pt-ace to the country and stability to our institutions. Let U3 do our duly and all will yet go well with the Democratic party. European Gossip. Letters from persons who are coversant with the court, and in a position to know many particulars about the Emperor personally, affirm that Louis Napoleon, like his great-uncle, is not deficient in superstition. He believes in his star, and deems his own body invulnerable. The scratch upon his face, therefore, which he suffered on the 14th of January, has alarmed him,

il were' h7 eeeinS the talisman brokeD' or by unuing mmseii oongea w regara u as a false one. His father, the ex-King of Holland, was superstitious in the highest degree, and believed that his being impotent and paralytic in the hands and partly in his legs was the result of a poisoned shirt curbed to him by incantations The ceremony of washing the feet of 12 poor men by the Emperor of Austria took place in the palace of Vienna on Holy Thursday, according to custom. The proceedings commenced with prayer, and were closed by m dinner, in which each of the twelve poor men were allowed four plates of meat, a desert, and a pot of excellent wine; each was, besides, p reseated with a suit of clothes cut in the style ot the middle ages, a small sum of money, and a pewter goblet, bearing a suitable inscription. The same ceremony was performed for twelve poor women, who obtained a good dinner and received similar small presents. Queen Victoria has received a present of eighty Arabian horses from the Sultan. It is said the stud is to be under the man agement of Mr. Rarey. It is reported that Georgie Sand, the celebrated French authoress and socialist, has retired to spend the remainder of her days in a convent. . - M. Herman, the celebrated coBjuior, went into a hair-dresser's shop on April day, at Brussels, and begged to be shaved. All male hands being engaged, the bar ber's wife oflfefed to officiate, and did bo. But in the middle of the operation M. Herman expressed discontent, and said he would finish the process himself. So taking the razor from the woman's hand he stood up, and to the utter horror of all present, cut his throat apparently from ear to ear. Some bystanders rushed to him, whilst others ran for surgeons and police; but, to their utter astonishment, M. Herman turned round, quietly asked what they all meant by the uproar, and showed his neck fiee from scratch and his shirt spot

less. The police report of this morning says that the hair-dresser was so frightened that he fell down i'l a swoon, and that half his hair has turned white. Madame Orßini has left Paris to return to the Italian village where she has long been established as schoolmistress. Friends of Italian liberty helped to administer all the comfort that lay in their power by subscribing handsomely to the widow and the fatherless, and a sum of 2,000 francs was placed in Madame Orsini's hands at the moment of departure, to which the principal subscribers are English. A grand event in our American circles came off this morning. The only daughter of Mr. John Ridgeway, of Philadelphia was married to the Marquis de Gannay, a French nobleman. The bride has only

just turned her twentieth year, is very handsome, and highly accomplished. In view of her father's enormous wealth Fhe has been considered a great prize, and all tho young bloods of title have been engaged in hot pursuit of la Idle Amerieaine for the last three or four years. Her parents have allowed her to exercise her own judgment and taste in this to her vital affair, and the object of her choice is one of affection, though he adds to an agreeable exterior an old name and favorable antecedents." A London letter says: "The Prince of Wales was confirmed yesterday morning at Windsor, an event which has been anxiously looked forward to, . particularly by the tradespeople of the West End, as it is expected that he will soon take up his lesi deuce at Marlborougn House and keep a separate royal establishment. Perhaps the country may not have the "sme cr.use for congratulation when a government grant is asked for and voted of j40,0U0 a year. However, he has been a very good boy, and if he will but go on improvingly and follow in tho honorable steps of his royal mother, we shall have no cause to complain." A Corporal of the Grade de Paris, named Vinot, who, tliough not on duty, was axiouri to see the execution of Orsini and Fieri i, wen at a very early hour on that day to the Place de la Roquette, and succeeded in pelting near the scaffold. The emotion he experienced at seeing the two men put to death was so great that he became ill and was seized with violent trem bling, lie returned to his barracks in a sad state, and had to be sent to the milita ry hospital. He never recovered from the shock, and expired on Tuesday. The Fivncii have creat sunreons. A little girl dislocated her neck one of the liule bones in her spine got out of place. The surgeon laid her on a plank, with a block for a pillow. Of course, her neck was petf-c'ly btiff, and there was a vacank spacu between her spine and the plank, but by degrees t he weight of her chest and shoulders relaxed the muscles, the bone slipped back into its place, and she got well. A greater than Spergeon is said to have arisen in the pulpit. A man named Brown low North, formerly an actor, and who has beeu a terrible repr .bate, is now having a great success in Glassgow, Scotland, in bringincr about conversions He is an Episcopalian, but does not confine himself to any particular church. A correspondent says, no preaching, since the days of Whitfield, has produced such a powerful effect upon the popular mind as this remarkable man's addresses; and the power lies not in their logical structure, but in their earnestness. Dr. Franklin Abetting an Elopement. At the recent meeting ot the Pennsylvania Historical Society, the talented and eflpjent fJorresponding Secretary, Horatio G.Jones, Esq., read t Je: tr written by Dr. J. K Swift, of Ension, Pa., relating a curious incident in the life of Boston's noble son, Benjamin Franklin. The celebrated painter, Benjamin West, before he became known to fame, fell in love with Miss Elizabeth Shewell. West wai poor, and Shewells were rich. Stephen Shewell.the brother Elizabeth, wished her to marry another suitor, which she refused to do. West was forbidden the house, but Elizabeth continued to meet him and they were engaged to be married. The obstinate brother kept his sister under lock and key, till West sailed for Europe o prosecute his studies. Miss Shewell, however, had promised to join him in any part of Europe, and marry him, a3 soon as'MrWeat informed her of his-ability to maintain her. The patronaga which West received in London, soon justified him in sending for Miss Shewell to fulfill her promise. . He made arrangements for her to come in the same vessel that conveyed, his request io

her, and also arranged that his father should

accompany her. Miss fchewell prepared for her departure, but her brother again confined her to her chamber. Her brother's tyrannical treatment excited great indignation against him. and strong sympathy for his sister. In this state of things, the late Bishop White, then about eighteen years of age, Dr. benjamin Franklin, fifty-nine years of age and Francis Hopkinson,, twenty-nine years of age, when the vessel was ready to sail, procured a rope Udder, went to the captain, and engaged him to sail as soon as they brought a lady on board; took old Mr. West to the ship, and went at midnight to Shewell's house, attached the ladder to a window in Miss Shewell's chamber, and got her out, and to the vessel, which sailed a few minutes after she entered it. Mr. West was in waiting for Miss Shewell when sh arrived in England, and they were soon married Sept. 2, 1765. Neither of them ever returned to this country Stephen Shewell never forgave his sister, and although she made many efforts to conciliate him, he refused all communication with her. The English Bill. The Logan'port Pharos, which has been decidedly auti-Le-compton, approves the new Kansas bill. It says: There may be details in the bill which may be objected to by some or points may have been omitted which, inserted, would make the bill be more acceptable to others. We care little for details, or whether "Lecompton" was submitted before or after admission. The great point is accomplish, ed the Lecompton scheme is submitted. Tho people of Kansas are to have a fair vote they are to say, at the ballot- box, whether they want Lompton or not. If they want it, they can say so at the ballot-box and have it if they repudiate it, as we believe they will, no power should be allowed to force it upon them. Some Republicans say the English bill is a bribe to the people of Kansas to adopt Lecompton. If the "pure patriots" of Kansas, who have "fought, bled and died" for freedom oan he bought, they are more degenerate sons than even Democrats think they are If it is a bribe, to whom is it offered? To the Robinsons and Lanes, who procfairaed undyiisg hostility to Lecompton. The Republicans seem to place a low estimate upon the integrity of the men whom they have so long held up to the public, and sworn by as Republican Kansas martyrs. It may, however, be a correct estimate, 'lha Republicans may be justifiable in thus trembling for their Kansas leaders. They know the men. They may think that in a contest between land and principle, land will gain the day. We do not believe that the mass of the Republican party agree with the leaders. Our people say plainly, that if the people of Ka isas do not want Lecompton, they need not have it. That this is a tangible fact, clearly camprehended. They are tired of the incessant din and clap-trap about " frAAflrtrvi tri t'nnsnii " nnJ ... CI 1 ! i 1. 4 iin,'jum jii iiausita, dim aic willing lliHi the people of Kansas should settle the ques tion. We regard tho English bill as a submis sion of the constitution, in principle and substance. It leaves the Lecompton con stitution in the hands of the people of Kan sas the people to be benefitted or injured by it they will ratify or reject it. There let the responsibility rest. It can rest no where else. Thc Proposed Land Grants to Kansas. The bill of the Conference Committee, declares tho X. Y. Tribune, asks the people of Kansas to "vote for or against i proposition that the Federal government ' . 1 . 1 1 . m . snan give tnera nve million acies ot land for the construction ot railroads through their territory." The bill of the Confer ence Committee does no such thing. The diu contains no proposition to give tne people of Kansas any lands for railroad purposes. The word railroad is not in the bill. As we have hitherto shown, and rs any body can see by reading the bill, which we published yesterday, it is proposed to give Kansas only such lands as have been given to all nev State recently admitted only such as it is proposed to give Minn80ta only sucnas Kansas would have received had the Crittenden-Montgomery bill passed. These lands are 1. Two sections in each township for common schools. 2. Sevecty-two sections for a Universi3. Ten sections for public buildings. 4. The salt spring lands, to a certain extent. 5. Five per cent, of the proceeds of all the public lands lying within their State which shall be sold by the general government after the admission of the Stale. These are the lands granted by the bill to Kansas, and thev are only such as Kan sas would get under any. bill, and only such as she will get when she is admited under whatever constitution. There is, then, no truth in the asseation of the -VJ Y.Tribune; and tho assertion made by it and in other quarters, tli3t the grant of lands is in the nature of a bribe to the people of Kansas to accept the Lecompton constitution, has no semblance of foundation in fact. 'I won't cover your heels, I'll be darned if I do," as the ragged stocken said to the novel-reading lady

Scatter the Germs of the Beautiful. Scatter the germs of the beautiful! By the wayside let them fal., That the rose may spring by the cottage gate,And te vine on the garden wall ; Cover the rough and the rude of earth With a veil of leaves and flowers, And mark with the opening bud and cup The march of summer hours. Scatter the germs of the beautiful In the holy shrine of home; Let sweet flowers and beauteous birds In their loveliest luster come ; Leave not a trace of deformity In the temple of the heart, But gather about its heart the gems Of Nature and of Art. Scatter the germs of the beautiful In the temple of our God The God who starred the uolifted skv, And flowered the trampled sod;" When He built a temple for himself, And a home for his priestly race, lie reared each arch in symmetry, And curved each line in grace. Scatter the germs of the beautiful In the depths of the human soul ; They shall hud and blossom, and hear the fruit,While the endless ages roll; riant with the flowers of charity The portals of the tomb, And the fair and the pure about thy path' In Taradisc shall bloom.

Affection. We sometimes meet with friends who seem to think that any indulgence of affectionate feeling is weakness. They will return from a journey and greet their fomily with a distant dignity, and move among their children with the proud and lofty splendor of an iceberg surrounded by its fragments. There is hardly a moro unatural 6ight on earth than one of tboso families without a heart. Who has experienced the joys of friendship, and values sympathy and affection, would not rather lose all that is beautiful in Nature's scenery, thai be robbed of the hidden treasure of the heart?- Who would not rather follow his child to the grave than entomb his parrental affection? Cherish, then your heart's best affection, Defective Religiox. A religion tliat never suffices to govern a man, will never suffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish one from a wicked world, will never distinguish him from a perishing world. Howe. Some weeks since, in thi3 city, a girl J4 years-of age or less, gare birth to a childwhich, it is alleged, is the rcsul of a criminal intimacy with a boy 17 years oldthe son of a manufacturer. Subsequently, the' little unfortunate, by the girl herself, orwith the connivance of others, was left en the corner of Fourth and Broadway streets,where it was found and taken care of.Events which have 6inco transpired reveal--ed the maternity of the baby stranger. Thr mother acknowledged up, and informed her father who had been the prime cause of making her a mother. It is reported that the' girl's father has instituted a suit againslthe father of the seducer for the mainten-- -ance of the offspring. Lou. Courier. The Three Orators. On a ront casion. Cumming, Spurgeon and Cough,all famous orators, addressed immen .-. diences at Brighton, Great Britain. The'. Brighton Herald says Gough took the lead in point of oratory. Gough can beat the" worm. A Valuadle Invention. Printin in' glass has been successfully accomplished uy a gentleman in iNew lork city. By a . new process he is enable to Drint letters and figures of various designs in glass in multi--colors, with a facility almost equal to ordinaiy printingon common paper. Labels . can be printed by this process directly on bottles of any size and form. These hare, the appearance of having been placed there', by the hand, and are indelible. Lettering . on class by the new process can be done at less than one third the present cost. The" inventor is about to apply for a patent for'ms novel ana usetul improvement. A Warnino to Bors. A sad accident happened on Saturday last in the village of Vienna, N. Y. A lad ramed John Stewart : aged about 10 years, was in the street, catching rides on sleighs, and in attempt- - mg iv caicii on ine ironi pare 01 a Bieigü1 which was loaded with wood, his foot alin--ped, and he was precipitated . underneath' one of the runners. The sleigh passed overhira, breaking his rpine. fatallv iniurinrrhim. He was taken home and physicians till... . . --.-: - caueu, out iney couia not save the life or the poor boy, and he died in about half an ho jr. His mother is dead, nnd hia faiherlives in New York, and was in that cftt at. the time of the accident. -Rochester' (ft ion A Revival Iscimot At at Burton's theatar. He nrv WarrT Tl made the sweeping assertion that all present wer-j sinners. "Not so" said a ; Meth odist brother who suddenly jumped from his seat in a very excited manner 'Not so, for I have been sanctified." "Glory to God in the highest' shouted Beocher at the top of his vbice, "you ought to 'Wa been in Heaven loner ajro. von in! fit

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