Terre-Haute Journal, Volume 5, Number 5, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 October 1852 — Page 1

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BKOW*L*«. JOB* T.

PR AIHIE CITY DRUG STORE

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WHOLES ALU AND RETAIL DRUGGISTS, COSKKS 4TH MATtOXAt. 11 OA ft rrmtrra, t'SIO* HOW,

TKRRE-HAI'TK, INDIANA.

"A VINO pnrehaned thin new and elepnnt etrt&bfwbment from ft* former proprietor, Dr. R. If. Swain, and Tiled it up in the moat desirable will convenient manner, we are now prepared to accommodate all who will favor na with their patronagf, with every article belonging to our line. W« are now iu receipt of a very heavy Spring supply, which render* our utock one of the largest and moat complete ever brought to the Wabash Valley, ell of which we afe prepared to warrant, and are determined to aell for CASK, or to undoubted prompt dealer*, on the usual time, aa low they can he pure baited in any of the neighboring chic*. We re*pectfully invite the attention of Merchant*, Manufacturer*, Phyntei'sns, Consumer* and Dealer*, generally, who will find our *tock to comprise a full, extensive and well-wlpcted aupply of

Drags and Medicines,

Surgical Instruments*, (.'hernials, Paints, OiLs, DyeSt lis, Spices, Varnishes, Brushes, Perfumery, Glassware, American Window-Glass, Apothecaries Shop Furniture, Pure Wines and Brandies,

SnufT, Cigars, Tobacco, Fancy Soap, See., &c.»

AH of which we will sell at Wholesale or upon term* an fitvomhle a* uuy eatahlUhment l«j the "Valley." Having made extrusive arruiigcmeiiU in New York, Boston, and 1'lilladelpliiii, for the purchase of our Good* from lmporlrrt and Jlrii hand*, we feel aaaured that by theae lncrea*ed icifltie*, we can ofTVir greater Inducement* to the trade than hu* ever before been offered In this market. r.r One of the firm, Dr. WAlJ., being a practitioner of Medicine, will keep hi* office in the couuting-room and will, at all lime*, give hi* personal attention to the filling prescription*, preparing family compound*, Ac.

N. n. Glu*enjj!, I"'lax*eed, U«ewax ituil Mustard Seed, taken In exchange for good*, or in payment of debt*. Nighi IleTl at the aide door on Fourth Street.

May 7, i«»2.:v2ir

BICH AHD EJJ5MT GOODS!

M. W. WILLIAMS

11 F.SPECTMJ1«LY call* lh« attention of the nubile to hi* extensive awortment of PHY GOODS, which will lie aold a* low any lioune In the Oily can afford to

ICropi strangers vislllng tne City he would particularly xolirit nil rxuiiiiuutlon. The slock comprises lu part the ii vi it Mich Printed Ber:i{f**, Rlch Silk Venting*, Plain Beruge* and Tlaauen, jMir*etll«« i-j French Jaconets ami Muslin*, Summer Cowlmere* auife-

Berage De l«lue*, Printed Iriiwu*,

Stock illk Silk'*,

Moiuliu Do Laities, Hprlng«tyle*, Ingham*, Frcneh and

American,

Kilboti«, new style*, .^llk and Linvii Udkf*, I'liilivain! Klg'd Parasol*, Fancy Lined H\vi**Kdglng*aiid Insertion* Giiiiibitc t'lirtalu Muni Ins, full stock, UuMlerv, full assortment.

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I.lnefl jCutlouude* and Drown Linens, jffiitikeenii, Real and Ueorgiu, Brown Sheeting* «$• Shirt lug*, ,lilineh'd lildh Linen*, Jirown and iiloach'd Table

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Bieach'd Li no 11 Doille* mid N»pklunt Diaper.*, Khi Gloves, nil number*, Button*, Comb*, iVc.

Our'Stock will at all lime* lie found complete a* we ore receiving NKNV GOODS every week. M,,y sfl. 1KU PH A HUB CITY 3TOB

Gloves and Hosiery.

A 1)1 MS and Gent* Kid Gloves, all colors and site*, ir'ilk, Cotton and Ltula White Silk Kinbruldisr'il

Cotlou lliwe,

Mixed lllk Raw Silk

Men*' Brown and Mis«*U Cotton Hose, or *ale cheap at tho orrtiip May 21 ,JWM. TRAIUIK CI 1 8 IORK.

R. SMITH, D. D. S.

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permanently located In kl* new Otnce on

Ohio street. 4th door Ra*t of the Public Square, wil at all time* be l» readiness to wail on hi* pairoua iu all thing* pertaining to hi* profession.

N. B. No credit given for operations unless by previous arrangement. Terre-Haute, November 15, lHSO-i-ly

B. H. CORNWELL,

MERCHANT TAILOR,

KAST OF T1IK SUbARK.

Aft i«« reeelved a general Mock «f Goods for GENTLEMEN'S APPAREL, which will be made lo order, i»t tdiort notice, aud

icarr*»ted, «.««»,»

The stock coualsla of various Rroadcloth*,Blat k,

Blue and fancy colors Cawdmew* and VeeUngs of all kinds Shirt*, Unler*hirt«, Handkerchiefli,CravaU, Olovea,

HU^rment* will be fiishlonahly and substantially made, and hi* price* *raduaied to the loweat living mark. IT Call and examine the Stock and

Terre-Hante, March 19. IBSS'SStf

Kow Shingle Factory.

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tHF sabecrlbira would respectfully Inform the citlien* of Terre Haute and the

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have jusl commenced ma«ttfaclurto|t any offered for sale la ihte place. We *h® to dwell under

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Cord^^ Blocks, &c.

AN ILL A Hope, all *iw« Hemp Cotton do Saab Cerd} sd Cords rot l»t«e*t l^ujfh U«» Sewing Twln«i |ur*Bdd.°nd Double Tackle Blocks. 10 inch**: Packing Yarn 0»kttO-

Oils, Paints, &c.

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'°lrAu"«rt«™ wfiucs. CT Factory back of H- F-irbaaka rifle factor j, on Fourth .Street, between Ohio and Main alwete.

1. COOK & CO.

W INSEBD. L*rd. Cam ana Fish OU» JU White Ix»ad In Oil, do Spanish NY hi ting, Red Litharge, Pu«y» Paint BrtiabM. Varnish Brushy, Graining do Saah Sheltao, £***»'?.

Diamond*, ^tra aad

Glass Fiwnct,

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FOB THE JOURNAL.

MIMIS. Mooxc & MCLEAX:—I design farY*hiog Uie reader* of the with a few Hl*torical Facts, extracted %om the Hittory of our Country—Froti't and Lincoln'i ediliont. My object is, to place Truth before tlte people, and show what groand* the two leading Political Parties hare occupied, in a limited point of view, aincetlie days of WAsm.icTon, up to the present time. J. C.

Historical Facta

In 1796 Washington retired from public life, and Mr. Adams was elected President of the United States, though not without a good deal of opposition.

After serving in this office four years, he was succeeded, aa is well known, by Mr. Jefferson.— Life of Adams, page 88. 1800. This year the electioneering field, to fill the offices of ihe two Chief Magistrates in the government, was opened with uncommon zeal and wbruith, by the parties. Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Burr, and .Mr. Clinton, were the Republican or Democratic candidates and Mr. Adams and PincLney, the Federal.—History U. S., p. 311

Mr. Jefferson prevailed, and was elected, and Mr. Burr became Vice President. The new Judiciary system, together with the Alien and Sedition laws, which had been recently passed, were sup* posed to have defeated the re-eleciion of Mr. Adams.—lb. 312.

In 1804, a new election of President and Vitys President took place. Mr. Jefferson was re elected to the former olTice, having received all but fourteen votes.—Page 254

On the 4th of March 1809, Mr. Madison, who

Administration, was inducted into the office oi President of the United Slates. At (his time the .•ituation of our affairs was in many respects gloomy.—Life of Madison, p. 139.

On ihe arrival of a ship from England, bringing no satisfactory tidings, the President sent a Message to Congress, recapitulating all the causesof complaint against Britain, and recommended a formal declaration ol war, Congress acceded lo the pro-

Stutes as disolaved aversion to the war a svstem

states as uispiayea aversion to tne war, a system

he denounced it with great heat to the leg.slature.

Tho destruction ot WuhiMM, the r.».ge or Ihe

banks of the Chesapeake, showed what was to be

Towards the close of the year they, consequently, attaoked the government more virulently than ever, accusing it of first exciting the war gratuitously, persevering in it oblHtiately, yet taking none of ihe requisite means for preserving the country from intuit or conquest. To remedy this crying evil, by which one section of States were sacrificed to the interests of others, tbey proposed a Convention of Delegates from the different sections of the Union to be summoned to meet at Hartford, in order to take into consideration the changes to be made in the Constitution*

The Hartford Convention met, though attended merely by the delegates of the Anti-War or Federal party. Their discussions were kepi secret, and they seperated for the time, after merely venting their grievances in a public address This dangerous spirit, as well aa the distresses of the government becoming most formidable ID a financial point of view, were arrested by the tidings, that peace at length had been signed at Ghent, in December.

These tidings, however, did not arrive until the army, victorious at Washington, had received a check, which terminated the war in a manner gloriou* to the nation.—and much to the support of the political party in power. We refer, of course, to the battle of New Orleans."—P. 168

President Madison's second term of office being about to expire, an election was held in the autumn of 1816, which gare the first office in the nation to James Monroe.—If. 5. 300. I

ID }8F{ $r. Monroe ^RAS re-eteeted President— F. 338. m*| Mr. Monroe's seoood tern) erf* offioe Prwidew of lite United States was cear expiring. ac*4 the question, wfeo ahatt be has successor, was exciting one throughout die Union. The candidates

had been Secretary of Stale under the preceding j- ... „.i a .u- x. "can party in this government, and that is ihe Democratic Varty. v,

p...ah .,,d nolwi,hslanding ll,e^energetic ,ral«l ,jcmocr„,ic

ol the Federals in opposition, War was declared against Great Hritain on ihe lUlh ol June, 1012.— lb p. 1 1 "j.

Certain Slates, that of Massachusetts especially, have been represented as most averse to hostilities with England. The Federals in this tQgion not jonly protested, but meditated ihe preservation «f a Stato ol ^neutrality. Boston the capital of Maissachuseti9, the flags of the shipping were hoisted Rajf-maiit high, in Uken of mourning for the war of lfHfc--P. 1-J7.

The Sotjjhern States were as violent In support of the Contrary opityon and Baltimore was more especially signaffzeil foi^ its anti-English zeal. A Federal paper hefcalared to brave their principles. A mob wasexciled to attack the establishment, they were taken to prison. But this did not secure them. The prison doors were-broken open next day, aud many of the Federals massacreed.—P. 147—*8.

However considerable was Ihe opposition to .Mr. Madison's policy and administration in the Eastern States, still the Southern increased b^jr ihe newly created States in the western territory, were enabled to out-vote their rivals on the grand presidential question. Mr. Madison was, without dillicully, reelected to his second term ol offioe.—P. 160.

A majority passed resolutions approving of the President's refusal 10 make pence, except upon the

removal of the possibility of the English impressing,

or searching for American seamen.

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The British Government, on its side, placed the true position in the democratic ranks* She haaJ principal ports and rivers ol America at once in a! followed the example of Georgia and North Carostate of blockade. In order, however, to favor such ',na'

were John Quincy Adams of the North Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay of the West, and Messrs. Crawford and Calhoun of the South. Mr. Calhoun withdrew from the canvass of #824, and the contest was maintained between the other candidates. General action received 99 electoral votes J.Q. Adams 84 W. H. Crawford 41 and Henry Clay 37. By a constitutional provision, the election consequently devolved upon the House of Representatives* It was evident, that Mr. Clay's chance of election was sm'jtll, but having received the entire votes of three States, he was able to exercise a powerful influence on the election.

He avowed himself in favor of Mr. Adams his friends followed his example, arid Mr. Adams was consequently elected .-Lives of Presidents, 5»9.

Mr. Calhoun had been elected Vice President by the people. 1824—H U. S.f p. 302. REMARKS.—It is well known by many 6f the American people, that Henry Clay, previous to 1824, belonged to the Democratic party, but seeing there was no possible chance for his election, and having a personal grudge against Jackson, consequently forsook his party, joined the Federals, and succeeded in electing'Adams: and he was appointed, by Mr. Adams, Secretary of State. In this-case we had a Federal President, and a Democratic Vice President.

I wish to say, now, to the young men of this country, (and all others that wish to be Politically right,) to read and examine the History of our country, and see what grounds Ihe political parties have occupied, in so doitig you will'ascertain to your satisfaction, that we hnve but one true Repub-

In the foregoing extracts of History it is not a

hard matter to discriminate and see, which was the Republican party in 1812. John Adams in his administration proved 40 be sd tverse to Republican principles, that he became very unpopular at the sameJimo, Thomas Jefferson advocated more liberal or Republican principles, consequently, in 1800 Jefferson was termed, or called, the Republican or

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ot licenses adopted, ia order lo enable snip# tests against ihe bargain and sale by which Jonest from their ports to enjoy a trade with the West Mangum, Botts & Co. sold %tit the principles of ihe Indies. The President was indignant at this ten- in order to get a 'mess oi pottage'* in the darness shown by foreign, to domestic foea, and

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from whiggeryftand been placed in her

refuses to support the candidate that Sew-

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upon the whig National

ConvenUo„ ih June lft8t ir(isidem She pro.

°foifice for themselves an4 friends It is now

.. ,!•, evident that the whole .S£uth present an unbroken

and umnvhJed fron#jn raVor'^pierce

and the Baltimore DiMtiocratio platform.

The New Englanders not only felt this, The prediction ol Mr. Gentry, a distinguished but they saw Britain so victorious in her European whig member ol Congress from Tennessee, will be struggle, that it seemed madness to resist her.

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From 1000 until 18241110 Democrats nlways*succeeded in electing their Presidents. In 1032 the Federals held a Convention, and then, and there changed their unpopular name of Federal fer that of Whig! Here we have ihe origin of ihe Whig party which is r.ow extant in the land. From IOUO to 1032, I would ask, where did this Whig party exist I I will answer, no ichcre. Since J032, where do we find the Federalists—we lind them chanced to Federal Whigs I

It is unnecessary for me to reler to History to prove that the leaders of the present Wing partyoccupy ihe same, or similar grounds, that the Federals did in 1012. 1 need only refer id the late war with Mexico, ,.s. -r .,

The Whig party have never elected a President, except a military man, therefore, lliey throw talent and qualification aside for such men, expecting to get up an excitement, wit# gunpowder, and thus hope to succeed. .. .t |iEw posuEK^ pet. 10th, 1052.

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Anriothet State redeemed—Florida Democratic.^ There has been considerable doubt and uncertainty banging over the result in Florida at her recent State election. The Telegraph one day would report that the chances were iu tavor of the whigs, and then the nejft that the Democrats had carried the State, ft turns'out. however that the Demo-"

^h'®^ a brilliant victory, and an-

btate that voted for favlo^in 1848 has been

and K^ing.

Soon cannot carry one State

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expected from a centinuance of hostilities.—»jP. 167, thorn. Phe October efecttons have indeed result-

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The New York Tribune, of tbe I5tb inst..* ha$ returns from every county in the State, which it gives to its readenf with the remark that they indicate the success of the Democratic candidates for Governor and member ot Congress by a majority of about one hundred each. Huzza lor Florida.— Cm. Enf. ~Olk ittsi.

OHIO.—Tbe whigs claim to have gained 10,000 over the vole of 1851, when the Democrats carred the State by 86.008. The Democratic majority is now between sixteen and eighteen thousand. There is scarcely a grease tpotoi Wtuggery left in Ohio.

The Democracy of New Jersey are organizing in every city, town and village oi the Stale, and are sanguine ol caryitg their electoral rote lor Pierce and King.

THKT HAVE jeoCoxmtEKcs tsfsnt Asssanoxs —The Whigs are boasting that Scott will carry Pennsylvania by a large vote. $1000 hare been lyiwt at oar office (or some time, left by a geatlecnan who wishes to bet tfcat Pierce will carry te State, and no Whig has yet had courage eooagh io take it up.—Penaunflt/mitm.

John Van Bureo reoeotly *atd turn speeah ftk New fork, tbtt of the 120.000 persoot in that State that voted for llartin Van Boree in 1848, be hod beard of ooto three who will not vote lor

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ed gloriously for the Democratic cause, and the trophies of victory are to be found in Ohio. Indiana. Pennsylvania, Florida, and Connecticut The shouts of congratulation and rejoicing come from every quarter of our broad Union, the South as well as the West. The Democratic platform is so broad that the whole nation can stand upon it. Our gallant standard bearers, Pierce and King, will sweep the field in November next, from Maiue to California. The Democracy of the country will welcome Florida upon her return into the Democratic line. The Democrats have carried everything. Governor, Congressmen, and Legislature— all gains.

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Wao WAS THE Hsio!—it is not siQgular thattha sympathisers with ihe enemy in the laat war (of 181?) should love to detract from the honor due to its heroes. But it is singular that such a man as Scott should forget what was due to his superiors. Who were regarded as the true heroes of the frontier battles, in the last war with Great Britain, by the men of that day, is pretty clear, from the following resolutions, offered in the U.S.Senate. February 26, 1897, by Gen William H, Harrison, of Ohio:

Resolved, That the Senate have learned, with deep regret, the death of Major General Jacob Brown, the late commanding General of the Army, and distinguished leader in the battles of Chippewa. Niagara aiyj Erie, in ihe last war.

Is Gen. Harrison authority, or has his name falIan into disrepute with modern whigeryt '*&'•

ELEVENTH-HOOK JNV&VRIONS.-The democracy of ihe different States must be prepared for the usual eleventh-hour faiyications of the W higs. We know that a new series is about being let loose upon the country. The authors of the falsehoods and slanders of the preyent campaign, which have already been so completely and so triumphantly refuted, will not hesitate to resort to the same system again before the flection is over. In 1844, it will be recollected that a statement was set on foot at the last hour of the campaign, that Mr. polk, the Democratic candidate, had the-negroes ort his farm branded with the letters J. K. P. and this atrocious calumny was used as a favorite weapon of Whig leaders. It was finall} graved to be a falsehood, made out of the whoi$ cloth, without a shadow of trtHh to rest upon. Since the present campaign has opened, we have had a number of deliberate and abandoned fabrications from ihe^satne prolific source and it was owing entirely to the watchfulness and the determination of the Democracy that these fabrications were discovered and exposed. Our political friends must be on Ihe looknut for all descriptions of :h|se electioneering infamies and ttay should be prepared for even viler vulgarity anublacker abuse than that which was heaped upon Gen. Jackson and James K. Polk.— Washington Union. 1th

Powerful Medicine.

The following certificate in favor of Dr DunVelbauxen's Death Pills, we clip Irom the Philadelphia Sunday Mercury:

WOOLF'S DEN, Rocky Mountains,

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August 26ih. 1852.

I. John Lubb^rlie. was supposed to'bein Itie last stage of consumption in ihe year '48, suffering at ihe same time under a severe attack of rheumatism. liver complaint, gravel, dropsey,and cholera morbus. Simultaneously, also, I took yellow fever and small-pox. The latter ^sV&ming the chronic lorm of scrofula, completely destroyed my lungs, liver, spinal marrow, nervous system, and the contents of my cranium. I got so low that 1 did not know my brother in-law, when he came to borrow some money. For three months I swallowed nothing but twenty packages of Kunkclbausen's pills, which effected an immediate cure in two weeks. I have since become *o corpulent that 1 am obliged to carry my protuberant stomach in a wheelbarrow. Sworn and subscribed, die,

P. S.—My late uncle Bacchus Pottinger was afflicted so long with the gout, (contracted by living too high on bear's meat and alligator's eggs) that life became a-burden to him. He took only io«ir boxes of said pills* and was a burden to him no longer,

.... Polk* Report—A Sceae.""'^ The following scene is said to have actually taken place a few days since. That it took place in this cuy no one will for a moment suppose of course.

A very gentleman-like looking constable was sent to arrest a common gambler. He foond and accosted him. "Hot do you do, sir? I hare a warrant for yon." "J. .,s** -Oh! yOil'fiave.have you—wKaf for 1" said tfie blackleg, running over in bis bead tbe long catalogue of bis misdeed?. -It is for gambling •Oh is thai all,* said be, drawing a pack of cards from his poefcot, well, what's the penalty!'^ ••Twenty dollars and lee?" "How much is the fee.# "Ten shillings." (Uule enlarged.) ... ••H«re now," said the gambler sbufBicji the pnk scienuiiioaly. "I'U tell yon what I will do is this matter, l"U play yoo *srven op for doable or quils~" "HOW'S that?" i* -Why, H1 boat I will pay yoa notSng bat if yrwt do, I'M doable yaar fee and go clear now, 'poo booor." "Done. *poo bettor!" aod-tbe two gentlemen sat down, pUyed oat the game, tbseoosuMe woo, pocketed his twenty ebiUiogs, took a "brandy amesfe,* and went back to tbe juigieo's oAee wtfb, "I say. Squire that fellow 'kxpod off—can't find him no where,'—Cleveland Pjain Dcaler.

Ladies Usui dwyou know u»at fotu *Ffeneh tutf gloves are agadq pf ratefcipit

TOBER 29, 1852.

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THE BREAKING UP OF THE WHIG PARTY.—A" distinguished whig Senator was heard to say, a few days after the nomination of General Scott,'We can form 110 judgment now on the election—we must wail five or six weeks. If in that lime the whig party can revive the fftd enthusiasm of 1840 or '48, then we shall have a living and unfailing assurance of success but if we tail to kindle up the old military fever, then we are gone,' The five or six weeks have elapsed—every expedient to revive the gunpowder furore of '4.1 and '48 has proved a chilling abortion, and he who runs may read the handwriting upon the wall, that 'the whig parly has been weighed in the balance and found wauling,' and is rapidly breaking up.—N. Y. Her.

A.v ATTEMPT TO BRIBE THE PRESS.—The N. Y. Herald says it has received an offer of fiifteen hundred dollars, by the steamer Franklin, from England, to use iis influence in the Abolition school ol politics, during the Presidential canvass. An earnest of two hundted and fifty dollars in cash was sent, with promissory rtotps. The letter containing this singular overture, also stated, that if necessary. George Thompson would be sent out to slump the States. The*e advances indicate an odd condition of things.

Who has not laughed al thatgramntical blunder, "thy sufferings ii intolerable/" Who has not lell the smile curl the corner of his lips,, fit reading the telegraph announcements (hat "thero are two feet water in the river!" Well, in his speech at Frankfort, Gen. Scott informed the people: "Need I say that my obligations are as great as my ..remembrance of Kentucky are fraught with gratifibaiion." We lake the extract from the prinied.apeeoh in the Commonwealth.—Log. Times.

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New York Day Book, (Whig.) says Gen. SC^U is traveling for the purpose of selecting a site for a Military Hospital—from present indications. he ought to be itie first candidate for admission, 1

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The Law of Contractions of Railroads. Judge Gibson, in a case tried at Pittsburgh before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania on Monday. where a suit was brought to recover of the Erie Railroad the price of an animal which had been killed on the road, laid down the sound doctrine lhat *an owner of cattle, killed or injured on a railway, has no recourse, to the company or its servants and that he is liable for damage done by them to the company or the passengers.' The Court below had given a different judgement, but the common sense and legal knowledge of Judge Gibson put the matter right. He says "The irresponsibility of a railway company for all but negligence or wanton injury, is a necessity of iis creation. A train must make the time necessary to fulfill its engagements with the post office and the passengers, and it must be allowed to fulfill them at the sacrifice of secondary interests put in its way else it could not fill ihem at ail* The maxim of •salus jtopuli,' would be inverted, and the paramount affairs of the public would be postponed to the petty concerns of the individual. Every obstruction of a railway is unlawful, mischievous, and abateable at the cost of the owner of it without regard to his ignorance or intention. The lives of human beings are not to be weighed in the same scale wi'.h a farmei's or grozier's stock and their preservation is not to be left to the care which a man takes of his uncared cattle.—Phil. Ledger.

CAUTION TO TOWNS.—The town of Easthampton, Mass., has been mulcted ki the sum of $939 by referees appointed by ihe Common Pleas Court, for injuries received by Marie E. Mason, by being thrown from a sleigh in consequence of an obstruction on the side of the road. Several sticks of timber had been placed or. tho edge of the road, but not wit hiu the limits of the road as ordinarily traveled.*

TRUE DEMOCRACY.—"It is not in a splendid government, supported by powerful monopolies, aristocraiical establishments, thai the people will find happiness, or their liberties protection but in a plan: system, void of pomp, prolectig all, granting favors to none—dispensing its blessings, like the dews of heaven, unseen and unfelt save in the beauty they create."

That it is what Andrew Jackson said. It is the leading idea of tho Democratic party, and it is what the people aim for. and we trust will acquire, in the election of Gen. Pierce.—Skutvhrgnn Clarion. "Tis better ttr hnve loved and lost, thau never to have loved at all-'*

OH no no!—else you have never passed from Ihe shield of a broad, truo breast, where for long years you had been lovingly folded, to a widow's weeds, and the rude jostling, and, curious gazo, of the heartleiH crowd!—never knew long, wretched days, that seemed to have no end—never turned, with a stilled sob, Irom Ihe clasp of loving little arms, and the uplifted gaze of an eve upon whose counterpart you had watched the death-lilm gather—never saw that sunny little lace overshadowed wilh griel when other childern gleefully called "Papa'1'' nor ever heard (lie wail of a little one, who might never remember its father's facel

No! no!—or you have never turned sliuderingly away in the crowded streets, from the outline of a form, or the cust of a face, or the tone of a voice, that brought the dead mockingly before you!— never lain upon a sick bed, among careless strangers, lacking comforts where luxury once abounded, and listening in vain for lhat foolfall, whose lightest tread could charm your pain away!—never dropped from your aching sight the pictured lineaments, that quickened bu«y and torturing memory, till your heart was broaking!—never waked Irom a dream ol Paradise, lo w*0p unavailing, bitter tears at the sad reality!—and never (alas!) beniyour rebellious knee at God's altar, when your tongue was dumb to praise Him and your iips refused to kiss the Smiter's rodl

Oh no no!—Better never to have lovedI—Ten fold more gloomy, is the murky day, whose sunny morning was usheied in with dazzling, golden brightness! Agonising is ihe death struggle of the shipwrecked mariner who perishes in sight of shore and home! Harshly fall earless words, upon the ear trained to the music of a loving voice! Wearily stumble the lender feet unguarded by love's watchful eye! Oh no no! better never lo have loved!—He. whose first breath was drawn in a dungeon never pines lor green fields, and blue skies, and a freer air!—God pity the desolate, loving heart, ihe only star of whose sky has gone out in utter darkness!

FANNY PERM.

Tbe Happy Home.

If every married couple could appreciate ihe mofal in the following anecdote told by the Rev. Mr. Wise, and if the principle involved in this sketch, could be acted on 'from the start,' how much less ol suffering and dissppoiulmenl would exist, in hytnetiial relations I We commend this valuable hint to iiie aucuuon of those whom it may concern: "4"

The first year after marriage is a most impor iant era in the history of man and wife. Generally, as it is vpenl, so is almost all subsequent exist ence. Tbe wife and the husband then assimilate their views and their desires, or else, conjuring up their prejudices and animosity forever afterwards "1 have sumewhere read," says Mr. YVi»e, in his Bridal Greetings, "of a bridegroom who gloried iu his eccentricities. He requested his bride to accompany him into his garden, a day or two after their wedding. He then threw a line over the roof of his cottage.

Giring his wife one end of it, he retreated to the other, and exclaimed ••Pull tbe line."

She pulled it, at Bts request, as fiV i* she could. He oried, "Pull it over." ••1 can't," aba replied a "Bui pull with all your might," shouted the whimsical husband#

But vain were all the efforts of the wife to pull over the line, so long aa her husband beld bold of ibe opposite end. Bat when he came foond, and tbey both pulled at one end, it came over with great ease. "There!" said be, ss the line felt from tbe roof, "yoa see bow bard and ineffectual was our labor, when we palled io opposition to each other but bow easy and pleasant it was when we both pulled together. It will be so wilh us. tbroughJife! if we oppose each other, if will be hard work if we act togather it will be pleasant to hve, let as always pull together."

In this illustration, homely as it may be, there is soood pftHosopbgr. Htfeband and wife must mutually bear and concede, If tbey wish lo make their home a retreat of joy and bliss. One alone cannor make boaM happy. There OHM! be anion of actioo, sweetness of spixit. and great forbearance and love in both husband and ^fe to secure ibe great emi of hapmeas io tbe domestic circle.

Webster's advice to ayouog friend is full of truth add meaning. Said bo—"there is no whig party left it is broken op entirely, if yoa wish to be any body, be a democrat."—Lo*. dWn/

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S An.Englishman?* Opinioa of the Yankee, Next come the peoplb. hM us soc one of one feels so anxious to see the •monarchs' at hom% -—the ftfifamed Johnathan—he of reform—the rifle—and republic—the cool, shrewd vigorous, large souled, indomiiable citizen! Hte that is so criticised, admired and feared by ail classes in Europe well here they are. the real, living Yant kers, at home. And business—and. aa io houses of business let me say that he who walks along Broadway, may see one of the finest- trading es--tabftshments in the world, a literal marble prince,, devoted to.commerce and if he turns iuto the lower part nf the city whero the ^l.olosale merchants •most do congregate,' he will conclude that London lias a rival Bnd will, within a century, have a. superior, and one looking on this great city and people is prompted to pauso and atialize the peculiarities of mind that compose the American. Vising with the Parisian in dress—-the Englishman in energy-—cautious as a Dutchman, inquistive as an Irishman—patriotic as Tell—bravo as Wallace— cool as Wellington—and royal as Alexander there he goes—the American citizen! In answering your questions, or speaking commonly, his style Is that of the ancient Spartan. but.put him on a stump, nith an audience of whigs, democrats, or barnburners, and he becomcs a compound of Tom Cribb and Demosihencs, a fountain of eloquence, passion, sentiment, sarcasm, logic, anlr drollery, altogether different from, anythig known or imagined in the Old World States. Say anything ol anybody [as public men] united with conventional phraseology, ho swings his rhetorical mace» with a vigorous arm, crustling the antagonistic principle or person into a most villainous compound. See him al dinner, be despatches his meal wiili a speed wl.ich beads, you to stipptue him a ruminating animal, yet enjoying his cigaretto for an hour afterwards with the gusto aud LXNUI of a Spaniard.

Walking right on as if it wero life against timd with tho g-ass al fever heat yet taking it cool ir the most serious and pressing matter, a compound nf the Red Man, Bronvmel and Franklin—statesman and laborer, oil he goes, divided and subdivided in politics and religion-professionally opposed with a keenness ot competition in vain looked for even in England yet, let tho national right oj liberty bu threatened, and that vast natioo stands a pyramid of resolve, united as one man, with heart, head,! hand and purse, burning with a Roman zeal tode 'end inviolate ihe caiiae of tho commonwealth.—• Casry's Unc'c Sam's farm.*

IWiinmcvipt Sermons SirppfietT.

lu England somo persons ore constantly employed in writing sermons lo sell to clergymen. Thn following advertisement appeared in a lato number of the John Bull: "Many young ministers, from press of parochial business, and Irom inexperience in 'composition, being sometimes obligcii. very much against their inclination und to the serious injury of their ministry, to copy sermons from books, tho advertiser, an experienced clergyman, engages to supply origal sern.ons of good composition, of decidedly Evangelical doctrine, and of practical application, on receipt of half a sovereign—2.50—each. Persons requiring sermons may chose their own texts, and need not dicclose their names, as the sermons can be directed lo a fictitious signature, at any* post office they are r.-q«tired to be sent to!"

The Rev Mr. Rilfiwr says that a sign was placed over the door of a building in England, with ihe following words—"Sermons unprcachcd for sale here."

V.Amno.mf» NBWSIMPERS—Our files of paper* from San Francisco received this morning, (says the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser, of Oo:., 13th,) are of various hues— tlwr majority being dirty browtv, but others of gayer colours, pink, orange, grceff, huff. &c. There appears to be a great scarcity of priming paper iu California, and wrapping pnper or such other substitute as can be procured is necessarily used. The San Pranclseo Journal says:

The papers from tho interior come lo us varied in hue as was Joseph's coat. The Shasta Courier is grizzly grey the Mountain Echo, slightly sunburned} ihe Marysville papers, one of them a bright, (he other a dingy brown, the State Journal of Sacramento, is dark, stiff and heavy, but the Sacramento Union continues lo reach us on £ood while paper, manufactured of four sheets ol paper, tho size of ordinary foolscap, pasted logeiher an evidence, we take it. of decided enterprise. All of" them together, however, contain no groat amount of news.

A Wicircfr Wiatt.—'Joe,' a correspondent of the Boslon Post wishes the following: Would mine enemy wero a ilonkoy,

And would I wtre his driverl u. Whether he wont slow or fast* jr 1 wouldn't care a stiver But if the chsp perchance should tup

To be a nimble goer. A sturdy score of blows or more Would toach htm lo go slower. 13ut if loo slow the bea»t should go,

To please his Christian master. Foil many a whsck upon his back Would teach him to go faster. And thus you see 'iis plsin to tfte.

If fast or slow his jogging. That soon or late, ss sure as fate* Jle'd get a precious Hogging

BLOOMERistf—A WeMern editor says li«^ is in favor of short dresses, on ihe ground that he has not much time to sperfd with tha ladies, and thareiufe, while with them, he wishes to see as much of them as ho can with propriety.' yv

A young man came to bin death a lew evening** since in a very eingalaf manner. It appears from

the coroners inquest lhat he wore a stand-op collar, starched so stiff that in turning round suddenly to gsze at a young lady, it Cut his throat—it did. Verdict accordingly- IV 1 1 -i

Tfie Bo (TV Jo Advertiser ha« this cMcrltenf ytfro: •In (he announcement of a trot at Cambridge, the bill was headed, Montes and Ostiin Dodge io harness!' It is not stated whether they are lo go singly, tsndem style, or abreast, if L-la wn» matched, the nsgs would make a pretty team any

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A young woman named Straw stepped into ti doctor's office in Lafayette, (la.) on Thursday, and seating herself in a cl?air, asked tor some medicine. Before the doctor cotf 14 attend taher request, tbe sank down oq the floor-Hieadf

P«I*Tsa*s TOASTS.—'• The frets'*—It expres* aes troth, re-presses error---im-preasea knowjedge, and op-presses none.

Tfoaiaa—When tras to the mora! and virtuous press, is tbe fairest work, ami the best worker i» creation. l?a&rVs.—Miniature edition* of humanity, issued 1 periodically, and displayed in- "small caps,"

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