Terre-Haute Journal, Volume 5, Number 23, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 March 1853 — Page 1

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TIIE TERRE-H AUTE JOURNAL* ii rairren a*o rususHEo mreav nuosv ar WILLIAM MOORE AND WM. E. McLEAN

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Veto Message of Gov. Wright,

On returning to the Satiate tha Bill propoaiag a Relocation of the County Seat of Clay county.

Gentlemen of the House of Repre$entalivci I return (he bill of your House No. 48 entitled "an act to authorize the reloca* tion of the seat of justice of Clay, and to authorize the receiving of subscriptions and donations for the crection oi public buildings in said county," without my approval, with a brief statement of the reasons which influenced me to withhold my signature.

This is a special law—it is a local law, designed to operate only in the county of Clay. It will not efTector operate upon the people of any other county tlere%e it is not uniform or general.

The 22d section of article 4 of the constitution, enumerates certain subjects upon which (he General Assembly shall not pass local or special laws and the 23d section of the same article, immediately, following, provides as follows: ••In all cases enumerated in the preceding section, and in all other cases where a general law can be made applicable, all laws shall be general and of uniform operation throughout the State.'

The question arises, what class ol casei comes within the meaning of this section? It was evidently designed for some purpose. li it is not applicable lo questions growing out of the location and re-locatioti of coumy seals—if it were not intended to meet the numerous class of cases which necessarily arise in connection with county business. I am at a loss to determine iho object in view by the Cramers of the constitution.

The position assumed, that the constitutional convention did not intend to embrace the removal* of county scuts in prohibitions on local legislation, bocuuse the sulject is riot among the enumerated oases, can only be mantained by further inferring that no meaning was intended to be expressed in ilif 23d section. If it means anything at all, it can only be applied to cases not enumerated. The enumerated cases are prohibited in the '-.2d section and if the assumption can be maintained that, because a subject is not prohibited by tho special enumeration of the 23d section, it is therefore to be presumed lo be without the meaning of the 23d section, il would be difficult to give ar.y force, or affirm any meaning, to the latter auction. Il oil subjeets not enumerated in the 22d section are left open to special and local legislation, it is veay clcar that the 23d Kfciioti would be alike without meaning or use in tha consttiutlou. Il it is admitted thai the 23d section id not a nullity, as the inference attempted to be drawn would make it, tne whole question would aecin to lurn upon the meaning "f the word "applicable." The word is defined by Webster—"thai may be applied—fit to be applied." Can a general law bo framed that "maybe applied" to the removal of the county soat of Clay county? And has the Legislature ihe power to pass such a law? If these queslions he answered in the allirmative, there

be, it seems, but one conclusion as to the constitutionality of the law under consideration. It would be clearly within the prohibition of ihe 23d section.

The usual course by which county seats have been located and re-located heretofore has been by designating by the Legislature certain learned commissioners, who have been vested with power to make such location or re location. In acting upon such questions tho General Assembly have always sought to be governed by the wishes of the people of the county expressed by petition. These precedents would seem to |oiut out the features of a general law.

Frst. That tho will of majority of the people of county should be expressed by petition.

Second.

When that will was ^uiressed

in favor of a re-location, that compRisioners ahould appointed: And who, would ask, so competent to select those commmissioners as the people of the county interested! A general law that should provide that, on the petition of a majority. of the voters of any county, the Governor, or other officer named, should order election to be held for the purpose of electing a oertain number of commissioners with certain restricted powers, as to the relocation of county seats, would,-it is submitted, be 'applicable" to every county in the Slate. In its application to Clay county, il would only diner from the local sot under consideration in providing for an election by the people of the county, of .th» commissioners instead of their appointment by the legislaed thai ture. not be contend*

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this slight difference would make the general law applicable to Clay county. In this bill there ts no provision by which the people of tho county of City, may, effectually express their sentiments, or views, as to the proper place for their county seat. The power to determine this is given, absolutely to the Cowmissfcwcrs named. By a provision of a general lew, the people, in electing the commissioners, might express their choice as to the place, and other incidents of the location and hence, a selection made under the provisions of a general law would he likely to give satisfaction, as any that could he made by commissioners Appointed by the legislature. iunay be said, aad, indeed has been, (bettor Various reasons not here stated, swob ft law is not Ukely to be enacted. Without expressing any opinion as to the question, 1 would ask it it» meaat by this, to assert the principle, whoreitha legislature refuse® to pass a general mw, local legislation would, for that reason, be legitimate! But it ts contended that a general law to be "applicable must be "in witlt Kb* true interests of the the peowe:" and the inference trawn from this •hen ihe provisijrtw

would be "in consonance with the true interests*' of the people of one county, whije they might effect adversely the interests of people of other counties, that therefore no general law could be made applicable: and, consequently local legislation ought to be resorted to. This is but saying in other words, that because the majority of the legis lature may deem ajgeneral law inexpedient, and refuse to pass it, that the same aw may be constitutionally enacted to be in forbe in a single county the people of which considdering it "in consonance with their interests."

There are but few general laws of tho Stste that meet with universal approbation and there are many of these ihat bear hardly upon the interests of certain sections.— The mercantile counties demand a higher rate of interest to be allowed,, and it in possibly to their advantage that it should be so. Agricultural counties find their true interests in keeping the rale of interest at the present standard. Would this diversity of interest authorizes different law for each county in the Slate? Or does it render the present general law inapplicable? It is true that the subject of interest is among the enumerated cases but I submit the analogy, upon the supposition that the £3d section was the only one governing the example.

Among the numerated subjects of the 23d section is "county business." Suppose it had net been so enumerated, would not the same argument have proved that owing to the divers interests of the people of the several counties, no general law could be made "applicable" on that subject? But ihe prohibition, as to "county business," is made positive and therefore we would have the Constitution requiring of the legis lature the passage the passage of a genera] law upon the subject of "county business where, according to thejreasoning of some, the general law couldndtbemade apalicable.

The subject of "fees anc'l salaries," a motig those enumerated, presents a still stronger case. The same rate of fees which makes an office lucrative in a large country affords the roost meager compensation in one more sparsely populated. Shall we say therefore, that a general law oanaol be made applicable to tho subject of "fees aad salaries?"

Hut lei us take a case not among the enumerated subjects. The people of the prairie counties of the north find it to their interest to prohibit the running at large of slock, during the months in which grain is in the field. Such a law enables them to dispense with fences in a country where fences ennnot be made without great expense. Hut, on the other hand, a large ma jority ol ihe people of the States would find such a fow not "in cot^sonance with their interests." Has the Legislature a right to pass a local law on the subject? If they have, then the $3J section, is indeed a nul»y: and every subject not tpeolally enumerated in the 2d section, is open to local legislation.

It is further said that the removal of a county scat, is a legislative act, when performed by the commissioners of the county. It is difficult to perceive why it is not equally a legislative act when executed by certain commissioners named in the law under consideration and if the Legislature cannot delegate that power lo the county commissioner, such a delegation is equally void with respect to the commissioners named in the act refered to.

There is now pending before the House of Representatives a general law providing for the rernoveal of county seats. It is presumed, that if suoh a law is enaoted. it will be with all proper guards and checks, to prevent useless agitation of such questions, and to ensure a faithful execution of tho wishes of the people of each county, with regard to their county seats. Suppose that bill should become a law, will it not be applicable to the county of Clay? And will not its enactment to be an unanswerable argument to prove the unconstitionality of the local act under consideration To admit that the act under consideration would be unconstitutional if the general bill should become a law, and yet contend that it would be valid in the absence of a general law, is to make the Constitution itself dependent for lis meaning upon the action of the Legislature, and that too, in the construction of the very section designed to limit and restrict legislative powers.

During the last session of the General Assembly, the court-house at Bowlinggreen, Clay county, was destroyod by fire, and all the public records. The Senate passed a special act for the purpose of re-instating the records perpetuating testimony, &c. The House struck it out from the enacting clause, and inserted a general law, to meet all such case?. The bill thus amendded became a law and isnow in force. Subsequently the court house of Franklin county was destroyed, with its records. Both of these cases have been promptly met and remedied, so far as I have heard, by the general law. We have thus been saved the expense and labor incident to special legislation and ageneral law is provided, uniform in its operation, to meet all cases that may arise by the destruction ofits public records. Thus is furnished an il tration oft he application of general law to a case which was supposed to be relievable ol* ly by snecial legislation.

It will take time to perfect our laws. It is not the work of a day, or a year, to make a uniform code—one that shall be adapted to all wantta and exigencies of a people who. have lived for more than a third of a century under a system of local and special legistlation. The great beauty of our new Constitution. however, is found in the fact that wa now bring the ability, wants and energies ot our people* all to bear, and to have their full force* in perfecting a uniform taw for the people of the Skate.

If the Cre&erai Assembly shall pass a general law on this subject* that does not protect the rights of the different counties —which does not give them a fair opportunity to hare their will carried out in relation to county acat»™ time, as aa element that enters into everything valuable, wilt soon appJy tike remedy by general legislation.— It is for batter to suffer mbm temporary inco&venieoce, than to go back to that system of local and special legislation which bad w«£i nigh made our laws the mere local opinio** of the different townships and

tri»mt poaiiion tv, that counties, in place ol ihe combined wisdom of a particular law I of a great people.

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"We have heretofore suffered in our finances and character, by local and special legislation I had hoped that such a construction would be given to the Constitution as was, undoubtedly, intended by its framers, and as 1 think its spirit and words mean— that, in the future, we ahould be able, at least to present a code of uniform laws on the subject of county business.

We are, doubtless, departing from uniform and general laws in many cases and it is possible that this is one where it is constitutional to do so.

But I feel, on this occasion, after the consideration given to the subject, that it is my imperative duly to ask the repreaentalives of the people to reconsider this measure. In this determination I am greatly strengthened by the fact that at the first session of the General Assembly under the new Constitution, the Judicary committees of both Houses, composed of the ablest men of the State, (many of whom were in the Convention that adopted the constitution,) and the only Judicary committee to whom this subject has been referred at this session, have all decided against the consti tutionality of this bill.

The subject is most respectfully submit ted to your reconsideration. Feb. 22 '63. JOSEPH A. WRIGHT.

A SONG FOR THE SEASON.. SV

NEW COMB.

Sprinkle, drizzle, pour, Sputter, spatter, roar

The gutters are full, and the sky is dull: The clouds look down, wlthaaullen frown, Ou the tllamat street* of the dismal towu

Drip-dripping ever more.

Sprinkle, drizzle, pour. Sputter, spatter, roar:

Cross the street, aitd a child you meet. Sad and forlorn, tattered and torn, Who sweeps for a penny from early dawn,

Sweeping evermore.

Sprinkle, drizzle, potar, Sputter,, sputter, roar:

And up Broadway, the livelong day, Umbrellas teeuis, a ceaseless stream, Greon and blue, and every hue,

Mingling evermore.

Sprinkle, drizzle, pour, Sputter, spatter, roar:

Phizes look *our, and foreheads lower Elbow and push, jostle and rush, For thus It is meet, in the crowdod street, Full of umbrellas and blundering foot,

Striving evermore.

Sprinkle, drizzle, pour, Sputter, spatter, roar

But ye bring no gloom lo the rich man's homey Ye rains that pour and ye wind« that roar, Reund the windows close and well-barred door,

Murmuring evermore.

Sprinkle, drizzle, pour, Sputtor, spatter, roar

The winds may howl and the gusts may growl, But hearts are light, and faces bright. Where the ruddy fire still blazes higher,

Crackling evermore.

Spriukle, drizzle, pour, Sputter, spatter, roar:

Wre a dismal twain, ye wind and rain, When in the chilly night, ye briug affright, To the hovel old, und garret cold,

Leaking evermore.

Sprinkle, drizzle, pour, Sputter, spatter, roar:

Shutters creak, and hiuges shriek, In spirit tones, unearthly moans, And the rickety house together groans,

Rattling evermore.

Sprinkle, drizzle, pour, Sputter, spatter, roar:

And ye start from sleep and slumber deep The weary bones that have paced the stones, Crying the news in clarHou tones,

All the city o'er.

Sprinkle, drizzle, pour, Sputter, spatter, roar:

Rage and rattle iu wiudy battle. Groan and howl, wh|stie aud growl, But do it by night, let the day be bright,

Rainiug evermore.

FEMALE RESOLUTION. No! 1 will never see him more, Siuce thus he Mkes to roam, And when his cab stops at the doDf,

I'll never see htm more!

»V«"

John, say—I'm not at home! lie smiled last night when Julia smiled, (They must have met before ,,5 If thus by her he i» beguiled,

I'll sink no more the sengs ho loved,' Nor play the waltzes o'er Nor wear the colours he approved,

I'll never please him more! I'll conquer aoon love's foolish flame, As thousands have befote, Look strange whene'er I hear his aame,"'

Aad ne'er pronounce it more!

The plait of hair I most resign, That nest my heart I wore He, too, most yield that tress of mine

He stole when truth he swore! The miniature I used to trace, And feel romantic o'er, I'll tear from Its taorooeo ease,

Aud—cover kiss it mere!

This ring—his gfift—I mast return, (It raaa«s my linger sore Then there's hia tetters—those I'll burn,

And trample oa the floor! ,* lib son net, that my album graced, (My lean thwt Mot it o'er

The kavea togetlier thus III peris, ,. Aad tte'er behold it mote!

I'll waltz a»d fiirt with Saaign G—«S (Though voted eft a here!) $Js la short, I'll show my heart is free,

Aud sigh for him ao more! If wa should aMtt, Us eyeehall sfcriak, My ecorafal gtausea before Geda! that's hia knock! hare, John! I think 'i I'll see him _/**—-oace morel

IX TV A finds a fertile field for hia inveterate wit, la tberaeeat "flare-up" between

t*e«weiaean

•f Stafford Hosae, aad their "dear sister*" ea this «id» the AHasiUe 'grewley e«t of the tTade Tom, »r 3iav«ryafitatioa.

Hum, ia his test aaaa-

her, he pete tale die meeth of &e Docbeaa of SatiieHaad, a peette nanwwtrawoe, of which tlUs veras is a msdiam «emt

It 1«t ums KU. daaglkters, wi •mHMtafsfat war etfiaa, stoes,

wtvea, aad saethsre, hew It racks,

tlal yoerewas, Sh*aM eehadty their htacka! Oh!

h! we

apeitiik with hearts all

AS with lave aad pity reatt Bat why desft yea, SWsea dearest. Make year relatives lefeistt Tfcaa ceewe a Iraawathattr wf iliihr

st rat* ujmss imamA.

est base etevea Ear Tint la Ifeewaee ate Whe «e letter kaew, asr ««awi

Victeas, deatitat*,aaddra»k Have these taagfat te read their Aad repeat their A C,

Mar this thaa writiag tHiels Oit tha Katies ef the Free.

Still

Ths Old Man and the Pirate.

A THRllLlSG SKETCH!

Early io the month of August, 1811, a good size brig started from Boston, bound for New Orleans. On board, there was an old man named Adam Writ, seeking an only son. who he had learned, was somewhere on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Adam W was wealthy, but far four years he had been alone to dwell among its glitter. When the old man had taken a second wife to his home, his son Landon stepped from, his father's roof, and swore that so long as his stepmother lived, he would not cross its threshold again. That second wife was now dead, and feeling *ad in his loneliness, the old man resolved to seek his child.

The bri£ had good weather, and for sev eral days nothing h&d occurred to break the monotony of the voyage but at length one of the look-outs reported a sail to the southward and eastward. The wind was from the east, and the brig had it slightly abaft the beam, as her course lay southwest. Capt. Pool brought his glass 'from the cabin snd after gazing

the ranges ior some ten

minutes, made her out to be a schooner stsnding out directly towards them. 'Where do you think she's bound? asked Adam Writ, as he heard (he captain's report. •Couldn't say yet,' replied the captain, again leveling his glass at the stranger, '1 can tell you belter after watching her a spell.'

Fifteen minutes pissed, and at the ehd of that time Capt. Pool lowered his glass, and while a slight tremor-shook his frame he said: 'That schooner is falling off.' 'And what of that?' asked the old man, who had failed to notice the captain's manner. •What of it? why simply that the fellow is bound for (his brig.'

Wants to speak to us, 1 suppose,' said Writ. Very likely,' returned the Captain, as he turned aloft and again turning to the old man, heconitnued—'You need be under no needless alarm, sir but in all probability that schooner is a pirate.'

A pirate,' reiterated Writ, while his face assumed a livid hue. 'Then what in heaven's name shall we dot'

We shall have to make tbo best of it for of two things we may rest assured—we can neither run away from him nor fight him.— Look, his deck is crowded with men.'

The brig's crew had by this time become aware of the schooner and, as may be supposed they fell anything but comfortable under the conviction thus arrived at. .The brig was heavily loaded, and at best she was but an unpromising sailor while ihe schooner with the wind full upon her Quarter, came dashing along at a furious rate. A consul aticn was held upon the quarter deck and it was at lengtlt agreed upon that the brig should be kept on her course, fetid if ordered by the pilot to heave to, they would do so at once and offer no resistance, which, if offered at all, could only render their situation worse.

In an hour and a half the pirate had come up to within a mile, and fired a gun to wind ward, and in a few minutes afterwards the brig was lying with her main topsail to the mast. The crew watched the schooner as she began to round to, and though they could not repress an instinctive dread, yet they fell confident that no violence would be used so long as they offered no resistace nor in this were they disappointed, for as the schooner ranged along side and the pirates began to flock on board, no signrs of murderous intent were manifested.

The pirate Captain was the first to board the brig. Ho was a young man in the p.ime of life and next to follow him was a (air haired handsome youth, who seemed to hang upon his commander's steps with a strange mixture of devotion and fear. 'Do you command this vessel?* asked the pirate leader, of Capt. Poole.^ •Yes sir,' replied Poole'. **Then of course you-will have no objections to my overhauling your cargo, sir,' said the pirate with a smile, 'for you have some articles to which 1 may take a fancy,' •If I am not mistaken,' returned Captain Poole, 'you will need no permission from me, as I am unable to resist.' •You show your good judgment at least and if you lead the way, 1 wilUake a look at your cabin first.'

As the pirate Captain spoke, he turnea to the corbpanion way, and was just on the point of starting for the cabin, when his eye caught the eyit of Adam Writ, and at ihe sight be started back as though he had seen a spirit from the other world. Hie old man, too, seemed equally startled, for as he gas* ed in the face of the pirate, a fearful tremor shook his whole frame, and he grasped for breath the buccaneer gased into the working features before him, and then stepping forward and laying his hand tremblingly on the old. man's arm said— •Tell me, old man, from whence you came —tell what mame you bear! 'Men call me Adam Writ,' replied {be old man, half recoiling from the touch that rested on him. 'Great God, my lather!* broke from the pirate captain's lips, and he would hate fallen upon the old man's bosom bad ba not put forth bis bands, as to keep him off. •Thy lather,' repeated old Writ, moving back from where be stood' 'ao, no, 1 am not thy fittber. O God, once thou migbtest have been my boy once I gazed with a parent's pride upon thy features, and once I called the son! Bui—O bearens! is this a dream! My boy a pirate!' •Father,' still urged the pirate, following with «)ow step the old man's backward movement, 'own me as your son aad you shall •No! away, bloodthirsty man, I know thee, not. O God! aad is it thus 1 bare fott&i boy!,' •Lisum to me one moment, my fether,*— fTrlsiinw* the pirate chie£ in a toba and maafcer little in keeping with bts voMOoa.— •Tbetse bands are not staioad with a drop of blood* save where tha flag oi England baa waved, have not tffl the present time intradsd any deck bot my owa. How now* thoojghl have gold in my lockem, 1 am ia want of bread yet 1 will leave you aad go ia pttaca. You shaS receive ao further trouble from ate/

-HAUTE, INDIAN AT FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1853.

The old man covered his face with his hands snd the deepest agony dwelt in his bosom, anT while he thus stood, the pirate captain ordered his men to return to their vessel. The gallant youth who had followed bis ohief on board the brig, at this moment approached the spot where Adam Writ stood and clasping both the old man's hands in his own, he saM—• •Oh, air, if you are the man's father, speak to him one kind word. Smile upon him and own hi in as your son. One word from you may reclaim him from Jtjljiis, errors.' 'Boy,' uttered the aid man, as he gazed upon the pure and heavenly features that were turned so earnestly toward him. 'you know not what yon ask. 1 have left my home in search of my son, but such as 1 find him. I will never own him. Back again will I go, and alone will I travel my weary way through life.' *0. sir, think once more!' urged the youth seeming to hang every hope upon the result of his plea. 'One fond ereeting from bis father may yet reclaim him. Speak it, O sdeak it?* •Never, never.' uttered Adam Writ, as he pushed (he suppliant from him. •Then the duty must still rest with me,' sadly murmered the youth, as he turned away from the spot. 'The father may cast him off. but I cannot. •Frank,' at this moment exclaimed the pirate captain, 'come here. The grapplings are already cast off and we must away. Not a thing here have I molested, and I shall leave with a light heart. Come.'

As the pirate chieftain spoke, the youth followed him quickly on board the schooner. and in a few minutes afterwards the brig was again on her way unmolested..

Old Adam Writ returned lo his home in Boston, but that hpme was darker and tnore gloomy than ever. He had left iu search of his son—he had found that son but he had left him chief in command beneath a rover's flag. But gradually, like some dim spirit arising from ihe cloudy mists of conscience, arose the earnest appeals of that son, and also the prayers of that gentle youth who had urged a father's pardon for him. In the secret reoess of his heart he could but feel that he might have saved his boy. The continued memory of the scene on the deck of the brig softened his heart, but the feeling only made him more miserable.

The morning ofthu 26th of August, 1812, dawned upon the city.Boston, and ere the sun went down on that day, ten thousand hearts were filled wite joy and national pride. On that memorable day the United Stutes frigate Constitution, under the command of brave Hull, entered the harbor of Boston, after her glorious victory over the frigate CSuerriere. The, wharves and adacent streets were crowded with enthusiastic people, and as the battle scarred heroes walked up from the landing,they were every where hailed with the loudest acclamations of thanks and joy.

Not far from the landing to which the first boat from the victorious frigate wus hauled up, stood old Adam Writ, lie had heard of the ships arrival, and with his American heart overrunning with patriotic impulses, he had dragged his feeble steps down to bestow his meed of praise upon his country's heroes. One after another of the officers passed by, and while old Adam was swinging his hat in the air he felt a light touch upon his arm, and as he turned, his eye rested upon the fair youth of the pirate schoonor. •Ha! what would you with me?' uttered the old man. slightly trembling at the memory thus started up.

Loolt! look!—there sir!' said tho youth in on an earnest tone and manner, at the same time pointing to a party of seamen who were coming up. 'See that wonderful man, who halts in his walk. Do you hear the shouts that greets him? A braver heart or more effective arm was not to be found on the decks of our frigate. He fought bravely for his country, and he sealed his devotion with his blood.'

Adam Writ stopped not to hear more, for in the person of the patriot thus pointed out to him he recognized his own son, and springing quickly forward, he caught the wounded seaman in his arm*.

Those who stood around saw this meeting, and they knew that the aged father was bles&ing his own son. Louder swelled the shouts of joy, and many a parent wisned that such a pleasure might be his. None, save the sged father and the gentle youth knew of the stain that once blotted the sailor's name, and in their bosoms all the erring fiat was forgotten, all forgiven—for on the altar of his country's liberty he had offered atonement for hi* crime—-and bad thrown off all shackles but those of love, vir: tue and honor, jd j# 'And now, my son, that all is forgotten, tell roe whence came your noble relolves?' said old Writ,as he sal in his .otra^dwelling with his only son by his side. •Wait one momeut,' returned the young man, while a peculiar expre^ion rested on bis countenance. 'Wait 4iU ihe faithful companion of my

As tha sailor

wayward days comes

back to tss.* •You mean Uie youth *Ab! beresbe cornea-—day friend, my savior/my angel of merc/H

tared tha room. happy light, aad a ated bar features from bis chair and after unj«in brow of the er sod said—^ •Father he^e is the being who awed your son to virtueVwy own dear »tf«.' •'Ydur w*f$F tjacolated lite Uw oft man starting from l»s chair and g«ang #aroe«sly upoo the beautiful features. 'Surely have seen that facp before.' •Yes fallKfer,' said the female laying hm tail aaoti the old maa'a •boulder, nod gazing dSbetioaately lato bis face, oace for your son on the deck of the brig. Then 1 was the firat to point to you as bis country's devoted

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you and the (air hatred youth are

*k*Y«f»d»er,' said the sou, '*he is indeed the sami* With love and devotion that knows Btteoeting, this geatk being hat fol-

lowed me through the varied scenes of the Isst six years, and ever striven to make tn«» what 1 am God bless her.*

Old Adam Writ vas happy and for many years be lived to enjoy the sweet nomp*nion^hip of his son's fair wile—,while that son. with a fervent devotion, fought bravely For his country, till peace one more spread her bright mantle over the homes of America.

If A Thrilling AdventureA merchant wishing to celebrate his daughter's wedding, collected a party of her young companions they circled around her, wishing much happiness to the youthful bride aud her cho«en one. H*r father gazed proudly on his favored child, and hoped that as bright prospects for the future might open for the rest of his children who were playing among the guests.

Passing through he hail of he basement, he met a servant who was earning a lighted candle in her hand without the candlestick. He blamed her for such conduct, and went into the kitchen to see about the supper. The girl soon returuad bm with out the candle. The merchant recollected that several barrels of gunpowder had been placed in the cellar during the day, and that one had been opened. 'Where is your candle?" he inquired in Ihe utmost alarm. •1 couldn't bring it up with me, for my arms are full of wood,' said the girl. •Where did yeu put it?' •Well, I'd no cm\dle%t\ck, so I stuck it in some black sand that's in tho saud bar re!.'

Iler master dashed down the stairs ihe passage was lung and dark—his knees threatened to give way under him—his broath was choked—his flesh semecd dry and parched, as if he already felt (he sufTUcati.ig blast of death. At the end of the cellar under the very room where his children and their frieuds were revelling in fnliuity. he saw the open barrel of powder, full at the top the candle stuck loosely in the grains, with a long red snuff of burnt wick. This sight seemed to wither all his powers. The laughter of the company struck his car like a knell of doath. He stood a moment unable to move. The music commenced above the feet of the dancers responded with vivacity the floor shook, and the loose bottles in the cellar jingled with the motion.— lie fancied the candle moved—was ialiing With desperale energy he sprang forward— 'out how to remove it. The slightebt touch would cause the red hot wick to fall into tho powder. With unequaled presence of mind, he placed a haud on each side of the candle, pointed Rewards the object of his care, which as his hands met, was secured in the clasping of his fingers and safelv removed it away from its dangerous position. When ho reached the hoad of the stairs, hu smiled at his previous alarm—but the reaction was too powerful, and he full into

fits

the most violent laughter, lie was coveyed lo bed senselcs. and many weeks elapsed ere his nerves recovered sufficient tone to allow Itirn to'resume his business.

The Language of Lawyer*, If a man would according to law give lo another an orange instead of saying. 'I give you that orange,' which one would think would be called in legal phraseology, 'an absolute conveyance of the right and title therein,' the phrase would run thus *1 give you all and singular my estate and interest, right, title and claim, and advantage ot and in that orange, with all its rind, akin and juice, bulb, and pips, and all right and advantage '.herein, with full power to bite, cut, suck, or otherwise eat the same orange, or give the same away, with or without all its rind, skin, juice, pulp and pips, and all right and advantage therein, with full power to bite, cut, suckt or otherwise eat the same orange, or give the same away, with all its ruul, akin, juice, pulp and pips, anything heretofore, or hereinafter or in any oth^r deed deeds, instruments, of what nature or kind soever, to the contrary in anywise not withstanding and much more lothe same effect. Such is the common language of lawyers, and it is held by the learned tneu among them, that by the omission of any of these words the right to the same orange would not pass to the same person for whose use the ssme was intended.—Machine of Law Making.

Scsxe —A littrar^.-—A gentleman "deeply engaged in study, snd lady, pretending to knit, is get|itextiig him with her questions. Lady, (in the drawling and affectionate style)—Ma deah correctly speaking, whs: is a demist

Gent, (short, sharp, anJ rather cron.) £)cntist is derived from dent French, the Teeth. out

Dentist is a man who pulls teeth

Lady, (After knitting once round, in order to give the gent time to become emersed in his book again)—Ma deah you said this moaning that Professor Musty was a great linguist. Is not linguist derived from the Latin lingua, a tongue

Gent, (tartly.) Yes. Lady, well then is a lingum a mad who pulls tongues out 7

Gent, (very decided!)), No, madambut I wish io heaven he did 1 Exit lady in a huff

a lovely female en eyes sparkled with a it smile of joy irradi-

young maa sprang

caught her ia bis arms, a warm kiss upon the tag, be turned to bis folh-

Miawr ni una.

A Lsvobabui Norice.—We are indebted to the Wsrrenton (N. C.) News, for the following advertisement, which was posted up ia a tarvero while the legislature was in session. Mine host, it seems, was ao honest, well meaning fellow, who had conceived an idea that the members were the very salt of the earth, and had listened to the complaints of several of them relative to the doing of wilder character#, who did not belong to their fraterni'y. Here is the no* ike which be ported up in the most cOotjHc* nous place in the bouse: "Look Here!—The following rules of orjSb will hereafter be observed in this Hotel: iJlfoaibers of the Assembly will go to the table first, aad the geademeo afieggAtd*.

'Would you like to subscribe fof Dickens' Household Word*?' inquired a some

bre magazine agent. •Household Words* have played the •Dickeas' with me long enough!' was the retort.

Aa edtror wrtiting from Niagara, stays, that il costs a man a qusrter every time beJ turns rouad, aad four bits to go forward

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BT THE CBAS-LTX OF THS DCICBXJtK

T(M—"Ia adversity your lot) Don't fretp— Fortune's wheel k«*pa taroiug rouu.it £vi»ry spoke will r*Mit ths top,

Which like yon Is pting down— Dou't fr«t'.'»

Mr Bj lovex) Ft.ocx—As tho win Is ripple the surface of a lake, or a* the tea kittle singcth to the fire, so these words awaken the sediments of my eloquence, an 1 shake it like the contents of a phial of meh icine before being taken: and thoroughly imbued with a sense of its sublimity and truth. I rise before you lik* th-» ctsdar ot" Libauus, lo urge a few brwf truth* cpon your coaideration. .Mv hearers, there ha*e been useless tenrs shed, sufficient t» flat an ark load of elephants, each furnished with a double allowance of trunks and tin fire of ambition that slumbered in the bosom. has been utterly extinguished by repining, like a bl-uiksmith's f»g« in a nin storm, beneath a taaky rojfl A worthy colored member of my flock, an Uncle Tom in fact expecting th*t ha woul I get drunk, remarked that *p »r*everance t« the i'e th «t run machinery htul and it truo, for it" you have an object to accomplish, t*k4 ho! I as a snapping turtle seizes a yellow lvi* I bull frog hold fast like an inl'uti »le 1 bn'l dog at the muzzle of an unruly steer an I never let go, until you h.ivo rolled tho st.m* of" Difliculty to the .summit of the. hill ol Prosperi'y, and can look down up.in your former obscurity, as II ihin^on Crush's goats, when bowing upon tho mountuin*, cast their optics over the valley of Fernau-

If you woulJ see. perseverance pr.icticiillv illuslrnto.1. my hearers, you hive only walch the mud swallow boring ilito a »n Ibank, or a chipmuck exjavatin^ a subterranean passage for a depot of nuts and if you all had half energy of a blue tail spidera, your pocket books would burst with their moi.ied colcnt*. like newly boiled pi latoe* under Ihe charge of a skillful oook.

Wiiat il you aie poor? If you cnj»y gnl health is not creation yours? Can nun letter the perfume laden Mind, tir lock up tin crystal spring tint biingi gladness to ih all alike? Can he darw a veil over the d*/7.1 ing sun, or obscure the lambent iuo.m beams that give light to all Can he ro't \n of tho happinorfs good conscience briu^n. or qf ihe reward good actions nnril? N noverl Toil on and ye shall riss. for "tlie Gods help them who help themselves and though they may try your patience, by knocking down the pii.s you havo *.-t u,v\iih ore !.a ra.: .ibct tV.- rjvvarJ alway» ready in the other. It alwys darkest just bofore day break, and a tck-doii-key alwrys looks roughest jm bflor* In gets his new coat of hair and tli JS is f.»rlun? tested. lOver is she moving and it" v»u are really slighted by her. if you hi 1 Inr d.ifiance and tru»t to yourself, n!m will

Fortune is painted as a i.tuu by tin ancients and yet it would lie a gro*-» Iitn4 upon the sex lo institute a cmiyarHon. »r fo-tune's fhtkle, and every bo ly knows in a woman ain't! llowevor.my finuds. you'll find that if you defy fortune, she'll sinile—• r^j-jct her. and she'll empty her cornucopia into your lap lo work with a will, so an up a persevering, aud jou'r a* certain lo be rich aa a pig is to be a hog. if live* to grow up to maturity. You can no more be kept down by poverty, than Jonah W.H when he went into toe abya* of the whale stcmsch. And may jou all be prosperous and happy, my hearers, and as numerous as the bull-rushes that nod. 'heir boa as over the turbi Nile or as ie willows upj which the captive Israelites suspend their harps. Atid so be it forever. Aunn.

Nljfo* uf" a rru«4ero«»" Farmer, 1. When a farmcJMiseen marry ingy.'umg it allows that Provtdenoe helps those w.i help themselves, and that in future h:« t! have "helps" of more kin l« t!un one. 2. When lights are seen burning in his house before the break of day. in winter especially, it shows that tho day will nev^r break on his "breaking"'- in the win'er of adversity. 3 When you s*a his barn larger than his house, it ahows that he will have larg profits arid small afflictions. 4. When you see him driving his wor!t instead of his work driving him, it ithuwi that he will neve' be driven from good resolutions and that he will certainly work hu way to prosperity. 5 When you see in his house mrj lamps for burning lard or grease, than cao-'^ dlesticks for nure expensive purposes, it shows that economy is lighting his way happiness and plenty with that light which should enli^titeu every farmer iu tne world. 6. When you always see in hi*wod- 8 house a sufficiency for three days, if not mare, it shows that he will »t be re tluu a "ninety day wonder" iu farming operations, and that he is not sleeping in tlu housj after a drunken frolic. 7. When he has a small house separate from the main building, purposely for asite*, it shows that he never buiit bis dwelling to be a funeral pile for hi* family, aud perhaps himself. 8. When his ftefi Is boarde I ftui end out, it shows that he is "going Ihe whole h«g'" in keeping plenty inside his jijua^*, and poverty out. 3. Woeo his sled i-» fioused iti *u n:h"-r, and hi* farming implement* covered boili summer snd winter, it plainly abfjw* that h«*.|g will have good house over his iad in tho summer of bis life and the winter of hi* old sge. 10. When his cattle arc propedy ubielded and fed in winter, it evinces thai he is acting according to Scripture, which stjs that a merciful man is merciful to his beast-.. 11. When he is seen subscribing for newspapers, it shows that ha is *p j*ki.»g like a book reapeoUng U»6 latest improvements io agriculture.*n that ho will never get bis "walkiag"|»j||kjrs'' for the lt.il of poverty.

B«rrr»a--—HbifodelpfcU AiujrUu inyt tV» spaealatioaa Is Ibis arti«i%.caa*eJl briiHM aad others toheU oa tee long for a h( tho eeessqesaea ts that a reacttoe has awl great lesasa hire fees exfcrisacel.

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you like a whipped spaniel upon Iih mi-. tres», and lavish favors iinou yon at Ireelv as tho s'uiiik ea jd.ll\at» its ar^m u(.on the air.