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$HE POPULAR CREED.
BY CHARLES P. SHIBAS.
Dimes and dollars, dollars and dimes!
An empty pocket's the worst of crimes!
If a man is down, give him a thrust—
Trample the beggar into the dust!
Presumptious poverty's quite appalling—
Knock him over, and kick him for falling!
If a man is up, O, lift him higher!
Your soul's for sale, and he's the buyer!
Dimes and dollars—dollars and dimes!
An empty pocket's the worst of crimes.
I know a poor, but honest youth,
Whose hopes are built on a maiden's troth.
But the maiden will break her vows with ease,
For a wooer cometh whose claims are these
A hollow heartland an empty head,
His face well tinged with brandy red,
A soul well schooled in villainy's school—
And cash, sweet cash! he knoweta the rule:
Dimes and dollars—dollars and dimes!
An empty pocket's the worst of crimes.
I know of a bold and honest man,
Who strives to I've on the Christian plan,
But poor lie is arid poor will be,
A scorned and hated wretch is he
At home he meeteth a starving wife,
Abroad he leadeth a leper's life
Thy struggle against a fearful odds
Who will not bow to the people's goda.
Dimes and dollars—dollars and dimes!
An empty pocket's the worst of crimes.
So get ye wealth—no matter how!
"No questions asked" of the rich, I trow
Steal by night and steal by day,
(Doing it all in a legal waj*,)
Join the church and never forsake her,
Learn to cant and insult your Maker,
Be a hypocrite, liar, knave, and fool,
But don't be poor:jremember the rule.
Dimes and dollars—dollars and dimes!
An tmpty pocket's the worst of crimes.
FROM "NOBLE DEEDS OF WOMAN."
THE MILLER'S MAID.
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*^Oh! who would be a woman?—who that fool,
A weeping, pining, faithful, loving woman
She hath hard measures still where she hopes
kindest
And all her bounties only make ingratcs."
Love's Pilgrimage.
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the following, adventure
"One Sunday morning, the miller and
his family set out, as usual, to attend scr-
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at the nearest church, in the village
«f Heasel, leaving the mill, to which the
'dwelling-house was attached, in charge of
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the fare set before him. As he was
eating, he let fall his knife, which he
asked her to pick up for sheplay
_,. fully remonstrated, telling him she feared
jjtg from all she heard, he did little enough
N E A the hamlet of Udorf, on the
Rhine, not far from Bonn, there yet
stands the mill which was the scene of her post at the upper casement, determin
Servant-maid, Hanchen, a bold-heart-
eel girl, who had been some time in his
service. The youngest child, who was
still too little to go to church, remained
also under her care.
"As Hanchen was busily engaged in
preparing dinner for the family, she was
interupted by a visit from her admirer,
Heinrich Botteler. was an idle,
^graceless fellow, and her master, who
his character well, had forbidden
him the house but Hanchen could not
'believe all the stories she had heard against
her lover, and was sincerely attached to
him. On this occasion, she greeted him
kindly, and not only got him something
I to eat at once, but found time, in the midst
of her bussiness, to sit down and have a
gossip with him, while he did justice
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JANE Q. SWISSHELM, Speak unto the children of Israel that they go forward."—EXODUS,-Crup. xiv,
work, and ought at least to wait upon
himself. In the end, however, she stoop
ed down to pick up the knife, when the
treacherous villian drew a dagger from
under his coat, and caught her by the
nape of the neck, griping her throat
firmly with his fingers to prevent her
screaming then, with an oath, he desir
ed her to tell him where her master kept
his mouey, threatening to kill her if she
did not comply with his demand. The
surprised and terrified girl in vain atempt
ed to parley with him he still held her
tightly in his choking grasp, leaving her
no other choice but to die, Or betray her
master. She saw there was no hope of
softening him, or changing his purpose,
and, with the full conviction of his treach
ery, all her native courage woke in her
bosom. Affecting, however, to yield to
what was inevitable, she answered him, in
a resigned tone, that what must be, must
only, if he carried off her master's gold,
be must take her witJi him too, for she
could never stay to bear their suspicons
and reproaches entreating him, at the
same time, to relax his grasp of her throat,
ior she could hardly speak, much less do
what be bid her, while he held her so
tight. At length he was induced to quit
his hold, on Lor reminding him that he
must lose no time, or the family would
be returning from church. She then led
the way to her master's bed-room, and
showed him the coffer where he kept his
money. 'Here/ she said, reaching to him
an axe which lay in a corner of the room,
'you can open it with this, while I run up
stairs to put all my things together, be
sides the money I have saved since I
have been here/
"Completely decieved by her apparent f0
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"Retreating into the mill, she double
locked and bolted the door, the enly appa
rent entrance into the building, every
other means of obvious access being pre
vented by strong iron gratings fixed up
against all the windows,—and then took
cd to await patiently her master's return,
and her consequent delivery from that
dangerous position, or her own death, if,
indeed, inevitable for she was fully re
solved to enter into no terms, and that
nothing should induce her to give up her
master's property into the robbers' hands.
She had hardly had time to secure her
self in her retreat, when the ruffian,
his arms,
knife in one hand,
came up, and bid her open the door, or he
would break it down, adding many awful
oaths and threats to which her only
answer was, that she put her trust in God.
Heinrich, who from his window was wit
ness of this colloquy, now called out to
cut the child's throat before her eyes, if
she still persisted in her refusal. Poor
Hanchen's heart quailed at this horrible
threat for a moment her resolution fail
ed, but only for a moment. The death of
the child could be no gain to them, while
her own death was certain if she admitted
the assailant and her master, too, would
be robbed She had no reason, either,
to suppose that her compliance would save
the life of the child. I was to risk all
against nothing and she resolved to hold
out to the last, though the villian from
holding the screaming child in
and brandishing a
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without renewed his threats, saying, that
if she would not open the door to him, he
would kill the child, and then set fire to
the mill over her head. 'I put my trust
in God/ was still the poor girl's answer.
"In the mean while, the ruffian set
down the child for a moment, to look
about for combustibles to carry out his
threat in this search, he discovered a
mode of entering the mill unthought of
by Hanchen. I was a large aperature in
the wall, communicating with the great
wheel, and the other machinery of the
mill and it was a point entirely unpro
tected, for it had never been contemplated
that any one would seek to enter by so
dangerous an inJet. Triumphant at this
discovery, he returned to tie the hands
and feet of the poor child, to prevent its
escape, and then stole back to the apera
ture, by which he intem'lcd to effect an
entrance. The situation of the building
prevented Hanchen from sfleing anything
of this but a thought had meanwhile
struck her. It was Sunday, when the
mill was never at work. if therefore, the
sails were seen in motion, the whole neigh
borhood would know that something: unu
sual was the matter and her master,
especially, would hasten home to know
the meaning of anything no strange.
"Being all her life accustomed to the
machinery of the mill, it was the work-of
a moment to set it all in motion a brisk
breeze, which sprung up, at once set the
sails fiying. The arms of the huge engine
whirled round with fearful rapidity the
great wheel slowly revolved on its axle
the smaller gear turned, and creaked, and
groaned, according as the machinery came
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readiness enter into his plans, he allow
ed her to leave the room, only exhorting
her to be as quick as possible, and was
immediately absorbed in his own opera
tions, first opening the box, and then
disposing of the money about his person.
In the mean while, Hanchen, instead of
going up stairs to her own room, crept
softly along several passages, till she
again reached her master's chamber. It
Mas the work of a moment to shut and
bolt the door upon him and this done,
she rushed out to the outer door of the
mill, to give the alarm. The only being
in sight was her master's little boy,a child
of five years old to him she tailed, with
all her might, 'Itua !—run to meet your
lather, as he ecmes from church tell him
we shall all be murdered, if be does not
come back The frightened child did as
she bid him, and set off running on the
road she pointed out.
"Somewhat relieved by seeing that the
chid understood her, and would make her
case known, she sank down for a moment
on the stone seat before the door, and, full
of conflicting emotions of grief and thank
fulness for her escape she burst into tears.
But, at this moment, a shrill whistle
aroused her attention it was from her
prisoner, Heinrich, who, opening the gra
ted window above her head, shouted to
some accomplice withuufc, to catch the
child that was running away so fast, and
to kill the girl. Hanchen looked round.
in great alarm, but saw no one.
child still continued to run with all his
might, and she hoped that it was but a
false alarm, to excite her fear and over
come her resolution when, just as the
child reached a hollow in the next field,
(the channel of a natural drain,) she saw
a ruffian start up from the bed of the
drain, and snatching up the child in his
arms, hasten with him towards the mill,
in accordance with the directions of his
accomplice. In a moment she percieved
the full extent of her danger, and formed
her plan for escaping it.
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it was at this moment that
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intruder had succeeded in squeezing him
self through the aperature in the wall,
and getting himself safely lodged in the
interior of the great drum-wheel. Uis
dismay, however, was indescribable, whim
he began to be whirled about with its
rotation, and found that all his efforts to
put a stop to the powerful machinery
which set it in motion, or to extricate
himself from this perilous situation, were
fruitless. In his terror, he uttered shrieks
and horrible imprecations. Astonished
at the noise, Hanchen ran to the spot, ami
saw him caught like a rat in his own trap,
froui which it was no part oi' her plan to
liberate him. ..She knew he would be
more frightened than hurt, if he kopt
within his rotatory prison, without any
rash attempt at escape and that, even if
he became insensible, be could not iaij out
of it.
"In the mean time, the wheel went
round and round with its steady, unceas
ing motion and round and round he
went with it, while sense remained, be
sieging Hanchca witli entreaties, promises,
and wild, impotent threats, which were
all equally disregarded, till, by degrees,
feeling and perception failed him, ami he
saw and heard nt\ one. He fell senseless
at the bottom of the engine, but even then
his inanimate bogy continued to be whirl
ed round as befoife for Hanchen did not
dare trust appearinces in such a villian,
and would not venture to suspend the
working of the m\ll, or stop the mill-gear
and tackle from mnning at their fullest
speed. I
"A length she icard a loud knocking
at the door, and fl to open it. It. was
her master and
by several of his
utmost excitement
the mill-sails in fuu
and still more whel
family, accompanied
neighbors, all in the
ncl wonder at seeing
swing on Sunday,
they had found the
poor child lying bland upon the grass,
who, however, was \oo terrified to give
them any account
Hanchen, in a few
then her spirit, whi
through such scene
under the sense of
she fell fainting iri their
with much difficulty
what had happened.
vords, told all and
had sustained
of terror, gave
ifety and relief,
rms, and
covered.
her
way
and
was
The
machinery of th| mill was at once stopped,
and the inaninjite ruffian dragged from
his dreadful Heinrich,' too, was
brought forth fMn the miller's chamber,
and both were, it a short time, sent bound,
under a strong 'saport, to Bonn, where
they soon after the reward of their
crimes.
"The story of tills extraordinary pres
ence of mind concludes by telling us that
Hanchen, thus effectually cured of her
penchant for hcr.anworthy suitor, became,
eventually, the wife of the miller's eldest
son, and thus lred all her life on the
scene of her imninent danger and happy
deliverance.
AN ENCOURAGE STATE OF AFFAIRS.-1*1
a
recent debate in the United States Senate, the
following edifyi&l and encouraging statement
ot our national legislation was developed
"Mr. Toombd—Wo speak of the corruptions
of Mexico, of Spain, of France, and other
governments, with a great deal of truth, ac
cording to all accounts but from my own
expenence and observation, which have been
somewhat extensive, I do not believe to-day,
there is as corrupt a, government under the
heavens as these United States.
Mr. Halo—Kor
Several Senators—I agree to that.
?lr- Toombs-and most of all its corruptions
18 he
legislative department."
VERSE
Thaddeus Stephens.
This gentleman who has been elected to
the next Congress, from Pennsylvania,was
a member in 1850 and on the 20th of
February of that year, delivered a speech
of which we give an extract below. He
will be apt to add greatly to Mr. Buchan
an's felicity during the last years of his
reign.
"I am opposed to despotism throughout the
world. Inmy judgement, not only the Slave
States, but the General Government recogniz
ing as it does, slavery, is a despotism.
Despotism does not depend upon the number of
rulers. It may have one ruler or many. Home
was a despotism under Nero: so she was under
the Truaivirate. Athens was a despotism un
der her Thirty Tyrants under her Jb'our hun
dred Tyrants under her Three Hundred Ty
rants. Iu this government, the tree
white citizens are the rulers—the sovereigns
as we delight, to bo called. All others arc sub
jects.
"The rulers and the ruled are of all colors,
from the clear white of the Caucassian tribes to
the swarthy Ethiopian. The former by court
esy, are called white, the latter black. In
this government the subject has no rights, so
cial, personal and political. lie ha3 no voice
in the laws which govern him. 13 can hold
no property. His very wife and children are
not his. His labor is another's. He and all
that appertain to him are theabsolute property
of his rulers. He is governed, bought, sold,
punished, executed, by laws to widen he never
gave his assent, and by rulers he never chose.
He is not a serf, merely, with half the rights of
tfien, like the subjects of despotic iiussk but
a naked slave, stripped of every right which
Oou and nature give him, and which the high
spirit of our revolution declared inalienable—
which he himself could not surrender, and
which man could not take from him. Is he
uot, then,,, the subject of a despotic rule.
"The skives of Athens and Home .were free
in comparison. They had some rights—could
acquire somo property could choose their own
masters, and purchase their own freedom,and,
when free could rise in social and political
life. The slaves of America, then, lie under
the most absolute aisd grinding depotism, that
the world ever saw. .But who arc the despots'
The rulers or' the count.cy—the sovereign |H-O-
pie! Not merely .the sla-Ffiholder who cracks
the lash. He is but the .instrument in the
hands of despotism. That despotism is the
government of the Slave States',, and the United
States, consisting ol'ali its TUI&CB, all the free
citizens. Do uol look upon thitf as a paradoi,
because you and 1 and the £ix Et'n millions of
rulers arc lice. Nicholas of iluirh* is free.—
The grand-Sultan of Turkey i'roe. The
butcher of Austria is free. Augustus, An
thony and Lepidus were free vi.ile they
drenched Rome in blood. The thirty 'j'w »nts,
the Four hundred Tyrants, the Throe ifhous
and Tyrants, were tree while they bound their
countrymen in chains. Von, and 1, and ftie
sixteen millions, arc i'rec, while we fasten iron
chains, and rivet manacles on lour millions oiv
our fellow men tear their wives and children]
from them Generate them: sell them and doom
them to perpetual, eternal bondage. Are we
not then despots—despots suck ug history will
brand ami Hod abhor.
The Late Terrible Elxpiosicn
at Havana.
In the New Orleans Picayune of Thurs
day last we have the following particulars
of the late terrible explosion of the naval
powder magazine at Havana, as furnished
by the purser of the New York mail steam
er Black Warrior:
On the 29th ult. at 3£ the naval
magazine at Havana, situated at the brad
of the harbor, containing about 150,000
pounds of gunpowder, several hundred
shells, together with a large quantity of
rockets, fire-worke, &c, exploded. The
shock and effect, as described by the resi
dents of the city, were truly awful. Thus
far there had beeh found in the ruins and
about the grounds 28 dead bodies, and 105
wounded, four of which died shortly after
being removed to the hospital. For sonic
moments the air was filled with all de
scriptions of destructive missiles, and
stones, shells, &c, were projected a long
distance from the building and into the
bay No damage was done to the vessels
at anchor. The dead bodies of three co
lies were blown through the air to the
elope of Fort Atares, nearly a quarter of a
mile off. There were upwards of three
hundred persons on the new sugar ware
house in tbe immediate vicinity of the
disaster, and among them the loss of life
ard lh.ib appears to have Been the greater
est. Of the military guard of the luagah
zine, consisting of a sergeant and sixteen
men, only four remained. Many bodies
were, no doubt, yet under the ruins and in
the waters of the harbor. The destruction
of the fine pile of sugar warehouses, some
twenty buildings, several of which were fi
nished, and others in course of construc
tion, Was complete Nothing now remains
but a mass of stones and rubbish. The
concussion was so groat us to destroy the
gasometers, rendering the gas works for
the present entirely useless and it will re
quire at least three months before the city
can be lighted. Every residence is more
or less affected by the shock and several
buildings sustaineJ great damage. A
mong the number were the residence of
Don Domingo Aldama fronting the mili
tary parade ground, the house of Hon Jose
Maria Uonnelly, and the edifice of the
iloyal Economical Society.
Havana papers to the 3rd instant con
tain long articles-irt reference to this terri
ble catastrophe, but tltey add nothing of
general importance to what is above given.
The city council had made arrangements
for supplying the immediate necessities of
the wounded by the accident.
15.
The Women of the
Revolution.
While poets sing the praises and orators
proclaim the virtues of the heroes
Who fought and bled in freedom's cause,
let us not forge/ the heroines. The*moth
crs of the republic deserve as high and
as honored a niche in the Temple of Fame
as do the fathers. The women of Ameri
ca, in the days that tried men's souls
though undistinguished on the battle-field,
were no less active and efficient instrumen
talities than were their brothers in work
ing out the glorious boon of liberty.—
That mother who melted all the spoflris
she had in the world, to furnish her son
with bullet? that sister who converted
her own garment. into clothing for her
soldier-brother and that daughter who
disposed of all her jewelry to provide
shoes for tbe barefooted patriots of the ar
my of Washington, were no less patriotic
in soul, no less heroic in deed, and no less
efficient in action,than were the men who
led the armies to battle, or who wielded
the weapon of strife. We propose as a
sentiment:
E W O E N OF TH E E O I O N
Worthy daughters of worthy mothers.—
May their daughters, to the remote.-t gen
erations, be tlic sisters of patriots and the
mother.-, of heroes.—Life Illustrated.
Model Administration.
When Mr. Buchanan went into office
there were more than $18,000,000 in the
Treasury. In less than two years he has
spent not only every dollar of that amount
and the revenues of the Government, a
mounting to about 600,000,000, but he
has incurred u. debt of $45,000,000! ma
king the gross expenditures of the Govern
ment for the last fiscal vear, aecordir.": to
the lowest estimates, 892,000,000. If the
amount of unexpended appropriations of
the last Administration which have beer.
expended by this, and the sum which will
yet be required to carry on the Govern
ment to the first of January, beyond the
probable receipts of tbe Treasury, be in
cluded in the estimate, it will swell the
expenses of this Democratic and economi
cal Administration for the present vear to
nearly 8104,000,000! This is an increase
even over Pierce's extravagant Adminis
tration, of nearly FOltTY MILLIONS
O DOLLARS It must be remember
ed, too, that this alarming increase in the
expenses of the Government, has been
caused by no extraordinary event. We
have had no war—nothing, or compara
tively nothing has been appropriated for
rivers and harbors, or for any other im
provements. It embraces only tbe ordin
ary expenses of the Government.
What our Imaginary Southern
Pacific Railroad Costs.
The Albany Journal says that it may not be
generally known that we are building a Pacific
railroad. It is rather an airy, unsubstantial
structure, the rails being laid nowhere except
in tho imagination but it hns already cost us
a great deal of money.
The road was begun about four years ago.
As our Government is a Government, which
legislates always for the south, and never fjr
the north, it was a foregone conclusion that
the railroad must be a southern railroad. It
must connect with Charleston awl Mobile,
insi cad of New York or Philadelphia, and
must, link the States which talk of forming a
Southern Confederacy to Calafornia and ih^
Pacific coast.
We begnn by sending out a corps of army
officers to survey the Southern route. The
first route they surveyed was a route through
Texas. The second route they surveyed was
a route through Texas. The third route thsy
surveyed was a route through Texas. And so
on to the end of the chapter—every one ol the
dozen routes, with but one or two ex septions,
being a route through Texas. This Texas
engineering took out of the Treasury about
$1,000,000. The printing of the survey cost
$750,000 the Gadsden purchase consisting of
sandy desert, agreeably diversified with rouk=
too barrjn c£ vegetation for the most, part tq
mP2#A iUSt^d T!LQUS!ier-aJ3.^f)l- the niod?r.-u a
sum of $10,000,000 a v.-agon-road ^J.'OO-.):'
the camels from tho East $J50,000. and the
Artesian wells along the route $500,000.—
Grand total $13,000,000.
What a Steam Firo Engine can
dOi—They have a steam fire engine at
Cincinnati, called the ''Citizens Gift,"
which is said to be fast and strong. One
of tho papers states that at a recent fire
the company attached to the machine,
hitched horses, ran two squares, laid out
360 feet of hose, firing meantime, and put
water on the fire in four minutes from the
first tap of the alarm bell. The same pa
per adds: "This is ho more than she has
often done." It. may be called the Cham
pion of the World: she never was beai
she plays through 1\- inch nozzle, 200
feet horizontally.
OLD MU fiW-A^country
paper, in a fit of revolutionary enthusiasm,
fjaya,—-"Hurrah, for the girls of '701"—
"Thunder!" cries a New' Jersey paper
"that too darnded old. No, hurrah for the
girls of 17 I"
IF you travel throng
blind be blind voursel
th country of fh*
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EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
Minnesota Election—Repub
lican Victory.
Tho returns do not fully justify us in stating
definitely how our next Legislature will stand,
although present indications point tc the Kf
publicans as in the majority. We know they
have the House by five majority, and possiblv
six. The Senate, with those elected this year,
and with those who hold over, gives the major
ity to tbe Democrat*, but on joint ballot we
believe the Republicans ha?e the control. The
Pioneer concedes that on joint ballot the vote
will stand-o9 Democrats fo «S' Republicans.
This includes the election of Gnrrer, Democrat
from the St. uis and Lak^ District, but
y/hich we know to hs incorrect. Ely, a Re
publican, is elected from that district, ot such
i? tlie larit news wc have touching thi point.
The Pioneer also put? down Co-*el a- elected to
the Senate from Mower and Dodge, when we
are assured he is defeated, which gives the Re
publicans a majority of three on joint ballot.
According to ur footing the Legislature will
stand
Senate. House.
Democrat?, 20 37
Republicans, 17 4%
On joint ballot, Republicans GO, Democrats,
57. Republican majority 3.
is possible Covel is elected to the denote,
in which event the Republicans will har'j &
majority of two on join ballot, which would
enable them, should the Legislature be conve
ned, to elect a United States Senator. All
hail the young P.epublican State.—Timet.
ABDUCTION OF CHILDREN.—Som
time ago a little girl having been decoyed
from .school, and a reward of one hunured
dollars having been offered by her friends
for her return, a man asked at the publin
school in Madison street for two children.
representing himself as their uncle. The
older girl refused to go with him, declar
ing he was not her uncle. He tried to
force her off with him, but the child esca
ped him. When the children left to go
home, the man followed to secure them be
did not succeed. Efforts are being made
to discover the villain, who, it is supposed
wished to obtain the reward which would
be offered for the return of tbe little
ones. Life lUusirated,
A Ship found Adrift—Crete and all Sic?:
N E W ORLEANS Oct. 4
The steamship Orizaba from Key West
discovered the British brig Ksparanta
drifting about the Gulf, the Captain dead,
and all the crew sick with fever and towed
bet* into Apalaeh'ieola.
The deaths from fever yesterday were
68, and for the week foot up o&Q.
The Rock Island Railroad Bridge.
(Since tbe striking of the Henry Clay a
gainst this bridge, the papers of Daven
port, Rock Island, and of all that vicinity
on the River, all denounce it as injurious
to the interests of the whole community.
».
County Seat at St. Peter.
The County Seat of Nicollet County has
been removed from Traverse to St. Peter,
at the recent election. So says the St.
Peter Free Press.
DEATHSlnilw YOnK-^om the
report of the City Inspector we learn that there
were 607 deaths iu the city of New York during
the past week, being an increase of 54 over
those of the previous week, and a decrease of
llitl compared with the corresponding week of
last year. Ofthe entire number 462 were un
der ten years of age, cholera infantum nlona
sweeping oif 139 victims.
Buchanan on Douglass.
Mr. Buchanan was lately petitioned by
distingaished Democrats of New York to
suspend hostilities against Douglas. He
replied: "The unity cf the Democratic
party shall be preserved, though you loose
every Congressional Districtin Now York."
The President was prepared for the disas
ter in Pennsylvania but is deeply affected
by Hopkins' and Glancey Jones' defeat.—
Le says the whole disaster to the Democ
racy is 'chargeable to Douglas, who was
too cowardly to carry out the work he be
gun." So the war of words goes on.—rVf.
Louis Democrat.
Very Explicit.
.A.-Xaukep rkung.up^tq a^Ii:fchman, exclaim
ed, "Wml, stranger, far actiajuat,ince "take.
rchrA might be your BHIRS." Vy. my name
ish Ifaunce HollenboffeuhoiTongraffensteinerr'
"]y Cape Cod if that r.int as long as a pump
kin vine Well, I hain't no time to lo^e—lin
on a speculation .' Tell me the way to Wilkins
bnrg." "To Wilkinsonrg?" "Veil, yon see
dat roat pon de hill pointing in the direc
tion. "Oh, yes, I see it." "Veil, dan. you
musht not clake um -oat.* You see dig roat by
de coalfaank':" "Yes." Y«H, dat ish not de
rOat, too but yoa must go ri^ht straight py
lec pr.ra dere, and ven you see von roat«r»ok.s
jhust tfo, (blading h:3 tihowsi and describing
it at the same time,) and rep you kiif^d«#fc
keep right along ti'.-". you gits fnrder, Veli.
den, you will turn Co potato patch round, «i«»
pridgc over de river up stream! and he raff np,_
and directly yctt soe moae prodder kYAt'f
pi.rn, shingied ink straw, dnt's de house vere
mine wodder fives. He'll dell you, so peiter
a? 1 can. Arid yon go little pit. fnrder, you
see' two TottS)—you much* hot' take. Iwte
THE K0RSE-TARW$"SKRET DIVULGED.-^
is rumored that Mr. Jtarey, the American
hotse-tarttcr, uses a file of Congressional
speeches to subdue the refractory animal* put
under his charge. After reading about
quarter of .an hour, the quadruped gives- 4
promises an entire amendment of morals am.
manners if he will only stop.
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'eia! The Yankee rode off at the top ofhia
speed.