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DIRECTORS.
f o hn J- Pearce, Hon. G. C. Harvey,
!. Hall, T. T. Abraras,
s A. Mayer, D. K. Jackman,
sCrist, ' W. VVr.ite,
Jickinson, Thos. Kitchen.
Hon. GC. HARVEY, Pres. '
T. T. ABRAMS, Vice Pres.
REFERENCES.
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Vinegardner, Win, Vunderbelt,
lackey, Win. Fearon,
te, Dr. J. S. Crawford,
}ui?gle, A. Updegraff,
Maynard, James Armstrong,
imon Cameron Hon. Wm. Biglcr.
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DIRECTORS.
pge W. Colladay, William Bowers,
ss >l. Coleman, Joseph Oat,
n V. Machelte, Howard Hinchman,
GEORGE W. COLLADAY, President. I
JILTS' WILSON, Secretary.
UAgent for Mifflin county, Wm. P. F.L- ;
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TAT EM FNTOF ASSETS, January 1, 1858,
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!■-' Mortgage-, amply secured. $1,596,625 Ift j
10l L-tjte, (present value SIOO,-
?■>■} cost, 74,280 93 j
bpcraiy Loans, on ample Col
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lacks. (prektval. $76,964 22) cost 71,547 97 \
leus and Bills Receivable, 4.307 00
40,855 43
£1,888,904 74 I
Ptrprhtal or I/united Insurances made on every
:-eription of property, in Town and Country,
iatesas low as are consistent with security.
Since their incorporation, a period of twenty- i
•At year-, they have paid over Four Millions '
■ Dollars" loses by fire, thereby affording ev
itaceof the advantages of Insurance, as well
1 the ability and disposition to meet with
romptnt;- all liabilities.
Losses by Fire.
Lotsesptid during the year 1857, £'103.789 4
DIRECTORS.
; -as,Y. Bancker, 1 Mordecai D. Lewis,
icoias Wagner, 1 David S. Brown,
ka'jel Grant, j Isaac Lea,
-eob R. Smith, J Edward C. Dale,
W. Richards, | George Fales.
CHARLES N. BANCKER, President.
A. STEEL, Sec'y pro tern.
for Mitflin county, H. J. WAL
TERS, Esq., Lewistown. feb2s
TRAW O-E.OCEE.7, ~
PROVISION AND FISH STORE.
IHE subscriber has opened a Grocery, Pro
vision arid Fish Store opposite Major Eisen
e's ilotel, where he has just received a fine
leortment of fresh
JFamUi) <£r occurs,
t&ong which may he found fine Coffee, Sugar,
Jms, Molasses, Syrups, Cheese, Crackers,
(hh. Ham, Shoulder, Fine Ashton and Dairy
Segars, Soap, &c.
Also, Brooms, Tubs, Buckets, Baskets, and a
assortment of Willow-ware, which he
Hers for cash very cheap.
. • '•"ill pay Cash for Butter, Lard, Potatoes,
Onions, &c.
Call, see prices, and judge for yourselves.
JAMES IRWJN.
CHEAP GOODS AGAIN!
THE undersigned having purchased the
stock of goods of Samuei Comfort, con
ing of all kinds of DRY GOODS, suitable
: Ltdies, Gentlemen and Children, Grocer-
Liueensware, Readymade Clothing, &c.,
selling off the entire stock
AT COST!
, c ' 05 ® out the establishiiicn t. Persons wish
*B to buy CHEAP will do well to give us a
•"■ Country dealers wanting goods to keep
'i"ir assortment will do well to examine
stock,as we will sell at Philadelphia prices,
til-1 C< ? UBt! 7 Produce, at market prices,
" received in exchange for goods.
G. W. SOULT,
T . 11. 11. COMFORT.
Juuc v>. 1858
'i?hts besi Window Sash, from 8x
'*>llß, for ).; very low. FRANCMCUS
FARMER'S HIGH SCHOOL.
To llie People of Pennsylvania.
FELLOW-CITIZENS :—The Trustees of the
" Farmer's High School of Pennsylvania,"
anxious to iutorest you in the important
trust tor your benefit—committed to their
j.care, propose to present for your considera
tion the objects, present condition, and pres.
j ent wants of the Institution.
| _An object, steadily and prominentlv in
t view, is to add dignity to manual labor by
associating manual labor with the acquisi
tion of scientific knowledge. Cast your eyes
over the length and breadth of our Common
wealth. Observe various pursuits, profes
sions and occupations. Note the estimation
in which they are respectively held, and the
influeuce they severally exert" upon the com
munity, and say whether their standing and
influeuce not mainly dependant upon
the relative intelligence of those who fill
them. How trite, and yet how true, that
Knowledge is Power !
Associate labor with ignorance, and you
degrade ; your sons and your daughters are
led to eschew it, —to look upon all who earn !
their bread by the labor of their hands as
unworthy of their companionship. Associate
it with intelligence, and you raise it to that
high and elevated stand which it should oc
cupy as the mainspring of human happiness
and the grand source of man's comfort.
Another object— to many of no less im*
povtance —is to aflord the farmer, the me
chanic, the merchant, and others, an oppor
tup ity of giving their sons a thorough,
scientific, practical education, at a compara
tively moderate expense,—an expense with
in the means of the great mass of our farm
ers and business men. This is to be effected
by requiring of every student, irrespective
of his own or his father's wealth, to labor a
portion of every day in the field, the barn,
the garden, or the shop, as season or circum*
stances muv require.
Manual, as well as intellectual labor, will
be required of all : to excel in both, being
equally honorable, and alike necessary to the
attainment of the highest honors of the Irr
stitution, the student, as well in the field as
in the study, will press forward with high
hopes andjoyous expectations.
In boyhood, there is no stimulus so
great, no incentive so powerful, as ambition.
Manual labor schools have failed, ami always
will fail of success, where labor is associated
with the necessities of poverty, in contrast
with the immunities and privileges of wealth;
where one class labor because their parents
are poor, and another class do not labor, be
cause their parents are rich. To insure
success, all must start together on terms of
perfect equality, with no standard hut -kill
in labor, and attainments in labor to elevate
or degrade. The boy must be able to feel
that he is the architect of his own fame, as
it is well that he should be of his own for
tune : a lesson which lies at the very foun
dation of success throughout the whole
voyage of life.
■>n actual distaste for manual labor : the
low repute in which it is hel 1 ; habits of idle
ness Irom thisgeausc ; dissipation arising
from lack of excitement; ignorance of the
applications of science to the business of
life ; are among the evils of our present sys
tem of collegiate education—evils which this
Institution purposes greatly to lessen, if not
remove. The education is to be practical as
well as scientific. It is designed to make
business men. llow many students pass
through the whole routine of a collegiate
course acquiring little else than abstract
ideas. Knowledge—if it deserve the narac
tlie use of which in its application to the
every day wants of life, they never learn.
From the study of the philosophy of the
mechanical powers, we propose to lead the
class, for illustration, to their actual appli
cation in tiie various operations of the farm;
—from their recitations in Geology, not on
ly to a carefully arranged cabinet, but to
the actual collecting of the numerous speci
mens with which the varied strata in the vi• '
cirity of the Farmer's High School abound ;
from their lessons in Botany, to the cultivat
ed fields, the nursery, ami the botanical gar
den ; through the fertile valleys to the
neighboring forest and mountain ranges ;
and even in their rambles for pleasure thro'
the arboretum, we would introduce them to
an actual, personal and practical knowl
edge of every tree which this climate can be
made produce. Such acquaintances with
the productions of Nature will make them
feel, wherever on earth's surface their lot
may be east, not as among strangers, but
amid the friends of their youth.
The farm consists of 400 acres—36o of
which have been cleared. The soil is fresh
and susceptible of the very highest degree
of culture and productiveness. A comfort'
able farm-house, a large and well arranged
barn, corn-cribs, work-shop, tool-rooms,
boiler'shed, with apparatus for steaming food
for cattle, and other farm buildings, have
been erected. An extensive, carefully se'
lected, and well-arranged nursery has been
prepared, orchard and vineyard planted, and
garden grounds arranged. The College
buildings, sufficiently large for the accom
modation of nearly 400 Students, Professors
and their families, are under contract. One
wing, capable of accommodating from seven
ty-five to one hundred students, is so far ad
vanced as to afford assurance that the first
class can he admitted during the coming
winter. The residue of the entire building,
the contractors hope to be able to place un
der roof the present season.
Boys of 16 years old and upwards, qual
ified by a good common school education,
will be received from every county in the
proportion of its taxable inhabitants, if ap
plication be made in accordance with the
regulations which will he shortly adopted
and published. Vacancies, arising from
failure of applications from any county, will
he filled from the surplus applications from
other counties. The charges for tuition,
hoarding, fuel, light, washing, and hooks,
have been fixed for the first year atone hun
dred dollars. The Trustees hope that the
time is not far distant when they can greatly
lessen this comparatively moderate charge.
The entire course will be four years. One'
fourth the number which the Institution is
designed to accommodate, will be received
in the first instance, and a similar number
every succeeding year.
We propose to teach Mathematics, Natu'
ral Philosophy, Agricultural Chemistry, Ag
riculture, and Agricultural History, Horti'
culture. Veterinary Practice, Geology, Bot,
any, Entomology, Civil Polity, Ethics, and
all branches requisite to a thorough practi
| cat and scientific English education, which
can be acquired in a four year's course. In
short, we propose to affor i facilities for the
; acquisition of such an education as will
| qualify for the discharge of any duty our
| country may require of her citizens,
j But independent of the benefits which the
Farmer's High School of Pennsylvania, as
an educational institution, will afford to its
inmates, there are other advantages directly
j flowing from it, in which every man requir
ing food and raiment will participate.—
Among these are the benefits derived from
the Institution as an experimental farm.
! Experience is the foundation of knowledge.
Induction from the results of Experience is
Science. Inductions from the Experience
of the past and present age in agriculture,
is Agricultural Science. A full and accurate
knowledge of these results—of this science— 1
is all to which the individual farmer, as a
general rule, should aspire. If he leave the
attainments of science for the uncertain
field of experiment, he is much more likely
to fail than to succeed : and should he suc
ceed in the first experiment, his success hav
ing arisen, as it may, from fortuitous cir
cumstances of season, affords hut slight as
surance of success in the second.—
Experiments in agriculture are, therefore,
too expensive for the ordinary farmer. If
tlm were not so, however, experiments by
individual farmers, as they are published in
many of our periodicals, are wholly unreli
able, and are calculated rather to mislead
than to direct. This class of experimenters
publish only their success—not their failure.
The farmer, seduced from the beaten path
by the result of a single experiment, under
other circumstances of season, signally fails.
He loses, it may he, his crop, and he and
his neighbors are led to attribute the result
to what they are pleased to denominate the
fallacy of " book farming."
Experiments in agriculture, which lead to
scientific knowledge," are those only, present
ed from year to year, through every diversi
ty of season, whether hot or cold, wet or
dry. Ihe results of every crop must he
noted and registered with accuracy. Where
will this he done? where can this be done,
excepting at an institution such as you have
in the Farmer's High School, with a portion I
of her lands set apart and designated as the
"experimental farm," in charge of scientific, '
practical men, whose duty and whose delight
it will he, to institute, to register, and to
publish from year to year, for your benefit, ,
their experiments, whether successful or UD>
.successful.
Wheat, the staple of Pennsylvania, has, in
some sections of the State, entirely, and in
others partially failed. No remedy lias yet
been discovered against the ravages of the
midge; and yet we are not without hope in
the tact that the science of Entomology is yet
in its intuncy, and that some new variety of
wheat may ho found or produced bv cross
fecundation, exempt, by early maturity or
otherwise, from the ravages of the insect.
But can we reasonably hope, until we raise
up and place in the field of labor experimen
ters qualified for the faithful discharge of so
high and important a trust?
Great benefits will also be derivable from
the Institution as a chemical laboratory for
the analyzation of soils and manures. For
this purpose, in several of the States, an ag
ricultural chemist is appointed and supported
at public expense. In the rapid advance of
chemical science, it is not for us to say what
attainment may be reached by the agricultu
ral chemist in ascertaining the defects and
directing to the means of supplying the wants
of particular soils; but tins we can say, with
confident assurance, that chemistry affords
the only reliable safeguard against imposition
and fraud in the sale of the whole class of
artifical manures.
As a veterinary school, this Institution will
be invaluable in diffusing that highly useful
and much needed branch of science, a knowl
edge of the anatomy, structure and constitu
tion of auiinals, and the prevention and cure
of diseases to which they are subject. Thou
sands of horses and other valuable domestic
animals are lost in Pennsylvania every year,
from the professional ignorance which prevails
upon this subject. In France, England, and
Germany, veterinary schools are
and are well supported, and prove highly ben
eficial to the community.
As affording to all who desire it an oppor
tunity of seeing and examining the machines
and implements used in agriculture or horti
culture, ascertaining their uses and the soils
to which they are respectively adapted, the
Institution will be highly beneficial. Fur in
formation, the farmer now goes to a State
Agricultural Exhibition. Seeing around him
none hut strangers, he experiences a feeling
of solitude in the wilderness of society. lie
views a vast number and variety of machines
and implements of husbandry, and after all
his examination and enquiry, he comes away
feeling that he has acquired little, if any in
formation deserving the name of knowledge.
He turns, it may he, into an agricultural
warehouse. Beset by men whose business it
is to sell, he looks upon no implement—if he
accept their representations— not exactly suit
ed to his wants.
How different his situation at the Farmer's
High School! Come whenever he may, with
in the bounds of the Commonwealth, he there
meets his own or his neighbor's sou, who
greets him with hearty welcome, saying—
ome and see the work they have done—come
and see the work they are doing, and notice
tho soil to which they are adapted. Thus
guided by a friend, the visit is extended from
the implement-hall to tho books containing
the registry of experiments—these nre left, to
view, on the experimental farm, *he unregis
tered results of the growing crop. Hence
they wend their way to the farm designed for
profitable culture—to the garden, the nursery,
the orchard, tho vineyard. Every hour of
THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1858.
f . . faking $45,000
I which sum has been economically expended
j ;n the equipment of the farm, the erection of
buildings, &c., not one cent having been paid
i to any 1 rustee, either as a remuneration for
j time, or reimbursement of travelling expen
ses. A legacy of SSOOO, by the late Elliot
Clesson, not yet realized, is shortly expected.
At least fifty thousand dollars, in addition, is
absolutely necessary to complete and equip
this Institution, the government, of which—
through the agency of the County Agricultu
ral Societies to which any of you may belon" !
—is in your hands.
To secure the advantages enumerated, and 1
many others, to yourselves and your children,
will you subscribe the sum required, one half
payable on the Ist November, I<SSB, and the !
residue on the Ist May, 1859? Your pecuni- !
ary interests require" it. The good of the
community requires it. Benevolence to your ;
fellow men requires it. The honor of Penn
sylvania requires it. She was among the first
to incorporate an Agricultural High School,
and she is now liable to be distanced by many !
much younger and less wealthy States. j
That you can, not only raise $25,000 to j
complete and equip the Institution, but SIOO,-
000 to endow it, if hut a few among you, in
different sections of the State, will first set an
example of liberality, and then say : " Come,
neighbors, help in the completion of this great
enterprise;" is fully and satisfactorily dem
onstrated by subscriptions, for this very pur
pose, recorded upon the hooks of the Institu
tion, with the name and post office address of \
every subscriber, summing up as follows : |
By citizens of Centre county, S7ICG
" " Clinton county, 1500
" " Huntingdon county, 585 i
" " Mifflin county, 010
Agricultural Society of Allegheny county, 500
" Erie county, and
Girard Union, 200
By citizens of Delaware county, 220
The counties of Centre, Clinton, Hunting
don and Mifflin suffered perhaps more severe
ly last year from the ravages of the wheat
midge than any district of similar extent in
the State, and therefore their delegates, at the
annual meeting in September, promised little.
Yet, while suffering from the destruction of
their principal crop, they have felt rich enough
to subscribe $9,8G1, as above stated, of which
$3,580 have been actually paid into the treas
ury, in addition to SIOO by the Erie Agricul
tural Society, SIOO bv the Girard Union Ag
ricultural Society of Erie county, and $220
by citizens of Delaware county, making
S4OOO, entitling the Institution to a like sum
from the State.
In view of a great undertaking, designed
for the common benefit of man—designed to
ameliorate, improve, and elevate his condition,
it is a DUT v to feel rich—to feel as the widow
felt when she did that act which has come
down to us with the commendation of Ilim
who stood over against the temple, as an ex
ample worthy of our imitation.
We wholly mistake your character, fellow
citizens, if you allow the Farmer's High
School of Pennsylvania, thus situated, to lan
guish for the want of the $15,000 required to
complete the buildings. Nay, we mistake
your impulses, fellow citizens, if you do not
promptly supply a sum sufficient to fit it with
all necessary appliances and means of instruc
tion, and to give full assurance that speedy
success must and will attend it.
APPENDIX.
At.a meeting of the Board of Trustees,
convened at the Farm School, on Wednesday,
the lGth of June, the following proceedings
were had, and which arc published for the
information they contain :
Resolved, That a committee be appointed,
of which the President of the Hoard shall be
the Chairman, to publish an Address to the
People of Pennsylvania, asking their attention
to the subject of the "Farmer's High School,"
and that each momber of the Board be re
quested to 6ign the same.
Resolved, That the President of the Board
be requested to ascertain, select and appoint
some fit person or persons for the purpose of
soliciting subscriptions to the "Fanners' High
School" throughout the State.
The Board, having under consideration the
subject of the admission of pupils into the
Institution, the following was determined up
on :
1. No boy will be admitted under the age
of 1G years.
2. That SIOO, paid in advance, shall be the
charge for tuition, boarding, washing, fuel,
light, and books, for each session, commencing
on the loth ot February, uud ending loth of
December, of every year.
3. That the number of pupils to be received
for the first year shall be 100, and they shall
be apportioned among the different counties
of the State, according to the number of the
taxable inhabitants; and they may be admit
ted upon the recommendation of tbeconstitu
tional officers of the respective County Socie
ties, where such Society exists. And where
no such Society exists, the Board of Trustees,
or a committee thereof, will determine who
shall be admitted. Provided, however, That
no pupil will be admitted into the Institution
unless he be of good moral character, and
qualified by a knowledge of the elementary
branches taught in the public schools of the
State.
time, every step of pYogress imparts knowl
edge and affords delight.
When may these benefits— these blessings
—he enjoyed ? Not soon, fellow ci. .zens, we
are compelled to say, unless vou voluntarily
subscribe at least £25,000 in aid of the Insti
tution, the payment of which will secure an
appropriation of the like amount from the
State.
We have received, in cash, as follows:
From the Pennsylvania State Agri
cultural Society, £lO 000
from the citizens of Centre county
to secure location, 10,000
From State by absolute appropriation, 25,000
Resolved, That Prof. WILLIAM G. WARING,
General Superintendent, be, and he is hereby
instructed, to receive from individuals or So
cieties, and make a record thereof, all Books,
Drawings, Plants, Animals, or Implements
which may be presented to the Institution.
And he is hereby directed to cause to be kept
a memorandum of observations and experi
ments made on the subject of their value and
usefulness; which, when called for, he shall
furnish to the person making such preset)tn-
I lion, for his information.
Under the second resolution, ibe following
subscription list will be offered to the people
of toe State: 1
Farmers' High School of Penn.it/lcaaia.
WHEREAS, bv an act of the Legislature of
Pennsylvania, passed the 20th day of May.
1857, the sum of Twenty-Five Thousand Dol
lars was appropriated to the "Farmers' High
School of Pennsylania," payuble as therein
provided, to wit:—"That whenever it shall
appear ta the satisfaction of the Governor that
said Iligh School shall have received from j
some other source or sources, One Thousand
Dollars or upwards, the State Treasurer shall I
pay to said School an equal sum, and so on,
until a sum not exceeding Twenty-Five Thou
sand Dollars shall have been appropriated to
6aid School."
Now, to secure the appropriation aforesaid,
promote agricultural science, and disseminate
useful practical knowledge, we, whose names
are hereto subscribed, do severally promise to
pay to the " Farmers' High School of Penn
sylvania" the sums set opposite our names
respectively—one-half thereof the res
idue .
This Subscription to he transmitted imme
diately upon the completion thereof, by mail,
to William G. Waring, Farmers' High School,
near Boalsburg. Centre county, Pennsylvania,
to he by him recorded, and returned, under
the order of the Trustees, for collection.
ißßmnaKDia.
The Eur then Vase. Dodge. —A new
swindling dodge has lately come to light in
Albany, which the shopkeepers here will
do well to beware of. A young lady there
entered a grocery, and after taking a seat
on a chair near the counter, ordered a var
iety of articles, which were weighed, tied
up and handed to her by the attentive and
polite storekeeper. As each package was
given to her, she dropped it into an earth
en vase which she held in her lap. When
she had completed her purchases, she
placed the lid on the vase, and setting it
on one end of the counter, requested the
storekeeper to allow it to stand there for a
few minutes, while she attended to some
business in the vicinity, stating at the
same time that on her return she would
settle the bill. Shortly alter her depart
ure an attendant of the store having occa
sion to move this vase, it was found to be
considerably lighter than the number of
articles placed in it would warrant, and on
removing the iid th secret was discovered
—there was no bottom in it! It is sup
posed that the ingenious female had a pock
et in the front of her dress, in which to
place the articles as they were handed to
her. It is needless to say that she did uot
return for her vase.
Curious Hi gamy Case. —A Mr. and
M rs. Winnie, man and wife, were arrested
in Morrissania, Westchester county, N. Y.
last week, the latter charged with bigamy
and the former for aiding and abetting
the same. The woman, it seems, on the
20th July, was married to one James
Wright and her husband, Charles Winnie,
was present, consenting to the same.—
It is alleged that neither of them suppos
ed there was anything illegal in the pro
ceedings. Winnie stated that he and his
wife had become mutally tired of each
other, and she and Wright having become
partial to one another's company, he ( Win
nie) proposed that, if Mrs. W. was agreea
ble, Wtight would take her. Mrs. W.
having consented, Winnie took advice of
a constable, and Wright drew up papers*
of separation, which Winnie and wife hav
ing signed and exchanged, supposed that
they had a right to marry again as soon as
they pleased.
An Epidemic in the Country. —A singu
lar fever, which has been prevailing so fa
tally for nearly a year, at Peterstown, G ties
county,Va., lias become more violent. —
Forty additional cases are announced. The
editor of the Advocate has visited the
doomed neighborhood, and says: A more
desolate looking place we have never visit
ed. Nearly every business establishment
in the place was closed, and only an occa
sional female form, dressed in the sombre
habiliments of mourning, was to he seen.
The graveyard which we visited in the
neighborhood was a fearful confirmation of
(he sad reports which have been in circu
lation. There was many a mound of fresh
earth —alas, too many to allow for a mo
ment the consoling hope of the exaggera
tion usual in cases of such general distress.
The Peach Crop in Maryland. —The
Elkton (Md.) Democrat says: —We un
derstand that Mr. Nathaniel \\ olfe, of
Kent county, has sold the fruit of one of
his orchards on Sassafras river, for STOOO,
to be delivered upon the shore. We also
understand that Mr. Reybold, proprietor
of the Cassaday peach farm, in Sassafras
Neck, in this county, expects to realize
over 830,000 from his orchard this season.
This would seem to indicate that there has
not been a total failure of the crop, so far
as Maryland is concerned.
gars hav recently been seized by the United
States authorities at New York and at Boston,
for undervaluation.
New Series—Vol, 111, No, 37.
M hat has James Buchanan done that
should make him worthy of •' -th or
funds?"— Somerset Democrat, July 21s/.
V iolated by his practice every profession
i he has made since he has be en in the Pres
idential chair.
FTe commenced his Admlnf (ration with
a promise of Freedom to Kansas upon his
lips, and every effort in his power has been
made to force a bated slave Constitution
upon her people.
He declared open hostility to a paper
currency, and a few weeks afterwards liatl
flooded the country with " rags and lamp
black," without a duilar in the Treasury
wherewith to redeem them.
He preached economy, and avowed his
determination never to borrow, and yet his
Administration has been the most extrav
agant, reckless and corrupt, the country ev
er saw, and millions upon millions have
been borrowed to supply its lavish expen
ditures.
lie found a full Treasury on his advent
to power, and has already rendered the
Government bankrupt.
lie proclaimed that every effort of his
Administration should be lent to the sup
pression of the slavery agitation, and the
country has been shaken from centre to
circumference by his persevering agitation
of it ever since.
He professed to he opposed to Fillibus
terism, and yet recalled the gallant Paul
ding for arresting the pirate Walker when
about currying war and pestilence in
to a nation with whom we are at peace.
He furnished Governor Walker with
written instructions for the preservation of
the purity of the ballot-box in Kansas, and
and turned him out of office for obeying
them.
He professed to be in favor of the doc--
trine of popular sovereignty a brief year
and yet unceremoniously takes off the
heads of all who dare support it now.
He withheld troops from Utah where
he proclaimed there was war, in order to
keep theui in Kansas where he insisted all
was peace.
lie sells Forts at the West at a ilife of
their cost, in order to buy sites for forts in
the East at ten times their value—his cor
rupt minions in every instance pocketing
the difference.
He proscribes Douglas and his wing of
the party for holding now, the same doc
trines he himself professed to hold a few
months since.
He professes to be President of the coun
try and not of a party, and yet he makes
partizauship the basis of even his invita
tions to dinner.
He owes his own election solely to the
force of party nomination and drill, and
he encourages the formation of bogus tick
ets and party feuds, that a rival may be de
feated.
He pretends to have the prosperity of
the country at heart, and yet takes n
means to have it relieved from prostration
aud bankruptcy.
lie proclaimed that he would be satisfied
with one term, and is bending every ener
gy of his broken and feeble frame, and the
whole power of his Administration to buy
a rcnomination at the hands of ''-e South.
—Somerset Who/.
FREE TRADE. —The results of the free
trade system are palpable. In every sec
tion of the country, manufactories, mills,
foundries and forges are standing idle, and
the workmen seeking for employment in
vain, while in the great, centres of trade
money is fast accumulating; and although
it is offered at unprecedentedly low rates
fails to meet with any demand. If a pro
tective tariff could go into operation to-mor
row, we would see its effects at once. This
unemployed capital would be in demand,
mills would be set running, forges and fur
naces would be in full blast, workmen would
be sought for at good wages, and the
whole country would be blessed with pros
perity. Hut under our present free trade
system, the money will be used to pay for
the imported fabrics which we should make
at home, or will pe employed in speculation
which could add nothing to the permanent
or real wealth of the country. — Trenton
Gazette.
Reappearance of the Plague. The
plague, after an intermission of twenty
years, has reappeared in a district of the
Pasholik of Tripoli, named Bengaji, and
at last accounts was continuing to make
ravages as an epidemic. There was a
rumor that it had already reached Con
stantinople, but for this there was no foun
dation. The most stringent quarantine
regulations had been resorted to.
is our largest Territory.