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August27th, 1856. $
Editobof u Slar of the Kanawha
Valley:”—% j
Although you are a stranger tome.
, I can but think you will allow me a
' place in the columnsbf your gallant
and very excellent paper, to give pub
licity to the candid opinion and de
termination of ail old line Whig.
I am a Whig bred anil born in the
Clay school; I am a Whig in head
and in heart; I am Whig inside and
outside; I am Whig all pver from the
crown of ipy head to the soles of my
~ fectg heel taps and all; but, as Whjg
. gery, conservatism, love of liberty,
and the preservation of the Union ol
these United States, are terms Synon
ymous with me, I am not a Whig tc
* idly and silently -stand by when oui
rights and liberty arc endangered,
and to not add my little mite towards
averting such danger. No, God for
bid that I, as an Old line Whig, conkl
hp so recreant to what I conceive to
be the duties of such in the present
crisis, as to etand by and not aid in
’ stanching the bleeding wounds oi
our glorious confederacy; merely be
cause none of the old issues- that tin
Whig party was want to battle for, art
not at stake. The Whig party, Tikt
its great leaders, has passed ttway:
and "the great political principles foi
which the Whig and Democratic par
ties have varied success, have eithei
#' been settled or have grown obsolete.
, that 1 cannot see auytliiug dishon
orable, or, in fact, the ieast improprie
ty, but on the other hand a duty, as a
■ ' -conservative old line Whig, in joining
as I believe all conservative Whigs
, will eventually do, an honorable old
, competitor for the purpose of aiding
her in the preservation of the Union,
mow that* that old competitor, as a
, is, really, the only national
party we have in existence in the
United State. Therefore, believing
that the Democratic party is the only
national party now in existence, and
that, npon its snccess ip the present
contest for the presidency .depends
the preservation of the rights of the
Sofath and the national union, if not,
indeed, the very existence of govern
went itself, I feel it my duty to forget
all prejudices and former party predi
lection, to forget former differences,
and to give my earnest and hearty
support, though it be feeble, to the
nominees of the Cincinnati Conven
Id the prcsonbcontesfc for tire Prre
U ideucy, there is three distinct parties
with their respective platforms and
candidates in the field: the Demo
cratic, the American or Know Noth
' ing, and the very fitly termed Black
k' Republican. -dr
. The success of either of the two
last named, would be equally delete*
rious to the well being of the country.
The one (the Kudw Nothing) propo
ses in its platform of measures, to ig
nore, in effect, the great question with
the South—that of Slavery, and to
Tob a goodly portion of the citizens
of the Union, of their Civil and reli
gious liberty. The other (the so Call
ed Republican) proposes in its plat
form of measures, (I capt toy princi
ples) to unblushinglv rob the entire
Southern portion1 of this confederacy
of its constitutional and legal right in
its Slave property. So, it is easily
to be .seen what disastrous cousequen
ces would befall this, the fairest coun
jtl*j under the sun, in case of success
’ -to either of these parties,
/ In this condition of affairs, and
/ amid the gloom which over shadows
the land, I discover but one hope of
safety. That hope is iu the Demo
cratic party. Whatever differences
may have hitherto seperated this par
ty and tire party with which I have
. ,been accustomed to act however hea
ted .the contest through which they
x ]iassed, one thing must be admitted,
, v 4- I ■J •" '*7. ' .i" ■’ . f .
the Democratic party has at all times
and on allocations been a conserva
tive and national party. It was the
Democratic party which met and
crashed the spirit of disunion when
the standard of nulificatiou was rais
ed in South Carolina. It was the
Democratic party which stood by and
sustained the immortal Clay- and
Webster in the great struggle -with
sectionalism in 1S50, and it is the
Democratic party which is now with
out distinction of locality, at the North
and at the South, at the East and at
the West, doing battle manfully for
tile-constitution Union,- a-1
gainst a combined horde of tactions
who are ready to "lay sacrilegious
hands upon them. Iu truth the Dem
ocratic party is the only conservative
party remaining, and the only organ
• ization to which conservative men of
all parties may look to for arestora
of peace and tranquility and obedi
ence to law. It is the only harbor
into which, amid the present storm of
the political efemCrits, the ship of
State may be safely conducted .and
moored.
With 6iich a party.I cannot see the
least impropriety,,in all Old line
Whigs and the conservative of all
parties allying themsejves, which 1
hope they will do, if they love thfeir
Country, a thing’ I do not doubt, and
aid in the holy work of preserving
untarnished the constitution ami the
Union, the legacies of our Iievolu
nonary sires, *• ?
Of the so called Republican party,
that political scourge, 1 shall nut say
milch, as the princijdes—ah, stop, 1
ask pardon, for I am firmly of the. o
pinion that no patriot will say that
party has principles—but rather the
measures it proposes to carry out, if
successful in the present campaign
for the Presidency, are too damnable
to be considered favorably by honest
men on this side of Mason and Dix
on’s line. Therefore, I shall leave
that party withoutdiscussing its meas
ures, with a hope that it will work
out its own “damnation,” as also its
nefarious originators arid -supporters.
But, notwithstanding, the solemn de
testation, 1 entertain for the Black
Rcbiiblican, (a party that I firmly- be
lieve is in close alliance with the so
called American patty,) or for a dis
cussion of its principles or proposed
measures, allow me to say that I think
it behoves every man" who considers
himself a friend to Southern institu
tions, to have an eye single to it| pre
tended, if I may not say^/h/reliances
for success, that he lfiay cast his vote
?in the coming contest for the Presi
dency, in a manner to defeat such
party with its proposed measures.—
I would not say to idly pass it by, for
it might be that by such, negligence
the South would be over powered apd
ruined almost before we are aycare of
it. Yes, it may bethnlTTleSontli isf
at this very time, sleeping^ipon a.vol
cano, that is soon to pour forth its
j red hot lava in the shape of success
t'bv this so called Republican party,
which success would pc the death
knell’to the American Union, and
j which would, in all probability, lead
to civil war, bloodshed, and to the en
i tire destruction of the only, really
Republican government, under the
shining sun. But to avert such a
direful calamity, should now be .the
utmost solicitude of every patriot,
every one who feels the least interest
in-the country, let them belong to
i whatever party or section they may.
| Let all, without distinction of party,
all Southerners, especially all A irgin
ians, put the following question to
themselves,emd answer, it—which ot
the two candidates for the Presiden
cy, that will lie voted for in the
Southern States, at the approaching
election, bids fairest, if elected, to
restore domestic tranquility and to
maintain peace and respect with all
foreign powers? I have here given
mv answer to this question. And,
in my humble judgement, I can but
think that all friends to the Sonth,
irrespective of party felling, when
they view the present aspect of af
fairs, camly and dispassionately, they
wilTanswer as I have done, and vote
for the Cincinnati nominees. It is
the only chance for the life of the Un- j
ion: for, even if Mr. Fillmore could
be elected, he id not the man for the
present crisis, lie has none of the
varied experience that Buchanan has
as a Statesman. The only thing that
Fillmore has to recommend him to
the South, is his assignment of the
Fugitive Slave Bill, while he was ac
cidentally President. lie i* not en
titled to any credit even for that act,
as he was not prompted to it by his
own volition of mind, being goa
ded to the%ssignment by his cabinet.
This fact, l am somewhat acquainted
with, as I was at Washington on bus
iness soon after the passage and as
signment of said Bill, when I heard1
that matter spoken of privately a
tuongst Fillmore’s friends and sup
porters, who said, that had it not
been for Hr. Crittenden ami of others
of the cabinet, the South would never
have -had at that time any legal means
of recovering it3 runaway negroes.—
And as to .Mr. Fillmores claims for
the support of Old line Whigs who
have held themselves aloft from the
so called American party, I consider
them absurd and insulting, after his
having deserted the Whig party that
had liccn the means of raising him
to the highest office in the gilt of the
people, when he saw the Star of that
party was waning, and to throw liini
! self into the polluting arms of the
harlot Know Xothingism. But Mr.
Fillmore's chances for success in the
present contest, are so feeble, that i
am really surprised to see ean« men
persisting in them. In my humble
judgement, I look upon the election
of Mr. Fillmore as a moral impossi
bility—as an occurrence not likely to
"take place within the pale of the ut
most possible contingencies of the
future. The contest for the Presi
dency is therefore between Buchanan
and Fremont, or otherwise, to come
practically to the point, the contest is
between the usurpations of t}ie North
and the constitutional rights of the
South, or, Union or disunion, and
tlieti Republic, or no Republic.—
Therefore, with this view of the por
tentous affair, when it is plainly to be
seen, as 1 think aU sane men will see,
that Mr. Fillmore has no chance for
success I think his supporters, by
still persisting in pressing his claims,
are evincing a disposition to rule or
ruin; that is, they, by throwing away
the vote of some 6f Southern States
upon Mr. Fillmore, will defeat Bu
chanan, and elect Fremont, which
election would bring ruin to the coun
try. May . God interpose to prevent
such bedlamite proccedure.
I entertain no other than feelings of
respect for -Mr. Fillmore as the - late
chief Magistrate of the Republic:—
But for the party now snpportingjhim
for the Presidency and that party's
platform of-pri-posed-measures that
can only,be equalled by those propos
ed )>y the Black Republican party
-Fcjntertaiii the most ^-supreme con
tempt and hatred. I look upon those
measures as being unfit to be tolera
ted in it Republican government—as
being unfit to be sanctioned by any
fnan . right in head and in heart;
I look upon the American or Know
Nothing party as having promulgated
before the youth of the county some
of the most damnable political meas
ures that could have possibly been
hatched by the brain of the most de
praved man; thereby laying the most,
odious-amt dangerous. examples and
precedents before those who are to be
our futuroStatesman. I allude to the
American party’s proscriptive and
intolerable tenets in regard toreligion
and birth, and the secret and clandes
tine feature of conducting mattepf
that should only be conducted openly.
This is the party.that is now strug
gling, vainly I hope, for supremacy
in the affairs of our national govern
Taking a retrospective view, 1 can
not help thinking that the 24th of
May, 1855, should be looked upon by
every one, as being one of the prou
dest days in the existence of the
proud old Dominion. On that day,
long to be cherished in the heart of
every one who is a lover of the well
being of this country, did the stal
wart sons of this old mother of States
and Statesmen and the brightest Star
in the constellation of State, says, by
their vote, to the foul fiend Know
Nothingism, “thus fpr shalt thou
come and no farther^ Flushed with
success in the NorthAi States, Know
Nothingism started With, stamping
and snorting like fiery dragon,
threatening to overrna ]ike thop]
that overrun the regions of theSUe
in olden times, the Sonthern
but the intelligent and liberations of
the oldDominion, lei oh by the gal
laut Wise, stayed that dread plague,
ere it pointed the soilbf the'sunuy
South. Yes, so effectually did our
uur gallant governortind co-workers
crush out hydra-Jh|^|^Smow Noth
ingism, that I itSren never
gain be resusitated. All honor to Gov
- w I K
o-rnor Wtse.
Sam, poor Sain, that mystic Sain,
for a while, threw off his veil of se
crecy; but I see by the last advices
frpm his culvert, that lie has drawn it,
[on again. Not exactly Sammy him
self that has drawu on the veil of se
crecy, hut an auxiliary it is termed,
his hopeful son, Mr. Seague, is doing
the secret work for his decrepit. Of
course Sam my cannot hate ostensibly
anything to do with secrecy notf*^
j Oh! no! of course not! But, never
j mind, the old fellows Protean shapes
are as completely known as they are
multifarious. II is,tricks are too old,
and the people too much enlightened
to be deceived by his sou Mr. Seague,
who also has a hopeful son called
•‘Swerve."’ And when we look over
Mr. Scagues catalogue of of friends,
there can be seen Sums .grand
Sachems, Sachems, the 6ame three
tailed graud Flapdoodles that mana
ged the old fellows affairs in days of
yore—in days of ephemeral prosperi
ty. This lasj move of Sam, I must
say, has “capt thC climax” of ill his
iniquities, and hag had no little to do
in accelerating the move I have here
declared of taking to yoijij,
These are the opinions, convictions,
and determination of! an
“OLD MNE WHIG.
Exciting News from Kansas.
Chicago, Aug. T9.—It lias been as
certained in Kansas that the pro
slaveryites were concentrating men,
arms and ammunition at different
points, tor the purpose of a general at
tack on the free-soilers immediately
after the adjournment of Congress.
Twelve block-houses have been
erected at different points, and well
supplied with arms of all kinds, as
well as garrisoned with Mtpsourians.
A meeting held in Kans® City had
resolved to send $,000 iqen into the
Territory. A meeting held at Lex
ington had also resolved do send its
quota.
The border towns in Missouri were
intensely excited, and a general mus
ter of the Miashntians has been de
manded.
An attack was made on Franklin
by the free-soilers, lor the purpose of
getting poseSsion nf the arms collected
there. One bloejc-house was captur
ed, with 50 stand of arms and a can
non.
An Unfortunate Editor.
The junior editor of the Griggsvllle
(111.) Union—“wearied of tdie mono
tony of scissoring, stealing and writ
ing leaders"—lately went on a “small
bender.” lie closes his “Notes bf
Travel” as follows:
And now comes the most melan
choly part of our tail. To some it
tnay be strange and almost past b^Uef;
but we assure even'body that it is
true. We stopped at Jacksonville-—
the moral city—the “Athens” of Il
linois—and some one was so mean
as to steal our carpetbag! Yes, they
stole an editor's carpet bag? Was ev
er such Iblly known? All we had ta
ken to relieve the tedium of travel; all
our clean linen: all, all gone, “at one
fell swoop.” We shed not a tear, wo
tittered not an oath, for we Could not
do the subject justice. We only wish
ed that we had caught the small pox,
that the fellow might find his reward.
Excuse us, dear reader, for not dwel
ling on the subject. We arrived at
home at last, and fonnd that wc were
reported to have been married while
on onr travels, and received thecon
gratnlations of our friends. ‘'This
was the nnkindeat cut of all.”* We
beg, however, that our young lady
friends will not give the least credence
to.the story; we assbre them that it is
untrue—that it is a base fabrication
from beginning
still endure onr
in silence,
at home.
Hereafter we shall sta
to end,j and that we
single “enssedness
There is and old maid out west so
tough and wrink ed, that they nse her
forehead to grate nutmegs on.
Religion and Poliflti.
' ' ^ -
There seems never to have been a
time in the history of oar country,
when questions of religious and po
litical science were so mingled togeth
er as at the present. When we open
a paper it is often hard to tell, at the
first glance, whether it is a political
or religions journal. In all parts of
our laud, but especially in the North
ern portions, the platform and the
stump give excited utterance to theo
logical' dogmas, while the pulpit
thunders forth political harangues.—
To wlint all this may grow, we have
not the piophetic ken by which we
(night foretell. But in the- midst of
all the commotion and confusion, we
can see one lamentable reversal of the
order of matters and of the order of
truth. Christians supposing that they
are carrying their religion into the
sphere of their earthly interests, are in
fact bringing their politics and world
ly matters into the serene and eleva
ted sphere of their religion. This is
a course as unnatural and as irration
al as it is disastrous to the best inter
ests of humanity.
Keljgiou is a pure, heaveu born
maid, of noble mein and serene coun
tenance. She stands upon a lofty el
evation of goodness and love; and
thence she surveys with tenderness
and interest the scene of tourmoil and
strife, of.sin dnJ woe, .which human
affairs, present to her pitying gaze.
From her heigh t, whence she beholds,
at one glance, the whole df the con
fused and troubled sea, she interposes
with gentleness and love, she reaches
forth her hand to sooth and calm, to
restrain and guide. She brings or
der out of the confusion, turns wraths
and strife into love, and sheds a be
nign and heavenly iufluened over the
raging and tossiug sea of human pas
sions. In her closet mingled with
the world and its conflicts, she Still
maintains her own elevation, and
keeps her garments all unspotted from
the contract. She is in the world, hut
not of it. Slio lives and moves and
works a mighty work of lovo in the
very midst ofthe world’s commotion.
Yet is she above the world, with all
her aspirations towards heaven and
eternity.. Such is the positiou of re
ligion, and such her relations to pol
itics and all earthly things. But of
late we have seen her descend into
the heated arena, joeing lost among
the crowd, and when next she emer
ges, or rather when her position is
again occupied, *tis no longer by her
self, but a drunken drab, wild With
excitement, raves and retches and
belches forth words of strife and scorn
bloodshed and bitterness, adding fuel
to the flames of hatred and envy, and
mocking heaven with daring blas
phemy—essaying even 'to yield the
thunders of Jehovah. When such a
scene meets our troubled vision, we
cry, 6urely religion lias been troildeh
in the streets; truth aud righteous
ness lie bleeding in the dust. Alas!
alas! has it perished foreyer? Shall
we never more behold her beauty and
feel her sweet attractions? Yes, she
shall yet come forth. Religion is of
heavenly birth; sho. is immortal as
the days t>f Jehovah. God, her au
thor lives and reigns, and this is our
comfort in these days of darkness,
that the Lord reigueth, The earth
may therefore rejoice, and the mul
titudes of the isle bo glad thereof.*—
Louisville Herald.
War! War! War;
The Bloody Issue Begun!. Up So'ti
er eig ns! and to your duty! Pa
tience has ceased to be a virtue!
An express from Lecompton ha#
just arrived, bringing intelligence ol
the attack on Franklin by Lane's men
the murder of the Post Master, rob
bery of the mail, and destruction of
the Post Office. *
The attack was made on the Town
late in the evening, on Tuesday, by
upwards of ^hundred and fifty men.
They athicked Judge Fain, and 6hot
him in tho shoulder. They next at
tacked the Post Office, and after rob
bing it of its contents, shot Mr. Crane,
the post master. They then set "fire
to a large covered wagon alpng-side
of the office, and burned it and the
office. They drove tho citizens into
their houses, which* after a parley,
agreed to spare them, if they (the cit
izens) would ogree to leave the Ter
ritory in 24 hours, never to return.
All the arms, private and public,
muskets and cannon, were taken by
them. An attack upon Lecompton
is hourly expected.
Now the issue, bloody thongh i‘
may be. is forced upon ns, let us be
up and doing, lot no quarter be
given, but war to the extermination
of the miscreats be the motto.
Leavenworth, Aug. 14,
The Campaign Democrat has a pic
ture of an old Bock running splendid
ly—tossing a person with a dark lan
tern from his noble antlers, and kick
ing a little woolly horse into tormem
from his heels.
The 8veil
Thie dreadful di
*t
tacka horses, and, probably, other
am mala, as monkeys and jaekaaaes;
and some birds, aa the parrot and
mocking-bird. But men are more
subject to it, and with them it it more
fatal. k
Cause. Yacttfy in the cranium.
It is ofteu augmented by flattery,
pecially when the cerebi
and ill-shaped, Men of
raation, however, are sometime* af
flicted with it, in which ca$« there is
found an inordinante swelling in the
upper region of the head, just back
of the apex craniit The protuber
ance is called sell-esteem. V
m
test, best and handsomest man in the
crowd—loves the “uppermost seats
in the synagogues”—is given to im
pudence, .impertinence, and usnally
bad manners in company—is censo
rious and l'ond of finding and expo
sing the foibles of h}s associates—
has few friends and no lovers, and has
generally a bad odor to polite and
well-bred people-^rgivon to swelling
and strutting, as if one momeut he
fancied himself a toad, and the next
a turkey-cock. He is egotistic, and
passionately fond of high-sounding
titles, as ’Squire, Captain, Colonel,
General, &c. The miserable patient
is sometimes so infatuated as to at
tempt to stride the ocean, or jump
over very high mountains, these
are only a few of the symptoms of
this malady, but enough to identify it.
Treatment. When it is caused by
emptiness of the cranium, it is only
necessary to fill up the vacum with
good ideas, a solid education, or com
mon sense. When induce by dimin
utiveness, or malformation of brain,
the cure is slow and difficult. We
have known some cases which defied
every remedy and destroyed the pa
tients. A cure must be attempted by
exercising and cultivating those fac
ultieb\which are deficient, such as
the judgement, and the understand
ing, arid depleting self-esteem, &c.—
The Skulls of these patients are usu
ally very thick and hard, so that it is
hard pounding anything into them;
but they are , excessively .fond of soft
soap—give them a pound1 of two ev
ery day, and it will soften the skull so
that you can probably g«^ a little
gumption into it, or a modicum ra
tiocination, and they will soon be
well. When this will not cnrepisoft
soap will palliate.
In the case of those gentlemen, from
ten to twenty years old, who get to
putting on the boots and pantaloons
of their fathers, and to teaching their
teachers, reproving, counselling, and
sometimes insulting old age, chewing
tobacco, smoking cigars, and drink
ing whiskey—swearing, and cutting
the dandy swell-head generolly-appe
tite for late hours, bad company, and
bar-rooms voracious—a little oil of
birch, applied by the paternal hand, is
the best remedy. Then keep them
out of the night air and bad weather,
If this does not effect a cure by the
diviue blessing—the poor suffer
topples over a few times, and knoe
out half his self
Baptist.
teem.—Louisian
urtaanu Explosion.
A terrible disaster occurred at So
loni,ca, Turkey, on the 11th iust. A
fire broke out in a Turkish khan in the
Frank quarter, and soon extended it
self over the houses in its vicinity.—
By the exertions, however, of the
Governor, Achmet Pasha, and a nu
merous multitude, the fire was got
under, and everybody was ready to
retire, when a fearful explosion took
place in the house of John Schillizzi,
a French merchant, who bad secreted
in it about 200 barrels of gunpowder,
(contraband.),
In consequence of this terrible ex
Slosion th6 large town residence of
lr. Jphn If. Abbott was burnt down
in an instant, whilst more than a
hundred individuals were struck dead
in the very yard, some of whom, at
the dato of the advices, were still un
der the burning ruins of the houses.
Hence the fire got over the walls of the
town, and burnt down all the newly
built warehouses outside the town.—
The total lops is estimated at a hun
dred millions piastres, but the great
est sufferers are poor store-keepers,
who had been burnt out only two
years previously. According to an
other account, 'Pasha estimated the
number of victims of both classes at
upwards of 1,000- V h
According to latest accounts, the
Russian, Dutch and Sardinian Con
mis are among the victims! Schil
lizzi, who was the cause of the disas
ter, had been arrested. \
A gentleman of Fauquier offers,
:hp Fhig, to bet $250 ou Bu
chan’s election; $100 that Fillmoro
loes not carry two southern States;
ind $100 on the former’s getting each
of the southern States and Pennsylva
nia, Indiana and HUjjaie*AH $*150.
to be taken together.
of the effects of two
topt city becoming political atfftwell
of
ly tray*:' ‘‘One pew own* in B*?.
Mr. HatefVchock offer* to bet hi*
Norton’* church, on the reams <
general election jn $©Tembsr.w,
The Greenville (Ohio) .
say* that ex-Governor Trimble, of
that State has come out in favor* of
“Buck and Breck,” and is doing
good service for the ease of r
LastytonrhO!
and will not support the “Wo&ly
Horse” and his disunion groomsmen.
Ri
dis
m
as
ish.
Wo regifet to learn that Timothy
'res the Elector for the Petersburg
—trict, has resigned his situation.—
Deafness, added to other physical
causes led to his resignation.
A fellow just returned from a fight,
which he came off second best, was
ked what made him look so sheep*
i. “Because,” said he, “I‘ have
been and got lammed.”
Ja native of Africa, who had visit- .*
ed England a lew years ago, when
asked what ice was, said —“Him be
water fast asleep.”
Three whig candidates for governor
of Ohio—Messrs. Johnson, Barrens
and Vinton—arc out flat-footed fci
“Buck and Breck.”
Won* Commikoed.—The Jamee
River and Kanawha Company have
commenced the improvement of Elk
Shoal, Kanawha river. • '*
New Yoke, Aug. 21.—The Liver
pool Times bays that Robt. Lowe is
charged with the duty of settling the
Central American question.
The Old Line Whigs of Erie conn*
ty Penn,, had a gathering last wew,'
and shook hands over a common to
solved to support the National Dam- 4
ocratic Presidential ticket. J
if* v'i
About sixty-live
South Carolina, und
igrants from
tmmatid of
Major Wilkes pass through August*
op Tuesday afternoop on their way to
Kansas, f ./ \ •, \ < •
The Gospel according to St. Beech
er—“Go ye into all the world, and X
shoot the gospel at every creature,”
Nance resour
X
t “Are sister Sal
ces, pa?”
“No, my son, Why do you
question?” * r
“Because I heard uncle John „
you would only husband your resour
ces yon could get along a great deal
better than you do: and l thought it
would be S good idea, because you
wouldn’t have so many young men
here for supper every Sunday evening,
that's all.
X
Laboe Family.—There are now
confined in the penitentiary of Vir
ginia 331 felons. Of this number
224 are white males, ! white female,
92 black males and 1,4 black females.
This, We; believe, is the-largest num
ber of prisoners ever confined in
that institntin at^m^one time.
j If the female who flirts
and plays the coquette, could but re
alize the detriment to her reputation
Which is sure to follow Upon her
thoughtless levity, there would be
less cause for less actual repentance,
among the fair sex, than one meets
with at this time, in every day life,
Conld every lovely woman feel and
believe how different the sensible of
the opposite sex enjoy the society and
smile of the sonud minded, well in
formed female, as compared with the
silly, giddy, heartless “belle” of the
day—how different would be the de
portment of thousands lit society who
for display and coquetry. '
Tub Blue Ridge Tcnhel.—The re
port published in the Baltimore Sun
by a correspondent from Staunton,
about the breaking into the. Blow
Ridge Tnnnel of a large stream of wa
ter, and the woshingoqt oftho earth, is
incorrect. Nothing of the kind hat
occurred. It was started by
person merely for the purpose of “salt
ling” that enterprising paper, and thf
joker’s success Us been complete.
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A late number of the LouisrOl*
Courier (old line whig) fays:
“If the elections were hold to <
Buchanan’s majority in 'f“
would probably reach ten 1
but when the feet become*
more and more clear that ]
the only chanco to dot* .
there w*H, we predict, bo a
stampede, and we sbalt hot be t
ed if his m^ority in Kentucky
ed double or treble, or even <
1 pie, that number. < * J