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THE NEW ERA.
What is it but a Map of busy Life ?— Corcper.
NORFOLK AND PORTSMOUTH
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21,1846.
OUR FLAG!
FREE TRADE-LOW DUTIES—NO DEBT—SE
PARATION FROM HANKS—ECONOMY—RE
TRENCHMENT—AND STRICT ADHERENCE
TO THE CONSTITUTION.
THE LECTURE.
riie third Lecture of tho Course being deliv
ered at the Military Academy, by Professor
W eoster, and advertised in our paper yesterday
for this evening, will take place on the first “clear
night.’’ See advertisement.
THE NEW MILLINERY.
Betsey and the babies” have had a look at
the new and beautiful goods and fashions, which
Mrs. Mercerean has brought on for the gratifica
tion of the ladies, and say its a shame that I don’t
say something about the Polka Bonnets, Feathers,
Laces, &c., which she will display to-morrow
morning. It is in vain that we tell Betsey that
we know nothing about such things; she says we
know well enough, and can write that as well as
any thing else, and wishes she was an editor, she
would show what could be done. The place is
getting rather too warm, (you know what I
mean,) so I’ll clear out to Richmond and leave
you, Capiain, to call the attention of our beauti
ful ladies to the new fashions, &.c., alluded to
above. Good bye.
AIM—READY—FIRE.'
Now that game, of all kinds, is fat and
plenty, we would direct the sportman’s attention
to the shop of our friend Spai.ding, next door to
the Old Dominion Office, who has just returned
from the North with a large assortment of Double
and Single shut Guns and Rifles, that will make
the eyes of a lover of field sports dance with de
light to examine, which he is daily disposing of
at prices which in former days would have ap
peared to us as nothing. He is the chap, too, to
do the repairing of your implements of sport, and
make the old gun not only look as well, hut be as
good as new. .Just give him a call.
OUR COUNTY COURT SYSTEM.
Some lime last spring we commenced the pub
lication of a series of Essays on some of the evils
which are inflicted upon us by our anti republican
Constitution, among which was an examination
of the “ County Court System,” by the pen of a
clear hpaded legal gentleman. The Essays on
that particular subject were three in number, and
as they are short, we have thought that we could
not do a greater service to oor readers than to in
troduce them into the columns of the New Era
especially as the time is rapidly approaching when
the su^ect of authorizing a Convention will be 1
pressed upon the Legislature. We accordingly !
commence their republicatton to day.
«' SMITH'S WEEKLY VOLUME FOR
TOWN AND COUNTRY.”
We have barely time to acknowledge the re
ceipt, through Messrs. Hodges &. Co.,»of the]first
Quarterly Part of this inestimable work. We
will not even at this lime pretend to offer a criti
que on the work, but shall lake an early opportu
nity to make a lengthened notice of it. It is
beautifully printed, on excellent paper, at §4 per
annum.
HON. FRANKLIN PIERCE.
For several years a Represen live in Congress,
and also a Senator from New Hampshire, has de
clined the appointment, tendered him by Gov.
Steele, to fill the vacancy in the United States
Senate, occasioned by the resignation of the Hon.
Levi Woodbury.
VIRGINIA SENATOR.
We copy the following communication from the i
Richmond Enquirer of the 14lh instant. The ad- 1
vice given by “ Fair Play” would seem to imply
that there is such a thing as foul piny, which, for i
the honor of Virginia, wo hope is not the case.
We hope that tho corrupt system of New York
tactics is not to be practised upon us. Leave that
to the hot bed of the Albany Regency. The ex
posure made by Makenzie, no matter how dishon
orable to him, docs not take from the disgrace of
the party exposed, and we trust that no Virginian
will commit himself to any cause or any man that
will cheat the people, who in the honesty 0f their :
hearts raised their voices at the polls, at the No- i
vember election, and tho elections of last sprint.
If they do, terrible will be the retribution which *
will be visited upon them by the people jn their
wrath. All we ask is fair piny, )et come what
will come, and we will abide tho event—But we
will submit to no jugglery. Numbers must and
shall rule—the wire-workers shall come from be
hind the curtain.
from the fanquircr.
OUR NEXT SENATOR.
To the 1fembert r>f the Legitlnture :
“ KESriCE riNEM.”
Scarce sixty days will have passed over, before
you will be called on to discharge one of the most
delicate and important duties which has come be
fore you for many years. Important, because of
the many, great, and, I may add, vital questions
which will he agitated next Winter. foelieate’ i
because of the great number of distinguished Re- I
publicans who have Seen brought to y.)Ur notice
by their respective friends—men who have been
engaged in many a hard fought battle, and have
done “ the State some service.” That you may
worthily discharge this duty, and meet the ex
pectations of your peers, is the sincere desire of
the humble individual who traces these hasty
lines—one who has been identified with the De
mocratic party for the last thirty years—in its ad
versity and in its halcyon days—in the •• ,nonn
tain storm ’ and •' the gale of Spring.” He
deems no apology necessary for thus addressing
yon, and saying a few words, he hopes, in ten
ton.
It is useless to disguise the fact, that mod. so
licitude is felt, and great excitement .is prevail
1
mg, respecting the election of Senator. It is not
the intention of the writer of this to add another
name to the list of nominees—nor is it his design
to say any thing to increase the feverish excite
ment alluded to. But he presumes to appeal to
you to survey the whole ground—to frown indig
nantly upon any effort at “ log rolling,” (should
any attempt of the kind unfortunately be made.)
No time-serving, temporising, or doubtful politi
cian, it is hoped, will find favor in your eyes.—
No drones nor camp-followers should expect any
thing at your hands. No politician, who would
play second to any other politician, should for
one moment be tolerated. Let the past he a bea
con for the future—let not our just expectations
he at'ain disappointed. A Virginia Senator
slmnd be like (Dakar’s wife. It is hoped, for the
honor of \ irginia, the Democratic party, and the
distinguished gentlemen who have been named
for the exalted station, that a fair, open and man
ly course will he pursued by the friends of each_!
that no early committal will take place. We
cannot foresee what two short months may bring
forth. In the mean lime, “ stand by your guns.”
Should any attempt he made to “ cross the lines,”
let the tocsin at once he sounded. Woe he to
I that man, who shall so far forget himself as to en
I ter into any bargain, intrigue, nr understanding,
, to promote his personal views!—better that such
; a man had never been born. I make no charges
; —have none to make—least of all, against my
: brother Democrats—yet the history of a Rives,
i and an Archer, and others, should admonish us
to he careful and wary. We lime had some poli
tical “Judases”—never give us another, say 1.
Let us have, indeed, and in truth,
“ FAIR PLAY.”
From the Chronicle of March 26th.
OUR COUNTY COURT SYSTEM.
NO. I.
Mr, Dditor :—Allow me, through the columns
of your paper, to consider briefly the operation, in
practice, of the power vested in these tribunals.
Let ns spe if this system carries out the doctrine
contained in the 2d section of the Bill of Rights
“ unanimously adopted by the Representatives of
the good people of Virginia, assembled in full and
free Convention, June 12, 1776,” in these words:
"All power is vested in, mid consequently de
rived from Hie People ; Magistrates are their
trusters, and servants, and at all limes amena
ble to them." What more glorious truth than
this could have been declared! It breathes the
genuine spirit of Freedom. It strikes at once at
the very foundation, and overturns the whole su
perstructure of domination " jure divino,” under
the exercise of which pretended right, the degra
ded serfs of Europe have been fur centuries ground
to the dust, and the hard earnings of the poor have
been wrested from them to fill the coffers of the
rich and powerful. But how does the organiza
tion of our County Courts accord with and carry
out the doctrine “ that all power is derived from
the people!” The Magistrates in this glorious
old Commonwealth, the Mother of Presidents,
Statesmen, and Heroes, derive their powers, not
from the people., but from each other. It is the
board of Magistrates, themselves, who nominate
others to be commissioned by the Governor and
Council. With all this what have the people to
do? Literally nothing. They are not like the
Judges of our Superior Courts chosen by those
who are directly responsible to the people for the
manner in which they discharge their high trusts.
Trim, the Law provides that they maybe punish
ed by information or indictment, and their com
missions vacated by a Circuit Superior Court of
Law and Chancery. But tins can only be done
upon a verdict of a jury charging a corrupt ami
wilful or tyrannical exerciae of power. A chargp
hard to he made out and not likely to he so de
cided, unless in a case of the most flagrant and
outrageous injustice. Besides, those who are most
in danger of oppression from decisions contrary to
law are those least able to undertake such a pro
ceeding for rpdress.
We ask, then, ought not the law on this sub
ject, at least, tube so far changed as to permit the
people to choose their own Magistrates? And
should not the right of appeal from their decisions
be also extended, and freely allowed ? Let it be
borne in mind that the weak need, and are entitled
In protection, as well as the strong. That the
debtor for a small sum is as much, and more in i
danger of suffering injustice from illegal decisions,
than he who is sued for thousands.
As showing the danger of abuse in the exercise
of the powers confided to these tribunals, let ns
suppose the nomination of Magistrates going for
ward in the Court, were we to hear a member of
that Court, (one, by the way, who is so mindful
of the interests of sonic in the community as to
be constantly on hand for the decision of warrant \
cases,) I repeat, were we to hear such a one ex
claim in greaUexcitement, “ No, it will never do
to appoint more Democratic than Whig Magis
trates!!” What most he onr impression as to ;
his notions of Justice and Law in a community of!
equal freemen, when his opinion of the fitness of
a fellow citizen for a high judicial trust depends
upon the question lo rchat political parly docs he
belong ?
Suppose again we were to aco the Court pro- j
ceeding at another time to make nominations for j
the same office, and uniformly to reject every
Democratic nominee and confirm every Whig •
and that too in a community wiih half a score of
Whig, and not one Democratic Magistrate. Must
we not in charity conclude that they are conscien
tious in the opinion of Rome of their political
brethren, that they have upon their Ride “ all the
learning, all the talent, all the respectability, all
the wealth, and all the religion,” and that, there
fore, it is in vain to seek for a fit candidate for
the office of Magistrate in the ranks of their politi
cal opponents * God forbid that the people of the
old Commonwealth should longer submit to such
a system of irresponsible despotism! hoi this
anti-Republican feature no longer disgrace, our
Statute Hooks! Let this licensed Star Chamber
of Virginia be abolished! Lpt us swear in the
name of humanity, in the name of American Free
dom and Equality, and in our own sovereign name
it must, it shall be done. Yours, &c.
ONE OF TIIE PEOPLE.
THE METHODISTS IN THE SOUTHERN
STATES.
I'lie differences existing in the Methodist
Church on the subject of Slavery, il is clearly
known, has caused a separation in that body, and
it appears has left a bitterness between the two
sections which the religion which they profess
does not counteract. This feeling has also ex
tended itself to the community by which they are
surrounded in some places, and the tarring and
feathering of preachers has been threatened. The
Illinois Conference, amongst others, has embroil
ed itself on this subjpet, and has resolved to send
preachers into slave States, whence there are in
structions made that they will be ejected if they
should come. From an article on this subject in
the Louisville Journal, we make the following
extract, which will communicate some informa
tion respecting this quarrel:
The editor of the Frankfurt Cnmmnmcealth.
an able and prominent Methodist, recently gave,
through his paper, a most unequivocal warning
to the “ Church North.” that, if tint church
should send its ministers into tlip slave States and
they should insist on punching among ns. il would
be at their personal peril, as the people would
take redress into their own hands. That this
warning was not a mere empty threat is very |
evident trom the late proceedings at Parkersburg,
Virginia. I lie.Rev. A. Brown and the Rev.
John Dillon, Ohio Methodists, were sent by tire
Ohio conference to Parkersburg to preaelr the
gospel, the bounds of tire Ohio conference includ
ing Parkersburg. But the people of the latter
place were resolved that no prpaohers front the
precincts of the “ Church North” should preach
the gospel among them. A public meeting of the
citizens, comprising nearly all the Methodists of
the place, was hp|d, and the following resolutions
were unanimously adopted and published.
Ilesolvcd, I hat wt* are nut hound by any law,
moral or conventional, to submit to thpse things:
hot fcp| that we are imperatively railed on hy a
high sense of doty, and after doe deliberation on
the notorious faels ol the ease, to remove these
men from amongst us, and beyond the limits of
the Commonwealth.
Resolved, That a committee of three he ap
pointed by the chair, whose duty it shall he to
notify Rev. A. Brown and Rev. John Dillon, that
in the deliberate judgment of this meeting, their
lorther continuance Imre is incompatible with tlm
safety, ppare, and order of this community, and
that this meeting advise them forthwith to leave
the State. The meeting then adjourned till three
o’clock to await the report of this committee._
And at three o’clock Mr. (ieorgo Neale, Jr., from
the committee of three, reported that they had
waited on Mr. Dillon, and that he requested time
to deliberate on his reply. Whereupon it was
unanimously
Resolved, That lie ho allowpd until Saturday
morning next to make his arrangements to leave
the State, and that a committee of forty he ap
pointed whose duty it shall be to see that Rev.
Mr. Dillon withdraws from the State hy that
period; and, in case of his failure, intake such
measures as shall cause him to do so.
J. H. NEAL. Chairman.
M. J. LtTTf.RBoy, Jit , Secretary.
.Monday, September 22.
Mr. B rown ami Mr. Dillon promptly Ipft Par
kersburg in pursuance of this notice, deeming such
a step necessary to their own bodily safety.” We
depply regret such a condition of things, without
assuming the right to decide where the blame
justly lies. We believe that the Methodist
church has accomplished a vast amount of good
everywhere, and we fee] the sincerest regret that
the conduct of one portion of it, or the conduct of
the other portion of it, or the conduct of both por
tions combined, has brought about such a state of
things that the preachers of one section of the
Union cannot extend their labors through all thp
other sections, without danger of being lynched
hy their gospel brethren.
From the Philadelphia Ledger,
PRESENTS TO PRESIDENTIAL C AN
DIDATES.
If the partisan presses of onr country were con
ducted by men of more elevated views, they
would not so servilely land and puff the misera
bly servile practice of making presents to leading
politicians, especially candidates for the Presiden
cy. And we will add that if such politicians had
as much self-respect, and as much regard for an
elevated tone of thinking and feeling among their
countrymen, as they ought to have, they ’'would
not give, the least encouragement to this servile
practice. Scarcely a week passes without bring
ing us, in some partisan newspaper, an account of
a new hat for Mr. Clay, a pair of silk stockings
for Mr. Van Boren, a pair of pantaloons for Gov.
Marey, a magnificent overseer’s whip for Mr.
Calhoun, a splendid tobacco box for Mr Benton,
a pair of superb double spectacles lor Gen. Cass, a
richly ornamented hank note wallet for Mr. Web
ster, a dozen of elegantly ruffled shirts for Mr.
Buchanan, a richly bound treatise on the Third
Commandment for .lodge Bibb.
And for what purpose is all this miserable stuff ?
The manufacturer wishes to puff his wares, and
therefore presents a specimen to a “ great man”
by way of advertisement. Of course the “ great
man,” if a gentleman, will return a letter of ac
knowledgment, prai-ing'the specimen in the high
est terms of diplomatic compliment. And even if
the praise should he sparing, it will “ tell well”
from such a source, and therefore he a good thing
to publish; fur according to Gil Bias, “a ureal
roan must receive you very ill indeed, to make
you displeased with him.” But this is not all.
Before the article is sent to the donee, it is exhib
ited in a shop window and praised in the news
papers; the name and number of the “enterpris
ing manufacturer” being duly, that is, conspicu
ously, mentioned. And when the letter of thanks 1
comes hack, it is published with all due parade,
with the intimation that, the enterprising and in
genious manufacturer “ has a few more of the
same sort.’ \V ho can fail to sec in all this, the
advertising puff, and the conversion of tne “great !
man’s” name into a huh to the advertising kite, as
the hoys would say?
The last specimen of this sordid servility is a '
pair of boots for Mr. Clay. VVe shall not men-<
lion the maker’s name, unless he pay9 for the i
advertisement; nor shall we then mention it tn the i
editorial columns, according to the fashion of
some partisan presses in New York : and if they
are designed for the next Presidential race, we
hope that they will nrovepqual tnthe famous sev- j
en-leagued boots, whether he heats his competitors
or not.
This low practice sometimes produces queer re--i
suits, and places the “enterprisingand ingenious” !
adventurers in rather ridiculous positions. Thus!
at the last election, a coach maker made a superb
inauguration coach for Mr. Clay, and sent it all
tho way to Kentucky, when the donee had no
use for it. Ami some years ago. when Mr. Clay
was in Boston, a manufacturer of straw bonnets,
wishing to advertise his wares, made a superb
one for Mrs. Clay, which was gazetted in the
richest language of Bostonian exaggeration. And
wishing to kill two birds with one stone, the man
ufacturer inserted in his letter of presentation, a
puff «f the shaping by the pretty milliner who
<tid that part of the business, and who was con
cerned with him in the sale of his bonnets. *• It
is but justice to add.” wrote he, “ that the bon
net was shaped by Miss B-.” This was too
much for Mr. Clay. Ho went through the let
ter with commendable gravity to that part. But
then dignity broke down, and he roared outright;
and with sly sarcasm that was truly exquisite, he
put at the tail of his letter of thanks, “ Justice
requires me to add that the bonnet is very prettily
shaped by Miss B-.” We thoroughly des
pise all this stuff, as a low imitation of foreign
servility. An Knglishman may be proud of being
cobbler to the Prince of Wales, leather breeches
mender to the Duke of York, skate maker to
Prince Albert, diaper weaver to the Queen, and
garter maker to the Queen Dowager. But an
American manufacturer or mechanic ought to bo
ashamed of such traps to catch customers, and
American statesmen ought to bo ashamed of
giving any encouragement to such servile prac
tices.
[We like the above aitcle well, and we have
no doubt it will please the generality of our read
ers. Mr. Polk, did the business about right when
honest Tom Lloyd, Naval Officer of Baltimore,
through his spokesman Maguire, presented the
President with a beautiful gelding. He listened
throughout to the eloquent speech of the orator,
then kindly thanking the donor, ordered the horse
returned, and in a short time thereafter relieved
honest Tom from the hurden of office.—A'ew Era.]
From the Union.
OFFICIAL.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
Department ok State. >
Washington, October 18. 1845. y
Information has been received at this Depart
ment from the Charge d’Affaires of the United
Slates at Copenhagen, Denmark, that permission
has been granted by his Danish Majesty’s gov
ernment to the fishermen at Albek, (on the eas
tern coast of Jutland, and midway between the
Scaw and Frederikshaon,) to burn two red lights
at Albek, from the 1st of September to the 1st of j
May. The lights will bo 15 ells distant from I
each other, at an elevation of about 8 feet from i
the level of the sea. and he visible front a ship’s
deck at sea about I 14 league distant.
WH AT’S eOM I NG N EXT.
“ The popular elections within tho last twelve
months have resulted so strangely, that we think
it worthy of the serious consideration of the I
Whigs, and especially of Whig Congressmen,
whether it is not their doty to aid in a change of
the Tariff, in many important particulars.”
The foregoing singularly significant sentence
we find in the opening paragraph of an article in
the last Fayetteville Observer. What’s coming
next? Who would have believed that this sen
tence would ever have been found in the columns
of such a thorough-paced protective tariff paper as
the Observer? Indeed, we have read it over and
over again, and rubbed our eyes to see if we were
not dreaming, before we could believe the evidence
of onr own senses. And is it possible that we
have an ultra whig tariff paper urging upon the
considetation of “ Whig Congressmen, whether 1
it is not their duty to aid in a change of the Tariff, i
in many important particulars.” A Tariff that !
has been extolled by the Federal party, from
Maine to Louisiana, as the very saviour of our
country ; and now we have one of the leading or
gans of that party in North Carolina, calling the
attention of the “ Whig Congressmen ’’ to see if
it he not their duty to change it in many impor
tant (!) particulars. Is it possible that this can
he the same Observer which advocated the pro
tective pedicy with such devotional fervor during
the Presidential contest? What can he in the
wind? That the Tariff will he changed, and
iliat radically, at the next session of Congress, we
have not a shadow of doubt ; but that “ Whig
Congressmen” should he called upon to assist in
the operation, we must confess we could not pos
sibly dream of. Well, it’s a wonderful world,
and we wouldn’t be note much surprised, if the
Observer came out full blast against the “ Act of
’42,” whig darling as it is.— Wilmington, (JV.
C.) Journal.
MEXICO.
Hy the schooner Ventura, Captain Martinez, at
Now Orleans on the 8th inst., wo have received ;
intelligence from Tampico up to the 27lh Seplein- I
ber.
The news by this arrival is not much later than
that received hy the .Joaquina, hut the extracts of
two letters which v.e publish below will no doubt
be interesting to our readers.
Extract of a letter dated Matamoras, Sppt. 13.
“ Oor latest dates from the Capitol are up to the !
the 30th August, and state that it is generally be
lieved that the pending question relative to the
annexation of Texas will not lead to a war be
tween Mexico and the United States. The first
outbreak of the passions has subdued, a id now
exhausted finance of the new treasury and the ;
general apathy of the people arc such strong im
pediments, that we confidently believe that no I
war will result,.and the proof of it'is that no!
Mexican troops have yet moved towards the Iron- !
tier.”
Tampico, Sept. 26, 1815.
“ 'I'he new Tariff will he published in the com
mencement of the next month, and it is said will J
commence in 4 or 6 months. 'I'he duty will be
considerably decreased on wine, iron, steel and |
i brandy, little in linen and probably not at all on !
I cotton goods. People will return In federalism
I hut dare not express their opinions on account of
| the military, who are opposed to it. Ten days j
i ago several conducts arrived from the interior 1
with twp millions of dollars, of which $1,800,000
! went on board of the English steam packet
j Avon.”
FROM CORPUS CHRIST!.
The Washington Union has official intelligence
J from Corpus Christi to the 25th September:
“ Gen. Worth had arrived at St. .Joseph’s with
six companies of his regiment, the 8th infantry.
; Three companies of 3d artillery, (one being Major
Ringgold’s light company.) and one of 7tli, from
Pensacola, have also arrived. Captain Ringgold 1
lost only three horses on the voyage; the remain
der are all in good condition. Lieutenant Dun- j
can’s company of light artillery had arrived, with !
a loss of thirteen horses. Most of the troops un- ,
der orders for Texas had arrived. 'I’he Lexing-!
ton, from New York, had not yet made her desti
nation. The troops were all in excellent health,
scarcely anything like fever being known. There
were no movement* on the part of the Mexican*
indicating a warlike spirit, as far as was heard.—
A report had reached the frontier of a revolution
in'Jalapa, aqd tho consequent dispersion or recall
of a body of troops that were on their march to
Texas.
HIGHLY IMPORTANT, IF TRUE !
By the arrival of the biggest iron kettle that
ever crossed the Allantic, we learn that
‘ ,,er Majesty and Prince Albert, who continue
at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, have taken their
usual carriage and walking exercise daily, during
the past week. On Sunday, the Queen and her
royal consort attended divine service in Whip
pingham church.’ r
II iliis is really true—and comes to us in such
a shape as to preclude, extinguish, obliterate, and
eradicate all manner of doubt—it is another ex
emplification of the truth of the remarkable sav
ing of the renowned Samuel Patch, Esq., H. J.
G. W . S., that * some things can be done as well
as others.’ Again, it is said that
1 lie present season has been very unfavora
ble for bees. Great numbers of swarms have died
of hunger, owing to their having been kept with
in their hives by the incessant rains.’
Dying of hunger is very common in England,
and m fact throughout all the British possessions •
even in India, as fair a land as the son ever
shone upon, and where hunger would have never
been known, had it not followed in Ihe wako of
British invasion and conquest; but what are wo
to think of the starvation of bees? It has often
been said that an industrious person need not starve
in any country; hut we have had abundant proof
that even the most industrious of Great Britain
are continually in a state of starvation, and now,
the bee—the very paragon of industry—* the lit
tle busy hee’ which • improves each shining hour,’
‘lo gal,»er honey all the day from every Opening
flower,’ is—tell it not in Gath, publish it not in
the Lnited States, where provisions and honey
are plenty—dying of hunger /—A*. Y. Globe.
MIRABEAU’S EULOGY ON FRANKLIN.
The following are the terms in which the De
mosthenes of the French Revolution spoke of our
venerated Franklin :
On the morning after the intelligence of the
death of Franklin reached Paris, when the As
sembly was convened. Mirabeau rose and spoke
as follows : *
“Franklin is dead! The genius that freed
America, and poured a flood of light over Europe
has returned to tho bosom of the Divinity The
sage whom two worlds claim as their own, the
man for whom the history of science* and the his
tory of empires contend with each other held
without, doubt, a high rank in the human race’
loo long have political cabinets.taken formal note
ot the death ot those who were great, only in tho
funeral panegyrics. 'Poo long has the etiquette
of courts prescribed hypocritical mourning. Na
tions should wear mourning only for their bene
factors. The representatives of nations should
commend to their homage none but the heroes of
humanity The Congress lias ordered thromrh
yut the Umted States a mourning for one month
f..r the death of Franklin ; and at this moment
America is paying this tribute of veneration and
gratitude to one ot the fathers of her constitution
Antiquity would have raised altars to the mrnhty
genius who, to the advantage to mankind com
passing in Ins mind the heavens and the earth—
was able to restiain alike thunderbolts and ty
rants Europe, enlightened and free, owes a least
a token ot remembrance and regret to one of the
greatest men who has ever been engaged in the
service of philosophy and liberty. I propose thai
I be decreed, that the National Assembly, during
Franklin^’ 813 Wear mourninff for Benjamin
Pi.an of Union.—A proposal has been made
that a great meeting of evangelical Christians, of
oitferent I rotestanl churches and countries, should
be held in London, for the purpr.se of associating
and concentrating their strength and promoting
the interests of Christianity thronghout the world
A preliminary meeting took place in Liverpool
the first ot October, attended by some of the lead
ing European minds.
A Confession of Murder.—Jacob Cotton,
convicted recently of the murder of a widow lady
and her grand son, near ISalisbory, N. C., has
confessed the crime, and implicated two others
(Peyton Ilasket and David Valentine,) in the
same dreadful crime. They have botli been ar
rested, and are now in prison awaiting their trial.
Ki.orr.MKNT.-The St. Louis America ..f
i uesday, reports a case of this kind, but .rives no
names. 1 he gentleman is said to have "left an
interesting wife, and tho lady with whom he
absquatulated a husband and three interesting
children. *
Abolition of the I. O. of O. F—From
present appearances a new ingredient is to enter
the lodges that must make the great secret public
l he admission of ladies to full and entire panici
!,|0nc!n.the benevolent purposes of the Order of
Odd bellows, has engaged the attention of the
members ol that charitable institution,and the Gol
den Rule weekly newspaper of to day contains an
expression of opinion in favor of it. The highest
organization of the order, the Grand Lodge of the
Onion, at its session here last month, passed a
resolution authorizing subordinate lodges to grant
cards to ladies under slated limitations.—Express
of Saturday. 1
All that me G. L. (of the U. S.) has done is
to authorize lodges by a two-third vote to grant
certificates to the wives and widows of members,
by which means they can, when amongst stran
gers, make known their relationship to The Order
and be placed in a position to receive from its
members that courtesy and kindness wh.ch the
principles of the Order inculcate. There need be
T aPP'ehen#,”n renamed of the ” Abolition" of
the Order.—Morning jYeics.
Msn s Kovk.—•• And don’t you think that
men can love as well as women V’
Sarah laughed outright.
“ What can you mean, Sarah?’’ asked Mar
garet.
*j I mean.” she replied, “that when a man
tinds his house m disorder, a/id wanls somebody
to pot it to rights, be calls this love ; when he is
alone, too, and things don’t go pleasantly, and
wants somebody to complain to and find fault
with, and lay the blame upon, he calls this
love When no one cares for him, and he gets
put down in society, and wants to bind himself
tor life to some being who will flatter him, and
admire his very faults, this too he calls love—
Alan's love, indeed f*>
‘‘ Whereabouts in the good book shall I read?”
asked the spouse of a worthy deacon in the church
as she opened the sacred volume for the fam.lv'
evening service « 0h, U mak„ no erPHl ^
mice, was the deacon s grave reply ; •• read the
story ol Samson and the foxes—I guess that’s
about as funny as any on’t.”