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MAESMLL DEMOORAT; fii ii i i THE BLESSINGS OF GOVERNMENT, LIKE THE DEWS OF HEAVEN, SHOULD FALL ALIKE UPON THE RICH AND THE POOR JACKSON. A- ... - Jk t A VOL.. 1, usintss ptuttoti). Business Cards not exceeding three lines, inser ted under this head, at $1 per annum. Persons advertising in the "Democrat' by the year, will be entitled to a Card i i the Business Di rectory, without additional charge. Ularsfall (founts Bcmocntt JDB PRINTING OFFICE. We have on hand an extensive assortment of And are prepared to execute JOB MD VIW PIHYWIYf! Ill If i iliUl 1 lllilllilU. Of every description and quality, such as CIRCULARS, HANDBILLS, LABELS, CATALOGUES, famphlets, business cards, blank deeds a mortgages; And in short. Blanks of every variety and descrip tion, on the shortest notice, k on reasonable term PLYMOUTH BANNER, BY W. J. BURNS, Plymouth, Ind. . . .Tr.T. iv ii Drv GorU and Groceries, first door east of ROWNLEE & Sillium I ULlu. r Michigan street, 11 nth'Jd uook"T1:vns1)e,lers in dry Goods and Groceries, corner Michigan and La Torte street.-" Plymouth, Ind. PALMER. DEALER IK DRV GOODS A j Groceries, south corner La Porte and Mich- m .1 T 1 I c ifpin streets, .Flvinouth, lud. NIL OGLESBEE & Co.. DEALERS IN Drv Goods & Groceries, Brick Store Mich igan street, Plymouth, Ind ÖÜNCOUGLE, DEALER INDRY GOODS and Groceries.corner of Michigan and Gano streets .Plvmouth, Ind. ESTERVELT k IIEWIT, DEALERS j w ?n Drv Goods k Groceries, Plymouth, Ind. G S. CLEAVELAND, DEALER IN DRY y Goods, H.inlware, etc.,.. I'lymoutn, inu. M RS. DUNHAM, MILLINER & MAN 11 A Maker, Plymouth, Ind. BROWN k BAXTER, DEALERS IN : Stoves. Tinware, kc, Plvmouth, Ind. I l H R. PERSUING Co., DEALERS IN . Drugs and Medicine'",. . .Plymouth, Ind. A DAM VINN EDGE, WHOLESALE and Retail Grocer, Plymouth Ind. XV.FroTisions, Plymouth, Ind. j Xv7lMVIrs.DI)LE A N DI I A R N ESS ! J . M.iker .Plvmouth, Ind. A YRES BALDWIN, MANUFACTURER I of Boots Ji bhoes, Plymouth, Ind W M. L. PIATT, MANUFACTURER OF Cabinet Ware, . . . . Plymouth, Ind. I S LUYTER & FRANCIS HOUSE CARPEN- i. r.ik Joinf-rs, . . .Plymouth, Ind M IV. SMITH, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, West side Michigan St., Plymouth, In I. E t.l IATT 1- Tn M.VITrAfTITIIf-.RS CiV A Wagoa, Cartiages k Plows, Plymouth, Ind. C 10LLINS k NICHOLS, MANUFACTUR- ers of Sash ic Plvmouth, Ind. B ENJ. BENTS, BLACKSMITH, Plymouth, Ind. - A K. BRIGGS, BLACKSMITH, Plymouth, Ind, D A G U E R R EOT Y r ES , BY J. E. ARM STRONG, Plymouth, Ind. A LOON, BY M. H. TIDBITS, Plymouth, Ind. A MERICAN HOUSE, BY G. P. CHERRY &. SON, Plymouth, Ind. E EDWARDS' HOTEL, BY W.C. EDWARDS Plymouth, Ind. A C. CAPRON, ATTORNEY i COUN pelor at L--w, Plymouth, Ind. HAS. H. REEVE, ATTORNEY AT LAW k Notary Public, Plymouth, Ind. II ORACECORBIN, ATTORNEY AT LAW Plymouth, Ind. PI ODGES k PORTER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Plymouth, Ind. SAML. B. CORBALEY, NOTARY PUBLIC, Plymouth, Ind. BROWN, GENERAL LAND AGENT Plymouth, Ind. rjHEO. A. LEMON, PHYSICIAN, SUR I GEON k Druggist, Plymouth, Ind. R UFUS BROWN, PHYSICIAN & SUR GEON, Plymouth, Ind. s HIGGINBOTHAM, PHYSICIAN k SUR , GEON Plymouth, Ind:. W. BENNET, PHYSICIAN & SUR- GEON, Plymouth. Ind. D. GR A Y , Eclectic Phtsiciax, Plymouth, Ind. K LINGER k BRO. DEALERS IN LUMBER etc, Plymouth. Ind. 3 PATTERSON, DEALER IN VA- riouskind5 of Meat, Plymouth, lud. LIVERY STABLE BY WM. M. PATTER on, Plymouth, Ind. A USTIN FULLER, MANUFACTURER And dealer in Flour Plymouth, Ind. H ENRY M. LOGAN k Co., DEALERS IN Lumber, 4c Plymouth, Ind. 7T0SEPII POTTER, SADDLE k HARNESS dJ Maker, Plymouth, Ind. A MERICAN HOUdE, G. P. CHERRY k Son, Proprietors', Plymouth, Ind. B ARBERING AND HAIRDRESSING, BY Alfred Billows Plymouth, Ind. M ITCHELL k WILCOX, MANUFACTU- rers or now., &c, Plymouth, Ind CLAIIX DEEDS AM MORTGAGES! We now hare a good supply of Blank Dcf da'and Mortgages, of an approved form printed in the irst style of the art, on fine white folio post, und "or sale at one dollar per quire, or five cints kinglo ALSO, CLAIM IJ3TES ON HAND, dprnttd to order on short notice. Justier jhuiks printed to nit r, and on rca.onab terms a . THrtOfTjre. From the Democratic Pharos. LldTJOR LAWSUPREME COURT ATTACKS OF FUSIONISTS. Abuse wi.hout measure has been heaped upon the Democratic members of the Su premo Court, coupled villi the grossest misrepresentation of their motives. 'Whis keyites Rum-suekers,' 'perjured Judges,' drc, dr., are the key-notes for the Fusion press and speakers. No epi:he:s are too low or abusive to be aimed at the Democrat ic Judges bv men who ought to have more candor than to thus impugn the motives of j men for whom they profess personal friend ship, or at least respect. Last Saturday ni-'ht, at the Democratic Club, Judge Stuart was called upon for remarks. His response was ordered by a vote of the Club tobe published. Judge Stuart said: Mr. President: Permit me to call your attention a moment to the liquor question not for the purpose of discussing it, I leave that to others; but to note the style ! in which the temperance argument is cou .lnr.ffl Tn mnneclion with the luiUori " . . , Uxv tl,rt Kiinivmr ITniirl. has icon Visited i At. I Vit V MBVN.-W x- w - with unmeasured abuse. Tho English language was not rich enough. They had to coin new words. Even such men as McDonald in the late tempemnc convention, and Messrs. llanamau, i'leteli- er, Blake, Dillon, Thompson, Mills and Barry, in a late temperance circular to the people of Indiana, lend themselves to circulate slander against the Court. In marked and honorable contrast is the course of the Democratic party towards Judge Gookins. lie was elected by the Fusionists in 1854, and some claim partly on the liquor issue. He sustained the whole law in all Us details. Yet I am not aware that any Democratic paper or public- speaker l.as said a single word abusive of Judge G. They differ with him in opiniou; , , ,. . . , . iiey believe his conclusionserroneous; they canvass his arguments. This as u should be. Of this no man of any party nas a lignt to compiain. me opinion ui just criiieism. If its reasoning and prin- oiples are unsound, their fallacy should be exposed. From some men in the Fusion ranks no j species of defamation would either surprise or offomi Thl.:r consurc is the best evi- , , . . ... f uence oi rectituue. inetr approoauon is but an index of some m-ntal or moral obli quity. A prudent man would instinctively suspect the soundness of his own opinions if he concurred wi:h them. But among those above named I reeog nize wi.h surprise and regret some whom I have hitherto highly estimated. I diJ J not dream that under ihe guise of peisonal friendship they would deliberately make an assault bo pregnant alike with bad taste and bad feeling. I never 1 ave, nor do I now ptetend to notice the innumerable pack that have been barking at the Court. As responsible endorsers .f slander I pre fer to deal with these gentlemen. It is well known that there were some things I did not approve and do not defend. I only propose to intimate briefly my own course and vindicate that. . Jud-re McDonald's remarks in the tem perance convention carry the idea that the majority of the Court (Perkins, Davidson and Stuart) were acting in concert with M. Manville and the liquor men that Manville told him as a settled fact months before what the decision would be, and how each Judge would stand. In the same straii the temperance circular signed by Fletcher, Blako &. Co., goes on in substance thus: 'Rumor 6'iid that for the paltry suc cess of a party, through tho votes of tho rumseller and hi? satellites, the mandate of the supreme judiciary would arrest the lav in its course, but 6he was not bcliered.r But still the report gathered strength and consistency is assumed an air of authori ty; it presumed to indicate tho position of each of the Judges; aud then good men be gan to tear, as the evil gathered conödeuce, that it might not bo well in the issue. At last that issue came first the decision of a single Judge, and then the decision of the Bench, and our wost fears were realized.' Elsewhere they 6pcak of the iudustry of the Court to support a position that had leen pre determined. Answering only for myself, I pronounce the insinuations contained in the above ex tract an unmitigated falsehood. The history of the liquor cases is ray best vindication. When distributed by the Clerk in tho order of submission, ono of them fell to Judge Gookins tho other to Judge Perkins. I had no case in my hands involving the liquor question. I was in no manner responsible c ither for the haste or the delay of p-epv i'ig thse ca3s f r decis ion, Fe sonallv I ii i i fivorof withholl- ing theh-consi lera;i n ill the term previ us j ment. To ordinary intelligence the auihor to tho meeti ig of the legislature; as had . i io.4 ched in the discussion and in the opin been dor.e j:i the school cases. But the ion would he sufliciont ear-marks, AlmoU parties and counsel, and finally the public,' became urgent for a. dec ion ajvJ 1 reluct antly yielded. The meeting of the Court in July was appointed to hear Argument in a railroad PLYMOUTH, IND., APRIL 17, 1856. case. The liquor cases were then submitted and argued. The only consultation the Court then had, was an hour or so the af ternoon the public discussion closed. We were .h n quite at sea. None of us seemed to have any opinion. What little was said related wholly to the details of the law. Other business came in so pressing, ab sorbing all our time, that we found it uec essary to adjourn till Court in course. This was done unanimously. The object was partly to give time to mature cases fr the- next term, but especially to ma ture the liquor cases. Alter this adjourn ment in July there could of course be no opinion of the Court until the next term on the fourth Monday in November. The members of the Court were at Indi anapolis in the latter, part of August; but were not all there at the same time Judge Gookins coming the afternoon lieft. So that there was not even a consultation, and that (consultation) is all that could have taken place in vacation. At my room Judge Per hins read some views which had occurred lolnm in tho mihi; nrm.mont . nml whiel, J 1 were afterwards matured and published in the Herman case at Chambers. From these views I promptly dissented: not doubting m Am W but that on further reflection he would also abandon them. Supposing that a re-argument could scarcely fail to conduce to the unanimity of the Court, I proposed that course in Au- gust. During the argument in July, my at-' tention was chiefly occupied with the de tails. The question of legislative power had not struck me forcibly. I was therefore anxious for a re-argument on that sinirle question the power of the legislature to pass such a law. It was a question new in judicial history. It n.eded elucidation and reflection. Accordingly the second Monda, of November was set and counsel notified. But for some reason svhich I never fully understood, the argument did not come off. On that very day Judge Perkins opinion in the Herman case at Chambers, appeared in print. That (the Herman case) was understood to embody Judge Perkins' views. Two weeks aLer. on the Saturday prior to the public session, Judge Gookins presented his opinion in consultation. Wi;h that opinion I could not concur, and so intimated. Up to this time I had no settled opinion of my own now staggering under this ariru ment and then under that. Nor did I up to this time know what Judge Davidson's views were. Hitherto I had paid no atten tion to the liquor case) with any views of wiiting an opinion; I had enough in my own cases lo claim all my time and labor. I picsumed that the Judges having the Beebe cases specially in charge would exhaust the subject and the authorities. In this I was not disappointed. But m the course of reasoning pursued and the conclusions ar rived at, I could not concur with either. To silently or briefly dissent was to open the way to misrepresentation. I had there fore no option but to write out my own views. Up, therefore to the eve of the public session of Court, about the last of Novem ber, I had no opinion on the liquor ques tiononly that of a mere non-occurrence with Messrs. Gookins and Perkins. Till that time I did not fully realize the neces sity of a separate opinion. During the week of the public session at the State House nothing further was done but to ap point an early day for re-agument. This was done chiefly at my instance. I was unwill ing to determine a question so important without hearing all that could be urged on both sides. Immediately after the public session the opinion on the manufacturing case, includ ing the agency, was written out at home subject to such change as tho re-argument might produce. The opinion on tho sale was wholly prepared as published, after the re-arguraent in December. In the opin ion ou the sale, I had rcscived tho right, whh the consent of the other Judges, to revise the opiuion on tho manufacturing and publish it at a future day; but one of the Judges objected to that, and the sentence to that effect was stricken out. So the opin ion on that branch of the liquor question still lies in my drawer. That the opinion on the 6ale was prepar ed afar the re-argument must have beeu apparent to the counsel and to all who at tended Court during its progress. Judge McDonald must have been aware how large ly I profited by that very able discussion. Somo of the very men, who in their address to the people of Indiana insinuate that the course of the Court was predetermined, were also present. They must have dull eirs if they are nut awaro that the opinion on the sale is based chiefly on that a.'u- the only point that is pressed beyond the poms of dUcussion, is the legl-htivo and judicial history of the question. Even that was suggested but njt elaborated by counsel. To you, sir, all with whom I was on terms of friendly intercourse for the last year, I might appeal whether you knew my opinion on the liquor question beforehand. You knew that I was opposed to the law as a measure of policy. You knew tha; in the Legislature of 1051-2 I voted against the Maine law as a quasi sumptuary law to which no free people should submit. You knew that as a private citizen I had in va rious ways expressed the same sentiments I opposed it too as bad temperance policy. But that could have nothing to do with the judicial question whether the Legislature had the power to pass a foolish and odious enactment. Did any cf-you know my opin ion as a Judge on that question? No sir for one reason, that I had none: and for an other, that regard for judicial propriety would have restrained such loquacLy. I might appeal also to my intimate friends the Clerk, Reporter, and Sheriff of the Su preme Court. They were in my room sev eral times during the preparation of the opinion. They saw tho manuscript in progress on my table. They knew it was on the liquor questkn. But not one of them knew the reasoning or the re suit. Sir, there is one rule of judicial proprie ty to which I have endeavored to conform, and that is to observe every prudence in relation to matters pending in Court. Nay, more, I not only have not wished to hear, but I have scrupulously ' ;ded every po sition where I might be to hear any thing which should be spoken only by counsel in the presence of opposing coun sel. Hence I endeavored to shun ultra men of every shade. You all know that I have no sympathy with ultraists or fa natics, of any Und. I have never court ed their favor. Between he advocate of the 'inalienable right of free liquor' and the rabid Maine law man I cannot readily distinguish. Both are fanatics. Hence I have shunned them both, because neither were likely to throw liht on the judicial path; nor were they in any event legi.imate mediums of communication wi:h the Court. If, therefore, anyone pretended to know my opinion, such pretence was utterly ftlse: both because I held no such communica tion with any one, and because I had i.ot in truth for months after any opinion on the subject. I had once before in private assured Judge McDonald that all such reports weie filsc I had hoped that was sutlieient. What his purpose was in re pealing it in the Convention I do not pre tend to know. It is hurdlyto be presumed, however, tha. it was a 'shafi at random sent.' The State Temperance Committee linger upon the same falsehood with evident relish. In their address to the people already al lude 1 to they say 4but we will not use in vective nor sit in judgment on the motives of the Judges.' Not they. They only insin uate that the Court yielded to the liquor in fluence lor party purposes! Or to use their own chaste and charitable language, 'the Judges soiled the purity of the ermine of justice for the paltry success of a party through tho votes of the rumseller and his satellites. Yet this grave charge, those sapient gentlemen say, is not invective: nor any imputation of the motives of the Judges! Nor is it to be presumed that they made the charge for any 'paltry party purposes!' Not at all. Such holy men as Fletcher, Blake & Company never act on parti motives. They are too pure for that. They even solemnly aver that they 'are not anxious for the success of any parly!' And this they expect the people of Indiana to believe. To thoso acquainted with the history of thoso men, this profess ion of faith must be highly amusing. Cre dat Judeas Appella will be the general ap preciation accorded to them by all who know them. That the Supreme Judges have not been actuated by party motives in their judicial career scarcely needs refutation. The liquor law of 1 C53 was passed by a Democratic Legislature. It was quite as much a Dem ocratic measure as the law of 1 055 was a Fusion measure. Aside from constitutional objections, the two acts stand y marked contrast to each other indicative of the governing principles and policy of the two parties. Yet this Democratic liquor law was declared unconstitutional by a Demo cratic Court. Do these immaculate pat rons of temperance, some of whom fig ured as high priests in the drunken or gies of 10-10. do thoy think tho Judges so decided for tho paltry success of the par y? The school law was also a Democratic measure. It was conceived in the Consti tutional Convention of 105J, and matured in tho Democratic Legislature of 1051-2. Yet the Democratic Supreme Court declar ed that act unconstitutional. Was that,, too, for the paltry purposes of party suc cess? And when the Same measure is meted to the Fusion liquor Jaw of last win ter, do these decorous gentlemen who ' ou!d not use ir.vceii?c nor sit in judgment on the motives of the Court, pretend to say that the decision was made for paltry par ty purposes? For one I repel it as a base falsehood. These men seem to have no idea of any high motive or imperative duty resting up on the Court to protect the Constitution. When the liquor law of 1853 was decided, they and their congenial defame rs raised the cry that the Court was opposed to tem perance and morality. When the school law was decided, the Court was opposed to education! Now, when the Fusion li quor law is subjected to the same test, the Court has tarnished the ermine to obtain party success! They cannot endure a Court that will not sap and destroy the Constitution ere the ink upon it is yet dry. It is remarkable that in all this address to the people, unctions with so much sanc timonious" phraseology, the word Constitu tion never once occurs in connection with the liquor law of 1055. It is never once intimated that the law Ayas considered un- constitutional. There is not a word in if to remind the people of the State that they have any such instrument to protect their rights. To read this address one might suppose that its authors had not so mu'di as heard whether there be anv Constitu tion. At all events they evidently have no relish for an instrument which prevents such 'Burning aud shining lights to a the place,' from lording it as they list over the heritage of freemen. There is not even the slight est intimation that the law might possibly conflict with some constitutional provision. All we learn is that this model enactment had been arbitrarily declared void by the Courts to subserve party ends. The peo ple are further informed by these discreet gentlemen, who are so scrupulous 'not to use invective,' that 'the law would have been fully sustained if all had been as anx ious to do so, as to find fault therein.' Men who thus charge corrup.ijn and perjury (for that is the plain English of ir) on those who are not infected with their malady do they presume to appeal to the people of Indiana and expect to be believed when they disclaim political motives and say they are not anxious for the success cf any political party? Why, there is not a man in Iud'anapolis of any party who will not laugh in their faces when they pretend such a thing. When were they ever any thing but partizans bitter and vindictive at that? Are they not now most of them, perhaps all, Abolhionists of the most ultra type, debasing the te type, üejasing tue temperance cause as; auxiliary and subservient to that Ihe I 1 s very game thy played so successfully in 1054 they are preparing to repeat in 1056. The whole tenor of the address is that what they call a 'good law' should be sus tained anyhow. A rabid temperance man said last summer that the law was doin- a great deal of good and should be sustain ed even if the Constitution had to be stretch ed a little. That is true Fusion doctrine; 'stretch the Constitution' or 'let the Union slide.' The hobby of the hour is paramount to both in the Fusion mind. In conclusion, sir, let me say that the ad dress to tho people is a cowardly attack on men whom judicial propriety renders pow erless in defence. The party opposed to ultra legislation, and in favor of all proper legal restriction, have champions in the field ready to dis cuss the merits of the liquor law which these gentlemen so emphatically endorse. Why not manfully meet them? Oh, uo- thoso prudent gent emeu think it safer to make a dastardly assault on the Judges whose hands they supposed to be tied. Tho truth is, neither party can skulk be hind the Supreme Court. A majority of that Court are not agreed upon anything. For instance, while I concur with one of the Judges that tho manufacturing and agen cy are unconstitutional, I expressly repudi ate his reasoning in 6o man words. As to the power of the Legislature to pass a fool ish act, or the province of the Court tocor- rectthat folly, we differ in toto celo. The whole question of the expediency of the law ,. . ' . is open for discussion, and must be met by politicians on its merits. It is eminently and obviously proper that such questions ? hould be settled by tho people. By their power over tho Assembly, the Courts, and even the Constitution itself, tho people are, aid of right ought to be, the final arbiters in the liquor question. There is no evad ing it. No true Democrat will seek to evade it. Throughout tho whole North and North -West it has become almost a national issue. By a preconcerted move ment the Maine law is mounted as a hob by by the same political party from Maine to Iowa. It is p essed in spite of Con stitutions and piivato rights. Vitupera tion and falsehood are substituted for ar gum mt. The State Temperance Commit tee give tho key-note to their co-laborers. Well may the true temperance sentiment of the State pray to be delivered from such menus. An editor out West, boasts that he h.al a talk -vih a woman, nd got the last word. A Mountain Lake. Embosomed amid the towering peaks and eternal snows of the Siena Nevada, at an elevation of six thousand feet above the level of the sea, there is a great lake, which, strange to say, does not freeze even the present severe win t?r. This is probably owing to its depth, and the constant motion of i:s waters; for; lhe 6'ofteilin? i!lfluW of cigar emoke. it is often at the mouth of the small streams t Our Hoosier friend addressed him modest- flowing into the lake that ice forms in any; quantity Tho Placerville American thus speaks of it: 'A portion of the lake shore consists of marshes or meadows; and the numbers of trout, of all sizes, but many of them of from two to two and a half f.et in length, that are found in these marshes and shallow waters, during thawy days and night3 of winter and spring, are almost incredible. Kelley & Rogers, residents of the valley the present winter, are progressing finclj in the construction of their twenty ton yacht, and will have it completed by the middle of May; but the tempting appear- ' ancc of the trout in the shallow waters, in duccd them immediately to construct a yawl of one and a half tons burthen, which they have completed and launched; and tho ease wih which the piscatory inhabit ants of the lake arc taken, almost spoils the sport. Next summer the valley will be visited by hundreds." A Great Hau. George Lippard, in his new work called "The Nazareue," thus speaks of President Jackson: "He was a great man! Well 1 remember the day I waited upon him. He sat there in his arm chair 1 can see thai old warrior f ice wuh its snow-whi.e hair even now. We told him of the public dis tress the manufacturers rui iei the ea gles shrouded in crape which were borne at the head of twenty thousand men iuto Independence Square. He heard us all We begged him to leave the deposits where they were, to uphold the great bank in Philadelphia, biill he did not say a word. At last one of the members mor tirey than ti e rest, intimated that if the bank was crushed a rebellion mij-ht follow. Then the old man rose. I can sc?e him yet: "Come!" he shouted in a voice of thun der as his clutched hand was raised above his whke hairs. "Come with bayonets in your hands ins'.ead of petuions surround the White House with your legions I am ready for you all! Wkh the people at my back, whom your gold can neither buy nor awe, I will swing you up around the Cap itoleach rebel of you on a gibbet high as Hainan's." "When I think," says the author, "of that one man standing there at Washing ton. battling wnh all the powers of hank d j combined, betraved by those in I A mm whom he trusted, assailed by all that the snake of malice could 1 iss or the fiend of falsehood howl when I think of that one man placing his back against the rock and folding his arms for the blow, while he ut tered his vow: "I will not swerve one inch from the course I have chosen!" I must confess that the records of Greece and Borne nay, the proudest days of Crom well or Napoleon cannot furnish an in stance of a will like that of Andrew Jack son, placed life and soul and fame on the hazard of a die, for the people's welfaie.' Providence Sentinel. How to Cure a Fretting Child. One of our little boys, from the interior of the State, c?.me to us in an extremely unman ageable condition. His mother said to me that she could do nothing wich him; that everything he wished for wero not granted at once, ho would keep the house in a com plete confusion; and that there was no qui et except when ho was asleep; that ho was never knowi to obey any one but his fa ther, and then never except his command was accompanied by a severe threat, Mr. and Mrs. said they would bo glad to leave their sou with us, if we thought we could manage him. Whips and rods have never been used as a means in bringing our children to obedience; and we have no notion of resorting to them now, the moth er's recommenda.ion to the contrary not withstanding. We met this little fellow precisely as wc think every other child should be met who has a similar disposi tion. His crying, screaming and stamping were of no avail. Whatever was proper for hini was granted: what w as not proper was withheld. By this mode tf treatment for a day or two, he began to learn tho im- Portant ,e660U that he was happier when ,ntf l,,.an fT -AT Va. IT tleucss mingled with trmuess, we have completely conquered him; so that now he is kind, affectionate, orderly and obedient. His unhappy, fretful disposition has given way, and he exhibits a marked change in bi character; not only in his outdoor snorts but in school, where he will go througn the severest drill with earnestness and delight. -lteport of Philadelphia Asylum. 0'i - A Goon One.- The following is from Roger's Table-talk: 'Doctor Fordyce sometimes drank a good deal at dinner. He was summoned one evening to sco a lady pationt, when he was more than half seas over, and consciou that he was so. Feeling her pulee, and finding himself unable to count its beats, he mittlere J. 'Drunk by !' Next morning, recollecting the circumstance, he was gready vexed; and just as ho was thinking what explana ion of his behaviot he should offer to tho lady, a 1 'tter f.-om her was put into his haul. 'She to- well knew said the let er, 'that he h 1 1 discov er I the unfortuinto condi ion in whici she w is when he last vii e.I her an I she entre.i cd him to keep the matter secret in consi Jerati m of the enclosed (a hundred pound bank note.) NO. 23. New Business. We heard a pretty good one the other day, which we think merits a wider circulation than it has yet got. The story runs that some honest faced Hoosier went iuto a fancy store in Cinci-nati, in hunt of a sLuadon. The proprieter, or head clerk was sitting in his counting room wkIi Ins feet comfortably cocked up on a ly as follows i Uo you want to n:re a hanl about your cstabluhn;en: sn i' The clerk looked up induleiently, but seeing hi cust,mej, concluded to have somo fun out cf him, so he answered very briskly, at the same time pulling out 3 new and cosdy handkerchief, and bio wing, hi on it. " - Yes, sir, what kind of a situation do you want?' Well,' said the Hoosier, 'I'm not partic ular, I'm ou: of work, and almost anything '11 do me for a whiie.' Yes; well, I can give a situation, if it wid suit you.' 'What is i.? What's to- be done, sjiJ what do you give,' enquired the other.- Well,' was the answer, 1 want hands to chaw rags into paper, and if you are will ing to set in you mav begin a- once.' 'Good as wheal!' exclaimed th Hoosier, 'hand over rags.' He c ' was the rejoinder, 'Like this handl er -hief, and commence wi.h that Hosier saw the 'sell,' aud quie Jy put tiug the handkerchief into hi pocket, re marked as he turned to go ou:: 'When I get it chanced, ftranger I'll fetch it lad !: Short Sermon. My hearers: this h not only a great but a mysterious world that we live in and pay rent for. All discord is harmony; all evil is good; all despotism is liberiv, and ail wrong is right as Alex ander Pope says: 'Whatever is, is right, except the let, boot, and wanting to bor row money. You may want sense and the world r.-on't blame you tor i.. It would gladly furnish you with the article, had it aiyti spare, but uuluckily it has hard ly enough for home consumption. How ever, if you hvdc sense you are well enutf otl'af.er all; for to commit a faux pas, as the French say, you are !et go with the com pliment, poor fool, he don't know any bet ter. The truth is, a great deal of brains is a great deal of hoLheration. An empty skull is bound to shine in company be cause the proprietor of ii isn't wit enough to know lha. .here is a possibility of mak ing a nincompoop air himself, and there fore he dashes ahead, hit or miss, and gen erally succeeds beyond conception. Let a man be minus brai.uand plus bra3, and h is as sure of a pass through the world as if he was greased from ear to ankle; but rig up for him a nice machinery of thought and i s as much as he can do to attend to it. He goes to the grave TnufBei and troubled, curses life for its cares; aud mo seys into eternity pack-saddled with men tal misery. Oh! f jr the happiness of fools! Kill or Cure. A doctor was employed by a po r man to attend his wife who was dangerously ill, the doctor gave him a hint that lie had f..ars of not being paid. 'I have five pounds.' sai i the man t thd doctor, 'and if you kill or cure, you shall hue the money The woman di.d on the doctor's hinds; after a reasonable time he called for his five pcundg. The man asked the doctor if he killed his wife? No Did you cure her?' No Thsn said the poor man, 'you have no legal demand And the man of physic went his way sorely vexed. i i - One new bonnet will make a young la dy feel happy. One 'funny man will bother a whole neighborhood. One hiss will disturb a whole assembly. One bad novel will waste reams of good paper. One iolly row will turn the inhabitants out cf doors. Ono pretty flirt will mike a dozen plaiti girls unhappy for entire evenings. One song "will set thirty people talking. One dollar and a half will pay for tho Democrat q'ac yar. Post Office Kopuf-kt. Dining the night of the 4th iiU the Post OmYc in this place was forcibly entered and moucy to the amount of 813J abstracted there from. Tho money was in a small rd ih trunk, which was also taken. It consisted of about 810 in silrer change, on 810 bill on the Stale of Ohio, and about 85 i'.i small bills, and the balance of gold Tho P. M. offers a reward of 850 for the apprehension of the thief and recov ery of the mouey, or a liberal reward for either. Huntington Herald: Colic in Horses. The best remedy for colic in horses is one pint of whiskey an2 two-thirds of a teacupful of gunpowder. Mix well, and drench the horse, in ordi nary cases, tho horeo will b well ia half-an-hour provided the gunpowder don't go off," aud tako the horse along with i. ; m Truthful Sentiments. In this coun try no young man nee I j;o unimploved. Wealth and respectability are conditions whieh ho may attain. He has no right t b.? i lie; he has no light be ignorant; he has no time to be viei tu, and generally speak ing, no man has a light to be poor. The Farmer. A Ixviu if.il thought thia which we find in one of our exchanges: If the. e is a mm who cm ea his btwj i i peace wi h G.ri an 1 mn, it is th mm who has b ouht that b:eal out of th earth. I i ranker d by n f hu J, i is wet by no tears, i, is stained by uo blood -1 mt 41