The Wyandot pioneer., December 15, 1853, Image 2

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,wi thin the States. -Memorable as ah epoch
Ihthe history of this subject is the. mes
sage of President Jackson, of the 27th of
,May, 1830, which met the system of in
ternal improvements in its .comparative
infancy; but so rapid had been its growth,
that the projected impropriations in that
year for "worts of this character had risen
1 10 uie alarming amount oi more uisu one
i In that message the President admitted
; the difficulty of bringing back the ! opera
, toons of the government to the construc
; tion of. the constitution set up in 1798,
and marked it as an admonitory proof of
the necessity of guarding that instrument
with sleepless vigilance against the au
thority of nrcccdnts. which had not the
sanction of its must plaiulr defined pow-
.. . 1
Our jrovcrument exists under a written
compact between sovereign states, uniting
for specific objccts.and with specific grant.
If then, in the progress, of its admis
tration, there have been departures from
the terms and intent of the compact, it is
and will ever be, proper, for us to refer
back to the fixed standard which our
father's left us, and to make a stern effort
to conform our actions to it, ; It would
seem that the fact of a principle having
been resisted from the first by many of
the wisest and most patriotic men, of the
republic, and a policy having provoked a
constant strife, w ithout arriving at a con
clusion which can be regarded as satisfac
tory to its most earnest advocates, should
suggest the inquiry whether there may
not be a plan likely to be crowned with
happier results. "Without perceiving any
sound distinction, or intending to assert
any principle as opposed to improvements
needed for the protection of internal com
merce, which does not apply to improve
ments upon the seaboard for the protec
tion of foreign commerce I submit to
you whether it may not be safely antici
pated that, if the policy were once settled
against appropriations by the general gov
mcnt for local improvements for the bene
fit of commerce, localities requiring ex
penditures would not, by modes and
means clearly legitimate and proper, raise
the fund necessary for such constructions
as the safety or other interests, of their
commerce might require.
. If that can be regarded as a. system,
which, in the experience, of more than
thirty years, has at no time so commanded
the public judgment as to give it the char
acter of a settled policy, which, though it
has produced some works of conceded
importance, has been attended with an
expenditure quite disproportionate to their
Talue,. and has resulted . in squander
ing large sums upon objects which have
answered no valuable purpose, the in
terests of all the states require it to be
abandoned, unless hopes may be indulg
ed for the future which, find no warrant
in the part.
. With an anxious desire for the comple
tion of the works which are regarded by
all good citizens with sincere interest, I
have deemed it my duty ta ask at your
hands a deliberate reconsideration of the
question, with a hope that, animated by
a desire to promote the permanent and
substantial interests of the country, your
wisdom may prove equal to the task of
devising and maturing a plan, which, ap
plied to this subject, may promise some
thing better than constant strife, the ex
citing of vain hopes, and the disappoint
ment of cherished expectations.
In expending the appropriations made
by the last Congress, several cases have
arisen in relation to woiks for the im
provement of harbors, which involve
question as to the right of soil and juris
diction, and have threatened conflict be
tween the authority of the State and gen
eral governments. The right to con
struct a breakwater, jetty, or dam, would
seem, necessarily, to carry with it the
power to protect and preserve such con
structions. ' This can only be effectually
done by having jurisdiction over the soil.
'But no clause of the constitution is found
on wlnoh to rest the claim of the United
States to exercise' jurisdiction over the
soil of a State, except that conferred by
the eighth section of the constitution. It
is, then, submitted, whether, in all cases
where constructions are to be erected by
the general government, the right of soil
should ' first be obtained, and legislative
provision be made to cover all such cases.
For the progress made in the constitu
tion of roads within the territories, as pro
vided for in the appropriations of the last
Congress, I refer you to the report of the
Secretary of War. "
There is one subject ofa domestic na
ture, which from its intrinsic importance,
and the many interesting questions of fu
ture policy which it involves, cannot fail
to recivc your early attention. I allude
to the means of communication, by which
different parts of the wide expanse of 'our
country are to be placed in closer connex
ion for purposes both of defence and com- j
mercial intercourse, and more especially
such as appertain to the communication
of those great divisions of the Union,
which lie on the opposite sides of the
Rocky Mountains.
'" That the government has not been un
mindful of this heretofore is apparent
from the aid it has aflforked, through ap-
propriotions for mail facilities and other
purposes. But the general subject will
now present itself under aspects more im
posing and more purely national, by rea
son of the surveys ordered by Congress,
and now in the process of completion, for
communication by railway across the con
tinents, and wholly Avithin the limits of
the Unite I States.
, The power to declare war to raise and
support armies, to provide and maintain
a navv, and to call forth the militia to ex
ccutp the laws, suppress insurrections and
repel invasions, was conferred upon Con-
gress as. means to .provide for the com
mon defenee, and to . protect a territory
and a population now widespread; and
vastly multiplied. As indispensible for
the exercise of this powerY it must some
times be necessary to construct military
roads and protect harbors of refuge.
To appropriations by Congress for such
objects, no sound objection can be raised.
Happily for our country, its peaceful poli
cy and rapidly increasing , population im
pose upon us no urgent necessity for pre
paration, and leave but few trackless des
erts between assaiable points and a patri
otic people ever ready and generally able
to protect, them. . These necessary links,
the enterprise and energy of our people
arc steady ily and boldly struggling to sup
ply. All experience affirms that, wher
ever private enterprise will avail, it is
most wise for the general government to
leave to that and individual watchfulness
the location and execution of all means of
communication, s :::. ;
The surveys before alluded to were de
signed to ascertain the most practicable
and economical route for a railroad from
the river Missipps to the Pacific ocean.
Parties areuow in the field making exations
where prevous examinations had not sup
plied , sufficient data, and where there
was the best reason to hope the object
soMgh might be found. The means and
time being both limited, it is not to be ex
pected that all the accurate knowledge
desired will be obtained, but it is hoped
that much and important information will
be added to the stock previously possess
ed, and that partial, if not full reports of
the surveys ordered will be received, in
time for transmission to the two houses of
Congress, on or .before the first Monday
in February next, as required by the act
of appropriation. The magnitude of the
enterprise contemplated has aroused, and
will doubtless continue to excite, a very
general interest throughout the country.
In its political, its commercial, and its mil
itary bearings, it has varied, great, and
increasing claims to consideration. The
heavy expense the great, delay, and, at
times, fatality attending travel by either
of the isthmus routes, have demonstrat
ed the advantage which would result from
.international communication by such safe
and rapid means as a railroad would sup
ply. These difficulties, which have been en
countered in a period of peace, would be
magnified and still further increased: in
time of war. But whilst the embarrass
ments already . encountered, and others
under new contingencies to be anticipated,
may serve strikingly to exhibit the impor
tance of such a work, neither these nor
considerotions combined, can have an ap
plicable value, when weighed against the
obligation strictly to adhere to the consti
tution, and faithfully to execute the pow
ers it confers. . :
Within this limit and to the extent of
the interest of the government involved,
it would seem both expedient and proper,
if an ; economical and practicable route
shall be found, to aid, by all constitution
al means, in the construction of a road,
which . will unite by , speedy transit, the
populations of the Pacific, and Atlantic
States. .
To guard against misconception, it
-should be remarked that, although the
power to construct, or aid in the construc
tion of a road within the limits of a ter
ritory is not embarrassed by that question
of jurisdiction which would arise within
the limits of a State, it is nevertheless
held to be of doubtful power, and more
than doubtful propriety, even within the
limits of a territory, for the general gov
ernment to undertake to administer the
affairs of a railroad, a canal, or other sim
ilar construction, and therefore that its
connexion with a work of this character
should be incidental rather than primary.
I will only add, at present, that, fully ap
preciating the magnitude of the subject,
and solicitous that the Atlantic and Pacif
ic shores of the republic may be bound
together by inseperable ties of common
interest, as well as of common fealty and
attachment to the Union, I shall be dis
posed, so far as my own action is concered
to follow the lights of the constitution, as
expounded and illustrated by those,
whose opinions and expositions constitute
the standard of my political faith in re
gard to the powers of the federal govern
ment. It is, I trust, not necessary to say,
that no grandeur of enterprise, and no
present urgent inducement promising pop
ular favor, will lead me to disregard those
lights, or to depart from that path, which
experience has proved to be safe, and
which is now radiant with the glow of
prosperity and legitimate constitutional
progress. We can afford to wait, but we
cannot afford to overlook the ark of our
security.
It is no part of my purpose to give
prominence to any subject, which may
properly be regarded as set at rest by the
deliberate judgment of the" people, But
while the present is bright, with promise,
and the future full of demand and induce
ment for the exercise of active intelli
gence, the past can never be without use
ful lessons of admonition and instruction.
If its dangers serve not as beacons, they
willevidencly fail to fulfil the object of a
wise design. When the grave shall have
closed over all, who are now endeavoring
to meet the obligations of duty, the year
1353 will be recurred to as a period filled
with anxious apprehension.' A success
ful war has just terminated. Peace
brought with it a vast augmentation of
territory. ' Disturbing questions arose,
bearing upon the domestic institutions of
one portion of the confedracy, andinvolv
ing the constitutional rights of the States.
But jiowithstanding differences of opinion
and sentiment, which then existed in re
lation to details and specific provisions,
the acquiescence of distinguished citizens,
whose devotion to the Union can never be
doubted,, has given renewed vigor to our
institutions, and restored sense of repose
and security to the public mind through
out the confederacy. That this repose is
to suffer no shock during my official term,
if I have power to avert it, those who
placed me here may bo assured. The
wisdom of men, who knew what indepen
dence cost, who had put all at stake up
on the issue of the revolutionary strug
gle, disposed of the subject ; to which I
refer, in the only way consistent with the
union of these States, and with the march
of power and prosperity which has made
us what we are. It is a significant fact,
that from the adoption of the constiution
until the officers and soldiers of the revo
lution has passed to their graves, or, thro'
the infirmities of age and wounds, and
ceased to participate actively in public af
fairs, there was not merely a quiet acqui
esence in, bus a prompt vindication of the
constitutional rights of the Stales. The
reserved powers were scrupulously re
spected, o
. No statesman put forth the narrow views
of casuists to justify interference and ag
itation, but the spirit of the compact was
regarded as sacred in the eye of honor
and indispensable for' the great experiment
of civil liberty, which, environed by in
herent difficulties was yet borne forward
in apparent weakness by a power superi
or to all obstacles. Where is no condem
nation, which the voice of freedom will not
pronounce upon us should we prove faith
less to his great trust. While men in
habiting different parts of this vast con
tinent can no more be expected to hold
the same opinions, or entertain the same
sentiments, than every variety, of climate
or soil can be expected to, furnish the
same agricultural products, they can unite
in a common object and sustain common
principles essential to the maintenance o
that object. The gallant men of the
South and North could stand together du
ring the struggle of the Revolution; they
could stand together in the more trying
period which succeed the clanger of
arms.
As their united valor was adequte to all
the trials of the camp and dangers of the
field, so their united wisdom proved
equal to the greater task of found
ing, upon a deep and broad basis, institu
tions, which it has been our priviledge to
enjoy, and will ever be our most sacred
duties to sustain. It is but the feeble ex
pression of a faith strong and universal
to say that there sons, who mingled so
often upon the same field, during the war
1812, and who have more recently borne
in triumph the flag of the country upon
a foreign soil, will never permit aliena
tion of feeling to awaken the power of
their united efforts, nor internal dissen
tions to paralyze the great arm of free
dom, uplifted for the vindication of self
government. ;.,
I have thus briefly presented such sug
gestions as seem to me especially worthy
of your consideration. In providing for
the present, you can hardly fail to avail
yourselves of the , light, which the expe
rience o the past casts upon the future.
The growth of our population has now
brought us, in the destined career of our
national history, to a point at which it
well behooves us expand our vision over
the vast prospective.
The successive decennial returns of the
census since the adoption of the constitu
tion have revealed a law of steady pro
gressive develorement. which mav be
stated, in general terms, as a duplication
every quarter century. Carried forward
from the point already reached, for only
a short period of time as applicable to the
existence of a nation, this law of progress
if unchecked, will bring us to almost
increditable : results. A large allow
ance for a diminished proportional
effect of emigration would not very ma
terially reduce the estimate, while the in
creased average of human life, known to
have already resulted from the scientific
and hygienic improvements of the past
fifty years, will tend to keep up through
the next fifty years, or perhaps hundred,
the same ratio of growth, which has been
thus revealed in our past progress; and
to the influence of these causes may be
added the influx of laboring masses from
eastern Asia to the Pacific side of our
possessions, together with the probable
accession of the populations already exis
ting in other parts of our a hemisphere,
which, within the period in question, will
feel, wih yearly increasing force, the na
tural attraction of so vast, powerful, and
prosperous a confederation of self govern
ing republics, and will seek the privilege
of being admitted within its safe and hap
py bosom, transferring with themselves,
by a peaceful and healthy process of in
corporation, spacious regions of virgin
and exuberant soil, which are destined to
swaim with the fast growing and fast
spreading millions of our race.
These considerations seem fully to jus
tify the presumption, that the law of pop
ulation above stated will continue to act
with undiminished effect, through at least
the next half century; and that thousands
of persons who have already arrived at
maturity, and are now exercising the
rights of freemen, will close their eyes on
the spectacle of more than one hundred
millions of population embraced within
the majestic proportions of the American
Union. It is not merely as an interesting
topic of speculation that I present these
views for your consideration. They have
important practical bearings upon all the
political duties we are called upon to per
form. Heretofore, our system of govern
ment has worked on what may be termed
a miniature scale, in comparison with the
development which it must thus assume,
within a future so near at hand, as scarce
ly to beyond the present of the existing
generation.
It is evident that a confederations so
vast and so varied, both in numbers and
in territorial extent, in habits and inter
ests, couldly only be kept in national co
hes,on by the strictest fidelity to the prin
ciples of the constitution, as understood
by those who have adhered to the most
restricted construction of the powers
granted by the people and the States.
Interpreted and applied according to those
principles, the great compact adapts itself
with healthy ease and freedom to an un
limited extension of that benign system
of federative self-government, of which
it is our glorious, and, I trust, immortal
charter. Let U3 then, with redoubled
vigilance, be on our guard against yield
ing to the temptation of the exercise of
doubtful powers, even under the pressure
of the motives of conceded 'temporray
advantage and apparent temporary expe
diency. The minimum of federal government,
compatible with the maintenance of na
tional unity and efficient action in our re
lations with the rest of the world, should
afford the rule and measure of construc
tion of our powers under the general
clases of the constitution. . A spirit of
strict deference to the sovereign rights
and dignity of every State, rather than a
disposition to subordinate the States into
a provincial relation to the central author
ity, should characterize all our exercise
of the respective powers temporarily ves
ted in us as a sacred trust from the gene
erous confidence of our constituents. -
In like manner, as a manifestly indis
pensable condition of the perpetuation of
the Union, and of the realization of that
magnificent national future adverted to,
does the duty become yearly stronger and
clearer upon us as citizens of the several
States, to cultivate a fraternal and affec
tionate spirit, language and conductin re
gard to other States, and in relation to the
varied inters, institutions and habits of
sentiment and opinion which may respec
tively characterize them. Mutual for
bearance, respect, and non-interference,
in our personal action as citizens, and an
enlarged exercise of the most liberal prin
ciples of comity in the public dealings of
State with State, whether in legislation or
in the execution of the laws, are the means
to perpetrate that confidence and fraternity
the decay of which a mere political uion,
on so vast a scale could not long survive.
In still another point of view is an im
portant practical duties suggested by this
consideration of the magnitude of dimen
sions, to which our political system, with
its corresponding machinery of govern
ment, is so rapidly expanding. With in
creased vigilance does it require us to cul
tivate the cardinal virtues of public fru
gality and official integrity and purity.-
Public affairs ought to be so conducted
that a settled conviction shall prevade the
entire Union, that nothing short of the
highest tone and standard of public marks
every part of the administration and leg
islation of the general; government.
Thus will the federal system, whatever
expansion time and progress may give it,
continue more and more deeply rooted in
the love and confidence of the people.
That wise economy, which is as far re
moved from parsimony as from corrupt
ing extravagance that single regard for
the public good, which will frown upon
all attempts to approach the treasury with
insidious projects of private interest cloak
ed under public pretexts, that sound fis
cal administration, which in the legisla
tive department, guards against the dan
gerous temptatious incident to overflowing
revenue, and, in the executive, maintains
an unsleeping watchfulness against the
tendency of all national expenditure to
extravagance, while they are admitted
elementary political duties, may, I trust,
be deemed as properly adverted to and
urged, in view of the more impressive
sense of that necessity, which is directly
suggested by the considerations now pre
sented. Since the adjournment of Congress, the
Vice President of the United States has
passed from, the scenes of earth, without
having entered upon the duties of the
station,-to which he had been called by
the voice of his countrymen. Having
occupied, almost continuously, for more
than thirty years, a seat in one or other of
the two Houses of Congress, and having,
by his singular purity and wisdom, secu
red unbounded confidence and universal
respect, his failing health was watched by
the nation with painful solicitude. His
loss to the country, under all the circum
stances, has been justly regarded as irre
parable.
In compliance with the act of Congress
of March 2, 1853, the oath of office was
administered to him on the 24th of that
month, at Ariadne estate, near Matanzas,
in the Island of Cuba; but his strength
gradually declined, and was hardly suffi
cient to enable him to return to his home
in Alabama, where, on the 1 8th day of
April, in the most calm and peaceful way,
his long and eminently useful career was
terminated.
Entertaining unlimited confidence in
your intelligent and patriotic devotion to
the public interest, and being conscious
of no motives on my part which are not
inseparable from the honor and advance
ment of my country, I hope it may be my
privilege to deserve and secure, not only
your cordial co-operation in great public
measures but also those relations of mu
tual confidence and regard, which it is al
ways so desirable to cultivate between
members of co-ordinate branches of the
Government.
FRANKLIN PIERCE.
Washington, D. C, Dec. 5, 1853.'
Jf-ST Jones says the best voice he heard
singing in meeting, last Sunday, rrminded
him of a rag machine tearing corduroy
pantaloons into Fourth of July orations!
Classic comparison that.
THE PIONEER.
V..T. GILES, EDITOR.
Thursday,
DEC. 13.
Congress and President's Message. V
On Monday of last week, Congress
met and elected officers for the present
session. Lynn Boyd - of Kentucky, was
chosen Speaker of the House, and Col.
Forney as Clerk. . ;
In to-day's paper we send out the Pres
ident's message, and can recommend it to
the favorable perusal of all our readers.
This document will undoubtedly meet
with the approbation of all parties, as it
is an able paper, and recommends noth
ing but what is really needed. It shows
the present condition of our National
Government in its various branches -speaks
of our relations with other nations,
and in fact, is what we might expect from
a Democratic President and able states
man. The New Yeah. Here W e are again
upon the eve of a new year, and with fine
signs of grand progress; plenty of every
thing, and the railroad cars just starting
out to connect us with the eastern world.
When will the opening of another new
year make its appearance, so full of hap
py events for the prosperity of Upper
Sandusky? We are in the possession of
general good health, with all the abund
ant gifts of nature necessary to a fat and
fast life. We have only to add, our good
wish for the very good blessing of all the
patrons to the Pioneer through the com
ing year.
The Administration. The Washing
ton Union contains the following extract
from a letter written by John B. Weller,
U. S. Senator from California, in relation
to his position with the administration.
Weller says, if you have been informed
that I had united with factionists to throw
up obstacles to Democratic progress and
thereby embarrass the administration, you
are certainly very much mistaken. I
have no doubt the administration will be
conducted upon Democratic principles,
and expect to give it a warm and zealous
support. There is no man for whom I
have a higher personal respect than Pres
ident Pierce, and there is no one in whom
I have politically more confidence.
We expect to be absent for a few, weeks
on a visit in the eastern portion of the
State; but send in your names, advertise
ments and job-work, and your demands
will be attended to.
W We learn by the last Ohio Patriot
that a gang of counterfeiters were arrest
ed by the Sheriff of Columbiana county.
It appears from the account given by that
paper, that the ones taken have been do
ing a pretty extensive business in their
line.
The Pioneer. We presume our read
ers will receive the President's message
through ourpaperin advance of the cheap
city papers, such as so many of our cheap
friends in this county are taking. The
reading of this message, we recommend
to every one, and particularly our young
friends.
Our devil intends getting out a
newyear's address, and would just say by
way of hint, have your dimes reay.
jJSP" We hope among the many good
things of the new year, to get two or
three hundred good subscribers to the
Pionee.r
Ohio Statesman. We are indebted to
the enterprising proprietors of this paper
for the first copy of the President's mes
sage. Gentlemen, you have our thanks
and best wishes.
' This is the week that we expect
to see the cars take a straight through
from here to Bucyrus on our railroad.
This will be a new era in the history of
things in Upper Sandusky.
State Convention. We would call
the attention of the Democracy to the
call of the Democratic State Central Com
mittee, for a State Convention, in nolum
bus, on the 7th January next.
33T The weather is as fine here at
present as it is in any country. Persons
who would grumble at the weather we
are now having, would have impudence
enough to complain if they were about to
be banished to some ice-berg.
Arrested. On Sunday afternon, Do
minic Bradley, the Moyamensing bully,
who come off victorious in the brutal prize
fight which took place near Phoenixville,
on Thursday last, was arrested at his
house, by officer Benckert, of the Mar
shal's police. He was taken before May
or Gilpin in the evening, on a charge of
riot and as a fugitive from justice.
The Mayor held him in the sum of $5,
000 bail for a further hearing on Tuesday,
and to await a requisition from the au
thorities of Chester county. It is to be
hoped that Slonn, and all who encouraged
the disgraceful exhibition, will be arrest
ed and brought to speedy justice.
JJ3TThe Hebrews of Albany lately
held a meeting to express their indigna
tion at the late atrocious, tyrannical and
arbitary act of Francis Joseph of Austria,
by which he has deprived 700,000 of his
Jewish subjects of the inalienable rights
of man. They also urge all friends of re
ligion and political liberty throughout the
world to follow the example of several of
the most prominent Jewish Bankers of
London, who have agreed not to deal in
Austrian stock at all. Austria will get
herself into trouble if she does not take
care.
JCdiTRather Ominious. To be impor
tuned by your young wife to get your life
insured.
: Earthquake Shock in South America.
-We have been permitted to 'make the
following extract from a letter written
from Lima, South America, by Robert
Winter, of chemical diorama notoriety, to
a friend in this city, in which he gives an
account of the recent earthquake shocks
in Peru:- Cin. Eng.
"Lima, Oct. 25, '53.
"We are, as I before stated, in the
Land of earthquakes,' and our expecta
tions were fully , roused by the hopes of
witnessing one of those wonderful con
vulsions of nature, more particularly as
the inhabitants informed us that there had
not been one for a very long time, as it
was nearly three months since the last
occurred.
The city of Callao, situated but tlx
miles from here, was once destroyed by
an earthquake and thousands of inhabi
tants destroyed. This event is duly sol
emnized on every universary by grand
processions, the carrying of saints thro'
the city, and other ceremonies incident
to a Catholic country, and which is con
tinued for three days in succession. The
first day passed off smoothly enough;
but singular to relate, on the morning of
the second day, about six o'clock, the
whole city was aroused on a sudden by
an awful shock, and what they term here,
a double one. I will attempt to give
some faint idea of it: On a sudden Ave
experienced a tremendous trembling of
the earth accompanied by an indescriba
ble rumbling noise and a swinging sensa-J
tion. Instantly everything was in confu
sion, all discriminately rushing into the
streets and plaza just as they emerged
from their beds; women rushing frantical
ly, screeching for help and safety when
no help could be afforded, as all were a
like in the same precarious situation,each
one feeling as though he stood on the
brink of a precipice and knew not but the
next moment would plunge them into
eternity.
"You may fancy the terror and con
sternation existing at this moment; but
fortunately, like most earthquakes, it las
ted but a short time, although moments
seemed lengthened to an indescribable
length when consternation was wrought
to the highest, and no one could flee to
any spot and say he was safe. Fear was
depicted on every, countenance, even on
those who we may say were used to such
occurrences, , more particularly as this was
the severest they had experienced for more
than twenty years.
"Before we had quite recovered from
the first shock, and partially dressed, we
were alarmed by another, but not so se
vere a one as the first, yet so powerful as
to be most disagreeable; and even with
this one the houses rocked to and fro, the
windows rattled, and door swung on their
hinges. I felt but little fear during this
one, and called William's attention to the
nudity of several females in the street,
mixed in the awe-struck crowd. About
four hours from the first or principal
shock, we were again visited by a third,
which al armed me considerably, as we
occupied a two-story house, and the ma
jority here are but one story, being con
sidered safer.
"Throughout the day every slightnoise
was a signal for flight, in expectation of a
recurrence, and as night approached all
felt fearful of retiring to bed; sleep was
out of the question. About three o'clock
next morning we had two other slight
shakes, but we were getting used to them
and so soon got over these. Thus you
will perceive we had five distinct shocks
in the space of nine hours, and two slight
ones on the day following, which is pretty
good, and has fully satisfied my curiosity
oir the bubject of quakes. One feature
is very remarkable relative to the feelings
of the public here, on account of the
above calamity. The police caused the
theatre to be closed, but they did not in
terfere with my exhibition', so I opened on
the second night after the great quake,
and had full houses three nights in succes
sion, thus shaking the dollars into my
treasury, and making good the old adage,
'There is but one step from the sublime to
the ridiculous.' "
A Sensible Boy. A miserly old lady
kept an inn. One day a famished sold
ier called on her for something to eat.
Some bones, that had been pretty well
picked were placed before him. After
finishing his dinner, a little son of the
landlady, noticing that the soldier found
it very difficult to make out much of a
dinner, put some money in his hand as
he stepped out of the door. When his
mother came in, he asked her how much
it was worth to pick those old bones.
"A shilling, my dear," said the old la
dy, expecting to receive the money.
"I thought so," replied the boy, "and
I gave the old soldier a shilling for doin
it!" Our Country. It is estimated that in
a hundred years, wre shall have two hun
dred and thirty millions; and in a hund
red and fifty years; or in the year 2000,
we shall have over seven hundred mil
lions! Our soil nrodno.pfl last, rear nver a
hundred and fifty millions of bushels of
breadstuffs, to say nothing about the rice
and fruit crops. And yet we have'a hun
dred and ninety millions of acres more
than five times the territory of England
and Wales which the spade and plow
never touched.
jiarThe Vienna Lloyd publishes some
interesting particulars respecting the Tur
kish General-issimo. "Omar Pasha,"
the writer says, "is very much beloved
by the soldiers, although he conforms
very little to Mahommedan customs a
mong other things, openly drinking wine
atthe table. He has no harem, but one
wife, an Austrainlady from Transylvauia.
He is a perfect gentleman, a noble horse
man, and an indefatigable soldier."
Mexican Affairs;
A correspondent of the Tribune wrt-
ting from Mexico under date of November'
17th, expresses the opinion that Santa An
na will sooner made Emperor of Mexi
co. He says that it is generally believed
that tlve coronation will take place as ear
ly as December, but he does, notjlmk it
will be so soon. He further add:
There is a fine display of military in
the capital, and a large contract for can
non and two steamers has been given; bed
sides a quantity of powder is on its' way
to Mexico from Vera Cruz. . While all
this going on complaints " continue' to. be
general and bitter throughout the interior
of the country in consequence of Uie" im
pressment of men for the army,, and' the
high rate of contributions . which. weigh
heavily upon the poor; "Complaints are
also increasing on account of the decree
which imposes on all persons who go five
leagues from any place the obligation of
getting a passport. Besides all" this, I
find the minds cf the people in an unset
tled state, or rather in a kind of alarm,
because they know not what may come
next. In former time, or until very lately
a foreigner could no into any part of Mex
ico without being troubled about his pass
port or with questions as to his business, "
Not so now. Wherever he goes he
called upon, asked where he came from
what is his business, where he is, going,
and a host of such questions. Should he
manifest much impatience at all this) if
h e is not taken before the Al'cade, the
people asking will excuse themselves by
saying, "Well, these are critical times,
and it is necessary," or something of that
sort. In fine, no one believes f that the
Empire if established, will last for any
length of time, and all predict its down
fall. ' : ' : : ..
The Eighth of January Democratic State
Convention.
Columbus, Dec. 1 i&B3.
At a meeting of the Democratic' State
Central Committee, held at Columbus,
Monday evening, 28th, November, 1853,
it was: - -;
Jiesolved, That in pursuance of "usaWe,
it is expedient to hold a Democratic State
Convention in the city of Columbus,, on
Saturday, the 7th day of January, 1854,
for the purpose of placing in nomination
one Judge of the Supreme Court" arid one
member of the Board of Public Works;
and that the several counties of Ohiobe,
and they hereby are requested to send to
said Convention one delegate for; every
five hundred votes which they respective
ly cast for Governor at the .election' of
1 853, and also additional deligate for ev
ery fractional votes so cast, exceeding two
hundred and fifty.
W. D. MORGAN, Chairman!
J. Smith, Sec. -I
I've Never Known. I never have
known a poor man respected because he
was poor. 'f
I never have known a rich' man but
what he was respected f6f his richest .
I have never known a merchant to con
tinue his eon versa tion with a nnnr man
" . !
when a rich man enters.
I never have known a white-handed,
hairy faced office seeker, to be very con
versant with a poor man after election. t
I never have known anything too ridic
ulous to be followed.
I never have known a systsm too absurd
to find followers. . "
I never have known a political abolition
ist that would put a negro in his bed.
I never have known a printer (a public
slave) to accumulate wealth.
I never have knowrn a man to be happy
who didn't pay his printer's bill. ( .
Pity for his Shyness. A : clergyman,
called on a poor parishioner, whom he
found bitterly lamenting the loss of an on
ly son, a boy of about four years old. In
the hope of consoling the afflicted woman,
he remarked to her that "one so young
ould not have committed any very griev
ous sin; and that as doubt the child was
gone to Heaven." '
"Ah, sir," said the simple-hearted
creauture, "but Tommy was so' shy, and
they are all strangers there!"- ' J
&3T Said one to an aged friend, "I llad
a letter from a distant correspondent the
other day, who inquired if you were in the"
land of the living." .. -
"No," replied the saintlike,; venerable
man; "but I am going there. . This world
is alone the world of the shadows, and
the eternal is the only one of living real
ities." .
iTST The Panches, a tribe with whom
the people of Bogota had many wars,
used to carry the bodies of their bravest
warriors into battle with them. The bod
ies were preserved with a sort of gum,
and there were men appointed to carry
them on their backs as banners. Her'
vera. : .' .
$3T The following queer paragraph in
a Paris letter to the New York Tribune:
"Qui vivc? The hopes of the Empire.
The Emperor places the Empress by his
right side at the theater and in his carri
age. If the usages of the French mon
archy retain their acient significance, this
maybe considered an official announce-,
ment that an heir is apparent to the im-
j Perial throue "
Deaths at Sea. The - packet ship
Victoria arrived at New York, on Friday,"
from London, with 33 8 passengers. There
were fifty deaths during the voyage.
iJSTAn exchange tells of the sad case
cf a man who was shipwrecked, and east
upon an uninhabited island with out a sAi7
ing in his liocTcet.
SST The sum already expended in
vessels sent in search of Sir John Frank-
; ym ft is said amounts to over 35,000.000.
-A Query .-
Somebody asks what
is more sole harrowing than
boots?
peg- one's
jtSTMelancholy sight. A shoemaker
iwhd has lost his all and breathed his last.