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THE WINCHESTER WEEKLY APPEAL.
A FAMILY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO POLITICS, LOCAL INTERESTS, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC NEWS, AGRICULTURE, MECHANISM, EDUCATION -INDEPENDENT ON
ALL SUBJECTS,
VOLUME 1.
WINCHESTER, TENN., SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1850.
NUMBER 29.
DEIVIOCIEATIC FAIUNESS.
Tho following is clipped from tho Dcm
ocrat, published Dt Iluntsville, Ala., os
it serves to illustrato the disposition of
somo democratic orators in tho discussion
of party issues now beforo the people:
Hcntsvillk, Aug. 18, 1850.
Eds. Democrat: I obscrvo in you
paper of the ltth inst. n list of appoint
ments, made by tho Hon. W. L. Yancy,
wlitch concludes as follows:
"The Electors on the Know Nothing
ticket for the State at large, or for tho dis
trict in which I si. all speak, aro invited
to a discussion of tho pending issues. 1
reserve the right to conclude."
I am ready to meet Mr. Yancey at the
times and places designated, but not upon
the terms proposed.
The right to conclude every day is an
advantage I do not feel willing to concede.
If ho will yield me tho eonclusionevcry
other day, I will meet and travel with
him through all his appointments.
Very respectfully,
JERE. CLEMENS.
A young man o.nce picked up a sover
eign lying in the road. Ever afterwords
as he walked along he kept his eye fixed
steadily on tho ground in hopes of find
ing another. And in the couno of a long
time, ho did pick up, at different times,
a goodly numberof coins, goldandsilver.
But all these years, whilo he was looking
for them, he saw not that the heavens
wcro bright above him and nature beau
tiful around him. Ho never once allow
ed his eyes to look up from the mud and
filth in which ho sought the treasure; and
when ho died a rich old man he only
knew this fair earth of ours as a dirty
road in which to pick up money as you
walked along.
Think of That. The New Orleans
Bco says:
"Wo really begin to think the Buch
anan men of the South belong to the rule
or ruin school of John C. Calhoun. They
close their eyes and ears to tho evidence
of tho impossibility of electing their fa
vorite, and seem doggedly bent upon plac
ing the South under the li eel of tho op
pressor, if they cannot make Mr. Buch
anan President."
"Think ol that follow citizens, without
the slightest prospect of his getting a sin
gle Northern State, the Southern Democ
racy still persist in keeping him in the
field. Was there ever such madness be
fore? A young girl was recently taken before
a Justice in Detroit, charged with larceny
of$04 from a laboring man in that city.
Tho girl acknowledged that she had tak
en the money, and stated tho circumstan
ces that had influenced her to commit th
crime. She said that tho complainant
had sometime since agreed to marry her,
thatforsomo weeks sho "lived with him
Iho same as his wife," and that he then
left her. Sho followed him, however, and,
upon his appearing reluctant to perform
bis promise, stole tho money and deposit
ed it in the savings bank, thinking he
would marry her "to get it back." She
proved right in her theory, for ho mani
fested his willingness to comply her terms.
They were to bo married tho following
Tuesday; the money remaining in the
hands of the Justice until tho ceremony
was performed. That girl should have
her method of husband making patented
immodietcly.
Buchasak is New York. The News,
'he Buchanan organ, is doleful over the
prospect in that city. We quote:
"'Every man is waiting patiently the
tide of events, each asking the other what
s going on. Wo can answer nothing
'8 going on. Everything and everybody
is as still and cool as the snow-capped
Alps, evidently waiting for an avalanche.
Is there to bo no action?
Such action, or want of all action, is
tokening and most discouraging. Where
it our State Committee, and what is it
about? our County and Town Commit
tees, what are they doing?
Where are our own city organizations?
nearly all equal to dead. If there is no
head to give any direction, in the name
of Heaven let the people take hold of it."
It is stated that the New Orleans Pic
ayune divided $90,000 profits last year,
or 18,000 to each of the five partners.
THE SWELL-HE AI DISEASE
This dreadful disease sometimes attacks
horses and other animals, but men an
boys aromoro subject to it, and with them
it is more fatal.
Cause. Vacuity in the cranium. It
is often augmented by flattery, especial
ly when the cerebrum is small and ill-
shaped. Men of largo information, how
ever, aro sometimes afflicted with it, in
which case thcro is found an inordinate
swelling in the upper region of tho head,
just back of tho apex cranii. Tho pro
turbcrancc is called self-esteem.
Symptoms. The poor creaturo usually
fancies himself the biggest, smartest, best,
and handsomest man in tho crowd loves
the "uppermost scats in tho synagogues"
is given to impudence, impertinence,
and usually bad manners in company
is censorious and fond of finding and ex
posing the foibles of his associates has
few friends and no lovers, and has gener
ally a bad odor to polite and well-bred
people given to swelling and strutting,
as if in one moment he fancied himself a
toad, and the next moment a turkey-cock.
He is egotistic, and passionately fond of
higli-sonnding titles, as 'Squire, Captain,
Colonel, General, &c. The miserable pa
tient is sometimes so infatuated as to at
tempt to stride tho ocean, or jump over
very high mountains. These arc only a
few symptoms of this malady, but enough
to identify it.
Treatment. When it is caused by
emptiness of the cranium, it is only nec
essary to fill up tho vacuum with good
ideas a solid education, or common
sense. When induced by diminutiveness
or malformation of tho brain, tho cure is
slow and difficult. We have known
some cases which defied every remedy and
destroyed tlie patients. A cure must be
attempted by exercising and cultivating
those faculties which are deficient, such
as the judgment and the understanding,
and deplctingself-cstecm. The skulls of
these patients aro generally very thick
and hard, so that it is hard pounding any
thing into them; but they are excessively
fond of soft soap give them a pound or
two every day, and it will soften the skull
so that you can probably get a little gump
tion into it, or a modicum ratiocination,
and they will soon bo well. When this
will not euro, soft soap will palliate.
In the case of those gentlemen, from
ten to twenty years old, who get to put
ting on the boots and pantaloons of their
fathers, and to teaching their tcathars,
reproving, counselling and sometimes in
sulting old age, chewing tobacco, smok
ing cigars, and drinking whisky swear
ing and cutting thedandy swell-head gen
erally appetite for late hours, bad com
pany, and bar rooms voracious a little
oil of birch, applied by a parental hand,
is the best remedy. Then keep them out
of the night air and bad weather. If this
does not effect a cure by the divine bless
ing, the head grows and grows, till the
poor sufferer topples over a few times, and
knocks out half his self-esteem.
Wit. In speaking of the present con
diiion of the Cumberland river.the Clarks
villo Chronicle has the following:
"The river continues dead low just as
low as it can be to maintain its identity
as a river. We heard, several years ago,
of its being so low that a rise of three
feet was coming down, but could not get
over the Shoals. It is now said to be so
low that when a steamboat goes along you
can see the dust flying up behind it!"
Tho Montgomery Mail says, in speak
ing the Alabama river:
The Alabama is very low again, but
such steamers as the Illinois Belle and
middle-sized fish still navigate with case.
A compositor on the Detroit Advertis
er came to the offico on Friday morning,
and said he dreamed during the night that
he saw his mother in her coffin, and the
dream was so vivid and had affected him
so deeply that h could not work. At 4
o'clock in tho afternoon he received a tel
egraphic despatch announcing the death
of his mother, which took place in Ni
agara, C. W., early in the morning.
Tho whole number of emigrants which
have crossed the Mississippi at Dubuque
since the 12th of April up to the 5th day
of July, has been 810 families, consisting
of 4054 members, having in their posses
sion 1031 wagons, 1T28 head of horses,
7722 head of cattle, and 11,700 sheep.
A TIIKILLEVOSOESE.
A submarine diver from Buffalo has at
last succeodod in raising tho safe of the
American Express Company, which was
lost when tho steainor Atlantic was sunk
off Long Point in 1852. It will bo rec
ollected that this steamer was instantly
sunk by colliding of a propellor, and that
a largo number of passengers were lost.
The di ver was protected by copper urmor
and was under water forty minutes, du
ring which time ho had some strange ad
ventures. The upper deck of the steam
er lies 1G0 feet under water, and far be
low where there is any current or motion.
Everything, therefore, is exactly as it first
went down.
When the diver alighted upon the deck
he was saluted by a beautiful lody, whose
clothing was well arranged, and her hair
elegantly dressed. As he approached her
a movement of the water caused an oscil
lation of the head, as if gracefully bowing
to him. She was standing erect with one
hand grasping tho rigging. Around lay
the bodies of several others os if sleeping.
Children holding their friends by their
hands, and mothers with their babies in
their arms were there. In the cabin, the
furniture was still untouched by decay,
and to all appearance had just beon ar
ranged by some careful and tasteful hand.
From tlio Memphis Ksj'c mill Enquirer.
IMOGEN, liUIDE OV THE SEA.
BY MINNIE.
'Twas midnight on the water,
A nil (i storm was on the sea,
And the raging winds were swelling high
Their furious minstrelsy.
And the clouds hung dark and fearful
Above tho tossing wave,
And the lightning flashed, and the thunder
crashed,
O'er many a billowy grave!
A storm was on the water,
And a tempest on the shore,
And the foaming surges lashed the rocks
With wild and dotif'ning roar;
Cut amid the strife and darkness
A maiden walked the strand,
And above the night gleamed the ruddy light
Of watch-fires on tho land.
Then wilder blew the tempest,
Andiho night grew blacker still,
But tho ilame leaped high and clear and bright
From watch-fires on tho hill;
There were shouts of fiendish laughter
And howls of hellish glef,
But above them nil, rose the maiden's call,
"Comeback, my love, to me!"
A vessel in the distance
In distress, the signal gave,
And thi quick, heart-piercing minute gun
Came booming o'er tho wave;
And the maiden shrieked in terror,
And stretched her arms in vain,
For the brave and true, with his gallant crew,
Went down beneath tho main!
Years passed the lovely maiden
By the sea-side wandered still,
While she nightly lit the glowing flame
Of watch-fires on tho hill;
Till the frost of nge had whitened
Ilcr dark, luxuriant hair,
While the weary slept, 6ho had wetched and
wept,
In silent, deep despair.
'Twas midnight on tho waters,
And tho tempest swept the sea,
And the foaming waves leaped wild and high
And shouted in tlioi-glee.
Then tho maiden saw a vessel
Glide toward her o'er the main,
And sho know the years of her watch through
tears
Had not been kept in vain.
Still onward came the vessel,
And a voice rose loud and clear,
And the maiden knew the welcome call
As the phantom ship drew near.
Then a calm stole o'crthe billow,
i And tho waves rolled high and free,
And the moon rose pale, as a white, white sail
Went gliding out to sea!
A land of wondrous beauty
Far across the blue sea's foam,
Where the Found of fairy music falls,
Is now their island home.
And the sailors say at midnight
When tho waves roll light and free,
Tn the moonlight pale, is a white, white sail
Seen gliding o'er the sea!
How mornfullly beautiful! Who is
"Ml5!UE?"
1 he r rontier l exas) 1'alriot says wheat
is telling in tRat (Lamar) county at fifty
cents per bushel.
THE THREE 1'AICTIE.
"Mr. Seward the day for compromi
ses has past.
"Mr. Toombs I'm glad of it.
"Mr. Seward And so am I.
"Mr. Crittenden 1 would compromise
to tho last moment of time, provided wo
could proscrvo the original principles on
which tho government was ernctod."
The above extract from a recent debate
in tho Sennto is, says a writer in the Al
exandria Gazette, a fair and forcible ex
position of tho three parties now before
tho country. "Rule or ruin" is the spir
it of two; "to preserve and bless the
oouutry" is the ruling motive with nino
tenths of the supporters of Millard Fill
more. With which party will a portriot
of any name or denomination net at tho
present time?
The Sag Nicht editors in Tennessee
nr'ffin the habit ofmngnyfiing every mole
bill of an "Old Line Whig," who goes
into their foul dens, as a mountain of
light and influence; whilo they as uni
formily depreciate the worth and talents
of those "mountains" who come out from
their party, nnd join the Americans, into
"mole hills." When they aro able to
show such an array of talents going from
the American party to theirs, as we can
of"old lino democrats" coming from them
to us, wo shall think it time to treat their
bold statements with some respect. We
defy them to mention such an array of
names as A. J. Donelson, Anthony W.
Johnson, J. M. Quarlcs, Lucien M.
Temple, and hosrs of others that we might
m e n ti o n . Era nidi a llcv icw .
Well Enough to Remember it. The
West Tennessee Whig refreshes the mem
ories of its readers with tho reccollcclion
of the fac t that, in 1852, the Democratic
leaders opposed Governor Jones' efforts
in Tennessee, in favor of Gen. Scott, by
charging that the reason tho Governor
was opposed to Mr. Fillmore, as the
candidate of tho Whig party at that time,
was that Mr. Fillmore was sound on the
slavery question; that Gen. Scott was an
abolitionist; and that the Governor was
playing into the hands of the enemies of
the South. It will be well for the hon
est masses to watch these same leaders
of the so-called Democratic party, and
see how they will change their tune.
We say, watch them, ye candid honest
men.
Col. Bissel, now running as the Fre
mont candidate for Governor of Illinois,
is ineligible by tho Constitution of that
State, having accepted a challenge from
Gen. Davis, By the Constitution of Il
linois the Governor must swear 'that he
never accepted or sent a challenge.'
lie Joel Miller lauded John C. Brock
enridge to the skies, whom ho described
as a tall man with keen keen black eyes
sharp enough to bore a hole through a
Know Nothing in'the winking of an eye.
Hopkins cille Patriot.
Does tho young man mean to say that
Mr. Breckenridgc has gimlet-eyes. Lou
Jou r.
A fashionable watering place, on the
gul.Cshore, known as "Last Island," was
overflowed by the tidewater a few days
ago, and one hundred and fifty persons
were drowned. The full particulars have
not yet reached us, wo are indebted to a
gentleman on the Wharf boat for the
abovo facts. Mem. Eagle.
The antics of the South tell us that
their party in tho North is sound on all
National questions, and wo give tho fol
lowing as on evidence of this: "Mayor
Stevens, of Buffalo, elected as a democrat
by 1,000 majority, is a member of the Fre
mont Club of that city. Three of the
present democratic Alduimen aro also
members." Banks is a Democrat, Chase
a Democrat, and Sumner a Democrat;
still wo aro told that the nest in which
they were raised continues pure.
We dave just seen it stated that those
who pay their printer's bill aro never
struck by lightening.
Mary, a negro woman belonging to Dr.
J. H. Hundley, near Mooresville, Ala.,
gave birth on the 10th inst., to three liv
ing children, two whites and one black.
It will puzzle medical fraternity to ac
count for this singular even).
VITA MTV OF ISEC''M.
If tho head of a lnnmrniiliferous quad
ruped, orof a bird is cut off, the conso
quencos of courso arc fatal. But the most
dreadful wounds that imagination can
figuro or cruelty inflict, havo scarcely any
destructive infiuenco on the vital functions
ofmanyof the inferior creatures. Luen
hock had a rnito which lived eleven weeks
transfixed on a point for microscopical in
vestigation. Vallinnt caught a locust at
the Cape of Good Hope, ami after evacua
ting tho intestines, ho filled the abdomen
with cotton and stuck a stout pin through
tho thorax, an 1 yet tho feet and antennas
were in full play after the lnpso of five
mouths. In the beginning of November,
Redi opened tho skull of laud tortoise,
and removed tho en li ro brain. A fleshy
intcrgunient was observed to form over
the opening, and the animal lived six
months. Spallanzini cut the hearts out
of three newts in Scotland called asks,
which immediately took flight, leaped,
swam, and executed their usual functions
for forty-eight hours. A decapitated
beetle will advance over a table, and rec
ognize a precipice on approaching the
edge. Redi cut off the head of a tortoise,
which survived eighteen days. Colonel
Pringle decapitated several libellula;, or
dragon flies, one of which lived afterwards
for four months, and another survived for
six months; and what seems rather odd in
connection with this circumstance, he
could never succeel in keeping alive
those with their nheads on, abovo a few
days at the farthest. Halloa's Dollar
Monthly.
The Lexington Observer says of the
late election in that State:
Out of the twelve Judges heard from,
six are Americans; five Democrats; and
onoWhig. Of the two Chancellors, the
Americans have one nnd made no nomi
nation for the other.
Tho Sumter S. C Watchman says:
"Let Preston S. Brooks bo our next
Governor without a dissenting voice
not as a reward, but as a testimonial of
our high appreciation of patriotism, firm
ness, dignity and statesmanship.
Jno. Mitchell, the Irish exile, who says
he is not an American citizen, has pub
lished a long letter telling tho American
people that they ought to vote for Buch
anan. Mr. Mitchell indulges, what is
quite natural to him, no doubt, an in
tense hatred for Great Britain; and he
thinks if Buchan should be elected a war
with that power might ensue. The Amer
ican people ought to feel immensely
thankful to the "poor exile of Erin,"
whose homo is now amongthe "thunder
ous Alleghauies," for condescending to
instruct them in the exercise of a privil
ege which ho does not possess himself.
A letter in the Richmond Dispatch,
Green county, Va., says:
"For tho past two weeks our county
has been visited with a malignant epi
demic, which tho doctors call typhoid
flux. It has proven fatal in a great
many cases some thirty or forty have
died from it. It is still raging, though
supposed to bo on the decrease."
The New York Herald says that letter;
had been received in Washington, soy
ing that Mr. Soule had left New Orleans
for Central America. Many reports
wcro in circulation as to tiio object of his
visit.
An obi lady walked into the office of a
Judge of Probate in Massachusetts once
upon a time ami asked:
"Are you the Judge of Repiobates?"
"I am the Judge of Probate."
"Well, that's it, 1 expect," quoth the
old lady, "you see my father died detest
ed, and he left several little infidels, and
I want to be tho executioner."
A witty editor of the Buchanan school,
who has just failed, said ho did it with all
tho honors of war, an 1 has retired from
iho field with colors flying sheriffs' rags
fluttering from the windows and door.
False Repoht. Tho Sag Nicht pa
pers have circulated tho story that the
Philadelphia Times has gone over to Fre
mont. Tho Times is a staunch Fillmore
paper. We simply say to our readers,
believe what you don't sec in the anti
American papers, and very little do sec,
and you will be founJ on the path of truth.
How terrible to wet a bad name.
koi. li co r r e is: i ktteu.
m
The Appeal bus got a good deal to ray
u bout Mr. Zollicoffer's letter which Gen;
Haskell rend during his last speech at
Odd Fellows' Ifiill. The letter is private,
but tho following extract from it, which
w.s havo been permitted to mako, this is
that part of it which troubled our neigh
bor so much:
"Mr. Fillmore will carry New York,
New Jersey, mid I think California. Mr.
Buchanan will probably carry no North
ern State but Pennsylvania. Fremont
will probably get the remaining 100 votes
of tho North. If Buchanan could add the
whole doctoral vote of the South 120
to the vote of Pennsylvania 27 ho would
fail of an election by the popular vote, by
two votes. If Mr. Fillmore could unilu
tho South to New York lie won 1 bo elect-'
ed by the popular vote. Why, should we
not urge that view in tho South? Why
not put upon Buchanan's friends the
onus of defending an election in the
House? where his suggestions to Jackson
nnd Clay imply he would bo good at in
trigue and where, if he failed his friends
think Breckenridgc would become Presi
dent in default of House election'"
The above extract speaks itself. No
comment is necessary. Memphis Eagle.
The Boston Courier, one of the most
careful and best informed papers of that
city, says;
"The friends of Mr. Fillmore are in a
plurality in the State of Massachusetts at
this day, and they will continue to in
crease until tire time of tho election."
. Tho Franklin, Tenn. Review, says Dr.
R. N. Dashiell.ofShclbyville.an old line
Democrat, and at various times editor of
tho Democratic organ in that place, has
come out boldly for Fillmoro and Don
elson. Huzza!
A Good Oxe. The following is re
ported as having lately happened in Bris
tol county:
A wiUy clergyman being accosted by
an old acquaintance by the name of Cob!',
replied,
"I don't know you, sir."
"My name is Cobb," rejoined the man,
who was about half seas over.
"Ah, sir," replied the clergyman, "you
havo so much corn on you I didn't see
tho cob."
Tho Union Democrat, published at So
linsgrovc, Pa., runs up tho Fillmore and
Donelson flag, and says that. the Amer
icans and Whigs of th county will go
almost en masso for Fillmore and Don
elson. 'Humble as I am,' said a bullying
spouter to a mass meeting of the unterri
fied, 'I still remember that I am a frac
tion of this magnificent republic" "You
are indeed," said a bystander, 'and a vul
gar one at that.'
The old Whi party was a national
party; Tho American parly is the old
Whig Party: The American party is a sec
tional factional organization. Yidt Anti-Stump
Orators.
A question for the debating clubs:
Will Mr. Buchanan bo a candidate for
tho Presidency, at the November eloc
tion? The Nashville Patriot gives ti.e name?
of Geo. W. Jones, Andrew Johnson, and
S. C. Pavatt, as tho only three promi
nent Democrats in Tennessee who have
yet dared to defend Buchanan's doctrine
of Squatter Sovereignty. The Knoxv'.lk
Register says you may add tho name of
Col. John II. Crozier to your list, as an
other prominent Democrat, gentlemen of
the Patriot, and tell our friends over tint
way, that there aro now four of them.
The New York Tribune is out in on in
tide defending what it calls "Freedon.
of the Pulpit" that is, to allow the
clergy to discard the Bible and preach
about politics and Sharpe's riiles. For
tunately many of tho Tribune' followers
aro denouncing this new ism.
Tho Reading, Pa., Journal, truth.uily
says: "Disguise it as tho politicians may ,
Mr. Fillmore has stronger hold upon th
masses than any other candidate in th -field.
The people know him trust ii.
him and will vote for him when tho tim.
comes, despite the efforts of agitators an I
rectiuiialiftit, either in th" onh or Soutlt.