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WINCHESTER, TENN.. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1856.
NUMBER 33.
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Fil.morc Electoral Ticket.
Southern States.
North Carolina,
Virginia,
Georgia,
Alabama,
Florida,
Mississippi,
Texas,
Arkansas,
Missouri,
Tennessee,
Kentucky,
Delaware,
Maryland,
Northern States.
Massachusetts,
Rhode Island.
Connecticut,
New Jersey,
Pennsylvania,
Ohio,
Indiana,
Illinois.
Wisconsin,
Iowa,
California,
New York,
Louisiana.
South Carolina acts through her Leg
islature, and not through Electors. The
remaining four States will nominate clu
' ring the present month.
Let the people remember thiit Fillmore
has a larger number of Electoral ticket!"
throughout the Union than James Buch
anan. Douglas o.v Fillmore. In a speech
at Richmond, Virginia, on the Oth of July,
1852, Mr. Stephen A. Douglas, address
in e a Democratic audience, said :
"Wo feel ay, all of us feel that
Fillmore was a real god-send. It was
tho calming of the waters when the ship
was sinking in the tempest."
The people of the United States must
b3 well aware that the ship, managed of
late by Douglas & Co., is even in more
danger of sinking in the tempest now
than the was in 1851. So let the rr.an
who calmed the waters then be called on
by his countrymen to perlorm the same
glorious office again. Why should the
nation hesitate? How can it hesitate?
American Organ.
It is more than probable that Mi. Fill
more will roceive moro Hard-Democrat
cites in New York than Buchanan.
The Whigs of Massachusetts. The
Boston Courier remarks:
With respect to certain gentlemen of
the olJ Whig party Messrs. Everett,
Winthrop, Lunt, Hillard and others
whoso names have been mentioned as
among those who likely to go for Buch
anan, we may say that not one of them
has any idea of following the lead of Mr.
Choate, and we speak from good author-
Jttf tv 1 1 an wrn east fVifir I hot roiat A
much as we do, such an unexpected an
nouncement of Mr. Charles Choate's opin
ions. Marvlasd.- The Baliimon Patriot,
in an able article on tho c!ian:es of Fill
njorein Maryland, says:
We are notdisposed to in lulge in brag
Sadocia of any kind, nor wilt we know
ingly pervert the truth, even if by si do
ing wa coulJ secure tho elevation to the
Presidency of that excellent and pure
win le I man whom the Whigs have select
ed as their candidate; but we do asseit,
confidently, that Fillmore will receives
lai-e majority of the votes of the people
of Maryland, at the November election,
no muter what his chance may be in any
of the other States in the Union. There
isnodoubt of Maryland, the vaticinations
of 'distinguished gentlemen' to the contra
ry notwithstauJin. The attachmsnt of
Whigs to Millar 1 Fillmore is based up
oa the fact,-that la 'the North ho?ii nV
noonced as friendly to the Smth. and ia
'the South aa bavinr atrong Northern pro
clivhies. They want ao better eviJenc
f aia impartiality'
Fillmore on Squatter Sovereignly.
Tho Memphis Eagle end Enquirer has
the following correspondence: '
Memphis, Sept. 12, 1850.
Col Joseph S. Williams; Dear Sir
Understanding that you recently had e
conversation with the Hon. Millard Fill
more, on the sdbject ol "Popular" or
"Squatter Sovereignty," in which he
frankly expressed his views on that im
portant question, I write to request you
to put the substance of that conversation
in writing, for publication.
I am well eware that Mr. Fillmore sub
scribes unreservedly to the principles of
the Utah and New Mexico Bills, which ,
are utterly antagonistic to the Buchanan
and Van Buren doctrine of "Squatter
Sovereignty," but the people, I have no
doubt, would like to hear what Mr. Fill
more has said to you on (he naked ques
tion now at issue in reference to the ab
sorbing topic of Slavery in the Territories.
Very respectfully, yours, &c ,
J. P. PRYOH.
. Memphis Sept. 12, 1853. j
Cot. J. P. Pryor -Dear Sir: Your'
note of this instant, asking, for publica- ;
tion, thesubstance of a conversation be
tween Hon. Millard Fillmore and my
self, upon the subject of'Squatter' or Ter
ritorial Sovereignty, has just been handed "
me. I cheerfully comply with your re
quest, as I was placed under no restraint
by him in reference to tho matter.
Upon my return home from tho North, 1
I called to fee Mr. Fillmore at his home'
in Buffalo, New York, on tho 4th inst.
During our conversation, I nsked him1
what he thought ofSquatter Sovereign-1
ty," and in reply, he entered into-
a free anl unreserved expression of his'
views. He said he was decidedly op
posed to this doctrine, as advocated by j
Cass, Douglass, Buchanan, Van Buren
and others; he believed that a Territory, )
until its inhabitants were sufficiently tiu-
merous to authorize the formation of a 1
State Constitution, prepnratory lo adniis
sion into the Union as a State, could on
ly be regarded as in a condition of pupil
oge, possessing no sovereignty whatever; '
and referred to tho Utah end New Mexi
co Territorial bills, sanctioned by him, as
a correct indication of his opinions.
I wns gratified to find that Mr. Fill
more occupied the same position upmi 1
this question whitdi is niainlained by tho
American party in the South, and by the
whole band of national Americans of tho
North, hea led by such men as Fuller, of
Peiisylvanin, Haven of New York, and
others, and I told him I would like to bo .
at liberty to speak of the explanation re- !
reived from him. He replied he had ev
pressed the same views to others, and that :
I could make such use of ihcm as I thought
proper. j
Yours, truly. j
JOSEPH S. WILLIAMS. !
Col. Williams, the wrilcrof the forego-
ing statement, is a planter of Louisiana,
and a gentlemm of high character and
standing, both in that Stale ant! in Ten-'.
nessee, where he formerly res'ded. No
one who knows him will question what
he sayr. Eagle and Enquirer. ,
.
RrLiGiox. Whatever of excellency j
is wrought into the soul itself, belongs to ,
both words. Real goodness does not.
attach itself merely to life; points to an
other world. Political and professional
fame can not last forever, but conscience
void of offence before God and man, is,
an inheritance for eternity. Religion,!
therefore, in a necessary, and almost in
dispensable element in any human (har-j
acler. There is no one living without it.
Religion is the tie that connects man I
with his Creator, and holJs him to his!
throne, if that tie is sun lered or broken
he floats away, a worthless atom in the
universe, its proper attractions all gone,
its destiny thwarted, and its whole future,
nothing but darkness, desolation: and
death. . A man with no seme of religious
duty is he whom the Scriptures described
in so terse but terrific manner as "liv.
inj with God in the world." a man is
out of hi. pnper beinj out of tho circle
of all bia happiness, and away, faraway,
fro.n the purpose of his crsadon. -Duni I
Wdsttr.
George Barker, and Edward C. Pe'e
van, diitVaishad democrats, of New
York, have talfe theatomp for Fillmore!
- Written for tfae Winchester App.a
Solitary Itl iiaiiiga.
We aro passing away! , Days, weeks,
months and years roll on, and yanith in
the mists of eternity. Generation suc
ceeds generation, es regularly as the great
Luminary of da runs his sublime circuit
round the celestial dome. , Every day
that blushes into light witnesses the accu
mulation of new graves in the church
yard. Newflowerss of immortality blos
som in many homes, and blossom but to
fade away an l die. Some live to flatter
the fondest hopes, and enlarge (he most
sanguine expectations of doting friends,
when suddenly they cease to move on
the variable stage of life, and are nuin
bere.l with the things that were. Others
live to be useful to the human family
to be the means of ameliorating the con
dition of society, and making themse'ves
benefuctors to thousands of unfortunate
beings, when alas! the fond and grateful
affection of a thousand hearts, rising like
holy incense lo heap blessings on their
heads, must follow them to the tilent
tomb. Weary Pilgrims in a world of
suffering and toil, as they climb the rug
ged steeps, and steer their course through
mazy labyrinths find heir feet torn by
new thorns, an I their c:ours obstructed
by new obstacles ; but tlhiy enjoy the
noble pleasure of looking back upon dis
Iress firmly supported, upon danger reso
lutely encountered, and upon oppression
artfully defeated." Like Eanias, when,
after tho honors of a storm, cotnfortcl
his companions as they had lan lot on
an unknown and desolate shore, with
the hope that at some distant period their
miseries would bo recounted with de
light; so may they comfort themselves,
thai they will soon pass the terminus of
earthly scenes to find
"Tlie Innd of dory and repose."
New temptations loom up in the way of
the unwary, new tears are wept above
the ea.ly dead, and souls are tried at a
new tribunal for deeds done in the body.
Change is ever floating in the wake of
time. The hoary specter passes on, un
ceasing in his flight, and Change, vigor
ous in unending youth, scatters from one
hand life, beauty, blessing; from the oth
er, su.Tering, decay and death.
New altars are erected to earthly love,
new associations ire formed, and new
schemes devised for the attainment of
earthly bliss, but ere the realization of
fondest hope, of dreams of bliss, of
golden anticipations, tho rude blasts of
decay an I dcuih hurry the delighted pro
jectors from the shores of terrestrial
action.
0! what havoc do a few years make in
the human rate! Ilow soon do wc see
ourselves deprived of those wiih whom
we entered the world! The man of en-1
terprise, when he has rccounied his ad-j
ventures, and retrospcctol hs cucces3
amidst untovvarl circu.ii.'t.inres, is lorced
in the sequel to pay o si.h to the memo-
ry of those who had contributed to his,
success: and he who has spent his life
among the gayer port of mankind, finds '
his remc-mberance stored with ihe gaiety,
the repartees of wit and (lie mirthful.:
amusements of those whose merriment
and sprightliness are now lost in silent e. '
The trader whose in iustry has supplied ;
the want of inheritance, finds, when ho
conies to the enjoyment of his fortune, '
that he is repining in solitary plenty, and
lamenting the absenro of those compun
ions with whom he had planned the!
amusements of his latter yests; ami the
scholar, whose merit, alter a long series'
of efforts, has raised him from obscurity !
to the temple of fame, looks in vain
8 round h'm, from bis exalted state for
his old friends and companions to be the
agreeable witnesses of his long sought
for affluence, and to partake of his boun
ty. Such ia the imperfection of human
haDniness. such the uncertainty of Ufa.
'.' . . . - ' " '!
end such tlie certainty ol passing Ironi
earth away.
' In every direction, marks of ch Engl
and decay are to be seen. On the broad
face of variegated nature are written in
indell'.ble characters the wrecks end n u- i
tationaof lime. A few years make such;
visible alteration in the beautitul things
of nature that the' beholder after a few
years absence, is almost conslrainol to
doubt the certainty of his own vision, so'
tjpid and material bad been the chan-e.f
ao swiftly had the mat promineat ieaj
turcs passed off, end a succession of new
and (liferent appearances tilled their lo
cation. The lovely flowers that bedeck
the fields, and complete the beauty of tho
garden, open but to diffuse their sweets
around, then droop their heads and fade
away. The green leaves that compose
the beauty and glory of the forest, soon
loose their yetdant hue, leave the branch
es they so richly ornamented, oii.l pass
away to combine in another form of ex
istence. The seasons in their successive
rounds constantly unfold hurried transi
tion throughout, the complicated and
mu'tifarious objects and modifications of
nature. So it is, so it has been, and so
it will ever be with man in his brief exist
ence here. He lives only long enough to
take a few simple lessons in knowledge,
an I a mere glance at the revelations of
time. In the brief space of his existem o
he may betnu3ht the actuality of Bnother
mode of being, by the constant dcvelope
merits of desolation and decay that check
er his plans and obstruct the accomplish
ment of his noblest purposes. The con
stant decay that is going on through the
multitudinous range ol vegetable matter,
resulting in, or passing off into, new com
binations according to fixed and estab
lished laws, reveals the fact that death
does not conclude the hist ry of man
We are passing away not into nonen
tity, lut to le agiiiii
As beings of mortality, we pass the
portals of death to bo resurrected in im
mortality. The insecurity of man's
earthly habitation, and the treacheries ol
earth, demonstrate the good policy of his
removal to a far more genial clime a
dine of purity and spirituality.
Hum ilis.
Shall I see You IIoiuc!
'Your home, dear miss, is very far,
The winds arc cold and hkh,
No splendid moon, or twinkling star.
Is looking from tho sky.'
So please, miss, take my proffered arm
And let the varmints come;
I'll sen you anfe from fright or harm,
A'ithin your quiet home."
"I know, kind sir, the way is rough, .
I know the night is dark, .
And certain 't would seem well enough
For me lo have a 'spark;'
But then I vowed some years ago,
Call me you may a humbug
My arm should nevt-r enter through
The bundle of a rum-jug!"
The Heavenly ftli'iisoire of Time.
The following extract from Mr. Everett's
Albany address is a perfect gem:
But for the kindreds, and tribes, and
tongues of men, cadi upon theirown meri
dian, from the arctic pole to the Equator
from the Equator to the Antarctic pole.
the eternal sun strikes twelve at noon,
and the gloriousconslellations far up in
the everlasting belfries of the skies chime
twelve at midnight twelve for the pale
student over his ilicke.ing lamp twelve
nm'd the l iming glories of Orion's belt,
if tie crosses the meridoii at that fatal
hour twel;e by the weary couch of lan
guish ng humanity twelve in the star
pave I courts of the empyrean twelve
for the heaving tides of tho ocean twelve
for the weary urm of labor twelve lor
the toiling brain twelve for the watch
ing, wakin broken heart twelve for the
meteor which blazes for a moment and
expires twelve for the romct whose pe
riod is measured by centuries twelve for
every substantial, for every imaginary
thing which exists in the sense, the intel
lect, or the fancy, and which the speech
or thought of man, at the given meridan,
rafers to the lapse of time." ,
The Louisville Journal puts the follow
ing pertinent question to those Democrats
who eulogise the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise. First, did not the Demo
cratic party in their national convention
of 1802, solcn.e'y pic Ige themselves nev?
crto g've tha last countenance , to the
agitation of slavery under any circumstan
ces? Secondly, did any human being
t'link or dream in the following year that
ihe Missouri Compromise would be re
peat)d by Congress without the agitation
of slavery?
Tattlers and hypocrites are twins, their
father, the devil.
he wrinkles of the hsart are more in
delible than those of the brow.
LVE.M.i SULACE.
B7 CUKhF.lt BELL.
Tho human heart hidden treasures,
In secret kept, in silence sealed;
The thoughts, the hopes, the dreamt), t' e
pluasures, .
Wbufu clmrms were broken if revealed.
And Jnyn mny pa in if ail confusion,
Andntflitu in in. isy riot fly,
While Iiich in F..me'ior We ilth'i illusion,
The memory of the past mny d.e.
But there ore bourn of lonely musing,
Siirlma in ihe evening silence comes,
When soft a biids tueir pinions closing,
The heart's best feeling gailier homo.
'Ihen in our souls thero seems to languish
A tender grief that U not woe;
An i th"iilitstlM!onae r inxe'o-inso'on'ruish
Now cause but some mild tear to Ajw.
A;id fealing. once id strong as passions,
Flout softly back a faded dream;
Our own shur;) urefa und wild sensations,
The tears (irotliBrs' uudering neetn.
Oh! w cn i lie heart i-i freshly bleeding,
Ilow l.msrs it for that time to be,
When, t'Koiifh the miKt of years receerlinjr,
U woes but live in reverie.
And it ear. dwell rn moonlinht'd glimmer,
On evening shadns and loneliness,
And while tho sky fri-owg dim and d'mmer,
Feed on untold and strange distress-
Only a deeper impulse iriven,
By lone'y hour and darkened room,
To solemn thotilrs, that soar to Heaven,
eukiiig a life un I world to come,
From the American Organ.
AltlVJUCA.
IX HELEN II. II.
America! America the hocne of the brave,"
No foo can subdue thee, nd tyrant enslave;
Unfettered and free
A ihe waves of the sea
Thy gallant and sieru-hoarted son-i e'er shali b.
'Nonth the banner of freedom their ranks they
en'U',
With firm, dauntless Sjiir'te each foe to resist;
To the "rod, white and blue,''
Jiay they ever prove irue,
Mny they rally around them and fijht for them
to.
America! Ame ici! th" "land ofthe free."
Thy gallant, brave f'reemin speak proudly ol
thee;
United 'hey stand,
A tiroi, gtlliint bun I,
To jruird thy loved country, tliuir own notive
land.
Then, hurrah for our cr.untry, oh! lnff may
it he,
The "land o.'the brave and tho homa of the
free;"
May the.Union ne'er sever,
May our flag droop never!
But freedom's b ld eagle spread its broad wings
forever! . ,
Life iu a Drop of Water.
Just rea l this, chi'.lren ''Life in a
Drop ofWnter." Perhaps some o you
scarcely know that there are animals so
small as here described. Speaking of a
drop water, and describing tho animals,
which a powerful microscope reveals, the
writer from whom ive quote, says:
"Clear and transparent it lies before
us vainly our eye endeavors to discov
er tho least evidence of lifo, or the small
est creature, in that which it scerm iHal
too small to contain any living object
the brjnth of our mouth is stron enough
to onaie it, and n few rays of si.n are suf
ficient to convert it into vapor. But wc
place this drop between twi squares ol
clean gluss, benentli the microscope, and
lo! what life sud lenly prevents itself
we scarcely trust our senses. The little
drop of wnlur ha cxpan.hd into a large
plain wonderful shapes rush backward
an I forward, drawing towards a id repuls
ing each other, or ici-ting placidly and
rocking themselves, as if they were era
Tied on the waves of an extensive sea.
These aro m delusions .hey dm real liv.
ing creatures for they play with each
other, they rush violently upon one anoth
er thsy whirl aroun I each otherthey
free and propel themselves, and rim
from ono place in order to renew the
same guine with some other little crea
ture, or ma lly they precipitate themselves
u;on one another, combat and struggle,
till the one conquors and fie other is .ub
due I or carelessly they swim, side by
side, until playfulness or rapacity is awak
eneJ anew. One sees that these little
creatures, wh'n h the sharpest eye cannot
detect without the aid of the micros :opa
are susceptiblo of enjoyment an l pa n
in them lives en instinct which induces
them to sesk, and enables them to find
sustenance, which points out and leads
thorn to avoid find escape enemies. Here
one tumbles about in mad , career end
drunken lust., Iaetretches out its feeders,
beats about with its tail, tears its fellows,
and is as frolicsome as if perfectly happy.
It is gay, cheerful, hops and "dances,"
rocks and bends about upon tho little
waves of tho water drop,
There is another creature, it does not
swim about remains upon the same spot
but contracts itself and palpitatingly
out again. Who could not detect in these1
motions tin throes of agony? And so it
is for only just now it has freed itself
from the jaws of a stronger enemy. The
utmost power has it exerted to get away,
but he must have had a strong hold, se
verely wounding it; for only n few more
throes, each becoming weaker and fainter,
it draws itself together, stretches out its
whole length once more, and slowly sinks
to the bottom. It was a death struggle
it has expired. On ono spot a great crea
ture lies entirely quiet and indifferent.
A smaller one passes carelessly by, end
like a Hash of lightning, the first ('ashes
upon it. Vainly does the-weaker en
deavor to escape its more powerful ene
myhe has already caught it, embraces
it the throes ofthe vanquished cease
it has become a prey. This is only a gen
eral glance at the life in a water drop,
but how great does this even already
show the small? How wonderously does
everything shape itself within that of
which we bad formerly not the least con
ception.
"Dean Swift proposed to tax female
beauty, and to leave every : lady to rate
her own charms. He said the tax would
be cheerfully paid, and very pro'ductive."
"Fontenelle thus daintly compliments
thi sex, when ho compares women end
o'locks the latter serve to point out tho
hours.the former to make uj forget them."
"The standards of beauty in woman
vary with those of taste. Socrates calls
beauty a short lived tyranny; Plato, a
piiveleje of nature; Theophrastusy a si
lent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful preju
dice; Carnea les, a solitary kingdom; and
Aristotle affirmed that it was bettor than '
till tho lotterj of re commendation in tbo
world."
'With the molern Gresks aid other
nations on tho shores of the Mediterra
nean corpulency is the perfection of form
in woman; and those very . attributes
which disgust the western European,
form the attractions of an Oriental fair.
It was from tha common and admired
shape of his country-women, that Rubens
in his pictuies delights so much in a vul
gar anl odious plumpness:-- when his
master was clesinus to represent the
'beautiful,' he had no idea of beauty un
der two hundred weight. His very Gra;
ces are all fat. But it should be rem cm
bere t that all his models were Dutch wo
men. The hair is a beautd'ul ornament .
of women, but it b.13 always bezn a dis
pute I point whic h color most becomes i'ti
We account red hair un abomination";
but in the time of Elizabeth, it found
admirers, and was in fa.-hiori. Mary of
Scotland, though she had exquisitb hair ;
of her Own, wore red fronts. Cleopatra
was re l-haired; and the Venetian Indies
to this day counterfeit yellow hair." ' '
"After all that may be said or sun
about it, b.Miuty is an undeniable fact,
and its endowment not to be disparaged.
Sydney Smith gives some good advice on
tlie subject.' 'Never teach fulsome nioraf
ity. How exquisitely absurd to teach a.
girl that beauty h of no vuluo, dress of no
use! Beauty is of value her whole
prop?cts and happiness iuli:e may often :
de.ienl upon a nsw gown or a hecorainj
binnet; if she has fivu grans of common
sensj, she will find this out. The greal
thing is to teach her ihe'r just value, end
t!icrj must bo soul jibing better under the
binint than a prjtty fate, for real bappi
njsj. Bat never sacrifico tru.h."
Jam"s Lav rune, a Pierre member of
the lutt Li'.islu'uro of California, lias
come out for Fillmore. '
John M r.a.i, a Custom !! ne oCrer
at Sin Francises, an l a tea tin-; .Demo
crat, h is declare I for Fillmore I
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