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WINCHESTER
WEEKLY APPEAL.
A FAMILY IEWSPAPER.-DEVOTED TO POLITICS, LOCAL INTERESTS, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC NEWS, AGRICULTURE, MECHANISM, EDUCATION -INDEPENDENT ON ALL SUBJECTS
VOLUME 1.
WINCHESTER, TENN., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1856.
NUMBER 35.
Written for th Winchester Appeal-
Solitary Musings.
' CONTINUED.
We are passing away. Beyond the
termination of man's corporeal existence
bo is obliged to extend his ' hopes. His
capability of the most refined contempla
tions on tho works and goodness of his
Creator, of increasing and advancing
his knowledgo and speculation in all
things, of his never being satisfiod in
searching after truth through nil the mo
anderings and hidden recesses of nature,
demonstrate the divinity of his origin,
and its fulness beyond the trammels and
imperfections of earth. In spito of the
ingenuity of tho most obstinate atheists,
or our own doubts devise, our very imag
ination reaches to eternity. Beings so
highly gifted in the scalcof intellcctuuli
ty, capable of such vast ranges of thought,
whoso powers of comprehensibility trans
cend the limits of terrestrial existence,
must ultimately move in a sphere com
patible with the dovclopements of their
intellectual advancement, and their near
affinity to tho Divine Intelligence that
spoke them into being. We are but pas
sengers on the boisterous ocean of life,
embarked in a frail vessel, which, though
it proudly careers over the billowy tide,
moved on by pleasant breezes, is liable
at any moment to be dashed into ruin by
the concealed rock, orclaimcd as a wreck
by the lowering tempest. From the
time our earth was spoken into being,
and man placed upon it, generation after
generation have been toiling on to Eter
nity. For six thousand years the eailh
has been the sepulchre of life to its busy,
bustling millions the vast burying ground
where nbwmolder tho children of ages in
indistinguishable equality." .
There are many pleasant scenes con
nected with man's brief stay on earth, but
they flit off like passing shadows. In
tho progress of his earthly career, sensi
ble pleasures are often in his path ; many
objects, as ho passes on, present thorn
.selves with claims on his admiration; ho
sees a great variety of objects in the
natural world that please and delight,
while at the same time ho views the ele
ments of instability and change, decay
and desolation, visibly and veritably at
work, from the centre to the circumfer
ence of the globe.
The violent disruption and ruin of the
earth by a deluge, as recorded in the Sa
cred History, most conclusively demon
strated by its superior hidden strata, un-
connected throughout its extent with the
more primary facts of Geology; the ma
ny earthquakes and volcanoes deeply
seated in the bowels of the globe; the
'severed continents and islands upheav
ed in the bosom of Ocean, with their
frowning battlements of rocks and hills;"
the subterruneous explosions shaking
arth and ocean, and the great number of 1
burning mountains, "dotting the map of
earth with their lurid glare anil desolating
lava," are but tho results of instability
and dissolution. This globe, " with all
it inherits," is a mighty theatre of chnngo
and desolation.
Ia the world of animated nature, as
well as throughout the mighty extent of
the physical world, revolution follows on
the heel of revolution. The vexatious
scenes and leaden-footed cares of this
life, presuppose disease and death. Chil
dren of mortality ! while " in the midst
of life we are in death." We a re pass
ing away from earth from its tempests
and its storms only to begin to live
The habitation of which we are tenants
is not a "castle of brass or palace of ad
amant." It is too frail to withstand the
8torra-tuitiuItuated ocean of life;" then
as a natural consequence, we must leave
this earthly habitation for an everlasting
home somewhere in the immensity ol be
in?. Whatever may bo our thoughts in
relation to the amazing, tho vast un
known, somewhero spread out before us,
certain it is, we ore rapidly tending thith
er to find a future replete with good or
evil. Happy they who ftke lessons "in
God's school"! who subdue the baneful
passions of their nature, resign them
selves to all the dispensations of Provi
dence, and live in harmony with the gov
erning principles of the Universe. To
such there can be no terror in the thought
of passing from earth through the dark
valley of the shadow of death," to enter
upon a state of progress commensurate
with eternity, with a capacity for happi
ness that will ever be' increasing and for
ever filling with the fulness of God.
HUMILIS.
Fiuirxiiif Coott, Oct. 7.
'TWILL BE A LL THE SAME IN A
HUNDRED YEAUS."
. Wo aro indebted for the following very
beautiful piece of poetry to tho scissors
of a young femalo friond. On behalf of
our readers we thank hor, und hope she
will favor us again.
'Twill be all the same in a hundred years!
What a spell-word to conjure up smiles and
tears!
0, how oft do I muse, 'mi J the thoughtless
and gay,
On the marvelous truth that these words con
vey! And can it bo so? Must tho valiiintand free,
Have their tenure of life on this frail decree?
Aro the trophies they'vo reared and tho glo
ries they'vo won,
Only castles of frost-work, confronting the
sun!
And must all that is joyous and brilliant
to
view
As a midsummer dream, bo as perishing loo
Then have pity, ye proud onesbo gentle, ye
great,
0, remember how mercy besoemctb your
s ate;
For the rust that consumelh the sword of tho
bravo
Is eating the chain of tho manacled slave,
And the conqueror's frowns and the victim's
tears
Will be all tho samo in a hundred years!
'Twill be all the same in a hundred years!
What a spell-word to conjure up smiles and
tears!
How dark aro your fortunes, ye sons of the
soil,
Whose hcirldom is sorrow, whose birthright
is toil!
Yet, envy not those who have glory and gold,
By tho sweat of the poor and tho blood of tho
bold;
For 'tis coming, liowe'er they may flaunt in
their pride,
The day when they'll moulder to dust by your
side.
Death unitcth the children of toil and sloth,
And the democrat reptiles carouse upon both;
For time, as he speeds on his viewless wings,
Disenamels and withers all earthly things;
And the knight's white plume, and the shep
herd's crook, .
And the minstrel's pipe and the scholar's book,
And the emperor's crown, and his Cossack's
f?pcn r ,
Will tin insit n!.l:f i n n ti ntnl rnrt ronr:!
'Twill be all thesnme in a hundred years,
0, most rnngical fountain of smiles and tears!
To think that our hopes, like the flowers of
June
Which we love so much, should be lost so
soon!
Then what meaneth the chaso after phantom
joys?
Or the breaking of human hearts for toys?
Or the veteran's pride in hiscrufty schemes?
Or
'the passions of youth for its darling
dreams?''
Or the aiming at ends we never can span?
Or the deadly aversion of man for man?
What avaik'th it all? 0, ye sages say
Or the miser's joy in his brilliant clay?
Or the lover s zeal fur Jus matchless prize
The enchanting maid with the starry eyes?
0rthe fuvorisll conflict of hopes and fears?
k-s ttu ti,0 samo jn a hundred years?
Ah! 'tis not tho samo in a hundred years,
How e'ear soever tho case appears;
For know ye not that beyond tho grave,
Fur, for beyond where the cedars wave
On the Syrian mountains, or whore tho stars
Come glittering forth in their golJrn cars,
There bloumeth a land of perennial bliss-,
Where we smile to think of tho tears in this?
And the pilgrim reaching that radiant shore,
Has the thought of death in his heart no more,
But lnyeth his stafTand sandals down
For tho victor's palm, and the monarch's
crown,
And the mother meets, in that tranquil sphere,
Tho delightlul child she has wept fur here;
And tho warrior's sword that protects the
right,
Is bejeweled with stars of undying light;
And we quaff of the same immortal cup,
While the orphan smiles, and the slave looks
. upf
So be glad my heart and, forget thy tears
For 'tis not the same in a hundred years!
Reader, whenever a democrat approach
es you and attempts to persuade you to
vote for the 'Cincinnati Platform' on the
ground that 'Fillmore stands no chance,'
ask him ifhe has heard the news from
Iowa. If that don't stop him, then ask
him if ho hasheard from Maine In nine
cases out of ten this wil make him as
mum as his candidate. We tried a dem
ocrat this way the other day, anil imme
diately his under lip dropped to an angle
of about 45 degrees below the knees, and
almost went into convulsions. "Fill
more stands no chanco" eb? Hare you
hearJ the uew; from MAINE?
The Irish Mob In ludiuuii.
Wo copiod in our paper of yesterday
from the Logansport Ind. Journal an
account of the Into ruffianly and murder
ous riot at Bourborn, Marshall county, at
the discussion between Messrs. Stuart
and Colfax. For no reason under heav
en except that in one of the wagons pro
ceeding to tho meeting, a bunner was
borne representing a buck on his last
log, a gang of thirty Irishmen from tho
railroad, armed with hickory clubs,
knocked, down the horses and commenced
an indiscriminate assault upon the per
sons in tho wagon, but beating and bruis
ing all alike. Thoy afterwards attack
ed tho Hon. S. Colfax and his friends,
and, in theso assaults and others, two men
were shot dead and several very severe
ly wounded. The Irish took complete
possession of the town driving the citi
zens to seek protection wherever they
could.
Thero was not even a pretext that any
thing had been dono to provoke these
horrible Irish outrages except the exhibi
tion of the old buck on one leg. For
this and only this, the Irish brutes com
mitted the assault with clubs and pistols,
whilst American women were shrieking
and begging and running for their lives,
For this and only this, the most shocking
murders were committed upon persons
guiltless of any just offense. Never until
within thclast few years could such an
atrocity have been perpetrated without
arousing a spirit of wroth and vengance
in tho bosoms of the wholo American
people. But now, such is the mildness
of tho Sag Nicht party, not a word of re
buke or complaint or even regtct will
be uttered by that party's organs. They
care not how many outrages are commit
ted against Americans, how man) Ameri
cans are knocked down, or how much
American blood is shed by low, vulzar,
beastly Irish scoundrels.
Yet all concerned may feel well as
sured that these things cannot Jong go on.
The late wanton attack by the Irish in
Baltimore upon quiet and peaceable
American fishing parties, where nearly a
hundred persons were killed and wound
ed; the more recent series of preconcerted
attacks by the Irish ofNew York city upon
nearly tho whole line of the American
procession in the streets, and now this as-sin-like
attack of tho' railroad Irish of
Indiana upon American men and women
for daring to pass along the road with a
banner not agreeable to Irish taste all
these ourages, taken in connection with
scores of others of tho same kind contin
ually occurring wherever Irishmen are to
be found in the United States, will, un
less there bo a speedy and thorough
change of Irish manners and morals, call
forth a terrible retribution. The truth is,
the Sag Nicht presses, by their whole
course, arc setting the depraved portion
of the Irish population upon American
citizens as they would set so many blood
thirsty bill I dogs upon a flock of sheep.
But tliey may find that what they take to
be sheen will turn out lions. Louisville
Journal.
The editor of the Brooklyn Evening
Star: after taking a tour through New
York State, gives the following as his
impression as to what Mr. Fillmore's
chances in the Empire State will be:
"Od the whole, our brief tour has im
pressed us with q certainty of our suc
cess in this Stale. With 182,000 register
ed votes with our Fillmore and Donel
son Clubs with tho valuable assistonco
of the old line Whigs with accessions
of old line Democrats With the Pro
testant Associations with State officers,
&c, if we cannot beat a faction in the
form of mock Republicanism and sham
Democracy, then indeed is New York
lost to all sense of patriotism, and the
proud position which she occupies in the
galaxry of stars. Good chrer, fiiends
New York is all right."
Thi Kfiw York Commercial, one of tho
most reliable papers in the Union, ex
presses the opinion that it "is a moral
certainty that the friends of Mr. Filinorc
will carry the electoral vote of that State
in November." The Albany Statesman
is equally confident. The Fillmore pros
pect in New York it constantly bright
ening. Advices from the Capo of Good Hope,
report tho murder of Rev. Mr. Thomas,
a Wesleyan missionary, by the Caffcs.,
TEAUDHOI'S IltO.1I THE HEART
Thoy come 'mid scones of gladness,
Like April's sunny rains!
The same, as when deep sadness
The heart's wild joy refrains;
Forofourovory sorrow
A joy they claim a part;
Affection's light they borrow,
Those teardrops from the heart.
Oft when my heart heals lightest,
When Pleasure reigns supreme,
And youthful hopes aro brightest,
I wake as from a dream,
And all such themes must banish,
E'en bid those hopes depart.
Which, as they quickly vanish,
Wring teardrops from the heart.
I fool them softly stealing,
When loved ones are away;
'Twould crush each finer fueling
Were I to bid them stay,
But, oh! when sad and lonely,
And nono are near to see,
They flow then, and then only,
All unrestrained and free.
It is not grief unbroken,
No deep and sullen woe,
No words unfitly spoken,
That causes them to flow;
But deep and hidden feeling,
That knows not where to cling;
That find tho balm of healing,
Affection's meed should bring.
When gayest friends aro round mo
And sprightly jests aro Hung
From those who fain would sound me,
To know what depth they're sprung:
Although my words fall lightly,
They know not whence they start;
Though if they judged them rightly.
'Twould be fresh from the heart.
Oh! bitter drops of sorrow
I would not bid ye stay;
Affection's smiles ye borrow
Tq scatter gloom away;
Oh! words of careless sounding,
With me'uning pure and deep;
Wherever Truth's abounding,
There still your revels keep.
The Greatest Uutulug of the Day.
An Alabama contemporary well remarks
tdatthe greatest humbug of the day is
the falso idea that the democrats are harp
ing on, that 'Fillmore stands no chance.'
Talk to them about the rottenness of old
Buck, and they answer 'Fillmore is
weak. Show them old Buck's abolition
sentiments, and with wry faces they an
swer, 'Fillmore is out of the question.'
Point them to the odious features of
Squatter Sovereignty and Ailen suffrage
in their platform, and they cry out, 'oh,
Fillmore is not in tho race.' Miserable
ami empty trick! This is the sum and
substance of all their reasoning and ar
gument. This is the foundation of ail
their delusive hopes; but it is one ofsand,
and now, wheu the spirit of patriotic en
quiry is abroad in the land, the people
begin to see the miserable subterfuge, and
alas! for the democracy, are flocking
heart and soul to the advancing standard
of Millard Fillmore. Push on the ball!
Buchanan is the man who has 'no chance'
no not even the ghost of a chanco.
The people see it, an 1, to beat Fremont,
tlinp are rallying for Fillmore and the
Constitution. All hands, we say, for the
patriot Fillmore, and sectionalism, North
and South, is dead forever.
A wag who has done something towards
increasing tho fedejul census, denies that
Buchanan, who is an old Bachelor, has
any right to expect tho support of the
"people." He gives the reason as fol
lows:
"To say the people are (or 'Buck,'
Is sadly to mistake 'em
Why should the people go for one
Who docs not try to make 'cm."
Truth. A cannon bull, striking the
oaken ribs of a man of war, pierces. straight
through them, scattering destruction un
all sides, until its force is expended; but
ifil impignc upon the wave, it swerves
aside, and is conquered by their unre
sisting softness, and finally subsides with
out injury, So tho first burst of pus
sion, increased and rendered more dan
gerous by stubborn opposition, will gen
erally yield and fall harmless when it 'is
met by softness and submission.
By a rule of the Post Office Depart'
ment,adoptrd under the administration of
that old fashioned democrat, Tom Jeffer
son, postmasters are inhibititcd from in
terfering in elections. Look sharp the
river' risin'f
In for Fillmore und DoiicIsoii.
Tho East Tennessean, published at
Maryville, a paper which has sustained
a strict neutrality in politirs sinco the
commencement of its publication, comes
into tho support of Fillmore and Lionel
son upon tho considerations set forth by
the Baltimore Convention of Old Line
Whigs. We copy the following extract
from its article declaring its adhesion to
the Union ticket:
Wo, in common with many others,
looked to the decision of tho Convention
at Baltimore as final on the question,
whom it was the duty of the South to sup
port. Millard Fillmore having received
the nomination of tho convention, and
that convention being actuated solely, as
we firmly believe, by tho sheerest mo
tives for the best interests of tho Union,
wo feel compelled to endorse their nomi
nation by all the support it may bo in our
power to afford.
Though we aro free to admit that we
had a preference for Millard Fillmore,
yet had tho nomination fallen on Mr.
Buchanan, wo should as unhesitatingly
have given him our support. Entering
thus upon tho campaign, with no parti
zan foldings, simply on iho ground that
Mr. Fillmore's prospects are the bright
est, and the most likuly to give quiet to
the country, by entrusting the Chief Mag
istracy of this confudracy to a man not
swayed by sectional feelings, wo are pre
pared to use our most strenuous exertions
to secure his election; and we now cordi
ally invito all our subscribers and friends
and thejfriends of the Union to aid us in
this. Let all rise abovo the petty and
insignificant ties of party, and say, like
Brutus: "Not that I love Cajsnr less, but
that I love Rome more," giving their
votes to Millard Fillmore, not that their
regard for James Buchanan is less, but
that the love they bear their country is
greater than their party predilections.
Ihev are showing Lot's wife in ono of
the Eastern cities. She is done up in
salt, and is said to be tho genuine arti
cle. 'Tommy, my dear, what are you go
ing to do with that club?"
"Send it to the editor of course."
"But what are you going to semi it to
the editor for?"
"Cause he says if anybody will send
him a club, he will send them a copy of
his paper."
The mother come near fainting, but re
tained consciousness enough to a.-.k:
"But, Tommy, what do you suppose
he wants of a club."
"Well, I don't know," replied the
hopeful urchin, "unless it is to knock
down subscribers who don't pay for tiiuir
paper.
"Mr. Snowball, I want to ask you ono
question dis ebening."
"Well, succeed den."
"Spose you go to de tibbcin to get din
nor, and don't hah noffin on de tabic but
a big beet, what should you soy?"
'Ieibdntup afore you ax it. What
should you sny."
"Whv, under de circumstances ob de
case, 1 should say, dat beets all."
A wit, a barber, and a bald headed
man, were traveling together, Losing
their way, they were forced to sleep in the
open air; and to avert danger it was agreed
to watch by turns. The first lot fill on
the barber, who, for amusement, shaved
the tool s heail while he was sleeping.
Ho then awoke him, and the fool, raising
his hand to scratch, said "Here's a pret
ty mistake; you have awakened the old
bald-headed man instead of me."
The Baltimore Clipper u neutral pnper,
takes the following v'uw of the political
battle:
Maryland will rcvtninly go for Mr.
Fillmore by an overwhelming inajoiiiy,
ami the or.'an might ns well tense ii. ef
forts to produce a di Herein result. Peiin following characteristic language occurs:
sylvania we have strong hopes will take "Whatever may be my fate, personally,
the same direction. New York and Mas- j jt lwl worth a thought, if the integrity
sacliusctts, etc, etc, ditto, ditto. In short, I 0( t,0 Constitution can be maintained,
we do not consider the t lit tion ol Mr.i IXUk wt: l0 uanmi; this glorious hcrit
Buchanan a aiming the posibi lilies, and I unpaired to our posterity."
the Southern Slates will have to decide j . i..1!ru;,t,0 is wor,i,v 0f Mdlu.d
between .ir. mum-re, u national man.
and Cel. Fremont, fiee.-o 1 sect o.ialisi."
i t rv n - t
Detroit, Sept. 2'J. The Advertiser
publishes an address signed by 260 citi
zens of Detriot, who voted for Fierce,
repudiating Buchanan Democracy,, and
declaring tbeu intention to vote for Fie-,
moot. i
From the American Orgun'.
nitchaiiau'g i:ie lion ta Impossible.
Figures aro often nior eloquent than
words; let us see how they speak in re
gard to Mr. Buchanan's chances. There
are in all 290 electoral votes. Necessary
to a choice 149 electoral votes. Suppose
Mr. Buc! lanan should get the entire voto
of tho slave States, ho would yet want
29 free State votes. Pennsylvania, his
own State, then would not elect him.
With the vote of tho South, however,
120 voten, Mr. Fillmore, carrying as ho
will certainly do, New York, his own
nutivo State, would be elected. . But Mr.
Buchanan cannot possibly get the entire
vote of tho slave States. Maryland,
Delaware, Louisiana, Florida, Kentucky,
and Tennessee, uro certain for Fillmore,
to say nothing of other reasonable chan
ces. This increases Mr. Buchanan's ro
quired votes in tho North to 73. Where
will ho get them? Pennsylvania is moro
than doubtful, and yet it is his own State
his best chanco. Tho rosult then even
of this slight glanco at tho figures shows
that the South can fleet Mr. FiUmorc,
but cannot elect Mr. Buchanan. How
will those patriots decide, who aro so
anxious to prevent Fremont's election?
Will they como over to Fillmore, as they
invited the Fillmore men to come to them
when it was pretended that Mr. Buchan
an's chances were best? Wo doubl it.
For the benefit, however, of those honest
men, who havo been persuaded away
from tho support of Mr. Fillmore, on
tho plea that he could not be elected, wo
give below the electoral vote, and invite
their attention to it, before they conclude?
to abandon their flog;
TUG ELECTORAL VOTE.
The vote to be cast by the several
States for President and Vice President
is as follows :
10 Free States. 15 Slave States.
Maine 8 Delaware 3
New Hampshire 5 Maryland 8
Vermont 5 Virginia 15
Massachusetts 13 North Carolina 10
Rhode Island 4 South Carolina 8
Connecticut 0 Georgia 10
New .York 95 Florida " 3
New Jersey 7 Alabama 9
Pennsylvania 27 Mississippi 7
Ohio 23 Louisiana G
Indiana 13 Texas 4
Illinois 11 Tennessee 12
Michigan 6 Kentucky 12
Wisconsin 5 Missouri 9
Iowa 4 Arkansas 4
California 4
Total slave States 120
170 " free States 17ti
Totol vote 2'JG
Necessary to a choice 119
Colic hi Horses. Take 1 oz, of Laud
anum, 1 tablesponful of Salaratus, and 1
pint of Whiskey. Put all in a quart bot
tle mid fill with water. If the attack is
not severe, give half a drench. If severe,
all. It seldom fails of affectimr a cure.
Tho love of admiration is the conker
upon the heart ol'many a Lvely woman.
It is vanity in its worst form. It insinu
ates itself into tho moral nature, and ei
ther makes the woman on object of vul
gnr stare or public notoriety. When l.er
beauty is gone, the absence of tho siiinu
Inut to her weakened nature leaves her
irritable au.l disappointed. Beauty is
a dangerous inheritance, and requires
a special duty from the owner or" i t The
di'stiny of a beautiful woman is nobler
than to bo stared at by the vulgar crowd,
or flattered by heartless society.
Mr. Fim.mork. In a private Utter,
recoived a few days ago from Mr. Fill
more, by a gentleman of (Jeorgia, tha
- -
Fillmore. It is such cins as this thut
give him so high a place in ths affection
of tho American people, and it breathes
that lofty patriotism, and ths noble self
denial so characteristic of the msn, nrt
which hate made his own ons of tLs
most illustrious names iu the hiry ti
curcoyn'ry. Anttiva Qrgcn.