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From the S 0uiher Lifr0iy Messenger.
OLD LAWS OF VIRGINIA.

The following are extracted from an old colec-
ton # the Laws of Virginia. They appear to have
been in force late the year 1888, IN which year
the "Coilectionn was published at Williamsburg
The first Act in the book provides for the erection Of
church or chapel OF ease IN every parish
"Chapter XCI. Dirugers Of false netos. Passed
1861, 1862
81. WHEREAS, many idle and busy headed people
do forge and dlyulge false aud reports 10 H.
great disturbance ofte peace Of His Maesty's liege
people Of this Colony.
80. B. henaeted, That wi at person or persons So
shall forge or diyulge any such false reports
tending TO the trouble OF the country he shall be by
the next Justice of the Peace for and bound over
to the next County Court, where if he produce not
his author, he shall be fined Two Thousand Pounds
Of Tobacco (or less if the Court think fit to lessen
IT'D and besides, give bonds for his behavior if APP
pear TO the Court that he did malicousy publish or
invent IT,"
The two following are from the acts passed in
1865:
Chapter Ill IN act against persons that refuse hare
their children baptiSed
WHEREAS, many schismatical persons, either out
of ayerseness TO the Orthodox established Religion
out of the tangled conces of their own here
teal invention, refuse TO have their children bap-
tIsed
BE therefore enacted by this present General Assem-
bly, and the authority thereof That all and every per-
son or persons that IN contempt of the Divine Sa-
Vi SNAIL Ttlusc, WieH ne or they
may carry his or their child children a lawful
minister IN that county where he they dwell, TO
have them baptiseJ, shall be amerced Two Thousand
Pounds of Tobacco half to the parish half to the
iniormer.
Chapter V.-.fn act for punishment Of sca,daou,
persons.
i. WHEREAS, many babblng women SANDER and
scandaze their Deghbors, for which their poor hus.
bands are often involved in chargeable aud yexatous
suits, and cast in great damages:
. q BE Il therefore enacted BY the authority aforesaid
That IN Actions of SANDER, occasioned by the Wife
after Judgment passed for the Damages the Woman
shall be punished by Duckng and il the SANDER be
50 enormous as 10 be adju ged at greater damages
than Five Hundred Pounds of Tobacco, then the
woman to suffer Ducking for each Five Hundred
Pounds of Tobacco adudged against the Husband, if
he refuse to pay the Tobacco"
As an act passed in l705 for ''the building and
maintaining of prisons, pllores, whipping posts,
stocks and dueking stools in every county" may
infer that this last quoted Act ut suffered to re-
main dead letter. and that occasionally the husbands
of these "babbliDg women" were ungallant enough
to "refuse to pay the tobacco"
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Translated from the Potsuiiie, Pa, DemoeraiiSei
Freyheitpresse.")
THE OHIO ELECTION.


Almost every body seems TO be surprised at the re-
suit of the late election in the State of Ohio. In
1910 the lamented patriot Harrison received major
ty of more than $4,000 votes, and Thomas Corwin
was then elected Governor by nearly 10000 major
ty But now he is between and 600 in the minority
What has caused hs result this great political rev.
outon in so short space is question often asked
We answer nothing else than the mpolitic, unmanly
conduct of Tom Corwin and the leaders of the Wing
party.
Tom Corwin made electoneering tour through
the whole State, and delivered stump speeches" in
the valleys and on the mountain tops and embraced
everywhere the opportunity of vifying and abusing
the and principles of the present national
Administration, but more especially empted his ven
ON on our distinguished Republican President honest
John Tyler In addressing public meeting, he used
the following billingsgate, viz {" hat John Tyler
mean, that he would steal the last plate oil OF
a lead negro's shelf" Shame upon a Governor OF
the great Buckeye State, in STOPPING low to use
such language towards the Chief Magistrate Of the
United States! All the presses and leaders of the
Corwin party denounced and most shameiully abused
the President and his Administration, and in fac,
made il the issue in the late contest. The friends OF
Wilson Shannon, Governor elect, on the other hand
approved of the pursued by the Pres
dent, publicly defended his retoes" and hi:
principles generally, and with the assistance Of
large number Of the "Tppeoanoe and Tyler too
Democrats firm supporters of the President, they
gained most glorious victory. The result Of this
election, therefore, may be justly viewed defence
of the principles and acts OF the Rel ublican Admins
ration of President Tyler.
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From the Georgia Constifufionalist.
Yours, in haste,

We publish, in this days paper, the letter of Mr.
Spencer. We ask for it an attentive perusal Such
a letter. and from such Mr. Spencer must
have great weight with the people of the United
States. 1t places the conduct OF President Tyler
a high and admirable position. From the beginning
of the controversy between the President and the
Wing leaders, to this day, we had but opinion
that the President would have the lest of the argu-
ment with the American people. Ii could not be
otherwise. The American people must be, by this
time, well convinced that Mr.. Tyler has not been
the President Of party, and that he has been gov
erned in all his Official acts, by what he conceived
to be the best interests of the country. Those who
placed him in power expected that he would blindly
follow heir schemes for the maintenance of the po-
litical power they had obtained but tey have been
disappointed and it is this disappointment which
has been the principal cause of their exaspcration
against the President. And what has the President
to fear, from few disappointed leaders, when sup
ported in his course by tie american people For
the first time, then, since Washington the spectacle
is exhibited TO the American people, of a President
of the United States acting without the support of
party. All former Presidents had the support of a
party except perhaps, Mr.. Monroe who had less
than any other; and all former Presidents shaped
their official acts so as 10 be in unison with the poll
cy, views and maintenance of political power, of the
party which placed them in power. The Whigs
then expected that Mr.. Tyler would follow the same
course for which he had so many precedents. In
adopting rule so damctrically opposite to that of
his predecessors, he has ncurr the opposition of
few leaders, but it is to be hoped that be will be
sustained in it by large majority Of the people
Not only in Congress are measures introduced and
passed. merely the ground of party policy and of
acquiring popularity, tut in the State Legislatures
the same system is pursued The public good is en-
tirely out Of the question fortunate enough if by
chance the measures adopted promote some public
interest; If they do not, it matters not, provided
some momentary popularity is acquired.
1t is time that the people should open their eyes to
the conduct OF those intrusted with legislative or
ecutIye powers IL is time that a radical reform
should be made by the people in our legislative boz
dies Otherwise the evils will become so intoerable
that nothing short but revolution save the coun
try from ruin and desolation. President TYLER de-
serves the thanks of the American people for the
manly and independent course he has pursued lie
had the ortitude and moral courage 10 throw aside
associations and party shackes and to act for him
sell and not for party. Let him continue in this
course-let him take the public good as his guide
and the American people will know how to reward
faithful officer in the discharge of his high duties.
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From The Philadelphia Inquirer.
THE AUTHOR OF VIVIAN GREY

The appearance of Vivian Grey created a strong
sensation IN the literary world. The style pecu-
liar-the genius was bold and dashing, and many Of
the descriptions remarkable for force and orr
ginalty. Young D'lsraeli, the author, Immediately
took rank among the European writers of fiction
and for time the efforts Of his pen in great
demand But his after productions did not realize
the promise OF the first. They were marked BY the
same defects, Alterations and peculiarltes, but
The same ire OF genius and originality of design
Still, Dsraeli made out very well as an auth In
pecunlary sense, as will be seen from the following
SKETCH for which we indebted TO the clever cor
respondent of the New York Union:
"Alr. Benjamin D'lsraeli and his lady are now in
faris, aud cut something Of dash. The lady
who was bride before Benjamin was born-has
Jointure OF some four thousand pounds a year, on
which they live. He has not .ixpence of his own
having been cleared out' many years ago. and mort
gagged his latrmon. expectancies far as he could
He has attery got ashamed Of his Hebrew ex
traction, and writes Disraeli instead of DIsraeli,
as his father does. His wife, whose first husband
was the late Wyndham Lewis, is in good preser-
walton. She doles out ''the TIM to him with ratl-
er sparing hand, and allows him to 60 no where
but With her.
The author Of Vivian Grey is unlike the Edo
lon romance reader would conjure up as possible.
He is OF a salow complexion, wears a quantity Of
long, black coarse rngleis, surmounted by White
hat on the one side of his head--sports gloves,
that he may exhibit rings upon each finger Of both
hands-neyer, by any chance exhibits a bit of shirt
collar, and has the look, for oil the world, OF OF
the London swell-mob, over-dressed anu any thing
but gentleman in appearance.
How changed from what he some years ago,
when used to meet him at the Dutche Sc de Dino's,
dandy, in full bloom, and a literary lion ao.
Now, he is neither. At that time eminent was
DlsraelI, with coat lined with crimson satin, and
crimson bows in his patent leather pumps He
writes nothing now, but makes long speeches in
Parliament, and complains, at the Carlton Club, OF
Peel's using him badly, inasmuch he declines Civ
ing HIM ministerial appointment"
by the way, We may add here, on the authority Of
a friend al our elbow, that the wife of DIsrae was
first married TO gentleman Of high responsibility
and property in England and Wales and that from the
age OF Is 10 %, she of the most beautiful of
women But that something like twenty years
ago, and our fair readers know that twenty years,
even IN the history of beauty likely to make very
considerable changes in personal appearance.
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Core dependence of the MadisOnian.
SENECA FALLS, Seneca Co., N. Y.
November 9, IS42.

SENECA FALLS, Seneca Co., ~ Y
November g. 1912
DEAR SIR: | enclose you the returns Of the cleo
ton in this county, by which you will that the
Democratic majority is upwards Of 500. In 1910,
when the Wings held up the name of John Tyler to
catch Democratic votes, Van Buren's majority was
only s. The insane Cay-whig leaders have now
learnt to their sorrow what they ought to have fore
seen when they provoked unjust quarrel with a
President who was elevated to the second Office in
the gift Of the People, as Jeffersorian anti-Bank
Democrat, and separated themselves from his Ad-
ministration Daniel Webster and John c. Spencer
have opened the eyes of thousands of honest Wings
to different view of the conduct of President Tyler
from that which they had been looking upon, and
they either voted against the Wings or said at home
willing to their mad leaders put down. They be-
lieve we have an honest and upright Republican in
the Presidential chair, and when the proper time
arrives they will so declare by their votes
In haste, respectfully yours, F.
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THE MAIN CHANCE"

The National lntelligencer insists pertina-
ciousy Cor effects to do SOY tina, if any Wing
President can be chosen, it is Mr.. Clay, and
only Mr. Clay.
In this it is followed by the New York Tri-
bune, and other papers OF that stamp.
If this be so, the Wing cause is fororn
enough. Can the editors of the Inteigencer
now name the States from which it is probable,
in reasonable degree, that Mr.. Clay will re-
ceive fifty votes in all? Can they name the
States in which, it is fairly to be presumed, from
the evidence now before the public, that he
would receive that number Of votes, if the cleo
ton were TO take place next week =?
We say they cannot, and we should like to
see the experienced heads" trying their hand
at such an enumeration.
And are they of opinion that Mr.. Clay's po-
pularily is rising, either with the Wings, or the
country The friends of Democratic candi-
date care not how long the IntelIigencer and
other Wing papers affect to cling to Mr. Clay.
The longer the better. Every new proof of
a determination to adhere TO him, as the Wing
candidate, gives new assurance that no Wing
will be elected.
Mr. Clay is an unblushing usurper but
if the Wings choose to submit to his usurpa-
ton, be it so the country will not. He has
usurped the place, character, and condition of a
candidate of great party, Without lis assent
Not one man in hundred Of those who brought
Gen. Harrison and President Tyler into power,
have had any thing 10 do with, or been repre-
scented in, any Of those meetings in which his
personal parlsans have procured his nomination
No-nol one in hundred.
And yet the presses in his interest pronounce
him the only candidate ard take care to re.
peat that assurance. on the happening of every
Wing loss, lest so many such fatal disasters at
the polls should lead the Wings TO look out for
better auspices, under which TO carry on the
contest. We notice particularly that the two
papers, which we have referred to, are especial
ly apparently prompt and active in their en-
deavors to prevent these accommodating defeats
of the Wing party from breaking the rivets
which fasten on it Mr.. Clay's nomination.
Very well, gentlemen. You are doing the
work of your opponents very handsomely.
1t is all we ask. Keep Mr. Clay in the field.
and the Democratic candidate will have nothing
to do bu, to walk quietly over the course. We
look upon the Integencer as among the most
effective oil our coadjutors in the laborious task
of once more bringing back the true, old-iash
toned, Jefiersonian Republican doctrines, TO
which the Intelligencer has so long been re-
creant.
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Pen YAN, 9 O'Clock, ?. NJ. !,

November s, 1912
DEAR SIR Make room for g Little Yates" not
outstanding all the SANDER and the vilifying and
branding the President with traitor by the Coon Skin
party This day has convinced that the President
right and his measures purely Democratic. We met
the Clay party and contested the ground inch by nch
and the result is $50 majority for Col Bouck for
Governor of the Empire State--a larger majority by
200 than this county has given for Democracy since
the days of Gen. Jackson.
The Democracy Of Yates will sustain the Presi-
dent.
Yours, in haste,
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FACTS WHICH CARRY THEIR OWN COM
MENTS

In 1910, Buffalo, the residence of Mr.. Fill
more, gave the Uhigs a majority of 342
In 1912, the same place gives the Democrats
majority of 240.
Ontario, the county Of Mr.. Spencer, in 1910
gave the Uhigs majority of | 29S.
The same county, in 1912, gives the Demo-
Gratis majority of $50
The close-ftting spencer will hereafter be
deemed the straight-jacket OF Whiggery.
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Boz's AMERICAN NoTEs, &c.-We find another
copy Of this work our table. 1t is in very neat
pamphlet of about one hundred pages, printed with
good type and on toerable paper. 1t is published
by Messrs. Lea Blanchard Philadelphia and is for
sale at Mr.. Morrisons bookstore Pennsylvania
avenue
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DIAMoSD.-The last Fredericksburg Wal He
raid says that there has been found on the farm of
DR. Grymes, OF Orange county, diamond, pronounc-
ed TO be OF the first water, of yellowsh green color
weighing upwards of fve-eighths of a carat The
editor has seen II, and says that when polished Of its
exterior crust It will no doubt be beautiful and
brilliant gem IL was asserted some few years ago
that diamond was found in one Of the Western
States; If So this is the second produced in the
United States.
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Tur ONO RrER-The river, at Wheeling, on the
4th instant, had FIVE feet water in the channel at
Pttsburg, the Sd, the water was 4 feet deep in
the channel; and at Cincinnati the 4ih the water
was between five and six feet deep, and rising
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A DuEL.-A duel was fought last evening" betc cen
two creole gentlemen of this city-weapons small
swords The sword of one of the parties broke after
which reconciliation was effected.-.N o. Pieayune
Mon A.
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There was slight frost at Mobile on the 29th ult.,
which it is believed put end 10 the sickness that
prevailed there for some time past No case Of fever
had been reported for three days.
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OFFICIAL.

APPOINTMENT BY THE PRESIDENT.
RoBERr BAuGuERAL, Receiver of Public Moneys
at Opelousas, louisiana, vice George NJ Smith, de-
ceased.
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THE DEMOCRATIC REVIEW.

The last number OF this work contains a
sketch of President Tyler, by correspondent,
which, when we receive IL, we will transfer TO
our columns. The editor of the Democratic
Review is Of the ultra Globe school Of politics,
and, we are told, has taken occasion in this
number TO flourish his strap at the President.
This imperIinence is generally rebuked by the
true Democratic party. We copy one of the
articles we have seen on the subject, from the
Baltimore Republican and Argus, the organ OF
the victorious Democratic party i'll Maryland
We have never doubted that the Review would
ultimately fall into the hands Of the Wing capi-
taIists
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n5~The Democratic Review for November, may
be had Of Hampton Son, agents.
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DISEASES.

Inflammation Of the lungs, | consumption, II
bilious fever, 10 ntemperance, fits, , teethng,
burnt, whooping cough 9 intermittent fever,
! worms, q decline, 2; drowned, dropsy, in
lammaton of liver, / jaundice, pucrperal fever,
l Group, unknown, 5.
HARVEY LINDSLY,
President
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To the Editor of The Polynesian :.

10 The Edifor Of The PofyneStdn
Captain Ross in the Erebus and Terror had
been far south as 70 deg. min, in long. lS6 deg.
40 min W. He made the South Magnetic Pole to be
in lat. IS deg. l54 deg long. east. He discovered
active volcano which he called NJ unit Erebus, in
II deg. 81 min $. l67 deg 10 min. f..
This information was brought to Mazatlan, from
Sydney, by an English vessel the writer had it from
Doctor Wiley of the English Navy, who was pas
sepger on board, and who stated to him that he took
this memorandum from Captain Ross, who was at
Sydney when he left
He further verbally stated that Captain Ross had
sailed over the spot where land is supposed to have
been seen 10y the American surveying vessels. They
Che English yessels) vast numbers of seal and
many whales.
G.. w, 2. BISSELL.
Sandwich Islands, Sept. 90, 1871.
tCapt. Aulick, of the Yorktown confirms the intel
ligence in regard to Capt. Ross discoveries, pub
lished in No II of our paper. He met that celebra-
ted navigator few months since at the Bay Of
Islands, and from him learned the discovery of two
volcanoes far south II deg. One of them
which he named Mount Erebus, was II 600 feet in
height, and at the time he it in active operation
adordihg most magnificent spectacle to the crews Of
both vessels. The other whose altitude was 10 600
feet, named after his consost, the Terror. Capt
Ross had received the chart sent him by Captain
Wilkes, and had cruised over a space of 80 miles in
extent in either direction, where land had been laid
down by the latter navigator, and found nothing but
clear sea.-PoiyTesion, Oct. 18th, lS4l.
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THE DEMOCRATIC REVIEW.

We have already noticed the fact of the reception
by the agent in this city, of the November number
of this work but had not at the time perused the
tices which are contained in the present number.
We have since run through some of them, and have
learned enough to make up our mind that there is a
decided falling off in the work, both regards inte-
rest and usefulness. Several articles, such the
Palace of the President" Next Session of Con-
gress and FORTH would do well enough for oil
hand daily journal, but out of place in such a
work as the Review used TO be. The poetry is very
ordinary and the whole number lacks spirit and inte-
rest We are favorable TO the Review, and wish 1t
every success, but justice requires us 10 say that Inc
present number IN our opinion, Is lar from leaving
favorable impression.