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TENNESSEE.

This gallant State, second Of the daught-
ers of Old Thirteen, and worthy of her i'm
mediate parent, the virtuous Old North, has
recorded her suffrage against national dis
honor and national folly, by casting hervote
for "Henry Clay and the Union," against
.Polk and Texas with or without the Union"
She has thus ratified the patriotic and honor
able, but hazardous stand, takenby her high
minded Senators in Congress against the
scheme to fleece weak and friendly neigh
Dor, under the forms of treaty with third
party which was to go halves in the spoil.
In this nobly deciding, the State of Teunes-
see deserves more than ordinary respect !;
for perhaps no other member of the Confed-
eracy was impelled by so many or SO strong
ties towards union with Texas as herself.
Yet for national honor and good faith, she
resisted all motives ofprivare interests, Of
State pride, and even the strong feelings of
fraternity which bind her to a multitude of
the earliest and best emigrants to Texas,
who went tbither from her bosom. With
the vote of Tennessee, the vote Of New York
would have placed Henry Clay in the Presi-
dency, station which he was SO well fitted
to fill, which he so well earned by life Of
devotion and pre-eminept service, and for
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NATURALIZATION FRAUDs.-At the recent
term of the United States District Court in
Pittsburg, twenty-four bills of indictments
were found and among them fifteen for per-
jury and subordination of perjury in obtaining
naturalization papers. Seven were against
one individual, four for perjury, and three for
subordination of perjury. and one each a.
gainst eight others,all foreigners and members
Of the Locofoco party. We copy a portion
of the communication Of the Grand j ury 10
the Court:
"In passing upon twenty-five bills of in
dictment of various kinds, twenty-four of
which were found to be true, among them
were fifteen for perjury and subordination of
perjury, arising out of the application ofsev-
ell aliens for naturalization, each of whom
was admitted under the act of Congress of
24th May, 1924, which is construed to admit
person arriving in the States under eighteen
years Of age, and having resided therein five
years, to become citizen at any time with
out having previously filed declaration ofhis
intention SO to do.
"In the examination Of these cases it was
clearly shown that one of the men was 81
years of age. another about 80 years of age.
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SoAP-A HINT TO HoUsEwIFERY.-In
summer and autumn your soap grease is
apt to accumulate beyond your immediate
wants, if put away it is devoured by mag
gots, and if made into soap, you may not
have pine or other appropriate vessels
enough to hold it. Having suffered loss
from being placed in such circumstances,
we were much gratificd with piece of
intelligence accidentally received, which
relieved US from the disagreeabIe dilem-
ma. By boiling your soft soap with salt
about quarter of the latter to three gall
Ions OF the former, you can separate ley
and water enough to make the soap hard.
After boiling half an hour turn it into u
tub to cool Cut the cakes which swim
on the top into pieces, and having scraped
offfroth and other impurities, meet again
(without the ley and water underneath of
course) and pour it into box to cool
You may then cut it up into parts of pro-
per dimensions for drying. BY adding
portion of rosin, well pulverized at the
last boiling, you will have yellow soap like
that made for market.
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THE TEXAS HUMBUG.

We happened during the summer to tray
ell in company with an intelligent Texian who
has abandoned that country in disgust, with
the intention Of settling in this country, OF
which he is a native. In reply 10 queries
propounded to him, in regard TO the amount
of the debt ofTexas, and the quantity Of va
cant land within her borders, he answered
that he 'had no doubt her debt amounted to
at least fifty millions Of dollars; that. exclu-
sive of her foreign debt, which had never
been properly estimated, she owed her own
citizens for large sums Of money borrowed
from them, and for provisions supplied and
taken to subsist her troops; that, as regarded
vacant lands, there was not aninch ofgFound
in Texas, worth owning, but what was COW
cred three grants deep" We were at first
inclined to doubt his statements, but have
since been led TO believe that theywere near
ly correct 1t must have struck every unbi-
ased mind, on reading the correspondence
accompanying the forn of the late treaty.
as very singular fact, that the commission
ers appointed on the part of Texas, TO nego-
tiate it, could not tell what the amount of her
debt wasl Isit possible that they were as
Ignorant of it as they pretended to be! We
think not. At any rate, there is not much
faith to be put in the statements of a gov
eminent that cannot tell what is the amount
Of their liabilities. Our little Florida war,
which lasted only few years, against ahand
full of Indians, cost the country upwards of
forty millions; and will any body believe
that the protracted Texas war cost that ma
ton less than double that amount.
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VIRGINIA..

A correspondent of the National Intelli-
gencer, writing from Wilton, near Richmond,
Virginia, thus speaks ofthe diminuton of the
popular vote of that State:
This much have written with an eye to
tempt Virginia Northern Farmers. l
have great desire to capture this good old
commonwealth for the Yankee stock of
States. Land is cheap; say land, of
which good farm may soon be made, at
from three to five dollaIs per acre-not the
land on the banks Of the river, cleared and
cultivated, but land where mari lies-marl
worth more to the land than good mine.
Society is good-the people are good peo
Pile. Schools will come with population. 1t
often seems to me that as yet there are no
people here, and wish therefore to see them
come. Ihave to take up aspyglass TO see
the houses ofmy neighbors, they are so far
off; and yet, SO near am l to a capital of
about twonty four thousand inhabitants, that
| can see its spires and steeples, and almost
hear the hum of its laborsrs. Back ofme,
and below me, off the river, as far as l have
explored, | cannot find much else but woods,
woods, woods. ride for miles and miles
in the forest looking for people. And yet
this is the first settled and Oldest part ofVir-
sinia! The people have gvne off; they have
settled in Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky, Mis-
souri,, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida; and
now, as II there were too many people left,
bride is held out to the rest to 90 to Texas
Well, if they will go, all can say. is north
ern farmers, come here and settle. Such
land as you can sell 10 New York and Penn
sylvania for fifty and seventy five and hum
dred dollars per acre, you can buy here for
from three to ten. Its shame, 1 say,that
this beautiful country, so blest in climate,
and needing so little, only the fertiizing
hand of man, should be without people.
Here is an old, venerable river running past
my door, older than the Hudson, now lined
with towns and villages-much older than
the Ohio, folder in settlemedt and geogra-
ply mean, but where are the people!
For hundred and fifty miles from Rich
mond to Norfolk, the first explored river run
ming into the Atlantic ocean, the home of
the Powhatten and Pocahontas, and the
scenes of the truly chivalrous John Smith
achere are The people? Gone, saw ; gone to
The South and West, and the trumpet blow
ing now among them to go to Texas Vir-
ginia has here depopulated herself to make
houses elsewhere. The cry of one set of
the people here are nothing; Texes is every
thing. Were l Virginian, should esteem
as worth more on James River one good
White men than all of Texas from the Sabine
to Rio Del Norte. Why, here is Texas all
about us, land as cheap as in the distant
Texas, and as good.''
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In CHARAcTER.-The Hickory Banner
to help Mr.. Polk, and to ruin, if possible, our
Manufactures and all home industry, is pub
fishing the vilest JalsehoOds in reference to the
females in our factories. The editor of the
Bangor Wing renarks:-
Nothing in this world is more absurd-noth
ing more despicable and wicked than the at
tempts frequently made by reckless partizaps
in their heated zeal against the just and truly
American system fprotection to,home labor,
TO bring discredit upon those concerned in
manufacturing establisements-both employ
ers and employed.
We are acquainted with the wives of CIer-
gymen, of Merchants, Mechanics, and Farm
ers, as well educated, as refined, as lady Like
and espected-honored by all who know
them and an honor to any social circle they
may grace as any other women in the world,
who in their younger days were employed in
factories-worked in the mills. For the last
twenty years scarce assessor was passed, that
we have not visited more or less the manu-
featuring establishments of Massachusetts, &
many Of those we first saw as sprightly, limo
cent and beautiful girls diligently at work ,are
now the honored wives we have represented.
Some Of them by their own earnings have
paid for their own education, and assisted
their brothers in obtaining an education to fit
them for the ministry. Numerous are the
other cases of which we have heard. Now
it is treason against humanity and libel upon
our institutions to say that a system which
has wrought such results in so many cases
and is constantly producing them, is an evil
and curse, crushing human hopes, sapping
the foundations of virtue, and blighting the
health and happiness of the fair daughters of
our land. When we hear of man by his
pen or his voice thus attempting 10 bring re-
proach upon those engaged in labor, we feel
prepared to brand him as deplorably ignor-
ant efthat which affirms, or contemplate
knave, who, for party ends, would bring re-
proach on the name ofheaven-born virtue it.
self.
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A WITTY REBUKE OF MILLERIsM

The New York Sun says-"We were
much amused few days ago, by an anec-
dote related to us by gentleman from Prov
idence, ofCyrus Butler, one of the wealthiest
citizens of Rhode Island, who has lately made
a nunifcent donation of forty thousand dol
lar. towards the establishment of an insane
asylum. 1t appears that few weeks ago
some Millerites called upon Mr.. B. to aj-
monsh him Of the approaching end of the
world on the 23d of October, and of the i'm
psrtance of his making good use of his
wealth before it should all be consumed in
the general conhagration. After listening pa
tiently, MIR. B. replied-'well. gentlemen, |
am much obliged to you for your good inten-
tons, and the effect of your arguments has
been 10 convince me that have made the
best possible use of it, at least portion of
my property, in founding an asylvm for the
insane-and you are perfectly welcome to it.
Good morning, gentlemen"
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AMERICAN RocktNG CnA1Ls.-In re-
cent London paper we notice an adyer-
tisement Of american Rocking Chairs"
in which the comfort and luxurious ease
Of these wooden narcotics are most Ella
borately deliueated. New to us is it, that
the rocking chair is ofexclusive American
continuance and use, and yet so it is. In
fact, it is but few years since they were
known south ofNew York. In Philadel-
phia, they are still called Boston Rock
ing Chairs" by>which we infer the Yam
KEGS contrived this, as they have done
most of our household articles Of ease and
utility. Some Yankees have opened
shops in London and Liverpool for the
exclusive sale of American manufactured
articles, like the Turk in Broadway. who
sells nick-nacks made in Constantinople
or on the banks of the Bosphorus
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1t may be difficult question to determine
which sect, calling itself Christian, is most
benefited by the wholesale anathemas of the
Garrison, male or female, "black, white and
grew" lecturers, with their ladders fork and
blind worms sting-Lizard's leg, and ow-
let's wing" The churches have all COM
mitted grevious sin against Mr.. Garrison
and Stephen S. Foster, who two or three
years ago decreed that the traitors, (seceders
-"Liberty party'') ought to be hung, and
all the christian churches ESQ called quar-
tered and "come-out" of; as all are very
corrupt, and most of them rotton to the core,
Quakers and all. Joe Smith and Parson
Miller have made some noise in the world,
but they can't come up to the Abigails of the
present day, in point of authority and special
messages.-N. II. Sentinel.
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SYMPTOMS OF DIsAFFEcTloN-The
regular counsel of Governor Dorr have
stuck up their backs and disavowed any
connection with those who attempt the lib
Grafton of their client, except under their
direction. Gen Fessenden of Maine has
been employed by the "Female Benevo-
lent Suffrage Association" TO go to Provi-
dence and act as counsel to procure the
liberation of the Governor, and this not
being agreeable to the regulars, they have
published a card in the ProvidenceHerald.
in which they say:
1--WE take this opportunity of saying to
the friends Of Mr.. Dorr, in or out of the
State, that any attempt to take his case
out of our hands, by whomsoeyer made,
and of whatever political party they may
be, (elther as empl oyers or Counsel or
BY whatever motives actuated, is wholly
unauthorized by Mr.. Dorr. We stand
ready to do for Mr.. Dorr. both as Counsel
and friend, all that we know that he de-
sizes US to do. and all that we can do 4;
faithfully to the last"
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A cams Of Drafts played bet,ceen Baltimore
and Washington city, BY means Of Morse's
Magnetic Ielegraph.-On Saturday last, for
the purpose of making an experiment, and
testing the accuracy of Communications made
by Morse's celebrated and wonderful Electro
Magnetic Telegraph, game of''Draits' or
Checkers was played through its myster-
ious agency. between the cities of Baltimore
and Washington. Thisis the first game ofthe
kind ever played in the United States, or
probably in the world, at sosgreat distance
(4O miles) in so short time-it occupying
not quite one hour from the commencement
to the end. 1t is fact the first and only game
ever attempted in this county thus far by
telegraphic despatch.
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who had each been about five years and two
months in the United States; and one about
40 years Of age, who brought with him to this
country seven children, The oldest of whom
is ID years ofage. All these applicants were
admitted to citizenship. and received certif-
Gates of naturalization. Six of these were
admitted by the Court of Quarter Sessions
of this Allegh any County,a few days previous
to the late elections, and the other in the
Court of Common Pleas ofsaid County some
time ago. Each of these, ii is found. was adj
mitted to citizenship on his own oath, with
that ofone witness only. Four of the five
were vouehed for by one man, and one by
his brother, and the Others by some other
person."
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Coop FoRTUNE.--A young Yankee,
named Coleman, who used to play the ac-
Gordon in some of our cities for subsis-
lance and who patented some improve
ments on that instrument, has suddenly
sprung into afiluence and fame IN New
York. 100000 has been agreed to be
paid him for the improvement of the piano
and in London, where he is now, he has
become the Lion of the day. aud it is
said that he will recover half million of
dollars for his patent there besides bang
petted by :he nobility of Great Britain
Philadelphia paper.
We happen to know, and we are hap
Ply to say, that this young Yankee" de-
serves all the success he is likely to re-
ceive, abundant and overwhelming as it
is. His Improvements on the piano, for
which he is now receiving such high re-
ward and destinction,,,i is ofa most striking
character, and cannot fan to be univer-
sally adopted. 1t consists in what he calls
the "4Eolan attachment" and converts
the piano instantly at viii into the
softest and sweetest toned organ we ever
heard. The principle Of the invention is
in the introduction of air to the string Of
the piano, so that the sound is prolonged
indefinitely 1t makes t'co instruments
out of one-the piano remaining single
until the performer chooses to convert IT
into the organ, which is done by touching
pedal.
One THESE instruments was exhibited
at the Scientific (Onrenfion hold -
Washington some months since Under the
National Institute and it excited the
keenest curiosity, and the most marked
delight of all who heard it. 1t has never
been publicly exhibited in this city,
though few have been put up in private
parlors. The ''Rolian attachment may
be applied to any piano, at 4 cost of about
one hundred dollars new ones made
with reference TO this improvement, will
cost about $50 additional.
Mr.. Coleman is a native of Nantucket
"a genuine Yankee-and full to the
brim' of mechanical and musical genius.
When mere child he was perpetually
astonishing his townsmen with some new
"contrivances This great invention,
which gives him fame and fortune TO his
hearts content, was the amusement Of a
sick chamber-to which he was confined
for some months. He has other in pett0
which, we predict, will give the world
cause for astonishment. His parents re-
side at Saratoga. He is now in England
We heartily rejoice in his extraordinary
success Courier Enquirer.
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1.-THE RESULT OF THE RESULT

AAAL Ahl@eJb IL vi 4 II hE8sc u l. L..
The Philadelphia Gazette of Thursday
evening says: ave have,heard of several en-
'erprises being abandoned on account of he
result of The elecior, and some of our man
'ufacturing establishments have thought it
prudent to contract their operations. State
ments Of this kind will be seized upon for
Misrepresentation, but the facts remain stub
born. We are informed that manufacturers
who had ordered machinery, to be constsuc-
ted in this city, have in some cases counter
manded their orders. Many workmen will
necessarily be discharged"
The Pittsburg American of Tuesday states
that the lowest price at which pig metal has
been sold in that market during the summer
has been S25. On Friday of last week sale
of one hundred and thirty tons was made at
the price named. On Friday night the news
OF the Now York city election and the proba-
BILE loss to the Wings of that State was re-
ceived; and on Saturday pig metal toas offer
ed and refused at s25. Another lot was in
negotiation for on Friday, but was declined
altogether on the following ddy.-NGt. In
teltigencer.
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The Battle Song,

TUNE,-"ScOtS i0hde hGe.
Soldiers of the Temperance band,
Be united heart and hand,
Forward, then, at his command,
To certain victory.
Seize your armor. grid it on;
Now the battle is begun;
Lo the prize will soon be won,
Then struggle manfully.
Now the foe, Intemperance. fight,
Put the monster Rum to flight,
Sink the dram-shop out of sight,
That sink Of misery.
See the tears of her whose heart
Is br oxen by the tyrant's dart.
And suffering now beneath the smart
OF RUNS sad revelry.
Friends of temperance, all arise,
Let the heavens, the earth, and skies,
Witness tn exalted rise
OF the temperance cause.
Faithful to your banner prove,
Strive the inebriste's heart to move,
All your efforts make in love,
To win him from his bowl.
Onward, then, We fearless host.
In this cause make all your boast,
Your motto loye-Jehoyah trust
For help and victory.
Soon the laurels we shall win,
Crowns of glory-saved from sin,
TIL inebriate in that diadem
Shall sparkle brilliantly.
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CHIPS AND CLIPPINGS

4 story is related, on the authority of a
passenger saved in the Robert Fulton, wreck
ed in the late storm on Lake Erie. An inf
del was on board. voiciferous in vending his
books-but when the gale came on, and the
forward part broke, and the waves rushed in
to the cabin, his voice was heard above all
Others, on his knees crying for mercy and
forgiveness, till heavy sea swept over the
deck, and carried him and his books to the
bottom.
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IDLE VIsITs.-The idle levy, very heavy
tax upon the industrious, when by frivulous
visitations they rob them of their time.
Such persons beg their daily happiness from
door to door as beggars of their daily bread,
and like them, sometimes meet with rebuff.
A mere gossip ought not to wonder if we
evince signs that we are tired Of him, seeing
that we are indebted for the honor of his visit
solely to the circumstance ofh being tired
of himself. He sits at home until he has
accumulated an insupportabe load of ennu,
and then sallies forth to distribute it amongst
his eighbors.-COltor.
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Human Lite.-Hope writes the poetry of
the boy, but memory that of the man. Man
looks forward with smiles, but backward
with signs, Such is the wise providence Of
God. The cup of life is sweetest at the brim,
the flavor is impaired as we drink deeper, and
the dregs are made bitter that we may not
struggle when it is taken frem our lips.
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A Minister'S ReprOof A certain Minister,
not long since, paid visit to female &C
quaintance who was newly married, and who
was attired in one Of our indecent fashions
Ia Essler. After the usual compliments,
he Familiarity said:-
81 hope you have good husband, mad
am"
''Yes sir" replied she, "And good man
too, think.
II don't know what to say about his good
ness" added the minister, ''for my Bible
teaches me that good man should clothe his
wife, but he lets you go hall naked."
F3000 foreigners, according to the rec
ords of the Court, were manufactured into
voters in New York City, alone, during the
four weeks preceding the late election. There
were 1900 there before-which made 49,
600 in one City, to vote down American in
terests. "Amer1caus shan't rule u.s.
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which he has received large majority of
the votes of his countrymen. How burning
is the shame, and deep the digrace, that the
will of this majority should have been rem
dered abortive, and the fondest hopes Of this
great nation crushed, by means openly and
undeniably fraudulent and yet without RENE
dy National Intelligencer.
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NEW BOOTS.

These boots were never made for me,
They are to short by half
1want them long enough, dye see.
To cover all. the calf.
"Wait, SIR said Last, with stiffied laugh,
ITO alter them I'll try;
But if they cover all the calf,
They must be five feet high!,
Good Ones-At late Agricultural Fes-
tival, the following sentiments were given at
the board:
The Farmers Wife-she makes the best
Stock ing.
The Farmers motto-'A good dairy maid
or no butter made"
Baked puddng-the only thing to make
Farmer mealy-mouthed.
The Farmers Wife-the best man upon
the Farm.
American Sik.-We have just seen su-
perb silver Medal awarded by the American
Institute TO John S. Pierce, of Burlington,
VI, for the best specimen of CocOons sub
united at its late Fair.-This award is more
gratifying from the fact thatthere were some
we've or hfteen competitors, and Mr.. Pierce,
we oeheve, lives the farthest North of any of
'nem. we trust this settles the point that
our climate presents no obstacle to the most
extensive prosecution of the Silk Culture
amongst org us; Mr.. Pierce expects to make
S''"eD wsrth next ysar.-N z. Tribune.