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Fea Tas Vfassxa FaEr PzEss
q r.ns 81 lese years become fashionable on the
lsnnina 20 presidential can psifn for he sue
stseiai geFinee It cir ffFIacsi0ri 81 eive vent
= seslr ant ioy ii iolsi 6kasions made up
s'inasf bonsifes and toFGh light professions
accompanied by II manner and sorts of devices
and iIanspaFeneiss, emblemalicAI Of he ignored
Pt1Ecipes q their opponents o. characteristic Of
f1sir OWa
sach being thc fashion, We DO not purpose al this
n ohIset 70 ~, oa the contrary il Is harmless
pastne and calculated 10 afford without addition
q cost 81 laborl quite as much amusement 10 the
defeated a. % tlieNicsoFs decidedly IN favor
81 rs cnniin and for the purpose Of preventing
~ degeEeIstsrg into miserable tnriessue On.lhe
PsFtof our democratic friends. We urge upon them
Ias proPriety hereafter, q seecting les Office men
WIG after being elected they win noIiobe Ashamed
y ho:De in spirited and becoming manner. men
who having iFsome way Distinguished themselves
~ real Or supposed service in heir country cause
SHAH not enly receive the suffrage Of their country
men, bet be entitled 10 an abiding place ia their
ahee'ieLse q Q saehoalY ought a free people render
sgaiion, end % SIC 1fly have they Fenagred with
spirit feeling or er,Aosiasrl
matter q course we sse noi prepared "a ssv
Snethes or Democratic friends deem sneh sple5.
800 esseats " their purpose or whether they
IaAueneed ~ The same Consideration which one
rag upon iEe wing minds. bat we 10 sar lhal when.
ever j has been our ftrn to aate M ssosr !, A.
been done up right with LIGHT ia abundsnes Gras
eneef ana sort of personal pride Ia doing hanor
10 whom honor was due '-S1Yt
But our object almost forgotten i Il, ng,i.a 81 :.
was designed as demonstration (as we ,res, r,es
!. ~; " our democratic brethren Of Hafper<-Fef
- s..ser q tns recent overwhelming and PIN
prsnI 81 lbs 8 ing ID M IE
Try, sneh an evidence. and Id addition 10 others.
one, that true greatness is only APP
preciaed when death has set bis seal upon il; sure
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something better than bonfire scarcely visible ia
midnight darkness, aapalHy dozen Of miserable
transparencies bJrne iy boys In Smuggling JUL
NAL procession Dir Of two cent candle divided In
twain to illuminate window oIseighieen lights ten
by twelve. Oh my couDifymen what demonstfa-
tion vas this ard-if your JOY was commensurate
with tie enthusiasm which prevailed, our pen Is
unable to portray the fuiiness your Joy and over
rJwered BIZ the fitness of your emotion. 100 ex-
claim Huria for Pierce & King, demanding for
this patriotic effort cur part, the scu ion Of the
question now unooied whether the illumination
was intended 10 render he Iransparencies in The
procession visible, or whether the traaspareEces
were designed toinake discernib3eihei illumination
Ii the anticipations of This affair like the NAM
moth bills OF a travelling Menagfie, ora broken
down Circus, promised Infinitely more than was
seen, still we were very agreeabty compensated,
bY seeing the talented democratic elector for this
district, whose appearance had been announced in
former bills, bul who had unfortunately been pre-
vented from making his appearance In consequence
Of his liability 10 an attack OF . Bnerism, which
on several occasions came near proving fatal to
his usefulness as public speaker in fact so invet-
crate and certain were these visiiations that his
Physician pronounced a fatal termination as the
ultimate result aud that the only remedy was to
keep quiet. The advice was judieious and al
though we were pleasedto see himlooking extreme
" well and in full possession OF hisfpowers ef
speech, vet considering the circumstances ofsthe
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he should soon have forgotten the instructionseof
the Doctor. Yours.