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The Yazoo City weekly Whig., 1854-09-01
ATEMoRY QUICKENED n DRoWNINe.

! MEMORY QUlCkENED IN DROWNING.
The following circumstance, voucbed fof as true,
is one among many instances in which the memory
has received a remarkable quiczness 10 apparent
drowning. Such facts are incontestible; the soIu-
ton has never been SATISFACTORILY given:
@some years since, A held bond Of for sew
eral hundred dollars. having some time to run. AT
its maturity he found that he had put it away 50
carefully that he was unable to find it. Every
search was fruitIess. He only knew that It had
not been paid or traded away. In this dilemma
he called on B, relating the Circumstance Of its
disappearance, and proposed receipt as Offset to
the bond, or rather an indemnifying bond against
its collection if ever found
To his great surprise b not only refused to meet
the terms Of difficulty, but positively denied owing
him anything, and strongly intimated the presence
Of fraudulent designon the part Of A. Without
legal proof, and, therefore, without redress be had
to endure both the loss Of his money and the sus-
picion Of dishonorabIe intention in urging the
claim. Several years passed away without any
change in the nature Of the case or its factaboYe
given, when one afternoon while bathing in 49,
river, A. either from inability to swim, or cfap,
or from some other cause, was discovered 70 Be
drowning. he had sunk and risen several times,
and was floating away under the water, when he
was seized and drawn to the shore The usual
remedies we're applied to resuscitate him, 8 altho
there were signs Of life, there was no appearance
of consciousness. He was taken home in a state
Of exhaustion, and remained SO for some days.
On the first return Of strength TO walk, be left
his bed, went to his bookcase took out book,
and handed his long lost bond to friend who was
present. He then informed him that when drown
ing and sinking, as he supposed, to rise no more,
in moment, there stood out distinctly before his
hand, as picture, every act Of his life, from the
hour Of childhood to the hour Of sinking beneath
theswater, and among them the circumstance Of
his putting the bond in the book; the book itself
and the place in which he had put it in the book
case. 1t is needless to say that he recovered his
own with tsury.
There is no doubt that this remarkable quscE.
ening Of memory results from the process which
in such cases is is going on--the extig1shment Of
life. It is somewhat analogous to the breaking
in Of the light Of another world, which in so many
we attested cases Of death-bed scenes, enables the
departing spirit, even before it has absolutely left
its clay tenement, to behold and exut Ia the glo-
res Of the future state. Is It not fair inference
that when the soul shakes off the clogs and eu-
cumbrances of the body, it win possess capacities
for enjoyment Of which on earth it was unsuscep-
tible?
AS regards the memory, it viii be observed by
most persons how readily in life we forget that
which we do not slesire to remember, and in this
way we forget much unhappiness. Can we do
this after death9 This is an important aud prac-
teal questions ClSt'S Aagertiser.
The Yazoo City weekly Whig., 1854-09-01
he WHG.
FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER !. 1856

The True Democrat, the only Pierce
pak nov left ID the city Of New York, Is
dreadfully savage every day upon foreign
ers il general and the Irish in particular.
L proclaims with exultation that proper
measures to contradict Irish influences are
in full operation, and itadds;
Politicians may protest, demagogues may
swear, partizans may contradict and the
public may start but still the work goes
braYelY on. Az the coming election It
viii Be ielt here. Egegy foreign name apill
6e scratched on everg ticket. This is the le-
gal remedy adopted By those who are dis
austes With the iodyism 70 foreign inau
ence The lesson will be severe and 4
summary one. It viii not soon be forgot
ten Itmakes all these fatulent bidders in
the foreign vote market shiTer in their
shoes.
The Yazoo City weekly Whig., 1854-09-01
YAzOo CTTY. TRIDAY y sEPTENBER 1s54

against the strength Of another Of the other:
g test the question whethe ritshould become
The settled policy Of political organization
70 make Catholicism the ruling iihuence IN
the state, and everything and everybody
be sacrificed to It's prejudices Or its caprice.
While we profess to know nothing about
The matter more than our neighbors know.
we suppose this is Know Nothingism. If
isis, The reform which itaims to accomplish
Is 4 good one and viii be carried out. It
viii meet response not only in every pa
triotic Americen and Protestant heart but
in The better Judgement Of the nutralized
Catholic citizens themselves, They have
been degraded BY these attempts to isolate
them, to bring them distinct entity
something besides simple American citi.
zens.
II was aninsult to them, an outrage upon
their dignity as citizens. to attempt 10 orga-
nize them into a sort Of Hessian corps hires
| ling troops in the service Of ambitious and
unprircipled demagogues, and proper
sense.of justice to themselves win make
them rejoice at the prospect ofthe dissolu>
tion Of an Organization as dishonoring to
them as It was corrupt in those who brought
1t about. Let this be as it may such a re-
form is needed aod every patriotic mind
feels it to be so. No true American citizen
would close his heart or withdraw his sym
pathys from those who fee to this as ref
uge from the expressions Of other countries.
There is land enough and labor, and FREQ
dom enough for them all.
They will be cheerfully accorded all the
protection of the laws and all the rights
guaranteed to them by the constitution.
Ifthey choose to become citizens no OBJ
struction will be thrown in their way: but
when they be sim .,Iy as American citizens
and hot Irish or Catholic citizens. As
religionists nobody will question or impugn
their faith. It's theirs By nature aud by
constitution and nobody will interfere with
il or molest them in the exercise oft. But
when they band themselves or permit them
selves to be banded together as Irishmen
or Germans, or Catholics and as such en-
ter the arena Of politics they forfeit their
claims to the sympathies Of the American
people and will have no right to complain
if they come to be regarded only as Irish
men Or Germans, or as Catholics. As
American citizens they viii be respected
and cherished; as Irish citizens or German
citizens, or Catholic citizens, they viii not
be respected orcherished BY the American
people. If they carry their Catholic pre-
judices and instincts in politics they viii be
met BY Protestant prejudlces and instincts,
and whether those who WELD the latter are
Know Nothings or are known By any other
name, they will comprise nineteen out Of
every twenty Of the American people.
The Yazoo City weekly Whig., 1854-09-01
Vol. -, No 10.

had and 10000 more; raised what money
could and retreatea 70 Calais; attributed his bad
luck ID his having parted With eluehy sixpence,
which ha maintained. Rothschild must have got
possession Of it was supported r. his exile BY BIS
brother and sister was 50 liberal when bis remit
tancea came, that the beggars called him 'I-e Ioi
de Calais;n was made British Consul at Caeu, On
the mediation Of Wellington with George IV;waS
removed, without compensation, when that con-
suate was abolished lost bis senses spent his last
hours in q hospital for lunatic mendicants md
died March 2, 1910
There, in a nutshell, Is d true history Of Brum.
nell.
The Yazoo City weekly Whig., 1854-09-01
.THE GREYToWN YTcToRY. !.


Out OF very numerous exchange list
comprising papers Of all shades Of opinion
we have found but one to defend the bonn
bardment and burning Of an unprotected
village Of straw cottages BY the navy Of the
United States. Even the Washington Union
is silent and damns the outrage By its refu-
sal to speak It is SO much in the habit Of
lauding all connected with the Adminisira-
tion from the President to his footman that
we may well imagine it can find no justif
cation for an act which seems to be univer-
sally regarded az disgrace to our arms
If the Administration had attempted to
.svindicate the insulted honor Of the United
States, when the Black Warrior outrage
was committed or If it should see Sit to re-
lieYe American citizens from dungeons where
they are now suffering It would have met
with the appreciation Of All weli-thinking
citizens. The Democracy at least would
stand ii justification Of a rebuke offered to
the flag of the country Or the person Of a
citizen We have faithfully tried TO find
apology for the executive where national
interests have been touched but IN vain;
we could not find a shadow ofexcuse for the
Gadsden fraud and must place the war
against women, children, and the property
Of American citizens at Greytown among
the long list Of acts for which the Admins
tration IS being Justly censured and for
which i will yet experience the mefited
condemnation Of the country.
N y. Nat Dsm
The Yazoo City weekly Whig., 1854-09-01

EE The New York Mirror says that
there are $4,000 voters enrolled on the
KuOw.Nothing Lodges in New York city
alone.
.sAlgoma, the Boston correspondent of
the n. Z. Herald says that the KnowsNoth-
ings Of Massachusetts, established their
i74th lodge, at sherburne, in Middlesex
county. and several others were established
the same night. These lodges-are now es-
tablished at the rate of fifty month in this
te. and sre now fast absorbing voters
81 the most active and intelligent clas-
cor
The Yazoo City weekly Whig., 1854-09-01

A KNOW NorHrNa AND DEMocRAT VIcTo-
RY.-J n. snider. Know Nothing and Dem-
crat; was elected one ofthe town Councils
men Of hambersberg, Pa, on Friday last
by large majority over Adam Vondersw,
Esq, Wing.
What viii the Washington Sentinel and
Maryland State Capital Gazette say to this ?
Is the Know Nothing organization a Wing
trick? Are all the officers elected by the
influence Of the Know Nothings Wings ?
Erchdnqe.
The Yazoo City weekly Whig., 1854-09-01
R The Albany Atlas saws Of Miss Fill

1A Ihe Albany Atlas says of MISS fill
more;
"Miss Fillmore was lady Of high intel
| ctual endoWments and during the residence
of her father in this city became acquaint-
with many of our citizens only to secure
the respect and esteem Of all she came in
contact. After course of instruction at
the Pittsfeld Female Seminary she entered
the Normal school in this city from which
she graduated with the highest honors
In accordance with the pledge given on the
entrance into that institution she taught for
some time in one of the Common schools in
Buffalo until the advent of her father
Ito the Presidency changed the residence of
the family to Washington. There by the
modesty Of her Demeanor and the solidity
Of her requirements, she won the esteem
Eofall. and there tooshe was called upon to
lpartwith fond mother, whom she has so
soon followed to the tomb.
The Yazoo City weekly Whig., 1854-09-01
n ISN'T m, IL BRINGTNg UP.

IL Ism II A-A11a ~ 13Ill4A A1A1NAN -
It isn't eli ii abringing up
Let folks say what they Will;
To silver scour q pewter cup
It win be pewter still.
! Zen be Of old, wise Solomon,
Who said train up child, z
If I mistake not, had son
Proved rattle Drained and wild.
a man Of mark, who fain would pass
For lord Of sea and land,
May have the training Of q son,
And bring him up full grand;
May give him all the wealth of love,
OF college and Of school,
Yet, after al, may make no more
Than just decent fsol.
Another, raised BY Penury
Upon her bitter bread,
Whose road to knowledge Is like that
The good to Heaven must tread,
Has got to speake Of Natures light,
He'll fan it to q fame,
Til il its burning letters bright
The world may read his name.
IF it were al in "bringing up
In counsel and restraint,
Some raseals had been honest men
I'd been myself saint.
0l 'tisn't all in "bringing up"
Let folks say what they will;
Neglect may dim silver cup
IT viii be silver still.
The Yazoo City weekly Whig., 1854-09-01
re- Here Is what that old WING paper

II
the Boston Journal says on the subject
"FUsioN AND DEIUs1oN. very slight
glance at the Free Soil and Abolition iour>
nails is sufficient TO show that the knowing
ones-or we should rather say the un-know-
ing ones-of that party have been for some
time hugging themselves with the expecta.
ton that the Wings areabout tostrike their
eolors, march over, with bag and baggage
to the anti>slaYery camp, and as the old
MALTA training ticket used to say "there
wait further orders" from the generals and
eolonels Of the black hussars. It is anu
sing to notice the petty little tricks which are
now practised by our loving friends on the
other side of the question to lure US into this
charming FOOLS paradise It is TO be only
la stfrlsion," forsooth h!no harm in the
world iast a hop, skip, and jump into
the ranks Of great anti-Nebraska legion
which will set everything IN the country
to rights in the tWinkling of an eye. They
are ready to forget and forgive everything
past. no ripping aboutold stories. no squaO-
bling about by-gones, but Hail fellow we'll
met" ID the loving brotherhood, Of .'fu-
sion. !,
The coaxing and Wheedling style II
which these gentlemen attempting to work
upon The good-natured crsdulity Of the
wings, ID The hope to see them fuse into
their political melting-pos under the fire Of
abolition rhetoric, reminds us strongly Of
Lafontaine fable Of the fox who sci his elo.
quenee to the task Of persuading Che crow
% sing when she held tie cheese il her
month. The truth IS the rogues ag0lt oar
cheese They know well enough that the
moment The Whig party s foolish enough "a
sing FUSION down drops lhe Wing cheese
inte The Jaws 81 abolidonism VIII the
thing prove snccessful We rather think
|not 1he wings are not to Be sold o s
song
The Yazoo City weekly Whig., 1854-09-01

A Know NoTHING AND DEMocRAr.-
Mr.. Mayo the Commemorative Attorney,
elected in Norfolk, Va, on Monday last is
Know Nothing and democrat Mr..
Robinson his opponent is a perfect gentle
man any devoted Wing. viii any man
have the hardihood in viewofthe above fact
to assert that Know Nothingism is a Wing
trick ?-Er.
The Yazoo City weekly Whig., 1854-09-01
THE NIGHT.


By BARRY CORNWALL.
Ohsthe summer night,
Has smile of light,
And she sits on a sapphire throne,
Whilst the sWeet winds load her
With garlands of odor,
From the bud Of the rose o'erbloWnl
But the autumn night
Has a piercing sight,
And a step both strong and free;
And a voice Of wonder,
Like the wrath Of thundery
When he shouts to the stormy sea.
And the winter night
Is all cold and white,
And she singeth a song Of pain,
Till the wild-bee hummeth,
And warm spring cometh;
When she dies in a dream of rain!
O the night, the night
'Tis lovely sight,
Whatever the cline or time,
For sorrow then seareth,
And the lover outpoureth
His soul in a star-bright rhyme.
1t bringeth sleep
To the forest deep,
The forestbird to its nest;
To care; bright hours,
And dreams Of flowers,
And that balm to the weary-restl
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ihat hs q stuffed hin with drugs hat IS
was itk after be cot Hl. common
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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-09-01

A gang of political counterfeiters is at
present flooding this State with bogus
coin, as dlsreputable to the political. as the
Durham coin is TO the financial community,
Patriot
SO the Major is turning States evidence.
lie peaches. IL not the Majors democracy
bogus !"-wtness his sale to freesoilism
in 1919. Is not his freesoiism bogus Y'-
witness his treachery to ireesoilers in 1852.
Is not his Nebraskaism bogus ?n-witness
ms present support Of protested anti.Ne-
braskalies. Is not his i-Nebraskaism
bogus ''-witness his present support of
Pierce, Douglas, and the Nebraska bill. Is
not his whole course so contradictory, IN.
principled and absurd, that no term in use
htly describes II but" bogus i"-witness
his attempts to bring Democrats, Whias.
and free soilers, Temperance men and ami.
temperance men, Nebraska men and anti.
Nebraska men-sl sorts of fsh-in,o his
net, = witness the temptations, lalbeit resist
ed to Col. Boutwell, on the one hand, and
TO Mr.. Wood at the same moment on the
other-of course intending to get friends of
both to help him, and to cheat both in the
game. Is not tina, bogus ?" Witness his
county convention, protesting to be demo-
cratic and free democratic does not every
body know tina, the free Democrats, excep,
few who sold themselves to 10 Moody a.
20. last year, generally repudiste il ss-"bo-
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-09-01
Tricks upon Travellers.

Such is the title of an article in the last
Patriot, relating to an interview of sundry
gentlemen with Mr.. Jackman of Barre. 1t
is admirably adapted to describe the conduct
of Jackman. The facts are that Jackman
was anxious to be nominated for Sheriff by
the 9th Of August Convention, and intimat-
ed that he was ready TO stand on anti-Ne-
braska ground. To ascertain this beyond
mistake, Azel Spalding, Gen. Walton and
Leonard Keith waited upon Mr.. Jackman
personally. An account of the interview
will be found in another column, and the
reader will observe that the letter published
in the last Patriot was simply statement Of
Jdckmdn's uieioS, as expressed by himself and
written after consulting him; that he approx
ed that statement; and that he induced the
belief that he icotid tOripdrd ii for pubiica
lion on The merit day On the next day he
came to Montpelier, and saw Eastman &
Co. and it seems that he changed his mind
upon the subject. This he had q right to
do: but then to 90 and grossly misrepresent
the affair, by suppressng entirely his own
responsibility for the call upon him, and by
falsely representing It as an attempt Of 9TH
or folks to get him into a scrape," was the
meanest Of all tricks. Whether Jackmsn or
Eastman is responsible for this, we do not
undertake to say; but we do say, that Jack
man himself instigated 'the scrape," by pre-
tending to approve of the 9Th ofAugust con-
vention instead of the one which nominated
HIM aud that by backing oid, after his dec
araiions TO W alton, Spalding, and Keith,
he has only got himself into a ioorse scrape,
in the Judgment Of honorable men. This
we understand to be true, and we refer to
Messrs. Walton, Spaldlng and Keith as wit
nesses and if they are not enough, we
have more. We wish Eastman g. Co. much
JOY IN supporting man who wished to be-
come the candidate OF the other side.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-09-01

gus 2" Witness the Major himself, keeping
Out Of that convention, and yet getting into
the committee on nominations to fix the
ticket; is not that "bogus?" Witness the
resolution Of that convention for temperance
remember that last year the Patriot clique
was for rum, and tell us whether here is not
more" bogus ?" Witness the resolution
of that convention against repeating the Mis-
souri Compromise: remember that Eastman
g. Co. profess to be in favor Of the repeal,
and Judge whether it is not" bogus 7"-
Look at the Eastman county ticket-faceti-
ously dubbed "Black and Brown !" consist
ing Of freesoilers who act with, and vote for,
savocrats, --ofprofessed anti Nebraska men
sailing under the Administration flag and
of Administration men who cater for the
votes of opponents of the Administration ;
behold it supported by Eastman in the Pat
riot as the +" DEMOCRATIC Ticker" and by
Hon. Roderick Richardson, and an anony-
nous writer in the Freeman, as something
else ;--snd tell US whether it is not all-'bO-
gus Look at the Eastman State ticket,
nominated by State Convention which en-
dorsed the Administration and the Nebraska
bill. publicly represented as the Democrat.
&c Ticket" and yet privately claimed as anti
Nebraskaish is it not bogus" Right
well does the Major say that political coun.
terfeiters are flooding the State with bogus
coin" The Patriot is right for once the
Patriot speaks what it knorrs the Patriot is
full Of" bogus"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-09-01
Who is Merritt Clark 2

He is the candidate for Governor of this
State by the Nebraskaites lie is the Same
parsonage, who in 1852, bolted from a Con
vention Of democrats at Rutland called to
elect a delegate to the Democratic National
Convention, because he would not mix with
the free soil members, who were largely in
the majority, but called a separate Conven-
ton at the Bardwell House, after the regu-
lar convention had convened, secured his
own election, went to the Convention and
claimed and got his own seat, because. for
sooth, he Glanced to be an advocate of slave
ny, when h. had no more right to do it than
We had. lie dared not run on the ticket
last fall, or his friends were afraid to let him:
but this year he has the impudence to come
up and ask the freemen Of the State to sup.
port him; and this too, after he had been
instrumental in procuring the nomination of
the very man for President who has disgrace
ed, and nearly upset, the Union. Will the
freemen of Vermont vote for such a man (?
For the credit OF the State and for their own
welfare and that of the country, we trust not.
Harrington Banner.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-09-01
What they saw.

The Woodstock Mercury talks of 5000
majority for Royce, Fletcher and Bates in
Windsor county; the Middlebury Register
reckons upon $500 or 5000 in Addison and
both are conteDding for the BANNER of FRsE-
dom. That is well but will be nobler
victory and more cheering news to the
friends Of freedom, if WAsHrSsros CouS.
rr- the strong hold of democracy as she has
been breaks from thebonds Of the sham de-
mocracy of slavery, and declares herself for
the true democracy of Freedom. Freemen
Of Washington--rRY