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Sam Slick on Kissing.

Squire, your are older than | be, and |
suppose you will think all this sort of thing
is clear, sheer nonsense, but depend upon it
kiss is great mystery. There is many a
thing we know that we can't explain still we
are snre it is fact for all that. Why should
there be sort Of magic in shaking hands,
which seems only a mere form, and some-
times painful one too, for some folks wiring
your fingers almost off and make you fairly
dance with pain, they hurt you SO. 1t don't
give much pleasure at any time. What the
magic Of it is. we can't tell, but so it is for
all that. 1t seems only custom, like show
ing and nothing else, still there is more in it
than meets the eye. But a kiss fairly elec.
trfies you it warns your blood and sets your
heart beatin' like base drum, and makes
your eyes twinkle like stars in a frosty night
1t tain't thing ever to be forgot No Ian
guage can express it, no letters will give the
sound. Then what in nature is equal to the
flavor of it! What an aroma it has! How
spiritual it is. 1t amt gross, for you can't
feed on il, it don't cloy, for the palate amt
required to test its, taste. It is neither visi-
BILE, nor tangible, nor portable, nor trans
ferable. 1t is not substance, nor liquid,
nor vapor. 1t has neither color nor form.
Imagination can't conceive it. It can't be
initiated or forged. II is confined to no cline
or country, but is ubiquitous. 1t is desem-
bodied when completed, but is instantly re-
produced and SO is immortal.
1t is as old as creation and yet is as young
and as fresh as ever. 1t pre.existsd still
exists aud always will exist.
tpervades oil nature, The breeze as it
passes kisses the rose, and the pendant vine
stoops down and hides with its tendrils its
bushes, as it kisses the limpid stream that
waits in San eddy to meet it and raises its
tiny waves, like anxious lipst to meet il -
Eve learned II in Paradise and,was taught
its beauties, virtues and varieties by an an
gel there is something 50 transcendenta in
4 il, Il - as. n eoIss.si8 atfe3347
How it Is adapted to all circumstancesl
l.Thereis the Hiss Of welcome and of parting.
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In the year of our Lord, one thousand
eight hundred and tiIty-fve.
RcSolued, By the Senate and House OF
Representatives, in General Court convened
That concurring substantially with the Gen
eral Assembly ofthe State OF Rhode Island
and Providence plantations in the resolu'
tions submitted by his ExcellencY the Gov
ernor, sour Senators and Representatives in
Congress be and they are hereby requested
to urge upon the consideration of Congress
the necessity of passing law imposing Sc
we're penalties against the introduction OF
importation into this country Of foreign pau.
pers, and foreign criminals, since the intro
duction of the first named class of foreign.
ers is calculated to impose unreasonable tax.
es upon American citizens, and of the latter
class to corrupt the public morals, and en-
danger the public safety"
RssolUed, That our Senators and Repre-
sentutves in Congress be, and they are here
by requested, to use their best eXertions tc
procure the passage, by the National Legis
lature, of q new naturalization law, which
shall require previous continuous residence
of not less thun ten, nor more than twenty
one years in this country, to enable an aliel
to become citizen thereof; and that al
processes and oaths required by such law
shall be required to be had and taken eXclu
sively before some circuit or district court o
the United StCtes, and before the Judge ol
judges thereof, in open court.
ResolUsd, That his Excellency the Cover
nor be requested to transmit copies of thu
above resolutions to our Senators and Rep
resentatives in Congress, to be by them pre-
sented to their respective Houses of Con
gress, and to the Governors of other States
with request that they be communicated tC
the Legislature thereof.
Approved July 18th, 1865.
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WHOLE NUMBER 5ss
Negro Consplracy In nIisstssipps.


The Marion (Mississippi) Republican
gives an account Ofthe discovery Of negro
conspiracy at Garlandsville, Jasper county.
Il says: !. a N..1' ~ oeA g
"a Trustworthy negro on a neighboring
plantation, after having received Pledges of
secrecy, revealed the existence Of the con-
spirscy to an oyerseer, and requested him
to repair to certain place, in the midst of
dark, unfrequehted swamp. and gee for him.
self. The overseer did not go, but the next
morning he took with him some friends and
went to the spot designated by the faithful
negro. There they saw every indication of
a large crowl having been assembled; horses
had been tied up, fires kindled, and, from
appearances, they calculated that upward of
one hundred negroes had there assembledoD
the preceding night. They left the spot.
and the neighborhood was quickly alarmed
Several negroes were taken up, and among
them the leader. The greatest excitement
was prevailing in the country; a council
was HSiuJ uHu IL "uo uCChSu tHut thC uSSIVCS
should be hung Immediately; ropes were
procured, and the sentence of the council
was about to be executed, when the crowd
reiented, fearing lest the innocent should
perish with the guilty.
''The negroes were then severely whipped
and they con essed that the conspiracy extern
ded throughout large section of the coun-
try; that there existed several other organi-
cations, which they called schools in the
neighborhood, and that their object was to
organize in sufficient force and march, in
creasing their force as they went, to free
State. No arms or ammunition Of any kind
could be discovered; but the negroes con-
fessed that they were to meet at Gdrlands-
vile next Saturday night to make start.
When asked why they selected that place as
rendezvous, they could give no reason. and
the presumption is that they intended to sack
the place and murder the inhabitants. Two
white men, they say, have been among them,
but their names were not known to the ne
groes, nor was anything developed which
could identify them. Arms and ammunition
are probably concealed somewhere, as such
a scheme would never have been attempted
without them" +-+r @1"-"
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Omaha CITY. Nebraska.

We are at liberty to publish the follow.
ing extract from letter received by gen.
tleman in this city, from a friend recently
located at the fourishing city of Omaha:
OMAHA CRY, NEBRASKA, Aug. IA, 1855.
"The Surveyor General is now engaged
in fixing the base lines in this Territory
and Kansas, and feel confident that all
the surveys will be completed and the lands
brought into market within year" 1.
"* The work on our Capital
building is progressing finely. 1t is a
beautiful situation for such building; and
if the edifce now in course of erection on
that eminence is as attractive in its archi-
tectural proportions as is anticipated, it will
present truly imposing appearance The
view from that hill is grand in the extreme
On the east, below, is spread out the city
plat as beautiful as the hand of nature
could make it, and containing some $50
houses, where, nine months since but. a
solitary log cabin was visible; while on the
other side, as far as the eye can reach, (and
further too) are the houses of the s9uaiters,
making out for each farms of 800 acres
Now these farms, it must be remembered
are not like those newly commenced in
Ohio and other heavily timbered States,
where. it requires years to clear and open
up few respectfully sized fields; but in
one year from now these claims will be
found in high state of cultivation, and
presenting around our city an area Of tilla-
BILE and titled lands, which, either in the
| productiveness Of its soil or the number en-
ployed in its cultivation, will rival that of
the best spots in the famed Scioto valley
This is not imaginary. | can now point
you to several as fine farms as you can fiud
in Ohio; and the future, / am confident,
will see our brightest anticipations realized.
The Indians are quiet, and hear of no fur.
ther troubles from them in the Territory
Emigrants need have no fear Of molsstat
ton from them. Our city isimproying fast,
In every direction houses are going up,and
our population is daily being increased BY
| the arrival of those who are seeking homes
| in. the West, all concurring in the opinion
| that no location is 90 desirable as Omaha"
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court in the United States, shall have the
right TO vote in any city, town or plantation
in this state, unless three months, at least,
before the day Of election, he shall produce
and exhibit to the aldermen, selectmen, or
assessors of the city, town or plantation in
which he resides and has his home, his said
naturalization papers. And the said alder
men, selectmen and assessors, shall enter In
book to be kept by them for that purpose,
the name Of said person, the date of the issue
CT the papers, and the court by which the
same were issued. And if it shall appear to
said aldermen, selectmen, or assessors, that
said papers were in due form, and were issu
ed by court having jurisdiction of such
matters, and that the persoff producing them
is the party to whom they were issued, they
shall cause his name to be entered on the
check list of such city, town or plantation,
and TO be continued on said list SO long as
he shall remain a resident of such city, town
or plantation, and entitled to vote therein.
SEC. 2. If said aldermen, selectmen or as.
SCISSORS, shall be of the opinion that the pa.
pers SO produced are not genuine, or that the
party so producing them, is not the person
to whom they were issued, they shall not be
required to make such entries in said book,
nor enter, the name of such person on the
check list, as aforesaid; but such person
having so produced and exhibited his papers
shall not be deprived of his right to vote by
reason OF his name not being entered in the
said book, but his right to vote shall be de-
termined in the same manner it would if this
act had not been passed.
Sec. 8. All acts and parts of acts incon-
sistent with this act are hereby repealed
SEC. a. This act shall take effect from
and after its approval by the Governor.
Approved March II, 1855. -.i -..
COPIED from the "Maine Free Press
Extra" containing "pubic laws of the state
of Maine passed by the thirty fourth Legisla-
ture, A. D., 1869
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Thc AniHai Called "a Boy.

A very uncertain, mysterious, inexplicable
creation is boy-who can define him! We
will try. A boy is the spirit of mischief
embodied. A perfect teetotum, spinning
round like a jenny, or tumbling heels over
head. He invariably goes through the pro.
cess Of leaping over every chair in his reach,
makes drumheads of the doors; turnsthe tin
pans into cymbals; takes the best knives
out to dig worms for bait, and loses them;
hunts up the molasses cask, and leaves the
molasses running; is boon companion to tho
sugar bowl searches up all the pie and pres
serves left from supper, and eats them; goes
to the apples every ten minutes; hides his
old cap in order to wear his best one; cuts
his boots accidentally ifhe wants new pair,
tears his clothes for fun; jumps into the pud.
dies for sport, and for ditto tracks your car
pets, marks your furniture, pinches the baby.
worries the nurse, ties fire-crackers TO the
kittens tail, drops his school books in the
gutter while he fishes with a pin, pock-
cts his schoolmaster's specks, and final.
ly turns sober household upside down il he
cuts his little finger. He is provoking and
provokable torment, especially to his sis.
ters. He don't pretend to much until he il
twelve! s'a'H t.- '.'
Then begins the rage for frock coats, blue
eyes, curly hair, white dresses, imperfect
rymes and dskeys; At fourteen he is too
big to split wood or go after water; and at
the time these interesting Offices ought to be
performed, contrives to be invisible-wheth-
er concealed in the garret, with some old
worm eaten novel for company, enscohsed
on the wood pile learning ledgerdemain, or
bound off on some expedition that turns
out to be more dcplorable than.explorable.
At fifteen he has tolerable experience Of
the world; but from sixteen to twenty, may
we clear the track when he's i'd sight. Y Il Z
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the long, lingering, loving, present the stoL
en- or the mutual one, the kiss of Joy, and Of
sorrow, the seal Of promise, and the receipt
of ful6llment. Ts it strange therefore that
woman is lnvincible whose armory con.
sists Of kisses, smiles, sighs, and tears! Ii
it any wonder that poor old Adam was FIRST
tempted, and then ruined! 1t is very easy
for preachers to get up with long faces, ant
tell US he ought to have been more a man
Ny opinion is, if he has been less OF man
IT would have been bettenfor him. I
But Squire, I shall always maintain to my
dyirg day, that kissing is sublime myste,
ry.-" Nature and Human nature"
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NO. 5.--CONNEcTICUT.
From the "Con. Bank Note List'' Ia monthly Dan
or SnDtan,knr


From the "Con. Bank Note Lst'' "a monthly paperl
ofSeptember, 1856
Proposed Amendment to the Constitution.
At General Assembly of the State OF
Connecticut holden at Hartford in said state
on the first Wednesday in May, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
ffy-fve.
Resolved. by the House Of Representatives,
that the following be proposed as an amend
ment to the constitution of this state, which
when approved and adopted in the manner
provided by the constitution, shall to all in.
tents and purposes become a part thereof, viz
"Every male person born in the United
States Or of parents who are citizens OF the
United States, who shall have attained the
age of twenty-one years, and every male per-
son who shall have resided in the United
States for period of twenty one years and
shall have been naturaliaed under the laws
of the United States, who shall have resided
in this state for term OF one year next pre-
cedng, and in the town in which he may Of
fer to be admitted to the privileges of an E.
lector, at least six months next preceding
the time he may so offer himself, and shall
be able to read any article Of the constitution
of this state, and shall sustain good char
acter, shall on his taking such oath as may
be prescribed by law, be an eector''
Resolved, That the foregoing proposed a.
mendment to the constitution be continued
to the next General Assembly, and be pub.
lisned with the laws passed by the present
session. ~
tFrom the August No. of the same paper,
Ire Office of Secretary of State,
HARTFORD, June h0, 1866.
Publishers of newspapers who insert in
their respective journals the public acts OF
the late session of the General Assembly,
are respectfully requested to publish said acts
in the numerical order here following, and
to comply strictly with the provisions of the
sixth section of an act relating to certain
state offices, land to the treasury department.
N. d. SPERRY,
Secretary Of State.
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No. 7.--NEw HAMPSHIRE.

State of New Hamp shire in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
ifty.fve. :.
ANACT regulating naturalization and the sufrages of
ah naturalized citizens. g.,t .I
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives in General Court convened.
Sec. |. No Court created by the author
ity Of this State, except the Court Of Com
mon Pleas, nor any functionary pertaining
to any such Court, except said Court Of Com
mon Pleas shall hereafter hold or exercise
any jurisdiction in the administration
of the laws of Congress-, commonly
known as the naturalization laws, nor take
cognizance Of any application OF any alien
to be admitted to become citizen. nor make
any record. or grant or issue any certificate
or other document or paper whereby any
alien shall be natnralized Or made q citizen
of the United States. s.8a st 3g.F5 u 4;
sSEce Q. Allproceedings in regard to nat
uralization shall be issued in open Court. 3
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dfllstellanto1rs,
From the Ohio Statesman.l

sasf. ACbuNt AWUNS NOtUAuks aSHAs
A few days since we noticed short para.
graph in the Ohio State Journal, which we
>h ,uld have entirely disregarded on account
Of the too well-known Know Nothingsm OF
the editors of that sheet on matters of the
Roman Catholic Church; but since it has
been copied in other papers, we shall show
that the Journal is conducted by actual ig-
noramuses in respect to ecclesiastical sub.
jects, by stating historical facts in regard to
the paragraph alluded to, which reads, as
follows: 'e
"Austria is about conceding to the de.
mands of Rome the right to try in her Ec.
clesiastical Courts all offenses in which re-
ligion and conscience may be concerned, a.
rising in her dominions. Austria has some
eleven millions of subjects who are not Ro-
man Catholics, and this concession is pro.
tested against by them. The Servians in.
sist on complete liberty of worship, and why
should they not enjoy it! The tyranny o.
Church and State must be brought to q
close all over the world, sooner or later
The time for redemption is fastening on"
The Journal apparently knows nothing o
the fact, that the Catholic Church is jus
now striving to effect separation of Churcl
and State in Europe, and it is hoped, viii
succeed in their efforts. But it is ridiculou
in the extreme, that the Journal insinuates
nay states, that the 1Protestsnts among th,
Austrian subjects should have protested a
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No. 6.--coNNEcTIcUf.

From the Connecticut Bank Note List, Aug, 1855.
AN ACT in addition to An Act relating to Courts.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives in General Assembly
convened: .i% .ts " 2s5s tz
That no alien shall be permitted to declare
his intention to become citizen of the Uni
ted States, before any Court already estub-
lished, or which hereafter may be establish
ed, under and by virtue of the Constitution
and laws of this State, nor shall any alien
be admitted to become citizen of the Uni
ted States before any such Court.
Approved June 26, 1866. E.
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New York PoTTER's FIELD.-Some two
acres are enclosed within tight board fence.
One corner of the enclosure you will notice
is graded some four feet higher than the
rest. Under this are three trenches filled,
and in them there lie the remains of $4,000
people. The fourth trench has been open
only few weeks. Already it has soc
buried in it. This trench is dug Is feet deep
5000 feet long and l8 feet wide. They be.
gin to bury at one end of 1.-THE trench is
wide enough to admit three coffins lying end
to end, and they are piled up till the upper.
most is within two feet of the surface. The
average of daily burials here at present is
Is, or % a week. During hot weather the
corpses arrive in the early morning and of
ter nightfall. When the new arrivals are
announced at the trench the diggers throw
aside the little dirt that covered the lot, de-
posit the new ones and cover them. When
the whole trench is filled, the earth of new
trench is thrown upon the late one, and il is
graded off like the mound before spoken of
some four feet above the former surface
This is done because when the coffins deca,
the earth sinks. The mound is to be turfet
so soon as it has settled, and cedars, willows
and other appropriate trees planted. Y
Times.
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One of the Love Letters!
1000 eight hundred and 55.


NY DEAR SARAH-I embrace this here
opportunity to let you knough as how | had
spell of aiger, and | does hope theas fue
lines may find you enjoying the same Good
Blessing! Why don't few only rite a'sweate
line to spffern Daniel all about his sweate
Sarah. Oh! my sweate Sarah--ny dear.
dear Sarah--how my poor sole is longing to
heer your s8eaie voyce. think heers
her singing Yankle dudle as she Gums from
her nedevork nough. tva.sg "A
Oh! my Sarah, doc cum out and ett's git
marryd. 81 e 81 ).
So no more at present, but remain your
lovin Daniel. d. H. &c.
To my sweate Sarah.
P.S.-PARr SEKuND--My father said I
must get marryd and keepe house, and ifi
you love me wont whip yew, indeed nOrsI
wont look at nobody else, SO wonts Dad
dy says as how must gettmaHyd, because \
Ihape run 2 long already. So no more ato
present. " ~ &C. 4
P..S.-NoTE BEENT--Muthers ded, and \
Timothy are got the fever. So'no more az
present,from your luvin. D. III. &C.
NorY BEErY, AL forget to say a. homA
that are my korns .onmy big toe dou't hurt
as il used did, So wance more your hl,ssa
band as is to bee, sent too kisses to youd
till see you again. d Yours TIL dszzh d I
i. f
part. ID Il -. ~
NogT BEEsE. Son GatturdAy aEeniag
/ will come 70 sesmy Irwin sstahalataazia-
You're despitefally. p. y. &c.
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STATE OF New HAMpsHERE.

SECRETARY OF STATES OFFICE. {
hereby certify that the foregoing are
true copies of the originals, as by the record
thereof in this Office appears, in testimony
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of said State this 25th day OF
July, A. D. 1866.
. LEMUEL N. PATTEE,
TsEAL,1 SecretarU of State
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gainst the concession to try all religious of
fences in Catholic Ecclesiastical Courts, un-
der the absurd apprehension that Protestants
were also included in it, and to be judged in
matters Of religion and conscience by Ro-
man Catholic Church authorities. If such
apFotest has been handed in, it can show but
either of these two things; THAT the Pro.
testants of Austria were as ignofant as the
editors of the Journal; or, 2d-that they do
not wish separation Of Church and State.
II is too absurd, indeed, to believe or fear
that the Protestant churches of Austria
should be made subject to Roman rule, by
this separation. Further, that the Journal
seems not to know that the power of the Ro-
man See is limited in her jurisdiction over
the Catholic clergy and Catholics in gener-
| al, by this very connection of State and
Church in Austria as well as elsewhere, for
if the Bishop shoald attempt to discharge a
priest, the State has power to renstate and
keep him, despite of the Roman See even.
Thus the Roman Catholic Church in Eu-
rope Is doing. just the contrary to what the
Journal and its Know. Nothing brethren are
doing in this country, in prosecuting and
prescribing Catholics; and thus evidently
would bring about union between State
Church, j. e. the Protestant Branch af Chris
tendon, and thereby oppress Catholics,
o
while the Roman See is asking nothing more
than what the blunderng Journal processes
to favor, a separation of Church and State
in order that the Catholic Church may ex-
ercise its legitimate power in church affairs
only over its dioceses. and not be restrained
by State authority in its jurisdiction in mat
ters of religion and conscience. II the edi-
tors of the Journal wish, that the Catholics
in Europe be subject in matters of religion
and conscience to protestant rule, as they
do here, then they will be sadly, disappoint-
ed, for in no despotic country in Europe, the
most absolute Protestant would dare in our
enlightened age to concede to Catholics the
jurisdiction over Protestants in church af-
fairs, or to Protestants over Catholics. The
Journal has not learned the A B G in The
ology, for otherwise it would not adult such
gross nonsense into its colums.
In short, the Catholic Church in Europe
asks nothing more than what any denomi-
nation enjoys in this country. Protestant.