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feated the real Know Nothings who aimed TO pros
trate him. That trick could not succeed now, ,
though It win be tried. The genuine Know Notf-
ings bave thousand councils in the State, are al
ready two hundred thousand strong and are in.
creasing in gcometrcal progression. In the Legis-
votes against him. If the opposition can manage
to keep every man straight Seward is a "gono
Indian" But great danger Is still apprehended
from the boiling propensities of certain membes.
The election OF Seward is a test question. The
moral effect Of his defeat would be unexampled.;
yet should he be even reelected, it s impossible
that the great State Of New York should not fall
into the hands Of the Know Nothngs, who have
already increased $4,000 since the late election.
But II they beat Seward, II viii be impossible TO
deny that they are great national conservative
party the hope Of the Union and the safety OF the
country. Orleans Creole.
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The Know-Nothings and seward.

II the New York Herald is TO be believed, says
the Richmond Post, the elements of opposition
combined against Seward are likely to shake his
throne TO the very foundation. So wen aware is
the demagogue himself OF the danger in which he
stands that he has left his scat and taken up his
headquarters for the time at the Astor-House, in
New York, where he is giving orders for the com
ing conflict. The appliances In the shape Of money
and Offices are great, They comprehend the State
revenues, and the canal funds, and divers little
tras; but if the Know Nothings be true he viii be
beaten in spite Of them all. Unfortunately they
have, had at the late election, traitors amongst
them. spurious organization, gotten up under
false pretences, under the auspices Of Myron IL.
Clark, succeeded in directing enough votes to elect
that unprincipled demagogue and abolitionist
He represented himself as Know Nothing, be-
cause be belonged 10 these outsiders, and thus de-
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UOHN n. GIBBS beGs leave 70 call the
~ attention Of the Gentlemen to the above estsb-
lshmcnt, where they win hnd every comfort in the
Shaving, H~cntting, Curling, Shampooing, and
Hair Dying departments. -. rs
Alse, TO his Wigs, Scalps, and Toupees, which ar
ticics cannot be surpassed in the United States and
arc always on hand, made TO order at short notice
His stock Of Toilet articles and Furnishing Goods
are carefully selected and will be found o-comprse
the best kinds Of Combs, Brushes; Lubn's Extracts
all sorts Of Paris Perfumeries; Guerlans, Rigges,
and other Shaving and Toilet Soaps Best quality
Strops; genuine Parma Cologne, in long short and
wicker bottles, Toilet Mirrors; Cold Crcnfn, Lip
Salye, AInondine; and almost every requisite for
the Toilet
In Furnishing Goods he has kid Gloves, white
and colorcd; fashionable Cravats, Scarfs Neck Ties
winter Gloves Shirts, Suspenders, Stocks pocket
handkerchief, Collars, &C. all OF which have been
purchased from the best houses in New York, and
are warranted to be what they are represented.
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WALLl q sTEPHENS.

UDENNSYLvANIA Avenue, between 9th
III and 10th streets, have Just received large as
sortment OF Cloths, Cassimers, and vesting, which
they will have made up to order in the most fashion
able styles 81
Also. on hand very large stock Of resdy-made
Cothing which they will sell cheap as any other
establishmspt in The United StateA dec
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m III. JOHNSON, Family Grocer, corner
e Of Seventh and streets, No. 4S9 is being con-
stantly supplied with fresh Family Groceres Of all
kinda to which he respectfully solcits the patronage
of his friends. nov 18~-H y
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avenue. s,az 4 X. w. BATES,
nov Ia Agent.
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Gov. Gardner,s Inauguration.

Henry j. Gardner was inducted into Office rs
Governor Of Massachusetts, on Tuesday, and im-
The address is long, elaborate and well-writttn n
paper, touching ON an unusually large number of
topics, and, as was anticipated, explicitly unfolding
the leading principles Of the new political organi
zation now in power In this State. Wepresent to
our readers the following careful abstract of its
contents
After graceful allusion to the peace and pros
pcrity which the Ruler of All has vouchsafed to
our Commonwealth, during the year past, the
Governor comes at once to the subject Of
FOREIGN IMMIGRATION. F-
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The question Of temperance is recommended to
deliberate consideration, and it Is suggested that
those sections Of the antlquor law which have
been presumed unconstitutional should no longer
remain on the statute book He Gays, "whatevcr
measures you may perfect 70 prevent intemperance
and check paupefism and crime, and which are
deemed constitutional by myself and the officer
ded my legal adviser, shall receive my unhesita-
ting sanction
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rHK MISSOURI COMPROMISE.

The repeal Of the Missouri Compromise is regret.
fully referred to- and the duty Of the North is stated
10 be, TO manfnly demand the restoration Of this
broken compact In connexion with this, u Is
submitted whenever addtonallegislation Is not re-
quired, TO secure still further the rights Of habeas
corpus and trial by jury.
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The financial condition Of the Commonwealth Is
not represented as Aattering one, there being
deficit Of s20l ,71S, and hope is expressed that
the claim Of Massachusetts, against the general
government, amounting to 1927, ,l76, for services
performed in repelling invasion during the war of
1912, the validity OF which was admitted by the
Secretary Of State twenty years ago, may now be
lquidated.---N n. Farmer.
Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-02-03
The Locusts.

To the Editor of the Baltimore Pahiot.-Ac-
cording to my custom, will give notice that
the seventeen years. locnsts will appear this
year (1S55) in the following States, viz:
Massachusetts, about Barnstable and adjacent
towns. This is a very small district, but the
locusts will be very numerous in the groves
They will not, however, "bend down, nor even
break by their weight the limbs of the trees"
as DIR. Harris remarks they do.
Maryland, the whole of the Eastern Shore.
Maryland on the Old Liberty and Windsor
Mill roads, commencing about five miles from
Baltimore, and extending to Carlisle, Pa. They
will appear also all over the State in very small
numbers.
Virginia, in Kanawha county. This is a
very small district, unless it is connected with
the next district, in Kentucky, SC.
Kentucky, about Lexington, Frankfort, Flem-
ingsburg, and extending to Meigs and Gallia
counties, Ohio.
As you will perceive, this will be very in
teresting year to those who pay attention to
such matters, as it will afford an opportunity
for many observations. The object of giving
for them now They can be found in all the
above places, wherever trees, shrubbery or
forests grew in 1888, by digging down one or
two feet They will be found in their cells,
inside of Jumps Of earth of the size of the fist,
or larger; and when these are broken by the
spade or otherwise, the cells will be exposed,
and the locust grubs in them, one in each cell.
Yours, &c., GIDEON B. SMITH.
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AMERICAN HOTEL AT PARrs.-The Courier des
Etats Unis contains an account Of the new hotel on
the American plan, now building in Paris. It out
tops any in this country in capacity It Is situated
on Rivoli and st. Honore streets, and Coo street,
and the Palais Royal-that is, about the centre Of
Paris, little north of the Seine River, and also of
the Talleries and Luxembourg Palaces, which
border that river. The new hotel is one hundred
and sixty five feet in length, 1856 in DEPTH covering
23,7OO square feet. Theaargest hotel now open is
the st. Nicholas, Of New York, which covers about
1920 square feet. The galleries Of the Paris
hotel are composed of 50 areades, and are faced
with shops occupying about 1,20ofeet of the ground
plan, with second story to the same extent, and
an entresol or little story between the shop and
second story. The upper stories are occupied by
the hotel, and have 1856 windows. Three iron bal
comics each extend 1900 feet round the edifce.
The principal entrance ofthe hotel, Rvof street
the grandest straight street in Paris-occupies
four arcades two Of them for coaches, these lead
to the central court, 90 feet long and 80 broad.
The principal interior gallery is $50 long by about
90 broad The eating-hall is t32 feet long and 50
broad, and viii hold $50 persons. There are large
private suites of apartments with private entrances
Six hundred persons can be accommodated. The
fifth story contains 100 chambers for the servants.
The hour Of the day win be sounded electrically by
all the clocks; and telegraphc communications are
adopted for economy's sake.
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American Commerce.

The London Daily News, thus portrays the
adventurous spirit Of our American Commerce.
3" We own to cordial admiration Of the spirit
of American Commerce, in it's adventurous
aspect. To watch it is to witness some of the
finest romance Of our time. No idea can be
formed of our own older, quieter, more tradi-
tional way of setting to work It was an
American who first thought of carrying ice to
India. Instead of going out in ballast, as was
often done them, with dollars to buy some
oriental cargo to exchange from place to place,
he took out a cargo of ice from a familiar
Massachusetts pond. A fourth of the cargo
melted while the people in Calcutta were learn
ing what it meant and the rest sold for six
cents the pound. The next time plenty of
buyers were on the lookout: scarcely any ice
had time to melt, and the price was nearly
doubled since which time it has been good
speculation to send ice 1000 miles, and thrust
salpetre out of the market. 1t was an Amerl-
can who first saw the beauty of Manila hemp,
though it was not unknown to us. He carried
home few bales, and in ten years the impor-
tation rose to 10000 bales.
The Americans were on excellent terms with
the Chinese long before we could make anything
of them. In Salem-well named the city Of
peace from it's civilzing commerce-the highest
order of mercantile spirit is found-a spirit
which reminds the traveller of old Venice and
the Hanse towns. The particular dignity
coveted at Salem is membership in its museum;
and to be member it is requisite to have
brought something remarkable from far lands.
There young mans education finishes with his
being sent, not to his travels, but his voyage;
and father, uncle, or friend makes him super
cargo of a good freight, and sends him to China,
or Borneo, or Madagascar. Henceforth, it will
probably be to Japan, or to shake hands with
the Chinese in the plains of Thibet or with
European travellers at Timbuctoo, for the New
England merchants are penetrating to the very
heart of Africa, to handle the cotton and sell
their goods. It is an every day matter for
Salem merchant to tell his wife that they may
as well 60 round the world, as he has ship
ready; and then the older children are sent to
school and the infants and their parents sail
away, traf6cking from land to land, in another
hemisphere, and returning with little fortune,
sun-burnt faces, and a batch of curiosities for
the museum.
We hail such doings in any nation whatever,
and in the American case this is evidently their
true field of conquest. If we could only emu
late them as far as suits our different circum-
Stances making railways in India, and raising
cotton there, and wherever in our dominions it
will grow-there would soon (as we may talk of
incidents in national life being soon, be an end
of charge and recrimination and offense and
subtlety about Cubas and Uncle Toms Cabins,
and fishery and boundary questions would be
found easy Of settlement between the two most
commercial nations upon EARTH
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COURSES IN THE YEAR l855.-There viii be
this year four ecipses, two Of the sun and two Of
the moon.
The First-A total eclipse Of the moon, May lst,
at 10 o'clock, So minutes In the evening; visible.
visible here. Only viaible towards the North Pole
Greenland and the north part Of North America,
latitude GO and al.
The Thifd-A tota, eclipse Of tho moon, DC.
tohsr 2Sth, at 9 o'clock as minutes 10 the morning
invisible.
The Foarh-A partial eclipse Of tho sun, Noveun.
Bur oh. at Q O'Clock 80 minutes Ia the Afternoon;
invisible here, and only Visible at The South Pole.
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DoIEe ToLLxAN.-Two young ladies Of In.
dianapols, Indiana, who by the bye, belong to the
bon tom, wore out riding IN buggy themselves,
and after driving through the various fashionable
avenues, they concluded to try the plank road.
Well, to the plank road they went, and while trot-
ting briskIy along they were suddenly arrested by
toIl-gate-keeper, who demanded his toll.
q How much is it 7" asked the girls.
For mm and horse" he replied, ait is
fifty cent"
aWeH then get out Of the WY, for we are girls
and mare! Get up Jenny" and away they went
leaving the man in mute astonishmenf-
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REL1oIos.- Whateverof excellence is wrought
in the soul itself, belongs to both worlds. Real
goodness does not attach itself merely to the
present; it points to another werld.
Political and professional fame cannot last
forever, but conscience void Of Offences before
God and man, is an Inheritance for eternity.
Religion, therefore, is q necessary, and almost
Indispensable element in any human character.
There is no living without it. Religion is the
tie which connects man with his Creator, and
holds him to His throne.
II that tie is suadered Or broken, he floats
away; worthless atom il the universe, its
proper attractions al gone, it's destiny thwarted
and its whole future, nothing but darkness,
desolation and death. a man with no sense Of
religious duty is be whom Che Scriptures des-
cribe in 50 tefse but terrific manner--as
. living without God in the world Such .
man Is out Of his proper being out Of the
circle 81 III his happiness, and away. far away,
from The purpose Of his creation.
7F9s -. - y s5sStsg3s gfF DdniAL Ke6sGsr
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An Irr1pEL's SUCCESS. Hume, the historian,
received religious education from his mother, and
early in life was the subject Of strong and hopeful
religious impressions; but as he approached man
hood they were effaced; and confirmed in6delity
succeeded. He now applied himself with unwearied,
and, unhappily, with successful efforts to sap the
foundation Of bis mothers faith. Having succeeded
in this dreadful work, he went abroad into foreign
countries; and as he was returning, an express met
him in London, with letter from his MOTHER in.
forming him that she was in d deep decline, and
could not long survive; she said she found herself
without any support in her distress; that he had
taken away that source Of comfort upon which, in al
cases Of affection, she used to rely, and that she
now found her mind sinking into despair, she did
not doubt that her son would afford her some
substitute for her religion; and she conjured him
to hasten to her, or at least to send her letter
containing such consultations as philosophy can as
ford to a dying mortal Hume was overwhelmed
with anguish On receiving this letter and hastened
to Scotland, travelling day and night but before he
arrived, his mother expired. ay
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Two HoUsrs Burr From ORE TRxE.-The
Humboadt, (Cal) Times tells Of tree in thxt
country which furnished lumber enough to bald
two twostosy houses each fifty fest square, furnish
ing ~ gle timber, plank, boards and shingles, ne
cessary for tie purpose. A M 81 .5sss
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NAPOLEON HIT same man who landed at
Boulogne in 1916 with single steamer and few
friends on desperate and abortive expedition, re-
visits it in 1854 to review vast army and receive
the homage Of countless spectators. The same man
who SIX years ago lived in obscufity in London,
scarcely able to pay his tailors, and quite unable
to pay his horse dealers bill-whom many looked
upon as stupid and whom none looked upon as
wise-of whom few augured well and whom few
would trust much-we have just seen receiving the
visits and compliments Of the corsort Of our Queen,
entertaining three royal guests at his tabfeone OF
them the son-in law Of the very monarch whom he
had succeeded-and admitted beyond all denial
into the social circle of royal personages. Nor is
this change in his singular fortunes the only one,
nor perhaps, the greatest. We can imagine him
smiling with even more grim satisfaction as he
contrasts the language Of the English press r.
garding him in 1852 and now; sitting with the
Times or the Examiner Of December 1851 Or Of
August 1854 before him-and marvelling at the
metamorphosis-the unmeasured abuse which was
showered upon him at the former date; and the
decorous> respect and cordial praise with which he
is spoken Of now. The 'seedy swell and the
'sanguinary and audacious rdian is now the polite
and sagacious Emperor and takes wine tete-a-tete
with Prince Albert and King Leopold"
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SIR WALTER ScooT There is strange story
now floating on the great sea Of literary table talk
Nothing less let me tell you, than an unpublished
fiction by Sir Walter Scott has turned up, and will
be published in Paris where II was found. The
story runs, that rich old German, who lived in
Paris when Scott visited it in 1925, had mono
mania for collecting autographs, and wanted one
Of scotts that Anne Scott gave him the manuscript
of historical romance by her father, which be had
determined not to publish that he priced this very
much, kept it in box by itself; and promised to-
bequeath it to his private Secretary; and that he
Tilted Paris in 1880, and was lost sight Of; that
few months ago the Germans daughter forwarded
the writing;case from Bavaria; that the Secretary
opened it, and found it to contain Moredun, a
Tale Of the Twelve Hundred and Ten;' that it is
of the usual three volume extent; that it is being
translated for publication in the French and that it
has the genuine life, spirit and reality Of the best
of the Waverly romantes.
~ London Cor. Of the Neso York Sunday Times
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Rev. JOHN NEwLAND MAFFIT.-The Mobile
Register contains the following on this eminent
Methodist devine:
For twenty five years-years fruitful in adventure,
vicissitude and glory, the celebrated man whose
name heads this article was the Whitefeld of the
American pulpit From the Penobscot to the
Colorado, from the Galena to the pillars of the
capitol, the name and victories of the orator osci
lated like the Indian ocean, the ebb and flow of
which, resembled most the time when Weasfey
preached in Babylon of England. Scarcely even
in the papal city did one exercise more potent
influence, than in his mild career did John New
land Maf6it. Wherever he went whether in the
crowded metropolis, or the hushed wilderness +;
whether the religious atmosphere was cold Or not
twas one continued scene of almost miraculous
triumph. Friendship was converted into feeling
akin to alteration and enemies were metamorphized
into friends
At length, far away in the and in Bienville
hunted down; with faded reputation, stricken and
ill, but with unblenching spirit and undated are
the orator of century lay down to die! The
malaria of death was in his nostrils and the last
inevitable hour had come. Would he swing less
without hope of immortality! Would he dash
headlong into the vast ocean Of eternity, when the
bosom Of the great deep was swelling, dissorting,
bursting In the agony Of the storm! Or would he
leave the world with that tranquil chivairy, which,
always characterizes the christian worshipper?
Silence! Genais upon the race!
With his dying breath he declared himself ca
Illuminated man. q Then slanderer think Of that; he
said that during his pastoral life he had been guilty
of many frivolous, but no criminal acts-forgave
his enimies expressed unaterable trust in the maker
Of the stars, and did not doubt but that all would
be well!
n y
Thus passed away John Newland Maffit; and if
the reader win visit Toulminyille, from whence
can be seen the spires of Mobile, in an unobtrusive
grave, in that tranquil village, his eyes will rest
upon the spot where sleeps the most splendid pulpit
orator likely to be seen in half century to come!
The star which arose in the east over the bright
waters Of the deep and silent Shannon, eliminated
in the American heavens, and went down in the
west s7 Asfs ssta8zs9@g s4s-