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Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-12-03

Of soul spirit, giving life to dead matter, and
causing il to assume all the multiplied forms which
piehsnsion adds new Significance to that FIR Il
command Of the Creator: "Let there be Light
Grand F,r Chase.-The Cecil emocrat says
"A grand fox-chase came off on Thursday
Thanksgiving day. between Elktona and Welch
Point. Thirty horsemen, with twenty dogs
Joined the chase. During the chase three
foxes were running at one time, not more thar
three or four hundred yards ahead off the pack
Such of the sportsmen as were in position to
witness it describe it as very animating scene
All three of the foxes were earthed.
House of I,ldnstyy.-"The House Of Industry
will be openedfor admission on and after the 36tl
day of November, 1857. Application for admission
to be made at the House, in Shipley street. betweel
5th and eth, two doors below the Engine Hous
water witch.)j All persons Interested in the de
srituIe, will aid the cause Of humanity by send mi
Indignant females to this Institution. Persons hny
ing quilting or any kind of sewing 10 BIO done, ar
REQUESTED to try 'iThe House OF Industry. Dena
items Of money, fuel, food, and clothing, will b
| gratefully received. ie -e-7F .l=.-.4.5f3 /.
Constable White Caged.--A few days ago
| saws the Milford News, Constable White wen
| to Milton on official business with a merchsn
Of that place. A difficulty arose between tn
| two, and the merchant threw the Constabl
out Of his store. Mr.. White at him again
| and threw him out, when the merchant YerJ
i coolIy locked him in. We are informed tina
| the matter will be before the next SUISSE.
| Court for investigation. rsl5r aii7--..-l
| Marine Disasts,. The sloop Wave, Capt Rich
atdson from Cape May, bound to Watch Prig, Va
| drove ashore on the point of Cape Henlope Beach
| a lltle TO the westward Of the Beacon Light, o.
Wednesday morning, at ii O'clock. The wind wa
! blowing yiolently frsm the W. Northwest Forum
ately no lives were lost. The wreekmaster, Mr.. job
Burton, with his usual prompness, wentio their al,
4 and rendered all possible assistanse 'daa7i' Z,
Il t4nsivsysafy Csisbration.-Th Sunday Sehoo
attached TO the Asbury NJ. e Church. OF thiseity
intend having an anniversary celebration on Thurs
Il day evening, the 7th of January. Ths proceeds arr
TO be given 10 the members Of the Dorcas Society o
the Church. to enable them TO relieve the wants o
tho needy and distressed.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1857-11-05
The Chemical isaaL.


From tha troy Wig
/ This institution, among the numerous New
/ York City Banks, has attracted much at.
tcntion Of late, by ia plucky determination
not to suspend specie payments, and by car.
rying IL out thus far with success. As the
chemical has thus Ear got before the pub
lie, u word or two in its history aud Singh
lar name may not b. out Of place.
In 1923 the Legislature passed an act
Incorporating The New York Chemical
Manufacturing Company for the purpose
of manufacturing blue vitriol. alum. oil Of
vitriol, aqua forts, nitric acid muriatic acid,
alcohol, tartar cmetie, refined camphor. salt
pc're. boraS, copperas, corrosive suhlimate,
calome, aud other drugs, medicines, paints
and dycrs articles With this object the
company was started. la about year
they changed their views on the subject OF
chemistry. and came 10 tho conclusion tn a,
money was the best thing 10 manufacture.
On the LIST of April, 1924, therefore. the
Legislature amended their charter aud gave
them the power to carry on the business Of
banking with 100000 capital, and pretty
liberal provisions, but STIMULATING that blue
viriol, &C.. should still be attended TO.
A Bank with the title of The Chemical
Bank was organized under the authority OF
this amendment. which authorized them Ia
continue twenty-one years, The bank was
situated for some lime at No. ZIG Broad.
way, next door TO Barnum's Museum. 1t
has siucc moved TO the more commodIous
building further up broadway. now occu.
pied by it. The Chemical Bank continued
specie payments through the financial CAM
paign Of 1887. In February, lsu, just be-
fore its charter expired. it filed its articles
Of association. aud went into operation IA u
FIRE bank, with u capital OF 100000. 1t
il TO continue until 1899.
OF course there are reasoLs derived from
its character why the Chemical Bank con
,nues specie payments at the present time.
No ono supposcs that il is exempted from
the general crash by special dlspcnsation
OF Providence. The reasons are that the
Chemical is bank, not SO II uch Of cIrcu-
latiou or discount as of deposit !, has. in
addition 10 an immense supply OF gold. u
class of dcpositors but little inclined to run
the bank and alsu resources to meet any
thing Of the kind II attempted, 1t Is man.
aged by rich men. In their CIV n peculiar way.
We believe the Chemical" works are still
continued. jus, enough TO speak about AMI
keep the charter in motion. Perhaps il is
copperas they make, or their specie comes
under the head Of corrosive sublimatc and
other drugs.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1857-11-05

drawn upon gopi factors against produce ~
the amount Of at least 81 100000. at once.
In regard 10 resumption no one has author
ity 10 speak at present, but the country
banks may rest assured that the majority OF
the City banks entertain at present no idea
~ sprnging the question suddenly, or Of fix
ing day earlier than will suffice TO learn
the full ciIcc, Of the panic accounts on the
other side, aud 10 get the best part Of the
new crops to market. There Is less haste
on the subject because Of the small differ
ence between gold and currency, and the
doubt still resting on the extent Of liquida
ton in money engagements necessary TO bc
accomplished, before the banks can feel au-
thorizsd 10 start anew on reliable sound
basis.
From tho Pbll.selpht, sofh AmseIasn. oeiobsr q
There Wa limited business done al the
Stock Board to-day. and prices generally
fell of about ~ compared with y,st'r-
days figures, thu demand being only for
sound dividend paying securities; the lancies
continue neglected, and Bank stocks arc
very little in favor the whole market left
of dull, the transactions in oil only reaching
about 81 ! 900 in Loans and sonre 800 shares;
among the former are $1,000 North Penn
sylvania Railroad Gs at AZ, and Of the latter
We notice 25O Reading Railroad at lG 4 n
IGrs. and 100 Union CANAL preferred at 81
The failure Of large Dry Goods Com
mission House ia announced to-day.
There is very little demand Tor paper, the
inquiry being limited to few chsiee names,
which are negotiated at sa2 per cent. per
month, and money IA very scarce.
Drexcl \ Go. quote American gold at ia
& q, per cent, and New York Exchange at
2a3 per cent. premium the latter being their
selling prices today.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1857-11-05
Financial ltevu,sIon.

The papers contain interesting though sad
pictures of the consequences OF the revulsiou.
The poor are thrown out Of employ, and mn
mcdlatey begin TO suffer those in better
circumstances are required 10 rctrcnch, and
even the rich find II necessary to cur,ail their
unnecessary expenses. The Fall River
Sar describes what is already taking place
in the manufacturing ,oyus Of Massachu-
sets as follows:
Whole families are suffering for bread
the fathers willing and eager TO work. but
nothing to do. We have heard tales of dis
trcsS that would bring tears to the eyes of
the most indifferent. These people must
have bread or starye, and this is not com
muni,y to allow the latter This ia too
gloomy, altogether. Take heart. men Of
Fall River, and show yourselves equal to a
momentary distress. This is glorious,
rich country. with resources equal To the
want oi thrice It's inhabitants. There is coz
siderable distress in the shoe towns of Essey
county. During the last week many hands
were discharged in Lynn, and the winter
prospects for the poor are gloomy. The
Newburyport HerdH hears that orders have
been given for the dscoRtnuance Of work
in one half OF the Globe Mills. and adds, If
80 Iii n,, an - .'','"o' ST. WY
hns,,s. f. ,be ;n;"r,. w. w.. .t ln"on 1'" ,,,
rbys;,.,llr ,nd ,,n,n; -, '"' Fop''' wv"
-, = :,
'ne Wv 'nfh Htn'" "s,ri"s nc
. Sn.. II, VIE nroWh H,one iiouse N .
manner mat 10 those who have WANDERED
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1857-11-05

A few months since, the partner Of a
commercial house in this city was taken to
a luna,ic asylum, utterly derang,Nl, as was
said by his unparclri prosperity in bust
ness. During the year previous, his firm
had cleared 81 100000. He died in the
asylum. and his own estate was valued a,
g., SOC. 900, and Invested in the concern of
which b. Was u partner, The firm itself
failed the other day, and is now said to he
utterly inso'vent One item Of the assets Of
the tle,cassLs estate WAS thousand shares
of the Illinois Central Railroad stock. which
WAS selling ., the time Of his deccase at 81 10
a share, and which was worth. after paving
up the ins,alments, 100000, The same
property sold Yesterday a. public sale at
S50, 1900 An OF this oourrrl within
eightcyn mcnths--the prosperity, tn in
sanity, the decssse and the Insolvency N.
Y. Er. Pos, 18th.
The party referred TO Is Col JoHx r
SAsroHp the partner Of rissss CsNrx,r, Of
81 Louis.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1857-11-05

The Audior OF the State Of Indiana pub
lished on the first of October the following
accnuu, Of tho circulation of the troc banks
and the securities in his hands TO rnd~m
them a, the market price of these securities.
These securities are state stocks, tina, are not
u, all likely to tall any lower than they were
ON the first OF October while it will I've SEN
tina, these banks oil have large margin TO
GOV any accidents tina, may happen, This
comes AS nearly making promise to pay rial
money As one can be made.
The State Ranks and branches arr dit
ferent affairs. They may be good but
there is no security for the redemption Of
their notes, if they suspend or break.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1857-11-05
Daniel w'b>,,r's Opiniou Of a Paper Cur
r.nty.

The following extract o. il speech made
by DANIEL WEnsrsR ia the United States
Senate in lS32 may be found in BENTON S
nrty fean I,cs, page 24i, volume one /;
"A disoricrei currency il one OF the great.
est political evils. Ii undermInes The vlr-
tues necessary FOR the supper, Of the social
system, and encourage propensltcs destruc-
tive Of IT, happiness. II was against indus.
try frugalty and economy. and II fosters
the evil spirit Of cytrayagances FOR cheating
the laboring classes Of mankind, none has
been more eliectual than that which deludes
them with paper money, This il the mos,
eifectuaI of inventions to ierialiZc the rich
mans field by the sweat OF the poor man S
brow. Ordinary tyranny. oppresslon. en-
ces,ive taxation--thes, hear tightly on the
happiness of the mass Of the community.
compared with the fraudulent cGrrencics and
the robberies committed by deprecated pa
per. Oar own history has recorded for oar
instruction enough OF the dcnoraliziug ten
deucv. the injustice and the lntolerable Op-
preston on the yirtuous AMI well Disposal
Of degraded paper currency Authorized oy
law Or any way coun'cnAaced IS govern
ment'
Again he says
The paper circulation @. the country il,
at this time, probably seventy-fvc or eighty
millions Of dollars ~ specie We NAV have
twenty or thirty millions and this priuci-
rally in masses in the vaults u; the banks
Now. sir, this i state o. things which
leads constantly 20 over'-ading. and 10 the
consequent excuses and ravulsions which SO
often disturb the regular course al Gunner
cial affairs. We nave 81 small an amount
OF specie ia circulation Certainly the only
rea.on Is lecause We dcui require more =
We have but tossk 10 pr'Sence and i, wonld
return. Bnt We Voluntarily Danish /, hv the
great amour, ri small hans notes 10 most
Of the States The banks .ssue notes - all bow
,icnom nations, evcn 20 single dollar How
is i, possible under s1ch circumstances. 20
retain specie IN circulation AllexIsrience
shows il TO b. impo-sib,e The pap'r will
take the place n the gold and silver. When
Mr. Pin, in The wa 1891, proposed, in
PARLIAMENT. to authorize the Bank oi Eng.
land to issue one pound notes, Mr.. Burke
Law sick at Rath. o. an Illness IL which be
never recovered s7d ne Is said 20 bave writ.
ten - the late Mr.. Gaming Tel Mr.
Pin that, IL he co8~ruts "a tne lssgily OF
one pound NOTES. he Ems, never eyrect 10
- a guinea again
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1857-11-05

The Kansas Constitutional Convention
me, on the 10Th.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-10-14

''Ha, ha, ha," he laughed in coarse triumph,
''your Yankee pistols wern't made to harm
such as me! Tll soon put you where I've
put others afore-''
When a man knows death is staring him in
the face, and that only his act will avert it,
he is not apt to wait long. At least L am not.
And my host s last words gave me ample
proof of the correctness of my suspicious.
Without waiting for him to finish, 1 fired.
His finger must have pressed the trigger of
his pistol, for within the space of a watch-tick,
sharp report answered and mingled with
mine, and my hat shook upon my head.
Daniel Groome swayed to and fro several
times in his saddle, and then with gurgling
groan sank upon the earth. 1 slipped down
after him, and when l stopped over the body,
1 saw few drops of dark blood trickling from
his forehead.
For few moments l felt awe struck and
condemned. 1t was a natural feeling in such
presence. But when l came to reflect upon
all that had preceded the deed, felt that
had done my country service. made the
robbers horse fast to tree, and then re-
mounted and rode on.
reached the Mills at half-past nine, and
found Foster and his family up. They were
glad to see me, and introduced me to a Mr..
Price, whom l afterwards found TO be the
owner Of the place where had taken my din
ner.
On the following morning party started
out under my guidance. There were Foster
and Price, and three men who worked in the
mills. When we reached the spot where the
tragedy had happened, We found the horse as
had left him, and my host lay upon the
the ball having made but small wound,
though it had passed clear through.
a little way within the wood, we found a
place where the ground seemed at some time
to have been disturbed, and npon digging
there, we found two human bodies. Subse-
quently one more was found only few rods
distant.
The body of Groome was taken up to his
house, and We there found that Ike had fed.
He had probably been out and found his dead
father. and fearing that he might be implca-
ted, he departed.
Mrs. Groome, who was a mild, broken-down
woman, acknowledged that she had long been
aware of her husbands crimes, but that the
fear of death had kept her silent.
Ike, believe, has not yet been found, but
his mother is still living in Illinois with a
married daughter, who. is we'll off. She has
grown more strong and happy since the night
on which I had the highway adventure with
my host.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-10-14

THE ADVANTAGES OF LADIES' SoCIETY.-1t
is better for you to pass an evening once or
twice week in lady's drawing room, even
though the conversation is rather slow, and you
know the girls songs all by heart, than in a
club, tavern, or in a pit of a theatre. All a.
musements of youth, to which women are not
admitted, rely on it, are deleterious in their
nature. All men who avoid female society
have dull perceptions, and are stupid, or have
stupid, or gross tastes, and revolt against what
is pure. Your club Swaggerers, who are suck
ing the butts OF billiard cues all night, calls
female society insipid. Beauty has no charms
for blind man; music does not please poor
beast, who does not know one tune from anoth-
er and true epicure is hardly ever tired
of water anchoyy and brown bread and butter,
l protest l can sit all night talking to a well
regulated. kindly woman, about her girl COM
ing out, or her boy at Eton, and like the even
ing's entertainment. One of the great bene-
fits man may derive from woman'S society is,
that he is bound to be respectful to them The
habit is of great good TO your moral men, de-
pend upon it. Our education makes us the
most eminently selfish men in the world. We
fight for ourselves, we yawn for ourselves, We
light our pipes and say we won't go ont, We
prefer ourselves ard our ease; and the great
est good that comes to man from woman's
society is, that he has to think of somebody
constantly attentive and spectful.-ThGcke-
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-10-14
BY s. B. ROW.
SOUL THOUGHTS.
BY II. W. LoHGFELLow

BY Il. W. LOHGFELLOw.
The wind of tho Autumn midnight
Is moaning around ny door
The curtains wave at the window,
The carpet lifts on the floor.
There are sounds like startled footballs,
In the distant chambers now,
And the touch of airy fingers
Is busy on hand and brow.
'Tis thus in the Souls dark dwelling
BY the moody host unsought-
Through the chambers of Memory wander
The invisible airs of Thought.
For it bloweth where it listeth,
With murmur loud and low;
Whence it tcometh-whither it goeth-
None tell US, and none may know.
Now warning around the portals
OF the vacant. desolate mind
As the doors of a ruined mansion,
That creak in the cold night wind.
And anon an awful memory
Sweeps over it fierce and high,
Like the roar of a mountain fdrest,
When the midnight gale gdcsAb5
Then its voice subsidies in wailing,
And ere the dawn of day,
Murm ring fainter and still fainter,
In the distance dies away.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-10-14

WA negative answer has been given at the
General Land Office to the inquiries as 10 whe-
ther a number of persons forming themselves
into a Joint Stock Association can have the
benefit of the Graduation Ac. by becoming
settlers on the public lands not for their indi-
vidual benefit, but for that of their common
interest. The ground for that answer is, that
the Graduation Act was intended for the bene-
fit of actual settlers and cultivators of the soil
only, not for spectators, and that the rights
given by it are personal only, and because of
actual settlement and cultivation already made
or contemplated.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-10-14

LABoR.-The value of an industrial popula-
tion cannot be too highly estimated, as how
ever much capital may be at command, it is
of no use until the true material, the hard
working laborer or skillful mechanic arc at
hand to expend it and produce in its stead
road, canal, steam engine or ship. Mo-
ney is really worthless except in the relation
it bears to the laborer; and the two arc each
dependent on the other, so the capitalist is en-
titled to the respect of the laborer, who in his
turn has right to the same from the money
ed man.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-10-14

a steam engine,) sot him rcarins and cayor
tim like he was skeered out OF his senses.
Wall he went. The foam rolled, and the ole
black hoss flew. He jist mizzled-scared nj
tn death, and so wur I. So We agreed on tho
pint uv the greatest distance ;ih the smallest
time.
81 aimed for Doctor Goodman's at the Hi
wassee Copper Mines, tn get somethin' tn stop
the exploshun in my innards. met sercuit
rider on his travels towards fried chicken an
hat full nv biskits. As cum tarin' along
he hilt up his hands like he wanted to pray fur
me, but as L preferred physic tn prayer, in my
pecooliar sitawashun at that time, l jist rolled
along. He tuck skeer rs l cum nj on tn him,
his faith gin out, an he lodged hoss, saddil-
bags, am overcoat, inter thicket list like
you've seed tertil take water often log
when tarin' big steamboat Gums along. As
he passed ole man Burns's, Sicily hailed him,
and axed him ef he'd met any body in a hurry
gwine up the road. The poor man thought
perhaps he did and perhaps lie didn't, but he'd
seen a site, Nv spook, Nv a ghost, Nv ole Boil
zebub himself, or the komit, he didn't adzact-
ly know which, but takin' all things tugether
an the short time he'd for prepaFashun, he
thought he met a crazy, long-Iegged shakin'
Quaker, ffeein' frum the wrath tn cum, on a
black and white spotted hoss, whippin' NV
him with big brush, and he had white beard
what cum frum nj onto his eyes to the pummil
nv the saddil, an then forked an went tn his
knees, and then sometimes drapped in bunch
as big asa crows nest tu the ground, an
hearin' q sound like rushin' Nv mighty wat
ers, an be war nightly exercised about it
enyhow. Well, guess he wur, an SO wur his
fat hoss, an so wur ole blackey wust exercis-
ed Nv all Nv 'em wur l, myself
''Now, George, all this beard an spots on
the hoss. an steam, an fire, an snow, an wire
tails, is ouddacious humbug. It all cum out
Nv my innards, droppin' ov my mouth without
eny vomitin' or effurt, an eff it hadn't I'd bus
ted into more pieces than thar is aigs IN big
catfish. The Lovengoods are all confoundsd
fools, an dad amt the wust Nv 'em.''
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-10-14

UThe Secretary of the Interior has re-
Gently invested nearly one million dollars in
the State Stocks of Missouri, Pennsylvania,
Illinois, North Carolina, Tennessee and Vir-
ginia, in trust for the various Indian tribes
All but $50, 900 of that amount has been drawn
from the Treasury. The present time was
chosen for the investment in order to contrib
ute something toward the relief OF the money
market, while $50, 900 has thus been realized
in the transaction for the Indians.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-10-14

IVA dispatch was received at the General
Lane Office from Hastings, Minnesota, stating
that the men who stole the sc, 900 acres worth
of land warrants from the Fairbault Land Of
fec had been arrested, and that all the war
rants, with the exception of five, had been re-
covered
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-10-14

"The Lexington (Mo-) Express announ-
ces the arrival of Capt. Russell from Salt Lake,
who states that the Mormons have fortified
Fort Bridges, with the declared intention of
defending it against the United States troops.
Capt. Russell also reports that the depreda-
tions by the Cheyenne Indians continued with
out abatement, and that they were daily grow
ing more daring and aggravated in character.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-10-14

PLEASURE OF READISG.-Of all the amuse-
ments that can possibly be imagined for a
working man, after daily toll, or in the inter
walls, there is nothing like reading a newspa-
per or book. 1t calls for no bodily exertion,
of which already he has had enough, perhaps
too much. 1t relieves his home of dulness
and sameness. Nay, it accompanies him to
his next days work, and gives him something
to think OF besides the mechanical drudgery
Of his everyday occupation; something he
can enjoy while absent, and look forward to
with pleasure. If l were to pay for taste
which would stand by me under every variety
of circumstances, and be a source Of happi-
ness and cheerfulness to me through life, and
a shield against oil its ills, however things
might go amiss, and the world frown upon me,
it would be taste for reading.-Sir John Her
scheH.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-10-14

~Although the Government has no adyi-
ces that the steamer Tennessee has gone on o
fllibustering and piratical expedition, orders
are given to naval vessels to prevent her from
landing outlaws in Nicaragua or Cuba.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-10-14

S-No man knows what powers he has till
he has tried them. And of the understand
ing, he may most truly say that its force is
greater generally than he thinks till he is put
to it.