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Brookville American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-30
HOW TO GET A WIFE!

C,ALL At cTIAFEE's PICTURE GALLERY ~
y ilailcs building, third story and got pic.
tarc takcn---show II 10 your y-ffenda-every.
body knows that Chafcc takcs the most perfect and
beautiful pictures Of course. ono Of them will admire
Il. and by n certain hoous pocus you may have oe-
casion 20 spend 80 cents or a dollar with the
"prook,ilc Americana" tho price Of Marriage
notice, [fobb'5s-tf
Brookville American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-30
Attention

TUE rNpERsfoHED. ASSIGNEE or n. y.
i Webb, Il IN possession Of The Notes and accounts
Of n. y. Webb x Co., u. v. a A. Webb and n, y.
Webb. An persons indebted 90 said arms arc re-
queatod 20 eall Immediately and make settlement aud
payment Of the SANE Ny - doing they may save
costs. II, II, SWIFT,
nlaomIne drove. Ind. Feb 9th iAa.tf
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-04-02
aRAToRY.

IN looking oyer some old papers day or
two since we stumbled oyer speech deliy-
cred by Henry Clay before the students of
the New York State and National Law
School. = Speaking of the art of extemPora-
neous speaking, he said:
al owe my success in life to the single
fact, viz: that at the age of twcniy-seven,
commenced and continued for years the pro-
cess Of daily reading and speaking upon the
contents of some historical and scientific
book These off hand efforts were made
sometimes in curnfieid at others in the for.
est, and not unfreqnently in some distant
barn with the horse and OK for my auditors
II is to this early practice of the art of al
arts that am indebted ser the primary ana
leading impusles that stimulated me forward
aud have shaped my entire subsequent
destiny. Improve, then, young genileme
the superior advantages you here enjoy
Let not day pass without exercising youl
powers of speech. There is no power like
that of oratory. Casar controlled men by
exciting their fears;-Cicero, by captivating
their affections and swaying their passions
The influence of the one Perished with it:
author; that of the other continues to thi
day."
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-04-02

Conscience recognizes the fact that our OBJ
legation of gratitude is in proportion to the
benefit conferred. If the benefactor has en-
dured great sacrifices and self denials to
benefit US, the obligation of gratitude binds
the more strongly to respect the will and
feelings of that individual. Conscience
feels the obligation of gratitude just in pro-
portion to the self denials and sacrifices made
in our behalf. If friend risks his interest
to the amount of dollar, or an hour of time
to benefit US. the obligation of gratitude up
on the heconscience is light; but still there is
a sense of obligation; if a friend risks his
lifel and wades through deep affections to
confer benefits, the universal conscience of
man would affirm the obligation and would
reprobate the conduct OF the individual ben
Gifted, as base and unnatural if he did not
ever after manifest an affectionate regard foi
he interests and desires of this benefactor.
IPlan of Salvation.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-04-02
THE VOICE OF DEAD NATIONS.

Mr.. Alger. in his recent celebrated Grafton,
uttered the following impressive passage,
which ought TO be written On the statute
: books of every State in the Uaion:-"The
dead nations whose giant skeletons now lie
bleaching and crumbling on the sands of
time, all died of sin. 1t was their graves,
and pushed them in. Licentious luxury
sappedthe foundation strength. and rotted
the live virtue of one and il disappeared be-
neaih the green pool of its own corruption.
Brutal war, made business of and carried in
every direction, drew upon another the COM
bined wrath of the world--and it was dashed
upon the rock of ills own barbarous force
Domestic bondage, grown enormous, trodden
under foot, and goaded to madness rose on
another--and buried itin the confagration and
slaughter of its own Proyocation. Internal
antipathies based on sectional differences,
3 fed by selfish interest and taunting debate
finally exploded in the quarrelsome parties
. of anoiher-and hurled its discovered frag-
esments to ruin, by the convnlsive eruption
of it's own wrong and hatred. OF all the
mighty empires whose melancholy ghosts
tio& pace the pallid margin of oblivion, not
one ever sunk bat its own fall was through
internal iniquity in some way or other
Shall the stately shade of Republican Amer
ica too go down to join the doleful company
of crowded spectres, moving them beneath
10 rise up at her coming With the sardonic
.tnock, "Art thou also as 4vel' Ii we would
avoid their doom of vengeance we must uol
tread theft path of guilt"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-04-02
The Baltimore CIiDDer SAYS:

" Threats of dissoiving the Union are
becoming SO very common, 60 much OF al
everyday occurrence, as to be passed over in
silence, instead of exciting indignant rehuke
On Thursday LAST Mr.. Shorter, in ad
dressing the Hoase of R representatives., on
the Kansas question, said: "iAll the South.
ern States were notT united on the Georgia
Fiatfort.f. and were pledged tc resist even tc
dissolution of the Union, a refusal of Con-
gress to admit Kansas, because of the exis
tence OF slavery there Mr.. Shorter does
not "speak by the book''in this matter. We
answer for it that he cannot exhibit any au
thority from the State of Maryland: and we
suspect he has little right to speak for any
other Southern State.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-04-02

Preston KING, Mr.. MALLORY AND PuGH
The Washington correspondent of the
Tribune, March 10th, says:
Senator Kings speech to-day was pow
erfu demonstration that the question was no,
of the admission of Kansas into the Union, SC
much as whether the federal governmen,
should force constitution upon Kansas, in
violation of one OF the greatest rights secured
to the States by the revolution, previons to
which charters and constitutions were gran.
ted by the Crown-not made by the people.
The President was now assuming the roya
Prerogative of debating a constitution to the
people of sovereign State. Mr.. King for
cibiy expressed the degeneracy, the base
ness and hypocrisy of the Democratic party
which had fallen from its high estate ard
was now a mere tool TO nullifers.
Mr.. Mallory followed in adespondent speech
admitting that the speedy triumph of the Re-
publican party was beyond question. The
Senate would soon see a Republican Vict
President and the White House Repubii
can Executive. 1t was useless for tht
South to ignore her loss of political power
it was inevitable, and she must make thu
best of il.
Mr. Pugh followed, and placed himself oil
the Ensign Stebbins platform. He was il
favor of Lecompton, but should vote agans
it in obedience to the instructions from thu
Legislature of his State. He made spe eel
of two hours in length for Lecompton.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-04-02
NORTHERN LARoRERs ARE uRaeaRs,

Mr. Hammond - You say, send them
North. There is no need of that. They
are cemming hers. They are thuudering
st our doors for homesteads of one hundred
and ssxty acres of land for nothing, and
Southera Senators are supporting it. Nay,
they are assembling, as have said with arms
in tEeir hands and demanding work at ST.
900 year and six hours a day. Have YOU
heard that the ghost OF M4nduza is stalking
in the streets of your big cities; that the in
QUESTION Is at hand? There is afoat fear
ful runor that there have been consultations
for vigilance committees. You know what
that Means already. Transient and tempo
raEy causes hare thus far been your preserva-
tan! 1ae great West has been open to
your sqtsius population, and your hories of
semi &. fsarian eEslgraots who are crowding
in yeas by year. They make great move
uent, end you call it progress. WHITTIER!
1t IS progress, but it is progress towards vigil
ance com mittees. The South has sustained
you in great measure. You bring and
carry for US. $3.50, ,oOo,00o of our money
passes annually through your hands. lsuch
OF i; sticks; all OF it assists to keep your ma
cbinery together and in motion. Suppose
we were 10 GisCharge you: suppose we were
to take cur business cut OF your hands; we
should consign you to anarchy and poverty.
SOUTHERN RULE GLORIOUS AND MAGNIFICENT.
You complain of the rule of the South;
that has been another cause that has preserved
you. We have kept the Government conser-
vative to the great purpose of the Govern
ment. We have placed her and kept her
upon the Constitution; and that has been
the cause of your peace and prosperity. The
Senator from New York says that that is
about to be al an end, that you intend to
take the Government from US; that it will
pass from our hands. Perhaps what he says
is true; it may be; but do not fo-get-it can
never be forgotton, it is written on the
brightest page of human history-that we
the shareholders of the South, took our coun
try in her infancy, aud after ruling her
sixty out or the seventy years of her exist
ence, We shall surrender her to you with out
stain upon her honor, boundess in pros
perity incalcniable in her strength, the won
der and the admiration OF the world. Time
will show what you will nuke of her, bat ut
time can ever diminish our glory, or your re
sPonsibiIty.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-04-02
ToUcH1nc-A poormUl.t,o o;rl Z, slave

ToUcHING.-A poor .mulatto girl "a slave)
has recently been tried at New Orleans, on
charge of having attempted to poison her
mistress and the fu,niiy. Itwas proved tina,
she sprink,ec some powder on dish of oys-
ters which made some of the family sick. =
1t came ont 10 the trial however, that the
poor girl was innocent of an egii design
The powder being anaiyzed, was found not
to be poisonous; aud the girl. in her simple
innocence. hav.ng been told t!tet 1t had the
charm of love powders, had sprinkled it on
the food in order to make her mistress love
her. II is touciiing Incident. She wished
her mistress 10 love her.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-04-02
From the Cincinnati Gazette.

Fiction has her marvellous heroes, but now
and then some creature of every day fact
snrpasses them in romantic adventure.
In 1855, young man wes arrested at
Cleveland on charge of passing counter
felt money, and On evidence many thought
was Insufficient, was convicted and senten-
ced to the Penitentiary. Hewas brought 10
Columbus and incarcerated; but it was not
long before he IN ade his escape and success
fully eluded pursuit. He fled without daring
to show himself to any one, until about thirty
miles from the city, when. spent and fam
ished, he yentured 10 apply at house rather
remote from others, for shelter and food
Both were promptly afforded him. The
poor woman who dwet there alone with her
two children, was true to the generous in
stincts of her nature, and admitted to her
hearth and board-not the escaped convict
but the weary, hunted, hungry wretch, who
claimed from her that boon
Which all the happy to the unhappy owe"
He rested and refreshed hisnself, and when
/ he again set forth upon his wanderings, she
gave him a suit of citizen's clothes. Thus
| disguised, he travelled northward, until within
| shor, distance of Cleveland, when he ob
tanned work, and earned forty dollars, which
he sent to the woman who had saved him
| He then went to New York, engaged in bus
iness, and prospered. Still he remembered
his benefactress, and receHtly she received
from him three hundred dollars.
The truth, meanwhile, came to light
1t becume apparent that he was guiltless o
the crime with which he had been charged
and he had suffered for sin he had neve
committed.
A petition signed by the Judge who ha
passed the sentence upon him, and the jur!
which had found him guilty, and sixty-si1
members OF the Cuyahoga bar, and authenti
Gated by members of the Legislature from
that county, was sent to the Governor
praying for the pardon of the escaped con
vict.
Here difficulty arose. He could not b
pardoned as long as he was not in custod
OF the State. He was communicated with
and came to Columbus, within few days pas
and gave himself up to the Warden of tn
Penitentiary. He was once more place
in the prison and the the key turned upo
him.
There his pardon was handed to MIN, an
he came forth--not more guiltess than be
fore---but certain of his liberty and the e.
TEEN of his fellow men.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-04-02

IMPORTANT DEcIsIoN.-The case which
involves the legality of the endorsement of
the Bonds of the Columbus, PiqUa and ID-
diana Rail Road Company, by the Cleve-
land, Columbus and Cincinnati Rail Road
Company, has been decided by Judge Nc
Lean. The case came into Court by in
junction granted against the c. C. &
C. Board of Directors, restraining sait
Board from paying the interest on the bonds
thus endorsed. The complainant alleged
that such endorsement was illegal, that the
Company had no power TO make such EN-
dorsemeut, that the meeting of Directors a
which it was resolved to make such endorse
ment was not legally called, SGc.s &c.
Judge Mclean decided that the G. c. 6
c. Company is holden by their endorsement
fCieveland Herald.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-04-02
For ths Delawzre osEstis
TEE POETS INsPTRATIoN.


= Bx sxo. LANSING TAYLoR.
RationaI,-mad,-
-s1s Monrnful tho glad - e
Transported,- d,-elated,-
-E4sss Heaven-gifte but fated, r.
- Joy andw t@
Alternate flow,
- Sadly sweet. -subfmeIy strong,
Voc Through the spirit born for song.
-aa9s Melancholy Wild
sfsFzsg gsN Rapture's lonely child,
From all around exAed
T<ss Al lonely, rnusing eli, -
ga5 Known only to himself
Doth be roam
-As Through fancy's gioamj
fsIs On his soul the frances lie,
Of spirit, lowering nigh.
fsee A presence underlined,
Yet real to his mind;
S4s. Too subtle and rehnedy
ass For thought TO analyzs,
But, by his spirit eyes
Seen, when sense
Ass Lies locked in trance;
And oft unbidden doth it stand,
And felt, though viewless, guides his hand
It stands before his soul,
&a Andspoints to farne's bright goal,
And4o flaming scroll;
It bTeathes potent spell,
And then his heart doth swell
6EGs With fiery thrills
Of JOY that fills
His whole, enraptured, kindlsd frame,
Hs} With de athless energy and fame.
Then let him wake the Tyre,
zs Whose mum bers roll in fire,
he7A gs And bid the song aspire,
Until the human soul
81 Is turned to his control,
And hearts obey
His potent sway.
3@s{fs Eestatic, lofty, rapt and pure,
9a While thought shall live, or soul endure.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-04-02

The New Hampshire Patriot, the Bu-
chanan organ at Concord, says of the re-
cent overthrow of the bastard Democracy in
that State, that it is sufficiently over
whelming to satisfy our most bitter oppo.
nents," and that no one can fail to see the
cause.-the Kansas question has again
oustet U.s." Triumph seemed certain unit
the Leompton issue came up, and the posi-.
ton taken upon that by the Administration
was wet blanke, upon all the hopes of ths
| Democracy.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-04-02

The Cincinnati Enquirer of the goth ult.
has the following paragraph:
MEDARY's STArEsMAN.-We are informed
that Colonel Medary will soon have the con-
troll of paper at Columbus, to be called
Medary's Statesman. Every person will
know what Statesman to look to for the true
Democratic doctrine.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-04-02
The Norsh and the south.

EXTRACTS of speech delivered in the Serate
of the United States March 4th 1853 by MR.
HAMxoNr Of South Carolina, in reply to
Mr.. SEWARD.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-04-02
The South.


With an export of S220, ,oooo .o00 Under
the present tariff, the South organized sep
erately would have about $40, 900 900 of rev.
enue. With one-fourth the present tariff
she would have revenue adequate to all her
wants. for the South would never go to war,
she would never need an army or a nary,
beyond few garrisons on the frontier and
a few revenue cutters. Il is commerce. that
breeds war. It Is manufactures that require
to be hawked about over the the world, and
gives rise 10 navies and commerce. But we
have nothing to do but to tase OFF restriction
on foreign merchandise and open our ports,
and the whole world will come to Us to trade.
They will be glad 10 bring and carry for US,
and we shall never dream Of war. Why,
sir, the South has never yet had L Just cause
Of war. Every time she has seized her sword
it has Seen en- the point Of honor, and that
point Of honor has been maiply loyalty to
her sister colonies and sister States, who
have ever since plundeEed and caiumniated
her
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-04-02

8 Practice fiows from principle; for as man
thinks. 80 he viii act.
Gaming, ike quicksand. will swallow q
man up in moment.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-04-02
A BEAUTIFUL PARAGRAPH.

The following lines are taken from Sin
Humphry Davy's Salmodia: 81 envy nc
quality of the mind and intellect in others
be it genius, power. wit, fancy-but if l
could choose what would be most beautiful
and believe most useful to me, should
prefer a firm religious belief to any othei
blessing; for it makes life discipline OF
goodness; breathes new hopes, varnishes
aud throws over the decay, the destruction
Of existences the most gorgeous of all light;
awakens new life even in death, and from
corruption and decay calls up to glory and
divinity; makes an instrument of torture and
shame the ladder of ascent to Paradise: ant
far above all combinations of earthly hopes
calls up the most delightful visions of palms
and amarnths. the gardens of the blest. ant
security of everlasting joys, where the sen
suallst and skep;ic view only gloom, decay
annihilaioh and despair.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-04-02

From sermon by THEODORE Parker, on the
"Dangers of Prosperity" and the religious
advantages Of commercial revuisions and ad-
versity, we clip the followiDgi
"Religion does not enter at the golden
gate of mans house; she comes in some
other way--comes with the doctor or the
sheriff. "He went away sorrowful," says
the New Testament, '.for he had great pos
sessions" A man, reputed to be million
aire, in a large trading town OF America,
four or FIVE years ago, used to make mock
of religion. He never entered a meeting
house for many year.
Charity did not open his crowded purse
nor his shriyeled heart. But commercial
crisis made him bankrupt, and then relig-
ious emotions broke from their golden fetters
and he sought his God again.
In his native town, men Knocked wher
they saw him at the old parish meeting house
in his mothers long forgotten seat. 1t wa:
. foolish laugh; they should have known
that the blind man had received bis sight
Was it not to such one that the greatest o
teachers said: go and sell oil tina thou hast
and then shalt thou have a treasure in hea
.venp"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-04-02
COTTON IS KING.

But if there were no other reason why we
should never have a war, would any sane na-
ton make war en- cotton! Without firing
gun, without drawing a sword, when they
make war on US we can bring the world ts
our feet. The South is perfectly free to go
on one or two or three years without plant
ing seed of cotton. believe if she was
to plant but half her cotton, it would be al
immense advantage 10 her l am sure that
after three years cessation she would come
out stronger than ever she was before and
better prepared TO enter sfresh upon her great
career of enterprise. What would happen
| il no cotton was furnished for three years.
l viii not stop to depict what every one can
imagine, but this is certain; old England
would topple headlong and carry the whole
civilized world with her. No, sir, you dare
not make war upon cotton. No power on
earth dares make war upon it. Cotton as
King. Until lately the Bank Of England was
king, but she tried to put her screws as usil-
al, the Fall before last, upon the cotton crop,
and was utterly vanquished. The last power
has been conquered. Who can doubt it that
! has looked at recent events!
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-04-02
SLAVERY MAKES THE SOUTH STRONG.


But, sir, the greatest strength of the Sou,h
arises from the harmony of her political and
social Institution. This harmony gives her
frame OF society, the best in the world, and
an extent OF political freedom combined with
entire security such as no other people ever
enjoyed upon the lace of the earth. Society
proceed es government; creates it, and ought
to control it; but as far as we can look back
in historic times we find the case different;
for government is no sooner created than it
becomes too strong for society, and shapes
and molds. as well as controls it. In latter
centuries the progress of civilization and in-
tel!igence has made the diyurgence SO great
as to poduce civil wars and revolutions; and
it is nothing now but the want of harmony
between governments and societies which
occasions all the uneasiness and trouble and
terror that we see abroad. It was this that
brought on the American Revolution. We
| threw off Government not adapted to ouI
social system, and made one for ourselves
| The question is how far have we succeeded!
/ The South, SO far as that is concerned, is sat
isfed, content, happy, harmonious and pros
| porous.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-04-02

The ruined youth was upon the ocean
his voyage commenced--his duty as a la
borer for his own daily bread fairly assumed.
All! it was strange life for him to enter up
on.
From the ownership of immense wealth
70 the trade books of merchant ship was
transition indeed! But ere he went on
deck again, he had fairly resolved he would
do his duty, come what would short of death.
He would forget that he ever did else but
| work for a livelihood. With these resolves
clearly defined iashis mind, he already felt
| better.
At FIRST our supercargo was too weak t.
do much. He was very sea.sick, and it last
ed nearly two weeks, but when that passee
off and be could pace the vibrating deck with
stout stomach, his appetite grew sharp
and his muscles began TO grow strong. A
Baltimore Wecker. [volume] (Baltimore [Md.]) 1851-1867, 1858-05-24
GU uoreH.

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