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The Lambertville press., 1859-12-28

A New JERsEYMAN told Bishop Od-
enheimer, the other day, while conver-
sing about the ballotings that took
place in convention before the final
choice was made, that it was well for
him that he was elected when he was,
as, if he had not been on the ballot, on
the next they would have elected the
Rev. DR.. Newton, OF ST. Paul's. =
Now, you know, Dr.. Odenheilper was
Rector Of St. Peters. The Bishop
Immediately replied, THAT would
have been robi ing Peter to pay Paul. ;"
The Lambertville press., 1859-12-28

Handsomely Done. On. Friday
morning seventeen well dressed ladies
were seen marching up Main street,
in this city, drawing barrel of honr
on hand sled, walking in couples and
drawing by rope, and the odd one
for a leader. Upon inquiry it was as
certained that they were the girls en-
ployed in Stewards tailoring establish
ment, and that MeSsrs. Stewart had
proposed to give a barrel of -four 10 4
poor woman on condition that he
girls should draw it to her in this man.
ner-a proposition very readily accep-
ted by the girls, and very handsomely
performed.
Mr. Critchett, the stable keeper,
was so pleased with the spirited con-
duct Of the girls in this matter, that
he gave them ride in his big sleigh
- Concord Pdtriot, Dec. IA.
The Lambertville press., 1859-12-28

SAD SUICIDE OF + G. PAGE, "Dow,
JR MIR. Eldrige Gerry Page, better
known by the non de plume of "Dow,
Jr, over which signature he has
written several years in this and At
lantic cities, committed suicide few
days ago, as it is supposed, by taking
poison in the form of arsenic This
event took place in his room, i'll the
second story of small and miserable
house, on the north side of Pacific st. !,
few doors above Kearny. A About
five o'clock, one of the women of the
house was attracted to his room by an
unusual noise there, and found the suf-
terer either on the floor or on the Led,
struggling, and in very weak condi-
tion, and calling for water to assuage
his burning thirst. He had been Just
taken ILL., She obtained the water in
a tin, hut he was too weak to lift it to
his mouth, and spilled it upon the
floor, and this he did so often as she
brought it to him. until the floor was
flooded, and his own End the bed
clothes saturated. He died in painful
convulSions soon after. The room and
honse is of a wretched character, and
Mr.. Page appears to have lived there
in a miserable manner Deceased was
native of Litchfeld, Conn, and
aged about forty three years. He
was an old printer as well as writer,
and in both capacities had been known
in New York and elsewhere, for above
twenty years More than that time
ago he is known to have been employed
in the printing -office of Messrs. West
& Trow, in New York, where, among
other work, he set the entire type of
Roy's HebreU LeGacon, being himself
a good Hebrew scholar, and in all re-
spects a thoroughly edncaled man.
Sub equently he started the New York
Sunday Mercury, and in that and 9th
er literary positions had the friendship
Of such men as Horace Greeley and
Others of that stamp. He was at one
time well off, and used to make no
small figure in society. He came to
California about five years ago, where
he has since been principally employed
upon the Golden Era, of this city,
both as printer and as writer, over
the signature of Dow, Jr." His
vie died in this city some time since.
and child, whei her hers or his we are
not informed-the only one remaining
Of the two-has been in charge Of the
Sisters of Mercy for some time. II
s presumed that the unfortunate man
had taken arsenic, which accounted for
the dreadful thirst attending his last
moments OF the cause which led TO
this melancholy deed we are unable to
speak Whether it was owing to
family troubles, eating like canker
INTO the heart until life became bur-
den, or to the natural depression Of
spirits resulting from the ceaseless and
hopeless toll of the type case, is yet
The Lambertville press., 1859-12-28
~ Tie arrival of Lieutenant Gen

~ The arrival of Lieutenant Gen
WINFIELD ScoTT from San Juan, in
the steamship Atlantic from Aspinwall,
which arrived at New York Monday
evening hearing the news Of the tenn
porary settlement of the disputed island
question, was an event totally unex-
pected and unlocked for
The General has been absent nearly
three months, has travelled over thir-
teen thousand miles, has temporarily
settled what appeared at first pretty
difficult dispute, and returns home
quite hearty and robust.
The Lambertville press., 1859-12-28

FROM Pixies PEAK. --ST. LOUIS,
Dee. 23 The Pixies Peak express
arrived here this morning, with $lO,-
600 in dust.
The advices from Denver City are
to the l4th inst.
Both branches of the Provisional
Legislature had adjourned. after per-
ftcting code of laws for the Govern
ment Of Jefferson Territory.
An extra session is to assemble Oh
the 23d of January.
Elections are to be held in all the
counties On the lst Monday in jana
AIRY. for the election of local officers and
ii general orginazation under the new
order Of things
The Lambertville press., 1859-12-28

DISBANDING OF TIE MILITARY
CHARLETowN, Va, Dec. 81. - The
military are daily leaving as fast as the
railroad can carry them homeward.
The Fincastle Guards left this morn.
ing The whole military encampment
will he disbanded on Saturday next,
when General Taliaferro and his staff
will also depart, and estoration Of the
civil government and civil rights viii
be the occasion of grand jubilee
among our people. President Buch-
anan has addressed letter TO And.
Hunter, Esq. inquiring whether Ste-
vens will be tried in the United States
Circnit Court, or by the Virginia au-
thorities. He was unable to give any
definite answer.
The Lambertville press., 1859-12-28
- = : ASiAo.N' tonl'
On behalf of the executive Com.

The Washington correspondent of
the New York Times te1pgraphs;
Mr.. Giddings, a gentleman from
Texas, who is now stopping at the
National Hotel, was surprised yester-
day, at the retnrn of his servant Jane.
who was taken from him ly force
while making a visit to Niagara Falls
last July. The girl gives dep1ora-
bic account of her ill., treatment by the
Canadian free negroes. The marks
upon her body show she has rcceiv ed
severe wlippingS. Elnding her cap
tors, she reached the american side Of
the river, where she procured the
means necessary TO enable her TO reach
her master. She expresses great JOY
at her return home The circumstan-
ces of her seizure were extensively no
liced 10 the Nothern journals at the
time when it occurred.
The Lambertville press., 1859-12-28
Grueral 0rws.
Mexican Intelligence.


WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.-Reliable
advices, just received here from Mexi-
co, state that the reverses of the Con-
stitntionalists were not so disastrous
as the newspaper accounts represent.
After General Degollado's defeat, in
the vicinity Of Queretaro, he purpose
" retreated beyond San Luis Potosi.
considering it more important for fu
tnre operations to take his position at
Matihula.
Previous to his disaster, as the Off
cial accounts show, he had an interview
with Miramon with the view of ami
cably settling their differences, and du-
ring which Miramon admitted that the
Reactionists could not in the end tri-
umph, and that, while he was in favor
of liberal principles, he could not
openly espouse them, without render
ing himself obnoxions to the charge Of
being a traitor by the party in whose
service he was engaged. This admis-
sion having reached the Church party,
had caused much Indignation against
him, and therefore the report which
prevailed at Vera Cruz at the time the
Tennessee left, that revolution 10 the
city of Mexico in favor Of MARQUEE,
was meditated, was regarded as OF
significant Importance
The treaty recently made with the
Juarez Government will probably be
received at the State Department to-
morrow A question has already been
raised that, in order to its validity, it
must be ratified bv the Mexican Con-
gress as well as by the Senate of the
United States But this is answered
by the fact that in 1857 certain pro-
visions of the Mexican Constitution
were suspended, and the Executive
clothed with full power to take such
measures as were necessary to raise
funds for the defence of the country.
As this treaty provides for the pay
ment of money to Mexico, it will he
regarded as a measure of that kind,
and the Congress which may herpaft er
be called hy the Liberal party will, it
is confidently anticipated, approve or
ratify the act.
AS hereRfore stated, when the news
reached the city of Mexico that the
treaty bad been signed there was so
much Indignation expressed there as
to lead to the belief that the American
citizens residing in such parts of Mex :
leo as are in the possession of The Reac-
tionists would either be expelled or OPP
pressed in their persons, and hence the
supplemental treaty which eonfers on
onr Government the power to inter
fere for their protection. owing to the
inability Of the Constitutional Govern
ment to perform that service, and as
our relations with the latter are so
friendly as to preclude war on the part
of the United States against the en-
tire country.
The Lambertville press., 1859-12-28

~ The monnment Association
have procured a handsome Lithograph
Of the monument which they propose
to erect in Trenton to commemorate e
the glorious services of the Revolati n.
It is shaft Of brown free stone 270
feet in height, perfectly round for some
thirty or forty feet, and above that
height with thirteen sides, emblemat'c c
Of the union formed by thirteen oYigi-
nal States. The base will be a wide
platform, reached by thirteen flights of
STEPS, each step separated from the
others by rounded projection, on
each of which will be engraved either
coat of arms of one Of the original lhir-
teen, or some scene in their revolution
ary history. The shaft will be crown
ed with colossal statute of Washing
ton. The design has been very gene
rally approved, and the monument if
completed in accordance with the de-
sign will be quite as creditable to the
taste of our people as any yet erected
in this country.
The Lambertville press., 1859-12-28

4 Whale an Monmouth County N
il he Monmouth Herald, announ-
ces the fact that a whale measuring
three feet in length came ashore Oh
the beach opposite the Highland Lights
a short distance above the " Ocean
House" in this county on Thursday
last We learn that his whaleship
was first discovered by man named
Marshall, and Jonathan Cook, OF Red
Bank, while returning from Sandy
Hook, where they had been at work.
They reported the discovery to Cap
tain A. Ii. Haggerty, of the Ocean
House, who at ONCE secured the whale,
and went to work cutting it w. The
carcas is estimated as worth at least
$3.50. 1t is supposed to have been kill
ed by the under tow, being dead when
found.
The Lambertville press., 1859-12-28

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 The pro.
position from Major Hartley, who is
well known in connection with the
manufacture Of firearms, to establish
All armory and mandatory of arms at
Richmond, and which has been reco,n-
mended to the Legislature by Govern
or Wise, meets with the approval Of
The citizens Of Virginia.
The enterprise is to be under the
auspices Of a company with million
dollars capital.
The Lambertville press., 1859-12-28
THE CHEsApEAKg OYSTER Wa

The CHEsAPEAKE OYSTER WAR;
WASHINGTON, Dec 25.-It is reported
that late last night, orders were given
to put an armament on board the des.
patch steamer Anacosta, now here. to-
gether with ammunition, small arms,
and provisions, and be ready to sail at
daylight this morning for Annapolis.
1t is snrmiSed that her departure has
reference to the trouble between the
Maryland authorities and the Philadel-
phia fishermen
The Lambertville press., 1859-12-28

ANNUAL MEErINi or THE New
JERSEY STATE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
This Association will assemble at
the Court House, in the city of Cam
den, on Wednesday, the 28th day of
December instant, at half past two
o'clock P. NJ.
The Executive Committee have ar
ranged the following programme of ex-
ercises for the occasion
WEDNESDAY, q o'clock P. NJ. |.
Lecture by Rev. Jno VI. Johnson, of
Morris Co Subject Public Schools
in the Rural Districts -. D seussion
Of the Lecture
I O'Clock p M. l. Presidents Ad-
dress. Subject WurthinesS not
Happiness, the end in Morals" 3.
Discussion.
THURSDAY, 9 O'Clock A. NJ. J..
Report Of Committee on Teachers
Institutes 2. Discussion Of the Re-
! port. 8. Election Of Members.
IL o'clock P. NJ 4 Lecture by
George B Sears Esq, City Supt,
Newark" The State justified in i'm
posing Taxes for the support of Ed
ucationu On the gronndof Self Defence =
5. Discussion of Mr.. Seares' Lecture.
q o'clock E. M-2 Report of
Com. on State Board Of Education. by
G. I. Wright, Esq Of New Bruins
wick. 2. Dkcnssign Of this Report.
8 O'Clock. P M-3. Address by
Rev. W. Kenney, Of Wilmington. De-.
Subject, Elementary Edacation. or
an inquiry into the practibility and i'm
portance of greatly enlarged elemental
ry instruction inonr Common Schools. .
7 O'Clock, P. NJ Il. Discussions
Oh Moral Training in Schools. 2. Lee
ture by Prof w. F. Phelps, of the
State Normal School Subject, 1.-The
School System of New Jersey as it is
and as il should be. y
FRIDAY, 8 o'clock A. NJ. l. Ad-
dress by W McNeelv. Esq. -Snbiec :
County Educational Associations !"
2 Reports from Counties. 8. Discus
sion Of Mr.. Kenney's Lecture.
8 o'e'ock P. MI. Miscellaneous
Business. @ Election of Officers. 8.
Discussion Of Professor Phelps lecture
I O'Clock P. MI. Lecture bv E.
". Keyes, ESQ.,, Dept. Slpt. Pnh.
Instruction for he S ate of New York
Subject: :" Life in Education and
Education in Life" f"
From the above order Of Exercises,
the teachers and friends of Education
| in New jersey will perceive that this
meeting will he the most important ed
acational gathering ever held in the
State The Executive Committee
would respectfully urge full atten-
dance of teachers. clergyman and all
others who feel All interest in the ex-
pans'on Of our Public S hoal System.
The courteSies of he citizens of Cam
den will he extended to Indies in atten-
dance and every effort will be made to
render this meeting fully equal if not
superior to its predecessors. FL rtels
will charge ST per dav.
b. HARRISON, Pres't.
On behalf of the executive Com.
The Lambertville press., 1859-12-28

WHILE the Southern medical stu
dents were dissolving the Union in the
Philadelphia de1ot. and waiting for
the Baltimore train to start, creditor
of one Of tlrem seized him, and pre-
tested against his leaving until he had
settled the amount OF his bill. A lady
appeared also in great distress at the
departure Of young gentleman who
Rad won her affections.
The Lambertville press., 1859-12-28

WASHINGTON, Dec. % The Leg,
islatnre Of Virginia, by joint reSoln-
ton has accepted the fag presented
to that Comm ,nwealth by the citizens
of Philadelphia. viewing it as re-
newal Of the evidence of the devoted
patriotism If lis heroic donors.
The Lambertville press., 1859-12-28

the full facts. San Francisco Paper.
Relics OF THE OLDEN TINE. vii.
liam Lee, an old London bookseller,
published book as early as l640.-
Among others, he printed one which
may probably be the original Of the
hand-books of Behavior" now so
common. and which was styled.
"Youth's Behavior, or Decencies in
Conversation amongst men as also a
Discourse upon some Demonstrations
of Habits and Dressing, against pow
derirg of Hair, Naked Breasts, Black
| Spots, and other unSeemlv Customs. "
From this we quote some curious rules
which we think will interest and amnse
our readers. We extract them from a
communication in Notes and Queries
| for September last !:
His advice to youths inthe "matter
of Decencie seems very droll to. mod
ern ears.
In yawning howl not ; bnt if thon
beest constrained to yawn, by aHmeans,
for that time being, speak not, nor
gape wide mouthed but shut thy mouth
with thy hand, or with thy handker-
chief, if it be needfnl.n
"When thon hIowest thy Nose,
make not thy Nose sound like a Trnm-
pet, and after look not within thy
handkerchief
Hearing thy Master or likewise
the Preacher, wriggIe not thyself, as
seeming unable to contain thyself with
in thy skin, and making show thyself
to be the knowing and sufficient person,
to rhe misprice Of Others. "
This old Mentor was partial to a
still and immoyeable department, and
continually requests Youths
Neither to shake thy head, feet
or legs Bowl not thine eyes. Lift
not one of thine eye brows higher than
the other. Wry not thy mouth"
He gives a curious pirce Of informa-
ton as to the use of Thee and Thou.
You, says he, should be used to per-
sons Of lesser rank, and Thee and Thou
70 friends and superiors. His idea Of
dress was very precise
Garry not about thee any sweet
smell, wear not thy hat to high on thy
head, nor to close on thine eyes, not
in The fashion of swaggerers and jes-
ters."
Again:
Untruss not thyself in company.
1t is proper to comb ones head once
a day, and yet not to curionsly"
He thought it quite proper, indeed
fashionable to present, to IA friend who
might seem Of sudden to require the
use thereof, a handkerchief when
clean &nd scarcely made use Of"
He also remarks
" in the time Of Mirth or at The Tia
be, speak not Of melanchol;ck things,
Of wounds, Of souls, Of DEATH
Also:
Being set at the Table, seratchnot
thyseIf Knock no bones upon thy
bread or trencher; to speak better, it
is the counsel Of the most wise, that it
is not fit to handle bones, and much
less to mouth them"
Tbe, simplicity Of this old Authors
note upon printing is very amusing:
Printing, an art invented by John
Guttenberge, and being SO useful, is
still much practieed."
The Lambertville press., 1859-12-28

A MERCHANT III Burlington, Yer
mont, having sunk bis shop folr about
a couple Of feet, announces in he Sen
tinel that tln cons quence Of recent
improvements goods will be sold con-
siderable lower than formerly.
The Lambertville press., 1859-12-28
Let Is dwell npoa this startling fact.

Lev D uMtA EFOa tHls o. a eiiuS iuS''
In order to procure 100, 600 laborers
for the cotton and sugar feds of the
South, we must 60 into the business
with the full underst anding that it can
not be done except by sacrificing the
lives of at least $50, GEO immortal be-
ings, to say nothing Of the widespread
deseiation which it must occasion III
other respects in Africa. Is the South
prepared for this? Will she forego
her honor, her sense Of justice, and her
religion, so far as to.associate herself
with the silest mensfhat ever disgraced
the annals Of humanity, and once more
apply the torch. Of 'discord and war for
the purpose of obtaining slaves? Can
American civilization he promoted in
no other way than by trampling out
the last spark Of life from the eonti-
nent of Africa Had the Creator no
other object in forming this great con-
tineht, and filing it with inhabitants,
than that in should become the theatre
for the display of the worst passions
of the rest of the world ?
IF airy one would have true pic
ture of the cruel and desolating results
that follow in the train Of the slave
trade, esp. eially in those portions of
the country we have under more spe-
cial review at the present moment, let
him peruse The pages Of Barth with
care and patience note down the al
most .innumerable sites Of desolated
towns and cities through which ne
passed; he diminished population Of
the country, compared with what it
was thirty years ago when visited by
Denham and let him observe, above
all, the perpetual strifes and extermin-
ating wars going on in what would
otherwise be one of the most peaceful
and prosperous portions of that whole
continent. Nor has this traffic been
less disastrous to the great Pagan
Kingdoms nearer the sea-coast. Ben
in and Congo have become completely
disorganized, and neither, at the pres
ent day, can put up plausible claim
to distinctive nationality. They re-
tain now nothing but the name Of their
former greatness. Yoruha would have
reached the same conditions, if it had
not been for the timely change in the
tide of affairs, consequent upon the re-
turn Of so many Of her children from
Sierra Leone, with the blessings Of
civilization and Christianity in their
hands. Dahomy was once proud of
her military prowess and could count
her population by hundreds of thou
sands, but is now rapidly sinking to the
condition of mere lawless bandtti.
Ashanti, with her 1900 600 of inhab-
itants, would, long ere this, have
reached the same condition Of anarchy
and depopulation, if her slave trade
had not been arrested by The operations
of the British forts along he Gold
Coast. !.
I'VE do not aSeribc all this d d'sorder
ard deterioration to the exclusive in@
fluence of the slave trade. Africa is
essentially a heather country, and
heathenism everywhere combines in
itself almost every element Of moral
and social evil But the slave trade
has, qniekened and given Intensity to
all these elements Of discord, and has
thus made the African race oneiof the
most unhappy and miserable people on
the face of the earth"
The Lambertville press., 1859-12-28

AS an evidence Of the times, or a
change in the habits Of the people, the
True American states that not one
fourth as much lager beer is now sold
in Trenton as there was two years age.
The Lambertville press., 1859-12-28

~ Death Of the last survivor OF
the Wyoming Marsacre.-Asa A Cow
of Preston, Conn, died in that town
on the lst instant, at the age of eighty
one years and five months. He was
the last survivor of the Wyoming
Massacre, having been carried away
when a child, in his mothers arms
His father and all his relations, bur
his mother were killed
The Lambertville press., 1859-12-28

PITTsBURG, Dec ga monster
cannon, for the Government, was cast,
this morning at the Fort Pitt Foendry
nnder the superintende of Lieuten-
ant Rodiman. The operation was il
complete success. The cannon weighs
over thirty-five tons, and is to be called
the Floyd Gun" The metal was
from the Bloomfield furnace. Messrs.
Knapp & Wade are the contractors.
The Lambertville press., 1859-12-28

A CORRESPONDENT Of the StGunton
(Fa.) Spectator states that two free
blacks in that town subscribed $5 ,ch
to the fund for the Harper's Ferry
volunteers from Augusta county, and
that IA. namher Of slaves wanted to con
tribute, and insisted that thy should
be permit ed to do SO should like oc-
caSion ever arise again.
The Lambertville press., 1859-12-28

BILLY WILLS, an eccentric genins
well known in this county, says the
Somerset Wing. drew a wagon from
Somerville to Gateville, on Friday of
Ia week, on bet The wager was,
that it would take him one hour to ac.
compIish the feat. the distance being
three miles. Billy won the bet-time
40 minutes.
The Lambertville press., 1859-12-28

s COMPLETED. The New Jersey Cen
traland Lehigh Valley Ra lrmd bridge
at Easton, which has been in progress of
construction for some time, is now really
TO bear its share of the travel on said
rolds. Theron span h, Is been compile
ted. ana the cars ran over the bridge OH
Wednesday last for the first time.
The Lambertville press., 1859-12-28
g gasart of Chips.
IAcKEp our = prcKro Up pT m, ere.cn,,..
LIME tn nj S wetehart,
BY pIsTRAcrEp nAN

hnvly Louize-deer idle oy my loane hart
eye want to horrer yures if yule lend it,-
Eye set doun turtle. and to yu inpart
The Haim buy witch mi lamp ov luv is lit.
Eye a'oor yure swete self tn distrackshuu.
And Eye ant shamed tn put it DOM in nr;nt
Coz Eye nc buy sich pubHck acksbun
Eye almost pop the question-take the bint9
Wen furst Eye snu yure brite and cheerful fase
Ny hart sweld almost nj too a-bustip.
And in mi effurts TO don gentlmnly crais
Eye cum nj startin eileen out O. mi fustin.
Taint no disgrais for tn diseloze the luv
Boundin beneeth mi shirt-bueu and vest.
Nor sa a fu ,wete wurds fist for tn pruve
That their is a spark fickern in mi brest.
Eye kno that gals luv fe''ers who kin rite
THAR ihots doun in enchantin VERGE sublime ;
Eye am list one o. them air chaps outrits-
Eye kin turn any ones tail into rhyme.