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The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1859-10-11

Enter large strong man, with cow
hide
ais the editor in?'
yes"
"You?"
YES"
81 have come to settle with you,
"Well- editor draws a revolver)-go
on"
~ have taken your paper a year.
"Well, Tapping the pistol
IAN article in last weeks issue editor
cocks the pistol, convinced me that you
needed"
q deny your rights to give it-thele
fore please be cautious, sir.
Give you what?"
"a threshing."
why, no, my dear sir, | came to pay
my subscription in advance
OF course, no further disturbance was
made.
Old Uncle Jim was notorious for per-
petrating his jokes against country peo-
pie He says that when W was
hug be saw huge fellow, fully six feet
high, and at least tweu,y-six years Of
age, who hailed from the hoop-pole cour-
ty OF Marshall Virginia, ctmlng up Main
Street, with the big tears streaming down
his cheeks, his mouth and hands filled
with enormous quantities Of glnger-cake,
and frequent boo-hoo escaping from
bis lips. Approaching Uucle Jim, he
walled out
Did yer see anything O nay dad %
No." said jim; ." l didn't see dad
"W ell, he replied, "we ca me to town
to ste the hangiu' ard l tod the old fool
he'd lose me y
With the most woe-begone countanance
imaginable, be started on, inquiriug of
eact4 passer-by if "he'd seen dad,
NEVER YIELD TO RIDlCULr.-Never
let your honest convictions be laughed
down. You eau no more exercise your
reason II you live in the constant terror
Of dealt. If you think it right to differ
from the t,pJes, AMI to make point Of
mor.ls, do il: however pedantic it may
appear do it-not for insolence, but serl-
ously and grandly, as if man wore a
big soul Of his own in his bosom, and did
not wait till it was breathed into him by
the u cath Of fashion. Be true to your
manAoud's conviction, and in the end you
will MT only be respected by the world,
but have tie approval Of your own con-
scieuce.
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g(lTICE

YNHE subscribers having been driven from
l. their old stand, No. 80 Mechanics Hall, by
fire, have taken rooms over store occupied by
Kerr B. Co., opposite Day Book office entrance
same as to Clark's Daguerrean Gallery. They
return their sincere thanks for the noble efforts
of many friends to save their property from de-
struction, and invite call at their new place
of business, where they are prepared 10 exhibit
a splendid stock of Fall and Winter Goods,
which will be made in the most fashionab BILE and
tasteful style.
seS FARANT, LESTER & co.
TNHEM CODFIsH-I, 600 lbs just to hand ).
l. warranted equal to any as regards size and
condition. BAYMORE STONE,
Sc 9 No. CampbelPs wharf
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UNDERTAKING.
yAp. This branch of my business will
receive my special attention in every
case, being the only agent in the city and sur,
rounding country for Fisk's Metallic Burial
Cases, which are now in such general use
Also, Mahogany, Walnut and Poplar Collins al
WAYS on hand, and three of the best Hearses in
the city, and the finest Carriages, always ready
to attend at any moment.
LEWIS SALISBURY,
ap3O So and 60 Main street.
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ANUNDDhlaS- French Chocolate, Green,
- Black, Imperial and Gunpowder Teas Yeast
Powders, Salaratus, Cream Tartar, English,
French and American Mustard, fresh Olive Oil /,
Nutmegs, Mace, Ground and Grain Pepper,
Ginger, Allspice, Cinnamon, Fig Blue, Cayenne
Pepper, &C , in tore and Tor sale by
DAVIS WOMBLE,
SO S Camnhell,S wharf
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FALL AND WINTER GOODS,
FOR 1889

FOR 1859.
RID CLIFTON ~ co.
NORFOLK HALL OF FASHION.
TNiiE subscribers are now receiving a very
and Youths
READY MADE CLOTHING,
OF superior quality and workmanship. To those
washing to purchase we offer great inducements
from the fact OF manufacturing all CT our own
Clothing, we confidently assert that we can and
VIII sci! at as low figure as any house in the
States, North or South. Also to hand a prime
stock OF
GENTS FURNISHING GOODS.
OF every variety and description. An eXamina-
ton is only wanting to satisfy all, that the
Old stand No. Is Main Street,
is the place where you may always rely on
getting good article at fair price. Call and
examine. Sc Is
lust received at the Dlspensary large sup
| case Gum Camphor 100 lbs Gum Arabic
l - Opium 20 los lodIde p tassa
SO lbs noes 20 lbs Glycerine
80 oz Qutnine 70 lbs Chloroform
It OF Morphine 80 los Citrate Po,assa
JOHN X LUDLOW,
Sc 10 Atlantic Builtlng.
| ISshrD UIi4-25 Casks Raw ana Boiled
IL LinSeed Oil, which we offer 10 contra ctors
and others at n. York rates.
oc KING l. TOY.
Oh a copy)
LNLOORING-3,00 600 IN fresh dressed Floor
Il ing. just received and for sale /, " by
oc5 + ZANTZINGEK.
NUPEkiUrt FAMILY AND EXTRA
- FLOuR-25 Barrels Pataisco Family and
EXtri Flor,
40 Barrels Mount Clare Family, warranted
to give satisfaction, For sale by
oci JAS. +. JONES.
al
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For November,
First rate No.
Oc ! At Hathaway's.
DALMETTO % U IA comparison
/ with Patapsco is requested, and every Bbl.
Acoulage home industry and depend on our
oVn RESOURCES. BAYMORE Il TONE,
sc e No. Campbeii's wharf.
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Butter, Butter, Butter.
nor forty years No CampbelPs mas always
+ on hand the very best grades of Butter,
which can be found III tn is community. We
are selling b, tier article this day at less mo.
ney than is asked bv other vendors. A call is re-
quested and comparison solicited.
seS BAYMORE L. STONE.
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ONLY ST.

ME are retailing refined Brown Sugar IL Id
w for only 81, at the Cheapest Cash Grocery
in the city. IT REDMOND,
Je29 Church street
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ID UTTER AND LARD New York Butter
ID received last evening per Steamer Roanoke
Orange Comfy. rlso, Baltimore Butter, cheap,
superior Lard and Cheese, selling low to clos
Consignment. Nos. Il Union street.
Sc I6 TW SWANK.
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MRS. WINSLOW,
N EXPERIENCED U IL Il AND
n Female Physician, presents to the atten-
ton of mothers her -

FOR CHILDREN TEETHIN

FOR CHILDREN TEETHING,
which greatly facilitates the process Of teething,
by sottening the gums, reducing all intiamma
tion-will allay ALL PAIN and spasmodic ac-
ton, and is
SURE TO REGULATE THE BOWELS.
Depend upon it, mothers, 1t Will give rest to
yourselves, and relief and
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THE INDIANA BOGUS SENATORS.


A correspondent requests as to publish the
yeas and nays upon this case, which were omitted
in our Congressional summary. The case was
decided on the 18th February.
"Messrs. Seward of New York, Trumbul of
Illinois, Fessenden Of Maine, Harlan of Iowa,
Collamer Of Vermont, and others, on the Re-
publican side, and Messrs Bayard of Delaware,
Green Of Missouri, Benjamin of Louisiana,
Pugh of Ohio, and others, against the contest
ants, delivered their opinions regarding the
case.
"The Judiciary Committees report was sus-
tanned, and the committee discharged from all
further consideration of the subject by vote
respectively of 80 yeas, against IA nays SO
yeas, against l6 nays 29 yeas, against l6 nays;
and 30 yeas, against Is nays.
For Bright and Fitch
Chestnut Clay, Clingman, Davis, Green, Gwin,
Robert W. Johnson, Jones, Kennedy, Lane,
Mallory, Mason, Polk, Pugh, Reid, Rice,
Shields, Slidell, Smith, Stuart, Toombs, Ward,
and Yulee.
And on the other side:
"Messrs. Broderick, Cameron, Chandler, Clark,
Collamer, Doolittle, Douglas, Fessenden, Foot,
Hamin, Harlan, King, Seward, Trumbull, and
Wilson,
Paired off:
Messrs. Dixon and Wright, Durkee with
Sebastian, Hale with Thompson of New Jer-
sey, Simmons with Allen, Wade with Yulee,
Foster with Pearce, Bell with Hammond, Bright
and Fitch not voting"
The disposition of this case, together with
the attempt to force the Lecompton fraud upon
the people of Kansas, have done more to de-
stroy public confidence in the integrity of the
Government, than any or perhaps all other
events in our history. 1t is impossible to re-
spect the motives of men who voted to turn Mr..
Harlan, of Iowa, out of his seat, and afterwards
voted to keep Bright and Fitch in.
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Federal Government power to abolish Slavery
in the States. We have never assented to their
constitutional theories; the old Liberty party,
and the modern Republican party, have not
assumed that position; but if the madness of
Southern ultraists force the issue upon the
country, Of submitting to the reopening of the
slave trade, in violation of law, and of all
that is held sacred in religion, morals, and
civilization will it be surprising if the
voice of the North, supported by all that is
conservative and respectable in the South, shall
demand that the root of the evil be pluck
ed up and forever destroyed by the abolition of
Slavery?
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gone from among US. There is the downcast,
thoughtful, dreaming face of Adams, q man
who was no dreamer; who dreamed, indeed, of
goodness and purity beyond most mems at
tainments, but who shaped his dreams into
most loyal deeds. There are the "square fore
head and cayernous eyes" of Webster. whose
tread was godlike, who might have been-ah |
what might he not have been, had not glan,.
our fallen upon those far-seeing eyes. till men
appeared to him but as trees walking, to be
shaped and fashioned at his will.
still was his soul unsaled,
As the ocean on the beach
Means for the inland quiet
Which its waves can never reachn
And still the ocean guards his far-off grave, and
the surge means an eternal requiem. There,
too, we see the massive head of the revered
Storyt here seethes and boils the fiery brain
of jackson: Prescott, calm, fresh-lipped, and
smooth-faced as thirty, yet bearing grandly
the accumulated treasures of his fve-and. fifty
years Cooper
"Whose name 10 with his coantrys Woven
First in her files, her pioneer OF mind
you and fix you, gazing into mystery, ali.
stracted, solemn, and almost supernal Marcy,
an honest man fallen among thieves,
"Among the faithless faithful only he
the beloved Taylor, on whose gray head ma
tons weight pressed too heavily, and crushed
into the grave: Audubon, whose memory is
perpetuated by every robin singing in the ap-
ple-trees-and Gallatin, and Gaines, and Worth,
and Benton, and many, many more of the SIM
pie great ones, gone forever and ever by"
These are living portraits of those, who in
their days, were living men. In oil paintings
we see Washington through Healy's eyes, nor
can we be certain how much is the man w ash
ington, and how much is the painter Healy.
But here, is no allowance to be made for the
imagination of the artist. They are facts. The
sun is faithful biographer, and no respecter of
persons. He gives us men as he saw them,
shining down on their. faces at MONDAY.
To these portraits, all Of which are from orig
inal sittings, every year brings an added value.
In proportion as characters recede into the
twilight of romance and history, do we cling to
everything which shall help us to realize and
personate them. What would we not give for
such duplicates of Milton, and Bacon, and
Shakespeare, for the heroes of our own Revo-
luton. whose names will be household words
wherever our language is spoken?
l wish for Mr.. Brady many years of useful
ness and happiness; but man is mortal, and
"When he dies, and die he must,
And yields up to Heaven his vital trust,n
l hope the collection which he has taken so
much pains to make, will not be suffered to be
scattered abroad, but will pass into the hands
Of the Government, that a memorial of their
fathers may be handed down to our children
and our children's children.
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THE SLAVE TRADE.

The proposition to revive the slave trude is
growing daily in importance. We can no
longer find a single instance of bold and hearty
opposition to it, among the numerous Southern
journals on our exchange list, while its friends
are earnest bold, and active, and public opin-
ion in the Gulf States is said to be unanimous
in its favor. We with much pleasure, quoted
from the Montgomery Adpe,tiser, some two
months since, strong article against the nefa-
rious traffic, but it no longer speaks in the same
manly tones; and the following paragraph
from that paper shows that the editor is desl-
rous of making peace with the advocates OF
piracy. The Advertiser says:
"Whilst having these great issues with the
North, we should make no side issues amongst
ourselves. Hence we have deprecated any is
sue in the South on the revival of the African
slave trade. Utterly impracticable in the Union,
it must be as mischievous in the South, by the
divisions and contentious it must produce, as it
is impracticable. To agitate it in the South,
and to divide the South by parties upon it, it
appears to us, is sheer madness. 1t is worse.
1t is directly cooperating with Abolitonists for
the submission and subjugation of the South.
Do its agitators mean this Not at ALL They
have sophistries in abundance to Justify to
themselves in their course but there stands the
fact-you divide the South by your agitation.
You divide the South, in the face of vast ar
ray of the North, marching op to the overthrow
of her institutions and liberties, upon great vital
competent issues. That is enough to insure
your forbearance, if you regard the interests of
the South. Speak of the suppression of the
African slave trade as an evil, if you please
advocate its being reopened by Congress, if
you have such an Imagination denounce its
condemnation as piracy-but make no distinc-
fiOns, no divisions, no parties upon ii, in the
South. If you do, you may be a worse enemy
to the South than Hale, Seward, or Giddings."
The following statement from the Ohio State
Journal shows that the Black Democracy of
that State are beginning to break ground in
favor of the foreign traffic in human flesh, on
the ever-ready pretext of constitutional obliga-
ton. When that party resolves to commit some
outrage upon humanity or civilization, it al
ways pretends to labor under the most imperious
constitutional requirements. The State Jour
nal says:
"The GAINESVILLE aurora devotes another ar
ticle to the rights of property in slaves, and
reaches the conclusion that Congress has not
the constitutional power to prohibit the slave
trade on the high seas. The editor has common
sense to see a legal and logical conclusion, al
though 1t may seem monstrous even to himself.
The monstrosity is in the premises, in admitting
the right Of property in man at all"
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GENERAL LANE, OF OREGON.

General Lane furnishes another illustration
of the proverb, that prophet is not without
honor save in his own country, and in his own
house. While on this side of the Republic
he is spoken of as a probable candidate for
the Presidency, the leading newspapers of his
party in Oregon are assailing him with bitter
ness, and endeavoring to deprive him of the
reputation and honors he has already achieved.
"THE OREGON STATESMAN AND GEY. LANE
The Democratic organ has become wonder
fully severe upon General Lane of late The
editors appear to have made up their minds
that the General shall be crushed out of the
party, and politically slaughtered. They have
at last opened wide their batteries, and are
pouring their hot shots of denunciation at their
old leaders rear, with a confidence of being
able to annihilate not only him, but all who
may by chance sympathize with him. In the
last issue of the Salesman, several columns of
charges are made against Lane, many of which
have. been repeatedly denied by the Statesman
when made by us. If these charges are true
now they were true when Bush so often denied
them, which is not particularly complimentary
to that EDITORS veraeity. We regret that Gen.
Lane has no champions here to defend him.
The Times makes faint effort to do so but
as the defence more resembles an answer to
bill in chancery than defence, we do not think
anybody will read it, or, if they do, will be able
to comprehend its force and application. The
Times should be cautious how it crosses the
pathway of Sir Oracle, Mr.. Bush, or it too will
receive the denunciations and anathemas of
the political autocrat of Oregon, and be read
out of the pale of the party. We have only to
say that in this family quarrel we have no part
nor lot, and but little choice which comes out
first or second best regoaian.
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JOHN mitchell ON WISE AND DorG.
LAS.

John Mitchell, writes letter from Rich
mond, Va, to a friend in Ireland, but publish
es it in his paper, the Southern Citizen. H..
thinks that Coy. Wise is the man for the South
in the present crisis. lie says:
" / will confess to YOU that my nretar.pcas
are for Mr.. WISE amongst those who are q, All
in the Presidential line not only for his cam.
paign against the Know -Nothings. but because
he is intensely Southern, is a man of EXTENSIVE.
knowledge of human affairs and fine accom-.
plishments whereof we have much need in our
high places y and is quite clear and resoluio
upon the fundamental doctrine that Southern
settlers in our common territory have night to
be protected in the full enjoyment and control
OF their property of every sort
He thinks Mr.. Douglas worse than Goy. Sew.
ard. He says:
p" Mr.. Douglass position, then. is very hostile
to the South and more dangerously hostile
than Mr.. Stewards, for he proceeds in a more
practical Style
And again, Speaking of his lady, he remarks:
" Certainly she would grace the White House
but her husband would crush our poor South.
These views Of Mr.. Mitchell, written from
Richmond, where ne accompanied Smith OBI.
EN-, are significant. 1t is known that the editor
Of the Citizen is incorporating in his adyo-
cacy of the African slave trade and it is not
probable that Gov Wise would have received
so enthusiactic an expression of preference, I'M
less he had shown very liberal and tolerant
spirit towards the editors favorite hobby.
Poor Mr. Douglas seems to be entirely Dis.
carded by the South, as no longer useful and
vet we see not how they can get along without
him. If the friends of Gov. Wise discard him.
his case south of the Potomac must be de,pp.
rate
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WASHINGTON, D. C.
THURSDAY, MARCH "a, 1859.

No EXTRA SEssIox-The President and Cab
met, after much deliberation, have come TO the
conclusion not to call an extra session of Con-
gress. The Postmaster General publishes a
letter, addressed by him to the Postmaster of
New York city, assigning the reasons why no
extra session will be called. An immediate
session could not be called without disfran-
ehising fifteen States and, for this reason, the
President thinks it best to wait until December.
The Post Office is to be conducted on the
credit system. We predict that the scheme
win prove a disastrous failure, and that at last
an extra session viii be found indispensable.
An official Geographic dispatch was sent to
New York, Monday, TO 60 out by the California
steamer, announcing that there will be no extra
session called to make provision for the Post Of
fee Department. There is, consequently, much
speculation as To how the service will be main
tanned.
In quarters usually the best informed on
such subjects, it is said that the law authorizing
contracts will continue to be carried out, en-
bracing the issuing Of Treasury warrants as
nsual.. But as there is no money to pay them,
they will in the hands of contractors serve as
The basis of loans. 1t is not known that any
ether evidences or certificates Of indebtedness
win be issued.
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Bas- Credit the article that follows to Gail
way of talking that always commands atten-
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to the Rufner pamphlet, its author or endors-
ers, that does not apply to the above extract,
its author and endorsers, the late nominating
Richmond Convention More anon"
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The following gentlemen accredited agents for the
Eva: g. W. Light, Boston, Mass; J. A lnnis, Salem,
Mass Thomas Wheeler, Cincinnati, Ohio L. T. Park,
Mount Ifuion. Ohio
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DEFEAT OFTHE POST OFFICE APPRO,
PRIATION BILL-A LEGAL DECISION.

The miserable attempts of the Washington
Union to shield Toombs, Mason, and other OF
its partisans, from the odium Of defeating the
Post Office appropriation BILL by charging it
upon the Republicans and Opposition, is com.
pletely overthrow by the following legal decis
ion, rendered BY a Democratic United States
Judge in which it was ruled that the Post Office
laws are revenue laws:
UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT. NY.
BEFORE INCERSOLL, !.
Jurisdiction of Federal aud State Courts-Imporant
Decision.
james II. JKdrRer agt. Isaac j. F0,rler-
This suit was originally brought in the Supreme
Court of this State, and an Injunction was OBJ
tanned, restraining the defendant from dispo.
sing of a large number of letters belonging 10
plaintiff, and which were III the possession OF
the defendant These letters were directed 10
DIR. II. Monet d Co., and were retained BY the
postmaster, acting under orders from WashiuV
ton, on the ground that they were sent for an
illegal purpose.
By the third section of an act passed March
2, 1853, any suit brought in a State court.
against an officer Of the Federal Government
or other person, in consequence of any act done
under color Of the revenue laws Of the UnIted
States, the party so sued may, by petition, cause
the action to be transferred to the United State
Circuit Court, where it shall remain as II the
suit were originally brought there. Under the
provisions Of this act, the suit was removed by
cerfiOrdri TO this court. Subsequently, plaintiff
counsel moved to remand the cause back 10 the
State court, on the ground that the Post Office
laws, under color of which the defendant had
acted, were not revenue laws Of the United
States within the meaning of the act referred Ia.
This morning the Judge decided the motion.
holding that the Post Office laws were within
the meaning of the term, revenue laws, because
the revenue of the Post Office is as much the
revenue of the United States as are taxes, du.
ties, and customs on foreign goods imported
into the country Motion denied.
Ex-Judge Beebe, for plaintiff; Charles II.
Hunt, Assistant District Attorney, for defend
ant.
On the same subject we quote the following
statement from the Washington correspondent
of the Philadelphia Inquirer:
"The Union has for some days past been a..
sailing Mr. Grow for his course in regard 10
the defeated Post Office appropriation bill but
a Tammany man, who was here yesterday, told
the Administration that the Democrats of the
North would not stand a momeut on the ground
assumed by the Union. 1t is understood by
them that Mr.. Grow took the course he did a.
the only means left of defeating an attempt on
the part of those who do not pay their own
postage, from increasing it some sixty or seven
ty per cent upon those who do pay.
"In other words, from preventing the Souin'
where a very small portion of postage IS pall'
from increasing it from three to .tiTe cents
knowing that nearly the whole burden OF this
increase would fall upon the North. The lam
many man remarked that the Union was CALI
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The other priest is disposed of by the Arch
bishop, as an amiable man, who is subject to
fits of lunacy ST
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