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Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1860-08-02

Lord Bacon beautifully said; ''lf a
man be gracions to strangers. IL shows
he Is citizen OF the world. and tha:
his heart is no island cut off from other
lands, but continent that joins them.
Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1860-08-02

The easiest way for woman to Oh.
tain the loving gratitude Of man. in
his rejecting wears. is to Ieluse his
hand. If offered in marriage.
Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1860-08-02

\ Thorsanl dollar carriage. male
thirty years ago at Midtletown. for
Gen. jackson 10 rile in. has recently
been sold Tor sixteen dollars and 6fsy
cents.
Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1860-08-02

Nanghiv--a term vonng women use
to their ga'lants when they wish 10 cx.
press their love in form Of attractive
complaint.
Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1860-08-02

1t is useless to talk so patrio,icallv
abe the American heart. when So
mnch more interest j. taken ia the
great American stomach.
Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1860-08-02

Hon. L. G. Davidson. RcpreSenata-
tive from the Third Congressional
District Of Louisiana. taken the stump
for Breckenridge an Lane.
Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1860-08-02

The Mon n-gomery Ala Advertiser
gives li>t Of iiity-two papers IN that
State for Brerkinridge and Lane. nine
for Douglas. and fifteen FOR Bell and
Exarnff
Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1860-08-02

No young>tcr ever though he was
doing wrong in marrying. though at
the same time he knew his purpose
a-miss.
Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1860-08-02

Douglas. in Lis letter Of acoeptancs.
eulegise. the compromises Of 1850.
Johnson. his associate. speaks Of tho~e
Compromises as az base surrender"
Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1860-08-02

Timidiry in a young man i better
than cool impulence. IT'S a pity the
ladies won't think 80.
Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1860-08-02

An exchange says tnst 1.-THE Demo-
cratic party lies at the point Of death"
This is only another instance OF the
strength Of the ruling passion.
Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1860-08-02

1t is said that Idaho" the name of
the new Territory OF Pixies Peak, sig
nifes "gcm of the mountains"
Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1860-08-02

The population of Texas is now es'
timated at 80. 900 inhabitants. includ
n 80, 900 slaves.
Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1860-08-02

The first acquaintance Of a child
with sstronomy--the milky way.
Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1860-08-02

The Sonora cabbage o. Californis
grows 0 high as % lcrnish lodgment
Tor birds.
Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1860-08-02

A COOP IDEA.-The people in the
vicinity of Oak Hill, Jersey County,
proposed To celebrate 1.-THE fourth" in
the following moral manner:
The men will assemble on the Hill
in the morning, armed with axes, hoes,
etc. The exercises will be open with
prayer, the Declaration Of lndepen.
dence read. and short oration de-
livnred. The remainder of the day
will be spent in ,rorkiing on the road!
Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1860-08-02

Clay AND DuSy.-The New AL.
bany Tribune sent a special reporter
to the speaking at Mitchell. We make
an extract from his report:
The speech of Mr. Clay was the
sblest he has made in the State. and
was received with frequent outbursts o.
applause that sent thrill to the hearts
of d. uglas Democrats.
Hon. Mckee Dunn followed in an
elegant and telling speech that won the
applause of the multitude. He was
followed by DR.. Daily. and Daily was
demolished by our gallant friend John
w. Raw of Jacksonville.
The battle is begun. our gallant sol
diers are fighting in earnest, and VIC
tory will be ours.
Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1860-08-02

Secretary Cobb ,leclsres Georgia TO
be sure for Breckinrilge and Lane.
Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1860-08-02

One of the Japanse left at California is
reported dead.
Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1860-08-02

WHAT Is POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY?
LOOK or THIS PICTURE.

/ firmly and conseiertiously believe
that there is no safety for the country,
no hope for the preservation of the
Union. except by faithful adherence
TO the doctrine of non-intervcntion by
Congress in the Territories.-Inter-
vention means disunion. There is no
difference in principle between North
ern and Southern intervention. The
one intervenes for slavery, each ap-
peals to the passions and prejudices OF
his own section against the peace Of
the whole country and the right of
self-government by the people Of the
territories, hence the doctrine of non
interyention must be maintained al all
hazards; but while can never sacrifice
the principle, ever to attain the Presi-
dency. l will cheerfully and joyfully
sacrifice myself to maintain the prin-
ciple.-D, ugios s Letter 10 Richardson.
The ultra men in each section de-
mand Congressional intervention with
the subject in the Territories. They
agree in respect to the power and du-
ty Of the Fedral Government to
control the question, and differ only
as to the mode of exercising the pow
er. Douglas Serenade Speech.
Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1860-08-02
AND NOW on THIS


1st. That the citizens Of the United
States have an equal right to settle
with their property OF any kind. in the
organized Territories of the United
States, and that under the decision of
the Supreme Court of the United
States in the case of DIed Scott, which
we recognize as the correct exposition
of the Constitution in this particular.
slave property stands upon the same
footing as all other descriptions of
property, and that neither the General
Government. nor any Territorial Gov
ernmcnt, can destroy or impair the
right of slave property OF oil kinds.
slaves as well as any other species OF
property. in the Territories. stand up
on the same equal and broad Con
siitutional basis. and ubiect to like
principles of recognition and protection
in the Legislative, judicial AM execu.
tive departments of the Government
II y Johnson's Report in tie
Charleston Conrention.
Will some Democrat who under.
takes, upon principle, to support botl
these candidates, tell us which is
right?
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-02-09
Scraps from Prentice.

According to General Shields, Doug
las is the only hope of the Democracy"
Then the Democracy is hopeless and de-
serves to be.
&" have lost my ALL" said a woman
to shoemaker. "Oh, well, madam. l
lost mine several days ago, but I have
bought another since"
If drunken man hears a buEzing in
bis head, he had better conclude that his
brain is breeding bottle-Aies.
Justice Down, of Washington City,
has held DR.. Breed to bail in $4,000 for
uttering incendiary language. Justice
should be down on all the breed.
If the Northern Abolitionists think it
wrong to steal our slaves because they are
men, they will perhaps recognize the fact
that as negroes are the descendants of
Ham, it is larceny to appropriate other
peoples Bacon.
We read of an editor at the East, who
went into ecstasies over some hose that he
saw on a clothes line. We wonder how
he would have felt if he had seen the han
dies to them.
A paper before us has four consecutive
editorial paragraphs. commencing eve
are grieved to learn" 1--WE are happy to
learn" eve are distressed to Learn" eve
are glad to learn" The alterations in the
emotions of that elitor's soul seem to
have been very rapid.
Many of the Locofoco editors arc like
pOrcupines they carry poison secreted in
their quilts.
One of the soberest Of the numberless
Irish watchmen in New York was busy a
whole hour few nights ago in trying to
arrest his shadow for being drunk upon
the street.
Col. Forney's Washington correspon-
dent says that Mr. Buchanan must at
heart feel himself guilty of Mr. Broder-
ick's blood. We don't believe that the
President experiences half the regret in
feeling himself guilty of Broderick's blood
that he does in feeling himself innocent
of Forney's.
Capt. Ryndsrs is still engaged writing
his autobiography. After finishing it, be
ought to be hung, and then the book
should be bound in his own skin.
A Kansas paper says that good many
OF those who go to that Territory, get
bitten. Well, we guess they are like mad
dogs; because they have been bitten
they bite others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson says that when
a man claims more consideration than
his faculties entitle him to. he is q politi-
clan. Emerson himself then has as fair
a title to be considered q politician as
any man we know of.
A Boston paper tells us that the coun-
try has been cursed with the slavery issue
more than twenty-five years. The Cos
pei mentions the case Of woman who had
tissue" eighteen years. and she could be
cured only by Divine interposition.
A southern editor admits. with evident
vanity, that he is somewhat Sudden and
quick in quarrel" Sudden and quick to
run away, we guess.
a lady in Indiana entered q complaint
against a man last week for laying his
hand upon her-cotton. She doesn't like
men of feeling.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-02-09
Death Of the Inventor Of Perpetual
Motion.

Mr.. James G.. Hendrickson, of Free
hold, Monmouth county, n. j., well
known for his perpetual motion" ma
chine, died on Saturday last. He had
devoted his life to obtaining perpetual
motion, and his machines have been q
puzzle to all who examined them, as they
have certainly moved for six years with
out the application of external powers,
and apparently with no intention of stop
ping. Mr.. Fl. suffered much ridicule and
persecution, but was quiet, honest and
patient old man. He was once arrested
at Keyport for practicing jugglery,' un-
der the "Act for suppressing vice and
immortality" At the trial several build
ers, mill-wrights, engineers and philoso-
piers were called, who testified positive
ly that no such motive power as that al
legged could drive the machine, and that
there must be some concealed SPRING
So the machine was broken, but no mo-
tive power was found.
At the time of his death. Mr.. II. was
engaged in applying his machine to
clock work He had been so much per-
secuted by the incredulous that he had
provided a secret place beneath the floor
of his shop where his last two machines
were deposited. 1t was in the form of a
vault, covered by trap door, which was
locked, and the floor so replaced as to
avoid suspicion. After his last illness
commenced. he made known this secret
to his family, who examined the spot
carefully, and found the contents exactly
as described. The night of his death
the shop was broken open, the floor
taken up, the trap door pried of, and
both models stolen. 1t is probable that
the family in their visits had not taken
the same prscaution as the inventor, and
some prying eyes had discovered the Sc
cret. Fortunately the drawings are pre-
served, and there is little machine, one
Of the earliest made, now running in
Brooklyn, where it has kept up its cease
less ticking for nearly six years. Mr..
Hendrickson leaves family Of four sons
and four daughters. all of them, we be-
lieve, given to inventions.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-02-09
Sons Of Malta.

A good many outsiders have been
more or less troubled with the "going
on" on the inside of the lodges of the
Sons of Malta, as they have been afore-
time about the same things with reference
to the Masons, the Odd Fellows, and all
other stripes of secret associations
Some of these inquisitives, now, that the
Albany Evening Standard has kicked
over the traces and told all about it, may
satisfy their hungry maWs by devouring
all the following particulars:
WHAT THEY DO AND WHAT THEY DO WITH IT.
The Sons of Malta had their first
meeting Thursday night in Cooper's
Building, corner of Green and State
Streets. The Lodge was stocked with all
necessary machinery, Thursday afternoon.
This consisted of ten carloads of every
thing. In the collection we noticed 81
muskets, SO horse pistols, 81 double
breasted bayonets, Ii large gridirons. IA
furnaces, SO hay forks, horse rake. 4
cook stoves. 8 sub-soil plows, 81 cistern
poles, Is gallons of melted lead, l bar
rel of sulphur, s bundles Of horse hair,
81 skunk skins. l truss of hay, Is links
of stove pipe, 7 bass drums, 35 claTio-
nets without keys, 2 barrels of tar, 9
bassoons. 16 tom cats, l large frying pan
with the letters S. o. NJ. on the bottom.
This is used to mark the members. 8
he-goats, 10 carpenters horses, 70 roll
ing pins, 8 strings of sleigh bells, l tin
horn, l anvil, sledge hammers, and az
live Nightmares" The initiation Of
members took place about midnight, and
led to an amount Of noise that alarmed
the whole neighborhood. The melted
lead is not so "easy to take" as some
suppose. Our friend Livingston was
kicked by the goat, and had the leg Of
his pantaloons badly lacerated. The in
itiation finished up about half past
twelve, and closed by old members
throwing the new members over the ban
listers and down stairs. One gentleman
had his ankle dislocated. but was $50
astonished at the thing" that he had no
idea who did the injury. No less than
six new members were made last evening.
The Sons are in growing condition,
and already number 200 members.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-02-09
Who Occasional In.

We clip the following from the Pitts
burgh Gazette:
The Washington Constitution and
other Democratic journals have lately
become almost distracted in their anxiety
to find out the flesh and blood original of
Forney's vigianI Washington correspon-
dent-the energetic and all-pervading
" Occasional" That individual, taking
pity on them, has ventured so far as to
give description of his person. which,
We confess, seems rather fanciful. Here
is what be says of himself:
What would the public say If /
were to assure it that Occasional has
seen seventy winters, and that his head is
white with venerablesnow? That he has
participated in the councils Of the great;
has Travelled in foreign lands; has tested
the experience of at least three great po
litical parties, { in this beating Mr.. Bu-
chanan by one. and that he is as hale
and hearty to-day as he was at fortyl-
The fact of my years is proved by the
experience exhibited in these letters; my
integrity is established by the universal
fidelity Of my facts; my power by the
approval of the people and the howl Of
the hyenas whom 1 drive from their
plumber; and my vigor by the regularity
and punctuality with which furnish you
the paper with my thoughts.
Rain or shine, winter or summer, dur
ing the session and in the recesses of
Congress, when the bravest quill-drivers
employed by the richest journals faint
by the way-side, and rush off to cool
watering places, Occasional remains at
his post, solitary sentinel on the watch
tower. / play the part of an invisible
genius. You have frequently visited the
theatre and noticed quiet fellow walk
ing among the actors in the mimic scene
unseen by them, but gazed upon by the
audience. Let nae say to you, that is
Occasional
1 pass through the departments I'M
known, (sometimes, it is true. by depu-
ty;) have even overheard Cabinet Sc
crets, if / have not been present at Cabi-
net councils; l have mingled in the So
cial circle, and have more than once been
compelled to denounce myself in order to
preserve my ineognitO. But enough of
this. / only write to let you know that
'OccasionaPis flesh and blood parsonage
lone who deals in facts as well as fan
cies, and who challenges contradiction in
the main"
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-02-09
TIE Orp FnArkLrr PnEss.-The Of

TIE OH FRANKLIN PREss.-The old
press at which Franklin worked in Bos-
ton. on the New England Courant, in
1920, has been preserved fer more than a
century. in the printing Office Of the New
port Mercury. The Mercury was estab-
lishsd by james Franklin, brother Of the
philosopher. who then owned and used
the press. 1t has recently been sold, and
is now the property Of John B. Murray,
ESQ.,, of the firm Of John B. Murray 4
Co., Bankers, New York City. Mr..
Murray is already the owner of one press
at which Benjamin Franklin worked, in
Watts printing house. near Lincoln's
Inn Fields. London, in 1885. This
old press Mr. Murray procured in Lon
don, in 184l, and deposited for safe keep
ing in the United States Patent Office at
Washington, in 1912, where it still re-
mains. The only two presses identified
with the name of Benjamin Franklin. are
now under one ownership. and will be
kept together during the lifetime Of the
owner, who will doubtless evince hereafter
his appreciation Of their public value. by
constituting them the permanent proper
ty Of the Authorization Journal.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-02-09

"THE SEA OF UPTURSED FACES. -
This poetical description Of vast crowd,
AZ seen from the speakers stand. Is gen.
orally attributed to Webster. 1t belongs
to -Corwin-we heard him utter it in
1910. He was fond of remsrking q re-
semblance in the look of . crowd to the
sea. and no man has had finer opportu-
mites. The many people melted into
one mass by the strange influences pecu-
liar to a crowd. and the mesmeric power
of the orator. would sway to and fro, and
surge up before him As a sea In storm.
GOWNS favorite poet is Burns. his prin-
cipal reading. the Bible. Webster was
devoted to Milton. He thought him the
noet of orators, and his character of Sa-
tan one of the sublimest conceptions in
the world of poetry. What an inagin-
alton our orator had. How near he came
to being poet!-Aaek-G- Cheek Prsss.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-02-09
{ WHOLE NUMBER, 1856.
Charleston Convention.

We clip from the Press and Tribune
the following pointed article. and ask our
lsbOring Democratic citizens to psruse il
carefully:
Charleston is q very proper place to
hold the National Convention of the par
ty calling itself Democratic. The pre-
vailing institutions Of South Carolina
and Charleston. are emblematical of lat
ter-day Democracy. There is a peculiar
fitness and propristy in that party going
to the fountain of the stream from whence
it derives its principles. The father Of
modern Democracy was John c. Calhoun.
Charleston was his capital, and South
Carolina his constituency. He infused
his doctrines into them and they havere-
duced them to practice. The grand CEN
trail idea of Calhoun Democracy is, that
capital should svB Labor-that the man
who gives employment should possess the
man that works-that the relation be-
tween capital and labor should be that Of
master and slave. That was the funda-
mental theory which Calhoun inculcated.
His teachings have been carried out to
such perfection in South Carolina, that
the minority own the majority, and the
people are divided into three distinct
castles, to wit; Nabobs, Enslaved, &" Poor
White Trash" According to the Uni
ted States census tables of 1859, each
class numbered as follows: Nabobs,
(slaveholders, 25, 500; Enslaved, Town.
cd by the nsbobs, } 393, 944; Poor Whits
Trash, (non-slavsholders,) 1855
The wives and children OF the nabobs
number 102, 400. From this classifca-
tion, it is seen that each nabob owns
fifteen of the inhabitants of South Caro-
lima, and that in the whole State, out Of
085,5O7 persons, only 274, 563 possess
themselves. The balance Of the popula-
ton, in round numbers 400, 900, are the
ehattels of the Is, 900 Democratic lords,
Here then, we have the principles Of
modern Democracy reduced to practice.
in the model Democratic State OF South
Carolina.
The Mohamedsns make . periodical
to Mecca, to the tomb Of
their Prophet, to renew their faith aud
gather fresh inspiration from his shrine.
So the Democracy will make their pill
grimage next April to Charleston, to
kneel at the shrine Of their prophet. to
freshen their faith in his teachings. and
strengthen their resolution to carry out
his great principle" and mould the in
situations of their respective States after
the working model of South Carolina
The principles of the great embodiment"
in the days of jackson, were considered
sectional. but latter-day Democrats de-
clare them to be national. The doctrines
of Jefferson were long believed to BE-
national, but they are now denounced by
the new lights as sectional, and their adj
Vocacy to little less than treason"
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-02-09
The New York New. says. in NOTICING

The New York News says, in noticing
the tragic end of Senator Broderick:
The day be left New York for Califor-
mia, in 1849, we met him on the steps of
the old banking house of the State Of
New York. He had drawn his last dol
lar from that Institution. He said to us.
" Good bye; am OF for the land Of
glory" I" Where are You going to,
Dave?'' we asked. "To California-
never to return until come back Sena-
tor Of the United States" We laughed
at this remark, considering it the grandil-
Oouent boast of reckless. desperate
youth, who had as much idea or chance
of actually carrying it into execution as
be had Of becoming King of England.
He said to US last winter. "How strange 1t
is, that after Sighting all my life to become
a Senator, / don't care button for it.
It has no charms for me. What is it,
after all? am not happy" What q
commentary are these remarks upon hu-
man greatness, as productive of human
happiness.