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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1860-05-10
NOIS
Big Rrind1a


/ In Nashville, many years ago, there
resided gentleman Of great hospitaIitg,
large fortune, and. though uneducated,
possessed of hard -kDot-sense. Col. ".
had been elected to the legislature, and
had also been judge of the county court.
His elevation, however, bad made him
somewhs pompous, and he became very
fond of using big words. On his farm
he had large niscbievous OK, called
Big Brindle. which frequently broke
down his neigbbor's fences. and commit
ted other dspredations, much to the COL
onels annoyance.
One morning, after breakfast, in pres
euce of some gentle0en who had staid
with hin over night and who were on
their way to town, he called his overseer
and said to him:
Mr.. Allen. | desire you to impound
Big Briudle, in order that may hear no
more imadyersions on bis eternal dep
relations
Allen lowed and walked of, sorely puz-
zled TO know what the Col. mesut.
So after Col W. left for town, he went
to bis wife aud asked her what Col. W.
mssnt By telling him to 'impound, the
OK.
why, said she, the Colonel meant to
tell you to put him in pen.'
Allen left to perform the feat, for it
was no inoonsiderable one as the animal
was very wild and vicious. and, after q
great deal of trouble and vexation, be
succeeded.
'Well,' said be, wiping the prespira-
ton from bis brow and soliloquiziDg,
this is impounding, is it Now / am
dead sure the old Coouel will ask me il
| impounded Big BriDdle, and I'll but
puzzele him as bad as be did me-,
The next day the Colonel gave a din
ner party. and, as he was not sristocratie,
Allen, the overseer, sat down with the
company. After tie second or third
glass was discussed, the Colonel turned
to the oSerseer and said
'Eh, Mr.. Allen, did you impouDd Big
BrindIe, sir!'
Yes, I;did, but old BriDdle transcribed
the impannel Of the inpound and scatter
Sophisticated all over the equiDimity of
the forest
The company burst into an immoderate
fit of laughter, while the Colonel's face
Redeemed With discontinue.
What do you mean by that sirl' said
he
why, I mean, Colonel said Allen,
that old Brindls being prOgnosticateG
with the idea of the cholery, ripped and
tared, snorted aud paved dirt, jumped
the fence, tuck to the woods, and would
rot be impounded 20 howl
This was too much; the company roar
ed again, in which the Colonel was forced
to join and, in the midst of the laughter
Allen left the table. saying to himself as
be went. Il reckon the Col. won't ask me
to impouud any more oxen.'
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1860-05-10
Life's Happiest Period.

Kingsley gives his evidence on this dis
puted point. He thus declares: There
is no pleasure that | have ever experienc-
ed like a child's midsummer holiday
The time, l mean, when two or three OF
US used to 60 away up the brook, and
take our dinners with u1, and come home
at night tired, dirty, happy, scratched be-
yond recognition, with a great nosegay,
three little trout, and one shoe, the other
having been used for boat till it had
gone down. with ell hands, out Of sound
ings. How poor our Derby days, our
Greenwich dinners, our eventing parties,
where there are plenty of Dice girls, are
after thatI Depend upon it, a man never
experiences such pleasure or grief after
fourteen IS be does before, unless, in some
cases, in bis first love making, when the
sensation is new to him.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1860-05-10
India Rubber Tools.

A new composition has recently been
produced. the basis of which is India rub
ber combined with emery, from which are
manufactured files, emery wheels, grind.
stones, homes, razor-strops. scytbe rifles,
knife sharpeners, and variety of other
articles OF like nature. The files wrought
from this new composition can be mould
ed into any desired size and form, and a
dapted to every variety OF mechanical
business in which the common rasp and
file are employed. They can be made as
rigid as the steel file, or as flexible and
elastic as the original gum which froms
the basis of the Invention. Emery wheels
and grindstones arc wrought from this
composition OF every needed shape and
size. from the eoarsest grade of emery to
the finest buffwheel. In point Of econo-
my, this new composition is claimed to be
superior to any of the implements which
it is destined to supercide. since the arti-
cles msde from it are servceable until
the material of which they are composed
is entirely worn away.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1860-05-10

Congressional prohibition Of Slavery il
the Federal Territories, in the insta nee,
in which they acted upon the question
But for what reasons they so voted is no
known. They nay have done 80 because
they thought proper division of loca
from Federal authority. or some provis
ion or principle Of the Constitution. stood
iu the way; or they may, without any such
question, have voted against the prohiti
ton, on what appeared to them to be suf.
ficient grounds of expediency. No one
who has sworn to support the Cou-titu-
ton, can conscientiously vote for what he
understands to be an unconstitutional
measure, however expedient he may think
it; but one may and ought to vote against
q measure which he deems constitutional
if, at the same time he deems it inexpedi.
ent. It, therefore, would be unsafe to set
down even the two who voted against the
prohibition, as having done SO because, in
their understanding, any proper division
OF local from Federal authority, or any
thing in the Constitution, forbade the Fed
eral Government to control as to Slavery
in Federal territory.
The remaining sixteen Of the "thirty-
nine,' so far as | have discovered, have
left no record Of their understanding up
on the direct question of Federal control
of Slavery in the Federal Territories
But there is much reason to believe that
their understanding upon that question
would not have appeared different from
that of their tWenty-three compeers, bad
it been manifested at all.
For the purpose of adhering rigidly to
the text, have purposely omitted what
ever understanding may have been m aui-
tested, by any person, however distinguish :
ed, other than the thirty-nine fathers who
framed the original Constitution; and. for
the same reason, l have also omitted
whatever understanding Hay have been
manifested by any of the thirty nine"
even, on any other phase of the general
question Of Slavery. If we should look
into their acts and declarations on those
other phases, as the foreign slave trade,
and the morality and policy of Slavery
generally, it would appear to US that Oh
the morality and policy of Slavery gener-
all, would appear to us that on the direct
question of Federal control of Slavery in
Federal Territories, the sixteen, if they
had acted at all, would probably have ac-
ted just as the twenty-tbree did. Among
that sixteen were several of the most no.
ted nti-Slavery men of those times-as
DR.. Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Gou-
verneur Morris-while there was not one
now known to have been otherwise, unless
it may be John Rutledge of South Caro-
lima.
ITO be C0nttnued)
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1860-05-10
A Freak of Natnra

A COW belonging to Mr.. Bsnjamin s.
Breneman. of Providence township, this
county, gave birth to calf, few days
since, which was still-borD, having two
distinct heads joined together above the
nostrils, with two sets OF complete and
perfectly formed organs, except the ears.
There were two perfect ears. one 90 eth
er side, aud third not fully developed.
about the middle of the head Lancaster
Uni0A.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1860-05-10
We must knock nnder-

The Family Pictorial, paper manag-
ed By ladies, has an item which complete
ly takes the dignity out of the Lords of
crestion." Woman, says the editress,
has many advantages over man. One of
them is, thst his will has no operation
till be is dead. whereas, hers generally
takes effect in her lifetime.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1860-05-10

s~A dying West India planter. groan-
ing to his favorite servant, sighed OUT
"Ah. Sambo, | am going on a long,
long Journey Never miOd. ID Dassa,"
said the negro, oOnsoling, sit am all de
way down HILL"
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1860-05-10

s@Mr. James Nelson, who stole the
wife and clothing of Mr. Vail Of Milford
and conveyed them to New York, has
got "sick of his bargain" and wrote back
to the husband. stating that be could have
bis wife by coming after her. This may
be considered cooler than most of the
weather has been for the last few weeks,
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1860-05-10
"You Don't Don't You?"

"Mister,, | say. I don't suppose yOn
don't know nobody what don't want to
hire nobody to do nothing. don't your
The answer was: "Yes, don't"
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1860-05-10

Strawberries made their appearance in
New York Oh Thursday, at three shillings
a basket, and 10 three pint pals at ''S2
eaoh." Grapes were offered at 50 q
pound
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13
The Sectional Agitation AT the
Charleston Convention

The Missouri Dem. says: what a
spectacle does all this present to the coun-
try. The National Democracy has har<
ped upon the single idea of its conserya-
tism and its opposition to agitating the
slavery question for years. The party
has manufactured platform after platform
on the principle of settling the slavery is
sue aud quoting its agitating ever since
Douglas first entered into politics. But
now, as ever, it has showed itself utterly
incapableof managing its own leaders,
and although to-day charging the Repub-
lican party of the Norty with disturbing
the question, tho scene at Charleston was
the worst form of niger agitation that it
has ever assumed in this country. Every
speech, every resolution, every question,
every significance, contained an allusion
to the eternal niggar; and thus, day after
day, the slavery issue has been famed inr
to excitement, and the Convention turned
into machine for the agitation of the
niger question. The Republican party
has not, in the whole course of its history
warred one-half as much about the niger
as this same Charleston Convention
We pass from it with firm conviction
whatever portion of the party-the Plug
Uglies of Baltnore-loave unfinished in
June, the people will wipe out of existence
in November
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13
How Mem Grow.

Even in the darkest cellar, when spring
comes, the tuber will sprout. No rains
help it, and no sunlight; yet it will waste
its very life in shooting forth its long, eti-
olated stems, and reach toward any crew
ice or chink, through which the faintest
CLEAN may come. But so little light as
that makes growth to be exhaustion
Ard such men are grown in the darkness
andadungcons of oppression; while free
man, with all the circumstances and OPP
portunity ofadmirable liberty, resembles
more Our own New England pine, that
asks not richness of soil, that grows from
among the recks, and clothes the granite
bills and feeds abundantIy even the very
sands, and whose leaf withers not. Be,
hold it, standing on the mountain top,
and singing with every branch when the
summer winds sigh through it; and even
in the direst extremity of winter, bearing
up the cold SHOWS upon its tufted branch
es, as the warrior carries tho white plume
upon his head. And such is the man
full-grown and strong in the nonrishinq
air of liberty.--H. W. Beecher.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13

Kingsley thus declares his evidence on
a disputed point: There is no pleasure
that | have experienced like childs mid
summer holiday. The time, l mean,
when two or three of US ussd to 90 away
up the brook, and take our dinners with
us, and come home at night tired, dirty,
happy, scratched beyond recognition, with
a great nosegay, three little trout and
one shoe, the other having been used for
boat. till it had gone down, with all
bands, out of soundngs. How poor eur
Derby days, our Greenwich dinners,
where there are plenty of nice girls, af-
ter that! Depend upon it, man never
experiences such pleasure, after fourteen,
as he does before, unless, in ''some cases
in his first love-making, whom the sensa-
ton is new to him." aa sssassas
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13
Splitting the Difference.

4 very nice voting gentleman, not a
thousand miles from here (says the
Sandeyille Islsscope), after long and
assiduous courtship, found himself, one
bright evening, betrothed to 4 pretty
girl, the very pink Of modestY.. One
night he was about to take bis departure,
and after lingering about the door for
some time in d fidget of anxiety, he de-
clared and protested to Miss Nancy that
he couldn't and wouldn't leave until che
PERMITTED him to kiss her. Of course
Miss Nancy blushed beautifully red, and
protested in turn that she could not do
that. She never had done such thing,
and never would until she was married
so now he had il. rATs
The alteration and debate became
deep and exciting, until the betrethed
bufed outright, and declared if he
couldn't kiss her he wouldn't have her,
and was marching off. She watched
him to the gate, and saw sthe fat was in.
the fire" unless something was done.
"Come back, them" said she eoaxing.
". I'll split the difference with you
yow squeeze my hand"
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13

DOUGLAS. The Cincinnati CONNER
ciaI says that the health Of Judge Doug
las is permanently impaired. Irregular
and dissipated habits have sappod his
once powerful constitution. During
his last speech in the Senate he was com
PEELED to suspend his remarks in conse-
quence Of exhaustion. His once fine
voice is gone. The red, bloated face, in
dicatos, not health, but the frequency
with which the brandy battle is resortod
to amidst the embarraSsments Of his pres
ent situation to prop up his decaying
vital energies. Those who know him
best are of the opinion that he cannot
live many years, indeed that it is extreme
" doubtful whether he will survive his
present term in the Senate. 70 increase
his embarrassments, it is said he is on the
verge of bankruptcy, his property hay-
ing been wasted by the enormous expen-
SEES Of his last campaign in Ilinoi. and
his extravagant style of living at WASH
ington.-Stdtc Jouraoy
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13
TEae Republican Platform.

We reprint to-day the platform Of the
Republican party, and ask all or read
ers, both friends and opponents, to give
it a careful and candid parusal. Itseems
to us that it contains statement OF poiit-
ical principles which embodies in clear,
emphatic language the convictions of a
vast majority Of the people Of the North
a declaration Of those principles by
which this Republic has been reared up
and made strong and only by an adhe-
sion to which can itcontinue to be worthy
of the worlds respect and the fIeeman's
pride.
"The Platform is perfect work-ar-
innate with the life spirit of Patriotism
warm with the breath of Liberty, Justice
and true Domocracy--comprehen in
everything which pertains to the wants
institutions ald welfare of the country
1t is sound in every part. It's timbers
are OF hickory-its spirit the heart throb-
bing of q free people"
Let that Platform be carefully c. n,ider-
ed and thoroughly understood. Let it
be known that the Candidate placed upon
it not only bears that Platform in his hand
but wears its principles in his heart :
that he is q tower Of strength upon a
foundation Of granite.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13
A Germans idea oft.

DR.. WISE, a leading German Of Balti-
more, has addressed letter to CARL
ScHURz, of which the following is the
closing paragraph.
Thus, am fully satisfied with that great
historical work which the Chicago Convention
in so few days completed. That was go u
inc May6eld Ma.fe!d.l The breath of
Spring, which swells the buds and disselyes
the ice, blows it from the West hither. All
great ideas. for the realization of which We
have fought and struggled in Germany, and
on account of which we have "eaten the bitter
bread of Punishment, are quickened and born
anew in the spiritually congenial element Of
American life, and German intelligence has
not little contributed thereto. So one can
already forget the old sorrows. Y our platform
is master-work; Is second DocIaFafi}a Of
Independence in the spirit Of an sfvGnce5 ceas-
fury; and the standard bearers are ample
pledges for its principles.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13

Mr.. LINCOLN is said to be an awkward
man, and if all the awkward men in the
coun ry were to vote for him, he would
get majority that the Democracy wenld
find it rather an awkward thing to deal
with. Mrs. lincoln, however. is said to
be a very graceful woman, with no such
thing as awkwardness about her. She is
graceful in virtue of her sex. That sagac-
jous observer of women, Mr.. Anthony
Weller, once sagely observed, "A lady
can't be heck'erd. Natur has otherwise
purwided. boston Traveller.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13

THERE Now.-An Ohio member of
the House, being asked how he liked the
nomination, replied by telling a story,
A traveller in the Southwest, cnce asked
negro how far it was to certain town.
The darkey replied; "WelI, sab, vid an
orddinery hos, it am bout sixteen mile;
wild fright smart nag, it wud be bout
eight mile; but wild massa Jin1's hos,
you'r dar noe0" $50" said the Ohio
congressman. ''with Seward, we should
have had a hard road to travel; with Ben
Wade, we should have been pretty sure
of winning the race; but with HONEST
OLD ABE; 1Oe're there nowrf
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13
COUNTY OFFICERS.

G, W. CAIRNS. Register of Deeds office
in Wise's Block, Broad Street.
J. II. SOUTHW lCh, County Treasurer
Office IN Wises Block.
HENRY p. AMES, Sheriff; +. N. RED
MON, Deputy; Office over City Bank in
Wise's Block, Broad Street.
p. D. PIERCE =, District Attorney, office at
Frimbelle.
A. II. YOUNG, Clerk Of Circuit and County
Courts o. GIBBS, Jr., Deputy; office in
Wise's Block.
OLIVER GIBBS. Jr., Clerk of County Su-
peryisoIs; A. IL. YOUNG, Deputy. o4fiee in
Wise's Block.
WIN. HOWES, County Judge, Office in
Wise's ock
P. V, WISE. Special Court Commissioner
uader the new code a8
JAMES II. HUNTER, County Surveyor
Office at Pleasant Grove.
OLE WINGER, Coroner; Office at Martsl.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13
Ready and willing.

Almost everybody has heard the story
of the Yankee who was always moving.
He was restless, diccontented fellow,
would never stay more than fortnight
in place, and at myth it got SO that q
covered wagon could not come in sight,
but what all his chickens would run to-
gether, fall on their backs and cross their
legs, ready to be tied and put on board.
1t seems to us that the leaders Of the
Democratic party are ike the Yankee,
While the faithful voters who always 90
the regular ticket" ara the docilc chicks.
Just now they are impatientIy putting up
their willing feet, ready to be tied by
whatever rope may be twisted at Bati-
more, thrown into the Democratic wagon
and toted away wherever the drivers
whim may fancy.
Some of the Douglas chickens, howev-
or, are not yet down, and they appear to
be disguised with the prospect ofanother
journey South.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13

The IRREPREs8lBLE CONFLICT
an my opinion it will not cease until
p crisis shall have been reached and pass
ed. "a house divided against itself can
not stand" l believe this Government
cannot endure permanently, half slave
and half free. | do not expect the Union
to be dissoIyed-I do not expect the
house to fall, but | do expect it will cease
to be divided. 1t will become all one
thing, or all the other. Either the OPP
ponents of slavery will arrest the further
spread Of it. and place it where the pub
lie mind shall rest in the belief that it is
ia the course of ultimate extinction; or
its advocates will push it forward, till it
shall become alike lawful in all the States
old as well as new-N orth as well as
S)uth.'-Lincoln, an 1858.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13

e% 8. D. HASTINGS, the State Treasurer,
gives ..otice to those who have paid 81 SO,
advertising fee on forfeited School Lands, that
by sending their receipts to him, 81 60 W Il
be returned for each forty. Tie advertising
fee claimed by the State printer. which was
the basis OF the tax, through the efforts of MFR.
Hast ing., has been reduced TO the rightful
sum and the balance will be refunded to those
WAC paid it, Seud in your receipts.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13

A TIMELY SUGGEsTIoN.-Last Sat-
urday evening, as the Wide Awake pro-
cession was marching through the street,
Democrat said to Myron Orion, who
was standing in large crowd near the
Capitol House:
DWELL, Myron, you Republicans need
not think you are going to have it all
your own way. The Democrats viii get
up procession pretty soon to offset this
Whoreupon Myron;
"Before you talk about a procession,
my advice to you is TO Try to get candi-
date. State Joarnel.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13

Some young ladies feeling aggravated
by the severity with which their friends
specialized on their gay plumes, necklaces
rings, Dc, went to their pastor to learn
his opinion. y
500 you think" said they, 'there is
any improperly in wearing these
things'
SPY no menas," was the prompt re-
ply, "when the hearts is full of vain and
ridiculous notions, it is well enough to
hang out q sign" sg.a.a s~ sa
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13

A Janus horse jockey brought ont a
horse with which he made considerable
display. Finally o eountryman made
him aproposition; 'Pll run that ERE off
OK agin your hose for 49, and he fire.
quently repeated the offer, until one of the
Jockeys friends suggested that the thing
was getting ridiculous. why don't YOU
said he, take up the offer?' 4 would
if it was horse was the reply, but /
don't know what brindled OK might
do
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13
EHE "WATER PRIYILEaEs',

The "WATER PRIVILEGES" OF To-
PEKA.-Topeka, in Kansas is Yerv
thirsty town. A late number of the pa
per there publishes the wonderful intelli-
gence that "the old well" in that place
'gin eout," and adds if the city fathers
would make good we'll where all could
be accommodated .water would soon be-
as cheap as whiskey, and great many
be induced to use it as q beverage
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13

A GOOD story is told of the japanese
and Mr.. Buchanan. 1t is known that
they were greatly surprised to find the
peculiar form Of American ladies was
mere artificial contrivance of hoops. Ac
cordingly, when the Japs surrounded
Buchanan, the Chief Ambassador, Sim
me- Bujen No Kami, struck the round
corporation of the President. and asked
him: as it sclid 2"
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13

ONE ofour New England contemporaries
in rather poetical flight, says ''time is
about to turn over a new leaf in the book
Of Democracy" Then, we guess it is
the fy-leaf at the end. BY the way, if
the Democracy is book, it must be an
almanac, for its positions are calculated
for all meridians, and changed every year.
Prentice.
The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-06-13

THAT's THE QUEsrIoN.-A serious
question has arisen in New York, wheth-
er the Metropolitan Police Picture room
is called the Rogue's Gallery, from the
men who own it or the men who oc-
cupy it?