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THE LATE MIR. PENDLETON.

Mr.. Pendleton, says a cotcmporary
who a while ago, was supposed to be q
candidate for the Presidential nomi.
nation at the hands of the Democratic
party, is no more. Horatio Seymour
who declines to be thought OF for the
Presidency, but whose friends are
doing all they can for him, dealt the
blow; and he did it remorselessly
The Pittsburgh Post, which in an in
considerate moment swung out for
Pendleton and his scheme of Rags and
Reputation, knows this, and therefore
mingles with its grief for the defeat of
its favorite, cxecration against the
great New Yorker. And they who
were led into the support of the am
bilious Ohioan, 60 about the streets
mourning for the late Mr.. Pendetou.
Some of our readers may have read
what Mr.. Seymour had to say of Mr..
Pendleton, and his scheme of Rags
and Repudiation. The great New
Y Yorker tells the little Ohioan that the
issue will overwhelm the Democratic
party, and that too, while it has
'issues enough with the party in
power" to win victory. Mr. Sey-
mour's disgust, therefore, for the new
and distracting idea of PendIeton is
quite beyond expression. Referring
to the Pendletonian doctrine, Mr..
Seymour says squarely, "it is enough
that honor forbids this, even if we
could stoop to aught that is less hon
orab!e." And he has some words
which all parties and every class of
men should remember:
."Our debt" he says, "is not due
until fifteen years from now. How few
who now discuss the question will be
living then? In the meanwhile if the
country is well governed, if there is
economy in its affairs, and the rights
and liberties of our people shall be un-
impaired, cur population will be in
creased from thirty-fve to fifty mil
lions; our wealth will be more than
doubled. Then this debt will rest
more lightly upon greater numbers
and greater wealth than it does upon
the depressed industry and disheartcn-
ed spirit of the people at present"
Coming to speak more directly to
Mr.. lendleton's scheme he says:
at means we are to give the laborcr
for his toll base currency. II means
that the honor Of our country shall be
stained that our business shall be
kept in uncertainty and confusion +;
that the laboring man shall suffer by
the increased cost of the neccessaries of
life; that taxpayers shall be burden
ed by a Government proved to be
corrupt and imbecile by this very de-
probation of its money. We can't
afford to speculate upon the nations
honor at so fearful cost. If we
come into power there will be no dis
credit on our currency, no speculation
in paying our bonds in paper. I
thank God the faith which we all hold
as one man, seeks to level up, not to
level down. While, therefore, we may
differ as to the construction of the con-
tract with The public creditor, we must
not confound the position of those
who think it right to pay in paper,
but who battle to make that paper as
good as gold, with the position of
those who mean to pay not only in
paper, but who are destroying the
value of that paper. That is rcpudia-
ton"
Let the late Mr.. Pendeton have a
descent burial
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"IFa girl reftscs,' says rejected
lover, "don't give up but try it again.
Becauset two negatives make an aflirma-
tive in grammar, however, don't con-
slider yourself accepted when girl
jilts you twice. l asked one female
forty times, and at last she got to ex-
pect it every time ] went, and some
times would halo out 'Nov from the
top of the. stairs before I got fairly in
the house. This is unnatural, let me
here remark"
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OK last Friday, as three gentlemen
were crossing the Monongahela river,
at Lows Mil, in Monongalia county,
in a common fiat boat heavily load
ed, the boat sank in the middle of the
river and drowned one of the men
Mr.. George Carter-son Of Motley
Carter, who, becoming chilled through,
was unable to swim to shore. The
other two gentlemen, fortunately,
swan to shore and escaped watery
grave.
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1868-03-25

A YOUNG lady possessing more van
ity than personal charms, remarked,
in q issting tone, but with an earnest
glance, "she travelled on her good
looks" A rejected lover being pres
ent remarked he "could now account
for her never being far away from
home"
The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1868-03-25

On reading Gen. Geo. III. Thomas
dispatch declining the appointment of
Brevet General, Grant remarked: :
Gust what ! expected from Thomas.
He is a good soldier
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"Ill teach you to play pitch and
toss III fog YOU for an hour, /
will said father to his son. Gath
er" instantly replied the incorrieible
as he balanced penny on his thumb
and finger, "Pll toss YOU to make IL
two hours or nothing"
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not understand the matter. Their
Wuz a distinkshen, and it wuz not al
together on akkount NV the Afrikin's
bein black man either. Eff ther wuz
Il strong emegrashen from Afrika to
Amerika, and the Afrikin emigrant
Good give vote after he he'd bin heer
five yccss, the Dimocrisy wood hev
dillikulty in getin up sympathy forem.
But it aint so, and hence / see no
practical good in the amendment. l
mildly but firmly object to addin these
rcsolooshens to the regler ones report
ed by Mr.. Bascom. The nigger
! Bigler scd he expected it wood be
objected to. But he wuz so well salts
fed thet it ought to pass, thet he felt
he must take extraordinary measures.
He wanted every one to vote on the
amendment ez he pleesed-he wanted
every one to exescise his own jugment
but he shood take the liberty NV put
tin the moshen, and shood feel called
upon to bust the he'd NV every man
who votid agin it.
Wv coarse that settled it. We all
hev regard for Joseph, for he duz
alluz ez he sez. Every man in the
room votid for it, and the Corners
stands committed to niger suffrage.
Good Heavens Can't this cuss be
got rid NV?
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY, p. NJ.
(Wich is Postmaster.
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DrBLIs, Irland, Feb. 2j.
God and liberty Star spangied Banner
Erin go Bragh! Geewhillikins
America for white men. Tsmpus rugit
Bow .wov-vow'
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-05-01
Extracts from Mr. BoutwcIl-S Argu-
ments in the Impeachment Trial,
April 81 and ~.
THE PRESIDENT MUST ExrcrrE Tnr LAWS.

If law be in fact unconstitutional it may be
repealed by Congress, or it may, when a case
duly arises, be annulled in its unconstitutional
features by the Supreme Court Of the United
States The repeal Of the law is a legislative
act the declaration by the Court that it is un-
constitutional is judicial act but the power
to repeal or TO annul, to set aside law Of the
United States is in no aspect Of the case an exc
cutive power To the President in the perform
ance Of his executive duties all laws are alike.
He can enter into no inquiry as 10 their ex-
peiiency or constitutionality. All laws are
presumed to be constitutional, and whether in
fact constitutional or not, II is the duty Of the
executive so to regard them while they have the
form Of law. When q statute Is repealed for its
unconstitutionality, or for any other reason, it
ceases to be law in form and in fact. When
statute is annulled in whole or in part by the
opinion Of competent Judicial tribunal, from
that moment it ceases to be n law.
But the respondent and the counsel
for the respondent viii seek in vain
for any authority or color Of authority in
the Constitution or the laws Of the country by
which the President is clothed with power to
make any distinction upon his own Judgment,
or upon the Judgment Of any friends or adyis-
ers, whether private or official persons, between
the several statutes Of the country, each and
every one of which he is, by the Constitution
and by his oath of Office, required faithfully to
execute. Hence it follows that the crime of the
President is not, either in fact set forth in
the articles of impeachment, that he has yioat-
ed a constitutional law but his crime is that
he has violated a law, and in his defence no in
ouiry can be made whether the law is constitu-
tional for inasmuch as he had no constitution
! al power TO inquire for himself whether the law
was constitutional or not, so it is no excuse for
him that he did unlawfully so inquire and came
to the conclusion that the law was unconstitu-
tional.
THE coNsTITUTIoNALITY OF THE TENURE-OF-oFFICF
BILL NOT QUESTION AT ISSUE.
| 1t follows, from the authorities already quoted
and the positions founded thereon, that ther,
can be no inquiry here and now by this tribuna
whether the act in questionable act entiteC
"An act regulating the tenure Of certain ciyi
ofices''-is in fact constitutional or not 1t wa
and is the law Of the land. 1t was enacted by
strict adherence to constitutional forms. 1t was
and is, binding upon all the officers and depart
ments Of the government. The Senate, for tn
purpose of deciding whether the respondent
innocent or guilty, can enter into no inquiry a
to the constitutionality Of the act, which it wa
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my head as l should think, by about a
quarter Of an inch. Secondly, came groom
/ with another bay and thirdly, huge mas
! tiff dog (who made a snap at me in the air)
with another bay and in moment | was
left alone in clond of dust
| took the remainder of my ride in peace
and having accomplished my object, returned
to Barnley My appetite was of that nicely
that five minutes either way would have de
Perforated it materially; but | well knew
that Mrs. Soitstairs was punctual to the in
stant. As | trod the well known staircase
felt as confident of all things being well, as
human being can feel. The odor of the
stuffing seemed to salute my nostrils. | had
decided on wing and a slice of the breast.
Alas the cloth was not
even laid upon the dining table,
but there was little folded note addressed to
me instead.
Dear Friend: Adieu forever. Ry the
time you read this ] shall be far away 1t
seems like fatality but while have life |
will resist it, L. is in the house L and her
mother-an and the abominable-''
\ low growl here arrested my attention.
The mastiff dog was at the door who had
snapped at me in the afternoon without ef-
feet. He said, as plainly as he could speak,
that he was determined to make upfor the di-
appointment on the present occasion. | was
resolving to sell my life dearly, when the
rather shrillish voice again came up the
stains, and in at the window, and down the
chimney, as it seemed TO me, at once ''Tow,
Tow. Tow, Tow, Tow Good little dog Come
to Lu Lu - The creature obeyed. suppose
there was some other dinner awaiting him
below, and stole softly away in safety.
Never again did | visit that snug parlor
Never again was Peoncy Flush beheld by the
Barnley eye. | recognized him, | think,
however in the naval intelligence column of
the Iraos newspaper, as the Rev. P. Flush,
Chaplain to the ship Virgo, bound |
for Hong Kong. where mastiff pups are fri
rasseed and stewed, and baked in pies, before |
they attain maturity.
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great Anglo-Saxon race, which our President has
referred to, and all its achievements before the
world II | know anything Of my cOuntrymen
and they give Inc credit for knowing some
thing-f know anything of my countrymen,
gentlemen, the English heart is stirred by the
hutternS OF those stars and stripes as it is stirred
by no other flag except its own. [Great ap-
plause If know my countrymen in any and
every relation toward America, they begin, not
as or Anthony Absolute recommended lovers to
begin, with ''a little aversion - but with a great
hiking and profound respect; and whatever the
little sensltlveHess of the moment, Of the little
ofhclal passion or the little official policy or
then, or here or there, may be taken-mv word
for it-that the first, enduring great. popular
consideration in England is a generous construc-
ton Of justice (''Bravo y Finally, gentle
men, (and say this subject to your correction)
l do believe that from the great majority Of hon
est minds on both sides there cannot he absent
the conviction that it would be better for this
globe to be rlven by an earthquake, fired by a
comet, oyerrun by an iceberg and abandoned to
the Arctic foxes and bears, than that it should
present the spectacle Of these two great nations,
each Of whom has in its own wayS and hour
striven so hard and so successfully for freedom1
ever again being arrayed the ono against the
other. Tremendous applause the whole com
pany standing up and cheeringagli and again.
Speeches were made by Mr.. Greeley. Mr.
Raymond, Mr.. G. W. Curtis, and others. and !
etters were read from Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Donald G. Mitchell, Thurlow Weed, |
and Others Mr.. Dickens retired after the I
eighth regular toast. the state Of his health >
not permitting a longer stay.
4 seandalous and horribly incredible re-
port details the closing scene as follows:
''In couples and in triplets the guests wander
ed from the palatial mansion Of Delmonico, and |
if they did not indulge aloud in Bacchanaan and |
erotic song, they certainly did require u vast 4
breadth Of sidewalk, and many man moved on
in mysterious way, to the infinite interest of
the lettering policemen. A well-dressed person.
age, supposed to be a gentleman Of the press
was seen at midnight, in the middle Of the street.
reciting to "a heap Of rubbish and pile Of bricks
in front Of a new building, the stirring perora-
ton Of Pickwick to his Club. Another, taking
,ity car, offered the conductor the bill Of fare
)f the banquet and started for NIanhattanvile.
instead Of going in the direction Of the poets
yarret downtown; and another, bidding adieu to
he cabman at the Fulton Ferry, desired to be re-
to Mrs. Dickens and the younger MEM
lers Of the Dickens flmily'
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-05-01

CATHOLIC ScHooLs.-Manchester n. H.,
which has had so much trouble with Its ex-
clusively Catholic schools supported by the
public funds, has ordered eleven schools dis
continued, and restored the rule prescribing
the reading of the Bible, the offering Of the
Lords prayer, and the presence of all the
scholars during these exercises.-Er.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-05-01

FUNNY FROST Il remember, on one win
ter day about noon, when things were thaw-
ing little, that the board walks all dried
off, leaving a spot Of frost on each spike, and
all the stone walks and dirt roads were cold
and hard as ever with snow and ice Every
Fall the boards become frosty, while the
spikes and stones are warm and wet. Every
Spring the boards are warm and wet, while
the spikes and stones are frosty Funny
Frost?
One day the good woman who cooks for US
made some doughnuts. some folks call them
fried cakes (they are good no matter what
you call them) and when she had done fry
ing them, she set the hot lard out at the
door, and by the side of a basin of water, to
cool The lard and the water froze solid
that night, and the next morning saw the
frost had made hollow IN the lard and
lump in the water Frozen lard shrinks,
frozen water swells Funny frost how you
do act And out in barn on beam, had one
bottle with castor oil in it, to oil my carriage
wheels another with neatsfoot for my harness,
and another bottle full of water. They all
froze up solid, one cold night, and the water
bottle split, but the others did not.
OF the coast of Newfoundland and Nova
Scotia, sailors often meet with icebergs
hundred feet high, and all the books say that
there is nearly sixtimes as much ice under
the water as there is above.
But, when | went skating on our
canal, the ice lay all of it on top of the wa
ter, and none of that was under water at all.
And yet, when l break off piece of ice. and
put it in pitcher of water, it floats just like
an iceberg, six times as much under water as
| there is above it.
An Indian was found dead by the roadside,
one very cold morning, with an empty rum
bottle beside him. he was frozen stiff. The
wise Indians came and examined to find what
had killed him. They decided that there had
been too much ter in his rum, and the
water had frozen hard and killed him. Rum
never freezes, but men with rum in them
freeze more easily than other men who drink
water only. Queer, funny frost again.
These are only few of the curious thing
that frost has set me to thinking of. If any
one of the readers can explain all these curl
GUS things, they will be wiser than some pro
fessors in our colleges. And professors arr
the wisest people know.-Ltt'e Corporal
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-05-01

RIGHTS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS ABROAD
The bill for the protection of American natu-
rallied citizens III foreign countries which
has been passed by the House Of Representa-
tiyes, asserts the principle that naturalized
citizens abroad are entitled to equal protec-
ton of person and property with nati7e-born
citizens under similar circumstances. lt al
80 gives the President authority to suspend
commercial relations with any country which
may arrest any naturalized American citizen
and refuse to release him on proper demand
by our Government or, in case no other
remedy is available, order the arrest, and de-
tain in custody, any subject or citizen of
such foreign Government who may be found
within the jurisdiction Of the United States
except ambassadors and other public minis
ters. and their domestics and servants-and
who has not declared his intention to become
a citizen Of the United States.
The fate of the bill is doubtful in the Sen
] ate, many taking the ground that such i'm
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-05-01

NEwsPAPoRIAL NEws.-The name Of the
new paper to be published at Springfield, as
the organ of the Good Templars of this State,
is to be the Good Templars Adrocdfe, and
not the Vermont Good Templar
The proprietor of the Middlebury Register
has put new Taylor cylinder press in his
office, which will no doubt materially improve
the typographical appearance Of that paper.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-05-01

BRIDGE BURNED. - The Burgess bridge
across the WallOOmsac River, on the Troy x
Bennington Railroad, was entirely destroyed
by fie Saturday afternoon. The fire is sup
posed to have originated fIom a spark from
passing train. But it is little curious that
the connection, just rc-efected between the
Troy and Boston and the Bennington road,
should be thus again interrupted.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-05-01

4 REMARKABLE OBITUARY The following
singular obituary appears in an Iowa paper
in relation to a boy killed by railroad acci-
dent
He was asleep in the car; it ran off the
track. struck a tree, threw his head against
the ear with such a force as to produce insen-
sibilitv. He was taken TO the hospital,
where he died the next morning, sensibility
never returning. He was seventeen years
old last September. six feet high, weighed
I75 hounds He was the most highly or
cauized bov ever knew-the best educated,
because he mastered what he studied. He
was linguist. Latin. Greek. English. Mr..
Walker. who was partial to him, volunteered
to teach him, evenings, all the Latin learned
in college. He was mathematician, for
which he had a passion, a surveyor, draughts
man. artist. carTenter-the best biographer
ever knew.
He had woman's loving heart-a mans
iuhexible purpose. lie also worsh,pped his
mothers mernorv-his eyes were Just like
hers Cats, dogs, horses, birds, children,
were his pets. He had an intense curiosity
/ in relation to all the contrivances of the
creation. He watched a bird with the devO-
. ton OF an OflllLnOlprlsl--Nd otlu'A WIN tliC
gallantry Of the male canary, when lump
of sugar was put in the cage, it waiting till
the female ate as much as it wanted. He
had an intense desire to see the ocean-when
taken to it he was spell-bound-m made
a spontaneous collection of shells along it's
restless shorc-there they are in his little
cabinet, Iust as he placed them. When at
the mines. he collected minerals in the same
way He begged his uncle over and over
AGAIN, to lat him 90 into this war, who
thought be was too young to be exposed TO
ali the temptations of the camp. He read
Abbott's Life of Napoleon when he was so
little the book SO big, that he looked like a
tumble-bng at a cart-wheel he intended, at
the time, to do all that Napoleon did, even tC
marrying Josephine. Hchad great purposes
all unexecuted-he seemed a case of incl
pient greatness-his only fault, contempt o
. danger. In a moment of unconsclousness
death came upon him, like thief IN tn
| night. His uncle, his cousins, his poor faith
er-all his kin-feel as if poisoned arrow
had hit them.
His uncle will have likenesses made of hin
? 10 give 10 all who loved him
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-05-01

DEiTH or REV. DoNALD MANN.-The Rev.
Donald Mann died at his late residence IN
the town Of Wheatland, y. Y on the even
ing of the 18th instant lie was not far
from ninety years old lie was a native Of
lnverncsshire. Scotland, and came 10 this
country when quite Young man. Rev Mr.
Mann was educated for the ministry, in Scot
land. and was a member of the Baptist
Church When he settled in this country,
which was then almost a wilderness, he unit
ed the duties Of his profession with the labors
of clearing up a farm upon which he spent
the last fifty years of his life. He preached
for some years in Le Roy, and for many years
in his more immediate noighborhood. He
was the father Of Alexander Mann, formerly
editor of the Rochester Daily Am07on., and
who died some years since in Florida
Rev. Duncan c. Mann, an Episcopal cler-
gyman, settled in Schuyler county, in this
State. is also son of the deceased. Two
other sons survive him, one residing in Mich
igan and the ether in Pennsylvania, we be
lieve -RochcdCr Democrat.