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Year: 1860

The New York Haraid, in commenting
upon the formation of the Union Electoral
ticket la New York remarks:


rhe republicans have their well grounded
fears of the popular vote Of this city and
lis surroundings. They have been using
every exerlion and every device; they have
been lavish of thoir money, and their NEE
tinys and orators, 10 make an Impression
upon this stronghold of Northern conserv-
alism. Their famous torch light Wide
Awake procession the other evening. made
up one half of reiniorcements from our rur-
al districts and from ether States. was a
desperate effort to make capital in behalf
Of Lincoln in this community; but the ex-
pertinent was a failure We had been prom
ised "a parade of thirty. forty, and even
fifty thousand Wide Awakes; the people
expected at least thirty thousand; bat
when the reality cut down that number to
ten thousand. thero was universal dis
appoin ntment, and very general conclusion


hat the Republicans are exag ggerating their
strength in more important matters. We
dare say. too. that the visiting Wide
Awakes from other places have returned
home with anything but encouraging re
membranes of their New York parade;
for except Republican stations along the
route, the countless multitude of spectators
were as silent and solemn as at Bill Poole g
funeral.


From this. and o:ber recent manifesto
tions of public sentiment here, We have
no hesitation in saying that on the impor-
tant day of November the Empire Cily. III
behalf Of this Union electoral ticket against
the Black Republicans, will do her duty
1t would not surprise us if this Union
ticket should cross the Spuyten Duyvil
creek at the head of this island. full sixty
thousand in advance of the ticket of Lin
coin. OF something of this sort the Re.
publcans are evidently apprehensive. and
hence their industrious efforts to make q
Judgement in this conservative citadel o.
the North. But with the metropolis al


right, let our conservative political mana


gers look to the interior, and the Empire


State in November may save the dsy, ever
should Pennsylvania fall short Of her dut!
! in October.
Year: 1860

Mr. SEWARD. in his Dubuque speech,
has a long defense of 'one idead men, Mr..
SEWARD palters with the public sense on
the whole subject For example. he tells
Us that WASHINGTON was one dead man
This. We repeat, is patering with cur com
mon sense. No man ever claimed that


some one object might not justly and nat


urally be made prominent at any given and
proper time. What has been coniended
is, that one idea shall no, SO pervade and
coler every other thought. as 10 Greats an
undue and unnatural subordination of all
others; that twenty five millions OF freemen
have some right to consideration as well
as four millions of slaves. that the progress
of the world, the good of the human fam.
lily and the Union of the S ates. ought not
utterly to be dwarfed by the inevitable and
almighty niger. One-idea men may be
useful men in some things, but are the
most dangerous of siatemcn. He who
would rule great nation must take a
broad and comprehensive view of the
whole field of his operations. This is the
first great aud all important requisite Of a
statesman. This was possessed By Wash
inglon in a high degree. The universalitality


and equilibrium Of his genius Was
it's chief characteristics. To intimate that
Washington was one -idead man is to
slander his memory and tarnish his fame.
Year: 1860

Mere politicians fail to appreciate the
character of the present Presidential cam
paign or TO estimate correctly its probable
result. The strength of Douglas is in the
hearts of the people. The movement in his
favor is essentially popular one. which
grows day by day and increases in strength
as the contest advances. 1t is particularly
streng in the interior among the masses in
The country. The popular impulse is to
support Douglas 1t is carrying along
with it not merely Democrats, but very
generally Americans, and 10 large extent
Republicans-especially those formerly
connected with the Democratic party. The
plain men of the country do not readily
see the wisdom of the Secession doctrine
Of Intervention by Congress to protect
Slavery. or of the Republican doctrine of
like Intervention 70 prohibit Slavery.


But they can see and appreciate tie
wisdom of Douglas moderate, sensible
and middle ground of Non intervention
Of keeping the slavery excitement out of
Congress. and having that body let the
people of the Territories alone, and leave
them TO manage their own domestic con-
Germs. This is plain. practicable wisdom.
which every farmer, mechanic and labor
er can understand, and can therefore see
good reason Why he should support
Douglas. When the people OF the interior
come to vote, the strength of the Douglas
movement will be understood, and when
the election returns come in, and the ma
jorities from the rural districts roll over
them, lis opponents will awake with
amazement from their false appreciation
of his hold upon the hearts Of the people.
Albany Argus.
Year: 1860

EvTwo young ladies of Fairhavsn. re-
Gently fe lequally and deeply 10 love with
a gentleman who visited them very fire.
qusntly. Being mutually scqusisted with
strong friends. tiey romsntically resolved
to draw lots TO decide which should have
him. The fortunate one lost no time in
making known TO him the result Of the
drawing. and he then informed her that
he was already engaged to tbird lady.
Year: 1860

A correspondent Of the New York Jour
nal Of Commerce states the truth about this
Ordinance. very clearly and su ccinctly, as
follows:


The stupid fallacy has beer put forth
that the Ordinance Of 81 was a part Of the
Constitution. That Ordinance amounted
TO nothing more than the acceptance of q
large tract Of land coded to tho General
Government by single State. with GER
tain conditions attached 10 the cessIon, 80
that the prohibition of slavery in that Ter
ritory was the act of Virginia; Congress
having no authority of itself to prohibit
slavery anywhere; though 1t has an un-
doubtea right TO except or reject territories
offered to it. with conditions attached to
the acceptance, as man may buy plot
of ground with an incumbrance on IT.
This territory then ceded by Virginia,
though called free sppear- TO be the only
territory belonging to the Confederacy that
was not free. The territories to be entire
lv free. must be free to all their owners
Year: 1860

Four hundred years have elapsed since
the invention Of printing. yet books are
not in circulation all over the globe; while
tie use of tobacco became universal with.
in fifty years OF its discovery.
Year: 1860

BEAUTIFUL is the love Of sister: the
kiss tha, hath no guile. and no passion
the touch is purity and bringeth peace. sat
isfaction to the heart. and no fever to the
pulse Beautiful is the love Of q sister; II
is moonlight on our path, il hath light
but no heat; it is Of heaven, yet sheds its
aco upon earth.
Year: 1860

AN attorney on being called to account
for having acted unprofessionly in taking
less than the usual fees from his client
pleaded that he had taken all the man had
He was thereupon hoaorably acquitted.
Year: 1860

The EXECUTIVE Power OF Tue STATE
The Constitution of Indiana provides that
in case Of the death Of tie Governor. the
duties of the office Of Governor shall de-
volve on the Lieutenant Governor. By
this provision of the organic law of the
State the duties of the Office of Governor
devolve upon Lieutenant Governor HAM
MoND until the second Monday, or four
teenth day of January, 1861.
Year: 1860

A correspondents of the Farmers I'D
voeats, says: .-4-' 5-


knew horse taken with collie while
on tread-wheel Of a carding machine,
so that the owner thought he could not
live. He got three veterinary surgeons,
and they did what they could, and all
decided that the horse must die. The
mans wife, who believed and practiced
hygiene, from the time the horse was Ia
ken, tried to persuade her husband to use
wet bandage. but. he insisted Il would
do no good. After all had given up that
the horse could no longer live. by her en-
treaties (the doctor saying it could do no
good or hurt, be took thick bed COM
forter, bound it around the horse. went to
the we'll and drew water, and poured it on
till thoroughly soaked. It seemed like
pot boiling In less thanfifteen minutes
from the time he commenced the water
ing process the horse was up and eating,
to the great surprise of the horse doctor,
who knew he could not live. The horse
did good service afterwards.
Year: 1860

The Fayetteville Obsercer has the following:


MIscHIEvoUs FoLLY.-Has it failed to occur
to the Raleigh Press that such statements as
that In regard to Mr.. Hamlin in it's Saturday
issue are calculated to do more harm in the
South than all the rawlings of all the fanatics
at the North? If the Press's statement were
true, this is not the place to do good by para
ding it. But we must take it for granted that
it is not true, for Mr.. Hanlin was for many
years an Influential Democratic member Of the
Z. S. Senate. We do not think that the Demo.
Gratis of Maine would have sent to the Senate
one Of the race to which, according to the
Press, Mr.. Hamlin belongs; and we know that
Southern gentlemen in that body do not make
associates of persons Of that class If the
Press's statement were true, it's own party is
mere guilty in this matter of a ''high handed
insult than the Republicans; for to the
Democratic party Mr.. Hamlin owes his all, and
with Southern Democratic Senators he was
closely associated, politically and socially, un-
I'll very recently when he left that party to Join
the Republicans. His high position IN the
Democratic party made him important to the
Republicans first as convert and then as a
candidate.
Year: 1860

DIRECT FROM LINCOLN. The following is from
paper in the confidence of Mr.. Lincoln


The Ne1os at -Ir. Lincolns Ronae.-We have
report from our Special Correspondent at
Springfield, Illinois, ofthe reception of the news
Of the election and its result by Mr.. Lincoln.
He seems to have received it with quite as much
coolness and complacency as any other citizen
1t probably did not take him by surprise half
as much as the news of his nomination-but
neither seems to have disturbed in the least, or
to have interrupted the usual quiet and even
I nor Of his way. "Old Abe" is not an excita-
bic man, evidently.


Our correspondent says that Mr.. Lincoln is
beset on every side with inquiries as to the pol
icy of his Administration-and that his uniform
reply is: - Hare yO1 read noy speeches9" It is
pretty Clear from this that he has no occasion
Tor making up new set of opinions for the
emergency, and that he intends to make the
principles and opinions set forth in his speech
es the basis OF his administration of the Gov
ernment. Hehas no thought of publ shng any
letter or address on the subject-partly because
ne has nothing new to say, and partly because
he sees nothing in the condition of the country
to call for such step. The public, we do not
doubt, will acquiesce IN tbs propriety of this de-
ciSion.


Specvllations as to the composition of his Cab
met can have no value whatever because, we
presume, Mr.. Lincoln himself has given no
thought to the subject as yet. There are a
great many considerations to enter into such a
question, and there is no danger of its being de-
cided without mature deIiberation. York
Times.
Year: 1860

A singular phenomenon was witnessed by
some of our citizens on Saturday evening last,
Just about sunset. An object about the size OF
a balloon (or pece of chalk,) and very much OF
the appearance of a balloon, was seen moving
with great rapidity in Southwesterly direc-
ton and, Notwithstanding the light of day
was still light and clear, the illumination Of
the object was brilliant and distinct as bal
loon at night We heard, while gazing at this
wonder, that two other similar ones had passed
previously. The one we saw, after moving
southwesterley, at an angle with the path Of
the sun, took a course directly West and
straight from US; fading gradually, and very
rapidly. until lost from sight. 1t was in all
probability parhelion, or mock-sun, which is
the original, and highest species of the genus
"toady," inasmuch as it only follows in the
wake of and tries to look, and act like the god
of day.-Wil. Herald
Year: 1860

We had hoped that our Cousin 10 Lane
zvon,d he nermitted at the end of his present
Senatorial term, to enjoy that retirement which
he so much covets, but according to rumor the
boon is to be denied him, However we are
willing to take anybody in Clingman's place
The following may be hoax or it may not;


QUEER SroRY.-Among the items tele'
eraphed from Washington to the New York
World ON Wednesday last we find the follow
ing statement:


Gea Laxe to resign his seat in TIE Senate TO take
CHngo,qa. Il send you what is now pretty well
understood rs among the probabilities 1t Is that
1nrn TO North Carolina and avail himself of a
movement said to be on foot there. to elect him
TO the seat now occupied by Senator Clngman.
Year: 1860

The North Carolina Standard deserves the
especial thanks of the entire people fthe State
for its fealty to the Union under the present
excitement. The editor of the Standard says
that North Carolina is not ready to secede-so
too will the people say when called on to speak.


That paper says further:


The condition of the times call for calmness
of determination and firmness of action. Let
passion be discarded. The foundations of a
State to be enduring, must not be laid in pas
sion or resentment 1t is much easier to de-
stroy than it is to construct. Better to bear
the ills We have than Fly to Others that we
know not Of"
Year: 1860

The SOUTH AND HER CoTToN CRoP.-The New
York World, in in its money article of the 9th
has the following:


The South has curtailed her liabilities this
fall to so great an extent that few months
hence will rapidly place it in a position Of
great financial ease and strength. The cotton
crop will, probably now much exceed 1000,
900 bales, and the knowledge of this fact
stimulate sales in Liverpool and advance prices.
The consumption of cotton in Liverpool is in
creasing in a greater ratio than heretofore, and
many manufacturers in Manchester, England,
have more orders on hand than they can exc
cute for the next two months There is every
reason to believe that the Southern crops of
cotton, sugar, and tobacco will realize more in
cash value than the very large amount OF last
year. This with, the diminished purchases
by Southern buyers from the North. will soon
enable them to get rid of the effects of their
previous over ira ding.
Year: 1860

in the town of Kmstnn, n C. The buildings are
new and in good repair with a large GARDEN at
tached Persons wishing to purchase have in the
above House and Lot very rare chance of good
investment in town property, it being situated in a
good ghborhood &c The payment will be made
easy. EVAN W WILLIAMS.


6rrtI
Year: 1860

CEARLEsToN, Nov l3.-Eyening-It is now
thought that the banks of the State will avail
themselves of the act of the Legislature, and
suspend within week-perhaps at an ear.
Aer day The carrying out of this is con-
sidered sure thing.
Year: 1860

tory already exceeds two Of The slave circuits.


The business transacted in Judge McIean's
circuit Is already enormous and oppressive
far TOO great for single judge to transact
with fidelity to suitors. Every argument
which could be required in favor Of 1ear-
rangement Of the circuits on the basis o.
population and ;4usipess seems to be present
in this just and logical statament Of the case.
Year: 1860

"All through the night
The subtitle frost hath Piled its mystic art,
And in the day the golden sun hath wrought
True wonders; and the wings Of morn and


even


Have touched with magic breath the chang


ing leaves.


And now, as wandcrs the dilatng eye
Athwart the varied landscape circIing far,
What gorgeousness, what blazonry, what


pomp


Of colors, buast upou the rayished sight"


GALLAGHER.


What a change has come over the face
of Nature The waving forests, SO late,
" robed in deepest green, have assumed
the gorgeous coIorlDg of October. The
foliage does not fade but brightens into
death. The last days of the leaves are
their best in beauty, violet, pink, scarlet,
crimson, as if their life blood were oozing
from every pore. Nothing but observa-
ton could teach us that all this brilliancy
and glory heralded death, 1t would
seem that they were entering upon new
life, instead of being pushed of. the stage
to make way for new generation.


The year has eliminated in field and
forest, and the farmer is gathering IN his
harvests. The first frosts have come and
you see the small hoar crystals glittering
in the morning sun upon the grass and
along the ferces. The pumpkin and
squash vines are the first to feel its pow
er, and the broad leaves droop and turn
black, as the sun comes up, leaving the
yellow globes, and the crook-necks all ex-
posed. The farmer hardly knew how
rich he was, until the frost cleared away
the luxuriant mass of foliage. Now the
potato patches and the edges of the corn
fields and the gaodens are yellow with
the raw material of pumpkin pies, and
Thanksgiving. The orchards feel the
chill breath of the frost, and you hear
the apples dropping under all the trees,
as If seeking warmer quarters in the
thick grass beneath the branches. The
apples are abundant in almost all parts
Of the country, aud the poorest families
can lay in their winter stores of Green
iugs, Pippins and Spitzenbergs. An or
chard loaded with fruit, and ripening in
the October sun, is one of the finest sights
in the country. Here is tree blushing
IN every bough with the crimson fruit,
and there they hang in long yellow
punches waiting for the basket. The
Winter fruits are not harmed by the ear
ly frcsts, and they will adhere to the
branches until it is time to remove them
by hand. The finishing touches to the
flavor Of the late fruits are given In the
last few days Of the season. If plucked
too early, they shrivel, and do not ripen
we'll in the cellar or fru. room. This
is the reason why some condemn certain
very fine Winter pears. Iu some cases,
the season is too short for them to reach
Year: 1860

VINO ~ rHB GENUINE sENARIrAs ION
Monday last. they had our friend at the
corner-the Good Samaritan man, mp be.
fore the Sixth District Court, on charge Of
selling for the genuine, spurious recipe
for making the only effective balm Of Oh
lad. We have no report Of the proceed
inp. and cannot consequently speak Of re
merits of the case. The fact &c his being
acquitted, carries with It the con viction Of
innocensc. That he did sell recipe for
compounding the oil, IL admitted but the
question could not be fairly disposed Of on
its merits, because the law could not de-
termine, whether the article itself, sold By
the Samaritan man Is the genuine, or that
referred TO In the recipe. We reeollect
that Doctor Killmore, who had rival
shop for the sale Of Samaritan, on the fair
ground, took occasion in his speech to the
public to point his finger often to our
friend at the corner, (who was also on the
fair grounds selling Samaritan In sugar
loaf hst) and made no scruple to pronounce
him a humbug and his medicine bass
imitation Of the onig genuine. This
matters not-people are daily being rub
bed with IL, and find relief. There was
gentleman in our front office yesterday
who swallowed q fsh bone last week
which lodged in his wind pipe. After
allowing the Doctors 10 fish for Il with all
manner Of ugly looking pullicsns, he rub
bed himself over the region Of the liver
with the Samaritan and the bone came ont
just below the ffth rib. This Is fsct.
Year: 1860

IHE MEETING AT ACADEMY HALL
Attention ia directed to the pro-
ceedings, Of the meeting at Acad-
emy Hall. If it is a principle, in
democratic faith that the majority
shall rule; then the series Of four
resolutions adopted by this meet
ing, are democratic, to say the least.
IL is a very poor rule that does not
work both ways, and to show that
the rule does not which induced
the Louisiana delegates 10 come
home reference to the figures at
the voting for a candidate for Pres.
ident is all necessary. Do they
not clearly show, that Mr.. Douglas
was the strongest man there Has
not the rule governing such bodies
heretofore been, to withdraw, the
lowest candidate, until choice
could be made1 This is very clear.
Then why did small segment of
the meeting, beaded by Mr.. Yam
cy (who ought to be in a straight
jacket) break up the affair 7 Are
we not forced to the conclusion that
they-thc minority, had resolved
among themselves to defeat the
best man among them-viz Ste
phen A. Douglas, who has the NOR
al courage to stand on the platform,
they all helped to make few brief
years ago, to humbug the people
with ? This is the Complexion
which the affair wears to our mind.
DO not call the gentlemen who have
been passing the series of four re s.
olutions bolters and traitors to
the great democratic party They
have turned tho tables on you
gents (; they may have becn--and
no doubt were, boilers from the
State Convention before the last,
and they may have gone there with
malice pre- penss to break it up in a
row ; but now, in this National af-
fair you are placed exactly where
they were. You should have some
sympathy for on another-make char
liable concessions--shake hands
save the Union again, and vote
for some man in favor of creating
Offices enough to satisfy the demand


Here's the trouble. There are
not Offices enough to 60 round, and
we shall never have peace, until
there is.
Year: 1860

B@- Polite persons are necessarily
obligiDg. A smile is always on their
lips, an earnestness in their counten-
ance, when We ask a favor of them.
They know that to render a service
with bad grace is in reality not to
render it at all. If they are obliged
to refuse favor they doit with mild.
ness and delicacy; they express such
feelings of regret that they still in-
spire US with gratitude; in short,
their conduct appears SO perfectly
natural, that it really seems that the
opportunity which is offered them of
obliging US, is obliging themselves !;
and they refuse all our thanks with.
out aHectation of effort.
Year: 1860

not changed They have no law
yers. The man who would raise
his voice in defence of the murder
er, would be treated as an acces-
ry. The time of the magistrate is
deemed Of too much value, to be
taken mp by long winded speeches.
This deprives their men and wo-
men of the pleasure of the court
room. and the able effort of the
best legal talent" to show that
the murder established by evidence
was manslaughter or something
else, and that the fiat headed, by
aenavisaged scoundrel in the box,
who murdered his wife is as inno-
cent OF any crime, as the unborn
babe Of a coming generation. Such
speeches are not tolerated by our
barbarous neighbors. Says Mr.. For
tune, on this subject. 1" No reasons
are assigned for the creation of an
ordinance. aud no punishment, is
denounced against the offender. The
commands of the government are
not made for comment and criti-
cism, and every crime as priciple
entails the punishment of death.
There are no indulgencies granted
by the Priests of Sin-Syu or the
supreme Diety, the Sun Goddess,
and they do not claim the power
or the right to take people out of
purgatory. In the trial of causes
the do not put off the case from
year to year, in order TO allow the
witnesses to die the accused is
arraigned in person by the accuser
the witnesses are examined in
presence of the accused, and sen
tence at once pronounced, and car
ried into execution, without appeal.
When false acusations are prefer
red, the false accuser is punished,
and should malice be apparent, the
punishment is augmented in pro-
portion.
Year: 1860

The Wires HELPING HAND
At no moment of difficulty does a
husband, knowing his own utter help
lessness, draw SO closely to his wife's
side for comfort and assistance as
when be wants a button to be sewn
on his shirt collar !-Punch.