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Year: 1859

The DYING NEvERWEEP - 1t is astrikinp
fact the dying never ,Seep. The circle Of
sobbing, agonizing hearts around produces
not one tear. Is it that he is insensible
and stiff already in the chill disolutioni-
That cannot be ;fcrhe asks for his fathers
hand, as if to gain strength in the mortal
struggle and leans on the breast of mother.
brother, or sister with still conscious affec-
tion; and just before expiring, at eve, after
a long days converse with the Angle of
Summons, he says to his oldest brother
the lastaudible good night of earth-"Kiss
me kiss me 1t must be because the
dying have reached point too deep for
our earthly crying and weeping Lhey
are face to face with higher and holier be-
ings,with the father in heaven, and his an
gle throng, led on by the Son himself;
and what are griefs of n morning, tears Of
a dying fare well be it that they are she'd
oy the dearest on earth in that vision
bright ofinmortal life and everlasting re-
union
Year: 1859

A
| 10 WM WOODWARD, Esq.,, Chairman, &C.,
| Sir: have the honor to acknowledge the receipt
| OF your communication of the 10th inst, handed
to me by my Secretary, at O'Clock on Friday
| evening, together with the proceedings of a Town
| Meeting held in Monument Square on the Sth OF
| September, and the Resolutions adopted by that
body.


The Resolutions, and the Address which Won have
done me the honor to present to me- are so variant
In tone and spirit, that have felt not less relieved
than gratiied at the manner in which you have ap-
preached me-


The proceedings of the Town Meeting in Monu-
ment Square have gone forth to the public NV
personal and official reputation are alike invoved
IN the issues which they present | trust that 7
shall not be found wanting in what is due to both.


The appointment of Judges of Elections, it NAV
De proper Tor me to state, is shared Jointly by the
Mayor and City Council. On the recent of vour
communication on Friday evening within two
hours of the final adjournment of the Council the
nominations had been made and ratified by that
pouy, haVlng oeen Kept open to the last moment,
with view to suggestions from our citizens. and
to secure the best men who were likely to serve in
the different wards.


The requests which you make in your Address.
referred to in the Resolutions of the Town Meeting
have formed part of the instructions issued from
this office on former occasions, and will be cheer
fully met with the introduction of such additional
guards as experience may enable me to suggest;
ana ieel at liberty, so far as the appointment of
special policemen is concerned to say that I am
ready now, as have been heretofore to commits
sion any number of conservative men, free from
party bias, who may have real wish to Cooperate
with the authorities of the citv


In regard to the tender of co-oneration nm the
part of the Central Committee" as explained in
the resolutions of the meeting, feel it nv duty to
say, that the commission which hold has been
while, therefore, ready at all times to receive
complaints or suggestions in reference to actual or
supposed grievances in the conduct of our munici-
pal AFFAIRS have no right, by any official act of
nn no
this office with any class of citizens not Representing
the entire constituency from whom have received
my trust


Assuring you, sir, of my continued desire to Sc
cure to every one the free exercise of his rights as
citizen, and to promote quiet and harmony in the
coming elections, and my determination to use ali
the powers ofmy office with view to this result.


am, respect.


oh
Year: 1859

ABUSE OF THE FRANKING PRIvELEGE-Th Boston
Courier ably sustans the decision of the Postmaster
General in regard to recent abuses of the franknc
privilege:


"a member of Congress can no more exercise
the franking privilege by proxy than he oan dele
gate to Others any of the duties ofhs Office or re-
sign MS seat temporarily to another. The very
fact that member avails himself of the franking
privilege so largely to be unable to exercise il
personally is of itself evidence enough of the abuse
He might as well employ another to make a speech
or cast vote for him in Congress when he is
necessarily absent from his seat 1t is strange that
a member of Congress- who would never think OF
delegating any of his powers, or assigning any of
his other privileges should as in the present case
claim the right of franking by another as well as
by himself. And yet, member of Congress from
Pennsylvania, having authorized the members al
the Republican association in Washington, to use
his name dd ibitua in franking eectioneering doc
uments, went forward and claimed the privilege of
the mail on the ground that the franks were his,
although as he acknowledged he did not write
them with his own hand. The Postmaster General
very properly decided otherwise; and the people to
whom the papers addressed must remain in
darkness and ignorance till the member can find
time to give the documents his personal endorse
ment."
Year: 1859

MORE NICE THAN wIsE.-An unmarried man, by
the name Of Philip Fezman, residing about mile
this side of New London, Oneida county, came to his
death, few days since by the adoption of singu-
lar and extraordinary freak. He lived with his
mother, widow woman, and about year ago, ne
took it into his head that he ought uot to eat any


thing but bread and water; he lived on that diet
alone until about five or six weeks ago. when he
again took notion that his hands were so dirty
that he ought not to eat bread, and water he woud
not drink, only he inspected it in the buck ct as
it came from the well, and sometimes he would re-


quire that number of pailsfull should be drawn be


fore he would drink. For forty-three days before
his death he ate not mouthful, as his mother i:
positive. He would wash his hands frequently foi
an hour at time; whilst he lived on bread, he
would reqnire that his part should be baked by it.
SELF and then he would break off and eat as he
wanted it. When he became weak that he coulC
not go out, he would carefully inspect the fresh
water brought him. 1t was singular freak. He
was doubtless partially insane although he talked
pretty well on other subiects.-[ Rome (N, ~
SeufineI
Year: 1859

New oRK, Sept. ia passenger describes the
storm in which the Persia was disabled as of the
most terrific character. The crank Pin was broken
on Monday evening at 10 o'clock when two DAYS
out She clay to- until the next afternoon in the
hope that the storm would abate, but finding no
Improvement, her commander put back for Cork.
After proceeding back one hundred miles, the
weather moderated and the breakage was repaired.
The steamer was then put about again, when
reaching the same latitude in which the disaster
occurred, she encountered another storm more ter
rife than the first but she gallantly ploughed her
way through it unnjured, excepting the crushing
of one of her wheel-nouses, and reached this port
in safety.


The Persia has the heaviest freight she ever
brought
Year: 1859

ILLEGAL VoTNG IN OLD lMEs.-The following is
an extract from the laws of Ma sachusetts for l64S
showing how voting was managed in the olden
time;


at is ordered by this court and the authority
thereof that for the yearly choosing of assistants,
the freemen shall use the Indian corn and beans,
the Indian corn to manifest election the beans CON
trary; and if any freeman shall put in more than
one Indian corn or bean for the choice or refusal
of any public officer he shall forfeit for every such
offence ten pounds"
Year: 1859

Sometimes only single flash would bs seen,
then two or three at once, and sometimes hall a
dozen would break forth in instant sueoesslon,-


Ii was beginning 10 be dark when | turned "a
descend the hill, and all the way down | still
heard the roar Of the cannon aud The els'teIing


Of the guns Of the infantry, But tho Austrians


were clearly falling back, and could scarcely


have failed TO sustain total rout. IL Is l0ssi'


ble they NAV DO in condition 10 make one more
struggle in the morning, but judging from my
own observation, 1t certainly is not probable
They have sustained an overwhelming deeat,
and il seems to me not unlikely that tho Empe'
ror may now be induced, by the representations
Of tho neutral Powers, 20 accept the peace
which Napoleon will be very likely TO tender
him.


Just before nightlhll tremendous cannona.
ding was distinctly visible in the direction ol
Mantua, and II was supposed by one or two
French officers that Prince Napoleon was assault
ing that fortress us part Of the general plan OF
the days operations, while the Emperor was en-
gaging the enemy in the open field. But sec
no reason TO suppose that this ia true, rs Prince
Napoleon could scarcely have reached Alantua
by this time, MS he was in Florence only week
ago,


have thus given you worry general outline
Of this great battle as il came under my own OBJ
servation. have mentioned no names of subor
dinate officers, because have had no opportuni-
ty to learn the specific part which individuals
took in the engagement All that | must leave
for subsequent letters, or refer you for it to the
official reports which we here shall not see for
three or four days citer they are published in
Paris.
Year: 1859


lies
This ballot wRs carried on amid tho greatest
excitement, and the result Was greeted with
tremendous spplsuse By the friends Of the sue
cesstul candidate. A resolution to make the
nomination unanimous WAS adopted, with few
dissea,s
The Convention then went into formal hal
lot for aeecond candidate fur Clerk Of tho Su-
perior Court. The following was the result Of
tho
Year: 1859

fgp The Northern Light on Sunday evening last surpassed any we have seen, the entire heavens for several hours appearing like the inner surface of ed over the sky in every direction and gave light equal to a full moon. The evening was very cold for the season and but for the high wind. we should doubtless have had a severe frost. The Lights continued nearly through the night. We shall doubtless be favored with learned notices of them from scientific observers
Year: 1859

f There was rumor in Philadelphia on Mon day that the frigate Congress. which sailed from that port on the 14th of August has gone down with all on board. It not possible to trace the rumor to any reliable source, and though causing anxiety was not believed to be true
Year: 1859

ing into effect the act of ls9 with regard to the
slaves taken from the Echo


The House adjourned.


Note.-ln the report OF Mr. MLLsoN's remarks
yesterday, occurred owing to the difficulty
of hearing in the gallery. He took position the
opposite to that reported. His exact language was
as follows:


"Gentlemen do not seem to appreciate the
strength of their own position. To condemn the
African slave trade is not to reproach slavery.
Nothing can be more unlike; nothing more antago-
nistic To uphold the slave trade is to abandon the
defence of slavery. 1t is to abandon all those ar
guments by which the justification Of the system Of
slavery now existing in in the Southern States
becomes a demonstration. ."-Rep.7
Year: 1859




In New York oday the stock market was weaker and
most of the fances fell off in price Missouri 6s declined
n; Reading Railroad e; New York Central NJ Harlem
4; Gaena and Chicago u; and Canton Company y
Erie Cleveland and Toledo Rock Island Michigan South
ern, and La Crosse and Milwaukee Railroads all sold at
yesterday figures. The only stock the list which
advanced, was Illinois Central bonds which improved


The New York r. iJune of to-day says


The deposit in the SubTreasury on Wednesday on ac
count OF the loan was million and quarter The Sub
treasurer received despatch day the Secretary
of the Treasury directing him receive any deposits
on the lO2O5 bids the award that bid would
made until to morrow. 1t appears that bid from Phia
dephia properly directed and duly mailed found its
way into the Sixth Auditors Office instead of office
the Secretary of the Treasury This bid up
the award had been made and the fault the delay
did not attach it deemed just by the Secretary to
award to it what it would have taken had it been opened
IN time This cut down the 05 bidders portion only
OF their bids There has been a fair demand for the
to-day, both for home and foreign Beyond
the transactions the Board there have sales of
half to threequarters of million at and about 1O3A the
seller paying the back interest This is equal
against average biddings of 260. There is dis
position shown to purchase foreign account and also
for remittance to London At the latest quotations
these bonds at l0 better remittance than Sterling
In Foreign Bills there is little nothing doing the
market is steady


The propeller Liverpool took $3.50 900
in gold bars, and the steamer from Boston sSOOOO-
The inquiry for bars for shipment is quite light The
coupons due lt FEBRUARY the 10 per Bonds
Chicago and Milwaukee Railroad will be paid by the Bank
of the Republic


Since the defeat of Mr. Crows Land BILL there has been
more movement in Land Warrants and spectators have
taken 40 900 1000 the market for a rise
a New NorE
Year: 1859

A FREE-TRADE PRoPoSTIoN.-The States of yes
terday says: Among the propositions debated yes
terday in the Committee of Ways and Means with
a view to the realization of an adequate income


was suggestion from Mr.. Crawford to the effect
that the Treasury Note bill of last session be con-
tnued in force for two years. and if it be then as
certained that the present tariff will not Weld
sufficient revenue for the support of the Govern
ment that the system of direct taxation be substi-
tuted for the existing impost arrangement This
movement contemplates reduction of the expendi


lures to a level with the income and the ultimate
Inauguration OF permanent system of free trade.
Year: 1859

We wish 1t to be understood that we intend, during the present canvass to lumber our columns with but little if any of the rubish" of ''current politics, as it is called " Facts for the People," Let the People Rembemer," and "Stick Pin Here," and ''Stick Pin There" are captions the very sight of which is apt to make majority ot readers turn away with disgust.

 What the people want is something fresh and original on all subjects, but espec- tally politics. The day of ''old documents" is passed. They are no longer dangerous" to any but those who are constantly offering them to nauseated palates of their readers We will have none of them.

 What public man did or said fifteen or twenty years ago Is very seldom inst cri- terion of what he would do or say now. The 'illustlious creature may have grown better or worse in the mean time. Who does not know that if Mr. Jefferson were living now he would be heartily ashamed of his anti slavery record? We doubt not Mir. Clay, long before his death, reconsider ed and regretted his course in regard to the acquisition of Texas

 A fig, then for old documentsl What a fine fellow Satan could prove himself to be, if allowed to make profert of his record ed antecedents in Heaven, before Pride seized him and hurled him headlong down to the lake of burning mari!
Year: 1859

MEssRs. EDIToRs: Knowing that you take an interest in all matters of education. I take the liberty of writing you few sen tences concerning the school at this place.

 In the fall of 1857, Mir. James NJ. Dowd established school here and has just closed its third session. The examination was one that the teacher and the community may well be proud of. It commenced on the 26th and ended on the 29th ut. The exercises of the students on the blackboard in mathematics and the parsing of senten ces by the young ladies did them infinite credit.

 The reading of the compositions should have been done in the cities of Helena and Fort Smith, and would have forced the leaders of that great outrage to go to puff ing themselves in their respective papers and then for each to copy the others puffs. We were also entertained with some fine dialogues, all acting their assigned parts with grace, ease and dignity, giving gener- al satisfaction to everybody and his wife. The examination closed on Friday niobt with party given by the citizens to the students sat Dr. L. Hrnsford's Mansion House, by the way, one of the best hotels in North Arkansas. The Doctor and his estimable lady spread table that was laden with every delicacy in and ont of season. and spared no pains to make all their guests feel at home. The dancing was kept up till daylight when all went home pleased with themselves and each other.

 Before close, let me say something in regard to the True Democrat. I heartily indorse it and so does two-thirds of the county and two-thirds of the other third So Hay on Macduff" All I have to say on the per diem question, is, if the law al- lowed members pay while they were at home doing nothing, why did they not re- peal the law at once, and save the abuse of
Year: 1859

We have conversed with farmers from different parts of the country and from them learn that the prospect for fine wheat and oatcropis promising. This is encouraging, particularly when wheat commands the price now being paid by the millers for it. We have heard of it's selling at one dollar twenty-five per bushel, which is fair price and one at which money can be made by those engaged in its cultivation. We are glad to see the prospects of the farmers frightening for every other character of bu- siness improves in the same ratio that they prosper and it has another tendency, that of filling up the country with a good sub- stantial population. Northwest Arkansas as has been before stated, from letters re- ceived and publications heretofore made in this paper, is already commanding the at tention of those who are leaving the older States and coming west in search of better homes And now is the time for those who desire location in Arkansas to strike. Land is comparatively cheap, and desirable places may now be obtained which in few years cannot, for the manifest destiny" principle that predominates in the Ameri- can mind and the progressive spirit of the age will soon develop the resources of our State. Then property of every description and particularly real estate will increase in value. In due time railroads will be built, cities suddenly spring up, new States west of us gain admission into the Union, and our State rejuvenated and renewed by the magic touch of improvement will' become the geographical center of the Union- Therefore we repeat that we are pleased to hear of the interest manifested and the en- ergetlc manner in which the farmers are pushing forward their work, for truly they are the stay and support of every other pro- fesslon and vocation in life and give char acter and prominence to any country.
Year: 1859

successful and prolific operation to the mouth of the Arkansas, it would then be in order for Congress to proceed with the western Pacific end.

 The Arkansas steam navigation part of the route into "the big west" is already Tn the right line for cooperation; and which would answer all the commercial purposes, and, also, for travel and the California mail, perhaps, better than a railroad from any point on the Mississippi, for the same paral-- Tel distance west, towards California, and savefhe money and apply it at once from the western head of steam navigation of the Arkansas, to the Rocky Mountains, until the country may get rich enough to substi- tnte parallel railroad for the river naviga- tion.

 Let Congress apply ten or twelve million of the public money and means, to some thing more judicious, profitable, national and solid, as means of safe, national, gen. eral prosperity and defence and prevention
Year: 1859

From the London Daily NelCS.


TRADE AND 1NDUSTRY.-Manchester is busy many
considerable time forward and prices of her produc
tions range very high At Leeds there is "a steady de-
mand,' and the clOthers "in good work. At Hud-
dershed stocks in the manufacturers hands small
At Halifax there Is tendency to Improvement and
Rochdale very brisk demand for flannel goods ,, AT
Bradford "spinrers well employ yed." At Leicester
nearly every department in the hosiery trade is well
gaged.N And so We might on, with a hasty glance
each OF great staples the that
the operatives well employed producing largely and
consuming in proportion.


Not to refer, for the moment to certain important
branches of business such the shipping trade wherein
visible depression prevails would direct attention to
the quarter where the shoe really pinches and whence
the loudet complaints recev ed To the financial and
speculative classes this is time of sore trial Holders
of who during the three years preceding the cri-
sis of 1857 obtained high terms find but mar
market for their commodity and at very low
1t must make great difference the owners of the 40
millions odged in the London Jontstock Banks whether
they get four five and six per cent per interest
in 1856 and 1857 for only per cent The banks and
other moneyed establishments likewise preudiced for
there is not adequate employment for their large funds
present of the market naturally induces in
creased competition for business and proporonae cut
ting down of all money lenders, profits.


In the Stock Exchange equal sagnation has not been
experienced for years.


What little speculation is going forward is principally
amongst the members themselves and close body like
the Stock Exchange cannot live upon itself for The
public eecualy deferred from speculation by dis
trust of France and by the uncertainty which continues
to surround the great political question of the day The
limited transactions effected for account of operators
yond the walls of the Stock Exchange, principally for
cash. thatis to whenever the dealers in public
rites give little and put prices down. bona
fde buyers step forward and take advantage Of them
Year: 1859

In BoNDs.-An eccentric but amiable and re
sYpected clergyman, in Aberdeenshire, on sitting
down to compose his first discourse after having
committed matrimOny, resolved to select a text
which could not be twisted by his hearers into the
remotest allusion to the connection he had so re-
Gently formed. But "the best laid schemes of mice
and men gang aft agIeg." To the great amusement
of the less serious part Of his congregation, the
reverend gentleman gave out, the groundwork
for his discourse: "For | would that We all were
even as ! am this day, except these bonds"
Year: 1859

GENEROUS OFFER.-About eight o. clock last night
young, athletic looking fellow came into the pas
sage of Barnum's hotel land pushing himself into the
midst of few gentlemen standing together, offered
two dollars for a Reformer, at the same time dis
playing the needful. What lie intended to do with
said Reformer he did not state, but upon reflection
he deemed it the better to make his exit be-
fore some one accepted his generous offer
Year: 1859

An Institution called the Pawner's Bank is about
to be established in Boston. The object is to create
an institution at which articles can be pawned
without exactiDg exorbitant rates of interest Fif-
ty thousand dollars are required by the charter to
be subscribed before the bank can go into opera
ton, and thirty three thousand have already been
subscribed ..7.-
Year: 1859

TEA DEALERS AND FAMILY GROCFRS
Have constantly hand either the above establish
ments large and Constantly ed assortment OF every
article in their line, EXCEPT SPURIOUS LIQUoRs) which
from their lone experience and ample facilities they are
States. - NN


IN THE STAPLE ARTICLES PARTICULARLY,
or those every day consumption We think we can pro-
mote the interests of purchasers stock being large and
laid in always at the most favorable time.


OUR FOREIGN GOODS


are OF our direct importation from houses of the high
est standing Abroad and have for years received the appro
baton Of toners
We pay particular attention TEA guarantee tn
and PRICE. ss.eo6mr+