Year: 1861

This fated city Of the plains, as she for the
third time emerges from the angry tides of the
mountains, and in her forlorn and discouraging
position, beholds the phantom of Reputation
Turing her to his dsgraceful precincts. We
say to our neighbors, be not discouraged, wait
till things clear off little, so you can find
your real bearings, and if you find that you
are in a pecuniary strait with those creditors
who hold the evidences of your honest indebt
edness, get an extension of time from them !;
/ they will not deny it in your known hour of ad
versity; creditors though they are, they par
take at least, in some degree, the deep sympa-
thes of the thousands of your fellow citizens,
who now condole with you in your adversities.
Don't repudiate. Do not be the first to blot
the fair escutcheon of our pecuniary honor.
Our people hate the act,-and detest the word
Avoid it in every way, almost every body will
help you to prevent the disgrace,-for such it
will be in all after time, should it now happen.
Cheer up, economic, work hard and get more
time on your paper. All the facts surrounding
your position, and the series of struggles over
obstacles almost insurmountable, over which
you have passed. will demand from your cred
itOrs a leniency sufficient to let you exist
without lasting reproach to your fair fame.
Your position is unfortunate, but other cities
in our country have been successfully levied to
prevent inundation-try again, and let no such
word as fail escape your lips until the last link
in the cable of strong endeavors parts in your
grasp. Do not repudiatel


JAMES Buchanan PREPARING HIS DYING
SPEECH AND CoNFEssIoN.-Co Colonel Forney, in
letter to the Philadelphia Press, makes the
interesting statement that


Mr.. Buchanan does not conceal the fact
that he is preparing to launch a thunderbolt
upon the country, either before or after his
death, in the shape OF history of his own
time, and q vindicatiOn Of his Administration
In this great work he is assisted by eX-Attor-
ney General Black, who spends most Of his
time in Washington, and his late Private Sec
retary, Adam j. Glosbrenner of the county of
York, PENNSYLVANIA. Both these personages
have paid a recent visit to Wheatand but
Glosbreuner is the more active collector and
compiler OF the materials for the forthcoming
brochure. The ex~President is exceedingly
wrohy at every fearless comment upon his
prescriptions and present penitences. He thinks
that, if with single hypocritical letter he can
not wipe out his black and bloody record, he
will certainly be able to do so when his book
makes It's appearance and in order to effect
this he is putting forth his feelers, to secure for
him favorable and partial hearing.


Some very tender hearted people have been
caught by the last trick of the sly old Reynard,
and do not hesitate TO hold up their hands in
pious horror whenever an honest word is utter
ed in exposure or eXecrati0n of the measures
by means of which lie hurled the republic into
civil war. He is an old man, they say, and
ought to be allowed to spend the remainder Of
his days in peace an indulgent charity
should be extended to him. etc 1t may be
well for these benevolent souls to remember
how many old men he prescribed and persecu-
ted during his Administration how many up
right and fearless men were crushed under the
heavy hand OF his almost imperial power; how
precious blood was made to flow as an Oblation
to his unmitigated and remorseless despotism :;
how he refused to listen to the earnest invOca-
tions of his best and truest friends to stay his
hand and save his country and how, even
down to within a few days of the close of his
Administration. he continued to strike at every
one high and low, who would not sing hosan-
nahs to his treachery and turpitude Such
man as this ought to write viudication and
to make defense for it will require all the
paid eloquence, all the paid attorneys and par
asites in the land to induce the world to forget
and his countrymen to forgive the blow he has
struck at the heart of the freest civilized Gov
ernment"