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Year: 1860

The n. HampshireI Patriot accounts for th'


defeat of the party in New Hampshire a.
| follows


| Z" 1t cannot be denied that Iabored under great


disadvantage in the canvass, in regard to our na-


tional position, which prevented US from making


considerable accessions to our ranks. There is no
doubt that hundreds of men were deferred from,
joining from the fear that the Democratic party


is to be committed TO slave code and other bug
bears by which opposition papers and speaker,
have sought TO frighten honest men into the con-


tlnued support of corrupt, sectional and disoyal
party. We have doubt that If had been settled
that De TO stand upon the Cincinnati platform,
with an acceptable candidate in the coming Pres-
Dental election, we should have fully realized our
most sanguine expectations. The uncertainty IN
ttts respect, and the apprehension that extreme
men and ultra views are to prevail in our Con-
vention at Charleston, had a depressing and re-
pulsing influence in our canvass. II kept men
from US who are really to join Us ,ohsneuer If is
settled that not 10 be forced 10 support principles
in regard to slavery at with all that We have
fonght for during the last six years. Andw we are
satisfied that we make converts from the
enemy until we placed squarely and unmistak-
ably upon the principles upon which the last
Presidential contest was fought and won. But if
this is done at Charleston, and an acceptable can
ddste nominated we believe we shall give him
the electoral vote of New Hampshire"


IF the Patriot has to wait for Democratic
victory in New Hampshire till all the diff
culties it speaks of are surmounted, it
will wait a good while. Why, the
Democratic party IS committed to " slave
CODE" it is not to stand upon the Cincinnati
platform, dishonest and conflicting as it's
doctrines are


The Southern masters Of the party will
not allow it any longer to use the poor sham
Of the popular sovereignty" doctrine, by
means of which both Pierce and Buchanan
gained their election, and then-proved
more faithless to their previous unmistakable
declarations of principle than their worst
enemies predicted of them; they demand of
Northern Democrats an absolute reputation
Of that political humbug, they are to 60 for
the o5iter d4cta OF Judge fancy, and declare
that the Constitution, of its own force, car
ries slavery into all the Territories, and
maintains it there whether the people like it
or not they are 10 sav with Hammond,
Brown and Davis that slavery is righ in it
self whenever the subject Of it has black
blood in his veins, and that it is a most desi-
raJle thing for this country; and that all who
think otherwise are "abolitionists, ''sec-
tionalists" and TRAITORS, not to be allowed
to speak wherever slavery exists. This is
the position the Northern Democracy is re-
xuired to take, and actually is taking more
generally every day and therefore the cleo
torll vote Of New Hampshire for the
Charleston nominee will be what the mathe-
matIcians call an imaginary quantity.
Year: 1860

The Mosaic copies of celebrated pictures
which are now almost the only ones which
adorn the interior of St. Peters, are the pro-
ducts Of the Vatican Factory. and are far
superior to the ancient Mosaics The an
cients besides their inferiority in painting,
showed no such delicacy of shading, or such
variety Of cOloring as has been attained in
modern times The material used for these
mosaics is an artificial stone, of which over
90 900 different shades are used No one
but real artist, however. one might at first
imagine. can excel in ,uch work. II was in
terestng enough to see a workman with a
picture OF enormous size before him working
for hours IN the selection and fitting of one
little piece OF stone in the mosaic which is to
be It's copy. The large mosaics. some eight
cen feet IN height, which adorn St. Peter s,
have each Of them cost twenty-five years Of
the labor Of several artists Il seems to me
that rather than undertake so endless and un-
productive and wearing task, | would rath-
or oe the slave of d silver mine-snd yet the
perfection of the work is wonderful At a
little distance, it is impossible - tell it from
an OIL painting and it Is next to indestruct-
ible. The mosaics of the Roman churches
still last, while the churches themselves have
been changed in almost everything else ex-
cept the solid walls
Year: 1860

Ten years passed away; Captain Vine
pipes had paid the debt of nature he did
not live to see Rose Glenn wife; but, new
ertheless. he left clause in bis will. that
fully carried out his expressed intentions
when Rose did m AIRY, some two years after
she arrived at the age of sweet seventeen.
Martin Glenn Carson graduated in the print
ing Office, and very recently filled one of the
most important stations in the. Judiciary OF
Illinois, as we'll as chivalrous part In the
recent war with Mexico. Cynthia was we'd
ded to a well-known member of the Phila-
delphia bar. an event that Job Carson barely
lived to see, and, as he agreed to. donated
sum quite muni6cent, towards making things
agreeable in the progress of her married life
Widow Glenn remained a faithful servant
and friend to the old merchant, and upon his
death, she became heir to the family mansion
and means to keep it up at the usual bountl-
ful rate. Large bequests were made IN JOB
Carson S will to charitable institutions. but
the bulk of bis fortune fell to his adopted
son. Martin, who proved not unworthy of
his good fortune. Banquo ended his days in
the service of the widow. who had cause for
and took pleasure in blessing the vehicle that
conveyed TO herself and orphans their rare
good fortune, in guise Of NEWSPAPER AD-
vERT.sENENT.
Year: 1860

An ABUSING Scene in the Legislature Of
Pennsylvania occurred on motion to remove
the capital of the State from Harri'burgh to
Philadelphia. A matter-of-fact mem
Der from the rural districts. who had
heard of the great facilities with which
brick houses are-meEed- from part OF
the city to another, and who had not the
least idea that any thing but moving the
State House was in contem plation. rose and
said &c Mr.. Speaker, l have no objection to
the motion. but don't see bow on airth you
are going to get it over the river.
Year: 1860

A child was killed at Buffalo, one day last
week, in singular manner, by falling on a
piece of wire with which it was playing,
which penetrated through one Of itseyes into
the brain.
Year: 1860

TnE Democratic party is now expert
encing trial which cause those who are
not with MS at heart to falter and slough
off from the Simon pure democracy. No
matter what the result Of the present
contest may be, the party will endure,
purged and purified Of the unclcan elc-
mcnts that were but waiting an Oppertu-
nifty to desert the cause and 60 over to its
enemies. Union Democrat.
Year: 1860

murderer; but though it appeared to them,
the culprit lying in the condemned chapel
and awaiting his doom in the morning,
they never for moment entertained a
suspicion Of its being really SO. Valletta
was very populous, and contained many
strangers; the murderer was therefore, in
the opinion of all, an unknown person,
bearing striking and remarkable resem-
blanco to the prisoner, perhaps the very
individual who had been guilty Of the prior
crime. The wonderful and strange tale
soon reached the ears of the Judge that
impartial magistrate at once perceived the
strong probability that the identity Of the
prisoner under condemnation had been
mistaken; :; his resolution in asserting his
innocence, which had always appeared ex-
traordinary, warranted this opinion. To
satisfy, however, himself and the public,
he Immediately sent to the prison to ascer-
tain if the criminal was really still in custo-
dy; being soon convinced upon this head,
he took upon himself to suspend the exc
cution, which was to have taken place
soon after daybreak, until these extraordi-
nary circumstances should be satisfactorily
investigated. In the morning, having the
deposition Of the persons present at the
murder, he proceeded to the palace of the
grand master, to whom he submitted the
whole case, now putting every thing in
the most favorable light possible for the
prisoner. A fact superla lively atrocious
rs the real one, was not likely to be sus-
pected, the grand naster naturally 10th in
a case Of so much doubt to take away the
life Of fellow creature, at the instigation
of the Judge, first respitcd, and in few
days afterwards granted a pardon to the
young man, who was set at liberty. He
soon after left the island, and it was not
until many years afterwards, when the
grand master, the judge, and the goalcr,
and the servant, had all ceased to exist,
that the strange story transpired, the muir
dercr, then an old man and in foreign
country, himself disclosing it.
Year: 1860

Towards the middle of the last century
a daring murder was committed in coffee


house in Valletta, Sicily, by young man,
the SOP of people in respectable circumstan-
ces, who having words with another, on q
very slight provocation, drew out a knife
and stabbed him mortally; he then made


his escape, but was captured next day by
the officers of the police. Notwithstanding
the testimony Of several witnesses to the
fact, and other convincing circumstantial
evidence against him, the prisoner rersis-
ted (indeed his only feasible defence) in


denying his having been the person who
had inflicted the wound he oven under


went the torture of the cavalletto, without
coming to confession. Notwithstanding
this pertinacity, the presiding judge, salts
fed by the evidence brought forward, con-
demned him to death. Petitions and sup
plications were made to no purpose to the
Judge for his intercession with the grand
master, and to that prince himself for par
don. The time allotted being expired, the
criminal, as is the custom in Malta, was
removed three days previous to execution
into the condemned chapel, where, with a
spiritual adviser, people in that unhappy
situotion pass the few sad minutes remain
ing to them, in the Offices Of preparing
themselves, by compunction and prayer,
for that pardon in the next world, from


which human policy excludes them in this.


Two of these trying days had passed,
when the father of the criminal, persua-
ding himself that even yet pardon might
be obtained for his son, could he but sue
ceed in engaging the influence Of the judge
who had condemned him, in his favor, ION
the evening preceding the day on which
the sentence was to be carried into execu-
ton, presented himself, just as it darkened,
at the door Of that functionary. Admit
tance was at first refused; but douceur
to the servant soon opened both the door
and the car of the judge to the supplicant.
An abrupt negative had been already CIV
en-, in terms the most unequivocal, when
the distressed parent, taking from under
his cloak bag containing one thousand
Maltese crowns large sum for the time
and place---put it on the table, giving the
Judge to understand that double that
amount would be forthcoming in the event
Of q pardon being granted to his unhappy
son. The judge remained for several min.
utcs silent and absorbed in thought; at
length he told the father in low voice,
but plain terms, th9t late as it now was,
and difficult from that and other circum-
stances, he would still, though the result
was far from certain, do his best to avert
the cruel doom impending over the young
man. = After little further consideration
he dismissed him with an order Of admis.
sion to the prison, where, under pretext ol
taking last leave Of his child, he was to
J devise some plan of getting the priest ou,
Year: 1860

The Independent publishes the following
extracts from letter written to a friend in
this city by Rev. A. Hale, pastor of Pres
bytorian church in Springfield, ILL.,, and in
reply to inquiries respecting the private
moral character Of Abraham Lincoln
These extracts speak for themselves.


"Mr. Lincoln is not an attendant on my
preaching. His wife is a member of the
First Presbyterian church, and when he is
in the city he pretty regularly attends there
on the Sabbath. | understand he once
taught Sabbath school, but not in this
place.


"His moral character stands among us
hero without reproach or blemish. l have
known him for twenty years, and latterly
as circumstances have made him prominent,
| have become well acquainted with him
have watched his course and the tide of
public opinion in these parts both among
his friends and his foes. My residence
here at the capital, where the streams of
political corruption from all parts of the
State meet, has made me sufficiently dis
trustful of the virtue and integrity of pub.
lie men. If not all men, at least all pub
lie men have seemed to be liars Abra-
ham Lincoln has been here all the time,
and consulting and consulted by all classes,
all parties, and on all subjects of public
interest, with men of every degree of in
fluence and every degree of corruption
and yet have never heard even an enemy
accuse him of intentional dishonesty and
corruption.


"He has stood before the community
here the man of uncorrupted if not incor-
ruptible integrity. And to be able to say
that of any man who has mingled as freely
with Illinois politics and politicians as Mr.
Lincoln, has, is glory enough for one man.
To call him "Honest Old Abe" is not to nv
taste, but no words can more correctly ex.
press the common opinion of him where
he is well known. He has never been in
the habit Of drinking, and has lectured
against it once in our meeting house.


"In answer to inquiries recently made in
respect to pledges, his reply in substance
was, that he had made no pledge of office,
honor, or patronage in any way to any man
or party, on the condition of his election to
the Presidency, and he was most happy to
say that very little of the kind had been
sought


"The prospect in this State is that he
will be triumphatly elected. The Fillmore
element that defeated the Republicans in
1856, is now very generally indicating its
preference for Lincoln. The same is true
of Indiana. So confident are Lincoln men
of glorious victory, that it is no uncom-
mon thing to hear it said, ave hope the
Baltimore Convention will put Mr.. Douglas
on the track 1t is well understood that
his nomination would be the only one likely
to awaken the life of the democracy in H.
linois, and the Republicans feel entirely
able to fight and conquer him."
Year: 1860

subscribers respectfully Inform their
the Planters general that they always prepared
aurnish them with NEGRO CLOTHING very
serias and reasonable prices.


The large patronage they from this and neighborg
has induced them extend their establishment to
increase and order be able supply
their patrons always with the and best descriptions Of
eas they have made with several of the most
manufactures in the ssuth shall hencefoh be able
supply Planters with goods of uniform quality.


They feel confident that they give satisfaction
III those who paronre their smnently Southern enterprise
solicit their ORDERS which shall


jals en- HEIR ARD GO.
Year: 1860

The leaders OF the Breckinridge and Lane
movement, in spite of the strong testimony
against them, says the West Chester Pepubh-
can, deny that their ulterior objects are dis
union. OF course they dare not avow this o.
penly in the free States, for they would not
have a corporals guard of followers under
such flag. But that such is their program
me there can be no doubt, and their own re-
cord makes out the case against them. Listen
to the testimony. Yancy, their leader, said
in his speech at Baltimore, before the seceders
Convention


.sHe begged them to accept these congratula-
tions at the hands of man Who had some rep
1tafion as a Jactionist and q disunionist. He is
neither for or against the asnion."


The Camden (Alabama) Register, in hoist
ing the name of Bsockinridge and Lane, gives
its reasons thus frankly for so doing:
Z eve run up our flag to-day tor Breckin-
ridge and Lane, the Democratic nominees for
President and Vice President of these United
States. We have unwaveringly contended
for the last fen years that it would be better
flor all concerned to make faro or more dis
tinct governments of the Territory comprising
the United STATES of .amertca and that such will
ultimately be done, there can be no sort of
doubt but it shall be done with fairness and
justice to every section of the Union, and be-
herring that the party TO Uhich pe belong is the
only reliable one 10 carry out this measure, and
secure to our own section all her rights-we
intend to battle for its principles to the fullest
extent of our ability.


A southern correspondent of the Richmond
Enquirer, who supports the seceders ticket,
says -


SCI think the time has fully come for us to
set up for ourselves, to claim and hold our
part of the public domain, and to be forever
rid of the North, who have been continually
enriching themselves out of our hard earn
ings. What though there be civil war and
bloodshed If the North do not abandon
their fanafical oppression upon us, all union
must cease between the two sections, and
choose 10 should cease now, while hope TO be
Year: 1860

A FAIR UNDERsTANDING.-Some years ago,
young man from just across the Connecticut,
who was attending our village academy. be-
came sadly infected with the notion that all
our maidens were in love with him. While
in this state of mind it fell to his lot one even
ing to see Miss H safely to her fathers
domcil. On arriving at the door, the lady
invited him to enter. He did SO. After a
few moments conversation he arose to leave,
and as Miss H was showing him the door
she innocently enough remarked that she
would be pleased to see him again. Here was
an occasion for the exercise of Johathan's
courage and moral principle. Expanding him
self to his tallest height, with graceful but
determined inclination of the head, be replied:
81 should be happy, Miss, to call as FRIEND,
but not as TELLER !''
Year: 1860

A Young man lately volunteered his servic-
es to conduct lady home from a party. On
the way he becudgled his brains for some in
teresting topic of conversation to amuse her
with he could hit upon nothing until they
met several cows. Here was a. topic which
the swain immediately laid hold of; and with
much simplicity remarked: ssNow aint't it
strange what motherly appearance COW
has 7'' To which the lady replied: 81 do
not think it strange at all, sir. that COW


should have motherly appearance to calf. I"
Year: 1860

The police making their rounds in Brussels
at midnight, found an ordinary clothes line
hanging near the door, several feet above the
ground, and tracing its history discovered tha,
1t came out of a garret window above. They
entered the house, convinced that they were
on the track of some daring burglar, searched
all the premises, and at last on walking into
the garret were Mortified to find themselves
confronted by housemaid, in very easy
evening dress, who, with many tears, explain
ed that the mysterious clothes line was at
tached to her left arm. in order that young
waiter to whom she was herself attached com
ing early In the morning, might call her with
a jerk to prayers at the Cathedral. AS this
explained the clothes line, and there was not
much else in the line of clothes before them
the discomfitted and blushing police beat
hasty retreat.
Year: 1860

The Boston papers narrate a strange Incl
dent. A young girl, of pleasing face and "a
greeable manners, only sixteen years of age,
was, with two companions, arrested for rob-
berry, in one of the worst parts of the town.
She asked that good lawyer might be engag-
ed to defend her saying that she had sufficient
money for large fee. The names of several
lega. gentlemen We're mentioned. and among
others that of an eminent criminal lawyer,
who resides in another county, but has an Of
flee in Boston. She at once said she did not
want him. This attracted the curiosity of the
officer to whom she had made the request. He
instituted inquiries about her, and learned
that the girl was an orphan, and that the law
yer whom she did not want to see was her
guardian, having charge OF considerable prop
erty belonging to her in another city. She
ran away few weeks ago, and came direct to
Boston. She was taken before the Police
Court, convicted of the robbery, and sentenc-
ed to the House of Correction for six months.
Subsequently, upon learning something of her
history, the Court revised her sentence, and
the case was continued in order that plans
may be adopted with view of rescuing her
from life of vice.
Year: 1860

must if they have any sense of shame feel sufficient,
ashamed of themselves without saying one word Il
deepen or strengthen the feeling.


The Louisville Courier details the theory of hunting
wild boars in India There is difference between the
wild boars of India and the tame bores of our owl
land Ia India the people hunt the boars in this
try the bores pursue the people.


The editor of the Washington Constitution says that
his party .calmly awaits the general verdict of the
ton" We do not know how calmly it awaits the gene
raj Judgment of the people, but think there is only
one general judgment they have more to fear.


We do not know whether Mr.. Douglas real otect in
going to the State of Maine not to visit his
mother yet one thing do knowthe coarse and heart
les tests about Mr. Ds mother n Breckenridge newspa
PERI in Breckenridge speeches. and upon Breckenridge
transparencies, at Breekinrdge conventions aud mass
meetings are burning shame the Breckinridge party


We would inform the whole of the rascaly portion Of
the oiee.hoders that there will probably be large
gathering at the Inauguration of John Bell the 4h of
March next but that the chief turn will after
wards


Somebody proposes a league between the Bell party
and the Brecknrdge party. There fifty leagues be-
tween them-that is they at least hundred and i
" miles apart.
Year: 1860

There is man named Meredeth Hol-
land, in St, Louis, who was born in, Ma
con county, Tennessee, in 1888: He is
not a healthy man bodily, nor is his
mind we'll balanced. d What makes him
remarkable is that he will answer the
most abstruse arithmetical question with
most astonishing promptness and accu-
racy; will calculate interest, simple and
compound, for any time, amonnt and
rate, and for this alone would be an in
valuable acquisition to counting house.
He is totally unable to explain how he
.arrives at the results, and it is said that
philosophers have studied him in vain.
He has natural gift that the mostaeute
observer or inveterate student cannot
wrest from him. His mind is compre-
hensible, and its mode of operation un-
fathomable.
Year: 1860

Stamped Paper and Envelopes Combined


This new patent is in the hands of the
Post Office Department, with the view
to examine into its merits and practica
bility. 1t consists of a sheet of paper OF
any size, the outside half sheet being
shaped like the flap of an envelope
The United States postage stamp is
printed on the right hand corner. Il
frequently happens that in hurry o.


bus mess the usual envelope is torn of
and to postmark it on the inside grea
Inconvenience is experienced, This new
lstyle is, especially adapted to the convent
ence of business men generally. ..r.