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Year: 1860

The FOREIGN NEws-By the Canada, we
have some items of foreign news OF considera-
bic interest 1t is now stated positively that
Count Cayour will represent Sardinia in the
diplomatic Congress. He is the foremost man
of Italy and the ablest statesman in Europe !;
and it is a good sign that Sardinia has the
nerve to insist on sending him to the Congress-
against the wishes of Austria and France.
There is also interesting news from Hungary,
where the Austrian government is disturbed
by an earnest demand for freedom and propos-
es to make war upon it.
Year: 1860

The CITY Mission FAIR.-We are request
ed to remind the ladies of the meeting at the
Union vestry Immediately following the three
o'clock prayer meeting, this afternoon, to
make arrangements for the City Mission Tea
Party, tomorrow. And all Others interested
in the success of that Mission will do good
work by sending provisions for the proposed
entertainment to the City Hall, early Tuesday
morning.
Year: 1860

The DEDICATION BALL, tonight, at Horti-
cultural Hall, by Hook and Ladder Co. No l,
will be an interesting occasion. This corps
may well feel proud of their new and elegant
quarters on Front street.
Year: 1860

REV. DIR. HILL preached an interesting dis
course, last evening, it being his annual ser
mon to the young men. His theme was ''pub.
lie spirit, and he illustrated his topic by
timely reference to the generous gift and the
municipal action which is to give Worcester
public library. He urged the importance Of
aiding with the largest generosity an enter.
prise fraught with such immense importance
to this and succeeding generations
Year: 1860

New ENTERPRISE ON SUMNER STREET.
Few people are probably aware how extensive
an enterprise has been clandestinely carried
on at No. IA Summer street, during the last
week of the year. In the absence of all sus-
picion, and in spite of the trusting confidence
of hundreds who pass that interesting locality
daily, scenes have been enacted there of very
unusual character. Out of thousand yards
of substantial material, and some half-dozen
bales of wadding, and other essentials for
Clothing the Naked" garments, which may
properly be called Minerva cloaks, from the
celerity of their production, have been fash
ioned for something like two hundred chill
dren.


The establishment is said to have had
branches in different sections of the city, and
express Mercurys were flying through the air
in all directions, and at all hours of the dav-
no postponement on account of weather The
work was completed at 8o'clocl Saturday eve.
ming. The sales-room of the establishment is
at the corner of Summer and Bridge street,
where, at 10 o'clock this morning, the whole
stock will be disposed of. For further infor
nation we refer, without permission, to the la
dies of the City Mission and to the esteemed
founder of that institution, whose charities
have taken at once so beautiful and so practi-
cal FORM
Year: 1860

During the taking of this ballot the following statements
were made in relation to the vote


irkaasass-The chairman Of the Arkansas delegation
said that Arkansas does not to this 10 favor
the seraranism Of Repubhcanism the abstraction Of se
Year: 1860




of slavery in Territory where the people were hos
tile TO the institution and if passed they would
be imperative and void in the presence of local
sentiment opposed to their execution and enforce
ment. Moreover, it was conceded on all hands that
the people of Territory might prohibit slavery in
proceeding to the formation of constitution and
State government-thus placing it in their power to
abolish slavery at the very uncture when alone the
South could hopefor increment calstrength.
Slaveholding Territories were valuable only the
nurseries of slaveholdng States, but who could not
predict that Territory in which slavery had been
protected against the will of the inhabitants would
be succeeded by State rendered only the embt-
tered against the South During the last ten years
nonnteryention had been settled policy ofthe De-
mocratic party, and he opposed to any new con-
struction which would have for its inevitable effect
to divide that party in which the hopes of the Con-
stitution and the Union were reposed. The North
ern Democracy had heretofore fought gallanty for
the rights of the South, and if they were po-
tential in an tie non-slaveholding States as they
once were, it was.eny fair to remember that their
weakness sprang from the fidelity with which they
had adhered to the Constitution in the face of fana
teal opposition.


Mr.. BENJAMIN, in few lucid remarks, declared
his entire concurrence in the pursued by the
Democratic delegates who withdrew from the Charles
ton Convention because OF its failure to adopt plat
form in accordance with what he believed the just
rights of the South. He was unwilling any longer
to stand upon a platform which capable of two
constructions and for himself would rest satisfied
with nothing less than unequvocal declaration of
constitutional principles. He then proceeded to re-
view the theory of the Kansas Nebraska bill for the
purpose of showing that its adherents were pledged
to abide by the decision of the Supreme Court in
respect to the powers of Territorial Legislature in
the matter of slavery, which decision having been
rendered in favor of the opinion held by the South
he thought the Northern Democracy we're bound to
carry out the compact in good faith.
Year: 1860

PAYING DEBTs.-Oue of the religious
papers has the following strong remarks
upon the subject. They drive the nail up
to the head aud clinch it,


Men may sophisticate as they please
they can never make it right; and all the
bankrupt laws in the universe cahuot make
it right for them not to pay their debts.
There is sin in this neglect as clear and
deserving of church dicipline as is stealing
and false swearing. He who violates his
promise to pay, or withholds payment of a
debt when it is in his power to meet
bis engagements, ought to be made to fee
that in the sight of all honest men he is q
swindler. Religion may be very comforta
BILE cloak under which to hide; but if re
ligion does not make man deal justly it il
not worth having.
Year: 1860

Our japanese visitors are described as
unscrupulously neat. Their changes Of
dress are more frequent than those of
watering place belle. Their hair is often
in the barber's hauds The tonsorial opera
ton is peculiar; the hair is plated with
short metallic rods (the subject often sitting
bow legged on the floor,) and creased until
it glitters. They express the highest de-
light with everything, and want to obtain a
full dress of an American lady to take back
to Japan with them, remarking that it would
be great curiosity there.
Year: 1860

The following is passage from remark
able statement of the Cork Examiner Of
May Is, bearing upon the continued fight
of the population from that part alone to
the newly adopted land Of the Irish Celtic
race: a


Each week sees the departure of an aver
age of 600 persons. the majority of whom
are Young men and women between 20 and
80 Years of age. To imagine the effect of
this drain upon the community, we might
instance that if these 600 were drawn from
town like that of Bantry there would
hardly be a young man or woman left III 1t
The actual numbers are greater than the
population of many large villages, and a
fortnight's draught at that rate would utterly
depopulate SO considerable a town as Mills
street. Remembering that almost every one
of these persons is Of condition to be Of ac
tual value to the community-the men as
farm laborers or mechanics; the women,
either in agricultural labor, as servants, or
still more important, as the healthy mothers
Of strong children, it is easy to conceive
how terrible the loss is to the country.


Nothing can impress this fact upon the
mind SO strongly as actual witnessing the
crowd preparing fortheir departure. Among
the entire crowd there is not an indication
of squalor or misery not single rag on
the back Of its owner indicates that be or
she is flying from poverty, not weak limb
or a pale check scarcely wrinkled face
indicates that the country is getting rid OF
burden. Sturdy, athletic young men, healthy
and strong girls-often of extraordinary
beauty-form great bulk Of the departing
crowd. On Thursday week we witnessed
no less than four hundred such preparing t.
take their departure in the Edinburg, Capt
Kennedy, one Of the vessels Of the Liver
pool, New York and Philadelphia lines. A
rumor had spread shortly before the arrival
Of the ship that certain number would b'
excluded for want of accommodation, and
the despair evinced by those who though
themselves shut out was as great as if the.
we're told they had lost every hope. Whel
the tenders came to bear away the passen
gers, there was frantic rush even on th'
part of those whose places were secured, q
if they fancied that some unlucky indispo
sition would shut them out. The news tha
all could be taken was received as if som
precious gifts had been shOwered anon
them.
Year: 1860

NOTABLE HYDRAULIC FAcT.-The New
Orleans Delta says, under this head:


The Mississippi river is at the present
moment four feet lower than it was ever
known before in the memory of the oldest
inhabitants. 1t is so low that our planters
are suffering for want of sepage water, to
get rid of which has heretofore been the
greatest trouble.


The low stage of the river is regarded by
many persons as a favorable prognostic Of
a healthy summer Should this hope be
realized, New Orleans will begin her usual
business season with brighter auspices thar
ever.
Year: 1860

and embelished edition of Helpers infamous
book, which obtained, for political object,
the endorsement of so many members of
Congress- Both have been disclaimed by a
portion of the party for whose service they
were sent forth. Rut it is the dictate of
common caution to note how far the priDci-
Piles are sustained of which the expression is
disavowed and to watch for the indications
of a coming time when both may be taken
up again, and set forth as the exponents of
a successful party.-N 0. Picoyune.
Year: 1860

One of the delegates from Indiana to the
Republican Chicago Convention is the owner
of negro slaves, aud is enjoying the fruits
of their labor. The Indianapolis Sentinel
says:


awe presume the delegate will be very
eloquent and pathetic in his denunciation
of Shareholders and the system of slavery,
and awful severe upon the Democratic party
for maintaining the constitution and the
laws"
Year: 1860

The effect of such policy will not be mere
ly to give your assent to failure of the Gov
ernment and. of the democratic party to pro-
tect you, but it win be to place this party in


power, with its myriads of camp followers, to
turn adrift all Its discordant elements on the
subject, of slavery to affiliate and actwith the
black republicans in Congress on propositions
South and the party no check upon Them
not even the power Of indignant protest. Hav-
ing no sound and common article of party
faith by which toprevent this, we shall become
Year: 1860

prey to our own members. The opposite of
all this may be expected from the adoption Of
the majority report. That involves great
constitutional question-at appeal to the an
cient brotherly love of our people for each
other. { It will too bring the country face to
face with the living issue of the age, and will
demand its solution at the hands of the people.
It will enable the democracy to appeal to the
loyalty of all sections to the Constellation
1t will inadgurate healthy state of public
opinion at the North as well as at the Sonth.
1t will enable the South to maintain high
public spirit among its people. It will bring
about once more community of public feel
ing, and public opinion, and public sentiment
running, like a great artery, throughout the
body of the democracy, and in time will ena-
BILE it to save the Government from becoming
a mere war of factions, or viii save the Consti4
tuition as the basis of a new Government.


To my countrymen of the South have
few words to say. Be true to your cohstitu-
sense of right. Accept Of defeat here, if de-
feat is to attend the assertion of the right, in
order that you may secure permanent victory
in what ever contest you carry constitutional
banner. aa9 -s2ts ''.e


Yield nothing of principle for mere party
suecess-else you will die by the hands of
your associates as surely as by the hand of
your avowed enemy. Permit no party, In lleu
of fealty to the written compact of the Con-
stitution, to put the fat of its own allegiance
and fealty upon you, which will forever after
be used to prevent your rising, when you think
the proper time comes, to assert your reserved
rights. Do not demoralize yourselves; do not
demoralize your own people by admitting that
you are ready to affiliate in a war of factions,
merely for the sake of keeping a party in pow.
er. A party, in its noblest sense, is an organa
lied body that pledges itself to the people to
administer the Government on constitutional
basis. The people have no interest in parties,
except to have them pledged to administer the
Government for the protection of their rights.
The leaders of the masses, brilliant men, great
statesmen, may, by ever ignoring the peoples
rights, still have a brilliant destiny in the re-
wards of Office and the distribution of the
eighty millions annually; butwhen those Lead
ers, those statesmen, become untrue to the
people, and ask the people to vote for party
that ignores their rights, and dares not ac-
knowledge them, in order to put and keep
them in Office, they ought to be strung upon
political gallows higher than that ever erect.
ed for Haman. [Vehement and continued


Mr.. P6eH, of Ohio, took the floor in reply,
Year: 1860

Live for something, be not idle


Look about thee for employ
Sit not down to useless dreaming
Labor is the sweetest joy.
Folded hands are ever weary,


Selfish hearts are never gay,
Life for thee hath many duties


Active be, then, while you may.
Scatter blessings in thy pathway -
Gentle words and cheering smiles,
Better are than Gold and silver,


With their grief dispelling wiles.
As the pleasant sunshine falleth,


Ever on the grateful earth,
So let sympathy and kindness


GLADDEN. well the darkened hearth.
Hearts there are oppressed and weary;
Drop the tear of sympathy,
Whisper words Of hope and comfort,


Give, and thy reward shall be
Joy unto thy soul returning,


From this perfect fountain head.
Freely, as thou freely giyest,


Shall the grateful light be shed.
Year: 1860

A DEAF MUTE ON TRIAL FOR MURDER.-A
deaf mute has been put upon his trial, on a
charge of murder, atOxford, N. c. The pre-
liminary question was, as to whether he was
OF sufficient mind to understand the nature of
the trial and his own rights. A special ver-
dict for the prisoner was agreed upon, and
the State. If the Supreme Court grants a
new trial, the whole issue win have to be
gone through with again. If new trial is
refused, the prisoners life is saved, but he
will have to be placed in the lunatic asylum.
Year: 1860

TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE OF A MAGISTRATE
A justice in village near Cleveland, Ohio,
discovered his own daughter among some
girls brought before him from IA house of i'll
fame. He grew pale and adjourned the court.
The girl had eloped from a female seminary
at the East several years before, since which
her father had not heard from her.
Year: 1860

RULES OF HEALTH.-lmprimis, never 60
to bed with your feet sticking out of the
window, particularly when it is raining o,
freezing.


More than three pigs feet and a half a
mlnce pie eaten at midnight will not gene
rally cause the consumer to dream of houris
paradises, accommodating bankers, and 9TH
cr good things. At least they are not apt
TO do SO.


Never stand in the rain barrel all night
1t checks perspiration, and spoils rain water
Tor washing purposes.


Never spank your children with hand
saw, or box their ears with the sharp edge
of hatchet. 1t is apt to effec: their brains


Never stand in the hall with the door
open with nothing on but cur he mise OF
she mise, talking to friend, more than a
half hour at d time.


To enlarge the muscles of the arms and
legs, climbing up anu down the chimney
especially if the house is four story one,
three or four times before breakfast, is q
cheap exercise, and gives voracious appe-
tite.


Earache, in children, is common and
vexatious complaint. To cure it at once,
bore a hole in the tympanum with a gim-
blet, and pour in oil and things. If the
child keeps on crying, bore it all the way
through the other ear.


Corns may be easily cured. The most
iorturlnS corn can at once be extirpated, as
follows Take sharp knife, find the joint
IT the toe whereupoG the corn resides. in
sert the knife in the articulation. pry of the
toe and throw it away it will never return
again, unless your dog brings it back to you
in his mouth. Patent applied for.
giving the drinker all the liquors he wants
in our experience. who Were cured in three
weeks One jumped out of story win
dow, and ran curb-stone into his head );
the other didn't get up one morning, and
- has universal curb stone growing out of
his head in the graveyard


The best way to take pills of Brandreth's S
description, If you have twenty or twenty
i've to take, Is not to make them into hash
and eat them, but load shot gun with them
put the muzzle against your stomach and
pull the trigger with your toe. 1t saves a
great deal OF disgust to the gullet, and
bad taste in your mouth.


Never go to sleep, standing on Your head
The brain might take a notion to run ; and
what would you do, ON waking, to find all
Your brains in your head


Never shave your whiskers with hatch
ct. The best method of trimming is to
pass a red hot iron gently over them. The
operation smooths them regularly, giving
the end of each hair smooth, crispy ap-
pearance.
Year: 1860

ACHEA- ANY War" When jackson
was President of the United States" said
an aged laborer In the Presidential garden.
lew years since. 50 he could tell an honest
man from a rogue when first he saw him
L remember that a clergyman, with stiff
white collar, and an untarnished suit of
black, called upon him one morning when
he was overlooking some work that l was
performing in the garden, and requested an
appointment to some office, saying, Gen
era, L worked harder for your election tha
many of those upon whom you have already
bestowed Office You are a minister of
the Gospel - said old Hickory. inquiringly
les, said the clergyman, was a minis
ter. but L thought could do better by be-
coming politician. So l stumped the dis
trict, week days for you, and preached, for
the Lord, Sundays Old Hickory, turning
short towards him, and looking him full in
the face, said, By the eternal, if you would
cheat the Lord, you would cheat the coun-
try. l will have nothing to do with You,
nor with anylike You. Good morning.
and he walked rapidly away shall new
er forget the looks of that hypocritical
clergyman Had the last Judgment been
set, and he before the great white throne,
doubt if he would have looked more blank
and chop-fallen- ''-Erchange paper.
Year: 1860

E1- This is from Punch Our fair cous


In Fanny I'VE dare not give her surname
says she really is surprised at the ridiculous
COMPLAINTS which men keep making about
crlnolino for of course they mast admit
mat the widest of petticeats cover but tHO
Year: 1860

A very fine looking lady, residing on the
extreme outskirts of this city, who has nu
merous admirers as we'll as aspirants for her
hand, has been bothered recently with the
attentions of a very unacceptable suitor.
This individual came to see her one dav. a
short time ago, and it so happened that she
was entirely alone. Fearing he would take
advantage of the opportunity to force upon
her very disagreeable subject, with which
in particular she had no patience at that time
to be bored she thought she would resort to
a ruse to get clear it. So she managed
very quietly to inform her visitor of fact
which did not exist, to wit that Young
lady, who often stays with her, as a compan-
ion, was up stairs, and of course lowing TO
the construction of the house) within hearing.
CIhe young lady had gone out with the in
tention Of remaining away till dusk) The
love sick swain, instead of sitting q few min
utes and leaving, sat nailed to his chair for
about five hours. The lady looked at the
clock on the marble mantle with an unmis-
taxable expression Of impatience and fatigue,
but there he sat- droning out his platitudes.
Pretty soon young lady acquaintance from
across the street came in and inquired for
Miss --. shes up stairs" said the lady
of the house, and up stairs r1shed the visitor.
She was rapidly followed by the lady of the
house, who whisperingly informed her of the
ruse she was playing, and returned to her
beau or rather bore The young female
from across the street humored the deceit bv
holding for a few moments, a very animated
conversation with an imaginary Miss - up
stairs, and finally left. The light began TO
fade in the windows,-still the lower sat.
1t became almost twilight, and the sheer
weariness of the lady was changed into the
hyeiness ofa momentary apprehension that
her female companion would return ere her
persecutorihad departed, and thus convict her
ot very pointed white lie. Her apprehension
diu not last long for IN stepped the said fc-
male companion, in the next second with
mop skip and jump, and, taking her seat
alter saluung the astonished youth (for he was
sf'ght"atly astonished, you may believe J be-
gan relating to her lady friend that she had
performed all the sundry and various erronds
which had been intrusted to her by the said
lady ltmay reasonably be supposed that the
young man very distinctly thought that he
smelt q large sized mice At any rate he
left in manner little BORDERING unor oL
ruptness.
Year: 1860

The Republicans and Southern Ultraists
come nearer agreeing than people are apt to
suppose. They agree that Congress should
legislato on the subject of slavery in the
Territories. The only difference between
them is, that the Republicans desire this leg
islation to be against slavery, while the
Southern Utraists desireit to be in favor Of
it, But there is a still nearer approximation
than even this. Observe what Tom Corwiu.
the leading Republican in the House of
Representatives recently said in reply to a
question from Mr. Keitt, of South Carolina:


"Alr Corwin-I meant to say that the Congress
Of the United States, IN my Judgment, was the
only legitimate body under our system To make
laws for the Territories. | then, in addition 10
that, sad that ! thought this the best tribunal
before which TO discuss the question as to Wheth-
er slavery was proper 10 20 here or there.


. say for myself that If you have acquired
territory, or will acquire territory, IN which the
white man cannot work, | will allow owners of
slaves in the States to 20 there with their slaves,
and, if necessary, would protect them there"


Can there be a palmer declaration than
the above in favor of slave code for
the Territories2 The only limitation is that
the country must be adapted to slave labor


There is not Southern extremist to be
found who would not feel perfectly safe in
leaving the slave code to depend on the
the question of climate, for he knows full
well that slave code would be perfectly
useless in Territory which was not adapted
to slave labor. 1t would hardly be of any
use to pass a law to protect slave property in
a region where there would necessarily be
no such property.


Az the Slave Codites and Republicans APP
proximate so closely, we think it would be a
master stroke Of policy on the part of the
latter, just to pass a slave code for New Mex
leo or Arizona, and thus establish the pre-
cedent of Congressional legislation on the
subject Of slavery in the Territories This
done, the Southern ultraists could not say a
word if Congress then went to work and en-
acted free code for other Territories Thus,
it would not be long before the Republican
party would be, by common consent, one of the
ruling parties of the South, and the term
Slave Codites and Republicans synonymous.