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F. LANGSTON,
Attorney at Law,
OABNESVILLE, Oft.
ILL practice in the counties of Frank
lin, Hart, Elbert, Madison and Jackson
jtiriMNCEs—0. Peeples, Esq., Wm. H.
Hall, Esq., Athens; Gabriel Wash, Esq.,
ptnislsville; Hon. Junius Hillyer, Monroe;
1 T. Akerman, Esq,, Elberton.
May «7.1858.
ROBERT HESTER, '
Attorney at Law,
Msy 1 ELBERTON, OA.
J. M. MATTHEWS,
Attorney at Law,
May 1 DANIELSVILLE. GA.
c. B. LOMBARD,
DENTIST,
ATHENS, GEORGIA
tutnsorer theStoreof Wilson St Veal. Jan3
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A Lovely Woman’s Kiss.s
DT AN ENTHUSIASTIC TOUNO MAN.
I’ve banqueted on luxuries
Produced in every clime,
I’ve feasted on rich turtle soup,
And supped on oysters prime;
But notbiug so delicious is
Within a world like this,
As soft caresses seasoned by
A lovely woman’s kiss.
I’ye gloated o’er the festive board,
And drank rich draughts of wine—
I’ve listened at the opera # .
To melody divine; "!£
But oh! I’ve never met _
Such sweet excess of bliss '
As thrills the soul when lips recieve
A lovely woman’s kiss.
In glit’ring halls of splendor rare
I’ve passed the midnight hours—
IlTgardons beautiful and lair
I’ve wandered’mid the flowers;
But there’s a dearer joy than these—
A joy I would not miss—
A heavenly rapture which is found
In lovely woman’s kiss.
In my last hoar when death draws near,
In darkness and in gloom,
May a woman's smile my pathway cheer.
And light me to the tomb,
And when my soul shall take its flight
To other worlds than this,
May it He wafted to the skies
By lovely woman’s kiss.
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JAMES M. ROYAL,
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H AS removed hie shop to Mitchell’s old
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general assortment of articles in hisline, and
ittlwaysready to fillordersinthe best style
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AuginlC, 1855. ly
W. W. LUMPKIN,
Attorney at Law,
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
f ILL Practice in all the counties of the
. Western Circuit, Particular attention
given to collecting.
Office on Broad street, over White A Moss’
••tore. Jan SI
W I
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W. L. M ARLER,
Attorney at Law,
Jefferson, Jackson County, Ga.
flartHENCEs.—Messrs. McLester * Hunter
, S, Thompson. E*qs., Jefferson; D.
■ Spence end W.J.Peeples, Esqs. Law-
Hwerille; J. H. Newton, 0. Peeples, Esq.
Christv. Athens; Law «fc Clarke
*** M.Graham, Esqs. Gainesville.
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lltkdtomis Selections.
INFIDELITY OF LIFE.
"How much is this a yard !" said a
lady acquaintance of mine to the propri
etor of a large dry goods store.
•‘That tna’am, is worth’—and then
held it up for inspection—‘that is selling
for 88.—It is a beautiful piece, ma’am;
the best for the price in the city.’
"It is more than I am willing to give,’
said the lady. ‘I will take it at two dol
lars.’
The merchant went on, in the usual
style, asserting that it was less than cost,
but it being her she might have it.
After the lady had gone, said I, ‘Why
did you sell that without a profit ?”
‘•Why did I? You don’t think me
so much of a fool as that ? I never dis
pose of goods without a profit.”
“But you told the lady so ?” said I.
‘•Pooh! I tell the same to twenty every
day. I made fifty per cent, on that very
cloth.”
He then went to another customer,
and I thought to myself, here is 1 a man
reckoned honorable as a business man,
in good standing as a member of—church,
esteemed -a benevolent, liberal Christian,
and absolutely lying, according to his
own admission, at least twenty times a
day merely to make a good bargain, and
gain n few pence. Why is he called
honorable ? Becaues he will not forfeit
his word when overreached by a ‘cuter
man ?” because he pays all his debts
when due, to keep up his credit ? Yes.
These are sufficient in the business
world. Why is he esteemed a christain?
Merely because he owns a pew,is a com
municant, and gives liberally to benevo
lent societies.
Judging from the acts of such, and
acts are the most correct interpreters of
a person’s thoughts, what claims have
they to such titles as Christians and hon
orable ro n? It is not by those acts
expected to come before the discriminat
ing, criticizing public, that men are to
be known, but by these little everday
transactions where there aresupposed to
be no observer#. When the eye of
community is not upon men, is the mo
ment to judge of their honesty. Ask a
tradesman why he persists in such a
course'and he will readily answer,
“We must do so if we would live.”
Has mankind so degenerated that a
man of integrity must starve ? Are all
knaves, that we must deal in falsehood,
or die T No; God. forbid! It is a libel
on the human race, to say that we cannot
prosper and be honest. Let ra« ask thoso
who answer, ‘We must be dishonest,
how many have ever thoroughly tried
the opposite course ?
Now, have conscience and integrity
become barriers to right and success.—
Each exerts himself to the extent ol Iiis
sagacity, if not to get the better of a
bargain, at lea9t not to get cheated. Wo
need a host of ministers, yes, home mis-
sionnries, to preach against this growing
faithlessness, this infidelity, not theoretic
al, but practical infidelity—this beggary
of faith, to preach to each other.
W.G.DELONY,
Attorney at Law,
WILL givehisspeoinlattcntiontocolleot-
Jfing.andt 0 the cJairns of all persons cn-
5JWtoL.\Nn 'Warrants, under the late
Land Bill ol' the last Congress.
OfficeoaBroud Street over the store
LM. Kcnnoy.
March 16—1855-4 f.
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l^*The Buffalo Advertiser recalls to
miqd that when Mr. Fillmore assumed
the duties of the office of President of
iho Senate, with characteristic inde
pendence, he. informed that body that
he should consider it his duty to p re .
serve decorum, and should reverse the
rule, which had so long prevailed, that
Senators were not to be called to order
for words spoken in debate. The Sen
ators were so well pleased with his re
marks that they ordered this address to
be entered at large on their journal.
The reminiscence is opportune when a
democratic occupant of the same high
seat permits such men as Sumner and
Wilson to pour forth their venomous
and scurrillous diatribes against Sena
tors and States, without restraint or
reproof.
fdEPThe Louisville Journal gays
Franklin Pierce was elected to thePies-
ideney by an overwhelming majority of
the nation, because he was not knewn.
He has been dropped by general consent,
because he is;
From the Chronicle <fe sentinel.-.
COL. BENTON ON THE STUMP.
Col. Benton is not a logician. He is
a plain spoken old man, with more hones
ty, independence and truth than falls to
the lot of one politician in five hundred,
but he has no knowledge of the effect of
certain causes. He has taken the stump,
in Missouri to advocate the claims of him
self for the Governorship of that State,
and those of Mr. Bochanan. for the
Presidency. The speech he has deliv-
ered in St. Louis will go far to preclude
the success of either. Both himself and
Mr. Buchanan being avowed Democrats
he sets forth to show what a foul abuse
Democracy has become. He draws a
picture of weakness, ignorance, corrup
tion and recklessness that might appal
the stoutest heart, and he states that this
is what Democracy has been during the
Pierce Administration. He shows up
Aa Cincinnati Convention which last
month nominated Mr. Buchanan, and he
proves that the same dishonesty was
rampant there. His words on this poiut
nre worth listening to; •
“I went to Cincinnati to be near that
Convention—the first one I ever ap
proached. I went to see how things
were done, and to assist a little at a safe
nomination. I found a garrison of office
holders inside of the Convention, and a
besieging army of the same gentry on
the outside of it. Packed delegates were
there sent to betray the people. Straw
delegates were there, coming from tho
States which could give no democratic
vote. Memhers of Congress were there r
although forbid by their duties from be
ing at such a place. A cohort of office
holders were there; political eunuchs
in the federal system, incapable of vot
ing for the smallest federal office, yet
sent there by the administration to im
pose a President upon the people.
It was a scandalous collection, exclud
ed by the constitution from being even
electors of the President, and yet sent
here to vote for the administration—and
to vote upon the principle of the ox that
knoweth his master’s crib—upon the
principle of the asa that knoweth the hand
that feedetli him. Bullies were there
from the Custon House and the Five
Points in New York—all with the ap
probation of the administration; for the
office-holders would not be there (absent
from their duties and drawing their pay)
without the consent of their employers
It was a scandalous colection. The
members of Congress were in the double
breech of thqir duties,,. They were
neglecting their legislative duties, and
doing what they had been interdict
ed from doing.
Thirty years ago the nomination of
Presidential candidates was taken from
Congress’on account of corruption which
it engendered, and given to delegates,
intended to be fresh from the people
and to obey their will, and the nomina
tion removed from Washington to Bal
timore, to get out of the reach of
President making members. But these
members followed to Baltimore, getting
proxies from some delegate when they
could get no appointment from the peo
ple ; and to get rid of them—to get
entirely beyond their reach—the Con
vention itself was removed from Balti
nore-ttrCincinnati.
Yain effort to escape them. They
followed on to Cincinnati. They broke
up Congress to get to this forbidden
place. Surely the new President will
be very hard-hearted if he does not re
member them when be comes to the dis
tribution of office. From Washington
City came a new corps, never before put
upon such service—the office-holders in
the city, clerks in the departments—
heads of bureaus—men who have no
vote in any federal election—political
hybrids, unable to act a man’s part in
any election, but sent to Cincinnati, as a
life guard, to support the administration.”
Wiser men than Col. Benton have
shown that corruption breeds corruption
From such a pandemonium of vice as be
has here depicted, what hope is there to
the country in the future ? He himself
forbids the thought by his significant
words: “Surely the new President will
be very hard-hearted, if fife does not re
member them when he comes to the
distribution of office.” The spoilsmen
would clamor for their prey, though they
gnawed at the heart of their country.—
Inadvertently, the old man proves Mr,
BucnANAN and his fritends to he as cor
rupt and dishonest as those who opposed
them in the Convention. He says:
Citizens, I have told you of the at
tempts to kill off Mr. Buchanan in the
Convention under the two-thuds rule
there was another attempt, of a differ
ent kind, to do the same thing. It was
with b platform—a patibulary structure
_ w :,h a rope over the head and a trap
door'under the feet-and so contrived
that if he got on it he was strung up in
the North; if not. he was laid out tn the
Souih. His friends found out the game,
and determined to mount it, be it what
it might. They said the President does
not swear to platforms, but to the Con
stitution ; and besides, it it lawful to
fight fire with fire. It was concocted
by the old janissaries and produced at
the moment the balloting was to com
mence, so as to make disorder in the
ranks, but the trick failed, it was re
ceived in a tempest of emulous applause,
and extolled t<J the skies. I asked one
of the most vociferous of these applaud-
ers how he could swallow such stuff?
He answered promptly,
ipecac! to puke it np again.
New Yorker, of course, who gave that
naive answer; and I am sure his stomach
would feel the cleaner after the relief.
The Cincinnati platform is here de
clared to be “a trickl” “ Buchanan’s
friends found out the game and deter
mined to mount it, be it what it might.”
Mr. Buchanan’s avowal that he has
ceased to have any individual identity,
being merged into the Cincinnati plat
form is, we must conclude, part of the
trick. Let our readers ponder upon this
startling revelation, and resolve to unite
m their strength to free their country
from the evils with which it is threaten
ed, Under chapielion hues, corruption
is stalking through the land, and unless
we strike a blow in November that will
rout it, our dearest liberties will be im
perilled.
issonngs.
A Sure Remedy for a Felon.—It
i« said by somebody who pretends to
know all about it, that the following is
a sure remedy for a felon : “ Take a pint
of common soft soap, and stir in ait
slacked lime, till it is of the consistency
of glazier’s putty. Make a ‘leather
thimble,’ fill it with this composition
once in twenty minutes, and a cute is
certain.
“By-and-By.”
There’s music enough in these three
words for the burden'of a song. There’s
hope wrapped up in them, an articulate
beat of the human heart
By-and-by. We heard it as long ago
as we can remember, when we made
brief but perlious journeys from chair
to table, and from table to chair again.
We heeid it the other day when two
parted that had been “loving in their
lives,” one to California and the other
to her lonely home.
Everybody says it 6omehow or oth
er.—The little boy whispers it when he
dreams of exchanging the little stubbed
boots for those like a man.
The man murmurs it, when in life’s
middle watch, he sees his plan half
finished, and his hopes yet in the bud,
waving in the cold, late Spring.
The old man may say it, when he
thinks of the mortal for the immortal,
to-day for to-morrow.
The weary watch for the morning and
while away the dark with “by-and-by.”
Sometimes it sounds like a song;
sometimes there is a sign or a sob in it.
What wouldn’t the world give to fin.d it
in almanacs, set down somewhere, no
matter in the dead of December, to
know that it would surely come! But
fairy-like as it is. flitting like a star-
beam over the dewy shadow of years,
nobody can spare it and wa look upon
the many times these words have be
guiled us, the memory of the silver “by-
and-by,” as like the sunrise of Ossian,
“pleasant and mournful to the soul.”
A Lawyer’s Opinion or Law.—A
learned judge being once asked how he
would act if a man owed him ten pounds
aftd refused to pay him, replied, “Rath
er than bring an action with its costs
and uncertainty, I would give him a
receipt in full of all demands; yea, and
I would send him, moreover, five pounds
to cover all possible costs.”
Wbiie the Sag-Night Democrats
were firing off their hundred guns or so
yesterday afternoon, to get up a little
artificial enthusiasm for Buchanan, a
horny-handed, true hearted mechanic,
formerly of Pennsylvania, was heard to
say; ■
“ Ah! they may fire as many guns as
they please for Mr. Jimmy Buchanan,
but they never will be able to make me
forget that speech he made to prove
that Ten cents a day was wages enough
for a poor laboring man.”—Mem. Enq.
Minnesota territory, which is grow
ing with wonderful rapidity, has now a
population of 120,000 more than suffi
cient to entitle it to be admitted as
State of the Union. No application
however, has yet been made for admis
sion
iSSF* Punch says that the editor of a
country paper says in a beautiful fulmi
nating leader: “ When the Provisional
Government promised the laboring class
that they should want neither work or
high wages,4/tem arses actually believed*
it.” We thought this rather strong,
and a little ungrammatical, when the
next week’s paper contained the follow
ing :—Erratum—For “them asses” in
our last, read "the masses.”
politics of tjjt
OLD LINE WHIGS-MR. FILLMORE.
That excellent old-line Whig journal,
the Baltimore Patriot, in noticing Mr.
Fillmore’s letter of acceptance, ad
dresses the old-line Whigs with so much
point and force, that we cannot forego
the pleasure of laying the article before
the old-lme Whigs of Georgia entire,
and commending it to their careful con
sideration.
The Patriot says:—The letter of Mr.
Fillmore is one that will be found worthy
alike of the esteem in which he is held
by the Whigs and of the honorable re
cognition which the Americans have ac
corded him in choosing him as their can
didate for the Presidency. This letter
of acceptance is characteristic of Millard
Fillmore. It is frank, manly and patri
otic. It endorses themain principles ef
the American platform, because they are
essentially Whig principles, and there
fore eminently national; but it refers
more particularly; as we expected it
A GLORIOUS TRIBUTE.
Research shows that the loftiest eolo-
jies ever passed on Fillmore have come
rom his opponents, Tiiey nave ex
hausted the vocabulary of praise in trum
peting his wisdom, patriotism, and fideli
ty to his country. Here is a passage from
the Democratic Review of December,
1855, by far the most able and candid
of all the organs of its party. How
proud should we feel of our gallant leader,
when his very enemies crown him with
laurels and strew his path with palms:
Momentous events were transpiring.
The agitation of the question of slavery
was paramount in the public mind. In
this crisis it was well that so reliable a
man as Mr. Fillmore was found in the
Presidential chair. The safety and per
petuity of the Union were threatened.—
Already had fanaticism raised its Hydra
head. Schemes and “isms” leaped from
a thousand ambuscades. The enemies
of the Union started forth on every side
—-Abolitionism here—Secession there
—Acquisition and Filibusterism else-
wheie. These were the formidable ele
ments of misrule with which the Exe
cutive bad to cope. How well he meU
and how entirely he, for the time, over
came those enemies of the peace of the
Republic we leave to the historian to
relate; but our retrospect would be in
complete and disingenuous, did it not
accord the meed of praise justly due to
high moral excellence, and intellectual
administratorial honesty and talent, as
developed in the Administration of Mr.
Fillmore.” ^
The Mount of Olives,—«The Mt
of Olives near Jerusalem, has been
purchased by a Madame Polack, the
widow of a wealthy banker of the He
brew persuasion, at Kouigsberg, in
Prussia. This lady intends to beautify
the place and improve the whole neigh
borhood, at her sole expense. The first
thing she has done, is to plant the whole
area with a grove of olive trees, and
Ithus to restore it to the original state to
which it derives its name. The olive
tree thrives well in that locality, and
though it takes many y«ars before arriv
ing in a state of maturity, and sixteen
years before bearing any fruit at all, it
requires but little or no tending, and
lasts for several hundred years.
The character of the young men of
a community depends much on that of
the young women. If the latter are
cultivated, intelligent and accomplished,
the young men will feel the requirement
that they themselves should be upright,
gentlemanly and refined; but if their
female friends are frivolous and silly,
the young men will be found to be dis
sipated and worthless. But remember,
always, that a sister is the best guardian
of a brother’s integrity. She is the
purest inculcator of a faith in. woman s
purity. As a daughter, she is the true
light of the home. The pride of the
father often is centered on his daughter.
She should, therefore, be the sum and
substance of all.
Affecting Case.—The Dayton Ga
zette, in a recent number, told an affect
ing story of a farmer, while selling a
load of wheat at a dollar a bushel in
that city, burst into tears. T[;e owner
of the mill was touched, and kindly
raquirea uie cause orms gnei. "sym
pathy” was too much for him, and,
bursting into’a tremendous “boohoo,”
he replied:—“ My son John could have
got a dollar and seventy five cents a
bushel for this very wheat two months
ago!”
ST Last week, in Boston, a Virgin
ian of duskey hue, and bearing above
his shoulders a very woolly top, was
married to a rosy maiden under twenty.
She was quite handsome, and a native
of Ireland.
Wooly go Unum Eiinibus yah.
Moral Courage.—How many can
say‘Not’ Very few. Still the num
ber is on the increase. Here is a sam
ple :
'Come in Joe, and let’s take a drink.
‘Thank ye, Thomas, but I can’t afford
it*
‘Well, but I’ll pay for it.’
‘O, I’m not speaking o’ the money.'
‘What then ?’ -
‘Loss of health and energy; for I tell
you what it is, Thomas, I find it up hill
business to work steady under liquor, it
does well enough for half an hour, and
then I get lazy, and moody, want more,
and become reckless, and that’s why 1
can’t afford it So here's home to din
ner.”
(^During a thunder sturm a few
days ago, says the Boston Post, the
lightning came down upon a pasture, of
Charles Titcomb, of Kensington, N. H.
descening perpendicularly into the earth
for about thirty feet, so as to form a good
well of water. The hole Is as big ns a
barrel, and it was formed without throw
ing out any earth.
The best certificate of a man’s charac
ter is. “ He keeps his promises.”
A cultivated mind and good heart
will give an intellectual, and even beauti
ful, expression to the face.
The only true conquests, those which
awaken no regret, are those obtained
over ignorance.
Pitch upon that course of life which
is the most useful, and custom will
render it the most agreeable.
would, to his antecedents, as expressing
the policy by which, in the event of his
election, he would still be governed. It
bids the American people judge of bis
future coarse by the record of his past
actions. What that course was, and
how it extorted praise from the ablest
of his political opponents,. 1 wrung from
the lipfc of Governor Wise a burst of ad
miration, and a hearty .eulogy from the
Democratic Review; how Henry Clay
found in Millard Fillmore a statesman
worthy of his support; and how, from
his first assumption of the Presidency
to the close of his term of office, he cun
tinued to rise in public estimation,
winning the esteem of every section of
the Union, and the sincere respect of
even those whose political principles dif
fered from his own, are matters of his
tory. Pure, calm> wise and good, Mil
lard Fillmore was, emphatically, the
choice of the Whigs of Maryland at the
Convention of 1852, and had he then re
ceived the nomination he so richly de
served, he would likewise have been
supported by many moderate Democrats
who admired his straight-forward course
as Chief Magistrate, and were inspired
thereby with implicit confidence in his
firmness and integrity. We do not say
that America has not other statesmen
equally honest and governed by equally
patriotic motives; bait we do assert that
she has none worthier of popular regard,
or whose whole political life has been
more consistently in accord with the
great principles embodied in the Fed
eral Constitution. What Millard Fill
more was in 1852 he still continues to
be in 1856; as a man without guile, as
a statesman above reproach. His nomi
nation upon the platform of his antece
dents appeals to the intelligence of the
people, and not to their less estimable
qualities—to their prudence and not to
their pa-sions—to their spirit of con
servatism, and not to their agrarian
tendencies, and to their patriotism as
contradistinguished from sectional feel
ing, and the ultraisms of cliques and
factions. Is bis great political rival,
Mr. Buchanan, a man of excellent per
sonal character ? So is Millard Fill
more. Is he an experienced States
man? So is Millard Fillmore. Has
he defended and denounced the same
political measures? So has not Millard
Fillmore. Has he been Federalist and
Democrat ? So has not Millard Fill
more. The personal character of Mr.
Buchanan we respect;—but his political
changes, his timidity, subserviency, and
shiftiness, by no means meet with our
approral. He reminds us of certain
pieces of music, where the excellence
of the air is smothered up and utterly
spoiled by the variations which have
been engrafted upon it. His really
good personal qualities have been over
laid and lost sight of in his political
aberrations-
Millard Fillmore, on'the contrary,
has remained consistent throughout.
The statesman is but the accurate re
flection of the man, and the man of the
statesman. Simplicity, honesty, integri
ty, prudence and firmness—these are
his leading characteristics; no outside
pressure would induce him to swerve a
hair’s breadth from the line of duty—
no specious eloquence could affect the
calmness of hrs judgment. Taking
broad views of things, and true to the
best interests of the Republic, he em
braces every portion ol' it within the
scope of his regard and has won for him-
sell the confidence which is reposed in
highest office in the Republic, compor
ed himself so nobly and impartially as to
justify the expectations of his political
friends, and win honest plaudits even
from his political opponents. A man
endowed with qualities like these, has
claims upon tho true men of the Re
public superior to those ot mere party
affinities, because they are based upon
broader grounds and sustained by broad
er acts. Pa man must be national,
inasmuch as his policy me. with the ap
proval not merely of the people of this
section or of that, but of thoughtful men
in every portion cf the Union. Such a
man, moreover, must be conservative,
because a wise conservative alone re
cognizes that just mean in political
measures which is calculated to preserve
harmony in the Republic aud an amicag^-
ble understanding with furesgn nations*^,
KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE.
From the census of 1850, it appears
that the number of natives and foreign
ers convicted of crime in the United
States, was— - '& v : 3&g»lgL*iaw-.
Natives. — r • • 13,000
Foreigners — 13,000
Total Population:
Natives. .21,031,560
Foreigners. 2,‘240,585
So that of tho natives, only 1 in every
1,619, and of foreigners 1 In every 154,
are convicted.
Americans!' do you want more emi-
grants? . .
“ What a Fact.”—From the yearly
report of the four prisons in the City of
New York, it appears that the total
number of commitments for the year
1855, wt s 36,624. •
Natives. —
Foreigners. ; • .-27,338
Drunkards 32,903
Crime in St. Louis.-*-From the Re
cords of the Recorders 1 Court.
Total arrest by Day Police from Ju
ly 17,1855, to March 1,1856. • l,3o(»
Total by Night Police from April 10,
1855, to March 1,1856 2,123
Grand Total.......»• • ••»•••• 0,479
Foreigners. ,.3,234
Americans.............245
Over Thirteen Foreigners to one
American!
TWO-THIRDS of the whole amount
IRISH!
TEN IRISH to one American Law
Breaker.
At a pro rata calculation, T WEN lx
-IRISH to One American.
“ Thw are your Belter Citizens!
The Main Source of Crime and
Pauperism.— Dr. Sauger’s Annual Re
port on the New York Penitentiary
Hospital states that there were admit
ted into that Institution, during the past
year, 2,153 patients. Of these, seventy
one per cent, were foreigners. Of the
foreigners, seventy-five per cent, were'
Irish.
The total of commitmenfsto't'he'
Jersey City prison for the month of
April, amount to 51. .
Americans. ..N
FOREIGNERS .43
E^Total of arrests at Camden, N, J.,
for the month of April. ~
Americans .-.nout-.
FORElGNERS AlJ,f
Lodgers.—Total of persons furnis!i r
ed with lodgings in ihe City flail, ivt
New York, for month of April.... .23
Americans . .1
FOREIGNERS -.22'
<ggj*The April reports of the several
dispensaries of New Yirk,- foot up a,
total of those who received- gratuitous;,
attendance hnd medicine,- amounting
to. 10,934
American*. • .v. •• 4.762
FOREIGNERS. . 6,173
Shall such these rule America?
As I do
It was a
^ “ Mr. Smith, the hogs are getting
into your cornfield.” “Never mind,
Billy, I’m sleepy—corn wow’t hurt ’em.
The Secret of Great Acquisi
tions.—“The chief artoflearning,” says
Locke, is to attempt but little at a
time. The widest excursions of the
mind are made by short flights frequent
ly repeated; the most lofty fabrics of
science are from the continued accumu
lations of single propositions.”
Railway to Jerusalem.—At the
recent annual meeting of the British
Society, the Chairman, ‘Sir Culling E.
Eardley, mentioned the fact that a rail
road is about to be established from the
Mediterranean to Jerusalem, with the
sanction of the Turkish and British Gov
ernments, and that it is likely that the
material of the line from Balaklava to
Sebastopol will be transferred for the
purpose. Thus, materially os well as
politically, the war has tended to open
up the East to Western enterprise.
him by the simple, manly course of re
specting the rights of all, unmoved by
the clamor of malcontents, or by the
more insidious wiles of professing
friends.
We believe Millard Fillmore the
more purely national, the more truly
conservative, and in every respect the
safest of the two candidates now before
the people. Whether we are correct in
our belief, it is for them to judge.
We speak—be it understood—as
Whigs, and to the Whigs—to those
gallant men with whom we have gone so
often into battle in times past; in whose
reverses we have shared, and in whose
fewer triumphs we have rejoiced. We
speak of Millard Fillmore as the man
whom Henry Clay loved, and whom the
Whigs honored. As one who being
suddenly called by a dispensation of
Providence to assume the duties of the
What Mr. Fillmore thinks of Southern
Whigs.
The following extract was written by
Mr. Fillmore to a friend after be was
elee'ed Vice President, and published
Nov. 28th, 1818, taken from the Buff-U
Advertiser:
“Though I have been' Charged at the'
South in the most gros< and wanton
manner with being an abolitionist gr.d
incendiary, yet the Whigs of the South’
have cast these calumnies to the winds,
id without asking or ex}vecting any- ;
thing more than what the Constitution-
guarantees to them on- this subject, they'
have yielded to me a most hearty and
enthusiastic support. This was partic
ularly so in New Orleans, wlx-re the -
attack was most violent. Reelly, these
Southern Whigs'are t o'jle fellows.—-
Would you- not lament to seethe' Union
dissolved, iffor no oilier'eauve than that
it separated us from such true, alible-'
and high-minded associates."
Such then (says the Southern Recor-*
der,) was the opinion o^Mr. Fillmore
in 1848, and such’ we believe to be his
opinion now. He has neither by word,
deed or action cast reflection', upon his-
old associates and supporters ; hut with -
a heart filled with gratitude for the con
fidence reposed in him, and the steady
support he received from the Southern
delegations to the Baltimore Convention-
in 1852, he can and never will forget.
Ho would be one of the last men who
would repay such confidence by treach
ery. He respected your rights then—
he .will respect- them now. Give him
then, a cordial and hearty support as yon
did in days past, and the country wilfc
to fear.