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_= - r- —7 — "" ’■ tzsk . j — » ^ " ; =~ y.'. —7—" % ®ffhlg j family f ttosyaftr—ftkttir to ^ig|ts, fitcratirn, ^grictthurt, Jfumgn an! » ^rnnesiu Htfos, &r. BY SAMVEL H. SMITH. «EQUALITY IN THE UNION OB INDEPENDENCE OUT OF IT.” TERMS—TW O DOLLARS a-year, in Advance. "VOL. XI. CASSVILLE, GA.., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1859. isro. 39. I^erlkmetrfs. . Xtikrtistmfnts. j HlktHanums. CHEAP GOODS! UKS9P GOODS! FOR FALL AND WINTER, JUST RECEIVING AND OPENING, At Wholesale and Retail, THE LARGEST LOT OF Clothing: EVER BROUQIIT TO THIS MARKET, AND AT THE LOWEST POSSIBLE FIGURES. Bo suro to call and examine. OPPOSITE THE POST-OFFrCE, Next door tu Kuy’s Book Store, ATLANTA, GA. M. LAZAROX, Sept. 15, 1S5CL Agent. Just Received, A NEW AND LARGE STOCK OF DRYGOODS, SHOES AND Clothing, v. liirli will be so!.! lit LOWER. PRICES than ever heretofore offered in Cassville or Cass county. At Levy's choap c isli store. Sept, ■>■>, 1359 —3ni, L. 8. SALMONS,., . .V. II. M-VTUKWS, . J. N. SIMMONS. SALMONS, MATIIKWS A: CO., (formtin.y of griffin*, c.\.,) . 3Ui)oL’?diiJ init> ibliiil jK’olO's iii iraiMESTElYCW, LADIES: AND GENT’S Shoos, Boots, lints, and . R F, A I) V - M A I) E C LOTH INC, WlllTKIIAU. Stkekt, Ati.vnta, til. April as, ls.V.l ly. SCOVIL & GO OREL'S NEW GOODS AND CHEAP GOODS. NEW FALL AND WINTER GOODS! the status of a negro, whether of servitude J or freedom, accompanies him wherever he j goes, and adheres to him in every part of; the Union until he meets some local law which changes it It will also be agreed that the people The Territorial Slavery Question. [continued froji last week.] It was well understood that the repeal j of a StatCj t hrough°their Legislature, and alone of the restrictjpn against slavery j the people of a Territory, in the Consti-1 would throw toe counti} open to every- ^ution which they may frame preparatory , ! thing whicli the Constitution recognized ■ to thcir admission a Statei can»egu-| as property. j ] a t e an d control the condition of the sub- j We have thus given what wc believe to (jcct black race withiu the ir respective . he the opinions held by the great body of jur ; sdictionSt so ^ to make them bond or the Democratic party: namely, that the^^ 1 Federal Constitution does not establish BRICK STORE, CASSVILLE, GA. H. W. COBB, IS NOW RECEIVING, Direct from New York, ms STOCK OF FALL AND WINTER READY-MADE CLOTHING, Boots, Shoes, HATS, CAPS, Hardware, Crockery,’ CUTLERY AND GLASS WARE; Saddles, Bridles, &e , to which he* invites the attention of the citi zens of Cassville and surrounding country. He proposes to sell Goods LOW FOR CASH, and to prompt-paying buyers. Cassville, Sept. 15, 1S50. MANUFACTORY, Cartersville, Oa. BY JONES & GREENWOOD. : the attention of tlie slavery anywhere in tlie Union; that it 1 permits a black man to be either held in j servitude or made free as the local law j shall decide "; and that in a Territory where no local law on the subject has | been enacted, it keeps both the slave and the free negro in the status already im pressed upon them, until it shall be chang ed by competent local authority. We have seen that this is sustained by the reason of the tiling, by a great principle of public law, by the words of the Consti tution, by .x, solemn decision of the Su preme Court, by the whole course of our political opponents and. finally, by the most important act in the public life of Mr. Douglas himself. Mr. Douglas imputes another absurdity to his opponents when lie charges them j with insisting “ that it is the duty of the judiciary to protect and maintain slavery | in the Territories without any law upon j the subject.” The judge who acts’with- ! out law acts against law, and surely no . sentiment so atrocious as this was ever I entertained by ant- portion of the Demo- I cratic party. The right of a master to the 'til'll j services of his slave in a Territory is not jjj J j against law, nor without law, but in full accordance with law'. If the law’be against ! it we are all against it. Has not-the emi- i grant to Nebraska a legal right to the ox team, which lie bought in Ohio, to haul him over tlie plains ? Is not his title as good to it in tlie Territory, as it was in the State where lie got it V And what should be said of a judge who tells him that he is not protected, or that lie is main tained, in the possession of his property UiJ, PATENTED JAN. 4, IsM*. c ■''llIS Machine takes the double-lncK stitch, L amt sen s with tiro threads, from common’ spools, anti is perfectly adapted lo all work, from the finest to the coarsest, ltij extreme simplicity adds erratic to its value. It is ea sy to adjust, and tlie operator can learn its use in a few hours with perfect ease. They are durable, and cannot j*et out of order except train arass c ireiessaess. These Machines are far a tie in this place at my residence. Call and s »e them —no charge for showing them. J. .v. TEIillKLIi, Agent. Cassville, March id -If. M. McMURRY, dealer in r rMlE subscribers in'it JL public to their large Manufacturing Establishment, at R. II. Jones’ old stand. They are prepar- etl to itirnt>L sill kinds of BUGGIES, CARRIAGES AND HACKS, of the latest styles and best finish—made of. “ without any law upon the subject ?” m tlerials.lrom the best,Northern and Eastern yj_ AVe had a right to expect from Factories, just such as are used in the best ° , simps in the Union. All persons wanting a Mr. Douglas at least a clear and mtelligi- line Carriage, Kuggy, or other vehicle, are re- },j 0 definition of his OWU doctrine. Wc quested to examine Uieir work before sending , North. Carriages ami Hacks’on band at all tire disappointed. It IS hardly possible Orders filled promptly. All work tQ conce j ve anything more difficult to irranled to be as represented. Repairing done in good style, at short notice, on reason able let-ins. Thankful for tlie pationage here tofore received, a continuance of the same is solicited. ROBERT H. JONES, JOHN GREENWOOD. Cartersville, Cass co., tia., Apr. 7, liSoU—ly. The celebrated Copper Toe. MITCHELL’S Patent Metallic Tip, Family | Groceries, Mflf CASSVILLE, GEO., DESIGNED ESPECIALLY FOlt BOYS’, YOUTHS’ AND CHILDREN'S Boots and Shoes. N improvement has been applied to Bouts l prohibits slavery in the States or Territo- comprchend. We will transcribe it a- gam, and do what can be done to analyze it. •“ Those who believe that the Constitu tion of the United States neiilier estab lishes nor prohibits slavery in the States or Territories beyond the power of the people legally to control it, but ‘leaves the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their owrearay. subject only to the Con stitution of the United States.’ ” The Constitution neither abolishes nor K EEI’3 constantly on band ,.u large and j well selected stock of Groceries, Contfectionarics, and Hardware. Also, agent lor Wright’s Indian Vegetable j Pills, and Jacob’s Cordial. | July 33—6tn ; rtes. If it be meant by this that the Con stitution does not, proprid vigore, either AND WAG O iS s; MADE AND REPAIRED BY WM. HEADDEN, CASSVILLE, GA. H E has a lot of Buggies, Wagons, Ac., for sale, all of which were made bv experi enced workmen and cannot fail to give satis faction ; those who need anything ot the sort are requested to call and look at his work* Blacksmithing promptly attended to. July 23,1353—ly. But here we come to the point at which j opinions diverge. Some insist that no cit- j izen can he deprived of his property in i slaves, or anything else, except by the | provision of a State Constitution, or by the j act of the State Legislature; while others 1 contend that an unlimited control over j private rights may be exercised by a Ter ritorial Legislature as soon as the earliest settlements are made. So strong are the sentiments of Mr. Douglas in favor of the latter doctrine, that if it be not established he threatens us with Mr. Seward’s “ irrepressible con flict,” which shall end only with the uni versal abolition or the universal dominion of slavery. On the other hand, the Pres ident, the Judges of the Supreme Court, nearly all the Democratic members of Congress, the whole of the party South, and a very large majority Noith, are pen etrated with a conviction that no such power is vested in a Territorial Legisla ture, and that those who desire to confis cate private property of any kind must wait until they get a constitutional con vention or the machinery of a State gov ernment into their hands. Wc venture to give the following reasons for believing that Mr. Douglas is in error: The Supreme Court has decided that a Territorial Legislature has not the power which lie claims for it That alone ought to be sufficient There can he no law, or der, or security for any man’s rights, un less the judicial authority of the country be upheld. Mr. Douglas may do what he pleases with political conventions and par ty platforms, but we trust lie will give to the Supreme Court at least that decent respect, which none but the most ultra Republicans have yet withheld. The right of property is sacred, and the first object of all human government is to make it secure. Life is always unsafe where property is not fully protected.— This is the experience of every people on earth, ancient and modern. To secure private property, was a pincipal object of Magna Charta. Charles I. afterwards attempted to violate it, but the people rose upon him, dragged him to the block, and severed his head from his body. At a still later period another monarch for a kindred offence was driven out of the country, and died a fugitive and an out cast Our own Revolution was provoked by that slight invasion upon the right of property which consisted in the exaction of a trifling tax. There is no government in the world, however absolute, which would not be disgraced and endangered by wantonly sacrificing private property even to a small extent. For centuries past such outrages have ceased to be com mitted in times of peace among civilized nations. Slaves are regarded as property in tlie Southern States. The people of that sec tion buy and sell, and carry on all their ; business, provide for their families, and j make their wills and divide their inheri-: in every iitiiiy’ii uuuu utaitu, vi.umvu, , -— •*- > —r i . 7 semi-barbarous, or savage, where slavery j held, and therefore the same as if express- powers of a sovereign Stale are regularly has existed in any form at all analogous | ly prohibited. Yet Mr. Douglas declares- conferred upon them and properly limit' to ours, the rights of the masters to the j that Congress may give it to the Territo- ecisoaslo prevent the gross abases which control of their slaves as property have j rtes. Nay ; he goes further, and says that been respected; and on no occasion has j the want of the power in Congress is the any government struck at thoso rights, j very reason why it can delegate it tlie except as it would strike at other proper- [ general rule, in his. opinion, being that ty. Even the British Parliament, when ( Congress cannot delegate the powers it it emancipated the West India slaves, , possesses, but may delegate such, and though it was legislating for a people three j only such, as Congress cannot exercise un thousand miles away, and not represented der the Constitution!’’ By turning to pa- never denied either the legal or the natu- 1 ges 520 and 521, the reader will see that ral right of the slave owner. Slaves were this astounding proposition is actually admitted to be property, and the Gov- made, not in jest or irony, but solemnly, eminent acknowledged it by paying their seriously, and, no doubt, in perfect good masters one hundred million of dollars for faith. On this principle, as Congress can- the privilege of setting tliem free. j not exercise the power to make an export Here, then, is a species of property which \ fcicto law, ora law impairing the obliga te of transcendent importance to the mate- j tion of contacts, therefore it may author- rial interests of the South—which the peo-1 ize such laws to be made by the towu. pie of that region think it right and mcri- j councils of V ashington city, or the levy torious in the eyes of God and good men court of tlie District If Congress passes to hold—which is sanctioned by the gen- an act to hang a man without trial, it is void, and the judges will not allow it to eral sense of all mankind among whom it his existed—which was legal only a short time ago in all the States of the Union, and was then treated as sacred 1>y every one of them—which is guaranteed by the owner as much ns any other property is guaranteed by the Constitution ; and Mr. Douglas thinks that a Territorial Legisla ture is competent to take it awav. We say no; the supreme legislative power of a sovereign State alone can deprive a man of his property. This proposition is so plain, so well es tablished, and so universally acknowledg ed, that any argument in its favor would be a mere waste of words. Air. Douglas does not deny it, and it did not require the thousandth part of his sagacity to see that it was undeniable. He claims for the Territorial governments the right of con fiscating private property on the ground that those governments are sovereign— be executed; but the power to do this pro hibited tiling can be constitutionally given by Congress to a Territorial Legislature I AVe admit thkt there are-certain’powers bestowed upon the General Government which are in their nature, judicial or ex ecutive. With them Congress can do noth ing; except to see that they are executed by the proper kind of ollicci-s. It is also true that Congress lias certain Legislative powers which cannot be delegated. But Mr. Douglas should liave known that lie was riot talking about powers which be longed to either of these classes, but about a legislative jurisdiction totally forbidden to the Federal Government, and incapable of being delegated, for the simple reason that it does not constitutionally- exist. Will anybody say that such a power ought, as a matter of policy, or for reasons of public safety-,- to be held by the provis- have an uncontrollable and independent ional governments of the Territories? Un power over all their internal affairs. That J fiouhtedly no true patriot, nor no friend of is the point which he thinks is to split the j justice and order, can deliberately reflect Washington Hall - \ ATLANTA, GEORGIA. BY E. R. SASSEEN, (Formerly of the Supper House, Calhoun,) O LD frieuds will please take due notice and. govern themselves accordingly. July 8S—8m I Valuable Invention. PEELERS Economical, Variety and Steel-Blade PLOW STOCK. R IGHTS tor families, districts or couutiee may be purchased bv catling on S. H. SMITH, or JL A. LEAK, Agents, Sept 22—tf. Cartersville, Gv V and jiLines, by which a saving of expewsi to the consumer, of two-thirds, is realized, by- actual experiment. THE T11’ consists ol a piece of copper or emancipate-any man's slave, or create the other indestructible material, neatly fastened! . , to the toe of the boot or shoe, forming a com- j condition of slavery-, ana impose it on tree plete protection This invention is now pro- , IK ,„ r0CS but leaves the question of every sented to the public, with the fullest fcnowl-i e \ . * . edge of its practical utility, haring been test- ! black’man s status, in the Territories as ed over two years, and is destined entirely to we ]| aR (j le States, to be determined bv supercede the old stvle, for children s, boys j , , .. . and youths’ boots and shoes. j the local law, then wc admit it, for it is The importance of this invention will be , vorv same proposition which we have readily appreciated, as it is known that chil- J . 1 1 „ . dren invariably wear out their bools and shoes been trying to prove. But if, on the con- first at the toe, and with this protection, they trarv, it is to be understood as an asser- wi!l upon an average wear at least two or three ‘ . . , , times as long as the old style, while the ex- tion that the Constitution does not per- pense is but a trifle more. mit a master to keep his slave, or a free to rn'inera^ boons', andall occupation^subjecb negro to have his liberty-, in all parts' of j tances on that assumption. Itis manifest j mg the toe of the boot or shoe to be cut or tbe fjm 0n where the local law does not | to all who know them, that no doubts ev- j "’ ,,rn - - - c— * theu the error is er cross their minds about the riglilfulnes. of bolding such property. They believe . they have a direct warrant for it, not only I in the examples of the best men that ever j the subscribers, (owners of the’patent.) prohibits slavery in the States or Territo- j lived but in the precepts of Divine Itcve- j I1ASK, McKlNXEY I CO., ries beyond the power of the people le- lation itself; and they arc thoroughly sat-j gaily to control it This is sailing to isfied that the relation of master and slave j Point-No-Poiut again. Of course a sub- is the only one which can possibly exist jcct, which is legally controlled, canuot; there between the white and the black, be beyond the power that controls it.—, race without ruining both. The people j DRUGGISTS, But the question is, what constitutes le- of the North may differ from their fellow-. Cartersville Cass Co., Ga. gal control, and when the people of a citizens of the South on the whole subject j AYE constantly on hand a full assort- State or Territory are in a condition to but knowing, as we all do, that these sen-j ‘meutof DRUGS, MEDICINES, PAINTS, exercise it. \ timents are sincerely and honestly enter- Dcmocracy and impale the nation. But it is entirely- erroneous that it must vanish into thin air as soon as it comes to be ex amined. A Territorial Government is merely pro-, visional and temporary. It is created by Congress for the necessary pre.servation .of onierand the purposes of police. Thcpow- ers conferred upon it are expressed in the organic act, which is the character of its existence, and which may he changed or repealed at tlie pleasure of Congress. In most of those acts the power has been ex pressly reserved to Congress of revising the Territorial laws, and the power to re peal them exists without such reservation. —This was asserted iw the ease of Kansas by- the most distinguished Senators in the Congress of 1856. The President appoints the Governor, judges, and all other officers whose appointments is hot otherwise pro vided for, directly or indirectly, by Con gress. Even the expenses’ of the Territo rial government are paid out of the federal treasury. The truth is they have no at tribute of sovereignty about them. The essence of sovereignty consists in having no superior. But a Territorial government has a superior in thcJUnitcd States Gov ernment, upon whose pleasure it is depen dent for its very existence—in whom it on the probable consequences without dc predating them. This power over property is- the one which in all governments has been most carefully guarded, because the tomptation to abuse it is always greater than any oth er. It is there that the subjects of a lim ited monarchy watch their king with the greatest jealousy. No republican lias ever failed to impose.strictlimitations upon it. All free people know, that if they- woutd remain free, they mhst compel the Gov ernment to keep its hands off their private property ; and this can be done only by tying them up’With careful restrictions.-*^- Accordingly onr Federal Constitution de clares that “ no person shall be deprived of his property except by due process of law,” and that “private properly shall not be taken for public use without just com pensation.” It is universally agreed that this applies only to the exercise of the power by the Government of the United States. We are also protected against the State Governments by a similar provision in the State constitutions. Legislative rob bery is therefore a crime whicli cannot be committed either by Congress or by any State Legislature,’ unless it be done in flat rebellion to the fundamental law of the land. But if the Territorial Governments Merchants, and the public generally, will interfere to prevent it, see the importance of obtaining these goods t j . a ver ,- grave one, but it is also immediately, as they are destined, for general ■ / , ' ° , use, to supercede all other kinds. * absurd seli-contriiuictor^r. The goods may be obtained of nearly all the -p bo Constitution neither establishes nor wholesale dealers in the principal cities, or ot ; CHASE, Aug IS -Cm Boston, Mass. KRAMER & BRO., WHOLESALE AND RETAIL lives, and moves, and has its being—who j have this power, then they have it with- has madp, and can unmake it with a breath. ou t an _ v ihnitation whatsoever, and in all Where docs this sovereign authority to the fullness of absolute despotism. They deprive men of their property come from? ; aru 01nn ip 0 t C nt in regard to all their in- This transcendent power, which even dcs- j ternal affairs, for they are sovereigns, with- pots are cautious about using, and which 1 ou t a constitution to hold them in check, a constitutional monarch never exercises \ n fi this omnipotent sovereignty js to be —how does "it get into a Territorial Legis- j w ielded by a few incn suddenly drawn to- lature ? Surely it does not drop from the ! ge ther from all parts of America and Ku- clouds: it will not be contended that it | r0 p Cj unacquainted with one.another, and accompanies the settlers, or exists in the ignorant of their relative rights. But. if Territory before its organization. Indeed Mr. Douglas is right, those Governments it is not to the people, but to the govern- have all the absolute power of the Russian ment of a Territory, that.Mr. Douglas says Autocrat. They may take every kind of it belongs. But riot a word of the kind is j property in mere caprice, or for ant- pur- to be found in any organic act that ever ’ pos e 0 f lucre or malice, without process of was framed. It fe thus that Mr. Douglas’ argument runs itself out into nothing. H OILS, GLASS, Ac. Physicians; Planters, and the public gener ally are respectfully intoruied that we are re ceiving constant supplies of the above articles from first hauds, anil are se'ling afws low pri- ly U'd‘, The Constitution of the United States * * leaves the people perfect- * * and subject ces as any Drug Swre in the Southern conn- oa j y to tbe Constitution of the United trv. Knowing the adulterations that are prac- - . , , „ . tised in powdering and preparing' Drugs, we States. This carries us around a Full cir- tained, we cannot wonder that they feel the most unspeakable indignation when : any attempt is made to interfere with their rights. This sentiment results naturally j and necessarily from their education and Uq I LA ti t. ^ ^ very body subject to the Constitution is Northcanavoidabhorringathieforhou.se- ’reaker. The jurists, legislators, and people of A ND all lynds of Jewelry Repaired, to good style and at short notice. All persons wanting any kind of. such work done are re- quested to give me a trial. • WVR. MOUSTOAKaYLE. March 81, .1853—ly. Cartersville, Ga. It J. CRAWFORD, ’ ATTORNEY AT LAW, Rissoou), Catoosa Co., Ga. - 4 LL holiness entrusted to his care wilt ba ' tisea m powdering aim preparing’ urap, owes., Amov«u»w # . have these articles prepared under our imrae- c j c an j £ r0 p S ^ precisely at the place of babit&_of thinking. They cannot help it °“ r CU3 ' beginning. Jhat the Constitution leaves any more than an honest man in the- ts-p hysicians and others are invited Lv eve rybod call and examiue our stock before purchasiue - > , , - . . . elsewhere. ' most mm. We are tar from denying it breaker. SP-Fw^srations not officinal prepared to never heard it doubted and expect we: {^“‘Orders by mail promptly attended to never will. But the statement of it the Northern States, have always sacredly and satisfaction guaranteed. proves nothing, defines notlung, and ex- respected the nght of property in slaves * * bbo plains nothing. It merely darkens the held by their own citizens within their . voefti subject, as words without meaning always own jurisdiction. It is a remarkable fact, j do. —* ; very well worth noticing, that no North- But not withstanding all circuity of ex- em State ever passed any law to take a, presslon and consequent opaqueness of i**?© fro® fete master. All laws for the meaning in the magazine article of Mr. abolition of slavery have operated only on r-:Y,.iq=p.v--MS^ Doughy we think *re «> gowswhii «s th» aufeoen descendants of tfeo negro race, MlffrffiLBmieeTaHihwei-iitie. of the opinions are of witibe when he crimes and the vested nght of masters have not W OberSfcee Cireuii, and in the adjoining rooonsidor rRf yfbj'*-* Jle will adait<at been disturbed ip the North more than in coentiea of other pircn^a^Pari^liu-attend - ’ - - tion given to eolle share fully solicited. Corner opposite Jones Jt Greenwi Apr. 14- Carriage Factory. P. H. LAKEY, Attorney at Law, law, and without providing for compensa tion. The Legislature of Kansas, sitting" But if Congress would pass a statue ex-' at Lecompton or Lawrence, may order the pressiy ti^give this sort of power to the miners to give up tv.qjy ounce of gold that Territorial Governments, they stiU would has been dug at Pike s Peak- -If the au- not have it; for the Federal Government thoritics of Utah should license a band of itself does not possess any control over maurauders to despoil the emigrants cros- men’s property in the Territories. That sing the Territory, their sovereign right such power does not exist in the Federal to do so cannot be questioned- A uewter- Government needs no proof: Mr. Douglas ritory may be organized, which Southern .. .. admits it fully and freely. It is. besides, men think should be devoted to the cul-. suppressed laugh that v.as s a ing im a established 8^ the solemn decision of Con- ture of cotton, while the people of the j over; and Smith and Sm » wt ■ vr gress, by the assent <0 Executive, and by North are equally certain that grazing a-; joyfully home and kissed one o leir thedirect ratification of the people acting lone is the proper business to be carried j children. The little ® ® c ' cr ^ c " in their primary capacity at the polls. In on there. If one party, by accjdent, by that their father and mother had ever been addition to all this, the Supreme Court, force, or by fraud, hap.a majority in the have deliberately adjudged it to be ah un- j Legislature, the negroes arejaken from alterable and undeniable rule of constito- {the planters; and if the other set gain a tional law. j political victory, it is followed by a statute always accompany unrestricted power in human hands! CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK. Divorced fey iBrtakft One winter there came to Trenton, New Jersey, two men, named Smith and Jones, ■who had both of them designs on the Leg islature. Jones had a bad wife and wa» in love with a pretty woman—he wished to be divorced from his had wife, so that he might marry the pretty woman, who, bv the way, was a widow, with black eyes, and such a form ! Therefore Jones came to Trenton for a divorce. Smith had a good wife; good as an an gel, and the mother of ten children, and Smith did not waul to be divorced, but did want to get a charter for a turnpike or plank road, to extend from Pig’s Run to Terrapin Hollow, Well, they, with these different errands, came to Trenton, and addressed the as sembled wisdom with usual arguments.— First, suppers mainly composed of oysters with rich background of venison.; second, liquors in greatplentv, from “Jersey light ning,” whicli is a kind of locomotive at full speed, reduced to liquor shape, New ark champagne. To speak in plain prose, the divorce man gave a champagne supper, and Smith, the turnpike man. followed with a champagne breakfast, under the mollifying influence of which the assembled wisdom passed both the divorce and turnpike bills ; and Jones and Smith—a copy of each bill in their pockets—went rejoicing lwwie, over miles of sand, and through the tribulation of many stage coaches. Smith arrived home in the evening, and as he sat down in his parlor, his pretty wife beside him—how pretty she did kiek! —and five of her children oyer hearing the other five studdying their lessons in the corner of the room, Smith was induced to expatiate upon the good results upon hi» mission to Trenton. “A turnpike my dear ; I am one of the directors and will be President. It will set me up, love; wc can send our children to the boarding-school, and live in style out of the toll. lierc is the charter, hon ey.” “ Let me see it,” said the pretty little wife, who was one of the nicest of wives, with plumpness arrcl goodness dimpling all over her face, “let me see it,” as she lean, cd over Mr. Smith’s shoulder. But all at once Smith’s visage grew long. Smith’s wife’s visage grew black. Smith was not profane, but now he ripped out an awful oath. “Blast us, wife, those infernal scoun drels at Trenton have gone and divorced us!” It was too true ; the parchment which he held was a bill of divorce, in which the names of Smith and Smith’s wife, appear ed in frightfully legible letters. Mrs. Smith wiped her ey es with the cor ner of her apron. “ Here’s a turnpike,” she said sadly,— “ and with the whole of our ten children staring me in the face, I ain’t your wife ! Here’s a turnpike.” “Blast the pike and the Legislature,— and—” •’ Well, the fact is that Siuitli, reduced to single blessedness, enacted into a stranger to his own wife, swore awfully. Although the night was dark, and most of the deni zens of Smith’s town had gone to bed, Smith bid his late wife to put on her bon net, and arm in arm they proceeded to the clergyman of their church. “ Goodness, bless me!” exclaimed the old man, as he saw them enter. Smith looking like the last of June shad. Smith’s wife wiping her eyes with the corner of her apron—“Goodness, bless me, what’s the matter ?” “The matter is, I want you to marry us two right off,” replied Smith. “Marry you!’’ ejaculated the clergy man with expanded fingers and awful eyes ; “ arc you drunk, or what is the matter with you?” However, he finally married them over straightway and would not take a fee;— the fact is, grave as he was, he was dying to be alone that he might give vent to a made strangers to each other by legislative enactment Meanwhile, andonthesame night, Jones i returned- to bis native tpwn—Burlington, ■Yytwf least he will not asdsrUfee to deny) that ^ the South, This acknowledgment that Congress has ’ plunder the gwiers of their cat^ power, authority er jurisdiction over! Such things cannot be done by Federal, the subject, literally obliges Mr. Douglas j Government, nor b, the Governments of to give op his doctrine, or else to maintain theStates j.bnt, if Mr. Douglas is not uns it by averting that a power which the they can be done by the Temton- Federal Government does not possess may *1 Governments. It is not every way bet, be given by Congre& to tHrYerritorial terto wart until thej^w mhab.tents know te^cho*. Government Theriottoebolteb African tbmmrtm and one enother; -»t* the -‘‘Divorce, k ** Jon « s ’ slavery In a Tfenitorr is not granted bf ! V** <*ibe Territory is settled by some ....... ctrteumfD pw rorar* I believe—and sought at once the fine btoek eyes Which be fcfl hoped shortly to call his own. The. jweHy w idow sat on the sofo, a. white handkerchief tied care lessly about her rouoid white throat, her black hair laid in silky waves against each tfirbA