Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1858-08-03

              III..' ijfcl., !.; :; , u v , S . 'I , '. 'I VOL. IV. MOUNT VERNON, OHIO, TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 3, I858 NO. 88; ; To an old Maid, You are getting old and gray, Kate, . The fact you can't conceal Tht dye you use will loon wear off, And silvery hairs reveal. . , Don't pout your painted lips Kato, ' And ask me what I mean; Tou dye your hair, you know you do, Yonr toilet has been seen. And when you even smile, Kato, . The dimples on your face Reveal the fact that wrinkles Will soon dispute their place. Your teeth are white, 'tis true, Kate, , And I heard your dentist say Abetter set be never sold, You need not turn your head away. Your cheeks are red as roses, . . Your brow and neck are fair Both Rouge and Lilly White, I see, !. Have lent assistance there. Crows feet aro near your eyes, Kate, Remove them if you can; , By an artificial means, As yet unknown to man. You know you're thirty- five, Kate, ' Then why dispute your age? The Bible home reveals the truth, , Too well you know the page. bid age is creeping on, Kate, , . Bis tread is slow but sure; We can be young but once on earth, In Heaven evermore. ; Your chance of getting married, Kate, Is very slim indeed For any man who wants a wifo, ' A painted doll don't need. Then take a friend's advice, Kate, , tf a husband you would get; Renounce your artificial charms, And you'll be married yet. Discomforts of Greatness. "Uneasy lies the hand that wears a crown." 80 wrote the Prince ol Dramatists, two centuries and a half ago, and the sentiment was true then was true before then, and is true now. David, when King of Israol and of Judah, exclaimed, "0, that I had the wings of a dove, for then would I flyaway and be at rest." Dionysius, the monarch of Sicily, described his situation as that of a person with a drawn sword suspended above his head by a single hair and in continual horror lest its keen edge should be buried in his brain. . When the late Emperor of Russia traveled in Italy, he was in constant trepidation, lest ran incensed Pole should avenge his oountry's wrongs, by sending a bullet to his heart; and .never retired to rest, without previously stri-1 king on the walls of his chamber with a hammer to see that all was solid, and that there was no concealed pannel through which an . outrage foe' could enter. Louis Philippe at one period of his reign allowed no log to be brought into his palace until it was examined for lear lost some infernal l-: AnA Kirllan in i t The Dictator of Paraguay was careful never to smoke a cigar until he had satisfied himself ... . : . . l by unrolling ana examining us leaves, mai the weed contained no poison. Napoleon the Great, writing to Joseph, says: "To prevent being poisoned or assassin ated, keep only French cooks, and have fn,un olnnn for vour bodv cuard. Be sareful, too, that no one enters your sleeping apartment except your aid-de-camp, lie should sleep in the room opening into yours.- Lock vour door on the inside, and never open . .-I j n-1. it, even to your aiu-au-uawy, muiuui ui-kin. fimt smalt that vou mav recoirnize his voice and without bidding him lock the door or nis own room io bum urc vuw, uu fTOIOUU ..... " " Who can wish for a crown that presses so heavily upon the brow? Regal station is forced to pay costly tribute; and it that station bs reacnea or reiaineu oy wroiij, iuium is on the crater of a. sleeping volcano. The - LI.. jnsurper iceisana iremoien. "Sa'spiolon always haunts the guilty mind: ' The thief doth fear each bush and offioar." .Qnc of the Heroes of Yorktown, m.in nnw living" in Dixon Township, Preble County, Ohio, Carey Teney and his rifo Eliza bom, las we .earn irom mw aaw.v Wiiv, nn I .1 t I J 1 jDcmocrat Ot the "Da.J luu rormorono nunarvu -and one years oiu, the latter ninety-seven. He iwas born in Buckingham County, Va., on the -U of October, 1757; she in Bedford County, same State, on the 4th of July, 1761. They vwore married in 1782, when he was twenty, fourand she nineteen yearsofage. He joined the Asaerican army in tho Revolution; passed through several campaigns; was present and took an active part in the siege of Yorktown; wasaYX-eye witness to the surrender of Lord CornwaUis,in 1781; saw Generals Washington and LafayetU a great number of times during the siege; recollects and describes the personal appearance of Lord Cornwallis, his staff &e. Ha- is now ia the enjoyment of tolerably good health, and last fall walked five miles to visit his daughter. They have lived happily and pleasantly together as husband and wife for the. period of ttventy-six years had fenchild-re-, nine sons and one daughter and now hare living sixty grandchildren, forty greatgrandchildren and and twogreat-great-grand-ohildren. Mrs. Toney is now in her ninety-seventh year, walks glibly about the house, convcrsos freely and retains her memory remarkably well. Toney has voted at all the Presidential elections from the beginning of the Republie to the present day ..a thing which we much doubt no other man in. America can boast of having dons, fie informed us he had voted for the following persons for President " orthe United State, to wit: George Washing-toii, Jobs Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, James Madison, John Q. Adams. Andrew Jackaon.Wm.H.Harrison.'rlenry Clay, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce and J. C. Fremont. 0. 8. Journal ' . x (r The llarrisburg Democratic Union, announces that every Lecompton Congressman from Pennsylvania is certain of being renominated, We are glad to hear it. The opposi-tloa will make mince'tneat of them. They Askns better issue on which to go before the people,-- 0. 8- Journal. to' Douglas. The nielit following the recentlon of Doug las at Chicago, and his speech, Hon. Abrain Lincoln replied to the Judgo, There is a great- disputo about the dimensions of the crowd that was present. Hut it certainly was large. Mr. Lincoln commenced by thanking Douglas and his friends for giving him a good chance to hear the Senator speak, and for treating him with courtesy. The charge of Douglas that there was an alliance between the RcDublicans and the Federal office hol ders, Mr. Lincoln ridiculed. There was no alliance further than that tho Republicans would not be sorry to see the Democracy so easily whipped. Douglas said: 1 shall deal with this allied army Just as the Russians dealt with the allies at Sevastopol that is. the Russians did not stop to in-' quire when they, fired a broadside, whether it nit an englishman, a s renenman, or a iutk. Lincoln responds: Well now, gentlemen, is not that very alarming? Laughter. Just to think of it! right at the outset of this canvass, I, a poor, kind, amiable, intelligent laughter gentleman, laughtor and renowed cheers, I am to bo slain in this way. Why, my Iriend, tho Judge, is not, as it turns out, a dead lion, nor even a living one he is the Russian Bear! L Hoars ot laughter and loud applause But if thoy will have it for he says that we deny it that there is any such alliance, as he says there is and I don't propose hanging very much upon this question of veracity but if he will have it that there is such an alliance that the Administration men and we we are allied, and we stand in the attitude of English, French and Turks, and he occupies the position of the Russian, in that case, I beg that he will indulco us while we barely sug gest to him, that these allies took Sebastopol. Long and tremendous applause J Mr. Lincoln should have remombercd that it is a question whether the allies did take Sebastopol.. They certainly, at most, took only one side of it. Mr. Lincoln reviewed in a mirthful manner the" views of squatter sovereignty. I suppose that Judge Douglas will claim in little while that he is the inventor of the idea that people should govern themselves; fcheers and laughter:! that nobody ever tho't of such a thing until he brought it forward. We do remember that, in that old JUer.iaration of Independence, it is said that "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that ail men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with cortain. inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men, deri ving their just powers from the consent otthc governed." There is the origin of Popular sovereignty. Loud applause. Who, then, shall come in at this day and claim that he invented it.' Laughter ami applauso. J Concerning the Locompton Constitution, Mr. L. was for giving Douglas full credit. But Douglas and his friends only brought one-fifth of the opposition to that measure, and why should they be awarded all the nonorana glo ry. Mr. L. said: Mow. who in all this country has ever found any of our Irienda of Judge Douglas1 way of thinking, and who have acted upon this main question, that has ever thought of uttering a word in behall ot Judge Trumbull f A voice "we have." I defy you to show a printed resolution passed in a Democratic mooting. large or small, in lavor ot Judge Jrumbull, or any of the five to one Republicans who beat that bill. Everything must bo lor the Democrats! They did everything, and the five to one that really did the thing they snub over, and tuoy do not seem to remember that tney have an existence upon tho lace of the earth. Applause. THS ISSUE BETWEEN LINCOLN AND D0COLAS. Judge Douglas makes two points upon my recent speech at Springfield. . lie says they are to be issues of this campaign. Tho flint oneof these points he bases upon the language in a spoech' which I delivered at Springfield, which I believe lean quote correctly from memory I said there that "we aro now far into the fifth year since a policy was instituted for the avowed object and with the confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation; under the operation of that policy, that agitation bad not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented." " (A voice) "That's the very language." "I believe it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free." (Applause.) "I do not, expect tho Union to be dissolved," 1 am quoting irom my speecn "I do not not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents ofslavery will arrest the spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course ot ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward until it shall become alike lawful in all the States North as well as South." Good, good. What is tho paragraph. In this paragraph wbicu I bave quoted in your hearing, and to i,ipk T ukihe attention of all. Judge Doug las thinks he discovers great political heresy. I want your aT.""10" particularly i wuh he has inferred fft)J U says I am in fa-vor of making all the Slates of this Union uniform in all their interna! regulations; that in all their domestic concerns I am in favor of making them entirely uniform. Ho draws this inference from the language I have quoted to you. He says that 1 am in favor of making war by the North upon the South for the extinction of slavery; that I am also in favor of inviting as he expresses it, the South to a war upon the North for the purpose of nationalizing slavery. Now, it is singular enough, if yon will carefully read the passage over,-that I did not say that I was in favor of anything in it. I only said what I expected would take place. I made a prediction only it may have teen a foolish one perhaps. I did not say even that I desired that Blavery should be put in course of ultimate extinction, I do lay now, however, great applause so there need be no longer any difficulty about that. 1 may be written down in the next speech. Applause and laughter. Gentlemen, Judge Douglas informed you that this speech of mine was probably carefully prepared. I admit t.iat it.was. 1 am not master ef language; 1 have not a fine 'education; I am not capable of entering into a disquisition upon dialects, as I believe yod call it; but Ido not believe tbkt the language I employed bears any such construction as Judge Douglas pnt upon it. But I don't care about a quarrel in regard to words. 1 know what I meant, and I will not leave this crowd in doubt, if I can explain it to thtin what I really meant in the use of that paragraph. " I am not, in the first place, unaware that this Government has endured eighty-two years, ball slave andhalf free.. I know that. I am tolerably well acquainted with the his lory of tho country, and I know that it has Lincoln's Reply endured eighty-two years, half slave and half tree. I Mtevt and that is what I moant to allude tothore I believe it has endurod be-causo, during all that timo, until the introduction of the Nebraska Bill, the public mind did rest, all the time, in the belief that slavery was in the course of ultimate extinction. "Good!" "Good!" aud applause Thatwas what gave us the rest that we hod through that period of eighty two years-at least, so I believe. I have always hatod slavory, I think, as much as any Abolitionist. Applause. I havo been an Old Lino Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began. I always bolioved tint everybody was against it, and that it was in course of ultimate extinction. The great mossof the nation havo rested in the belief that slavery was in course of ultimate extinction. They had reasons so to bclievo. The adoption of the Constitution and its attendant, history led the people to beliove so; nnd such was tho belief ot' the framors of the Constitution itself. Why did those old men, about tho timo of tho adoption of tho Constitution, decree that Slavery should not go into the new Territory whom it had not already gone? Why declare that within twenty yeors tho African Slavo Trade, by which slaves are supplied, might bo cut off by Congress? Why wero all theso acts? I might enumerate more of such acts but enough. What wore they but a clear indication that tho framors of the Constitution intended and expected tho ultimate extinction of that institution. Cheers. And now, when I siy, as I say in this speech, that Judge Douglas has quoted from, when I say that I think tho opponents of slavery will resist the further spread of it and place it whore tho public mind shall rest with the belief that it is in courso of ultimate extinction, I only mean to say, that they will place it where the founders of this govornniont originally placed it. I have said a hundred times, and have now no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination, in the people of tho Free States to onter into the Slave States, and interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always. Judge Douglas has heard me say it if not quite a hundred times, at least as good as a hundred times: and when it is said that I am in favor of interfering with slavery where it exists, I know it is unwarranted by anything I havo ever intenM, and, as I behove, by anything I have ever said. If, by any means, I have ever used language which csuld fairly bo so construed, (ns. however, I believe I never have,) I now correct it. So much, then, for tho inforenco that Judge Douglas draws, that I am in favor of setting the sections at war with one another. I know that I nevor meant it by anything I have ever said. "Good," "good." Now, in relution to his inference that I am in favor of a general consolidation of all tho local institutions of the various States. I will attend to that for a little while, and try to inquire if I can, how on earth it could be that any man could draw such an inferenco from anything I said. I have said , very many times, in Judge Douglas' hearing, that no man believed more than I in Ihc principle of gel f-government; that it lies at the bottom of all my ideas of just government Trom beginning to end. I have denied that his use of that term applies properly. But for tho thing itself, I deny that any man has ever gone ahead of mo in his devotion to the principle, whatever he may have done in efficiency in advocating it. 1 think that I have said it in your hearing, that I believe each individual is naturally ontitled to do as ho pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far as it in hd wise interferes with any other man's rights, applause, jthateach community,au a Stat , has a right to do exactly asit pleases with tho concerns within that State.that interfere with the rights of no other State, and that the General Government, upon principle, has no right to interfere with any thingother than that gonor-eral class of things that does concern the whole. I have said that at all times. I havo said, as illustrations, that I do not belie vo the right of Illinois to interfere with the cranberry laws of Indiana, the oyster laws of Virginia, or the Liquor Law of Maine. I have said these things over and over again, and I repeat them hero as my sentiments. How is it, then, that Judge Douglas infers, because I hope to seo slavery put where the public mind shall rost in the belie! that it is in tho course of ultimate extinction, that I am in favor of Illinois going over and interfering with tho cranberry laws of Indiana? What can authorize him to drawany such inference? I suppose thero might bo one thing that at least enabled him to draw such an inference that would not be true with many othors that is. because he looks upon this matter of slavery as an exceedingly, little thing this matter of keeping one-sixih of the population of the whole nation in' a state of oppression and tyranny nnequaled in the world. He looks upon it as being an exceedingly Iittlo thing only equal to the question oi tue cranberry laws of Indiana as something having no moral question in it as something on a par with a question of whether a mau shall pasture his land with cattle, or plant it with tobacco so little and so small a thing that he concludes that if I could desire that anything should be done to bring about the ultimate ex tinction of that little thing, I must bo in favor of bringing about an amalgamation ot all the other little things in the Union. Now.it so hanrxDB and there. I presume, is tho foun da t ion of this mistake that the Judge thinks thus;anditso happens that there is a vast portion of the American people that do net look upon this matter as being that very lit-tlo thing. Tbey look upon it as a vast moral evil; they can prove it is such by the writings of those who cave us me noeriy wnicn we enio. and tho 10 loekod upon it, and not an ovil merely confining itself to the States whore it is situated; and wnne we agree mas, ov mo Constitution wa' assented to. in the States where it exists wa have no right to intorforo with it. because it is in the Constitution, and are bound by both duty aadinclination to stick by that Constitution in an its letter ana spini from beginning ( end. - Great applause.) So much then as to my disposition my wish to have all tho State Legislatures blotted out, and to have one general consolidated Government, and a uniformity of domestic regulations in all the States, by which I suppose it meant, if we raise corn here , we must make sugar cane grow here too, and we must mako thoso things which grow North.grow in the South. All this, I suppose the Judge understands I am in favor of doing. Now, so muoh for all this nonsense for 1 must call it so. The Judge oan have no issue with mo on question of establishing uniformity in the domestic regulations' of the States. DRED SCOTT. What Is fairly Implied by the term Judge Douglas has used 'resistance to the Decision? I do not resist it. If t wanted to take Dred Boott from his master, I would be interfering with property, and that terrible difficulty that Judgo Douglas speaks of, interfcring.with property would ariso. , But I am doing no such thing as that, but all that I am doing is refusing to obey it as a political rule. If I wore in Congress, and a vote should come up on a question whether slavory should be prohibited in a new territory, in spite of that Dred Scott decision,! would vote that it sho'd. Applause; 'good for you;' 'we hope to see it,' 'that's right.' Mr. Lincoln That is what I would do. ('You will have a chanco soon.') Judgo Douglas said last night, that before the decision he might advance his opinion, and it micht be contrary to the decision whon it was madejbtit alter it was mado ho would abido by it until it was rovorsed. Just so! Wo let this property abido by tho decision, but we will try to reverse that decision. (Loud applauso cries of "good.") Wo will try to put it whoro Judge Douglas would not object, for he says ho will obey it until it is reversed, Somebody has to reverse that decision, since it is mado, and we mean to reverse it. and we mean to do it peaceably. Tho sacrednoss that Judgo Douglas throws around this decision, is a drgreo of sacredness that has never been before thrown around anv other decision, I bavo never heard of such a thing. Why, docisions apparently contrary . . , . ., . - , , - ., . uiuuj auvaacia cfivittf nu ua, mill tottatdecs.on,-or that good lawyers tho'Uout uging theni--of tho following illus ration: were contrary to that decision, have been made by that very court before. It is the first of its kind fit is an astonisher iu legal history. luaugmur unu nppiauso.j ic is based upon falsohood in the main as to the facts allegations of facts upon which it stands aro not facts at all in many instances, and no decision mado under so many unfavorable circumstan ces; (bus placed has ever boon hell by the profession as law, and it has always needed confirmation before tho lawyers regarded it as a settled law. But Judge Douglas will havo it that all hands must take this extraordinary decision, made under these extraordinary cir cumstances, and givo their votes in Congress in accordance with it, yield to it and obey it in every possible sense. RATIONAL BANK UNCONSTITUTIONAL Circumstances alter cases. Do not gentlemen here remember tho case of that same Supreme Court, some twonty-flve or thirty years ago, deciding that a U. S. National Uank was constitutional ? I ask, if some body does not remember that a National Bank was declared to bo constitutional? ('Yes,' 'yes.') Such is tho truth, wbothor it be remembered or not. The Bank charter ran out, and a re-charter was grant6d by Congress. That re-charter was laid before Gen. Jackson. It was urged upon him, when he denied tho constitutionality of the bank, that the Supreme court had decided that it was constitutional; and Jackson then said that the Supreme court had no right to lay down a rule to govern a co-ordinate branch of the government, the mombersof which had sworn to support tho constitution as ho understood it. I will venture here to say, that I have heard Judge Douglas say that he approved of Gen. Jack son for that aot. What has now become of his tirado about "resistance to the Supreme Court?" "Gone up," "Gone to the thea ter." WOULD I LIKE TO 00 TO THE SENATE. I do not claim, gentlomcn, to be unselfish, I do not pretend that I would not like to go to the U. 9. senate, laughter J make no such hypocritical protonces, but I do say to you that in this mighty issue, it is- nothing to you nothing tohe mass ot the people ot the na tion, whether or not Juilge Douglas or myself shall ever be heard of after this night; it may be a trifle to cither of us, but in connection with this mighty question, upon which hangs the destinos of the nation, perhaps, it is absolutely nothing; but wboro will you be placed if you re-endorss J udge Douglas? Don't you know how apt he is how exceeding anxious he is at all times to seize upon anything arid everything to persuade you that something Ahas done you did yourselves? Why, he tried to persuade you last night that our Illinois Legislature instructed him to introduce the Nebraska bill. There was no body in that Legislature ever thought of such a thing; and when hp first introduced the bill he never thought of it; but still he fights furiously for the proposition, and that he did it because thero was a standing instruction to our Suna-ors to be always introducing Nebraska bills. Laughter and applause. DON'T ENDORSE DO0OLAS, If you endorse him, you tell him you do not care whothor slavery be voted up, or down, and he will close, or try to close your mouths with his declaration repeated by the day, the week, the month, and the year. Is that what jou moan? (Cries of "no;" one voice, "yes.") Yes, I have no doubt, you who have always been for him, if you mean that. No doubt of that, (a voice, "hit him again,") soberly I have said, and I repeat it, I think it the position in which Judge Douglas stood in opposing the Lecompton Constitution he was right; he does not know that it will return, but if it does, we may know where to find him; and if it does not, we may know wbero to look for him, and that is on the Cincinnati Platform. Now, I could ask the Republican party, after all these hard names that Judge Douglas has eal led them by all his repeated charges of their inclination to marry with and buy negroes all his declarations of Black Republicanism, (by the way we are improving, the black has rub bed off, ) but with all that, if ho be endorsed by Republican votos, whore do you Btand? Plainly, youstand readysaddled, bridled, and harnessed, and waiting to be driven over into the slavery extension camp of the nation, (a voice, "We will bang ourselves first,") just ready to be driven over, tied together in a lot to be driven over, every man with a rope around his neck, that haltor boing hold by Judco Douglas. We were often more than once, at least in the course of Judge Douglas' speech last night, reminded that this government was made for white menl well, that is putting u in a shape in which no one wishes to deny it, but tha Judire then goes into hii passion for draw ing inferences which aro not warranted. I Drotest. now and forever, against that couater- feit logio which presumes that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave, Ido necessa-rilv want her for a wife. Laughterand cheers.1 My understanding is that I need not have her for eitbor. but as God made us separate we can leave one another alone and do one another much a-ood thorebr. There are white men enough to marry all tho white women, and black men enough to marry all tue Diacc woman, and in God's name let them be so mar ried. The Judge regales ua with the terrible enormities that take place by the mixturo Ot races; that the inferior race boars the superior down. Why, Judge, if we will not let them got together in the Territories they won't mix there. Immense applause. " ' COKCLrjIOU. It is said in one of the admonitions of the Lord , "As your Father in Heaven is perfect, be ye also perfect." The Savior, I suppooe, did not expect that arty human being could be as perfect as the Father in Heaven; but He said, "As your Father in Heaven is perfect, be yo also perfect." Ho sot that up as a standard, and be who did most toward reaching that standard, attained tho highest degrco of moral perfection. So I say in relation to the principle that all men are created equnl, let it be as nearly reached as we can. If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose riavory upon any other creature. Applauso. Let us then turn this government back into the channel in which the framors of the Constitution originally placed it. Lot us stand firmly by oach other. If we do not do so we aro turning in tho contrary direction, that our friend Douglas has proposed not intentionally as working in the traces that tond to make this one universal Slavo Nation. A voice "That is soi' Ho is one that runs iu that direction, and as such I resist him. Rev. Mr. Cuamn. It is seldom that the Rov. Mr. Chapin speaks in public, upon any occasion, that he does not say something that "biles;" something, to use a familiar if not a coarse phrase, that ''sticks in tho crop" of his audience. Thus in a toinperance lecture, de livered not loug since in Philadelphia, ho made 'The young 'blood' exclaims, while speak ing ot the attempts now making to suppress the abuse of alcoholic stimulants 'Am I to be deprived of my liberty to imbibe what I choose to imbibe? Whose business is it? Liborty of action is guaranteed to me." To which most effectively responds Mr. Chapin 'Liberty?' Liberty for what? To be hung up, like a dripping dish-cloth? To be stood up, like a battered, rusty stove pipo? To bo kicked about liko a 'shocking bad hat,' in the gutter? Is this the 'liberty' you desire?" Mr Jefferson Richardson, a young man re siding about two miles south of Indianapolis, took a large por'ion of arsenic on Friday, for tho purpose of self-destruction, lie had been jilted, it is said by a young lady. Tho amount of poison taken was too large to produce the effect desired, and Mr. R. did not die as soon as he expected to do. On Saturday bo was in a condition to give his friends somo reason to hope lor his recovery. His case being made known to his "lady love," she relonted, and felt very sorry for her "cruel treatiuont," and made a visit to him for ' the purpose of doing what sho could to relievo his distress. Under hor treatment, which consisted in keeping the tiios from him, and expressing her regrets, interspersed with a few caresses, the young man, at the latest dates, was improving, and expressed himself as feeling bettor. Ind. Jour nal, 2fiA. A GOOD TEXT DOT HOT OK THB BlBLB. That was a strikingly intelligent person, who called upon a sign painter to have a Sunday School procession banner painted, and said; "We'ro goin' to have a tearin time with our Fourth of July Sunday School celebration, and our folks wants a banner." "Well, naturally enough?" responded tho painter, "you ought to have ono. What will you have pain- ud on it?" "Wal I don't know; we ort to hev a text o' skriptor painted onto it for a motto, hadn't we?" "Ye, that's a good idea; what shall it be?" "Wal, I thought this would be about as good as any. "Be sure you're right, then go ahead!" United. Tho Statesman almost daily boasts that the democracy ol Umo are a unit, and insists that it is a fact. The assertion must be received with some grains of allowance. According to the Ohio Repository, the recent County Convention in Stark County, was not harmonious In their approval of Bu chanan's Administration. The Repository says: 'Mcuregor wanted to indorso liuck's Ad ministration, and Lahm opposed it. Mac then moved an adjournment, which was carried. Then a hurra for tho Administration was proposed, and it was responded to by a host. Mcuregor, we hear, claims these results as a liuck victory. Let bun onjoy such victories." llere is more evidence ot discord. Ihe Wooster Republican says: The Holmes tounty farmer and Asa U. Dimmockof the Coshocton Democrat, are hav ing a most bitter personal conflict. Ibey are abusing each other without stint er mercy. Each party proves the other to be nothing but an abolitionist, whilo the Farmer stirs up the Penitentiary to the edification of Asa u. Dimmock. We take a special interest in the contest, but have some fears that it will have a damaging ellect upon the prospects ol Uen. Burns. frV-The Hon. James B. Ricaud, of Mary land, in bis speech before slaveholders meeting called to take measures to prevent tho loss of slaves, said that "two of his personal friends some time since lost each a slave, and shortly afterwards he was told by a most respectable gentleman in Pennsylvania that soeme two negroes in hisneighbornood, appa rently now comers, he had inquired of them who tbey were, thoy inlormcd him tney had arrived the day before; that they hid run away from their master in Kont county, Maryland, whom they named and from the timo they left home until thoy reached Pennsylvania, they had been furnished at every five miles on the way with a place of refreshment and rcfugo." In other words, in a jour ney of forty or fifty miles through the slavo- holding population of two uf the counties of Maryland, these two runaway slaves had found a station of the underground railroad at every Dfth mile." fcr The Evansville Enquirer tells the fol lowing Egyptian story: On the down trip of the Editor on the Illi nois, the other night, at 9 o'clock, a shower or stream of the Mormon or shad fly poured upon her decks to the depth of six inches, and it was a very difficult matter to shovel them overboard. They were so numerous as to put out the watchman's light, and enrolop every thing in midnight darkness. The trees along the shore look down broken by these short liv ed insects. This visitation is said to prognosticate a sickly season. . (Er The late Senator Henderson, of Texas, wrote a letter previous to his death, which has been published, in which he gives his reasons for not voting on the Kansas Conforence Bill. The letter was addressed to Major John Marshall, and reveals the desperate begging resorted to by the Administration to save itself from ignominious defeat in its Le compton swindle. Says Senator Henderson: On the morning of the day the bill finally passed, the Frftidenl tent for me and mailt tuck an earnest and itrong appeal taint to vote for tht bill, and aid in taring his Administra tion ana me ucmocrauc pony vj i irii, a toinducrtne to liV the Htnmi Chamber and . . . . - 7T T IJ L V Ml SL,faf - liV.1 not vote of all, a) I muMftaVt 1e7 nVKWI (8 Wfs rtyiTn'H (he Fill If f W tbrfrf. ! Conunuiwatiens. ' For tha llepnblioan, Mcfli. Prot. S. & Pic Nic. Mr. Editor: ' " ' At celebrations, anniversaries. festivities, pic nici, 3ca are the order of the day, in the various organizations of our coun try, their is none more deserving of, or that may more innocently and profitably enjoy the privileges and exercises of such occasions, than that of Sunday Schools. The Sunday school institution promises much in promo ting tho religious, moral, social, and I may add literary interests of community. It is wisely adapted to tho development and proper culture and corroct training of tho youthful mind. Uence all classes or community and all de partments of general society, havo a common interost in tho success and prosperity of the Sunday School cause. Though not a member of the School, but its friend, and a lover of the common Sunday School cause, I dcom it proper to ask a short space in your paper, by way of giving a hasty skotchof the pic nic held by the Sunday school under the auspices o( the Aiothodist Protestant Church, in this city. This festival came oil' on the 6th July, in the beautiful grove of Rev. John Lamb, the efficient and devoted superintendent of said school. The number in attendance, all told. was estimated at some 250; which was a large company, considering tbat this school is re puted one ot the mall schools of the city. Tho sorvicos of Mr. Sanderson, with iu and hack, were engaged for the day, in conveyiue to and from tho ground, which were faithfully ren dered and reeoivod with satisfaction. The Religious exercises consisted of singing and prayer, an interesting and instructive ad dress to ;he childron, by Rov. Mr. Payne, of the Lpiscopai unurch, and Sunday school Agent, thon a few appropriato remarks to teachers and parents, upon the importance of early religion nnd moral training, by Rev. G. Utancy. Alter which singing "My own native land" concludedthis part of the exercises. Tho table, some forty foet long, was spread in a delightful shade, a few steps from a cool fountain, (tho abundant flowings of which would slake the thirsty - thousands,) and was furnished with such a full supply of not only the subtantial, but luxuriant viacds, that all scorned satisfied, that for both quantity and quality, as well as for thoordorand taste of ar rangement, tho docorum and cheerfulness with which the refreshments were partaken, but few 1'ic nic tablos have presented the equal. The good behavior ol the children during the whole day's exerciser, and their sportive innocent merriment and glee, to which maybe added tho common spirit of sociality, friendship and enjoyment of all the adults present, all combined in rendering tho occasion one of much interest and profit; and of which honor able mention may be justly mado, not only to tho credit ol this school, but also to the generosity of a number of ladies and gentlemen. who not only participated in the privileges and picasurcs,but liberally aided in lurnishing sup plies for the occasion. This school, for order, efficient system, inorougn scripture instruction and moral tram ing, is, perhaps, becond to nono in the city. A FRIEND Mt. Ycrnon, July, 1838. P. S. As an ineident of the day, referred to in the above, it may bo in point to state, that a pic-nic of the Baptist Sunday .School was 'held in Mr. Lamb's grove, at the same timo of that of the il. P. C. School; and though these schools did not, for some reason, join companies, exercises and tables, we were grat ified to seeanumborof the School, in company, not only on the grounds of the othor conv-pany, but some of them at the table enjoying the refreshments and social conversation; after which, such a number had collected as to enter into a union of singing, which wa of th first clan, and topped off with a humoraome speech from Rev. Mr. Richmond. The enquiry has been often made, why did the rtforts logolup a Union celebration of the nine schwls of the city fail. And it is alto a subject u( come inquiry, why could not the riro schools unite in their Pic-Nic entertainments in Mr. L's grove? Surely sectarian bigotry, and every feoling otbig 1 and Utile you should be for ever excluded from Sunday Schools. A. F. For the Ropublioan. Utica, Thiivilldge ! jitimtoil on the Sandusky, Mans- Mold and Newark 11. II., about midway botwsen Mt. Yornon and Nownrk, in tha bountiful Talloy of tin Putaikala, and larroundod by a country aqual in fortuity to tht boat in ooatntl O'.iio. Its population ll about lix hundrod and rapidly inoroasing. It haaa birijo Union School; Are chur- ohos; a numbor of Dry Goods Stores and Oroeorloj; a Flouring Mill and Woolen Faotory and a Mora or moro of work ihopi, filled with Industrious moohan-ics and In short avory thing to oonstitute araspoata-bio Ineorporatod town. Its union aohoolil avory attraotiro foaturo, hating boon established nearly ten years sinoo, undor the snporintendenoa of Prof. McKoo of JcSVunn College, and now in sucoosfu operation under his oare,alTcirding faollitiea for ad-uoation, not only to tlieeitiiensbut to tha unrounding oountry; tliore being at present in the high oliool department somo thirty or forty foreign students. - Some years sineo Utica was but little bettor than the towni around it, while now, its intolligenee, an-terprisoand good sooiely far surpasses any of them. But few towns as largo as it, enn boast of boing with out a ratnaeller, an orer-rooohing business man; a dishonest merchant, or one that would take adran tage 'of his customer or exact mora from a child than Its parent. After a year resldenc here we Snd it to be a community of peaceably disposed eit liens a pleasant Tillage and a desirable place to lire, and take the responsibility of inviting any who may want a good homo, with tho adrantages of good society and a good school, to come to Ctioa. If yon want a carriage or wagon you can got it well and honcjtly mado. If yea want house furni ture you can gel that which the manufacturers wont be ashamed of years afterwards. This Ctira ia not "the peat up rtica"of old. but Utica, Ohio. il. 03 Tho Jails of Tortsge and Ashland counties, Ohio, are empty, and that of Medina county, has but three inmates. Verily are the jails being deserted, and their cells bocom-ing dreary as a "Lodge in some vast Wilderness." Toledo Uave. Please add Williams County Jail 1o the number tenantlew. Gurrffev ' Plea add another to the litof tenaolleni Jaila. Henry county Jail is empty nearly all the time Xapoleon Star. , . , . . fr A few days since a MiiAouri Sheriff. arter making a legal return to writ, addedJlL ..I II.I.L i . . - - - al x -Jl xrwjigp. jv r'fiii ur-piiOTi i.irt,iuera yt do such person as John Doe in the Slat. i ; Trials' of : the Preacher :J If the clergy are to be justly blamed for not a seeing the pooplo, mora do the laitv err in iud- posing that their position is a more sine cur, '' and thoy havo very little to do. We might' inquire very earnestly, whether that be not I enough to tax the heart ahd hands of a frail mau, which is almost too much for an angol a , powers? But we will jmss this by: what U ca'led "head work" in common language i ' appreciated only by a few. .- Some people think that the hands and arms only work, and',' that there is no such thing aa sweat of the , brain. They suppose that reaping a field il far more laborious than writing a sermon;'' and the mora clearly and simply is the them : deduced, the more tbey think they could da' i . T. . ...... iiKo ii. ii is no more man just mat these id- . noramuscs should be put right in that particu lar. Men do not speak like prophets now days, from immediate inspiration, but God ; oxacts the labor of the head as- well as th , hands. Every sacred thome which is handled from the pulpit ought to be the result of in-.' tense study. And what a continual stretch-ing of the mind, and struggle for theingenu-'-ity, from month to month, and from year to f year, to set forth the truth with such force. vividness, nnd variety, as to make the peopl liston, for the bust of men will find dull and listless hearers if he repeats himself from day ' to day. uecaii.se ho is a good man, that w no reason why his audienco should not hare dozo, if thoy cannot help it. ," 1 hero are other anodynes besides poppies. ' Look around on a Sunday. ' Some oftheeyet are liko dead man's eyes, with a penny on ; thorn, lucre are two classes in church, con- sisting, 1st, of those awake; 2d, we regret to say it of those who nre comiortably asleep The 1st class is subject to another division, of ' those who aro serious and attentive, of others', whose imagination isextremety active. They . imagine themselves out of church. Some are bargaining for a farm, and some engaged in the purchase of stocks; and to judge from their eyos which havo. no inverted look, they " are dealing with those who are a "a match for -: them." . : ' ". -f The object of preaching is- to bring tho souls of those men back and put them into their bodies again; and as tn the dormant set, to' rouse them up as if by thunder and lightning. ; and so lay the matter before them, that they shall think it not safe to get asleep. As to those who are attentive, the main object is to' keep them so. T!te Rector of St.'Bardolph'. Foreign Importation. The importations in tho port of New York', for the last weok, show that the rapid curtail' ment of our foreign trade (which begun when - the panic begun, last year) is steadily pro . greasing. A prominent mature is the now al most total lulling oQ of articles ot luxury. JL slightly increased movement in dry goods, i however, is visible. The value ol last week's importations was $1.00O,756,against $732,213 , for tho corresponding period last year. Thej ' total value of merchandise ot all descriptions imported at New York for the six month ending June 30, was $61,650,679:correspon--ding period last year, 119,171,444; decrease; . in 1808, $57,520,C47. The two most eonaid-' orable items among the importations of last week are coffee and hides; of which therai were $168,520 worth of the former, and some $220,000 worth of the latter. ii i i ' ' it Gabs must dh stopped. "We believe it wa at soma meeting that the following laughable incident occurred. A member was speaking very fluently and earnestly on some question in which h felt deeply interested. In' the mean time a very inoffensive brother, who' sat on the side of the Moderator, opposite the' speaker, and who sutTers extremely from headache, had been for some time much annoyed and sickoned by the escaping of gas froftf a defective burner, near his seat Unable t ondure it any longer, he suddenly arosS and: directed his hand really to the Moderator but apparently to the speaker, exclaimed- 'Mr. Moderator, this gas must be stopped.' Quite a 'controtemps' was the result, and ik was some time before the unconscious offender eould explain himsolf, and appease the very natural indignation of the brother who imagined himself to be sorudely interrupted." - "Mt Wifb." "When we married, my wife erected a family altar. I could not prav . but she could. I did not to pray, but she did; for ten years she led in prayer, and biassed be God, she has prayed us all into the kingdom of (jod me, my . two apprentices, and I expect, all three of the children, " said a rough man,f now subdued into Christian meekness and sobriety. "I thank Ood for a wile that has had; courage to pray before an ungodly husband." 0T"Iwish to procure the Biography r Pollock." Said a student to the bookseller at the corner of Water street. . . "We have it not, sir," was the reply.-"Can you inform me whero-I can obtalnftr "I cannot, sir; but I dare say you will fltul it in the C"urte-of Hmt." (fir The following is a speech mads by tfie- managcr of an Irish theater. Thero ware" on ly three persons composing the audience. ' "Indies and Gentleman: As there is no body hore. I'll dismiss you all; the performi-ance of this night will not bo performed, but the performance of this night will be rope&wa to-monow night." " '" '' OT An auottonwrexclaimeu,1 "W'hy, really, ladies and gcntlomen. I am giving these things away." "Are you?" said an ohl lady, "Well, Til thank you for that silver pitcher you have in your hand." " k ftJrThe only living heir of the late President Monroe is Samuel L. Oourernor, s clerk in the Treasury Dopartmont . His mother was the President's younger daughter. - (ttr Mr. J. Black, of the Southern Banter, declares for the dissolution of the Union. Let him hare a traitor's reward. - .-... "Hung be the UukTons la Btart Prentice. (rThe Editor of the Allegan (Michigan) Recorder keeps a distillerv. - Hi neighbors aro at a loss to deeide which is the more villainous compound, his Lscomptori politics or his whiskor.-.ft tntice. " - . A Paoposmo-. Th Chicago TWtst says:. Let Mr. Douglas snd Mr. Lincoln agree to canvass the State together, in the osual western style. We have rea'on to believe this would meet Mr. Lincoln's views. In this way the people can make tip their minds sts to which candidate to right. If Mr. Douglas hall refuse to be a party to such erraneiinitnt, it will be because ha ia a coward. VVe are well aware that so Ion;; as be aeoomp'iohes his purposs, he cares not mw ha acootm.li-n Uut he must either to with Mr. l.ni-nin nnwi vr mh wr frdm him as he did in Which will hs dot .. ;. ....