Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1858-07-27

              ' I - li ' 7; : 1 ' : v. ,, ' MIX;")' YOL.IV. MOUNT VERNON, OHIO, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 27, 1858. NO. 37. , . From the Alantlo Monthly. Sandalphon The Angel of Prayer- . r BY Hi W. tONOFELIiOW. Have you read the Talmud of old, Id the legends the Rabbins have told Of the limitless realms of the air, . Have you read it, the marvelous Btory Of Sandalphon; the Angel ol Glory, Sandalphon, the Angel of Prayer? ; How, erect, at the outermost gates Or the City Celestial he waits, With his feet on the ladder of lieht That, orowded with angels unnumbered, My Jacob was seen, as be slumbered . Alone in the desert at night? - . The Angels of Wind and of Fire , , '- Chant only one hymn, and expire - With the song's irrosistable stress, ', Expire in their rapture and wonder, . As harpstrings are broken asunder, By the music they throb to express. . But serone in-the rapturous throng, ; Unmoved by the rush of the song, With eyes unimpassioned and slow, Among the doad angels, and deathless. Sandalphon Btands listening, breathless, lo sounds that ascend from below. From spirits on earth that adore, From the souls that entreat anl implore. In frenzy and passion o( prayer, From hoarts that are broken with losses, , And weary with dragging the crosses 1 loo heavy for mortals to bear. And he gathers the prayers as he stands And he gathers into flowers in his hands Into crarlards of purple and red: And beneath the great arch of the portal Through the streetsof the City Immortal . , 18 waited the fragrance they shed. It is but a legend, I know, J "A fable, a phantom, a show " Of the ancient Itabinical lore; , .' Yet the old medieval tradition , ' ' The beautiful, strange superstition, ' But haunts me and holds me the more, . . When I look from my window at night, .. . And the welkin above is all white, : AH throbbing and panting with stars, Among them majestic is standing ' Sandalphon the angel, expanding , His pinions in nebulous bars. j And the legend, I feel, la a part ' Of the hunger and thirst of the heart, The frenzy and fire of the brain. That grasps at the fruitage forbidden, t' The golden pomegranates of Eden,. . ' i 'nt To quiet its fever and pain. - v. 'Tl Mil Aboard," ,The most significant "word-couplet, "All aboard," uttered thousands of times every day in depots and upon docks, is always the prelude to a long psalm or sorrow. Of itselt it is a mere business behest; in its bearings it involves regret, suffering, and oftimes despair. - Not an hour' glides into the great sea o f the past not a moment leaps to the surface and then is lost forever but some ear listens to the knell lor the last time! , If your heart has been dissatisfied with its treasures, and you are disposed to grope .in the shadows ol despondency, go where friends are parting. . We knew not a surer recipe for kindling the flame of sympathy and making "'Jticnard himsell again," than this, wo one with even a fragment of a heart in his bosom ' can see the warmth of thoso who are to stay and hear the tremulous but earnest "Orood bye," and '"God bless you," uttered by lips that tremble with the freightage, without a ' blessing of his own. A few weeks ago we were witness of a parting that touched us nearly. It was between two who were newlv wedded, and who. since the sweetday of their nuptials, had not been parted for a day. Hardly lor an nour. - joining short of sheer necessity could have cal led the husband from his idol now; but the .'necessity came between them, and he must not shrink. We saw tne long, wild embrace, hoard the clear whisper, "Be of good cheer . I. will be home soon," and in a lew minutes more the billow rolled between the two learU that so lately God had joined together. " "I will be homesoon." These were the ' -words the only consolation left, amid so much litterness. ' Perhaps the pangs of parting were sharpened by the vague presentiment that tricy should nevormoet again! And so aho turned from the spot, that sad young wife, nd went back to a home whose light bad ae . parted. ' .. . "I will bo-home soon" and so he was; Hiomo before he expectod home, ero yet the rtear were dried from the eyes of the weoper Whom he left behind. But, alas! how did he coma? Encompassed In a shroud, embraced .-within a. coffin, cold as the perpetual shroud that crowns the mountain monarch of Swit zerland. Sure enoughhe was home soon, ",n They dug but one grave then, but since . another has beon demanded1; and now the young husband and the young wife sleep and ' dream togother. ., ; We shall all "be home soon." What that ' home will be rests with us. The deeds of -virtue will secure a passport to golden palaces '' th : enormities of vice will end in worse ihan dungeon darkness. .. v ' I - ' "Home soon' ' So he was, end having . . waited but a little while, she went home also. Ait ' ftf oiah Lover. MisS Bishop, the wri tor of "Floral Home," who went to Minnese ta as a teacher, received an offer of marriage . . freat an Indian.' He came' to her dwelling decked in all his finery scarlet flannel, ring, feathery newly scoured brass ornaments and ' bear's claws and through an interpreter an-'' nounced to her that she must be his wife. .3 It was urged that he bad one. wife, - He re plied,' VAU the band have as ma'ny as they - can keep, and i have but one." As an extra ,,; "inducement he promised that she should have " ' the best corner of his lodge, hunt by his aide, ,,andeat with him, while (he dark squaw was - -n to hush the papoose, cook the food, carry the i"1 game, plant and hoo the corn, and provide ; wood and water. Miss Bishop, a little in ya fear of the "green-eyed monster," even if the - olaimant did hold an-inferior position, de. T' 1 alined the distinction. . .. .1 The Indian then begged a dollar to buy hew shirt, and loft with a haughty air. , Next 1 day he was drunk. But Miss Bishop's eseo. ' ciate bred worse; she bad been only . a few " weeks (n the country, and wag ignorant of In-" aian customs; a young warrior, smitten With . jherj balled qten; hoping to be rid of him she l gave him a ring; he intorpretid it as token " of partiality, and returns! take bor to his '. lodge; ine next qy uo agma riuFui tnu L: . . . u LHua it Mnmnnl finM in nit With six young braves to compel h'or to go with ' biur, . KpUi)tioi) ai'J ' interference sarpc) per, From the Hancock Courier. A Revolutionary Relic, . - ' Fiudlat, 0., 10th, 1858. Mb. Editor: Permit me tooccunv a few lines in your paper for the purpose of chron icling an item worthy of being; held in re membrance, On yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting an old revolutionary soldier, ltobert somervilie, wbo resides near Wil-liamstown, in tbis county; and consequently be lives fifteen and a half miles from this place. Ho was born in York county, Pennsylvania, on the eleventh day of May, A. D. 1759, and, therefore, has been io his one hun-dreth year since the eleventh day of last May. iie is six leet ana two incnes nign, weigbs one hundred and sixty-twc pounds, and walked In here yesterday morning, on foot completing the 15 miles intervening between his homo and Findlay, before eleven o'clock, A. M. He is as straight as an Indian, and steps elas-tlo and vigorous. To look at him a person would suppose that he was about sixty-fivo. or seventy years oia. He entered the service of the United Statos at York, Pennsylvania, at the age of seventeen, under Capt. Sturgeon; and was shortly after put into Gen. Washington's "flying camp," as it was called which was composed of picked, men, and comanded by Gen. Sherman, if I remomber correctly. He was in active service in this capacity two years and six months, was at the battle of Trenton; and with Washington the dreary Christmas night when he crossed the Delaware. He was in other engagements and when peace was restored ho returned to his home. He helped to make the brick with which the court house in Gettysburg, Pa., is built. He afterwards removed to the vicinity of Foit Redstone; and thence to Beaver county, Pa. When the war of 1812 broke out he volunteered hi the last named county, and in 1814 was at Fort Meigs, on the Maumee. He gave an incident somothing like this:. While at Fort Meigs he concluded to go over to tho island, (now called Hollister's island,) to hunt some game. Taking a canoe, he crossed over a little above the Fort, and hearing, as he supposed, a pleasant drumming, he proceeded, very cautiously for some distance from the stream, when all at once an Indian discharged a rifle at him, but missed him entirely. Somervilie fired, and the Indian was dead. To use the old man's phrase "it was too close to take sight." The next instant another Indian fired, grazing his side and cutting through his clothes near the top of the left hand vest pocket, and then throwed a tomahawk, striking Somervilie a blow with the edge of it in the edge ol the hair on his forehead; where he carries the scar yet, which is about three inches long, and from appearances must have been a "glancing blow." The next moment the second Indian's skull gave way under a stroke from the breach of Somerville's gun. Somervilie was with Harrison at Lundy's Lane; where he lost his only brother who was also in the engagement. ' To hear bim talk about .Washington, to see his gestures and the flashing of ,his eye, as his mind runs back over the trials which he has passed through, awakens an intense interest in the listener and beholder. He almost idolizes General Washington. When telling that the last place he saw him was at Carlisle, Pa., but a short time before he died, a tender and subdued tone, indicating deep feeling, is apparent Mr. Somervilie says that he is not as good a man as he was eight or ten years ago; but says if the British come again he will volunteer. : ' - s He is one of those who havo lived and served in scenes and times "That triod men's soul's.". It is to such men that we owe oar happi- noss, prosperity, and national greatness. - . . . . M. Free Labor in Missouri. The free labor movement is making rapid progress in Missouri, it is sweeping every thing before it, and it is certain to annihilate in a very Short time the party, of aristocratic slave propagandists who are opposed to its principles. The people are determined to clear the way for the progress of the grand movemeut, which has already accomplished much for the material prosperity of tho Stato. Tho certain and cheering sounds that the bu glo of independence has sent forth from the patriotic people of Missouri, who, a few years ago, unfurled the white man's banner on their own soil, under most discouraging circumstan ces, has caused a tremendous influx of intel ligent people from the older States who, in an ticipntion of the early and full success of the emancipation movement, have located in the cities and towns, and on the fertile lands of this State a Stato, which in point of Ag nculture and mineral wealth, and all tne resources that nature has provided fer the comfort and convenience of man, is the first in the Union. The residents of Missouri having had a foretaste of the financial and social bonents resulting from this movement, are rapidly arraying themselves on the sido of froe soil. So much having been accomplished by one or two eflcctive blows, for tne cause or the white man, they begin to discover that the uprooting of the evil must lead to benencial results, which cannot now be estimtted. Alexandria ilo'. Beveille. , ' ,' - RRPCBMC4H UANDIDATi FOB BOARD OY Publio Works. The Cleveland Leader con tains the following notice of Mr. Martin, who is to succeed Mr. Conoror as member of the Board of Publio Works: Mr. Martin, resides at Middlofown, in that Division, and is an extensive flour and paper manufacturer. Born and brad In the free air of the Green Mountains of Vermont, a mill right by profession, he emigrated to Franklin county, Ohio, 1837. From 1840 to 1845 he was employed in heavy canal repair jobt, between Columbus and Portsmouth, and as an engineer- For ten years past Mr. M. has had no connection with tho Publio Works, but has successfully followed manufacturing pursuits. He is i fine specimen of the old fashioned Whig sons of Molly Stark inlolliecnt, active hoaest fend capable; Dot an offlcer-ioeker, but competent and ready to serve the State faith' mil. That be Is exactly the right sort of a man for Itht place: the delegates whs best knew hit worth voted for his nomination from the Brat to the final ballot. ,-' . i rHfsTTSo Orrtcf. The Printine ofnoe Has proved a better college to nianv a kdr. has graduated more useful and conspicuous member of society, has brought out more intellect and turned it into practical, useful channels, awakened more mind, generated more active and elevated thought i than many of the literary colleges of the coilntry, - A trty wbo commenced io such a school as thd Jtirttinp o flics, Will have uu Uient and idau brought tniti and if he is a careful observer, experience-in his profesaiob frill contribute more toward an education Ib'l Pty he obtained ia almost any ptljer way. V-': ' ' . ' Artesian Wells, Fountain City la Williams County, 0. The Artesian Well at the State House is now about 1,700 feet deep, and no water yet. In the subjoined articles will be found flome interesting faots rotating to Artesian Wells, and the depth at which water is obtained at various localities. The Marietta (Iowa) Ex press says: The deepest Artesian wen in the United States is now being bored in St. Louis, by Belcher Sc Brothers. At last accounts the auger had beon sunk in tbis well to the depth ot leet and tno boring was still continued. The noxt in depth, is perhaps, the well in Louisville, Ky., which is 1,006 feet deep. There is a well now being bored in the State House yard at Columbus, Ohio, which had at last accounts reached a depth of o70 feet. In other portions of the country water has been found nearer the surface. A Mr. Starling, of Vermillion county, Illinois, recently bored for water, and at the distance of only 22 feet obtained a copious and excellent supply rising ten loot above tne suriace ortheground. We learn from a California paper, that in Santa Clara Co.. in that State, there are over 400 Artesian wells of an average depth of I'M leet. Ten or twelve or these are from 250 to 400 feet deep. These wolls throw up jets from five to ten feet high. From a pi no seven inches in diameter, 1,000 gallons por minute are discharged Iroin those California wells. Perhaps the most noted Artosian wolls in the United States are those at Bryan, the county seat of Williams county Ohio. In that place the water is attained at the aver age depth of about 35 feet. The process of bonog is easy, until within a foot or two of the water, when what is called the "hard pan," it suddenly drops, sometimes to the depth of three or four feet, when the water rushes up with great force, and for several days throws up Jarge quantities of fine white sand, after which it ever runs clear as crystal. I5ryan is very properly called the "Fountain City," for the cost of one of these wolls is so small that almost every family has a beauti ful and healthful fountain playing in their door yard. At several places in the town, there are fountains pouring forth treasures at an eleva. tion of 16 feet above the surface of the earth. '. The most remarkable feature, however con nected with the Artesian wells of Bryan, is the fish that inhabit them. Where the water is permitted to flow out without the obstruc tion of pipes or stocks, immense swarms of from one to four inches in length, may at all titnos be seen sporting in the wells, but they are very seldom seen beyond the circumfer ence of the well, and have never been known to follow the streams many rods from thoir subterranean homes. These fish resemble the trout very muoh, in appearance, and are most beautilully marked with white and yellow' ish spots. In the State Library Rooms at Col umbus, 0., may be seen some pretty sped mens of these lish kept alive in glass jars. These little underground travelers, in conse quence of theirbeauty,and the romance of their lives, have been taken to many portions ol the Union, to grace offices and parlors of the learn ed and good. They are not blind Iiko the fish found in the caverns of tho earth, but on the contrary, are very sharp sighted. Increase of Postage, One of tho boldest attempts to oppress tho people, and especially the people of the North, was made in tho last days of the late session of Uongress, by the locoioco majority or the Senate, to increase the rates of postage.' The proposition was to increase the rate of 3 cents to 5 and 10 cents, according to distance, and the vote in the Senate, on this oppressive piu position was as follows: Yeas Messrs. Benjamin, Bright,Broderick, Brown, Clay, Clingman, Davis, Fitch, Gwin, Hunter, Johnson ol Ark., Johnson or Tenn Mallory. Pearce, Polk.Roid.Sobastian, Thomp son of Ky., and Yulee. Nayt Messrs. 2?i'yfer,"Chandler,CIark, Doo-little. Douglas, Fessendeo, Foster, Hamlin, King, Puglt, Met. Seward, Stuart, Wilson.and Wright. Here, it will be seen, every man who voted to increase the postage was a Democrat; while every Republican present voted against it, five Democrats only voting with thom! The proposition to increase the rates was in troduced by Mr. Johnson, of Ark. An appro priate commentary upon his scheme is afford ed by the following statistics, which are taken from a pamphlet, by Pliny Miles, upon the subject of a Postal Reform. The number of letters carried annually in the five Statos of 3ew York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, unio and Illinois, is 68,CG8,G0O; the numbor carried in the fifteen Southern, is 35,'J21,521. The expensos of the F. 0. Dopartment, in tho fivo first named SUUsare $3,171,4. Revenue darived from theui 3,370,366 Excess of RcoeipU ovor Expenditures. Expenses in Sou thorn Statos Rovonue Deficit.. . .$108,92.1 .3,6311,333 .1,664,734 $2,901,599 The only Slave State which pays its own postage accounts ir full is Delaware, which annually pours out into the National Treasury under this head, the magnificent sum of one hundred and seventy-one dollars! Tsow York and Massachusetts alone pay $2,750,390 per annum for postage; their expenses for this ob ject during the same period amounting to 423.305. The Southern and South-Western States nay for their postal facilities, the annu al sum of $2,739,277; while the expense of Droviding them amounts to $4,318,(80, It will thns be seen that all the Southern States pay less for . postage than two Northern ones, while their expenses are three times as large! The actual cost ol carrying a letter in New England and New York, is one cent and eight mills; in the Middle states, three cents and three mills; in the aouinern anu ooum-Westorn States, six cents and seven mills; in Arkansas, eighteen cents and seven mitts. ' Herein. If we mistake not, will be found the entire milk of the eocoa nut which we have opened. A reference to the record of yeaa and nays, by which the nronoaitioa to raise the rates o f postage was- adopted, will show mat every member present from a self-sustaining State voted against, and that every member from nauner State Toted for the amendment. It was rerv natural that Mr. Johnson, of Arkan sas, should make such motion, becaaso the burden of the increase would scarcely fall In any perceptible degree upon bli own ignorant constituents, but almost entirely upon the laborers and mechanics of the North, who are already dispTopoTtiotially taxed. Pittsburgh Utpeltt. ' ' ' : . A FiiB Pao'Frt.--The New York Tirrits says, it is euabled to aftlrra that tbore is io the State Department at Washington, proof to show that the capital of three million dollars Invested in the Slavs trade prod dee t profit of right ten mjllion of dollars syear; " AccCSs lo Cod, However early in the morning you seek the gate of access, you find it already open; and however doep tho midnight moment when you find yourself in the suddon annsof death, the winged prayer can oringan instant savior near aid this wherever you are. It needs not that you ascend Pisgah or Moriah. It needs not that you should enter some awful shrine, or pull off your shoes on soino holy ground. Could a memento be reared on every spot from which an acceptable prayer has passed away, and which froam prompt answer has come down we should find Jelwvah Sltammah, "the Lord hath been hore," inscribed on many a cot- tago hearth and many a dungeon floor. We sho'd find it not only on Jerusalem's proud tem- ple.and David'scodargalleries.butin the fisherman's cottage, -by the brink in Oencsaret, and in the upper chamber where Pentecost began. And whether it be the field where Isaac went to meditate, rocky knoll whore Jacob lay down tosleop, or the brook where Israel wrestled, or tho den where Danied gazed on the hungry lions and the lions on him, or the hill sides whore the man of sorrow prayed all night, we should still discern the prints of the ladder's feet let down from heaven the landing place of mercies because the starting point of prayer. Hamilton. , The Wine of California. California, like Missouri, will soon rival Ohio in the products of native wino. There is one firm in San Francisco which produced last year two hundred thousand bottles of champaign from their own vineyard in Los Angelos, This is but one of many instances ol Uaulornia enterprise in wine-growing. Almost every State in the Union now adds its quota small in many cases, but always increasing to the annualproductB. N. Y. Post. The Marquis of Westminister, who is the richest man in England, has been "figuring up" to see how much he is worth, and has discovered that his riches amount to 21,000,- 000 sterling, or one hundred and five millions of dollars. His income is noarly ten thou sand dollars a day. Remarkable Cow. The Messrs. Hamil ton, of Sweet Air.Bnltimore county, have a cow of Devon and Durham stock, which gave in one week (June 17th to 24th) 3G3 pounds of milk, and under evory disadvantage, as re gards butter making, made 13 pounds of butter. This can scarcely be beaten in the State. High 1titudb. The steamer, City of Bal- timore, on her last trip from Liverpool to New York, took the northern, route around the north end of Ireland, and went so far north it is said, as to enable the passengers to see the sun above the horizon until about a quarter past 9 o'clock, in the evening. Cm. Com. ' Revolotionabv Pensioners is Onto. It is stated that there are but three Revolution' ary soldiers in Ohio. Their names and resi de nee are as follows: " Jonas Frazce, Harrison: William Jones, Ba- tavia; J obn stratti, uailipolis. ftj" By the conflagration of the town of St, Andreas, Cil., on the 2d ult., property to the amount of $210,000 was destroyed. About one-fifth of this falls upon Chinamen. 03" Myriads of grasshoppers have made thoir appearance in the wheat and grass fields 4 or 5 miles west of Abingion, Va., and are doing much injury. . 03" It is rumored at Washington that John Calhoun is to bo removed from the office of Surveyor-General of Kansas. The orange has been exhausted, and the rind thrown away. . , . 03r Hon. Schuyler Colfax has been nomi Dated by the Republicans of the Ninth Indi ana District, for re-election to Congress. The vote was unanimous. The trial of Barns, at Wheeling, Va., for killing a prostitute named Mary Montry, has resulted in a verdict ot murder in the lirst do gree. Samuel Carpon, one of the leaders of the Philadelphia Democraoy, has just been con victed of perjury in connection with elections. Trow's New York Directory contains about 140,000 names, noarly 4,000 less thaa it con tained in 1357. . OCT The N. Y. Times, states that the Small Pox is now a "permanent institution" in the metropolis. dr The death of Mrs. Weed, the wife of Tburlow Weed, or the Albany Journal, is announced. She had been ill for several months, He who lives only to benefit himself gives the world the benefit when he dies. The road ambition travola is too"narrow for friend ship, too orookod for lore, too ragged for honesty and too dark fur soionoo. OCT Agricultural State Fairs are te be held this year as .follows: California, at Marysville, Aug. 23d to 28th Missouri, at St Louis, Sept. 6th to 10th. Illinois, at Centra'.ia Sept. 14th to 18th. Vermont, at Burlington, Sept. 14th to 17th, Ohio, at Sandusky. Sept. 14th to 18th. New Jersey, at Trenton, Sept. 15th to 17th. Rhode Islani.at Troviuonce, sept, linn to 18th. Kentucky, at Louisville, Sept. 27th to Oct, 1st. - .--Iowa, at Oikaloosa. Sept. 28th to Oct. 1st. Pennsylvania, at Pittsburgh, Sept 28th to Uctlst. Indiana, at Indianapolis, Oct. 4th to 9th. Wisconsin, at Madison, Oct. 4th to 7th. New Hampshire, at Dover, Oct. Cth to 8th New York, at Syracuse, Oct. Cth to 8th. Connecticut, at Hartford. Oct. 12th to 15th. United States, at Richmond, Va, Oct. 25th to 30th.- : . .. Tua Illustrious Dsad.- -The Cincinnati as north perusal Enquirtr gives the following and preservation: ORIf . DIED AOS. IW WMhinelon. 1733 1790 C7 Boniarain Franklin. . 1706 . 1790 81 91 83 81 78 75 68' ,70 73 John Adams, v . , 1735 1820 Thomas Jefferson. - 1743 1828 John Q. Adams. . 1707 1848 Andrew Jackson, . 1767 i 14j Henry Clay, -i ; 1771, .. 18o3 John 0. Calhoun, , . .. 1782, 1850 , Daniel Webster. . 1782 . 1852 Thomas H. Benton, 1782 : 1858 ft-1- Mnt TfoUpr Parker died recently at was widow for the last Od years1, . Enthusiasm and (iiinpowdcr. Reception of Judge fiouglaa at Chi cago. Chicaoo, July 9 11 P. M. Senator Douglas was received this evening; with great display. At 10 o'clock a Committee of 400 from Chicago and tho adjoining counties proceeding to Michigan City, there met Judge Douglas and escorted him to this City. On arrival of the train he was greoted Willi firing of cannon andcheors of the people. A procession was formed and Mr.D. conducted to the Tromont House. Here he was welcomed in a brief speoch in behalf of the citizens by Chas. Walker, Presidotit of Board of Trade. Mr. Douglas, after returning thanks for the magnificent recoption, reviewed the action of the last Congress on tho Kansas bill. He extolled the Crittenden bill as an honest, and the very best proposition as a practical illus tration ol x'opuiar Sovereignty, lie claimed that the struggle with Lecomptonism is for the integrity of a principle: that in the strug gle that principle was triumphant; and that liecomptomsm being virtually abandoned by its friends, had been defeatod forever. He bad been opposed the English bill, although it prac tically sent back: tho Constitution to be accepted or rejected by the people, because the manner, as well as the form of the submission was at variance with evory just principle of popular government. It was a submission of the constitution to the people with the threat, if they did not accept a Slave Constitution with 35,000 inhabitants, they should not come in as a Free State until they had 93,000. Ilo could never countenance such discrimination between Free and Slave States. The best energies of his mind had been soveral years devoted to the great principle of the right or the people ofterntones to frame their own fundamental laws, and he intended to do-voto all of his future life to the samo doctrine. Hecontondod that tho compromise measures of 1850 wero founded on that principle, which was carried out in the Kansas-.Nebraska bill, affirmed in the Cincinnati Platform, andre-affirmed in President Buchanan's Inaugural. lie regretted to see, however, a powerful political party in the country determined not to acquiesce in this line of policy. The Re publican Convention recently assembled at Springfield, nominated Mr. Lincoln as his successor to tho U. S. Senate, repudiated the doctrine of Popular Sovereignty, and pro claimed that Congress, and not the-people of the territories, should establish tho domestic institutions of the territories. Mr. Lincoln endorsed not only this doctrine, but proclaim ed a line of policy which was incompatible with the existence of tho. Union. He (Lin coln) declared 'that a Union divided into an equal number o f Free and Slave States can not endure. Mr. Douglas showed the dangerous tendency of tho doctrine; that it in vited, yea, proclaimed a war of extermination of one section against the other, lie regard ed it as a subversion of the fundamental prin ciples upon whieh our complex system of Uovernment rested. He denied that uniform-nityof local policy and domestic institutions of tho ditTereut States was either desirable or possible. On the contrary, our political system rested upon a theory and practice of dissimilarity of tho local policy and domestic institutions ot the dinerent States. Uur lore fathers clearly perceived that the domestic in stitutions which suit New Hampshire were totally unfit for tho rice plantations of South Carolina; hence, they adopted a Constitution which provides that each State shall be sovereign and supreme in its own limits, on the supposition that they would be as diversified as tho States were numerous. Thus it would seem that a diversity and dissimilarity of the domestic institutions of the sovereign Statos were cardinal principles underlying the whole sytem of Government. Its strength, harmony, and adaptation to the wants and interests of the people all depended upon the right of each state to form and regulate its inter nal policy without reference to their similari ty with other States. He repeated that uni formity was neither desirable nor possible.' I f possible, how to be obtained ? There is but one process through which it could be accouv plished, and that would be to abolish the State Legislatures and convert the Govern ment into one consolidated empire, investing Congress with full power to adopt police, regulations, regulate internal policy, and adopt domestic institutions for all the States.: Let this be done and there would be uniformity, Then the states would be all Free Statos or all Slave States. Then negroes tould vote everywhere or nowhere; then our glorious confederation of 32 sovereign States would be merged into one consolidated empire. The uniformity of despotism would reign triumph ant throughout the land.-Mr. Douglas proceeded to answer Mr. Lin coln's crusade against the Supreme Court on account of the Dred Scott decision. He could sanction no crusado against the highest judicial tribunal of the land. Ha was prepared to yield obedience to the law as expounded by the Court. He didn't agree with Mr. Lincoln that it was a great wrong to deprive the ne gro of the rights of citizenship.-: He did not believe they were ever intended to be citizens of our Government founded on a white basis, and created by white men for the benefit of white men. True humanity required that negroes and in inferior races be permitted to enjoy such rights and privileges as they wore capablo of exorcising consistently with the good of society, v- : rr-. lie adverted to the necessity of maintaining the organization of the Democratic party. While there might be differences of opinion in respect to fho true construction of particular arncies oi ine creed oi tne party, toioration most be indulged. There should be no pro scription of sound democrats, because of such differences. He said that office holders and Republicans were working in anision for the purpose of defeating the regular nominations in Illinois. He would, like the Russian of Se- bastopool, keep firing, not caring which ho hit, r renchor English. . Mr Lincoln was present and heard Mr. Douglas. ' Fireworks were discharging in several parts of the town. The number of persons in at tendance is variously estimated at from fifteen twenty-five thousand. " ' Brotris Cox. "From early morn till dew- ey eve" we see him shaking hands with this one, arm in arm with that one, bowing as politely to some poor fellow from the Country. as to the aristocrat in the city inquiring after this one's bealtb, and that one's family: io crowdeM thoroughfares, in lonely eornert, id the store of the merchant, in the shop of the mechanic ill the barber shop, and the restaurant: to where you wilL ibis ubiquitous little gentleman is everywhere visible, making bim' elf generally, and orten particularly, useiui. Busy as a bee In taf barrel, active aa a grain ofpopeord in hot skilleti Voiumnt uaieu i " i ffr Loncfellow's beautiful phrase, "suffer aitd be strong." is now Itnjiliarly rendered, grin ana oar it r - Cominnnirations." . For tho Republican. Common Sclmok Agriculture & Why is it that Agriculture is not taught in our common schools? The intention of Education is to fit the rising generation to fulfil the obligations which will rest upon them in aflor life nd that they do honor to the stations thoy aio designed to occupy. More than one halflbe boys attending our Common Schools are dostined to become farmers, and it appears reasonable that they should devote a part of thoir time and talents to the study of Agricultural works. I do not hold the idea that a complete course of Agricultural instruction can be given in our common schools. Such an idea would be as preposterous as that a complete courso of Medicine or law could be given. But if farmers are to be educated for their profession, (which by all means they should be,) the greater part of it will be done at home or in our common schools, from the fact that Agricultural Colleges are few and far between an J will be foryears to como; and provided there were two or three Colleges in every State in tho Union, it would still be impossible for the larger portion of those intending to become rarmers to receive instructions in them; for the reason that not one-fourth part of the farmers are able to send thoir sons to institutions of this kind.- Thereforo let tome complete yet simple work on the principles of Agriculture be adoptod in our district schools, and that at as early a day as possible. r regression is marked on every thing around us; and is tho farmer still willing to remain in ignorance of the principles by which he is gov- ernod, and the laws by which nature works lor Ins benentf I hope for better things, I hope the day" is not far distant when farming will bo carried on upon scientific principle.-', and the farmer rati be truly a scientiuo men. J. E. W, 1 rcdencktown, July 20th, '08. Foi- the Republican. ML Vernon Baptist A S, Tic Nic. Mr. Editor: There was a rallv of the Teachers, Scholars and Friends of the Baptist S, School, on the Cth inst., in Lamb's Grove, some two miles north of this City, and though there was no martial music, no Bach-analian revelry, no swearing, fighting nor the pestiferous breath of the drunkard to polute the pure air, yot was there no lack of innocent enjoyment. The number of -the procession was about ZoU, with six flags and banners bearing appropriate symbols and moral senti ments. After a spirit stirring hymn by tho Sabbath School, tho Pastor, J. S. Richmond, opened the services.with prayer and offered a lew remarks, appropriate to the occasion, on civil and religious Freedom, the former, secured by the Revolution and the latter dating back to the Great Apostle of soul Liberty, Rogor W illiam's, and consummated in the present century; thatRhodo Island "though little, not the least." amonz the Tribes of our Israel. for out ol hercame forth a deliverer, the Great Author of the principle that secures to all the right to worship God according to tho dictates ol conscience, a principle now universally acknowledged and rospected. Ho said that while the New England Pu ri-tans, came to America, to enjoy their own rights,to proprogate .their own faith, R. Williams opened an asylum for all sects to enjoy equal freedom and planted the tree of Religion, of soul Liberty that now extends ber branches from the Atlantio to the Pacific, while under its shades repose millions of the happy and the freo. Two of the pupils of the Sabbath School James Frederick, and Philip' Urownscombe, presented to the Sabbath School a beautiful Banner, prepared bythemselves and of their own device, bearing this appropriate inscription, "Reuembkr now thy Creator in tho days of thy youth," which was Deceived by tbe Supdrintendant, Mr. A. Adams, with remarks by the Pastor. Other Banners, pre pared by tho young ladies, and on the face of which we read, l'ailh. Hope, Love, 1 rutb, and all garlanded with flowers, woven by the lingers of our fair daughters, enlivened the scene.. The singing of the Sabbath school under tbe teachings and guidance of Mr. John Donoven was charming, and the songs ofseveral gentlemen and ladies, led by the chorister of the Baptist Choir, Mr. M. Barr, was enrapturing. . The refreshments wero all that could be desired, in variety and abundance, and a beautiful fountain gushing up, "; "The purest and brightest that nature oonlj jlolil," to which was; ad Jed thq ice, the lemons and the susiarin due proportions, to please the taste, satisfied and quenched the thirst of all. -' 1 hus passed away one of tbe happiest days that many had ever seen and in tbe re-trospect.it will be looked upon as a green oasis, in the desert, a bright and sunny spot on which rested no dark cloud, the memory of which will not fade rrotn the mind or tbe writer while timo lasts. ,. : Cou. Worth Kwowrso. Tha United States are composed of thirty-two States and nine TerritoriesThey contain a population of 27.000,000; of whom 23.000,000 are wbito and Tully civilized. ' The extent of sea coasts is 15,550 miles.: The length of the ton principal riven is 90,000 miles. s The number of miles of railroad in operation is 20,000. The total cost of railroads is $77,000,000. The whole length" of canals is 5,000 miles. It contains the longest railroad on the globe, the Illinois Central which is 784 miles. The annual value of the agriclt ural production is 90,000,000. : ' Its most valuable production is Indian corn, which yields annually 40,000,000 bushels of the best. . .., . - The amount of registered and enrolled tonnage is 4,000,000. . . ' , ' . - Tbe amount of capital Invested In manufactures is 600,000,000. ' - !.' ' The annual amount of internal trade is $(500,000,000. . , , ' ' -., Tbe value ol farms and live stock is $503u 000,000. . : Its mines of gold, copper, load - and iron are among the richest in the worldt - Tbe value pf sold produce! u SlUUOOU,- 000. The surface or its coal fields is 130.131 square miles.- h ' ' Within her borders art 80,000 schools. 5,000 academies. 831 .colleges, and 9.809 churches '-,'.. : T .- ,- . .',ui . : ' fty'llcldw Point Coiipeo. L.. is one, broad field of stig!tr-can, Covering thirty thousand acres! There are) rows four miles in length; and straight as an arrows Atonj point the traveler can count fifteen brick sugar houses It one elanra, J To the lunfi ' ; How bewtiful is this ere night, ( .... .', , . How brite tbe stare du shne,' All nator sleeps in trankilneM : But this lone hart of mine. -. 1 ' ' ' ' ' ' ' : ' ; '"'':'' . Our dog has quit-a-birkin' now, ' At fellers passin' bi, . . . ,v . r Here gazin' at the far off roune, With kam and plassid i. ' : Wen vuin tho, thou pale ,&co thing, A hangin' in the skixe, ... Upward on wild untramled wing, . .' 'Ky tliauths cuts dust and flizo. 0 cud I kwlt this klod of kla, ; - And sore abuv the kloud, ' . -. ;, , , I'd baith my soul in heggstacy, . . , , In yonder lloasy klowd. now ban the poit'shiborn soal ' ! ' Micks with erth'g vulgar kru? Wud it not ruther fli awa, And hyde from mortil vu? '; Ah, yes! had I a pair uf wings, '. To go to yundor ruune, 1 guess idejust is soon sta that ; Frum now until next June. And thar, a-roving up and down ' Thru purty flours ido go, Or Iissen to the tinklin' rills Wt frum the mountains fla Foukd Them, A young man.clad in bom, spun, was standing in Court street a few day since, devouring a doughnut, when ho was accosted by half a dozen genteel dressed city idlers with, " "Just come down?" ' '. ' . . "Yeas, guess I have, great place this, ain't it noow?" said the countryman. v "Trs so, bub, how's your marm?" asked tho city buck, bent on sport with greeny. "Well she's putty well, Bha sent me down here on business." r . ; "She did! What kind of business are yon on?" . ' 'Why she wanted me to come down to Boston and look around and find half adoaoo of the biggest fulea in Boston and bring them up o the country to eddicate them, and I rather guess I've got my eye on them Dow," said tho stranger, taking in the crowd at k glance. ,; ... .,t!i-i The next moment he had tbe edgestone to himself, whore he quietly finished his dough nut. . Editor of the Union Presentation of Boots! The Detroit Advertisor is rssponsi-i bio for the following; - . , ... The Administration editor of the Washing-' ton Union is Sim. Johnson. He used to live) at Grand Rapids. Old Rix Robinson, of Ada,' Kent County, once presented him with a pair' ofstoga boots, but in the hurry ot the presentation he forgot to take them off his own feet.' They were presented end-wise. ' .'' '. ' tCT The other day at the trial of Gen. Jim Lane for shooting Jenkins ;. Young, one of the Lawyers, insisted that the law always, presumed the man slain, to be wrongfully slain, and said that' if there was any law book, English or American that held contrary doctrine, he would sgreo to eat it, , Co, hia opponent, replied: "Then, you will, have more law in your stomach than you ever sue-: ceeded in getting ia your head. ''' ' 111 ill i I T . 03" A captainr one of the old school, beinfc at a ball, bad been accepted by a . beautiful partner, a lady of rank, who, in the most delicate manner possible hinted to him the1 propriety of putting on a pair Of gloves, "Oh, was the- elegant reply, "noer miod . tnS, ma'am: I shall wash my hands whoa JL'v doce dancing.",, , '- ' 'in in ' ; (r It is said that one of the editors of the Lewisburg Chronicle, soon after ha went to loam the printing bui.iness, went to aee s preacher's daughter. Tbe next time be attended meeting he was considerably' astonished at hearing the minister announce as hia text: - '.' !. i- ;' (. "i "My daughter is greviously tormented with t devil" . .ft,. O-'-Wall,'' said a soft headed blunder Jonathan, the other day, "Suky has gin, me th sack; by gravy, I've lost her." - -'. "Lost berl how?" inquired hl sympathising friend. ,; ; , , "I laid Jolt soap . on ' her so thick that the critter got so proud she would'nt speak to me." - '' r'- .'"'ii w - "Do you think you are fit to die?! ked mother of her neglected child. ., ; i , 'I don't know," said the little girl taking hold of her dirty dress with her dirty finger and inspecting iL "I guess so, if I aint too-dirty." , : ; i- - . -V - ;; I- . !,.! i.' i.t A Judge in Indiana, threatened to fin a lawyer for contempt of court. 'I have ex- irea no contempt ror ine coun, sam in lawyer, 'on the contrary, I havo carefully concealed my feelings." " -j : t ? OiT It to stick your finger in Jta water, and pulling it, look for a hole; it, ia equally vaid to suppose that, however lgo space you occupy, tbe World Will ailsS youv when you die. .- , ; -i ,.,. .,.,-. : OtT A duol was fought in Mississippi last month by 8. Knott and A. W. Shoti. ,Th result was Knott was shot and Sliott waa not. ' In these circumstances' we should" rather have been Sliott than Knottl . ,.',. i A rose bush is in flower in Mr. Malgtljh'f gardon, Providonco, R. I. that quite lilts green house seventy' feet id length, add ton-tains sis thousand Hbwera and brtde, . .,,u : Qr "Yon are writing my bill on very rough paper," kaid ft. client to hi attorney. "Never mind," said the lawyer, "it baa to b filed before it comes Into court" ' " - ..' " " ' -n t The jresiurt is said to be Very bad among the musquitoes on the lake and elsewhere. causing an inconvenient frequency in the pre. seiiwiion oi puis. " . "Dor. What la RtA.nn?'- - I'-rmo. r.i,, "That's richt : eomnnrn it " "Pnt,ii. L7 . comparative, liter ; sujrlatire buri(. C3r Napoleon IlL has oouii!td this iOtb year, having been born at the 'fleriea oa the 20lb of .April, 1303. ... t (T At l Concert recently, at the conclusion of tin eong, "There' a Oixl 'l ime Com (wr, ' a brmvr h ami auid. "Misti-r cnuli' nr. you flJ tht dU?' . , w'1