Mt. Vernon Democratic banner (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1853), 1859-12-06

              . - ' ' ' - " . ...... . . ... If n VOLUME XXIII. MOUNT VEHNON, OHIO: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6 1859. NUMBER 33. Jfce Pernor) Sch)i,ni!6.Sr)Delr U SUBL1SHKD ITlT TCWT IMU. BY . HARPER. Ofice in "Woii-ward's Block, Third Story TERMS T dollars ir anno in, payable in advance: $2.50 witbin six months: $3,00 after the ax- piratioo of the year. Clubs of twenty, SI, SO eaob. patriotic Jtonwtie THANKSGIVING SERHOH " - ' ". op . v Rev. John Chambers, At first independent church, PHILADELPHIA, THCB3DAY, OCT. 24, 59. Reported by D. W. Brown, Phonograph""- " The Speaker read, as introductory to his Ser mon, from 8th chapter oF Deuteronomy, and the Zd chapter oi r irai iiinoioy. lusujiiiKtpijci, I have announced to you ray purpose to relieve ' toy heart .of a burden that has oppressed me fur long time. I am an American citizen an American Minister of the Gospel. I love this Bible. I love the God of this Bible. I love niy country, its Constitution and. its law. I am a man of peace. I have"a heart for the nation. I love it fronita extreme Northern Terge to the J utmost limits ot iu ooutnern nounaary. i love W 1 it from the spot upon which falls the first ray of ice 'morning sun, to war iar on eai, waere un- ger the last beams of the sun's evening retirement. I love it from ita centre to its circumference. I love U as a unit. I am ready to live ' h it a a. nnit I am read v to Dut the blood of . . . 1 . lrf I 1 " iny heart fresh upon its altar rather than see it anything else than a unit. The worth of this Union to ourselves and the , , i , j f - t i j XT woria or luanKina is innmcety uejouu price. j.w powers of arithmetic, no mathematical genius, however cultivated, can figure out the inlriusic i m . TT . ' 1 J . .. - . 1 1 - - value oi mis union to ourselves aim iu iue race. The "eyes of the civilizad world upon ns to-day. Fixed and stead? is that gaze that comes from tvery quarter of the globe; it seems just to bov- The natiousoTraankind are watching -ns wi;h especial interest, because We are eug&ged iu "rorkin out the great, the momentous problem J3f self-government. The finger of scorn has . teen pointed ; the pen of the opponent of republics has been dipped long and deep, and has dashed rapid It acroM the pae. declaring the itn poeaibllity of ouf Success. : It has long been ooj fixed opinion that the monarchies of Europe, fend especially England, were jewotis oi ns. n is possime mat in iais we . saay be mistaken ; but the old adage that " actions speak more loudly than wprds, comes in -i - ttri 11 : I -ixr. years, we eseaped from under oppressive do minion of that government; aud in despite of ber armies, her navy, her wealth, we moved on with ths strength of an infant giant, and hurled fronj our necks, shook from our hands, burst from our feet, every badge and fetter of political bondage, and stood up freemen--freemeu before the Universe. Subsequently, insult added to injury roused the heart of the young giant, and brought him into renewed conflict with his for- er oppressor! That attempt to crush us failed, as had the previous attempt. Why did the first fil? Because the heart of our nation was iu-fused with the spirit of the Bible and patriotic unity. Why did the second fail ? Because the increased multiplied States of this Republic felt that they were bound together by hooks of eternal steel i as one man, they met the enemy, they conquered,, they triumphed. The invading foe, with fallen crest, were commanded to return to their own shores and let us alone This spirit of jealousy is, we think, manifest ; and the monarchies, the despotisms of Europe can to-day see no hope of triumphing over this Western Continent in any other way than by breaking ns to pieces.; 2key cannot break us; but we can break ourselves. The combined armies and navies of the whole three continents are not equal to the task of severing this Union, If we be true to ourselves. Seeing, then, no hope, other than by dividing ns against ourselves, our adversaries-are apt, as a matter of conrse, to seize hold of that whereby . they may most readily engender strife-make us sectional lift the heart from the great ark of the covenant of the Union, and put it down in a tit tie spot here and little spot there. Hence it is you find England particularly, most impertinently officious in attempting to Interfere with our insti tutions. Her press, her pulpits, her forum, her Senate chamber, folt out anathemas upon us. . and endeavor to stretch forth the hand to lay it npon that which belongs to us, with which they have uo business. And at the Lord lives, if they are not careful, that arm will one day be smitten from the shoulder, in its intermeddling at' tempts. We are a loog-suffering people ; but, brethren, there was a point at which we found encroachment unendurable ; and there may be another. If we are capable of working out the great problem of self-government, we are capable of taking care of oar awn institutions, what ever they may be commercial, agricultural, domestic, civil, religious ; we are capable of taking care or our ova institutions, and we must be let alone. .- . ' If, however, the enemies of republics can, by ; the utmost atrength of their cunning and their power, urge us on to a spirit of mutual jealoasy, of anarchy, of confusion; if they can discover, (and they think they hare discovered it,) the meant by which an entering wedge of separation Dty be in trod need between these States, now . bound together by tea thousand ligament of the ha man heart, and cemented by oceans of holy and patriotic blood, -if they can discover bow they may divide and disrupt this Union, they - will do it and when it shall be done, they will -' pat the Iron heel of despotism npon the scattered --. tct jnentSt as may suit their pleasure or their in isrest. Cot, O God t that day cannot come, that iij cercr coae, if we be true to ourselves 1 I hara E3 rrthessbai ont the mallsnast U"::c:9 cf tj power, B&Ieti it be seconded by our 'own folly. 'Sometimes men tell me "If we should have war with England, cur enemies would burn Boston, and barn New York, and barn Philadelphia, and burn Baltimore ; they Will burn every city on the Atlantic shore." I do riot believe a word of iu That is not the kind of stuff that we are made of, to be thus burned. But we may barn onnslves. While no Other hand dare grasp that helm of the ship of state, and drive the noble vessel upon the quicksands on the rocks, we may do it. In viewing the aspects of public morality in this country, one of the most alarming signs of the times, to my mind, is the utter indifference that seems to prevail with regard to the solemnity, value and importance of an oath. Every President, every governor, jadge, all the mayors and lawyers and marshals and justices of the pace, all the members of Congress and of our respective State Legislatures, are sworn, solemnly before God, as they will answer at the Great Day, to stand by the Constitution and the 1iWj of Ihe United States. This is the oath that they take. It is n trifle. The question is, now, is this oath complied with? All naturalized citizens (and I want this heard, I want it ander-stood) all naturalized citizens are, if possible, more solemnly bond to the Constitution aud laws of the United States by oath, than either the President, the Goverjor, the Judge, the Lawyer, or the Maeistrate. For the man that comes to this country from abroad and is naturalized, first solemnly renounces allegiance to the Government under which he was born, solemnly declares his abandonment of that G ivern nent, and then he solemnly s wears or affirms before the grfat Am. that he wilt maintain the Constitution and laws of the United States! I ask, then, are our official men - faithful, to their oath? Are our naturalized citizens faithful to their oath ? What da they swear ? They swear to stand by the Constitution and lawa of '.he United Stages. What do the Constitnlion and the laws require? ."-If" is your business to know; it is your duty to know. If, as an adopt-e i citizen of th s Republic, you have not examined that Constitution and those laws, you are bound to examine - them that you may know what those laws teach, aud what are your duties in regard to them . ; The Constitution is tha compact. It does not belong to the North nor to the Soath,to thb East nor to the West. It is the covenant, my brethren, between the States of this Union ; and while that Constitution remains .as -it ia and what it is, you are bound by it. You may possibly say to me, "But I amnative-born, t never took this cath of fidelity to Lthe Constitution and the las." But my brother, your birthright holds you to that Constitutian as solemnly as the oath which binds the adopted -.. : O . ' . l i . ,-.:: Bern; born here, you nns bound to obay the Con stitution and the laws. No man has a right to set them aside- Now, for example, 0e Constitution most positively aud absolutely in the plainest and most unmistakable manner provides that a fugitive from labor, escaping from one State into another, shall be delivered up. This is the Constitution. 1 am not to day touching slavery, right or wrong. I am loooking at things a-i they are. This is the provision of the Constitution. If, then, the President or Governor, the judge, the lawyer, or the magistrate, the citisen (uative born or adopt ed) does not comply with that provision, wheu it is within his jarisdiction to do so if he connives at its evasion, if he aids or abets the fugitive iu his flight, he is before heaven a purjured man, and the waters of the ocean could uot wash out the stain. With regard to the Fugitive Slave law, it is not ray purpose to say whether that is a right law or a wrong law. lint it is the law of the land. It was enacted by a majority of our representa tives j it received the signiture of the President. It became a law. fiverv public officer is by oath biuud to obey it. Every adopted citizen ia, by his solemn oaih, made when he received the rights and privileges of an American citizen, bound to obey it. ij very native born citizeu is bound by his birth to obey it. If the Con?ilitu-tion is wrong, the people who made the Constitution have the riiiht and the power, actine through the legitimate means to alter it. If the Fugitive Slave Law is wrong, with the people rests the law making power ; and thank God, they have the right, acting through their repre sentatives, to repeal that or any other law. But no individual man has a right to ignore that law; while it is the law, you and ! and all the citizens of this country are bound by it. If, therefore, we, as President, or judge, or lawyer, or magistrate, or naturalized citizen, aid or abet, countenance or encourare the violation of that law, or wink at its evasion, we are perjured. I defy mortal man to contradict this. If it be not so, law is worthless, and an oath is a bagatelle. Unless an oath is to have some solemnity and obligation, unless the Constitution and the laws are to have some binding force, we may as Well throw up the game and let all go. Alter these general prefatory remarks, I now take up that question of questions, "Can this Union be perpetuated I I answer, ves. Bv what means, then ? By taking the Bible for onr rule. This, as I have intimated, is the sheet anchor of onr hope. If this be faithfully watched and guarded, the ship of State need fear no per- iu loa wmos may Diow, tne political sea may rage, the wrathful waves may mount, the political heavens may gather blackness, the lightnings may flash, and the thunderbolts may be dashed down ; but I tell you, my brethren, if this Bible be followed, strictly, prayerfully, earnestly, uo storm that earth or hell may raise, no tempest that crowned heads or despotic sceptres can in-v ok e, will ever throw our ship npon the lee shore or put out the light of this American Union, In considering the means by which this republic is to be preserved, I would remark, in. the first place, that government is of Divine appoint-mens. ' If we torn to the 13th chanter of the "Epistle to the Bom ana, we abaU fiod this qnes- lion oeuntieiy ana aosoiuteiy setUed: We there read t M Let every soul be subject unto the high er powers (the civil authorities.) 44 For there Is no power but of God t the powers that be are oraained of (iod. Uod bas appointed civil gov ernmeau ; I do not say that Gad has given us absolutely aav aneifi form tit mvrniBiinL ' T d, MJt I fearlesalt aay, that the men who claim the Divine rirht of tr;nM .i.tr. . ;vt God gave tn IIis wrath, God did give a king to Israel V but God gave Ms in His wrath. That, uuwuiot, im merely oy iae way. . -s In a government of the people, the laws are of their own eelectlon. -We are subject to a Constitution ordained by ourselvea. The formation of that Cbnstitstioa was an obfaet r.f Inner mr-Slni. tod to wise beads and noble hearts. Yaa m- Btafcer tl&t those large nisdsd pttricU ia ih Constitutional Convention expended upon their task five weeks of anxious thought and consultation ; yet a satisfactory issue seemed still far distant ; no daylight appeared to break npon them. Then, Franklin, (though he "has been suspected of rather skeptical views on the sub ject of religion,) made his grand proposition. He rose and said that the Convention had been laboring in the dark, trying to get along alone ; he desired that they should, get some light from God, and pioposed that prayer be offered. The proposition was adopted ; and, if I recollect aright, in three days after that, the Constitution of the United States was completed and signed. The next point I would notice is the duty that all men owe to the Government. Every citizen of our country, whether ah official man or unofficial, whether native born Or adopted, owes allegiance to the Constitution aud laws of the United States, as h does also to the Constitution and laws of his respective State, and to the municipal authorities. In this great compact, as citizens, we are bound. Obedience to the legal authorities is hbt a mere matter of option. We may not say, "I will, do as I please ; I will obey or not obey, as suits my wishes or my convenience." Yoa are bound, tny .brethren. The official man is bound by his oath ; the adopted citizen is bound by his oath ; the native born citizen is bound by bis immediate birthright. What are the teachings of the Bible as to the duty which all men owe to the Government?. The great Teacher, the grand Reformer, the mighty Missionary from the skies, who made Judea's hills resound with the eloquence of his sentiments and the divinity of his doctrine, was on one occasion applied to by some persons who were anxious to ensnare him. " Is it lawful," said they," to give tribute to Caejar?,r Jesus was living under Csesaf'a government; Jesus was amenable to Caesar's laws. Had the son of God answered 44 no," instantly the charge of treason would have been brought against him. But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, " Why tempt ye roe ? Bring me a penny, that I may see it." And they brought it. And he said onto them, " Whose is this image and su perscription ? And they said onto him., '"Gae sar'a." What, then, did Jesus say ? Did he say, "Never mind Csesar; Caos.ar is a tyrant; his laws aire not worthy of obedience; pay, or not pay, as you like ; and if they attempt to force you to pay, then -fight?; , Did Jesus say that? Not a word of it. . ' Jesns, answering, said unto, them, Render to Cnjsar the things that are CtEJar's. and to God the thin? that are God's'"" Iu the teachings of Jsm Christ, there ta. you. perceive, uo interference with the civil institutions of the Und iio attempt to excite the p-o pie to riot or bloodfhead. Christ says, in" effect, "Go meet the claims oF the Government ; you I may not lure it.. but : you are under it, and you are bound to it. ' The Constitution and' laws of this country are made by ourselves. We may. not he entirely sat-. isfied with them ( if so, there is a ljitiinale and orderly mode by which they can altered. The adopted citizen has no right to complain if our Constitution and laws do net suit him. lie came to this country of bis own- choice. he voluntarily went before the authorities, and laying his hand upon this glorious book of God. pressing It also to his lips as an evidence of fidelity, he took a solemn oath that he would obey the Constitution and laws of the United States ; or be solemnly affirmed that he would do so. Did be not as sumo this. fligatj-nuvolmitAril ?.vilas he anj rignt to jnieriere in opposition to our mwsr ioes he say, I do not like your Constitution?'' Then, sir, pack up and go hom?; the sooner we are rid of you the better. We did not ask you to come here; and if you have come here to find fault, with our institutions' ' and'' oiir ; laws, -go 'home where you think you have better. It is not a matter of option whether we shall b loyal to the government. The Constitution and laws of this country are our Cassar, and on us rests the solemn daty of ooe lience. . In the 7th verse of the .. I3'h chapter of Ro mans, we have this injunction : -'Render therefore to all their dues : tribute to- whom tribute t due; custom to whom, custom ; fear to whom fear ; honor to whom honor." This is the duty of the " American citizen. The performance of this duty is one of the methods by which we are to keep together these States in one magnificent brotherhood, an object of universal admiration. In this Bible, our guide toward the practical duties of life, without the performance of which we cannot be good citizens, we have also presented to us the doty of . husband and wife. I ceed not detain you by referring to the passage of Scripture;, you will find them in Ephesians v chap., Xxv v., and Collossiaus III, xviii, xix, and first Peter the third chapter. The husband is enjoined to treat with deference and honor the woman of his choice. If be fails to do this, lie is recreant to every principle of manly honor; but he is no viler, after all, than that perjured judge, or perjured la wyer, or perjured magistrate, or perjureu auopieu cuizen, wno win assist in tne violation of the Consti tution and laws of the coon- try- : We have also distinctly pointed out the relative duties of parents and children. I regret that my time doe's not allow me to dwell on these points. The duty of the child to obey the parent is stated in the most absolute terms. "Children obey vour parents in the Lord; for this is right.'-' Eph. vi, i. Parents are commanded to bring op their children "in the nurture and admonition of the Lord." The parent that is guided by this Bible will teach his child fidelity to his country, fidelity to the Constitution and the laws. The Christian parent will teach his child td respect the magistracy, not to abuse nor villify them. Why, you may see little urchins, eight or ten years of age, running about your streets aften-times in rags and filth, at other times clad in the habiliments of gentlemen's Boas -reviling your President, denouncing your Governors, and ridi culing your laws. Has such a child been brou't up "in the nurture and admonition of the Lord?' has he been trained in accordance jrith the prin ciples of this gospel? No. But if our institn tions are to be kept from peril, the parent or the guardian, the father and tbe mother must instruct their children in the principles of the Bible- honor, integrity, patriotism love of country and love oi tne race, uo not set your, children an evil example; do not inflame them with passion, ana uarxen tneir minas witn prejudice; do not brog them up to hate their fellows; but subject them to the blessed influences of this gospel. It is only necessary that we follow the instructions of the Bible. As I believe in the existence of a God, I believe that this book whatever it may be to other people and to other nations I believe that this open, free untrammelled Bible is, as I bare said, the sheet-anchor of my blessed country. I have no other panacea to present Ag'Oi have the duties of master and ser vant clearly set forth. "Servants be obedient to them thai are yoor masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in singleness of vonr heart, as unto Christ; not with eve-service, as men pleasers, but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; with good will doing service as to the Lord, and not to menj knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doetb, the same shall : he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free. And ye masters, do the came unto them, forbearing : threatening knowing that your Uaster also is in Ueaven; neither is there resnect of persons with Him.0. -. This is the teaching of the Holy Ghost, remember. There is no State in this nation, there is do county ia this nation there is ao town in this ns-tloB, tisro ii no' towaihjp ia this oatioB, wtert I would not stand no as God AlmightJ's mitlster, and preach these doctrines of Mis Uotpel, wbetb er men would bear or forbear. I Wenld preach the duties of the master, just as I wotld those of the parent, or the husband, tbe wits. I would say, "Sir yon are bound by the God - who made yon to treat that servant kindly and honorably, and provide faithfully for his needs. : The master is bound by the very same Gospel that binds tbe servant. I do not go into the cjuestton as to the legality, the moral right, the religions right of these relations. I say these things are here: these things existed in the days of J esus Christ. Whatever is wrong, this Gospel will correct. If we carry out its great doctrines we shall have peace. Are we all conscientiously impressed with this sacred obligation to obey the Constitution and tbe laws? We must remember that if we disre gard ths obligation, we become gnilty before Uod and man. If any citizen directly or indi rectly . violates the Constitution and : the laws, whether by his own act or by abetting others, lie is in such proportion destroying his title to good citizenship, and he is a perjured man. - ' What man in this houe to-day, what mad be loaginr to theee United States, (and may the! time never come when any mortal on the foot stool of God Almighty shall be able to say any thing else than tleie United States,) what man in thia Nation, whether he be a native .or an a- dopted citizen, is willing to see thia " Union dissolved? Yon may aay there ia no danger. I tell von, my brethren, there is danger, unless our people come up to the great duty of obeying God of "rendering to Cicsar's" unless , our pulpits cease their clamor against the Constitution and the laws unless the ministers of God regard their obligations and teach the people their duty of fidelity to Cassar and BJt-lity to God unless men cease preaching from the altar that it is better to put into a man's hand a rifle, a death-wea-; port, rather than a mother's Bible unless we cease the agitation and abuse that arrays State against State unless we abandon all sectional ism, and resolve tfat we will adhere to the Constitution and the" laws, - reforming that Constitution and those laws, when necessary, by legiti? mate and orderly methods. If we move on in this way, onr Republic will remain. . If there is any man who would wish to see this nation severed, who would tear info fragments that banner of stripes and stars, and pluck the feathers from the proud eagle of ray country, let him fall crushed and nangled before a gazin, and laughing, a blaspheming world of crowns and despotic sceptres. I say to day, before the Eternal I am. Father, 'Son and Holy Ghost, (and if I Were on the banks of the Potomac standing by that vault nt Mount Vernon, t would say it over the sacred dust of the immortal Washineton.) the man that would labor or would wish for the dissolution of the ; American Union, let him be atuiihcma maran-afha! ' How to Make a Smoke-House, v Havi ng given yon 'my method for curing and keeping hams, let me add my plan fpr a smokehouse. No farmer should be without a good smoke-house, and such a one as will be fire-proof and tolerably secure from thieves, 'iftv hams C:lu be smoedW' one r time,' S-'asnfke-heaae seven by eight feet sqaare. Mine ia six by seven, and is large enough for most fanners. I first dug all the ground out, below whero the frost would reach, and filled it up to the surf-ice with small stones. On this I laid my brick floor, in lime mortar. The walls are brick, eight inches thick and seven feet high, with a door on one side two feet wide. "The door should be made of wood, and lined with sheet-iron. For the lop put on joiee two by four, s"bt up edgewise aud , eight and 'a half inches from center to center. I Covered with brick, , and put : on a heavy coat of morlar. . i. Duut a small - chimney on the top in the ceuterr nrehuiij jt over and covering it with a shingle rotjf in the t.s-.ial way.' An arch should be built on the outside, with a small iron door to to shut it "up, sitnihir to a stove dodr, with a hole from the arch through the wall of the smokehouse and an iron grate oVf r it. This arch is much more convenient and better to put the fire in than to build a fire inside the snioke house, and the chimney causes a 'draft through into the smoke-honse. Good corn cobs or hickory wood are the best materials to make a smoke for hams. The cost of such a smoke house, as I have described, is about twenty dollars. ALEX. BROOKS. Factoryville, Tioga Co., N. Y., Oct., 1859. Kecipe for Caring" Hams. To one gallon of .water take one and a half pounds of good salt, one half pound of sugar; and half an ounce saltpetre .to be increased in this ratio, to any quantity required to cover the hams. As soon as your pork is cold, cut pot the hams, and pack them closely in your cask. Spnnkln each layer lightly with fine salt put on a weight and pour on the brine immediately, and before the juice of the. ham has escaped. It will require from four, to six weeks for the salt to strike through, according to the size of the bams. It will be necessary, perhaps, to add a little Bait on top of the hams; sometimes, if they are very large, they absorb so much of the salt as to leave the bnoe so . weak it may sour. . It wouia te well to take them up after they nave been in a week or two, and examine them, and f necessary add a little more salt. Great care should be taken not to salt too much, as by doing so you lose the flavor of the ham, aud but just enough should be used to keep them. As the ham absorbs tne salt from tbe brine it should be fed by adding a little salt on the ton. that the hams should be well struck throngh. When the bams are large, 1 take out tbe flat bone and cut; OP it . J i . 1 . i , ' ou me rouuu aocKet oones wun a eflisei, tta.v-- ing always the large boneSi, With care, I never have failed to keep hams sweet. What Causes Hair to turn Gray. An English writer bas recently asserted that an undue proportion of lime in the system is the cause or premature gray nair, and advises to avoid bard water, either for drinking pure or when converted into tea, coffee, or soup, because hard water is always strongly impregnated with lime. Hard water may be softened bv boiling it. let it become cold, and then use it as a beverage. It is also stated that a liquid that will color tne human hair .black, and not stain tbe akin, may be made bv taking one part of bav rum. three parts of olive oil and one part of good brandy, by measure. 1 b nair mast be washed with tbe mixture every tnoming, end in a short time the use of it will make, the hair a beautiful black, .without inj bring it in the least. The articles must be of the best quality, mixed in a bottle, and always shaken well before being applied. . ;. - -'-.' ' ""-'" . u : How to Catci Il&tl ? fiats are not the only species of tenants that outwit their landlords: they 7.1 sometimes shun all baits and traps. As maiy modes of getting rid of them, cause them to die on the vremisea. and taint the atmosphere, or are dangerous to human life, it may be well to remember that if the centre cf a ctg is ipriakleJ wtih afsv drops tilsfful 3fnforma(ion. of the oil of rhodium, species tOncof ctiZits from the Canary Isles, fifty pounds of the root of which yield one pound of tbe essential oil, according to Liadley,) multitudes are irresistibly attracted to the spot, to be disposed of at will. HoITm Journal of Health. " imit mii) Wixshm JOY IN THE H0U3E OP WABD. Dcir Sens: I take my pen in hand to inform yu that Tme in a state of blis and trust these lines will find ya enjoyin the same blessins. Irae re-guvenatid. I ve found the immorkal waters of youth so to speak, & am as limber and as frisky as a 2 jcr old steer, & in the futur tbem boys which sez "go op bid bawld bed7 to me, will do so at the Perril ot their hazzard indivldooaliy. Ime powerful happy. Heaps of joy has desend- id opon me to onct t I fdel like a bran new man. Sumtimes I arsk myself "is it not a dream?" & suthin within myself sez "it air;" but when I look at them bweet little critters I know it is a reallerty 2 reallerty'a I may fa 1 1 feel gay There's considerabul human nature in a man after all. - - c": :' - I returned from the Summer Campane with my unparuleld show of wax Works and livin wild Beests of Pray in the early part of thismunth.-r-Tbe peple of Baldinsville met me cordully and I immejitly commenced restiri myself with my farmly. ;The other nite while I was doWn to the tavorn tostin my shins again the bar robrh fire fc atnuzin the krowd with sum of my adventurs who shood cum in bare heded A terrible excited but Bill Stokes, who sez, sez he, "Old Ward there's grate doina up to your house."' SeZT, William, how so? . Sez be "Bust my gizzard, but it's grate doins," 4 then he larfed as if heed kill hisself. Sez I, rising and puttin on an austeer look, "William 1 woodent be a fool if I had common cents." - " :, - - . ' But be kept on larfin till he war black in the face., until he ell over on the bank whare the hostler sleeps, and in a still, small voice sed, 'Twinsi" I assure yu gents that the grass did'nt grow under my feet on my way home, & I was follered by an enthoosiastie thronjf of my feller 8itterzuns, who hurrard for Old Ward at the top of their voises. I found the house chock full of peple. Thare was Mrs. Square Baxter and her three grown up darters, lawyer PerktinseS wife. Taberthy Itipley, young Ebeu Parsucs, Deaken Simmur.s folks, the Skoolmaster, Doctor Jordin, etsettery, etsettery. Mis Ward was in the west room,-which jines the kitchen. Mia Squire Bax ter was mixin suthin in a dipper before the kitch en fire, and a small army of female wimin were roshin wildly roond the house with bottles of campfire, peases of flannel, &c. I never seed s:cb tb, y Lca-Ae. I cod inl tna tBct rnnm nnlp a mini ar atrnnrv n v- vtaa m o ( W "www . vr v v i j mm ku iuib WW Bau IT U-J J f'ee'ias, so I rusht bat and seased my double bar- rild gun. " ' What upon arth ails the man?' saysi Taberthy Ripley. Sake3 alive, what air jou doin? and she grab! me by cote tales.. 'What's the matter with yu?' she contiunered. 'Twins, tnarm,' sez I 'twins'' " ; 'I kuow it,' sei she coverin her face with her apun. - . " ' Wall,' sez I, 'that's what's the matter with me!' -..':."'' ' ' ""'. --; - 'Wall1 put down that air gun, yu pesky old fool,' sed she. " - .. - -. 'No tnarm, sell, 'this is a Nashunal day. The glory of this here day isn't confined to Baldins. viile by a darn site. On yonder woodshed, 'sed I drawen myself up to my full hi te and Spekin in a show actin voice, 'will I Ore a Nashunal sa' lootl' sayin which I tared myself from her grasp and rusht to the top of the shed whare I blazed away until Squire Baxter's hired man and rriy son Artemus Juneyer cum and took me down by mane forse. On returnin to the Kitchen I found quite a Jot of people seated bc4 the fire, a talkin the event over. They made room for me A I sot down.- 'Quite a eppisode, sed Doctor Jordin, litis his Lpipe with a red hot cole.. 'Yes,1 sed I, '2 eppisodes, waing about 13 pounds jintiy.' - .. '-.- A porfeck coop de tat,' sod the skalemaster. 'E plaribus nnam, in proprietor persony,' sed I, thinkin Ide let him know . I understud fum'n laogwidges as well as he did, if I wasent a skalemaster. . . 'Its a moraentcous event,' sed yung EbenPar-enns, has been 2 quarters to the Akademy. 'I never heard 2 wins caled by that name afore,' ecd I, 'but I spose its all rite.' 'We shall soon have Wards enuff,1 sed the edi. tor of the Baldinsville JfugU of Liberty who wus look in over a bundle of Xcbange pipars in the corner, 'to apply to the legislator fur a City Char-terl' " - 'Good fur yu, old man!' sed I, 'giv that air a conepickins place in the next Bugle 'How ridicklos,' sed pretty Susan Fletcher cov- I etln her face with her nittin wurk & larfin like ail oo. a 'Wall for my part,' sed Jane Maria Peasley, who is the crosses old made in the world, 'I think yu all akt like a pack of inles.' Sea I'Misa Peasley air yu a parent? Sex she, 'No I ante . " Sex I, 'Mis Peasley, you never will be.' ' She left. , We sot there talkin A larfin an til the swichin hour of nite when grave yards ya wag and Josts trupe 4th,u as old Bill Shakespire aptlee obearres in bis.dramy of John Sheppard, esq. or the Moral House Breaker, when we- broke up and disburs ed.. " -" - - -:;v- - - Mutber A childrnft is a doln well; A as Rese lushans is the order of the day, I feel obleeged if yule insert the follerin: . Whereas, 2 episodes has happened up to the Cndersined's house, which is Twjnf bein of tbe snail perswashun, and both boys therei Be it - Resolved, that to them cabers who did tha fare thing by stde Episodes my hart f&lt tha&'kals doo. .. -: ' Resolved, that I do nest btriuly liixk Ehjice So No. 17, who under the impreshun from the ess at my house on that hausplshus cite that thare was akonflagashun goin on cum gaTyieotly to the Spot, bat kindly refrained frum squirtin. Resolved, that from the Bottom of my Sole do I thank the Baldinsville brass band fur given up the idee of Sarahnadin tne, both on that grate nite & senes. ResolvtJ, my thanks is doo several members uv the Baldinsville meetin house, who far 3 hole dase haint kalled me a sinful skoffer or intreetid me to mend my wicked wasej and jinesade ideet-in honse to onct. '. Resolved, that my buzznm team's with meny kind emoshnns tords the follerin individoou'ls, to whit namelee Mis Square Baxter, who Jener-ualy refoozed 2 take a sent fur a bottel ny camp-fire; lawyer Perkenses wife who rit sum versus on the Episodes; the editor uv tha Baldinsville BuqU of Liberty who nobly assisted me In wal- lupin my Kangerroo which sagashus skreechins k kikkins up; Mis Hirnm DooliUle who kindly furnisht sum cold vittils at a time when it wasnt konvenient to kook vittils at my hou3e; & the Peasleys, Pars'anes A Watsunses for there meny ax nv kindness. Trooly vures. ARTKMjy Ward. i A Brahmin's Account of his . Country Natioas of India Habits of Society, &o. The Rev. Mr. Gangooly, a converted Brahmin now traveling in this country, delivered in New Bedford, a fw nights ago, a lecture on tbe manners and customs of the people of India. Mr. Gangooly said that the manners and customs of Hindoo life had always been the sub ject of mach speculation, and travelers and even missionaries had given td the world inaccurate accounts of the peop'.o of India. He had been requested to prepare a work upon his country, and be had already done his part of the work, and it was in the hands of the Rev. Mr. Ellis, of Charlestown, and would soon be published. The caste system was explained at some length. The Hindoos were divided into thirty-four castes of which the Brahmin reached the highest, and the banker, goldsmith -and shoemaker were among the lowest. The blacksmith is of a high easte, because of his usefulness. If a Brahmin eats animal food he loses his caste, which he can never regain. The subject of birth was next treated. The birth of a male child was al ways made the occasion ot great rejoicing, while the birth of a fam&le child was hardly noticed. The mother of five or six girls was always the subject of scorn and derision, and never went into society. There were bat three Castes in India that could not read Or write.- The strictest attention n to-rtB-eao,fctSwa jQ ynd; whn . girls never go to school.'" The discipline of Brahmin life in some instances was grand. A Brahmin rises, as early as five o'clock, walks out and gathers flowers, and bathes before the sun rises; if the sun sees one of this class in bed, the fourteen generations of his ancestors will be punished in eternity. Women must bathe every morning before they go into the kitchen; if they do not, people will not eat their cooking. Brahmins must keep silent while at the table, if they speak while eating; they are obliged to go without food the entire day. ; The marriage system was next considered. Hindoos do not know, strictly, what marriages are. . Neither the boys nor the girls have any thing to do with this matter. Parents make all matches, and the parties have no idea to whom they are to unite their destinies untill they arrive at the altar. The marriageble age of girls is from seven to ten, and that of boys from thirteen to twenty-five. - A girl at thirteen years of age, unmarried, is considered an old maid past all redemption. In regard to the burial ceremonies of the dead in India, many things had been said aud written by travelers that were untrue. The burning of the bodies cf widows upon funeral piles of the husband was explained, and accoanted for by the fact that when a woman becomes a widow she must always remain in that situation, and they were never thought any thing of or treated respectfully, and many of them, in view of these facts, preferred death. This custom has, said the speaker, been recently abolished by the British Government. "Who the Moors Are. The inhabitants of Morocco, with whom the Spaniards are going to war, are Moors, the same race, who, a thousand years ago, conquered Spain and ruled it for centuries. They penetrated into France and subdued portions of it Their terrible defeat by the Franks, under Charles Martel, in the eighth century, arrested their advance aud saved. Europe from being overcome by the Mussulman hordes. . The Spaniards rallied and kept at war with the Moors for seven or eight centuries, and it Was not until about the year 1500 that they finally reconquer ed their country. The Moors held possession of Spain for as many centuries as have elapsed since the Normans conquered England at the battle of Hastings! After being in ths possession of the country so long, it is singular, indeed, that they were expelled from it. ; The Moon, in the ages that they resided in Spain, were a more civilized race by far than the Spaniards. This is evident from the most curso ry perusal of the chronicles of those times. Who has not lingered whS wrapt fascination over the pages of Washington Irving and Pre colt, in which they describe the glories of ths Alhambra and other indications, of Moorish re finement and greatness? It was 'not until the reign of Phffip III, in the seventeenth centary( that the Moors, by an arbitrary and foolish edict of the weak King, were expelled and banished from Spain. By that act Spain lost hundreds of thousands of ber most useful and industrious eUiians. ' They very generally took refuge in that portion of Northera Africa' called Jlorocco Tha Hoots carried with thea icto tbe asciest hone thtir race io Africa the civilization and iitei"fstiim much of the wealth which they bad acquired id the Peninsula, they carried with them an im-" placable hatred of tbe Spanish' face a hatred which was" fdt d century longer almost sustained if not augmented, by tl e cniel treatment of the Moors, .Christians aud Mohammedans, who were desirous of remainiog in Spain, bat whom the' Inquisition and war ultimately drove across the' Straits of Gibraltar. The Moors are a mixed rae, of varioas origid -"-Numidaen and Maavitanisn,- Roman, Vandal',-end Saracen or Arabian; They are a betUr-look ing people than is commonly supposed; in the interior of Morocco Ahere are some faces of wil d negroes, athletic, and ferocious enongh. They may be seen at Tangiers occasionally, in companies of ten or fifteen men, going from house to house, to amass the people by dancing to tSe music of "bones" for castanets, small d re inland strings of little bells around their ankles! As the population of Morocco is not half thai of Spain, and as it has cot a quarter of its mili' tary resources, there can be no doubt of the tseusl of the Contest between the two nations. ' Gibralter and UalU.- The English strogholds in the Mediterrauesut are Malta and Gibralter. .Gibralter was captar--ed by the British from Spain in 1701, and though many efforts have been made since to retake, Great Britain has held possession of iievereincer la 1732, a combined attack by the Freoch and Spanish to capture it was mads with an army of 40,000 men and one thousand pieces of artillery fourty seven sail of the line, all three deckers; ten floating batteries, carrying two hdndxed and twelve guns, exebeqnes, bomb ketches, curters, and gun and mortar boats. Gen. Elliot beat the land forces in a sortie, and tt naval forces were disperced, and the floating batteries were destroyed, v Gibralter has long been considered impreg: nable. Begular siege lines cannot be ope&ed against it for the simple reason that there are ad materials for earth works within battering range" and even if they were erected, there is nothing to batter bat solid rock, a breach in which would only render the storming more impracticable than! ever. Moreover owing to the immense elevation of the place, it is impossible to prevent assailants from any quarter from being completely overlooked and exposed to the: vertical fire of. the garrison, without a possibility of returning " :' - .. Malta is also considered impregtilla againsf an attack by eea or any armament hitherto id use. It was captured as alleged through the" treachery of one of the knights of St. John, by Napoleon, when on his way to Egypt in June; 1793, bat continued in the possession of the French only a short time, having been blockaded by a British squadron and taken by J3eo. Pigot in 1800. Malta has ever since been in the hands of Brittain, and was gnarrantceJ ?-?---- treaty- vt Ttis; Tb lasiaa i..... .. along the eastern coast of the Adriatic, wer . captured in 18S0 from France by the British "fleet : In 1815, the Islands were placed by the Congress of Vienna under a British protectorate, in which condition they have since remained. On the island of Corfu thcro u a fortress of very great strength, supposed to be next to impregnible. France will have to dislodge England of all of these possessions before tha former Can make, the Mediterranean a French lake, the supposed object of Louis Napoleon's ambition and the purpose probably of the great naval preparations which are being made in France. A Buried City and its Treasures: The New Granada grave-mine excitement having pretty well died out, the restless treasure- seekers have taken it into their heads that the old city of Port Royal; which was swallowed op by an earthquake in 1692, and over the ruins of which now dash the waters of the Bay of Kingston, Jamaica, if its deluged secrets were explored, would pay for the risk and trouble and expense with untold gold: Such an expedition1 is already projected, and, Witfi marine armor, it is in the range of modern possibility that it will result in something practical. When the city was sunken it was large, populous, well-built" and wealthy, and when the earth opened and tbe waves of the sea ingulfed, it, it became the coffin of thousands; and in its rains, yet to bet seen in a clear, sunny day, as the vessel glide over the smooth waters of the bay, and over the! house-tops and streets of the once gay-metropolis' of the island, many of its mins having yet resisted the action of the waves and the wear of time there cad be no doubt that great wealth lies bar- ied, and, is probably accessible to the approach and modern arts of adventurers. More improb able expeditions have been started, resulting, id some Instances, tn success. Eeunioil bt a Han and "Wife alter a Sepa ration of crer Forty-seven Yean. Last February the son of a Mrs. Crull, resid! ing in Burlington, Iowa, applied to a legal firm there to obtain for bef, if possible, a dowery id certain lands, supposed to be a part of tbe mili' tary tract of the State of Illinois; her husband having been a soldier in the war of IS 12, hav; ing enlisted in the army while on a visit of busi' ness to the city of Philadelphia. After bis enlistment, Mrs. Croll heard nothing from hied, except a mere rumor that he was killed in an ea gagement with the enemy near Lake Champleiai and as she bas never married again, she wouli as his widow have a claim at least upon any lands to which ber husband might be entitled. : Tbe attorneys discovered, after long research; that Mr. Crull was not dead, but living in Jefferson county, N. Y. - The btuband lately joine-1 bis wife in Wapello, bat both were so changed bf nearly half a century of absence thai they could " not recognize each other, and they were accord' ingly introduced, and fell weeping into each otlj era arms. "" 1 Ttsil - - Tha Strongest Han la theTTorli. These columns have before contained accoanil of the marvelous feats of strength perforce! f Dr. Geo. B. Yiuship,of Bosbury, tliss who is supposed to be the strongest man la the worli; A correspondent cf Tbrter'M Spirit ssys tLJ wonderful man continues to increase ia strsc -.!s. and now lifts with his bands, unaided try art!-eial means, tea hundred and thirty-two pounds I He only weighs one hundred aai forry-twd pounds, and is but twentySve yfesis t!i. VI delivers lectures oa tie abject cf rl; J J strength and trsiaiDg, and gives Cis'-ri.'.Ci.--The eorrespoaient adls tbat tl'i j : - : - t: : ?. If cot only thysIcaEy strorg, bst 1:j t3 i.:.:..:! eqttl to cis extrscrdirary Essca'sr fwer: