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. ..." ";tT" yrs*~: ~ ^x'TV'^H.-* 'W ^ :'r -" v -r-', '> P ?.; v- i * ,. rpr' ^ ^ cr DSVOTSD T? HT2RATPRS, THE ARTS, SCIENCE, MmXGULTURE, HEWS, POLITICS, <kC., &C. ~~ TEEMS ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM,] 01,01 ll 1,0 ^s^ed into the Hcarta of your Children that the Libo. *.y of the Fross is the Palladium of all your Righta."?Junius. [PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. VOLUME 3?NO. 10. ABBEVILLE C. II., SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 13, 1855. WHOLE NUMBER 114. ;? __ MISCELLANY. The American Party. There is no demand whatever for a great national movement against the Catholic Church. The recent excitement in the country has been, in the main, the result of a corrupt movement of unprincipled politicians, to excite the Protestant feeling of the people and to ride into power upon the tide. They have run foul of the great maxim, which they have so conspicuously set forward among their principles, as if for the purpose of exposing the profligacy of the whole movement, by violating in practice what they praise in theory. It is absurd to deny, that making the mere religious sentiments of a man the reason for refusing to vote for him, is a violation of the great principle of religious liberty. It is allowing a principle of discriminating the political aspect of a rote to be sound and iust; which would be wicked and unprincipled, if embodied in a law. If onr neighbors make their dislike to our Presbyterian sentiments the ground j of their refusing to vote for us, it is pefectlv useless to disguise that we are under polili cai responsibility lor iciisjious opinions? that, quoad hoc, we are suffering for them. The objectionable feature in this view of the case is, making religious opinion unattended by any viciousness of action growing out of it, a ground for an universal discrimination in political affairs, affecting permanently large masses of citizens. This is our first and great objection to the Ametican or Know Nothing party; it is violating the very principle of religious liberty, which it professes to conserve; ami has adopted a construction 01 that principle which strips it of all practical force, .'caving it a dead letter in the statute book, and abandoning its con-j trol over the political action of the people. We oject again to a political movement j against the Catholic Church, because there j is no necessity of it, provided the people of the country will properly employ the legitimate agencies of opposition which are in their power. The simple and sufficient condition of the preservation of the Republic from the arts of Romansim, is the full and efficient support of the Protestant Church? the complete and animated maintenance of the domestic missionary enterprises of the various Protestant denominations. This is the great conservative element of our political system?to sustain and vivify it with thjp vigorous energy which it ought to possess? aud it need not be feared that any of the great Eocial or political interests that are conditioned npon it will ever come to harm. It is the only?not less than the only legitimate power, which can he effectively employed to restrain Popery and maintain the institutions of our Government. All persecution, no matter how disguised in form or limited in extent, will inure to the benefit of the body enduring it. The policy, then, of restraining Popery by political disabilities inflicted upon the individual Catholic, is suicidal in the extreme. It will concen trato anu intensity uie auacnmeni ot its members, and render thetn more and more unapproachable by Protestant instruction. It will create sympathy, and thus open wide the door to proselytsim, and it will put the Church in an attitude far more attractive as the victim of an unjustifiable crusade than it is at all entitled to assume form its intrinsic charms. How long is the world to be learning the lesson and never coming to the knowledge of the truth, that all means but reason and love to affect the opinions of men, only result in strengthening attachment to their original convictions? Tlio principle of this opposition to Popery is vicious, and the more completely it is carried into effect, llm mArn rlionufrAna will Kn (lia vaotiU Tko VWV IUVIV UIOIWIIVWO n III UV bllU i'QUIVi JL IIVs more complete the political victary over Popery, the more it will be benefited. The only effective?as it is the only lawful, general and permanent agency of opposition to the Popish Church?is the true Protestant Church of Christ under its various forms. Wo have no right to comphnnof the inefficiency of a means until we have employed it fully and tested all its capacities. Let the people of the United States double their support of the great domestic missionary work, and they may safely abandon all political agitations against the Catholic Church. We object again to the American party, that it is condensing the Catholic and I?oreiffh element in our population into a politi cai body, distinct from the mass of our citizens, armed with all their power to do mischief, and animated by all that hostility whichia natural to men suffering under an ostracism of their religion and Dirtb, provoked by-an attempt to diminish their full equality with other citizens. Now what does Know Notbingism propose to do for the remedy of this evil which it haer created! It only proposes to render the Catholic and Foreign citizen ineligible to office. It leaves them the power to Vote, and the right of unlimited emigration in the future?the two .r : i.:.# :/ IL.I 1 J grcnu iiicauo ui iiiiBumei, 11 U'Ujr ?re pitastxi to use them. There can be no remedy for the Poptfs control over the Catholic *otft except in taking av/ay the feleotivefranchise altogether. Now it is, to sAy the least pf it, the most manly and honest policy, to pWhibit the eojry of a Catholic apd a, Forejgr> er altogether, into theconnUy,' And to tho righto of catizenabip, /athor than invite them to come aodtben teri^to aonoy them by ? a whole series of political disabilities, which arc assumed to Be essential to s defence ~v -EV. : . ?>A& against them. Indeed, tlie inference of the Know Nothing creed, on both the issues it has raised, is a logical and a practical blunder from its own premises. It assumes in the strongest sense of an existing fact, not as a logical inference from the Catholic creed, the absolute incompatibility of the Catholic Church and the free institutions of this country. This is its premise ; its inference is to render the individual Catholic ineligible to oflice; the true inference from the premise as they construe it is, that the Catholic Church ough* not to be tolerated at all. On the other issue, the premise is, that the foreign clement in our population is dangerous to the Government; tl'G inference is, the reduction of a part of the rights of. citizenship?the ineligibility to oflice, in the foreigners already here, and an extension of the term of naturalization. The true inference is, the prohibition ot all emigration for the future, '',c avoidance of everything that woui'l exasperate the foreign element already in the nii(Jst of us; the careful observance of every thing which would tend to strengthen their attachment to the institutions of th'J country.* These are the results which logically issue from the premises of the Know Nothing creed, and which they are logically required to But they dare 110: do it: the measure they propose to ad^?the exclusion from oflii;e?is rediculou- v incomplete as a practical expedient: itis a most impotent and lame conclusion, as.'ilogical inference. It is absolutely uocc?.m'}\ either to cease this < political crusade agii&st large masses of our people, or to make itell'ectual to accomplisli, not only the ends i: holds in view, but to prevent the incidentals the effort at reform lias created in its pv*rcss. Nothing short of a far more, eflkih'e diminution of the < common rights of citizenship than has yet dared to assume tb shape of a public prop- < "HI "IIIV-U illU XXIllUir can party arc seefaj (o accomplish. It is absurd to admit kje classes of men to all the common risp of citzenship, cxccpt one, and that by a means the most important one. If tliffis a reason why they should be deprivti of one, they should be deprived <>f alL "it is right to allow them to vote, it is righto allow them to be voted for; the one right almost, if not altogether, the correlative of:e other. Any argument which would pre; a man disqualified for office, would prot liim disqualified to vote, i There may be spial reasons why particu- < lar offices, involvi,- the representation of the ] national charact. as well as the national policy, snoiua Dtcxciusiveiv oceupieu uy , native-born citizt; but this is very differ- j ent in nature, a: proceeds upon a wholly , different pritioiplot* political wisdom, from i the universal duration of ineligibility to . all office, amonjlarge masses of citizens. That eligibility laches as an incidont, or j inheres among te mass of the common rights of citizerjip; and it is absurd to . admit the citizdiip in general, and deny this single capatv which it involves. This , principle of acta involves the explanation of the difficoltyaised by the writer in the ?jruio tor way, relation 10 uie engioiniy of tlie Chinesor a Mohammedan. Tim question will battled by the settlement of a previous qudon, and this is, whether large masses cfuch persons, Pagans and Polygamic arto be admitted at all to the permanent and vneral particpation in the rights of citizer-iip in a Christian cCPntry. It is on this .uestion, the great Monnoti, issue, now ripcug for trial, be determined in a few years. Conceding this issue as determined in tin affirmative, all minor questions, such as eligibility to office, and propriety of votinjsuch persons into office arc settled ; it is a&urd to question the ordinary propriety of allowing by vote what is allowable bv law. Thp whole miestion. as a cren-! eral propositi^, is determined by the permanent admi&on of large masses of persons in view to tbecoininon rights of citizenship. It is one tiling!o allow specific privileges to individual foygners residing on our soil, for specific prposes; but it is altogether another, to? (Lfranchiso in part, and by a principle <ies*ned to be permitted, immense masses of in* already permanently a part of the popjjlton, and so recognised. We insist, thei?f<fc, that the whole movement must lietrtjjjeks progress, or go forward : it is unwise W lie oxtreme to leave all their power for 'mischief in their hands, resulting in part facm their simple existence in twl country as jpart of ita population, and in Eart from-the privileges which are still to e left them?and then exasperate them to use it, by ^tempting to reduce their full political equality with citizens of other birth and religkxao^nions. We ojtfyjo the last place, and with deep severity # conviotioD, to the principles of organization adopted by the.. American or Know roiling party, and to some of the particnlaf features which they hate embodied in th?irorder. If ever any principle was at war wjtbthe very foundation of the Amerfx # - aL*' W? m r. h'?\) Km a AA/IWlt *vnu AVVJ4MUIC, II* IS VUO pjuyij/iu yi a oath-boimdorgariizetiou of political parties. It is unnecessary, dangerous, hostile to the fondam^htjj fnajjiibs of republican*liberty, and, in ft?txUtiog a?p<&t,demoralising in* Wgh deA^. It striken a bh?w at that great t6e infeljiojen(^ af the' people?an esRcntial element;# rapabtiwnlibeky.' What matters it, W much intelligence th^pooplo . /'i ''''' -.Iit: . ? jL. tCij.'L^i?i . v_ T--.i> * ' ' may have if political men will conceal from i tliem the elements upon which to employ t that intelligence, in the foundation of an f opinion and the adoption of a policy. The 1 duties of a man are correlative. If it is the i duty of the people to require knowledge of any party claiming their suffrages, before i they endorse them, it is the duty of that I party to give it. No party has the right to f retire into the dark, bind itself to secrecy t under oath, unfold what thev please and l conceal what tliev please from the people ; t nor have the people the shadow of a moral i right to give their sanction to that of tlio t propriety of which they are not informed, v Moreover, this principle of organization c will prove utterly subversive of tlie Consti- I tution of the United States, by placing the I legislation of Congress in the hands of an irresponsible association of its members; t in a body totally unknown to the Constitu- t> tion, distinct from Congresss itself, existing I within but independent of, /ind independ- c em oi an responsibility to, any public or recognized law. The Congressional Conn- I cil, itself at. war With tlie Constitution, will v be under the control of tlie National Coun- a oil; and the result will be, that the Con-, a gross of tlie United States will become, un- '< dei the full success of Know Nothing prin- h ciples, a mere registry of decrees to a body -s' in the heart of the country, unknown to the Constitution?existing, no one can tell s' where?aiming at, no one can tell what. I It is a principle of party organization, j which, by demanding the unlimited sub.nis- >'? sion of tiie minority to the majority^ anni-! '< liilates the balance-power of a Parliament- j Si iuy opposition, anci an (he advantages tliat j < belong to it. It extinguishes tlie personal j >* independence of the voter, destroys the ju- j vv risi.lic.tion of conscience over the political ? conduct, and makes it a condition to the n preservation of his integrity, if a voter should happen to scruple a measure or a 1 man proposed by the Order, that lie absolately abandon the party altogether. U Lastly: if this principle of secresy and habligation under oath is legitimate for one h party, it is legitimate for all; every party 11 may adopt it; the "Sag Nitch" clubs of the c; Foreigners of the West are wholly justified ; s iind the whole political dea'iiii-^ of the | juuiiiry may ne controncu i?y secret, or.lli-1 u bound organizations?a hybrid mixture of u Masonry and a political caucus, with all ?00(1 in either spoiled by the conjunction. u Dan any man in this nation contemplate such a prospect?the legitimate result of the principle of organization adopted by the ,s Know Nothing party?without emotions %v jf alarm amounting to terror ? It is a n principle, legitimate in a condition of soc.i- s> L-ty where the lives of men are dependent b upon tho fidelity of their political assoei- '' sites; it is utterly abominable in any other. c Vet the accomplished writer in the Critic., s' for may, would such a principle, in point of political morality, on the same footing with 'I the vole by ballot! " We have only to add, that if tho TC:ition- '* ality, the Federal Union and I lie* Protest- ? ant Civilization of this conntrv, are depend- l' put upon the conservatism of this new po- S; liticrtl combination, its past acts indicate " most fearfully that gloomy times are 11 ahead. . J Mr. Pepper's Wife?How he Shut her Up. "Mrs. Pepper, I labor under the impression that it is liigh time you w?.-re getting s breakfast. As my former housekeeper' unnrofnnrl oil mtr tuiclt/to ?*? ? l? ? />?<??/l </-? ? Ut. " > ? inuco ? III! IC^mu IV 11IC9C ? tilings, I found it unnecessary to give any u orders respecting them ; but with you it is n different. As you have never got a meal <: in this house, of course you know nothing > of tho regulations of the household. a "In the first place, you will mnkt5 a fire in i the kitchen, put on the tea-kettle, etc. Then you will make a fire in here; that n done, you will cook the breakfast and bring r it in here, as I have always been accustom- v erl to taking mine in bed, and I do not con- j sider it necessary to depart from that cus- 1 torn on your account; .but should you pre- ?. fer it, you can cat yours,-'in the kitchen, as it is perfectly immaterial to me." : This occurred the morning after Mrs. I Pepper went to housekeeping. Mrs. P. was a sensible woman?she mado no reply to i Mr. Pt-nnor's rominsindsbut as sonn ns lifir I toilet was finished, she left the room, and J t bluing uowii hi uiu iLiicucii, t>ut; uius luini- * nated: " " i "Make the kitchen fire?yes, I'll do that; < then make a fire in the bedroom?I'll see 1 to that, too; theniake the breakfast to l>isj bedside?just see if I do." And then Mrs. *1 Pepper sat and thought deeply for a few minute?, when, apparently having arrived at ; a satisfactory conclusion, she proceeded to < businels. ' .? 1 < Having got a nice fire kindled in the kitchen, she cafried some coal into Mr. P.'s 1 apartment, and. filled up his 6tove, .Jj?ving i fij#t ascertained that there was not a apaf-k of Are in it. That duty performed, she pint prepared the breakfast, of which she partook with a great relish; and after mat teraAod things were all put to nghta m tne kitchen, she went down town on ft shopping excursion. , Meanwhile Mr- Pepper began to .grow impatient,' Be "labored under the wmm sion" that the atmosphere of Mb room -did ; not grow warm begfctto fee! unpleasantly bofrgfy. Peeping, ont from benind the bed curtains, he saw now /. ' y ' r" " V j f:i\Vvr ' s. - ' v v' . .C "1- ' -'V t-f. : iiT\irs were with regard to the stove. Somehi:;g like a suspicion of the real state of afai? began to dawn upon his mind. lit istoned for a few minutes, but nil wa9 still ibtut the house. Hastily dressing himself, he proceeded to nv-:stigate. the affair. He soon comprelondcd the whole of it, and was very wrathul at first; but he comforted himself with he .ejection, that he had -the power to mm. h Mrs. P., and he felt bortnd to do it, oo. After some search he found the renains of the breakfast, of which he parook with a g"*to, and then he sat down to rait for Mrs. P. She was a long time in oming, anil he had ample time to nurse ii? wrath. While sitting there, he thus soiloquizcd : t .-r? t? -i?11 111.11 tivi I, x iiiiaiiU'Jl X SIJQUK1 ie fo treated, and by a woman, too is not o be believed. I can't believe it?no, nor won't either. But she shan't escape, that's eri.-iiti; if she should, my reputation for ignity would be forever gone; for haven't told Solomon Simpleton all along how I fas going to make my wife stand around, nd how I was going to make her get up, ik' make the fire every morning, and let ie lie abed, and how I was going to shut er up and feed her on bread and water, if b?. dared to say she wouldn't do it?" "A cosy little arrangement, Mr. Popper," iii-: a soft voice behind him. Mr. P. stal led up, and there stood Mrs. P. ight behind bis chair, laughing just as bard s s.'ie could. Mr. Pepper put on a severe >ok:?'"Sit down in the chair, madam," he ud. pointing to the one he had just vaca;d, "while I have a little 'conversation with V T 11 1 .1-1 * - 1 Jll. IIIV 1 MIUIIIU UU plVilSeU lO KUOW Isy yu did not obey my orders this morn1 g, iiis.l where you have been all the foreOUl?" "Whore I have been this forenoon, Mr. 'eppyr, I have not the least objection to :11 you; I have been down town doing a tl 115 shopping.?I liavo purchased some iv-ly napkins; just look at them," said she, oldiiig tliein up demurely, for his inspecor.; "I only paid a dollar apiece for them; ctrcmely cheap? don't you think so ?" ho a-!d?-d. ' '* IVj-iiT was astonished. ITow she :?rt*iu turn the ;^iivctr-ation in this wcy, as a mystery to him. Suddenly his botud wrath broko loose. Turning fiercely pon her, he said: "Betsy Jane, you disgust me j you seem ) make very light of this matter ; but it more serious than you imagine, as you ill find to your cost, presently. If you do ot instantly beg my pardon, in a submisve manner, I shall exert my authority to ring you to a propersenso of your misoon uct, by imprisoning you in one of my liamber*, until you are willing to promise D iet obedience to my wishes." At the close of this very eloquent and ignified speech, Mr. Pepper drew himself p to his full height, and stationed himself ef'.ro Mrs. P., ready to receive expressions f sonow and penitence; he had no doubt bat she would fall down at his feet, and ;iy: "Dear Philander, won't you forgive ift this time, and I'll never do so any norel" Ana he was going to say, "Betsy :me, you'd better not!" But instead of oing all this, what do you think she did ? ?Laughed at him right in the face. Mr. Pepper was awfully wrathv. lie poke up in a voice of thunder, and said : "Mrs. Pepper, walk right up stairs this ery minute; and don't you let the grass ;row under your feet while your u going, leilher. You liave begun your antics in ;ood season Mrs. Pepper; but I'd have on to know it won't pay to continue them r.y length of time with me, Mrs. Pepper. Vg*in I command you to walk up stairs." ''Well, really, Mr. Pepper,*it is not at all leoesaary for you to speak so loud?I am lot so deaf as all that comes to ; but as for valking up stairs, I have not the least obectiou toidoing so, if you will wait until I iave recovered frou* my fatigue; but 1 j?.?t think of doing so before." ?But you musty Mrs. Pepper." "Then all I've got.to say is- this?you'll iave to carry me, for I won't walk!" Mr. Pepper looked at his wife for a moTient with the greatest astonishment; bul is she began to laugh at him again, lit; .bought to himself?"She thinks I won'l ]<y it. and hones to eretoff in this wav; bnl it woji't do; up stairs she's got to go, if ] 1o have to carry her; so here goes," and lairing the form of his lady in his arms, h< ?oon had the satisfaction of seeing her safe ly Jodged In her prison, an& carefully lock ipgher in. ho stationed a little red-headec youth orTthe front door-steps, to attend U callers, and also see thaUMrs, B. did not es cape; and then betook himself to a restau rant for his d^QD^r, and after dfepatcbinj that, he hurried off to his office, and wa soon cngfosgqdjn business. ?. About tfce fniddle of the afternoon, ou young sentinel rushed into the office, am exclaimed*' never stopping to take breath Pepper had better run home just a fast as he can, for that woman what is shw -JC t - i:-- J r I I 'J _t-._ fe op oe.iDBKiog an awiui racitei, ana bijp u tearing around there, and rattling thing tHfe di?tr?a$ede?t kind ; and if she heant uplii ting Up V'mething or other, Ibetr.I don' koowjfJfeiblittiog boj^-i > ' waiting to hekr nlorc* ltr< 1 Raized hi# hat nod lurrried off homr> at undignified pnc?. ' ?r ' v V v' ' ' \ . - . . J g* !$ r "c -*C. Vi"#* v.: . " Opening the hall door, he stole up the stairs as eftrefully as possible, and applying i his eye to Lho keyhole, he beheld n sight i which made him fairly boil with rago. Mrs. Pepper was sitting in front of the ' fireplace reading his old love letters. The one'she was engaged in perusing at that particular moment, was from a Miss Polly Primrose, who, it appeared, had once looked favorably on the suit of Mr. Pepper ; but a more dashing lover appeared on t!ic scene, Miss Polly sent Lira a letter'of dismissal promising her undying friendship und accompanying the same with a lock of hair, and some walnut meats. But it was not the love letter alone that made P. so outrageous. He liad been something of a traveler in tiis day, and bad collected a'great many curiosities in his rambles, which he had deposited in a cupboard in the very room where he had confined his wife, and she had got at them. She had split up an elegant writing desk with his Indian battle axe, in order to have a fire, as the day was rather chilly. In one corner of the fire-place was Mr. Pepper's best beaver- filled up with love letters. On a small table, close to Mrs. P., was n beautiful fhi* China dish, filled with bear's oil, in which she had sunk Mr. P.'s best satin cravat, and having fired one end of it, it afforded her sufficient light for her labors? for Mr. P. had closed the blinds, for the better security of the prisoner. On some coal*in the front of the fire was Mr. P.'s silver christening bowl, in which Mrs. P. was poping com, which she ever and anon stirred with the fiddle-bow; meanwhile, occasionally punching the fire with the fiddle?for Mr. ]\ luul with commendable foresight, removed the shovel aud tojifjs, Mr. Pepper continued to peep through the key hole until he had obtained a pretty correct idea of what w.is going on within. Never was a Pepper so fired as he. lie .shook the door, but it was securely fastened within ; and resisisted all efforts to open it. i He ordered Mrs. Pepper to open it or take : the consequences; it is to be presumed that I she preferred the consequences. Mr. Pepj per darted down the stairs like a madman, j 'I must nut a stop to this or I shall not j nave a rag of clothes to tuy back." T> : i 11? 1--1 x-rui-uruig a lauucr, uc oegan 10 mount to the window ; but Mrs. P. was not to be taken so easily. She knew that he had left the door unlocked, for she had examined as soon as lie left; but she had no idea of i letting him have the benefit of her fire; so, ! hastily seizing several large bottles of co| logne, she threw the contents upon the fire, j and in a few minutes liad the satisfaction ! of seeing it entirely extinguished. That j duty performed, she left the apartment, and | locking the door, she stationed herself in a j convenient position to hear everything that | transpired within. j In a few moments Mr. P. was safofy in ; the apartment, and as soon as ho had closed | the window, he stood bolt upright in the j middle of the room, and 6aid in a deep voice: "Jezebel, come forth!" No answer. "Jade ! do you think to escape ?" Still no response. Mr. Popper begins to feel uneasy and hastily commences to Bearch the room, but had not proceeded far, when j he hears a slight titter somewhere in the I vicinity of the door. lie listens a moment, l and it is repeated. Darting to the door, he attempts to open it, but he finds himself aj ! nna/tnor Tliavo 5a l\i*f aha mava /ilmnnA I j/. Aaiv.iv/ to wuw vnw niuiu tlimJU, lie thinks, and hurries to the window; but alas for Mr. Pepper! his wife has just removed the ladderj and he cannot escape. lie sits dpwn on a chair and looks ruefully around him, and'presently he arises and picks up a few fragments of n letter which is lying on tho carpet, and finds it is from Polly Primrose. He wonders what she has done with the look of hair. At this moment tifceye falls upon his daguerreotype, which is jving on the table before him. Mechanicaify taking it up, ho opens it, and sees?what? nothing but his own face?all the rest of him being rubbed off; and around his lovely phiz is the missing curl, and the walnut meats are careful' ly stowed in the comer of the case. Mr. J P. fairly blubbered aloud. " "Good!" thought Mrs. P. "wheu you 1 find your level, I'll let you out, and nofctillthen. A little-wholesome discipline-;wilt do you good, and I'm fully prepared to a<f'' minister it." How long Mrs. Pepper kept hor liege - 1 3 J !I _ J A. !iU ~ loru in uurttnuu vno, uupuuent nimu tiuiy and as to what passed between them when I he was released from captivity, wo are not better informed; but of thgikjjB^are snra, Mr. Pepper might have ..b^eiw&een, a ? tmoming or Swo- afterward, to put bj* bead * into tbe bed rooitt,.aiid say in a'nwek'manner: V - , I i . Jane/Tye tnadfi .tb? kitchen 'fire, and put on tho tea-kettle; won't you please J to get up^d/getbreakfa?t.n $ ^Mak'^TocH Choice.?"Fatbe*," Raid a (A Vto fUvont^! rttini'^Son tb!?A jurcillio iu upi'' uuivuwii ^uiiiumuj n^u iuju J thebad habit of alternating from ipTety to k profanity, "I do think you onght to atop * BM||or aweanng?I don't cars which I * \ Monet is a good potrwt ancl n b?d masa t?r. it is only by w fBffifo know what U 'V'S??jjK*v W ' * * i5f^ * ',J "'. ' ' ^r] >? ," Tho Northern Democracy. We copy tl>e extract below from the Now York Day Book, a paper that has always defended tho constitutional rights of the ' / ? ^ A. South \yth equal zeal and ability. Tho Day Book contends with equal justice that the whole North is not combined against the r,V Soulh, that the great body of the Northern Democracy lias generally been ready to do justice, and that it is our duty as well as our interest to stand up to tho Northern Democ- > racy: "Don't he too fast, gentlemen. The North is not altogether Against you, nor ia it against the Nebraska bill. Thero is no necessity of your being frightened into ousting cannon, sharpening swords, nor manufacturing gunpowder yet. We of the North will take care of our own people. We are not all fanatics, and shall not be controlled by fanatics; bo, 'do not go otf half cocked,' nor kick out of the traced yet a while. We have lived under the contulion made by our fathers some seventy odd years, and you have had equal prolection with the rest of us. Stick to that, and we will. Never fear that there is not good constitutional loving citizens enough in the North to keep down the plotters against you and your institutions. "When, gentlemen, did the Democracy of tbe North desert you or refuse to stand by you ? Never! It gavo you Presideut I'olk aud Texas?and it gave you the fugitive slave law, and it gave you President l'ierce and the Nebraska bill. What morecan you ask 1 We readily admit that theaewere your rights, but we point to them only to show that Northern Democracy always uas ana always will give you j'our rights. "Why then desert it or talk about fighting the whole North ? Stand by those who have stood by you, and yon will never havo reason to complain. You should make some allowance 'for Northern habits, and Northern prejudice, and not expcct all our people to think just as you do on the subject of slavery; that ia not possible. But you have always found the Democratic party to deal justly with you, and you may re- ' ly upon it to do justly hereafter, ijo matter what the people think'about slavery. Don't 1 leave the Democratic party, men of the South, until it leaves you, and you will have nothing to fear from 'Northern fanatici3ta."r A Story with a Moral. Mr. Bonea, of the firm of Fossil, Bones &rCo., was oue of those remarkable moneymaking men, whoso uninterrupted successin trade had been the wonder and afforded the material for the gossip of the town for seven years. Being of ft familiar turn of mind he was frequently interrogated on the subject, and invariably gave as the secret of his success, that he minded his own business. A gentleman met Mr. Bones on the Assanpitik bridge. Ho was gazing intently on the dashing, foaming waters as they fell over the dam. He was evidently in a V brown study. Our friend ventured to disturb his cogitations. "Mr. Bones, tell me Low to make a thousand dollars." Mr. Bouea continued looking intently at the water. At last he ventured a rfeply. "Do you see that dam, my friend 1" lit 1-W i certainly uo. "Well, here you may learn the secret of making money. That water would waste away and bo of no practical uso to anybody, but for the darn. That dam turns it to good account?making it perform soma useful purpose, and then suffers it to pass along. That large paper mill is kept in constant motion by this simple economy. Many mouths are fed in the manufacture-of the article of paper, and intelligence is scattered broad-cast over the land on the sheetsthat are daily turned out; and in the different processes through which it passes, money is made. So it is in the living of hundreds of people. They get enough mo-, ncy. Tt -passes through their hands every, day, and at the year's end they ore no better off. What's the reason? They want a dam. T&eir expenditures aj?. ^increasing, andthDvpractical good is attained. They want them dammed up, so that nothing will fpas8 through their hands without bringing $, something back?without accomplishing Pome usenffiMrposc. iJam up yoar ex pen-. ses, and you'll soon have enough, oQcaaipnally to spare a little, just like that dam. Look at it my friend!" Nelson's Patent Life Preserver.? We havo had exhibited to tu k novel ^ and certainly' extremely useful instrument &. . with the above title. It is the.mTentiojfclj&^^* L. Nelson, Esq., of Ocala, Florida, , qod p&tented by him Nov. 21st, 1854. .It'toiay be briefly described as/followwis ift tbtv . form of a handsoma vcst,"which dan be . . worn in ordinary, drf^irafotJly^ fthe lip*,-* *' ing of which encloM? ,or'consists of an air tight sack furnis^^; With moptli pieces, ; wgiph can -be conoegl&'fy-'^ ' ? *?o