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are not to be tolerated, but as property the)
are most tolerable in the house, the church
the carriage, the couch l rl'he Africauowmd
may dwell in America ; but, mzownctl. lit
must be expatriated ; emancipation must. b.
jackul to colonization. The cho cc given to
the African is plantation or colonization.—
Our Christian public sentiment is a pendulum
swinging between owning or (sporting the
poor in our midst. i
Whenever we are prepared to show toward
the lowest, the poorest and Lie most despised,
an unaffected kindness, such as led Christ.
though the Lord of Glory, to lay aside his
dignities, and take on himself the form of a
servant, and to an ignomious death, that he
might rescue men from ignorance and ben-
dage, whenever we are prepared to do such
things as these, we may be sure that the ex
ample of the North will not be unfelt at the
South. Every effort that is made in Brook-
lyn to establish schools and churches for the
free colored people, and to encourage them to
educate themselves and become indépendent
is a step toward emancipation in the .South.
The degradation of free colored men in the
North, will fortify slavery in the South! .
We must quicken all the springs 0f feeling:
in the free states in behalfof human liberty,
. and ’create a public‘ sentiment, based upon
truth and true manhood. For if we act to any
good purpose on the minds of the South, We
must do it through a salutary and pure public
sentiment in the North. When we have cor-
rected our own prac tics, and set an example
of the right spirit, theu w hall have a posi-
tion from which to exert a beneficial public
influence on the minds of the Southern slave-
holders. For this there must be full and free
discussion. Under our institutions, public
opinion is the monarch,and free speech and
debate form public opinion.
The air must be vital with the love of liber-
ty. Liberty with us must be raised by relig-
ion from the selfishness of an instinct to the
sanctity of a moral principle. We must love
it for ourselves, and demand it for others,—
Siuce Christ took man’s nature human life
hasa divine sanctity. We must inspire in
the public mind a profound sense of the rights
of men founded on their relations to God,—
The glory of intelligence, refinement. genius.
has nothing to do with men’s rights. The
rice slave, the Hottentot, are as much God’s
children as Humboldt or Chalmers. That
they arein degradation only makes it more
imperative upon us to secure to them the
birthright which they in ignorance might sell
for a mess of pottage.
These things must become familiar again to
our pulpits. Our children must be taught to
glow again in our schools over the herorc
ideals of liberty. Mothers must twine the
first threads of their children’s life with the
golden threads of these divine truths, and the
whole of life must be woven to the heavenly
patron of liberty.
What can the North do for the South, un-
less her own heart is purified and ennobled?
When the love of Liberty is at so low an ebb,
that churches dread the sound, ministers
shrink from the topic, when book-publishers
dare not publish or republish a word on the
subject ofslavery, cut out every living word
from school-books, expurgatc life passa-
ges from Humboldt,Spurgeon, and all foreign
authors and teachers ; and when great relig-
ious publication societies, endowed for the
very purpose of speaking fearlessly the truths
which interest would let perish. pervert their
trust, and are dumb. first and chiefly, and ar-
ticulate only in things that thousands ofoih~
ers could publish as well as they—what
chance is there that public sentimentdn such
a community, will have any power with the
South?
But the end of these things is at hand. A
nobler spirit is arising. New men, new
hearts. new zeal, are coming forward. led on
by all those signs and auspices that God fore-
sends when he prepares his people to advance
Thi. work, well begun, must not go back. It
must grow, like spring into summer. God
will then give it an autumn—without winter.
And when such a. public sentiment fills the
North. founded uponreligion. and filled with
fearless love to both the bond and the free, it
will work all over the continent, and nothbg
can be hid from the shining thereof.
3. By all the ways consistent with the fear-
less assertion of truth, we must maintain sym-
pathy and kindness toward the South. We
are brethren ; and I pray that no frntricidal
influences will be permitted to suudcr this
Union. There was a time when I thought the
body of death would be too much for life, and
that the North was in danger of taking the
disease from the South, rather than they our
health. That time has gone past. I do not
believe that we shall be separatedby their act
or ours. We have an element of healing,
which. if We are true to ourselsve and our
principles, and God is kind to as. shall drive
itself further and further into the nation, until
it penetrates and regenerates every part-—
When the whole lump shall have been leav-
ened thereby,old prejudices will be done away
and new sympathies Will be created.
I am for holding the heart of the North
right up to the heart of the South. Every
heart heat will be ere long, not a blow rivet-
ing oppression, but a throb carrying new
health. Freedom in the North is stronger
than slavery in the South. We are yet to
work for them, as the silent spring works for
us. The are a lawful prey to love. I do not
hesitate to tell the South what] mean by
loving a union with them. I mean liberty,—
I mean the decay of slavery, and its extinc-
tion. If I might speak for the North. I would
say to the South. “ We love you, and hate
your slavery. We shall leave no fraternal
efl’ort untried to deliver you, and ourselves
with you, frOm the degradation,dauger and
wickedness of this system.” And for this we
cling to the union. There is health in it.
We are to leave no pains untaken, through
the Christian conscience of the South, to give
to the slave himself a higher moral status. I
lay it down as an axiom, that whatever gives
more manhood to the slave slackens the bonds
that bind him, and that whatever lowers him
in the scale of manhood tightens those bonds.
If you wish to work for the enfrancbisement
of the Alrican.seek to make him a better man.
Teach him to be an obedient servant, and an
honest, true, Christian man, These virtues
are God’s stepstones to liberty. That man
whom Christ first makes free, has a better
chance to be civilly free than any other. To
make a slave morose, fractious disobedient,
and unwilling to work, is the way to defer his
emancipation. We do not ask the slave to be
satisfied with slavery. But, feeling its griev-
ous burden, we ask him to endure it while he
must, “ as unto God and not unto man ;” not
because he does not love liberty, but because
he does love Christ enough to show forth his
spirit under grievous wrong. Poor slaves
will never breed respect,sympath y. and eman-
cipation. Truth, honor, fidelity. manhood
—these things in the slave will prepare him
for freedom. It is the low animal condition
of the African that cnslaves him. It is moral
enfrauchisement that will break his bonds.
The Pauline treatment is the most direct
road to liberty. No part of the wisdom of the
New Testament seems to me more divinely
wise than Paul’s directions to those in slavery
They are-the food that servants need now at
the South, everywhere the world over i If I
lived in the South, 1 should preach these
things to slaves, while preaching on mas-
ters’ dutiss to those who hold them. I should
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do it with a firm conviction that so I should ,
advance the day of their liberty i
In order to labor the most effectually for
the emancipation of the slaves, I would not
need to say one word, except to preach Christ
and purity and manhood. and to enjoin upon .
them faithfulness in every duty belonging to
their state. I should be conscious that in do-
ing this I was lifting illsm up higher and
liighci. I should feel that l was carrying
them further and further toward theiremanci-
patiou, There is no disagreement between
the true spirit of emanipation and the enforce-
ment of every single one of the precepts of
the New Testament respecting servants.
5. The things which shall lead to emancipa.
tion are not so complicated or many as many
people blindly think. A few virtues estab-
lished, a flaw usages maintained a few rights
guaranteed to the Hans, and the system
is vitally wounded. The right of chas-
tity in the woman,the unblemished household
love, the right of parents in their children—
on these three elements stands the weight of
society. Corrupt or enfeeble these, and there
cannot be superincumbent strength. Withheld
these rights from savage people,and they can
never be carried up. They are the integral
elements of associated human life. We de
mand, and have a right to demand, of the
Christian men of the South,that they shall
revolutionize the moral condition of the slaves
in this regard.
I stand up in behalfof two million women
who are without a voice to declare that there
ought to be found in Christianity, somewhere
an influence that shall protect their rlght to
their own persons ; and that their purity shall
stand on some other ground than the caprice
of theirmasters. [demand that the Christian
Church, both North and South shall bear a
testimony in behalf of marriage among the
l-‘ltu'v-s' u hich shall make it as marriage among
the chin-s. It is not to denied that another
node of morals prevails upon the plantation
than that a blob prevails in the plantation
house. So long as husband and wife are mar-
rings-able commodities, and to be sold apart,
to form new connections, there can be no such
thing as sanctity in wedlock.
Let it he knows in New York that a man
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has two wives, and there is no church so fee-
ble of conscience that they will lltll. instantly
--ject him; and the civil law .‘Vlll instantly
visit him with penalty. But. the .Ctlmllllll‘ll-
cants of slave churches not only live wrth a
>ecnnd,while their first compan‘ou is yet allve
but with a third and fourth; nor 1F it any dis
inalilication for church-membership. The
church and the state wink at it. If you will
sell men. you must notbe too nice aboutthcir
. moral virtues.
A wedding among this unhappy people is
but a name—a mere form to content their
conscience or their love of imitating their su-
periors. And every auctioneer in their com
munity has the power to put asunder whom
God has joined. And marriage is as movable
as misfortune itself. The bankruptcy of their
owner is the bankruptcy of the marrigc rela-
tion, in'half the slaves on his plantation.
Neither is there any ‘Gospel that has been
permitted to rebuke these things. There is
no church that I have ever known in’the.
Sont‘h that bears testimony against them.—
Neither will the churches in the North, as a
body, take upon themselves the responsibility
of bearing witness against them.
I go further; I declare that there must be
a Christian public sentiment which shall
make the family inviclate. Men sometimes
say, “It is rarely the case that families are
separated.” It is false! It is false! There
is not a slave mart that bears not testimony,
ten thousand times over, against such an as-
sertion. Children are bred like colts and
calves, and are dispersed like them.
It isin vain to preach a Gospel to slaves
that leaves out personal chastity in man and
woman, or that leaves this purity subject to
another’s control ! that leaves out the sancti-
ty 0f the marriage state, and the unity and
inviolability of the family. And yet no Gos-
pel has born such a testimony in ffllOI‘ of
them. as to arouse the conscience of the South!
If ministers will not preach liberty to the
captive, they ought at least to preach the m
dispensable necessity of household Virtue! If
they will not call upon the masters to set
their slaves free, they should at least proclaim
a Christianity that protects woman, childhood
and household ! _ ,
' The momenta woman stands self-poised in
her own purity ; the moment man and woman
are united together by bonds which cannot
be sundered during their earthly life; the
moment the right of parents to children is re-
cognized—that moment there will be a cer-
tain sanctity and protection of the eternal and
Divine government resting upon father and
mother and children; and slavery will have
had its death-blow struck! You cannot make
slavery profitable after these three conditions
are secured! The moment you make slaves
serfs they become a difiicult legal tender, and
are uncurrent in the market ; and families
are so cumbrous, so difficult to support, so
expensive, that owners are compelled, from
reasons of pecuniary interest, to drop the
the system.
Therefore, if you will only disseminate the
truths of the Gospel, if' getting timid priests
out of the way, and lying societies, whose
cowardice slanders the Gospel which they pre-
tend to diffuse, you bring a whole solar flood
of revelation to bear up the virtues and
practical morals of the slave, you will begin
to administer a remedy which will inevitaly
heal the evil, if God designs to cure it by
moral means.
6. Among the means to be employed for pro-
moting the liberty of the slave, we must not
fail to include the power of true Christian
prayer. When slavery shall cease,it will be by
such instruments, and influences as shall ex-
hibit God’s hand and heart in the work. Its
downfall will have been achieved so large-
ly through natural causes, so largely
through reasons as broad as nations, that it
will be apparent to all men that God led on
the emancipation ; man being only one ele-
ment among the many. Therefore,we,have
every encouragement to direct our prayers
without ceasing to God, tlat he will restrain
the wrath of man, inspire men with wisdom,
overrule all laws. and control the commerce
of the globe,so that the poor may become
rich, that the bond may become free, that the
ignorant may become wise that the master
and slave may respect each other, and that,
at length. we may be an evangelized and
Christian people. May God, in his own way
and time, speed the day l
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A Sunrnnnaxnm Fouxrxrx or OIL—The
Pennsylvania Rack Oil Company own some
valuable propety in 'l‘itusville. Pa., if a letter
in the New York Tribune is correct. The let-
ter states that last week the agent of the com-
pany, while boring forsalt,or to find the source
of the oil which is so common along the banks
of Oil Creek, at the depth of 71 feet tapped a
vein of water and oil, which yields 400 gallons
of pure oil every twenty-four hours. The pump
throws five gallons per minute of water and
oil into a vat.when the oil rises at the top
and the water is drained off at the bottom.
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ADVERTISING.—-Tlle New Orleans Picayune,
in expatiating upon the advantages of adver-
tising, most truly remarks :
"' Experience has fully demonstrated that
where a man in a commercial community, has
anything to tell, he must not keep dark about
it ; he must hold it up in contact with that
universal and powerful reflector and illumin-
ator—the public press ; he must. paradoxical-
ly, light it up Willi ink—printer’s ink and he
must do this not once, or twice. or three times
but persistently, systematically. There is as
much skill and tact, and often times as much
boldness to be displayed in advertising. as in
conducting the most expensive and difficult
business operation ; and your Louis Napoleon
of advertisers will move his forces now-to the
front. now to the rear, now on the flanks—
sometimes on tiraillcur, sometimes in solid
columns—here cautiously, there with impe-
tuosity—‘ the light of battle on his brow ;’
while your Francis Joseph will move in the
same old routine, rarely capturing public at-
tention, often driven back by his more skillful
and daring competitor. ' To advertise proper-
ly costs money.but it invariably repays the
investment a. hundred fold. The main object
of advertising is to impress this Mr. Public
with an inefi'aceahle idea of. your name and
locality. and special occupation ;so that if he
ever see or hear the one, he will instinctively
impulsively, irresistibly think of the other.”
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Dr. Livingston. .
This distinguished traveller, at last reports
was pushing his way into the interior of At-
rica, where it is said white men have never
before been seen. The weather was found to
be excessively hot. and the Doctor reports
himself very much exhausted in consequence.
He was looking for rivers and cataracts, and
has been successful in finding water courses
not before known. Strange people and strane
ger animals met him wherever he went.
night a gigantic feathery spider was caught ;
while next came a dwarfish monkey ,the small-
est ever seen, which was very handsome and
not so large as a. rat. To vary the incidents,
one night after a toilsome march a tiger
sprang upon a. groupe of men and carried one
of them off.
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Good for Baltimore,
The less said about the “ Blood Tubs,”
“ Red Necks,” “ Awl Blades,” and other
rowdies of Baltimore, the better, but
Henry Winter Davis, just elected to
Congress, deserves honorable mention.—
At a meeting of ten or fifteen thousand
Americans in MonumentSqnare,oneThnrs-
day evening,Davis thus spoke, of the Har-
per’s Ferry afl'air :
He attributed it entirely to the Demo-
cratic party—the party, he said, that in-
vadcd Kansas in all her trouble - that
had invaded that territory and cdmmit-
ted bloodshed and murder; that had re
pealed the Missouri Compromise, and
that had attempted to fasten upon Kan-
sas the Lecompton fraud. The Democ-
racy had not only committed all these
depredations, but a. Democratic president
had sent the army into that Territory to
perfect the outrage.
It was these acts upon the part of the
South, and Southern aggression upon the
North, that had led to the Harper’s Fer-
ry disturbance, which was at the wor
only the act of a crazy old fool. “
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11%“ An orator speaking of the famous
Scotch poet Burns recently remarked
“ that the poet had a heart of tinder oft-
en lighted by a spark from a bright eye.”
We know of many others besides poets
who are troubled with the same com-
plaint.
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36'- In 'the four weeks during which
seldorf gallery, in New York, about $5,-
000 was taken at the doors. So much for
condemning a werk of art as “ indecent,”
One.
Page’s Venus was exhibited at the Dns- '
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THEGAZETTE.
Norwalk, Tuesday, lllov. 16 1859.
WANTED.
NE copy of the Gazette for February 19,
1856. Any person havingthat number
will oblige us by leaving it at this Office, as
we wish to complete our files.
Popular Lectures on Agriculture.
ThOse of our readers who listened- to the
remarks of Prof. Porter at our late Agricultu-
ral Fair, as well also as those who read what
we had to say upon this subject in a previous
number of the Gazette, are already, in a
measure, advised of the enterprise to which
reference is bad in the following article from
our cotemporary :
The plans have been maturing and ar-
rangements making for some time past
by Professor John A. Porter, of Yale
College. It is proposed to have a great
agricultural “ protracted meeting,” to
last through the month of February or
longer, say thirty working days. The
exercices are to consist of lectures by
leading reliable men eminent in the differ-
ent departments of agriculture, horticul-
tnrc, stock raising &c. About a hund-
red lectures are provided for, two to four
a day, each to be followed during the
day and evening by conversational exer-
cises and questions to the lecturers. -
Twenty gentlemen have been addressed,
and consented to take part in the exerci-
ses as lecturers and teachers, including
Cassius M. Clay and Frederick Roche,
on Cattle ; Dr. Gulliver, on Horses ; L.
0. Flint and others on the Dairy ; Dr.
Asa Fitch on Entomology ; Hon. Mr.
P. Wilder, Dr. Grant and Mr. Barry on
Fruits ; Professor Porter, on Organic
Chemistry ; Professor Johnston, on Ag-
ricultural Chemistry ; J ohu Stanton and
Gould and Grosses, on Irrigation ;
J udgc French, on Draining ; Professor
Brewer, on Commercial Plants—flax,
liemp,tobacco &c.—Georgc B. Emerson,
on Forest Trees ; Dr. Comstock, on Fish
Culture ; Donald G. Mitchell (Ike Mar-
vel) on Rural Economy,&c., &c.,
The exercises to take place in the old
Medical College Buildings, now being
newly fitted up with large lecture rooms
for the use of the scientific department of
Yale College. The arrangements are un-
der the auspices of the College. The
whole is to be free, except the nominal
charge of say ten dollars or less to meet
the necessary travelling expenses of lect-
ures and other incidentals. The plan re-
flects great credit upon the originator,
and the occasion will doubtless call to-
gether a. large gathering of cultivatcrs
from all parts of the country.
We cannot but look upon this enterprise as
one of the most cheering signs of the times
as regards the beneficial results to the Agri-
culture of our State. It certainly forms a. new
era in Agricultural science and we trust will
be liberally patronized from Fairfield County.
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MNorwich promises to be quite lively this
winter. The Lecture season opened on Wed-
nesday evening with an address from Rev.
D. Wise of New York. This is the first of a
series of lectures which are to be given in the
East Main St. Methodist Church, for the pur-
pose of raising funds to pay an old debt
against the church. Thirteen of the most
talented Methodist ministers have been en-
gaged to speak, free of expense. Jn the list
advertised, the names of Hon. Mark Trafton
of Mass., and Hon. Sidney Dean of Conn., ap-
pear. As we hear nothing from our appeal
to the ladies for a winter course, and are hav-
ing a New .Mcthodist Church, which may
need pecuniary aid, can’t something in the
literary line come of that enterprise? What
says the Dr. ?
v4.--
Gerrit Smith Insane.—Nobody who ad-
mircslargc hearted benevolence and gifted
powers of mind, however much they may
have been under a cloud, but will be pained
to hear of the serious insanity of Gerritt
Smith. It is a hereditary malady, and Mr.
Smith’s relatives have been forced to confine
him in the New York State Lunatic Asylum.
The late Electioneering lies connecting his
name with the Harper’s Ferry affair, seems
to have finished the work of mental aberra-
tion, already too apparent to his mostintimate
friends.
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New Bakery. —-Among the multiplicity of
new institutions in and about the B idge, not
the least important is Mallory’s New Bakery,
located at the old stand of Leonard 85 Street.
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w We have received a letter from an ce-
teemed correspondent upon the Presidential
question, for which we have not room at pres
ent. We think, moreover, that it is better to
await the events of the coming six months be-
fore coming to any conclusion even in our
own minds upon the subject of Presidential
candidates.
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g The Bridgeport Farmer publishes a
long rigmarole from the Kansas Herald of
Freedom, and, with its accustomed regard for
truth, pronounces it the confessions ofa “Re-
publican Editor,” when it well knows that
this Kansas Editor is a pensioner of this de-
testable Administration,aud is paid for lying ,
just as is the Former man. Taking the Far-
mer’s mendacity as the price of a pitiful
tide waters berth at Bridgeport, what may
we not expect from the fat living afi‘orded by
Mr. Buchanan to this Border Ruffian Editor,
who, “stealing the livery of Heaven to serve
the devil in,” calls his paper the “Herald of
Freedom.” You will have to try again, Mr.
Farmer, for that dodge won’t work.
MW
Godey’s Lady's Book for December has
been received. It contains two really beau.
tiful steel engravings, besides its endless va-
riety of fashion plates, .150. The literary
matter of Godey is always original,spicy and
interesting, andthe receipts, directions, pat-
terns, &.c.. for Ladies are invaluable. The
'next number commences at new volume. We
will furnish Godey’l and the Gazette one
year for $4.
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Water Proof Blocking—Messrs. Stevens
.1. Tristram, (Ely’s Block, South Norwalk,)
send us a very good thing in the way of Wa-
ter Proof Blocking. One of the best prepara-
tions we have ever tried. . Cheap and useful.
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m The JV‘orwalk Gazelle and Dunbury
Times are bragging about thelr vegetables.—
Tbe latest dispute is as to which has the big-
gest cabbage head. Better leave it to their
readers to settle —.ll"orwz'ch Bulletin.
fl- Precisely, but how is it you want to
thrust yours in also, friend Bromf
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m, A gentleman by the. name'of Drew, of
East Bridgeport, took a passenger OVel' to
Bridgeport to the 1 o’clock train" Monday ,af-
tel-noon, and hitching his horse, went to the
depot to wait until the cars had left.~ On his
return he found“tlie establishment” among
the missing. The property was recovered by
Drew and the Sheriff of Westport Monday
evening—it being found in the possession of
a negro named William Mead, who was just
3driving into Norwalk when overtaken.
i
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flThe Trenton Gazette says that the Cp-
position in the N. J. Legislature have a ma-
jority on Joint Ballot.
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Superior Court-Judge waldo.
THE BRIGHAM CASE.
On Thursday last, Mr. lensr, counsel for
Brigham, moved for a continuance of the case
and bond to the March Term, in order to ena-
ble the bondsman to procure the accused for
trial if possible. The motion was‘sisted by
Mr. Fannr, and denied by the Court.
The bond was then called and forfeited. It
is understood that an action is to be commen-
ced immediately against the sureties, who are
now responsible,and in the meantime an effort
is to be made to secure the fugitive if in'- the
United States.
State, as. William Lockwood-This was an
information of Thomas I Garland Juror of
Darien, for a breach of the peace, and assult-
ing and striking Edward 0. Page, of Darien
with a club. The case was taken to the Supe-
rior Court on an appeal from a. Justice Court
in Darien. Verdict guilty; fined seven dollars
and cost. For the State, William F. Taylor,
having been appointed special State’s Attor-
ney for the purpose of tryingthis case; for
defendant. James H. Olmstead.
State vs. John Heyt.—This was an informa-
tion filed by the State’s Attorney againstsnid
Hoyt for stealing from William H. Gregory
of Darien, one coat and other articles; the
prosecution failing to make it appear that
the property taken was of the value of fifteen
dollars the jury acquitted him for want of
jurisdiction. For the State, Joshua B. Ferris.
for defendant, Roger Averill.
State as. Heman Balk—This was an indicts
ment for manslaughter, alledging that the
defendant did beat, kick, wound and bruise
one Dennis L. Road of Huntington, whereby
the said Dennis L, Rood did languish and die
on the 16th day of October, A. D.. 1859. The
case is still on. For the State Joshua B.Ferris
and James C. Leomis ;for defendant, Orris S.
Ferry and S. B. Beardsley,
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”The following inimitable style of do-
ing up locofoco terror makers, is peculiariy
the New York Tribune’s, in the columns of
which it appeared on the day following the
New York and New Jersey Elections:
THE UNION DISSOLVED.
With inexpressible concern and emotion do
we find ourselves compelled to inform our
afilicted readers that that delicate and fragile
piece of crockery ,the American Union, has
exhaled—collapsed—exploded-gone,in short
to everlasting smash. ' After standing vali-
antly the pyrotechnic flights of Fourth-ovauly
orators, the rhymes of patriotic poets, and
the ci'oakings of gin-inspired prophets, for
more than seventy years, it went up on Tues-
day of this week. And it is the people of
New Your: and New Jnasur that have hard-
ened their hearts and stiflened their necks,
and "been and gone and done it.” Nor can
they plead ignorance in excuse for this nefa-
rious proceeding. They were amply fore
warned and admonished of the mischief they
were doing—of the death-blow they were
striking to the hopes of the champions of
Freedom throughout the world. Not to dwell
on the Herculanean labors of The Journal of
Commerce, the Fifth Avenue HotelCommit-
tee, and the oratorical industry of Gov. Sey-
mour. it is sufficient to state that The Con-
slilulion, Mr. Buchanan’s home organ, on
Saturday last lifted up its voice and brayed
the following solemn warning :
A LAST WORD TO NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY.
Never in the history of our country has our State
election ever elicited such deep interest as the ap-
proaching contest on the 8th of this month in New
York and New Jersey. These are now the battle fields
of the Constitution and of the Union and the fate of the
country may soOn be decided there Their responsibil-
ty is momentous. They may hold the fate of the Un-
ion in their hands. If they should prove to be the
brsakwaters, arrest the flood of Anti-Slavery fanaticism
and rebuke the irrepressible 'conflict with which the
Union is threatened by Mr. Seward, all will be well.—
But ifon the other hand the surges of sectional passion
and predjudice should roll over them also, they may
have engulphed the liberties of our country- If these
two States should decide in favor of the Sewardagita.
tors by elevating them to place and power, a deep
gloom will spread like a pull over the country. The
heart of the patriot will tremble with apprehension.—
Confidence in the durability afoul institutions will be
deeply shaken. The pillars of the Union will rock up-
on their base and many will prepare for the npprehen.
dell catastrophe. But if on the other hand victory
should perch upon theDemocratic banner.thousnnds will
feel as if we had escaped a great disaster. Business will
revive; confidence will be restored ; all our industrial
energies will be rc-iuvlgorated ; the pulse of commerce
will heat with renewed vigor ; the hand of labor will re-
ceive new em] loyments and augmented wages and all
wil. feel as it' New York and New Jersey had re-signed
and rescaled the gunrrntecs of their constitution.
We make this our last appeal to the people of NeivYojrk
and New Jersey and especially to the thousands-there
perity of those states to devote all rheir energies 'to in-
sure our success.
It must be evident to every observer that the success
of the Seward party in these States will be universally
regarded as a. full and complete iiidorsemcnt of those
doctrines involving the irrepressible conflict between
the Free and the Slave States, the prelude to which
has been already performed at Harper's Ferry. The is-
sue which is presented to the electors of those States
is it great and momentous one. Their responsibility is
proportionally great. They have to decide by their
votes whether they are in favor of maintaining the
Constitution and the Union as they were framed and
formed by the patriot heroes of the Revolution and
handed down to us as a. priceless inheritance of free-
dom, prosperity, glory, and power ; or whether they
are in favor of severing the bonds, annulling the com-
pacts, and abrogating the agreements which have
bound the several States together as one happy united
people, and dividing our country into two hostile and
antagonistic sections, contending for mastery in irre-
pressible conflict until one or the other is compelled to
yield to the superior force of the other.
Then The Herald, catching up the note,
echoed on the morning of our clection,as
folIOWS :
Another Southern correspondent writes from Nor-
folk in the following alarming strain :
"The deepest intern-st is taken here in the New York
elections ; and if they should go for the Black Repub-
licans, there will be an almost universal sentiment in
favor ofimmeuiute secession, ‘peaceably ifwe can, for-
cibly ifwe must.’ There can he no doubt that if the
revolutionary ticket of Seward should be elected in this
State to-day, the effect on the public mind ofthe South
will be most disastrous. Already the exasperation is
very great. Let the ingredient ofa Republican victo-
ry in New York State be thrown into the cup of it
Southern indignation, and it will be sure to overflow.”
“If he BlackRepublican revolutionary ticket should
be elected in New York and New Jersey, the news will
fall on the ear of the South like the knell ofa departed
Union, and the excitement will speedily reach a crisis
and assumes practical shape which will appall and
astound the people of the North, Ac, kc.
We might quote any quantity more ofthis
trash from the greater and lesser orncle‘s of
the Sham Democracy, but we can fill our
space better. and these must sufiice. The
people of New York and New Jersey having
spurned this attempt to browbcat and frighten
them out of their convictions,thcre is of course
nothing left for us but disunion, anarchy,civ-
il war, fire,fnry, slaughter and all imagina-
blc~horrors. And yet, in the face and eyes
of this appalling prospect, this awful impend~
ing doom, there were miscreants at the Board
of Brokers yesterday so utterly lost to every
instinct of patriotism, so deaf and blind to
every portent of National ruin, so callous to
every consideration of selfinterest even,as to
bid for and buy United States six per cents,
redeemable in 1867, at 108, or eight per cent.
above par 1 And some of these loolhardy
buyers are said—though the tale is hardly
credible—to be ' chronic Union-savers and
members of Watts Sherman’s Fifth Avenue
Hotel Committee—the hub on which the
Union revolved till the Union was no more)
Seriously : is it not time. that this business
of setting up scarecrows to frighten grown
men, were given up? Ought not at least the
immediate organ of the President and Cabinet
to be ashamed of dabbling in it ‘3 We can
assure the dealers in this sort of humbug that
the PcOplcof New York and New Jersey have
nomiud either to dissolve the Union them.
selves or let it be dissolved by others. They
cannot fully answer for what may take place
while its preservation is left to the treinu ous
hands and infirm purpose of our present Fed-
eral Executive; but they will take care that,
after the 4th of March, 1861,there shall be a
President in the White House after the pat-
tern of Andrew Jackson and Zachary Taylor,
who will take care that the Union shall not.
be even in danger of dissolution -—that Dis-
unionists shall not sit in the high places of
the land—and that every attempt to bully
sovereign States shall meet with prompt and
decided reprobation. So much, at least, may
be safely counted on.
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It is said that Postmaster General
Holt reduced the , expenses of the mail
serviceof the United States- for the last
fiscal year $1,000,00,0.—ermer.
p Some of the Former man’s friends in
New Canaan, Durien, and other towns herea~
bouts, who have to sustain their daily mails
by pnoale contributions, it is said are able to
explain the peculiar modus operandi by
which this great saving is effected.
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33‘ The official vote of Ohio is as follows:
For Governor, William Dcninson, Jr.[ch]
184,502 ; Rufus P. Ranliey [Dcm.] l7l,290.--
The total vote is 365,768, which is a gain of
10,208 from last year, the Republican increase
being,_1,550 and the Democratic 8.658. The
Republican majority on Governor, is 13,236 ;
on commissiohcr' of public works (highest)15,-
848 ; on judge of the supreme court (lowest)
«1
who are so deeply interested in the business and pros:
11,993 ; ma 9|! imaginative tickcts 21,525.
yr .,,,
A Valuable Book.
“Mrs Crimpton’s Way to bring up a Child ; or, Moth-
crs’ Own Guide,” fifteenth Edition
Contents of Chapter 1, Mrs. Criinpton’s rules with
reference to pap ; how boiled ; how much given ; on
placing a. child in a tub of cold water ; reasons for its
being injurious ; on stopping its cries with paregoric ;
the wickedness of this practice shown ; the horrid ef-
fects of it illustrated by actual cases. What to do in
case of cronp, where no physician can be had ; illus-
trated by the case of Mrs. Crimpton's own little boy.—
Warinih. cold. air, ventilation, incessant crying—in
the case of Mrs. Crimpton’s little boy, discovered to
arise from a concealed pin. Mensels, mumps,whooping
cough, scarlet fever, summer complaint ; how guarded
against ; what treatment injurious. Homeopathic and
Allopathic treatment compared ; cutting teeth ; Mrs.
C’s objection to lancing ;—cnse of her own little boy.
Vaccination to be attended to at the earliest convenient
opportunity. Cautions to be observed with reference
to this. Some remarks on nurses and the danger of
holding a child ins. wrong position : Mrs. Crimpion’s
own little boy. How a child may become bow-legged ;
the deformity of it g—soms remarks on holding the
nose of a child in administering medicine ;—the 1m-
propriety of this illustrated. Moral sunsion—no period
too early for this ;—-Mrli. C’s own little boy. Moral
and religious treatment. Primers, storicz, moral
pocket-handkerchiefs, prayers, etc. How Mrs. C. ap-
portioned the day : hours of rising ; breakfast,at what
hour ; morning ; dinner ;—-what kind of food,- tea ;
hours of retiring ; respect for the Sabbath early in-
stilled. Sabbath School teachers ; Day Schools ; ob-
jections to them—Mrs. Crimpton’s own little boy.”—
Cnn this book be had at our village Bookstores ?
~<.>-w——————-
There are some persons—(a few) who, having told a
child to do a thing—seem to think it is necessary to
have the child obey ;-—now this ofttimss causes a. good
deal of trouble ;—the child don’t want to do it, and a
“battle” sometimes ensues. A friend of ours has a
faculty for evading such contests ; knowing him to be
quite a philanthrophist,wc unhesitatinly EIVOJIIS mode
of procuedure for the benefit of others.
(Child drops a. fork,)
Father, “Annie, pick up that fork 1”
Annie, “1 shnn’t 1”
Father, “Well then, if you don’t—I shall, for the
fork must be picked up I” 1"-
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Pairfield County Sunday School Con-
vention—A Convention of Pastors, Super-
intendents and Teachers of Sunday Schools
in this County, will be held on the 29th and
30th of this month, in the 1st Congregational
Church Norwalk, to commence at 10 o’clock,
A. M. All friends of Sunday Schools are cor-
dially invited to attend and remain through
the meeting. 0n registering their names,
places will be assigned them for entertain-
ment. Return tickets on the Danbury and
Norwnlk and the New Haven Railroads will
be furnished free. .
R. K. DIOSSY, County Secretary.
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fl. A meeting of the Superintendents
and Teachers of Sunday Schools in Norwalk
and vicinity will be held in the Lecture Room
of the lat Congregational Church, this Mon-
day evening, at 7 o’clock, to appoint a Com-
mittee to make arrangements for the Sunday
School Convention for Fairfield County to be
held in this place Nov. 29th and 30th.
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Strange. Strange, Strange.
How people will neglect their children l
Said a father last week, “I’d give a hundred
dollars for a picture of that child, now cold
in death.” And so it is week after week we
have to take pictures of the dead. When you
can get pictures of the most uneasy children
in one second. and at so low a price, why de-
lay to call at Whitney’s, ov er the old Post
Office.
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The Illustrated Life of Washington.
By Hon. J. T. Headley,Author of “Napoleon
and his Marshals,” “ Sacred Mountains,” are,
together with an interesting account of Mt.
Vernon, as it is, by Lossfug. This most ex-
cellent work, just issued, complete in one vol-
ume.is acknowledged by all to be the most
interesting and perfect history of Washing-
ton’s Life ever published. The Agent for the
above work, Mn. Ovnrr is now here, and
will give our citizens an opportunity to ex-
amine and procure it. Our readers who are;
familiar with Bradley’s writings, will appre-
ciate this most valuable production from his
pen.
————4¢<.>~
Tun “ILLosrm'rnn ANNUAL REGISTER or
RURAL Arrxlns.”-This little work, for 1860,
by Tucker 85 Son. Albany, has been sent us.
It has been published six years, and is a capi-
ital little book, filled with original matter of
much interest, to all who till the soil. Rural
Improvement is the grand object, and we feel
satisfied that those who read it will find in it
valuable information on all subjects of inter
est'to the farmer and gardener, and the buil-
der. It has in near two hundred engravings.
Price, 25 cents.
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fl?‘ The Vanderbilt Steamer, North Star
that‘left New York on the 20th ult., had not
arrived at Aspinwsll when the Atlantic left
and some anxiety is felt in consequence. The
North Star must have had from 600 to 800
persons on board.
o
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NEWS ITEMS.
—-—Commodorc Vanderbilt has sued the
New York Times for a libel, laying his dama-
ges at $100,000.
-—-The Steamer Cataline is to be thoroughly
overhauled. repaired and refitted throughout,
and be placed on the line between Bridgeport
and New York. in the course of a few weeks.
——Thc Free Lovers have emigrated from
California and purchased from the San Sal-
vador Government a tract of some 50,000
acres of good arable land, at 12% cents per
acre, for $5,260;
—A barn belonging to D. K. Crofutt, Esq.,
of Derby, was burned last Monday night. It
issnpposed to have been the work of an incen-
diary. A valuable horse perished in the
flames.
———1n New Jersey, the other day, a young
couple while courting by the fire fell asleep,
While asleep, the young lady’s dress caught
fire. As soon as they awoke, the young man
made every exertion to extinguish the fire.
but without success. The young girl rushed
out of the door enveloped in a sheet of flame,
which continued to burn until her clothing
was consumed. She lived only a few houre
afterwards. The young man will be'n cripple
for life.
....The New Yurk «1'. New Haven Railroad
Company propose .to the holders of their '
bonds due in 1866, to give them half cash,and
the balance innew bonds, on terms that they
believe will be’satislactory.
....A little daughter of Philip Wolf, aged
seven, was burned so that she died,in Dan-
bury, a few days since. Some wood hadgieen
left in the oven of the stove to dry, and it is
supposed took fire, in trying to remove it
her clothes probably caught in the flames.
-. . . A branch road-is proposed by the Hous-
ntonic company from Kent to Dover, uniting
there with the Harlem road, and thus making
the route froth the Housatonic valley to New
York considerably shorter than it is now by
Bridgeport. '
.. . John 0. Fremont headed the list of sub-
scribers in Bear Valley to the proposed Mon-
ulnent to the late Senator Broderick. The
figure he pull down is $500.
. . . .The N. YJournal of Commerce says that
the cause of the small vote in N. Y. City, was
that there was no money to pay the shoulder
hitters and rowdies to stand around the polls
and keep respectable voters off. There was’
“not even money enough to hire the voters at
a dollar a day, so the Dead Rabbits stayed at
home. '
.. . .Ossawatomie Brown was a soldier R the
war 1812,and wasin the battle of Plattsburgb.
.. . .A writer in the Medical Gazelle cautions
patients against the use of soap'in any cuts
neous disorder. "
....chcr A. Pryor, the newly elected Con:
gressman from Virginia, is a strong Douglas
mun. Itwill be quite ablow to Mr. Buchanan.
IT Dyspepsia is one of the prevailing diseases of the
country. I'l‘hil is owing both to climatic influence and
the habit of rating our meals too rapidly. In spite of
these adverse circumstances,this disease rapidly dimp-
pears by ,the use of the Oxygenatcd Bitters.
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fl’ Same Virginian tools have lately
threatened to dissolve the Union in case the
elections in this quarter should go against
their friends. They seem to have forgotten
that only the ether day seventeen white man
and five negroen were able, to conquer the
whole of that great state, and frightened its
people so that they have not yet recovered
thoirsensea.~1fioone. _ '
4 ."
Tm; Eight...
New York.
The state officers voted for in New York on
Monday, were as follows :
Republican. Democratic.
Secretary of Statefi. W. LeavenworthIJi 1"- Jones.
Comptroller, li’otert pcnislon, San’d l-i. Church
Treasurer. Philip Dursheimcr, l.V.Vunderpnol
Attorney General, Chas. GJchrs, Lyman 'l‘reinian
St. Eng. and Sur, Orville W. Story, Van R. Richmond
Canal Commis’er, Ogden N. Chapiu, IV. I. Skinner
Ins. State Prisons, David I'. Forrest, N. S. Elderkt'n
Judge of Appeals, Henry E. Davies, Alex. 8. Johnson
Ck. Ct. of Appeals,C'lias.Hnghes, J. L. Lewis,”-
Tbe names printed in italics are the nomi-
nees of the American Party. The whole vote
of the state is rather light. but Messrs. Den-
niston. Dorshismer, Myers,Davis and Hughes
are elected by large majorities.
The Legislature is very very largely Re-
publican, the Senate standing Rap. 25. Dem.
7 ; of the house not enough is known tojust-
ify giving figures accurately.
New York City did better than might have
been expected. Jones [Dem. and Amer.] had
38,241 votes; Leavenworth [Rep.] had 18,-
142, so the combination got but 20,069 major-
ity. Last year the vote for Governor stoml :
Morgan 21, 603 ; Parker 41, 055 ; Burrows
[Amer.] 6.491. Parker over Morgan 19,452 ;
P. and B. over Morgan 26.443.
Denniston [ch. and Amen] was beaten in
the city 12,4l7 votes. This would give the
American strength in the city as 7,652. ()l
the four Senators elected in the city the R:-
publicans choose one—B.F. Manierre—a ga’ n.
Elhey also elect four members of the Assen-
y.
The county oficers in several counties are
three-fourths Republican. Judges of the Sn-
preme Court : five Repub., two Dem., one
doubtful.
Massachusetts.
Returns have been received from all but
five small towns in the State. Except where
local matters aided to call out a full vote the
campaign was quiet and the aggregate vote
less than last year.
The total vote for Governor is 108,100. di-
vided as follows : Bauks[Republicnn]58,461 ;
Butler [Administration] 35.184 ; Briggs [old
Whig] 14.852 ; scattering 103. Banks’ plu-
rality 23,227.
Last year the total vote for Governor was
“9.200, divided as follows: Banks [Repnb.]
68,701 ; Bench [Administration] 38,248 ;
Lawrence [Amer.] I2,084; scattering 167.—-
Bauks’ plurality 30,402.
The Executive Council is unanimously Re-
publican. The Senate is 34 Republican to 6
Administration ; last year 37 to 3. The
House 180 Republican to 60 Administration .-
last year 200 to 40. " A live whig” is chosen
from Taunton.
New Jersey.
No doubt remains of a decisive Opposition
triumph in the choice of Gamma S, Oman as
Governor over Gen. E. R. V. Wright, who
made heavy gains in Hudson, Essex and
Union Counties through wholesale naturaliza-
tions on the eve of the Election. The Opposi-
tion majority in the State isfully 2,000.
Wrscoxsm.—-Scattering returns from vari-
ous parts of the State show Republican gains,
and indicate the re-election of Gov. Randall.
Erasers—County elections were held in
Illinois on Tuesday. In Cook con nty (Chica-
go, etc,) the election passed ofi‘ quietly, the
vote polled in the city light,but tne republi-
cans having amsjority of 615.
Bar-unmask Vlo'roar IN Damon—At the
municipal election at Detroit; on Tuesday,
Christian H.Buhl, republican, was elected
mayor by a majority of about 800 over John
H. Harmon, formerly mayor, democrat. The
republicans have elected seven of the ten city
aldermen.‘
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Solution of the Harpers Ferry Mystery.
The Baltimore Patriot give the following
solutions of varlous mysterious circum-
stances :
“ The ,Harpcr’s Ferry cmeutc has been
solved at‘last. We have reliable intelligence
from Washington that Gov. Willard of In-
diana is a! the bottom of the whole aflair —
Cook; who is his brother-in-luw, is said to have
been prompted by'him to invaigle the mad-
man Brown and his weak-minded followers
into the net thus spread for them, with the
assurance that he (Cook) should be let of seat
free, if he should not escape. Willard is now
at Charlestowu, and Cook is to be used as
State’s evidence on condition of his release.—
This will probably explain the suppression of
that letter by Sec. Floyd. The whole out-
break, it is now believed at Washington, was
contrived solely with a view to operate polit-
ically upon the elections in New York and
Maryland. We thought as much from the be-
ginning. The public are requested to keep
their eye on Cook, and see whether he is not
released.” ~
W ,
:3, Among the acts at the late Epis-
copal Convention at Richmond, were the
election of Missionary Bishops for the
Northwest and Southwest ; the appoint-
ment of a missionary for a new field, Bra-
zil; the provision for translating the
prayer-book into the Spanish language ;
for improving the psalmody and hymnody
of the church ; for securing a standard
edition of the Holy Scriptures ; for ren-
dering more effective the mission to J a-
pan, by giving the'bishop in China a te -
porary jurisdiction therein ; for opening
intercourse with the church in Sweden;
for recognizing and taking in charge the
church enterprise in Paris, where 15,000
Americans are now residing ; for procu-
ring a better supply of the sacred minis-
tr ;and_.by inaugurating a specific lay
movement, in aid of the various depart-
ments of the church. The last _move-
ment was a new one. It was intended
to interest the Laity more particularly
in the charities and duties of the church.
Acommittee of one from each diocese
was appointed to arrange and inaugurate
a plan. Hon. Samuel 11. Huntington is
the member of that committee from the
diocese of Connecticut. ‘
«bob——
w-Three or four weeks ago, 0thniel
Russell of- Danielsonville returned from
California, found his wife had procured a
divorce and he attempted the life of Rev.
Mr. Miner of Killingiy, charging him-
with improper conduct with his wife, and
in helping her to procure a divorce.—
Russell was arrested and now lies in jail.
Afterward an ecclesiastical counsel was
held, at which nothing criminal 'wus
proved-against Rev. Mr. Miner, but his
conduct was severely censured. The de-
noucmeut of the matter is given in the
Killingly Telegraph of last week, which
says that on Thursday Miner made a full
confession, acknowledging criminal inter-
course with Mrs. Russell for two years
past, while a part of that time he has
been pastor of the Baptist Church. He
has left for parts unknown, leaviuga wife
and three or four children in Chestnut
Hill village.
.4...
WThe Baltimore American, after
saying “ it is difiicult to decide whether
the Harper’s Ferry outbreak should be
called a judicious tragedy or a solemn
farce,” thus decidedly coudemns the
efforts qf the Democratic journals
to make political capital out of it :
“ It is perfectly idle, to say the least
to turn such an event into political capi-
tal. No party would dream of endors-
ing these or similar atrocities ; and it is
a poor unworthy class of tactics that
would seek to fasten the responsibility
anywhere else than upon the misguided
actors themselves. Whatever may be
the tendency of their avowed principles
no organization worthy of the name has
ever counseled violent resistance of the
law in the slave territory.” ' ,
This from a journal bitterly hostile to
Republicanism ,is 'col‘iimended ; to the. no-
tice of the :Times and'other administra-
tion journals guilty I of such " "poor unwor— .
thytactics.” An honorable opponent
{de‘spisies them—Hartford Press.
~~:,_v-v:*n~. A... .
5 cveflifi‘.
The Illectiono.,
The returns from the elections held on
Tuesday, in hilassachusetts, New York,
New Jersey, Wisconsin and Louisiana all
concur in showing the rottenness of the
Modern Democracy In the four North-
ern States the Republicans have swapt
the board, in spite of John Brown, Har-
per’s Ferry and seven-foot pikes. The
result in New York is especially noticea-
ble. because the Republicans have for tile.
first time obtained a clear majority over
all opposition. The Shams who have
counted so much upon the capture of
Harper’s Ferry as it means of saving
themselves from utter rout, are over-
whclmed _by the returns which come .to
their unwrlling cam, and begin to appre-
ciate the fact that there is a substantial
basis of truth and principle in the Repub-
lican party. These closing elections of
1859 are glorious auguries of success in
1860.—1V. H. Courier.
m
la. The fire 1which took place on the
3d of November, in-New Orleans, was a
very disastrous one. Fifty four houses
were burned and more than five hundred
people left without shelter. It commen-
ced in some stables, and such was the
want of water. the dryness of the roofs
and the power of the wind, that it soon
spread up town in a solid mass of flame
two squares in breadth. The cinders
driven by the wind in advance 05.51118
flames falling ' on the shingled‘kro‘ofs
spread the conflagration with a. rapidity
entirely impossible to be checked. Sev-
en and a half squares were burnt over.-—-"
The Picayune says :
_ “The scene of the conflagration beg-
gars description. The poor sufferers in
eager haste having removed their house-
hold stnfi‘ into the street, directly found
themselves between two walls of flame,
and were driven away from their rescued
goods, which were destroyed in many ca-
ses on the highways. There was no cal-
culating where the place of safety was-—
The forked flames seemed to leap from
house to house, and having obtained
complete supremacy over the fire-
man, to delight in the rain which they
were creating.”
The same paper relates the following
sad case :
“ A laboring man,by the toil and care-
ful savings of himself and wife during six-
teen years, hud accumulated a little sum,
which he had invested in a house for the
family. Year by year, the spot where
his affections were garnered grew more
pleasant to the eye, as shrubbery care-
fully ‘mmed, flowers tenderly nourished
and .v as trained to clnmbergover the
portico, unfolded a wealth of blossom in
the green shade.
“ the fire on Saturday night laid
waste this rustic scene of domestic enjoy-
ment, the sufferers only removing in safe-
ty a few of the least valuable artcles of
furniture and their daughter who had
been confined to her bed .by an illness of
some days duration.
“ The loss of the labor of sixteen years
bore comparatively light upon both fath-
er and mother, through their anxiety for
the welfare of their child. Renting a
small tenement across the street from the
smoking ruins, they bought, a few arti-
cles for present comfort, slid saw their
daughter die. While she was in her cof-
fin in the- abode, the fire bells rang again
and the devasting element was found
close upon them. Sorapidly did the fire
spread, that they escaped from the house
saving no single article except the coflin
containing the dead body of the dough
ter which was deposited in the open
street. '
“ Then came down upon those brave
hearts the gloom of despair. Sitting up-
on the end of the ' last tenement 'of his
child, the father gave way to a parox-
ysm of grief, while "the mother sitting by
its side in the street was no more self-pos-
sessed than her husband.
“The crowd made up a small purse to
enable them to bury their dead ; but
what can restore them again to the con-
tentment they enjoyed before the occur-
destitute, homeless and childless.”
flab-9.—
That Amendment.
the amendment to the Massachusetts Con-
stitution requiring persons to reside in the
State two years after naturalization, be-
fore they arc allowed to vote. Whatev,-_
er may be thought of this requirement
it will do some of the loco faith no harm
to know that the DEMOCRATIC State of
South Carolina has precisely the same
provision in its Constitution. This provi-
sion was adopted in 1856—thrce years
since. . ' V
A letter from Mr. Hayne, Attorney
General of S. C. has just been published
in which he says in answer to "a letter of
inquiry :
have been a “ resident and a citizen for
two years at the time of election." The
amendment is intended to put a stop to
the indecent habit of making citizens im-
mediately precceding the election,a Court
in the city being always held at that
time. * * * at:
'An amendment to the Constitution is
made in this State by a vote of twice
thirds of each branch in two successive
legislatures, the proposition being adver-
tised for six months during the interval.
This amendment seemed to meet with
universal approval‘ and no voice of ob-
jection being raised against it, either for-
eign or native. I myself _'consnlted with
several of the, most influential of our
adopted citizenshere, and they certain-
ly approved of the change, and assured
me that‘ they thought it: would when un-
derstood be generally acceptable.
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W The Stamford Gas Light Compa-
ny have elected Messrs. Geo. L. Brown,
G. K Riker, H. K. Skelding, Charles
Williams and Charles Pitt. directors.—
The'dircctors have elected H. K. Skeld-
ing, President, and J. W. Leeds, Secre-
tary. T' apital stock of the. Compa-
ny is $2 , 75. The works including
mains cost $20,377 ; meters, $548..—
Number of consumers, exclusive of the
borough, 150. Gas made during the
last 13 months, $008,100 cube feet ; l't-
ceipts during the samc'time, $1,181 ; bal-
ance on hand, in cash, coal and meters
not in use, $3,856. There have been
laid during the past year, 1560 _ feet if
new mains, at a cost of $514. The re-
ceipts from gas sold in October are $841
-——the largest amount sold in any one
month since the establishment 80f the
works. The company now makes a reg-
ular semi-annual dividend of 5 per cent,
and the stock is worth in the market,
110 and 115.
....The pump manufactory of Mmsrs. Gray
t't. flicks, situated on the Easton turnpike,
about two and a half miles from Bridgeport,
was destroyed by fire about 6 o’clock Friday
rence of the conflugration which left them '
A good deal has been said respecting:
You will perceive that the voter must .
l . Weapon, November 8th, 1859.
""“'e‘,3:r'é¢fir;tsmst=.rxww, be»: 4-LW‘T:L:W,o-wv.ma
The Cortiuas Outbreak.
_ A portion of the band of Cortinas bad at.
lacked the city of ltio Grands, Mexico, pilla-
ging nearly every hou se. It was reported
that the two billlt'lS of Cortinas numbered 700
men. The people 0 fBI'OWnsrlllc, Tcxas,were
in the greatest distress. \ll the mails were
interrupted by the outlaws, and Cortinus had
threatened to destroy the town and’cnt off
and murder all the reinforcements that might
h." sent on to the relief of‘ the terror stricken
Citizens.
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hThe Tribune has the following adyer.
tiscment cttraordi'ualy. It is phhlishcd’for
the Loco 5th Avenue Committee—an Alsocis.
tion of respectable and particularly dirty
libele rs : _
For sale, to close a concern, the assets of a
firm unfortunate. and goingnut of business.—
It consists of Hugh Forbes (to be taken a. he
runs, a lot of Electioneering Tracts (if libelous
to be circulated atvthe.’ risk of the buyer,)‘ .
few baskets of "empty Champagne Bottles and
a reputation for candor and honesty slightly
the worse for wear.
Enquire of WATTS SHERMAN, bunker,
William street, near Wall; or at the bar of
the Fifth av. Hotel,~ . . ,-
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Blood 2'00 6. '
Attention is called to this moat remarks ble and sci.
entitle preparation advertised in another column. If.
is an entirely new discovery and must not be confound-
ed with any of the numerous Patent Medicines of the
d-‘IY- This isaoertain remedy for all the disguise
specified and especially those of a chronic" nature,» of
IO": “Milling—of weeks—of months—ofyun. Inflor-
ers, try it! Messrs. Church and Dupont, Now'Yor ,
are the sole agents and also proprietors of the World
Renowned Dr. Eaton’s Infantile Cordial, an articlo
which every mother should have in her medicine chest
In c1130 OI need _: and containing an it does no iii-agh-
ic or opiate of any kind whatever,“ can be relied upon
with the utmost confidence and will be found an inval.
uable specific in all cases of Infantile complaints.
Ohio State Journal.
b—qo‘.»
wannma nun vrsrrmo cums.
The subscribers having made arrangements with on
of the best Engravers in New York, are prepared to
furnish WEDDING AND VISITING CARDS, engraved III
the latest and most fashionable Styles, and at new
N aw Tom: Peters. Also printed Cards, at short notice,
and at usual rates. Orders for Esoruviso, Duncan's,
km, executed at short notice, in the best manner, and
on as reasonable terms as can be obtained elsewhere. 3
Orders solicited. A. H. BYINGTON R CO,
Gum-r Omen.
a.-.
Mertill’n Oriental Pounds
Is the best article in use,er the hair. It
‘not'only‘ gives it a gloss impossible to obtain
by using other preparations, but causes it to
grow luxuriantly, at the same time cleanses
the head from dandruff and :slliimpuritiea—
It is warranted made froth 'the'pl'lrsiit material
and should be in everyj‘familya, y, jtaufd
you will'be satisfied. We claim nothing that
is notjustly our due. MERRILL d: DANA.
S. D. Manama. F. A. DANA,N. Y.
Sold in Norwalk, only, by S
_3m41' A. JACKSON «1'. Bum-s
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W EVEN THOSE who are in the enjoyment of» pea-
fect health frequently have need to have mutant.
tonics as a preventative of disease. We are never too
well armored against the assault: of “ the ills that
flesh in hair to.” Such an invigorator they may find
in HOSTE‘I‘I‘ER’S DIT‘I‘ERS, a medicine. that cannot h.
taken regularly without? giving vitality and elasticity is
the system. At this senson parti enlarly the strong“
man is not proof against the malaria, in certain Mei
tions of the country. In all cases of fever and sue,
the hitters in. more potentthan any amount. of quinine,
while the niost dangerous cases of bilious‘ fever yield
to itawonderfnl properties. Those who linvo'trieditho.
lfi’sdicine will never use any other, for any 0: the nil-
ments which the nosrmsa nrrrriis professes to subdue.
To those who have not made the experiment we cordl-
ally recommend an early application to the 3mm,
whenever-they m stricken by disease ’of’ the digestive
organs.
Sold by druggists and dealers everywhere.
H’ See advertisement in another column.
——4«.».—-—'— . ;~
Oxygenated Bitters. , > ‘1‘
A Quake-Why will you suffer f Dyspoplln' is a
brief but comprehensive term for the numerous an...
en which affect the stomach,liver and in flat the wb’ofo‘
human system, until Dr. Green discovered the OXyge'ns'
ated Bitters, medical science was at fault and bad 01
haunted itself in fruitless'efi'or'ts to curs this disease.—
The Dyspeptic need under no longer with a diieaso that
is a} up painful,and frequently a film afllictiufi. 1. ..- 3.
The unique and peculiar compound will u curtain)?”
cure the disease as the disease exists. Had it not lib“
power such testimony as follows would not be given in ‘
its favor : -.. ’ . ,
Valuable Testifion'y in Favor of the ';
Oxygenated Bitters. .v‘.
Wasuixcrox, D. 0., June 10. 2:1
Having made use of the Oxygenated Bitten.;prsplrodl
by Dr. George 8. Green, of Windsor, Vt., and from
knowledge obtained of their eliicacy,in other also, we
cheerfully rcccommend them to ,the public, believing
they will fully‘sustainthe recommendation ofths pro,-
prietor. We nope that this valuable 'rsmeafylmy b0!
accessible to .n the afflicted. ‘ - “out - 4‘
SAMUEL S. PHELPS -
WILLIAM UPBAM, ' }lf. S. Senatorsfrom Vermont-
JAMES F. SIMMONS, U. S. Smatorfrost mode In“
J. 'l‘. MOREHEAD, If. S. Senator andforlurly Gm
or of Kentucky. .-
L B. ABNOLD,fomrIy Governor of MM. .
WM. WOODBRIDGB, lute Governor of Mica".
Its success in severe cases of Dyspepsia, Asthma d
fulcm, phone it nmong‘t‘ho nus" "
wonderful discoveries in medical science, and, I". ‘i'.
an it a reputation far beyond any Meaghan for
these complaints in all their various form. _
Prepared by ss'rn w. rowan a co'. um -' and for
sale by Knapp is Lynes', L. L. Beebe C‘Son, and lid
1’. Wood Norwalk, D» B. Webb, South Nornlhgl‘ '.
Mather'& 00., Burton Depot; LocIVOOd infight and
Roswell Hoyt, Stamford ; Lucius I- Munroe, New C.—
naan ; John W. Taylor, Westport; Sinus] rm, but)-
port; L. H. Bailey and B. K. Scott, Bidgolold ; H. S. t
J. Harvey, Danbury ganu by dealer! open-who". A.
. .
marshals). -* - .
In Nor-walk, on the 6th inst., bytho’Rdvl. 8.1-1 Y‘a‘
Mr. William Fox to Miss Harlan .1“ Smith} M“ '0“
Nor-walk. _ ' ~. .,
In Strntf'ord. Nov. an. in the First ‘ scum 'tlo '
Church, by the Rev. Wnl. B. Weed of Norwnlk, ands-t:
by the Rev. Mr. Swan, Wm. Cos, and Cordelia I, only
daughter of Wyllyl Curtis, Esq., of Raven um near
Stiatllprd. ‘. ,. '
n itchfield Oct. 18th Mr. James D. n‘
Burrville, md’niu cuioJ, daughter of wniiflliiz'vm“
of New Hartford. » . ‘
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In Bridgeport Nov. 8th .Mlchnelhlulli n a.“ :8.
In Bridgeport: Nov. 7th: Henry Humpgoy’, It“ 2'.
Bubbcll,“
In Bridgeport. Nov. 10th Ca t. G
aged 71years.’5 mob. ' ’ P ershomE.
5 Hats, Hats, 1
DISBRO ,
AS ‘Gentlemen’s Silk Hats. Caps 0!
every style and quality, Seamless Oops...
I new and desirable article, Soft Rafts 0!;nllé
colorI.Gehtlemcn’s Fur Capallufflers, Glove“:
Gauntlets, Umbrellas and Canes, all ‘o'fwhi'ch “
have been purchased entirely for 0.185;“
sequeutly he has every facility for selling
goods at an exceedingly small profit. '03]!
and see for yourselves at the Hat Store in the
new Post Oflice Building, foot of Mill Bill.
I. H. Dlsnudw. .4?
LL Persons who have not yet’ phid tbelm
State and Town «Tax, on Bist‘iof 1 ,3:I
can have an opportunity of" doing'id‘bj '6 ll
ing at the Store of S. «I: L. Curtis. any ove-‘
uing before the 15th inst., actuation-uni?
of6 and 9 o’clock. . . ,i .. ..
2146 . srnrnnnnsviioun,eoiiédiiif‘
At Auction. ' y f
LARGE Stock of Mens’ and Bo ”in ‘
Made Clothing, at Auction; Tuo’sda 225.
Thursday Evening,Nov. 16 and l8. 1 ight.
Carriage, from Phenix Co.. Stamford, with a.
lot of Single and Double Harness. to be soldi
on Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock.
, - g.W.lil. BISSELLlsfluctloneer.
'l'he flew Bakery,
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'0‘? TOWN!”
HE ,subseriberwould inform his fr'iends
and patrons that he has taken the Store
op the west side of the Bridge, formerly- occu-
pied by Leonard &.Strset, where he will keep
9n hand acomplete assortment’ of Bakery;-
is prepuged to furnish anything connected with-@-
the Business. Grateful for past favors, and
trustsby strict attention to their wants to re.
ceive their liberal patronage. ~ - i‘-'t3fi,“~“7é“3»
N. B.—0rders for, Rattles, Festivolepmti
pnnctually attended to at short notice. . , .
J. D. MALLOBI‘E “1
Notice. . a
‘VVILL be sold at Public Auction on Sat-
urday the 19th of November, 1859 It
3 o’clock P. M., at the Public Sign Post, in a
the village of Westport, if not‘previously sold ‘
at private sale ; by order of the Court of"
Probate for the District ofiWest' " tho Inch
of the real estate of L In“ .‘nk "1 t ‘u
Westpqrt,"decessed ; is imrn‘ii. this; 5‘
eighty'dollars. with incidcut’chnrgés of sale.
ALVA GRAY,Administrstor-. ‘
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