Norwalk Gazette, Tuesday, January 24, 1860 · page 2

 

 

 

 

Norwalk, Tuesday, Jan. 24.. 1859.

 

 

 

Republican State Convention.

A Convention of Delegates ’ropresenting the Freemen
of Connecticut,wa are Opposed to the present Nation-
al Administration, will be held at Union Hall in the
city of matron, on Wednesday the 25th day ofLJanu-
cry next, at 10 o‘clock, A. M.. for the purpose of iioui-
inaiing candidate for Govenor, ieutenaut Governor,
Treasurer. Secretary of State and Comptroller ; also to
appoint Delegates from this State to the next National
Republican convention. or-to take such action in relu
tion thereto as sls ll there be deemed advisable. The
several towns in this State are requested to send Dele-
gates equal to twice the number of their Representa-
tives in the General Assembly. ‘

Classes Warmest. Hartford 00., ,
W. W. Sron, New Haven Co.,- Republi-
H. n. sums-rims, New London 00., can State
A. H. mitoses. Fairfield Co , . } Gentrol
T. M. Chm Litchfield Co., (70:21“-

E. M. Jim. Windham Co.,

Alrlll B. Cw. lliddlesex 00.,

L. E. Plan, Tolland 00.,
Hartford, Dec. 215:, 1859.

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’1‘ The adjourned sale of Dry‘Goodsand
Fancy articles at the store recently occupied
by Chas. N. Clock, will take place this Tues.
day afternoon at 2 o’clock.

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, Editorial Correspondence of the Gazette.
House or Rsrnnssxrsri vss. ;
WASHINGTON, Friday evening. Jan. 19.

Since our last hurried epistle, the scenes and exhibi-
tions at the great National Bear Garden have been con-
ducted on the same extensive scale as at first inaugu-
rated by the disunion Democracy. The exhibitions on
the floor are, however, not merely ridiculous—they are
disgracqful to any body claiming it dignity above the
lowest pot house of any rum cursed community, The
responsibility-of this confusion and rowdyism it is un-
necessary for us to place. It is patent to the whole
country that amid the most tantalizing and menanc-

ing‘threats, misrepresentations and bullying assaults
which have flowed in one uninterrupted stream from
the more... side of the House, the Republican meni
. bors,with scarcely an exception,hsve refrained from re-
ply and have on every occasion pushed and crowded in
' some motion bearing upon an immediate organization.
Oh, if only the honest, misled voters who not with our
Northern Democracy could come down here and sit
through one day, witnesses to the utter demoralizaiion
of their party leaders, there would be, there could be
but one sentiment, but one party amonz “l" sincere
toiling moles of the North. Said a prominent North-
ern Democrat in our hearing, the other day 1 “ I wish
to God that they would elect John Sherman or some-
body else,for ourside is so Fplit “P and dilidedfi‘at we
are making Black Republicans faster than they can be-
sin to do themselves.” and truly said, thought we,
for could any man in our State, not bribed to silence
by an of,“ or the promise of one, spend three days
here and go home without being sick at heart‘anri dis-
gusted with his party leaders, then they have less
of honest principle and more strength of stomach than
we our supposed them possessed of. There certainly
would be no need of electioneering, speeches or docu-
meats to spread light and truth before the free people
of the North. One of their filo lesders,:‘.ny before yes
terday, not merely pledged the Smtlliei'nuemocrscy,bnt
tho'“ great Northern Democracy” as ho styled it, not
only to the. principle of protection to slavery in the fen-1'-
tori'u after it is carried there, but to the enactment of
a law legislating, carrying and estatlisliing slavery mo
eucli‘and all of the territories of the Union .' and no: a
single one of the trembling Democrats from the North
dared rise to utter a single word in condemnation of
the atrocious announcement. Others With still great-
or vehemence, unblushingly assert: “ gentlemen if
you will permit us to elect a Speaker from our side of
the Chamber and allow us to fill the offices, all is well.
but if you insist upon electing your candidate for Speak-
er, or worse, should you exercise your constitutional
prerogative so far as to elect a Republican President in
1860, we will tear this glorious fabric of the Union from
“turret to foundation stone”and the some ominous si-
lence sPals the lips of each Northern Democrat I ' Ye
godsl~ and is this the entertainment to which we
great Democracy of the freeNorth is invited? Is this the
spline put upon the plank of the Cincinnati Platform ?
Is this1 the " squatter sovereignty” doctrine which
rang throughout Pennsylvania and which so sweetly
fell from inaugural lips ? Is this the new light that ir-
radiates‘and emblazons the escutcheon of modern De-
. mocra‘cy ? Or is it the inauguration and bringing
, home to our very doors the Romans terror of gaging
and choking the demon of slavery down our throats,
I whether .we will or no? .But we cannot -believe that
blindness to truth and bigotry to party can longer de-
lude the honest and thinking masses of ihe North in
to bowing down t_he knee and yielding their necks to
this great Juggernaut of Slavery PrOpagandism I
We discrt as the patriotic, Union-loving, law-abiding
Republican party has ever asserted, “ gentlemen, in
those States where the Constitution and your 'own 10-
cal laws establish and protect the inslitution of slavery
we have no responsibility for and no business with it
but, gentlemen, we‘neverfheless believe that slavery is
sectional and FREEDOM NATIONAL .' We don’t like
institution and you wouldn’t belieVe us if we should
say we did ; therefore when it cor'nesto the common
domain—to the free territories of our confedcmcy
where we have an interest with, you, we will activate
you if we can and save this fair land from the further
spread of this blight and curse which you all will ad
suit in your cooler moments is enervating and crippling
all your energies and eats up and shallows up all your
material resources l We mean to. save our common
domain to the Fans Lsson of the WHITE sum and not
have its virgin soil polluted by the degraded bondsmnn.
Again,welmean to mutual: you in the approaching Pres-
idential contest (and the threats and menances alr
readyjhrown out but too clearly indicate your own
conviction of the inevitable certainty of fhat event) but
should you by new devices of misrepresentation and
fraud, again deceive the people and elect your ticket,
we as law nbldin'gcitizens will submit ; but ifyow are
defeated, you shall acquiesce, no matter whether your
particular wishes may ha've. been consulted in the se-
lection of our candidates or not.” .

. But we would not have our readers suppore that all
that is said here are the sober, honest sentiments of
the Speakers. There are many high minded, conserva-
tive, national men from the South, who were it not
for the relentless tyranny of slaveey at home, would
gladly vote for John Sherman Many of the Cayenne
pepper speeches which have been delivered and the
innumerable “defininings of positions” were for the
“ home market” exclusively, and designed only and
solely for “setting themselves right before their con.
stituents." About linlfihe sittings of each- day have
been consumed on the other side in causing to be read
by the Clerk, some paragraphwhich has appeared in
” The Tomahawk of Freedom,’_’ “ The Scalplng Knife

. of Slavery,” or some other equally distinguished jour-
nal which nobody sees and nobody cares a fig for.—
'This thing was spread on sothick the other d iy that
old Thad- Stoveiip could bear it no longer, so risin‘g
in his place his clarion voice rang out, “ Mr.
Clerk; I also rise to a personal explanatiomgthis Duper
which I hold in my hand has seen fit to allude to my
action in this House ; I request that it may be read "
Old Pensylvsnia stood up with,tlie most imperturable
gravity, while the page hurried the seven by n his
sheet to the Clerk’s desk. The Clerk seized the paperi
opened his mouth—but didn’t read I Looking Mr. Ste-
vens in the face, with a bewildered gaze, while the red

- began to run up his cheek,—the old man asked him
what was the matter. “ Can’t read it sir I” respond-
ed the clerk. “Can’t read it i” “No sir, its Dutch 1”
By this time the joke of the incorrigablc old wag was
out, the keen edge of his criticism upon this species of
Tom-foolcry,fully comprehended, and amid roars of
laughter, he took his seat, remarking, inasmuch as
. they had a'clerk who couldn’t read his. paper, he
would defer his personal explanation fill some future
time Yet while this is true ufquite a number, there
are yet others who seem really ra ring road I Mme
rabid, more intollerant, more unreasonable and relent-
less than the maddest abolitionist iha: 'ever went
roaring through a free state. With these men it is
' ~‘- Heads we win, tails you lose.” “The North take the
«crow, and tluefiouth take the turkey, or the south lake
ilhe turkey and the North take the crow,” just :is best
suits us, only that they got the com and the e‘r‘iablu
bird in any event. A maniac raving with delirium
tremens, could not battle, and strike, and kick, and
clutch on more gorgon horrors and chimeras dire,thun
>tlicirfcvered imaginations continually conjure up. In
the paroxyisrns of words and pliiensies of speech, they
seem to lose all so use ufjustice, courtesy and decency
and rave and tear in the coarsest style their inbreed-
ing can suggest. This was most significantly exliibil’
fed in the case ofJoIin Hickman, the other day. The
honest and honored son of tho Keystone slaie,an anti.

. locompton Democrat, lmd borne the taunts and insults
«if the other side until he felt called upon to vindicate
his action and to charge home the responsibility of n.
non-organization upon those upon whom it truly be-
longed. This he did in a clear, cool, temperate, um]
exceedingly dispsssionotc manner. But John Hid-"man
had spoken; he who would not perjure his soul with
the Inompton villainy; and had capped the climax of
his apostacy by voting for Sherman—and so all the
dogs‘were let loose upon him—h Big dogs, little dogs,
hull S108“ and P“PP.Y-” The puppy, as is their wont,
by its furious yel'pings and whinings, creating by far

t1... most disturbance and doing the least damage —
3'. "broil-re, after the grossesf- personal assaults from
Lllcclt'l'nillld, (:1 democrat from a free state—they always
,olmv. their al:.urify to slavery behests by first getting the
‘4'“. r.)-—.l:r. Ill-gcrA. Pryor, of Va.,ull redolent of“
iiiluoriluss din-ls was precipi ated into the arena. Slin-
zkim: back his lung Indian soap locks, with as much fe-
n-ociniisnes‘ ‘.‘ - cruld be made to surmount histallow face
:anil plow share nasal projectile, (his vanity and spe-

.I.-iulitylieymd xi safe duel, is to don the tout ensemble

- .of the ancient Rsndolph,) he valiantly pronounced the

dilegatlonsof My. ,Bickmsn, ‘falsc. His colleagues,

I Dig, We know not, called him to order.

whether from previousiarra-ngemeiit, 0: better breed-
But the cour-

goons bufl'ooii, perorating in bravery, again haunted

the lie in Hickman’s teeth—followed by great sensa-
tion and loud calls to order, during which the trium-

‘ phant Southron smiled as though enjoying the great.

est self complacency, over the valiant battle he had
nought and won. Don Quixotic, or Don Quixotte’s
Squire, novor felt more courageous, or . self.sufficient
and happy, upon charging upon the giant or windmill,
and before the disastrous termination of their encoun-
ters, than did this fledgeliiig ofchivalry. As ii. man of
reputed ability, Mr. PP} or certainly, we think, sacri-
ficed what little reputation be brought to Congress
with him. With all the aficctednessof exprc ssion and
intonation ofa Freshman’s first oratorica effort 'n his
fathe r’s barn, he ventilates his rhetoric with an aban-
don of wordy nosegays,lacking in substance and sense,
and every other quality save in enace and sound. His
spécial mission in this instance was to flaunt his ”PTO‘
fessional acquirements” and provoke a ’duel with Mr.
Hickman. Notwithstanding, he is the first man we
shpuld pick out in the House as a coward, and would
be the first, we verily believe, to get frightened and
run, in the dark. His expression offace, is to _us a
comical one, and is just the model we should select
were we called upon to produce a spooke ors fool. He
acts and struts as if impelled, possessed and tbrmented
with a conviction of the .necessity of distinguishing
himself, and :‘he has been and gone and got and done
4'! !” But he mistook his man and signally failed in
his volunteer service After he had emptied himself
ofnll the bud stufl‘in his system, and _ taken his seat
much relieved, Hickman rose and without quailing or
wiucing under the blows so passionately laid on, with
a calmness of manner and tongue few could have main-
tained, informed the genilemanand the House, that
he fully comprehended the Court to which his, adver-
sary had invited him. But he would inform the . ent-
lemaii and all others, that this was not the Court be-
fore which he should arbitrai'e the question of voraci-
ty. He was. willing to leave that lathe tribunal ““10
country-TThat no man should or could intimidate him
in the full and respectful expression Of his opinions
and the free exercise of his constitutional rights and
pavnoges. And iii ibis dignified position maintained
in firmnesg and good temper, be will certainly have
the approbation of not only the christian but the gent-
leman everywhere

It was ~‘pending Hutchins’ plurality resolution that
this “ sensation" was injected and it wsi the Locufo-
cos’ resistance to this resolution that brought out
Hickman. That this rule will ‘he adopted there is.no
present prospect. After two or three elections here.
tofore under this rule, in the view of the probable elec-
tion of Sherman, the disunion Democracy have just
made the discovery that it is “ unconstitutional.”—
Everything is “ unconstitutional” that does not shout
Hosanah to slavery and give the power and ofiices to
the sham Democracy.

In the Senate nearly the whole sitting was consumed"
in discussing Mr. Bowman and his candidacy for Print-
er. Mr. Brown (Miss.) produced documents establish-
ing the fact that the United States Attorney-General
was witness to an arrangement by which Mr . Bowman
has violated the law. The developemeois proved tho.t
$40,000'0f the public money had been appropriated to
sustain party organs here and in Philadelphia. Messrs.
Biglcr and Davis defended that arrangement and Mr.
Clay proposed an investigation, which after a i'iddling
by Mr. Fesscnden, he withdrew and Mr. Bowman was
elected by a. strictly Administration vote.

There are many snrmises as to the reasons why the
Dcmocr acy interpose such persistent objections to an
organization. 01' course the Helper book endorsement
charged upon Sherman is but the mes-est sham. Were
that out of the way. something else would be trumped
up—the whole gist of the matter being that he is it Re-
publican. Among the reasons assigned are the enor-
mous corruptions and frauds which are sure to get ven-
tilated and which willbc used to their disadvantage in
the Presidential campaign Another,“ which we shall
speak hereafter, is still les s creditable and would tell
against them with more pot ent effect. ' '

Little Washhiirn of Maine has two or three times
arisen anti insisted that the Clerk should put his point
of order raised on the rlutchins’ Resolution, but the
partialities of the locofoco Clerk has well nigh thwart.
ed every decisi‘ve effort to reach a vote for the Repub-
lican side on any question. While the quarrels and
bickerings are in the main between the Disunion De-
mocracy and the South Americans, the Northern Dc
moci‘acv can but be damaged and is losmg ground at.
every encounter, still such is the potency of party
drill, and such the abject slavery to which Northern
Democratic members have yielded their necks, that no
human eye can foresee when an organization will be
efl‘ected. In the last two days the democracy have res-
olutely andvehemently declared that no role shall be
had on a plurality resolution, so long as any means
can be devised to thwart it.

The National Agricultural Society elected its officers,
did its business, etc., and adjourned to eat a sumptu-
ous dinner at Mr. Corctan’s Mansion. '

The annual meeting of the American Colonization
Society-was 'held at the Smithsonian Institute last
night. The attendance was large Addresses were do-
livercd by the Hon. Mr. Taylor of Tennessee, Dr.Styles
and the Rev. Dr. Penny of New York. The receipts of
the year amount to nearly $161,000, and the expendi-
tures to $80,000. I‘lic Society have sent about 300 im-
migrants to Africa. during the some period. ,

Dr. Styles, who by the way used to do the contract
preaching for the Journal of Commerce Church at New
Haven, took occasion to int erlnird his address plenti—
fully with the divine origin of,the blessings upon,and to
exhibit generally the bestitudos of slavery.

The Sons of Temperance have a Convocation of the
Maryland Grand Division to-night at the Smithsonian,
whereat Gen. Carey of Ohio and other distinguished
Speakers are to be heard. But I have already vrit-
ten at too great length and must retain all eles to
vbring home with me,” hoping .to leave this Bear-bait-
ing llanagcric—by Saturday.

mer, P M.—At this present writing Monsieur
Pryor is again shaking his raven locks and snapping a
fringe upon his coat tail, over a dressing down in their
.oion New York Herald. There Is such confusion that
nothing connected can be :eard from ” mv stand
point,” but the telegraph wi.l send forward thcimpor-
taut matter. We are more. than ever confirmed in file
belief that Monsieur Rodger-Alfred John-Pandolph-
Roanoke Pryor, was foreordained to be an nss.und that
-ho will lose no possible opportunity of making l-is cal~
ling and election sure. ' '

A vote was carried this P. M. that when the House
ndjourns it be over to Monday.

Missouri Clark gaining the floor, discussed his Sher-
man-Helper-Resoluiion. This brought out Sherman
who offered, film would withdraw his Resolution tem~
porarily or otherwise, which no gentleman could fail
to look upon other than a personal affront and menace,
he would go into any explanation desired. But’Clark
refused, (of course.) By this time Hindman of Ark
got the floor and held lt‘, hurling hot shot Into Sermon
and the Republican Party—up to the adjournment.

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Distribution of documents by Members
of Congress.

It is astonishing to observe with what per
iinacity people cling to the idea that their
Representatives at Washington can send them
anything they please: free of cost. During
our visit here at the Federal Capitol,we have
learned some curious facts relating to this
subject. A New York member has a letter
from one of his constituents asking him to
forward all the Patent Office Reports since
1837 ; another had a request for a'full sett
of the Japan Expedition ; one wants Hera
don’s Brazil Report; anotherdesires sonic
good daily newspaper from Washington ; an-
other wishes a complete sett of Wilkes’_ explo
ring expedition ; one actually desired. the
member from his District to forward a hive
of bees, which the applicant understood was
among the articles distributed from the Pai-
ent Office. -

Now the following matters ought to be un-
derstood by the ptople :

'lst. Every speech that a Member of Con-
gress sends to his constituents be mm to pay
for, at prices varying from five dollars to ten
dollars per thousand ; and where a constitu-
ency of many thousand electors, expects to
receive a distribution of" speeches, all around.
several times during a session, the expense
becomes quite asei‘ious matter. If persons
writedo their Representative to distribute
speeches and political tracts, they ought to
send the money to pay for them.

2nd. All documents,rcports, &c.,ordered
idle printed by any Congress, are distribu-
ted to the members of that Congress and ruc-
cecding members can only obtain ibem like
other citizens by buying them. Members are
daily receiving letters asking for the Patent‘
Office Reports printed by order of the lust‘
Congress ' Those who were members of that
body,may have some of those Reports leli.
over ; but the new members have none, and
the new Reports will not beprz‘ntcd till next
summer.

3d. Such costly works as the Pacific R. R.
Report ; the Japan Expedition ; the Wilkes
Exploring Expedition ; the Brazil Expedition.-
&c., can only be obtained, by. the present
members, by purchasing them at the book
stores, and no member has any greater facili-

 

ties for obtaining them, than any private
citizen.

4th. It is understood that no seeds ,&c.,will
be distribute'd from the Patent Office this
year. unless a change from the present deter-
mination shall be made.

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Firemen «'5 Ball .

 

As we intimated last week, the members of
Phoenix Engine Company. No.1, of this place,
are actively preparing for their 1st Annual
Ball, which is to take place on the 14th of
February ant, (St Valentine’s Day.) in the
large and beautiful new Hall, erected by Mr.
Samuel Lynes, on the burnt district. This 13
to be the first opening, we understand. of the
new Hall to the public, and as cur Firemen
are over ready to devote their time and man-
ey,and to risk life and limb. when the prop.
erty of our citizens is endangered by fire, it
Is to be hoped that On this, their first fes tive
occasion, our citizens will show them the
“ light of their countenance” in goodly niim-
hers. at the new Hall, on the above evening.
The [General Committee are doing their best
to make it attractive and pleasant to all who
attend. They have secured Wallace’s Band
of 10 pieces. one of the leading Quadrille
Bands in New York, and therefore, as a mat-
ter of course. the music alone will be a treat
to our citizens. The names of the persons
composing the General Committee are guar-
antee enough that nothing willbc leftundone
to makethis, as we said last Week. the Ball
of the season. The following gentlemen
compose that Committee: F. St. John Lock-
wood, James S. Waterbury, J. B. Elli, E.1{.
Lockwood, L. P. Allis, R. B. Crunturd, Chas.
E. Brown. Theodore Glover,Alfred_H. Camp.
James C. Newkirk, George E. Beafty,AIbert
H Wilcoxson,‘ Wm. Y. Beatty.'E. R. Dupig-
nac. Jr., Win. A. Kellogg, Henry M. Terrell.
J. C'. Kelley,Jahez Wheaten, D. S. Bartram,

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Republican Delegates. ,

At a Caucus of the Republicans of Norwalk,
holden at the Allis House, on Wednesday
evening last, the following persons were cho-
sen Delegates, with power of appointing sub-
stitutes, to the several Conventions :

State—J. F. Foote, S. E. Olmstead, P_. L.
Cunningham, Win . T. Craw.

County—Asa B. Woodward. Elbert Curtis,
Cheiter F. Tolles, Francis 11. Nash.

Senatorial and Probate—F. St. J. Lock-
wood, Martin S. Craw, David Low. William

S. Bunion. -

Batten—At the Republican Caucus on
Wednesday evening last, the following dele-
gates were appointed to the several Conven-
tions. with power of substitution.

Staten—Che. 105 Brown, Harvey A. Weed.

County—Chs. A. Hobbie, Jss. B. Selleck.

Senatorial.—P. R. Fairchlld, J. BuMatliui‘
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Union School.

The usual review of studies of the term,
now drawing to a dorm, is occupying the
minds of teachers and pupils'at ibis tiine,aud
will terminate in an informal examination.
first of the scholars in the lower departments
who are candidates for promotion on Monday
of next week, and ofthe other scholars on the
following Wednesday and Thursday. The
Public are respectfully invited to attend——
The concluding exercises of the examination
will take place on Thursday afternoon.

The Committee request as to intimate, in
«the most respectful manner. to the patrons of
the School, that it will be agreat accommo-
dation if their term bills are promptly paid ;
especially such as are in arrears. They hope
that in no case will the collector be put'ofi‘.or.
compelled to call the second time.

 

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. Wilton—We are indebted to Sherman P.
Fitch, Esq, Registrar,for the fol..owing Reg-
istration for the your ending Dec. 31, 1859.

 

Births. 16
Male
Female .28
Sex not returned I
' Total, 45
Marriages,
Both parties American, 1‘3
Bothparties foreign, .' ‘ ‘2)
American male and Foreign female, ~
Total, . 1'7
1 Deaths,
Male i:
Female
Total, 31
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South Norwall: Bible Society.

The third Annual Meeting of this Society was held in ~
the Congregational Church, on Sunday evening Jan. 15. ‘
The President. Cnpt‘ Burr Nash took the chair, and

called on Rev. Moses Hill to open the Meeting with

prayer.
The oflicers for the ensuing year were elected, viz :
EBENEZER HILL, President,
WILLIAM II. BENEDICT,
DAVID LOWE, Vice-Presidents,
nszmlsn RAYMOND .
DENNIS I’LA'I‘T. Sec-etnry,
HORACE TAYLOR, Treasurer and Depositary.
The report of the Executive Couimitc was then read
by the Secretary. On motion of Rev. D. R. Austin :
lssoiXi-to, that the. Ilepo‘rt be accepted and printed
under the direction of the I-IxccutiveCominitiee.
On motion of Rev. If. F. Posse, seconded by Rev-
Moses Hill : ‘
. RESOLVED, that the condition of the unevangelizcd
millions of our world demands increasing and perseve-
ring efforts on the part of all who possessthe Bible to
secure the universal diffusion of this beloved book, till
all the families of the earth shall read in their own lan-
guage, the wonderful works of Con. ~ ~
On motion of Rev. T. S. Bradley : _
Rrsocvnn. that the efforts made in our country to

banish the Bible from the public schools should he rose

olutely resisted by all true friends of our country.

on motion ofRev. Mr. Gowsu : .

RESOLvim. that the integrity and perpetuity of our
free institutions are immediately connected with the
success of our efforts to give to all the people a. knowl-
edge of the revealed will of GOD.

Each of the gentlemen named sustained his motion
by spirited addresses of ten iii twenty-five minutes

TIic choirs of the several Churches united under the
lead of Mr. Merriam'added greatly to the inisrest of
the meeting, by performing at intervals, several veiy
choice pieces of appropriate music, in a style of sur-
passing excellence. The large and attentive audience
exhibited unmistakable evidence of their high gratifi-
cation with ihe’exercises and their deep interest in the
cause so warmly commended to their charities.

It is expected that eachofiho Churches will soon
make their collections for the current year.

The following resolutions were adopted, without dis-
cussion :- Rssor.vnn,—~ ‘

1 Thht the Executive Committee be authorized. at
their discretion. to furnish Bibles for the several
rooms in the public schools. in the Hotel, the Rail-
road Siation House and the Steamboat.
2. That each member of the Committee (including of
course the pastor) be authorized to give orders for
Bibles and testaments to be drawn from the deposi.
tory,‘f'or gratuitous distribution. ,
DENNIS PLATT, Secretary.
South Norwalk, January 1360.

 

Report.

The Executive Committee of the Bible So-
ciety of South Not-walk, in presenting their
third annual report would express their
grateful sense of the goodness of God in his
dealings with this community during the last
year. It has been a year of general health
and of uncommon prosperity. No special on-
mmit'y has visited rig—none of the officers,
and comparatively few of the members have
been removed by death-#oui' civil. social, and
religious privileges have been continued to
us without interruption, and we are enjoying
in rich profusion all those peculiar and ines»
iiinsule blessings which are enjoyed only
where the Bible is freely circula'cd and made
the standard of faith and practice. When
we compare ,oar condition with that of the
people of Mexmo, or, of the States oI'South
America,and ask what makes ihe difference,
we are brought at once to a feeling recogni-
tion of our dependence on the Bible, uot‘only
for our hopes of heaven, but for our dearest
earthly enjoyments. . They have a. soil as pro
ductive as ours-their mineral resources are
unbounded—their advuniages for trade are
even greater than our own. They have also
most of them. republican forms of govern-
ment. Why then are the governments in
constant turmoil and tlie‘ people, generally
poor ignorant and degraded. They have
also the christian religion—at least in its
forms and professions and dogmas. But they
have nottlie “Me. The people do-not read
for themselves the word ofGod. This makes
'all the difference, between ibeir condition
rind .urs.- Take away our Bibles. let our
children grow up without the knowledge of
the scriptures, and it would not take many
generations, to realize in our land ~II the ig-
norance, and prejudice and snperstitulionnll
-the iilaolencc and iinthriitiness, all the self
ishness and degradation anddemorilization,
and the consequent poverty and wri-tclicduess
which prevail so extensivelv on all portions
of" this continent where the Bible has not been
cii'cululed.

We owe a debt to flu: Bible, or rather to
Him who in his kind providence has given us
the Bible. which can be computed by no bu
man arithmetic,which would not be paid were
we to conceciazesll that we possess to ihe
service, null continue it for untold ages. It
all~wbo possess the Bible, were to give for “its
distribution a thousandth part ol'what the bi-
lilc is worth to them. in the mere matter of
dollars and cents and material comforts, the
treasury of our National Society would - be
filled to overflowing, and the proclamation
would have to be made. as in' the days of
Muses,“Let neither man nor woman bring
any more offerings into the treasury.”

We are not asking a charity, therefore.
when we ask for contributions to the Bible
Cause. We ask only for a small installment
on the debt, which is ever accumulatingmhicb
we can better begin to pay—but which we
may in this way humbly and thankfully no.
knowledge, to the Giver of all our Moi-cica—
We may show our gratitude, and our appre-
ciation of this priceless treasure, by extend
ing to those who have if not. this rich store.
house of instruction, this fountain of
blessings, this unfailing guide to the
happiness that God has provided for Ins, both

 

Fire—A barn in Wilton containing about
15 Tons of Hay belonging to Widow Hannah
Belden, was burned on Sunday evening the
15th inst.

 

, .4.»F_.—
Burnt‘toDeathF-A little daughter of
Frederick J. Baker, of Williamsburg, former—
ly of Norwalk, was burned to death on Fri-
day last, in that city, by her clothes taking
fire from a Lamp. The little one’s name was
Gertrude. She was but i years old.
«Q».,_..—;-
Hsnrnk’s MAGAZINE, for February is out,
and is a very good number. The illustrated
articles are “Coos and .llugullowuy,” the con
tiruation of Meagber's “ Holidays in Costa.
Rica.” and ancient “Coin and Coinagc.”-—
Thackeray’s New-Novel, “Lovel the Widow-
er,” is commenced. and is to be finished in
about eight months. Anthony Trollope cou-
tributes a “Tale of Antwerp." which is No. l
of‘ a Series he is to furnish. The magazine
can be obtained of Knapp & Ly nes and A. H.
Camp. . -

 

.-——-—o«.>>
Good Luck. .

A story has been circulating about Dan-
bury and vicinity for several weeks past,tliat
a man in New Fairficld named Stevensbi «1
off at an auction sale for a trifling sum, a
package of old papers belonging to his fath-
er’s estate among which was‘f‘ound a deed for
aSoIdier’sland warrant. Rumor says that
the location is where the village of Batcsville
in Arkansas is now built an] that he has
sold his claim to a gentleman of that state
for $48,000. -, '

‘As is usual 'on such occasions, i'ill sorts of
reports are in circulation—the most absurd
of which is that Mr. S. intends to have a grand
demonstration,and has ordered a barrel of
choice spirits on which to regalc his friends
as soon as he gets the mom-y and that the
public generally, with the exception of a few
unbelievers. will be invited 'to attend. A
more reasonable story, is, that he has consul-
ted a Iswyerin reference to it and that he
will make a morejudioious investment of the
'money. ‘ *

 

 

W
. Palmer.

-We are requested by a party unknown f 0 as
writing from Cocbécton, Sullivan County,
New York, to inform the friends of'onc Asher
B Palmer, supposed to reside in or near New
Canaan, that the said Palmer is lying danger-
ously ill "at that place. '
.‘Q»~—' .

“The Atlantic Monthly for February
contains : Counting and Measuring ; My Lost
Love ; A Shetland Shawl ; Roba di Roma,_by
W. W. Story; Amber Gods (concluded) by
Harriet E. Prescott : ThePoet’s Friends, by
W. D. Howells; The Memorial of A. 5-. 0“
Matilda Muffin, by Rose Terry ; Sonic Ac-
count of'_aVisionary, by Marian James, Lou-
iou; The Truce ofPisc-staqua. by John G.
Whittier ; The _Maroons of Jamaica, by T. W.
[ligginson ; Tliel’rofessoi"s Siory,b7 C. C.
Hazewcll ; ‘ Mexico; Reviews and Literary
Notices; Recent American Pub -ications.—
The magazine sustains the reputation it won

 

 

sides the direction of Phillips d. Sampson,

. of their neighbors,

l‘

in this world and the world to come. ,

The object of tli‘s Society is First : To
furnish a ready and constant supply of Bibles
to all the people in this community—and
second. To secure annual contributionsmhich
through the agency of the Parent Society
shall go to {-irnishprintcd copies of the Word
of'God to the millions of earth’s population,
who are still dasiiiute of this priceless
treasure. ,

In order to accomplish" “19 first object—we
.purchased, at the outset, a quantity 0f bibles
and tcstamcuts and establislzis"l 3 Depository,
where they are offered for sale, at the some
prices as at the Bible House in New York—
and where bibles and icstamenis may .‘ie Dh—
iaiued for the poor. without money. or pile?»

The whole number of bibles sold from the
Depository since its establishment is One
Hundred and Fl she—Testaments Two Hundred
and Seventy Four—Bibles given io the poor,
Eight-Testaments Nine.

When it is remembered that this has always
been a bible reading community it will'not
seem strange that our sales have been licht
and our gifts still lighter. - _

Still ll: is something to have added
so many bibles to the numbers already
in use in this little community. It is some-
thing to have supplied even right destitute
families with the Word of God. It is some-
thing to finite puts testament into the hands
of nearly three hundred of the children and
youth of' this ccmmunity. There may be re-
sults realized from these small beginnings,
over which angels shall rejoice iu'lhe king—
dom of heaven.

Still it must he confessed that we have done
but little. We have not explored as thor-
Ouglily as we should have done, the wants of
the people around us. We have not taken
the pains, we might have done. to persuade
our neighbors, to avail themselves of the
treasures Within their reach. We do not
know, so well as we ought to know,bow‘
many families in the midst of us are eniirely
destitute of" this sure guide to happiness. We
have not done. what might have been done.
to induce our bii‘cd laborers and the (Ionics-
tics in our families, to possess for themselves.
and to read for themselvesthc Word of God.
We are not to expect. that persons destitute
of the bible will go to the Depositary and
ask for It. as a gift. Christi-in kindness must
seek them out. and awaken their desires
for this precious gift. and then voluntarily
and freely icodcr it, or there will be mulli-
f-udes, who will live and (lie under the Very
caves of our sanctuaries, in utter ignorance
of'tbut book. which alone can make men wise
unto salvation. We wuuhl urge. it lhcn us
an imporlnnt christian duty. on all the mem-
bersof this Socié!y.to ascertain the wants
, ciy domesu'cs. their
hired laborers, all within the reach of their
influence and lleVeFl'eSl. till all are supplied.
We have near fifty dollars worth of' bibles and
testameuts now on hand—we are _re'ud'y Io
furnish more, as soon uswanted. Let those
.w'no value the bible take hold of the work in
earnest-.ard it will not be long belon- this
whole community will be thoiougly furnished
with the word of God. _

In regard to the second object of our 0-
ciutiou—thc books of our Treasurer is w,
that we have collected. in addition 'tqtho
monies received for the sale of bibles, $105.16
and have paid over to ilic Parent Society, as
donniions, $50.25. As the books on hand are
now paid for, the prOportion of donations for
sending the bible abi'oiid will ,liereal‘tei' be
much greatey, than it. has been. Evens liii-ls
streannif'kepf. constantly fluwipg‘r will pro.
duc‘c resulis that are amazing. - Year after
year it flows on—Icrtilizing the barren wastes
and causing the desert to blossom asthe rose.

May we not hepe that this stream will not
only be kept fiowinmbut be greatly suing. a.
by a more generous contribution of the means,
which God I as given as l, and that others
provoked by our example will do likewise :

 

till the millions of little rills, meeting and

flowing on‘ with a constantly swelling cur.
rent. shall carry fertil ty and beauty and joy
to the lands, now cursed with too buricuucss
of sin, and doomed to hopeless misery, so
long as they _rcxuain'«lestitnte of the Bible.

The American Bible Society. to which this
is auxiliary, has, during the last year issued
721,095 volumes of' the sacred scriptures A
portion of these have been sold to Auxiliary
Societies, or to individuals. whilst another
and very considerable portion has been given
away to'supply the wants of the destitute.—
Tlie whole amount of grants (loving the year
in the form of Books has ‘bccu $38,103.47.—
Thc amount of monies granted for the pur-
pose of 'uiding our missionaries to publish
the scriptures among the hcntI-en is $26,500.
or making a. total, $54,603 47 appropriated to
the benevolent work of' supplying the desti-
tute millions of earth’s population with the I
revealed word of God. Besides ibis. many
thousands of dollars have been expended in
sending agents to carry the scriptures into
regions where there are no bible societies, no
missionariés, no praying christia‘us. none to
care for the souls that are perishing for lack
of vision. , ,

The Society are now engagcd in an effort
to carry the word of Life to every family in
the United States—“and at the some time to
increase their donations to the missionaries
in Foreign Lands, and if possible hasten the
day when ‘all the families of the earth shall
possess tlieincsiimoble treasure. Whilst we
devoutly thank God for what has been a].
accomplished ‘let us hear it in mind that
there remains yet very much. land to be
possessellfitlld knowing that the time is short
let us do with our might the work to which
our Godis calling us-assured that our lu-
hor shall not be in vain in the Lord.

By order of the Executive Committee. .

. szms PLATT. Secretary.
South Norwalk, Jun. 15th, 1860.

 

Blots Soon-xv, South Norwalk, in account with H.
Taylor, Depositary and Treasurer, from January 3, 18.39
in January 9. 1860 :—

 

Jaiiuary 3, 1859, CR.
By Cash in Treasury $2.44
“ Bibles and Testaments in Repository 48.10
“ Bibles since Purchased 15.83
“ Cash Received by Annual Donation 20.25
‘ ' ’ $96.02
January 17, 1859. Ila.
To Cash Paid Parent Sooieiy .312.“
Sept. 17, “ Do. Do. 0. Do. 16 00
Jan. 17, “ from Annual Donation Paid
Parent Society to Constitute _
Capt. Burr Nasha Life Mom. 20.20
“, Expenses .37
U 2 Bibles Given .50
“ 1 Testament .06 _
“ Bibles a Testaments on hand 43.15 892 7.
Balance in Treasury $3.85
January 9, 1860, ' CR.
By Cash in Treasury $3.85
“ Bibles and Testaments in Repository 43 15
EO-Bibles sold, 2 given. 50 Testaments sold, 2 given.

 

<40». ,
Trade between the North and South.

The New York Times, which has of late
been investigating the condition cl'irade be-
tween the North and South,basfinol_ly arrived
at the conclusion that it has not fallen of
much after all. In fact it decides, from pre-
sent indications, tliat'ibccoming season prom-
ises to be unusually prosperous. It seems the
hotels in New York are quite as full as ever
of Southern guests, and the dry goods mer-
chants are doing as brisk and profitable ,a
business as ever with theirSoutlicrn customers.
Even the manuf’atui‘ers are reccivingymore'
orders from t.:c South than usual at this season
of the year.’ The steamboat and express lines
it is said, were-never more 1horoughly occu-
pied than at the present time, and there is
every indication ofaconiinued and prOSper-
ous season for trade throughout the entire
country, in spite of the bugbcars thrown out
from the Democratic press.

«<aI-s.._—.—_—

m It is becoming very clear that the
cause of the Pcmberton Mills disaster was de-
fective cast iron columns. They were bought
at so much a piccc,instead of at so much per
pound. as they ought to have been ; and the
cores were in casting, so as To make the thick-
ness very much greater on one side than the
other. The testimony of the civil. engineer,
who built the mill, Capt. Bigclow, is éecis-.
ive. He says the suddeuness of the 'fall
shows that if was a failure in the cast iron—
for when brick or wood fails it gives warning
of what is coming ; but when cast iron fails.
it is all over in an instant. The failure of
the columns supporting the floors caused ibe
floor timbers to pry the walls over, and they
would have fallen bad they been thr-ve times
as thick as they were. Wooden columns are
objectionable, because if'a firesbould burn
the lower floor, it, would let the whole struc-
ture down.

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m. The President has nominated and his
supporters i'u fhe Senate have confirmed, as
Minister to France, C. J. Faulkner, of Va., a
gentleman who has recently publicly de-
clared that if a majority of the people of his
own country elect a President of a different.
political creed than his own, he should con-
sider it a sufficient cause fo rbreaking up the
government, and that he was for acting on
that declaration. Is_ this right? Is it the
way to encourage the union sentiment l-
Wlmtcouclusion will the world draw when
men holding such sentimen s are made our.
representatives abroad? What can our peo-
ple think ofa party that will make such afuss
ov'er a book, whether this man recommends
it or no, and then immediately turns round
and sends off-.1 known disunionist to represent

 

 

 

 

the country abroad?

Iyam-*‘Albin A. Fobin has removed his Oyster
S than from Wood’s Buildins,to the basement
under N0. 1, Gazette Building, where he is
now “settled” and prepared to accOmmodate'

his customers.

 

 

«.5- \
ABad Sell. ‘

For some five or six weeks post, an adver-
tisement has been in all the papers. calling a.
Manuiaciurers' Convention at Merlden,_ to
take place on Wednesday last. Private cir-
culars were abundant, urging democrats es-
pecially to attend, kc" &c. The purpose
avowed was; to pass resolutions favorable to
Union quietmglo unfounded fears. and ap-
propriate to the times. This was avowed,—
It is quite evident, now at least, that what
was really intended was. to rope in a 'fair
share 01‘ timid men. choke down their throats
a'serics of full-blooded locofoco resolutions.
and commit them to democracy in spite of
themselves. The day arrived. Everything
on the part o!‘ the locofoco managers. who
lay back working the wires, was well out
and driod,-—flic organiz-itiou all agreed on
the resolutions drawn up. (and it is said. al-
ready in type in the office of flu: Hartford
Times. which meant. to have very early l'e-
p0"i.~ of the doings of the Convention.) the
spcukers selected. and. all if) all. the llt‘alf'Sl
liille mun-trap ever invented. was all boiled
and ready to bc sprung. _ _

But‘whcn the convention came together. iI
soon became evident that there was something
more than a "niggerinlhe woodpile,” t are
were while men were in iolerahly large num-
bers-slid of'tlie true Republican and, Union
sort. who were found to have a voice and a
vote in a convention which pretended to rep-
ri-sent them. A test vote wins soon reached
when it was ascertained that the conspirators
were in umiuoriiy, and that the genuine man-
ufacturers and Union men of the State were
there to speak for themselves. Then there
wasany amount of backingr and fiiliug, upon
the part of the foiled plotters. who were com-
pelled to come not into daylight and rescue
or lose the Convention. All surfs of'diliuoi-y
shifts and expedients were resorted to to gain
time, democrats ware sent for by train and
telegrapli,'buf.’twas all of no use. With ev-
ery democrat came at least two Republicans,
and the latter might have had ihings all their
own way. They however gave the democrats
a fair showing on all . ibe Committees, Went
through the business of ”10 Convention in an
orderly way. passed go id manly resolutions.
finished their business and adjourned. The
Democratic conspirators. when ilzey found
that they-could not have things all their Own
way bolted. and finds little caucus. scarcely
mpre harmonious ill in the first,uiid then they
‘went home. the sci-rowlullcst, crrabbedest,
wreickedest feeling set .of" follows ever re-
turned from a. Convention. " -

7 lVinsted Herald.

—————-Oo‘.»

33' Hon. L. F. S. Foster and Hon. James

Dixon will please ”accept our thanksfor Pub—
lic Documents.

 

 

“L‘— ‘

. with desperate urgency. by' means'false and

. ‘ Susan—A litile daughter of a pro-

Meal Under the Cat I .' -

We have for some time past been advised
ofa “.‘ilissiouary”movement on the part of
f. h e P r o—SIavcry-Dissolution-Democrncy,
which 'hus for'ilic object of its-labors. the
witlidruvvul of all such orders for Northern
goods and fabrics, as can be reached. by par-
tizua correspondence and by personal appli-
Cuiions to Southern Members of Congress.—
Indecd, it has been stated that Gen. Pratt is
at this time besirging his political friends in
Congress to aid the cause of Democracy in
Connecticut-"by sending home to their South-
ernConstituencies~appoals to withdraw all
orders for ConnecticutCarriages, Wares, £50.,
till after our Spring Election shall have passi-
ed. So that we may soon expect to hear of
“terrible disfress,” “withdrawal of orders,”
"falling ofl‘iu trade,” &c.. &c.. shouted from
every yelping organ of the apostatc democra-
cy. We find this movement so fully exposed
and ventilated in a late number of the Trib-
une—that we append it entire.
A Hateful Conspiracy.

Fierce and unscrupulous partisanship. and
political sooundrclism generally, was never
more rife than it is at this hour. Months ago
we warned our readers that they might expect.
to see. on the meeting of Congress, and.
throughout the approaching Presidential cau-
vars every kind of political chicanery. ordinal
ry, set in motion to compass the defeat of llm
Republican party. Every day unfolds and .
illustrates the truth of the prophecy. 'I‘Iml
canvass opens by ihe hoisting of" the black r
flag on the port of our opponents._ Snares.» m-
dissolution of the Union isihcir war cry. If
they have begun on a key so high that they
cannot hold out, that is theii, concern, not
ours. Ifthey find their bubble swelling too
fast. and getting pricked too soon, they have
nobody to blame but themselves. Already
they are slacking off in the inflating process
at Washington on the disunion question.—
They find they have gone quite too far already
in that direction.

There is another scheme which they are
presuiug now with equal urgency, or rather

foul, with a view particularly, to Operate on
the Spring Elections of' Connecticut and New
llompshire. 'l‘hisscheme isa grand conspiracy
against the mechanic industry of the Free
States. From the fact that it is started thus
curly, it will probably react on its authors in
a way, perhaps, they little dream of—
'l‘lielr first essay is in getting up a prodigious‘
bowl in the journals over the loss of' Southern
trade, and in dispatching agents tofhe South
to induce Southern traders and factors to
withold as many Spring orders, especially for
Connecticut Wares and manufactures; as pos-
sible,umil the election is over. Already a
prominent Connecticut politician has passed
South through this city on this mission. He
expects to reap his reward in the voles of the
men whom he is aiming to embarrass and iii-
'ure. We think we see him getting them.

Meantime the bullubaloo of Union saving.
disunion threatening. excitation of Negro
Slavery. is to go on, by public meetings, by
conventions by newspaper extravagance of
every imaginable type, and on every iniagin
able topic that can be brought io bear upon
the subject.- We thus preceivo that the roar
ing din about us is not so senseless and object-
Iess as it appears. It is part of' the great
conspiracy against the mechanic, trading,and
manufacturing interests in the Nortli-eiutend
ed especially to operate on the coming Cou-
nccticut election. The object is to break the

tepnblican line in New England at'the open-

ing of 1800. Connecticut is intimately asso-
ciated with the traiing interests of this city,
and here is felt the first movement. From
this city go the mom-y and the ammunition,
mental and material, devoted to conquering
her prejudices.

It is enough we trust. that we announce and
expose .bis conspiracy while it is yet in the
bud. It will bloom and unfold itself as time
advances. If anything unusual is found going
on in the industrial interests of the Free State
either open or covert-,ull may know what it.
means. If‘ibese conspirators ihink to win
the way for their halclnl and and detestable
doctrines by systematic attempts to coerce
the independent voters in any quarter of” the
country, we trust and believe a. free spirit
will be found to drive the rascals back to
their (Ions, whetherthose dens lie in Wall
street. Nassau street, the Fifth avenue, or
elsewhere.

The men who are plotting this, crusade do
not know the temper cf the classes with whom
they propose to deal. They are making a
mistake usual with all aristocratic bodiesang
parties in thinking that the mechanic an
manufacturing clues, and the rural laborers
of- the country, are usthe assert them to be,
counterpart of the slave in orers oi" the South.
Upon what other hypothesis is it possible to
account for the ioeii'aole stupidity of daring
to illustrate the superior condition of South-
on) slaves, by the gross insult of comparing
them with the factory operatives of Law-
rence? How dare foreigmborn and importi-
tiuent scribblcrs thus insult the manufactnn
ing and mechanic and rural labor of the Free
States? They do it to a certain degree iguo
rantly. They have no knowledge-of What
they speak. and they have .no just instincts in
regard to the subject.

Look at. the uuutterably proposterousargu-
ments addreswd to this very class of people.
by day. in the columns of The Herald. to
show why Slavery should be allowed univer-
sal spread. They believe ih-i people to be
i'ools. They talk to them as though they
were fools. Let these scribblers and politi-
cians go into the Northern workshops and
preach their detestable and insulting doc-
trines there, if they dare. ‘ They will find the
bard-handed sons of foil 3 fardifi'ereni class
from what is supposed by the flippantsballow-
brains found in some of the offices. counting-
rooms and stores of this crowded city. Ah!
ye Filtheuvenue aristocrats, did you ever see
and converse with the men who work at the
Plow, the Loom, and the Anvil? Go tell
them their condition is less favorable than
that of the negro slave; that thclatfer are
better cared-for. less liable io pi'overty, less
liable to accidents, more happyysleekaind
contented? And having done it, come back
and report the result of your errand. You
will not dare thus to insult them. Yet your
orcan here in this city is doing this thing
every day. with every variety of coutumcly
and contempt. " Ye fools and ‘ blindl’ ”—
Do you expect this class of_men to wilt. and
run. and cower. and ask forgiveness of‘you or
your Southern sloweholdiug masters because
they have dared manifest the consciousness of
a universal manhood? Do you expect it in
Connecticut, ye walking Wall-street money
bags? Do you expect it, ye flippsnt advo-
cates of darkness and of death ?, llence, hyp-
ocrites and lriflers, all I You think these are
st men to be'ine objects of plot and conspii-u
cy? You think to damage iheir pecuniary
interests, and to coerce their voles? You
think these are. men-who pin their faith on a
political leader-,aiid that yonrcry oi Helper’s
pamphlet, or Sewnrd’s speech. sways them as
the leaves of an aspen arc swayed in the blast?
Ye frog-blooded preacliersof the I'onlest and
haief'ulcst aristocracy that ilic Country has
ever known. all, in the abused homo of Dem-
oci‘ucyl Utterers of diabolical doctrines
authors of insulting comparisons and info mous
charges against your bettcrs, know that your
ellorts will be met with scorn. The citizens
and the rural laborers of this country, and of
this very Connecticut, on whom you now pro-
pose to fry your rimrtwighlcd arts, are far
more learned in the lows of supply and de-
mand than you Imagine. Fai‘nlorc solo their
knowledge of political questions, political
men. and political issues. They would be
precisely what they are, in mental and moral
siniion, if Helper 1136' never written and
Sewau‘dliad never spoke. All IIic the legiti-
mate demands of'commercc are independent
of politics, and independent of political
schcmcrs; and if you don’t know it, the men
of Connecticut can teach you the fact, ior
they learned it Iongago. Hope not for fud-
cass‘. then. in your presentconspiracyugainst
tbc'Frce Labor of the North. We tell you,
too, that neither you nor your confederates
can escape llie just penalty of the hateful
work you liar/chow undertaken.

m..n.——-4<<.>-

 

pi‘ietor of a coal mine in Pennsylvania,
wus inquisitive us to the nature of hell,
upon which her father represented in t0
be a large gulf of fire of most prodigious
extent “ Pa, couldn’t you get the devil
to buy cool of you ?” ‘
«.D>’———“‘

WA conplcbf'wild girls have been
arrested in C for indulging in the
amusement of breaking their neighbor’s
windows. They no doubt thought with
Pope—L“ ’I‘is woman’s port to case man of
his panes.”

 

 

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Collision Between the New Haven and
Harlem Trains.

New Your, Jun. 18..—A collision occurrec
this morning in the i'orkvilie Tunnel, on ih.
Harlem and New Haven trains, both gill“;
one way. Both trains were crowded will
passengers and for a few moments there was
intense excitement. No lives were lost ;som-
forty. or lil'ty. however, were injured. but only
a few seriouslv. Mrs. Elijuh'. Bradford. 0'
White Plains-find iliice ribs broken. Thu
“Cline 01 the New Haven train was disabled .
The accident was caused by the sudden stop-
Plllg ol' the Harlem train while the Nev/Haven
train was close behind.

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RAILROAD Acornsxr—Tns Drzsrn or s
BRIDE-—-A serious accident occurred on the
the Hudson liner Railroad, Wednesday'even-
"lg “he express train from Albany was de
lsyed by an accident to the. machinery of the
locomotive. a few miles below Sing Sing. The
tram stopped. and a flagmau was sent back to
notify a following train. but did not get far
80011811 to Stop It in lime. and the locomotive
ran into the express train, shivering the rear
car to atoms. There were about tweniypas.
sengers in the car of whom half were more or
less injured. Among the passengrs in' this
car were Mr. Thomas W. Field of Brooklyn,
and his wife. late Miss Alina Tattle, a princi
pal of one of the Brooklyn schools. 1mg
Field Was injured so that she died in a shori
time. She was the biide of a day. Mr. and
Mrs. Field were married in the morning, and
were on their’way to Washington and th.
Soulhem' States for-a bridal tour.

The train was going very fast at fhe time,
and the engine rushed through tivo cars but
most of the passengers had fortunately‘lell
them or a terrible loss of life must harmoc
curred. ‘

 

 

 

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omoial Corruption.

In the Senate on Thursday,Mr. Brown (Dc-
mocrat)ol Mississippi,in opposing the appomt-
merit of Bowman, the editor of the Constitu
tion; as public printer. produced docpments
establishing the fact that the United States
A'iorney-General was witness to an arrange—
ment. by which Mr. Bowman violated ihe law.
The developments proved that $41,000 of the
public money had been appropriated to sus-
tain party organs here and in Philadelphia.—
Messrs. Bigler and Davis defended that ar-
rangement, Mr. Clay proposed an investig: -
tion ; which, after a riddling by Mr. Fessenden
he withdrew, and Mr. Bowman was elected,
receiving 27 out of 48 votes.

So we go. Fraud and corruption seem to
be uo’impodimentsin the way of appointments
to office under Buchanan’s administration.
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Deaths of Natives of Connecticut, in

‘ Ohio. ‘

The early settlers of the “ Conecticut West-
ern_Roserve," who removed from their homes
in Old Connecticut. are rapidy passing away.
On the lDih inst.. in Ravenua Ohio, died Issac
Thoinpsonuiged eighty-five years. Mr. ‘r‘liom—
son was ‘born in Mansfield,Conn.. in 1774 and
removed to Ravenna. Ohio. in- 1814. where he
purchased afarm. and upon which be lived
until the day of his death.

In Leroy. Lake County, Ohio. on the 12th
inst., died Ezra Beebe, aged 79 years and 10
months. He was formerly from East Haddam

 

 

the 9th inst. died Bleacor-‘Mygatt. in the 83d
year of her age. She was the widow of the
lute Comfort S Mygatt. She removed with
her husband and ismilyirom Danbury. Conu.,
to Can It], Obio,iii 1807.und resided there
until t day of her death. much respected by
all who knew her. She returned to Connec-
ticut with her husband,“ ii visit to her par-
ents in 1811. traveling the whole distance on
horseback. Hir relatives still reside in Don-
bui'y.-—JV. H. Courier. -

 

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The. Illinois Festival. of the Sons and
Daughters of Connecticut.

The anniversary of the birth of'.Geiicral
Putnam, which was celebrated at Galesburg.
III.. on the 6th inst., is described bytlic Pep-
ria° Transcript, as being a splendid affair.—
About three hundred and fifty persons were
present, most of whom were residents oi
Gulesburg. who were treated to an excellent
supper pl'epfl‘ed by the Connecticut ladies of
the place. A full and efficient orchestra,
composed entirely of' Connectic it boys,added
much iolhe interest of the occasion. Many
interesting curiosities were exhibited, which
served to awaken a remembrance of the State
of' their nativity. among which were speci-
mens of Charter“ Oak in various forms. Con.
uecticut sewing machines, wooden nutineg-.
wooden cucumber seeds, born gun films. and
wooden hams. '

After many pleasant and eloquent speeches
from those presentletters were read from Mrs.
L. 11. "Sigourney, Geo. D. Prentice. Gen
James T. Pratt, Hon. 0 S Ferry. Bishop Al
f'red Lee. Rev. Dr. E. M. Wells Hon. Lafay-
ette S. Foster, I-Ion..lsa'ac Toucey. Hon.Johu
H. Brockway. Judge 0; S. Seymour: Hon.Ly-
man, Trumbull. Donald G. Mitchell. Hon.
Stephen R. MalloryrgEx Gov.Henry Dutton.
G. H. Hollisier, EST... and Gov. Buckingh. in.

Gov. Buckingham. of Connecticut, sent
with his letter the following. sentiment :

The Sons and Daughters of Connecticut .-—Inquisitive,
intelligent, enterprising and honest—lovers of truth,
justice and liberty. While they call no man master,
they acknowledge their obligations to their felloquen,
their consciences and their God May their virtues
be cherished and impressed upon our whole country

The following sentiment was contributed
by Hon. Jolin B. Brockwuy. of Ellington :

The Sam and Daugldersqf Connecticut in Illinois :—
Let them never forget the little State in whose School-
house: they learned to read and spell, write and
cypber.

.The ladies. under whose auspices the festi
val was so eminently successful. won, as they
always do,the highest praise for the taste dis
plaved in the arrangement of the afi‘air. A
full report of" the proceedings will be publish-
ed for the benefit of those interested.

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fl Said a Missourian. talking about John
Brown’s invasion of Virginia. “ Why. he
made two invasions inio.Ii1issouri. and each
time he did more damage than he did in Vir-
ginia—for he run' off some niggers from Mis
souri, and yet there ,weren’t seventeen men
in the State that cared anything about the
matter, and I am sure there weren’t seventeen
women or children that-were frightened. And
if the people had caught him and hung him.
if' the execution had cost over $30.the. Audit-
or ought to-hove disallowed the bill I”

 

 

 

 

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-—A writer in the Daily News lauds James
Buchanan and Fernando Wood together.—
“The one a tried President, the other a tried
Mayor.” » .

—We knew that Mr. Wood had been ‘once
fried on the charge of fraud in the Msrvine
case,when the Refereespreviously his friends.
brought in a verdict against him ; and also
that he escapedJrial on another occasion by
blending the statute of limituf ions. But we
neverhefore heard that M r.Buchanan had been
tried. either on civil or criminal charges.—
Pray, when was it ?— Tribune. »

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will has been estimited that the
absolute loss of propertyjn the United
States amounts to the enormous sum of
fifty millions a year I It is a great sum
to bc absoluzely struck out. of existence
as property.- Seventeen millions is esti-
mated -to be the annual loss by fire.—
Herc the property has entirely vanished.
The loss by water is over twenty million:
more. Railroad accident and other
causalities millie up' the balance. Some
of these heavy losses—this immense drain
on our resources—arise from our reck-
lessness and c'arelessuess of character.—
We are in foo great 11 hurry and there-
fore construct things carelessly and they
are destroyed through some defect in
their making. Yet such is the product.
iv». energy of the countr ',- that we annu
ally construct or call into being more
properly than we lose. Henceour Valu-
ation in most parts of the land are on the
increase— Commit.
.-—.-———-¢.. s<Q>u
fig), Mr. Bigelow, of the New York
Evening Post, writes from Paris that
the Americans pl'OpOSC to make up an
excursion party to the Upper Nile, under
the auspices of Mr. Pryor, our Consul at
Alexandria. As 0m: of the prelimina-
ries to the journey, it is stated that the
vessel which is to carry them up the Nile
has been sunk forpsix months to kill the
vermin in it, an almost indispensible pre-
liminary for comfort to American travel-

 

ers in that quarter.

One of' our friends who was in Egypt
some months since, went into calculation
in regard to the number of flea-bites he
had upon his body and after measuring.
spaces and counting his wounds, he as-
certaincd that he had 3233 spots where
fleas fastened upon his flesh. ~

 

 

Dunes—The Low and Behold style.
3 » Vomty FM?"

Exchange.

oun. .
In Canfield.Molioming County, Obio.on

smwgs trusses.

——-Tlic edition of the weekly N. Y. Tribune
10W amounts to 176,000.

-—-—"Mi's. Smith. the court would “1;, have
you a. marriage certificate 1‘”

"Yes, your honor, three on ’em— “'0 gals
till] a. boy.” ‘ -
Geo-Sawyer, of Albionfldicha died. as

opposed. in a. spasm. some time last .pflng.
ills friends wishing to remove his body a few
lays i-lucc, disinteri'ed bim illlll found him
lying on his face, his Ilumls on his hair, with
great. handfuls torn out.uii<l his grave clothes
corn to pieces. The inference is mam-u...
horrible. ‘. .
....—Whnt strange ideas ofjusticc they. have
at Washington. A murderous assault upon
a Massachusetts Senator is punished by a fine
of S300 ; a word sguinstslavery Is a felony, .
and the utterei- is put under $2000 bonds to
keep the peace. _

—-—An agent for a Bocaesier Nursery was
expelled from North Carolina very lately,—
He was considered as guilty of trees-on.
.—--The latest accounts from London so
that Queen Victoria is growing " interesting.”
The reference is not. we are assured, to the
increase of purple pimples on her face but to
something else.

-—-£lon. Clark B. Cochrane. Member of Con.
gross from New York, has just been sent to
the Uiica Insane Asylum. _
Numerous letters from Democrats of the
Western States to Washington say that the
Democratic parly has been much injured in ii a
West by the disunion speeches of the South-
erii leaders in Congress.

Rev. S. P.,Leeds has accepted the unani-
mous invitation of the First Presbyterian
Church of Stamford. to occupy” their pulpit
during the absence of their pastor, Rem-Rob-
ert It. Booth, in Europe. -,

—-A California paper declares that it must
have been Wm. ll. Thackeray who got up the.
Hui‘pvr's Ferry insurrection, sending Osawat-
omie Brown down ibeie to finish “' The Virgin-
ians"—a task he had been incffectually labor-
ing to accomplish for months past,

.———The New York pilots are demanding an
increase of pay for government services.—
Tbey charged $70 for piloting the Iroquois '
the charge for a merC‘antmean would find
been $60 To save 810. Mr. Secretary Toucey
kept the Iroquois in harbor five days at an
expense of $1930! ’ _

'a- To cure Dyspepsia has long been a “ consumg.
tion devoutly to he wished for” by the Physician and
the patient The cures elIeci ed by the oxygenated hit.

 

 

 

ever ofits Protean forms this disease appears, it read-
ily.succombs to the above remedy.
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IQ‘ The Albany Atlas and Argus dc.
sires, so it. says, to abandon the Slavery
agitation and to “ return to questions of
governmentaladministration.” No won-
der the Atlas is tired of an 'agitation
which its party forced upon the country
six years ago, when it passed the Kansas-
Nebraska bill, and which it has main-
tained ever since, having inst now wasted
a month of the time of Congress'in need-
lesly keeping 'up the excitement. No
wonder, now that the party by a perfect-
ly natural process, has brought itself into
the slough of Disuiiion and Treason, and
that the people are everywhere resolving
to hurl it from power which it has so pct-
verted and disgracedthat tIieAtlas should
wish to change the subject. We are
happy to believe that it will be'changed,
but the first preliminary will be the ban-
is'nment to tlie‘obscurity of private life
of that whole gang of heartless political
gamblers and humbugs of whom the At-
las is the organ.— Tribune.
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A Southern Disclosure.

Mr. 'II-ai'deman, a member of Congress
from Georgia, writes to a paper in his
district exposing the fraud and deceit
now being .pzactised by the administra-
tion members in delaying the organiza-
tion. He says : . .

The first day of the session they; the
Democrats, began an inflammatory de—
bate upon the slavery question, intended
alone for home consumption. and they
are still consuming time, speaking to
empty benches. I have Iioardtlie Speak-
ers denounce Sherman as ' unfit ' to live
and unfit to die, and have seen them. at
the conclusion of their remarks, arm
Sherman and walk off in social glee l—_
So much for their sincerity and honest
indignation,

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I tell you the politicians of the Demo-
cratic party are making Black Republi~
cans every day, by menaces and threats
and the south will yet learn that their
representatives, by imprudence,‘ have ‘ad—
ded fuel to the flames.

Persons who have visited the capitol,
know that the oratorical demonstrations
of Congressmen are more than one half
Buncombe. '

 

 

 

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DissOLUriox.—Tiiere is, ‘at this time, a
good deal of' idle gobble about the disso-
lution of the Union. If there was any
possible chance of a dissolution benefit-
ting the South and punishing the Abo-
litionists of the North. ”there might be
something in it—but our opinion is,-
it would be “ jumping out of the frying
pan into the fire.”—Abisgton Virginian.

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Lo vs M a LITTLE ; Lovn M 1: LONG.—
A tall Western grl named Short, long
loved a certain big Mr. Little ; while
Little, little thinking of Short, loved a,

story short, Little proposed to Long,‘and
Short longed to be even .with Little’s
short-comings. So Short, meeting Long,
threatened to marry Little before long,
'whicb caused Little in a short. time to
marry Long. Query : Did toll Short
love big little less,because big Little loved
little Long?

 

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fiHow splendidly impndent is the
plea against John Sherman’s election to

 

slize the Committee, in view of the fact
that in the Senate the seventeen import-
ant Comitiees out of‘ the whole number
of twenty-two are presided over by slate-
lioldei‘s ! Hunter, of Virginia, the ab-
Iest and most active free-trader in Con-
gress being Cliuirman‘of the Committee
on finance; Davis, of Mississippi, avow-
edly ready for secession on slight provo-
cation, Chairmau of the Committeeou
military affairs and Clay, of Alabama,
controlling the interests of commerce,
while the representatives of Massachu-
setts, Pennsylvania and New York are
kept at the foot of the table I .

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j Moon 'l‘norn IN LITTLE Simon—The
most dangerous enemies of Scuthern so-
cieiy, the most mischievous enemies of
the manufacturers of the North (who in
some instances have undoubtedly lost a .
little custom at the South) are many of
the Democratic papers of the North, with
the New York Herald at their head who
have shamelessly and like scouodrels and
incendiaries, libelled the whole North,
representing it as full of treason. murder

sest party purposes. They can circulate

at the South, Republican papers cannot,

so they burn up their neighbors’ houses

that by the light they may save their '
crumbling party. Who represents Con»
necticut ,ss bitterly hostile 10~ the South
and ready to promote bloodshed? Re-
pnblican papers or meetings ‘or resolu-
tions? Never; nobody but the Times,
Post, Register, New, Farmer and Auro-
m which work day and night to alarm
those Southern People who ‘ are allowed
to see but one side of the
These men are the real incendiaries.——-'

They ought to be put down Overwhelm-

 

ingly.—.Press. , .

questions— ‘

ters should satisfy both classes, that under whichso- .

little lass named Long. To make a long ‘

the Speakersbip, that he would section- .-

and'insurrection and all this for the.ba-.