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\\Ips'S^P^P :!;SC 3&&i vtSjjfJbKl ,ij V •.,MJ» W .'VJ \\H^^ak^s-i^ !>• sep- say. •ing )wn Q a ;tbe >ely oar ver Jin neb, illy she ing ;hl SUS- 30k lUld son her my lint 3 of ght my eea my do ' hat vho let s a 3Dd my •Mt MEXICO. 1'NDEPBD IV E NIV 3 What is True Friendship. What 18 friendship? Is it the *W rf . That sheds its modest I'ght When sun is gone, tjien disappears, And fades aw; hue 'fibm sight, ? No, \'tis not the star, whose work Is done Whan mora brings fbrtla the rays of sua. What igfrien<ltliip? Is It a flower That-faHei ere comes tn^noon. And seems to murmur us it droops, AIss 1 I die too soon\ 1 No, 'tis not the Uower,, whose beauties fade, And'Uve not lung- td cheer tbe sua le. What ia fciemlsnip ?„ It is a liglii Whosa-luster never Jades, But'shine's through* all the clouds of lite;— Ulurninps all their shades. Aye, \ti» a lltfbt, deep ia the mind, Thut e'er stiould Hourith, glow, and »h ; ne. Union Square, July, lobl. WILLY HAMMOND. liel ;bt ial las tys ad aid >ne the the era in, L he_ an iii, alf ;rd Ad Dm no The Imaginary Parallel. We are told by some of our wavering friends, even at this advanced stage of re> ellion and treason, that tbe principles and rights for which tbe Confederate States are now contending, are the very principles and immunities for' which our fathers fought ID the glorious strug- gle of JLXliLiQr which, and in favor of which principl B, they determined to \live or die,\ ••aiuk or swim,\ !\snrvive or perish,\ in order to gain the glorious object of their desire, and lay upon the pillars of national and genuine independence the foundation of a united and a ; -ffiffpBTOat'R^imtflUrrthi fyiauttflf or whose uo- litioal excellence might not. only spread i's ameliorating groins and v irti.es over the west- ern continent, from the angry -a^id troubled billows of the Atlantic to the placid waters of tbe Pacific, and from east to west; but extend itself from region to re'tzion. and from conti- nent.to contineol, until the genius of freedom an d the godde.'a of American liberty should pit -in tbe fair bowers of universal liberty!and general independence. I hive searched-' the bistory of our nation's pu«t, I have perused- to some extent the doctrines of those jjreat apostles \of civil and religious liberty, asset forth in (he Declaration of Golonial Ind-pend' i»nce, in the Constitution of the Federal com- pact, and the original articles of the old Con- federation ; but find i.ot even one principle upon which can be securely based the doctrine of modem seoes-is'on, tb» parallel causes for po- litical separation and the territorial' dismem- berment of this united Commonwealth. I have seArched for the e*taiegue ot Southern, griev- ances, but find no ii jured rights set forth in their proclamations of \ disunion; I have searched for violattd faith; but find that tbe laws of tb* land have been executed upon the Arm basis of eqU'il rights towards every por Mob-of our common country. Our fathers fought at first for chartered rights—fights whicn had been violated and •]flqfrnyifl hy thp overt acts of a despotic gov- 30 ur id ereign and the tyrannical enactments of an op- pressive Parliament. The Revolution was not brought on for the mere purpose of trying an -xperiment. No, it was tbe remit of long-en- dured oppression; principle after principle hud been violated, right after: right had been Mricken from their Colonial charters, until the very fundamental principles -of Democratic liberty- were brought to naught. They were ta;ied,.but had no representative authority in the British Parliament; they were called upon to defend existing laws, but had no voice in making them ; they were called to rapport a i-tanding army, but were not permitted t o select th-sir own officers; they had Governors, but they were appointed by the King ; they bad Legislatures, but they were dissolved by ty- rants; they wert British subjects and despised colonists; in fact every rigbr that tended to- wards the advancement of the thirteen OolonieB was denied tbera by tyrannical lawgivers and aristocratic deputies from the» mother country. But that has not been the casp with the rebels of 1861. I say it i* not oppression that has led them to destroy or violate our Constitu- tiofrj and to \dismember this once glorious Union, this Confederation of States, and this birthright of aat'onal liberty. No; for the Democracy of the North,' the friends cf the South, have ever stood firm in the defense of their Constitutional rights even in the darkest storms of political controversy and the op- posing elements of Northern priestcraft, and to-day they are willing to give them erery right in the Union, but not a solitary right out of it; they, are willing to grantthemevery immunity under the Constitution, but not a single one over it; they are willing to t»at with them on the footing of non-intervention, which hfti^already been practically carried oat under the pi esent Administration of President tin- cola ; in fact Democrats are willing to give iha Citizens of one State all the rights and priv- ileges of the citizens of the several States ; and they are also willing, and have ever been wil^ ling, to maintain tbe laws of the land* and the honor of their country, whether it be against a foreign or a domestic foe. Thereremainsfor ns but oneoourae- to pur- sue, and that is, to preserve tbe Union and rap- port the Constitution; and in that we need; not err, for the deeds and .exam-pins ot the founders of our institutions, make«.e'ear to us the\ path of duty. The interests ef the-present time urge us on to tbe arena of conflict, and posterity from the dtsiaut future calls to us with ail the energies of its yet immortal pow- ers, to-preserve the rights and defend the liber- ties of future generations. But I bear, every now and then, that the cause in which we are engaged is au unjust and an unholy one. I hear that it is tm uncon- stitutional war, and simply deigned, for the subjection of the (Southern States; and there- fore rebellion is justifiable, and secession should be the \policy of t,he so-called Confederate' States towards their oppressors. But now for a few fads for the friends of tbe South, viz— these: Tbe delegated representatives of the Northern Democracy met these very disunion- ietts in convention at Baltimore, and presented to them the great national and- Constitutional principle of n.on intervention—a principle which would have opened to them the territorial portals attd cleared forever from all obstruction tbe * avenues for honorable competition to all citi- zens ; but they, were -rejected by a united South, with a few exceptions. But still the Democracy of the North stood firm upon that glorious principle, and fought thd political battles of the South upon a Northern plain, and were defeated too by a party which ha* now practically carried out that-very principle, namely, the Republican party. _ They might have bound Lincoln and his adherents, hand and foot, for they were in the majority in both branches of the national Congrtss. But iTif not necessary for me to enumerate the entire catalogue of- facts which stand in bold defense in favor oi the Union and Constitutional libera ty, and against those who would fain destroy the Government and all the interests that cluster around it. But we are told that the result of this con- test will be as in 1776 ; the Government, tbe imaginary England, will be defeated, and the Confederate Colonies and saoessioti will assert their independence and run a career of un paralleled glory. But the facts of the case are these: If we admit the policy of secession, we admit a policy which, if parried out to its prac- tical results,-will break State after State from the mnjestie train of empire, strike star after star from the constellation of our nation, sweep safeguard after safeguard from tbe citadel of our libf rties, and- glory after glory from the archives-of American fame, and ultimately place us upoa a level with Continental Europe by dividing this- once united land tote duke- doms, principalities^ kingdoms and; empires,, and imtr.erw? the genius of Democratic liberty in tbe despotic cells of perpetual gloom. But what will France and England do, if we per si.it in maintaining the Union and supremacy of the Constitution ? Why, we are told by our timorous friends, that the blockade will be broken, that the infant American navy will be ajppt frnm tha facA of the mighty ilflftp. anil Celtic View of the 'Census.. The late Census led to some queer scenes.— The following is one of them : '*. \Who is the head of this family ?\ a'sked an enumerator of an Irishwoman. • . r \That depinds on GJtcumstancei,\ said she. \If it's before eleven o'clock, it's me husband; if it's after eleven, its m'eself,\ \Why is this division 1\ . \Becanse after that he's as drunk as a jieer, and unable to take care of himself, let alone his family.\ \What is his age•?\ \Coming MiehalmoF,. he will lack a month of being as ould as Finaegan. You know Fiune- gan?\ \1 don't, and if I did it wouldn't help mat- ters. How many male members have you in the family ?\ ' \Niyer a oneJ' \What no boys at all?*' \ \Boys;-fe it?-Ah, murther, go home! We have boys-enough to whip four loaves before breakfast.\ '•When were you married?''-' \The day that Pat Dobbins left Tiperary for AmeHky. Ah, well do I know it. A sunnier day never gilded the skyotswate ould Ireland,\ '•What was your husband before marriage? A widower or bachelor ?\ \A widower, did you say ? Ah ! now go away wid your nonsense.- Is it the likes'of me that would take up with a second-hand ? A widower, indade! May I niver be blessed'*!? FdrtroTTstaer ttve arrotrhl maid, and bri%;up my family on buttermilk and^raties.\ If you have anything to sell In the Advertise Independent. If you wish' to sell, goods advantageously, Advertise In the Independent. Iff you wish to get rich,*\ In the Advertise our commerce be totally destroyed. Perhaps that may be the case, if our Washington Ad- ministration does not immediately go and prostrate, itself before the thrones of Conti nentalEurope,and admit that cotton taking, that secession is right, and the Republic is no more. But I think it would be far better to adopt the principles of John Adams, and stand upon the footing of iadependenc, trust Provi- dence and keep the powder dry ; not listen too much to Eugland, the prophetess of our destruction; neither to Napoleon, the. man who has already made the Presidency of a fre*» people the stepping etone to imperial despot- ism ; hot let us remember that liberty must be defeuded upon the soil which gave it birth, that the Government must be supported by the. sons of those who formed it, and that the liber- ties of this nation must be perpetuated by the present to future generations. The neutral stand-point in political discussiou has been passed, and we must either stand far or against tbe country which has in times' past protected us by its arms nourished us by its indulgence, and led tis to pro?p a rity through the flowery pathway of its benign institutions. We may speak of liberties, of Constitutions, of Declara- tions of Independence, of inalienable rights; we may titter the valorous words of war, and chant the melodies of peaceable compromise, but'we are left, as we began, with the sad re- alities of existing war, and the destiny of a na- tion depending upon the loyalty and patriot- ism of the American people. Let us. then, stand united to a man in all the vicissitudes Of the present conflict, and rejoice with those who r«joiee, mourn with those who mourn, partici- pate tvith our fellow countrymen iti the ex- ultations of victory, and sympathise with them in hours of adversity and defeat, ever remem- bering that illustrious ends can never be aehkved in the culm fields of indolence and case*, and if we eTr in thus executing the glorious t*sk of preserving the unity* of the States, we will err in the prospective fields of America's glorious destiny ; if we wander.it will be in political realms, of light ; if we aspire, our aspirations will tend to tbe preser- vation of all that is glorious and sublime. CrEO. EVELANO. West Amboy, Aug. 3,1861. Toronto Mills Market. ' Flour per Sack, spring wheat $1 31. \ \ winter \ , ... 1\37 \ \ double eitrA.'. , 169 WHOLISAU4. Plour $5 00,©5 25(36 60 Corn meal per owt « 1 0Q Shorts per bash 08 Ship stuffs per bush , 18 PBicsa BUD-FOB QHiix. - <> Wh eat, spring, pBr bush ,. *0 90(S>t Op winter, \ 1 00(8^25 Corn per bueh 38© *46 Oat* \ ; 25© 27 Election Notice. SHKRIFF'S OWIOB, \ COONTT OP OSWEGO, f N OTICE TS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant t« the statute ot this Stute, and of the annexed nntfbe from the t-eoreiary of State, that thy General Election will be hsl.Hn thiscouDtjT on the Tuesday narrtumpng the first Monday of November next; at which election \the affi cera named in the annexed notice will be elected. Oswego, August 2, 1801. S. M. OTCKfift-, Sheriff. STATE OF NEW YORK, 1 Oraicg of THE SKOKKTARY OF\ STATX, J ALBANY, AuguSi 1, ISGl. Slitr-Notice*i« hereby given, that at the General Etec tion to be held in this Stats on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday of Norember next, the following uffi cers are to be elected, to wit: A Secretary of State, in tbe place of David ft. Floyd •f nn ss; A Comptroller, in the place of Robwt fwnTrfiWirr~-~ , An Attorney General, in the place ef Charles G. Myers; A State Engineer and Surveyor, in the place Van Ji. Richmond: A Stats treasurer, in the place Philip Dorshelmer; A Caital Commissioner, in tbe place of Hiram Gardner, fir full term; A Canal Commissioner, ia the place of Benjamin F b Brace, who was Appointed to Sll the vacancy occasioned by the death of Samuel H Barnes ; An Inspector of State Prisons, in the place of „Joait*h T Everest; A J adge of the Court of Appeals, in the place of George t>'. Cnmstoctc; Ail whose terms of office will expire on theiast day of Dscember next. Also a Justice of the Supreme Court, for the,Fifth Ju- dicial District, in the plaoe of William J BacTm, whose tfrnfof office will expire on the last day of Hfecgtober n-xt. .,,' Also a Senator for the Twenty-first Senate DIstriet, comprising tbe County of bawego. - COUNTY OFFICHtSfTO D« SLECTSD; Tbrse Members of Assembly; A Gounty Clerk in the ptaoe of SantueJ..R» Taylor; Two Superintendents of the Poor, in the place of Thomas W. Chesebto and Orson Ames; Two Justices of Sessions, in the place of Benjamin N. Hinmatt and-tuay Thayer; '' — ,. Three Coroners in the place of Lewto S. Kussell, John It, Watson and Elijah Phillips; Also a Recorder of Oswego City, In the place of Orsille J. Harmon; ,,, AU whose termi of office will expireoh the last dayof December ntxt. 31 D. R. FLOYTi JONES, Secretary of State. Independent, Which is oae of the best and cheapest ADVERTISING- MEDIUMS IN Oswego County. <' Uriqruestionably-the best sustained work of . the kind in the world.\ . HARPEjR'S - NEW WWWLY MAGA2IS:!. Critical Wetices of the Prut.. T WENTY-FIVfi CENTS buys iW-the cheapest, richest, and most testing luxury for the money that we know. Three dollars secures it for one year, and what tluee dollars ever, went *o far ? Pat theaatoie amount in clothes, eating, drinlsiug, furniture, and how much of a substantial thing I* obtained? If ideas, facta, and sentiments have a monetary value—above all, it' the. humor that refreshes, the pleasantries thai bring a gen- tle smile and brighten the passage of a truth t* your •brain, and the happy combination of the teal and tho imaginative, without which no one cap live a life above the animal, are~to\be~putr6t5 the*cafe opposite To flbTf lars and cents, then yon may be certain that, if Harper were *fe*ee o* few times as dear, it would am ply repay its price. It is a Magaxiue proper, with this idea and purpose of a Magazine—not a boob, nor a scientific pe- riodical, nor yet a supplyer of light gossip and chatty anecdotes—but a Magaaslne that takes every form of In- teresting, dignified, and attractive literature ia its grasp.— Southern 'limit. The volumes beund constitute of themselves a library Of miscellaneous reading such «» cannot be found in the same pompass in any other publication that has com* ander our notice.— SoUon Courier. Jth« lUMlttaiiiulii 1 MtHitlily hi thenmU,— Kiw Dentistry. Dr. C. BABCOCK, wishing to establish a Dental Office' in this village, has taken rooms at the- Mexico Hotel, and would be pleased to reoie»e calls from the citizens, whether tbey desire bis professional servioes-ernot. • In order to inform the coinrbunity what his various styles and prices for Mechanical Dentistry are, he gives the following list:— Full sett* on Gold 22 carats flirt, $80 to $100. Full setts on Pure Silver, $40 to $60. • Fu)I aetts on Platipa, fConfinuous GtttaSj) $100. Full*stts on Hard Rubber or Coralife, $50. Clasp jobs on Gold, with spring clasps, preventing injury or wear to thenatural teeth, $* per tooth. The same on Sliver, spring clasps, $3'per tooth.- Teeth filled with Crystal Gold for $1 to $3.. Hill's Stopping 60 to TScts. Artificial bone, Wots to $1. teeth extracted tor 26cts. AH work warranted to be as'good as can be procured in Oswsgo County, Mexico, August 3th 1881., Livery Stable. T HE subscriber has just opened a splendid I t ivery at tbe barns connected with the Empire House, Mex ico, Hatelv oecupied by I. L. Dillenback) and is prepared to turn.fiutasnice 'rigs\ as can be had anywhere in this part of tbe State, and for SMALLER PRICES THAN EVER, as bii charges now are in keeping with the time* Hfs carriages are all Entirely New, and made in the latest style. IRA BIDDLEGG-ME. AST Terras Cash, or Ready Pay. July 17,1881. ' Wyl- Qttemer. w\e must refer'in terms of eulogy to the high tone and vaTied excellence of Harper's Magazine, a journal' with a monthly circulation of about 170,000 copies, in whose pages are to be found some of tbe choicest light and general reading of the *ay. We speak of this work as an evidence of the A mericas People, and the popu- larity it has acquired is merited. Each number con- tains fully 144 pages of reading matter, appropriately illustrated with good wood-outs; and it combmea in it- self tM racy monthly and the more philosophical quar- terly, blended with the best features of the dally jour nal. It has great power in tho dissemination of a love of pure literatpre.—T*0K(Ht*6 Guideto Amtrican liter- ature, London. No Magazine in Europe or America is s o well known; none has half as many readers; and, we may esfely say none hfts received so l*rg«* tribute of admiration f rQm the cultivated classes, that delight in a healthy, diver- siaad. «l«vating periodical literature. It Is the foremost Magasine-of tbe day. The Breside never had a more de- lightful companion, nor the million a more enterprising friend^ than Harper's MSgsaine — Mtthodut Protestant, BaUimcr'e. —_- . T E ft M S. The Magffzin* may be obtained of Booksellers, Period- ical Agentg. or from the Publishers, at Three Dollars a year.or Twenty-SiveCents*Number. TheSemi Annual Volume*, AS completed, neatly hound in Cloth, are sold at Two Dollars each t and Muslin Covers are furnishtd to those who Wish their tanck numbers uniformly bound at Twenty Five Cents each. Twenty One Volumes are now ready, hound in Cloth, and also in Halt Calf. The Publishers will supply specimen numbers gratui- tously, to Agents and Postmasters, and will mska liber- al arrangements with them furcirculiting the MsgarJne. They wW also supply Clubs ot Two Persons at Five Dol- lars a year, or Five Persons at Ten Dollars. Clergymen and Teachers supplied at Two Dollars a year. Numbers from the commencement can now be supplied. Also, the bound Volumes. Tbe Magazine weighs over seren, and ntit over eight ounoea. The Postage on each number, trbich mast be paid quarterly, in advance at the Office where the Mag- ailne i? received, is Thres Cents. > HABPER * BROTHERS, 9 Franklin Square, New York. ALFRED Sf MILLER, Manufacturer* of CARRIAGES. ' . CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, • CUTTERS, and SLEIGHS, And have on hand a general assortment/-which the/ will sell cheap for cash, s ->^_ w Repairing in all Branches of the Business done on short notice, by' the best expericneed workmen. Ornamental q| well as Carriage PAINTING. ' Carriage Trimming, t(Ct, %c. , Attlie Old Academy BulWIng, Mexico, W. * w*a
