ronrkl i ■ • i tJi'KT. U uu) reoeiVe and promulgate accusation* of all kinds, against all per satu^uulgliBmcferp among the c&u n* o0|l£e FfMp, a^d again* all In^rior courts | ana may judge, sentence, and condemn to infamy, not only private individuals, but public bodies, etc. with or without inquiry or bearing, VI the court'* discretion. whose favor, on for wines bbulubbnt TII1S 001 RT IS BsTAUIJHIUIAr In fuvqs of about one citiaen in five hundred, who, by education, or practice in scribbling, . lias acquired a tolerable style as to grammar and construction, so as to bear printing ; or who i* possessed of a press and a lew type*, The five hundreth part of the citixens have the liberty of accusing and abusing the other Jbur hundred and . ninety-nine juurU at tlieir pleasure ; or they may hire out their pens and press to others, for that purpose. PRACTICK OF THIS COURT. Ji U not governed by any of the rule* of the souimon courts of law. The accused is allowad no grand jury to judge of the truth of the accusation "•before it fx publidy made; nor is the name of the aocused made known to 4 kit*, nor has he an opportunity of eonfronnng*the witnesses against him, for they are kept in the dark, as in the Spanish court of inquisition. Nor is there any petty jury of his peers sworn to try tho truth of the charges. Tlie proceedings ore also sometimes so rapid, that an honest good citizen may find himself suddenly and unexpectedly accused, and in the fame moment judged and condomued, and scntenoo pronounced against him that he is a rogue and a villain. Yet if an officer of this court receives tho slightest check for misconduct in this his office, he claims immediately the right* of a fr<* citiicn by the constitution, and domonds to know his accuser, to oon front the witnesses, and have a fair trial by the jury of his poors. tub rot npation of its authority. It js said to he founded on an articlcin tile state constitution, which establish a* the liberty of the press — a liberty Which every Pennsylvanian would fight and die for, though few of us, I believe, havb distinct ideas of its nature And extents It ace tua, indeed, somewhat like tho liberty of tho press, that felons have, by the common law of England, before conviction ; that is, to be cither pressed to death or hanged. If by the liberty of the press, wo understood merely the lliMWtv — .1 . ■ .it— »j| -*♦ public measures and political opinions, let us have as muoti of it as you please ; but if it nutans the liberty of affronting, caluminating,And defaming ono another, I, for my part, own myself willing to liart *tAk utj »tmrv or it, whenever our legislators shall please to alter the law ; and shall cheerfully consent to exchange my liberty of abusing others, for the privilege of not l>eing abused myself. by wuom this court is com missioned or constituted. It is not by any commission from tho supreme executive council, who might previously judge of the abilities, integrity, knowledge, Ac. of tho persons to be appointed to this great trust, of deciding U|>on the character* and goo<l feme of th* " w ^ ^ men, r 4^j|. - condemn it at pleasure. Nor is it hereditary, as is the court of dernier resort in tho peerage of England. But any man who can procure. |»en, ink, and pajH?r, with a press, a few types, and a huge pair of blacking balls, may commissionate himself, and his oourt is immediately established in the plenary lessons ion and exercise of its rights; * for if you make the least complaint of the judge's conduct, he dauta his blacking balls in your face wherever he meets you : and besides tearing your private character to splinters, marks you out for the odium of the public, as an enemy to the liberty of the press, or tub natural support ot tiux court. ru support is founded in tho depravity of such minds as have not l>een mended by religion, nor improved by good education. There is a lust in man no charm esq tamo, Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame. Hence On eagle's wings immortal scandals fly. While virtuous actions oro but bom and die. — Diiydkx, Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neigh bo.-, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And of those who, desparing to rise in distinction hy their virtues, are happy if others can bo depressed to a level with thcmsolvc-, there are a number sufficient in every great town to maintain one of these courts by subscription. A shrewd observer onoo said, that in walking the streets of a slippery morning, one might see where the good-natured people lived, by the ashes thrown on the ice before the doors; probably he would have formed a different eot\jeeture of the temper of those whom he might And or run cubcib frocks to ni rstabliziikd aoaimrt tiib arusbii'f cower in tflofb courts. Hitherto th^re are none. But dne« #

uu-u ll.UMIWIIll.il Mill onThc ftwl w^^gg*iui4oq ; sgd the neoessity of oheAksln'Btt^parts of good * government, has been so clearly and learnedly explained, I feel myself so far » enlightened as fo * aspect sfrno choqk r may be prolog ifi tbig part ak»o t but 1 I have been at a loss to imagine any that a may not be oon* trued an infringement i of the sacred liberty of the press. At ; length, however, I think I have found one, that instead of diminishing general r liberty, shall augment it ; which is, by restoring to the people a species of ' liberty*' -of which they, have been de1 privod by our laws — 1 mean the liberty ; 1 of the cudgel J in the rude state of t society prior to the existence of laws, if I one man gave another ill language, the > affronted person might return it by a > box on the ear ; and, if repeated, by a ' good drubbing; and this without offend- ' ing against any law ; but now the right ' of making such returns is denied, and tlxey are punished as breaches of the Veaoe, while th6 right of abusing seems to remain in full force ; the lawn made again* (J I being rendered ineffectual by > the liberty of the press. > My proposal then is, to leave tho ' liberty of the press untouched, to be i exercised In its hill extent, force, and • vigor, but to permit the liberty of the cudgel to go with it, pari, passu. Thus, my fellow-citizens, if an impudent writer attacks your reputation— dearer perhaps to you than your life, and puts his name to the charge, you may go to him as openly, and break his head. If he conceals himself behind tho printcr,and you can nevertheless discover who he is, you may, in like manner, way -lay him in tho night, attack him behind, and | give him a* good drubbing. If your adversary hires better writers than himself to abuse you more effectually, you may hire as many porters, stronger than yourself, to assist you iii giving him a moro effectual drubbing. Thus far goe* my project as to private resentment and retribution. But if tho public should ever happen to be affronted, us it ought to be, with the conduct of such writers, I would not udvisc proceeding immediately to these extremities, hut that we should in moderation content ourselves with tarring and feathering, and tossing in a blanket. If, however, it should be thought, that the proposal of mine may disturb the public peace, 1 would then humbly recommend to our legislators to take up the consideration of both liberties, that of the press, and that of the cudgel ; and by an explict law mark their extent and tWutoi W* a. ■ -*•- 4 1 ■> a .T secure the person of a citizen from assaults, they would likewise provide for the security of his reputation. — Lite and Essays of Dr. Franklin. AMONG THE VIRGINIA GIRLS . trip throuoii tub country on horseback — iiugoiko attended by some drawbacks. A young society swell who was invited not long ago to go down and visit a family in tho interior of Virginia gives a very interesting picture of the pleasant customs that are still in vogue in that state. When one gets away from railroads •snd town* h" things in s iOO years ago. er*> of the back counties of Virginia who never yet heard of Jackson's death, and who would be very much startled if the news was sprung upon them suddenly. This young society man was a grefct horseman. Ho took his horse with him, a high-spirited, dark chestnut gelding, lie found upon his arrival that his ability to ride at once made him popular with everybody. lie was surprised to find that almost everybody rode horseback. Wagons ami carriages were almost unknown. Young gentlemen going ont to give their sweetheart* u treat, simply slung a blanket on their horses, behind their saddles, where the young lady rides pillion fashion. He nays it was not an uncommon sight to wo four |M»raon» .mi ono home. He proves this to be the case by describing an actual scene that come under his notice, where an old gentleman and his wife were riding along comfortably with two children. The old man ami the l>oy in. front, and the old lady with a l>oy in her Up behind. This system of ^ding is very popular among young ladies and gentlemen in Virginia. The young Virginian mount* his horse, dashes up to the Raddlo-hlook, catches his sweetheart by the hand and she Ixnimls like an agile gazelle to the blanket behind him, ami than she adds interest to the occasion hy winding her arms around him, and his good horse starts off at a jolly pace. Now, this young swell got along very wnll in his visit, until one day ho wm at church at one of the country church «■*, 1 and a young lady who owned a very comfortable place near there invited him to go home and take dinner with her. There were three or four vory interesting young ladies stopping at her house, and, at course, he accepted her invitation with great pleasure; but his hair fairly stood on end when alio said i to him i "t guess you will hm to take •

one of the girls on your horse ; in divid ing up our party one, at t« **1, oonies to jrou." The young warn in question b not a very heavy weight physioaily . He does not weigh oVer 90 pounds. The young woman who fell to his lot was a bouncing Virginia lass, plump and pretty, who would weigh at least 140 pounds. Ho was in no haste to get into the saddle. He watched very core-felly how tho rest of the fellows got their fair companions upon the upper deck. He was tho last man to awing his horse in line, lie had a little doubt, too, about his horse. The horse wm very high-spirited and had never boon ridden double. He darted up to the horse- ' block and the young woman wqs ready. The blanket was arranged behind after the most approved fashion. He edged bis chestnut up to the side of tho homeblock. fthe gave him one hand and in a second she bounded firmly to her place behind him and Wound her anns around him, in as firm a hold as the proprieties of the oooasion demanded. She was not the only one that had bounded. The horse bolted 'about 10 feet in the air and came down on his fore feet, and as the young fellow said, suddenly became very light behind. The young man, although a very good rider, said he would have gone over the horse's ears several timy* if it had not been for the young lady. She held on, and he felt perfectly convinced that if he went off^ she wouldn't, and so she stuck. His horse fought, shied, jumped and balked, greatly to the amusement of tho young lady, who vciy near cracked several of his ribs in holding on to him when his horse bolted to the right and left. It was five milos to his destination. When he got off his horse finally and walked into the farm-house, three great streams of perspiration slowly trickled down the sides of his fact . He was weak and trembling. The lady of the house asked him bow he liked his trip. He said that under less exciting circumstances he might have relished the hugging part of it, but beyond that he was very willing to confess that it was one of the greatest tests that he had ever undergone in his life. — Chicago Times. TWO PICTURES . I. Miss Blanche Murray is a very proper young lady. Last week she caught her little brother smoking. "You terrible thing," she said, "I'm going to tell father on you." "IVn tM«\y *>v» •* .ill. ■*** mm mm ml t-)u* boy penitently. "1 don't care what it is. I am going to tell on you, and see that you don't get into that beastly, horrid, degrading habit. I wouldn't hare any thing to do with smokers." II. It is evening. Miss Murray is sitting on the front stoop with Algernon. It itmoonlight, and the redolent spirit of the honeysuckle and a svringa are waft ing bliss to their already intoxicated souls. "Would little bird object to my smok ing a cigarette 7" "Not at all," replied Miss Murray. "I like cigarettes, they are so fragrant - " " jrareju*** i*- • uca i u "Do, and blow the smoke in my face, it is so soothing and dreamily paradisaic." Then he lights a cigarette, and they sit and talk about tho weather for two hours and a-half.^-CoutiBR. CURRENT NOTEST With a mlml serene He tackled "fifteen The result can be seen Behind the mad -house screen, —New York Express. If an old sheep can only jump a fence they call it a "spring laiub." A Chicago clothier advertises for 3,000 bald heads on which to paint advertisements. # Lard for pastry should be used as hard as it can be cut with a knife. It should be cut through the flour, not rubbod. Liu* year twelve persons in the United , States and Ettro]>c gave an aggregate of $3,000,000 to the cause of foreign missions. Tho Buffalo Express thinks that the movement of the Chinese eastward is due to the remarkable display of dirty linen in Washington. Withered leaves, having the yellow, brown, or red autumnal colors, can be made green again by steeping them in water with a little zinc powder. If printing paper continues to ad vanee, j newspapers will l»e forced to use common ( white satin with a plain gilt bonier In- j stead. Thr United States Supremo Court has i recently decided that a national lautk is i liable to tho owner for bonds lost while * in custody of the bank as a special de- , posit, f W ashington never told a lie, but If « the gem pusxle had existed in his day t fear that he might h rive- - have Raid, 1 4<Uh, I've done it, done it lots of times ; t

Hiiugs to your little sister." A colored citizen of Georgia fears he trill have to exode to Kansas. He r tmarks ; — "Nebber seed sich times skies I been born. Work all day and steal all night, and blessed if 1 con moke a livin'." The Chicago Tribune has a streak of typographical economy, thus : And w«»uU to be renocuin- [ hy waj of being rtnSlo- ) It is to be hoped his plans will be The Detroit Prbr Press gives the latest puzzle ; Hard Eggs Boiled Man The trick is to get the eggs inside the man without breaking the shells. Gen. Leslie Combs, the well-known Kentucky Democrat, has been inter viewed on the presidential question. He says he wouldn't vote for Tilden to Have his life, and any Republican short of a horse thief could beat Tilden. It is not an unusual thing for ministers to be present at, and pray for u blessing on, the "blowing in" of blast furnaces; but it has been left for Dr. Craven, of the Methodist Episcopal j Church, to dedicate a North Carolina cotton factory. A letter wandered into the Dead Letter Office the other day, on which the writer, a lady, hod placed a two-cent .-tamp and half of another of the same denomination. Her arithmetic was oor rect, but her method of making change liad not proved acceptable to the Post Office authorities. A mob of Chinese at Yenping-fbo recently attacked the Rev. Nathan Sites, an American Methodist missionary, and were on the point of atoning hiip, to death when a local magistrate interfered. The mob said they were only treating Americans m Americans treated Chinese in California. The German Publisher** Journal has issued statistics concerning thr number of periodical publications pub lished in the world. According to them the total number is about 23,000, of which Germany boasts 3,778 ; England. 2,009 ; France, 2,000; Italy, 1,226. A asim*, ijooo , bhwu; sco. anb product* 387; Africa, 50; America, 9,129; and Anstralia, 100. A New Hampshire woman has a hashand who is addicted to joining secret i societies. One of her exaj>e rated out- j bursts is thus reported by the Manchester Mirror uJine! He'd jinc anything. There can't nothing conic along tliutV dark and sly and hidden, but he'll jine it. If anybody should ! got up a society to burn his house down he'd jine it just as soon as he could get in, and if he hod to pay to get in he:d go all the suddener." A dissolute youngfellow named "Jake" j Martin was found at a lime kiln near ^ -ion v l. ! • - * «— An ly managed to wend his way to the kiln, where he lay down and went to sleep, when found he was still under the influence of liquor, and his legs, that had been hanging over the edge of the kiln were horribly burned and charred. He had been too drunk to be conscious ot the (act that he was being roasted. • Some young men of Birmingham. England, formed themselves into a theatrical blackmailing olique. The) demanded money from actors, throat ening that if it was tiot given them the cheers of the gallery would be changed to hisses whenever the actors apixard on the the Maoa**. received was generous. Recently they attempted to regain their freedom, and the result was an organized system of annoyance, which culminated in the Prince of W ales' Theatre, when a large cabbage was thrown on the stage and hit Miss Jenny Hill square in the face. Then the polioe interfered ; the cabbagethrower was arrested and sentenced to two months' hard labor. Lucy Hooper, in one of her Paris letters, advises American women to adopt the llenvy U. ruff, now so popular in Paris. "Made of passementerie to match the dress and stiffened with invisible wire, it forms, when worn with a square out dress, the opening whereof Is filled with lace and tulle, the most charming effect imaginable. In feet," Mrs. Hooper continues, "I do not think that fashionable ladies ever dressed - becomingly than they are doing 1 at present. What with the close, low, severely simple ooifftire* that set off Ui© shape of every woman's head and the color of her hair, and the absence of exaggeration in the picturesque toilets that are now in vogue, beauty never more !>eeutifal, nor wo* uglitie^ i ever more endurable."

_ M kind* of I*mUl work. W t j: wiiicft. bps . j . ij dei; : : try, m con I* done in office in tot 1 -"i-.; "y. Our prices ore rRaaanitilc, and ire defy competition In quality and rates. wbur Somers L. lrwtn, OF MUULVILU^ would coll thf attention of the people of CAPE MAY COUNTYto the fact that be is prepared to do all kinds of Black smith ing at the lowest prices, and on short notice. I constantly have in stock a large and varied assortment of AXES, which I can recommend as of the beat qualify. 1 am also prepared to manufacture all kinds of Fine Tools. Give me a call and test my work. f^Ordem by mail will receive immediate attention. S. L. Irwin, mchG ljrr. MILLVILLE. S. P. MURPHY, Watfh Maker § Jeweler. Particular Attention given to Cleaning and Repairing. All orders by Mail will receive prompt and careful attention. S' P. MURPHY, ap31v. MUlville, N. J. F. L litliri S Ci, ©5, ©.©A VTVvoVtioVt t\v\A "ReWvV "OtAtn vft TT _ „„ "• T>rJ_ dies, Collars, \S hips, Robes, Blankets, &c., &c. < » i t A FULL LINE OF STOCK AND FINDDGS affray* on hand. O Nail St. M*r thr RrMgr. Millville, N. i. All ordeiw hy mail will receive prompt and carofal attention mohftlvr.

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