n 1 ilutititatitots, For the Potter Journal. gActippi iin Phonetic,s.--so. 9. flbjectioas to the charge—front its strangeyess . Wo are often told that our phonetic or ;:hography looks so oddly, the characters itre so uncouth, and the spelling is so situ -10 awl silty, that those who aro high . a pnded and educated will not stoop to so pat and .fuolish a thing, as to use it. . • We are not surprised At such °Nee- Thosc Who have been accustomed is Ttiad and.write much, or who have' by painful and laborons process become passable readers and spellers, find such a t4rous attachment existing for the dear pystisul, p.p4 the old familiar words, that they cannot feel like parting with such old friends. - • The new alphabgt they look upon as ludicrous; as ridiculous:as the. first um hrella, a thin(r_ to be laughed at and u4t. tried. • Similar objections were raised against the ponderous 100 ,motive, asit thundered along its iron track s with ifs scream and fire-spitting - Put we have lived to find the railway train, p. fruitful theme of poetry. _Every new fashion which is introduced among us at first 109 ks .very strange, and many avow themselves opponents and say they will he the last odes to don the ridiculous cos tume, 'Pitt how is it „Look at one item . t : f p ladies %card robe—hoops—a lady with. put hoops—you could find one about as soon as you could a white crow. That which was once so odious and so much sport made about, is now absolute ly essential to the comfort and re.:petable appearance of the fair ones.. The objec t.:on of.‘!strangegess" is no objection, be cause it SYijj goon wear away, and the-new letters will look as beautiful' ana .yrnmet rival is the old ones. The Conservative Oljertion • The principle of this objection is this : not tu.erely or simply the unwillingness to change a custom, but a belief that the in c;mveniences of the change %sill more than counterbalance the advantages claimed for it. The inconveninces presumed, o be are, first, that every one will be obliged to go !_o school again in order to learn the new .Secondly, that all our old- books .tud libraries will become useliss, as it Will require au eqeeial study to under :-taud them; with regard to the lira, it :s merely necessary- to say, that any per- FOR who is a fluent or easy reader of the old style, can iu a fctc /Lours learn to read the phonetic. The second objection sounds quite formidable at first, but it is really no ob jection. at all. Because, as - I have proved before, this system will make more Ulla better readers of the books now printed 0 the. Romanic spelling. The present system otspelling is called the Romani,. to distinguish it from the Phonetic. It is a fact which I have already adverted to'\9at the best method of acquiring a lenowledge of Romanic orthography is to commence by studying the Phonetic. if any of our readers wish to sec a spec imen of phonetic printing, they can, by sending 81,00 to J 4 ongley & Brothers, Cincinnati . , 0., and get a large Semi- Monthly paper published in Phonetics, palled The Type of t7c Tiorcv; or send 75 ets. to K. p. Prosser, and _Pct The Ilionetic Journal, a monthly WU g - aziner, pr send 10 ets. and fret a specimen num ber. The above firms t ' have published several books in phonetic spelling which p.n . ; well worth. possessing:. Moro anon. Ptto No. For the Potter Journal. "A Man's a Man for a' that." MR. EDIT9ft.- 4 WO must call attention to the fact, that, it is not the (1( rc;.e. ,(either moral or physical) of maithouc/ that is the subject of discussion i the pTopositiou, RESQLVEQ. rhat the man who dtinks intoxicai ing liquor is NQT q NUN. .Put it is whether he is g man or not a man We think that we proved him to be a man notwithstanding he may have been drunk. A. sinful man, indeed, but still a man. Were it not so, very much of what }3 in this world would be a mere: farce. The Apostle Paul was engaged in a very fruitless work when knowing the 9 -,a A,e ro of the Lord he was "persuading men nd all the others when in obedi-' M t , epee,o their Master's collie:rand, were: "preaching the gospel to every creature." i The Bible meets men as sinful ?Tiers. It: allows to them Lo other standing. The Saviour said he "came to call not the righteous, bdt sinners to repentance."--- . s'But now commandetli all MOM every where to repent." But if to be a man, One must have done nothing wrong, we. ask of what were they to repent ? They: a#e plainly called men slthough they had sinned. But, says "B," if a man Sills he ia,not a man, but I can only say the Scalp tures are against him, for they call them men; Nor tOes thosdegree of estimation io !filch( a map is held by his fellows, de termine, *aye, his real character. The .Lord•judgeth not as man, for man look.' eth en the appearance, but the Lord look eth on the heart.- It is not to the pur. pose to discuss how - much better a wan would haye been by not drinking, or- do- hag any other wrong thing. . This seems to us to admit our side because it implies that he is simply Bop as 'good a man 'as he would have ,heen had ile,not dr4rik; hat mind you, there is no gradation be tWeen a sinful- man and no man. Tiiiipli- ptide lies between the points. We are at a loss to guess what it was i that we said to give grounds for "B" WI think we were of the overt act theory.-1 1. - We neverJteld - to this, :J. B. Gough , is a sample of restoration of the drunkard to public confidence, and the evidence of this is, the multitudinous statements the christiann - papers 'during the last year to ;this effect, as well as to the fact that the.Teinp era i l ee men of Scotland employ hint in.their cause :IS a public lecturer, at the enormous sum (if I Mistake not) of 410,000 i per annum. The "reclaiming" is dangerous doctrine. Bitt the Saviour came to save men's lives, not astrOy them, and He commissioned 12 men to pe and proelaim salvation to sinners and con ferred ,upon them miraculous powers in driler to convince them to accept of the offers of pardon and peace. All thLs'is very dangerous doctrine in "B's" estima tion. This is the "sale of indulgences," and the preaching, of it determines a" . low state cif society." ) - Veil Y cannot help it. God has ZOO fit to make it his method of dealing - with inn, and I have no dis. position to change it. I confess the state. of society is as low as it ought to be.; but there is no 'tendency to elevate i(iu the conduct of those who say "Stand thou there for I am holier than thou." .The. cotton part of the .frticle is beyond my limited cOmpreltension. The confes sion abmit Pdpe Cottor would have been better without the attempt at its justifi cation. Its right or wrong is not deter-: mined u.erely b toy opinion of it. A I*RTEN.I) TO MAN. TitittEr tiunri "- PA., =l.O-61q};1il#,e() v 3, (5;39. fr. S. CHASE. EDITOR kfifPUBLIiI6:- . . The, lEsstic- Clearly Stated. we.popy elsewhere in this issue an ar itieler from the Evening Post, Which draws a very striking parallel between two very important •measures now claim in!, the attention of Congress. The two ! itheaSures afford ample ground for discus singl in the fullest, manner the issues iwhich are to dcfineAhe basis of our coon- F ,try*Ei welfare; and we coincide with the I Post that the true : issue now before the people of this country for discussion and consideration is, "Shall slave labor or free l a b o r ani ma t e !the, spirit and control the destuies of this country?" This, in our opinion, is the issue upon which the cam paign of 18(30 should be based, and this_ we believe should be the animas of a ll Comiressnmal debates, - wherein this prin. ciple is not irrelevant to the subject mat ter of discussion-. ~ I Ve hold that upon this issue, (inde pendent of all other questions of mere ex pedieticy,• inasmuch I,s we think it em braces all other issues which may come before the people in 1860,)-.—the Repub. lican party must, to be consistent, go be fore the people. It has assumed the .championship of free labor and free speech; it winds out before the country and the world as the avowed enemy of the exten sion of slavery; it dates back to the days of the Revolution, the,adoption of the ar, titles of confederation of 17f8,- and the constitution and ordinance of 1787 ; incasqtcs which; in ,their day, when south ern statesmen were men, lied more friends at the south than at- the north ; it I braces the test principles of all the old Parties, and new ones for the exigencies Of the present condition of the country; and in view of all this can well afford to rest.its success or failure upon the issue it has adopted. And, moreovdr, the issue is not one which admits of ;but one construction, or one line of interpretation. It is a broad issue, bearing uPon all the social, moral P.fid commercial relatious of our people, and aiming, •at the redemption of our com mon country i frem the vortex* of ruin' to which, a few !years of political and social perruption has' so nearly brought it. If we sustain slave . labor we must destroy frqe labor—one or the other must give Way. If we destroy free labor, we may as well make up qur mind to live, ere many years, :under tt monarchy. If we sitstaiq free label., the grandeur and inj tlUence of. our country and gb+nment is illimitable and inconceivable, and its pow-, er for good is invincible. A Little Incident in Life at Th .Federal Capital. Another of these charwing.eharacteris -1 tic episodes of Capital life, indicative alike 14 the moral ana'politieal an iasma which coimposes the air' of that legislative city, • I wok, place ill. iWashingtpn last Sunday. Theigon, Da4ol E. Sickles, member of Congress from the 111 District, New York, has, or had, a . charming wife of twenty, tivoyears, (her husband is 40), whom he married when she was ststeen--Italian I • when` she desire a lover independ ent of a husband, and Yankee enough to have just what she wanted, even though iCoV4rtly, her gather being Antonio Bagi oli, h celebratad Italian music tf.acher in Nei Y4rl::, who married an American lady. 314 Siakle's . 'lover was Philip Barton a son Nof 1 the author of the g , Star Spangled Banner," and U. S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. He was - a widower; with four children, .and was 42 years old. He had rented a house. of a negro in Fifteenth street -which, he used for assignationS with Mrs. Sicklei, and to which—(froin a Club-house which ho fre t quented opposite the residence of the. Mr. Sickles,)-4he was in the habit of signaling her with a wave of his White handkerchief. Mr. Sickles was informed of the intimacy, his wife with Key, doubted its truth at; first, but received ocular proof finally, las well as the confession of - Mrs. Sickles, !believed, and determined on dire revenge. ion Sunday he saw Key walk . past' his ihouse two or three times, and give the criminal - signal to Mrs. S., and on sceim.t - . this, requested his particular friend, S. F. Batterworth, Esq., to - follow Key. en !gage him in conversation and detain him 'until be could go up stairs and arm him self, which he did with a five-bore six inch revolver and two single barrel Der ringer pistols, went out of his house 'arid walked down past the President's, land met Mr. Key. The hater greeted ;the former, and was about offering him his hand, when Mr. Sickles, refusing to (take Mr. Key's hand, said, -Sir, you ha' e ! dishonored me; prepare to die!" Mr. Key started back a few feet, exclaiming, "What for? What fur? Don't! don't!" and made a movement as if seeking for a weapon in his left breast, but. which prov ed to be an opera-glass,„, which ho threw lat Sickles. Mr. Sickles then drew one of his Der ringers and', Sent Mr. K.ey, who. staggered I some; Mr. Siokles shut at Mr. Key again, with his s l econd. Derringer, which sent him reeling l against a tree ; he cried out "murder," when Mr. Sickles fired a third time, from his revolver, and Mr. Key 1011.1 Mr. Sickles, believing him dying, desist ed, and did do' fire again. Mr. Key was carried. to the club-house, where he died soon after. lie was a nephew of Chief Justice Taney, and was a much esteemed citizen. With impertur.ble s tpg fro J, as soon as his '•job" was dune, Mr. Sickles went to the office of United States Attorney General Black. He expressed a desiro to surrender himself, and accordingly sent fur the Mayor, the Marshal of the Dis trict being absent, and, in company with that magistrate, rode in his' carriage to the District Jail, where he has been vis ited by a large number of - his friends, from different sections of the country, all of whom expressed great sympathy fur Mr. Sickles, of course. There is very little danger of Mr. Sickles having jus tice done him, as the Administration is on his side, and will be untiring in its efforts to secure the acquittal of one of its most servile' tools. The vacancy occa sioned by the death of Mr. Key will of course be tilled at once by au appointment of the ,'resident, and with a view to furor the perpetrator of the "latest" Congress ional- homicide. The crime of 31r. Key was nearly equal, in point of' moral force, to that of Mr. Sickles, and we would nut excuse the former one juta, while at the same time that of Mr. Sickles is, and should be punished es, A first-class crime, I following The editorial remarks of the fuse, in relation to the poSition of the murderer, meet our nearty approval : "The provocation which Sickles alleg es, was the criminal intimacy of Key with his wife. The friends of Key, it is said, deny the charge; but the accounts from Washington affirm that Mrs. Sickles has fully acknowledged her guilt. We should not wonder if this were true. Mrs. Sick les was married to her husband at - a time when she was not yet out of her girlhood, and she is even now but twenty-two years, of age. The character of the husband too- often corrupts that of the wife, par-1 tieularly at the impressible period of early youth. "Curses," it is said in the old proverb, "come home to roost ;". and so., it may be said with equal truth, do adul teries. Sickles was excluded from decent society in this city long ago; and it would be almost a miracle if, in the school to which he took - his young . .wife, with her, character yet unformed, she shoulddiave I preserved herinnocence. " We do not mean to. extenuate the in jury done by Key to the wan who so cool ly took his life; it is ono of the greatest that one matt can commit against anoth er. But there are states of social exist ence in which mutual toleration is the rure of conduct, and Sickles, in acquiring so perfectly the morals, should also have aeluired the philosophy of the class to whiClj be belongs- ill became him, whe is so careless of his own conduct, to set on foot investintions . into the morals of others, and to avenge a false step with death. No matter how heady the offence touched him, be should have treated it as he treated criminal intrigues of the same nature in which his own. wife was not concerned, as-a`triffihm matter, as a pleasant jest, as a thing to be passed off with a sly allusion and a knowing look, in short, as something which the adUlter ous intriguer was welcome to chronicle among his triumphs. Temperance:lf Joins. ° TAE Rev, John . Long delivered a. lec ture of" Lager,Bier," nt tiyrichburg, Va.., not long since. , - 11 n denounced the -pop ular beverage, and affirmed that its exees usg„. bad 'contributed in . n izreat degree to the intellectual decay of the German VIOLENT POISONS. -* Think a minute,.yo who complain of..nervouShess, neuralgia; ve. young men who see visions and dream 'dreams I And, when you next are merry around the sky rocket and rifle .brands, let one of your number sing in full cups the following, from the Autocrat: " Como! fill a, fresh pumper, for ,rhy should we While the lognmod still reddens our -clips as they flow ? Pourout the decoction still brightwitli the sun, Till der the brimmed crystal the dye-Start-shall run. • "Tho half-ripened 'apples their life-dews have bled ; How sweet is the taste of the sugar of lead For summer's rank poison, lies hid in the ?clues ! ! ! That were garnered by .stable-boys srookinfr, lohg-nines. - Then a7seowl, and a.howl, and a scoff, and a sneer, For strvehine and whiskosy, and ratsbanc-and . beer? la cellar, in pantry, in attic, in hall, Down, clown with the tyrant, that masters us all And there is more truth than poetry in these, verses. Every year tnahes them truer end truer, There have been sneers at those. whose poverty, though not their will, consented to make them drink beer and sing of wine;" but. what shall It'e say of those who sit , of wihe and drink— ratsbane ?—Phiradelphitt BAND or HoPE.--A meeting of the little boys and girls of our town will be held in the English Lutheran church neat Saturday afteraoon, for the purpose of organizing a temperance society under the title of the " Band of floe ", Rev CharleS A. Flay, who is at the head of this movement, deserves great credit fur . , his activity anu zeal in the present teui perance reformation Other ministers of the gospel in town would do well to inii• late iiisexample.—.ll;crrisburg T elegraph. This is an excellent idea, and we trust lit will be generally adopted. Get the children and the women of our country fully interested in the cause of Temper ance, and we will guar4n-ty a decrease of drunkenness and crime. Whiskey is the I foundation of all crime, directly or indi • reedy, and if our Legislatures, instead of , making laws to kent ish tritne t would enact laws which wiuld enable well.disposed citizens to prevent' it, ti4y Would do them selves honor and 'vastly add to the moral weight of that : body. Tim' influence ofl the Legislature will over be a! , ainst Team-1 perance until the peopl, take the matter in haud—and, therefore, we hail the move ment in Harrisburg as a good hope that the people w . i/t ere long (at least, when these ohildren grow up;) take the matter in hand. God help in form Bands uti Llepe" in every village andThamlet•in they country—and may the ohildren of the present age be the " good angels" who shall hover around thO.pathway of all fu. ture generations to protect - them from the! fell destroyer of man's true nobility. IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON, The Cuba ,AnoeVal ion Mil tir II lid ra svii Spocial Dexpaleir to the „V. I'. Evening Post WASHINGTON, - February 26.—The firmness of the lte, *jeans on a test of endurance ,until one o'clock this mornin , azainst the thirty million - scheme, has compelled Slidell to withdraw his measure from the arena, acknowledging to-day that it cannot - Lai passed. The Committee of Ways and Mans have agreed to report Phillips's. Morrills's and Phelps's tariff bills to-day. Cobb democrats will 'try to substitute Phelps's bill, which is the tariff of 1846, for Phil lips's bill, which sacrifices almost every other interest to Peunsylvauiu iron. The Republicans will vote against Phil iips's hilt and concentrate upon Morrill's bill, which treats all the great interests with more fairness. It is thought that the Pennsylvania democrats will vote for the latter if they cannot get Phillips's. Significance °fine Question Be- thee the Senate. The Senate at Washington has been up all night engaged in debate : not of or dinary political copies; altho'ugh they seem so: but of the most funuaincutal question dont. A.merioan civilization. The Home stead bill, on one side, and the Cuban An uexation bill, on the other; are butte rep- 1 resentative measures, in which the spirit and tendencies of tie two distinctive so cieties of this country are well exgessed We refer to the tree society, which occu pies the greater number or the states, and the slaveksociety, which occupies the rest. What is the Homestead bill, which has already . passed the House ; and lingers Atom in the Senate;? It is. a. proposal to cut off one great source - of political profli gacy and corruption—Congressional trad ing in the public lands—and to establish a great political good—free access to the unsettled soil of the West for all glasses of the population. For many years this has been a favorite scheme with the re fldetink and public-spirited working-men of the country ; they saw how the rich lands of the nation were gradually falling into the hands of forestallers and specu lators.; they saw how they were dwindling away under the revdess prodigality of Congress; they saw what lan adujirable outlet and asylum they toight iprove for the _impoverished and over-crowded' Popti, lations,of the cities; and they interposed, from time to time, to . savel.thivialuable inheritance from being absorbed by a rich ! landed .aristocracy, or . fronibeing SquaU dered by not over*rupulUus legislators. At leng,th they have so far aroused the attention of the-nation, and persuaded its opinions, as te . procnre - passage of a most unobjectionable atid judicious act through the •nouse ofiltepreseniatives. Eat tho way of it is stopped in the Senate by another soheme of veridifferent ,scope and character. . _ . And what is this Culian annexation bill ? In .our estimation it is a bill devis ed by a few politfcal: leaders to empower the President of thei United States ito scat ter thirty millions; of dollars in bribery itnd corruption among the people. But, con sidering it in the light in jwhiclt the mov ers choose-to put it forward, as a Measure preliminary to the!^acquiSition of Cuba. and it is not greatly imprOved in•feature. . 1 . it then becomes a ;seheme, ostensibly to Ipurchase, but in reality io seize ;by vio lence, additional slave territory from an unwilling neighbor-and friend. Mr. Sli dell, in his.report,Jand other senators in . their speeches, it Is true; arc prpinpt to assign afluzen motives for this aggressive proposition—Commercial,', social and polit ical—but the one :controlling motive, as it is well known, is to increase the politi cal power of slavery. If it were not sup posed that it would have that effect,? it I would find but few advocates in Washing , i ton. -1 l I Here, then, we see the Senate absorbed Ito the discussions oft wo strongly eon trt4t ed measures ; the'One a peaceful, and lA. , - nevolent.scheme for the settlement of ¶he wild lands of the West with a free, hardy -and thrifty populstiim of farmers' and Me chanics, and the other a warlike scheine i fir wresting ',, away m plop y i , ty power, in order to s \MI an already ex l eessive and dan g erous servile class, and Ito strengthen the power of its masters— and how are parties divided on these , schemes ?. Thh democrats--the friends of the people, as they call themselves— are, with few exceptions, arrayed on the side of the slave society, and the republi cans, with no exCeptions, on the side of the tree society. This diffi:Tence oe posi tion indicates the essential difference in i their wishes arid aimus, and it ought tAi have I the effect of opening the eyes of the hun- I est lit . borin!r masses of the country—such I as remain to be 441eilL'.d—to the real char-1 actor of the present political contest. It is not .a strife for mere party ascend ancy, although that may be 'involved in, the result ; it is not a vapid dispute about words or trivial and transiont matters of! opinion ; but, as we remarked at the out- 1 s et, supposing both sides to lie earnest in their objects, a serious conflict between two diverse and irreconcilabre elements of our eit,lization. Shall slave labor or free a 1 ) ,,, situate the spirit and control the destinies of this country ?—that is the is sue.-1V T. EL. , :. Post, 26th. Causes of in the Sever al Mates. More than thirty causes of divorce are !recognised by the statutes of the different 'states. In South Carolina nut one has i ever been obtained. In Virginia there are three causes, namely : natural and in. !curable impute-ney at the time or mar riage, idiocy and bigamy. In Alabama, adultery, or two years abandonment. In Rhode ; Island, iniOneney, adultery, ex treme cruelty, .wilful desertion fur the . space ot five years, continued drunken uessoleglect of the husband to provide necessaries fur the subsistence of the wife, misbehavior and wickedness repug nant th the marriage contract. In New JerseY divorce is granted for prior exist ing marriage, adultery, and ‘,Vilful absence fur live years. In Vertuont for non-age, mental incapaCity, impotency, force or fraud, adultery, confinement iu the State Prison for three years or more, intolera ble severity, absence for sevan years un heard of, and where the lysband, bring of ability, grossly and wantonly neglects to provide tor. his wife. In Maine for adultery, impotency, - desertion for five years, joining the Shakers for five years, confinement in the Stare Prison of any of, the United States for five years, fraud in I obtaining the consent of the other party, 1 liabittial drunkenness for three years; a marriage with nn Indian 'or mulatto is void; and imprisonment for felony in the state, work S -a divorce witheut . any judic ial proceeding. In Kentu;ky; for habitu al drUnkenueSs, condemnation fur felony, cruelty of the husband, and, fur several other causes whieh we forbear to men tion. In Illinois, fur impotency, adulte ry; wilful desertion for MO ye, - 4rs, extreme cruelty, habitual drunkenness for two' years. In Missouri, for adultery, wilful desertion for two years, conviction for an infamous habitual drunkenness for two years, cruel treatment endan gering life, intolerable indignities, va grancy of the •husband. In lowa the same causes exist as; iu Missouri, to which_ is ssuperadded, "when the par ties cannot- live iu peaCe aLd happiness, and their welfare requires . p,,4eparation." The• law of Arkansas is the same as in Missouri, except that one ypar's absence is sufficient to free the abandoned party from the - bends'of marriage . . ~ In Tennes see and Mississippi the kits is nearly situ ilAr; while in 'Florida, tollikei enactments are added habitual indulge l hee of viclent U7lll ungovernable temper for, one year, or ; drunkenness or desertion; for one year. In North Carolina, impotency,. adultery, abandonment, turning the wife out oft doors; cruelty or indignity On the part of I the husband, or any otherjust cause.. In Texas, impotency, excess, 'Ur cruel treat-1 meat, or outrages, or desertion for th ree y . eari); tiusband . may .have divska for.thq adultcry(of the wife, and the Rife when the- husband abandons her add lives in adultery.. In Maryland the law same as ia :New, York,-exeept that ab an , donment and three years'. absence .fro m the state is-a cause of divorc. I n . G eor. gia, the old English ecelesiastiekl tan m t . erns. In New Hampshire aud.Ohiesita. ilar laws to' those of Vermont prevail.... Extreme cruelty and - absence for three years are caused for. divorce in bel aw r az . e to which Pennsylvania has.added iatoler able indignities.; Congress has aever ferred the power .to grant diVorci uvoa. the courts in the district of,ColuMbia...:. Tribune, February 23. , n A wliArty. WAY."—=John Smith 4 . 23 !seen going along Smithlieldstreet,Satur. day, drawing a willow- wagon with. tai l) . flint in it, and several satchels suspender), lon the tonne. ..I.le. looked- weary wi l l s travel, and attracted- attention. li e " s , i induced to go to the Mayor's ofke, T h ere he and the child Were properly cas e d-f„,, I His story is a.sau'one. His wif e &di a I.Cincinnati, and Being des,irous to place. their little' one under his - sister's Care ia N. Y., ho :soled—being without means. to do otherwise—to start on his journey afoot. He bought the wagon, placed his child' with his few worldly effects in it, 'and left the city 'with out fifteen cent s 4 his pocket. People along the way who heard his story, gave him and his little 'one food, and shelter, though hot always,. and he suffered dreadfully at'tiines frs cold, and hunger, And anxiety fur his charge. Near he stopped at a stone tavern, and offered a woman ten centsalf he had—for shelter over night; be did nut ask for food. She demurred at first, but finally consented. - .Durin g the night-the landlord cause home, learn. ed the facts,.and with curses drove him out. He put his little charge in the wan on, and in the night, under apitiless and rainy sky, pushed forward. De grew 11 nit:b with cold, 'and attempted to build a fire to warns himself alongside the tradt of the Hempfield Road. The watchman saw him and forbade; but learning his sad story, took him to his house. led ed and refreshed - he came on to the city. Bless him for his kindness to the little ore He deserves a better reWard than he is likely to get in thistvurld. We are <dad to know that a fundlis being maed to send him and his charge to New York by railroad.—.Pivsbary .b:tspateh. A Brum - BURNED Ti) DEATEL—BY passengers from Lebanon we learn. of a most distressing affair which occurred nor that place yesterday. Miss SusanS.huet, daughter of John Shuck, Esq., was to have been married to Mr. John 'Thomas at 12 o'clock. But a few minutes prio to the time the ceremony was to be per t'ormed her dress accidentally caug:it fire, and the wedding dress, which was o' a thin Material, was iMtantiv in a blaze and the youn g lady was fatally burned fler sister, Mri. Burr Harrison, in beret forts to save her, tired her own dress, and was, perhaps, even' more severely burned. There is but little hope of her recoveryi Is feared. Mr. Shuck and other members of the family, who also tried to relieve'. young lady from her perilous situation here burned, but not seriously. Tfi scene was terrifying beyond the expre'siiu • :of lanuage. The bride was badly burnt from th iwaist up,-and the hair biirned frrom he head. After her wounds-wore dressed and while she lap upon her conch, suffer ing the rn tensest 'agony, the marringeeer Lemony Was performed, Rooms had been prepared at the N 3 tional Hotel, in this city, for the hrib party, and they were to leave by.theeye ning train.—Lociseille .Courier, 2'211. TOE STATE OF OREGON.—The follow inn are the officers of the n new State " Oregon : Governor-John Whittaker Secretary of State---Lucien french; Tres: urer—john D. Boon ; State Prilitei' Asahel. Bush. The Governor is to field of f ice for four years, with a salary of 51 ; 1600 per annum. He is also to be made f superintendent of public instruction, and with the Secretary of State . and Thum ' er to constitute a board of trustees i Charge of the school fund. The othe State officers will hOld office for two years The Senate consists of sixteen and th. House of Representatives of thirtigon , members, who -will receive three dolls per day for forty . days. SAYS the Washington correspondent° , The Evening Post: "Mr: J. Q.A. a young artist of this city, has just col pleted a bust, in plaster, of Ron. Josha R. G iddino' '' s. It-is pronounced by ;1 1 tb' friends of the Jailer to be a west admits ble likeness. While this is true, it ld s evinces much promise for the future of tt~ gifted young artist. .11Ir. 'Ward was be , in Ohio, but studied for several years wit' H. K. Brown, the artist, of New York." MRS.. FRANCES D. GAGE (` 4 Aunt fa• ny"), of St. Louis, hi about to embark New Orleans for Hayti, via. Cuba. ne h usband's brother .will accompany he The results of her, observations in th: country "and during her journey thitht will doubtless find their way to the pogi in due "time. We are encourac:Cd to e l pect from her an .occasional commusio tion.—Anti-Slavery Sthildard. IN the front row of seats in the Mak Assembly sits the .world-renckwaed N Dow. He has already sti eguished self is a ready debater. Whatk he sPe' ll the House listens. His is a Very BO; di way of saying very harsh things, 04 genial - smile plays- round; his; face, eee when retorting in Ilia mast C,uttiog ° sarcastic inanner, 11
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