HI GEO. IV. IIOIVHAA. NEW SERIES. Select JOottvrj. A Leup Year MClsvEm'. j BV I.ILCIE EIGHT FOOT. Ala*! alas! I have no beau To take me out a sleighing. The one 1 had I lost iast year, About the time of haying. And so, as one year out of four Kind cietoni doth decree The ladies lor themselves shall speak. Will any one take me ? Who'll buy! who'i! buy! a heart as warm As ever beat for man ? My character, I'm glad to say, Tin willing al! should scan, Mv eye; are blue, and brown my hair, And live feet four am 1 ; Complexion neither dark nor fair, Will anybody buy ? My rank in life I'll tell to him Who savs, '•I'll lake you, I.illie For should 1 put it all in print Perchance you'd call me silly ; 1 have some friends, I'm very sure, And trust few foe- have 1 ; And this is all I'll tell you now— Will anybody buy I The purchase money must be paid Not in poor, sordid gold, Rutin true love and tenderness, That's neither bought or sold— Love that will cling through good and ill, Through sun-hine and through shade— A love that grows as years rolU on When beauty's charms shall fade. The requisite- that 1 require I briefly thus ex pre,- ; tie mod be five foot Ten, or higher, And pleasing in address. - Hi- age from thirty to two score, For 1 detest n:en younger, And never could look up to them As the weaker to the stronger. Hi-character tor truth and honor Of course must stand qnite high, (Fur of that class they call "lust men"' 1 must confess I'm shy :) A mind -n much above my own That I to him could bend, And find in that dear single one My lover, master, friend. And in return I'll give to him Affection firm and true, And ever try to yield to him The obedience that is due. A little corner in my heart Is waiting to he -old At auction on this pleasant day. For something more than gold. Who bids tor this young lady's heart This sunny winter's morn ? (pii'-k,or you're late, good gentle folks : To "going—going—gone." The Model Politician. To be a politician, says the Louisiana l.'evr ier, is an easy tinner —so easy tfiat an effort of iil is required to restrain the natural proclivi ty in thai direction ; but to be a model politi cian i- quite ano -ingestions as those of your model politician:— j! he does iiot-ohtaiD a nomination for himself, ' s V(, ry likely to get it for some particular ,np nd (> l his own kidney, who, as he knows, y "l not fail to return the favor in some other Lrm. I he model politician is always an active pro '"'er of agitation. He is full of expedients a 'jd excuses to throw himg-lf in the way of men 0 occupy a high position, knows as well as ° n .v °"e the advantage of being often seen in Ci ' ise af) d confidential confab "leading men," calculates wuth confidence upon being c.on •s"i* red "one of them." E verv suggestion they c ake he dj^ s no t f a jj { 0 jmpait to the next man fi ln eets as something quite original, and shines } virtue ot the right thus borrowed with all h>e effulgent eof a new pewter spxm. When crowds t j )e nKM j e ; p,)jg ician can make a speech. io knows but himself the lobor he has spent "' picking up its materials from the shreds and pA'Ches ot old pamphlets and newspapers or in committing i- ( 0 memory afterwards? But or atory is not his forte, and he will generally con trive to subsidize into his service the talents of some really earnest and able man, w ho has noth ing in view but to contend for what he honest i!y believes is just and right. The oratory and patriotism of the young man is employed to shake the political tree—the tact arid cunning of the model politician enables hitri to devour the falling fruit, j The model politician is no office-seeker—not :he ! He is "disgusted with the wild hunt after office wishes to have it distinctly understood that he has consented to become a candidate in obedience to the wishes of a large number of his political friends, and "with the hope of strength ening the ticket," and that he leaves his own quiet home with reluctance, at a time when his private business requires his constant personal attention. Once nominated, he is determined on being elected. He ascertains which of the candidates on his own side are most unpopular, and agreesto work for those of the opposite par ty, in order to procure a similar assistance from them. A great producer of scratched tickets is the model politician ! But your model does not begin to display his fttll Hedged powers until he is elected. He has then three objects in view ; first, to make j as much out of his office as lie can ; second, to I hold it as long as he can ; third, to get a better i one it he can. It he is elected to a legislative body, he contrives to make every vote subserve ! bis ends. It Smithkins wants his vote in favor 'of a bill for the establishment of the Bank of Smithkinsville, he must agree to support the mode! for the first office he is a candidate for.— He gives Junkios to understand that he is in favor of the "Bill for the Relief of the heirs of Judkins senior," hut expects the vote and influ ence of Judkins in the next State Convention, j By a similar process he will, in a few weeks, | have scores of men pledged to his support, and by the time tiie next convention is held, he , has either secured the nomination or placed himself in a situation to re'.ite from the compe tition for a very "handsome consideration."— He continues to carve the public goose in such S a manner as to receive several of tfie choice j morsels for his own plate. When the shower j of political patronage descends, the soup dish I ot the model politician is as wide as any, and j always right side up. The model politician need never be toki when to change bis party. When be sees that "Americans must rule America," he knows, or thinks be knows, that there is some good slices liom the public loaves, which he can get by joining Sam—perhaps. One patty having learned bis cunning tricks and become disgus ted with fiiin, he is determined to try another one something less discriminating. Hence we i see all the "model politicians" of the country ranging themselves in the Buntline ranks, and j basking in (be light of the lantern "dimly burn- j ing." Here there is no check upon their fan tastic tricks; here they can play what pranks they please, and are all covered over with the mantle - lurne.l his face j toward the General, who said, 'it seems to me that we have met before.' The preacher, ap parently embarrassed, said : 'f was with you through the Creek campaign—one of your hotly | guard at the battle of Horse Shoe—and fought j under your command at New Orleans.' The ; General arose slowly from hi.-> seat, and throw ing his long withered bony arms around the ; preacher's neck, exclaimed ; 'We'll soon meet where there's no war—where the smoke of hat tie never rolls up its sulphurous incense !' "Nevet before, or since, have I seen so many tears shed as then (lowed fbith from the eyes of that vast assembly. Every eye was moist with weeping. "Eleven years have passed awav since that day. The old hero has been more than ten in his silent and narrow home. The voices that cheered the drooping fight, and thundered in the rear of routed armies, is silent forever. The old preacher, too, t,as for.ght his last battle, laid his armour by, and gone home to his eternal rest." Si\c;r;.Ait Ocrcitr.Kxei:. in clearing up one of the rooms a day or two since, savs the Alba ny Knickerbocker , a waiter discovered a cat so Crowded into a boot that it was with difficulty that she could be extricated. Having got her out, Ihe next question in order was, "how did she get in." f'his was leading to a long wind ed dispute, when one of the l>v-standers took op the bo a, gave it a shake, anil tossed a half grown rat upon the floor. The discovery cd the rat solved the riddle. The rat, to escape the cat, rushed into the boot : Ihe cat, to secure a game dinner, rushed afier him, and with such force that she could not hack out again. Learn wisdom from pussey, and never "go it blind," even in a good cause. MI RDCC G.I-I: AT ST. Lotis.— We alluded a few days ago to a murder committed at St. Louis of a most aftrocious character. The fol lowing additional particulars are obtained from a recent paper of that city : The Recorder's Court was thronged yester day to hear the examination of I'efer Wallet, the fiend in human shape w ho, a few days ago, was arrested on a charge of starving his wife to death. From the evidence it appears that tiie deceased had been an invalid for some tinte before her death, and about half the time confi ned to her bed. This Walter, her husband, in the meantime,so poorly provided tor her sup port, that she was compelled to craw l to the ■ houses of her neighbors to solicit food to keep her lrom starving. Often in the night time the neighbors heard her scream, as if being whip ped. On Sunday morning week, one of tin* neighfiors called to see how she was, and found 1 iter lying on the floor in a dying condition, i without a stich of clothes on. The chairs were , Iving upon her, and a leather strap, looking | like a piece of a trace, was lying bv her side.— Her body was covered with bruises all over, and in many places the skin was broken, show ing that she had been terribly beaten. Her i left shoulder was dislocated, and her wrist bio- i ken. She was totally speechless, ami some ; brandy and water was given to revive her, but i she still continued unable to speak to the time < ol her death. About five o'clock in the even ing, on being asked whether the injuries had < been inflicted upon her by her husband, she i nodded her head in the afiirmative. She an- : swered in the same manner that it was that I morning. A postmortem examination had been t field, and the physician gave it as his opinion that she died from starvation and brutal treat ment. 1 Freedom of Thought and Opinion. From the London Times March, 12. Graceful Valedictory. Last night Lord Mayor and Lady May oress entertained Mr. Buchanan, the American Minister, and a select party at dinner, in the Egyptian ball of the Mansion House, as a mark ol respect and consideration on the occasion of the United States to return to his native coun try : On the removal of the cloth the usual loval and patriotic toasts were drank. The Lord Mayor then said he had among his visitors that evening a distinguished gentleman and an illustrious statesman, the Minister of the United States. [Cheers.] That gentleman was about to leave this country, his successor to this Court having been appointed, and be ing daily expected to arrive among us. He should have felt it a great reflection on his mayorality and a manifest dereliction of duty if he had omitted such an opportunity of showing that mark of respect to the Minister of the C niled States which he had it in his power to bestow as the Chief Magistrate of the city of London. At all times the citizens of London had received, and he trusted ever would re ceive, with more than ordinary pleasure the representative of the great translative Republic in this country : and it was in that sense, and also because be was about to return to his na tive land, that Mr. Buchanan was peculiarly welcome to partakeofhis hospitality. [Cheers.] He knew that he would carry with him the best wishes of the people of this country for his happiness and prosperity in his own land, and he hoped be would return there with no other than a kindly and abiding recollection of the great people among whom lie had been so long resident. He gave them "the health of Mr. Bu chanan." [Loud cheers.] Mr. Buchanan responded to this compliment as follows : My Lord Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen ; I receive with profound and grateful feelings this testimonial from the present company of the regard with which they hold my country, for Ido not attribute it to myself. J can say, however, in all truth and sincerity, that I shall ever preserve a grateful memory of the kind ness which I have invariably received in Eng land. I have Vet to meet the first English gen tleman who has not treated nie as it 1 had been a countryman of his own. [Cheers.] I say nothing ol the ladies, because I ought not to speak of them, although they are the lairest part of creation. f shall carry home with me every sort of grateful feeling towards the people of this country, among whom 1 have never felt ir.v self a stranger. Speaking the same language, Laving read the same books, having had inter course with a kindred free p-ople, I have al ways spoken my sentiments lively and respect fully in every societv in which 1 have been.— I have invariably found that an English gen tleman treated me kindly, and if we dithered in opinion we bad a fair argument, and we have always parted in peace and friendship. With regard to the two countries, what a dreadful misfortune it would be to the whole human race if they should ever again be in volved in war! How it would injure and throw back the cause of civilization and hu man liberty ! How it would delight the des pots of the earth to find these two nations des troying themselves, and in that way destroying every hoped progress to mankind ! [Cheers.] I hold it that there can he no political slavery where the English language is the language of the country. [Renewed cheers.] It is impos sible; and, s<> far from there being any jealousy, so -far from its being proper that there stiould tie any jealousy in either country as to the honest and fair extension of the front iera of either, it ought to he considered a blessing to mankind that lhey should have the opportunity of ex eiitiing their freedom and liberal institutions over all the unsettled parts of the earth.— ( 'fleers. i I am snrrv to say that with all these feel ings and sentiments, from the first separation ol the two countries there has unfortunately al ways been a group of unsettled questions.— There is a cloud now impending over their re ■atiuns : fait I trust in Cod and believe that that flood will he speedily dissipated, and that the sunshine ot peace and friendship will become more and more bright Between the two coun tries. until all tbe dissensions which ever exist ed between them shall have passed away, and shall only live in history as a record of the fol ly of two people who could for a moment sup pose it possible to engage iu a fratricidal wai.— [ Loud ell eel s. ] 1 thank you again for the cordial manner in which vou have responded to the proposal of my health, and 1 beg to assure you that I shall ever regard my residence in England as one of the bright periods of my life. [Cheers.] Several appropriate civic and other toasts were proposed from the Chair, and responded to in the course of the evening. Mr. Buchan an, in a factinns and complimentary speech, gave " The Ladies," and the company seperated between 10 and 11 o'clock. RESUSCITATION FROM AFPAREXT DEATH The Rockpoit Register gives the particulars of a singular case of resuscitation alter supposed death in that city. A child had, to all appear ance died, and was laid out in its little winding sheet upon a hoard in an upper room, while other preparations were going forward far the funeral. The sexton was notified and the grave dug. Some time after the father went into the room where the child was, and was astounded at its calling him by name, and complaining that it did not lie good. 0) course, the lillle suti'eter was supplied with a belter bed at once. It had evidently fallen into a trance, from which it was awakeped bv a hard bed and cold air. I ADJOURNMENT OF PARLIAMENT —THE KING OF THE BELGIANS COME A COURTING —STATE OF TRADE Parliament has adjourned over the Easter ho lidays. Mr. Dallas has proceeded to London. Mr. Buchanan has taken Ibrmal leave of the Queen : Lord Palmerstnn accompanied Mr. Buchanan, and in this act the English papers see an indication that the premier desires to stand well with the United States. There is nothing new to report respecting the difficulties with America. The King of the Belgians has arrived in Lon don to attend the "confirmation" of his god daughter, tile Princess Royal, (Queen's eldest daughter.) The young Prince of Prussia, son to the heir ot the throne, is ahout to re-visit England, with a view to a betrothal to the Princess. Last year when this youth came on the same errand, the British Press scowled his alliance, but times have changed since then. A verdict ot murder has been returned by a coroner's jury in the case of Dove, charged u ith having poisoned his wife with strychnine.— This case is remarkable, horn the medical testi mony that strychnine can be detected with cer tainty a considerable time alter death. The reports of the general trade ol the coun try during the week past, had been mostly fa vorable. At Manchester there i• ad been a good average business, and the transactions would have been larger hut lor the firmness ol pries. At Birmingham the iron trade continued dull, owing chiefly to the orders from the United States being unnsually limited : the other man ufactures of the place are, with few exceptions, also animated. A meeting had been held in the pottery district to petition tin* Government to bring about a mutual abolition of import du ties between France and England. At Wol verhampton it has been resolved to establish a Chamber ot Commerce. From .Nottingham our reports describe great activity*. In the wollen districts also the transactions h3ve been large, stocks are low, and confidence prevails. In the Irish linen markets the tendency to improve ment is well maintained. THE OVERLAND MAIL. The overland mail lias arrived at Trieste, bringing dates from Calcutta to the 9th, and Bombay to the 16th of February. A proclamation was issued on the 7th of Feb ruary, announcing the annexation of the King dom of Onde, and the deposition of the King. The Landal Rebellion ha? been renewed. Trade in India was inactive, and prices fluc tuating, with the exception of indigo. The money market was easier. Stirling ex change at Bombay, was quoted at and at Calcutta, 2a'2i. THE CONFERENCES. A waiting the arrival of Baron Manteaflel, the plenipotentiaries have held no meeting since last advices, and matters remain precisely as < they were. Peace is now considered acer- j taintv, and it is expected that the procotol will i he signed in a few davs. As much secresv as possible as to the proceedings is still obser- j ved. SHOCKING CASE OF INSANITY.—A letter from \ ienna, in the Zeit, of Berlin, contains! the following : "An event has just taken place here which lias beer, much talked of. A clerk in a merchant's office whilst working at his desk, felt a sort of presentiment of coming 1 danger, which led him suddenly to ruturn home. He there found his wife in bed, as she ; had been confined of a son only three days he- 1 fore. She was dressed. Her eves wete hag gard, and tn r looks animated by lever. She ! said to him, "Its yvell that you came, lor I yvill : now roast the goose, which yvill be ready at 1 once." At the same moment the clerk heard ; the crv of a child in the kitchen. He rushed * to the spot, and found the new horn child tied up, and lying on the frying pan. The mother, taken suddenly with the milk fever, had mista ken her child for a goose, and was about to put it to death. Tile father happily arrived in time to prevent such a catastrophe. A FAMILY QUARREL. —The Albany Register and tlie Albany Statesman, both know-nothing organs, are now engaged in a pretty extensive quarrel about the Philadelphia nominations. • TheJStatesman says that the "Fillmore ticket was not made to be withdrawn or beaten." To yvhich the Register (George Law's paper) replies: "Well, what on earth tens it made for? We can see no other possible use to which it can or yvill be put. It is entirely true that it serves to exemplify the greatest folly and the wicked est treason towards a great cause ever perpetra ted by a conspiracy of corrupt politicians, but yve do not believe it yvas 'made' for that pur pose. May-be it yvas 'made' to show that a ticket may be in the field that may he stink by its oyvn intiinsic ponderosity, and therefore, cannot be said in any proper sense to be 'beat en in other yvords, that it was 'made to beat itself, and not to be 'beaten.' " The old-line whigs of Philadelphia have nominated a city ticket. The policy of nomi nating such a ticket is seriously doubted bv ma ny members of the party. The Philadelphia correspondent of the Baltimore Sun writes : "Previous to the nominations being made, the Hon. Josiah Randall (who had opposed nominating a ticket) announced that if, on the day of election, the contest is between the ; American and democratic parties, he should vote tor the latter. Several others similarly expressed themselves. Mr. Randall withdrew j from the convention after defining his position." j ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC VICTORY IN ILLINOIS. —We learn by a telegraphic despatch, that an election held on Tuesday last in the city .| Springfield, the capital of the State, (hitherto 1 , fusion and know-nothing.) the entire democratic ticket for mayor and citv oflicees uas elected . by a large majority—upon the Nebraska issue, and against a combination of know-m thingism, abolitionism, and all the other isms combined. 1 Another shadow of coming events ! |, TERMS, $3 IER TEAR. VOL XXIV, NO. 33 <(). Hon. Mordecai Oliver, of Missouri, elected to the House of Representative# as a Whig, oa . ' being arraigned by the ''Liberty Tribune" as a deserter from the Whig party, has replied in a . long scathing letter. He says that when the House met, three parties unfurled their barmeis ■ —the Democratic, the Know Nothing, and the , Black Republican, but the Whig party was not ; there. CI the Know Nothings Mr. Oliver i writ's: "The Know Nothing party exults in (he ru in of the Whig party, boasts of having destroy de it, slanders it in its grave, and then demands i (if I understand your article aright) the allegi , jance and support of the tew surviving Whigs. The powerless patriot might he as justly aceu- . sed of treason fa refusing to swear allegiance to the conquering imader of Ins country, who j had exterminated his iac*', as a Whig, for refu sing fealty to the usurpir g organization which boasts of having the biooti of the Whig party ion its head. And here let me observe that the Know Nothing platform has not even one sin gle [dank —the Know Nothing creed one single aiti' le—of the Mern stuff of which the Whig platform and Whig principles were composed. Though Know Nothingism has arisen on the | ruins of the Whig party, it has not made use of I lie stalwart timbers which bore it and its varying f.-rtunes for so many eventful years. At pres-nt these treasures lie neglected, await ing the hand of some mightier architect than ev< n 'Sam,' who built the fabric of Know Noth ingism in one night. Ebcted as a Whig, I ! emphatically reject the new te?t of Know .Nothingism, and even if the majority of those whose suffrages gave me a seat in Congress i have subsequently* joined the order, and adhere | to if, I deny their right to try me by an ex post i farto law," Mr. Oliver comes down on the doctrines of Know Nothings ir: plain ta'k. He says— "l should be w anting in candor it 1 withheld my conviction regarding the peculiar doctrines jof the Know Nothing party.. These doctrines are qualified or unqualified hostility to natu j ralized foreigners and Catholics, native and for eign, residing in the United States. Speaking i simply as an American citizen, I deem these . doctrines absurd and pernicious, and, if incor porated into our laws, (which cannot he, how j ever,) fruitful of great evils. It Catholics be j traitors, the proof of their guilt is not to be found on the [rages of our history,and no vote of mine shall help to make them traitors by* i branding them with that opprobrious epithet. I shrink from pronouncing three millions of men | perjurors and traitors, without able to al : lege one overt act in support of the appalling accusation." xMr. Oliver urges the Clav and Webster Whigs to join the Democrats in the following ! way : "Do they want encouragement? If thev ; do, Kt them hear th words of their own loved, venerated Clay, at Lexington, in ISSO, antici- I pating the ruin of the Whig party as a national I organization. In substance he said: When ever the Whig party shall become merged into ja miserable, sectional, abolition party, I w ill renounce it forever, and in the future act with that party, regardless of its name, which stands ,by the Constitution and the Union! Now, ; theie can he no doubt of the fact, that the Democratic party is rational ; and I assert rnv ! conviction to he, that if is the only party in j America that can overthrow abolitionism, up j hold the Con-titution and the Union, and that it | will do so if all truly national patriots will nn | sheath their swords and rally* under its ample | banner, with the high resolve to conquer, or to fall all gloriously on the field of strile." I KNOW NOTHINGISM IN WASHINGTON CITY.— We give below the card ol an old and well known citizen of Washington, in which his reasons are hrefly and pointedly set forth (or withdrawing from the know-nothing organiza tion. in Washington city, as in all parts of the ■ country, the disease lias ceased to he epidemic. Many of our citizen,s who were deluded into the lodges hv systematic misrepresentations now* see the f.illy and wickedness of the older, and w ho yviii, before the lapse of many days, follow the manly, courageous, and |atr:otic example set by Mr. JMyer. Here is his card : A CARD. —My democratic brethren w ho, like myself, have been led into th" know-nothing order without knowing at the time what that order was, or what if required, are hereby in formed that I have sent my resignation to the council I belong,>d to, and have withdrawn from it. My reasons for doing so were many -. among others, I was deceived as to the objects and intents of the association. I found it a cunningly-devised scheme to break up the dem ocratic part y. I was also assured that it pro tected every man in the enjoyment of his po litical, civil, and religious opinions, and that, instead of proscribing foreigners indiscrimi nately, it only meant to alter the naturalization laws in regard to those thereafter arriving on our shores. Instead of this, 1 find it bigoted, persecuting, and anti-democratic to the fullest extent. lam now, as I always was, a firm, un flinching democrat, and nothing ever has made, or ever shall make, me abandon that party. 1 shall support it, and in doing so must necessarily oppose the know-nothing candidates, whoever they may be, in whatever form or guise or dis guise thev may appear: and I say to all my democratic brethren yet in the order, "Co thou and do likewise." MARCH 31, 185 G. F, S. MYER. GLORIOUS VICTORY '—At the late election in the city of Reading, the Democrats elected their candidate for Mayor, J. B. Wanner, Esq. by a majority