TOLiME .Til. NEW SERIES. THE BEDFORD GAZETTE 3s ri'Di.isiu.n EVERY FRIDAY MORNING BY MEYERS & BEN FORD, At the following terms, to wit: SI -s<> per annum, CASH, in advance. s2.o<> << < if paid within the year. $2.50 " " it not paid within the year. OJ'Xo subscription taken for less than six months. 0 . "No paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the publishers. It has teen decided by the United States Courts, that the stoppage of a newspaper without the payment ot ar rearages, is prima farie evidence ot lraud arid is a criminal offence. G3r"The courts have decided that persons are ac countable for the subscription price of newspapers, it they take tiiem from the post office, whether they subscribe tor them, or not. ort gin a I fleet rg. SPRING. Soft blow the breezes over the hill, The thr...!om of Winter is broken and gone ; No longer rude blasts, desolating and chill, Sweep o'er the green valleys with sigh and with moan. Then, welcome, :.dr Spring ! with thy sweet bursting flowers, Oh ! welcome again, to thy bright blooming bowers ! Welcome thy freshening zephyrs and showers! Now smoothing the fields whence old W inter has flown ! Softly the blue-bird is wooing hi-rnate. The redbreast is chirping his sonnets ot love ; And chanticleer iu-'ily crows oa the gate, As he hears the gav songbirds' sweet warble above. Winter is gone, with his snow-covered moun tains, Spring has unbound the ice from the fountain -: Softly the winds in the dim forests move, And faint, O'l r t lie hill comes the voice of the dove. ST. CLAIHSVII LB, June 10, 1858. 11l isc cll aa£o us. THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM. A few weeks ago Sir E. Dulwer Lytton deliv ered a lecture in Lincoln, which city he had lor a number of years represented in Parliament, on the early history of Eastern nations. He gave tin on I line of (he history oft lie Babylonian, Assyrian, Persian. Egyptian, Greek ami J.-whir nations, and closed with the following pow eri.d and dramatic description of the destruction ot Jerusalem by Titus: j "Six yea is after the birth of our Lord, Judea j and Samaria became a Roman province, under , subordinate governors, the most famous ot whom iras P,,',' ins Pilate. These governors became : a oppressive that the Jews broke out into rebel lion: and seven! v years after Christ," Jerusalem was finally besieged by Titus, afterwards Empe ror of Rome. No tragedy on the stage has the s same scenes of appalling terror as are to be found in the history of I his siege. The city itself was vent bv factionsat the deadliest war with eatn Other—all the elements of civil hatred had b.o .~n loose—the streets were slippery with the • blood of citizens—brother slew brother— the granaries were set on fire—famine wasted those whom the sword did not slay. In the mi -t of these civil massacres, the Roman armies appear ed before the wails ot Jerusalem. i hen ' ;1 " 1 short time the rival factions united against tin common lie'-, thev were again the gallant coun trymen of DavTd'anc! Joshua—they sallied forth and scattered, the eagles of Rome. But tin-tri umph was brief-, theferocity of the ill fated Jews soon again wasted its<-lf on each other. And Titus marched 6n—encamped his armies close hv the walls—and fro..-, the heights the Roman t-onera! gazed with awe on the strength and sr.lend /of the city of Jehovah. Let us here pause—and take, ourselves, a mournful glance at Jerusalem, as it then was.— The city was fortified by a tiipb- wall, save on one side, where it was protected by deep aim impassable ravines. These walls, of the most solid masonry, were guarded by strong towers, opposite to the loftiest of these towers Titus had encamped. From the height of that tower tiie sentinel might have seen stretched below the whole of that fair territory of Jud a, about to pass from the countrymen of David. Within these walls was the palace of the i.ings—iisroof of cedar, its doors of the rarest marbles, its cham bers filled with ttie costliest tapestries, and ves sels of gold and silver. Groves and gardens "learning with fountains, adorned with statues i°f ! •or./", divided the courts of the palaces itself. But high aboY fi 8"; a , precipitous rock, rose the temple, fortifi?:! and adorned by Solo mon. This temple was as wrtbd-. ?* a citadel —within more adorned than a palace.— On entering you behold p>orticos of numberhes c-.-Sumn3, of porphyry, marble, and alabaster: gates adorned with gold and silver, among which was the wonderful gale called the beautiful.— Further or., through a vast arch, was the sacred portal which admitted itito the interior oi the 4. mple itself—all sheet, d over with gold, and overhung by a vine tree of gold, the branches ot which were as large as a man. Fhe roof of the temple, even on the outside, was set over with golden spikes, to prevent the birds seilhng there and defiling the holy dome. At a dis tance, the whole temple looked iiko a mount of snow, fretted with golden pinnacles. But alas : the veil of that temple had been already rent asunder by an inexpiable crime, and tire Lord ot Hosts did not fight with Israel. But the enemy is thundering at the wall. All around the city arose immense machines, from which J itus poured down mighty fragments of rock, and showers of fire. The walls gave way—the city was entered—the temple itself was stormed.— Famine in the meanwhile had made such havoc, that the besieged were more like spectres than living men; they devoured the belts to their swords, the sandals to their feet. Even nature itself so perished away, that a mother devoured her own infant; fulfilling the awful words of the warlike prophet who had first led the Jews towards the land of promise—"The tender and delicate woman amongst you, who would not advenltiie to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness—tn-r eye shall be evil toward her young one and the children that she shall bear, (or she shall eat them for want of ali things secretly in the seige and straitness wherewith thine enemy shall dis tress thee in thy gates." Still, as if the foe and the famine was not scourge enough, citizens smote and murdered each other as they met in fhe way—false propiiets ran howling through the streets—every image of despair completes the ghastly picture ofthe fall of Jerusalem.— And now the temple was S"t on fire, the Jews rushing through the flames to perish amidst its ruins. It was a calm summer night—the 1 Otli of August; the whole hill on which stoo l the temple was one gigantic blaze of fire—the roofs of cedar crashed—lhe golden pinnacles of the d une were like spikes of crimson flame.— Through the lurid atmosphere all was carnage and slaughter; the eel; jes of shrieks and yell.-, rang back from the Hill of Zion and the Mount of Olives. Amongst fhe smoking ruins, and over piles of the dead, Titus planted the stand rad of Rome. Thus were fulfilled the last a vengmg prophecies —thus perished Jerusalem. In that dreadful day, men still were living who might have heard the warning voice of him they crucified—'Verily f say unto you all, these things shall come upon this generation. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that kilies! the prophets and stones! them that .are sent unto thee, * behold your house is b fninto you desolate !'• And :hus were the Hebrew people scattered over the lace of the earth, still retaining to this hour their mysterious identity stili a living "proof of those prophets they had scorned or slain still vainly awaiting that Messiah, whose divine mission was fulfilled eighteen centuries ago, u|>on Mount Calvary." TRACING AN IDEA. The St. Louis Leader thus traces a poetic idea to ils source : Learning was, to a great degree, extinguish ed in France by Iter first Revolution, lb r subsequent ones have left her, fur literature, only newspapers and novels—those the most factious and these the most depraved that ever were seen. But the last of these Revolutions has almost swept them off: Voting oipoieo.n ha> nearly ni her of politicians ; and, to crown that benefit, lias now only to make an end of her au thors. When Lo!h are gone, she may begin a fivsh, at tlie staiting-point of some authority in •i i ument and something sound in morals. There is an evident literary identity of thought between the following pa -age in Shakespeare's '-As You Like It," and one in Pope. Jacques says : B- i.iJn -ri r-citi v* IjU.s. o. 1 i ti t , ♦ |)pp , - I'[-. in the bro k that baawb along tins $ wl; To the which place, a poor sequestered stag, That from tiie hunter's aim had ta'en a liuit. Did c mie to languish ; and indeed my lord, The wretched animal did vent such groans, That their discharge did stretch his leathern coat Almost to bur.-ting; ar.d the big round tears fours':! one are 'her down bis innocent nose, In piteous cl. ise and thus the hairy fool St ,od in the extreme verge of the swill brouk, Augmenting it with tears. O Compare this with Pope : Su thestuick deer, in some stquesler'd part, Lit-s down to die, the arrow at nis heart : There, bid in shades and wasting day by day, Inly lit* bleeds and pants bis life away. This is stolen : but stolen as an artist might steal precious material—marble, or a gem—to work up in some fit and delicate creation of his own. While Pope lias seized, and, after Ids artistic, r mocr, compressed this general image, another gi eat pott has appropriated, for the wayward meditations of his melancholy youth in the "Ele gy in a Country Churchyard,'' the very spob— the ovi i hanging tree and the murmuring brook —by which Shakspeare's hurt deer takes re fuge. There, at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreath its old fantastic loots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch And pore upon the brook that babbles by. Finally, the whole general image ol the hurt stag, deserted by the herd, is once more repro duced, by Tom Moore, and sentimentalized into an amorous dilt v, in which the horney and hairy suflerer becomes both a hart and a husband while the tree and the rivulet become bis lady's I bosom and her eyes : Come, rest in (his bosom, mv own stricken deer! Though the herd lias fled from thee, thy home is ; stiii here : i*. "C still is tlii' mile that no cloud can o'ercasi. And the heart and the hand all thine own h> the last ! But since we are talking of hurt creatures, there is a bird that lias suffered in poetry almost as much as the beast above commemorated : and as that bird is our own national one, it is surely fit that we should look into the manner in which a series of bards have left fly at him. Of that poor youth, Henry kirke While, who slew himself with over study, Lord Byron says, quite pathetically : So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Knew his own feather on the fat a 1 dart, And winged the shaft that pierced him to the heart. Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion that impell'd the steel : While the same plumage that had warned his nest, Drank the last life drop of his bleeding breast. This thought is well enough amplified ; but that is all. Where it was gotten, one •of the conversations in Boswell's Johnson shall tell. The Dr. savs there, of one of the controversialists of his day, "Mr. McQueen is like the eagle mentioned by Walker, that was shot by an ar row feathered from his own wing. " This allu sion is to Walker's "Lines to a lady singing his own verses." That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a leather of his own, Where with he wont to soar so high. Hat Walker, by the very farm ot phrase, hall-intimates that he refers to what had been said by a yet earlier pott ; and accoidingly, tl we go back to La Fontaine, we shall find the whole story alieadv told. Hot have we yet reached the i lea at its origi nal source ? By no means ; lor tiiat, we must yet trac a it back to Phaedrus in Latin, and from Phacini3 ascend to one of the earliest ol the , Greek writers, Esop. If it please our readers, however, we will, pursue this parallelism of passages further on some other day. A SWINDLED GAMBLE 11. now a cr.EKN Y.\ fought thetkif.k. Some years ago, I was in a gambling house in Cincinnati, a silent looker on at the game ot faro. In those days such operations were car rierl on rather openly, and aim -t under the eves of the authorities, with unbarred doois, so that any one could walk in, either in (lie capacity of a better or a mere spectator. In the latter ca pacity I found mys- II near midnight, w hen the j door of the deu opened. Justasthe game be gan to flag, not a sound was heart! but the click to the checks and the rattle of some dishes a! darkey was placing on Hie la i>■•, in walked ; tall, raw-bom J, country looking chap, in agrav satinett coat and coon-skin cap. Fie walk dup to the only vacant plate at the table, and draw ing ftotn his side pocket an enormous calf skin wallet, which looked as if it night contain at h-ast a thousand in lives ami tens, he a.Vuressed • tiie dealer: '•Look here, .Mister, I'm going to fight this Tiger UP to the nines! 1 udersiand me, I al lets • iglt to the d till; tiiat is, until 1 break you or yon break me." "Very g >tl," said the thaler, "vr u are one i ot those we like to deal lor." Ami his eyes (air ly glistened at the certainty ol depleting t'n plethoric looking p .rf- t f ,k. "Hut understand m-," continued the rough looking customer, "tiiere is one thing you must ' getting to wash down the wh he with liber al potations ot brandy. Refreshments over, labor i.id fail to com mnece in right good earnest. The dealer took oil his coat, rolled up his si. -v and seated him self Rough -juared himself at the table, and again diew the ponderous wa'let. All eyes weie nowturtu'd upon him: for pedator.-', pa trons of the rsta: i.s In • 11, rid even the bankers themselves l .ok. d for a lull game.— Rough drew from out the pockets of the capa cious wallet ago ■ v and rattier suspicious look ing five dollar biH, and called l >r the worth of it in chips. After scrutinizing is a moment, the deal r tossed il into the drawer an ! pa-.- -.1 over a stack of ten chips R nigh. I: * next gave the card sundry scientific flirtf, plat illietn inn box, and announced "All t adv." Rough plat' i his ten chips on the a . and Ihe deal went on. Some j eight or ten vv ■ re Jtaw n out, wlu-n the ace came i to view on the top of the box, and the dealer "raked down" the entire pile. lie then waited a lew moments in expectation that Rough would j open the pocket book again, but that individual j continued resting his thin on the palm of his j hand, and gazing abstractedly on the ace. "Well" said the "leg," ''ain't you going to j bet any more?" "Nary red; I'm broke flat !" said Ronfti- The "leg" laid back in his chair, ant! in a tone j if re. ts( profound astonishment, said : "The deuce you are! And I [ Edged mysell j to give von money en .ugh lo carry yon home. | in case vou got broke I" "You did that, old Itoss!" "Where do you live ?'' ''Brownsville, up the liver." "What will it cos! to fake you there?" "At the present stage of water, I think I can i get up for about fourteen dollars." Such a shout as went up at this juncture was never h-ard witJiin the walls of a Faro room ! '.visile yvifh great good humor the "leg" counted j ' out the fourteen dollars. "My friend." said lie to Rough, "it is not: evri v day one meets with a pat roo like you.— ! Go and help yourself to another drink of brandy j and. water, and a cigar. Whenever you come lo town again, give us a call. Call often—you will find the latch-string out. I wish you a safe journey. Give my respects to your wife and children. Bye bye." I Rough didn't shrink one iota from his raillery, but tr.uk the proffered drink and cigar. "I say," said he, as lye held the door ajar, "I wish you better luck with the next green look ing customer that comes along ; but before you . make such a bargain wilh him, just ascertain where he lives, and the size of his ]>ile and.so saying he disappeared ami 1 the gruflaws ot the crowd, in which the d aler heartily joined. HP'The President lias not only demanded explanations from England with regard to the search of American vessels, but has despatched the frigate Colorado with special orders to the home squadron to stop any further interferences from any quarter whatever. tCp-A witness, in a liquor case, gave the fol lowing testimony : "Sal soda is ice and water, and some stuff squirted into it from a concern. Don't know whether it is intoxicating or not. It makes one feel good—feet lift easier. Freedom of Thought and Opinion. BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY AIORNING, JUNE 11, ISSS. ONWARD. [['ROM TUB GERMAN.] Cease this dreaming ! Cease this trembling ! Still unwearied struggle on ! Chough thy strength should almost tail thee, Onward is the word alone. Dare not tarry, though the Present Scatter roses in thy way! Though to thee from out the ocean, Syrens sing their luring lay! Onward ! Onward! without turning 'Ca';n = t the world's sharp griefs contend, J ill upon thy cheeks hot burning, Golden rays from Heaven descend. Till thy brow the thick-leaved garland Like a halo shall surround ; Till the Spirit's flame, all brightly, Hovering o'er thee shall be found. Onward, liien, through all opposing ! Onward still, through Death's dark pain ! lie must wrestle on unyielding, Who the of Heaven would gain. iGOT MIS WEDDING DAY. The But vi us Journal relates an odd occur rence which transpired in that place last week. We ropy, for (he amusement and instruction of our readers : A gentleman of Bucyrus had wooed am! won a "lair ladv," residing near Norwalk in Huron county. Some three months ago the wedding day was fixed, viz : Wednesday, the 15th inst. -ow our fiietid is an unexceptionable man in all re.-peds but one—he is so absent minded and l . ig fful that his whole life is governed by mem orandums. He cannot rely at all upon his mem ory, and in order to accompli-h anything im portant or unimportant, it is absolutely necessa ry lor him fo m ike a memorandum of it, and refer to that me mora n Sum as frequent as pos- I.nst Wednesday he should have taken his de parture fi>r Norwalk, inasmuch as that evening, at nine o'clock, precisely, tie was to have been in tie the husband of one of the fairest daugh ters of the ti ibp ol Huron?. But Wednesday morning came, and the circumstance of that til - ing his wedding day had escaped his memory entirely. About three o'clock in the afternoon he was walking down > i vet as abstracted as usu al, when the idea struck him. He bolted into a store arid asked. "What day of the week is this?" "Wednesday." "What day of the month?" "The loth." "Good Heavens," he ■-reclaimed, as he frantically rushed to a livery A -I ' He of dei >0 the fastest team in the est ah nSnjTF'lJt , .lIJU lfA JtJiOlt l< lurwugy out of town at not much 1 ss than railroad speed. It was twelve o'clok that night when, cover ed with mud, he pnjbd up the panting and ex hausted steeds at the residence of his bride—that should have been. The house wa? entirely dark. Furiously he kn >ci.ed, and after a time gained admittance, ihe lady was aw akened and came fort!), when lo his unutterable confusion and chagrin he Earned that a large and brilliant comi anv had assembled to celebrate his nup tials, that they had waited and waited, until pa tience unfolded her wings and flew away, and then they went too. He was too honest to ex t• \ e himself i: '..He diiiif ulty bv a falsehood, so he told the whole truth. The ladv burst in to tears, iier father raved and stormed, and the unhappy gentleman went nearly crazy with vexs*ion and disappointment. His "graode dissatislic," as the Frenchman said, was com pleted when, having proposed that the ceremo ny should !>e performed the next morning, the lady told him positively that the engagement was at an end, believing as she did that a man who could forget Ids wedding day could nut make a good husband. Sadly he returned home, a bachelor, lie lias improved wonderfully, and we guarantee that on (lie next occn-ion of this kind he will re member day and date exactly. MEDICAL EPITAPHS# A prolonged medical statement of the disease of which ttie departed may chance to have died is extremely popular. At Acton, in Cornwall, savs a writer in Household I fords, there is this particular account ol how one Mr. IVloreton came to his end : "Here lies enloiribedotie Roger Moreton, Whose sudden death was early' brouglit on; Trying one day his corn to mow oil, The razor slipped and cut his toe of I j The toe, or rather what it grew to, An inflamafion quickly flew to; The parts they took to mortifying, And poor dear Roger took to dying. And here is still a more entertaining one, upon a certain lady in Devonshire, singularly free from anv nonsensical pretence or i.lie vado: "Here lies Betsy Cruden, # She wood a leaf'd but she cooden, 'T as na na sorrow as made she decay, But this bad leg as carr'd she away." There is a distressing inaccuracy o( metaphor in the following south-country elegy; but the meaning is painfully distinct . "Here lies two babes 3S dead as nits, They was cut off by ague fits." A doctor of divinity, who lies in the neighbor hood of Oxford, has" his complaint stated lor him with unusual brevity, as well as bis place ol in terment : "He died of a quinsy. And was buiied at Binsy. To complete these medical extracts T may quote this warning cvpress-flower, culh-d from a Chel tenham Cemetery : "Here lies 1 and mv three daughters, Killed by drinking'the Cheltenham waters: If we had stuck to Epsom salts, We'd not been lying in thAehere vaults.' WEBSTER'S REPORTS. One evening, not many years ago, while the Supreme Court was holding its sessions in Somer set county, some ol the legal brethren were warming their legs before a blazing fire in a rural tavern, and conversing upon various mat ters pertaining to the profession. R.J. Bacon, whose long silence indicated that his mind was in travail with some great thought, broke out by asking if any of his brethren could relieve him him from his trouble. 'I wish,' said he, ' to commence an action against a boy who was caught stealing apples I find no case of the kind in any of the Reports, and I am at a loss for a precedent.' The landlord overheard the question, and informed the verdant that he knew a case just in point. 'All!' said Bacon, 'in whose Reports shall I find it V 'ln Webster's,'said the landlord very gravely. 'Webster's Rports ? Well, now you speak of it, I think I do remember something like it there. Do you know the volume V 'Yes, Ido I have a copy in the house if you would like to see it.' 'I would be greatly obliged to you for it, as T have left mine at home.' The landlord stepped out, and soon returned with Webster's Spelling Book, and turning to the story—'An old manjfound a rude boy on one of his trees stealing apples'—passed fhe book to his legal friend, who threw it into the fire, in tiie midst of roars and laughter, and speedily made his disappearance. FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. Thomas Jeff rson and John Adams both died on the 4th of Ju1y,1826. John Adamsdied in his 91st year, and was eight years older than Thomas J*/feis 11 : Thomas Jefierson was eight years older than James Madison ; James Madi son was eight years older than James Monroe ;. James Monroe was eight years older than John Qoincy Adams. The first five ofthe Presidents —all revolutionary men—ended their terms of service in the 66th year of their age. Washing ton, horn February 22, 1732 : inaugurated 1789 : term of service expired in theGGlh year of his age. John Adams, born October I9th, 173b ; inaugurated 17.97 ; fprm of service ex pired in the 66th year ot his age. Thomas Jefierson, born April 21st, 174-3 : inaugurated 1801; term of service expired in the 66th year of his age. James Madison, horn Marcli sth, 1751: inaugurated 1809: term of service expi red in the 66th year of his age. James Mon roe, horn April 2d, 1759: inaugurated ISI7, term ol service expired in the 66th year of his age. Chester gentlemen were .lining at one o f ffle hotels in that city, the other evening, when a Bufi'alonian was unfeeling enough to reproach one of them with the fact that Canandaigua had got a murder of its own and was rather taking the wind out of Ihe Rochester sails. The major flared up indignantly. "4 hat Canan daigua murder !" said lie : "it was nathing but a dirty, drunken, barroom, fighting homicide! Our murders, sir, are all premeditated.-' "Wh >B K. an first played Sir (lilts Over reach, (June, 1816,) he made as great an impress ion on his fellow-actors as on his audience : insomuch, that they agreed to present him with a silver cup. When Munden was applied to, he replied in his peculiar manner, "I've no objection lo vour cupping Mr. Lean, but I it be hanged if you shall bleed me." [Cf "Can you let me have twenty dollars this morning, to purchase a bonnet, my dear?" said a wife to her husband, one morning at breakfast. ''By and bye, my love." "That's .what you always say, my dear, but can 1 buy and buy without money ?" The husband han ded over. general opinion is (hat the vainest of all biriis is the peacock. We think the goose is the vainest. A goose, when entering the bain through the doorway, invariably bobs its head to avoid hitting the top. Evidently every goose thinks himself at least fifteen feet Wgh ff WWA Scotch blacksmith gave the following definition of metaphysics : —"When the party who listens dinna ken what the party who speaks means, and when the party who speaks dinna ken what he means himself, that is meta physics." TWA very learned man has said—"The three hardest words to pron ounce In the English lan guage are —lw as mistaken !" How lew, in deed, are willing to acknowledge tln-msoh t-s, in the wrong at any time ! ~— ITThe tgwW-h--man who attempted to cut his throat With a sharp joke, a few days since, has again made a rash attack upon iiis "victual ling department," by stabbing himself with a point of honor. TWAn Irishman once told Quiz, that Ireland was an execrable place : in fact, the only thing worth owning in it is the whiskey. "Ah, said Quiz'"vou mean to say that you love hers////." [CP" A parish clerk, after reading the banns of matrimony, was followed by the clergyman, who gave out the hymn "Mistaken souls that dream of Heaven !" KWCharles Lamb is reported to have sai ! : "The water cure is neither new nor wondeifuf, for it is as old as the deluge, which in my opin ion, killed more than it cured." [CP* It lias boon discovered that bread can be i manufactured out of wood. Long before this i discovery was made, all wood was known to have grain in it. IJWThree things that never agree—two cats ■ over one mouse, two wives in one house, or two lovers alter one maiden. wallas; *1 2*©o, TU A BOTTLR. 'l is very strange that you ant I Together cannot pull ; For you are lull when I am dry, And dry when I am full. CUPID SWALLOWKD. 15V I.IUNIR HOST. T'other day as i was twining Hoses tor a crown to dine in, What,of ail things, 'midst the heat:. Should 1 light on, asleep, But tlie little desperate elf, The ti n y traitor, Love himseli' By the wings I pinched him up Like a bee 1 and in a cup Oi' my wine I sank him, And what d'ye think 1 did ? 1 drank hind* Faith, 1 thought him dead ; Not tie ' There he lives with tenfold glee ; And now this moment, with his wings, I feel him tickling my heart-strings. j.- "Here is a couplet descriptive of a certain member of the British Parlini 'nt who commit ted speeches to memory : '• Ward has no hfart they say, but I deny it : Ward has a heart, and gets his speeches by it. A VVoxoEurci. ESCATG. —The Auburn JlJoer iiitr says thai the escape of James A. Cox of that city, at the late railroad disaster, was won derful : ".Mr. Cox was seafe j iu the third seat from the front in the second passenger car—the car that made the first fatal plunge. The first pas senger car cit-ared the bridge, leaving behind the trucks, wheels and floor. All the passen gers ' aped serious injury. The second car. following, fell, striking against the abutment ol the 'midge, and was shivered to atoms. JWr. C \ ti,.-t In ard the scraping of the two trains in the collision, felt the tipping of the car, the dreadful rush, plunge, and trie awful crash. Th" next instant he was standing on splinters so fine that twenty or thirty could be held inone hand, the rain beating upan him and the most profound siiiiness reigr.ing "This awful silence lasted a moment only, when the terrible shrieks of the wounded and the fainter groans of the dying, came up from the shattered mass. Mr. Cox, by a slight effort extricated himself from the ruins, and found himself entirely unharmed, except a slight and unimportant scratch on his foot. He fell tire splinters Hying past his head : below his feet to his knees were.ruins heaped un ; on the left were the crushed remains of the Alack children; in front was the fatally wounded Perkins, of Rochester, and almost beneath his feet were the remains of .Moore, of Rising Sun, and the body of a lady transfixed by two stakes." BRINGING AN OBSTINATE JUROR TO HIS SEN SES. —The Santa Cruz Sentinel, gives thp tol buv'ine ":,.i nf n method adopted rerentlv ;u town to overcome the objections oi an ob stinate juror: Persuasion and starvati in are the approved common law methods of producing the above result ; but a novel method was lately Iried in this town. By some means, a fellow juror, an utfer stranger to all his brother jurors was pla ced upon the jury, who dissented from the ver dict agreed to by the other eleven. They came to a joint conclusion without delay, but the slrangei pertinaciously held out agaiust them. After an hour of argument, with no avail, it was at last proposed that the jury should return a verdict of "guilty by eleven jurymen, who b'ii< ve the other one to be a confederate of the prisoner, and as great a rascal." This ended it the stranger saw twenty vigilance committees in his mind's eye, and in five minutes (lie jury unanimously rendered a verdict of guilty. THE BRITISH MINISTER'S VIEWS IS REGARD TO THE RECEXT OUTRAGES IN THE RFLF. The correspondent of the \evv York 'tribune saws • "Lord Napier positively denies having had any knowledge whatever of the recent procee dings in the Gulf until they appeared in print, and says thai he at once communicated with the admiral of the squadron, inclosing the state ments made and comments upon them, with the emphatic injunction against their repetition, lie believes that the home-Ministry were equal ly ignorant, and hence his conviction is cieci d J thai these acts will he promptly disavowed, and the fullest reparation marie." So we hope, and the Administration will take care that we have security tor the future, as well as indemnity tor the past. EXFAN.-TVE BENEVOLENCE. —The following sentence his been ascribed to Fenelon :—"£ love tnv family better than myself; my coun trv better than my family ; and mankind better than my country ; for I am more of a French man than a IN melon ;. and more a tu