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POLITICAL.
The total revenue of Hie year before Mr. Buchan
an came in. was s■>.' O'l OOP. The total revenue
of Mr. Buchanan's first fiscal year was UOtl,-
000 I '!!
YYV take the above ftnm the Washington cor
respondent of the New York Courier and En
quirer. The startling exclamation points giv
en would seem to indicate a determination up
on the part of lite writer to hold Mr. Buchanan
responsible for the fulling off in Hie revenue a
rising I'rorn the reduction i i the Tariff, made by
the Republican Congress f 1857, and the
great falling ofi'in importations caused bv the
financial and commercial revulsion of 1857 '
YYe wonder the Republican press do not insist
that Mr. Buchanan is responsible fir the failure
of the oats crop this year! He certainly lias
ijuite as much to do with it as he had with the
falling of] in the revenue from customs ! By
the by, the Republican press, when they pub
lish such tacts as the above, triSwer their que
ries wliv the Administration has been obliged
to resort to a ! an in the i-.<ue of Treasury-notes.
The great falling offin the revenue is the reason.
—PlunleCs Jjduocute.
Till 4 TARIFF.
' The opposition in this roontv bawl lustily in
favor of a protective tariff and denounce Free
Trade, the Tariff of '46, fvc., and extol the tar
iff" of' 4-2. And \et these same fellows voted
for David Wilmot, a free trader, for Governor,
last fall, and pased resolutions to support John
M. Read for Supreme Judge, this fall, although
he is a bold advocate of Fret* Trade and wrote a
letter to George M. Dallas,congratulating him fir
having been thr means of repealing the tariff"
of '42 !
The country never prospered as it did under
the Tariff of '46. Money was plenty, labor
everywhere in demand and wages good, everv
tiling commanding good prices and finding a
ready market. But in '57 thi-. Tariff was nn
terially altered an ! reduced. The full origina
ted in and was nn-s-d b\ a R pu'4-can House
of Representatives, of which Rvpubl can Banks
was Speaker—it was br. -ughl forward by a Re
publican, advocated almost exclusively by Re
publicans, and was voted far by them. Yet,
in order to catch unsuspecting votes, these (anv
men now come forward and knavishly attempt
to saddle their own sin on the shoulders of the
XT ■mocrats ! Tliey commit the wrong them
selves and then charge it upon their opponents.
This is an old trick with which the public is to
familiar to be deceive,! by it. The only con
sistency the Republicans have shown is in
nominating and supporting free trade men.—
IJolliduysburg Slu n dard.
How ti:e Bead are Buried in Mew Orleans.
The following letter from the New Orleans
Delta of the 20th, has a melancholy interest.-
Sr. Yimi'.m or: Fair. O.Mcrr.RV. —This
cemetery, which is situated on Louisa street, in
the Third District, has been the burying place
of a large number of the victims of yellow fever
this season. This is accounted for from the
fact that the disease has been prevailing in a
greater degree in the Third District than any
other portion of the city. Ihe cemetery i
divided into two divisions, the lower one ot
which is almost destitute of vaults or tombs,
and those interred there are placed, in dry
weather, about a foot under ground, Hie dirt
thrown on top not more than covering Hie
coffin. Since the recent heavy rain the whole
place is flooded more or less, and looks more
iike a swamp than a cemetery. The spade
baldly breaks through the sad Lt fore the water
shows itself; (hen the negroes gouge out as
much earth as they can for the water.
Several graves were open yesterday as we
passed through, looking like oblong mud pud
riles. A few moments afterwards, the remains
of some poo- individual were brought in, and
left to the negroes to inter- Blaring the rough
coffin on the hand car, they carried it a short
distance, and placed it by the side of a hole,
and then made preparations for placing it in its
lust resting place. The head of the coffin was
let down into the water, but, of course, it
would not sink, and immediately rose tothe stir
lace. It was thrust down sev. ral times rather
rough Iv, to endeaver to make it adhere to the
soft mild at the bottom, but invariably rose a
gain.
At lasl it was shoved in, and the spa !e of one
of the negroes held it until the other threw in
large quantities of hard mud, which served as
a weight to keep the head down. One of the
negroes then, while the other kept his spade on
the first end, lowered the foot and sank it in the
same manner, kicking in some mud with his
feet while his spade kept the coffin down. The
whole of this section of the cemetery is filled
with new graves and presents the appearance
of a newly plowed field. Ihe stench in some
portions is hardly endurable, coming as it does,
from the shallow graves of water.
An auctioneer, vexed with his audience, said:
,l I am a mean fellow—mean as di rt —and feel
at home in this company."
vt II (Pic.
THE ATLANTIC CABLE.
UV MRS. A.N N S. STEPHENS.
Air— "Slur Sv'ingleil Banner.
Oh, say not the old ti ones were bii!hf<r than these,
When banners were torn from the warriors thvt
bore them;
Oh . ray not "he ocean, the storm and the breeze,
Are freest or proudest when war thunders o'er them —
For, the Wattle's red IQtit crows pale to the siaht.
When the pen wields its power, or t bought feels its
ni ight;
Now, mind ieigns triumphant, where slaughter has
been,
i Oh, God bless our President! God save the Queen!
Let the joy of the world in rich harmony rise,
| Let the sword keep its sheath and the cannon its
thunder;
; Now Intellect reigns from the earth to the skies,
| And Science links nations that war shall not sunder.
| Where the mermaids still weep, and the pearls lie
a deep,
Thought flashes in fire through the fathomless deep.
| Now, Mi nd reigns triumphant where slaughter has
been,
Oh, God bless our President! God save ,e Queen !
When the sunset of yesterday flood' I the we-t,
Our old mother country la y far in the distance;
But the lightning has struck ! We are close to her
breast !
That beautiful land, that first gave tis existence—
We lee|, with a start, the quick pul-e of her heart,
And the mot her|and child are no longei ap.ut
For mind reigns triumphant, where slaughter has
been.
Oh, God bless our President ! God save the Queen !
The blood that was kindred, throbs proudly once
mote,
And the glow of our joy fill- the depths of the ocean!
It throbs through the waves and it sings on the shore,
Till the globe to its poo-,, Iccls the holy commotion.
Let us join in our might pro! he earnest tor light,
• Where the Saxon blood burnt , let it strive foi the
right;
For mind reigns triumphant, where slaughter has
been,
Oh, God bless our President! God '-ave the Queen !
CHAIIACTKR OF CIiJEF JISTICE
GIBSON.
BY lION. W vi. A. PORTER.
[Extractfrow his eulogy on Jtidi ;* Gibson % p. 107.]
• lis manner of reaming his conclusions, and
writing his opinions was well known. It is be
lieved lie took little part in the consults?! >ns of
the*benth, communicating his views usually in
; shott, (Matched sentences, sometimes not at a!,
but when he did, iKling the exact point, and
I diffusing additional 1 il.t on the principles in
qm-stion. When appointed to deliver the opin-
J ton, he generally made an examinatim of the
; authorities, and sometimes, it must be admitted,
too bri<T an examination. His habit was then
; to think thi-fly without the aid of hi. pen, and
; out qI the jeach ol hooks, lie did this in his
i chamber, ori the street, a' the table, sometime*
I on the bench during the pr igress ol other cau
ses, and not unfivqueiitly in the public ro mi ol
his hotel. Persons who hun oil these
occasions, were struck with, arid sum-times
oflended at. his abstracted and careless air.—
| To those who knew what he was doing, he
i frequently complained otitis difficulty in de
termining on what pi inciples to pitch the cause,
without mentioning it particularly. He di I
all the labor of thought before he commenced
to write, and he never wrote until he was ready.
Befote lie began the very sentences were for
med in his mind, and when he assumed the pen,
he rarely laid it aside until the opinion had
been completed. The bold, beautiful, and legi
ble character of his hand writing, an j its free
dom from erasure, induced those who read his
manuscript, to suppose that lie transcribed
them, but this was very rarely, if ever done; he
had too little time, and too much horror of the
pen to attempt if. Such a method of writ ing
undoubtedly possessed great advantages. Ii
gave his fine logical powers full plav. It con
tributed to that condensation which forms one
of the distinctive features of his writings. It
enabled him to proceed with directness right to
his conclusion, and to make every thing point
to it from the first sentence to the last. No
repetition occurs. We see each idea but once,
and need not count on seeing even the shadow
ot it, more than once. Having always some
thing to do ahead, the pen spent no more time on
the thought in hand than was necessary to
complete it. He knew precisely where lie was
to end before beginning, and he avoided ali the
difficulties of those writers vvli o begin lo'wtite
when they begin to think and sometime s before it,
and who produce works resembling, for the most
part, the patch-work emblazoned on t lie best
beds of German housekeepers, and giving evi
dence not be mistaken, ol the exact places at
which they have been joined, and of the di
verse and heterogeneous materialsyeut ot which
thev have been con posed. The most casual
reader of Judge Gibson's opinions must have
observed how seldom he professes to give any
historv of the decided cases, and how invaria
ble 1 he puts the decision upon some leading
principle of the law: referring but to a few
cases for the purposes of illustration, or to show
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1858.
their exception to the general rule, and how all
litis is done with the ease and skill which beto
ken the hand of a master.
As a jurist. Judge Gibson was ardently
attached to the principles of the common law.
His 1 >ve of them beams in his writings as affec
ti m will beam in the human countenance. Ife
not only looked on them with the admiration
of an artist, as symmetrical and beautiful parts
of a [great fabric , but he regarded them as the
b -st rampart which the common sense of man
kind has yet thrown up against the despotism
ol the king or the judge, of the purse or tie
sword. We shall see her eafter that the last
thing he ever wrote for publication, was a
declaration of his unshaken loyalty to the doc
trines ol'the common law. A past of the lan-
which lie applied to Judge Kennedy,
might as justly have been uttered of himself;
lor like Byron in many of his characters, he
was probably desciibing himself without seeing
that the vvorid would recognize the
"He clung to the common law as a child to its
nurse, and how much lie drew from if, may be
seen in his opini ms, which, by their elaborate
minuteness, remind us of tin- overfulness of
Coke." The Chief Justice was also an admirer
of our Pennsylvania system of law, io which
the substantial principles of equity are applied
under the forms of the common law. The i
wonder is that in any case th v should have
been separated. To appoint one judge to cxe.
cut'- the law, and another to do equity, seems
like creating one man all head, and another all
heait. To execute the law upon a suitor's per
son or property, an I to allow him in the mean
time to apply to a Court of Equity for relief, or
to turn him out of the latter because his case has
no equity in it, with the assurance that he will
have no difficulty in recovering in a court of
law, in other words, to prnriit two different
rules o( legal du'y on the.same subject, to pi ess
on the same n an, at the same lime, — is a state
of things which th" ma*s of mankind will nev
er understand, if each individual man should
rival the patriarchs in the term ol natural life.
From the day when Lord Brskine uttered his
quiet huir.oi on the subject, down to tile publica
tion of Bleak House, the severest sarcasms on
this state of tilings have been Hung in to the
faces of lawyers, without the possibility of turn
ing the point of one of them. The Pennsylva
nia system of law is among the lew that have
b-'en mensuribiy I r-e horn the reproach)--
which the learned and the iml-arited have thus
conspired to hurl at the whole science. I: is
natural that the mmd of a man like Judge (fib
son, who had done so much to advance this
system,-and who had witnessed the strides
w hieh the legal worul seemed making tow ards
it, show! i 1 -ei SJIII - pri 1 •:n perpetuating it. —
With this spirit, it i< consistent, that when oar
legislature adopted certain equity remedies,
and provided for sepaiate equity proceedings,
he should endeavor to carry tlu-sn taiiiv into
practice. An opposite couise, it he could have
pursued if, would have caused disquiet and
disaster. Besides this, whatever lie might have
thought, he was n it i man to set himself up a
g,l isw h• s- em- dto he use! i| lelorih. lie l.ji!
seen delects which some of these remedies see
med to supply, and lie applied them in the veiv
spirit in which 'he profession and the hgisla
ture ha ! called them into being. So successful
ly was this dune, that with all his attachment
to the common law, it has not been ur.lrequenl
to hear from those most devoted to the equiiv
system, the admission that lie would have made
a better chancellor than lie was a judge. It is
pertinent to remark here that he had no undue
fondness for the civil law. 11 is mind was too
liberal—for the mind of a scholar is always
liberal in its appreciation of learning—not to
admire the beauty, wisdom and simplicity of
many parts of that system, and its adaptation to
to the state of society in which it has grown up:
but it must be admitted that he ever and anon
cast a suspicious glance on the efforts of Judge
Story, and the writers ol that school, to infuse
its principles into our cherished common law.
He could not have denied that many of the
branches of our laws have been enriched in this
mode, but lie was alive to the danger of push
ing such improvements too far. 1 need refer
the reader only to the opinion delivered in
Lyle vs. Richards, 9 S. K K. 322, and in Lo
gan vs. .Mason, 6 VV. KS. 9, in proof of the ex
istence of tiie.se viewsin the mind of their author.
In summing up the personal characler of
Judge Gibson, 1 do not mean to represent him
as faultless, for then he had been more than hu
man. Doubtless he had his defects: whatever
they may have been, I do not propose to discuss
them. Fo do so, would be to imitate the con
duct of some visitor to a gallery of art, who
should employ himself in tracing raugh images
in the dust of the floor, and not in contempla
ting the beautiful conceptions of genius on all
sides around him and above him. 1 speak rath
er of what Judge Gibson was, than of what lie
was not. His case has been removed to
that great app. Hate Court which, while it ad
ministers perfect justice, is governed also by
Freedom of Thought and Opinion.
'perfect mercy. Jurisdiction having vested
there, on the soundest principles of jurispru
; dence no allegation should be permitted against
him here. He certainly had small faults, which
to small eyes were large enough to shut out a
perception of his great qualities. He despised
Hie anise and the cumin, and necessarily lost
the respect of those valuable members of the j
State, outside arid inside of the bar, who do the
least important things first,and the more impor- '
tnnt last. Frank, generous and confiding, he j
spoke on the bench and elsewhere, of persons ;
and of tilings, with that impulse which jione j
hut an honest heart can know; and in doing so,
he occasionally lost in dignity as much as he
gamed in the pleasure of giving expression to his
real sentiments in his own way. If, as a presi- j
di.ag officer, he had preserved order more rigid- ;
!y> his Court would have been a more solemn
place, and if he had attended more directly to
w hat was passing before him, the business would
have been more efficiently despatched. But e
nougli of what he was not. The qualities which
he possessed were striking and peculiar. That
which most impressed those who knew him
best, was the exceeding kindness oftiis heart.
The knowledge ofthis was a key to his charac
ter. Any newspaper editor or legislative ora
tor who had abused him, might have approach
, ed him with the profoundest confidence, not on
ly that lie had forgiven, but actually forgotten, j
any calumny however gross. In that respect, i
at least, no man could have reduced to practice i
more dmec'ly, the morality of the New Testa- j
inprit. He cherished no antipathies, and form- j
ed no prejudices. In every relation, public and
private, he display ed that charity of the heart
which makes a man a gentleman, despite of ear
ly associations and even of bad manners. In the
liveliest salli- sof his wit and humor—the last
acts on which benevolence exerts its restraining :
influence—he never allowed himscll to trench
on the sensibilities of others. When he said
anything from the bench approaching severity, j
as he sometimes did when worn down by a dull
and tedious argument, no time was lost in try- ;
injj, bv a remark of a different kind, to wear
away its effect both on the speaker and the au- j
riience. He was a sound critic in the best sense j
of the term, and when a harsh observation
was made of one whom he knew, he was gen
erally aide to relieve its effect by p doting out
>:ne exct Hence which had escaped the atten
ti in of o'hers. To the young, and especially
to those vv ho were endeavoring to become the
architects of their own fortunes, he was kind,
affable, and indulgent. But the picture requi
res higher coloring. There was something in
his magnanimity, in his to-giving temper, in
his kindly ch.. i'v, in his rapacity : appreciate i
excellence of any kind, in any foTin, which;
despite his apparent unconcern of manner and
slus'gishne.vs of bodv, elicited and compelled at- •
fection. There was a true fire of the heart
which glowed unceasingly and cast even the j
splendor of his intellect into the shade. No
man ever more cordially despised a co!d,ca!cu- '
filing, spider-like lawyer, weaving day by day
his miserable toils, giving up nothing, retaining
his 2ia-;> on every victim ol chance and folly, '
and employing hi-, powers only for the produc
tion of misery and the practice of oppression.— j
No man ever spoke into being with so little* ef
fort, ardent and permanent friendship, llesat
on the Supreme Bench with twenty-six differ
ent Judges, none of vv horn owed their position
to his influence, and almost all ot whom, on
their accession, were comparative strangers to
him, and yet it may be doubted whether the
purest and happiest household ever lived in
more absolute harmony than lie enjoyed in his
personal inter course with his associates. In j
regard to any body of nun long associated to
gether, this fact might be worth repeating; hut
in that of so many independent men, of strong ;
int-llects and wills, employed together in the
daily examination ol exci'ing questions, where .
conscience ami duty required each man to stand i
bv his individual judgement, the case is some- j
what remarkable. His intellectual acquire
ments were great, and he had a right to be :
proud of them, hut that would bo a poor monu- j
meot to his lame, \v Inch should omit to mention
those higher ami finer qualities ot the heart,
which placi d him so far above the level ot or- ,
dinary men.
It is almost unnecessary to speak of him as a
man of integiity. I verily believe that the i
mere force of habit in seeking the truth and ,
finding reasons to support it, would have driven ;
him to the rigid, against every co-nipt inilu- !
ence that could have been brought to heai upon ,
i him. But the truth is, no idea opposite to that j
of his utmost purity as a judge, was ever asso- j
i crated with his name. There was something
i in his character, conversation, manner anJ ap
• pearance, which would have crushed such a
I thought in the bud. A man who had approach
• ed him tor the purpose of corrupting him, would
• have been as much-disposed to fall down before
> him in an act ol homage, as to have attempti d
• to carry out his purpose. Alter a lifetime devo
.ted to the service of his country, it is surely no
mean praise of a public man, that declarations
like these can he uttered, with a certainty that
they will be credited, not less by the suitors a
gainst whom he decided, than by the profession
who practised before him, and Hie community
j whose laws he enforced.
A QUAKER JOKE.
A correspondent sends the Buffalo Express
j the following good thing for the hot weather :
K , tlie Quaker President of a Pennsyl
! vania Railroad, during the confusion and panic
last fall, called upon the W Bank, with
j which the road had kept a Ir rge regular account,
and asked lor an extension of a part of i pa
per falling due in a few days. The Bank Pres
i ident declined rather abruptly, saying in a tone
I common with that fraternity :
"Mr. K., your paper must be paid at maturi
: ty. IYe cannot renew it."
"Very well," our Quaker replied, and left
the Bank. But he did not let ttie matter drop
here. On leaving the Bank he walked quiet
ly over to the depot and telegraphed all the
j agents and conductors on the road, to reject the
uills on the VV Bank. In a few hours the
; trains began to arrive, tuil of panic, and bung
ing the news of distrust of the VV Bank all
along the line ol the road. Stockholders and
depositors flocked into the bank, making the
panic inquiry "What's the matter!" "Is the
; bank broke ?" A little inquiry by the officers
showed that the trouble originated in the rejec
tion of the bills by the railroad. The President j
seized his hat and rushed down to the Quaker's !
office, and came blustering in with the inquiry:
"Mr. K., have you directed the refusal of our
currency by your agents o ''
"Yes," was the quiet repl\-.
"Why is this ? it will ruin us."
"Well, friend L., I supposed thy bank was
about to fail, as thee could not renew a little pa
i per for us this morning."
Jt is needless to say Mr. L. renewed all the
Quaker's paper and enlarged his line of dis
count, while the magic wires carried all along
the road, to every agent, the sedative message, I
"The VV' Bank is all right. Thee may
' lake its currency."
THE CROPS J.V TEXAS„
G. VV. Kendall writes to the New Orleans
Picayune the following statement regarding I
the corn and Chinese sugar cane crops in Tex- j
j There is to be no want of corn in western j
Texas, for every field which escaped the rava- j
: ties of tile grasshoppers, is yielding abundantly, j
and many localities escaped these pests entire- j
ly. The crop ot Chinese sugar-cane, which j
laughs at grasshoppers and droughts, is at Ihe
same time immense, and the first heads of ripe
seeds are already gathered. Some ol my neigh- |
bors are having it ground, and are making;
bread of it, speaking of it in commendable |
terms, while every where they are preparing '
: to grind the slaiks and convert the juice into i
syrup or molasses. fhat this is to be a valua- ;
file addition to our crops in this section, there I
ean be no doubt; it stands a drought better than
any other plant —is no more affected by dry j
weather than a good article of bread—so many !
• say: the leaves make an excellent fodder, while j
| the stalks can be converted into molasses and j
1 perhaps sugar—nothing is lost. I have often i
; heard it stated that the giain is hurtful to hor
, ses, and tiiis may he so; yet if any one has any
to spare, I am willing to feed it out to my work
j animals as an experiment, am! will run all risks
jof its injuring them. In fact, I fed out no in
i considerable quantity ot it last year, and would j
have used it more fieelv, had J had it to spare. :
A bushel ol it weighs some forty-eight pounds. ;
or eight pounds less than a bushel of corn. We i
, have not yet learned all its uses.
MODESTY.— "Who shall win the prize V
There was a meeting of the flowers, and the j
judge was appointed to award the prize of 1
beauty.
"VVho shall win the prize?" asked the rose,
1 proudly rushing forward in blushing beauty, in
full assurance of its winning worth.
| "Who shaii win the prize-?" asked the rest
of the flowers, as they came forward, each one j
conscious of its own attractions, and each equal- ;
, ly sure of receiving the reward.
•'I will take a peep at the assemblage,"!
thought the violet, not intending to make one i
:of the company, "and see the beauties as they!
- pass."
Just as it was raising its modest head from •
iis humble and retiring corner, and was j
looking in upon the meeting, the judge rose j
to render the decree.
"To the violet " said he, "I award tlip prize
of beauty, for there is no trait more rare—none j
j more enchantingly beautiful, than modesty."
THE SAW AND THE SAUCER.—"I come for the
saw, sir," said an urchin.
1 "What saucer?" asked the neighbor.
"Why,the saw sir, that you borrowed," re
! plied the urchin,
j ' "L borrowed no saucer."
"Sure you did, sir—you borrowed our saw, ;
■ sir."
"Be off. I never saw your saucer."
; "But you did sir—there's tl.e saw, sir, now j
j sir." . , |
"O, you mean the saw.' Why the thunder j
didn't you say so alWrst ?"
f£p=At a negro celebration, lately, an Irish- ;
man stood listening to the colored speaker expa
tiating upon government and freedom: and as
the orator came to a "period" from the highest
and most poetical flights, the Irishman said :
"Bedad, he ipakcs well for a uagur; don't he
now ?" .
Somebody sai I—"He isn't a negro, he is on
ly a half regro." # *
"Only aha I nagur, is it ! Well, if a halt
nagur can ta k in that style, I'm thinking a
whole nagur might bale the prophet Jeremi
ah !"
IVHOLK 3811.
VOL 2, NO. 6.
AX INCIDENT OF THE LAST WAR.
Allow me to relate an incident of the last war
, with Great Britain, on the Canada border, which
j develops true heroism on the part of a young
otlicer then in his teens, hut now a worthy and
distinguished citizen of the State of New York.
The facts were long JJO related to me by an
old soldier, who saw and participated in the en
terprise.
In August, JSP the American army, under
Major-General Hampton, broke up their en
c mpment at Burlington, and crossed Lake
Cnamplain, n bn euux, to the Cumberland
Head, on their mar to Montreal, expecting to
encounter the British airr.j on their way
The e were our elite corps, of two hundred men
each, severally under Colonel Snellirg. Colonel
Wool, Colonel McNeil, and Colonel Hamilton.
They arrived at Cumberland Point, at twelve
j o'clock at night.
j It was arranged that Colonels Sneliing and
; \Y 00l should proceed down the Lake, in batteaux,
; and that the two corps, under Colonel McNeil
: and Hamilton, should inarch down by land and
| a tack the British aimy on the Canada shore.—
l Colonels Snelling and Wool arrived first, and
succeeded in d.iving in the British outposts to
the main body, and occupying their places.
Alter marching about twenty miles, Colonel
i McNeil 's command, on coming out of the woods
at about sunrise, and seeing the detachments of
| Colonel Sneiling and Wool, mistook them for
tfie British army. Lieutenant Aaron Ward, be-
I ing in command of the advance guards of about
! fifty men, halted till the Colonel in command
S should come up and give orders. Colonel Mc-
I Neil soon came up and ordered Lieutenant
j Ward to gain the first fence, parallel to the
road where the troops appeared; but otherwise
to advance to the second fence. He advanced
to the second fence, and formed his company,
when a flag was presented, and the adverse
! corp s proved to be the first detachment, under
j Colonels Snelling and Wool.
Colonel Snel ling's corps soon after embarked
in '.heir boats, leavingthe residue under Colonel
McNeil. In the course of an hour the whole
j British army were observed advancing, in order
of battle. Lieutenant Ward was ordered to ad
vance with his company.
The road was five rods wide, and the efiertfy
three-quarters of a mile ahead. Lieutenant
Ward, then about seventeen years of age, and
j on his first campaign, steadily advanced without
flinching, and received three discharges from
| the enemy, without returning a shot; and while
re-loading tor (he fourth volley, Lieutenant
Ward ordered his company to fire, ami immedi
; ately after blazing away he charged bayonets
! on the enemy. Their advanced guard of regu
lars, under Captain Myers, was immediately
routed, and retreated to their main body, pur
| sued bv Lieutenant Ward's company, leaving
several killed on the fieid, which was instantly
I occupied by the Americans. This skirmish con
centrated the whole American army, and the
British army retreated in disorder. Colonel, af
i terwards Genera! John McNeil, at the c'.pse of
I the \va-, held a civil appointment for several
years, in the revenue service. Lieutenant,
now General Aaron Ward, of New York, after
serving faithfully during the war, has since, for
twelve years, represented Westchester district
j in Congress.
' A man of consummate skill and bearing in the
field, be was a uselul and faithful representa
• tive of the people on the floor of Congress, and
j merits well of his country. Hosfou Journal.
TIIE MEMORY or THE DEAD. — It seems to be
an innate principle ofthe human inmd to treat
with reverence the memory of the departed.—
They seem tons in their narrow resting places,
to have become holier than moitals like
ourselves. Their faults, their follies and
j their foibles, are all forgotten. The hand of
; death has purified—sanctified ! Itis'well. It
embodies human nature ! Palsied be the tongue
that would idly caluminate their character ;
j palsied be the hand that would rudely disturb
j their repose! How simple and beautiful is the
! sentiment ofthe Latin bard
—"Nil mortuus nisi bonum."
And an English poet has said, with tender
j pathos :
; "When low in the dust lies the friend thou
hast loved,
! Be his faults and (lis follies forgot by thee then:
! Or if .'or a moment the veil be removed,
j Weep o'er it in silence, then close it again."
WHAT IS THE EARTH ?— ANSWERS.—"What
is earth, sexton ? A place to dig graves.—
What is earth, rich man? A place fo work
slaves.— What is earth, gray beard ? A place to
|to grow old.—What is earth, miser ? A place
t. dig gold. What is earth, schoolboy? A place
| for my plav.— What is eaith, maiden? A [dace
to be gav. What is earth, seamstress? A place
I where I weep.— What is earth, sluggard?—
A sood place to sleep.— What is'eartb, soldier?
1 A place for a battle—What is earth, herds
! man ? A place to raise cattle . —What is earth
j widow ? A place of true sorrow.—What is
earth, tradesman ? I'll tell you to-morrow.—•
: What is earth sick man ? 'Tis nothing to me.
What is earth, sailor My home is the sea .
What is earth, statesman ? A place to win
fame.— What is earth, author ? I'll write there
;my name.— What is earth, monarch ? For
my r alm'tis given.— What is earth, Christian*
the gateway to heaven."
Pcac'i Leaves for Yeast. — .Mrs. Daniel R.
Mitchel, of Rome, Ga., says the Rome Courier,
has discovered that peach leaves are superior to
hops for making yeast. The bread made from
it is quite as light and equally well flavored.—
We understand that the yeast is made in the
same way, except that dried peach leaves are
used instead of hops.
says that "nothing can be aisier than
to repale the union of the United Kingdoms of
Great Britain and Ireland. It is only necessa
ry," says he, "to transpose two letters, and they
will become untied kingdoms at once"'