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POLITICAL.
The iota) revenue of '.he year before Mr. Buchan
an came in, was $u$*.000.00(1. The total revenue
of Mr. Buchanan's first fiscal year was $111,000,-
000 !!!!
We take the above ftorn the Washington cor- -
respondent of Die New York Courier and En - j
quirtr. The startling exclamation points giv- j
en would seem to indicate a determination up
on the part of the writer to hold Mr. Buchanan i
responsible for the falling ofFm the revenue a- j
rising from the reduction i 1 the Tariff*, made by
the Republican Congress of 1857, and the
great falling off'in importations caused hv the
financial and comtneicial revulsion of 1857 ;
We wonder the Republican press do not insist
that Mr. Buchanan is responsible fir :he failure
of the oafs crop this y-ar! He certainly has
quite as much to do with it as he had with the
tailing off in the revenue from customs ! By
the by, the Republican press, when they pub
lish such facts as the above, ai#wer their que
ries why llie Administration has been obliged
to resort to a loan in the issue of Treasury-notes.
The great falling ofFin the revenue is the reason.
—Planter's Jldvocute.
TIIE TARIFF.
' The opposition in this county bawl lustily in
favor of a protective tariff" and denounce Free:
Trade, the Tariff of '46, &c., and extol the tar
iff'of'42. And yet these same fellows voted
for David Wilmot, a free trader, for Governor,
last fall, and passed resolutions to support John
M. Read for Supreme Judge, this fall, although
he is a bold advocate of Free Trade and wrote a
letter to George M. Dallas,congratulating him for
having been the 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 ami wages good, every
thing commanding good prices and finding a
ready market. But in '57 this Tariff* was ma
terially altered an 1 reduced. The bill origina
ted in and was passed by a Republican House j
of Representatives, of which Republican Banks j
was Speaker—it v\as brought forward by a Re- |
publican, advocated almost exclusively by Re-j
publicans, and was voted for by them. Yet, |
in order to catch unsuspecting votes, these ram--
men now come forward and knavishlv attempt
to saddle their own sin on the shouldeis of the
Democrats ! They commit the wrong them
e| ves and then charge it upon their opponents.
This is an old trick with which the public is to
familiar to be deceived by it. The only con
sistency the Republicans have shown is in
nominating and supporting free trade men.—
1 lollidnysburg Sinn dnrd.
HON the Dead are Buried in \ew Orleans.
The following letter from the New Orleans
Delta of t lie 20th, has a melancholy interest;
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL CEMETERY. —This
cemetery, which is situated on Louisa street, in
the Third District, has been the burying place j
of a large number of the victims of yellow fevei
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. The cemetery is
divided into two divisions, Ihe lower one of
which is almost destitute of vaults or tombs,
and those interred there are placed, in dry i
weather, about a foot under ground, the dirt J
thrown on top not more than covering the
coffin. Since the recent heavy rain the whole
place is flooded more or less, and looks more
like a swamp than a cemetery. Ihe spade
ha idly breaks through Ihes'd b* fore the wafer
shows itself; then the negroes gouge cut as ;
much earth as they can for the water.
Several graves were open yesterday as we
pas*ed through, looking like oblong mud pud
dles. A few moments afterwards, the remains
of some poor individual were brought in, and
left to the n groes tc- inter- Placing the rough
cotlin 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 j
lust resting place. The head ol the coffin was
Jet down into ttie water, but, of course, it
would not sink, and immediately rose tot he sur
face. It was thrust down several times rather
roughly, to endeaver to make it adhere to the
soft mud at the bottom, but invariably rose a
gain.
At last it was shoved in, arid tfip spa !e of one
of the negroes held it until the other threw i n
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 thissection of the cemetery is filled
with new graves and presents the appearance
of a newly plowed field. The stench in some
portions is hardly endurable, coming as it does,
from the shallow graves of water.
An auctioneer, vexed with his audience, said:
"I am a mean fellow —mean as dirt—and leel
at home in this company."
3 n OA i f .
THE ATLANTIC CABLE.
BY MRS. AMY S. STKPHK.MS.
Am— "Star Spangled Banner,
Oh, say not The old times were blighter Thar' These,
When banners were torn from the wan tors that
bore them;
Oh, say not 'he ocean, the storm and the breeze,
Are freest or proudest when war thunders o'er them—
For, the battle's red lijiht crows pale to the sight,
When the pen wields its power, or t bought feels its
ni ight;
Now, mind leigns triumphant, where slaughter has
been,
Oh, God bless our President! God save the Queen !
Let the joy of the world in rich harmony rise,
Let the sword keep its sheaf a 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 lire through the fathomless deep.
Now, Mind reigns triumphant where slaughter has
been,
Oh, God bless our President ! God save : ,e Queen !
When the sunset of yesterday flooded the we-t,
Our old mother country !a y far in the distance;
But the lightning has struck ! We are close to her
breast !
That beautiful land, that first gave us existence—
We feel, with a start, the quick pul-e ot her heart,
And the mot herjand child are no longer apart
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
moie,
And the glow of our joy fills the depths of the oeeani
It throbs through the waves and it sings oil the shore
Tiil the globe to its polos, foils the holy commotion.
Let us join in our might and he earnest lor light,
\Vhere the Saxon blood burni, let it strive for the ,
right;
For mind reigns triumphant, where slaughter has
been,
Oh, God bless our President ! God save the Queen !
CHARACTER OF CHIEF JUSTICE
GIBSON.
BY IION. W.M. A. PORTER.
[Ertrnet fron > his eulogy on Judge Gibson, p. 107.]
His manner of reaching hi* conclusions, and
writing his opinions was well known. It is be
lieved lie took little part in the consultati >ns of
the"benth, communicating his views usually in
short, (Matched sentences, sometimes not at a:!,
but when he did, hilling the exact print,—and
diffusing additional light on the principles in
question. When appointed to d -liver the opin
ion, he generally tria l.- an examinatim of the
authorities, and' Sometimes, it must be admitted,
too brief an examination. Ilis habit was then
to think chiefly without the aid of his pen, and
| out of the reach of books, lie rial this in his
| chamber, on the street, a' the table, sometime.,
on the bench during the progress ol other cau
ses, and not unfrequently in the public ro mi of
his hotel. Persons whoyinproached hun on these
occasions, were struck with, and sometimes
offended at, his abstracted and careless air.—
To those who knew what he was doing, he
frequehtly complained of his difficulty in de
termining on what principles to pitch the cause,
without mentioning it particularly. He did
all the labor of thought before he commenced
to write, and he never wrote until tie was ready.
Before he 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 handwriting, an J its free-
I dom from erasure, induced those who read his
| manuscript, to suppose that lie transcribed
them, but this was very rarely, if ever done; fie
had too little time, and too much horror of '.lie
pen to attempt it. Such a method of writ ing
undoubtedly possessed great advantages. It
gave bis fine logical powers full play. It con
tributed to that condensation which forms one
of the distinctive features ol 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
l of it, more than once. Having always some
thin* to do ahead, the pen spent no more lime on
the thought in hand than was necessary to
complete it. He knew precisely where he was
to end before beginning, and In* avoided ali the
I difficulties of those writers who begin to'wrile
' when they begin to think and sometime s before it,
| and who produce works resembling, for the most
i part, the patch-work emblazoned on the best
I beds of.German housekeepers, and giving evi
dence not be mistaken, of the exact places at
j which they have been joined, and ol the rii
verse and heterogeneous inaterialsyjut of which
: thev have been composed. The most casual
reader of Judge Gibson's opinions must havt
, observed how seldom he professes to give any
I historv ol the decided cases, and how invaria
! bly he puts the decision upon some leading
j principle of the law; teferring but to a lew
i cases for the purposes ol illustration, or to show
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1858.
1 their exception to the general rule, and how all
this 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 love of them beams in his writings as affec
tion will brain in the human countenance. He
not only looked 011 them with the admiration
of an artist, as symmetrical and beautiful parts
of a [great fabric , but he regarded them as the,
best rampart which the common sense of man
kind ha< yet thrown up against the despotism
of tlie king or the jo-lge, of the purse or the
sword. We shall see her eafter that the last
thing lie ever wrote for publication, was a
declaration of his unshaken loyalty to the doc
trines of the common law. A pastofthe lan
guage which lie applied to Judge Kennedy,
might as justly have been uttered of himself; 1
lor like Byron in many of his characters, he
wa probably desctibing himself without seeing
that the worid would recognize the
'Tle clung to the common law as a child to its
nurse, and how much he drew from it, may be
seen in his opinion#, which, hv their elaborate
minuteness, remind us of the overfulness of
Coke." The Chief Justice was also an admirer
of our Pennsylvania system of lav, in which
the substantial principles ol equity are applied
under the forms of the common law. The i
wonder is that in any case lh\y should have
been separated. To appoint one judge to exe
cute the law, and another to do equity, seems
like creating one man all head, and another ail
heatt. To execute the law upon a suitor's per
son or property, and to allow him iri 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 permit two different
rules ol legal du'y on the same subject, to ptess
on the same n an, a', the same time, — is a state
of things winch th" mass of mankind will n-v
--;er understand, if each individual man should
rival the patriarchs in the term ol natural life.
From the day w hen Lord Erskine uttered his
quiet humor on the subject, down to the pnblica
. Don of Bleak Mouse, the severest sarcasms on
this stale ol things have been flung in to the
faces of lawyers, without the possibility ot turn
ing the point of one of them. The Pennsylva
! nia system of law is among the few that have
b'*en measurably free horn the reproaches
which the learner! and tile uul-Mrned have thus
conspired to bur! at the whole science. It is
natural that the mind of a man like Judge Gib
son, who had done so much to advance this
, system,-and who had witnessed the strides
which the legal worn! seemed making towards
it, should feel sorri • pri i • :n perpetuating it.—
With ihis spirit, it i>- consistent, that when oar
legislature adopted certain equity remedies,
and provided lor separate equity proceedings,
lu* should endeavor to carry tln-in lairly into
practice. An opposite couise, it he could have
pursued it, would have caused disquiet and
disaster. Besides this, whatever lie might have
thought, he was n d a man to set himself up a
gains! what seemed to be useful reform. 11 • had
delects which some oi these remedies see
med to supply, and he applied them in the very
spirit in which '-he profession and the legisla
ture had tailed them in! > being. So successful
ly was this done, that with all his attachment
to the common law, it has not been ut.frequent
to hear from those most devoted to the equity
system, the admission that he would have made
a better chancellor than he was a judge. It is
pertinent to remark here that lie had no undue
loudness for the civil law. His mind was too
liberal—far 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, arid 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 suspicions glance on the efforts of Judge
Story, and the writers of that school, to infuse
its principles into our cherished common Jaw.
He could not have denied that many of the
branches of our laws have been enriched HI this
mode, hut he was alive to the danger of push
ing such improvements too far. 1 need refer
the reader only fo the opinion delivered in
L\ le vs. Richards, 9 S. 5c R. 322, and in Lo
gan vs. Mason, 6 W. &.S. 9, in proof of the ex
istence of these viewsiti the mind of their authot.
In summing up the personal character of
Judge Gibson, I 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. To do so, would be to imitate the con
duct of some visitor to a gallery of art, who
should employ himself in tracing rough 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. I speak rath
er of what Judge Gibson was, than of what he
was not. His case has been removed to
that great appellate Court which, while it ad
ministers perfect justice, is governed also by-
Freedom of Thought and Opinion.
'per feet rnercy. Jurisdiction having vested j
there, on the soundest principles of jurispru- j
detice no allegation should be permitted against i
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
the anise and Hie cumin, and necessarily lost
the respect of those valuable members of the
State, outside and inside ol the bar, who do the i
least important things first .and the more impor
tant last. Frank, generous and confiding, he
sjjoke on the bench and elsewhere, of persons
I' an Jol filings, with that impulse which j
but an honest heart can know; and in doing so, j
he occasionally lost in dignity as much as he j
gained in the pleasure of giving expression tohis I
real sentiments in his own way. If, as a presi- j
ding officer, he had preserved order more rigid- i
, ly, his Court would have been a more solemn j
place, and if lie had attended more directly to j
what was passing before him, the business would ;
have been more efficiently despatched. But e- j
nougii of what he was not. The qualities which 1
he possessed were striking and peculiar. That j
which most impressed those who knew him |
best, was the exceeding kindness ofhis heart. '
Hie knowledge of'.his was a key to his charac- i
ter. Any newspaper editor or legislative ora
tor who had abused him, might have approach- j
, ed him with the profoundest confidence, not on- '
ly that he hail forgiven, but actually forgotten, '
any calumny however gross. Tn that respect, i
at least, no man could have reduced to practice i
more directly, the morality of the \ew Testa- j
rnent. He cherished no 'antipathies, and form- j
ed no prejudices. In every relation, public and !
private, he displayed that charity of the heart j
which makes a man a gentleman, despite of ear- ;
ly associations and even of bad manners. In the j
iiveliest salli-s ol his wit and humor—the last
acts on which benevolence exerts its restraining j
influence—he never allowed himself to trench
on the sensibilities of others. When lie said
anything from the bench approaching severity,
as he sometimes did when worn down by a dull j
and t>-dious argument, no time was lost in try- j
ing, bv a remark of a different kind, to wear
o' „
away its effect both on the speaker and tfie au- j
dience. He was a sound critic in the best sense !
of the term, and when a harsh observation ;
was made of one whom he knew, he was gen- j
eralty able to relieve its effect by pointing out
some excellence which had escaped the atten- I
lion of others. To the young, and especially!
to those who were endeavoring to become the j
architects ol their own fortunes, he was kind,
affable, and indulgent. But the picture requi-j
res higher coloring. There was something in ,
his magnanimity, in his fo-giving temper, in
his kindlv cha.i'v, in his rapacity to appreciate !
excellence of any kind, in any form, which j
despite his apparent unconcern of manner and j
sluggishness of bodv, elicited and compelled at- j
fection. There was a true fire of the le-art
which glowed unceasingly and cast even the j
splendor of his intellect into the shade. No!
man ever more cordially despised a cold,calcu- i
lating, spider-like lawyer, weaving day by day j
his miserable '.oils, giving up nothing, retaining j
Ins gra<p on cverv victim ol chance and folly,
and employing hi-> powers only for the produc
tion of misery and the praclice of oppression.— j
No man ever spoke into being with so little ef- .
fort, ardent and peimanent friendship. He sat'
on the Supreme Bench with twenty-six differ
ent Judges, none of whom owed {heir position j
to his influence, and almost all of 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 intercourse with his associates. In ;
regard to any body of men long associated to- ,
gether, this fact night be worth repeating; but ;
in that of so many independent men, of strong j
intellects and wills,employed together in the :
dailv examination of exci'ing questions, where (
conscience anil duty required each man to stand i
by his individual judgement, the case is some- i
what remarkable. His intellectual acquire
ments were great, and lie had a right to be i
proud of them, but that would be a poor rr.onu- j
meat to his fame, which should omit to mention j
those higher and finer qualities of toe heart, i
which placed hun so far above the leiei of oi- i
dinary men.
It is almost unnecessary to speak of him as a
man of integrity. I verily believe that the
mere force of habit in seeking the truth and
finding reasons to support it, would have driien
him to the right, against every co-rupt influ
ence that could have been brought to bear upon
him. But the truth is, no idea opposite to that
ol his utmost purity as a judge, was ever asso
ciated with his name. There was something
in his character, conversation, manner and ap
pearance, which would have crushed such a
thought in the bud. A man who had approach
ed him lor the purpose of corrupting him, would
have been as much disposed to fall down before
him in an act of homage, as to have attempted
to carry out his purpose. After a lifetime devo
• ted to the service of his country, it is surely no
mean praise of a public man, tbat declarations
like these can be 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 the community
whose laws he enforced.
A QUAKER JUKE.
A correspondent sends the Buffalo Express
the following good thing for the hot weather:
K , the Quaker President of a Pennsyl
vania Railroad, during the confusion and panic
last fall, called upon the W Bank, with
which the road had kept a lr rge regular account,
and asked for an extension of" a part of i pa
per falling due in a few days. The Bank Pres
ident declined rather abruptly, saying in a lone
common with that fraternity :
"Mr. K., your paper must be paid at maturi
ty. We cannot renew if."
"Wry well," our Quaker replied, and left
the Bank. But he did not let the matter drop
here. On leaving the Batik he walked quiet
ly over to the depot and telegraphed all the
agents and conductors on the road, to reject the
uilis on the W Bank. In a few hours the
trains began to arrive, full of panic, and bting
ing Ihe 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
seized his hat anil 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?"
"Yes," was the quiet reply.
"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
per lor us this morning."
It is needless to say Mr. L. renewed all the
Quaket's paper and enlarged his line of dis
count, while the magic wires carried all along
the road, to every agent, the sedative message,
"The W Bank is all right. Thee may
take its currency."
TIIE CROPS IX TEXAS.
G. W. Kendall writes to the New Orleans
Picayune the following statement regarding
the corn and Chinese sugar cane crops in Tex-
There is to be no want of corn in western
Texas, lor every field which escaped the rava
ges of the grasshoppers, is yielding abundantly,
and many localities escaped these pests entire
ly. The crop of Chinese sugar-cane, which
laughs at grasshoppers and droughts, is at the
! same time immense, and the first heads of ripe
; seeds are already gathered. Some of my neigh
bors are having it ground, and are making
bread of it, speaking of it in commendable
terms, while every where they are pieparing
to grind the stalks and convert the juice into
syrup or molasses. That this is to be a valua
ble addition to our crops in this section, there
ean be no doubt: it stands a drought better than
any other plant —is no more affected by dry
weather than a good article of bread—so many
say; the leaves make an excellent fodder, while
the stalks can be converted into molasses and
perhaps sugar—nothing is lost. I have often
heard it staled tbat the grain is hurtful to hor
ses, am! this ir.av be so; yet if any one has any
to spare, I am willing to feed it out to my work
animals as an expei iment, and will run ail risks
of its injuring them. In fact, I fed out no in
consideiable quantity ol it last year, and would
have used it more fieelv, had I had it to spare.
A bushel of it weighs some forty-eight pounds,
or eight pounds less than a bushel of corn. We
have not yet learned all its uses.
MODESTY. — "Who shall win the prize ?"—;
There was a meeting of the flowers, and the :
judge was appointed to award the prize of
beauty.
"Who shall win the prize ?" asked the rose,
proudly rushing forward in blushing beauty, in
full assurance of its w inning worth.
"Who shall win the prize ?" asked the rest
of the flowers, as they came forward, each one
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, nof intending to make one
ofthe company, "and see the beauties as they
pass."
Just as it was raising its modest head from
its humble and retiring corner, and was
looking in upon the meeting, the judge rose
to render the decree.
"To the violet ," said lie, "I award the prize
of beauty, for there is no trait more rare—none
more enchanlinglv beautiful, than modesty."
THE SAW AND THE SAUCER. —"I come for the
! saw, sir," said an urchin.
"What saucer?" asked the neighbor.
"Why, the saw sir, that you borrowed," re- j
plied the urchin.
"1 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 the saw, sir, now
sir."
"O, you mean the saw.' Why the thunder
didn't you say so iwlfirst ?"
(£F"At a negro celebration, lately, an liish
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 (lights, the Irishman said :
"Bedad, he >pa';es well for a uagur; don't he
now ?" .
Somebody sai l—"He isn't a negro, he is on
ly a half negro." _ *
"Only a half nagur, is it I Well, if a half
nagur can ta k in that style, I'm thinking a
whole nagur might hate the prophet Jeremi
ah !"
WHOLE \OIBEH 2814.
VOL 2, NO. 6.
AS ISCIDENT OF THE LAST TVAII.
Allow me to relate an incident of the last war
with Great Britain, on the Canada border, which
develops true heroism on the part of a young
oflicer then in his teens, but now a worthy and
distinguished citizen of the State of New York.
The facts were long ago related to me by an
old soldier, who saw and participated in the en
terprise.
In August, 18 P. the American arm}-, under
Major-General Hampton, broke up their en
c mpment at Burlington, and crossed Lake
Ghamplain, n bn taux, to the Cumberland
Head, on their mar to Montreal, expecting to
encounter the British army on tlyeir way
There tvere our elite corps, of two hundred men
each, severally under Colonel Soeiling, Colonel
Wool, Colonel McNeil, and Colonel Hamilton.
They arrived at Cumberland Point, at twelve
o'clock at night.
It was arranged that Colonels Snelling and
Wool should proceed down the Lake, in batteaux,
and that the two corps, under Colonel McNeil
and Hamilton, should march down by land and
a lack the British aimy on the Canada shore.—
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
McNeil's command, on corning out of the woods
at about sunrise, and seeing the detachments of
Colonel Snelling and Wool, mistook them for
the British army. Lieutenant Aaron Ward, be
ing in command of the advance guards of about
fitly men, halted till the Colonel in command
should come up and give orders. Colonel Mc-
Neil soon came up and ordered Lieutenant
Waul to gain the fitst 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
corpb proved to be the first detachment, under
Colonels Snelling and Wool.
Colonel Snelling's corps soon after embarked
in their boat*. leaving the residue under Colonel
McNeil. In the course of ah hour the whole
British army were observed advancing, in order
of battle. Lieutenant Ward was ordered to ad
vance with his company.
The road was live rods wide, and the eftetfly
three-quarteis of a mile ahead. Lieutenant
Ward, then about seventeen years of age, and
on his first campaign, steadily advanced without
flinching,and received three discharges from
the enemy, without returning a shot; and while
re-loading lor the lourth volley, Lieutenant
Ward ordered his company to fire, and 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 by Lieutenant Ward's company, leaving
several killed on the field, which was instantly
occupied by the Americans. This skirmish con
centrated the whole American armv, and the
British army retreated in disorder. Colonel, af
terwards General John McNeil, at the close of
the wa-, 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
in Congress.
A man of consummate skill and bearing iri the
field, he was a uselul and faithful representa
tive of the people on the floor of Congress, and
merits well of his country. — Boston Journal.
THE MEMORY OF THE DEAU,— It seems to be
an innate principle ofthe human rnmd to treat
with reverence the memory of the departed.—
They seem to lis in their narrow resting places,
to have become holier than moilals like
ourselves. Their laults, tteir follies and
their foibles, are all forgotten. The hand
death has purified—sanctified! Itis'well. It
embodies human nature ! Palsied be the tongue
that would idly caluminate their character ;
palsied be the hand that would rudely disturb
their repose! llow simple and beautiful is the
sentiment of the Latin bard
—"Nil mortuus nisi bontim."
And an English poet bas said, with tender
pathos :
"When low in the dust lies the friend thou
hast loved,
He his faults and his follies forgot by thee then:
Or if foi a moment the veil be removed.
Weep o'er it in silence, then close it again."
WHAT IS THE EARTH ?—ANSWERS.— 4 'What
is earth, sexton I 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 I A place
to dig gold.—What is earth, schoolboy! A place
for my play.— What i 3 eaitfi, maiden? A place
lobe gav.—What is earth, seamstress? A place
where I weep. — What is earth, sluggard?—
A good place to sleep.—What is[eartb, soldier l
A place for a battle—What is earth, herds
man ? A place to raise cattle . —What is earth
widow ? A place ol 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 eartfi, author ? I'll write there
my name. What is parth, monarch ? For
my realm 'tis given.—What is earth, Christian*
the gateway to heaven."
Pcac'i Leaves for Yeast. — Mrs. Daniel R.
Mitche!, of Rome, Ga., sa,*3 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.
iTr"Pat says that "nothing can be aister 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!"