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DEAR BROTHER : 1 hare read your 'speech \ of the a Ist ultimo, delivered in the House oS • Represent alive?. ]t p.as paints of considerable j smartness, and will be praised by your parti-; sans as a very clever effort: but I see no other effect that it can produce but to irritate Ihe j South, arid alienate one section of the Union j still more from the ether. Have we not at the • Isjrth stimulated our own self i ig'.ieousriess, in j contrast with the sins of the South, quite up i to, or beyond the healthy point? Would it! Nt be well for n-, for a time, to look more at cur on taitin-s and at the virtues of our bretb- | reii at the South ? j You speak of the change of tone and senli- ; merit that has t iken place during the lat t wen- | ty-five years on the subject ofslaven , 1 plead guil:\ to the truth of this charge. It was one j ot tiie dreams id my early life, that the condi tion oi mankind might be greatly improved by sudden political changes. The cry of slavery ; came to my youthful ear, wilted by th elo- ; q.uent breal i of eye-vvim frotn Virginia South, at that lime, r Imttted t w! sliverv was an evil, moral, social, an 1 j ili. A: the i. >rr ■ • cl the iriildie ••ass...- , the bi-fiaiiaii cru- ii. - of Jamaica, came to us arrows the . ; IV il berf. ice and C ia; hsoti bad acquired a wo. ! i- ; liti m : : .e -Ave t..i; li e, si.su t was so.-n . mad-iip-xi s ,iv.-i , oseii oi toe ii iu : \\ eat j 1 . ami tl ii •' i Attg'.-t, r-:H, was en- ; ter•••. m tiie calender as one yf the holy days of j the year. V. .... i! p'-li t ; - e- il.i ciimo.iiu on -ffo r.vive ifotir.s, s • n >'ie, so lr.-e, s trappy caught, c.-.lined. ion d, smTering, til', the bur- • riC'im-s in !he\\ . -■' lad: -s Were <" ' ir ' ! - - Mil to avenge wrongs. The phi! dive per '•I would not have a slive l>r all the gold that ♦ ; bought and sold, have ev.-r earned . set me; oi Mili'-ri g, of compassion, ol jA , were ecii By ev.-rv harp, .eel re-echo- > f.l orat >r and preacher, till the whole at- 1 mrqfo re of New England was vocal with Hie i rri ■ of the stave. 1 have done my fidl share ! of it: but greater men 1 ave been aoi.-taU- n, an i I have in riper \mars been c•.•mpeli-d t i r*vin a:ul revoke Ihe opinions of arlier day?. Burke ■ once was em apt tired with the voic * "1 ieo-xty, | as sheciied horn aero - Ihe channel: hi* ,n tlie j full strength ol his manhood, he was compelh-1 i to den )ii:ice (he rrinn < cormi Mt-d i:i !mr I. >.ne. ; Sir James Mcintosh vv.n'.e his , ;,cijl U .1- i lie©hut was c inpesled, by a 1 • :g r ev,.-ri- | i nee and a wi for obs-.-vati >, I > c.mc: 1 lV- j opinions of early life by this- ol mature.- y-ars. lam compels- ito canc-1 many* tilings licit i have said on the subject of slavery, tule for them Ihe opinions of iij i* age. i might have once sail wiiut, or marly what.! you havesai ia your l ite sp-i ch in < ngre-.-: ; though I think I si .old have fell out those p.or-'j tions which serve no other end than gun ply to j irritate, without convincing. But my <• vic tions at the | r sent limy are. not on It ti at the i r'aveiiolder ; have a coit pMe vindica'i n i tb-ir . present position, but that they areeiiV. J to U*; look'd u;v>n as "mdactors to the countly and : to the human iac.*. The only (ground on w i ich I can claim the'u ! patience and f>r bear ince io < a 1 u, I r u e ! duig with their affairs, and lor a sing tiiem as muci. as we have, and as none st;il conD .u-to <!-, i this : Tfi-v gave us the faN ■ premiss ■n w !;ich we reasoned c irrectiy to U •. r c ! .-i ••. — Thev gave awav tlieir case by i incts- nr il slavery be a sin, a wrong, or an evil, no for mind can resist the coiicln-i >u that ef -r'.s ought to be made as soon as possible (o do it awaf.— Tiiis philosophy, that slavery is wrong, .sprang t;p in \ cginia, ..nil was adoptrU atid encouraged in m ariy all the slave Slates; and the seed was thence, in connexion with the correct and grand principle of human government, scatter ed wide over the free States. They have had their growth, and now it is n<>t a little difficult to put them tij.: but they shall take the wheat with them also. The South is impregnable. The Constitu tion protects them, the Bible protects them, and the tri-nce oi mankind protects them. Our Ethers made a covenant with their fat.' ers.— Thev came into ihe Union withth-ir African slaves ou tt-rms of equality w itri lis, and with all the I ights and privileges that WP can cLitri utider tiie same instrument. 1 hey would make no covenant • xcep-t upon terms of equali ty. We accepted those terms; we count get no better to-ilav; and yet we should be glad to make it, if it w. re imt made, or to renew it, if broken, and on the same conditions we now have. The South claim the right t > go into new territory, and tr\ tire new laud with their siai'e., till tf.e territory becomes a sovereign State, and then bow to \'s will, as before all other sovereigns. Tbi* is ajost and eq ii a .e claim, founded on a fair interpretation ol the Constitute Slavery shou (1 be permitted to flow by natural laws to regions for which it is bA adapted. It v. ill go now here else. You I could not force it into New Ilimpshire, nor • keep it there if introduced. The experiment ha s been tried and failed. Slavery was given up in tiie northern States not by the force of i morn!, but natural laws. It is true the discussions ofthe last twenty five years, have produced a great deal of -enti i ment on the subject of slavery in the Northern Sites; but you know how utterly barren of aw good results it has been to the African. In tcor-Js —and because their number is small, and will continue to be small—we have in the I extreme N >rth given them the rights of citizen j ship and equality; but in works we deny them. The most respectable colored men in Boston ! wou'd not he permitted to hire or to own and j quietly enjoy a pew in the broad ai.-'e of any j fashionable church. In the West, where your j soil is more fertile, and where more fre- color ed men would be likely to go, vou aie more j stringent: and Ihe black laws of Ohio, Illinois, j lowa and Oregon, and the still more expulsive Topeku Constitution of Kansas—far which I believe you and all your Republican associates j voted—proclaim as with trumpet-tongue, the ; innate and ineradicable pr> judicp against the African, lot king, as it still does, in tiie bosoms •d those whose tongues are eloquent for his rights." I am not a little surprised at the manner in I which you speak of Noah. Tiie Bible calls kirn a *'ju-t man, and perfect in his generation;" and yet be a ise he, by Divine inspiration and /■y Divine ccTimand, foretold the slavery of the children ol Ham, vou give him some very hard i thrusts, and leave him on the pages of your speech with a character bv no means so fair as Hiat given l:i:n by the sacred historian. Was N >aii HI the way of your theory, that you strike at him so vigoroush, as (hough you 1 would have him drown? You sav he mistook f inaa.u Urllun. Suppose lie nd—the pr<-- dictiou and the curse rests somewhei-e—on -ome natmn. T- • principle is the same in lb- D.vine admiuis'rati m. Who are th- chii hon cl Canaan ? Tia lit ion ao I history unite :n the heli' I that th- v iolia'ut '.lie cotitiu nt of Aiii< i. Their condition fulids, with remarka - fid !i ty, the projdi. cv of that "i igkttons m . . and preai h.-r ot righteousness," Noah.— •• \ s"i i nit I -ervants" was th- double curse, • uci .is j on tint continent and race I II >iy v.usuries. Jt is C.v red w (!) a n> t v ;k ol double slavery—every chief having i his reli oie of slaves, while he pay tribute to ; some higher cl:iel or petty king. You se-m to lay great stress upon the fie! ; t! at th" U„:; .anites were n.t black. II *w do 'I ■ ■■• kri ov ' Di-.-Tiiorrtpsin. who hag ivri'ten. , jtiips, life most thorough work on Syria and j Palestine Hat has ever been published, says -; i- a.ncimt inhabitants of that country came from Africa. Th-great painting of Samps>n i:. ii.'ig in the S'IOV s his P'.ihstin- dri vers verv dark, if not black. Rut \*ou mi< ihe p.. ini of the Scrintnral precedent and ex ample lor slavery. You prove, as you think, t'.at the {.'.ma vnt.'S were ri t black, an I then jump at once to the conclusion that it they w.-re no! black they mu-t have been enslaved j because they were Uihorinfr im n. Tins does verv well to stir lip prejudice at the N .rib: but i- it the train I The l-tatdi'es were permitted to enslave the Canaan ites not because they j were laboring men, but because they were ■■•tt'fn, and thereby s ■ d-graded that a transfer I > the Hebrew Commonwealth, where the tru iii 1 was worshipji -:l, was a privilege and a ; bies-ing. 'i :- furnishes the-parallel point which Am rican slave!) dd. rs relv with great confi dence. The Afiican? were taken from the most degraded heathenism, and are here taught ; to worship tiie true (I xi: amf, in the opini n ol uverv Bible man, more of-them have been fitted j for arid gone to Imai-n from the thousands in j Am. i ica, than from the niiiii uis in Africa.— ; Dr. LKviglit sai I, after long exjoerience and wde ohs-rvatton, that he never knew but one lazy man to lie c uv-rt-d. And as Gi l had j - uii'* chosen p pie ia Africa, it was necessary . 1 that tli.-v should be taught to work in order to ; ;licir c diversion. But in the South t icy a-e ; ri.-'t ni owed to read the Bible. Well, in Afri } ca, neither hear of if, nor from it. i Faith c .;i)--tti by beating; and is it not better to lu-ar the truth than to live entirely destitute ! of it ? Y .u quote the eighth comand:n. Nt as a pro : ibiu in of slav.-rv. Tl.i- i- singular. Were vour f.ncs-stors thi-v.-s ? Thev hi ought, or as -■•nte l t ' the bringing of slaves to this country. It is a singular fact, that whi'e we boast of our Rf.iiitau ances'tv, the iawsot th- present day w .oid hang half ihe men H at lived a hundred years ago, as engaged in the slave trathe, di rectly or indirect 1\; and anollier la v would imprison all the men who lived foity years i since. The eighth commandment was given on the way out of Egvpt. It was the charter, , the constitution of Ihe Hebrew nation. AH their other laws were controlled by the Deca |..gye. Well, now what ? Why. they had ! slaves by Divine permission under this char ter. How could they, il the eighth command ment forbids it ? But are the slaves stolen ? Certainly not by Americans. They buy them, pr. /or them, transfer them, and provide for them, in the only and most benevolent man : ner in which it can lie done. As to the mha j>h\siral abstraction, that man cannot have j pr iperty in man, it has been contradicted f om the founddti xi ot I lie world to the pr* sent time. Holding, use, and transfer, are the dements of i property; and this has been done by rnen to men I in all ages; and \et vou say that there is no v. ore! in th" good old Hebrew tongue that conveys , the idea i f prop rty in man. When a master inadvertently killed his slave, no blood was to I, • shed, Ur -tif. wis his money." Does not i that mean property ' It cannot be denied that the i lea of slavery * runs ail through the Bible ; it was stamped j upon th- entire liUtorv of the Jewish nation, ; and upon the history of every vigorous nation II upon the face ol the eaitb indeed I strongly BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 8, 1559 suspect this is the normal condition of large portions of a depraved iace, and i ran readily believe that a man may suslain trie relation of slaveholder, in all good conscience, and ivilh the entire Divine approbation. 2here ere visi ble footprints of God's disapprobation of t he. "bo/1( ton is :,t of t/iis count n/. Look at tbe flocks of unclean beasts and birds that have come up out ot its train. Infidels that curse God, abuse every man of SOCK I character, and then praise humanity in general fa counterbai ance their malignity and blasphemy. Out of the abstract rights of man have grown the more abstract rights of women ; and once respectable wives call St. Paul a crusty old bachelor, and Abraham a tyrant, because Sarah obeyed him, and Paul makes mention ol the : fact. The second edition of the rig bis of wo man is divorce, "affinity," and universal con cubinage. VYe I ave far more of the.-- immoral j tendencies in the northern State 3 than I hey ! have tie l Smth. Is it not time to look at home? I The truth is we have been wont to contem- : plate the condition of the slaves at the South: from a wrong point of view. We compare i them v■ i!h races or nations more highly civili- I zed, and their condition seems a harsh and degraded one • but what were they when the . Christian nations took tfieni by the hand and led them across toe ocean ! American slavery has produced and cultivated more African int- llec!, more social ailection, more Christian emotion in two hundred yeais than all Africa (Central and Southern) for two thousand years. i A met ican slavery is a redemption, a deliver ance horn African heathenism. "The rfaik places of the eaith are full of the habitations of ' cruelfv -."and no put of the earth is more dark I or more till d with cruelty than Africa. Tread ing under their feet one of the most fertile nils. 1 they cultivate aim >st nothing—live on fruits I and nuts, w itli f, w cattle, and little commerce. ■ They are in the first place lazy beyond all hope : of self improvement. They ill not work.— Vow, God lias or rained the raw of labor so surely, and so universally, that il barbarians will 1 ■ % 7 • 7 not work, civilization wi'd yoke them up and j drive tnem to it. This is fixed, is sure as light j and gravity. Why not ? Wiy should one) muter ol the globe, one section f the human ' t.i ily do nothing f>r the race ? ft Him will nt bring timber for the ark, Shem and Japheth wnl dtive him to it. But Africa is not only n great wilderness of I uiogers, but out of thi - idleness grow ail man- I ner of v ices. Work is salvation. >V r „. jpenejat' • t'<e earth and man. V. i= pro gress,aid without it nothing. The title ,i of 4he ' ajc h to man KT.I should subdue it and multiply UJ>on it. .NOW, if iie only multiplies and <! .•♦* not subdue, he has onfv a squatter sovereignty —no certified j titfetii! tie builds ins house and tills his I .rm. ! il-mce the Indian must be driven out ; he will ; not work on any condition, neithpr self-moved nor driven by the hand of another, and there fore, the lal tomahawk ot th red man will soon fang as a trophy iri the halls of the con-J queror. N >w, tise African works patiently! and well wii-rt driven to it . he will work on no other c.onditi jn. ILs climate is a terrible! protection from white invasion, therefore he must be transported and taught to w irk, there by civsiizd, thereby christianized, thereby improve I every wav, and perhaps by-and-by sent hick to yoke up ami subdue his whole continent, according to the pattern that has j ! been shown h'un in this working bee-hive of j ! A rr.erirn. V HI t itch in no very fuf'-rnal manner some 1 of the s ,c il vices of vpnr brethren at the South. ' Perhaps il they deserved the stone, it should hardly come horn a northern hand : the gar- j inents of our ci'ies are di ipping with the waters of S •■!:>, and s -me of its.- W*stern States sun der th' marriage covenant with as 11■ t !• con-; ; -i feral >:i as the most rnt'il --" siiveho'der. — Sensuality :s not at thi* hour producing as mch -ocijl degradation nor d -straying as many lives at the South as at the North : but this o not the point. What were the blacks socially when tak'-ii fiom Africa Tie King of Daho mey has four hundred wives, whom he employs in carrying palm oil to the coast, and thence rmw rum nn.-j tobacco back to the pa lace for their linviand and king. This rum and tobacco in e tin- j mil pioduci ion of slavery and freedom. Slavery produces the tobacco and molasses, and then we Yankees make the rum and send them both in our v hs to the coast of Africa to buy oil gathered bv women and carrie 1 on their heads in jars front fifty to two hundred miles. They are driven along bv a herd ot iazv men, and stepping carefully every minute under the the express condition that if one pot <>! oil is spoiled, one head of a woman and a wife most be cut fill to atone for it. Now, is it any sin to catch as?! of these lazy fellows, lliat live on the earning ot their wives, teach them lo work, make them work, teach timm to love one another and to love their children, so that their highest ambition shall no longer be to buy an extra number of wives that they may have a few "pickaninnies" (chil dren) to sell t A wild Afi icrn recent: v b"ought to Boston by a merchant begged for an old gun which he saw. When asked what lie wanted of if, lie replied, "to buy a wife and have pickaninnies to sell." Is it any harm to yoke up such men and work the laziness and tbe brutality out of them ? Yes; but you say there is a b Her way to do it. There may be, but it wants* the evidence of a successful experiment. The Moravians once kindled their altars of devotion all around the African coast, hut the waves of;>.irbaris:n have extinguished them.— Jamaica, in spite of devoted missionaries, Bri'ish philanthropy, and American sympathy, i is fast receding through idleness to barbaiism. flail a million of people there in twenty years have not Mteiii as many spades of earth as 1 /verity thousand Yankees in Califor nia in one-third of the tim". ff this half mil , lion had the twenty thousand to lead them pud plan for them, then that island, which was once a fruitful field, would nofUbe going back Freedom of Thought and Opinion. •j( a a wilderness. The best thing that can b-- done for Africa, if they could live there, would lie to send them a hundred thousand American slaveholders; to work them up to some degree ■ of civilization. It is charged that the life of the slave at the South is sometimes at the mercy of the ma ter. . In Africa the immediate body servants of every chi-?. at his d-ath, are at once b-hea led and horrid fjrwa i t to attend the new wants cf • their old master. Is it wicked to buy these . i' V' t i victims of heathenism and put them : " fit the protection of civilized, and often of C ■*ii an masters ? Just in proportion as the price c' h i-. ' laves is raised in Africa, just to that degree is 'here a motive to the heirs to sp .e U -ir lives. So far as Africa is concern j ed, the slave trade was and is its operations; its abolition was the result of sentiment, and i not the determination of calm and deliberate 1 statesmanship. That it was not called for by : the Condition ofthe world nor by any deep seat ed moral sentiment, is proved from the (act, : that the cation fbremo I in its abrogation, has now revived it on ether shores and under 'another name, adding to whatever sin (here is jin the direct, open slave trade, the other sin j i! hypocrisy and false pretence. Jamaica wants laborers; not because there j are not plenty of them on the island, but he , cause th. v will not work ; and the same British : philahthrophy which stands guard over thestal- ; : wart and immensely lazy son of Ham, brings jin fhp fe u liier child'en of Shorn, and dooms thern to the same bondage under another name. II .nor to thesigac HI? r.n i far-s >eing states man of Georgia and South Carolina, almost I tiie only consisf-nt slave States in the Union ; !or thev breasted the united streams of Brit'sh and f American fanaticism, claimed and j maintained their ri. Nts, and soved the South J from barrenness ami desolation, the North . i from rivil war, and the negroes irom barbarism. < H more laborers are n-e Vd for Texas, < : Central America, parts of Mexico and Cuba, ' flu v ought to be brought, without objections, ; und-r such humane regulations as are ir.n !? •in o h-r ca<-s for the comfort of passengers.— . I Th**se 'sharers rhoui J come from Africa, be- < can; ■ h".- are stronger and make b-tter sla.es tii.m an vof the cop|. r-co!ored races, because ' tiley afe the rn Ist degraded. , As the i*itluence of slavery on the ciiarac i !rr ofthe whites, that is quite another qn®s j tion : hut so lar as tim political history cf our ( ' cuinfrv i< concerned, it is not easy to see how . we t ue.: do without the slaveholders. See \ j how liieir names shine aiong and adorn the 1-V1- f JVashiq^'en. ••••:>, Hie Randolphs, Bavard, Aicnkney, 1 Mad i< I.] >nro", Crawford, Rut ledge, Jack i- n, Calhoun, Clay. Benton—blot out these nair.es and a countless host oi others, from I th-slave States, and what a blank is left in our history. And do you r. .t find men from these States now in Congress, fully the peers • I anv tii.it you can name from the North in j statesmanship, honor, integrity, patriotism, and high moral and religi ins character ? Do you t: u > e "some bright and shining lights around i yon from to- South ? 1 have read no speech-s j that give more entire satisfaction than (hose of j tin* clear-headed, broad-mind -ti, candid, /air. j I ; Hrr'tic Stephen?, of Georgia, or his associate, j Jackson. In their speeches they seem to m-j mod ids for .smaller statesmen to look up to, and j j strive to equal. | A few words n? to your mHo al the head of i your speech : "Ihe fanaticism of the ' Dernocra'ic pirtv." Ifthere could he found in the Democratic party or its history any of j that elemrrt, ortainly rn cue ought to b better qualified to deal with it than a gentle man from the Republican ranks. They were horn of it and mirU red bv it :it is their meat and drink, Moir nervine and anodyne; their zeal in conflict and tti-it consolation in defeat. The Democratic party needs no defence : a j simple recital of its biography is its high-st i etilrgv. When the measure of British insult j was hill wh-n fur twenty years they had 1 insulted our (lag, embarrassed and put under tribute our commerce ; when they had seized our sailors and fired into our ships, and hung : innoc-nt m>*u for being 1 >und on hoaid an American vessel, then Henry Clay, I-elix Grundy and John C. Calhoun, and their associ ates, performed a lustration : then the I Democracy of America vindicated the national honor, and established a new name and a unv Hag over the ocean : and from that day to this all the progress and honor abroad, have been won by the measures of the D -mocratic party. This glory will remain, in spite ot nil thai enmity or mistaken z-al can do to mar or de stroy it. Van may possibly succeed (hut may heaven prevent you) in the attempt you are making to trample under your 1-et the cove nant of our lathets, and exalt a sectional party j with sectional aims to places of power and •j trust; but the day of your success would be the hour of vour dissolution. Like the last day of the a;ctic summer, your sun would only • ; rise to go down. Opposition is your cohesion —the only cement ot your party. Tour party i can construct nothing ; they lav down no 1 principles ; adhere to no name. Mr. Banks * - goes for the absorption of the colored races, ■ while Mr. Blair goes fir their expulsion.— * i Which shall be the policy of the patty ? * j The Democratic party has carried the coun t try up from small beginnings to its present . : prosperous anil happy condition : and, only { i occasionally being taken out to ire aired and . purifier), is destined under that nam", and with -! essentially its ori-inal and present principles, , :to govern this nation while we remain a re , ! public. Equality among ail the States—each . State to manage their own afi'airs—slaveholders ; j not to be taunted nor insulted 'or that lact— f I equal rights in the new Teriitories and new - i lands annexed and new Stales welcomed, as - | last as they wish to come. J j These are the principles, mottoes, and ban s i ncrs of success which wave around the < i Democtatic party. Affectionately, your brother, Joscrn C. LOVEJOY. To Hon. Owen Lovejoy, M. C. BIDDY MALOJYEY'S CAT. Mathew Maloney, b-tter known by the boys of the mill as "Father Mat," on returning from work one evening, was met at the gate by Biddy, his better half, in a high stale of ex citement. "Mat," says she, "there's a strange cat in the cabin." "Ca=t her out thin, an' don't be botherin' me about the baste." "Faix, an' I've been sthrivin' to do that same for the mather of ten minutes past, hut she's just beyant my rache, behint the big red chist in the corner. Will yez be aftiier helpin' me to dhrive her out Mat ?" "To be sure I will, iad luck to the con?afa she has for m° house; show her to me, Biddy, til! I tache her the rispict that's due to a man in his own house—to te takin' possession wid out as much as by your lave, the thafo o' the world !" Now Mat had a special antipathy for cats, and never !-t pass an opportunity to hill one. This he resolved to do in the present case, and instantly formed a [dan for the purpose. Per ceiving but one mode of egress for the animal, he says to Biddy : I "Have yez ivir a male bag in the house, me darlint ?" "Divii a wan is there, Mat. Yez Ink it to mill wid yez to bring home chips wid, this momin'." "Faix, an' T did, and there it is yif, thin.— Well, have vez nothing a! ail in the house that will tie up I ke a bag, Biddy ?" "Troth, an'l have, there's me Sundav ptiicoat—ye can dhraw the strings close at top, an' sine ii will do bellher nor letlin' the cat be lavin'yez." "Biddy darib.f, yez a jewel to be thiokia' of t hat same: be alt h-r bringin' it to me." Biddy brought Ihe garment, and when the strings were drawn close it made a very good substitute for a meal bag, and Mat declared it was "ili-zant." ?o holding it cK;e against the edge of the ch-..i, he took a loo!: behind and saw a pair ol bright eyes glaring at him." "An" is it there ye are, ye divii ? Be out of that now; bad luck to all yor kin, ye thavir.' vagabone ve. Bedad, an' ye won't lave m house at all thin wid perliic axin'? Yer cell will bat 's a pig's intirely. Biddy, have yez "Yis, i te*a p*.iatyf3iaf:the luy-telile's full uv it." "Be afther castin' the matlher of a quart thin h-hint the chist, til! I say how the stsay divii !ikes ii." "Mould "i-n close, Mat; here goes the water." Dash Went the wat-r, and out jumped the cat into Mat's trap. "Arrab, be the howly poker, I have 'im in, Biddy," says Mat, drawing close the folds of ihe garment: "now, bad cess to yez, ye thafe, its nine lives ye have, is it ? Be afther axin' forgivem ss, fir the thavin' ye have been ! doin' in me house, for I'm thinkin' the nine ! fives ye have won't save ye now, any way.— I Biddy saize honlt of the poker, an' whin I'll I shoulder the baythen ve'il bate the daylights i out o' "im." Mat threw the bundle over his shoulder,and told Biddy to play "St. Patrick's day in the' morning" on it. Biddy struck about thtee notes f that popular Iris!) air, and suddenly slopped exclaiming : 'What smills so quare, Mai? It's takin'; me brith away wid the power uv it. Oeh, j morther, Mat: sure an' ye have the civil in the i sack." | "Bate the on Id hathen, then: yz 'ill Wiver have a better chance. Bate the horns oil 'im: j lather 'im like blazes, my darlint !" "Augh !" says Biddy, "I'm f'aintin' wid de \ power uv 'im. Cast "im ofl yez, Mat!" "Howly St. Pathrick says Mat, throwing down the sack; "Biddy, the baste is a pole-cat ! Lave the house, or y z'!l be kiit intirelj*. Mur iiier and turf, how the haythen smills. Och, Biddy Maloney, a purty kittle o' fish v p z made of it, to be sure, to be mistakin' that little divii j for a harrumless cat!" "Mat, (or the love o' God, If yez convanient j to the door, be afther openin' it, for I'm narely 1 choked wid 'im. Och, Biddy Maloney, bad i luck to yez for lavin' ould Ireland, to be tnnr- j thered in this way. Howly Miry, pertict ine ! j Mat, I'm clane kilt intirely—take me out o' I this." Mat drew her out doors, and then broke | for the pump like a quarter horse, closely fol- : lowed by Biddy. "Shore, that little villain bates Ihe divii in-j tirely; he's ruined me house, an' kilt Biddy, an' 1 put me out o' consate wid m-self for a month j to come. Och, the desaivin' vagabone, bad j luck to him," and Mat plunged his head into J the horse-trough up to his shoulders. "Get out o* that, Mat, I'm nearly blind," | and Biddy went under the water. Och, the murthurin'baste," says Biudv, sputtering the j water out of her mouth, "me best petticoat is • spilt intirely. Mat Maloney, divii a trap will I ivir help yez to sit lor a cat again." "Don't throuble yerself, Mistress Maloney,! ye've played lite divii as it is. Nivir fear :ue axin' a lap'orth o' yer assistance. It's nath'ral fool ve are, to he takin' a baste uv a no!e-cat fur a house cat." Mat and Biddy went cautiously back to the cabin' from which the offensive quadruped had taken his departure. Things were turned out of doors, Biddy's peticoat buried, the bed, which fortunately escaped, moved to a neai neighbors the stove moved outside, and for a week they kept house out of doors, by which time, by dint of hard scrubbing, washing, and airing, the house was rendered once more habitable, but neither Mat nor Biddy has forgotten the "strange cat." WISOLE AT TIBER 2844. INDIAM TACTICS.— Tnose who suppose, says the Galveston Civil inn, !he Indians on the fron tier of Texas to he destitute of craft and cour agp, in the prosecution of their depredations, should note the following incident, 33 related to the editor of the Western Texan, by Mr. Roam, who arrived with the San Diego mail last week. The train near Fort Quitman on the Rio Grande, had a slight brush with Jadians. It seems that two of the Mexicans while engaged in guarding their mules, noticed something mo ving in the tall grass. Supposing it to be cof lofes, they took but little notice of it. Shortly an Indian took hold of one of the stake ropes within a lew feet of one of the Mexicans, and cried booh! evidently expecting that the Mexi cans would run : but in this he was mistaken. 1 he Mexican h"!d his six shooter near the head of t!)p Indian, and shot him dead on the spot.— fhe other Indian in a moment shot the Mexi can with three arrows, mounted a horse, rode direct through camp upon the run, and as he passed a person covered up with two blankets, he seir.-'d both the blankets, stooping as he went and escaped. Some six Government mules were driven ob"and the Indians crossed the Rio Grande into Mexico. AN EDITOR IN HEAVEN.—A paper published in a neighboring State, after having a long obi tuary of a deceased brother of the quill, thus, in glowing strains, concludes : "Are we not glad abo that such an editor is in Heaven ?" "There the cry of 'more copy,' shall never again fall upon his distracted ears. There he shall never be abused any more by his political antagonists, with lie.- and detractions that should shame a demon to promulgate. There he shall b no more used as a ladder ior the aspiring to kick down as they roch the desired height, and need nim no mcr. There he shall be abe to see the immense masses ot mind he has mo ved, aii unknowingly and unknown, perfirming a; he has been his weary pilgrimage on earth. There he wiil find all articles credited, not a clap of ids thunder stolen—and there shall be no horrid typographical errors to set him in a fever. We are glad the editor is in Heaven. 1 ' "HOLD ON. DAR." —The Piqtia (S. C.) Regis ter, has the following, in a recent issue, descri bing an incident among the slaves: "Quite a revival is now in progress at the African church in this city . We were present n few evenings since, and witnessed, with much ••i. .their earnest tie vol htm. Of the brothe,- was supplicating the throne, eloquent ly, when another brother Celled out in a sten torian voice : i "Who dat praying okerdar ?" "The response was, 'Dat's brother Mose ?" '•H Id on dar, brudder Mcse !" was the dic tum of the former, "you let brndder Ryan pray : he's better 'quainted wid de Lord dan you am.' Bruddei .Mose dried up, and brudder Ryan prayed." ONLY FIT FOR A LAWYER. —There is a little three year old boy in Ncrvvnik, Connecticut, already set apart for tbe legal profession. The Gazette says : Being taken in hand with a ' switch alter having been forbidden to pick an ! other pear from a favorite dwarf tree, he indig natiti v exclaimed, "Mamma, I did not pick off the pear —you come and see if I did." Sure enough he didn't. He simply stood there and ate it, and the core was still dangling from the stem ! WHAT IS A For.-The fop is a complete speci men of an outside philosopher. He is one-third > c liar cne-sislh patent leather, one-third a .viking stick, and the rest kid gloves and hair. YOUNG ATTORNEY.—A useless member of so ciety, who often goes where he has no business to be, because he has no business here he he ought to be. i CRITIC.—A large dog, that goes unchained, and barks at everything he does not com prehend. FL/ = *"A ruffian shot at me last nigh!, 3 ' said a penurious gentleman, "and my life was saved iby the balls' striking a silver dollar in my i pocket." ♦•Whoever takes true aim at your i heart, is very certain to bit a dollar," said one who knew him. going out again this evening, Mr. Tompkins ?" "Yes my dear, to a stag party at | Mr. Crummels." "Stag party—humph—l i guess you mean stagger party, youbrute." This was a .staggerer and Tompkins slumped into his ; boots. ———- TF°"An inn keeper observing a postillion I with only me cpur, inquired the reason. "Why what would be the use oi another,"said the pos j tillion ; "if one side oi the horse goes, the other | can't lag behind. i lEFMt was a narrim of General Jackson's— | "Take time to deliberate but when the hour of j action in: res, stop thinking and go in." CJ"Whfn yen see a ma:i c.i a moonlight night trying to convince his shadMj that it is improper to follow a gentleman, fou may be sure that it is high time to join a temperance society. HF"The road tiK is.ioo narrow for friendship, too crooked fojf ragged lor honestv, too uMk for silence. ]g *•'* !£/~"Good mornTftg, Smith, you look sleepy. 1 *" , "Yes," replied Smittfr**! was up all night,** > TTp u here t" "Up stairs in bed." VOL. 2, m 36.
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