The Democratic Watch man HELLEg,ONTE, PA THE OLD MAN'S BLESSINGS =I "Meat. Manias' are among the laat of he, la etield produottoom of theirlamented author. -lloutir thy father and thy mother, that ih daps may he long in the land which the Lor thy God giveth thee" You think, lieestuae I'm fnureenre yearc And bolt • little in my gate, My life in one of enree and fear•, And that no blesningn on me wait You think I sigh for days long past. When II Ipe his lamp bright beaming bore, IYhqn all wan light, I first to lam, And nut a shadow loomed before; That 'stead of thin young ohantoto dear Lighting my path as an I stray The apeetres gi nnt of gait and fear Are my eumpanionaon the way , That nothing now to me in left, I lit prillellee to endure the load " tH•dhled ream, ouch tint bereft Of bleu Inge which the 'ant bestowed But trust roe. friend, It to pot no; Age Ilan of jots Its hidden store, rioh youth can near bestow, %%. Bich metn'ry reckon. o er and lir-. Romenntt4 the the withered leer Juni ere It Nile to rf•e no more, Dbieloette: for n A brighter tint titan e'er It wore. Rernemher, ton the great enmtnend, Thome who their parent. honor here Shall livel.vot: in the prnrnlK'd land. And revel In its botmteond cheer 014 age moot then mu ttleftying he. Mince the boon which Clod cloth give To throe vrheye filfel iety Merlin the ehoeen hi to live. What thnneh rrn• bend t.r Ir , hitea,n• •nmr My forebenil ploved by tnanv a riiryovi My body befit like Indian how And 1 a Mick am fain 10 bor,vr What itionah my •heht berina to fade, I atilt ean find rnv vrtav Mona. What, thonah mV heurmY I. 41n. .1111 ran hear the wocalland anng And t coling 1. - envy'. dreamt. are O'er .1111 earl liPtltillef on the pant , Anti dents fret, rnern'ry* ample Plnfe AN rich a trent an tiepin* repent. An o'er rny *hutilder. l it ek I peer, net ictl;rineic to rn etre., pale, No serowling Imp. of guilt or fear, Pint dug. my nl••ys and the gebe Some mark. there are. I mu.t Long time Thal Iced up brhurt the thvor— Sortie old utrommn, mote or lean, I wink were rurilred flout out the ci•ure. Ilia Ile wt..e fi likuul (or Ih“p.. 0111. f•.t. !rue ,Wlston He no.ne.l 1., Adam I. full Ott the ktf y Thio world ig he I .V•eall, 'l • he %111,i11111. .nil ight The v..v,ttg v l o t h.and. IttOtyiliVow gr een, btill go, toy hu art delight 'Tie like the mummer tielliatii vie Though WA •4. lir tstlt aM itiornaiee ray Vet molt Mull nN ort. uud hi.rd tu It ti.o As the gorgeoli. tint. of Ll.ty The old trunk though am 111,11. dri•ny, Put. loon ll hew .houte. Irma )i or to) ear And 'neAth ro Il and ght 111. gi rnn tip-), Wog., and flower. ..ppror Then why 0h..111.1 I „1, 40 , rOm phew' If 'tia a punt.bm. prtose 6041 1/0111.1 1101 pr•Piri Ir. It 10 Mall As a reaal.l flit n.1.L1 lute I=l 11o • ei11101 when gilln alralit appearm But, llla heat VII a taigli Mail, allay I Lou Ilea , lull,, ill 14,,,,,1r0,1 I, 4r- An Enooh Arden In lowa The" 11", refoxi s to go N‘ FIA at, 1/1 1/114 I t el\ r t r ir. 4,.41, Ie ~er, ilittrrte.l Y“II, ru Th.' .10 4,4- A ',ewe ler111,1•111% •.,' 1,, A LLu I I %,• I 11.1111.•.. Iva! .111,1 It, r 11t1 , 1 , 311 , 1. V.llO-A• %VA.( ll.irr‘ NI, C.. ; .1, I‘,. e d h e . t, ) rerlllll/1. Ile IN a. 1.'4.10.'4 ilf.•elut.. lc, 10 , 1 , 4•1tt \ 1.1%1 , te. :14 , 1 11,e4 RC. 1,11 their 1..,h1 he 111 I ma,ol rnuuih ir4llll 1,, r trill„ CM. 111111 to 1.1. •11. 1 1115.1 1.1.1 iu . 11.111• le s gold ey, ii iiirnl canny on, 11101 It, th I 11.1,1511 11.1. aI I eager p e o ) .l e he t0cc,,,,,e t 011111111 i ./1.1..,1 wood by the te,er nn I orooone i l it. oieloroutoort dre I 1111 of torture 11rilrh ;trod po l oterelodence D.-p..5111V 111 .01 1.1.113.1 111 Ihr iv .1,1 in Ilse stutpetit property. 111 oloc hank,. id that city a portton, resorting to, I Int.ell nil lionent lilt Ili. pollF111•V b 1 P.ll/rll.lll The history ut 1115 11 , 11er11•111.11.-1 5.11.r00te and when among. .dinggy miners 111 liie g. 11.1 region., v, 001, per haw, never I e ivnncn Behind Ilion he lett lurking in di.appointilieni one who coveted the pare ;eh he had earned 11 Wli in mar: Inge Nlnnllts alter MeCorol'. arriy al in the twilling country, he rem., ed intelligence that hie wile IVII.I den.l Mai s were 1 . 1.1 V 1111.1 tar 1.1-1,1.1.1•11. and he netrr 110111111..1 fot /1 11101111.111 hilt that his 'little wile wAuLI cherish his menu, r' illII g 111,411 in 11101,41,..e05ee ,%oilo uli Ihh deto lion of siffecllllll When I hty were gathered iti mind the I.lllllp lire, arid the mail hoy had come it; with, the •011111 hatch if letters for the district, lie Mond an envelope It 111. fill 111111110115 black border. The few written hoes portray ed the inhere that Wilts In store for him It announced ty knell of despair, asil• the poor wounded spirit of the man sank silmmit to a fill-4er of vitality. Struggling /Wlllll5l rate, he resol yeti In make the most of his situation. file more lie thought of his tiiimMrtune the greater was his resolution to fill untile waste dreary hours of If fe with activity and exertion. hiss VI tie gone, he had no other dependant in thivcountry,And for those in frelsod lie cared lii little as they cared for him. v 1 few thousand dollars rewarded his perseverance in business, and when the war broke out he took to the plains, never corres• ponding with any one in the East, his wife never having, as he thought, Any relatives. To him in hi-• happy too memo, she was a waif upon the sea of life which" , he had rescued for himself. Four yekrn of boisterous riding Indian fighting, and their attendant turmoils And perplexities, browned his cheeks and obliterated touch of former memo• ries and hopes. Sadneasbecamean es vential part of hie being.. and,. though lie laughed at the rude Jokes of his companions, and eould tell his story to compete with theirs, a glimmer of the past shimmered on his brow, and made a jest appear a sort of sacrilege. After the war lie went to _British Colombia, and. for a number 01 years, waged war with the elements, sni)ong the pshlng rains and torrent., and wi Mei 111.14 s of Frazer River, harrlitu. sloritim tloodaiti the hope tillndingaomething that would eompenizate hitt* for is lool gera; A year ago he net urhed to liem York city, and atter apentling all he Ind doelng a hnisni.ronn life of nine or.tett years, he started for the Weer again, hoping in the excitement 01 the !nattier to speed his 1111%.. Ile had no AI "Ti Lc •tutille.d several day., and when die in thus far he Anent about a week in Conn oil Bluffs and Omaha. I,ina•Thiir,tiht% he happened plat a dwelling in this city, when he bentil a shriek ',wide. Ile lind in his rlaililes pawed the dont Olt KV% vrill nova-lona !,glum, and. be it eigne of diet! ems within door.. rind' ixl in without leave. At each time Ite Itaaard he was elogelv watched by a ladv at a window, and it wale she who Tive the alarm and swooned awiti She had recognized hum, and when re. -cored to r.011.1•11111.11eMP gave hint the linitory other ex istenceduring the Inter t il. Slit had mirk, nor had clue di e d, 114 had been annottneoliolnin nointre f o.itil ri‘ al 1110 m u le m the Ill'ehno , 1 1 1'). 1 for, ed the letter whirl, he ,recei ve.l, and al-n Imre to the Wm. iron; hull, inn °unroll!! tn. detertniwi lon peter 111 ietar.t . opo.elit toe!. , Ile ee.led the ethl of year,ln lrltt lip fl divorce ‘‘.l , Al a re-p , • .ahle period milt 1, .1 the rival, is In tune ftlierWard dr11(11 , 1 ipso the firl/1 , , '1 , 14 k Med 111 the Ladle at Ft, Fork. She All.l 011'11 I he littler o , ,t hov. win 1.1 now II 1 .1" , ..?1 , 1 hl , l. -11 1 terotentiv fillto/1000l 11,1 n odo‘t • hoo I for another 1111.41.'4 who happe. , ed to ben fitrtner ..t e ne.gl,l..trhoo,l nl 111 ,111 .1ell , h•lt %do , ai fi• ‘1 , 4 .1,1111.1 e nut t On TLet ,a,ne we for the ptirto.te Pelt hop? 1,11111`‘‘111 • 11 either 111 0114 S1:11(` or 111 Neli111•1, 1 and took a +h all hone tile float .10,..0t0 1 1 . t lerIin , .•1 1 ,,,e, or a Lome when ILe r uLrr I. ew , ried The %,, , ,r• hee I,llv. hil.h11111•1, flt inn fnr lier fir.f choice, die nvn 111111 oionined and the snib4eq,ent m irro.2o'o ompel .•i ler to •nl , niil In her prf000(01.t 0.. • inol nhuie 1.% It, (.011.e1 1 1111.11(T4 1. 1.11 Dino in r••••••r.1 to the fire has het.. nieally settled and arr., ivtg, ‘I. kilt it re•intrit•l 01 - grew .11.0 111 . 1 .101,,...pr" (lie part of till ronvernel tO. little th• matter. Smite or the parties wet, known to the writer or this bel'te singular eo•tebooon rll lily tannin., e% Outs.— lileg frx :VI/ITM rt/ Mark Twain in Hayti Arrived ul tity hotel. I RMke.l the tonal! VOllll - 141 LO. N liat, 1 ovird lum lor ..eirnmv \ Si I the. ,1111,1 d dollitra, Nth 1 I tinted WWI I 014 IIII• lU, H rlllll/leT or pc,. 1.11. W4•le Lwul nie, arid, Ur; r0...14,111 and WM/1Z NI, at ej.e they etoild to hth, roe The .o , allePri, colored Int% oup pa.uoloig there t old ate! Mert•l.C. 1 11,1 11.,% 111111• II 111 , 1 may, 1,(1) ?•• Mill' hllllll .1 dolliire, MI,, reg lar prive, 1../4 h I it I pl./11 I ell 41 the I.ltottantlerm te. th4oll An (rl , l grillielll/411 if 1.1.. ,1 11 1 11( . 11111We 1411.1 0011111111Viiillig prenellll. ..r.l the 604 NHA right—be cl.nrg nag 0111 V the innial rate. I Inoked at Elie if her lace... The% all the venerable ennetrar P', I aaills banded the bay a thousand I,llsir bill He vralkediiff. r t stupefied with amazement.— • Gentlemen,' I said. "whit? dyes 1.1,1 K ? There's a hundred dolians coining to ❑ee.' "free, • the old paw. oitid "but ii iM lot the cumtoni to regard a bile like lot' Stunned and dlr.z.3, I hurried to my room Wlll threw nivnell upon the bed. almost satisfied that I had lo«t me ren non lAt pled twists. I repeated the ltiplo (aid e a ab ou t it T 1 1 , 4,0, 11 was plain iny comprehension of iiiiinbern was linittipitired. I repowted ' The Hoe Stood oti (hello:long Deel( witloolt a Idonder It wan plain nn 1111.1111/fY whit, 140111111. l'read iris of Mil, !iron 11111,(11 110111115, and death melerstood some ot it It no., idnin that lIIV intellectual facoltien were iii /1 /•Imotqlontli e S 11111041/31 vigor' what In the world is the matter? I not suddenly developed it 11111110111/l nra? a eraillit.ss about name) only? wtrndrlyd round the town (or three hoop,. as entry Its 3 loon—perfect Ix deverate It was plain enough to we now that I had gone mazy on the sal, Jeri .d money. How I hail eve] come to do such 41 hung in it trienterv. for I ldtd al ways Mies amino(' npeinttlirili, a 1114111 who had never aorslopped gold or green hat:icm tonne Marmon; extent But I ‘1.1,11 rclueUutt to aveept tile situ atom, sin bow, 111111 so I said to unself that by 1111.4 tittle Charley mumt tool. bought all the things we wanted, and got Ilie bills to thenhotel. I would :to nod pay them. I would see if this dis• mad hallucination was tit force. When I arr,rel, I told the Landlord to mike ons„.l.is hill and add tlie tradesmen's to it, and give it to 111 e as quickly no 4 noesible. I sat down to wait—a smothering volcano of anxiety and tut pattenee—for it toy to nil was not straight t,y 'this time, I dreaded that wy madneon tnight increase tinder my (114lregg and drive me to edthmit some learlul crime. I th4ddered presently when I thought I felt a desire creeping through me to spring on a decrept old man near use and throttle hint. I mov ed away and turned my back, and then I covertly threw my pocket knife out of the window. Now tire hill came. I read thus—l translate: Mark Twain to Kingston Eons*, Dr. To room rent (two persons)....,,. ,001.1 're removing baggaga to room Poo Total To trodepoon'n 1:1118 tx follown: 6 lionelteo Hansom. SS, Ten 1 Y Ploo Apples .... 001.1 I 0 Dozen ()ranges I s ;poxes neara ...... 4401, OW g /100 k coirOornt ....... 0 8a..k01../ Cal inpngpe mm, I,ousen WOO.. •Z.• , -- I MI , : _HZ ..... .4. 1 8.0 0 I Dolga) Iligilniglaoigiefe,a4 —.4,43, lee Pld wel!idYillinr, ' Two hundred anirnlnalltlf dams limir hundred dollars. rreflit this Dill er deliberately Pis (a:seventimes, ,11111 never midi! n word. Then 1 said I %, null step oat and ret a breath of fresh air. 1 got it—the breath of fresh air• 1 wnlked gently around the rorner, whistling unconcernedly. And • then :Inured hrolt-Otlllltteeing nobody watch. ing ine, sauntered toward the Anieri• ran packet ship at the tate of aboot .en or eleven miles an hour. 1 picked op Charley on the , env. Ile hid be wren deeks n couplc ,bourn, till the vessel was out of the aught (gland, 211.1 ho• cigars and things-016 landlord Turd them. I trust Ire has them vet We have parted to meet no more. I ha ye Meer, enough •of Hayti. I never take touch intereat,in flayii t .any how. • M‘RK P. s.—l miderinntid it all now. have been faking with the Ca lain It cry ,iniple when one comprehend II The fact in, tire war ham inch rig long t hat Irayt ten credit in shout lead, and the treasury very dry Theit mr e one dollar in gold will 'boy etg:. 'vim hundred to two tltottqatol dollar worllr of I[nluen greenbacks, accord to the tenor or the en. rent war i iii M. lit alt I had my celiac heels t'ST St't 11 N 11.7 11t.1113 —A matt stop at x iii‘erelor rest and reirenli mews began to talk about his journey Ile hail tonne trim a neighboring town he n as moving away, itnil glint enongl to get away too. Finch N set of neigh itors us Jie had there, unkind, dimt.lifig , t,e, cross and contrary, it wan eriongl , 0 wake any one Want to leave tht piace, and lie hail started, and was p, to settle in another region oilen rtntld find a ilitlerent set of mhabt tants. 'lir landlord, "yon will din] /mot .uch nayhbor•r whrre-ou are going••' The next night anotber man stew en at the into. Ile, too, was on a jour ney, was mnring. On inquiry, it wit found that he came from the same place from which the fortner traveler had come. lie said he had been oblig ed to move trout where he lived, and he did riot mind moving 80 much as lie did leaving lire neighbors; they were poo kind, considerate, aceommoda Ling, and generous, that lie telt vet,. .orrowful at the thought of leaving them and going among atrangera,es peeittll% as he could nut tell what. kind of neighbors lie would find. CM:M:I ' , Oh well,' said the old landlord, you will Lind just rich •neighbors where t • ou nr going. hoes it not seem possible that men will ge tier 41 (hid it bout nut II neigh born an they lire looking for? Some people are r !wino in trouble, others "tIIOW pewee with all men." Who known tint we eau have Just shoot such neigh horn as we wish tor, simply by treating them an we ought to? CR %%4 I En UP —Once upon a time a 4:Pitt l #.111,111 101111 , 1 in hill heiirooat I ie winded •nul ol the vicinity, who P.I N 1111011 i V CIl ie lneargi , 'Whai are you doing here. yoR rit titc.iling my chicken.? ' "No, I•i'" wax the response, "I ain't thoitzht of doing nothing of the eon.' It it I'm turtattely happened that the etinple !Hunted indieduttl worm 11,01 .triw but, or the demirisionn i Ile. • hue. and t he erown thereof wa-d,lapi d lied to a ser,rius extent. .lu•I a . h e h 1.1 p•t iii hi- derLitil, the head 01 hall grown pullet was seen to protrude rrimi !lie ap.•rature ..See there." said the gentlemen "Ito, ill.l the chicken get us voile lint !" '• Wel I !" exclaimed the mon ple moo lel individual. with an air 01 111)1.1,1 iirpro.e and einharrasnmem, "il it is the preemie -et thing that ever happened to me. I ituppose the darned replier must have Drawled up me irow.er, leg !" -Good morrow, Mre. Ftwart,." ' Thin good morrow, kindly, .117dv. hope I see you, well this rttorttingr "Stt, M re. Fogarty, you married your dAtighlar ?" "I did, praue be to good "Did ~he get a good match ?" •• Flux, thin, 'tie herself tint did. 'die get blind Mike, that makes more money than any three beggars in Cork • "I'm delighted to hear it, Mrs. Fogarty. I assure you. That the world may wohtler at the luck have. Did you give her any fortune?" '•Aliy fortune to it I Ali? thin, now, Judy, in it after insulting me you'd Ise? Sure you know in your heart that a child of mine was never married with not it. Didn't I give her the heat alder of Quincy street, which, if well begged, is worth seven sod six-pence a week 1" —A few days ago a gentleman whoa° prulio-cin had been lotd, was invited out to tea. "My dear," said thegoo() lady of the house to her little daughter, "I trent you to be very particular, and to mat. e no remarks exalt Mr. Jenkin's name." Gathered around the table eve rything was going on well? the child WPM about, looked rather pusseld, and at last startled the table: "MR, why did yon tell Ms to say iothing about Mr. Jenkins' nose; he Amen% got any?" - —P. W. Remsen, formerly a Meth.. diet minister, and J. Harrington, both policemen, were on Friday dismissed from the Fr• York police force *w robbery. —Jacob D. Eckanon Was conylotea of the nunlike of 'NW • Sulam, at Hackensack, New Jamey, on Friday,. _........_....._.,..K wu Thsifflohardson Affair There is but one mitigation of the evil otthe foul affair in New York, and that lie* in the gdrairal reprobation of all the actors In it. Aduktory, murder, bigamy, and,blaapherny ad.centerad in Ibis black business, and .both the pulpit and the preaa bogie thrnished unworthy rapria sentiti‘'a• to play a part In it.. Them) la a *lt pobi te indignation against all Liman parties which is a wholesome symp tom, and lkought not to be repressed For the assassin who :mama his domes tic grievance the excuse for murder, we have no tolerance; but after the cases of Sickles and Cole, acquitted and honored' with public sympathy and public office, it Is very likely that McFarland may have harbored the notion that he, too, would win 'applause from the same source. But the political den of the murdered man secin ,tu have secured from the Radical press and the Radical politicians a sympathy that not Merely attaches to his melancholy . late, but ex tends to his dark share in the intrigue that has had a disgraceful an tragic ending. Months ago he Insulted public decen cy with an avowal in the Tribune, of his relations with another man's wife Then there was going on a fraudulent proceeding in Indiana to obtain the ar ticle sold in that State as a divorce. In this, Mr. Schuyler Colfax, Vico-Presi• dent of the United States, was a con e °lent alder and abettor. Ills gusliinx sympathy was recently published in the newspapers in the shape of a telegram to Richard%ie, with whom and the fe male actor in the tragedy, it seem., MY Colfax was well acquainted. Thu Day of this city says: This man wl Me countrymen confiding In Isle morals. well en his ability, have pliteetl before the world am their chosen refire...ma. live Nod exemplar, has put himself upon the troord an a virtual endorser of Hicharthion's while course in this abominable affair Hear mg that the latter lOVI been shot by the matt whose wife lie tied seduced, the Vice. Nest .lent hastened to telegraph , 'our whole #lOll.ll, hold send their iiisictirest sympathies and warmest Wishes," etc. For the sake or Mr Collax's "household' —llll wife and aged moth nth—we trust he did nut consult them beton• sending this dispatch, although we are In tonne& by the Llncluarti Caaosaerpa4 that while Mr.. McFarland was In 'militia, gettlag tier divorce, she v as the associate of Mr Col lax'a mother. For himself, wo would fain hope that he yielded to a sympathetic impulse without consulting his Judgipent and los -nonen( private tight and public duty. Sul the world Judgea.hlm according to his sot aim his words, and stands tinialed at both, hark , . What would Mr Colfax hate thong, t, if it had been his wife whom Itichardemi a tuatara limn her husband, and though it is soothe! who Wrsa wronged, how eouw coitus elm cent thus' t ittualh, to approVe them. , 101 , 1 eu durae th wart" These are questions which, MY fear, the Vice-President will find it tlati• cult to answer in a satisfactory milliner As indefensible was the action or the two cleric) men. The well knew the Indiana divorce was a fraud, au utter outlay so far us it pretended totleteritiiii, the rights of parties living In another State. Such it would he here, and such, no doubt, it is an New York. Yet, iii defiance of the law as well as of the gos. pia, these clergym , n, with ous phesaeology, pronounoe their bone diction on an adulterous union I In fat 1, they theinsel tes thus know itg I Look part it; the CollIPMAP14)(1 Of - the iit• fence of bigamy, and for thin, public "withal, if not the law, will hold them responsible. It may interest till ;nor. rind people in Pennsylvania to know that the foreign aystem has lately re ceived the emphatic condemnation of cur Supreme Court i n u err) Pretql emlne, in whit h the ophilon aan deli vt.r. d by Judge Sitars wood, the doctrine was re-ittflrmed and applied in the fol lowing: One John Hider, tiller nitirri - mg in PI•1111,1) I lelt hue wit,', 111141 went. to ItVP, in Tettnevewit There lie obtained a divorce, stand, nine i turn at beteg tient to the innrnnge Of the iaticeeding a gave intuat u tv to 111, wife, wh., (.011[111111.11 to In I' In Penns l anus After this flit arc..., John 11:liter ionceived Mins. II 11/ h.• at lib.•rt . hr marry again At his death, a 1111 ,. .111111 propertt turned upon the validity of the dtvurea in Tennessee The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania decided iliat Court in TPR lied no Jurisdiction over the Marriage who li it undertook to do...dye. Nor could t h e service of notion tin ohm wife mottle:it in 1- i lima nu biota hyr tog foreign pirisilic Hon, She woo the only wile of John Iciiieranii entitled to her th.rW , -1", even t* real .rtato which ho had sold by dead, in which the liU111)0.1.11 SPeOild wife hall/ 1.10.1 . 0.0 d n relenew of dower Th.. hi. , of thi., State Is that the party who peek• divorce 'AWL do so ail tha (loaned a th.. Ilef..ndiant, unless ho or The ha, removed from what was M , . the domicil r both oithern —The Aye A Serape of History Historic incidents and elisrind•-rs soon grudr tndutun•l, and odd nootakes are mrde about them Thu, it cot...wind ent "(the Prrs,•rrs in 118. 1 1 , Flirl_T that the (I'n.•ral Le• who wet retail( d ht G.•m•rel Wa--ihington at the battle of Monmouth well tile nnee.tor of the Lei, ,d Vir ginia The General Lee of Virginia. Light-holm- fienrt• i.M Ili he wn+ .•elled was the life long friend of General Washington i on his death the duty of pronoueeing him funeral 'ration wait two oigned by G•nmrnad Gern•rid Henry_ Lee, who WllO then it member of it Fie was the father of the present General Robert E Mtwara; Charles Lee was MI EricHA man Ws, never heard that he tout any relatives ip this country Be wio no toriously jetilidts Witaliiiiirten,mid was in temper captious and eccentric, with it most over‘t sling conceit of his own ahilltles. As he hi deed, end we hold hi m i n SlTlllllltwuwirm,w, will silica chance brings him under our notice, at least, do him nopiiittee. The Press. speaking of the lei-Went at Monmouth, says : i.w,,,,hi na ton had alWeys suspected" Lee of dialoyalty,l' This we de not thlrk, Washington never made this charge against Lai', nor wellielieve expressed Cr intimated it by word or act Re d'd sternly• rebnkit Lea for withdrawing precipitately at Monmouth from the at. tacit on the•rear of the British army, which had Just evacuated 'Philadelphia Washington bad been In Amer of tight. log a battle ; but etas seventeen erabronly two, Wayne and Cad welader, a with him. Lee and the rest t et r Zt the enemy ought to be ktllowed and barraged but not iteriouiliengmed. %t hen Washington came Elton the field, he c bed the retreat of the ran of the arm but did nteremove Lea from cow which bi would bare dote, had be -asps ted Lee of treachery. It is in deed probable that nothing. , Moro Irould have been said of his conduction:l be not hi Izmir made it,thq Isabitatir;Or 41 int in ~ilent letters to Walhington, demanding an, inquiry. Thisled to Len's trial by antra Martial, and his seateueo a year's 4nspatislon from the army s whieh was no ptinish ment for-treason. This is the i rer4iOn n Chief Justice idarshKlN life or Washington: a higher ataltori ty, r t ten le rly on this 'matter; for Marshall was . a soldier of the Iterohni was pri•sent nt the battle end was engniztint if the opinions of Washington and time other officers. A few veers since Mr. Moore, of the Now York Historical Society, impugned the fidelity of Charles Lee to the A mor ii•nn rause. end made en interesting pub lication on the subject. We did nut think the proofs adduced coneloFiee,but eV Mich, Lee bits left few 3rll.lllie to his memory, the acceptance of, scything to hii discredit would meet, bftth lath: re pugnance, Si ) her niSwe know, however, his contemporaries didt not think .him traitor to the cause of American indepen dotico, though in ottici . r respects many thought very ill of biol.—Kr, Anecdote of Carlotta Patti ()neo upon x time, in the city of New York, a young lady, poascional of a Iron soprano voice, wax to dectdo• by a sort of public rehehr,al, her fate with the managerial powe of thn Academy. A large number were In vited, comprising all tho musieal critics and tonateitrii and proce—oomtl+, and a large dela, bluetit of the theatrical and literary world, funn ing a formidable andiatieo for an tin fledged bird to essay its vng If flight among "The open. ,elected 6 , r Llii morning's debut Intro - Mb .od the trembl ing young aspirant with the teller, and ..e, 'IS It to odd to her •.1.111( 111 contempt ler her ii ility, the open his iint•ic toias many notes, !Met is. instead or giving her tulle to collect ber4ell' by •1111..1i11g all of the °porn •ot doer a for )11 he hilllllll44luuua l i lily a strain or so, and gave the concluding uol re, 16n 1 . 101 for till) lort.ll.4rn ne ompaniunynt to the debutante's is, loudly and savagely, its II to Hiy ir ''310•1 -vo how I 'qt. [movie,' hero with tin Tanker not•ice-- me, the elver voiced , onion of Italian " 11 e.ik and faint rose the first. note. 01 , the gil I ; weaker 111111 !Hinter t /WV .ee/111 , 4 to grow, it• i 1.1 lire , ' at tie 41/tind of-their own weak ne. , Fluttered .r a monivnt., tL seematl 11. it her Yon , had deserted her entirely, wlen lowland clear as a bell, from th.• centre or th, house, the air Wan tillterl lip All et turned to th.• sweet hiee lit hy rrwtoll‘ fooling for the poor singer, adding en e , iiiragenient, and king the tllll. With her tine hand, 11.41 e 11/11f rose in her sent in her anxiety to 111 , 111 n perfect .mutter and a woman. 111 a Inellleflt ,lebutante took up the .!rain, Hub( lb. , gathered courage and heart to do that which tans in her, On. lip: l owa' Vince in the nut - Steno. fell away 4rorn her. and she tlnNlied the Aria 111 tritititith 1111114 a hurt - nary , or applause The young Atovitenn, ll , ei.tea her wli .te ear..er that morning is now ith most ramose. prima donna we have, and the beaiditnl Woman who so n,,1,1% played the I, cry crown of •Ileeell4 on her almost defeated n-ptration. turne4l (tow the foreign trurtiplis .he riehlt .I,erves, and her name ot Cu' lot. ta Patti Thee sae .11111 111 , we Iteautirtilly thus eve) tint not omit I hear the wondrous V 1,14.0.1 of the will I hear ant thing sn sWeet as wa• her lonely rowe at that. rehearsal inn,. year., ago Two Curious Needles 'rlie King 01 reeelicly visited a needle notioilaeti,ry in his I n onler to MN. What mnrhiuer,, eon, tuned with the human bond, could pro was shown a number of au perflhe needles. thinic Inds of which to nether dui not weigr ounce, and marveled how such minute ohjerts be pierced wit li an eye. Rut lie wits to see that in tills respect even something still liner and more perfect could be i.reitted The borer--that is the workman a hose I,il, , tiwqm it in to bore eves in the.e needles--tlskrd (or a hair from ,a l e monarch's head. It wan renal% green, and will, a smile. He placed it at once under the poring mach ne, mode a holt• in it with the greata4 care, furnished it with a thread and handed the singular needle to the astonished Krug. The second curious needle in in On possession orQueen Vicimin. It was made at the celebrated needle 1111111111 toctory at Iteddith, and represents the column of Traptii in miniature. This well known Roman colnum ix adorned with numerous sienna iii sculpture, which iminortnlit.e Trojan's heroic ac touts in war. On thin doninutne nee die scenes In the life of Queen Victoria are represented in relief, hut so finely ciit and so small that it requires a Mag. raying gloss to nee theist. The Viet°. ria needle van, Moreover, be opened; it contains% number of needles of until er sue, which areegnally adorned with scenes in relief. A STRANttK STOKY —A very strange and etissioat Incredible 'story is told by a reirpectishie and reliable ifitniiin of Bow Lae Vtlhtge, 16tratiord, New Hamp shire. This gentleman caught a com intm striped turtle a short time since, and at the requital, of the school to ether took out the heart, which is a euriosiO, from the fact that it gowns 1.0 retain signs of life fir days after being taken from thn body of the turtle The hi art was pierced with a needle and,otherwiae experimented with, after which It was thrown out, and one of Mr. Waldrun 's hens was seen to swallow it. A few days after, Mrs. Waldron broke a num ber of ego, and In the centre of one of them found the turtle's heart. At that moment she called ber husband and one or two ether persons, all of whom saw and identified it. , It, is a curious ques tion how this seemingly-living piece of flesh came In this egg. The truth of thisstory li vouched for by numbers of reliable Odom. —Governor filitffbrd, of Arizona, is coming to Washington to obtain an ad , ditionol military force Orr the territory. All Sorts of Paragraphs. , , ........_ —TheiPoptl'i hearth la good. _ --If love to blind, bow can 'hero lio any love at tirat sight. —Why u a drawing from nature in fentious 7 It's Rket,(l)ing. —A atoning knit frono n sailor's yarn is ono of the latest enrlonities. —Krell(' your old nequain ititllPS he forgot? Not if they have Domes.. • —Why In nn overworked borne like nn umbrella? Because it in tined tip. ,ppi4k nf WI. brenkignz mit. Wilt that aretinf4for the Top o r , filet:l7 A , —"rho very Intent ntt•le of boots h„ I re toe turned tip like 4/n old tllAbllonod ate. --"A tender mmle" Inn goo th.towt In Inw A tender mid hi seldom un of- Muse. Any w hero. —Georgia grow/. Ilia tallest mnn in the >rinited States; and New York liver es the shortest. —The Esquimau fillyP, "A mien who has three wives in this world is oire of howyen in the next _„ \vim( n !Hilt. child !" 1 1 , 11.1,1 n fryril. "Ah." replied Hood, totrenk !midi* notch of him.." —A lin‘ton eheto.4 wtvnt‘ "On. von thnnen who left his stomach r roll itn.lttike it sm.'s. —The mint 1n.., h ,,, 11 I wentv tht.o-nod vol.} dient 0r the A 1 , %•lii11141 wilr. _john It, 1).mi1a...h. Te......th led l'rothonolitn, of Ti111,..K , )111.1 )1..1.1 111/11 Iv. ilt n ,•vrr •on, Ist-, -Vt . tit. t Ito rf I fret, I ‘' , ll a pill 111111 II 4)01 ? 011 , . N 6 , 4 nod Ito of lwr t• to' i . ,rot d o ' - ; --Thr that te ,,, t mid • with the k HUI kle...ti lii,. lllilioN ro..ltilinmk, hut tho hrtw, fieelpted uu d a 111 , 1 • t,(/ lover , ( ip kl , gol hi. nri.r, end the otters k i•. romp to litrell" nq thr rot •nid to thr trop "And T springy to pm linwe you!' ne 040 ~tt•td rOlllOl - 1 to the rut —.'.l nk”. 1”n.1 mr 1.. n 4 , 11 u, t• 11 1 ,ell m v kr, 7- .1,11( , • r-r. 1 1 ,0 lv rnul Rv1r.im.111.1.0111% n Olt JIM I him --- A I'ru.n • nn r,.1)1.er alu wn• •nnff. rxru•nni 6 rmwlrf•T IMO m•v. r in•nr.l n Inw whn•h f..rtmln a m in to (Al' I, run fr -11jilji]V Wli , n , ‘ or I Hod "HUM erv.Y11.2...,1 in Ow p) , 11- r1..1.1.1077'ne... then , 1 aro to jine the procoditio.'. vr , a he onro prol iirvrre ht •,,nr iv ~ n n hi..h mi l d u , tu t,,, 4 there until the dn. , 1,,n iinper nrinonne, th a t if hn. "empim eti n hiimoriot to write run n ph- and nn astute writcr tA , show up the joke. " _ inn el)np in Wrippit Ind., advanced ) , •t rolled oomi , lete t rinionin I T orii 1, herr. net sh• noeto.t.4l lb° left h um disconsolate and indignant. -- A ti..,11114.rn folig a no wh" 1" , ror , Akull n.0n 1i,.m.(1 in the. 'lto prroclii.r re n il Damnn wont to ho born ognin " j il ia-otod roan that prow lied for it. 172TTlindolv, " •II Mra Partinc t.aerviwl the Tinril ft), thirty year.: flr-t na a e'reos-ritlnr, then n. it locust prI . 11••111.r, a nd lit as an exhauster " —Thn proprietor of a Thiaton hni e mill nil that "perarina AP , their n honoa to hn around will in attended to with punctuality and du patch " k Cwrinition rod-coat ran off with thn wife of n eornr••de, and also consid erable hnegae.o. The husband wisely sent a ittiteetive tarter his zoods and al. lowed the wifo to keep nil. —Prentiss caws savagely, "if the fel low who st o le eight hundred dollars front Oen nutler had any conseience at All, he would go to New Orleans and restore the money to the own- —A boy of Drnmeonre, Ireland, found nyinckexe of Chitty in the road AD( took It borne. They made ell Lee from it f'r brutcra4 the next ruerninz, and before nicht the whole family wee (Pad. It was mixed with arsenic. —Near Wersnw, Inrl , on the even- Ine of ibis 20th, a wine lady named Allen Wilson, while drawinc a bucket of water, slipped and fell, .trikinT her side upon the bucket, causing her death inn few minutes. --A poor man, who hart a terovirritnt wife, after a long tlkpote, In which stir wag resolved to have the last word. told her if she opol to ono more crooked he'd heat her. ""Why, than, ram'. fil), you rogue," said abe, "VI die for it.' —Gentleman (to boatmen) you must often, I should think, het wet. do you note A rtlesq boatmen—T". tot honer, we doe., worry wet, worn wet Indeed ; hut I'm worry dry just now, yt r honor, and no mistake —"Who'll that gentleman my litle man T" was asked of nn urchin Thn ono with the spike toiled rota T" ' Y''' wen The reenonqe • " nv , a bre vet uncle of mine." "now 's that" woo raked. "Cause he is engaged to aunt Mart•." —"Mother," said 111.10 foar•year- o ld Carrie when she mini° home, have heard such a smart minister ITr stamp ed Amid winded, and made Peel) a 1010 ; and that' be IPA PO mad he shook his fists at the folks , anitlibpre Wasn't anybody dared go np end fight him " —A poetically d isposed newspaper re marked that 'lt comforting to know that rine rye watches fond: y for our coming', and looks brighter when we corns.' The ether local paper condoled in its next issue thus : "Tt grieves us to learn that our cotomporary's wife has lost an eye." —Robert Hall did not lone bin power of retort even is madness. A hypr•crit. lend eomtoler -with his misfortunes once visited him in the mad'lMuse, and said in a whinaing tone: "What broeght you here. Mr. Hall?". Hallsiznificant ly tnuched hie brow with his linger, and replied? "What will never bring your air ; to much brain."
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