BY DAVID OVER. .frlrrt fHrtrtj. OHGEM ON Tilt! RHINE. A sal tier of the Legion, lay dying at Algiers, There was .a lick of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears ; t lint a comrade stand beside taiia while his life Mood utmed away, And bmt v\i:h pitying gl mce* to bear what he ought lie living sol tier faltered as lie took that comrade's hau l : Ami said : never uiore shall ses tuy own, luy native laud. Take a mess tgo and a token to some distant friends of mine. , . . For i was !.rn at Bingen, Bingen on the Rhine ! fell my brothers and companions, when they meet and "iov.d around, To hear my monrnful story iu the pleasant vintage Tiiafwc't'oight the Utile bravely, and when the (igiit was done. I'uP. man) a corse lay ghastly pale beneath the set ting sun, And 'midst the dead and dying, were some grown old in wars— Ihe death wound on their gad nit breasts, the lust of many seurs; Put >Moe wme young, and sudden'y beheld life's morn decline : • And om.- had come from Bingen, dear Bingen on the I! iliac. • TCdin-v mother that her other sons shall comfort her ot.l age. • , Piuit 1 was still a truant bird that thought his home ii INI-C For mv i it her w >s soldier, an 1 even as a child, -,iheart 1 -aped forth to hear him tell of struggles lieroo and wild : And w hen lie died, and left us to divide his scanty hoard, I id tin ui take whate'er they* would, but kept ui B lather's sword, . And wiiii boyish love I hung it where the bright. ligln us,el to shine. ou the On the c-itt g<*wnlLvlJttigeii, fair T> ' i,. ji- v -j-t... --'i to mourn for me, nor sob with tiro- >od with tier, and saw the yellow sun light shine On the vine-cia I hills of Bingen, sweet Bingen on the Rhine! T heard th ■ Hue Rhine sweep along ; I heard, or seemed to hear. The German song we used to sing in chorus sweet and clear — And down the pleasant river and up the slanting hill. , , . flie echoing chorus sounded thro the evening calm ' and still, And her gUd blue eve was on me, as we oassi d in friendly talk Down many a path beloved of yore, and well re membered walk, And her little hand lay lightly, confidingly in mine, But we'll meet no more at bingen, dear Bingen oil the Rhine!" His voice grew faint anil hoarse, his grasp was child ish weak. His eyes put on a dying look, he sighed and ceased to speak : His comrade bent to lift him, hut the spirit of life had fled— The soldier of the Legion in a foreign land lay dead; And the soft moon rose up slowly, and calmly she looked down On the red sands of thai battlo-field. with bloody corpses strewu— Yes, calmly on that dreadful scene her pale light seemed to shine, As it shone on distant Bingen, (air Bingen on the Rhine! HONORABLE CONDITION. —Many years ago, in what is now a flourishing city in this State, live l a stalwart blacksmith, loud of his pipe aud of his joke. 11c was also foud of his blooming daughter, whose many graces and charms had ensnared the affection ot a suscep tible young printer. The couplb, i fter a sea ion of mutual billing and cooing, " engaged " themselves, and nothing but the consent of the young ladies " parent " prevented their Union. To obtain this, Typo prepared a little speech to astonish and convince the old gen tleman, who sat enjoying his pip* in peifect content. Typo dilated upon the fact of their long friendship, their mutual attachment, their hopes for the future, and liko topics, aud ta king the daughter by the hand, said: " now, sir, I ask your permission to transplant this love, ly flowor from its paront bed " —but his "pbe links " overcame him, he forgot the remainder of bis rhetorical flourish, blushed, stammered, and finally wouud up with—" from its parent bed, into my own. " The father keenly relish ed the discomfiture of the suitor, and after re moving his pipe aud blowing a cloud, replied. " Well, youug mail, don't know as I've atiy ob jections, provided ycu marry IB'e ga) first. ,• J I j^ A Weakly Paper, Devoted to Literature, Politics, tlie Arts. Sciences, Agriculture, &c., &c—Terms: One Dollar and Fifty Cents in Advance AGRICULTURAL. j CUL IT RE OF OR IPES. The increasing interest which u being enlist ed in behalf of the cultivation or hardy grapes is of so enlarged and encouraging a nature as to cause us to lay before our readers everything in J the shape of solid information promotive of their cultute, which we de on of practical value, thai eoiucs into our poses-ion. The following hints we find iu the last issue ot the Genesee Farmer, and wo commend them to general attention: Grape vines are raised in several ways. I'ho j most common one is from long cuttings, which are made at the time of the wirUvt pruning, and consist of three eyes each, the bottom end oi which is cut close to a bud and the upper end is left an inch or two above the fop of the bud. These arc put into the open ground as soon as the weather will permit in the spring, in a slanting position, with the upper bud an inch above the ground, and by autudju these will make line rooted plants. Plant the vine about as deep ns it stood in the nursery, taking care to spread out the roots, and carefully working the earth in among i them. i Great care is required in taking up the young vine to sive all the roots, as they should never he pruned. At the time of planting it. should, ibe cut back-to within six eyes, which, as s. " ; as thev statt, should all be robbed <-fi b^" 1 ' je j two strongest, and alter these arc fat-*- L *' IW ' I . , , i . i • , v one. nig rub oR the weakest, leaving u> - - • .imply it: keen- 1 I lie summer pruning consist- 1 • ,• , . , appear and which I . tng off all side shoots that np 11 . i , , , , .i "f tlie- tit mi plant, tend to cltccit the grow' ... .... , . , .tonld be pinched about J he terminal bud . ' ' ~ . ore and strengthen if. September, to m,,,. , . F v " u f>V 1 to* sliool or last year may .iow be cur back to four buds and two canes j trained up this season. Summer pruning to be i periormcd sutue at last season, and in Sep'etU- Lor these eanes arc ro be iteppefl as"lTCTof. Third Year. —The canes of last season's growth :II e cut back at the winter pruning (which takes | lace iu l-eceuiber) to within two or three feet ol their base, and laid in on the bottom siat of the trellis, for the frame work of the vine. Toe bud on tiic- end of each will produce a shoot to con r in.ue the prolongment in a hori zontal direction and a hud on the upper side of each, near the base vf the horiz*unr outwards, as j b fore, and this year 'two more shoots can be • trained upright for bearing wood next season, j The vine produces fruit on spars of the pres ent season's growth, which start from eyes on the upright canes. From one to three bunches is sufficient to ripen on one spur, and soon after ! the fruit is set the spur should be stopped and j tied into the trellis, to prevent breaking. ; This year several fruit sputs will be produced ou the two canes of last season's growth, on ! each of which two or three bunches of grapes may be ripened. In this way the vine adds every year two new | I upright canes uuti! the trellis is tiiled. The af- I ter management being to attend to summer pruu- : I ing, or to cut back ail the spurs to the old rood j |at the winter pruning, new ones of which are j made every year. The trellis need not be made until the sec - j ond year, if preferred, by keeping the canes lied j ou to poles. Many may think this plan of cul tivating grapes a very laborious and expensive j one; but there are none more satisfactory, as the fruit is of superior size and flavor and will come into full bearing quicker that) those al- j lowed to ramble everywhere, and be pruned | oncb in.two or three years, cutting them also ' pieces at once, as ofttu practiced. Grapes lor vineyard culture should be planted ; cn dry, rich soil, which should have a thorough ' sabsotling, liberal ntauuriug and southern as pect. The vines should be planted about six feet apart and traiued to posts from eight to ten ! feet high. The vines are planted as before recommend ed, and for the first year or two should be out j back close, to establish good, strong plants, and I ou!y one cauc be allowed to grow, lite third year this cane can be allowed to ripen some j fruit, and a new shoot carried up to bear next < year. At the wiuter pruuing the cane that bore is cut away, and then a succession is kept up.— i As the vines grow older two or three bearing i canes can be takeu from each plant. J. 11. B. j Brighton, near Rochester , -V. Y POTATO ROT— ITS REMEDY. It is not so much my object in this coui muaication to pretend to give a remedy for the potito rot as to offer some observations upon J its probable causes and some suggestion foi the ! management and cultivation of that invaluable plant, by actiug upon which I have uuiformly succeeded iu raisiug good crops: Now, whatever may be the existing or imiiie- j diato cause of this disease, I think that the re- | mote cause is to be fouQd in the abuse to which | the potato has. for a loug scries of years, been I BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1858. f subjected. I mean by this that, many iu- I stances, the plant, has been cultivated in a manner contrary to its original nature: ami that j in consequence, it has become partially, if not ! permanently, diseased. Planting ir. u'soil in every "respect unsuitable; planting seed diseased or imperfectly selected; i negligent, or, what is worse, a wrong tumic of i cultivation; exposing the potatoes alter being ; dug to early frosts, chilling rains or the hot rnvs of tlie'sun; putting them away in bad cott | diiion in damp cellars or fn impropeily con structed receptacles "in the ground—are some of (lie abuses to which thu potato has been sub jected,and soma of the oaiises it presents ot de i terioratioo. • i If these conclusions are correct, instead of ' seeking a specific tor the rot, it would be a wi j set* and more practical course to endeavor, by i proper care an i cultivation, to restore this plant to its original soundness. And that the sug ! gesti.ms which follow, if faithfully practiced,will contribute to this result, it not entiiely accom plish it, my own experience demonstrates. Du ring the past Season oue-eightb, at least, ot the potatoes raised in this neighborhood were so | much affected with the rot as,to be unfit for use. white mine were almost perfectly seund. l Of a crop of over a hundred bushels, I had not, perhaps, more than a bushel ot unsound potatoes. As the result of my experience in raising this crop during several years, in which 1 have been almost invariably^successful in se curing souud potatoes aud obtaining a lair yield I make the following suggestions: Ist. Select, if a new, dry and san jdy soil. Ilere K' I,e West, especially, this kind 'ot soil is ali ,vWt indispensable to the sreeassful j rii ; s j U jr ~t-soud 'potatoes. If it is necessary to use a -e't'tiiizcr, a compost made of ashca or i j;.,; aud stable manure, in which the ashu; or ! v'tie preponderates, is preferable to any other 2. Having secured a proper soil, the ground siioul t be deeply and thoroughly plowed iu the fall, or tally iu the spring, and again immedi ately bT'ore planting. Whatever other precau tious are overlooked iu preparing the ground, that of deep plowing should not be neglected* IS. The best place to keen potaVocs it:rough the winter ii a dry, dark cellar, having a wood en floor. If the cellar is damp a layer of cLaIF (that of wheat being the best) should h<= placed ! uuder them and around the walls. They should i be frequently examined, if possible, through the wiuttr and thu decayed cues should be w<4i I'fuG j A• AMWvv . —wj UW KC|/I ) perfectly sound until harvest by keeping them in -a dark and tolerably dry place ami by keep ing the sprouts broken off. If the foregoing suggestions are faithfully observed I have 110 doubt, that the ravages of the rot will be greatly retarded. Uufortuuau-ly for the potato, it has received less attention, with a view to its improvement, than almost any other kind of agricultural product Let the same pains be taken with the potato as are bestowed upon some other kuiu.i of farm.tig ptoduee and the result will be that this almost ludispeusihle article of food will not only be come more abuuduut, but gieatly improved iu quality.— Baltimore Sun. HIPPOPOTAMUS iiILVTIMx. An English publication gives the subjoin ed account of hunting this amphibious lllOU ster : M e, the mate's boat's crew, had been order ed to prepare ourselves for a general cruise.— We provided ourselves with a store of bread and beef, filled the boat's breaker with water, spread our sail to the light bre>-ze, and puiut thc boat's how to the nearest i.-laud. Landing here we found nought Lut a wilderness of low jungle, which was scarcely penetrable, togeth er with a poor landing. We examined three or four of the isle'.s, and having at last fixed upon a suitable place to commence operations, and were about to return ou board, when the mate said. 'Trim aft, T'oui, there's a good ! breeze, fair coming and going, aud we'll take a look at the mainland.' The boat's head was I laid shoreward, aud we spread ouselves out upon the thwartk, enjoying some cigars whicli our chief officui had good uaturedly brought with him. When within about a mile and a half of the mainland, we found the water shoal iug, beiug not more than three fathoms—eigh teen feet deep. '1 saw a black skin glisten in the sun just tbeu," said the boat-sleerci, who was att, the mate having stretched himself up on the bowthwart to take a nap. 'lt was nothing hut a puffiug pig either—nor—no,' said he with some degree of animation, 'nor anything else that wears black skin that 1 ever saw before.' This hail the effect of rousiug us up, every one castiug his eyes ahead to eateh a sight of the questionable 'black skin!' There be blows! 'and there again!' 'and over here too,' said several voices in succession. 'lt ain't a spout at all, boys, let's pijliittp aud see what it is.' We took to our oars, and the boat was soon darting forward at,good speed toward the place where we had last seen tlie object of our curiosity. 'Stern all." suddenly shouted the mate, as the boat bro't up 'all -standing' against some object which we bad not been able to see on account of the murkineSs of the collision oearly throwing us upou our back* into the bottom ot the boat. As we backed off an enormous beast slowly raised his head aoovc the water, gave a loud suort, aoid incou tiucutly dove dowu agaiu, almost before we could get a fair look at it. 'What is it?' was now the question which uo one could answer. Whatever it is, said the mate, whose whaling blood was up, 'if it comes wilfiiu reach of my iron, I'll make fast to it, lads; so pull ahead.' We were agaiu under headway, keeping a bright lookout for the re appearauce of the stvauger. There are a whole school, said the mate, eagerly, pointing in shore, where the glisteuing of white water showed that a number of tbe nondescripts were evidently enjoytug tbemselvesr. 'Now boys, pull hard aud we'll soon try their mettle.'— 'There's something broke water, just ahead,' ! aid (he boat-steerer. 'Pull easy, lads—l see him—there—way enough—there's his back !' 'Stern all " shouted he, as he darted his iron into |iie back as broad us a small sperm whale. > > 'Stert all .—back water —back water, every man !' and the infuriated beast made desperate lunges in every direction, making the white water fly almost, equal to a whale. We could now see the whole shape of the creature, as, in hfh agony aud surprise, lie raised himself above jhc surface. We all recognized at once the Hippopotamus, as he is represented in books, if natural history. Our object soon got a little cooler, and giving H savage roar, bent I his lteii-1 around until he grasped the shank of the irofc between his teeth. With one jerk he ' drew it out of bis bleeding quarter, and sha king it savagely, dove down to the bottom.— The water was here about two fathoms deep, and woeould see the direction, iu which he was (ravelling along the bottom by a Tiue of blood jus welfifct the air bubbles which rose to the | surface! he breathed. 'Givf Joe another iron, Charley, and we'll | not givejiim a chance to pull it our next time.' ; The irunjwas handed up, and we slowly sailed 1 in the direction which our prize was following ! along tb-a.-e to the shore. It was luckily high tide,and we got the holy up 10 high water-iuark, where the speedily receding waves left it ashore. When we here viewed the giant, and thought of the singular a ; ;i l ity he had displayed in the water, ve could not help acknowledging to one another, that to get among a school of Hippopotami, was rather a desperate game. How MR. BCCRANAX FEELS.—The curios ity iu the minds of some peopde as to the feel ings which Mr. Buchanan privately entertains in regard to the agitation of thu question grow ing out of the Lecompton swindle, is about be ing gratified by some of the correspondents of the public journals. That the old gentleman feels very much out of humour, is nothing more than need be expected, hut that lie should give vent to his had temper in curses and pro fanity, is something more than we were prepa red U: hca- from our circumspect old Bachelor President. It is well for the "traitors" iu the Democratic camp that their chief has not the power to lake their lives, and imprison their persons, paced iu his hands, or we would have a repentin of the "Bloody Assizes,"' even in this advaieed stage of the nineteenth century. His name ake of England was not more bitter and unrci nting toward the refractory contes tants of las kingly prerogative than our James would bono his treatment of Douglas, Walker, | Stanton, ind their frieud, if the Constitution j ponuirteJa similar gratification of his revenge- j ful feelings. It is said that Bancroft, the his- j torian, afer listening to the reading of the President's message, iu tho Senate, when it was finisled, pronounced the document "hel- j lish." This criticism coming to the cars of the ! President, it excited Lis foelirgs so much as to , cause hiu to rail aud swear iu a very earnest | manner. Douglas told one of his friends that when "Od Buck" read the declaration of his speech tiat he was absent from the country ' when the Nebraska t'ill was passed, he fairly \ howled with rage. A correspondent remarks : j "There is inteuse persoual bitterness between ; Buchanat aud Douglas, on all points. Tin j President denounces the Senator as a little de magogue who is afraid of the oonsequeuces of his own measures. He expresses the greatest contempt, for the blunder of Douglas' anti-Le compton movement, and does not disguise his purpose to aid iu the election of a Republican Senator, if necessary; to defeat Dougias, should lie continue to oppose Lecompton ; and it lie now turns again the President says he might be tolerated in the party, but he would bo de- i spised. On his part, Douglas everywhere as serted that Buchanan and the administration are dead. Some of the Douglas office holders in Illinois would have beeu dismissed before this, but the House delegation entreated the Piesident to spare them, because they would, in case of a general row, lose their seats as well as Douglas his." The editor of the Demoorat says that the New York Democrats who voted against Mayor Wood were "afflicted" with "honesty," that disorder has rarely attacked Democrats out here —tbey usually enjoy excellent party health. J:oU. Journal. A GOOD JOKE.—A Prussian journal of 'he Lower Rhine tells a very good joke of a reli gious community thereon, who, appreciating the long and able services of their faithful min ister. unanimously resolved, as a slight testi monial of the s-iuie, to present him this year of a bountiful vintage, each with a bottle of white wine. The minister, of course, duly sensitive to this delicate tribute of love and affection, as well as pretty proud of it, as an evidence that his ministry had not becu altogether iu vain, at considerable expense prepared, in his cellar, a huge ornamented cask, into which, on 'he appointed day, app&arcd every member of his flock to empty his bottle. But what was the surprise of the minister, as well as of the g<-ncrous donors, on tailing from the now over flo wing cask, to find that it was not wine but water! A strange thing, certainly, and of whicli we have no other explanation than this, that every member of the society were of the same idea, that one bottle of water would not be noticed in a whole cask of wine. George Bancroft on Eiansas, ! TO TIIE PEOPLE OF NEW YORIi- Ou Mou'uay, the Bth iast., having been as | sured that the Acadcuiy of Music had certaiu |ly been engaged for the occasion, I signed a I call for an Anti-Lecompton meeting, to be held | there on Friday the l2:h. On Tuesday eveuingoue ot the Directors of | tho Academy of Music came to my house and ; expressed himself very strongly against the i terms in which the meeting was called, anil | against the meeting; and expressed his uuwil | Jingnens that a meeting should be held in the | Academy nftder such a call and fur such a pur i pose. Rut he added that he sp ike only for , himself, the.*e were eight oibet directors and ■ tney tuight ail differ from hiui. He also ex pressed his own unwillingness to grant the use of the Academy of Music for any political meeting whatever. 1 did nor debate with hiru either the language of the call or its purptse, and he withdrew, excusing himsolf on the ground that he was iu search of another person and not of me. The next day I saw the re ceipt for the use of the Academy, wbif that, will, refused to refer , the constitution ;o the people, sequestered their i inalieuable rights, and made themselves mas t tors. They acknowledged that such a refer ( enee should have been made at least on the I slavery clause, and then they framed a sche idule which made no true reference eveu of I 'hat claus ', but uisfranchised all except those ' J who would acknowledge their usurpation, and | were williug to take test oaths to support it.— | The convention further assumed most extraor j diuary powers, and sought in advance to nulli j ty ami renddr void the acts of the newly elect |ed Legislature. They did what they could to | show the approbation of the fraudulent vote j which Walker and Stanton, with the approval, iitisto be hoped, of the President. Moreover, it ordered an election of State officers, under | their unratified constitution, without requiring an oath of the election officers, or affixing a peu | alty on fraudulent voting or forged returns, and they, moreover, directed returns to be made, not to the Governor or the legal Legis lature, but to one mau alone, the President of their convention; a man holding a most lucra tive oth e, aud a iarge patronage under the General Government; clothed with power to judge at his discretion of all returns of a leg lslatuie belore which he might become a candi date tor office; bound by no oath to fidelitv, and exposed to no legal penalty for the abuse of his trust. We hold, then, that the conven tion has no claim to the sovereignty in Kansas but by usurpation; that it had iu nowise the sanction ot Gongress, nor of the President, nor of tire people of Kansas, and was but a cun ning device to defraud that people of its sove reignly. The caidiuul point on which the .great ques tion turns is this: Is the Leeomptou Ooustitu lion the choice aud will of the people of Kan sas/ 1 say it is uot, aud 1 shall prove it.— Ihe first witness is the convention itself. They were urged to refer the matter to the people.— The President, in his high office, pledged him self over aud over again, to the approbation ot j tUi course, aud by the authority aud with the I knowledge of the President, the Governor, aud officers ot the President s appointment, quieted ; the discontents of the people of Kansas oy ad vocating the necessity of such submission be fore the constitution could claim any validity. • And yet the couveution refused to submit its : doings to toe people; thus confessing its con sciousness that its work would he rejected. lhe second witness is the newspaper press of Kansas, l'hat press is agaiu-i itie oonatitu- I tiou by a majority of seveu or eight to one. Next: Ka.isas, by act of Congress, has a tight to a delegate in Congress, charged with (ho duty of speaking for its people. They have now a delegate who is undoubtedly the choice l of the people, and is the first Kausas delegate ; ever chosen by the people, tie is my third witness. .Next: Ask the line of Governors appointed by 1 resiuents themselves. Geary, Walker, toimeiiy Senator from Mississippi, and recent ly proposed for a place iu the President's Cab iuet, and highly commended by the President biuiselt; Stauton, so lately member of Con gress trotii Tennessee, all agree. And I would not tear to ask Denver, the present incumbent; he will certify that even a fraetiou of the party against the Leconipton constitution is more nu merous than the whole of its frieuds. I'ifth: The people of Kansas now happily, thanks to Walker aud Stanton, have a legisla ture indisputably representing that people: aud so soou as they could lift up their voice, thev protested against the Lecotnpton Constitution. Sixth: Those State officers who received the highest number of votes at the election held uu the 4th of January last have likewise sent their protest to Congress. Seventh: The voice of the people of Kansas itself should be heard. On the 4th of Jauua ry they repaired to the polls uucer uo ordina ry circumstances of solcmuity. The President had sanctioned the proceedings by his special protection, the Legislature aud Denver took care that the vote should be an honest one, and by that vote it appears that an overwhelming majority of the people of Kansas reject the constitution of Leeomptou. So, then, wc have seveu sets of witnesses against Leeomptou, the circumstantial evi dence of the LecomptQii Convention; the Kan sas press, the Kansas delegate in Cougress the series of Kansas Governots—four iu one year, tho Kansas Legislature; the Kausas peo ple. All, all declare that the people of Kan sas reject the Leeomptou constitution. If 1 could hope that the words of cue so humble as myself could reach the presence of eue so high as the Presideut of the United States, 1 would entreat hiiu tu leud his ear rev erently, and heai and respect the voice of the people of Kansas, however lowly they may seem in the log cabins and homes that they have uude for themselves to the wilderness.— What they have accomplished there, under un exampled trials and difficulties, is the miracle of the age. A Commonwealth in all its fair proportions has grown up, as it were, iu the 1 night time. If the Presideut of the United States will have a peaceful Administration; 'if he will, by and by, h.tvo dignity in retire | ment; if he will staud well with the world of mankind; if, like Wasbiugtou and all our great Presidents, he wishes to stand well with pos terity, lot him respect the will of the people of Kansas. t It is said that the whole affair is of little eon sequetice; that the wroug, if it he a wrong, is a small one. But there is in political justice no such Vhing as a small wrong. A small wrong