BY DAVID OVER. agoetvg. BEAUTIFUL LESSON. No more beautiful lesson has been taught by a modern poet, than is conveyed in these stanzas by •f. G. Whittier. Adaiu and Eve, exiled from the Garden of Eden, and sat dowu disconsolately on the outer side of the wall of Paradise, and there an angel found them bewailing their fate. Thereupon the radiant presence spoke. •'Arise !" he said, "why look behind, tf hen hope is all before. And patient hand and willing mind Your loss may yet restore 1 I leave with you a spell whose power Can make the desert glad, And all around you fruit and flower As fair as hid. 1 clothe your hands with power to lift The curse fiom off your soil— Your very doom shall seern a gift, Your loss a gain, through Tom. Go. cheerful as your humming bees, To labor as you play . \V hile gleaming over Eden's trees, The angel passed away. The Pilgrims of the world went forth, Obedient to the word, And found, wher'er they tilled the earth, A garden o 1 the Lord ! t't.ce mere. Ob ! white-winged angel, stand Where man still pines and grieves, And lead, thiough Toil, to Eden land, New Adams and new Eves ! From lite. j\ew York Herald. SKETCH OF JOHN BROWN, The Leader of the Harper'* Ferry Insurrection. Captain John Brown emigrated io from Central New if oik in the fall of 1855 ! and settled in tie towEship of Ossawattomie. j lie was accompanied by seven sons, tbe young- i est beiog old enough to caru bis livelihood.— , The birthplace of Brown is not positively i known to the writer, but report has it that he was born in Kentucky*. At ibis time he is about sixty years of age. lie is about medium height, slim, muscular, aud possessing an iron constitution. 11c his Hue eyes, sharp fea tures, and long gray hair weariug a full heard. In December, 1855, during the "Shannon war," Brown first made Lis appearance among tli? free-State men at Lawrence. His entrance into the place at ouee attracted the attention the people towards him. He brought a wagen load of cavalry sabres, and was aecom t anied by twelve men, seven of wbom were bis own sons. He Srst exhibited his qualities at tb< time the free-State aud pro-slavery parties ender tLc lead of Governor Robinson on one eid, and Gov. Shannon on the other, met to make a treaty of peace. After Gov. Robin son had seated to tLe people who were gather ed around the hotel tLe terms of the peace, Brown took tbe stand uniuvited, and opposed tbe terms of tbe treaty. He was in favor of ignoring all treaties, and such leading men aa Robinson, Lane, and Lowry, and proceeding at once against the border-ruffian invaders, drive them from the soil, or liaug them if them if taken. General Lowry, who was chairman of the Committee of Safety, and also commander of the free-State troops, ordered Brown uudcr arrest. Tbe latter made no physical resistance, hut it was soon discovered that he was alto gether too eou.'lufltiblc a person to retain as a prisoner, and a compromise was made with him by the free-State men, aud he was released.— He was informed by the leaders of that party that bis remarks were intended to undo what they were trying to accomplish by means of the treaty : that be was it stranger in Lawrence •and Kansas, and ought not, by bis rash re marks, to compromise the people of Lawrence until he had koown them longer and knew them Letter. One of his sons, who was elected to the Legislature in February, 1856, was seized and taken from Ossawattomie to Lecompton in ebains, a distance of thirty miles, ills fret and hands were chained together with a laige heavy chain, the size of that used upon ox team*. He was compelled to walk the whole distance beneath a burning sun. The irons wore the flesh from his ancles : he was attack ed with tbe brain fever, was neglected, and died iu two oi three days. He was the companion >f Governor Robinson, Jenkins, (since shot by Lane , and some eight or ten others. Another son of Oapt. Brown was shot at Ossawattomie by a marauding party from Missouri. After the death of his first son, occasioned by the tortures ami fatigue of bis forced march.— Brown swore leugeanee upon the pro-slavery A Weekly Paper, Devoted to Literature, Politics, the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, &c., &c—Terms: One Dollar and Fifty Cents in Advance. party, and it was frequently observed by the more prudent of the free-State men that he was evidently insane on the subject. He was al ways considered by them a dangerous man, was uever taken into their councils, and never consulted by thbm with reference either to their policy or movements. The destruction of the free-State Hotel and presses at Lawrence, in May, 1856, incited him anew to action, and he organized a small com pany, composed chiefly of nten who had been robbed, or whose relatives had been murdered by the pro-slavery party, and at the bead of this band, armed with Sharpe's rifles, bowie knives, and Colt's revolvers, he scoured South ern Kansas, aDd the name of "Old Brown" be came a terror to ull who opposed bis will in that region. While he was thus marauding, five pro-slavery men were taken from their cabius at Pottawattooiie creek, in the night timo, and shot dead. The pro-slaTcry party charged old Brown, while the free-State party asserted that they could prove Tim in Lawrence, forty miles distant, when it happened, and that the horrid deed was perpetrated by "Buford's Georgian Ruffians," supposiug that the victims were free-State men. The news of this massacre reached West port, Missouri, the place of rendezvous of the ''border ruffians," the same eveuing that the Kansas Commission sent out by the U. States House of Representatives arrived at that place. The excitement was intense, and was induced almost as much by the appearance of the Com mission, as by the news of the mass-sere. The "mffians" swore vengeance upon the members and officers of the Commission, declaring that their Hood should recompense for the slaughter at Pottawuttouii6 creek, and but for the inter cession of Mr. Oliver, the pro-slavery member of the Commission, and others, it was believed tint the Commission would have been at. ] tacked. It was at this time that the notorious ! 11. Clay Pate organized a band of men iu the streets of Westport, Mo., with -fire a-rcmed purpose of entering tbe Territory and capturing "Old Brown." Ho raised about thirty men, and went iuto the Territory at twilight ono evening, and was surprised at sunrise the next morning by "Old Brown," who was in com mand of nine men, armed as stated above.— | Pate sent a flag of truce to Brown, who ad vanced some rods iu front of his company, and ! ordered the flag-bearer to remain with him, and sent one of his own men to inform Pate to ! come himself. Pate obeyed, when Brown or dered him to lay down hi* arms. Pate refused ; to give the order to his men, when Brown, ! drawing a revolver, informed him that be must give the order, or be shot on the spot. Pate i immediately surrendered up himself aud men, aud they were disarmed and marched into a ravine near by, aud kept until liberated aud sent back to Missouri, by Col. Sumner, a few i days subsequently, who also ordered "Old ' Brown" to disbaud and go Lome. The latter agreed to do so, if the Colouel would also agree to protect the settlers iu that region of tbe Territory. This was tbe celebrated "Bat tle of Black-Jack Puint,"made famous by tbe "H. C. P." Kansas correspondent of the St. Louis Republican, who was the heroic commau der of the surrendering party. Captain Brown was not much heard from again until the no torious Capt. Hamilton mado his incursions into Southern Kansas from Missouri in 1858, when uC raided another company, and, with Capt. Montgomery, drove Hamilton and his companions back to Missouri, and marching his men into that State, lock possession of one of the villages, shot one or two ni£D> liber ated several slaves. This course of BroJVQ ~va® repudiated by Governor Robinson, and tb> leaders of the free-State party, in and outof Kansas, which caused Brown to publish a-et ter explaining his position, in which he assisted the entire responsibility of his acts, and-'liov ed the free-State men from any sharetherein. This letter was called the "Two Paralels," ou account of the peculiar distinction ude by the writer. Captain Browo is a very strong believer iu the doctrines of the PresbyterUjChurch. He is fanatical on the subject of aiti-slavery, and scents to have the idea that w specially de puted by the Almighty tQii^ €ra,e slaves and kill slaveholders. It wa ,a^wa y a conceded to him that he was console*' 008 mau ' vec y nod® B * in his demeanor, apps" ent ly inoffensive until the subject ef slaver wa s introduced, wheu he would exhibit a fee*Jg of indiguation unparal leled. After mrters subsided iu Kansas, Brown intimated to some of bis anti-slavery friends that he- bnteaj p' a ted organizing an in surrection am a g 8t 'bo slaves in Kentuoky and Tennessee, act becoming known to some of tbe leacPg anti-slavery men of the coun try, they #f° Be> i bitu meaus with which to go on, and *soouraged his proposed undertaking. He g p t > a portion of tbe last summer in visit- j r „ (jiiVrent Northern cities, and was-endered BEDFORD. PA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1859. sums of money, with the understanding that he j wished to secure a little farm upon which to settle in his old age. It is supposed that he employed the money thus obtained to hire the farm near Harper's Ferry, which he used as a rendezvous for the insurrectionists. Tlie Harper'* Ferry Tragedy- The late tragedy at Harpei's Ferry has cal led forth universal comment from the public press. As yet we have not seen a single jour nal containing a syllable in excuse or justifi cation of even the motives of the misguided men whose aots have sent a thrill of horror through the laud. The wild iasauity of the attempt proves of itself the total loss of the lust ray of reason on the part of the immedi ate actors. Madness, utter madness, could uo further go. No event could teach more significantly, or more eloquently, the wisdom of that govern mental policy to which the Republican party has been committed from the very day of its first inauguration. The doctrines preached by its founders were the same conservative prin* ciples which, from the formation of the Consti tution down to 1854, the era of the infamous Kansas Nebraska bill, had met the approval of all parties. The cardinal idea that legisla tion for the territories should belong of right to CoDgress, as the Constitution expressly pro vides, was the favorite doctrirfe of Henry Clay and the Whig party. This idea fell by right of succession to the conservative Opposition of the country. Had the firebrand of squatter sovereignty never been flung into Congress by Mr. Douglas—had the unwearying extrtions of the Opposition to keep the Missouri Com promise intact been successful, the Pandora's box of evils which lay concealed in the spe cious provisions of the Kansas Nebraska act would never have cTrsed the country. But tho insane movers in that scheme of wrong would listen to uo utterance of Reason or of yttgtir. " Tbey were hltnd to every idea save that of selfish aggrandizement and temporary triumph. .Not one who moved in it, not Ste phen A. Douglas himself, the contriver-in chief, at this day, with the fearful experience since, would do the same deed ovet again. The dragon's teeth were first sown iD Kan sas. Peace, that was to hover like a protect ing angel over that fair and sunny garden spot, folded her wings in dismay. Discord, and her dark and damning brood, entered tho devoted State, and scenes that shocked humanity star* tied the land into indignant detestation.— Peaceable men from the North, unoffending citizens, who on their arrival in Kansas were hooted at by the Missouri ruffians, as a race of impotent cowards, found their homes invaded by the knife of tho assassin, their wives and children outraged, their dwellings lit by the torch of the incendiary. These were the first fruits of the great peace measure of 1854, of fered to the expectant country as a sovereign panacoa, by Senator Douglas. Those peaceful emigrants, who had exiled themselves from the i land of their early association?, were madden ■ed to revenge. The Missouri borderers had : taught them, b/ a lesson of blood and fire, the catechism of warfare. They were, in self-de ! fence, obliged to protect their firesides, or else I consent to sacrifice all they bad come to se ■ cure—namely, a peaceful restmg-placc upoD I the common territory of the nation. Thf cataloguo of wrongs tho poeple of Kan | sas re called on to cod, has never all been I ioU- Those who suffered in person, iu the sfEctity of their homes, became, liko Brown of ' Jsawatouiie, frenzied with the scenes of dia- I bolical horror through which they had passed. Reason fled her throne, and the idea of resist ance to tiro supposed cause of all the tumult and outrage became a religious fauaticism. — The idea of constitutional barriers never more had pluoe in such brains, and blood shed and civil war became to such distracted minds as things of right. The affau blar par's Ferry, insane, utterly inexcusable as iv w , may well be credited as the legitimate conse quence of the false policy invoked by the au thors and contrivers of the Nebraska bill. It is oven higher madness, more absurd and glaring folly to charge such a terrible outbreak upon any party of roasooable men. All par ties alike condemn it, and the Republican par ty, above all others, is committed point blaDk against the policy that could breed such ex cesses. We seek to make no war upon the South, or its rights. We beiievo only iu work ing under and through the Federal Constitu tion. Through legal means, and only legal means, can any social errors in the political fabrio be corrected. As proclaimed by the leaders of the party in the oauvass of 1856, we have nothing whatever to do with slavery in the States. To the people of the Southern States alone belongs the settlement of thia so cial evil within their own borders. This uoc triae the Republican patty has always undevi atingly maintained, and will maintain it to the end. Our only aim is to keep all the Territo ries free from the evil of slavery, free front a system whose presence directly tends to the and reahzation of a crop of bloody tragedies like to this through which we have passed. The attempt, therefore, on the part Of the hireling journals of a corrupt Adminis tration, to charge this objectless, insane out break upon the Opposition party, will only re foil upon the infamous movers. The country . (tan easily see through the flimsy sophistry, wfid punish the malevolent suggesters of the t&ooght.— Slate Journal. | ANECDOTE OF WASHINGTON. .In 1754 he was stationed at Alexandria with bis regiment, the only one in the Colony Of which he was tho colonel. There happen ed at that time to be an election in Alexan dria for members of tie Assembly, and the bal lot ran high between Col. George Fairfax and Mr. Win. Elgey, Washington was on the side of Fairfax, and Mr. Win. Payne headed the friends of Elgoy. In the course of the con test Washington grew very warm, (for his pas sions .uaturally wero very powerful, though a wise regard to duty, t. honor and happiness, soon reduced them to proper command,) and uoluckily, said something to Mr. Payne, who though but a cub in size, wag a lion iu heart, elevated his shiilelah, and, at a blow, extended our hero on the ground. News was soon car tied to the regiment that their colonel was murdered by a mob! On the passions of tho soldiers, who doated upon thoir ooiuminder, such a report fell at once like a flash of light ning on a magazine of powder. IQ a moment the whole regiment was under arms, and in ra pid motion towards the town, burning for ven geance. During this time Washington had been liberally plied with cold water, acids, aud vtdatilt'S, aud happily for Mr. Payuo and his party, was so far recovered as to go out and meet his enraged soldiers, who crowded round him with fa es of honest joy to sea hino alive After thanking theiu for such an evi dence of their attaobuieut to him, he assured theui that he was not hurt in the least, and begged them, by dUetTY ?e of hint and of their duty, TO return peaceably to thvW barrtoiCß As for himself, ho want to hi* ream, generously chastising his passion, which had just struck but a spark, that would like to htve thrown ' the whole town in a flame; and feeling hiiuseif ! the aggressor of Mr. Payne, he resolved to ; make him the honorable reparation of askiug j his pardon. No sooner had he made this ba , roic resolution, thau, recovering that delicious ! gaycty which ever accompanies good purposes .in a virtuous mind, be went to a ball that uight, and behaved as pleasantly as though no thing had happeued. Early next morning, he ; wrote a polite note of iuvitation to Mr. Payne, ;to meet him at the inn. Payne took it for a i challenge, and repaired to the inn iu full ex pectation of smelling gunpowder. Put what j was bis surprise, on entering tho chamber, to ! sec, in lieu of a brace of pistols, a decanter of | wine and a couple of glasses on the table.— Washington rose to meet him, and offering his : hand, with a smile, began: "Mr. Payne, to err lis sometimo nature, to rectify error is always ! glory. 1 believe I was wrong in the affair of yesterday. You have had, 1 thiux, some sat isfaction, and if you deem that sufficient, there is my hand; let us be friends." An act of such sublime virtue produced its proper effect upon tho niiud of Mr. Payne, who, from that moment, became the most en thusiastic admirer aud friend of Wasbiogtou, and for his sake ready at any timo to charge up to a battery of forty-two pouuders. "If our youth," says the narrator, "would be persua ded to act in a stjle so correct and beroioal, our newspapers would no longer shock us with acoouuts of elegant youog men murdering each other on false principles of honor—by one desperato deed depriving themselves of all present pleasures, aud of all future hopes. Recollections of the American Revolution. AN AMERICAN AIEETS THE EMPEROR OF BRAZIL. The Knickerbocker tells the following good story of an interview of au American with the Emperor of Brazil: I was suddenly aioused by a hearty voice addressing uie in French * 4 You have rather an obstinato mulo there." I looked up. In frout of me was a youog man in a cocked hat and dark undress uniform, mounted upon some animal, which, from my then confused condi tion, 1 cannot uow feel sure of the naturo of. Some of the lancers had passed IUO; others wero endeavoring to force the narrow passage on one ,idfl W'i.-M I replied to this remark, or wheth er! replied at Ml, I not "Use your spurs," said the same voice, and then, as if suddenly aware-of my destitni? predicament, it added, "Well, try a lance." An o(der was given to one of the soldiers at my side, WIJP dropped his lance to the position of a charge, and obeyed at once. At the application of the cold steel, my mule made a bound—the coun terpart of his acrobatic performance on the way up. I remember striking heavily against some- it may have been the Empsior, or only one of the guards. I heard loud laughs and shouts and screams. I have a dim perception of seeing womcu, baggage and many mules. Something was overturned, and then all be came dark before my eyes.. How long I re mained uuconscious, I eauuot tell probably not more than a few minutes. On opening my eyes. I found myself upon the ground, tuy shoulders supported by one of tho soldiers, while a second was sopping my head with a handkerchief wet witboold water. My clothes were muddy, and torn in several places. Iu ■ the middle of the path, as tfhconcerned as if nothing had happened, or, as I thought, with a diabolical leer in bis eye, stpod the cause of mv wretched troubles. At my side, surrounded by several ladies, and officers in uoiform, was the same persou who had addressed me before the accident. As I looked around and made attempts to rise, be said: "Ah, you feel much better; it was uot much after all." Whatever I may have thought, I coincided in the opinion by replying, "A mere trifle." "Monsieur is English?" he asked. "Xon, Monsieur, Amer ican." "Where are you going?" "To Rio, Monsieur." "Alone?" "No, Monsieur, I have some friends somewhere about hare."— "Ah, yes, I met tbarn a few minutes ago, on the other side of the mountain; Baron was with them. Well, take care of yourself, for there are places on the way down where a fall will not be as pleasant as here. Adieu."— With these parting words, and a hearty laugh, tha Emperor, for he it was, mounted, and in a few seoouds the cavalcade was bidden from my sight by a turn in the pathway. A GHOST STORY. Mr. Hector McDonald, of Canada, was re cently on a visit to Boston. When he left home his family were enjoying good health, and he anticipated a pleasant journey. The second morning after bis arrival in Boston, when leav ing bis bed to dress for beakt'ast, he saw re flected in a mirror the corpse of a woman lying OD the bed from which he bad just risen. Spell bound, he gazed with intense feeling, and tried to recognise the features of the corpse, but in vaiu ; be could not eveu move his eyelids ; for how long he knew not. He was at last startled by the ringing of the bell for breakfast, and sprang to the bed to satisfy himself if what he had seen reflected in lira mirror was real or an illusion. He found the bed as he bad loft ii; he looked again into the mirror but saw only the bed truly reflected. During the day he thought much upon the illusion, and determined uext morniDg to rub his eyes and feel perfectly sure that he was wide awake before he left his bed. But notwithstanding these precautions, the vision was repeated with this addition, that he thought he recoguized in the corpse some re semblance to tha features of his wife. In the course of the second day he received a letter from bis wife, iu which she stated that slit* was quite well, and hoped he was enjoying himself aiming bt- trioode. As he wjsdevoat edly attached to her, and always anxious for her safety, he supposed that his tuorbid fears bad coojurod up the vision he had seen reflected iu the glass, and *ent about his business.— On the morning of the third day, after be had dressed, he found himself in thought in his own house, leaning over the ooffio of his wife. His tricuds were asseinbltd, the minister was performing the funeral servioes, his children wept— he was iu the house of death. He fol lowed the corpse to the grave ; he heard the earth rumble upon the coffin, he saw the grave filled, and the green sods covered over it, yet, by some strange power he oouldsee through the ground the entire form of his wife as she lay in her coffic. ile looked in the faces of these around him, but no one seemed to notice him , he tried to weep, but tbe tejrs refused to fiow\; his very heart felt as hard as & rock. Enraged at his own want of feeling, he determiued to throw himself upon the grave and lie tnete until his heart should break, wheu he was recalled to consciousness by a friend who entered the room to inform him that breakfast was ready. He started as if awoke from a profound sleep, though he was standiug before the mirror with a hair brush in his band. After composing himself, he related to his friend what he had seen, and both concluded that a good breakfast only was wanting to dis sipate his unpleasant impression. A few days afterwards, however, he received tho melan choly intelligence that his wife had died sud denly, and the (he time corresponded with the day tie bad been startled by the first vision in the mirror. When he returned home he de scribed miuutely all the details of the funeral be had seen in bis vision, and they correspond ed with the facts. This isprobabiy one of the most vivid instances of clairvoyance on record. Mr. McDonaid knows Dothing of modern spir itulism or clairvoyance, as most of his life has been speut upon a farm among forests. It may not be amiss to state that his father, who WHS a Scotch Highlander, bad the power of "Becoud sight."— Boston Traveler. PADDY AND THE TCRTLE. —In New York a man was oarrying a live turtle along the street, when an Irishman came along, followed by a large dog. The countryman tried by gen tle words to get the son of Emerald to put his finger into the turtle's mouth, but he was too smart for that. 'But,' says he, 'l'll put my dog's tail in, and see what the baste will do.' He immediately oalled up bis dog, and ta king his tail in bis band, stuek it in the tur tle's uiouth. He had scatoely got it in when Mr. Turtle shut down OD the poor dog's tail, and off the latter starto i at railroad speed, puliiii o " the turH o a(?ter bim at a more rapid rate than e?r it traveled before. The coun tryman, thinking that his day's work would be thrown away if the should run at that rate, turned with a savage look upon the Irish man and exolaiined: •Call back your dog.' Paddy put his hands into his pockets, threw his bead to one side, and then answered, with a provoking sung froid: 'Call back your fish!' The other day, Mrs. Snipkins being unwell, sent for a medical ruan, and declared that she was poisoned, and that Mr. Soipkins did it.— "I didn't do it," shouted Suipkins. "It's all gammon ; she isn't poisoned. Prove it, doctor —open her OD the spot-r—l'm willing." ■ - VOL. 32, NO. 4-5. Tbaubsgiring in Pne aspirations. The institutions of our holy re v ligion are well sustained : and under its pore and geuial influence, the spirit of unity aud love, the earnest of yet better days, is most happily developed. To God, the Great aud the good, wa are indebted for all, and to Him let praise be rendered. With these sentiments, and in accordance with the knowD wishes of many of my fellow citizens, I, WM. F. PACKER, Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do hereby appoint THURSDAY, THE 24TH DAY OF NOV. NEXT, as a day of general Thanksgiving and paise to Almighty God, and recommend to all our peo ple to lay aside, on that day, their customary worldly business—assemble in their respective places of worship, and unite iu praising God for His excellent greatness toward üB-beseech it-g Liis gracious goodness. Given under my hand and the great seal of the State, Harrisbnrg, this fourteenth day of October, A. D. 1859, and of the Common wealth the eighty-fourth. WM. F. PACKER. By the Governor : WM. M. H JESTER, Secretary of the Commonwealth. A QUEER ELOPEMENT—SIXTY AND SEVENTEEN. About a week since a fair young girl arrived in this city from London, Canada West. She eame on the Port Burwell packet, and took rooms at a modest but comfortable hotel. Iler wardrobe was rather scanty, but she had plen ty of money, and calling to her aid several milliners and dress makers, she soon dashed out in gay and attractive style. She register ed her name as Sarah May, London, C. W.— destination West. She told the landlord she expected her uncle at the end of the week, and on Saturday morning he ai rived. lie was an active affable geuileuntu, well dressed and airy, but gray as a rat, and evidently sixty years old at least. 110 paid his niece's bill, and the pair purposed leaving OD the 5 50 Columbus train. But early iu the afternoon there arrived at the hotel an uncouth old man in baggy trowsers, a bed blanket ooat, a bat belonging to a previous generation, aud with a slight Yorkshire accent. This old man angrily confronted the other old man and charged him with ruaarng away with bis daughter, who was not and never had been his, the other old man's nieoe. The other old man, the Dew corner said, had a wife and eight children at home, four of whom were grown up. It also appeared from the injured father's story that the ancient gray deceiver's name was M'Ma kiu; that he had been a magistrate; that he was a man of wealth, and had borne a spotless char acter up to the time he induced the girl to inn away with him, or rather before him. The tirocPmagistrate hud a private interview with the girl's father —we do not know what was said or what peculiar influence was brought to bear upon the injured father —but he returned to London and the retired magistrate and the young girl left on the 5.50 Columbus train.— We get these facts from the landlord in whose hotel the eccentrio drama was played. We have no further particulars, but they apparently have a queer way of doing some things over in Mrs. Alberf's county.— Cleavebind Plaindealer. UaoDEßicK's LASR WORDS.— In San Fran oisco huge posters have been put up all over the city containing the following as the dying words of Broderick: liRODERICK IS DEAD. "They have killed me beoauso I was opposed to the extension of Slavery and a corrupt Ad ministration." This is the testimony of a dying man, and would be received as unimpeachable evidence io a court of justice. It is sufficient to oonviot every one of the conspirators of willful murder of itself. A correspondent from Northampton, Mass., is responsible for the following :—"A subscri ber to a moral-reform paper, oalled at our post office, the other day, and enquired if The friend of Virtue bad come. "No," replied the postmaster, "there has bceu u<> suoh per son here for a long time." a A roll bishop Hughes, who went to Wasbiug tou to oonsecrate a ehurch, was invited by the President to itake bis home in the White House so loug as be may remain in the oapital.