BY DAVID OYER. - ■ B?Qgt¥3? DAVID C. BRODERJCK [The following be&utiial lines sr.* from the pin of the accomplished editor of that old and orthodox Democratic paper—the Chester Bounty Democrats- GzoaoE W. FEABCE, Esq., They have, the ring, not only of the poet, but of the patriot, and will be read with pleasure wherev :r the manly v irtues of the lamented Broderiek are clicrishSd :] The blood-houuds arc sc'ed, the jackals hive fled, And the LioD is ole 'ping the sleep of the dead, The blood is s ill fresh on the sward where he trod, And, incense like, rises appealing to God. The dews of the morn will not wash it away Twill redden and glow in the noontide of day, And iu rbe deep gloom, oi the storm.mantled night, It will rise like a pilLir of Art >;i the sight. 110, brothers who si ted 1 y his patriot-grave, And pour oat your griefs for the vuliaut and brave, Lot bis death be the watchword to startle with fear, The tyrants who stiffened his hurts on the "tier, Arouse from your lethargy, chll Iron of toil, Ye sons of the anvil, the loom, and the soli; Coinc forth as the winds in their struggling might And wrestle till d ;cth with the foe.a m < f Right I 'Twas thus with your leader, the gifted ar.d true, His life was a sacrifice given for you; Every pulse of his heart, every nerve of his frame Was to dignify Labor and give it to Fame ! He was peer to tho proudest who govern tho land, But he stood by his class, aa a hero will stand; And when the hot taunt, I ke an arrow jf ti-e, Wus hurled at tile artizan craii of his sire- How he sprang to the breach with halhcrt and glaive, Defiantly moeting the lord of the stave* Jio spoke for the workshop—the sweat on the! trow, Of the freeman whose swoid is the crest and the plough. Tnere are fountains of feelings we may not control, They spring from the innermost depths of the soul, And flow like a rivtr escaped from its be 1, To freshen the f.ine of the glorious deal. And thus as we stand on the r.mparts of Time, B> the post wlaro a sentinel fell in his print-, '•1 e open Use caskets our l-osoiea enfold, And pout out a treasure more precious than go! ]. Oh, nun who look out from the far Golden Gate, TV here the holucaust smokes in the embers of h ite, Have you drank of the fl igons that nerved him to stand For truth as a rock on your ocean-beat strand? Then rear to the martyr a shaft that slmll rise, As a beacon of Freedom, fir up to the skies, And write on the granite in letters of flinse. IMMORTAL ! IMMORTAL .' the patriot's name ! SCHOOL EJTTE3S. For the Inquirer. Schools aiid gfhsol Directors- "Be just, and fear not: T.et all the cuds thou aim'st at be thy countiy's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou lall'st, O, Cromwell! lhou fail's! a blessed martyr."— -Shalcpear?. When I promised to write a series of arti cles ou the subject of "school matters," for toe Inquirer, 1 little thought that so uiuc'u useful mid precious tiuie would have passed without a diversion from the toit3 and turmoils of busy life in favor of this the greatest of all earthiy blessings. But alas, uiy desires are seldom realized, and my shortcomings are ever and anon reproaching me for my much detested ne glect, hut says the maxim, "It is never too late to do good," and, still further, in the old saw, "better late than uever." I hope iheso incon sistent though much re-pected adages may pos sibly find a palliative apology fur what I have to advuucu at this late moment. Kuowiug the vcluo of space, I have no de t\ eto trespass oo your irood, kiu i aud chaii tabie nature by stringing these strictures to au extent unwarranted; therefore, I shall com mence by expressing my disapprobation of the manner in which a large number of the Direc tors shirk their duties, by shifting the respon sibility upon irresponsible persons, and in no case do the Directors more obviously shirk the responsibility than in the selection of Hauliers to till the various situations in the various Dis tricts- To show tbo matiner in which this is dune, is simply to imagine yourself capacita ted for the ouerous duties of a Teacher, and to present yourself to the Ditectora as an appli cant for a certain school, whereupon tbo Di rectors request you to visit the citizsns in the locality of the scboolhouse which you have proclaimed yourself an applicant for, with what tbey term an "expression lis', asking au expression of each individual's sentiments in your behalf. Now, the applicant may uot have the first principle of qualification requi icd by the School Law, but he is the first to make bia appearance with an "expression list," and invariably it is numerously signed, to the exclusion of persons much better qualified as teachers. No one has an idea to wnat extent this evil has progressed, aud 1 hope tint the Di.-tc.tors in future will make uso of the uisaus A Weekly Paper, Devoted to Literature, Politics, the Arte, Sciences, Agriculture, &c., &c—-Terras: One Dollar and Fifty Cents in Advance. placed iu their Laud:? by the School Laws and Decisions. The School Law, p. 14, See. 118, clause 30, reads as follows: "They {the Director.-) shall have the ap pointment of ail the teachers of common ! schools in the di-trict, fix the amount of teach ers' sal tries, and .say di-nrTs tbeui at any time for i; competency, cr-mby negligence or ituuio raii.y." la tnacyViu -HUCOS the persons ap plying are incompetent to teach some one of the branches required by See. 88, and under such oirenmsunaes come before- the Directors with their !is f numerously signed, becked by persons incapable of discerning the capability ;to teach. Again, eu individual uiry be a fa vorite of a certain number of citizens in a ' school district and receive their approbation, although utterly incompetent, but by tbew'why : washy policy of Directors, he must necessarily receive consideration over the head and shoul ders of his superiors in intellect and capacity. ! —J. R D arbor raw Lydia Harh (hiid's Reply to , Wise. [Mr,. Maria Child solicited the privilege, from Gov. Wise, of Va., to go to Cbarlestown, :o uur.-.e 01-l Joan Grown. Tho Governor re p'.i-d to her tetter, and tho following era extracts ,a aukc fiota bar rejoinder. They arc to tho oci ana wo t'a'uk, pi .era tho Governor, a< well as tbe bouthar:: "chivalry" generally, fiors da combai :] In \i.ur civil but very diplomatic reply to tny letter, t MJ inform me that I have a constitu tional right to visit Virginia, for peaceful pur pases, ia common wicb every citizeu of the U. States. 1 was perfectly well aware that euob wa9 the theory of constitutional obligation ia the SI ire States - but I was also aware of what you omit to mention, viz: that the Constitution has, in reality, been completely aau systemati cally nultiSei whenever it suited the conveni ence or the policy of the Slave Power. Your con titutiona! obligation, for which you profess s r > much respect, has Rover proved any protec tion to citiz-iii of the F:eo States who happen ed to have a black, brawn, or yellow complex i-'u; nor to any white citizon whom you even suspected of entertaining opinions opposite to your own, on a question of vast lmfmrtaoee- to the temporal welfare and moral ex iuiple of cur comma country. T.:is foul disregard of con stitutional obligation baa b:cn manifested not merely by the Lynch law of mobs in the Slave States, but by the deliberate action of magis trates and I'gislators. What regard W'.s paid to constitutional obligation in South (Jaroi'.tiC; when Massachusetts 3ent tns Hon. Mr. Hoar there ss r,a envoy, on a purely legal errand?— Mr. Liedrick, Professor f Political iiloonoiny in the Uuiversity of North Carolina, had a con stitutional right t. reside in that State. What regard was psi 1 to tint right, when he was driv ers from house, merely for declaring that he con siders, d Slavery an impolitic system, injurious to the prosperity of Starts* What respect for , constitutional rights wis manifested by Alabama a hen a bookseller io Mobile was compelled to flte for Lis life, beosu-e he h id, at the special ; request of some of the citizens, imported a tew | copies of a novel that everybody was curious jto reau? Your own citizen, Mr. Underwood, ! bad a constitutional right to live iu Virginia, j and vote for whomsoever ha pleased. What i regard was paid to bis rights, when he was j driven from youi State for declaring himself in j fiver of the election of Fremont? With these, j tad a multitude of other examples before your eyes, .t would seeui as if the less that was said ibuut respect for constitutional obligation at the South, the better. Slavery is, :u fact, an infringement of all law, and adheres to no law. stive for its own purposes of oppression. You accuse Cap:. John Brown of "whetting knives of tutcbery for the mothers, 6isters, daughters and hubeti" of Virginia; and you inform me or the welt known fact that he is "arraigned for the crimes of murder, robbery and treason." I wiil uot here stop to explain why I believe that old hero to be no criminal, but a martyr to principles which he sought to advance by methods sanctioned by his ow i re ligious view-, though not by mine. Allowing that Oapt. Brown did attempt a scheme m which murder, robbery, and treason were, to his own consciousness involved, I do not see how Gov. Wise can consistently arraign him for crimes he has himself commended. You have threatened to trample on the Constitution and break the Union, if a majority of the le gal voters in these Confederated IStatos dared to elect a President unfavorable to the exten sion of Slavery, is not such u declaration proof of premeditated treason? la the Spring of 1842, you made a speech in Congress, from which I copy the following: "Once set before the people of the Great V r ulicy the conquest of the rich Mexican Prov inces, and you might- as well attempt to stop the wind. The Government might send its troops, but they would ruu over tbein like a herd of burfalo. Get the work once begin, aud I do uot know that this House would hold me rcry long. Give me five millions of dollars, and 1 would undertake to do it myself. Al though Ido not know how to set a single squadron in the field, i could find men to do it. Slavery should pour itself abroad without re straint, and fiud no limit but the Southern Ocean. Ihe Catuanches should no louger hold the richest mines of Mexico. Every goldeu imago which hath received the profanation of a faise worship, should soon be melted dowu into good American eagles, i would cause as much gold to cross the Kio del Ndte as the mules of Mexico could carry, aye, and I would make better use of it, too, than any la zy, bigoted priesthood uuder heaven." When you thus boasted that you and your "booted loafers" would overrun the troops of the United States "like a beid of buffalu," if the Government sent them to arrest your inva BEDFORD. PA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1359. si in of a neighboring nation, at peace with tW United States, did you not pledge yourself to commit treason? Was it not by the murder of unoffending Mexicans that yon expected to advance those schemes of avarice and ambi tion? What humanity had you for Mexictiu "mothers and bii>*s," whom you proposed to make childless and fatherless? And for what purpose was this wholesale massacre to t#ke place? Not to right the wrongs of au oppres sed class: r.ot to sustain any great principle of justice, or r-f freedom but merely to enable "Slavery to poor itself fortb without restraint." Even if Cap.t. Brown were as bad os you pnitit him, I slinuld suppose he must naturally remind you of the word* of Macbeth: " We but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor : This even handed justice Commands the ingredients of our poisoned chalice To our own lips." If Captain Brown intended, as you say, to commit treason, robbery, and murder, I think 1 have shown that he could find ample author ity for suoh proceedings in tbe public deciara | tious of Gov. Wise. And if, as himself be ! Clares, he inertly intended to free tbe npprest-od, ! where could he read a mora forcible lesson tbau L furnished ly the State deal of Virginia ? 1 | looked at it thoughtfully before I opened your 1 letter; and though it had always appeared to me very suggestive, it uevor seeured to are so ! much so as it now did in connection with Cupt. ; John Brown. A liberty-loving hero stands with his foot upon a prostrate despot ; under ! his slfcng arm, manacles ami cbaius lie bro ken ; and the motto is 'Sit Semper Tyanni ; 'Thus he it over done to Tyrants.' And this is the blazon of a tkate whose raost profitable ; business is the internal Slave-Trade 1 In whose highways ccffLs of human chatties, ! chained and manacled, ;g:o frequently sor.n.' And the Soai an i the Oeffles are both looked upon by other chatties, constantly exposed to the same late ! What if scmo Vez?y, or Nat ! furrier, sh uld be growiug up among those ap ; pareutiy quiet spectators ? It is iu no spirit of tauut or of exultation, that I ask this question. I never think of it but with anxiety, sadness, and sympathy. 1 know that slave- I holding community necessarily lives iu the midst or gunpowder ; and, iu this age, sparks of free thought are flying in erery- Lave the Slave States fulfill their oft-repeated threats of withdrawal from the Union. It has ceased to be a bug bear, for wo b-gin to despair of being aide, by any other process, to give the world tho ex ample a real republic. The moral sr use of these States is outraged by being accomplices in sustaining au institution vtcions tu ail its aspects ; ami is uow generally understoou that we purchase our disgrace at great pecuniary expense. If you would only m ike tho offer of n separation iu serious earnest, you would Lour the hearty response of millions, "Go gentle men, and "Stand not U["oo the order of your going, Jjut go at once !" Yours, with all due respect, L. MARIA CIIILD. The Dissolution Threat. The threat of 'dissolving the Union,' is a favorite theme of Locofoco politicians, and i just now being indulged iu very freely by these gentry. Their propensity for this dates as far back as 1818, aud then, as now, it was made by men calling themselves 'Democrats,' who were not williug to submit to the will of the majority, if expressed against their party or candidates. The Reading Journal copies from a newspaper publinhed in Baltimore, called The -Marylandtr dated August 2, 1828, tbo following; "A few days since, we stated on tbe authori ty of tbe Richmond Whig, that Mr. Andrew fchevenson, Speaker of tho House of Repre sentatives, had within a few weeks, asserted "that >J Mr. Adams would be reelected, the Union would be dissolved." "On the same authority, we stated that a Judge of tbe Genera! Court of Virginia, bad made the declaration ut Norfolk, that "/ Mr. Adams was not put out bi< f the voice oj the Peo ple, they [the Jackson men,) would be witling to put him out by force." Both these statements are corroborated by responsible uamea, who oertify to their truth. When Calhoun aud the South Carolinians threatened to di-solve tho Union, says the Journal, and actually utado the attempt, Gen. Jackson soon brought them to their senses by a counter threat to proceed agaiust them as traitois, aud actually did proceed against them a* such. Wi cau only add that hemp is as plenty now as it was theu, and that should a Republican President come into power iu 1861, be will be fully as equal to any emergency that may arise, of the kind indicated, as was Old Hickory in the case of the South Caroliua traitors, already referred to. All men who do anything rnu-t endure a | depreciation of their efforts. It is the dirt which their chariot-wheels throw up. THE IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT. \\ e sincerely believe tbc worst enemies tbe south now has in this country— not even ex cepting the handful of abolionists scattered over the land—are those selfsslyled democra tic papers and office hunting patriots who are endeavoring to create an impression that tbe recent rebellion at Harper's Ferry is a result of republican doctrine on the question of •lavery, and that tbe scheme was aided and abetted by republican leaders. These iguorant or designing kuaves point toSoward's Roches ter speech on the conflict between Free Ltbor *jsd Slave Labor, and spare no terms in exe cration of its author. Seward is no favorite of ours, having always been too much of an ultra "fa his views on slavery, but he is by no means the author of the irrepressible conflict, as every leader of impartial history ought to know. The first man who promulgated that doctrine after the formation of our govern ment, and iu far stronger languago than that employed by So ward, was no less a person thau THOMAS JEFFERSON, whoso followers these hypocritical politicians pretend to be. In bis notes on Virgiuia, written iu 1781, Jefferson sjjeaks as follows on the Influence of Slavery : '•The whole commerce between master and si ve is a perpetual exercise of the most bois terous passions ; the most unremitting despot ism on the one part, and degrading submission o" tbe other, blur children see this, and leave to imitate it; for man is an imitative, ati-mal. This quality is the germ of all edu cation in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do. — If a parent could fiud no motive, either iu his philanthropy or bis self love, for restraining rite intemperance of passiou towards h s slave, it should always be sufficient that his child is P r estnt. Hut generally it is not sufficient.— The parent storms, the ohild looks on, catches tUo lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs tu the cireie of smaller slaves, gives loose to bis worst passions, and thus nursed, educated, it-?!! daily exe robed in tyranny, cnnOot bat be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals uudepraved by suoh cir cumstances. And with what execra'iou should i the statesman be loaded, who, permitting one I half the citizens thus to trample cu the rights | of the other, transforms those into despou, and thaie into enemies, destroys the morals of .ike one part, and the amor patriot of the other ! For if the slave can have a country iu this world, it must be aD* other in preference to that in which he is born to live and labor for another ; iu which he must lock up the facul ties of his nature, contribute as far as depends on his individual endeavors id the ev-HJish rneut cf the human ruce, or entail his own miserable couditiuti eu the endless generations | proceeding ftoui him. With the morals of the j people, ibcir industry also is destroyed. For ! in a warm climate no uuu will labor for him- | self who cau make auotber labor for him. 'i his j is so true, that of tha proprietors ot slaves a i very small proportion tudeed are ever seen to labor. And oau the liberties of a nation bo thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, —a conviction in the niinds of the people ttiat these liberties are the gift ot God ?—ibat they are not to be violated but with his vvr uh ? Incited, 1 tremble for my country when 1 rejlett that God is just j that his justice cannot sleep forever ; that, consid ering numbers, nature, ami natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of iurtune, an ex change of situation, is amoug possible eveu's ; that it may become probablo by supernatural interference ! The dllmighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest. "What au iu comprehensible machine is inaD, who cau endure toil, famiue, stripes, imprison ment aud death itself, iu vindication of his own liberty, and tho next moment be deaf to ali those motives whose p° WJr supported him through his trial, aud iufiict upon his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose! But wo must wait with patience the workings of au over ruling Providouoe, and hope that that is pre paring the deliverance of these our suffering brethren. When the measure of their tears shall be full, doubtless a God of juttioe will awaken to their distress, aud by diffusing a light and liberality amoug their oppressors, or at length by bis exterminating thuuder, mani fest bis attention to things ot thia world, and that they are not left to a bliud fatality." If there is a Republican living who has ut tered strouger language than this, we have never seeu it; and it would therefore be quite as reasonable to charge Mr. JeffcrsoD with hav ing caused the Harper's Feny rebellion as those Republicans who merely profoas to op pose the extension of slavery iuto free trritnry. If advocating free labor in this couutry once becomes treason, or is made accessory to it, then are we indeed retrograding in everything that constitutes a free people. Old Dr. Foster, who practiced iu the heal ing art at Buxford, some years ago, was iu the bibit of cooking up all sorts of roots and herbs iuto ntedioines and specifies, and trying them on bis wife. If they did not kill her, he was ready for all his other parties. A would-be Wit, having fired off all his stale jokes without effect, at last exclaimed. — "Why, you never Uugb whou I say a good thing." ••Don't 1," retorted Jerrold "only try me with one." Death—What is it? The article on "death," in the Cyclopedia, has the following: "As life approaches extinction, insensibility supervenes—a numbness and disposition to re pose, which do not admit of the idea of suffer ing. Even iu those eases where the activity of the mind remaius to the last, and where nervous sensibility would seem to continue, it is surpris ing bow often there hns been observed a state of bappy feeling on the approach of death. 'lf I had strength enough to hold apeD, I would write how easy and delightful it is to die,' were tbe last words of the celebrated William Hun ter during bis last moments. "Montuign, iu ODC of his erssys, desotibed an accident which left liiiu so senseless, that he Was taken up for dead. On being restored, howev er, he says: "Metbought my life only hung upon ay lips and I shut nay eves to help thrust it out, and took a pleasure in languishing and ! letting myself go. A writer iu tbe Quarterly Review records that a gentleman who bad beeu j rescued from drowning declarad that he bad not i experienced tbe slightest feeling of suffocation. Tire stream was transparent, the, day brilliant and as he stood upright be could- see the sun shining through the water, with a dreamy con sciousness that his eyes wers about to be closed ou it forever. Yet he neither feared bis fate nor wished to avert it. A sleepy sensation which soothed and gratified him. made a luxu- : rious bed of a watery grave.'* True Courage. A company of boys in street, Boston, ona day after school were engaged in snow-belling. t W illiatn had made a good hard snow ball. ID i throwing it, he 'put iu too much powder,' as ! the boys say —he threw it too bard—and it went I farther than he in'.eutied, right through a parlor j window. All the boys sbouled, 'There, yo'll catch it now, Bill,. Run Bill, j run. They then took to their heels. 4 I shall not run. He theu started directly (or the house where the window bad beeu broken* He rang at the door, acknowledging what be had done, and ex* pressing his regret. He then gave bis name and the name of bis father, and his father's place of business, aud 3uid the injury should be repaired. Aas uot that noble? That w*s true courage. It is cowardice that would lead a boy, alien he has done an injury like that, to sneak away and run to conceal jt. How uobie and brave it is to sec a boy confess a lault, and not be aire id to lace the cousequenoes. Such a confession, though it o.int a great deal of courage, is usual ly the quickest aud surest way of repairing any wrong, and it briugs also peace of uiiud. Autumn and its lessons are bcaulifuiiy pic tured in the following stai.zi which just uow CaicLv? our eye in the columns of a eoternp?- rary : "The leaves grow golden with the sail; God's glory enters every one, And gilds it with a heavenly guise ; So may we, while the season dies, Grow purer by its own pure skies !" As we write, the subjoined apropos lament of a horizontal loafer—a parody on Mrs. Hemaus' well-known lines—turns up in auother of our exchanges . •'Leaves have their time to fall, And likewise so have I ; The reason too'a the same— It cumes ol getting dry. But here's the difference -'Twist leaves and me j I falls more harder AuJ ntoro frequently." That laiDtut desorves to be perpetuated. LOVELINESS.— What constitutes truo loveli ness? Not tho polished brow, the gaudy dress nor tlia show and parade of fasbiouabto life. A woman may have all the outward marks of beauty, aud yot Dot possess a lovely character. It is the benevolent disposi;ion, the kind acts, and the Christian deportuieut. I; is in the heart, where meaknoss, truth, affection, and hu mility are found, where we look for loveliness, nor do we look iu vain. The woman who can soothe the aching heart, smooth the wrinkled brow, alleviate the anguish of the mind, aud pour tho balm of consolation in the wounded breast, possesses, iu au eminent dbgree, truo lovoliuess of character, She is the real com pauion of mau, and does the work of an angel, it is such a character that blesses with warmth aud sunshine, and maketb earth to resemble the Paradisrof God. A NOBLE SENTIMENT. —Some true heart has given expression to its generous nature in the following beautiful sentiment; "Nover desert a fricud when enemies gather around'him—when sickness falls on the heart —when the world is dark and cheerless—is the time to try a friend. They who turn from a scene of distress to betray their hypocrisy, aud prove that interest moves them. If you have a friend who loves you and studies your interest and happiness, be sure to sustain bini in adversity. Let him feel that his former kindness is appreciated, aud that his love is not thrown away. Ileal fidelity may be rare, bur it exists in the heart. Who has not seou and felt its powers ? They deny its worth who never loved a friend, or labored to make a frioDd happy. A Philosopher, being asked what was the first thing necessary towards winning the love of a woman, answered, "An opportunity." The surest way to looso your health is to be very frequently drinking that of other .oiks. VOL. 32, NO. 49. SPLITTING THE DxrreaEscE.—A nice young gen tleman in one of the Southern States, after a long anil arduous courtship, fouDd himself, one bright evening the betrothed of a pretty gtri tfje very pinlc of modesty. On a certain occasion, he was aho tit to take his departure, and after lingering about tho door for some time in a fidget of anxiety he declar ed and protested to Miss Nancy that he couldn't and wouldn't leave until site had kissed him. Of course Miss Nancy blushed beautifully red, and pro tested in turn that she could not and would not do that—she never had done such a thing, and never would until she was married—so now he bad it.— The altercation and debate became deep and excit j ing until the betrothed bolfed outright, and declar i ed if he couldn't kiss her ho wouldn't have her, [ and was inarching off. She watched him to the gate, ' and saw "the fat was in the fire," unless something was done. "Comeback,then;" saidsbe coaxingly, ! "I'll split the difference with you—yeu may squeeze my baud!" A BEAUTIFUL REPLY— A pious old man Was one day walking to the sauctaary with a New Testameut in his hand, when a friend who met him said* "Good morning, Mr. Price." "Ah, good morning," replied he, "I am reading my Father's will as I walk along." "Well what has be left you 1" '•Why, ho has bequeathed mo a hundred fold more iu this life ; and in tie world tooome life everlasting." This beautiful reply was the means of com forting bis Christian friend who was at the time in sorrowful circumstances. A WOMAN PASSING AS A MAN FOR FORTT TEARS —A most extraordinary reveiatiou was made at au inquest recently, before the coroner for Salford, England. The body of a man was found in the sluice at Mode Wheel, on the riv er Irwell, and iu the evening an inquest was held On inquiry, it was found that deceased, who weDt by '.he name of Harry Stokes, was in faot a woroamthat she had worked as a bricksetterfor about a quarter of a century: that she bad been twice married duriDg that period; had kept a beer shop in Manchester during the early part of her career; but in every way conducted her self as a man. The jury, after an examination, returned a verdict of "found drowned " Judge D , a witty fellow, after spend'tsg an evening with a young lawyer, whose tffioe was in tho second story of a building, took bis departure, and got half way down stairs, when he stumbled and fell to the bottom. Tho young lawyer, Leariog the noise, rushed out, and seeing the Judge lying on his back at the bottom of the stairs, inquired in a tone of great ansiety: 'ls your hor.or hurt?' The Judge by thie time had regained hia feet, and looking up, he replted: "No, but aiy leg* arc.' A man in liedforJ county, Tennessee, wiitea to tbe Postmaster at St. Louis, that there is a girl twelve years old held as a slave in that part of Tennessee, and that the girl claims to be a daughter of Peter 31. Gregory, a St. Louis mer chant. She says that she was at a boarding school when a man came and took hsr away, saying her father had sent for her. He took her to Memphis and sold her as a slave. The St. Louis papers say that there is a man named Gregory, a merchant in St. Louis. They that cry dowu moral honesty, cry down that which is a great part of religion—my duty towards God and my duty towards man. What care 1 to sec a mun run after a sermon, if ho cczen and cheat as scon as he comes home? — On the other side, morality must not be without religion ; for if so, it may change as I see convenient. Religion must govern it,— Selden. Mrs. Partington asks, very indignantly, if the bilia before Congress are not counterfeit, why should there bo such a difficulty in passing them ? Lady Mary Wortley Moutague used to say that the only thing that reconciled her to be a woman, was that she wculd never bave to HARRY one. ♦Do you like the game of daughters, mad am V 'No; 1 don't like any game where I can't take a man without having first to jump over liirn,' wis the reply. What are you looking after, my dear?*' said a very affectionate mother to her daughter. Tbe daughter looked around and thus replied :—■ •'Looking after a aon-in law for father." At Oswego, N. Y., on tbe 30th ult., three barns, together with forty-throe horses belong ing principally to canal boats, were destroyed by fire. "Union is not always strength," as tbe tail, or said wheu ho saw tbe purser mixing hi 9 ram with wafer. Four thiugs come not back: the broken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity. A bead properly constituted can accommo date itself to whatever pillows tbe vicissitudes of fortune may place under it. John C. Terrell, has been convicted in Marlborough Parish, 8. C., of murdering bis grandfather, and sentenced to bang 'Husband, 1 must have some change today.' ♦Well ftay at home and take care of 'he child ren ; that will be cbango enough, anyhow.'