BY DAVID OVER. | (From Mrs. Partington's "Knitting-Work.") THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW. Down the dark valley, alone, alone, Has our white-winged dove in her beauty flown; ; Her tender eyes that shone so bright, Have closed forever to earthly light; She has lett the love that was round her thrown; And down the valley has fled, alone. There were bitter tears when she passed away— A sad, sad cloud obscured our day! She had twined herself round each loving heart, Till she seemed of its very self a part; O, how we loved her!—but she has flown, Down the dark valley—alone, alone. She was but a fragile and beautiful thing. A blossom to bloom in the lap of spring; The noonday heat with its feverish glow, And the chilly breath of the wintry snow, She could not abide, and thus has flown, Down the dark valley—alone, alone. O, dark to us doth the valley appear, And we shrink aghast from its shadows d-ear; The earthly sense is chilled by the gloom Of the sombre midnight of the tomb; — [moan, Thus we gave her up while our hearts made As she went down the valley—alone, alone. Alone, ail alone! but beyond the night, Of the darkened vale is a radiant light, That breaks from above with diviner ray, Thau shines the glory of solar day, Which springs from God's eternal throne, And lights the valley she trod alone! And seraph bands in joyfulness hold, The little wunderer from our fold, Her gentle feet shall feel no barm, Sustained by the angelic ami; And brighter than the sun e'er shone, Is she who passed down the valley alone. Ittjnol Ifiaitrrs. I GRADING TEACHERS. Truth needs no flower of speech.— Pope. "Ah !" ejaculates a prosy Director, "wo | have our Teachers graded, so your strictures come too late this time!" Indeed! You have them graded , eh ? Perhaps, de-G&ADED. j How often we mistake a real evil for a benefit, especially in Common School affairs. Inter- j estcd persons cry most lustily that they have j adopted boasted improvements, and claim that they are, therefore, to be considered exempt from all blame that may be attached to tho t>ad working of the vauDtcd object. Yes, they have adopted them, and hew tfuy have j adopted them ? Let us see ! A few days ago, I met an old friend of j mine, aDd in answer to my question, "How is your son John, getting aloDg 1" replied with vehemence, "Ob Johnny ! Johnny, he's a smart fellow! First-rato, first-rate! He's got at your business; teaching school. Gets $2O per month, and Mr. Quack, across the way, who has a first class sartiacate, gets only $22. He gets aloDg, first-rate, first-rate !" John is a blockhead ! an ignoramus 1 he is the veritable Quack ! not fit for anything , of coarse the only alternative left was to apply for admission into the Profession. Alas! bew frequently, how very frequently, do tho weak! the lame ! ! the halt and the blind! ! ! find j their way into the schools, mainly because they are incapacitated for performing manual labor, with the same expedition that persons of "sound wind and limb" generally perform such labor. How deplorable' how infinitely deplorable! Certainly the schools are not an asylum for these poor unfortunates, or I have heretofore been laboring under a delusion; particularly for that numerous class that do not even oomprebend the elements of the En glish Language, and who murder, and not only murder, but mutilate every limb of the "King's English." I atu sorry that the old expression, "He is fit for nothing else but a school mas- not long since been consigned to Lethe, bat alas ! like many other relios of a oarbarous age, it "still lives," though I feel happy to record tbat its votaries are goiDg out with the darkness that is now being dispelled by the light of day, tbat light of day which is fast dispersing the mists and fogs of Igno rance tbat have enveloped us for so many ages. "JohDny !" Aye, yes, to return to John.— "Gets $2O per month, and Mr. Quack, across tbe way, whe has a first class sartifioate, gets only $22." Would you believe it, my dear reader, Mr. Quack is a graduate of cue of the best Normal schools in tbe "Old Bay State," A Weekly Paper, Devoted to Literature, Politics, the Arts, Science*, Agriculture, Ac., Ac— I Terras: Que Dollar and Fifty Cents in Advance. has taught some of the first grade schools in the East, has any amount of recommendations from distinguished professional gentlemen, and more than all this, ha has an experience of eight or ten years' teaching. Unfortunately, like many others in this scifting world, he has desired "to see the elephant," to make use of a slang phrase, and he has brought up in the "Old Keystone" of the Feceral Arch, to be graded, verily </e-graded, with "Johnny."— What a glorious system of gradiug! Mark the difference in the coat of the contrasted individ uals. "Johnny" reeeives only $2 less per month tbau Mr. Quack ! Only $8 less per term ! "Johony" is a dead loss of §5O to each scholar! Mr. Quack is an advantage of lan equal amount. Bless me ! can it be possi ble that men, who presume to bo intelligent, will make so little distinction between the "Starvation Point" and the "Horn of Plen ty." But, 1 have seen the living fruits, why j should I doubt. Directors, will you look at this pictured It is not overdrawn; faith there is not an iota of exaggeration about it; just examine your Dis tricts minutely, and I have no doubt you can find a "Johnny" for every Mr. Quack, at least. A friend of mine has just taken ex ception to the name of Quack, and fearing that others might prove equally captious, I cannot help exclaiming, with a very respected gentleman, named Sbakspeare, "What's in a name ? that which we call a rose, By any ot her name would smell as sweet." Yes, had you, Mr. Director, voted "JohnDy" about §lO per month, as a third grade, Mr. §2o, as a second, and Mr. Quack §3O, as a first grade, although ho is aotually en titled to §5O per month, you would have reached the bounds of common sense.— "Johnny" would make his board and washing, fat more than he deserves. Let tbis policy be pursued, and incapacita ted "Johnny," if he has any mental faculties, will aee the necessity of improvement, aDd "stamp it on the wings of time." W ben the pocket is encroached upon, my word for it, there is a sufficient stimulant to induce the uncultivated intellect to make an effective ex ertion. Mauy young men now eDter the sohools, simply to put in time, and more fre quently to secure the wages, annulling the doctrine that "every laborer is worthy of his hire;" let those persons receivo such remune ration as they deserve, and in a very short time wc will have Teachers in every stDse qualified. — J. R. Vurborrow. Woodberry, Pa. ROBT. J. BRECKENRIDGE, D. D., TO j JOHN 0. ON THE UNION. Dr. Breckenridge, known in this section as ; the famous President of Jefferson College, Uan nonsburg, has written one of the ablest aud most remarkable letters we have seen, to the Vice President. Of course no party would en dorse the whole of what this bold, out spoken man says. His position however is nearer that of the Northern Conservatives than any other. His free criticism of the bad blunder made by the South iu the repeal of the Missouri Com promise would hardly be tolerated in any one else than a clergyman. So too bis bold avowal that secession is a revolutionary right —that the eleotion of no man according to the forms ot the Constitution would justify any attempt to intorferc with the stability of the Union, bo too his comments on parties—the absurdity of the South claiming that slavery is carried into the territories by the Constitution, are vividly presented. He maintains that tho parties real ly having eauso to complain are the citizens of Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri; that the cotton States have no excuse for their dis-unica threats. He appeals to Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, to rally to the Union, that these centrai States en cither Bide of tho supposed line of separation cannot and will not tolerate a dissolution of the Union. The 1 etter is eminently characteristic of Dr. B's stylo and manner, and wa have no doubt would do great good at the South if geu erally read —and no harm at tho North. The letter is a long one—would fill four columns of our paper— Pills. Coal. Jour. ("ROUP. —We find in the Journal of Healthy the following giaiplo remedy for thia dangerous disease. Those who have passed nights of ago ny at the bedside of loved children, will trea sure it up as a valuable piece of information: "If a child is taken with croup, apply cold water — ice water if possible—suddenly and freely to the neck and ohest with a sponge. The breath ing will instantly be relieved. Soon as possible let the sufferer drink as much as it can, then wipe it dry, cover it up warm, and soon a quiet slumber will relieve the parents anxiety, and lead the heart in thankfulness to the Power which has given to the pure gushing fountain such medical qualities." Imagine the thrilling effect of a verso like the following, upon the nerves of any hard drinker, who might chance to read it on the headstone of a victim of delirium tremens : Beware of liquorl Fifty deaths I died— Losing in turn hope, energy and pride, The sense of shame, strength, will, all human feeling Ere mind and body wounded past all healing, 1 reached that goal of agony and sin, A drunkard's Grave—aud blindly staggered in. BEDFORD. PA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1860 Penngylraiia's Candidate for the Presidency. The following brief sketch outlines the .ife of oue whose steady, manly and forward oourse has clustered about him thousands of devoted friends. It is a striking commentary upon jur republican institutions. It murks the upward advance of a pcor, friendless, earuest boy to a position to be coveted by the noblest und proudest iu our land. It tells its own story. — A life like that here so succinctly detailed, speaks many words of good cheer to him who is struggling onward in his honest poverty. — Energy, integrity and intellect here have their reward—such qualities cauoot but succeed.— To every young man dependent upon his own j resources for success, this sketch has its own message, it is the plaiu lesson ol what may be won and accomplished when high purposes rule the heart and conduct. For here is the illustration ol the power of a strong and faith ful man's efforts to lift himself up from penury and obscurity to wealth aud honor. To the patient and the toiling such u life has its | teaching of hope aud advancement. And this little history is but a glauce at the career of him who, always true-hearted, has won the proud title of "the poor man's friend and Pennsylvania's champion of the rights of la bor Geu. Kmon Cameron was bom in Laucastor county, cnnsylvania. Reverses and misfor tune; ir iiis father's family oast bin; very early in life a the world, to shape and carve out bt> own fortune. After having removed to Sun bury in Northumberland Co., his father uiod while Simon was yet a boy. In 1817 ho came to llarrijsbui r and bound himself as an appren tice to the p rioting business, to James Pea cock, Esq., wdo is still a resident of llariis burg, and one of our most worthy and respect ed citizens. Duriug this time he won the re gard and esteem of Mr. Peacock and all his fellow workmen by his correct deportment, his industry, intelligence and faithfulness. His days were devoted to labor and his nights to study. Having completed bis apprenticeship, ( he went to Washington city, and was employed : as a journeyman printer on the National in-1 telltgencer, under Gales & Seaton, between whom anu Geu. Cameron there sprung up a friendship that has contiuued till the preseut day. When elected fo the IT. States Senate ti a Democrat, he always voted for tL;sd gen tlemen as printers to the St-nate, even agaiust candidates of his own party. Returning to Harrisburg, he purchased an iuterest in tho Pa. lutelligencer, and thus within two years of the termination of his apprenticeship be was part proprietor aud editor of the paper upon which he had learned his trade, and the load ing Democratic journal in the State. Aud whoever will examine the editorials of that paper, writteu more than thirty years ago, by Gen. Cameron cannot fail to discover a marked degreo of ability and sagacity display ed by the young editor, iiis furtune whatever it may be, is the result of his industry and uc aided enterprise ; for except a loan of §4OJ when ho began business, from a relative, biro, solf comparatively poor, he never had any pe cuniary assistance from any one. That rela tive still lives, a very aged man, whom GSL. Cameron has for more than 40 years visited annually, as a duty. Iu 1834, though scarcely of competent age be had attained such a position and influence that his party, then in tho ascendency in tie Congressional district, proposed to uemiua.e him for Congress, an honor which ho prompty declined, as iuttrfering with the enterprise iu which he was then engaged. He was appoin ted Adjutant General of tho State in 1828, in office which he filled creditably duriug Gov. Shultz's term. And in 1831, unsolicited, he was appointed by Gen. Jackson, as a visitor to West Point, a compliment, at that time, tn dercd only to the most Dromiuent citizens. To no single man within her borders is Penn sylvania more indebted for her great systems of public improvement and public instruction. Through his paper, and by his personal exer tions and influence, ho sustained and encoura ged these great meaus of wealth and progress. Nor did he hesitate to invest his own mrans, | when prosperity aud fortune dawned upon him, in enterprises of groat public importance. In 1834 he originated aud carried to suecesful completion, tho Harrisburg, Mount Joy and Lancaster Railroad, surmouutiug difficulties aud prejudices which would havo appalled and 1 paralyzed a man of ordinary energy and de termination. In 1838 he was nominated tor Congress, but declined. He was engaged iu public enterprises from which ho would not permit himself to be drawn aside, by any rou siderations of office or personal elevation. In 1851 ha was uiaiuly instrumental in the forma tion of the Susquehanna Railroad Comjiny, now consolidated with tho Northers Ceiiral Railway, by which the Capital of the tftate, and all our improvements with those ol the State of New York There was still another link wanting to form a direct and continuous Railroad from this point to New York <jty, the great commercial metropolis of tho Uiiou. Gen. Cameron's praotical mind soon suggeited the mode aud manner of supplying this aant; and the Lebanon Valley Railroad Cotn|aoy was organized and that Road built, and low consolidated with the Philadelphia and Had ing Railroad. In 1832 Gen. Cameron was elected Oaslier of the Middletown Bank, a position whirhbo held for tweuty seven consecutive years, tie that about the year 1854, he was at the suae time President of the Suaquebauua Rail&ad Company, President of the OoonnonwetHh Insurance Company, President of the Lebanon Valley Railroad Company, and Casher of the Middletown Bank, besides being Direotor and Manager in several other institutions, and a large private business of his own to mauage and superintend. Yet notwithstanding the vast labor and responsibility of these positions, he performed the duties of tbem all satisfactorily and successfully. When Mr. Buchanan was called into Presi dent Polk's Cabinet in 1845, Hon. George Woodward was the csuous nominee of the Democratic party, as his successor, and that party had a majority of 17 or 18 on joiut. bal lot ; yet Gen. Cameron, by the joint votes of Whigs and Democrats, was elected to the U. S. Seuate. It was the most eloquent tribute that could have been paid to the ability aud worth of any mau. The Campaign of 1844 aroused probably a bitterer party feeling than ever existed in the State, yet we find within a few short months afterwards, the representatives of both political parties united upou him as the most proper and fitting exponent iu the Senate of the U. S. of the sentiments and the represen tatives of the interests of Pennsylvania.— When the President aud party at the following session determined to violate all the pledges made to the people of this State on the subject of protection and to strike down her industry by the repeal of the Tariff of 1842, he never for a moment faltered iu his course. Party proscription could dot deter, tho blandishments of office could not seduce bim from the path of duty and fidelity. With au ability aud cou~ which surpassed his opponents, and v me admiration of bis friends, he resisted to the last the perpetration of this gieat wrong to his native State. Aud such was the suc cess of his efforts, that it was ouly by the de fection, to call it by uo harder name, of oue of Pennsylvania's own sons, that her bumili ttiou was accomplished. Gen. Cameron was again eleeted to the Sen ate of the United States in 1857. The Demo crats again had a majority in the Legislature. The nominee of the part_, was Uol. John W. Forney, who, as leader of the Democratic hosts, just had emerged from the catupaigu of 1856, covered all over with glory, and had moreover all the influence of Mr. Buchanan the President elect, to sustain him. From the earliest agitation of the questions connected with negro slavery Gen. Cameron has sympathised with the North. As an edi tor, more than thirty years ago, he took his position against the extension of human slavery ovor free territory. While he was at all times willing to concede to the South all their just ri 'Lts and privileges under the constitution, be had ever resisted the increase and extension of slavery. And when the Democracy of the North abandoned this just and national position and eutercd upon a crusade with the South, for the spread of tho "particular institution" he aban doned that party associated himself with the Opposition to the Democracy. Of the course of Gen. Cameron since bis last election it is unnessary to speak; suffice it to say, that it has commanded the teepoct of his opponents, and inspired the confidence of bis friends. Few members of tbat body are held personally in higher regard and esteem by men of all parties The same industry that has characterized him through life, distinguish es him there. His quiet unobstructive manner —his affable and courteous deportment—his fidelity and courage—his liberal and genial hospitality win for him tho high personal re gard in which he is held by all his acquain tances. Compelled from early youth to depend on bis own exertions, accustomed to a life of eoustaut labor, the habit of self-reliance—un iemittiug industry with never failing resources are his distinguishing traits. No man poros es clearer ideas or firmer convictions ou all the great questions of the day, none is more respectful or deferential in the utterance ol them, or more determined iu aohering to them. When be writes or speaks it is always with u full and clear apprehension of his subject, aud his power of concentration is such as to com press his ideas into tho smallest compass of words without cither obscuring their meaning or impairing their force. In Pennsylvania he is regarded as the cham pion of her peculiar interests. Identified as he has been from early boyhood with her sys tem of labor and development, ho understands fully all her wauts, aud sympathises with all her wishes. Nor has he alone encouraged and sustained her general aud public interests, but her indi vidual labor aud enterprise has often felt bis helping hand. Hundreds of her citizens new prospering in business, owe their fortuue and prosperity to the aid aud encouragement re ceived cf General Camoron in their early struggles. With the record of such a life before him, without leproach in his puolio career, and with out a stain upon his private character, is it strange or surprising that the people of Penn sylvania, almost as with ODe voice, should seek to attest their admiration of the man by claiming for hioi tho highest honors of the country/ Should that claim bo responded to, wo doubt not that his native State will testify its appreciation of his worth and fidelity by such at vote lift no candidate ever receive from her people. Aud should ho be elected to the high office of President, wo feel warranted in saying that Lis administration would be marked by the samo wisdom and saga.ity, by the same patriotism and devotion the great interests of the country, that has fjitinguish od him through life in all his relatious,- as a citizen and a statesman. The editor of an Indiana paper says,'more villainy is onjoot.' We supposo tbo editor has lost his bo.-se. PYEMIC ELM. (Specimen of the Contents of tho new work by the editor of the "Louisville Journalen titled PRKNTICEANA, just published, and which will be sent, postpaid, on receipt of Una Dollar, by DERBY & JACKSON, Publishers, New York.) The editor of a western paper recently fan cied himself 'a live ox:' but since oar rough haudling of him,he is beginning to conclude that he is only jerked beef. The 'Southern Mercury' say that Mr. P. O. Thomas 'has received his commission as Post master.' 8o there's a post —office gone to P. O. T. A Newbern paper says that Mrs. Alice Day of that city was lately delivered of tour sturdy boys. We know not what a Day may bring forth. A lady correspondent, who professes to be horrified at the iudelicacy of our paper, threat ens for the future to set her foot ou every copy she sees. She had better not. Our paper has i's iu if The common opiniou is that we should take good care of childrsu at all seasons of the year, but it is well enough ia winter to let them slide. A party of our friends, last week, chased a fox thirty-six hours. They aotually "rau the thiDg into the ground." Mrs. Charity Perkins, of New Orleans, came near dying of poison a few days ago. A sister of Charity was suspected of having administer ed the dose. A. K. says that He expects to be able in a short time to pay everything he owes in this world. Ay, but there's a heavy debt that he has got to settle iu the other world. The:e"U be the Dtvil to pay. Mr. Z. Round, an old and valued friend of ours, was recently elected magistrate iu Wis cousiu. That, wa suppose, is what our Wis consin friends consider squiring a circle. A Mr. J. Black, declares for the dissolu tion of the Union. Let him have a traitors re ward: "Hung be the heavens with Black." The Ohio River is getting lower and lower every day. It has almost ceased to run. All who look at it can at once perceive that it ex hibits very little speed, but a great deal of bot tom. Mrs. Lucy Hill complains, in an Arkansas paper, that her nephew has trampled upon her rights and feelings. The graceless young ras cal shouldn't he allowed to trample upon his aunt Hill, A Canadian paper mentions the marriage of Mr. Joseph Sterling to Miss Anne Sterling.— Love strokes arc not usually severs, hut this one, it is plain, has knocked an t out. A Mr. Bentley has beeu indicted in Alabama for striking a stranger with an axe. He says he did'nt know hut tuat the stranger was a rob ber. Ho didu't know, so he axed bim. A quizzical editor in Arkansas, who rejoices in the rather quizzical uame of Harry Hurry, says that 'truth is generally slow progress.' Probably it is ucver in such a Hurry as be. A man in our State, who attempted to hug a beautiful young woman, Miss Lemon, Las sued her for striking him in the eye. Why should a fellow squeeze a Lemon unless he wauts a puLch * Mr. and Mrs. Brewer, of Wayne County, have twenty-two children. Thoirs is, perhaps, the most extensive brewery in the West. The 'Beaver Argus' records the marriage of John Coburn, only three feet high. No wonder he wanted to get spliced. A man named J. S. Bill has set up a shaving shop in one ot our westeru cities. We know him of old. Wheuevcr he takes off bis beard, bo shaves a bad Bill. An impudent annonymous correspondent, signing himself 'Ned Bucket,' expresses the wish that we were dead. Very well—let him show himself in person, and we pledge ourselves to 'kick the Bucket.'' A Southern lady has abandoned the Sbaker establishment Dear Uopkiusville. to marry Mr. James Beau, aged seventy-five. She must be fond of drid beans. A handsome young fellow in New York, in great distress for want of money married last week a rich old woman of seventy. He was no doubt miserable for want of money, and 6b6 to!* want of a husband; and 'misery makes strange bedfellows.' A father and son, Anthony and Thomas Screw escaped on the 25th ult., from the Wetumpka jail. There are two Screws loose. A lady in Montreal, on the Ist, recovered $2,000 of a Maj. Breckford for hugging and kissing her rather roughly. She out to set a high value on the money she got it by a tight squeeze. EXTRAORDINARY DAY'S WORK One of the greatest feats of manual labor ever achiev ed, within our knowledge, was performed yes terday, by Mr. Thomas Ram bo, blacksmith, of this city. During the usual working hours, that is, from 7' A. M. to 12 M., and from 1 to a quarter to 6, P. M.—9{ hours—he forged two hundred and twenty-five horse shoes! Of this number, twenty-seven were turned out in the first hour. This feat, by hand, would ap pear impossible, and is almost incredible, but Mr. Estrbo did it, and who oan beat him? On Saturday, Bonj. Gehres, in Liberty alley, between Third and Fourth street, made 245 horse-shoe nails in six'y minutes by the clock, without any assistance but bis hammer. The work was done in the preaenee of several spec tators, who were astonished at tho rapidity and •kill-whicb it exhibited. — Reading Gaz. VOL. 33, NO. 7. A Si'icr LETTER.—One Col. Morrison, of Illinois, recently made a villainous verbal at tack upon the gallaGt Col. Bissell, at present tbe Republican Governor of that State. The Governor, who is uuro popular and as much respected as aDy other man in the State, oloses his letter to his assailant thus: I< l uevea lure been guilty of secretly muti lating and destroying the public records iD a Recorder's office, in order to strengthen uiy owu trumped up claim to a coveted piece of land. "I never wrote letters over fictitious signa tures to a helpless and distant widow, depreci ating tbe value oi her land that I might buy it at one tenth its value. "1 never attempted to frighten or swindle a family of honest and respectable orphan chil dren, by pretending that their father's title to the farm he had left them wes defective and void, in order to get & chance to buy St at a tithe of its value. Nor did 1 ever falsely pre tend to children similarly situated that I had a valid tax title to the land left by their ft ther, in order to boy it in the same way. These are practices, tricks, to which I Dever descend ed. Had 1 done so, then might tbe honest old Ranger, Gov. Reynolds, have well said of me as he did of Col. Morrison. 'lf that man man ages to keep out of the penitentiary for twenty years, he will be the richest man in Illinois. "Nor is there aught in the Land Office rec ords of tbe State, the reading of which need cause me to blush. No one can real, in those records opposite my name, 'forgery,' •forgory,' 'perjury,' 'perjury,' 'subornation of perjury,' subornation of perjury,' &c., 4e. Were the fact otherwise, thou I, too, might boast of my 30,000 acres of land, and be able to offer §lOOO for the letters of my neighbor." W.u. H. BISSEI.. Springfield, Jan. 6, 1860. The New York Courier, alluding indignaat ly to the expulsion of John Gr. fee, and oth ers, from Madison County, Kentucky, very for cibly remarks: "Is there a record in any civilized country, of any such outrage as this? It paralleled by auy act of opprearion in Aus'ria or Hunga ry? But disgusted and outraged as we are by this whole proceeding, the Southern Press is necessary for the preservation of the institu tion of slavery ;n the slavtyholtling States.— And yet with this admission, they cooly ask as to permit slavery to be extended into the Ter ritories. Of course the sole object in goingc there, is to make the Territories slave States. And what then? Why slavery can only be protected in slave States precisely as it is now protected in the existing slave States. That is by punishing with tar aud feathers ev ery maD who dare express a feeling in opposi tiod to it, aud driving him from the State-, and by sending forth whole communities who do not happeu to consider slavery a religious in stitution. and a blessing to all who partake of it." The plain matter of fact is that tLe slave power not only demands that all the Southern region, of uiiid and genial climate and rich soil, shall be entirely given up to the oontroi of the institution which thus crushes our or tramples down all freedom of utterance or even of though*, but insists that the Northern majority shall not only permit, but has no right to prevent its going iuto all unorganized territory. Is it not so! Go is Lamas !—Oil and after the 29th of Febru ary inst., the ladies will be fully authorized to com mence making love t# any gentleman they may deem worthy of their bands, hearts and fortunes.— Tbi year is called leap year, because it is the lady's privilege to 'leap' into the arms of the matt she fancies To prove this, we quota from an old work, printed in 1660, entitled "Courtship, Love and Matrimonie." In the chapt.r eutitled "Wbeu ye girles shall sparke ye menne," the learned auth or thus speaks: "Albeit, it is nowe a pari ye Common Lawe ID regard to ye social relations of life, that as oft u as every bosextile year doth return, ye ladies have ve sole privilege during the whole tinrait continueth of making love unto ye men, which tiioy may do either by words or looks, as unto them it seemeth proper ; and moreover, no man will be eutitled to ye benefit of clergy who doth refuse to accept ye offer of a la lye, or who doth in any wise treat her proposal with slight or contumely." Therefore, ladies, you must comply with the law, and, bringing your captives up to the altar, give them the benefit of clergy. WHO AllE THE TRAITORS 1 It will be observed by the proceedings in U. S. Senate, that the Deuioorats have formal ly endorsed the position taken by Gov. YV ise and Mr. Falkuer, that the election of a Re publican President would justify "the seizure of Harper's Ferry Aru-ory" and armed resis tance to the Federal Government. This they have done by confirming Mr. Faulkner as Min ister to France. The issue was distinctly made, and several Democratic Senators made speech es sustaining Mr. Faulkner's views and de claring their concurrence iu toem. e are gratified to see that the Republicans were all on the side of Union, and Older. Here* after, let it be remembered that the Democrats have recorded themselves in favor ot commit ting the same crime for which John brown was hung, and in favor of armed resistance to the will of the majority constitutionallyxpreasci. A BEAUTIFUL REPLY.—A pious uiiu WAS one day walking to the sanctuary with a New Testament in his hand, when a friend who mot hiua said. 'Good morning, Mr. Prioo. 'Ab, good morning,' replied he: 'l aui read ing my Father's will as I walk along. 'Well, what has he left you?' said his t r,en ; 'Why he has bequeathed me a hundred fou, more in this life, and iu the world to come lite everlasting.' This beautiful reply was the moans of com forting his Christian friend, who was at t'uo Umo in sorrowing uircumstauoes.
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