BY DAVID OVER. fyntlty. .4IV ETEKLVG PRAYER. %T SIR THOMAS BRaWNE. The night is come, like to the day. Depart not thou, great God, awiy. Let not my sins, black as the night. JteKpso the lustre of thy light- Keep still in my horizon, for to me The hqs makes not the day, hut Theo. Thou, whose nature cannot sleep, On nay tetnples sentry keep; Guai d toe 'gainst those watchful foes Whose eyes are open while mine close. Let no dreams my heart infest. But such as Jacob's temple's blest: While I do rest, my soul advance. Make my sleep a liolv trance, 'Chat 1 may, my rest being wrought, Awake into some holy thought, An 1 with as retire vigor ran My course, as doth the nimble sua. Sleep is a death ! f), make me try, By sleeping, what it dre; And a,* seuMy l*y sayl'md * * ' On my grave, as now my bed. Howe ep I rest, neat God let ma Awake again, at last with Tiiee; And, thus assured, behold I lie Securely, or to wuks or die. These are my drowsy days—>n vain I do now wake, to sleep again. Oh! come that hour, when I shall never Sleep again, but wake forever. LINES. Dear Tom, do you remember, That calm and lovely eve, When you and May sat side by side. And Nelly tot ic ber leave She had not long goim, When Harry ha came down. And gave you apples, May, And Tom did on him frown. Oh, Tom don't be afraid, F>o not on Harry lrown, For while at Normal School, A Ltdjr fair ! " found. . a ' i#irfiiifr • -"v"'"- 'i Oh, I shall mi*? tiiee, dear oat, Sadly, miss fbee, Rosa, dear. With thy sweet face of auushlna. And" kindly words of cheer. I will often ihiak,dear Rosa. Of .all there happy hourfl", Where im. tarry hives to linger. her peaceful Vowtws- And I'll thina of thee at twilight. That cairn and peaceful boor; Wy heart afifil! />IWI "WinrteF MM* To that sweet pensive hour. 1 was thinking, dearest Rosa, Of the little walks wo took, To Hawthorn's hopeful bower, Within that shady nook. ! 'll remember what you told me. For it cheered my Imely heart, It feil like rays ot sunshine, Why then, Ross, do w-.- parti Yes, 1 shall miss thee, dear one. Sadly miss thee, Rosa dear, I cannot tusar the thought, 'Chat our separation's near. ZILEMA. Mr. Fosler and the Uenioerae} in I8;37. In 1807 there w.is a spirited contest for U. S. Senator at llarisburg which resulted in the election of Gen. (JAMFROV, several democrats preferring tiie larter to either Forrey or Foster. The democratic papeis were quite severe on ti.e "traitors," and ae nouneed them by wholesale. Among others, the Lock Haven Watchman has resnsciated some arti cles from the Ciinton Democrat, edited by 11. L. Diffenluch, now Deputy Secretary of State, the first of which is as follows .• "He {Fester; is a lawyer, has served two or three terms in Congress, and is now a member of the Leg. islature. II did not distinguish himself in either of these positions, and he may not be as able as bis friends tepresent him to be, for they have a fashion of making great men of rather scanty mate rial in the western part of the State." From the same paper of the 19th of January, 1 Soi, we find the news of the election of a United States Senator recorded as follows : "ELECTION OF A U. S. SENATOR. —Both Houses of the Legislature met in convention on Tuesday last, for the purpose of electing a U. S. Senator.— On the first ballot the vote stood: For John W. Forney, Dem., 51 " Simon Cameron, B!. Rep., til " Henry D. Foster, Traitor, 5 In the issue of the Ciinton Democrat of the 21rd of January 1857, we find the following: "This result is most humiliating. That the Dem ocratic party should labor for months to convince the people of the justness of their cause, and then to be deprived of the fruits of their victory, by the grossly indecent treachery of a few vile miscreants is as mortifying to every honest mn as it is base, sordid and villainous in the scoundrel perpetrators of the wrong.' He then adds: '-But one motive can be assigned. Ihe biso Judaseg, Foster among thorn, have been purchased like sheep." In the same paper of the satue date in another eolnnm we find the following: THE SENATORIAL ELECTION.— When we spoke of .this stmmeiul event in our last issue, our infortna •lon was derived from telegraphic dispatches, we have the full history of the occurrence now. For ney, Democrat, had 58 voter; Cameron, Republican 91; Foster T aitor. 7; and Mr. Foster himself voted fbr.Mr. Wiikius. What excuse these rascals make for tbeir treachery, or whether any, wo are nof in formed. To style them Judases is to slander old Iscariot, for though ho betrayed his Lord, be was dec-nt enough to hang himself immertiately after wards, which those traitors, we regret to say, have not as yet done. It is mockery of language to at tempt to characterize their conduct. There is noth ing meaner than an ingrate—nothing so villaiuous as a traitor, and Foster is guilty of both. The mo tive of the act is clear—no otber thin pecuniary profit." THE BOLTERS—H. D. Foster, John Faosald, S. Ilill,of Westinoreland; J. K. Galnoun.of Aruist ong; U. J. Xickolsor, of Jefferson, S. A. Backers, of -MrKcan; G. S. Smith, of Cambria; and John Cress well, jr. ot Blair, were the Democrats who refueed to attend the Democratic caucus and suppott its nominee. We look upon these men as traitors. ••Among tbc incidents of the victory of the Dem ocratic paity last tail, was the right to be represent ed ju the U: S. Striate, for the term commencing A Weekly Paper, Devoted to Literature, Politics, the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, &e., &c—Terms: Que Dollar and Fifty Cents in Advance. on the 4th of March next. The victorious party had won the righj to choose the Senator. And none but a majority could make a proper selection for the party of the legitimate fniits of its victory and cheated it out of its right. In this light the conduct of the bolters is wholly indefensible. "As to Fester himself, we know but little üboul him. We spoke of him before the Senatorial elec tion as one who bad srrved in making known to the people of the State that such a man lived. We said that he had friends in the western part of the State, who spoke of him in high turms, hut as they had a fashion of making great xnen out of small ma terial in that quarter, we did not know whether he was all he was repsented to lie. But he has now succeeded in making himself known, and no one will now tiavo much difficulty in measuring the cali bre, Bis patriotism, or his lore for the Democratic Party. His selfishness, his factiousness, his weak ness, puerility stand out conspicuously to the gaze ol the public. He lias voluntarily placed himself Ifcyoml the pale o! the Democratic fold, and there let him stand, or fall, or willow, as best suits his tastes. We admire an independent man, but des pise a puerile fsctiouist. The littleness of soul that ; mistakes unreasonable factiousness ami stubbornness I for independence, characterizes selfLh ieas under all circumstances, arid we have never seen a more , thorough exhibition of these traits than has been i exhibited by Henry D. Foster, throughout the re cent Senatorial struggle." ! There, reader, you have good Democratic testi mony in regard to the political and private Chirac j ter of Henry D. Foster, the present Democratic ! nominee for Governor; you can believe it or not.— j We give it to yon as we find it, without further com ■ isent. mi KEviuTioss: , Something for Union Stnte Convention,'" ichich m'efs in L incastet fo The Bowie knife is a chafauttg weapon to carve with, atd in tho hands of such a man as Potter, would be .. weapon to en counter. This Mr. Pgbm i:;v, I ho ; • I*wftftty:' flßr "fttfiiit'Off titsib jyh barbarous. Barbarous, indeed! Is net the whole system of dueling barbarou-? A tnan who prides himself on such an accomplish ment should not be particular as to weapons. If ho consents to be a barbarian with pistols, is he uy better than the barbarian who uses knives? The general opinion of the country will not allow Mr. Pryor fe escape through this loophole. Ho wi'.i bo strictly held to his poMtion, voluntarily assumed, and will, 'o use a term of the code, be posted as a "cow ard and poltroon" from Maine to California. Tho Covode Investigation Committee, at Washington, is opening up a mine of political rascality in high places, heretofore carefully couc*alcd from the public. The following are the prominent "ite.ua" elicited during the past week : "George Plitt testified that §7O 000 had passed through his hands, as treasurer of the democratic committee in 1856, for the purpose of carrying Pennsylvania. He said the books, vouchers and papers were all burnt, so that no evidence exists in his possession to prove how this large sum was sptut, or to show who hap pened to bo the fortunate beneficiaries. It is said (hat President Buchanan (the hypooritical author of the Du Quesne letter,) contributed five hundred dollars to tue party funds. The check wa drawn on the Lancaster Bank, Geo. Piitt, who was the Treasurer of the Pennsylva nia State Central Committee at that time, act ing under the instructions of the Committee, returned the check, in consequence of being disappointed in the enionnt. It is further stated that the President, after the check was returned, kept it in bis pocket until after the Bank failed. "A Mr. Webb testified that two men, to his knowledge, had been engaged in circulating fradulent naturalization papers, one of whom was employed on tbe Columbia road, who has since found his way into the Custom House at Philadelphia, and another, who was rewarded with a place, but is not now an office-bolder. Some of their confederates hud been sent to i tho peniteutiary. I "Isaac Yost was closely questioned in re : gard to these fraudulent naturalization papers. His testimony was of a character to implicate I several leading members of the Democratic party in Pennsylvania with this villainous bu -1 siucss, including Mr. Collector Baker and a ! Mr. Darlington, who with Baker, held respon i sible positions on the Philadelphia and Coluui ' bia Raiiroad at the time." THE TALENT OF SUCCESS.— Every UMI MUST patiently abide hi" time. He mast wait. Not in listless idleness, net in useless pastime, not in querulous dejection, but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavor, always willing, fulfilling and accomplishing bis task, "that when the occasion comes he may bo equal to the oou sion." The talent of succoss is nothing more than doing what you can do well, without a thought of fame. If it comes at all, it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after. It is a very indiscreet and troublesome ambition which cares so much about fame, about what the world sya of us, to be always looking in tha face of others for approval, to be always anxious abotft the effect of what wo do or say, to be always shouting to hear the echoes of our own voices.,—Lojurfel low. THE WALKEK KANSAS LETTER. The famou3 letter addressed by President Buchanan to Hon. R. J. Walker whilat the latter was Governor of Kausas, which Jras beeu the sobject of so much speculation and of sncli contrary assertion, has at last been brought to light through the Oovode investi gation, and appears in tho columns of the American this morning. The letter fully sus tains all that has been said ot it, and shows that tbo President at the time entirely com mitted himself to the doctrine of popular sove reignty in the Territories, though he subse quently retreated from that position and con demned Governor Walker for pursuing the very course which ho had urged upon bim. Mr/Buchanan writes to Governor Walker that his success depends upon the submission of lac Constitution to the people of Kansas." On the question of submitting the Constitu tion to the bona fide residents of Kansas, he say*: •/aoa willing to sK has a flattering dutfce of the unwashed democracy—innocent wlegates from the land of mud sills and dirt, who have dared to complain of the prospective Arjtfkm during the Uharleoroa Convention, as inconsistent with the proverbial hospitality of the sunny south. The JVews says "What has her piivate hospitality to do with such a case, an erruption upoo her of an im mense horde of men intent on their own selfish ends, and indifferent alike (o her people, their sentiments and interests ? Aud thousands ot them, too, of such character and manners, that it they were to coure here, individually, again and again it would never be thought by a respectable UIHU of our city, to admit any of them wuhin his doors. During the presence of that promiscuous crowd, the private doors of Chariestown will never have been so tightly shut and carefully guarded as theu. She will confer more watching than hosp> f a/iiy upon the "camp followers," who will come to swarui at the assembling of the National Convention," MORMON CONCUBINAGE. —On Thursday, the sth of April, the House of Representatives by a vote ef 149 yeas to 60 nays, passed a till prohibiting and Punishing Polygamy in the Territories. Squatter Sovereigns have found themselves in a bad row of stumps when called upon to vote away the right of tho people in the Territories to regulate their domestic in stitutions. In annouueiug the vote of the House upon the bill, the N. Y. Tribune re* marks, that had it not been for the evident re luctance felt by the Pro Slavery men to estab lish a precedent so fraught with peril to the "peculiar institution," (bo vote wouid have been practically unanimous. Rut the *twin relic of barbarism" held bank sixty of its trusty henchmen, though wo must say it did not rally its forces so fully as Gdelity and good policy clearly demanded. Is uot Polygamy a "pat riarchal institution f" Was it nut practiced by the wisest and greatest of the Hebrew rulers and sages? Why should slavery turn its back on its Siamese brother ? It is the cowardice of despair that counsels recreancy iu such a oase. The Herald thus describes the mode by which Mr. Douglas is to be nominated : "Mr. Douglas, then, against the field, is the candidate of his party for the CbarleiJiou nom ination, They tell us ho must aDd will be nom inated—that the Northern fire-eaters, when they smell the fat things of tha kitchen, are ready to surrender, back down, eat dirt, roll iu tho mud and shout and sing all day for Doug, las—that this Southern fire-eating hostility to Douglas is all bosh, when you bring their Sala manders within smelling distan JO ot the spoils; and that he who believes there is any sincerity, or aoy danger, or any truth, in ail tuis South ern anti-Douglas thunder aud lightening, is a fool. The fire-eaters will flob, and bluster aud cave. The Uincinnati platform, no more and no less, will be adopted ; and Douglas will be pot on it. Tuat platform can still bo in terpreted both ways. A roving young gentleman, without employ ment and money, concluded tq take to sotiool teaebiug as • means of livelihood, lie ac cordingly applied to the trustees of country school, when the following couveisation tuok place: Trustte. —"What studies do you teach V' The applicant indicated bis qualifications by the following reply j— "1 will teach tbeua any thing you waut— fforn A, B, 0, to a good game of draw-poker." He was immediately and indnotod. Hon. Thomas Oorwin did yeoman servive in the cause daring the late campaign iD Connec ticut. In a speech at Waterbnry he offered the following "argument to the ruan:" No, we were asked now to throw aside the teachings of the Constitution, to trample on its precepts, and bow down to the dictates of the demagogues. [Applause.] What did they hear from Caleb Cashing? Why, that Moses favored slavery. Moses was an abolitionist, because he killed an Egyptian white man, be cause be found bioi killing a Hebrew nigger. [Laughter.] Well what about Noah? There ws no Maine liquor law in force, so lie laid down after drinking too mucb, and had a very remarkable nautical adventure—aod so,Htm became a slave. [Roars of laughter.] What did tbe Bible say? ile would rely oo it until he got some better revelation from Caleb Gush ing or the Lord Mayor of New York. [Laugh ter.] He wouid suggest to Caleb that al though it was better fo" the negro to be a slave, it was not better for tho white tain.-- Hu would ask Caleb and tbe Lord Mayor of New York, Giro you the sons of Japbel?'— 'Yes.' 'Was Japbet a brother of Ham?'— 'Yes.' 'ls the negro a son of llim?' 'Yes.' 'Then tbe negio is your cousin.! [Laughter long prolonged.] And he would ask Caleb and the Lord May or, 'do you think it is"treafiog your oousin like a gentleman by sending his wife to Alabama, and bis children to New Orleans?' [Laugh ghtor.] He would remind tbeui that tbe ar my of tho Uoired States Marshals that pur sued the fugitives to the promised land were swallowed up in the red Sea, and that tho Fu gitive Slavo bill was repealed. [Treuic-ndous applause.] There were arguments to be found in tbe Bible for both aides. As the bubbling groan of the doomed pursuers rose up, the soDg of Miriam—the "Hail Columbia" of that day—was borne away on the wind. He should have been glad if the Lord Mayor and Caleb Cashing could have been at that soene.— [Laughter aud applause ] He would enforce all law, even the Fugitive Slave law, as tbe majority ought to rule. It was letter to obey a bad law than to have every iiiad set up for himself. WUAT IS IIK? What M Geo. Foster? Is be Leoomnton or One portion of the Democracy claim him to be the former, while the other poriion say ho is the latter.— But Gen. Foster dare not come out and say which faction he belongs to. Ho dare not open ly express his opinion on lu'iV critical question. He u not in possession of sufficient moral cour age enough to do so. It is true tiiat be is either, as it suits his interest, but to coma out openly and take au independent position, he dare not. —.Mineds Journal. 41ow can we better auswer onr Pottsville con* temporary's question than bv giving Deputy Secretary Dieffenbach's opinion of Gen. Foster iu bis paper of Jan. 9, 1857. Mr. Diffenbsch then said ; "He (Foster) is a lawyer, has served two or three terms in CoDgrcss, and is now a member of tha Legislature. He did not distinguish himself in either of these positions, and he may not be as able as his friends represent hiin to be, for they have a fashion of making great tnen of rather scanty material in tho western pait of the State. This wis said when Henry D. Foster was a candidate against Forney, for (J. S. Senator. A QUEER NOTION. —The Southern Confed eracy has the following unkiud cut at the new party, known as the "Constitutional Union party." Who will be the auctioneer selected at Baltimore ? The Confederacy says "There has another party sprung up with us> composed of fossil Whigs ami Know JYoihingSy who have assumed the title of the "Union Party." Ttiey will accomplish much good or harm, their principal object being to obtain possession of ho balance of power iu one or more States, and then sell out to the highest bidder—and as tho Democratic paity is the most liberal in its views, it cm count on thcao oession of their votes in November. AFFECTING INCIDENT. —Tho Albauy Ex* press says: "On Sunday inoroing several yoang folks were baptized at Rev. Dr.Magoon's church Tbe first person baptized was a young girl, per haps sixteen years old, in tbe last stage of con sumption. She was literally arrayed in her grave clothes, it being understood that tbe white robe iu which she was baptized was to ba worn by her when abo was placed in her cof fin. She obtained her mother's permission to be baptized, and then acquainted tho pastor with her desire. She was brought to the pool in the arms of her uncle, attended by her mother, and lifted into the arms of the pastor, who gently immersed her head, repeating the words Tho scene was very affecting, causing some of the spectators to sob with emotion. She was so far gone that it was feaied she might expire during tbe oeremcny, yet after it was performed she expressed a wish to be brought to the church in the afternoon, to partrke of the Lord's supper, which was granted. After the supper, when in auother room, she sang tbe doxolog; 'Praise God,' and when in her carriage Dr. Magoon asked her how she felt, she whis pered, 'I have fought a good fight.'" Spriogfiold, Illinois, the home of Abe Lin coln, has, for the first time in mauy years, gone Republican by an average majority of 150. The cities of the North, with very rare ex ceptions, have this year been carried at the charter elections, by the opponents of the ad ministration. So general and sweeping a suc cess bus not occurred before since 1840, and it prefigures, now, as it did then, the graud suc cess of Novetnbet. VOL. 33. NO. 18. TUERF.'S A WOMAN IS THE CASK!—' Tb Democracy are all desperately opposed to "Kuow Notbiogisui"—when it suits them,— but when it will serve their end, some of ttieiu at leas', seem as ready to use it, as the veriest disciples of "Sam" in the land would be ; —and a'case is now in point, in which Mrs. Douglass is made to figure. "Oliver Oldschool," the racy Washington correrpoudent of Philadelphia Daily .Vetcs, in his letter of March 27, remarks of it thus : The frieuusof Hun cr are gaining confidence irj his chances of getting the Charleston nomi nation, and others also think that they are im proving. It is, perhaps, not exactly fair for the former to uiemicn so freqacutly the fact that Mrs. Douglass is a Koman Catholic, and of course a regular attendant of one of the Roman Catholic Churches iu this city, where sba has a paw. This is to influence the Protestant Irish, hut they belong mostly to the Opposition.— Sorely it would not induce a single Dative born Democrat to prefer another whose first choice now is Mr. Douglass. "Fairpiay is a jewel." The following is an cx'ract from a letter to the Philadelphia Baitetin, written from Prov idence: "Mr. Sprague, the ucwly elected Governor, never has beeu identified with the Democrats, and was successful simply because of this faot. He was nominated by a large number of Re publicans. because of personal animosity to Seth Puddleford, and throughout the whole contest was supported as a conservative Re publican candidate. lodced, notwithstanding Mr. Sprague's great wealth and the business aud personal influence of his family through out the entire State, had he been supported by the Democratio party alone, he would not have come within three or four thousand votes of an election. Rhode Island, to day, on a square party issue, is good for an overwhelming ma jority for the Republicans, and will cast her electoral #ote, without doubt, for the nominee of the Chicago Convention, whoever he may be." EXCOMMUNICATION OF VICTOR EMAXCEL. The Turin correspondent of the Pressr, of Paris, says that on Friday evening, March, 17, the episcopal court of Turin, as likewise mil the episcopal courts of the kingdom, received the text of the excommunication pronounced by Rome, ou account of the annexation of the Romagoas. On Friday evening this document was takeu by the grand-vioars of Monsignore Fransoni (stiil absent at Lyon.*) to the Minister of Justice. On Saturday the Council of State, duly informed of it, declared the bull null and void, and prohibited the publication of it, on account of its not having received tbe royal exequatur. It is said that a decree i about to appear to this effeot. BONN IT—2 A KORN.— Oa the littel tow uv mi rite foot, wieh hez obsticctly resisted tucdi cle treetrr.eot: Distroyor uv mi pras! oie folly is your dad, Tite Lutes yur muther! Ageruy and pine, (Delitefut ophspring) is yure children twala And liangen on the skirts a 1000 ills as bad, On Snnda nite, drest up, to Hanner An's i go. Two opposin centiments mi sole divides, I sink in agerny—on joy's hi boss i rides, lleven in mi hart, death in that littel tow, 0 korn! wot woes wo bring upon ourselves, Bi folly. Whi wuz i not kontent 2 hav Fete uv the saini sise that nacher, oil-wise, gave? Whi did i tri ou 8s instcd uv 12s? Thowst totest me a lessen. What natur's dun Man can't impruve and better let aloan. Senator Wigfall of Texas used the follow ing language, a few days siuce, in Congress : "These northern people, of all patties, are a mean, despicable set of 6tarvcliugs, unable to seo beyond a dollar, and caring for no consid eration except money. Threaten them, and they will crouch to your feet like so many hounds. Oaly swear that you-are goiDg to dis solve the Union, and the timid creatures will get dowu on all fours, bite the dust, and kiss the rod raised to chastise them." SUGGESTIVE.—A youth in Troy,N. Y., re cently regaled the ears of his "bright particu lar" with a protracted serenade, at the close of which the chamber window opened and a small white package descended therefrom. The ena mored youth inbtantly secured the precious missive aud retired to a place of safety, and with a trembling hand proceeded to untold—a night cap and spoon. "Io shoTt, ladies and gentlemen, said an overpowered orator, "1 caa only say—l beg leave to add—l desire to assure—that I wish 1 had a window in my boson:, that you might see the emotion of my heart." Vulgar boy from the gallery:— "Won't a pain in your stomach do this time?'* A widow said one day to her daughter:— "When you are of my age you wiil be dteatu ing of a husband." "Yes, mamma," replied the thoughtless lit tle buzzy, "for tue seooud time." Jones met his friend Brown in the street Iha other day, and said to him, "I bear Robinson's married—who is she!" " Well," says Brown, "let's see—she's a hundred thousand dollars;} forget her other name. A man was mobbed the other day through a wag's saying that his wife was d 4 ily imprisoned iu an iron cage. 1? turned out tint the cage was a atee! hooped akirt. A soldier being asked if he u>ft with much hospitality in Ireland, replied, "thai bo was tbo hospital nearly all the time he was there,"