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BY DAVID OVER.
fJotlrtj.
f rom /Ae "Phtla. Bulfe'in.
THE CHORES OF THE 11X103.
"My countryman, nod all, th'tik calm y and
well upon this whole übjeori Ntfjiog vlim
bic can be lout by taking time. If there be su
object to hurry any of you, in hot hast , to a
step which you would never take deliberately
that o'jeef will be frustrated by taking time;
but n-> good object can be frustrated bs it. 1
am loth to close. We a-e not enemies but
friends. Wo must not be cm*.mien Though
pas-ion may have strained, it inu-t not brcri, j
our bands of effect ion. Ibe utystie chords ot j
memory, stretching from every battle-field an i ,
patriot gravo to every living heart and hearth
ttuae, all over ibis broad land, will yet swell
the chorus of the Uutoo, when again touched,
e surely they will be, by the better angels of
our nature."— President Lincoln's Inaugural
Address
I.
Ye sons of patriotic sires!
List to your country's call.
Nor cherish those unholy fires,
Which will but light het fall!
Hold to the glorious Union yet,
Nor sever it iu two ;
Our fathers' prayers would ye forget ?
Ye know not what ye do !
Film and united let us stand,
Nor tnadly, raslilv sever,
The golden "links our fathers planned, j
Planned to endure for ever.
11.
We'er bound by mutual ties,
No hostile bands are ours,
From where Maine's snnwv mountains rise, I
To the fair land of fl -wers.
I.o! we are one from sea to sea.
One league hinds State to Slate ;
Why haste to break such amity ?
Pause, ere it lie too late !
Firm and united let us stand, etc.
m.
From every battle-Heid,
From every patriot's grave.
By whose warm bloutl the pa*twas sealed, .
'Who died, his land to save ;
Are solemn, warning voices heard,
Of mingled grief and ieax :
What soul so dead that 'tis not stirred,
Tbosu warning tones to hear ?
Firm and united let us stand, etc.
IV.
From every hallowed spot,
Stretch Memory's mystic chords
To heart and hearth, to hail and cot,
And yet shall swill the words
Oi love and peace, the chorus grand
Of Union and the Free,
When, by our better angel's hand
Once more they touched shall be.
Firm and united let us stand, wtc.
V.
Though passion may have strained
Affection's holy band,
Oh 1 break it not, nor be profaned
The Genius of our land !
For friends and brothers still are we :
One fljg will ware o'er all.
Or o'er the corse of Liberty
Be spread, a funeral pali! .
Firm and united let us stand,
Nor madly, rashly sever.
The golden links our ftihers planned,
Planned to endure for ever !
W. L. SHOEMAKER.
—Georgetovrn, D. C., March 8, 1861.
For the Inqmrer.
MB. EDITOR :—As this has been a particular
season for speeeh making and letter writing, I
have thought, that, probably a few lines from litt/le
Berks, the Dcmoorat-.c stronghold of BcdfordCounty,
world be interesting to the readers of your piper,
and as there has been rather a lull in the storm of
Political Literature, I reckon now is about the time
for me to "pitch in." So here is to the object of
this letter at once.
On the evening of the Ist inst. Mf. Albert Smith
delivered a speech in the Cumberland Valley Ly
ceum, in which he endeavored to prove the position
of the Republican party on the Slavery qnesrion,
to be the same as that occupied by the mot re
nowned of the founders ot our government. He
quoted from speech and writings of to show
their position, and from many of our leading Re
publicans, to prove that we. as a party, cr. upy only
the same grorod as they did. To make along
stoty short, he made a Rrpubliean speech, (by the
way the first one ever made in the Township) and
proved his position as he went, and I suppose that
be prevail it rather satisfactorily, for as soon as he
was done, who jumps-up but Rev. Blair, that very
■ante Rev. Blair that yon heard of once before.—
Bat there was-wothing extraotdinary in his getting
up to make a reply, for he has a fashion of opening
bis gas-pipe on every possible occasion. I was ex
pecting to hear some great speech blowed off again,
but you see Mf. Douglas has quit making great
speeches, and this Political D. D. had to pnt in one
of his old sermons ; and it is remarkable how nice
ly it corns in play, for-tie-bad-only to insert in place
of wicked sinners , poor miserable abolitionists,
(meaning, of course, Rtpubluans) with a few di
gressions apd he bad a politic tl speech.
Now Rt-v. Johnny, to these digressions I wish
to pay some little respect, and lank your atten
tion. I intend t8 use tin- same weapons that you
did; (to this, of course, you cannot object.) I
avoided public political discussion list fall, simply,
becau-e I did not - wish to identify myself with
politics. But the impression has gona forth tbat I
was the author of a certain letter to the Inquirer,
during the last campaign. Y> u said that when you
was called upon by yot'r fellow citizens at Center
ille to address the meeting, you was hissed. I
WSMS A* THAT meeting, and sat close by you while you
as speaking and I assert posively, without fear ol
•xjDtradlction, that that assertion was an uncondi
tional falsehood. You did not sty who it was that
fciwd, but ol course you wished to make the im
prtssien that it WAS my'*lf. or some other R-.-pu -
I'-Cor J afi.-ifr-at certain pIBCSs -•••! PUT bust th.*f I
feared Kltih. you was to the UttUr O:
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that letter. I know that people thought those re- J
maik were designed expressly for me.
You w is sharp enough to carry your motion to
teeak up the Lyceum, through fear, I suppose,
that gome one would reply, and this is the reason
why I reply through Iheco'umns of the Inquirer.
Your first digression fiom the original sermon
wax, that the Republican paity by their agpressifiins
and infringements upon the ri.hts of the south bid
caused a disruption of the Union, and thereby
had cost the United States hundreds of millions of
dollars. To these flit assertions I take injections,
lor they cannot be supplied by facts. For never
in one particular Las the Republican party ever '
trampled upon any plainly written right of the ;
south. I know thai the south mis been making a j
terrible to-do about their violated rights, but I !
think they have failed to convince any sensible mm '
of the tact. They < avt been makiug uiiruasoaaltL' i
"
aud arbitiaiy demands for tiio last, iorfy years, and
they have succeeded in all until they demanded a
concessional slave code. Here is where the gov
ernment shut down on them. They made a de
mand that the nation refused to grant., and because
they could not succeed they have cut loose from
the government. This is the broad and short of ;
the whole matter. You may ran over the whole
catalogue of grievances laid down by the altruists, t
and that is just wiiat it amounts to ; and I think;
Mr. Divine that these scusations conto with very
ill grace irnm your wing of the Democratic paity.
If the south is right now it was right last spring.—
Why didn't the Douglas wing concede to the wishes I
of the southern wing ?—subscribe to the southern ;
platform auil elect a candidate on those principles, j
If the Republican party is guilty of violating <
southern rights, the Douglas party is equally gnii- !
ty. You had better swe> p clean belore your own j
door, bet .re you make accusations against other
parties. Mr. Preacher don't you think th- re is ;
something rotten iu Denmark ?
Your second degression that the extracts mad j
from were uttered before the ad option of j
the constitution. You also endeavored to impress
upon your bearers that (although you did not siv j
so distinctly) those rneu abandoned their anti- '
slavery sentiments after the aboption of the con
stitution. Although you are a preacher, I must j
tell you that when j < u say these extracts were ut
tered before the adoption of the constitution. You j
prove yourself to be either an ignoramus or a vril- !
rul pet vert er of the truth. You had better apply j
yourself to the study of our politic l history, or,
offer a few dry prayers for the express benefit of j
John Bliir, Jr., before you make any more of yonr j
spreads. -j
Your third digression w.ts, that this nation had |
only been preserved by that grt'at and glorious '
Democratic party. Oh dear! oh dear! if that it
what you constitute great and glorious, it is not to j
be wondered that you thought the Inquirer reporter i
had consigned himself to eternal infamy and dis- ;
grace. That great and glorious Democratic party I
indeed■ I would like to know wherein its glory con
sists. I suppose you would say that it consisted !
iu the way which it done up things iu Kansas ; by 1
driving legal voters frm the polls and stuffing the j
ballot boxes with spurious votes; by at tempting to j
force the Lecompton constitution through congress |
by bribing members. Probably it derived some of
its glory from the Philadelphia custom house trans
tions, the executive binding, printing, Sec., and I
have no doubt but that you think that great party
derived considerable popularity from the liberality
it showed in distributing the ready chink through
Pennsylvania to influence the elections.
But the crowning sheaf of all its greatness you
must sure It, think, has been put on during the past
winter. Your Democratic States have dissolved
their connection with the United States, that is so
far as they have the power. The very pillars of lbat
glorious party you speak of in such glowing terms,
have keen plotting treason for years past, and as j
soon as Mr. Lincoln was elected they set fire to the i
train thai had lieea laid'tor years; and almost the
entire mass of Democrats in the south, and a go> d
ly number in the north are embraced in the con
spiracy ; and those bright and shining stars in the
Democratic firmamnt stand out in bold relief be
i li>re the world, and high heaven, as perjured villains.
It is unnecessary for rue to refer to the transact ions
j of (lobia, Floyd, Toombs, and all these formerly
! great men. Their acts of villaoy are sufficiently
known to the country to exclude any necessity on
my part to refer to them. Only saved by that
glorious Democratic parly ! If tfie foregoing con
stitutes glory and greatness, I am willing to take
i my share with the reporter of the Inquires.
| I hnva no recollection when it was ever saved by
) but one democrat, and that was the time when Gen.
Jackson set his loot flit upon nullification and
killvd it dead at & single tread ; and it we had the
hero of New Orleans, or that other noble son of
Tennessee, A. Johnson, in the presidential chair
at the commencement of this revolution, we would
have -seen more than one traitor suspended be
tween heaven and earth, dangling at the rope's end.
You concluded your sermon by saying, that you
heheved the only possible plan of reconstructing
this Union was, by tne middle and western states
going with the south and throw out the New Eng
land States. Now then if that is not cool for the
season, I ant mistaken. I wonder tiow tbat propo
sition goes down with the Democrats of Cumber
land Valley and tin-State generally ? I wonder if
Preacher Blair understands the soutiiern principles
well eaough to be competent to recommend such a
measure to th peopl; of a free state ? So far us I
am concerned 1 hare only to say if the slave states
wilt not remain in the Union unless the free states
adopt their institutions, aud take slavery to bed
with litem, I say let them go to Halifax, Niggers
and all. lam content to live under our present
foriu of government, but if there is any change to
be made let the people of the entire country make
that change through their representatives in a na
tional convent.on. But lam unwilling to submit
to the mure dictation ola parcel of uu:iriuc.pb-d
slave prop tg&ndwU.
1 in a Republican from princip! •■, and I cannot
mix up wdiiugly with any such measures as you
BEDFORD, PA.. FRIDAY. MARCH 22, 1861.
recommend. Compromise yon ssy is the watch
word I Yes, compromise we must or w are gone.
I contend that the Republican party has done no
wrong to any one, and we have nothing to compro
mise for. Compromise with the old Bine Garter
himself, and he wiil take you to perdition-J! the
quicker for it. If wo are to judge the tntnre by
the past, what nid a compromise amount to?
Why just nothing at all, for it would be violated
jnst as soon as it answered the convenience of the
slave power. Ni wl wou'd 88k of Mr Fisher as i
particular compliment to the cause of truth, the
next time that he wishes any one to make n politi
cal speech he calls upon one who does not mistake
flat assertions and ungetitlemanly epithets for ar
guments.
Reserving a word for Rev. Blairs private ear—
I remain his humble servant.
T. L GROW DON'.
THE ulE'ifouS).
A THRILLING REVOLUTION ARY TALK.
G>J is everywhere! His words are on all ;
heart 9. He ;a on the battle-field, in our quiet j
tome. Praise be to His holy name.
It was on the wilds of WLsafaiekon, on the I
day of battle, as the noon-day sun came through i
the thickly clustered leives, that two men runt '
in deadly conflict, neir the reefs, which rose)
like the rocks of some primeval world, at lens* j
an hundred fee; above the dark waters of the '
VVi -sahickon.
The m m wi'h the dark, brown face and dark
er grey eye, fl taking with deadly light, and a
muscular form, el id in a blue frock -of the
lie volution—is a Continent >1 named Warren.
The other man with long, black hair, droop
ing along bis cadaverous face, is olid in the
half military costume of. a Tory Refugee.—
This is a murderer of Panli, named Dehaney.
They met by accident., and now they f-ught,
not with sword and rifle, but with loog ami
deadly hunting knives, they struggles, twitting
and twisting on the green sward.
At last the Tory is down —d >*n on the turf,
with the knee of toe Continental up>u Li
bre.at—the upraised knife hashed death in his
face!
"Quarter! I yield!" gasped the Tory, as the
koee was pressed upon h:s breast, '-Spare me,
1 yield.''
"My brother," said the p-itriot.in a tone of
deadly hate, '-my brother cried for quarter on
the nigbt of Paou, ami even a he clung to y-onr ;
knees, you struck that knife into ins heart. O, !
I will give you the quarters of Paoli?" And.
as his h.nd raised for the blow, and his teeth
were clenched with deadly bite, he p.uscd for
a moment, then pinioned the Tory's anas, and
with a rjpid stride, dragged him to the verge
of the rock, and held him quivering over tLe
abyss.
"Mercy!" gasped the Tory, turning ashy pale
by turns, as that awful gtril yawned below.—
"Mercy! 1 have a wife auu ehiid at home—spare
me."
The Continental, wim his muscular strength
gathered lor the iff ut, e>huuk the murderer once
more over the abyss, and then hissed bis bit'er
sneer in nis face.
"My brother had a wife and two children.—
1 he morning after the night of Paoli, that wife
was a widow, those children otohaos. Would
you not like o go and bog your life of that
widow au>i her otphaus?"
The proposal made by the Continental in
uioi kery ami bitter hate, was taken in serious
earnest by the terrornitricken Tory. He asked
to be taken to the widow sad her children, and
to have the privilege of begging hi life. After
a moment's serious thought, tbc patriot soldier
consented. He bound the Tory's arms Mill
■tighter, placed him on the rook again, ami lu
him to the woods. A q liet cottage, em bossed
am>ng trees, broke on tbnir eyes. They en
tered the cottage, There, beside the denolat.
hearth-stone, sat tiio widow aud her cbii
dren.
Stie st there, a matronly woman of about
thirry-ttiree years, with a face shaded by care,
a deep, dark eye, aud long black hair, lunging
in a disheveled state about her shoulders. On
one side was a 'talk-haired boy uf m>ui e.x
years, on the other side n girl one year young
er, with light blue eyes. Tue Bible —an old
and venerable volume—lay open upon the
mother's lp. And now ibe paie-fneed Tory
| flung himself upon his knees, and confessed he
| had butchered her husband on the night of
! Paoli, aud begged his life at her it-iuds.
"Spare mo lot Ibe sake of my dear rtfc and
child—"
He hid expected this pitiful moan would
| touch the widow's heart, but not oue relenting
; gleam softened ber face. i
"The Lord shall judge between us," she
sai 1 in a cold icy tone that froze the murderer's
heart. "L'.ok, the Bible is iu my lip; I will
| close the volume, and ibis boy shall open it,
1 and'pl .ce his linger at random npou a Hue, aud
by that you sh ill live or die."
This was a strange proposal, made in good
faith of a wild and dark superstition of olden
ti:u-8. For a uioiutiit the lory, tiale as ashes,
wis wrapped in deep thought then iu a iaiut
iug Voice he siguitfed his enseut.
Rataing ber dark eves to licavn, the mother
| prayed to the Great Father to direct tae finger
of her son. She closed the book —she handed
it to that boy whe cbc< k reddened with loatf
icg as he g- zid upon his father's muraerer.—
He took (he Bible, opened its pages at ran lout,
and placed his linger on a verse.
Thute wis silenon, Tue Continental sol-
I dicr, who had sworn to avenge bis brother's
death, stoou witn dilating eyes and parted lip-.
Ihe culprit kneeling upon tie floor, with his
face like discolored clay felt his heart leap tj
his throat.
Tnen in H clear, bold voice, tko widow read
this line #roui the Old Testauiont. It r-. short,
yet terrible;
"Tuat man shall die!"
I Link! the brother pring forward topluosel
| s kdife into the murderer's heart, but the tory
pimoned s he is, el in us to the wi low's knees.
He bees thst on more trial may bs made hv
the little girl that child of five years old with
the maiden hair and laughing eyes.
The w-dow consents There is art swful
panae. With a smile in her ey, without know
ing what she was doing, the little girl opens
the B hie. as it lay on b°r mother's knee; she
turned her face away and placed hor finger up
on line.
I tie awful silence grows deeper. The deep
drtwn breath of tho brother, and broken gasp
of the murderer, alone dtstu-b the stillness
| the widow and dark haired hoy were breathless
rhariittle girl, as she caught a feeling of awe j
fiom those about her, stood breathless; her f ice
tnrued nsi-le, ,md her tiny finger resting on the
j litis of life nd dc*tb.
\' length gal hiring courage, the widow bent
Jhe r eye upon the page and road: It was a line
; from the New Testament.
"Love vour enemies."
Oh, book of terrible majesty and child like
love—of sublimity that cru.hes the heart with
| rapture, you never shone more strongly thin
j there in tdat lonely cot of the tVissohickon wb?n
: you nove l the murdprer's heart.
Now look lfw wottdeiful are the ways of
heaven. Th*t very night as the widow sat by
her firpsi le, s>t there with a crushed heart and
h"t ej ('litis, thinking of her husband who now
lay mouldering on the drenched soil of Paoli
there was a tap at tne door She opened it,
and that husband, living, though covered with
W"O r <ds, was in ber arms.
lie had fallen at Paoli, but not in death, he
was alive, and his wife lay panting on his
bosom
That night thnre was a prayer iu the wooJ
embowered cottage of WUsahickcn.
PETER GARTWRIOHT—A remarkable cba
rp£"T wa Peter Cartwright. He was a great
snti-s'iverv man and s'ruck right and left to
all who opposed him. Out dav, on approach
ing a ferry across the rivor Tll : noi<, he heard
the ferryman swearing terrih'y at tho sermons
of Peter Gtrtwright, and threatened if ever
lie htd to ferry 'be preacher -ro=s. and knew
him h° wou'd dr.nvn him in the river. Peter,
unrecognized, said to the ferryman:
"-riranger, I want yon to puf me across."
"Wait till I am readv," said the ferrvman,
ni, V pu-i-fcd bis conr-rsation and atrictures
npou Piter Uartw ight. Having finished.
' he turned to P ter and sai l:
! "Now I'll pnt ynu across."
Oti reaching the middle of the stream Peter
threw his horse's bridle over a in the
boat, and told the ferryman to let go his pole.
"What for?" oeked the ferryman.
) "Well, you've just been using luy name
irnproperlike: and said if ever 1 eatno this way
you would drown aic. Now you've got a
chance."
"Is yonr nam# Peter Ctrtwright?" asked
the ferryman.
♦■My name is Peter Uartwright."
Instantly the ferryman seized tho preacher;
hut he did not know Peter's strength; lor
Peter instantly seized the ferryman, one band
lon the uapc of his neck and the other at the
I seel of his trowser®, and plunged him in the
water, saving
"I baptize thee (Splash) in the name of tho
devil, whose ehiid thou art "
Then lifting him up, Peter added:
"Did you ever pray?"
"No."
"Thn it's time you did."
♦'Never will," answered the ferryman.
Splash! splash! and the ferryman is iu tbo
depths again.
"Will von pray now?" asked Peter.
The gasping victim shouted:
"1 will do anything you hid tne."
"Then follow tue: "Our Father which rt
in Heaven,' &•; " Having anted as clerk,
reputing after Peter, the ferryman cried:
"Now let me go."
"Not yet," said Peter, "you must make
three promises:— Fir-t, that you will tepeat
that prayer, morning and evening as long as
you live; secondly, that you will hear every
pioneer preacher that comes within five miles
of this ferry; and thirdly, that you will put
every Methodist preacher over Iree of expense.
Do you premise and vow?"
! "I promise," sail the ferryman.
Andstr nga to say, that man afterwards
beoame-H shining light.
LINCOLN BECOMING PERSONALLY A FAYO
RITK AT WASHINGTON.—A Washington letter
! writer says:
Mr. Lincoln is becoming a great favorite
; among all classes. He is at ouce prudent
and affable, and his dctneatter is so frank,
courteous and free from official rigidity that
i he bids fair to win a universal popularity,
j His very angularity aod awkwardness are like
ly to become tbe mode, aDd please much mote
than the white oboaker and gold-beaded cane
dignity of his venerable predecessor. His
faee, though not haudsotue, has a pleasant and
intelligent expression, and the reason fot tbe
ugliness of some of bis portraits is, as be fa
cetiously alleges, beeause tboy are ♦'devoid of
his accustomed grace." A st-uy is current
which shows the improving effect of his whis
kers. A visitor who bad uiet hun last summer
called at Willard's on Sußday night, and was
1 presented to the President to the Presideut
eb ct and Mrs. Ltueoln. Not catching Mr.
Lincoln's name, he sat down to talk with Mrs.
Lincoln. By-and-Oy he began to talk of Mr.
i Line In as if he wero uot present. "I am
the Mr. Lioepin you arc spoukitjg of," inter
rupted tli-t geutleuiaD. "You are!" exclaim
ed tfie strattger. "Why 1 did'ot know you.
, Wuat a han tsume man your whiskers have
ui.de of you!" The way the PresHKut laugh
ed showed how highly be enjoyed the mistake.
A QUEER PEOPLE.
Chambers' Journal, di<cu-<sing a recent book
j of missionary travels in Africa, thus alludes to
one of the ttibes which are fuuod in that terra
incog nita:
"But the strangest of all aro the stories told
of the Dokns, who live amoug 'ho moist, warm,
bamboo winds to the south of Kaff-t and Susa.
Only four feet high, of a dark olive color, sav
age and naked, they have neither houses nor
tempies, neither fire nor horn to food. They
live only oo ants, mice and serpents, diversified
by a few roots and fruits; they let their naiis
giow long, like talons, the better to dig out
| ants, and the more easily to tear in pieces their
; favorite snakes.
|" "They do not marry, but live iodiscrimina
| tive lives of animals, luulriplvirig very rapidly,
' and with very little material instinct. The
I mother nnres her child for only u short time,
; accustoming it to eat bud n i serpent* a* soon
as possible; an 1 wh*n it can help itself, it
wanders away wiaere it will, and the mother
thinks no more about it. The Dokog are iu
valuablo as slaves, and are taken iu large num
bers. Tho slave-hunters hold up bright col
ored olothes as soon as they coate to the moist,
warm, hamboo woo ls where these human tuon
! keys live, and the poor Dokos cannot resist the
, attractions offered oy such superior people.—
j They erowd round them, and are takeD in taoo
; sands.
'ln slavery they are docile, atttohed, obe
dient, with few wants sod excellent health.—
Tbey have only one fault—a love of ants, mice
and serpents, nd a habit of speaking to
with their heads on the ground, and their heels
in the air. Yer th-jie i- idea of a superior power,
to whom they talk In this comics! nature when
they are dispirited or angry, or tired of aots
and snakes, and leuging for unknown food-
The Ookos seem to come nearest of all people
yet discovered to that terrible coustu of human
it) —the ape."
BELOW THE ATLANTIC.— Soundings in the
Ailautic have been particularly pushed for
ward, aud have excited, on account of the tel
egraph "able, more general interest tban any
other yet taken. The*' have revealed the fact
that ai least two hundred miles from the coast
of Ireland the water is still shallow; or, in
other words, that there is another Ireladd
only waiting to be raised—thus reversing the
famous panacea for keeping the country quiet.
1* is just beyond this that the true Atlantic
betiii9, the gulf suddenly sinking to 9000
feet. Thus Ireland may one day h-.ve a coa-t
as high as tho A'ps. The whole fl or of the
Atlantio is paved with a soft, sticky substance,
called haze, nine tenths censis'ing of very mi
nute animals, many of them mere lumps of
jelly, and many thousands of thetn could float
with ea-<e in a drop of water, some resembling
toothed wheels, others bundles of spine or
threads shooting front a little globule. Some,
however, are endowed with the property of
separating flint from the sea- water—which is
mors than uy chemist could do; and there
ate hundreds cf square miles covered wi'h
skeletons of the*e little creatures. Fart of
this haze is doubtless from the clouds of rain
duat whioh rises from the vast steppes of South
America in su'-h masses as darken the *un,
and make the animals fly to shelter, and which,
altet sweeping like a simoom over the country,
lose themselves in the "steep Ariantic." N<>
bones have been found of the larger animals,
so tbat the krakcti snd sea-serpent might sleep
their last sleep, and leave not a bone or a
vertebra to tell the trier Not a mast or an
chor, not u block or stand, not a coin or keep
sake has bven found to testify ot the couutle-s
gallant ships nd more gallaut men who have
gone down aiuid the pitiless waves .—AH the
Year Round.
Tnr NEW-BORN AND THE DEAD —Lsvater
in his 'Physiognomy,' m.kos the following cu
rious remarks: "I hive bad occasion to observe
some infants immediately on their birth, and
have found an astonishing rsembliice be
tween their profile aDd that of their father
A few days after, resemblance almost entirely
disappeared, the natural influence of the air
and food, and probably ths change of posture,
hid so altered the design of tho face, that yon
oould have beleived it a different individual.
I afterwards saw two of these children die,tbe
one at six weeks, and the otber at four years
of age and about twelve hours after ibeir
death, they completely recovered the profile
w.iich had struck me so u>ucb t their birth;
ouly the pr-ifiie ot the dead child was, as might
be expected, more strongly walked and more
terse than that of the living. The third dav
tb-a resemblance begun t* disappear. 1 knew
a man of fitty years, and another of seventy,
b<> It of whom, when alive, appeared to have
no manner of resemblance to their children,
and whose physiognomies belonged, if I may
so express myself, to a totally different class,
lwo days after their death the profile of one
became perfectly conformed to that of his el
dest son, and the image of the otber might bo
tiaeed in the third of bis sons. The likeness
was quite as distinctly marked as tbat of the
cbilures, who, immediately after their death,
brought to tuy recollection the physiognomies
which they had at their birth.
A young lady, who was employed in braiding
a guard-chain for a gentlemau's wateh, was
askec what tt was for. "A bill-rope, sir,"
teplied she. "I acknowledge it is a 6r//e- fo pe,"
rejoined b", "and a pretty oue, too, but I sus
pect we .■-hail find a beau attached to it wbcu it
ts finished."
All idea of "reconsiruotii.n" is sleadilv re
sisted and denied by the leading politicians in
tue See diug S:aius, aud they affirm that in at
I usi tout or live ot these St ates. uotlsing could
luduoe a return to the Uutori—no compromises,
no coocosstous, no ajusimcnt.
VOL. 34, NO. 12.
"GOT A BABY."—"A WL! spring of joy"
b-*s| l )eeo opened tn the bou*e of our co'empor iry,
the editrr of the L'lgratipe |Mo.) American, and
tin oooeqnt n*e i- the editor is so delit.b ed. be
don't know wbieb end bo is stauding ou. Just
listen t him;
♦•Last Wednesday afternoon, to us a child
wis horn," "but uot a son w<s given. We feel
proud of our thy—it is so pretty and sweet,
so our better half says. I f is a girl, of course
—our wife wanted a girl, so wo gave np to ber
—the times bring too hard to split the dif
ference, and have a girl and boy bath at once.
Our time will cotno next—sec if it doo't.—
Our baby weighs eight pound", and'all the la
dies say that it is such a pretty little aogel,
and looks jnst like its papa. Of eourc every
body will know it is pr'ty when it resembles
us. It has black eyes, dark h-rir, and the sweet
est little f 'ce, and the way it can cry is a cau
tion to a Calliope— but then its little voice iff
so charuiiug producing such harm' ny of sweet
sounds. It was the first time that we ever
heard our baby's voice, and whit a tbrili of
happiness did that little voice sen i through our
bosom.
"But we aro too happy to express our feel
ings- We are at least two feet taller that, we
were before our baby was born, and think oar
selves good enough to become a preacher.—
We pity everybody th at hasn't got a baby, and
as for old bachelors we entertain a sovereign
contempt for them, and intend to lain the first
one that presumes to have the effrontery to
speak to us. Poor oid maids' from the bottom
of our hearts we feel sorry for thetn. Ob, that
they could only realize tb> ; bappiuess of a young
mother with her first born. Young men, and
young ladies, 100, our advice to you ik, "Go
thou and do likewise—it wiil make you feel so
bappy to have a La'iy. We warn everybody
not to inult us, for we feel big enough ud
strong enough to whip every one of the seceding
Sates back into the Uuioo, and a single man
wouldn't be a taste tor us. We are doubly souud
OB the Union i-sue now. We uenr iuteud to
• .•cede from our baby.
FOOD OF THE JAPANESE.—The Japanese are ,
abundantly supplied with the means of subsist
ence. Jiy planting new crops before the old
is hsrveeted, they get three aod four courses
a year from the smte field, while the soil is
constantly fed with manure to meet this heavy
fax upon i's fertil ty. Their waters abound in
fi-h- Among the different auimrils killed for
game are the wild boar, deer, monkey, jackal,
rabbit, squirrel, bear, porcupine, &e. The
birds for food aro geesp, docks, phasants,
partragei, ad many others. Beef nd rat
fl"sh are here eaten not as food, but as med
icio* for the cure of diseases. We are daily
fiudmg out something new or strange about
this people, and very probably we siitll find
several years' residence nece.-e ry to uitke u
acquainted with ail their habits —Correspon
dence Alia Calif or nian.
THE TWO I'KEEIDINTS.—L>avis and Lincoln
were t>o'b horn in Kentucky, in 1803 an<ilßo9,
respectively—botb left their native State in
childhood's days; one emigrated North, the
other South; both served in the Indian war of
the West; both commenced their political
careers about the same tune, being President
electors in the election of 18-14—Davis for
Polk, and Liucoln for Olay—both elected to
Oocgiess about tho same time, "45 or '46, and
were in tho name year, and almost the saute
day, called to preside over their respectivo
governments—one aa President of the Uni
ted States, the other as President of the
Confederate States of America, One the rook
upon which a nation has split, the otber the
corner sfnoe of a new republic.—Montgomery
[Ala.) Mail ,
AN INCIDENT.—At the conclusion of tbo
inaugural addiess, aud while the procession
was forming, Thurlew Weed, in passing Gen
eral Soutt's coropaDj, stopped to speak with
the veteran coMomn iei-in chief.
"How is the inaugural?" asked the general.
"A success," replied Mr. lieed.
"God be praised!" said the grim old chief
tain, lifting his hands and oiasping them to
gether, while the tears rolled down his faee.
"The good God be praised!"
Those who witnessed the general's emotion
were deeply moved.
"You were much missed from the platform,"
said Mr. Weed.
"My duty," said the general,, pointing to
his guns, "is here."— Cor. JV. Y World.
SOUTH CAROLINIAN* CALMNQ ON MR. LIN
COLN. — The cjrre-poudent of the New York
Herald, in his letter of Saturday, week, says:
Mr, Llueoio will give his first publto recep
tion at the White House on Friday evening
next. This evening a delegation of six South
Carolinians called upon Mr. Lincoln to pay
their respects. They are opposed to ecoessioo,
but are obliged to submit to it, being citizens
of that State and owuers of a large number of
slaves. Mr. L ncoln received thetn very kind
ly, saying they were just the kind of people
he wauted to talk with. Upon retiring, tta
gentlemen exprcased their grat Scation at the
interview.
An Irishman, who bad laid s ok along time,
was one day met by the parish priest, when the
following conversation took place:
"Weil, Patrick, 1 am glad ynu have recov
ered— but were you not afraid to meet your
God?"
"Oob! 00, your rivereuoc, it was ibe meetiu*
of t'otner chap 1 was afeard uv," replied Pa'.
07"A country paper says: "Wanted el
this office, an editor who can please every
body. Also, a foreman whs oan so arrange
the paper that every.body's advertisements
shall head the ooluum."