BY DAVID OVER. Ol i ri]. _ i /"or /Ac Inquirer. I OUR FLAG. God bless the dear flag of the States., That floats in the breezes of heaven, By the hand of thy angels on earth. That flag to our fathers was given. O bless and protect it when e'er We struggle and battle for right, And grant that thy arm may decide That justice may always be might. That banner our fathers has been In the days of our deepest distress, But when in adversity, thou The flag of our country didst bless. O grant that our flag may remain The flag of a people that's free. Undivided in heart and in mind That dwelleth in sweet unity. O Father in heaven protect The land and the homes of the brave, And O 1 from disunion and blood Grant thou to protvci and to save, For aye to the stripes and the stars We'll prove that we're loyal and true And honor forever wo must The colors of red, white and blue. KEY. J. MILTON AKEKS. Flcasant Grove, Md., May 13th, 1861. TRAITOR, SPARE THAT FI.4G. Traitor, spare that flag, Touch not a single star ; Its sbelt'riog glory now Still blazes near and tar; 'Twas our forefathers' hand That placed it o'er our head, And thou shalt let jt stand, Or perish with the dead. That dear old precious flag. Whose glory and renown Arc spread o'er laud and sea, And would'st thou tear it down ? Traitor, forbear tby touch— Bend not its heait bound ties; Oh, spare that glorious flag. Still streaming through the ski*-s. -I When I was yet a hoy, 1 glorie-l in the sight, And rais'd my voice iu joy, To greet its folds of light; For it my home is dear, Dear is my native land, Forgive this foolish tear, But let that old Flag stand. My heart-strings round thee cling, Close as thy stripes, old friend ; Thy praises men shall sing, Till Time itself shall end ; Old Flag, the storrn still brave, And, traitor, leave the spot, While I've a hand to save, Thy touch shall harm it not. THE EDUCATION OF WOMAN. BT MISS L. C. ARNOLD. Read before the Teachers Association of Bedford County. This is a subject upon which much has been said and writter, and yet it has lost i: uof its impor table, but is susceptible of wide and extended dis cussion. Education is a word the analysis of schtch only adds to its significance, and taken in connec tion with women, it becomes of almost vitil impor tance. Great is the boast of the progress of education: great would be the indignation excited by a douM as to the truth if this assertion. A single query will make this doubt more intelligible, and place the subject in a stronger light: "Are women quali fied to educate men ?" If not, 110 available pro gress has been made, Upon her training depends the happiness of families —the well being of nations. The selfishness, political and social; the forgetful ness of patriotism , the unregulated tempers and low ambition of the one sex, testify too cleurlyhvut little has been done by the vaunted education of the other. For education is useles ot pernicious, in its influence, unless it bears upon duty, as well as upon cultivation—unless it expands the soul. while it enlightens the intellect. Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, woman always gives the tone to morals.— Her influence, therefore, is more or less salualary, according to the degree of esteem in which she is held. She makes man what be is. Nature has made man's intellect to depend upon her dignity, as she has made his happiness to defend her vir tue. Just observe the great divisions of the hu man race, the East and West. A portion of the •geld world remains in a state of inanity, under the oppression of a rude civilization ; the women there are slaves : the other, advances in equalization and intelligence, the women there are free and honored. The celebrated Ham Mobun Roy observed, "that as long as the females of India remained in their present degraded state, all attempts to improve society and to implant Christianity, would be use . iess." The sacred maxim, *'For the soul to be without knowledge is not good," applies to woman as well as to man ; indeed, 'tis reasonable to suppose that the evils of ignorance io woman, ere in consequences Jar more pernicious than iu man. It iu repairing and beautifying a superstructure, we neglect the foun dation, the work of our bauds will never be es tablished. If, in purifying a stream, we are care less of tbe fountain—the source from whence it springs—we labor in vain. It will be found, on re flection and investigation, that the tardy advances of mankind in knowledge and in improvement, are chiefly, owing to the defective state of the for mation—-to the negb-ct, be it to a greater or less extent, in different countries, in the intellectual, moral and religious education of women. If we consult tbe pages of history we shall find •tlat very many of the greatest and best men that ever hved, owed their eminence to tbe influence aDd direction given to their minds in early childhood by a tender and intelligent mother. In our own heretofore happy Republic we have tbe mother of tbe "Imortai Washington"—a woman, whose re markable life and character, has been so universally admired throughout Europe, that some of the most .celebrated men of coat country, atlirmed it no WOR ,der that "America produced tb *s greatest men, since A Weekly Paper, Devoted to Literature, Politics, the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, &c., &c—Terms: One Dollar and Fifty Cents in Advance. she could boast of such mothers." Rome, not- j withstanding her primeval rudeness, seems more j correctly than polished Greece to have estimated j the "weaker vessel.'' Here and there, upon the • storm-driven billows of her history, some solitary j form towers upward in roaj-stv, and tho mother of the Gracchi still stands lorth in strong relief, amid imagery ovr.which time has no power. Both Britain and America owe their greatness and , glory to the character of their women. Who fa. spired the intant mind with love ot knowledge and truth—who tutored tiie youth and formed his habits and character as man - was it not the wis dom and virtue of the wife, the mother, arjd the sis ter I—and does not her influence accompany him through life, even to the ballot-box and the legisla- j tive hail, where it shonld be of the most refining, • consoling, and ennobling character t—should she j not possess the necessary information t—does she reap no benefits from a well regulated government ? : —has she no interest at stake when it is badly managed ? cares she not whether the principl *s ! upon which it is founded and carried on are right : or wrong, and has she no responsibility in the mat ter ? Therefore, is not ihe encouragement of her : education the great secret in political economy ? | It has been asserted, and very ungenerously and j unmanly too that she is unfitted lor the position of i teacher in the higher departments of study—that' she is constitutionally , as well as mentally, incapa- 1 dialed to influence, govern, or train up, or in other j vioras, to educate. This is a contumely to the delicacy, moral sentiment, and mental ability, which every true-hearted and nohle-m'ndcd woman should resent. It is an infringement of our priva legi'S—and they are not so many and large—that we can afford to lose a bright link troni the chain of respect and influence without a murmur. It is admitted by every well-trained mind that woman is the true teacher for the young, the one whom God has appointed and fitted morally —that she has not been mentally qualified has been the fault of man— and he ought not to take advantage of a defect which he himself has caused to usurp her rights.— It will he by all that the great mass of mankind have devoted vastly more attention and means to tho instruction of their sons than their daughters, and even the wealthy, to a very superficial intellectual education, have merely superadded the fashionable accomplishments. That her intellect is adequate to evt ry liter irv and scientific attainment, has even under all discourage ments received too much demonstration to be longer questioned. That it has been established beyouti a doubt, that in natural and moral philosophy in the higher branches of mathematics, in geometry and ' trigonometry, in algebraic d sciences: in demon. ■ strating the most complex propositions of Euclid ! she has equalized, if not surpassed, hoys of thu same age, in skill ami degree of proficiency. In , composition, also, either in prose or poetry, she i exhibits an intellectual maturity, a compass of J thought,a corroc : news and cultivation of taste, and an elegance of diction, which are unattainable by | males at the same period of life. Tbat many wo i men have acquired a knowledge of the dead | languages, and with a resolution and perseverance ] scarcely outdone by Demosthenes, has been clearly ■ ; j roveo to those who have been sufficiently interes- I ] ted to investigate the Rubject. We have examples ! on record of those who, to the study of Hebrew, | ! Greek and Latin, luive added French, Italian, Spau ; ish and German, and also, Portuguese and Arabic; j and to an uncommon proficiency in classic and ! historic lore they have added a knowledge of as ; tronomy, ancient geography, poetry and theology. It Ins also been affirmed and that in proof of her | incapacity, that she has never produced such works i as Sbakspeare, Byron, Moore and others—that her i intellectual inferiority precluded the possibility of attaining such a degree of literary perfection To | which, we reply—such an affirmation is unworthy the noble name of man ; nnd the injustice of it caues to curl the lip of indign ition,and ins'.inctive ly the finger of scorn points to him, who would thus degrade the protectress of his childhood, the preceptress of his principles. The composition of such works, adds not a lustre to their culture, either morally or r> ligiously— Woman, naturally, is ambitious—endowed with a livily and brilliant imagination—and that alone is 1 essential to the existance of ambition—she invests all with the beauty of her ow.i bright creations.— _ Persevering and .untiringin her researches after knowledge—and only when her physical constitu tion fails, does she relinquish her chase in the in tricate windings of the labyrinth of intellectual love. But tho office of true poetry is to elevate, to purify and soften Ihe human character . and thus promote civil, mmal and religious advancement.— It is encouraging to meet with respect and com mendation, and especially to find some men, who are disposed to atone for the if justice womeu have received from others—the catting wrong of Young, the despotic edicts of Milton, the sn'ers of Pope, the polite sarcasms of Addison, the coarse ribaldry of Sbakesp*are, with the licentious wit of Byron, and the degrading voluptuousness of Moore, have been re.echoed back by men of inferior minds, I who thought what disgraced their wives, mothers aid sisters, hot.ore ! them. Thus have the name and character of woman been degraded, a.nd man, the defender, the protec tor, smiles complacently ujton, and stamps with the seal of his approbation such unparalleled injus tice. Shame upon "creation's Lord, the proud monopolist of Intellect!' - But "Hope still whisp ers," that to woman, as well as to man, "The time will come When goodness, like the sun without a cloud To dim his affluent beams, shall shine on all, And fame be virtue's guardian, and fair truth And heart-warm love, twin graces, shine to charm The intellectual mind!*' A WAE SIGN IN THE HEAVENS. —Gov. Black, of Nebraska, gives the following de scription of a remarkable display witnessed at Omaha, at the close of last year:—Shortly after the 810011 rose, a very distinct and bright cross was visible, of which the moon was the centre. The arms of the cross extended on either side, apparently about one degree; at the extremity of each arm was an upwright column, seen through thin clouds. The pillars were variagated like a rainbow. When the moon was about three hoars high the cross and the columns disappeared and several bright and oistiuct circles succeeded: at one time as many as six great circles were visible. From ten to eleven (when I went to bed) two circles only were displayed, but those wore very bright and beautiful; and what, tp me, seemed most strange, part of tbe circumference of one ran through the centre of the other—clear and complete belt. 1 aui not able to describe the manifestations as they were steu, hut they were quite enough to excite our "-special wonder." A DISGUISED VOLUNTEER —ln a towo in Indiana an old man of sixty tivc years, with hair and flowing beard as white as snow, im plored permission to join the volunteers, but being refused, be went to a barber's, had his beard cropped, and his hair and beard dyed, aud again applied for admission. Not being detectod, bo was received, and teiog asked his uge, replied, " Rising 36." BEDFORD. PA.. FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1861. The American Troubles in the Brit ish House of Lords In iho House of Lords, on the 29th ultjmo. | Karl of Malmesbury, adverting tj the stare of affairs in America, said : I beg leave to put to ' my Doble friend, the Under-Secretary for For eign Affiirs, a question of whiob I have given hiui private notice, in reference to a subject which deeply imprests this country, and, I may ; say, the whole of Kurope. Almost all your lordships have, no doubt, read the v accounts j which arrived this morning from America, and must have learned with pu'rj, as well as some astonishment, that a civil war had broken oat between the dsaesrio.iist* in that oountrv and the other States of the Union. Fortunrtaly, up to the date of those acoounts, hardly any blood bad beeu shed, and too much praise 1 cauuot, 1 think, be bestowed spou the com mander of the fleet engaged in the transaction to ; whicn 1 refer for abstaining from entering on a useless contest. It is impossible, however, tint a struggle such as that whiob seems now impending in Amorica, a struggle so unnatural, • and calculated, I may add, to prove so fatal to the parties concerned iu it—should not pro duce a reverberation throughout the rest of the world. 1 may further observe that no country on this side of the Atlautic is, per- | haps, more likely to suffer from the civil war which threatens the United States than our • own; for, altogether apart from those feelings ! of regret wi,th which we must witness the j breaking out of 3tiife between persons belong- j iug to the same family as ourselves, an d kin- j dred to us in language as well as iu blood, our political and material interests are deeply in- 1 volved in this uuhappy schism. That being so, 1 cannot but beleive that Her Majesty's I Minister, feeling upon this question with all her Majesty's subjects, have already done their utmost, by officious means, to bring fibout some arrangement by which so dreadful a calamity as that of which 1 am speaking, may be avert ed. 1 therefore wish to ask my noble friend what steps the Government have taken with : thf objeot , whether they have made any at tempt to prevent the quirrel between the dif* fsie.it Slate- of the American Union from coming to a bloody issue; what hopes they entertain of suocceeding iu so liudable an endeavor, and whether they have invitefl, or are in cor respondence with any other European Govern ment, with the view of obtaiDiug their assis tance iu seeking to put a stop to a civil war. of which, if once fairly commenced, it will be impossible f o folate the end. [Hear, hoar.] Lord \\ odehouso—l need scarcely assure my noble friend that the Government, in com mon with him, ana I feel confident that every oue of Her Majesty's subjects have learnt, with the deepest regret, the intelligence of the dis sensions which have taken place iu the United States. We have also received with the ut most concern, the accounts to which my noble friend has alluded, informing us that those dissensions have brought that country to the brink of ciiii war —i f , indeed, civil war may not be said to have already broken out within her Territories ; and in answer to the questiou what steps have been taken by Her Majesty's j Ministers to avert this great calamity—for such a great calamity it undoubtedly must prove to be, not only to the Americans them selves, out to Knglaud, which is so closely con nected to them by the ties of kindred—lhavo to staie that after the most mature deliberation 1 the Government cauie to the conclusion that ' it was not desirable that this country should | intrude her advice or council on the Govern ment of the United States. [Hear, bear.] However great the interests which we must feel in toe welfare of her people, and however anxious we might be to rescue them from the misfortune* which seems to bo impending over their Leads, we yet thought that a great and independent nation tuighr not welcome advice • given with re-poet to her iuiemal affairs,if that i advice were proffered without being solicited. The instructions, therefore, given to Lord Ly ' nns were, (hit be should on every fitting oc ! casino, express the earnest desire entertained by Her Majesty's Government that the differ ences which prevail between the Northern and S ulhero States of Am rioa should be arraug , ed. lie has not, however, been instructed to j give, "officiously" or officially, any couusel or advice to the American Government, unless ! such counsel or advice should be asked for by the ooutending parties themselves. This is the answer I have to give to the question of ' iny uoble friend. It naturally follows that Her Majesty's Ministers have not been in com j muuioation with any foreign Government as to any steps being tiken of ibo nature of those |to which he has ailuded. [Hear; hear.] TUK LAST OF THE TYLERS —The oommu i oity will experience inexpressible relief at the announcement thai Robert Tyler, E.-q., is no longer to afflict oa with his presence. Robert his beeD removed from bis " fat " position of Protbou.tuy of the Supreme Court of Penn sylvania, and James Ross Snowden, Esq., late Treasuter of the Mint, has been appointed to succeed biin. The wbole Tyler family ore now among the Virginia traitors. Poor Rob! lie was the most promising of the lot, but a vicious p ireutal example has ted him iuto the paths that had to disgrace and ignominy. "The bemp is sown, The hemp is grown." IN PHILADEI.PIJIA, on tiuuday last at Rev. E. M. Huttcr's Lutheren chnrcb, the eloquent clergyman recited the Star Spangled Rauner, after which it was cbauoted by the choir and the oongrsgation. The scene waA most im pressive, and every person present was effec ted to tears. The streets were crowded jvith i troops, and thousands of ladies wore the I national colors, even in places of publio wotsbip. This is the spirit of the Crusades, ; pervaded by tho spirit of enlightened freedom. Sunday Chronicle. TIIE SECRET IKY OF WAR. The Sunday Mercury of tbe 12 h instant, thus manfully refers to the position of Geo. (Jstneroa, Jho S< c etary of War. It ,is well un lerstnod in Washington, that between Gen. Stott and the present Secretary of War, the strongest and most confidential feeling of friendship has existed for a great many years. During tbe Mexican Avar, aud when the ad ministration of Polk was so desirous of humiliating the old Hera, for the purpose of promoting ever his head a favorite of their own, Gen. Cameron defended and sustained Gen. Soott, and with a host of other's, was instrumental in securing for hiui the vindica tion of his government, as well as the full support aud approbation of the people. Tbe friendship that has grown out of that transac tion,is therefore of the strongest nature between these two veterans, the one the champion of his country on the field of battle, aud the other her stay and support in the halls of legislation and the cabinet. The extract from the Mercury is a just and frank acknowledgment of the olaims and servi oesof one of Pennsylvania's most distinguished and eminent citizens: * Pennsylvania shuuld Ic proud of her repre sentative hi the cabinet. Much regret was expressed at the time of the formation of the Miuistry, that General Cameron was not assigned to the Treasury Department; but the events has demonstrated that as a war ruSnister the Penosylvantan is "the right man in the right place." He has had a vh( and var i sd experience as a practical business man, and even his roost determined opponents concede that he possesses rsre administrative energy spd tact. Unlike tbe war secretaries who have preceded him, Cameron gives due weight to the wise suggestions of the Lieu tenant General, and does not attempt to inter fere with the plans matured by the mihttry genius whom we are fortunatein having at the head of our f.\rces. The long tried p itriotism sagacity and skill of Scott are fuUy appreciated by tbe present administration. But there is an immense amount of busiuC'S to be transac ted by |he War Department, at a tiiue wheu armies are to be created out of a population lately absorbed iu the avocations of peace— when men are u> be chosen for posts of honor and peril, and the treacherous servants of tbe government are to be detected and d sitiis-ed before tbey can damage tho interests of the country. Cameron displays decision, promp titude and ci room spec lion in directing this work, and his example infuses Iresh energy into ail bis subordinates. The Secretary will accept no resignations from men who have been educated at the expense of the nation and who now wish to transfer their seivices to tho cause of treason aud despotism. He dismisses the traitors with the mark of infamy which will rest upou their oamcs forever. Upon the whole, we think, the government is fortunate in possessing so valuable and effineot a Minis ter of War, aud we are glad that Pennsylv nia has contributed him to the service of the country. The Richmond Examiner the ieading seces sion organ of Virginia manifest* a great deal of trepidation at the energy which the govern ment is now manifesting mid the evident over throw which awaits the traitors. It clamors for a dictator and declares that. Virginia is lost J unless Jefferson Davis comes to the rescue.— Virginia, to be sure, will fight to the last— Virginia will bo cut into ten thousand pieces before she will yield—but why do not Davis and the South come OD ? "The Southern Stites are both traitors and j aud cowards if they do not eotue uVouce to the front All their available forces should be brought to the banks of the Potomac with the least loss of time. Especially should Presi dent Davis give Virginia the advantage of his presence. It would be worth an army of fifty thousand men. It would give confidence and authority to all the Site's movements. Why do the wheels of the chariot tarry?"' In another articlo The Examiner calls for the iortificatiou of Richmond. "We have now powder euough to staud any siege; 1 it exclaim*. ♦What is more to the purpose, Richmond con tains at this moment not less than five thous and unemployed negroes. The tobacco facto ries arc closed, or working short force All the usual occupations of mutual labor are at a stand-still. Slavea walk the streets, whose masters oan find work neither for hire or for uothing. It would be a blessing to the wholo idle aud non-combatant population to give it employment on the fortification of Richmond. The city contains many civil and two military engineers without immediate occupation,and the State it-eh has the bighost taleutsof America at its commaud to furnish plans. H ith all these advantages why should uot Richmond be for tified—well fortified and at once.' lu another article the Examiner laments that their forces, though superior to those of the North in courage ; though as it says, brave as Caesar's legions,' are yet far inferio - in point of numbers. Not more th -30,01/0 V irginiana are ; fit for service, aod oo.iy 20,000 from the States further South oan be >xpcoted.— Jefferson Davis, in his message, says that ouiy 10,000 are ou the way. The whole tone of The Examiner , and the other Virginia journals, sufficiently shows that the traitors have got thoir eyes open at last to the folly of their Quixotic plans, and to the awful peril of their posision. ELEVEN BROTHERS IN ONE COMPANF.— The Indianapolis (lod.) Journal says Mr. Bates, of Pendleton, an old gentlemen of Hinety-two years nf age, is said to have eleven sons in a volunteer company from Madison county, he has certainly done bis duty in (uruishmg his quota of volenteers. The Attempt to Get Possession of Port Pickens by Bribery. A orrei-poodent of the Washingtou Sunday Chronicle, gives the de'a ls of the recent nn* successful attempt on tho part of the Rebels to get possession of Fort Pickens by bribery.— Lieut. S!eiuiu>r, having had his suspicions aroused by tho frequent pissigeof letters aud papers between the fort ami Warrington, gave orders that all BUO'I communication* mast bo stopp d. The very next day a roll of papers was sent over from Warrington to a Sergeant, which Lieut. Slein uer opened, finding a note enclosed, making vague offers to the man if he would betray his trust. A watch was set over the Sergeant, aud the next day another pack- , age came over, addressed to the same man, and having this note inclosed ; "What a jackass you are. I again renew my off r of a position, with a lieutenants com mission, and all your pay two-fold that is due you from the Federal (x ivoroment. Also to Flynn. If you will help us along to save bloodshed, 1 can offer any private in the com pany §5OO, and any non-commissionod officer §lOOO, together with a guarantee of f itire promotion us high, or higher, as he now stauiis. Every mm who will take upon themselves to give us the fori without bloodshed, and save the lives oj your garrison, will be paid all back pay, §5OO for tie privates, §lOOO for non-cmnmissioocd officers, and a commission ia the Confederate at uiv. This 1 off*r by au thority. I would uot offer it otherwise. You, as a frieud, 1 beleive will t u*tmc. We MUST >.nd WILL have the fort,jbus 'lis not worth one drop of blood; but if it cost 5000 lives, we must and will have it. Fill it full of Feder al troops if you will, yet we must and will have it. Don't be a a—d fool. When and whore can 1 sue you I 1 will go over to uigbt, and will take a eocbtail, if you say so. Aoswer first opportunity. Yours, &J , B." Oa the morning of the 13:b of April a pri vate of Sleunuei'a coinnauy nude tbe following stitemcnt: ' 1 was on pirket guir i last nig'it. Daiiug the night I saw asaiall boat approach the beach. I stepped b.ck to see what it w.s about, when a man eatne before me. 1 brought my rnu-ket II aeh rge, tni ordir.-d him to halt. Hi said, 'Don't shoo', lam a friend.' He then began to talk to roe, and to ask about the fort. — While be was talking, three others came up behind inc. They asked me many questions about tbe number of men, &0., about the flank defence, an J whether the guns could not fe spiked, &o. They said they would give any marl plenty of money if he would only spike the flank defence guns, aud asked wheu 1 would be on picket guard again. 1 told tbcm 03 Monday night. They said, 'We will be over and ready.' As tbey were going away one of them said to me, 'How are you off for money in the fort!, I said, 'We have not been paid for six months.' He thou put a roll of bills iu my haud v anght for in vain; every nook and corner was scanned, but still that one remaining link was wanting, without which the work was incomplete. It was a Mas sachusetts man who rose to the emergency. With eyes and faculties sharpened by use, und the habit of overcoming obstacles, he surveyed the ground consi ierod the probabil ities, aud weighed chances. Then, with an instiuct as unerring as that of an Indian who reads in the turning of a leaf the parage of a foe, be m idehis way t > a deep stream, at some distance, examined its banks and stripped. Three times be plunged to the bottom, and the third time brought up the missing rail! "I am working for my country, not for pay," he said, when amid cheers of the 7lh's men, one of them offered him a piece of gold. A UCN MANUFACTURER at Norwich, Conn,, has manufactured a new and terrible weapon for arming ves.seis to cruise for pirates ami Southern privateers. It is a cylindrical bomb, about twelve inches long, ami sharpened with a steel point, which is thrown from a heavy guu fired from the shoulder. The projectile sticks into the deck or side of a vessel and explodes in a few seoonds after being discharg" ed. Its effect is terrific, one shell being suffici ent to clear a whole ship's deck. It is intend ed for close, action. THE PRESENCE OF GOD— Live in sight of God. This is what heaven will be—the eter nal presence of God. Do nothing you would not like God to see. Say nothing you would not like him to hear. Write nothing you would not like hiui to read. Go to uo place where you would Dot like God to find fou. Read no book of which you would not like God to say, '• Show it me." Never spend your time in such away that you would not like to have God ssy, "What stt tbuji doing!" VOL. 34, NO. 21. GEN. HARNEY'S LETTER. Gen. Wro. S. Harney has written a letter to Col. Fallow, of St. Louis, under date of May 1, ejcpla. natory of bjp arrest and release in Virginia, and de. claring his royalty to the Government. He says s '•Forty.two years I have been in the military service of the United States, and have followed during all that time but one flag—the fligoi the Union. J have seen it protecting our frontiers and guarding our coats from Maine to Florid*. 1 have witnessed it in the smoke of battle, stained with the blood of gallant men, leading on to victory, planted upon the strongholds and waving in triumph over the capital of a foreign foe. My eyes have beheld that flag affording protection to our States and Territories on the Pacific, and commanding reverence and respect from hostile fleets and squad rons, and from foreign governments, never exhibi. ted to any other banner on the globe. Twenty stars, each representing a State, have been added to that banner during my service, and under its folds I have advanced from the rank of lieutenant to that which 1 now l.oli The government, whose honors have be n bestowed upon me, I shall servo the remainder of my days. The fl g, whoso gl iries I have witn ssed, shall never be forsaken by rr, while I can strike a blow lor its defence. WaiJe I have breath I shall be ready to serve the govern ment of the United States," an J be its faithful, loyal soldier. "Toe question no.v before us is, whether the cov er;.Tuent of the Unite] States—with a!] its mir .y blessings and past glories—shall be overthrown by the military dictatorship lately pirated and no® bearing sway in the Coufe it-rate States ? My hand cauitol aid in that work. Missouri, th < State of uiy residence, has Dot secede i, and secession would, in my opinion, be her ruin. The only special interest of Missouri, in common with the Confetti rate States, is SI .very. Her interest in that institution is now protected by the Fed.rU Constitution. But if sbo secedes that protection is gone. Surrounded ou three sides by Fr u Status which might soon become hostile, it would not l.j long until u slave could not be fbun 1 within h.4 borders. And frontier present proud condition of a powerful, thriving State, rapidly developing ev ery element of wealth and social prosperity she would dwindle to a mere appeudag; and" con venience tor the military ariitucracv established the Cotton States. Did'ut Take the Papers. Some years ago, a lady noticing a neighbor who was not in her seat at church oue Sab l>ti>, callcl oa her return home to inqutre what should detiiu so punctual an attendant. Oa entering the house she found the family a' work,_ She was surprised when her friend addressed her—'Why la' where have >ou been to-day dres cd up in your Sunday clothes?' 'To meeting' Why what day is it? 'Sabbath day.' 'S.I. stop washing iu a tuiuuto! Sabbath day! Well 1 did not know it, for my hus band has got so plaguey ttingv. be wont take the paper, end we know nothing. Well who preached? • Mr, 5, # 'What did he preach about?' 'lt was on the death of the Saviour.' Why, is he dead? Wail, all Boston may be dead and we know nothing about it! It won't do, wo tiiusi have the newspiper again, for everything goes wrong without the news paper! Bill bat almost forgot his reading and Polly has got quite mopish again, bee msn she has to poetry aud stories to road. Weil, if we have ttf take a cart load of potatoes end onions to msrket, I'm resolved to have a newspaper.' SENTIMENTS OF A TRAITOR'S WIFE.-We are informed on pond authority, says the A. Y 7Vj'6/je, tbit one day hst summary a party cf laii:s and gentlemen were ns-embied at the residence of one < f our eelebra'ed paL ters at West Point, and among other of inlet eat introduced by bim was a reha of Washington—the copy iu his own handwriting of the various orders auu dispatches issued by him during the War of lodependanee. Every one present was deeply interested in the ex amination of this precious so lvenir except on*„ and tiie exception was a lady. It was pre sented for her inspection, but she refused to look at it, fiayiag that shs was sick and .tired of bearing so much about Washington; for her I part, she couldn't see much to admire in (he ' character of suoh a blood-thirsty cu'-throat. The lady was Mrs. Jeff. Davis. PATRIOTIC INCIDENT.—At the Boston meeting to sumnaoo reoruit9 for Fletcher Web ster's regiment, the following telling incident occurred. The chairman notified the meeting that subscribtions would ba received, whdn a little boy promptly came forward and said, '•This is from §ttph.en Decutur, sir." It prov ed to be a check for §>loo. The father stood ;by and proved to be blind. He is an officer of j the navy who lost his sight in tbe service, and j a nephew of Commodore Decstur of ihe last ; war. .Nine cheers were given which made the j balls ring. Ftvt thousand dollars were im mediately subscribed for the regiment, which jis to leave this week. One hundred young ; iadies wore making garments for the mm. The Knoxville, Tennessee says: GOl.- I oral Pillow, who is a clover geu;l-nua in the j private relafiona cf 1 i t'e_, and a very compan j able man, sent message recently, wnich '.s explained in the following reply: j KNOXVILLE, April 22, lStil.—Gsoeral Gideou J Pillow: —1 have just received your message, through Mr. Sale, requesting me to serve as UhrpUin to your brigtdo in tbo eouth j eru army; and in tbe spirit of kiaduess in which ; ibis request is made, I return tor an answer, j that when J shall have made up my mind to go to Hell, I will cut my thioat and go dirett, j and oot travel round byway of tbe Southern ! Confederacy. 1 am very respeotfolly, Ac., W. (J. BBOWNLOW. —'i can't bear childroo/ said Miss Priop disdainfully. Mrs. Partington looked mildly over her spectacles before aha replied: 'Perhaps if you oouli, you would like them better.