BY DAVID OYER.
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84TIRD4T MIGHT.
Saturday night.' Aioue I sit
la musing mood bsfore the Are—
A pleasant look !—the burner Jit—
What more oonld studious man desire !
A moment since my merry girls
Went bounding forth in childish glee—
Those laughing eye*, those roguish curls -
Ob, they are worth the world to me.
They climbed and clamored for the kiss
The good-night kiss that all must share.
The silent seal of household bliss,
Before the whispered, evening prayer
(The "Now I lay me down to sleep,")
So softly and so meekly said—
May angels guardian watehes keep
Around my darlings' peaceful bed.
Life, with my pets, fs sunny morn—
Tor them eaeb day new glories giew—
Tor them new buds of bliss are born,
Blue skies, for them, arch all below ;
fhoy wake with gladness In their eyes
They feel ne oare—they know no ill
lach morning bringa some swedt surprise,
Which dreams, at night, make sweeter still.'
My prayers are with themwbile they sleep—
My prayers go with them while they wake—
They ere the jewels which I keep
Ad cherish for my dear one's sake;
Tea, doubly dear they seem to me,
Now, motherless in tender years,
And thoughts of their futurity
Bring sometimes smiles and sometimes tears.
Xor less beloved the form that stood,
Im {kntW *o % , v..\,
Just blushing into womanhood,
My eldest daughter, grave and fair ;
Bar wave of life with softest glide.
Was sunlit, till one cloud of woe,
With spreading margin, far and wide,
O'ershadowed all that lay below.
And he—the boy that hears my nams,
So fall of pranks and mirthful lore—
I see so much to praise—to blame—
I know not which he needs the more,
Elis scorn of study, love of fan,
Bis reckless, roving, wayward will,
J.eaves patience sometimes guite undone,
And yet—l love the younger still.
QFEEM MART AMD JOHM KMOI.
The beauty, accomplishment* end courage
f Mary, Queen of Seotts, have given her irn
-3SL3JS advantage tu the controversies tbat have
waged concerning her for three hundred
Tears. If the question had been one relating
to a oicb, or e woman of inferior attraction,
the decision would bavo been mueh easier A
hi*B is felt by every one unconsciously. She
wan beautiful, unfortunate, trained in France
by the most unscrupulous politicians in Europe
in a court where virtue was a word used in
spesehes and poetry, and chastity was a jest,
sdo she was badly treated by Elizabeth, who
bad no rights over her whatever. Her religion
hsrdly professed, prsolioaiiy, to teach her pu
rity or mortality. Her circumsunses were
very difficulty; her subjects turbolent to an
tutrnordinary degree, and the religion of Scot
land of the severest form that true Christianity
has ever assumed. The rude manners of the
sge interfered with the comfort and privacy of
;ibe young Queen. Thcsa are the excuses to
he made for her. They are urged so constant
ly and earnestly as to blind the most of Mary's
adventures to the facts of history.
Withcßt descending to the scandal which
has been no freely iavished iD this case, wo
may say tbat it is certain that Mary first mar
ried the French Danpbin, next the handsome
and worthless Daroley, of whom she became
tired and of whose 'murder her memory has
never been cleared- It is certain that in three
months aud one week afterwards abe married
Both well, nekunwledged on all bauds to have
bseu the murderer of her hasbsad, while she
w<iß either his accourpltmeo, or at least was
perfectly aware of bis guilt, aud hid ased ber
power to prevent his punishment. She was
constantly placed in equivocal positions with
tuose whom she socmen to delight in gathering
around her as lovers—Ktano, Douglas, Cardan
besides keeping up a sort of system of possi
ble rairri&ge with almost every bachelor king
and high noble in Europe. We are sorry not
to be aMe to say more for Mary; bat this is
the plain, nocolored testimony of history.
It strong contrast with tb£ figure; which
stands oak from the canvass still graceful and
fascinating, in that unpopular character, John
Knox. It is the peculiar fortune, however, of
such men to mellow with time. Those who
are really great amid a thousand difficulties
can hardly find due appreciation until cau
teries have, abed their quiet light upon their
grave. Tbat John Knox was a perfect char
acter: no msn will maintain. Bis faults are
palpible, and are among the first tbiogs seen
ui tiiot. But he was of the very- mould for
Scotland, if that rugged people were to be
fashioned into one of the ooblast Churches in
the history of mankind, it rarely required one
w'so could be softened by no bUndtshnnntv,
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deceived by no sophistry, and discouraged bj
no possible danger. To evolve aoapostolk
Cburob from the coverings that had envelope;
it; to bring into turn the fierce nobles auf
stern people of Scotland; to oreate in tha
email country, lying far io the north and corn
paratively sterile, and apparently most uoprora
isiog, a Ohureh which would be the model e
the power of millions of men in the greal
Western Hemisphere, and which is destined tc
be world wide in ite lnflicioa over Govern
meat learning, religion an i sundry other greai
eiement of humanity—this required no gentlei
uiao man that great Soottish reformer, th<
foremost name no every lip whare the SeottM
Church is meatioued:
John Kaox wua fortunate in his training
especially in his fauailiir intercourse with
greater than be, for be eat at the foot uf Joht
Calviu. It is remarkable that Kno* has lefi
Do work which indicates any special adaption
for speculative thought, or for theological or
philosophical discussion. His works are po
lemic and historic. He was emphatically a
man of action, politician, a preacher, a patriot,
a hero. John Calvin baa held the struggling
world io hie iron grasp these three hundred
jeers. He has fixed in adamantine forms the
great and eolemn truths revealed by God tr
man. Stern, solemn and awful, fearful as they
are, we eac not escape from them. The
strength of a logic, as fine at. linked mail, and
as strong as the ebain which is t> bind Satan
before the Millenium, is upon mankind. .No
other uninspired man has with such steady
and in such absolute white light, never disolv
log into the prismatic colore ot imagiuaiiuL,
geiod into the depths of eternity, and write
down the laws of the moral universe. Kepler
fixed his eyes upon the vault of Heaven, and
by the power of an extraordinary analysis,
snowed how God has fashioned suns and worlds,
and by what vast tdeae, which we call i*ws,
they move in their maguificient orbits. Calvin
by • mightier analysis, and on a grander scale,
and with an iuteneer insight, drew nearer io
the throne, and caught Irani the deep, involved
utterances of a divine philosophy, inspbared
the ideas of God from eternity to eternity,
these awful laws which have ever since been
coming into ectuaiiation in pure morals, in
free institutions, in siem courage, in coniprc*
bsnnive /#* in gigantic enterprise, and in
the comparison of Heaven, has yet made it
sacred as the battle ground of God's elect and
the ante-chamber of the Eternal.
Bullet no man underrate John Kuox.—
Boaroely ever had any one harder work to do;
and ue did it thoroughly. He breathed the
breath of life into Scotland, and every great
Presbyterian down to our fmies, has caught
somewhat of the spirit of Koox. First, and
above all in bis, was a high regard for the
authority of God. It was this wbioh bore a
loft the old blue btaner, inscribed: ''For
Christ's Grown and Covenant." A spiritual
piety was m him the element which frivolous;
French courtiers called fanaticism. Courage
rose clear end high. As this hae never been
denied by mortal man, we used the less to
dwell upoo it. But it is a mistake to sup
pose bis eeestie He was a politician, was
consulted in '.he great mororueeie of his age,
not only io the Ctrurch but the State. He had
a keen wit and a native humor, which broke
out sometimes like a gleam of sunshine athwart
black clouds. There wee a hilarity and
warmth of friendship, when among his intimate
fiiende, which greatly endeared him to tbsui.
His practical judgement and insight were es
pecially valuable; hie person*! character owe
of great weight. In short he was a great ru
ler rather than a philosopher or dtviue. His
power lay in action and m the thoughts that
qualify for tic-dive and far-seeing action.—
lie dwd like a mas, a Christian and a hero.—
Thcro was a struggling, hut there wae eonfi*
denec, to. There wee gentle kindness, a ling
ering in the companionship of ft wads, a lova
for them breathing through the languor ef
deatb. There waa a rapture in view of the
opmiDg Heavens. When they reed the even
ing prayers, he wee asked if he beerd them.
"Would to God," he said, "that you aud all
in en had heard as I have beard tbern; I pra.ee
God for that heavenly sound." At eleven
o'clock be gsid, "now it is come! ' They ask
ed bioi to give a sign if he died tn peao, and
he lifted up his fc -a-i s and eo passed away
Presbyterian Quarterly,
AN ASTOR IN THE ARM*.
Mr. John Jacob Astor, of this city, has
joined the itaff of Major Genartl MeOlellau,
with the commission of Lieut. Col, Mr. As
tor is the representative of thirty million* of
property, with an tncuine of twj million* per
annum. He bas been from the begiotiing one
of the most setive and ttbai-ut exeouiivc mem
bers of the Union Defence Comm.: e of this
city, and has given bis time knowledge aao
atoucv without stint for the cause of the coun
try and for the suppression of the rebellion. —
Those foreigners who doubt whether our best
men have much interest ia tbs Uuion have a
very satisfactory reply in tbie notion of Mr
Astor. Suoh are capitalists as he see very
plainly, >* Mr. Hh pb rd Kupp sati so tn
time ago, that if ths Union is wortn naming,
then nothing else within its bounds has any
value.
Two other prominent members of the Uoior
defence Committee are alec its the Held —Gen
era! Dix, who was the first President of in*
Committee, ami Brigadier Geo. Jam's 6
Wadsworth who wae one of Gen. MaDewell 'i
aids at the battle ef Stone Bridge, end wa
rn cottoned io the despatches for his eool and
gallant conduct.—JSoemw* Post.
We pity tha family that sits down in broi
three times a day.
BEDFORD. PA, RID AY. DEC. 6. (861.
|AN ESCAPED PRISONER'S STORY
Dr. Stephen Hagaden,of Rath. New Yot
who was captured bj the rebels, at Bull Ru
has escaped and returned home. A oorrt
j pondent of the Rochester Democrat , tella tl
I story:
j "Dr. Hagadon went to Buil Run to la
j after a son who was a privets in the Seed
Wisconsin volunteers. Ha was taken about ur
: *ay between Bill Run and Oeutreviile. b
I saw that he was out off and must ba taken at
raised a white handkerchief upon an umbro
to prevent being shot. A rebel horsemen cue
l up and demanded where be was from, andn
learning that he was a civilian from New Y a
| exclaimed: "D u you, what busiraa
aave you to raise a flag of truce," and levi
"Ug bis pjstol, said: "I've a great tnind to slut
you. i"iually, Dr. Hagadrou wis ordered j
mount behiud the rebel, uud in attempting •
do so from the level ground, lost his hot, whit
be was not flowed to pick up. While tryto
to mount, the savage struck backwards wife
his sword, cutting a g ,sb in Dr. Hindoo'
forehead wbich bleed freely. A footman butt
ded him his hat and Dr. Hagadon rude in ilui
way for a short distance, wbeu be wue se
down and marched, part of the time upon i
run, to Manassas, where they arrived at aboui
teu o'clock at night. He met Mr. Ely there
but be saw but iutle of him until after iheit
arrival at R.obtuond.
"He reports tot quite a number of the rol
dicrs have died, but all are now in better healtl
si nan the weather became cooler. Their con
dition in some respects is miserable. Vermin
nifeet the prisons, aud the person cannot be
kept clear of them. Many a.e without shirts.
:<ile tbeir other garments searoeiv covet bait
persons. Those who have money are at liber
tv to provide extra clothing and food lor them
selves.
THE HARBORS OF SOUTH CARO
LEVA
Ao inter-sting article m Hunt's Merchant's
Magazine gives the following ties iption of
the harbors us the coast of South Carolina:
GEORGETOWN.
Geotgetowo, South Carolina, is seventy two
nails* southwest from Cans Fetr. h.ylqg a
running among scoals. The depth of ohau
nel varies from seven feet to thirty. Tha Pe
dee river oonnects Georgetown with the inte
rior, being Dsvagible as far as Couway boro'
by brigs, lhe blockade of the entrance te
tbii harbor would be -asy. Farther down lbs
coast empties in tbc Santee rival, whose uoulb
in cbdfrneted by shaals, on which the depth of
water is only from two to rwo aud a quarter
fest.
BULL'S BAY.
Thjjp is a good barhor of refuge from south
east winds, aud very accessible. The depth
on the bar at mean low water ;s thirteen feet,
and the aceuerage is good in twenty one feet,
insida Capers' and Dewces' inlets, below
Bull's Baj, admits vessels drawing six feet
water.
CHARLESTON.
The harbor has six entrances, which, begin
ning with the one farthest North, are in this
order: Mifit's or th# Sullivan's Island chan
nel, vrith eleven feet; tho North channel, with
eight feet: the Swash with nine feet; the Over
all channel, which is not now used; the main
ship channel, with eleven feet, and Lawferd
ebannel, which gives eleven feet at mean low
wutor. The entrance by north channel is ex-.
tremoly precarious to vessel# drawing ev6n
feet of water, and impassible at low tides to
any other. Swaeh ebannel varies in depth
from seven lo ten feet. Maffit's channel is
narrow at the bulk-head near Fort Monltrie
jetiee. Tbc antranees to Charleston are such
that a single vael eouid easily bloskade the
barbor without being molested from possible
fortifisations on shore. Charleston ia aon
esc tad with the inteiior by tha Ashley and
Cooper rivers, and by two railroads tbat join
the national net work. Tbe retraces to
Charleston is perfectly promoted by For's
Moultrie and Sumter, the latter on a about
near tbe cb-mcel. . There are also military
works en Morris island and Cumaiiofs P..int.
The eity, lying at tbe onnlusttee of two riv
ers and surrounded by low riot marshes, is
diffieult of approaoh. There ie an approach
through Eilfrit'a cut, from Stone river
North Ediato river, between Charleston aud
St. Helena Sound, baa nine feet af water on
its bar at mean low tide. Tbia and the Stone
and South Kdisto river entrant#** are good
htrbnii of refuge from northeast winds for
vessels of light draft.
BEAUFORT.
Following tbe coast downward, the next
seaport of any imp'Ttsnse is Beaufort, South
Carolina. Tbis plane, situated on St. Helena
Island, is accessible by two inlets; via: the
south channel of St. Helena Bouod, in depth
seventeen feet; tbe second inlet, of twenty
j feet, being tbe southeast channel of Fort Roy
al nt nee. Beaufort river haa an average
c'.eptb of .'ixteeti feet at low water, tea point
within two miles ef the eity, and nearly flf
teei up to B anfor*. Tbe entrance to this
i port is easier than that af Charleston, but a*
i theie ait- no railroad or river communication
with tbe interior, tbe importance of tbe plaos
j as a por* of entry is limited
Chumtj*** GIFTS FOB THS SOLDItas
j The intuits of Rhoorf jUiand ars proparing to
' send to each volunteer from that State a Obrist
: in** gift of a pair of sookn and mittens, tho
| name of each soldier, with tbat of the company
; to which he bc-longe, to be atnehed to - the ar
' liclee.
'•DIED MIGHT"
Coupled with the bridals, printed in little
type, leading off the advertisements, jostled by
sorry jest, hard behind a market, close be
hind a cotillion, what a place a newspaper is,
to put a death in.
We are reading something about a home,
and all at onoe we are in a piaee of graven
we are looking over the testimonials to the
Elixir of Life, and oome, before we hnow it,
upon a "Lied last nigbt."
If there were only some tetired and shaded
corner in a newspaper, with a willow or an
urn in it, where tbe names that have no owo
ete; could bo recorded, and we could go when
weary when rambling through tbe columns of
i.astle and business, and read; and think how
surely oue after mother, all nanus tend
tbitber; these that stand at tbe bead of the
co umn editorial in capitals; (boss that are
pointed at with a Sugar, and wondered over
with exciauiaticu points, and asked after with
iuterrog itions; those that were brides tbe oth
er day, and ere brides atiil, but with new
bruLgraome; those (bat were heroes, cd found
piece in the "leader;" or beautiful aad wo
ven in a wreath for "Poet'e Corner."
But there is no auah retreat—nothing but a
narrow black hue like this • ' to keep
the world out, to prevent tbe railway tram,
whose times are advertised below, from ruo
tit tig over tbe name aad obliterating it. And
so it ia like a grave in a thorougfare, covered
with dust, end jarred by passing wheels; it
gives as pain to look at it, and we are glad it
ie only for a day.
"Died last oigbt." It was nobody that you
know, you think, and so yea pace on to a
"*nU" era "bargain" that you see beyond,
and forget that there was ever eueb a name uf
such a dying in the world. How apt we are
to forget thai there are tboee though, who
cat hardly see the nemo for the heavy rain
what is falling, while the heavn overhead is
bright and clear; that eyes do reat thereon,
that see a world pet out where you dieoern a
name; that wonder how the sua eaa suiat,
since sun down oame to tbem; who bear with
their hearts the idle laugh that's passing oo
tbe wind.
"Died last night." A pleasant time ie die,
the true light of stars, to fad the way eut
from tbe port of earth by evarlaatieg Upe
"Died last night." How many died; bow
many beautiful and good; Low mauy young
and fair; how many revered and wise. Home
that you and we knew: perhaps eae that yoa
and we loved. We shall hear of it by aad
by, and then we shall rswstnber that it was
last aigbt she died.
To die at aoy time "is a dread and awful
thiag;" to die whan day is breaking; to din
a( high noon; :• die when the peer! and gold
of morning and the glow of noon are ail
blended upon the pa'ette of the West, till the
sky looks like a great tiated shell thrown up
npon tbe shore of Eternity. Bat to go from
(bis world to that, in the eight, by ike pale
light of stars, ia most solemn end beeatifwi of
ell. And then (here's a dignity abi/Ut that
going away alone; that wrapping the mantle
of immortality about us; that puttiag aside
with a pale hand, tbe asure curtain! that are
drawn around this eredle of a world; that ven
turing away from heme for the first time in
our lives, for we are not deadi there is nothing
dead to speak of aod teeing foreign countries
that are not laid down on any maps we hnow
about. There must be lovely lends somewhere
starward, for none ever return that go there,
and we very mueh doubt whether any would
return if they eould
"Died last aissbt " Well, in a few days—
ss soei as they ean—they take down the old
family Bible somewhere, and they write a de
psrture—the clearance of a soul. Sometimes
it is e bud, bat as rare Ben. Johnson said so,
everybody thinks, —
"Twas bat abnd, vet did contain
llore sweetness than shall bloom agaia.
Sometimes a blossom wafted from the tree,
bv some returning' breath, to beaveo. How
different the reeord on the other psge, a year
or so ago, when they set dawn the new nsnse
the same nsme thev wrii# now, bn ownerless;
that will be thought o' hot not out loud; tht
may be heard • few times, but net in the crowd,
not in the merry festival, but in tbe twilight
boars, at home, and then be syllabled no more.
De Bow om the Danger* of Peace.
The Richmond Dispatch of the 14th cays :
De Bow's November Review has ao admira
ble article, entitled tb "Perils of Peace."
The obvions danger of en immense Yankee
immigration, which well Abolitionize the bor
der State# et the balloUbox, unless snob res
trietions are placed upon tbe exeroise of suf
frage as wili prevent them Jron ever having a
vote, are painted io letters of light. We have
often referred to this danger as one whioh, if
not provided against in time, wili render all
lbs blnod and treasare expended in this war
entirely profitless. The tame writer also oou
tends that while our present foreign population
wbioh has proved so gallant and faithful in
the southern cause, should retain tbe pieces
-ion of every right which tbey now bve, tbe
suae privilege should not be conferred on fu
uire euiigraut* to lbi:> country. He also ex
presses the opinion 'hat no European, and, wo
may add, northern citiaen, now residing in the
south, unless it be one who is still au alien
will eoodeiua a feeling which does not deprive
northerners or foreigners, now visiting here,
of any right which they possess, but only pro.
poses to exolade hereafter those who am now
eedeavoting to deprive eveiy eomthern man of
his liberties.
A Negro's Description of the Battle
with the Rebel Ports.
"Hope Yarn" writes as io another letter at
follows : Oa our way to the beach we met one
of the negroes. Ho was a regular grinner,
and showed his ivories to perfection. I asked
iiim if he was in the fight. Oh golly said he,
I wer dat. W ell, what do yon think of it *
As near as I can remember his words, the fcU
lowing was his answer : Well, Mas**, I Dehor
• ship before, end when she come up <iis
way deo general <*ay to my mars*, Now Geo
eral Drayton, you look at us siak dat Wabash.
Wall, Mars* he sat down, den some more gen
tlemen dey come from up de riber to s** de
saip sunk too. Well, bime-by <ie Fort Wa
bash send one of de® tings ehe baa in ber
what makes a bowliu in de fert and makes an
• wful ooiee bare too, and deo breaks uff m
pieces (a sbel!) and flies all around. Die
frighten detu some; den a good tnauy ob deu>
cum togader, and ob golly, Masse jump and
and run for his herse, be drop hi* sword, die
nigger had uo time to pick em up, but gets on
bis bos too and follows martter. Dsm things
bowled on dat Fort Wabash, dan dey ooiae
ober bere and bowie and break up and smoke
and throw de iron all about like as if da debil
was in cm. Bime by, when we got io de
woode, Majrse an I stop for to look, nut dern
debila del de Fort Wabash fotob bere make eo
much smoke on die shore dat we eould not see
acting. Arter a little while den all de peo
ple dat come to see de ship sink come gallop
ing up to de woeds, bime-by one ob dem smoke
ball brake eloee to em, and ob goMy, didu't
dam bosses run, and den Maree be run too,
but dis nigger got behind de bouse, and after
a while all de whole army—soldiers, horse,
and ebery one—come running, but die nigger
stowed away aud let em pas*,"
This negio declared that it wae en actual
fast tht people were invited to see the Wa
bash task. When Commodore Dupoat no
•bored within eight hundred yarde of Fert
Walker, he said he would not move ber till be
took that fort. It was a bold stand, but re
sulted in good.
Three Hundred Moo Burned In a
Mine-,
The foreign paper a give account of a terrible
asseality in the Department of Gard, France,
in* of a water spout, aeeerding to aome state
ment*— the Lalie mine wae flooded and the
Bids* fell in, burying all the working men.—
An captation of gae took piaoe at the same
time, by which a portion of tbe mine wae blown
up. The nnmbtr of men missing, and eoasid
ertd as killed by the aeeident. is nearly three
hundred. Ttie eesaality took place on the
13 1 b ult. The Gaxetti de Midi publishes tbe
following account ■ The mine bad been flood
ed by tue late rains, a laud slide took piece
•hd more than one hundred workmen were
either #r drowned. The Prefect of
the Gard, having been apprised of the cirenm
•tanee at taa at night, left bis residence, ae
eompaoied by several public fucelionsriee
and by the chief eagiaeer of the depart®sot,
sad proceeded to tha mine in a speoial train.
On arriving at tha scene of the disaster it was
ascertained that eaa hundred and seventeen
miners were miming, and that 1.800,000 ca
bin yarde of water had rushed into the mine,
and caused numerous landslips. Tha engin
eers are of she opinion tha* it will require three
months to pump out the water. Publio rumor
casta the blsme en the engineers, but tha fact
is that a waterspout burst and caused 4 tor
rent, which rushed into the mine with eueh
violence and rapidity that even tha overseers
had net time to save themselves. An explo
sion of gae took piaoe at the same time, by
whieh • portion of tbe mine Wea blown up.—
Though every means of rescuing the victims
have been taken, there is but little probability
of saving tba lives of those who are buried in
the mine. Tbe utmost that can be done is to
bring the dead bodies to tbe snrfaoe. The
number ef working men missing, sod consid
ered se killed by ihe scaideot, is Dearly three
hundred.
A PBIACHUB'N ADTlOU.—Loronso Dow
eaee closed a dUoou-ee with the following lan
guage, whieh it as singular for us quioinuin as
practicable in its advice: "I want yon my
yonng sinners, to kiss and get married, aud de
vote your time te morality and mousy-miking.
Than let your home be provided with suoh ne
cessaries and comforts ■ piety, pioklea, pott
and kettles, brushes and benevoleDoe, bread,
virtue, wine, tod wisdom. Have these al
ways on hsod, and happiness will be with you.
Do not driok anything intoxicating, eat mod
erately, go about your business after break
fast, lounge a little after dinner, cbst after
tea, and kiss after quarreling. Then all tbe
joy, the peace and bliss this world osn afford
shall be yours uutil tbe grave eieses over you,
and your spirits are berne to a brighter and
happier world."
About to th Knees.
One of our dry goods firms reeeutly procur
ed the services of a clerk who was a green
band at the business. A young lady entered
tbe store ene day lately to make some pur
ohssss, and the other clerks being engaged
with ousiouiert, the "yonng 'an" prooeeded to
wai on the young lady. Amonj: other things,
*be enquired tor ladies' hose. The boy found
the desired articles, and presented thorn for
tot Guy's inspection.
'How high do they come I' she enquired
after a short examination.
The hoy looked somewhat oonfnsed, hesi-
but at lengtb stammered out
' Wall I don't koow, bot I suppose tbay will
eorne about to the knees.'
The young lady did not trade with that
clerk any more.
Y0L.34.iY0. 49.
Matrimonial Retaliation.
Some year* since, is tbe county of Panob
eot, there lived a man by the ease of H
whose greatest pleasure wu in tormenting
others; bis own family was federally the bat*
of bis sport.
One cold blustering night he retired to bed
at an early hour—bis wife being absent.—
Sometime after ebe retarded, and, finding tbe
ioor closed, demanded admittance.
'Who are yon* criad H.
'You know weii enough who 1 am; let m
ia, it's very eold.'
•Begone, yon strolling vagabond, 1 want
nothing of you here.'
'But I must come in.'
'Wbai'a your name V
•It'* Mr#. B.'
Begone! Mrs. H. is a iikely woman, and
never keeps aucb hours as ibis.'
"If you don't let me in, I will drown my
elf in tbe well
'Do, if vou please,' be replied.
she took ap a tig log, and plunged it into
tbe well, and returned to toe aide of the <*eor.
Mr. H. hearing the noise, rushed from tLe
bouse to save, aa he supposed, bis drowning
wife. She, at the same time, slipped into tbe
bouse and closed the door after her. He, al
most naked, in tarn demanded admittance.
'Who are you V she demanded.
'Yon kaow whe I am; let me in or I shall
frees#.'
'Begone! you tbiavish rogue, I don't wagf
you here.*
'But 1 must come.'
"What ia your name V
•You knew my uamo—it is H.'
'Mr. H. ia a very likely mat; be dvß't keep
late boure.'
Suffice to say sbs, after keeping him in the
eold until she wat satisfied, epened the door
and left him in.
ANXCDOTX TOLD BY DAXIXL WXBBTIA.—
Ben. Daniel Webeter bad an anecdote of old
Father Searl, tbe minister of his boyhood,
wbieb bat never been in print, and which ia
teo good to be lost It waa customary then
to wear bnckskin breeobee in cool weather.—
One Sunday morning ia the Autumn, Father
Searl brought hie down from tbe garret; but
the loaner, and were having a niee time ia
tbeea. By dint of effort be got out tbe intro
dere and dreeeed for meeting. But while
reading tbe eonptnree to the congregation, be
felt a dagger from one ot tbe enraged small
waisted fellows, aid jumped about ths pulpit
slapping bia thighs. But the more he slapped
around and danoed, the more they stuog
The people thoaght Lisa erasy, and were io
commotion what to do# but be explained tbe
matter by eaying:
•Brethren, don't be alarmed. Tbe word of
tbe Lord ie in my mouth, bst the devil* ia in
my breeches.
Going it Blia4.
A blind man named Thomas Bishop was
brought before tbe Folioe Court in Cleveland,
last waek, oharged with bigamy under tbe fol
lowing airenasstaneea : —Tbe fellow it appeare
resides near Zaneeville, and has been blind
kbont five years. On tbe tenth of last Sep
tember, ha arrived at the American Hotel,
Cleveland, with a blind girl seventeen years
of age; whom he had brought from Huron.—
He married her the next day under tbe name
of William Qibsout. The parties remained at
th American till the 17ib, whan the blind
Lothario having made the acquaintance of
atutbar girl, also blind, in tha meantime, took
her before Rev. Mr. Starkej and waa united
to her in Marriage. On the 18th, the day foi-,
lowing the marriage, Bishop went te Steuben
ville with hie second victim. He staid there
one night, and the next day deserted her, tak
ing with him all Jjer dresses, jewelerj, etc.,'
sod $65 in money belonging to her, amount
ing in all to about S2OO. On leaving Cleve
land he bad robbed the Huron girl oi all she
possessed. He went from Steubenville to Ma
rietta on the 20tb, where be passed uuder tbe
ii*me of August Cook. At Marietta he met
.nothar blind girl, also from the Blind Aj
ium, named Mary Delaney, twenty-two years
jf age, te wboun hi was married on tbe 25:b of
September. He lived with her four daye. He
then aesetted her, taking all bar property in
tewelry and dresses. He went next to Par
tersborg, thence to Ctuoinuati, and thence to
lews. He soon afterwards returned again
reached Columbus on Saturday last. On Wed
nesday, be went to Ztnesville, ami on Thurs
day he was arrested, four miles from Zanee
ville, ana taken to Cleveland for trial. He
was committed to answer.
PATBJOTIC. —The Ptnruylvania thirteenth
the organ ot Colonel Rowley'- regiment, says
in its last issue :—"We won't go home 'till—
the safety of the Union is asur*cL If we have
wives, they can get husbands easier than they
ran get a country. If we have gals, tbey oau
•elect boys amoug the Home Guards if tbey
isn't wait for as; so we are eon tent to await
iuy other issue that may turn up in the tna
ture."
SHE DIED YOUNG.
Beneath this stone, a lump of olay,
Lira Isabella Young,
Who on the tweutyfoarth of May 1
Began to hold her tongue.
TM NXW SBWATORB OTKM KKHTCOKY.— It
a supposed that Hua. James Guthrie, Soereta
■y of tbe Treaeury under CrMtdeet Prroe,
ind Jobr. J. Crittenden, will bo the new Sen
ators from Keutueky, in the pi <ee oi Brorfcla*-
ridge and Powell.