BI JOHN B. BBATTOK. VOL. 40 Dorticnl. EVENING SOLACE. D* CARTER DELL. Tho human heart has hidden treasures, In’aocfct kept,-In silence scaled} Tho tbo’ts, the hoposi the drodms, (ho pleasures* -Whoso charms wore broken if revealed. And days may pass in cay confusion, And nights in rosy.riot fly,. While lost In Fame’s or Wealth’s illusion, Tho memory oftbo Fast may die. Dul there are hours of lonely musing, Such as In evening silence come, When soft as birds their pinions closing, The heart’s best feelings gather homo. Then in our soots thcro seems to languish A lender grief that is not woo; And thoughts dial orce wrung groans of anguish, Now cause but some mild tears to flow. And feelings, onco as strong passions, Float softly buck—a faded dream} Our own. sharp griefs and' wild sensations, Thtj’lalo of others’ sufferings seem. Oh ! when the heart is freshly bleeding, flow longs U for the time to bo, When thought (ho midst of years receding, Its woes but live in revery 1 And it con dwell on moonlight glimmer, On evening ehado and loneliness; And while tho sky grows dim and dimmer, Feel no untold and strange distress— Only a deeper impulse given By lonely hour and darkened room, To solemn thoughts that soar to heaven, Seeking a IllVand world to come. fHfsctUnneous. SLICES FROM COLONEL BENTON’S HISTORY. Tho following extract from Col. Benton's forth coming work is highly intorosting, not only In tho politician but to tho general reader. There are not many whor nro awao of tho existence of facts hero presented, and hence the greater necessity of giving it a wide circulation ; Anno. 1837—J. Q,ulncy Adams President** Drltlsh ludcmiilly for Deported Slaves* In this year was brought to a conclusion the tong continued Controversy with Great. Britain, in role* lion to tho non-fulfillment of the first article of tho (rooty of Ghent, (1814) for the restitution of slaves carried oflTby the British troops in tho war ol 1812. Jl was n renewal of tho misunderstanding, bpC will) a better issue, which grew up under the seventh or , tide of tho troafy of ponce of 1703 tipoa tho same ! subject. The power of Washington’s administration was not able to procure the execution of that article, either by restoration of tho slaves or indemnity.'— Tho slaves then taken away were carried to Nova Scotia, where, becoming on annoyance, they werp transferred to Sierra Leona, and thus became.(ho foundation of (ho British African colonly there. Tho: restitution of deported stoves, stipulated In the first orticld'of (ho Ghent treaty could not be accomplish ed between tho (wo Powers; they disagreed-as to the oicsntng of. words;. and, after -suvon years of vain efforts to come to an understanding, it -wns □ greed to refer (ho question loan arbitrament. The Emperor Alexander accepted the office of arbitrator, executed it, and decided In fsvoroftho United Slates. That decision was as bnin(cllfgibto''(o Great Britain as all die previous treaty stipulations on (ho eimo subject had been. She could not understand it. A second misunderstanding grew up, giving rise to a second negotiation, which was concluded by a final agreement to pay (ha value of tho staves carried off. In 1827 payment was modo—twelve yoors after the injury and the stipulation, to repair .it, and after con tinued and most atronuous'exortlons. The ease was this: It was « part oftho system of warfare adopted by the British, when operating in tho slave Slates, to encourage (he slaves to desert from their owners, promising thorn freedom; and al the end of tho war these slaves were carried off.— This currying off was forsccn by (ho United Slates Commissioners at Ghent, and in tho first aitlclo of the irculy was provided against in these words:— “All places taken, &.C., shull bo restored without de ity, &.C., or currying away any of tho artillery or other public properly originally captured in (ho said posts or places, and which shall remain therein upon the exchange of (ho ratifications of this treaty, or any slaves or other private properly." The British Government undertook to extend tho limitation which applied to public properly to that which was private u.uo, anu no io rculoro omv sue)) slaves as were inully captured within tho forts, and which remained therein at iho lime of the exchange of ratifications— u cocsiructlon which would |javo excluded all that ocro induced to run away, being nearly tho whole, and all that loft (ho forts before the exchange of ratifications, which would btvvo included the rest.— Site adhered to the construction given to the natal* 'Jol article In tho treaty of 1763, and by which all slaves taken during tho war wore hold to be (awful prlto of war,and (roe under the British proclamation, -and not to bo compensated fpr. Thu United States, ■op (ho contrary, confined (his local 'limitation to things appurclonanl to Iho forts ; and held tho slaves 4o bo private property, subject to restitution or claim for compensation if carried away al all, no mutter hdw'acquircd. Tho point was solemnly carried before tho Empe ror Alexander, (ho United States represented by their minister, Mr. Henry Middleton, and Grout Biilain by Sir Charles Bagol—the Counts Nesselrode and Capo D’letrlas receiving tho arguments lobe laid before tho Emperor. Ilia Mujeaty’a decision was peremptory : “That tho United Stotes nf America are entitled to o just indemnification from Groat i Britain for all private property carried away by the British forces ; and, os tho question regards slaves: -more especially, for oil such slaves as wore,carried j , ‘o'Wuy by the British forces from the places and lor titoriss of which tho restitution was stipulated by the treaty, in Quitting tho said places and territories," This was explicit; but tho British Minister under took to understand it as not applying to staves who 00/unftirt7i/joined (he British troops to free them selves from bondage, and who came from places Dover in pottetaioh of the British troops, and ho sub Vnillcd.a note (n (hat effect to the Russian Minister, Count Nesselrode, to bp laid before'tho Emperor.— 3*b (his riote Alexander gavp on answer which is a vnodoi of categorical reply to unfounded dubltali'qn, I Ufouid: “The Emperor' having, by (ho mutual : Consent of (ho two Plenipotentiaries, given an opln. ion founded solely upon tho sense which results from I the tpzl of (ho article in dispute; doosjnol think him. self called pptm to decide hero any question relative (o'what tho laws of vyar permit or forbid to Iho bel ligerents \ but; always faithful to tho grammatical interpretation of tho first article of the treaty of Ghent, his imperial Majoaty doolaros, a second lime,' lhp| appears.to, him, according ■ to this'interprets* tlon, that* in quitting (he . places and territories of whloh the treaty, of Ghent stipulates the roaliCutlan (0,11)0 Votlod Blotes, tils Britannic Majesty’s forces hod no rlghlitp carry awoy from the same places 1 and,territories, absolutely,,any alavo, by whatever means ho had fallen or cortip ' into their power." This .vYoflitho second declaration, tho second decision ol the point; and both parties having bound them selves to abidp. tho decision, bo it.what it might, a. convention was immediately concluded for Iho pur pose of carrying (lie Emperor’s decision intoofibol, oy establishing a board to ascertain thopurpbor and value of (be deported slavos. It was a convention ibrrpa)|y..drAwn up, signed by, Iho Ministers of tho tl.rpa I‘awor., donoin (r)|.IMo, rnli(i;;| om ; -„ lln , c.tl»n. c«h.i,j;od, and il,„ aOjlr cqn.ldorod flnlill’ cd. -Not so tho fact! Now misunderstanding, nqw negotiation, flvb years more consumed in diplomatic notes, and finally a how convention concluded ! Certainly it was not value of the property in contro. versy, not the amount of money, to be paid, that led Groat Britain (o that pertinacious.resistance, border* iog upon cavilling and bad faith. It was the loss of an advantage in war, tho loss of the future advan tage of operating upon tho slave States through their slave property, and.which advantage would bo lost if this compensation tyas enforced, which induced htir to stand out so long against her own stipulations and the decisions of her own accepted arbitrator. This now or third treaty, making indemnity for i those slaves, was negotiated at London, November, IBS6, between Mr. Gallatin on- the part of tho Uni. i tod States, and Messrs. Huskison, and Addington i on (ho part of Great Britain. It commenced* with i reciting (hat "difficulties having arisen in the exe cution of tho convention concluded nlSt. Petersburg, July 12th, 1822, under the meditation of his majesty the Emperor of alt the Russias, between, the United Stales of America and Great Britain, for the purpose of carrying into effect tho decision of his Imperial Majesty upon (ho differences which had arisen be tween tho said United States and Groat Britain as to the (rue construction and moaning of the first ar ticle of the treat of Ghent, (fiere/bre, tho said parlies agree to treat rfgaln,” &o. Tho result of this third negotiation was to stipulate far tho ,payment of a gross sum to (he Government of the United Slates, to be by it divided omong those whoso slaves had been carried off, and (ho sum of one miilion r lwo hundred and four thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars was the amount agreed upon. Tide sum was satisfactory to tho claimants, and was paid, to tho Untied Slates for their benefit in (ho year 1827, just twelve years after the conclusion of the war, and after two treaties had been made, and two arbi* (rations rendered to explain the meaning of the first treaty, and which fully explained ilsoif. Twelve years of persevering exertion to obtain tho execution of a treaty stipulation which solely related to private property, and which good faith ond sheer justice re quired to have been complied with immediately ! At the commencement of (ho session of Congress 1627-28, tho President, Mr. John Quincy Adams, was able to communicate (lie fact of the final settl ing ond closing up of this demand upon the British Government for the valuo of tho slaves carried off | by its troops. Tho eum received was large and j ample to pay tho damages; but that was Iho small ; cel part of the advantage gained. Tho example and | iho principle wore the main points—tho enforcement of such a demand against a Government snpoworfol, and nficr so much resistance, and (ho condemdalion which it earned, and tho responsibility which it implied—this was the grond advantage. Liberation and abduction of slaves woe one of the modes of . warfare adopted by tho British,'and largely counted 1 on os a means of harrassing and injuring one half , of (ho Union. It hud been practised during the , revolution, and indemnity avoided. If avoided a second lime, impunity would have sanctioned tho | practice and rendered it inveterate; and in all fu ture wars, not only with Great Britain but with alt . Powers, (his mode of annoyance would have become , an ordinary resort, loading to servile-insurrections. Tho indemnity exacted coined along with it tho . condemnation of tho practice, os a spoliation of pH- I veto property lu bo atoned for, and was both a com , ponsation for the past ond a warning for tho future. , It Implied a responsibility wliich no -power, or art, j or timo could evade, and tho principle of which bo- I log established, thcro will bo no need Jbr,future . arbitrations. 1 haVe,s*id Ih&l tbis article In Iho treat; of Ghent • fur restitution or compensation for deported slaves, was brought to a better issue than its parallel in the treat; of peace of 1783. D; tlio seventh arliplo of (his treat; it was declared that the evacuation (b; the British troops)should bo carrying away an; negroes or oilier properly belonging to the American Inhabitants." Yet three thousand slaves ' wore carried away, and neither restitution nor compensation made for an; part of them. Both were resisted—(ho restitution by Sir Go; Csiloton in his letter of reply to Washington's demand, de claring it to bo an impossible infamy in a British * officer to give up those whom they hud invited to I their, standard, but reserving the point for the con- I • idorotion of Ilia Government, am), in the meantime, ' allowing and facilitating the taking of schedules of all slaves taken away—names, ages, sex, former 1 owners, and States from which taken. The British Government resisted compensation upon the ground of war captures; that, being taken in war,no matter liow, they became, like other plunder, iho property of (ho captors, who had a right to dispose of it os they pleased, md had chosen In sot it free ; tint the slaves, having become free, belonged to nobody, and consequently it was no broach of the treaty stipula tion to carry them away. Tills ground was con tested by the Congrosfl of the Confederation to (ho end of its existence, and afterwards by the now Fed era! Government, from Its commencement until the calim for indemnity was waived V* ins conclusion of Joy's treaty, in VIS®. j'i, o Vcr y first message of Washington Congress presented Iho ihoxccutlun cfVnQ treat; of peace in this partic ular, arr.unw minors, as ono of the complaints justly existing against Grpal Britain ; and all tho diploma ' oy of his Administration was oxorlod to obtain re dress in vain. The treaties of *94 and *96 wore both signed without allusion to the subject, and, being loft unprovided for in those treaties, the claim sunk into tho class of obsolete demands j and (ho stipula tion remained in iho treaty a dead loiter, although 1 containing tho precise orders, and tho additional ono 'nogroos,*on which (ho Emperor Alexander took iho stand which commanded compensation and die* nonsod with arguments founded in tho laws of war- Ndt a shilling had been received for that immense depredation upon private properly, although the Congress of tho Confederation adopted the strongest . resolves, and over, ordered ell tho States to bo fur nished with copies of tho schedules of tho slaves la- I ken from it} and hopes of indemnity wore kept alive i until extinguished by the treaty of '9G- It was o , biller complaint against (hat treaty, as the Congress debates of the time and (ho public press abundantly t show. Northern men did thoir duty to the South In got* ting compensation (and, what la Infinitely more, establishing the principle that there shall bo com* ponaation In such eases) fur the slaves carried away In the war of 1813. A majority of the commission ers at Ghent who obtained the stipulation for indem nity wore northern men'—Adams, Russell, Gallatin, from Ihd free, and Clay end Dayard from (ho slave States. A northern negotiator, (Mr. Gallatin) under a Northern President, (Mr. John Quincy Adams) finally obtained It; and it Is a coincidence ! worthy ol remark that this Northern negotiator, who was finally successful, was the same debater In Congrats in *95, who delivered (ho best argument, In my opin ion surpassing oven (hat of Mr. Madison against the grounds on which tho British Government resisted the execution of (his article of tho treaty.. lam oo man to stir up old claims against tho Fedora) Gov*, eminent, and detest tho trade which exhumes such claims and the faculty with which (hey ore consid ered. Dut I must say that tho argument. on which tho French spoliation claim Is now readying so much consideration, dpplios with infinitely mere force to the planters whoso slaves wore taken during the war of the revolution than In behalf of those French spoliation claims. They wore contributing —soma in thoir persons' in the' camp or oounot), all In their voluntary or |u* contributions—to tho iuda« pondonco of their country,'when they wore thus despoiled of (heir property. They depended upon those slaves to support thoir families while they wore supporting (hair country. ■ They ,woro in debt to Dritish-morohunts, and,relied upon ocmponyalion for (hose slaves to pay those debts, at the .very mo ment when compensation was abandoned by ihpsamo treaty’ which enforced the payment of tho dpblfl,— £ h i2 &U r ° r . 's?*"!! 1 ?* yfr* l “our odntrt—may t always maut w ®lr r nidbToft wucno,our oouNTRt* 1 CARLISLE, PA., .THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1853. public use. Three thousand, slaves, the property of ascertained tpdividuals, protected by o, treaty- slip.o* latjpn, and aliorwerds abandoned by another treaty, against; the entreaties and remonstrances of thp owners, iq order tp obtain t|io British commercial treaty of’94, and its supplement of’96; such is tho esse which Ibis revolutionary spoliation,of slave property presents, and which pats it immeasurably ahead of.tho French spoliation, claims prior to 1800. There is but feuryoars’ difference in their ages— In (ho dates oflho two treaties by .which thoy woro respectfully, surrendered—and every other difference between tho two cases Is an argument of preference in favor of tho losers under the treaty of 1796. ■ Yet I am against both and each, separately or .together, and put Ihom in contrast to make one stand as an argument against (ho other.. But tho primary rpo> son,for introducing thoslayo spoliation case,ofJ7B3, end comparing its loss fertonoto issue with that of 1812, was to show that Northern racn.will do justice to the South; that Northern.man obtained fur (ho South an indemnity and security in our day which a Southern administration, with Washington at its head, had not been able to obtain in the days of our fathers. i THE DANCE OF DEATH* A CUSTOM OF CHIU. j Aqoa ardionto and dulces were handed round while all, men andwomon—the dancers excepted—smoked I their cigarillos. Cut the most remarkable thing Ip 1 the room, Boomed to mo a largo kind ofyoaflbld, which occupied tho other corner opposite tho bed, consisting of a light frame work, ornamented all over with arti ficial Sowers litllo pictures of saints, and a quantity ofsmall lighted wax candles. On the top of it, a most extraordinary well made wax figure of.a JUllo child, was sooted on a low wooden chair, dressed in a snow white litllo frock, (lie eyes were closed, the pale cheeks tinged by a soft rosy huo, and (ho whole 1 figure perfectly strewn with flowers. It, was ao deceptive, that when I drew near at first, I thought it a real child, white a young woman below it, palo, and with tears in her eyes, might very well have boon tho mother. But that was most certainly a mistake, for at this moment one of tho men slopped up lo her, and invited her to the dance, and a few minutes afterwards, she was tho merriest in tho crowd. But it must really bo a' child—no sculptor could have formed that litllo so exquisitely, and now one light went out, closo to tho little head, and tho cheek lost its rosy hue. . My neighbors at last remarked the attention, with which I looked upon tho figure, or tho child, which ever it was, and tho nearest one informed roe, as far as 1 could understand him, that the litllo tiling up Micro was really a child of the woman with tho palo face who was dancing just then so merrily, tho whole festivity taking place, in fact, only on account of her little angel. 1 shook my head doubtfully, and my neighbor, to convince mo, look my’ arm and ted mo to tho frame, where I had to slop upon the chair and nearest table, and (ouch the cheek and head of tho child. It was a corpse! And the mother, seeing,! had doubled it, but was now convinced came up lo mo, and smilingly told mo that it had been her child, and was now a little angel in Hoavon. Tho guitars and cucacs commenced wildly again, and she had to return lo the dance. 1 loft the house as in a dream, but afterwards heard tho explanation of (his ceremony. If a little child—l believe up lo four years of ago—dies In Chili, U is thought to go straight to hoavon, and bccomop a little angel, the mother being prouder of that—before tho eyes of the world al.leasl—than, If phojiad fesVed lhc, child to •happy mon or womanhood. The litllo corpse is ex* hibiiod tln>n, as I. liqdscen it, and they,often qonljnpe dancing and singing around 11, till it displays sighs of putrefaction. But..(ho mother, whatever tho feelings of her heart may bo, must laugh, and.sing, and dance, she darb not give way.to.any selfish wishes, for it is not tho hppplocst of her child secured T Poor motherGersWec&sr’s Journey Round Ike World. A llldcont Monster. There exists in society a hideous monster, known to all, though no one disturbs it. Its rsvsgea sro groat, almost incalculable, it slays reputations, poisons, dishonors and defiles the splendor of ,the most estimable form. It has no name, being a morp figure of speech, a very word. It is composed of but ono-phrase, and is called —lAey toy. ■Do you know such a ono Vis often asked,and (bo person painted out, ■No, but they say ho has had strange adventure?, and his family is very, unhappy.' •Are you sure 7* ■ No, I know nothing about it. But gay~~' This young woman, so beautify B 0 brilliant, 6 o much admired—do you kuo*;; j| Cr 7« ■No, They iay it Is not difficult to please her, and that more than or.e has iono 60 7* |Bat she t>pn^ fB 8Q d ccon f, B o reserved,’ •Ucr»^ M i,y; but they say—* •Do not trust that gentleman. Boon your guard. *Bah 1 his fortune is immeoso, s6o what an ©slab llshmont ho lias? ‘Yes 5 But they soy hejs much involved’. 'Do you know the fact"?’ ‘Not I. They say though—* This 'they toy' is hoard In every relation of life.— It is deadly, mortal, and not to bo grasped. It go6s hither and thither, strikes and kills manly honor, female virtue, without either sox being over conscious of tbo injbry dono. It’s What You Spend* Under this caption, the Lodger mikes some very sensible remarks which wo copy, and (0 which wo especially refer all who ore just settling down In life. A wise economy Is a vary different thing from sor did ponurlousnoss ; wliiio tho latter should always bo condemned, too much cannot bo said in behalf of tho former : ■■lt's wbal thoo'll spend, my son," said a sago old Quaker, "not what Ihao’ll make, which will decide whether thce’a to be rich or not.” The advice was trite, for it was but Franklin’s in another shape.— ■ Take care of the pennies, and the pounds will Uko care of themselves,” But it cannot bo too often re pooled. Mon are continually indulging in small ox pensos, saying to thomaulvoa it's only a lilflo, yet forgetting that (ho aggregate Is serious, that oven tho sea snore Is made up of potty grains of sand.-i- Tcn cents a day oven, is thirty six {foliar* and a half a year, and that Is the interest on a capital of sU hundred dollars. Every eixteon years -ten Cents a day becomes six hundred dollars, and If 1 Invested quarterly, does not Uko half that time. But Ten cents a day Is child's play, some will exclaim. Weil, then, John Jacob Astoc used (p say (fiat when a man. who wislioa to bo r|ol), has saved ton thousand dp), lars, ho has won half the' battle. Not that Astof thought ton thousand much. But (10 know, that in making such 0 bam, a man acquired habits of pru dent economy, which would qonsfantly kopp him advancing in wealth, flow many,however, spend (on thousand in a fow years in extra expenses, and when, on looking book, cannot toll, as they aay, •'where the money wont to.? 1 - To savo, Is the golden rulo to got rich. To (squander; overt id smh.ll sums, is tho first stop towards the poor house. Takinothb Caeam orr a Hoosibr.— Ono of tho Indiana fcjgnoldre twitted Clurk of Rhode Island of coming from a.Stota ao poor that tho Govornop was obliged to rniso calves and peddle • milk, bououßQ Ilia salary would nolaupportjiim. ! , Truo,*.r?pliodiClarkrf •wo 801 l milk and xalao calve?, hut, wo doo'l epnd lliom io Congress os your Stale dqqs !V foil as though lie wore badly ekinnod. 1 Chickens Hatched without a Hen.—Jl wnsfllajod to us. last week, by a rospoatablo source, that a far mer of Wy()iov)jlo has. a f ien, had bdoo flitting on a ( nosl of eggs fur one Wook, Jn lile bafn;and. it happonod ilml wliilo ptoanirur grain, iho.was scared from the nest, and by acoiddni“lho ogj^a I wiiro cover. egg. w«ro l(»lolioj I 'flip olilpKpn. It seems bard to be believed,, but It ill 'true- "J/M* viJfc Republican. tatrSantii ;Of ijjrUib,ppe)ls of society, (ho voluntary Idler sins tho most without excuse, and bears tho moat disgust* ing character. 'Men there arc, .ip. roost parts of (ho world, (Hoavpn help (hem!) who nan got nothing to do, and with manly hearts and willing hands seek in valq forlabor onpugh to feed and clothe them.— Poor s* each arc, they are, kings and princes by the side of . those |&cn ; who, with all God’s gills of power —•with minds to. think and plan, arms to work, and a parse at command, imagine they find their highest happiness ia allowing all those, gilts to Ho idle, or In using them only more perfectly to secure and render still more essy» their blessed case. What a life!— Think of.U,! . What a destiny—to make op (be great sura ofoartbly existence by periodically stuffing and taking off and putting on a rotten pair of panlaluona! Oh, voluntary idler in God’s busy universe, if you have,nothing to do, get something, to do. Every working, worthy roau -despises you, if you do not despiso youraclf. A lazy man cannot bo happy, and if you aro possessed with a lasy devil, oast him out, though, !t.tears those chair glazed breeches Into a thousand sbrpcjft* Cpat him out, and do. something to keep bright and healthy those faculties which in a futuro life must measure themselves with the wings of angels. * , About o. Saw* Two beautiful old Cronies was Old Twlcheyo and his brother Black Jake. Old Twichoyo had a peculiar squint of his own, and Black Joke had the other kind of Slrobimins, whereby hla eyes diverged with an obliquy equaling the horns of a short horned Durham Bull. Jake did not agree with hla brother in any thing except in their views on the Maine Liquor Law. Upon this point they fully'ooincided. Jake was sawing wood one day, when his brother with the awful eyes, passing along, stop ped and hailed mmujf. “Hallo, 1 Jake, what! are you doing 1” : “Savin’ japonic reply. “sawdhV yoti ?; great goose I what makes you qaw ao thunderin' slow **” “Saw wanta sotttnV* " “Does, eh I Guess you are working by the day I” “Now I’ll tell you what, old fellow. I’ve been wishing you Would come along here more (han an hour,” Bald Jake, unstringing his saw very delib erately.. **l want you to squint aefoss that’ere, and if that don’t set the darned thing, there’s no use in trying to saw any more. (£j* At o diqncr party a few days since while champaigns Was circulating pretty freely, ond jests were sparkling, ae sparkling os wine, one modest young man, who was engaged in the turkey depart, monl, suddenly proposed a conumdrum : "Why are (ho most of people who eat turkey like babies 7” A great silence followed, accompanied with deep reflection. No one could answer, all secerned per plexed. The modest young man blushed and backed out his own proposition, but an over curious female rotative detained him by (ho button of his coat, and ho was compelled at (ho entreaties pf the party, to give the answer, which waa, I they ero fond of thobrcaal.” I Two middle oged ladles fainted, and the coroner I was sent for -immediately to hold an inquest over iho remains of tho young man, who was suddenly carried out. “Mosioim All Tiiinob.” — * There's music in all UiingiiVuion only had car*,* says somebody—and wo begin, to believe U ; for hero Is a chap—the Kniekertioekir?* ?Vp the River* correspondent, who ha* found mutlo in (he rilMnooa mosquito’s ham r "The night was very still, only now and (ben wps heard by the lovers of melody (ho Infinitely fine music produced by tho tiny win™ of (ho mqsoqito beating the air, and which redly Boomed to bo a Bxllini melody, blown through tfio fragile trumpet of bi<* proboscis. To those whoso oars and tempers' arc attuned rightly, this music, pursued from high (0 low, orlow to high, through the marvollously-onocnd • log or descending scale of tho gamut, would almost oppoar suited to dilettanti spirits, and as if produced by a detachment from Queen Mab’b orchestra. It would bo totally lost in (ho midst of vulgar noises : but its attenuated notes are wafted, in all their ■ oato subtleness, to those who roclloq ar r- Q j la [ rt< rcpo.o nn o'oootm, and nrg ’ lU Viincr lliora.el.oß to repose. • „avo often and often admired them TJ ,*bn on tho verge of sleep, and been recalled by them, from (ho land of shadows. How beautiful is their ‘Hum Wall*,’ and llioir ‘Toazo-Polka.* and their ‘Singling Requiem :* enough to mako you olap your hands until (he blood fiowa I And when I hare scon them after death, mashed flat In their ombal ment upon a white woahod wall, I think of that sod titoenl of Kiltict White, if I remember rightly : -• Music post Is obsolete, Wouldn't Contend.—A cross-grained, surly man, too crooked by rtaluro to keen elill, went over ono morning to his neighbor, Mr. F., 0 rorrtarkably cool, calm, nonrcsislanl, and sddrossod him thus: •That piece of fence over (bore (pointing la ■ certain direction,) ls mine, and you shan’t have it.' •Why,’replied Mr. F.,‘you must bo mistaken, I think.* •' / ' ' . •No, no, it’s mine, and I snail keep it.' ‘VVoll/.aaid neighbor F., ‘suppose wo leave U to any lawyer you shall choose.' •J won't leave it |o any lawyer,’ said tho other. •Well/ continued Mr. F-, ‘shall wo leave It to any four moo In the village that you shall select?’ ‘No, t shall have tho fence.’ Not at all discomposed, Mr F., • Well, neighbor, thou 1 will leave it to you whom tho fenco belongs to, whether you or myself.' &UuqU dumb by this appeal, the wralhy man turned away, ‘ convicted by his own conscience,* saying, ‘ 1 won’t have abylhlng (0 do with a man that won’t CONTEND FOR 1118 RIGHTS.” One or Tnx ToAsts.—Tho following toast was given with groat reial pt a recent celebration of the Fourth of July: The memory of tho roan. That owns tho land, That raised the corn, That fed the goose, That boro Ihp quill, Thai mode.tho pep, That wroto ilio peolara tion of Independence. Eluant Extract.—'The annexed and beautiful lines aro cupieii Bain a tomb jituno in the Protestant gravoyard at jNow Orleans ; " There's nbl an hour, or day, or dreaming, night, bull am with ilioo, Umo’a not a wind .but whispers o/Uiy nqrao,snd pot a flower, that sloops beneath the moon, but In its hues or fragrance lolls a (ale of thee.” ; SrfAMSHtp Racing oK th* Atlantic.— Tho N. York! Commcrtial deprecates (ho oxclldroent which Is displayed respecting (ho performances of (he Collins and Cunard Blcamora, Tlio editor soys: Wo eirioeroly hopo that merchants and under writojH,ond tho public generally, will earnestly tjiis wl\olo business of belting on (ho.nciforppances of our ocean steamer?, and con vening tho Atlantic ocean into a rpoe course, .Tho Insurancocbmponios can greatly aid in suppressing lUodangorhuspraotibe; if thdy bo so minded, and to them tho'oomtminlly have a right to look for 1 such; protection as they oan give. If they raise the rates of Insurance,os tlio:oxoilcmßnt nnd bet* ting Increase, or refuse (o Insure when money Is known id bo staked upon tho race of speed to’ bo 1 ftconmnllshod, !bo evil would soon be abated; • ‘‘Blessing.dlJ womnn. ao voutiyV t'roy dpor liwoband't.ay.H pOrJt 4 *> d 1 have but ono clocking to dorn I” anu isnjw. Reprove mildly. Civility is a fortune* Here—the melon-cholic days. An aching void—a hollow tooth. Time at last sets all things even. t Goodness is not the growth of a day. No dust affects tho eyes.so muob as gold dost. There ore mapy who glory in their shame. Williamsport (Md.),is again healthy. A Golden Rule—always pre-pay your postage. Preaching is of much avail, but practice is far more potent. Men's evil manners live in brass; thoir virtues we write in sand. * Potatoes are selling for $lB per bushel, in some parts of California. Oampheno destroys more human lives in this country than Railroads^ Two Indians convicted of murder wore recently executed at St. Louis. A two year old baby was sent by express from Providence the other day. Salmon are caught in great numbers in the Sa cramento river, California. In comparison with the loss of a wife all other bereavements are trifles. A good character is a badge of excellence that cannot long bo concealed. Mr: Bryant, the poet, has received (ho title of L L. D. from Union college, Schenectady. A gentleman of Baltimore, now 7G years of age, is suffering with whooping cough. Like old topers—France, England, and Russia, are now quarreling over their Porte. In all (he relations of domestic life, a command of temper is absolutely indispensable. Young folks toll what they do; old ones, what they have done; and Tools, what they will do. If a person feels a person treading on his toes, need a person ask a person how a person knows. Punch says-“ Men in a passion should bo treated like kettles—when they boil over, they should be taken off.” Mrs. Partington says that because dancing girls are stars, it is no reason why they should be re garded as heavenly bodies. “I think our church will laslo good many years yet,” said a waggish deacon to his minister. "1 see that the sleepers are very sound.” The lime ia not far distant, when iho mail be conveyed in three days from Philadelphia to St. Louis, by a continuous line of railway. Jenny Lind Goldschmidt is said lo be tlie hap py mother of a fine daughter. That's only adding a few Sharps to her nfualcal scale. Mr. Denton’s “Thirty years In tho SonatS” promises to be one of the most interesting and val uable historical works ever published in this cood try. . j Mrs. Partjngton wys that nothing despises her so much as to see peoplo who profess to expect salivation, go to church without their purses when a recollection is to bo taken. Tho eulogy of Daniel Webster, which Mr* Choato delivered at Dartmouth College, is said to have been delivered in a manner which no other living rhetorician can parallel, A young lady atUod a clerk In a dry good store In Si, Louis if itu had “any aubdued mouse colottd i silk,” “No,” he replied, “but wo have some en raged rai color." “What ugly looking brat is that under tho win dow, Sua V* “Why, that ia mine,” replied Mrs. J . “Oh! call the dear, beautiful, pretty lit tle creature in, and let mo kiss her.” John says ho does not know which ho would rather feel, the breath of spring or the breath of a pretty girl It is o puzzle. A sleepy deacon, who sometimes engages in popular amusements, hearing that (ho minister quote the words, “Shuffle off this mortal coil,” started up and rubbed his eyes, exclaiming, “Hold on, squire} it’s my deal.” There is a man living In the backwoods, who, being invited to dlnpor. ale eo much bear’s moat, that ho went homo and hugged his wife—an act ho had never been guilty of before. Why is a horse half way through a gale like a half-penny I Because (hero is a head on ono side, and a (ail on tho other. Cleanliness is necessary to health. Nothing circulates so rapidly as a secret. They truly mourn who mourn without a witness. 1 “You will break my hoait,” as tho oak said to tho axe. Of all evils choose tho least. A littlo wife for instance. A good word for a bad ono is worth much, and costs little. Coming op to tho scratch—those who aro trou bled with fleas. Good habits—punctuality, accuracy, stoadinoss and despatch. Eternity, Wrote a deaf and dumb boy, is the life time of the Deity. Light moves with the astonishing velocity of 800,000 miles per hour. Haunted houses—Houses in which iljoro pro o half dozen good looking girls. To prevent birds frotp picking fruits—Roll them ip sugar and put them hWay In a stone pot. Somo intelligent young ladios that we know of, deny that (hoy were oyer In (ho arms of Mr. Mor pheus. A lecture to young man by a lady—Got mar ried. Young man's reply:—Do likewise. I’iral claßa in muaio stand up.—How many kinds of metro tiro (hero I Throe, sir—long metre, short metre, and vieet her by moon light alone. T|io follovv who was caught by his wife hugging his eorvapl.girl, sword (hot it yva? oli owing (pills having liken a hearty supper on beafs moat, pod couldn't help It. Theodore Hopk unyi ono of his friends,happened to cotttd to a bridge,—“Do you know who built this bridge tho lallor. “No," replied Hook, “hfltff yo b go over you’ll bo Drinking vlalol* neither makes a man alck, nor |n debt, por. his; wife awidow. On (ho contrary, 6(ropg ; i|,rjp> loads (o poftityv loss of dharaoter, SSlt-reapeol, ill health, and; eventually londrunU prd’s AT (iJ 00. PEB Artificial Manures* Tl*o increased bsoofartifioial. manures in tho U. Stoles has boon greater’within tho lofit your, than within any five ycaraeinco the. formation of our gov ernment. Even at tho ilmo of tho oommenceaenkof our journal, the quantity of guano imported- Into (be country was comparatively email, and of other arti ficial manures the manufacture was very inconsidera ble. . During Ibis Spring, the demand has, boon so groat, that at this. time, April 15th, not one bag of Peruvian goano Is to be. found, in first hands. In any of tho.prlncipal-cUics of tho United oven our agricultural warehouses aro completely sohL out of lh|s material. Sorts of guano which were a* drag in tho market a few mobths since, and almost with, out a buyer, such as Patagonia, Mexican,elc-t-aro all sold. Tho improved Supor-phospliacl of Lime, which was introduced by oureoif but liltlo tnoro than lyrslvo months ago, is now in such domand that tho manu facturers cannot supply ono.tenlh oflho quantity ask ed for, notwithstanding their factory la dapoblo of delivering ton tans or moro per day. And oven the imitations which 'haVo been made within tho last four months, aro eagerly bought up. by - IhoSe who cannot bo supplied with the genuine article. Super-phosphate of lime, of difforqnt oegrofi of excellence, and under different names, soino ‘With slight admixtures of guano, and no ammonia other than that contained, in the guano, others, with slight additions of wasto liquor of (ho gas houses ,-Bhd-Oth ers made by grinding small portions of the bone duf I with tho spent metals of the Prussian Dfde makers, being a residue from bnrnl leather, oto., ora-now, thrown upon the market, and In the absence of other fertilizers, aro readily sold. ; Wo much fear that some of these are of each in* ferlor quality that they will have the effect of irijef ing the reputation of valuable manures similarly named. Tho manufacturers of the improved Superphosphate of Lime aro rapidly increasing (heir facilities, end will shortly bo enabled to deliver twenty tons or more per day. This, however, will bo very far from in adequate supply. > Cubical nitrate of soda, is in rapid demand. fynt refuse and low priced common salt Has boon so com pletely bought up for agricultural purposes, as to ran. dor linearly or quite impossible to buy the refuse articles at leas than the market price for that cf bet ter quality. Wastes of factories of all kinds ire in high demand. Cos-house lime, ammoniacal liquor, woolen waste, Inir, bone dost, wasto of gluo foetpriesj and every article capable of being uspd to fertilize , the soil, Is in active demand; and if all those sub-' stances bo judiciously need, and to localities where needed, the country will bo largely the gainer by fiieUi increased use. Poudrolto companies, of which there aro several about New York, have increased demand for iheic manufactories. A few years eiace our old stylo farmers could scarcely bo mado to believe that sulphuric add wouhf' over bo used as a fertilizer, while doW the consump tion of this article by agriculturists, Is alfoady of ll}B, highest importance. Hundreds of carboy's j>er dsjr, are used by the manure manufacturers,nin&lbW maud has principally grown since our lniradttetlDii : -, of the Improved Bup.eyph' by Ihoso who Have selected badly, against I such fertilizers j but all who use them prpiWJly'wJll* realize increased profits, and wo may anticipate (byl : the power oflhe soil to produoo, will bo permanent ly and materially increased. Formers now,discovered that thov am large ly the gainers by'using their barnyard stable manures 00 smaller portions of their furms, and that by 4real-' log (ho rest of their acres with other fort jJiiing male- ' rials, when those are judiciously chosen, to. os. (o, re place the mipsing constituents of (heir soils, they will find in oflor culture that the addition of. the or dinary manures will bo doubly effective. They ol- | ready know that four additions of twenty-five loads They are preserved by placing (ho bottles, Alisa, with (lie fruit, iii cold water, and raising the temper*'' aturo to the boiling point as quickly as possibld, their; cork and seal tho bottles immediately. Sorao , lies of fruit will not Til! tho,bottle with their own. juice—these must bo filled with boiling water and corked as before mentioned, after the surrounding water boi)s.T*|SeulAern Cwltipafer. ■ . ,ij The Richest 1 M(oe«t 1 .•••■-•u.o The manure Applied (6 itio soil of England amount' 1 1 to throe hundred million of dollars, being' more than, tlio value of ils wholb foreign comnWoo, end yet thO''- grateful.soil yields back with internal,all that is thy*, lavished upon it. Apd so It would b<) , would only trust the soil with any portion ofourosp* ital. 11 But this wo rarely do. A' farmer vyno 'hos made nhynionoy.bponds it not ih ,l in some other,occapoUhnl * 110 buys.rooro'land Whsn - 'i* ho ought to buy more manure, or’lie. puts oulhia.-j knonoy in some joint company, to convert sunshiiio into moonshine. Roly upon it, oup ribhoal tuloe.lfe the barnyard, and whatever (amtation qtoofc or aliaryiuU ■may olfor, the host, investment for n farmer is live stock and plow shares., > T-i.i/.' To euro a sheep skin with the wpol on, foko QP« "I spoonful of slam and two of saUpotro, pnlVflrr^od'Wa mixed, wfeU together, then eptlnhlo the flesh, side of the skin, and lay (ho.two; sides togslhsrji'* > Oio wool outside. In (wo or throe,l' •bon as they dry. take them down and scrape then) with a blunt knife till clean opd suplo, iS. '! ITT » ] tjL i NO. 12.