!; ■ 1 •' BY JOHN B. BRATTON. VOL. 40. 3Pp£t{cal. •WHEN STARS ARE IN THE QJJIKT SKIES.’ BT E. ti. OULWKR. When stars arc In (ho qalot elcios, Then most I pirib for thoo; •’ - Send on mo then thy tender eyes, Assists look on tlio sea. For thoughts, libo waves that glide by nighi Arq elilloel whon they, shino, Mine earthly lovo lies hash’d in light. Beneath (ho hoavon of Ihlno. Thoro is an hour when angels keep, Familiar watch o’er men, Whon coarser souls dro wrapped in sloop— Sweet spirit, moot mo (hen. M Thoro is an hourwhen holy dreams, * Through slumbers fairest glide, And in (hat myslio hour it scorns, Thou sliouldsl bo at toy side. Tho thoughts of thee 100 sacred are, For daylights common beam ; I can but'bnow thee as my star, My'ongcland my dream! « When Mars aro in the quid skies, , • Then most I pino for tlico ; Bond on mo then thy lender eyes, As stars look on tho sea. HfttoccUamous. THE FLO WE ft OP THE FLOCK. Some fivo years gone by we know an unbroken family. . Father, mother, sisters, brothers, all, all here. The third son was a dark-oyod, massive brovvod, hopeful boy of four summers. He was a romping, and yet a thoughtful child; there was a light in hio-large eye that showed on earnest pro* miae of future capacity for usefulness, or an early flight to the world beyond (he tomb. Wo played with him and wondered at him; as ho romped wnh ua ho taught us to admire and Jove him; ho show, od us, all unconscious, what a boy could bo. Ono day we bid him “good-bye.” Many a time and oft, did wo think of that bpy. Days run to weeks—weeks glide into months —years roll away. “A rumor of death' 1 comes on the evening breeze. “The pitcher is broken at tho fountain.” The silver cord that bound that family in.ono is harshly severed, and tho clods of the valley .havo fallen cold and heavy upon tho coffin that cases the remains of one of thdflb little ones. Scarcely less heavy and cold docs that sound strike upon the.living, beating'hearts, of those who.orowd around that “silent abode.” And is it the boy we sq fondly loved that now lies under the clay 1 Our heart tells us that ilcan be no other; for “death loves a shining mark.”— Idolatry is forbidden, and (here were those who worshipped that beautiful boy. Our lesson was given as wo needed, and also strength to bear, Ol ever tliui, from childhood's liour, fvo seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree nr flower, But *iwaS the first to fade away. I never nursed a fond fnrello. To glad mo with its soft black eyes; Bui when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die. The heart will often tell us what the smses will not. Who visited the broken family. We miss ed our favorite. Our forebodings wero realized. The mother nqlicod our wandering eye, and with a quivering lip she asked. “Do you miss one of my fUtle ones I We loJd her as boat wo could, that our favorite was gone.. , “Yos,//ic 'Jlowtr of my Jloch lips undpr the sod;” and she sobbed again as she told us of his sickness and death. He was so patient, and so sensible, and so observant of the wishes of others, (we know ho would be,) and bo lay upon his pallet and breathed bis beautiful life away. There are others left to that stricken molhcr, and she lives and loves them as a mother can.—- She is glad at heart, and hopeful .in that which is left, but she remembers, in sweet sadness, that she bnco cherished what is now an angel In heaven. Thnflowoj of the flock now blooms in Paradise. —%. Whig. PRBTTV INCIDENT* Wo hoard a very little incident, tho other day. which wo omnot help relating, A young ludy from tho South, it scorns, was woned and won by a youth ful physician living In California. When tliocngngo. monl was made, tho doctor was rich, having been very successful at San Francisco. It had-nut existed six months, however, when by an unfortunate invest ment, ho lost ids entire 'beep’. This event cumo upon him, it should bo added.just as lie was making toady to claim his bride. What docs ho do 7 Why, like an honorable and chivalrous young fellow, as ho is, ho sits down and writes Ilia lady every particular of tho unhappy turn which hod taken place in bis for tunes, assuring her, if tho fact produced any change in her feelings towards him, she is released from every promise she had made him. And what does the dear, good girl! Why, «ho takes a lump of puro gold, which her lover bad sen) her when in prosper!* ty, as a keepsake, and having U manufactured into a ring, forwarded'it to him,'with the following' Bible inscription, engraved in distinct characters, on tho insider ■ “Entreat me not to leave tboo or to return from following after (lice, for whither thou gocsl, will 1 go,and whither thou lodgcst, wilt I lodge; thy peo ple will bo my people, and thy God my God ; where (liou dicst will 1 die; and (hero will Ibo buried ; tho liord do so unto me, and more also if aught but death port thee and mo.” * v - The lover idolized his sweetheart moro than over when, lib rccolvcd this precious evidence of her do votion lolilai, both in storm and sunshine. Wo may add that fortune soon smiled upon tho young physic ian and (hat ho subsequently returned to tho North to wed tho sweet girl ho loved, and who loved lym with such an undying ufluotlon. Nay, mare, the happy bribe and bridegroom passed through our city nut long slnco on their way (o (ho homo of. tlio lat ter in (no golden Stale, Header, flits is all true.— Young ladies who road (ho Dibio as closely as tho heroioo ofour Incident scorns to have done, are pretty suiotomake gooil sweethearts and bolter wives. Heston Payer. \Vno Sent Them I—Old Mother Bonder was pious but poor. Ip tho midst of her extreme want her trust and oonfidonoo was in God. It wap lain one chilly night in tho autumn of tho year when two rather wild young men wore pass ing her cottago on their way home. One of them had under his arm somo loaves of broad which he had procured at tho villago store. A faint light glimmered from Mother Bonder’s casement. Bald the one who had the loaves to hlscompanioni “lot us have some fun with tho old woman." spld tho .other. They approached ij PO OPud Into the window* saw the old woman upon her kneqs, by tho hearth, where a few embers were mouldering inihonehos. Sho was ongagcdjn prayer, ; They Batoned and heard Iter oDerlng on porncst petition for brood. Blio was utterly destitute of food. In furllieranbo oT their fun, one of them with tho loaves climbed softly up tho roof of tho collar™ and dropped oqo loot after tho other down tho oltim r\oy. As they rolled out on tho hearth, Dioyoaught the old lady’s eye, and in tho fullness of her heart, fiho exclaimed- “Thank tho Lord, bless the Lord or his boun ty.” ; “But tho Lord didn’t send them,” shouted a yp.ico from the chimney. 4 ‘Yoa ho did," cripd she undaunlingly; “the Lord sent them, but the devil brought them." COLONEL BENTON’S HISTORY. [ANNO 1831.— ANDllEW J’AOKSON, PRESIDENT.] military Academy* Tho small military establishment of tho United Stales seemed to bo almost in a.ataio of dissolution üboot tins time, from tho frequency of desertions, and tho wisdom of Congress was lazed to find a remedy for the evil. It could devise no other than an increase of pay to the rank and file and non-commissioned officers; which, upon (rial, .was found to answer bat little purpose. Mr. Macon, from his homo in North Carolina, having his attention directed la the subject by tho debates in Congress, wrolo'mo a letter; In which' ho laid his finger upon tho true cause of these desertions, and consequently showed what would bo tiio true remedy. Ho wrote thus: 1 “Why does the o/my, of late years, desert more than formerly 7 Because' tho officers have boon brought up at West Point and not among tho people. Soldiers desert because nof attached .to tho service, or not attached to the officers. West Point Cadets prevent the promotion of good Sergeants, and men cannot liko a service which denies them promotion, nor like officers who got all the commissons. The increase of pay will (ho evil, And nothing but promotion will. In tho revolutionary army, wo had many distinguished officers, who onlcrod'lho army as privates.” This is wisdom, and besides carrying conviction for the truth of all St says, it loads to reflection opoo tho naluro and effects of our national military school, which extend boyond tho evil which was tho co'uso of writing it. Since tho act of ISIS, which placed this institution upon its present fooling, giving its stu dents a legal right to appoint men,(us construed and practised,) it may bo assumed that’ there is not a govcrri>uont in Kuropo, and has been none since llio commencement of tho French revolution, (when the nobles had pretty nearly a monopoly ofbrmy ap pointments.) so unfriendly to tho rights of Ibo peo ple, and giving such unduo advantages to some parts of tho community over tho rest. Officers Can'flow rise from the ranks in oil tho countries of Eiifripc— in Austria, Russia, Prussia, as well au in Greater!- Inin, of which thoro aro constant and illostrions ex ample*,’ Twenty three marshals of tho ompirft rose from the ranks, among them Noy, Masscna,'Oudinot, Murat, Soult, Bcrnodollo. In Groat Britain, not withstanding her Royal Military College, tho largest part of tho commissions are-now given to citizens in civil life,“bod to non-commissioned officers. Are* turn lately made to Parliament shows that In 18 years—from 1830 to 1847—the number of citizens who received commissions, was 1.20 G; tho number of non-commissloncd officers promoted, was 44G ; and the number of cadets appointed from the Royal Milllary College was 473. These citizens appoint ments wore exclusive of those who purchased com. missions—another mode for citizens to got into the British army,and which largely increases the number In that class of appointments—sales of commissions, with tho approbation of llio government, being there valid. But exclusive of purchased commissions during the some period of eighteen years,’ the num her of citizens appointed, and of noncommissioned officers promoted, wore, together, nearly ibur-limcs the number of government cadets appointed. Now, how has it been in our service during any equal number ofyoars, or all the ydb'rs'.’altVcb the Military Academy got Into full operation under the oct of 1012 T I confine tho inquiry to tho period subsequent io tho war of 1812, for during ‘that war thoro were field and general officers in 1 service who camo from civil life, and who procured the promotion of many meritorious non commissioned officers, the' act not having at first bean construed to exclude them.*— How mapylr'.FrtrpJf none, of citizens appointed, or non-cdmmlssicincd officers promoted—only In now 1 or temporary corps—tho other being held to belong I 1 (0 the government cadets, ‘ This rule of appointment (tho graduates of tho academy to (nko all) may now be considered tho law of the land, so settled by construction and senatorial acquiescence, and, consequently, that no American citizen is to enter the regular army except through tho gate nf the U. S. Military Academy; and few can roaeli that gale except through the weight of a family connection, a political influence, or the Instru mentality of a friend at couil. Genius In obscurity 1 1 - 1 " Hu uiancc; anu uio whole tendency of tho In stitution is to make a governmental, and not a na tional ormy. Appointed cadcl’by the President, nom inated officer by him, promoted upon his nomination holding commission at his pleasure, receiving his orders ns law, looking to him as tiio fountain of honor, the source of preferment, and the dispenser of agreeable ond profitable employment, these cadet officers must naturally feel themselves independent of the people, and dependent upon the President, and bo irresistibly led to acquire the habits and feelings which, in all ages, have rendered regular armies ob noxious to popular governments. The instinctive sagacity of the people has long since comprehended all this, and conceived aversion to the institution, which has manifested itself in many demonstrations against it —sometimes in Congress, eomotimcaj.n the Stole legislatures; always to bo, and- triumphantly mot, hy adducing Washington os’* the. father and founder of the institution. < * . r ‘- Col. Benton shows no addpcflorT. Jcoutdi lib morp unfortunate, and ho proceeds-to stioqf that the Act of 1812 has done (ho mischief, that it ohaO&estaiUlory J training from the camp to the school. Ho says ho was (old by an officer in (halimo of tho .Moxican war, (hat, of thirty six cadets .who had graduated and been commissioncd al tho aamo time with him.- self, there were only (hen about a' half a dozen In service; so that this great national establishment is mainly a school for (ho gratuitous education of those who have influence to got there. Ho continues : These aro vital objections to Iho. institution ; but they do not include the high practical evil which the wisdom of Mr. Macon discerned, ond with which (his chapter oponod—namely, a monopoly of (ho regular army commissions for the graduates of tho academy. That is effected in tho fourth section, not openly and in direct terms, (for that would hiivo rendered the act unconstitutional on its face,) but by (ho use of words which admit the construction and (ho practice, and therefore make tho law, which now is, tho legal right of the cadet to receive a commis sion who has received the ncidomical diploma for going through all the classes, This gives to those cadets a monopoly of tho offices, to the exclusion of oilizonnand non-commissioned officers; ond it de prives (ho Semite of its constitutional share In ma king those appointments. By a “regulation," (ho academic professors ore to recommend, at each an nual examination, five cadets’in each class, on ac count of their particular merit, whom tho President is to attach to companies. This expunges the Senate, opens the door to that favoritism whibh natural pa rents find it hard to repress among their own chit- , dron, and which is proverbial among loaohorß. By tllq Constitution, and for a groat public purpose, am* not as n privilege of tho body, (bo Senators to un advising unu consenting power over llio army A polntmonts: by practice pm! construction It is (ho President and Senate, but tho President andi academy who appoint tho oflicors. • • • 'fflw effect of tills mode of appointment will bo to orqfato n governmental, Instead of a.national army, and/tho cflTocl of this exclusion of non commissioned *o£Rors and privates from promotion, will bo (o degraup-tho regular soldiers Into a mercenary, serving for pay, without affection for a country which dishonors Mm. Ilonco tho desertions and tho co relative evil of diminished enlistments oil the part of native born Americans. • • As now constituted, oar academy Is an imitation pftho European military schools, which create go vormontul and not national oflicors—’Wl|loh f/ mafco routine oflicors, but cannot croalo military gdnipl— apd wbioh block up tho way against otully barefooted genius, such as this country abounds i’iii ,0 alone can develop. “My children,' tho French generals woro aoouslomed to um 10 ,n,y° un ff oonsorlpls daring’ (ho revolution, iGhljdron, there oro >omo captains among you, and tho first campaign will show who they Pro; and “ OUNTRY—MAY T ALWAYfI DR RIOtiT~BUT RlOllTon YVRONtf, OUR COUNTRY.’!-- rSW CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1853. they shall have their places.” And such express fllons, and the system in * which they arc founded, have brought out the military genius of the - country' in every ago and nation, and produced such officers as, the schools can never inako. The adequate remedy of these evils, is (o repeal the act of 1812, and remit (ho academy to Its condi tion time, and as enlarged by soVo* ral.ocls up to 1802. ,-T.hcn no one would wish to bocomo cadpt but ho that had (ho soldier in him, and meant to stick to his profession, and work his’way’ up from (lib'pay, ration and clothing of a sergeant,' to (ho rafik of field officer or general. Struggles for Wist Point appointments Would then cease, and the, boys on (ho'Grampian Hills* would Jiavo their chance. ‘ This is (bo adequate remedy. If thot ro; ; pool cannot bo had, then a subordinate and halftyay remedy may bo found in giving to Citizens and non commissioned officors o share of the commissions, cqual. to.what Iboy get in the British service, and rcstdring (ho Sonata to its constitutional right,of rejecting as well as confirming cadet nominations. 1 —N,Y7Pctt, 6 ' ■ . A VISIT TO PISA* Advancing along tho banks of the Arno, after a pleasant drive, wo arrived, somewhat early in the day, at Pisa. All visiters most have fell tho effector this city's singular aspect upon the mind, It Is not, like several ancient cities of tho easl,dcseHcd.' Its buildings have not fallen into ruins, its streets oro not •entirely silent, grass docs not wave on |(s highways and public places. But it is fast approach* ing this state. At Thebes and Memphis, o( Babylon, Nineveh', hbi Pcrsopolis, yoa ace Hie process of desolation accotn* plislicd. The nations that inhabited (hem huvo died pul, the languages they spoke are forgotten. Thbir history has become a fable, thoir religion a mockery.- Sealed omong thoir crumbling fragments, your heart is oppressed by sorrow, by tho fnlo which had ovor- Jakon so many millions ofhuraan boings, onco quick, like yourself, with life, and agitated by the fierce sway OMIIO passions. You: behold thorn matching, m endless procession, as it were, down the groat high* way of eternity, emerging from darkness, and swal lowed up by darkness. What infinite untold histories have perished with (hem !—what loves ! • what ha-, Itcds! what struggles for fame I what bitter and agonizing disappointments! ’But those generations, have been so long at rest, that you contemplate their falo with serenity, as you do the general aspect ofna* lure. You acquiesce in thq award of lime, you itn*j agino they have boon reconciled to death. Certain ; you aro that unbroken poaco broods over them with its dovo liko wings, and soothes them in thoir ever lasting repose. But walking through Pisa is olmost liko sitting bosido a death bed. Strength, end health, and vivq~ city arc gone, the form is attenuated,tho air languid and painful, tho voico reduced by decay almost loan inaudible whisper. Sometimes you imaging that tho wiiolo octivo population must have gone forth on some groat expedition or /or tho celebration of sumo Vl g^wfcßUw l in tho mountains, and lea their dwellings desolate for a season. . . bomotimes tho thought strikes you that ifio' oily was built In expectation of inhabitants, who have nev or come to lake possession ofit.eo mhny of tho houses oro empty, without the half-chcorfal, half-melancholv inliinolion that they nro to bo lot. This 'would in dioato eomo hope, but the poor Pisans havo-nono.cx.* ccpl when a few English families arrive,-and excite in (hom the idea that more may follow, and infuse life into those dreary chambers which have nplocho. od to a human footstep for centuries. --2' • Yet (hero is, after all, an inexpressible.oh(Uro ip tho place, especially when tho brifllanpe oTfialTirah Is diffused oyer jt, j.iko Honshifle;ovor;a There Is a Btrangc plcssuro.in JUtkin dying things, which, by ihoToroo arima^hatl6n t yoa endow with a part of yaor own - aodsciuuaodss.vsiitf send forward, as it were, liko ptoUoor* - or! explorers into the regions of doath. You imagine you canlook through tho agonies of lliolr spirits Into the world boi yond tho grave. Exactly so is it with 4 dyiog oily, and Pisa is in extremis— ready to have l|io last t,itcs of religion paid to it, before it is packed;up in the/ colUn and sent (o tho universal ccmolcry.-iiSf, JbAn’s Here and There. Losing a Sent In Congress. ' Sir, bring 1 mo a good plain said a melan choly looking individual to a waller at one of our principal hotels. Tho dlhpor was brought and devoured, and the outer called' the landlord aside, and thus addressed him : ‘ . • Ydu ofo tho'landlord V 'Yen.'. ‘Yptt.dd a good business hero 7 ‘Yeb!*(ln astonishment.) ’ 1 ‘You make, probably, ten dollars a day clear V •Yes.* 'Then lam safe. I cannot pay for what I have consumed, I havo been out of employment for seven months, but liavo engaged to go to work for 10-mor* row. I had been withdpt food for four and twenty hours when I cntercd-yiiir place. I will pay you in a wcCkj : ' tt f * : *’• ; ■ , ‘I Capnol pay nfy b’lftf wlih such promises,* bluster* od.tfio landlord, andj*T’dd hot'keep a poor hoqso,— Y4ii.should JU’oovo ino snjoothing as security.*’’ « ( ' ’*l haVo nothing’.* . , ‘ ■"■ \ M Will take your coal.’. " •If I go into (he slrool* without (ha[,6Uoh weather as it' Is, I may got'my deal)).’ .‘You should hav« thought oCtbat,before you carnd boro.* ,1 *Aro you serious.? Well, I :do solemnly aver that in one. week from now 1 will pay you,' ‘I will uko tho coal*!* ' Tho coal was loft, and in a week afterward redeem ed. Seven years after that,.a woolthy man entered tho. political arena, and was presented at a caucus us an applicant fdr Congressional; nomination. Tho principal of the caucus hald bla peace, lie heard tho history of (lie applicant,.; who’V.as a member of a church, and one of the moat.ttwpi»clablo of oilmens. — Ho was The vote was. o tic, and ho cast n negative, thereby defeating whom ho mot an hour afterwards, dndto whom ho sold— ‘You don't remember mo 7' ‘No.* ‘I once ate a djoocr.ol your liblot, and although I told you I was famishing, and pledged you my word and honor to (lay you in a week, you took my oont and saw mo go out into the inclement air at the risk of my lift) without it.* •Well sir, what (hen 7* •Not much. You called yourself n Christian. To night you wore a candidate for nomination, and but for. mo you' would havoboon elected to Congress.* . Throe years after, (ho Christian hotelkeeper became bankrupt, and sought a homo in Bellevue. Tho poor uinnorlcsa wretch (hat wap, afterward become a )iig|i functionary in Albany.. Effect of Xilgbti W Dr. Moor, tho celebrated metaphysician, (bus spooks rof light on body and mind: “ A. tadpole confined in darkness will never become a frog, and an infant, being deprived ofUoavonVlrcp light, will only grow into a shapeless idiot, instead pf aheautiful and roasonablo being. Ilopoo in,tliodoop, dark gorges and ravines of,the Swiss Valais, where (ho direct sunshine never roadies, (ho hideous pro vn lonco of idiocy startles (ho trnvollor. It is a strange, melancholy idiocy. Mony citizens arc incapable of any articulate speech, some ora deaf, spmo.aro blind, eunio lubor'undor all theso privations, and alt are misshapen in almost every part of tho body. I be liovo there is, in all places,a marked difference in the hoalthlhinoss of (ho houses, oocording to their ospoot with regard to the sun, and those are decidedly the healthiest, other things being equal, In which all (tip rooms arc, during some part of the day, fully exposed to tho direct light. Epidemics .attack., inhabitants on thp shady s|do of lho street, and totally exempt those on the other side, apd oven in epidemics, such as ague, the morbid influence is pflbn thus partial in l(s labors.*' Atnerlean Manners; Dr.’Pottof, laa rccont'addross at Albany, said t • “tanru. liulo aTraidr that d great , many people in lh|s,country aro.ralhoMpo, prone to undervalue this pari of dducaUon.. Cortaiply Wo have no admiration -for anything finical or 'affected In manners. Wo don’t want the manners of a-villago ’dancing school. But genuine good brooding,'gonllo maonors, case, modesty,and propriety ofboaring, wodoexceeding" Jy^voluo.' When shall wo coasd to bo described as a spitting nation 7 as a lounging people 7 When shall' wb cease to be known by our slovenly speech, by oiirprrfctico of sitting with our feothighot than our 7,. -Durlng un excursion of sovoral months jn Europe laslyear, 1 mol hundrcds.oT English at homo arid on tho continent, in every sort of silaatipn. I nbveraaw ono spit. I'Cannot remember that I oVb> saW any dno, however fatigued; lounging or siding in'.jin, unbecoming manner. So long as thfc/Stalp sliiyl feel ilsolf obliged to provide ‘spittoons’-for' its legislative halls—so long as the directors of bur rail* rofids shall find occasion to attach Id tho irisido of their carriages printed requests to the passengers to 1 *uso the spittoons’ and not tho floor,' and not to pUtj their feet upon tho seats—eo long as wo ehallcon~J liriuo to fill our conversation and our political.har rarigucs-wilh tho slang of the fish market, let ud'nut bo 'surprised, nor angry, if foreigners sometimes I make themselves, witty at oar expense; And in tho meantime, lei all those whn'aro entrusted iwith tho carq.qf the young, use their utmost efforts to correct thdso.tiollonar barbarisms,.and IdTor’m.tho’ t rrianper ofUlfiTUing generation after a model more elevated andrjb'ofo refined.’ 1 id I V American - Citizenship,' condaci of Capt. Ingrahani.of Iho .American frigate, Si. Louis, at Smyrna in Me gen- - cfoufillompts to release from -the grasp of Austrian revenge, M. Cosld, fqrmcrljyiiddoChmp of Kossutb, lias ?omc|ljing-iD It to gratify Iho just, pride (ifevcry true American heart. At the tocilal of iho eifeum. stanied oftliat transaction, Iho blood 0001*808 more merrily in iho vcins'of every oho, who holds to iho principlo.lbat American'Citizenship, in tiro broadest sense oJF the term, should meet the fullest immnnjly of cordial .recognition from every foreign power. To bo surtj froni iho almost unaccountable • misappre hension; or lack of address, on the part of iho Hun. gariaa himself, ho did not immediately receive tho ;freed,ofcn.which Iho gallant American offered him; ychithfbold and-manly course ofCapt. ( lngrabam, in cbnfcrcncp with llio prisoner on board (Hd brig, end in bringing \hat brig under tlio own eliip, to prevent its escaping to Aaitrtajpilli tho prisoner, pending negotiations, has served la joaoli thg despots of Europe a lesson, ip respect to American citizenship, whicji thqy .will not, bo likely? Soon to forget. Not only (ho,na(ivq born citizen; bin Iho foreigner who has sworn ollogiarico lo^ the T/nilod Stales Govcrnmcnlis entitled to and will receive, tho fullest prolcctiofyof, Government— this is.(ho Josson. And whal/B .glorious lesson,,in those days, when tho victims oPJfbrdfgn despotisms are crowding to tho shores of (hl's'itopubllc I # | ’ Iri-tonfo tense, the Austrian aod American policy wcrbircprcacntcd in this transaction; Tho sneaking, arbitrary! and cowardly course of tho Austrian offi. clals in filsl dragging away to their vessel, a poor ; oxilo, add tho' attempting bjr lying to conceal tho ulijuojiffabld.doed, affords a fair specimen of (he dealings of that nation and its proverbially Ircach* Contrast. with this the .bold, open handed coarse of tho American officer, in proffering aid to onp,-wlu»m he supposed entitled to tho'prolcc. llotj of tho';-United Slates. Mark tho true American pluck'of'the-folio wing bold utterance, os tho Austria on coramarjdor''hesitated : “Boar in mind, that if the my protection, and,has the I will remove. him myself, dnd t| lo pnsddor7 I wish losoohim,” *«i®;ivas open,"direct 'American polliy,.i A. demand oi nothing bat what was that u most bo granted. ° n Administration liko the present, pledged i to lh6 fullest protection of our citizens everywhere; With gallant tors and strong hearted officials abroad, i lolcorry out the policy of that Administration—the American name will, liko tho Roman of a former day, bo a shield of defence, to slay the hand of him who, in whatever climo and amid whatever people, ho may wander, cun say "I am an American.”— Old Guard, Tlie Emperor Nicholas. A foreign loiter ID the Baltimore American gives the following description of the Emperor of Russia : "The personal appearance of the Emperor, and ijit mangers, bo dignified 'and yol so graceful, struck too al once,-abd In all my neap approaches to his . person and his society, tlioso fcatares'acquired now •force; I .regard him as a moil extraordinary por eonago. In slaturo six foot two jnehes, but with the | symmetry of a man of five feel nine Indies 5 with a a face uniting, which Is rarely found in the same person, remarkable personal beauty and marked in .dicaUoiVf of intellect; I cannot bolter describe his fascination ofmannor than to flay Ifho wore to sink all rccolfcohon of his position, his destiny and asso . (nations; and enter one of our pulilioal assemblages, he could make as many friends In an hour as any stump orator in our country.. Ho is distinguished for energy and a high -[iprder of talent. His plans for the amelioration of the condition of his subjects I ard worthy of his ancestor*. Peter and Catharine.— The measure adopted'as to the sort*, as well as to U)0 ancient, pobjlity, and jiis vast designs os to rail roads, will reign,an ora in.the Empire. Besides (ho -road to Moscow 0f '430 miles, ho designs to make pne.to Columns on (hoOkii, 100 miles from Moscow, below which there is constant steam navigation to the Caspian 80a. Another is projected from this point to the head of steam navigation on the Don of the Black-Sea; and Oom this point on the Don cast to Ssratol, ncar.lho,mouth of the Volga, (ho Missis, sippio of Europe. Tho domcsllo relations of the Emperor «jro subject of constant commendation by hie subject's; exhibiting in this respect a favora. bio contrast to the days of Catharine. - Thb ,Bjbls.—Thoro nro In all sixty six books whicli compose tho volume of Holy Writ, which arc attributed to more than thirty different authors, or writcra of tho whole. Half of tho Now Testament wasi composed by St. Paul, and the next largest wri. tor is tho gentle and beloved St. John, With (ho single oxcopllon ofPoul neither history nor (r .fainted, of course. Mrs. Partington says she has noticed that who* ihor flour, was dear or cheap, sho, had invariably to pay tho samo money for half a dollar's worth. Scone-In a Tankee Shoemaker** Shop* u Yoa hain’i no occasion for a jer, nor nothin. I a'pose,!’e&id a jolly son of St. Crispin from the land of wooden nutmegs,’as be entered a shoo es tablishment, with bis kH. nicely done-up in his apron. ‘‘Wonder If I hain’t,” was Ihe reply of tho boss, ‘‘why I should like a dozen if I conld git ’em; oat what kind of a shoo can you make t” “Oh, as to (be matter *o that/* said the snob, “I reckon as how I kin make a decent sort of a craft.” “Spread year kit, then,” said the boss; “I’ll fftve yon a pair to try, and if yoor work suits me, 1 can give you a steady seat of work.”, Crispin was, soon hammering and whistling aW a y» as happy ae a calm at hign water, and tho bobs was called away on some business that de tained him two or three hours; meantime the tram per jer produced a thing which bore some faint re somblpnce-to-a' shoo, and feeling somewhat asham ed of it, laid It in a pile of leather chips that lay on the floor, ahd_ proceeded to make another, which he had barely time to finish, when bis employer entered and began to examine it. “Look here, roister,” said he, “I guess you needn't cqake the mate to this; it is the great est botch that was ever mads in my shop that's fact,” ' “P’raps you’d like to bet a trifle on that,” said the snob. “Bel!” responded tho boss; “why, I’ll bet a ten dollar bill against a hand of tobacco, that there never was a shoe made in this shop half so bad as this.” . r ‘Done. said Crispin, at the same lime casting , a Biy at his shop-mates; “but, atop, let me i ßee if I’ve got so much of tho weed with me. Ob, y°®* here’s a whole handful of Cavendish,” and laying it on the cutting bodrd, he ventured to Bug. geal the propriety of having the suet-skin laid alongside of it, which was no sooner done than he proceeded to draw from its hiding place tho other shoe. “Hero, boss,” said he, you roust decide tho bel; say which of the two shoes is the worst V* “Well, I guess I’m fairly sucked in this time,” said the boss, pushing the Cavendish and shin plaetor towards the rightful owner, and throwing a nine-pence to the youngest apprentice. Tho boy needed no further instructions as to his duly, but ran off In tho twinkling of a bed-post, and soon returned with a 9 my impression/sir.” “Got letters, I expect 1” “Yes, sir; I am provided *UR te tiers of fntro* duction.” . “Wouldn’t mind showln’ you rooond myself a spell, if you wanted.” . - “I (hank yon, sir; but I shall not require your assistance.” This last remark of (he polite rswrri stranger was a poser, and the “inquisitor” Wl back a moment to take breath and change his l«e» tics. The half suppressed smile poop the facets of the other passengers scjott aroused the Yanked l to still further exertions! and sutboionlbg bp mon*- resolutlon, bo began again: “Stranger perhaps you are not aware bpwaT mighty hard it is for a Yankee to control Ms oufl osily. You’ll please excuse! but 1 would really like to know your name, abd residence, tnd Ujo j business you follow. I expect you ain’t asbamecF of either of ’em; so now won’t you Just oblM&e me?” “ *r This last 'appeal brought out our Sonrtharn friend, who rising up to tbo extremes! height'•al lowed by the coach, and throwing back tie shout*’ ders, replied : ~,r “My name ie General Andrew Washington. P reside in the State of Mississippi. lam a.gqatfc** man of leisure, and I am glad to be able tp eaJr, of extensive means. 1 have heard moch bf-NoW York, and lam now on my way.to see It; and.|f I like it as well as fam led to expect,l inledd (b— -bu y»/.” There was heard a shout of stentorian laughter l throughout (ho stage oosch; and.(his wasthelqst of that conversation.—//arper’a Magazine « Worthy l of • Totakett A Jcrsy Tavern keeper who had bccoMe-iuora OOJd*' 1 brated for tho length of his bills than for llm of bis labloi met with 000 as sharp as himself ,on one occasion. A Yankee happening to pssi J • through that barbarous region, slopped VuhWroatfSk’ , hotel and ordered dinner. When be came t*payAlf»i ! hill ho was astonished to find it stroached oot loth#* round sumofsix dollars. This rathor startled the , Yankee* and ho demanded lo know wbalho bsd tf|. , « ibal sack a bill should ho charged. The l*ad*. . 'ora replied, *Tho bill will show you.’ On consulting. , Ithe found several kinds of wines and extras. , ‘Well, (ook’bero I J dido,t haW» none tifyobf * I wines—there, was none of that 'cro staff brought for me,.end I won’t pit the. WU!’ . j.jh "Ob wofl«Af*raU for ocd«FA*». wo hno* «or- A. c pl ,Cl lbo landlord,Hbp wine wssoo Ifco .Tba Yankee iaw •bomCio'nd mo inodarrelllttfr atiool Iho maltar, ao _WiII» a broken boafl h*,p.|a;ifi, bill. Throo months oftor Ihil ou t EailcrnfrW..,fa, rtodo bi. appoarsneo at iho fio(o) and Called for din nor. Whan ho aat down lo Iho table ho laid i ttfonV V dollar bill 01 the aido of bio' plots odd ordered pa(tercd Uio mud up iho rood. **lt • Dody Meet a Dody.rr Ifo follep catch a Toller carrying -off bis W9odi should a Toller whale a Tcl/or iTa Teller coaid /—O'er. tnaniomn Emporium. ' • 11 IT a body catch a body stealing hlso&.rw#, slioald’nt a body kick a body till a body crV T—tin. cinnati Enquirer. * * If a body spy D body crocping around lili lit 1 ahould nl a body treat a body lo a load of ahoit-. tyanoicft JVeios. IT a bodv catch a body stealing his Expreti, Bhonld’nl a body toiza a body and try to get redress ? —Petersburg Express. If a body wants a body bie store lo patronlxa. should nt a body pay a buay money to advetUsa ? Lynchburg Expreet. * 1 Ifo body eoo a body -proprialo Ilia hat, ahould a Sy k «W a b ° Jy j “’ 1 r ° r d9in,! lh“lJ IT a body ootoh a nigger stealing alt bis chickens should’! a body tick a ufgger like lbs Torydlokeds ? —Central Democrat, 1 ■ \ If a body mod a body what had taopp lo yvppt,* should a body say lo a body ‘5O it dollars end epotl* Doyleatown Democrat, If a body know a body lhal takes no paper at «IL should’nt a body mako a body taka (ho Stale Copi _ toll—Alexandria Gaxette. ' ' If a body should hoar a body say, *f pay my print* 1 ing bill,’ wont a body ataro at a body for luob'td expression of will I—Maryland Sentinel, If a bi?dy catch a body who steals tho Democrat. should a body knock a body into a cooked'hal7— Louitville Democrat, If a body soo a Galphin coming the meabstsslert ehould’nt a body- put that body into the Plain Dealer 7 If a body 9010 b a body picking of| hlo poojui, ■boald nol a body colob l bßdy (md'lioW liU'fmad oiidor bio arm gni It lio could mo»( aayqrbty knock'}]* WiTnotrr * Biiioliko.— Tlio Woililnolon EiettUk Star relates the following incident % •. f No ‘'“".B Ptooidoijt. In an alWnooi) rldo with Ina oollraablo lady and a fcraiiloTrlohi), ndj bfbugln up by iho (tato imlio Columbia - tiimblWion UlO oppoailo aide of llio Potomac.' .' tllo cOaohmin iwaroliod Ha pookolo In vain foMlio roggiiHoaliilJjpg. TIIO Proaldonl aoarcM Ilia. Bui aUa, nol a aolilary ■hilling had limy among tliom I T|io toll iub&er. Who Is XI lime* annoyed by (ho pranks of‘f«il’ folks P?, B, | n 8 W® gHlo pt) llioir way ,(o tho' l/6\lipg Qoario without ‘hhldlng up* lo pay 1011, began' to thlhkof o.lpsing tho bar upon the carriage, when the driver informed him that l|io gentleman thsldo wait the President of tho United Blulcs, and the gehtleriln In* side made it all right by nromlaiog to pay.tb* .khift* log when next he slioqty venture to fldf PMb* V4f« glnla side.’* am !? ,V inh i.