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- i POEM tOS, *DE-TIMES.
it BOHEEODOOLi. OHA.**
A stranger preached lost Sunday;
And crowds of people came,
To hear a two-honr sermon
With a barbarous-sounding name j
>Twas all about some heathens,
Thousands of miles afar,
Who lived in land of darkness,
Called “Borrroboola Gha."
Bo well their wants ho pictured.
That when the plates were passed,
Each list’nor felt bis pockets,
And goodly sums were cast* *
Tor all must lend a shoulder
To push the rolling car
That carries light and comfort
To “Bortrohoola Gha.'*
'That night thoir wanta and sorrows
Lay heavy on my Soul,
And deep In meditation
I took my morning stroll ;
'Till something caught my mantle
Wllheagor grasp and wild,
Add looking down with wonder,
I saw a little child.
A pale and puny creature,
Id rags and dirt forlorn;
What could sho want, I questioned,
Impatient to bo gone,
With trembling voice sho answered,
**l7o live just down the street,
And mammy she's o dyin',
And wo'vo nothing loft to cat.”
Down In a wretched basement.
With mould upon the walls.
Thro' whoso half-burled windows
, God's sunshine never falls ;*
Where cold, and want, ami hunger,
Grouched near her as sho lay,
I found a fcllow-croatuto,
Gasping her life away.
A chair, a broken table,
A bod of dirty straw,
A hearth all dark and cheerless—
But those I scarcely saw 5
For the mournful sight before mo.
The sad and slck’ning show—
Oh, never had I pictured
A scene so full of woe—
The famished and the naked,
The babes that pine far bread,
Thu squalid group that huddled
Around the dying bed; > •
All this distress and sorrow
Should bo In lands afar;
Was I suddenly transplanted
To “Borrroboola Gha?”
Ah, lo I the poor and wretched
Were closo behind the door,
And I had passed them heedless
A thousand tlmcS before.
Alas for the cold and hungry
That mot mo every day,
While all my tears were given
. To Che suffering far away r t
There’s work enough for Christians
Ip distant lands, wo know,
Our Lord commands his servants
Through all tho world to go,
Not only for the heaihtn;
This was his charge to them—
Go preach tho word, beginning
First ot Jerusalem.”
Ot Christian, God has promised,
Whoe’er to then bos given
A enp ofptiro cold water,
Shall find reward in IJoavon,
Would yon secure the blessing,
You need not Meek it tar;
Go, find in yonder hovel,
A «• Borrroboolu Glia,**
Oswego, Doc. 5,185-1.
■fctllnnmis.
m ONE CALICO DRESS.
DY CAROLINE A. ROULB.
‘‘You were not hero yesterday,” said the
gentle teacher of a little village school, as she
placed her liand very kindly on the curly head
■' of one of her pupils. It was recess time, but
' the little girl addressed had not gone out to
frolic away the ten initiates, nor even. left her
scat, but sat absorbed in what seemed a fruit
less attempt to make herself mistress of a sum
in long division.
Her face and neck crimsoned at the remark of
her teacher, but looking up. she seemed some
v what re-assured by the kind glance that mot
jj her, and answered, “No, ma'am, 1 was not;
I but sister Nellie was.”
\ “I remember there was a little girl who call
ed herself Nellie Gay, came in yesterday, but I
did hot know that she was your sister. But
why did you not come 1 You seem to love to
study very much. ”
“It wasn't because! didn’t want to,” was
the earnest renly, and then she paused, and the
deep rose flush again tinted the fair brow, “but
—but," continued she, after a moment of pain-
ful embarrassment, “mothercannot sparoboth
of us conveniently, and so wo arc going to take
k turns. lam coining to school one day, and
w, sister the next, mid to-ulght lam to teach Ncl
fla lie all I have learned to-day, and id-morrow.
sho will teach mo all that she learns
crc ‘ * 8 the only way wo can think
•i blon g- ant * ' ro 'both want to study
60 to some time keep school
'''*ljq YW| ' . cftrc mother, for she has to
h ft /d to lake care of ue."
■' i M^ cri !l' no delicacy. Miss'M forcboro
> *bg|d n a ° U lQ fVdd'jtoy further, but sot down
' 1! ‘ 'SEwhleh’iS. m a explained a rule
v l* SS tho AwZu puzzlln s her young brain,
• ■ b%You had iS? 11 Bum WM «wily J llnfihoi.
teacher, an tt.UlU.Srt^SiSfc,
t '-Vlsad rather not—l micht /» ....
, at Ulu an§ watch tho^ca^
Wa ? S " C V P ec uHar tone in the voice
■ yjf,;ner pupil. os she Rad, “I micht
■'■'■Mtf&JP* M ' wn ? lcd
~TOW > l - It wna nothing but a ninopjnny
-tomt-of a deep pink !mc, but it was very neatly
had never yet been washed. And
forking at it she remembered that, dur
(iM,th<Mvholo previous fortnight, Mary Gay
baa attended school regularly, she bad never
J MCQ her wear hut-one dress. “She is a thought
' .-fUlllittle girl,” said she to herself, “and docs
K mako her poor mother any trouble.
.with I had more such scholarfl.” <
■ * the next morning Mary was absent, but
Nellie occupied her scat. There was
v so interesting in tho two little sin
ii cloven, and the other eighteen months
.Younger, agreeing to attend school by turns,
r iuutt Miss fit. could not forbear observing them
•livery closely. They were pretty-toped children
• bf delicate forms, fairy-liko lianas and feet—tho
elder, with dark lustrous eyes’and .chestnut
curls—tho younger with orbs like tho sky of
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BY JOHN B. BRATTON. Co'usJrLn. jS.
YOL 41.
June, her white neck veiled by a 1 wreath of
golden ringlets. She observed in both the same
close attention to tfecir studies, and as Mary
hod tarried within during play time, so did
Kellie ; and upon speaking to her as shehod to
her sister, she received, too, the same answer,
«*I might tear my dress.”
Tho reply caused Miss M. to notice the garb
of the sister. Bhc saw. at once, it was off the
same piece as Mary’s, and upon scrutinizing it
very closely, she became certain it waSthe same
dress. It did not lit quite so prettily on Nel
lie. and was too long for her, too, ana she was
evidently ill at case whenever she noticed tho
teacher looked at tho bright-pink flowers that
were set so thickly on tho-fohite gown.
The discovery was one which could not but
interest a heart so truly bcnevolent as was that
which pulsated in the bosom of the teacher of
that little village school. She ascertained the
residence of their mother, and though sorely
shortened by a narrow purse, tho same night,
having found at the only store in the place a
few yards of. the same material, purchased a,
4rcss for little Nellie, and sent it to her in such
a way tliat the donor could not easily bo detec
ted.-
•Very bright and happy looked Mary Gay on
Friday morning, as she entered the school room
at an early hour. She waited Only to place her
books in neat order on her desk, ere she ap
proached Miss M., and whispered in a voice
that laughed in spite of all her efforts to make
it low and deferential—“ After this week Nellie
is coming to school every day, and I am so
glad.”
“That is very good news,” replied the teach- ,
er, kindly. “Nellie is fond of her books, I see,
and t am happy to know that she can have an
opportunity to study her books every day.”
Then, she continued, a little good natured mis
chief encircling her eyes and dimpling her sweet
lips.—“ But can mother spare you I”
“Oh yes, ma’am, she can now. Something
happened that she did not expect, and sho is so
glad to have us come as we are lo do so.” She
hesitated ft moment, but her young heart was
filled lo the brim with joy, and when a chid is
happy, it is os natural to tell the cause, as it
is for a bird to warble when the sun shines.—
So, out of-the fullness of the heart she spoke,
and told her teacher this little story.
She and her sister were the only children of a
Very poor widow, whose liealth was so delicate
that it was almost impossible to support her
self and little daughters. Sho was obliged to
keep 1 them oat of school all winter, because they
had no clothes to wear, but sho told them that,
if they could cam enough by doing odd chores
for the neighbors to buy each of them a dress,
they might go in the spring. Very earnestly
had the Tittle girls improved their stray chances,
and very carefully hoarded the copper coins
which usually repaid them. They had each
enough to buy a calico dress, when Nellie was
taken sick, and os the mother bad no money
beforehand,her own little treasure had to bo ex
pended for the purchase of medicine.
“Oh. I did fed so bad when school opened
and Nellie could 1 not go, because sho had -no
dress. I told mother I would not go cither,
but she said I bad better, for I could teach her
some,' ap'd that would,be better than no school
ing. I; stood it Xor a'fortnight, but .Nellie’s
little face-seemed all the time looking at moon
the way to school, and I couldn’t be happy a
bit; sol finally thought of a wav 1 by which
we could both go, and I told mother I would
come one day, and the next I would lend Nel
lie my dress, and sho might come, and that is
the way wo have done tins week. But lost
night, don’t you think somebody sent sister a
dress just like mine, and now she con come too.
Oh, if I only knew who it was, I would get
down on niv knees and thank them, and so
would Nellie. But wo don’t know, and so
wc'vc done all we could for them—we’ve pray
ed for them, and oh, Miss M , we are so
glad. Ain’t you too ?”
“Indeed I am,” was the emphatic answer.—,
And when, on the following Monday, little Nel
lie, in the new pink dress, entered the school
room, her face radical as a rose in sunshinc.and
approaching tho teacher’s tabic, exclaimed in
tones as musical as those of a freed fountain.
“I am coming to school every day, and oh, I
am so glad!” MissM frit as she had nev
er done before, that it is indeed more blessed to
give than to.rcccivc, and no millionaire, when
no saw hfs name in tho public prints lauded for
his thousand .dollar chanties, was ever so hap
py as was tho poor school teacher who wore
her gloves half a summer longer than sho ought
to, and thereby saved enough to buy that litUu
fatherless girl a calico dress.
The Story of Cinderella.
Tho origin oi this nursery tale is thus given
by a French journalist:—“Wctclltho tale as
told to us, but it is probably of much greater
antiquity. About the year 1730, an actor of
equal latent and wealth, named Thovenard, in
passing through tho streets of Paris, observed
upon a cobbler's stall tho shoe of a female,
which struck him by tho remarkable smallness
of its size. After admiring it for some time he
returned to his house.; but his thoughts re
verted to tliu shoo with such intensity, that ho
appeared at the stall the next day ; but tho
cobbler could give no other duo to tho owner,
than that it had bocn left in his absence, for tho
purpose of being repaired. Day after day did
Thevenard return to his post to watch the ro-
Intcgntion of tho slipper, which proceeded slow,
ly ; nor did (ho proprietor appear to claim it.
Although ho had completed tho sixtieth year of
his age, so extravagant became his passion for
the unknown fair one, that he became (were it
possible for a Frenchman of (hat day to bo so)
melancholy and miserable. Ilia pain was, how
ever, some, appeased by tho avatar of tho little
.foot itself, appertaining to a pretty and youth
ful girl in the very humblest class of life. All
distinctions were levelled at once by tovo; tho
actor sought flic parents of the female, procur
ed thrir consent to tho match, and actually
made her his wife.
The Teacher should he a Student.
Tho teacher is occupied, with children’s work,
lie is attempting to fconvey ideas to their minds
and must do it m a mode adapted to their com
lirchcnsion. For tho time, ho becomes a child
dmsclf. Now, how shall ho retain, undirain-
Ished, his manly character 1 Plainly, by do
ing man’s work as well as that of the child.—
If sometimes ho creeps, again ho roust stand
«rcct and resume tho mien and gait of manhood.
Comparing' himself with tho young minds
wjpm he is instructing, ho may fancy himself
a giant. ’ Xlo needs, therefore, to hold intellec
tual converse with 'men—his equals and supe
riors. This..will restore himto his true place.
1 18 gigantic dimentlons disappear, and ho
ogam becomes a child. 110 who is always tho
teacher, regarding himself as such, will form
an over-estunato of. himself; he must look at
himself from another point of view, if ho would
correct tho false impression and obtain a true
estimate. • 110 must bo iv r learner os well as a
teacher.
dho remedy, then, for (Idamu-rowing tendon,
cy of elementary instruction, or, if yon p cose
of all teaching, to private study.a-Ohio Journal
of Education. •
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TAKING IN A NATIVE.
, ' Several years bgo there dwelt—and for aught
1 know there still dwells—an old Dutchman,
on the lino of the Eric canal, very illiterate, but
vofy fond of money, and, by, some chance or
other, pretty well supplied with it. It was
rumored, however, that he was not over scrup
ulous, at times, how ho made it; and the fol
lowing incident goes to substantiate the charge;'
There came to his house, one day, an.awk
ward looking individual, betraying, in every
turn and gesture, that he hailed from whence
wooden nutmegs and other Yankee commodi
ties are brought into market.
‘How do, SquireT was Jonathan’s saluta
tion, squirting a gill of tobacco juice inside the
door, by way of a more definite announcement
that he wah round,
*Valk in, mine frient,! said the Dutchman,.
In stalked Jonathan, pecking on ail sides,
and finally settling his six feet—bo (ho same
more or less—of flesh and bones in a chair by
tho chimney corner. .
‘Sauirc/snid ho after a pause, prodnciqg a
jack-knife, and chipping off a piece from, tho
boot-iack that lay behind him ; ‘l’ve a notion,
somcnow or t’other, to be arter gwinc to tho far
west; but, darn my pictcr, if it ain’t a long
way thar, and kinder guess I’m on the wrong
track.’ And ho went on whittling, eyeing the
Dutchman occasionally from beneath, tho half
disjointed front piece to his plush cap.
‘You goesh vest, eh V exclaimed Mynheer;
‘veil, you ish on de right roat, my Went; have
you got a hchenso to go vest V
‘License!’ cried Jonathan,, suspending his
•whittling; *1 ain’t got tho first ono, and what’s
more, Cap’n, I ain’t never beam of tho cussed
thing afore, nuthcr.’
‘Veil, veil,’ said the Dutchman, ‘dnt von’tdo
at all. You mufiht have a lichenso to go vest,
for because they von’t let you shottle out thoro
without von.’
‘How you talk !’ was tho Yankee’s ejacula
tion, deeply concerned at this pieco of intelli
gence. - ,
‘Dat is dc truth, mino frient,’ pursued tho
Dutchman; ‘but I have lichenses to shell—
don’t you vaat to buy von V
‘Can’t dodge it no way, can ID replied the
raw ono. ‘How much’lftho tarnotion critter
come to V ho asked, producing a weazel skin
in an alarming state of depletion.
‘Only two tollers, dat’sh all, mino g6ot
frient,’ said tho operator, rubbing Ida hands and
rising to receive the fee.
‘Wall, I support! I’ve got to do it, any how,
Cap’n,’ remarked Jonathan, ‘shelling out tho
pewter,’piece by piece, until*he had counted
out into the Dutchman’s greedy palm two
halves and four quarters, leaving a balance in
the ‘weazio’ of three ‘York shillings,’ a dime,
apd two ‘reds.’
‘Down with the documents. ’Squire,’ he
cried, shoving the skin into his breeches pock
et, and rising.
♦Veil, mino good vcllcr,’ saidDutchy, ‘I ain’t
got my spectacles, and .you writes, don’t you 1’
‘Jest Use a school-marm, old chap,’ replied
Jonathan.
‘Vcl, den, you‘writes von,’ said Mynheer,
‘for yourself, putting down your nom£, for to
go vest and slysttlo tlieqe, and I’Jt shign itj—
Como bp tho tables, misthor, and' X shall
gives you pen and paper-'
The writing materials wore procured; Jona
than threw hia plush cap pn the floor, seized
tho old grey goose quill in' the inkhorri, tried its
point on his thumb-nail, and' crouching his
head until his right car almost touched the
paper, ho drew his tongno out its whole length
and wrote. When he had closed the scroll, he
threw himself bock in bis chair to scan tho pro
duction and sec if it Was all right.
•That’s the talk/ he cried at length. ‘These
ar presents is to inform all it may concern as
how Jeddydirc Dooscubcrry is hereby and hero
in entitled to go to the far west, bo tho same
more or less, and squat thereupon, for having
paid mo in band the sum of two dollars, lawful
currency, as license for so gwino west and
squatting thar.’
‘Dat’s it.’ exclaimed the Dutchman.
‘Wah Squire,’ ciied the Yankee, “put
your fist thar. ’
Tho license man did as ho requested, .and
signed his name to tho writing.
‘Jcddydiar,’ as ho called himself, took tho
paper, folded it very carefully, os boys fold up
a puzzle, and deposited it in his vest pocket,
among an assortment of old ‘chaws’ of tobacco,
gun-flints, matches and other articles too nu
merous to mention. Then rising, ho exclaimed:
‘Squire, I’m muoh oblecgod to yo for this cro
pieco of counsel, ' It takes a feller nine lives to
keep track bf the new kinks that turns up in
tho law. Good-byo to yo.’
•Goot-byo, goot-bye, cried tho Dutchman,
and tho victim went off whistling ‘Yankee
Doodle.’
A week had elapsed after the transa Jtion wo
have just chronicled! and out Dutch acquaint
ance had about forgotten it, when a merchant
of the village colled upon him, saying:
'Mr. S.. if it is convenient, I should like this
amount of tho order which you sent mo tho
other day, and which I paid a man by tho name
of Doosenberry.'
‘An ortcr!’ cried the Dutchman, utterly up
set by tho demand, 'I never gives an ortcr to
nopody.’
‘But hero it is,’ continued tho merchant,
{> reducing an order duly signed, requesting
nm to pay ‘Jeddydiar Doosenbery’ twonty
flvo dollars in goods. ,
Dutchy saw at a glance ho was irretrievably
sold, paid up like & man, and never operated in
licenses since. •
Excellent Rkpauteb.—Tho Her. Dr. M!0
, minister of Douglas, in Clydesdale, was
one day dialog In a largo party where the hon
orable Henry Erakino and some other lawyers
were present. A great dish of cresses being
presented after dinner, Dr. M’C., who was ex
travagantly fond of vegetables, helped himself
much more largely than any other person, and
as ho ate with his Angers, with a peculiar to*
racily of manner, Mr. Erskino was struck with
the idea that bo resembled Nebuchadnezzar in
his state of condemnation. Uesblvcd to give
him a hit for the apparent grdssncaa of his
tasto and manner of eating, the Wit ■ addressed
him with, ‘Dr. M'O., yo bring mo in mind of
the great king Nebuchadnezzar ;* and the com
pany were beginning to titter at the ludiccrous
allusion, when the revemed vegetable devourcr
replied, *Ay, do I ’mind yo o’ Nebuohadnczzcarl
That’ll bo because Dm eating among the brutes l*
(C7* Among the hits of gossip now floating
in Paris, is one relating to a rich American,
who wrote Midtio. do S ■ ,of tho opera, a
tender episllo upon tiio back of a bank-note.
Mdlle. smiled and sent a verbal reply, with tho
apology that she was entirely out of noto paper,
and would bo thankful to M. I' American to
send her a quire or two of his.
A good anecdote la told of an old moth
odist preacher,'who rode a circuit a few years
ago. While going to ono, of bis appointments,
ho mot an old acquaintance, who . was one of
tlio magistrates of the county. 110 asked tho
minister why ho.dldn’t do as tho Savior did
rido an ass. ‘Because, 1 said the divine, ‘the
poodle have taken them all to taako magistrates
“OUB OOUNTRT— MAT IT ALWAYS BS BIGHT OB WRONG, OUR COUNTRY. 1 ’
CARLISLE, :PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22,1855
• .....' ' ‘‘.’tV .
The Double BQby-.pt tester.
Wo stated a few toys sinfce.that a strange
case of malformation had occurred at Lancas
ter, in this State, and promised a mpre full de
scription of the curious production, which we
hoped to gain at the tanas cTsomoof our medi
col friends. As they, from some cause
or othcr.do not incline to <ld. |t« wo have put
several of them under r’eross and
intend to embody, in their .language what wo
,have learned. 1 Our friend, Prof. "N. T. Mar
shall, of the Medical Collegia of Ohio, and per
haps others," have'seen the prodigy, which is,
without doubt, one of the-tnost remarkable
freaks of nature known to science, or recorded
•in history. ThoFebruaty number, of the
JFestern JOancet, published l in ,ihis city, will
pontain, as. wo, are informed, a full scicntiiic
description of tho wonder.. From the lower ex
tremity of the breast the junction
of the twd bodies takes , place—-upwards; there
are the upward parts of two'pCrfcct and well
formed infants—two heads’* two pair of arms,
two chests, two pair of lungs, and two livers.—
From the same point the blending
of the twq systems into onq,becomes more and
more intimate until nil secros.’perfect and com
plete’. Tho intestines, hnd,M the lower organa,
aro in common.wUh termini, .and the
legs made up of the right Ifg ,bf one and, the
left leg of the other arc ajM, standing in the
proper position relative to cicti other and to the
organs m tho vicinity. In 'the' rear, however,
the union is leas perfect* them- being two well,
developed spihes, each’ terminating in a separate
os occygi.i; and what is peculiarly strange, tho
two inner legs, dislocated gt tho hip joints are
thrown backwards and upwards and joined to
gether, aro found passing under the,true skin 1
of tho back of tho body .upon tho right, tho
extricated and standing up bed to
heel nearly in its face; 1
•The child is a female, with apparently a per
fect sexual organization. . ; 'Tho'-bodies do not
exactly face each ■ other,,Wt aro more nearly
face to Taco than side to,slab. Ono is apparent
ly somewhat more robust',than the other, and
it is evident that in rrmny-bf the characteristics
of their constitutions they arc different. As
one is capable of, suffering,."while. the other is
unconscious of pain, it follows , that their ner
vous systems are several,'from which it is, we
suppose, to bo inferred tliat in case they should
survive, each will possess character and in
dividuality of its own. •
This strange.phenomenon is the offspring of
respectable parents at Lancaster. Although
delicate, it is thought the chances arc in favor
of its surviving. The case is in the hands of
Dr. Eoeatler, one of the oldest physicians of the
State, whoso skill in its treatment is spoken of
in terms ofhigh commendation.—tin. Com,
[From ike Cincinnati Columbian,']
Shooting Affray-Bailee of a Wife’s
Honor,
A distressing nflray occurred in front of the
National Theatre, on las£ Saturday evening,
and as it is like from the circumstances under
which it happened, the teepee lability of the
young mini involved and their numerous friepds
to excite a yery great sensation, wo have been
to pom IroUkle to of thetftUja.
The parties to the affair Vycro two young . men
named Hiland H. Ormsbeo and ‘Thomas den
ning. •
The are both young men of prepossessing
manners, and have many friends. Jennings is
reputed to have been anxious for the reputation
of ft lady-killer, and from the curious vanity of
wishing to bo thought a debauchee, is said to
have been in the habit of boasting of seductions
ho had accomplished. What truth there may
bo in this imputation we dont know.
It seems that ho was acquainted with a Miss
Eckert, to whom Ormsbeo has been for some
time paying hla attention, and whom, about
four weeks ogo, ho (Ormsbee) married.
Ip conversation with some of his youthful
associates. Jennings boasted that ho had on ono
occasion got Miss Eckert, now Mrs. Ormsbeo,
to take a buggy ride with him, and that ho had,
at some hotel m the country, effected her seduc
tion ; staid all night and returned to the city
next day. These boasts lost nothing by their
passage from ono person to another until they
reached the cars of, Mr. Ormsbeo, who is of a
highly sensitive organization and was stung to
madness by them. . very sonl of honor and
of feeling, ; ho was shocked at the imputations on
the honor of his wife, and at once sought an in
terview with Mr. Jennings. The latter was
standing by the stove in the lobby of the Na
tional Theatre, at 10 o'clock on Saturday night,
when Ormsbee tapped him on the-shoulder and
asked him to step to the door. He did so: and
as they got outside the house, Ormsbee asked
him if ho had boasted in public that iio had so
dneed Miss Eckert. He smilingly replied that
he had, and Ormsbeo drawing a pistol, placed
it to Jennings free and fired. The ball shat
tered Jennings nose, tore‘his face badly, and
lodged in the head.
Deputy Marshall Gray was standing; within
a few feet of the parties when the affair Occur
red, and at once-arrested Ormsbeo, who made
no resistance, and only said: "1 don't care if
I am hung for it ; ho said he seduced my wife.”
The wounded man was carried across the street
to the Woodruff House, and tbo medical aid of
Drs, Wood and Foster procured. It was found
that the hall, which had been oflargc size, bad
entered the left side of tho upper lip, tear
ing and fracturing extensively tho bones of tho
noso and face.' 'The boll was not found, as any
attempt to probe tho wound was followed by
strangling with blood, and the occurrence of
spasms. Should Jennings recover, wnich is
hardly possible,ho will he horribly mutilated.
Tho father or'Mr, Ormsbee, who resides at
Springfield, was sent for immediately and ar
rived last night. At U o’clock yesterday
Judge -Spooner concluded that if there was a
probability of Mr. Jennings recovering,,ho
would hold M«%.Ormsbco to bail in $5,000 bonds
for his appearance to answer tho charge that
might bo preferred against him.
Mr, Ormsbeo is etui under arrest, as, Judge
Spooner, after n consultation with tho physic
ians in attendance on Jennings, concluded not
to accept bail. Mr. Jennings was sensible yes
terday, and' Djv Wood had some hopes of his
recovery.'
' Inodbasb pv tjib AniTT.—Tho following is
b. copy of tho amendment incorporated in tho
army-appropriation bill which has passed the
,Senate J
:. ..‘That there pball be added to,the army two
regiments of infantry and two regiments of
cavalry, organized as in the existing force,and,
that the officers and men authorized by this act
shall bo untitled to the same provisions fur
wounds and disabilities,aud tho same provisions
forwidowa and children, and the sarooullownnccs
and benefits, in* every respect, ns are allowed
toother troops composing tho army of tho U
lilted States. They shall bo subject to tho
rules ami articles of war, and shall bo
recruited in the same maimer os other troops,
and with the same Conditions and limitations.”
'A dreadful little for a shilling,* said a
penurious fellow to ; a physician, who dealt out
an o tactic; *caa’t you giro more V
iiliitot
{Oen, Cass’s Speech on the' Instructing Beso*
I lutions of the Michigan legislature, mode
in the C. S. Senate on the Sth Inst.
Mr. STUART presented a preamble and.rcs
olutions passed by the Legislature of the State
of Michigan, instructing the senators and re
questing the representatives from that State in
Congress to vote for, and use their best exer
tions to procure the passage of an act of Con
gress to prohibit the introduction or existence
of slavery in the Terri toriesof the United States,
and. especially in Kansas and Nebraska; and
also instructing them to vote for the rcpcafibf
the. fugitive-slave law, as containing ■ provis
ions of doubtful constitutionality, and which
are repugnant to tho moral sense of the people
of tho free States.
The resolutions have been read,
Mr. CASS said: Mr) President, it is now
some years since tho Legislature of Michigan
instructed the delegation of that State in Con
gross to vote for the measure historically known
as tho wilmot proviso—tho interdiction of sla- j
very iirtho Territories of tho United States. I j
took tho earliest opportunity in ray power, in l
some remarks I made hero in connection with 1
the general subject of Congressional jurisdiction
over those political communities, to aftnoancp
tho course I intended to pursue. As my cort
,victions of constutional duty prohibited mo
from obeying tho instructions, I avowed the de
termination to resign my scat in this body
I whenever I should bo called upon by its pro-
I cccdings to take iny part in the decision of tho
I question.
\ While professing my adherence to the gen
eral doctrine, I stud:. ‘I, a believer in tho right
of instruction, when fairly exercised and under
proper circumstances. There are limitations
upon this exercise, but I need not seek to as
certain their extent or application, fbr they do
not concern ray present position. I acknowl
edge the obligation of the instructions I have
received,’ &c. Any further action, however,
onmy part, became unocessary by tho repeal
of the resolutions—a measure which was adop
ted with much Unanimity by tho Legislature,
and approved by a vast majority of. the people
of the Stale.
And thus has the subject rested nndisturb
cd till within a few days: tho delegation of
Michigan in Congress have been left to follow
tho dictates of their conscience and judgment
in relation to this whole matter. Quito recent
ly, however, a change has taken place. The
democratic party in the State baa lost its as
cendency .and anewparty, with different views,
and I may add, in many with discor
dant ones, having obtained possession of the
legislative power, tho resolutions which have
just been read are tho result of its action, and
call upon me, as well as upon the other mem
bers of the delegation.,to veto for depriving A
mcrican citizens in the Territories of tho pow
er to regulate one of the most important of their
domestic concerns—that of tho relation between
master and servant, and for the repeal of the
existing fugitive slave act, passed to give cllcct
to a solemn guarantee of tho constitution. As
X peremptorily decline to do either, and Intend
to retain my place, it is necessary, in my own
vindication before tho people of tho State, whom
I desire respectfully to • addros from the scat
jyHsiXhw> occupy by _ their favor and kind
ness, that I should now cto what' I was not re
quired to do on the former occasion, to 'ascer
tain tho limitations'upon tho right of instruc
tion, or, to speak, perhaps with more perefsion,
‘the extent* of tlie duty of obedience, so far as
concerns my present position. . And f have to
say. sir, that tho circumstances in which tho ;
power to pass theso resolutions originated con- (
stituto one of tho very eases which occurred to
meat thditimo theso words of caution were ,
Spoken as restricting the obedience of tho rep- ,
rcscntativc. The practical question, briefly ,
stated, is this: Has a political party, whenev
er it ascends to power, by whatever combina
tions, the right to pass resolutions which its
opponents in legislative trusts are bound to o
bey, or, if prevented from obeying by their
conscience or consistency, to resign their posi
tion ? The consequence of such a rule of ac
tion arc too obvious to need detailed examina
tion, and too serious to bo incurred without
pressing necessity. Into this body it would
introduce changes, radically affecting its or
ganization, and incompatible with tho objects
of its institution os tho representative branch
of the sovereignty of tho States. It would
lose every characteristic of permanence, its
members going out. year by year, os political
fluctuations might transfer power from one par
ty to another ; for at all times would U be easy
to select questions for this process of removal,
which no honest roan, of an opposite parly,
could support, Sqmo of these are constitution
al, and others scarcely 1 inferior to them in itn- J
porlanco, involvingpointsof policy forming the *
very landmarks of the debatable ground, where
our struggles have always heretofore taken ,
place. That this power would be used, abused, '
indeed, for this purpose, no man will deny.—
Tho excitements of tho post warn us as to
what the future would bring with it; and that
the disadvantage would bo the share of the de
mocracy is certain, for it is well understood
that in the creed of our opponents instructions
carry with them neither tnoduty to obey nor
tho obligation to resign. The two whig Sena
tors who has occupied scatsln this body from
Michigan, one of Uicm my immediate predeces
sor, and tho other my colleague during a por
tion of my lirst term of service, honorable and
i distinguished citizens, both disavowed tho ob
ligation on instructions, and both refused, at
least in ‘one instance, to obey the expressed
' will of tho Legislature, conveyed to them by
Its .resolutions. And I believe their views
were in . Conformity with tho opinions of their
party iu tho State.
I am not called upon to discuss the general
doctrine. All I seek is to explain why I ac
knowledge tho obligations of the former in
structions, and deny those of tho present.— j
And when I deny tho power of tho ex- 1
isting majority of tho Legislature of Mich
igan, composed as it is of political oppo
nents, whoso efficient bond of union is antago
nism to tho democracy, to instruct mo out of
office, I feel that my object is accomplished.—j ;
I presume there was not a member or the Gen
eral Assembly whoso willis embodied in that
document, who did not know that no, human .
consideration would induce me to support the I
measures which find such favor in their eyes., '
So far as respects myself, it was tho vacation
of tho office that was hoped for. ,
Mr. President, strange doctrines are abroad, ,
and strange organizations aro employed to pro- (
mulgato and enforce them. Opr political history ,
contains no such chapter, in tho progress of our
country, os that which is now opening. Tho
grove questions of constitutionality and policy,
which nave been so long.tho battle-cry of par.
tics, are contemptuously rejected, and intoler
ance, religious and political, finds zealous, and
it may bo they wfil prove successful, advocates
in this middle of tho nineteenth century, boast
ing with much self-complacency of its intelli
gence, and in this free country founded upon
emigration, and grown prosperous and power
ful by toleration. It is a system of proscrip-1
lion which would exclude tue first general who
, fell at the head of an organized American army
, —and nobly and gallantly did ho fall, whifo
[ fighting for our inl&nt libcrtigs, under tho walls
AT $2,00 PER ANNUM.
NO. 37.
of Quebec—from oil political confidence, be*
cause ho happened to be born on the wrong side
of tho Atlantic, and would exclude also the last
surviving signer of the Declaration of Indepen
dence from any similar token of regard, be
cause ho was a Catholic, were these eminent
leaders in our revolutionary causo now living
to witness this appeal to local and sectarian
prejudices. But Montgomery and Carroll went
to their graves with the weight of no such in
gratitude upon their hearts. Two great par
ties, equally attached to the principles of our
government, but differing upon many questions
of administration, and alternately borne to
power and driven from it, whether in place or
out of it, watching each other with jealous
scrutiny, present a wise and fortunate arrange
ment for the preservation of freedom and for
guarding against the abuse of authority. "Such
nos been our condition, and well and wisely
has its work been done. What new experi
ment is needed 1 What more does this lately
awakened 7<ca\ propose ? As a country, we arc
in possession oi everything tho heart of man
can desire—power, Intelligence, prosperity,
happiness, abundance, freedom, equality, the
religion of God and the respect of man—all tho
elements, indeed, which give value to social life
or security for the duration of political bless
ings. We want no new parties, no new plat
fonns.no new organizations, and the sooner
these dangerous cuorts are abandoned, the tat
ter it will be for us and those who are to follow
us in this heritage of freedom.
During the process of constructing a party
upon this narrow basis of exclusion, humbly
affecting to know nothing, while resolutely de
termined to direct everything, and especially ol
constructing one with principles of organiza
tion not only secret in tnelr operation, but seek
ing unity of action, not of individual convic
tion and responsibility, but in tho surrender of
tho will of each to the demands of those who
gain the direction of, the associations—during
this process, the public mind must be in a
state of feverish excitement, unfriendly to calri
deliberation; and majorities acquired by com
binations arising out of this state of things do
not act under the “fair and proper circumstan
ces” which I declared in 1850 to be indispensa
ble to the obligatory force of legislative instruc
tions.
I am firmly persuaded that the adoption of ’
cither of the measures, much more of both, dc- '
roanded by the Legislature of Michigan, would '
bo the signal for the breaking up of this gov.
eminent, and the dissolution of this confcdcra- ,
cy. I know there arc many honest men who
scout at every idea of danger, and many others
who, while admitting it arc yet prepared to
meet it, let it bring what disasters it may—
prepared to sacrifice this magnificent structure
of freedom to one overpowering impulse, which
leads captive alike the heart and the under
standing 1 This is no time to surrender the
outworks of the citadel, to abandon the securi
ties which wisdom and patriotism have provi
ded, and to throw away all the checks we pos
sess against rag'll and dangerous innovations.—
For myself, sir, it Providence permit, 1 shall re
main in the position I occupy during the resi
due of ray term of service, unless, indeed, the
democracy of Michigan should require mo to
do what my convictions of duty would prohibit
me from doing: in which event I should ro
tire, Without hesitation, to private life, where
indeed 1 am snfilcicntly.warned, by the years
that have passed over mo, I must■ soon retire,
come what may. But as my life draws to
wards its close—ay, as it advances—instead of
enfeebling, adds strength to mr lovo of country
and continues to console mo with bright bo£cs
of her future power and stability.
What I fear above all is, that in the provi
dence of God wo may bo struck with that ju
dicial blindness with which nations are punish
ed for national oficoccs, and thus add another
to the melancholy list of people who bad not
wisdom enough to appreciate the value of free
institutions, nor virtue and firmness to main
tain them.
The Princess and the Tutor.
An emperor's daughter, who was delighted
with the profound learning, the lively wit, and
the strict adherence to the precepts, of morali
ty and religion, which characterized her tutor,
ono day inadvertantly made this remark to
him: ‘ „•
•What & pity that so tine ft soul as yours is
not in ft more agreeable body !' He inado in
reply, the following inquiry :
'ln what sort of vessels, madam, is your
father’s wine preserved ?’
‘ln earthen vessels,’ was the answer.
‘Can that bo possible T replied he. ‘Why,
every citizen preserves his wine in earthen ves
sels ; I should have thought that gold or silver
ones would have been more suitable to the dig
nity of on emperor.’
‘Vou arc right J exclaimed the princess, ‘and
henceforth this mark of respect shall not be o
mitted.*
In a few days, however, sho again accosted
her tutor on this subject, saying:
‘ln the gaudy vessels you recommended, my
father’s wino was spoiled ; the spirit evaporat
ed : while that wine which was placed in earth
en ones improved in quality.’
‘Very possible,’ rejoined the philosopher.—
‘So also with virtue and knowledge : the more
the exterior of that m winch they arc
contained, the more luxuricatly they will uour
ourish, and the more forcibly ?xcUo our admi
ration.’
A Boj>d Pjieacueu.—When Samuel Davies
was President of the Pnneoton College, ho vis
ited England for the purpose of obtaining do
nations for* the institution. George the Second
bad a cariosity to hear a preacher from the
‘wilds of America.” lie accordingly attended,
and was so much struck with the commanding
eloquence of the preacher that he expressed hl»
astonishment loud enough to bo heard halfway
across the Church, in such terms os these:
‘IIo is a wonderful man! Why, bo beats my
bishops J*
Davies observing that the king was attract
ing More attention than himself, paused and
looking his majesty full in the face, gave him,
in an cmpholic tone, the following, rebuke
•When the lion roareth, let the beasts of the
forest tremble; and when the Lord spcakelh,
let the kings ofthe earth keep silence.’ The
king instantly shrunk back in his scat, and re
mained quiet during the remainder of the ser
mon. The next day the monarch sent for him,
and gave him fifty guineas for tho Institution
over which ho presided observing at tho same
time to his courtiers —‘lie is an honest man—
an honest man.’—N. Y. Observer.
O* I tyavo often occasion to .observe that a
warm blundering man docs more for the \yorlil
than a frigid wise man. A man who gels
into the habit of inquiring about expedience
and occasions, spepds his life without doing
anything to the purpose. The slate of the
world is such, and so much depends on action
that everything seems to nay to every man,
•Do something’—‘do it—-do it.’
If our Maker thought ib wrong for'Ad-'
am to live single when there was not a woman
on earth, how criminally guilty aro old bache
lors, with the world full of pretty gvrl&i, Lot
young men think, of this.
BOMSCB OP THB tWM'OTf, '
Sanrni*; i'
A Tow York letter writer makes tte tbllowi
‘log comments upontho, fallen Ibrtunoa'of tho
celebrated Robert Schuyler j . 4 . .
*« I passed the other day the Splendid mansion,
of Mr. Schuyler, whoso stupendous frauds ard ,
sowell known; It was closed and apparently
solitary, though his family still reside there.--- ;
What a contrast a few months has apparently
made in that family I Its glory is dim. Crowds r
no longer assemble in the spacious parlors |, tho,-, <
coaches of tho splendid and gay do not line tho . (
sidewalk 5 the brilliant lights and tho dashing
company no longer alluro the crowd* to herd-;;
around the curb stonor—all -is. solitude* But >
what a lesson.does.this event teach! - ,
Mr. Schuyler had two characters. . In busi
ness, on ’Change, at his rooms in tho Astor, ho ’
was known as the high-minded, honorable, sue i
cossful,puro-mindcd’man, ono of whom New - ,.
York was proud, ono whom abo delighted to
honor. Now come With mo Into one of the least '■
protending streets in New York.' This house
is as unpretending os tho street. Mr. Spicer ,
lives hero.. Lot us enter. Mrs. Spicer and fa
mily of children, fromnlnotcon years and under, *.
compose tho household. n It is said to bo a sin-..
gular family. Mr. Spicer is a singular man.—-
No one ever sees him. • The butcher, the milk- •;
man, tho landlord, don’t kriow’blm. Mrs.’Spi-'
cor does all tho business. Mr, Spicer cotaosini'■
late 1 he goes away early in the morning. l '
Ho is a business man; ho has so much busi
ness that ho is never seen In his family. Kemairi >
there day and night, and you vyill never scoMr. .
Spicer. Tho daughters become young ladies.
They arc well cdocated. Thoy go out into so- ,
doty, but no one knows theiFfather. Mr. Spi
cer’s name Is not in the business directory. So
havo this family lived for twenty years In tho..
heart of New York! At length the elder Miss .
Spicer Is engaged to a most worthy roan. It is
needful to gain the confidence of Mr. Bplcor,
that tho marriage may take place, • ;
A time Is appointed and tho expectant son-ln
law is placed faco to face with Mr. Ho ‘
is told by tho father himself that his name is not. -
Spicer, but is Mr. Schuyler; that tho mother of*
his daughter la not a wife; bnt if thq*daughtcr
Is taken in marriage, tho mother shall bo wed
ded. Tho double act Is conMimmated \ tho veil
Is removed, New York is agitated for a moment''
by tho disclosures; an elegant house is taken'
on Twenty-second street, and tho family, fa,
launched on the wave of fashionable Ufo. * All!
tho world knows tho sequel. With so rotten *'-’
foundation, how could (ho superstructure stand? 1
Thors, tub Millionaire, at Saratoga,—A
correspondent of tho Mobile Tribune, dating
from Saratoga, gives tho following' sketches of*
on American princo t
<< Thorn, to whom I refer, has made a lion of.
himself by indulging in extravagances and cc-'.
contricUies. Ho is tho man'who so eclipsed
tho Emperor of Franco in the splendor of“hiSi
■ turn out.* Do Is said to have driven four span
of horses, richly caparisoned, to tho moat splep- . '<
, did carriage In Europe. Tho Emperor, nhwil-'
ling that any ono should go in better stylo than’
himself, ordered him to appear no more in tho;
streets of Paris with the aforesaid establishment.
Bis party consists ot his wlfo, two daughters,-
beaux, attendants, pages, maids, grooms, &c. !■
witnessed, a low days since, tho ceremony of
their preparation to rido. Five steeds and a
carriage, with a groom and drivers, In finest liv
ery to each, were first presented opposite tho.
United States Hotel. Next came tho party,
with their maids and attendants, Abeautllhl.
mahogany bay horse was first led up, whereupon,
grooms and servants took their position to per-,
form the feat of mounting the fair Miss to her
saddle. She placed her foot in tho white glov
ed hand of tho groom on tho left Bldo, who,
gracefully placed her in tho saddle, .while on’
their righfatood another ready to catch the jew- 1 a
olif, perchance, it should drop that Then *
came the maids to adjust tho riding dross, and
place her foot in tho stirrup. This and similar
ceremonies with her sister being accomplished,
the beaux and attendants mounted, tho old folks
ascended their carriage, and off they put as if
, to a funeral. This ceremony must have taken
a half hour—long enough, I heard an Alabama
t girl remark, for a southern party to havomoun
* tod and taken a respectable ride. I forgot to
? note, that after tho adjustment of tho young la
c dies’ dresses, reins, fico., the horses were sngar
‘ od (fed) from tho hands of tho grooms, which,
- 1 suppose, was to sweeten their gnlta and spirits
1 for the oVebiog’s performance,”
A Merited Redder,— The English paper*
have uttered tho most dolorous complaints abous
tho barbarity of thoßussions In firing upon their
own cavalry, as well as upon that of tho allies at
tho battle of BakklaVa. According to the no*
tional morality of John Boll,an actso attro clous
should disgrace Russia In tho eyes of all good
people, forever. Tho Boston Courier' gives
them a brief extract from history. -
I f any of tho advocates of tho allies, and de
nouncers of Russia, will tarn to tho third chap
ter ofthe Itfo ot General Nathaniel Grech, by
tV. Gilmore Simms, they will And that at tho
battle of Guilford, which was tongbt between
Green and Cornwallis, when tho British Guards
were (n full retreat before tho American cavalry,
and tho battle was nearly won, Lord Cornwallis
saw that there was hnt.ono thing ho coold do to
save tho day, and hurrying on the bill on which
McCloud had posted his artillery, he gave tho
terrible order to repel the progress of the Amai
rlcan cavalry by pouring out torrents of grapo
upon tho Held. Every storm of bullets swept
necessarily through tho ranks of friends and
toes. Ills own guard must led the stotm' a 4
heavily as their adversaries. Nevertheless, be
gave tho order. “It Is destroying ourselves,**
said ©’Harm. “ That Is true," said Cornwallis^
« but It (a unavoidable.” Tho expedient was
fatally successful. It repelled the American
cavalry. and it rescued tho victory from their
clutches. About ono half of tho splendid bat
tfllllon of tho Guards was swept to ruin In tho
Qtorm —cut to pieces In'tho open day, by thb
guns of their own army.
Fast Suavibo.— “ Three brothers, hearing a
remarkable resemblance to ono another, and In
tho habit of shaving at a barber’s shop in Oliver
Bt. A few days since ono of the brothers en
tered tho shop early In tho morning and was
duly shaved by a German who had been atworfc
In tho establishment for ono or (wo days,, About
twelve o’clock another brother camo lb and un
derwent d similar operation at tho hands of an
other person. Ip the evening a third brother
made his nppeartnee, when tho Gortoon drop,
pod tho razor In astonishment, and exclaimed t
.1 Veil mine cot, vat a booplcsf dat man has
the fastest poard I over saw. I shaves him ta
dla moruln, anodor shaves him at dinner times,
and becomes pack zuU his poard solong as it
never was.”
A correspondent of tho Homo Journal in A
notice of a wedding ho had recently attended,
gives an amusing account oi tho discomfiture of
a beau in an attempt to got tho upper hand of a
young girl, whom, from herdown cast oyos, and
unprosumlng.dctuoanor, ho doubtloss thought a
fair butt for his pointed wit. • ■ '
« Do you know what 1 was thinking of all tho
time during tho ceremony f‘* eald ho. / ,
“No, sir| whatl** .
“ Why, I was Mossing my stars that I was not
tho bridegroom.”, 1
*< And suppose tho bride was doing thd oamo
thing,” rejoined his fair antagonist. , , .
The beau said no more to her, that evening.
(£7*At a lato ball In Balilmoro, u gentleman
having danced with a young lady whosoftltrnc
tlons, both personal and conversational, seemed
to have made an impression bis sensibilities,
asked, on loading her to a scat, if ho might have
tho pleasure ofioolag her on thofollowjogdayf
»< Why, no, eir,” replied (ho fair onoi * { l shall
bo engaged to-morrow evening} but I’ll toll you
when you can sco mo.” , ‘ ■ .
<*l shall ha most happy,” exclaimed 'tho
stricken swain. ' * ■ t
“ Well, on Saturday night,” resumed tho la-,
dy, “ you can see mo at tho foot of Marsh’s mar.
ltd, selling cabbages.” • •
K7* A Indy acquaintance Bays tho flrat tlmo
she was klpaod by a “feller,” sbo felt Hkeahlg
tub of tubus swimming In honey, cologuo, hut
meg, and blacklrarrlos. She also 101 l ta.lf
something was running through her nerves.on
tod of. diamonds, escorted by moral little ctu
j plds In chariots drawn by, angels/shaded by ho
| uoy-suckles, tho whole spread over with molted
Intabows! *