AMERICAN 'VOLUNTEER: frDßtidrtEß EVERT THURSDAY MORNING DT Jolm B. Bratton. terms Subscription.— Ono Dollar and Fifty Cents, prid in advance; Two Dollars if paid within the year'j and Two Dollars and Fifty Cents, if not paid within the year. These terms will ho rig idly adhered toin ovory instance. Nosubscrip lion discontinued until all arrearages are paid unless at the option ot the Editor. Advertisements— Accompanied by the cash, and not exceeding .one square, will bo inserted throe times for'one Dollar, and twenty-five cents foroacli-addUional insertion. Those of a great er length in proportion. Jon. Printing —Such ns Iland-bUls, Posting, bills. Pamphlets, Blanks, Babels, &c., &c., exe cuted with apeurary and at the shortest notice. ffortlrnl. From the Louisville Journal. HOURS or SADNESS. BY MARY. very sad and lone, to-night— My soul with brooding fancies teems. And hopes end joys that once were bright, Seem hut the whisperings of dreams. Bad echoes o’er my heart-strings piny— Their trembling tones Us chords awake, And 1 must breathe the suddoned lay, Of else this burdened heart will hfeak. Bolt stars float up the crystal air, ' The moonbeams tread the silent sea, *That seems like music slumbering there, . A sweet unbroken melody. The chanting waves are.lald asleep, All fringed with merry, twinkling beams, As If the stars that gem the deep Wore laughing sweetly in their dreams. Around (ho columns of the night The silver winds their light arms wreathe, And warble tones ns taint and light As*sighs that parting lovers breathe \ So clear and soft they swell and and die Along the dewy brow t»f oven, They seem like angels wandering by, And murmuring songs they heard iu heaven. There floats a cloud with silver tips. So gently by (be south wind kissed, It breaks upon the fragrant lips A shower of brightly-shivered mist; Polo midnight twines her dusky brow With floating wreaths of summer air, And here and there a starlight glow Of radiance gleaming in her hair. But not the beajity ol the hour, Nor flipping sound of wafers sweet, Nor young leaves trembling in the bower Ami whispering as their cages meet— Not these can bring the sweet repose, The joyous light ot former days, Nor still the wild and lent less throes That make me murmur sadden’d^ays. No moro from me gay songs nr« heard— My harp-strings havp been jarred too long, For grief has tinged each joyous word, And sadly marred the source of song. Then chide not lor this mournful strain, 'Tls but the weaiy weight of grlcflp Which long upon my soul hga lain, And sighs und tears bring no relief. The bloom has vanished from my life j Blrd-like I gaze on yon blue sky, And long to leave this care and strife. And feel ’twill bo so sweet to die ; For life is hut a weary way— A sad and weary way at beat— Talk to my heart, oh. Night, and say, Will the grave only give mo rest ? J&isftllniifouH. A mSCU STiIRVi- — Al a Court ball, some twenty ysars since, n young officer of the French cavalry met and was charmed by a beautiful English girl. lie ob tained an introduction, and danced with her ns often ns he could, without challenging the re mark of his (iruce, the young lady's papa— Our hero was handsome, amiable, witty, and in every way a person to win the good will of tho fair sex. Hu was of good family, and hod the aristocratic dc affixed to his name, although be could boast no parlrimonial estate. The young Indy was of England’s privileged class—both noble ami wealthy. This, how ever. our lover did not know when first he bow ed before the charms of her beauty. Love be gets love, and women arc grateful ; and the fair girl returned the young soldier's devotion. Th *y met often—how or where wo cannot say. ; but Paris is largo, and English customs are con venient for young people. This was nil char mingly agreeable, but unsatisfactory ; for theirs fras a flirtation with a serious intention affixed to it—marriage! At length our heroine discloses her wishes to her parents. They are horrified : Ihnr daugh ter marry a Frenchman, merely a lieiucnnnt. a man without estate ! It is not to be thought of. She listens to this decision in tears. A first weakness passed, however, she feels na ture’s dictalcand the strength which love gives. She next boldly and firmly declares to her pa rents that she loves the young officer with her whole heart, and him alone will she marry. That if they will not penult her to judge of her own happiness, she can wait unlit she is of age, when tho clergyman marry them without pa rental leave. My Lord and My Fdidy arc made conscious that their fair and gentle daughter has a will of her own, and also a patient determination to gratify that will. They come to parley, and enter into negotiations with the young peo ple. The lovers are to be separated for two years —it shall not bo considered on engagement — and tho young lady shall receive the addresses of other suitors. On the other hand the lovers aro to be per mitted to correspond, and if they remain lov ers at the end of two years, they shall marry with full consent and approbation. Tho young lady consoles her anxious lover with assurance that her love is unchanged and that the two years’ absence will only serve to prove their allectifin for each other and endear them to one another still more. They port. The English party return home. During a month they exchange letters daily— and such letters! Of what a length, and how full of terms of endearment! How poor lan* [gunge seemed to them ! ■L Hut one day our fair heroine listened in vain Bor the postman's knock, so well known to flpery Londoner. lie came not. The next day the next—and no tidings; and thus “ays passed, and brought disappoint* ”ocka lengthened into months, tho sick heart of the poor ™ l jfd month came round, and her ; c ? mo faint. Then My Lady condoled u Pkraidod the young sol- Lord r| iroS'Enttliah \ am \\ * Wftß ,u 8 that ft .•■■SBar n 8 1 * cart B hould resent an insult.” i "'T p i asa ' M "“>whilo tho un “»ppy flomsrf writes letters and sends them in '•W possible way, in «,« hopoof obtalS an ,-. «mn«tu>n of tins long eilcnee. None comes" dMbts becomes conviction she is .1 111" love in her hcnrt.ond pride comes avlf-rcspret. Having no lone. , .qr* dcSirc of her own, she yields to that of her toother. My Lady I will marry Lord . I have so decided, let us bo married quickly. , It was done. Fifteen years pass by. Our ■ heroine is a widow ! Five years more, and “My i lady” lies ill unto death. , her daughter to her bedside, and ' .confesses that slio had detained the letters of • officer—that ho had been faithful.— vj proofs of it wore by the hundred in such a /.MW» “My Indy” dies. Our heroine seeks these letters of the lover of her youthful days, and finds heaps of his, aud also those she had lirini BY JOHN B. BRATTON. YOL 41. written, in the vain hope of obtaining explana tion of his silence. Twenty years of disappointment were forgot ten in reading the ardent expressions of aifec tion and devotion which they breathed. She was young again, and her heart had known no care—it was again the spring-time of her life. She took these letters with her, and went 4o Paris, She sought information from the Minister of War, of him who was lieutenant in the cavalry of 1834. The authorities replied that the lieu tenant of that time was now Commanding Gen eral,.and that he was stationed in one of the Southern Departments. The widow wrote to the General that she wos at Paris, and desired to see him. He obtained leave of absence, and hastened to meet the lady. All is explained, and our lovers arc married. To be sure, the Qencralis no longer young; but his manners have the same charm, and his elegance and style lessen his apparent age. The lady carries her inadmissible forty years as if they number ed but thirty. The last twenty years of their lives arc likely to be happier than either of the first. And jo ends n real life romantic, that is very like one in a story book. Revolutionary Anecdote. A gentleman sends from Kingston to the Bos ton Traveller the following incident connected with the revolutionary war. which he believes has never before foundJta way into print: “In 17—. while our country was at war with En gland, Tories, as they wore culled, unwilling to espouse their country's cause. 'lxfl their country for their country’s good, As lories and traitors always should !’ “Among the number who thus left for the British dominions in Nova Scotia, was my aunt F . will) her torv husband. “During (he war, an American privateer was seen approaching L , where my aunt and other Americans were located. At the ap proach of the ngly-looking stranger, all the America ns lied except my mint, who kept a small store near the place of entry. Having secured what she could from her shop, she hastened to her house to secure her valuables there, also: but the ofllrers of the privateer were too close upon her heels to allow her to secrete much They came upon her just as she «ns entering a chamber which had been previously left in some confusion- Feeing the officers so near to her. she turned in an instant, and with her usual quickness of invention, for she was always ready Jor a turn, said to the lender—■! hope you will pardon the appearance of my room, ns wc have just had the small pox in it. ami have not had time to put things to rights since the nntienl was carried oil.’ It was‘a word and a blow.'ns wc say. In his haste to escape, the officer turned upon his heel, and in turning fell over the staircase and rolled down two flight of stairs into the street, dropping from its scnhhonrd an elegantly mounted sword, which he left behind as a prize to my aunt. Picking himself up the best he could, be was joined by his comrades, ami very soon the privaleerjiad her sails spread and was out of sight and out of danger, leav ing my aunt to laugh over her well-timed strningun. and (o hunt for her monoy-box, which was found some months afterwards among the currant bushes in the garden, just where she placid it herself when she took it from the shop. ” Changes of Vcgitnlion Id Palestine. The grassy meadows of Palestine are very nnlikc iho.se in our country. Our gross looks fresh in spring, luxuriant in summer, and nt llie close of the year withered and yellowish ; hut still under all circiimsionres, there is grass. In Palestine.on the contrary, the grass grows only so long ns the ground that is adapt for it is moistened hy the winter rains. The traveller who passes through these in spring is rueishd with the luxuriant vegetation and the multitude of flowers ; the whole country seems to say to him, see. now, and behold.arc not we. hills and valleys, ns the Scripture saith, n land flowing with milk and honey? But scarcely have the latter rains ceased, and the storms of the vernal iquinox sulisided, than nn almost vertical sun withers up the grass and (lowers,a scorching southeast wind coined up from the wilderness, and the traveller, who to day has passed over a verdant and variegated carpet of herbage and (lowers, will, three weeks after.at the same place, not meet with a single blade of grass : nil vegetation he will then find scorcher! to death : and if during that interval the siroc co has been moro than ordinarily powerful in its blast, then (he grass, nfler being shrivelled into hay, will have been swept afar, and the surfaceof the ground will have assumed adingy yellowish copper colour. Hence it in that travellers often give such totally opposite ac countsof the same placis.—-Ton de Veld's Syria and Palestine in 1851 and 1852. Tnw Shoutf.st Wav.—We were gratified, the other day, by a visit from an ole! friend re siding in the vicinity of Napoleon. Ind., and it reminded ns of an old. unpublished story, we once heard of that place. Some twelve years ago, Napoleon was cele brated for two things, one for the carousing propensities of l(« inhabitants, and tho other for the great number of cross-roads in its vi cinity. It appears that nn Eastern collector had stopped at Dayton (o spend the night, and gain some information about his course. Dar ing the evening\he became acquainted with nn old drover, who appeared well posted as to the geography of the country, and the collector thought he might as well inquire ns regards the best route to different points to which ho was dcstinfd. “I wish to go to Greenfield,” said tho col lector. “now winch will bo my shortest way?” “Well, sir.’’said tho drover, “you had bet ter go to Nnnalcon ami take tho road leading nearly north.” Tho traveller noted it down. “Well, sir. if 1 wish to go to Edinburg ?” •‘Then go to Napoleon, and take £ho road west.” “Well, if I wish to go to Vcmon ?” “Go to Napoleon, and take the road south west.” “Or, to Indianapolis?” asked the collector, eyeing the drover closely, and thinking ho was being imposed upon. “Go to Napoleon, and follow tho north west road.” „ The collector looked at his note-book?-• every direction had Napoleon on it; ho began to feel Ins mettle rise, and ho turned once more to tho drover, with; I , ‘®“^P oB0 * m y friend, I wanted to go to The drover never smiled, scratched his head, *i ft moments consideration, said : 'Well, my dear «)r. I don’t know of any poleoff r ° a< * ou t a *to than to B° to Na- xrJ£tT* don’t you got married?’said a young lady to a bachelor friend. -Well. I’ve C r * cn years to get some one fool enough to hare me.' replied the bache* lor. Guess you havn’t been much up in our quarter, was the very insinuating rejoinder. “OUR COUNTRY —MAY IT ALWAYS BE RIGHT —BUT RIGHT OR WRONG, OUR COUNTRY.” ME FAIRY THAT I ENOW, DT W. DRAICsrOROi I do not any she Is so fair No maiden may with her compare; 1 do not say those eyes so bright Wiirdazzlo by their brilliant light 5 Or that the roses of her face "Will shame all others by their grace; But this I can in truth declare, That she is very sweet and fair; That never truer heart was fonnd Within Jove’s consecrated ground ,• That alt the charms that love can show Meet in the fairy that I know. I do not say she is so wise That lovely low she would despise; Or that the structure of her mind * To lofty uses is designed; I do not say she lives and seems Like some great princess ot our dreams; But yet I never hesitate To bend unto her gracious state, For skilled she is in pity’s art, In all the kindness of her heart, K'on pride would all Itt pomp forego To greet the fairy that I know. I do not say her voice is such No nightingale its tones can touch ; • Or when perchance she speaks or sings, Some angul.naturu round her springs; Yet all her notes arc clear and free As childhood’s checrfbl ecstasy ; And when she moves so soff possess'd, Ilcr dignity befits her best; Still faiicst of the fair In this, Her ways are waj*s of pence and bliss, What marvel that long time ago J loved the fairy that I know. FRIGHTENED TO DEATH, That the popular belief in ghosts is not ex tinct even in a large town like Sheffield,is proved by a tragic circumstance of recent occurrence. It was currently reported in Campolanc. at the latter end of last week, that a ghost, “oil in white,” had made its appearance in the house of John Favcll, who lives in Campolanc a little beyond the parish church. The story was genuine thus far that a young woman, named Harriet Ward, who lodged at FavelFs house, affirmed in the most solemn manner that she had seen nn apparition in the cellar kitchen.— This assertion was made with such an air of credibility that the o In r inmates in the house —Pavel, his wife, and the wife’s sister —could not altogether disbelieve though they had no visual evidence of its truth, ravel had heard strange sounds, however, which ho thought might have their origin in supernatural agency. On Saturdry evening they fell so much concern id on account of the ghostly presence that for the sake of greater security, a friend of the family, named Robert Roliinson. who lodg ed in court No. 24. South street. Park, was re quested to spend the night at Faveirq.hou.se.— Being neither superstitious nor timid he acqui esced. He and other persons went to bed in duo time, and Hollinson reported that on Sat urday morning that he had seen nothing extra ordinary, but towards morning that he had heard a strange noise that he could not account for. Ho returned homo to breakfast, having first received an invitation for himself and wife to dine at Farell's. His wife and the family with whom they lodged were very inquisitive about the ghost, but Roliinson assured them that he had seen nothing of it. His wife at once accepted the invitation to dinner and seemed to regard the apparition story as a pleasant jest. She little knew that in a few hours it would prove her death. She and her husband kept their appointment at FavelFs and remaim d to spend the rest of the day there. It should be here slated, as a circumstance which may throw some light on this strange affair, that all the parties concerned—except, perhaps, the ghost, of whose creed nothing is known—were members of the Latter day Saints, congregational meetings are held at the Hall of Science, Rochingham street. To this place Favcl. his family and friends repaired on Sunday afternoon, leaving at their house Mrs. FavelFs sister, Mrs. Roliinson, and Mrs John son (the person at whoso house, in South street lha Rollinsons lodged.) On the return of the party who hod gone to the Hall of Science.lhey were accompanied by several acquaintances.who had heard of the apparition, and perhaps fi ll curious to know more %()putit. Harriet Ward was eloquent as to the subject of the vision,and several of the visitors went into the kitchen to see the ghostly resident** and the precise spot where it had been seen. A number of persons bad assembled in front of the house, under standing that the ghost was on “view," anx ious to have a peep for nothing; but Mrs. Fa* veil feeling annoyed at so many individuals prying at a kitchen window, requested her sis ter to put a. temporary blind against it with two forks. The sister, however, had not courage to perform the task, although several individuals had already gone down into the kitchen, preceded by Harriet. Ward, with a lighted candle. It was at this moment that Airs Rollinson's disbelief in ghostly manifes tations exhibited itself in full force. “Pooh, pooh !" she exclaimed, rather impatiently. “Qiv<» mo the forks child!” and Imraedlqtcjy she descended into the kitchen to hang up the blind. She had not been there many moments when looking in the direction of the stairs down which she had descended she became sudden* ly terror stricken, and seizing the arm of her friend Mrs. Johnson, with a convulsive grasp, exclaimed in broken accents, “Oh, Mrs. John son, I saw something on the steps 1 Take me away ! This unexpected incident imparted a reality to tho occasion which perhaps a few present had expected. Mrs. Roliinson, iu her of ter ror, was conveyed up tho stops,and immediate ly afterwards fainted. After a while her con sciousness returned, but for a brief inlcrval.and she assured her friends, in the most earnest and solemn manner, that alio had seen on the stairs a female form, dressed in white apparel, and that it approached and rushed post her. Tho fact of no one having seen it made no difference toher. She. believed the evidence of her eye sight in that'instancc, as she had been accus tomed to do on ordinary occasions, and proba bly nothing could have shaken her conviction that she had seen a specter. Again, she relap sed into a slate of unconsciousness, in which condition she was removed in a cab to her lodg ings. and died thqro about noon on Monday.— Her death had been caused by tho fright she had received on tho previous day, up to which time she was in perfect health and spirits: and her friends concur in stating she was by no means of a timid disposition. A coroner’s in- Xucst was held on Tuesday, in conscnucnco of to poor woman’s sudden death. Tho hard headed matter of fact jury could make nothing of the ghost story, so they returned a verdict of “Sudden but natural death.” Wo are un able to add that this verdict haa had tho effect of exterminating tho superstitious feelings that tho tragic incident of Sunday last, and tho ru mors which preceded it, have awakened. A city editor says that a man in New York got himself into trouble in marrying two wives. A western editor replies by assuring his cotomporary that a good many men in Michigan have done tho same thing by only marrying one. CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 17,1855. ME BOA AND (BE BOSKBY. In the year 1H23; an English officer, who was stationed with'ms regiment in the neigh- ] horhood of Kulladgee, in India—a. region in which the monkeys;.,, abound in numberless 1 quantities, and whose yells, shrieks and hooo- j ings were indescribably wild, was a witness of a most extraordinary scene, which he thus sketched; I was one" day, with a native fora companion, climbing, one of the slanting as cents, of. the Runtnuddlo cliff, when I became aware that on unnsnal commotion reigned amongst my friends the tnonkeys, which had by this time got so familiarized with my ap-1 pearnneo, that they Seldom condescended to 1 honor me with a snnr), or a bough-Hung to wards mo in sport.' Creeping round a rock,! behind which they appeared to congregate,and 1 on which grew n* large gumarnhic tree, com-, pletcly golden with the. abundance of yellow' blossoms which covered'ity I at once found my- j self on the stage of a strangeAmgedy in Sitnt-' an life. In the voluminous folds of a bon con- ( stricter was being slowlylnwrappcd a heauti- j ful brown monkey, whoso last cries and strug gles denoted that t came too late, even had T been prepared to do battle with the reptile, In the cause of. oppressed .innocence. The mon keys, in evident altirm, ran hither and thither, I mobbing and mewing, 'and chattering: hut not' one advanced near the spot, where presently ■ their poor companion bcciwpe almost quite hid den fium view in the’embrace of its destroyer.; determined to watch of the af. j fair.! quietly sat down, until gradually the monkey had been moulded, ns it were, into a* proper condition for. deglutition, lor I could hear the bones crack ns they broke beneath the pressure to which they, were subjected- and ero long, as the serpent began- to untwist its folds. T could admire at leisure-the magnificence ofj its glittering scales, that shone like some rich- 1 lyvariegnlcid metalic substance. I shuddered* as I grand .and awful head—the, prominent 'orbits-of the cye-and the eves! themselves largo.'and-luminous with a fiery light. The creature was at least twenty feet in length, and was apparently famished hv long fast. Perfectly heedless of the noise made by the monkeys’ it unwound* its coils till the victifc. now an unrecognisable mass, lav be fore it lubricated and lit to'fcc received into the destroyer’s stomach. When the reptile had fairly commenced its repast,. I retired from the arena of conflict and. hall of banquet, desirous of summoning my friend to assist mo in cap turing the sated giant. I knew that when gorged to repletion, then? Would bo nodifllcnlty in making a prize of the serpent: and ho enter ed into my plans most willingly. Accompanied by a stout lascar hearing a strong cudgel, and' a sharp knife, for slaughter and skinning, wc loaf little time in reaching the scene, where, however, fresh mar vels were being enacted, proving that the pas sion of revenge is not confined to the human breast. Keeping aloof, wc resolved not 10 mar by any interference the by no means mystify ing operations in which the monkeys were en gaged. The boa constrictor 'horoughly goTgedTohd liken log of w», the same projecting mass of-cllCL,’ hod left it. On the summit of a troop of monkeys wore assembled, and three or four of the largest and strongest were occupied in dis placing nn immense fragment of the massive stone, already loosened by time and the de ments, from the rest of (ho ledge. The mass almost overshadowed the reptile. By enor mous exertions, made in silence that was rare with them, they at last succeeded In pushing it onward until it overhung (he boa’s bend, when uttering a fierce yell, in which every seporate voice mingled,-.by a vigorous move ment thev shoved it sheer down. The heavy mass fell right on the serpent’s bead, crushing it ns if it were a cocoa nut;.and’ as the reptile lashed its (earful tail about, in the final strug gles for life, wc could not refrain from joining % in thejungnlar chorus of rejoicing with which the monkeys now celebrated their accomplish ed vengeance. Duration of Sleep. Of the duration of sloen, the porinrl varies in different mon. John Hnnfcr. Frederick of Prussia. Nnnoleon. and rflhcr gycat men. slept tmt little: the Duke of Wellington was also a little sleeper. Boerhnvo says that on one occa sion, his mind hemp much engaged ho con Id not sleep for six weeks: he probably meant to write “not soundly.” Tie adds thccaseof a student who adopted the strange theory that the natural condition of man was sleep, and to Os?t the truth of the doctrine, slept eighteen of the twenty-four hours, and, ns mipht Rave been expected, died of apoplexy. The elder Descro zilcs seems to have slept out two hours in the twenty-four. However, the number of hours passed in sleep varies from six to twelve. The indolent, and those whoso avocations or for tune doom them to inert life, sleep many more hours than arc necessary, but eight or nine hours would seem to bo about the fair propor tion which every man oupht to lako who val ues his health or cxnccts his intellects to be in a fit state to enjoy life. Habit, climate, con stitution. calling, ago. modify, however, the ddration. Infancy requires much sleep, youth more than is pcnerally allotted toiMn England and manhood is the medium between the wauls of youth and the necessities of ago. Some old people, as we have previously remarked, much. Parr slumbered away the greater part of his time, and Do Moirsc, when 1$ years of ape, slept twenty hours out of twpntv-foui*. But these are exceptions to the law of Nature. *nd TUckcrnnd affirms that old men have short sleep, light and broken, "as if," savsQrimnnd according to Slnhh’s notions, ‘children foresaw that In the long career before them there was time enough fop performing nt leisure, all the acts of life, while old men, near to their end, feel the necessity of hurrying the enjoyment of good already about to escape " Hr- Elliotsoii writes: "Old people slecnllghtlv and frequent ly and altogether but little, unless lethargic diseases come upon them, which is very com mon." Barker, the coachmaker. was heard to declare ho never took more than three hours Bleep in the twenty-four during the most active period of his life. The celebrated Oon. Elliott, never slept more than four hours out of the twenty-tour, and his food consisted wholly of bread, water and vegetables. Wait tilt. rou’nß asked.—The young In dies of the Illinois Institute at Wheaton, Du Page county, recently passed the following res olution unanimously-: “ Resolved, That wo, young ladies of the*!!- linois Institute, pledge ourselves not to keep company with or join in the sacred bonds of matrimony with any young gentleman who Is notin favor of the Malnc-lltiuor-law, or aomo other prohibitory law.” The Now York on the above, sayp: . , • “It has generally bocin the custom for ladies to 'wart till they're asked,*- especially young ladles still at school.” O* There ore Very few people who call themselves onr friends, but what 'entile more sweetly upon us in (Ho day of prosperity than inlheday of adversity. 1 Flea (or Figs. Tho pig is an important animal. Of a se rene and philosophical tempennent, his mental Sind moral powers arc not of that brilliant cast which attract tho general attention. Unlike, ; the “half reasoning elephant,” his intellectual acquirements are 11811011/ so limited that the •'learned pig” stands alone—a prodigy in tho world's annals. What judicious instruction and maturity of j’cars mightcffcct is. of course, mere conjecture, as an early death is character istic of the race; and when attention is direct ed chiefly to physical development, any prcco i cious display of youthful genins would bo like -Ily to pass unnoticed. A breeder who has ac- I curately attended to the small quantity of food j it requires to swell this pig out to such extra ordinary dimensions, tho astonishing genius it displays for obesity, the laudable propensity of the flesh to desert the cheap regions of the body ■ and to agglomerate on those paHs which arc ( worth nine pence a pound—such an observer of its utility docs not hesitate to call these a ! “beautiful race of pigs.” Dear as the rent -1 paying pig to the Celt, ho is alike the friend and ally of the Anglo-Saxon. Ilis voice is ev erywhere blended with the accents of that power, which, in the language of Webster, | “has dotted over tho whole surface of tho whole 1 globe with her possessions and military posts. , whoso morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles i the earth daily with one continuous and un i broken strain of tho material airs of England.” | Not to he inviduous, who. wo may ask. has j not joined with uunsal thankfulness in tho pre liminary grace over the frirly-browned spare rib, well-cured ham, the nicely-seasoned saus age? What an important question to many, “When are yon going to kill?” What an un ■ portant era, flht cheering day ! • • Not a j paper do wo open that docs not record the | price of pork, and telegraphic dispatches trans- i port the rise and fall of bacon. Great in peace \ j and great in war. what would tho nations do? : what would the navies of the world be without 1 the pork in their holds? Take that away, and a Napier might tell his “boys” to “sharpen their cutlasses" in vain. Magnitude of London, London extends over an area of 78.029 acres or 122 squares miles ; and the number of its in habitants (rapidly increasing) was two millions three hundred-and sixty-two thousands at last the census. A conception of this vast mass of people may bq formed by the fact that, if the metropolis was surrounded by a wall, hav ing a north gale, a south, an cast gate, and a west gate, and each of tho four gates was of sufllcient width to allow a column of persons to pass out freely four abreast, and a peremptory necessity required the immediate evacuation of the city, it could not bo accomplished under four and twenty hours—by tho expiration of which time the head of each of the four col umns would have advanced sixty miles from the gateq; or in other words, the population of Ixmdon would form a solid column four a breast and 240 miles long. Tim V i nko AU-lScßn -Gentry. —That- very able and “An Exchange Pa per.” gives the following Very'plain statements which wc commend to tho “afflicted "There is a class of men fn every communi ty, who go about with vlnigar faces because somebody feels above them, or because tficy arc not appreciated ns they should be. and who have a constant quarrel with what they call their destiny. Wo hate such people. They area nniunnco and a past. They make all within their influence uncomfortable.' These men have usually made a grave mistake in the estimation of their abilities, or are unmitiga •ted asset?. Wherever this fault finding with one’s condition occurs, there is always want of \ self-respect. If you nrc a right down clever I fellow, wash the worm-wood of! your face, ami show your good will by your good deeds. If people “teel above you.” why not return the compliment and feel above them. If they turn up their 1 noses because you are a mechanic, or n farmer, or n clerk, turn up your nose a notch higher. It they swell when they pass you it> the street, swell yourself. Deliver u» from the whining fools who go around like ba bies telling‘how people abuse them, and whin ing because society will not take them by the collar and drag them into decency." ‘Oh Pa. I have just se».n one of the worses! dog fights as ever was seen or beam tell of in the worlds ‘Well. Simon, my boy how was it V ‘Well, there was one great big black dog. with white cars and a brass collar, and one little black and green dog what hndh’l no man man with him. and as’ •Come. come. Simon, don't talk so fast, yon get eiWything mixed up ; stop and gut breath a moment and don’t blow so like a porpoise." ‘Well I want to tell you Ifow one dog with while ettrs got ondne side of the meeting house, ami other meeting house with the yaller dog ; no, no, I mean one meeting house, with the yaller grpen ears, got on one side of the dog with the yallc/r cars, he give a yelp at the other meeting house, and the dog. dog—o, dad I'm give out—there warn"! no doo at all.. A Model Vbudict. —The following verdict, delivered at Rome. Georgia, in the case of Abe Johnson vs. Thomas Cameron,shows that Phil adelphia does not monopolize nil the intelligent “jurymen" in the United Stales: “Wo th& gury chonzcn and swoarno ngro that tom kam yron, must pa aba gonsing tlie fnl amount of five cent* that the nlalnctif pay over the won kwart of lilccr for the benefit of the gury and kosls will be rooled out.” Beautiful,- -Itconnot be Ihtxl earth is mans abiding place. It cannot be that our life is cost up by the ocean of eternity to float upon its waves and sink ino nothingness. Elsa why : is it that the glorious aspirations which leap like angels {yom the temple of hearts arc forev er wandering about uusntisllcd? Why is it that the rainbow and the clouds come over 1 with a beauty that is not on cadh, and pass oft* to leave ua muse on their faded loveliness? Why is it that the stars, who hold festival around the midnight throne, are set above (ho grasp of our limited faculties, forever mocking us with their unapproSbhablo glory? And fi nally why is it that the bright forms of human beauty arc presented to our view and then ta ken from us, leaving the thousand streams of oar aftectibns to flow back in Alpine torrents? Wo are bom for a higher destiny than that of earth. There is a realm where rainbows never fade, where the stora will bo out before us like islets that slumber on the ocean and where the beings that place before us, like shadows, will stay in our possession forever. t£7* “Sally Mandcr Safe, said Mrs. Parting ton, ns hey eyes fell upon an advertisement.— “Do tell mo. Isaac, who this Sally Mandor is and wlmt she has been doing that they’ve got her flare.” 3 b “I don’t know wlmt she has been doing,” said Iko, she’s a sister to Jerry. “Jerry who, Isaac?” “Why, Jerry Mandcr,” said Iko. AT $2,00 PER ANNUM, NO, 49, ftolUitnl TEE OLD PATRIOT, GEN. CASS, We publish below, the eloquent, wise, pa triotic and Christian letter of the distinguished statesman whose name heads this article. Such a letter is worthy of such a man. Men like Cass, Clat, Calhoun, Webster, and those still greater names, Jackson, Jefferson, and the immortal WASHINGTON, could never sympathize, much less bo associated with so foul a thing as Know-Nothing intolerance and falsehood. The class.of men to which Cass belongs, ranks with the proudest list of world rulers to be found in all history. The genius, fame and virtue of such men will never be found tarnished by contact with the leprosy of bigoted fanaticism and religions persecution.— The iniquitous sinks of Know-Nothing bigotry* and oppression are fitting places only for cast off fifth-rate politicians of desperate fortunes, and the ignorant herd of fanatics who arc ruled by designing men through appeals to their ani mal excitability and uncultivated instinct. — Democrats of’4B, and honest men of all par tics, and of no party, listen to the calm voice of an aged patriot: Detroit, March 15, 1865. Dear Sir. ; —TI is now more than two years since I have attended a public festival, and the same afflicting circumstances which led me to adopt this course, yet operate to render me in ! disposed to change it. While, therefore. I [ thank you and those associated with you. for , the invitation to attend the celebration of St. [ Patrick's day on the 17lh. I beg leave to beex* j cuscd for declining its acceptance. Bat. though I shall not be with von on that j interesting occasion, yet I can realize and ap preciate the feeling with which you « ill assem ble to recall the glories of the land of your birth or descents ip this land of your hopes and your homes : and to do honor to the memory of the Apostle of Christianity, who first carried the Gospel of Jesus to the Pagan inhabitants of Ireland. Obeying the injunction of the Scrip tures. lie “added knowledge to virtue,” though in these latter days we are called upon to glory i’i ignorance, and to found our claims to con fidence upon inotc nothing. Your illustrious missionary belonged to the great Order of know somethings—to that class of it indeed which knows a great deal, and he deserves the grati tude of mankind for imparting what ho knew tu others, instead of endeavoring to “darken counsel by words without knowledge." Honor therefore to one of the l>enefactors of flio human race, and let us render it the more freely now, when local and sectarian prejudices arc striv ing to create a distinction among us. ns unjust as they arc unconstitutional. But we have nothing eventually to fear from error or op •pression,while, as Mr. Jefferson well said, “rea son ifi left free to combat it. 4 * That freedom is a portion of our heritage and it will triumph over this delusion as it has triumphed over many a one heretofore, and will triumph over many a one hereafter? those who have participated in it will awaken to the conviction that,the worth of an American citizen docs not depend upon the place of his birthc nor his claim to confi dence upon his religious faith, and upon the modc in which he worships * that, God, who is equally the God of the Catholic and of the Pro testant—who guided and protected our fathers in the days of their troubles and trials and will we humbly hope, guide and project us and our children whenever troubles and trials shall be set our National path. There is no danger, it wc only appreciate the blessings wo enjoy in a spirit of mutual conciliation and forbearance, and with thankfullness to Him who gave them, and may take them away. i am dear sir, with great regard. Truly Yours. LEWIS CASS. Col W o'oali,aijhan, President. OPINION OF IN nosrST WHIG, We clip the following aVticle from the lust number of the Lancaster Ezuimnrr, tbo Whig organ of that county. Mr. Darlington deserves credit for thus plainly and pointedly express ing his disapprobation of Gov. Pollock's course in moking his appointments, and we hope he will deal in the same way with some of his measures: The GovKitKon's Appointments. —The se lection of Mr. Henry Davis as Leather Inspec tor. completes (he Stale appointments of the present executive. We have no knowledge of Mr. Davis’s claims or qualifications, but an ex posure contained in the Daily News oflasl Sat urday. is not calculated to impress one very highly in his favor. It is perhaps as difficult a task as could be undertaken, to select a score out of the hun dreds of applicants for the offices in the gift of the Governor at each change of an administra tion. More or less dissatisfaction will always exist, with or without sufficient cause. We are compelled to say, however, in all candor, that Gov. Politick has been singularly unfortu nate in his selections to what are considered the lucrative station#- The su ccssful applicants • —so far ns wo know them—are the hangers on of party : camp hover on the outskirts of every army, not for battle but for booty ; who plunder the dead and butcher the wounded : desert the unprosperous and betray the daring. The men who hove summered and wintered with the Whig parly—never sneak ing off in adversity, to return only when a prospect of plunder invited them—have not been favored to the extent wo had hoped for. Their exclusion indicates the adoption of a wrong principle in the distribution of patron- 1 age—the neglect of old and tried friends in the hope of making now ones—and acting on a bad 1 principle, in the long run, always proves to bo 1 bad policy. Wo propose to make a brief examination in to the merits of the prominent appointments. The selection for Bark Inspector is Wra, D Baker, of Philadelphia, a practising lawyer, who couldn't have told ground bark from saw dust if his appointment had depended on that much knowledge of niattcn* pertaining to the office, lie is an inveterate office hunter, hav ing been out for dome office at every election that has been held in Philadelphia for the lost ton years. Last year ho ran twice—in June for City Attorney and in October for Prothono tary. As it is not often that office comes in the way of tanners—while lawyers always have their “platters tight side up” when any crumbs of patronage arc about to fall—this one would seem to bdlong of right to the trade, and there are many members .who would doubtless have been glad to receive it. The Whiskey Inspector Is Doctor John 11. Seltzer, of Berks county,—another interloping professional man running away with an office which would seem properly to belong to a dis tiller. Tho doctor figured at a k. u. State con vention, last August, at which he boasted that ho had secured the appomtincnt pf k. n. son thogommittce appointed to- receive -Got. Big-' ler, on his contemplated visit to. Beading* It was arranged that when the Governor arrived, ho would fall into the hands of men .smiling friendship to his face, but sworn in secret to destroy him—Joab-like inquiring “art thou id health, nay brother ?” while their-daggers were at his back. To have picked tho Governor’s pocket would have been a more venial offence, tried in a court of honor, if not in law. 'Tho naan who could boast of such double-distilled meanness, would better grace a penitentiary cell, than q lucrative office. The excuse ad vanced-by the doctor’s friend’s is, that he is only two degrees better than an idiot, and is not to be held accountable to the ordinary stand ard by whom honorable men aro governed. The Flour Inspector is Stephen Miller, of tho Harrisburg Telegraph. Mr. Miller had been twice elected prothonotary of Dauphin countyv and had a year of office unoxpired, when he was appointed to this station. Ho was evi dently born under a lucky star, as it* falls to tho lot of few to have two lucrative'offices at the same time. He boasts in his paper, that be nominated Gov. Pollock for President, at ten o’clock on tho night of the last election. Tho next morning he announced himself a candid ate for flour Inspector! Not in vain. has Tio ■ learned. -’ To crook tho pregnant hinges of the knee. That thrift may follow fawning. . The Telegraph is a ohe-idca paper* and for & year past, has bad a sort* of in sanity, on the subjecj of Catholics andlprcign ers;—all sham’,‘of’’course, for tho editor has been compelled to admit that he voted for James Campbell, for tho Supremo Court, —arid wo have always understood that he voted for Gov. Bigler, at the same election. It is the' qcntral organ of the k. n.’s andwery properly so. Wo know nothing about tho oilier appoint ments, nor shall we inquire. If they should chance to bo of the same “sort,” our readers will not wont to have anything morcon the sub ject. WHISKERS. Tho editress of the Lancaster Literary Ga zette says she would as soon nestle her noso {a a nit’s nest of swing’e tow, as allow a man with whiskers on to kiss her. r r Wo don’t believe a word of !t. Tho objec tions which some ladles pretend tohnvoto whis kers. all arises from obvy. They don't have any. They would it they could, but tho ftictis, tho continual motion of*tho lower jnw is fatal to their growth. Tho ladles—God bless them f— adopt our fashions as far as they can. Look at tho depredations they have committed on our wardrobes the last few years. Thoyhavo ap-- preprinted our shirt bosoms, gold studs and all. They have encircled tbcirsoft bewitching necks in our standing collars and cravats—driving ns men to flatties and turn-downs. Their innocent little hearts havo boon palpitating in tho insido of our waist-coats, instcads of thumping against tho outside, as naturally intended- They havo thrust their pretty feet and ankles through onr unmentionables unwbisporables— nnthlnka- boutablc—in short, as Macawbcr wonld ssy, breeches. And they are skipping along the streets in our high -heeled boots. Do you hear, gentlemen 7 wo say boot I The LAnor.sr Diamond ever found in North America.—Wo were shown yesterday, on board of the steamship Jamestown, what is said to be tho largest diamond ever discovered Id North America. It is about tho size of a largo hazel nut, of great brilliancy, and quite smooth. In tho centre of it, however, are several small black specks. It was Ibnnd several months ago by a laboring man named Benjamin Mooro, at Han. Chester, Virginia, in some earth which he was digging up. The diamond aras put in a furnace of moiling iron at Richmond, where it remained in a red bout (or two hours and twenty minutes. It was thou taken out and found to be uninjured and brighter than over. It was valued (in Rich mond) at four thousand ddllars. The tinder of (lie prize is *a poor man with a family. Ur. Emanuel Mathews has charge of it, to sell for the benefit of Mr. Mooro. Yesterday it was weighed and inspected by Gall, .Black & Co., and Other jewellers in Broadway. The weight of it *is 28] carats. Several Jewellers in this city havo desired tho diamond, but thoy want tho agent first to fls his price for it. —N. Y. Even. Post. A “Great CocNTnr!I’—Men 1 ’ —Men of America.— Tho greatest man, “take httn for all in all,’* of the lost hundred gears, was Gen. George Wash ington—an American,rv ■ ” ; The greatest doctor of divinity was Jonathan Edwards-i-an American. Tho greatest philosopher was Benjamin Franklin—an American. The greatest of living sculptors is Hiram Powers—an American. The greatest of living historians is Wm. H. Prescott—an American. The greatest ornithologist was Jas. Audobon • an American. There has been no English writer in the pres ent age whoso works have been marked with more numor, more refinement, or more grace, than those of Washington Irving—an Aroeri- The greatest lexicographer, since the time of Johnson, was Noah Webster—an American. The inventors, whoso works have been pro ductive of the greatest amount of benefit to mankind in tho last century, were Godfrey, Fitch. Fulton and Whitney—all Americans. Tna Anoxic Regions.- When persons are thir sty in the Arctic regions, snow docs not by any means allay the insatiable desire for water ; on the contrary, it appears to be increased in pro potion to the quantity used, and the frequency with which it is put into tho mouth, For ex ample, a person walking along feels intensely thirsty, and ho looks to his feet with coveting eyes : but his good sense and firm resolution arc not to bo overcome bo cosily, ond ho with draws the open hand that was to grasp the de licious morsel to convey it into his mouth. [SouflterlaiKi’s jountaj. A Goon One. —A Utile incident wo take from tho lips of a Rev. gentleman, happened in a school in Broome county, N. V., and Is to good to be lost: Master —(Speaking to one of his pupils,) ‘What is an idiot 1" Pupil —(Who happened to be at the head of cla-s.) “I don’t know, sir.” , Second Scholar—“l—l gu—guess 'lis a K. Nothing, sir.” (CT" ‘Pray, sir,’ said a judge, angrily, to a blunt old Quaker, from whom no direct answer could bo obtained. ( do you know what we sit hero for?’ ‘Yes. verily, I do.' said tho Quaker, three of you for four dollars each a day, and the fat one in the middle for four thousand a year. (C7*Voung man, if you propose and Jail, don’t take to melancholics, liquor and hemp, but to some other do laine. Afl creation Isn’t center-' cd in the garments of Miss Brown. PerFovero ond you will succeed. On the whole, make up your mind (hat Mtss Brown is a fool; and that you havo had a lucky escape. [Ly' If all tho world’s A stage, and men and women merely players, where Is .the audience and orchestra to come from I Firsub.v.—'Two and n half cords of noise in hreo and a half yards of red flannel. tC/"_A Texas exchange says that tho earth Is so kind in that State, that “Just tickle her with a hoc and she will laugh with a harvest." Goon.—At one of tho missionary stations, tho question, “What ia original sin 7" having been put to an aged Indian chief, ho promptly replied, “laziness." i£7“ An Irish correspondent In Oregon'writes that tho precious metals arc bo scarce out of tho way, that all tho live dollar, gold pieces are made of copper. [£7* The newly elected Domocratlo Mayor of Detroit, Henry Ledyard, in a - aon-lndaw of Gen. Cass.
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