Basstisaa American Volunteer: fCrBXISnCD EVERT -TUURSDAT morning dt Jolm Hi Bratton. ' TEK MS. ibuosOßiPTioH.—Ono Dollar and Fifty Conte* |>rld in advance; Two Dolldrs if paid within the Srnar; and Two Dollars and Fifty Cents, if .not l>dld within the yoar. Tlioso tonne will bo rig idly adhorod to In every instance. rrosUbs'crip tion discontinued until all arrearages aro paid unless at tho option oi tho Editor. by tho cash, And hot exceeding one square, will bo inserted throo tidies for one Dollar, and twenty-five cents for bach additional Insertion. Those of a groat hr length in proportion. Jon-PmsTisa—Such as Hand-bills, Posting, bills, Pamphlets, Blanks, Labels, &c., &c., exo. huted with accurary and at tho shortest notice. Our Childhood. ST CEO. D. PRENTICE. ’Tls bad—yet sweet to listen, To the soft wind’s gentle swell, And then wo hoar tho music Our childhood knew so wollt To gaze out on tho ovon . And tho boundless fields of air, And feel again our boyish wish. To roam like angels there I There aro many dreams of gladness That cling around the past— An'd from the tomb olfooling Old thoughts come throbbing fast— The forms we loved so dearly, ' In tho happy days now gone, Tho beautiful and lovely, So fair to look upon. pilose bright ami ioVely maidens Who seemed so formed for bliss, Too glorious and too heavenly For such a world as this I Whose soft dark eyes seemed swimming In a sea of liquid light, And whose lucks of gold wore streaming O’er brows so sunny bright. Whose smiles wore like (ho sunshine In the spring time of the year— Like the changeful gleams of April They followed every tear! They have passed—like hope—away— All (heir loveliness has fled—. Oli! many a heart is mourning That they are with the dead. And yet—the thought Is saddening To muse on such ns they— 'And feel that oil the Iteautiful Are passing fust away ! That the fair one's whom wo love, Grow to each loving breast, Li|(o the tendrils of the clinging vino, Then perish where they rest. And can wo but think of these In the soil and geiitlu spring, When the frees are waving o’er us, And the (lowers arc blossoming! For we know that winter’s coining With his cold and stormy sky— And the glorious beauty round us Is blooming but to die I Hiflffllaiifous. , LOVE OF TOE. “The love of home, and the pure enjoyment to be found in the household circle, furnish tile moat perfect picture of happiness that cun be presented to the mind. Home pictures are ever the most impressive, and un illustration that nil ,o*ll appreciate goes to (ho heart u/unce. Who l fC*n refer to Urn home of his boyhood without pleasurable emotions rising fu Ids breast at the recollection 7 Tl{o scenes that transpired there, ! long years gone by, revert to him, and lie lives ’ over in imagination ids youthful-freaks and in. L.npcant pleasures which all ,{ho carca of active. 1 life havy not succeeded hi driving from his mo*. mory. He may have risen from an humble $ sphere to a prominent position, but tho truly hr«ve heart la never ashamed to confess his ob scure origin and acknowledge his kindred.-*- Says Daniel Webster,«lt l&only shallow-mind, ed pretenders who make distinguished origin a nutter of personal merit, or obscure origin a matter of personal reproach. Taunt and scorn ing at the humble condition of carl}* life affects . nobody in America but (hose who arc foolish enough to indulge in thorn, and thoy uro goner ally punished by the public rebuke. A man who is not ash lined of hiinsull, need not be u&hamed his curly condition. It did nut happen in mu sgSfto bo born in n log cabin, but my elder brothers |g&pnd sisters were burn in a log cabin, and raised |%pftinong lliu snow-drifts of Now Hampshire, nt a so early that when thu smoke first rose Ijihlrom its rude chimney, and curled over the fro- Keen hills there was no similar evidence of a man’s habitation between it and the scU il&'liuments on (bo rivers of Canada. Its remains RC'CIIU exist; I make it an nnnnni visit. I carry r W. children to it, and tend) them the hardships k*. endured by the generations gone before them. ' I {ovo to dwell on (ho recollections, thu kindred (fel. (lie early affections, and the narrations and .{jioidenia which mhiglu witii alii know at tills - mriraltlvo family abode. I weep to think that or tiioso who inhabited it nru among (ho gifting; and if over I fail in affectionate vonora ; it° n for him who raised it and defended it ngilnst -tlTOgo vlolunco and destruction, cherbho.l nil y,4oincMtlc comforts bononth its roof, and tlirongh \;ttn fire and blood of a seven yearn revolutionary a ‘dr, shrunk from no toil, no sacrifice, to serve is country, and to rniso ids children to n con .'dUion butter limn his own, may my name, and thy, name of my posterity, bo blotted from tin motnury of mankind.” ' ivVTliero should Imj no spot on the whole carl! .ap'baautilul, so happy as homo. Nowhere h Wb'world alionid the heart turn with so mud 1 Jtityging, Witii such deep Ailness of love, os t ! tMt blessed sanctuary. Thu fondest assocla (lotu, (he dearest recollections, from infancy b . manhood, should,,cluster and cling around It and tho memory of its joys should brighten tli llhjgbring days of old ago. Every homo was in .UjxUd to bo sucii an Eden in the world’s wil how few sue!) tlicrc really arp I In how rtwyHhoines coldness, selfishness, disregard of €4bsftOthur’s feelings and affection, make ail I ices seem nioru attractive than tills jt aside ail positive unkindnesses, rude lli-teiiipur, all wilful wrong-doings of >r children, how many homos nro cold i as winter from tho nbsuncu of ail man ia of love, Tho father wrapt in n man serve, never caressingly draws his cbll tda heart, and lets them feel that It bents J. Satisfied If ho gives them shelter and 1 ralmoht, provides for their bodily and unl wants, and teaches 'them thoir roll, ut os ho deems U quite snporlluous to ISHu!l uir that yet demand so It nnssthlo iif n Th 4 ° l mothor i ww ma J‘ conceive # ft W lor, - MW °m or never clasps /.v^ 81 ’ a,ul bestows tho smile uioniMf eimoring iro;«[°. ,i, xriL n iiu 1 v 1< ;'t! wanltokona and in»i.lr„„ui lo f l ‘ J ? ““ ,G m “- tial to ‘domestic enjoyment nn tho ftqrmJlto «voot songs of birds a" fl* 1 l°*- ,h 0 Joyromtofinatnro, are withheld fromV, 0 Ul ? on * Ittg hearts* to whom they are as Uni \ i«fr °nl g i cold, puliqlrai, .noam.ro,l duly lead, tlo.lomv unfiltafJnß march along that rugged >»av wblml oughtyt|> bo bright and beautiful with the Jhou «and Momou.j ol nllucllon. Tho heart eblWUrVOry tedder. It |„ ft.u of atrmi L pulM» to»fflKth.n..ook a boundlm, re.n.Ual boundless pa their bestowal would bu. Audio , whom should a child look but to its parents Its brothers,Jts sisters, to meet (ills sacred boaulU fbl.donisptl.ofilo nature 7 The iwoofsmilo of ullbcUon.tho kindly word : • tlio gentle,,beaming glance, tho (ones of symna > thy In sorrow ami trial, the soothing and tender • attention' la Illness, thoso blessed little solf-sa crlflcos and unpretending kindnesses, that sweet MUoncuand meek forbearance, thoso delightful fianuuaDg Ways and affectionate manners that homes almost hoavon, should mnko SJff**?- »hc*m “ out of (ho heart tho moatll speakoth, and speech and net aro ullko holyaad boautmu. winning, attractive, lovely littfWii BY JOHN B. BRATTON. VOL 42. are such homes I Manhood turns IVom Uicm to tho world’s duties with a sigh, comes back with a glad smile. Sorrow tails not so hoavily on them; their inmates bear ono another’s burdens; deep peace is theirs, oven In Use midst oi tiona. Works and deeds of lovo I Wolhhas it boon said, On, lot us unite tho two—and, how ever dark and troubled our earthly course, a light will shiuo within our homes, which no sor row, nor care, nor even death will have power to darken or remove. God is lovo—tho deed of bis word is lovo; jmd would wo indeed walk according to bis dictates, Lovo proved atlko In word and deed, must bo tho Guardian Angel of our house.” The Winter of the Heart. Let it never como upon you. Live so that good angels may protect you from this terrible evil—tho winter of tho heart. Let no chilling influence freeze up the lonntnins o| sympathy and happiness In Its depths, no cold burthen settle over Its withered hopes, like snow on tho faded flowers, no rude blasts of discontent moan and shriek through its desolated chambers. Your life-path may lend you through trials, which for a time seemed utterly to impede your progress, and shut out tho very light of heaven from your anxious rozq. Penury may take the place of easy and plenty 5 .your luxurious room may ho changed for an humblo one—tho soft conch for a straw pallet—the rich viands for tho coarao food of tho poor. Summer friends may forsake you, with scarcely a look or word of compassion. You may bo forced to toil wearily, steadily on, to earn a livelihood ; you may encounter frauds and the base avarice that would extort tho last farthing, fill you well nigli turn in dis gust from your fellow-beings. Deaths may sov. or tlio do ir ties that bind you to earth and leave you in tearful darkness. That noblo, manly boy, the sole hope of yonr declining years, may bo taken from you while your spirit clings to him with a wild tenacity; which oven the sha dow of tho tomb cannot wholly subdue. But amid all these sorrows, do not come to tho conclusion that nobody was ever so deeply afflicted as yon are, and abandon every anticipa tlon of “better days’* in the unknown ftituro.— Do not lose your faith in human'excellence, be cause yonr confidence has sometimes been be trayed, nor bollcvo that friendship is only a de lusion, and love a bright phantom which glides away from your grasp. Do not think you are fated to he miserable because you are disappointed in your expccta tions, and baffled in your pursuits. Do not de dare that God has, forsaken you when yonr way is hedged about with thorns, or repine sinfully when ho calls your dear ones to the land beyond the grave. Keep a holy trust in Heaven through every trial; hoar adversity with fortitude, ami look upward in Hours of temptation and suffer ing. When your locks are white, your eyes dim, and your limbs weary j when your steps falter on the verge of dentil’s gloomy vale, still retain tho freshness and buoyancy of splrilwhich will shield you from tho winter of tho heart. “ Do a Good Torn When .yon Con.” What n glorious moral lesson this lino of poe try conveys! Would that It might bo written in ineffaceable letters on every heart! Would that it might become a great and ennobling rule of action all oroumbus. There* is need enough of human sympathy and aid, as everybody knows. Tho world ia ftill of .irlaUr.iml-temptations j, thorns have sprung up whore rosea oucb bloodied brightly, and shadows have fallen heavily where everything was guy and lair. Many havo sunk down in tho march of life,-some weary and faint with the toilsome journoy, and almost wild with tho anguish of disappointed hopes. There is one trying to rise above dishearten ing circumstances, and win ftmio and fortune. There is another, who, after having spent years of labor in fruitless attempts to gain un honest livelihood, finds himself haunted with tho spectre of want—oppressed by tho burden of c»i*b and sorrow. Yonder is a fellow being who has gone astray from tho path of rectitude, and seems well-nigh overpowered with his disgrace. Oil, there are thousands who need helps “do a good turn when you can,” Speak a word of encouragement to tho drooping spirit, read) out tho hand of friendly sympathy to tho weak and desponding, and not only »/»c<ifc but act. — Give gold, if you have it, to relieve the distress of tho needy ; but if you are 100 poor in wordly wealth, yon can find sorao way to work In behalf of mankind. A smile of approval—a word of sympathy and kind advice hare been magical in their influ ence more than once. Thoy have lifted gems from obscurity—changed gloom and doubt to hope and gladness. Aye, “do a good turn when you can.” \XZT~ When Dr. Huai) was a young man, lie was invited to dlno in company witii Robert Morris, Esq., a man celebrated for tho part lie took in tho American revolution. It so hap. pened Unit thu company bad waited some time for Mr. Morris, who, on his upponrunco, apolo gised for detaining them, by saying that he had boon engaged In reading a sermon of a clergy man who had just gone to England to receive orders. “ Well Mr. Morris,” said tho Doctor, “ how did you like tho sermon 7—l have hoard It high ly extolled.” “Why Doctor,”said ho, “I did not liko Uot all. It’s too smooth for mo.” “ Mr. Morris,” replied the Doctor, “what sort of sermons do you like 7” “I like, sir,” replied Mr. Morris, “that kind of preaching which drives a man into the corner of iiis pew and makes him think the dovil is af ter him.” Tansky and Tkaches —A writer in tho Now 1 ork Times recommends the sowing of tansey about tho roots of peach trees, as a means of preserving them. Hu says he onco know a largo pouch true, which was more limn forty years old, white several generations of similar trees in tho samo soil, had passed away. This led to an examination, and a bed of tansoy was discover, od growing about tho trunk. It was naturally inferred that thu preservation of (his tree to such a groon old ago, was‘attributable to this old plant. It was decided to try tho experiment on others, and accordingly, a fow of tho roots wort) placed about each of (ho other trees on tho pro tnlsos, some of which gavo signs of decay. Not only has it preserved for several years, but ro novated thoso that were unsound. Tho odor of tills plant, ho says, doubtless keeps off (ho in sect enemies of this kind of tree, and It would have tho samo effect on others, ns thu plum, ap ple and pear, ns well ns tho olm, sycanumr and other ornamental trees. Patriaeoii Located. —A clergyman, preach lug a sermon on some particular patriarch, was extremely high In hia panegyric, and**spoko of him as far exceeding every saint in tho calen dar. Ho took a view of tho ecclesiastical hlor nr®y» but In vain \ho could not assign to his saint a pluoo worthy of so many virtues as lie posaosaod} every Bontonco ended thnaj “Whore, irnrn, can wo place this great patriarch 7” One linn « C0 ?? rCB ? Uon » tIr0(! ftt lftBt 0f thO ropotl “ Boingmv.y, you may JloaJroV 0 :* 101 :?" * a A w ''oloHomo grief, am! low . but (h 7 T IU, t l ' r ° llk “ >«lm <o 11.0 suf. fostora. Ut 1,0 ° f l. a wound that or?^ lO* Break the legs of au evil custom. “008 OOUJ One by One. Oho by ono tho sands nro flowing, ••"■One by ono tho moments fail; Some are coming, somo aro going, X)o not strive to grasp them all. Ono by ono thy duties wait thco, Let thy whole strength go to each, Let not future dreams elate thee, • Learn thou first what these can teach. Ono by one (bright gifts from Uoaven,) Joys are sent thco hero below j Take them readily when glveu, . Ready, too, to let them go. One by ono thy griefs shall moot thee, : .Bo not fear an armed band; One will fade as others greet thco, Shadows passing tlirough tho land. Bo not look at life’s long sorrow ; See how small each moment’s palnj God will help thco for to-morrow j Every day begin again. Every hour that fleets so slowly, Has its task to do or hear,* Luminous the crown, and holy. If thou set each gem with care. Do not linger with regretting, Or for pas.don hours despond ; Nor tho daily toil forgetting, Look too eagerly beyond. Hours are golden links, God’s tokch, Benching Heaven j but one by one, Take (hem lest the chain bo broken Kru the pilgrimage bo done. SQUEEZING HANDS. DT A LADT. What an immense difference it makes who squeezes one’s hand! A lady may twine her ann around your waist, press a kiss on your brow, or holding your hand In hcra, toy with your fingers to her heart’s content, but you are perfectly calm and collected, and experi cncc no unusual sensation, either disabrecable or otherwise. Perchance a gentleman whom you dislike or feel slightly acquainted With, ventures to press j-our hand, you snatch it quickly away; the indignant blood mounts to your forehead, and. with Hashing eyes, you wonder 'how the impertmenent fellow dares to do such a thing.' Rather an antiquated spec imen of humanity squeezes your hand, you feel mortified for yourself and mortified that a man of his years should make a fool of himself that he should think you can really like such non sense, and above all, that he believes it possible that you can liko him; you arc vexed at what he has done: and determined that an opportu nity shall never be afforded him of doing it a gain. You place your hand confidently in that of an accepted, acknowledged lover, you are not excited or confused, you have ceased blushing continually in his presence, you experience a quiet happiness,a 'little heaven upon earth sort of feeling,’ you are perfectly contented with everything in this terrestrial world especially your lover and yourself; and yet withal it is a foolish feeling as you sit with his -arm twined arouyd yo.u—that nianltflj^wlucLifCipAiinr ■port you throlign Hie; a soft, rosy, happy tint suffuses your face as your hand & clasped in his; ah, it is a blissful, foolish feeling. Put let some one whom you like very much not an tfccc|ited lover, but one who may, per haps, be one, one of these days, gently enclose your hand in his own; what a strange, wild, joyful, painful feeling thrills through you; the hot blood leaps, dancing, tumbling thro* your veins, rushes to your fingers ends! your heart goes bump, bump ! surety, you think, he must hear it throbbing! for tho life of yon, you can not speak. After letting your hand remain in his long enough to show you arc not ofiended, vou gently withdraw it; but perchance it Is ta ken back again; after £ faint ‘don’t do so,’ which is answered with a still closer pressure, with downcast eyes and a blushing cheek, you let the little hand, this firSt bright earnest of other things to come, thrilling and burning with this new ecstatic emotion, remain all trembling in its resting-place. —Home Journal. To Young Men.—Wo extract tho following beautiful paragraph from the Baccalaureate Address lately delivered before the Graduating Class of Rutter’s College, by tho lion. Theo dore Frelinghuyscn, and commend it to the perusal of the young: “Resolve to do something useful, honorable, dutiful and do it heartily. Repel tho thought that you can, and therefore may live above la bor, and without work. Among the most pit iful objects in society, is tho man whoso mind has been trained by tho discipline or education —who has learned how to think, and the value of his immortal (lowers, and with all these fac ulties cultivated and prepared for an honorable activity Ignobly sits down to nothing; and of course, to be nothing with no influcnccoverlho public mind, with no Interest in tho concerns of his country, or even his neighborhood,—to be regarded as a drone, wlthoutobjcct or char acter, with no effort to put forth to help tho right or defeat tho wrong. Who can think with any calmness of such a miserable career? And, however, it may bo with you in active enterprise, never permit your influence to bo in hostility to the cause of truth and virtue. So live, that with the Christian poet, you may truthfully say that “If your country stand not by your skill, At least your follies have not wrought her fall.” A Cattle Show one Uundukd Years ago. —lt is supposed by many persona that our cat tle shows arc of modern origin. This is a mis* take, however. Wo And in the Marlboro* Ga zelle the following, taken from the Maryland Gazette , of Sept. 8, 1747: Whereas, there is a fair appointed by act of Assembly, to bo held in Baltimore Town,on the first Thursday, Friday and Saturday in Octo ber, yearly, the commissioners of the said town hereby give notice that whoever brings to tho said fair on the first day thereof, tho best steer, shall receive eight pounds current money for the same—also, a bounty of forty shillings over and abovo tho said eight pounds. The said steer afterwards, on tho same day, to bo run for by any horse, mare or gelding, not exceed ing five years old, three heats, a quarter of a mile each heat, not confined to carry any cer tain weight. Tho winning horse to bo entitled to tho said steer, or to eight pounds in money at the option oftho owner. On Friday, the second day of said fair, will be run for tho sum of five pounds current mon ey by any horse, mare or gelding, tho samo distance, not Confined to carry any certain weight. Also a bounty of forty shillings will bo given to any person that produces tho best pieco of yard wide country made white linen, tho pieco to contain twenty yards. On Saturday, tho third day, a hat and rib bon will bo cudgeled for; a pair of pumps wrestled for, and a white shift to bo run for by negro girls. All persons are exempted from any arrests during the said fair, and the day buforo and tho day after, except in eases of felony, and breaches of tho peace, according to the tenor of tho above mentioned act. jpu ..... ippi nonsense enufl to turn .■ail out of their senses. jTf flj in him, it will bring it pi does .the measles ; arid if in’sort of a'fellow, $1 pertiklcr, it’ll bring oat affects different people in it maketh rich find happ; miserable; and it has a < ferent people’s eyes—son and some it makes so bli themselves from a side of worst cases of rum foolei for a long time, took r fall. ' ' ' Bill Sweeny and Tom' Culpepper is the two greatest old coveys in out settlement for coon hunting. The fact is, lh|y,don’t do much ot anything else, and when they can’t catch noth in' you may depend coonslis Scarce. Well, one night they had everything ready for a regular hunt, hut owin’ to' somd extra good fortln’, Tom had got a pocket piltol, as ho called it, of regular old Jnmuiakey, W keep oil the ruma tics. After takin’ a Martin’ horn, they went on their hunt, withlthcir litc-wood torch a blazin’ and tho dogs .a barkin’ and yelpin’ like forty thousand. Ey’fr now and then stop pin* to wait for the dogisithey would drink one another’s health, till tmy began to feel very comfortable, and chattcdjaway ’bout one thing and another, without mirpn* much which way they was gwinc. Bimebtf they cum to a fence. Well, over they got without much difficulty. •Whose fence is this?*jsaid Bill. • ’Taint no matter,’ sez Tom, let’s take some* thin’ to drink.’ •After takin’ a drink uiey went on, wonder in’ what on ycarth had cum of tho dogs. Next thing they cum to was a terrible muddy branch. After pullin’ through th*| briars and gettin’ on t’other side, they took another drink, and after gwino a little ways, they'oum to another fence,, a monstrous high one this time. ‘Where .upon ycarth is we got to, Culpeper?’ sez Bill, T never seed such a heap of branches and fences in these parts.,* , ‘Why,* sez Tom, *il*£l all Slurlid’s doins— you know he’s always blWin’ fences and ma tin’ infernal improvements, as ho calls ’em.— But never mind, we’s through ’em now.’ ‘Guess wo isn’t,’ sez BIJI, ‘here’s the all firc edest fence yet.’ Sure enuff, thar they were right agin another fence. By this lime thcjChcgim to bo consid erable fired and limber intbejinls, and it was such a terrible high fences Tom dropped the last piece of the torch, and there they were in the dark. ‘Now you is done it,’ sez Bill. Tom knew’d ho had, but ho thought it was no use to grieve over spilled milk, so says he, •never mind, old boss, ci\m ahead, and I’ll take you out,’ and the next njinlt, kerslash he went in the water. ,l\ Bill hung on tho,fenc£srith both- hands like •Hello, Tom!* sez he, ‘whar in tho w.orld is you got to ?* ‘Here I is,' scz.Tom. spoutin’ tho water out of his mouth, and coffin liko he'd swallowed somethin’; ‘look out, there’s auothcr branch here.* ‘Nameo’sense, whar is wo?’ sez Bill. If this isn’t a fenoy country, dad fetch* my but tons.’ ‘Yes, and a branchy .one, too,’ sez Tom, ‘anti the highest and thickest that I ever seed in all my born days.’ ‘Which way is you V sez Bill. ‘Here, right over the branch.’ The next minit in Bill went, up to bis mid die, in tho branch. •Cum ahead,’ sez Tom, ‘let’s go homo.’ ‘Cum thunder. I in such a place as this whar a man hain’t got his coat tail unhitched from a fence, afore lie's over head and care in water!’ After getting out and feeling about in the dark, they got together again. And Inkin' an other drink, they sol out for home, denouncing the fences and branches, and l helping ono an other up now and then ; but they hain’t gone raoro’n twenty yards afore they brungto a halt by another fence. ‘Dad blame my pictur,' bcz Bill, 'if I don’t think wo is bewitched. Who upon ycarlh would build fences all over creation this way !’ It was about an hour’s job to get over this 1 ono; but after they got on tho top they found the ground on t'other side without much trou ble. This timo tho bottlo was broke, and they camo monstrous near havin' a fight about tho catastrophe. But it was a.vcry good thing, it was; for after crossin' two or three branches, and climbin’ as many more fences, it got to bo day-light, and thoy found that they had been climbin' the same fence all night, not rooro'n a hundred yards from whar they first cum to it. Bill Sweeney sez lie can’t account for it in no other way but that tho lickcr sort o' turned their heads ; and ho says ho docs really believe If it hadn’t gin out, they’d been climbin’ the tho same brunch till yet. Bill promised his ‘wife to jino tho Temperance Society, if she vvould’nt never say no more about that coon hunt. A MODEL DOOR PEDDLER. •Don’t you want to buy tho 'Life of Christ,’ to-day, Mister?* said a determined-looking Yankee book peddler, who yesterday entered our sanctum, with a gutta-percha travelling bag In his hand, and a rather powerful odor of whiskey on his breath. ‘No, not to-day,’ was our bland reply— 'Wo’rc rather too busy to speculate in theolog ical literature at present.' •Better look at' tho book, anyhow, hadn't yo? chuck full of pictures ; Sarmon on the Mcoun't done up fust rate. .Bcg’lar Jam up book, that is; writ tho hull on’t myself—did, by thunder!’ •No, wc’vo an abundant supply of works on divinity/ •But,.stranger, this air’ssulhin now/ *Wo rather guess that the Bible and Josephus contain about tho gist of your compilation, don’t they?* •Jo— bc— phus ? who in thunder’s ho ? No, stranger, ycou’ro out lhar, I tell ycou there's things in this cro book that'll bring .you right cout of tho gall of bitterness and tho bonds of iniquity. There’s tilings In that book that Jo sennas never heard tell on/ it was no use, however: wo declined pur chasing, and tho Yankee at length bowed him .self out. A moment o,flonvarda ho reappeared. ‘Says, Mister, mought ycou Know Mr. P., outdoor?’ ' Wo intimated that such was tho /act. •Wall, kin ycou toll mo what religion ho be longs tew ? Some say he’s a Methodist, some calls him a Swcdcuborgian, and another feller says ho hankers arlor tho Mormons. I’d liko tew know what ho roily docs belong lew/ •Why do you inquire?’ wo asked. •Wall, 1 don’t mind telling ycou. Yocu see, I[giacrolly find coat what church a man belongs iilffllilE OR WRONG, OUR COUNTRY.” FLY 5, 1855. tew before I try to soli him a book, because then I always let on that I belong to tho same church, and that gincrally lakes—that does.— If I know what church a man jlnes with, I never miss lire selling under them circumstan ces.’ • sight one of jn, as md to 2V en sealin' jcp, and [the men m the world pan's got a badness ‘Well, did you make inquiries concerning our religious tenenta ?* •Stranger, I did ; you can bet high on it.* •Not very successfully, it would appear; for you haven’t sold os a book.’ ‘Wall, no; hut cf you kin tell mo what church Mr. P. belongs tew it'll dew jest os well.* It just as sassafras tea icsa good for-noth icut no bad traits in II his greatness. It lificrcut ways—some ; and some poor and tfel“cnt*cflcct on dif tit makes see double, U tbat'they can’t tell bacon. One of the •You can't sell him a book, it’s no uso-mak ing the effort.’ ’ ‘Stranger, 111 bet yoou a hat on it.* ‘Well, Hr; P. is a Swedenborgian; now try him.* About an hour afterwards, wo entered P.'s' store. Ho ..was walking up and down, using language rather more emphatic than ordinary custom requires, not apparently addressed to any person in particular. ‘What’s tho matter, P. ?’ we inquired. ‘Why, a chap came in hero to sell tho ‘Life of Christ*—said he was a cousin of Professor Bush, tho Swedenborgian divine, and a Swedenbor gian himself. Said he’d just sold my brother copy, and that Dick sent him to me.* ‘And so you bought one I’ ‘Yes, and Dick was hero just now, and says ho never saw the man. lie's a confounded ras cal : the book ain’t worth a cent." ■ that I’ve heard of mo in Pincvillc lost When P. went home that night, the first ob ject that met his eye was the Christ* V* n 6 on the table. •My, dear,’ said his lady, ‘that’s a very trashy aftair.you sent home. I don’t like it at all* It’s-anything but orthodox. (P.’s wife is a strict Baptist.) ‘You Jklh’t mean to say you’ve been buying one. tod/said P., producing bis own copy. •Why, a person called hero to-day, saying bo was a member of the th Street Baptist Church, that you had sent tho book os a com pliment to me, and so 1 paid him three dollars for it V . * Mr. P. stayed to hear no more; lift rushed out, and the last wo saw othim ho was inquir ing for a tall peddler with dink-colored hair and striped breeches. I Book peddlers will do well to avoid Mr. P., in their peregrinations, its he has avowed to immolate tho first one that darkens bis door. [N. Y. Courier. Wo stated, a long tlmo ago, that there would be trouble some moonlight night among the cats that congregated on the long shed in the rear of our dwelling. Wo gave notice that wo had wasted more wood on them than we were able to spare, that wo had used up nil the brick-bats that we could lay our hands on— that wo had thrown away something less than a tone of coal—and smashed a window on the opposite block. All this droving ot no avail, wo said wo had' got a double-barrelled gun,and purcussion caps, and powder and shot; and some morning after a moonlight night, some body’s cat,wouldn’t come homo to breakfast, or Jr it'did it would hayo been troubled with ttys'dumps. We gave fair notice of Cur griev- Aiicc<tJ^^udiatLxnUutimthxlJA.4njUi<miUiiiwi»- 1 •Veil, tho moon came up on Monday night, With her great round face, and went walking up tho sky with a queenly step* throwing her light like a maqtlc of brightness, over all tho earth! We love tho calm of a moonlight night, in tho still Spring time, and tho cals of our part of the town lovo it too; for they come from every quarter—from tho sheds around the Notional Garden—from the kitchens and from the stables—creeping slcalthly and softly along tho tops of tho fences, and along the sheds, and clambering up the boards that lean up against the out-buildings they sat them selves down, more or less of them, in their old trysiing place—right opposite our chamber window. To all this we had, in the abstract, no objection. If a cat choose to take a quiet walk by moonlight—if he choose to go out for his pleasure or his profit.it is no particular business of ours, ana wo havn't a word to say. Cats have rights, and we have no disposition to interfere with them. But they must keep tiio peace. They must got up no disorderly meetings, no unlawful assemblies. If they choose to hold a convention they can do it for all us—but they must go about it decently and in order. They must talk matters over calmly ; there must bo no rioting, no fighting.— They must refrain from tho use of profane lan guage—they musn't swear. There's law a gninst all this, and we wanted them long ago that we would stand no such nonsense. We said wo’d let drive among them with a double barrelled gun loaded with powder and duck shot, and we meant it. But those cals didn't believe a word wo said. They didn’t believe we haj any powder or gun. Thoy didn’t be- Hevo we had any gun, or knew how to uso it if wo had. And one great Maltese (with eyes like tea plates and a tail like a Bologna sans age!) grinned and sputtered and spit, in deris ion and’deflancc at our threats. ‘Very well!’ ‘very well, Mr. Tom Cat, very well indeed! On your head bo it, Mr. Tom Cat. Try it on. Mr. Tom Cat, and see who'll get the worst of it/ We said tho moon camo up Monday night with her great round face ; ami all the little stars hid themselves as if ashamed of their twinkle in tho splendor of her superior bright ness. We retired after tho baby hod been put asleep in his crib, and tho rumblo of tho car riages and carts bad ccasikl in tho streets, and the scream of tho ten o’clock train had died away into silence, with a quiet conscience, and in tho confidence that we should find that ro peso to which ono who has wronged no man during the day is justly entitled. It may bavo been eleven o’clock, possibly midnight, when wo were wakened from a pleasant slumber by a babel ofr.uncarthly sounds in tho rear of our chamber. '* We knew what those sounds meant —they had cost us fuel enough to havo lasted a week. Wo raised tho window; and there, as of old, right opposite us, on tho north end of that long shed, was an assemblage of all tho cats in that part of tho town. Wo won’t bc firooiso os to numbers, but it is our honest bo icf that there were less than threo hundred of them; and if ouo among them all was silent, wo didn’t succeed in discovering which it was. There was that same old Maltese, with his great saucer eyes and sausage tall; and over against him sat a monstrous brindlo; and oft at his right was an old spotted ratter; and on' his left .was ono, black as a wolfe’s mouth, all but Ins oyes which glared with a sulphurous and lurid brightness; and dotted all around, over a siiftco of thirty feet square were dozens more, of nil sizes and colors—and such growl ing, and spilling, and shrieking, and swearing never before broke, with hideous discord, the silence of midnight! Wo loaded our double barrelled gun by can dle light, wo put plenty of powder and a hand ful oi shot into each barrel. Wo adjusted tho caps carefully, nud stepped out of tho window upon tho narrow roof upon which it opens.— Wo were then just eight rods from tho cat con vention, apd wo addressed ourself to tho chair man, (tho old MalloHo), in a distinct and audi ble voice, and cried ‘Scat!’ llu didn’t recog nize our right to tho Uoor, but went right on A SHY AT THE CATS. AT 82,00 PER ANNUM. no; 4. with the business of tho meeting. ‘Scat!’ cried wo again, more emphatically than before, but were answered by an extra shriek from tho chairman, and a fiercer scream from tho whole assembly. 'Scat, onco!' cried wo again, os we brought our gun to a present. ’Scat, twice!' and \vo aimed straight at tho chairman, and covering half a dozen others in tho range, ’Scat, three times!’ and wo let drivo. Bang! a vent tho right band barrel—and bang ! went the left hand barrel. Such scampering, such leap ing ofl tho shed, such, running away over tho eaves of the out buildings, over tho tops o! tho wood sheds, were never seen before. The echoes of the firing had scarcely died away when the whole assemblnge_was broken up and disper sed. ‘Thomas,’ said we next morning, to the boy who docs chores for us, ‘there seems to be a cat asleep out on that shed—go up and scare it away.’ Thomas clambered upon tho shed and went up to where that cat lay and lifting it up by tho tail, halloed back to us—‘This cat can’t be waked up; it can't bo seared away—its dead !' After examining it a moment, ‘Some body has been a shobtin’ of it, by thunder!’ said he, as he tossed it down into tho yard.— ‘You don’t say so!’ said wo. That cat was tho old Maltese, the chairman of that conven tion—but he won’t preside‘over another very soon. We don’t know where ho boarded, or who claimed title to him. What we do know is, that it cost a quarter to have him buried; and if anybody owned him, all we ask is that he should pay us back our quarter, and the dificrcnco between his value and that of tho powder and shot we expended on him. We’Jl throw in tho vexation of being broko of our rest, and the wickedness'of using certain ex pletives—under tho excitement of the occasion —which arc not to be found in any of tho re ligious works of tho day. TBUTB WELL STATED. We print to-day the main portion of a letter of Prof. Lonostrket, and desire to call the particular attention of our readers to it, as a bold and manly exposition of tho inTamousand corrupting tendencies of Know-Nothingism. Prof. L. is one of tho most eloquent nml pop ular divines in the South-western Status, and has long been considered the head of the Metho dist Churchjn that section of the country. He ’exposes with a bold and masterly hand Inc aw ful consequences that must inevitably follow the success of this God-defying, infidel combi nation. ‘•ln July last. Thad just heard of a now or ganisation in the country—secret in its move ments, and going under the name of Know- Nothings. Its principles 'I understood to be opposition to Catholics and foreigners, to be planned in tho dark, strengthened by oaths, and manifested at tho ballot-box. It Idled me with alarm. 1 I saw in it the elements of: rapid expansion and awful explosion. I exhibited Ihtfin to the class that graduated that month, and fore warned them.to have nothing to-do with it. — Had I been inspired, I could hardly have fore shadowed its history more acuratcly than Ldid. Of my prediction nothing remains td be fulfilled ijiiLlhcLmiinmirincQf.Tpor«d>!ood._ fore cast in relation to it ought to insure respect for my judgment, in and about Oxford at least; but it is the very forecast which is raising a buzz of discontent against me in this viclivty now. This is the sin which brought out a gainst me the recondite presses which I have named above. It is called “dabbling in pob tics but its true name is “Unpalpahle Truth." This is the sin for which I am soon perchance to bo sacrificed. They that stoned’ the proph ets of old arc yet alive, and why should I ex pect a better fate than theirs? Well, Ido not (enow that a belter use could be made of my , old carcass than the offering of it upon the af ter of this “Ainrrifnn” Baal. An incense might arise from it that would do more to pu rify the Church and the State from this mod em abomination than anything which can em ulate from my poor, frost-covered brain. The public has now the sum total of my political * sins, public and private. I shall speak at large ( of the new order in an appeal to my Church at 1 some future day, if I may be allowed to do so. \ I am committal against it, and 1 shall oppose ‘ it forever—not in tho class room, but every where else ; not os a partisan, but as n Chris- 1 tian. This the patrons of the university should know. For all the honors and emoluments ol earth I could not bo induced to assume a po.si- ! lion of neutrality in regard to it. [f all expo- 1 ricncc be not a falsehood, and all history a fa ble, it will throw this country into ccaslcss 1 convulsions if it bo not crushed, and that speed- 1 ily. In my view, every roan who has a scruple’s * influence should rise against it — now, immedi- j atcly, ere it be forever too late. Indeed, it al lows no neutrality. With Us professed Amer icanism it assumes an absolute dictatorship.— It will allow no man to question Its purity or its policy. It gathers within Its pale men of dignity, talent, and piety, preachers and teachers, and with them the most depraved, abandoned, desperate, God-defying sinners up on earth ; binds them by oaths in bonds of fel lowship, and sets them all to work iiwpb/ific.i, and nothing but politics. 1 find a Christian brother amongst them: I read (o him II Cor. vi, Id and on, and I implore him to como out from such connections: and it addresses mo in tones of despotic authority on tins wise: “Sir, my name is Politics; you ore a clergyman, and clergymen should have nothing to do with po/i -ticsr' “Bight,” erica my brother; “old man, you’ll ruin yourself if you meddlo in politics!” I say to him, “Your oaths are against the laws of Qod and your Church,” “Sir,” it responds, “do you thus denounce tho pious of my order? Have you no respect for tho Church, of your place?” I denounce tho sinners of tho band and tho saints reprove me. 1 reprove the saints, and the sinners denounce me! Tho saint shields the sinner, and tho sinner the saint., If such a combination is not enough to make the Church and Slate both shudder, 1 know not what would. On mo tho new order bears with intolerable pressure. It rises before mo like tho ghost of Banquo at my every step in tho pathway of du ty. Tam a preacher. If I preach upon tho sanc tity of oaths, it regards itself insulted, and at tacks mo occordingly. If I preach to Chris tians to como out from thowickcd.it insults mo for assailing know-nothings. If I preach that tho lovo of Christ is not bounded by State lines, it charges mo with attacking tho articles of its creed against foreigners. lam a teacher. If I teach that unlawful promises are not binding, I shall bo charged with justifying the exposure of know-nothing secrets. If I set the lesson to my pupils where in J; B. Say, says that every 1 accession of a man to a country is an accession of treasure, I am to bo published to tho world, as indoctri nating my pupils in anti-know-nothing poli tics. As lam ever to bo gored by this young mad bull, 1 had as \tell toko it by the horn at onco. Let tho order keep Its hands off mo, tho the church, and tho constitution, ami I will never disturb it; but when it creeps from its den, under tho name of politics, with ono arm around a Mulhodjot preacher, and tho other roundtbo desperato demagogue, and’ipfrd&iiixj; them to mo as united by triple odtHs in indis-, eoluablo bands of wedlock, I shaUnotstopW inquir6 whothcr its hiamb suits Its character, 1 what tho delicacies df my calling demand of me; but"under my Christian impulses of : hdiS* htf.T will prdnouacb tho union adulterous by tho prior espousal of ; tho one* and tho' Rttec prostitution of tho other. I will warn tho first, by tho shado of Wesley, to, return to his first lovo ere his candle-stick bo removed out of its place; and- I will warn tho other, by, tho * shade of Washington, to repent and return, to; tho principles of that great man, ere he mated * republicanism a stench in tho nostrils .of all true patriots. And if they. Heed mo not, I.wiUi... with God’s help, drive them out pf tholand*,’j though it cost momylifo to do it.. Whcn l>. : throws its lasso into my lecture, room and J drags from it to its cave one of my foster chlK> dren, and there indoctrinates into him swearing, disorganizing plots, religious pierse cution. and shocking ethics, I shall not .step _ to consult the dignities of phrase or placb, fir to segregate its holy from its ■ vile; out from.; tho instincts of my nature, I ; will cry aloud , , “Thou double-faced monster,-spare theyouhgl For God’s sake spare tho youngl I haVo > taught them frankness, openness, independence > of thought and action, modesty, prudence, rev-' i crcncc for age, ond courtesy to all. Do hot, I _ imploro you, substitute for this teaching your • cavern tactics, your bandit-like oaths, and ' signs, and grips, and passwords and nonsensi-*' cal forms. Teach them not to sunder all bth-'J cr tics from those of the Throw one sacred element into your combusti ble combination that shall prevent it from sdU , ting fire to our scubols ana colleges.’! Missis- j sinpians—fathers —Whig fathers—Know- ■ Nothing fathers—picture to yourselves your son, not yet out of his teens, standing amidst a motley proup, gathered from every grade of society, with one hand on tho left breast and v the other up-bearing the llag of his country, . while some wretch, perchance from the sinks of society, letters him with oaths, which are to ' seal his independence, freedom of speech, frco-‘ 1 dom of action, and freedom of sufirage fprever! If this does not drivo GhristiariS out of tho or der, welcome be they totheir religion! If this dobs ' not unite every father in solid phalanx against it, let no man covet a place in a school or col- , lege in Mississippi. Yea, verily, I am in my “dotage,” lam a raving madman, or tho ‘ Church and State are on the high road to ruin. > Such is the order of which 1 may not speak db all, or only in court phrase!. Now, gentlemen editors, and Know-Noth ings, you have something sensible'and tangible ■ to harp upon without resorting, to rumor. ' I. am against you for life. You peek at moos., though you supposed it would distress mo . sorely to lose my place. You are mistaken, 1 sirs; I was twico on the point of resigning it, 1 but by earnest entreaty was induced to retain it. Bo assured, gentlemen, after filling' fiva chairs, for five years, and performing duties* enough to wear out most men in that time; lb •. will not cost mo a sigh to relinquish it. Nev- . cr wilt 1 hold it upon condition that I must treat Know-Nothingism with respect. Nations, like men, run mad at times, and. nothing but time and |>lood-lcUing con, euro.. them. Still, whilo there Is hope, all good men should strive to relievo them. My course is taken—carefully, thoughtfully, prayerfully ta ken. lam no Catholic. Put Methodism and Romanism on the field of fair argument, and!- ' will stake my all upon tho issue; but I am ndt such a coward as to flee tho field of honorable warfare for savage ambush fighting, or such o tool os to believe that man’s religion is to bet reformed by harrassing bis person. Nor am 1 quite so blind os not to sco that, when tho ■ work of crushing churches is begun in thtf country, it is not going to stop with tho over throw of one. All Protestantism* almost will be against me—two-thirds of my own church'. ' I judge, will be against me—tho trustees will be alarmed for tho interests of tbo college, my colleagues of tho faculty will bo uneasy, my best friends Will bo pained, but I have an abi ■ ding confidence that nothing will be lost by my . course end. It will be madness in nicri (o withdraw their sons from, the able teaching ofmy.jOoUeagucs.for my fault—to attack tho college to injure me; but these are days of mad ness, and this is tho way id which obnoxious Frofessors are commonly 'attacked. Bo it so. have done iny duty, .and I leave the cooso- . qucnccs with God. And hero I sign my nomtf . to what I deem tho best legacy that I could leave to my children—a record proof that nd- J ther place, nor policy, nor_lcmporal interest; nor friendships, nor church, nor threatening storms from every quarter, could move their' father for an instant from principle, or awe, him into silence when the cause of God and his country required him to speak. Auustus B. LoNosTQscr. From the Lancaster .Examiner. The Flare-np in (he I. N. Convention, The |*rnnd flare up in the National K. N.- Convention of Philadelphia, on the “nigger” question, has had the effect or dampening thq ardor of the small fry leaders in this city and county. At the meeting of the city lodges on Saturday night, not more than twenty persons were present, and these the most worthless and abandoned scamps in the order. The “talk” was nil about the “opening oat” ordered by tho’ National Convention —tho new ritual—oaths, penalties, Ac., prescribed by the new conslitu sion. In regard to the “opening out” of the ordcf it is all moonshine, got up for tho purpose of deceiving tho public ana misleading verdant younggentlemen from the rural districts. Tho fact is, the order will bo more tyrannical, sec ret and aroscrintivc than under the old regime. The sublimated third degrccof the order is now within the reach of all, and any member, fool, knave or hypocrite con receive it whenever htf makes application. All tho irori of tho order,- that is the proposition, election and initiation of members—and the selecting of candidatesfoy' office icmain as before. The midnight cahal isti i meetings have not been abolished. Tho soul-tainting pollution of tho hideous and un lawful oath fto use the language of T. Stevens, Esq-,) is still recognized and in force, and mem bers are yet swoni to proscribe their neighbors ! and friends, should they chanco to bo born in a foreign land, or if they live and believe In ahy other than the so-called protcstnnt church.— Thus all the abominable, proscriptive and llcncU liko characteristics of ‘tho old organization re main, while the provisions of the new one, pla ces tho persecuting sword In the bond of thoso who heretofore have been debarred from grasp ing it. Under tho old constitution, tho bully and the ruffian wero n»t eligible to the third de gree, bat now. demanding it as a right, ho re ceives it and takes his scat among the highest and proudest In the order. Wlmt effect this commingling of Black Spirits and White, Blue Spirits mid Gray will have time only can dutetv mine. , Iflherc bo any truth in the theory that and ignoble bodies, imitate largo aha noble ones, then may wo reasonably expect that tho *'u!g-' gcr” wing of Know-Nolhingibm in Lancaster i county, will secede from communion witbktholr, white brethren, and.sot up a party for themsel ves; Who will bo tho head of it, requires no’ wooly-headcd 010 roon to tell. , ’, ITT" How lltllo do loxcly women awful beings they are, in tho eyes of an unci;-., pcricnccd youth! Young men brought up iq ( tho* fashionable circle of our cities will ismilont. this. Accustomed to mingle incessantly In fo-‘ male society, and to have the romance of tho. heart deadened by a thousand frivolous dota tions, women are nothing: but women in their, eyes; but to a susceptible youth like myself,' brought up in the country, they aro perfect di-‘ vinitics.— ltashiugfon Irving. “There is a woman at tho bottom of every miscief,” said Joe.. “Yes,” replied Charley, “when I jised to get into mischief my mother was at tho bottom pf me. 11 : , i v . l>; (£7" Moral for Hens and other Poonlo—hpVfr •■cackle” till you ore sure you haV6 p{mcBomci , , A V:'j ; cV
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