OEBICAN VOLUNTEER. »iiuflUE D BV . EnT THOBBDAT MORNING DY John D. Bratton, TERMS «fjB3DBiPTiOM.—Ono Dollar and Fifty Cents, ?. a jvance 5 Two Dotlarb If paid within tho P r 0 on d Two Dollars and Fifty Cents, if not ?SdWwn the.year.- These terms.wlll berig- KJ - a( ihorod to in every Instance. Nosubscrip !j rt n discontinued until all .arrearages are paid S«, at the option ol tho Editor. Advertisements— Accompanied by tho cash, and not exceeding one square, will bo Inserted throb times for one Dollar, and twenty-five cents forbach additional insertion. Those of a great * in proportion. /ob-Pbintino— Such as Hand-bills, Posling bills. Blanks, Labels, &c., &0., exe cuted with acodrary and at tho shortest notice jfotlitnl. "o7“The Incident commemorated In tho fol lowing linos, appeared in a country newspaper, a short timo since, and was there given as a fact: * ‘'For Mother’s Sake.” DY EUELINE 8. SMITU. A father and Ids little son On wintry winds aro sailing; Fast, from their way, tho light of day In cloud and gloom was failing; And fiercely round their lonely bark The stormy winds were wailing. *rhoy know that peril hovered near ; They prayed. “ 0 ucavcn I dofiver;” But a wilder blast came howling past, And soon, with sob and shiver, 'They struggled in the icy grasp Of that dark, rushing river. Cling fast to mo, my darling child,” An anguished voice was crying; While, silvery-clear, o’er tempest drear, Iloso tones, replying, “O, mind not me, my father dear— I’m not afraid of dying. ** Oh, mind not me, but save yourself, For mother’s sake, dear father; Leave mo and hasten to the shore, Or who will comfort mother?” Tho angel forms that ever wait, Unseen, on man attendant, .Flow up, o’erjoyed, to heaven’s bright gate, And (here, on page resplendent, They wrote tho name of that bravo boy, Ami wreathed it round with glory. ** God bless tho child !”—ay, lie did bless That noble self-denial, And safely bore him to the shore, Through tempest, foil, and trial. Soon, in their bright and tranquil home, Son, slro, and that dear roolbor For whoso sweet sake so much was done, In rapture mol each other. Mimllnmous TUB MIDNIGHT ASSASSIN, A TRUE STORT. I was on my way to P— , In the fall of IS— • it was towards the cold evenings in the first fall uioitth, when my horse stopped sud denly before a respectable house about four miles from N There was something strange and remarkable in this action of my horse, nor would he move o step in spite of all my exertions to move him r 1 determined to gratify this whim, and at the same lime a strange presentiment which came over me, a kind of supernatural feeling indescri bable, seemed to urge me to enter. Having knocked and requested to be conducted to the ladyorgentleman of the house, I was ushered into a.neat, situqg-ropm. where sat ■« beautiful srl of about twenty years of tago. ' She rose at my entrance, and seemed a little surprised at Llhe appearance of a perfect stranger. In a few words I related to her the strange -conduct of my horse and his stubborn oppo sition to my mind. “Tom not,’’l observed, “superstitious, nor inclined on the side of the metaphysical uodrines of those who support them; but the strange unaccountable feeling that crept over me in attempting to pass your house, induced me to solicit lodging for the night.” ■•‘We arc not,” she replied, “well guarded, ’lis true; but in this pari of the country we Have little to fear from robbers, for we have never heard of -any being near ua : we arc sur rounded by good neighbors, and I flatter my self we arc at peace with them. But this eve ning, in consequence of u»y father’s absence, I felt unusually lonesome, and if It were not bor dering on the superstitions. I might reason as you have, and say I consent to your staying : for similar feelings had been mine ere you ar rived; from what cause I can’t imagine.” The evening passed delightfully away ; my young hostess was intelligent and lovely, the hours flew so quickly, that on looking at my watch I was surprised to find that it was ele ven o’clock. This was the signal for retiring : and by twelve every inmate or the house was probably asleep save myself. 1 could not sleep —strange visions floated across my brain, and I lay twisting on my bed, in alt the agony of sleepless suspense. The cluck struck one—its last vibrating sound had scarcely died away, when the opening of a shutter, and the raising of a sash in one of the lower apartments, con vinced me some one was entering the house. A noise followed as of o person jumping from the window-silt to tlio floor, and (non followed a light and almost noiseless step of one ascending the stairway. I slept in tho rdom adjoining the one occu pied by the lady ; mine was next to the slnir calao; the step came along tho gallery slow pnd caiTtious. I had seized my pistol and slip ped on part of my clothes, determining to watch or listen to the movements seemingly mystcri /oub dp suspicious; the sound of steps stopped mt my door— then followed one of ns apply tug the car to ; lho keyhole, and a low breathing convinced mo tho villain was listening. T stood 'ptotionlcss. the pistol firmly grasped. Not a muscle moved, nor a nerve was slackened, for 1 felt as if Heaven had selected me out as the in strument to cflcct its purposes. Tho person now slowly passed on, and T as cautiously approached the door of my bed chamber. I now went by instinct, or rather by thecon veyance of sound ; for as soon as I heard Iris band grasp the latch of one door mine seized on the other —a deep silence followed this move ment ; it seemed os if he had heard the sound. ,*nd waited the repetition ; it came not —all was fitlU: he might have considered it the echo to big own noise. I heard the door open softly ; t als6 opened mine, and the very moment 1 Stepped Into the entry, I caught a glimpse of a tall man entering the lighted chamber : through , the half-opened door I glanced my eyes inlo mo room- No object was-visible gave the curtain ed bed, within whose sheets lay the intended victim to a midnight assassin,' and ho gracious heaven! a negro! For at that moment a tall ftcrcc-looking black man approached the bid : and never Wore Othello and Desdemona more naturally Represented; at least that- particular sccno of the immortal bard's conception. , I was now all suspense ; my heart swelled Into ttiy throat almost to sullocation, my eyes to cracking, as I made a bound into the room. Tho block villain had ruthlessly dragged ■ part of tho covering oil the bed, when the sound .of ray foot caused Tiiro to turn. Ho started. ■ and thus confronted, we stood gazing on each ■ other a few seconds; Ida eyes shot Uro—fury was depicted In Ids countenance; ho made a spring towards mo, and the next moment lay a corpse on tho floor I The hoi so of the pistol aroused tho fair sleep er i 1 el.o started in tho bed, and teemed an angel BV JOHN B. BRATTON. YOL 42. of tho white clouds emerging from her downy bed to soar up to the skies. The first thing that presented itself to her view was myself standing near her with a pis tol in my hand. r “Oh, do not murder me!—take all —you can not, will not kill me, sir ?” The servants now rushed in—all was explain ed. 1 The wretch turned out to be a vagabond, supposed to bo a runaway slave from Virginia. I had the providential opportunity of rescuing one from the worst of fates, who. in after years, called me husband, and related to our children her miraculous escape from the bold attack of a midnight assassin. China and the Chinese. A long and interesting letter has recently been addressed by Bir John Bowring, to the Royal Asiatic Society of London, on the sub ject of China. His official position os Ambas sador, has given him a good opportunity to ob tain information of an authentic character.and tho following facts collected from his commu nication cannot but be read with interest. Forty-three years ago, the lost official census of the Empire was token, at which time tho population was reported at 362.000,000. and the present estimate is 400,000,000. Accord ing to the ancLnt usage, the population is grouped under the following head : 1. Scholars ; 2. Husbandmen ; 3. Mechan ics: 4- Merchants. A numerious additional class is that of social outcasts —such as gam blers. stage players, beggars, convicts, and robbers. Human life is divided into ten peri ods. as follows : Tho age of ten is called the ■•opening degree;’* 20, “youth expired;” 30, “strength and marriage;” 40, officially apt;” 50, “error knowing;” GO, “cycle closing;” 70. “rare birds of age;” 80, “rusty visage;” 90, “delayed;*’ 100, “age’s extremity.” On the subject of food the Chinese have but one prejudice, and that is against milk, which they never touch, while halo puppies, kittens, young rats, monkeys, and snakt-s are consider? ed delicacies. They prefer these even in a state of decomposition. Chickens in the shell command high prices. Milk is. however, used by aged people. Both in eating and drinking they are remarkably temperaie: but opium is the cause of very much wretchedness through out the Empire. The number of people who die annually in China, it is said to be absolutely frightful.— Multitudes perish from starvation, from inun dations and from suicide, and the late civil wars have exterminated, by famine. disea«e. and the sword, millions of men, women and children. {Sir John Bowring asserts that, at one period of residence iu China, five hundred victims fell daily by the hands of the heads man. ;J£pv.ercnce for life there is none; and the deaa.arq trcated with .the utmost indifler ence—a corpse .being too often scon- under tho •?able of gamblers.-,tmd putrid t body at the threshold of Ins door. In many parts of China, strange to say: there _ are towers of brick or stone, where fe male infants are thrown by their parents, in a hole made in the inside of the wall; and it is asserted that, while o desire for offspring seems to be universal, infanticide-prevails to an extent unequalled in any .other country; and, most astonishing, tho childless ■ wife of a Chinese willingly coincides with her husband in introducing into the household any number of concubines wnom he is able to maintain, and she exercises’over than'an undisputed Au thority. and the child of a concubine.’is bound to pay higher respects to tho lawful wife than to its own mother. To promote marriages seems to be everybody’s affair, and matches and bcihrolhincs accordingly occupy tho at tention of all—the young, the middle aged.and tho old. iNTRarBUBTATtON op Dreams. —There Is a guide to tho interpretation of dreams. An En glishman thus puts it; • “To dream of a millstone round your nock is what you may expect if you gel an extravagant wife. To see apples in a dream betokens a wedding because where you find apples may reasonably expect to find nears. To dream that you arc lame is a token that you will get into a hobble. When a young la dy dreams of a coffin, it betokens that she should instantly discontinue the use of l«e«ng her stays tightly and always go warmly dress ed and thickly shod in wet weather. If you dream of a clock, it is a token that you will gain credit —that is. lick. To dream of fire is a sign you are wise, you will see that the lights in your house arc out before you go to bc<L To dream that your nose is red Jit the tip, is an intimation that you had better leave off brandy and water. To dream of walking barefooted denotes a journey that that you will make bootless.” To Raise ano Keep Cici.Eltr.— Celery must be sown early in the spring- As soon as the plants are four or six inches high, (hen dig a trench one foot deep ; put in some good barn yard manure, mixed with good earth : then set in your plants, about nine inches apart: cover them for tho first three days through the day : as they grow, keep filling in earth occasionally until the ditch becomes full, and by this means: you can bleach it from twelve to fourteen inch es ni length. It must be taken up in November, in the new of the moon, and then prepare a box in your cellar, and put in good e A rlli at one end of the box ; then lay in yourcclcry.slanting, in rows; then put in earth, so the lops stick out four indies : so continue on till the box is full: wa ter it occasionally during the winter. By this means it can be kept until the spring. iVuiru farmer. National Sowa.—National tong of ail others* holds n powerful tway over the minds oflhoso in whom it awakens thought! of fatherland and freedom. What would bo (ho poetry of any na tion, or nny ago, if robbed of lit spirit of Its song! What would bo left of the Scotland char acter if the ballads of the Caledonian bard swore swept away i If tho harps of tho minlstrols per ished with tho fingers that swept thorn? Tho song that cheered tho shepherd boy while ten ding his sheep conies back to him in tho Uonr ot oppression and danger} and even upon tho battle field that melody calls up tho nrnors and mountains of his native land i the wild woods and tho streams come bock, and tho breezy freshness of tho heather fans Ills cheek again m ho marches with a firm step and nervous arm to win his liberty or die. It is said that ho who writes tho songs of a nation may nt tho sumo time predict its history, for patriotism has over burned tho brighter when music fanned thoflnmu nnd tho human breast has over throbbed with, a boiler devotion when the soul of song was stir ring at tho heart strings. Dj?*A little Icllow not more than live years old,hearlngsomogcntleman at his father’s tab’o discussing (hefhmilfar lino, << An honest nmn.o the noblest work ol God, ” said ho knew It wasn't true his mother was hotter than any man that was over made. K7* Leave tho worst case In tho hand of tho Groat Advocate, who alsvays answers confi dence, boyonp ourhodosoroxpoQtations. R7* Horses, and cattle should bo tarnished salt throughout tho year. "0011 COUNTRY—MAT II ALWAYS, BE RIGHT—BUT BIGHT OB WRONG, OUB OODNTBT." Traces of a Father. In a laic history of Craddock’s Defeat, we have a very touching illustration of the manner In which truth long buried may bo brought to light, by one of those very slight but conclus ive signs which Providence seems to have given as if for the very purpose of knitting together those members of the great skeleton of history which otherwise would lie scattered, unobserv ed and unknown in the deserts of the past.— Sir John Ilalkct, a brave and much respected English officer, had been one of those who had fallen in the terrible route that had befallen the English and colonial icgiments in their attack upon Fork du Qucsnc, but such was the num ber of the slain and completeness of the defeat, that no means were taken at the time so secure his burial. In 1750. however. Fort du Quesne having been reduced, his son. Sir Peter Ualkct proceeded to the battle-field. to sec if there re mained anything which would enable him to identify his father's body. ‘-In reply to his anxious question.” we are told, “one of his twnny guides had already told him that he re collected, during the combat, to have seen an officer fall beneath such a remarkable tree as he should have no difficulty in recognizing; and at the same moment, another rushing to his side was instantly shot down, and fell across his comi ode’s body. As they drew near the spot, the detachment was halted, and the In dians peered about through tho trees to recall their memories of the scene. With speaking gesture they briefly discoursed in their own longue. Suddenly, and with a shrill cry. the Indian of whom we hove spoken sprang to the well-remembcpcd tree. While the troops rest ed on their arms in a circle around, he and his companion searched among the thick fallen leaves- In a moment two grunt skeletons were exposed lying togeihcr. the one upon the other, as they had died. The hand that tore away the scalps had not disturbed their posi tion; but no signs remained to distinguish the relics from the hundreds of others that strewed the ground. At this moment Sir Peter re membeiod him of a peculiar artificial tooth which his father bore. The bom-s were then separated, and an examination of those which lay undermost at once solved all doubts. “It is my father.” exclaimed the unhappy youth, os he sank into the arms of his scarcely less af fected friend.” Planting Trees. Many are deterred from planting trees by the thought that they will not live to see them sufficiently grown for any useful or ornamen tal purpose. H. F. French, Esq., iu the New Kuglaml Farmer remarks : If I could assemble all the boys of New En gland together in this old village, and show them the trees that my own hands have plant ed and assisted others in planting, no doubt a score of years would witness such on improve meat in the streets of our towns ns no mere talking or writing can accomplish. Twenty, five years ago or thereabouts, the old Lombar dy poplars which had been planted about the paternal mansion when it was built, in first year of the century, were decayed so ns to be no longer an ornament, and werccut^down.—- There stood thf tall white three-story house close to the. street, with only a few lilacs and rosea to shelter it. Now, os you approach the mansion on either sido.no glimpse of it; ex cept Of a chimney lop, or of a window or door, where the branches have been cut away, can be seen. The rock maples and horse chestnuts and elms have interlaced their boughs and lift ed their heads so os completely to shelter it.— A quarter of a century has sufficed to increase the tree winch a boy could carry on his shoul der to a foot or ‘more in diameter. Yesterday 1 fixed a swing for my children upon a chest nut which grew from a nut which I saw my father plant in the garden, and which t trans planted to its present place some twenty years ago. The street is lined for half a mile with elms and maples, which we, boys of the vil lage, with our own hands, dug from the rocky soil of the forest and planted. Now they ore the beauty and glory of the place. PIBASDRF.S OP TTIK PROFESSION-—On ft Cold stormy night the doctor is aroused from his slumbers by a loud rap at the door, accompan ied by the stirring summons— • Doctor, want you to come right straight away to Bank’s, his child is dead.' •Then what do you want with me?’ ‘He is pizened. They gin him laudanum,too —paragoricky.' •How much did they give him?' •Do' no—great ’cal. Think he won’t get o verit.’ Tho doctor pushing ofT thro’ the storm,meets with divers mishaps on tho way. and at length arrives nt the home of tho poisoned patient.— Ho finds nil dosed —not alight to uc seen— lie knocks furiously at the door, and at last a nightcap appears nt the chamber window, and. a woman's voice squeaks out— • Who’s there?’ ‘The doctor, to be sure. You sent for him.’ •0, it’s no matter, doctor. Ephraim's better. Wo got a little kinder skeert: gin him lauda num, and he slept kinder sound, bathe's woke up now.’ •How much did he swallow?' •Only two drops! 'Taint hurt him none.— Wonderful bad storm to-night. 1 Tho doctor turns away, buttoning up his overcoat under his throat, to seek his home a gain. and tries to whistle away his mortifica tion and anger, when the voice salutes him a gain— • Doctor, doctor! •What do you want?’ ‘You Imint goin’ to charge nothin' for this, are ye?’ Round and Long Heads.— Prof. Rctzius.of Stockholm, tit Sweeden. denies that high skulls betoken high intellect, It being supposed by many that they do. Ho had visited tho schools in England and Sweden nnd could not find one person out of a hundred that did not possess tho elongated skull and prominent occupit. In Sweeden there are persons who have short high head*, but they do not resemble the real Swedes, and arc allied to tho Lapland Fins.— He asserts .that if the Slavonians belong to the Circassian race, as is asserted by phrenolo gists, anatomy Is of no uso to The Poles and Bohemians belong to tho round headed nations, aud have produced many emi nent men. , Tho Anglo Saxons have long skulls,-so had tho ancient Cells; tho modern'natives of Ire land have round heads, unlike the apolcnt Collie skulls. Those of tho ancient* Mexicans are of the Mongolian type. Tho Iniana op tho west ern pail of our continent have short heads; those on the eastern part have long heads. Oi.o RABVLON.--Dr. Oppert, of France, has spent two years on the site of Babylon, exam ining tho cuOcfdrm inscriptions on the bricks and slates. Ho states that this famous old city, in tho days of its grandeur, and power, covered rather more than an area of 200 square miles, being about two and a half more, than tho site of London. But all this space was not inhabited, there being immense fields to supply tho city with corn ant} pasture in case of siege. CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21,1856, From the Report of ihb'Secrctdry of the Interior. TUB INDIAHJWCE. Wb are raplilly : closioffinpob fho hunter tribes from both tho Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and soon all tho buffalo and othergame will have disappeared, ofad lklihost every foot of arable land be occupied by the white man. By a conjecture of circumstances, most unpropi tious to him, the Indian is' being completely hedged in; and never before has, been subjected to such sever** trials and hardships. Many of them are aware of their deplorable and precari ous-condition, and speak of it with the deepest and most expressive sorrow; yet with few ex ceptions, the offences..they commit'are not of a high grade, and these arc palliated in many in stances by extreme want. > All these should impress a generous," intelligent and refined peo ple with the necessity of kindness and forbear anco toward them, which is not always exhibi led. }■ ■ J A liberal hand should bb extended (o them, and every means resorted to forlhclr improve ment and elevation., Moral and religious prin ciples, and the arts of-civilized life, should be taught them. U is difficult lb instruct the adult. Naturally ol a roaming disposition, indolent, averse to ordinary labor, as hot comporting with his ideas of dignity, he has*no desire to obtain a practical knowledge ol‘agriculture or any of the useful arts; nor can tosfctlcntion to them bo enlisted. He will not voluntarily a bandon the chase norths wild.diversions which aro so seductive even in the most rebned. But by commencing with the youth, implanting in their minds correct principles, and inculcating those moral and religious precepts-which arc usually Imparted among civilizcdjnalions by parents to their children, a foundation would bu laid for a thorough and complqlc reforma tion of the wholu tribe. This comtc has been pursued to a limited extent, and U 4 results arc very flattering. It would be well for us in our conduct to ward the Indians, to lollow, the example of those benevolent societies which have for many years labored so pcrscverihgly. and, under the circumstances so successfully, for the amelior ation of their condition. They have contribu ted largo to this great object, having expended within the last ten years, in nioncy alone, near a million of dollars; and it Is doing them injus tice to attempt to deprecate llic tflucis of their incessant labors. Experience shows thu in strumentality of religion alone can effect that radical change in the habits, customs, manners, and modes of thinking,'of tho Indian, that is so desirable. Recently, Government has not ( been remiss in granting the means necessary to supply both their mental and .physical wants : and it is hoped the laudable spirit exhibited at tho last session (if CoDgr<|S9V-wilt ahVays govern our councils. ./v> J.' ' Its countenance; fogelher with‘the cordial co-operation of the pure and fiolflsacnticing who tifavc heretofore devoted so muen time and attention to them, will relieve the lndians from their severest 'difficulties and/cnibarass men is; may tend to elevate them tflf'an equali ty with the whiles, and avert fromiis nntiona large amount of obloquy that might otherwise attach to it. Facts have denionsfraUd their susceptibility of aod>bvca»rcflne-. mttii; land therefore Tt is~our duly iff persevere' in all human efforts to preserve them from ex* lioctfon. • - ’’■'''•’-j* * WoiMiiglon fa Ms Jfonif* ■ A foreigner who visited this country towards the close of the last century, wrote the follow ing description of the person and home of Washington, which will be read with universal interest : •■I crossed the river from Maryland into Vir ginia near the renowned Gen.. Washington’s, where I had the'honor to spandsomc lime, and i was kindly entertained by that worthy family. As to the General. if_ we may judge bv his countenance, he is what the world says of him —a shrewd, good-natured, plain, hnmancman. about forty-five years of age, and seems to wear well, being hcathful. straight, well made, and about six feet high. He keeps a good table, which is always open to those of a genteel ap pearance. lie docs not use many Frenchified congees or flattering useless words, without meaning, which savors more of deceit than an honest heart: but on the contrary, his words seem to point at truth and reason.and to spring from the foonlmn of a heart which being good of itself, cannot be suspicious of others till facts unriddle designs, which evidently appeared to me. by a long tale that he tola about Arnold’s manoeuvres, far-fetched schemes, and deep-laid designs to give him and his army up above a month before the affair happened ; and though he said ho wondered at many things that ho observed in Arnold’s conduct yet he had not the least apspicion of any treachery going on till the thing happened, and then he could trace back ana see inrough his intentions from the beginning : which from lire General’s be havior to him—of which I am well apprized— seems to me, to be the highest ain of ingratitude ihat a man «>iild be guilty of. The 'General's house is rather warm, snug, convenient and useful than ornamental. size is what ought to suit a man of about two or three thousand a year in Ireland. The out-offlccs arc good, and seem to be not long built; and he was maklng more offices at each wing to the front of the house, which'added more to orna ment than real use. The situation is high and commands a beautiful prospect of the river which parts Virginia from. Maryland." The Circus op Cold.—The range of cold is wider this year than in any year on record— They ore putting up ice four Inches thick,form ed in the river about Austin, Texas, in about latitude 301, or only about five degrees north of the tropics. The effect on vegetation, south, particularly. U bad. In Florida, the orange trees, it is feared, arc ruined. In tho neighbor hood of Louisville, Ky. the peach and other fruit trees linvc been killed by the frost. In North Caroling, thousands of dollars, ills said, have been lost by the injury done to the pine trees of that region, though wo supposed that that tree could stand cold, In Virginia .the apricots have bceii almost entirely destroyed.— l ln Boston; Hie’cold weather was so severe that the linden Arccs which adorn tho sidewalks, split with tho frost as if a wedge hod been dri ven into them. But these will close up. again in the Spring.', The phenomena °f Hio Hf« growth of vegetation, under polar colds, is yet iiiicxplaincd'.. ■ CopaOLlKO.—Somebody boa iho politeness to, inform hip fellow men ns follows : you'll bo forgotten, os old debts By persons who ore used to borrow Forgotten, as the sun Unit sols, ■ When shines n new one on the morrow, Forgotten, like the luscious pencil -i That blessed the school-boy last Septan ; her; • Forgotten, like a maiden speech, - Which all men praise, but none remember. Last Oasb or Coolness.— *W«V» H—l wont that money. When will you pay the •billl' •Ob, wolLl’llpay It before—beforeyou gel through wanting It-' ifiiiint A Colored Duel. A duel between two colored gemmen— a reg ular built affair, conducted according to the most strict and punctilious provisions of the code of honor—came oil last week. The fight took place with pistols of the most Improved fashion, at sunrise, on a small branch of the Metairie read. We do not know what the or igin of the difficulty was, except (hat one of the parlies, to use the phrase of one of the spec lators “was crossed in lub by dc odcr, and dat him hona must hab satisfaction.” I We have learned from one who was present at the combat, the particulars as they trans pired. They are substantially as fallows : After having taken their stands, one of the seconds noticed that, owing to thoir positions, the sunbeams set his principal to winking and rolling his eyes. This was sufficient ground for interfering, and bo calls out to the other second with, “I sny, I puts my weto on dat posishum— it’s agin dc rules ob all de codes ob hona dat I see. De traction ob de sun shines radcr too se were, and makes my principal roll bis eyes al logedder too much.” “Wy, wy, look here, didn’t we chuck up a dollar for dc choice of ground, and didn’t I get him myself?” “Yes, 1 know you did; but fair play is ajule, and I’se no notion of seem’ my friend composed upon, and lose all the ’vantage.” “Well, I’so no notion as you Is, and ’firsts on setting the matter just as wo is—and ” At this juncture, a friendly cloud settled the matter at once, by stepping in between the sun and the belligerents. The first two causes took their position, and all the little preliminaries being settled, each one look his pistol, ready cocked, from his sec ond. Both manifested a terrible degree of spunk, although a sort of bluish paleness , spread itself over their black checks. The seconed who was to give the fatal order which might send thorn out of the world, now took bis ground. Raising his voice, he bc gan; “Gemmen. your time nm cum.” Both signified their assent. “Is you ready? Fiah ! one—two—three.” Banjj;. pop, went both pistols at once, one boll raising the dust in the middle of the road, while the other look a “slaiuindicular” course among tho bystanders, fortunately without hitting any one. It was now lime to interpose, and one of the seconds set himself about it. Alter a little conversation thcchallcnged darkey stepped for ward and said to his antagonist: “Nigga, is you satisfied/" “I is.” “Ho is I, ami Is glad to get oil so. Kext lime dey catches dis child out on such a foolish exhibition as dis. dey will fetch me, dal dey will do, for sartain.” • Bern’s my scnlhncnls cdzackly.” retorted the other. “When your onmortal instrument of def went of!’, I declare I thought I was a gon child: but I’bc so happy now—gosh, lei’s shake hands, ami go back to our avocation.” In five minutes time, all hands—enemies, black friends, white and all—were on the road home to wofk. perfectly ijatisfied wVltt the sport of llrtrtnorrtHfcg , '~tf • G. Picayune; - TUB KEGBO. f, TboJfetr York Observer, fn a power Ail arti cle upon the past and present condition of the Negro face in this country, holds tho foffowing language which contains facia of tho moat in controvertible character. A few plain state mt-nls like these, by drawing the mind at once to tin; true stale of the case, is worth more to over-throw the fine spun theories of the Aboli lionisls. limn a thousand lengthy addresses, however clear in argument. Conmorisons like these kill at once the cflecl of all the Uncle Toms that were ever written. When the ancestors of those negroes were tom from their homes in Africa, by the slave traders of Old England, and New England.and placed under the influence of Christianity at I the South, they were among the most degraded and miserable of the human species, slaves of cruel masters, the victims of bloody supersti tions, believers in witchcraft and worshippers of jbo devil. And what now is the condition of their de scendants ? Severn! years ago more than two hundred thousand of them were members of Protestant evangelical churches in the slave holding States; About ten thousand Ameri can negroes, trained chiefly at the South, tran splanted (o Liberia, now rule nearly two hun dred thousand natives of Africn.*nnd through their schools and churches are spreading the light and love of the gospel in the land of dark ness and heathenism. U Is true that more than nine tenths of the negroes at the south arc still slaves ; but is slavery under Christian masters in America the same evil with slavery under heathen tyrants In Africa I Degraded as these slaves may still be, compared with the sons of the pilgrims of New Englond, even with the mass of laborers in some of the enlightened countries of Europe, can three million or one million negroes, bund or free, be found in any part of the world, who can compare for good condition, physical, intel lectual and moral, with the three million slaves at the South ? Has Christianity, aided by the wealth of British Christians, done as much du ring the Inst twenty years for the elevation of eight hundred thousand emancipated negroes in the West Indies, British philanthropists themselves being the judges of what it has ef fected there, as has been done during the same period for the elevation of our three million A tncncan slaves ? j£7» The editor of the Burlington (N. J.) Re corder bears witness that ho recently discover ed. in a flourishing city on the line of tho New Jersey Railroad, a graveyard, in which stood a tombstone on which was inscribed by weeping friends the following touching and simple, yet exquisitely poetic epitaph; •‘He was a good egg." Tho Recorder at once proceeded to gild gold by composing tho following addition : “Tread lightly o’er this nest, wo beg. Or else, perhaps, you’ll smash the egg." j£y» A very loquacious lady once offered to bet. her husband S6O that fiho would not speak a word for a week. “Done!” said the delighted husband, slokmg the money, winch the lady immediately nut into her pocket, observing, very gravely, (lint she would secure it until the wager was de cided* . , , . , , T “Why, madam;" cried the husband, “I have won it-already." . i ••You arc mistaken in the Umo," said the la dy, “I mean Iho week after Tin buried." j£7“ “You had better nsk for manners than money," said a finely-dressed gentleman to o beggar who asked for ( alnjs« “I asked for what I thought you had most of," was t)io cutting reply. (£7* PutfAßOii’s Lives.—ln Cincinnati, lately, Miss Anno Flout was married to Robert Ark* A contemporary thinks tho event prom ises a new edition of rMd-.drfc'i-iivy?, AT S2,OOPEB ANNUM, NO. 37. From the Providence (i?. J.) Pott. Ii the Know-Nothing Patty on imotltan Patty 1 We answer, confidently and emphatically, No ! Wo say that, in all its features and in all its purposes, it is the very opposite of what it claims to be. Lot us see if we speak more or less than the simple truth. In the first place, look at Its secrecy. Is there anything American In that! Is it Amer ican to belong to a society the very name and the very existence of which you are bound by an oath to keep a profound secret ? Is it Amer ican to nominate men for high offices, and keep their nomination a secret until it is revealed through the ballot-box ? Is it American to shrink from an open discussion of the claims and qualifications of candidates for high offices! Is it American to sneak to the council chamber for the transaction of political business through I trap doors and back entries, with one eytfover your shoulder, like a dog with a stolen break fast, to guard, against detection 1 Can there be anything peculiarly American in an asso ciation whose main features arc resembled by 1 nothing that has existed in America from the , landing of the Pilgrims down to the day that . we numbered twenty-five millions of souls!— I la there anything very American in a society of , Jesuits ! Is there anything American in a star | chamber court ! Is there anything American |in an Italian or a Spanish inquisition ? If not, ■ then is there nothing American in know-nolh j ingism. thus far considered. I Look at its oaths. From the moment of la- J king them the victim ceases to be a fi-eeman.— 1 He is sworn to look upon his brother who was j born upon another soil, or » hose religious faith , differs Irom his own, as an outcast. He be- I comes a bigot—bitter, intolerant, unrelenting. I He is sworn, also, to vote for his party's can- I didalcs, be they who ami what they may.— No matter if the greatest knave, the most bare faced vilhan, or the meanest scoundrel that ever walked the earth, is placed in nomination, !hc rniuf vote for him. There is no escape. He has itrom that he will do it. He cannot listen to argument, for he is no longer free to act ac cording to the dictates of reason and conscience- Ilis only answer to the patriot's appeal must | be. "We have a law, and by that law 1 must I vole for my party’s candidate, no matter who j he is or what he is ; saint or devil, it is all the same.” Is there anything American in this? And yet this is 000 ol the features of know nothingism. Look at its purposes* II proposes to anni hilate political pp^vlity—to rob labor of its dig nity and Us mcaiuiof defence, by robbing it of its strength at tHe (ills. It would make chat tels or mere macyhciof thousands of white la borers. and Opetf the door to still greater en croachments upon the poor man’s rights. Is there anything American in this ? Look again. It would erect commimi/ies of foreigner* upon our own soil, by driving every man of foreign birth beyond the boundaries of American society, whether socical or political. It would leach a large class of men. with fami- Ilics growing up around them in our very midst, to hate, with a bitter and everlasting hatred, institutions oT pur Country, and .ilia men puslqh} them* It .would si\ut qutjdjochik uren of forein-bom parents from atV Arnencan izing influences, and leave thciifc.l&grow up amongst us with those prejudices to tho land'of thdt fathers. £9 tftfs aff' object worthy of Americans ? ■ .• ■ Look once more, li would offer a premium for religious Hypocrisy, by excluding from of fice and from the ballot-box every man who openly embraces the Catholic faith. The Arocr can doctrine has been.that evuy person should be allowed to worship God according to the dictates of his conscience, ft would trample this doctrine in the dust, hy providing penal fics, in the form of proscriptive disabilities, for all who worship God in any other than the Pro testant form. But enough. There ran ho but one answer to the question wo have naked. The know nothing party is anti-American in its organiza tion and internal features—anti-American in its purposes —anti-American in its soul ami in its .substance. With its mask off. it is a bald traitor—a heartless, reckless enemy of Ameri can institutions- Lei true Americans flee from it os they would (lee from the pestilence that wostelh at noonday—avoid it qs they would the poisonous viper—and crush it as true pa triotism would crush undisguised treason. How to Sroa a Girl.—Tell her she t« "» hi de Udv,” and must not run, and make her a •nnbonnet a yard deep to keep her from tan ning. Do not let her play with her hoy cous ins, “they aro so rude,” Tel) her nut to speak loud, it is so masculine ; and that loud laughing is quite imgenlcol. Teachher music, but never mind her spelling. Givoher carings at six years of age. Teach her to sot “her cap" for (ho boauxal eleven. And, after your pains taking if she does not grow up a simpering, unreflec ting nobody, that cannot answer a love letter without some smart old aunt to holp her, give her up—slio is p.u»t all remedy. Cbxsi S Taken. —Well. Mrs. Finnigan, how many have you in the family 1 Mrs. Finnigan.—Well, let mo see, there's me. and Miathcr Finnigan. and Mary, and Megy, and John, and Michael, and Patrick, and eleven chickens, three gasc and a Hootch man. Tub Poor Quails.— Under this caption the Albany (N. Y.) Journal slates that thousands of these plump pretty birds ore daily perishing in that section from cold and hunger, the froz en snow preventing poor “Bob While” from procuring ids accustomed food. The Journal calls upon every body to feed the quail, and re frain from feeding on him. Tub Patk op Mi'siuies.—The mummies of Egypt are sometimes (married by the Arabs for fuel, and. whclbcr those of the Pharoahs. their wives, their priests, or their slaves, are split open and chopped up with the same in difference as so many pine logs. The gums and balsams used in embalming them have made them a good substitute fur bituminous coal; and thus the very means employed to preserve them liavc become the active agents of their dissipation. A fellow who had written some vers es, submitted them to the inspection of a ■•quiz.” ‘•Don’t you think they have pathos and ele gance.” said he, “Yes, sir. and I dare say they would shine, if you would only communicate a little flro to them.” [£7* A correspondent o( the Louisville Journ al asks tho editor to “take off” the hooped peticoala. Prentice replies that ho can’t do it, bpl he sincerely wishes the ladies would. You may glean knowledge by reading, but you must separate tho chaff from tho wheal by thinking. A Vert Bad Aim.,—A new counterfeit bank note is described ns having for a vigoilfty a female with a: rake in her lap- B7*Gonlo, l> tfio gold In Iho mlnoi l.lonl I, the miner who brings It cat, <Ms anil (onk KT It, id stated in the Mexican papers that Santa Adoa and his wife have separated. O* On Saturday week at Chicago, thirty* four prisoners were Sentenced ttf the peniten tiary, tO" A bill has passed the Legislature of Ala-, bama. making It Criminal to give, sell hr loan * minor a bowie knife or pistol. ID" The loss of property by 603 disasters oif the Western Lakes m, 1855. was $2,821,620, and tho loss of human lives 119. We do not dedpise all thoSe who haw vices, but we despise all those who have ntft a single virtue. C7* It is said that the average of cold for the month of January. 1860, in New York, was greater than any that has occurred for 70 years. Coleman, the dramatist, was asked if bo knew Theodore Uook. Yes, replied he; Hook and eye are old associates* C7* The friends of Mr. tiuchanart, ill Hew York, arc making arrangements to give him A hearty reception, on his arrival home. Xy“ Wendell Philips says no yankeo fa sat isfied with the truth, unless you prove it id worth eight or ten per Cent. 1117“ A writer in the Louisville Courier, poses that the Whies of Kentucky hold a State Convention bntheUthof April, the anniver sary of the birth of Henry Clay. (£7* Evening came in upon the scene. All nature seemed sinking into a quiet slumber, when the lonely wanderer went forth from the low collage, chewing at a gingerbread borte, with red hair, cowhide boots, and a big fttick; JET* A friend just returned from abroad sayi he once found two Austrian custom officers «1* deavorlng to make dut His mime from bis trav elling trunk. One called, while the other wrote; They had got it “Mr. Varanli Solezier.” The trunk was marked “Warranted solclcathcr." Trumbull county (O’.) Democroi says that recently, four men caught in a net, in Tamarack Swamp. Bloomfield township, eighteen hundred pigeons atone haul. Beiidfei this, they shot, during the sftme night,eighteen hundred and sixteen more, making ft total of 2.610. CC7* Fanny Pern’s next issue is expected to make more noise in the world than her last.— So says the N. Y. Mirror O* A little fellow down South spells Ten nessee thus—lOac. Ho is the same fellow tfbtr spells Andrew Jackson thus—&ru Jaxn, [LT* An administrator on an estate of a de ceased female in New Hampshire, advertises for sale at auction “the wearing apparel of Mrs. 0 . deceased, consisting of one bed, two carpets and one sleigh.” [Ty-Some one in the neighborhood of Cleve land tells the Herald of that place, an almost incredible story in relation to the cold weather of the Olh inst. He says “it was so cold that the cows had to be driven in tho house to thaw their bags before milking." Cy* We find in the St. Louis Herald a grand scheme proposed by a young man in that city. He calls it “A Leap Year Scheme,” in winch be proposes to raffle himself ofl at S 5 a chance —the uumber of chances to be limited to 000* Tub Schoolmaster —The Salem Gazette says the following notice may bo seen at a blacksmith's shop in Essex ; “No bosses shod on Sunday 'ccpi sickness or death.” (C7* The world’s opinion—a mean man is a jicrson with a small income who Jives within fly* A young lad in Wisconsin, has been held to ono hundred dollars bail, for catting stones on a railroad track, just to gee toe can hop whca'dhcy-.twnt over theta. Prccoeloog boy. that! I JET* “They don’t make as good mirrors os they used to, *’ remarked on old maid, as she observed a pair of sunken eyes, and wrinkled face, and livid complexion in a glass that sbfl Usually looked into. [£7* The L 7. S. Treasurer reports that the net omount in the Treasury, subject to draft* on the 28th of January was 524.081.550. [T7* Judge Bogart, one of the Police Justices of New York city, has been convicted of wilful ly and knowingly liberating a notorious pick* pocket upon straw bail. (£7* In the United Slates there aro six thou sand brokers and six thousand barbers, but the census docs not tell which class docs tbs most shaving. Cou) WsArnsn rs. Potatoes. —The Louis ville Ky., Courier estimates that the cold wea- ther has rained half a million dollars worth of potatoes in that city. O* An old lady in Morristown, N. J., nine* ty years of age, has had a growth of fine black hair on her bend for a year post. She Is also cutting new teeth, and her sight has come to her for the second lime. A letter-writer speaking of those free solicit who preferred Lewis U. Campbell to Na thaniel P. Banks, for Speaker of the llousA, compares them to (he Scribes and Pharisees, who strain at “a Nat and swallow a Campbell. [£/*■ A country parson had n singular pecu liarity of expression, always using (he pit rose •*l Matter myself,” instead of “I believe.”— Having occasion to exhort his congregation du ring a revival, he “flattered himself ” that more than one half of than would be damned 1 J7* The Grand Jury for the late term of tha Monroe county, Pa.. Court, made the follow ing unique presentment : “We, the Grand In quest for said county, bog leave, And fn pursu ance of the able charge of the Court, and in accordance with our onth, do report that nearly every person in said county of Monroe arc passing and receiving small notes of Bankd of other States, and arc, therefore, in our opin ion, indictable—the present Inquest not except* cd ,f [£7-A nursery man of Flushing, Long Inland* recommends the culture of liquorice, os one of the most important plants that could be added to American agriculture. A deep.sandy loam, or other light soil, is adapted to it, and tho plant is propagated by cuttings from the root, yields an immense crop, is quite valuable, and now largely imported. The Max that was Born Late.—An old, Carolinian once said : • I was bom the laat day of the week, very late in the day, and hart al ways been behindhand. I believe it wouldhave been fifty dollars in my pocket if I hadn't been born at all.” No Time Lost.—A Mrs. Lucinda Thomp* son recently obtained a bill of divorce from heir husbandin’ Crawford county,Ohio, Cotnmoh Pleas, at BP. M. At 10 o'clock the same eve ning she was married to a Mr. Talcott, in tho presence of the Court and bar. Dauino Exploit.—Two young men residing in Granville Vi., a few days since, traced set oral bears to their den in a cave upon the Green Mountains. While one of the hunters slow! guard, tho other sixteen years of age, entered i the cave armed with a douhlc-lrntTcllcd pislo|, and succeeded in k illing three bears without re ceiving a wound himself. i' IIBiDT TO I’AT.—Anico young min hiring devoted himself lo the «nccf«l entortimment, of , Co.np.ny of pretty girls for » whole • evening, demanded I>»y nrnt In klascs, when one of them £.ntir«l-“w : •■Certilnly. sir. present your Hill" . .. (C7* The meanest mnn in tho trorld Htm In West Trof- In helping him out of tho n»«r odo« a man tore the collar of his coat. Tba next day be sued him foruiauU and bailey.
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