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John D. Bratton,
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"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.