AMERICAN VOLUNTEER. PUBLISHED KVEHY TUUHBDAY MORNING BY JoJm B. Bratton. TERMS Dollar and Fifty Cents, r>Hd in' advdhce j ! Tvyo Dollarsif paid within the vcAr* and- Ttto Dollars and Fifty Cents, if not paid : within*tho year. Those terms will bo rig idly adhered to inovcry instance. Nosubscrip tion discontinued until all arrearages are paid unices at the option oi the Editor. Advertisements —Accompanied by the oabii, and not exceeding one square, will bo inserted three times for pno Dollar, and twonty-flvo cents for each additional Insertion. Those of a great, or length in proportion. Job-Printing— Such as Hand-bills, Posting blllsi Pamphlets, Blanks, Labels, &c., &c., exe cuted with accurary and at the shortest notice ptttiml. £ Selected for the “ Volunteer,” by a lady. ] MISCHIEF-MAKERS. OI could thoro in this world bo found Some liftlo spot of happy ground Where village pleasures might go round Without the village tattling; How doubly blest that place would bo, Where all might dwell in liberty, Free trom the bitter misery Of gossips' endless prattling. If such a spot were really known, J)amo Peace might claim it ns her own, And In it sbo might fix her throne Forever ond forever. There like a queen might reign and lire, While every one would soon forgive The little slight they might receive, And bo offended never. ’Tis mischief makers that remove Far from our hearts the warmth of love, And lend its all to disapprove What gives another pleasure. They seem to take one’s part—hut when They’ve hoard our cares, unkindly then They soon retail them all again, Mix’d with the poisonous measure. And then they’ve such a cunning way Of tolling their ill meant tales, they say ‘Don’t mention what I say, I pray, I would not toll another;* Straight to your neighbor’s house they go, Narrating every thing they know, And break the peace of high and tow, Wife, husband, friend and brother. Ol that the mlschiof-making crow Were all reduced to ono or two, And they were painted red or blue, That every ono might know them I Then would our villages forget To rage and qnirrcl, fume and fret, And tall Into an angry pet, Willi things so much below them. For ’tls a snd, degraded part To tnnko another bosom smart And plant a dagger in the bcarfe Wc ought to love and cherish ; Then let us evermore be found In quietness with all around. While friendship, Joy and peace abound And angry feelings perish 1 3&imllamnnfl, A STORY OF LEAF YEAR. It is a well known fact, that the ladies arc al lowed, by the conventional rules of society and common consent, to take the lead of the men every leap year; and, if they feel disposed, to go so,far as to "pop thequestiun,” without be ing considered rude'or forward. Although the right and privilege is conceded to the ladies, wc seldom hear of them taking advantage of it.— However* one case, in which the lady did.avail ’herself of the privileges of leap year, did occur in this city on New Ycar'a day. We will relate the particulars, but not give the real names,for the reason that the parlies arc residents of this j'Ctty, and might not relish the idea of having Ihc privacy of their domestic aflairs brought be fore the public. There is A Certain fashionable boardinghouse in this city, (we will locate it on Third street,) Micro a very handsome young widow was boarding. This lady wo will call Widow Chccrly, who lias a fortune of some $30,000. left her by her deceased husband, and no chil dren. Three young clerks, (we will name them Smith, Brown and Jones.) who formerly board ed at this boarding house, called upon the land lady on New Yearn day. The widow Checrly was m the room, and saw the young gents op proaching. She immediately ••dressed herself up in her bridal array.” called the landlady and inquired the names of the young gents. — The landlady informed her,when she remarked. *1 intend to have one of those young men for a husband." The landlady smiled incredulous ly, and then went down to the parlor to receive hervisitors. The widow followed immediately, and witliout wailing for an introduction, ap 'ttroachcd Smith and said— • . “Will you consent to become my husband ?” * The young man blushed, and was very much confused at hearing the question from a lady he had never before seen, but he finally succeeded in stammering out— ‘•Owing to the shortness of our acquaintance, (very short, having never seen the lodv before,) and another person having some slight claims upon my affections,you will please excuse me.” •‘Certainly,” said the widow, “I will with pleasure, as’l did not notice this gentleman.” addressing Mr. Brown, “bcforol apokeloyou, nr else I would have proposed to him first.— Will you marry me, Mr. Brown 1” “I will,” said Brown, "the ice is now broke. I would bavo been a married man years ago. if I could have mustcicd courage enough to pop thequestion ; but as you have taken advantage of leap year, and removed thcslumbllng block. I will become your husband just os soon as you lease." “Right off." remarked the widow. “Land lady, you will please semi for mv bonnet, and other out-door wearing apparel.’ The necessary articles were sent for, and Mr. Drown, with his intended hanging gracefully on his arm, started for the residence of tor ot the Boatman's Church. When the min ister was about to unite the couple in the bonds of wcdlo3k,lhcy gave him their names,and each [heard the other's name for the first time. Evo [rything went on as “merry os a marriage bell,” with Inc new married couple all that day. l. Next morning, when Brown awoke, the ef fects of the numerous drinks of the day previ pus having now entirely worn nil, ho began to reflects lie became serious, lie thought he t W|iB in rathprn bad scrape—out of employment, .in the middle of \v.sptcr, ycry little money, and o wife depending on him for support. While revolving (lie subject over in his mind, and not .being able to decide what ho had better do— run off or commit suicide—his wife awoke.— ‘•My dear,” said sho “have you any objection to collectingn few bills 1° Ho started, thinking that she supposed lie had snmo money coming to him. and that she desired him to collect a “little money, 1 ’ for her benefit, and muttered, rather surly, “No, I have no objections to collcot money, when there is any coming to mo." “I do not mean that, my dear. Oct up and fio to my bureau drawer, and there you will tlnd bills to the omount of $5OO. for rents duo roo for thd.past month ; you will please collcot them, end accept the money from moos a Now Y^p’flgifl." . Brown leaped from the bed. scarcely believ ing bis ucnscs.thathohad distinctly understood his wife, and then rushed to the bureau and there found the bills. When wo saw Brown ho was out collecting Jus bills—found it a very easy |ob —and heard him expatriating upon the benefits of umtrimo by.—St, Louis Herald. Kf* Sawbones, tho celebrated Gorman «ur fhMa oucoootjpd Jn amputating <* a limb of BY JOHN B. BRATTON. VOL 42, Ethan Allen, A good story is told of that rare old repro bate, Col. Ethan Allen, whoso services to his country, in the “times that tried men’s souls,” were only equalled by his daring assertions of the right of private opinion on theological mat ters. A well known Divincrthe pastor of the village church, called one evening, on the Col., and while enjoying his true New England hos pitality at the supper lablc r thc conversation turned upon church matters: Quoth the minister, ’Colonel, how does it happen, that a man of your extensive influence and information, has never seen it his duly to join our society. You know we want laborers in the vineyard : especially such laborers as 3’ou. Your example would tend greatly to strengthen our hands, and fortify our hearts against the dire assaults of the evil one.’ ‘Well brother,’ replied Allen, ‘1 have often thought as you do about the business, and one day I had almost made up my mind to fall in to the ranks, but that night I had a dream which caused roe to give it up.’ ‘Ah I’ exclaimed the minister, ‘what did you dream ?’ ‘Well, T thought I was standing at the en trance of paradise, and saw a man go up and knock. •Who’s that,’ asked a voice from within. ‘A friend wishing admittance,’ was the re ply. The door was opened and the keeper slop ed out. ■Well, sir, what denomination did you be long to yonder?’ ‘I am an Episcopalian,’replied the candidate for admission. ‘Go in then, and lake a scat near the door on the cast .vide.’ Just then another stepped up, he was a Presbyterian, and the guardian directed him to take a scat. A large number were admitted and received directions where to seat themsel ves. I then stepped up to the entrance. •Well, sir, what arc you ?’ asked the guar dian. ‘I am neither High-Churchman, Presbyte rian, Lutheran, Calvinist, Catholic or Jew, but I am that same old Eihen Allen that you prob ably have heard of from below.’ ■What ! the man that took Ticondcra'.m V ‘The same,’ I replied •All right, Eihau,’ said he, ’just step in and sit down wherever you please.' PRETTY FEET. Many women, who spend much lime ami much money in adorning their bodies, utterly neglect their feet. Bui no one is well dressed who is not well shod. Even a man well gloved and well booled may carry off a scedj* suit of clothes. With women it is essential to any thing like success in costume, that they should pay attention to the decoration of their hands and feet. The latter may be little seen ; but they are seen. As to the extremities themsel ves, the real slate of the case may generally bo inference and association. It Sj:\d_drifr hap pc n 3 that a tyomap with Jargc, griiCeflilly and well.' Wo have said that women with large or mia happen feet seldom or never move gracefully.— They can neither walk nor dunce well. And running is an impossibility. To real grace of movement, it would seem almost essential that the foot should bo arched. This is Coming to bo heller understood among us. High heeled bools now so generally used, give an artificial hollow to the foot. The (rightful hahil ol turn ihg up the toes in walking is thus almost ni tirely destroyed. Indeed, nothing is more ob servable than the improvement winch in this respect, has taken place during the last two or three years. Our women walk belter than they did. and art better shod than they were. Our streets are consequently far less disfig ured than they were by the spectacle of shoals of women all showing the soles of their feet to people meeting them from the front. These high or “military heels. 1 ' necessarily force down the locs, and compel the proper movement in walking—the proper exercise of the right mus cles. It is said, that, in this respect, the con firmation of Fmich women is better than that of our own. because the absence of side nave- ' rnenls. from so many of their thoroughfares, and a very common use, in the largo towns, of thin shoes, compels them to pick their way on their toes. It may. perhaps, bo thought that we have devoted too much consideration to this matter of the feet ; but we look upon It as the very keystone of tbc architecture of dress, and that any inattention to it will loosen and destroy the entire fabric. Quw common it is to see. in this country, the becomingness of a whole toil et nulifled by a mistake of this kind. and. in spile of bonnet, shawl ami gown of the best character, the vulgarian betrayed by the bools It is essential (hat tbc shoes should lie in keep ing with the rest of the apparel ; but the spec tacle of really, in other respects, well dressed women, with heavy black bools, under dresses of light color nml fabric, is one of the common est in the world. — Exchange. Enrrgellc Call to Pay lip. Father Brownslow. of Ihe Knoxville 1 Vhtp, concludes an earnest appeal to ddnu|nenl sub scribers to pay up \Mtli the following nnmisla kcablc expressions : Those of you who can’t pay. and will write In us, acknowhdging your imlcdledness. we will record ns clcut fellows, ami those of you who will not do either, wo will publish this spring, in an extra sheet, as a set of graceless rascals, willing to have a poor man labor fur you for years for nothing, and pay for paper, ink, and the hire of hands to servo yon, with out pay. Come to Knoxville, you lousy rascals, on a pilgrimage, and see our little ones, “chips of the old block.” looking daggers at us. and cry ing for bread. Come and see us with our el bows out, and the officers of the law leading us about for debts created to furnish you a paper, ami you will fork over at once ! And you hypocrites, who are members of different churches, owing ns for our paper, how dare you, around your family altars, night and morning, pray to Cod, “pay us this day our debts, as wo pay toothers Uo knows you owe us, and won’t pay. and until you do pay, you may pray yourselves out of breath, and you will never be heard ! yes, you saintly vil- Hans, you have been owing us long enough to make us “poor, halt, miserable, blind and na ked,” and yourselves ndo at our expense. You get to heaven witliout paying us up—never. Secret or Wealth.— Amos ami Abbot Law rence began life poor; they doturmlned that (ho strictest integrity should pervade every busi ness transaction until their dying hour—and it was so. Among the results arc the accumula tion oi millions of .money, tho possession of n namo fur mercantile integrity, worth mure to them, to (heir children, to their ago ami nation, than a title to dukedom; while they did, dur. Jug life, and at death, Institute charities, which will heap sweet blessings on thdlr namo and memory forages yot Co come. Lot every merch ant’s clerk on this broad earth make that same oxpoilmont, and take encouragement from tho assurance, founded In tho very nature of things, (hat similar results will accrue to him. “OUR COUNTRY-MAY IT ALWAYS BE RIGHT—RUT RIGHT OR WRONG, OUR COUNTRY. 1 ’ I HAVE NO MOTHER NOW. DV 0. 11. CRISWELL. I hear the soft wind sighing, Through every bush and free ; Where now dear mother’s lying Away from love and mo. Tears from my eyes arc* starting, And sorrow shades my brow ; Oh, weary was our parting— I have no mother now ! I soo the pale moon shining On mother’s white head-stone ; Tlie rose bush round It twining, Is hero, likc’mo—alone. And just like me aio weeping Those dew-drops from the bough Long time she has been sleeping— I have no mother now 1 My heart is ever lonely, My life is drear and sad j ’Twas her dear presence only That made my spirit glad. From morning until even, Onro rests upon my brow ; She’s gone from me to hca\un— I have no mother now ! An Altnchmenl. We have heard a good story told of which an Alabama Sheriff was the hern. Court was in session, and amid the multiplicity of business which crowded ii|ion him at the term time, he stopped at the door of a beautiful widow, on the sunny side of thirty, who. by the way, had often bestowed melting glances upon the said Sheriff. He was admitted, and the widow ap peared ; the confusion and delight which the arrival of her visitor occasioned, set oft to great er advantage than usual the captivating charms of the widow M . Her checks lidre the beautiful blended tints of the apple blossom : her 1 ips resembled the rose buds upon which the morning dew yet lingered, and her eyes were like the quivers of cupid: the glances of love and tenderness with which they were till ed resembled arrows that only wanUd a bkac (pardon the pun) to do full execution. After a few common place remarks; •Madam,’ said the matter of. fact .‘sheriff, •! have an attachment for yon.’ \ A du’per blush than usual mantled the check of the fair widow ; the downcast eyes whose glances were centered upon her beautiful fool, winch half concealed by her flowing drapery, gently patted the floor, she with equal candor replied : Sir, the attachment is reciprocal ’ ior some time the sheriff maintained an as tonished silence, at length he said : I ‘Madam, you will proceed to court.’ •Proceed to court. 1 replied iho lady, with a merry laugh ; then shaking her head, she said : ‘No, sir ! though this is lean year . I will not take advantage of the license tlicrein granted to my sex. and therefore greatly prefer that yon should proceed to court-’ ‘But. Madam, the justice is waiting.’ „*‘ Lct . h^ w T t t lojn.pof.disputed, to* hurry, matters m so Unbecoming a manner: and be sides, sir. when the ceremony is performed, 1 wisli you to understand I greatly prefer a min uter to a justice of the pence.’ A light dawned upon (he sheriffs brain. ‘Madam,’ said ho. rising from his chair with solemn dignify, ‘there Is n great mistake here ; my language has l»oen misunderstood ; the at tachment of w hich I speak was issued from the office of Squire 0.. and commands me to bring 3 on instantly before him to answer a contempt of court in disobeying a supbtina in the case of Smith vs. Jones !' Chinese Scenery. Thu following aidcle foreshadows the time when u trip lo the Celestial empire will bo u fa- Aorite excursion for fashionable tourists. *• Two American gentlemen have recently pe- Detailed the country fur sumo distance in the neighborhood t ,C Shanghai. They mile as (01. lows . “The eunntij lias been ('harming—bills, valleys, grows, ami streams, being lound in pleasing variety. The sides of (be mountains are sometimes terraced very neatly, each as cending step a cultivated field. The mountains have a naked appeaiancu, though many o( them are coveted with the baufboo, bo common in tills countiy. The streams me all rapid and clear, flowing over a pebbly or rocky bed. On their banks uro numerous small paper mannfae luiies. The principal machinery consists of an overshot water wheel, w ill) a huge trip hammer, which pulverizes the material, chiefly bamboo, of which the paper is made.” Of a view front I he fop of Heaven's Eye Moun tain, which is two hundred mites southwest ol Shanghai, and which is nearly a mile above the level of the sea, (bey thus write: “The view surpasses all that we had previously seen. As far as mir vision extended. In nil directions there were mountains. Thu intervening vnllejswere cultivated, many «•( them ornamented hy stream lets, which glittered in the r«} a of the morning aim like a thread of silver. ** I’sk or a Nos> . A good ston is told of Mo zirt, at the time he ana a pupil ol Haydn. The I dter challenged Ins pupil to compose a piece of music winch lie could not play at sight.— Mo/.ait accepted the banter, a champagne sup per was to be the forlolt. Everything being arranged between the two composers. Mozart took lus pen and a sheet ol paper, and in live minutes dashed off’ a piece of music, and much to the surprise of Haydn, handed it to him, say ing : “There is a piece of music sir, which jon cannot play, and I can. You me to give the Hi hi trial.” Mozart smiled at tho half excited indignation and perplexity of tho great master, and taking (tie seat he had quitted, struck tho instrument with such an air of suit-assurance (hat Haydn began to think himself duped. Running along tho simple passages ho cumo to that part which his teacher hud pronounced Impossible to ho played. Mozart, as anybody was aware, was favored, or at least endowed with an extremely lung nose, which in modern dialect.“stuck out a loot.” Reaching the difficult passage, tie stretched both hands to (he extreme endsofthe piano, and leaning forward, bobbed his nose against the mi Idle key, which nobody could plnv. Haydn burst into an Immoderate fit a laugh tor, and after acknowledging tho “corn,” de clared that nature had endowed Mozart with n capacity for music, which ho had never disco vorod. Truth in Conversation. —Tho love of truth is tho stlmuluus of all nohlo conversation.— This is the root oi all tho charities. Tho tree which springs from it may have a thousand branches, but they will all bear n golden and generous fruitage. It Is tho loftiest impulse to inquire—willing to communicate, and more willing to receive—contomptous oi potty curi osity, but passionate lor glorious knowledge.— Speech without it Is but a babble; rhetoric is more noisy but less useful than (lie tinman’s trade. When the lovo of truth (Ires up tho pas sions, puts its lightning into the brain, (hen mot) may know that a prophet Is among them. This la tho spring ot all heroism, and clothes tho martyr with a tlaine that outshines the (lame dial kills him. Compared with this, tho emu lalions of argument, tho pungencies of sarcasm, the pride of logic, tho pomp of declamation, aro as tho sounds ot automata to (ho voice ol man. CARLISLE, PA., iUIURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1856, Who was Cain's Wife » How often has this Inquiry been made? To a certain class of mlhdfouch a question posses ses mure importance the gravest investi gatsons in theology. -Brother Weaver, of St. Louis, in answer to a‘Correspondent, thus re sponds through the fhfyld and Era to the in quiny “Who wad Gain's* Wife?” A subscriber asks this singular question.— We answer, she was.Gnin’s wife. That’s all we know about her. ’’ That is all the account ■ says of her save thatf'-she was the mother of Knoch. It ia said : .tlitft Cain went into the land of Nod: and WC suppose (hat he took his j wife with him, as Any-.good husband would. In the land of Nod theyjbad Knoch, and prob ably other children not nTfew, ami grand child ren, for they built a city'there. The city pro bably was not so large Si Louis is, but it very likely was A largo; housthnld of winch, Cain was patriarch. might have been his, own and the families Of'his children living in j separate dwellings. •• * What Cain’s wife’s name nn«, and who lur ' parents were we are dibtcerlili.d. She might i have been the daughtesietda\ m the forenoon. A Singular Human (icing. We liave in iliis village one of ibe mast ‘ang ular human being*, all th.ngs coasid red) to lie found in this cormrol die woild. lie is a dwarf, about eighteen \ ears of age (pule small j ami deformed, and not rxinily an opium eater, but a laudanum drinker. Uo bns been a vie j lim of the habit for wars. and all altnnpls to prevent Ins indnlgemo m the Ktupifymg drug have been in vain. The desire fur more has steadily gained on linn, until at the present lime he actually drinks two ounces of landau nm every day: and. what is still more remark able. nil nl one (im«! Tins enormous potation is swallowed at a regular hour, in the afternoon 10l each day: a pipe and tobacco then follow, I ami smoking is in order till midnight, unless 1 indeed the subject —winch is sometimes the case—falls asleep, when he is helped to bed.-- The only object for which this strange being seems to live is this deadlv narcotic, and his only care and ambition are centered in procur ing the little means required to buy the two ounce draught. As it has been fount impossi ble to place an effectual harrier between the drug and the drugged — the attempt has been j abandoned, and it has been thought best here after to interpose no obstacles in the way of I free indulgence. In accordance with this de- , termination, wo understand that the victim—-J whose yellow and hoggaid visage gives fearful , evidence of the presence of the coiled serpent, which alternately writh.s and slumbers in his bosom—has mode a contract for the daily sup*) ply at reduced prices with one of our drug stores, from widen he draws the ‘living death —whoso itinuences have been likened to shndo way glimpses of heaven lollowcd by the realities of hell—with the most punctilious punctuality. j Elmira Advertiser. D7“A Indy was onco declaring Mint she could not understand how gentlemen could amoliu. “It curtulnly shortens their lives,” ««hl “ho. “I don’t know that,” replied a gentleman, “ thofu’B my father who smokes every blessud day, and ho is now seventy years old.* “ Woll,” was the reply. “if ho hu.l never smoked ho might have been eighty. K 7“ Tying a mnokerul to ><» ;»d "f «.-s n.-k-t , numgli The people starve. 1 No one (rus'ed in bun more implintlv us n m.m | - i ol honor and a gentleman, than the injur'd 1 Why Don’t (lC Do /I? Im.Mmml. Mr. Rose. was. up to Hie bom of Win-nth. farnu r knows that a -’ate is bd lii'l unaccountable ilopetniut, a wunn and un- ~r nil, , aiM l h.l,orbing fixture snspeetmg (Mend of Mi M., and had s'ood M , , l( . n]l( . r „ M ., „n,nrs nn( , t!i nn( , Inn. as such while others were nl>and»mng inn. , Mll calling on a e ai ,,enter he can himself make Uoth were Masons. Moncrn f hung masUrol w lu don't he do it * th. lodge he. eul the I line of this ealamilous af Winnh. has m. olhei fasti- gs to his gales I.nr. and .Mr. Host holding anulhee in the mu... .„„ t j, aru (l M ,, no gainst them am! m a single evening after supper is Munmef leaves behind him a wife of irre „h|e in make a belie-mu- whv don’t he do it * proaehuble churarter. a no,mm deserving of When he sees the hoards dropping from hi ; the best, ol husbands and a U.l> tn er. >img |, ntl) , uu j ()ll[ J„ n ldings. and like heaps of rub i h n 3'- 'I he desi Mid wdeis 1 1 a.ili- vv nl. giuf h.d, 1\ n,g j.ih-d aho ,i the pi e.nws. and need ''he ls liri i" 1 ,nill ' aiiKU.g si mug. is. but id »ni x na ,j „) n J H . do a > tliosc who will do all that is possible toi.luu I f lie is afi anl of tl.e expenses ..f nails, nml her in her allhelmu >s alw«\s e.-\ mg nj. ihe in:, xun of Hr Frank- Mrs. Rune, was a lady of line personal np \ .sreilu n. n a and Ihe pounds will take pMuanee of a goo[, lannl V amialihe ol ~(• I hems, U is, 1 ' and he knows that the Ibe elopeimnl a u.unh, r of tin Hap; m«- klui. aU« said thnl-mnm nun | Hei hnshand is one of our must woi'hve.ii are pi-nunv wise and pound foolish." and he is z- ii', esU'i-tned to all who kne., him Ih u ii' l|tll enrelul to think of Ihe pn-eept contained m kmd and indnlg.n! to Ins wife, 100 mu h m. |]l( , vv j n he do it i for the proud, ul.um ,-ry woman who has so Jj ~ , s a ,min!> of nearly half the manure of bast ly desei led Inin a far low's stock 1>\ ki'pmg them shut up in Mis Uose hfi thiee nte-e-s’ing g-i's w-n-t \ im |, msit ad of i tinning ai large tln ough lln than nioiheihss. She lookwih Ima Ir'l- lh ,„i ~f ihe vvini er wh\ don’t he do it 1 I MV. The full, land Ins trends an- in h-' |fhe k now s i hat mail vo( his fields w onld U piirsuil of the guilt v pat 1 1> *. wi. hI he hope ol ei, ai i v imjo ov, dhv dit > hour and I > v thei e i icovenng the child inovalol lai ge si limps and stones, why doll I Mis U . mauag'd to proeme Imr h'shand l>> ,i / he absent . (hat she might he' 'n eon -11 n," -a l > ,\ iid w hen In k now > | hat hm pa.si in (S won hi her wumon eu(« rprise Slu broke theeivsial ~, M n ,), ,li, u 'i|e 1 1;> h. d and <•! a lullei out of Ins gold w aieh so Hint he would he com (|l , n i lU u t |„, 1,,,..),, svu tL u \\ o ,i and suhduid pi Hid to leave il at home ns a piling* l"i h, r v , j iv | H . ~ i She nlleil lu.s ?i Milu ibh umoiinl of niuiie\ unit him h.h.u rig 141 panns |i>r whom In- had <'i*’l< ■ •>I d m lie ullii'iiil c ipadl \ *(S 'l'"- leaung nmi'\ ll.ilh pnrtws had he«u nmrned fur ten \«ai I ty. Mrs Mmnu-f siis llmi (hen wir-mvir I an unkind word passid between Ini' hnshaial I ami hersilf: llml Ins conduct is ,-hfnwdul m tin l deepest mystery In liit. Sin' nMiilniii's her soul crushing misfortune to liipior Ilnsi n/fnir (locs not lake fin air of romnnee mill u.-* , , it nhocks os—it grieves ami .sluggers ns- Mrs Hose left h letter behind for lui Msici in winch after bidding an e\ei lasting adieu .she the heartless adulteress “hopes In meet I hem in heaven'*' Therm he cnniimmit v de. |t 1 y sympathize with the injured pint cs. and may (bid giant (hem strength to h< nr their niisfoi limes, which now weigh so lnn\ilj upon them. Wll \l r M SI'S 11 lI'IMNKSH --lliippimss In lie ntliinod m the necuHloimd clout In I lie lire side, more than mho moan occupation of il , office, in a wife’s love inlhnaty mmc than in ■ the favor of all human beings else: in child-| rail's innocent and joyous prattle more tluin in | the hearing of Mattery, in i eciproealimi of little [ and frequent kindness but wan friend and, friend, more than in some occasional ami dear ly bought indulgence: in virtue and content ment, more than in the anaious achievements of wealth, distinction, and grandeur: in change of heart more than In change of circumstance; in full, linn trust m Providence, more than in hoping fortune's favor; a growing taste for the 1 beauties of nature.'more than in the fee simple ( I inheritance of whole acres of land: in the ob servances of neatness and regularity, house-j hold virtues, rather than m the means of os lenlalmns, and, therefore. iare display: in al hand mauhn's cheerfulness. m., out. We were admitted ■ fiist into a room beautifully ca'‘pe'id. ficsco puinlid, nith chairs, sofas, loungts. Ac.. uusnspic mg \iontn — 1 I he cloth bung rcnioi i d h om I be table lx neat li, revealed a • Pam I’.ank .” u nil all the imple ments of that will known fascinating game t'ory chips, representing ?1. -55. £25. s2s Hocks.’ replnd Cninpbill. Tonh ' \on and j imr llood.' said M Lean, 'my chin was afoie the llnnd ' 'I lime not rend in my Uiltle.’ said Cnmphill. ‘of the name of M’Lenn into Noah s uilc ’ 'Noali s atk retort ed M 'Lean, in contempt : ‘who ever heard of a M Lean Unit had not n honl of his own I* " A Fast Woman’ —• I’m a woman, with a woman's weakness, and having a good consti tution. can bear a gnat deal of happiness ! If I was asked my idea of perfect bliss, I should snv. ‘a fast horse, a dock of a cutter, plenty of Bullalo lobes, a neat filling over coat with a handsome man in it. and—and one of Madame Walsh's little French Iwnncls.’ If that wouldn’t be happiness for one life time, I’m open to con viction as to what would!” Lady corrcs/igm/cu/ of the Boston Post■ 1 A Lovbi.khs Uomh. —The is no loneliness. 1 there can he none in all the waste nr peopled I deserts of the wnr'd hearing the slightest coin ■ imnwni wuh that of an unloved who- *• k 1 i.mulst her Inmily l.ku a ' 1 ' llu. ninrlilo nK'niura h |I ! L " 1,1 ' ' i'," 1 ';. ivlncl. Hull r.-JiMg uus l '! >» llo* ■ BET. CMS. WADSWOBTH’S SEBBOS. Slaveuv.—We recently gave several extracts from the eloquent Thanksgiving Sermort'deliv ered by this philanthropic Christian Divine, and now give his views upon Southern Slavery, which wo commend to the attention of those fanatical Abolitionists who seek to destroy the temple of liberty, in order to gratify their, own morbid sympathy. The three thousand New Lngland Clergymen may here receive a profita ble: lesson, whilo they endure a wholesome re buke. (Jn the subject of Negro Slavery, ho says: • Nor. on the whole, have wenny more serious apprehensions of disaster from that cvcrlnst mgly vexed question of Southern Slavery. Tho cry of danger to our federal Union, from this cause, is, at most, the false alarm ofovcr*Blcpt watchmen, who in the somnambulism of a half dream, mistake the sighs of winds through tho banner, for the stealthy tread of armed men, or the far peal of trumpets. Wc do not Say that this great confederacy can never, for any cause.be rent into fragments, and instead of one glorious commonwealth, there arise on its ruin, with all their anarchlal and revolutionary accessories, two smaller confederacies, like the miserable military republics of South America. Cause may, indeed, arise in tho providence of on avenging t iod, which shall rock our proud nationality into dust, and bury in tho grave’Of unr fiee institutions. at once the liberties of all people, and ilie hopes of a world. This all j may happen us wo shall insist upon, frdfn iho jOpeiahun of the principles of the tost—that . t iod will Mir. ly displace and destiny every in strument that w ( i ks not out the purpose of its I establishment. \\ c might say. indeed. dial this Union can never he i'.sm'li , n ; Ucause ms the resQlt.of a gtaal organic law, winch makes it, oa the dif ferent inimhersofn common bodv, by the great principle nfa comm.mi life.one ami indissolunblc f.iim-r nut a cough,inmate of States, but a great ami ennpoMte Nsiimn. Nevertheless, aa \ idence m.iy a c.immnn life by a dis '»er\am-r i.i H' minibus, so tins Union, while it cannot be peac, fully ih'*nl -td . like an ico b'll in Hi' viu, nmv ui br ii iu m'n fragments, * l is I'M', b\ an i-ai diquoke. Ido not suy (hat die simll never happen, but tills Ur do -,iy , wn li Uie dial, st, Iho CullllCSt, and die n.c.'t ;isMir,d confidence, that this quest imi of S’mi llnrn Ma very is not the earth* ijmike dial lias jtuucr to sever ns. I heie has hern, imKul, since Solomon’s lime a ngn'ar d,sani nl'nien, • fiom whom, though hi ay td in n mm ;ur, among u luat, with a pes lle. \ll foolishness will not depart.”—lmprac ticable ami malignant fools, who, like Hcros trains, would gum for iheimalves immortal in famy. I*y the desti nc,ion of glorious structures hke Ihe Lpli’ sian ’1 unplo lhami. And such are the imu, u ho\ lor Ihe sake* of black men *>catimd thinly our d,t ooniinent. would dcs t oy this oonk-dir.icy :aml lor the abstract and imagmuiy r ight ol a | not li agmcnl of a race— to ulmni i.miock', if practicable, were dcs trncine ami d’sasirions wi.uld madly’destroy the lust hope of a world s salvation, and bring down, upon all i.tcs. the burden of ancestral bondage, adamantine and forever. Neverthe less. uiih suoli men, the great Anglo-Afiicrican mind has no sympathy whatever. Tins ques tion of slavei y is. confessedly, a perplexing and disturbing thing in onr hodv politic, and about ilinen ddf. r honestly and widely: but then there is onegnuh i and grunderqueslion, about which die o-. eru helming and increasing major ity of thus people ncitr have differed, never will differ, ami that is u and i uJlexifyU purpose, to pr , 'rnc in ill all their energies end then heart's int Ihind, then glorious t/nfonin dissoluble inn I forever! Shivery is confessedly tin evil, which no man more deeply feels, nml more ingeniously ack nowledges, ihun ibe intelligent slave-holder :to whom 1119 evil was a birth right—and lo get I rid of the thing without disadvantage lo Iho I two races is a problem perplexing alfChrislian philosophy. If true lo oilrselvts, the God Who 1 hath relieved us from sorer evils will work out this problem, nml in the end make manifest to the world, Uu* hidden purpose of wisdom and 1 love in (hat mysterious dispensation whereby I these children of.lfn'ca haic been permitted lo I bondage. Meanwhile about expedients for re f rnoiing this evil, so that the blaok man and the while man shall be mutually advantaged, there may belaud till God reveal his own nid d«n uiiiJoip tiiere uniat be - honest and hearty dilletences; and }el none but a fanatic or a liend, ever thought seriously, for one moment, of si.li, i>g the piubU mby dissolving tho Union: for in the liT'l place. such dissolution, 60 far fiomliecmg the s'aie. would leave him more hopelessly a lo idmun in 11 great Southern mil itary c*mU d> 1 ;o 1 And m comil 1 even if it re sulted m llie :ib 'llll :i of -hmii it would bo treating an ml on the old luma; plan of set- ting Mu- lo a house in get ml of a Woken saah, or milling oil a loan's Wad lo cine Ins arm of paiah sis. Oh, No ' N'n ! indeed No ! Onr national hark may be dmen. by (lod's storms, into stiip-icvk, but n will not be on this poor peb- I'li' uf .sluum , we break up piecc-mcal. Wi-haw ahead. is'aprd a thousand mightier dangns U'lun (In nM (Inrlccn colonies against lb ni-li oppi I'svinn there were three mil iums cl people, soai 11 nil along a wild sea board, ami i u ii tin o. tiny Wand the pressure of dis seven d eotiiisi K nf parl i judmiMes -of <).i«rn!s of see' nmal encroachments On ' a central poverntnint -of doslroyed cilios—of stagnant I'nmimin- -nf burned ami blight InntsU tf|.iahs.il i.idnstry-ol a crushing Imi di n nf ih b;. imd nf a dissalh uied and disso lute sohluiv .Ml lies pnal burden they boVo tnnmpliaiiih . llnniipli the long conthct with the nnghlKst war |"\ui of the vwnld. And if thus and llama i.u em only in foi in ami name, with In lie of i lie \i alr.y ul liei subsequent na tional life Ainmea onl_\ grew stronger under tins pressure in nil those i-Uments that now eoiisumte her glory; till me. il now. standing ■ net and tnalnii in the lull i i niidinr of her 1 sti« ngl h she cannot. against Ihe empt y iircalh ;ol a limns.uni (onl- hear onwnul unbroken,nay , nnhi tn. (Ins pool l.uiM of slawiy. Oh! away 1 n ilh Ihe dmi lil. let il e.mie from w hat quarter I it mar: let il assume w lint form it will, of phi- I lanthrnpv nr nlipmn. it should lie trampled Isleinh iiiiih r fool as a hissing tepldo; and the limn iilmiU'liiii a wlnspir dares to speak of ili-mnion ns a jo'Sible and piachenl thing, should hespurmd (tom the face of all hotiCKt men into infamy and i ule, n.s n (tailor to ha i iij ■(., >.t. Ptiilaitrlphia UcinorniUc Convention. The IJiMiocincv of Philadelphia assemblcdin conuirim. on Tmmlh_v ilie sth inst., for the purpose of appointing dilegates to lho 4th of Maieh i-iuivi mioii Sihsions wm InUlouTnes ihn and W> dnr-duy. The following were a, lining the r«-"hitam-, passid : Jt>'nhrl, That the lh iikhtopy of Philadel phia mo'.i h«ini dy uppmveol the ndministra mm ot (leu I'leiee us tiuly Democratic and rnnm-uily ealeulaud to ek\ivtc the character, of onr country abroad and to pioinole Its harmony mid prosper! l \ at home. lies o/mi, That we arc proud of our eminent fellow-citizen, James Buchanan, who. in all the public stations he has held, has proved himself a statesman of the highest order of abilities and of the truest patriotism ; and while t he Demo cracy of Philadelphia will give their hearty support to the Dcmocrallo nominee, be ho who ho may. they most cordially join with their fet* low-Democrats of the Stale in recommending him to the Democratic National Convention a* the choice of Pennsylvania for llio Presidency of the Union- . ~ ~ Resolved, That onr delegates to the fourth of March Convention bo, and arc hereby In structed to use their host endeavors to sccnro the election of Ddegulw to the Cmcmnnlj .Con vention, who half him the known, avowed, consistent and linn friends and supporter* of J Jarmh Buohaimn for the Presidency. Resolved. Thai unr Delegates to the Fourth lof Mnrcli ('ciim ni ion he. and hcrehy'ArcJin ) struoled to \ote in ilmt Convention tot rciwlu iions insn uciiug the Delegates to the Cincinna ti CVivuition to use idl iMmonihle imniiH to se cure the nomiimlion of James Buchanan for the 1 Presidency.