I AMERICAN, VOLUNTEER. rtmusßEtt EVEfiv tnuiisDAT mok.niso nr jolu* B. Bratton.; S' ' TKKMS Snn'soniPtiosl —One Dollar and Fifty .Cents, cam in ndv-anob V Two-Dollara i( paid withmtho roar: and Two Pollans and Fifty Cants, il not iaid within the year. ; Tlicso tonus trill.bo rig idly adhorod to: in every Instance. No 1 sub scription discontinued until all arrearages arc paid unless at the option of the .Editor. * Adveiitisehknts —Accompanied by the cash, ■and licit exceeding one square, will bo inserted throe times for One Dollar, ami twenty-five cents tor each additional insertion. Those of a great tor lengtl\ in proportion. .lon-FniNTtxa—Such as Hand-bills, Posting •bllii, Pamphlets, Blanks, Labels, 1 &c.,&e., exo 'cuted with accuracy and at the shortest notice. fWjtal, I NEVER HAVE BEEN FALSE TO THEE. BV OEOiIOE P. MORRIS. 1 ncver.luvc been fiilw to tlieo! The.heart I gave thee still is thine; Though thou hast been untrue to me, Anil I no more 11103' call thee mine! Fvo loved ns woman ever loves, With constant soul in good or.ill; Thou’st proved, ns man too often proves, A ravenr-but I.love (hee still! Yet think not that m3* spirit stoops I’o hind thco captive in 1113' train ! •laove’a not a ilowcr, .nt sunset drooljWv . But,smilea wIRMi conies her god again! Thy words, which full lipheedcd now, Gould once m3' hdart-slrings madly thrill! o.ibvo’H golden chain and burning vow Are broken —but 1 lovetlieeVtiU*! i Onc« 'wliat a heaven offWiss tva? i oWrs-, When love dispelled the■tle'na.s o'f ’CnVC, <Xnd lime went .bv.with fairAs and flowers, While song and Shtimse filled the air! T*he past is mine—the present thine— # •'Should' thoughts of me th}* future till, T’h'iak'ft'liat a.destiny is mine, U’o losc~hut ioVo thee, false one, still! nm m FRIEXDS. Oil, there's a power, to make each' houi* . As sweet as heaven designed ir; jN’or need we roam to bring it homo, "Though there be few to find ItS Wo.seek too high; for things’dose by, - And loose what nature tbut/d us; For earth hath here no charms dear As home and friends around us. . We oft destroy the present joy ; For future hopes—and praise them ; While flowers, as sweet bloom at our feet, - If.wdd.but, stoop to raise them; l\»r things afar : far svveeter arc When youth's bright sp« ll hath hmihd ns-, But soon we’tctaufihl that earth.hath nought ;; Like home and friends around us; •. The fWctt : ds that speed intime of need, ho'pcN last reed is shaken, ■ To show us still that •cofcie what Will v We are not quite forsakeh. Though all Were right—if but the light j bf alter crowned us, y Twpnsd juovc the bliss of earth was this— Our home and friends around ns. iclfaiir.vilr: What I Hate BY FAXN'V FF.U.V, Chiefc-st of all sublunary nominations, is'the shiUei iily woman* I blanie no'man who rushes from a jipiuc .whosq .unstress, habitually and • -from choice: pqurs opt his eotfee hircurh7«v|itW or tumbled hair, dingy, ‘ collarlcss morning gown, and slip sliqed feet. If there is any time when a pretty woman looks prettier than at any hour in the twenty four, it is in a neat break fast. toilette, wi.b .her shining bands of. hair, . aii(f nine White petticoat peeping - from a break fjur rotre, fealioo, if you like, provided it ,Hi U'ellVa'ud‘ tlie color be weirobosen :) and if there is a timfc when a plain woman comes (he nearest to being Im'ndkamC. i j t in tins loveable domes tic dress. - . I will maintain' Hint the endue and eggs tas'd bolter, and I lint the husband gnus more stud . iugly ami hopefully to his day’s task, after helping such a wife to bread and Imder. ,1 could never comprehend the female slat tern — thank heaven there are few of them--or under stand how a woman, though she had nil eye to please hnr her own, should not be scrupulously . neat in all the different strata p( her appt.rel.; and ceilainly iu these clays when no omnibus can drive up to a ferry house, without encoun tering an expectant body guard of male ancle connoisseurs, wailing to sec hurried ladies alight, who shall say that a t rim gaiter boot or nicely fitting stocking wastes its trimness or is unappreciated ? rrepeal it, I blame no man for. rushing m disgust front a bouse whoso mistress is a slat tern; who.never pays her husband the compli ment to look decent in .her person or in her -house, unless com pa ny is expected: who re serves her yawn and old dresses for her hus band, strikes an attitude for his male friends : whoso pretty carpets are defaced with spots ; whose chairs are half dusted ; whose .domestic dinners'arc uneatable; whose table cloth, cas tor, and salt cellars are seldom regenerated: and whoso muslins look as if they had been dipped in saffron. Not. to speak of the teastefahemi of this cry ing fuilt; bonnets, shawls and cloaks will not long retain their beauty if left on chairs or ta bles over night, instead of being carefully' put away ; bracelets and broaches are not improved by being trodden upon,or ribho saitd laces by' being hastily whisped into a corner. To snob an extreme do I- carry my horror of an untidy woman, that [would almost refuse to believe in the virtue of such tin one,. Not that T ad mire the woman who is always at her husband’s heels with a brush-and a dust-pan ; who puts . .him under the harrow if be does not put bis - boots under thp scraper before entering the par lor ; who is in tits if his coal is not hung upon the left side of .the door instead of the ri"ht • who, when he Ims but ten minutes to spare of' ter breakfast to enjoy the morning papers drives him out of his comfortable comer by the lire. (6 brush up a spoonful of ashes on the hearth ; who is always “righting," as she calls it, his,own particular den, which I am convin ced all husbands must be allowed to enjoy, ncok- deep in confusion unmolested, if their wives wish the roof to stay. on. once had tile misfortune to live in - tttc house with such a female, whoso husband roosted naif his in-door time- on the top of, a table, to keep clear of the mop. "How her cap strings fletiv through the doors : what galvanized broom sticks she wielded ; -how remorselessly site fer reted out closets, and disembowelled cupboards: how horribly she scraped glass and paint: and how anxious she looked To begin again when it Was ail done. Hoyv I slunk behind doors, and dodged behind screens, and jumped out of win dows, to get out of the vixen’s wav ; and how I sat swinging in the elm tree in the orchard at a safe distance till the whirlwind is past. Good gracious ! how that india-rubber wo man would go to baking after she' had done cleaning, and to ironing after she had done baking, and to sewing after she had done both; how vindictively she twitched her needle thro’ as if she wished it were some living thing that she might make it (col weariness and pain.— How like whiped spaniels iter children looked ; and what a reverence they had for washing and woning days ; how remorselessly she scrubbed tho noscs up and down of a Sunday morningi and shoved them into their “meetin-clothes,” turning the pockets carefully inside out, to see that some stray bit of string, or carnal marble, or UsU hook remained, to alleviate the torture encllll, BY JOHN B. BRATTON, ' VOL. 44. of the long-drawn seven tecnililics.of tiic parson’s impracticable discourse. ( ; - Still this, female gave her husband light bread to eat; bis coffee and tea 'were always strong and hot: lie might have shaved himself by the pbiish of the parlor table : his buttons were on his shirts, and his stockings always mended ; but the man—and he was human—might as well have laid his night-dap beside a sewing inncliinc. And ob, the Weary details of-roast ing. baking and- broiling ‘to, which he is com pelled to listen and approve between the pauses. The ’messes, which in • any femaie hands but hers, would inevitably have stewed ■■over -or burnt up or, evaporated, The treasure ho bird in' her, culinarily and pecuniarily,Though be didn’t know it ! : What I want to know is this : Must a model housekeeper always have thin lips, thick ankles, a bolster figure, and a fist like an overgrown beet ? Need she take hold of her children as if total depravity were brist ling out of every hair of their heads ? Need itec wabappy cal always take its tail under its arm and creep into the ash-bole whenever she looks at it ? ■ Zs-a sweet temper fore-ordinary to' be incompatible with sweet cupboards?— Would it bo unchristian to strangle such fe males with their own garters ? . I pause for a reply.— New York Ledger. TPlain Tfullis, A London newspaper, in noticing a mooting liel.a to consider the.subject of ji-opuiar .educa tion; and at which Prince Albert presided, sayd: Tire prchiatiire toil of the 1 children oi the poor is a necessity which residls from the enortmons amount of wealth whicti the people are eotnpel- : led. to produce for tbo sustenance of Hie im mense slioalsof Inv.y "kybai ftes With which the country Ss infested. Ol tlioso Inxnrions and in satiable deVomers,l’l-hrco Albert.and his fanii-< l.v are the centre.. The family of this idle for eigner alone costs one million sterling per an num. Now, it w-C ‘estimate the yearly earning of an Knglish operative at -Eds—\vhrcii is above the average—here tve find that JPrtscd Albert’s t'amtly Oosta tlie country as much as 40,000 fam ilies of operatives. The people are robbed— devoured in order that fids foreign family should live in idleness, luxury, and splendor. As we have said, Prince -Albert’s family is but tlie Venire of tin’s system—of this extravagant and devouring idleness, winch the working classes have to support, and which, to sustain, the working man’s child must (oil in flic noisome and fietid factories, when tie ought-to he learn ing in -school, or gamboling in the field. After a few more gentle digs at the royal ribs, we read: ' . Far less does our faf and princely lecturer chouse to state that of nil the countries on the face of the earth. Ibis is tho one in whicii Hie means of the linmnn well-being do most abound; that all tlie ignorance and crime, nil the indi- genoo and squalor which deform and defile Ibis richest of lands, arc tire natural and inevitable product of that infernal system of government .which, like tlie black arcb of kcll, spans dark ness and tbe nation, sliiillirig.out from the sunls of tlio people tliQ.light.tKu levo.and beneficence of tiie deity who formed them for happiness and of litis black arch, Prince Albert artel ids iiiniilv are llie’keysrmibhmd'^ life in Paris—.ln Incident. The Philadelphia North 'American’s Paris correspondent, under date of January tbe 1 till, says: I ~'■“ The wcather'hns latterly given. strong indi cations of approaching severity. Ice has begun to float, or, as it is termed hero; to charricr, down the Seine in largo,quantities; and some days ago a portion-of- the river was completely frozen over. The thermometer descended to between 12 and-15 degrees be.low freezing point; otir fountains and ornamental waters were all sealed np by “the icyfiingaml churlish chiding of tlie «inter's .wind,” and our city and its gay inhabitant# cba'tigcd aspect; with the same ra., pidily as the teniperafin'o'. The artificial lakes of .the Bids do BotilogOo were rapidly-frozen over strong erioitgh tc hear;' skating began iii groat force, the Emperor himself, though grown somewhat fat; squat and 1 pally for the icy.danco, joining the curling throng, .and’actiially ’conde scending to hold ttf), with Ids own Napoleonic, dynast and imperial hand, a skater with WliOni lie laid come in collision, until he had gained' Ids equilibrium ! Isis worthy of remark that this incident created a great sensation amongst the French people, “ groat, glorious and free,” and wont the round of ail -Hie newspapers.as well as all the saloons.” Gexii-s, — 110 is not tho greatest man, who with it giant intellect, can startle the multitude as witli sudden thunder. The impression left behind is not agreeable and lasting. lie who would stir up the soul, must have a calm-sym pathizing heait. It is this which vibrates thro’ the human heart, leaps in. tho warm pulses, and urges us to deeds of inorey, Tho man whose sympathies are witli common humanity—whoso heart is moved by pure benevolence’breathes thoughts that will never dio. Like the silent dews, they descend in the bosom to cheer, to bless and Bto save. . Tile breath of true love is tints felt in the heart. Such a writer blonds genius with Immanily, and is destined to sway the multitude and urge them on to deeds of mercy and unending glory. 03” Bayard Taylor tells a good story of a Yankee who, in walking along Hie streets of St. Petersburg one muddy day, met Hie Grand Duke Constantine. Tho sidewalk''wasnot wide enough, lor two persons to pass, and (lie street was very deep in tilth -whoienpon the American took a silver rouble from Ids pocket, shook it in Ids closed hand, and cried out; “Crown or Tail?” “Crown!” guessed the Grand Duke. “Your Highness has'won,” said American, looking at the rouble and stepping Into the mud. The next day the American was invited by tho Grand Duke to dinner. 03’“ A rom» called upon a lawyer IFio oilier day, and began to state bis case in rather on ab nipt manner. “Sir, I have come to you for ad-' vice iI m a Imsband-iii.-law!” <?A whot!”spoke -L* counsel. “Iliisband-in'law, sir!” “I have never seen that dcffndd in domett tic relations.” “Don’t know what a husband in-law its I Sir, you’re no lawyer; you’re an ignoramus! lam a husband-in-fmo but not in fad, sir—my wile’s run off.’-’ A Venerabi.e Cheiiovuan Parson Greorr ofHe.i pstead, L. 1., is the most venerable cler gyman in the U. S., being now 99 yrs. of age. When in his seventeenth year ho was a soldier in tlie revolutionary army; was engaged in many of the important skirmishes of tho war, and was one of tho hollow square of soldiers inside of which tho Declaration of Independence was read on-tlio 4th of July, 1776. ■“Tender in .Payment, — If you offer to a cred itor what you conceive to bo tho just amount of your debt, you think you Imve made a legal ten der; but that depends upon your discretion in making it. If yon clog the offer with any con dition. oven tho stipulation for a receipt in full, it is inva id ; a legal tender, to be good, must be entirely unconditional. “Why did Adam bite the apple?” asked a schoolmaster of one of his pupils. “Because ho had no knilo to cut it,’’replied the hopelul biblical student. 1 * El ZS = 111 = El MI Romance of Real Life, There was a fine old General once, who, hav ing spent most .of his life in the field of Mars, knew very little about the camp of Cupid. He was one of those rough and honest spirits often met with in his gallant profession : innocent as an infant in almost everything save high integ rity and indomitable bravery. lie was ncaily fifty years old, and his toils were over' when master Dan made him acquainted with a widow Wadman, in whoso eye ho began to detect something that made him begin to feel uneasy. Here was,the result ■of leisure. At length, however, lire blunt honesty of his disposition rose Uppermost among his conflict ing plants .and his Course was chosen. At« school hoTiad once studied ''Othello's Defence” to recite at an exhibition, hilt made a failure ; be VIOW recollected there Was something in this defence/to recite, very mwcb like what he want ed to say. He got the book immediately, found (ho passage, clapped on his hat. With’ a determined air, and posted oil to the Widow Wadnian’s, With Shakespeare Under his arm==- “ Madame,” said General Unde Toby, open ing his book at the marked place. With the so. lemnity of a special leader at the bar—Ma dame— “ Rude nni l in my speech, Awd little hi ess'd Wl In, the set phrase of-pcaCe ; For since these arms 'of thine had seven rears pith • Till how sortie nine moons wasted, they have used - . Tneir dearest aetion-irt tho rented field ; And little of tin’s groat world can I speak : Slor than pertains to feats of broil and battle ; And therefore”— Ifere life General closed the book, wiped his forehead, looked up »t the* ceiling, and said with a spasmodic gasp, ;T want to got mar ried.” ’ '■ 'The widow laughed ten minutes, by the watch before she could utter a syllable, and then she said, with precious tears of humor rolling down her good-natured cheeks— And who is it you want to marry. Gener al?’.’ .... “ Yon,” said Uncle. Toby, flourishing his sword arm in the air, and' assuming a military altitude of defiance, as if he expected an assault from the woman immediately. “ Will’ yon kill trie it . I marry you ?’’ said the widow,, with a nierry twinkle in ..her eye. “No. madam!” replied Uncle Toby, in a most serious and deprecating tone, as if to ns-, sure her that such an idea had never entered his head. “ Y ell, then, I guess I'll marry you,” said the widow. “• Thank you, ma’am,” said, Uncle Toby ; “but one thing'T am bound to tell you—l wear a wig!” The widow started, remained silent a moment and then, went .into.a longer;,louder and merri er -.laughthan she had indulged inbefore, at the ■eud of which she drew her scat nearer I. to the. General, gravely laid his hand upon Jus head, gently lifted his wig ofl and plaecdMt’Atj the ta ble. . battle; but he now felt a decisive’inclinntion Id rim away. The vyiddw laughed again as Hid* she would never stop; and the Gcmral wiis about to lay his hat upon his ■ and bolt, when the facetious lady placed -.her hand upon his arm and detained him. She then.deliberately raised-the other ha.ud to her head, with a sort of military precision, exccu ted a rapid manoeuvre with her five fingers, pulled oil-her whole head of fine;glossy hair, and placing it upon the table by the side of the General’S, remained scaled with ludicrous grav ity. in front of her accepted lover, quite bald ! As maj’ be expected. Uncle Toby now laugh ed along with the widow, and they .soon grew so merry over tho nll’air,' that the maidservant peeped through the keyhole at the noise, and .saw the couple dancing a jig and bobbing their bald pates at each other like a pair of Chinese mandarins. So the two very shortly laid their heads together qu the pillow of matrimony. Tho Right Talk. A stratgfit-dut Writer gives the following ad vice id those ypii'ng men Who “d’ependon fath er” fdf tlieir support, and tako.no interest whatever iff blisftteSs,- out are regular drones in Hie hive, subsisting on’ tliat Which-is - earned by Olliers : “ Come, off with your eriaf. clinch the sate, the plow handles, the axe. the pick-axc. spado —anything that will enable.you to'.stjryour blood ! Ply around and tear your jacket, fa ther than be (inssjvc recipients of the old man’s bounty ! Sooner than play the dandy at dad’s expense, hire yourself out to some potato patch —let yourself to stop hog holes, or-watch the bars ; and when you think yourself entitled lo a resting spell, do it on your own hook; Get tip in the morning—turn round at least twice before breakfast—help tho old gentleman—give him now and then a generous lift in business —learn how to lake the lead, and not depend forever on being led ; and yon have no idea how the discipline will benelit you. I)p this, and our, word for it, you will seem to breathe a new atmosphere, possess a new frame, tread a new earth : wake to a new destiny—and you may then begin to aspire to manhood. Takeoff, then, that ring from yottr little finger, brake your cane; shave your upper lip, wipe your nose, hold up,y'our head, and fiy all means ne ver again eat Hie bread of idleness, nor depend on father.” Crooked Enough. —Speaking of the Rio Grande,- a writer says : “ Tmngine.one of the cropkcdcst tilings in the world, then imagine four more twice as crook ed. and imagine to yourself a large river three times os crooked ns all these put together, and yon have a faint idea of tho crooked disposition of this crooked river. There is no drift- wood in it, froth the fact that it. is so crooked that timber cannot find its way far enough down lo lodge two sticks together; but few snakcs. be cause it is not straight enough lo swim in; and the fish arc all in whirlpools m the bends, be-, cause they cnimot find their way out. Birds frequently attempt to fly across the river, (nit hghi on.theaamc side thy’start from—being deceived by the crook.. Indeed, you may bo deceived when you think you see across it:—■ and some of the b’hoys say it is so twisting there is but one-side to it.” An Ass in a Dion’s Skin.—Tho Dayton, (O.) -Gazette says that' a student at Oxford, visiting Iroy, a few days since”, was told that a Dutchman had been made lo believe that a lion had escaped from a menagerie and was prowl ing round. The student, thought it funny to play him a triclc and so got inside of a buffalo akin and secreted himself in the cellar. The Dutchman was sent down on some pretended errand, and Hie lion sprang at him, growling. Tho Dutchman caught up a cudgel and laid Mr. Lion sprawling, witli his head cut open, where his friends found him senseless. 0“ Punch asserts that it requires an early start now-a-days for »■ man to get round lus wife. / “oak COuS’Vnv— iiiAr it always bb<i&lsV— Bt;T ihght on wno.N'G, ouit countrt.” CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARYIB,IBSB. He Did, And Then He Didn’t. James Smith was a bad man, or at least eve ' rybody said so,. and that.’njakea it true. — i Though he was as accommodating a neighbor, and went ,16 meeting'Sundays, and had been ; known to tell his experience,.the wickedness of which drew many a sigh from the pious old dcacons. lie used )o drop a dime regularly into the contribution box; and some-1 limes a quarter, but then Ihat vrasn’t all. He 1 was said to bo guilty, of paying more 'atWritfoU to a couple of sparkling black eyes, than to the devout teachings of the tm’-d the sighs which now and then bi'east, was not exactly ,of a go-t-o meeting character.— , Kate Hopkins had UR eyes above alluded to, (how I halo such eyes.) and had a good bring ing op, but they Vm-c a little ;too mischievous and blaok for tlie welfare of her heart.. She boarded at James’ house. (James a married man.) Bile, 100, went to meetjhtg regular, but was particularly fond of going evenings. Mrs. Smith staid at home thoh, and look charge of three or four little curly-headed children. Mrs. ■Smith began to think' (though ;‘shc didn't say anything about U) that Iren husband was get-’ ting pious ratlrer .the minister preached the Evening thaw he did in Smith was an 66- semng noticed Hint James and tfate than the rest of, -other little things sKbffiwlwtTtiiiile best.to; sag anything about. I did'not'say Mrs. Smiili wasajenlous woman, but she certainly had sortie very strange freaks. . One Sanday evening, jost before mee ting was out, she thought shei :would while away a few minutes just to" kill time, by silling under a grape' vine by the gate. : ..ilt was a warm night—tppndbn, too small to stay up lute, had disappeared entirely. Presently-.the sound of footsteps .were heard, the : steady, measured -tread of old men with thick hodb, and young, men with their best ncw ; calfskins, and the stamping of still smaller ones, which made such arackct sheliked.to hayc rim, but she didn’t. It was soon still, however, an| no one had disturbed the gate! She could pot have been mistaken in this, (pit she was -cliteo by it, and it never opened without a.long grating or growling noise, as'though it : haUp to be dis turbed. Hark ! the careful step, pf a man ap proaches and ttic patting’bf a littlegniter boot falls softly on the night air! It dears, though slowly, and the quick . hearing |ars of Mrs. Smtih caught something like the spnnd of mid dled whispers.. They came nearer; and finally slopped. Mrs. Smith held, hercprettth, while i JMr. Smith turned his back-.towp|dshcr, lean ing partially against. the’. fence,,ajd Kate, as nearly.-as she could on him. 0 that her cars Imd that her little.fluttering heart had npt-.b«ijt'_susceptible pf such-agitation. Was she in heq.rigbUmiid, or had some wild fancy taken of her thoughts ? She wits' riot Crazy* hur cars could,not well,misunderstand at teaching d's tance. , Smith spoke first aftcfik-itioment’s' pause. ' ‘■There is hut bhe' forui “■And that,” softly’wMsii&^jffi^iidmpttn .ivij, -Ob it£i iigic Ins eiy Vftyi'/Iy with me—denresf, atvay. from tjif.s unhappy .spot, Ivhel'c fcnnpuu ri o i: til jy.Ju V 0 at" .youl' feetpnrid forever basic in tbe' sunshine' of ypiljtfiSjarins; The. n-orfd nought' to me unless ! can clasp you to my heart, and not feel the pleasure to be momentary, and fleeting.” ‘‘l am yours forever,” sighid Rafb, leaning her head upon his shoulder—"and whatever be jour wishes, I will only be too htippy. ill obey ing ibem.” ■ . , ■ ' ■•To-morrow- night, then,” answered James, "you will meet me nt the foot of .the lane, til ten o'clock, where I will have a-carriage in readiness, and ere the night dawns upon us, .will be out of the reach of harm or danger from Nancy, and I shall not euro for , any, one else.” "I will be there at ihc hour," ; said Kate, leaning her head upon his shouldct, "and now we must go in or Nancy will he uneasy.” But before they disturbed the* ugly gate, Smith drew Kate to his heart in /one fond lov ing embrace, and smack went a kiss upon her upturned lips. As Smilh turned around ho thought he saw something flash. The old gate swung on its rusty hinges, and i the lovers took the path leading to' :the back door. , Mrs. Smith heard his. last: charge to Kale, to be punctual to the hour, and hastily ran to the front door, and by the time they had gained the back door, she was comfortably rocking in her arm chair as unconcerned os if. nothing had happened. That night Smith dreamed lovely dreams, how life would fly with the idol of his affections, and evade the search of those nbosorcvengeful dispositions would tempt them to follow: but Mrs; Smith'dreamed how hewouldn't, and how much he would repent of ever having ventured upon so hazardous an experiment; and how liable human'hopes tVero to blast, and the fon dest dreams-to vanisli in thin air. , But how to frustrate his plans wiis the question. She didn’t .deep when she dreariled, but she decided upon a plan of action, and then dtOpped herself in the arms of inorpheus. She arosd daily, prepared a good breakfast, and expressed'lior self quite uneasy about Smith’s health, and his' appetite seemed so very poor, and had been getting so for some time past. Smith tried to be good that day, and had not Nancy been in his secret, she would have taken his attentions for genuine love. Smith informed Nancy at dinner that ho had some urgent business on hand, and that he should not probably f>e .at home to supper. Mrs. Smith was sorryi-tyut couldn't help it. ' Night came, and so did ten o’clock, which ime found Smith at the foot of the lane'. female form, closely enveloped, sprang into his carriage, and Smith embracing her, drove as fast as his horse could carry them. On, on they drove, clinging to each other in all. the tender, ness of affection,-he snatching a kiss every now and then from the nectar lips which only spoke in sighing whispers. . Smith declared it the happiest moment in,his life; and she only answered his loving protesta tions. with a warmer embrace. Smith longed for the light-once more, that he might look into her love-beaming eyes, and read the tender thoughts she could not .speak. Light did come at last, and when the faintest streak of crimson tinged the eastern hills with a mellow light, Smith sought once more to feast his eyes upon those sparkling orbs which cap tivated him at tbe-mcelings.' lie took hold of her dimpled chin and turned her faeo .lovingly op to His, and. Ohorrors!. Nancy was Iqok ing him straight in the face 1 Smith Jumped a foofoff the seat, dropped the lines, which Nan cy caught ; he tried to say something, but his tongue clove to the roof of his mouth. Nancy roguishly smiled and said, “Look into my loving eyes, Jim but Jim wouldn’t do it, although she, declared it .to be the happiest moment in tier life. “James; 11 said she, “do you sco that house yonder ?’ that is mine, and if you have no ob jections, we will spend the first there.'’ Nancy had slily turned tho horso on a differ ent road iii the right direction to reach her home again about daylight. • I never could learn from Mrs, Smith what Jim said when h'o did speak, -but she says ho is the best man sho ever saw. But, Nancy did tell one wrong story, sho came . • . home from a call just before it was time for Kale to start, crying with tears in her eyes (hat her husband hod got thrown from his buggy and nearly killed, and. that she must go and take care of him. That was the reason Kate didn’t go that time. Murder of a Wife in Virginia, The Richmond Whig stays: We have "already mentioned the discovery of the briSy Of Mrs. Mary'S. Turley, in one of the dams of Coal River, Kanawha rivet-, in deep Water. The Kanawha Republican. futWsbcß the following, additional particulars: ‘-To the body was at tached, by a rope, a stone Weighing 09 pounds. We do not understand that’there were any par ticular marks of violence oh the body. Her shoes and stockings were not tied on, and her dress appeared to have been thrown over the body, and tied on by the rope, after death.— The verdict of the jury of inquest was, that she was murdered by her husband. Pres. S. Tur ley, who had been arrested immediately on fin ding the body. He had made no attempt to escape, no dqubt resting quite'satisfled that he had placed the body in too secure a place to be found ; indeed, h'e had put out an advertise ment. offering a reward of fifty dollars for any one that would find his wife, dead or alive.— She,wits highly, esteemed by her neighbors— and was of an excellent family in Putnam county, by. the name of West. . From the lime she was missing great excite ment prevailed in theheighborhood, and especial ly during the inquest of the Jury—any decided movement toward lynching of the husband in custody would probably have carried by the large crowd present. Suspicion had from the beginning attached to Turley, for murdering , his wife, lie is indue jail, and will have his examination at the Court on the Isth inst.— , Pres S. Turley had, for several years been a preacher in the Baptist Church, and erjoyed ( the confidence of his acquaintances, but about s two years ago hegrtt out of the Church, com menced a grocery, and selling liquor, driving I it to excess, gambling and keeping bad women ; ‘ his virtuous life was in the ;way, and wo have. ’ the rcsnltof his-fall and his short, but rapid ! career of vice and crime. Since he has been in 1 jail; he has confessed that he put the body of ! his wife in the river,but that he did not kill her ; that she had committed suicide by hang ing herself where he found her in her room on the night of her disappearance. They had three , small children, , Dr. lone in BojDofl, ■, When.ho was ttn years old, fbtif -oh five neighbour boys, all bigger .than, himself. who had climbed upon- the roof of a back building in his father’s yard, wefe, amusing ' ifiettistlves by .shooting' putty-frads ibohi ,blpb--guhs at the girts below. Elisha attracted to thb" spot by the or.t-e.ry of the injured partyf promptly nn dertodk tlie defence,..and itv the firm tone of a young gentlemen. ottcntliidV. required them to , ,deMSt\and leave the premises,: which qf-Course, wits instantly answered by*a broadside at him- at lh6 courage, fie.'clutched the rain lihirtt- the realize the practicability of the feat; grid. then fie had them oil Uernis'.even' for a handsome settlement oflhedasc. ■■■ -The roofwas.,sleep ,and dangerous .tobis crowed antagonists, but safe'(o bis'better bal ance and higher cotirnge. ahrl they were ait his mercy; for .no one Could help another, and ho was more ihnn a match for any of them, in a 1 position.where peril of a terrible tumble was I among the risk's of resistance. Forthwith he ! went at them seriatim, till, severally and sig- : iiallyi he had culled them to the fulfmcttaure of their respecliyo deserVings. But not satisfied with indicting punishment, he .exacted' peni tence also, and he proceeded to ding eftth of ’ them in turti to the edge of the rflof, and hftld ing them tlicre, demanded an explicit.apology. Before he had finished putting the whole party through his last foam of purgation,. little Tom. who hatf WitfteSScd the performance ffom the pavement below greatly, terrified by the imminent risk of a , fail, which would have broke a neck or two, mayhap,'called out; ‘•Come down I ,' Elisha! Oil, Elisha, . come down ?” Elisha ahSWefed the flppcaf in the spirit ol ihecngngemcnt.. “ No, Tom, they aint done apologizing yet.” Jluocdotc tff Wehlef, A cßrrfCpOndent gives us the following flew anecdote of this eminent statesman : “Everybody knows that Mr. Webstcf wtls tt bit of a sportsman, was fond of beach and fish ing parties,'and could make a chowder as well as a speech. One of his occasional visits to Long Island for fresh air and recreation. ‘Black Dan.’ ns ho was familiarly called, took it into his bend to go angling in the East Bay, with a parly consisting only of Mr. L. and myself. . “Now the skipper of oar little fishing craft Was one Paul Seaman, black as coal, a clever. Civil darkey, but not wanting, especially on such occasions, in a sufficient sense of his own consequence. “The party had been crossing and redressing the foaVhing breakers of the inlet, pulling in the blue fish qbito lively, when, during a pause in the sport, Mr. Webster and Mr. L. got into a conversation about the Shinnecock Indians, a remnant of whom still dwelt in the neighbor hood. Paul, who .was eagerly listening, was evidently bursting with ambition to take a shining part among such distinguished lalkcis. Me contained himself, however. But when Mr. Webster remarked that those Indians by tins time must be a good deal enlightened. Paul could stand it no longer, but broke in with “Lightened, Mister Webster! why, dem fellers Is just as ’telligent as you and I are 1” Paul, who is still extant, and of the institutions ofihe place is wont to tell his customer’s to this day, how ho chopped logic with the great statesman, and rarely fails to-, insinuate, with becoming modesty, that he thinks ho rather “floored him." —Boston Courier. Exposing the Parson. —A minister Was one Sabbath examining the Sunday school in the catechism before the congregation. The usual question Was pul to-the IrTst girl, a strapper, who Usually assisted her tailher, who was a publican, in waiting upon customers “What is your name ?’’ No reply. “What is your name?” he repealed. . ‘None of your fun. Mr. Minister,’said the girl, ‘you know my name well enough. Don’t you say, when you come to our house on a night: “Bet bring mo some ale." The congregation, forgetting the sacrcdncss of the place, were in a tread grin, and the par son looked daggers. At Her Post.—An old lady very much ad dicted to going to sleep in church—a habit wbic.h she avowed she could not help. One evening, a prayer-meeting was to lake place in the church of"which she was a worthy member, and she informed her family that alio was going to it. Ono of her daughters said to her, “It is no nso for you to go church—yon will bo sure j to go to sleep.’’ “I don’t caro il I do,” she re plied, “X shall be at my post.” , I AT $2,00 PER ANNUA A POWERFUL WITSESS. Truth makes a child powerful. As on illus tration of this, read the following article from the pen of S. 11. Hammond, formerly editor of tho Albany Slale Jleghlef- ; I witnessed a short time ago, in one ol our I courts, A beautiful illustration of the simplicity I and power Of truth. A little girl nine .years of age, War Offered AS a Witness against a prisoner who was 'on trial fOra felony 'commille'd in her father’s house. "Now, Emily,” said the counscl ’for tho pris oner,upon her being offered as a witness/ 1 ! de sire to know if you understand the nature of tho oath ?” , “I don’t know what you hi'cah,” was the sim ple answer. • "There, your Honor,” said the counsel, ad dressing the court, “is anything further neces sary to demonstrate the validity of my objection! Tho witness should ho rejected. Sho does not comprehend the nature of an oath.” I "Let us see,” said'tho judge. "Como litre, my daughter!” - Assured by the kind tone and m nner of the JUdgo, the child Stepped tdiVahl him, aild Confident lj - up in his face, and With a calm, Clear eye, and in a planner so art less and trank, that it went straight to the heart. “hid you ever take an oath./” inqUiVed The Judge. The little girl stepped back with a look of horror, and the red blood mantled in a blush all oVer her fate'e And neck, as sheanswet-ed‘No sir.’ She thought.he intended.to inquire if she had ever blasphemed. f‘l do not mean that,” said tho Judge, who saw her mistake, “I mean, were yon ever a wit ness before?” “No, Sir, I never was in court before,” was her answer. ■ He handed her tho Bible open. Doyen know that book, my dabgbter 7” She looked at it and answered, “Yes, Sit 1 , it is the Bible.” “Do you ever read it?” lie asked. ‘Vos, sir, every evening.’ “Can you tell mo what Hie Bible is?” inquired the Judge. “It is the word of Hie great God, she answered “Well, place yoht hand upon tins Bibik!, and listen to what I sayand lie repented slowly and solemnly the bath usually adriiiuistered to witnesses. “Now,” said the Judge,‘“yon have sworn ns a witness; will yon!tell.mo what will befall you if you do not tell the hath ?” “I shall.be shut up in the State Prison,” answered the child. . “Anything else ?” asked the Judge. “I shall Dover go to Heaven.” she answered." “How db-you Know this?” asked the Judge again. .The child took the Bible, and turning rapidly to tiie chapter containing the Command ments, pointed to the injunction, “Thou slmlt not bear false’witness; against thy neighbor.”; ‘1 learned that before I could road. : “ttna.nfiJ’ onß talked to you about J - 6ur being dtvithesss in court liqro against this man 1” ih cjliifed the Judge. “3Tes, sir,”Bho repliod,<‘My mother heard they wanted me to be a witness, and last night she called me to heir room, and asked ItiC to. toll hectho ten. Couimandihehls, and theh wo kneeled down togethet, ahd she prayed that I might Understand how wicked, it whs to ÜBar.faisti witness against my\ neighbor, and thal-Qbd IVolild help Hld,a. Utile child, to toll tho'truth as It And' Wlieh I Came iip h'eru iviffi fatlier She kiSted'hlC; and told mq to remember the ninth commandihcnt, and that Gothwpnld hoar'every word that I said;"" .- ' ■■ "■■ -r . <“Do yon believe (bis 7” asked a tear g/isfencd.in.his eye,*ahd his lip milfeVod With ctiiotlbfi. , . “Yes, sir,” said the child, With a voice and manner that showed her Conviction of its truth wasnorfect. “God bless you, iny child,said tfiq Judge; “you have a good mother. This witness is coni-, percHt,” he.cbntiniiod. . “Wore I bn- trial for my life, and indecent of ihe charge against mo, 1 would pray God for Subh fitnesses as this. Let her bo examined.” She told her story with the simplicity of a build, ns she was, but there tVaS a directness t abmj£ it which carried conviction of its* truth to every heart; sho was rigidly cross-examined. The cSlinsef piled lief with infinite and ingeni ous (lue&tiohing,, tiilt Slm Vafled trom her first statement in npfhttig. The truth, as spoken by tliatlittlb child, was sublime, falsehood and perjury had proceeded her testimony. The prisoner had*cnfrefictfed’himjcTf Julies*, ixVitll ho deemed himself impregnable. Witnesses had falsified facts in his favor, ntul tillany. had man ufactured for him a sham defence. But before hpr testimony, falsehood .Was Scattered like cmfp. Th^liftlfccfillrf i'cff. whom. tho mother hod prayed for strength to bo given her to speak the truth as it was before God, broke tlio cunr ning devices of matured villany to pieces like a potter’s vessel. The strength that her mother prayed for was given her, and tho sublimo and forcible slriipficity wo mean, to the prisoner and his associates) with which she spoke, was like a revelation from God himself. flood Things Spoiled) . Whoh a fnan gives freely to a worthy charity, he spoils tho net by boasting of if. . When nature has glVcn a man a fine healthy color in his face, he spoils it by imparting to his nose tho hue of brandy . ' When a man listens to a moving charity ,ser mcn, and puts his hand in his pocket, he spoils 1 a good intention by keeping it there. When a man runs fn debt for his clothes, it spoils his character for honesty, to run from tho tailor* , When a lover is about to meet his chosen, it spoils the charm to ;nrc/a debtor. When a woman is full}' dressed for a party, it spoils her temper to bo dunned by tho part}'for tho bill. When a printer is about to leave for dinner,it spoils his appoljto to Ibok upon pi. When a young lady in ad.nb,. it spoils her in terest if her companion is over forte. When a merchant attempts to sing, it spoils tho melody, if ho chances to see a protested note.* When an editor attempts to write facotia, It spoils the joko if no one lakes. There is so much misery in the last thought, that wo drop the pen. A GoodMjStoh.— A Writer intho Home Jour iat describes a Coufile WhoWeto' “hot unequnffj •okod together:” ' In short, the' man Was te fy poOV— And what Was Worse, supremofy fazf ; A kind of tfotfbfo; hard to cure, fiuf such as, rarefy drives one crazy. ■ If is wife was jiist his proper match, An idle gossip, and a slatletfr, Whoso frock, with time and frequent patch, Knew nevermore its native jmttorn. ’They lived, ns ’twero, from hand to mouth— She dwaddling over pots -and kettles, lie in a Constant slate of drought, And both id frequent Haiti of ticfUals. KIP A good story is fold of a “country gen tleman” who, for thq drat-time heard an Episco pal clergyman preach, fie had, rend much of the aristocracy and pride of the church, and when ho returned home he was naked if the people were “stuck up.” “Pshaw, no,” repli ed he ; “why the minister actually preached in his shirt-sleeves!” That woman deserves not a husband’s generous love, who will not greet him with smiles as ho returns from the labors of the day; who will not try to chain him to his homo hy the swoot enchantment of a ohoortijl heart. There is not one in a thousand, so unfeeling, so lost to loving kindness, as to withstand such in fluence, and break away from such a home. Tlio attempt of tffo administration tfr secure the admission of Kansas under the- Lccomploh constitution is,not without a very strong-and ft very plausible motive. The President desires' to end the Kansas controversey. The a flairs of this Territory have occupied too large a share ofjhcpublic attention, and he seizes, with the eagerness of disgust, upon the earliest opportu nity to remove the Kansas question ' from the field pf national politics by drawing .around it the high walls of a Stale organisation, ’When Kansas once enters the Union, her interests and I her political contests, her rights and .her wrongs, her constitution and her laws, cease,to bo national affairs and become matters of pure ly tbCal concern. Congress and the'ExccutiVc cease to he responsible for Kansas. Her wounds rib loriger afflict the body-politic, and claim no surgery from the federal head. > Mr. Buclinnair has strong personal reasons' 1 for eagerly’ 1 desiring such a corisuhiriialibn. ■ His official and political prosperity’ depend upon it. Kansas was' the rock on which, his predecessor split, arid it lies' full and' high' in his onto'politi cal channel. The South and the North demand of him opposite and hostile action in'regard to it. Ile &aririot satisfy both ;,and so long as the subject remains open arid requires action at Iris' hands, so long is he certain to oflbncd' prie sec ticn Of the other. It is perfectly natural, th'erC forie, that he should desire to banish it from the political field, and that he should seize upon tllo first opportunity’.that chance may offer.to:place' Kansas in the conditioiVof a sovereign State, ana thus get it off his hands altogether. But beyond this personal and party liidtive, , the condition and necessities of. the country second this earnest wish of the President. Thh people at large syiripathizo yVith i’. ' Tw4 'great' mass of the people, in all sections', would glad ly see the Kansas qucstion disa'ppedr ffpnV.the' field uf national politics. They arb Sick of the whole subject. They ai'e disgiisted vVfth tlid long series of wfohg. bf violence; of perfidy, pf 1 fanaticism, and reckless folly, which .consti tutes its history .for the fastthreoycars. 1 They have seen it used so long for parlyends,' tliilt thby haVefeorile to lobk upon'llie whole trouble 1 as the result of party schemes, iis. the deliberate' - work of designing men, and have ceased, to,feel’ buy special interest in its incidents or any : rnarked concern in its issue.' The extreme fac tions are alone in tetested in prolonging the con test. The fanatical abolitionists and the fanat ical disunionists both hope that strife may' grow, out of it, which will involve the Territory anil the whole country in civil war, and thus bring about their common 1 object, the dissolution of the federal Union. Active leaders of the rcpuli-, lican party see.also, in the prolongation of the issues to which this question has given rise, the means of seeming forthe North in on absolute ascendency in the federal 1 govern ment. But the mass ol the people- db not-sym,-' path’ze with these motives. They would'.gmd ly see the whole thing ebd, and would en dorse and approve any measure, not absdlifte- . ly inconsistent with justice and 1 the principles' . of the republican democracy, Which': tyoidd ban ish the Kansas question forever from the halls of Congress. ' ■ Mr. Biiehandtv relies upon this jfbplilaivseriti ment to slistairt hilfi hi forcing Upon Congress' the adoption ot the tecomplon Constitution.— ’ lie thinks that When the’ deed is' dono—WheiV KariSas has once BccOine a Stale, nb tiiaUeriin'- dcr wlint circumstances or ttuth hduit constitu tion, the whole contest, will be ended ; tlie ques tion will disappear (Voiii Congress, rind the ped'. pie Will gladly turn their'attßmidri tO oilier top ics. . , -i . no. u. Life ill; tmlinHa-;-iyntli tilw—Slilielcirif ■ Scenes. , The hanging of ayoiing mdn : ih KoblC cOiW ty, Indiilntt;. a feW dirts siiuife, by iiifta'e.of'thb authority Of Kegulatßl-s, Was" a lerfiljlß affaitk' Nearly llftcbn hundred bOrsemcii assembled'. td’ tvittiess ttef Thfebaiisirdf thffcicilSv •' formidable a "body'of. citizens..to .unlawfully.j;- take tliu lijfc of a rrtari.is thuagivch hy d‘coires- , pendent Of the Indianapolis jboniSh^'.-^ “For several years there has,boon a* regularly organised . band of horse thieves, -blacklegs, counterfeiters and'murderers, tvhbse range, ex tended' from Chicago to Toledo. The swamps . and oak barrens of Noble and adjacent doun tieS have been their.head quarters and pririOiptif Hi ding places; At Inst their numbers became so great, alid their villanous deeds so.bold nndldtt- . ring, that it was unsafe for a stranger; or arty one who it was supposed to have jinsg along the .public highways with any "degree of : safety. Within the last few months there havo been several highway robberies'and attempts tb’ commit murder. ..At length the better porlidn of the citizefts in Noble and’ adjoining, colinlicfl organized themselves into vigilance horse companies, &e., to. see if they could riO't ferret out some of the leaders.” Recently the regulators caught a counterfeit er, who bad on hand a heavy assortment of btf guscoih. Ho was hanged until lie confessed and exposed the gang with whidh.he was.con ncclcd. 'Ho was then put irt jail, and arrests made, some twenty-flve ptrsdns b'eiifg taken' frt -custody, and lodged in' the jails of Noble, l.a i Grange and Do Kalb counties. One of thelea- • ders of the Scoundrels was taken befbre the'Ex ecutive Committc of the Regnlators. and sen tenced to die. He had'mahy aliases; but was • best known by tile name of GrcgOl-y SlcDod gal. He was twenty-seven'years'old, a Cana dian by birth, and leaves a wife and child. — The correspondent of the Journal,says:— “After the verdict, of the regulators,,about five hundred horsemen from this and adjoining ' counties, fprmed.a 'procession, with' their pris oner in a wagon in the lead; slowly and solemn ly to the place of execution,'a roman lie spot about five miles out from Lignier, near a small lake. The procession arrived at the selected spot about three o'clock, and after some 'pre liminary arrangements, the wagpn—-con tainting the prisoner ahd his cofJih—Was'driven udder an oak tree, from a brand] of which the fatal rope dangled. The prisoner seemed cool and collected—indeed, he evinced', throughout the whole of thd terrible scene, the utmost sangfroid and self-possession.” , A “Rev. Mr. Wirt” made a“feeling prdycr,’’ tht prisoner'made tf speech, “little thought he would ever come to this,”, hoped “the Lord would have mercy on his soul,” ahdSvas Strung up and hmig until dead 1 , fhe coiTcspOndfenf we (Juolc says : “About fifledn hundred liUrscmdn frofii nit oyer the ednrdfy, Were in' town yesterday, and ; ahbttt ffft h'ffnarCtf werrt out to the place of e!e ccution to-day, aud' formed' a circle around the wagon. Not a wordWaSSpoUcii after the pray er of tlie minister. All was still and quiet, (md after, the mb'" ’das cut the Crowd qfuietl'y dispersed, each one looking ate' though he was sorry that such a thing had been done.' 1 [£7*oVt Sunday afternoon, }n Baltimore, Md., ns Mrs. Iferrrian Was sitting at the back parlor window of her residence, a white turtle dove, with a dark ring around its neok/flcW in and lit upon hcr fiead ; the next morning While attending r'chca'rsal at fhcHbliday Street Thea tre, she received the painful news of her hus band's death, who died of heart’disease, about or neat* the time the dbVdroa'd? its appearance; She was immediately thrown into' convulsions,• and had to bo carried borne. (pyy ft rarely happens that ono artificial ind eon succeed in forming another ; wo scl >m imitate what wc did not love. O” There are now seven women in the State of Pennsylvania under sentence- of- death for murder. [Froih the tVcw' fork Times.] The IccDinpton ConstitaliOrf.
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