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, 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.