• • . . AMERICAN VOLUNTEER. 4 PUBLISHED EVERT T*L’RR-DAV MORNING BY i Johb 'B. BralWli. ’ mi ' & u i • Soß.ipniPTiON. —Ono Dollar and Fifty Cents, paid in advance! Two Dollars / paid within the year- and Two Dollars and Fifty Cents, if not .paid within the year. Those terms will bo, rig idly adhered to .in every instance. No sub scription discontinued until all arrearages are paid unless at the option of the Editor. Advertisements —Accompanied by the cash, and not exceeding ono square, will bo inserted throe times for Ono Dollar, and fwbnty-fivo cents ior each additional insertion. Those of a great tor length in proportion. Jod-Frintinq— Such as Hand-bills, Posting bills,. Pamphlets, Blanks, Labels, tic., &0., exe cuted with accuracy and at the shortest notice. THE LAND OF DREAMS. by w. o. Bryant. A might realm is the land of dreams. With steeps that hang in the twilight sky, And weltering oceans, and trailing streams That gleam where the dusky valleys lie. But over its shadowy borders flow Sweet rays from a world of endless morn. And the nearest mountains catch the glow, •And flowers in the nearest Acids are-born, 'The souls of the happy dead repair iprom fhe lowest of flight to that bordering land, And walk in the fairer glory there, With the souls of the living, hand to hand. <Dne calm, sweet smile in that shadowy sphere, From eyes that open on earth no more— One warning word from a voice pnee dear— How they ring in the memory o’er ! Far otT from those hills that shine with the day, And fields that bloom , in the heavenly gales, The land of dreams goes stretching away To dimmer mountains and darker vales.. There lie the chambers of guilty delight; . • There walk the spectres of hope and fear; And soft,* low voices that float through the niglii Are whispering sin in the guileless car. Dear maid, in thy girlhood’s opening flower. Scarce weaned from the love of childhood’s pl«y, . i . Thatoars on whoso cheeks are the opening flower That freshens tho early bloom bi May! Thine eyes are closed, and over thy brow , Pass thoughtful shadows and joyous gleams, ■ And I know by the moving lips that now Thy spirit strays in the land of dreams. Light-hearted maiden, oh, heed thy feet I Oh, keep where that beam of Paradise fails And only wander where thou may est meet The blessed ones from its shining walls. So shalt thou come from the land pf, dreams With love and peace from the laud of strife, And the light that over its border streams, 'Shall lie bn the path of thy daily life. OTsfEllamoM. DOS. 18. EVERETT AT RICHMOND. Aftcrthe inauguration of the-Washingtoh statue at Richmond on the 23d, a grand dinner was prepared for the guests of the city at the new Custom House, where the evening was spent both pleasantly and brilliantly, speeches being made by Hon. James M. Mason, Hon.. Win. C, Rives, Hon. A. H. Dawson, of Geor ■ gia, Hon. Edward Everett, Hon. E. M. T. Hunter, and various others. Mri, Everett was called out by a seritiment in honor of “Massa -1 chusetts in Virginia," and after n most cdrdfal t greeUng'fronftis assemblage, spoke as follows: Mr. Pkesipent and Gentlemen : I esteem' : it a groat privilege and honor to speak on be : .half- of Massachusetts on this most interesting ' occasion—of Massachusetts, Clio eldest of the sisier States of Virginia in this great family of republics. She knew and loved your peerless son at an early day.- While the lilies of France floated over the bastions of Quebec ; while the red rose of St, George waved from Maine-to Georgia ; while the bloom of youth was on his pwu cheek, he visited Boston, theujhe residence of the Commander in-chief of theKoyal force. When the great appeal was made to the stern , arbitrament of war. and the all important ques- | tion arose in the Continental Congress, who ■ should lead the patriotic sons of America, in , the doubtful contest: Massachusetts, repre- j sented -by one whom your own Jefferson pro- ( nounccd the Colossus of debate in the great ar gument of Independence—onefrom whom many ‘ of you afterwards differed in political opinion, but whom all honored .ns true, warm hearted, j patriotic—Massachusetts, I say, represented in the Continental Congress by John Adams, gave her voice arid her influence for the appointment ■of Washington. She had her own armies, her r own generals in the field, in common with those _ of the other New England States—the veterans. |,'6f the seven.years’ war —Rogers’ provincial 5 rangers, Stark’s comrades—men who had < climbed the heights of Abraham and stormed the citadel of Louisburg—the men of'the 19th of April and the t7th of June—led by Ward and Warren and Putnam and Prescott—but at the risk of touching the most sensitive nerve that thrills the human bosom—the point of honor.on the part of the soldier and gentlemen —Massachusetts gave her vole and all her in fluence for the “beloved” Col. Washington.— If to Virginia belongs the incommunicable glo ry of having given him to his country, may not Massachusetts, under the circumstances to which I have alluded, reflect with satisfaction that she contributed all her influences to place that noble son at the head of the American ar mies ? She remembers, too, with interest, that the newly elected Commander assumed his high trust under the shadow of her ariojent Univer sity at Cambridge; that, with his liead quar ters established there, ho held the royal army for nearly a twelve month's, beleaguered in Bos ton, and that ho achieved his first great milita ry success from the heights ,that now command her capital. Some foreign writers have denied thotnilitary talent of Washington. Massachusetts knows better. She witnesses the remains of the magni ficent lines of circumvallation, twelve miles in circuit, in which, with raw recruits inade quately supplied for the field, without ordnance, without munitions, he held the royal forces closely invested for nearly twelve months. She ■ beholds eternal monuments of his military skill .in tlie heights of Dorchester, where, by a mag t .nificent strategic combination, he earned a place I: (I appeal to the gallant chieftain, Gen. Swift,) ' among the greatest masters of war. A late French writer hits said that Washington could not have led the French grand army of 1812— that prodigious array moving in thirteen paral lel columns, each a host, led by tributary kings, and heroes of a hundred wars—and got them in safety in Russia. Ido not know that any one has a right to assert this, or take for grant ed that he, who did great things, with small means, would not. have done proportionately greater with ample means. .At any rate, what ever superiority may be claimed for Napoleon on the bare assumption'that Washington could not have conducted his mighty force into Rus sia, some deduction must ba made from that superiority (or the historical fact tlmt’Napoleon himself could not conduct that army out of Russia. At all events, sir, Washington himself, in whose.heroic self-possession therq entered not the slightest particle of arrogance or presump tion, camly contemplated the possibility that he might bo brought into personal conflict with that dreaded Napoleon ; and in that belief ac icomipand of the American army in itUo. When, in the expectation of a war with teems |Wfal In like manner when you see a shabby look ing fellow in the dock, charged for example for sheep stealing, the decision rests with yon, first whether or not lljat individual is a ragamuffin, and. secondly, how far it is probable that a man ot that description ; would steal sheep. Of course, as has been before said, you will al- Ser°tlf,. by f hß but then, whether the evidence is trustworthy or not is “ mat I te . l ! for y?ur private consideration. You may believe it if you choose, or you may disbe lieve it; and whether, gentlemen of the iur v you behove it or disbelieve it, will depend unm! the constitution of your minds. If your minds are so constituted that you wish to find "he prisoner guilty,;perhaps you will believe it • if they happen to bo so constituted that you do sire to find him not guilty, why then very like ly you will disbelieve it. You ore to free your minds from all passion and prejudice if you can, apd in that case your judgment will be unbias sed ; but if you cannot you will return a ver dict accordingly.. It is not, strictly speaking, for you to consider what will be the effect of your verdict; but if speh a consideration should occur to you, and you cannot help attending to it, that verdict will be influenced by it to a cer tain extent. You arc probably aware that when you retire, you will bo locked up until you contrive 10 agree. You may arrive at unan imity by fair discussion, or by some of you starving out tho others, or by tossing up'; and your conclusion by whichever of these process es arrived at, will be more or less in accordance with your oaths. Your verdict may bo right- It °t ° [‘T d tbat U *iM : it may be wrong -it is to be hoped it will not., 'At all events, gent emen of the jury, you will come to some conclusion or other, unless it should so happen that you separate Without coming to any. . . , _ . .. . . . . ~ . . . . .. . ,--. ~ • - . '.. .., 7 : ... , ' : - . . .. 4 „.. ~._, .. . • • r . ~ ~ . . , . , . . . . . . . • BY JOHN B. BRATTON, YOL. 44. mir lionorcd revolutionary ally, then distracted in ner domestic counsels, Washington was ap- Lieutenant-General—a tiilo and a trust which America, but in a single other instanco, has given to anyone of her gallant sons—he more than once declared that, if the enemy in vaded us, he must not be permitted so much is to land on our shores. And in a letter to Pre sident Adams, written shortly after accepting his commission, ho makes the significant re mark, that the French, (with whom we have now to contend.) have adopted the practice, with great and astonishing success, by appoint ing generals of juvenile years to command their armies. He had every reason to suppose at that time, and, doubtless, did suppose,, that in the event of a French invasion, the armies of France would have been commanded by the'he ro of Areola and Lodi, the youngest and most successful of these youthful generals. Sir, the occasion which- has brought us toge ther is, in my judgment, of far greater impor tance and significance than any mere popular pageant; Virginia has been called, and justly the mother of States and of statesmen ; but this is an honor which she shares with her sis ter republics. From Maine to Georgia, every one of the old thirteen, has sent her children to lay the foundation of new republics in the ri sing West; every one of tho confederated Slates has its list of the wise, the honored, and the brave among its children. But to Virginia aloae belongs the honor of giving birth to tho one man, whose pre-eminence al! acknowledge without envy, in whose fame ail other Slates are proud as fellow-countrymen to claim a share. I rejoice in consecrating a monument to this pure and bright name, you have found an A mencan Artist equal to its conception arid'exe-' cation. Oh, that he could have witnessed this triumphant, day. May its success carry conso lation to the heart of his bereaved partner! ■He has left behind him a monument to his own taste and genius, hot less than to bis illustrious subject. And. sir, when I contemplate the ca reer of this gifted artist, from its commence ment to Us close; when I trace him through the earlier productions of his chisel ; the busts of living cotemporaries, the lovely idolatries of ancient my thology—Orpheus. Ganymede, Hebe; his maturer creations, the statue of , Beethoven, the group for the pediment of the southern wing of the extension of. the Capitol ; the figures of Henry and Jefferson, which adorn the ascend-, mg platform of your great monument—when I see him thus rising by steady progress to the" summit of his an -and his fame, in the mofe than imperial form and face of Washington— his true eye guiding the cunning hand from la im A? ~ or '- and from ’ triumph to triumph, like Phidias of old, who “carved the cods and came to Jove,” I can almost .fancy that the delicate sense was overpowered, at last, by the transcendent glories of that matchless counte nance ; that the .-vision of. the accomplished ar tist, beholding far mote than the ordinary ob server under the same outlines and lineaments —penetrating deeper into the mysteries of ex pression—rising higher, with.wrapt gaze, into the brightest heaven of thought, and feeling, and character, as they flow through the portals of sense—a revolution - successfully conducted ; a .Constitution ,wisely, framed ;. a .Government happily administered; faying out in -each' di vine glance, I can almost fancy that the gifted sculptor, like the gifted poet. Saw. and, blasted with excess of light. Closed his eyes in endless night." Sir; I believe in monuments—l believe in them even as works of art. To carve the speaking marble, to mould the breathing bronze, is one of the noblest efforts of genius [ and tasto ; but a patriotic monument is a far nobler work. It embodies patriotism, truth and faith ; it gives form and expression to the best feelings of our nature—and while the noble work which you have this .'day inaugurated •shall brave the snows of winter and the beams i)f summer, that brazen arm shall point the un erring road,to the weltare of the country more surely than' any arm of living .flesh ; and a fiercer thunder than that of the elements shall clothe the neck of the monumental war-horse, and strike terror to the hearts of the enemies of the Constitution and the Union. [Mr. Everett’s speech was followed by loud and long continued applause.] Punch's (Hfjflrge to the Jury, The subjoined charge was copied from the London Punch about fifteen years ago. Not withstanding the antiquity of the document, wo consider it in some respects, a “model” "charge—it, at least, possessing the merit of leaving the jury unbiassed in theirdeliberations upon a verdict; Oentleaien" of the Jolty—You are sworn in these cases to decide according to the evidence; at the same time if you have any doubt you are bound to give the prisoner the benefit of it— Suppose you have to pronounce on the guilt,of. innocence of any gentleman accused of felony. You will naturally doubt whether any gentle man would commit such offence—accordingly however strong may bo the testimony against him, you will perhaps acquit him. -The- evi dence of your own senses is, at least, as credit able as that of the, witnesses; if, therefore, your eyesight convince you that the prisoner is a well dressed person, you have a right to pre sume his respectability ;-,and it is for you to say whether a respectable person, would; be likely to be guilty of the crimes imputed on him. A Religions Courtship. A young gentleman happening to ait at church 'n a pew adjoining one in which sat a young lady, for whom he conceived a sudden and vio lent passion, was desirous of entering into a courtship on the spot; but'the place not suit ing a formal declaration, the exigency of the case suggested the following plan : He politely handed his fair neighbor a Bible ° P oj'T?’'- th , a pin stuok in the following text:— ltipistle of John, verse 5— ‘ And now I be seech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but .that which we had from the beginning, that we love one anoth er. ' Skc rolurnod it, pointing to the 2d chapter of Ruth, verse lOih;— • ‘Then she fell on her face and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him. why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldst take Knowledge of me, seeing that lam a stran ger?”. .• kHe returned the book, pointing to the 12th verse of the 3d Epistle of John.: ‘Having many things to write unto you, I would not write with paper and ink, but I trust to come unto you and speak face, to face.’ From the above interview, a marriage took place the following week. The True Gentleman. Such gentlemen as a certain author describes ' 'h the following paragraph, are not to .bo met every day ; and should any unmarried lady chance to- find one, wo advise her to secure him forthwith, as one of the most perfect -works from the atelier of the Divine Architect “ Show me a man who can quit the brilliant society of the young to. listen to the kindly voice of ago—who can hold cheerful convcrsalion with one whom years have deprived of all charms ; show mo the man who is willing to help the deformed, who stand in need of help, as if the blush of Helen mantled on his cheek ; show me the: man who would no Sooner look rudely at the poor s girl in the village than at the well-dressed lady in the saloon ; show me the man Who treats unprotected maidenhood as he would the heiress, surrounded by the power ful protection of rank and family ; show me he that abhors the libertine's gibe—who shuns him as the blasphemer and traducer of liis mother’s sex—who scorns, as he would the coward, the ridicular of a'woman’s reputation; show me a man who never forgets for an inslant the delicacy and respect that, is due to a wo : man, in any condition or class,and you show me a true gentleman. ” - Courage in Women. There is a branch of general-education which .is not thought at all necessary.for women :as regards which, indeed, it is \yeli.if they are not brought up to cultivate the opposite. Women are not taught to be courageous. Indeed, to ' some persons, courage may.scem as unnecessary ! fo>' women as Latin and Greek. Xct there are ■ few-things that would tend': to; 'mako women • happier 'ill Ib'cinselvesran'dinbrS.'acceptable to those with whom they live, than courage'.— 1 here are many women of the present day, , sensible women in, other, things, whose panic I terrors are a frequent source of discomfort to I themselves and those around them. Now, it is I a great mistake to imagine that hardness rhtist go with courage ; and that tile bloom of gen tleness and sympathy must ail be rubbed oft • vigor of mind which gives presence of mind, enables a person to be useful in peril, and makes the desire, to assist overcome that sickliness of sensibility which can only contem plate distress and difficulty. 'So far from courage being unfeminine, there is a peculiar grace and dignity ip those beings who have lit tle active power of attack or defence, passing through danger with a moral courage -which is ■ equal to that of the strongest. ,We see this in great things. We perfectly appj-eeiate : the sweet and noble dignity of an Anne Bullen, a Mary Queen of Scotts, or a Marie Antoinette. V\ e see that it is grand for these delicately bred, high nurtured, helpless personages to merit Death with a silence and confidence like his own. Thereis no beauty in fear. It is.a mean, , ugly, dishevelled creature. No statue can be , made of it,that a woman would wish to see , herself like. We may be quite sure that; without losing any of the most delicate and refined of feminine graces, women may be taught not to give way to unreasonable fears, which should belong no more to, the fragile than to the robust. ” largest Colossal Slatao in ilnr World. The model of the splendid colossal statue of the Virgin Mary, to bo erected at Le Pqy, Sa . partment. of tho Haujo Loire, , France, and •which has been the subject.of.much talk the last year as the largest colossal in the world, •was completed the 2d ultimo, when the prepa rations for the casting at once commenced!— The local’ newspaper thus describes it: The Virgin stands upon a sphere, around which winds an enormous serpent—that ajlegorical figure ot sin whose.head she bruises beneath her feet. On her right hand she holds the in fant Jesus, who is in the:act - of blessing the city of LePuy. The length of'the serpent is 17 metres, (about 50 feet;) that of the Virgin’s 1 metre and 92 centimetres, (about 64 feet.) The figures are absolutely necessary to an idea of the real proportions of this Wonderful statue. The length of the Virgin’s hair, which is thrown back upon her mantle, is 12 metres. (64 feet.) The forearm is not less than, 33 . metres long, and the hand, from the wrist 16 the end of the fingers, 1 metre, 2 centimetres. The whole statue weighs, as it stands in plaster, 40,000 kilogrammes, 88,195 lbs.;) the figure of thein fant Jesus, 18,000 kilogrammes,.(39, 685 lbs.) Tho weight Of the whole in the castings will be 100,000'kilogrammes, (230,474 lbs.) that of tho figure ‘infant,, Jes(is;»3o,ooo kilo grammes. * The whole group; will consist of 24 pieces, but they will be so nicely put together that it. will seem as one entire piece. It is be lieved tho work of casting will take about a a year, and the Bth of September, 1858, fete of' the nativity of the .Virgin, and the anniversary of the taking of- the Malakoff, has already been nxcu upon for its inauguration. Tic Qncons of Franco; . The Dublin University Magazine, comment mp upon the lives of the royal and imperial wives of France, states that there are but thir teen out of sixty-seven on whoso memory there is no dark stain of sorrow or of sin. A cotem porary, in summing up the.staiemcnt, says:— ‘ ‘ Uf the others, seven were divorced ; two died by the executioner; nine died very young; sev en were soon widowed ; three were cruelly tra duced ; three were exiles; three wero ; bad in dif ferent degrees, of evil; (he prisoners and the heart-broken made up the remainder. Twenty, who were buried at St. Dennis since the time of Oharletoague, were denied the rest'of the graver Their remains were dragged from the tomb, ex posed to the insults of the revolutionary popu lace, and then flung into a trench and covered' with quick lime-” „ “OUR COUNTRY— MAY IT ALWAYS RK.RIOnT—RUT RIGHT OR WRONG, OUR COUNTRY.” CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1858. Td 1802 llie Czar of Russia will erect a mon ument commemorative .pf the one thousandth year of the Russian Empire. I'h'e natural life of ten centuries has an imposing,, venerable as pect. The government has always been the same, —an autocracy ; the 'administration has been varied according to the. character and for tunes of each ruler. The devotion of the peo ple to the‘sceptre is still, as heretofore, unlimi ted, like the imperial powjer,—a loyalty reach ing religious worship. The recent address of the Metripolitan (the high prelate) of Moscow, to Alexander H. on his visit to the .capital, shadows out the relations between, the sovereign and subject: ,v Most pious' sovereign, the heart, of Russia, for you are in her bosom and heart, the orthodox people venerate you; Peace will facilitate your eftorts-to.elovafe and improve the internal life of Russia, to preserve and augment the good bequeathed to us’by our-ancestors.— In your sacred person the ,orthodox’church re verses the quality of her defenderand.proteoior, onepf the greatest prerogatives of the Lord’s annointed.” In the Chapel of the Convent of Miracles, the Emperor and Empress remained for some time on their knees before the relies of St. Alexis. The Emperor, soon after mounted his horse and reviewed the troops arid cadets.— Egbert, the first sole monarch of England, be gan his reign in 827: thus the mdrinrchy is up : wards of a thousand years.- More than four teen hundred are-claimed fordhat.of France.— The Republic of ancient Rome did. not endure i half so long, India is a country that hasinerier belonged to its natives.' Two thousand ycarV’igo Alexari der and. his Greeks led dusky, captives in gol den fetters'from the’nce'to Athens! • After him it became the prize of Parthian bows and Scyth ian spears. Then came Mahomiricd and his Persians from Qhuznee, to teacbvby scimetar. the new theology, “AllaiJ Allah arid',Mahommcd in his Prophet.” Then the Alighan’s drove out the Persians. Then the Tartars drove out the Afghans. Then crime" Timdur, the terrible Tartar, and the long and princely l : line of Great Moguls—Baber and Akbar, Jckaugire and Au rengzbe. The Mogul' Empire got, like the 1 British, too big too hold together. Down; went the throne bf Delhi, and up sprang a crop of Viceroys, Nizams, Kings. Shas, Rajahs,, Newgubs and Nabobs, all over the provinces. About'this - time 11. B. M. East India Company came to trade, and stayed to rule. By cajoling one prince, threatening an other, invading a third, and prottc ing a fourth, they got the whole concern! into, the hands of John. Bull, and the lion' and the untebrn! ..If the Sepoys succeed in:seouririg a native Hindoo dynasty now, it will .be the first they ever had. —Albany Journal. .. . ' We may venture'!ori a. tfelipato jshtyjeot, per , haps, but. tlnrfollowihg brief extnfct’ from an . old London magazine expresses-oil rviews too ! nearly to pass unnoticed ' - "'7f *~WtiriVit ’Tli'ii I su bject of hair, in the" first piecewe can assure I them,,most,confidently, tbat fiO-TAr, is. it from I /.being.true (hat oils arid poinatumsjliOreose tho I lustre of the hair. (heir effeot'is'to dmnnish t’’ai polish- which Jt naturally possesses; while, whatever gloss they may give to the hair, which is dull, is false, and, like all other falsities, dis gusting. Absolute cleanliness, by uua is of water alone, to commence,, followed by brush ing in ihe.direction Of the hair itself, in a dry state, is the true method of giving to tl ehi ir all the polish of which it is susceptible ; and it is the effect of oils of all kinds to disturb or in jure this, ,tp say nothing of the disgust and ne cessary dirtiness of greasy hair, .It is the effect of oils, also, to prevent it from curling ; and this object is most effectually ob tained, if without artificial,means,, by curling it when wet, and suffering it to dry iri'that state. And as it happens that almost all hair has a tendency to curl in one direction rather than another, it is useful to study that tehdenev, so as to conform to it in tho artificial'textuisgiv en. As to artificial application;, the jvhole of the so-called curling -fluids are mere imposi tions ; while one, which is really effectual, and at tfio same time.inofiensivo, is ayye'ak .solution I of isinglass, by which a very firm and pornia nentform can be given to the hair; .V Origin of “Humbug.” This word is said to occur first in Fielding’s Amelia, 1751. One writer suggests that it is a corruption of the Latin Ambages ;<nnotherthat it is derived from a man named Hume, who, in olden.time in Scotland, succeeded; to the Bogue or Boog estate, and was known as “Hume o’the Bogue,” or “Aumeo’ the Bug,” who was so inclined to the marvellous, that when any one made an extraordinary statement, it soon be came to style it *' a o' the hug.” Which was soon shortened into humbug." " Get a Home.—Get a home, rich Or poor, got a home. and’lcarn to’ love' that home, and make it happy to "wife and children by your beaming presence; learn’to love simple pleasures, flow ers, of. God’s own planting, and music of his Own ; the bird, wind and waterfall. So shall you hfclp to Stem the tide of desolation, poverty and despair,'that comes upon so marty through, the scorn of little things. Oh, the charm, of a little hCme; Comforts dwell there that shun the gilded halls of society. Live huiuble in your little homo; and look to God for a.grand one. DCT” How true is the following stray clipping which wo And floating about: . ' “It is a noticeable fact that ,a, majority of the business,people who have “gone to the wall,” during tho late and present financial troubles, are those who “do not see the good of adverti sing in the newspaper.” Those who advertise liberally, as a-general thing, flourish and pros per in all sorts of times.” Odeating- Pbintebs.—An exchange says that a man who would systematically aiid wil fully sot abQut cheating a printer, would com mit highway robbery on a crying baby and rob it of its gingerbread—fob a cliurch of its coun ; forfeit pennies, tick the butter off a blind nig ger’s last .“flitter,” pawn, his grandmother's specs for a drink of whiskey, steal acorns' ftoin a blind-pig, and take clothes from- a scarecrow that ho may make a respectable appearance in society. ' . devil says the side-walks of our (own should bo widened so that the ladies may bqonabled'to “spread” themselves. The devil is full of impudence—that’s a fact. in?” A thing that should be remembered by the ladiesA mouth that is kissed does not lose its capacity hut reasons itself like the moon'. • Ap.experiment will prove it! Dir* The man who- was “moved to tears” complains of (ho dampness of tho premises', and .wishes to be moved back again- - * IE7” “Lotteries arc illegal, and marriage is tho greatest lottery in life. ” Ergo, it is against tne livw to cbtjimit malriniony. *»• Tlic Russian Empire, India. Treatment .of tlie. Eair. :• - . ; ,:••• • ha • ; • e - et • . • „ • t-.! • Circassian Beauties and Weddings. , * saw an ivory wristed Circassian at (ho house of a pasha, whose wife made a proud exhibition o( the damsel. I was sealed in a room when a heavy curtain (the undulations of which had greatly, contributed to arouse my suspicions) was gently moved on one side by unseen hands, and a young Circassian girl entered. She wore a veil, and as she paused timidly on the thres hold, I detected a glanco of almost fear, as he* largo bhtek eyes fell upon me. My lady friend motioned her forward with an imperious ges ture. She was magnificently dressed; her dark hair sowed,with pearls and her light blue trou sers, and turned’up slippers, heavy with gold and pearls. Obedient to her gesture she sat down on the edge of the divan, and certainly she was very beautiful. My rfoxt vision of beauty was in the house of a slave dealer, where a young rose of the moun tains was for sale. Turkish friend accompa nied mo, with an English artillery officer; and the Mohammedan gentleman proceeded to satis fy himself that the lady was, tender and supple as well ns fair. She submitted with sweet Im milityThe artilleryman, who was a tine, hand, some fellow, six feet in height, and a perfect model ot strength, depending doubtless upon us fascinations; next-approached (he.ladytint hardly had he laid his hands upon her, when j lull-on his devoted head.fell such a blow as nothing but ocular demonstration could have in duced mo to believe so fair a hand and arm could havo bestowed; followed such a torrent of abuse, such a deluge of words, that ; we were positively stunned. OurTurklsh friend smiled gravel}*; but nothing could possibly ap pease the insulted, fair, until we both left the room ; and as we descended the creaking stairs, the last sounds heard wore the angry exclama tions of tbo lady. She, indeed, to haft been touched by an infidel! a vile Christian I a dog of a Giaour! I will now give an account of an Armenian wedding. The family being well off, tho rooms wore- nicely arranged, and in part-were .carpet ed, and a number of mnsicians were playing bn tjio violin. I was conducted to the divan ; chi bouks, wine, nuts and sweetmeats being plenti fully handed.around from time to time. In the centre of tho divan khelta boy richly dressed. Tho violin players, every now and then, hurst into a wild extempore song,accompanyingthem selves o’n their instrumeits; —while the boy would from time to time start up and commence a violent kind .Of dance, beating castanets to keep tiino with his motions. This went on al most without intermission, for at least an'hour and a half, during which time, overy-one smo ked and looked bn, and. at tho end of that time, fairly, tired out 'with the noise, I left. The following morning the bride was taken to churcb. I did. not see her go, but I witnessed ; her,rcturn. She walked between two women—•! her bridesmaids, I presume—and. her face was concealed by a covering of crimson silk, orna mented, with gold, and .terminated by rich gold tassels. Silo was, preceded by singers, and fol lowed by at least seventy women. As she ap proached the threshold of her father’s door, a sheep was thrown at'her feet, and she suddenly -stopped with her bridesmaids, while its throat was cut'with a sharp knife, and the blood flowed in rivulets all round; the spot where she was standing. Advancing a step or two, she fre quently, stopped and kissed the hom of her fa- Ivors nOnrotlurcd to her of rich.sifkfinnd cloths;! / and.theso she reocifed herqolf,handing them to I her attendant womens while fli .■censor of-incense iras round, her head by her intlior. I conid not understand'tho custom of slaughtering a-shoep on. .such an occasion; nor did I speak enough of. the language to heable to discover its purport.— [Colonel WalmsUy. A Case of Imagination. , We were the witness of a very ludicrous ind ent which occurred in this city a few days since, lor relating which, wo crave tlie ihdulgenco of the gentleman directly concerned—deeming it too good a joke to be lost. , While sitting at our desk and laboring assid uously with pen, paste and scissors, make to ol ' t readable• paper for our patrons, we were suddenly frightened from our propriety, by the hasty entrance of a gentleman exclaiming: *< For Rod’s sake, help me to see what is the matter I’vo got some dreaiilul tiling—scorpion or tarantula—in. the log of my pantaloons!— (juice—-quick—help mo ! ” We instantly rose from our chair, half-fright oned ourselves. Onr friend had broken in so suddenly and unexpectedly upon us, and was so wonderfully agitated, that we know not whether he was tn his senses or not. Wo looked at him with a fort of surprise mixed with dread, and! hardly knew whether to speak with or confine him as a madman. The latter we came very near.attempting. There ho stood quiveringand pale, with one hand tightly grasped upon part of the pantaloons, just in the hollow of the kneo. “ What’s the matter ?” asked we at last. The matter !” ho exclaimed, “Oh, help me! I’ve got something here,-Avhich just ran up my log! Some infernal lizard or scorpion, I ex pect! Oh! I can’t lot it go j I must hold it.— Oh, there!” ho,shrieked, “I felt it move just then 1 Oh, those pants without straps 1 I’ll never wear another pair open at the bottom as long as I live. Ah,.l fool'll again.” “Feel what ?” we inquired, standing at,(ho same time at a respectable distance from the | gentleman; for wo had just been-reading onr Corpus Christ! correspondent’s letter about liz ards, snakes, and tarantulas, and began to iraa. gino some deadly object or reptilejn the leg of our friend’s unmentionables, as they are some times called. , . • . “I don’t know what it is,” answered the gen tleman; “ help mo to see what it is. I was Just passing the pile of rubbish there in front of your i office, and felt it dart up my leg as quick as lightning,” he clenched his list more lightly If it had boon the neck of an anaconda, wo be-1 lievo ho would have squeezed it to a jelly. By this time two or three of tlm newsboys had come in; the clerks and packing boys hearing I file outcry stopped working, and editors and all hands stood around tlio sufferer witli mingled sympathy and alarm. “ Bring a chair, Fritz,” said wo, “and let the gentleman be seated.” “O, I can’t sit,” said the gentleman; “I cnp. not bend my kneo I If! do, it will bite or sting me; no, I can’t sit.” . / “ Certainly you can sit,” said we; “keep ybuf log straight out, and wo’li see what it is you' have got.” “Well, lot mo give it one more hard squeeze; Twill crush it to death,” said lip and again ho put the force of an iron vice upon tlio thing.— If it had any life left litis last effort must have killed it. Ho then cautiously seated .himself, holding out his leg ns stiff and ns straight ns a poker A sharp knifo was procured ; the pants were cut open carefully, making a hole largo enough to admit a hand; tho gentleman put on a thick glove, and slowly inserted his hand, but jie dis covered nothing. Wo wore looking on in al most breathless silence,,to soo the monstrous thing, whatever it might bo; each ready to scam per out of harm’s way, should it bo alive, when suddenly tho gentleman .became, if possible, more agitated than ever. “By heaven I” ho exclaimed,” it’s inside my drawers. “It’s-alive, too-I feel i-quick givo mo tiro knife again.” A b°thor incision was made—in went (ho gen tleman's gloved hand once more, and io, out came ins wije’s stocking! 1 How the stocking over got there, we are una. hip to-say ;.but there it certainly was, and such a laugh that followed, wo hayon’t heard for many ft day. Our Iriond, \\o know, has told tho joke himself,, and must pardon us lor doing so. Al- 1' ~~' 4 .(hough this is about a stocking, wo assuro 01 readersdt is no yarn .'—if. Y. Dutchman. Triumph of Mind over Matto 1 Dr. Elder, in his interesting biography of Dr. Kane, relates that he once asked him after his return from his last. Arctic expedition, "for the best proved instance that he knew of the soul's power over the body—an instance that might push the hard baked philosophy of materialism to the consciousness of its own iddey.” He paused a moment, and then said, with a spring, “The soul can lift the body oil t of its hoots, sir. When our captain was dying—l say dy. ing, I have seen scurvy enough to know—every' old scar in his body was a running ulcer. If conscience festers under its wounds correspond ingly, hell is not hard to understand. I never saw a case so bad that cither lived or died. I Men die- of it ustiall}' long before they are so ns he was. There was trouble aboard there might be mutiny. So soon as the breath was out of his body wc might bo at each oth er’s throats. I fdt that he owed even the re pose of dying to the service. 1 went down to his bunk, shouted in his ear, ‘mutiny, captain, mutiny Ho heard the complaint, ordered punishment, and from that' hour convalesced. Keep that man awake with danger, and. he wouldn’t die of anything until his duty was dune.” , The Almond. The Almond is a native of Persia ami Noi •ern Africa, and is supposed to be a parent of the Peach.. The tr.ee itself so closely resembles the peach that they can scarcely be distinguish ed by, the growth of the leaves or the wood ; and the' two fruits bear a strong external re semblance to each other. "U r e have ourself ob served that the seed of the’Almond grown upon trees Very near to peach trees changes its form and’appearance so much.that it might bo taken for a peach stone, and that the flesh,, which in the almond is a mere dry woolly skin, becomes thicker and, more juicy. .There are many vari eties of the almond cultivated in the South of Europe,.which would no doubt succeed and prove profitable in our. Southern States. The Soft-shelled Sweet or.Ladies’ Almond is hardy as far north as Philadelphia; and the Com mon, the Hard-shelled Sweet, and the Bitter succeed and bear tolerable crops, without care,' in the latitude of Now Xork. The almond thrives best in a warm dry soil, and its general cultivation is exactly the same as that of tho peach. « . Little Esther’s Grave. She died with the flowers, and wo made a litllo grave ’neath sheltering boughs, where the groat oaks wave, towering majestic above the mound where-Esther sleeps, in the clay cold ground, each forest king to betoken his grief in silent sympathy drops down a leaf, all spotted, or yellow, or dotted With red, plucked from the crown bri Ills leafy head. Sad wailing winds sing a requiem deep o’er the grave where our little cherub sleeps, like a faded flower or a withered leaf, her days, alas ! .almostas brief. The leaves in circling eddies play, chasing each other, thedive long day like the feet offal* phiJVtjH the stern.kiiigcomea and 1 drives them awayi I sound, ha.njUts or acorns strike the ground, rust/o along. or else.rebound, waking, slight] nchoes all around, like a note of so | startling, it makes, on the heart an impression. | ’Tis ailowly spot as can bofound ’midst tow-1 ©ring monumehtsaround ; yet her mother loves to Unger and weep for the. child with the golden I hair. Sweet little dove, she found a rest for ; her tcnder'fect dri the earth’s cold breast. G, early called and early blest, rest in the ark of . safety, rest!. Though our hearts have been riv- 1 cn by the blow which was given, a brightchain ol love draws our souls hearer heaven. Hark ! the whispering transmitted with meteness befit ted, keep these words close in view—<« You may all come to mo, but I can’t come to you.’* —Methodist ProUiiant distressing Case of Hydrophobia. Miss Maliala Witman, an amiable yoqng la dy, a daughter of Mr. Peter Wilman, who re sides in Chester county; died from' the effects of the distressing malady, hydrophobia, on Wed nesday morning last.. The Reading Gazette says : “About nine weeks ago Mias Witman was bitten by a, dog belonging to her father. It was not supposed, at the time, that the dog tVas mad but the.family, being apprehensive that such might bo the case tied him fast in the sta ble,, where, during the night, he strangled him self with the rope bp which he was secured.— Two physicians of the neighborhood examined the dog and pronounced him not'mad. Not withstanding this positive opinion, however, on Monday, the 14th inst., the young lady was taken ill, and afterwards was seized with vio lent convulsions, liaving*all the symptoms of hydrophobia, and on Wednesday, the 10th, she died in the greatest agony. Miss Witman had been living with Miss Margaret Burcko as a mantua-maker until within the last eight or ten months, and was well known and highly es teemed in this city. ■ Damoerocs and Ugly Nightmare A moat singular occurrence transpired, a few davs since on the Baltimore and Philadelphia Railroad Mr. Higgins, ol Elkfon, took the-night train of cars for Baltimore, and fooling quite . drowsy, entered the smoking car, laid down on a bench and went to sleep. Whilst the train was pass-, ing over the Gunpowder river, he dreamed that Ilia house was on (Ire,’ and acting under (he in-' fiuenco of this dream, lie sprang up, ran out of (ho car, and jumped from (lib platform.' He landed on (lie tresael work that supports the bridge, and in his efforts to catch himself, his right arm was caught by the train and was shockingly crushed, lie was then in a perilous situation, being partly immersed in water; with nothing hut his hold by ids left arm upon the bridge to sustain him; whilst lie was suffering intense agony from his crushed arm. In this helpless condition lie remained for nearly thirty minutes, when his groans attracted the attention of tlio hridgo.teiider, who hastened to his assis tance. He was removed to a place of safety, and returned homo in the first train. Doctors Evans and Treadwell were called in and found it necessary.to amputate the limb. ,Ho now lies m a critical condition, hut his physicians have no doubt of ids recovery Baltimore Jl merican. An Editor s Audience.—Whom are you talking to $ \\ hy, to.a much larger audience thah the best conversationalist ever could boast of, and to more than ever listened to him du ring a month. ■ Ho/v few clergymen, how few lecturers, how few-public speakers of any-de scription ever . witnessed an audience half so large as that to which the editor of the smallest country paper preaches!—How many clergy men are there who are accustomed to audiences i of a thousand, and how few papers arc there I which do not strictly and liberally find more than a thousand readers. 017* The author of the following should bo watched or he might “back' out.” ■ . , A bigg disiructic durk I’il hi, . I’ll bid phafewell too every fear. Then wipe mine weeping T, Air knt mi throat phrom j r car to year. AT S?,00 PER ANNUM, •no. m v iKZJPe )voman’s.baUot,ho!Sv Ye*. t and- some 01-them deposit in, it. two baliotsnt. once. Now, isn’t that* illegal - ?: ■■'*;••• , j Kp“Pastry-cooks seldom. advertise, because'., a largo portion of their goodd are’ pnfls In them* - ' selves. ; * • I “ I nay, sonny, where does that right hand road go to?” “It ain’t been'anywhere since wo’vo Jived here,” was the hoy’s reply. . Dy Why are lawyers'like a lay man in bed in the morning?- ~ „ An f..— Because tliey lie first on one-side? and then turn over, and lie on the other.' OS’” An honest Indy when told of the death of her husband, exclaimed—« Well, I do declare, onv troubles never come alone t It ain’t a week since I lost my hen, and now Mr. Hooper has gone, too—poor man.” ■ , trs T4 t . a lnto Adding in Mass., the bride, who had just espoused her third husband, re* quepted the guests to sing the hymn of which ner first husband-was “so fond,” commencing t “ Hark from the tombs.” Pliancy the pheel inks of the happy bridegroom.-- • , . A very fat man,- for the purpose ol nniz zing Dr. ,of N~.— asked him tq pre sciibo.for.his complaint, whfeb ho declared was sleeping with liis mouth ojien. ' “ i! aiti Je Doctor, “yonr disease (s-iti curablo. Your skid is too short, so that, when yon-shut your cyos your month opens." - , Djr"'' “ How into is if ?” ■ “Look at the boss and see if I(o is drunk yet: if he is not, it can’t be much after cloven o’* cipek.” - . ■ “ Does ho keep'good time ?” -" “ Splendid ! they regulate tho town clock by ms nose.” a Grandpa, did you know that the Uni - . States.have been in the habit of encouraging lories?” ■ ° .‘• Certainly not, Simon, what kind of tories?” f ~,e ll' lni ' es ‘ ow give me some peanuts, oi 1 II cutcU'tlic measles, and niako you pay for ’em.” following is a apocoimcn of sharp shooting between a coqltetto and lier lover : “ r °» m °u are angels when yon woo Iho maid, But devils when Iho. marriage vow is paid.” j Tho-lover not to fio outdone, lepiied as fol lows : ■ - - - - - ■ “ Tho change, dear girl, is easily forgiven, " B e find wo are in hell instead of heaven.” • .Kf Somewhere In the West, a sable knight of the razor and brush hefd forth, and one day received a ensipmef in tho person of a lean spe cimen ol Hoosiqdpm. The face of the lloosicr was duly « souped,” and darkie’s razor was none too keen, as upon the first scrapo, Rooster yelled out; “ S,top, that Won’t.do!” ■ “ What’s the matter, boss ?” said darkey. ' "" hj your razor pul.'s.” • “ Oh, never you mind drtt, aah. If tho handle ° „ lc t fl zor don’t break, tho beard must come olf,” replied Soapy. [IT/-“Do try and talkaliltlccommon sense,” said a young lady to her visitor., “ Ah, but would tiiat not bo taking on un fair advantage of you ?'* DT7” A celebrated French woman lias well said that the greatest blessing a woman can re ceive on earth is the continuance of the affeclien of her husband after marriage. DT7* “ Sal,” said one girl to another, “ I’m so glad I havtMio beaux now.” , ’ V Why I” asked the other. “ Cause I can eat as many onions os I please?” . > ttTT” “ Don’t rob yourself,” as the farmer said to thb Lawyer who called him hard names.’. JT7’ He who rises ialo may trot all day, hut never ovbriakes his business. / ■, UT7”Xn what docs the American .Indian dif fer from a modern lady T ' Tl;c,ono, whoops in time, of battle, the other h'.Hijis in-time of peace. HT7“ A, jolly old doctor paid that people who were prompt in their payments always recover ed in their sickness, ns.-they were ’good’.custo mers, and physicians could not afford to rloso thorn. ’ - •♦ flotation .of .Crops. Uvcty 'farmer has .observed that after having raised thn same Kind of crops upon’.the same land, for several years in succession, it dogener r ales and decreases In quantity. • Even manuring will not enable him to produce the same grain as abundantly as at first, though Without it,-ho may obtain a full crop of some other grain or Hnfi 8 « ° n l ,on '*ho same land. Nurserymen vnnnot™ Ca ' Ulot I"'odu C o two Clops of OVQU " pon . ,lle samo and they gene " crons have "h" a "':’ Wpon wl,ich otllor , ! '-“land. Though these facts hosn f 1 - S ? n ’ a,ld - a ays'om of rotation had been founded upon them, but (cW trouble tliem , iff u <? i COn T S ( Uk ‘ r t! !° rc “ sons p PonAvi.icl, they aro based. It may-bo thonhgt onough to know that certain crops should follow each-other in a certain ordeiy that grass should follow grWn, and bo succeeded by com, &c.j but wo believe that it is as important for the farmer as for tho machinist, the mann/acturer.or'the professional man, to understand the reasons and principle upon which In's practice is hashed ; for it may be possible that the best prdcr of rotation has not yet been discovered, and if.anj* improvement is to bo mado.it is more likely to be effected, by intelligent application of well established prin ciples, than (o be accidentally • established by ladders in (ho old beaten track. . The most common opinion is that the neces sity for lotation is caused by the exhaustion of substancesi necessary for the particular prop cul tivated. Thus it is known that tho groin 'ro* qtmes a certain amount of phosphates,.the po tato amniiher root crops a supply of alkalis in tno soil, &c., and it is evident - that by repeated croppings the substances will bo exhausted, dr so greatly reduced us to produce but little e l~. ' feet. j Another theory is that plants throw ofTthrougli tho pores of their roots such substancesas hayd been taken into them and are not necessary for their support, nor even congenial to them; just , as animals, a/ter oxtracting from their food all the elements which they require, throw off, the uselcss.and, -(o lhom T injurious residue. These faces or excrements are .lodged in the soil and jiavo been found, by actual experiment to bo injurious to plants of thosanfo species as those ”* jvhich cast them out, though they may bouse ul to. others. - ■ ■ . J . Sufferings op a Party on thk PeA'ina.—A letter from the correspondent of the SL. Lbnfs Republican gives an account of sufferings ot" a' party on the Plains. It says f *' our way down Capt. Humbcr was'very ul, and I was apprehensive that- he might difl before we reached Fort Kearney. When.with m 100 miles of that post, to add to onr troubles and. anxiety, the snow commenced' falling fast, aud we were compelled to stop in the. timbers of the Platte River two days. Hero the Captain , was very’ill and suffered much from exposure and other discomforts.incideht to prali'ie Jife,at the present season. ■* • . * • ‘ On tho Bth of, November, with a Worn qufc team of starving mules, we resumed our jour* ney, my companions and myself walking through tlie deepest snp.w, as our tired animals could scarcely draw the carriago with tlie sick Captain; our provisions, guns, kc. On the 12th of No vember our teams gave out entirely, and there was no alternative 1 oil us but to abandon cat< riage, mules,.and other property and walk to I brt Kearney, a distance of some 18 or 20 mites. Exhausted ourselves, and tho Captain scarcely able to be out of, bed, it .was a dreary piospect. not proceeded far when the Captain threw himself oh the snow and said he could hot go any furfher, urging us to go on and save our selves. Wo got him on his feet and. on wo trudged, making, slow and painful., prp&rosL through the snow. Every, fifteen' or twenty minutes the Captain would lay down hi' the snow, begging us to go on and leave him?, wav would then take him .by,the arms, carry hinv'; through the deepest drifts, and, in this way wo made our weary march, until wo camo In.jdgHt of a trading post three miles west onF'offc Kear ney. This gave, us new-life/and after, a three hours tramp .wo reached, that placo just aaLnight set in, and so worn down thatwc could n6t havb walked a quarter of a.mile further. •. » Humorous Items. MI * - x ~ 1 " 4 Nl' ,' ~f"J.. . i.:i `1
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