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THE GUBL UP EOIDES H4lB,
I hare a little treasure.
More beautiftil to mo,
'Than aught ot gold or silver,
Or brightest gems I see.
; s Tis not a costly jewel—
and.fino
a tiling of value,
■',7 To other,hearts than mine'.
And it priceless, ;
More precious tar than gold;
ilore beautiful and lovely, .
. Than earthly, genis are told.
•’Tis not in Iron enffera
Aly treasures safe,l keep* -
&nd though I prize itjiigldy,
1 often o’er it.wecp.
in a closely - folded paper,,
And laid away withjeare-^
.Lies a little sunny ritiglehtj
A curl of golden luiir.' ■
With beauty once it shaded
A lair and lovely brpyy: •;'' .
And though long years have Wasted, ,
Mothinks I see it now. ,
How oft my fingers pressed it,
: , And twin’d it.o’er and.o’er,
JV.lt wet w ith tears of .anguish;
'.'Such tears can.flow no.more —
iFof the angels came,and culled him
To live .with them above,
Willie my. heart, ivas alfo’erflowing
With a mother’s earliest love.
Then, O! how sad and lonely
IVas .everything to : me;
Ilia playthings all were gathered,
■ for those I could, not see ,
Wo put away his.cradte,
With bis little cushioned chair ;
* And uiy hcirr, like them ivas vacant,
.• ■d?or hope had withered there. -
- In the dark cold grave we laid him;
Where the weeping willows how;
And of him this precious relic
..Is ail that's left me now.'
■•ls it slrdhgV that I should love it, ‘
And guard it well,wilh cure; •
Tiiis little giossj- ringlet.
This curl of golden hair 7
PASSIM AWAY.
»t C. BWAI.V,
Look froin tlie casement—look and tel!
What’s passing, mother dear;
Since dawn, I’ve.heard a funeral bell,
. Slow pealing on my ear ;
And now; there cofnes tlie solemn fall
, t)f footsteps sweeping nigli;
Iloolt down the street, 1 hear their feet.
Some funeral's passing hyl
The mother gazed with anxious face,
But nothing there was seen,
£keept each old accustomed place,
Qnd what had dKlwjrfl thin."- ''
Mlhiiamejnt yet.doar mother,.stay?, --vpairSicy'
- I .’ '■ Strange soundw ave on thd'air, j T'p'—o '
Likc.angels singing on their way; ■*<’
- Orvoices deep In pray op I .".
Oh, lift my pillow high—hiofohigh—
.. FsorT am hunt and Jew
Jlolp mo to look npGjTthc sky*
, And bloaa them eKo / . ,
The mother raised her daughter’s head,*
But no word could she speak; .
The hope that from her hosom fled.
Left tears upon her cheek.
The night looked thro’ the easement old,
. And saw a cheek so pale— -
A form so wasted, thin* and cold—
. No skill might there prevail;;
But that which, conquers Death yet beamed
Upon her wasted brow;
And sweet, as though an angel dreamed,
The sufferer rested now ! .
Ah, wUo the mothers grief may tell ?
• . Or \ylio may com/orf bring ?
Vet, high above the ftihernl bell
She heard.the angels sing i
■MiMmimis.
The-Spanish Widow.
•BY DR BALLAC.
Thbrc fifed iff the province of Galicia a lady
W perfectly beautiful, that she was called by all
travellers, and indeed by all who beheld her,
the '‘Flower of Spain.” With these excellent
charnis she possessed all the Virtues'which so
rarely are to be found united to' such extreme
personal loveliness. She had, therefore, 1 piany
Wooers, but especially a Certain old knight of
Castle, as coarse in mind as he was ungainly in
person. Being very wealthy, he fully expected
this beautiful creature would gladly become his
Wife! the more particularly as she was of poor
—though well born parentage. But she prefer
red, to allow her affections to' rest on a young
gentlemen of small estate, but amiable charac
ter, and being married to him, they retired to
, the provinccs, and<spent,three years of as per
fect happiness as is permitted frail mortals l to
enjoy- At the end of this period he was obliged
lo go to Madrid bn the business of o lawsuit-;
and was unfortunately murdered on the way.
leaving his unhappy widow with one little hoy,
uw.'i” r <v r , Btrn 'gbiened Circumstances.-
t. he ,,° k ! i '!! eh 1 "gain proffered his
hand, which she decidedly rejected : he neiiher
respected the saoreduess of her grief nor her
forlorn state, but. molested her so continually
with tetters and presents, that, but for her fa
therless child, she would have been content to
(dicl JAt length she determined to withdraw" ib
/some remote village, to free herself from this
Odious persecution. A few days before the
tifiic gliq had fixed on to remove to her country
; lodging, her servant, Maria happened to obfcri
„ door of the closet in her mistress’ bed-room/
When out fell the dead body of a man ; and the
police being .summoned by her-shrieks, they
of Castile, though his countenance was so
lackencd_nnd distorted as to appear scarcely
human. It, was evident that he had perished
by poispn • antj as the,unhappy Indy could give
no account of the niattcr.’in spite of her
to fair, and unblemished reputation,’she was
thrown, in.qpi-iKonashis murderess. Thcper-
S lv"!v^ e • md; n ljf l crcd the. deceased
knight was generally knovvtj, hut, was now at
tnbuted to, a dishonorable cause arid the murder
Of her husband never having been cleared up
s>nsidorad by .many persons as .guilty
of both crimes, and the whole province was
Chocked' that so beautiful a creator should have
tpus brought disgrace upon her sex, and upon
human nature. At her trial, the court was
crowded to excess, and ns the Indy had nothing
to cjler bu t assertion of her .innocence, thoseic
yapt, Maria, having ;suddcnly disappeared, thq
pupho ndyocato .proceeded to .pass sentence of
death. It was the custom in those days for a
woman, who had committed murder; to be first
strangle!}, and then burnt.iii tlie market place;
American
BY JOHN B. BRATTON;
TOt. 44,
but* before this sentence could bo .pronounced, a
witness was moved,by remorse to Come forward
' n Aj er behalf, ■ This was the servant Maria,
who had hitherto been disguised in the body of
the court. : She stood on ono of the benches,
and earnestly entreated- to be heard.’ She then,
confessed that she had been prevailed on by the
bribes and promiaesbf the old knight of Castile,
who declared ho intended lb marry her mistress,
to secrete him in the lady’s chamber,' but sol
emnly declared she knew no other cause of his
death except that on .one of the shelves she had
placed some sweet cakes mixed with arsenic to
poison the rats, aiid that the knight, being ra
ther gluttonous, might have eaten of. them in
the dark, and so .died; At this ; prbbable ex
planation, the court was instantly moved to de
clare; the lady’s innocence with one voice. She,
reviving a little at the noise, and being told of i
this providential. discovery, only clasped her )
linnds and thcn jii a few, words,'commending
her son to tile guardianship of good men, ex-I
claimed,"! can never survive the shame oft
this -tinwoi thy. reproach,” and, with a deep
sigh, expired on the spot.
Sally’s Advice to Girls,
( Girls,_you want to get-married, dpn’t you ?
Ah, what a natural tiling it is for young ladies
to-hwesucl. a hankerin' (or the sicincr sex,—.
Well, If you want to get married, don’t for con
science sake, act like fools about it. Don’t get
into a fit of, nips every lime you see a hat or a
pair of whiskers. Don’t get the idea into your
heads that you must put yourself into the way
of every young- man in the neighborhood in or
der to attract notice, for if you den’t rim after
the men, they will run after von. Mark that.
A husband hunter is the. most detestable of
all young ladies. :She is full ofslai ch pdekers:
she puts on many false airs, and she is so nice
Uiai .sheappears .ridiculous in the eyes of even*
•decent person.. She may generally be found at
the mooting, coming course, about the
last one; always at social parlies, and invaria
bly takes a front seat at concerts. She,tries to
be the belle.of the place, and she.thinks she is,
I oor girl I You are fitting yourself for an old
maid, just as sore as the; Sabbath comes on
Suiiday, Men will fiirt with, you, and flatter
you simply because they have no more idea of
making a wife of you than committing suicide,
it 1 was a young man I would:have no more to
do with such a fancy girl than 1 would’ with a
rattlesnake. ,
1 ; Now, girls; jot Sally give a |>icce of her ad
vice, and she knows from experience if you
practice it you will gain a reputation of being
worthy girls, and siand a faircha'nceof gelling
respectable husbands. It is well enough for
you 10 huger the.piano, work eiiibroidct-y, slu
u\ gt'auimar. &e,, but don’t neglect noor grand
ma or your dear mother; teach yourself to make
bread and get a meal oh victuals good enough
lor a king; no part of a housekeeper's .-duties'
should be. neglected ; if you do not , get a
wealthy husband, you, will need to know how
: u as you would have thein
uono.- Ahectatiou'. is iho most despicable' ol all
aC( ?9Wtll' ii bmenUr, and wilbonlyiop'ußC'Sensible
people to laugh at you, ' -;|id:bnctbijit gfool will
ren tsfc in, asrly>tp,
.Dress plain but neatly. ’ KemembcT lhaf no
thing gives 'a gjrl ;J so f'rndtlestr becoming.'and
lovely an;appeAr^ncc dress.. All the
nurpmpry and tinsel.. s \V)brlc f of the'.dressmaker
and miHmer Are Unnecessary. 1 ’
If you ore teally hahdSome. fhcv do not add
to yotir beauty one par'ticlb:*;’ify6u arc honiely
they only make ..you 'look. : worse; Gentlemen
don’t touiH.your faccs.and jewelry, but your
own dear sctve£.
Finger rings and fOldcrbls miiy dfo’tb look at,
I but they add nothing to the vahieof a wife—all
young men know that- If von know how to
talk do it naturally; and do riot be so distres
smgly nice as Ip spoil all'you Say. If your
neck is black, wear a lack collar, but don’t be
foolish enough to daub on paints, thinking/that
people are so blind as not to sce .it ; and if your
cheeks are not rosy, don't apply pink saucers,
for the deception will be detected, and become
the gossip of the neighborhood
A Kick “ Sell.”
In 1838 I cariie to Rochester, and was there
when that sublime fierce was enacted'on Mount
Hope. . A vvhg at Mount Morris found a quan
l|ty of bears bones, which he palmed "off as the
bones of 001. James 'Boyd and company, of Re
volutionary Celebrity. .-The military look it up,
and completed the humbug. A pompous.fune
ral was .’planned, and Govo Seward invited to
dchyer the, funtral address.,,; The cheat was dis
covered by sonic of the Rochester faculty a
day or two before its consummation, but such
was" their fear of these military mobocrats that
they kept the secret to.tberhsclvefi. ■ Never had
.poor Bruin such a poiupcous funeral. Jt is
supposed that seven thousand persons followed
in procession.; j Gov. '.Seward ; was particularly
eloquent on this farcial occasion.
Rellow-citizchs,” said he, in his exordium,
•‘there is a history contained in the mouldering
bones deposited in that ririi.”
lie was right.. There was a history. Not
of battle, blood and Indian' massacres, but of
devastated,corn .fields,' murdered porkers, and
unhlial cubs ; a theme as fruitful and diversi
fied if not as spirit stirring and as interesting.
In a few days the secret leaked Out—the joke
was to , good to keep: editors wrangled, doctors
-quarrelled, the military swore, but they had no
redress ; they had been most unmercifully snki,
and to this day you cannot touch an inhabitant
ol .Rochester''in a more tender place than to ask
nim.if he inade. one of the beer precession to
■ r ll /, ’ or 'I lie was particularly edified
with Goy. Seward’s oration over bruin’s sacred
remains, —rSuffato Repblic'.
Excessive Eating.— ln a letter to Lord
Murray, Sidney Smith says ; ; ' ; •
‘„ y ?" ar ®> I herfK.attending more to diet
happineks! l ”n°the jouThouM
weight' of d wh In rrlr i ,- Having ascertained the
weight of what I did live upon. I found thnf
between 1° and 70 years of ageT had eaten arid
drunk 44 one-horse wagon lodds of meat and
drink.mpre than would have preserved me in
hfeand health. . The value of this mass of nour
ishment is considered to,bo worth, £7,000 ster
ling.' It occurred to me that I must, by vora
city, have starved to death more than 100 per-'
sons. This is a frightful calculation, but irre
sistably true—and I think, dear Murry, your
wagons would.need additional horses.”
r .Pm'??** 1 y° ur heart,”, said a considerate
lather to his son, “for,you are now going among
spme fascinating.girls,” “ I had much rather
steal theirs, said the unpromising young man.
.P* “- I .°™ all heart,” said a military officer
said M«T ad “’ y°"' re not part pluck,”
said hja.supenor offleep in command.
ttiPT l^*icrc 13 a IPan in Hampshire so mean
that ho was caught stealing acorns from a blind
' [Ffotn ihc Boston Traveller j
A Talking Bird..
VYe saw the talking bird, Mine, at his house
in Trembnt street,, No. 74, a few days since,
and were much dstonished . and pleased. . It is
difficult to give an adequate description of him.
He is about the size of the American crow or
blackbird, although a little heavier, llislength
;from the lip of the bill to the end of the tail
feathers, is about twelve inches. - Hehasaycl
low bill one inch in length. His plumage is re
iparkably beautiful' when it glistens in the rays
of the sun. is very rich variegated purple
and green. The wings arc nearly black, with
white bars near the ends.’- The feathers on the
head are very short, fine and (hick, and resem
ble the richest gloss of dark .velvet. Jlehas a
| beautiful lappel of bright yellow extcnding.from'
each side ot his head to the nape of his neck:—
! 1 here is also, a small yellow" oblong mark on
*each sideof his head. Ilis legs and claws -arc
yellow. Ilis tongue is long,* pointed at the end.
broad in the throat and flat; thus differing from
that of the parrot, which ik rbund, short and
somewhtft curved.
Mr. James Mann, the well-known taxider
mist, informs ns that the Mino-birds, so'called,
are natives, of Java, and that they arc rare even
m that island ; moreover, they seldom talk.
They have a great appetite, and will :cat.vora
ciously cooked dr raw meat, bread, potatoes
and fruit, although.they appear to relish simple
meal and milk. , Mr. Mann possessed a Mino
bird some years ago which could whistle and
imitate different sounds, but could not pro
nounce words. '. • - ' r
.The bird Alino, in Treraont street, (he pro
perty of Mr. J. Chesley, has a fine tenor voice,
and shows what may truly be termed intelli
gence. We have seen several persons looking
admiringly at him, and have heard him say, in
the most distinct manner, after gazing intently,
apparently listening to the conversation, “Mv
name is Mind.” After waiting some time ns if
expected a compliment to be .bestowed, upon
him, he raised his beautiful head and proudly
said.“Mino is. a pretty bird.” If-no person
offers any words of praise, he'jumps about his
large cage.a few times, turns his back to the
astonished spectators, and indignantly and erii
phaticaliy says, in a sharp tone, ‘‘(to away!
go away !” He then gives a loud and hearty
guffaw, exactly like the “ha-ha-ha!” of a hu
man being.
, , Of course, everybody ' laughs ■at the ’ droll'
bird, and .the,the droll bird laughs again, and
says, “Good morning.” When he sees his ad
mirers disperse, he tolls them in the plninst lan
guage to “shut the door.” -If.heis asked his
name in an affectionate manner, he willimme
rliately reply, “My name isMino'; how do yon
dof When he hears several persons convert
’smg earnestly together, without laking-anyW
.tice of him, he exclaims, “What arc you lallt
‘ingjfor?” Thew ords are so suddenly spoken, :
and the sound so, clearly resembles a human
voice, that one is really inclined to reply that
it; is none of your business. But Mi ho' is po
litOj well educated, and very amusing, although
ho is Vain and fond of flattery.
■ There js; n.car the Tokulk Diggings, In Cal.,
a hotel that-was the .scene of'an incident which
gave rise to no .'little merriment. It appears
that on nn.occnsioh not vely remote, its iaiid
iord was presented, by his;big-.wily, with a fine
twelve pound specimen of a, California baby;
and this event coming to the ears of a wag, he
circulated the story that-the host had found a
•twelve pound chunk,' which ran like wild lire
through tiic place, and caused no small degree
of excitement. ' ■
A few weeks afterwards, ns the story goes, a
miner from another quarter, having heard of the
twelve pound chunk, arrived lit this hole], and
made application to the landlady for lodging.
Her husband being absent, she attended to the
guest, when;the .following conversation took
place, whiclislipqra bo prefaced by the remark
that the story had exploded several days before
his arrival, and the, landlady had enjoyed the
•soil’ with the rest. ,
■ ‘ It was your husband ma’am, wasn’t if: who
got the twelve pound chunk?’ ...
• “He.h?d soiite help,” she replied, laughing:
‘Yes, I suppose so I Where was ho digging?’
. “Oil, that’s a secret I”,
‘Tos, I-siippboo it is,’ replied the miner, ‘ho
tliinkq'he’ll get another chunk (liofo, don’t lio?’-
i. ;‘1 don’t know what Ae.thiqks, but I know he
won’t.’ . ■' '-i
•X should think if not probable, although it is
possible.’
“So they say.”
The miner here paused arid awhile, at last af
ter setae reflection, ho said: ‘I suppeso the
chunk’s gone,-ain’t it?’-, ' . '
‘Oh, no! it’s in ..the other room, would you
like to see it?’ .
‘Well f should'—but ’faint layin’round loose,
is it ?’
.‘Not exactly,’ replied the landlady; throwing
open the door, (for there it is in the cradlsj’ .
. The miner bent over, when a pair of chubby
fists were.extended, and giving (lie jolly landla
dy one look, lie' asked' to bo directed to his
sleeping-placo, and next morning. loff for parts'
unknown.
One's Motiiee. —Around the idea of one’s
mother, the mind clings with fond affection.—,
It is the first dear thought stamped upon pur
infant hearts, when soft and capable of receiv
ing most, profound impressions, and all the af
ter feelings are more or less light in comparison.
Our passions and our wilfuiness may lead us
from the object of our filial love,; we may,be
come Wild, and angry, at her coun
sels or opinion ; but when death has stilled her
monitory voice, and nothing but calm memory
remains to recapitulate her,deeds, affection, like
a flower beaten to the ground bs a rude storm,
raises up her head and smiles through her. tears.
Around the idea, ns I have said, tile mind
clings with fond affection ; and even when the
earlier periods of our loss forces memory to -bo
silent, fancy takes the remembrance, and twines
the imago of our departed parent with a gar
land of graces, and beauties, and virtues, which
we doubt not that she possessed.
“ Anotiieii Kansas Outrage.”—news
paper :n Kansas publishes flomc execrable dog
gcred verses, entitled “Why don’t you take
™ p aP e r?V and credits them “By N. P.
Vtilts. Rut. although the poetry is nothing
to brag of, the sentiments “do honor to the
head and heart” of the worse than plagiarist
who charges them upon the sparklinggenius of
Idlowtld. The final stanza - embodies a great
truth in a stylo not the most attractive:—
‘ I‘or ho who takes the papers
And pays his bill when due,
Can live in peace with God and man
And with the printer too.” ‘
DC' ” Comp here, and tell mo what the. four
seasons are? ’ Young prodigy answers, “Pep
per, mustard, salt, and vinegar ; them’s what
mother always seasons with!” ’ ■
O” Good morning, Jones—how docs the
world use ypu?”—“lt uses mo' up, thank
you.”
' C 7” Surely soma people must know them
selves—-they never think about anything else.
“Offll COUNTRY—MAT IT ALWAYS .BE RiGHT-BUT BIGHT OR WRONG, OUR COUNTRY.”
CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, MRCH 25, 1858.
Du, could there in Ibis world bo found ‘
Some little.spot of happy ground,
Where Village pleasure might go round ':'ti
Without the village tattling; '■ • '•
How doubly blessed that place would be,
Where all might dwell in liberty, ■ ■ '
Free'from the bitter misMy ' r
0/ gossip’s endless prattling. • . i ;
If such a spbt were ircally knowu, • .
Dame peace might chum it as her oivuj ’
And in it she might flxMier throne • £
Forever and forever.
There like a queen might rci-m tlncl live, •.
While every one.wonld soon forgive / . T
The little slights they might receive,. 1U
And be offended never’. - T
*Tls mlsohief-makers' tbat remove
Far from our heart’s I hi; worth ol lov I ,','
And leads all to disapprove : ’
What’gives another pleasure. >*• s'
■They seem to take one's part—but when <:
They’ve lifcard our cares, unkindly then ,4
They soon retail' them all again, c
Mixed with poisonous. measure, ■'
Arid thoy’vo sUch a cunning way V
Of telling ill-meant tales j they say j , f
Don’t mention what I piay,” . '
,I wbntd riot tell another;” . '
Straight to your neighbor’s house they gq,
Karrafiug'crerylhirig they:know,
And break fhe.peace of high and low, ;
Wife, friend and brother. ’ %
Oh, that tha. riiischict-iriaking crew ■;
Were all reduced to, one or two, I
And they were painted red or blue, i
. Thatiovefy one might know them! t
Then would dur Village soon iorget, ■
To rage and qtiarrdl, fiiriio and tret,
And fall into an anrgy pet '
With things so much below them.
For if is a sad, degraded part , N
To make another bosoni;smart, ; :'
And planfa dagger imtbo heart . j-j.
Wo ought to,love arid cherish j \i
Then lot us evermore bo found
In quietness with ail around,' y
.While friendship, joy and peace abound, i
And angry.feelings perish! -
Scenes in tie Streets cf. Paris,
DUIUNG THEHEVOLUTIOK OF 1848?'
While ibis-scene passing at t lje Chamber
°f Deputies, wild work, was going oni’ irr ft her
parts 6f the city. I-returhcd
at due o’clock. Fr6ih,lh(>Modeleine to
Lille, ithat rnagnificcpt rahge ofstiTcts prekonlcd
a scene .of destruction.- , Laige trces whicbjsha*
dt*d the cut down'.to form bhrri
ers across Every .pillar was pver
turnra.- an‘ ailaclc on a guard.ffousc
which stood,-Jby,. the Madeleine. . Happij»«he
soldiers were no longer in it. or they woulckbave
perished tod. Blows on blows made the Ikiards
Uy, in .every direction-', ..Doors, and windows
.were smashed through,' aijd; then the'whole
building set oii lire. . - , ,7,7 ...
At the llotel of the late Minister I saw post
„ w&A „r a J? e ß Par J'", < ; nt 10 'et' inmicdialely.’’
mounted on a alone to speak;; The. people fan,,
around to meet.-him., He annnnifoed ilje order I
of thedny, add flmshcd by shputiuf. rsTo the
,I'mlerica ' and (6 the-Palais ,Koval Arimi
tional guard replied, telling .'the.,.pcdpjo td go
but to go-with order, for, without order thev
could,not have liberty, ■,T
I was much amused to see the hiogical trans
formation which many shops w'oi-e undergoing.
1 he.signs, which but yesterday had made their
glory, that such a shop was patronised by the
King qr some member of the Royal Family
were instantly painted out. by. their owne<h Or
torndpo'nby the people,. .Thd Rbyalarml in
nil forms ofg;uilt and bronze descended to the
, “ P.vvhat a fall wa,s there!” Royal
ity. had suddenli'become cheap, and. every one
Wished to cast off the.imputationofhaving any
thing,todo with-it., 6 .
But lo!, a triumph*] - procession approaches,
A taotley, crowd,.looking like one of EulsUff’s
regiments, came up the street, some bearing
■ trophies, a soldier s hat, a gun, a sword, dr a
cockade, andon the shoulders of others a large
gilded armdhair. It was the throne ! • Thepeo
pie had precipitated theniselves into the Palace
by.dne ffoof aTniost as soon as the Icing had es- :
caped by another. They carried off'the throne
IhOy marehed on tvi.li it to the
place of the Bastille. ~On that memorable spot,
where has been reared a column id commemo
ratethei Revolution p( 183(1,and under which
rest the bones Of the victims of the Three Days
the throne Of Louis Phi.ippo was burned'to ash
es. ’
I now went to the Tuilorieai ; The work of
fighting was over, but that of destruction was
still going on. I should think there wope Sev
eral thousand people in,the palace. The win
dows were thrown open to the top story, and
the clothing and lighter furnituretpssed out
Old coats and pantaloons streamed'‘■like baii
jnerS ip the sky.” Books were torn ,to pieces,
and thousands of leaves'and papers were flying
in the air. Some dressed themselves in the
court liveries’ which they found, and* appeared
on.lhe: balconies,.looking like harlequins. It
was a-grand masquerade given at the King’s
expense: many of the people were in' the attic;
Some on the reof, wliere they had fastened their
flag in triumph ; others discharging thef?gu'ns
in the air, while all the' time the palace bell
rung:a peal of victory. ; .
I passed around to the Place ,du Carousal, in
the rear of the palace., The people had got to
the kitchens and cellars, and were drinking of
the wine, ’perhaps to his majesty's’health.—
These'uninvited guests drank as freely of the
royal bottles as if they had all been kings.—
Bonfires in the courtyard werccbnsnihihg frag
ments of, carriages and ifurniture, which’ were
tumbled without ceremony into the flames.-.
Yet with all this destruction there.,wa§ no
rudeness.or attempt at personal violence.. The
people were civil and merry in their work, —
And I could forgive this momentary indigna
tion and revenge to men whose friends had been
shot in cold blood the evening before.
When the people first burst into’ the Palace
r ard, some excited by the conflict, rushed to
lay violonthands oh thesoldicrs. “ They have
killed my brother,” cried one, “ at the Palais
Koyal. I must kill someone.” ‘‘lf you. kill
any one,” replied a national guard, “ theh you
will kill your brother also.” The sublimity of
this sentiment instantly disarmed his revenge.
IC7”Mr. Darden, of North Carolina, wh°
died last year, was 59 years of age. "lie was ,7
feet 0 inches high, an'd at his death, weighed .a
fraction over 1,000 lbs. , To 1853 ho was quite
active, and labored ; after.when, his fat increas
in
ig, ho was hauled about in a two-horse wag
on. It required 134 yards of flax cloth, a yard
wide, to make him a coat; 16 yards of cambric
were required for his shroud, and' twenty-four
yards of velvet for his pall.
fty An Ohio farmer who find driven his
wagon eight miles to market in Cincinnati be
fore daylight, upon stopping heard the crowing
of a'cock; and upon examination found'four of
ibis'chickens roosting on the coupling-polo un
derneath the body of the vehicle.
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ANECDOTES OP. STOMP SPEiRISG.
The system of canvassing and electioneering
as it is carried on In. the Southwest, affords
much that it is amusing as well as instructive.
We find in the “ Editor’s Drawer,” of Harper
for December, a rich joke said to have occurred
in a canvass in Tennessee, between the Hon.
Cave Johnson and Major thistavus A. Henry.
As the story runs, Major If., in reply to il
lusion of his opponent as to his maimer of sha
king hands, said ; - . *.
“ I will iell you a little anecdote , illustrative
of the peculiar Ch ciiohecring abilities of ray
honorable friend in his intercourse with Our in
telligent consiitucnta. We were canvassing in
a remote part of the district, and, having an
appointment io speak near the house of a very
influential Squire, we spent the previous night
at house together, tt Was well known that I
the Squire controlled all the - voies-in that pre* j
cinct, and his better half controlled him, so
that it was all important to get on the right
side of her. Wc had agreed not to electioneer
with the squire while we staid with him ; but I
did not think this forbade me to do my best
with his family. So. I rose about davbrcak
the next morning, and, thinking that. I should
make friends with the mistress of the house by
bringing water to cook the. breakfast, I took a
bucket and started off tor the spring. • I was
tripping oft on a‘light fantastic toe, 7 -singing
merrily as I went along, when what on, earth
should I see, as I .looked into the barn-bard,
but the old woman milking the cow, while my
honorable friend, with his face rudy with morh
mg exercise, and his .long : lccks streaming in
the breeze, was holding the cow by the tail! I
Saw in an instant that he had the start of me.
I returned to the house discohifitled, and aban
doned all hope of a vote in that region.”
Ibis reminds us of a good thing that occurr
ed .in,Marshall county,.in this Stale. . A young
Fillmore orator, who was aUo editor of the Fil
lmore organ in that county, made a speech at
the little village of Chulahoma, in the course of
which he charged Mr. Buchanaii with being in
favor of “squatter sovereignly.” The speaker
on the opposite.side was the Hon. J k W. C., a
distinguished member of the Legislature, and
in the course of his reply, hc.td'rnp.to his oppo
nent and inquires, “ Did you say Mr. Buchan
an was in favor of squatter sovereignty “ X
did/ 1 replied the Fillmore man., “ Why' you
don t call this squatter sovereignty-, do- 3 r ou
says Mr. C., reading somclhipg from. a'docu
ment. “Of course I do,” was the 5 reply.—’
‘‘ 1 hen,*’ says Mr. 0., turning to the audience:
“ allow me to inform the gentleman that what
I have read is from Fillmore’s Lockport speech.”
It is hardly necessary to say that there wi s no
great number of Fillmore votes made there that
day. It is said that ever afterwardsoiir editor
orator Was remarkably particular how he an
swered questions put to him in debate.
Senatorial Sketches.
lc !j vo ty.W tho
ie . • following sk'&qh of
Davis, -: tyr-tlfe way, sup-
J find> to bo aroughback woodsman—a
s ®P ca l cer ihclCui/otu calibre; but all
li ** e * fl PP car ance .ip the-Senate, were acVce-
Ably,surprised.; He 1 is .tali, well
dressed m neatly fitted black clothes, is -closc
t 00 ’ npp9 a rs -very gentlemanly.—
When ho addresses the Senate, it is in a low,
well pictured voice, in, modulated' tones, which
often seem musical, and in a slow, but flowing
manner, the words distinct, • but seeming to
melt in each other,, and in words which bear
signs of great effort at a ■ good choice; some
t lines of a want of taste, but never of a. want of.
pains in their selection. Ilis gestures are easy,
mough sometimes rather awkward, ns he is so
tall. In speaking, his manners arc. unembar
rassed, and though sometimes full of enthusi
asm, arc never violent. Ho evidently aims at
logic rather than eloquence. ■ He is considered
as the ablest Debater on the Administration
side, in the absence of Douglas. Nord Napier,
at the last levee of;the President, gave his opin
ion of several Senators ih the following words,
which are valuable as characteristic of his lord*
ship, as well as conveying .the general opinion
of the public in regard to. the men he mention
cd, He said
! *“Qi the Senate, Air. Seward is the most as
tute politician—Air. Hunter ihe profoundest
thinker; Air. Davis the ablest debater, and Air.
Sumner the deepest scholar.”
Senator, limiter is well.described by his lord
ship. At the head of die Finance Committee of
the Senate for the Inst foufyearshehas brought
out measures and reports which exhibit a pro
foundity of thought and research which is itself
highly creditable, whatever may be said of their
direction. In the general course of debate, he
takes but Jittle part, but what he says is; al
ways to the point. A : s his attention is almost
always centred on’ the dry detail of finance, he
seldom gives the Senate' an; opportunity to wit
ness his powers ; but when ho does, his speech
es iire received: with the deepest- attention.—
Few who heard his -remarks on the death of
Brooks will forgot their solemn beauty, and
their delicate, appropriate’trr&uto to the merits
oven we allowed that ho possessed, and the
deprecating manner, lather than words’, by
which, while Senator Ifuntor was speaking, pur
thoughts were kept far from the one act by t
which all the good qualities,of the deceased arc
now covered by the dark veil of obloquy.
Influekce of Soko.—Most-of ex
perienced the luxury of tears when listening to
an old ballad. We know an pld man, who,
haying lived a long career of vice and crime,
was at length banished from the country ; and
who while undergoing his period of banishment
amid the wilds and jungles of a distant land,
heard m the summer eventide a sweet voice,
singing in his own language the very song
which had lulled him to ,his infant slumber,
when he knew crime by name, and knew it on
ly to abhor. It had been sung, 100, by the
cradle of an infant sister, one who had died
young, and was,now in heaven;' the. mother,
too, was ijo more.
Butthespng—the old song had not lost its
influence. Back came trooping
upon liiih.ltieold ineinorics-which had so long
slumbered down therein the unconsumcd depths
of. his heart; the mother and the father; the
household gatlysing; the old school house ; the
time-worn church, half hidden hy the old yew
trees, where he had heard the bible read, all
came back upon him ns fresh as it were yeslcr
day, ho gave vent to a flood of tears. And then
the old man grew calm, and his latter days
were his best days; and when the term of his
punishment had expired, Ho came back to his
father s land, and there in that old village grave
yard, amid whose grassy, hillocks he had play
cd and gamboled, and where the mother and
her htt e ones were sleeping, ho laid down his
weary limbs and sank peacefully away into a
common grave.— Eliza Cook's Journal. . .
C7* A young lady at a recent fair pinned to
the bosom ol her dress one of,he placards which
exhibitors have fastened to their, wares when
wantio keep ‘hands oft’,* Sho was wearing a
low-nccked dress . •
Singular Phenomena,
I* or some time past wo have, noticed in onr
exchanges accounts of the appearance in various
quarters, of meteors of unusual size and appear-
pn Friday the 12Ui ult;, anout five, V.
M., persons residing in the North Western part
Washington coiiiity* saw meteoric balls darling
I through tho lioav6ns.dnd exploding at intervals'
with trenicndohs reports shaking the- houses
and causing some to believe that they bad’ been
visited by an carthquakoi The same phenom
enon was seen nt tho same time at Wellsville,
Ohio, and in Beaver co., Pa.
Last Thursday morning the 18th, about 9 o’-
clock, somo persons at work near Wharton fur
nace, in Wharton township, this pounty, saw.
something of. the same hind. They describe it
as having been a Mn£o of fire, of a triangular
shape, about forty feet wide and a hundred yds.
Jong. From thdYearof this issued balls of the,
about (bo size ol a man’s head, and smaller.
Almost immediately after passing, tlic men, it
exploded, with u noise to which the report of q
cannon is said to not at nil compare, causing
the earth, as they snj*, to shake-under their feet,
One gentleman who was standingnbar the boil
cm s says.dhey rung so loud as to almost deafen I
him. This phenomenon was seen by C. Ogle, I
Jackson Itavbaugh, and Samuel Wadsworth.and 1
the explosion heard by John. Worthington,Esq.,
of Redstone Furnace, Alert. McDowell,Stephen
Leonard, James Minor, and indeed b} f every
person in the. neighborhood. We have been
furnished these facts by a gentleman of intclli- .
gencoj who was present, in whoso voracity we
•place the utmost confidence.
The same morning, at the same.timcj a large
meteoric ball was seen North west of our town,-
moving South west with, great velocity.: This
did not e.xplodc. It is described as a largo ball
of fire, from which a tail protrude.—
It was seen by several of. our citizens’. 1
[Fayette.co* Genius .
■ us.of an old pulpit anecdote-at
mbuted to Rowland Hill. Two strangers pass
es the church, in which lie was prcaQpino% en
tered, walked up the aisle, and finding no°seat,
stood for a while and listened to the sermon.—
Presently they turned to walk ’but. , Before
they reached ihe door the preacher said, “ But
I will tell you a story. 7 ’
■ This arrested the strangers, and. they paus
ed, turned again and listened. .
“ Once there was a man,’ 7 said the speaker,
“who said that if he had all the axes in the
world made into one great axe, and all the trees
10 the world made into one groat tree, and he
could 3’ield the axe and cut down the tree, he
would make it into one great wliisp to thrash
those ungodly men who turn their backs upon
the gospel and*6top to hear a story. 77
Ihcstrangers thought they had heard enough
to satisfy I heir, curiosity, and • resumed their
walk in the street. ;v*
POOR-JERSEY.
A New Jersey Justice of the Peace was trav
elling wnha friend in (he Western partof Ohio,
■ and anally came jto quitean: unsettled region;—
Latc m the day. the two -travellers reached a
'PSSyold man was away, and the old
woman promptly; rerogibut the grown up
daughter put m a good wwl for the good look‘
mg men, and her mother finally consented.—
After supper, as they .n-ere all sitting by the
the, (he old woman began (he talk • '
t“.ls pose, strangers, you’re from Connecti
cut, or some such Yankee place ?”
nni ft 1 '? 110 ' ? 3a ain >” a “'d Ike Justice, “ we’re
not Yankee, by any means.”
“ Well, where did you como from, then ?”
We are from New Jersey, madam.” ,
■■ W o?‘';yeTf" dy! ’’ 6aid the °W woman. J
THE AGE OF OUR RACE.
. T^ 10 s "Vfttco of the earth to the depth of n ome
eight or ten miles; is composed of rocks. These
Srsr m lO rcn !i ai,,s ° f nnirnai;i and
v i ty Hiousand species of them
whjeh differ from any living species, have been
disinterested, yet "no human remains are found
among them until the loose soil-ahivium™s
tnhe nf’ ' r ■" C 1 sod '? universally acknowledged
animals art 0 r nt °v Sm ' , lhe ranains of other
animals arc found several thousand feet below
!' ,* l '‘ cc "'iulotiie remains of man have nev-
Und n° °"’ as 01,0 hundred feet below
the surface. But if man, had been in existent
when other animals lived, whose remains are
harabr™ r Ch 3 ) In’s remains would also
haic been found there, for his bones are of iho
lessTil r‘ C 1 tUr ° • Stl . leirS ani consequently no
less hkply to resist destruction. • .
THE rfltE-STAK. -
There must, fio something without at which
we may gaze as at a fixed polar star, a light
that is raised above the misty clouds of this
world ; not a sign of our own painting, to indi
cate what we believe to be the right road, but
One set up by him whose word is a “lamp to
win n'frm a " gh ; tp om ' P ath -” The holy
wll of light must be made known unto us.--.
Otherwise we hve < as in a land of revolution,
whore the.old government is abolished, and a
new one not yet re established: where every
one consults his own views, and inclinations as
to what he shall do or omit to do ; where one
becomes a murderer, with the best conscience,
and another with an equally good one takes the
booty to himself.
A BLACK CLOUD.
A blade doud makes a traveller mend his
pace, and mind his home ; whereas a fair day
and a pleasant way waste his time, and that
stealeth away his affections in the prospect of
the country. However others may think of it
yet X take it as a mercy, that now and then
some clouds come blewcccn me arid my sun
and many times troubles do conceal my com
forts ; for I perceive, it I should find friendship
m my inn ; in my pilgrimage, I should soon for
get, my a athcr s house, and my heritage.
TRUTH BEFORE FRIENDS.
_ Among the fiercest opponents of John Huss,
the Reformer of Prague, was Paletz, once his
intimate companion and bosom frieijr. Some
persons sought to persuade Huss to follow the
example of those who took sides with the Pope,
and to join-ins old friend Paletz. To these cn
treaties IluSs replied :
■ “JP/tldstis my friend; and truth is my friend :
both being my friends it is most just that I
■honor truth, in .preference."
O' A poor girl drove a donkey laden with
turves, into Eniskrllen, and! having disposedbf
them, she went into a shop to purchase some
articles, leaving the animal at the door. A
g&llunt officer of the 57th, who happened to be
passing shortly after, called out indignantly
for the removal of the obstruction—“ I say.
girl, what makes you keep your donkey on llur
pavement ? Remove it immediately I” —
“ Well, sir," said the girl, in apparent good
humor, “ if you had .stayed at homo, 3'ou I
would not have found raison to fall out wid I
your brudder. ” I
AT $2,00 PER ANNUM
NO. 4
GOOD.
iFT- man °* ad ln homea|mn, was.
standing in Court street, a few days since) de
vouring a doughnut, when he was accosfbd; by
one of a half-dozep genteely dressed city idlers
with : ‘Just oipejdpown f> ‘Fans, gii 0s sl harm
great place this, ain’t it, yeou ?’ said the coun
tryman. “ Tis ?o, hub; how’s'your inarm?” :
asked the city, buck, bent on sport with greeny.' :
‘Wall, she’s piirly well, she sent mo down on
business;’ <She did ? What kind of business are •
J°n °'li 7 , 610 " nn f° d >«o to come debwn '
irm " nn ', / f’J 0, ' nd and Hti'l a half dozen
of the biggest foies .in Bostin and bring .’em no '
country, to edicato ’em, and I rather guess I’ve
got my eye on - ’em, noow:> said the strangef '
taking in the whole crowd at a glance/ The ; :
next moment ho had the curbstone to himself
when bo quietly finished bis doughnut. ’ •
, t . O “ A ™“ Kecucits—Captain Wallen '
started down from the Dallas to Vancouver to
bring up a..party of recruits to. tight the iocomo- .-
hi o Indians. Ho stopped tor tho night at the
Cascades, m the house of an old man called
“Undo Sammy,’’an inquisitive old fellow,about D
cighty-six and deaf as a haddock. After sup
per, the old man and woman, and Wallen drew
draw tip chairs around a blazing wood Are. Ttia ‘
old man immediately commenced applying- t hb '
brake, (good expression lor pump ')■ " 100
g ° iu ’ deow, ‘ ,0 1110 -
voitc. tC ‘ rOCI UitS 1 ’ replrca Wallen > at “>p of w 8
"‘Hey?’
‘Alter recruits!’ roared Wallen again. - -
‘Can’t hear ye?’ . . ... .
1 Ja(J y moved- round, and- putting
her motith to the old man’s ear, shouted in ?,
voice that would have done credit to Stnntev '
after he’d got a little in years: St ° n * or
-lnd-X-/nd ■
A Goon Un—Wo, heard the other day a : '-
capita! anecdote of a witty clergyman, who is
oncomto: • COn?0 0H ’ SeCOUd ,n a Jocul«..
As one day ho was passing down ono of the
streets of a largo village in,the State, where’ h- ■
was settled, ho was observed by some waeaian '
hangers on at a public house which ho was an
pleaching. One of who fellows,’knowing that
the reverend gentleman was a ‘hard case’ at a
joke, said that ho would bet them drinks for all
hands that he could head Mr. H r.
‘? 0 ?. e ’’ ™ as tho rcs l lonse from a number. . ' V;
As Mr. H. came opposite the merry group,
the proposer of the bet called to him. Mr. ,S:i
halted and drew h’ear, whereupon the confident
chap thus addressed him.; ■ -
“Mr. Hi——. we have a dispute boredfaooW :
importance, which we havoagraedytQ leave to
you as ono competent to give a correct decis- -
ion.”
. “Ah ! what is it.”
“It is in rotation to tho age of the dovil; wifi
you fe/J us how old ho Is?’’
Lucas.
“Gentlemen,” said the imperlurable minister
“how can you presume mo to he acqpiinted'
w,th mafters of that sort ? You must keep jour
own family records I” F yuur
„..?’ 110 . t V' l ', is(or '™ nt about his business and the
vanquished gentleman went in and treated free-
/iirt, /uu- im& /nnrg.
t£?*Tho Clcvcl’d Register,makes the following
good hit: ‘Whether QnoenVictoria’s red pet
ticOats will become a fashion In .America is yet
to bo known. It is certain,.however, that tho
attempts of somo 'of her m‘ate predecessors to
introduce their red caaU inta this country did
not succeed.’
An lrisb magistrate having occasion .to
write the word ‘usage;* cdnlfiv.ed to spoil it
without using a single letter, of .tho original
Whfn „" S im >’ r P T ? d orthography was ‘yotestfeft.
When some remarks were made on similarleafs.
he averred that nobody could spoil with .pons,
made from (he quills of Irish geeso.
Q5”Dr M., coming out of a coffee house, J.
p~—, « perfect stranger to, him, begged him to
lend him live guineas. ‘Sir,’said the doctor,‘l
dm surprised that you. should’ apply to mo for
such a favor; nilio-do not.ktiow you V
■ ‘Ob, dear Sir,’ replied ‘it is for thntivory
reason, for those who do won’t lend mo a far
thing.’
C 5” The most astounding instance ofaman’a
regard for Jds lyord was recently given hyaman
who killed his Wife, whom he did hot like.
)\ hen askod ‘why he didn’t go off and leave
her, instead of.killing her,’ he replied.jocosely,
that ‘ho had promised on the weddidg day : to
Ji):e with her until death should part them, and
l.e wasn t the man to break his word 1’
Ono of our contemporaries disposes of
t|ie Virtues oi; early rising ns follows: Wo have .
.Watched (he Says) those fellows wiio are 'early ‘
risers, and as a genera! thing they are the first
chaps who go to tiie groceries ofai morning. It ••
is all moonshincabout tho smartest and greatest ■
men being _ the .early risers. It might have been,
so in old times, hut now-n-days when you see a
chap moving about very early you may bo oof- !
fain ho is after a drink.’
Kr" Old Rodger was Vlsitingp friend who had
a remarkably fine little gill, about'three years' ‘
old, famous for smart sayings. . As usual she ;
Was shown eft - before our esteemed friend;
' ‘‘Wliot is papa?” said. Uio ‘parent,'in order
to bring out the precocious reply;' ’ ■
, “Papa’s a humbug,?’ sniddio juvenile.
“I declare,’.’ said old podgel - , “XoeVar.intny
life saw so young a child with so maturo a Judge- ,
mont.” .. ’ 1 —" ‘ ;
To make hens lay, perpetually—hit Ibettt
well directed blow on too head with a club, , ■
Mrs. Pnrtingtop inquires what kind of ‘
razors are employed in shaving notes. Mr. Pic .
respectful!} informs her that they are generally
raisers of money. , , . ,
B3“-My hoy, What does your mother do for a
iving?’ wo asked af a little bare-foofed urcliiu
■eSterday:
She eats cold'vicfuals, sir.’
03” A merchant lately advertised'for a clerk
who could bear confinement. ■ Re received'ad
nhgwer from one who had been in jail 7 yenis.
C?” “Did you pull my nose in earnest sir?”
“Certainly I did, sir.” “It is Wolf you did, lb*
I don’t take a joke in that way.” . .• -
A hen-pecked husband says that instead
of himself and wife being one, they ore tomoho '
is 1 and he is U.
03” ‘A woman is at thp bottom -'or’ I ' all mis
chief,’ said Joe. ‘Yes,’ said Bill, ‘and when: I
used to get into mischief, my mother was attha
bottom of rao.” 7
‘Zounds, fellow!’ exclaimed ft clioloftb
old gentleman, to a very phlegmatic matter-el---
fact person, <l'shall go out of my wits.* • ,
, ‘W’cll, you Won’t have far to go, said 'ttib' ’
phlegmatic man. * ~
Sj?” ‘Oh, Mr. Grabbles!’ exclaimed ayonhir
mo.theri ‘shouldn’t you film to have a family of
rosy children about your knee?’ ■ . .
‘No,' ma’am,’ said the disagreeable old bach-'
olor: ‘l’d rather have a lot of; yellow boy a fa *
mi' pocket;” - . ,
1 A young lady had a parasol carried away ’
Irishman, who returned U ivltli the compliments ■
“Faith, Af fas, an* if yc was’as strotigas
handsome, a'hurriCitnO couldn’t have snatched ‘
itfrom ye.’ . .
: 03*” Two men, Joseph Sparks and OscarPlinf.
wore assailed in the suburbs ofPaltimoro afew
njghfs ago By /> gang ofshanlderjiitters. ‘Flint
was knocked down and rpblied.hut his coMbaiU
ion escaped by flight. Wheii the scoundrels hit
iiint, sparksJleiu. •
(GT Downing, flic great oyster purveyor oir : -
being.aaked if ,the hard limes had afflicted Ui#
business on New, Years day, replied: “ Not at ‘
all; yer see: I gin out that anybody what did
not have oysters onlns table would be consid- .
cred dead broke; and the. conseqnenob was ’
that X sold more oysters than I ever did afore.”
A lady was recently teaching a boy to :
spell. The boy spelt “c-o-l-d,” but could*nbt '
pionounce it. In vain his teacher asked him to .
think and try. At last she asked him, “What '
do you get when you go out upon the Wot pave
niont on a rainy day and Wfst your feet? <T gets '
a lickings* , , . 6