AMERICAN VOLUNTEER. Jdbmsued evert thdbsdat mobnino bt John B> Bratton. ERMS Subscription. —OBfi 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. These terms will bo rig idly adhered to in every instance. No sub scription discontinued until all arrearages .are paid unless at Die option of the Editor. Advertisements —Accompanied by the cash, and not exceeding one square, will bo inserted throe times for One Dollar, and twenty-five cents lor each additional insertion. Those of agreat tcr length in proportion. Job-Printing —Such as Hand-biljs, Posting bills, Pamphlets, Blanks, Labels, &6.,&c., exe cuted with accuracy and at the shortest notice. |WraL A dream. BT TLEH’A, • I had a rosy dream— I thought 1 wits again a child, ■ 'And in my shady, woodland homo ;i . Was -wafadering joyous, free and wild— '• . Again T wore a garland bright, ... 6f sweet, wild flowers, rich and rare, *, Tlmt sparkled like the royal gems | Amid my locks of sunny hair. ■' Again I saw ray father smile And join me in my happy play; ; And when a childish sorrow came, ! Ho kissed the falling tears away, i’ Father, in life’s matnrer days, ' My spirit fondly turns to thee— For that kind’ loving smile of thine Will cheer me on life’s darkest sea. Again beside my mother’s knee, I knelt to lisp toy evening prayer,- - And felt her, soothingly, smooth back My flowing loeks ol golden bair. Again I hoard her gentle voice,' In accents holy, soft and mild— And sweetly as a sunboaujjell A benediction on her child. Again those proud and daring boys— The brothers of my infant years— . Joined in my merry, childish plays,. To share my joys and calm toy fears. Again wo.wandered, free and wild, O’ro mountain, valley, hill and dell; Playing amid tho waving corn, , And drinking from tho crystal well.' And, oh I that gentle, dove-like one— A trusting sister, pure and fair— The angel b( my childish years, Was wandering sweetly with me there,- Alas! the scene is real now—■ The bright, the rosy dream is o’er; But oh!’ what would ray heart, not give To boa happy child once more ! yet,fttill a father’s gentle voice ;' ' Como to my oar in accents mild j f And still a mother’s blessings lull Upon her thoughtless, wayward child ; pi- And still those brothers claim my love, if And guard my path from care and strife; 6 And still that gentle sister is p , The guardian angel of my lift!. I \ : ' : ~ ■ • ■ LOGS. Will yon ever weep, love, fe When I have passed away. When cold in death I sleep, love, £ Through many a weary dai ? go .Will you place a wreath; love. Ip;: ■ Upon my little mound ■ At evening’s holy hour, love, When shadows Hover ’round f pt lliy-'.}!,'; Will you often comej love, t To view my lowly bed ? Will you plant a flower, love. To ,blosaom>o’er i.py head ? • ;. 0, kneel beside my grave, -love, And say—diere rests my all I . And let one pearly tear, love, Upon my bosom fall. ; Mmtllmmuß. WHY MRS. PHILLIPS, IS SUCH A SCOLD. BY MBS. F. I). <3ACE, in Wliai does make Mrs. Phillips scold so ?” id slrs.\ Parsons to her husband, as they left o homo of'the lady in question at nineo’clock the evening, September 30,1858. “ Oh, I don’t know,” answered M*. Parsons* guess maybe she has some reason for It.” j « I don’t see what, I’m sure; if I had as big house as her’s, and everything about it so nice she has, I would try to bo a little good- ha red before folks, any how.” « Well, I don’t know, wife* .that big bouse n’t just tbo thing after all;”, « She never was content in the other.” “That’s so; blit there was a reason tor that u Yes to be sure there was ; but that was too tie tor anything. I don’t see how she ever ood it.” “But she did stand if eighteen years., and Isod a family of nine children in ono room, id-one bed room ten foot square, and a lolt.” <f It was a shame—and he «6 rich.” “'Yo's, that’s where she learned to scold.t fs. Phillips was one of the smartest girls in j til© country round, and when he married her Id- five hundred dollars laid up in cash from fiool keeping.” You don’t spy. 7.” If,-.*? I do, though.” . S/«.Wb*t.ljBcamo of it ?” f ,«‘TOat's just what I was going to toll you.” vfiMad ho anything’?” a dollar. . I loaned him money to get tilslicense; hut she did not know it.” nfftffhy Mr. Pafsons you don’t mean what you . v / as .preaching. Her father, old Mr. Qox,'gave her that farm, and her five hundred wentV'to buy stock and tools to help along the |?*W;itlrfl£year. Phillips, had been a little wild, but in and worked-llke a good fellow, affd made money faster in all Illinois than But somehow he never seemed to have , a to spare for his family, over and above ‘ * *]t kept them along. Ho added farm to :ock to stock, till ho was the richest man '.ountry, and yet she often had no help, cabin was crowded and dirty, and not enough to set a tabid," or wash tubs and id kettles for home use.” iy, Mr. Parsons I and they live so fine at wasn’t nil. She never lin’d a door'yard Jon • the -pigs would lay down on the top and an old sow actually ran away ,o of the children.” aho ll saw it in time and beat it off with ,’om stick —no thanks to him, though; ho kept his hogs round the door. ’ lon’t wonder she scolded then.” ir five years she had all her water to carry [he creek— never a cistern or well; and le dug the well, ho put it down at the as to have it bandy for the stock.” io old durmudgeonl” have seen her packing wood from the. timber to hake bread for the workmen, on her oWn ehouldors; indeed, he seldom had a stick for her to nso except old rails and , jkjokan limbs, and never had a stick ahead at that— -juat-cut enough in the morning to- lar,c through the day, and often she was out' before boon,” <Vl'shbuld scold, too.” ’ * My’first wife used to say that if he was her hnshoM sbo would never cook a meal of vio- VthalS'Jwhilc his name was Jack Phillips if he did not'dpbetter.” « tod' would have served.hlra right.” «Yos, but Ellon, as we used to call her, did V' not,begin right. She humored him In every; for lour or five years, and I used to think fet# she made the little log cabin so comfortable neat', that the old follow did not Snow how jjapSwan it was.” '§tmp&Si u Many a wife does that.” Ayd, yes','and many a wife don’t do it.” BY JOHN B. BRAXTON. VOL. 45. “ I know that too,” was the cheerful reply of his wife. “ Well, she had three or four children and got clean worked down. Ho was always riding round, hunting up cattle, or going to market, or ofl'.making bargains, and she began to fret and grow nervous, and the more she fretted and worked the worse she grew. I must say that I wonder that women don’t learn to know that constant fretting don’t amount to anything—and (hey always lose the sympathy of those about them.” « That’s true, Mr. Parsons.” “ Well things went so for fifteen years. She worked almost night and day, ns you may say j and her tongue kept time with her feet and hands. Ido believe it was all that kept her alive. It gave vent to her over-burdened soul and relieved her suffering heart just as groaning and crying gives relief to a person having a sur gical operation performed.” “ Or just as it gives you relief to groan when you have the toothache.” << Exactly so, that’s the philosophy of it.— One that had closed her mouth and suffered in silence would have died years ago. But five years ago when everything was up to the high, ost figure in the way of property, he took a no tion to build that great barn of a house, and furnish part of it as. you see. But Mrs. Phil lips never has any relief from hard work. He often says she Used to do ail her work in the cabin, and now she.can’t get along without two girls.” “No wonder with such a house, and she so poor and sickly.” . .“ And the boys lived in tho old house till they don’t know how to take care of anything, and they know their father is rich, and spend money and smash round, and never think of her; never ask her to go. out with them; never bring her any little present to cheer her; never relievo any of her cares—and so she frets on and will most likely ns long as she lives. For myself, wife, I like Mrs. Phillips. She raised me as you may say, for I lived with them after they wero married. I always tried to please her, and she never g%ye me a cross word in seven years. I know her like a book and if they would only be careful of her'happiness, she would seldom And fault with them. But its too late now the habits of the family are fixed, and she poor woman, will have to bear all the blame from those who don’t know tho past. Her love of the beautiful and harmonious, her sense of justice and truth, united to her earnest desire to have things mado bettor, made her a scold.” <• Well, I am really glad you told mo of'her history, for if she is to bo my nearest neighbor, I waufto.iiko her, if X can.” “She is generous, kind, true-hearted, and ready to do anything tor her neighbors. But sho has suffered so much frpm his hands, (and 'still'feejs tlikt he does hot deal liberally with her) that in his presence she always gives out tho worse, parts of her nature. Poor Mrs. Phillips, I wish there wero no worse women,in tho world than stw with all her scolding.” , ,Mr. and Mrs. Parsons had reached their plea saht homo across the prairie. It was hone too largo for their wants, and an air of comfort and uniformity pervaded every part, that told of harmony and hampiness within. . ■ With ono aolaind and careful as Mr. Parsons, a wife could hardly find a place to scold.. No wonder the habits of Mr. Phillips shocked and grieved her. : - •y.j Who of usi goiiflb readers, ddea I not Know; a, Mrs. Phillips in the Circle of our acquaintance; where the husband is so anxious to get rich that he forgets to be good. - The Power of Kindness. A young school teacher had one lage-boy, Joe Stanton, who was ringleader of all mischief. The first day lie managed to make the school a scene- of roguety and confusion. The poor teacher went home with a heavy heart. The next day she thought if she could- gain the confidence of this boy, and have him on her side she should have but little trouble with her school. As it closed in thealternoqn, shospoko kindly to him, and asked his help, in closing the school room. , . fie readily complied. As she turned, home ward, Joe followed. At length she inquired, “ Have you any sister, Joseph 1” The right chord was touched : , • “ I had one sister, little Mary, but she died ; and thus encouraged by the ready sympathy of his listener, he went on to tell that Mary was his only sister, and that he used to take care of her, and play with her, and carry her out doors, and drag her in the wagon he had made for her, and that she loved him “ fnoro than any one else did,” and always used to run to the door and meet him when he came home. “But she' is dead now," he added, “and I have not any body that takes care of me. She had a fever, and she did not know me wnen I spoke to her, and in just a week she died. Her grave is right over here,” he continued, “and perhaps you would like to see it sometime.” The teacher willingly went with him asking him still further about little Mary, they passed along, till at length they approached, the grave and sat down upon a stone near it. Poor Joe could no longer wipe away the fears, as he had done, for the fountains within were broken up. He covered his face with his hands and wept aloud. ' " She’s dead,” ho exclaimed again, “ and no body cares (or me now.” ! “T will care for you, Joseph,” said the teach er, as she laid her hand upon his uncovered head, and then spoke to him of heaven, and the happy meeting of those death had severed, and of One who cares for us more than all earthly friends, and who will help us if we wish to do right. _. ' , Then as he grew calm and had risen to go, she told him of her sorrow, of the father whom she had lost, of her loneliness, of her wish to be useful while she supported herself by teaching, of bow hard the Westbrook school seemed to her. and how she still meant to do the best she' could for him and for all her scholars. “ I’ll help ye. Miss Mason,'; responded Joe, ‘‘l’ll help ye, all I can and then the o.ld mis chievous twinkle coming again, ho added, “ I guess the rest of the boys won't trouble you much. They’l do pretty much as I want ’em to.”— N. Y. Teacher. SiNOuiAn Case or Dt-AfsEsa. —A lady in Ohio began to lose her hearing, and used every reme dy that could bo heard of with the view of re storing it. All proved unavailing. A few days since she consented to have a physician examine the ear, and, to her astonishment, a bug, about half or three-quarters of an inch in length, was taken out. It had remained there six years— In all probability it found its way there while the lady was asleep. Tuinos Lost Foeevek. —The following words from the pen of Lydia H. Sigourney, are full of instructive meaning : ( ' Lost wealth maybe restored by industry ; the wreck of health regained by temperance i for gotten knowledge restored by study; alienated friendship smoothed into forgetfulness; oven forfeited reputation won by patience.and vir tue ; but who ever looked upon his vanished hours, recalled his slightest years, stamped them with wisdom or effaced from Heaven’s rd cord fho fearful blot of wasted lime. The foot print on the sand is washed out by the ocean Wave; and easier might wo when years are fled, find that foot prinfthan recall lost hours. Cd?” Those men talk most who are in the greatest mental darkness—frogs cease their croaking when light is brought to the watersicfg/ Bo Patient With the Little Ones. Be patient with the little ones.; Let neither their slow understanding nor their occasional pertness ofieud you, or provoke tho sharp re proof. Remember tho world is new to thorn!, and they have no slight task to grasp with their unritened intellect the mass of facts and truths that%:rowd upon their attention. You are grown to maturity a.nd strength through years of experience, and it ill-becomes you to fret at the little child that fails to keep pace with your thought. Teach him patiently as God teaches you, “line upon lino, precept upon precept, here a little, and there a little.” Cheer him on in this conflict of mind ; in after years his ripe, rich thought, shall rise up and call you blessed. Bide patiently the endless questionings, of your children. Do not roughly crush the ris ing spirit of free inquiry, with an impatient word of frown, nor attempt on the contrary, a long and instructive roply to every slight and casual question. Seek rather to deepen their curiosity. Convert, if possible, the careless question into a profound and earnest inquiry. Let your reply send the little questioner forth, not so much proud of what he has learned, as anxious to know more. Happy thou, if in giv ing your child the molecule of truth he asks for, you can whet his curiosity by a glimpse of the mountain of truth lying beyond; so wilt thou send forth a philosopher, and hot a silly pedant into the world. Bear patiently the childish humors of those littje ones. They are but the untutored plead ings of .the young spirit for pare and cultiva tion. Irritated into strength, and hardened into habits, they will haunt the whole of life fiends of despair, and make thy little ones curse the day they were born ; butcorrected kindly and patiently, they become the elements-of happiness and usefulness. Passions are but flres that'may either scorch us with their un controlled fury, or may yield us a needful and genial warmth.” Bless your little ones with a patient care of their childhood, and they will certainly conse crate the glory and grace of their manhood to your service! Sow in their hearts the seeds of a perrennial blessedness : its ripened fruit will afiord yon a yerpetual joy. —Michigan Journal of Education. ; Didn’t Think. Walking in the country one morning, in ear ly spring time, we seated ourself to rest on a large stone near an orchard-gate.' Very soon we observed a large man hanging to the top most limbs of a small apple tree with one hand while with: the other he was cutting oft twigs and branches. We bade him good morning. He answered cheerfully ; and we ventured to hint that tho tree had climbed bore a heavy burden. ’ “Yes!” ho said, ‘'the trees, all need pruning but loan only attend to, a few,of. them. . The others wouldn’t bear my weight.- “ Wby-ftOn’t you fasten your saw to a pole. Stand on the ground, and prune such limbs as •most require it X” we asked. . I -“VVellfi declare,’.’ he answered, 1 ‘that would' lesson in. that confes sion—Vldidn’t think of it.” It explained why, in. many respects. the farmer was .not prosperous. ’ He was a hard worker,' Ho cn-‘ deavored to be economical; but he was always behind. His orchard didn’t yield abundantly —bis cattle had disease—his grain was, often poor—anti he could only sell at a low price, be cause he didn’t think. He had never learned forethought—be did not understand how judic ious head work assists hand work. Didn’t think—that is the sorry explanation of much error —of many a crime—of many a failure—of many a hardship, and many an abuse. Little boys and girls, bear in inind that whatever advantages you may have at home, in school, in business of in society, unless you think, your lives will bo sad and your efforts unsuccessful Learn, then, while you- are young, the'art of thinking. To bo great and godd,-you must understand the art of reflec tion, as well as appreciate the pleasure of mem ory. Kind Acts. “Bessie, there is a peach for you, the finest I have had this season,” said Mr. Kohler to his little daughter. , . , ,-, It was-very beautiful —so ripe that it looked just rdady to burst through the red skin, aiid a painter might have attempted' in vain to rival the color. It was -very templing, for it was the first one Bessie had seen this summer ; yet she stood with it in her hands, seemingly lost in thought. „ , . “May T take it to cousin Mary ? she is siek, and nothing tastes well to her, and she has been wishing so much for a peach.” “Yes, if you like.” And away flew Bessie, cipherepiand of,love. - She went softly, into- Mary’s.sick chamber, laid the peach before her, and quickly glided from the room. ' ' | As the parched lips were moistened by the delicious juice, the little sufferer declared that it made her feel “almool well.” Now that little act of kindness made Bessie feel much-happier than gating the peach,would have done. Would you have acted like Bessie did 1 Saturday Night. 'What blessed things Saturday nights are. and what would the world be without them ? Those breathing moments in thq broad and garish glare of noon;, when pale yesterday looked beautiful through the, shadows, and faces changed long ago, smiling sweetly; again id' the hush, when one remembers the old folks at homo. : Saturday nights make people human! set th#iir hearts to beating softly, as they used to do before the world turned them into wax drums, and jarred them to pieces with tat toos. ■■ ... The ledger closes with a clash; the iron doored vaults come too with a bang ; up goes the shutters with a will: click goes the key in the look. It is Saturday night, and business branches are free again. The door that had been ajar all' the week, gently closes behind him, the world as shut out. Here are the trea sures, and.not in the vault, not in the book— save in the old family Bible-rand not in the bank. ■ May be you are a bachelor, frosty and forty. Then, poor fellow, Saturday nights are nothing to you. Got a wife—get a home—thank God, and take courage. The dim and dusty shops,are swept, the hammer is'thrown, the apron is dolled, and the laborer hastens homeward. ■ ‘‘Saturday night," faintly murmurs the lan guishing, as she turns wearily on her couch; “and is there another to come ?” “Saturday night at last!” whispers the weeper over the dying; “and it is Sunday to morrow!’! A doctor up town gave the following prescription to a sick lady, the other day, “ A new bonnet, a cloth mantel, and a pair, of Shanghai boots!” The lady recovered imme diately. ■ ’.-t'r-r.'u-'—V'v'’" 1 “ OUR COUNTRY —MAY IT ALWAYS BB RIGHT OR WRONG, OUR COUNTRY.” CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, im\ ■■ ,1 - 13 ;t- One of Texas’ distinguished citizens, name not given, who has flguremflargcly in public life, first as a lawyer, then soldier in the Mexican and Indian wars, anU then as a lead ing politician/ has the following related of him in a sketch of his life by; the New Orleans Christian Advocate. Ho hid been put up by his party in 1867 to succeed Heneral Houston in the United States .Senate . pit feeling called to the ministry, and distrusting his own ability to resist the life, was unwilling to accept thaitnbminalion. He laid the case before his wife/deaving (o her the choice between the United Sjaies Senate and de struction to his morals; and!sf6 pulpit arid sal vation : ■ ■ ■ : ■ “ Taking the letters nndVpapcrs from .all parts of the State, giving earn assurance of election, he went to his said: “ I can go to the United States Semite. Here are the evidences. If yout/wish it, LSvill go { But if I go, hell is my doom.- I a drunkard as certain ns I gtsb: Washington. I can yet escape. If I pass-this ppintfl never, can. I can enter the min|atry, \vhichfl ought to have done long ago, arjd snvfe. mysflf from a drun kerd’s grave, and'my soul frote hell. But you shall decide.” His poof uuwilling tore linguish the glittering, view, replied, weeping, that she could not trio why he could not be a great man and a Christian too. But, after prayerful reflection, she/Avould not incur the fearful ■ responsibility of'/dcciding against his conscience, and told him w go into the itin eracy and she would go with'him. To the as tonishment of the whole State,-a letter from him appeared in the papers; jusLbgfore-the meeting of the Legislature, declining the office and an. nouncing his retirement froth political life. — The next thing that was heaftf of him was that ho was preaching.”' Universality of the Weaof Religion, If there bo in man’s heartja Sentiment which' is unknown to all other living beings, and which always manifests; itself, whatever may be his position, it is not likely that.this sentiment is a fundamental law of his nature. . Such is, incur opinion thef'religions senti ment. Savage hordes, barbarous tribes, na tions enjoying the full force of the social state, those which are languishing in the decrepitude of civilization—all demonstrate the power of this indestructible sentiment., It triumphs over all interests. The savage lb whom fishing or the arduods chase furnishes an insufficient subsistence, consecrates to his Fetish a portion of that precarious. support. The warlike colony lies down its arms to reu nite at the foot of the altar.,'sree nations in terrupt their deliberations tpjinjoke their gods in temples. Despots grant their slaves days of intertiiission for the same purpose. , The passions, as well as interests, are sub missive. When sujpplicnnts:em,Brace the knees of sacred statues, hatred is calmed, man imposes.siletfEtplpbn >”'■ impefipus desires. tPleasure abjured»juvd..bp^preoimtatei ucCT^KicA'l'xii--^I—- 1 —- This sentiment is, howevCi, all our needs and all our des|r'es. The citizen invokes the Deity in favor country, the lover,, separated from' the ojjj&kt of his-lovo, con fides her to the Superintending, oaro of Prori deuce. The prisoner’s prayerpierces the walls of his dungeon; the tyrant upon his throne is disquieted, harassed by invisible powers; he can scarcely reassure himself in imagining them necessary. Did you ever go into the presence of one whose face, hitherto, never failed to brighten at your approach —of one whose features you had never seen contracted by a frown, cold with indifference, when towards you, only to meet an aspect of cloud and gloom 1 If so, how did it make you feel ? Was you not struck, in stantly, with a chill ? . ,t( ■_ Yes, you can remember how it was —there is little doubt of that; and you never want the experiment repeated; There is no obscurity of the heavens, there is no blackness of the night, that make such gloom a? the veil that an angry or a changed heart can hang before the face of one you love, and who has, until now, always seemed to love you. Anything, anything of earthly anguish can be better borne than the loss of thelove and friendship of one yoii love and thoroughly believe in ; And when you have had cause to dread that your friend was changed. That, his eye, indeed, beamed fond ly, and with the kind approval pfthe old : but not on you, and when you have found that your great and dreadful fear was, groundless—that he was not changed, were you pot happy—al most as if you had seen into Heaven, and heard the dwellers there naming your name as one that was written in the Book of life. Friendship and love!,' true love—unchanging and kind like that of Heaven —what would this weary world be were these to forsake it and not return I Clear as Mud.—An editor had a bottle of London'Dock Gin presented to him, after drinking the whole of it,-he'Wfote a ‘notice 1 of the article. Here is a specimen of the stylo : . “Here’s to the ladies and other branches of business [hie] in and around town —and espe cially the Messident’s Pressago, Monington Washument, etc., all of whiqh may be had cheap at the Buck —*Drook —Brook and Duck store of Biningcr’s old Londou-.Dock Gin, for $2 a-ycar, if payment is delayed until the end of theOablantic Able .” Old Age.— lt is not well that a man should always labor. His temporal as well as spiritu al interest demands a cessation in the decline of life. Some years of quiet and reflection are necessary after a life of industry and activity. There is more to concern him than incessant occupation, and its product—-wealth. Ho who has been a drudge all his days, to one monoto nous mechanical pursuit, can hardly be fit lor another world. The release from toil m old ace-most men have the prospective pleasure of; and, in the reality, it is as pleasing as it is sal utary and useful to the mind. Such advanta ges, however, can only bo gained by prudence and economy in youth; we must save, like the ant, before wo can hope to have any rest in the winter of our days. fty* Life is but a span—of horses; one is “ Ago,” the other “ Prime,” up and down the bill our course is: “Go in,” poines—“ make your time.” Boyhood plies the whip of pleas ure ; youtbjul folly gives the stroke ; manhood goards them at his leisure: “lot cm rip, “they’re tough as oak.” “Hi, ya. there, the stakes we’ll pocket; to the wind let care be sent; time. 2:40. “ Whip in socket’ give ’em string’ and let ’em went.” On the sunny road to fifty. “Prime”, is drowned in Lethes stream : “ Ago” is left, lame, old, unthrifty : life then proves a one horse team. “Age” jogs on, grows quite unsteady, reels and slackens in his pade : “ kicks iho bucket” always, ready ; “ give it up.”—Death wins the race. Porter’s Spirit. To make a prelty girl’s cheek red, pay ,her a sweet compliment. A Gomancc inrTdlilics. Did you Ever. ■ sL- ■ 9 ' Ja> jftk e 'VA |J Xil IX.L, V <$ — — • 7 An Independent Caniidnle. Our readers (says the Memphis^ Engle,) will remember a circular published in 6(w columns from Mr. James A. Jones, a candidaV> for Con gress in Arkansas, in opposition to fir- Rust. Jones was defeated by some six or seten thou sand majority, and upon ascertaining the re sult, came out in his paper, the Ouachi' a Rcr aid, as follows :' EEPAETED, Oil OP SAI.T EIVEE. e'cave. ins. “Notia vain should such examples be.”-t Byron. . . Wo—that is to say James A. Jones, editor of the Ouachita Herald and late candidate for Co ngress—are ingloriously defeated. To use a classical and entirely original expression : " Wc evidently oast our pearls before swine. Wo magnanimously, and at a considerable sacrifice of our habitha! self-respect, offered to serve a people, wlip had no-appreciation of the offering. We didn’t make the people, and are riot under contract to supply them with brains. If they were willfully blind to our merit, the fault is theirs, If they are opposed to receiving indi vidually a hundred and sixty acres of land apiece, they have ri .right, to object it -, they know whether or not they deserve it. If they don’t want the rights of the south “ preserved inviolate," why they may have them pickled for all we care. We did our duty and our con science is easy, At the enormous expense of sixteen dollars and thirty two cents we printed a multitude of circulars sufficient to elect any man, with which we flooded this Congressional district and a largo portion of the Cherokee Nation. We wrote to our friends and to some who were not our friends to rally to our jmp port. But they didn’t rally. We concealed ourselves as well as wc could at home, refusing positively to extend our acquaintance, or to see more of the public than the public did of us.— With these precisions we deemed success cer tain. A great many persons wrote to us that we should get an overwhelming vole ; they were not deceived; it was overwhelming. Many ored ulous parsons told us that we should be elec ted -, -we listened to them and were deceived.— But we forgive them, for they made us feel very comfortable —for awhile, and all earthly happi ness Is transitory. We shall never become a candidate again without consulting somebody bn the subject first, and ascertain whether they do or do not desire us to run ; for we are satis fied that it is folly to be a candidate'unless somebody does want you to run, and will vote for you on the strength of that desire. Wo are not without consolation. We are not the Duly candidate that was defeated.— There are numbers in as. bad a fix as ourselves and, besides, greater men than we claim to he have been as badlybeaten. Gen; Harrison, af terwards President of the United States, was once defeated, for comity clerk in-Ohio, and James E. Polk was beaten for Governor of Ten id company; and there- which the people should iKrTOnrtnffd;atanrnnm ihqs as some of the aspi. .led V quietly at home,’ and they so highly appreciated ;our modesty that they hove given us the privilege of oootiii; uing to do so. We are thankful for. snia’U fa vors. Among our numerous friends, cx-Qovernor Drew is entitled to our warmest acknowledge ments. His intention doubtless was to assist us in beating Rust, by procuring a large and influential majority of the Democratic parly to vote for him. With this object in view he made a brilliant canvass, ending in no less a brilliant failure. .But, notwithstanding he car ried of! a considerable portion of our vote we honor him for his laudible intentions. Hereaf ter,he has but. to command us and we will obey—if it suits us to do so. To the fifteen patriotic and chivalrous voters who cast their suffrage for us in! Pike county, we beg leave to tender our unfeigned gratitude. Wb owe them a debt that will be difficult to repay. As a slight evidence of our high appre ciation and lasting regard, wo propose that, if they will forward us a list of their names, we will send them the Herald tor life—at the usual price, $3 per annum, invariably fn advance. . In conclusion, we desire permission to re mark that the small experiment we have just made is*eminently satisfactory. Whatever as pirations we may have had for.glory are entire ly subdued. The pursuit of a scat in Congress “ under difficulties 11 is one in which we have no desire to engage. We are satisfied that we carry with us into the.rctircment the best wish es of a gentleman though ungrateful people, and arc content. EYE SIGHT. Milton’s blindness was the cause of over work and dyspepsia. . One of the most eminent American divines having, for some time, been compelled to forego the pleasure of reading, has spent thousands of dollars in vain, and lost years of time, in Con sequence of getting up several hours before day. and studying by artificial light. : His eyes ne ver got,well. ..-u Multitudes of men and women have made their eyes weak for life, by the too free use of the eyesight in reading small print and doing fine sewing. In view of those things, it is well to observe the following rules in the use of the ’eyes: Avoid all sudden changes between light and darkness. . , Never begin to read or write, or sew for seve ral minutes after coming from' darkness into a bright light, , , Never read by twilight, or moonlight, or of a very cloudy day. . Never read or sow directly in front of a light or window or door. It is best to have the light fall from above obliquely over the left shoulder. Never sleep solljat, on first waking, the eyes shall open on tho light of a window. •Do not uso the eye*sight 'light so scant, that it requires an effort to discriminate. Too much light creates a glare, and pains and confuses the sight. The moment you are sensible of an effort to distinguish, that moment cease, and take a walk or ride. As the sky is blue and earth green, it would seem that the ceiling would ho a bluish tinge and the carpet green, and the walls of a mellow tint.. Tho moment you arc instinctively prompted to rub your eyes, then you should cease rubbing them. If the eyelidswe glued together, on waking up, do not forcibly open them but apply the saliva with tho finger—it is the speediest dilu lent in the world —then wash eyes and face in warm water. — Roll’s Journal of Health. The Reason Why.—A small lad asked permission of his mother to go to a hall. She told him it was a bad place for little boys. “Why, mother, didn’t you and father use ttf go to balls 1" “Yes, but wo have seen the folly of it,” an swered the mother. “Well, mother,” exclaimed the son, “I waul to see the folly of it too. ” AT 52.00 PER ANNUM The President and Hie Farmers. In an admirable address to a large assem blage of agriculturalists at Washington, a fen days since, the President, among other good tilings, said: - havc-cvcc-bcen, fomLotlngriculture itself, though I have never had much lime to devote to it practically; but I heartily rejoice that the Secretary of the Interior and the Commis sioner of Patents have assembled you here upon this important missioff. The other interests of the country are pressing forward. The farmer slays at home, follows his plough, and minds his own business, and we hear 'very little of J him in public. Notwithstanding the energy, the activity, arid the enterprise of our national ■ character, it is in agriculture very often inef factually exerted without the necessary skill ! and science to produce the effect which is so 1 much desired ; for science combined with prac -1 tical experience, when applied to the pursuit of ■ agriculture, must shed blessings upon the coun try. lam very happy indeed to see here so ’ many practical agriculturalists, who-under stand that science fully. And I have no doubt that the great truths which will bo elicited by the questions which are to ,be propounded to agriculturalists in all parts of the country, when they shall have been collected and bro't here, arranged and circulated all over the na-. tion, will-have the best ellect imaginable upon the whole dountry.” .. Whistling. Wc believe in Whistling—wo love to, hear it, and to do it. The boy or man at the plow who whistles indicates that ho is contented, and he will plow more than your silent, glum one, who hath no music iu his soul, nor in his lips. The Albany Times is right when it says: “The man who don’t believe-in whistling, should go a slop further, and put: a. muzzle on. bobolinks and mocking birds. Whistling is a great institution.. It oils the wheels of care,- and supplies the place of sunshine. A man who whistles lias a good heart under his shirt front. Such a man not only works more wil lingly than any other man, but he works more constantly. A whisllihg cobbler will earn as much again money as a cordtvainer who gives way to Tow spirits and indigestion. Mean or avaricious men never whistle. Who ever heard' of a whistler among the sharp practitioners of Wall st. ? Wo pause fbr an answer. The man who attacks.'Whistling, throws a stone at the, head Of hilarity, and would, if he could, rob June of its roses—August of its meadow lurks. Such a man should be looked to. Winter Comforts nut! Drawbacks, We ere amid the chilliness of winter, with now and then a glimpse of what might be'called the forerunner of spring. To keep the latter always in your heart, says an exchange, learn to sing. There is a great deal of merit in melody, more merit than most pebplc.aro’aware of. A cob bler who smoths hia waxed. cuds -with Bonnie Doon or will do,' its much work in a a r given to “cussing"; "SWFiff nathra weK. - .' 'Songs are like sunshme—they run to cheerfulness ; and so fill your bosom with buoyancy fbr the time being that you feel like a yard of June, or an acre lot,.filled with violets and bobolinks- Try'it on and see. That may all he very well, but will not wholly dispel the' following sum mary of “winter comforts Chilblains sore on all your toes, loicleslmngfromycurno.se, - Rlieumatiz’in alt your limbs, . Noddle full of aches and whims. Chaps upon your hands and lips, • And lumbago m your hips. ■ To your'bed you shivering creep. There to freeze, but not to sleep, For the sheets that look so nice. Are to you two sheets of ice. I How to tell a lawyer. A few days since, a gentleman, Being beyond the limits of his neighborhood, inquired of a pert negro-if the road ho was traveling led to a certain place. Cuifee gave Ihc required infor mation, but seemed curious to know who the stranger was, aS well as his occupation. If or the fun of the thing, the traveler concluded to humor ebony a little, and the following dia- logue ensued “ Sly name is —, ami as to the business I follow, if you-are at all, smart you can guess that (rom my’ appearance—can't you tell that I am a timber cutter . “No, boss, you no timbei‘'culter.” “ An ovcrseer. lhen ?” “ No, sir, you no look iiko one,” “ Wlmt say you. to my being a doctor ?” •• Don’t tlii'nk so, boss. dey i-idc in sulky.” " Well, hon’ do you think I will do for a preacher?" ; *• I sort’r spects you is dat, sir.” “ Pshaw, cufl'cc, you are a greater fool (han I took you for—don’t I look more like a law yer than anything else?" ’ . .“No, sir ee, boss, don't dat.” “Why, cuflee?” . . “Why, now-, you see, I’so been ridiri’ wid you for a mile, and you hain’t cussed any, aud you know lawyers always cusses." Marshal Key’s Death Scene. The vengeance of the allied powers demands some victims, and the intrepid Key, who had well nigli put the crown again on JJonapartu’a head, was one. to ho one of them. Condemned to bo shot, lip was led to the garden of Luxen hurg, on tho morning of the 7th of December, and placed in front of a tile of soldiers drawn np to kill him. One of the officers stepped up to bandage his eyes, but he stopped him say ing, “Are you ignorant .that for twenty-live years I have been accustomed to face both ball and bullet?” He then lifted his hat above-bis head, and said in his same calm voice “I de clare before Cod and man, that I never betray ed my country; may my death render iter hap. py. Vivo la Franco!” He then turned to the soldiers and striking his hand on his heart, gave the order, “Soldiers, fire!” A simulta neous discharge followed, and the “ bravest of the bravo” sank to rise no more. “ Ho who hud fought five hundred battles fdr France, not ono against her, was shot as a tra tor!’*, As i Iddked on tho spot whetc ho fell, 1 could not but sigh over his fato. ■ True, ho broke his Oath of allegiance i so did others, carried away by their attachment to Napoleon, and the en thusiasm that hailed his approach to Paris; still ho was no trallot. 0= A married woman was brought before a Virginia justice charged with larceny ol some pewter plates. After hearing the evidence, and deciding that the woman Was guilty, he ordered, that ten lashes should bo inflicted upon, her husband, who was then and there present, giv ing as his reason that this Scriptures declared that man and wife were one flesh, and. as the wife Was tho .wcaker vessel, it was right that the man-should bear half' the penalty. rrs- At a dinner in Springfield, Massachu setts, a lady sent tho following volunteer toaSt : i‘Spruce old bachelors—tho cccr greens Of so ciety.” K 7” A, dozen printing offices ore now for sale in Indiana. • v - ■ O’ A gang of buVgiara arc plundering tho river twons along the Ohio. IC7“ The Chicago, lowa and Nebraska Rail road is completed to Lisbon, lowa. (LT”Tho office of ,'City Marshal, in Cincin nati, is said to be worth 320,000 a year. ‘ [C/ 3 Practice without - knowledge is blind, and knowledge without practice is lame. • - (LT*-*! kriow,” said Tipitey, “ water,is- a fine thing, but is so dreadful linn.” OCT” Horace Greeley will riot withdraw from lie Tribune. NO. 34. (C7* Jlte daily sale of slaves, in Richmond, Va., last week, averaged $85,000. \rj~ Tii s tohaccorirop of Ohio for tlic current ydar is estimated to be worth 53,000,000 O’- Moderation is the silken string running -through the pearl-chain of all virtue. Q^,o,irc,hpur_gaincdjb£^ a month of labor in the year. ' ~~ O” Were it riot forMie tears that fill otfr eyes, what an ocean would fill our breast v , 017“ Why is it easier to be a clergyman than a physician ? Because it is easier to preach than to practice.. (C7“A number of young men in Palmyra, N. Y., have organized a company to go to Pike’s'Peak in the Spring. - K7* Woman—thc lnst and best of all the se ries. If we have nna for a toast, we won’t ask for any but her (butter.) - i 0” Heat rnriiics to such an extent that it can be made to occupy 5,500 times tlic space it did before. , (£7» Mynheer Drinkcnhoff, makes a distinc tion thus : “ Too much whiskey- is too ranch, but too much lager-bier is shoost right.” OC7“ Of rill the delicate sensations the mind is capable Of, none, perhaps, will surpass that which attends the relief of an avowed enemy. . ladies of Georgia,have palled a State Fair to 6e held at Augusta, Feb, 15, to increase the Mt. Vernon Fund. (C? Tho next ipecling of the Pennsylvania Editorial Union will be held At Harrisburg, ori tho loth of Febauary. O” The total distance between St. Louis and San Francisco, by the new overland route, is 27C5 miles. fl'T'.Mr. Alex. Duncan; of Providence, E. 1., has recently made a donation of $lO,OOO to the Butler Asylum for the insane. (C7* A correspondent of the Richmond Exam iner, named Cralle, says that John C. Calhoun was a Swedenborgiam .. .. In England railroad cars are not warmed at all. In Prance they ate. admirably warmed by cylinders ot hot Water. OCT* Quite a number of animals,have died ah Elk ton, Md., supposed to have been bitten by mad dogs. BCTT.Why is it retired carpenter like a lectur er i Because he is cx-plancr. U^ii’OiiN r love.— The love of a lady for ad officer who wears a love of a uniform. OCT* “ You look as though you were beside „ yourself,” saida wag to a foil standing by a donkey. , . ” . . 0“ What is-the difference between a good soldier and a fashionable lady 1 One faces the powder, and tho other powders the faces. DCT - Every man mm t in a measure bo nlono in the; world. No hear), was ever, cast in .’the same mould as that Which we bear within us. DC7* The House of Representatives of Ohio, has refused to make seven per cent, the legal rate of interest instead of ten. ■ ■ DCT* English papers report the recent death of a woman in London, 92 years of age, who was born in the room in .which she died, and never . slept put of it for a night in her long life time.' ' OCT* Jerry Diggs remembered his miserly;uri-‘ ole in his will, for he beipiathcd “ to ray moth er’s brotheragtin flint, and a knife to skin it with.” : DC7* The New York News proposes tho for mation of the cities of Hew York and Brooklyn into a separate -state. They should .be named Sodom and Gomorrah. A boarding-house keeper advertises to “ furnish gentlemen with pleasant and comfort able rooms, also one or two gentlemen with wives.” (HT” A company of young men are.organs zing to start from Indiana' to Pike’s Peak, in April next. They calculate the expense at $l3O each. , - . ; (£7* Those men talk most who are in the greatest mental darkness—frogs cease’ their croaking when light is brought to the water side. ■ . ttZr" A young, handsome, and hitherto re spectable, married lady, of Buffalo, was recent ly, arrested for public intoxication, and sent up for thirty days. Bela Squires, a widower, mafrfied Wary Oronitxc, a widow, a Tew days, since, in Hart-' ford, Conn. They commence their matrimoni al engagement with 20childrun. , The Sabbath.— A Sabbath well spent . Brings a xveek of content. And health for the toils of the morrow ; But a Sabbath profaned, Whatsoever be gained Is a sure fore'runnerof sorrow. (£7* The Royal Wail steamship Africa sailed on the SOth inst,. for Liverpool, with the mails; one hundred anti twenty passengers, and $474,• 590 in specie. '■ i K 7” Two sinvesofeX-President Polk’s widow, in Tollab-alohie county. Tenn., have been cori vioted of a conspiracy to make insurrection, an offense which is punishable with death. AVaum Reception.— Rnstiois wroto.a letter;to liis love, . And filled it full of warm and keen desire; ite hoped to raise aflame— and so he did; 0“ The value of food in New York during 1858 is estimated at §12,000,000 and the number 6( quadrupeds eaten was 191,374 beeves, 10,123 cows, 36,075 calves, 551,179 swine. Fpigbau.— A laborer in England riaffled Doc lately lost his wife,.in endeavoring to,,eat ft {found of raw sausage in two minutes. He had nearly ac complished the disgusting feat, when the sau sage stuck in-his throart, and caused his death. A priest was called upon 1 to pray over tho barren Acids ol hia.parishoners. He passed from ono enclosure to another, and pronounced his benediction, until ho came to a most un promising case. He surveyed its sterile acres in despair. “Ah!" said he. “brothcren-no use to pray here—this needs manure!” A French cbfaipany, organized at ‘ the wish of the Emperor, ate about to purchase the Collins steamers, to be placedwith others, as a regular lino of paokols between Franco and Now Fork, the French government having agreed to pay to the company a yearly sum of §15,000,- 000 francs. Yy~ The first newspaper in Ohio, was print ed in 1790. fete ; flnS ’fete. Tlic lady pul his nonsense in the fire ! Fee simple, and a simple fee, And all the fees in tail; Arc nothing whqn compared to thee Thou beat of fees—female.
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