ICM VOLUNTEER. ;o every immaDAY mohniko by John B. Uniltoii, TERMS. ,'ion.—Onn Dollar and Fifty Cents, mco; Two Dollars 11 paid within the wo Dollars iand Fifty Cents, if not [ho year. Those terms will be rig -Ito In every instance. No sub isoontlnufcd uutil all arrearages are \t the option of the Editor; usments— Accompanied by the cash, ceding one square, will be inserted ror One Dollar, and twenty-five cents itionai insertion. ■ Those of a groat proportion. •iNd —Such aa Hand-bills, Posting dots, Blanks, Labels, &c., &0., oxe iccuracy and at the shortest notice. ITLCE WHAT YOD PBGACII, . - of garbled sermons— () • f of thought and style, ? out your modern pulpits, •V error to beguile. may charm the fancy, ’>K>yn■ an admiring crowd, the gilted preacher r 'Uh ! their praises long and loud; God’s appointed servants dd their hearers conscience reach tg them to paths of wisdom, • must practice what they preach. - if your tender offspring would lead in ways of truth, ing them from the temptations ;h.surrounds the path of youth; is vain your time-worn maxims, , to make your teachings sure, them not along by precept, , jxample, just and pure, . shelter from the tempests t dark clouds would cast round eac ■ flowers of your pi election, , must practice what you preach. s, if throughout your duties,, . faithful you would be, . words, but by your actions, ■ i in all sincerity. il eyes are on you gazing, Kful hearts your thoughts receive they accents, r :ly your words believe. 'ware, lest by your actions to principles you teach, •get not you must ever 1 . ; Vto practice what you preach. , , ; It is gnito idle to spank of men who distin' ... guiah themselves as wanting in education. They J.v,.ire,generally well and highly educated men 3:f;s|j£tCj;hd education has been peculiar; and the ol habitual practice, a fortunate oxperi- generally in consonance With, the dl iMcfjd'n which thelyjhhato.endowment will take. ®f,;^mirsei. wo arjFdtffjHnderstand, in liminie , siicti are gifted' men. But, farther, we say to our readers generally, thatall men Wjiofgreatly distinguish themselves, are, under fopdi'self mode men.; No man ever yet rose to of achievement through the help- of others. Schools and colleges are !®®jpy-the means, by which we acquire the free tools of thought; and, with these work out the developements of our gifts or endowments. Hence wo go an apprenticeship which disciplines the ( makes thought easy; provokes exercise in thought, and makes S : r «^pjrej ! ?ioq.s:comparatively facile. The great ,y: is, really and briefly sta. ■nable an animal,.assuming him to he a ■' animal, to exercise his faculty of ;With. confidence, ease and energy.— i education—the elements—is so con : itself fo the hecesstties.idf-;.eyety form i however diverse and various. Now ... flee, association. or mode of life, which • experience among, men, and the ; ;exercise of the individual, in, any hu > TOapVoccupatiori, will constitute n sufficient < s school; for the development of any faculties in , any well endowed mind. They do not make . jt,he. facilities—they cannot confer the gift; it is ' - Innate, and comes from God: —hut they will .iOffice to goad it. into exercise and activity, and * witb persevel'cnci; will make it fruitfnl. There f 't ;M; nothing taught in school or college which , rahaU.mnke a groat man—make poet, orator, ' ptedsman, artist or engineer— if the native cn ' ' ’.d»t|ihent he not there. They may give the im- , pulao ami provide certain' helps and faculties, fedlMlifth shall shorten the term of probation but Spiirfej Ean 110 more. And the education of individual after he has left school and col has only properly begun. The rest ho Sj«|wua| do for himself. Ask any remarkable man, ifWeb after lie has had the host education the tt, jbpuntry affords, in what degree his schooling -has 1 contributed to the special development ' 'which he lias subsequently made, and lor which j jtho’world will call him great, and ho will toll ' you—“ little or nothing.” The wprk must be f jaiaown. .It sometimes happens, indeed, that Schools and colleges will hurt tho successes of !'■ ■ flon|e; peculiarly endowed individual ; by ooer f; regards to duties arid objects which are dqedMlatent with the natural direction of his S k ; &frig:;,and in escaping this danger lies the ad ®|S|nJ4go, in some cases, of individuals who owe ftV -'.'IBOTObg to tho schools. But if, what we vulgar ly education, rarely.helps the endow .mefitvif'es rarely hurts. Onr schoolastic train ing, Buch tts it is, Is very absurdly made a hug k bear. It is seldom suflioiontly exacting, in this ‘Country-to ’.scare a school boy in the lowosf ■ form’,AHgreat men are always self-mado SELF-MADE MEN. More Missouri Eloquence. ;f, V A legislator, whoso “ bright typing is in the ■' setting son,” delivered the following in the s«■/ ‘Missouri,Legislature, in reference to the project of Wrtning a new county I predicate my oh . •Jepfi6p?|fdjhis new county on different grounds, ;’'phesf|tie main and most important of which is, confident it would not be entitled, to the next .fifty years. Mr. did you ever visit the territory sought in the county 6f Carter ? Lid b*ve an opportunity of beholding its beauties and,-of examining its ‘.. resources ? Well, sir. I have. I ' all over it, and all around it, and X do |;;f iiBay;|ieT?, ; openly and defiantly, that there is not •I';- dev?l ground enough within its entire limits to f Vkfjbhild * P'g‘P on °l»*' [Laughter.] The soil fs : fev;/s|jid : poor it would, not grow pennyroyal. . Sir, W Wight mow the county with a razor and riko'it with a fine tooth comb, and.you jfiSStdn’t get enough fodder to keep a sick grass-1 ghnper through the winter. [Renewed laugh- Kttr>| Sir, they plant corn with crowbars, and jpild the sheep by the bind legs while they nib. hle'thc grass in the cracks of the clifis. [ln dreased laughter.] Sir. the pare naturae of that.section are principally licks, and I roust in s;.'justice say, that the variety of insects attains a '* .splendid sfise in this new county of Carter ; the ' .(ithailest that ever fell under my observation be ' least as big as saddlo-bag locks. [Laugh , fer,-],. j : , ; ,;i-,,’,;A5.10 internal improvemenls m that section, ‘this House can form some idea when I assure it V ' 1 that the duly thing resembling a road that. I ev ; <«> iawthirt was when one of the barefooted na < lives draped a wild hoy seven miles through : [the snow [Laughter and cheers.] With ■..■'■‘•JjTOTO »»Witry as this, Mr. Speakcr. they pro , y \. a new county, and the reason gi ' j for Sd( doing is, that the convenience of the 'y'intobitanis will bo promoted thereby ! Sir, if It yere passible to hold their Courts under a (Shade,of post oak and black-jack saplings, to keep a Clerk’s office and the records of the Pmtyintho recesses of a hollow sycamore, 1 J to make a jail out of some of the dark and iyy caves beneath the craggy hills of that 1 (gh country—if it were possible to establish .machinery for doing county business out of 1 ;h materials, we might entertain the project I poetical. Imirif« iilggl) o hut m- BY JOHN’ B. BRATTON, VOL. 45. as feasible and plausible. ,But, alas, even Such advantages as these, are denied by nature to this country. (Great laughter.] It is true there would be no difficulty about tho caverns for a jail, but the necessary post-oak and black jack saplings, to supply with their foliage a canopy for the august tribunals of justice, could not be found. And as for a sycamore tree, suitable for a depository of the archievcs ■of the county, it would bo sought in vain. The winds even refuse to blow sycamore pods in that direction. [Cheers and laughter.] And the idea of the people ever being able to build hou ses. in which to transact business, is deeply, darkly, prodigiously ' and preposterously ab surd. Now is the time to prune the various varie- tics of the rose, but considerable care is neces sary in this apparently easy matter/combined with some knowledge. All roses must not be pruned alike, as the proper course to produce abundant blooming with one kind, might have the opposite effect wi th another. The Bourbons, Noisettes. Teas, Chinas, and Hybrid Perpetuate should have all weak wood, and such as is over one year old, out out, and all young, strong growing wood cut down to a strong bud. Large plants may bo cut down to within six inches of the ground, and the bloom will be all the better for it. If the sorts named are left unpruned, the plants will bear flowers, but they will be small, and imperfect. The June and climbing roses require different treatment, and under this head may be classed the Prairie roses. Hybrid Chinas, Moss, Gallica, Bonrsault, and the various Cabbage, and Pro vince roses. These should have all the old wood—that is easily known by the quantity of short spray, and the drier look of the bark—out out,.leaving the fresh, green shoots of the' prc r vious year untrimmed, as from the latter will come all the bloom of this season. If iheyoung wood is cut out, shoots will come up, but they will bear fear or no flowers. Tie up all climbing roses before the buds burst. If left until the leaves appear,-many of the young shoots.will bo broken or hurt, and the bloom.suffer. • Let your trellises or pillars be substantial, and well secured from bcing blowh over by the wind, as such an accident will be most likely to happen when your plants are in flower. If you intend to increase your stock of roses, select such as arc known as good growers and bloomers—unless you afe a rose fancier, and can afford to pprehase all l(ie novelties. Many of the hybrid perpctuiijs- so nearly resemble each other, that the common culturist cannot distinguish the difference*' The hardy, sorts may be transplanted now—the more tender, in May, or even June. Good, fresh ioatny soil is the best for the rose: rank manure is injurious; and when manure is applied, it should be well rotted. Forking the soil of a fose bed is belter .than digging it with a spade. —Ohio Parmer.' Kissing the Bride. • Aii exchange tells a story of a country parly thus: i.fcA as a formidable operator in a-.v.free- fight,” had jhst married a. blooming and beautiful country girl, only sixteen, years.of age, and the twain were at a party where a number of young folks Of both sexes were enjoying themselves in the good (?) old fashioned pawn playing style.— Every girl in the room was railed out and kiss ed except Mrs , the-beautiful bride afore said, and although there was not a youngster present who was not dying to taste her lips, they were restrained by the. presence of her her culean husband, who stood regarding the parly with a look of sullen dissatisfaction. They mistook the cause of his anger, however, for suddenly, rolling up his sleeves, ho stepped in to the middle of the room, and, in a tone of voice that at once secured marked attention, said: “ Gentlemen, I have been noticing how things has been working here for some time —and I ain’t half satisfied. I don’t want to raise a fuss, but—” “ What’s the matter, John ?” inquired half a dozen voices. “What do you mean? Have we done anything to hurt your feelings ?” “Yes, you have; all of you have hurt my feelings—and I’ve just this to say about it:— Here’s every gal in the room been . kissed to night a dozen times apiece, and there's roy wife, who I consider as likely as any of 'em has not had a single one to night; and I just tell you now, if she don’t get ns many kisses the balance of the time as any gal in the room, the man that slights her has got to fight me— that’s all. Now go ahead with your plays !” If Mrs, B was slighted during, the bal ance of the evening we did not know it. As for ourselves, we know that John bad no fault to find with ns individually, for any neglect on our.part. . ' . A Quod Joke. .’ Everybody remembers M'Donald Clarke who was so well known in New York, a few years since, as the “ Mad Poet." During the past years of his life, Clarke was made free at the Aslor House table, and often limes' this errant man of genius could be seen accepting its hos pitalities when other doors were closed on his fallen' fortunes. , Every one knew Clarke by sight; and one day, while quietly taking din ner with two Southerners, seating themselves opposite, xomnisneed a’ conversation intended tot the ears of Clarke. l One said: “ Well, I have n'ow beeq Jn-.Netf York two months, and have seen all t wish to’ see With one exception.’’ ; “ Ah." said the other, “ mid wh’at fS tlia't ?” “M’Donald Clarke, the great poet,” respon ded No. 1, with strong emphasis. Clark raised his eyes slowly from Ins plate and seing that the attention of the table was on him, stood up, placing his hand over his heart and blowing with great gravitv tothe South erner, said‘ * “I am M’Donald Clarke, the.great poet." The Southerner started in mock surprise, gazed at him in silence for a moment, then, amidst an audible titter of the company, drew from his pocket a quarter dollar, and laying ft before Clarke, still looked at him without a smile. C. raised the quarter in silence and dig nity. stowed it in his pocket, drew ihenco a shilling which ho deposited before the South erner. with these words: " Children, half price." The titter changed to a roar, and the South erners were missing insiantcr. IET” A lady sent her servant (wo will not mention where he came from) for a new velvet mantilla, which was at her dressmaker s. “John, she said, “if it rains, take a coach I’d rather pay the hack hire than have my. man tilla wet." When the man handed her the mantilla it was ruined; the paper which covered it being saturated with water. “Why, John,” she said, “I told you to take a cab if it rained.” “So I did, mum ! but sure, you wouldn't have your footman to ride inside. I got on the box with the driver.” BOSES. The leading poials in the Stcp&cns case, so admirably set forth in the charge of Mr. Justice Roosevelt) are so far out of the common history of crime that it trill be one of the leading causes Icelebres in the history of American jurispru- I dencc. The prisoner was a' : laboring man, in moderate circumstances, regarded by his em ployers as a faithful and honest servant. He was a leading member of a sect noted for the pious fervor of its converts. He was. in his way of life, an eminently respectable "man.— His wife died after ah illness Of several weeks. One year after her death her remains were ex humed by the authorities. Acute scientific analyses sustained the hypothesis Ibat she came to her death by poison. A jury has, in fact, decided, after a protracted and altogether a fair trial, that this poison .was administered by her husband, in order, that he might possess the. more comely person pf;her, niece.,, Hgattemp-. 'tedjprst'td SeSfljca ldst’ha mcd/ithen ,resorted; to. absolute violence, 4hd, afr. terwards blackened her character through -the foulest and meanest of all channels—an annon yraous letter. , Well, all'this might'have been, and yet the man to-day have stood as well as he did two years ago, but justice overtook him, chiefly through his own acts subsequent to his crime. The brother of the girl he had attempted to de bauch, obeying his natural impulses, assaulted the.seducer; a prosecution followed, and during the examination of the collateral issue, the charge of murder was madq by the girl. It was re-' garded lightly. Every one knows how much reliance can be placed upon words spoken under such cxcili.ig circumstances as those in which the Bells were placed. But the prosecution was pressed on the side of Stephens and the charge was reiterated by the Bells. The exhu mation of the body wa’s determined upon, the Iriends of Stephens believing it would exonerate him. When the case finally came to trial, it was not over and above strong for the prosecu tion. There were many tittle circumstances against the prisoner, but the chain was not en tirely complete. The respectable character of Stephens, the necessary technicality of the very finely drawn though scientifically clear chemi cal testimony, the studious efiorts to discredit the evidence of the chief witnesses oh the part of the State, all went in favor of tho prisoner, and seemed to point towards no verdict, and perhaps one of acquittal. But in the course o the trial the defence proved too much, and ad ded important links to the chain of circumstan- tial.evidence which wcigbed.down upon the pri soner. And he was convicted, first, through a prosecution be bad set on foot against Robert Bell, and second, out of the mouths of his own witnesses. The cloak of religion, which is. as sumed now-d days by almost every scamp who hopes to escape the punishment of his sins by assuming a Pharisaical piety, availed him noth ing. His offence found, him out through hiw own acts, and he owes to them, chiefly, his po sition as a condemned man to day. The, opponents of the doctrine of the plurality of worlds allow that a greater probability ex ists of Mars being inhabited than in the case of any other planet. His diameter is 4,100 miles; and his surface exhibits spots o[ different hues —the seas, according to accurate observation, appearing to be green, and the land red. The variety in the spots, it is thought, may arise from the planet not being destitute of atmo sphere and cloud; and what adds greatly to the probability of this, is the appearance of brilliant White spots at its poles, which have B’een cdhjeoiured to’ be show, as they disappear when they have lohg bc6n exposed to the sun, and are the greatest frhen’ emerging from the long night of their polar winter, the snow line then extending to about six degrees from the pole. The length of the day is alnVost exactly twenty-four hours, the same as that' ot the earth. Continerits and oceans, and green" sa vannahs have been observed from Mars, and the snow of his polar regions has been seen to disappear with the heat of summer. Clouds may actually be seen floating in the atmosphere of the planet, and there is the appearance of land and water on-his disc. 1C?"To make “ginger snaps”: 1 cup of butler, 1 of molasses, 1 of sugar, 1 teaspoonful saleratus, ! tablcspoonful ginger. Those should be well mixed with flour enough to make them roll easily. Spread them thin with the roller, a little thicker than pic-crust, divide into cakes about as large as a tumbler would cut. and bake in a quick oven. iCT” How little is known of what is in the bosoms around us.' We might explain many a coldness, could we look into the heart Concealed from us; wo should often pity when we hate, love when we think we can never forgive, ad mire when we curb the lip with scorn and in dignation. To judge without reserve of any human action is a culpable demerit, of ail our sins the most unfeeling and frequent. Idle Boys! Como ye idle boys, ye loungers who hold up the sign, posts and house corners with your backs, here in is a nut for you to crack from the Christian Advocate: “ He who is idle and vicious in school is still more so when he leaves it. lie who fires squibs, will in time fire pistols. He who plays cards for sport, will, if ho turn not, play ere long for,money. He who robs hen roosts and orchards, will probably some day rob safes and pocket-books. He may not do it in the way to expose himself to the penitentiary : he mav have his wits so sharpened ns to rob legally, by set ting up a wildcat bank; or betraying the con fidencebf his employer, or obtaining the, pos session of property without the means of pay ing for it, Or by getting his hand upon tho pub lic coffers, that- he may fill his own, under the soft appellation of “ breach of trust.” " I would (hat you could see with my eyes for a little while, you would then think with me, that he who, when a boy, could not be trusted, cannot now i that he is a man. It would not be proper for me to mention names, or I could illustrate this by numerous painful examples. But they are not necessary,' Effect will follow cause—as a man sows, so shall he reap, boyhood is the seed-time, of which man hood is the harvest. “ As, therefore you love yourselves, form the habit, while young, of employing all your time usefully, never be unemployed. The land is fulj of idlers, striving to liye without labor.— It is not to be supposed that you are never lb take recreation; this is useful, it is necessary but if it come after hard ’study or productive labor, it wi)l probably be healthful and moder ate. An honorable mind, irt’ the desire of mere relaxation, will not go forth in forms of mische vions exertion.. It is not to be supposed that a boy is to be a man, much less be an old man ; but, in the midr t of his mirth and hilarity, he may be innocent and amiable.’’ P&Sjtansm- of Crimc-.-Tlie Stephens Poison ing Case. The New York Herald, referring to the con viction of Stephens for the murder ot bis wife, says Is the Planet Mars Inhabited. “OUR COUNTRY —MAT IT AI.WAT3 BE RIGHT —DDT RIGHT OR WRONG, OUR COUNTRY." CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1859. I i Life of & Newspaper Edftor'in California, ) lie rises at 10 o’clock Iri tie morning; ijrejss • es himself, takes'his hat, already- pierced wit,h , three_ bullets, and goes, to. pr restaurant tb get his breakfast. After breakfast, tiby rethrns to his office to read the tribfning papers. ,He finds that he is called a wretch In one.'in ano ther a liar, and in a*third a villain, lie smiles at the thought of having something to.do, and signs his name to the three: challenges! ivhich he always carries about him. to .be ready for emergencies. These he dispatches and sits down to write an article, when is suddenly interrupted by some intcrlopci'r'ivbom at last ho is compelled to throw out of. the \yindow. At noon he learns that his challenges Hive been accepted for the next day. At three b’dlock he goes to fight a duel which had been .arranged thq day before, kills his man , apd returns to dinner. On his way from dinner, ,be gets mixed up with a riot, and gets some brtffcses and wounds. When he reaches his sanctum he finds an infernal machine on the table.-1 With out manifesting the slightest surprise, ho .throws it out of the window. He then writes P leader on moral reform—this done, he goes to.the the atre. On his way he is attacked by three men: he kills two, and takes the third to the nearest station house. When returning toj his office, at three o’clock at night, heats a man who tries to rob him; kills a dog with a stone;. is almost run over by a hackney- coach;' and von the threshold of his door receives two morcihullels in his hat, then congratulates himSclf onjhaving passed a quiet day; writes till 4 o’clock in the morning f and then retires to bedyand .sleeps tranquilly “How flushed, how weak ho is. What’s tho matter with him ?.” • "Only Tight!” “Tight!” ' “ires.intoxicated.” “Only tight!” Man’s best and greatest gift, his intellect, degraded, the only power that rai ses him from the bruto creation, trodden under the foot of a debasing appetite. “Only tight !” The mother stands with palo face and tear-dimmed eye to see her only soil’s disgrace, and in her fancy., pictures the bitter cup of woe of which this is the foreshadowing. “Only tight!” The gentle sister,;whose strongest love through life, has bfen given to her handsome, talented brother, shrinks ‘ with contempt and disgust from his embrace', and brushes away the hot, impure kiss whipbhehas imprinted on her cheek. . , _ t “Only light!” And the young firi^estops in the glad dance she is making to meet him, and checks the welcome ph her lips to gaze in terror on tho reeling form and flushed face of him who was the “god of her idolatry,” , “Only tight!” And the father’s-facd grows dark and sad; and with a bitter sigh; bo stoops over, the senseless form of his first boro,- ; . lie has brought sorrow to all these iifiection ate hearts.he has brought himself dotfh to- the level of brutes, he has lasted the poisonous draught again, he has fallen from high;and no ble manhood, to babbling,idiocy and c- : —t*'' Btu ppr, brought grief: to qiia.- ( mother; ? i<f hiff Sister, nlnjosf "despair.,; to bowed his father's head with sorroW.Tjut blame hitn ! not,-for he is “only. tigKt!” •' .>■ . Good vs Bad Breeds "of Hogg. The editor of the Valley Farmer knows what a good porker is “atsight”—never waiting for his demise and visit to the pork barrel—and converses as powerfully upon porcine matters as some men “talk horse.” Hear him; Reader, did you ever see a shoat while root ing kick up every time he bored his nose into the ground, ns if trying to stand on his Bead ? If so, don’t.buy him ;ho will not prove a pro fitable feeder. We might call this'. a -sub-soil variety. Did yon ever see a hog that would grab ah ear of corn and run a quarter of a mile before ho would stop to eat ? If so, Beware. We will place such in the' same category, and fur the sake of distinction we will callthom elm peelers. Did you over see a tall, slab-sided, long-legged, razor-backed breed that were al ways hungry, and, when opportunity requi red, would climb up to where the rails in the fence were some distance apart, and then cither [ slip through a crack or throw off. a few rails l and jump over ? If so,; don't purchase unless you are a small farmer and can't possibly build corn-cribs. We might, perhaps., call these free-soilers, else barn burners. Did you ever see a slim, dead-alive kind of thing, that would get so poor as to be obliged to trot before and canter behind when required tp’get up motion, and still not die: its eyes both coming out at the same hole, or at least so near it that the hog appeared cross-eyed ? If so, let us pass the dismal picture and simply pall them old liners. AH these hogs may be described as follows Long cars, large, heavy heads, long and thick legs, a streak of lean underneath a thick griz zle, and that covered with a thick;-tough hide, with abundance of bristles, and in fine a great amount of ofial of every description. Such animals have no thriftnees, no capacity to fatten and very little that is digestible after they are killed, Pick for a hog with a small clean head, rather small bone, body low to the ground, long and square; hams full and round, disposition quiet and pleasant. Suph a hog will always insure a good return. If you can come across such hogs, whether called Berk shire, Woburn, Suffolk, Grazier, or, what not, get some and try some. . They will hot disap point you. A word to the wise is sufficient. Tiic JHuslriODS Dead. We give the following ns worlhperusal and' preservation : Born. Died. Age. George Washington 1732 1799 67 .Beniamin Franklin 1706 1790 34 John Adams 1735 1826 91 Thomas Jefferson 1743 1826 83 John Q. Adams 1867 1848 81 A’ndfcw Jackson. 1767 1845 78 Henry Olay 1777 1852 75 John 0. Calhoun' 1782 1850 65 Daniel Webster 1782 1852 . 70 Thbmas H. Benton 1782 1858- 76 [Cr-'jt Hibernian bad come M td bee (bo Fall of the Niagara, and while he' ga&d upon it, a.friend asked him if it was riot the rtiofft wonderful thing he ever seen. He replied, “ Niver a bit, man: nicer al bit! Stive, its no wonder at all that the water should (all down there, for I’d like to know what would hinder , C7* There is a lady in Pennsylvania of Such a sweet temper that she turns salt into sugar by touching it, Her husband is making a for tune by selling molasses made from vinegar.— He buys a barrel of the liquid, the lady looks in at the bung-hole, and in two days after, ho sells it for " sugar house" at fifty cents d gal lon. Execution.—Pleasant M. Mask, who mur dered a young lady at Holly Springs, Miss., was executed on Friday. There were about 4,000 persons present at the scene. Only Tight PoGitisit.—The English prize-fighter, "Jem my Massey," who recently arrived in this coun try, had a benefit in New York on Thursday night last, at which all of the renowned light and heavy weights of the pugilistic circle vol unteered their services. The beneficiary put on the gloves’ vvitb Johny Mackey, and they had a lively time of it. Massey stated that he had fought his last battle some time since in Eng land. and was going to fight do more. Ilia purpose is to open a porter house in New York, and the benefit was got up to raise' the ncces-, sary ftfndff to start him in business. O’ Every wooden leg that takes the place of leg JoSt in bhftle, is a StCtrip speech against ..pTOiit West they divorce husband and wife, if either party snores so loud that the oth er can’t sleep. 10 s * A Sermon in four words on tho vanity of earthly possessions—" Shrouds have no pock ets. PABRIS GOSSIP. A chatty and interesting correspondent pf tho Mew York News, writing from Paris under date of tho Bth instant, furnishes Ilia following items t What do you call extravagance in dining at your side of the water 7 Find out, .and then compare it with the results of a little caicula. tion I am going to set before you. One of the Rothschilds has been lately wed in this city, and nothing in the Arabian Wights can surpass what is said of (ha splendors of tho prandial ap pointmontsxm tho occasion. I’m not going to give you thojhintest description, for tho .attempt would bo a horrible failure. But I’m going to tell you thatthe plate used at the/oast is valued at no less a sum than one billion dollars ! This is said to be under the mark by millions, but it will do—don’t you think 7 There wore meats on the fable from every country on earth, and fish from every sea. The flowers that decora ted fhetable S7000„ Wpw, (hen, do fon want a description 7 If yon do send.np to npiterand nslc him to lend you one of the at. tendant gods of the good old dining times, for no oncelsecan do the thing justice. Tills event, for Its show oi\ wealth, is still the chat and the sensation throughout tho beau moiido. Masked balls and oarnavalio festivities are now .file fashionable 'attraction. There was a splendid fancy ball the other evening at Fould’s, to which tho Empress led her imperial lord, and at which poor, dear immolated Clolildo graced the side of Plon.Plon. The thick, flshwoman ish thing called Princess Mathilda, was also there, and the young Russian lady who married Do Horny was present, and boro away the lion el's of being the most beautiful in person and the most resplendent in dross. The imperial party occupied thrones., under an allegorical awning, and seemed to enjoy the thing without much uneasiness. Isn't it ’shocking to have to put in a qualification like that 7 When tho allegorical representative of War (with dishevelled hair, matted beneath a rusty helnient,) atid hearing a bent spear in the hand,) passed tho “ august presence,” tho Emperor's eyes twinkled nervously and Engenie suddenly called bis attention to Peace; who just then low ered her olivo-crowned head before the./ldshty Walhildo, at whose feet she placed tho symbolic brand;. • Tho Princess looked disquieted, but, on a nod from her “august relative,’? she sim pered out, “ 1 take it, but answer for nothing.” As. if it concerned all earth to know what (ho mummery wight mean. The incident, however, has its lesson. Wiiatwould you say ifGen. Cass or any other personage of tho same sort of importance in your political world, had a couple of unices whom ho wished.to mako actresses ot, and, with that view, used his general position if not his particular office? Now, (hen, a case of this kind has to bo charged to Walewaki, ft he Count, mind you,) who has-sent for two Polish girls (hisnoicos) named Nielorski, and “brought them out” on the Paris stage amid all that official eclat could accomplish. But they were not Po lish nightingales, and their appearance at the Sa|lo Horz was a decided failure in spite of the position of their patron and unolo. “Served him right,” say I, thinking of tho man and not of tlio maids. ' . ; Christy has treated the Toilettes, to the. nig ger delineations. Uig band was presented “to 1 conit” the other evening in tho Salle de Diane, attached to the palstce,-where about two hun dred.B6t6i!t‘^ectttthr#J'tpjsandod^^^ troupe’s performances,-which lasted for nearly three hours. b-Bbmehow or other this hand of minstrels does not fake With the general public, nor cqn it. I think that it is not a stylo of en tertainment which is at all likely to please the Parisians, so far, at all events, as to make it a profitable speculation. " The’three middle days of March will ho har- monious'timca for musical France. Fully seven thousand melodists, of- all varieties, are thou to attend the musical festival at the Champs Ely ecos, and the whole,united societies are to least our listening souls nn eleven magnificent cho ruses. Don’t you wish vou were there to-see and hoar ? \ \ ' Taglionl is entertaining private audiences with her best performances,- She delighted the guests of M. Rossini the other evening with a now Swiss dance to one of the airs in Guillaume Tell. It was fascinating! What sort of weather have you over there 1 — We are nearly a month a head of the season hero, and the chestnut trees in the Palace gar dens are hastening,- to bloom ;■ the. famous ono known as fho “ Vingt Mars” is already fn the bud-bursting condition., Adieu ! .President Pierce—The following is a let ter from cx-Presidcnt Pierce, who, wiJi his amiable and excellent lady, has been for some time traveling in Europe ; “ Hotel Villa Nardi. Sorrento, “ February 11, 1859. “Mr Dear Sir : The enclosed, letter ■ would have been sent from Capri, had not communi cation with the main laud been interdicted by wind and -waves. As soon as the sea became quiet, wo embarked for this sweet and picture esque place. > “It was pleasant to find here letters and pa pers from home awaiting our arrival. My sat isfaction, however, in reading the papers was somewhat marred by certain paragraphs, which impute sinister political motives, to my friends and myself, in connection with my protracted absence from the United States, the sugges tion that roy voyage to Madoria, and subse quont sojourn in Europe, were prompted by any .object, except the one known to the pub lic, is, under the circumstances, peculiarly wan ton. “It would be more difficult, as I believe I have said to you in the enclosed, to convey to you an adequato idea of the extent to which! have enjoyed the repose which, for the first time in twenty-five years, it has hcen my privi lege to command. For. Mrs. Pierce, exemption from care and exciting causes of solicitude is in-' dispensable. . “ I cannot- speak witltiany certainty as to the period of our return, but, whether it be ca ber or later, you may be quite sure that I shall, under no possible, circumstances, consent to the use of my namo in a manner calculated to dis turb the tranquil pursuits which alone pertain to the life of a private citizen. "Your friend, ■ “FitANKr.rN Pierce. " Hon. B. M. Farlet, Hollis. N. U.” AT $2,00 PEB ANNUM The Mount Vernon Pnnd—-5158,333 Already The Mount. Vernon Ladies’ Association of the Union, of which Miss Ann Pasiela Gun- NiNoiiAii, of South Carolina, is Ucgent, have executed their patriotic work with a success and spirit which put the exertions of out own sex to tiie blush. There is something positively won derful in the manner in which funds have keen collected throughout the country, (at a time, too, when monetary troubles pressed heavily Upon it,) for the purchase of “ Washington's Home” upon the Potomac. Even as Wo write, our wonder is immeasurably increased by a re. port of the Secretary, Mrs. S. L, Pelleii, of Richmond, Virginia, published in the Mount Vernon Record, that, up to the 23d of tile present month, the Regent had paid to Mr. John A. Washington 5158,333,32, being the entire ba lance due up to February 22d, 1801—there yet remaining of the purchase money to bo paid 511,666,08, and that Hot really due until 1H52 being the fourth and last instalment. The 'report—which, indeed, is n most Satis factory and gratifying one—goes on to say that $llO,OOO of this sum has been paid in a period of little over three months. If ever the efficiency of Woman, ns an oner, getio and successful agent, wore questioned, the manner in wbicli tlio ladies liave established and carried into effect the.patriotic and nation al enterprise Vrhich seeks to purchase the Homo and Tomb of Washington for the country, would nullify the doubt. Only a few short months since the whole scheme was received with a shrug of the ns promising no possible chance of success, and, at first, was-mot, in some States, with deadly opposition and almost open hostility. Wo are tluiy cheered at the grand results expressed in thO.Secletal'y's lie port, and the difficulties which have bean over, come. After this, Woman need not fear to attempt almost any thing. If it would not be too great ly tasking.tho Ladies of. the Mount Vernon As. sedation, we'should solicit them, when the half a million is will include all re. qnired for buying, beautifying, and preserving Mount- Vernon—to .continue, their organization, and apply its machinery, energy, and tact to the completion of the Washington Monument in the Federal Metropolis. From Mount Ver. non itself the Regent might appropriately make her appeal, and then, instead of advancing at the rate of about two feet a year, it would bo completed within twelve months from the time Miss Ccnuikgiiam and her fair associates took it in hands. - Tho Ladies’ Association, through whose on. orgies and influence so much of (he Mount Ver non purchase money lias boon raised, have been considerably assisted by their organ, the Mount Vernon Record,ye hieh has widely spread, through all parts of the Union, accounts of what has been donb, everywhere,-for the sacred cause which it espouses. Its literary and artistical merits are very distinguished; but its fullness of details,Within a comparatively limited space, is astonishing. Tlio list of names of contribu tors, published in a supplemental sheet each month, (several. thousands in oach number,) must have inspired generous responses wherever this, persuasively-appealing and well-edited lit tle shoot has aped its way. W ith tho great good which tlie Mount, Vernon Record iriust have ren dered in helping to bring about,-if there wore no other reasons to give it unhesitating palron- iTh 'tKOlf .should largely increase- the generous Bat of BUb'serihcrß which it now enjoys. ' Philadelphia Preot. ]' Organization of tlio Washington. National lloriamnt Society, . ■ The American people aye well aware of the /act that the great monument to the memory of Washington, which, for so many years, was in course of contruct'on in the national metropo. lis, was abandoned during (ho Administration of President Pierce, owing to the misconduct of the Board of Managers having it in charge, who endeavored to prostitute it to political purposes. These managers were members of the Know- Nothing parly, and they endeavored to make thp monument a means of advancing the inte rests pt their organization. The funds for its construction were squandered j the records de stroyed; and for several years the portion of the shall completed has stood, a mark of their mis conduct, and a disgrace to our country. Recently Congress passed an act incorpora ting a new company to construct this gredt work, and on the 22d instant, it was formally organized hy the President of the United States, who is, ex-officio. President of the Mon ument Society. The ceremonies of (ho occa sion were quite interesting. A gentleman, re. forcing to the new life infused into the underta. I king by (ho action of Congress, remarked that u "os an era, nnd a most important era, in the history of the society, when the President of (ho United Slates took an active part in its proceedings. Theyfelt that his example would bo most effectual in awakening throughout Iho country a souse of the importance of the great work before them.” President Buchanan, on taking the chair, said that,'before proceeding to their Organiza tion, ho 'wished to make a few remarks which had suggested themselves to him while riding from his house to this place. He recollected that thirty-throe'or thirty-four years ago, when, ho was a member of the House of Represent/!, fives, ho had offered a.proposition for the erec tion of such a monument as they were now rea. ring. Ho did not know at whoso instance ho had made this motion, hut certainly it was at the Instance of worthy citizens of- Washington, now, perhaps, no more. They all recollected how the President of tho United Slates at that time asked tho body of Washington, of bis wi dow, to bo interred beneath this monument Tho matter was suspended until 1884, when ho had brought it heiorc Congress. He was then rather a Sophomore in legislation, and ho should like to look at tho tiles of the Nation al Intelligencer to see what lie had actually said on that occasion. Ho remembered, however, (hat it was constructed as an indignity, to pro. pose to erect any other monument to Washing, ton than that which existed in tho hearts of tho people. The effort was defeated. Ho remem bered well his own extreme mortification at the result. It would ho vain for him to pronounce ft eulogy upon Washington. He would only say (hat ho had been much abroad, and every, whore throughout (ho world lie had found tho natno of Washington interwoven with the fame of tho American republic. It was vain to urge that sculpture nnd painting should not bo cm ployed in paying honor to great and deserving men. Snch honor ho thought to bo their duo 0“ A drunken Dutchman by,the name ol Cain, staggering through the streets one day was asked if he was the man that slew his bro ther. “No." said he, “I was tho oho that gol slewed.” b i -JR* A wcstcrn P a P' r te'-ls of a huntrr who killed nine thousand snipes in four shots, and the air was full of falling birds for several davs, not to speak of the grtat number of cripples hobbling about on the ground! A fowl yarn'. ITT - The editor of the Woonsocket Patriot makes merry oyer the mistakes of a Shanghai h'en'of his, that has been setting for five weeks on two round stones and a piece of brick ! “ Her anxiety is no greater than ours,” soys he, •• to' know that she will hatch. If it proves a'brickyard, that hen is not for sale." (C7* “ -Mother," said a little boy. of tin's pug nose; it is growing pugj gir every day." NO. 43. Paid, There is still dutch diversity of dpinidn as Id ■he best seed to .plant—whether it should bd large, medium, dr Small whole potatoes, or out into pieces with one or more eyes. Very fc# farmers agree upon exactly, the same mode. Our own limited experience would incline td fair sited potatoes, cut carefully in two pieced with not less than two eyes, to he cut two weeks before planting; and os soon as cut; powdered well With gypsiiih and Spread but uiion a door iii the slin At least a pan of thq day. 'This, will start them a little, and it will shrivel the picceS, and render them less liable to rot in tile event df Wet Wedtlleh , . VTc greatly prefer rote to hill planting. Irf VTcstorn Kcw Vdrlc and Northern Pennsylva nia, As Well aS id pferlitips A hiaj'drity of the pop taio-growing regions, the hill system is adopted. The respective yields do not materially difler;' with easier 'Cultivation and ihuch less labor irf faVoi of the roW system. A farmer- in gad,,who had all his life, tip t'd ii lalo.period; cultivated in hill, told us that he preferred the ‘ rpw for the tcaSonS here ■ given. —GerttiantoiiA Telegriiph. ■ • The Unioti require.' d very rich soil and Ihif rough buhbre to secure a good crop, and a poop crop will pay the cost of weeding, &c. The best soil is a good; deep loam, thougli they wilt grow on a stiff clay, if it is well pulverized, or even on a Very sandy loam, if it is enriched. Hog manure is excellent for growing onions, and in the absence of this, well rotted stable manure should be used. Use no manure, id which you have reason to believe, there arc ma ny foul seeds. Guano is an admirable nothing belter, and hen manure is the next | thing to it.' These two maniirts Will not destroy t weeds, unless used in such quantifies as to de l , stray the crop also, but they arc free from tile seed of tveeds, and therefore whbii using these you are not sowing a foul crop, as is often the case when usipg manures from the stable.— Make the surface of the soil ns fine and smooth as possible, and free, from stones. Then sose with a drill Rfiby..hand,making the rows just . wide enough to hoc conveniently, say twelve or fourteen inches, and the plants four or five in ches apart in the rows. Of course the seed cannot be sown very precisely, but this ban hq” regulated in thinning out.. -Sow the. Seed as soon ns the ground .is dry enough to work, which will usunllyobe jn this Section the latter part of April.' I?. - ■ ' ■ :••• . Frost will not injure U(e onion. The cost of taking care of an acre of onions depends much upon the soil \fop cleanlmes, and the general management, so that wc will not even give id guess thereat. The .average product of an acre of onions is from 150 to . 200 barrels, and we think they never sell for less than Sl-pcr bar rel in New York; and generally for mole thari" double this price. They- are now worth about S 3. If well harvested, and kept in a very dry cellar, or In bn upper room where they will hot freeze hard, they will keep will until wand weather. —Rural New Yorker. , Vines mow ErES.—I have boejj'experiment ing with all the diiferenf modes of propagating vinos from cybs, and find tho following tba most successful. Take good strong, hard add welt. ripened shoots of the last year’s growth. Cui them with a sharp knife from a quarter ttf half an inch above a bud, and Iron) an inch to art inch arid a halt below fine, tolhoalrid or strphgth of tho siiodt, Place them in an up, right or vortical position In sandy rich soil, and barely cover tho upper pafl ttf tho cutting. I have found cuttings formed and planted' in this way to toot with rupro certainty and celerity thaii in Hie old way of planting llicm in a hori zohtai position with as much of tho wood left above tho bud as heloiv it. .All the wood left above the bud is a disadvantage, being liable to tanker and rot. Some persons cut a noicii iim mediately opposite to the eye, supposing that It expedites tiio rotting, hut I have loan'd no ad vantage froth it, but rather the Corilfary, O'Tho question, “ Why.printers did -fltft succeed as well as brewers?" was' thus an swered : “ Because printers work for tho hcad,- and brewers for the stomach, and whefe twenty wen have stomachs, but one has Wains.” Trife ot.« I.Ab'v's Usr— Sfra. fetingfon laments that she shall never be able to suppress herself, correctly. “Whenever t open my mouth." Says she, “T am sui;c to put mu fboi in it. individual who tried to clear his conscience with art egg. is now endeavoring to raise bis spirit with yeast. If fie fails in this; it is his deliberate intention to blow out bis : brains with the beliows. ID” "Bobby. why don’t you go bomb, and have your mother sod’ up that hole in your trbwstTS?". “Oh, go along,'hid woman. our folks are economising, dutf si hole will last lon ger than a patch.” D” A learned -young lady, the other eve ning. astonished tho company fiy asking for, the “Joan of a (liminU’live, afgenteous, truncated cone, crirtvex on its summit. And semi perfora ted with symmetnfcaf inden’tiltiofis.” She wan ted a thistle. • firmer said to a barber that he ought to reduce ins price, now that corn was thean. |'No,sir-eft, says the sharer, “for when corn is low, farmers make such long faces, that I hate twice the ground to go over.” O” The wofld is full of people, who', making by custom and outward appeuranco a son of themselves and others, always decide in 'favor of their owii mefit. and afc't accordingly. ' CT” Albibh, in speaking 6f tne sad fate of the two English ladies whfi recently lost their lives by their dresses taking lire'says they were burnt offerings ■tb the mololoch 6/ fashion, ’’ C7"The wonhieat people arc the roost assail ed by slander: as tve usually find that to'bo the best fruit, which the birds have been pick ing at. C7'There is a young, man in Vermont, who feeds his geese on iron filings, and gathers steel pens from their wiijgs. lf a good act benefits no one else it be neflta (ho one who does it. tired 'gcrand pug- . K7’, w J lcn does a man rob his wife I Wheb he hdoks her dress* Potato Culture. , This is tßie pcrrbtt, by which! tl)e;«*rly plArit- Wg,o( potatoes should be through frith-! The best variety for the first crop.is Fox’s Seedling, It is neither a targe tuber nfqtr a very, abundant producer, but it is among the'earlTest in mami ring, and the very hesl ip point of quality, not ; , ” smong the early varieties, bu to( *ll pota toes. in the first planiing espcoially. piabe the manure upon the top Of the potato,, which, we, think, makes a difference of a week inthe ma turity of the tuber. For a gencral crop, there is no better pdtitb; '■ 80 good, than the several' Varieties of the Mercer. -The Pinkeye or Foxite is a good po tato, but not hitherto producing nearly so well in our heavyi Soils as in the light' soils of New Jersey; still a number of farmers liavcobtained good yields.' It has not been so liable to tho rot os the Mercer; but as we may hope the rot is about disappearing, add the Maine Mercer is being extensively plan led hero, we take it for granted that we shall have our usual supply 61 this excellent variety. We notice that the Peach Blow Pdf AW is now introduced with loud soundihgof blit wc question whether it is nearly so good as-the Mercer. Statements that we have recently seen' respecting it, in New England, New York, &c. t where it has passed under various names. Apeak of it as nothing beyond mediocrity either pa tq quality or productiveness. We therefore ad? vise against Spending much Itioney fn the pur chase of large quantities for planting- A peefi or so. for an cXpfcrimbfit, will establish its character with those who may desire to hnpw what it is, and whether it ia adapted-to our soil. " • Growiuj Onions;
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