AMERICAN VOLUNTEER. PUBLISHED EVSEY TUtinSDAY MOENIEO 07 John B. Bratton. TEEMS. Sußso.BipMOJT. —One Dollar and Fifty Cents, paid in advance; Two Dollars if paid ivltliifa 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 nt tho option of the Editor. . Advkbtisemehts— Accompanied by the cash, and not exceeding one square, will, bo inserted throe times fov Ono Dollar, and twenty-five cents lor each additional insertion; Those of a great tor length in proportion. Joo-P.rintino— Such ns Hand-bills, Posting-, bills, Pamphlets, Blanks, Labels, &c.,&c., exe cuted with accuracy and at tho shortest notice. foriirnl. WISHING. BY JOHN O. SAXE. Of alt amusements for the mind, From logic down to fishing, There isn’t one that you can find So very cheap as “ wishing!” A very choice diversion, too, If we but lightly use it. And not, as we ate apt to do, Pervert it and abuse it. X wish—a common wish, indeed— My purse was something fatter, That I might cheer tho child of need, And not my pride to flatter; That I might make oppression reel, .As only gold can make it, - - And break the tyrant’s rod, of steel. As only gold can break it. - I wish—that sympathy and lovo, And every human passion That has its origin above, " Would come, and keep in fashion; Tilsit Scorn, and Jealousy, and Hate; And eveiy base emotion. Were buried fifty fathoms deep Beneath tbo waves of Ocean I I wish—that friends were always true, And motives always pure ; . I wish the good wore not so few, X wish the had, were fewer j I wish that parsons ne’er forgot To hofed their pious teaching; I wish that practicing was not So different from preaching! I wish—that modest worth might bo' Appraised with truth and candor; I wish that innocence were tree From treachery and slandor j, I wish that men their vows would mind, That women ne’er were rovers; I wish that wives were always kind,- And husbands always lovers ! ■ I wish—in fine —that joy and mirth, . ■ And ovory good ideal, ■ May come, orewhile, fbrougho.ut the earth To be tile glorious Real; Till God. shall every creature bless " , With Ids supromost blessing, And hope be lost in happiness, And wisidng in possessing! BEAUTY, WIT AND GOLD, In a bower a. widow dwelt, At her feet three lover’s knfclt j Each ador’d the widow much, < Each essay’d her heart to touch. One had-wit, and one, had gold, One was cast in beauty’s mould j G-ness which was It won the prize, Tongue, or purse, or handsome eyes 1 First began the handsome man, Peeping proudly o’er her fan, Ued.fiis lips and white his skin, . Could such beauty fail, to win ? Then stopped forth the man qf gold, ~ Y" Cash he cohhtedj'coii ho told'; , : Wealth the burden of his tale, • ' Could such-golden.projects fail ? Then the man of wit and sense, Woo’d her with his eloquence; Now she hoard him with a sigh, Then she blush’d scarce knowing why; Then she smiled to hear him speak, , Then a tear was on her check; Beauty vanish, gold depart. Wit had won the widow’s heart. MmMmm, ■ I SHORT PATENT SERMON. DT DOW, JU. My test is contained in these'words, which most.of you have probably seen somewhere, or somewhere else: “ Pray, toll mo how the devil was dressed, Ob! ho was in his Sunday’s best; His coat was black, and his trouser’s blue, With a hole behind where his tail came thro.”: Mx Hearers : The. origin of this notorious scamp—the devil—is wrapped up in. a great many thicknesses ot obscurity. As to his pa ternity, it is generally supposed that ho never had a lather nor a mother, but is entirely self made ; for which wonderful piece of workman, ship, he, no doubt, takes a vast_.deal.of credit to, himself. The first we heat ot his suporroyai highness,-he was; “ sloshing about” in heaven; ® t a terrible rate, and - frightening the infant Cherubim into fits. He pretended to. bo dissat isfied with the general movement up there, but the throne was Ids sole object; and,:! may say, lib fought like the devil to reach it. Ho thought if be could only bo king of that extensive do minion for a few million olyoars, matters would ho so put to rights that they would take care of themselves for the balance, of eternity. So, ho fought like a threshing machine for the crown of glory; but, my brethren, ho hadn’t ammuni tion enough—his rations were short —his cause wasn’t just—arid the hosts of the Lord too many for him. He was; cornered at last, and pitched over the'balcony, - and down ..he came, kor. chunk, somewhere in the centre of the great Dismal Swamp. By that disastrous fall, my brethren, he so injured his left foot, that it with ered and turned into a hoof, which ho exhibits oven to this day, exceptwhen artfully confcoaled by a nicely polished Calf-skin boot. The first of this rascal’s capers upon earth, my Mends, was that of transforming himself into a beautiful garter snake, and so charming good mother Evo that shb one day committed a slight misdemeanor, and forfeited her ‘third’ of Paradise—and away went poor Adam’s share,' In the bargain. And I voriiy believe, that the same old reptile holds a fascinating power over the fair sex at the present time. His fallen Greatness, my brethren, thou put on a suitable fig of asbestos, and turned fireman—not one of the b’hoye, that run with the big squirting ma dhino, but such a fireman as is employed upon 4' steamboat, to heave in the wood and keep the blazes up. His great pyrotechnic establishment is in some locality best known to himself; but ★ith which; £ trust, yon will become telly ao quainted at some future period. My brethren, when the devil comes to town, now-a-days,-he doffs his" old fire, toggery, and dressds either in the flash stylo or assumes a wore gentlemanly garb—seldom, Indeed, com ing In coarse homespun, or with a seedy coat, stogy boots and a sooty shirt.: Sometimes he way be seen strutting along qnile fancifully at tired—with coat of claret, vest of buff, pants of *ky. blue, and hat and hoots of ivory polish; with three diamond studs and a nugget in his bosom—and a gold watch-chain, largo and strong enough to tetbor a mad elephant; but, wlt(i all those, there is always a hole behind where tho tail comes through. Sometimes, too, he ap pears inlfmoro respectable guise of plain black, "ith moderately short, bnsinoss-liko hair, and d'tll trimmed- whiskers. In such raiment ho Wight readily-be mistaken for an unadulterated gentleman—an influential and prominent citizen •-were u not that there is a hole behind, and ll| e tall will work itself through. And, hroth- Wn, £ have even known tho old scoundrel fo “°a the pontilicial robe, get into the pulpit and Preach ‘Christ, and- him crucified,’ at a salary PW ; atmum-_tliat- Would'crowd all the piety out. American BY JOHN B. BRATTON. VOL. 46. of your poor pastor in 'less than a fortnight from tho date of tho first payment. I couldn’t possibly have the handling of so much money and hold on to my religion. Yes, brethren, I’ve seen tho. devil, in clerical duds, holding forth to an admiring congregation in most elo quent stylo, festooning tho garden of heaven with tho rarest of exotics, and describing hell ns a hundred times hotter than ho himself could over make it with a cargo of rosin, pitch and Camphepe. His nether ornament was not visi ble while madly uttering tho < words of truth and soberness’ —yet there was a hole behind for the tail to come through; and the tip end of it might he seen pooping from beneath his eccle siastical cloak as ho walked in the highways, as irpud as a peacock and stiff ns a roll of sole eathcr.. I have also seen his devilship at the bar, upon the bench, in State Legislature and in our National Congress. At all these places he has over worn the dress of a gentleman, but always slipped up on the behavior, and exposed tho hole behind where the fail came through. ■ And: now, my unsuspecting young sisters: beware of a gay charmer, who pays a thousand compliments and has ns many more ready for another—who talks of love and totes you about, but never thinks of matrimony—whose kiss is blight to tho bloom of innocence—who plucks the flower and leaves the tree to wither. I saj*, beware of him, for ,he is the very devil himself —tail or no tail. So mote it be I The Gorilla Not The Negro. Some scientific men hold that fho negro'is tho link between man and tho lower animal.— But there lias been discovered a batter link in the heart ot Africa,’and this link appears to ho the first cousin as well as near neighbor to tho negro. Listen: .... At the London Royal'lnsfitrifion, Prof. Owen delivered a lecture .to a crowded Central Africa, which beam the nearest resem blance to man of any ono of the monkey tribo that has been hitherto discovered, not except/ ing the Chimpanzee! t The first traces of this crcaturo Wore made known in this country iu 1847, and from tho bonds sketched* *f Ifr which Prof. Owen feebived from missionaries, ho inferred that the Gorilla was ono of the most highly developed species of the monkey group. In August last a specimen of the Gorilla; pre served in spirits, was received dt the British Museum, and a well executed drawing of it, by Mr. Wolff j was exhibited. The points in which it approaches nearer to the man than any other qiiadrutnanous animal, are the shortness of the humcrous compared with tho fore aim, a longer development of the great toe, a projecting nose, bone, file arrangement of the bones of the feet to enable the creature to stand more erect. The drawing of the Gorilla from the specimen in the British Museum, though only two-thirds grown, represented a most formidable animal, and 'compared with the. skeleton of tho full grown specimen, the skeleton of man seemed very slim and delicate. Not only were the bones and muscles calculated to give great strength;-bat the large capacity of the chest in dicated tho powerful energy with which they were stimulated. The part of Africa.where the Gorilla is found, lies from the Equator to 20 degrees south, on the western portion; In a hilly country abounding in palm tree's and. luxuriant vegetation. Its tood consists of fruit trees and vegetables;'andt Its habitaHoni 'is: lliW\vooa&;’ whore it construct- nests of tho intertwined bows perched at hoights'varying from. lS to fit) feet. If avoidgthb presence of thb nogroes,and is but seldom scon, but it is known to. them as “ the stupid old man.” . The want of intelligence that has induced (ho negroes to give it that name is. shown by its car- rying away fruits and sugar canes singly, in stead of lying them together and carrying seve ral off at the same (into. It is thus returning to take away its provender into the woods piece meal that (lie negroes Take the opportunity of waiting for and shooting it. The Gorilla is a formidable enemy to encounter, and, in case (begun miss its mark, or only maim the animal, the negro is quickly overtaken and killed, or dreadfully mangled by the canine teeth of the creature. Sometimes when a negro is passing unawares under a tree, in which a Gorilla is seated, it, will roach down its arm and-snatch tho man up by tho throat and hold him till-he is strangled. Tho elephant is an object of its attack, as they both live on the same food, and, holding on to a high, brand) with its hind feet; it will stoop down and strike the elephant with a club. The Go rilla exhibits a strong attachment for its young, as ah instance of which, it was mentioned that a female and her two young ones having been seen in a tree, she snatched up one and ran off with it into the woods and then returned to fetch tho other. Her retreat had in the meantime been cut off, and when the gun was levelled at her,-she held her young one to her breast, she waved her arm as if to beseech for mercy; ’ But it was in vain, for a bullet was sent through her heart, and the young one was wounded and captured. The Gorilla, is sometimes seen walking erect,-with its aims behind its nock; its usual mode of pro gression, however,; is on all fours. Professor Owen racntioned'scveral other points in the ha bits of the animal, as well as in its osteology, to show the nearer approach to man than other ani mals of the tribe; and he concluded by alluding to tho fossil remains of quadrumances, to show that the Gorilla, like man, had not existed till the earth had attained ifs.prcsent condition! . Meeting of the Emperor and Empress of Prance—4 Domestic Scene. The Paris correspondent of tho Now York Hetald, under dale of July 21st, says: The victor of Solferino is once more under the shadow of his imperial palace, Napoleon 111, reached St. Cloud yesterday morning at ton o’- clock. His Empress laid, down her regent’s sceptre, and, like a simple, true-hearted, affec tionate wife, was standing with her little child at tho gate of tho park, to Welcome her husband from tho wars. The meeting of the Emperor and Empress was full of tenderness. Her majesty threw herself into bis arms, and Napoleon kissed her again and again; then turning to the littlo Princo Im perial, clothed in a picturesque representation of the uniform of the Guard, and vtho, haud possibus eguis, had wandered up by the side of his imperial mother, the Emperor caught him up and embraced him as only a father does em brace his child. The little fellow twined his arms around his sire’s nock, and.seemed never tired of returning the kisses he received,. ' ! It was a sight which could not foil to excite the sympathy of all who witnessed it, and many a stern-looking man, albeit unused to the melt ing mood, was seen with a moisture in his eye. Together with the Emperor arrived Gen. Fleury, Gen. Noy, Prince do la Moskowa, and several of his orderly officers. , . After exchanging the most friendly salutations with all, the Emperor and Empress and the Prince Imperial drove on to the Palace, soon after which his Majesty received the Princes and Princesses of the imperial family. At 12 o - cloak all the imperial house-hold attended dt vine service' In the royal chapel, after which the Ministers were admitted to pay their re spects. OCT” “Love in a cottage" is all very well when, you own the cottage, and have money coming to keep it nice and warm. Flatterers.— Flatterers arc aa mean and sordid ns they are mischievous and odious. To them might bo applied the Lcvitical law—“ Eve ry creeping thing is unclean, and shall he nn abomination.” WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE. A poor man sat at his window— do, lam : wrong, it was at tho window of his hired house. Tt was a, small mansion,' a little tenement, painted white, and surrounded by richer csta i blishqients, that seemed to look down with contempt upon their humble neighbor. The occupants of those stately homes were• very much annoyed by the simple little children that played on the steps, and generally kept the curtains down on the side that looked toward them. But, as I said before, a poor man sat ait one of the windows overlooking the street. He was a thoroughly noble looking man, too, with handsome Roman features, and an eye like a hawk. With ihe exception of his coarse clothes he was much more gentlemanly and dignified in his appearance than any merchant in that princely row. A pile of bricks had been emptied quite near his doorway ; they were for repairs. As this man looked out he saw two or three little chil dren with his own little ones, bumming and buzzing about the bricks. . Their dainty little bands were eager to fashion Houses and bridge: and all sorts.of momentarynrehiteoturc. Sud dedly the poor man bethought him of a pastime of bis own when he was a child, and his heart having retained the pure and sweet emotions of youth through the cares and hardships of ma ture life, he,hastily threw on his hat, and go ing down ho taught them a hew trick. It was this: Ur place a row of bricks on end, quite near to each other, forming a long line; by touching the last one aa impetus 'is given to each brick by its next neighbor, and the row is presently swept down in regular order. The children clapped their hands and shouted so Joudly that some of the rich neighbors, coming to their windows, saw bow the little ones Were employed, taking lessons in amusement from a poor and almost unknown man. ~“What a fool!” said, one, snceringly—'■! sfcmld think the man ad overgrown baby. See hmr laugh! See him phfy! Shame on hit% [ —grmjn man— »p*%hiV%ciif And from alh\bose windows went the laugh and the sneer. %Men with gold tassel led caps set on perfumed locks, laughed the bid titan to scorn; women in beautifully embroidered robes turned down the corners of their pretty lips, and the children were speedily called in; .Years passed. The poor man .had grown rich. Wealth had come to him. hot through toil; but it did not corrupt hjs good heart, his simple tastes. Still he loved children and their sports. He built himself a splendid mansion however, and lived in the style bis great revo nues permitted Again, as in the days of yoro, there was a great load of bricks left in the vicinity- of bis home. Again little children gathered to “play house,” and again tho man sat watching-them at his window. Yes, it was his window now— a window whoso glass was costly plate; and’ he sat there no 'longer the tenant of a hired house, in coarse clothes, but attired in the richest of. broadcloth. Again, as he looked at the busy, beautiful group bclpw. his heart kin dled with the’inetnorf& Of bid; and helfert Com pelled to go. down and teach the; juveniles -his brick game. So, in a moment after, ho stood in -their midst, and stopping, picked up the bricks, arranged them, and set them in motion. : How the children laughed, and their bright eyes sparkled! Thfe noise brought tho aristo cratic neighbors to their windows. ‘‘Well, to be sure! There is Mr. B , that wealthy gentleman opposite, playing with the children. Isn’t it a pretty sight, dear?” . “Yes; and what a fine looking man he is, to bo sure. What freshness of heart he must have to enjoy-their gamc with so much zdst! T declare its quite touching!” ‘‘So it is; they say ho has all of million. Hasn’t he a fine figure!” "Splendid! Do you seo him clap his hands? I declare it really brings tears to my eyes.” . "Wipo.’cm away, wipe ’em away, Mattie; they’re crocodile tears!” cried a young strip ling of seventeen. His sister, a maiden lady of unutterable age, looked around indignantly. . “Fact, sis; they’re real crocodile tears, and I’ll prove it. When I was seven years old, that ’same gentleman came, out of a little white house,and taught us children that very same trick. And, sis, you and mother both’ called him an ‘old fool !’ as I distinctly remember, and I, for one, received a tremendous injunction'not to speak to his children or notice them in any way;” ■< “Nonsense, Fred!,’ said bis sister, turning red. ■ ■ “I know it was nonsense; but you did it. You called him all sorts of names—a ‘ridicu lous old goose,’ a ‘grown up baby.’and I don’t know what. Now here’s the same bid fellow up to the same old triqk ; . and bh, gracious, there never was such a beautiful, charming, de lightful scene; really I ought t > write a poem on it—guess I will, and entitle it, ‘Then and now:’ or ‘The fool grows wiser as he grows richer.! Which;would be the b:st, sis “Hold your tongue !” sobbed; the lady. Fred’s sarcasm was not misplaced. What is called the poor man’s simplicity is entitled the rich man's sublimity. It was the same noble, tender, loving, great heart stand ing by the little ones in his coarse coat, jeered at and insulted with impunity by the rich, that pow bends his fine broadcloth to the dust in or der to be on a level with the little ones, but not to his neighbors! Poor, all his nobleness was but dress in their eye.. Rich! and his .weak ness would.be heavenly lustres, since their, off set was the almighty dollar. , As Eloquent Extract.— “ Generation after generation,” says a fine writer, “have felt as we now feol,.and their lives was as active as our own.. They passed like a vapor, while tho na ture wore the same aspect of beauty as when her Creator ettbmandod her toebe. The heavens shall bo as, bright over onr graves as they now are around our paths. The world will have the same attractions for our offspring yet unborn, that she had once for our children. Yet a little while, and all will have happened. Tho throb bing heart will be stifled and wo shall be at rest. Onr funeral will wind its way, and prayers will ho said arid then wo shall be left alone in silence and darkness for tho worms. And, it may bo but a short time wo shall be spoken of, but the' things of life will creep In, and onr names will soon be forgotten. Days will continue to move bn, and laughter and song will be beard in the room In Which wo died; and the eyes that mourned for ns wiiKbo dried, and glisten again with Joy; and even our children will cease to think of us, and w.ill not remember to lisp our names.” try The “Black Tongue,” is prevailing,to a fearful extent among animals in tho lower part; of Missouri, the deer and,cattle being the chief victims of its ravogbs., Mi. David Rhodes in forms tho editor of tho Ironton Furnace, that ho found 14 dead deer at one pond in Bollengor county, and numbers of others scattered through tho woods, some dead and others dying from the ofloots of tho malady. In Wayne no less than 50 wore found dead. In Carter county 80 died In one night; in Oregon county, a largo num ber was found. The cattle have been attacked by tho affection, but its effects on them have pot been so. terrible as on tho deer; “OUR OOUNTBT—MAT tT ALWAYS RIG gI—DOT BIGHT OB WRONG, OUR COUNTRY.” CARLISLE, PA., #URSD AY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1859. A short time since; the death of the Russian Princess Bagration, was recorded, occasioned by grief at-the loss of her diamonds, through the rascality of a Parisian banker. Her life was full of romance. A correspondent of an Eastern paper gives an odd picture of the coun tess. After describing her house, distinguished from its neighbors by its rich and romantic ap pointments, the writer continues: This was the abode of the Bagra tion, whose death has lately been announced.— The-battle of the Moskbwa left the Princess- a widow. Her first husband, the Russian.Gener nl Bagration, was one of the .best.generals of Paul I, who, However, disgraced him/ Alex ander restored him' lb cOmmatfin ahd he became the companion-in-arms of Surfarrow and Ku. lusow. At Borodino, Bagration was shot.— Tho : princess Bagration, after (ho peace, came to Paris, to forget her grief in[a society which has just buiied its dead, and nothing so much as to enjoy life. Shi was at that time from twenty-five to thirty years' of age-anduni ted all the conditions of rank and lortuno which open a career to; ties veuves avihgt ans dW co lonel. Her existence (so much of it at least as we have a right to refer to) WaC passed in ele gant amusement and the most-refined care of her person. Sne brought with-her from the East a stock of perfumes sufficient,to lost her life. She lived like a Byzantidd dame of the tenth century. Her apartmen'j) were redolent of amber and all the enervating perfumes of Asia. She was never, seen on her feet in the daytime; morning visitors found her reclining on a couch, wrappod up’in lace and muslin;— From her bed she was carried to that eccentric and; splendid carriage, so well 1 known by the powdertd coachman, and two tall footmen with longcar.es and sky-blue liveries. In her oa- Icche a la Daumont, her languid air, her non chalance, her pure white dressu add hersepul- - chrnl palenegs, attracted attention and excited "This remarkable pallor was her own work. She bad,a horror of anything like color in,l bp face, and pat onleeches continually -to get i id4d her blood. This practice id wea kened her constitution that hciv rooms, to be tolerable to her, were always kept Heated at . forty five degrees (Beaumer.) She always had leeches about her When she took carriage air ings, and whenever - she felt the' least ache or pain she would put one bn, returning home on ; these occasions, with her white dress stained i with blood. • She was gnud tempered, amiable and . clever, but too rebellious to live in society where she would have been compelled to observe etiquette. A woman of quality, inVthe bid sense of the term, she hated,accounts and figures, and drove her steward i distracted on account of the diffi culty he found in keepioganything like order in the house. Although very.'‘ricb-Mbr she, was the owner of 100,000 peasants, and every peasant is (worth £4O, and she had a consider able income from other sources —she was often; like-great people of formeridajß; in difficulties. pmmilMlbbuaoirs'wjflßuy Office temperament', being disturbed by them. 1 -The following scene occuircd.morothan once;• The footman announces, “ The Princess’s carriage is at the door.” 'Pho Princess is about to get into it,'wh; u she secs standing liy the steps a hussar with an;execution against the carriage and horse. “What docs that'man want?”— “ Money, madam, and says the carriage shall not leave the promises till he has it.” “Mon ey] well, give it’tb him llunv .1 am in a hurry. E , (to the steward) give this gentleman what ho wants ” “Princess, I have not got any.” “ Send to my . bankers directly.”— “The bankers said yesterday they had ho cs sets belonging to Madame la Princess.” “Take whatever there is in the house, then; I must go out directly. There! take my diamonds and pawn them. Go. with him, and for heaven’s sake don't annoy me with these horrors.” The seizure Of the oat rioge and horses was the favor ite and only efficacious measure with the Prin cess’s creditors: She knew' that she had the means of paying her debts, and therefore she sel dom paid money but as a last extremity. Her atlability and kindness endeared her to those who knewlier. With singular modesty she attrlbu | ted the constancy of her friends to the use of an innocent charm; she pretended that she assured herself of their.ftiendship by slyly putting into , their tea or; cofce a bit Of sugar which she had worn inside, herigjove put under her pillow. In the latter ycafs bf the Restoration, an En glishman of the first water, a Cupid, ah Adonis, an Antinous, came to ravage Parisian society. His name was Col. Caradoo. Not content with the havoc he made in great houses, this Colonel Sought to popularize his lady-killing physiogno my,;i?oHo, had his picture taken by Kinson, a full length picture, the cunning dog!—in white breeches,"'the traitor!—in a red coat, the mon ster I—and he sent it to the exhibition, the gay deceiver! All Paris was in a state of excite merit—the storing crowd tarnished with their breath the varnish of Col. Caradoc's portrait.— People swore by Caradoo. The Princess Bagra tion was carried away by the popular current of admiration, and gave her hand to the hand some Englishman, who folded up his Cupid's wings in the mansion of the Avenue Gabriel. — Little was said about the happiness of this me nags, and its little about its dislocation, and when one fine day people learned-that England had sent a great diplomat to represent her inte rests at Madrid, few suspected that Lord How den was no other than the handsome Col. Cara doc. Wo said that the Princess had diamonds ; but she had them not at her death; a disagree able banker (the "defaulter,” M. Thurneyss an, we believe,) with whom she deposited them, kept them for himself. The Princess had be come such a thorough Parisienne, that during the last War, when all her countrythen went away, nothing could induce her to leave Paris. The Emperor Nicholas was induced at last to let her stay. The Remains op Napoleon tub Gbeap.— Workmen are now busy in the vaults of St. Denis, preparing a scphulchro for the remains, of Napoleon I, which will be,certainly removed from the Invalides, although the day for disin- 1 lerraent is not yet fixed. I presume that Mar shal Prince Jerome, who at one time _ declared that the tomb in the Invalides, of which ho is governor, should never be disturhedhs long as he'lived, is now less positive in his opposition. The last resting place of the great_Napolcon among the hones of the kingk 'of IVarico will not, however, after all, bo the precise spot which he had selected for himself, and which he is represented pointing to in thb well known glass painting in one of the Cathedral windows. Louis XVIII is buried in that vault,.and tho Emperor, whose great object in interring his uncle in the royal basilica is to teach the pub* lio to regard him as tho legitimate founder of a new: line .'of monarchs, cannot In consistency desecrate the tomb of a legitimate Bourbon. Madchestcr Guardian, August 8. O’The man who puts up a stove-pipe with out any profanity, cither uttered or mental, has been found, and a company baa secured him' lor exhibition in principal cities/ The Princess Bagration. Uoluntffr. THE LADIES—COD BLESS ’EM , The closing part of General Houston’s Nacog , doohes speech is one of the most eloquent tri ; butes to women wo have ever read. The fol , lowing is an extract: Ladies, I know that politics are always unin teresting to you, ypt I believe you have in the general result an abiding interest. It is al ways, a gratification to mo to behold my fair countrywomen in assemblages like these. It is a guarantee that theirhusbands and fathers and brothers arc men of intelligence and refinement, who appreciate their mental capacities, and de sire their countenance in their undertakings.— Your presence exercises a calming influence upon those antagonisms, which are too often engendered in the heat of political contests.— All patties desire your approving smile, and therefore all are encouraged by your presence. I know that in the direct administration of po litical affairs you have no share ;,but yet, reign ing. as you do, supreme in the realm of love, your influence often controls the destiny of na tions. Woman’s love is the great lever which rouses man to action. The general, as he plans the strategetic combinations which are to insure victory, looks forward to a recompense dearer than the laurels upon his brow; the soldier, ns he trudges along on the weary march, or min gles in the scenes of the battle-field, even with death around him, forgets awhile the carnage, and turns his thoughts to the fond girl, ho left behind him; the mariner, tempest tossed, dri ven by the rude waves, sings merrily-aloft as he thinks of the little cottage by the shore, where his wife and dear ones await him; the states man, ns he devises amid deep and painful thought, plans of government, which are to tell upon his own and. his country’s fame, never lo ses sight of the joys which await him when ca binet councils are oyer, and he enters the por tals of home; the sentinel, as he paces his wea ry watch, loves the moonlight tramp, that ho may look beneath its rays at the dear momenta of a mother’s or a sister’s love. Over man, in all his relationships, the influence of woman hangs like a charm. Deprive us of your influ ence, which dignifies and stimulates us to noble deeds, and wo become worse than barbarians. Let it be ours, and we can bravo the cannon’s mouth, or face danger in ten thousand forms.— You stimulate all that is good. You'check us in ignoble purposes.' You have also an import tant influence upon posterity. The coyly im firessions which the child receives from you out ive all the wisdom of later days. Sages may reason, and philosophers may teach, but the voice which we heard in infancy will ever come to our ears! bearing a mother’s words and a mother’s counsel. Continue to instil into your children virtue and patriotism. Imbue them with proper veneration fur the fathers of liber ty. Learn them to love their country, and to labor for its good, as the great aim of their am bition. Bid them proudly maintain our insti tutions. Point them to the deeds of their an cestors. Make these their escutcheon, and bid them hand it down to their children as free from stain as it came to them. Do this, ladies, and I your influence will not be lost in the future. ,it_iXhaJjmßuage;ofthA.poot,h>.wjllstil|.boßaid “ Womatf/s Jovcfy.to thosight,- As gentle as the dews of even, As bright as morning’s earliest light;- And spotless as the snows of Ucavcn. The River Jordan. A correspondent of the Utica Herald gives this description of the River Jordan : “ A line of green, low forest betrayed the course of the sacred river through.the plain.— So deep is the channel, and so thick is the for est that skirts i.ts bank, that I redo within twenty yards, of it before I caught the first gleam o( its waters. , I was agreeably disap ' pointed. I bad heard (ho Jordan described as i an insipid muddy treacherous stream. Wheth '■ er it was the contrast with the desolation 1 around, or my fancy that made its green banks so beautiful, I know not, but it did seem at tha.t moment of its revelation to my lounging eyes, the perfection of. calm and loneliness. It is hardly as wide as the Mohawk at Utica, but far more rapid and impassioned in its flow.— Indeed, of all rivers I have ever seen, the Jordan has the fiercest current. Its waters is by no means clear, but it as little deserves the name of muddy. At the place where I first saw it tradition assigns the baptism of bur Saviour, and also the miraculous crossing of the children of Israel on their entrance into the promised land. Like a true pilgrim I bathed in its waters and picked a few pebbles from its banks as to kens of remembrance of the roost familiar river in the world. Three miles below the spot where I now stand, the noble river—itself the very emblem of life—suddenly throws itself on the putrid bosom of the Dead Sea. What Constitutes a Eion Man. —Thirty years ago, says a New York correspondent of the Charleston Courier, “a man in New York was extremely rich who was worth $200,000. and very fejv in New York were worth that.— There was old Nat Prime, of the firm of Prime, Ward & King, John G. Coster, Robert Lennox, ■Stephen Whitney, men worth a quarter of a million. Old John Jacob Aslor was worth three or four millions. The richest men were connected with commerce. There were then five or six leading commercial firms, such as 6. G. & S. Howland, Goodhue & Co., Grinncll, Minturn & Co., and Spoffbrd & Tilcston. Now there are ns many hundred of leading firms, and a man only worth $225,000 is considered a man in ‘moderate,’not to say ‘indigent’ circum stances. William B. Astor is worth about thirty-five millions; George Law is worth, ten millions: so is Stephen Whitney. Commodore Vanderbilt will not cut up less than eight millions. Do zens of people are worth more than five mil lions, and mere ‘ millionaires' are quite com mon, and to furnish the Courier with a list of this poor class would use up seven columns.— Our old merchants, who became very rich, nev er made, it in trade. When they had'done a good year’s business, they drew out $3OOO or $4OOO and bought real estate. I passed a lot yesterday that the present owner once paid $BOOO for, and has refused $200,000 for it a dozen times. Tho piofits of tho merchants, small or large, invested from year to year, years ago, have made them vastly wealthy, without their exactly comprehending how it was done.” (£7= The Tribune says the will of Colonel Thorn has been ofiered for probate. No chari table bißfuests are made, but the whole proper ty, to the vajuc of about $1,000,000, is loft to his vvidpw. ,'On her death, the estate is to be equally divided between his six children, two other deceased, having been amply provided for by by the will of William Jaunccy, nothing is left them, the children of the latter. Tho only bequest out of the family is $lOOO to Timothy Doyle, tho head waiter of tho testator. Col. Thorn’s son-in-law, Mr. Fox, and Mrs. Thorne are the executors. O’ Tho last Legislature of Texas contained thirteen “men of mark." Not one of them could write his name. £7* Bo just and fear not'! AT 32,00 PER ANNUM. Funeral of a Siberian Chief. . At a late meeting of the London Royal His torical Society, Mr. Atkinson, whose interest ing travels among tho Kirgiz, and other noma dez of Siberia, have recently been published, delivered to the meeting “A narrative of some of bis adventures among those rarely -visited tribes,” giving a graphic picture of their habits and inanuers. The following is an account of tho funeral of a chief named Darina Syrym, who died near Norzatsan, when Mr. Atkinson was on a visit to tho tribe: “So soon as the chief was dead, messengers were sent.off to invite the head men residing wuhm a hundred, miles, who all immediately repaired to the place. The body of the chief was laid out in his best attire, his chair of state was placed at his head, hia saddle, arms, and clothing were hung, around, and silk curtains were suspended from the roof of his yourt. Ilis Wives and daughters, witln the females of the tribe knelt around, chanting.the funeral dirge, in which the voices of men occasionally joined. While this was going bn, The funeral feast was preparing. Ten horses and a hundred sheep were slaughtered, and the flesh was thrown into numerous cauldrons, boiling over fires kindled in the ground, which were constantly kept stirred by men stripped to the waist. When a sufficient quantity of food was dressed, the feast began. The guests sat in a circle round the meat, the chiefs nearest.the centre; those of next degree next them; and Ihc women out side. The feast lasted seven days, during which 2,000 persons partook heartily in the consump tion of mutton and horse flesh. On the eighth day the body was conveyed to the tomb on a camel; the camel also carried the chair of state. The two favorite horse: of the chief followed; after which went the whole tribe, singing the funeral hymn. On reaching the place of burial, the body was deposited in the grave, and the horses were forthwith slain, and placed beside tho body of their master. When the grave was filled up, all returned to the encampment to. continue the funeral feast, which was furnished by 100 horses and 1000 sheep, slaughtered of the occasion. The festival continued for seve ral days after the burial, the chiefs and the family.of the deceased chanting his praises eve ry day, until all tho guests bad gradually de parted for their homes. The feast was kept up by the tribe for a considerable time afterwards; and the chanting was repeated every day, at sunrise and sunset, for a whole year. Mr. At kinson dwelt on the very impressive nature of the ceremony—(ho wailing music of Tho funer al chants—the sorrow, apparent at least, ex hibited by an immense concourse of mourners mingled with tho almost savage accompaniment of the feast; all tjiis, in the midst of a desert which seemed of unlimited extent, produced an effect which an EnglishmntHlnds it difficult to picture to himself.”; The London Times Office. Mr. Story, one of the proprietors of the Ro chester Democrat, Writes to that paper an ac count of his visit to the office of the London ?'Ono of the most interesting and nbverffepart menfs of the establishments fs that fn which j the stereotyping ■ process is carried on. Yon know, perhaps, already, that every number of the Times is printed from stereotype plates, thus saving a great part of the wear and tear of the type. The stereotype plate -is taken from the “form" in three minutes, by a new process, invented by a ,Swiss and. known only to him. A thin layer of soft and damp papier mnche first receives the impression of the typo, and after it has been hardened by the applica tion of heat; the melted lead is poured on which is to form the stereotype plate. The papier macho has the power of resisting the action of the melted lead, and comes out of the fiery trial uninjured, and almost unscorchcd. The plates arc rcmoltcd every day after issue of the day is printed from them, and the waste of type metal from day to day is very light. By this power of multiplying the number of forms from which the same side of the paper can be printed, the Times can use three or.four presses at once, and thus print its 59,000 cop ies,' on an emergency, in two hours’ time. The Times employs in its establishment some 350 | persons. It lias eighteen reporters at the hous es of Parliament, and for these, as well as the majority of its compositors, the working hours are the night hours exclusively. It owns four cabs, which are employed solely in carrying re porters and reports at night to and fro between Printing House Square and the palace at West minster. The reporters relieve each other at the House every quarter of an hour, and thus though the debate in the Commons last till four o’clock in the moming, the Times gives it in full by sunrise, though it cover two whole pa ges of the journal. (£7* A member of the Mississippi Legislature at one of its late sessions, introduced a bill to change the name of a certain county in that State to Oass county. One of the opposition moved, as an ameudmennt, that the letter C. be stricken out of the proposed name. This motion created some laughter at the expense of the member offering. Nothing daunted, how ever, he arose in reply and said : “ Mr. Speaker, this is the first instance that has come to my knowledge in which a member has had the as surance, upon the floor of any legislature, to ■propose a name a county after himstfj." Extract, op Words.—The following anec dote is related of an Eastern monarch, and is exceedingly suggestive: The monarch had a library containing hooks enough to load a thousand camels. “ I cannot read all this, ” said he. •• Select the cream and essence of it, and let me have that.” Where upon the librarian distilled this ocean of words down to thirty camel loads. •• Too bulky yet, V said the monarch. “I have,not time to read that.” Whereupon tho thirty loads were dou ble distilled,,and a selection was made sufficient to load a single ass.. '■ Too ; bulky yet,” said the monarch. Whereupon it was treble-dis tilled, and the only residuum was these three lines, written on a palm leaf: This is tho sum of all science: Perhaps. This is the sum of nil morality: Love what is Rood, and practise it. This the sum of all creeds: Believe what is true, and do not tell all you believe. Woman’s Interest to Disooukaoe Wau. —Tho ladies do wrong in idolizing and so en couraging soldiers. 'War is thus made more desirable and probable, and the mere prospect of war checks matrimony. A late statistical article says: “It is an established fact that tho number of marriages in time of peace is greater than in time of war: and even where war is expected onlv, marriages are found to dimmish in number. ’Even in Kussia. where the mass of the people seem to toko little interest in po litical affairs, marriages will fall off at Iterate of seventy or eighty thousand m a year of war. ITT” “This world is a fleeting show.” said a prieit to a culprit on the gallows. “Yes. was the reply. “but if you have no objection I d rather see the show a while longer ■ (T7*Thc greatest height at which visible clouds ever exist does not exceed ten uiilcs. . A roan named Mullin was rcctotly , executed ht New Orleans, who exhibited a singular an* concern in regard to his awful position. After he had become convinced that thpro wad no chance or hope of csoapp,qV reprieve, he became quite cheerful, eating and sleeping well, and receiving the visits of his friends with evident pleasure, flo prepared fof death wilb macb nicety and attention to.,details, even decorating his coll and coffin. The Crescent says ; Having asked for the favor of being pbrinitted to decorate his own coffin,, be was accommoda ted. On Wednesday, a neat black walnut eof* fin, witfy ornaments and.other,proper material, was taken to his cell, lie tacked gold fringe, metallic crosses, and other religious emblems of • death, all over the lid and sides, and with a neatness and taste which no undertaker could have surpassed. On Thursday ho lined the coffin with the materials furnished him:. W.d several times, whilst so doing, laid himself out in the coffin, to. see that it-wos ful! large tool low him to lie gracefully when dead.. The cof fin fixed to his notion, he set about fixing up his cell for the Inst solemn visit, of. bis priest. The coll yesterday morning looked solemn enough, with its blanketed, .flopr, rudply con structed alter with blazing candles, add the re- NO. 12; ligtous pictures over the walls and ceiling, the painting of, which had been the last earthly ■ pastime of the wife murderer, Heinrich Haas. ilullen ate a hearty breakfast; w&s shilling and cheerful to everybody; coolly and daintily arrayed himself in. his death-suit of white; went througluho last religions ceremonies with Father Dufeau t and with bis arras and hands tied behind, and the death cap perched on his - head, walked firmly and composedly down i stairs, and along the gallery to the awful ronp : i suspended trap at the end, os hearty and Hand i some and ohccrful-looking a man as over walked up 10 a gallon s. . lie bowed and smiled politely to the crowd in the yard; look his seat in the oldstool of many ' falls: listened attentively to the reading of the death warrant by Deputy Sheriff Seichhnaydret raised his eyes while Father Du firm prayed top him , offered up a short and penitent prayer himself; fervently kissed tbo crucifix which the priest held to his lips; looked, around .pan}; posedly and smilingly, and returned thanks,to Capt. Frcmaux and the other officers ofthepri son for their uniform kindness to him during his long slay in prison. Before ho had finished speaking, the excctip tioncr in bis usual hideous disguise, appeirca at his side, and adjusted the knot of the nboso under his car, and drew down the cap over bis face. Ho stopped speaking for a moment, till the cap was drawn welhdown overliischin; and then, in on unchanged tone of voice, speaking through the cap, he finished what ho.badtq Say about the kindness of the-officers; He bowed his head forward; there was a moment of breathless silence among the spectators; a sharp click was heard in the ce l behind, and, at the same instant the trap and stool fell with a clatter; and James Mullen, young, healthy and handsome, in his nice white suit, with hjs oruoifix and medal suspended to his neck by.h broad blue ribbon, remained dangling and. swinging in the bright sunshine. He died ea sily. ■ ~ Fatal Occident—A Sister of (lliarily S/llcd. . On Saturday afternoon a ..melancholy acci dent took place on tnc road near tho rcaidepcp' of Chauncy Brooks, Esq., which resulted in {tip death of a Sister of Charity, known as Sister Cyprian. The following arc tho particulars: The deceased, in company with another lady and the driver-of tho Mount Hope Hospital car riage, named William,started fromUiatinstitu lion for the purpose of visiting the new build ing now in course of erection on the Frederick road. In going along the road, the animal attached to the vehicle became frightened, and rati oil at the top of his speed. The driver ex cited himself to curb him but ho was unaue . ccssful. Anticipating serious consequences i( she remained in the carriage, the sister conclu ded to jump but.'and bidding the driver take care, she jumped from tho side. Unfortunate ly, in.jumping, her feet struck an intervening’ '■ object, causing her to fail upon her head, which struck a rock with such violence as to fracture her skull. The driver was soon by her side; ready tooflerany possible assistance, but inis man efforts were of no. avail t the spirit bad fled and the good woman was a corpse. She ' was in the forty-fifth year of her age, regarded as one of the.best of nurses, and had been serv ing ns such at the above Institution f»r Hie Inst six or seven years. The summons, Irulv. was sudden, but doubtless found her prepuml. A long life devoted to the cause of suilerinc hu manity, and consecrated to tho service of the Master, eminently prepared her for that change which ail must experience. The serious visita tion was the subject, yesterday, of appropriate, remarks in several Catholic churches. The re-, mains of Sister Cyprian will be conveyed to thd grave to-day.—Balt. American, 22d. I President Buchanan will be 68 years old on I tho I3th of November next; Vico President Breckinridge will be 39, years of ago oh the 18th’ of January next; Lewis Cass is nearly 77 years’ old; Stephen A. Douglas was 46 years of age on the 23d of April last; Howell Cobb will bp -44 years old the 7th of September next; 17m, Seward is in his 58th year; Franklin Pierce $3; 55 years old; John Charles Fremont.wp? 46 years old on the 7th of January last; Jphn Bell is 02 years old: John J. Crittenden,W>H be 73 years old in September next; Jesse D,., jßright, is in his 47th year; Isaac Touoy is 61 years old ; Henry A. Wise is in his 53d year; Robert M. T. Hunter is nearly 50 years of ago-; Robert Toombs was 49 years on the 2d of July last; Edward Everett was 04 years old in April last John M. Head is over CO years of ago: -lota, Slidell is in his CCth year; Nathaniel P. Banka was 48 years old last January. Faluxo op a CoNGßp.GATioir.:—There was, quite an accident yesterday morning at the Holland Church, corner of Atwater and Leo-, pold streets. The floor of the edifice broke, down while the congregation was at service, but* no person was seriously injured. The build- ' had just bcch raised by screws for the purpose of putting basement rooms beneath, and it. stands upon posts about five feet from the ground. The posts which had been placed un-, dcr the centre floor timber were not sufficient to. hold it, and the wood being somewhat decayed, it gave way under the weight of the congrega tion. The centre slips were carried down to the ground, and .the floor of the church was left" inclined toward the centre from all directions’.’- This congregation assembles for worship at half-past 0 o’clock in the morning, and bad' been in about half an hour when tho accident look place. There was, of course, some alarm,, and excitement, which was soon quieted when it was found that the people at the bottom of the pile were uninjured. One or two jadns, were taken out somewhat feint, probably aa much from fright ns from physical injury. - Rochester Union, Aug. 22. Eoyar, Fauii.v op ENsr.AND.—Tho ing list shows the names and times of birth of :ach of the Royal Family of England: Queen Victoria, born May 24, 1810. Prince Albert, Aug. 25, 1819. Princess Royal, Nov. 21, 1840. Prince oflVales. Nov. 9.1841. Princess Alice, IjJ, 1843. Prince Alfred, »r ‘’os’iSJrt Princess Helena, May 25. 1846. Princess Louisa, March. 18.1848. Prince Arthur. May 1,1850, Prince Leopold, April 7, 1850. Princess Beatrice, April 14,1857) There are nine children Of Victoria and Pfineo Albert, four boys and five girls. These are 1 all, except thti Princess Royal, to be provided, wilh partners by marriage, and these partners must bo found among tho royal families of tho continent. As most of tho sprigs of royally on, the comment ore poor. it will cost England a j handsome sum of money to support, in royal style, these children of Uet Majesty. Jh Emotion at jfeitv Orleans Ages of our Public Men;
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