■ - »°nR CO Uro- M AYIXA^.V^B E KO.o ro - goP yiK T ,- . : , . ' . '■■ '•■• - ■■■■•'"' CARLISLE, I A., THURSDAY^W^ AN TQLTINTITO.' 1 EVBn ' r T , HU nsDAr mousing'nr Bi BRATTOM, foliar add Fifty Cent*, paid I wo dollars if paid within the year; n Fifty Cents, if notpaid within towns, will bo, rigidly adhered to in subscription discontinued until r 'M ' fQ unless at the option of the fe •g —Such os Hand-bills, Posting-bills, lanba, Labels,. &o. &0., executed -with at. the shortest'notice,. TO AS OLD FRIEND. /J,I though many-a year bath flown, 'have somewhat wiser grown, , 30.youandT first met-p , ' Kthat in our bosoms grew to was rosy, fresh tfnd iiow, looming brightly yot, igs a philosophic.mind,, js moro than bo leaves bohuid4r is a thief of joys; *, ■ s one's golden looks to groy T ta a .bill which all must pay— akos old mon of boys. la scythe and hour glnaa stands inrvosts of pur lands— ‘ in prospcrpusfdays; kceneat stoel to rust, is monuments to dust— is us of dur.proiao. . is fouud witji Father Time, .djjpoechca, prose and rhyme, prill riot upbrojd; IbftMir. heart?'aa young . (.youth, w.Qf. laughed andsung » Iglit m-l shade. ;mt. ftge makes friendship cold ?, tj.oii nt, or.grows old, 1 like mountain pines, unfading verdure, crowns, -f . ,jr darkens them withfrowns, Jttmmor smiles and shines. mt, round our mutual souls. ~rf;Ul Ihio i Jy the Indian I ,-JVobp.for his wool tho proud White man wanderer Add j .* , c rs aro treading. £* avca our dead,' .j£]§lms,?. yi* o ? in y° n foros t, ■, ’i,* ,' Hprearoth his homo. K? <, ■/ ■"■ i\t No more on those waters ! %-A ,t .1 JliaJUjjhtcanoo glides, —!| Ji, • i i ’Jlid tho, flower-fringed banks, W N . V rippling tides; / ‘' ,’Odtyopneils are ended, *' *• burn Iow : ’ 1 i’, 1 ' - ’ his woo! 1 f t tempost,. j M r -W#M#. r^tbe m S hfc > • • ,l F P a 1 0 star-lighfc, ( rom si eW. !JarlC'W.ftYeß rise Qrouud mo, o’'--i^nd&j^l,,falls the dew, :. 5 Now: browsing the stream in ioij ' r u> oanoe. 5 h \ ' and rulotb," v * man hath said; loir f are treading I. \ v . ‘ Thaigraves of our dead— jji ' ** Our-dohnoils aro endod, $ f> 4 U burn low : 1 ih! hoar mo, woo. in 4 , Ga -> O, 1860. f T the ; oLarlyand Sl en g«6 em onta will permit. k -iJffliBSiESJr? b v n ° i OSS P o *** and ex 'i. Y. 0U *? 0 no^»in my judff '<■■ lm P°rtanco'of the upon tho public mind, I <>f *ho Charles. 'Y hll ° ‘ w m not greatly sur- the elements HSSrt and tJw general distemper doB P. , y regret it, and with jjrou look with intense interest to the conse quences. j js done cannot fee or - W ' l ' : V, •' .. by thocAsn/hnd mo -square,/ will be inserted throe foliar, and twenty-five cents for each tion. Those of a greater length In sm\ml BV PARK BENJAMIN. innwHHL {Oa,,) Constitutionalist.'] >epehns’ Letter. .'on, Ga., May's, .1860. |N s— Sir;— Wo arealarm igs developed in the Be lt Charleston. The dis ‘g spirit which prevailed 'togrity and overthrow of Wo are filled with pain jrospeotof thoDomoora tered' in the house of its which will put in equal States and the safety of to the fate and fortunes ir counsels in this, crisis, racy of Georgia should b e turned National Conven r«l. you please give us id , promptly for publicar But an overwhelming majority of the oouth was against that, position. It is said that wo who maintained'it, yielded the whole question by yielding the; jurisdiction—and that, it we conceded the power to protect, we necessarily conceded with it the power to pro hibit, This, by no means, followed, in my, judgment. But such was the prevailing opin ion. _And it was not until it was well' ascer tained that a largo majority of the South would not ask for, or oven-vote tor, Congres sional protection, that those 1 of us who were for. it yielded to non-intervention because, though it came short of our wishes, yet, it con tained no sacrifice of principle—had nothing aggressive in it, and secured, for all practical ' ?S°„ a ,i M ’! ''S' 11 ™ 18 wanted, that is, the unro niiMSA -Ji ‘ expansion over the common J?„ .? .? ain » 113 inclination, convenience, I people 88,tym0y re, l uiro 0n the P art of our| :; Ilow-oitizoris, A. E. Cochran, • K. do Graffenreid S.B.«nntor, •Jos. Olisby,’ ' .L. Roas, : A. A. Nisbot, Wm, Lundj. P°ttlement was made—thus the Btun< *!’ by it l am willing to stand, «? ii^ n 8 *y U P to tlio demands oPjthi south, through her representatives at the'time, uSt Wt up to m*f own; and os hy it the amoridedythat must remain irrevocable. . It would, therefore, be ns useless ,ns : ungracious to indulge in any reflections ns to whose fault the rupture was owing to. Perhaps, and most probably!: under excitement and heat of pas sion, in .iUU'rsuU of . particular ends connected '.with the.elevation or, overthrow of 'particular rivals for preferment, luore than any strong desire, guided by cool judgment, so necessary on such occasions to advance the public good was the real cause of the rupture. Bethntas !t majr, however, what is now to be done, and what is the proper course to bo taken? To my mind the course seemato be clear. , i S ‘ ato Convention should be called at an early day, and that Convention should consid er the whole object calmly and’dispassionate ly; with the sober 6eopn_tf thought,” and de termine whether te send a, representative to Richmond or to Baltimore. .The correct de termination of. this question, as I view it, will I d 9P°"d upon another; and that is, whether, the doctrine ot non-intervention by with slavery m the Territories Ought to be ad hered to, or abandoned by the South. This is a very grave and serious question,-, and ought not tq.be decided rashly or intemperatelyT— No such small matters as the promotion of this or that individual, however, worthy or un worthy, ought to enter into its consideration. It.is a great subject of public polity, affecting the vast interests of the present,and future.— It may be unnecessary and cntiroly useless for me to obtrude my views upon this question, in advance of the meeting of such convention, upon whom its decision may primarily devolve. I cannot, howeyer, comply with your request, 1 without doing so to a limited extent, at -least. Ihis I shall do. In the first place, then, I as sume, as an unquestioned and unquestionable fact, that non-intervention, its stated, has been , for many yoars-received, recognized, and acted upon as the settled doctrine of the South. By non-intervention I mean the principle, ! that Congress shall pass no law upon the sub ject, of slavery in the Territories, either for or , against it, in any way—that they shall not ; interfere or not upon it at all--or, in. the ex press words of Mr.'Calhoun, the great south ern loader, that Congress shall “ leave the Whole subject where the Constitution and the great principles of self-government place it,” T’his has peon eminently.a southern doctrine. It was announced by Mr. Calhoun, in his speech,' in the Senate, on the27th of June, 1848; and, after two years of discussion, was adopted as thq; basis of the adj'ustment finally made in 1850. It was.the demand of the South, puti forth by the South, and since its establishment has been again and again affirmed and re-af firmed as the settled policy of the South, by party Conventions and State legislatures, in every form that a people can give authofita tive expressions to.their will and wishes.— This dispute. ,It is -«P<m the record as . was settled “ ndo or that the war of was fought unjust:claim of power on Of' I in :re- question. Ithas WiSP-- e abd;^whether rightly or wrong -yjW- Jios boon and settled the South rtsked that it should be— not, however, without great effort'and a pro longed struggle. The question now is, shall j,.. ou th. abandon her own position-in that decision and settlement ? This is the question virtually presented by the action of the sece ders from, the Charleston Convention, and the grounds upon which they, based their action; ,°„n B in' ted n! n 2 thG r wor<ls .it amounts to this: whether the Southern States, after all that has taken place on the subject, should now reverse them previous course, and demand Congres sional intervention for the protection of sla very in the Territories, as a condition of their remaining longer in the Union ? For I take it for granted that it would be considered by all as the most misehovious folly to make the demand, unless wo intend to push the issue to its ultimate and legitimate results. Shall the South, then, make this demand of Con gress, and when made, in case of failure toob tain it, shall she secede from the Union, as a portion of her delegates (some under instruc tions and some from their own free will) sece ded from the Convention, on their failure to got it granted there ? Thus stands the naked question, as I under stand it f presented by the action of the sece dors, in its full dimensions—its length, breadth and depth, in all its magnitude. ■ * 8 presented not to the Democratic party alone ; it is true .a Convention of that party may first act on it, but it is' presented to the : counter, to the whole people of the South, of ail parties. And men of all parties should du ly and timely consider it, for they may all have to take, sides on it, sooner or later. ■ It rises ip importance high above any party organization of the present day, and it may, and ought to, if need bo, sweep them all from the hoard. _My judgment is against the de mand. If .it were a now question, presented in its present light for the hrst time, my views open it might be different from what they are. It is known to you and the country that the policy of non-intervention, as, establislied at the instance of the South, was no favorite one of mine. As to my position upon it, and the doc trine now revived, when they ftore original and open questions, as well as my present views, X will cite to you an extract of a speech made by me in Augusta, in July last, on ta king final, leave of my constituents. -1 could not restate thorn more clear# or more briefly. In speaking of, and reviewing this matter. I then said ; • °.. ■ 7 ,A nc \’ as y9 a a 'l may know, it (nori-intor vontion,) came short of what I wished. It was, m my view, not the full measure of our re Puired, in my judgment, the S ''f l t ™ ent Congress, of all needful laws tor the protection of slave property in the Ter- Fasted 8 ’ 80 * on S as the'territorial condition righj: Of expansion to the extent of population una capacity is amply secured.” . In this you clearly perceive what I think of toe proper course now to ho taken on the same, subject. While in the beginning of this controversy I was not favorable to the policy adopted, yet I finally yieldedhiy assent.' It was . yielded to the South-—to the prevailing sentiment of my own section, -But it never would have been yielded if I had seen that any or our important rights, or any principle essen-i tml to our safety or security, could, by posai-: unity, result from its operation. Norwould I now be willing to abide by it, if I saw, in its practical workings, any serious injury to the South Ijkqly to arise from it. All parties in' | tho South, after the settlement was mode, gave it the sanction of their acquiescencefif not cor-1 dial approval. What, then, has occurred since to cause us to change pur position in relation . Is it that those of the North who Stood by ns! m the struggle from 1848 to :1850, did after wardsi stand nobly by us in 1854, in taking off the_ old congressional restriction of 1820, so as to have complete non-intervention throughout jhe length and breadth of the common public domain-? Was this heroism on their part, in r !if r - ln ® P r ‘1 c at the hazard and peril or their political lives and fortunes, the cause, ot present complaint? This cannot bo; for net or: was an act of Congress so generally and so unanimously hailed with delight at the south as this one was—-I mean the Kansas- Nebraska act of 1854 ?•’ It Was, not onl/'Sif? dorsod.byp.il parties, in Georgia, but every one who did not agree to its just provisions, upon the subject of slavery, was declared to be , Un :‘, 4o , ~o I“ P art y associations with any party wu r°S l e tlle interests of , the South.— '’.J* then, is the cause of .complaint now ?—■ Wherein has this policy worked any injury to the South.or wherein is it likely to work any?. . -to® on, y cause of complaint I have heard “■‘ hat as established in ISOO, and, carried Out in 1854, is not under stood at tho North.as it : is at the South; that, while, wo hold that, in\leaving “the whole subject where the Constitution and the great principles of pelf-government, place it,” the common Territories are to remain open-for settlement by southern people, 'with their slaves, until otherwise provided by ; a State’ Constitution. The friends and supporters of ( the same doctrine at the North, maintain that under it, tho people of an organized Territory ft”, P ro 4.9 c £ or exclude slave property before .the formation,, of,a State' constitution.' o This, ppmon, or construction of theirs, is what is commonly duljbed “ squatter sovereignty.”— Upon this point of difference In construction ot what are ‘ ..the great principles of. self-gov "“derthoConstitutionof the Uni ted States, a great deal has .her "aid and written.. . , w • jsldl edw.' been sidcf hav defh to. if the i high ed— , -• V .■ - , will, and fate; Fixes fatt, frco will, fqrknqwlcdgo, absolute, And found no end in wandering mazes lest." It is not ing purpose now'Winter the list of these disputants, My own opinions upon the sqbject are■Jfenown ; and it is ’ equally known that tliig-diS'crenco of opinion, or construction « no hew. thing in the history of this subject. Those who hold the doctrine that the poo pie of the Territories, according to the great princi ples of self-government, under the Constitution of the United States, can exclude slavery by Territorial law, and regulate slave property i as all other property, held the same views they now do, when we agreed with them to stand on those terms. This fact is also historical. I The South held, that under the Constitution | the Territorial legislatures could not exclude slavery—that this required act of sovereignty to do. Some gentlemen of the North held, as they now do; that the Territorial legislatures could control slave property as absolutely as 1 they could any other kind of property, and by I a system of laws could virtually exclude slo- J very from amongst them. Or prevent its intro- i duction if they choose. I That point of difference, it was agreed by j both sides, to leave to the courts to settle.— There Wasyno cheat, or swindle, or fraud, or double dealing in it. It was a fair, honorable, • and constitutional adjustment of the diffor enoe. No assertion or declaration by Con gress, one, way or the other, could have affec ted the question in the least degree; for if the people, according to “ the great principles of self-government’’ under the Constitution, have the right contended for by those who espouse that side of the argument, then Congress could_ hot and cannot deprive them of it.— And if Congress did not have or does not have the power to exclude slavery from a Terrrito ry, as those on our side contended and still contend they have not, then they could not and did not confer it upon the Territorial Legisla ture. We of the South hold that Congress had not the power to exclude, and could not dele gate a power they did not possess; also, that the people had not the power to exclude un der the Constitution, and therefore the mutual agreement was to take the subject out of Con gress, and leave the question, of the power of the people where the Constitution had placed it, with the courts. This is the whole of it. The question in dispute is a judicial one, and no act of Congres, nor any resolution of any party convention, can in any way effect it, unless wo first abandon the position of non intervention by Congress, t But it seems exceedingly strange to mo that the people of the South should, at this late day, begin to find fault with , this Northern con struction, as it is termed—especially since the decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Scott. In this connection, I may be permitted to say, that I have with deep inte rest the debates of the Charleston. Convention, and particularly the able, logical,.and elo quent speech' of the Hon. Wm. L. Yaney, of Alabama. It was, decidedly, the strongest, argument I.have seen on his side of the ques tion. But its greatest power was shown in its j complete answer to itself. Never did a man, ' with greater clearness, demonstrate that' “ squatter sovereignty," the great bug-bear of the day, is not in the Kansas bill, all that has been said to the contrary, notwithstanding.— This ho put beyond the power of refutation. I But he stopped not there—he went on, and by reference to the decision of the Supreme Court alluded to, he showed conclusively, in a most pointed and thrilling climax, that this most frightful doctrine could not, by any possibili ty, bo in it, or,in any other Territorial bill— ;that it is a constitutional impossibility. With the same master hand he showed that the doctrine of squatter sovereignty" is not in the Cincinnati platform; should™ of the South now complain of non-inienention, or ask a change of platform ? '■ else have wo to do but to insist upon Would jt npt.hai: )boon much more natural to look for 3 “,.« i l ßU L' fl,de than on oofc? Why desire ffr want any other platform at Cincinnati? |if so?|Jtr 8 -n! MI ™‘ thua on it - in the contest ■ wllll “S *? stand on it, why should rail equally willing? For my life I we are determined to have n .-®. 0 JJorth anyhow on general 0 . «> behalf of .common sense, tok upon more.tenfable ground.— For our character’s upon the aggressive acts :^°%a^f^;»ftwtt<rtraiiTenpposedBhorfr. c o»“@ r ?%ur friends, who have stood by us so steiiidfttsity; in so many constitutional strug- CB ‘ liu Patriotism and honor, it upon, a point which may so wi 1 i h ° char S° of breach of Y h f t ? ma y befall us, let us .°T, er ;bwuudi by friend or foe, as good as c^ip se ' are “ y vicws - - d The Question then, is, shall we stand by ouy MiHciples, or shall we, cutting loose trpm our hirings where we have been safely anohoredjfdmahy years, launch out again in to «ukifO«seaB ; upon new:and perifous ad- the guide and pilotage of those who prove Bcmselves to have no more fixed- S*P?II 0S0 T. stability as to objects or 8 o Bh ’ ft i n f. Wlnt l9 by which we •® flPlf 1 .? bet this question be decided ny the conybation, and decided with that wis dora, coojn g|, and forecast which become statesmeftdid patriots. As for myself, I can say, whawrar -niay bo the course of future events,.my,fedgmont in the crisis is, that we should. stajaj ; i)y ,our principles “through woe .as wf|ds “ through weal,” and main tain them good faith, now and always, if need be.upfcf they, we, and tho republic, per ish common ruin. Isee no in jury, arise to us from them constitutional impossibility Ot thoir.chaining “squatter sovereignty" ex.sHfja Jhaa been conclusively demon strated, F4|,f it did exist in them, and were alb thafhts: most ardent advocates : claim result *B praotioal danger to us could .Even acco ifing to their doctrine, we have the unrestrie ;<p fight of expansion to the ex tont of poj)u'|tion. They hold H>"‘ ■’ - popu oan,'nHd,Trill)| the people wr Tennessee, K Mississippi, ni protect itjand' tingit.andtj where olimatej will allow’. Thi ■ as_,ypu intimate, do indeed por tend evil. Buy have no fears for the institu slave T. tjither in the Union or out of it, if our people are but true to themselves-—i * r “®> stable, and loyal to fixed principles and settled-, policy aid if they are not thus true,! hare little hopedf anything good, whether thel present Union lasts or a new one be formed. 1 here is, in my judgment, nothing to fear from the “ irreprossißlo conflict" ,of which we hear 80 m hph. Slaforv rests upon great truths, ! which .can noylrbe successfully assailed by reason or argument. It has grown stronger in tho'ininda of ihen the more it has been dis-1 cussed, and it wfil still grow stronger as the I discussion proceeds and time rolls on. Truth | is omnipotent and must prevail. We have on • , B ? ain^ a i i h ,tKe truth, with, firmness, and wield it aright,; pur system rests upon an impregnable hasty that can'and will defy all assaults from, without,!; My greatest appre hension is, from causes within; there lies the greatest danger. l We have grown luxuriant [ in the exuberanc i ’of our. well-being and un paralelled prospe ity,. ■; i 11 5r ienoy everywhere, not only at the North, bu at the South, to strife, dis senaion, disorder ifid anarchy. It is against tine tendency tha; the sober-minded and re flecting men ever, where shoiild how be called upon to guard. ' 1 ~ , ■ , My opinion, thi p/ is, that delegates ought to ne sent to the I djourned convention at Bal timore. The don and made at Charleston by too seccdersougb i hdt to be insisted upon. — ; | Harmony being r« itored on this point, a nom ination can doubtless be made of some man whom the party everywhere can support with the same zeal and the same ardor with which they entered and Waged the contest in 1856, when, the same principles were involved. , In this there be a failure, let the respon sibility not rest updn us. let there be no cause for censure at our door. If in the end the great national Democratic party—the iwfnTfi, foment that has do long bound and °*r „ . together—shaped its policy, tmi COll a 0( * itaSestinies, and to which we f ™ so oft en looked with h, hope that seldom roiv in +i. the on, y l? art y North on which to finnnl •’? bioet trying hours when oonstitu uonal rjghts wore in-peril, let it not bo said I* lo ®jdst of the disasters that may lot nnt In every and any event ■ the reproach;of Punic faith rest upon lot on! 1 ? o, t If . e^ e y thing else has to go down, _ ? r nntarmshod Jionor at least survive the wreck. Alexander H. Stephens. .Spare the Little Birds.— The birds have many friends, who'intercede for their lives, out yet. there are many which are killed by raen and boys without ‘ ono thought of ,thoir aong, and their usefulness to tho farmer; HU tho birds, tho little birds, - , That sing about your door Soon as tho joyous Spring has como, • • And chilling storms aro o'er. ' Tho little birds, hotr sweofc they, sing I 0, lot them joyous live, And never seek to take tho lifo •Which you can never give.” ; „ Jp”A little boy fell into therivor at Green neld, Maine, h, few days since, barely escap ing drowning; When asked by his mother what ho was thinking about when in the wa ter, he,said ho thought “he should furnish an item tor the newspapers.” . Wmship, the strongman, lectured in Harrisburg, last week, on the science of lifting. If the Doctor could teach a hard up man .how to lift a mortgago or a note in bank what a blessing ho woula be to tho world in general and editors in particular. O” A young man advertises his desire for 1 a wifo-r-pretty and “ entirely ignorant of , the .fact.” Evidently ho wants a fool. Any : smart, pretty woman knows she’s pretty —she wpuldirt bp smapt if she didn’t^ . -/ey hold ‘that slavery under its operation wherever ft* Squatters carried'it‘.to, mtucky, Missouri, Alabariia, (Arkansas, -without any law to /Texas against a lawprohibi will carry it to all countries joil, production and population sq are the natural laws that will A good story is told of an Irish hostler who was sent, to the stable to bring forth a traveller’s horse. ' Not knowing whioh’of the, ’two strange horses in the stalls belonged, to I ,tho traveller, and wishing to avoid the appear- j ancoof ignorance in his business,,ho saddled 1 I both animals and brought them to the door. I iThe traveler pointed out his own horse, say-| ing, “that’s my nag-” "Certainly, yer honor, 'I know that, but,l didn't knotv which one of, them was the other gintloman’s.. , JtfontE Sentiment.— Daniel Webster penn ed (bo following sentiment: ' .“If wo work upon marble,'it will perish; if wo work upon brass, time will efface it- if wo roar temples, they will crumble into dust: but if we work on mortal minds—if we imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God and our fellow-men, wo engrave on those'ta li ternit°™° tlmS thatw W br ‘g l «t°n through all i s' M4CIION4LD, THE SUICIDE. Macdonald, the murderer of Virginia Stew oit, died on Monday evening, from the effects o* poison solf-administered. The history _and incidents of the murder with which Macdonald was charged, and which, indeed,lie confessed, and the excite ment it created at the time, are still fresh in the recollection of many of our readers, but a brief sketch of the parties and the Virginia Stewart was the eldest daughter ot poor, But respectable parents, living-in Napier street, Boston. At the age of sixteen I she was adopted by an elderly and well-to-do J e ’fi n fi ned l P L orry ’ who took her first to opnngfield and then to New York. In 1856 she came to see her mother, who had again a man named Upton, Mr. Stewart having deceased, and informed her that she had married a gentleman named Macdonald. Of her daughter’s real character and habits, Mrs. Upton knew nothing until the murder, ana she gave her evidence, upon the inquest, weepingbittorly, and appearingweighed down;! wth grief. The bullet from Macdcmald’s piS tol thus inflicted, a double'w.ound, bringing mo^er hot loss than to hia mis ’Virginia,-instead of being With the Perry’s at New York, was ata house of prostitution in Mobile, and there she be came acquainted with Macdonald, who was dome a lucrative business as a cotton broker in that city. The particulars of her lapse trom virtue have not been revealed. Miss btewart was a very beautiful, showy, and at tractive woman, and Macdonald became des perately enamored of her, making her costly presents, and finally taking her as a mistress. Ourmg their intercourse she bore him two children, both of whom died ht an early a-c. Macdonald was dissipated and extravagant, While Virginia, like moat women ofher class, was cold, calculating, and seems to have in herited a great deal of Yankee shrewdness in financial matters. The sums of money which her.lover lavished upon her, were carefully hoarded; her rich presents were converted into ready cash, and. she soon accumulated sufficient means, to opou a bagnio* upon her own account. This step was taken in defi- i nc ®; of the expressed wishes of her lover, and tor the purpose of making money, and it led to; many quarrels between herself and her paramour. Macdonald’s intemperate habits grewfupon him, and. incensed by Virginia’s non-compliance with his wishes, he often drew knives and pistols upon her, and at her instance was more than once looked up in the guard house; When sober, he was as loving vndfaffeotionate aa ever, but when in liquor v recollection of these disgraces seeniAd fn st madden him: and so- diß"""*- ’ -- .ouiairainghim. . ... : Another account states that both parties came,to this city, unknown to each other, and that Macdonald accidentally heard of her presence here, and had his jealous passions! inflamed by the information that she was liv ing here with another paramour. In this eity Virgmia lived for a while, .at the Smith sonian: House, and then moved to a house of prostitution in Marion street, whore she resi ded at the time of her death. Macdonald re sided at the Metropolitan,' where he became the object of especial remark, on account of his repeated dissipations. To the remon strances ojf the proprietor and his friends he paid no ,attention, but continued his ruinous course, seeking his mistress in all the houses of prostitution, and threatening to bo reveng ed upon her.for her infidelity. Unable to find her in this city, he wont to Boston, and there Visited Virginia’s mother, telling her that he was he? daughter’s husband, that ho had been drinking, and that his jntemperanfco had caused all the trouble between them; that he was to blame for her leaving him, and if her mother would only come on to New York, the matter ,would bo settled, offering to pay her if she would go, and bursting into tears during -the interview. 1 He inquired particularly of y irginia’a whereabouts, and not receiving any information of her, he returned to New York by the next evening’s train. Soon after his return to Now York, Mac donald saw Virginia entering Taylor’s saloon, in company with Mary Brooks and Alice Morgan, two of her frail friends, and he fol lowed her to the table at which she seated herself. The meeting between them appears to have been friendly, for Macdonald sat down near the ladies, called for a .bottle of Wine, and partook’ of some refreshments with them. Upon leaving, the saloon Macdonald drew his mistress aside and entreated her to return with him to Mobile; but she positively refused, and exhibited an evident inclination to cut his acquaintance. Irritated at this re buff from a common courtezan,. Macdonald threatened to kill her on the spot, but Miss Stewart, unmoved by these threats, continued her walk, Macdonald'following her, endoavor wg, by promises and threats, to induce her to change her resolution. As they reached the corner of Canal street and Broadway, Virgin-1 la became alarmed at the violent domonstra tions of her companion, and at the instigation of her ; friends.sho ran towards the Brdndroth xlquso, designing to enter it, and thus escape ms distasteful persecutions. Before she had proceeded many yards, however, just ns she had reached the stops of the hotel, Macdonald drew his revolver,, and with unerring aim, sent the Yatql bullet crashing through her skull. The streets were as crowded as is us ual upon a July afternoon, and high above tho.din and bustle of tho busy throng rose the shriek of the murdered woman, summoning -thousands to tho spot. The following excellent take-off on the ques tions proposed to be asked by the takers of the census of 1860, has been variously credit-, t>> • Express and the Cleveland Pla.ndealer. Without attempting to settle findlt^ 8tl ° n of P atern 'ty. wo present it ns we What is your age ? Where were you born ? — —: — likeit ? y ° U “ arri ° d ’ and if B0 > how do you I How many children have you, and do they | sufficiently resemble you as to preclude the ? of their bo ‘ ongins 10 a °y of y° ur Did you ever have the measles, and if so how many? . Have you a twin .brothor several years old-1 or than yourself ? , ' , them ?° y ° U P aron^B ’ ttnd so > how many of Do you read the Now Testament regularly? What is your fighting weight ? . „ ow J“ a uy times, has your wife “wished showas dead, and did you reciprocate the Do you use boughten tobacco ? '■ Were you and your wife worth any thine when married, and if not, what proportion oT hem^?® 8 WWe yonr ’“’ nnd your th ' n es were Wore you over in the-pouitentiary ? Are you troubled with biles ?. houTO? many em hottfes have you in the How does your meerschaum color ? Have you all of Thayer’s speeches on the horse railroad ? ■ Are beans an article of regular diet in your tamily, and if so, how does it go? State whether you are blind, deaf idiotic or nave the heaves,? How many chickens have you, and are they Is there a strawberry mark on your left arm r v w ■ drinks ? h f °° d d ° you P rofer . rum or mixed tv t ? to ,k° w much pork, impending crisis, imtoh cheese, popular sovereignly, standard poetry, Gayety paper, slave code, catnip, red flannel, Constitution and Union, old junk perfumery, coal oil, liberty, hoop skirt,': &o.’, | you have on hand ? ':■■■■ ’ ,’ I Persons liable to he "eensussed’'- wiltdo well to cut the abovo out and put it-un-'ii : :ii conspicuous place. • * . J’ I - uc f ; --Noah Webster tella us is this “inelegant” for courage; but it is deri ved trom a word in the torse and vigbrous old bf " tor if - .w-v?*--* - c ii i them. In contests , a “. tmasr—intellectual, moral, political, polemical anilphysical,-pluck generally car nes the day. It is essential alike to the con trqversionahst and the warrior, the moral rei former and tbe : pugilist, the .'fetatosin® iufiiii the discoverer. Without it, - Csesarwould have failed at Pharsalip, and Columbus in his search for a New World. It is the best* life l strument wherewith “out,of the nettle/da£ ger,” to "pluck the flower, Safety.” "- 1 •With some people ‘‘pluck 1 ' fa a constitu tional quality. Children sometimes display it in their pradlehood. For the consolationCf those who have, it not by nature, let us say that it'may be acquired, dr, to speak more correctly, that the policy natural pluck would suggest, may be pursued as result of sound reasoning. Abernathy, the great English surgeon, .according to the testimony of one of his mtmiate friends, was actually a timid and diffident man. He confessed indeed that his bold and brusque stylo of treating his patients, was adopted from a conviction that, in the medical profession, bashfulness and hesitancy would not pay. -It must be admitted that he sometimes wont into the other extreme, but even that was better than faltering. . Pugilistic encounters are brutal affairs; but in the moral and intellectual prize-fights which we sometimes have with Fortune, it would be well if every man could take her hard buffets as a fellow named Cooper, the blows of his antagonist Painter in a prize ring, some forty years ago. The former was knocked down nineteen times, but won the victory after all. Give us the man who can rise—as did old' Enceladus, the Titan, when kicked from the sky to Earth by Jupiter —refreshed by his contact with “our common. mother.” • , Depend upon it, there is nothing worth do ing to be done, in this world, without “pluck.”. If asked to define the expression, wo should say that no other word in the English lan guage is, strictly speaking, convertible with it. It is not courage pure and simple, but courage and backbone —-energetic, progressive, undoubting, ‘nover-say-die’' courage. There can be no inental supereminenco without the manifestation of this quality, or, at any rate, without such a course of action as native pluck would prompt. Wo say, therefore, to the naturally timid and vasmllating, cultivate the virtue if you have it not, fasafius a species of capital absolutely necessary to success in the battle of life. Saqacitv of the Arctic Fox.— ln a reconi lecture upon his experience in Arctic life. Dr. Kaesaid: . 'On the journey I saw a very curious In stance of the sagagity of the Arctic Fox. Con scions that I Was aimingst him, he tacked his tail between his Jogs, cocked up his cars, and endeavored to look ,os like -a haro as pos sible; (which is. an animal comparatively, worthless.) Another foot of this kind occur red to me, whilst being detained, at a particu lar place,' whore qur favorite amusement was trapping wild animals. Our mode of doing I this was frith a spring gun connected with a bait, which, when touched, produced the ex plosion. One instance showed us that a fox, f either from observation of a companion’s fate’ or from hard earned experience, had gone up to the gun, bit off the. cord connected with the bait, and the danger being averted, went and ate the meat in undisturbed comfort. And it is a common Occurrence for the fox to make a trench up to the bait, seize it and permit' the charge to pass over his head,” ■ -.Opr°» r exchanges all contain brief edito rials headed “ Prepare for the Census.” A ■woman m Herkemor county, N. Y., has done so. She has prsented her husband with three fine hoys and a girl. IC?* If you wish to collect together all the pretty,, girlsdn town,.advertise m ‘lecture to jyoung men.l' The Census of IB6o', ET* A man lately made implication for in surance on a building situated in a village where there was no fire engine, and was asked: What are the facilities in your village for extinguishing; fires?" ‘'Well, it rains some times, he replied, with great simplicity. K7* There are symptoms of a whisky insur rection in Minnesota. . The liquor dealers burned down a church in St, Anthony, and the members thereof warned them to leave the t ?j Vni the .y decided not to do, and both sides were heavily, arming at last accounts. . ; KT” A woman named lately arrived at the Julion House, in Dubuque, lowa, and being out of health, neglected.by.her husband, in a fit of despondency, leaped but of the .sec ond story window into the: back yard, She died soon after she was fonnd. ' ■’, 0“ The evening clouds we see were made to-day and of such as the'breaths of < singing birds, the.melted jewelry of theraor ning dews, tho silver night dress of the rivers and the voice of prayer. It is tho heapad-up utterance of yesterday. Dim, bine and bean- ■ tiful, it is an enchanted mountain, though' >. men have named it a cloud. ... 1 Uooont dovelopomonts show that tho- I superintendent of a wealthy iron company'll!-. England, has boon carrying on a system of " 1 defalcation for forty-three years, during which time he had appropriated to his:own uae tho enormous sum of ono million six hundred thousand dollars, without exciting,the slight-- est suspicion as to his dishonesty. “ lE/” Serious fears are entertained lest thO" venerable head of the Supreme Court of the United States, Justice Taney, may never again take his seat on the Bench, .lie fell fiom sheer exhaustion a few days ago,.and had-to bo borne to his chamber. Another oft the aged: members of this high tribunal is-also in. a very enfeebled condition. . C7* Yancey, the leader of, the Secession ists, is a,native of Troy, N. Y. His-wether subsequently, married toe. Bev, Dr, Bitnan;.of Troy, and the queer freak as told of that lady would fill a volupie. Yancey was sent to Williams College, but no college oould hold him, and the faculty wore,glad to,get rid of him. Yancey, in South Carolina, shot his un cle dead, and was imprisoned for'the act fif teen months, and then was sent to Congress; whore Ko fought a bloodlbss dhol with. Mr* . ----- (ftfe rmb (Bnk tru*®" To abridge conversation, speak but the *®“ high rent—a hole in the crown'of your bad hat. , BSF" Great minds hare purposes: others have only wishes. ... "... £@“ The greatest gluttons are those who feed upon slander. T™ st not the world, for it never pay otn that it promiseth. - ; • If you would succeed in life, attend well to your own business. . ®Sf- nEENAN, the Champion of the "World. >s giving sparring exhibitions in England. Tranquil pleasures lost the longest. Wo ore not fitted to bear long the burden of great joy. . ■ ° . : .. A crusty old bachelor says he thinks re-dressed!* ° n( * wron 8«. .'that ou E llt •» bo JS@- To he deprived of the person wo lovfl wohate D(?SSm com P ariSoll of living with pno thou desirest to be held wise/* says tongue - F ’ be WlB ° ° n?ugU to bridle % otm Men and women are never more fro r:ar thm when they are . T hf sun is every man's servant, work- ■ ;ng every day m the year for him, and exact ing no wages. • There Is many a man whose, tongne might govern multitudes, if he could only* govern his tongue. B©* Elderly unmarried ladies are consid ered by some persons the least enviable of.all • Kinds of waiting .maids* ' % * Ten poor, men can sleep tranquilly j npon a mat; but two kings can’t live, at easd in a quarter of a world., .-■... Km arena ip, which ■ vanity' • j ■! Buoh ® variet J of-forms of ambition is “a oomet by putting it was an excellent und mind some* ■'wa hjSih an old and Worn-out body*- )toe -upon a dead tree. ' ,ni poX ®aitl he once worked for d dges -B 0 hi gh; that he : , in to have died. md well is only to begin well. : .:man who had been married twice ‘both; named Catharine, advised his gainst taking dupli-Kates. ~,.,r nothing, because it seems weak. . .The flies and locusts have .done mors lijltt than ever the bears and lions did, I • Itvvill afford sweeter happiness in the j hoprof; death to have wiped, one tear from :tho cheek of sorrow than to have ruled an em pire, - - ■ do men who are about to fight a generally choose ajfyld for the .place of '* the purpose of allowing the ball f -A short time ago a man became so completely ‘wrapped in thought' that he was •a Cd Ü B' labeUed >.»ndsent off on the "train of ICLwcLSt > } C 7“ “Good morning, Mr. Grumtn, what la the news to-day V "Oh, there'is no news: my wife was sick yesterday, and didn’t go out : no news—•no.newsT’ ■ . , O’ Never shave your whiskers with a hatchet. The best method of trimming is to pass a red hot iron gently over them. The operation smooths them regularly, 1 giving to each hair a smooth, crispy appearance. 1 p 3l An Irishman who was lately reprieved as ho stated, the night before his execution, and who wished to get rid of his wife, wrote to her as follows: “I was yesterday hanged, and died like a hero; do ns I did, and bear it like a man.” NO. 51.
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