iVm m rati i Mint tor. VOL. 47. AMERICAN VOLUNTEER. PUBLISHED EVEItY TIIOnSDAV UODNINO DP JOHN B. BRATTON. CudScii*tios.— Ono Dollar and Fifty Gents, paid |n advance; Two Dollars if paid within tbo yoa'rj and Two Dollars and Fifty Gents, if not paid within lha year. Those tonus will bo rigidly adhered to in fevery instance. No subscription discontinued until all arreprugos are paid unless at the option of llic Editor. - - . Advertisements —Accompanied by thocAsn, and not exceeding one square, will be inserted three times for One Dollar, and twonty-iivo cents for each iddltional insertion. Those of a greater length in proportion. Job-Piuntino— Such as Hand-bills, Posting-bills, Pamphlets, Blanks, Labels, we are free I" Hedge and tree will soon bo budding, Soon with leaves be covered o’er; Wiy ter cakhot lust forever! Brighter days aro yet in storer • ' Sorrows will not last forever. Brighter times will come again, Joy our every grief succeeding, As the.sunshine after rain ; As the Snow and Ice of winter Melt at. the approach of Spring, So will alLour euros and trials, Joy and.peace, and comfort bring;. When the heart is sad and drooping, Think, though you bo vexed sore, Sorrows cansot last forever 1 Brighter days aro yet in store. JEwellanmjei THE HUSBAND TRAP. AT A YOUNG CLERGYMAN’. I hid myself behind a log in a western ramp, waiting forducks. Hunters general go after their game j I prefer reading or en ding .the scenery, until it comes to be shot 1 a regular and reasonable way. Ducks must 1 as fond of nature, as of acorns and tadpoles; ie sequestered lakelet near which I was en lotfcea, one of their favorite resorts, being rpasamgly picturesque. Silver-gray trunks enormous dead trees were reflet inits dace as in polished black marble, which )ken into rippling greaves of light by the rpte, green, and golden drake, or the plain hut not less lovely duck, made too eiquis a picture to be broken by noise, unsavory toke, blood, broken wings, and feathers.— Jry thing around mo was “ rich and strange ) arrowy polished tubes. of the cane, the ick black vines', like anacondas, hanging, as from the skies; the light open fret irfc of swamp foliage above, from which ma birds poured forth flute-like and actually romatio warblings; comic birds, uttering irt, odd notes; crimson and azure birds, not rn m the ornithologies; and mysterious idpeckers, sounding as if all fairy-land, e carpentering. 1 was resolving in mv id indeed, to take up my abode in this en ded solitude, when the discovery of an inl ine old hollow stump of cotton wood decl ine. It was a perfect rainature palace stylo I named on the spot, the anti-arabs , , 1 *.? gnarled roots spread in triple pe niis. like paws of mammoth lions, and in koo.s and excresonces might be discerned laces and forme of beasts,' monsters, hy i. a ;, d chimeras dire. Here, beneath a Piuitod cane and bark, I might pass imo? V P ?, a , co ' ( r was only eighteen, and fitBo f“iBanthrophy.) Even inds should not disturb my contempla st(o'm UI ' >n ?’ tus > Eurus, Euroolydon, InJ aro forev °r kept out of oSn-wiodtd'Zk 1 ’ 8 “ trODS a“dßtal le»hT "f ® h °i kh Mohammed AH Hazin th ° ,011 >» lightly on his tomb,) relates, TERMS foHtrnl. [From the Home Jmimai | with infinite naivete, (may Allah ventilate his ; evidence,) how that, having determined to lead a hermit’s life, ho wont about searching for a suitable cave. Certain family considerations operated adversely to Mr. Haziu’s design.— I was not so sublunary. Hungry I certainly was, and my first care being to provide din ner, and not wishing to disturb my beautiful duck pond, I searched the river flats for wild geese, .This proved, literally,, a wild goose chase. As usual with game, its willingness to be shot seemed inversely as its value. Re entering the timber, to hunt smaller and surer cjuarry what.was my astonishment at behold ing, winsding along a cow-trail, a grave, order ly prooo sion of theao very wild geese follow ing after a middle-aged, sovcrc-looking wom an, who was leading them towards a clear ing. “Why, madam, you seem able to bewitch those animals. I have been trying ail the morning to get within a mile of them." “ Wnl, my hoy, ho russled round among ’em and caught these, one way Or another. I bring ’em up every night to feed, on account of ’possums and coons, which is mighty bad among the poultry. I reckon you’re a prea cher." "Not yet." “ I thought you'was a preacher, sure. You look like one. You ain’t a doctor?" " No.” “ Then walk in and take a chair. My old man’s poorly. He’s stopped work ever since last fall and this spring the garden was took down with kukkle hurra and dock, and me and my . little girl’s been cutt.in’ steamboat I wood, but the steamboats don’t run much now I —thar ain’t been no rise these two months.— 1 Jane! drive them hogs away from tho styew (stew-) I don’t know what I’ll do if thar ain’t no steamboat soon. I want to go up to town, bad, to, git some groceries.” “ What is the matter with your husband ?” " Fcveranger." I “ Fe—oh, tho fever and ague. Yes, I un derstand.” . “Oh, it’s some here, is feverangor, you’d better believe 1 You might almost out it in to chunks. I thought my old man would a begged out last night; but lie holds on won derful!" “ You don’t mean to say he’s dying!” “I.don’t mean to say nothing shorter.— And I’m. moughty sorry to lose him, too. He dared all this field all round bank of the house [ and them thar two fields in the bottom. He kep three acres a-goin to Joe Stebbins’ one, but he warn’ta patohiri’ to Joe at euttin’tim ber. Poor Joel I buried him in the fur corn er. of the turnip patch." • • ,i “ You turned him i “ Married him one year and buried him the next.” “ And what did he die of?” “Fcveranger.” I was shocked at the mechanical manner and facile emphasis (diminishing with geom etrical rapidity toward the last syllable) with which she uttered this fearful word. ' ' ■ “ Joe warn’t much at hoein'; hut he could knock spots out of things with an axe. He eould.cut more steamboat woodih.one day than Bill Sparks could in a week.” “ And who was Bill Sparks ?” asked I, with a dread presentiment. , “ Bill was a husband of mine, too. He had money, Bill had, and he entered two forties of upland, and bought four head of cattle. Yon der’s two of ’em now. I’m going to take ’em up on the boat next, to swap,for groceries,’’ “ Did Mr. Sparks die, 100 ?” “ Now, you don’t think I’d a gone and got married and him alive ! O’ course he diedc— Ho was took down sudden, kotchin’ drift wood. My boy ran home about him, and I went down with Jane, and we packed him to the house, and made him as comfortable as we could; but it warn’t no u'so.” , ’ “Fover and ague, I suppose?”. ' “Fcveranger? You’d a said so, if you’d seen him shako!, I gave him all the qui-nine there was in the kubbard, and then sent Jane to Mr. Skeggsos to bring all the qui-nine ho had, and his hymn-book. He wont off peace able, and his last words was, ‘ Whore’s Jim my?”’ J “ Meaning your little boy?” “No; Jiinmy Sands, my husband Wore hinv They had been great friends, and I think poor Billy must have seen'his sperrit, for the owls was whooping awfulthat night. Thera two mules in the cabbage-path was Jimmy Sandses, and that thar mar, (mare) whose head is pokin’ out o’ rho corn-orib, is the samejnar he married me often.” “ Married, you from off horseback ?” “ Well, you’d say so if you’d a seen us. It was when I lived down to Stoney at the oros sin’ with Sal. Sal she hearn some one a hol lerin’ and shakin’ the gate one night, - and thinking it was jist some strainger wantin’ to git to-stay all night, she never minded; but the noise kept on so, that at last she poked her head out o’ the dividing and asked what was wanting.” , “ ‘ Are there any young gala here as wants to git married ? I’m _goin’ down to the river bottom, I am, to live in the timber. I got a mar and a mule and lots of traps, and don’t ask nothin’ in return but plain cookin’ and korreot behavior.’ ” “ ‘ Jane,” says Sal, “ what do you say ?’ ” !“Sez I, “I’m willin,” sez I, “but I can’t be married without a preacher!’.” “ ‘ Ho says thar’s a preacher out thar with him.”’ • ‘“'Ask him if it’s Mister Skeggs; I won’t he married by nobody but Mister Skeggs.’ ” ’“‘Yes, it’s him.’” _ " Well, I struck a light and puton ray Sun day dry-goods mighty quick. Sal, she carried out a fryin’-pan of grease with a rag for acan dle, and wo woke up Sal’s uncle, old man Sol omon, and so I got married. Jim and I had tojine hands, and he on the mar; he couldn’t git down_ on account of tho furniture and things being hitched all round him.” ‘‘But is this Mr. Skeggs a regular clergy man?” “Oh, rcg’lar built. He and Jimmy met to gether at the orossin’, and it was him re-com mended me. He gota sightoftinforthe job, “ A large sum, was it!’’ “ It warn’t in money • it was tin cups Jim my paid him with. Jimmy peddled tin cups round the country, and had two dozen loft.- Mr. Skeggs put ’em round his neck in a string, and we heard ’em rattlin’ on the prairie a mile off!” “Well, madam, I did hare some idea of living down in the * bottom’ myself, hut ” *' P own ' n bottom 1 What, among them pond* of water? I see you livin’there! A pound o’ (jui nine a minute wouldn’t keen you alive two days I If you want a good building’ lot. there’s my two forties, I'll sell ’em cheap a dollar and a half an acre.” ii i !!” oer bi' n . after what you have re lands ” hat 1 COU (1 livo lon K’ evan in the up- Not without you was used to’ it, you couldn t. Some oan stand it. and some can’t, r It- ,■ t an 0 ‘teot'oman up to town that 1 think might stand it a couple o’ year any how, Squire Spring. I reckon you know him; he’s got a splendid wagon and team, and, they do say, he’s got a hundred head o’hogs. You never heard, did you ?’’ Could the woman possibly mean to compass t]ie deliberate murder of Squire Spring? f wanted nothing farther to hasten my depart ure. • ' The shades of evening wore falling fast, the owl had already began to utter his long-drawn, frightful cry, a mingled whoop and howl, and receiving a few general directions as to my nearest way to A , I rapidly left my new ly chosen residence to rearward, delating within myself whether or. no it was my duty to the authorities of the existence of this horrible husband trap. GRAPHIC PICTURE OP A SLEIGH BIDE. The following graphic and glowing account of n country sleigh ride wo find in an ex change uncredited; but whoever, the author may be, wb arc confident “ ho has been there and spent the evening:" ‘‘What pleasure in a night sleigh ride I Good gracious 1 Six steaming, spanking horses and a driver as furry as a hear, his nose just visible above the dasher. Two or three dozen of merry girls and boys, muffled to their eyes, stowed away with the hot bricks under the buffaloes. The amicable, flight of pairs of lovers for the contemplated “ basket seat,” where are no curious eyes to , overlook the young man who trying his lady-love’s tippet under her chin, ties his heart with it; or tucking the buffalo robe close abouthcr should ers, forgets to remove his arm after the opera tion. , What pleasure, with the warm blood tingling his cheeks beneath eyes that flash like diamond; what pleasure, when snow powdered trees, fences' and houses fly past like magic to the merry sound of musical bell—spelt with and without an e. What pleasure, when the country 1 inn is reached, whore your supper was bespoke the day be fore, and rolling out of your manifold wrap pers, you lift to your lips foaming glasses of hot ‘ mulled'wine !’ What pleasure, when wo gather round the table, laughing at each oth er’s rosy faces, and diouss oysters and fowl, and more ‘mulled wine,’ till bones and empty glasses alone remain; and waiter having cleared away the table, we have good old [ fashioned ‘blind man’s buff,’, or an unceremo nious dance in our comfortable winter dress es ! What pleasure, when, after being deli ciously warmed and fed, we piled into the sleigh again, nestling close to thp one we like best, telling the driver to go the longest way home, look up at the stars that never gleam ed so brightly, and defy fate ever to make us ' shed a tear for any thing 1" . I 1 A Fashionable Call, and ali They Said.— “How do you do, my dear ?” “Putty, well, thank you." [They kiss.] “How have you been this ago ?” “Very well, thank you." . ‘‘Pleasant to-day,” . * Yes, very- bright—butj wq bad &. sliowor yesterday “Are all your people well ?” “Quito \roll,'. thank you; hoTf are yours?” <*Yery well, I am obliged to you.” “Have you seen Mary B—— lately.” "No, biit I’ve seen Susan G ; “You don't say so. Is she well?” “Very well, I believe.”, ' “Do call again soon.” “Thank you—l should bo pleased to come, but you don’t call on me once in an age;” “Oh, you should not say jthat, X am sure I am very good.” - “Good day.” * “Must you go?” “Yes, indeed; I have seven calls to make* “Good day.”. • . “Buffalo Gals.”— A Buffalo paper in forms us that the ladies of that airy place have taken to “wearing the Barmoral with out wearing any dress over it.” Now—with out any due delicacy and hesitation, and with awful feelings—there’s the Barmoral skirt; and there’s the Barmoral boot, and we are in a terrible state of mind to know—but we must say it—which of those articles is tire referred to by the Buffalo paper. There— we’ve fainted ! Vanity Fair. The statement to which Vanity alludes ap peared in this paper. We are enabled to as sert 'in all boldness of conscious rectitude, that we meant skirt. But wo shall mean boots (not Balmoral , nor any other moral kind,) if Vanity don’t leave our girl’s skirts alone.—-That’s so.— Express. ■ 1 f„ ' ' A Knotit Case.—Not many years’ ago, a man appeared in Court, whether as plaintiff, defendant or witness, tradition does not in form us. Be this as it may, the following dialogue ensued. ‘What is your name, Sir?’ ‘ My name is Knott Martin your honor.' ‘ Well, what is it ?’ ‘ It is Knott Martin.' ‘Not Martin again,. "VVe do not ask you ■what your name is not, but what it is. No contempt of court, sir/ * If your honor will give mb leave, I will spell my name/ ‘K-n-o-tt Knott, M-r Mar, t-i-n—Knott Martin/ ‘Oh, well, Mr. Martin—wo see through it, now, hut it is one of the most Knotty , cases we have had before us for some time/ , ‘A Nice Little Arrangement.” —On Thursday evening last, a couple of young folks called on Esquire E., and after a con siderable hesitation, requested to be united in the “holy bonds of matrimony," which re quest the Squire at once proceeded to comply with. The bride, from tho lateness of the hour and the peculiar nature of the call, tho’t some explanation necessary, and so very innocently remarked. We came from Colum bia county to attend the Fair, but finding the taverns all full and no place for Aleck to sleep we concluded to get married, so he could sleep with mo. Such a wife is worth having.—Madison (Wis.) Patriot. “ My dear husband," said a devoted wife, “why will you not leave of smoking? It is such an odious practice, and makes your breath smell so ?” “ Yes,” replied tho hus band, “ but only consider tho time I have de voted, and tho money I have spent, to learn to smoke. If I should leave off now, all that time and money would have been wasted, don’t you see ?” Heavv Failure in New Orleans.—A New Orleans correspondent of tho Traveller says:—W. & D Urquhart wealthy Jews, en gaged in tho commission business, failed a few days ago for 5100,000. During the crisis of 1857 their firm was considered the most solid in this part ol the Union. A country editor about closing up his form for tho week, _ remarked with gravity. “I have several little articles .yet in my head, which I must got out,” moaning some small paragraphs for tho paper. Quickly respond ed hisjuvenilo apprentice,—“Better let mo run and buy yon Affine tooth comb!” “ OUR COUNTRY—MAY IT ALWAYS BE RIGHT—-BUT, RIGHT OR WRONG, OUR COUNTRY.’’ CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1861. Emplotme nt. —-A journoyman mechanic in Connecticut, being out of work, and having a family to support, called upon a gentleman of the village to see if lie' could not give him something to do. ■ The gentleman asked him what kind of work he coiilddo besides follow ing his trade. V ‘ 0, most anything,’ said the man. The gentleman bethought himself a mo ment then asked. ‘You’re a Wide Awake, I believe ?’ ,Yes, Sir.’ ' ‘Have you got your capo and hat yet ?’ ‘Yes, Sir.’ . •' V,| ’ ‘Well, if you will put thein both on and walk about the streets, with a label attached to the cape, ‘The Inst of the Wide Awakes,’ ■ I’ll give you a dollar and a half per day for the service.’ ‘I will,’ said the innn, And at thejlast accounts',! ing at his now trade several ■ A. Ferocious Panther.— The Natchez Free Trader, of the Bth inst., sa^n. ‘On Friday morning at daylight, > ;Somo ofthohand;? of;ta tion on bayou Cooodra had oroseed, at the ba you to the gin, which is within two hundred yards of the quarter. Just as they Wore pas-, sing the seed house, a panther sprang upon the foremost negro, striking him in the face with his claws, and then seizing him by tho back of the neok, boro him to the ground. The other negroes fled into tho gin, shouting Murder, murder!. One, hewovor, who was armed with an axe, stood his ground and dealt the panther a heavy blow with his axe. The panther, relinquishing his hold upon tho prostrate negro, turned on his new assailant, and a sharp battle ensued; when the panther having received several wounds, concluded that discretion was the better part of valor, and retreated to th'eseed house, stood at bay, glaring ferociously at the two negroes, who accepted his proposition for a cessation of hos tilities. Being soon re-enforced by a detach ment from the opposite side of the bayou, with dogs, guns and knives, they returned to the attack and soon placed their adversary hors du combat. It was a female, hot of the larg est size. A very large male had’been killed on tho plantation the previous evening. Lord Palmerston, in his seventy fifth year is unaffected by the weather. During the summer he is accustomed to leave the House of Commons after its rising, and walk homo to his house, in Picadilly, at one, two, three, aud even, four o’clock in the ' morning—with all the cares of the state on his back, and all salient points of the night and. mornings dis cussions in his head. '• During the winter .he is here, there, everywhere, discharging the duties which belong to his stationj; now lect uring the farmers on improved modes of cul ture, now giving advice to the farmers’ labor ers as to how they may rise in the world on nine shillings per week, and now discoursing trowel in hand, on the blessings of education, when laying the foundation, of a now literary institution which a benevolent gentleman, out of his liberality, has bequeathed to a rising seaport in the south. The Baltimore Bonapartes.— Should the great suit now pending in the courts in Paris be in favor of Mme. Bonaparte and her son, the results-will be momentous. Prince Na poleon and Princess Mathilde, the children of Jerome’s second marriage, will be declared il legitimate. Mr. Jerome Bonaparte, of Balti more, will become the next heir to the impe rial crown, after the young Prince Imperial, who is now only four years old. Who knows but that an American may yet sit on the throne of Napoleon ? A Gigantic Project.— lt is said that the Emperor Napoleon has given his sanction to the project of buiiding a railway between Ca lais and Dover. This undertaking, probably the most stupendous in the history of the world, contemplates the tunneling of the Brit ish channel between the points above named, a distance of nineteen miles. It is intended, _we believe, to build a number of stations or islands, along the route. The bed of the chan nel along the proposed route has been ascer tained to be of solid rook,'which will render the proposed tunnel, when completed, imper vious to water. Contractors are busy prepar ing their estimates of the probable expense of the work. KS“ A contractor who was building a tun nel on a certain railroad, observed one morn ing, that the face of a member of the gong had its surface all spotted with bruises and plasters. -j ‘Ah! Jemmy,’ said ho, ‘wbot have you been doing?’ ‘Not very much, sir,’ answered Jimmy, ‘ I was jist down at Billy Mulligan’s Inst night sur, and wo had a bit. av a discoushen toid sticks !’ K7”A country paper says: ‘Wanted at this office, an editor who can please every body. Also, a foreman who can so arrange the pa per that every body’s advertisement snail head the column. Matrimonial Retaliation. , Some years since, in the county of Penob scot, there lived a man by the name of II , whoso greatest pleasure was in torturing oth ers ; his own family was generally the butt of his sport. . i , One cold, blustering night'lm retired to bed, at on early hour—his wife being absent. Some time after she returned, and, finding the door closed, demanded admittance. “ Who ore you ?” cried H. “ You know well enough who lam; let mo in, it’s very cold.” “Begone! you strolling vagabond, I want nothing of you here.” “ But I must come in.” “What’s your name?”. “ You know my hnme—rit’s Mrs. 11. “ Begone ! Mrs. H. is alikely woman, and never keeps such hours as this.” • “ If you don’t let mo in,-I’ll drown myself in the well.” “Dp, if you please,” ho replied. She took a big log, plunged it into the well, and returned to the aide of the door. Mr; IL, hearing the noise, rushed from the house; to save, as he support,';!, his drowning wife. She,, at the same time, slipped from the house and’elosed the door after her. 11., almost naked, in turn demanded admittance.: “ Who are you ?!’ she demanded. “ You know who I am; let me in, or I shall freeze.” . . “Begone! you thievish .rogue, I don’t warn you here.” “ But I must come in.”. “ What is your name ?” , , “ You know my name—it is H.” “ Mr. 11. is a very likely man; ho don’t keep late hours.” Suffice it to say, she, after keeping him in the cold until she was satisfied, opened the door and lot him in. YVhon the United States army started for Utah, there was a scarcity of transportation, or, in other words, there wore too few baggage wagons. Now, every soldier knbws how like the apple 1 of one's bye are these same baggage wagons, drawn atf they are by six mules on the long marches across the plains. A Colonel of dragoons, who had command of one of the dbl umns, restricted the officers very much in their allowance of baggage, and was most bitter if any one tried to exceed the just amount.- One morning the Colonel met one of his cap tains, (a dragoon of course,) when he burst out as follows: ■ “ Captain, do. you know what these artillery officers want to take across the plains?” _“ No, Colonel, I do not," said, the captain with an inquiring look. “Well,” said he, “if you’ll behove mo, there's one of them wants to take across a box of books.” “ Books!” exclaimed the captain; “what next, I wonder 1 Now Colonel, I have but lit tle to take across myself—nothing, in fact but a barrel of whisky.” “Of course, captain, of course; anything in reason; but the idea of carrying a parcel of books across that stretch is a little more, than I can stand.” Ax Indian Scalp Dance at Santa Fh. A newspaper correspondent writing from ’! Santa Fe says : “In the ‘ Plaza’ yesterday a novel sight was presented. A band of Pueblos, some fifty in number, marched into town with all the pomp and glorious circumstance of war, bearing aloft four Navajo soalps.which they had recently torn from the reeking heads of as many Indians. After breaking their fast at the. hospitable mansion of commissioner Collins, they marched in the form of a cres cent to. the .music of a drum of their own rude manufacture, accompanied by their har monious voices; which at once brought busi ness of every kind to stand still. After mar ching around the plaza in the form in which they, entered, they halted in front, of the ‘ Palaoio’ in which the Governor resides, and, I presume, through respect for official station, they commenced the scalp dance, which was more wildly grotesque than the dance of -witches in old’Kirk Aloway. • Their costumes were varied and seemed to hove bor rowed every color of the rainbow, which, with the alternate shading of ochre, Vermil lion and lamp-black upon their ugly mugs, to the.uninitiated seemed as if pandemonium had opened her doors and let loose upon Our people about.fifty of her choicest devils. The dance went on and the multitude went off, and the Indians; become weary and out of breath, soon marched away in-the same order as that in which they first made their grand entree.” ■ha had been work -1 days. ' A Modei,.— A friend of ours is in the hab it, of visiting a very charming young lady about three times a week—perhaps oftener. It is hot positively known thcre is.ari engage ment, but the. gentleman is so completely .do mesticated, that he enters the house without knocking, and if his lady-love is not in the parlor, does not scruple to go up stairs in: search of her. The other day he went through half a dozen rooms without seeing anybody, and at last came to the fair one’s own chamber, but found the door looked. ‘Aro you in "there, Mary V inquired ho, with a tender voice. ‘Bless my heart, Charles’is it you! go away, you scamp, you can’t got in!’ cried the lady, in great trepidation. ‘ I hiust, Mary,’ said the young gentleman giving the door a shove, which threatened to break away all fastenings. ‘ For Heaven’s' sake, Charles!’ screamed Iho lady, now in the last stage of terror, ’go away this instant, I’m— ’ . ' ‘ You’re what?’ ‘l’m a model!’ shrieked the lady. jgjy* Dr. Dowling, of New York, was speak ing of the incompatibility of a Union of Church and State in this country. He .said: Patrick and Biddy had been a long time married, but did not get along together, for they were almost constantly quarreling. It happened, however, that one day they were sitting quietly together opposite the fire, when in came the cat and the dog, and laid down between* them and the fire, and also op posite each other. Presently Biddy speaks up and says— “ Faith, Patrick, isn’t it a shame.we should bo always quarreling; see the cat an’ the dog, how peaceably they get along.” “ Och, Biddy, sure an’ isn’t a fair compari son at all; jist tie them together an’ see how they’ll act.” ET” A traveler stopped at a farm house for the purpose of getting dinner. . Dismounting at the front door ho knocked, but received no answer. Going to the other side of the house, ho found a little white-headed man in the em brace of his wife, who had his head under her arm,- while with tho.-othcr she was giv ing her little lord considerable “bringor.” Wishing to put an end to the fight* our traveler, knocking on the side of the house, cried out in a loud voice. “ Hallo here, who keeps this house?” The husband, though much out of breath, answered; “ Stranger, that’s jist what we are trying to ’cidel” ' A Negro Vigilence Committee in Cleave land.—The negro population of Cleavoland Ohio, have gorged themselves into an indepen dent inquisitorial court, for the trial of cer tain of their number, charged with having informed Mr. Goshon, of Wheeling, of the whereabouts of his slave Lucy. The assem bly meets every evening, at the Old Baptist Church. Two women have already been tried, without, however, any definite conclusion as to the guilt of one of them. Application has boon made to tho police by the accused par ties for protection. There is much alarm among them, though no one appears to have the faintest idea of the penalty, in case the meeting should declare them guilty of the charge. What the Servant Girls Send Home.—• The Cincinnati Enquirer says that during tho nine months past ending, the Ist of Feb ruary, the servant girls of that oitvhnvosontl to their parents and friends in Europe the large snm 567.900. The remifhnoos vary in size, ranging from three dollars to twenty five dollars, more generally the former than tho latter. To accomplish this, tho girls must devote one half their wages, retaining for their support less than a dollar a week. Mr. Joseph Veazie. of Providence says he is willing to subscribe $lOOO, if nineteen oth ers will subscribe a like sum, to make a begin ning in tho experiment of raising cotton in Central America. State Pencils nr Wholesale. —A me chanic of Hartford, Conn., has invented a machine, which will make 100,000 slate pen cils per day, "Any Thing in Benson.” "Enforcement of the lm.” Words are sometimes employed to conceal, rather than convoy, the meaning of tho par ties using them, and phrases Tvhieh, to tho unsophisticated, sound perfectly clear and proper, are oft times used by double-minded men for purposes the most unfair and improp er. Of the truth of this remark, the recent course of tho Republican press throughout the entire North furnishes an apt illustration. For some time past the organs of the Repub lican party have indulged in little else than vehement rantings about the '‘enforcement of the laws.” From this fact, which no one will undertake to question, hut one of the two inferences can be drawn ; the Repuplioan par ty has either changed its position and intends in tho future.to persue a eourre entirely differ ent from that followed by it in tGo past; or, when they talk about “ enforcing the laws,” they say one thing, hut mean cjuite another and a different thing. Wo wish we could say that the former inference was the correct one ; but, in many cases at. least, such feel assured is not the case; It is a significant fact, and one to which all conservative men would do wall to take heed, that those who are now the loudest in their ap peals for the “ enforcement of the laws,’’ are the very parties who have been at all times ready to set all law and constitutional right at defiance. They are the men who have proclaimed the doctrine of “ higher law," and contempt of the Constitution and Laws of the United States. Wo have seen in our midst, men who have trampled upon law ta ken from the prison, their fines paid—and themselves presented as Christian heroes in our public halls, and in our churches, on the Sabbath day. The law of Congress, and the requirement of the Constitution respecting rendition of the fugitive slaves—have been trampled on and violated time and again— and this by the very' men who are so fierce in their denunciation of the “ rebels and law breakers” at the seceding States. When the ruthless murderer invaded the territory or a sister State seized upon ihearms and arsenal of the nation, shot down innocent and unoffending: victims, and sought to in volve our bfethern of the South in all the hor rors of a civil insurrection, the deed was ap proved, its perpetrator pronounced a martyr to the cause of liberty, and his death upon the scaffold, made, in many cities of the North, the occasion for the ringing of bells and the’ firing of cannon, —and by those would now force the country into war, because some States Of the South have taken possession of the public property. Such men seek not to “enforce the laws.” What care they for laws which they have been accustomed to place at defiance. They seek to plunge the country into all the hor rors of a civil war. With them “ enforcing the laws” means war on the part of eighteen States of tho Union against fifteen.' .They have sought to produce it by their own diere guard of the law, tad have failed;, they now seek to carry out their design by “ enforcing the law” against others. Shall they suc ceed ? ■ • We do not charge, wo do not believe, that all -Republicans are guilty of aUoh hypocrisy and inconsistency. -We believe: that there are many conservative men in the Republi can ranks, who disapprove the ultra senti ments of their party associates; yet wo sug gest to first check the lair breaking, treason able tendencies of their own section and par ty, before attending the “ traitors” and law breakers of the South. There is a beam in the eye of their own party,—let that be re moved before the mote in the eye of another party is looked for. Wo have always been and always except to be, though in an honest and , legitimate sense, “in favor of the laws;” but when the phrase is used not in good faith, but as- the rallying cry to array the North in hostile atr titude against the South, by those who have no regard for law, wo must not only for our selves refuse to join in the cry, but feel called upon to place others upon their guard. The Chi cago Times. The above is truthful and to point, and it is especially applicable to ninny of the coor tion and war Republicans throughout the country. 'Those men presume to prate-un blushingly, now, in favor,of a rigid “ enforce ment of t)ie laws,” when they are conscious that they have time hud again violated the laws and the Constitution. : A Set op Diamonds.' —A New York repor ter who has been lookin gin the jewelry shops and noting their precious stock, mentions a sot of diamonds, consisting of a necklace, bracelets, brooch and ear-rings. Value twan ty-fivo thousand dollars.’ The necklace, is composed of fortj’-thrco brilliant gems of the first water, forming a circle; from the centre are appended seven pear-shaped diamond pendants, of rare’ form and value. The cost of the necklace alone is sixteen thousand dol lars. Lady Skaters. —They think in Paris that Mme., the Countess of Morny, leads the ar istocratic crowds of lady skaters in point of grace and skill. She comes the Russian very captivatingly. The Empress, it is said, makes but a poor figure ns a skater, in spite of her handsome costume and her handsome feet and ankles. She got herself up in an exquisite costume, and her skates were mira cles of workmanship, but finding some diffi culty in striking put, she retired soon disgus ted. Pensacola. —On January 10 and 17, and after the State forces had reached Pensacola, Lieut. Slemraer sent a boat to Fort Mcßae and destroyed 40,000 pounds of powder in store there. Ho also carried over to Fort Pickens all the shell and shot which he could remove. The ardor of the State troops had boon greatly dainpenod by the discovery that the one hundred and ten men in the fort were numerous chough to manage the guns, and that the howitzers on the angle co.uld be fired at the rate of ten shots per minute. House’s Feet Baelino with Show. —Take a piece of paper and place on the shoe as it is fixed on the horse’s foot, with a pencil mark on the inside of the paper, the size of the inside form of the shoo; out out the piece of paper, and mark the gutta peroha. Allow an (eighth or an inch larger of gutta percha on each side of. the front part to go under the shoo, to keep it from com ingout when the horse is at work. Taper the edge of the , gutta-per cha to facilitate it is going under the shoe, out out a triangular piece of the gutta-percha so as to prevent an undue prevent an undue pressure on the frog It will Be found a simple, cheap and effectual romodv.— The Field. Qua country has increased in size more •ha.n three fold since the close of the revolu- War. The United States have a territorial extent nearly ten times as large as that of Groat Britain and Franco combined. The American Republic is one sixth.only less in extent than the area covered by the fifty nine empires states and republics of Europe. dDfc anb (teibs. , O” The best part of beauty is that which a picture cannot espresss. : Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance. ' ITT” A tellow that doesn’t benefit the world by his life does it by his death. O* Common sense is only a modification of talent—genius is an exaltation of it. E 7” A lady sometimes gets as much intox icated at her glass as a toper does at his. ■ . Cy - Wo gain , nothing ,by falsehoood bat the disadvantage of not being believed when we speak the truth. . A man’s good fortune often turns his head; his bad fortune as often averts the hearts of his, friends. , C 7" A lady describing an ill-natured man, says : “ lie never smiles, but he feels asham ed of it.” XJ' Hr. Franklin used ’to say that rich widows were the only pieces of second-hand goods that sold at prime cost. ■ K7"lf. a flock of geego see one of their num bor drink, they will drink too. Mon often make geese of themselves. BT7’ The cradle is a woman’s ballot-box, and some of them deposit-in it two ballots at once. Isn’t that illegal ? Xf Mouths—an instrument to some people of rendering ideas, audible, and to others' of rendering victuals invisible. , . O” A Yankee says that prejudicesagainst color are very natural, and yet the prettiest girl he ever knew was Olivo Brown, ' O’A head properly constituted can ac commodate itself to whatever pillows tho vi cissitudes of fortune may place under it. C 7” When you negotiate for a house having all the modern improvements, you Will gen erally find that a mortgage is on one of them. [CT” If you don’t wish to get angry, never argue with a blockhead., Bemember the dul ler the razor, the more you will cut yourself and swear. . ■ “ Among all my boys,*’ said an old man, “I never had but one boy who took af ter me, and that was my son, Aaron, who took after mo with a club.’* . XT’ The earth is a. tender and kind mother to tho husbandman; yet, at one season, he always harrows her bosom, and another plucks her ears. i IC7* Mrs. Partington says she has noticed that whether flour was dear or cheap, she had invariably to pay the same money lor half a dollar’s worth. CC7” It,is a pleasant thing to see roses and lillies glowing upon a young , lady’s cheek, but a bad sign to see a man’s face break out into blossoms. K 7” To kill bed-bugs—-tie them by the hind legs and then make mouths at them until yqtt get them into convulsions, after which crawl around on their blind side and stone them to - death. DC7’ A lady, jit her marriage, requested the ■ clergyman to give out to be sung by the choir*: the hymn commencing * ■ This is tbo way I long.have sought, And mourned because I found it not. Kp” It is said of French ladies thot their fondness for effect runs to such excess, that widows who haro lost thoir husbands practice attitudes of despair before a looking gloss, ID"” -A. speaker at. a stump meeting out ■ ’’ West declared that ho knew no bast, newest, no north, no south. “Then,’? said a tipsy bystander, “you .ought to go to school and larn your geography.” DCT* Many a man thinks it is virtue that keeps him from turning a rascal, when it is only a full-stomach. One should be careful and not mistake potatoes for principles. O’ Serpents they say, have power to charm. _ Eve probably learned the art in her famous interview with the serpent in the gar den, taught it (|o her daughters, and sc womankind are charming. C7* A Western paper, in speaking of a se vere thunder-shower, says: “A cow was struck by lightning and instantly killed be longing to the village physician who had a beautiful calf four years old.” CT” When a housekeeper is lost So deep in thought that she sprinkles the boiling clothes with salt, and puts the tiat-iron into the soup* it is time that she paid more attention to do mestic cookery and less to the last novel. ' O” That was a triumphant appeal of the lover of antiquity, who, in arguing the supe riority of old architecture over the new, said, “where will you find any modern building that has lasted so long so the ancient. 5C7” “ Speaking of shaving,” said a pratty girl to an obdurate old bachelor, “I should think that a pair of handsome eyes: would bo the best mirror to shave by." “ Yes, many a poor fellow has boon shaved by them," the wretch replied. ' O” Jorrold was enjoying n drive one day with a jovial spendthrift. "If oil, Jorrold, . said the driver of a very fine pair of grays, “ what do you think of m3' grays ?” “ To tell you the truth,” said Jorrold, “ I was just thinking of your duns I" ) IC7* How to Kiss—First grasp with haste around'tho waist, and hug her tight to thee 1 and thou she’ll say—“do, go away—do, won’t you let mo ho ?” Then, oh, what bliss 1 but 1 novor miss so good a chance as that; then make o dash, as quick as flash, and—Harriet,' hold my hot! C 7” A dealer in dry goods in Paris engag* ed the services of several well-dressed ladies, who promenade near his store, and when they see any lady looking into the window, two of them approach and exclaim, “ Oh, isn’t it sweet 1 or “ How cheap 1 let us go in and buy KI7” In a case for assault the defendant plead guilty. “ I think I must be guilty,” ho said, “ because the plaintiff and I wore thoi only ones there were in the room; and tho first thing I knew I was standing up, and ho was doubled over tho table. You’d better call it guilty." Affection in Men and 'Women. —"Women are said to have .stronger attachments than mem - .lt is not so. Strength of attachment is evinced in little, things. A man is often at* tached to an old hat; but did you ever know, pf a woman having an attachment for an old ' btmnot?— Punch, NO. 38.