V VOL/47. AMERICAN VOLUNTEER. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY HORSINO BY ioHS B. BRAXTOII. / TERMS* One Dollar and Fifty Cotito, paid t* advance; Two DMlara if paid within the year; 'and Two DollaW andFifty' Ccnts,ifnot. paid within tha year. These terms will borigidly adhered to in ovary instance,. Noaqbacription discontinued until all arrearages arc paid unices at tho option of tbb Editor. ;/ .^D.vrfinTtSßyisifts—AcconipAnlGdbythccAsit,rind fcofc oicceding one square, will bo inserted three times for One Dollar, ond twenty-fivebents for each additional insertion. - Those of a greater length In proportion. • • ■ », . JoB-l’mjfTiNq—Such ns Hand-hills, Fosting-billa, Pamphlets, Blanks, Labels, Ac. Ac., executed with T i accuracy and' at the shortest notice. From the Knickerbocker Magazine, TAB SHOW-FORT. Id tho happy days of boyhood, Five and thirty years ago,- (Life’s golden age of joyliood-,) ■ Wo,built castles of the snow. In the glittering drifts wo ■ ‘ And we march o’er galling thistlq?, . Not the velvet of the snow J * HURRAH FOR A CHEERFUL GIRL. Hurrah! hurrah! for a laughing girl. With a heart devoid of guile; Hurrah ! hurrah ! for a rosy-check, A bright amj bewitching smile; Wo love to ga*o on such a oue— There’s rapture in the sight; Wo love tosee a aunuj' smile, That beams all fair and bright. Hurrah 1 hurrah! for a cheerful girl. With roses in her hair; Hurrah! hurrah! for a lustrous eye, 'Neath lashes light and fair; For pensive feelings no*er disturb The heart that's light and free. And sorrow ne'er bedims the cyo That beams with pleasantry. Mmllnmm. Id 1 Icorn from the Tomb of Washiuglon Flan cd in Russia by tbe Emperor, On the ,22d of February Gov. Pickens, of South Carolina, (who was recently Minister to Russia,) made a short address to a military company in Charleston, in the course of which ho' made the following happy allusion to the universal respect for Gen. Washington: _“ 1 remember while in a distant court of Europe, and at the most despotic of all Gov ernments, that on a memorable occasion I visited the magnificent gardens that surround Peterhoff, near St. Petersburg. The gardens and grounds were dedicated to the enjoyment and peaceful pursuits of the greatest and most brilliant of courts. On a remote island of these magnificent grounds that had been set aside for the private enjoyment and pri vate walks of the Emperor and Empress a tree was pointed out to me in that garden cultivated by particular and devoted hands! surrounded by wire wicket work, and flowers flourishing all around it. There stood on one branch of the tree a large brass plate, and on one side of that plate,ln German, and on the other in Sclavonic, was written, 'this tree P ln 3 °’ V Nich olas. from an i a^ton^%Ci a “V°“ b °. f the B^at that txof l placed there hv n- ln r Cr .! Ptloa Upon solute rulers that ever *o 6 ab r Empire. And yet in hTs Ci^L °f gardoua ho paid this deep and heartfelt’S “***« mi jmory of the greatest and purest m&D th© world over saw, ■* • - i . " l d *®- d \ < * no ‘ ‘ ake an acorn from near the I it Anm f ib he at E l‘ ZabetK : nor he take it from the garden of the Tuilleries. grown in felt t h l XlV ’ DOt diahe take did b ° f , tho S rcat Napoleon ; nor I d ‘ d .otake ‘t from the garden of the Cmsars tomb ofT ’ bUt t - Uo , k; an ncorn from the Of^n? fl f rb.r re | aU n ia tho wilds W ‘° had planted tbe seeds of a wovornment consecrated to tho freedom and Pfe wl« d® nC °n° f i at!oDB ' whose,every prinoi- Fts dl a° tly at war with ‘he principles of that even this mighty monarch, in private and Ufe^Thl/ 0 I,im hi * heartfelt onf deep trito !sn^sssigsi& ‘ho etoTlLT^rld. branChC3 Bhall overspread a ad‘tlm Vnf S ° S r°u tb ° oossack of ‘he Don ftttsala and sa/$ a / * kayo,scon tho Lancers of Arab in the - th ° . Tartar and ‘he withstanding*!? S ‘h° interior, and yetnot ‘hey conver« fi n som .>-h a rt>arian life, even «wir tort?!! °- be “‘Shty Washington in *ho world that h' ebt ' re is no portion of >ovo and admi™ t “ ard of his na «°> and Elects and “nue^ Ercat and man 'y fr-‘h- Am mean lUUnnlrrr. JMml. BY JOSEPH BARBER. DOCKS IN SUMMBB, There is doubt of ite being true, and its a good one, if I can hit on the right way of telling it; Aaron was a tall, strapping fellow, near seventeen. You never saw a more suscepti ble youth. Being good-looking, thogirls were all cosily smitten with him. ’ They used to flock out to the country on Friday evenings. Talk of a colt I There is no such romp as a town girl turned loose in the country. She races, shejurops, she climbs trees, shaking the wild berries down upbn the timorous beaux beneath her. Oh, she is the most beautiful, winning, delightful creature in the world. Mose was much younger than his cousin; he knew Aaron was taking on about that haughty lass, May Stelton. And May was in love with Aaron. May, and Troup* and Sue, and Kate all came out on Friday evening, with Moseis sis ter, Angelina, - Mose got off early Saturday to let Aaron know. Aaron was for running over to his aunt’s. "No," says Mose, “bring the gun; the woods ore full of squirrels.. We might kill a dozen walking the two.miles,” Tho road led along the creek hank. Aaron was in a brown study thinking of May. Mose was looking up in tho tree tops and among the bushes, anxious for a pop at something. It was the shadiest and quietest of places. So far and no game. “Lets leave the road n bit, and go to the head of the creek,” said Mose. “ It’s, so out of the way nobody ever disturbs it.” “ We’ll see something there!” And they did. Let it be July 24. ] “ What' is ■ it?” 'asked Aaron, aroused a little. Mose put his hand to bis ear “ Ducks—the biggest kind !” “ This time of year ?” “I see ’em.” “Give me the gun.’ “ No—couldn’t think of it.” Klick, klick. “Well, blaze away; they’ll fly if you go nearer.” “ The bushes are in the way,” said Mose, bringing the! piece down with his shoulder, “Shoot anyhow!” insisted Aaron running U l>- . “ It’s the girls in a swilnmin' They sat down like, snow flakes. They were white as the petticoats strewn on the pebbly beach. Their teeth chattered. Along Silence. At last’ Aarod lobked slowly around at Mose with the meanest sort of counte nance. Moso’s face, as he returned the glance, was a regular sheep looking one. “ Can they find it out 1” “ I reckon not, if wo are sly.” “Let’s climb up; tho tree, it leans right over them.” They .crept along like snakes. They reach ed tire tree. Mose being the lightest, gave the gunto,Aaron,.and climbed far pnfeioneja. nest : Aaron wasn't sb'lngh. ; -~ -r :^**^=- ' . It was a pretty sight, of course. You’ve read of nymphs, syrens, etc. ? They couldnlt compare. Hair loose, and fldnting on the water, arms, etc. f glistening in the water, j Kate was he white as snow. Sue was plump as a partridge in pea time, and sat in the I waves like a bird in its nest. ' Troup was i slim all over with a few exceptions. Aaron promised not to look at Angelino if Mose wouldn’t wink at May. Impossible! Angeline sported gracefully like a native of the element, and May was a black-eyed hour!, coleur de rose, from top to toe, They splashed and paddled, and chatted like mad. . T |ie tree began to shake. Aaron had a ter rible back ague, and Mose began to smoke and burn, commencing at the ears. There was. a larger noise than usual among the unconscious bathing beauties. Aaron stretched his elongated neck, atthe same time hitching the gun forward. . Unfortunately the the trigger caught in a vine, and went off with a deafening report. It was the climax of the 1 adventure, Mose tumbled,, from excitement [ into the creek, plum right between Sue and Kate. The gals—they dove badly, and up the bank, their white retreating forms gazed at by the eyes of the, fish hawk that had pounced among them. They are robed in a twinkling, but not one with her right dress on. .Aaron dashed into the woods. There was a terrible scream as he ran right into, their midst. All ran in different direc tions, and came dropping in one after another at Mose’s mother’s. ■ The boys took a long turn into the woods, and did not get back before night. They said they had been deer hunting, and hadn't seen the creek. The girls appeared to believe them. A Colored Man Leaves bt Will Monet to Purchase a Chicd.ln Slavert. —A color ed man named Richard Bruce' died a few months since in Boston, leaving by his will about SHOO for the purchaser of one or more of his children in slavery. He was an old man and having purchased his own freedom, and_ that of his wife, a few years since, had by industry and economy laid by this sum. Since he became free, Columbus Bruce, the husband of one of his daughters, had his free dom given him, and wont to Boston. The case became' known to some citizens, ■ who made a contribution of funds, and a leading merchant went to Maryland and purchased his wife, who came leaving in slavery her only child, a boy now about sixteen years old. P-. y- Pelton,’ Esq;, has been appointed ad ministrator of the estate, and upon inquiry, leansthat Richard Bruce leaves several chil dren in slavery in Maryland, all having fami lies. There not being money enough to buy a whole family, dt is proposed to purchase the child of Columbus Bruce, and negotiations are now pending for that purpose his mis-: tress being willing to sell him in consideration of Ins being fat and lazy. Until recently, ho was held at $1,50(h but he is now offered at $1,300. As the will g vos no authority for the purchase of a grandchild of the deceased the necessary authority for this diversion of the funds, must be procured from the Supreme Court or Legislature. K7”The wise carry their knowledge as they do their.watches—not to display, but for their own use. . js estimated that upwards of 300, 000 Americans are for thatime being resident in Europe, and that their, Joint annual expen ditures thene are $250,000,000. K - The reason why they find so few rhi welirhide'd ® ecauao the y’ ro s 0 temarkbaly J n “cottage,” is very well when uteres” oottn B e ’ and have money out at i, A Dutchman thinks “ honesty ish de poor ’ ,110107 ’ but>t k66pS a mtm woshttam A Game mistake. Many of our readers remember tho stotely presence, the dignified hearing and imposing manner of Col. William C. Preston, of South Carolina. It was when, all those qualities J*ere in their prime, and Preston represented his State in the Senate of the United States, that business or pleasure called him to the West, and to take passage down the Missis sippi river. In those “flush times," the steamers swarmed with hoosiers, greenhorns, and gamblers, tho latter politely designated “ sporting gentlemen,” the term gambler or “ blackleg’ entailing from the speaker a pis tol shot or a wipe from a bowie knife. The boat was on the eve of departure, and eiir Senator, standing on the deck and hold ing a email mahogany box, was observing with great interest and pleasure the busy scene on the wharf, when an individual; lux uriating in a rather ornate style of dress, ap proached him, and in a subdued tone demand ed: “ I say, old feller, when are you going to commence ?” “Commence what, sir!” asked the aston ished Senator. “Pshaw! npne of that gammon with me! The fact is, a few of us boys want a little fun, and we won’t pile on too strong for you ; so j come and open at once.” ..I “Really, sir,” replied Preston, “I am to tally at a Joss to guess your meaning; open what?" Open what! Why the bank, of course. May be you think our pile isn’t large enough to make it an object. But we’re not so poor os all that, anyhow !” The Senator meditated gloomily, hut all was dark to him, he was plunged into a sea of doubt, and he had never met any problem; not even a political one, so hard to solve. “ Perhaps,” broke in his pertinacious friend again, after a considerable pause, “ perhaps you will say directly that you are nota sport ing man.” “ I certainly am nothing of the kind, sir,” replied Preston, rather angrily; ” and I can’t imagine what put the idea into your head.” “NobS sporting man? Whew-w! I never heard of such a piece of impudence I Well, if you are not a sporting man, will you please to tell me why you carry that about with you?” and he pointed to the mahogany box, which he still carried. , A, light broke on Preston’s mind. “ The mahogany box 1” he cried. “ Ha! ha! ha! hoi—very natural mistake, indeed, my good sir! very natural, indeed 1 my good sir; very indeed! Well, I will show you the contents.” And laughing heartily,, he opened the box in I question,’ which was in fact a dressing case, and displayed the usual parade of brushes, combs, razors, soap, etc., which usually fill that article of traveling comfort. Our friend looked at the case, then at Pres ton again. Then he heaved a long sigh, and then he pondered. 7 , “ Well,” ho broke out. at JLencth. ‘‘ L did wj uc u, sporuug geliiioijTHn—l uiu^l but now I see you are a barber; but if I had known it, d—n mo if X had a spoke to you.” The Garden.—Should the weather prove favorable, it will not be long until we will be gin to turn our attention to the garden. The first thing to be done, if not. done last fall, will be td clear off all old plant stalks and i everything else that don’t properly belong to the garden plot. After the surface has been cleaned, take your barrow and puton as much well decomposed inanure or compost as you think is required to bring the soil up to a pro ductive condition. Spread the manure over the ground) and let it remain until you are ready to spade the ground. A good gardner will know how to at tend to the proper spading and bringing the soil to as fine condition as can be, for on this depends, mainly, on any soil, the growth of root crops and all else. It is all wrong to expect good results from Slants that have to labor to get their ■ roots own to moisture below. Make the soil as fine aa you can. Many a poor seedsman has had' all the blame laid on him because the gardner saw fit to put the seeds into a cold, wet soil. Before planting, see that the soil is warm and moderately dry, and then the seedsman will escape the censure that should fall upon the one that plants. Seeds planted in a cold soil, if they germinate at all, will have no ad vantage over seeds planted while the soil is in proper condition. Peas, onions, radishes, lettuce, and a few other seeds and roots may be planted as soon ns the above conditions can be brought about by the sun and March winds. The following good joke occurred not long since in one of the churches in the west ern part of Onondaga county; “An aged :clergymnn, speaking of the so lemnity attached to the ministerial office, said that during the whole term' of forty or fifty years thatlie had officiated therein, his grav ity had never been but once disturbed, in tbe pulpit. On that occasion he noticed a man directly in front of him leaning over tbe rail ing ®f ■ the gallery with something in his band, which he soon discovered to be a huge chow of tobacco, just taken from his mouth. Di rectly below sat a man fast asleep, with his head pack and his mouth wide open. The man rn the gallery was intensely engaged in raising and lowering his hand, taking an exact observation, till, at last, hav mg got it right, ho let fall the quid, and it wont pmmp into the mouth of the sleeper be low! The whole scene was so indescribably ludicrous that for the first and last time in the pulpit an involuntary smile forced itself upon the countenance of tne preacher. , DC?” A dispute about precedence once arose between a bishop and a judge, andaftersome altercation, the latter thought he should quite confound his opponent by quoting the follow ing passage ‘For on those two hang all the : law and the prophets.’—Do you not see, said the lawyer, in triumph, that even in this passage of scripture we are mentioned first ? I grant yon, said the bishop, you hang first. DC'”‘Mind, John,’ said a father to his son, if you go out into the yard you will wish you had stayed in the house. ‘Well; if I stay in the house, I shall wish I was out in the yard: so where is the great difference, dad 7’ A lady at Jaynesville, N. Y. had a narrow escape from death by a pin which she vyas holding in her mouth dropping into her wipd-pipe. Her agony was terrible; but skillful surgical aid was at hand, she was re lieved.under the influence of chloroform, by opening the throat and extracting the pin af ter an operation which occupied three hours. K@r "Is them old follows alive, now 7” said an urchin to his teacher. “ What old persons do you mean, my dear ?” ** Paul, and Luke, and Deuteronomy, and them.’' “OUR COUNTRY—MAY IT ALWAYS BE BIQHT-BUT, RIGHT OR WRONG, OUR COUNTRY.” CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1861: The female fiend is seen in all parts of the country. Sho is confined to no especial locali ty. In the church—on the sidewalk—in the lecture room—-amid a: party of girls, or in the company of matrons everywhere, you .will see the female fiend. But she delights above nil things to. squat down' by the hearthstone, and spit her venom in the very bosom of Home. The female fiend does not resemble those devils who’ ore delineated in old picture books. Sho has neither horns, • nor cloven foot, nor forked tail. She wears the exterior of wo man, and very often a neatly dressed, modest looking and smooth spoken woman, Her voice is.low and persuasive. She sets homes on fire with a hint. She' separates .husbands and wiyes with a lie, cleverly told and well spiced with , expressions’ of affection. She rakes up old family quarrels—knows every thing bad that has happened to every man and woman in the neighborhood within twen ty years—and it is her work to plant hatred in the Home, suspicion among friends, and discord on earth wherever she goes. .The fe male fiend may be .virtuous, (os far os the body is concerned) or she may ,be unchaste, but her soul is the soul of a-prostitute. She has a low opinion of; her .own sex. She be lieves every woman ; to bo ‘in heart a rake,' therefore she lets no occasion pass with doing her beat to make it appear that Miss Jones is n corrupt girl, and that Mrs. Smith is an un chaste wife. She is always sure that Mr. Smith never goes out with good intentions; nay, she is satisfied that he goes out to mingle with the abandoned, - She knows matters about this one and that one which she cquld tell if she would. If she would tell, the roofs would come off the houses—only she don’t choose to tell. So dekterous a hinter is the female fiend. , . The female fiend is found everywhere. She does a large business Ip asmnll neighborhood. She spits . and brimstone in country towns. In the city, she is more circumscribed in her operations; .but even there she manages to drive a brisk traffic for the good of her master, the Devil. She works more mischief in the world than any prostitute, gambler, or murderer, that ever lived.. She cultivates lying into a business, and makes slander one of the fine.arts,; Avoid the female fiend. Shun her in church—at the, evening party—on .the sidewalk—in the Home—shun her as. you would cholera or murder. Keep her out of the company of your wife and sister; for the sake of all that you hold dear, never permit your family to come within the circle of the female fiend. As a matter of curiosity, let ua ask you, reader, have you a female fiend in your heich borhood ? Yes, I am a man ; apd tvoo is me for hay ing been such a little fool when I was a boy I I hated my books, and took-more pains to for ray kssons than ever I did to learn them: "1H ■asNSSEWSf book thumblcd and dogeared, and cried over —the very emblem of duncehood. “Do, Charles, learn you lessons," said my father ( or you will be fit for porting when a man.” Charles, give your mind to books, or I shall bo ashamed of owning you formy bov * sa.d my poor mother. - But no; I must give I W mind to whipping tops and eating cates, and a fine scholar they made me! Now there i was Fred Jones, he liked play well enough, j but he liked rending bettor;.and ho.learned more out of school hours than I did in them. I'rcd Jones, is now, like myself a man, but a very different kind of m man. He has made friends among the wise, the honorable, and the learned; I cannot 'be admitted to their nc-1 quamtance. He dan interest a whole com pany with useful information; lam obliged to be silent, or talk about the weather or my neighbors. I can make out a bill of parcels, but 1 blunder over n letter to a friend. I see my error now, but is mo late. I have no time to read for I must work for my daily bread; to rofit ** me behold the bitter fruits of idleness in child hood. ID" ‘Come Here, my little lad,’ said an At torney to a boy about nine years old, ‘A case is between the devil and the people, which do you think will be most likely to gain the ac tion ? Theboy replied -‘I guess it will be a hard squeeze; the people have the most money, oat the devil has the most lawyers.' O'A little boy, kneeling at his mother’s knee to say his evening prayer, asked leave to pray in his words, and with a childlike sim phcity said; ‘God bless little Willie, and don t let the house burn up ; God bless papa and mamma; God bless mo, and make mv boots go on easy in the morning.’ Grave Joke.—-A wag going through a grave-yard, observed on one of the stones the lollowmg lines: ■ lanrnow, eo you must be, ’ ‘ Prepare for death and follow mo.” He took out his pencil and wrote below:' « To follow you I'll not conflen^ until I know which way you wont," I®, Flour is-a very useful article'in its place; but wo don't like to see young women rubbing it on their faces. Doubtless many of them do it more for the fun of the thing tfmn to improve their good looks, but . then it is mighty mean fan, considering the high price of flour. BSaf* Some of the postmasters recently ap pointed in the seceding States decline to take thooathto support the Constitution of the United States. The offices will be discon tinued. ' young lady remarked the other day that she would like to do something so as to have her name appear in the papers. Wo od yiseher to got some one to put his name in with hers. ' A Yankee bragging of having killed a panther whose tail was three feet lon*. Brown replied the was long enough hot to bo continued/'* ° The Game op Life.—ln youth hearts are trumps; in manhood, diamonds and clubs, bnt at tho close of life spades is sure to win. little fellow one day non-plussed his *if r k? waking the following inquiry; Mother, if a. man is a mister, ain’t a woman a nnstery V r ■ ItT* *Ay ell, Susan, .what do you think of married ladies being happy V ‘Why, I think there are more ain't than there is that ain't.' Slanders, issuing from beautiful lips, are like spiders crawling from tho blushing heart of a rose. jjgy** Pride sleeps in a gilded crown —con- tentment in a cotton night cap. ■ ’ The Female Fiend. in Idle Boy. I was A Sabbath-School Incident, At a meeting in Exeter Hall, London, where there woe a vast number of Sabbath- School children.assembled, a clergyman arose on the platform, and told them of two bad lit; tie boys whom he had once known, and of a food little girl whom he afterwards learned to now. This little girl had been to Sabbath- School, where she had learned ‘to do good ev ery day/ Seeing two little boys quarreling, she went np to them, told them how wickedly they were acting, made them desist from quar relling, and in the eiid told them to attend, Sabbath-School. These boys were Jim and Tom. ‘Now children,’ said the gentleman, “would you like to see Jim?’ All shouted with one voice, ‘Yes, yes I’ ‘Jim, get up !’ said the gentleman, looking over to another part of the stage. A rever end looking missionary arose and looked smi lingly upon the children. . ‘Now would you like to see Tom ?’ ‘Yes, yes 1' resounded through all the house. ‘Well, look at mo—l am Tom, and I too have been' a missionary ' for many years. Now, would you like to see little Mary Wood?’ ■ . J The response was even more loud and earn est than before,‘Yea?’ ‘Well, do you see that lady over there in the blue silk bonnet ? that is little Mary Wood, and she is my wife I? The Man Who Despised Whiske* Drink ers.—lt was on one of the river steamers, -at dinner, that an amiable matronly lady remark ed; m the midst of conversation with a grave looking gentleman on the subject of temper- ‘Oh, of all things' in the world, I despise a whiskey drinker!’ The gentleman dropped his knife and fork, in the ardor of his feel ings, extended his hand, and took hers with in his own, and with an emotion that threat ened tears over the loss of.ruincd sons, he re plied with faltering words-, ‘Madam, I respet yoiir sentiihents and the heart that dictated them. I permit no one to go beyond mo in despising whiskey-drinking. I have been disgusted .on thiavery boat, and I say it now before our worthy captain’s face. What, I ask, can be more disgusting than to see weli dressed, respectable and virtuous looking young men; whoso mothers are probably even how praying that the tender instruction by which thejr youth was illuminated may bring forth precious fruit in their maturity; I say, to see young men step tip to the bar of this boat, and, without fear of observing eyes, boldly ask for whiskey, when they know that there is in that very bar the best of cognac brandy 1’ An Accommodating Yankee.—A double bedded Toom does not mean, in the States, a roomwith two beds, but a bed with two per sons in'it. During the great embargo, I hap pened to be in- Charleston, S. 'C., when the landlord proposed to me to sleep with a dirty totmgwofflcorb- 4- Tf I cannot have a separate bed; I-profer sitting by the fire dll night to sleeping with ■that Russian 1’ Ts he a .Russian, sir ? said a tall, thin, in quisitive Yankee, that stood listening to the conversation ; Ts he a Russian V . I’ll take him, then, if it pleases you,, stranger. I should rather like it, for I never slept with a Russian.' A Pleasant Picture.— The local editor of of the Petersburg Express is a young man of teste, but he suffers it to run away with him. For instance: ' “ What a lovely picture a young lady pres ents,"says he ; “on a cold morning,-with all her winter fixings, on, coming -down town, at a brisk speed, innocent of any intention what ever other than being comfortable and looking pretty! A eweofc little, bonnet,' daintily trimnied with brown ribbon, and on the in side with a delicate white fur, tied on with a neat bow; a soft, downy comfoiter, encompas sing enough of her neck to disclose a little of its snowy purity, and gracefully descending in front; a tunic of dark brown, or a mantle of black cloth, and two little jet black gaiters underneath, peeping, like mice, in and out, and completing an ensemble sufficient to make a susceptible youth feel like spending his last ten in a ring, gift books, a marriage license, and the minister. Cheap !" Remarkable Fact,—-The day after Christ mas last, a lady in this city became mother to a fine and healthy girl child. There is noth ing startling in this fact, nor calculated to. ex-, cite comment. As usual, mother and child did well,, and progressed in health and strength. But two weeks afterwards the same lady was again the mother of a child, a fine boy, who is also flourishing, as well ns the doubly-taxed mother. This circumstance, although of extreme rarity, be probably .the second well ascertained case of the kind in the United States, is one which is known til medical men as having occurred before, and is accounted for upon clearly as certained physical grounds. —San Francisco Herald. o ~y A priest, proceeding to tho chapel one Sunday marning through the burial-ground, observed some sprightly girls seated on a tombstone, and wishing to bo jocular with them, asked what they were doing there. 'Nothing at all, plaze your riverence,' was the reply of one of them. ‘Nothing 1’ said he. ‘What,is nothing?’ ‘Shut your eyes yonr riverence,’ retorted one of the girls, ‘and you’ll see it.’ A, grand jury down south ignored a hill against a hue negro for stealing chickens, and, before discharging him from custody, tho judge bade him stand reprimanded; ho con cluded as follows: “You may go now, John; but (shaking his finger at him) let mo warn you never to ap pear here again.'' John, with delight beam in his eyes.lThd with a broad grin, display ing a beautiful row of ivory, replied; “I would’t bin here dig time judge, only do con stable he fetch mo." j The Richmond Enquirer says, whether ‘Virginia is safe for the Union’ depends upon whether Black Republicans make the Union safe for Virginia. I Cgy When a housekeeper is lost so deep in thought'that she sprinkles the boiling clothes with salt, and puts the flat iron into the soup, it is time that she paid more attention to do mestic cookery and less to the lastnorol C - What do you think of a young lady ; whose lips are so sweet that she is obliged to. wear a veil whenever she goes into thogardiWjf to protoot them from the bees. —Exchange pa per. Think f Why, that she should have some one to take care of and call her ‘honey.’ O’ Don't rivit a blacksmith's attention by •Von-icnllj heating his temper -with the asser tion that he will/orys and steal, for fear you ■will get hammered and rolled out. Speech of ei-Fresident Tyler at the Fence Conference, • Ex-President .Tyler, on taking, his seat as President of the Conference of the States, at Washington, said: Gentlemen :—>l fear you hare committed a great error in appointing me to the honoable position you have assigned me. The country is in danger—it is enough—one must take the place assigned him in the great work of reconciliation ahdadjustment. The voice of I Virginia has' ■ invited her co-Statea to. meet her jn council. In the initiaton of this Gov-* ernment that same voice was heard and com plied with,' and the results of seventy'odd years have fully attested the wisdom of the, decisions then adopted. Is the urgency of her call now less great than it was then?'Our god-like fathers created—we have to preserve. They built up, through their wisdom and pa triotism, monuments which have eternalized their names. You have before you, gentle-, men, a task equally grand, equally sublime, quite as full of glory and immortality. You have to snatch from ruin a great and glorious Confederation, to preserve the Government, ond ! to renew and invigorate the Constitution.. If you reach the height of this great occasion.' your children’s children will rise up and call you blessed. Yes, Virginia’s voice,"as in the olden time, has _ been hoard. Her sister. States met her this day at the council board.-- Vermont is here, bringing with her the mem ories of the past, reviving in the memories of all, her’Bthan Allen and his demand for the surrender of Ticonderoga, in the name of the Great Jehovah and the. American Congress. New Hampshire is here—her fame illustrated by memorable annals, and still more lately as the birthplace of him who won for himself the name of Defender of the Constitution, and who wrote that letter to John Taylor which has been enshrined in the hearts of his conn* trymen, Massachusetts is not liere—(sonio member said she is coming)—l hope so, said Mr, Tyler, and that she will bring with her her daughter Maine. I did not believe it could well be that the voice which, in other times, was so familiar to her ears, has been in vain. Connecticut is here, and she comes, ■ I doubt not,-in the spirit of. Roger Sherman.' Rhode, Island, the land of Roger Williams, Is here, one of the two last States in her jeal ousy of the public liberty, to give in her ad hesion ti the Constitution, and among the earliest to hasten to its rescue. The great Empire State of Now York—represented thus far but by one—delegates to day a fuller force to join In the groat work of healing the dis contents of the tipies, and restoring the reign of fraternal feeling. New Jersey is here, with the memories of the past covering her all over. Trenton and Princeton live immortal in story—the plains of the last encrimsoned with the heart’s blood of Virginia’s sons.— Among her delegation I rejoico-to recognize a gallant son of a signer of the immortal Dec laration which announced to the world that thirteen Provinces had become thirteen 1 inde - ponclontand sovereign States.-- And here, too; is Delaware, Jho land of the Bayards and the Rodneys, whose soil at Brandywine was moist ened by the blood of Virginia's youthful Monr , roe. Here is Maryland, whose massive col umns wheeled into lino with thosn of Virginia, iq the contest of glory, and whose State House, at Annapolis, was the theater of a spectacle of a successful commander who, after liberating j his country, gladly ungirthed his sword andJ laid it down upon the altar of that country. Then comes Pennsylvania ; rich in revolu-. tionaay loro, bringing with her the deathless names ofFranklin and Morris, and 1 trustready to renew from the belfry of Independence Hall the chimes of the old bell, which an nounced Freedom and Independence in form er days. All hail to North Carolina ! with her Mecklenburg declaration in her'hand, stand ing erect on thd ground of her own probity and firmness in the cause of public liberty/ and represented in her attributes by her Ma son, and in this assembly by her distinguish ed sons at no groat distance from me. Pour distinguished daughters of Virginia also clus ter around the council board, on the invitation of their ancient mother, the oldest, Kentucky, whose sons, under the intrepid warrior, An thony Wayne, gave freedom of settlement to the territory of hersister, Ohio, and extending his hand daily and hourly across La Bell Ri viere to grasp the hand of some one of kind red blood of the noble States of Indiana and Illinois arid Ohio, who have grown up into powerful States already grand, potent, and al most imperial. Tennessee is not hero, but is coming—prevented from being hero only by tho floods which have swollen her rivers. When she arrives she will wear the badges on her warrior crest of victories won, in com pany with the Great West, on many*nn en sanguined plain.*and standard’s torn from the hand of the conquerors at Waterloo. Mis souri and lowa and Michigan, Wisoonson and Minnesota, still linger behind, but it may be hoped that their hearts are with us in the great work we have to do. The eyes of the whole country are turned to this hall and to this assembly in expectation and hope. I trust, gentlemen, that you may prove your selves worthy of the groat occasion. Our an cestors probably committed a blunder in not having fixed up every fifth decade for a call of a general Convention to amend and reform | the Constitution, On tho contrary, they have made tho difficulty next to insurmountable to accomplish, amendments to an instrument which was perfect for five millions of people, but not wholly so for thirty millsons. Your patriotism will surmount tho difficulties, how ever great, if you will but accomplish one triumph in advance, and that ia triumph over party.. What is party when compared to the task of rescuing one’s country from danger ? Do that, and one long shout of joy and glad ness will resound throughout tho land. Tixe Drover’s Trick. —lt is said there nro “ tricks in all trades," and wo believe it. Hero is a dovolopomont in this direction, which the reader can add to his present stock of facts proving the truth of the old adage. I “ Never bu jo fat pig at Brighton," was the advice given as by one who had been there. “ And why hot n fat pig?" “ Cnuso you sob thoy fat ’em too fast for the. Brighton market sometimes." “ flow so?" " IV’hy, you soo, some of them west country dealers fetch thoir pigs in, pretty nigh skin nml hone. Well, afore Fair day they gives 'em corn and salt—no swill—no water. Next day piSs is amazin’ thirsty. Then the ser pents gin ’em just as muoh water as they kin drink. The pigs puts into it, and keeps a drjnken’ and drinken.’ 'Sposon on an aver age they swaller about a barrel apiece. That wakes em look all filled out and sleek and heavy, I toll you. But there ain’t no heart and substance in it. You car’ one of them critters homo and calculate you’ve got a bus tering’ pile of pork, but jest you look in your hog pen next mornin', and you won't‘find nothing but a hog frame, skin an’ bone, and dear at that. You can’t tell mo nothin' about fat> pigs; I’ve been there, and I’ve seen ’em manufactucd I” dDbba nnb , BD Running—Suckers. - , , .3D The best part of beauty is that Which a , picture cannot express. , BD Words-of good-advice, or truths attehd in season, are seldom thrown, away. . CD Life is short,, therefore should be well and usefully employed. , OD If thou become offended, lot not the sun go down, upon : thy ,Wrath., ... ~ , CD* A good deed done In a day is .satisfac tion to the soul.at night. ■' BD Kind words alleviate misery and are ns a halm to the afflicted. OT?* Pray unto God for nll men, for they are all members.of.one femily, BD The Prodigal Son* was a Scripture case of secession. He* commenced With arrogance and ended in a pig pen ! BlT*The Governor* of- Massachusetts has given orders to- the troops of that State to hold themselves ready for active service. •HD Mouths—an instrument to some people of rendering ideas audible, and to others of rendering jiotua)s.iuvii?ible. . BD Tim People of Tennessee have decided to remain iiohe Union, by an immense raa* Jonty, , ■' BD Whep-you negotiate for a house having alj the modern improvements, you Will gener ally find that a mortgage, is one of them. ' BD* The most direct method of determininS horse power—Stand behind and tickle his hind legs with a briar. . *, OCT* Butchers are generally very honest men; yet,they are known to be influenced by a propensity to steel knives, . BD An. editor of a patter in Indiana Wants, to know if. Western whisky was ever seen " cornin’ thro’ the rye 7” i r CD) Araiecrly old fellow ,has hit upon an experiment to save candles.' file Uses " the light jjf other, days,,”. 01?" “ Peter; Ore yeti- into the .sweetmeats again?” "No, martn; the Sweet-meats ore into mo.”. DDTThe fellow .who got intoxicated with delight has been turned out of the temperance society. (Dr The Immense appetite of London is fed every -year, by • about 270,000. oxen, besides 30,000 calves, I,6oo,oooSheep, 30,0000 swine. CD* If a man could be conscious of ttll that is-said-of him In. his absence, lie . would, prob ably become a very, modest man, indeed! . BD* ;* My lad,” said, a lady to a boy carry ing the mail, tv are you-the mailboy?'' ;“Yml dosen’t think I’m a female boy; does ve ma’am?” * ■■■.. : f CD Not a word more of reproaches—forget and forgive. ? Revenge is but.aij instant grat ification—but forgiveness is a pleasure for life* I BDI/phraim says that oven as the pudding should be well diverted of its bag before eat ing, so n stranger should be well known be fore trusted, . 5D A mnn;bpasting.in a company of Ind ies that he had a vory.luxurioua head of hair a lady present repm.rkcd that- it was altogether I owing to th© mellpTrnosa