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4 LIST FIRE WELL.
BY LILLIE ni^WOOD.
then art going! thou art going !
I shall never 800 tUco iftoro;
For my storra-tosaodbark is drifting
Swiftly to the other shoro.
».■ ■
For the last tinto Inril gazing
On those features loved so wollj
dugulsh of this parting,
Words of mine are vain to tell!
Once again thy radiant glances
For a nidhiont on mo’rest
Once again my trembling lingers
in thy tender clasp ufo prost.
Oh ! those deaf, familiar accents,,
Sweetest music to mine car,
Ithrillmg through’my heart so wildly,
Ke'or again oh earth I’ll hear.
Faro thco wclM when, thou has left mo
Earth is hut a desert dear!
And.my spirit all untrammelled,
Hath no. tie to. hind, it hero..
Soon its flight it wingoth upward,
, Freed then from its ’prisoning olayy
-Fondly it will hover o’ef thee,-
Wheroso’or thy footsteps stray.
Often in the silent midnight,- ,
‘ ‘ When thou (Icem’st thyself alone.
Stealing noiselessly upon thoo
Will.my mystic presence come.
Nc’or a single word I’ll utter*
• .Biit.my breath upon thy check,
'And a rusLling*of. my. white robes .
To thy listening heart will speak.
When thou sittesfc sad and lonely,
Bowed beneath a weight of grief*
Then’will haste my loving spirit*'.
Bringing to thy soul relief.
I will press my .shadowy
■ On thy'.hot and throbbing brow;
And thou'lt feel my spirit.kisses
.Bulling softly as the snow.
Thonthou’lt.know that X ani near thoo>.
And a aweot and holy calm
Will oomo o’er thee, .while I whisper -
To thh spirit words of balm.
Faro thoo well! wo’ll iii Uaayob,
jrbatsoj’er ou eartU botiilo;
though m life our fato bo rivon, ,
Doath will bring theo-to my side,
TO-DAY ASD TD-.TOIIOIV.
A rosebud blbs-omo I in my bower,
A bird sang in my garden; ~
The rosebud was its fairest, flower.
The bird its gentlest warden.
And a child beside the linden treo
Sang t( Think no more of sorrow;
But lot us smile and sing to-day,
For wo must weep to morrow.”
I aflkod tho bird, M Oh didst thou hear
The song that she would sing thee?
And can itbo that thou shouidst fear,
• irhat tho host morn would bring thoo ?”
Ho answered with triumphant strain,.
"-•Ahyirig, “I know uot.sorrow;
But I must sing my best to-day,
For I may die to-morrow!”
I asko 1 the rose, " Oh, toll mo sweet.
In thy first beauty's dawning,
Thou oanst not four,-from this retreat,
Tho coining of tho morning?”
£ho flung hor fragrant loaves apart.
The lovelier for her sorrow,
tfaying. "yet I must bloom to-day,
For I nuy* droop.to-morrow.”
I said, u Tho bloom irpnn my ebook
la fleeting as tho roses ;
My voice no more shall sing or spools,
ivnon dust in dust reposes :
And from those soulloness monitors
• One lesson I may borrow -
That wo should.smilo and sing to-day
• Fop wo may weep to-morrow.” • /
Munllmmm.
lome of the Institutions of a Printing Office.
The “Devil” is an institution by and of
himself. Ho inks the typo, or turns tho Crank
“or lays on tho sheets.” (Other people some
times do the latter.) If it wore not for him
the paper would not “ come out.” Heswoops
Out the office—ho builds the fire—an appro
priate work for a fiend—and swears because
some one has “ hooked the kindlings.” Ho
does tho “ chores at the house." Ho “ nuieta
£kee aby '”* , Yot h “ important duty
to keep watch on the street corner so as to
mform the ed.tor when the sheriff is afta-
With all this, the..;* Devil!' shoulders all tho
bad or smutty jokes of the editor. When the
mighty man of the pen is ashamed of an ex
pTossion, and still desires to utter it, he save
"our Devil says thus and so " and the devil
lias to stand it I
Nevertheless, the “ Devil” is an important
personage in society. Ho attends lectures.—
tie frequents concerts, shows, and the opera;
tut—X say it more in sorrow than in anger—
ne seldom attends church ! He presents hfm-
V* a ?. t *' e ‘mket office 'of the “show,”’ with
, “ * ,nen ” reversed by way of change, Cfbr
ne seldom possesses more than asingleshirt >
a? a “member of the Press,” and so presses
h a danns that he is admitted without the ac
customed quarter. But our young, friend is
that* °?r “ H ° 18 ta » ™ u ? h of a Salient for
his »w? 18 r man 18 with hitn, and he and
w °?. a “ P a3B m and enjoy tho ontert ■ la
ment, which, whatever it mav bo, is taken
down in doses alternated with peanuts and to
bacco. For the. “Devil” chews as well ns
smokes and spits profusely upon carpets when
be gets within reach of them.
1 novel- heard’ of a Printer’s Devil who had
tosav but I ‘bo class th?£S
HavoMW "Y knowledge, none of thorn
Sr'm/ v vor -V°J r - of these ” Dev-
Some to be mayors of cities.—
mto Onniri m have T n let ‘bomsolves down
B ,V c - , But 1 novar knew one to
4 KXWtataf t 0 beo ° m ° a PreBi
iinal 0 “l’ve f b r the “ Devil -" I know the “ nh
bimP-rinS. “ ySelf - “ Bull y for
[From the New York Tribune .-] |
Bold Attempt at. Bonk Robbery in New York.
~. A bold and daring attempt to rob the Now
Ifork Exchange Bank came to light yesterday
morning. The bank was about to be opened
for the usual business of the day, when the
cashier tried to enter the apartment at - the
rent of the cotinting-room! where the tail It
and safe iirb located. His 1 efforts to do so,
however; proved unavailing, and a blacksmith
was sent for, who, after removing a portion of
the atoqe-work around the lock, succeeded iri
opening the door. A curious sight at once
met the eyes of the spectators.' A large hole
yawned in the middle of the floor, and a mass
of dirt was piled around.- It was evident that
burglars had entered the, most, valuable local
ity of the whole building. Beneath the feet
of tho cashier, and the astonished clerks who
crowded around him, was the aperture, which
apparently led to some unknown subterranean
region. , The hank hooks, which had. always
occupied a position on the top of tho safe, had
mysteriously disappeared, while the safe itself
exhibited marks of violent usage at the hands
of burglars. It Was now twelve o’clock, and
three hours had been spent in opening-the
door. A messenger was iminediately sent to
give notice to the police of the attempted rob
bery, and the valiant blacksmith at once threw
himself into tho hole for the purpose of mak
ing explorations. lie stumbled almost irnmel
- lately upon the hank books, which the bur
glars had thrown therefor the purpose of ex
pediting . their operations with the safe.—
Without stopping, to remove them, however,
ho crawled'along the passage, hardly two feet
in. height, the bottom of which was floored
with, rag carpet,.and at length, after crawling
nearly seventy feet, he emerged in a dark
basement, piled up in all directions with rolls
Of rag carpet. Here his view was greeted with
a largo, and-select assortment of burglar’s
tools, and every requisite .material far- excava
tion. Ho groped around for a 'moment, and at
last came in contact with the door, which ho
found unfastened. Opening it, and ascending
several steps, ho emerged into (ho- street, in
timetp meet Capt. Jamison, of the Third ward,
with a squad, of his men. Ho at once related
hjs discoveries to that officer,-and, accompa
nied by him' returned to the hank vault of the
underground passage., Tho bank hooks wore
now removed from the tunnel, and found to he
complete. The onlything missing, so far as
discovered, is a tin box, the property of Mr.
A. ,L. Peek, a broker doing business on the
corner of Broadway and Maiden lane, tho con
tents of which were S2OO in gold and §BOO in
uncurrent bank notes. Mr. Peck has been
accustomed to send this box,, with various
, sums of money therein, to the bank, for safe
•keeping, for onward of twelve years past.—
Owing to ifeiy size, it lias never been placed in
the safe, but simply laid in thevault. .. .
-Inquiries by the police developed the fact,
that the robbers had been engaged for nearly
six weeks in their underground labors. It
.•appears that about six. weeks ago a man, giv
ing, his namo. as Thomas Burke,-purchased,
the brisemeut occupied ns a carpet store from
its former proprietor, John Alcock, paying the
latter the-sum. of §l,lOO. for stock and good
will. ,
Every effort was made by the police to find
Alcock, but so far tlieir endeavors have prov
ed Harmony Roberts, keeper of
a porter-house over the carpet basement, and
who' rented the latter to Burke, was arrested
on suspicion. His case will bo examined to
day.
The parties supposed to. be implicated in
the robbery are Daniel Bartlett and Joseph
Myers, two well-known English burglars; who
were arrested about three months ago in this
immediate vicinity, but subsequently discharg
ed on, a habeas corpus.
Alan the Life Boat.
“ Man the life-boat! Man the life-boat!”
was pealed through the hall of one of our most
fashionable sea-shore hotels, sending a thrill
of terror to the bosom of every one. A small
sail boat had been upset, and its occupants
were plunged into the dark sea.
Instantly the galleries and grounds of the
hotel were covered with tjjie gay and thought
less, stricken dumb with the appalling thought
that death was so near them. ' ■ '
How- eagerly did they Watch the life-boat as
it ploughed the rough billows to where they
Could see a man struggling in the water, fea
ring he might sink never to rise, before the
boat could reach him.
But as the boat' neared the man, his clear
voice was hoard above the deep waters.
“ Stop not for me, but save my child, ray
poor child I’’
And on they rowed with almost lightning
speed, until they came to the boat, the bottom
t of which wrts just even with the waves, and
upon which the child, apparently dead; Was
still clinging. But bn taking him off, they
could seethe flame of life was still flickering
r-dhere w&t yet hope. "
After returning and taking in the father,
they came on shore. And ns the poor child
was borne almost lifeless to the hotel, and all
were told that ho still lived, and hat none
were lost, what tears of gratitude filled every
eye.
• Do wo sufficiently realize that we are at all
times surrounded with immortal beings whoso
souls are plunged into the deep waters of sin,
and that perhaps if wo do not speak to them,
their souls will bo eternally lost 1 What are
we doing for the immortal souls that surround
us? Are wo doing anything? Look at the
past week ; how many have we pointed to the
Savior ? AVhat have we done for the children
that God has given us, or for the persons in
our employ?
Let us go to the closet. Let ns pray much
and earnestly. Let us pray, believing; for
those to whom we may bo intending to speak,
and then go forth with the' dews of divine
grace on our brow; with our hearts overflow
's with love for immortal souls. God's bles
sing will follow our labors.
Shall we not “ man the life-boat/' and
ploughing the rough waves of sin, gather in
those who are about to sink never to rise?—
Delay may prove death to some immortal soul
—a soul that perhaps wo might have saved
from eternal death.
KT'Wo wore walking homo last night
about the witching hours, when we saw an
individual in a brown study, and a coat of the
same color standing’opposite the door of our
domicile. Satisfaction was in bis eye, and
a small cane in his hand. As weapproaehod
him ho stuttered :-
w "®. r . —can you toll mo where J-o-o
tin to lives?
“IV hat a question I” said wo, peering into
h.s face; “why. Jo, my old’ folliw, you are
fcho mnn yourself.'* J
ho -°“ Im7r yoa ' \ B i“«“latc'd
lives.” 1 1 Wan *° kn ° W wll -"’ 1 ‘oro he
tr " a Is jom house—this one'right
under your nose.” “fa 111 '
if 118I 18 « - 0h then. I’ll 1)9 kicked
if somefchmg heat t changed th.o.door, for it
wbn t fife mji kcT-liolo anyhow.** J
Earnnm Sold.
A piiblic joke Ut P. T. Barnum’a expense
is not an every-day luxury, P. T. B. for many
years having'bad the laugh on the other side.
But at length the prince of showmen has been
shown a trick that he did not know before,
and the hero of the occasion has been, ns is
Very Usual on such occasions, a son Of the
Emerald Isle; It seems that Barrium, a'fow
days ago, was in a groat hurry to be shaved,
iind entered his Usual place of tonsorial re-
Sdrt, under the Park Hotel, in New York;
but all the operatives were engaged, and one
other 'customer—a great brawny Irishman,
just landed, and with a beard and head re
(piiring very extensive attention—stood be
tween the exhibitor of the “ Wliat-ia-it;” and
his turn as “ next.”
“I am in a hurry, my good man,” said
Phinefts T., addressing Pat, “ and if yoxi will
give mo your turn I will pay. for what you
want done here.” .
“Airright,” replied the delighted Irish
man, and the showman' was soon shaved, and
on his way to keep his engagement—merely
saying, as he left the door; to the proprietor
of the saloon, “Ho what this man wants,”,
pointing to the exile of Erin, “ and I will set
tle it with you.” .
. No sooner was he gone than Pat took off
his trusty, and a thick cotton neck-tid, at the
same time asking the barber, “ now tell mo
what you do.”
“ Why,, sir,” responded the tonsorial oper
ative, “we shave, cut and curl hair, shnixi
poon and bathe.” , ■ • ■ :
“All right, then,” said Pat, “do all them
things to me. Sorra one of mu knows what
they mane, but as ho said he’d pay for.thim,
just do thim all, an’ God bless you.”
The barber saw the joke, and did ns re
quested, putting the big Irishman through
all the processes, and bringing! him out so
pleasantly altered that Pat scarcely know
himself.
We leave ohr renders toimagino Barnum’s
face the next morning, when the proprietor
of the saloon handed Him a bill—
For bathing Irishman, 25 cents ; shaving.
10 cents; cutting hair, 25' cents; curling
hair, 25 cents; Shnmpooning, 25. cents. To
tal for Irishman, SI,IO.
Barrtum at once acknowledged the corn—
gave a receipt for the “maizebut he is nf
tex- tho Irishman, and. swears if lie catches
him, that ho will place him cheek by jowl
between the ".What is it?!’ and the Aztec
children.
How am Old Sailor Talked to a Ciiild.
—Wo clip the following from Mrs.'Stowe's
Story, now being published in the Now York
'lndependent. It is an old sailor talking to his
grand-daughter i .
“Father,” said Sally, “how many, things
there must bo at the bottom of the .sea—so
many ships aro'sunk with all their line things
on board? Why don’t people, contrive some
way to go down and got thorn? ' •
".They do,' ehild;" saia"t!aptain Ititfridgo ,
“ they have diving bells, and men go down in
: ’em with caps over their faces/and long tubes
to get-air through, and they walk about on the
bottom of the ocean.”
“ Did you ever go down in one, father ?”
“ Why yes, child, to be sure ; and,strange
enough it was, to bo sure. There you could
see great big sea critters, with ever, so many
eyes and long arms, swimming right up to
catch you ; and all you could do would be to
muddy the water on the bottom, so they could
not see you." ,
“ I never heard of that, Capt. Kittridge,”
said his wife, drawing herself lip with a re
proving coolness.
. “ WaT Miss Kittridge, you han’t heard of
every thing that ever happened, though you
dp know a sight.”
“And how does the bottom of the ocean
look, father 1" said Sally.
“ Daws, child 1 why trees.and bushes grow
there jist as they grow on land; and great
plants—blue, and purple, and green, and yel
low, and pearls. I’ve seen them as big as
chippin’ birds’ eggs."
“ Cap’n. Kittridge !”• said his wife.
“I have—and big as.robins’ eggs, too ; but
them was off that coast of Ceylon and Mala
bar, and way round under, the Equator,” said
the Captain, prudently resolved to throw his
romance to a sufficient distance,
‘• It’s.a pity you did’nt got a few of them
jicarls,” said his wife with an indignant ap
pearance of scorn.
“ I did get lots on ’em and traded ’em off to
the Nabobs in the interior for Cashmere
shawls and India silks and sich,” said the
Captain composedly, “and brought ’em home
and sold ’em for a good figure; too.”
"Oh, father 1" said Sally,, earnestly, “I
wish you had saved just one or two for us.”
“Law's, child, I wish now I had,” said the
Captain, good-naturedly. ' “ Why, when I was
in India, 1 went up to Ldoknow, and Benares,
and saw all the Nabobs and Big-guns—why’,
they don’t make no more yf gold and silver
and precious stones than we’ do of the shells
we find on the beech. Why, I’ve soon oho of
them fellers with a diamond in his turban ns
big as my fist.”
“ Cap’n. Kittridge, what are you tolling
said his wife once more.
“ Fact—as big ns my fist,” said the Captain,
obduratelyand all the clothes heworowas
jist a stiff crust of pearls and .precious stones.
I tell-you ho looked like something in the Kd
valations—-a real Now Jerusalem look he
had." .
“I call that nr talk wicked, Cap’n. Kit
tridge, usin’ Scriptur, tl/it nr way,” said his
Wife'.
“ Why, don’t it toll about all sorts of gold
and.precious stones in the Revelation?” said
the' Captain : “ that’s all I meant! Thom nr
countries off Asia ain’t like our’n—stands to
reason they shouldn’t bo them’s Scripture
countries, and every thing is different there.”
“Fathordid you ever get any of thososplen
did things ?” said Sally.
I “Laws, yes, child. Why, I had a groat
green ring, an emerald, that one of the prin
ces giv’ rao, and ever so many pearls and dia
monds. 1 used to go with ’em rattlin’ loose
in my vest pocket. I was young and, gay in
them days, and thought of hringin’ of ’em
home for tho gals, bnt somehow I always got
opportunities for swappin’ of ’em off for goods
and sieli.. That ar shawl your mother keeps
in her canfiro chist was what I got for one on
’em.”
“ Well, well,” said lira. Kittridge,■“ there’s
never any catohin’ you, cause you’ve been
where wo haven’t.’.’
(C 7" f A family knitting machine lias recent
ly been invented. It is not larger than a sew
ing machine, not liable to get out' of order,
can bo operated by a child, will knit home
spun yarn, and weaves a’ handsome stocking,
Its ordinary movement is at tho speed of
five thousand stitches in a minute.
CZ?” “Jenny,” said a Scotch minister stoop
ing from the pulpit, ‘have ye got a preen ?’
‘Yes, minister.’ ‘Then stick it into that sleep
ing brute by your side.’
“OUR COUNTRY—MAT XT ALWAYS BE RIGHT—BUT, RIGHT OR WRONG, OUR COUNTRY.”
CARLISLE, PA, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1861.
in Heaven,’ &c. Having acted as clerk, re
peating after Peter, the ferryman cried:
“ Now let mo go.” . '
“ Not yet,”, said Peter,’you must make
three promises; First,/that; you will.repeat
that prayer morning and evening ns long as
you live; secondly, that you will hear every-’
pioneer preacher that comes within five miles
of this fon-y ; and thirdly, l that, you will put
every Methodist pi-oaehor over free of ex
pense. Ho yon promise and vow?”
“ I px-oiriisc,” said the ferryman.
And.-strarige- to say, that man afterwards'
booanxo n shining liglxt. ,
What a Yolcano Can' Do.—Cotopaxi, in
1738 throw its, fiery rockets 3,000 foot above
its crater, while in 1744,1 the-blazing mass,
struggling for, an outlet, rCared.eh that its aw
ful voice was hoard at a distance of more'than
GOO miles. ' In 1707 the crater of Tnnguara
gua, one of the groat peaks-of the Andes, flung
out torrents of mud,, which dammed up the
rivers, opened now lakes,A j ncl in valleys of a
thousand feet wide nmde'flcposits of six bull
di-ed fcel deupV : -'The sVi-dlitil-'-vrom -‘Vesuvius,
which in ill 37 passed through Torre del Gre
,oo, contained 30‘,G00,000- cubic feet of solid
matter; and in 1794, when Torre- del (Greco
was destroyed a second time, the mass of,lava
amounted to 45,000,000 cubic feet. In 1070,
Etna poured forth a flood which covered "eigh
ty-four square miles of surface, aud measured
nearly 100,000,000 cubic feet. On this occa
sion the sand and scorhe formed the Monte
Rossi, near Wicolosi, a cone, two miles in oir
| cumference, and 4,000 foot high. The stream
thrown out by Etna in 1810 .was in motion, at
the rate of a yard per day; for nine months af-.
ter the eruption ; and it is on record that the
lava of the same mountain, after a terrible
eruption, was not thoroughly cooled arid con
solidated ten years after the event. In the
eruption of .Vesuvius, A. tt, 1770, the scoriae
and ashes vomited forth far exceeded the en-
tire bulk of the mountain; while,in 1CG0; Et
na disgorged more than twenty times its own
mass. "Vesuvius has thrown its ashes as far
as Constantinople, Syria, and Egypt; it hurled
stones eight pounds in weight to Pompeii, a
distance of sis, miles, while similar masses
were tossed up 2000 feet above its summit.—
Cotopaxi has. projected a block of 100" cubic
yards, in volume; a distance of nine miles, and
Sumdawa, in 1815, during the most terrible"
eruption on record, sent its ashes as far ns
Java, a distance,.of 800 miles bf su-rface, and
.out of a population of 12,000 souls, only 20 es
caped.—Eecrcative Science. ’
A Virginian Beaten nr ms own Si.a ve.—
The Petersburg Express of the 19th gives the
following particulars of a', savage, assault
mailo upon Mr; F. Mallory Sutherland, of
Mulberry Inn, Dinwiddle county, Va., on
Friday last, l>y one of his owii servants!
“ Mr- Sutherland was out on his plantation
superintending the clearing of patch of now
ground, arid directed Ned, a robust fellow, to
lift a legato a pileof burning brush. 'The ne
gro'replied that he would not doit, which
Mr. Sutherland interpreted to moan that the
negro did not feel able to lift the log, and
stooped to do so himself. While stooping,’
Nod seized a big stick, and striking his mai
ler a powerful blow over the back, felled him
to the earth. He then repeated his blows
until the strik was broken in many pieces,
and Mr. Sutherland lay apparently lifeless.
Thinking he had accomplished his purpose,
he started off, and had proceeded about fifty
yards when he sawhismasterattomptto rise.
Seizing another stick, he returned, and strik
ing Mr. Sutherland another severe blow across
the face mashed his nose flat to the face, and
then,continued to beat him across the amis,
breast and legs, until the flesh waspummoled
to the consistency of jolly. Some small ne
groes were present when the heating com
menced, hut they were mere children, and
dreaded the ferocity of Ned as though ho had
been a tiger, and were therefore prevented
from offering assistance. As soon as they
couli get to the house, the intelligence was
communicated to some of the neighbors, and
all turned but en masse to hunt up the fiend,
some throe or four going to the assistance Mr.
Sutherland, and convoying him to his rosi
donop._ Upon reaching the house, ho mani
fested indications of returning consciousness,
and at last accounts, Sunday, was alive, though
in a very precarious condition.
Tim search of the neighbors for Ned proved
unavailing, hut the account of the outrage
reached this city, and on Sunday night Mr.
George Alsop, who know the scoundrel, suc
ceeded in arresting him at the depot of the
South-Side .Railroad in this city, and lodged
hint in .tail. Ho will be transferred to the]
county of Dinwiddle .for trial
Patriotic Tears. —At Willard's, in Wash
ington, the othor evening, a Indy was seated
at the piano,'singing, Gon. Wool, wearing his
button, asked her to sing tho Star Spangled
Banner. She did it with admirable effect.
The General stood beside her with tho tears
running down his cheeks, and as he turned
to dash them from eyes that never quailed be
fore his country's foes on the field of battle,
thp parlor'rang with, the applause the song
and the scene so well merited.'
Peter Cnrlffflgla.
A remarkable character was Peter Cart
wright. One day, bn .nt|proaahing a ferry
across the river Illinois, he heard the ferry-’,
nian swearing terribly.fttthe sermons of Peter
Cartwright, and threatening that if over ho
had to ferry the preaohor’ncross, and he knew
him, he would drown him in the river. Petex-,
unrecognized, said to the ferryman:
“ Stranger, I want you’to put me across.”
“ Wait till I am ready,” said the ferryman,
and pursued his conversation, and strictures
upon Peter Cartwright. Having finished, he
tiii-ned to Peter and said:
“ Now, I’ll put you across.”
On reaching the midst of the stream, Peter
threw his horse’s bridle over a stake in the’
boat, and told the ferryman to lot golxispolo.
b What for ?” asked the ferryman.,
“ Well, you’ve just been using my name
improper like ;'and said if ever I came this
way you would-drown.' me. Now, you’ve got
n chance.” > ■
“ Is your name Peter Cartwright?” asked'
the ferryman.
, V My miine is" Peter CaH'wright.”
Instantly'the fei'ryman, seized the .preach-'
er; hut he, did riot know Petex-|a strength;
for Peter instantly seized, the ferryman, one
hand on the nape of his. trowsors, and plung
ed him into the water allying—
“ I baptize-thee in the .name of the devil,
whoso child thou art t” ..
Then lifting him up. added ;
“Did you ever pray?” ■
“No.” :
“ Then it is time you did.”
“ Nor never will,” answered the ferryman.
Splash 1 splash I' and', the- ferryinan is in.
ho depths again. ;
“Will you pray now?’ r risked Petex-.
The gasping victim shouted:
“I will do anything you hid me.”
“.Then follow mo:— 1 Oor Father whicli art
forcicntiiiient of a Murdereh
A man named M’Huglx was hariged a fexv
days ago in Cincinnati, for the murder of bis
wife, and the day before his execution lie, told
Mr. Shockley, an officer of the prison, that ho
had a presentiment of the murder and his
own death on the gallows for thirty years.
His remarkable hallucination is related as
follows:
One day ho was ascending a dark stairway
to his room. Ho was sober and in.good hedltht
Suddenly it seemed to him as if his right ami
had been infused with Samsonian strength.
Just then he reached the door, and he was
tempted to test his newly acquired strength
upon it. He gave whnt he supposed Was a
slight tap, for lie scarcely felt the blow upon,
the- knuckles. The door, however, quivered
under its force, and parts of plastering on the
wall-fell doxvn. He looked to his arm tp. see
if it had been increased in size. Just then
his head become transfixed; and he could
move it neither one way nor the other.
While he was in that position,, a strange
voice spoke terrible words to him. When
the voice diotl away his head became movea
ble. He looked up and around, but no one
was near. him. Again he glanced at his arm,
again his head became transfixed, and again
wore-the-terrible- words spoken: As soon as
bp regained power to ’move,., be fled to bis
room, and tried xxx vain to fox-get wlmt bad
passed, but tlxp voice continued- to ririg ixi bis
'ears. Oftexx in after years, be beard it.
.“■l’ll not tell, you-what the xvords were,”'
said he to Sir. Shockley; “for they go with
mo to nxy grave. You know what I have
done, and what is iny fate. Put the two
together, and you can- conjecture the- nature
of the-words;.”
. Such was the vision that haunted this un
fortunate man, through his whole manhood.
Ixnpressed with the idea that fate had decreed
that he-must kill his wife, and die for. the
crime,'he perpetrated the atrocioxxs deed, and
willingly .surrendered himself to the- gal
lows. -
He should have been secured-carefully in
an Insane Iletx-eat. ... ■ ;
Our iltlncliinent lo Life,
The young man, till thirty, never feels
practically that he is mortal. • lie knows it,
indeed, and, if-need were, ho could preach a
homily on the fragility of life ; lint he brings
it not home to himself any more than in a hot
Juno we can appropriate to our imagination
the freezing days of December, lint'now—
shall I confess the truth ? I feel these audits
but tod powerfully.. I begin to count the
probabilities of my duration, and to grudge
at the expenditures of moments and shortest !
periods,like-misers’ farthings. In proportion,
as the years both lessen and shorten, I set
more counts, upon their periods, and would
fain lay my ineffectual finger upon, the-spoke
of the great wheel. lam hot content to pass
away like a weaver’s shuttle.” ’Those meta
phors Solace me not, nor sweeten the unpal
atable draught of mortality. I care- not to bo
carried with the tide that ’smoothly hears hu
man life to eternity, and reluct at the inevi
table-coarse of destiny; I am in love with
this green earth—the face of town and couii-
iry—the unspeakable rural solitude—an
I swoot security of streets. I would set up piv
tabernacle hero. I apt content to stand still
at the age at ■which I.ain arrived—to bo no
. younger, ho richer, no, handsomer. Ido not
want to_ be weaned by.age, or drop, like mel
low fruit, as they say, into-the gravel; Any
alteration on this earth of mine, in diet or
lodging, puzzles and decomposes mo. My
household gods plant a terribly fixed foot, and
are not rooted up without blood. They dii
not willingly seek Levinian shores. A new
state of being staggers' me. Sun and sky,
and breeze and .solitary walks, and summer
holidays, and the greenness.of .fields, and the
juices of meats and fishes, and society, and
the cheerful glass, and candle-light and fire
side-, conversations, and jests, and irony—do
not these things go out with life? Can a
ghost laugh, of shako his gaunt sides, when
you are pleasant with him ?—Life and Jie
mdins of Charles Lamh.
Stranger Yog Kin Kum In.—A worthy
friend from the farming districts, who occa
sionally drops ,in upon us to got the latest
nows,'narrates, the following; “A traveler
passing through his neighborhood on horse-
stopped at a modest cottage on the
roadside, and asked for shelter, as it was
quite dark and raining. The ’head of the fami
ly I 'came to the door and accosted the traveler
with—
‘What dojou want?’
'I want to stay till night,’ was the reply.
‘AYhat are yer ?’. . .
This interrogatory was not fully understood
by the traveler, and ho asked ah explanation.
T mean what’s yor politics ?. rejoined the
former.. ‘Air yer fur this Union, or again
This was a poser, ns the traveler was not'
certain whether the man of the house was a
Union man ora secessionist, and he was anx
ious to put up for the night—so he made up
his mind and said : ‘My friend, I am for the
Union and Const! ’
‘Stranger, y-e-o-u kin kum in !’ ,
It is needless to remark that the traveler
dismounted, and both man and beast'were
hospitably take care of for the night.—JVasJt
villc Banner.
First American Poetrv. —There arc few
girls or boys in this country who have not
heard the nu'seyy ryhme sung by their moth
ers while rocking the'cradle:
"Ijid-a by baby upon the tree top;
IFhon the wind blows the cradlo will rook ;
mien tho bou-li breaks the or,idle will full,
And down will eomo cradle, baby and all."
Blit how many of you know tho origin of
the simple lines f Wo have the following ac
count from the records of the Boston Histo
rical Society: Shortly after our forefathers
landed at Plymouth, Mass., h party were out
in the , fields where the Indian women were
picking strawberries. Several of those wo
men, or squaws, as they are called, had pa
pooses, tha; is babies, and having no cradle?,
they had them tied up in Indian fashion, and
hung from tho limbs of the surrounding trees.
Sure enough, “ when tho wind blow, those
cradles would rock.” A young mail of tho
party observing this, pooled over a piece of
bark, and wrote the above linos, whiciuworc,
it is believed, the first poetry written in Amor-J
ioa. —America Affi'iciiftiirisi,
married woman disappeared from
Kulburtvillo, Oneida count 3% K. Y.. almost n
[year ago, and was supposed to have been
inurdered, until a few days since, sho was
I found iii a hut in a lonely wood, by some men
who were hunting. She had lived a hermit,
' save when visited by a paramour, who has a
wife livingin Romo; and sho is almost in
sane from loneliness and melancholy.
{£?■ In all matters of the first
thoughts are the beat: in matters of prudence
The Coolest Thing on Bccorii,
As General Scott’s army was marching tri
umphantly into the city of Mexico, a proces
sion of monks emerged from the gate of ft con
vent situated on the eminence at the right,
and advanced with slow and measured tread
until they mot the army at right angles;—
The guide or_ lender of the proccssidn was a
Venerable priest, whoso hair was -whitened
with the frosts of many winters. He held in
both hands a-contribution box, upon which
there was n lighted candle, and when within
I ft few feet df the army; the procession halted.
As the army proceeded, many n true believer
in St. Patrick dropped some small coin or oth
er into the old priest’s box. And, when it
was observed that a soldier wa? searching in
his pockets for something to bestow,, the old
priest would step forward iind hold his bos to
receive the donation; Ultimately there came
along a tall, guant, liriiber-sided, gander-look
ing Yankee, who, on seeing the poof rSriestj
thrust his hands into the very depth of Ilia
breeches pockets, as if in search for a dime,
or something of the kind- The priest, Obser
ving this movement, advanced, as Usual; while
Jonathan, holding firth a grcasy-looUing foil
of paper, commenced very deliberately unfol
ding it. The old priest anticipated a liberal
donation, and put on an air of the most exqui-
I'site.satisfaction. Jonathan continued to Un
roll piece after piece of dirty pHp'er, until at
length he found a piece of tri : twisted smoking
tobacco. He next thrust his hands into an
other pocket, and drew forth a clay pipe,
which, with the utmost deliberation, he pro
ceeded to till by pinching off small particles of
the tobacco. When this wriSdorie, having re
placed his tobacco in his breeches-pocket, ho
stooped forward and lighted' his pipe by the I
old priest's-candle* and.making an awkward
inclination of the head, (intended, perhaps;
for a how,) he said, “Much obleeged to ye,
’Squire,” and proceeded on
Indignation. in Kansas.
.An indignant protest against the outragebns
misrepresentations of Army, and Bunffiroy is
swelling in loud and fierce murmurs from
every quarter of Kansas. The people are
just beginning to discover the extent to which
their condition has been belied, niid to realize'
the injury which the infamous. proceedings
will certainly bring About. The effect (if the
late sensation despatches has been to create'
the general impression in the East, that, not
only are,a majority qf our inhabitants on the
verge of starvation,, but also that Kitnsas is a
desert of perpetual drouth, and subject to're
peated famines similar to that.of lust season.
Several leading journals have advanced this
idea, and it is feared the effect will be far
more disastrous than-the drouth itself. In
telligent persons from the East say that Kan
sas will.be retarded, at least five years by the
false,reports which have been spread ovefthe
’country concerning her distressed condition
and indifferent resources. Her people have
now discovered the cheat practised in their
name, and , hold Pomeroy and Army respon
sible:
i S;> general has become the imp'rodaion that
■ this “ relief' business is a gigantic .scheme to
: feather the nests of those engaged in it, that
popular sentiment will drive the coining
State Legislature to appoint a .Committee to
investigate, the'-whole subject. The thino
will certainly be. done, nod the Committee
will not only have power to send for persons
J and papers, but also the time to make a oom-
I pjoto ventilation. They can hardly report
during this session, and may possibly bo em
powered to hold over until the next, or to
make their report to the Governor,
. _ Pomeroy still refuses to give any exhibit of f
his financial operations, though pressed on all
sides by friends and foes —Kansas paper. 1
“God Save the Ki.vo."— The following ex
tract is from a work by Charles Heade, enti
tled “The Eighth Commandment:”
Henry Oharoy was a man of gonious. He
wrote for the theatre with immediate and las
ting success. Next he handled satire;,and
Pope took his verses for Swift's, and Swift for
Pope’s. Lastly; he-settled down to lyrical
art; with rare combination of two rare talents
he Invented immortal melodies,'and the im
mortal words to them., lie wrote the words
and melody of the National Anthem ; for this
last he deserved a pension and a niche in
■Westminster Abbey. .
In a loose age, he wrote chastely. lie nev
er failed tohittho public. He was of his ago,
yet immortal. But there was no, copy-ri°dit
in songs. , °
Mark the consequences of that gap in the
law. While the theatre arid the streets rung
with his lines and his tunes, while fiddlers
fiddled'him and were paid, nnd the songsters
sang him and were richly paid, the gonious
that set all those, empty music pipes a flow
ing, and a million.ears listened with rapture,
was fleeced to the bone. All reaped the corn
except the sower. For why? The sower
was an author, an inventor! And so in the
moist of success that enriched others aml.left
him bare, in tlie midst of the poor, unselfish
soul’s attempt to found a charity for distress
ed performers, nature suddenly broke down
under the double agony of a" heart'full of
wrongs and an empty‘belly, and the man
hanged himself.
They found him cold, with skin on his
bones, and a half-penny in his pocket! Think
of this, when you next hoar “ God save tbp
Queen.”
Egg Omlet.— Frisk until light, the whites
and yolks of twelve eggs, separately, stir
wo 1 together with a tablespoonful of cold
water, season with pepper and salt. Have
! about an .ounce of butter boiling hot in a fry
ing pan, pour in the mixture, shaking the
pan as it browns, to prevent it sticking; and I
turn up the edges all round with a broad-1
bladod knife, and continue to mil over until I
the whole Is brown. Lift on to a meat (fish
with an eggslice, without breaking, and serve j,
hot for breakfast. 1
Anotuei'. —To thoabovo quantity of eggs,
add ft handful of fine curl oil parsely, aiid
twelve fresh nasturtium flowers, chopped
flop.
Another.—Frisk the. whites anil yolks of
six eggs together until quite light, ami add a
tonpiq) full of crushed cracker or. lined bread
crumbs; season with popper, salt and nut
m og.
Opening of the Canals.— The navigation
is now open on the Western division of the
main line of the Pennsylvania Canal. The
water is now being let in on the eastern di
vision, and ■ the canal will bo in operation at
once, when the whole line of canals alon" the
Susquehanna, from Havre do Grace, Md. to'
Wilkesbjvrro, Pa., will be open. The repairs
on the Juniata canals will pVevelrt their open
ing until early in April. ,
0“ A Western paper, announcing the
death of a gentleman in lowa, says; —“He
was a great admirer of Horace GVeoly/ but
otherwise a-respectable man.'
dbbfis i\\\h (iiik
K7* The small pox is raging at West Troy.
K7* No less than $1,260,000 are invested
in bee culture in Ohio.
, (CT" The Louisiana sugar crop for 1860 is
valued at about $26,000,000;
[E7* The volunteer rifle ootps of England
now numbers 140,000 nien;
Prentice, defines what nian wants —all
he can got. What woman wants—all she
can’t get.
O' Mrs. Lincoln retains the White House
domestics of the late incllmbont for the pres
ent.’ , 1
IE? - Hon; Henry Elliot, of Mississippi,Post
master General of the Confederate States, is
a native of Salem, N. J.
l£7*opv. ,Magoffin, of Kentucky,' last week
had his arrh broken tit the socket by the up
setting of a Stage coach.
C 7” A Anri in St. Louis has commenced
the manufacture of•• Billiard first
over made in the West.
JCT'The total expenses of the New York
Fire Department foj the past yeiir foot up the
handsome slim of $2ol!;d(j0; .
027" Mr. Seward has written i letter to the
Southern Commissioners, in which ho propo- ,
sos a national Convention to. settle oUr diffi
culties. ■
O’’ A Genmin chemist asserts thtft helms
found out how to manufacture pure silver by
■ artificial means, at a cost of seventy-five cents
an ounce. .
HIT’ The Government lias received infor
mation of a pilot to .revolutionize California
and Oregon. Gen. Johnson and other officers
are implicated.
C 7” We seldom /egret having been too
mild, too cautious,’or too humble; but we
often repent hiving been tod violent, too pre
cipitate, or tod proud.'
O'* Mr. Beecher says,“no man- is a per
fect man, in Christ Jesus who does not know,
under appropriate circumstances, how.to wSrd
off and how to give a blow.”
Ov The Cleveland I’laindealer thinks I ,it
possible that a Whistle may be iriide put of a
pig’s tail, but that of-a, debatable question,
whether or not a great min cin be made out
of Colonel EllswOrthi
A Bliss Roblnsip; of Franklin, Wis
cousin, whelms been sick for a year, recently
threw up five ugly reptiles," looking like huge,
overgrown'leeches. She is rapidly recover
ing her health.
O’. In the town of Concord, Mass.’; .there
are annually manufactured Ml, ooo pails, arid
75,000 tubs, worth §94,000; 2;00,0 gross of
pencils, worth §4,000; 2,000 packs of go®
leaf, worth §14,000
O’ It is reported that in Liverpool, Eng
land, a wealthy yoapg lord has been smitten
with tho charms of Airiy,'the soprano of Fath
er Kemp’s “ Old Folks” troupe, and proposes
to-marry her.
C 7” A barge is now. loading at the Arsen
al dock, West Troy, with ammunition and
gun carriages for .Fort Pickens; : Aborittvtd
hundred 1 toris of implements will go'
down upon her,
. d?" There is a strong party in South Caro
lina who will oppose the ratification of the
Montgomery Constitution; It is more than
doubtful whether that instrument will be rio-'
eepted by fire seceding Stales;
Robertson, Esq., of Kentth*
ky, has presented'to Yancey, the terriblefiro
eater of the South, a splendid span, of horses.
The. team is said to be as handsome a turnout
as ever caused to glisten 1 the eyes of a con
noisseur.’ '
A gontlcmoiri was cbriggatrilatinjf thd
President the other day upon the cheering
fact that sp many office-seekers ,woro leaving,
“ Oh,' no,” says Mr. Lincoln, “ don’t you know
that when the flics commence leaving in the
fall the few. remaining ones begin' ttf bite all
the worse ?”.
A greenhorn standing* by a sewing
machine at which a young lady was at work;
looking alternately at the machine and its
fair operator,' at length gave vent to his ad
miration with: ....
“By golly, it's purty, especially the part
covered with culiker.”
dT’ At Ketchen, Saxony, recently, a gen
tleman,- engaged in play at (if filro table, died
in his sent. His death was not discovered
until his money, by being left on the table
all the while, had won a heavy suni,' A law,
suit-resulted between the bankor and the dead
player’s heirs, width was decided in favor of
the latter;
, d?” A Parliamentary return just issued
give,s the number of vessels afloat iu th’q’
British Navy. Of steamships, there are 300
screw and 113 paddle—a total of 505 ; then
57 more are, building or! converting, nnd of
effective sailing ships 15G are now
making the eriormtms number of,oBff fighting
ships alone.
mr* A telegraphic dispatch from Newark/,
in the New York papers, gives on account of
the killing of. a man who stepped in front of
an engine upon the’ railroad track. The dis
patch winds .hp hy saying of tho deceased
that “ ho' had no friends.” What else could a
man do but commit suicide who found himself
in New Jersey witli no friends?
UT7* Minnie was one day talking to her lit
tle class in Sunday School, about God’s great
love for man. Wishing to impress it oh their
minds and to know whether they understood
her, she asked :■
“ Now, children, who loves all men?”
The question was hardly asked, before a
little girl not four, years old, answered quick
ly, “ all women I 1 ’
JET”- It is pretty certain that the President
will call an extra session of Congress. If bo
docs, tho States ot Kentucky, Tennessee,
Maryland and North Carolina, will have to
call extra sessions .of their Legislatures, in
order to have their States reptesohted in the
Congress. The Legislatures will chatigA tile
terra' of choosing their members from August
to May.
0” Susan Donin, the notorious actress, has
pot herself into trouble at Detroit. Tho crit
ic of oiie of the newspapers did not have at
very high appreciation of her capabilities,
and wrote as ranch in a notice of her porfor-’.
miihces, whereupon the supposed husband'of
of tho lady waited upon the critic and pound
ed his head with a tumbler, while Susan
stood by anxious to lend her aid. Tho lovely
pair made tracks for Canada as soon as they
had’ thus vindicated their honor. '
NO. 44.