IAMi iuinitisi j i'..i r ; i ■u . VOL. IS. AMEIIICAK VOLUNTEEII. PUBLISHED EVERY* THURSDAY'. JIOnSTIXa BY JOfiI\SI.IIRATXOIV. TERM S,. Dollar anil Fifty Conte, paid to advance: Two Dollars if paid within the yearj and Two. Dollars and Fifty Cents, if not paid within the year. These terms will bo rigidly adhered to in every instance. No subscription discontinued until pH .arrearages are paid unless at the, option of the Editor^' ' ' AnVtfntiSßMUMTS—Aeoompunidd by tbocAfm, and toot exceeding one square,'will bo, inserted three times for One Dollar, and twenty-five cents for each additional insertion. Those-pf a greater length in 'proportion. ... Job-Piu.vtixg— -Such ns Handbills, Posting-bills, Pamphlets,' Blanks, Labels, Ac. Ac./ executed with accuracy and at the shortest notice;’ , l^oftirnL THE LITTLE FROCK AND SHOES. A little frock but slightly worn, Of blue and white delaine, . With edging round tUo ucrk and slcovcs, Lay folded neat and-plain; Beside u'litlle pair of'sb.oeH, With hero and tli’cre a flaw, - ;Lay half concealed’amoug the things . In mother’s bureau drawer. Summer bad passed away from earth, •With all its sweetest ties; ' ■ Tito birds had left their summer haunts, For mnro congenial skies • The twUight.hreo7.eB softly playod , Among tho dews of eycn—7 . An,angel left bis honic on high . - To gather dowers for Heaven. The angel near ami nearer came, Where sister sick did He ; And gently fanned her faded cheek, ~ And pointed to the sky j Tho morning mb one upon the bed. The autumn wind blow, free— The angel moved his silvery wings. And whispered—“Como with me,’ : f' - Wo gathered round her dying bod, With hearts to weep and pray; And many were the tears we.shed .When sister wont awayj “No bitter tears had'she to weep,” No sin to bo forgiven ; But closed her little eyes in sleep, To open them, in heaven; Wo laid her in the earth’s green breast, Down by the village green, Where gently swoops tho dewy grass, And summer flowers are scon, And ofton whon dear, mother goes . . Together th’nge-to use,, X sco her drop a silent.tear. sister’s frock and shoos. IP TOD LOVE lE, SAY SO Von prftjflo tbo color of mycycs, , You flay my face is fair, And tlmt tho lluven'B rrinpc ftlono J ,Cari'tnatch my wnvlng'hair, • ' ‘ AnV| oft you linger l»y my side,’ ;l> - Pmy wlmt onn make you star i?o ? ’ Why can’t .you spenk your mind at onco? Do, if yqli loyp mo, say so ? Yon soy no inusio sounds to you So sweet; so silvery.clear/ And when my joyous laugh rings out Upon your eager cnr; My voice is sweetest in the song,' And clmrmeth caro away so, There’s magic in it you declare, . Yet if you love mo say so.J Yon often hold my hand in yours, •Your voice is soft, and low; And when you come you stay and stay. And still seem loath to go. I wonder if you love mo, Toni, I wonder why yowatay so, Why can’t you tell mo what you mean? Do, if you love mo say so ? .1 love you—love you dearly, Tom, r often think with pride, That soon the happy day will come, When I shall bo yoiir bride. I know ’tis love that makes you come, ; ’Tis love that makes you stay ‘so, Dove speaks in o>cry act and look, Yet, 0 dear Tom ! do say so. Mißulkmnm. tUE DOLLAR ASD THE! MAN. Am ?“ live 90 fas t that we have nn to^nnV n e ™° y lfe- )'T e aro too eager by half D 3 on °y;- a ? if the chief cud of man LbiVvr m and .B lo r if y the dollar here, and bnts f °f ?7 r world ‘hat is to come; but it is a fatal mistake, both in itself, and in Us consequences, and entails a vast amount of m.sery upon society. Money is a good tluno m its own sphere ns the representative ot value and of labor, and cannot bo dispensed witli; but It is a very subordinate thing after nil, and is by no means the master of the world, notwithstanding the laudations of its Votaries. ,It can perform groiit things; it can furnish, all the luxuries and elegancies of life, nnd treble the fascination and power of ex ternal influences; but.it cannot touch the em pire of the human soul, wherein lie all the lorces of civilization and of personal charac ter, and those grand spiritual truths nnd as ,lC' S, VP dt . anJ ennoble a true amt upright man, that ,in the groat Eve of angeis" h 0 nkB ? little, meaning and “ a . VOry . andl a alUorthy the employment of one's-host'fac ulties and days to achieve. It is well to have enough ; a competoncy-tl.at happy medium ■Z " , * 3 ueitlier poverty nor riches, and which Solomon, after sufficient trial of the latter, thought the most desirable of condi tions ; but it is not well to accumulate for the sake of accumulating; to nourish within us that mistaknblo and canine greed for wealth Wlnoh tears our speculators and so many of our merchants and brokers like an ovU'dc-! Mon, and gnaws their hearts into a hideous monev n w. m ° y nn - ' V ° '>T too much for money when wo purchase it at so dear a rate; and we degrade thereby, the noble callin? of' milT rC ° mt ° a vlcioua pursuit. Lot can "mho life moan or great in P. r °P.” tlon , fc ? our aims, and the .amount of in- ItTs I,eroo .‘. sm w A ic . h put-into it— : tlo, ' 0f -‘ man which brings reVoronC °- ° r ddds 1-lafo a -phe President may bo a traitor nnd.a knave-' a scS™? Bot; }^°^merchiint^ swindler and' his mifl' - ’ and ln nono of those oases will bis outer investments protect him from oxo a£&(Oa»;sa: XuSTr ifc ‘ban at the inonoy. m ak! n V j tl,o tcndency of all this vort i l m °noy-Tmehipis to sub soil na^UTo ' the economy of dear— ln ° n cJieft P commodity near is to shove aside the claims of intolls and character. andto establish tho reign of Anarchy triad of Atheism.,' Wb live with vul gar auibitiftliffi and hhyo’noMdea'bfft succeSsf ful life,"Which, is hoffouhdedon materialism. Gold is the-Alpha, and Omega ,of our social creed, and. our highest, priests are. the rail lionaries of AY/ill street.., What we Want most of.ail is stability—-settled occupations hinn fnlly and perseveringly bohduoted; had such a stable view of life, that we should bo satis fied with thp slow proceeds of our own Indus? try, and the domestic ond sociftl blessings which accrue from them, without hankering after largo fortune, and dreaming perpetual dream-fables of gold. ’’ . ' CURIOSITIES OF COURTSHIP. A proposal was written and sent by tho post, in the days when letters traveled quiet ly at tho rate of ton. miles an hour on tho:mail coach.. The anxious lover for the first week breathlessly expected the. reply, hut it did not come. The next week ho pined, and was slcesbleas; still no answer. ■The third week lie became indignant. “A civil acknowledg ment was his Aue. She was heartless and; d flirt.” The next week he despised her, and congratulated^himself on his escape; and, when at, the end of it, he' received his own letter hack from 1 the dead letter office, because he had, in his agitation, forgotten to'to direct it, he had so completely outlived his love thde he never proposed to thdt lady at all. . ; I once saw d middle-aged invalid making love to a, young girl. After making great ef forts to secure an opportunity of meeting her, ho drew his chair oloso'to hors, looking into her face, sighed heavily,-drew his chair still closer, and, while she. looked at him in as tonishment,'and I in the. distance strained my oars to hear what tender remark followed all this preparation,. I heard him whisper with great emphasis; “Who is your doctor?” I need hardly say thdt the proposal failed which followed this well-judged commence ment, A more pflrdonahle case of a man’s absorption in his own pursuits was that of a very, shy lover, whoso one idea was horses.— He never found courage to propose till'he had porsuddod the’lady to go into the stable and look at his favorite horses. There 7ic spoke, and there she answered yen. But this was natural and pardonable; a shy man may fool this vantage-ground, and, feeling his own in feriority in tile drawing-room, may yet ho aware! of his superior knowledge and superior povyer in the stable, where his horse is hia throne ami he himself a king.. . ' A inarriago took place, not many years ago, in the great world, where tluvtwo lovers (long attached, but separated by tlio desire of their parents.) met under an archway while each was taking refuge, in London from a sudden shower of rain. Neither of them had , the least idea of the neighborhood of the other, when the sudden meeting occurred, which decided the course of their future lives. In another cage, the engagement was broken off bn account of. limited moans, and tho-gontle mah went abroad. Returning after some years absence, he arrived late on- the railway platform, and rushed into the first carriage be reached, just ns the train was,in motion. In it he found (with her mother) the lady he had been so long vainly endeavoring to for get, and the meeting onded in one of the hap piest marriages. Hans: Anderson gives, in; one of , his books, nn amusing account of a young man, newly appointed to some official position in the court of Copenhagen, ordering his court dross in a great haste, that ho might bo present at a hall where ho meant to de clare his attachment to a beautiful girl whom be bad long loved. All went smoothly, and •ho was on the point ,of proposing, nay, had spoken a few preliminary wows, when a but ton gave way on the hastily made court dress, The lover rushod abruptly away, and the lady, hurt at his unlooked-for departure, made an engagement for a sleighing party next day, where she received and accepted‘the offer of another Invert ' ' ’ Thus, love, ns well as life, often hangs upon a thread. Always secure your retreat in love as in war. This is a precaution never to he, neglected* Mr, A- . brother of the late Lord 7*—-,-whose proud arid haughty temper was proverbial, proposed to a lady in Portrnan Square Gordons. After being'refused, the rejected lover turned away from her in great indignation, but finding the gate,of tho gar den locked, was obliged to return to the lady to petition for tho key. Another case still more trying, was that of a gentleman travel ing in North America, who,: after being hos pitably received in the house of an officer high in, command there, proposed to his . host’s daughter, and was refused. A deep fall of snow came on in the night; the roads became impassable.; and tho poor man, to his un speakable mortification, was detained for a weekin the house with the.'lady. who had re jected him. . hiGHT Hath its Songs.— Have you never stood liy the sea-side at night, and heard the pebbles sing,.and the waves chant God’s glo ries? Qr have you never risen from your couch, and thrown up your chamber window ed 1 istoned to these ? Listened to what ? Silence—save now and then a murmuring sound, which seemed sweet music then. And have you not fancied that yon heard the harp ot God playing in heaven ? Did you not con ceive that yon stars, that those eyes of God looking down on yon, were also mouths of song—that every song was singing, as it shone, its mighty Maker, and His lawful, well-de served praise ? -Night has its song. AVo need not much postry in our spirit to catch the song of night, and hoar the spheres chant piaisos which are loud to the heart, though temlent to the oar—the-praises of God ’ ' vbo boars U P th « nnpillarod courses heaVOn ’ and moTes tho stars in their Mountain tho aeronaut, has offered his ser vices to tho general government in the capa city ot. a scout. He proposes to inflate his balloon, and, accompanied by an engineer to oacond to any desirable elevation,taking notes ot th? country, the situation and strength of tho, enemy, &c. This idea is by. no means novel. It occurred to tho first Napoleon, when the art of ballooning was but little' under stood.' During the Crimean war, the allies frequently made use of those instrumentalities to ascertain the preparation making by the S?® 1 "*-- it >«w.ifi,tho groat plain of northern Italy, m the campaign of 1859, that •? e, F ■ y J>honmo most apparent. : Before the battlcs-of Magenta and Solforino, Louis Napoleon, had, employed mronauts to survey ivlfi-S' 111 ’ ■ and bde Austrians wore in bvTn? mot '° n , m ? do b ? thom was n °- ticed by those genu of the upper atmosphere and reported to the victorious kieT P tilers th ° S ravo wl *lnot question behind tnf an ? oUll fc of wealth thoulas loft in tbb ’i 'i , - bat go . od doeds tbm hast done tho blessed! 3 ' ° nt ‘ t 0 th °° to a ecat amotl « A Soldier’smother to iler Sod. I'he following motherly letter whs written by the wiih of a mechanic in New York to her son) .who is h worthy member of Colonel Ellsworth's Eire Brigade. The many. miaV representations 1 to which that regiment hah boon subjected ,touched the mother’s heart/ and called forth; the advice which theletter contains i' ~ ' / T — My Beak Son : 1 am lir receipt of your welcome letter. To bo in the enjoyment of' good health, along with hard beds and still harder fore, is much better than to’be Ihid upon a sick bod. Bear son, T will 1 give you; a little advice; Will you’ hear, as it were my voice whispering to :you, as it did when you were '.n little child at my knee, lisping your childish wants, or rubbing your little cheek to mine, as if ,to steal the roses that 1 .could abundantly spare then? Now listen’.; 1 You have engaged in a struggle that niay’be des perate on both sides. I know you ora right m the path you aro.treading; you arp young, healthy, and willing to, run’ eVery risk,for your cause. You have proven ydiirselfageod fireman; now, my dear son, prove yoqrself a true Christian soldier. Never look at the quality Of your victuals, nor complaiii of hard beds. The life of a soldier is made up of pri vations. Remember the hard bed’ of your blessed Saviour on the cross, suffering for your sins, and redeeming you with His pre cious-blood. ; Ho that could command the universe, craving a drink of water, .when in answer they, gave him vinegar and gal!. Yon,’ my dear; son,, pinst , season your food with those thoughts..’ Your/ country requires your, aid : and as my-blessed Mother gave up her. Son for us, so t give you to sustain the good cause. You have sworn to defend the flag of. our. tJnion, and I; trust you will do so with honor, to the shedding of the last drop of your blood. Bo nothing that will bring a blush to my cheek or your own, if it should he the will of God to spare you to return. Obey yo.ur superiors with a willingness that may show a good effect upon your comrades. Good or bad examples havo each their own effect on a largo body of men, and I know you would like to hear your companions praised for their good conduct. Let everything yon do be to the honor and glory of God, to the aid of your country in her need,.and for the salvation of your own soul. My dear son, if you could see tho tears I shod at this moment, os I write this letter, which may. ho the last I shall ever write or you receive, you would he everything a fond mother could wish to welcome home, Lghould.it bo the will of God to send you hack" when the war is over. For want of time, I Will conclude ’ by giving you. the consolation I to know that I pray for you, day and night;! your friends and neighbors also pray for you and tho cause you are defending. May you and your comrades succeed,-is the constant prayer of your fond. Mother. PAIN, AND DEATH. ' It isVcomfort to 'have no nerves of sensation'/ Tim'idea that every in sect and reptile, and even tho-myriads of an imaleulm that we are obliged, to crush and destroy day by day, suffer pain, is a terrible one. The,poets have'taught us the idea; it is left to naturalists to set us fight. , may bo out and pulled to pieces without giving any indication of pain. .When they lose a_ leg or two, they go about their business without seeming,to mind it at all.— Out a-wasp in,two, so that his thorax is sep arated from his stomach, and abdomen, and he Walks about merrily, and eats with an un usually good appetite. In fact, as his food passes through him at once, it gives him no inconvenience, and ho can eat any quantity. The enjoyment does hot last very long, be cause the process of nutrition cannot go on without the organs of digestion; but Mr. Wasp does not seem to suffer in the least. Insects, in certain cases, show muscular contortions, but these are not proofs of pain. We know that there may bo the most spasmo,- dio action in the human body without the least suffering. Some years ago,Wo knew of a little, boy whoso lower extremities were thrown into spasms by an injury to the spine. The little fellow had no feeling whatever be low the point of injury, and was greatly amused to lie and see himself kick. So, the convulsive spasms of men who are hung are no proof of pain. When the nook is broken, the pressure of blood On the brain produces insensibility almost instantly. All men who have recovered from hanging, after it was sup posed that they were dead, give the same tes timony ns to its painlessness. When nlendie slowly,and with strong muscular contractions, there is, probably, no guttering, A HARD SENTENCE. A few years since, one Lindsey, (famous ns a bold thief and highwayman,) was arrested before the Criminal Court to answer an indict ment for highway robbery; to which charge, there being conclusive evidence against him, ho plead •’ Guilty.” The crime was a very bold and atrocious not, denoting great that kind of “ rough gambling" as well as a wicked heart. ' At tho close of tho term, Lindsey was brought.up to receive his sentence, when Judgo P , who is it groat admirer of honest industry, as well ns an inordinate hater of such “ larapius” as Lindsey, who subsist by thieving, proceeded to pass the sentence of the law upon him. Ills Honor commenced by reminding the prisoner that ho was yet a young man, possessed with a more than ordi nary share of endowments, sufficient, if well applied to place him in the foremost ranks of society. He next informed him that, by his own plea, he was guihy of rob bing, in open day and almost in the presence of tho wljold community —an old and helpless man of his hard earned money—a crime re cognized by the law of the land as" of tho most abandoned and wicked character. In rehearsing this scathing prelude to the sen tence of the court, tho Judge, as is usual in such oases, got’himsolf very much warmed up, so-that when he came to close his remarks with'the sentence, ho found our State institu tions somowhgt mixed up in his mind; for; said lie— “ Lindsey, I shnll sentence you for seven years in tho Pennsylvania Legislature.” The'Penitentiary, your Honor," suggest ed tho Prosecuting Attorney, who was stand ingby;: ■ ■ .The Judge• accepted the correction of:the prosecutor, muttering, at the same time, some thing about ! tho “ very little difference.” ‘A' tittdr-ran around the ; bar, when- the matter was dropped for the present; but Judge p— very frequently hears of his sentence upon Lindsey. (O" The Vicksburg Whig consoles itself in prospect of a short supply of northern whisky by saying, "Wo may be bad off for Whisky , but Mississippi river water, diluted' with a chow of. tobacco and a grain of strychnine, is a vofy good substitute for the Cincinnati nr liclo of which we may bo deprived,” • : “OUR COUNTRY —MAY IT ALWAYS Bij RIGHT-RUT, RIGHT OR WRONG, OUR COUNTRY” CARLISLE,, : .PA, THURSDAY, JUfIE 13,1861, • RED,' BIDE. • • Ob. Columbia; -tbo gora of tbo Ocean, : ~ .. Tho bomo of:the,br«yo,A|nditlio frco> of oachpdtTidt’Vdovption, - Aworld thco.. ■.l’hy njanaatcs mako horodk assemble) ■' ’ When libc" '*'a form stand iu view, '• 'niy-baT’ l '' • ■ Wl io Vod,-white and blue. . . W 1 ip fotV.whlto nnd'bluo, Tb; :o tyranny tremble; 1 *> W ; \c rod; while and bine, Senator Douglas was publiily received by tho Illinois Legislature on and made a patriotic speech, urging'immcdiate ac tion iu 'suppdrt of tho Government.., He’ said': . i -.■; ■; ‘ 'ii V •;» »r _ “ Most of you know l am a good fighter in nmes.of.partisan,strife.l hop!).to. show,you all, tliftt l ain an equally good patriot in the time of my country’s danger. It is now your imperative duty to throw party and party platforms to the winds,,forget that you ever differed. . Give mo a country tlmt my oliildron can live in peace,, can have a theatre if wo desire,: tizgh controver sies. : ■ ■ ■ v “ ATe nre called and see our Capitol seized, our away by those whoglory in,trainponM;fie American flag in the dust. Illinois State wouhlsiiy.to day that if L&adljjpinmitted an error in my political .par&er, it Ms consisted in loaning too far toward the South. I have never pandered to the projudioc'pf the North against the Minority section. While If?lll never invade the constitutional rights of the South, nor sanction their invasun by others, I want them distinctly to understandthat they: ihudt not invade my constitutiujal rights. (Loud cheers.) “ It is a prodigious crime against the free dom of the world to blpjthe Unite! States out of themapof Christendom., What do we see? AVashington to be bombarded 1 Tln President and his Cabinet, elected and amointed to their places by the Bamo'autheritypa George AVashington and his constitutional (Jivisers, to .bo parried off as hostages I TheiySy demon l !of destruction to bo lot loose in thelmd 1 How -long do you thinkubyriU~b,^twxii||Rdiii6tihe l ; is in operation ? Allow me 1 r> say'ujmy forin ,er political enemies,-you wll nothin true to your country if you seek'l) make- political capital out,of these disoshrs. (Applause.) A.iid to my old friends, you will bo false and Unworthy of your principles if you allow po litical defeat to convert yov into traitors to your national-land I .The shortest waynow to peace consists in the most stupendous and un animous preparations tor waf” (Vociferous cheering.) ; > Wliat War has Cost tfie World. The war preceding the treaty of Ilyswiok, 1507, cost §139,000,000. \ The Spanish war of 1739, settled for at Aix Chapello, cost §270,000,006. : The war of the,Spanish Succession cost §311,- 000,000. , , , ' ■ . The treaty of:Paris, in 1763, ended in a bloody struggle, which cost §560,000,000. The war of American Independence, cost England and this country §930,000,000. The war of ton years, which is known as “the French Devolution of 1793,i005t §230,- 000.000.;,, ,vi The war againsftho First Napoleon, which began in 1803 and ended in 1815, j. os t the ex traordinary amount of §5,809,000;000. The Crimean war cost n §84,000,000. I'ho last Italian wav, hot including the hos tilities between Victor Emanuel, Garibaldi, Bomba &c., cost §45,000,000. Thelastwar in India cost England §38,000,- The list might ho doubled. It Includes wars only'of which definite statistics are on record. _ The cost of the present War hero ho statistician can estimate,, because the loss to commerce, industry and trade which it, will involve is beyond the roach of Calculating powers. Queen Elizauetu’s Love of Flattery.— With many of her attendants, she was so un guarded in the marks of her'favor, that re ports were spread abroad injurious to her rep utation. Party spirit has continued the dis cussion Up to the present time, the advocates of the hapless Mary maintaining that the lover of Leicester, and' Hatton, and Essex, was not entitled to make any over-virtuous allusions to the levities attributed to their hoorine. Her defenders appeal to the little influence exorcised over her by the suspected sharers of her guilt; and say that in all like- lihood tlio friendships of Elizabeth went no ■ further then the gratification of jior insatible love of admiration and, appetite for fulsome praise. Of all these temporary and capricious attachments, we have only to difoll on that toward Essex, for it was the' only one that in fluenced her public acts, and seems to have been really sincere; but at'thOjtime of his greatest favor she was nearly seventy years of ago; and oven after his unhappy death, when her own demise was near it hand, she is reported by the French Embassador to have boon, captivated by the looks of it tall young. Irish Earl, and, to bo as anxious as over for flattery and devotion. The habit of being courted became her second nature, and the same person who, as Queen, could'withstand a coalition of all Europe against hor throne, was wretched if sho had not a handsome, de signing cozener at her side, to toll her her brow was not wrinkled with seventy-two years of toil and ; care, and - that lier looks were as rich and auburn as when her early adorers had assured-her that they wore sun beams woven intp ringlets, and clustering round the,forehead of the chaste Diana. Ren. Janies ■ White's Ilistori/ ofEnijlandi anecdote is related of well-known vagabond, iwho was brought before a magis trate’ as a common vagrant. Having sudden ly harpooned a good idea', ho - pulled from a capacious pocket of his tattered coat a loaf of bread, and a : half dried codfish, and holding them up, with a triuniphantlopk and gesture to thomagistfato exclaimed, “ You don’t ketch me that way I I’m no vagrant.’ A’nt them wisiblo means o’" support, I should like to know V’ ' jjgy Money may bo the root of all evil, but wo should nave no objection to a trunk of it. Wbori wai* Wiigcd its ttldti desolation, • And threatened our InndJi) deform, •; Tho.ark-thon of 1 , •Columbia rode' safe through tlio storm, With her garlands of tiotbry around hor, -Wlicp so proudly bold crew, With tho flftg’Jiroudly floating before hor, : TH6 boast oftlio and blub, ‘I The boast ofitho'rod/.Tyhiteand bluoj Ao. Tho Vnriooiip, tho TVihe brlng hithcr, And;fill you it up tO;thb brim, . May tbc Avrcath they hayp.yroa uovor Tvitbor, Nor tho stars of their glory, grow dim. May .the: service muted ne’er, savor, And hold to their colors. so'. true. The army and navy for ,ovbr, Throe cheers for the nid/white and blue. ‘ Throe chcors for Ac* . ; Noble Sentimenti. iA Cannon! that Uses no I‘owdcr. 480 BALLS* FIRED IN, A MINUTE^ _ A new implement of war, known'ns the McCarty ; cannon, was put on trial in this city last week. .■ It shoots 480 balls in a’ min ute, without tho use of powder, the impelling . principle being,centrifugal force. The gun used in the experiment had only nn_ inch hdfo and was about three feet long. It is attached to a .Wheel about four feet in di ameter, and riot over four inches thick, look ing like a flange.or,a balance wheel. On one side of tliis wheel, or flange, is a tube Which connects the wheel with a hopper, into which aro .poured the halls in a promiscuous man ner, ns apples are thrown into tho hopper of a cider mill,_ the machinery inside of .the. ;wh‘eel' receiving; the halls, carrying then! .around to the gun barrel, and throwing them through the, bore of tlie gun at tho rate men tioned, above simply by the centrifugal force, and at a velocity almost incredible. The river at the foot of Thirty-third street .is about one 1 and three-fourths miles, wide. The gun was stationed some distance back from the shore, and the, balls wore seen to drop into tho water amongst tho shad poles, •toward thewest side of the Hudson, at tho low est estimate one mile from the starting point, nnd all this by centrifugal fofee, of the ar rangement of the machinery to use this throw ing-off,power.. When, tho machinery is put in motion it sounds like a threshing-machine, and has d like hnm about it. •* The only report about its f ring is the clank .of the ball passing into the large wheel. Thojr. pass off without the least noise, no one knowing their departure until i they strike the target at a distance'.— New York Pape)'. ’ ' . ’ ‘ Raiii‘ Road Propkhtv. —Railroad property seems to - suffer more from internal warfare than any, other species of property. Besides ,tho loss of its regular business from a disturb iod condition of public affairs, and'the liability to be taken possession of for military uses, the first thing a defensive army does is to de stroy all bridges as the invading army advances. The bridges on the Northern Cen tral, and onthoPhiladolphiaand Wilmington fond, were burnt on the very first movement of troops Southward. ' Through the energy of the managers, they have been repaired, but have to be guarded continually. The bridges on -the Baltimore and Ohio railroad are nearly nil to be destroyed as soon as the .Federal troops move toward Harper’s Ferry. Since the Federal troops have crossed into Virginia, the work of destruction has extended .on the Alexandria, Loudon and Hampshire, road, the ■ national troops have burnt bridges, variously istated at eight, a*id eleven, and. haye torn up the rails, at, intervals, over a space of many .miles. The object, of this proceeding is to prevent the approach of attacking forces from The bridges beyopfi the lino' ’of" flieii, operations ’ have: been'destroyed for miles by the Virginia troops,: to pre vent the Federal forces from proceeding any further South. Though railroads are great ■facilities for mustering our forces together, they cannot be considered of much importance for army operations in the territory of the pe- Jibollious States. .But to the same extent they destroy railroads, to keep the Federal forces from following them, they also impair their own facilities, for moving about rapidly to various points threatened with danger. ' Por table bridges, with car loads of rails tofpllow after bur army, >vbuld enable them to repair damages as they advance, and keep up a con tinuous communication as far as they pro gress. ' [CVA Freak op Nature.— lt id said that a Child was born in the upper part of the city of Harrisburg a day or two since with teeth. Few instances Of this kind rtro on record since the days of Eichafd 11, and think the war must httvo something to do with it. It would have been in accordance with the times if the younster (providing it is a boy) had been “ushered 1 into this breathing world” with a knapsack on liis back, and musket in his hand, but oven ns it is, bringing forth chil dren ready supplied with teeth is enough to torify Jeft'. Davis, “ or any other man.” A Voucher, —A man once went to purchase a horse of a Quaker. “ Will he draw well ?” asked the huyor. “ Thee will 1)G pleased to see him draw." .The bargain was closed, and the favmei tried the horse, but he would not stir a step, lie returned and said—‘ ' That horse will not draw an inch.” • “I did not toll thee that ho would draw, friend, ! only remarked that it would please thee to see him draw; and so it would mo, blit ho would never gratiliy ino in that re spect." " K 7“ An old bachelor being ill, his sister presented him a cup of ifledicine. “ What is if ?” he asked. She answered— “lt is elixir asthmatic, it is very aromau tic, and will make you feel ecstatic.” “•Nancy,” ho replied, with a smile, “ you are very sister-matic.” The Confederate Government has appointed General Leo Comraander-in-Chiof of the forces in Virginia, in which State there are said to bo about 55,000 men enrolled. 'Go to grass!’ said a mother to hoi daughter. ‘Well,- then, I’sposo I’ll have to marry,’ ejaculated the fair damsel. ‘ Who so ?’ inquired the astonished mother. ‘Because all men are grass.’ The old lady survived. O" Happy Folks—A child with a rattle —a schoolboy on a holiday—two lovers walk ing by a boy sucking cider throug a straw. DC7" Mr. Smith you said you once officiated in a pulpit; do you mean that you preached. No sir; 1 held the light for tho man that did." *• Ah 1 the eou't understood you differently. They supposed that tho discourse came from you.” ‘‘Mo sir 1 I only throwed a little light upon it » “No,.levity, Mr. Smith. Crier wipe your hose and call the next witness." flgyrThe French army-numbers about 687,- 000, men, with 10. marshals, 194 generals of divisions, 162 brigadier generals, 1,370 ma qrs, and 6,871 captains. [£7” When Sheridan was asked what kind of wine ..ho' liked best, answered—“ Other people's.’' ore are a great many Shori dan'S/ 0“Tho mere we know of History, the less shall wo esteem the subjects of it; and to de spise ouf spccids, is the.prico wd must too oft en pay for knowledge of it. ' Military Signals. . Major. Myor, of : thp army, .some months Binde, announced the discovery by himself of i* Ji now system of military signals,which Would, , in a groat measure, revolutionize tho manago . nfont of modern forces; I’hcsigniils ivrO model . by menus of a llitg attached to a pole, from . twelve to sixteen feet long. , .The different movements which the flag is made to go through represents numbers, which in their turn represent letters of the alphtihet. Tho letters, of course, nro combined into words that load out this -message.* -By the interven tion of the numbers, none hut the officer who directs the flagman, and those who have been previously informed of tho arrangement of the system, can understand tho language of tho flag, which flag is moved in three direc tions, to right, left, and front. . This Jr done by soldiers who nro especially drilled for tlio purpose, and who, in the trial, manage the bunting witli astonishing accuracy. For night purposes, torches aro substituted for flags; otherwise, the signals are similar to those made in tho daytime. All tho imple ments necessary for the service can he em braced in a small packet, can* ho transported from point to point by a' single mnh; and be put in readiness for use in fifteen minutes.— The experiments were made in the neighbor hood of Santa Fe, in the latter part of April, and were successful in every instance, altho’ uneven ground was. selected;The first sig nals wore exchanged sixteen miles without difficulty; and on th;o third day, by the aid of a small repeating station, an intelligible mil itary conversation was rapidly carried cm be tween * Old Fort Marcy and Galveston, which are twenty-five miles apart. "In a few days , the War Department of tho United States will receive nn official report of those experiments, when the commanding.offieers of tho different i regiments now at the seat of war will; doubt- . los,s ; bo initiated* into the mysteries of. the business. —New York Times ; t Bduving. the American Flag.— At Mem phis, Tenn., a week or so ago, a largo Ameri can flag was procured, enclosed' in a coffin borne on a bier carried by eight nicn, and formerly buried. _ The,Funeral was preceded by a band of music playing the dead miiroh, and was attended by about 500 Secessionists, The, grave was dug alongside of a statue of Gen. Jackson, in one oFthe public squares, into which the flag was lowered. The earth was then thrown upon the stars and stripes, the grave, filled up, and the procession return ed pcaoefuUy to their homes. The very samC evening, there arose one of the most violent gales of wind ’ over witnessed' in Memphis, and every seccasion flag in the city wns blown down. Singular to relate,' a very large seces sion flag which was suspended near the grave, was blown awaydrain the staff and carried by. the. wind to the, newly fllled'up pit, where It was dopes!ted iuid left to,soak in the'rain and ,mu i d„an. - ohasod an interest in tho animal,-, and men shot his half. ■ SerOut of six thousand oil wells in Pon-, nsylvania about three hundred pay; E 7“ A regiment of Wisconsin Cavalry, un der command of Carl Sohurz, Is confidently expected to arrive nt Harrisburg in a few days; CSyTho number of applicants for situa-' tion in tho New York Custom House is over twelve'thousand.- • O* A good many of the flying -rumors of this day would bo more appropriately desi gned by taking off tilts- letter/; • ~ ■ : o*Wisdom often comes too lath'in life to' be of much service to us.. There’s' no Use of’ hlustard after meat.- ; figg“Many a sweetly fashioned month had; been disfigurodjand made hideous by tho fiery serpent tongue within it. , , E7*Tho poor should get learning in order, to become rich;, and and-tho rich ' should nek quire it for their ornament! BQyMt is said that the "census , embraces 1 seventeen mill.ons of women.” .Who would' hato to be tho census? asks Prontico; , ; ' DC? - A miller,, in gltiug ri cortiffeate fo ■“ the proprietor, of Mr, Harrisons's.’pills* fordo*- trOying vermin, astounds us; with tho asser-, tion. - “I was full of rats a fortnight since ana' now I don’t think I hove one!” • ■- 1 |£7"Tho mfnn that minds his own business! ms a good steady employment; ■ , , ■ The great rock upon windfall orir for-tunos rise'is "rock thC'cradle.” a@“A good man is kinder, to his enemy iari bad men are' to thCir friends; E7*A piano affords a young' lady a good 1 chance to shoW her fingering and her finger-' > ring, B©*Professer Amasa McCoy, secretary q£ j Cassius M. Clay’s Guards, visited Mount Ver non on Tuesday, and reports that.the tomb of Washington remains undisturbed; ■ [C7*Tho traitors who leave tbe navy aro told, to go to tho South for thoir pay, according-tpj an order of. the secretory of the navy’ to ; the‘, fourth auditor of the treasury, as follows.—"! Tho amounts fouhdf to bo' due to resigned navy s hears from the states which claim toliave: seceded, will heretofore bp paid them.from tjio; funds heretofore sent to or deposited in thpao - stales, except in oases where the’ department shall otherwise direct. ' (£7“ Some one speaking to Gen Sobtt about his policy of hemming in the rebellion, ho playfully replied, “ When I nm going to catch;, a rat,’ lalways sco to it that all his holes**r ’’ first stopped.” v. £ .v i.'- J , J C ■ NO. I. :