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LIFE'S BETTER MOMENTS.
Life has its moments '
Of .beauty and bloom,
They hang like sweet rosea
Oil tho edge of tho tomb; ,
Blessings they bring ua, •
As lovely as brief, •
.They meet us when happy,
And leave us in grief.
.Hues oif tho morning,
• Tinging the sky,
Come on the sunbeams,
And off with them fly;
Shadows of- evening *
Hang soft on tho shore.
Darkness onwarps them,
We see them no mote.
So life’s better moments •
In brilliance appear,
Dawning in beauty . .
(Jur journey to cboor;
Round us. theylinger,
Like.shadows of even.
Would that we, like them,
• • Might'molt into heaven.
1 SPREAD EAGLE SONS.
liy S, n, ELLIOTT,
When starQnl by our country’s woes,
So long in alienee borne,
Indignant justice rose,
And laughed all fear to scorn.
Throughout the forests of the West,
Sh'o hade lier eons arise, ;
And strove to Uindle every breast,
Though bound by foreign ties ;
■A guiding star shone brightly forth.
To lead those heroes on,
And rightly they esteemed his worth,
The glorious Washington.
- Like''Freedom's bird ho proudly soared,
Columbia's fairest child.
And Yin the land that bo'adored, ■
Indulgent fortune smiled. " ;
He nobly cheered his countrymen,
-When .irtnoir homes wore dan,
heart was for his country (heb,-- ■;
"*■*' llortihcarc is now for \ (
And now his honorod asht jyo(
'Cuua e~.0..,t 0 . 51 xk. - !trrf-‘Vor'l ■ ' - c ■■ ■■;
Within that over grateful hreaet \ .
‘ Of that bright land that bore ■ 1
0 t Hi.?b e'er this lantf .
Though how her s*rord is sh*'L’iUxV-
And hush’d are those wild wall ' **of,cA.v
. Which once of* battle breathed,
Prosperity uudhiimcd ruay smile,
Nor will her. smiles decrease,
Or ought disturb her calmness, while
Her throne is shared by peace.
Arid while the prayers of just and bravo
Are heard iu heaven above,;
Our slurry banner still will wave
High o’er the laud wo love.
INCIDENTS lIP THE WASL
DEATH OF A BRAVE SOLDIER.
A young man, seventeen years old, was a
member of the Second Ohio regiment, left as
a guard to tho hospital. One ot the enemy’s
cavalry ■ dashed upon him and ordered him to
surrender; tho brave youth with fixed bayo
net, steady nerve, and cool bearing, replied,
“ I never 'surrender!" His father who had
all the day been arduously engaged in assist
ing and taking care of the wounded, bringing
them off from the field, and that too at the im
minent peril of hia own life, was iu the hos
pital tent, and heard the order to his soil, and
saw others of the enemy’s cavalry near by,
and rushed out, and speaking in a loud tone,
“ Charley, surrender, for God’s sake,- or you
are lost.” Charley turned to his lather, and
with all the lion in his countenance, replied,
Father, I will never surrender to a rebel.”
In a moment a ball pierced his spine,.hut he
immediately discharged his musket at the reb
el horseman and laid him low in death, and
then fell himself. The rebels then undertook
to drag him off, but his father rushed in and
released him. He died the following morning.
HIS BIBLE SAVES HIM.
Wylie P. Manguni, jr., had his life saved as
follows: This young man was attached to one
of the regiments, and owes the preservation
of his life’to a copy of the Bible presented
him by his sister;. Ho had the good book in
His left coat pocket. It was struck by a ball
near tho edge, but tho book changed the di
rection ol the bullet, and it glanced off inflict
ing a severe but dangerous flesh wound. .The
book was saturated with blood, but the advice
written on tho fly leaf by tho sister who have
it was perfectly legible. It read thus :-r-“To
my brother. He .will road a portion of this
blessed word every day, and remember his sis
tor.” •
A. NARROW ESCAPE.
One soldier had a very narrow escape from
death at the last fight.' Ho whs struck in the
back of the heck by a bullet which came out
at his mouth, breaking.-tjireo front teeth.
• 'MINNESOTA. iasev^S^.'
u jA.lt,''speak of the great, braveryof the First
Minnesota regiment at Bull Bun ;
f-J Staples,.‘being. cut oft mistook the
Missisaippi Billea for a Vermont regiment, ran
toward them, and they took him prisoner.—
Some wanted to bayonet him on the spot, oth
ers to shoot him, but”hinny -said he was too
brave a fellow to be .despatched* so, and the
’ majority prevailed. Jdat. then' it; Michigan
regiment charged them, and they broke and
fled like sheep to thoir batteries, ■ and their
prisoner stood still, and getting- a gun fired
after them, and then joined again the loyal
troops. This regiment in turn thought, they
had a rebel, and took him prisoner and brought
. When Lieutenant "Welch fell ho was atqnd
ieg within twenty feet of the enemy, and
!, Help tne God 1 I will never run; I
w‘U dm here I" and ho was shot and ,tram
ttkon ° WO ’ position was afterwards re-
WHERE THE DALE ENTERED.
unlucky privats in oho of the New York
regiments was wounded in this fight, and his
father arrived at the hospital just os the sur
geon was removing the ball from tho back of
his shoulder. The boy lay vrith his face
downward on the pallet. Ah.mypooriaon,’
said the father, mournfully':, “ X am very sorry
for you. But it’s a had place to bo hit in—
thus in'the back 1” Tho sufferer turned over,
bared his chest, and pointing to the opening
above the armpit, exclaimed,.“ Father^ hero’s
where the 1 ball went in.”
A PAINFUL SCENE.
While at a halt it was my lot to,witness a
very painful scene. I captured a prisoner (a
German) belonging to the Eighth South Car
olina regiment, and took him to Maj. Colburn
for instructions as how to dispose of him.—
The prisoner requested one privilege as his
last, which the Major very humanely grant
ed. lie said his brother lay a short distance
off, in a dying condition, and he wished to see
him. I bade him lead the way, and I fol
lowed.
Ho took mo to an old log hutbuta few rods,
from where our regiment was halted. On the
north side, in the shade, we found tho wound
ed man. The prisoner spoke to him—he
opened his eyes—the film of death SKd already
overspread them, and the tide of life was fast
ebbing. Ho was covered with blood, and the
swarms of flies and mosquitoes, which were
fattening upon hid life’s blood, indicated that
he had lain there for some time. They clasp
ed hands together, muttered a few words in
the German language, supplicated the Throne
of Grace for their families at home, kissed,
and bade .each ottier a final adieu, the prison
er remarking, as I took him by tho arm to
lead him away—for the hotumn was moving
—“ brother, you are dying, and I. am a pris
oner;” The man was shot by a musket ball,
iri the back, just over the hip, from which fact
I inferred that he was.on the retreat when the
deadly,ball overtook him.
“ LET US DIE FRIENDS.”
A rebel—one of the Georgia regiment—lay
with a fearful shot wound in his side, which
tore out several of his ribs. The life blood of
the poor fellow was fast oozing out, when one
of our troops dashed forward from out of the
melee and fell sharply wounded close beside
him; The Georgian recognized the uniform,
though lie was fatally hurt, and' feebly held
out his hand. “Wo came into this battle,”
he said, “ enemies. , Let us die friends.—
Farewell.” Ho spoke no more, but his icom
pan'on in disaster took the extended hand, and
c eap’ed to relate this touching fact.
a touching'incident on the'battle field.
A letter received in this city from Atlanta,
Go., gives this incident of the battle at Stone
Bridge:
•“ A staff officer from Charleston, engaged in
the battle of the 21st of July, says:
“ I rode out the day after the battle to,view
the ground, and passed piles of dead in vari
ous positions- , Under a large tree I saw, a
body lying, very handsomely dressed, with a
fant-J cilia handler ohiofnvp'th*;facer
It attracted my eugiositj ;',},, i-topped; regiW^elfc
»l.t» -.big .id
.'■'X
;r.;-
aiiiiit.'aml dross 'fcjdigjftd hid!-. xooml position,
perhaps fib' was a teffipavary.'aid tosonje Gen
oraH'officer. To ascbrliiih who he was, I ex
amined his pockets, and'foiind a Testamen t in
which' wis written, j- r ■.
- Simmons,: N« w-> York,- ■ From -hi«
loving mother; My son, remember thy Cre
ator in the 'days of thy youth.”
“ I wished very much to take the body away,
but I was six miles from quarters, on horse
back, and it was impossible.”
“ LAV CLOSE OLD BOV.”
- One of our riflemen had his piece carried
away by a ball, which struck it out of his
hands just as his company was in the act of
advancing to storm one of the smaller, rebel
batteries.. Unarmed, he sprang forward, and
threw himself down on. his face, under the en
emy’s ‘guns. A Zouave lay there, bleeding
and wounded, out of the way of the murder
ous fire. “ Lay close—lay close, old hoy,”
said the latter to the new comer, “ the boys’ll
take this ole furnaoe’ii a minnit, and then
we’ll git.up and give tho rebels fits again.”
Three minutes afterwards the battery was
carried, and the two soldiers were in the
thickest of the fight again.
A UUItANB HORSEMAN,
An artillery man lay on the ground, nearly
exhausted from loss of blood, and too weak to
get out of the way of the trampling troops and
horsemen that flitted about him. Amounted
horseman came toward him, when he raised
the bleeding stumps of both his arms, and
cried out “don’t tread on me, Captain !—see I
both hands arc gone.” The trooper, leaped
over; him, a shell broke near by, and the
crashing fragments put tho sufferer quickly
out of his misery.
A Rostantic Adventure. —lt is related in
the New York papers, that a young girl of
thirteen years, of respectable parentage in
tho city of Dublin, Ireland, fell in love with
a youth of seventeen, of tho same place. He
came to America in tho capacity of a ship
carpenter. She followed, in search of him.
Her subsequent history is thus told in tho
New York Journal of Commerce -of Satur
day ;—“ She shipped as cabin-boy on board
of a vessel at Liverpool, and made several
voyages in that capacity.. After, spending
two years in, this way, she shipped ns a deck
hand on board tho ship Resolute, in which
vessel she made her last voyage, but had nev
er succeeded iii finding her lover. During
these three years her sex was not discovered,
and probably would not have been for some
time hence, had she not refused to treat, tho
second time, a party of sailors with whom
she was drinking at the Water Street Saloon
on Tuesday evening. One of these men be
coming angry at her refusal, struck her in
the breast, and immediately suspected her of
being a female. He accused her of being
such, and ho, as well as some of tho others,
expressed their determination to ascertain
whether or not the suspicion was correct.—
She screamed for help, and a policeman came
in and hearing the story, took her to the Sta
tion-house, whore she made the above narra
tive. Yesterday morning she was brought
before Justice Kelly, who committed her for
the present to the care of Miss Foster, ma
tron of the City Prison. Tho girl is quite
intelligent, and, strange as it may seem, ex
hibits evidence of refinement. . She states
that she has no relatives in this country.”
AnUntimelv Wedding Approaching.—A
wedding is on tho tapis in New York, which
excites much gossip. Tho Nestor of Presby
terian ojergymen, an octogenarian in years,
but a widower, of only a few months, is about
to marry a maiden of at least half a century
°f age. with soljd oharms omounting to about
$200,000. Taking all the circumstances into
consideration, one would bo tempted to apply
to this case theold phrase about “ Winter lin
gering in the lop of Spring.”—iV. 7 Ntwa.
O” Ho wlio follows two kotos is sure to
catch neither 1 .
“ ODE COUNTRY—MAY IT ALWAYS BE RIGHT—BUT, RIGHT OR WRONG, OUR COUNTRY.’’
General Sprague of Rhode Island.
This gentleman was ono of the first to or
ganize a regiment (ono of tho best in the ser
vice) and led it in person in the battle at
Bull’s Run. His horse was shot from under
him. lie is the Governor of Rhode Island
and on his return a few days since, called the
Legislature together in special Session and
among other things- frankly told them that
our people had underrated tho strength and
resources of the Southern people, and that
they must expootthis contest to, bo a pro
tracted one. The following is ah extract from
his speech:
“ The war will of necessity be a long one.
We have been, in error, as to the strength of
the enemy, and a_s,to the long and persistent
course which hits been pursued by the South
tending toward this point; while wo have
been occupied in qhr business they have been
creating revolution. We were under the im
pression that they wove lacking in all the re
sources which go to raise and maintain ar
mies. Whereas, in almost, every particular
we have found not only tho physique of their
men equal' to ours, but their clothing, their
arms, their subsistence, and their means of
transportation—everything that goes touiake
up military, efficiency, superior to oris. And
when we have been' obliged to bo the attack
ing force, marching under a Southern sun,
exhausted, without provisions, and without
shelter, they have been encamped and in for
tified positions in a country unfriendly to us
agd friendly.to them, where they could re
ceive information of every movement of ours
and wo could learn nothing of theirs.
‘‘The probabilities are that.in no case on
the record of the world’s history has an army
been called into the field possessing so little
knowledge, of the strength and position of the
enemy; and such being the case, it was im
possible for any .troops in the position ot ours
found themselves to have sustained them
selves for any considerable length of time.—
It has opened the eyes of the country to the
immensity of this struggle, and in that view
of the subject tho result may be bearable.
The Shooting ol Captain Axson..
Captain Axaon, of Charleston, South Caro
lina, had been shot dead by a private in a
Georgia regiment. The prisoner was seized
and carried off by some South Carolinians.
The Richmond Dispatch ; gives the following
account of the subsequent fate of the prison
er:
Davis, upon arriving in Richmond, vt as left
by Major Butts in care of a guard of.the
Telfair Volunteers; Captain Smith. He or
dered the e f to ho baked across the river,
and proceeded to the camp to report tq Colo
nel Semmos. Very shortly afterwards a par
ty of men, supposed to belong to Captain Ax
son’s company, came and asked him from the
.guard. riromiHinjit qnithe faith of gentlemen,
riiaf 'shoufd 'rie delivered to the proper ad
'■>:m ; ;>j. iff- V;j i ibHpy; kttempteclto'ijdfroW
a '■.'•/"A , ; ' : *■
; When.they got w d.rayino they halted, and
told him they were going to hang him. lie
protested against it, gud said that they had
pledged .their faith'to .him. One stopped in
iront-of-ium,.saying faith ho <l —-—-d ; I
am going to shoot you,” and upon that shot
him. Davis .then turned to escape; they
rushed upon him, and cut at hint with bowie
knives, inflicting several wounds. Davis fell,
partially insensible. Again, while on the
ground, they inflicted a wound with a knife in
the neck and one on, the head. Supposing
him dead, they turned. to leave, when
one of them asked if they had bettor not send
fpr a doctor. He was answered by one, who
said, .“ No n if he is not dead, let’s finish him,”
and approaching him, fired at him within a
a few feet. The ball did not take effect.
Ho now lies critically ill at the residence of
Dr. F. E. Luokott, of Manchester. The ball,
which passed between the first rib and clavi
cle, and glancing downwards, imbedded itself
in the deep tissue of the back, under the
shoulder blade, from whence it was removed
yesterday morning. The knife wounds,
though very bad, are not in themselves fatal.
Three more men returned after the affair;
and inquired if ho was dead, and on being
told no, but mortally wounded, laughed aud
wont on.
. A Preacher Killed hy Liohtnin’o.— Tho
Lafayette (Ind.) Courier , of August 6, has
tho following; ■
Mr. Harris, a Methodist preacher, was
struck by lightning and instantly killed, hear
the State lino yesterday. He had preached
in the neighborhood on Sunday, and during
the storm yesterday, in company with his
wife, had taken shelter in the house of one of
tho brethren at the edge of tho wood. There
wore five or. six persons in tho room. The
deceased was walking backward and for
ward in front of the open door, when the bolt
descended, and he fell dead at the feet of his
wife. Not a groan, nor even a sigh escaped
him. His features were as placid as though'
■ho was in d quiet slumber, and there was hot
a mark upon his person to inflidits where the
bolt took effect. His hoot was ripped open,
and a watch key attached to Ins fob was
melted to dross, .All.the persons iii therooni
wore more or less shocked, but not seriously.
Two men; Pike Gish and George IV. Kit
ter, driving njong tho road near South Bend,
Ind., were also struck by .lightning, and al
most instantly killed. One of the horses was
also killed, and tho wagon tnrnod upside
down.
Screauinq Fishes.—From tho letter of an
intelligent lady we make the following ex
tract:
“In the early part of December I called
upon a Quaker {'oritloman at Darlington, for
whom I waited in a room in which stood a
small aquarium, containing, along with the
usual allotment of sea-anemones, star fishes,
&c., five fishes not larger than minnows—a
species of blennios, as I was informed. After
watching their motions for a fow minutes, as
they floated near the surface of tho water, I
stooped down to examine them moro nearly,
when, to my utter amazement, they simulta
neously set up a shriek of terror so loud and
pieroing, that I sprang back ns if I had been
electrified. I think a human being could
hardly have set up a louder or shriller scream
than did those tiny inhabitants of tho, water.
Have you over met with, or heard of,- in any
other case of the finny tribe, so striking an
exception of tho truth of the common saying.
“As mute as a fish ?”
Absence or Mind-— A citizen was standing
on the curbstone tho other evening, viewing
tho comet, and was much .absorbed in heaven
ly things, when an acquaintance tapped him
on tho shoulder and asked, “How do you
like tho President’s message?” Ho exclaim
ed, “0, splendid, splendid! nucleus rather
thin, but X admire tho tail; four hundred mil
lions long, and four thousand broad.”
CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY; AUGUST. 22, 1861.
(The Present Bcvolntioii Poretgld Sixty-Five
. Fears /Ifo.
One of the Eglish field officers, who served
against the United States .Bdriiig the icvolu
tiohary war, after his, return to England,
wrote an account of Ids'-life and adventures,
which was published in London in 1801. In
many respects, says the Newark (N. J.) Ad
vertiser, he was a remarkable man, but most
remarkable in the prophecies which he uttered
at Philadelphia about tfo'jcar 1793, which
wore published in his autobiography in 1801.
Tiieso prophecies, now- coming, to pass, con
stituted portions of a ootivjpatiou held at the
dinner table of Geiil DftTOWOn, brother to the
famous Dickenson, better. Known to many at
that day by his nom dejilvine of the “Penn
sylvania Farmer/.'. \ v, t.'-
Upon a certain occasion! Only a few wecks
after peace had been definitely concluded be
tween the Thirte ’i Colonies, become Inde
pendent States, and Gieat, Britain, General
Dickenson requested tboEnSi.shhlan’s opinion
of our government and it((yAa,bility. Ilia re
ply was as follows: , 1 ■ .
“Sir, ns long as.General;Washington and
the other principal military characters- and
leading men in .Congress; who have brought
about this revolution,-arc alive, the govern
riient will remain as it is„uhited ; but, when
all of you are.in your.-graven, there will be*
wars and rumors of wal's-in this c.ountry.
There are too many differerit interests in it for
them to be united undergone government.
Just as.this war commenced, you were going
to fight among yourselyftWand would have
fought had the British riot, interfered. - You
then, one and all, united ridainst U? as your
common enemy ; huioncOf these days- the
Northern and Southern }wiers with Jiffht as
vigorously against each other, >ns they both have
united ia do against the British, This coun
try, when its population Shall bo completed,,
is largo enough for these, great empires.
Look, gentlemen, at the map of it; view how
irregular the provinces are Ibid out, running in
to each other; look particularly at the State u'.
New York ;' it extends one blind; :d and fifty
miles in length, due norlhf; arid in no place,
in breadth, above fifteen 6l“twcnty miles. No
country can be said to have a boundary or
frontier, unless it's exterior, Ijmits are marked
bj an unfordable river or a chain of moun
tains not to bo passed butrfn particular pla
ces.
“The great finger of nature has distinctly
pointed out three extensive.boundaries to your
country: the North River; the first; the
Great Potomab, ■which runts, three hundred
miles from Alexandria'te the sea, unfordable,
the second ; and the Mississippi the third and
last. When the country ofi&entucky. is com
pletely .settled, and the country farther
on the banks of the Mississippi shall become
populous and powerful, do, you think, they
ever will bo subjected to seat
ed at Philadelphia or Net?; York/al the dis
tance of so raapy hundred\Vnilbs ? But such
a defection not happen lor ft. very long
period of . time,,,untip the inhabitants of that
vide and contend in . - o'" ■ .to
“I will furtlier'hpini.on -relative to
America: Should I old age, I
am confident that. I shnlphear ol the North
ern and Southern powers'in 'a America wag
ing war with each other ; when one party
will solicit assistance.from Franco ; tlio oth
er from Great Britain. It will, then depend
oil the judgment of those men who, at that
period, may be at the head of the French and
British Councils, whether or not they will in
terfere in American disputes. In my humble
opinion, it would be heller for both countries
to tel them, settle the matter among themseU
Tax on Large Wages or
Bank Officers.' —Tho Now York correspon
dent of the Boston Post gives some interesting
information about tho new tax and high sala
ries:
Incomes now come .in for recognition as
subjects of assessment’ and taxation. The
trouble is that the shoo flinches just at the
spot where you begin to pat it on. The eight,,
ten and twelvehundred dollar victims squirm
most and cry loudest, while tho fat salaried
officials merely realize the simplest sort of
pressure, and cheerfully acquiesce in the de
mands ot the government. For. instance,
what appreciable difference will it make with
tho $25,000 salary of the president of our
largest Marine Insurance Company? or with
Moses 11. Grinnell’a annual §15,000 income
from tho Sun Mutual? Then there are tho
two presidents of pur heaviest Fire and Life
Companies, who, as well as Richard Lathers,
of tho Great Western Marine, pocket $lO,OOO
a year salary. What is a paltry three hun
dred a year to either of them I So on through
tlie lists. The cashier of‘the bank of Com
merce gets $7,500 per annum ; the president
of the Bank of tho Republic $7,000; the cash
ier of the same lank $0,000; the same officers
of the Importers and Traders’ Bank $O,OOO
and $l,OOO respectively ; the cashier of tho
United States Trust Company $5,000; the
manager of the Clearing House $4,000 ; the
secretary of the Howard Insurance Company
$5,000. Is it probable than an'income tax of
three per cent, will affcct.fhom ? Or take the.
clergy, Henry Ward beooher with his $7,000
a.year will smile ns he chocks for the tax.
Doctors Adams, Spring, Tying, Rico, et id
omiiagenus, not one wilt groan,'. But tho pull
will come when the sqjalisr fry of all classes
and branches of business and industry bleed
for tho country, and to sustain tho Union.
Every man of less income than filtecn hun
dred dollars makes a sacrifice far heavier and'
costlier than any three per cent, represents.
But it cannot bo helped.
Washington and the Corporal.
During the American Revolution, it is Said,'
the commander of a little squad was giving
orders to those undor him, relative to a log
of timber which they were endeavoring to
raise up to the top of some military works
they were repairing. The timber wont up
with difficulty, and on this account'the voice
of the little man was often heard, in regular
vociferations—
“Ueaveaway! there she goes! heave hoi 1 '
An officer, not in military costume, was
passing, and asked the commander, why he
did not take hold and render a little aid. The
latter, astonished, turning round with all the
pomp of an emperor, said, ,
' “ Sir, I am a corporall”
“You are, are you?” replied thp officer,
‘‘l was not aware of that;” and taking off
his hat and bowing. tho officer said, “I ask
your pardon, Mr. Corporal," and then dis
mounted and lifted till the sweat stood m
drops on his forehead. • ....
When the work was finished, turning to
the commander, he said,
Mr. Corporal, when you have another such
job, and have not men enough, send for your
conuuandor in-chiof, and I wiUoomo and uolp
you a second time." ' _ ’
The corporal was thunderstruck I It was
Washington who thus addressed him I I
An Extraordinary Story -Love and Mnrder.
London has had two terrible sensations to
occupy its attention during the last month—
one the Vidil case, whose progress wo have
chronicled for our readers; and by the latest
arrival wo get the conclusion of another affair
as strange and full of passion as any that is
recorded in the annals, of crime. On the
12th of July, Major Murry, until recently .an
officer, of the Hussars, and now a Director in
a wealthy Stock Company, was accosted in the
public'streets by a man who was an entire
stranger to him. The new comer introduced
himself under the name of Grey;,said ho
wanted to loan money for a client, to the com
pany of which Murray was a director; offered
£OO,OOO and requested the Major to walk
into his ( Grey's) office, it was up one pair of
Stairs, and in a back room, in a public and
respectable street, but Murray bad never be
fore been in the house. He followed, how
ever, into tlio office and seated himself, when
some unimportant business conversation took
place, occupying not move than a minute or
two. Boberts (the real name of tho stran
ger) rose to get his card of address, which
tho other had asked for. The doors were
closed, Murray sat with his back to Roberts,
who pretended to be looking for a card. Pre
sently Murray felt a slight touch in the back:
of his neck, there was a report of a pistol, j
arid bo dropped off his chair ' on tho ground
perfectly paralyzed; in a moment, Roberts
came up aYid seeing that bis victim still lived,
fired a pistol into Murray’s right temple; this,
did not kill, but he pretended to bo dead, and
when Roberts walked away, Seized a pair of
tongs lying near, sprang to bis feet, and
strufck at the' wretoli. He raised his arm,
and a terrible struggle ensued ; Roberts fell
under, and Murray bit him several times in
tho fabo and on the head with the tongs, get
ting bis own knees on Roberts’ chest. Then
Roberts got .away the fongs, .and Murray
'seized Si black bottle, but it was smashed to
pieces iti |ohq blow. The two wounded men,
both streaming with blood, contrived both.tn
get to their feeti'itri.d another struggle took
place; finally Murray got possession of the
tongs, and by a succession of heavy blows
thought that be had killed his adversary,
knowing that his own life was at stake. He
then found thedobr locked, aud clambered out
of the window to a po : eeman, ignorant all
the time whether lie should not meet confed
erates of his would bo murderers. Help was
got, Murray taken to ah hospital, and Roberts
discovered. *•. . _
For nearly a fortnightthe mystery remained
unravelled. Roberts did not die for a day or
two, but nothing oouidbo learned from him ;
Murray persisted in declaring that they nev
er had met before; Roberts’ family could fur
nish no clue to the affair, but at last a woman
who bad been supposed to bo Murray’s wife,
gave information that explained it nil. She
is, in reality and has been tor years, bis mis
tress, although this fact has not been general
ly known. Roberts has been in love with her
and the supposed Mrs. Murray has paid fre
quent visits to‘him in the very fOora where
andanxi b u s il haye the woman eltjpc
witli him to the confc/nent, proposing to de
sert his own ‘Wife; iWre can be no/loubt
thatdtoberts* passion for the mistress of Mur
ray; provoked him to,the endeavor to get
Murray out of the way.
Lost Cim,n Found after Fodr Years’Ab 7
sence. —The Wowing effecting incident,
which has just transpired in Baltimore, is re
lated by one of the papers of that city: ..
Ap incident occurred yesterday at the Ea
stern District Police Station, of a very affecting
and interesting character. About three o’clock
in the afternoon, Mr. John W. Frank was
passing along Gough street, nearßethol, when
a boy, about ten years of ago, mot, him, and
asked for a’penny. Mr. Frank handed the
boy ten cents, but as ho did so, thought hero
cognized tho child, and asked his name, when
he replied that it was Behring. After some
further conversation, Mr. Frank became con
vinced that the boy was no other than tho
lost son of a widowed friend of his ; and with
this impression he took him by the hand and
conducted him to tho Eastern Police Station,
when ho informed the officers in charge of his
suspicion. An officer was , despatched for
Mrs. Dohring, who hastened to the station.—
On entering and observing tho child, she ut
tered a shriek, sprang towards him and clasp
ed him in her arms, kissing him passionate
ly, while the tears gushed from her eyes.—
The boy stood amazed, not exhibiting the
slightest recognition. Tho, mother continued
her caresses, at tho same time asking him if
he did not remember her, and referred to in
cidents to awaken a remembrance of his homo.
In a few minutes tho boy’s countenance
changed, tears started from his eyes, and,
throwing his arms around his mother's neck,
ho exclaimed, “ You are my mother.” On
tho recognition, Mrs. Dohring appeared to be
wild with joy. She wept,, laughed, clasped
her hoy to her breast, and then prayed. The
scene was one which those who witnessed it
will ever remember, and which awakened
within a sympathy which found expression in
tears. When about six years of age, tho boy
wandered from bis home, and, after a diligent
search, tho mother came to tho conclusion
that ho was drowned; and for years mourned
his death. The boy states that he has been
living with many different families, who
kept him to run errands and do light work,
but lately ho has hail no home, and was com
pelled to bog during the day, and tho money
which he collected he gave to a German fam
ily, who gave him in return lodgings and food.
Philosophy of Bain.
To understand the philosophy of this beau
tiful and often sublime phenomenon, so often
witnessed since the creation, and essential to
the very, existence of animals, a few facts de
rived from observation anil a long train of ex
periments must bo remembered:
- 1. Wore the atmosphere everywhere, at all
times at a uniform temperature, wo should
never have rain, or bail, or snow. The water
absorbed by it in evaporation from the sea and
the earth's surface would descend in an im
' perceptible vapor or cease to bo absorbed by
the air when once fully saturated.
2. The absorbing power of the atmosphere,
consequently to capability to retain hum.,.-
ty, is proportionally greater m cold than
near the surface of the earth is
warmer than it is in the region of the clouds.
The hieheif we ascend from the earth the cold
er do we find the atmosphere. Hence the
perpetual show on very high mountains in the
hottest climates. Now, when from continual
evaporation the air is highly saturated with
vapor, though it bo invisible and the sky cloud
less, if its temperature is suddenly reduced
by cold currents of air rushing from above,
or from a higher to a' lower latitude, its ca
pacity to r stain moisture is diminished, clouds
are formed, and the result is rain. Air'.Con
denses as it cools, and like a sponge filled
with water and compressed, pours out tho air
which its diminished capacity cannot hold, j
Summer Management ofßees.
During the summer weeds and all vegeta
tion should bo kept clear from tho hive; spi
der webs also should he cleared away, and
the hives protected from storms. Thisnlso
is tho time for moths, that is, during July and
August..and if the apiarian will occasionally
at evening, pass around his hives with a .light
he may destroy a great many millers that are
lurking about ..the hives much more success
fhlly than during the day time.
These millers are of a light gray color,
and about half an-inch in length, and rather
slim—and are as spry as a weasel, it is utter
ly useless to attempt to catch or pick-up ono
with the fingers, and tho only effectual way
to despatch, them is, to put on an old mitten ;
with the fiat’pf tho hand give thorn a sly and
sudden slap ; in this way u person after a lit
tle practice may succeed an destroying them
with tolerable success. They may often be
seen during tho daytime about the outside of
the hive, or in tho joints, or between boards.'
If a dish of 'sweetened vinegar and water; bo
placed near tho hives during the night, a good
many mhy .be destroyed by this means, as
they will bo attracted to it by its flavor and
fall into it, and will not bo able to risV again.
Many suppose that tho miller will deposit her
eggs in the joints or crapks on the outside of
■the hive,, but this is a mistake, unless there is
wax or proprolis to de’posit them in, .The
egg rdquires some nourishment to. mature it,
and instinct tenches the miller this, and this
accounts for her anxiety to gain tin entrance
into the' hive where she can have accosa to the
wax and combs. ■- The best and moat effectual
protection against tho ravages of the insect
are strong stocks, and. hives that afford a
small amount of unoccupied room.
fdlitlcal.
Al the Confessional.
The Tribune, having commenced to hum
ble itself in view of its awful responsibilities
for .nrging our bravo men into the jaws of
death, seems inclined to make full confession
before the public. In Saturday’s issue, the
editor, who wo are happy to learn is now Ml'-
Groely, uses the following language:
"We have confessed our own terrible mis
take in the promises, and are trying to amend
if. Goh. Scott has been equally ingenuous
and candid. “It was a miscalculation of for
ces,” he says of the recent disaster. That is
the real truth. None of 'us had any idea'of
the’immense numbers and tremendous engi
nery of war that the rebels had silently col
lected around their position at Manassas Junc
tion. Whoever .ordered or planned the at
tack bit that position was utterly unaware of
their strength'. Nothing on earth could have
induced General Scott to order or even give a
formal assent to that movement, had not he
too been systematically and utterly deceived,'
Very few dreamed that that .position was to be
attacked in front, but supposed it Would be
turnpd, and thb-rebols compelled to retire.from
it by mtenyipting thoir communications.—
But there is no time now for these discussions.
Put all the blame on tis that oan ba laid there
(or tho benefit of the cause, but hush all bick
erings—well meant, doubtless, ,but most un
timely—and lot ns try to save, the country.”
It is very well for the Tribune to confess
its own lack of information arid judgment, but
wo do not believe it is authorized to speak for
Gen. Suolt.
Why is it, we respectfully ask, that “none
of us [that is the ultra, fanatical war party]
had any idea of the immense numbers ana
tremendous enginery of war’’ which our army
was to meet at Manassas ? Simply, as wo be
lieve, because there was neither wish nor pur
pose to seek for the information. The war ad
vocates were too intent upon their partisan'
objects, to stop for a day to procure the infor
mation, .
It was just this difficulty which has rushed
the nation on in the mad career which is now
so suddenly arrested. They had no idea of
the character of the undertaking,.although a
thousand times told all about it by this and
other journals which had an idea on the sub
ject. There are none so blind as they that
will not see, but wo think sunroof these fanat
ics have not only had their eyes opened, but
we trust have also had a Jew ideas beaten into
their understandings, by the scenes already
enacted on the battle Hold. If they could only
get an idea of averting the terrible bloodshed
’which is in store, it would bo a happy thing
for the country. —Journal of Commerce.
Beecher on (lie Slain in. Battle.
Kev. Henry Ward Beecher has just taken
his vacation till September, and his congre
gation may do the best it can for spiritual
food during the interval. On taking leave he
preached a sermon on the killed in the recent
battle. The following is an extract:
“ More than one-half of the human race die
in the cradle. More than one-half of the oth
er half die before old age. ■ Sudden death is
not most to bo dreaded, The most painful and
the slowest road to Heaven is by disease.—
Looking at it in its just view, commend me to
sudden death by the llghthing.stroko, by the
whistling ball. To bo sure, with sudden death
there is a violent shock ; but ns a translation,
to pass through the golden doors of Heaven,
violent deaths are to be desired. For mo, let
God’s will be done ; lot me die when and
where Ho pleases ; but with my Will, not with
the long vacation furnished, by sickness arid
disease, my body parched with fever, my blood
drying up. my brain stagnant to go, crawling
and creeping out ol life, but rather in full
manhood and life, full of vigor.” 1
It is very evident thaMlie reverend gladia
tor mistook his profession, and that ho ought
to bo leading a brigade.*. Instead’of n minis
ter of peace, ho ought, to bo a man of war. ,
He thinks the .best way men can die is, not by
disease, but by a sudden death from “whist
ling ball " H was no doubt, for this reason,
(bat in the Kansas troubles he recommended j
Sharpe’s rifle as bettor medicine for soul and :
body than the Bible. Yet it is remarkable 1
-.that like Gen. Grcely, ho takes care-to keen
out of tl|b way of the whistling bullets, which ,
they think excellent music forothorlVion’s oars. ,
Wliy did ho not accompany the grand army ,
to battle, even ns chaplain, if in no other way ?
If Mr. Beecher’s doctrine be sound, then the
the prayer in the Liturgy of the Episcopal
church which deprecates “sudden death”
must bo all wrong, and men ought to commit
suicide if they can not find death in any oth
er form. “ Violent deaths,” ho says, “ are to
be desired." The worst of this plan would
bo that it would soon bring the human species
to an end. Thus do the fanatical clergy, cut
ting adrift from common sense, run war and
all other things into the ground.— N. Y. Her
ald.
IC?” Antagonist soy . that , a man changes
every seven yoara. " Therefore/’ aaya tho in
imitable Jones, “ my tailor should not re
mind mo of tin; ‘little bill’ I contracted in
1854—1 aia’tttonian.’'
#sjof anb d&iba.
O* Nothing dries sooner than a tear.
O’" Fashionable.—Midnight carousels and
swelled-heads in thp morning.
O" Bo cautious wb%t you say—when and
to whom. ' ,
0”I,f you wish to reada rouge, look at his
eye. ✓ .
[C7* Perfumery.—An article that indoledt
young ladies use in the place", of waiter and
soap. ■ , ,
BZ7* Scarlet, silk, and velvet. have put out
iho kitchen fire.
B®* The govern went has- contracted foir
100,000 now muskets. ■ , .
WSy-No man has a right to do as he pleases,
except when he pleases to do right.
O’ The captain of a steamboat will never
bo at bis wheel if he is always upon his
guard. . ' ’
O’Never take a wife till thou hast a
house to put her in. ■
jjgy'-Josliua E. Biddings is opposed to any
relaxation of party desoipliho, and has writ
ten a letter urging a strict adherence to the
ultra Abolition .Republican creed.
BajJ“ The following is an Irishman’s descrip
tion of making a cannon :
“ Take a long hole and pour brass, or iron
around it.” 1
/Klgf lt is reported in Paris that young Mr.
Patterson Bonaparte is about to marry a
daughter of Prince Murrat.
C 7” Wlion does a farmer act with great
rudeness towards his corn? When.he pulls
its ears. ■> ,
O’ A girl recently discarded her beaux
because he inadvertently stated that he had
-dept with Clear Conscience. the night be
fore. ■
(E7* Riohmond is one hundred and thirty
miles, by railroad, from Washington. •
O’lf you have gone half crazy at not hav
ing won your sweetheart as ii wife, remember
you might have the other half if you had soo
needed. ' •
BQS“ “Where-shall I put this paper so as to
bo sure jof seeing ituto-morrow ?” inquired
Mary Jane of lier brother Charles. “Oh, : on'
the, looking glass, to .bo sure," was the re;
piy. \
O’A seaman who had escaped one of the
recent shipwrecks, was asked by a lady how
he felt when the waves dashed over him. . He
replied; "Wet, madam, quite wet.”:-
Bgf-001. Lander eays that he would rather
fight another battle with the troops who,fell
back at Bull Bun than with the now levies,
; lie values the experience of one such battle
highly., ...I. .
' ■. Thb&as j. Armstrong, who we* Mmev
time hack found guilty and sentenced fobs
hung by the Court in Philadelphia, for ■ the
m urder'of Eobert Crawford, waa executed on:
the 9th inst.
O” Any one may bo a fool in the head or
a fool in the heart and escape detection, but
if he is a fool in the face, he is indubitably
condemned.
JBSy* The soldiers, great risk is that of be
coming extinguished before he can become
distinguished; ,
[C?” A smile is like the bursting of the sun
front behind a Cloud, to him who thinks he’,
has no friends in the wide world.
: IT - Ladies of fashion starve theirhappiriess
to food their vanity, and their love to feed
their pride.
K 7” A man frequently admits that he was
in the wrong, but a woman ueyer—she was
“only mistaken.” ,
ICT “If all the world wore blind what a
melancholy sight it would be,” said an Irish
Clergyihan to his congregation.
O* An old maid who has her . eye a little
Sideways on matrimony, says the curse of
war is. that it will make so many. widows,
who will bo fierce to got married, and, know
how to do it, that modest old maids Will stand
no chance at nil.”
A Goon Arrangement.— The ’Wilmington -
and Weldon Railroad Company is about fife ,
ting up ambulance cars for. transportation of'
sick and wounded soldiers. These oars are
intended to run all the way from Richmond
to the Cape Fear River, and are to have easy
lounges and hammocks.
slaves who run away from their
masters in Virginia are sot to work at, once
by Gen. Butler and made to keep at it, much
to ftieir annoyance. One of them baviog been
put to it rather strong, said—“ Golly, Mns
sa Butler, dis nigger never bad to work so,
hard before; guess dis chile will seoesh once
moah.”
jQy- \ rough individual, whoso knowledge
of classical language was not quite complete,
has been sick, and on recovery was told by
his doctor that bo might have a little-auimal
food. “No, sir,. I took your gruel easy enou
gh, but hang mo if I can go your hay and
oats.” ...
ITT” A patent-medicine man advertises to
this effect; “Consumptives, cough while you
can; for, after you have taken one bottle of
my mixluro, you can’t.” We rather think we,
won t take any of that stuff, untill wo find out
wlmt bo moans by the above rather equivocal
extract from his advertisement.
i£7~ A ouecxuon standing by asowing ma
chine, at which a young lady was at work,
looking alternately at the machine and at ite 1
fair operator, at length gave vent to his admi-r
ration with, “ by golly 1 it’s purly, specially,
the part with calikor. ’
, [CT Tasking of political chances, a Ver
mont Democrat remarked that he oncercamo
“ within one” of being elected, to. the highest
office in the St ate. ■ A friend intuited what
ho meant by “one!” “The candidate of the
other party!” was the reply. .
.A SunF.wp Remark.— Barnum lays it down
as a rule, in his work on “ The Art of Making
Money,” that “ the proper time to advertise
judiciously , is when other s dent.’* It strikeaus
that Barnum is very nearly • right, and ms
words we commend to our business men at
the time when they seem to heed encourage
ment. ’ d
Remedy for Curing Bee Stings.—l have
kept bees for tho last thirty years. At first 1
I dreaded the sling of a bee on account of
pain and swelling. I tried all remedies, *nd
they failed to euro; but for ten years part | .
take dry salcrntus or soda, momton the skin, ~
and apply tho soda; it is a complete care
on me. ■ ;
Nt). li.