VOL. 49. AMERICAN VOLUNTEER. rDBUSHBD EVERT THURSDAY MORNISa BY JOHN B. BRATTON. TERMS. Sdbsoriptiow. —Two XMlttfi) If paid within the year; and Two Dollars and Fifty Cents,if not paid •within the year. Those terms wit! bo rigidly ad hered to in every instance. No subscription dis continued until all arrearages aro paid unless at tthe'option of the Editor. •Advertisements —Accompanied by thecAsn, and Hot exceeding ono square, will bo Inserted three times for Ono Dollar, and twenty-five cents for each Additional insertion. Those of a greater length in Job-Printino— Such as Hand-bills, Posting-bills, iPampblote, Blanks, Labels, <to, <fcc., executed with .-oonraoy and at the shortest notice. pitik&l 'Pirn,! A flush of green'is on tho-e A warm breath pantefch in the . And in the earth a heart pulso there Throbs underneath her breast of snow. -«Lifo is 'astir.am'ong tho'woods, ■ And, by tUo moors and by the stream, Thoycar, as from a torpid dream, "Wakes in tbo suusbiuo on tbo buds; 'Wakes-trp in music, ns the song 1 Of woodland pool tbo gleam receives,. Through bright flowers,overtraded,leaves J Of broken sunlight, golden green. ‘ She sees the outlawed winter stay Awhile, to gather after‘him .‘Snow-robes, frost-crystalod diadem, * And;then in soft Showers pass away. - ‘She cotild’not loyo Yough winter well; And cannot choose bufc mourn him now; So wears awhile on horyoung brow Ilia gift—a gleaming icicle, ' Then turns her loving, to the sun» . Upheaves her bosom's swell to his, ■■ And, in tho.joy.of his first kiss, * Forgets for aye that sterner one; . , Old,winter's pledge front her ho reaves— That Icy-cold, through glittering spar— ; And zpnesher with a green cymar, ■And girdles'round her brow with loaves. (Cho'peimToso and wood-violct ■ ■Ho tan glee‘in her shining hair, And teaches.elfin breezes fair To sing her some sweet -canzonet- All promising long summer hours,- When she in his .embrace shall fie, Under the bread dome of brighter sky, On mossy couches starred with, flowers. Till she smiles bade again-to him, ‘ • * The beauty beaming from -bis face. And, robed in light, glows .with the grace Of Eden palaced cherubim. ’. . 0 earth, thy glowing loveliness.. Around our very hearts has thrown' An und.immcd Jo3'ancoaUits own, And shunn'd us o'er, with happiness. MMliiimm. AN EARTHQUAKE IS INDIA, A N’IGIIT OF TERROR. The undulation of tbe earth, though fain ter, still 'continuing, Janies proposed we Should take refuge with Torollas for a time, seeing tl;at the house had withstood the re cent shocks, and not thinking we should have any others more-violent. We rose, holding ■ each other tightly,- and making our way to dho door as direct as we could, groped about till wo had found the fastening, when we • pushed it open, and felt our way along the passage to the staircase. We knew our way to the principal apartments and, wo made our ■way from one to the other of'these, notwith standing the dead silence which followed my • (husband's calls for Torollas., Wo had opened the doors of several rooms and we were on the .point -of leaving the house, supposing that Torollas with his family had abandoned it, when wo remembered a room which gave a Hite -view of the city and the environs. In . the.intonao darkness which had prevailed, ive had-to grope a long time before we could find the door, but when wo found it-and pushed it open, the glare which rushed into our eyes was terrible. 1 believe the-building was in flames, but so horrible was the pain in my eyes, and so great the bewilderment caused hy the brilliant light-after being so long in such pitchy darkness, that I could not have fled it I felt the fire laying hold of mo. I covered my face with iSfy hands and the pain diminished, I parted my fingers little by lit tle, and let in.the light gradually, till f was able to open my eyes to the light without, protection. Madame Torollas was most kind in her attention fo me, even at such a mo ment, and her daughters wore willing assist ants. They brought water to wash pur wounded feet; but my husband would not allow the bandages to bo removed, for fear of .pausing inflamation of the wounds, by expo ■Pingrthom to tiie air in such a hot climate, .especially astwo might, within a minute. Have ; to run out of the house. ,We were glad en ,ough, however, to avail ourselves of their of fered kindness in the matter of Clothing, and •when these arrangements were,, completed, ■we wont to the window, and looked out. The sight was grand and horrible. The flames which now rose from iho houses on both sides of the street lit up the tower of the convent, which had hitherto resisted the shucks of the earthquake, with a bright red glow, and showed us every projection and iorevioo, oven to the bird sitting on the tree .near her nest, cither kept there by hormator mal instinct or too bewildered to fly away.— -A little below tins convent, the road widened 'several feet beyond what lay below us, and •at the 'bottom it narrowed again, and was •shut in .by o tanner’s yard. This factory or store was blazing fiercely, and Torbllas told ■us that one part of the building was used to store a largo quantity of saltpeter. Most of 'the inhabitants had probably made their as-' cape ; but there wore still many in the street who might have delayed their flight to save something from the general wreck, but were more like plunderers who were taking.advan tago of coufusion and terror to help them selves to the property Of others. If this were so they paid dearly for their crime. A, repo-, tition of the shocks, so violent that the broad, solid building which we were in shook and trembled, brought down the convent tower, which crushed tho opposite houses on the two aides of the street into one mass, so that a low. Upt flaming barrier out off their oscupo, and shut them in qn all sides. It was a dreadful sight to soo the poor creatures .“lining to and fro, seeking with frantic goa urea sumo outlet and finding pone. Some . } n 110 n, 'ddle of the street, insensible or ami ’ a e 'T l° a P e d among the burning ruins onnn"'(■ r ° Blt ber consumed or made their es „.!,*{ °r they returned no more; but the L , ' P arfc of them huddled together in the auoat part of tho street, the stronger struggling savagely to force themselves into the centre of the group. 'JL'he intense heat soon reduced strong and weak to one level) and for some minutes before motion ceased altogether, weponld distinguish nothing hut a writhing mass. Soon a . pole bright flame seemed to be hovering over it, like a bird of prey over a dying camel in the desert, sink ing loner and lower, till it suddenly seized upon it and wrapped it in a shroud of fire.— Ifaint with horror, yet with something like a feeling of thankfulness in my heart that wo had not wandered into this street in the ob scurity, I turned away from the window, and sat down on a couch, James said he intend ed to get out of tho town ns soon -as it was daylight; hot ffbrollas declared that his con fidence in the stability of bis house was so perfect that nothing would induce him to abandon it, but that his wife and family were free to go with us if they choose. At the first appearance of daylight, wo all ascended to the reof of the house, to get a more perfect view of the damage that had been done. The shook,? were still frequent, but less violent, and we cd.mforted ourselves with the belief that the worst was over. Our host brought us some food ana wine, and bad gone down ‘to -get some cigars tC.r himself and James, 1 when a prolonged, dull rocr told us that an l other shook 1 was approaching. All at once f tho Vibratory motion changed tbi' one of up heaval, tho'house parted in two, ana we felt gur.’olvcs descending to tho earth with a ra pidity took my breath away, and I became for the first time 'wisonsihle. When I recovered my’ senses my first -thought was of mv i, osband. J opened my eyes and found him still ai we, and, ns it turned out, with limbs unbroke.’’• though greatly bruised Pie was feeling my pJse ana looking anxiously at my face for signs o. f recovery, and bis joy when I opened my eyes, wa3 evldont eve " my enfeebled vision. Afte.’” a.™onient, I 'thought of Madame Torollus anu her daugh ters, and naked him in a faint voice “ they were nil safe;ho only pointed to whn. a P’ peared a heap of torn clothing, arid I comprC" hendbd that they—who, had, a few minutes before, been standing on the terrace—had been precipitated into the street below and. killed. . .When I attempted to move, I suffered in- ''-'Ug])3, *U', tense pain in my right leg, which was so helpless that I felt it must bo broken. My husband examined it, and found that it was fractured a Ijttlo below the knee, and that any further walking on my part was quite out of the question. He went away a minute dr two, and came back with some strips of ■linen and pieces of rafters; which he smoothed ■and-out with his knife into splinters, and set the bone-as circumstances would admit of.— After ho had done this, he searched for and, found some food which poor Torollas had brought up, and made me swallow a few mouthfuls; but I wanted water most, and this ho. was unable to get without going some ■distance, wherefore. I preferred to suffer thirst rather than lot him go out of sight.— ; Daylight -mado'-no. difference in tlns vo.rity of the shocks,, but shortly after sunrise they became less frequent, and about uoori seemed to have ceased altogether, and people began to appear again in.the street. My husband appealed to several who passed to assist him in removing mo to a place of shelter, but they all refused, or pretended not to hear him; probably they had lost relatives the previous night, and were tee anxious to discover thing respecting them to pay attention to’tin words of a stranger. It was impossible to carry me himself in the condition I was in, on account of the pain it gave me to move, and wo were obliged, though with great re luctance, to consent to a separation while he went to Batalha, the horse dealer, to get a mule to carry me, a vehicle of any kind be ing useless in such encumbered streets. Eve ry minute seemed an hour while I was wait ing his return, and yet minute after minute passed, and bo did not make his appearance. I knew the distance was hot great, and, ma king every allowance, as, I thought, for the difficulties ho might have to overcome, he ought to have been back long since, when a darkening of the air, accompanied this time by a strong sulphureous smell, gave notice that another calamity was about to burst on the devoted city. The O"onings of the ground wore more frequent and far more terrible to see, now that the daylight illumined them; and showed their unfathomable depth. . One of these split open so close to the ruins on which !I was lying, that a portion rolled in.— The sun’s rays fell directly into it, and I shuddered as I gazed into the gulf which was deeper than the deepest abyss I had ever im agined myself falling into in the wildest nightmare. I drew hack, trembling with horror and fright, and buried my face in my arms to abut out the dreadful spectacle. I prayed for my husband’s return, hut lie came not. I would have dragged myself along in the direction in which he had gone, if I had been able ; but 1 was entirely powerless ; and. to add to the terrors of my position, I now discovered that a circular stone building (used, I believe, for the temporary confine ment of prisoners) trembled with every shook, and, cracked as.it was in different directions,: threatened every instant to bury mo beneath its ruins. ■ ' It will not be easy for any body to realize my feelings as Day on this heap of.rubbish, watching the quivering blocks of stone and the powdered mortar which was grated out from between them, and fell upon mo in a shower of dust. -I entreated sevorrti who passed to come and remove mo, if only for a few yards, so that I might bo out of reach of the building ; and some were about to help mo, .but when they saw the imminence of tho danger, they, like tljo Levire of old, turned away, and passed by on the other side. The good Samaritan came at last, however, in tho form of a poor woman, carrying a baby in her arms; In answer to my appeal, she laid her babe tenderly on the ground, lifted me up, and carried me beyond the reach of this last danger; after which she offered to get mo some water, an offer I accepted with a grateful heart, for the pain I was induring, and the anxiety I had undergone, had parched ,my .throat to tliat degree that every breath I drew caused roe the most acute pain, height ened, perhaps, by tho sulphureous exhala tions which now filled the air. She was go ing to carry her babe with her, but I took it from her as she was stooping to pick it up, and told her I would take cure of it. Poor little innocent, it wanted no further care, It seamed asleep, but it was asleep from which it would never wake again ; probably it had boon suffocated by the pressure of tho crowd on the preceding night. This kind woman soon returned with some water, and I raised it to my lips eagerly, anticipating the most delicious sensation from the refreshing cool ness it sent through me the instant it touched my lips, I found to my disappointment, that contact between it and ray throat caused mo so much pain that I could only swallow a few mouthfuls, and I was obliged to content my self with tho relief it afforded mo to hold It in my mouth. I questioned the charitable creature who had so opportunely come to my assistance as to wheroshe was going, and found sho had no fixed idea beyond getting into the open country, upon which I proposed that if sho would remain with mb till my husband re turned we would take her with ns. Sho accepted my offer, and to my great joy she had not long to wait before he returned with two mules which ho had found in a sta ble in the suburbs, the house to which ho first wont having been shaken down. He seated mo on the mule, and though wo had still great difficulties to contend against, in the form of clouds of dust, heaps of ruins, and occasional gaps in the ground, wo grad ually approached the outskirts of the town, which wb ultimately succeeded in passing through, and finally found a place of refuge in a shopherp’s hut, which an earthquake might swallow up, but could not shake down, from its being built, except a few stones heaped up round’the lower part, of stakes,, wicker-work, and dried sheep skins with the wool oh them. •Wo did not return to Nanhuisaloo till April, 1860, some raontlis after the catastro phe, when we tound that traces of the earth quake still remained in. the form ,of deep chasms, which gaped in a way that forcibly recalled the horrors wo had seen on that oc-, casion. Mining Under the Sea. • Mining can hardly be a pleasant occupa tion. The absence of sun and all natural ligi.t. the dripping sides of the shaft, the danger jf explosion from the fire-damp, of the fall of jutting rocks, and numorous olhcr per ils, invest it wit. 1 ' vague terrors to active im aginations. But w.'.''m the shafts ran under the sea, and the swell outlie, ocean is distinct ly audible, and it must suggest many fears-to the dilligent miners. The follo-Ttag graphic description is taken from an Englis.'.' paper : “ We are how fbur hundred yards out, un der the sea, and twenty feet below the sea level. Coast trade vessels are sailing over our heads. Two hundred and forty feet below ,us men are at ,work, and there are galleries decpOf yet below that. The : extraordinary position', ( lown the face of the cliff, of tiho-en gines and other works on the surface, at Bottallie, is iiu'v explained. The mine is not excavated.like ottu-v mines ; under the earth, but under the : sea. Jlaving communicated these particulars, the mi.ner next tells us to keep strict silence and listen, Wio obey him, sitting speechless and motion,css. If the reader could,only see us how, dressed in our copper-colored garments, huddled together in a more cleft of subterranean rock, with a flame burning on our heads and enveloping our limbs, ho must certainly have imagined without any violent,stretch of fancy 1 that he was looking down upon a great con clave of. gnomes., After listening' a few minutes a distant' and unearthly sound hooomes.faiutly audible —a long, low, mysterious moaning, that nev er changes, that is felt on the ear as well, as .hoiml by.it, a. that iuip;hb proQo.cd fvom some incalculable distance—from some far’, invisible height—a sound' unlike -anything' that is'heard on the upper ground, in; the free air of heaven—a sound so, sublimely mournful and still, so ghostly aud impressive when listened to,in the subterranean recesses of the earth, that rye continue insinotively to hold our peace; as if enchanted by it, ;and .think not of communicating to each other the Rtrango awe and astonishment which ft has inspired in us from the very first moment. At last the .miner speaks again, and tells us that the sound wo hoar is the surf lashing the racks a hundred- and twenty feet' above us, and of the waves on the beach beyond-.—- The tide is now at the flow, and the 50a is in no extraordinary state of agitation ; so the sound is low and distant just at this period. But when, storms are at . their height, when the ocean hurls mountain after mountain of water on the cliffs, then the noise is terrific; the roaring heard,down hero in the mine is so inexpressibly fierce and awful that the bold est men at work are afraid to continue their labor; all. ascend to the surface to breathe the upper air and stand on firm earth, dread ing—though no catastrophe has ever hap pened. yet-—that the sea will break in oo them if they remain in the cavern. “ Heating this, we got up to look at the rock above us. Wo are able to stand upright in tlio position we now occupy ; and flaring .our candles thither. and thither in the dark ness, Can see tbo bright, pure copper stream ing through the gallery in every direction. Lumps of oozo, of the most lustrous green •color, traversed by a natural net-work ot thin rod veins of iron, appear hero and there, in largo irregular patches, over which water is dripping slowly and incessantly in certain places. Tliis. is the salt water percolating through invisible crannies in the rock. On very stormy days it spurts out furiously in thin -continuous stream.;. Just over .our heads wo observe a wooden plug, of the thick ness of a man’s log ; there is a hole thor.e, and that plug is all, wo have to keep out the sea. “'lmmense wealth of metal is contained in the roof of tills gallery throughout its en tire length, but will-always remain untouch ed-; the miners dare not tako it, for it is part.(and a great part) of tho rook which is thoir only projection against the sea-, and which has boeu so far worked away hero that its thickness is limited to an average of three feet only 'between the water mid the gallery in which wo now stand. No qno knows what'might be tho consequence of an other day’s labor with tho pick-axe on any part of it.” . Anecdote. —Not long since, Mrs. 35., smell ing smoko, ran up stairs to sue from whence it came, and on going into a front room, dis covered her little “ hopeful” standing watch ing a bag of shavings burning in thofireplaoo. “ Did you do this, Eddy ?” said she. “ Yes ma’am,” was the reply. “ Come with me, sir,” was the stern reply. ■She, taking him out of tho room, brought tho ” strap” with her. Ho commenced to say— “ Mother,, please whip mo quick, I want to see the lire. Whip mo quick, ma! whip moquiokl" Ain’t it wicked to rob dis chioken roost, Bob?” said a colored worthy to his pal. “ Dot’s a great moral question, Jim; wo haint no time to argue it now. Hand down another pullet.” “ So here I am between two tailors,” said a fop at a public table, whore a couple of young tailors wore seated, who bad just be gun business for themselves. “ True,” was tho reply, “ we are now be ginners, and can only afford to keep one goose between us.” O - A man said to another, “ Which is the heaviest, a quart of rum or a quart of water ?” “ Hum, most assuredly, for I saw a man who ■weighs two hundred pounds, staggering un der a quart of rum, when ho would have car ried a gallon of water with ease.” ' “ OUR COUNTRY-MAY IT ALWAYS BE EIGHT— BUT RIGHT OR WRONG OUR COUNTRY." CARLISLE, PA, THURSDAY, APRIL I too low, seeking no sustenance, in a very ecstaey of life, light and harmonious motion. It is good to bo hero. Tlio path-glides under the hushes ; flowering branches strike against your face. As you advance, a low , cry, a rapid flight, reveal to you nests that your hand sets gently rocking as you divide the branches before you.' From every nook burst tho brilliant notes of the maestri of the wood. Redbreasts, blackbirds, chaffinches, wren—nil except the.'nightingale, who finds tlio cite.too wild ; except the lark, who pre fers -the open. sky of the fields ; -except tho quail, who hides her brood,in thojiny ;—all at the top of their voice; all, with throats proudly distended, sing, trill, call 1 It is a glorious fulness of harmony, which affects vou like tho vibrations.of sunlight. - ' Marvellously fresh is the. song of the blackbird. In tho springitifiilitely varied in its tones, it gets shorter the summer ad vances,- until,, by tho time- his nestlings are hatched, lie loses his notes one after the oilier, and remains - out short, rather quizzical, rather embarrassed, and a good deal amazed that ho can go no further. And while the blackbird' whistles at random on the top of a great oak-tree, the rod breast, perched below on some thick hush, throws off a rain of diamonds and pearls, scatters_ in the air his orystalline notes, alj.full of light and fancy. .Lower-yet, beneath the brilliant con certos and bravura songs, thorp are murmurs more intimate and charming still; tho whisper ed talk of an enamored pair ; the chirping of tho mother to her young -brood; Tho rest is a mere affair.of display ;. herd there is soul; hero thoro aro endless-narrations, of joy, sago councils,' innocent surprises ; sometimes, hut rarely, bursts cf anger ; lov ers who lose themselves in ineffable repeti tions ;■ children who speak all atrenco, and little melodious beatified sighs, as if o bird’s heart was not largo enough to hold so much happiness.— Madame de Gaspann. A Fair Start in Married Life. —For a young gentleman just turned twenty-one, and a happy bridegroom at that, the Prince of Wales has fallen heir to an exceedingly pleasant fortune immediate as well as pro spective. According to the official report which has just been laid before Parliament, the net proceeds of the revenues of his Duchy of Cornwall, now placed to his credit, after the accumulation of twenty-one years, amount to no less a sum than £584,075 —or within a fraction of throe millions of dollars in our currency. This sum has been invested ns follows : In consolidated thrpo-por cent, an nuities, £282,990 8s lid.; and in reduced throo por-cont. annuities, £289,106 4s Id ; molting together a sum of £572,075 13s of stock in those funds. There was also a sum of £12,000 reduced three-por-oont. annuities derived from another source, which the coun cil directed to bo transferred to the Prince s trustees. With a clear capital of.throe mil lion dollars, and a regular annual income ot five hundred and fifty thousand dollars be sides, the Prince and his wife may bo said to have a very fair start in the’world. O”. Effects of Drinking.— Ho who takes too many glasses will bo likely to become a tumbler. Love.— The sun of life; most beautiful in morning and evening, but warmest and stead iest ut noon. ROSSI’S PETIT lON, All for killing a robin ! I thought 'twould bo very fino, If from a plump little rodbicasl, My darling kittens could dino. So I climod high up in the treo-top, , And took him right out of his noaj, A round-eyed and plump llttlo robin, - 'With down on his pretty breast. Alllor killing a robin !, Are they any bcjtcr than mice? I heard one last night in the pantry. And pounced on him in a trice. And you called mo “ a nice old pusvy j" Blit mousey wasslcek ahdfair, And his eyes wore brighter than robin's. And shiny and sleek tfus his hair. All for killing a robin I ’ ■ • Now, Jonny, pray do tell mo’ why The robin is better than uimisey, The reason X can not deticry. I am sure, to that old mouto mother ■ • Her swoot littlo mouse is.a.sdcarj As round-eyed and plump little robin 1 . To tho redbreast, with song-noto so clear* All forkillirg a robin 0 listen, dear boy, to“my»w6e, Now 'don't drown' ybur poor old pussy ; • Como, come, let mo scamper and go. Just think of my throe frisking kittens, So cunning and happy at play ; . They’!! mow for their old eat mother, If she -does not come near them all day All for killing a robin I •. * There, Johnny, you merciful boy,' I knew your kind heart would bo softened; I 'll scamper away now for joy. ' ‘ T'II try and do bettor, dear Johnny ; ■ .. But if sometimes.l do.dfeyboy, Romctnbdr, I'm only apussfy, ' Audmuko some allowances, pra3% •iy - . Child's Paper USfiRR ■THE. li.iKS. The forest) the. real farost, lies before us. Do you wish for songs ? let us. go under the old oaks. Do. you prefer siluneo, with the vague stir iu the. air, let us keep below the pines. ' ... First of all, then, under the oaks. ' There, where tho grass.grows and,file brambles in terlace ; where tho’. sweet-briar stops up tho way and creeping plan tsKobound ; there, along that shining track)twhere footsteps have trodden dotfn the vegetation.. There it .*s that you.are fairly lost ; there that exhale nil around nameless perfumes, tresh emanations of the earth, of the old, trunks, oif the yoiingfaliagc.' The very light is-green, tho shade all interpenetrated with sun,- Not a breeze; except every how and then indeed a mere puff you know not whence, which just lifts the branches,- wafts hero and there still sweeter, scents, then dies away, and leaves you 'half intoxicated with per fume. - V What charming mysteries there are in these'nooks'!’ Millions of inaeotS) all .dow ered with intelligoiio.o, a festival, displaying, between-' the 1 hhyjies of, grass, the ■purple, the ebony, the uiizdmavtao ot -their elytra; tl-.r 1 .-,--vrr ef rrv v>6;wt<i*-''- n-1 'n'id. de licate ah'enncp, and little'feathered crests. There are artiznns among them, who lead a hard-lifer hewing, sawing, storing, night and day. IT hey are idlers who go to and fro, climb to tho top of a stalk, look_ Upon tho world below, move right and left, withnut-nny particular purpose take things as .they-iirid them. There are thinkers, too, motionless for hours beneath a sunbeam. There are busybodios, who fly in haste, make sudden starts, long-journeys, prompt returns, with out very well knowing why. There are mu, sioiuns, who for hours together go on repent ing their monotonous songs, Thors are swarms of ephemera Waving hither and thith er in some brilliant spot, neither, to high nor 10,1863. BBEyiTIES. Wise Asir v O-r«ERiri3E. ; ; If you want to\a®S(n'ted.go to a tailor; if you want to be übfeauited, go to law. Few, ladies aro<sq;'p.iodeiat as to be unwill iug to sit in the lap. of luxury and ease. . Ueneraliy the office-seeker who gets noth ing gets what is good for him, and exactly what ho is pood for. It is better to be laughed, at for not being married than to bo unable to laugh because you are. There is a. good reason why a little man should never marry a bouncing widow. Ho niight be called 11 the widow’s mite." A sentimental young man thus feelingly expresses himself; “Even as nature- benev olently guards the rose with thorns, so does she endow women with pins.” No matter how many kinds of. lovely flow ers a young woman may have in the garden of her soul if she hasn’t ane-mpney!” ' After quoting John a blind man took bis idea of scarlet from tho sound of a trumpet, a witty fellow says that a hoop skirt, hanging out of a shop door, reminds him of the peel of a belie 1 “Why tho deuce'is it,” said a ypung swell, “ that I can’t make my collar sit well ?” “ Be cause it is a standing collar,” replied the per son to whom the question was addressed.- Small debts are like small shot': they are rattling on every side; and can' scarcely be escaped without a wound. Great debts are like cannon, of loud noise, but little danger.. , A' lady, in . speaking of. the gathering of lawyers to dedicate a new court house, said she supposed they had‘gone “ to view tho ground where they must shortly lie,” “Billy how did you lose your linger ?” “ Easy enough,”-aaid Billy. “ I snppose'.you did, but how ?” ■ “ I guoss you’d have a loss 3'ourn ifit had been where mine was.”— “ That don’t answer my,question.” •“ Well, if you must know,” said Billy, “ I had to out it off, or else steal tho trap.” A young, prating lawyer orle. day.boasted to a facetious counsellor that ho had received, one hundred dollars for speaking in a certain case. “And I,” said the counsellor,. “ re ceived double that sum for holding my tongue in' tho same case.” Tub “ Devil.” ’ —Here is a description of the mysterious thing called tho “ Devil," which the Confederates captured from our ■fleet at Charleston: , ’ , “ An iron frame floated to tho water edge by pontoons, is pushed ahead of the Monitor ■as Bho.rnns.in. Its ledgth from tho bow of tho Monitor'is from twenty to thiry foot. An aperture is made next to tho vessel, of tho shape of hoi- bows, intended to receive it. The breadth of tho “ obstruction remover" is twelve feet. From..cao.h. side of the extremi ty a strong iron bar or shaft, runs down also twelve feet, the" Monitor drawing from eight to ton feet of water, thus rendering impossi ble for any,’torpedoes-over'which this “ ob struction-remover".passes to injure the ves-. sol. “ A number of Iron bars are used, nol only to form the net work so as to either push forwarder explode every torpedo less than twelve feet-under, winter,' but also to strengthen and steady tho. masts.. At the bottom a heavy tie bar unites these two vor tical-rods,'upon which rests .the percussion torpedo, containing seven hundred pounds of powder. Above this is a 'hammer which catches in a-springso stiff as to require two men to set it, but constructed so that the lever which protrudes in, front, forming the handle, or other.end of tho hammer-, will cause tlio. spring to give with little pressure. This; is to remove piles.” This “Devil” was invented by Captain Ericsson at New York, to 'clear, channels of , torpedoes and other obstructions. Ho sent four of the machines down, but three wore lost in a gale. The other arrived safely, at Hilton Hoad. . Elopement ExTßAbaniNiav.—The Dum barton Herald gives- au account of an elopC mont from that town, tlio erring fair one he- ing not a blooming maiden in her teens, but a staid matron of 53 years, who had brought her hnsbaiid a.goodly family of 13 children. She had cast a longing eye upon a fellow wlio had lived with her as a ‘lodger,. and ho, on liis part, seems not to have rejected, the the tender advances of the lady. An under standing having been pome to,.the. ill-assorted pair took advantage of the'husband's ab sence to strip tlio house of everything valua ble that eould easily be removed, not forget ting the husband’s best suit of apparel, aiid having got tho things exchanged at their “ Unele’sV for current coin of tlio realm, wont .nwrty on their wedding tour, no ono knoww-hithor. 'The ill-used-husband applied to the.police, but they; of course, could do nothing in tlio matter. .When tlio finances wear out, the soulless fellow will doubtless leave the foolish' woman to repeat at her leisure, and to find.her way back to her hus band in tlio.best way she may. A Prussian Peasant Wedding. —Tho AVoser Gazette gives some details of h wed ding which recently took place at Tcmpeliio, ,a small village in the neighborhood of Berlin, inhabited by peasants of the hotter class.— The guests numbered 120, and they consumed GO fowls, 220 pounds of carp, 330 pounds of cako. and 12 largo joints of roast veal, with ..which were drank nearly'3oo bottles of wino. Tho bride and her young friends changed their costume five times during the two days that the festivities lusted. The custom is that the bride cannot refuse a single dance, only in inviting hor-tho dancer has to pay a certain sum—a single man throe times the amount of a married one—which is for tho benefit of tho musician ; on this occasion tlio amount collected in that manner was 105 thralors, or nearly 400f.' Ip tho evening a torch-light procession in tho streets of tho village took olaco, and on tho brido going to her residence, she was accompanied by a guard of honor of fourteen peasants on horseback. Embalmed Bodies. —Some time since, in clearin" out the ruins of an old chapel in Warwickshire, Eng., several lead coffins wore oxhumod, containing the embalmed bodies of Countess and Sir Johns, which wore buried more than two hundred years ago. The coffin which contained the body of Lady Au drey Leigh, buried in 1640, was opened and thp body found perfectly embalmed and in entire preservation, Jipr flesh quite plump, ns if she wore alive, hero face very beautiful, her hands exceedingly small, and not wasted ; she was dressed in fine linen, trimmed all over with old point lace, and two rows of lace were laid flat across her forehead. She looked exactly as if she wore lying asleep, and seemed not more than sixteen or seven teen years old ; her beauty was very groat; oven her eyelashes and eyebrows wore quite perfect, and eyes wore closed ; no part of her face or figure was at all fallen ini Longevity of the Antediluvians. There are so very many causes contribu ting to shorten considerably the length of hu man life, that wo have completely lost every criterion by which to estimate its original original duration ; and it would be no slight problem for a profound physiological science to discover and explain from a deeper inves tigation of the earth, or, of astronomical in fluences, which aro often susceptible of every minute applications, the primary, causo of human longevity. By a simpler course of life and diet than the very artificial, unnat-i Ural, and ovor-refined modes we follow, there are, even at the present day numerous exam ples of a longevity far beyond tho ordinary duration of human life. '-In'lndia it is by no means uncommon to meet with men, especi ally in the Brahminical-oaste, more, than a hundred years of age, and in tho robust, and even generative vigor of constitution. In the laboring class of-Russia, whoso modes of life are so simple, there aro examples of mep liv ing to more than a hundred, a hundred and twenty, and even a hundred and fifty years of ago ; and, although those instances form but. rare exceptions, they are move-numerous there than in other European countries.— There a're even remarkable eases of old men who, after the entire loss of their -teeth have gained a complete now sot, as if their const! tu ; tion had received'a new sap of life, and a .principle of second growth. '.What in iho, i present physical degeneracy of-.mankind, forms but n.raro exception, may originally . have been tho ordinary measure of the dura tion of human life, or at least may afford us some trace and indication of such'a measure, more especially as other branches'of natural .science ofl’ur corresponding analogies. On the other side of that great wall.of separation which-divides us fiom the primitive ages, in that remote world so little known, to us, a standard for the duration of human life .very difterent-fronrthe present may have prevailed ; and such an opinion is very probable, sup ported as .it is by manifold testimony, and' confirmed by the sacred record of man’s di vine origin. —Srhlcgel Dewdrops of Wisdom, Your life is a-mod, eternal "lory, is the prize, grace und corruption lire the antagonists, ami accordingly ■as either finally prevails, eternal life is won or lost. . Gud ims not made this life altogether love ly, for then .it would bo too, short and hard to leave ; mir yet altogether pitiful, for then it would be too long anil hard to bear. Each of us bears within himself a world unknown to his follow being, and each may relate of himself a history resembling that of every ode, yet like that of no other man. Observe tire order in which Providence sends you mercies. See how one is linked strangely to another; and is a door, to let in many. Sometimes one mercy is inlroductivo to a thousand.- : ' The' pleasures of the world are deceitful; they .promise inure than'they-give. They trouble us in socking then), they do not satisfy us-when possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them. ' As. the fire would have certainly consumed and.the lions, without doubt,-have vended' and devoured' Daniel, had not Qod, by the in terposition of his own hand, ..stopped and hinderod. the'effect ; so would the sin in uS, and, the malice in others, quickly ruin out souls and bodies, were it hot that the same, hand guards and keeps us every moment!, A Goon O.ve. —The New York lYorld re cently published'brief extracts from the. wri tings of Washington and Madison, in such a manner as not to indicate the authorsi One of the Abolition papers of that city rcfer.cd to the extracts and.termed them, ‘‘ Copperhead hisses” of the World. , The World then goes back oh Mr. Abolition editor, and congratu lates him on the compliment paid to the pa triotism of \V ashington and Madison. Cl7”Snmo Young men going from Colum bus to -Cincinnati, Ohio, in the cars, wore .getting rather noisy ahdprufane, when a Gen tleman in a white cravat tapped one of them on the'shoulder, with the remark; “Young, man, do you know you are on the road to h—l ?” “ That’s my usual luck, I took a ticket to Cinciunati aud I’ve got on the wrong train.” JOS?* At a wedding, recently, when the offi ciating priest put to the lady the question; “Wilt thou have this.man to he thy wedded husband?”, she drooped the prettiest court sy, and with a modesty.which lent her beau ty an aditional grace, replied, “ If you please 1” OCT” An Irishman direct from the ard had, got, into a muss,, and was knocked down, “ And sure yon wouldn’t ho after batin’ a man when be is down said Pat.. “ Certainly not,” said bis antagonist. , , “Faix, then I’ll just lay .whore I am.” CCT'Fei-gnsmq.tlio poet, died of starvation. A splonded. monqment adorns bis grave, and on it is written: “lie asked for broad and ye gave him a stone.” The finest sarcasm ever uttered. 'K7’"\Vhtin S.’s wife kicked him out of bed one cold night, says lie.: “ See hero, now, you’d better not do Unit again ; if you do, it might cause a coolness.” DvsrEPfiA Bueau. —Tiiroe quarts unbolted wheat flour, sifted'; ono pint ot milit and a pint of water, warm but not hot; one g'll of fresh veast; ono gill of molasses or not, as may suit the taste ; • one tcaspoouful soda. Tv” A nmu who covers himself with cosily apparel and neglects his mind, is like ono who illuminates the outside of his house and sits within the dark. Josey being rather remiss in his Sun day school lesson, the teacher remarked that ho hadn’t a very good memory. No, ma’am,” and ho, hesitating ; “ but I have a first rate forgottory !” OC7” The young woman who “fainted away,” has been told bor family that it would bo more delicate for her to'faint at home. OCT" A cat of extraordinary intelligence was recently seen feeding a kitten with starch, to make it stand upright 1 This re minds us of a maid who drank a pint of yeast to make her rise early. In life wo shall find , many men that are groat and some men that are good, but very few men that are both groat and good. fiCT"Three things can never a^rco, —two oats over ono mouse, two wives in ouo house, and two lover# after one gal. Controlling Temper. ■ Fools, lunarians, the weak-minded and the ignorant, are irascible, impatient, and of un governable temper; groat hearts and wise, are calm, forgiving, and serene. The most imperturbable and the ablest dis putor of his ago was the Scotchman, Hender son. When a glass of water was thrown in his face by tho ungovernable rage into which an antagonist had allowed himself to be thrown by tire anticipation of inevitable de feat, the Scotchman calmly wiped his drip ping cheeks, and remarked with a smile, "That is a diversion; let us proceed with the argument.” ■ ■ It is said of one of tho ablest men of a past century, that, having comnleted the manu script of a work which ho’had been prepa; ring for several years, he left his room for a few moments to find, on returning, that a .-favorite little dog had, in his absence, turned; over the candle, and reduced his writings to ashes; oh observing which, be exclaimed, ‘‘‘Oh I Diamond, little dost thou know the in jury thou bast done ;” and immediately set about the reparation of the damages. . Philip tho Second, after having sat up to a late hour in the night to complete some important state papers, waked up one of his . drowsy secretaries, who! was so flurried at tliis breach of duty, that he dashed tho con tents of tho inkstand over the manuscript in- ■ stead of tho sandbox. “It would have been better to have used the sand,” was royalty's remark, on sitting down to the reproduction of the document. Washington, when high in command, pro voked a man to knock him down.. The next day he sent for the person to appear at head quarters, and asked his pardon! for in re viewing. the incidents of the case, he found that he was himself, at fault. A maghanimr ity only possible to a. truly great mind ; but it is a magnanimity, a self-control, a mastery of temper, which it is -a nobility to" strive for.— Hall’s Journal. . - • ■ Sun was Aran, Fooled ! —'‘You can’t do it again 1’ ‘ Can’t I V - ‘ No you cannot I You’ve April fooled mo. now regularly for five years, but you can nev er do it.again 1’ ' The above conversation was between 'a ivortby couple at the South End, on. Tuesday evening, March 31st. Tlie husband, a mer ry, black-eyed man of, some forbfc years of age, or thereabout, had been in the habit of playing .off some practical little joke on his lovely spouse, on the first of every April; and the good woman had now resolved to guard herself on the morrow, and thereby turn the joke. , ’ The snow fell steadily and furiously all , Tuesday afternoon and evening, but in the wee short hours of Wednesday morning the storm ceased, the air moderated, and.the; snow began to molt.' , As the clock struck five Wednesday morn ing, the snow began to slide from the roof in ! the city, in .largo quantities ! and as one I immense mass struck, the shed of bur South I End juker.it made so much noise that it I awakened every person in the house. I ‘ What’s that V screamed Mrs. JVI. , . I ’ ‘ Good heavens J’ ejaculated-M. looking as frightened, as a red-headed Irishman at a' prayer meeting. • J —l—l forgot to bolt the .kitchen window’s last night ; so good-by to that turkey and all those nice apples,!’ , ' ‘Do you think its a. burglar Y gasped • Mrs. SI., looking as white as the frill on her pretty night cap. ‘No doubt of it !’ .said’ M. ; ‘but which shall Ido .; lie still and lose the' turkey.and apples, ergo down;and.run the risk of being,j-i; shot?’ ‘ 0, I don’t core anything about the tur koy-or-the apples,’ replied Mrs. M.; ‘but I last.night carelessly left the spoons on the kitchen table 1’ ‘ Not the silver spoons V saidM., trying to’ look indignantly courageous. ' ‘ 0 forgive me. husband'; but I did.’ 1 Then I’ll save them or perish in the attempt,!’ and with a bound, that would have boon creditable to a frightened Oaraaa cbo Indian, he leaped from the bed, grasped the iron-poker and bed wrench, and fieri' down stairs as if fur bis life, ' V. Throwing open the kitchen door and ex claiming ; ‘ Out of this, you villain !’ ha commenced upsetting chairs and slashing away on the wood pile as if engaged iii a regular pitched battle. ... ' • Almost frightened to death for fear that her husband would lose his life in the en counter, the good woman threw up her win dow and screamed at the top of her voice.— * Police 1 - police 1 for heaven’s sake, po lice! Murder! Robbery! Fire! Po-loe-e-oe 1* Her strength failing her,- she hero sank ou the floor, upset, a.pail of water, and so frightened the,baby that it set up a scream 1 on Us own hook,’ which drowned all oppo sition. A small lad in the house—who was Of good stock,' and all grit—ran down stairs, screaming— * Stick to him','-uncle ! Ttero’s a pistol t Clive him goudy, while I give' him a broad side:’ , ; ' ‘ Go back to your bed, my good boy, ’ skid M., gathering around, his. stately liihbs .bis prinmtivo white garment-. * Go book to your bod, and say to your aunt, ns you pass her door, that its the first of April, and I am making the lire for an early breakfast!’ The good lady takes the joke kindly, but with a sly twinkle in her eye, she says— ‘lts a.long lane that has no end; and somebody will find eggs in their boots on the first of next April.’ —Boston Paper. CT” “Husband, I wish you would buy ma some pretty feathers.” (1 Indeed, my dear little wife, you look hotter without them.”—. “Oli, no, sir, you always call mb your littla bird, and how duos a bird look without feath* ors?” (£7* The French feed hens with bread soaked in wine to make them lay. Soaking bread and eggs in wine in this country, often makes “ old cooks” lay—in the gutter. O’"“I shouldn’t earo so much about the bugs,’’ saiila thin, pale lodger to bia landla dy, “ but the fact is, ma’am, I huia’t got the blood to spare.’’ BSJ“ A man coasos to bo n “ good fellow” the moment ho refuses to do precisely what other people wish him to do. ItßAßtfl.—Little rod things that men and women play with for money, 8@"No mnn cun avoid bis own company —so he had best make it ns good as possible. Bay Gen. Sohonck has issued an order forbidding the salo of secession musio fn Bol tiinoro. ICP*Byron said ho would rather have a nod from an American than a suulf box from an Emperor, *jT; NO. 46.
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