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»ld winter wind-—an earnest, pleading prayer beaming Iriiui those dark eves. Oscar 1 Ci-egr 1 spare me 1 I am wretched ! I am punished 1 Sparc me! spare mo I I re pent! He is dead—he fur whom I loft yon. Oh! it was a solitary fault 1 Bitterly, oh I how biueriv atoned fori' * Oil, .save me 1 save mol’ *dio, cried, inter r.upting him, and stretch ng (tut hcsi* anus in supplication. # ‘Let me know that you arc my Iriend in tins dark,hour, and that you for give me, 0-ctir.’ * Aline, I.am, as ever thy friend.’ * And will you save him—my father.’ * It God’s will permits.' ‘ May heaven bless' you.' * Aline/- -and the . amt? cold senile wreath ed his 1 i}’h — * I was young when - I first met you at the parsonage, and I thought no 1 ive like thine ; you were my angel.' Yet, when 1 learned that wrong, my heart was crushed ; yet in that dark hour. I found a friend my mother; and on her I lavished all my young atfcctioiift. When poor, she shared my pov erty, and cheered me on to brighter days.— 1 became wealths*, and she smiled upon my home, sh:.ring my wealth.' * Yet, Oscar, forgive me! only.pay that you forgive me,’ * Yon are forgiven. Aline I and you ,mav forget the bligtl/mg of one young heart.’ ‘lias he gone?’ and Aline prised low hands wildly upon her forehead. *1 have seen him—vet oh I wha,t a meeting 1 / and she sank on the floor. There wic a wil \ cry. no louder than the nates ( ,f a bird, yet so full of agony. They laid her gently noon the couch, and wa.tche 1 by her side that night, for she was ill. very .ill—-yenn was heart sickness. ’* * * The trial was over : and Mr. Thomas was ac quitted. Thejnrors, stern men though they were, could not rcsist-lhe burning eloquence of the young advocate; and without leaving their seals, they dtmlared tho prisoner at. the bar not guilty'. Then rose a cheer, so loud that it shook’ the building; and then tho yard in front filled with the crowd, all anxious and eager t'o catch a view of the young bar rister. lit* soon appeared, with a fine-looking wo man leaning upon his ann. 101 l *wed hv the .■ld mao an 1 Aline, lie greet.* I them kin I- Iv. pan-dug jww an I then to grasp the prol ‘ere'd hsm I of tme more eager than the rest to heir that voice again. Hu 10-. k A line’s, hail I as they reached the carr age, and assisted her in—then the aged ree/or. • Mav 11-aven bless you, Omar.’ , 'flic huge, mournful eye- were fixed with a wild intensity upon his; ami vhe.n the car riage drove nIT. and she'could no longer see him from the window, she sank down among the cushions —the light of that young heart had gone forevc*. ’They never mot again. O-ear Lyle became a renowned barrister ; but Aline lies in lh“ village eburcb-yard. The old man lives alone in the venerable mansion, and whenever a storm sweeps over the hills he hastens to the grave of Aline, ami clsaping the cold marble in his arms, watch es there all through the long night. It is there that his mad fancy has taken him to night. He watches hy the grnvn of Aline! The Blndmbiug DurUins-Ground. On the old stage mute leading irmu Wash ington to Haliimore, a short half mile beyond tli»- boundary of the District id Columbia, and within a mile of Bladenshorg. a few years ago the traveler might have observed mi the right loin 1. side ot die road—just whcic he cro'-se.il a little bridge—a small patch of low unreclaimed landjhickly over grown with tangled vines. There have been fifteen or twenty acres of it. It was one o[ those neglected corners where everything had so long net 1 11 permitted to hays its own way, that oven a bold cultivator might well pause before it in despair. A rank vegetation had overspread the place in savage exuberance, apparently defying all human efforts to pen etrate it. Great groups of biers radian; 1 their stems in every direction. Willows in numerable clustered along- the margin of the brook. Occasional sycamores displayed their unmitigated ugliness with impunity, while hero and there tho dark «one of a cedar. Crowded* its way upward into’ the sunlight, rejoicing in its thrift, and looking down tip ni the emaciated corn Melds in its vicinity with an expmsnm of undisguised contempt. A heavy growth of brambles wound, lliemsolves in impenetrable masses underneath; while 1 overhead, the Img vines clambered from tree 1 to ti ee, in wild and vigorous luxuri - nee. and seemed to revel in tho enjoyment of weaving their lanlastic draperies uudisturbsd. Al together it was as forsaken a linking spot, and i tie us It* Ito likely to bo sought by man •for an/ purpose whatever, as would proba bly he encountered in a summer’s day. Apart I ruin its wildness, however, there was nothing about the place to attract the attention of the traveler; and unless-it hml been specially pointed out to him hy some one acquainted with its hisu-ry, ho would in all likelihood, have passed it unobserved. — But yet the dark locking jungle, apparently so void ol interest, is a locality known- all over America it is the celebrated Bladens burg Dueling Ground. ' The ground usually chosen for tho combat was that portion of the path which ran along the west margin of tho brook, at right an gles to the road. One of the moat desperate of these melan choly encounters which Iniyo made this place so memorable, was that on'the Gth of Febru ary, 1819, between General Armuted T-. Ma son, previously a Senator in Congress from Virginia, and Colonel John M. M'Carty, a citizen of tho same State. The difficulty be tween them-had existed for some time. It .originated in that moat .prolific source of per sonal enmity, politics. The parties wore sec mid cousins ; hut, notwithstanding this, their quarrel appears to have been prosecuted with an animosity as unsparing as their relation ship was intimate. Several months previous to the final meeting, a violent altercation had taken place between them at tho polls at Leesburg, in consequence of Mason’s having questioned M’Carty’s right to vote. M'- 1 Oarty at once challenged Mason, but in i his challenge ho proscribed terms and CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 14,1864. conditions of the duel. This dictation of terms Mason would not submit to, and con sequently, by the .advice of his friends, be declined the challenge At the same tima, however, ho cent word to -M’C.irty that ho Was ready to accept a regular challenge in a proper form. M’Carty paid m> attention to tlio message, but forthwith published Mason as a,coward. Mason then sent a clmllengo to M’Cartv which McCarty declined mi the ground of alleged cowardice in Mason, as shown by liis 'refusal to fight in the first in stance. At this jucture a tmmh.er of Mason’s friends united in a letter, begging h ni to take no further notice of M’Carry. Alt butgli Mason ' was hunting under a sense of the wrongs he ha 1 received. he yielded to their entreaties and the affair was, to all appear ance,,at an end. 8 one m mths afterward, however, while rilling .to Richmond in the stage, with a gen tleman of high military and pdiftcal stand ing (General Juckspn.j he was told that he • ought to challenge M'Carty again. This he decided to d«> as avion an he reached Rich mond. It was in vain Hint his friends now endeavored to dissuade him. lie would not Imteu to their appeals. In the language of the card subsequently puhlUhrd by them “he l)a become, tran quil, and all suspicion of the further prose cution of our quarrel Inn subsided, wc can j now terminate u without lining arrested by , the civil authority, ami \\Uhout exciting ! alarm among our friends. * * lam ■ extremely anxiou*. to t nniimte at once and forever tins quarrel. My friends ami ’ — are lullv authorized to act lor me in every particular. Upon rccc:\ing from you a pledge to fight, they are autli «r’zed and in structed at once to givc'Ml.i challenge for me, ami to make immediate) v every necessary ar rangement for the duel, on any term:* you may prescribe.” 1 This note, which fully h-drays Malm’s in- 1 flexibility of purpose. and which,’ it is stated j was never read by M’Carty, Was written ho- j fore any interview had taken place between ! General Musm am! his -oc.mds, and was In closed to them, in a lel-cr containing pun t.ve , instructions for choir g •'ernoicnt. fie wrues j tlv'tu: “Y m will present the enclosed . c oniminiculioii in Mr. John M ( arly. and tell hi.n at once that you are am ii -i i/.- d by I mo to challiingo him. in the evc..t M h:s , ■ pUdging liim-elf m figlit. If he w.li give ' the, pledge, then 1 .Icmi-c that ym wjll io : stiiu'lv coiillcnge lnm ' mV inline ? i fig it a , duel Willi me. * ■ { ' Vgrei- to liny teems 1 2*ii< ho may propr.se and i » any distance- I to throe feet, his preiende 1 lavorite distance I —or to three inches, si.on'. I his impetuous t aml ni-h courage prc>r .1 To any species |of firearms —pistols, mi.kca, ur ; .ll —agree I iU once.” Acting under the?-* n -irm-t’.ona. Mason's ( second's cji led on M Taiiv, a> the bearer* ; of liis challenge, MV.my again refused to i receive any comnuini.nui'n from Mason, lor j the same reason as before. 1 A violent per sonal alt.ercat.ian then took place he.ween .M - Oarty and one ot* Mason * 4 -ecohds the latter .msUiing strongly hat the challenge should be received and accepted, and the former ob stinately declining to receive it. lhe itroversy was healhoig and uncom prom i-dog. th.it winch impeded iM'Oariy apparently none, the h'-s so. It is said that Itn woil I cm seat to n.» meet ing that all'mled an.' possibility for the es cape nl either. .»!* InVown life, ha determined that, ti ho Cell his antagonist slijni.l fall with Imp. Ho therefore would nnly consent to men Mason on such terms as mud in all pruhabd.iy, result iu the destruc tion of both. With thisohjeet in view in accepting the challenge, h s first proposal *rs paid to have been that he and Mc.-mn should leap t»g» ther from tho.dome nf die. eapitul. Th s was de clined as wholly mi-anetiom*d by the Cole, lie next pr.iposi d" to tight nn ah ■ rrel of powder,”.“ which was objected to.”savthe seconds.- “ns not according with establMmd u-agos as-, being without example. and as calculated to establish a dangerous pre.-e -•lent.” He next promised to fight with dirks, in a hand to-i|imd encounter. Inis was also declined fhr-n like reason. Ilia final propo sition was to fight with* muskets charged with buckshot; at ten feet distance. • terms were hardly less calculated to insure a fdtul result ti» huh than tlm.sfc which had been previously objected to: hut. desperate as they were, since they were ch-arly with in Mason's letter of instructions, and per haps wore not considered "as calculated to establish a dangerous prece lent,” they were fioully with some modlicatiors accepted. Iho d stance, it was agieed should he twelve feet, instead of ten. ami a single hall was substi tuted for buckshot. In exienuaiion (if the unusual tcnqs ofcom l.at or.iposed liy McCarty. it was said tlnyt lie was exceedingly averse I" lighting his nniisiii, nml desired to escape the aoceptinue of the challenge,-if lie cuolil possibly do so without iitenring the iia illation of coward ico ; and he could see no other way of escape, than by naming such terms as Mason’s friends were not likely, to agree to. Mason appears to have been aware of bis desire to avoid a conflict; for in his correspondence ho seems to have apprehended some difficulty in extraoting.frum him a pledge to fight. I his pledge it seems was given ; hn.t even the des rate terms finally proposed did not have the 'designedeffect tif rousing them to be rejected. On Friday evening, the sth of February, the parlies drove (pit to Bladensbttrg accom panied by their friends, that they might be convenient to the ground on tbo following morning. The time was spent in completing tbeir.preparations.', One man. remembers ihitt his father; a blacksmith, was called up at midnight to repair one of the rnaskets. lie suspected the. purpose for which the. weapon w« to he used, and sturdily re -1 fused -ta mend it. His scruples, however, were finally quieted, and ho was indued'to 1 exercise hie eralt upon it by being told that it was to hfc used in a shooting match on the following day. And so it w/is, but the wor thy blacksmith little knew the stake that was to be sin t fur. • * On Saturday Warning, flic dth of Februa ry, 1810, at eight o’clock, the parlies met. The contemplated meeting, it ia said, was generally known at Bladenshilrg. and many of the citizens accompanied nr followed them to the ground to witness the encounter. It was snowing violently at the time. The ground selected for the combat was not the usual path near the road, hut anoth er and similar path just around the point of the IdU on the right, about two hundred yards froth the bridge. Mason had on at the time, a large overcoat with lung skirts: M’Carty. not withstanding the severity of the weather, presented himself stripped to the shirt' and with his sleeves rolled up that hr might have the free use of Ids arms. All the p' eliminaries having been arrang ed, the parties were placed M’Cartv facing up the brouk, and Mason down- -and then, at- the word, with the muzzles of their mus kets almost in contact, both-fired. Mason fell deal, his life literally hi »wn out of him M’Cartey was severely wounded, his antag onist’s hall entering his left wrist, ami tear ing its wav thr-ugh the muscles of his ann toward ins shoulder. That both were not killed seems little Ir-ss than a mi'acle. Mason’s musket is said to have caught in the skirt of his long overcoat, as he was in the act of raising it to his shoulder: nnii to tl is accident, as it uqsctrlcl Ids aim. it is thought M’Carty was indebted for his life. Mason (.ever spoke from the time he took Ids place upon the ground. Me lay nearly as he fell. On his person were found letters to his relatives and friends in regard to th" disposition of his body in ease of his death Three distinct wounds were discovered in his .eft side, besides vine in Ids left elbow. Tin circumstance at first gave rise to a suspicion of foul play on the part of M’Carty; hutj»y a post-mortem examination it was ascertain ed that the hull had struck the elho\v-hone. and hud been split-into three parts, each'of which had -entered the body. These parts were weighed, and found to" correspond near ly with the weight of the ball that had Keen signed upon. M’Cartv recovered from the wound in hi-* arm. hut never from the more fatal wound diflieled upon his min i by this unnatural on con ifer, lie had escaped death, hut he could not escape the recollection of that fear ful field. We' have been told, by those who knew him. that from that hour he was chan ged, ami that the laws against dueling are provided with no penalties so terrible ns those fie suffered to the end of his existence. Harper's , M-'if/nzinc . The Rim in Prices. The effects of the greenback legal tender upon prices are How beginning tn force them selves upon the people. This currency lies not vet been in circulation two veers. Init.it inis created a complete revolution in the tr ices of nenrlv all arthdes of domestic consumn tion. Kvcry nfice-sarv fd life has within that p'eriod almost doubled, an 1 in flonr 1 in sianccs has trebled in, price, and nr»on those who are depen hint upon fixed wages for a livelihood, the increased prices have 'alien quite heavy. There is no possibility, as far as human foresight can go, of there being any change for the better.’ So lons as fhe Government keep tlinir printin'! presses n'dat ing greenbacks representing almost, fabulous amounts, just so long will there he a strong upward tendency of everything that, can lie bought and sold. A greenback rhnresenting one dollar is now- not worth much more than half that amount, and. however mneh it mav he claimed by some that the country is finan cially in a prosperous condition, any one who thinks for a m unent cannot fad to see the fallacy of such an assertion. With nearly, a j million of men drawn away from their nceus -1 turned -habits of creating. capital, we hare ■ that number engaged "n destroying it.' Thn ■ fact ahme without faking in consideration | the withdrawal of all .coin- representing an | amount of labor actually exnended it i ift mining, coining. A’c.. would account ffv a I heavy increase in milur of every article ! which thc'C men could be employed in man ufaetu: ing.- The oToenhacks are being issued tn in flat** the cost of livng. increase keen d->.» f poor man in perpetual wad ami s*i«n-e his eh llr-m ? pauper’s inheritance, Trnlv. "in* . con ,: tion is h'essc.l. The heartless wretelm*. „t Übishingn-n «hoiild ho made to rea'b/e the struggles of the men of limited ineones.— The on.ee c mbmted ’ahnring man, who. ili.oigh poor, could purchase with the rewards of Ins tod all the c-unf >rts of life fo- his fain- i|v. IVit wliat a P'Cture of wretehe lno-;s does he pre-cut to-dav, endeavorin'; to cl ithe, feed and elucato his little with his ' Saturday night's pay in greenbacks! at fid cents'on the d-liar. To ho pure, work is plenty, ho is ever busy, ho Impes he is soon to hc’ahle to get out nf his financial perplex ities; to he sure lie is earning in to than he ever did before, hut snnieh >',v lie is getting deeper and deeper into debt. He hardly understands • it. Work is plenty, wages good, hut shoes are very dear, clothing never so high, fionr po tatoes, meat. coal, terribly high. Ihere is no little store laid up now as there nnee was , when wages Avero low. He can't exactly sec it. hut he is verv hard up all the. time, with money plenty and pay good. Ah !mv poor laboring we 5 arc grossly, willfully, wickedly deceived by the miserable, lying journals. The black-hearted preachers ami orators also toll ns that wo are prospering during this horrid war. They arc holding a hellish carnival all over the North. Riot ami revelry, rohherv and murder, every crime which tho lust of man Can conceive, it being enacted by the prospering portion of the peo ple. As hiondy war made what they cal! this prosperity. tho cry is’koepup this bloody war. for ‘peace’ ia adversity.’ Neither have we seen tho worst._ Prices must cMilinue to advance in the ratio of the expansion of the currency and lation of the country by war. If thus Aboli tion Administration is suffered to go on in its extravagant, destructive career, the North must in time reach the condition of the peo ple of tho Smith in respect to prices and cur rency. And wo shall feel it still more griev ously than they, us we are vastly more de pendent on commercial, manufacturing and mechanical business, which ia affected to a greater extent than agriouUuae by ft finan cial crisis. All fixed incomes, investments, salaries, &c., will feel the pressure, and this, with increased taxation and heavy tariffs, will impose almost crushing weight upon the people. In tho South the war is the'princi pal business of uli classes, ami our adminis trillion ’seems determined to crush everything else and force all pur great industrial inter ests to succumb to the war policy. What'can tho people do to change-this current of’affairs? Not much, perhaps, at oresent; but the time will aoon arrive when their voice may be potent and influential in favor of a different policy. There is nothing to hope for the Union, for tne great pecuni ary and social interests of the country, or for liberty in thenar policy. The longer the war is continued the more deplorable must he the state of affairs. Our greatest military success cannot restore the blessings of a fra ternal Union, ami can only, at the beat, en force tin armed despotism over the South, des troy their industrial system, and pauperise millions of useful laborers. The question of Government, which Wo hdvo been told this war is to settle for ever, will still remain "pen for the decision of future generations, an.d our children will gain only the legacy of a huge'national debt as the result of our in ternecine contest. MYSIERIIiIiS m\m. The recent murder’of youn 55 Converse, at midday, in the Bank *;f Malden, Mais., has revivecd the following story of a remarkable murder which occurred in Ellnburgb in the beginning of the present century. The Bos ton Traveller nay^t At the time wo write, no one has hnen cr ested for the murder ami rohherv in th p Mal den Bank. The matter is involved in mora tory, anil may so reimm forever. ' NorwonM this he without precedent for murder does not always ‘'"iit.’’ - A mu di more remarkable crime than ih*at perpetrated at Malden, was I'.ommitred in F Hnburgb, fifrv-sever year* ag-> and the criminal ; s unknown to this day. On the loth of November. 1W the latr Tlenrv Pocklntrir fells ih, in bis if his Tlm n .” a mnrler Win commitied in R linburg. which made n,greater impression than imv cotnmittejJ in.our day.except the systematic mutters of Borkc. .Tames Beg h*p, porter of the Britthh I/nen OommnvM Rank, wa«-going down the close in which the Bank then was. on the south sideof the Can ongafo. carrying a parcel of .hank notes n' the value of four hr five thousand nmnd«. when he was struck dead hy a single «fab. giveo hy n single person who had gone into • t,n r t ,^ c after hinv. and who carried off the parcel. 'l*his was done in th® heart n** the city. nhont five o’clock in the evening, and within a few yards of a milita'*v who wasnlwnvo ori guard there, though nof exactly at. this soot, and »ir the moni p nt, not in view of it. Yet the mnrdcrer was never heard of. ’J'he soldier saw and heard nothing. All that was observed was hv sonic boys who were’ rdnving at hand hall in the close; and all they saw was that two men entered the close as if together, the one' behind the other, and *th ol the front man fell and lay still, and t’hey ascribing that to his being drunk, let him lie. and nlaved on. Tt was only on the entrance of another per son that he was found to be dead, with a kni • n hishenrt; and a 1 ieco ’fpape- through which it had Ivmn thrust, interposed between die murderer’s band nod the blool. The bnldress and suecees of the d'*'’l nre biced deep and universal horror. Bennie irenibled at the posc*liility of such a mnr ■|(»rpr t.njng in the nil Ist of them, ami taking any life that he ebo«o. # . But the wretch’s own terr- r may V ?nfer red from the fact in n few jn '"ths the bfgn notes, of which most nf the b ,w *t»- was e ’T,i were fouml hidden in k h° grounds of B dlevue. § 'me were 1 bu f none o" auv satisfactory ground ; an * a •cord , ng to a strange crafenfambition n.l such cases, .several charged themselves with the crime who. to an absolute certu'nty.had no thing to do with it. . * ” This was a stranger case than that at Mal den, inasmuch ns the double crime was com mitted in the open air, in the street nf a lorge e’fv. in the rw°Bencp of-several persons, and hard hv a military mat.; and vet the murder-' or of Beghie was never discovered; Tf he wej-n a young man he mav be yet Hying, though pretty far advanced toward the nine ties. Tn this instance murder did n*'t eome out, and the murderer w'u n 't fi'iind out. Tnr. Mi v," nr Mexico.—Tim Etdm dn Pu eifiqne, in an article on the mines of Mexico, snv" : Tt it oeee""nrv to e-lve llm Amerlem" tiieir ,l„e NT„ nothin in IhV world Inn simh no er lernri"i'iir and advenl'inut" "mrit._ When T(1 Inok nt tiln n eseot dev.dnnement ef tbeMex- Ipnn mine", and when we enneMer the na"t. •ren-e- astonished nt t l l o li"tle"""e"S nf one ne.mle iiml the an hfitv of the ntl.er, S one nf llieqe mite" wh'ch Tor cenerntmns heve renin' neil in nhlivhm. or have been hnr*e 1 nn. tier the mutt nf rums wh''eh had gathered in hem. nr have been d'le 1 with w-Mer. n-" n et re. .n"tiel nn'l worked at a nnidt. The in difference itf the Merman vesterdav milltPi ttie.weal'll "T the Amer'em to.'lnv. , Th" am liition nf the American, hi" nri'le ami hi" snveritrn eontemnt et* evervlhitv-t hnt himself, nin'v a'ieiinfe the a (feet inn of other nation", hnt it. is not the less tm" that wherever he inie" formne nee imnan’es li'm I'le evnnttds anil nhnti'le.nee reV"S Ce-tiMnlv lr" man ner" ami hi" law" iln net nlense evervhoilv : hnt- it inn"* lie mlniiiteil that nature hh" "if tril him with exeentinnnl qualities. ami that he I" imieirl t lie man for '"t" new countries, Tn lii" liamls the nvne" of M"xien will'exhih it a wealth not vet inni""'"' tie the warhl. Steam Bikjcy in New Yoik,.—Considera ble.ntrention wa** attracted by a light strain carriage on Broadway yesterday in 'rnuig. — It liaii the appearance of an ordinary boggy minus the shafts, ami the steam finpnrnui wa« upon the rear axlfli Two persons were seated in the boggy, which moved quietly ami smooth!/. It is" a Boston notion, mannhie. lured by Rpper & Austin, and the driver (conductor?) informed our reporter that the engine was of two horse power ; that it would go on any grade, and that a hod of coal* would run’it thirty miles. He is desirous of matching it.against any trotting horse in the world, fur a thousand dollars. This novelty was rolling along toward Central Park when omr reporter cnuvmntrcd it.—AT. Y. Tribune No\ s th. secure a supply of eggs keep hens in a light, warm, airy room, feed plentifully, giving regularly some animal food—ovsler shells, pounded fine, or some other form of lime... 'A little pulverized white ursnenic in the whitewash will destroy lice effectually.— Fowls choose the highest, part of the house to roost in, and if there bo not good ventilation, they will sometimes suffocate. • Truth being founded on a rock, you may boldly dig to sec its foundations without fear-of dostroyin * the edifice ; hut fals m ood being laid on the sun i, if you examine its foundation, you cause its fall. hundred ami tiuy-uvo National Banka have received authority to 'commodes operations. (Dbbn nnb (onii3. 3T7” Advertize in the Volunteer. rar Fi vo hundred prisoners went to Rich mond for exchange on Christmas day* (£7* Daniel Yecnitz died in Allegheny City, on the 24th ult., aged 105. Wtn 1 . Blrne.’ (negro,) hns been promo ted to a Brigadiership. fie has 2.400 color ed troops in his camp in St. Mary's County, Maryland. C3T The laic Hugh Jenkins of Baltfroor*, recently deceased; leit uu estate of over half a million. r (T7* A gay contraband of Beaufort, told ft newspaper tfirre-pomient that she was “the wile of the tfSccrs of the Massachusetts reg- moot.” (£7* The difference between perseverance and obstinacy ; the »tirat is a strong will, the last a strong- wj.it. f t (£7* Subscribe for Democratic newspapers and induce others to do the same. C7* The world' makes us talkers, but uoli mdc makes us thinkers. An Ohio Quaker claims to have har bored 3.30 U fugaiive slaved, and to have for warded them to Canada. O* National banks to the number of 179. wim a capital ut $21, 1A) I.2UU, have been es tablished. Tlie amount ot bonds deposited is $10,413,200. 017* Tne aitual report oT the Commission era d F'dic fur IBd3 estimates die popula tion f Now York ouy at i,OJJ,OOJ, and that ut. B unKiyi. at 35U.UUU, jjgjy-Turiiatoes put up fifteen yearS'Hrtgo, were opened in Salem, recently, au l found to be as Iresa and good a* wiieii first canned. There is no readier way for a man to bring bia owii worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of oth- er men (£7* In one of the pork-packing establish ments in St. L mis, last week. 1,000 hogs were cut up in live hours—a ‘p.igjub/ us ityo Dutchman would say. (£T The editor of a rabid Abolition paper savw. ‘W« must all strike a- blow fur liberty.* Tne vagabond means that they roust all strike a blow at liberty. is much ill feeling betweon the members ot Gdngfes-j from the East and West in reference to the committees. The Wes tern members allege that the interests of their section ..are sacrificed to add to the already enormous profits of Eastern manufacturers. ASy**‘Liverpool is said tnbe so full of Amer ican butter, at present, that it ciin be bought there ut fur leas price ihaii in the Boston SO* The Washington Slav states, that in the recent stampede of horses from Camp 4stimoiiian. ovor. one thousand animals, val ued at $ll3 each, wore drowned in the Poto mac and Eastern Branch. |£7“ Brig. Oon. Charles P. Stone, of Mas sachusetts, whoso arrest ami cimtiuement by the military authorities excited so much at tention, was recently married in New Or leans. flejg" The various soup houses in Philadel phia, are now making preparations lor dis tributing soup til the poof during the winter. t£/-The avaricious man is like the barren, sandy ground in the desert, which sucks in ftll Hie ruin and dews with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plauts for the beu elit of others. (Cy* The llev. Mr. Van Dyke, u( Bfbrikiyri, N. Y., spoke 'if backbiters as ‘ people who carry their own sun in a bag b.ebiud their backs, and the sins of others m a bag before them.' o©- An exchange calls young men who stand round eourea d mrs to wateli young la dies, as the congregation is going out; the ■ Devil’s Pickets.' S2f*Quilp having made lijs appearance at the breakfast table at an unusually late hour, was i eminded by a friend that • It is the ear ly I ltd ll at catches the worm.’ ‘ 1 thank you lor tiie suggestion,’ siutf Quilp, ‘ but mine id not uMicloi worms.' o'y*Tlie Nevada Constitutional Convene ion lias adopted an .article compelling all ibildren between six mid fourteen years of igo tu attend tcbool. , \£y A largo portion of the town of Titus ville, in the .oil region of Pennsylvania, was deolrovod by lire on Saturday. j xy The Potmnao Army is- so very ‘ quiet’ low, th.itfieueral llaue iek’s physicians have ■uggested that ho bettor retire there, where ae will have a betioreliaiieo oj being restored 10 full health than amid the bustle arid tur moil of Washington. (C - President Lincoln is redovering from i is late slight attack of varioloid. ‘ The Lovertimen t’ has been freeoly bled for the last lireo years but this is the fitst time it ever tad the small pox.” —Lebanon Advertise}. , JtCsir'lt.is strange that the experience of so many ages should not make ub judge more solidly of the present and of the future, bo as to take proper measures in the one for the other. Wo dme upon this world as if it were never to have an end, and we neglect the next us if it were neve r to have a begin ing. FT* He that has never known adversity is hut half acquainted with others, or with him et If. Constant success shows ur but one side of the world ; fur. as it surrounds us with friends ifrho will tell us only our merits, suit • silences those, enemies from whom alone wq‘ can learn onr defects. [CT* Senator Douglas; in the last speech ha ever made, (which was before the Legislature of Illinois) just before.hia death, said: ‘I will never acquiesce in any warfareup on the constitutional right or institutlonsof the south. If any attempt is made to invade their rights or incite servile insurrection among them, t would bo the first to rush to the rescue.* (£7“ A despatch from Nashville dated the 29th ulfc., says that the official rebel lo&a at Cldckamauga is stated as follows: Killed 2.290 ; dangerou-dv wounded, 4,789 ; slightly, 10,500; missing 1,900. ? (£7* Joshua U. Giddmgs, Lincoln's charge to Canada, g»t into trouble by carryii g his ki Inapping propensities too far—-to the cap* turiug of while Canadians, lie was prose cuted, and we now see it pulhshed that he has made tracks homeward. NO. 31.