Amerifflii 111 nluntcer. VOL. 50. AMERICAN JOLUNmR. 'rtfltlßßED EVERY THURSDAY MORllllia BY lOUW I*. BRATTON. TERM S; 1 ' l ; *1 o„.«nalPTloN.—Two Dollirn if paid within tho r • and Two Dollars and Fifty Cents, if not paid R If.,:’ (ho roar. Thoso terms will bo rigidly ad i dto in every instance. No subscription dis fontinued until all arrearages are paid unless at jbe option of tho Editor. AnvEnriSEMENTS— Accompanied bytho'OAtrn, and not exceeding one square, will bo inserted three 'limes for One Dollar, and twenty-five cents for each additional insertion. Those of a greater length iu proportion* Jon-I’aisTiso —Such ns Hand-bills, Posting-bills Vainplilelal Blanks, Labels, Ac.' Ac., executed with ocoraoy and at tho shortest notice. pattirat. ' RORY'S'MSSitiD. ~ 'Bout n kiss do yc ask ! Its mo that can toll; foroU as I'm now, I'm minding it well, 'When a spalpeen of throe, with how much delight .My mother kissed Kory and bade him good night. jlnt my mother she died and loft Rory behind, Ami the liisscs I met brought her ho to my mind, TUt at kissing I wont first one and unithcr, Ikoauao they wore bonnets and leokod like my mither. At last, would you think it, swato Bridget O’FJynn Had scarcely been kissed when she kissed mo agin, And tould mo a pracst, away down, in the city, Wuuld euy, if we’d ask him, a kind of a. ditty. ‘A ditty, swnte Bridget, and what might it bo V ■Ne'er mind, my dour llory, but just come wid mo Wo trudged to the city, and anre os «ny life, said a short ditty and called her my wife. y/ 0 got a wcc‘cottage, a <pig and a spade ; Bridget sickened ; wo hired her sister for E-aid; The maid I vnls kissing, when, true as ye’re there, “I felt the ouhi divil a pulling my hair. ’Hcgone.yc ould varmint I' X yelled in affright, And sort of-turned round ,to bo getting a sight; Vluit did : J diflkiver? Instead of an elf, K ate Bridget G’Flaghorty there Just horculf. ‘0 llory!’ she blubbered, still-pulling away, ‘ Rut sick is my heart with your conduct to-day ; A kissing my sister while I’m li* .jy bed, Nor able to raise from the pill"'- in/head. •* Truth 1 Bridget/ says I, pcrlrq.- \»m <-an mind When ye to the kissing were greauy in-lincd; Yc kissed me and kissed mo at Donnybrook fair, And now by tho jabers yo’rc pulling my hair, llugonc! ye ould fuol/wid a rumpus like this, • I in only a Uaniiny your liinter to kiss /* mimlliinrniis. COm'N.l, THE UGLY OXE. rilOM TIIR FRENCH e <i “ t ßut then,” said Mrs. Muoro to- hnr Imsluiin!. “ Imw ugly that little one is. Is blip nut. William ?” Ami Mr. Moure, who was sitting in a roek chair, anuisiug himself with poking the 'ire, laid t!ov;a ‘Ungs he -held and gravely answered his wife : “hut, my dear, you have already said so »"ie hundred times, and wore you to say so cne hundred times mure, llosa would not be ■ ciHiie less ugly for your saying so.” Ihisftima was a little girl of about fourteen. •She wus their only child, and, to do her mo /.her justice, was very ugly, nay, almost ic ' iii'.Ui£ with her little 'eyes, flat nose, large -ouutli, thick, protruding lips, red hair., and nli'ivc all, a form remarkable awry. Kosa was then .very ugly ; ; fcut she was a iwcct girl, nevertheless/ Kind and intelli gent, she possessed a mind of the highesjt or dur. Nature seemed to have compensated with every good quality of the heart, for tlie want of every beauty of person. The poor little thing was profoundly hurt, twsho listened to her motlier’s observation. “ Oh you little fright, you will .never get a l'f/dmui” liight o’clock struck—Xrs. Moore was wreiy vexed. “Oo to hod, Rosanna.” Trembling, the little girl approached her mother to give her the kiss of good night. , “ 'Tis useless, you little.monster,” said her mother. A tear rolled from the little one's eyes.— -ho hastily wiped it away,’ ami turning to I'cr father presented him the humid cheek. •Up her tenderly. ■ 4 ‘l am not altogether miserable,” filioonur roured, leaving the rooifi. Retired to her chamber, she commenced embroidering.a scarf.; and worked thus part of the night, for she desired to be able to pro seDt it lo her ihotHer when she rose in the topruing. ihe cfock struck twelve. She had just ’finished, and putting it t by, little girl calmly resigned kersolf to* rest. -Her repose ' vas undisturbed. ♦ . v On the morrow Uosa .presented iheboarf to «er mother. What was the pain the little 006 experienced when her mother received it coldly, jyjd ''exprqssgd none of those tender wntimQnlSj ■Which “were -to have beod .the, ohe’s fewardl ’ |# 1 •; ” er eyes by.ohanch clfinoed over a heigh .taring mirror. *‘Yob,” she said internally, “I am ugly py we fight and she sought in her young le nd to fin<jt a remedy for ugliness. , J ‘ D( l then in "the world, now pangs wound a the Uttlo ugly one’s heart. A first im- Preasion elienated all the young girls of her wn age; hut then she was so good, so amia i, 80 amusing, that they approached, then n „ ftnd then loved her. Now, indeed, ■ Ol fhttlo.one was' happy. uno Mooro went homo in a violent trifl B,loD ‘ became, i Q t consequence of some j, a lD l? revocation, highly incensed against lilort r ■* • -1-heir domestic felicity was trou jj I 0 ** oight long days—for eight long days nain • ,oro was c°ntiiiixivl\y crying. Rqsan ra°ked her young brain's to ais jn 1 a * lCr raot hor was continually weep i* Afc jast she reflected in her mind how 10 * c °Qcilo thorn, Mr Wore three seated in the parlor— this ° or ° WaB arranging the fire. ‘VPhon him J a ? conc lhdcd ho threw the tongs from and na Bnatc hod up a book from the mantel inent , °* len - e,( h it abruptly*; but ,after a mo- W* 8 P er 9Ba], ho closed it again in a vip- \ Y° r ’ CQBt a eroo glando at his treip llos Vlte * a j n( * hurriedly rose from his chair. arounff 1 hioyed, clasped her arms f e . R 8 he was about to rise, and teioct i atc V caressed him. ' lie could not Kiri l ? noc °nt coaxing, and tlie little kia . n S she had succeeded in touching handWM A n 0r hands the moistened drying v- uo * therewith her mother had been becomi f f r . weo P m g eyes', and dried them a flwbranfwi 1 ? 0 therewith. She then tenderly rucoa her mother,-who .returned her af fectionato caresses with all a mother’s fond ness. Tho parties being now favorably disposed, nought remained but to establish the peace. This was no easy matter—neither would make the first overture, and without the‘pe netration of little Rosa, the reconciliation would not then have taken place. M took her father’s hand between her .ov?n. IHtio bands, and pressed it to her bo sqqv;. ohe then took her mother’s hand and joined it, to iler father’s, as it lay near her hearty Human pride could resist no longer ; tho alienated rose at the same mo ment and cordially* other,, From that hour Rosa was the idol of them both. f i • • Sir years after this, Rosanna,, the ugly Ro sanna, was the ornament of every society to which her mother presented her. Amiable, witty, and observing, her conversation was universally courted. , •,... One summer evening, tho aim, which, dur ing the day, had shed over nature an intense heat, had just disappeared, leaving the hori zon covered with long white bands of red ; clouds- more and more dark, were heaping themselves on the eastern sky; the atmos phere was suffocating, and one would deem tho earth was returning to tho sun tho heat she had been receiving from tho latter dur ing the day. All was heavy and weary ‘ the air inhaled, seemed rather to suffocate than to nourish. A drowsy languor overcame every one. In a saloon, whose every window was thrown open might be seen gliding here and there in the darkened light groups of young females, whose white dressed, slightly agita ted hy the rising breeze of tho evening, of fered something mysterious and poetical, whereon the imagination loved to dwell. A low, languishing whisper was then heard, like tho soothing, murmur of some distant rivulet. A young woman, seated before a piano was repressing her heart’s serniirients by an extemporary melody, now smooth and tender, now deep and trembling. .No more whispering, but a general silence took place, for hcr’s was a celestial sympa-’ , thy- -a seraph’s song. , Lord Underwood, a fine blue-eyed young nobleman, was so deeply touched by the melody, that his frame seemed agitated by a momentary convulsion. lie listened 9to, the angel’s voice, so softly harmonizing with the sw-oet tones of the dnetrument. and felt an In describable sensation thrill through his frame. The music ceased, but the sweet voice still vibrated on Underwood’s car, and there was a charm in tho witty and original trifle to which ho listened, that transfixed him where ho stood. “ How beautiful must that young girl bo,” thought Underwood. “Happy the man on ‘whom may fall her and he involun tarily sighed. Suddenly lights were brought in. The young woman was the ugly Ro sanna. Lord .Underwood was stupified. He closed his eyes, but the charm of that voice haunted his memory. He gazed mi her a second time, and he thought her less ugly ; and Rosa was indeed less ugly.. Tho beauties of her mind seemed transferred to her person, and her grey eyes, suv.itl as tthey were, expressed wonderfully w-eU her Internal sensations. & * ■X’ ’ -ft -ft -ft Lord Underwood wedded Rosanna, and be came tbe happiest of men in the possession of the'kindest and most .loving of women. Beauty deserts us, hut virtue and talents, the faithful companion of our lives, .accom pany us even to the grave. ’ Lanccaok of Insects —A most singularly discovery, the credit which appertains, we believe, to Mr. Jesse, is that of the antennal language of insects. Bees and other insects, are provided, ns we ail. know,, with feelers or antennae. These are, in fact, most deliento organs oftouch, warning of dangers, andserv ing tlie animals to hold a sort of conversation with each other, and to communicate their desires and .wants. A -strong hive of hoes will contain thirty-sis thousand workers. Each of these, In order to ho assured.of the presence of their queen, touches her every day with its antennas. Should the queen die, or bo removed,,the whole colony disperse themselves, and are seen in the hive no more, perishing every one, and quitting.all the store of now useless honey which they had labored so •industriously >to collect for the use of themselves and the larva). On the contrary, should the queen ho put into a small wire cage placed at the bottom of tho hive, so that her subjects can .touch and feed ■her, they are contented, and ithe business of tho hive proceeds as usual! Mr. Jesse has ,ajsp shown that this antpnnal power of com munication .is not confined .to bees. Wasps and ants, and probably otherinsects, exercise it. If a caterpillar is placed .near an ants’ nest, a curious scone will often arise. A solitary ant will perhaps discover it, and eagerly attempt to draw it away, Dot being able to Accomplish this, dt will go up to an other ant, and, by means of the aptennhl lan guage, bring it to the caterpillar. Still, these two, perhaps,, nro unable to perform task of movingU, They will separate and bring up reinforcements of tho community by tho emtio means, till a sufficient number are collected to enable, tbsin to drag the caterpillar ,to.their nesl. How Boon we Foucet. —A leaf is -torn from the tree by the rude gale, and borne away to some desert spot to perish 1 -Who misses it from amongst its follows ? Who is said that it has ? Thus it is with human life. There are dear friends, perhaps, who are stricken with grief when a loved, one is taken; and for many days the grave is wat ered with tears of anguish. But by and by the crystal fountain is drawn dry : the last drop oozes out j the stern gates of forgetful ness fold back upon the exhausted spring ; and Time; the blessed healer of sorrows, walks over the closed sepulchre without waking a single echo by her footsteps.' ' ..(CT'The fjew Haven (Conn.) Palladium relates how thiovea contrive to rob the sold iers of their bounty money at tho camp in ■that city. .. They pour, chloroform on the stockings of one sleeping soldier,' and the foot being in close proximity with the head of the next soldier, he is soon made as pn oqnsoiops, as a log by the chloroform, aud.the •thief robs him at leisure. Ofgr A Hartford paper tells a godd story of a ton-cont currency note—dnd of thp hew issue—which was shown to- a clergyman, a day or two ago, as a curiosity., “Is that a counterfeit," ho inquired. “No, that’s one of the new ten-dent bills.", “Well,” said the clergyman with a comical look,, as if he smelt .the joke in tho distance, “there was a oqptriT butidh at my church last Sunday and wo found one of these bills in the box. The deacon and I both thought it counterfeit and tore it tip!" “OUR COUNTRY—MAY IT ALIY AY'S BE RIGHT—BUT RIGHT OR Wtt'ONG OUR COUNTRY." ■ » BREIKPHST. [From tho Bound Table.] With all their pretensions to epicurean ism, tho old Romans did not know how to breakfast. Antiquity’s fashionable * spread’ for that meal, eVen- in tho mansions of tho patricians, consisted of a simple bread and cheese. The ‘ equestrian order’ starved themselves in the early part of tho day, jo gorge ,<m. the abominable compounds they called luxuries, late in'the afternoon. Ana yet thoso mistaken voluptuaries fancied they snow how to live, and while reclining on their couches, in an atmosphere redolent of garlic, and stuffiing. their epigastriums with sow’s paps, incomplete rabbits obtained by tho ‘ Caesarean operation,’ and lampreys fat tened on tho flesh of slaves, considered them selves in tho seventh heaven of sensuous en joyment. We only remember to have read of.opo.Roman who cared much.about,his de jeuner—tho "beastly Galba. Suetonius says he boo-hooqd, fojr.it, if his servants failed to bring it to his kodsidb ftt daylight. Jlis im perial majesty, howey.er, w'as. an exception toall dietary rules ; for after devouring supper for six, over night, he could dispatch a break fast of tho same proportions, in bed, tho next morning. No wonder his bloated imperial face was of tho same tint as his imperial to ga. If travellers in Africa are to bo believed breakfasts in the interior of that continent are scarcely of a kind that would induce an individual not‘to the manor born* torisp early and partake of them, Bruce assures us that in Abyssinia they consist of live-ox ■collops, highly peppered to supply tho ab sence of cooking—the collops being made i.n ,to sausage-shaped fillets, which are thrust into the mouths of the guests by black Holes sandwitched in among males of tho compa ny. Tho civilized epicure has no objection to a steak only ‘just dono through ;’ but the Abyssiniau style seems, if wo may use tho expression, to bo running * rareness" into the ground, Clapperton, who visited another part ot Africa about a third of a century later than Bruce, mentions among tho items of the Sultan of Brussa’a breakfast carte, grilled water-rat and fried and stewed crocodile eggs. The eggs, it may be supposed, wore some what musky, but as we have Dr. pane’s tes timony that rat soup is not i\ bad breakfast in the neighborhood of the North Pole, a grilled rodent may possibly be endurable un der the equator. Leigh who had a very judicious notion of living, and who, •when he played jackal to Byron, was fed, Tom Moore says, with ‘ sops every day from the lion’s own pan,’ has left bebiad him ,a pretty fair recipe for a * Breakfast in -Gold Weather.’ Hero it is; ‘lmprinis, tea and coffee; secondly, dry toast; thirdly, butter; fourthly, eggs ; fifthly, ham ; sixthly, some thing pott6d ; seventhly, bread, salt, mustard, knives, forks, etc.’ This bill of fare is well enough as a specimen of an Englishman’s idea of th,e morning meal; but it would not meet the views of a Scotchman or an Ameri can. We like tho accompaniments of the Essayist’s breakfast better than the collation itself. ‘One of tho first things,’enys Hunt, ‘ that belongs to a .Cold Weather Breakfast is a good fire. There is a delightful, mix ture of the lively and tho snug, in coming down to one’s breakfast room of a cold morn ing and seeing everything prepared for us— a blazing grate, a clean table-cloth and tea things ; the ncv.’jy iwashed faces and combed Ueafis of .a set of good-humpvcd urchins ; and the-oo’le empty chair, at its accustomed cor ner. ready for occupation.’ A very nice picture; but one would like fo have some guarantee for the behavior of the urchins.— It was our lot, once upon a time, to break fast witk a being of that genius, who, al though perfectly good humored, was possess ed of a lively desire to wash .his-hands in tho slop howl and. put-his chubby little feet in tho butter idoioyn/'nioioa of urchinhood' which interfere with the sublime calm nec essary to epicurean enjoyment and perfect digestion. , This may seem to some folks an .ill-natured -roflectiqn on “ rosy childood,” but wo ven ture to sav that the Breakfast Stable Profes sor of the Atlantic Monthly or any othnr.man who understands the philosophy of the thing will entirely agree with us. Pew “peoples," as our Hungary friend Kossuth would say, hiwe a heller idea ef tho proper.oonstiue.nts, of a breakfast than the •* Canale ■Scots.’— Tho “Glasgow bodies,” and eke the burghes of Inverness ut the foot of tho Iliglands, thoroughly understand what is godd for the inner man in the morning. Potted char —a rare fish of tho Scotch lochs, game pies, hot buttered barley bannocks, and oat-meal caked, muffins, mils, crumpets, whaffles, venison pasty, pickled salmon, potted lobster, butter ed toast, and broiled bacon, are among the dainties they set before newly risen men in that hospitable ieigen. It must be confess ed that they flank these comestibles with for bidden. diluents—fsnob as Glenlivet and Us quebaugh. -But what will yon have of it— the olimafeis drizzly, anji the meoklo Scotch mist seeriis to qnenoh the 'fiery influeppe.df the stimulants. But after all, an Amosican breakfast —especially at this,appetizing.sea son—is the bean,,ideal of a matutinal feast. “ Juno when sbehaDqueta’hhaS'Catlijpgoqunl to if. What is Olympian Ambrosia ito buck wheat cakqs.f And then at coffee majdng we can beat even the French. Not that we ,glways do it—but there are artists among us whose .decoctions of the fragrant, berry put the Parrisian Cafes to shame. Our broiled spring chickens is a thing to thank Ijoavpn .upon with epicurean unction. Talk of your English spatoh cocks—they are not worthy to be named in tho same decade with it. It is of an amber brown, annointed with fresh butter, and duly seasoned, it is a dish to take tbe reason prisoner. Some prefer broiled quail, and one might —“ decide without great wrong to either, lit were much better to have both than neither.” \V o wonder how the children of'lsrael “fixed” their quails. If Moses was thp naan we take him to have been, he split his birds down the back, and cooked them on a gridiron. The American porter-house steak—would that it had a more melodious and less toperisb name —is an article sui generis. John Bpll be lieves in rump steak—pummelling it with a rolling-pin makes it tender, and yet despite tjiis quarter-staff £practice it is not tender af ter all. Old Froni-de heaf cannot,hold a can dle to its in the steak department. Ho won’t acknowledge it, for he,is one of those obstinate qld "heavy fathers” that nover givoanytbing up, but the fact is patent to thq unprejudic ed of all nations. Ot buckwheat cakes we enjoy a monopoly. The less enlightened countries in Christendom have not had the sagacity to adept this crowning glory of the breakfast table. Like monkeys, who warm their, shiftless hands by fires they have pot sense enough to keep up, jbe outsiders of the earth partake with rapture of the products of opr griddles, without having the capacity to mix the batter and fry the articles for them selves. Ah I those cylindrical columns of nimpled amber brown pan cakes light r.s CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1861 snow -fallen, and as more delicious than “honey or the honey comb"— how can Europe do without them ? Baptized with butter, they “almost raise-a mortal to the skies,” and might “ tempt an angel down.” One cannot write of them without feeling a pleasant tingling of tho palate and a craving sensation a little below the thorax. An Interesting and Bomantic Suit.— A case of considerable interest and romance, in which parties, known in this city are con cerned, is now ponding before the courts of Norristown. About the time of the breaking oat of , the .rebellion a gentleman of foreign birth, lofthis home in Europe and came to this country for tho purpose of entering tho .army. While in this city he made tho ,ac . quaintonoe of a wealthy widow the posses sor of a couple of marriageable daughters'.— His visits to thohousowero looked upon with favor, and by his gentlemanly deportment ho soon ingratiated himself into their good graces. His attentions finally wore, directed towards.the youngest daughter, who returned the friendship, which ripened into love and tho] two were looked upon as “ engaged.”— Tho mother favored the suit, as was shown by presenting her intended son-in-law up on his birthday with a purse containing a snug little sum. But as “the course of true love never runs smooth” an unforeseen dif ficulty arose which destroyed tho peace and harmony of nil. The widow waa informed that the intended son-in-law was not what she .supposed, but merely a refuge from a foreign country, with neither name nor wealth. Bo this as it may, she was sufficiently influ enced as to stop all .future intimacy and to demand back the present she had bestowed, alleging that it was obtained by misrepre sentation, besides ‘removeing her daughter out of tho reach of tho lover. The money presented had with other funds been invested m a farm, and knowingso tho widow signified her intention to leave the. matter rest, but a friend advised her to commence Iqgbl pfoc.ee- 1 dings, he himself acting as counsel. - A spit was at once commenced and after having progressed a short time a desire was express ed to stop the ease and let the matter end.—• Her friend again insisted and theprooeedings continued. Page after page of evidence was taken. Tho ease was fully argued, pro and con, before tho Court and tho'dieiaion of the Judge, will, it,is expected, he delivered in a few days. In the meantime tho foreign gen tleman is deprived both of his intended and his farm, tho former havisg been sent to parts unknown, while the latter, on . account of there being filed against the owner a bill in equity, cannot be used to advantage until the decision of the Judge is announced.—Plata delphia Inquirer. . Singular Recognition. —Assistant Sur geon L. H. Pease, writes from Hilton Head, S. C., the following strange account of an inhuman act on the part of a father, which came under his personal observation : “Jasper Canfield and his wedded wife for merly lived in Newark, N. J. On account of sumo .disagreement in family matters, Jas per’s lady forsook his bed and board. As she was about to carry away their only child —a boy of three months—Jasper scutched up the little fellow and cut oj]'boik his iJsumhs, in order, as ho says,.that ho might be able to recognise him if they phould meet in after years'! Tiihe passed with out either party knowing' the, whereabouts of the other. The son had grown to manhood, and with true patriotism enlisted as a private,in the Gth Regiment Conn. Vote, at its organization.— lie was on guard at the wharf at this place when Jasper, a laborer in the Quartermaster’ll Department, passed, and noticing one thumb gone on the hand in sight, stepped on the oth er side and found ditto. Re then said: — “ You are my, son!” .George replied, “ Are you my lather,?’-’ Jasper replied, “ Yes.”— Then.eamo a hearty mutual embrace, lasting some time. The sight was singular and ih teresting, it being unusual for a guard on-du ty, to ground arms for day purpose; but George who is always ready for duty, was ex cused for departing from his instructions on .account of the very peculiar circumstances.. Thus the father recognized his son after a separation of twenty-two years 1” But we do not advise fathers to cut off the thumbs of their children, ns a general rule, to aid in their recognition ip after life. A Pleased Husband. —In a quiet town in Maine, ii .few. Sabbaths since, .there dcoured an incident m the Methodist XJhurob, which it will perhaps do no harm (to relate. A friend of the settled minister having officia ted during the morning, as Js customary, some of the members took occasion after the discourse to extort the brethern to say a word of .enoQurageipent. 4 mon S, others was the pastor's wife, who stated substantially th at she believed her days were numbered—that she should soon bo ‘ hoihe,' and at rest with •those yp-ho bad : gono‘before, .whqm she .should soon meet, &o. Jtor hudband, who occupied the .pulpit during these remarks, sat rubbing ■his.haoda, apparently with great satisfaction and shouting * Amen l'—‘ Glory to God ISs- A broad smile -was seen on the faces of that congregation. V erv Natural Thought. —A native rfthe green isle of Brin called at one,of opr.,drug stores the other day with a prescription, the putting up of winch he. watched with groat curiosity i “ What’s that, oay way ?” asked the customer. “ This,” said the obliging apothecary, “ is tincture cemicitnge rncetuosa and liniment of saponis, cantharides and opii.” A look of bewilderment changed to one of grave concern as the Irishman in quired, “ And what is the price ?” “ Thirty seven cents,” was the reply. “Bejabers,” said Pat, “ I thought two such names as that would cost jne at Taste a dollar and-a half.” The Best Coat.—A Scotch noblemap, see ing an old gardener of his establishment yrith a very gagged coat, made some passing remark upon its condition. “It 1 a guid coat, said the honest old man, “I can not agree with you there,” said his lordship, “ Ay, its just a ,vorra guid Mat,” persisted the qld map; “ it covers a contented spirit, and a body that owes no man anything, and that's mair than many a man can say of his coat.” .... OCT Irish gentleman having taken home a large Turtle,placed it in the servant’s bed-room in order, to enjoy her surpri.se.~ Next morning, first thing, Biddy boupded into the breakfast room exclaiming, “Beja bers I’ve got'him !” “ Got what ?” .inquired the head of the house, feigning’ surprise.— “ The bully bed-bug that’s beep atcin’ the ohilder the last month ; I’ve got him sure." ’ O” A soldier, who was arrested for steal ing a rebel’s goose, said he found the bird at the American flag, and arrested it for trea son. THE dCQUITTW OF JOHN FORNEY. A Curious Case Under the Draft—Arrests and Rc-Atrfists—Shooting a Provost Guard —Trial and Acquittal. [From tho Fulton Democrat, January 16.] Iho case of John Forney, which has been on hand for almost a year, and which has excited so iaucAinfereet ip this country and elsewhere, was finally disposed of last Wed nesday by his acquittal. The history of tho case is briefly as follows : ' John Forney, at the time of tho making of the enrollment for Todd township, in this county, reported himself to the Deputy Mar shal ns “over 45 years of age,” and a pnto of that claim was made on the enrolment list •by the Marshal. On tho day of appeals ho - appeared before tho Commissioner for draft, and made s-ffideMt of tlie fast that lie was over 45, whereupon the red line was drawn through his name, thus exempting Mini— Subsequently the Commissioner, without no tice tu- Forney, wrote after his name tho words “not exempt,”-and put his name into tho wheel. It was drawn out, the word •‘drafted” written over the words ‘pot ex empt,’ and Forney notified that he had been drafted. On Monday of the pest wpek For ney appeared before the Commissioner and made proof hy witnesses that lie was over 40 years of age at the time tho enrolment was made, whereupop the' Commissioner again declared him to he exempt, told hip; to ‘ go home satisfied,’ and assumed his Attor neys that he would make tho record ‘ pll right.’ Ho did again change his record, erasing the words ‘ not exempt’ and the word ‘ drafted,’ and writing at tho end of the line op which Forney’s name stands the words ‘ over ngo.’ 'flips (the record, op file ip the Sheriffs office in this county, remained. , On the coming of the Provost Guard into Fulton county for the purpose of arresting delinquent drafted men. the Commissioner, by mistake or otherwise, reported Forney as belonging to that class, and he was arrested. A writ of habeas corpus was sued out-in his behalf, and on hearing of the case before tho Hon. Robert Campbell, one of tho Associate J,edges for the co.unty, Fepuey %cas discharg ed. ■ . . After the discharge of Forney on writ of habeas corpus, the lieutenant of the guard want to the house of John Forney fo re-ar rest him where he (the lieutenant) was shot, and, as it turned opt, mortally. On the eve fling of the same day on which the shooting occurred, John Forney came to MoCounels burg and voluntarily delivered himself up to the civil authorities, not denying the shoot ing, but declaring that the act was done in. self .defence, whereupon he was regularly committed ,to jail. This was on Wednesday, January filst, IHG3. On Friday following he was forcibly taken from the jail by a par ty of the Provost Guard, carried to Cham hersburg, Ulence to Washington, and there lodged in the Old Capitol Prison. On our application as District Attoiney of the coun ty. to Governor Urn-tin, arrangements were made by which Forney was finally delivered up by tlio military authorities at Washington and handed over to the Courts of Pulton county for trial. At April Term of our Court, f. li. iU’Cauley, Esq., was appointed Special District At'orney -to take charge of the ease. David Fore, the Sheriff .pf.-this county, John A. Robison, Deputy ■Frpthono tury, ami ourself, District Attorney, nhving beep .arrested by the military, and.carried to Cbainbersburg and released on giving bonds to aifSwer in ihe-.Oourts of Fulton county.— At August Term a true bill for murder in the first degree was found by the Grand Ju ry against Forney, the hills in -each of the other three cases being ignored, but in “the meantime the rebels, during the invasion lust June, had broken open our jail and carried Forney off with them. Being released by them he returned voluntarily to jail on the 31st of last‘September. 1 Owing to thc-iliness of Judge Bill, the Court was adjourned over for October Term. Ou last Mop day -Forney wgs brought into Court, and on bearing the indictment read, pleaded not guilty, and nut himself on his country jor trial, On last Wednesday lie was acapittod, the .verdict of the jury being ‘Not .■Guii.tv.’ A Wife in T.uquple. — SJhe following is taken from the Sandy Hill Herald ; “ Pray tell me, my dear, what is .thc.causc of those tears." “Gh, such diagracoT' “What—what is it, niy dear? Do not keep me in suspense." “ Why, I have opened one of your letters, supposing it addressed to myself. Certainly it looked more dike JVlrs; .than Mr. Is that;all ? What harm can there be in a wife's opening her husband’s letters V* “No harm in the'.flung itself; but j&e •.contents;! Spch a disgrace " “ W.hat J hgs any one dared to write mo a fetter unfit to bo read by ipj wife 1 !" ' •“ Oh, no. dt is couched in the ipost chaste and gentlemanly language. But the con tents 1 the contents I" Here the wife hurried her. face indier hand .kqrchiof and commenced sobbing aloud, while the husband eagerly caught up the letter and commenced reading the epistle thpt had been the means of -nearly tbreaking wife’s ••heart, .it was .a bill from; the printer ,for •three. years subscription to the American Volunteer . -■ .t ■ .1 i .>1 The New GosrEL.—Thou shalt hate George B. McClellan with all, thy, heart, and with all thy soul and with all thy mind. This is the first great commandment, and the second is like uuto-it. Thou shnlt hate all Democrats. Upon these commandments hang all the contracts and all tho profits. Naturalists have remarked that the squirrel is continually chatting to his fellow squirrels,ip the woods. This, we have eve ry reason to suppose, arises from that.ani mal's love pf gossip,, hs ho iJTnotoriously.pne of the greatest taW-bearers among his tribe. O” ‘ tt is strange,’ muttered a young man as he staggered homo from a supper party, ‘ how evil communications corrupt good man ners. 1 have hoen suiTQpnded by tuniblors all tho evening, and new d ani a tumblof myself;’-,.. . 07 ‘ W-e won’t indulge in such.horrid .an ticipations;’.psljho henpecked husband said, when the parson, told him he would he joined to his wife in another world, never to.sepa-" r’pto. ' War on tee Banks,— The.Collector. of In-, terpal Revenue has issued an order that the notes or checks of State banks, shall not be received for national taxes. No paper, hut that- of tho National banks is to be taken 1 O” “ I love thee still,” as tho quiet hus band said to his cbatonng wife. ilonteiiola Receipts. Essence of Celery.—This is prepared by soaking fora fortnight half an ounce, of cel ery in a quarter of a pint of brandy; a few drops will fiavor a pint of soup or broth equal to a head of celery. Flaxseed Syrup, —This excellent remedy for a cough is made thus:—Boil one ounce of flaxseed in a quart of water for half an hour; strain and add to the liquid the juice of twp lemons, pud half a pound of rock can dy. If the cough,jeaocorapauied with weak ness end a loss of appetite, odd half an ounce of powdered gumarabio. Set this to simmer for half an hour, stirring it occasionally.— Take a wine-glass full when the cough is troublosohio. Preparing Glue for Beady Use. —To any quantity of glue use common whiskey instead of watey, But, together in a bottle, oprk it tight, and sot it by for three or fopr days, when it will be fit for use without the appli cation of heat, Glup tjjps prepared will keep for years, and at all times fit for use, except in very cold weather, when it should he set in. warm water before using. To obviate tho difficulty of the stopper getting tight by the glue drying in the mouth of the vessel, use a tin vessel with the cover fitting tight on tho outside to prevent tho osuupo of the spirit by evaporation. A strong solution of isinglass made in the same maimer, is an excellent for leather. To Mare Muffins. —Muffins are baked on a hot iron plate, and not in an oven. To, a quarter of a puck of flour add three-quartfers of a piut of yeast, four ounces of salt, and so much water, or milk, slightly warmed, as ,is sufficient to a form a dough of rather a soft consistence.' SmpUportiona of the dough are then put into holes, previously made in a Jayer of flour about two inches thick, placed on a board, and the whole is covered up with a blanket, and suffered to stand near a fire, to cause the dough to rise.' When this is ef fected they each will exhibit a seraiglobular shape. 'They are then carefully placed on a heated iron-plate and baked. When the bot tom of the muffins begin to acquire a brown ish. color, tliey ar.o turned and baked bis 'the opposite sic. 6. Origin or Flies, Lice, Fleas, and Bugs. —Tho Talmud gives an account that Noah, when endangered by the ark’s becoming ■leaky, entered into an engagement ’with tho Devil, to feed him on human blood forever after the time when he should again sot foot on land; so the Devil coiled himself up in the form of a serpent and ensured the sivfety of the ark by stuffing his body into.thebole thqt occasioned tho leak. Whep safe ashore, however, Noah derided'the Devil’s demand for the completion of hie bond, and threw the written agreement into the fire ; hot the Dev il caught up the ashes and scattered them in the air, and thence the origin of flies, Bee, fieas, and hugs. A Beautiful Woman. —An old writer says that to make an entirely beautiful woman, it would ho necessary to ..take tho head from Greece, the bust from Austria, the - feet from Hindustan, the shoulders from Italy, tho walk from Spain, and tho complexion from England. At that rate tho would be a Mos aic, and the man who married her might well be said to have “taken up ‘a collection.” Jsgy*An anecdote is related of a young preacher at a city church, who had for his text averse from the parable of the t<fti vir gins, and in : the course of his sermoV ex plained : — 4 That in. old time it was .customa ry when the bridegroom and the bride were coming, for ten virgins., to go but to meet them, and escort them horiie^—five of these virgins being males and five femfrles/ y have always b6en astonished, ” said. Mr. Smith,- "nfc the anxiety ot young Indies'for beaux ; but I never pitied a female more than when Mias Mountflathera -loft my school. Seeing her gazing toward the sky. T asked her what she was looking for ! “That beau.” said she, “which is told of 5p Genesis as being set in the cloud. 1 wish, he’d come down. Ciceri) calls justice “the mistress and,queen of all the vhtues,” and injustice, the found ation of every vice. That is what is the mat ter with this. Administration—rit,started on a career of injustice, and every inch of its path is marked with blood and crime. A religions, oaks the .question -r -“ Shall our ministers be ?*” Well, unless they are a very different set of men frorp our Abolitiqu -pugilistic dWines herea bouts, they Ought to be suspended• Smelt Like Home. —A Now man, who had not beon out of the city dor yearq, fainted away in the pure air of. the country Ho Vas only resuscitated by .putting a dead .fish; to his nose, when he .slowly revived claimed, “ smells like, home. will and bequeath,' said a gener •O.us Inslnpanjn bis will, |to my -bolovqd wife, ; all-pry property without reserve; to my oldest son Patrick, one-half of tho remainder to Dennis, my youngest son> the rest. If there is anything left it may go„ to Terrence McCarthy, in sweet Ireland.’ Useful Hints.—Never enter a siok .room in a state .of perspiration,- as ; the moment you become cool your pores absorb. Do not ap proach contagious disease with an epa pty Stomach,; pqr.-aitbetwpep.tbo sick and tlie fro because the ‘heat, attracts the thinyapqr. A bankrupt law is only made to aid scoundrels pndyillaips ip defrauding honest people, and pf course will bo approved of by this villupqus .administration. OCy* Study to accjpire and retain a sweet temper. It .is.tpore valuable thau gold; it captivates more than beauty, and to the'close of life,it retains oil its freshness and power. ia a stream of trouble so deep and swift that wo may not cross safely oyer, it, if .we have coprage to steer and strength .to pull. ' . . sixteen a woman prefers; the best dancer.in the room ;at twenty-two, the best talker; at thirty, the richest man. .(C7*Mtwyhu*d farmers are importing Ger man agriculturists—no negro.laborer pro curable. SST* It is better to be lauhged at for notbe* ing married, than to bo unable to laugh bo’ causa you are. 'CLOVES AS A FEBTILIZEfc; Many farmers do not fully appreciate the importance of raising clover expressly to plow under for the purpose of fertilizing the soil; Red clover will grow In almost finysoil not too wot; but it yields most abundantly in a deep, sandy loam,-as the long taproots pene trate far into the subsoil, and consequently it will grow in soils too dry to support many other kinds of grass. f Calcareous matter is an excellent stimu lant to cause clover to produce a good crop ; and among the many schemes to ameliorate soils and bring theca & high state of fertility, I regard clover and lime to bo the 'cheapest kind of manure, in addition to what barnyard manure is made on the farm. The urine and excrement all properly preserved from undue fermentation and waste, with a judicious ro tation of cropland a, clean arid careful culti- ' vation, are about all that a farmer requires to keep his land constantly iihprovipg, • Waiter or lime will cause white or rod clover seeds to spring up where they must have laip dormant for,a considerable length of time, and when these grasses appear to grow spontaneously it is a manifest sign of the improvement of the land. In sections of country whore severe frosts occur, clover seeds should bo sown in the spring to suc ceed well, and there is no crop, perhaps, in which it will grow better than among oats.— If I w)sh to grow a crop of clover to plow under fr,r manure, I try to sow oats as early as possible, in'LJarch, if! can.. I plow corn stubble ip lands thirty-three feet, pr two perches wide, so that I can know how much grain 1 am sowing to the acre, by measuring the length of the furrows. I saturate seed oats and clover seed with stale chamber lye, then dry the wet mass with of its bulk of effete lime. I sow two bushels, of pats to the acre, and after it is harrowed in I pass over,the ground with a triangular drag to make it smooth and level; then sow a peck of clover seed to the acre, and harrow it slightly wifh a light harrow, and then fin ish with a roller. If I have any fear that a dry season may occur, I mix turnip seed among, the clover seed, with the hope that I may succeed in getting enough vegetable matter to grow, so as to cleverly shade the ground by the time the crop of oats is taken off from the field. By actual .experiment I find that there is a loss of fertility to the soil to a]low a bare oats stubblp to stand iu a broiling August sun, without a spear or blade of grass of. any kind growing, to counteract or mitigate the burning rays and high and dry winds/that so evidently appear to draw the strength and .substance out of the soil.— After the crop of oats has been taken from the field, if the land requires manure, I haul and spread.it without delay, fiot fcfcrlng that it will, waste much by exposure to the at mosphere, if. there is a green coat of thrifty' clover for it to rest upon. Incredible as it may appear to some, a green sward of clover upon land covered with a poat of unfennen ’ted manure, will act in conjunction with each other in asaimulating from the atmosphere to the soil enriching, qualities, which is lost by the ground being turned up to dpst, that absorbs.the dew that falls on the surface only, and that is evaporated by the tun before mid-day; whereas clover shades the ground and retains the dew, .and by the aid of, the tap-root, which draws largely iretp the at mosphere, and deposits deeply, in the .soil elements contributing to fertility, and adds many tons of vegetable matter tj restore the loss sustained by the abstraction of crops. About the middle of September, if the sea son has been favorable, .there will be a fine growth of cloveV, which ! plow under, and as soon as possible,, while the ground is fresh and mellow, i sow with wheat one and a half bushels to tfio aero, wet with, chamber lye at least a year old, then dried with a half bush? el of the finest bone from the button factory; then harrosy, drag or roll* smooth, after which sow a half peck of timothy seed to ; the acre, and pass over it slightly with a lighf harrrow. This completes the operation and leaves the ground nearly about as mel low as if the oats stubble had been, plowed under and the land exposed to a broiling sun for several weeks. Thenr-wet barnyard ma nure hauled out and immediately plowed un der, to save the strength l of it from ovapora* ting, whilp the moistpre of .wfitep it contain ed goes far to sour the soil, bid do fpra lime a positive injury. ,'lt is. a current opinion among farmers that ground should be plowed twice or three times to make timothy, seed succeed .well in growr ing among wheat; but this plan militates against raising clover toplow under for tna nui*e, and is a loss by having the ground ex posed bare and naked ; fur if you throw down a heap of brush or a pile of stones \n a field and .leave them lay. awhile, when removed there will be a-rich opot, which makes it»oy idenfcthat it is best to keep ground shaded. Timothy .seed will grow well among wheat after ones plowing, if a little care is bestow ed in extra cultivation of the ground. Many farmers spw it rough surface, and Iqave itwithout harrowing, in which case it must creep down apinng the.clods and groijT the beat, way it can. ,* '/■ - , ~It is a question among farmers, in regard to what scale of growth clover should be in to plow under, tq produce the best effefctia enriching the soil and producing crops. My experience points to a perfectly ripe state as. the best, for when clover is in lull blpofhj there is too muvh saccharine matterxontaiued in it, which by fermentation has n tendency to sour the.soih - For ten years in succession I have raised wheat op a clover-eod. I al ways succeeded in growing fine crops of dor ver among oats; and left it stand without pasturing, in the fall. Then .in the spring I would dreg qr brush the oats stubble aod de cayed clover, and out the first drop of clover early, for bay, which would start the second. ;craf> along in .season to get out of bloom and become partially brown by the time to plow for wheat, which -was done with a <jhain at tached to the plow to turn under the clover, in general was higher than ,the horses' knees. By this plan L.saved forthe corn, crop all.. the manure, whhjh I applied as much aapps? sible in its unfenUentoa state.. Under this system the soil improved rapidly, but in con sequence of the increase of the mice crop, caused by the decayed clover affording them in the winter warmth and protection to in crease and multiply, 1 was obliged to abap> don the plan and resort again to I tooth and the hoof tp lessen .the evil. 1; have repeatedly .raised qloyer among cdrfc and found that it paid for the trouble and expense, an(J,have experimented upon other vegitable matter to improve soils ; plowed un der green crops of rye; oats, corn, buckwheat and turnips, none of which, hojveyor, ’were equal to clover, but they have the advantage over that plant as a means to improve sterile soil, simply because clover is tin aristocratic plant and will not grow in poor soil, Mr. Editor, I have not yet exhausted this subject. I could in faVor of.clovor as a renovator of soil, I know lam tedious,. ' I am a workman, and address myself tO practical farmers. —Germantown JVO. 35.
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