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Afidsi (aiglod root that line the wild ravine Whore the fierce fight raged hottest through the day. Anri where the dead in scattered heaps wore soon, Amid tho darkling forest’s shade and sheen, Speechless in death ho lay. The sotting sun, which glanced tttb wart the place In slanting lines, like amber-tinted rain, fell sidewise on tho drumme r’s upturned face, Where death had loft his gory finger’s trace In one bright crimson stain. The silken fringes of his onco bright eye Lny like a shadow on his cheek so fair; Ills lips wore parted by a long drawn sigh, That with his soul had mounted to tho sky On some wild martial air. N’omorchis hand the fierce tattoo shall beat, The shrill revillo, or tho lo'ng.roll’s cull, •Or sound thcchargp, when in the smoko and heat Of fiery onset, foe with foe shall meet, And gallant men shall fall. Yet tr.ay ho in come happy homo, that one, A mother, reading from tho list of dead, Shall chance to view the name of her dear son. Ami move her lips to suy “ God’s will ho done !" And bow in grief her head. But more than this what tongue shall tell his story ? Perhaps Ins boyish longings were for fame; , fie lived, he died, and so. Memento mori, — Lnough if on the page of War and Glory Some hand has writ his name. SOMETHING LEFT UNDONE. BVD. V. I.ONGFCLLOW. halier with what zeal w.o will, Something still remains uudoac; Cnmctliing uncompleted still, Waits tho rising of thceuu. By the bedside, on tho stair, At the threshold, near the gates, V' ith its menace or its prayer, Like u modicani it walls. Vials, and will not go away— W ails;, and will not bn gainsaid ; By the earns ofyet-terday X’aeb to-day is hoa/ioi* made. Till at length it is, or iocim; (heater than our strenp tli can bear— As the harden of our dream-', Press-in" on ua everywhere! And we stand from day to day bike the dwarfr of times gone by, Wlm. as'iiorthcrn legends say, ' On their shoulders .held the sky. B-limllaiimis. A STOIC’ FOR TJIE UTTUv FOLKS,' XiRVDALE As Fran): Wellman was going down the Btrvot, one .morning, he .was hailed hy Bill Hi'ilcv/.v tall rugged boy who was standing 'n the door of a pottery: ‘ Iloilo 1 .Frank, want to go to Drydalo?' I'rank had long wished to see Drydale.— In the town where he lived Drydale had be ‘‘l'lne to he a bye-word. When a boy wished, to refuse doing anything in a very strong wouldn't d ,J lor an interest in ih'ijdalcV Frank had thus come to think of -kytlaU as some very fine town, perhaps a i; &o had often pictured it to himself, it.s crowded streets and fine buildings, and he had ail' opportunity of actually‘go jn£ lopo and seeing all this splendor. ’But .n>w was ho tn get his (Mother's consent?— k was ten miles to Drydale. was jiever at a lor.s .for ,r.n expedient. So*ran •ionic, w'ent-lnt6 thfe room -where.his mother sewing, and as lie passed outefflbtho op posito dyer ,caul, laughingly—‘Mother, I'm Roing to Drydale.' Frank meant to Jiayo his ■ joiner think ho was in fun, and Was very j* ar see tiiab she paid no attention to .his remark. . now with bounding steps the boys P‘'«u down the gentle hill on which his tctoVu- o*’ 0 *’ P .small white.ohuroh.in rn i 1 i . 8 wds deacon—a point in the • aa which Frank never passed after dark a walk— there being just beside the little to! u j a ground. But it .was now ‘Wit day light and no fear of ghosts, but T i Bt VG m *l ea were nothing but sport, ami 1 ** B t ‘ mo fc h e Imys began to feel tired, ,?' er y now and then looked back to see t ,, p / 0r *ny wagon was coming, on which camfti CoU ( * K ot “do* Presently they t tln , 0 a c,) untry store, and near tbe dour a CjVft might'.be going llm n they entered the store.— llum JI no , r D °tioing their tired look Asked fold liira°'i. 0 1 were going, and when they I ) rvd 6 |“’ ' o , BaUl I 1? w ? 9 going right through life huv’ ■ WOU ( i take t(iom in his wagon, sonio i H W9ro over?oyod and sat down on tlitoui.l, 'Y a it for the farmer to get liou r ° Wl , hi o purchases. Hour after 'MulciV, 8S0 “' '*■ ncoraed to Frank that he tuer About sundown the far the touch I , llorGßa . the boys jumped into bore „„ , lu . m her-wagon and they wore once Just ‘ leir wa ?- lookin/h^ they came to a cluster of poor , block,m;,i° u ? eB grouped around a stp.re, a took 1 9 ”°P end a school house. Frank ifas frn m a ,i Qa to ask.tbe farmer ho,w far it dalo, im,*v 18 . eettlenient to the town of Dry- A very hi> US 18 said the Farmer.— Upon p r „ Ji V / Wo ight was'just then dropped then wn ß n 8 . B P ir >(a. ffhis miserable hple Frank lie„ .'I' 1 °ity h'e had looked for i Bill-. £ an I* o homesiek; Wlii o K ™ n< to Drydale was to get d horse to turn °f tho pottery had bought ivlicto tlinTT 1 " 1 ' ‘ They Wont to , tho house I'l'fso, itn.-.o \ vere directed to cd.ll for the , 6 ilby an nls ed at the door, and it was open t-nnd ho n , mn ,V After learning their ef *ct te Kohlw th • \°3' e - ‘ Yo “ don’t flx -8o back to night, do yon V ‘ Yea sir,* said Frank. 4 Why,* said the man, * you had better conjo in and stay all night, its going to bo Egyptian darkness to-night.' But Frank wanted to get out of Drydnle as soon as possible, besides it was Saturday, and ho did not dare to travel home on Shnday. After eating a bowl of bread and milk, tho boys prepared to start Tor homo. Tho horse was brought out of the barn and it was a poor shack. Frank thought it looked like ft Drydalo concern I Not feeling certain that tho horep would carry double, they ar ranged to_tako turns in riding, Bill got on first and Frank followed on foot'. But now Occurred another ‘trouble.'' The boys had heard that there wore mad dogs in Drydale. Prank couldn’t go home' without going through the street, so h'b Vuttobed 'up h]o coat and keeping a sharp look-out for dogs on cither side, ho walked quickly forward. As they were just leaving tho place, Frank, to his alarm heard'a dog running down from a house toward tho gate, barking very loud. Frank thought his bark sounded very fierce —he was certain it was a mad dog. Bill shared thesq suspicions and succeeded in get ting the horse into a run. Frank was so much* frightened that ho several times stum bled down as ho ran, and expected every in stant to feel tho teeth of the dog in hie log. At last out of breath ho stopped to listen, and hearing nothing further from the dog, felt that he had escaped a great danger. They felt that it would not do to go on foot any longer, so Frank got up behind, and they rode on. Frank now began to under stand what tho kind old man meant bv * Egyptian darkness.' Thick black clouds had covered the sky. They could not see a bund before them and their horse was near ly blind. Presently tho rain began to ppur down. They had to trust their hor?e to find the way. Pretty soon lie came to a full stop, and could nob be got to start. Frank got off to find the way and sank up to Ills kness in water. He waded around until he came to a stoop hill which seemed i to shut them in like a prison wall. He call- 1 .sd to Bill, and going in the direction from ' which Bill's he at length got ' back to tho horse. He climbed up behind 1 Bill, and they concluded that they must i stay there until scorning. §o Bill leaned I his head down on the horse's neck, and i Frank leaned his upon Bill's back, and they tried to get to sleep. What made the leaves sound so gloomy to Frank? Perhaps tho I voice of conscience w,as blending .with the ] storm. Ah! how pleasant his home seamed j to him now. \ But what was passing at that home 7 Ills mother, alarmed at Frank's absence, had gone out in .that fearful storm in the dead of night, and gone.down along; the banks of tho .mill-pond, fearing that her boy might be un der its waters. At last the gray light began to creep down through the leaven, the storm was oxer, and tho tired boys could now see a little way from them the road. They set forward. Alter two hours ride, Frank saw on a dis tant h 11, the pretty white church again, and soon lliu largo \vhi»o house, with its.wide shaded yard, the red barn and carriage house behind it, ami tho store, just outside of the gate. That home never looked .so cheerful to Frank. As he entered the house, his mother caught him in her arms, p,nd .brother ami sister crowded around him. Frank told the whole truth. Ijis father looked at his drenched clothes, his blue hands, and pale face, and said in a grave voice, ‘ Frank, you .have been punished enough/ Many a boy thinks of this world and its pleasures as Frank rlmught of the Drydnle. It looks gay and inviting in tho distance.— lie travels all through tho day of life to reach it, ami in tha evening uf old ago, whop he obtains the wealth’, the honor, or the’pleas ure ho has sought, lie finds it poor and un satisfying. The night of eternity, with its storm is now sotting in—and, alas ! for such as he, there is no bright morning , no? pleas ant home beyond. Diameter of the Stars.— Great diversity of opinion exists among Astronomers as to the diameter of the Stars. If, says M. Arago, wo should take for their discs such ns they .appear to the naked eye, certain stars- would he 9,060,000 leagues in diameter—equal to *27,000 times greater diameter than the sun — and the most moderate calculation will be 1,- 700 millions. HerscbeH’s lust calculation was that of Arcturus, a diameter of nearly four millions. If the apparent diameter of two seconds and a ; haff, assigned by Ue»*Bclicl to the Goat was real, the mass of tlqit star must be (novo'than 14^000,000 times greater than .that of our sun. But there is no certain ty in .this, nor anything to question that our sun is a star. JTlic sublime plea in .the -Holy Scripture, that the Creator had made all with number, weight and measure, is followed by Plato, who called it the geometry of ,tho Heavens. Haller, ; the friend of Newton, be lieved that all the stars wore, of the same magnitude—that of (be sun ; and that dif ference of distance only caused ,tho apparent difference of size. The number of stars visible by means of a telescope of 20 feet pf a local distance may be more than five hundred mil lions. fft is affirmed by Arago, that there arc certainly stars in the firmament whoso dis tance from .-the .earth is 344, and every 0,70 times greater than the stars visible to the naked eye. See what a conclusion this loads us to. It is admitted that light, with the ve locity of 77,000 leagues a second, takosSyrs. to reach us from tho nearest star. And’there are stars 344 and even 990 times more remote. Then thqra are stars, whoso lig|it does not reach us until .after two thousand seven hun dred years—an infinity in distance as it is in numbers." Giving.in Marriage in Russia. —When the promise of marriage has been given, tho father summons his daughter, who comes, fcoyerefi wi(b a linen veil, into hfa presence, and aaking her whether she be .still minded, to marry, he takes up d new rod, which has boon ready for the purpose and strikes his daughter once or twice, saying: ‘Lo I my darling daughter, thifiis the last tiipe.tbafc l shall admonish thee pf t)iy,fafc)ier'9.auth6rity beneath whose rule thou hath lived until now. Jtfow thou art free from me. 'Eemepi* ber that thop hast not so muoh escaped from* .sway, as rather passed beneath that of .an- ■ other. Shopldst thou behave not as thou pughtost toward thy hpsband, be, in my stead admonish t)i,ee with this .rod;' "With .this, th&fafcher, concluding his speech, stredH* 'os at the same time the whip to tbe bride groom, who, excusing himself briefly accor ding to custopi, says that he * believes he shall hive nd .need of this whip.' but he is bonnd to accept it and put it.undor hisbblt like a valuable present. What do the strong minded women incur vicinity think of this custom? Transport them to Russia, And wo are Afraid that rod woufd be very likely to change hands summarily; ICT’Tho greatest hypocrite never imposes' upon his neighbors half So often ns upon himself; THE NICE GIRL. There is nothing half %> sweet in life, half so beautiful,or delightful, or so lovable as a 4 nice girl.' Nob a pretty, or a dashing, or an elegant girl, but aiiice girl. One of those lovely, lively, good-tempered, good-hearted, sweet-faced, amiable, neat, happy, domestic cratures met within the sphere of home, dif fusing aropud the domestic hearth tho influ ence of her goodness like the essence of sweet flowers. A nice girl is not tho languishing beauty, dawdling on a sofa, and discussing the last novel or opera; or tho giraffelike creature swooping majestically thro' a drawing room. Tho nice girl may not even dance or play ’well, and knows nothing about 4 using her eyes' or coquetting with a Tan. She is not given to sensation novels, she is too busy.- At the opera, she is not in front showing her bare shoulders, but sits quietly and unobtru sively—at the back of the box moat likely. In fact, it is not often in such scones we dis cover her. Homois’her place. Who rises betimes, and superintends the morning meal? Who makes tho toast and the tea, and buttons tho boys’ shirts, and wa ters the flowers, and feeds the chickens, and brightens up the parlor and sitting-room?—. Is.it the languisher, or. the giraffe, or the ele gante? Not a hit of it—it’s the nice girl. Her unmade toilet is made in .the shortest possible time, yet how charmingly it is done, and how elegant her neat dress and plain color I W.hat kisses she distributes among the family! No presenting a cheek ora blow, like a 4 fine girl, 4 but an audible smack, which says plainly: ‘I love you ever so niuch.' If I ever coveted anything, it Is oij.e pi the nic ( p girl’s kisses. Breakfast over,down in the kitchen to see aboutdinner; always cheerful and light-hear ted. She never ceases to be active‘and use ful until tho day is done, when she will pojka with the boys, and sing old songs, and play old tunes to her father for hours together. She is a perfect treasurers the 4 nice girl.’ when illness cornea ; it js she that attends with unwearying patience to the sick chamber. There is np risk, no fatigue that she will not undergo, no sacrifice that she will not make. She is all love, all devotion. I have often thought it would be happiness to be ill, to be watched by such loving eyes. One of tho moat strongly marked charac teristics of a ‘ nice gin’ is tidiness and sim plicity of dress. She is always associated in my inind with a high frock, plain collar, and tho neatest of neck ribbons, bound 'siththo neatest little brooch in the world. I never knew a 4 nice girl’ whodisplayed aprofusion of rings and ‘ bracelets, or who wore low dresses or a splendid s3nnet. „ Isay again, there is nothing in the world half so beautiful, half so intrinsically good, as a ‘ nice girl/ She is the sweetest flower in the path uflilo. There are others far more stately, far more gorgeous, but those we mere ly admire as we go by. It is where tho dai sy grows that we lie down to rest. Prayer. — Prayer flourishes and grows in beauty like a flower in domestic culture. It has a small beginning hut a bright consum mation ; it is cradled in tho cloud butcrowncd in the sunbe.am. To accomplish it well, we have often to begin as wo can, in (ho midst of retirements and avocations ; if not holy, yet humbly ; if not with tho unction of Di vine grace, at least with full feeling of hu man depravity; if not with th.a puAvlction of need, finding'the strongest motives to prayer in tho weakness of our efforts to pray. Prayer thrives with repetition. ‘ All can try—all can ask—all cau kneel—and must idle and dangerous it is to trust in anticipa ting grace, or to vain expectations of gratui tous mercy without putting forth such natu ral strenth as wo possess, in confessing ina bility .and imploring succor. The hojy will, tbe sanctified wish, the steady purpose, are of tho bounty pf -God to impart—to avow a sinner’s concern for his sou,), and to suppli cate forgiveness, are, simple doings within the power of miserable llesh—duties which humanity is a debtor ,to form, and from which beginning wo mount on the promises of Scripture to that high and holy hill where our Master will shed the dew of his blessings on all sincere applicants.— Greer . Keep toe Birth Days. — A Western ex change makes the following excellent sugges tions, which must meet the approbation of all youthful readers. We trust they will also bo received with favor by the “ old,” It says: “Keep the .birth days reiigioubly; they belong exclusively to, and are treasured among the sweetest memories of home. Do not let anything prevent some token, bo it ever so small, that.it bo remembered. For one day they are heroes. Tho special pud ding or cake is made for them ; a new jack et dr trowers, >vith pockets, or the first pair of boots are donned; and -big brothers and siatprs sink into insignificance beside little bharlie, who is ‘six to-day,' and is ‘going to ben man.' Mothers who have half dozen little ones ‘to care for, are npfe to neglect birth days; they comb too oftep—sometimes when they are nervous—but if ,()iey ,ohh knew.jiow much such souveniera.pro cherish ed by .their' pet -Susv qr Harry, years after ward when, away from the hearthstone, and they have none to remind than that they have added one more year to tho perhaps weary round of life or to wish them in old fashioned phrase, many happy returns to their birth day, they would never permit any cause to stop between them and a moth er’s privilege.” Lime. —As thp efficiency of-lime in its spe cial application to the soil ns dependent on the constituents of the soil,.as well as what .is termed its’physical condition, an analysis of the soil is frequently recommended, and is apparently necessary; yet ns the general opinion now prevails that analysis are at best out of.tho reach pf.the farmer, if not ac tually indefinite ih their indications, they mpst look to the experience of cultivators for practical hints on such subjects as manures. Lime is not .properly a manure or fertilizer, it is nothing more.tfiar .an agent in correct ing improper conditions pf .elements, or to supply one eleiqent absent -to combine with others .present. 'lts great efficacy is tne bh.ange.tiifit it produces in the various mat ters that compose the spil jas .already stated. As mpoh as one hundred 'bushels of lime have be'en applied per acre, but this an unu sual quantity. OCT* At -Salem, Muss., last Friday, judge Lord sentenced.young Stackpolo to the State .prison for his .natural life. Ho attempted to poison :his .father's family, resulting in .the death of a‘little sister. A superintendent of a Sunday school in Boston has boon arrested fdr flogging a boy in Sabbath School; “OUR COUNTRY—MAY IT ALWAYg_BE EIGIIT-BOT RIQUT OR WRONG OUR COUNTRY.”. CARLISLE, PA. THURSDAY, MARCH 3, Her Loyalty to the Union. —Wo were told by a friend tbit the widow of the }>res ident Polk was living in Nashville, and that we ought to go and see her residence, and the monument in her front yard, erected over tho remains of her husband, who had once filled the highest and most honorable office in tho world. Wo accordingly repaired to Vino street, and soon found ourselves in front of the lady’s beautiful mansion. An elderlv PprpiLle in ‘ weeds,’ with a young lady by her side, was' standing at the front gate. We as cended the steps, at the top of which they .wore standing at and asked the elder of tho two if this was the residence of Mrs, Polk. She answered that it waa.' Wo then said to her, • I thinkit highly probable, madam, that I have tho honor of addressing that very Ja* Idy pow/ *Jfit be any honor, sir, you have/ was her response. Wo expressed ourselves highly gratified at the circumstance, and said that while it was only in our programme to obtain a. sight of her residence and the monument of her husband, we had not even 'hoped for such an interview. Wo then gave our name and character as a soldier, a .vol untary and occasional correspondent, when she expressed herself much pleased that we had called. Wo soon realized that wo were in the presence of a noble, intelligent, phil anthropic and patriotic woman ; patriotic, I mean, in tho true sense of that word. ' We confessed to much astonishment when she told {is that from thq timeof her husband's decease in 1849, to the present hour, she had ney.er bepn out of her own house to a party dr a gathering of any kind, except occasion ally to a- funeral. She has hot even taken tea out of her domicil since that melancho- ly event. Twice she bps dined out while on business with her late husband’s executors, when it was almost unavoidable. 4 1 live in and belong to the past,' was her remark to us at this interview. I presume, at no time since her husband's death, has she ever laid aside her ‘ weeds.’ The J^oncment.— The plain, monument be neath which lies the remain* of James Knox Polk, (with appropriate inscriptions on three sides.) stands a little to the right of the walk, leading from the street to the house, and very near to. it. This, together with her al most per/ect seclusion, and continuous mourn ing for fourteen j’earh, tells strongly with what tenacity and affection, and reverence, she clings to the memory of her late illustri ous husband. Pouc and Secession. —Much has been said of Mrs. Polk’s Secessionism. On this, and a hundred topics that constituted some of the themes of our converse, we shall have but little to saj, as with this retiring and truly modest woman. to shun as much as possible the public gnze. We will, nevertheless (to wipe the stain of tlie charge of Secession from her escutcheon.) give here some portion of our talk on this theme. I said to her :—‘ Mrs. Polk, I have heard you accused, since I have boon in Nashville, of being a bitter Secessionist; how is this?’ She rpiickly and warmly responded in sub stance as follows :—‘Mr. C , that is a wrongful accupation. I never was a Seces sionist, and I don't ( think I ever will be one. I always said there was no excuse for the course taken by my miguided Southern friends.— I said that Mr. Lincoln was constitutionally elected, and that election should be acquies ced in by every true patriot. I go, air, for my Government—my whole Government. * * In other words, RJrs. Polk,’ we responded, ‘you go for that States, of which your lute honored husbarnft was once the Presi dent/ ‘ Yea, sir/ she responded, with marked em phasis, ‘ldo. I know my name has been placed before the public—once at least- -in a connection that may have engendered in some minds doubts of my-loyalty ; but was so plaqcd against my wishes and remonstran ces. But. inasmuch as it was done fora hu mane and charitable purpose, I said nothing publicly about it. Ido not deny/ she added, ‘that my womanly sympathies arc with the South, and that 1 often catch myself exulting over the successor thc-Confedevate arms, but this.is only when niy reason is taken prison er, and 'iny judgment temporarily suspen ded at .the .bidding of my sympathies, preju dices and affections. I was born in the South, from infancy to old age—for my days, you know, " * Aro in the scro and yellow foaf— my surroundings have all been Southern.— My relatives, my friends, and more than all, my late loved and honored husband, were all of that sunny clime. Is it, then, reasonable to suppose that, ‘ in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye/ with the frosts of many winters upon my head, I can throw off as I would a garment, all the affections, all the endearing associations, all the prejudices (if you please,) of a longlife? ..No! Not this cannot bo? And yet, dear sir.fpqtwithatan ding all this,) I long, and pray, {iqd. yearn for a restoration of my distracted country to its former peaceful and happy condition; for a restoration of the ‘.Union as.it was/ - ' O* There is hope for the poor, unfortunate gentlemen, who, sitting at a play or an opera, are utterly prevented from seeing what is go ing on upon the stage, in consequence of the intervention of the ridiculous three-story bonnets now in vogue! In its record of fashions for the current month, the Paris Pul let nays : ‘The tonncts of the present sea son ought to- please the most fnstidi ous la dies, as they are so exceedingly becoming : being just largo enough to form a frame work round the face, and trimmed both inside and out without any exaggeration.’ That’s the stylo. Gentle but ■lmpressive. —A young map, rather verdant, and very sentimental, while pinking himself interesting to a young lady,, the other evening evening, by quoting from the poets, to the other choice extracts he ad ded : •, * There’s no piano like home.' ‘ Do you really think So ?’ asked the young lady. ‘ Oh yes,’ wsg the reply. _ 1 ‘Then,’ said pretty qaliao, ‘why didn’t .you stay there.’ lE7* A letter frspi AspinWall gives the fol lowihg account pf the .death of a seaman be longing to the West .India ,R. M. steatpship Solent, at that port: x A sailor going ashore on a hawser (roni the bow of the R. III! stoam packet Solent, was seized by a shark, which took off one of the sailor’s legs at the first bite. The next attack the man lost his leftarni at the shoul der ; then the right arhi near the shoulder, and last his head was taken clean off. The trunk, with oho leg attached,.floated, was re covered and buried by the ship’s company. [Special Correspondence of tho Cincinnati! Times.] _ ' INTERVIEW WITH MRS. POLE. “ ‘lt is an aim and—an attainment,’ 1864. I Homicide in Johnstown. —The citizens of Johnstown, Pa. were , horrified on Friday last, by a painful domestic tragedy. It ap i pears that Mr. Joseph Moore, auctioneer of - Johnstown, on his recent return from his' • term of service in thp army, ascertained thst , during his absence a criminal intimacy had existed between his wife, a Indy of very pre possessing appearance, amfMr. Jordan Mar bourg, a wealthy merchant of the town.— Moore once called upon Marbourg, the result of the interview being that Moore informed mm thal'he would shoot him the first time he met him in the street. Mrs. Marbourg, hearing of Moore's threats, appealed to him nob to fake her husband's life but the out raged husband would not listen to her. On Friday morning last, Moore visited a grocery near the post-office, where he remained until between eight and nine o'clock when Jjlarbourg passed by. ' Moore started out immediately, and caught Marbourg bv the collar saying, ‘Got down on your knees; I am going to kill you. My wife made a clean breast of it last night. §he told rao all, and | gave me some of the money vfbioh you paid hpr.' Saying this ; lie drew a revolver and bred—the first shot taking-effect ip the re gion of the heart. ’ Marbourg fell ft irward, | and Moore discharged two balls into his bead and then fired a fourth. ’whiHh took effect In the left arm. Marbourg fell over and almost instantly expired. Moore walked to a mag istrate s office, surrendered himself and was committed to jail to await the action of the authorities. The deceased leaves an esti mable wife and eight or nine children a son about twenty years old. Moore has a wife and one child, a boy of fifteen Another Horrible Tragedv. —A Returned Soldier Strangled by His Wije and Her Pa rajnoifr.—r-We find in our Pittsburg exchang es full details of one of the most horrible do mestic tragedies which it has ever been our province to record. The affair occurred a few days ago in Lawrence county, in this State, and the particulars are,as follows: “In the early part of the present month a coldier belonging to the 100th regiment, ha ving re-enlistbd for the war, obtained a 30 days’ furlough and returned to his home in Lawrence county, about four miles from Dar lington, and almost adjoining the Beaver county line. The man was .married, and during his absence his wife contracted an ac quaintance with a scamp in the neighbor hood, which culminated in a criminal inti macy between the parties. Of all this, how ever, the husband was in complete ignorance, and. upon his return 'home he took up his abode with his wife, unconscious of her Infi delity or of the - plot which was even then maturing against his life. It appears thajt soon after his arrival it was agreed .between >h,3 woman and her paramour that ho should he put out of the way, and one night, while the unsuspecting man lay asleep in his hod, the guilty pair approached him. and slipping a noose, which they had previously prepared, over his head, they threw the.other end over a beam wlich extended across the dwelling, and pulling on it with all their inigjt, they swung the wretched man off the bed, and in a moment almost hud him in such a position that resistance on his part became impossi ble. ’they had their victim now completely in their power, and the deliberation which marked their after movements shows a de gree of cold almost in the annals of crime, Finding that death did not Uwte place as soon as they had ex pected, they fastened the rope, which ud to this time they had hold over the beam" the body of their writhing victim in hip death a ei lJll y from- the** other end, to a peg in the wall, and leaving the miserable man to his passed out of the house. After remaining outside long enough for strangulation to take place, they again entered the house, and ta king down the now lifeless remains of the murdered man carried them to a coal bank in the vicinity, inside of which they concealed them. The next day it was noticed that the woman’s paramour was rather (lush of*funds, and this, coupled with the fact that the sol dier was missing, induced those who know the guilty relations existing bctcen the wo man and the man to suspect that all was not right ; so an inquiry was instituted through* which the entire tragedy was brought to light. The woman, struck with fear or remorse, made a confession of the whole affair, impli cating her paramour as the principle in the murder, and both ho and, she'were arrested and committed to Jsul at New Castle to await their trial for murder. The gentleman from whom wo obtained our report of the tragedy could not give us the names of the parties, but he vouches for the correctness of the facts iis wo have given them. .It was a most hor rible affair, and naturally created great cx citment in the community where it trans pired.’’ Terrible Occurrence. —On Sunday even ing, 7th inst., the dwelling of Mr. Gottschulk in .Perkiomeu township, Montgomery county, Pa., was destroyed by fire, while ho and bis wife wore absent at 'church, some distance from home. Three children were in the house when the conflagration occurred.— When a neighbor arrived the oldest one was standing down stairs and’was rescued. The second was also gotten down stairs but died almost immediately thereafter, aad the youngest'could not bo rescued, the flames and smoke preventing further success to the room upstairs in whinh fire originated, and it was entirely consumed in the fire.— Not a trace of it eould be discovered after the fire was over. It was left lyjng in the crib, it is supposed that the explosion of a coal oil lamp .caused the conflagration. This terri ble egtaslrophe should bo another waning to parents nqt/o ."legyo small children alone in the houro. Antic-ite pea Poisons. —Dr. Jas. Edmonds a pfothineni London physician, writes ns follows to the. London Times: “ I inclose a simple, safe and accessible prescription for the whole range of acid and corrosive poisons, and which, if promptly used wjll almost invariably save life : Mix 2 oz. of powdered chalk or magnesia, or X oz of washing Coda, with a pint of milk, and swallow at one draught; then tickle the hack 6f the throat with a feather or the fin ger, so as to produce vomiting. Afterwards drink freely of hot milk and water,, and re peat the vomiting so as to ’ thoroughly wash out the stomach. Any quantity of chalk or magnesia r.lliy bo taken with safety, but soda ■in large (Quantities is injurious. I may add also that the narcotics being excepted, milk alone is an antidote for ahtiost all the poisons and especially if followed by vomiting.” - (C7* A religions exchange asks the ques tion. ‘ Shall our ministers bo supported?’— Well, unless they are a very different sot.of men from our Abolition pugilistic divines hereabouts, they ought to ho suspended. PnatNOLoaicAL KARACKTEii of Mr. Mark Milberby, Esq,— Given af the offiis of Brof. Josh Billings, prakticnl phrenolegis, prise §4. Amtiveness—Big. Sticks out like a hor net’s ness. Yu ought tow be able to lav the hole human familea with your bump at onst. Yu will never bo.m»widdop long, not enny. Pullytika—Yu liav got the natral wa. A splendid bump. Menoy a man has got to bo konstable with half your bump. Combatifnoss—Sleigh tually. Very much. Yu might fight a tyoman, but tuff match. I Should like to bet on the woman. Tho bump wants poultising. y Vittles—Bi thunder what a bump 1 I shud think yu cud eat a boss and cart, and ohaa the driver three miles, without any praktis. Thunder & Lightening 1 what a bump I what a bump 1 Let Barnnm git his hand on this bump, and yaro fortiti is made. What a bump I what a bump I Greenbacks—Well .developed. A gor geous bump. 4- fortin tew enny man. Yu kant help but die rich, if this bump don't go back on yu. Georgious bump 1 imppeo man! die when yu feel like it, deth wont hav enny sorrows for yufo -rolashuns that this bump wont heal. Renewing Accounts. —Squire C r— i n his old ago took to himself a young and en terprising wife, who immediately after being installed as mistress of the household set herself to accomplish the Heripilean task of “ putting things to rights." Old C was absent during the scouring'prooess, and on lpo return, judge of his dismay upon dis covering that his lovely reformer had erased from the wall all hhi ‘book accounts’ where they had been ciphered in chalk for years past. Her pride at ii.er great achievment was therefore somewhat dampened by his exclammntion that she had ruined him, for those were his charges against his customers. She encouraged him however, to recommit them to the walls from his memory. After his long and laborious task was completed, evidently with groat satisfaction to himself she ventured timidly to ask him if ho had them all down ? He replied very slowly and deliberately: ‘I don’t think I have them quite all; but then I think I have them against better folks.’ Make A Beginning. —Rem'e’mbcr, in all .tiling, that if you do not,isogio, you will never come to an end. *Tlie first weed pull ed up in the garden, the first seed set in the ground, the first do’lar put in the savings bank, and the first mile traveled on'h journey are all important things ; they furnish a be ginning, a promise, a pledge, an assurance that you are in earnest with what you have undertaken. How many a poor, idle, erring* hesitating outcast is now creeping and crow ling his way through the -world who might have held up his head and prospered if, in stead of putting off-his resolutious'of amend ment and industry, had he only made a be ginning I QCT"* Whenever General Sturgis has been' permitted to bo in the field he lias done splendid service. lie has, however, been kept out of active service and denied pro motion because like McClellan, he has pre served his political -integrity. And for an other reason he has been kept out of active ser vice and denied promotion. It was he who in a public ho.tcl in Washington, publicly d-e -nbnilccd the notorious Chandler, of Michi gan, then and there present as a liar and a coward, for having then and there impugn ed the honor gf General McClellan.—Provi dence Post. A Huge Babl*. —The Morristown, Pa., Free Press says there is a baby in that town, nine months old, which weighs eighty pounds.— The Free Press doubts whether' any human being of the same ago in the .State ciln mus ter us much .flesh and blood, and thinks that Norri'stown is about entering upon a new prosperity. If any of our readers know of a baby that can beat tins they will please acquaint us of the fact. (£7“ Whiskey and brandy can now be mad out of* coal gas, which consists of carbon and hydrogen as does alcohol, with the addition (-i oxvgen. For several years past the pro cess of converting olefiant gas into spirit, has been talked of, but a French patent has teen obtained for the purpose, and sold to a com pany in London." You take away one half the hydrogen, add a little oxygen, and pres to! you have a. bottle of brandy. jftgyAn anecdote is related of a young preacher at a city church, who had for his text a verso from the parable ol tlio ton vir gins, and in the course of his sermon ex plained : * That in old times it was customary when the bridegroom and the bride were joming, for ten virgins.to go out to greet them home —five of these virgins being males and live Tommies.’ (£7* The terror of the great dessert of Sa hara is'being removed*by the application of uoionce. In .1860 live wells have been open ed, bringing fishes to the surface from'a depth of five hundred feet. Vegetation is springing around the wells, and the 4 desert will blossom like the rose/ H7“Tho Inst dodge of tlio conscript deser ters is to don a Confederal o uniform and comb into canip ad deserters. Thojr are then sent to Washington, take oath of allegiance and are forwarded to the North. Seven were caught,at this game last week. OC7* A little g’fcl who had often contempla ted the very aged appeargnpe df’ho'r grand mother of more than eighty years, her face wrinkled and time-worn, ran up to her one day and asked, ‘Grandmother were you alive when God made the world.?* 4 Isaac can you doFcribo a bat 1 Yes sir ; he's a flying insect, about the size of a stopple, has indiu rubber wings, and a shoe string tale, ho sees with his eyes shut, and bites like the devil.' ' ‘ . The Paris Fresse computes the population of the globe at one thousand millions, speak ing three thousand and sixty-four language* es, and having eleven hbddrcd different forms of religion. - flgy*Love generally makes a wise tdan act like a fool, and interest sometimes makes a fool act like a wise man. Forests of standing trees have been discovered in'England, many feet below the surface of the earth, completely embedded in stone. OCT" All faults are pardonable .when one baa the courage to avow thorn. SPEECH OF HON. JOHN L. DAWSON, OF PESmtTAKO, In Favoi of Paying Soldiers and Sailors in Gold Instead of Green-backs. delivered in the U. S. Mouse of Representatives, FEBRUARY 17, 18041. Mr. Stevens moved that the rules be sus pended, and the House resolve itself into tho Uommitteo of the' Whole on the stats of tho Union,. The motion was agreed to., Tho House accordingly resolved itself into tho Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, (Mr. Washburne, of Illinois, in tho chair,) and proceeded to the considera tion of tho bill of tho House (No. 151) mak iug appropriations for the naval service for the year fending Juno 30, 1865. Tho Gbairjian. When the bill was last under consideration tho gentleman from Illi nois [Mr, J. C. Allen] moved to amend tho clause “ for pay of commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen, including the en gineer corps of tho Navy, $19,423,241," by adding thereto tho following : And that tho same bo paid in gold or its equiva lent: t'ruvided, That tho relative value of any pa per currency tendered shall bs ascertained by tho Secretary of the Treasury, and hia certificate shall be conclusive evidence thereof if dated thirty days befert-payment is made The gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Stevens] moved-to amend the amendment by striking out the words “gold-or its equiva lent,” and inserting in lieu thereof “ lawful montfy of the United States.” The pending question is on the amendment to the amend ment. Mr. DAWSON. Mr. Chairman, I deem it proper to say that the pending amendment has received the sanction of the Democratic members of the House. It-is urged in good faith, us a measure of simple justice to those for wlioco benefit it is intended. Its object is simply to secure to the sailor, as wo pro pose to secure to the soldier, the price fixed by law for their services in gold or its equiv alent. They do not askor expect more; they certainly should receive nothing less. It is not proposed to apply the provision to any other class of the public servants than those in the naval and military service, for the rea son that no other has been called udod to make such sacrifices for the country, and that upon no other rests immediately the burden of its defense ; yet at the present session, under the lead of th« distinguished chairman of the Ways and Means, provided for the payment of the salaries due our rep resentatives in foreign countries according to the gold standard. The men who are fighting the battles of the country are, in a peculiar sense, entitled to a larger consideration and to the distinct ion which is thus proposed to be made in tboir favor. In lieu of heme and domestic endear ments, they have accepted and are bearing the privations, sufferings, and perils of a bit ter and sanguinary war. Their wives and children are still dependent for support upon their pay, who, deprived by their situation of the means of procuring that support from the ordinary pursuits of life, have relied with undoubting trust .upon their engagements with the Government. So long hs payment was rendered in coin or its equivalent, the soldier’s pay beiug thirteen dollars per month for the private, and the seaman’s •about the same, which is not equal upon the average to the earnings from civil occu pation,, was yet such an approximation to that standard as could be contentedly borne. For some time back, however, owing to the excessive inflation of the paper issues of the Government, the departure from the gold Standard has been constantly increasing, un til at this time a dollar in greenbacks is worth only about sixty-four cents in gold. Incon sequence of this depreciation the soldier’s pay is actually reduced to about eight dollars per month. It is well known that the means of living have advanced in a ratio even greater than that corresponding with the deprecia tion of the currency. This condition of things falls with especial severity upon that class of men who have al ready made greater sacrifices than any other in taking up arms in the common cause.— .Can tho Government properly do less than preserve the faith of its solemn engagements by at once restoring the compensation to tho value which it possessed when the war com menced? They have performed their part of tho contract with noble fidelity and zeal. ■ Antietam, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, and Chat tanooga are monuments of their bravery and patriotism which will bear their fame to a distant and adriiiring future. If anything more were needed to commend the proposi tion to the acceptance of the House, I think it will bo found in tho effect ,th© passage of such a measure would have upon enlistments. So long as the soldier is paid as at present, enlistments are asked for with an ill grace, and will'be rendeiod with n tardiness which call hardly bo surprising when wo consider the change which has been wrought in tho terms of engaging in tho service, by the de preciation of .the money substituted fur the constitutional currency. It is true, Mr. Chairman, that many Dem ocrats believe.tljat this war could have been avoided, and now condemn the policy which governs it. Yet at the same time wo con demn in unqualified terms the rebellion ; are anxious to see it put down : and arc deter niined to stand by any Administration or any policy that will bring tho war to a .speedy close, and establish in its place peace, an early peace, with the restoration of the Union and flie legal and constitntionhl rights of all tho States and all tho people fully protected and secured. Wo believe that when this great object is attained the war ought' to cease. But during its progress in the past as well as in the recognize the. seamen and soldiers of the Army as having gone forward to fight the battles of constitu tional government, and are at least entitled to our justice. Wherever any part of that groat Army has moved, upon the water or -upon the land, its rants have been filled with thousands of gallant Democrats, many of whom now sleep in soldier’s graves. 1 am aw.are, Mr. Chairman, that tho Republi can gentlemen of tho House are in the ma jority, and that this proposition for the bond fit of the soldier cannot bo carried by Demo crats alone, I trust, then, that rt will not be prejudiced for the rekson that it has ema nated from a Democratic caucus and will re ceive the undivided vote of the Representa tives of the Democratic party, but that it will obtain a generous support and becomo a law. appropriation of §l2,ooo.has pass ed Congress, to, rebuild the President's sta bles. Hz’ Scarce.—Mon who mind their own business. NO. 38.
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