•V ’WTBiOirt:—Two Dollars per year If paid slrlelly (Sdvnncc; Two Dollars am! Fifty Cents if paid Swjln three months; after which Three Dollars charged. These terms will be rigidly ad ‘allLl to la every instance. No subscription dls 'Sillhuiod until nil arrearages are paid, unless at tIERICAN VOLUNTEER. ll i JSHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING, itv BKATTOX & KtAXr.SM ciicral KufonnatCou. U. B. GOVKUNMKNT. aUlciil—Aiulivw Johnson. president —1 j. S. Foster, i-eliirv of State—Wm. IT. Sewimt. rctiirv of Interior—.las. Harlan. i-otarV of Treasury— Hugh Mc( ’ulloeli. rot arV <>f u*ar—Edwin M. Stanton, alary of Navy—Gideon Walls, t Master General—Win. Dennison. lirnov General—lames S. Speed. i-f .111-slits 1 of till! I nitial Slales—Salnimi P. STATK GOVURNMUXT. vernoV— Andrew O. Curtin. ' •rotary of State—Kll Siller, rvevor General —.Tames I*. Harr, clllbr General—lsaac Slenkor. Lornev General-Win. M. Meredith, Jntant General—A. L llnssell. ite Treasurer— Henry D. Moore. lef Sustlee of tlie Supreme Court—George W. soelates—.Tames Tlmmpson, William Stroup;, l M. liead, I'aulel Agucw. COUNTY OFFR'KRS. i-sidunt Judge—Hon. James H. (imlumi. ;suoiaie Judges—lion. Michael Cocklin, Hon. Pst rict Attorney—C. 1* Maglaughlln. todamolary—.Samuel Shlremau. lerluuul Recorder— Fphraim Cornman. Easier— George W. North. n£li Sherlir—John Jacobs, jiuitv Treasurer —Levi Zeiglor. jrouer— David Smith. janlv Commissioners —John Met oy. Henry _j)s. Alex. F. Meek. Sh’K—James Armstrong. It’toniey—M. C. Herman. tomllouse Directors—C. Hartman, W. Wherry, Balkan Snyder, toward— Henry Snyder. kudilors—D. B. Steviek, J. A. Ilcberllg, Chris ji Dietz. Jhvsician to Jail—Dr. S. P. Ziegler. Mvsleian to Poor Mouse—Dr. S. P. Ziegler. "M liOUOlXill GI''I''ICKUS. 'Safriici Burgess —John Nohlo. Burgess —William .1. I'amcnm. • Nltowii Council—East Ward, V. Conunan, An -'fflfcw Kerr, sr M J. D. Rinehart, <lodfrey Render; •Wed Ward, ,f D. Gorgas, A I\. Rheem, At. •ivWcaUlcv, J. i*\ .Steel, E. M. Riddle, President. ol Corporation—. Samuel D. Hampton, Treasurer —Jpeoh HI teem. I eric of Markets—A. S. Lyne. iu r h Constable—Kohort M’Cartney ; WardCon (U‘s — Ward, Andrew Marlin ; West Ward, m.‘s Wulner. •isessor—John Gut shall, uditor —E. I), Quigley. ix Collector —riamuel W’eL/el; Ward Collec , East Ward, .V. J. Welsh, John Wagoner, reel Commissioner—Alfred Uinohart. reel ilegu.ators—John Natchcr, Jno. Marlin, is. M. liaird. isllees of the Peace—A. D. Spoiislur, David llli. Ahrrn. Dehuir, Michael Holcomb. imp Dividers—A. W. Walker, James 1 lacked CIIUUCIIKS. Presbvt'Tiau ('lunch. imrUiwusl angle of litre Square. Kcv. I'emvnj I’. Winn, Pastor.— ■yicos every Sunday morning at 11 o' cloak, A. and 7 o’clock, I’. M. .... Second Presbyterian Church corner ol south [anovor and Pomfrel streets. Key. .John C. bliss, bistor. Services commence at 11 o clock, A. M., wjul 7 o’clock, P, M. da St Jolm’s Church, (Prol. Episcopal) northeast [itfftvde of Centre Square. Kov. F. .1. CLcre, HeCtor. at 11 o’clock, A. M., ami 7 o’clock I*. M. •'■yjaKn’dish Lutheran Church, Ledford, between . fflKuiiiaml Louthcr streets. Kev, Hand. Spreeher, Services at il o’clock A. M., and • v «|(’l(K.-k P. M. %w<Jennnn lUTornuMl riiuvi'h, Louthi'i - , ln’twei-n jSiumviT and IMlt strrcls. Uov. Siimui‘l Philips, Services ut II o'clock A. M.. sili'l I) o'clock 1 Methodist K. C'liurHi, (llrst ehartfe. corner of ain and Pill streets. Rev Thomas 11. Sherlock, istor. Services at II o’clock A. M., and 7 oclock Methodist F. Chureh, (second elm.-tfc; R‘-v. S. L. iwman, Pastor. Services in Hmory .A I. 1:1. < ’hnrch 11 o’clock A. M. anil kl.j P. M. Church of God Chapel, soul invest cor. of West reel and Chapel Alley. Ucv. 13. F. Peck, Pas* ir. Services at 11 A. M., ami P. M. St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, Pomfret, near street. Father Gcrdoman. Services every Sabbath, tit 10 o’clock. Vespers at J» I‘. M. tea German Lutheran. Church, eorner of Pomfret kmml Bedlbnl streets. Kov. Kuhn, Pastor.— ITVlces at 11 oclock A. M, iw)- When changes in the above are necessary, u* proper persons arc requested to notify us. I > I OKI NS<) N ( 'OKI i V-( iK. Utv. Herman M. Johnson, T>. T)., Proshletd and rofessor of Moral Science and Pihhcal Ltlern- Samuel I>. mihm.n, A. .M., Professor of Mall.- inlii-s. Julia K. Sla.vimin, A. M., IToH-smii- ul tin- I.nliii .oiinl I-Tcncli Ijinunai^.’s. Jlon. Jjimos ][. t.; rail a) ii, 1.1,. It, ITnlt-ssnr ul 1 |l .aw, r.,4 Charles K. Himes, A. -M., Professor of Natural “iSsi-iein-e ami Curator nl‘ tin; Museum. : Ji llc-v. James A. Mei'anley, A. M, I‘i-nft-ssm- of ,ostia- llrei-k amt 1 jet-man I.anaunaes, ~1 Kev. nenmrilll. Kmlall, U.D., rriifessorof I'hl ;:|iliisnphy aiul the Kiigllsh J.iinau'nac. Hey. JEonry 0. Cheston, A. M., Ci-iuelpnl of Hie y-Al-o'uniniar School. , , ’ A. M. Trimmer,'. Principal of the Commi-rela department. U. Watson McKcehun, Assistant, in Gramma >••1.001, ami Toucher of Penmanship. I3UAIIJ) OF SCHOOL HIHLUTOKS. I K, t’oi’ninim, President; Jtin.es Hamilton, H. [Saxton, U, C. Woodward, Henry Kcwshum, (.. I. piumoncli, Becl.v ; .1. W. Kliy, Treasurer; John .Spain-, Messenger. Meet on tlie llrst Monday "I [eiifl. month at, S o'clock A. M., ul Kducation Hall. CORPORATIONS. SI Carlisle Deposit Hank.—President, R. M. Hen lersou; Cashier, J. P. Hassler; Tellers, L. A. •smith, \V. A. fox. J no. U Wagoner; Messenger,, I no, Underwood: Directors. U. M. Homlersou Proiddcuv, 11. (J. ‘Woodward, W. W. Dale, N\ Uliaui TAne, John 7.ug, .John Stuart, .Tv., Abm. Hosier, Homy Saxton. Sklles Woodhurn, First National Bank. —President, Hon. Samuel . Hepburn; Cashier, Joseph Holler; Tollers, Messrs. '.'j'l'Snioad Ojt, and Brennemau; Directors, Samuel .‘Sa Hepburn, William Kerr, John S. Sterilt, W. IT. Tm Mullin, John IT. Heldlg, Isaac Brenneman, W. K Sadler. • s S Cumberland Valley Ilailroad Company.—Pres • ideal, Frederick Walls; Secretary and Treas :urer, Edward M s ßiddle; Superintendent, O. N. •fi Lull Passenger trains three limes a day. Car .‘‘•t lisle Accommodation, Eastward, leaves Carlisle O.JM A. M., arriving at Carlisle 0.20 P. M. Through V-c trains Eastward, 10.10 A. M„ and 2.10 P. M. West . ! i ward at 0.27 A. M„ and 2.05 P. M. ~ 4 Carlisle Gas ana Water Company.— President Lemuel Todd; Treasurer, A. L». Sponslor; Super ,i Intendent, George Wise ; Directors, F. Watts, r*’*j M. Biddle, Henry Saxton, U. C. Woodward, J. ‘ ‘3 ITrutton, Win. M. Penrose, Peter. Spahr. : v| SOCIETIES. 1 Cumborliiml filar Lodge No. 197, A. Y. M., mces at .Marion Hall on the 2d and -Ith Tuesdays of ev i fry month. 3 St. John’s Lodge No. 200, A. Y. M., meets on the ; tlnrd Thursday of every month, at Marion Hall. , t Carlisle Lodge No. 111, I. O. of O. F. .Meets Mon d day at Trout’s Building. , . I Lotort Lodge No. (13, f. O. of G. T. Meets every r Thursday evening in Rheem's Hall, 3d story. FIRE COMPANIES. id The Union Fire Company was organized In ,j itmi. House in Lonlher between Pitt and Hano -■ 4 ver streets. , ... . , i'T The Cumberland Fire Company was instituted i February IS, 1800. House in Bedford, between Main and Pomfret streets. , The Good Will Fire Company was Instituted In March, 1853. House in Pomfret, near Hanover "net. y.tt The Elhpire. Hook and Ladder Company was .fij ■instituted in 1850. House In Pitt, near Main st. f N EA TNESS AND DESPATCH, i THE JOB PRINTING OFFICE •Conncetod with the Amekican Volunteeh, has Jasi boon supplied with tho most modem spoci mens of Typo issued from tho Eastern Foundries { hi(l, in connection with tho Jobbing Olllco of tho fi'nnocmt, which has been united with It, com prises tho greatest variety of JOB TYPE to be found in any Cilice in Southern Pennsylvania. Our workmen, in taste and promptness, cannot be excelled in the County. "We arc now prepared to execute all sorts uf 'vork usually done in a First floss oniee, sue) sale bills, ROSTERS, - CIRCULARS. PROGRAMMES, BUSINESS* CARDS, INVITATION CAR OS BANK CHECKS, LEGAL BLANKS, * PAPER BOOKS, BILLS OF LADING, PAMPHLETS, Ac., Ac. PRINTING in colobs I PLAIN PRINTING, I JOli PIUXTINti UK K.V-KIIV DESCRIPTION j ut ’’bot't notice ami reaconaljle rates. Orders sent by auuil, acooiapimicd l»y the Promptly attended to BY BRATTON & KENNEDY. §.oT:fel sAjiebodt. Mu. Kiutou:— 'Tiunv Is hi tho follow- Inu slmpli", stuii/u (lot rails up past mrmork*s, and 1 should In.* ulad to s»*i* it in your valuable Journal. jno, s. s. Some hod' is rnuri iHir s 1 >mi*hody— Somebody or other, to-night ; Somebody's whispering to somebody Somebody's UstTiing to sombotly, I’mler this clear moonlight. Near tbo bright river How, Running so still and slow. Talking so sofl and low, She sits with somebody. I’aeing the oeoan’s shore, Edged by the foaming roar, Words never breathed before Sound sweet to somebody. Ruder the maple tree, Deep though the shadow lie, Plain enough they (ran see, Rrlirhl eyes has somebody No one ‘Jits up to wail. Though she Is out so late, All kno\Vsshi‘’s'at llu'trati? Talk lug with somebody. Tlp-loc to tin* parlor door. Two shadows on the lloor, Moonlight reveals no more Susy ajid somebody. Two sltttlmr side by side, Pinal with the ebbing tide, *• Thus, dearest, may we glide Through life,” says somebody Somebody, Somebody, Makes love to somebody , To-night. v ih c cltu n r.o u.ci. JIAIIY ( ANAVAX. AN INCIHKNT OK TIIK HUSH CAM INI It became part of my lot in life to help the Irish government during the eventful period of the Irish famine of 184 G-7. I was a Poor haw Inspector, and had a large district in my charge. I had neces sarily (o go about a good deal, and to visit work-houses, hospitals, and relief stations in the discharge of my duties. My mode of eonveyaivet*, ms a rule, was an outside Irish jaunting ear. and with horse, or, rather indeed, with a pony, 1 used of a day sometimes to get over *3O long Irish miles. 1 sturtcdmie morning in theearlyspring from my headquarters to visit a station in a very remote and wild part of my district, my man servant-coachman, groom, but ler, valci, all comprised in one very origi nal and funny individual called “ Mick,” —accompanying me. The night before 1 loft, on this particular Journey, in which occurred an incident which I am about to •elate, L told Mick to he sure to stock the “well” of the car with vyc broad, which I used In hake in my own house, and, above all, not to forget to till my llask with brandy, which, us wo shall presently sec, was not altogether used for selfish pur poses. Many a time when T have been driving along the wild roads, I have seen people who, to my official knowledge, were in the receipt of the full amount of ration relief, literally looked starved. The avidity with which they seized and de voured the loaves of rye bread 1 used to give them from the “ well,” satisfied mo that the money which was sent to us Poor haw Inspectors from all parts of the Unit ed Kingdom, to expend in any way we thought fit, and which for the most part we applied to the establishment of bake houses, did all the good which it was in tended to do, and even more than the generous donors could have anticipated. f scarcely think I was ever out on a more lovely day than that to which I al lude, and if one could only have felt that the people were not dying in hundreds throughout the district, and through the island generally, such a day, amidst such scenery, would have brought- its fullest enjoyment. Sk’irtingalong lovely lakes, above which rose hills clad with voneratde beauty, I drove some ten miles, and then turned off by a mountain road, which led by a long descent to a wild and barren hog, stretch ing unbrokenly for many miles towards tlio soacoast. -Vs wo got on the bog, there was au indication that there had been a turf road, hut gradually its traces became morelmd more indistinct, and we had to make the best of our way across the ‘blast ed heath.’ Atlast we came to a road again, and 1 was enabled to shape my course for the relief station, which I was about to inspect. The path, or road, or whatever else one might choose to call it, was straight, and so "there was nothing to interrupt the view right before ns. Mick, who was never much inclined to wrap himself up in himself, and had been discoursing eloquently on the_ value of good sound roads, giving mo his private opinion as to the character of that on which wc were then travelling, suddenly called out, “ What on earth, sir, is that before ns?” “ Where?” said I. “Don’t you see, sir? The Dol’d save us !—-a body stretched across the road." On looking before me, at about a hun dred yards’ distance, I saw that to which Mick directed my attention. “Yes,” said ,1, “no doubt it is some poor creature who has died on the way to the station at , but we shall soon know.” On coming up, we found it was the corpse of a woman apparently about 40 years of ago. Accustomed as I was to see the effects of famine, I was horrified at the ghastly appearance which she presented. Her face was literally so attenuated, that I could see all its venous and arterial ana tomy as well as if the skin had been re moved. While looking at this horrid sight, it seemed to mo that she could not have been very long dead. X could see no hab itation for miles around. “Possibly,” I said, “life,is not quite-extinct,” and, re collecting the little smattering of doctor ing which I learned in early life, I thought it worth while to see what effect a stimu lant might have. “Bring me my brandy flask at once, Mick,” saidT, “ and help me to raise her head. “ For what, sir?” said he. “ Bedad, it would take more titan your honor could do to bring her back again.” “ Well, X added, “ do what I tell you, Mick, and let us hope for the best.” We lifted her body and placed it against a little hillock, which was quite close to where wo found the woman, and I at once proceeded to open iter mouth, a proceed ing attended with considerable difficulty. Holding iter head back, I managed to pour nearly half the contents of my flask (a pretty large one, by tho way,) down iter throat, when suddenly I felt a sortof con vulsion at tho back of her neck which rested on my hand. This convulsion was, to my great delight, speedily followed by a faint hiccough, and I at once made up my mind that il'l only persevered, I might have the intense satisfaction of restoring a fellow creature to life. Mick and I then sot to work, and taking tho cushion of the car, we stretched our poor patient in a recumbent position. We then commenced to nth tho extremities, which were like ice, and with a good will we rubbed until we were rewarded by seeing the head move, the lips twitch, and various other indications of returning vi tality. But to succeed must be the work of some time, aud here we were nearly fifteen miles away from the station. We worked on, however, for a little time longer, and I then determined to get. as fast as I could to my destination. We placed her on the ear in a sitting position, and started for . Wo had not gone more than four or five hundred yards, when we encountered a most abominable stenel), which was so sickly, that 1 determined to stop and as certain what it was. Looking to the right, our attention was directed to a thin col umn of bluish smoke, which came out of the bog. AValking over to the place from whence the smoke issued, and scarcely able to breathe from the offensive odor, which became worse and worse, I found to my horror that the smoke was from a human habitation, if such it could be called —an old gravel pit, in which I very soon found tiro cause of the stench. Here wore laying two bodies in an advanced stage of'decomposition—an old man and woman. I shudder now when I think of the sight 1 saw. It was horrible beyond deserljition.. It occurred to me at once that the woman we found on the road had crept out of this hovel on seeing the car coming across the bog, and hud sunk in the lifeless state of exhaustion in which we found her. And so it turned out (o be when I made subsequent inquiry. We now resumed our journey, and at last arrived at the station, where I lost no time in getting medical relief for my poor patient, and in sending to the gravel pit to have the bodies moved and buried. The next day 1 returned to headquar ters, aud, from time to time afterwards, had letters from the doctor reporting to me that tbo woman very speedily recov ered, and out of money placed at my dis posal for charitable purposes, I was ena bled to contribute to her comfort in the shape of clothing. A couple of mouths or more passed away, and the severity of the famine Was mitigated by the abundance of food which came into the country. The people began to look better, and ('very one was in bet ter spirits. Jly visits to the remoter stations of my district wo necessarily fewer, for I had important duties to discharge at the town in which I lived, and where the Union Workhouse was situated. They were now principally directed to the prevention of abuse in ’the administration of relief. — Though tlie distress was still great, yet it was an undoubted fact, within the expe rience of all those engaged in the Poor Law service, that abuses crept in to a very large extent, aud it was no easy matter to control them. On another lovely morning, now far advanced in the summer, I again started for the station at , near which occurcd the incident which L have endeavored to tell. As I passed I>v the spot where our progress on the road was arrested by the body of the poor woman, Mick said : ‘■ All, your honor, glory be to God and thunks to you, do you recollect the eray lure we saw here “ Yes, Mick,” said I, “and I hope wo shall never see such a sight again.” “ Amen, sir,” said he, giving the pony a gentle reminder that lie was to get along ns quickly as he could. We drove on for a couple of miles, when wo met a group of peasantry of the district going to the relief station for their rations of Indian meal stirabout. 1 .stopped to make some inquiries, when suddenly I felt my knees embraced, and 1 saw a girl about* IS years of age, kissing my feet. “What do yon want, my good girl?” said I. “ All ! your honor,” said she, looking at me witli an expression I can never for get, “don't you recollect Mary Canovau?” “Mary (Janavan ! Surely you cannot. lie the woman I ” “All! yes, sir,” she cried. And there she was, the shrivelled hag of forty transformed intoagirl ofeighteen, and all by the simple administration of wholesome food for n few days. To those who saw scenes such as I did, this will not appear strange. But even now, at tliis lapse of time, when the groat famine of Ireland, and all its horrible cir cumstances are well-nigh forgotten, I ven ture to tell this story about poor Mary Canavau. THE WAY OF THE WOKJM>. There goes a virtuous and honest man. Who cares? Nobody looks at him or cares a tig how he dresses. Here passes a man of wealth. The old ladies run to the window. “Who?” “Where?" “ How does he dress?" He is a great object of-attraction. "How in the world did he make so much?” He dosn’t look as if he was worth a penny?" This is the way of the world. —Every- body gazes with admiration upon the rich, while they turn away from virtuous pov erty. Let a man make ten thousand dol lars, and he is a gentleman, every inch of him. Everybody has a kind word and a smile for him. Be poor and honest, and no one knows you. Men and women have heard of such a name as yours, and you may live at their elbow, but they are not certain about it. Possess a fortune and live at the mile post, and your neighbors and friends will line tlieheartofthecity. All would know’ where you lived and point a stranger to tlie very door. Wo repeat—such is the world. Golden vice is caressed, while humble virtue is unobserved. Will tire time come never never come when people shall lie honored ior their virtues rather than be carressed for their riches and condemned for their poverty ? Every body in words, censures the ideaof honoring the rich because they are rich, and yet such are the regulations of society that every body does humble in the pres ence of the “upper ten thousand." As long as the ladies will associate with the voluptous rich and slum the virtuous poor, so long will vice be considered no disgrace, and wealth will pay for the sacrifice of virtue. i A Heroic) Hunter.— Lord St. Maur, second son of the Duke of Somerset, lately died in India, in consequence of a fight with a bear, while hunting. Ho suddenly came across tho animal, at which lie fired his pistol, lodging the contents in the an imal’s breast. It then attacked him, when drawing a sheathed stalking knife, his lordship thrust it into the bear, inflicting a mortal wound. In the scuffle, however, they had both approached a precipice over which they together fell. Here the heat ers came up and relieved Lord St. Maur from his adversary. His presence of mind did not forsake him, and he wrote with a pencil on tho sheath of his knife (having no other appliances,) to his fellow sports men, informing them of his condition. — They, having arrived, a great difficulty was experienced as to removing him from the ravine into which ho had fallen. Am putation of the leg was resolved upon, to which the sufferer submitted heroically. He soon, however, began to sink from the combined effects of the operation and the shock his system had sustained, and died. A youxu lady explained tea printer, the other day, the distinction between print ing and publishing, and at tho conclusion of her remarks, by way of illustration, she said; “You may print a kiss on my cheek, hut you must not publish it.” Ifegf-Tho happiness of life consists itt doing good to all men, and keeping our selves unspotted from the world. CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH. 29, 1860, i.u i: in iiiuzn, A Confederate officer sends back to a friend in the South tire following nolosof travel in Brazil: We have arrived at our port of destina tion, Bio Janeiro. We find the weather is not very hot hero, as wo feared —it is about like that ofVirginiain June. There is a fine breeze hero; the nights are quite cool. Went to the police office and got our passports, which were sent there by the oilicials on the steamer ; all passports are required to be revised by these functi onaries, Last night we went to tiro thea tre. It was all in the language unknown tons; but the dancing and acting were interesting. About two or, three miles from Rio Jancrio is situated the Emperor's palace. It is on a high elevation, with magnifi cent walks, arbors, <kc., surrounding it. As we passed along we saw coffee planta tions on all sides. One coffee tree yields from twenty to one hundred pounds of coffee. The berries are green, red and black in the|samo cluster, which resem bles our cherry somewhat. The country is very mountainous. The coffee, sugar cane and corn-fields arc on hills nearly perpendicular, They never use plows to till the land, hut simply the common hoe. Horae of file plantations turn out Irom Sion,Oflll to lodjinn worth of coffee- per an num, and have as many as tluce thousand negroes. Wo see any quantity of negroes, and hanaunas growing. Tile scenery going over the mountains is grand, ami the liuest I have ever seen. The railroad is completed'about one hun dred miles from Rio, and, to enable tiro company to use it, they have 1 milt a tem pora.ty road over this mountain while the tunnel is building. The system of slavery in lids country is of the hardest kind. You see all the ne groes that have been brought from Africa to distinguish what tribe they belong to Those born hero have no marks, it is some lifted! or twenty years since Hie slave trade was stopped here, lint fre quently they are run into the country. The worst and most repulsive part of the custom is that where a negro is found free or emancipated ho is alowed to asso ciate by marriage and otherwise with the first in' the Empire. Itisiaughuhletoseo both sexes of negroes going through (lie streets singing and talkingtotheinselves, generally in their native tongues. As a general tiling, they have loads on their heads, ranging from a diamond pin to a sack of notice, as well as a large round basket filled with various articles, or, in some instances, live or six empty Hour barrels. They luivo extensive markets here, well snppli’edwith all kimls of fruit, tisli, poul try, vegetables, tier, 'flu: fowls are very large—chickens as large as our turkeys, clacks as large as our geese, turkeys weigh from twenty to thirty pounds. Tile currency here iseallecl copper coin, which is forty' re is, Iho size of a Canada copper. Twenty-live dumps arconemil- Iries, making I,ana reis for one millries. is hut fifty cents of our coin. Their pa lter currency is from one to 1,01)0 milliries. A contey is 10,OIK) millries, or say STitili. Wo lead our hands full looking around and expect to bo kept busy while here. The Brazilian ladies, if such they can bo called, go about in a half naked con dition. The authorities are very anxious, and hold out every inducement to emigrants. THE MEKDItV or ski.i-ishm:ss. It is remarkable how, in our English language, words which mean happiness contain in themselves the idea of going out of yourselves. 11 is so wit it trinm/iurt, whieh'is a compound ol'two Latin words, moaning to be carried outofyourselfand it is so witli rcalaci /, which comes from a Llrcek verb, moaning (o lie lifted above yourself. One’s own self is scarcely ever a happy man. Constantly on the look-out lor what will please or pain self, there is, of course, more dissatisfaction and unrest than in any other life. One’s own self is sasily hurt because every slight to self is noted down at once. One’s own self is very sensitive indeed, because constant contemplation concerning self has made every sort of feeling register itself in the mind. One’s own self is always anxious Will this comfort? Will this pant self? Will tliis preserve self? So self Ims to bo studied, and watched, and pitied, and patted, and nursed, and indulged, and guarded, and comforted, till tin" evil, like the upas tree, spread forth its houghs everywhere, and the man becomes wretch ed as a worshiper of self. A thoroughly selfish person, man or woman, is the most unsightly object in creation. Everything in the universe re bukes the man who liveswliolly for him self. The sun which shines for others— the bird which sings for others—the flower which breathes forth fragrance forothors —the fountain which casts forth its sweet water for others—all say to man, Forgot your own self; live not for yourself, hut for others. A Missionary's Adventure with Canibai.s.—An English missionary, who describes life in New Zealand in the last number of Hours at Home, relates an in cident that occurred to him on one of the South Pacific Islands. While on a cruise, lie touched at a small island for fresh food, fruit and vegetables. Of these he obtain ed a full supply, ajid was about leaving, when a chief asked him if ho would like some flesh food. Says the missionary : “ Thinking that doubtless they had hogs, I said yes; he gave n quick glance around him, ns if lie were looking for a messen ger, and singled outamd called to a flue young lad, apparently about 18 years of age. The boy came and stood before him ; and before I know what lie was about to do, and having ray back turned to him, looking at the fruit, &c., X hoard the sound as,of a heavy blow, and looking quickly round, found the still quivering hotly of the hoy laid at my feet, with the words, 1 hevi am tc kai?' (Is that food sufficient for you?) Horror stricken, 1 denounced most bitterly the deed, and leaving all the provisions behind on the ground, return ed sorrowfully on board.” ln Paris there arc 28,7 CD street lamps, all of which are regularly lighted before the close of day, and burn during the whole night. The llame has fixed dimensions, regulated so as to produce light equal to one and a half of that of a carcel lamp, burning forty-two gram mes of oil per hour. There arc eighty men belonging to the municipal service, and as many inspectors of the Parisian company charged to superentend the ol ficiency the whole apparitus; they make their rounds every night accompanied by men[whose duty itis to rekindle any lamps which may have gone out, and take note of those which burn badly. The Richmond Gold.—The reported return of the gold belonging to the hanks of this city wasaltogcther premature, as it still remains in the treasury vaults at Washington, its return at all is an un decided question, because the Freedmen’s Bureau is pressing its claims for-it as abandoned property. TJio amount thus retained amounts to $lOO,llOO. — lUehmoml Whig. t)®“The blush of modesty upon the cheek of a young and virtuous female, is emblamaticof purity of soul. itisasight to make bad men good. A SAW STOUT llomimre null Iteiilily «f I.ilcrnrj 1 S.il'o In Paris. A correspondent of the American Lit erary Gazette, writing from Baris sjiys: Happening to be at Habit M , a small town in the south of France, L vis ited the lunatic asylum. 1 have always been fond of lunatics ; I have never met among them a stupider had man. I was shown into a tidy cell, occupied by a lit tle old man, bent over a desk, and wri ting with his linger on the board with in expressibly rapidity. He rose timid ly, twirling bis lingers. He was at least sixty years old, but occasionally i|id not seem to bo above fifteen. His white, almost blonde, hairfcll in childlike carls, and his sweet face, smiling and uneasy, wore the expression of infants when they both weep and laugh at the same time. — Nevertheless, one could detect profound grief, trembling agony, in his dilated eyes, which wore the lixed expression of madness and despair. My attendant made a gesture, and the poor old man re sumed his seat with extravagant delight and began to write ns fast as ever lie could. Then, seated in a corner of the cell in front of this infantine old man, my at tendant told me the unhappy creature’s history. Some forty or fifty years ago there lived in a small town named St. R a young orphan. Siie was intellect ual, wealthy, beautiful. Every unmar ried man of the province was at her foot, his eyes lixed on her fortune. She was so llattered, so adulated, so compliment ed, her gorge would rise at night when niion going to lied siie would think of the suitor forced upon her during tlie day.— At last such was the nausea she experi enced, she resolved to give her hand and all it contained lo a “promising young man,’’ who would give her in alleetion and reputation a substantial exchange for llte beauty and eslate sin l gave him. — There was at* that time in her town a pro- digy of eighteen, who hail rhymed from his infancy —had “lisped in numbers.’’— He had already written many a fable, tragedy, sonnet, and epic, and the whole province had a linn belief Unit be would bloom into a great genius. Site married this prodigy that no mate rial obstruction might delay his progress on the road to fame. .She brought him up to Baris, and so planted him in wealth's hnl-honse to force him to bear fruit. — St range and inexplicable fatality! unheard of catastrophe! 'flic poet bore no fruit. — He had a charming study; it was noth ing lint bronze and black marble, lie lived in most favorable quid, lie knew nothing of the thorns of life. And after all ho rhymed as ho rhymed when he was fifteen, mere l doggerel, lit at best for a confectioner's kiss. He was the host little husband that ever was seen—gentle and timid, amiable and laborious.. .She was the best little wife (hat ever was seen —conciliating and encouraging, extreme ly tolerant, and of an invariable good hu mor. Nevertheless, by degrees, she be come irritable. He became ashamed of himself. Every morning lie would lock himself up in'ids study, write madly, Idol quire after ipi ire of paper, read it over, and in despair eonl'es-ed 'twa.- not worth tlie ink it was written in. Every evening she would come, her heart throbbing with anxiety, to see if some good lines had at last made their appearance. She would question the po et, who every day hung his head still low er. At last "impatience and disdain ap peared; she could not longer cheek their outbreak ; ami she upbraided her hus baudfordcfraudhig her, because in return for her beauty and her money he had not given iter genius. After tliis scene matters weal from bad to worse. The husband became a child, scolded by his wife. He lived in a stale of constant uneasiness and eternal shame. He lived blushing and Iremhling; his heart was wrung by at I the torturesuf the impotent artist and the insolvent man.— He suffered the tortures of the damned by the side of tile woman lie had robbed, iso he said) and whose only sentiment fol ium now was disdainful pity. So long as that woman had not abandoned all hope of.seeing her husband bloom into a genius, she chained him lo his writing desk, and made him write a given number of lines every day before dinner. The unhappy man addressed himself to the task, mid daily wrote worse. 'Twasan hourly bat tle between them of contempt and pain. Hhe laughed disdainfully. He shivered with tear and anguish. He had spent Sil,bl«i of her money in at tempting to become a great poet. This was his galled withers. One morning he refused to do his daily task, set him every morning by his wile. He had found in the office lit some joint slock company a copying clerk’s place, with a salary of Slad, and henceforward he began to pay his debt to his wife. He lived nml“r the same roof with her, but ho paid rent for his room ; he took his solitary meals in restaurants, whose price was 14 sous; ho dressed himself with his own money, and nevertheless managed to pay his wife a considerable amount of money annually in payment of his debt to her. He lived in this way above thirty years, silent and uneasy, shunning every eye, and blush ing suddenly when no oiie was looking. His sole pleasure was to consult a little hank book, wherein ho recorded the mo ney ho had paid his wife in extinguish ment otitis debt. His wife, seized by pity, by love, perhaps, for this great baity ,_ so .pure and so young, despite his years, tried to refuse his money, and win hack to herself the poor heart site had shattered 'to pieces. Her weak, will-less husband refused witli energy. He would listen to nothing. Work he would to pay oil’ his wife. Jfo copied letters. He made out bills. When his employers suggested ad vancement and increase of pay, lie would blush and beseech them to take pity on him, and not jeer his want of intellect.— Ho was crazy, one of those harmless in sanities akin to mania for collecting old pipes, old simli'-boxcs, and the like. The day when he saw from his bank book that lie owed itis wife nothing, lie became furiously insane. He made sum* ersaulls; he danced; lie walked on his head ; lie wrote a sonnet and an eulogy. It became necessary (o lock him up in an insane asylum. His insanity is iulermit tant. He remains whole weeks together, writing with his lingejjj.on the hoard of his desk, and occasionally adding to gether imaginary sums. Then, on the day when lie believes ho Ims obtained the (lesircd sum total, ho gives way to un bounded joy, which he exhibits by howl ing and leaping like some wild beast. If you can read that poor wretch’s tale without feeling your blood and marrow freeze, you are made of sterner stiillTlmu I am. The London correspondent of the Xow York Tribune says that Charges Dickens in on the short side of middle height, his hair and beard almost or quite grey, the latter worn after the French or Ameri can fashion, with shaven cheeks, the for mer brought forward and elaborately oil ed. His eyes are dark, handsome, and vivacious; the lines below and about them deeplv defined; the eyebrows appear thick'and arched to semi-circularity. His nose is of no particularly recognized or der, odd and full at the nostrils, the hu morous line running from them to tile corners of the mouth, very marked and noticeable. - His complexion is not very clear, and reddish about the rather sunk en cheeks. He dresses in good taste, qui etly, with dainty linen. CQTThe birds of spring are now here. VOL. 52.-:-NO. 40. f olifol “THE .SECRET MOTIVE A I'litl lo OVM'llii'Uti’ (li€* Uovci'iimctit l<iiK’olii H Adorno.v <r)pn«‘rnl thinks of the OlNunionlfttN in CoiigrcH*. In a loiter to a mooting of conservative citizens of St. Louis, the lion. Edward Bates, Attorney General in Mr. Lincoln's (,'abinol, subjects the Freed men's Bnroan Bill to a merciless analysis, in which ho exposes with unmistakable distinctness the ulterior revolutionary object of the proposed statute, and denounces with ap propriate but logical severity the danger ous subterfuge of its contrivers, which was counteracted by the prompt and hold interposition of the President. Wo sub join the letter referred to: tST. Lofts, February -1, bSOli. Urn. /■;. It. llnnni, of lil'S'tal' f'rnfyaf r.K/l miff' >' ( h/i.siTrnfivr ('nion PiU'lii : Stir; lam honored by the receipt of your note of this day, inviting mo to bo present at a mass meeting of the citizens of St. Louis, to bo held at the Court-House this evening at half-past seven o’clock, for the purpose of endorsing the action of President Johnson in vetoing the F’rccd inon’s Bureau bill, and in support of his general policy of national reconstruction. 1 am very sorry that the bad state of my health - forbids my attendance, and tbo more so because i believe there will not be a man at the meeting who feels a greater abhorrence than T do for the hill whoso wicked career has been stopped by .he President's timely veto. upon tins subject does not spring entirely from my disgust of the factions spirit and ridiculous egotism of the (duple which now domineers over Congress, but front the intrinsic' demerits of the hill, ascer tained by a careful examination of its provisions. [ think 1 understand it. I can see i the most, casual reader can see) its glaring and defiant breaches of the Constitution — and J think I ran. «n a/no the hidden inotirr, da: semi disipn 0/ the nntnpira/or.s, who plannrd dir scheme fo overturn our ttorrrninrnt of late, mid ret up in itn ulcud a fripht/nl militarp o/ir/ar rhp. And this wicked purpose betrays itself in several provisions of the bill, winch are so arranged in (lie context os to .-a im, to a hastp ohserrer, fo hr sreon darp and sahord hade (o tile ostensible object, llie protection of the freedmen. Tile bill provides iin its first section) for the continuance of the original act (of March fid, bsttdito establish a Frecdmen's llnrean, and extends it, to all refugees and freedmen in all parts of the United Slates. It empowers the President lo divide the United States into districts, not to exceed twelve, and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint an assistant commissioner for each district. Twelve districts! That is the exact number into which < 'romwell divided (be Common wealth of I'higland, and governed eaeli district, despotically, by one of Ids own Major llcncrals. This section gotv on— ‘•or the said bureau may, in the dinrrt - thni of the Dn sident, lie placed under a commissioner and assistant commission ers, to hr detailed from da. arinp.'' 'And the act does not specify either the rank nr the color of the persons so to be detail ed from the army to rule the nation through the Frcedmcn's bureau. Section two empowers the commission er to divide eaeli d strict into snb-dtst ricts. mot less titan a county or parish,) and lo assign to each sub-district “at Irani one agent, either a citizen, olliccrof the army, of enlisted man.” 'The section goes on to say, “ each assistant commissioner may employ not exceeding six clerks; and each agent of a sub-district t being one or more for each sub-district, as suits the pleasure of the commissioner,) may em ploy two clerks. And so in the twelve districts the clerks will amount to seven ty-two ; and in the sub-districts tile agents will amount to at least as many thousand as there arc counties and parishes in the nation; and their clerics to double that number, besides the employees mention ed in the bill. And the same section provides that, the President, Ihroiiph da Uor Department and the Commissioner , shall extend nidi tarpJurisdiction overall the employees, agents, and officers of this bureau, in the exercise of all the duties imposed or au thorized by this act, or the act lo which tins act is supplementary.’' And here 1 will draw your attention lo that part of their duties especially imposed and au thorized by the eighth section of the bill, thus; “And it shall la; the duly of the o[Hrrrn and aprntn ol tills bureau, [all of them, great and small, without distinc tion], to lake jurisdiction of and hear and determine <dl ofincm committed against the in - ovisions of this section ; and also of all eases atlecting negroes, mulattocs, freedmen, refugees, or other perron* who are discriminated against, in any of the particulars mentioned in I lie preceding section of this act, under, not the Consti tution and laws, but under such rules and regulations as the President of tilt* United states, throia/h da: Il or Drpart- men/, shall prescribe.'' Those are some of the enormities of the vetoed bill, framed in the wantonness of partisan power, in contempt of the writ ten Constitution, and in open violation of the historical opinions and traditiona ry faith of the people of the United States. ' Asall these tbousaudsofollicers, agents, and employees of the bureau may, at the discretion of (he President, he detailed from the army, it is plain that every man of them may he an enlisted man in the army, and white or black, as may best suit the fancy of the detailing otlieer. Only imagine such a military organi zation, with a despotic head at the seat of the Government, and despotic mem bers pervading the whole mass of the com munity and exhibiting its power id or ganized form, in every county and parish, and the President bound, by. I Trumbull's hill, to extend military' protection over them, against every effort to restrain, by legal and civil means, the wantonness of their arbitrary power 1 Think you that tho people of (he Uni ted States are already so far degraded in to passive obedience as to submit tamely to such an atrocious outrage, even if sanc tioned by the unanimous voice of a fac tious Congress, and approved by a sub servient President? No vcril.v. They are not yet, ready to abandon their Constitu tion'and renounce all hope of legal liber ty, by giving over their lives, liberties, and properties, to lie disposed of at tile caprice of petty ofjircrz anil ai/rnlx of a petty subdivision of the War Department, called a bureau. They will insist upon their legal rights as freemen and Ameri can citizens ; they will demand tho pro tection of the laws of their country; and if charged witli crime, or drawn into con troversy about properly or contracts, they will insist upon a ronrf and Jury, and will refuse to be tried by any petty des pot, “detailed from the army," whether he be white or black. Constitutional government and liberty by law are worth lighting for. Wo have just passed through a bloody war to main tain litem against a set of traitors, and I make no doubt that the people will be as ready, if need lie, to resist .in the same way any oilier set of traitors who seek to destroy the loyal (iovernmeiit liv insidi ous artifice and hold usurpation. An eminent Knglish publicist, .Mill,) mi representative government, gives it as his opinion, that “ representative in stitutions depend for their permanency upon, the readiness o£ the people to Jig Id ADVERTISING'TERMS. Ai)vkhtisi:mp:nts will be Inserted nt Ten Cents per line for the first- Insertion, and five cents per line for each subsequent Insertion. Quar terly, half-yearly, ami yearly advertisements In serted at a liberal reduction on the above rates. Advertisements should be accompanied by tlio Cash. When sent without any length of time speeiilcd for publication, they will be continued until ordered out and charged accordingly. Cards, Handbills, Circulars, and every other description of Job and Card Printing executed In the neatest style at low prices. for them in case of their being endanger ed. If too little valued for tills, they sel dom obtain a footing at all, and if they do, are almost sure to lie overthrown as soon as the head of the government or any pariy-leader who can muster force for a coup i_/r main is willing to mu some small risk for absolute power? I think it a fortunate thing for the conn try, that the Radical faction is so demented as to pick a quarrel with the President because lie refuses to be their instrument to overturn the Constitution and substitute in its place a military des potism, and to stake their political for tunes upon the monstrous vices and fol lies of the Trumbull bill. For, in doing so, they do but insure their own defeat, and consequently, the restoration of law. order, and peace, and revival of national respect for legal government and anation al love for liberty by law. Even tlie emancipated negro, for whose sake it is pretended that this wrong is done, Will not long fail to see the hypoc- risy and fraud of the transaction. They will see that while they are cajoled with the pruteneeof liberty and equality before the law, tliis wicked hill subjects them to tlie power of military overseers, excludes them from all protection, denies them the right to appeal to tlie courts of law for redress of grievances, and requires the agents and officers of tlie bureau to “take jurisdiction of all cases” which concern them and.their interests; Very respect fully, your friend and fel low citizen, Edward Bates. TIIF. PI..ITFORH OPTIIK DISUXIOXISTS The platform of the Republican State Convention is a piece of mechanism which it behooves honest men to study well. It is a bundle of contradictions —contradic- tions so glaring that the people of Penn sylvania cannot tie deceived by them. — We have no doubt that the resolutions were drawn with the greatest care for the express purpose of bewildering the un thinking and verdant of the Republican party. The fact of a split between the leaders of the party and the President had become so well known, that it was feared some of the honest, conservative members of the party might bo drawn oil'to the support of the Democratic can didate for Governor, as the true exponent of the President’s Reconstruction policy. Hence it became necessary, while prepa ring a nauseous pill for the President, to coat it with sugar so as to make it palata ble to the President's friends. • Open de nunciation of the President would have alienated the constitution-loving men of tile Republican party from the support of the Republican eam'lidato. While, tlieres fore, some of the loaders of that party would have preferred to make open war with the President, the more shrewd and wary counselled a Kce/ninr/cndorsemcntof the President fo hoodwink the conserva tives, and an enthusiastic encomium up on “(lie Union men in Congress” to ex cite (lie enthusiasm and stimulate the energies of the Radicals. The Convention in the resolutions com pliment Andrew Johnson for the earnest words which lie has uttered in denuncia tion oftreason and traitors —for the loyal ty which lie exhibited throughout the rebellion, and they would have the un thinking believe, by implications, that they are still his friends, but they fail to say a single, frank, open word of commen dation, of liis course since he has filled the Executive chair of the nation. His Reconstruction policy which is the great issue before the country to-day is not mentioned. They were afraid to con demn it openly—'they were not inclined to endorse it. On the contrary, they* laud to the skies the action of “the Union member.-, of Congress”—for what? Be cause of their earnest and persistant ef forts to defeat the President's policy.— Because under tne lead of Thaddcus Ste vens they have boe;i attempting, as the President lias so justly remarked, to sub vert tlie liberties of the country. What folly to think that the people cannot see this deception ! The masses of the peo ple have good, plain common sense, and, any “average fool” can see that there is an irrepressible conflict between “ the Union men in Congress” and the Presi dent. There can bo no blending of their hostile theories —there can bo no compro mise— either the President's view is right, or it is wrong. The .States are either in the Union for all purposes, or they arc out of it for all purposes. They the friends of the President! — The Lord save him.from such friends. — Why, in the same platform they con demn the course of Senator Cowan, and request him to resign. Why? For what? In what has he olt'endcd? Because lie is a .supporter of the Constitution of the United Suites. Hrransc hr /« i the I’rrsi dent's > sprain! friend. Because rather I lian acknowledge the heresy of secession, under the lash of the Republican party whip, he chose to join the President and the true Constitut ion-loving men of the country in one grand, noble eflbrt to re store and preserve the union of the States —because he refused lo renounce the dig nity of his manhood and fall down and worship the negro God which the radi cals have set up. Let not the conserva tive mcnof the country be deceived. No Man can nr: a pkiend op Andrew Johnson, and denounce Epgak A. Cowan My feeling TJIt: HF.JKX’ItATM' IEItVIV VI., The Secolutionista arc “ 2'rcmblhi;/,” for ‘‘ JCar/hqitahcn arc Around Them," A number of cities and towns, in diff erent parts of the country, following the example of glorious old* Lancaster, are speaking out in thunder tones their con demnation of the radical destructipnists.. At the municipal election in Troy, New York, the Democratic candidate for May or was elected by over three hundred ma jority, despite the most strenuous exer tions of an unscrupulous, confident, well organized and recently successful oppo sition. At the charter election in Ithioa, Seiv York, the entire Democratic ticket was elected by a handsome majority —an av erage gain of one hundred and twenty two. Tlie Democrats have also made large gains at Utica, New York, and elected nearlv all their ticket. At the charter election held at Cairo, Illinois, on 'the 27(1m1t., the whole Dem ocratic ticket, was elected by a majority averaging SM. Dr I .SOI tho Democratic majority in that city was only 170, I n York, David Small, the Democratic candidate for Burgess has been elected by nearly four hundred majority—a large gain over the vote of last fall. CoNutiHss .vxdtiiePkesidkxt. -Pres ident Johnson, in conversation the other day with a friend who assured him oftlie hearty approval ofhis policy by tho peo ple, irrespective of party, remarked, with groat truth, in reference to the obstacles which Congress is throwing in his way', that— “I'L'lic members have now been in session for three months without accomplishing anything practical in the way of restoring (lie smith, and, while continuing to op pose the Uxecntive plan, they fail to bring forward one of their own.” And why not? Because they don’t wan’t tho South restored to the Union. It is no cause of joy to tho radicals that the rebel* lion has failed. JOU PRINTING,
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