V VWC .-fk' 4 A if v ,iSf,V, - (.-J ft 3Y 0. B. O002LANB-EH & CO. VOI,. XXX1.-VI1()LH x0. 1GU. PItINCirLE3, not MEN. r f vni -TERMS-SI 25 per Annnn, If paid in advance. N l:V 8 F.KI KS;OI,.TN-0 32. CLKAKFirJ.l), PA. WKDNESLW, FEU. 27, 8GJ. ' WE WAKT NO WAR. Totn Editori of the ftttr York E. prin: " J The. following lii.ca Kcinto mo very applicable t the presont crisis. I sond thorn to you fur UsV.il?!, If'yon think proper. 0. TRUE FREEDOM, AND HOW TO GAIN IT. ....... nr cnAni.es mack. at. We want no flag, no flaunting rag. For liberty to Ii glit ; . W want no Mure of murderous puna, , To struggle for tho right. Onr jpenrf nml sword' nro printed word!, The mind our bat Mo-plain : We've won such vlct'iries heretofore, And to wt thai! ngnin. ' Wshave notriu'.nphs sprung tf force; They Btnin her l iititivt cause; " Us not in Mood that Liberty V", Inscribes her civil lawn; She writes them on tlit people's heart, lo language l "nr and idain ; J Trn thoughts have wn-vcd tuo world before, And io Mcy thull ngain. We jield to none in earr-st love O if Freedom's cause sublime ; ' Wejoln tho cry, "Fhatrii.hty !" We keep tho march of Thno. And yet we grasp ncrpiko nor spear, ' Our victories to obtain ; Wo'to won without their aid bofore, And to tec thnll iijn'.v. AV want to aid of barricade, To show n front to wrong; . Ws Save a citadel izi ruth, More durobl" sid strong. Xaln wordj, great t'aoa'ht, -juliaohinj faith, t Have never ktriven in rain; They've won our buttles many a time, ' '" And to they iatl ojain. Peace, progress, knowledgo, brotherhood ' The ignorant may saecr, The bad don7 ; but wo ro!y To fi-o their triumph near. widow's groans shall load curcuma, No bloiid of brethren slain ; We're w n without euih aid before, . , Aud to ice tha'U ayain. ; PKOCEASTiarATIOJT. . "f'l LOST A WIFE E Y IT." New Year Py I returned home from r Eoutht-ni tnur, unci was sitting in try rosni in tl.i-Cicning, writing to some of my frien i.!, when- n she cousin of mine carao'n and laid a small biaidlo on my table.. . It was a slics of wedding cake, done op very tiently in gold edged paper, ; Ab,' aid I, 'what have wo here?' '; ' Wedding cake,' suid coz. ' Ueddin; cike,' said Ij 'a generous Slice .truly 1 Who of my friends have been foolish enough to commit matritno ny f anil whoa J id this mcLincholy affair lwppen ?' ;. Canstiias Eve," returned coz. 'The card U;rl cnmi vith 'he cako will answer your f; La f question ;' and giving moan arcU unnle a she pointed to tho card, left the room. ' Indued, ruy old chum uinnied ? ' said I 'to mst)f, as I took up the card and read J ilr. and Mrs. George Adams.' Ila, Lftlwho'tl liae thought George would live 'committed sti-h an acl ! Mr. and Afrt Gextrji, Adxms! ha, ha! really, I should like loteo the fellow, just to bore him a bil,."j5ut who is thi lad;-? It can't be Miss , nor Miss they were no favoiitps ofhis. Let mo think. ' con- I SIWI.'; nt'r.r mi.,IJ . 1 I ., 1 couipliahincnts, etc. eto. Marin and mysolf had known ench oth er from childhood up, and wore pretty intimate, in our lrierxisnip. wiicn 1 was tweuly-lrto yeare of age, I concluded to take a trip through the States j nnd as I had been indisposed for some time back, with a losd of appetite, no sleep, etc., I umdo this my excuse' I traveled for my health.' When I made this declaration, (hero was nothins like travlinir fm - C: " health everybody recommended it. So I started .villi the intention of being ab sent a year or more. Traveling, I must say, agreed with me completely, for at Ihc first stepping tdiicc-, I made us hearty a nual us any of my fellow-passengers; and when I stopped for the nifc'LL, I slept as sound as a roach. To tell the truth, I feigned fickness to get aivuy from home. The real motive of my departure was, my too strongly bound to tho scenes of my birthplace, and to the friends of my childhood, to faar that. These are affec tions, my dear Maria, that cling to the heart, and will not forsake you, be you where you may, or your situation what it may , Here I stuck for a moment. Thinking if I neglected to strike now I should nev er gather courago to speak again, I took her billing hand, and, as tho moments were precious for I felt my courage oozing awny 1 commenced: ' 1 foci truly happy in finding you alone this evening ; I havo something for your private ear. You will excuse my blunt ncss my intention in calling on you this evening, Miss Maria was , Tho door at this moment opened, and my friend Adams walked into the room. I sprang up, and, semnghis extended hand gave him a cordial grasp, although from WAR TEEMS. feelings toward Maria began to change ; I my heart I wished him anywhere else, at mwavi nau a ioonsn longing to bo near that moment, than where ho was. After tinned I, inking out my pencil and puW ting on a b'n, of paper the names of our fe male acquaintances. 1 went on with: 'There's Ellen Ru:e-can't, be her ; Jane Green r.or her ; Mny Willis nor her,' until I had wri:ten do n tho names of abuunwenty girls without satisfying my elf as to tho rilit one. 'So, then, AcIn aros is' really married !' said I to myself. I fell truly rejoiced that it was kp, nnd I could not help thinking how comfortable it would be to drop in of an evening A-ith ' my lady,' for I had thou serious notions of getting i"iricd as you shall hear by. and-hj'u,id having social timt-s, l plan ned out, how we would spend our oven- ines logeinci mplea'ftnt intercourse. I ueterml her, and a singular feeling of regret when she was away from homo when 1 called to spend a social evening; and then there was a peculiar sensation about my heart when I saw her engaged closely in con versation with any of my companions, or when she bestowed upon them a smile. In fact I began to feel something more than friendship towards her. I did not let her know the state of my mind, but Lvighcd and frolicked with her as much as ever. My tiflectioti for her ir.rrpnd daily. Not knowing, however, but that my love might prove only momentary, and wishing to know whether absence would wear it off for it had always been my determination, that when I wedded, it ehould not be merely a union of h inds but a union of hearts I detei I without hinting tho object of my journey j to Maria, or even giving her the slight est reason to susnect tho nature of mv j fooling towards her to take the journey, jand if time did not alter my heart when 1 returned, to offer myself to her. I went on my journey visited all noted places mingled in company as much as possible trifled with tho ladies iu the fashiona ble way ; fjlill, though surrounded with beauty in every engaging form though flatterod and carcssod after all, a thought of Maria caused' a throb, which none of the lovely ones around me cculd create. Her image kept fast hold upon my heart, and wouldn't leave it. Finding, after an absenceof six months, thnt the complaint that caused me to leave home increased rathei than diminished, I hastened my return, and arrived home on the aforesaid first of January. When I reached Maria's place of abode and began to ascend the steps in front of the house, my heart quailed a little. I beg-in to grow faint hearted, and to think in what manner I should 'pop the ques tion. I regretted that I had not studied my part before I left honn . I hesitated as i tooK hold or the bell knob my breath grew shorter, and my nerves shook. I was relinquishing my hold with the in tention of taking a short stroll around the square to think over what to say in fact, I got half way down the steps, thinking I would put off my declaration until another time when tho thought of we were seated we began to talk on com mon topics. Shoitly after, I thanked him for rememlering nie in the distribu tion of his bridal cako. 'Oh,' said he, ' that was wife's doings; you must thank her for that.' ' Indeed, husband, 1 knew Hot of our friend's return, until yoa told mo of it ' ' Husband 1 wife ! ' Gracious heavens ! had athunderbolt fell at my feet at the moment, I should not have been more as tonished than when 1 heard those words. I started from my seat my bruin reeled, aud a sudden faintness came over me. I should have fallen had I not been suppor ted by Maria and George Mr. und Mrs Adams 1 ' My dear friend, what is the matter? ' exclaimed both, as I began to revive. ' Nothing nothing at all,' I replied only a touch of my old complaint a Uizziners!' As I revived. I added. 1 wiib your leave I will retire.' They urged me strongly to stay were fearful I might have u second attack on the way home, etc. but in vain. When I stood in the entry, waiting to bid them good night, I trembled like an aspen ; and it was with tho grenteit difficulty I m.ide out to utter, 'Mrs. Adams good evening.' It nearly choked me. When I got homo, and within my room the first thing I did wa to throw Maria's wedding,cako into the fiic frosting and all ; and, moreover, I drove a large ten penny nail through the card into the bed post, and then went to bed. I was con fined to my chamber seven days with a fever, at the end of which time I got about aain. I am now quite reconciled to my fate, and can Bay ' Mrs. Adams ' without hardly a slammer. Reader the moral: If you are in love, go instantly and offer yourself. Learn from this the danger of procrastination. tjFTn ore of tho northern towns of New York resides an old dutchman by tho name of S , whose son was not making tho wisest disposition of tho pro perty which he hud received from the old man. At least so thought the anxious parent. How to put a stop to Hill's ex travagance was the question. After every- George and his wife, and the pleasant I thing elso had failed, he resolved upon a evenings we should have together, fixed my wavering heart. So, with renewed de termination, I turned and ran ur. the stops, opened the door, and proceeded to the parlor. As good luck would havo it, there m9 Mai 'ia on the sofa, all alone, looking as be witching m an angel. She blushed as she arose ant joyfully extended her hand. I gave it a hearty shake and squeezed it yon know how, reader, I dare say. I was almost tempted to do violence by kissing it, but thinking it would seem sweeter af ter the trembling 'Yes,' had been said, I refrained ' How gl.vl I am that you have return an to coon over an answer, nej Unit. Ilia l,l nJ ,., .,J .ii. ...i .i . . . . .hould b ,. , J, " ? IT ' eu' ",a Sl10' anu ll0vr nprovea you -"ui menus: and Mrs. I nnt L. ' ' 1 nk 1U i. inii mu hir,i A& h rri. : - . A i t- j . , i t ,u n"i i ins whs BHir in eiicii ft toiir oi ftiioction ' ".uol,a picture cf that j b MWIIMPUL li-i MIKg (III! I i-lti!,,, ... ' 4 II 1 " 1 t" w nil thnt. n. liinfr. nf iv """a-."" ecin id amar- Yes.' I replied, ' I feel wonderfully nedsure-tlwa threw Wy paprr ono ' inllM.ovea . and it ,0 , , con, way. my pen n not her. jumped ur, ftn,, tinued, there is also an improvement in prepam; tor a visit to Maria Buiier, to voi.rt,nn..n Adams Us a : to bright oml glowing with . i. - I . . . ... oini meant ,oner nmcit that very; 'But how a. you pleased with your night sru, ,ot married b, soon as the journey ?' interrupting mo, while a deli, law and the minister would let u. Uav, cate flush passed over her. cheeks, 'din kg put on a clean d.ckey-it wa a cold you not meet with someSouthern beauty, .I fcht. and Iwasma hurry - I .allied who weaned your heart fro n your native fTtltto vi,.t my intended. Maria lived place?' ' l.tbi I north c.-,dof town with her moth.-! Ilerewas a fine openins V -y. While c, .he ay to,1 ' No, Maria, home ia home, and ever ino jfiuso. I wUI make the reader a. little dear. I must confoss, however that I Aqua nied with Miria, and the relation w.s greatly plesod with the lad'iw of the , -- i m,-oi 10 ner. i will not praise boutb, ot I eatf none that would com- fiuty nlthouih as beauli fill II ri'Ai. riAl'A with thfl crirlfl nf t. a a ' t . t fsBva uii unii luwii . a e ; e;0 ever tJ on-neit hor will I for being weaned from home, my heirt l4ioart of desperate measure. Application was mad to the proper authorities, and a Court was appointed to decido upon tho question of Bill's sanity. After tho organization ol tho Court, the old man was the first wit ness called to the tstand. Tho following were the, questions of the counsel, with the answers of the' anxious parent: Counsel--How long, Mr. S , since you first thought your 60n becoming in. sane ? Mr. S. A little over a year. Counsel Please utate to tho jury what it was that first awakened your suspicion? Mr. S. He jinni ihc mcetin' ! . Counsel Well, Mr. 8 , what else did you see in his conduct that led you to doubt his sanity ? Mr. S. lie gave the minister a load qf hay ! It is needless to say that, nothing elso of importance appearing against Bill, ho was allowed to return to tho management of his own affairs. the Lolumbiad, or l'aixhon, (pronoun ced pawan,) , a are desicned principally for firing shel!-it being lar more accurate than the ordinary horl mortar. A r, tfl ii 11 ! j n ...... . 1 . . . . . ... .v. .... n snors cannon, wuit a large bore, of some thirteen inches in di ameter, for firing shells. Those in use in our army are set at an angle of forty -five degrees, and the range of the shell is varied by .dteiing tho cluugo of powder. The shell is caused to explode at just about the time that it strikes, by means of a fuse, the length of which is adjusted to the time of flight to be occupied by the ball, which, of course, corresponds with tho range. Iho accuracy with which the time of the burning of the fuse can be adjusted by varying its length is surpris ing ; good artillerists generally succeeding in having their shells explode almost at tho exact instant of striking. In loading a mortar, the shell is carefully placed with tho fuse directly forward, and wnon the piece is discharged, the shell is so com pletely enveloped in flame, that tho fuse is nearly always fired. The lose is made by filling a wooden cylinder with fuse powder, ihe cylinder being of sufficient length for the longest ranee, to be cut ii Banner u-r ouurier rarigps as re quired. A Dahlgren gun is an ordinary cannon except that it is made very ! hick at the breech for some three or four feet-, when it- tapers down sharply to less than the usual sie. This form was adopted in con sequence of the experiments of Captain I'ahlgrcn, of the United States navy, hav ing shown that when a gun bursts, it usu ally gives way at the breech. The Niagara is armed with these guns, and at the Brooklyn navy yard there are sixty, weigh ing about 9,000 pounds each, and six of 12,000 pounds weight, the former of which are capable of carrying a nine inch, and tho latter a ten inch shell a distance of two or three miles ; and there is one gun of this pattern which weighs 15.91G pounds and is warranted to send an eleven inch shell four miles J A casement is a stone roof to a fort made sufficiently thick to resist the force of cannon balls; and n casement gun is one which is placed under a casement. A barbette gun is ono which is placed on tho top of the fortification. An embrasure is the hole or oneninu through which guns are fired from fortifi cations. Loop holes are openings in walls to fire musketry through. Scientific American. THE NATIONAL TROUBLItS. mr. crjTunu'a riiorosri nw The Committee of the IVace Conven tion, now in session in Washington, to which was referred all propositions for a toaipromisc of cur National difficulties, aproed, on Wednesday night lust, to the plan proposed by Hon. Jamos Guthrie, ol Kentucky. A telegraphic dispatch from Washington states that Mr. Field, one of the New York Commissioners, took a strong stand against the Compromise pro posed, and thai, other delegates f:om Northern States, are exerting themselves most strenuously to defeat it. Still it is hoped by many that tho r-ronofition will bo agreed to, and the prospects of a set tlement of our national difficulties, on an honorabbbwis, are therefore considered more promising. Mr. Guthrie's plon in brief n: First The re-establishment of the Missouri Compromise lino. ui:h a provision for tin I admission of new States into the Union, when they have the requisite population, wit.i or without slavery as their constitu tions shall provide. Sccmd is o territory shall hereafter bo acquired by the Ur.ited States without the concurrence of a ma jority of the Senators of the Stales north of Mason and Dixon's line, and also a majority ef the Senators south of said line; but no treaty by which territory shall be acquired shall be ratified without the three fourths vote of the Senators, as required by the Constitution. Third Forever prohibits Congress from interfer ing with the institution of slavery in any Territory, in the District of Columbia, or in any other place under tho exclusive jurisdiction of tho United States, nor shall the rights of citizenship ever be con ferred upon persons of African descent. Fourth Hereafter the paragraph of the fourth article of the Constitution shall not be construed to prevent any of the States, by appropriate legislation, and through the action of her judicial and ministerial officers, from enforcing the delivery of fugitives from labor from any other State or Territory of the United States to tho person tc whom such service or labor is due. Fifth The importation of the Afri can race into any State or Territory is forever prohibited. Sixth The first, sec ond, third and fifth articles of these amendments, and the third paragraph of me second section of the first article of the Constitution, and the third paragraph of the fourth article thoreof, shall not bo amended or abolished without the consent of all the States. A Soft Answer Tlrnetii Away Wrath. The horse of a pious man in Massachu setts happening to stray into the road, a neighbor of the man who owned the horse put him into the pound. Meeting tho owner soon alter he told him what ho tie hud clone, anil added A U'it is ti lini t U .. i . . " - -j n mu lutv nil r u ror. Atn .- if 1 ever catch him in tho road horcs to the South, and then to the North a contemplated outhagk. The Harrisburg Falriot d- Union says : "Several Yankees are here, prcssinjr upon the Republican members of the Legisla ture the necessity of putting the State on a war footing. These men are int.ret.,l Capitol, when not necespriry for thoir pro tection from n hostile enemy, and during tho .towionB of Congress, is 'impolitic and offensive, and if permitted, may become destructive of civil liberty, and in the opinion of this House the" regular troops now in it ought to be forthwith removed therefrom." This resolution was rejected, by ayes, 35, naya 125. So it is fair to presume that the Pepub licans are determined to keep up a 8tand ing army at the scat of Government, and to enforce the Chicago platform and tho doctrine of the " extinction of slavery " by means of the sword.- Per.njhanian. ins iiisiouror a witt-awaks. A fev weeks ago, we published an an- eedDto of a ycung man in New Haven who wns t! ;cwn out of employment iii consequence of the hard timc3 and who manifested great anxiety to get into soma sort of business lie asked employment of a gentleman of that city, who inquired , if ho had not boon a Wide Awake. The answer waa, yeu. Tho next question was, if ho stiii had his uniform? Thin was aU so puswered affirmatively. The gentle. man then offered him a dollar a day 30 lor.g as he would wear tho uniform. He accepted the offr and has made it his business ever since to appear in hid Wide Awake habiliments. The Wide Awak fraternity remonstrated with him about it, and ho thus justified himself: "I carried this thing around, day after day, during the campaign, and made no thing, but Tost considerable by it. If it was honorable then, it is equally so now; and it is giving mo the mans by which I can pay my board and washing. You attend to your business, and I will to mine j but if you cir n't like my style, fur nish me better employment, and I will lay down my torch and throw awav my rig." We doubt not there are hundreds oF young mechanics in this town who during the heat of the late campaign, wasted time and money with the Wide Awakes, who ivould now jump at the opportunity of earning a dollar a day by parading through tho principal streets in their uniforms. JVitw Haven Kews. ANDREW jACKSOy. Some people who once abused Andrew Jackson without stint now say they wish he was President, that he might crush out secession, hang nullifiers, burn Char leston, &c, &c. They forget that South Carolina rebellion in ISGO is very differ ent from that of 1802. Then a largo por tion of the most prominent citizens oF South Carolina were openly adverse to resistance, now they arc united to a man. Then the surrounding States withdrew countenance from South Carolina, now they yield her warm sympathy and sup port. It is an easy matter to dictate or censure when clear of responsibility. If after, I'll do so again." Neighbor," replied the other, " not long since I looked out of my window in the night, and saw your cattle in my mewing g'ound. I drove them out, and shut them in your yard ; I'll do it again. Struck with tho reply, the man libera ted tho horso from tho pound, and paid the charges. . . 1 - 1 L T 1 ... . . ,(4) v nai uo you can tins: sani Jones tapping his brcaklast lightly with his fork. 'Call it?' snarled the landlord, 'what do you call it ?' 'Well, really,' said Jones, 1 don't know, it hasn't quite enough hair in it for plas tcr, but there's a luetic to much in it for hash.' in the sale of arms manufactured in Connecticut ! 1 0eneral ,Iack son ,vas ln 11,9 Presidential ciiair, we douot not ttie Lincolnite Aboli tionists would hear from him, nnd wish Yankee Abolitionism may thus be made to pay." The proposition, we observe, was him dead. We honor tho memory o! Jackson ; ho gallantly braved the storm of seriously discussed in the Hou eafe7 days I v:tuPcration to uphold Democracy, and BfSV'How much did yees aBk for (him buttons?" inquired an Irish customer. "Fifteen cents." "I'll give ye thirly-scven." "I didn't say fifty I (-aid fifteen," re plied the honest dealer. "Uedad, an I'll give ten cinls, thin," was the prompt reply. ijIn the tenth century, to eat off tho same plate and drink out of the same cup was considered a mask of gallantry, ond tho best possible understanding be tween a lady and gentleman. ago I We expect to see the Republican 1 - majority of the Legislature commit all manner of evil, but from this piece of vil lainy they must desist. The State is not in vaded, nor is there danger of invasion or domestic insuricction. There is, there fore, no authority in tho Legislature to "arm the State;" nnd as sure as such a bill passes, the bonds upon which money is raised to pay for the arms will never be paid. Nothe of this fact will at once be gwen, and the whole nefarious scheme shall be resisted at every step. Let our Legislators bear in mind that we still liuve an uncorrupted Supremo Court in tho State, and hence that their unconsti. tutional enactments will be but a waste of paper. If the Republicans watit arms, let them buy themj thcmsolves. We th'nk nobody, either North or South, would oljeot to that ; but they shall not squan der the money of this people by such un mitigated nonsense and villainy as that of arming the State at tho public expense. Clinton Ihnioerat. JU.5-A man once applied to be shipped before tho mast. Are you an able seaman or grcenhand?' askod tho eaplain. 'Why no, not an ablo seaman nor a green hand. I havo aomoknowlede of the water.' 'Ever been on a voyage? 'No.' 'Well, irhat then do you know about ' lc'ltcr in "doing good." the sea?' 'Why, I have tended a saw mill !' TU EXPLODED C0N9NRACV. The special Committee appointed to investigate and report upon the nllfged conspiracy to seize unon the CaDital. nt fclTUpon tho marriage of a Mi s Wheat ; Washington, mado its report on Tburs- 01 a., an editor iiopea that her path day. It thus concludes : might be flowery nnd that sho might nev er be thrashed by her husband. fiSTWhy is the letter "0" tho most ehnntablo letter in tho alphabet?" Bo.. I cause it ia found oftener than any other WtT Liberal dealing is better than alms giving, for it tends to prevent "pauperism CaT Slanders issuing from beautiful wrhich " b"tMr than relieve it. lips, are like spiders crawling from the fliiTOn all occasions have in prospect aro9-' 1 tbe end ol life and a future stale. "The Committee aro unanimously of v.,,,. .1, !, i0 evmenro produced before them does not prove the existence of a secret organization here, or livlirro 1 hostile to the Government, Mint has for 11s ni,ect, upon Us own responsibility, an attack upon the Capitol, or anytherol the purdic property hero, or an interrup tion of aDy of the functions of the Govern ment." Mr. Branch, of North Carolina, then offered tho following resolution : 'That the quartering of troops of the regular army So thia I'iitrict around the saved the country when the anti-demo craticidol was tho flowing locks of Kiddle, sealed on a golden pedesU) of thirty-five millions, and which has now been trans formed into a wolly headed negro, astride a rail, holding in one hand "Helper's Im pending Crisis," and in the other a like ness of "dear o'd John Brown." Jackson was too pure a patriot to worship at ci ther of those Shrines. He whs a Demo crat I- Mt. Holly Mirror. 100 oood to nr. LOST. Governor Andrews, ol Massachusetts is in hot water about his military order in. tended to menace the South. Amvig many letters of remonstrance from patri otic military men in the State, is one fi m Captain Charles II. Manning, of theSa! m Artillery. Ho says; " They, the Sab m Light Artillery, are now filled withns' -r. ishment at Ihe alacrity with which Massa chusetts oilers her services in th work of war against her brethren. That she, who wept on by political rancor, proposed Ic shut up her arsenals and her store-housoj, and bury every military ensign intbeducty seclusion of deserted armories, while a fo'eign foe was sweeping our seas, da strojing our towns, and devastating our fields ; that she should now rush to arms against Uiost of her feliow-citions who. ask for n position equal with her owd under the Confederation, is as strangsand unnatural as that national madness which vents itself in tho horrors of civil strife. That sho win denounced nnd defied the Union while it was In the hands of hut political opponents, should now be eager to fight for its preservation, it soinowhai significant." pyA man may bo called povortt! stricken when he is knocked down by a Ugtfsr.