HE D3LLAR PER ANNUM, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. TOWANDAi fflpirsbcin fllorning, 'April 2, 1537. Stltdrt THE OLD COUNTRY HOUSE. I knuw a house,' its open doors Wide set to catch the scented breeze, While, dimpling all the oaken floors, Faint shadows of the swaying trees, Pass in and out like spectral things. Dim creatures born of summer light, Till through the deepening twilight springs A paler radiance of the night. Then softly in those silent hours Fair faces grow upon the gloom. And whisper'd words of unseen powers Breathe inward with the garden bloom Of roses clinging to the garden walls, And lawns smooth mown with punctual shears, While over roof and threshold falls The peace of many a hundred years. Unfolding low their ivory fringe, The lillies lie upon the pond ; The firs have caught the sunset tinge. And murmur, elfin-like, beyond : I think whoever sought that grove. To dream an hour of love or heaven, Might, wrapt in some strange mystery, rove, And find his year had grown to seven! Great elms, a glorious altar-veil Screen oil'the yellow evening skies ; .Mill those thick branches, blue and pale, The geutle smoke doth curling rise, And wavering in the wavcless air, A certain tender touch impart T > what were else too calmly fair. Like memory in some heaven-taught heart. Across the broad unbroken glade _ Which guards this house on either hand, Tiie beech-clumps sprinkle showers of shade> These outposts of the forest stand And guard the kingdom of tiie deer, Tiie stillness of their charm'd domain, Where Spring chimes matins every year, And Autumn leaves fall down like rain. For miles these beeches rise and fall, And ripple like some inland sea ; From bough to bough the wood-birds call. And squirrels nc-t in every tree ; Blue depths of distance melt away As far as vision may discern. And all the open slopes are gay With foxgloves and the tangled fern. Utisullaneous. [ From the Berks County Press.] THE SANGUINARY DUEL, BY JOHN h. ZIEIIF.R. A braggart has often taken for a brave vekless man, unless he was really known to i>> harmless, physically speaking, would pos <ess tbe power of intimidating: pcaeably dis posed persons. Jim Rankin.* was one of the !,■ of indi viduals above mentioned—he was a barkeeper in the tavern in the village of H -. He was not a native of that pince, hence all his irvcllons narratives about h'mscjf. as he re lated them could not safeijr be contrail. cted. Bat in the course of time nonius* bpgan to arise rewarding the veracity of all his d mntr -Ventures—he enlarged so mach that none 'at the most verdant believed him, and he soon Valid that his hearers would occasionally wink t'he dwelt upon some of his most daring ex ploits. There resided in the village another itidi '■iaal whose name was Olivar Mills ; he was iarly affected, he blustered and foamed fu ily, and the majority of the citizens avoid a u int. He was a large athletic man of about '"Tv-four or five, and a quarrelsome fellotv ■ never hesitated to knock a man over who ' I to insult or affront him. ! ire existed a rivalry between the two in " Dials which was destined to create a gene blow up," some day, us Jim once express t. The two were not on speaking terms, maid either tell why it was so ; they on w that a cordial hatred for each other i in their bosoms, and neither sought to •it quenched. Both were ever eager at i-t affront, to challenge the other, with • i fference : Jim would challenge his foe '•rtal coinbat—pistols—while Oliver Mills 1 use Nature's cudgels—fists only. 'hie evening Rankins sat in a grocery store "e many of the villagers oft congregated ; •is relating some marvellous stories, and UK reached the most interesting point, i the word " liar," in a loud tone rang " ii eh the apartment, a moment Jim sprang upon his feet, and y demanded who the individual was who •i apply such an obnoxious epithet to him. Tvvas me said it, you darned blower," ••d Mills, as he strode forth, and con "1 the astonished bully, v it should be known that Rankins ne lated any of his adventures when Mills he had probably reasons of his " for so doing ; but on this occasion he was by surprise. Mills and the proprietor store had been in an out house for some Dor, examining some hams, and they re- I just us Itaukins was in the midst of his Mills listened but a moment, when he " '1 the word above mentioned. a moment Rankins i-tood eyeing his balk y rival as if undecided how to pro '•ut at length he cried : r , you must recall that vile word or fight All, if I must, I must," said Mills calm ib "II then apologise at once," said Ran "b'litily, seemingly misunderstanding his he blasted !" exclaimed Mills, " I'll 1 cried Jim, In confusion. " l thought " re (rflfng to apologise—to retract the i imade use of." ' V T mind what von thought, I'll fight I Mills. * THE BRADFORD REPORTER. " Tery well', sir, I'll send' my second to yours to-morrow to arrange matters." " Arrange thuuderation," cried Mill, "What do I want with seconds? If you send any one to me to arrange things, I'll smash bis face just as I'm going to yours." " Sir," said Jim, with an air of dignity, "you entirely mistake the nature of our contemplat ed meeting, I fight only with tire weapons of a gentleman—pistols or swords ?" " Why yon blasted cowardly skunk," cried the enraged bully, " you don't mean to say that you refuse to fight me ?" " I shall not disgrace myself by resorting to the vulgar practice of settling such affairs, arm only will suit," said Jim. s " Well, don't you call these arms?" said Mills, throwing himself in an attitude, and displaying a pair of limbs of that name. " You understand me," suid Jim, and saying this he left the store. Those present now persuaded Mills to nc j ccpt the challenge, and one of them, a great wag, volunteered to act as bis second. The two seconds met, and secretly resolved ' to amuse themselves at the expense of those two pests of B . The hour fixed upon for the meeting was 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the next day, and the distance agreed upon was only ten yards. Thev met, and judging by their features, one would have supposed they would rather have been somewhere else, and under different cir cumstances, they looked really miserable. The seconds once more pretended to endea vor to reconcile the two young men, but nei ther would withdraw a word ; both yearned for blood, if their assertions could be relied upon. They finally took their places, pistols in hand, and hearts in their throats—the second who was to give the signal to fire, approached : the surgeon, and said : ! " I suppose you have your implements han dy in case an amputation is necessary ?" " Y'-s, sir," replied surgeon Thompson, who : was aware that the pistols were not even loml ! Ed with wads, though in the present case, had i they c ontained balls they would have been just as harmless in the hands of those two lub j berly cowards. Had it been a " fist fight," Mills would have fought Rankins with pleasure, but he had a | horror or powder and ball—he would not have j accepted the challenge had not Bill Krane, his second, assured him that Rankins would not stand fire, so here he was now in a horrible Si tuition, with the eyes of twenty-five or thir ty of his acquaintances upon him, wiio would be so many witnesses against hiui if he did not acquit himself manfully. The remarks of his second relative to the amputation of limbs were as daggers to his al ready excited feelings, aud the effect of those apparautly sincere words told with equal effect Upon the other boaster—both were as pale as sheets. "Gentlemen, are you ready?" asked the second. " Y-e-s," stammered Rankins with nervous trepidation. Mills would not trust himself with i:i3 voice, so he merely inclined his head. " At the word 'three' you will please to fire," said the other, " now prepare for victory or death !" Ttie two wretched men stood daring at each other with blanched cheek- and dilated eyes ; at the word "One," they -birlcd convulsively, and both turned a shade pal i. When "two" was pronounced they presented an appearance at once pitiful and ludicrous. Mills perspired like an over worked slave—his mouth stood open with fear, and his unoccupied hand open ed and shut again in a uervous manner. Rankin's face was actually greenish white, his knees smote together, and finally his hat fell off—his hair stood on end ! It could not be decided then which of the two w as the most frightened. Suddenly both seemed to nerve themselves; they assumed a more determined demeanor, and looked less horrified. The spectators thought they would now really fire, a fact which before was very much doubted. At the word " three" they both raised their pistols, and then simultaneously dropped their arms again, and, pistols in hand they took to i their heels in opposite directions. It now ap peared evident to those assembled, that the i look of firmness which the "duellists" exlii- j bited previous to their giving out the word " three," was only a determination to run, in j case the other persisted in remaining firm, but unfortunately, both were too cowardly to sec j how much courage the other possessed, hence , the result above. Now it occurred to Rankins, at the moment i he turned his back, that Mills al-o took to his : heels, so in order to maintain his reputation 1 as a brave tnan, he turned back again after running a dozen paces or so. But unfortunate- j Iv for him, Mills became possessed of the same idea, and acted upon it likewise, so when the valiant challenger presented his pistol—duel : fashion, he was horrified to behold the redoubt-1 able challenged party apparently ready to fight j it out. Both were horror struck, and the of-: feet was instantaneous, but it operated in two j distinct ways on the individuals most concern ed. Mills fled a second time, this time, how- ; ever, dropping the pistol ; the waggish second picked up the weapon, and discharged it after j the fugitive. This capped the climax ; Mills thought his opponent shot at hi in, and he redoubled his speed executing some superior feats of running. Rankins when he heard the report of the pis tol took it for granted that he was shot, and with a howl of terror he sauk upon the ground' When he returned to consciousness he found himself alone ; all had left the spot ; he re turned to the tavern through some byway, and next moraiug the first stage conveyed him to a distant towu. He was never again seen in B , and Oliver Mills became a respectable citizen, on ly once when lie spoke somewhat sharply to a .neighbor who differed from him ill politics, the iatter meieJy said : " Do you want me to challenge you to fight a duel ?" This was enough to silence him PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TO WANDA. BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH. " REWARD LESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER." Thus, by judicious management of Hill Krane the wag of H , the inhabitants of that town were rid of two obnoxious individuals by driving one out of the village and ch-atigiug tire other from a blustering bully into a seusi i ble mau. Premonitions of Death. The first symptoms of approaching death with some is a strong presentment that they are about to die. Ozauam, the mathematician, while in appa | rent health, rejected pupils from the feeling that he was on the eve of resting from his la bors ;• and he expired soon after of an apo plectic stroke. Fletcher, the divine, had a dream which shadowed out his impending dissolution, and l believing it to be the merciful warning of Heaven, he sent for a sculptor and ordered his tomb. " Hegin your work forthwith," he said at parting, "there is no time to spare." And unless the artist had obeyed the admo nition, death would have proved the quicker I workman of the two. j Mozart wrote his requiem under the eonvic j tion that the monument he was raising to his I genius would, by the power of association, prove a universal monument to his remains.—• When life was fleeting very fast he called for the score, aud musing over it, said, "Did I not tell you truly that it was for myself that I composed this death chant ?" Another great artist, in a different depart , ment, convinced that his hand was about to lose its cunning, chose a subject emblmatical of the coming event. His friends inquired the nature of his next design, and Hogarth repli ed : " The end of all things." " In that case," replied one, " there will be an end of the oainter." What was uttered in jest was answered in earnest, with a solemn look and a heavy sigh : " There will," he said,, " and the sooner my work in done the better." \ He commenced next day labored upon it with j unremitting diligence, and when he had given j it the last touch, seized his pallet, broke it in pieces, and said : " I have finished." The print was published in France under the title of " Finis," and in October, the curi i ous eyes which saw the manners in the face j were closed in the dust. | Our ancestors,wlio were prone to look in the i air for causes which were to be found upon upon the earth, attributed these intimations to various supernatural agencies. John Hunter has solved the mystery, if mystery it can be called, in a single sentence. "We sometimes," he says, " feel within our- I selves that we shall not live : for the living powers become weak, and the nerves commu nicate the intelligence to the brain." II is own case has often been quoted among the marvels of which he offered this rational explanation. He intimated, on leaving homo, that if the discussion which awaited him at the hospital took an angry turn, it would prove his death. A colleague gave him the lie ; the coarse word verified the prophecy, and he expired almost immediately in an adjoining j room. There was everything to lament in the circumstance, but nothing at which to wonder, except that any individual could show such disrespect to the great geuius, a single year of whose existence was worth the united lives of his opponents. Hunter, in uttering the pre diction, had only to take connscl in his own j experience, without the intervention of iuvisi- ; ble spirits. He had long labored under a clis- I ease of the heart ; and he felt the disorder j had reached the point at which any sharp agi- j tation would bring on the crisis. Foote, prior to his departure for the Conti- | ncnt, stood contemplating the picture of a I brother author, and exclaimed, his eyes full of j tears : " Poor Weston 1" In the same dejec- j ted tone he added, after a pause : " Soon oth-! ers shall say, " Poor Foote !'" and to the stir- i prise of his friends, a few days proved the jus- j tice of his prognostication. The expectation i of the event had a share in producing it ; for | a slight shock completes the destruction of prostrate energies. The case of Wolsey was singular. The ! morning before he died he asked Cavendish the hour, and was answered : " Past eight." " Eight of the clock ?" replied Wolsey, ' " that cannot l>c eight of the clock—nay, hay, ! it cannot be eight of the clock, for by eight of ; the clock you shall lose your master." The day he miscalculated, the hour came j true. On the following morning, as the clock struck eight, his troubled spirit passed from 1 life. Cavendish and the bystanders thought | that lie must have had a revelation of the | time of his death 1 and trom the way in which the fact had taken possession of his mind, we j su-pect that he relied upon astrological predic- ' tion, which had the credit of a revelation in j his own esteem. A P ALTEON IN* PIFPKTMV.—A voting pnr son lost his way in a forest, and it being vehe mently cold and rainy, lie happened upon a poor cottage and desired a lodging or l ,a y to stay in, and some fire to warm him. The man told him that he and hw wife had but one bed, and if he pleased to lay with them he should be welcome. The parson thanked him aud kindly accepted it. In the morning the man rose to go to market, and meeting some of his neighbors he fell a laughing. They asked him what made him so merry about the mouth. "Why," says he, " I can't bnt think how 'shamed the parson will be when he awakes to find himself alone in bed with my wife."— Pittsburgh (Pa.) Post. THE THREE PHYSICIANS. —The celebrated French physician Duramoulin, on his death-bed when surrounded by the most distinguished citizens of Paris, who regretted the loss which the profession would sustain in his death, said*. "My friends, I leave behind me three physicians much greater than myself." Being pressed to name them, each of the doctors supposing himself to be one of the three, he answered, " Water, Exercise and Diet " FAREWELL ADDRESS OF GOV. JOHNW. GEARY. To the People of Kansas Territory. Having determined to resign the Executive I office and retire again to the quiet scenes of private life,and the enjoyment of those domestic comforts of which I have so long been depriv ed, I deem it proper to address you ou tlte oc casion of my departure. The office from which I voluntarily with draw, was unsought by me, and at the time of its acceptance was by no means desirable.— This was quite evident from the deplorable moral, civil and political condition of the Ter ; ritory—the discord, contention and deadly I strife which then and there prevailed, and the painful anxiety with which it was regarded by , patriotic citizens in every portion of the Ame- I rican Union. To attempt to govern Kansas ; at such a period, and under such circumstances, j was to assume no ordinary responsibilities.— ! Few men could have desired to undertake the j task, and none would have been so presump ! tious, without serious forebodings as to the re ! suit. That I should have hesitated, is 110 mat ter of astonishment to those acquainted witli the facts ; but that I accepted the appoint ment, was a well-grounded source of regret to many of my well tried friends,who looked upon the enterprise as one that could terminate in nothing but disaster to myself. It was not supposed that order could be brought in any reasonable space of time, and with the means at my command, from the then existing chaos. | Without descanting upon the feelings, prin ciples and motives which prompted me, suffice to say. that I accepted the President's tender of the office of Governor. In doing so, I sac rificed the comforts of a home, endeared by the strongest earthly ties and sacred associa tions, to embark in an undertaking which pre sented at the best but a dark and unsatisfacto ry prospect. I readied Kansas, and entered upon the discharge of iny official duties, in the most gloomy hour of her history. Desolation and ruin reigned on every hand, homes aud firesides were deserted ; the smoke of burning dwellings darkened the atmosphere ; women and children driven from their habitations, wandered over the prairies among the wood lands, or sought refuge and protection even among the Indian tribe 3. The highways were infested with numerous predatory bands, and the towns were fortified and garrisoned by ar mies of conflicing partizans, each excited almost to frenzy, and determined upon mutual exter mination. Such was, without exaggeration, the condition of the Territory, at the period of my arrival. Iter treasury was bankrupt.— There were no pecuniary resources within her self to meet the exigencies of the time. The Congressional appropriations, intended to de fray the expenses of a year, were insufficient to meet the demands of a fortnight. The laws were null, the Courts virtually suspended, and the civil arm of the Government almost en tirely powerless. Action—prompt, decisive, energetic action—was necessary. lat once saw what was needed, and without hesitation gave myself to the work. For, six months I have labored with unceasing industry. The accustomed and needed hours for sleep have been employed in the pnblic service. Night and day have official duties demanded unremit ting attention. I have had no proper leisure moments for rest or recreation. My health has failed under the pressure. Nor is this all ; to my own private purse, without assurance of reimbursement, have I resorted, in everv emer gency, for the required funds. Whether these arduous services and willing sacrifices have been ; beneficial to Kansas and niv country, you arc j abundautlv qualified to determine. That I hare met with opposition, and cvun , bitter vituperation and vindictive malice, is no ' matter for astonishment. No tnan has etfor : yet held an important or responsible post in ! our own or any other country and escaped ecu- ; sure. I should have been weak and foolish in deed hnd I expected to pass through the fiery ; ordeal entirely unscathed, especially as I was ! rdbuired. if not to come in conflict with, at least to thwart evil machinations, and hold in restraint wicked passions, or rid the Territory of many lawless, reckless and desperate men. Beside, it were impossible to mine in contact with the conflicting interests which governed the conduct of many well disposed persons without becoming an object of mistrust and abuse. While others, whose sole object was notoriously personal advancement at anv sacri fice of the public good and at every hazard, it would have been ridiculous to anticipate the meed of praise lor disinterested action ; and hence, however palpable might hive been my patriotism, however just my official conduct, or however beneficial in its results, I do not marvel that my motives have been impugned, and my integrity maligned. It is, however so well known, that I need scarcely record the fact, that those who have attributed my labors to a desire for gubernatorial or senatorial hon ors, were, and are themselves the aspirants for those high trusts and powers, and foolishly im agined that I stood between thein audthecon sumation of their nmbitous designs and tower ing hopes. ' 1 But whatever may be thought or said of my motives or desires, I have the proud conscious ness of leaving this scene of my severe and anxious toil with clean hands, and the satisfac tory conviction that He who can penetrate the inmost recesses of the heart, and read its se cret thoughts, will approve ray purposes and acts. In the discharge of my executive func tions, I have invariably sought to do equal and exact justice to all men, however humble or exalted. I have eschewed all sectional disputations, kept aloof from all party affilia tions, and have alike scorned numerous threats of personal injury and violence, and the most flattering promises of advancement and reward. And I ask and claim nothing more for the part I have acted, than the simple merit of having endeavored to perform my duty. This I have done, at all times and upon every oc casion, regardless of the opinions of men, and i utterly fearless of consequences. Occasional ly I have been forced to ossffmre great respon sibilities, and depend solely upon my own re sources to accomplish important ends ; but in all such instances, I have ,'carefully examined surrouudipg circumstances, weighed well the probable resnUs, and acted upon my own do liberate judgment ; aud in now reviewing them, I am so well satisfied with the policy uniform ly pursued, that were it to be done over again it should not be changed in the slightest par ticular. In parting with you I can do no less than I give you a few words of kindly advice, and i even of friendly warning. You are well aware that most of the troubles which lately agita ted the Territory, was occasioned by men who had no especial interest in its welfare: Many of them were not even residents, while it is quite evident that others were influenced alto gether in the part they took in the disturban ces by mercenary or other persona! considera | tions Tlte great body of the actual citizens i are conservative law-abiding, peace loving i men, disposed rather to make sacrifice or con ciliation and consequent peace, than to insist for their entire rights should the general good thereby be enused to suffer. Some of them, under the influence of the prevailing excite ment and misguided opinions, were led to the commission of grevious mistakes, but not with the deliberate intention of doing wrong. A very few men resolved upon mischief, may keep in a state of unhealthy excitement ami involve in fearful strife an entire commu nity. This was demonstrated during the civil commotions with which the Territory was con vulsed. While the people generally were anx ious to pursue their peaceful callings, small combinations of crafty, scheming and design ing men, succeeded from nurely selfish motives, in bringing upon them a series of most lament able and destructive difficulties. They never desired that the present peace should be a flee ted ; nor do they intend that it shall continue if they have the power to prevent it. In the constant croakings of disaffected individuals in various sections, you hear the onlv express ions of evil desires and intentions. Watch then, with a special, jealous and suspicious eye, those who are continually indulging surmises of renewed hostilities. They are not the friends of Kansas, and there is reason to fear that some of them are not only enemies to the Ter ritory, but of the Union itself. Its dissolution is their ardent wish, and Kansas has been se leoted as a fit. place to commence the accom plishment of a most nefarious design. The schemes has tints far been frustrated, but it has not been aba' doaed. You are intrusted not only with the guardianship of this Terri tory, but the peace of the Union which de pends upon you in a greater degree than you may at present suppose. \ on should therefore, frown down every ef fort to foment discord, and especially to arrav settlers from different sections of the Union in hostility against each other. All true patriots, whether from the North or the South, the blast or the \\ est, should unite together for that which is and must be adopted as a com mon cause, the preservation of the Union ; and he who shall whisper a desire for its dis solution, no matter what may be his preten sions, or to what faction or party he claims to belong, is unworthy of your confidence, de serves your strongest reprobation, and should be branded as a traitor to his country. There is a voice crying from the grave of one whose memory is dearly cherished in every patriotic heart, and let it not cry in vain. It tells you that this attempt at dissolution is no new thing ; but that even as early as the days of our first President it was agitated by ambitious aspirants for place and power. And if the appeal of a still more recent hero and patriot much needed in his time, how much more ap plicable is it now, and in this Territory "The possible dissolution of the Union,"he says, " has at length become an ordinary and familiar subject of discussion. Has the warn ing voice of Washington been forgotten ? or have designs already been formed to dissolve the Union? lict it not be supposed that I impute to all tliose who have taken an active part in these unwise and unprofitable discus sions a want of patriotism or of public virtue. The honorable feelings of State pride and lo cal attachments find a place in the bosoms- of the most enlightened and pure. Rut while such men are conscious of their own integrity and honesty of purpose, they ought never to forget that the citizens of other States are their political brethren, and that, however mis taken they may be in their views the great bo dv of them arc. equally honest and upright with themselves. Mutual suspicions ami reproach es may. in time, create mutual hostility, and artful and designing men will always be found who are ready to foment these fatal divisions, and to inflame the natural jealousies of diffe rent sections.of the country. The history of the world is full of examples and especially in the history of republics." When I look upon the present condition of the T< rritory, and contrast it with what it was when 1 first entered it, I feel satisfied that my administration has not been prejudicial to its interests. On every hand, I now perceive un mistakable indications of welfare and prosperi ty. The honest settler occupies his quiet dwel ling, with his wife and children clustering around him, uninolestn and fearless of dan ger. The solitary traveler pursues his way un harmed over every public thoroughfare. The torch of the incendiary has been extinguished, and the cabins by which it were destroyed, have been replaced by more substantial build ings. Honrds of banditti no longer lie in wait in every ravine for plunder and assassination. Invasions of hostile armies have ceased, and infuriated partisans, living in our midst, have emphatically tnrned their swords to plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Labor ers are everywhere at work—farms Undergoing rapid improvements—merchants are driving a thriving trade-—and mechanics pursuing with profit their various occupations. Real estate, in town and country, has in creased in value almost without precedent, un til in some places it is commanding prices that never could have becu autieipat<L Whether this healthy find happy change is the result . VOL. XVII. No. 43. solely of my executive labors, or not, it cer tainly h:i9 occurred during my administration. Upon yourselves most mainly depend the pre servation and perpetuity of the present pros perous condition of affairs. Guard it with uu : censing vigilance, and protect it as you would ! your lives. Keep down that party spirit,which, if permitted to obtain the mastery, mnst lead Ito desolation. Watch closely arid condemn in its infancy every insiduous movement that can possibly tend to discord or disunion. Suffer no local prejudice to disturb the prevailing har mony. To every appeal to these turn n deaf j ear, as did the Savior of men to the prompt ings of the deceiver. Act as a united band of brothers bound together by one common tie. Your interests are the same, and by this course alone can they be maintained*. Follow this, and your hearts and homes will he made light and happy by the richest blessings of a kind and munificent Providence. To you, the peucable citizens of Kansas, I owe my grateful acknowledgements for the aid and comfort your kind assurances and hearty co-operation "have afforded in many dark and trying hours. You hare my siucerest thanks and my earnest prayers that you tnay be abuu dantly rewarded in Heaven. To the ladies of the Territory—the wives, mothers, sisters and daughters of the honest settlers—l am also under a weight of obliga tion. Their pious prayers have not been rais ed in vain, nor their numerous assurances of confidence in the policy of my administration failed to exert a salutary influence. And last, though not the least, I must not ba unmindful of the noble men who formed the Military Department of the West. To Genera, Persifer F. Smith and the officers act ing ntrder his command, I return my thanks lor valuable services. Although from diffe rent parts of the Union, and imbued with sec tional prejudices, J know of no instance in which such prejudices have been jjemmtted to stand in tiie way of a faithful, ready, cheerful and energetic discharge of duty. Their con duct in this respect is worthy of universal com mendation, and presents a bright example for those executing the eivil power. The good be havior of all the soldiers who were called up on to assist me, is in fact, deservingofcpecial notice. Many of these troops, officers and men had served with me on the fields of Mexi co against a foreign foe, and it is a source of no little satisfaction to know that the laurels there won, have been further adorned by the praiseworthy alacrity with which they labor ed to allay a destructive fratricidal strife at home. With a firm reliance ta the p otecting care and over-ruling providence of that Great Be ing who holds in his His hand the destinies alike of men and nations, I bid farewell to Kansas and her people, trusting that whatever events may hereafter befall them, they will, in the exercise of His wisdom, goodness and po wer, be so directed as to promote their own best interest and that ot the beloved country of which they are destined to form a most im portant part. JOHN W. GEARY. Lccoinpton, March 12, 1557. " I MARK ON'LT THK II>CR3 THAT SHI.VK." —The above, if we rightly remember, is the inscription upon a snn dial in Italy. It incul cates a beautiful lesson which many are prone to disregard. It would teach us to remember the bright days of life, and not forget the blessing God is giving n. Life, it is true, is not all bright and beautiful, ISiK still it has its lights as well as shades, and it is neither wise nor graceful to dwell too much npon tho darker portions of the picture. He who looks the bright side of life, and makes the best of everything, will, we think, other tilings being equal, be a better, happier man, than those who, as Franklin says, "are always lookiug at tin! ugly leg," and find occasion for. com plaint and censure in almost everything they meet with. fiiyj- A simple and modest man lives un known, until a moment, which he could not have foreseen, reveals bis estimable qualities and generous actions. I compare him to the concealed (lower springing from an humb!e>tem, which escapes the view, and is discovered onlv by its perfume. Pride quickly fixes the eye a <1 lie who is always bis own eulogist dispenses every other person from the only obligation to praise him. A Lrctn IvfTL vXATioH. —A Frenchman, be ing troubled with the guut, was asked what difference there was between that and the rheumatics. " One very great difference," re plied Monsieur ; " suppose yon take ouc vue, put your linger in ; you turn ze screw till yon can bear him no longer—Uaf is zc rheumatism ; den s'pose-you give iiiiu one turn more—dot is ze gout." tkuir A lady relating her matrimonial expe rience, said : " At, first on retiring of a cold night, niy husband used to say to tne, ' put your dear lit. tie footics with mine bat soon it was ' keep your IKIO.S off me.' " H3r"Many a young lady who objects to be ing kissed under the mistletoe, lias no objections to being kissed under the rose." A stupid compositor made an error in the i above rendering it, " has no objections to be ing kissed under the nose." &Sr Wonmn. by the decree of nature, baa smiles, like the kind heavens, for all creation ; and when clouds intervene, and she is sad, her very tears like the rain aud dew, are equally benefioient. B-sy- A man may edify anofchor by his gifts, and yet be unedifierl himself ; he may be pro fitable to uuother, and yet unprofitable to himself. The raven was an unclean bird, and not good, meat, but God could make bef the bearer of good meat to Elijao. Igj- To reform the world, begin first with . yourtflf, then with your nn^hbor.
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