J3LLAR PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN AOVANCE. TOWANDA: Thursday Morning, April 3, 1862.^ Sfltdrt Ipottrjr. THE WREATH OF THE BRAVE. BY J RODMAN DRAKE. When the bright star of peace from my county was clouded, Hope fondly presaged it would soon re appear, Ba t still, dark in gloom the horizon is shrouded, And the beacon of war blazes dreadfully near : And QeJ are the charms which the heart once de.igbted; wot the eny.jmenta tranquility gave- ! V.rerv iow'ret U withered, each blossom isbligh.ed Uultke wreath that encircles the brow of the brave. fijt spurned be the soul, to true feeling a stranger, That refuses to valor the meed it has won ; lisa prize dearly earned amid peril and danger, Aud shall bloom till eternity's march is begun. Be the arms ever hallowed tor Freedom uoutending Where the star adorned banners o! Liberty wave, For the Heaven-blest cause which that arm is deleoding Makes sacred the wreath which encircles the brave. Though delightful that wreath to the votary of glory, Who soars on the pinions of victory to fame ; Though each patriot's bosom beats high at the story That emblazons * itk houor America's name ; Yet 'tis only in blood that the laurels can nourish, 'Tis Horror's red trophy, tis plucked honi the giavc, And the tears of the widow and < rpkan must nourish The wreath tiiat euciicles the brow of the brave. yet blame not the bard that, with human aversion. He shuddering turns wheu the battie storm lowers, ADd exults that the aim of the patriot's exertion, Peace, sanctioned by Honor, ere long shall be ours Then the warrior shall sheathe, with a smile o! devotion. His sword that he wielied his county to save, AuJ the wreath they have won on the held and the ocean. Immortal shaft bloom on the brow of the brave. Ulisnllaneous. The Fugitive Lieutenant. It was while the American army was freez ing am] sturv.ng at Valley Forge, und the Jjnlisli army were rioting und luxuriating in frnliuklphi't, that a lame, dirty, beggarly looking fellow, walking with a crutch, ap proached the northern outpost of the royal torces, uud, with a simple, idiotic laugh and leer ttunouuf d It s intention of entering the c,\v, aud lak ug the British General prisoner. "lndeid I then I shall he under the incessi ry 0/arresting you," said a young subaltern, winking at siime of his companions, and as Mining a Seiic-us air. "lie I he ! ho !" laughed the idiot ; "just yon try it —that's all." " Why, uiy good fellow, what would you do V "Do !" exclaimed the other, drawing hini si'lf up with an air of dt-fi mce— " why, I'd tell the great General Washington." "Then, I'm a!:aid to e: tcrnpori your arrest, m pass on ; you will (Uohahly fiud General Howe prepared to receive you" The idiot suddenly looked troubled, glancing about hiui wearily and suspiciously, us if he feared he might meet the Generai lie was so boldly going to capture, hut finally hobbled off tow aid the ci y. With some >uJ silly dialogue he got past the different sentries, who seemed to give him no thought beyond the aiiiusem lit of the time. By niglit lie was fairly within the town, and kept on his way, soiu -'.hues liu „uiing snatches of old songs, and, in geneial, not much noticed by any Through one street after another, he continued to bob ble forward, until he came to one of great length, containing a block of three story re fpttiaiiie looking houses, which might have ken occupied l>y persons in midule ciicum iUnccS. This street was not lighted, and ap peared deserted, so thai when lie stopped he re o-ire the dwellings fee was not perceived. He knocked at tiic door A woman's head appeared at tiie second story window, i " Won't you give me something to eat, pa'uiu '( lam nearly starved,*'said the idiot. " Yes, poor fellow !" icplied I lie woman, in r kindly tone ; " in u minute I will hand you | kutuetliing " Soon after a lower shutter was pushed back, *:KI a hand containing some bread and meal *as thrust out. "Mother," said a low voice. "Gracious heaven !" exclaimed the female •itliiu, in an agitated tone. " Uujli !" reiurued the beggar in a guarded *hi>per. A moment after the door was thrown open. " Ye-, ma'am—thank you—don't cure if I asif ui answer to an invitation to come u LWtbe same time crossing th- threshold * I J R'i uppearauce of deep humiliation. Lie moment the door closed behind him the ma " topped Lis crutch, and flung his arms nrour.d (Ac other, lairly sobbing— Mother! dear, dear mother I" William i" exclaimed the other, pressing -.ie -rugged medicuiit lo her heart; "oh my - ar, dear William ? what is the meaning uf a li how is it that 1 find you in tins sad plight ? 1 have passed the British hues in this dis- P playing the fool to the sentries. But uie bow yjn are, dear mother, iyid how 7 u lure in these troublesome times ?" l'ldifferentlv well, my son. The British sr eour masters liere ; but so lar I have little 13 complain of iu the way of personal treat u'!;t- Provisions are very scarce and high, & - only by the Etrictest economy shall I be 1 ' ,e 10 live tlirough, if they continue to retain IJ>s es-ion of the city any considerable time.— r sist er Mary is at your uncle's in Dela and will deeply regret that she missed "ppoi tunity of heeiog you." Are you alone, mother ?'* -\'o ; two English gentlemen are boarding *ith iue." ° Bo they belong to the army ?" inquired *Joimg man, quickly, uneasily ; " and are tht J i; the house ?" lbe J a PP ear t0 private gentlemeo >oue tn p an, a ,ri neither is within &t present But you looked troubled ; bave YOU anything to fear, my son ?" " If detected, I may be hung as a spy." " Good heavens !" exclaimed the mother, in alarm ; "you terrify me. Are you here with out permission ? without a pass ?" " Yes —did I not say I played the fool to the sentries, and got past thein V " But 1 thought that was for your own amusement. Oh, William, if you should be discovered. Why did you venture in this des perate manner ?" " I could not get a pas, nr.d I was so anx ious to see you and Mary, that I resolved to rbk all" '• Quick, then, come up stairs, and let us fix a hiding place at once, before anything happens. Oh, William, Inm so alarmed." Both hastened to the third story, nnd after considering several places, decided that the loft, close under the roof, might be the best place for concealment, as the trap door lead ing to it, could tie fustened underneath, which would tend to blind the search ; while the young man, if (tressed, could escape to the roof, and try means of a long rope, fastened to the chimney could lower himself either into the street or yard. This would not inure his escape, but it was the best plan the two could think of, and served to render both less fear ful of detection Hud the serious consequences. Having provided the r tpe, the mother hasten ed to bring up large quantities of food, which he soon began to devour with a ravenous appe tite, which showed he had told no u truth when in ihu character of a beggar, he had de clared himself in a state bordering on starva tion. While he was eating, his mother (died him with questions concerning the annv at Valley Forge, in which he bad a Lieutenant's com 1 mission, nnd which be luid left on a furlough, and the answers of the young soldii-r depicted astute of destitution and suffering that caused bis bearer to weep for very sympathy. Three thousand soldiers were down on the sick list at one time, and without the common neces | snries of life, had perished by hundreds ; while ' those capable of doing duty, scarcely any had a blanket to cover liirn at night, or food enough to keep soul and body together. I'ale, emaciated, ragged and dirty, many wiili their bare feet upon the frozen earth, they walked shivering through the camp by day, and crowd td themselves together t-y night, to get what little warmth they could from each other's bodies—the most forlorn ai d wretched set ol beings that ever a nation called to arms. "God help us !" ejaculated the mother, in a dej cted tone. " i suppose, after all our hardships, we shall tie compelled to succumb to our tyianuicul foes." " Never !'* cried the young officer, "while there is a thousand uicu left in our country to make a desperate stand. We can only be conquered by annihilation ; and if it is God's w ill that a tyrant should rule over this broad continent, not a single true heart will live to feel the oppression and d sgruce. Ere that time, dear mother, I shall be beyond the reach if earihly nionarchs?" " God bless you, William !" cried the mother, enthusiastically grasping his hand. "Your father's spirit speaks in you. He died on the battle field with those sentiments in los heart ; and 1 freely give you—my only son and hope —to the glorious cause which his blood and that of thousands of others has hallowed " For several d-ys the intrepid young officer remained beneath his mother's roof, supposing his presence to be known only to themselves. But, one evening at the end of his furlough, when lie was le.-ginsii: g to think about prepar ing for bis secret departure, an officer and six men appeared ut tin dour, aud sai lie had orders to art est one William liturgies, sup posed to be somewhere in the dwelling, i " Why, that is my son, - ' said Hie widow, in great tii pidation. " So much more likely that he should be here, then," was the unfeeling reply, "And lor what would you arrest him, and what will tie do e with him if found ?" " We shall take hiin for a spy, and if found guilty, ho will lie hung, of course, as every euised rebel should be. Here, ynu. Bent and Walters, begin the search ; and you, Jones i and Johnson, remain where you uie. Sharp, now, all of you ! Let the fellow lie taker, alive, it possible—but, alive or dead, let liim jbe taken. Now, good woman, if In; is iu the ; house, of which we nie strongly assured, let hiru uppear, and save youiaelt much trouble ; j otherwise, the consequences be on your own ! head " " Jf you think my son is in the house, search to your heatl's content !" returned iho UiOlber, externally calui, internally suffering. And forthwith the search begun. Meantime, the young Lieutenant, who had heard enough to comprehend his danger, had set about effecting ins escape, but not alto gether in the manner first intended, lie wont on the roof, it is true, and tied ttie long tope to the chimney, casting one end of it down toward the street, but this only for a blind.— lie had seen that the bucks of the dividing wail, between the houses occupied by his mother and one of two adjoining buildings, had been loosely put up under the ridge-pole, and his present design was to remove a few of these, crowd through into the loft of the other house and then replace. This purpose he fected before the soldiers searching for him came up near enough to hear the little noise lie was eotupeiled to make. Ttie open trap door of the roof, and the rope uround the chimney, served to mislead them as he had hoped, and it was with intense satisfaction that he heard litem announce the manner of iiis escape. Immediately after, the whole party left 1(1 haste, first threatening Mrs. Haggles with subsequent vengeance, for harboring, con cealing, und conniving at the escape ot a rubtl spy, even though the muti were her son. When fully satisfied that the soldiers had gone, toung Haggles attempted to return into Ins mother's dwelling by the way he had left, but iu again displacing the bricks for this pur pose, out- them slipped and went dowu through an opeo trap door, upon the floor below, mak ing a loud ooise. Immediately after a light PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. 0. GOODRICH. flashed up through the opening, and a timid female voice demanded who was there t Here was a dilemma. Should the young soldier reply, he would be exposed; and should he keep silence, a search would be made which might prove more serious in its consequences What WHS to be done ? A sudden inspiration seized iiim. It was a woman's voice, and wo men are seldom steeled to pity. He would make himself known to her, appeal to her sym pathies, nnd throw himself upon her mercy. " Lady," he began, in a gentle tone, calcu lated to reassure his fair hearer, "be not uianned. I am a friend in distress, the son of your next neighbor. lam hunted as a spy by British soldiers, and if found my life will be forfeited If you cannot pity me, for God's sake, pity my poor mother, and ussist me for her sake !" lie represented himself at the opening to ttie ioit, nnd boldly descended the loft leading down from it directly before the ladv, a sweet beautiful girl of eighteen, who stood with a light in her hand, and seemed dumb and mo tionless, with a commingling of fear, surprise and curiosity. The young man continued to speak as be descended, and hurriedly went on to narrate all that hud occurred, concluding with the search of the soldiers, and his escape into the loft above. " Thank God, it is in my power to aid you, sir !'* were the first words of the girl, spoken with a look and a feeling of sympathy that made the heart of the young soldier bouud with strange emotions. She then went on to tell him that a cousin from Xew Jersey, about his s ze and build, and locking not unlike him, was then on a visit to the* family, having a pass from General Howe This piss she had been iooki g at, aud, by accident, it was in her posse-sion, the cousin having gone out with the rest of tiie family und forgotten it. # " Take it and flv, and may God preserve you," she said ;"I can arrange it with my kinsman. 1 can have lost it, and he can easily procure another." She hurried him down stairs, throwing a cloak on his shoulders on the way, which she insisted upon his wearing, saying that it had belonged to a deceased brother, and lie could return it at any future time. She then has tened to get the pass, which she placed iu his hand, and urged him to go at once. "If 1 could but see mother for a momont," he said. " No, no—lenve nil tome—l will explain all t>> her—go while you can, before it is too late" " God in heaven bless yon, sweet lady !" he said, impnlstivelv seizing her hand, and touch in/ it 10 his lips ; " I will never forget you." The next minute he was gone. He escaped Aud true to his declaration, he never did for get the sweet gul who befriended him in his hour of peril. Years after, the honorable wife of General Haggles Was many 11 time heard to tell of her first romantic meeting with him she loved, then a hunted fugitive fiota the Conti nental army. Elopement of Nantucket Wives. On Saturday evening last our usually quiet community got somewhat exci cd to hear that ut least a dozeu of our goods citizens, who for years hud enjoyed the bliss of matri mony, found themselves deserted by those who had promised to sustain them in sickness and in health, aud be to them obedient aud utfac tionate wives. Many a fcrlorn husband sat choking and silent ut the supper table. Some had to swallow their grief and undress the lit tle ones woo were sobtiug at tiie absence of there maternal guardian. Lots of backs, unused to bending, had to be bowed over the wa li-tub and bulling tubs, to prepare Young America lor a Saturday night bed. Some fumed, some grumbled,and some sat and silent ly dangled their wuicbkevs und chain, aud s iue went stalking about by moonlight to ti id if possible their absconded half, und lead I her by tbe ear home to duty and dish washing. Lsnt it was all no go. Saturday night rolled away, and Sunday and Monday, and houses were still wifeless, and husbands still moody and astonished. Alter a while i'. leaked out that the ladies were on "toot" by themselves,and making good a tin eat they had otten pronounced to their belter halves lo prove to them that women could keep a secret, and Had skill enough to hide am' have a good time where their wotider lul wiseacres of husbands could not Und them. They succeeded. Although every nook und corner of the town was starched wherever a dozen pretty young wives could hide them selves, and fed themselves, and etjoyed them selves,while their anxious husbands were pass ing and repa-singrofteii within a few feet of them, and none the . iser in regard to their vicinity. We are informed that they made the cuiidy, aud worked it, aud ate in peace; und whether any portion of the " sweetness long drawn out" was reserved to appease the wrath aud disappointment of their tired aud turbulent husbands, we are not posted. The sequel, however, is yet to come. The gay and good humored ladies are to have a turkey supuer as a penally from their obtuse husbands who went poking around with hand lanterns and pootly trained terriers to look out or smell out the hiding-place of a lot of women who could keep a secret. They have got them now safely at home, and have prom ised the dear creatures if thej will not serve them so again they will no more " go to lodge" when it is not lodge, nor go dowo lo " meet a man" whose name they cannot tell, nor have " writing to do," when they should be with their wives and little ones. — Nantucket En quirer. An old lady down East, haviog kept a hired man on liver nearly a -month, said to him one Uay, " Why John, I don't think you like liver. Oh yes, said John, " I like it very well for fifty or sixty uieals, but I don't think I'd like it us a steady diet." The old lady cooked something else for the next meal. VST A Demist is not necessarily mad be cause he shows his teetb. "REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER." Wot Beyond the Power of Love. Mr. Gough, in one of his recent lecturer proceeded to confute the idea that drunkards are so far brutes as to be beyond the power of Christian love, saying : "Mo, tbey are not brutes. I have labored for eighteen years among them, and I have never found a brute. I have had men to swear at me ; I have had a man dance around me as if possessed of a devil, and spit his fonra in my face ; but I never found a man that I would give up. It may take a long time to reach his manhood, but he is not a brute. I thiuk it is Charles Dickens who says, " Away up a great many pair of Etairs, in a very remote corner, easily passed by, there is a door, and on that door is written ' Womau '" And so in the heart of the vilest cuicast, away up a great many paiis of stairs, in a remote corner, easily pass ed by, there is a door upon which is written, 14 man." llere is oar business—to find that door. It may take a long time ; but beirin and knock Don't get tired; but remember God's long ful lering for us, and keep knocking a long time if need be. Don't get weary if there is no an swer ; remember Him whose locks were wet with the dew. Knock on—just try it —YOU try it ; and just so sure, bv and by, will the quivering lip und starting tears tell you, you have been knocking at the heart of a man, and not a brute. It is because these poor wretches are men, and not brute?, that we have hopes for them. 1 once picked up a man io the market place. Tiiey said "He is a brute—let him alone." I took him home with me, and kept the " brute" fourteen days and nights through bis delirium, and lie nearly frightened my wife out of her wits, one night chasing her all about the bouse with a boot in his Lund. But she recovered her wits and be recovered his. He said to me : " You would'ut think I had a wife und child, would you ?" " Well, I shouldn't " " I have, and—God bless her little heart —my little Mary is as pretty a little thing us ever stepped." said the " brute." I asked, " Where do you live ?" " Two miles from here." " When did you see them last ?" '' Two years ago." Then he told me bis 9ad story. I said:— " You must go back again." " I cant go back. My wife is better with out me. I bave struck her and kicked her, and abused her. Can Igo back again ?" I went with him to his house. 1 knocked at the door, and his wife opened it. " Js this Mrs. Richardson ?'' " Yes, sir." " Well, that is Mr. Richardson ; and, Mr. Richardson, this is Mrs. Richardson. Now come into the hout, and it was the woman. But before she spoke she fidget ed a good deal She pulled up her apron tiil she got hold of a hem, and then she pulled it all down again Then she folded it up close and jerked it through her fingers an inch at a time, and she spread it all down again ; and then she looked all about the room and thtn said, " Well, William." " The ' brute' said, " Well, Mary." lie bad a large handkerchief urouod his nrek, and his wile said, " Y>u had better fake the handkerchief (ff, William ; you'll need it when you go out." He began to fumble about it, the knot was large enough ; he could have untied it it he like (J ; but he said : "Will you untie it, Ma ry ?" She worked away at it, but her fingers were too clumsy, too, and she could not get it off While thus occupied their eyes met. The love-light was not all quenched. She opened her arm-* gently and he fell into them. If jou had seen those white arms clasped about his neck, and he sobbing on her breast, and the child looking iu wonder ; first at one and then at the other, you would have said, "It is not u 'brute' but a man with a great, big, warm heart iu his bosom." WINE MORE DEADLY THAN CANNON —Wen dell Philips, in his late address at the Music Hall, said : " I know a soldier in the army of the Poto mac who was picked up in the streets of Phil adelphia one year ago u complete wreck, a confirmed inebriate, but who was by the love of a sister and the charity of a Boston home placed once more on his feet He was at Ball's Bluif, and three times with unloaded tnusket charged upon the enemy. He was one of the six who heroically defended and brought away the body of the fallen lender of th t bloody fight. The captain of the company to which he belonged died iu his arms, receiving the last words of consolation from his lips. He was afterwards conspicuous in the conflict until the orders were given for each one to seek his own safety. Removing some of his apparel he plunged into the inhospitable river, and af ter great exertion landed on the opposite bank, seven miles below the encampment.— Nearly exhausted, chilled, half clad, half-starv ed, he finally reached the camp. The captain of tiie next company to which he belonged, kindly said to him,pouring out a glass of wine, " Let me give you this ; yon will perish with out it." " I thauk you, sir," said the soldier, "but I would sooner tace nil the cannon of the enemy than taste that giass of wine." Cash helps courting along amazingly. It is astonitbing what oysters, suburbad sides, aad bells will do towards expanding the fem inine heart and getting into the parson's house. SS?* A Detroit paper mentions the arrest of a woman in that city, "with DOthing on her person but a hve letter and an ainbro tvpe." Rather a ' poetical' aDd ' picturesque' costume The Wandering Jew. We have often smiled at the strange legend of the " Wandering Jew," accursed for hav ing shown himself without pity for the Son of Man when he was on the point of death ; who was coudemued to a never-eudiug march over the surface of the globe, with his white beard, his piteous air, aod his last remaining coins al ways renewed in his purse. All this is certainly very absurd. But when, in this singular le gend, you recognize the impression that the middle age had formed of the Jewish people, always in motion, always chased from country to country, everywhere prostrated under the malediction which it anciently invoked upon itself, and yet at the same time iodustractible, resisting all evils, gaining money even in pla ces where no one else would have known how to find a penny, always miserable, and yet al ways knowing how to extricate itseif from its troubles—do we not recognize in this legend matter for reflection, and see how wisdom is often found in the mouths of children ? That the above view is the real sense of the legend of the Wandering Jew is shewn by the very different form under which it appears io the East. There the Jew is not a " Wander er," he is " undying," and hence, doubtless, his German appellation, drr cwigtJuilt. He struck Jesus when he was going forth from from Pi late'S place, and said to him, " GOOD, Jesus, on more quickly, what delays you ?" Where upon the Saviour replied, "I go, but you shall wait until my return." In consequence, he could not die, and every time that he was on the poiut of falling beuealh the weight of old age, new vigor seemed to reanimate his limbs, and restores him to the age of thirty, which was his age at the time of crucifictiou. He remained in Armenia, where he lived an ascet ic life, in the hopes of obtaining his pardon.— We here see clearly that in the East, where the people of Israel have long been dispersed and tolerated, the imagination has not been struck as in the West by its unchangeable identity, nmid all religions and |R">htical revo lutions, that the Eastern legend expresses.— That the Jewish propU canuot die, is a truth which all nations have discerned. But if it survives abased in its remorse in the East, it is constantly icavdtrivg in the West. It is evideut that in both forms it is the historic destiny of this people that has served as the basis of the legend. For this reason we can not accept the more modern interpretations which those have given who have wished to regard the legend as the personification of an ti Christian doubt, always unquite, and uever arriving at repose.— Lt Lion. JTFFVISTERIVG ANGELS. —The beautiful • hare gone with their bloom from the gaze of hu man eyes. Soft eyes that maile it spring time iri our hearts ore seeu uouiore. We have loved the 1 ght of many a smile that has faded from us now, and in onr hearts have lingerd sweat voices that now are hushed in the silence of death. Seats are left vacant in our earthly homes, which none again can fill. Kindred and friends, loved ones, tfave passed away one by one ; our hearts are left desolate ; we are lonely without them. They have pussed with their love to " that la'd, from whose bourne no traveller returns." bhall we never see them again ? Memory turus with lingering regret to call those smiles and the loved tones of those dear familiar voices. ID fancy they are often by our side, bat their homes is on a brighter shore. They visit us in our dreams, floating over our memory like shudows over moonlit waters. When the heart is weary with anguish, and the soil is bowed with grief, do they not come and whisper thoughts of comfort and hope ? Yes, sweet memory brings tbeui to us, and the love we bore them lifts the heart from earthly aspirations and we long to join them in that better land.— They hover round os, the ethereal, dear, de parted ones loving and the loved, they watch with eyes that slumber not. When gentle dreams are wandering to the angel land, in whispers wake the hymning strains of that bright and happy choir, revealing many a talc of hope, and bliss, und tenderness, and love. They tell of sunny realms, ne'er viewed by mortal eye—of forms arrayed in fadeless beau ty—and lofty anthems to their great Creator's praise are sounded forth in sweat, seraphic numbers. And this bright vision of the blest dissolves the tumult of life's jarring scenes ; they fade in air, and ttien we glory in the thought that we are heirs of immortality. And why is it that we regard with such deep re verence and IOVP, those bright, celestial beings of another sphere ? Ah, it is because they take an interest in our welfare, and joy over our success in the great bahie of iife. Toey are not selfish iu their happiness, but fain would have us share it with them. GENIUS AND LUBOR. —Alexander Hamilton once said to an intimate friend :—" Men give rue some credit for genius All the genius I have lies just in this: when I have a subject in hand I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort which I make the people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought." Mr. Webster once replied to a gentleman who pressed him to speak on a subject of great importance : " The subject interests me deeply, but I have not time. There, sir," pointing to a huge pile of letters on the table, "is a pile of un answered letters to which I must reply before the close of the session, (which was then three days.) I have no time to master the subject so as to do it justice." " But, Mr. Webster, a few words from you would do much to awaken public attention to it." " If there be so much weight in my words as you represent, is it because I do not allow my self to speak of any subject until my mind is imbued with it." Demosthenes was once urged to speak on a great and sudden cmergeuey. "I am not prepared," 6aid he, and obstinately refused. The law of labor is equally binding in genias and mediocrity. VOL. XXIT. —KO. 44. [For the Bradford Reporter.] I hope it will not be deemed impertinent in me to suy to you that this is a land and age or common schools and common semi*. This is a country of genera! knowledge among the popu lation. It is impossible that any system of Science or Art can stand, in this country,flood ed us it is with intellectual licht, sustained any but real claims to the respect and confi dence of the public. The Science, or Art, that "0. J. C."is try ing to prove, under " The Science of Teach ing," iu your paper of March 6, 1862, is stat ed thus ; " The instincts, the inclinations, the seotimeuts, the intellectual faculties, the dis tinctive characters of humanity owe tbeir exis tauce and their modifications solely to the brain." The principal difference of opinion that no* exist, with iefertnce to this subject, turns upon the queKtiou whether we have proof that the organs of intellect aud of physical phe nomena in general are many in uumber, accord ing to his doctrine, or ought rather, iu the de fect of such evidence, slid to regard the brain as performing its office with one energy aud undivided action ; the continuity of structure rendering this opinion more probable, miles# anything can be proved to the contrary. It is vain to tell the phrenologist that bis doctrine is at variance with the moral sentiments of mankind. This appeal is not to sentiments but to lines and measurements. He has the whole of the braiu at his dispo sal. Whenever a new fact presents inself iu the intellectual or moral constitution of men, ho finds space enough where to locate the new claiment, and furnish it with & domicile and suitable neighborhood. Nor can any one rea sonably object to this mode of sharing out hia domain, or pit ad with effect that such, or such, or such a piece of medullary matter is too small to be competent to a wish or a volition, lo the cerebellum he locates the sexual system.— The cerebellum is found to lessen rapidly in its proportional developments as we descend in the scale of animate beings, without any cor rcsopoding dimunition, and perhaps even with iucreasc iu the propensity. How remarkably powerful is this instinct iu birds, and yet bow small is the cerebellum in these compared with its sire in the human species Again, injuries of the posterior part of the htai are observed to be followed by stupor and loss of memory, indicating the fuuctiou of the cerebellum to bo connected with the exercise of the mental fac ulties rather than of animal propensity. Still the advocates of this doctrine will probably rest ou his alleged experience of uniform coin cidences in iht human specits between qualities of mind and the amplitude of cerebral parts, and within this sphere the phenomena would establish his inference if they were decidedly in his favor. If proportional amplitude iu a given region of the braiu Were always coinci dent with a giv' D quality of mind, the constant counectiou would prove a relation between tho two phenomena. The phrenologist need not go beyond the human species in order to es tablish his doctrines on the busis of experience; but then this experience must be uuiform and unquestionable. It is not enough to have a few chosen coincidences brought forward by xeaioos partizans who go about in search of such facts in favor of this doctrine, and pasa by, or really cannot perceive the evidence that ought to be placed in the opposite scale. The application of the main principle of the system ought to hold throughout. This, however, is uot preteuded by the phrenologists, who aware of numerous and striking exceptions, elude their evidence by asserting that when a certain portion of the cranium and braiu is crreatly developed, while the faculty there lodged has never been remarkably distinguished, it nevertheless existed by nature, though the innate taleut, through the want of cultivation, has failed to be displayed ; the predominant organic power bestowed by nature was never discovered by the owner, thofigh according to the fundamental principle of the doctrine, the natural preponderance of talent and propens ity is alone sufficient to determine the habi tudes of the individual and communicates of itself a strange impulse to particular pursuits. What has all this to do with the science uf teaching ? What has Xo. 3 to do with the science of teaching ? A SCHOOI. DIRECTOR OFTEBRT. IRI>H CUT EN ESS. —One of the sharpest tricks we have heard of being played in these parts was that of an Irishman of our acquuiut&uce. It certainly relieves the Yankees from the odium of driving ail the hard bargains. Pat took the job from a prominent parson of filling up a portion of his grounds with earth. Pat was to receive six dollars a day for the service of himself, horse and cart, till the job was completed,and the parson agreed to furnish las sou to help. Well, Pat tried the experi ment of killing two biids with one stone. He took a cellar to dig in another part of the towu and was to receive six dollars a day for him self, horse and cart in doing the job. But the cream of the joke is, Pat hired the parson's sou out the cellar owner at two dollars and a half a day pocketed the money himself. Pat, thus bad a mighty 14 fat take," he dog the cel lar aud filled the parson's lot at the same time, making twelve dollars a day, and then added two fifty for the labor of the son. If the peo ple don't 4 ' let up " on the Yankees now there's no justice in the world. TFRRIBI.E WARNING.—We se? it stated in an English paper that Miss Burt, of Glasgow, recently broke htr neck in resistiog the at tempt of a young man to kiss her. This is a fearful waruin