ME 03LLAR PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. TOWANDA: Thursday Morning. May 29 |_ 1862, __ Sketch |oetrg. II LIST OF THE KILLED. 1 Mothers who sit iu duu.b terror and tread, Holding that terrible list. . Feaiius U>lo,k leist you see mid the oead The name of the boy you have kissed— Kisscd e'en as those who in anguish aud pain, Kisspretions ta-'es otclay, E'en you.would bal you shuddering lam, That dear oue in grsve rotes a ay J pitty you, sitting with fares as white, " Striving t> Prry the blow ; i know bow ibat name will torture your sight, Can fathom the depth of your woe. "By the pang that rent my desolate heart, By this crushing weight ct despair. I know how you too will shudder and start, Reading that dearly loved name there. tkr.ov ■.■JU'H hush that passionate cry, Thinking ol him as he lies, With beautiful face upturned to the sky, Death veiling the gl orioos eyes " Fighting he fell Does a feeling of pride Lighten your grief as you tbink How brave WH the boy that went from your side- How be would not taller or shrink? The mother's love triumphs. Men call woman weak— Ah. well, perhaps it ia so ! I know there are 'ears e'er, now on my cheek For the boy that's lying so low. I know that I start at each step on the stair. With wistful glance turn toward the door. Thinking, perchance, that my darling is there— Teace, heart, he can come nevermore. But still there's a thought that softens my woe- Above there's a glorified list ; And one day I'll hear with rapturous glow The name of lhe boy I have kissed. Stltftflr (Sale. Tlie lioldero Murder. TYe bs'l dined, and were sitting comfortably alout under tlie half ruined shanty, on the top of' the mount nin "Come, Brad'ey." said Colonel Tbrcop. the elorv /yvc-r, " tell us some, moral, entertaining a'id iusirn five s orv, before we reluru to Saeht m\ 18-ad " " I will," said tlie young lawyer, absently, and s'ari g away to seaward, as if expecting to find his story in the summer haze that veiled all the further half of the Sound, and obscured even the nearer angular outlines of Ka Ik tier's Island, " There's a fiiteularly commanding view ," at last he uddtd, " from this spot it. clear weather " " Go on with your stcry," said Throop "That's what I was cot-idering,"said Brad ley ; "in fact, mv observation in part led me to it.'"' And he proceeded : " You ail remember the ' horrid murder' here in North Guilford -otne years ago ? No ? It was of two singular old English people, Mr. and Mrs Boldero ; I me inner tlie name, be cmne I fancied he might be the senior partner of the Srm of B ildero, Merry weather, Llosan qaet, and Lacy, whom Charles Lamb thanks ia ' T'le Superanuuted Man.' They lived alorie Wilis niece. On a small, solitary farm* in tlie weod\ just over hi re on the east side of Q tin tt.ugli Fond.; keeping house in a si range, mel sneiiuly way, -being known to have and use a considerable quantity of heavy, old fashioned English silver plate, but dressing and eating otherwise on a scale parsimonious almost to misery. Their silver, thcrr reserved and almost sour demeanor, and even the 6lightlv grea'ei expense ol the dress of their handsome niece, as %v II as the lady-like manners of that young person, made tlie neighbors U believe that they hud been people of importance at home, and, U: fpite of all their frugality here, weft immensely rich still, having hoards hi the cellar j or under '.he hearthstone perhaps " Ttiere was also an indistinct rnroor of a •on or nephew of the old mm, whom nobody u*& seen, and indeed nobody knew where the rumor came frotn, who as siad to be a des perate brutal sort of fellow. '* " lie's the murderer," said Throop "Well, alt that was known at the time of 'h® murder was that the poor old couple hud The house was found unirihab one pleasant sumnet morning, hy a neigh or, Kioeaiae on some small couiory errand lor barter or borrowing. Not fiu< iig the old •auy at any of her n.-oal avocations under the stoop, or in the kitchen, lie kuockt d, then waited in, searched all the roons, entering <•-eir heorooiD, on the ground floor, last. Here e f'jund tlie bid clothesturind down, and the } "Jt sutL ieut signs o# the crime—namely, p" clothes and bed ull saturated with V ' OO, J ' le "hce, Miss Leiden, was known to '•soe departed on a visit. Searching all over • touse and premise-, he found elsewhere so much a drop ot blood nor any traces iit dead, and nothing whatever to notice, l ' !ul *ll lite silver was gone, lhw was all, a so, that the authorities foid ascertain ■ and notwithstanding the rigid persevering search kept up by the people - be neighborhood for some days, these facts ® n::ed the sum totul of Information in the matter. 1- was about two years after this, while I a> practicing in New Haven, that the State's ; t# or,,f y f° r New Haven coanty, a leading ', Vr l^ere he,,t ' or me 1° assist him in try c> ", lJe CUjieo ' l^e State vs. Yeuson ; selecting JmiT /'" V ecßase * ie knew I needed even the fee etS *hich would be forthcoming, and bri f°i* ' ,e new at ber and rayseti. His ftbh I iW '" eßs llo ' e sa 'J nothing of the details; term sur P nßetl a "d interested, upon ta rn,!,.? ld °® ce > 10 bear that he supposed the Ytri r ' ° l Mi*. Boldero was this b , '** le fca " e J himself, and that he had ! -'tfc;dau the premise- iu N'orb Guilford v MT ',u T ... lu v* !■ c f;■ i r 1 ?T| ' ~ ~ JjT ■ ~ HZ2 J - J w- was Ito prepare ray testimony and to make up my brief?— Farther consultation with the State's Attor ney did not clear up matters ; for the old gen ' tleinan, I thought, rather put rne off, avoiding to give me any information on the plea of ur- j gent employment, and telling me that King was right ; tor that so fur as he (the attorney) understood, the argument could be made ex tempore, and immediately upon the rendering of tlie testimony, as well as at six months' no tice. With this I was perforce content, and whiied as will us I could, though little coufi dent ui my powers of extemporization. " The morning of tlie trial came, however, ; and I entered the court room, having been pat in communication with the justice who bound over the prisoner, and constable who help ed to seize him ; having received from my sen ior the proper lorinal papets from ilie justice's i court, and being supplied with certain other ijocu tents and witnesses to collateral facts ; but, to my further surprise, King was not vis :hie. On my sating so to the Slate's Attor ney, he remark'd that he supposed not, the morning New York train not having arrived quite yet. At ten o'clock the court entered, and the session was ojteued with the usual absurd shout by Mr. Sheriff. "The case was called on and the prisoner arraigned. He looked sufficiently likely to be j guilty. A s'out built, bullet-headed, hard j f aturtd, sailorly person, with light hair and I ♦ yes, and evil visage, showing signs of much dissipation, and a down iook Upon beinir put to plead he was arraigned by tlie name ot John Juggi r, at which he started pert- ptiblv, ami hesitated a moment, but recovering himsel! j plead 4 Not Guilty' 6tontly enough, an I in a strong, coarse voice. I was prepared to show, ! had he disputed it, I y witnesses und autln-nti : cated copies, that he had, some tiir.e before, proved himself, to the satisfaction of the Pro bite Court of Guilford district, to be John Jagger, the nephew of John Beldero, the de ceased ; that by that name he had taken out ! letters of administration with will annexed, over Bul-iero's estate, alleging that said will (which he prese -ted, all in due form) had been o'aced by Boldero in the custody of himself a mfei.dcd hew (which was, no doubt true ;) ui.d had iu cour-e of law received possession of all the property of Boldero, which he had sold, and hud with the proceeds bought a small sea >ide farm near New London, where lie had since lived ; but had there passed himself off as Hans Yensen, a German by birth, who had earned his money in whaling. '• I now introduced the constable, who proved merely the facts of the arrest —viz : that K ng had to ne to his bou e and advised him thai he had good cuu.-e to suspect acer tain man of having murdered Mr. and Mrs. Boldero, and that he would tie about the plaCt that night to dig np some of his booty, and lould be taken. As a good reward was ofL-r t-d the officer readily undertook the job ; they lay in wait in one corner of the wood yard at a place selected by King, and seized the pris oner, ufter he had come, ns they were expect ing. haj dug a de°p hole close to one of the feu e post*, and hud taken from ; t a large quantity of silver, which was present HI court, us the justice had Sealed it up Upon their seizing him he was at first frightened, then fought furioosly, and only submitted at the sight of a revolver which King presented to IIIUI He had not either the i or afterward made any statement whatever, relative to him self or thp silver, so for as the officer knew. " Upon opening the trunk of plate, a large quantity of pieces, of old fashioned pattern and heavy make were shown to the court and jury j very black with their exposure, but hav-* ing on each piece the name of Johu Boldero aud a coat of arms. "Whl- the silver was nnder inspection, I rose, and wiih some embarrrssment of feelings if not in appearance, requested of the court a short stay of proceedings, on the ground that an important witness was absent. " What witness, Mr. Bradley ?" blandly in quired the gray haired jndge. " 4 Lieutenant Charles King,' I answered, 4 who usfjsted in appreheudmg the prisoner.' 4 4 4 What do you expect to prove, Brad ley,' rejoiued tbe Judge, 4 by Mr. King, furth er tbau tbe testimony of tbe arresting officer ?' PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWAiN'DA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. 0. GOODRICH. "1 really could not tell, and Was somewhat puzzled, which tact was observed by the attor ney for the deteuse—a sharp, unscrupulous old fellow, renowned for defending ' uorse cases' and criminal prosecutions, for jokes and vulvar stories to the jury, quirks and quibbles, and any thing else except convincing logic, fair practice, or moral power—and he at once com menced an impassioned appeal to the Conrt against the slightest delay ; stating that the defense were ready and anxious to go on, and 'hat not a mo uent's delay should be granted fur a fellow who.it could be probably shown, was seeking the blood of an iuuoceut fellow being for the Sake of gain. " Incensed at this dirty aspersior. upon King, I was, not very, wisely, about {threateuing Counselor Yapman—such was his name—with a little slander suit, when my senior tuterrupt ed rne with, ' Hold ap, William ; here's your man !' " lie came, dusty witK his ride, aud with a large parcel or two under his arm, having driven straight from the cars to the court room. I beckoned to him, and nodded to the sheriff ; the officer vociferated, ' Chatles K 1' and the tardy witness, a well made,strong built,straight young man, with a close, dark auburn beard und moustache which he had cultivated since I had seen him, took his place o*i the stand, one side of the space before the Judge's chair, and not very far from either that dignitary, the jury, or the dock w here sullen prisoner sat irr lied, for he had been obstinately and dan gerously violent, close under the wing of the burley sheriff "'Now, Mr. King,' I saiJ, 'will you be good enough to tell tiie court what you know of the prisoner, and of the trausaeuou iu which he is implicated V " What he raid, in answer, was very nearly as follows ; 4 4 4 1 returned from a long cru'se about six weeks ago, having heard noihhg Torn home iu a long time. Upon my return I went at onoe to Mr. Boldero's house, and then for the first time heard of the murder of himself aud wife, and of Jagger's succession to the p r op_-rty and transfer of it Tlie occupants could tell me nothing of Miss Seldeu ; and 1 therefore made inquiries of a Mr. Bulpiu, an old justice of the peace, Mr. 80l ero's nearest neighbor, und peihaps his most intimate acquaintance. Jus tice Buipiu informed me of Miss Seidell'? whereabouts ; and also placed in my hands a will, of which the prosecution hat e an authen ticuted copy, and which is of later date under which J agger's claimed. This will revoked all former wills, and left all the real and per sonal property, su'j-ct to Mrs. Boldero's iif interest, to .\l;.-s Selden. I was shortly after ward married to her, having bee i engaged to her for some time ; and at once brought suit ugainst Jagger lor the value of the property which is siill pending. I had occasion to meet him in New Loudon on business connected with this suit, and on that occasion it was that a circumstance occurred winch caused me to re eo_M><7,- the prisoner as guilty of the murder — 41 What was the circumstance? .Sharply askt d Mr. Vupman.as King paused aud looked keen ly at the prisoner. Jagger looKeb up sullently and defiantly, yet with H certain expression of curiosity, at him for a moment, and then down aga 11, iu silence. " ' The witness will be in yonr hands im mediately, brother Yapman,' interrupted the State's Attorney- 4 let him tell his own sto ry " ' 44 Yapman would have insisted, but the Judgi silenced him, aud King resumed : 44 4 We came to no agreement about the suit ; but my suspicions were much excited by Jaggei 's behavior, aud I employed an officer to watch him,who soon brought me word that he had overheard Jagger making certain ar rangements with a companion, and upon a given mgbt was intending to dig up certain silver to sell it, and to leave the country, for lue reason that he believed he should lose the suit against birn A certain other circum stance, which I will mention immediately, caused me to believe that 1 knew where this silver would be dug, ami by lying iu wait at the place accordingly 1 secured him with it in his possession. 44 'I now pioceeded,' coutinurd King, 4 t o narrate the circumstances of which I was an eye witness, which will explain the references which I buvee twice mad thus far to circum stances which caused me to rtcoguize the pris oner.' 44 As he said this, the witness, who had hitherto been addrexsiug himself to the Judge, turned himself so as to look directly at the prisoner ; and his voice changed,and he spoke with a deliberate solemnity and a tone of pity and -orrow which showed that lie felt himself to lie breatbiug away the life ol man. I un consciously turned to like manner from the prisoner, and so, I thtuk, did erery person iu tiie court room. 4 4 4 Ou this 30th of June,' said King, 44 in the year I4—, between tbe hours ot hall' past tour and ave, John J auger—, 44 King stopped a moment, struex by the ftarlui sudden look toward hnn of the prison er ; and the pail, sickened terror of his face, as bis jaw dropped and he stared at the wit ues?, appalled ut this quiet fixing almost of the of his critnc.did uot, I think, leave either juryman or spectator a 9hadow of doubt that the murderer was before him: aod a smothered sound that was almost a groan arose from all of us. The gray haired Judge, Lis kiadiy voice trembling with emotion, said, 44 Mr. King, the Coort is cot in doubt of yonr nenre ol your responsibility; yet it thinks it its duty to adtnouish you that you are now to say what may dispose of tbe preseut aud tbe tuture of a human son!.' 44 I atu not sure that those words should have ' been said ; yet 60 profoundly awake were we all to the uncouscious silent profu sion, I might almost cull it, of the criminal,as if it had tnade the very air of the quiet old court-room suddenly heavy with revelations of guilt aod death, that no sense of improprie ty occurred to us ; and King, merely bowing silently, but turuing again to the pnsouer.pro ceeded ; and Jagger, at the bar, stili gawd " REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER." with that horrible fear upon bis face, as if within the sphere of a fatai magnetism. " 4 Between tbe hours of half past four aud five, John Jugger came from the back door of Mr. Doldero's house, went a dozen of step info the back yard,turned about, and shook his right hand at the house with a peculiar and characteristic gesture of angry passion.—- After a moment or two he dclibeiately took two sacks from a repository under tlie shed, and entered the hi use with them. He short ly came out again, hvin&g upou bis shoulder tlie body of Mr. Boldero in one of the saeks, aud this he carried through the yard, through the woods between ilie house and the pond,and placed it in Mr. Boldero's skiff, which was made fast to a tree. Theu he returued, aud ; in like manner disposed of the body of Mrs. Beldero. Then be cast off the boat, t:ok one of the oars, aud, standing up, sculled out into the pond to a point about a third of the way across, wlier he sank tbe bodies, and then re turned As he stood up iD the boat to return, he made use of the same gesture of anger or excited passion. lie made the boat fast at the tree, returned to tlie house, entered it, shortly crme out with the silver in his hand proceeded to a corner of the wood yard,dug a deep hole close to nud under one of the posts, and there concealed the silver, smoothing the ground over, aud leaving it covered with rub bi-h, as it was before. And then lie passed round tbe house, aud went away down the road. " 4 Mr. Boldero had two prominent front teeth, fellows, and with a gold filling on tlie inside of each, corresponding with that in the other. He had ouce fractured his collar bone, and, having been unskillfuliy set, the portions had itor at the house of Mr. Boldero, where my present wife was living A day or two before that time I had received orders to join the stpumer with widen I had lately returned, and hud left Miss Stlden.who was also on the point of leaving home for a viit of some length to some friends to the eastward. Being uncertain whether she was yet gone, and being too much employed iu Contemplating some computations aid draw ings connected with the U. S. Coast Survey to go the house again, 1 was that morning watching it, to see her again, knowing her de parture would be at a very early hour. 44 One ot the main points iu the triangula tion of the coast of Ceuuecticut was upon the summit of xhe steep aiid buhl mountain called Toket.ond sometimes Baiff Head,which rises immediately from the western edge o. Quinebagg Fond. I had been encamped there some litne, and—as I had often doiie be fore — I was looksng across the pond with a telescope at Mr Beklero's house. It was by means of this instrument that I observed all the movements of Jagger. At the line 1 took him to be Mr. Boldero hiuiscif, for his (Loire is much the same, although he wore a red shirt, which I had never seen Mr. Boldero do. For this reason mysnspci D' were not then excited ; nnd though I thought his pro ceedings a little uncommon, my inind wu.- mucft preoccapied wiih my work, tlie cruise upon which I was ordered, and the lady whom I was wishing to see—and I knew him to be a singular oian. I therefore suppose>d that he was merely adjusting the fence ;n the corner ; and as I knew that Mr. Boldero was in the habit of carrying corn in his skiff to the mill at the outlet of the pond, I at first supposed that to be his errand, and aflewurd took it for granted that he hud chosen to dis pose of some waste material or other by sink uig it in the poud." 44 Such was the testimony of King ; and here the prosecution rested. Mr. Yapman cross-examined him with no effect and ufter a mere brief summary of the proof on my part, aud a singularly feeble answer from him, the case went to the jury, who, after fifteen min utes' deliberation, brought in their verdict, as every oue expected, of 44 Guilty of murder iu tbe first degree.' " 44 I ought to give you a collateral item or two, to fill out some details. The old justice, Bulpin, bad retained Boldero's will, without even meotioniug its existence, daring all Jag ger's proceedings under the previous one, in accordance with a strict constructing of the uid gentleman's instructions to biui at placing it in his cliarge." 44 Tbe neighbors, in their search for the liodte" of .Mr and Mrs Boldero, would have found them had they dragged tbe pond. But this dots not have occurred to them, as there is an ancient and received tradition in tbe vicinity that a certain large crta of it, lying opposite the mountain, is nnfathomatde —an account, by the way, which is almost in variable current, and religiously believed, near any rustic lakelet. They say the same of the Clack Fond, iu Middlcfield ; of the little lake on the summit of Tulcott Mountain, west of Hartford. 44 It appeared afterward that quite an ela borate scheme of defence had been concocted by Jagger or his counsel, which, however,was rendered useless by tin? unexpected and over- j whelming directness of King's testimony, and by the effect ot it and of the boues so sudden ly exhibited upon the prisoner. This defense j was to have consisted mainly in the testimony j of a fellow who was to have sworn to having ' been iuformedofthc place where the silver was j buried, while at sea, by a sailor, who died and 1 who was to have teen made out the niur- 1 derer." Thus ended the lawyer's story. 44 Now," sa : d he, risit g, " come this way." and see how plainly we can see the farm.' We followed Itiin to a point at the eastern brow of the .'ifountaiu, where it fails, in one steep slope, dowu to the water's edge of thed<-cp pocd.aud looked where lie pointed. The farm lay ap parently within a stone's throw—a lonely, square clearing; a faint smoke ri-ing from one chimney ; and all around it the thick woods, dm k green with the latter summer, spread si leutly out for miles. Not another house wus in sight all along that side of the long, sileat >heet of of deep, black water. 44 The place is very lonely," he added "On any ordinary computation of chances it was perfectly sale to go aud murder two oid peo pic there early iu the morning. Jagger had come iu from sea. aud only waited about un til he found that the old couple were aloDe.— He knew nothing of the Coast Survey opera tions there. lie justified, mathematically speaking, in believing himself quite uuseeu.— Tnis side of the pond is still more lonely than that. No human being coo Id have reconed upon the presence ot a detective hiddt-u at this distance, and upon this lofty,solitary spot and ariucJ with such an effectual auxiliary." JOHN MORGAN THE REBEL SCOUT.— The Nashville corre-pondent of the New Y>-rk Timrs lias the following in regard to a noted rebel cbitttaiu. The name of this mysterious marauder is on the lips of every one, for his d iring coolness ai.d disregard of fear has be come a by-word even among our own army This Col John Morgan, for so he styles liirn self, is said to be a native ot Lexington, Ky , whose I'alber was a respectable manufacturer of jeans. From his yo ith, this Morgan has wou the admiration of ull who knew him for his dare devil recklessness, which even now does not seem to have diminished in tbe least. We first heard of him when onr brigade (the Eighth) was, a portion of them, encamped at Filot Knob, in Mo, in September last. Our pickets were shot by some mysterious ager.cv, and report stated in camp, that a tall, heavy"man wi'b flowing lieatd. mounted on an immense black staiiion, fleet as the wind, was several times detected in the act of retreating Shot after shot was fired after him, but he seemed to bear a charmed life. We lost sight of him until just before we left Cairo, when he appeared one uigbt suddenly and shot two of our pickets. Again he appeared at Bacon Creek. Ky . and burnt the railroad bridge un der McCpo k's nose, shot on of li s pickets, and rode off before t e nrmy had recovered froei its surprise. You remember Ins bold attack u. on our lines on Saturday, the Blii of March, in Mitchell's division, and again o:i Sunday morning, at caylight, upon McCook's camp, ou the Franklin pike. The very same Sunday, this Morgan, dis guised as a countryman, and dressed in bultir nut colored clothes, obtained a pas from Gen. Mitchell, who did not know him, and had the audacity to dint at the City Hotel in company with our own officers, making good his escape with perfect nonchaler.ee. lie came very near capturing Gen. Nelson cnc day last week. The plot, was discovered in time to be frustrated, but not to catch tlie rogue. He has since cup tared the railroad train running between Lou isyille aud Nashville at Gallatin, taking thirty bridge builders prisoners, bit releasing thena, as he seeks higher game. He has boasted he will catch one of our Generals as an off-et to Buckner's especial favorite. lie has offered a reward.of SI,OOO to any citizen or officer who will catch him and his steed, and, sTango to say, disguised, bos made these bets openly be fore our officers, who at tbe t;me did not Kn w him. Such is Col. Morgan, the famous rebc-l -coat, who, though he deserves hanging, yet w ins admiring opinions Item euemies as well as friends fur his daring. HUMAX IJFE —Men seldom think of the great event of death until the shadows fall across their own path, hiding forever from ; their eyes the traces of loved or.es whose liv ing smiles wore the sunlight ot their existence. Death is the great antagonist of life, and the cold thought of tbe tomb is the skeleton of all feasts We do not want to go through the dark valley, although its passage may iead to paradise, and with Chrles Lamb, we do pot want to lay down in tbe mnddy grave, even with kings and priDce3 for onr bed fel lows. But the fiat of nature is inexoraMe. There is no appeal from the great law which dooms us to dust. We flourish and lade as the leaves c* the forest j and flowers that bloom and wither in a day have no* a frailer hope upon li 4 'e than the mightest monarch than ever stvnk the earth with his footsteps. Generations of men appear and vanlfch as the grass, and the countless multitudes wfiieb fills the world to-day, will to morrow doappeur as tbe footsteps on the shore VOL. XXII.- —KO. 02. " THE Bin. POSTER'S DRF.AM "—OUC of the shrewdest and most watrs^ish comical engrar* ! ings coneettable, has just heen published by Ross & Tousey.of New York, nnder the above title A bill poster with tailored garments, has fallen asleep by a gas lamp post at a street corner, with meershnnm p jrf> io hand, and paste piil and " posters', standing by.— Before him rise 9 a shed, covered with bills of all styles, in white, red, yellow and bine pa lter, posted over and under each other in all shapes, and it is upon the quaint readings which their combination makes, that the wit depends. They are, for instance, " Peoples Candidate for Mayor,—The Hippopotamus;" " Miss Cnshman wiil take—Brandreth's pills through by daylight;" " Henry Ward ! Bencher's— Grand Tight R.ope Performance at the Melon eon;" For Sing Sing direct— Fernando Wood;" " Restorative for the Hair—use Spaulding's Glue;" " The Ameri ! cau Temperance Society will—try Billing era Londou Coruial Gin;" " Edward Everett ' —will open in a few day a new—oyster saloon j at the—coal yard;" " Republican nomination i for Mayor—Miss Lucy Stone—or any other ! man " Fashion Course, Great Match be tween Ethan Allen and—the Fa't woman TIMOTHY TCCOMB OX DEACON-S. —Dr. Hol land, of the SprinsrSeld Republican, is dowu' upon the sour kind ot deacons ; be likes a whole soulcd man, and thinks the lugubrious | sort of reiigiouists are a serious injury to the reputation of genuine Christianity. Tie says, i " I have seen a deacon in the pride of his deep humility. He combed hi- hair straight, and looked studiously after the main chance ; and while he looked, he employed hioutlf in setting a good example, ilia dre : s wa3 ligidly plain, and his wife was not indulged in the vanities of millinery and mantau-making. He never joked. He did not know what a joke was, any further than to know that it was a sin.— He carried a Sunday face through the wrek. He did not mingle in the happy social parties of his neighborhood. He was a deacon He starved his social nature because he was a dea con. He refrained from ail participation in a free and generous life because he was a dcacou. He made his children h .te Sunday because ho was a deacon. He so brought them up that they learned to consider them-elves unfortu nate in being the children of axieacoD. They were pitied by other children because they were the children of a d acou. His wife was pitied by other women btccu=e she was the wife cf a deacon. Nobody loved liirn. If he came into a circle where men were laughing or telling stories, they always stopped until be went out. Nobody ever grasped his band cor dially. or slapped bioi on tuesbouider, or spoke of him as a good fellow, lie seemed as dry and hard end tough as a piece of jtrked beef. There was 110 softness of character —tiojuci- ness—no loveliness in him. " Now it is of no use for me to undertake to realize to myself that God admires such a character ua this/' NOT G F.N'ERALT.Y FVN'OWN. —Martin Tan Buren is the only man who held the offices of President, Vice President, Minister to Eng land, Governor cf his own State, and member of both Houses of Congress, Thomas II Bsntcn is the only man who has held a seat in the United Stales Senate for 30 consecutive years. The only instance of father and son in the United States Senate at the same time, is that of Hon Henry Dodge, Senator from Wiscon sin, end bis son, Augustus C. Dodge, Senator from lowa. Gen James Shields is tbeoulyraan whoever represented two States in the United States Senate. At one time be was Senator from Illinois, and subsequently Senator from Min nesota. John Quincy Adams held position under the Government duriug every Administration from that of Washington, to that of Polk— during which he died He bad been Minister to England, member of hoth Houses of Con gress, Secretary of State, and President of the United States. He died while a member of the Honse of Representatives. The only instance where three brothers oc cupied seats in the lower House at the same time, was vvhtn Eiihu I>. Washburne repre sented the F:r-t District in Illinois, Israel Washburne, Jr., the Third District in Maine, and Cadwalladet Washburne the Third Dis trict cf Wisconsin. LOVE FOR THF DEAD. —The love which survives the tomb," says Irving, " is oue cf the noblest attributes of the scul. If it has its woes, it has likewi-.c its delights ; and when the overwhelming burst of grief is calmed into the gentle tear of recollection } when the sudden anguish and the convulsed agony over the present rains of all that we u.oat loved, is softened away into pen&.ve med itation on all that it w3 in tha days oi .ta loveliness—who wonld root ont sncli a sorrow from the heert ? Tboogh it may sometimes throw a passing cloud over the bright boar of gloom ; yet who would exchange it even for the c ong of pleasure, or the burst or revel ry ? No ; there is a voice from the tomb sweeter tli an song ; there is a remerabrar.efl of the dead to which we turn even from lbs charms of the living." PCHK WATER. —Watdt, which has 'oera EX* posed for a long time to the action of the at mosphere, is unfit for culinary purposes or to bo drank. It should be remem'n.Ted that cold water, even if kept well iced, is rendered only the more capable of absorbing a!! surrounding gases. Thus a pitcher of iced water in a warm room will soon become -o fuut as to lie unGc for use ; it will receive its own bulk readily of carbonic acid, and many tunes its bu k of am monic'al gases. Wa'er should, therefore, be frequently renewed ; end that which - *has re mained IU the house all night, should ucv.er b© tisid lor culinary purposes iu the morning. C. S. A.— Hoggs wants to know whether this don't mean ""Cussed Soon Annihilated."