Br HENRY J. STAHLE 38T h YEAR. TERMS OF THE COMPILER. rtg"The Republican Compiler is published very Monday morning, by 11.6NItY J. &MILE, t $1,75 per annum if paid in advance-52,00 per annum if not paid in advance. No sub -cription discontinued, unless at the option of 5 .5, • . Aoystatsnstswrs inserted at the usual rates. Joe Wtins done, neatly, cheaply, and_with dispatch. ' (Office on South Baltimore street, direct ly'opposite Wa►npler's Tinning Establishment, one and a half squares from the Court House.. VALUABLE PROPERTY AT - Private Sale. THE undersigned will sell at Private Sale that desirable _property,' in MeSherrys town, Conowago township, Adams county, Pa., lying on the public toad running through said place. It contains Ten Acres, more or less, of first rate land, adjoining lands of Dr - . -- 11. N. Lilly, Saniiiel and Joseph Staum baugh, and others, and is finely improved.— There is a large Two-story BRICK .-,, c 4 e „. D W ELLI NG, with a Two-story Brick: ; I v , ;II Back-buiiiiing, fronting on the street, and nearly opposite the public house of John Bushy, Esq., a 'good Log Barn, an Orchard of choice fruit, a good well of water, and other improvements. Possession given. on or • before theist day of April next, a's may be desired. If not sold, the property will be FOR IENT. Persons wishing to view the premises will call on John Busby, Esq. MICHAEL HERRING. Nov - . 2G. 1855. tf PUBLIC SALE. THE subscriber having determined to dis continue farming, will offer at Public Sale, on Tuesday, the Blh-day of Januory,lBs6, at Samuel D. ltiddlemoser's Hotel., in Mid dletown, at I l o*.plock, A. M.. aliout' 420 Acres of prime Middletown Valley Land, divided into two Farms, First, the HOME FARM, containing 220 Acres of prime land, in a high state of cultivation, situated mile. East of Middletown, on tha TUrnpike ,Road (epilog. to Frederick. The • improvetbents consist of a com pod ous land su bsta ti al BRICK 11 - fitr7iE, neatly built, containing five Rooms on the lower floor, and live on the second story, together with an extensive Kitchen and Back-building. This 'is one of the finest Farm Houses 'in Frederick county, having been built out of the best material and at a-cost of some six thousand dollars. Also a fine Weatherboarded HOUSE, for tenant, Blacksmith Shop and Log House, Quarter for Negroes, large Switzer Barn, 80 feet by 40; Wagon Shed, two Corn Houses,' Carriage nouse, Wood' House, Meat House, large Spring House, with neverfailing Spring of pure water, with a Fountain of pute water itn mediately in front of the Dwelling, and con venient to the Tenant Houses. Also, a large Granary - with Stable attached, for the stabling sd forty hervi-of Horses. This most desirable and productive Farm is divided into eight fields, all under good fencing, a considerable portion of which is Post and Rail, and well watered.—About 10 Acres of' w hich are in ex cellent Meadow, and about 20 Acres are in Wood, well covered with Hickory, White 'Oak and Black-Oak. The location is unsur passed for health, and convenient to Schools and Churches, and in an excellent neighbor hood. FARM No. 2, adjoining the Home Farm, and on the North side of the Turnpike, con tains 193 licres, more-or less, of the same quality of land as the above descrihed Farm. The improvements on this Farm consist of a large and comfortable Weatherboard• . ed DWELLING HOUSE, larae Switzer Barn, 85 by 40 feet, with ~.g double Threshing Floor,i;orn onse, •::: Wagon Shed, Carriage House, Quarter for Servants, Smoke House, floe Spring House, with neverfailing Sprin, convenient to the Dwelling.. This Farm is divided into eight fields, all under good fencing, much of which is Post and Rail, and is well watered—about 12 Acres are in first-rate Meadow. • The improvements on both Farms are. in first-rate repair. Teams :—One third of the purchase money to pe paid in cash on the day of sale, and the balance in, two equal annual payments, the deferred payments to be secured by the notes or bonds of the purchaser or purchasers, bear ing interest from day of sale, and with sezuri tty to be approved. by the subscriber. kt. OZ:r Possession will he given on the Ist day of April next. JOHN S. 11 , 101"1'Eft. D c. 10, 1855. is I:l7'Gettysburg Compiler, and Talley Spirit, Chambers_ burg, pa., copy till sale, mark cost and send bill to this Office for collection —Fanta:,nicK CITIZEN% Caledonia Iron. FA HIST ESO C K BROTHERS., having the exellisive sale of CALEDONIA ROLL ED IRON Cor Gettysburg - , would call the at tention of buyers to this make of Iron—the best in the market—which will be sold at the lowest rates. Wt, keep a large supply of HAMMERED IRON constantly on hand. Call at .the sign of the . RED FRONT. Dec. 10, 1855. Lost and Found! AT THE CHEAP CORNER, mimm=a • • • inter Goods, F every description, will he sold very low j for cash. Al so a variety of F. 41-1 W and RE.intr- M.IJ)E CLOTHING, very cheap. Call and see. Gettyshnvg, Oct. 29, 1855 Flour ! Flour ! TF-11: tindersirrited continues the Flour bits iness as heretofore. Ile sells by the ty.---13y- tak SMALL ettorrrs he can tiny as high and sell as low as anybody else, and by always endeair wing, to keep nose but the he,t, be hopes to tnerit and receive a continuance of liberal pa tronacre. %V M. GIL 1, ES I' E. Oct. 8, 1835. At the Pust Office. 7 H E &wives: DONIESTIO . GOODS ever 11 brfiegfit in Gettysburg. Coate and sue, ittnd ire fur y_ourselv kLL and see 1: A 1-1 EsTo cRS cheap C 1.0 ri-IS, t; ”“innues, Cassinets, &c., ii you want Bargains. auiilij itritopam----Pruntal Itgriniltarr, fitrraturr, Orts jilnrkrts, ogrurrat Eumrstir ,farrign 3ittttligrurr, 3lutrtisiag, kr. JOHN HOLE. J. S. GR A 11:‘1 ER. etio ice poctrn. My Home. I have tasted each varied pleasure, I hare danced to the gayest measure, - In the halls of dazzling light ; I have dwelt in a blaze of splendor, And,stood in the courts of kings ; I have snatched at each toy that could render More rapid the- flight of Time's wings. But vainly I've sought for joy or peace, In - that light of life and shade; And I turn with a sigh to my own dear home—. The 'home where my childhood played. When jewels are sparkling around rue, And dazzling with their rays, 1 weep for the ties that bound me . On life's first early days; I sigh for one of the sunny hours, Ere day was turned to night— For one of my nosegays of fresh wild flowerS, liistead of my jetrels bright. I weep when I gaze on the scentless buds Which can never bloom or fade; '- And I turn with a sigh to those gay green fields— 'l'he home where my childed played. NES. NORTON. Oclert Death and Vanity. The St. Louis Herald says some of the fash ionable' ladies of that place, o*ing to an excess of vanity, in order to give tone and permanency to their complexion, or, as they say, "to im prove their complexion,"_ are in the habit of taking arsenic in small doses. Within the past week two ladies of that city, members of wealthy families, and ladies of fashion, have died very suddenly. Their nearest friends and relatives say that they were "arsenic eaters :" but in order to guard against scandal, the real cause of their death has not been made public. however, those same persons do not hesitate to say privately, that an over-dose of arsenic was the real cause of their death.— Vanity must-indeed-be an almost uncontrolla ble passion with persons who, to gratify it. will hazard their very existence. There is no doubt of the fact that this practice is general among our fashionable butterflies at least, to such an ex tent as to . bedome alarmin g We think, how ever, it is a fortunate thing that these vain creatures die. for what miserable wives and mothers -they would make if Providence per mitted them to live !—Phila. Sun. MELANCHOLY PRESENTIMENT AND ITS SAD FULFILMENT.--We have to record a most Mel ancholy instance of the power of hallucination over the mind and health of a highly respects- hie and intelligent your. lady of Kinderhook, N. Y., who some two years since, while in the enjoyment of robust health,, was visited one night at her bedside .(as she affirmed at the time) by an apparition, which in solemn ac cent informed her that at the age of eighteen she would be au- inhabitant of another and a better world. She made the incident known to her Mother, who vainly endeavored to erase the circumstance from the mind of her daugh ter by treating it as the hallucination of a dream. The daughter, however, averred that she was in - possession of her faculties and wide awake at the time of receiving her. spiritual visitor ; and such was• the effect it had upon her mindAhat, a girl full Of life and glee, she became thoughtful and reserved, and gradual ly sunk under its depressing influence, pining gradually until recently she became a tenant of the grave-yard just as she was entering upon her eighteenth year.—Kinderhook Rough Soles. A TERRIBLE CASE OF HYDROPHOBIA.,—Abort two weeks since a lat;O:ling man named Corne lius Wurze. a German, employed by a farmer on Clove road, near Flatbush, had one of his thumbs bitten by - a small dog on the place. The wound healed in a few days, and no par ticular attention was paid to it, but on Thurs day last unmistakable evidences of hydropho bia were seen. and on Saturday the unfortunate man was taken to the King's County Hospital in' a state of ravine madness, in which condi tion he remained for most of the time until Sunday, when nature becoming completely ex hausted he died. When first brought to the Hospital he was secured to a bed by strong straps. but these he broke loose fr:om with the utmost ease, and it required the strength of four able-bodied men to manage him at all. As it was, he succeeded in biting his male nurse in the arm through his coat sleeve,so as to draw blood. Dr. Turner. of the Hospital. has taken the nurse under his charge. and he anticipates no serious consequences from the bite.—. New York Times. PAPER PLANT IN WiscoNsiN.-111rs. A. 11. BF:AC . 3IONT. of Arena, furnishes the Boston Post a. description of a plant discovered in Wis. consin, and also samples of cotton and of flax from the same plant, which she describes as follows: "I discovered, two years ago, a plant that yields both cotton and flax from the same root, and I believe I am the first person that ever cultivated, spun, and knit from it. lam per suaded that any article that will make as good cloth as can be made from this plant will make good paper ; hence I call it the paper plant. It can- be planted in the spring and cut in the fall or winter. It bleaches itself white -stands, and-u it I 3 ield .iands T . J .east three orfour tons to the acre. From a single root that I trans planted last spring there grew twenty large stalks, with three hundred and live pods. (con taining. the cotton.) with at least sixty seeds in each. From this root. I obtained seven ounces of pure cotton and over halt' a pound of flax. It is a very heavy plant, and grows from six to seven feet high." 'Lindley Murray. the celebrated gramma rian. was horn in 1745, within the _presen_t iituits of Lebanon county, in this State, in East Hanover toll nship. on the ,Swatat a. then in Lancas:ter cctwty. His father was original ly a miller. bi,t, sub-egorntly became a tner ' , roam. Lindley sturbui law, and practiced in New York. lie sule:equently removed to Eng land, where he lived forty-two years. and died in iorksire, aged opwards of O. Ilk gram mar was first published in 17:35. lie was a Quaker, and had the sin ,. lar_re•ulatiou to New York of -an honest lawyer." Woman—the last and best of the series : if we may have her fur a ttiast, we won't ask for any but•ker. GETTYSBURG, PA. A Wrong Calculation. Mr. Sparrowgrass. a city •man of means." hiving retired to the country to live. relates his experience in rifral life in a pleasant article in Putnam's Magazine. The following anec dote forcibly illustrates Mr. S'§. knowledge of Our neighbor has been making an improve= ment in his house. He has had a drain made in the kitchen with a long cess-pool at the erd of his garden. The object of it is to carry off the superfluous water from the house. It was a great, convenience, he said, '•on wash 'days." One objection migh' be urged, and that was, after every heavy rain he found a gully in his garden path, and several cart-loads of gravel in his cess-pool. Besides, the pipe was of an equal width, and one obstruction led to another; sometimes it was a scrubbing brush, a piece of soap; and a handkerchief. I said that if he had made a square wooden trough, gradually widening from end to end, it would have cleared itself, and then I thought it would be d thing for me to have such a one myself. trim I .had a cess-pool built at the bottom of the wall, 'under the bank, which is about one kindred and fifty fut.from the kitchen, and told my carpenter to make a trough of that length - . The carpenter, asked eight how big I wanted it. I told him about eight inches in diameter at the end nearest the house, and then gradually "widening all the way fur the whole length. As I said this my carpenter smiled, and said he never heard of such a thing. I told him no, that the idea was an original one of my own. Ile asked how much I would like to have it widened. I thought for a moment, and said “about half an inch to the loot." He said very well, and the next week he came with a pair of horses and an edifice in his cart that looked like a truncated shot tower. I asked what it was. He said it' was the big end of my pipe. When he biid it on the ground, on its side, I walked through it, and could not touch the upper . side with my hand. Then I asked the carpenter what he meant by it, and he said it was made according to directions. I Said not at all, that I told him to increase the diameter at the rate of half an inch to the foot, and he had made- it about a foot. to the foot as near as I could judge. "Sparrowgrass," said he, a little' nettled, "just take your pencil and note down eight inches. Well, that's the diameter of the small end, I believe." I told the carpenter he w ..N o w every foot there's an inch to the width—that directions too, aiut it ?" "Ye.,." “Well then put down one hundred and fifty half inches. how much does that wake altogeth er in feet ?” •Six feet three inches." "Now, just take my rule and measure the big end of that pipe." "Carpenter," said I, "I • see it all ; the next time I build an aqueduct I will be more care ful in the figures. "Sparrowgrass." said be. pointing to the pipe, "didn't you tell we that .was an original idea of your own 1" - - I answered that I believed I did make a re mark of that. kind. "Well," said he, with a sort. of muffled laugh, "that's the first time I ever seeu an original idea come out at the big end." - Job and Tobacco. A learned pedagogue at Nantucket used every morning to read passages in the Bible. and - expound the same as he proceeded, in order that by asking questions as to how much they remembered of his comments, he might ascertain who were the bright boys of the school. On one occasion he read from the book of Job thus : "'‘There was a man in the land of — Uz. - and his.name was Job, who feared God and eschew ed Eschewed- evil ; that is :, he eschewed evil as I do tobacco--lie would have nothing to do with it." With this very clear and forci ble elucidation of the word "eschew," he pro ceeded, until a number of verses were read and commented on in a similar clear and lutel gent manner. After a long interval, when the young mind had time to digest its food, the pedagogue call• ed upon one of the youngest boys, and the fol lowing dialogue ensued : "Who was the man who lived in Uz." "Job." "Was lie a good man ?" "Yes." "What did he do ?" "lie chewed tobacco, when nobody else would have nothing to do with it !" was Bob Lb lines' answer. The boy was permitted to take his seat AN A PrECTING APPEAL.—An unfortunate editor in Kentucky . thus addresses his delin quent subscribers : "Friends, we are almost penniless—Job's turkey was a millionaire com pared with our present depressed treasury.— To-day, if the price of salt was two cents a barrelful, we couldn't buy enough to pickle a jay-bird." It is understood that the dress-snaking business is about to be incorporated with coopering. A number of-aactive coopers will be required to hoop the ladies' petticoats ; the model of female elegance being now a molasses cask or beer barrel. BAGG AG F. MAST Elt.—Mtnnio Myrtle closes her last letter to the New York Timps fm aratoga, as follows : "I heard one lady say she married for no other reason than to obtain a baggage master ! and he, of course, married for the sake of the baggage he was to superin tend." DAD TO CHEW. —A little child ()lour argnain tance was rendered seriously ill last week by chewing a *handsome enamelled ball ticket. which as mother had given it to play with. For the benefit of those who do nir, know, we would state that the enamel oa these cards -contains a rsrtic . 1 -1.1 , .. 51un Bee. ILL-I'EE.I,INi; IN THE CRIMEA--KOzstiuth says. in a lelVl the N. Y. Times: have the most positive information that the French and the English arc on the worst pos•i`,ie term; in the Crimea. Neither men nor officers cultivate familiar intercourse. The French treat the Eng with supercilious haughtiness since the Regan affair. just the English hate treated the Turii.i from the be ginning." _L__. / ' -7--- *The project which was on foot to make omelets out of •egg coal," we learn has been abandoned. "TRUTT! itz, )!GATT; AgD WILL P1L1CV:4,11.." MONDAY, DEC. 31, 1855. Arkansas Snipe. ''Good bye ! Take care of yourself, and give those bears particular fits ! ' sung out Dory, as the plank of the steamboat on which we were bound down the Mississippi was drawn in, and we left our -friend" Mlnree--;•-one night last winter on the wharf boat at Napo leon, Arkansas. We shmild have left him in pitch darkness had it not been for the pitch-pine tights which shed a halo of glory around his head. and the tail of his Newfoundland dog. They were hound up the Arkansas River on a bear hunt. A more whole-souled man, or a finer dog. never walked—although a Scotch terrier 'ts a better dog for bears—and as we left him be hind, there was a sense of something lost. In order to find composure and till up the vacuum, we adjourned to the Exchange or So cial Hall of the steamboat to take a -snifter." On entering the favoredremion we were at once made 'aware of the fact that the Rackensack iaris at Napoleon considered a fair ‘;exchange" no robbery ;- in payment of our Roland of a Monroe they had given us an Oliver of an Ar kansian. lie was ,a beauty. Straight as 'a hickory sapling, and fully as tough, he seemed to be just the stufTthat red-eye whiskey-barrel hoops are made of—water-proof at that. Ile was already a firm friend of the barkeeper. having taken two drinks inside of ninety sec onds, and as he still wore a thirsty look in his left eye, we at once asked him to take another. ...Stranger." said he, "count me in that'!" Su we *did, and after thinks all round, we settled aboutithe stove with cigars. Conver sation soon fell on hear-hunting, deer-hunting, and finally was closed up with a description of a "mighty big coon-hunt," wherein our friend put aurae whisky hors du combat, or out of harm's way—cut down an untold number of- cotton wood or pekan trees. and pitched into a live oak till he made dead wood of it : and finally 'killed; on that one, night, one hundred coons.' whose unitedl - veiglit he judged to be well on Loa ton After this we knew the man, hut gory, in whose locks the "hay-seed" still gleamed, was moved, in turn, to tell his tale of bunting. and dwelt long and feebly on a certain snipe-shoot- . ing excursion, wherein each gunner bagged his four dozen biris—he -chew it strong, being away from home—and went on Sawing away a hunt how the snipes. rose and fell, until Rack ensackiun woke up with the question : • ar' snipe,?" "Si''..e." said Dory, "are_ the best game that flies. The kind 1. mean are called English or Wilson's snipe, and are splendid! .Long lege. long bills, dusky hue—" "%'t,re.n-ger, stop c h ar ! I've seen the crit ters : know 'em like an old boot," interrupted - the It ensack i - '•l've beelm - kw nin the Lewgirmny swamps—l have! Do you really eat them ar' crate's at the North ?" "Certainly we do," said Dory ; "hut you said you had been down in the Louisiana swamps —they winter there,_ I expect I" "Winter and summer both. Thar ar' a few, r should think, in Arkansaw ! Two of my boys was. down chop pin' wood for the steamer t'other day, and them ar' snipe sung so loud they came back at night -and said there was a camp !pectin' goin' on down the river." • "Sing :" Inquired Dory. "That is hingular. At the North, a:, they rise, I have heard them utter a low whistle, they never knew they sung beibre." "Sing!" said the Pockensackil so they make my ha'r stand of rawly shoot ti - .ein ar'-critters on IA Stranger, if yOu'll come up to my plantation and shoot cdf the crop Thar. I'll give you the best horse you can pick out, and throw in a nigger to take keel; of him." "Where do you live ?" asked Dory. ~"Tf ever I am up your way, you'll have to owe me a horse and a negro." "Wall, stran-ger, [ live at Powder-horn P'iut, on Meta Creek, 'bout thirty miles from Napoleon, and cuss me if the man that shoots off them ar' birds for me don't be my eternal friend—he will ! Look hyar, the infernal things pitched into my youngest child arter it was born, so that its head swelled up as big as a punkin !" "Pitched into ybur child I—swelled head ! big .as a pumpkin ! Did snipe do this ?" asked Dory, in great hopes of having dir.covered something new. "Wall, they did. Leastwise what you cat snipe. We call 'em intis > kee-ters !" Grand tableau,. Curt in descends to slow music •of toddy-sticks, broken iee, and the song of an Arkans; s Snipe ! AN ANCIk:NT TESTAMRNT.—Mr. William G.. Patience, of Ilartford, has in his possession a copy of the New Testament, in a good state of preservation, printed, in London in the year 1596- 7 two hundred and lifty-nine years ago. It is printed in stnall quarto. in the old black letter style, with copious explanatory note%.-- The title page teals As follows : "The New Testament of Ovr Lord lesys Christ. translated out of (ireeke by Thcod. Box. Wherevnto are adioyned large explanations of the phrases and hard places, by the Authour and others together with a table of Concordlnce contain• ing the principall words and matters contained herein. Englished by L. Towson. Imprinted at London by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, Prints r to the Queene's must excellent& majestic, 1506." )rook is quite a curiosity, and would be highly prized by antiquarians. • . AILS.—' stilt Nrcni brought on Thursday last, before Justice Gard ner,,,a4 Jersey City, against the New York and Erie Railri n Co., by Lewis Barnum, for an Overcoat which was stolen from his seat in the .etas on that toad. The train stopped at Port Jervis, and the plaintiff sming , a notice posted up in the cars that passengers in order to keep their seats most leave some article of baggage or wearing apparel in them, left his overcoat there while he went into the refreshment sa loon. Upon returning. he discovered that his overcoat had been stolen. Tire Company de clined to pay for it. Ile sued them, and the Justice decided in his favor. PoitK. Pint.t-te, von. A xi.v. Boxi:s.—The Rail road -Tlrqco , : says : Salt pork is coming into quite extuniive use as a packing for car axle boxes. It is highly spoken of by car masters, and by men In similar po,itions in Ohio, where we believe the application W:IA fit St made. A slice of salt park is applied at the bottom, and another against the end of the journal, and we are told that the bx will run for womb., before the fat becomes \l I fried out. ~.....__ --. ....• ..?'Brigham Young ills seventy , wives.-- Couldn't he beat Ihratun ou a-•baby show ?" .r• It rota, the Spi ri of 'the Ti 'ties The Night,..Vtine,rlil of a Slave. Messas. MOalus & Virmus:—Travelling re cently on business, in the interior of Georgia, I reacbed, just' at sunset, the mansion ,Aaf—ii proprietor through whose estate for the last hall hour of my journey, I had pursued my way. My tired companion pricked his ears, and with a low whinuey indicated his pleas ure as I turned up the .broad avenue leading up to the house. Calling to a black boy in view, L bade him inquire of his owner if I could be accommodated with lodgings for the night. 4y request, brought the proprietor himself to the door, niki thence to the gate, when, af ter a scrutin► ing glance at my person and equipments, he inquired my name., business and destination. I promptly responded to bis questions, and he invited me to alight and en-' ter the house in the tine spirit ,of Southern hoSpi tali ty. Ile was apparently thirty years of age. and evidently a man of education and retit.ement. I soon observed an air of gloomy abstraction about him ; he said but little, and even that little seemed the result of an effort to obviate the seeming want of civility to a stranger. At supper, the mistress of the mansion appeared and did the honors of the table, her particular department; she was exceedingly lady-like and beautiful. as only-Southein women are, that is beyond comparison with those of any other portion of this republic C have ever seen. She retired immediately .after supper. and a servant handing some splendid Ilabannas on a small silver tray. we had just seated our selves comfortably before an enormous fire of oak wood, when a servant appeared at the end door near my host, hat in hand, and uttered in distinct tones, the to me startling words t— .. Maste r -. de coffin hab come." A'Vely well," was the only reply, and the servant' disappeared. My host remarked my gaze of, inquisitixe wonder, and replied to it— have been very sad," said he, “to-day: I have had a greater misfortune than, I have experienced since my father's death. I lost, this morning, the ,truest _and most reliable friend in the world—one whom. I have been accustomed to honor and respect since my ear liest recollectioa ; he; was the playmate of my father's youth; and the mentor of mine ; a faith fill servant, an honest man, and a sincere Christian. I stood by his bed side today. and, with his hands clasped in Mine, I heard the last words he utteied ; they were.. 'Master meet me in heaven !' " vuice faltered tor .a moment, and he con tinued at'Ler a pause, with increased excite- titent— “Ilis loss is a melancholy one to me. If left my home, I said, to him, •John see that all things arc taken care of,” and I knew that my wife 'and child, property and all were as'safe as though - they were guarded by au hundred soldiers. I never spoke a harsh word to him: in all my life, for he never merited it. I have an hundred others, many of them faithful. and true, but his loss is it reparable." - I come from a section of the Union where slavery does not exist, and I brought, with inc all the prejudices which so generally prevail in the free States in regard to this “inStitution." I had already - seen much: to soften these, but the observation of years would have failed to give the so clear an insight into the relation between Master and servant as this simple in cident. It was not the haughty planter, the lordly tyrant, talking of his dead slave as of his dead horse ; hut the kind-hearted gentletnan, la teeming the loss, and eulogizing the virtues of his good old friend. After an interval of silence, my host resumed: "There are," said he, —Many of the old man's relatives and friends who would wish' to at; tend his funeral. To allbrd them an opportu nity, several plantations have been notated. that he will be buried to-night ; some, 1 pre some, have already arrived and desiring to see that all things are properly prepared for the interment, 1 trust you excuse my ab sence for a few moments." "Most certainly, sir ; but," I added, "'if there is no impropriety in it, I would be pleased to accompany you." •There is none," he replied ; and T followed him to a long row of cabins, situated at a dis tance of some three hundred yards from the mansion. The house was crowded with ne groes, who all arosa on our entrance, and many of them exchanged greetings with mine host, in terms that convinced rue that they felt, he was an object of sympathy from them ! The corpse was deposited in the coffin, attired in a shroud of the finest cotton materials, and the coffin itself painted black. The master stopped at its head, and laying his hand on the cold brow of his faithful bonds man, gazed long and intently upon the fea tures with which he had been so long familiar, and which he now looked upon for the last tii on earth; raising his eyes at length, and glancing at the serious countenances now bent upon his, he said solemnly and with much leeling: ..11e was a faithful servant and a, true Chris tian ; if you follow his example and live as he lived, none of you need fear when the time comes for you to lay here." • A patriarch, with_ the snow of eighty' win ters on his head, answered— ‘.Nlaster, it ib true ; w will try to'live. like 'lm." There was a murmur of _eneral assent. and after giving some instructions relative to t. se burial we returned to the dwelling. About nine o'clock a servant appeared with the notice that they were ready to move and to know if further instructions were necessary. My host remarked to me that by stepping into the piazza, I would probably witness to we a novel scene. The procession had moved and its route led within a few yards of the man sion. There were at least one hundred and fifty negroes, arranged four deep, and following a wagon in which was placed the coffin ; down the entire line, at intervals of a few feet, on each side. were carried torches of the resinous pine. and here called light-wood. About the centre was stationed the black preacher, a man of gigantic frame and stentorian lungs, who gave out hum memory the words of a hymn suitable to the occasion. 'l'i►e Southern negioes are proverbial for their memory and the compass of their voices, and I thought that hymn, mellowed by distance, the most solemn, and yet the sweetest inuslc that had ever - lA len upon u►y car. The still n ess of the night and r,trefigth.of their voices enabled me to dis tinguish toe air at the distance of half a mile. It was to me a strange and solemn scene. and no incident of my life has impressed me From the Home Journal TWO DOI.4LA/IS`A.I.YEAR. with more powerful emotions than the night funeral of the poor negio. For this' reason have I hastily and most imperfectly' sketehed its leading featurtai. Previous to- retiring to my room, I saw in the hands of a daughter of the lady at whose house I stopped for s the•night a number of the Home Journal, and - itoecurred to me to send this to your paper. .perfectly is whether it be published or not., but a brief sojourner here. , I hail not., ,st colder cliMe, where it is our proud boast that all men are free and equal: I Shill return to my Northern home, deeply impressed with the belief, that, dispensing with the name of tree doin, the negroes of the South are the, happiest and most contented people on the face of the • earth. - An Holiest Conceal On. That Know Nothiligism ' can 'never be' stisl tnined by the enlightened and patriotic portion_ of the people of this country. is .6 fact beyond question, and that it never -gas brien sustained by enlightened .inen,;. , except for selfish:purpo ses, is equally true. There are, says,the Levr. istown Democrat, many . who, gave the candidates support ' thi r late :elections,a?lin have embraced . lhe earliest opporttini ty - t&wash .their hands of the foul stain.: by disclanningto hold any sympathy for the pripcipleket Oa; order. Among these is the editornf the DSO News, who, in hiS issue of the lath we:. Usti the following emphatic language t, "The truth of the matter is. as.we, hive To r pea tedly asserted, K now 'Notbingisnr iis in'etot creme bad odour : it stinks in. the. tostrilint all who du not belong to the Ditler,..andof vast number who do." ANPIITRIP SPHAK6ll,.—the Know t ha Virginia Legislature held a'rneeting on -and adopted resift tions,codorsing.;the course of the national members of ;hat__ iarty in the House Of ReprelentatiVes 'of 'the Unitelt Slates, in the stand they have utken;in'.vatitit fur a Speaker. and declaring'sthat any ineditiov Lion of .the 12th ,section of the Zrational,,l'l,api t form', would be• a gross fraud upon ,Sont h, rtk. men' who have joined the party. ;Tha duel are I len- 014- the d emoeratie; Congresii caucus, that they, would consent: to ne l union wi th' the N. party is, dielaied gent', and tending to -nreloitg. stavertitgf , ' 'tation, if not to.throw power into_the , hindar-et the ..black. republicans." The fullowipg _re solution 'was' also -adopted • Resodued, That -we regard with indignation': the attempt of a, powerful party at:theNorth, seduce Southern men from -their sectionalfidelt ty by the 'bribery 'of o ff icial ‘benini;iiiir that' those Southern men Who, in ,the, present,or,4lB. discourage the union ,of the South. upon Aim, baais'oladjiistment laid doWn in, the Igai see - -; Lion of the , National. Plaiicirtn, or who shalt *Co: ceps office at ..the bands of our .seetionallem • tunes, shall be *hilted with lanrcuqoaliffed testation. and can : no longer, he regar4dAuc National AtuerieanS, or . aS worthy the itailafoi'. political con fidenee ,of Southern . men: NOVO. 'LAW Strit:---ATI MIN* from 'Bridge. port went* •over- to -Norwalk 'last Week • And' Rervell -ftsw, attachtnant.uptin the homestead, cif l,owis 0.- Wilson, Fe4q,.,•..Worth,:o4.oo,o.k:firt more,' in behalf of the, president - and director*, of - the New 'Vole and New 'Haien' Railidid Company. The cause of this letiow . irais n ecount of alleged damage sustained by.. said company by the' reipOtident having forced grew; a car door at .the Norwalk .. -"SCAtiOtt.' 'Same' time Rifle° the .B'ls A. M. train •arrived, AWL; as is frequently the case. 7;fitb sh.ruiPtY,- locked car in the rear, while but a few; seava , , remained vacant the'forviardnneti. -- 'The*W., sequence was, some -fifteen- or AvvetitrOrthW Newark passengers were obliged.to; stailii•Upsoi; including several ladies. Mr., .Wilsow, informed these ladies that he would. procure s the opening of the rear - car for' thein; - stint lowa ed out upon the platform tcOsolicit the 'britke: ! :, man, to ,open the door. .Not brakeman..wpa. to be found. so Mr. W. put, his foot isgainstAhti &sir and pushed it in, blinking the cat s ch and causing a damage that lwenlyVive cents itatild have repaired:. As both parties have the, pluck as well as the . tneana, we presume there will bp a long and' free fight' over the great question. —New Haven'Pal. r7Wut. 11. Smith, a naturalized citizen, has brought a suit in the fourth district court, in 'Slew Orleans, against Jatnea -- Baggs and= Erastus Wells; two of the judges of 'the election in that city, for rejecting his vote ;it the Ist. electiOn, and claims $5.000 damages. No Immo ttr COI .T.—On Friday each mem. her of the jury of the Marine Court in :New York..was fined $2O, .for handing to the court", as the result of their deliberations in a replevin, ease, the following: "We. the jurors of thi4 ease, agree to disagree." The jurors ought.tai ha punished for making use of a joke as mato as this. SALE or THIS LUTEERANOBSERVER —Tn Ba tti• more, on Monday week, the officers of the Ey. Lutheran Synod of Maryland. in aecordanee with a resolution passed by said -synod at its recent session in Washington, transferred (la consuminsted the sale of the Lutheran Oh• server to Rev. Dr. Kurtz fur the Awn of $2000.' It is understood however that on the , tirst'ar January next Dr. K. will transfer the paper4o coinpiny of two ministers.and a layman. on , the terms he received it from the synod: Vie' • I e. or is to continue the sole .editor:for • MO.:. years. . • fr:7 The first National Thanktiving Daf was appointed by President Washington, ,by proclamation. in January, 1795, whci detugha. ted the 13th of January. D"'There is a printing office in Paris capa ble of printing the Lord's prayer in three hun dred different languages. has been decided in ft Western Court that a clergyman may ►carry himself- This is a fee-saving process, at all events. - _ , Partington says fiat a geatternittt !nog-heti so heartily tit it she feared - he woubi have burst his jot:l4l4r veil. ry-Next year —1856' "Leap Year. i4 111 a a 1101 C of L. yottog [,idles, asa soc that ••Pop goes the . I'To What color (I , :eg !tugging chttage_A_ Loy ? lt makes him yell 0 r,C:7".4 young lady has writteu It down is her album that kissing is a capital olfelica. Ca - Signs of tbo timerr—tiroH rawskscs. NO. 11.
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