Ur HENRY J. - STAIILE. 38" YEAR. TERMS OF THE COMPILER. T:7lle Republican Cumpiler is :published every Monday morning. by HEM J: STAALK, at , $1,75 per . UrittUin if paid in advance:---, ;$2,00, per, annum of not paid in advance. No sub scription discontinue% unless at the option - .oF the publisher, until all arnearages are paid. ALWHILTISEMENTS inserted at the usual rates. jot; Wow,: dond, neatly, cheaply, and with dispatch. • [l -- 011ice on South lkiltimore street, direct ly opposite Wampler's Tinning Establishment, one and a 'half squares from-the Court House. Cioicc Pocto. A Smile. ur Ja.sys X. .GBYt.:I7. The worth and beauty of a smile,- ohad I power to tell. 1 know I'd charm each 'heart the while, - - As with a niagic spell. 'Tis like the first faint rosy light, That gilds the eastern sky, When morning fresh daivna on the,sig,ht, Aud clouds and shadows It falls upon the cheerless heart, As dew dropnou a. liower, ; It makes the, sad and gloomy start And owe its magic power. E'en lualk.e, hatred, envy—all Will feel - its kindly sway; hush the a.n,fry swelling brawli And drive revenge away. A smile adds grace to beauty's cheek, And decorates the More . 1- ;he costly charms they seek d glare; And if they would with angels rie, U iet eaeli ovely face Beano as the adiant orbs on high, With constant—mmtchless grace. litnile then, and let yonr conduct prove Baeli. smile to be sincere, • every heart you'll thrill with love ntdfrieudship's holy cheer. O ye;, in eve v breast you'll wake . , • , The finer feelings given— ' . Feeling; which sweetly blend and make Thi-: world akin to heaven --Despising Household Duties. From a variety -of causes. nothing is more common than to find American women Who have not` - the . slightest *idea ,of household dutieS. A writer thus alludes to this subject: "In this neglect of household cares American females stand alone. A German lady, no matter how lofty her rank, never forgets that donu.stic labor conduces to the health of body arid mind alike. An English lady. whether .she be only a gentleman's wife. or a duke's, doe's not despise the household,' and-- even though she has a hOusekeePer,:devotes a por thin of her time to this, her true and happiest sphere. It is reserved fur our Republican fine ladies to be more choice than even their .mon areltial and aristocratic sisters. The result is lassitude of mind often as fatal to health as the neglect of bodily exercise., The wife who leaves her household cares to 'her -servants, pays' the penalty which has bent affixed to idleness, since the foundation of the world', and eiZher wilts away front ennui, or is driven into all sorts of .fashionable follies to find employ ment. fur her wind." - Secret of Wealth, Amos and Abbott Lawrence began life poor ; they determined that the strictest integlity should pervade every business transaction until their dying. hour—and it was so. .Annonwthe result.s• are the accumulation of millions of money, the possession of a name for- mercantile integrity; worth more ix) them, to their children, to their age and nation, than a title to a duke dom ; while they did, during life, and at death, institute charities, which will heap sweet blessings on their name and mernmy for ages yet to conic. ' Let every merchant's clerk On• this broad earth make that same experiment, and take encouragement from - the assurance, founded in the very nature of things, that simi lar results wilt accrue to him. PoLrrs:xEss.--Louis XIV. was told that Lord Stair was one of the best bred uicn in Europe, "I shall soon put him to the test," said the king; and asking Lord S' air to take an air ing with him, as soon as the-door of the conch was opened, he bade him pass and go-in : the other bowed and obeyed. The king said; "the world' is in the right in the character it gives you : another person would have troubled we with ceremony." Dit• FitAsK. N'S 111310EPE FOR A - SI.EIGILI recommended to those who could not af ford the expense of a real sleigh ride that they should sit:in the chimney corner, put their feet in a tub of very cold water for half an hour and jingle the dinner bell all the time. Let them close their eyes at the same time, and imagine themselves flying along the road at the rate of twenty knots an hour, and they will thus have a cheap, funny, and tolerably disagrwable sleigh ride. - - BoIIANG SALT W.►mit is HOTT EU THAN FIIESIL —Boiling salt water is tl►e hottest, because it will not boil until it has been heated to - 216 or 220 degrees ; whereas fresh water boils at 212 degrees. Therefore boiling salt water will cook whate - ver is put into it quicker than Would boiling fresh water. BEiNG A GENTLEMAN. —One' very frequently Learn the remark wade, that such and such a man be a gentleman when he pleases." Now when our mallet next hears this-expres sion made use of; let him call to mind the fol lowing : He who can be a gentleman when .he pleases," never pleases to be anything else. Tj'An old lady up in Vermont was asked by a young clergyman to what religious - . de nomination she belonged. "I don't know," said she, "and i don't cafe anything about your 'nomination ; for my part hold on to the old ineetin'-house." • - "A Ih.Essl.V;TO NIOTHEILS."—If there is any truth in the 161 lowing„ it. will certainly- justi ty the captlon of this paragraph :—"A crying baby may be stilled in one minute by pres,ing the lingers gently and repeatedly aetoss the upper part of the nose." _ _ •" . .1.7 .-- Listen to, aattanswer the question of an -aged ur homely ith as Lima devoted atteridua as you pity to those of youth anti beatay; Tula thsplay ilium interest in the former. SiCKNES3 Ex ...oil I:1 N'A r. wtitk a mart - ho:tc - d - a 7 - 1 J,.:/ tirreAti—u-p-a-wiatiu • ' /' . 3 alitilq illetrigniier---Druntch to Valitto, Igrirulturr, Wrenn', sltts AO rirurrg,_ (tly Vadat; (11 1 urrat Iluntrstit null itirrign "Intelligence, Thertising, lansentent, Rt. Viii Conviction of a Murderer on ;the Testi mony of a Horse. • The folloiring remarkable narrative is liter- . ally true in every particular; the—trial, evi dence, conviction and sentence being a matter of legal record in the Tennessee courts : jam eterson was tile at a et° by county, Tennessee. for the murder of Thom as Merriweather. a yeuir , planter of MiS.is sippi. The incidents developed upon the trial were of the most romantic nature ; and the ev idence, although circumstantial, made out a clear case of one of the most revolting mur ders to be found in the chronicles of guilt. There was one pdint in the case, about which alone there could be said to be doubt. and ibis point was met by the evidence tawded by the horse of Mr: M.- In order to' understand this, we must state that -by -the-law-of -Tennessee; the - criminal court of MemphiS has criminal jutisdietion of all Crimes committed 'in the sth. 13th and 14th cis it dish lets of said county. The prisoner was indkted iii the circuit court at Raleigh, and the murder was alleged to have been committed in the 12th distrtct. The di viding line bet Ween the 12th • and 13th dis tricts, was the road leading from Memphis to Hernando., If the crime was committed in the 13th civil district, the court of Raleigh had no jurisdiction, and the prisoner would have to be acquitted. The deceased was found some forty - or fifty steps. front 'the. Hernando road. The witness stated that the, bidy, as be thought, had been dragged there from the road, hence the doubt whether the murder 'took place in the 12th or 13th - civil district. At this critical point, the counsel for the prosecution bethought them of certain marvellous and nov el conduct of the - mu - rdered man's horse, Which had come to their thowledge in conversation with the _witness. Testimony as to these facts Was proposed to be submitted on behalf of the State, but was stoutly opposed by the prison er's. counsel. - The judge overruled the objections, and ad mitted the testimony. It had been proved in the -course of the trial that about_ 8 - o'cloch: on the Sunday following that on which the Ce ceaSed and the pm ironer left a Mr. Ilannners, •ww•mmn••••• • •••• //•••••••••• TIMM tz, • • • horse proven to have been Mr. Merriweather's, on the road, about two thousand yards from the scene of the murder, and south of the same, gallopping at full spe6d in the direction of Her nando, and appearing to be considerably fright% ened ; with-difficulty the gentleman intercept ed aria' caught him. The gentleman finding the animal almost unconu ollable from fright; had sonic difficulty in retaining the rein until a young man came fbrward and _claimed hint. The young man who claimed - the horse was recognized-by the gentleman at the trial, as the prisoner at the bar. Ile dame forward, said the gentleman, claimed the horse, thanked gracefully for catching him, mounted and 'rode hurriedly ow in the direction of Hernando. The facts here submitted to the jury, in refer ence to the wonderful instincts, are these It will be remembered that the noble' animal in question was of extraordinary intelligence, and singularly attached to his master, whom he was in the habit of following about whenever he came to the pasture or the farm yard where the horse was. Some several months after the prisonerhad been committed to jail under dictment, IVilliain Merriweather, accompanied by a,nutnber• of gentlemen, r witnesses in the case, came up front their-homes-in Alississippi to attend the-trial. William Merriweather was riding the ['lase of his deceased brother, which had by this time been recovered into the fam ily. The journey lay along the Hernando road, and by the spot where the bodY bad- been found. About one or two hundred yards be fore the party reached the scene of the murder, the liorse upon which Mr. Wm. Merriweather was mounted, began to exhibit syM m ptos of alarm ? andhis ititiactaLle conduct Much sur prised his rider and the 'gentlenien who were with him. There was no apparent cause of alarriroind the several other horses of the party etraye none., is agt a ion is - unease as it- party approached the spot ; and when they reached a point in the road opposite to it, the excitement of the horse ruse to So furious a pitch that he became almost unmanageable. The whole party cliecl;ed their horses, and rol a moment regarded_ the strange conduct of the horse with profound astonishment. His flesh quivering, his nostrils distended, his eye glanc ing into the wood where his master had met his horrible fate—lie stood fur a moment snort ing and neighing—a sublime picture of the wildest excitement. One of the party Sug gested to Mr. Merriweather to give hint the rein, which, meanwhile, had been tightly drawn. Tins was-done, and instantly the no ble animal rushed into the wood, and down to the identical tree under which the body had been._ found,' and commenced pawing at its toot. After a moment he trotted out further into the wood, and after making a semi-circle in his course, returned to the same spot, and there stood, neighing, trembling, and pawing until lie was forced away. Similar exhibitions were made by the horse several times after wards in passing the spot. At this startling development in the testimony, a thrill of ket ing ran through the court-room, like an elec tric shock. Thus far the-grout' had traced out the history of this mysterious murder with a certainty too fearful to be doubted—and had pointed Cu the pallid youth - who sat in the prisoner's dock as the guilty agent thereof. Justice seemed impatient lOr the sacrifice, when the strong arm of the law interposed to shield him. The venue unproven or even in doubt would have lett to the trfinnial of jus tice no other alternative hut to acquit. the pris oner. llut Providende had- yet in reserve an eloquent witness against him —whose faithfu! heart was steel to tile wiles of the dot rtipter. No blood had ever ki,:en seer, on the road— and no appearance of a stinggle there. If the killing hod been done in tile road, the horse, whose rapid Hight and wild fright must have been occasioned instantly by the death strug gle, would have known nothing of the tree in the wood. The whole scene was vividly plc- Aured before the minds of the jury—as if typed by the art of Daguerre tic.: decoy into the wood—the lubber's demand fur gold ur bluu,ll —the death strugzle at the Uee—and the in stincts of the alii:cuohate horse were de. tined to vmdicAte, as if by a nunicle. the ,unerling certainty of retriontive justice. The verdict of the jury ,was, that the pis- ! oner was guilty, and sentence of death was piunounced against !din, ev Bich was after wards emiliwuted to imp I,SUllillent. Jur hie in file Stale PciniAnni-ny, and Ptiersun is'at this day ; au ninabitaait of 1117:-.7-1„-- Tutu --They are Loth the saroc, t•a - cnty-Eve - - - - - ecti L:A• " __7:l7:l ll lpl ) l A;C a l __El, 2 .)lt t r j t _p t i Ll dl )r ! the colored show I-; pot.a: Li.laLtZe thtle yt.a :J.:cut bacti . t;r l / 1 1‘. GETTYSBURG, PA.: ,MONDAY; MARQII. '3,:1856. A Colored Duel—Nobody Killed. The New Orleans Pir4 . One of a recent date gives an account of a duel Which came oft' on. the Metairie road between .two "gemmen oh color." The origin of the deadly feud appeared to ho—as one of the seconds stated—that one 171 (711 I — . - 74 1 . 6 • 11: 11S crossed ;- tut; by do oder, the parties '•was crossed m and dat hitn hona must have satisfaction." The, proceedings on the field of battle were.as • After having taken their stands one of the seconds noticed that Owing to their positions, the sonbeaniS set his• principal to winking and rolling his. eyes. This was .sufficient ground for interti, , ring, and he calls out : to the 'other second with, "I say, I puts my weto on that possishnn—, it's agin de rules ob all de 'codes ob hona dat -I-see.De traction--of-de-sun-shines_radet_too_ sewere, and makes my principal roll him eyes altogedder too much: , "WY , wY , look hove, didn't we chuck up a dollar for de choice ob ground, and didn't I get him myself - ?" . "Yes,l know you did : but den fair play is :a joie,' and Use no notion of'seein my friend composed-upon, and lose all the_ vantage." l'se- no notion as you is, and 'sists on settling de matter just.as we is--tutd—r At this juncture a friendly cloud settled the matter at once, , by stepping in fletWeen the sun ,and the belligerents. The principals wok their position; and all the little preliminarieS being settled, each one took his pistol, ready cocked. front his second. Both manifested a terrible degree of spunk, although a sort of bluish paleness overspread their black cheeks. The second who was to give out the fatal or der which might send- them out of this world, now took his 'ground. .Itaismg_his:...veice, he began : "Gemmen, your time am cum." - Both signified their assent. "Is you' ready? nab !•one—two—three." Bang, pop, went both pistols at once, one ball raising the dustin the middle of the road, while the other took a "sla ntindicular" course among the bystanders, fortunately without hitting. any one. ft was now Lilac to inter- t, an. WrnirlThia• e aemrsaimmtirommimm it. After a little conversation the challenged darhey stepped forward and said to his antag onist: "Nigga, is you satisfied ?" ‘.l. i:" "So is 1, - and l's glvul to get off - so. Next time dey catches dis child out on such a fbol ish exhibition as- dis dey will totch, uie, dat dey a iii do, ter sartin. "llem's toy sentiments edzactly," retorted the other. "When your online! Lai instrument of def went off, I declare I thought. I was a, gone child ; but , I'se so happy now —gosh let's shake hands, and•go back to our avocation."- In live minutes• titne, all hands—enetnies, black friends, white and all —were on the road home to work, perfectly satisfied with the spurt of the morning. A Wife in Trouble. “Pray, tell me, my 'dear, what. is the cause of those tears ?'' "Oh such disgrace ! T 'have opened one of your letters, supposing it to be addressed to inyskilf. Certainly it looked more like Mrs. than Mr." "Is that all ? What harm can there be in a wife's opening her-husband's letters ?" • • I tu t the contents !—stieli - disgrace !" "What ! lias any one dared to write me a letter unlit to be read ?" "Oh, no. It is couched in the most chaste language: But the disgrace !" -The husband eagerly caught up the letter and commenced 'reading the epistle that had been the-means of nearly breaking his- wife's heart.. Reader, you couldn't gueAs the cause in -a coon's age. It was no other thatta bill from the printer fbr nine yea's' subscription ! The most sensible woman in all creation ! She ou , :ht to be admitted a member of the _ 57:7 - The worthy I.llts. Vartingion, in consid eration of the extreme cold weather, did not pursue her journey west, ion accepted the hos pitality-of a Well known citizen ibr herself and Ike. Last evening-, when her friend arrived at home at the usual hour of the evening meal, lie found the good old _dame seated in the par lor, quietly wiping her spectacles. "Did you hear of the great event - that occurred last n i g h t i nqu i re d he. .-tV hy no," replied the lady (-was many of 'tin killed ?" "0, not at all," was the reply : "it was only the wed ding. Mr. Fowler married Miss Spriggs."— , •Was that all," said the old dame, greatly re lieved. ''Why, what a state of constipation you did put me into, sine enough. I thought it must have - been a railroad run off rho track, or a couple of engineers smashed up together, or some such horrid a postrophe." Site smooth ed her black bombazine, reflecting a few mo ments, and then added '.hut gittiu' married, that never hurts nobody !" A PrG(nsll 11,i,t;saltATIoN.—A country girl, several of wh o se sisters ll:td married badly, w as a toutherSell7 e-the-noose. "How dare you get married," asked a cousin of hers, "after having before you the,unfortu nate example of your sisters "A fudge Tor the example of my sisters !" exclaimed the girl, with spirit—"l choose to make trial myself. Did you ever see a parcel of pigs running to a trough of hot swill ? The !list one sticks in his nose, gets it scalded, and then draws hack and squeals. The second burns his nose, and squeals iaa the same man ner. The thiid follows. suit, and he squeals too. .But. still it males no difference with those behind. They never take vt amino of those before ; but all, in turn, thrust in their noses, just. as if the first hadn't, got b urn t or s p ira l e d at all. Si it is with gill: in regard to !Patri mony ; and now, cousin, I hope you are satis fied.' Piticryr Gooo,—•'Mrs. Biggs," said a neigh bor who stepped into the house of the former, just as she was in the act of seating herself at the dinner table, .-have you heard of the awful -accident:l" ”No - ; what is it ?" r•Your husband, Mr. Biggs, has fallen off a house and killed himself." "1, it pos,,ible !—well, just s - ait till I'ni done my dinner, and then you'd. hear some crying !" (who ought to be hilia•li—••lVhich the c;iauape,t,'Lauluw a ur the Cvlured Baby TRCTU IS 3IIGIITT, ANI) WILL PREVAIL.." Toni is a queer genius; mid lets offsome tall ones occasionally. lie visited us, the other day, in our sanctum, with a 41.10 w do you do, old fellow ?" , . • "Why, sir. I have been down on Seven ltiver,Tin Anne* A rtantiel county, taking Shang hai notes on the chills and fever." "Ah, indeed," said we. "are they - very bad down there ?" "!Lather "., said Tom, drily. "There is one place where_ they have been _attempting to build a 10,ek house for eight weeks—well, the other day. as the blinds were putting up the bricks preparatory to finishing it; 'they were-taken with a chill, and shook .the whole tnlildin "cumpleti.ly (low ii, awl ing till the bricks were dust'of the finest-qual ity ! Juscat that juncture, the.ehills canto on with renewed force, and they commenced shak ing up the dust with such gusto that they were entirely obscured for two hours, and the people in the neighborhood thought the sun was iu all eclipse.'-' , "There's a fartnt.r down there, who, in sp. ple-piek season,, hauls his niggers • oat . to the orchard and sets one up against each tree. in a short time the chills come on. and every apple in the - orclia'rd is shaken on' the tites to the gronnii."- “Ineredihle !” said we, holding our sides with both hailds. "Fart." sn id Tinn, "they keep a man along- side of each negro to take him away as soon as the frith, is olr, for fear he %rill shake tho tree down.'! Tom continued, "Mr. S . "friend of mine and a house carpenter, was engaged a few days ago in' covering the roof of a house with 'shingles. ' Just as he was -finishing.' the chill came on and he shook every °shingle - oil the loot: Sonic of them are supposed to be flying about yet." . "Another gentleman, near the same place, was taken nisi a chill. the other day, - at din . . • - ' i *. throat, besides . breaking crockeryware an the table. Ilis little son, who was sitting at the table at smile lime, %VHS taken with a chill awl shook all the 'mantis elf his invx pressiblt6, and then shook himself clear of them !" We then prevailed on Torn to desist,_ who did so, with the understanding that:he was to give ns the I,4llance - at sonic other time. Per sons who think or vihi g ratio g to Anne .krunde . l county will please take notice. The London correspondent of the Inver ness, S'& Ifll AdvertiAcr, gels oil the bit of experience. of a toodtetunperttwee 111311 • "The other evening. rqai;iinperance meet ing, a person in the hall . got rip' and said, •I‘ly friends, three months ago signed the pledge.' (Clapping of bas i ns and approving cliet:rg.) In a month afterwards. mty kiends,.l Inul a sov ereign in my pocket—a thing I never had be fore. (Clapping and loud cheers.)- In another month, my friends, t had a good cot.t on my back—a thing - I nem had before. (Cheers and clapping much louder.) A fortnight after that, my friends, I bought a cuflin."l' he au dience was going to dicer here, but stopped and looked serious. •Voit wonder,' continued the lecttver, 'why I bi•ught a coffin.' Well, my friends, I knight the coffin because I felt pretty certain that trt kept the pledge another fbrunghl I should want one.' (1 - " The physical appearance of a man Nome times changes the current of events. The children of two neighboringtlfamilies had their daily quarrels and tights, Which resulted.oc casionally in bruised laces and torn guunents. Tbe f:ither of one family. believing his Chilall'!a: to have ben sadly ontltreated, and_ being a _passionate that the surest w to settle the difference het wten their house.; holds pertnaneotly, tr mild be to chastise the head of the other family, although, tt:4 yet. he had never seen hint. lie thereupon procured a nay hide, and abruptly entering his neighbor's tenemeN, inquired- in a threatening tone for the "man of the house." —1 ant here, said a personage of upwards-of stx ft et and weighing over two hundred, its he approached to learn the business of•his neighbor. "Did L understand you, that you were the gentleman of the house C' "Yes. sir.'r ••IVell, 1-1 just dropped in, sir; to sec if this was your taw hide." MUSICAi. A N ECDOTE. —Mks Johnson, one of Sir Joshua. Reynold's nieces. was unl day (lift ing with Dr. Johnson and sonic others. The conversation happening to turn upon music, Johnson spoke contemptuou?ly of the art, say.: ing that "no man of talent, or whose mind was capable of better things, ever would or could devote his tune and attention to so ft ivuluus a pursuit." The young lady was very fond of music, awl whispering to one who sat near, said, "I won der-what the - doctor - thinks - of Kittg - Dti - v - iire" -- Johnson overheard her, and, with great good humor and complacency, replied—"Aladant; thank you. 1 stand rebuked before you', and prumke that, on one sobject at least, you shall never hear me talk nonsense a6-aiii." W ITT Y EXP LA NATION. - W e have heard of a very pretty anecdote, says the ihN/0/1 /'‘ml, of a lady in Burlington, Vermont. At a meeting of two or three neighbors, a few days since, the conversation happened to turn upon the unpleasant propinquity of a hlaughter•huuse to a certain quarter of the town. whereupon one of the fatties present remarked that the trade of a butcher was certainly a very dirty one, and that, it, seemed ...strange to her that men could pursue a calling that must be so offensive to the olfacLories. "Oh," said the witty 'Alrs. C., 4'l suppose they care more for the dollars than they do for the'sceals." The Burrisu hos.—ln the commencement of the American revolution, when one_ of the British king's thundering proclamations made its ahpear•awe, the subject was mentioned in a company in Philadelphia ; a member of Con gress who was present, turning to Miss Lev ingstone, said, "Well, Miss, are you not great ly t e r r ifi e d at the roaring of the Britn./i7ion.2" "Not at all, sir," she replied, '•for• I. have learutd from natural history that that btual roars Luele.sl when most fri4ldenul." 7_:_Old NV 0 rth_y_ ladies - tvalkino the sitict. urit Suttlay their .111$;:i with 110711.::, i i Liltir a., it pi ves _tlicy_are_mai i At) tlattu thirtgb "Some Shaking." Tau," said a•e, “where have you "Can't believe tinything 14:e thnt. Tom." " said Tow, and resumed •'lt's ,ft fact. A Good Natured Landlord. “Old I)nd” was the familiar title by which WAS generally known the eccentric landlord of the hotel in Louisville, New York. lie was a good easy soul--honest and unsuspicioas--' preferring to be cheated once in a while rather 16' lil• WI , LIESUVII• • it was not a very hard matter to impose on him. and many were the bad bills-with'which be was ..stuck" in the way of trade by his travelling customers. Indeed, he would take almost anything that was offered him in the shape of a bill, saying that had money was about as bond as any, as somehow it wouldn't stay in his pocket. . Once, however, ho took a V which stuck to him like a plaster. The more he Cried. to 'get rid of it, the more he couldiet. Ile had paid t nut saw eval mg, lutt ittatne_hack-as_atel_ returned as ..bogus.".' At length a traveler, with whom he was acquainted, stopped for dinner, on his Way to Utica, and it °centred to Old Dad that • his bill tnitlht !•go" down 'there, and, stepping into the dining room with it, handed it to his guest. asking him to put it off ''on the first old fool he met," and he would allow him one-half the amount. The ; guest took It and promised to do as well with it as he could, and at count for it on his-return. On 168 way back from Utica he called, and Old Dad askedliiin where he had paid out the bill, as he- had got it again, but cokdd not, for the life of him. tell wherelt had come frotti. "Why," said the frietidTlr=you told me to put it °iron thotirst old fool 1 saw, and so 1 paid you for my dinner with IL" The old . fellow acknowledged himself sold, and after paying his guest the half according to'promisor and giving him his dinner besides, insisted that he had•live dollars' worth of wis dom out of the operation. - • A RIVAL, TO . COLT'S REVOLVER,..—J, W. Morse, late State Engineer of Louisiapa,, has invented a_ gun or pistOl, which the Baton Rouge Cow! thinks is superior inefliciency to Colt's invention.. It loads at the breech, fires Alinie bail, and a man may shoot -it as fast as he can put his cartridges in. -The •tiring is ' it !Ira ;tett until the barrel becomes toe hot to admit of handling. The whole apa ratus of the lock - does not take up half the space of the ordinary gunlock, attindepen dent of this it is impeivious . .to water. r i -Youn g Ameri o is ,growing rnpidiy.-- Eve►y day we meet pro►ifs'of this encouraging fiat. Here is . one of the latest instances of rapid_development - • "have you been to the Astor library," ask ed a yOutli or liis !Other a few clays ago - . "No, i have not," replied the father._ "You had better call aud.see it," the youth continued,: '•,last mention my nan►e to the Lilirarian, and he will show you every atteli- Lion." • Pot.yricitt, Nu.—TIIC Boston Pust per petrates-the folhiwing upon the nomination of John M. Botts for. the, Presidency, and the Know Nothings : e think,' quot h Ned, "that 13otiswill please ho Northern rliinloo Masses •d" "I think," gnoth horse disease Is-good enough for asses !" Eno Ilma.—Powdered hartshorn, - mixed vt•ith oil, being rubbed upon the heads of per sons who have lost their hair, will cause it to grout again. ; A very good oil for the hair is made by mixing one part of the liquid harts horn withmine parts of pure castor oil. CU - A club of ursn►arriesl men recently.gave a Mull itt IVasltingtott, and called themselves "The Merry li.►c h vlors.'' -'ftlerry bachelors ! Oh, pshaw, don't talk ►urnsense ! You might as well say a skeleton, is tuerry,-because it grins! . It won't do. ROYALTY AT W kiIIINGTON.—The Washing tun Star Kays Rtv. Mr. Williams, reputed Lif Fraiw.4 % ," t 4 in LW" city_,_uppressud by klluess, age and penury. fri - The office' !If Sheriff of Now Orleans was proved, during a recent legal contepa, to be worth one hundred thousand dollars per an- lEEE C.l - 7'. A good newspaper is like a sentiible and sound hearted friend,- whose appeal-puce on one's tineshold gladdens the mind with the promise of a pleamant and profitable War. (17' SomOody has written a book on "The art of making people happy without money," thir —devil" thinks he is in an excellent condi tion to be experimented upon. (r7 -- A pert little girl boasted to one of her little friends that "her father kept a carriage." ••,1h ! but," was the triumphant reply, •'u&g father drives an omnibus." .f7 - An exchange (litotes Paul's writings: -Owe nu man anything," and then adds :- -guess some of our subscriber's 'wirer read iivisdes." —GitumaLtst..—There-nre---two-tliin,gs-tthotif winch you should never grumble: the first is that which-you can nut kelp, and the yam that which you can kelp. rr7A Sydney letter-writer say 8 that imme diately on an emigrant ship coining in sight, proposals are often made to - young ladies on board with a speaking trumpet' EcoNomr or LETTERB.—A fellow down South spells 'felines:we thus : 10ee. Ile is the smut: fellow who spelhs Andrew J,Acksou ',bus :-- &ru J ain. A IIiaLSK FOR A GlANT.—TliCre IS now on ex hibition New (Means, a horse twenty-one hands (seven feet) high, and weighing two thousand and sixty pounds. Never condemn a friend unheard, or without letting .him know his accuser or his crane. :"1" . 7 - •SVhy are kisses like the creation ! Be cause they are made out of nothing, and very good. 'Tying a roaciierel to your coat tail. and irungi 11111 g yourself a whale, is one-kif the first IQssous in codfish aristocracy. 1 1 ,7 ,-- Rieliter says. Friendship is a dangerous thing tor young ladies ; i. is love full-fledged, and Wailing 14 a tine day to 11,y away. fr.7 - The —fast men" 01 St. Paul. Minnesota ahm.le themselves daring the cold ueatlter with horse races ci the trozen: 1.::.),()00"; TWO. DOLLARS A-YEAR. .1? . The North and the South. The Washington Union, in repelling the Abolition charge that •tithes stave power has been aggressive," says that when the confed.. oration was formed, ail the unoccupied territory within its limits, except what' composes the .•• • • • Southern States. Within the limits-.of the '"Old Thirteen,"-eleven new States have been added to the Union, and of these, all, except . Vermont a lid ,Maine, were given by the South. Qf the nine States thus formed oat of slaie ter, itory a ninjority_ are free,States—viz : Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan,,and Wisconsino: 7 - ' Slavery was the law of every inch of the ter ritory of the free States just named: - The Louisiana purchase contained . about 1,300,000 squankmiles, 4;4.836,000,00 sqUarti Jicies_4__its.. limits' 'Would eiriaGrace_liarty f fice States .as large as Indiana. tvery part of this vast empire was slave; territory. %V hen people of Missouri applied for, admission into the Union,. they ,were repelled by the North .because their constitution did not prohibiten institution Which had existed in the territory lone before its acquisitiond*.The territory was, after an , excitinvstruggle, divided. ,All the rainaining Louisiana territory north or 30 .All. 30 min: was •forever dedicated' to free Soil, whilst so much as' wasneuth of 'that line' was not dedicated to slavery, but was left-tor the decision of the people who might - inhabit In the .division the South . gave to the,-North an excess of 200,000 square ottles.:l-4t territory. large. enough to make `tour-such -Swett not es-;-in other _words, the Soutkixave-up, to the North enough- to 'make sfteed free,Statig, and lets - hied enough --to make eleven; -which', by the' terms of 'the Comproinite,..might be either slave Or • free' States, as the people living on it might choose. -„ The Whole of Texas as proposed,p:t .nn!!. flexed to the United 'was 'Slave territorY. - North . objected .because of the fact that it mins slave territory, The South .agreed to - a divi. sion, assigning to free atdl all ; lying, nook of 6 dog. 30 inin. and reserving the, residue to is admitted as slave of free . Statee as- the Pert. - 1 pie shriuld'decide: Kriti yet the South is dully • : : , •. upon treedtim.: The Disunion Petition in the'Ohici Senate. The following is the, report of the Commit tee on Federal Relations in the Ohio Senate, to which was referred the petition of - certain persons of Salem, Columbiana county. ptsy leg the I . ,egislateretolake the necessary meas ures to obtain a peaceable diseilution orthia rglerious Union Tho,,,Committee on, Federal -a, one.- " whom was referred, the monitorial; ort'belialfaf' the :Western - anti• Slavery. Society, .praying- a dissolution of the, Union, respectfully submit-. ted -the , folloWing repoit YOur committee have given all the Consideration to the sub. ject.of the memorial that iteiniportance .de- Mande'. They are free to atlntit that the feil eral government, like all litiman,governmente, has its imperfeotiene, and, that those who minister it are not infallible. Still your com mittee believe that iii ite principles - and Work. ings'it approximates more nearly-to, a realiza tion of the. %vents of ti eekind than Any duo' that has preceded it, and much more nearly, than any one that would be likely tiviisetspon its ruins. Your cOnitnittect take - pleasure the saying that there is no considerableportiore - of the people of Ohio who directly or indirectly sympathize with, the purpose . of the ' Mentor'. alist 4.: • Loyalty' to the confederacy' of these States and , unfaltering adherente to' -the. obli. getioneof the federal constitution are predont-. eni,raeteristics of ,out people. That though they are not indifft:rent •to the- great question of hithian - liberty, they believe it is the part of Wisdviti. to retain ,in its purity the political, religious, educational and social clic i feces which we now .. enjey, and extend as' privileges to the whole ats' fist as a due re,:a'rd to the - ri lute -of all tarts Orilla couletioraeir pertnlt. For these, and a variety- . of reasons th?t miglittie stated, your commttee, in the Most decided and emphatic manner,- condemn 'the , treasonable objects .of the mettwrildists, and, as It to he discharged from the, further eonsid-. eristion of the subject. The Wheat Fly. Rewards have been offered for the discovery' of the best. means to destroy this enemy of the wheat. Deep plowing his been rer.onimended. so a; to bury the larva,or pupa, past hope of resurrection, and this is probably as good a method as any, Also pieces of clothstiturated with melted sulphur, and set on fire - around the edges of the field where the fly is depoSit.• ing its eggs. Likewise darting dry, ed lime,-or unbleached ashes, over. the wheat during the same period. This is obnoxiouito. the Insects, 'and to the land' as a manure. In some district., the fanners gave up the-sowing . of winter wheat, finding that late sown spring wheat was likely to escape. The dy will, however, deposit its eggs in burley, rye, oats, and even some of the - grirssesi—if—they—shookl_be in flower at the proper season. ,It prefers the car just, emerg ing from the 'sheath. Plaster, no Remedy for Sorrel. "W. S. 13." in a former number, speaking of sorrel, says :—'.'We used tons of 'gypsum. without any eftect in exterminating the evil" Very true ; he might as well use cords of dry wall to put out a fire. Sorrel, sour dock, sour grass, and all of that family, are the result, or P roduct. of a sour soil. On soils that produce sorrel, plaster is an injury, as the sulphuric acid in the plaster is adding, more sourness where too much already exists. On such lend use air-slacked lime to neutralise the acid in the soil, and I will defy sorrel to grow. It must die out for want of acid ; and white clover will than come in—as sorrel and white clover require a soil whose component parts are alike. except that sorrel requires the addition of acid —L. V. /lamas:, Akron, 0., Dec. 14, 1855. NEW METHOD Or CHURNING MILK.-E. Conk ling, of Cincinnati, says he has tried a num ber of experiments, with gratifying success, of a new met h o d of churning to obtain butter from milk when it is sweet, by forcing the Milk-in small streams through (offices, such as - a perforated plate or -board, with a pump. 13'7 - Astronomers say that if a cannon ball %vete tiled from the earth to Saturn, it would Ile u»e hundred and eighty years-in getting thre. Iu that event, k'rofessw Jnlui Pu tt : H us k ' thinks t have Lute enough to dodge the shot. , txutn, - or b NO. 23.
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