II Mani Br HENRY J. STAIILE. 39TH YEAR. T3rms of the "Compiler." ar. 3 )—The 11:pic1li e n n rompiter is published every 31.i.m41uy morning, by RENIty STAiii.E, a t F,1,73 verannuial if paid in tnicance—s2,oo per 11.3111U1L1 if not paid in advance. No sub meription discontinued . unless at the option of —the publisher, until all arrearag-es are paid. vri.....l.llvertisetnents inserted at the usual rates. Joh Teinting done, neatly, cheaply, and with dispatch. -Offs ;m tillith Baltimore street, direct ly opposite Wain pler's Tinnint , '' Estal4ishment, one and a halt' squares from the Court-house, 4 •Commmt." on the sio.n. ~yl~~i~e ~oefiSrl~. THE CEMETERY. I love thy dust. oh, hallowod ground ! Whdre nirep. the heart grown cold, radiaut spirit angels found, An I lett but sacred would. lllbt ,ti.,x; or ilomurs gathered o'er siktet gra%a and hill, Or tir a.xc—'ti. yet the 'lore My heart i. with thee still put brightly soon the thiaurs Khali bloom, The gri,s grim% given Aad einerith2 hues ern% ri the gloom t? the %visite snows reign. And ,Arth it.ic ritreqt huauty It , szsi ntin. O're l is 1y hear: awl deail, Of hearts ils tt fetil ten pain. so•qt rth ly stxottttA nhnli ht IL nt 13.1, iiiter,c.l.4azt4v tot riniu The 1014 All t ,1 . 111,1%. till . ;liter blaht, dl t rirtiA in,,rning bring. In.l wi..ar% hero, 11i4 vsullay ills uuldret, :uit rin 1 rteru 1,1 whore The weary are it re, t." .c..ic.e.l ilii.sso.ciilol,ll. THE RACE OF THE DEAD MEN. 4 , R B ritpr, the tvymtll of (Muller, eighteen hnnilred ,t.vul forty-two, on Thill'sday, this.day vx".t - c•tly fiTteen years u ,, 0, I was in lattuile 70 0 17" N.. and long. 911° 4fi' 45" 1,r., to the rape Nikolai, on the western 41t 0-e. of It iothia. -i'.•etty high tr%. icllu,c,;tniung the frozen regions. The went It erwas rather tigilt.Tor it froze tht thenotn ,eter (liwn to 92.° helaw freezine• point. Bran dy frozein tuy throat, and it ta.tt , d tike .vaq \Vilat do you think all these little ii4ures, and dots, a"i r i dashes mean ? Why. nothing more nor less than this, flu' (;real _Norik Ade ." I leant upon it—yes: I leant anon the air that was frozen i t s stiff as a new vri-4toorat s stipportor‘ to hi,, coat ('f arm , : , on Itis ra.rriagy , door. Tirere wai; no mistaking tine thing: I W:IS there: I had 'rot into that intore4tiag regiort of sktflo,l frigidity by the rxtre forer , At . sailinsr, in a !Vaatneket brig. is Captain Tont7 !loin:z, nail voiman ad ako 41,- that w- , )rthy vii 'She was a whaler and No 1r awl I wa4 vv:Armin inor. as:rona ae", iiiNtariAll, and Neeraio Nkoteh- t thr r~iac iit.on. C'a ntain Ross Inul. taken iN4rssiim 141 the inavie.tio lu,le hefore nc. h u t it LI left ntit krr !2,•,a.rvis:ln or nrovisions in his r‘iu 7) (1- him :A_ l<uulttn eoutraontorate, his al'ltiove riont, lia(1to lice un fr417.( , 11 wal rll'+. r. )17 ,ise. n.u , l wintlehone, taken IMS of 13 tulirellas.... Yon know, if vuu know .7,,:r5t)1in0., Vont a ne,isz,l,tv se:t washes this Tealtu rolarity, erowtle(l, like a 13r,molway on:m . l :us, by :ribbed niowitains of ;Ice, rifling 4,1:14.1 grin , limg...-and surging, over , caeli (alter, a.”(i trying to get into a41)1 seat, m.; to lie &WI to gilt ortt at the earliest cams - venieirce,witlioat the stir.:htest regarti to the rights or comforts of thiir neighbors, After Nve had fishy t trounii therr, a tittle s and caught as much. Captain r,lll 7f-omits maclr up his 'shill" frozen mdind to ste:"; awl go •Aoit Ise •41,ive' before e errxling 4)reeze,, fear Lath acrd thnt thou th-cea like; 4 .- Itoc, liatterio-; of iiiv L to.i, when ke fought his g'eat tight avinst ll .earrr man than hinvzelf tin the wheat fieklq of ate.rtil,L • •Are you eoll, 'Stirrup': and if Cart are, use, the hal ee of this liquor, and Pil get , e..n•vt.her tuml;'.er. S.trway hefore the breeze VC , •rit, (la V 11:14 11 ' 114 ht. night and day, for it NV;I.4 alt the .•aIIIQ thing, one as much as the .ether, and I.,ctli more of.either than anything 4.!lse ; ama3 all the thne I kept wondering, w-Inni the lituir, r,f krandv NVOLithi welt in my throat, :and also) when Captain Tone Thorna*, of Nannieket, would a'rrire tltat fleitri.ll - and umbrageous pierki of paradise. —One might, when the aurora borealis was s',r..adfn„S.is Isroarl have,. and trying, to grip tlif truths (-;fleaven with hi , long, flamers of fire.--wheel tire wind was -rattling like the ket.(--tlruni in 01..3 dead-march of Saul, at Niblo'st heEtre—wlte,r, Ciptain Tom Thorn a, was trring to detach a telescope that had frozen to 'his right eve—when the scene was a, bright th,daT, ;till the water as free from. iee as the "iiratrt (if the lady I love free from .coldness, I saw, will tli..rs , e two beloved and - valuable p)rhs of mine, it Sight that made me start with horror awl affright, and up juinpel nic h , ..Lrt front ins furrel wztist-neat-poriket in to My throat, and seized thßt lump of h'taiidy the buttvat, and ?Ak" it down to sUntlier -regl4#lll 4...alo'xin and d 13-i , ern thl only tern mPn The rest wPrit I,4•Tr, Unfr,!eziliz on de •k_ theintiVeS Eti'ing the it:ieles of du' thrir own breaths had fortno,l :all around ihe plaee—s. sort of grotto. or An tioar„s, wiTho t at its warnth anA its littFie lake. of NratP,r rcitch Eshos fo , ating in its fii-pth., ant slimmer air 4low hag through its splinter e,l pArtals... It \Vat a, 11111(!1y iligkt, and a sarame on,' !fere we growl, if the .rind unwratls "our from aroun , l our borlie, and expo l / 4 es —users-h-i-v-e-r-i-a-g-ive_poi-tbs—yi'l.l-r-r-P4a-i-i-f-ai-r-4-h-a.-t. freeze a Itueket of water in two .Itour+. There the v'ery . - tzv , oente , l (air! dark 1111. A of ire, over. ‘vhl,-ii. in the l,1: tin:, fla , hs.l it, •rP , I Artillory: -' w ort , lfrr I h .1v it tn , t• - ,‘ titnict7,l; th othrr— -Lmr , nrtsr f•rpttod• the rol of - d rrit lifr 1: , 4 17 •r. 7 • r-- it. ,tivl -`locirt:. mir rt'llY2-1•••1 91 . Ncrappiu; ' - -_•4'/(_,,_ . t.p/ttb/lita/4-,l;ttitti# Tfq) )1 ;11! IfehAplpee—i)eivia ‘tiO ii)ficlii9eilee, ?Attics, Sze, From i'(;rtor'a Spirit of the Time.' :-TIN CP paper. No earth. except that which lay, lativon and fathom illimitable, away, (lowa beneath us ; no pleasant sound of home of ours' or other people's:no city lights to speak a starry welcome to tho haven's heaVeti, hut grim, silent, save the wind and the swashing billow; silent,lmutterably still ; a void deathless, but all mysterious and silently awful : an eternity of nothingness, save again the wind and the billow, and the phantom ship that haunted the depth of the deep owo fulness of' the scene. My God, what a night it was, and what a sight I saw ! Believe me or not, as yen plea:se, but there it was : and even now I have tu. rib my et es and pinch myself to bring me out of that dream of a reality, to convince myself that I did'not (lie that night. and that I am not now r a frozen corpse, whom the tires of that great pit prepared for the unrighteous. cannot even melt. Two hake iceberg. broke out of a seething 'nisi they themselves hail mode, as they turn ed in a new current of the tempest, and came driving madly after us. 1 was standing at the stern, and wits holdine- the tiller that I had tied to my waist. One berg on (evil quitrter. The fires of the borealis lit them up, and they gleamed in the spangled spectral tv like phantoms of planets hu.sened from the -wales, or from Pandemonium. On they cane with the wind and the waves, eleanfing in the dark crevices: and now-and theft a—shout arose filen their high pinnacles that pierced the air andl sent a shudder to my heart, el ready quaking with a new and supernatural terror. The captain, hail, by this time, be come aware -of their proximity, and had al ready hurried to the gang-way to call die - Men up. but beloye he did so, he came to where I. was standing, and without uttering a word to (melt other, -we stand and gazed upon the weird amid awful spectacle. "Weird *and awful in all the elements of grandeur and of terror, I saw now, and so did our hardy and experienced captain, that there was no danger to the ship, fir those two phantom masses hf ice kept diverging from ner sides,- widening the distance between themselves, and assuring us, that without some' sudden and not lirobable change of the wital, they w-iuld not crush us in their mad career. But it was not the danger that int pri“eci us now : that idea' was, secondary. The bergs had not cawyht up with - us. but they were near us, and we could see the tor rents from their sides as-they struck headfore mest into the opposing flood, and wild and shrill come the cries from their lit tops. and bind and thunder-like, the bellowing moans from their dark dales and caverns. '• 'Jehovah in heaven '2, cried Captain Thom as, 'what is that on the point of that nearest •icel,er.zsr ‘• 'Father . of •Merev,' I exclaimed, 'Cap tain, look ! look what is that crouching away up near the top of the other?' "A shriek at tliis instant. burst from both pinnacles the sea lashed furiously about their base, and seemed to lick unwardwith a greedy furry. Ti r e lielo of the Northern fires spread white and lurid over the leaden vault, t , fint seemed a lid to :1 huge coffin, and us true as I om talking to you now, we -nW di- - timely two human beings on these 'desolate mits‘cz:„ "One stood stiff on the highest pinnacle of the her to our left, and the other. iVith oat stretched man, crouched beneath a projeeting; ledge of ice, on the other to the right, -'they were dead—frozen dead. aind frozen to the mass that bore them through the sea and the storm, and they were gueline• their hank steeds or tempest out from the Niirtheta4pole, to what goal, Crud only knew.. "Onward t hey went, and we could flistinet lv see their glazed eyehalls . staring 'into the distant voids,-while over their hair anil beards clustered the hear frost of the hurrietnie. tlieni the appearance of great age. Upon their Mad chargers, they stood transfixel. and all through _that night of horror, they kept us eempany, now and then drawing nearer to us; and as the one a pproitehed us on which sat the man. with his arin canstrOtelleil, the wild night wind blowing over the summit. seemed to mine front his open mouth, and warn us from the track. Tlie other stood with his hands clenched, lint separated. and lie seemed to he intent upon the contest in which he w a s engaged ; fiir his fare, by magi aveldeut, wac turned towards his corpse-eau:- pa:than as il'he was watching each inovealent th a t h e an n le, that he 'right benefit by it. Evening dawned, the bergs had driven out of sight. "Oh, Stirrup : whem the dread trumpet blow s :thing the universe, upal the final day. will it not he horrible-to - see the wanderers of the ice rise from their frozen sleep among the huge. mountains of the Arctic realms, and stretching themselves, as if' awakenin7 from their sleep. prepare to follow where the An ,rel hick. Will I not then see those two_ ship _ wreeked men, who. lost to7ether upon 'the huge ice island of the Poles—had perished— and when the tempest rae•ed, their frozen cof fins had split kit twain, and they were borne up In that fearful r-J.re, where the time was not enuated by minutes, as with. feelde Eclinse, but by eternities. Stirrun, toll the 'Spirit' people what racing I have done." And I have done so. The Ilepershini luallt.—Hn a - inetropelitan criminal conrt, eight years ago, a poor Wl man. who.o. bov had heels sentete-ed to a long: term in the Ilenitentiary for some net well proven offence. said : your hon o r give him a Shorter term? lie a good' hoy to ?rte., your honor—he :Always was. tuide him sonic nice clotheq, your honor, which tit him hcautiful, and .h" looked. a , she 'aid, a‘ otilv a motle.r can look at her hoy,'; and if von ' , i‘e him a long tint , ' to ‘l'Ly in the pri.4on the. clothe 4 won't 171 hint Who e'MleS out, for he' , 4 a growin . bov." Poor mother ! she had saved much for her) fr urn her .east earnings to clothe her boy - like the nci7hhors' children." 'Till , . ‘vat tun much for her son. Ile thelted—he went—he repented —for lie for.ri , .en. And he now one of the tri‘st prominent. and honora i;l" II :N tll mir cit\ wori thi , tine. and known to 11;2 c to very ma.nr in rr•late. tiiat Coloriel. , T • upon the death of a master of a h4l -ttusn(leiwlter. a hql - remark(' I. ~It .rai-lio•kr that the ...IT...rub:Aß wire to. , k him try Itoa.rtql n(ithiit hilt fares and n ink or he n-outri hare •)ii the cray." GETTYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA : MONDAY, FEB. '2, 1857. =II None Exempt. In her life of George Washington, Mrs, Kirkland gives us one close view of that state ly lady, Mrs. Martha Washington : . `'lf we were to give our private opinion." says Mrs. Kirkland, "we should say that Mrs. 'Alartha Curtis - Washington, with her largo fortune, her strong, domestic tastes and affoo tions,ruld her dutiful (•onnnon sense character, exereised her full share of influence over the Commander-in-chief of the Armies of the United States of America. She had a very decided way of speaking. and as she never n ps,liti o d in nuhlic affairs, we can ca , ilv imagime the General letting her have her -OWII Way in pretty much every thing else. "A guest at Mount Vermin happened to -l eer i n a room adjoining that occupied by the President and his lady. Late in the evening when people had retired to their chambers he heard the lady delivering a very animated lecture to her lord and master, upon something which he bad thaw, that she thought tojt to be done dilforently. To all this he ikt ei ,e(l in the profoundest silence, and when s w e t ill , wa s ; s ile n t, l i e openol.his 1111 ":111111 s:l6ok(+, "IloW, l and Ski - 1w to :Nau,nly dear."— This 'anecdote of the groat nian in 111•4 1111"11t Val) 1•4 quite characteristic of him. hut it is celunik so of most birds Hutt Masters. who, Ave imagin, - i, all reeeive curtain lectnre., a. Mr. Caudle and 11:itshin;tton did, in prorionol silence. Experience prnhably, .tcaelies them that it is the hotter way." IIM:=I:3 pnited States is overrun, at this time, with Professors—not Professors of Colleges—who just help themselves to the title, and parrole it with great dignity befbre the Imblie. There is seareely a little Aemle my in the country NVIIOSO teachers filemptehos Professors—Music teachers, masters, even wronants, are Professors. l'hat title , mien signifying something. is now synonyinotts with assaranee, pretension anti lvra,•:. It has become almost as common as Colonel or Major. 1111.1)'"First vlass in Orientni iihilosophy will stand np. Thibliets, what . is life?" "Life consists of 11101Wy, a horse, and a fashionable wife." ! Next : What is, dcath-?" "A paymaster who •:ottles everyhodi'' , z dehti. and giyes them tonabz,tones as receipts in full of all demands." "What is poverty?" •"I'lle reward of merit:Gelling r*enerally re cei veq from a discriminating public." "What is reli ,, ion ?" —l)oing unto others RN VMI please, without "al I , ”,vi ng them a return of the compliment." "What is fame?" 1..1 six line puff in 1 newspaner while and:your fortune to your enemies when dead.". On-a recent occa.4ion, one id our friends was conthig down from ..11ba1v, and it- au ',eared—as ill lurk would have it—that there cat opposite .to him. in the r Ir. a gentleman Ivith re , narkably long leg , , whirl, he wie, not r i wy particular ;Wont digging into onr frieud's knees. Oar the - arrival of tl.e train at Sing Sing, the lung egged man observed to his neighbor: shall get out and stretch 111 . r legs here a hit. as we wait ten minntes." "Fur goodness' sake, sir. don't du that:- snid our friend, "for 1 rm gain: sure they are ta.) long 1 halt' already." A- - , t y-Tifere is 14 case POW pending in the Superior I%;urt, lloston, in which the plain tiff. Barnalfas I;. Bayley, seeks to reeoVer for set.: ices :ts a singer ‘vhilc engaged by Ossian E. Dodge. 'file defendant refuses 04 pay for these services, hecamie there was an agree ment Made that if the plaintiff used ardent spirits he shouhrforieit SlOO for- each drink : and the defendant alleges that the plaintiff has use i ardent spirit-line separate titile-1, and claims as a set-off Ir the plaintiff loses the ease. lie wuf:l4l !fetter exhibit lii:W44:lf the man that pail Sluff Paull fur five drinki. Twilling a Bair justice Of the fetter, meeting a niiiiioer mounted on a fine looking horse, pe -,, visilly :oke , l him why lie (lid riot rile On a (lonkev in imitation li•p4 berm le 7 4 1aster?— . 1)ne - imtiortatit rea son is," reform:4 the minister, •ethat at this time they are searee, haviliff• leten an all-Wise Providence, into Magis trates." J. P. incontinently left. - - I 511101111 root Up hinTriSed ii unr :';tlSitll get, eh( /kelt home day." • —Why, my son?" "Because her beau twisted ids arm around her neck the 'filler night ; and if 4-11 e had not, kissed him he would have strangled her : be sides, mother. he sits by her, and whispers to her. •uni hug's her." —Why, Edward, Susan does not suffer this, doe, slip?" 45,,i7;•/. : She leve , ; it." liands,rue young maid was observ ed to he i n retleotikoi on her Nvedding d a y . (h ie , i f ; I,rj.ll.noids w,kftti thv st11)- jeer of lier thinking," -he replied, ••%vhieli of Inv old heaux I should marry iu 4. 3 ..40 ,ho o ld lo' anc a widow." hava heard 4,1" I,)sor, in imr time. lint we think that t 4 takes all down I could he'dyel hito•k," he t., Captain Cattle. ••tin.l mark "ilk', , iave. I r•liottlil it a eumpliaient ; ar the ha(l'itiCe ,)1' uLL pniperty, I you'd get tran%nligraterl bo perre,:tly hap py, I 111.r. 5 !,,,t" Wiffild ,vw,;ging my tail." y-An' Irishman, wh , , waK giving hill te.- tini.,ilv in the Monieipal Curt lately, CouvuL•ed the bar, tickt.dell thejliry, :old rais ed a ,n ) iio ()ii the honch by the folluwing state- ID (91 T. ,ee, inav't plaze yec , , that thi4 man vot a stroke and fell (I , ,trii. Everybody round calleql nut, 'Ow, he's kilt he's hilt!' and. h - oilied—rTut t.) er.,wd, 'lf the• man 1 , kill. 'air,- don't yee- Istaini Fit/ilk. and giVe hirn a little air"" il;tin, i,tlrlanri. rerently, a young mitt), by wa; rf ajr h ir.r rri a call•kin ir.er H ;1 4 1 . oar sow , gi , is wh Acre 1.a...tn2; malting tiorri , lic The •,verc terribly f r i , ..„3, t y rw i. OUP t ( 11 , , 1 rte't , lay, after, and aa,..tht:r "TRUTH Is MIGIITV, As p wll.l. PREVAIL =I =I Supposed Discovery of the Tower of Babel. A correspondent of the Boston needier, writing from Beinon, announces that M. Place, the French Consul in Mosul, has discovered the ruins of the. Tower _of-Babel. "Six of its eight stories have fallen and crumbled into dust ; but the two which re• main - are so high Mot Ulf?, may be ‘teenforii . l- ty or sixty miles <trouml. The base of the rower is quadrangular, and each side about six hundred feet long. The tower is made of brinks of the, purest day and of a white color, which is a little shaded with a yellow tint. 'Under a clear sun, as it . uhole, this ancient monument at 1i skill and daring presents a fine hlending yolors, ‘Nhiell sets the pain ter:s pallet at defninci , . Before being.: haired, the brielts had been covered with churaeters ha l ved with the arrrtrne of thO ' kOill of a writin . g master. Near the top or the letters, the straight strokes were adorned with flour ishes resembling the heads of nails. All was neat. regular and severe: and. those who saw these specimens olanrient ealigraphy affirm that the fathers of the human race wrote a bettm..hmol than their children. .Imong tilt' intre4ting froq•ovories - :k!, PhinT,- \yore certain inserintions tail tills tx of silver and copper, and also upon 8. 11let:II, 110 W 11!lk:it,W11, 1111(1 ‘v_hiolt has sotne , 4 hat the appearance or ivory, rt: hay keen l:ulnuittl l to the experiments of at , i nt motallor gist, and its (inttlities will , onii be ascerMin ea. Some very curious photographs, taken h the expedition, completod their labors, one of tvhieh was of the ruins of the palaeo of thr f a mous ()neva Semiramis. This ancient mon 'meat, ~ itnittod on the hoi;dtt of a nionntaln raised ;Lev tlio luuuls OS 'molt, overlool:s the awful goll'utles W!'11 . 101 Furriaml L:110:` V:lTl—u body of wßtep six or _set on - times larger than Lake t.;eilova." The 7',41 , rr Ilith-G—The Boston Atlas diNPUtes the identity of the recent alleged du— eovery in Syria with- the Tower of 13ahel. nn !lumina, of which was published in the 'Lravel ler. and says: "The mound :0 Arhela, which M. PLace hns examined. and which the k awre.spondeffi of the Traveller itnagiued him to have discovered. has been long known. thor:gt► we believe it-has to 'before been explored. In 18.11 it was described by Fraser, in his work on Messopo tamia and Assyria, as •n large Artificial mound. GO or 70 feet high. :100 yards in length by 200 in breadth.'-:—The Abijeliele at Babylon is 150 feet high. and ;he fir Nimrod ne:oly feet high. or three or four times the height of the ruin at A rhela.—Througliont AsQyria. and Messopotamin there are multitudes' of ruins erlual to, or greater than, tHt. at A rbela. with quite as good claims io• he considered the Tower of 1341 tel—that is,- to say, with no c Wins at all." Sensible Advice. The Oregml IVef.kiv l'lC” , ‘ 4 tt trIITV patriotic article in htipp , rt of the Union with the inilinvin:4 advice: .*The love of etittittry, tlw proti!etiun of the eonstitut Mit, the ohserv.tnee of the late;, aad a respect - for the rights and. i tit ere;.ts or on the st.ate4 ;aid Territorie., prin - oiple.; wRWh - every true patriot should instil into the mini& of the rising tzetteratiin-The principle of disunion should he frowned down. nod the word disunion e ,,nsidereil ft re. proach to all who lisp it in disrespelt of the strong bands which hold tog.ether thirty-one States and seven Tenitoriec. Sectional and lova] differences have a roper_ tribnilal to which to refer all differences of sentiment, tinder the laws ;mil constitution of this conn• try ; and the man .who refuses to respiwt aucl honor them is better fitted for some other country titan this. Ile is hoter adap:ed for other count and ajtlnnxiitutte nearer his own illiberal and sel fish, sordid principles. We advise all croak ers uo leave a country whose ) 2; ivertiment they - despise and daily malign, and lind a better, i*/ Meg e(171." 404.1104. - • Cer ; 0 01 Effi it " lin following ap pears in the Churchman "\Vheit I c•to read it title ele-alt, To mansions itt the skies, I'll bid farewell to everto'it,t4. And wipe :ay NVOVping eyPt+. " The 31,111)%1';S t h e style ()relocation in whieli the rust lines of Dr. Watt's celebrated hymn were recently deli‘ere I from the tleoply re reSHrd i!llariet'l that beautiful the rector of ‘vhielt some time since so solemnly announced that the " , ittierin , s the poo-.r • l, increase Icith the approach of trial-qh,” and who, from the pulpit, is• in the habit of .ex . - the wondrous efficacy of the OnB-pi./ for the cri-71, of all the ills of sulfuring hu manity. Tho , ame accomplished minister, 111)011 OP day on Ndtich he delighted, from the ehaneel, his ravished hearers with the above puctle Bean, ViCk•trirlo(l them UN" the following loirst from the pulpit of eloquent and ela3sie declamation : ••()h, fowl, ! jud , ,r,iitmit, is ne-ah ! Ml . (' is lidt a 7-,1-peth " Are the'' the 10-lit/18 of love to illeh one who Inu• taken upon himself the office of a-pub lic Leitch-oh Leek himself called ? Or in it to he tolerated year after Fear—the devotiotu , of a 4olligregatioll to he (litit rio!,l, the beauti ful serviros of the church ile and the momentous truth , of Revelation degraded, bv their mmeees , :try and 4:eliSliral/IP withth( . .o and hilllifar vulgar and irreverent eNhildtiotu, Soldierx Nl2 ---\l - kilo we :u• 0 gratified ‘l'e that the of l heroes of the war of It;`1 a nnually m e et in convention, to tleli ',crate up on matters conne.•ted with their intere.ts, notice that, in the S :nate of NeW York, the r(onptroller cent in a statement that the amount of money paid the4o nuliin m en ring the pact year NV:04..;1:.)0,4•2.i),(,)5. Rut a very few years longer these old N,,ldierts will have past to their endle., slcer. !tut tre - frr Anil the wind r.dis a wave, The tear-drop shall brighten kie turf of th.F.l.iraNe. 11:"Said to its iliev were ta •L 'hive (pile : —Wi mt ;;rn r t, :ir o pi n i o n o h It .., , :•1(1e/1 life ? Think it 1-, , t ?" ••Well, 1 you, flat rr flPp:nric , al ider lapy% (1-3 - ujoy (I::.ut , cl‘ fit.tr." I= For the Compiler 0)m AGO TWP., Jan. 24th, 1857. . 11. J. t;TAIILIi, Esq.—hear Sir :—Permit me to present to you my sincere thanks for the copy of the Address of lion, J S. Black, L. L. 1.)., to the Philomathean Society of Pennsylvania College, delivered September P2th„ 1556, on "lleligious Librriy," which you bud the kindness to scud me by Mr. N. I have read it with much pleasure, and, with the exception of one faei which he, in troduces, I fully subseribe to,the notice you have taken of it in the columns of the piter, that ho has treated the sulkject, of Re ligions L ikrly "with great ability, evincing extenshe rehding and profound tinnight, ex pressed in latiguoge which is at once ehiquent and liweible." 1 view it as a proilu e tio n em• limiting from the mind of a Protestant gentle man, t gully divested of all religious biL.rotry and intolerance, and endowed with that spirit of frankness, liberality and candor which should distintruish gentlemen. or all parties, and all creeds, who - respect the religions rig,lits of their follow citi:lens. I admire in it that noble and lofty sense ofjugtice which induces hint to place Calvert on - the proud eminence of bein g "the author of the first statute that evor was Ibags4d to ensure entire freedom of e.poseionce"—which renders hom:ore to the deep time of p• T ,oinil piety of a St. Vritticis ier—and ‘Yhich deals out that biting sar casm to the mali - gners of the patriotism of a. Chorles Carr.ill, and to the credulity of the believers in the fooleries of a - Maria Monk— an honorable tribute of respect t o the memo ries of these three eminent members 'of the Olt Ilia! Church. t iS theret . ore with sineere regret that I notice the exeepjon stbole alluded to, and Wlth'll .Consists of a hiNtorik;al error iut6 whia Judge Black, no doubt inadvertently fell, and which you will find on page 22 of the printed achlre,,s, and which is in the fol-, lowing words : "I think no one can read the writing . of St. Francis Xavier without being toneliptl by the deep tone of hiS personal pi(!ty : vet, he was' the wrtbor of that d enl intention, the Sparii.ll inquisition." Intro itutieho? the word at, Mot. A number of years ago thellon. John Q. AdanP , , ia a spec.th delivered at Cincinnati, fell into a similar error. in ascribing - the founding or authorship of the inquisition to St. Ignatius of Layola. Now the curt:, appear to he these—St. Igna tius of Lapsla was Isom in 1.191---:-and Fram,.is Xat•ier in - 1506. The Inquisition was founded about the beginning of the 13th century (1200) during the Pontificate of hmo emit 111. It was established in "France in 122 G iu tbe reign of St. limis—to which-prob ably Judg-e Mack alludes in page 21; It was iu opsration iti Italy in 12'24. It was intro duced lido ,tinuin 0.1 OW the Midate of the 13th century (I'2soj—end all this before St. !grin, tilts nr St — Fritneis Xavier were, born; and therefore inlooduce , l into . Spaia about two centuries and a hall before the birth of- St. Francis Xavier ; conselieutly - he co u ld not possibly ImNe been the author of the Spanish A . llli br ill observe, sir, that I, merely give the dates, without ;illy further remarks about the motives or de.tign or nature of that tri lma], whether political or religious. as that is h point controverted by Protestant' and Catholic writers. My object siimply is to wrest this character St. Francis Xavier from the odium \vhich might attach to it" in the minds. of liiwrol tool candid P t t ril.et+,ll.ll.B un 111•1:011111 of this his suppwred rodlit»whip of the in f i tiir,i• tion--a character venerated throughout the Catholie . world on account, of his piety, hiss , anctitY and him 'heroic devotiop to the serviee of his lb% hos Master in the reclaiming :Ind cent ersion of souls. I may add that ho was disciple or St. ignatirms, and therefore n Atjt Mill although all manner-of evil things are said of', and as'eribed to. the society of .iesus or Jesuitrsi, as they are called, yet it might perhaps be a difficult matter to show aanthentieally, that they as a body tir sileiety had over anything to (In with the you shonfil dent roper to give thn4corren t of that orriar a place in your paper you will oblige ine, and perhaps . many others; ith the distinct and !lineere expression that no disrespect to Judge Black whatever is in tended "by toe. . SENEx. Lawyers and Editors. Ma. STABLE t—lt 1110 been frequently re markcii that some editors, not one hundred Miles from Gettyshurg, have in turn attacked every 4'IISS and society of I,ersons existing - in the vicinity. lam not about to question or pr ,, re the t ru th o f the observation, nor am I an xitats to deserve a similar character. Some few hints, however, which I hl!all venture to &t.y, will, 1 hope, be under.tood exactly as they are intended—whether as a 8(21 ire on the nrc.o4 or the har, I leave to others to determine. It is the opinion ef !Aussie people th a t it w o uld Le Letter for the public, if the press were paid in the s:uue manner as the bar. A law yer is paid for advovating one ()pinion to-day, and another toemorrow—n() person thinks of identilying him with either; the rea)tons in Loth cases are weighed, awl the character of the individual who is the organ through which they tied their way to the public., is rarely Taken into the account,. Mr.—, for instance, took a side the other day in the case of versus —, whieh he will have to oppose again at the next term in the case of —. What has this double advitea.c.sy to du with the grounds of the two' opinions ? It would in rlr•ed be very anfortunate fur a litigant, if it were to he understom; that the advocate. to whom he commits his cause, must necessarily Le persuaded himself of the goodness of it, Whv should not a public writer be allowed to s.hilt his ground fur pay., as well as a law yer? There is a squeamishness about the press which is altogether out r,f character in en age like this. Would the reasons in a leading article lirione whit less convincing because a different set of reasons was broach ed its a leading article of the preceding day, any more than the reasons ill it speech of an Attorney-at-Law, because he advanced argil; rt►entcin - farir of otherprinuiples - immediaTe - - - lv before? What is i 6 to the public whether the writer is sincere or insineere, or whether ho in p. 1.141 or not paid? Why should the I, , ,ssoning derive any tire from all , : e:.,,trirs sie or tbreiga c.lnsideration ? If public writers _were, as easily beiii ' lawyers ; if they adeoeated in the same cool manner all sorts of opinions, their readers w.,01,14,1404,.-be,,,.4 ! sposed-o to- the.„tribu lati on of perftsin e ; the article: written durixt, the period Irr,r the Comvilor - - - - TWO DOLLARS A-YEAR when a journal is shifting its ground—when it is veering froth - one opinion to another.— Sometimes this mistifying period extends to: a whole quarter of a year, and it is a sheer loss both to the writer and reader. Thus it should be, say some political econe- Mists, with the editors of newspapers, and it is to he hoped that the gentlemen of the press will in time see their Own interests, and learn to be more venal, and they ♦sill be much more respected 119 well as richer f :MAGNET. New Oxford, Jan.lBst), -41111114111.- Now and Then. Before the election the cry was—elect 'Bu chanan and Kansas will come in as a slave State; the slave trade will be revived; Thos. South will domineer over the North; Slave holders will rule the nation, and the last spark of freedom will be quenched and our republieau government be turned into a' des'- potism. And thousands were actually mado to - believe all this, and to look upon the Item occatic party as a sort of a . Car of .. .Tug-gem:int; whose wheels, if not stopped, would crush out lianumity and roll user the bun and mangled flesh of our fellow creatures with creaks of .savago delight ! But how changed the;tnne The effort to revive the shire trade 'has been signally rebuked ; iLepublioans, tell us, that Kansas will come in ns a free State, and that Mr. Buchanan will keep nts eye on the inter eats of the North as well as the South, and en cleaver "to bring hack the government tomdiat it was under Washing Gin' and Jefferson!' flow long (asks the earasie Dem oc. oat ) honest men be duped 'and led astray brae oiirrupt arid designing. A Sad Case.---A. pretty, rosy cheeked Irish \vellum, with an infant about 14 months off, . has been at the Central Station House oral days, having applied there for Imlgings. Accordit* to her story,' she arriVed itr - this City from Ireland about eleven' year* and has been living at, ; Buifalo,New Yorkeity,. Boston, and other places, daring the past three - years. Iler husband died.at Boston, . and 'she beingyerr poor, made application' ie.' the authorities of` that, thy, and when h was ascertained that he had, arrivedia phut front Ireland, the Bostonians, could,do, nothing for her, though she had lived there a year. —.l-Milirderphia News. Foolish woman ! Why did not she , paint' her face black and tell the Bestonians she Was a runaway slave? Halm had done that, they would have bowed dovim and worshipped her. - The Boston folks have always' liked negroesi• Even as far back as a hundred'yearm agO they were eo fond:of negroes - that they sent theist' . slips to Afriett and brought theM hereby thotrstut dm. Then they liked them solve!' that' they stole them freratheiniative country note they like them mo-well that they .steal them 'front the masters to whom, they sold them.— Valley - fliiV""TIII: BRIBED APOSTATE I .—blot his halo ful name From eneh and every scroll of honest fame, Lot no, man trust him :--mono forbear,to shed Contempt—and !lee") ilishutior—ou his head Lot scorn still point her finger and hor jibes, And stiy--ste• Bohuld ' the conleguence of Bribes . ' • Lot guileless ebildron,^4lol he passes by, •. Shrink from his touch, and shudder at his eye; L e t lovely women loathe him with disgust, And shun him,—like the reptile in the dust; And, whilst he lives, let Infamy, clone. %Lim the netliED LEfIISLATOIt"-As ER OWN, he' dies-Lend sinks into thn grave . r() ritthiln) worms, that feed npost the knate; , There,—'initist the storms—let itideous,Furitis foul. nightly revel,—nnd in concert howl Let hissingscrponts make that spot their home, And be the watchful guardians this tomb." - - . [ t:',9nwag; happened route years ago, in sate of the Northern counties of.l'ertnont. that the then Slate's Attorney, though.a man of groat legal ability, was rat hero toe find of the "crit ter," and with a perversity-A* habit, which we have often seen in others, was pretty sure to' drink too deep at the very time when it %VILA most necessary that he should be sober. On one occasion, ati important criminal case was called on by the clerk, but the Nttorner, with owldike gravity kept his chair, being, in fact,- not fairly able to stand on his feet. . , "Mr. Attorney, is the State ready_to pro ceed ?" .aid the .Judge." . . ")'ea—hie--tie, your honor,"stammereithe lawyer, "the State--bie—is not in a state to try this case tu-ilay--the State, sour bonor i is drunk !" s=:=ms Bre"A late celebrated judge, who stooped very much when walking, had a stone throxn at him one day, which fortunately passed over him without hitting him. Turning to his friend, he remarked, "Had I been an upright judge, that might have caused my death !" 0.13 , -We know a respected gentleman in- Munroe county, trio many years ago :•awella coal of wood to pay, in advance, his first year's subscription fur a newspaper. lie is now, in his ripe awl vigorous old age, worth Li quarter of a million of flollars. VIA- It said that a certain town ,in New England, in order to get rid of supporting a elected him to a sent in the legilluture. 10-„, t l"The latest way to pop the que s ti o n ex to :o.k the Mir lady., "If you shall have tho plea s ure of seeing her at the minister's." "I saw• him kiss your cheek." " 'Tis true." "o,mo,lesty!" ""T was strictly kept ; Ilo"thoufrht in,• asleep ; at least I kmnr - thought - 1 -- thloachthc:thoughti. stepL." t... 7 73— A g•on leman lately heart} a laborer very gra vol,y t . . , 1 of his comrade , : that a : 1 ‘, , v4!:1 -lour puil rider is a eannou that, :,e,al:4 a pound ball ex:Leidy severity-four miles." Janice.—•J urur on a. murder case fagt lieoccr.lonc.4—To tako a .I.llar out, of one fluckf.:t grid p ut it int) the Other. N(J• 19. e=== =MI MI
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