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Bright, for which bigheat market price will ba paid. Sunburv-, Octobers, 1855. tf nARDWAKE-Tablt Cutlery, Resors, Pock at Knivaa, Hand aaw4 Wood aaws in frars. Alee, Chiaals, Door Locks, and Hinge. Hai Belle, Waitara, tye, Jat reeeivad and for rs!s 7 , I- W.TENEB 410. . cHinKury Doe. , 115. , ., . Mat IJflriiin From th New Yoik Evening Poet. A WINTER NIGHT AMONG THE HILLS. BY HENRY T. BARKIS. Cold blows the February blast. Among these snow-capped-hills, And cold the vestal moon now shines Upon the frozen rills. Tho bare trees stand like sentinels, To guard these solitudes, That reign with awful stillness Through these wild and pathless woods. The wildcat from his rock den Comes with a piercing scream ; His fierce oye in the moonlight Flashes with fearful gleam The mountain-wolf sends up her cry Since morn she has not fed ; And she is eager now to slay, And "banquet on the Ucad." The raccoon walks alone to-night Within the frozen bog, And leaves his foot-prints in the snow Upon the maple log. The deep-mouthed owl far up the glen, Holds nndisputcd sway, II o sits Night's loneliest chorister Upon the beecheu spray. The slender Doe has gone to rest, 1 ho tiresorie chase is o er ; Our faithful hounds hare lost her track, 1 o bo reguined no nioro. Night's lonely moments coldly fly ilh stillness till supreme, Save when tho owl's long, moody cry Comes with the wildcat a scream. A blazing fire, before our tent. Mends out its brilliant light : And from each near protecting rock impels the frost of night. A fut deer hangs against the tree ills slender limbs are still : No more his musky feot will paw Upon the yellow bill. Before the Cro our hounds now sleep 1 he mountain cbase is done We rodo through wild untroduii dells Until the Etng was won. Drear is the night I cannot slocp Among tuese irozen mils; For nature's wildest Poetry Al y soul s deep casket nils. FIRST AND LAST L07E. ''I have half a mind to talk to yon of old times, Philip. IjWuk you would hardly lough at m. HeuveTFl if J orS , or any of them, should hear me say I ouce loved a woman, I should never hear tho last of it. What would you say to know thut I am not a Ducueior. "You, Granby f "I am not a bachelor." "You have u wife t" '1 had a wife." "Where is she I" "Oone." "Where I" "To God, I trust. Yes, I trnst that mncli. It may be so : it must be so. It can not bo otherwise. She was too fair, too pure, too much of angel mould to be forever lost. And yet Lucifer fell. The bright star that led the morning song ol old creation fell. God help me I 1 know not where she is. 1 luiip. "Is she dead ?" I whispered the question. "Yes, dead long ago, and dust of the earth now." Another long pause ensued. He rose from his seat and walked across to an old mahoga ny writing-desk, or book-case, or closet a curiously-carved piece of furniture and took Iroru n drawer a small case of ebony, lie paused to light a fresh cigar as he turned to me with it in his hand. The smoke of it curled thickly up into his right rye as he hnded it to me to open. Perhaps, proba bly, it was the smoke that caused the tear that filled the eye. Perhaps it was not. 1 opened the case, and ho sat down with his back to me, and his feet on the fender. It was a magnificent sight that. Jewels of the rarest and most splendid kind, dia monds, rubies, and emeralds, and jewels that I did not know the name of. There was the cost of a crown or a kingdom to my astonished eyes in the setting of the picture, but the jewels did not outshine the face that was among them, fairest and proudest of nil. It wag the face of a quoen of a Mary of Scots or more, perhaps, of old King Kene's daughter, in her girlhood. Beautiful exceed ingly, in all the rate beauty of seventeen years of unclouded joy. Yet, as I looked at the face, I saw a something I can not well explain it that made me think that face was made for tears and sadness. Joyous as it was, fairly radiant with gladness, I still thought that was but a paiuter's fiction, and that sorrow would find o fit residence in those glorious eyes. A torrent of dark brown hair flowed over her shoulders, and bcr eyes were lifted up just enough to express full delight; but had they been lifted a little farther the face would have been that of the angel that loved his Lord best of all those who fell, and loved Lucifer next, and was tempted to his ruin, now looking up to his lost throDe and unforgotten Master. "1 said she was mv first lore and bit lust. Listen, and I will tell you all. "She was the daughter of a clergyman who lived near our home. He was wealthy, and had purchased a splendid place adjoining my father's, which, you remember, came into my possession when I was of age. I met her first in one of my walks through my own lands, which were not separated from her father's by any fence or wall. She had strolled turough the woods, as was ber custom, ac companied only by her dog, a large, brod chested fox-honud, as like us well could be to your dog John, that yon are so proud of. He knew that he bad a queen to guard, and so be toU me by hi bearing when he approached "! m respectful he was firm. The for mailt of an introduction had not been com plied with, and I must not come near. He knew I was a stranger j and though I bowed and lifud my hat, he was not to be appeased, and I could not pass down the path except I fought the dog. The lady laughed-, and I Joined the laugh. It was introductioo enough for us, but not so thought her more than duenna-careful guardian. Wt eichan. ged a Jook, a smile, a laugh ; and then I ex pressed my regret at Dot being able to wel come Miss Hanson (as I could not doubt that it must bs she) with more of formality to bit grounds. rrlcd Calc. "'You doubtless think I have taken pos session with arms And troops,' said she, with a glance at the dog. " 'I could certainly wish that your array was less formidable.1' said I : 'but, perhaps, at another time it may bo so,' and I turned aside. "A formnl call at her house was my next business, but she was not at homo. The next week she was in tho wood again, and without her guardian. It was not ntthe first, the second, nor the third interview that I be gan to love her. I cannot tell when it was. I thought her at first, too fur above humnn nature to be loved by a man, and at length I found myself worshipping her. I use the old wo'ds of lovers. I can find no others. I did do reverence to her. I was a boy be foro her. She was my whole life, my idol, in every sense of the word, I did not know or care that there was a God above us both I worshipped but her. "That picture is not flattering. She was just such a iiorjon as yon see her there young, and exquisitely beautif.il, uml Gt to be a queen. "She thought rlie loved me. Ye?. I know she did. She h:ul not Rireti the world, !md not been in company, had hnd no ntloNtions from men, had been wit h her father tli'it ihi from childhood, and plio doubtless believed tliat she loved me truly, fuithfnlly. "I can not tell 'you all that history of our love, of the loi:;r days in tho deep forest, un der the shadowy oaks mid sombre pities; of tho evenings on the piazza, hidden from her father's eye by the thick woodbine; of the close clasps of hands, the soft pressure of cheek to cheek, the thrilling touch of her head to my shoulder, the long embraces, the long kisses. "I ssked her once if she had ever dreamed of love before. I did not ask her if she had loved ; she had told me often that she never had. "Sho answered frankly that she had once thought Bhe loved, but that was a childish af fair, long past. It was a boy schoolmate, who had been educated in her father's family before her father was rich, and who had grown np with her. Ilo was but nineteen when she saw him lust, and she but fourteen, and she had forgotten him till 1 asked the question. "There was no hesitancy, no blushing, no concealment. She told me that he had kissed her often on ber cheek, uml forehead, and lips and she had kissed hint perhaps ns often. I confess that I winced a little : but her eyes looked dowu any distrust those splendid eyes. " "Sho described Georgo Gray. He was a good, gentle boy, with some lire and much gaiety, and a keen, quick, active mind. Mischievous at times, but always kind. She seemed to like to talk about him, and I let her talk. "Weeks months a year passed by, and our love grew daily. It was arranged that she was to pass a year with her father's sis ter, a fashionable lady iti the city, before our marriage. Such washer father's peremptory desire, and we yielded. "I could not see her often while there, and when I did see her it was in a full room, sel dom alone, never where I could bold her in my arms, never where I could hear her say 'I love you 1' A few stolen kisses, which she feared, more than I, might be seer, by somo one, were nil the tokens of love we exchanged. Aud yet I never doubted her for an instant. I would rather have doubted tho sky. the stars, any of the immutable objects around us, than her love, which I believed had growu to be a mountain. "Let me hasten to the end. We were married in all the splendor of wealth. Crowds of friends congratulated us, and among the crowd that were at tho wedding was George Gray. He was the friend of her aunt, and hnd been a frequent visitor at her house. In fact, he had lived there for three months before the marriage. I knew this afterward, not then. "Her aunt was a woman of fashion, a gay, toulless woman, one of the detestable class who live for tho enjoyment of to-day, forget ting that there is to-morrow. Tho effect of this companionship for u year had changed her whole character. I did uot perceive it at first, but it was soon made manifest. She loved gay assemblies, and did not care wheth er 1 accompanied ber. So within six months after our marriage my dream of love was over. We lived separately, not to the world's eye, but in fact. We occupied separate rooms, seldom met iu the house or in society, never sat together, never folded each other in our arms as of old, never pressed our lips to each other's cheeks or lips, never looked kindly in each other's eyes. It was all over, all our young glad dreams, all our jnvous hopes, all our brilliant fancies. 1 sat long nights alone in my library when she though', I was reading, but when I was struggling with the agony of my life. Still 1 trusted uer, still 1 Uelirveil her mine anil only mine, still 6ho was ningniticeutly beautiful. "One evening she. was to go to a large fiarty. Iler carriage was at the door. I met ler lit the entry. How splendidly she looked. I paused in involuntary admiration of her, and sho saw it and smih-d. I sprung forward aud took her hand in mine. Hie h-.ilf with drew it, and then loo'uul ut ir.e soareh:n;!ly. She turned her face away. I raised n y li s to bers. She gave me her cheek, and trem bled as I kissed it. 1 saw her, and rviltlm bered afterward. The ne.vt moment she kissed mo once on my lips and was ji ine. "I was to go that evenintr to see a friend tea miles iu the country, and, though it was nine o'clock, I started, and drove my horses there within an hour. 1 was returning ut one o'clock, the horses were loitering uloug. A heavy cloud was in the west, and a storm was at hand, so I gathered up the reins and drove on rapidly. 1 bad not gone thus half a mile when I beard a carriuge coming furiously down the road before me, and, as it dashed by, a flash of lightning made every thing as visible as daylight. I saw the hound that was never away from my wife's carriage following this one. It startled me. I knew the dog so well that the fact of his being there was evidence beyond a question that his mistress was there also. Like the flash thut had re vealed so much, another flash in my soul re. vealed a thousand fold more. I turned my horses instantly, and put them to their speed. There wero do such animals in the county. "They flew over the road. The storm was coming, and we were going to meet it. The light oiug flashes were more and more fre quent, and I saw the other carriage just ahead. I overtook it, and could bear some one shout to the driver of it, and be put on bis lash furiously. He used the road adroit, ly, keeping me constantly behind him. It was a tremendous pace, but I had my horses well in band, and I knew the road well enough to know that a mile ahead it crossed a broad, desolate common, where J could have a wide track upon which be could not keep ahead of me. "My miud was in a tempest for tha first fire minutes of that chase, and then the tem pest wgg over sod sll wj ct!n. I was dehb. erate determined. The resolution of a life time was done in that brief space, and I set tled back into my seat and held my reins as coolly and firmly as if I had been driving in a race with a friend. "As we opened on the common. I could see that the pace was telling on the horses ahead of me, and I watched my chance and took it. As I flew alongside a pistol ball went by my head, and I heard a woman scream at the some instant : the next moment I saw them both. It was she. "I knew it when I saw tho dog. I had a stout, strong wagon, and I did not hesitate. The two carriages flew a hundred yards, side by side, and then I locked the wheels togeth er and threw my horses on their haunches. The other carriuge went into a hundred pie ces, and I wheeled my own around and wns awoy. I did not drive rapidly, I let my hor ses walk to cool themselves, and I was five minutes in reerossing the common. Before 1 reached tho hill, I beard the long bay of the hound, that most mournful cry that signi fies the grief of a dumb animal. It thrilled through me. The s for in was at hand. Again the wail of the dog went over me. I I paused. W as she not my wife 7 Was she not yuting, benntilul, tempted 7 Could 1 let her lie uut in the tempest on tho ground, on the lonesome common ? Had she not lain in my arms, on my breast, on my heart of hearts ? 'I turned the horses into a thicket and went buck on foot. I left the road and took to the common, until I approached the scene of the disaster. Flash after flush oriightning revealed to me the state of affairs there. 'The driver lay in the road, motionless and apparently senseless. George Gray lay near him ns motionless. She was sitting in the middle or the traek among tho fragments of the carriage, her head bowed on her hands, her face concealed, and I could see that sho shuddered constantly. "Then came the tempest, ns if the flood gates of heaven were opened, but she did not move. She was soaked with the rain. Her gay laces hung around her dripping und drag gled, but she did not move. The thunder was constant and terrible, but she did not seem to hear it. I thought only of ber not of myself though I, too, was standing un sheltered in the storm. It was a pitiful siht to look at her, the child of luxury and ease the putted, fondled, beloved one sitting in the mud rtnd mire, exposed to tho pitiless ruin, heedless cf tempest or thunder, with sll that wreck around her. 'I advanced to lift her from lirr place. She did not heed my touch. She did not start, nor give any evidence that she knew even that she was touched. She seemed as sense less us the bodies that lay in the road before her, and as I lifted her by main force and held her up ou her feet, ber head fell forward on her breast, and ber heavy brenthing seem ed more like sobs than respirations. I took her in my arms. Again, once again, I felt as I had felt of old when 1 held lwr, pnro and nncomtiiminaled, in my arms, and the same old thrill went through me when her head fell on my shoulder. I enrried her awoy from them, 'through the darkness and storm, hull' a mile over tha common, to my wagon, and pla cing her in it, held ber with my left arm, still lying on my breast, as I drove furiously iuto the city. "1 carried her up to her room, I undressed her with my owu hands, and laid her iu her bed. She was still silent, senseless, dead all but for that heavy brenthing, and the sobs at intervals that seemed to burst frorit her breast, "I sent for my family physician, and told him all. No one but he knew it, and he agreed to keep the secret and attend her faithfully. The servants knew nothing of it till they were roused to wait on her, and the whole affair was kept in profound silence. "But she was forever lost ; the Doctor told me within a week that the brain fever would kill her or leave ber hopelessly insane. In her ravings she seemed to be struggling with some terrible enemy, lighting constantly with a fiend, aud sometimes tho would call on me for help in piteous accents that pierced ray brain. "At length the fever left her, and she lay for weeks feeble but gaining strength, and, as the physician had prophesied, ber intellect was gone A year went on with a heavy wheel. Oh, those long days of bitterness ! those nights of agony I "Philip, I never believed that she was sin ful in heart. I never believed that she was wanton. I never for an instant admitted to my soul the idea thut she had meant to wrong me. I could not explain it. and she wus not able to explain it to me ; but I be lieved in my heart that there was some way of removing all suspicion of her guilt, and I waited my time pntieutly, but in heavy woe. "Gray was not heard of from that day. The driver of the carriage was found dead on the road. The public accounted for tho it rung circumstauee of a broken carriage mid the dead man by supposing thut a flash of lightning ona of those uiyterious agencies thut sometimes strike und leave no trace of the blow had destroyed them No one .dreamed of cnnnectinir tho illness of tho beautiful M is. Granby with that circumstance "She failed as the year passed. Her phys ical strentrlh grew weaker and weaker, and" I con'd sometimes tee a corresponding gain in her mental rowers Onco she smiled. She had not smiied in mouths. It was like a mv of light from heaven to me. Iliad watched her day by day. sat by her. talked to her. fondled her, kissed her, held her on my heart hour by hour, but nil iu vain until now. She had been silent, idiotic, until thut evening, and that smih) was to mo a promise of heaven. She smiled when I kissed her lips. It was a token that she remembered me. "I took her up to the old place, and often drove out with her, through nil those old fa miliar scenes. Hut she did not smilo again until a time of which I shall tell you. "It was a summer evening, pleasant, cool, and calm. Her nurse had walked out with her, for she was able to walk, and they bad gone into the grove which was between my house and her father's. 1 watched them from my window, and shortly after they disappear ed I observed at a distunco a man who seem ed to be going toward the same grove. I ol ways avoided having her eiien by strangers, and I started to follow ber. "1 overtook them at the Tory spot where I had first seen her four years ago. As 1 walk ed slowly along the memory of that day grew on me, and I recalled all the beauty and splen dor of my young love. Sho was scarcely loss beautiful now, though sadly changed. I heard a cry aud rushed forward. She stood in the same spot where 1 first saw her, erect, with flushing eve and outstretched band. A man, George Gray, wag at ber feet, aud I saw ber spuru him with ber foot. He sprang np and looked iuto ber lace with eyes full of rage and passion, and at that instant I struck him. It was a furious blow, and be fell like a log on the ground. And at the game mo ment, with a ciy of terror and delight, the sprang; into my arms. "All tha years wars gone, (Jed, forgotten, and wa were children again, full of love, gcd joy, and hops in the eld forest. "She clung around my neck, she wcpl In mv face, she called me all the old pet names, tho nnines of endearment that we used iu for- mor days. We forgot the nurse, the crawl ing worm at our feet every thing but our wild, our overflowing joy. "Philip, eternity can not contain more joy than was compressed in that oae long cm brace. "Hut sho was dying. The silver, cord was loosened, and fatt tailing away. I enrried her homo in my arms, as I once afore carried her. She lay there now clasping me close in her embrace, choking me with a tight fold, but smiling ever, smiling like an angel that sho was, and silent, but happy beyond all words. "That night she told mo all : how for a year her heart was estranged from me, and the tempter whispered her on to destruction. How the resisted, day by day, yet yielded in sensibly, but never dreaming of sin, nnd firm ly resolved never to betray me. How all the power of that young girlish love had returned to beguile her, und she had been taught to look on me as the stupid scholar who thought more of his books than of her. and whoso words of love were but studied phrases, learn ed in volumes of other men's passions. Yes, sho confessed all. humbly, but loveiugly, and then told me of that last day. i'Mie had dressed that night tor tne- party, with the same thoughts and feelings she had indulged for months. But my kiss in the en try, and the look of my face and eyes, she said, changed all the current of her mind. she drove to the assembly her love forme be gan to revive, and she thought of turning back to tell me all. But I was to be away, as she knew, und so she went on. But she made the night shorter than usual, and left early. As always before, Gray was at her side, but ho was'not to her what ho was a day before. The whole evening through her mind wus revolving nil the events of tho year, and she was overwhelmed with repentauco and love. "So sliu determined to hasten home to me, and in her haste she did not observe that her carriage took another direction, until Gray, who was at her side, renewed his offers of love in a bolder lone than ever before. She told him that ho insulted her, and he laughed and threw his arms around her. The scene that ensued I shall not pause to relate. The tempter was foiled by her new-born resolu tion, and by my sudden meeting them. The rest you know. "It was all over now. One week of heaven on earth, and she was going from me to tread the path that lies in darkness, and alone. 1 could not think or it. I could not think of that beloved child 'wulking the cold and star less road of death' in solitude. Where would she be wlieu my arms ceased to enfold her 7 What company in the silent land would fol low on her footsteps ? Who would look into her eye into her heart T Who would guard her, cure for her, protect her ? She never walked alone here ; could sho there ? Sho never, never but once, was out alone in night, or gloom, or storm, and that once how it haunted me 1 that memory of her sitting si lent in the darkness and the tempest 1 "It came at last- There was the same old smile, the same life-giving smile on her fea lures, lighting them as with a gleam of glory. She clasped mc close, close in her arms. She kissed my cheeks, my lips, my forehead, my neck, my hands- I lay by her, with mv heoij on her pillow ; and now we wept, and now we smiled, now prayed ; now lay still, silent, Calm, but in the stiflness of unutterable an guish. She was radinntly beautiful ! An gels in heaven are not so gloriously beautiful! Aud she Philip, I dare not say again she was an angel, or Gt companion for them but look at thut portrait again, look into that countenance, nnd tell me, tell me, did God make that all that for dust and woe? Oh, He must havo saved her ! He must have heard tbut sobbing prayer 'Christ bnt'e mercy, mercy J with wnicb her soul went out into the unknown 1 "Yes, sho died. Still clinging to mc still clasping her whito round arms around my neck still pressing her lips, cold as they grew, yet madly pressed, to mine still, with the last strength of love and life, kissing my eyelids und my forehead with soft, quick, loving, despairing kisses till a sharp, swift pang passed over her countenance, her grasp fell off, and her head dropped heavily ou the pillow, and my wife was gone gone pone ! " 'Where is she 7' you asked men, Philip. God knows where ! "Was sho not beautiful ?" He sat looking at tha miniature; and as he looked at it, I could have believed it smiled on him more lovingly than on nie. A 'Duncan's Falls' correspondent, who writes us from Mansfield, Ohio, send us the following 'Colored Discourse, for 'the entire authenticity of which he vouches without re serve,' having taken is down from tho thick lips of the reverend orator himself:' '.Mytex,' bruderen and sisteren. will be foun' in de fits' chapter oh Giuesis, uud do tweiity-sebeu-verse : So de I.ur nuke man Just like Ilese'f. 'Fow my bruderen. you see dat in di linniiin' ob da world do Lou' make Adai de be- iiru 1 tole you how he make him : Uu muku 'im out oh clay, un' he sot 'im on a board, an' ho look at him, an' be say 'Furs-rate ;' an' when he get dry, he brethe in 'i sit de brefT of lire. Hu put him iu de gardeu of Eden, and he sot 'im in one corner ob de lot, an' he tole him to eat all de upples, 'ceplin' dem in de middle ob de orchard : dem ho wanted for bo winter-up-pies. Byrne-bye Adam he get lonesome. So lie Lor' make the. 1 tole you hoie ho make her. He gib Adam lodlom, till he git sound .sleep : den he gouge a rib out hu side, and make Kbe : ou' be set Lbe in do corner ob de garden ; an' bo tole her to eat all do apples, 'ceptin' dem iu de middlo ob de orchard : dem he want for winter apples. Wtin day de Lor' go out a bisitiu': do dubbil come bloug: he dress himself in de skin ob de snake, und he find Lbe ; an' he tola her : 'Kbe ! why for you uu eat de nppla iu de middlo ob do or chard Y Kbe say : 'Jem da Lor's winter-ap. pies.' But debbil say s '1 tole you to eat dem case deys de best upples in da orchard.' So Kbe eat de apple tin' gib Adam a bite ; uu' de debbil go away. Byme-by de Lor' como home, uu' he miss de winter tipples ; an' he cull : 'Adam 1 you Adam '.' Aduiu he lay low: So de I .or' call again : 'You Adam !' Adam say j 'Heal Lor', and de Lor1 say : ' rYho stole de winter-apples Y Adam tole him he don't know Kbe, lie expoc'l So de Lor' cull: 'Kbe !' Kbe she lay low : de Lor' cull uguin ! 'Yoa Ehe 1 Kbe say : 'Ilea! Lor. Do Lor aur: 'Who stole fie winter apples? 'Kbe tola him she don't know Adam she expec'l So de Lor cotch 'era boff, and he trow dem ober de fence, au' be told 'em, 'Go work for your libin' 1 Ia'Dt that negro, 'all over Y The best capital for young men to start with in life, 1s industry, good sense, courage asd the fear of God. It is better than all the e rd:t er ma that was ever reissd. THE SAILOR TO HIS HOME. 'Twas there by the sen I wandered and wrpt, W hen 1 thought ot my dear loved Home, When I thought of the infnnt that slept In a fond mother's bosom at home. 'Twas on the shore of that ocean I thought, I heard the voices of childhood at homo When rest from tbo troubles of manhood I sought, Far, fur uwuy from tho shelter of homo. 'Twas on the breast of that wild water durk, I recurred to the days of a schoolboy at homo While drifting along in a surge-beaten bark, Borne on to that haven, my dear humble home. 'Twas there while I 1 ibfter.ed to old ocean's roar I looked but iu vain fur tie comfort of home ; The eagle's wild scream was heard on that shore. Instead of my sisters sweet voices ot home. W. P. T. Shumokin, Feb. 10, 18D6. HJcfo license ?aliu REMARKS OP MR. TAGQART, Of Xorthumberland county, on 3fr. Drowne's amendment to Senate bill Jo. 7. entitled on act to repeal nn act to restrain the tale of iiittixicating liqttnrs. Delivered in Senate, February 12, 1S56. If I had needed any proof of the fecbleiess of the cause to which I am opposed, I have certainly had it, and to the fullest extent, in tho utter inability of Senators on this floor, and especially of tho venerable and distin guished Senator from Allegheny.) Mr. Wil kins,) to defend it. If he, sir, w'ho for fifty years has been a man of note in tho land"; laised by his ta'ents to nearly every high post under the government; a member of tho House of Representatives before you and I were bom ; a member of Congress and a Senator of the United States; a Judge of two courts nnd one of them a Federal court ; a Cabinet MinisW, and a Minister Plenipo tentiary; if he, ir. with all bis Aram-iron honors clustering thickly around him in the pride and power of his unclouded intellect, and may I not add here, in all tho skinning and scalping ferocity of his sarcasm if b sir, can adduce no argument, and raiso do point, how ragged, wretched, helpless wist be that causo Nay. if he had tho mental stature of a God, he could not defend it. The imperishable Truth comes across his path, ond the giant becomes a pigmy in the hollow of its hand. Mr. Speaker, he has told ns that drunken ness is a limited evil. Great God! so it is ! limited by the bounds or the earth, and the habitations of the humau race, and limited by nothing else. For it has penetrated wher ever men hove made their homes to desolate and destroy thorn. I appeal to history ; and its voice, answering from the deep of nee?, tells me it hns swept off whole nations, und I laid waste the proudest cities of the earth. 1 It t a limited evil, but there is scarce a G re side in the land it has not clouded a heart thut it has uot saddened an eye that it hns not filled with tears. I ask him. with his four score years of experience, if it is not so 7 Has he never known the happiness of a bouse hold blighted the pride of a father's soul humbled, or a mother's heart wrung with agony? If he has not, sir, you and I have in instances more than we would care to tell. Has he not seen it enter tho domestic circle the hallowed sanctuary of home and scatter its dearest joys us leaves ore scattered by the winds of winter? winds alas! that iu this case, no springtime ever comes to temper. Has he not seen it full like a blight upon those whom nature had endowed with every rare gift of body and mind, and sink them degraded and brutalized into drunkards' or felons' graves ? And yet all this is nothing to the filthy gold that commerce may wring from wretchedness. It is a limited evil, but kind Heaven protects us from such limita tions. He has asserted, sir, that drunkenness con duces to no enormous crimes. Does that venerable Senator uot know that our peni tentiaries scarcely contain an habitually sober man? liocs ho not know that our police re ports are filled with the names of drunkards? Docs he not know that 9-10th of all crimes, aud 19-20th of ull murders, are committed through intemperance, and that the gallows creaks almost daily with tho carcasses of drunkards T If he do not, sir. it is time ho should, and with oil the profound deference that my irreverant nature is capable t'f, 1 proffer tho information. I think it was Diogenes who said, ha hnd often regretted speech, but newr silence. The ancient Cynic sheuld havo made rxcep tions to this rule. There ure time, sir, when it is not only stupid, but criminal to be silent. As far as 1 urn concerned, this is such a time. If I failed to bo heard now, I should be false to the faith of my boyhood, and a traitor to my manhood's best and strongest convictions. My memory caunot recall a time when these were not my principles. When I wus a boy at school, I could see the slimy truck of the serpent ull around mo, Mid 1 will tell yon what my memory can recall lbe forms" of those who fell before it, whom its poisonous breath struck down. I rcmemht r them too welL I sat with them on the sumo botich swam the same river, aud scaled the same high hill aud now there is nothing left of them, bnt a yhastly memory to bold me to my fuilh ! Ay, sir, it will hold nie there not merely for my own gclGsli safety, but lor the sako of two little children, whom it is natural I should sometimes think ubout, Rlld who shall never become the serpent's prey while 1 have a voice to warn them, or a strung urm to protect them. Whoever will take the trouble to consult the record will Cud that, less than u year ago I voted for the law, which whii-key mongers ana tlieir ruin-headed parasites have com nonly denominated tho "Jug Law." 1 did so, because I hoped thereby to promote the cause of temperance, and the welfare of niy fellbw-citiseus. The popiilur vote forbade the enactment ( a Prohibitory luw, and striving aud hoping to be right, we enacted this. I am compelled reluctantly to admit, it has uot quite answered my expectations not on account of its own defects, but because a majority of tba people are npposeJ to it. and because in some sections it i totally dis regarded, aud by common acquiescence' con signed to an untimely grave. I believe the majority of the people to be w rong in this instance ; but it is useless to legislate in the face of pnblio opinion. Iwg which the people bate, no matter how IrnorstvtlT ihwy hate them, will become a dead letter, in spile of all that law makers ot law interpreters may do to the contrary. Although I voted for tho law of last sos. sinn, 1 am now ready to vota for iti repeal, but at no time and under no circuniBtan'e for its unconditional repeal. In coming to this conclusion I have not fonndrd my cal culations upon tho dollars Pbd cents which the owners of tuvorns, mukers of whiskey and sellers of grog may gain or lose. Thcie are considerations paramount to these, which claim my thought and commond my sympa thiesconsiderations that involve more vital interests tho degradation of men, the sor rows of wpmen, and the tears of little children. And I trust in God 1 may never be broohtj to disregard these, for the sako of the gold that may bo wrung from human misery. 1 will vote for this repeal, nU that tavern keepers mar make more money, but that onr great cause mny not be injured by forcing pub lic opinion, i lio popular voice luisconaemnea this law, nnd I am sorry that it is so. The nooular voice is iust as elamorons for a whole some aud vigorous substitute, and 1 am glad that it is so. In no quaiter cf the State i3 anything else expected or demanded. Siiiia tho 14th of April, 1803, the very traffickers themselves havo ceased their indiscriminate bowlings ut everything iu tho form of restric tions, and whimpered as gently as suckiug doves for any chungo we may be pleased ta give them. This is one cood result that has grown out of tho enactment which Senutors on this floor, in tho enthusiasm of their grati tude to tho combination that sent them here, havo spoken of so contemptuously. And 1. for one, sir, urn anxious to take advantage of this salutary change iu the sentiments of tho advocates of whiskey. While it is unwise for law-makeis to get too fur ahead of ppblio opinion, it is sensulesg nnd unpatriotic to full behind it. The legislator should not nttempt to steer his bark against both wind aud tide but like a skilful pilut, should take advantage of the current, guiding it carefully nmoug rocks und quicksands. While he avoids tho hunicatio blusl,, that only ceasa to blow when they havo destroyed thuir victims, ho should not dread tho transitory storms of inobbish clamor; for they will pass harmlessly away, uud the sun will bh.ue again, and tho more brightly for the uurktiess which his rays were able to dispel. Let Justice, Courage and Truth be stumped upon the (lag that flouts above him, and when his. bark is safely moored asd its cuigo brought to shove, they who were fiercest; in their imprecations, will be foremost and loudest in their praises. Let us work upon tais principle, and step by step wo shall gain upon the giant evil that for cen turies has been desolating the wutld. and scattering poverty, crime, disease and death, with all their concomitant and icsejarabls horrors around it. Mr. Speuker the day is not very far off when people will look back in astonishment at thu lime when a traffic in ardent spirits was legalized or even Mcrated among civilized men. And although just now the law of re action seems to require a bnvheard surge, the great tide will toll on, till the f miest and most univeisal scourge that, ever efilicted tho world shall be obliterated from its face. It is my hope and earnest belief that in ten years from to-day, a licensed groggery, or a greggery of any fort wili be unknown among the forty ini'.lious of this republ.c ; nnd ia other ten years, unknown among all the ca tions of the earth. There wus a time, sir. when to assert that the globe moved around the sun was punished with imprisonment aud threatened with tor ture, and now it is not only the creed of learned philosophers, but of bobrs nnd school boys. As sure as the Almighty has eii'ted man with intellect to comprehend the Truth, so sure will Truth ultimately prevail. It needs only time, and its own inherent omnip otence, to insnro it3 triumph ; and its grand est triumph will to dethrone Intempetanco, aud blot out Rum Irom among the great powers of tho earth. When this triumph comes, sir, Beggary will be driven from tho land Crime will no longer stalk abroad prisons will hi unpeopled the gallows rob bedand Madness howl in vain for its vic tims. That time will come, sir. Truth ia o mighty, Jthat if a single ray of itg light fall among men, it will grow wider and deeper and higher and brighter, till no vestige of Krror remains. Au tipple fell from a tree in sight of a man whom nature had endowed with a massive bruin, and from that little circum stance a theory was deduced which explained the physical harmony of the Univesc tho motions or innumerable w orlds. That man, by the extraordinary share cf Deity that ha possessed, was able to comprehend that tho same principle which brought the apple to the earth, held tha earth in its orbit, and guided the planets in tbeir illimitablo tracks. So mighty is Truth, give it but a foothold, aud sooner or later it will subvert the errors and superstitions of CCHO years. Progress is stamped upon evtrvthirg that God baa made, aud he is but a dullard aud a sloth who holds backward in tho race. But. sir, this idea U to be taken in connex ion with another. Under a popular govern ment, the will of the people from whom ema nates all political power, mnst not bo disre garded, or lau-lessnen trill be added to evilt already cristing. This consideration, and thit alone, impels ma to tho conrse 1 intend to pursue in voting for a license law. I do not cringe to popular clamor for any effect it may havo upon myself or my politieul fortunes ; und although I do not claim to bo entirely destitute of the sentiment which, the vener able Senator tells us. distinguishes man from the crawling worm, I do not value those for tunes highly enough to sacrifice niy manhood upon their shrine. 1 bare never cast a vote, nor nttered a word, in this chamber merely to advance them, and so help mo God 1 I never will. If it demands this sacrifice, mv efforts must find nnothtr chanuel, and tny ambition unother career. Whilo I am here, sir, bribes shall not swerve me, threats shall not oppul me. nor pers eettiou drive me frwn my course. 'he suit is set, aiad tny hand is upon the helmi If I am wrecked, te water thut overwhelm mo shall be pure nnd stain, les" And when my political carcase is dashed upon tho tWe. I trust no man will noiat to it ord say bt-huld the spots ui.il blotches of corruption. Popularity is too often the boou of knavea nnd fools, to b uuiiguv wiin tn stirTctuier U a Ireeuiru a proMle-t privilege independence of thought and net ion. Uo who comes here to play the doughface or the demcgrgue. ruav win the transitory applause of thoughtless" men, but he will lose that which be should hold much more highly, his own self respect and the per, manent regasd of those whose regard is worth tho most. Mr. Speaker, two sorts of petitions hr come hero by hundreds one sort mors nu merous than the other ; some of theea reek ing with the soiell of rumj marked with the stains of mm ; written on bar room eouu, Urs. by hands made tremulous with row i and I dre the assertion that nearly all t,f " originated in the patriotumi of trrex.era in rantmen who sounder judj, menu hart bn wrp d, and fatso tetter