THE STAR OP THE NORTH, W. U. JACOB?, Proprietor.] VOLUME 11. YMe star of the north t-ttaklSbUi) EVERY WEDNESDAY BY Wl. 11. JAGOBY, bfflte on Main St., 3rd Sqnnrc below Market, TERMS:—Two Dollars per annum if paid Within six months from the time of subscrib ing: two dollars and filly ctS. if not paid with in the year. No subscription taken for a less period thah six months; no discontinuance permitted hhlil all arrearages are paid, Un less at the optibn of the editor. The terms of ndltrlising Will he as follows: Dne square, twelve lines, three times, SI 00 Evety subsequent insertion, 25 One square, three months, 3 00 Dne year > 8 00 ut '.hat it has ■been of no more worth to those around us. As the glowing hopes and ambitions of early life pass away ; as friend departs and stronger ties which hold us here are broken, cut life seems but a bubble, glancing for a momant into light and then broken and not a ripple left on the stream. Forty years once seemed a long, weary pilgrimage to tread. It now seems but a step. And yet along the way are broken shrines where a thousand hopes have ■ed into ashes; foot-prints sacred under their -drifting dust; green mopnds whose grass is fresh with the watering of tears; shadows even which we would not forget. We will garner the sunshine of those years, and with chastened step and hopes, push n towards the evening whose signal lights will soon be seen swinging where the wa ters are still and the storms never beat.— AN Irish lover has remarked that it is a great pleasure to be alone, especially when your "swatehearl is wid ye." BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 21, 1859. Hon. Ilenry M. Fuller's Speech, Delivered in Philadelphia at Juyne's Hill on the Tth init., at the Union Meeting. Gentlemen: This is a fit occasion for moderate and patriotic counsels. It is prop !er that reflecting and law-abiding men should now assemble. It is right, and just, and "that we Northern men should, by public meeting and resolution, condemn, not only the recent attempt at insurrection in Virginia, but should de nounce, with unqualified disapproval, any J and every effort to disturb the existing re- j [ lations of the South. As Pennsylvanians 1 : we are content with our institutions, attach- j I ed to our section, and ready if need be, to ! defend it, (cheers,) but in our intercourse j | with onr sister Stales we will respect their j feeling and observetheir rights. [Applause.] j As Northern men we hold out the right j hand of fellowship, and make friendly sal utations to the South. [Cheers ] Men of the South ! We wish to live in amity with yon, and to have a perfect un ion. [Cheers ] Do not take the expression j of a few for the sentiments of the masses, | [applause,] but believe us to be, • what in j truth and sincerity we are, your friends and ' brethern. This Union, fellow-citizens, to be solid and lasting, must be based on mu tual confidence and mutual respect. When ever we fail to confide, when we cease to respect, when we no longer regard the feel ings or observe the rights of each other, we shall become enstranged, divided, dissolved, i and no longer one people. Are there any | such offences existing as should separate ' the American States! [No, No, and great cheering.] Is there any such inequality, any such disparity of interest existing among the Northern and Southern portions of the Confederacy as should prevent their dwell ing together in amity ! [Cries of No, No ] | Are not the peculiar productions of the ' South—her rice, cotton, and sugar—essen- I tial to Northern comfort and civilization ! [A voice, "That's so !" and great cheering.] Without them, what would become of the navigation, and manufactures of the North! On the other hand, without the navigation, manufactures and consumers of the North, of what value would be Southern produc- ! tions. There is a mutual interest, which, by wise and proper legislation, may bo fos tered, largely increased, and perpetuated. True; we have a country of vast extent, em bracing every variety of 6oil and climate, and involving many supposed antagonisms; but we nevertheless, may, and the senti ment of the American people this day is, that we shall live as we have lived—one people—not in name only, but united in interest and united in affection. [Cheers] It is not to be concealed or denied that the question of slavery is the disturbing ele ment of our system; [Applause ] How it is to he reached, treated, and disposed of, is a matter of serious and solemn concern Fanaticism, extreme opinions, are always unreasonable and unjust. Having zeal with out knowledge and passion without reason, they ordinarily accomplish their own defeat through their own natural folly and extrav agance. Like madmen, they rave them selves into quiet and become exhausted Slavery is a faot. We are not responsible for it. It was brought here before the Union was born. A mysterious Providence has cast upon this continent two races, distinct in origin, character, and color. It is a mor al impossibility that two such races should live together in any considerable number without the one being in subordination to the other. The experience of more than one hundred years has established the rela tion and confirmed the fact that the two races may dwell together, and the inferior be greatly improved thereby, for surely the African rnco has grown and multiplied and improved in the United States, and nowhere among the one hundred and fifty millions of colored men now living upon the globe, can four millions of colored men be found, so well protected, so happy, and so Chris tianized, as are this day to be found in the Southern States of the Confederacy. Eman cipation, wherever practical or safe, and whenever for the interest of both races, is most earnestly to be desired. How is it to be accomplished ! Certainly not by outside organization ; that is, by associations in the free States, having abolition for their ob ject, as they have only retarded and defeat ed their avowed intentions. Habitual crim inations, offensive resolutions, that because of slavery, the people of a particular sec lion are unworthy of social and religious connection, will never accomplish emanci pation, [cheers,] they only produce heart burnings and mischief. [Applause.] This matter must be leu to the quiet and undisturbed action nf those among whom it exists, and are immediately affected by it. It is our plain constitutional duty to let it alone. We of Pennsylvania have done our work of emancipation, and discharged our full measure'of responsibility, at our own lime, in our own way. [Cheers.] We set tled this question according to our convic tion of interest and of duty. Shall we not accord to others the same right we have ex ercised for ourselves! Whether for good or evil, it is their concern, not ours. Let us, then, leave it, jrilh all its accountability, arid every remedy it may seem to require, to the wisdom and conscience of those upon whom Providence and the Constitution east its responsibility. [Cheers.] We hope that the colored race, under the influence of our advancing civilization, may be lifted up, their condition improved, and ultimately prepared to return, occupy, Christianize, and redeem the land of their heathen fath | era: This cannot bo done through our in j strumentality—this problem muat be solved by a higher power. We must paiientlj abide the working of Providence. j Now fellow-citizens, we as citizens of a common country, living under a common | Constitution, have a common duty to per form—to defend the right of every section, | whenever and however assailed. The re ; cent attempted insurrection at Harper's j Ferry has excited a mo6t unpleasant feeling at the South, anil a most mistaken impress | ion on their part, as regards the sentiments l of the North. We have no sympathy with I that modern hero worship which exalts crime and defies a felon ; which sends com fort, counsel, and material aid to the call of the homicide, encouraging treason and jus tifying murder. The history of this attempted insurrection discloses a remarkable fact, that John Brown, a man of intelligence, of strong will great earnestness of purpose, after a years preparation, with a thousand pikes in pos session, with ammunition at his command, holding two days the Government arsenal, could only induce two negroes to join his standard, and they were the first to surren der. There in Virginia, a Slate with 23,000 negro slaves within a circuit of fifteen miles, to whom liberation and freedom were promised, only two came forward to accept this boon. Does not this prove that the slaves as a mass are contented as they are 1 They want no change ; least of all, such a change as John Brown could give them.— [Tremendous cheering ] Wiser than John Brown, and wiser than those who aided and abetted him, they are content rather to bear the ills they have than fly to others they know not of. Certainly the worst enemies the slaves can have are they who disturb his quiet, and incite him to rebellion and insurrection. We adopt the language of the great statesman of the West, of Henry Clay—"We prefer the liberty of our own country to that of every other country, and the happiness of our own race to that of every other race. AN AFFECTIONATE PARTING —The Albany Express, [like the Star of the North,] has some subscrbers who don't pay for their pa pers, and bids them good-bye in the follow ing witty terms : "This week we strike from our list only about fifty subscribers who will not pay their dues to the printer. In doing so we take them by the hand, and with tears in our eyes, bid them an affectionate farewell. Good-bye, old subs ! Take care of your selves. Sometimes think of the old Express which you have read so long for nothing.— Sponge upon some other printer now lor a while. A change of diet will doubtless be good for you. Poor fellows ! We are a little sorry to turn you out on the dark night without a lamp, but it must be so. Strike for the nearest neighbor's light. He may let you in, and feed you tor a year or two, upon the strength of your honorable promi ses to pay at the end of that time. For our selves, we have enough of these curious pledges to supply our cabinet for the pres ent. We have labeled them carefully, and they are open for general inspection. With many thanks for your self-sacrificing indul gence of us, and for ypur honest apprecia tion of the obligation existing toward our office, we again, and finally, say farewell forever." 'ANECDOTE or GEN. SCOTT.— The Home Journal publishes the following anecdote of j Gen. Scott: In the heat of ono of the most desperate battles in Mexico, the General saw a critical point where an advantage , was likely to be lost except by a prompt tbouglt rather dangerous movement. Ho galloped up to one of the officers of a volun- j teer corps, and gave the order. The man ! was willing enough, but, while gathering up the reins, ho remarked in the most sa- j vory drawl of Y r ankeo dialect: "Well, it j doos seem to me that 1 could hayve done it! better a little while ago !" "Sir," thunder- I ed out the General, "the word does and have ! Y'ou've only twenty minutes to live, ar.d for God's sake, don't die with such horrible pronunciation in your mouth !" and waiv* ing his hand to the astonished captain, with imperative repetition of his order by ges ture, the splendid horseman galloped off to follow up his victory in another crisis of the battle. SWALLOWED A HOLE.— The other day Char lie, five years old, found one of those curi ous bone rimmed circles which, 1 believe, ladies have named eyelets, and whie playing in the garden swallowed it. The family were in the same house, busily engaged with a work on entomology, when Charlie ran in with mouth wide open and eyes dig tented to their utmost capacity. His moth er caght him by the arm, and ttembeliug with that Jeep anxiety which only a mother can feel, inquired : "What is the matter! what has happen ed !" The urchin, all agape, managed to articu late. "Water!" It was brought him ; when after drinking copiously, he exclaimed. "Oh ! mother, I swallowed a hole I" "Swallowed a hole, Charlie !" "Yes, mother; swallowed a hole with a piece of ivory round it!" A German and a Frenchman walking to gether, were attracted by a pig, whose squeak resembled "ous."—"Listen," eaid the German, "the pig is a countryman of yours, he speaks French." The French man replied, "Ah, mon cher; but he speaks it with a villainous German accent." Truth and Right iotl and our Country. A Ghost Story. We were returning from our spring meet ing of the Presbytery—one gentleman and two young ladies—in a "rockaway," and the roads none of the best. Night, coldind i damp, overtook us eight or ten miles from home, but only a short distance from Judge , BLANK'S. Knowing that we should find out ' side the Judge's door the latchstring, and | inside a warm welcome, a warm fire, and a ! warm supper, besides beds which we could worm for ourselves—we unhesitatingly con signed ourselves to his hospitalities. Sup per being over, and our persons disposed according to our several tastes in a semi - | circle before an old-fashioned blazing fire, we were just in tho mood to enjoy the en j tertainment of our host's conversational gifts. Among other things he narrated tho following" unique tale, which we unani mously agreed to put in print:— Said the Judge substantially as follows: "Years ago, wo had in our house a sweet little child about four years old, the object, of course, of a very tender affection. But sickness laid his hand upon it. Remedies promptly resorted to, all proved in vain.— Day after day the roses faded from the cheek, and the fire in the eyes burned low; and at length death closed those eyes, ar.d sealed the lips forever; and we learned, by trying experience, how intense a darkness follows the quenching of one of these little lights ol life. "The lime rolled sadly on, brought us at lengtli to the hour appointed for committing our treasure to the ordiuarily sure custody ot the grave. The friends assembled, the customary services were held, the farewell taken, and the little iorm securely shut be neath the well-screwed coffin-lid, and in due time the grave received its trust. We looked on and saw tho earth thrown in, the mound raised above, and the plates of sod neatly adjusted into a green sheltering roof, and then wended our way back to our des olated home. Evening came on and wore away.- My wife had gone into an adjoining room to give some directions to a servant, and I, unfitted by the scenes of the day for aught else, had just laid my head upon my pillow, in our room upon the lowest floor of tho house, when 1 heard a shriek, and in a moment more my wife came flying into the room, and springing upon the bed behind me, exclaimed, " 'See there 1 our child ! our child !' Raising my hct-iV, sny biood Iroze within me and the hair upon my head stood up as I saw the little thing in grave clothes, with open, but manifestly sightless eyes, and pale as when we gave it the last kiss, walking slowly towards us! Had I been alone—had not the extreme terror of my wife compelled me to play the man, I should have leaped from the bed and win dow without casting a look behind. But not daring to leave her in such terror, I arose, sat down in a chair, and took the lit tle creature between my knees—a cold sweat covering my body—and gazed with feelings unutterable upon the object before me. The eyes were open in a vacant stare. The flesh was colorless, cold, and clammy; nor did the child seem to have the power either of speech or hearing, as it made no attemp to answer any of our questions. Tho horror of our minds was the more intense as we had watched our child thiongh its sickness and death, and had been bnt a few ; hours belore eye-witnesses of its igterment. ! "While gazing upon it, and asking in my thoughts, 'What can this extraordinary providence mean ! For what run it be sent!' ; the servant girl having crept to the door, af ter a time suggested, 'lt looks like Mr 's j child.' Now, our next neighbor had a | child oi nearly the same age as ours, and [ its constant companion. But what could j bring it to our house at that hour, and in ; such plight! Still the suggestion had oper ; ated as a powerful sedative upon our exci | ted feelings, and reudered us more capable lof calm reflection. And, after a time, we discovered in truth that the grave clothes were night clothes, and the corpse a som nambulist ! And it became manifest that it was the excitement attending the loss and burial of its playmate, working upon the child's mind in sleep, to which we were indebted for this untimely and most startling visit. "Wiping away the perspiration and taking a few long breaths, I prepared to counter march the little intruder back to its forsaken bed. Back we went, it keeping at my side, though still asleep. It had walked quite a distance across the damp grass. I found the door of its home ajar, just as the fugi tive had left it, and its sleeping patents un conscious oi its absence. The door creaked as I pushed it open, and wakened the child who looked wild around a motion), and then popped into bed. "Now, had it not been for my wife, as 1 have said, I should, on the appearance of this apparition, have made a leap of un common agility from that window, and after a flight of uncommon velocity for a person of my age and dignity, I should have been roady to take oath in any court, either in Christendom or heathendom, that I had seen a ghost."— Presbyterian. "MA, didn't the minister say last Sunday, that sparks flew upward !" "Yes, dear ; how came you to think of it 1" "Because yesterday I saw cousin Sally's spark stag gering down the street, and fall downward." "MOTHER," said a little urchin the other day, "Why are otphansthe happiest chil dren on earth !" "They are not, my child; what makes you ask that question !" Be cause they have no mother to sjpank'etti." Beauties of the Bhetorie of Everett. The Han Edward Everett has delivered another of his matchless orations. The oc casion was the inauguration of the Webster Statue, which furnished a theme on which he lavished the wealth of his genius. Wo would gladly publish the whole oration if we had space, and we must be content with presenting a gem or two : "What citizens of Boston, as be accom panies the stranger around onr streets, gui ding him through our busy thoroughfares, to our wharfs crowded with vessels which range every sea and gather the produce of every climate—up to the dome of this capi tol, which commum's as lovely a landscape as can delight the eye or gladden the heart, will not, as he calls his attention at last to the statues of Franklin and Webster, ex claim—"Boston, lakes pride in her natural position, she rejoices for her material pros perity; bnt richer than the merchandise stored in palatial warehouses, greener than I the slopes of seagirt islets, lovlier than this encircling panorama ol land or sea, of field and hamlet, of lake and steam, of garden and grove, is the memory of her sons, na tive and adopted,' the character, services and fame of those who have benefitted and adorned their day and generation. Our children, and the schools at which they are trained, our citizens and the services they have rendered ;—these aro our jewels— these are our abiding treasures." Yes, your long rows of quarried granite may crumblo to the dust; the cornfield in yonder villages, ripening to the sickle, may like the plains of stricken Lombardy a few weeks ago, be kneaded into bloody Nods by the maddening wheels of artillery ; this populous city, like the old cities of Etauria and the Campagna Romana, may be deso lated by the pestilence which walked in darkness, may decay with the lapse of time, and the busy mart, which now rings with the joyous din of trade, become as lonely and still as Carthage or Tyre, as Babylon and Nineveh, but the namos of the great and good shall survive the desolution and the ruin; the memory of iho wise, the brave, the patriotic, shall never perish. Yos spar ta is a wheatfield ; a Bavarian piince holds court at the foot of the Acropolis ; the trav elling virtuoso digs for marble in the Ro man Forum and beneath the ruins of the temple of Jupiter Capitolieus; but Lycur gus and Leonidas, and Miitiaders and De mosthenes, and Cota and Tully "still live;" and He still lives, and all the great and good shall live in the heart of ages, while marble and bronze shall endure ; and when marble and bronze shall have perished, they shall "still live" in memory, so long as memory shall reverence law, and honor Patriotism, and love Liberty. ######## Two hundred and twenty-nine years ago this day our beloved city received Irom the General Court of the Colony the honored name of Boston. On the long roll of those whom she has welcomed to her nurtering Boston, is there a name which shines with a brighter lustre than his! Seventy two years ago this day the Constitution of the United States was tendered to the accept ance ot the people by George Washington. | Who of all the gifted and patriotic ol the land 'that have adorqed the interval has done more to unfold its principles, assert its purity, and to promote its duration ! Hero, then, under the cope of Heavqp ; here, on this lovely eminence; here beneath the walls ot the Capitol of old Massachus etts ; here, within the sight of those fair New England villages here, in the near vi cinity of the graves of those who planted the germs of all this palmy growth ; here within the sound of sacred bells, we raise this monument, with loving hearts, to the Statesman, the Patriot, the Fellow-Citizen, Jhe Neighbor, the Friend. Long may it guard the approach of these " halls of conn cil; long may it look out upon a prosper ous country ; and it days ot trial and disas ter should come, and the arm of flesh should tail, doubt not that the monumental form would descend from its pedestal, to stand in the frout rank of the peril, and the bronze lips repeat tho cry of Iho living voice—"Liberty and Union, now and lorev er, ono inseparable!" FEMALE DEMONSTRATIONS.— A demonstra tion was made by a party of females, about twenty in number, upon the saloons of Davenport, lowa, a few nights 6ince.— They visited the saloon k,ept by a German, and warned him to "dry up," then they gave an Irishman a call, and he not talking to suit them, they threw a shawl over his head and proceeded to administer unto him, when his cries brought some of his country men to his assistance, and the damsels were obliged to retreat. They next called on a Yankee. He received them kindly, and watching his opportunity, caught two of the best looking about the neck and kissed them. The ladies not being used to that kind of warfare, retired, leav ing the Yankee victor, and his forces, "red eye" and "tanglefoot," unharmed. A CLERGYMAN, catechising the youths of his church, put the question from the cate chism to a girl: "What is your consolation in life and death ! The poor girl smiled, but did not answer. The clergyman insisted. "Well, then," said she, "since I must tell, it is the young printer at the Democrat Professor is in convulsions. Miss, you t hty} [tetter come and take him away. | Poop. Discovery of a Sunken City. i A gentleman lately from Jamacia, via | Boston, gives some curious particulars in regard to the discovery made in tho harbor j of Port Royal, in reference to the ancient city of that name. The discoveries were said to have been made by a party of di vers, but it was no*, stated who they were, or what they went for. It turns out how ever; that they were sent from this country, to explore the wreck o! the steamer Osprey, a small vessel ot 800 tons that used to trade between New York and South America, calling into Kingston, Jamaica, a few years ago. The Osprey, in 1856, was on her re turn voyage, with a rich cargo of india-rub ber, and other valuables, when she called as usual into Kingston. On the very morn ing of her intended departure, shortly after midnight she caught fire, through one or two of her crew attempting to steal spirits, and she burnt to the water's edge, and then sunk. The divers have been very success ful in getting out the hull of the vessel a targe quantity of india-rubber, and other articles. While thus engaged, the steamer Valorous entered Port Royal, and some thing being the matter with her bottom, the American divers were employed to search. They did so, and discovered that a portion of the copper had been stripped off which they made all right. Having done this 1 they were encouraged to explore the rains of the old city, noir lying in several fath oms o( water, which they did, and reported that they found the streets of the submerg ed city entire, as they had been laid out withtlhe ruins ol buildings on each side.— This is a matter woithy of antiquarian re search (if such a term may bo used, as it may in the New WorldjV and though the gold and silver there buried may never be discovered (and who shall say there will not !) it is really worth exploring the wreck of that place that was once—insignificant as it now is—one of the most ancient cities in America.— New York Express. Statistics of Ilcadaclie. The Bledical Times and Gazelle contains some interesting medical data, obtained by inquities made in the usual course of professional experience, concerning the causes of headache. Of 90 cases cited, 76 were females, a number which establishes pretty strongly the fact testified to by most of tho old writers, that females are more frequent sufferers. Of the 76 females, 40 were single. The predisposition in the case of females is believed to originate in the nervous sysiem—susceptibility of ner vous disorder being much oftener found in the female than in tho male subject. It is likely to exist in organisms which evidence a capacity of so much fineness and delica cy of perception, united with so much proneness to organic life and observed to be so readily wrought by passing states of thought, sensation and emotion. I Of the exciting causes, emotional distur bance has the highest number. Out of 90 cases, 53 declared this to be one of the cau ses of their attacks, 48 also considered that | atmospheric states were to be blamed, ar.d 25 specified thunder. In regard to inheri tance of the liability, in 19 cases the mother | is mentioned, in 9, the father, and in 12, both parents ; in all 40 gave explicit evi ' dence of hereditary predisposition, and a | few other mentioned cases in collateral | branches. Out of the 90 cases, only 19 : blamed their diet. As to the influence of, | climate, 29 seemed very clear that they are ' least liable to attacks of headache in places j were the air is dry and bracing; 0 com | mend cold atmosphere, and 6 condemn it: 8 praise warm atmosphere, aud 3 dislike it; 6 are in favor of sea air, and 4 are averse : to it. Fatigue is meutioned as an exciting cause in 32. TUB IRISHMAN AND THE DULL. —An Irish j man was going along the road, when an i angry bull rushed down upon him, and j with his horns tossed him over a fence.— ! The Irishman recovering from his fall, upon ; looking up saw the bull pawing and tearing ' up the ground, (as is the custom of the ani i mal;) whereupon Pat, smiling at him, said j "if it was not for your humble apologies, you brute, faix 1 would think that you had thrown me over this fence on purpose !" How TO PRONOUNCE "OUGH," —The ending syllable "ough," which is such a terror to foreigners, is shown up in its several pro nunciations in the following language : Wife, make me some dumplings ot dough, They're better than meat for my cough, Pray, let them be boiled till hot through, But not till they're heavy or tough. Now, I must be off to the' plough, And the boys,(when they 've had enough,) Must keep, the flies off with a bough, While the old mare drinks at the trough. A WITTY lawyer once jocosely asked a boarding house keeper the following ques tion : "Mr , if a man gives you five hun dred dollars to keep for him, and dies, what do you do—do you pray for him !" "No, sir," he replied, "I pray for another like him." "CAPTAIN, what'e the fare to St. Louis 1" "What part of the boat do you wish to go on-cabin or deck ! "Hang your cabin," said lite gentleman from Indiana, "I live in a cabin at home ; give me the best you have got!" AN advertisement reads as follows : ' Sto len a watch worth ten guineas. If the thief will return it he shall be informed where he may steal ono worth two of it, and r.o questions asked." [Two Dollars per Annum NUMBER 50* | Gen. Jackson—ilia Valor When a Boy. I The following incident of the boyhood of Gen. Jackson, is copied frdin Parton's Life of Jackson. It occurred during the parlisart war in the Waxhaws: In that fierce, Scotch Indian warfare, the absence of a lather from home was olten a better protection to his family than his pres ence, because his presence invited attack. The main object of both parties was to kill the fighting men, and to avenge the slaying of partisans. Tho house of the quiet hero Hicks, for example, was safe until it was noised about among the tories that Hicks was at home. And thus it came to pass, that when a-whig soldier of any note des ired to spend a night with his futnily, his neighbors were accuslomod to turn out and serve as a guard to his house while he slept. Behold Robert and Andrew Jackson, with six others, thus employed one night in the spring of 1781, at the domicil of a neigh bor, Capt. Sands. The guard on this oc casion was more a friendly tribute loan active partisan than a service considered necessary to his safety. In short, the night was not far advanced, before the whole party were snugly housed and stretched upon the floor, all sound asleep, exceptone, a British deserter, who was rostlesJJ and dozed at intervals. . Danger was near. A band of toties, bent on taking the lile of Capt. Sands,approach ed the house, in two divisions ; one party moving towards the front door, the other towards the back. The wakeful soldier, hearing a suspicious noise, rose, went out of doors to learn its cause, and saw the fod stealthily nearing the house. He ran in ter ror, and seizing Andrew Jackson, who lay next the door, by iho hair, and exclaimed : "Thetories are upon us!" Andrew sprang up and ran out. Seeing a body of men in the distance, he placed the end of his gun in the low lork of a tree near the'door, and hailed them.® No reply. He hailed them a second time. No reply. They quickened their pace, and had comd within a few rods of the door. By this time, too, the guard in the house had been roused, and were gathered in a group be hind the boy. Andrew discharged his mus ket, upon which the tories fired a vollay, which killed the hapless deserter who had given the alarm. The other party of tories, who were approaching the house from the other side, hearing this discharge, and thei rush of bullets above their heads, supposed that the firing issued from a party that had issued from the house. They now fired a volley, which sent a shower of balls whist ling about the heads of their friends on thtf other side. Both parties hesitated, and then halted. Andrew having thus, by his single dis charge, puzzled and stopped the enemy, retired to the house, where he and his com rads kept up a brisk fire from the windows. One of the guard fell mortally wounded by his side, and another received a wound less severe. In the midst of this singular con test, a bugle was heard 6ome distance off, sounding the cavalry charge ; whereupon the tories concluding that they had come upon an ambush of whigs, and were about to be assailed by horse and foot, fled to whete they had left their horses, mounted, dashed pell mell into the woods, and were seen no more. It appeared afterwards that the bugle-charge was sounded by a neigh bor, who, judging from the noise of mus ketry that Capt. Sands was. attacked, and 1 having not a single man with him in his house, gave the blast upon the trumpet, thinking that even a trick so stale, aided by the darkness of the night, might have soma effect in alarming the assailants. Hold L'p Your Head. We like to see men hold up their head* in community. The innocent and trie vir tuous should always do it. No-matter how poot you may be j tto matter how much your face is browned by the sun as you toil beneath its mid day heat, or your hands are hardened by labor. It is belter to bear these marks of industry, than to "eat the bread of idleness." Hold up your head tfnd look your fellow* man in the face, unless you have wronged him. If you have won his money at the gaming table, the most debasing of all means of getting money; if you have injur ed him in mind, body, or estate, and feel in your heart that you will not make reparation, then you have a right to draw your hat over your eyes, and look down when you meet nim. . But let the honest and noble of all ages, sexes and conditions, hold up their heads in society. If your own industry, or the industry of others, has enabled you to ride in your carriage, do it with a thankful heart, with your head up, but with a bow fqr all you meet. If you are in what are called the middle ranks, elbowing your way among your fellows, still hold up yoar head and press on. Or, if you belong among (he sons of toil, and eat the bread of independ ent industry, so much the more, hold up your head. Feel, even in your heart, that, as long as you do right, you are as good as the best. You bear, in common with the millionaire, the image of yotJY Maker. The dew that falls around his princely dwelling, distils as gently upon the flower that blooms at your cottage door. And the glad laugh may ring out as joyously from you and your children, as any that may enliven his mansion halls. Only treat all well and fairly in the circle in which you move, keep a cheerful heart, and fear nothing but to do wrong. Then, laboring man, you can go abroad, beneath the blue canopy of heaven, and hold up your head with the virtuous of the land. Do it, we say to you, thus ev coflngand respect