BY D. A. dr, C. H. BUEHLER
VOLUME . XXVI.
. ~ • 'Prom flueAlhany Argue.
Oh Let me Slog leo-Night, Mother.
We eve Wow the words an charrhinff song,
which has been put to music by ,l le. lraver,
of this city, and which has become a great fa.
vorite. The song is to wedded to music and
melody, that the words cling to the memory
without effort.
Ohrlet me Ring to night, Mother,
That Song I 118011 to AV,
Whoa hope was bright, tool icy hear Was light
' As a lard upon the wing I.
I know thou'l t miss the vnice, mother,
That warbled with the strain,
But let inc sing tomight; mother,
The dear old song again,
But let me aingtomight, mother.
.The dear old Hong again.
I know 'twill bring sad thought 44, mother,
Thy tears may fall like rain,
For a loving eye and n Ghir youbg face
Thou Mier iwty'st PPP nolo : -
But hove thee' send each tear, mother,
Back to its secret cell,
And let me sing to night, mother,
The song BIIP loved so well,
And let me sing tonight, mother,
The song slue loved so well.
I I will bring bright dreams to my heart, mother,
Bright 111'0311)4 a the joyous past,
When hope, all rainbow hued, mother,
tlvr !told around me oust.
1 know tha light row dim, mother,
lilt. still I rion.llr (.littg
'Po the bright ilreittlis that come hack, mother
With the song I nvrd to sing,
Tu tho bright drowns !kat volute bark, mother
With thti song 1 timid to sing
As I - sing the song. ofjoy, mother,
Faith upward lifts its eyt.,--
'Fowaro tht: Lind of reA, niutit:T*,
Wltt.rt. Impo Uall ill. %T (lie,
\\A wry ti,.s dim rdrottgly Lied, mother,
!silty iin'er 'ii in tlviiin ;
Whern the Wan: n re d ried, middy , heart, moII H
NI lir never kuuw sm-row again,
Warm orvr , 11'11 . 41, wul theleart, mother
Nlay flower know sorrow again.
l'hen let me sing (omight, mother,
'Flint dear old song id' old,
A nil pray %%him I sli•ep at last. oodles,
HIS he side all rilcut and cold ; •
(lurNpirits may meet ne'er to part, itmther,
Where Il.ear'n-born music shall ring,
And our ill! mingled there, mother,
In the songs the tiogels sing,
And our toices ho mingled there, mother,
lit the songs the angels sing.
I never leave my Ilusbatal Walt
How much of moment is conveyed hi
these molls. "1 never keep my husband
waiting." How much of lift: is lost by
tbo lost minutes; bow much of happi•
UM; by not being ready to onjoy it ; bow
much of prosperity by being "live minutes
too lam."
• We heard these words uttered by a la
.tly whose decision of character, whose
readiness for duty, and whose prompt per
formance of it, gave us an assurance that
uhatever there might lao-4 navrxmrfortni r ie
in her husband's future life, ho could al
ways rely upon the helpmate God had
given him There was an energy in her
tom) of voice, acre in her look, that told
:she know a wife's duty and would perform
it. We shall pot soon forget that event ;
-we shall bear in wind the future of that
couple, and we venture to say that dark
ness uor despair can never drive happiness
from that home, so long as that God spirit
reigns there ; for it mots the voice of a true
woman's heart that spoke, and that was a
.God•spirit.
If every wife could but thus speak, and
net, how rapidly would the world advance.
How ttiemy husbands have been ruined by
w.iitinp., precious moments of time, too,
in the life of a business man ; and the
never ready wife has, step by step, broke❑
.down the characteristic promptitude of
ninny a husband, and with it his business
.energies. until ruin comes upon his busi
ness, and wretchedness enters his bite.—
Would wives wish peace of mind and bles
sings at home, flowing from the prosperity
of the husband, Jet their constaut aim be,
to be able to say, ol never kept my hush
,and waiting.''
A Low Voice In Woman.
Yes, we agree with that old poet. who
.said that a low, soft, voice was an excellent
thing in woman. Indeed we feel inclined
to go uiuch fartherahau ho has on the sub.
ject, abd call it one of her crowning
charms. No matter what other attuctions
she may have ; she may be as fair as the
Trojan Helen, and ashamed as the famous
Ilyplititt i pf ancient limes ; she may hare
alphA,ApiOniplisbutents considered requi-
Aititut* pre4ent day, and every advaut
age that wealth can procure, and yet, if
she lack a low sweet voice, she can never
.be really fascinating.
How often the spell of beauty is rudely
broken by coarse, loud talking 1 How of
ten you are irrosistably drawn to a plrin,
-unassuming woman, whose soft silvery
tones render her positively attractive.—
Besides, we fancy we can judge of the
,character by the voice ; the bland, smooth,
fawning tone seems to .tts to betoken de.
-.colt and hypocrisy as invatiabiy as the mu
sical subdued voice indicates genuine re
ifinentert.
In the. social circle, how pleasant it is
,to hear woman talk in that low key which
Always characterizes the true lady I In'
the sanctuary of home, how such a voice
booths the fretful child and timers the
Aviary husband How sweetly sit endow
.cos float: through the sick chamber ; and a
round the dying bed, with what solemn
melody:do: they breathe a prayer for the
,departing soul) AL, yes, a low, soft voice
is certainly ,Itsg.excellent thing in woman."
Profound ignoranco wakes a , man dog
matic. Ha •who knows nothing, thinks
he can•toach others what ho has just now
ioarnedlibusolf ; '?vhile one wherknows a
great deal can scarce imagine any ono can
not be acquantied w ith what ho says, and
Apealts far this reason . with more'
.donce.
"W hens, go to a theatre i am very clue
' less of my dress, as the audienCe are too
he play --to-observe -my...war,
drobeq. but when I go to church I am very
particular in my outward appearance, as
moat people go there to aeo how their neigh
•-:d tern dregs and deport themselves.." ~ A pret
home .I.ltritat--wandor bow MAU aat
14,1 i
Perilous Adventure with a Tiger.
J. S. Boot in his !'Autobiog
raphy," relates an extraordinary adventure I
ho once had with . a'tigtir in India. Ile
bad gone to dine some scan or eight
miles from Bombay ; and having an op
pointment at home in the morning, and
the night being remarkably Vine, with a
brilliant moon-light, ho declined the invi
tation of his host and hostess to remain
with them over night, and set out at ten
o'ciock, in his palanquin, on his return to
Bombay.
• "A great portion of the way," he says,
"lay over a level plain 'of some extent; and
while we were in the midst of this, the
bearers, eight of them, and two mussatd
lees, or lantern-hearers, who carry their
lights in the moonlight as well as in the
dark, as a matter of etiquette, which it is
thought disresrectful to omit, ingtently
disappeared, scattering in all directions,
and each running at his utmost speed. I
was perfectly astonished at this sudden
halt, and wholly unable to conjecture its
cause, and all my calling and remonstrance
was in vaiti. In casting my eyes behind
the palanquin, however, I saw, to my hor-i
tor and dismay, a huge tiger in full career:l
towards me, with his tail' almost perpen- ,
dieular, and with a growl that indicated
ton distinctly the intense satisfaction with
which lie anticipated a savory morsel for
his hunger. There was not a moment to
louse or to deliberate, To get out of the
palanquin and try to escape, would be
running into the jaws of certain death.—
To remain within was the only alternative,
"The palanquin is an oblong box or
chest, about six feet Jong, two feet broad,
and two feet high. It has foul short lt;gs
for resting it on the ground, three or four
• inches above the soil. Its bottom and
sides are flat, and its top is gently convex
to carry off the rain. By a pule project.
ing from the centre of each end the bear
ers carry it on their shoulders, and the oc
cupant lies stretched on a thin mattrass ou
an open cane bottom, like a couch or bed,
with a pillow. beneath his head. The
mode of entering and leaving the pal an
quin is through a square opening on each
side which, when the sun or rain requires
it, may be closed by a sliding door. This
is usually composed of Venitian blinds, to''
allow light nod air, in a wooden frame,
I t
and may be fastened. if needed, by a small
brass hook and eye. Fiery thing about
the palanquin, however, is made as light
as possible, to lessen the labor of the-bear
ers ; and there is no part of
. the pannel
ling or sides more than half an inch thick,
if so teach. All I could do, therefore: was
in the shortest possible space of time to
close the two sliding doors, and lie along
on my back. I had often heard that if
. a to s pandod_your.bre.atli_amLnat omtle.
semblance of being dead, the most ferocious
of wild beasts will leave you, I attempt.
ed this, by holding my breath as long as
possible and remaining as still as a re
cumbent statue. But I fated it of no
avail.
lento doors were badly closed before
tha tiger was alongside, and his smelling
and snorting were horrible. He first but
ted one of the sides with his bead, and as
there was no resistaree on the other, the
palanquin went over on its beam ends, and
lay perfectly flat, with the cane bottom
presented to the tiger's view. Through
this and the mattrass, heated, no doubt.
by my lying. on it, the odor of living flesh
came out stronger than through the wood,
and the snuffing and smelling were repeat.
ed with increased strength. I certainly
expected every moment that, with a power
ful blow of one of his paws, ho would break
in some part of the palauquin, and drag
me out fof his devouring,. But another
butting of his head against the palanquin
rolled it on its convex top, and then it
rocked to and fro like a cradle. All this
while I was obliged, of course, to turn my
body with the.e'velutious of the palanquin
itself ; and every time I moved I dreaded
lest it should provoke some fresh aggres
sion. The beast, howeverovanting sarrae.
ity,Aid not use his powerful paw as rex
pected, and giving it up in despair, set up
p hiddeous howl of disappointment, and
blinked off in the direction whence he came.
"I rejoiced, as may be well imagined, at
the cessation of all sound and smell to in
dicate his presence; but it was fully quart
er of an hour before I had courage to open
a side door, and put my bead out to see
whether he was gone or not. Happily, he
had entirely disappeared, and I was instant
ly relieved. The next course to be con
sidered was whether I was to got out and
walk to Bombay, a distance of four miles,
new near midnight, or whether I should a
gain close my doors, and remain where I
was. I deemed this the safest plan, and
remained accordingly. About half an hour
after midnight, all my bearers returned,
with several peons, or foot-soldiers, and
muskets, pistols, lances, and sabres, enough
to kaki dozen tigers ; but they wore too
late to be of any service."
A SNEEItiNG Irtnt.—.A. correspondent
of the Providence ' , Journal," writing from
Rome, says :
i , The government allows several pounds
of snuff a year, to each priest, and no the
habit of snuff-taking is as common among
them as is thodisgusting habit of tobacco
chewing among the Americans. I have
recently seen a pleat take a pinch of snuff
as he was keeling before the altar, and of
fer it also to the one by his side• I have
seen, in the elegant church of St. Einttehe,
in Paris, And often in the churches
.of
Rome, before a ongregatlott of polite
people, oiliest, as ho was about to deliv
er his' disowns° from the pulpit, fill his
nose with large quantities of snuff. And
last, I have seen the Pope, before thla high
altar of St. Peter, take Banff as - the host
was about to be_raised by the officiating
priest 1, This might shock the propriety
of some among us, but in Europe it is a
thing SO common as not to excite any war
prise."
• Tho Scriptures givo four names to Chris
tians, taken fro*, the four cardinal sraeos
saints; for ;heir holiness ;.believers, for
theii faith`; hrothrpn, for their lore; :
tox•thbir knowlOdge,
GETTYSiURG, PA., FRIDAY
The Young Pedler
One - rainy afternoon, in the earliest part.
of Autumn, I .Iteard-a •low knock at my
hack door, and upon , opening it, found it,
pettier. Now' pedlera arer"egreat vexa
tion to me; they leave the gates open.
, they, never have anything I want. and I
! don't like the laces thatlielong to moat of 1
them, especially those iil the strong men
I who go about with little packages of coarse
goods, and I always close the_ door upon
s them, saying •to myself, lazy.! • • '
This'was a little boy, and he was pale
and wet, and looked so cold, I forgot he ,
was a pedlar, and asked him to come in',
by the fire. I thonght he appeared ?as
though he expected I was going to buy
something, for he coniMenced opening his
I lin box, nut I had no such intention. He
looked up into my face very earnestly and
sadly, when I told him - to warm himself
. 1 ,
by the fire, and that I did not wish to pur
-1 chase anything. He-rose stoutly - from his
seat, and there was something to his air
which reproached we, and I detained him
! to enquire 3vliy,bi3 was out in the rain.— .
He replied :
"I tun out every day. and can't stay in
• forl a little rain ; besides, most pedlers
stay at home then, and I can soli more on
rainy days."
"flow much do you earn in a day ?"
' , Sometimes two shillings. sometimes
one ; once in a while I get notlrina all day,
and then, ma'am, I 91t1 very tired."
lier - 4n gave aNquick, dry cough, which
startleffme.
"How long have you had that cough ?"
"I don't know, ma'am."
"Dose it hurt. you ?"
''Yea, ma'am."
"Where floes your mother live ?"
"In heaven, ma'am," said he, unmoved.
~I lave you a father ?"
"Yes. ma'am, he is, with mother," here.
plied. in the same tone.
"[lave you any brothers or sisters ?"
"I have a little sister, but she tvent to
mother about a month ago."
'•What ailed 'her ?"
"She wanted to see mother, and sn dol.
and I guess that's why I rough so."
•'Where do vnu live ?"
"With Mrs. Brown, on N— street."
"Does she.give you any medicine, for
your cough ?"
"Not doctors' medicine—she is ton poor.
but she makes something for me to take."
"Will you take something if I give it to
you ?"
"No, ma'am, I thank you ; mother took
medicine, and it didn't help her, though
she wanted to stay. anil you see I want to
go ;it would not stop my cough. Good
day. ma'am."
"Wait a minute." I said, "I want to see
what ,yom oarty."
and roe on enTriiitiffil
what I wanted. Indeed I didn't think it
Would have mattered what he had.
should have wanted it. for the little peddler
had changed in my eyes—he had a father
and mother in heaven, and so had I. How
strange that pedlers have never seemed
:ike people—human, soul•filled beings.
before. How thankful he was, and how
his great. sunken blue eyes looked into
mine when I paid him.
"You d'on't ask me fo take a cent less."
said he, after hesitating a minute. "I
think you must be very rich,"
"Oh. no," I replied ; "I am far from
that ; these things are worth more to me
now than I gave you for them. Will you
come again 1"
Yes, ma'am, if I don't .go to mother
soon."
"Are you hungry ?" •
"No ma'am. I never feel hungry now.
I sometimes think. mother feeds me when
I sleep, though I don't remember it when
lam awake. 1 only knoWq don't wish
to eat now, since my sister died 1"
"Did you feel very sad I"
"1 felt very bigin my throat, and I was
clinked, but I didn't cry a hit, though II
felt very lonely at night for awhile ; but
I'm glad she's up there now."
"Who told you you were going to die 1"
"Nobody. but I know I am. Perhaps
I'll go before Christmas."
I couid not endure that, and tried to
make him stay. but ho would run and tell
Mrs. Brown what good luck he had met
with. He bade me good day again cheer
fully, and went out in the cold rain, while
I could only say,
"(od be with you, my child l"
He never came again, though I looked
for him every day."-At length. about New
Year's I went to the place he called home.
Mrs. Brown was there, but the little Pil
grim ! his weary feet were at rest, and
never more would his gentle knock be
heard at the doors of those, who like my
self, forgot the necessity and stern want
that often sent about these wanderers from
house to house, and their employment
might be far more unseemly to them than
annoying to us.
U.SEFOi STurria.—Referring to the case
of .a young man named BARNES. who
bled to death in Buffr.lo from the effects of
a tooth which had been pulled the previous
day, the Trikate says his lite might
easily have been saved by the application
of a styptic, and one Of the best and, moat
easily obtained is gun.powder. Let it be
pulverized and laid upon lint so as to got
as much as possible in the cavity of the
tooth. held in by a mad of lint or cotton,
By. renewing the application two or three
times relief is rendered almost certain.'
TOE POPULATION Ow THE gASTEnii AND
blropt.s, Srs'res.---The census which is
now being taken hi several orthe Eastern`
and Middle States, indicates that thiS em•
igration to the .West and California has
checked the great increase of pop - nfittion
heretofore apparent in the Atlantic portion
of the confederacy. In New York State;
especially in the agricultural cOunties, at ,
many points there is, an actual decrease;
in others but a slight increaip, • .
IC bas been beautifully said that (.tbe
veil which covers the face of futurity. is
woven the hand of mercy." ,fieek
not.to raise that veil, therefore, for swim:Lis
migit be seen to . shado the brow tha t
cy ad artfiyod in `smiles of gladness,
9 AA FREE."
",PE ABLE
<
gYENING, A 1:1 NOVA, 1855.
IForelg
It is most -earn ally a he deplored,
says the N. Y. Jou (41 ojCommeree. that
so few who are bor •Itt iiis land and love
American traditions' r atare of the rabid
hatred of Christianit ahtilts concomitants,
yearly increaring in iflrimpulation, from
the continent of Euro ei ...We do not speak
of the convicts and 1 - tipr'is that are smug 7
gled ihto our ports fr M Genoa; Hamburg:
and Trieste': b'ut efth 0 of thousands of
Germano who from leg to year come
from provincekof Eu orMompletely pim-1
theized, and with whlrittreedotn is BY- I
nonymous with thOlOten(11 of the Icing;
dnm of the Redeemer: 4% 1 e called ,atten
tion some months ago he fact, that a I
large number of Gera:mesa-dm have come
of late years to title equtf.ry, disciples of,
the anarchist school Of Leine, according
to whose creed. "there 44be no true free.'
limn until Christianity - At timidity abolish
; ed," viz. until a perseCtithn by infidels of
Christians is instituted:l*th ends similar
o those of Diocletian orFointr.. Weahow,
eV that efectinns had tied. made to turn
upon the single point . ivether prayers
should he offered in. Legniaturea : whelk
, er the Lord's day shouldjit kept, and re
ligious oaths be mantaipal. One of the
most influential derreart!Pipers in this city
published simtillanermaly articles' Warn
ing the better class of GeSnans, of whom
there are so many in oer .ity. against en
couraging
those excesties., Onr remarksl
were republished in valimis parts of the;
United States. and wo fruited that a good'
result might he produeM. Since ~lien.;
however, another anniversary has recur-;
red of the birth-day of Thames Paine, and I
it has filled our beasts will shame to loam
how the natal day of that: enemy of God.
his Saviour, and of his 001Illry, has been
celebrated. The German language con
stitutes a barrier which prevents the most
of our. people from imagining what takes
place behind thwscreen 01 that unknown
tongue. The Teutonic dialect ensures the
existence of the Miti-qhristian legions.
whose numbers arOt reinforced continu
ally from ahroad,, as it vast sorrel Society
to whom none can have access who do not
gn thiough an ardueusAind 'pains.taking
apprenticeship of study, which in the end
leatres them when. initiated.. only . among
the first class of novices.: Yet its mem
bers are easityr_ naturalized, become as
speedly as possible citizens of these states,
carrying Atheism 'to the polls, anti-receiv
ing the homage °I-demagogue politicians
to obtain a few miserable suffrages. A
few of the "reforms!' demanded by the
"Frei:naenner," so they call themselves,
who have set up Thomas Paine us thPir
apostle, end who strive trigain strength to
revolutionize our government by the estsb,
lishment nf the tyrannykarchy, are—
rroritttotrotviiisra'we irnitrorestoerAti•
the
. Sabbath abolition of oaths in (on
green; abolition of oaths upon - the - Bible t
no more prayers in our Legislatures: eah•
olition of the Christian system of punit
ment ; aboliton of the Presidency. of all
Senates, of all lawsuits involving expense ;
the right of people to change the constitu
tion when -they like; a reduced term in
acquiring citizenship, etc. These things
are not sought after AS mere shadows, nor
are they dreams with '-whittit visionaries
amuse themselves, but which do no harm.
They are seriously inculcated principles,
instilled, for the propagation of which
there exist several chief and many minor
Societies, to which hundreds of thousandri
of foreigners are affiliated, who are in con
stant communication with each other . ,
ant! act in concert, who are beginning to
be felt in every corner of the land, but
particularly in the West, where their effort
greatly aided by the growing licentionsnes
of abolitionism.
A. stocking knitting machine, which was
patented in 1851, is now on exibition in
New York. The Mirror says :—A girl
ton years old. can knit hall a dozen pairs
of stockings in a day, working the machine
by hand or toot. In a factory, with mo
tive power, one person manages a dozen
machines. The at °eking is entirely made
by the machine, from top to, toe, and no
nimble fingers of industrious elderly maid,
en, sitting by the hearth corner, could
"widen" or "narrow" or "heel" or "toe"
more perfectly. The invention is in the
hands of a stock company.
EXTRAORDINARY Hanvesr.—A. letter
from Centerville, Indiana, dated July 2191
says ;
"W e have more than a double crop of all
kinds of produce in this country this year.
think wheat will tango fiom 50 to 75
cents per bushel this fall. ,There never
was such a prospect. I should not be sur•
prised to see potatoes selling at ten cents
per bushel. Yesterday I conversed with
a farmer who et‘pects to cut lour and a
ball tons of grass to tile acre. I have
some corn growing in my garden, of which
I think the stock will not be less than six,
teen feet high. and more than•likely it will
be seventeen." •
A LAIIOKFAMII,Y.H.There, is a family
residing in the .neighborhood , of, York, Pa t
three Members of which, the father, mo
ther, and eldest son, Weigh Conjointly see
-1
en kundred and 411 -one' fiounds. The
father, 46 years.oid,. eigha.334 lbs.; the
mother,43 years old, eighs . 2lo l b s., the
son, 18 years old, welghs 207,1b5.
GOOD ADVIOn• n ex change says.'
“Never punish a girl or being a romp. but
ii
thank Heaven theta has health and spir
it to, be, one. It is I ch better then a die.
torted spill, or hectic heak." Girls ought
to be great rompi--i is pettor than paying
doctor's bills for the .
in Blockly which
;l for eighteen years,
e
re or age. • i t was
'posed .from old age,
at it would come to
and eat out of any
persons to take it
A. trout lately
. di:
listed in a garden po
and was 'twenty y •
blind of one eye, su
and it was en tame
the side of the pa.,
one's hand, and all.
out of the water.
of persons who pro
'at for religion, with
any, eays. they re
enters; tato. built
people Vera caved;
.rownod,thowleltlM.
pr. Cox. ette 4 in
feu to do a kreat
out really
tunable Noah's Ca
ship in which oth '
341110Ugti' they were,
AN ECOOTP, OP DR A PM ? --.I3OANT, the
famous Indian chief, was as notable for
his wit as his bravery, and often made as
good a retort.RB any attributed to the keen
eat of his White brethren. Ono day a
braggart captain was boasting what he
would have 'done if he had met the war
rior in a certain emergency.. toll
yon," said Brant, "what you would have
done—you would have followed the exam+
ple of another" boaster who, on meeting
me face to face, took , to hia heels, and nev
er stopped till he arrived id. Albany, which
he chanced to reach during 31 great confi t.
oration. Hearing the Dutchnien cry
onraunt ! Braunt I" (fire I fire I) he ful
ly ran the harder, exclaiming. ••There,
that missed old indian has got here before
me !" .
IMMENRE SALES OP POEM LANDS.—It
is stated that the official retort's show that
13 . .815.730 acres of ['Olio lands have been
sold during the fiscal year ending the 30111
ultimo, for which there has been received
in cash and scrip the sum of $,10.570,380,
This is exclusive of-the land located 'with.
military bounty land warsnts in the sante
'period. The aggregate of the public lands,
the title in which has thus been minsfer
red from the Government to individuate,
was never before so large in a sittgle , ylPar, -
Even in the great. year of speculation in
the public domain, 1830. the whole nowt
thy sold and o therwise aliened was nut
so great.
A TOAST RV PRINTER. the
Pr arklin Festival; recently held in Lowed,
the hollowing sentiment was proposed and
most heartily responded to by tho comp
any
Printer—the master of all trades.
He beats the fanner with hie fast 'tHoe,"
the earpenter with his rifle, and the mas
on in selling up tall columns; no Stlrprivies
the lawyer ant doctor in attending to his
case, and beats the.parson in die manage
ment of the Devil;
'Phesix degrees of crime are " alined
He who steals a million is only . 8 financier:
Who steals a half million is only a defatth
ter.' Who mania a quarter of a million is
a,swindler, Who steals a hundred thou•
.sauttis a _xag 00. fifty thou.
sant! is a •ktiave. But he who. steals
pair of boots or a loaf of bread is a bOOllll
drel of the,deepe et dye, and deserves to be
lynched. ..• .
UNTIL a yoling man is married, he is
tossed about from one degree of ungodli,
news to another, till* his, health; strength,
and. character are completely -busted up
and done for. Talk a6nut your Congress
water awl sea bathing! tithe is nothing
the fiord over invented, fer the health,
• noble person needs btusa plain ;WI
MBll% to set him off; a, beautiful picture
but a simple frame ; a great thought is
best dressed in simple language; Out all
these need a spirit of understanding to be ,
appreciated.
THE following toast was read at a cele
bration of the 71:10% anniversary of our Na-
tional Independence, at Fayette Springs,
in this State:
My Bleeding Country—MaY ehe never
be Pierced again. •
‘•Teddy, my boy, just guess how many
cheese there is in the bar, an' faith I'll give
ye the whole five." •
' , Five," . said Teddy.
hArrah. my yowl, bad luck to )hu man
that 'told yer."
• A young lady found one day reading a
novel was asked by a genkletuan how she
liked the.stylo. Reviewing the incidents
in her memory, she replied, "The style?
the style ? oh sir, r am not some to that
An unmarried friend deelared to us, the
other day, with an expression of counte
nance most lugubrious, 4 1 .1 never eared a
farthing about getting married, until I at.
tended an old bachelor's funeral."
There are a gorier of a million people
in England At work in the different miner,
to whom the fresh air and the light of the
sun is scarcely known. . ' '
flow few of us realize that as we rise
each morning, and commence our aroma?
tiona, that we are only one day nearer our
final home.
Men who cannot reason, resort to prece-
dents, as it there were not more bad prece
dents than good ones. •
A cheerful temper, joined with inno
cence, will make beauty attractive, knowl
edge delightful, and wit good natured.
Why is a marrild man like a candle? Be
cause ho sometimes goes out at night when
he oughtn't to.
A beautiful face is the finest of all spec,.
tacks, and the sweetest of all harmonies is
the voico of her we love.
Totlosty is thaveil covering the gentle.
heart, and ,patienee holds the world rule.
Ting•
Serve every one as much_ as you cap,
and cotivete with po one mop) than you .
ptust.
It is a noble speeies of revenge to have
the powerof retaliation and not to exercise_
it,
A wan who is not ashamed of himself;
need not be ashansed of his early condition.
He who can soppresaa mominee anger
may preven,t many days- of sorrow.
Time, well employed, givel that health
and vigor to the cool which health and
redrement afford the boihr.
Eavy la a sin that, commonly parries its
on discovery and punishment.
Gilded mole do .00t beep ou
leeplcup pighte.‘
lAppiness can be oade quite se well
abolip maiPtiO 43 9f dParoncf•
Despetate Fight with Indians in Takes.
Noble'Cooduct of ;1. b04 , .--Tlio follow
ing aceountOf a desperate fight with V. party
of Indiana is copied'ireni the San Antonio
Ledger : •
On SatunlaY evening, Irmo 30fb, some'
fifteen Indians surrounded the house of
Mr. Westfall, wi; is well known to most of
nur citizens, and who lives ,on the Leona;
some thirty-five miles below Yort Ingeti
The attack was made upon Mr. Westfali
while bo was absent from the house, leaving
at the time no occupants in it but a Froinsh-
Man, named Louis,'and a largo dog. It
scums the Indians had been lying in wait
for some time, and took this opportunity to
attack him. Mr. Westfall, however, sue- .
seeded in getting back tirigs bowie, woun
ded in a dangerous man, -the ball furl.
Icing:him in the left brunt high up. nod
coming out nt his book the opposite
shoulder. Ile fastened the door ' and the
I Indiana then commenced an attac k ou the
house.' Louis and Woodall now exchanged
abets with them in rapid succession; but
Westfall was fast failing from loss of blood.
Louis approached. en. aperture in the wall in
order to make sure aim, and cons Fllot
through the heart, fell and expired. The
faithful tlog,`on seeing Louis fall, and the,
blood streaming from his body, became
frantic' with rage, and ruing out of a small
aperture, sprang among the Indions, seized
one and tore every garment from his body,
and was on the eve of killing him when he
was shot and overpowered by the demons in
human form that surrounded hie:. • Poor
'dog, he has nobly secrificed his lift) in de
fenceof his tooter.
Westfall, overpowered by the _lon of
blot3d, could onlr support hinoself now by
holding to the walls of th'e house;; hot 'loth
ing•deuuted, ho tore a largo aperture in tho
wall and stuck his gun out, in order to keep
up
, eppearancea. The =lndians,,-nu doubt,
thinking they would'Jiave a long siege,
end many of ;hem being severely wounded,
loft, taking with them all the harm belong
ing to tbe ranch. •It was now night, and
Wcstfall remembeis crawling to his bed,
which was the last conscionaneas ho Ind
until lest Sunday evening, when ho found
`himself lying on his hod covered with blood
that, had come from the wound and from
his month; but-ho was not able to come
froth . hit ied - tintil Monday; whim from the
stench•ftf tin:' dead body,in the. room he
found that something moilitOo done. With
'great effort he sucimodeCia dragging t.he
body itbuut= twouty feet, but could get
it no farther, At sunset on Monday eve
ning ho atarted towards Fort Ingo for us
shit:mad ; but succeeded that night in get:
iting only four tniles--and ot: Wednesday
evening be arrived at a house in the viein-:
Ity of. Fort Inge, where he PrAeured assist.
alma and is atoll aliveienti his glkyaietan has
-itigargpeihiiiiAtittriiviettry.Nsi -44
' forestaller,' Irork A correepondeu 6
•
of the Boston Travoler gives aq aecount of
how they make provisions high in Boston,
lie says;
To Show the public bow the prices of foo •
are kept up in our markets, I will state a
successful attempt which °marred last week
in tho article of cntimbers, which is appli
cable to all other articles. Ono week, ago
to:day a firm in Faneuil ifall Market sent an
agent to- the ,oursiders, or farmers; 'to buy
all the zueurnbersin this way ;
Beginning at the first in the
,wa
grins, ho asks, "What do you ask for cucum
bers ?" "One dollar and fifty cents per
hundred." "Save Me all yen have." To
the next, and so, on through the lino, the
question was asked with the same resell.
Whin the provision dealers & families came
to buy, there were none. to be had,s except
of tbis firm, in tho market house, who asked
two, dollars and fifty cents I And that day
and since. not a cucumber could be bought
for less than three cents apiece.
.4 Fourfold Alurder.—Thm foreign cor
respondent of the - New York 4.boud-Zait
nog rotates the following ;
"On the 4clinst., iu Berlin, trial wigt
concluded of Albert' iiiermano. accused of
murdering his, fear children. The circum
stances wore as follows :•-•l3iertnatin quarrel
led with his parents and to grieve the latter
determined to murder his children, who were
greatly beloved by their grand-parents. On
the 7th of November last he took a large
wash *tot, and accompanied by his child•
run, repaired to the city ditch. Hero be
timithc children together, put them into the
basket, and dropped them into the ditch,
where they perished. Ile was, on trial,
found guilty and condemned to death, The
prisoner received bie sentence with the ,14,-
most calmness."
Deeitution in 0/tino.--It appears that
destitioion prevails to an tilarmieg extent
in Clijna: Tho poorer classes iu the neigh?
borhood of Hong Kong, it is said, are
ing, their children for twenty-four cents
each.. This, price applies to girls of T to 10
years, and the purchaser must take them
away at once, and promise eupport. They
are chiefly employed as servants. Older
girls bring more, or to speak commerpially,
igwe quote girls from 7 to 10 years at 25
cents; 10 to 15 years $1; 15 to 20 years
more in demand, and cannot be had:under
$7O to $100." „
linfalo ii Krusas.—The Kansas Ilewsid
of July 14, says that buff.tlo in innumera
ble 'number's are ranging over the prairies
only fifteen miles tweet of Fort Witty. With
a spyglus,•froin a kill, they eau be seen
grazing as far as the eye pan reaph. Sottless
who had lOoated in the vicinity with herls
of cattle have been compelled to remove, /for
want of gram, which has been consumed by
those animals.
4, "Lady" AC
F.rie, county, Now York; recently, a_youog
lady, both yonng and pretty, broke into the
hogs° of JOS: Hopkins and robbed it - of
$llO in'cash, She aobarmuently betrayed
herself by offering one of the stolen 4ills ip
payment for gewgaws.
New Wrinkle.—A telegraphic dis
atch Wow St; Louis anoorturuks that - tbc
Missouri fillibusters intend tu suite; Platte
eouuty, Missouri, to the territory of Kauses,
or&I thereby -to - gt eutTleierit force $0
r
• e 410491 4 -1 4 1 0 'PtkiltfOrY prtit •
y '41%1
TWO DOLTARSTEI4
;NUMBER 21
(Frosu theh Pittsburg Daily, runes,
WasblogtpgsN 'Oplidons 0$ For%
The Democratic Press has repeatedly as
sorted that George Washington vrasafristat
to foreigner:3, and that he declared that
they should be admitted to all the rigliett
and privilesca of Amerinan citizens. A,
German paper published in thi eity. call
ed' the Freiheit's' Freund, asserted Patio
time ago that foreigners, German officers,
gave great assistance to Washington dur
ing the war of the Revolution. and that he
had quite fully acknowledged the • imper
tance of their services. It hes been asser
ted by foreigners. and their friends. that tha
United States were indebted to them Cm
their' indepcmdenre,‘that the stasistarictiof
itoreigners WAS essential in the snexess at
the American Revolution. We will puhlisk
enme,enthentic opinions of General Wash
ington shout foreigners, extracted from the
work 'of Mr. Sparks which - contains the
Life and Writings of George Washiegton,
We trnst that our friends of the American
Party 'will not only read them, hot give
them a general circulation. We first mil
lish an opinion of Washington about I
patriotism.
, tgerif and niadesty of foreign
officers
Mountferowx, 17th May, 1117.
Ili litrhare Henry'Lire : • .
MAR Sts.,:-4 take the liberty, to WIC yl*l.
what Congress mwects me tct do with thermally
foreignen} a they have different, times promp
ted to the rank: of field officers, and by theg last
resolve two to that of Colonels Y These radii;
have no attachment to thc countiv,forthcsithan
inters s t,hinds them Our officers think it ex,
ceedingly hard,' after`they. hnve toiled ,fin the_"
service, and have sustained many losses t to
have strangers put over them, whose merit, per-'
haps, is not equal to their oum, but whose afire*.
!erg wilt take lid It is* the zeal anti
activity'of our own people thotthe cause roast
ho suppqrted, and not by a few, hungry adven t
furors. I of*,
• G. WARRINGTON.
[Searle!, Vol. IV., p. 432.)
We hope that the Freiheit's - Freunti
will republish Ate above opinion of Wash
ington. tto wit ; that the foreign officers
had. no. attachinent to the country ; less
merit than the American officers; and un
deniable impiultmce !
Etelow is an opinion of*Washingion a
bout the propriety of appointing a foreigot
er to tuattege an-importantltriMelli iq
the American . Army : $
K .
hfinnLsomix4ool, 1777.:
.7b Richard Henry Lee :
You will, before. this CAT! reach yon, bane
Re e n Al .Whacltig.roal expee,
tations ar9 knw mot, bat I fear if hig disap,
pointment is equal to what I have bee,n tab] is
his opoetption, it will be attended with tallap,
pr consequences, to say nothing'of the policy
of •entroatiug.ro, Alepartrueot, pn the caeca.
lion - or which The sarration of the army de:
f .s euda, in a finripi . er , who has no other tie tq
•
ail- 41x! to slicroatinfthe:esnintry,
onpr. , • . G. Wanner/vox.
[Sparlut, Vol. IV., p. 444.]
Below is a letter frnin Washington tq
Governor Morris, upon the of the
appointment or foreigners to °Men;
WHITE Prams, July' 4, 111 . 8.
70 fr'oe.. Morris ,
DEAR. Sin The design of this is In touch
.cursorily upon a subject of very great impor
tance to the well being of these States. ] mean
the appointmotit of so maiirforeigners to ot .
fices of high rank and trust rp our army, The
1 lavish manner hi which rank has hitherto been
bestowed upon ihestegemieroest will certainty
be productivo ofone or the otkei, of these two
either. to make us despicable tu tire eye"
of Europe, or become a meting of pouring them
in upon us like a toriont, and adding to our
Amami burden, * * * Thu 'officrs
Von mist depend, will 'not submit ninth
longer to this unpatural promotion of men o f
Iver- them, who have nothing more than a little
plausibility';and utiboundedpride andarabition;
men,' !who, in the first instahee, 'tell you they'
wtah ntithing more than the hanorof iserrinr, in
so glorious a cause as 'volunteers ; the nest
day &dick rank without pay i the day following
want Money advenci,sl to them, and, hi the
course of ikiveek, want further promotion. *
* * " Ido moat devoutly troth that we had
not a ',single foreigner, annoig tut except the
Marquis do Lafayette whq acts upon very tlif,•
ferent principles, fronAhose which groFrn the
rest., G. Wistortmex.
[Sparks, Vol. p.13.]
Wash ington said that the foreign offieent
were n burden, upon them; that they had
nothing but a little plausibility and no:
bounded pride and ambition. and that he
wished the Americans had but nue for
among diem. and that was the
Marquis de Lafayette. Bo far from Ml
eitlering that foreign officers were useful
to the pieripme, and essmaal to the sue-.
sess .of the American Revolution, Wash-
tngton flevoutly wished there wa i f eft/
one foreigner am o ng the Amerft.
If such were the opinions I fist
eigoers held by George Washingaidura
ing the war of the Revolution. it was not
very progable that he would think other
wise aller the Independence of the , country
had been gained. ft has been flise;te4
that the founders of the American Repub.:
lie invited foreigners into this country.
Below is an opinion about emigration, e*l
pressed by fleneral Washinging dvritio
his Presidency ;
l'ittLAN 5 T lllll - 4 Nori_it INP4t
To,lohn paw, y, .1 1 resq liras p, 4 9,f
Anna eqll. f-ryAly pltieign with respect hi iuk '
.inigratron except, of useful mcchuoice,
nod imam particular dperiptions of men ens
professions, thfre is pp need of encoarag,ement,
I am ttEe G.IOII2IIIINCIOT
Washington held the Opinion tfuti foe
signers should not be employed in *fishes
civil or military offices whea it pen be
avoided,—
Mourv.Venirom, Jae, 29,"1196.
2b John Adams, Fire Prevident or the 17.'$.{
You knOw, my good sir, that his nut the pol
icy of thie rownry to employ foreigners ? mime
it can bo well avoided, either in theasil or
*unitary walks of rife. Thew ie u species of
self importance in all fort:,ign officers ? that can!
not be gratified without doing injustice tomer:
itorious phamcters, among our own coestrp
men, win) conccire, justly, that theyareentisted
to the Dem:money of all tho officee in the gift of
their gqvcrumplit, Illagiturospiv.
publish a deelaragion 4
Washington th a t. in thr moo limited epee;
condenses the principles of a great pop
unit in brority, - correntness, end wisdom. tif
not excelled briny one of the epethrgaq
of the distioguteliticl stateanten. vim fit*
dept the great gepoblip. It is.a reply ef
Witshipiton to is &Piot/. whe
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