BY D. A. & 0. 11. BUEHLER
VOLUME XXVII
Light of the Aged. •
An old man , sat in the sun set gold,
By the door of Um cottage low; . •
His soft white Lair, his rovcreut air,
His holy smile, all told
his work was 6nished below. '
Children played at the old man's feet,
Thtee gentle, blue-eyed girls;
T heir mother had played in the cottage shade
With footsteps light and fleet, .•
And waving golden. curls."
llis heart' WWI warnt•to that little hand,
Bright in the setting sun,
And ho said, "Oh, Lcrd I I trust thy word,
litee'the promised land,
And know that'my work is done. •
I thank thee' for the. pleasant, whys • •
rn which my feat have trod;
I bless for all, both gi'eat and small,
IlUtlnost for these I praise
Thy goodness, oh! my God I"
•
Then a matron stepped from the cottage door,
- A matron fair to sea'; •
Her head she laid on the old man's head;
"Father, I tbiink God oe'r and oe'r,
ktut bless him most for thee I"
“When I am Dead.”
In the dim crypts of the heart, where
dosper_abideth, these -words seem-written.-
A stFaugo meaning—a solemn intimation
unfolds itself at their utterance. Four
simile little *nosylables—how much of
globes ye convey. How ye speak in fu
neral tones of the extinguishinent of earth
ly hopeof the spirit that has struggled
in vain, and is painfully silent now.
"When I atkiload r is uttered calmly;
but what a, calm !-sash as the tornado
leaves when silence broods over -desohr
den. The voice pronouncing that de
spairing phrase, has not all its mournful
noes from itself. The listening curs hear
nothing more,; for from those words the
groan of high aspirations (pouched, and
hopes pale and , blitediug upon the sharp
rocks of adversity, porno up, phantom-like,
amid the ghastly scenes of the buried
past.
"When lam dead I" We have hoard
iteoften, like the pealing bell that tolls the
body of tho departed to ite_thial 'rest The
last word "dead," lingers , strangely and
echoes sadly lii the ear, and through the
portals of the sympathising soul. Dead—
lad-7-dead—aud the . world, grows gray,
and the heart stills, and the eye moistens,
to that, mysterious sound. The spirit,
trembles before the rushing flood of con-,
hitting emotions , which follow the dark .
evlm, and essay 'to glance through its ini
port. But the echo fades amidst encir,
cling. mita., nut] the spirit turns back cow
fused with blindness. Evou the echo of
death cannot int peuetrated.. The few feet
(Kistu4 l 4.4kati Pittuftusq the grasist:;aro-whfos ,
titan tho glebe, higher thau stars.—
Net the nuitd 7 a eye, not the anxious soul,
glance- through the barricr—the holm
dary between Time Etertiity.
When 1 nut dead !" more or less dig
niaes resignation, or dependent wog a ful
filment of nature, or a perversion of its
cud, may theme, words express, though Kul
they are at best. When the aged man,
INhUSd MOO hare grown feeble in the walks
of gooduess, and whose hands tremble
with the fruits of his oft given charity, ut
ters there words. they tall from tho lips
.us
.a prayer to heaven lu them. his will
• detrunitiius with his destiny, and the tear
that marls for a rulierior soul about to
leave its clay, glisteus in the light of hap
piness at she proveetive .roward of the
Aaiun:. The lir, too, that never pressed
the rim of the fount of Nature's Poesy,
may aturtuur—" When I au! dead !" but
death to such an one is better, perhaps,
than life. Ills heart holds to no music,
chiming iu catietux:s to weal or we; his
inward existence is void, and the rough
surface of his being, checkered though not
brightened by the half stray thoughts.'
darkens but little with the panoply of• the
tomb. Hoi,v,different, when youth glow
ing with beauty of soul and heart, rich
with the treasures of mind, and warm with
sympathy for all of loveliness, sighs, like
the south winll,- 4 When I ant dead !"
A'spirit seems to wail its anthem, and an
eclipse of noontide sun to fall upon the pie
two of a high , nature checked in its pur
pose—turned from dulcet wives upon' a
coral reef, whist the rooks of a destruo
tivebhoro: ' •
a%Vheti lAm dead l" It is as mourn
tole the plaint ef a ghost on the tempest
and Midnight wirid. But we must all say
it sometime; for the' grave 'lies at hand
pawning through abed of thorns or gleam
tug like a white avenue of hope leaning a
gainst the stars. ' '
irwheti lam 'dead!" Strange, and
featful impart hath it to the utterer, 'hut
it a weak phrage to others, the great
*Mid: Who speaks it? may think the
single going forth of a soul will move
uene--all will be as before. When he,
sod You, and we, gentle reader, arc folded
an our shrouds, friends dearest and those
Who love Us'best, will dry their - tears ore
they have all began to flow. The cart
that'heats with rapture against ourown
bill :freeze r.hore our memory in a brief
thue—briefer than woman's trust or =ifs
period of goodness. , , • • , , •
• But it is well thus ; 'tie the world's cus
tom and nature's law. We weep not for
the dead but while they die. We • shall
soon be with them aud it may bo• good
to go early' to •their narrow homes.
• Word fitly Spoken.
A mother sat at the fireside of home,
and ter darling boy sat with her. love
,and '.her Peace seemed hovering over them.
A..iord from that motheeslips was treaett:
up' in the heart of the_ boy. Years
rolled on. The boy had gone from the pa
rental roof, and his voice was hoard among
the'hills
_of his country. lint through
Win spoke the holy'influence of a mother,
Mid a nation felt the power of that fireside
.sv,pd. Again, it is night. A fair haired
ttoy.liWks imploringly in the face of a
tYPridly-minded mother, and inquires of
.fmly,t4inge. , That mother utters a word
that i ontshas forever: the gerui of eternal
truth. A Word fdly.sECoken is like. dew.
to a drooping flower. One badly spoken
is like the ' worm that never dies, and a
word ainttared may effect the world for
weal or wo. • •
MO day tong.
"Don't stay long, husband," said a
young wife tenderly, in my presence one
evening, es bar bubbaqd was preparing to
go out. The words themselves were in
significant, but the• look of molting fond
ues! with which they wore accompaited,
evoke volumes. It told tho whole, vast
depths of woman's love—of her happiness
when with her husband—of her grief
when the light of his smile, the source of
all her joy / beamed not brightly upon
her.
"Don't stay long, husband l"—and I
fancied . I saw the loving, •gentle wife, sit
ting alone, anxiously counting the um
menus of her husband's absence, every
few minutes running to the door to see if
be were in sight and finding that ho was
not, I thought I could hear her exclaim
ing in disappointed tones—"not yet—not
yet."
"Don't stay long, husband !"--and
again I thought I could see the young
wifd' rocking herself nervously in the
great armed chair, and weeping as though
her heart would break, as her thought
less "lord and master" prolonged his
stay to a weexilemo-leogth of time.
0, you that have wives that say—" Don't
stay long," when you go forth, think of
them kindly when you aro mingling in
the buy hive of life, and try, just a little,
to make their homes and their hearts hap
py, for they aro gems too seldom fdund,
and when lost too seldom replaced. You
cannot find amid the pleasures of the
world, _the_peaca....aral joy,_ that- a-quiet
home, blessed with such a woman's pros
once, will afford. •
''Don't stay long, husband !"—and
the young wife's look seemed to say—
"for hero in your own sweet home, is
a loving heart whose music is hushed
when you are absent—hero is a soft
breast for you to lay your head upon, and
!tore are pure lips, unsoiled by sin, that
_will pay you with kisses for coming back
Think of it men, when your -wives wives say
to you — l . Don't stay long —and 0, don't
let the kind words pass unheeded as . .of
little .palue, for though they may bo so
to you, the disappointment or the ful-
Intact* of their simple, loving wish,
brings grief_orjoy to them. If you have
an hour to spare bestow it upon them,
and the pure love; gushing from their
gentle, grateful hearts, will be a sweet re•
ward.
Beauty of the Dutch ‘lTrouten.
Col.uan, in his "European Life and
nanners2! gives the foilowitt.gdeserjptioit
of the Ihitefrtiottion r"
"I think some of Pion" are the fairest
and handsomest crew urea I over looked
upon, and mode of unniiked porcelain
clay. Before I left England, I thought
the English women .the fairest I had ever
seen ; I now consider them as belonging
to the colored races. The Dutch women
much exceed them. Lake the fairest rose
that was over plucked, with the dew drops
hanging among its petals ; take the fair
est peach that ever hung upon the tree,
with its charming tints of red and white ;
and they are eclipsed by the transparemiy
and beauty of emnelexion of the fairest of
the Dutch women, as I saw thorn at Bro
eck and Stusroatn. If their minds are as
fair and manners as winning as their fa
ces, then I eau easily understand the his
tory of Adam's fall. It was impossiblo,
poor fellow, that ho should resist. Then
their costume is so pretty and ologant. A
sort of thin gold helmet, fitted olosoly, to
the head, leaving enough of the hair to
part gracefully over tho brows; a thin but
wide baud of highly wrought and burnish
ed gold extending across the forehead ; at
the ends of this some rich and elegantly
wrought filagreo mamma of gold, with
splendid ear-drops of sold, or of diamonds.
sot in gold, with a beautiful cap of the
finest Brussels loco."
The Dead Child.
Few things appear so beautiful . as a
vety young child in its.shroud. The
tlo innocent face looks so sublimely simple
and confiding amongst the cold terrors of
death. Crimeless and fearless, that little
mortal has passed alone under the shadow,
and explored the mystery of dissolution.
There is death in its sublimely and purest
imago; no hatred, no hypocrisy, no suspi
don, no care for the morrow over darken
ed that littlo face ; death has come lovins
ly upon it, there is nothing mid or harsh
in its victory. The yearnings of
deed cannot bo stifled ; for the prattle and
smile, all the littlo world of thoughts that
wore so delightful, are gone forever. Awe,
too, will overcast us in its prosenc6, for
the •lonely. voyager ; for the child has
gone, simple and trusting, into the pres
ence of its allwise Father; acid of such,
we know, is the kingdom of Heaven.
"Sir," inquired an attornoy of a burly
Dutchman, "what color was this hog when
you tir'st, knew him ?"
"Veil, von I find became acquainted
vid do hog, he yes a very little pig, and he
vas den a vita hog, but van he got to bo
older, be got to be sandy hip, and I should
den call him, on de whole . , a sandy hog. "
"What car marks had he ?" •
"Yell, yen I first became acquainted
vid do hog he had no particular ear
marks, except a voty abort tail."
"Take your seat,. sir," said the attor
ney, "we'll callgthe next witness."
Qum NATIMAL.-A' bachelor adver
tised for a "helpmate r " one who' would
provo a "companion for his heart, his
hand, and his lot." A fair. one replying;
asked.very earnestly, "how big is your
lob ?"
AN. ANRCUOTE is related of the Rev. Dr.
Kirk, of Boston. Early in lifie, adady of
fortune; whose attention' was awakened
towards biro by his conspicuous talents,
wrote him a note, offeringlim her heart.
hatirtune and, hand. - The Rev. Dr., how
ever,' with more targeting than gallantry,
replied to her that slie_had better give her
heart to the Lord, her forum's° the church,
and reserve her hand for hint who should
ask it. *'
•
etTTYSBIJRG, PA., FRIDAY
The Sleep of Plants.
The way in which sleep is shown in
the vegitable kingdom, is infinitely more
variable than among animals. Man
throws himself prostrate ; some kinds of
monkeys list•on their sides; the camel
places his heed between hie forelegs ;and
birds roost with their heads beneath the
wing. Beyond, these' are few remarkable
differences. But itO plants there is upend
'toilt curious and beautiful diversity which
rewards the'seeker in nature's mysteries.
Some plants, droop their loaves at tight,
the flat part 4oeotning fluid and pendu
lous: Othertu of the kind called "COM.
pound," as clover and vetches, close their
leaflets together in pairs, and occasionally
the whole leaftlrops at the Miles time.—
The three leaflets of clover bring their fa
coil to the - outgo, and so form a little
triangular pyramid, 'whose apex is the
point of union between the leaflets and
their stalls. Lupines, which have loaves
resembling a seven fingered hand without
a palm, fold together like a lady's half
closed parasol. Chickweed raises its
leaves,,so as to' embrace the stem ; and
sotite species of lotui, besides Many . of ifs
eleganf-family, - Legtiminotsm,---,bring
them together in such a way as to protect
the yoting flower • buds and the immature
seed vessels from the chilly air of night.
'filen aro only a few out of the many ca
ses which could be ipstanced of change of
position to leaves, tvhilst in . flowers there
seems to be no limit to variation. The
greater pert shut the petals at night, the
ataika declining - on - one - side; but there
are some which roll their petals back, and
curl them up like miniature volutes.—
The sleep of such plants .is probably tin
aceompanied by any external change.—
The same may be, said of Campanolas,
and other bell.shaped flowers of Crucife
rin...it- should have been observed, are
'remarkably careless of repose. Their
sleep never, appears sottial or even con
stant, for many successive nights, they
seem restless, tied in the morning al
warps look dozy and 'uncumfortable.-.-
When Mower's are overbloWn, or the plant
if annual is near its decay, the phenomena'
of sleep are very considerably diminished.
In, fact they are - only - seen n - pe r fee ti .
when thegrowing.poteers of the plant ire
in full energy. Deciduous trees—that is
such as Cast
.their leaves in autumn—are
in a sort of a trance in the winter montbs.
Flowers, too, lose their sensibilities shit
gether, when, the, period of fertilization is
passed, as may readily. be seen by inipec
ling o field of claims early in the morning
before thu dew is olf thegrass. The over
blown one will be foetid' wide open e
Plitni and '
ti sound asleep. , •
A Curious Al[kir.
An incident of intereet,.. as connected
with the Mohaniedint religion, has occurred
in Cairo since the cholera commenced.—
An Egyptian of some rank married some
time since an English girl, who was the
first victim of of the Cholera. 'She was
still a Christian, in name at least, and.llc..
cordingiy was Laded in the Protestant
burial ground, which ais under the control
of the English. She left a little boy of
five months old, who, in a few Jai% after
died of the same disease. The father, by ,
name and in law,,a Moslem, yet wished
the child buried with' its mother, and on j
inquiry•ascertained that there would•be no
objection on the part of those who have
the Control of , the btirial ground.' But his
design becoming known, a great stir was
mado among the Mohamedatts of Boulak,
where he resided, and die shelth or priest
of the town sent for him to make inquiry.
The 'lattice stated the case and asked to
do as ho had, intended. l ie was answer
ed, "The law of our religion forbids the
burial of Mohammedans and Christians in
the same ground." "But may not the
child be buried with its mother?" "No l"
was the reply ; . "whatever be the profess
ion of the mo ther, it matters not . ; a child
of altloslein tattier must alWaya bo of that
religion,and must be buried 'with its own
people." "But," says the Koran, "when
the dead of cattle, 'Mohammedans :and
Christians, are buried together, there is an
angel appointed. to watch over and point
out the souls of the true believers'; may.
not as much be done for my child ?"
There is no law for this is our religion-;
your child is a Moslem, and as such it
must be buried with them ; if not you'will
be excommunicated, and wo will bairn
•ou." •
"But what will you do," continued he,
Tt%fhen the—firman shall come
.from the-
Sultan giving Mohammedans the right to
change their religion V "If the Sultan
shall make such a law as that, we will pin
out his eyes;" was Abe reply. 'The fath
er yielded, and buried his child 'as.requir
ed, but he refused to have it buried without
a coffin, thus violating -a -precept of their
religion ; so you see that various things
indicate that the religion of tha`ProPhtit is
losing its poWdr. over some ofits follow
ers, and what is of more valtie,.that the
time of active conflict between. this power
and Christianity cannot be long delayed.—
The Indelksatlent.
The young Duke of Burgundy, while
playing with one of his attendants, fell
from his rocking-horse with great violence.
He was apflarently unhurt, and the gen
tleman entreated him not to mention it,
thinking there was no danger. From
that time, however, he became it), and the
physicians were unable to discover his
malady: At length he died.' This Prince
gave promise of a noble disposition, great
talent anti sensibility. Had he lived Laois
the Sixteenth (his younger brother) wouid
not have been King. Thus a child's play
thing, a rocking-horse, perhaps, changed
the tletniny of France, and that of all Eu
rope.
To vv itEren LINEN WiteN
Cutup a pound of 'foto while.'soap 'into
a gallon of witch ; and hang it oyes the fire
hi a wash lettle. When the soap has
entirely melted, put in:the linen, and boil
itltatf an hour. Then take it out; have
read* a - lather of soap and' warns :water ;
waldt-the linen in it, then rinse it through
two'eold waters.'
"FEARLES
THE Wise Hun'
Times says
Wo presume we
saying that there fit
bottle of genuine Cl
Conti or Jobannisb
litnits of the Unite
ono of the largest wi
say not a' fortnight
lay a . wager of a t
there was not, in N
present moment, a el
ins Port. We preen
that .one, bottle in
Champagne drank in
ine, vineyaribgrown
more than nine-tenthe
_
consumed in the Unit
ti
nearer being the gen
Feajee mermaid came
bona- fide, tiong•aingH
porting virgin of the al
the crowd took. her to
The . fact - lei ninet
the wines and brandie
try,--and•nine hundr
theusandthe ol all the r • •
over which our bigl
liptand roll 'their eyes
epicurean friends, 'are
the market,—Made up ;
pounding drugs, with i
matter an d a basis of ,
material, so as to resel
any - sort- of liquid that
England '• and Frauee
of this.manukcturei-..-th'
4o- berprotecuteditrllt
considerable extent.. I-,
, .
1 But an order of an, •in of wine that
maybe wanted—for el , Mtgeot Johan
nisberg, or delicate she t ,*ith directions
for n peculiar flavor, a-a emu aroma. or
a specially delicate bon et—gent to En.
gland will lid filled pro fiy and o any
extent. More of any b ireum,be brought
over in a single cargo's . .n . 'the entire re
gion where alone it gro scan produce in
years I A little more tl at a month ago,
(July
,24.) we copied fr. London po- '
lice report, the evident* of a famous Wine
dealer named Osborne. it' Which he eta
tad that it was his practice to lily up all
the-spoiled,-sour, red ..,Fterich -wines lie
could got priceis—iay duties on
them as vinegar—store them in the Lon
don clocks—take them .out a'nd lour them
all Intrilarge with them a cer
hiin-quantity of Fiench Ilratitly—put into
Mem-certain "preparations7Of his ()tea—
pot them up into hogsheutli marked Old
Port. and. sell them as the:,'ebuiecin Port
wines at from 106 to $l O a hogshead.
This, there is up doubt itiodi. if very es
eirlrfllootiltrif.
lernnee and England . -- crud' w to
buy from them, to supply the American
market, when they are not their accompli- ,
cos, are their victims. And the wine
drinkers of the' United :State+, from the
lowest to the highest, swig die decoctions
of these wine labricators in ninety-nine •
cases out of,a hundred,instead o( thejnice
of the grape,' over which they grow so
rapturmisly and poetically eloquent.
If there is any clasq of the community
more thoroughly. and ridiculously hum
bugged then they are, we should be oblig
ed to any person who will point them nut.
The Poet salad the •Basket l!loker.
I am no enemy. to learning—no enemy
to colleges., On.:the contrary. lam the
steadfast friend of , both. But I am op
posed to having them overrated as they are;
and the advantages of both la ahundantly
exaggerated, by the great mails of our peo
ple, as if no other learning Were. invalua
ble, no other ktrowledge worth !having
I would remind them of the basket ma
kor ; the only man of a large crew. cast
ashore" among savages, wife was 'able to
turn kis past acquitiition to account ; while
the rest stood twirling their thumbs. liable
every moment to be knocked in the head
for their ignorancei the basket maker was
made chief on the spot. and almost wor
shiped for his ingenuity. ; •
Or I might remind themof that other
crow taken by a Barbary bowair. When
they were taken before the fhty, he inqui
red their several oecupatiois. The rig
gers, blacksmiths and carpi/eters were alt
sent off to thedockyard.. •Ttestailors had
a comfortable berth providedfor them, and
even the officers were turned to account
one way or another.. At last his highness
came to a literary man=a passenger and
poet—what to do with hius, for a long
while his highness could net say. till at
Hat s learning that the prisoner was a man
of !sedentary occupations, ad having them
explained by the interpreter, he ordered
the poet a pair of feather breathes and sat
him to hatching chickens. •
And now, which of these two was the
educated man, the poet or the basket mak
er ? . . [T0.411 Nerd.
A NECDOTE.-A gentleman of considera
ble fortune, but a stranger to either perso
ea' or - family religion, one evening took a
solitary walk through part o 1 his own
grounds. He happened to coma near to
a nteau hut, Where a poen:lan with a nu
morons family lived, who earned his bread
.
by "
daily labor. Ile heard ii , voitm pretty
loudlfud continued.' Not knowing what
it was, curiosity prompted him to listen.
The man, who was piously disposed, hap
pened to be at prayer with his family.—
So soon as he could distinguish the words
he heard him giving thanks with great
affection to God, for the goodness of pro.-,
Rhone in giving him food to eat. and rai
ment to put on, with supplying them with;
what was necessary and comfortable MI
this life. "-
• He was immediately struck with aston
ishment and, confusion,. and said to him
self, "Does this poor man, who has noth
ing but the meanest fare,and that purchas
ed by , severe labor, give thanks to God for yew-us until death
hie . goodness-to himself and family, and 1, - . . S-1-11lUn. WIWKER."
who enjoy ease and and' honor. and. every- The Court—Mr. PoPpysnozzle, lam
thing, that is , grateful antidesirable, have l afraid you aro whetter than you should be.
hardly ever beet my ktitt , „ or .made any i Mt.. P.—Who would be . wen honesty
acknOwledgment to ruy 'Maker and Pre- ' and honor is at. a discount t 1' halwaYs
- server I". It pleased God that this , provi- wants to be on the popular aide, but them
denttal occurrence proved the means:of 5 yens as hasn't got genus et pluck tr
bringing him to a real and lasting sense ef l aough to prig gets to be bra:vers. and
Cud and religiou.
' \ Thomas Deck: Idol) hennythtug.
ANL! FREE."
EVENING, SEPTEMBER sl, 1855.
0.-:=The Nov York
thoutgl run no risk inl
ne aggeo be t n it a " a n t'
g, wine, within the
Stales. We heard
dealers of this city
ince. that he would
ussnd dollars that
w York city at the
1 le gallon of genu-
I e 110 one supposes
I thousand of the
is poultry, is gei
i Champagne. And
of „a 4 the Sherry
1 siates r..,---
The ease of Mr. Williagton Popp*
snozzel was the next in the returns:a mis
anthropic individual responded ; Mr. Pop
pysnozzel might have been twenty.eight
years of age ; in Night he, as about half
past five; be was inclined to corpulinsfy ;
t nature had seen fit to give hint a head and
a body, but no neck; if Mr. Prjiyanoz
izel should ever be Tonvicted of a capital
i offense, he need never fear being hanged;
ihe may he drawn by a skilful artist; he .
i way be quartfill in the States Prison, but
.be hanged by the neck until dead, dead,
DEAD. he never could, because no pro6w:.
sional rope could find a place below the
jaw and above the arm-pits to fasten to.
IMr. Poppvsnozzel had a large red nose.
a small mouth.% melancholy eye arched
with a heavy brow. Se far from being
`in fatter - of the beard movement, M. P.
was an anti-hair man. his fat chops
were closely shaved and his hair was
1 shcrt and frightfully gashed. The coat
he wore had never been made for him.—
t Though a frock. the skirts did not reach
suficiendy low to cover too large patches in
tllrseat of hi. pantaloons. The sleeves
only reached a point in his arms tnidw ay
between the elbow. and his wrist.—
Though a double-breas ter, it did not meet
in front by vox inches. Ir• his • hand he
held the' real original shocking bad hat.—
tlalf of the brim was gone and the crown
was stove in and - the in a l i ps hanging out-.
side.
side. He sat with the 7 e pressed over
his ere. .
:States comes no
to article than the
I being the genuine.
looking-glass. dig
that Barnum and
klintieths - of all
rank in this cone
and ninety-nine
,e rutd costly wines
iiera arose k their
diminish their
artinufaem al far
Ili skillful cow
-1 unions of flavoring
idiotic• or vinous
bk snit brand of.
y:be desired.—
e .the great fields
it is begining •
country to ;every
The Court—Wellington Poppvsnozzel.
31r. l'oppyanoule--(risiog and remov
ing his hat) 'lenity thing ranting ?
The Court—You are charged with be,
ing vagrant.
• Mi. P.—Me a vagrant I. I wenture to
Barartheftganie- be some mistake.
• 1116 Court—l think not. Perhaps you
are not aware what a vagrant is,' Mr. Pop
, pysnozzle. ' - •
Mr. I'.—A wagrant is a wagrant rot 'as,
wagrant 'abits and wegitates in wagr i pifey.
The Court—Very good. Sir; as far you
go. But the law definer a vagrant to be a
person who has no visible means of sup.
port, and'arho is seen loiteriug and !Ming
.
mg about in public. placos not betaking
hiuivelf to any honest calling.
Mr. P.—Vv don't the 111 - .l','s go to
nab.iin' Woo ,notiter. All they does in
to put the selves in the .way of folks as
Wants to do something tor a
The Court—Mr. Poppysouzzle, I think
l're seen con before. • '
Mr. P.-:-Slionld'ut wonder. I vent in
bad ',company on= Vatikivlit. leo*.
The Court—lt was here if it all. -
Mr. P.—Werry like. But I vouldn't
like to take *an .death that I remember
tour pleisuM'ogan ,y. •
The Court—l presume not: Offider,
whit do yon knew of this man ?
Offi‘er llolden-1 know hint to be it
vat:rant. Sir. I see him foiling atout the
streets, drinking wherever met. , I
have never seenitim employed. Ile was,
very drunk when I arrested him. I search
ed him ; he had these three letters.,,in his
possession.
The Officer here pmtineml three letters,
directed usdiffcrent persons in a bad scrawl
, Mg hand.
The Court —Efow did you come in
possession of these knees, Mr. Poppy -
senses ?
Mr. P.—They woe given to
x tst to; de
liver.
The Court—Who gs4e !km to you.
Mr; P.—A swell.
ma Court—What Mashis Milne I
AW:P.—They calls ''inn? the Buffer.'
The Conrt--Where did you see him?
Mr. P.--At various places.
The C ourt —Whete did he give you
the letters?
Mr. P.—lle ain't there now. Ile we
eased the 'one. yesterday. - -
The Court—Where did be give you
the letters ?
Mr. woultEnt fike to tell.
Ths Court—But you must; if you don't,
I shall commit you: .
3lr. vas oa llorange-st.
The Court—Well where is it ? '
Mr. P.—lf I tell's they voce show me
DO mercy.
The Court—Never mind. The proba
bility is that you will be protected agains
them for pi: months.
Mr. P.—II it's all the same, I would
prefer to deeline the pertection.
The Court—Never mind that now, toll
us where you got the letters, Mr. Poppy'
*nozzle 3•
Mr. P.—At Slashire Bill's.
The Conn—Then yoo belong to that
cress cribdo Ton I
P.—No, prisgin' is
srulger." That's
try I vent into the express and penney•
post perwessiun. •
The Court—limn it seems you have
undertaken this business. Don't you
find a good deal of temptation !
Mr. P.—Not in the way ye does it.
The Court—Just give the details of
this business ;it can't make the mutter
any worse for you.
P.--Shouldn't wonder.
The Court—Well, go on..
Mr-P.—The Duller writes • the . letters
and I deliver 'em.
I The Court—What else I
Mr. P.—The postage vet I gets, the
Duffer and I diwides.
The Court disrovered that one of the
envelopes was unsealed. He opened it
and read its contents, as follows:
"nue Tork Oggest the 6
Eker sir I now tak nil pen in hand to in
come yea that I am wel and I hop thin will
find yeu engine the same gods 'blessing the
enter wet yea wont rim pa de let.yeu have
if it tont cue
Froui Lit Nay l ork 71 ibune
Police Court; ",
Au•lrisli.naii, seeing an acquantance
reading, exclaimed.. "Arndt kionny ? and
r
whose arther o' diat work iny
Jewel, an hOW can .I tell that SIAM! r
**Why, my dea'r, look to the ind'ott't an'
ye'll see the.", "'Tie Finis ;" rejoined
the other. "A 010Ter tallow, that, said
/This ; why he's. the other at every
book.'t, •
oal
' • r . ,
The Court—Mr. Poppysnozzle,•6bill DEPilitt BY THE AILAOO. r -..
have to send you up for six montka. . 0k...._..._•• •••
••• IVlr.P..:—'le he,voryhody vas sent up As "IV 121 4 1 " OF THE T cU P NA T A • )• •.. ~"
deservoAtt; tnerb would:nt.he Itennybodf . 441ebpetate nod Bloody Engogoinent
loft to Itexecuie tho lent. Plellllakenle...ll" .. • .
can hoai ntlwersity. Geniis alvayir .vatil' ..Tite s Ehille.ft Poe by the 4teltp! et New
curbed. Good day, Sir.. . i ,-..... IYor.k, have, details of the liatilit of the
iirollingtou .Ptwoysnorttle 11,7; i e j u , i Tcihernaya,^:of which we have heretofore had
wont imiow. P . .__, !.. . n I brief accounts. We copy the following from
......-t.• ' - , . 'the London Times: .
The Tetnparstt is ware el the
' 4 1.141)e)
-• Yest2rday woproduced evidences that
thrt....auchatigitableyind infallible Church
of Remo hail:clauned:hekits supremo Pon
tiff power an* tiutlioritiii;mr. the temypra I
,tulero of tha earth ; and wo showed, by in
ilian.bakiriiirldstory, that ho had ' °semi
sed that•poiver in numberless eases with
extreme severity. We also suited that
the arguments we adduced were i not some- 1
times by the atscrtion that the Church
had changed iu its character and claims)
With the changes of time:, 1
We prelim° nowt to 601 forth the offs- 1
oinl teachings of the, •, %Wan ir k !
Ili
this subject. Pope Pi .1. is a
tion to, the Cardinals in ptem , 1,
said : , • 4.
That "ho bath taken this principle. fora
basis, that the Catholio religion with all
its mains ought to be exclusively do:ai
m/rat in such sort that every other , ices.
ship shall be banished and utkrdicted."
The Primate' of- Ireland says to the
Catholics of the United Kingdom :.--
. "Our'venerable hierarchy- and clergy;
in the fulfillment of the duties ' will ineul
cote the strict and religious duty ‘9l - se .:.
letting as representatives of the people
theme men .who are hest fitted to support
in'the Imperial Parliament Our religioua
rights." •
In our own country we are boldly told
by the 'Pope, in hiS encyclical letter of Au
gust, 1854, that•-•:ii .
'
Liherty of conscience is a most pesti
lential error, a pest of all othera;nott . to
lie-dreaded 'in the State."
-- And wo are deliberately lnformed by
the Roman Catholic Biatiop 4 of St..Lonis
that "hereay and unbelief aro crimes.;- and'
in Christian countries, as in . Italy . and
Spain, forinstance, where all. the people
' are Catholici, and where-the Catholic re
ligiou is,au "essen dal part of the law of the
land, they ore punished' as other crimes."
The Catholic press throughout the noun- I
try has been inculcating similar doctrines.,
The Si. Louis Shepheld of the Valleyi
says
6.l'he Church is of necessity intolerant.
lleresi she endures when and where elle
muse ; but she bites it;' and - directs all
«kw: 7 , , , Tf-,-PtotkA.
That otter gain au immense numerical ma."
joray, religious freedom ; iu this country
is at an end 1" • '
And the'Rambler, another CathOlia pa:-
per, tolls no plainly what will bo the proS.
able fate of beanies Amid we ever bo in
tho in inoi ity in power if net in numbers—
thus:— •
"You ask if he (the Pope) wore lord in
the laud, and you were iu the minority. if
tint in numbers, yet in power, what would
ho do to you ? That, we say, would entire
'ly depend on circumstances. If it would
benefit the cause of Catholicism, he would I
tolerate you—if expedient., lie would he- I
prison you; banish you, fine you, prObably I
lie might even hang you ; but be listened
of one,thing, he would never tolerate you I
for the sake of the, "glorious principles" ofl
civil nod religious liberty."
lirownson, who publishes a review, in
which he says uothiug appears at any time
•which is not first submitted to the Biseop
of Boston. and does not receive his express
ea netion, and who, all a reward of his palm
dux Roumuitan, undo token of the favorin
which ho is held by the authorities of the
Church, was appointed to a lucrative and
lion/noble professorship iu one of the Irish
colleges, thus speaks :
"ifre your free institutions infidlible I , '
Aro they fonudedou bivine right? 'This
you deny. Is not the 'proper question for
you to discuss, then, not whether thefint-
pacy be or be not oumpatiblo with math.;
Dean government, but whether it be or
be not /braided in Divine right,'r if the
Papacy be foUnded in Divine right it is
supreme over what is founded only in na
tant& right, and then sour institutions
should be made to harmonize with it ;
not it with your institutions!! 1 Tito
real question, thou, is not tito eempatibi)i
tyi or the ifloOmpatibility of the Catholic
Church with democratic institutions, but
is the C'at folic Church the 'Church of
God ) —Settlo this question first. But,
in point of fact, democracy is a misrhie.
vous dream, wherever. the Catholic
Church dues not predominate, to ioupira
tho people with reverence, and teach uud
aceustent them to obedience to attthority."
We have at out hand large numbers of
extracts to the same effect ns the above.—
Thew iodinate Clearly enough the animus
of Roupuiem. They show,' too, that we
weru not, wrong is uur aimertiou, that. Wu
Pope dahlia, to - have to-day the WIllit) • tutu
poral power -which he exercised fa former
In view of these facts, wo - appeal to ev
ery (American whether he have not - etunto
to fear this growing power ; and whether
the mode•Of tleftiuee 'of our institulions
which the:i:lnierie party iwitoadopied id
not demanded by the exigency. No wan
of thought and patriotism cap help ft:spill
ding in favor of the American papy.-311-
racti.te Organ.
,
` 4 l*Atistarowir Rnmitssism.—A gen.
tietnan wishes u s to publish the following
fOr the relief of suffering humanity: tie,
says he has known a number of cures made
by it. and all 'in a short time. Hall an
ounce of pulverized isult.petru; put in half
a pint of sweet oil.. Bathe the pait;i affec
ted., when a.sound cure. 'will speedily, be
the result.
TWO DOI 4 LaM Plgir Atti117110:
';'. InMBEK iR.
•
• BAWL*: Or TOMIRNAYA. • •,
Encouraged, it may be, by the arrival of a
portion of the Grenadiers and, probably urged
on by the impatience of high personages at St.
Petersburg, the Russian General dotennined
on an attack on the allied position, and Made
preparations for many days, with a disregard
of caution which revealed Ilia plans, w*l but
for extraordinary remissness, should have
caused their snore easy disconifitate.
At last, on the morning of iris lath, the Rus
sians pouring doWn the steep sides of their. po•
aition, and favored by the mist, without cry
or-beat of dram; beret upon the Piedmontese
riositio.n t Odell= in the outposts, they reached
the Tehernays, forded the narrow stream, ant
notwithstanding a heavy fusilade from the
Zouaves, rushed upon the allied camp. They.
Ikvacked two French regiments in front and
flank with a desperate bayonet charge, and a
hot contest enened, in which Gen. D'Harbil
lon, With 10,000 meo, had to sustain the at
tack of the Russians, who probably by this
time had brought a much larger forme into ac
tion, •
The first- rush did not last more than ten
minutes. The limetiena fell 'back, hut they , -
had scarcely gone a few hundred yard,' when'
they were met by the second column, which
was advancing a pas de charge to suppert the'
first; and,both united and ngain ratified torward.
' This second nuemptwas more suecessful than'
the first. At the bridge they forded the river
Oh the right and left, and forced the defenders
of it to fall back ; scarcely was the bridge free,
when two guns of the Fifth Light Ragmie of
Artillery crossed it and took up a position on -
the other vide in an upon space which divides' .
two of the hillocks, and through which . the
wads lead to
. the plain of Balaklaea.—While
those two guns' passed the bridge, a third,
crossed the river by a ford, and all three be
gan to sweep the read and the heights.
• •
The fearing: to the meantime,. Without,
_ Availing for the portable bridges, rushed breast
deep into the water, climbed:6e the embank-,
' Went, unit began to scale the freights od both..
rides. They succeeded on this point in get
ting up morethinsonehalf of the ascent: when,'
-the .dead awl tivountled 'afterweele showed
clearly the mark. which 'they had reached ; but
by the time theranived there the French worst
fully prepared, and met there' in the uignt gal- )
lant style. Notwithstanding-the osertione.
and the perseverance 'of the Russians, they
were, by degrees, forced back, and driven, af-'
'ter an ousti nate resistamte, across the•bridge....
..eirrytng away Muir wind.
While this.attsok took place on the bridge.
the . other eaten:in again attacked the French
right: This time .0 . 7 came on le h a y r
Val* 'Ati'lf*/ _ l l46"by.
the aqueduct nor Cowed by the Sardinian
guns, which were plowing loam lanes through'
their scattered lines: tin they came, as rt
seemed, irresistible, and rushed up the steep
hill With Cool! tury that the Zouuves, who.
I lined the sides of it, were obliged to fall hack, '
for a moment before the multiintle. You Could.
plainly'see the officers leading the way' and'
animating their Soldierit. I particularly oh-1 •
served ono gallant fellow wha i at least twenty
yards in advance or the whol e column, was
the first across the aqueduct and I could still:
see hint on she side of , the This (minus,
rush bronght the' advancing column in an in- .
erenibly shun tithe to the crest of the hillock,'
where at stopped to form.
thethe French had not been idle dining;
the time that the iiussians were ascontlim2the
Zeuaties had only fallen hack from'
thesideof the hillock to the. aisle body, which ,
had been drawn up behind the top.. Scarcely,
did the column of the enemy show its head,'
when the gaits opened on it with grape. and a
murderous fire was poured down upon it by
the French infantry. This • immediately
stopped the advance olthe.column, which h*:
gen te waver, bottle) impetus from those be
hind was so powerful-that the head of it, not
withstanding ,the unexpected reception, wets
pushed forward a few yards more, when the ,
French, giving onu mighty cheer, rushed upon
the advancing eneiny, who, shaken already,' -
immediately turned round and ran down,
possible, faster than they had come up. But,
the mass was so great that all the hurry could
not save them, and more than 900 prisoners
were-taken on the spot, while the hillside; - -
the banks of the amieduct. the aqueduct
and the'river side were filled with dead and
woundytt. The Sardinian and French artille-'
ry peered; triereover, t murderous crossfire
into the scattered remains of the coining*, of
which scarcely a shot missed. ' It was a corn;
splete'rcitit. .The French rushed dowis the hill
side and drove them fitracross the plain. : The
defeat retries to have so completely cowed'
them that nothing more was attempted against
thin side. '
Not eo on the bridge. Norwithemnding
the heavY line suffered 'by tiro second attack,
the . Ruesions concentrated once More all their
f o rc es , collected the scattered remains of dot
'column which had been routed on the right of •
the French' Position, mid brought up' all theii
!reserves, to attempt one more attack. • They..
a m p dotOSOOd the, river, and thy aqueduct Sitpo,:,
end tried' to take the heights—hut in 'Min;
the French :veers no 4 thoroughly' prepared
and the tenacity of the Russians served only
to augment their losses. They were soon fly-
jug in all directions, followed by the French.
This first attack wan decisive, and immediately'
the usual Russian preparation for retreat-,
namely, the'edvauce of the 'artillery—showed
dearly lien the Raisins} ,acknowledged them- •
solves defeated, nisi weio on the poiut of re . .
tiring. •
Everybody now rushed to the battlefield,
acid hoe look eras sufficient to' convince thew
that,thia anise had won a real battle on the
Tchernaya.--Altheugh not quite so obstinate
and 'tienguinery as the battle or Inliemteme,
whielt,thit affair resembled in many points,.
it %Ifs a {Melted bottle. On the banks of the.
aqueduct particularly the silk wee appalling;
theßuentans. when scaling the embankment ,
of the aqueduct, were taken in flank by the
Sardinian batteries, and the dead and wounded .
rolled dawn theephankmeni,erimetintes mom
than twenty feet in height. The French made.,
every possible de .patch to collect the wooed.;
ed. They were laid on the open space about
the bridge
,until, the ambulances arriverl.—,
While there the Retrainee, who weld fee
plainly that the French were engaged in bring-
mg help to their own wretched countrymee; .
suddenly began to, open with their gees mien ,
them. repeating the barbarous practice 'which:
they had already elten previously shown to ibe
troops. • • , •
Content° Pourtcs:—Tho LitiottEPerty l ,
Convention held et Data, N. Y. on lredoproc
day. placed on their tidtei kranto Anion, lone
black ram and Are whiten**. A
(Fred. Doughnut) is pieced at the hand 0 5 1 11,16.:? . . c ,....
ticket for Secretary of State, and ekt w . :!!:‘,"-
black WM (Jas. B. Pasheet) fi t
Attorney Geriond• 'A -