BT S. B. ROW.
CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1861.
VOL. 7.-NO. 24.
WHEN I MEAN TO MABBY.
BT JOHN O. 8AXE.
Whn do I mean to marry? Well
'Tis iJle to dispute with fata ;
jBot if 'you choose to hear ma tell.
Pray listen, while I fix the date ;
"When daughters haste, with eager feet,
A mother's daily toil to share ;
Can make the puddings which they eat.
And mend the itockiDgs whioh they wear;
When maidens look upon a man
At in himself what they would marry,
And not as army soldiers scan
A guttler or a commissary;
When gentle ladies who have got
The offer of a lorer's hand,
Consent to share his "earthly lot,"
And do not mean his lot of land ;
TTben young mechanics are allowed
To find and wed the farmers' girls
Who don't expect to be endowed
With rubies, diamonds, and pearls ;
When wives, in short, will freely give
Their hearts and hands to aid their spouses,
And live a3 they were wont to live,
Within their aires' one-story houses;
Tlitn, madam If I'm not too old
Rejoiced to quit this lonely life,
I'll brush my beaver, ceaso to scold,
And look about me for a wife!
THE FACE AT THE WINDOW.
AN ISTEEKSTISO STORY. .
It was a woman's face I saw as I drew rein
at Cuthbert Hall a pale, calm, almost proud
face, with large Creole eyes and coal-black
hair, looped away from the cheeks in heavy
and shining folds. I had seen many more
beautiful faces during my winter? in New York
and Washington my summers at Cape May,
Newport and Nahant, and beside, I was ex
pecting to meet at the Hall a certain bolle
and heiress, a sister-in-law of the friend who
had invited me to his borne. So I gave only
a passing glance at the pale stranger, and, dis
mounting, rang the bell. A servant answered
the summons, and, conducting me into the
library, went to call his master. In a few
moments the door opened, and the lady whom
I had seen at the window came in, with two
curly-headed children clinging about her
She bade mo good morning in a voice sweet
as the thrill of a lute string, and said, with
some embarrassment :
"I am sorry that Mr. and Mrs. Cuthburt are
both out riding.'
Ah 1 and so am I," was the answer, "but
I suppose they will not be long, lor, though
they did not expect me to-day, I wrote to
them I should probably be here this week."
Then yon are Mr. Vincent ?"
"Richard Vincent, at your service; and now
please introduce yourself."
I I I am" she paused, wound one of
the little girl's ringlets about her finger in her
confusion, and begun again, "I am" once
more she hesitated, and I resumed
"I hare guessod it: you are the governess I"
She smiled, but the color mounted to her
very temples.
"Poor aad proud," I soliloquized, "how
that blush becomes her!"
At this moment we beard the tramp of
horses' ieet, and saw Cuthbert and his beauti
ful wife dashing up the broad avenue leading
to the mansion. The governess hastily left
ine, and I shortly after saw her talking to my
friends on the veranda ; Their brief confer
ence over, my host and hostess entered, and
gave me the cordial welcome which is the
characteristic of the South. When the greet
ings had been interchanged, I turned to vutb
bert, and said :
Pray, where is Miss Dupont, the charming
sister-in-law of whom you spoke ?" lie and
his wife exchanged significant glances, and I
continued: "I am all impatience to see this
paragon don't keep me long in suspense !"
"I will not you will meet at dinner !"
The next moment the dressing bell rang
and the host led the way to the guest chamber
where be left me to make my toilet. In those
days I was not indifferent to my personal ap
pearance, and with the aid of an attentive
servant 1 arrayed myself in the most elegant
auit my wardrobe allorded.
" I wonder if 1 shall suit the heiress?" I
queried, mentally, as I took a last survey in
the mirror and decended to the dining hall.
There, near the table, sat Cuthbert and his
wife, the face I had seen at the window, and,
not far from the governess, a young lady with
fair complexion, a blooming cheek, the sun
niest of blue eyes, and a profusion of golden
hair. I was a connoisseur in ladies' dress at
that period, and I took in at a glance her
costly India muslin robe, with frills of Mech
lin lace, the splendor of her bracelets, ear
drops, and necklace, and the exquisitely
wrought golden comb which lopped up the
rich tresses. Why was it that my face wan
dered lrom her to the pale, calm governess,
with her bands of raven hair, great eloquent
eyes, and a dress that fell about her like a
Diinruist."
"Blanche," said my host, "allow me to
Present an old and valued friend Richard
Vincent !"
The blonde beauty colored, simpered, and
ith an inclination she intended to be like
that of a prima donna to an applauding crowd,
acknowedged my bow.
"MissMarguerite," resumed Cuthbert, "this
" the guest we have been expecting !"
Sbo bowed with the grace of a queen, and I
15 respectfully as if she had indeed been one,
I said ;
"We have had the pleasure of meeting be
re Cuthbert!"
"As I told you," murmured the governess,
'1 went down to tell him you were absent."
The ceremonies of dinner now began, and
' seat had been assigned rae beside Blanche,
tried to play the agreeable, but I often found
tty thoughts wandering to the pale, silent girl
fPPosite. When the meal was over and the
dies had left the room, we lingered at our
wine.
Cuthbt th'D 0' m 8'8ter ask:ec
I'She is very beautiful," I replied.
'And have you fallen in love at first sight ?"
" I have I shall not tell you," I exclaim-
and then we went on chatting in a merry
l'11D: When we adjourned to the great, cool,
"onoua parlor, I found Mrs. Cuthbert and
nd f"5ter Dut trje governess was walking to
thon h n the terrace apparently absorbed in
tlat U8Ual small-talk ensued, and
the ! at my relueat, the heiress sat down at 1
'ki'lL a?0' an( P,aved and ang with much
ijae had cb8erTe(l . harp in the boudoir
forne01' and bee Del sweep its strings
"I cannot," she said ; "but Miss Marguerite
can ; I will call her," and moving to the win
dow abe exclaimed, imperiously : "Coma,
Marguerite, we wish you to play some airs on
the harp."
The governess hesitated a moment, and
then came in and took a seat at the harp. As
she sat there I noticed for the first time the
superb proportion of her figure, the graceful
poise of her head on the stately neck. But I
forgot those when she smote the chords of the
harp and began to sing. Was she an impro
visatrice 7 I thought she must be, so full of
soul was the music she poured forth, and when
she concluded I asked Mrs. Cuthbert whose
composition it was.
"Her own," she replied; "and she never
knows what she is going to sing when she
commences."
I uttered no fulsome words of commenda
tion to Marguerite, but my eyes must bave
spoken volumes of approval.
That night when I retired to rest my dreams
were not haunted by the heiress, but by the
pale face I had seen at the window the face
of Marguerite, the governess.
The next morning I was awake at an early
hour, and glancing out, saw Marguerite glid
ing across the lawn. I hastened to join ber
her cheeks wore a rich glow, her dark, lust
rous eyes wero full of light, her lip tremulous
with smiles' her white apron was lull of snowy
blossoms, and she had wreathed a tpray of
jessamine amid the backness of her hair.
How we began to talk I scarcely know, but I was
never ao entertained by any woman as by hei.
I could touch upon no subject in literature or
art with which she was not familiar, and Mad
ame de Stael might have coveted her conversa
tional powers. On the lawn we separated, but
when we met at breakfast in the presence of
the Cuthberts and the supercillious heiress, I
saw that the old governess look had again
come back to her fair face, and she was more
reticent than ever. My friend proposed a
horseback excursion to a boiling spring in the
neighborhood, and when our party assembled
on the veranda, I noticed with the keenest
disappointment that the governess had been
excluded. I rode at the bridle rein of the fair
Blanche,' who looked very pretty in the blue
habit, and with her velvet cap set coqnettish-
ly above her golden tresses, but I found it an
effort to interest myself in the commonplace
chit-chat. I felt a sense of relief when we
dismounted at the Hall, and as soon as I had
led my partner in, bounded up the staircase
On the way to my chamber 1 passed an open
door, and through it caught a glimpse of Mar
gnerite. The two children were busy at their
tasks, and she sat patiently correcting a sketch
which one of them had made. A portfolio
lay beside her, which, I doubted not, was fill
ed with her own drawings. She heard me
step, and looking up, saw, me on the thres
hold.
"What !" she exclaimed, "have you return
ed so soon ? I did not expect you for an hour
or two. I hope you have enjoyed yourself."
"No, I have not. I was really disappointed
because you did not go."
A faint smile passed over her face.
"I I," she murmured, "you ean't under
stand etiquette if you expect a governess is to
be made an equal."
I felt the blood rush to my brow as I replied :
"There are many false notions in society. I
am sure Mrs. Cuthbert's governess it the e
qnal of any one here, and as such I regard her.
Her face crimsoned, and for a time there
was a silence, which I broke by saying :
Is this the schoolroom "
"Yes."
"It looks very cool and pleasant. May I
come in?"
"I suppose Mrs. Cuthbert would have no
objection."
"I hope not !" and with these words I mov
ed to the table at which she was sitting.
"Does that portfolio belong to you ?" I
inquired, laying my hand on the article in
question. She bowed assent, and I resumed :
"Shall I have the pleasure of examining its
contents ?"
"Certainly, sir."
She was calm, grave, quiet, but when I drew
forth the pictures and began to expatiate, then
her patience vanished. Her eyes lit, the pale
check glowed, her lips those mobile lips of
hers parted, and she talked with the enthusi
asm of girlhood. The sketches were indeed
wonderful, and at last I said :
"It is a shame for your genius for painting,
to drudge as a governess."
Again that peculiar smile flitted over her
features as she murmured :
"The poor must do what they can, not what
they would."
At this moment we wero interrupted by the
children, and I left ber.
In the afternoon 1 was lounging on a luxu
rious sofa in the library, the door opened,
and Marguerite appeared, but at sight of me
she precipitately retired.
"Stay ! stay I" cried I, following her.
".No, no, I cannot I did not dream you
were here ; I was lonely, and came down for a
book."
"Come and get it." With some reluctance
she entered aud took a splendidly bound copy
of lasso f rom the shelf. I glanced at it and
said : " What, do you read Tasso ?"
"A little."
"Then take a seat beside me and we will
read together."
She hesitated an instant, and then assented.
The liquid Tuscan language sounded very
beautiful in her accents, and the spell with
which the governess had bound mo deepened
with every passing momeut.
A month wore ou and one night I sat in my
chamber, holding communication with my
own heart. The face I had seen at the win
dow on my arrival the lace that had seemed
so calm and cold, had since assumed every va
riety of expression. I had come hither to
woo Blanche, I had fallen in love with the
m-w I . 1 i 1 1
governess, x es i i was in iove at iu&i .uar
gucrite haunted all my sleeping and waking
dreams. I was musing thus when i beam a
tap at the door, and Cuthbert entered.
"Well," said he,"apenny lor your tnongius.
"I am thinking," I replied, "how mysteri
ous a thing love is."
"You are in love, then t giaaoi u iiiancue
will be a happy woman."
"'Tis not Blancho!" I stammered; "'tis
not Blancho my heart has chosen I love the j
governess 1"
"The governess !" said Cuthbert ; "zounas,
man, what do yon mean ?"
"I have to-day laid my heart, band, and for
tune at ber feet ; if stye accept me, I shall en
vy nobody jjj the wide worhj."
Cuthbert meditated awhile ere be resumed:
"You must be sincere, Vincent, or you
would not marry Marguerite."
"Sincere ! God knows I am f "
My host gazed at me and laughed a merry
laugh,that rang loud and long through the hall.
"My dear fellow," he began, "you are the
victim of a little ruse. My sister-in-law has
bad a mortal fear of falling a prey to some
fortune-hunter, and when yon, on your arrival,
mistook her for the governess, she could not
resist the temptation to carry out the impos
ture. In the bit of confab we had with her on
the veranda, she begged us not to undeceive
you, and we humored her whim. She coaxed
the cousin who was staying with us to act the
part of the heiress, and as she had taught the
children during the absence of their French
governess, they were -not likely to betray her
secret. Blanche Marguerite Dupont, come
here and confess !"
"Dear, dear Richard, I know I can trust
yon."
Blanche is now my wife, and peeping over
my shoulder at my manuscript, she bids me
tell the world she has never repented the strat
agem that won my love.
THE "IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT."
The doctrine of an "irrepressible conflict"
between the two social systems of the North
and of the South, after having been cited for a
time as one of the most signal evidences of
"Northern fanaticism," has come to be a most
accepted criterion of "loyalty to the South and
its institutions." For a while this dogma was
held up to the abhorrence of every Southern
citizen, and any word of explanation adven
tured in the premises by way of reference to
the context of Mr. Seward's Rochester speech,
in which that Senator was supposed to have
promulgated that idea, only subjected the can
did journalist to the imputation of beiug a wil
ling apologist for "Black Republican heresy."
Now, however, we find this same dogma warm
ly espoused at the South by those who assume
to be par excellence the custodians of Southern
rights and the champions of Southern inter
ests. To this effect tho Charleston Mercury,
echoing the language recently held in the
name of South Carolina by her Commissioner,
the Hon. L. W. Spratt. "before the Florida
Convention, says as follows in its number of
the 18th of January :
"The social and political organization of the
South is, in all respects, theoretically and
practically, dlflerent and opposed to that of the
North. Southern Institutions are essentially
conservative. It recognizes distinct order and
classes. It establishes them. One-third of the
whole Southern population do not cast a sin
gle vote. They are disenfranchised. They are
not recognised as citizens of the several States.
They are slaves. In South Carolina one-half
of the population of the State are in this cate
gory. The distinctive feature of South Caro
lina is its conservatism in all things its obe
dience to its laws; its love ot order; its re
spect for authority, divine and human. South
ern society is unquestionably of an aristocratic
cast. Every white man is of a favored class.
He is, among others around him, a Roman
citizen.' Feeling bis own authority, he recog
nizes that which he has established. As the
great political philosopher, Burke, defines it,
he yields a proud submission and dignified
obedience.' Through habit, association, and
education, it becomes his second rtntur.
Southern society individualizes men. North
ern society conglomerates, centralizes men.
They are two distinct systems of political or
ganization, based on two radically different
theories of government. Hence Mr. Seward is
quite right when he says there exists between
them an irrepressible conflict.' They are in
diroct conflict, the one with the other. It is,
therefore, quite impossible to conceive how,
under one ballot-box, the two can co-exist in
one Government. Men may theorize that if
the North would adhere to the Constitution
there would be no difficulty. They beg the
question. The if is in opposition to the na
ture of things. Men cannot be moulded, in
their inherent naturo, to our wills. There are
certain laws which will always govern them.
Under tho existing Union the theory and in
stitutions of Southern society, or that of Nor
thern society, will eventually give way. For
both to exist, continue and work out their own
ends, they must be separated. If there exist
ed no other reason, policy and theory alike
would demand that the Southern people should
be a separate, independent people."
Here, then, we have the irrepressible con
flict" doctrine set forth by the Charleston Mer
eery in stronger terms than were used by its
reputed author, and looking to a contingency,
which he never contemplated. It remains to
be seen whether Democratic editors will be as
ready to denounce that dogma now, when ad
vocated by the South, as they were to viUify
Mr. Seward for making his Rochester speech.
The Extradition Cask. An Item of newB
by the last steamer, to the effect that the Court
of Queen's Bench in England had granted a
writ of habeas corpus in the case of the negro
Anderson, a fugitive from the State of Mis
souri, where he shot a gentleman, who at
tempted to arrest him, now in jail at Toronto,
Canada, is likely to impart much importance
to the case. It has been already stated that
the Canadian Court decided that he ought to
be surrendered, on the requisition of the Gov
ernor of Missouri, but that the surrender is
delayed for such further legal proceedings as
are applicable to the case. If the action of the
Court of Queen's Bench shall have the effect
to remove the prisoner toJSngland, and to dis
charge bim from custody, it may become a
subject of diplomatic correspondence between
the two countries. The principle involved is
similar to that in the case of Kentucky against
Ohio. The offence committed is against the
laws of the State from whence the fugitive
fled ; but as slavery does not exist in the Brit
ish dominions, it cannot be a crime there for a
negro to kill the person attempting to prevent
his escape from slavery. If the British Gov
ernment intended to limit the operation of the
treaty to crimes pronounced such by English,
and uot by American law, it should have dene
so by express terms, instead of seeking to e
vade what appears to be a plain agreement be
tween the two countries.
Thavd tit a a iltrAi wA1lini at Mtlironlrld
last week, at which the husband surprised the
WHO wiiu picacuii ui -9 in i oai estate
and stocks.
your ear, and demand if be has the wrong pig
THE 6EEAT SALT LAKE.
Among the great natural curiosities of North
America, the great saline body ot water in
Utah Territory, known as the Great Salt Lake,
stands in the first order. The Lake itself is not
individually so great a curiosity, as when view
ed in connection with correlative indications,
which gives us a combination of natural won
ders, truly astounding. The water-marks
show that the Lake is uow a mere remnant of
what was one of the mighty water-collections
of the earth perhaps of a body of water that
spread itself throughout the whole Utah basin.
Provo Lake, a body of water distant perhaps
seventy-five miles from the great Lake is sur
rounded by indications of a l:ke character, that
directly point to an early poriod when its indi
viduality was lost within tho limits of a mighty
sea that absorbed both itself and Great Salt
Lake.- Along the base of the mountain-walls
of the valley, if we may so term the limits of
the basin, are distinct water-marks, of various
elevations. They are clearly discernible at a
distance of twenty-five miles, the more eleva
ted being from twenty-five to one hundred feet
above the level of the valley. They ore al
most conclusive evidence that a great sea onco
existed in Utah valley, whose breakers have
left their power indented upon the rocky front
of their mountain confines as a monument of
their power. The different elevations ot these
water-marks show tho gradual declination of
this sea from a body ot water covering, may
be, tens of thousands of square miles, to the
present saunas body of about sixty miles in
length and lorty or fifty in width. This pre
sumption is strengthened by the existence,
throughout the entire valley, of aquitile de
posits, such as shells, petrified fishes, water
worms, rocks, etc. Upon this theorv, the in
ference may be drawn that Great Salt Lake is
gradually diminishing, but this is not the case ;
it is now reduced to a basis of fixed causes
which will give it perpetuity in its present ex
tent. The moisture of the atmosphere of
those latitudes is sufficient to always keep it
supplied with a uniform quantity of water
The melting snow of the mountains swells the
riverR in the spring and summer that empty
into it, and when this melting is prevented by
the coldness of the fall and winter, those riv
ers fall, and iby evaporation the lake rapidly
declines the evaporation carrying off more
water than the streams deposit. It is in this
declining condition that coarse salt is obtain
ed from the beach of the lake in quantities ad
infinitum. Now, so long as the same meteoro
logical system prevails, the lake must contm
ue the same as now.
No theory is settled upon by scientific men
as to the cause of the salty nature of the lake.
W e bave an opinion of our own, which we be
lieve to be rational. The rivers emptying in
to it Canaan, Jordan, Webber, Malade, and
numerous smaller streams head in the moun
tains, where they are supplied by myriads of
mountain brooks, sotrie ot which undoubtedly
nave their salt springs. These brooks impreg
nate the great water-carriers of the lake with
alt to so small an extent, though it be, that
it is not perceptible to the taste ; and they
carry it into the lake, where it must forever
remain and accumulate, as evaporation increa
ses the proportion of the salt to the water.
The salt may bave been carried to the lake o
ver a hundred miles, and it has perhaps been
accumulating there for thousands of years, and
thus it must continue to accumulate throngh
all time if the f upply should be inexhaustible.
The volcanic indications surrounding the
lake are peculiarly impressive, and could well
be made the subject of the natural philoso
pher's study. The whole face of the country
appears to have passed through caloric influen
ces of the iotensest character. Enormous
rocks fringe its margin, which are charred as
black as ebony from the operation of heat,
and their fragmentary condition bespeaks the
mighty convulsions which they have passed
through. Near the lake's centre there is quite
a large island, upon which these volcanic in
dications are equally emphatic. This island
is very fertile, and is owned by the Church,
which institution holds it for the exclusive
purpose of grazing. All the stock which
comes into the tithing-office all Mormons are
compelled to pay one-tenth of everything that
they make or raise, to the Church are taken
to this island, and there must be thousands of
head upon it. It is reached by small sailing
vessels. So extremely salt is the water of the
Lake that piscatory life is impossible. Its
average depth is 3fty feet. Oregon News.
Cot. Benton on the Slavery Agitation.
In his 2d vol. of "Thirty Years in the Senate,"
Col. Benton says : "The regular inauguration
of this slavery agitation dates from the year
1835 ; but it had commenced two years before,
and in this way : nullification and disunion had
commenced in 1830, upon complaint against a
protective tariff. That, being put down in
1833 under President Jackson's proclamation
and energetic measures, was immediately sub
stituted by the slavery agitation. Mr. Cal
houn, when he went home from Congress, in
the Spring of that year, told his friends 'that
the South could never be united against the North
on the tariff question that the sugar interest of
Louisiana xcould keep her out and that the basis
of Southern union must be shifted to the slave
question.' Then all the papers in his interest,
and especially the one at Washington, pub
lished by Mr. Duff Green, dropped tariff' agita
tion, and commenced upon slavery, and in two
years had the agitation ripe for inauguration
on the slavery question. And, in tracing this
agitation to its present stage, and to compre
hend its rationale, it is not to be forgotten that
it is a mere continuation of old tariff disunion,
and preferred because more available."
The Union in Arkansas. Arkansas is not
as reckless in plunging into the abyss of dis
union as some of her Southern sisters. The
bill for an immediate State Convention has
been voted down, and the question whether a
State Convention shall be held or not is to be
referred to the people. Strong hopes are
entertained that, ber people will recognize that
their true interests are amongst those who can
and will construct the Pacific Railroad, and
that, with the exhibition of a conciliatory spirit
on the part of the North, the secession move
ment will be crushed out.
There is an old gentleman in Georgia, named
Hersbey, who has 944 grand-children, all are
married and live in the same county. .The
amount of property owned by them is said to
be upwards of $60,000,000.
Coal has been selling in Charleston, South
Carolina, at $15,59 a ton.
A GALLANT PENNSYLVANIA!!.
Lieut. Adam J. Slemmer, born in Norrls
town, Penn., was appointed a cadet at West
Point from Pennsylvania in 1846, and gradu
ated in 1859, entering the army as a second
lieutenant of the First Regiment of Artillery.
He is at present a first lieutenant of one of the
companies of that regiment, and, by the tem
porary absence of the captain, is in command
of the company at Fort Pickens, which it oc
cupies. At the commencement of the present
troubles, tho artillery were quartered in the
barracks near the navy-yard and the old Span
ish lort' of San Carlos de Carrancas. Two
very strong works. Forts Pickens and McRea,
built at the entrance of the harbor, command
tho harbor, navy-yard and ship channels.
Finding that Florida was determined to secede,
Lieut. Slemmerabandoncd his unfortified posi
tion, and took post in the strongest of these
two forts, Fort Pickens, which, on account of
its being on an island, is more easily protec
ted. Forts McRea, Barrancas and the navy
yard, however, being in possession of the
southern troops, and forming a crescent line
of forts, by concentrating their fire on Lieut.
Slemmer. can greatly annoy him and bis hand
ful of men, the distance at any one point not
being over a mile and half. Lieut. Slemmer
has already been summond to surrender, to
which bis answer was "not until he is ordered
to do so by his government." Had the com
mander of the navy-yard acted with the same
gallantry as this young lieutenant, both Forts
McKca and Pickens would have been occupied,
and could have held the harbor against any
force the insurgents could bring. It is to be
hoped that Commander Armstrong, who is an
old officer of tho navy, had good ami sufficient
reason for not doing so. In a millitary point
of view, Pensacola is of much more importance
than Charleston harbor, and the conduct of
Lieut. Slemmer is just as praiseworlbey as that
of Major Anderson.
The State or Europe. The coming months
are most critical for the state of Europe. a
poleon arms, and recommends a Congress for
settling the pending questiou ; t-ngiana is
uneasy ; the new King of Prussia, William I,
declares, in his first manifesto to his nation,
that the confidence of Europe is shaken ; Ba
varia urettares for war, and Austria is still In
the convulsions of a financial and political
crisis. Russia, though deeply engaged in the
immediate emancipation of the serfs, concen
trates an army on the Pruth, and threatens
Moldo-Wallachia with an invasion in case the
Hungarians should try to organize an inroad
from the Principalities into iransyivania.
Prince Couza suddenly turns round, and after
having for a time favored the schemes of Hungary,-
proclaims now-the strictest neutrality,
and expels tho Hungarian refugees, ine
Prince of Servia is likewise frighteued, and no
longer dares to put himself in opposition to
Austria and Russia. But Bosnia, Bulgaria,
and Montenegro are still agitated, and it is
scarcely possible that tho year 1SOI will pass
away without serious commotions in European
Turkey. Besides these greater questions there
remains still the squabble about bcnieswig
Qolstein and the Constitution of Uessia, which
may be a pretext, both by Napoleon and the
Czar Alexander, for disturbing the state of
Germany. The American difficulties greatly
influence the money market, and there is an
nneasy feeling prevalent that Europe is on the
brink of a great war or of revolution.
Heavy Fracd. The Nashville, Tennessee,
Banner, of Jan. 26th, says : Wo learned yes
terday from a citizen of Columbia that the com
munity of Maury county have just been sub
jected to a wholesale swindle by Sam'l Jones,
deputy Sheriff, who absconded on Monday a
week with over $100,000. Mr. Jones stood
high in the confidence of every one. ne had
been twice elected Sheriff, though opposed in
politics to tho dominant party. The means
adopted by the swindler were very novel and
deliberate. He forged judgments upon good
men in the country, and sold them to capital
ists at a discount of twenty five per cent, at
the same time agreeing to collect them with
out charge. He was engaged for several weeks
in selling these fictitious judgments. Shortly
before he left be also borrowed money from
several parlies. One gentleman in Mt. Pleas
ant is mulcted for $26,000, and others in differ
ent parts ot the county, in amounts from $10,
000 down to a few hundreds, the aggregate
reaching over $100,000. Mr. Jones abandoned
his wife and six children. His wife, we learn,
is absolutely deranged on account of the affair.
JNo clue to the direction which he nas taken
has been obtained. The fraud, indeed, was
not discovered until last Wednesday.
A Motto tor the Day. And now, Sir,
coming from a Slave State as I do, 1 owe it to
myself. I owe It to truth, I owe U to the sub
ject, to state that no earthly power conld in
duce me to vote for a jpeciuc measure tor tne
introduction ot Slavery where it bad not be
fore existed, either south or north of that line.
Coming as I do from a Slave State, it is my
solemn, deliberate, and well-matured determi
nation that no power no earthly power shall
compel me to vote lor the positive introduc
tion of Slavery cither south or north of that
line. Sir, while you reproach, and justly, too.
our British ancestors for the introduction of
this institution upon the continent of America,
I am, for one, unwilling that the posterity of
the present inhabitants of California and New
Mexico shall reproach us for doing just what
we reproach Great Britain for doing to us. If
the citizens of those Territories choose to es
tablish Slavery, I am for admitting them with
such provisions in their Constitutions ; but
then, it will be their own work, and not ours,
and their posterity will have to reproach them,
and not us, for forming Constitutions allow,
ing the institution of Slavery to exist among
them. Henry Ciy' speech in the U. S. Senate,
Jan. 20th, 1850.
An Insult to Mrs. Lincoln by South Caro
lina Chivalry. A box shipped from Charles
ton, South Carolina, and directed to Mrs. Lin
coln, was received in Springfield a few days
ago. On being opened, it was found to contain
a picture representing Mr. Lincoln with a ropo
around his neck, his feet manacled, and bis
back adorned with t coat of tar and feathers.
It is said that the shippers were ladies Heav
en save the mark !
A wild cat, weighing twenty pounds, was
shot in Somerset county, on the 4th instant.,
by a Mr. William Black.
"Ton bava a splendid tar, but a very poor
totes," as tha organ-grinder said to the doakej.
MRS. SLEMMER AND MRS. OILMAN-
Mrs. Lieut. Slemmer and Mrs. Lieut. J. II.
Gilman, the two ladies whose names have bee a
most prominently connected with the late pro
ceedings at Fort Pickens, took rooms at tho
Metropolitan Hotel, New York. They are both
ladies of much refinement and intelligence,
and the events through which they have so
lately passed have made a deep impression
upon them. Tbey have related many thinga
of interest concerning affUirs at Pensacola.
The exodus from tho BArrancas Port was
made necessarily in much haste, there being
little time except to hurriedly pack up tho
most valuable of their articles of furniture and
wardrobe. No personal violence was offered
to these retreating women and children, but
the sudden aud peaceable breaking up of so
many peaceful households, and the violent
separation ot family ties, were cause of great
distress. To mary tho parting of husband
and wife was as if for the last time, and tears
bedewed many a hardy cheek when the last
"good-bye" was spoken.
The excitement produced upon the officers
when they saw their flag at the Navy yard
hauled down, Mrs. Slemmer says, was most in
tense. It was a sight they never expected to
see, and they had never conceived of the
deep feeling of humiliation aud vexation the
spectacle excited in every breast.
During the day and i.iglit of the evacuation
of Barrancas, and tho transfer of the garrison
to Fort Pickens, every person, men, the offi
cers, and their wives, performed prodigies ot
labor, and uever obtained a wink of sleep for
nearly twenty-four hours ; and the hard work
fell about equally upon all, without regard to
rank or sex. The ladies cheerfully performed
their part throughout the trying ordeal.
On the day following the embarkation of tho
families on board of the Supply, Mrs. Gilman,
and Mrs. Slemmer, accompanied by officers
from the storeship, went on shore under a flag
of truce, to obtain a last interview with their
husbands. Every step of their progress was
met by armed officials. They wore obliged,
first, to obtain permission from the new Com
mandant of the Navy yard Randolph who
ten days before had resigned bis commission
in the Navy. This was very reluctantly grant
ed, after appeals had been mado to him as a
husband and father. They then had to pass
the Barrancas forts, whose commander, after
some hesitation, allowed them to pass. In
this place, so lately deserted by these peace
ful and happy families, all was now confusion.
The undisciplined soldiers or their understrap
pers had broken open some of the boxes and
trunks containing the wardrobe and household
relics of Colon 1 1 Winder, late commander,
probably in pursuit of clothing for their own
use, and they saw ladies' dresses, and family
daguerreotypes, scattered about with little re
gard to their Taunted respect fcr the lights of
personal property. Injustice to the officers,
these ladies wished to exonerate them, per
sonally, from these acts of vandalism, and be
lieve they were done by the baser sort, npon
whom discipline had as yet exerted no control.
Lieut. Slemmer asserted that ho could hold
the place against five thousand men, and de
clared he would doit. It is needless to sar
that both these ladies exhorted their husband's
to stand by their country's flag to the last,
and never to haul it down except to an over
powering force. All the prisoners in the Na
vy Yard were permitted to leave after giving
their parole, and those who could get away
left. Such as decided to remain were com
pelled to take the oath of allegiance to tho
State of Florida.
The Palmetto Flag The "Iml
Republic of South Carolina" has at last fixed
the design of her flag. It is to consist of a
blue field, with a white palmetto tree in th
middle, and a white crescent, with the horna
pointing inwards, at the upper corner. Tha
first attempt of a vessel to enter a foreign port
under the new fl?g, was mado at Havana by a
brincantine from Charleston. Shn K.iiifri in
past the Moro Castle with her "Palmet to" flair
flying aloft. But immediately, by order of tbs
officer m command of the fortress, she was
broueht to anchor under its ennx. nd Lpm
there until the flag of the United States wa
displayed at her mast-head, when she was per.
mitted to proceed tip the harbor. We wonder
what they are going to do in Palmetto-dom a-
iwm mis outrage upon meir nag in a foreign
port. This insult ou?ht to be avn?(-d forth.
with. A new-born nationality cannot afford to
nave us emblematic ensign thus dishonored.
An idiot at Salsburr. Germanv. leinc vr
fearless, an experiment was made to test his
courage, by setting him to watch a corpse, but
which was in reality a live ncrson envelnnpri.
and, unfortunately, confined in a shroud. As
ine supposea corpse oegan to move, the idiol
told it to lav still, and Leinc riianlwvori. mItpiI
a hatchet and cut off first one of the feet, and
m spite ot opposition, the head of the help
less imposter, after which he calmly resumed
bis watching.
Tenacity or the Sacrfi Tie.' It has been
judicially decided in New York that where a
uusuana Knoc&s nis wne down twice by blows
on the nose, once by a blow on tho cheek, and
men snaKes a unlet ot wood at her, "the prov
ocation i,s too slight to dissolve that sacred tia
which binds her to her husband for life, for
better or worse." The husband must kr.
doing so if he wants his wife to be freed from
bim. Aut how Ions 1
A French View. The Journal i!rm Tirhnft.
the most influential paper in France, says of
the proposed Southern Confederacy : "Let it
pursue its own way ; but once more mnst it bo
pronou ced that there is not a corner upon tha'
ll I .. . a .
eariu wnero it win nnd sympathy and assise
ance." Not very encouraging, that. ' " ''
In Cincinnati, an Irishman became angry at
a darkey, and broke seven or eight bricks up
on bis head, without doing bin' the least inju
ry. The negro, who was perfectly cool during
the operation, at length exclaimed : "Struck
away white man dis chile don't mind dem
pebbles no bow ! yah f yah " ' 1 ' '1
John Tyler, who Imagined he had a snake
in his stomach, died at Roscopel, Wis., on tba
28th ult., from starvation. He had been at
tempting to starve the snake out, aud touched
no food for twenty-seven days.
Oca FtAG is There ! The Stars and Stripes
still float in Northern Alabama, and Ibe pao
ple ttiere defy tha secessionists to come and
taka tbem down ! All honor to tba patriots cf
Korthern Alabama.
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