4f BY S. B. ROW. CLEAEFIEIJD, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAKCII 27, 1861. vol. 7-no; 3o: ' 1 ' ' THE LIGHT AT HOME. The light at home, how bright it beams, When evening shades around us fall . And from the lattice, far it gleams To love, and rest, and common call. When wearied with the toils of .day, Acd strife for glory, gold or fame, How sweet to seek the quiet way, Where loving lips will lisp our name, Around the light at home. When through the dark and stormy night The wayward wanderer homeward flies,. JIow cheering is that twinkling light Which through the forest gloom he spies! It it the light at home he feels That loving hearts will greet him there ; And softly through his bosom steals That joy that banishes his care. Around the light at home. The light at home ! whene'er at last It greets the seaman through the storm, lie feels no more the chilling blast That beats upon his manly form. Long years upon the sea have fled Since dear ones gave a parting kiss, But the sad tears which then were shed Will now be paid with rapturous bliss, Around the light at home. The light at home! how still and sweet It peeps from yonder cottage door, The weary laborer to greet, When the rough toils of day are o'er. Sad is the soul that does not know The blessings that the beams impart The eheerful hopes and'joys that flow. And lightens up the heaviest heart, Around the light at home. HE IS NOT MY CHOICE. Stuck away from the gaze of the vulgar, and almost bid from the gaze of everybody who chose to pass the road, was a neat cottage painted white, trimmed with green, and green window-shutters laying back against the pure, spotless sides of the cottage. The top of the building was ornamented in the Chinese style of architecture, with various hooks and crooks twisting about it in fantastic curves. This cottage was hid away like a rich treasure in a forest of trees and shrubbery. In the summer time and of course that is the season of which we write thousands of roses were hanging in carmine clusters in different parts of the tor es', while many of them were climbing and clamering up the sides of the cottage. Grape rines were reaching out their curled fiugers, and with their ape-like arms were ascending Irom bar to bar, and covering the summer house with their broad, green leaves. The timid little pinks, though by far the richest, lowers, were- standing like sentries around the flower-beds, guarding their more sturdy neigh bors from trespass and ruin. Great trees stood up bold and strong from the earth, to guard this delicate scene from the fierce rays of the sun. This cottage was ocenpied, as all such pla ces of beauty should be, and one of its occu pants was Miss Codelia Vance. She had pa rents, as almost every young and beautiful girl have or has bad, and they loved her as ail good parents should do, and she loved them in return, as all good and obedient chil dren will. The home was all peace, pleasure and quietness, as all homes are when well con ducted. MissCodelU Vance was the angel of this tairv abode: and a beautiful angel she was, irir.j'Injr, dancing and singing all day long alout the cottage, brio was abont eighteen years of age, &prightly and spirited, but not cross and irascible ; kind and amiable, with a good word for everybody, and a smile to ligh ten tho cares and woes of the afllicted. She was a girl that one might love, and everybody did love her, and especially the beaux in the village. How she smiled upon their petty intrigues and plots against each other, and how gently she chidcd them when their jeal ousies were excited, and made them ashamed of their weaknesses. Miss Vance was the leading beauty, and well she knew it ; but it did not make her proud and ostentatious, over bearing and domineering. She was a girl of sound sense, educated by sensible teachers, and guarded over by a kind, good mother, who was very prond of her amiable daughter. Squire Vance was a well-to-do farmer, pos sessing a sufficient qnantity of this world's goods to make him independent. He was a good, honest man, straightforward in all deal ings, and strictly upright and consciencious in hiscoDdact. Above all things in the world, he loved his daughter, and valued her happi ness more than gold. Taking this view of Sqnire Vance, it is nat ural to suppose that in the choice of a hus band, the squire would regard his child's hap piness instead of the quantity of gold her bus band should possess. But this is a queer world, and there are many wonderfully queer things doing in it, and we shall see how Squire Vance stood upon this subject when it came to the test. There were two yonng men In the village who were extremely anxious to possess the liand of the beautiful Codelia. Aaron Miller was poor Bah !" thought Squire Vance but was smart, intelligent and industrious. He was the village schoolmaster, the village ped agogue, and the village philosopher, lie was ihe learned man of the village, and of course wore a thread-bare coat, as all modest, learned Bien do. Aaron Miller was good looking, amiable and kind. Uallam Douglass was a rich yonng fop, dressed in the height of" fashion, wore a mous tache, sported an exquisite cane, and encased his fingers In tight kid gloves. Ho was a silly Pimp, possessing more money than brains, and carried a tongue in bis mouth that shuffled out childish words by the score. lie was a spoiled child, and it seemed when be grew up to be a win, all the sweetmeats he ate when an infant, bad soured on his stomach, and become incor porated in hig disposition. He did not like toe thread-bare schoolmascer because, he was rival, and it was evident a favored one. He depended upon his riches, and had no doubt charm that had so often been successful to 'J his caso meet witb unbounded fa r a 9 wa tne position or things when odcha was eighteen years old. U was Codelia's birth-day, and sho had giv- th art t0 ner 'r'erds and companions on occasion. Among the guests assembled, ere the two rivals. .Miller was dressad in a en i Cat and What smart man Cares lf hia Jrl " esdy and torn ? and it was out under ml IIis 00018 wre not blacked smart th" d0 no wear blacked boots, and some of em wear no boot gt anand hIs head was tJ,COrabel smart men don't comb their Do lihey like t0 hr n in th,!m they can ten,. " wa" dre8ed superb a sign of no "e-atd looked exqnlsite as a dandy. He made an impression, as all dandies do bnt not a favorable one. Squire Vance and his wife were sitting in their easy chairs near the door, and watching the young folks as they laughed and played away the hours. "Mother," said the squire, ''Cordelia is eighteen years old ; she ought to begin to look about for a husband. What do you think of it?" "Time enough yet," was the short but poin ted answer of the old lady. ''Procrastination is the thief of time, and that "time enough yet" has made many girls husbandless. Codelia is a smart, sensible girl, old enough to marry, and ought to marry within the year." "She is old enough, goodness knows ; but then she is young enough to wait a while. I don't like girls to be in too much of a hurry it sometimes doesn't do well." "We are in no hurry, but I want a son, a full grown fellow, who can talk and keep me company, and oversee the farm. Now, who would you choose 7 Look into the room, and consider well before you decide." The old lady replaced her specks, leaned forward on her chair, and with the greatest in terest peered into the room. For a few mo ments she studied the features of each gentle man, and more especially the school-master. The squire noticed this, and his eye twink led mischievously, as she removed her specks and turned toward her husband. "I would take the schoolmaster," replied the old lady candidly. "Bah ! a thread-bare, penniless orphan. You're getting old, your sight is bad," replied the squire pettishly. "Well, who would yon choose ?" she asked. "I I would choose Uallam Douglass, the gentleman." "Bah!" said the old lady, as a gentle smile gathered about her mouth ; "he is as shallow as the cream on skimmed milk." "Tou're no judge of human nature. He is rich, worth money no shallowness about that." "There may be some day." "Call Codelia, we'll have her opinion she will take Douglass." "I'll bet you a new hat against a new dress she won't," proffered the old lady, as she took his hat from the table "you need one." 'That will do me a year yet." "But think of the wedding." "If she don't get married within the year, I'll wear your bonnet when that memorable e vent takes place." "And I'll wear your old hat if she does," replied the old lady laughing. "I'll take that, and hold you to your bar gain," aaid the squire, as he grasped the old lady's hand. Thus the two old folks enjoyed themselves while the children were merry-making, not for a moment thinking they were the subject of remarks. Codelia was called, and with a skip and jump she came to the side of her parents. 'Codelia.". said her father, gravely, "you arc old enough to get married, and I have se lected a husband for you." "And I have selected another." replied her mother." "For me ?" she asked and started with sur prise and curiosity. "l'cs, my dear for you." "Is he here ?" and she turned her eyes with interest into the room, while a look of anxi ety and doubt gathered on her features. "He is in the room." "Who is he" she asked with a trembling voice. "Uallam Douglass." "Douglass !" and her face became pale, a tear quivered on her eyelid and her tips trem bled her head dropped as she said, "lie Is not my choice." "There, father, I'll take the new dress," said tbo old lady laughing at the squire's dis comfiture, and seized him by the arm. "But you have not, won yet she has not de cided who it sballbe. Who do you say" asked herfather. It was a bard question, but Codelia had been taught to pay implicit obedience to any command, without a moment of equivocation. "Mr. Miller would be my choice" sho re plied, hesitatingly. "Now I have won," insisted the old lady. 'Verily, you have, but it's a conspiracy to cheat me out of the dress." "Now, daughter, you can return to your company," and away she tripped gay and lively, like a bird, to join its companions. "She must marry Douglass," said the old man, as he prepared to retire. "But he is not her choice," said the moth er, offering an objection in behalf of her daughter. "No matter, she must marry the man of my choice," and the old gentleman closed the stair door after him. The party ended and the guests retired. Codelia was informed of her father's reso lution, and it grieved her to the heart. A few days after the party, Miller called on Co delia, and an opportunity ottering, he declar ed his love, and asked her hand and heart. "My heart you have," she replied, "but my band my father has decided shall be anoth er's" "You do not love him ?" "I hate I despise him." "Then it is your father's command obey him. I was taught to honor and obey my pa rents yon do the same, though the thought that you should marry one you do not love will kill me." "It is death to me, but my father's com mand is imperitive law." "Then farewell, Codelia, we must not meet again as lovers, x nave no right to inquire the cause of his rejecting me," and tottering to the door, he departed. Codelia trembled a moment and fell help less in an arm chair. "Ha!" said the squire, as he moved away from a place of observation, "he takes it like a philosopher and gives her good advice." A day or two following. Douglass presented himself, declared his passion, and in silly sen tences besought her to bestow her hand on him. He had riches, money in abundance and would htrisb all on her. "I amnotttfbe bought, sir : I refuse your hand, but I am compelled to marry you, then I will do it but not of ray own accord." Atthis speech, Douglass became incensed, swore, abused and upbraided her with deceit. She took it very calm, and replied like a lady. Id a powerful rage the fop took himself from the house, mien to the satisfaction of CoJelia. "He takes it like a fool she don't faint this time," and the squire turned away a sec ond time from his place cf concealment. Things wore a very sad aspect for a few months. One day the squire came in with a new hat on his head, but in a terrible state of excitement. Grasping Codelia and ber moth er by the wrists, he dragged thein into the little kitchen. "I am ruined!" he exclaimed; "bankrupt, and only one thing can save me money and if Codelia will marry the man of my choice, she cau save me if she will not, there is an end of Squire Vance," and he seized a huge butcher knife and held' it close to his throat, but was sure to have the back of it next to him. Weeping bitterly, Codelia threw her arms around his neck, and proclaimed herself ready to sacrifice her life and happiness for his sake. The knife dropped from his throat and pres sing ber to his heart, he kissed her. "Put on your bonuct and come right along to church, the minister is waiting." Remonstrance was in vain ; the mother and daughter were hurried off too church without time for reflection. To hide her grief and her pallid countenance, Codelia wore a thick, heavy veil. She walked up to the alter, where she was joined by the man who was to be her husband. Tbo mother sat back with her face bowed in her hands and weeping bit terly for her daughter. The conduct of the squire was so singular that she began to think him crazy. The ceremoncy was performed, and the father removed the veil from Codelia's face. She turned a glance upon her husband it was Aaron Miller, the schoolmaster. With a cry of joy she fell into his arms ; his mother was aroused and came forward to greet them. "You'll wear my old bat," said the squire, as drew his old bat from his pocket and plac ed it on her head. The ruse of the squire was explained as they' returned from the church : ' he did it to win the bet get a son to take care of his property, and to prove his daughter's love and obedience. Life Everywhere. Under this caption a interesting and instructive article makes its appearance in one of the literary journals. How mysterious the world we live in ! How it teems with life ! What lessons it teaches of creative skill and providential superintend ence! But read the article : "Life everywhere ! The air is crowded with birds beautiful, tender and intelligent birds, to whom life is a song and a thrilling anxiety the anxiety of love. The air is swarming with insects those little animated miracles. The waters are peopled "with -innumerable forms from the animalcule, so small that one hundred and fifty millions of them would not weigh a grain, to the whale, so large that it seems an island as it sleeps upon the waves. The bed of the sea is alive with polyes, carps, star fishes and, with shell animalcules. The rugged face of the rock Is scarred by the fit lent boring of soft creatures, and blackened with countless muscles, barnacles and limpets Life everywhere ! on the earth, in the earth, crawling, creeping, burrowing, boring, leap ing, running. If tho sequestered coolness of the wood tempts us to saunter into its check ered shade, w are saluted by the numerous din of insects, the twitter of birds, the scram bling of squirrels, the startled rush of unseen beasts, ail telling how populous is this seem ing solitude. If we pause before a tiee, or shrub, or plant, our cursory and half abstract ed glance detects a colony of various inhabi tants. We pluck a flower, and in its bosom wo see many a charming insect busy in its ap pointed labor. We pick up a fallen leaf, and if nothing is visible on it, there is probably the trace of an insect larva hidden in its tissue, and awaiting their development. The drop of dew upon this leaf will probably contain its animals under the microscope. ' The same microscope reveals that the blood rain sudden ly appearing on bread, and awakening super stitious terror, is nothing but a collection of minute animals (Monas prodigosa,) and that the vast tracts of snow which are reddi-ned in a single night owe their color to the marvel ous rapidity in reproduction of a minute plant (Protraccus navalts.) The very mould which covers our cheese, our bread, our jam, or our ink, and disfigures our damp walls, in nothing but a collection of plants. The many-colored fire which sparkles on the surface of a sum mer sea at night, as the vessel plows her way, or which drips from the oars in lines of jew eled light, is produced by millions of minute animals. White Labor at the South. It is often asserted that none but the colored race can endure the heat of the South. To this it is replied : "There is not one single rood of tho Southern States beneath a tropical sun. Ev ery acre of our Slave States lies within the temperate zone. The isothermal line which passes through Savannah, Georgia, also passes through Madrid and Rome, where no white man dreams of any incapacity to labor. "In the extreme South," says Cassius M. Clay, "at New Orleans, the laboring men, the steve dores, and hackmen, on the levee, where the heat is intensified by the proximity of the red brick buildings, are all white men, and they are in the full enjoyment of health." "The steady heat of our summers," says Governor Hammond of South Carolina, "is not so pros trating, as the short, but frequent and sudden bursts of Northern-summers." "Here," in New Orleans," says Dr. Cartwright, "the lar ger part of the drudgery work requiring expo sure to the sun, such as railroad making, street paving, dray driving, ditching and building, is performed by ,J white people." Every well informed man knows that in Texas, where the Germans will not employ slave labor, these hardy emigrants from the North of Europe, produce with their own hands, more cotton to the acre thau the- slaves." - Chinese mothers exercise the benignant right of flogging their children even after they have grown up and have families of their own, and the old boys admit the right and dutifully stand and take it. A fond Chinese son, hav ing daily endured this discipline for forty years,wept piteously as he discovered daily in the more enfeebled blows of his mother, who was eighty, that she was growing old. The Secession leaders dare not, submit their work to the people. The Louisiana, Gonven has voted down the ' proposltipn-to rpfcr the Constitution of the Confederacy to tbo popu lar vole for raijSJa'tl on of rejection. ' THE VICTOEY OF MBS. GAINES. The annals of litigation furnish no two more interesting or peculiar cases than those of Madame Paterson Bonaparte, and of Mrs. My ra Clark Gaines, both of which have, for many years, occupied prominent positions before, not only the legal profession, but the eyes of the world. These cases are singularly sugges tive, and peculiarly illustrative of certain pha ses of American society, and as such, possess other interests than those of a merely pecuni ary character. -Each has reached, after por tracted struggles, a decision, the one adverse to and the other in favor of the claimant the one loses all she deemed' worth living for. while the other gains not only a fortune of fab ulous amount, but establishes forever the hon or of her mother. Had tho Imperial Court been more kind, the American claimant of a kingly hand would now be in possession of a vast estate, with her son's legitimacy acknowl edged before the world, while, as it is, these are denied her, and perhaps forever. In view, of the interest of the celebrated cause which was recently decided in favor of Mrs. Gaines, by a full bench of the Supreme Court of the United States, a brief resume of its material facts will be not misplaced. Daniel Clark, who was one of fhe early set tlers in the colony of Louisiana, was a very re markable person. His sagacrTy, prudence and business tact, soon placed him at the head of its monetary world, while his beauty of per son, popular character, and agreeable manners afforded him a similar position in the social circle. In 1802 be became acquainted in Philadelphia with a lady of extraordinary per sonal beauty, named Zulime Carriere. She was born in the old French colony of Biloxi, and her parents were emigrants from the land of poetry and romance Provence the favor ite home ot the Troubadours. When Clark first met her, she had been living In wedlock with a swindler named Jerome Da Grange, who, having dazzled her with a glittering cor onet, married her, and then disclosed the as tounding facts that he was a confectioner and a bigamist. Zulinie appealed for protection to Clark, who being warm-hearted and chival rous, at once espoused her cause, and after be coming convinced that De Grange had another wife living, espoused her "himself. The mar riage was kept secret, and in 1806 Myra, now Mr. Gaines, was born. Being naturally desir ous of having her connection with Clark a pub licly acknowledged one, Zulime went to New Orlerns to obtain legal proofs of her first hus band's rascality. While she was gone, Clark, who had grown into an influential politician, became enamored of Miss Caton, a grand daughter of Charles Carroll, with whom he con tracted an engagement, though when reports were brought to Miss Caton alleging her lov er's marriage to Zulime, she at once insisted upon a release from the engagement, and she subsequently . became the Marchioness of Wellesley. ; ,,, . - In the meantime. Zulime had returned to Philadelphia, ; and sought to obtain proofs of her marriage with Clark, who- had, with singu lar treachery, destroyed all that he could dis cover. Finding herself helpless, in a strange country, and with a child dependent upon her, she was wholly at a loss what to do, and, in tier destitution, driven almost to despair, she accepted the hand of Dr. Gardette, who, with kindness and generosity, united his fortune with hers. Clark, in the meantime,' had be come , penitent, but, on hastening to find his former love, ascertained that she was the wife of another. lie took the child Myra, placed her under the care of a friend, and had her most liberally educated. . Zulimo lived for a long time after that, attained the age of 78 years, and died at New-Orleans but a few years since. Clark, whoso business talent ws proverbial, amassed an immense fortune in Louisiana, Missouri,' Kentucky, and Maryland, which be bequeathed by will, in 1813, to bis mother, Mary Clark, naming Beverly Chew and Rich ard Relf, bankers of New-Orleans, as execu tors. Charges have been preferred against the executors of bad faith and mismanage ment, but however that may be, Myra then Mrs. Whitney having discovered at maturi ty that her mother had been the wife of the deceased millionaire, with an impulse of hon orable affection for which she cannot be too highly praised, 'determined to assert her right, as the legitimate child and consequent heir ess, to the entire property. That she met with opposition and with ob stacles'of all sorts may well be imagined, but she battled for her mother's honor, and evin ced the most commendable spirit and perse verance, in spite of most fearful odds. Her husband died, but she remarried, and in so doing enlisted a powerful auxiliary in the per son of Gen. Gaines, who believed in ber le gitimacy,, and aided her with all his might. It would be wearisome merely to index the va rious legal struggles, the attempted social os tracism, the treacheries, the sorrows, the hopes and fears experienced by Mrs. Gaines in this work ot her lifetime. She sued in nu merous Courts, and with varied success, until her fortune was gone, her friends convinced of the uselessness of further trial, and all but her own indomitable spirit fled. She still struggled on, and as a last resort, brought the case in its amplitude and its labyrinths of le gal technicalities to the Supreme Court of the land. There, after a long and patient hearing, khe obtained her victory. The Court has u nanimously decided that Myra Clark Gaines is the only legitimate child of Daniel Clark, and that, as such, she is entitled to all the proper ty left by him. Nor are the years and ener gies of the courageous woman too far spent to prevent her enjoyment of her vast wealth. Mrs. Gaines, though now in her fifty fifth year, is represented as being an agreeable specimen of what old people delight in calling "ladies of the old school."' She is in good health, and possesses an abundant flow of animal spir its, which have buoyed her np for over thirty years under circumstances of an unusually trying nature. ' - " Mr. Justice Wayne, in olosing the decision of the Court, seems to have placed peculiar and significant emphasis on the words, that the Supreme Court would see that the provis ions of the decision were carried into effect a statement of more than ordinary importance when we reflect that possibly , the State of Louisiana may decline to take cognizance of, or bo bound by, a decree emanating from no less a tribunal than the Supreme Court of the "late United States of. America." In a remote district oi Canada, a few- weeks since, fifty moose were caught in the deep soow, aud easily butchered ty inters. . LEGISLATION PICTUEED. A correspondent ot the Philadelphia Inquir er, writes from Uarrisburg, as follows : "It is said to be in contemplation to compile a vo cabulary of slang phrases in use at Uarrisburg, so that the nninitiated may speedily learn. A "Divvy" in the language ot the Solons, means the proceeds of the sale of a vote. "Getting one's in," which is understood to be quite a. recent acquisition, indicates that an individual has been so fortnnate as to become participant in a scheme. .The Ring," Is an unholy alliance, which common, and of courso vulgar, report says, is instituted for black mail purpose. A member who is "fixed" on any measure, is understood to have had influ ence brought to bear to such an extent that he has finally decided how to vote. When the project is "set up" it is known that a plan bas been arranged by which success will probably follow. Every one understands what a legis lative "snake" is, and how liablo the "little Williams," (1. e. Bills.) are to contain the a f Ore said serpents. "To satisfy the brethern," is to make all the arrangements for the pas sage of an act. "A striker"is one who re mains in the city and hunts up the game to be slaughtered at Uarrisburg. His is the prov ince to suggest to parties interested in corpo rations the advantage of a little supplement, or an act explanatory of an act incorporating the company. "A stake" is a deposit made in advance of the passage of an act for the pur pose of paying supposed expenses. "A con tingent" is an indefinite form of a promise made to keep outsiders quiet, and mystify the correspondent of some newspaper. "An out sider" is any one who is not ready or able to assist in some scheme for plunder. "The Twenty fifth Ward" is the entire State, exclu sive of the city of Philadelphia. "Merit" is synonymous with money. . "To knock" a bill is to defeat it. The writer of the present ar ticle regrets his inability to furnish a more copious, glossary of this description. New words are coined, however, almost every ses sion to meet exigencies. Parties interested further will please make application to a mem ber of the Legislature." Meat Preserved in Molasses. "Sugar cured hams" have long been In fashion in this country. They are moderately salted, and sugar or molasses added to assists in their preservation. In France, all sorts of fresh meats have been preserved by molasses alone. An article in L'lnvention asserts that meat may be preserved by molasses alone in the most perfect manner, and with the following important advantages : It bas an agreeable flavor, it produces no scurvy or other disor ders which result from the use of Salt food, and it may be prepared at a moderate price. The process consists simply in cutting the meat in pieces of moderate size and dropping thera into the molasses, such as is obtained from the sugar manufactories or refiners. By a natural process of exosmose the lighther juice of the meat passes out, and the heavier molasses' peiietrates inward to every part of the meat. When the external molasses - has acquired a certain degree of liqnidity from the mixture of the juice of the meat, it is a sure sign that the meat is thoroughly impregnated. It is now taken out of the molasses, thorough ly washed, and hung in a current of air to dry. After it is completely dry, ft may be packed in boxes and sent all over the world without experiencing any change whatever. Ait Owner's Right to thb Soil fronting on Streets. Judge Mellon decided on Wed nesday, says the Pittsburg Dispatchot March 5, that all parties owning ground fronting on streets and alleys, are entitled to the soil to the middle thereof, and that a city or borough has no other than a right of way therein, and such other acts upon thera as may be neces sary to keep them in repair ; that a city or borough , cannot excavate the stone, gravel, sand, or other material therein, for the pur pose of making merchandise of it, nor author ize any one to do so ; and that the owner of a lot or alley can sustain au action of trespass against any one entering into the street or al ley in front of him, between the line of bis lot and the middle of the street, for the pur pose of taking but material, or for disposing thereof to others. Under this decision, the jury in the case of Charles Slipper, and David Graham vs Samuel nood rendered a verdict of $100. The authorities of Manchester gave defendant the privelege to remove sand from the street fronting plaintiffs' property in that borough, and a suit for trespass being brought, it resulted as above stated. The Dare Spirit or Slavert. Tho At lanta (Georgia) Intelligencer gives the follow ing notice of Judge Harris' charge to the Grand Jury in that town, on Monday., the 4th instaut : "Judge Harris said, among other good things, that our Government was now permanently, stable, and fixed, and that it was the dutj'. of all good citizens to maintain and support it. There must be no looking back, no working for a reconstruction, for in the nature of things this could not be. Men who reside among us must work for tis, and with us. If they take any part directly or indirect ly, against us, it is plotting treason, and they mast suffer the consequences. Incendiaries and incendiarism must be crushed out." Few more atrocious sentiments were utter ed in France during the rule of Robibierre, Murat and Danton than the above. A govern ment actuated by snob, a spirit must ot neces sity be short lived, and end in a bloody catas trophe. Let them alone they will do the work themselves. Fracdulent Hungarian Notes. An in junction had been granted against persons en gaged, in London, in lithographing notes of the kingdom of Hungary, purporting to be signed by Louis Kossuth, bearing the arms of the kingdom of Hungary. It is said that the issue contemplated was of 150,000,000,florins ; that three thousand persons have been enga ged in the manufacture, and that the notes were all printed and ready for delivery. A beautiful girl .stepped into a shop to buy a pair of mitts.. "How much are theyt" "Why," said the gallant but impudent clerk, lost in gazing upon her sparkling eyes and ruby lips, "you shall have them for a kiss." 'Very well," said the . lady, pocketing the mitts, while her eyes spoke daggers, "and as I see you give credit here, charge it on your books, and let me know when you collect it ;" and. she hastily tripped ont. Franklin said, "If a man empties bis parse into hi Lead, co one' can take it from -him " FACTS WOETH EEHEKBEEIKOi Those earnest and ardent Republicans whose impatience at the bare suggestion of the with drawal of the force from Fort Sumter is un bounded, and who- denounce the Administra tion in advance for its supposed purpose of "surrendering" to the secessionists,, forget that Congress bas given to tho President no authority to raise and equip armies- to defend the fortress, and that the blame, if blame ex ists, must rest upon the shoulders of a majori ty of Congress, and' upon the late President Buchanan. It is now almost physically im possible to relieve Fort Sumter with the slen der means at the disposal of the PiesldenU Equally unreasonable are the complaints that no steps are taken to-collect the revenue in the seceded States. It is well known that the revenue laws on the statute books contem plate the active co-operation of the people of tho several States in their enforcement, as well as the acquiescence of the State authori ties. There must, by the terms of the law,, be Custom-houses in the seaport towns, with col lectors and other officers, together with pub lic warehouses in which goods may be stored 'in bond," nntil tho merchant! choose to draw them forth. Suit may arise for attempt ed frauds upon tho Government, which- suits must be tried before the Federal Courts and local juries. But in the seceded States there are no Courts, the Judges, Marshals-, and District-Attorneys having resigned and acknowl edge! exclusive allegiance to the State au thorities. It is, therefore, impossible to col lect the revenue in the ordinary way. Mr. Bingham, of Ohio, in view of. this state ot things, proposed to apply a remedy, know to the public as the Force- bill. This bill pro posed to collect the revenue at the bays and rivers, by stationing vessels of war at conve nient points, to command the entrances. This bill was held by Mr. B. to be essential to the object it had in view, and was urged upon the House of Representatives with bis usual, zeal and ability ; bat that body neglected to taka it up and pass it, thus leaving the President without the power to collect the revenue in the States which have taken a hostile attitude to the Government. Mr. Bingham now consist ently admits that the enforcement of the rev enue laws has become impracticable by the failure of Congress to take up andi pass his bill. . At the door of that body, therefore, tho fault lies, and not at that of the Execative mansion. Mr. Lincoln has been left power-, less to enforce the laws, and yet by the igno rant and unthinking he is beldiespuasibJe for the failure. The fact must not he lost sight of, regret it as we may, that our Federal- Government Is theoretically and practically weak. It was hoped by the trainers of the Constitution that tbe defects of federal forms of government, a exemplified in the history of Greece, Holland, and Germany, had been-provided against in that instrument ; and very probably the Gov ernment, which they organized, would1 have possessed sufficient strength, if the subject of it had been homogeneous, or even free".' Butt it has become evident that a confederacy of slave holding States can never be strong and: compact. Slaveholders, from an innate con sciousness that their cherished institution is contrary to natural justice, are prone to be jealous, especially of communities which con demn and proscribe slavery. There can be no such thing as perfect harmony between them. Like the wicked, they flee' when no man pursueth" and are given to much babbling upon "the reserved rights of the Statosy and to the assertion ot the rights of resistance to the Federal Government, as often' ay their fa vorite policy of slavery extension is threatened with overthrow. While this clement of evil' remains in our system, we must be patient nnder indignities to Federal authority. The President and Cab inet are conscious of this fact, and being anx ious to cement the bonds of Union, they are now disposed to adopt a policy of peace and forgiveness toward the rebels, as best calcula ted to destroy the morbid sympathy for thera, which to a greater or less degree pervades the Border and Middle States. Knights of the Golden Circlr The Inev itable Gen. Geo. Beckley, K. G. C, turns up in Louisville. He denies most energetically that tbe organization oi which he claims to be the head aims to subvert the Government. To nse his own emphatic languujje': "The K. G. C. is au institution, even in Louisville, and will be the very first to respond when a call is made for the defender of the -State, It has tendered 12,000 troops to South Caro lina, and will give 50,000 if she needs them ; and it can give the Federal Government 135, 000 to fight a foreign foe, but not one to fight a Southern State. Now, sir, I hope I shall be clearly understood. We look only to the Amer icanization of Mexico ; yet the-defence of our own homes is a paramount duty. If ever there has been a movement set on foot to. settle forever the Slavery question, and bal ance tbe political powers of the North and South, and thereby perpetuate the Union, tho K. G. C. have made the movement." Taken Aback. One of tbe ridiculous mis haps which will sometimes befall soldiers, be fell a whole file of the snuggly attired milita ry of New Orleans on the day of Twiggs re ception. They were drawn up along the street in front of a building in course of. construc tion, and close in their rear was a long mortar bed, two feet deep, with that plastic composi tion, ready for the workmen. The space be tween the files for tbe passage of the carriages being rather narrow, the officer ordered his men to take a step back-. . They did so, and about twenty feet of "sogers" instantaneously disappeared from sight babk-wards, the front file, in close order, preventing the rear rank from recovering themselves when their heels stumbled against the mortar bed. They were submerged, and every soldier of them had bis pretty uniform spoiled. They took cabs and absquatulated instanter. Tbe Anti-Slavery Standard denounces the President's Inaugural witb a degree ot vigor- i. l' l n.:n KA wi, ous venemence wiucu iu uo vuuuouiij con soling to those who have feared its radical tendencies. It denounces him for not being sectional in his sontimeuts and his policy, for not recognizing disunion as an accomplished fact," and for trying still to preserve tbe Un ion. These are precisely the reasons why sensible men approve it. Oil bas been discovered In Kansas, and pre parations are tasking for extensive oper&ttoc in that l!c. V T i ir it
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