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BY S. B. ROW.
CLEAEFIEIJD, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAKCII 27, 1861.
vol. 7-no; 3o:
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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.
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