If H If- 1- I 1 4 1 I M BY S. J. ROW. CLEARFIELD; PA.,. "WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1863. VOL. 9.-N0. 23. OUR GUARDIAN SPIRITS. Linger, gentle angel spirit; Stay and fold thy cherub wings; Jo the world thou didst inherit. What ssreet message dost thou bring ? Ertof a balm for her who bore thee. Wept thy early flight to heaven ; aw thecn'd clods levelled o'er theo, Gaiiit bestow the healing leaven ? As we tarry near the green sward Covering to thy moital bed; And gaze down upon the roses, All in bloom abovo thy head ; Sadly, mildly, mcm'ry whispers. . Of a bud that rever bloomed ; Then we feel a presence near us. Pointing to our ros bad's tomb. Guardian spirit, hovering o'er us. Oft thy presence scemetb. near; And wheu sorrow's fount o'erlioweth, L'nscen pinions dry each tear. When the silent twilight bringeth Bitter memories to tii9 heart, Uaek to earth our cherub wineth. Whispers peace, and steals tho dart! THE I1AIDEN AND THE EE? I0E. There was once a poor man who d-voli in a Jiut, and gained'a livelihood by begging alms. IIo had an only daughter, whom heaven had gifted with extraordinary wisdom, and who, little by little, taught' h:-r lather to speak so wisely, that one day, when he hal gone to ask alms of the Emperor, tha latter was astonish ed at the wisdom with which he spoke, and deiaanded from whoru he acquired it. "From my daughter, () n ble Emperor!" answered t;ie poor tuan ; and tha Emperor, being very wise himself, and proud of his wisdom, resolv ed to putth.it of the old man's daughter to trial j so he gave the oil man thirty a'ggs. and said : I'ake thes-i to thy daughter, and bid her got them hatched into thirty pullets. Ii she refuses to obey, evil will befall her.' The poor man burst into tears, for he saw that the eggs had all been boiled. But when be had reached home, and had loM his d '.ugh tor all that had passed, she bade him bo cheer ful and retire to rest, teilinsr him, he need not fear any dinger. She then took a pot of wa ter..DUt a haudful of beans into it. and nlaeed it over tha Are ; and on thu morrow, when her father bad u'sen.s.'ieave hiiu the boiled beans. and told Liiu to dig a trench in a certainfield. by which the Euq.eor would pas as he went eut bunting. "And as the Empeor passes by, take the beans and sow theru iu the trench, atid cry aloud, -Gd be gracious, and grant that my boiled beans may spring up quickly ." and if the Eniperor aks how it is possible for boiled beans fo grow, reply that it is as possi ble as for a pullet to be hatched from a boiled Hie poor man did as his daughter had in-ytn:ctt-d iiim. IIo tools his spade and dug's trench in a field by the side of the highway, and when he sr.v the Emperor coming, he be-t-'aa to s'w his beans in a trench and cry aloud, 'God be gracious, and grant that my boiled Leans may spring up quickly !" When the Emperor heard these words, he stopped, and asked how " it was possible for boiled beans to grow Whereupon the poor man answeted : "Gracious Emperor, it is as easy as for a pullet to be hatched from a boiled egg." . The Emperor divined who it wis that had' arranged this stratagem, and in order still more to try the maiden's wisdom, he gave the pour in in a pack of hemp , and said : " "Tiuethis to thy daughter, and bid her nuke ine from it as many sails and ropes as are necessary for a ship. If she refuses to ouey her head shall pay the forfeit." The poor man was sorely tioubled at these words, and having received ti.epck of hemp, retained to his daughter, weeping all the way. But when he had told her all that had pass H, she again comforted him, and bade him be rheerlul and retire to rest, and fear no dan ger; and on the morrow when he had risen, ! gave him a little piece of wood and said : -Take this to the Emperor, and say that if he will cut me out a spinning wheel, a loom, ""la shuttle, then will i do that which'he has commanded." ' Tha poor man did the second time as his daughter bad instructed him ; and when he ""I delivered her message, the Emperor was ""rethan ever astonished at her wisdom. To I'tit it to a new trial, he took a drinkiug glass, nd said to the poor man : "Take this to thy daughter, and bid her rnpty the sea with it, and make its bed dry enough to grow corn on. If she refuses to o ' ev, both her head and thine own shall pay be forfeit." At this the poor man was more terrified than ver. But when he had returned home and told his daughter what the Emperor had com manded, the maiden comforted him the third t:iuo and bade him bo cheerful, retire to rest, "d frar do danger. And on the morrow, hen he had riseu, she gave him a pound of 'ow, and said to him: "Take this to the Emperor and say that if he will stop with it the mouths and the springs u all the rivers in tbe world, then will I do lbat which he has commanded." Again the man did according to his dangh '"'a counsel ; and, when ho had delivered her message, the Emperor acknowledged that she wiser then he himself, and commanded "at she should at once be brought before lm- When she had come into his presence, na had saluted him, be said to her : "Mr danghter, tell me what can be heard the furthest V and she answered, "Gracious Emperor, thunder and a He." The Emperor then took bis beard in his hand, and demanded of his counsellors how much It was worth. When they had placed upon it a value, some greater and some less, the maiden said: Most gracious Emperor, none of thy coun sellors have answered well. The board of the Emperor is worth three showers of rain in a dry summer." These word3 delighted the Emperor, who declared that the maiden had answered better than all his counsellors. Fie then asked her if she would become his wife, saying that lie would receive only cne answer. The maiden prostrated herself before him ud replied : "GraciousEmperor, it is thine to command, and mine to obey what thou commandest. Let me ask of thea but one thing, namely, that thou snalt give me a writing, written with thine own baud, that it it should ever be thy pleas ure to setid nie away, 1 may carry from thy castle whatever single thing I may love best." The Emperor gave her the writing that she asked, -md then had her placed upon the throne beside him. for many summers the Empress was loved by her husband ; but i.t came to pass in time that he ceased to cherish her. lie then said to her on diy, "I do not wish thee any lon ger to be my wife. . Leave my castle, and go wherever thou wilt." She answered," "Illustrious Emperor, I will obey thee, Grant mo ODly that I may stay until to-morrow. . , '" ' The Emperor granted what sho asked, and in the evening she poured some of the juice of a certain herb into a cup of wine, and pro seuted it to him, and said : "Drink-, illustrious Emperor, and be happy ! To-morrow I go away, and to-morrow I shall be more joyful than I was even on my mar riage morn." The Emperor drank, and soon his eyelids be came heavy .and he fell asleep; while he slept, the Empress had him lifted into a carriage which was in readiness, and therein conveyed to a distant grotto, which she long ago had prepared in antic ipatiou of such an emergen cy. When the Emperor awoke, "and found himself in the grotto, he angrily demanded how he had como thither. "I have had you brought here," replied the Empress. Aud be th'etj asked, very angrily, wherefore she had done this, adding : "Did 1 hot say thou thouldst no longer be rny wife?" The Em press took out of her bosom the writing which the Emperor had givon her before her mar riige, and answered : 'It is true, illustrious Emperor ; but this writing,-which was given by thine own hand accorded me the right to bring away with rue, when I quitted the castle, whatsoever I might love best ; I exercised my right, and brought Ihec, most gracious Emperor." When tiie Emperor heard these words, he vowed never to part from so faithful and wise a wife. So ho embraced her, and returned with her to the castle.; and they two sat there after side by side upon tbe throne, for many summers ; and when the last summer had pas sed, death reaped them both together, like a double ear of corn. - LARGE DEPOSIT OF H0SE7. A somewhat singular discovery was in a house of St. Louis. An exchange made gives the following account of tbe story : Tbe inmates of one of our largest uptown mansion houses, a few days since were sur prised to fiftd a large number of bees flying about in two of the upper roorus. As the little fellows continued to occupy the places a bee naturalist was sent for to investigate. On entering the rooms he exclaimed : "You have honey somewhere hero," and proceeded to search for it. On removing the fire-board, hj discovered that one flue of the chimney was full of houey comb, which was hanging down into the fireplace, aud the honey drop ping from it; proceeding to the top of the bouse to sound tbe chimney, he found it the same; one flue of the chimney was full, and thj bees were industriously at work there al so, these, tlues of the chimney had never been used ; they were plastered smooth in the inside, and were perfectly dark, a stone hav ing been placed on the top cf each flue. The bees had descended tho adjoining flues, and found small holes about ten inches from the top of the chimney, leading iuto the closed flues, and through these holes they made their way in and out. They have, as is supposed, occupied these places for three years, having been kept warm in the winter by the heat from the adjoining flues. On removing the fire board, the bees, seeing the great light which had broke in upon them, descended into the room and gathered on the windows, until they were covered to the thickness of three inches. It is estimated that there are in the two flues from 40,000 'to 50,000 bees, and from 2,000 to 3,000 pounds of honey . . , liivEK of Vinegar. Near the road from Bogota to Quiton, in South America, there is a river the waters of which are as sour as vin egar. It takes its rising among the Audes iu the neighborhood of the volcanoes, which are supposed to impart to it sulphuric properties. What ia taken fron you before you get it ? J Yonr portrait. A SI3TGCLAK INCIDENT. A correspondent writing fromtheXinth Army Corps, opposite Fredericksburg, iiarrates the iollowing, which occurred on Christmas day, while the writer was out on picket with his Company : After partaking of -a Christmas dinner of salt-junk and bard tack, our attention was at tracted by a .rebel picket who hailed us from the opposite side of tiie river : 'I say, Yank, if a fellow goes over there will you let him come back again ? .. Receiving an affirmative answer, ho procee ded to test the truth of it by paddling him self across the river. . He was decidedly the leanest specimens of a rebel I had seen.' In answer to a question, be , said be belonged to the Georgia Legion. One of our boys re marked, "I met quits a number of your .boys at South Mountain-'' Yes, I suppose so if you were there," said the rebel, while his face grew very sad. i'W lett very many of our boys there. My brother, poor Will, was kilied there. It was a very hot place for a while, and ut had to leave it. in a hurry. '-That's so, Georgia, your fellows fought well there, and had all the advantage, but the old Keystone boys were pressing you hard. By the way I have a likeness here (caking it out cl his pock et) that 1 picked upon tbe battle-He hi the next morning, and I have carried it ever since." He handed it to the rebel, who, on looking at it, pressed it to hi lips, exclaiming "my mother! my . mother !" lie exhibited considerable, emotion .at the recovery of the picture, but ou regaining his composure he said, that his brother had it in his possession, and must, have lost it in the fight. lie then usiieu ino iiauu oi , tue one to wuom no was indebted for the lost likeness of his mother, remarking "There may be better times soon, and we may know -ach other better." He had taken from h is pocket a small pocket hi ble, in which to write the address, when Alex ,who bad takeii: no part in the conversation, fairly yelled, ! know that ! I lost it at Bull Run !" "Thar's where I got it, Mr. Yank," said the rebel and ha handed it to Alex. "I am much obliged to yon; Georgia Legion, for I wouldn't part with it for all the Southern Ganfederacy.". I was a little curious to know something further of the book, so I asked Alex, to let me see it. He passed it to mo. I opened it, and on the fly loaf faw written in a ueat lady's hand -.-My Christmas Gilt, to ,X)ecembei!o:h.l8C0. Ella." "Well Alex" said I, "its not often on has the same gift presented to him a second time." "True, Captain ; and if I could but see the giver ot that to-day, there's but one other gift I would want." "What's that, Alex?" "This re bellion played out, and my discharge in my pocket." The boys bad all been busily talking to our rebel friend, who, seeing a horseman approach ing in the direction of his post, bade us a has ty good-bye, and made as quick a trip as pos sible across the Rappahannock. Night came on, and those not on d uty lay down on the lro zen ground to dream of other Christmas nights when we knew not war. . Yankee Stage-driver. The obliging dis position of the Yankee stage-driver is aptly illustrated in the following bit of satire : As Mr. J , the driver, was proceeding from Boston, not long since, a woman called him to take a bedstead on the top without uncording it. He told her he would oblige her the next time he came along, but he could not then, as he had engaged to take on a wind-mill a little ways ahead; and as h j had a large cradle on the top at the time, he was afraid ho should not have room, frooeeding a little further, he was requested by a woman to wait till she had finished her washing and ironing. He told her he oitenjhad to wait for the women to do their ironing, but he con Id not stand wash ing and ironing both ! Womex and Cjiildrk.v Chewinq Tobacco. A Missouri letter in the Debuque Times says tobacco is used among the natives in the rural districts indiscriminately by both sexes, chil dren as well as adults, both for chewing and smoking. A foraslns party near Hartsville recently called at a house where they found a woman and thirteen children, the three oldest being girls, and all "chewing" a "power" of tobacco. One of the party remarking that she was the first woman he ever saw chew to bacco, the old woman exclaimed "Wal now, whar was you brought up ? Never seen a woman chew 'bacar ! Guess you haint been round much. Don't you have any ladies whar you was raisetl t" To the Gibls. An exchauge in giving an advice to young ladies on the subject of mat rimony : "Never marry a fellow who is asham ed to carry a small bundle ; who lies in bed until breakfast, and until his father has open ed his shop, store or office, and swept it out; who frequents taveros, bowling saloons, prize fights, &c; who owes his tailor, shoemaker, washer woman, jeweler, barber, printer, and landlady, and never pays his debts who is always talking about. Lis acquaintances, and condemning them ; whose tongue is always running about nonsense, who thinks be is tbe greatest man in the neighborhood, and yet who every one despises and ahuns." This is good advice girls; see that you don't over look it. AN IMPORTANT ACKNOWLEDGMENT. The Richmond Examiner of the 20th has a remarkable editroia!,in which it makes the fol lowing singular admissions : "It is not altogether an empty boast on the part of the Yankees-thai they hold all they ever held, and that another year of such pro gress as they have already made will find them masters or the Southern Confederacy. They who think independence is to be achieved by brilliant but inconsequential victories, would do well to look with the natural eye at the mag nitude of Yankee possessions in our country. Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri are claim ed as constituent part3 of the confederation. They are as much-iu the power of Lincoln as Maine and Minnesota.' The pledge, once deemed foolish bv the South, that he would "hold, occupy, and possess" all the forts be longing to the United States Government, has been redeemed almost to the letter bv LincolD Forts Sumpter and Morgm v.'a still retain, but with those exceptions, all the strongholds on me seaboard, from I-ortress Motiroe to the Rio Grande, ure in tho bands of the enemy. "Very consoling and very easy to say that it was impossible to prevent all this, and the occupation of the cuter edge of the Republic amounts to nothing. Drewry's Bluff and Vickslmrg give tLe he fo the fiist assertion, and the onward movement of Rosecrans to wards Alabama, the presence of Grant in North Mississippi, and of Curtis in Middle Arkansas, to say nothing of Banks at New Orleans and Baton Rouge, set at rest the silly dream that a thin strip of sea-coast only is in the posses sion of our foes. The truth is, the Yankees are in the very heart of the Confederacy ; they swarm on all our borders ; they threaten every important city yet belonging to ns, and nearly two hundred thousand of them are within two days' march of tbe Confederate capital. This is no fiction. It is a fact so positive that non e can deny it . "Nor is this all. The President tells ns, in his message, that the troubles with tho Indian tribes have been removed, and no further dif ficulty is anticipated. The intelligence we obtain from private and trustworthy sources does not confirm the President's sanguine as sertions." '- ' 1 ' The Examiner goes on to say that the con dition of affairs is "distressing" for the Con federates ; that New Mexico and Arizona are, for the time being, lost to them, and that "the stato of disaflection inTenn'essee and Missis sippi (growing out of the appointment of in competent officers and the fancied neglect of that conntry by the Confcdarate Government not from any lack of fervor in the cause), which President Davis' visit was intended to heal, is likely to revive under the depressing influence of Bragg's retreat and his continu ance in command add all this to the forego ing, and it will be seen that the Yankees have much to encourage them in the prosecution of the war, and we not a little to excite serious apprehensions as to the future." The Examiner concludes its jeremiad by urging the further enforcement of the con scription, and says : "If within the next two months we do not add seventy-fice or a hundied thousand men to our forces in the South West we shall come to grief." THE BED INDIANS OF AMERICA. We have often thought of the death of Mah-lo-tah-pe, (the four bears), who recovered from the disease, and sat in his wigwam, and saw his whole tribe and family dis around him, then covered them with rushes, and went to tho hill determined to starve himself to' death, remained there six days, crept back to tho gloom of his wigwam, laid down by the side of his dead, and died after nine days' abstinence from food. The red man regard? the white as an essential and undoubted liar ; probably, we may hope, not only because he has tested the voracity of his white brother and found it wanting, but because almost every thing com municated must be opposed to his wall of fix ed idea's. But he possesses an instinctive grace and grandeur of soul. What a pretty story is that which Catlin tells of the Pawnee who rescued the poor gitl of some hostile tribe from the stake, to whom some ladies of New York sent the medal with the letter: "Brother, accept this token of our esteem; always wear it for our sakes, and when you have the power to save a poor woman, thin!; of this and us, and fly to her relief!" and tho answer, so thoroughly Red Indian : "Sisters, this will give me care more than ever I had, and I will listen to white men. 1 am glad I heard ol the good act I have done. I did it in ignorance ; now I know what I have doue. I did it in ignorance, and did not know I did good,but by giving me this medal I know it!" How great is that instinctive grandeur of soul which does good and yet does not know it? We quite agree with Dr. TYilson that the red man is one of our greatest ethnological mys teries. Did he come from Europe f.Has he, too,Norse blood injhis veins 1Electic Review. An Imputation- Ad officer of a Maine regi ment, observing a soldier industriously scratch ing himself, said to him : "What's the matter, my man fleas?" "Fleas !" Baid he in a tone of scorn, "do yon think I am a dog? No, sir, them is lice !" Second thoughts are best; man was God's first thought; woman his second. ARMY CORRESPONDENCE. The following letter was sent to us with a request to publish it. Falmouth, Ya., December 2C, 1802. . Dear Wife : As I have not hsard from you for some time, I concluded I would drop you a few lines to let you know that I am yet a mong the living. Thank God for the privi lege; . Well, this is a business town, and has been very lively for the past few days, as some of the sutlers have got an article, com monly called whisky, on sale ; and soma of the boys have been imbibing toofieely, con sequently, they feel like having a "gay and happy" time. Our Regiment is doing Pro vost duty now, and we have to arrest all that get a "brick" in their caps. None of our men are in the "mix." 1 have become a regular temperance lecturer. I have not been "rich" for a long, long time. Oar Captain that was, was here to day for his brother, our Orderly Sergeant, who was killed in the late battle. He can not get his remains, as he .was buried on the other side'of the river. lie is going home to-morrow. I don't know any war news, and. not to give you a short answer, don't care a cent which way they move, or if they move at all. I have run my chance a good many times, and can do it again ; and w ill uutil my time comes. If it must be that I loose my life in this war for tbe restoration of our glorious Union, 1 am perfectly willing ; for I can loose it m uo Let tcr cause, or more lasting benefit to posterity The loss of my life is but as a drop ia tho bucket. m. D. is telling camp-fire "yarns." He is in good spirits, and all the boys are coming up to their usual degree of humor, glowing spirits, and good feeling. I don't see how it comes, that our convalescents never come back after they get entirely well. Our com pany would not look so slim, if we could get our men back when they are fit for duty those that are sent to the hospital, and the paroled prisoners, who have long since been regularly exchanged. But none of them come The first thing we hear of them, they are at home. lou must have a home- guard of "convalesces" and "paroles" in town. I will lay this by lor this evening, as it is getting late and after roll call. I'll wait until morn ing, and, may he, I will get your letter, for we had no mail to-day. . Good morning. Well, I received your let ter as predicted, and I do tell you 1 was glad to hear from you. ; Little do vou know what a thrill of joy a soldier feels at receiving and reading a letter from horn. How joyfully ho cats his "cast-iron" biscuit, and masticates his pork, when he has read his letter and found, to his heart's coatent, that the dear ones at home are all well. I am of your opinion. I think wo have done our best fighting, and our share. They ought to let us go now. But, I guess, we will have to see the matter through. I have been in thirteen battles, but have come out safe save a slight touch at Antietaro, and three hits at this last one. I sometimes think I may yet get home alive, and hope I may, for I am not tired of living yet even in 'hese warlike davs I gave you all the news of the late' battle in my previous letter. I shall not enter into a political discussion, for no good can come of it. But, I do think that the democrats brought on this war, and now both parties are to blame for the con tinuance of it. I never was a Republican, nor have I changed any since the war neither can I put any trust in as corrupt a party us the old Democratic party. . You wonder why they have carried the late elections Easily answered. Because they are all at home a larger portion at least than any other party. Look around you in your own town, and what is the result 1 Where are your S's, F's, He's K's, H's, J's, N's, and a host of others 1 And how stands the ratio 1 Echo answers largely Breckinrtdgers. . And what are they doing ? "Croaking" and smiling at our late defeat! An : ine jJemocratic party is rotten rotten to the core. Of course, I don't say every dem ocrat, is false to the government; but, 1 tell you, the Breckinridge wing'are all so. Good night Mr. Politics. Our regiment is reduced to five companies. We don't feel much like doing doty as a Reg- -iment. Our apt.earance on dress narade is a slim and sad affair. I thought my time had come at Fredericksburg. ' Oh ! that is a day long to be remembered. No pen can put it on paper. When I saw my comrades fall on all sides of me, it made me feel queer. But the next moment our fejlings were changed, and we were rushing ' forward with the Cold steel, thinking of nothing but the destruction of the enemy But, I must close. My res pects to all. .Yours truly, . A Close Connection .A Persian merchant complaining of some unjust sentence of the lower courts, was told by the judge to go to the cadi. "But the cadi is your uncle," ur ged tbe plaintiff. "Then you may go to the grand vizier." "But his secetary is your cous in." "Thea you may go the sultan.", ., "But his favorite sultana is jour niece.". "Well, then, go to the devil." "Ah ! that Is a closer connection," said tbe merchant, as be left tbe court in despair. - ; CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. In the Sesais, on January 26th, a bill was offered to organized a National Guard of about 250,000 nies, to be officered and drilled so aa to.be prepared for service on short notice. The bill for the better protection of overland emigrants' was" pasted. A bill was introduced to provide for a national currency, to be se cured by the pledge of United Statos stocks, and provide for the circulation and redemp tion thereof. The bill to suspend the sale ot lands on tbe coast of South Caroliaa and Geor gia, in and about Port Royal, was passed. A bill was offered authorising tbe President to tafee possession of certain railway hues, appoint Superintendents, and work them, paying the stockholders 7 per cent during tha time on the appraised value of the road. A bill was introduced to enlarge tho canals and improve the navigation of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, from the Mississippi River to Lake Michigan. TUj resolution instructing the Committee on the Coirduct of the War to in quire whether ar,y plans of GeuV A. E. Bura side, for the movement of tha army, "lmvo been interfered with by officers writing to or visiting Washington to oppose them, aud whether such movement had been arrested, and if so, by what authority, was adopted The bill abrogating treaties with the Sioux and indemnifying Minnesota for losses in tho late Indian outbreak was passed. In tub House, Walter Mclndoe appeared as a Member from the 2d Wisconsin District.in place of Mr. Manchett, deceased. The bill to establish a branch Mint in Nevada was reported favor ably ; also the bill to establish an arsenal and ordnance depot on the tide water of New York Harbor. A bill outhorizing the President to raise 150,000 black soldiers was offered and laid over until to-day. The House passed the Senate bill, amendatory of the judicial system, making Ohio, and Michigan the Seventh, and Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin,the-Eighth Ju dicial Circuit. The great Finance bill was then completed in Committee aud reported to tha House. Some of tho amendments were voted on seperately, but all were adopted save that taxing the aggregate of bank desposits. Tha bill finally passed without a division, tbe voto being almost unanimous. The Post-office Appropriation bill (12,000,000) was adopted. The Senate resolution, legalizing the transfer of convicted criminals from the District of Columbia to the prison at Albany, was also passed. ' A resolution providing for the pay ment of bounties and pensions to' the officers and men in the Western Military Department was passed, and tho House adjourned, after a good day's work. ' In the Senate on January 27th bills were oflered to fix the time of : holding United States Circuit Courts,and for the better organ ization of the military establishment. A reso lution was adopted to inquire into the expedi ency of authorizing tho President to offer such bounty for the re-enlistment of such volun teers for one year, or a longer time ; alsoj in to the expediency of providing by law for three-month volunteers, either by enlistment or draft. Tha resolution to print at length theFitzJohu Porter trial was lost, Senators stating that it had already been printed. Tho bills to remove Indians from Kansas and tha Sioux from Minnesota were passed. Tha President sent in documents concerning the capture of British .vesseU sailing from one port to another, having on board articles con traband of war. The bill for the indemnifi cation of the President and other persons for suspending tho privileges of the writ of habeas corpus, and acts done iu pursuance thereof, was taken up and amended so as to apply to criminal as well civil cases. The Kentucky Senators indulged in severe condemnation of the President. Mr. Saulsbery of Delaware was exceedinglyjviolent, and was put in charge of the Sergant at arms. In the House, the Senate bill providing for the pay of certain persons over 45 years of age, who entered tha military service, was referred to the Military Committee. In Committee of theWhole,elabo rate speeches ori National affairs were made by- Mr. Conway and Mr. Shellabarger the latter in part as answer to (he recent speech of Mr. Vallandigham. In the nouse, bills were of fered authorizing the raising of negro soldiers for not more than seven years. A Citt Lass. Two young ladies of Albany ; were spending tbe summer in northeastern' New York. During their visit they took sev eral long rides with tho daughter of their host about the country. On one of these occasions as they had been traveling some distance, and the day was warm, and as a trough of running' water stood by the road side, they concluded ' to give their pony a drink. One of the city ladies agreed to get out and arrange matters for that purpose; The others remaining in the carriage and deeply engaged in conversa-; tion, for some time paid no attention to the - proceedings of their companion. When at last, surprised at the long delay, they diacov- 1 ered her endeavoring to unbuckle tha crupper ' (the strap which passes around the horses tail.) : "Why what iu tha world are joa doing that for?" - - , . ....... . r Why, I'm unbuckling this strap to let dowo the horse's head so that ha can drink." Why is a mouse like s load , of bay ? Ba cause the cat'H eat it.
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