El , . Tranelated for the Franklin Repo itori• HERO SETA SORTE CONTENTES EST. Bow haps it, hicelenaii, that no 'One's( content With the lot - that Design or Fortune hath sent? " Ah happy the merchant,""the worn soldier cries, ' "Thrice happy the soldier;' the merchant replies, I 'For Death on the instant ennobles defeat, 'Or Victory hastens the Conq'ror to greet- t ' ' Tke lawyer awakened at early cockcrow To e; task of a peasant would ivillinglYrgo. And the peasant would giveiall he basin the world In a city's camixtotion to be twisted and twirled. WIER:Otis so common to rail at one's-late, That,instances more I need not collate.' . s .mould a God thus address these querelous men, ''Ypu can each have your wish"—pray who'd say " • "Amen l" Winld the soldier turn merchant. the lawyer be neasint, Though the change seems to each so exceedingly pleasant? TiiilikelY the Godhead would never exduse The recreant fools Who the favor refuse think not that-I joke, albeit a smile Id4`triY visage illuminate once hi a while; = Fe . cii: man can speak truth by the aid of ajest, teachers bribeampils with sweetmeats the best, the plowman, the merchant, the soldier, each one traitell you that poverty foreef him on, • That he dreads an old age of want and of care, :And adduces Pie ant—an example not rare— - But the ant lives in winter on the suaimer's hard • gain, 'While summer and winter they labor in pain. What pleasure or profit to hide in the earth Tint. money the need of which causes you dearth? nPoving your garners are loaded with grain, ITott surely from eating the whole must refrain: T.:Ro'niiiich like the slave, you are carrying bread Wherewith your companions must also be fed. Or 't to him who lives within bounds Hoir'niany the acres composing his grounds? 'tis so pleasant to take from a heap ; Admits that it's so, how much can you keen? ligtasket as well all your wants will supply /uiliiiirgraneries fulloind your barns broad and high. pai•ched with fierce thirst. do you pass the ' 'bool spring. And from the great river choose water to bring, _Forgetting the danger is greater by far. And that mud and foul slime the larger stream mar?' •I • - Most men are blinded by the foolish thought , That lank and station can by wealth be bought— . Lelsuch be wretched by their own free - will, Anethug themselves while gazing on their till. - , i.: pei thirsty Tantalus in vain doth grasp The Begins stream that in his oyes doth bask— PAY laugh ? the case is yours ; but change the name, Yoii'll fins that you and ho are just the same, You gaze upon your well filled bags with pride • Antiliwn—Eke valued pictures laid aside— Whainse? Why buy not bread. pot-herbs and wine, In Mort wherewith you may in co.afort dine? {' If 'tis to watch half dead by night and de - Y. • Best wealth take sudden wings and fly away. Thin Heaven grant that' pauper I may stay I Yon fear that you may be confined to bed, Yoisihink that gold can raise one from Ora dead— Poor fool I your children, relatives and wife _ __. Will-pray with fervor that you lose your life. Lenin then to place a limit toryour lust, Cease ;tom to labor as atitisl you must. I counsel not that you should be profuse, But - that with judgment you your money use. Obsierve with watchful eye the golden mean. Avoid with equal care a rash extreme ; . There - is a bound on either side of which ~ Virtisedies sprawling in the ditch, Welithen,.do all the miser- imitate, . In never being satisfied with fate. Bad'at the larger udders of a neighbor's cow, Thattekle Fortime others doth endow, With ne'er a thought for those that poorer are,. But - crave more, riches than the richest far? {As when the chariots hasten from the goal.. • Each driver cares not who behind him roll, - To pass theforemost strains with all his soul. Why cannot we (like visitors well fed, • Retiring gracefully, perfectly well bred,) • . Concludikte leave the world wcll satisfied, - Ourepitaph "They lived at ease,then cheerful died." .GOVERNOR CURTIN IN NEW TORE His Exsellency Governor Curtin reached the'cityfef New York 9n Tuesday of last week; and during the evening was serenaded at the. Astor House. He: was received with ,great enthusiasmsand responded as follows:. Gird/err:en of _New • York : I am much - obliged for the compliment you are. pleased to pay - to the State of Pennsylvania, and I congratulate you uppuithe indications that. the State - of New York has this.dily declared • her fidelity to the Government. [Applause.] Gentlemen, the States of Pennsylvania and OhiO'Were a Month in advance of you in this deelaration of fidelity. [Applause.] But I eannot believe the Empire State would have been faithless • to our Government, even if she lied not had the brilliant examples of ' Pennsylvania and 'Ohio before her. "Ap plauie.] N6w; gentlemen, that the battle is over, - and 'Ai the smoke rises from -the field, is it not antizingthat one of the greatest Govern ments in the world; one of' the freeest peo ple;' when the nation enjoying the only true Rep:A/lean . form of government amid the 'nations of the earth was trembling.under the rude stroke.tof an armed rebellion, stricken by its 'Very friends, is it not, strange, I ask, that there should have been any dWrence of ojpinion; that we were not all of one mind; that:all the peOple of this great country were' not deveted in their attachment to the insti tutions that our fathers, the apostles of liber ; ty, gave to its; and that in this great struggle, our people were net utilise in maintaining that, Government. Surely there is nothing in the work Of art or nature - so sublime in all its outline; so perfect in its form as our system of gove`inment. Surdly has never pleased Providence to vouchsafe so great a :blessing to humanity, as Our great Government, [Applause.] And when that Government is eauseleisly assailed by the most gigintid rebellion in history, it is passing strange that all true, virtuous and loyal people were not willing to stand by it. [Applause.] Stranger that any politician should seek to get into power by standing outside of . sympathy for and support of our `Government. [Applause.] But,with Penn sylvania'and Ohio, and with all the bulk of the Middle States running west to indicate the - Purrentof public feeling, with the bright example of California and Kentucky, and NeW England, we could not do otherwise than to expect that the great and powerful Empfre State wheel into line and stand - by' our Government. [Renewed AR- O - Mise r ] . no compliment to an Ameri can to — say: hie isloyal. NO man can claim, eapetialvirthe Tor standing by his Govern . ment ; but 'it is ingratitude—falsehood—, erime for any man North to hold sympa thy with the'infamous traitors who hold our Government by the throat. [Applause and cheers.] - My .friends,- let As profit by the teachings of recent events: Let the politicians learn from-the expressions, of loyalty by the States at the• ballot-box, that the man in power holds hia'plaCe by an uncertain tenure, and the aspirant for politiPal preferment cannot realize his hopes unless he is faithful in his loyalty tO'tlie President of the 'United States, who administers the GovernMent. [Ap pliftse.] Let.us now understand that it is our .frqvernmente—and :right or wrong our Government—that we sustain, and that.loy-. alty which professes_ fidelity to the Govern ment—[threp cheiis for Goyj Seymour were •called for, %and responded to. by a knot.of loaf* but the voices were drowned by loud cheers for Gov. Curtin]—that thafloyalty, I say, which Rrofesses , loyalty to the Govern ment and fails 0 'give the. President—its vis ible head—sympathy and support, is bogus. [Applause.] And, my friends when the free institutions Under which we have grown to be a great nation and a happy peo ple, are` assailed—when we have but our President, - who commands our army and navy, and is empowered by the Constitution -to repel invasion and suppress domestic in sarreetion—the man who fails to give the President his sympathy as a traitor in his heart. [Cheers.] ; • I have takensome part lathe 'canvass in the State of New York. Yciur people -are like PennSylvanians. They listen like Penn sylvanians, and they accepted the truth like the people, of that great and glorious State. [Applause.] ' And now, my friends, as the election is over, and as right, and truth, and fidelity have prevailed, I will go back to my State and 'work in my allotment for our as sailed and trembling Government; and again; thanking you for the compliment you have paid my State, I bid you good 'night. [Three cheers for Gov. Curtin, and Pennsyl vania.] 0:i 4i)tlum4lllolFll:4lKO:flililiiM34i4Al A correspondent of the Philadelphia In quirer gives the following description of a visit to the late Bull Run battle-field. • On Monday night I - rested with a part of the army that pitched their tents on the sec tion of the Bull Run battle-field adjaCent to the Warrenton Pike. A poet might find here in the suggestive relics of the deadly strife the theme of an epic; or a painter might illustrate on canvass . the horrors of war from the mementoes here Icft of its ruth less work. Bullets are picked up arid exhibited by the handful, and soldiers who participated in the fray, are comparing at the same time their gathered mementoes and their personal rec.- collections of the bloody field. In the long, luxuriant grass, one strikes his foot against skulls and bones, mingled with the deadly missiles that brought' them to the - earth. Hollow skulls lie contiguous to hemispheres of exploded shells. The shallow graves rise here and there aboVe the grass, sometimes in rows, sometimes alone,or scattered at irregu lar intervals. Through the thin layer of'soil that hides the nameless hero who gave his life for his country, one sees the protruding ribs; whence the rain has washed their covering , a foot or an arrn,reached out beyond its earthen bed ; and once, saw . one of- these Icing 'sleepers covered snugly up to the chin, but with the enrire face exposed and turned up to the passer-by; ow could .imagine him a soldier lying on thilleld wrapped up in his ;blanket, but that the blanket was of clay and. the face was fleshleAs and eyeless.- In one case a foot protruded, with 'the flesh still partially preserved ; in another case an entire skeleton lay exposed upon the surface, without any covering•whatever. The tatters of what had been his uniform showelthat he had been a cavalryman. The flesh was, of course, decomposed; but the tanned Shriveled skin still incased the bony framework of the body, and even the nails were in their places , The ligaments. that fasten the joints must have been preserved, for he was lifted by the belt which was - still around the waist, and not a bone fell out of its place. When found be lay in the attitude of calm repose, like one who had fallen asleep from weariness. This was ,in the camp of the Ninth Massachusetts _regiment. He was buried, as were many more that night who had waited a long fourteen Months; for, their funeral rites. In fact the different pioneer corps were engaged for some time in paying this last tribute-to the gallant dead, whose fragmentary remains were scattered round our camp. - The Pennsylvania Reserves bivouacked for the night on the ground where they themsel ves were engaged in deadly strife in the bat tle of fourteen months ago , and thp skulls and bones of some of their former companions in arms lay , around within the light of their camp-fires. It may even have happened that -men pitched their tents over -the grave of a lost comrade, and again unwittingly rested under the same shelter with one who bad often before shared their couch On the tented field. - A soldier of- the first regiment struck his foot against ticartridge box near • his tent, ii,nd picking it up read on it the natne of- an old,assoeiate, who had been among the miss ing, and whose death was only known from his prolonged absence. His resting place had at length been 'found, for near the - box Was a-small mound of earth that doubtless contained his mouldering.bones. - An officer of my acquaintance recognied the spot - Where his tent was located as - one near which he was severely wounded, and where hp lay through a long weary night by the side of a dead Captain. The painful re - Miniseence.s which the place called up-ren dered it any thing but an agreeable camp ing-ground to him. . I THE Washington correspondent of the Nevi • York Etr,ening Post ' . Th