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CLARK & CAUGHEY'S PURE SALEILATUS!! TRY IT Th. inananetorere r.f ttiti amide, in BUY IT TRY IT ..flerinc to the yyablla barn 1110 YIT TRY IT tatlon In uLylng that ft le Rae beet arti-I BUY rt. TRY IT cl. of the Mud ummutaetueetl. One of BUY IT. TRY IT the penrrietneshaa been engaged fa the RVY IT TRY IT. mun eb.Leture of &tolerats for minions BUT IT. TRY IT. years. .loch tea pot ranter for the pori- BUY IT TRY IT tee . *lA rennloonroe or the article orlinH BUY IT TRY IT e.l. All they aalt la for hnuasteepenk BUY IT R Y IT and others to I BUY IT g, BUY A PAPER AND TRY MUT Pr': Y IT and tt a do.. not prove MI It I. rococo- avy TRY IT mended, the money ern ,! be retoo‘ad. IT. TRY /T It is put op pound papas, and Is' BUT IT TRY iT tor rule by .II rhapoctobls "room. IMP( IT. TRY IT i CLARK Ilk OAV6IIIKY , BUY IT. TRY IT. Ilace/actateti, EA, BUY oopt2o-141 ST. NICHOLAS HOTEL, Illio.iDWAY, NEW YORK. WII Eli completed, six years ago, the St X iebolanuu. auivenudly pronounced the aloe mn i c.i.fternt, ennawaiant, and thorosedy eawastaed aatair linlannot on ads. ronannot. W hat It was then. It r•eslas today, spitileat s Aiwa lb stu, to romesproesumets, so 4 to the gramecol oidflonots of t.Mtleri 111141 eft)", rtwnt The Hotel hi,. ated,Toson.latints lot 1,060 eluding 100 consop4eis soils lira opal 11110•11111 for Wm Mix bemired pergolas bo oonlfortably seatod at taw table* of /to OMNI paartaa dialog loses. sad aothang that modem art 'kw AtorPtaa for the eonvootteneo sad so aid va t,h,.! ion et the trarelliat pat& heelless emitted to e plan, or to nraSrelaoi is its praatbaal &fi k. r rprotA,lno of LM bows at boase and abroad. dforimo.. fr. au Ito m•iro and., Its Niapibrb cappolataaasta.aad its Atente.lthe comfort' sad hozainao, has Woo outwear! ear by rho u creation. goopirtiona d that Proprfortor• aug.2a—siattl: 7/420W1LL.1.. WHITCOKB b CO. L. A. MORRISON, El Flour, Pork, Beef, Bdt, Grain, cLOVER, 77MOTHr SEED, No. 1. ommercial Building, Nowrn Int Tut fox. Priem *lil, End Prolog Ms, PAM Ei3 A FINE Stock of Fancy srand• of Cl- G 4R14 sad TOBACCO• Galt sad mambo theta at Woods Jettvrred to limy put, of the eity. SANYARIYA TICY BANYARD'S MOCHA, OLD 13 Jima, !Arm*, gin, roasted And ground CoGob. Riavverd's nraihnd. Anumnindid, palordffied., Cadlhe A. nod CnAL. H., New Orisaft, idniononed• and Porto Woo Soo" Wang low M SANTABDI3. ERlb.' s _PA., SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 10, 1860 NAILS, STEEL, SPIKE, SPRINOR ANVILS, VICES, PLATED WARE! Ex4,ll:lsin.LY TKIM uir.D. tv F-T •TIDE tPF FRONT NNTRANCR, liltY AMT. No. 6, Need Howe wHoLxISAIA IMALMU IN fluda gittritm. A Colonial Adventure. Many years of my lifir have passed since I bade farewell, for pod and aye, to the flourishing town of Nova Scotia; and the remembrance of the kit-emits and =MSG menu' in which I (nice participated,—of the climate under whose influence 1 have so often shivered on scortehed,--of the scenery, so wild, yet 4 beautiful, has now faded away from toy' recollection, before the impressiorrof outer and new scenes.— There is one incident of my stay there, however, which stands out sharp and prom inent from amongst the hoop that shadows the rest of the picture, snit from Peculiari ty and absurdity never recurs to mind 1 without a smile, though the laugh be en tirely at my own expense. Halifax is not, or rather *ae not in my time at all deficient in atnseetner ta : the country around it afforded abundance of hunting, shooting, and asking to those whose time and inclination Aed them to in dulge in such pursuits. In summer, the presence of the West Indies fleet gave life to the society or the town ; and when win ter laid its icy hand on the little peninsula, and with its harrier of snow and frost, seemed ahnoet to cut off the Halligonians from the rest of the world, it brought with it, too, new amusements to console them for their isolated position. The lakes, ponds, and sometimes parts of the sea it self, were covered with skaters. With the first fall of snow, sleighs, with their rich furs and merry sounding bens, were to be seen rapidly gliding in every direction ; sleighing parties, replete with fun and in cident, were constantly organized • while the member* of the Tandem Club vied each other in the neatness of their turnouts and driving skill, Those, again, whose empty pockets were a check to their share of amusement Out of the snow, by traversing its surface on racquets, or mounted On a coaster or treboggin, by rnahin4 over it where it clothed some steep hillside. In these amusements, however, I participated but little : a sedentary occupation enigmm. eel my day from nine o'clock until fine, leaving me but a slender margin for bodily exercise. I used most fervently to wish the six months' winter to come to an end, and looked forward with pleasure to the long bright mornings of summer. These were indeed a boon to me ; I generally de voted them to bathing (for the few sum mer months of the Nova Scotian climate are intensely hot;) and I found that a dip in the sea before breakfast was the best purifier both of mind and body ,for the business of the day. With this recreation I combined that of riding, (*that, on a lien morning, I was about the amt moving thing that the sun saw when he ruse over the eastern hill, as 1 proceed on horseback to my instill bathing place. Let no one picture to himself, at this familiar name. smooth sands, machines, and stout, amphibious bathing-women ; but rather a bold rock running nut into the sea, with twenty feet of water beneath it, the adjoining shore wooded with stunted Lisle to the water's edge, and May accessi ble. by is rough and intricate path through the bush. This is not a place to go into ec stasiei on the beauty of these morning tales ; tile cool, refreshing air, the luxu rinn t. Almost tropical foliage, dripping ant I. dew .. t lie rising sun. breaking r , . dd and hot through the 01151 thated to cling to the surt,tee of th e sea; busy notes of the ditferent birds, ant . woke to the hi ßti 'lot I.' of the day, from the cOnvequential I . llhl , 14 the A 11 1 11.6 1 .1111 robin, It stately fel low. in rend waistcoat anal dark glossy coat, who sought ha. unitutinal worm in a slow at.il dignified manner, to the quick hiss of Ow ,liiiiiwitiii , hmilming-Mill. hurrying ~n. in hi- lly,•i , of ereen and gold, to D ii ti the first .i r , fr.,. 'h.. new store of.iew that the iittzlit h , t i.roveled for him in the l'll(1' , 111 ill. I I v , .. .. It. 11 , ) , i1 1 I.l Ultiet• it to li AXLE" 3, -4) ttrit H • h.- %%11.1 • 0.% wittiro but s t ,l k vr‘sro quit*. tni j•wy,thifi. it was ou -ueli a morning tt. I have tie s, rilivil that I as. CAIILH•tug quietly along the turf side path which lea to my' usual lekthing plats a it'vrompanieil lie my eon• -t ant companion. n Tonal' Skye terrier. whose extended tongue and U.-pre:vied tail , aliqweii that the pace wag too aevvre for his short legs, when 1 wa.l met by an agri cultural Bluenose, the ptisseesor of the only log hut and clearing that lay on my road. Now, this meeting was nothing unusual in itself, since i had often before exchanged good mornings on passing him, its with his oxen and wain he toiled along the deeply rutted road. He was naturally of spider matie temperament, the descendant prob ably of some Dutch settler, and usually jealous of removing his short clay pipe to indulge in conversation ; but on this occa sion something had transpired which ef fectually aroused him. In his open mouth was no pipe ; the oxen were at home ; and their owner, with a very dirty white face, and hair on end, was running along the road at the rate of four good miles an hour. On seeing - me. however, he stopped, and, as soon as he hail recovered sufficient breath to speak, begged me to turn back with him. He then proceeded to inform me that a convict, a most desperate ruffian, and sen tenced for murder to penal servitude for life, had camped from the neighboring penitentiary on the preceding afternoon ; that search bad been made for him that evening, but without success, and he was supposed to have escaped further into the hush. That night, however, he had made his way into the settler's lonely house, de- mantled food, and spent a pleasant evening over the fire, smoking the Dutchman's short pipe, eating his supper, and drinking his private store of rum. The poor squat ter and his wife were utterly cowd, and ministered to the wants of their unwelcome guest in every particular. This probably mollified his temper, and perhaps prevent- ed his fulfilling his first threat of adding murder to robbery. At day-break he left them, first, however, forbidding the lawful owner to quit his house for some hours, on peril of his life. This command poor; Dutohy dared to disobey, and, leaving his; partner to the guardian ship of Provi-i dence, was now careering towards the town' as fast as his legs could - carry him. His. object for going there was not so clear ; he appeared to have some inlay idea that there he would find safety and assistance ; but his faculties had not sufficiently recovered from the shock they bad received to en able him to form any connected plan of proceedings. Now, I mammy that, when I received this atory,interspersed with many puffs arid groans from my still short-wind ed informant, my first impulse was to turn back, and give up my bathe, to keep him company on his way back to town. *Rill, when I consiiAered the chances of meeting the escaped one at all, mach more at the moment when I was in the water, stripped and defenceless, I found the odds against the rencontre were very large ; besides, I did not feel inclined to relinquish my bath --I did not like the hies of retreating from fear of one man, who, for ail I knew. might be miles away ; and, therefore, notwith standing the remonstrances of my friend. f determined to proceed. He did not waste much time in perfusion ; bat, after looking et me a moment or two with a won dering air, bowled on again, at the top of his speed, towards the town. I was not altogether comfortable, I con fess, as I kicked my horse's :idol with my heel, and induced him to resume his can- &PA Pl. 1711 IE3 ter ; it was with rather an air of bravado that: I whistled to my dog. told him the cireumstances of ihe (sure, and exhorted him to keep a sharp look-out. I confess to looking over my shoulder from time to time, as I went on ; and, when I arrived at my bathing-place,' I. must say I took a careful survey round before I dismounted, or proceeded to fasten up my steed. There was no pound to be heard, except the mo notonous surge of the calm water, and the patter of the drops falling from the dew laden boughs. There were no marks of footsteps on the grass. or traces of any hu man being. I Mt secure, began to laugh at the ab surdity of my former fears, and leisurely divested myself of my garments, prepared to take the pinuge. As I stood for one moment on the edge of the rock, with 1111113 raised above my head, preparatory to the leap, I took one last look round; there was my horse. tethered to his usual stamp, gearing peacefully ; my dog lay panting near bun. Ilow foolish I had been, tho't I ; and in I went. Now, his my custom, on jumping into the deep water, not im mediately to rise again, like a cork, to the Barbee, but to swim, as long as I have any breath, beneath it; and, when at length I arrive at the top, to proceed to free my eyes from the salt water hero - re looking much about me, for to see with my eyes full of brine cannot reasonably be expect ed of anybody. It isenot to he wondered at. therefore, that on this particular occa sion I did not immediately discover. after my submersion, some foreign object on my rock. However, I soon did. There wits something there blue and yellow ; its part ly colored legs were hanging over the ledge —it was the murderer i I could not at first believe my water logged eyes, and gave them another club still there he e.tt, a rough looking fellow enough, with close cut hair, and forbidding face. In the cor ner of his dirty mouth was the Dutchman's pipe ; on his knees was my black coat, the pockets of which he was carelessly search tag. lie appeared a good natured mur derer enough, a victim of circumstances I should say. one whose naturally good dis position hail been perverted by education, and with a keen sense of fun into the bar gain. Our comparative position seemed to amuse him vastly. fie helped himself to some tobacco he found in my coat-pock•_ et, cut it up with a knife, lightest it with a fusee that lie found in my waistcoat-pock et, took a few whiffs with an air of great inward comfort, gave ine a short nos}, an d then spoke - Vine morning, mete Wa ter cold ?" I had by this time taken a survey ofmy position, saw there was no help for it, so I replied with a sympathetic sluver that it was cold—very cold . lout,, as he observed, it was a fine morning. "1 inn going" continued he, in and easy tone of voice, "to borrer these here clothes of yourn ; they're more quiet like than Mine. I don't mind, too, if I change shirts, as yours seems the cleanest, tho' I think you'll gain in the long run," said lie. be ginning to strip, and exposing to my view a dirty. once red. now no color at nil, flan nel vestment beneath his triests. Remon strances were vain. I wa, in the waleri he on land—he was in pos,ession. It was with grief that I viewed my garments ono by one sipprepriat and saw the gradual transformation of the nem, from the real, unmistakable convict, to something be tween a dissipated waiter and a clergyman/ in the gueetet Bench lor, be it known, my garments were of a s.ei color and quiel cut. and, Ittliough sionelrhat old, still dear to me. Ile could opt , get on, lay boots ; there was hope ni that, 1 shied(' be able to walk Mime in con/101c, if nut in elegance —boots mei a bathing towel keing. h:u fly e‘ en in Summer—but my hopes were to lie disappointed. After many endeavors to Puree his teet in to them, and alter splitting one of them in tfir.unavaning su.uygle, lie thing theta bet It at me, saying they toi l z.iit i w ot use to t h e, but were nsitts• to litto Ile was. now fully app.ireied has waved his hat—l mean niy hat --tn hirrwell. and netted to depart.— He'll leave tilt. horse. hoped 1, I . was scam freed from my suspense. I heard litin pro ceed to unfasten min. I heard t h e animal's frightened •nort he recognized the dif ferent odor of the Mall. My dog, who had kept up an unavailing barking and growl ing the whole of the proceedings, followed him a little ways. but soon returned dis gusted, I heard him canter off, the hasty footfall re-echoing more faintly through the woods. I was alone again, and then the full farce of my position struck swam to the shore, my fingers blue, and my teeth chattering like a pair of eastinets, dunned tremblingly up the rock, and viewe.l with disgust the heap of dirty garmignts before me. "N'o," said I t.."gtrt with bathing towel only, or in the pruni tive and leafy costume of our first parents, will 1 return, but not in those detested clothes." At this moment, a sharp prick in the shoulder, followed by another, and by what Longfellow calls -asound of wings:" brought me down from my heroics. I looked round me—the air was dark with myriads -thirst- mg for blood. With a feeling of sympathy for the Egyptians. and a surmise as to the probability of there being black thee and mosquitoes in Eden, I rushed to, and sought protection of the many colored garments. It was enough ; I needed no other protection the black fly legions re treated discomfort e d. Even my dog seem ed inclined to keep to windward, and snif fed doubtingly at me. And. here was a pos ition to be in . How could I. in such guise, walk through the orderly streets of the town ? how could I face the enraged sta te keeper, the owner of the valuable and now stolen horse? How ronid I, with feet naked and tender, walk along- the rough footpath through the hush 1 With these reflections, 1 started on toy way home, and gained the main road without sustaining any injury, with the exception of a few damn thornsin each side of my feet ; but I at this point was descried by a party of police, who, under the conduct of the Nachman, were evidently searching for the escaped one. Although at some dis tance, they immediately caught sight of my many colored clothes, and, raising a shout, advanced upon me with all the con fidence of numbers. In vain I assured them, at the top of my voice, that it was a caae.of mistaken indents y, and offered to explain the circumstances that placed me in such a position. Encouraged by my nn resisting mien, on they came, and I was seised, thrown down, picked up again, col lared, shaken, and otherwise maltreated, long before the arrival of the Dutchman to the spot. Ile, as he possessed neither the same amount of valor nor wind as my cap: tors, came up more leisurely ; and, though at first thrown by my appearance in a state of ludicrous uncertainty, in the end con firmed my asseverations of innneene's, Upon this, I was delivered out of the hands of the law. Still I met with no sympathy; my cam , excited laughter amongst tuy cap tors, but nothing else. Under their -sur veillance, I was conducted to the house ot his Worship, the Mayor, there to make my desposition. Of course, while engaged in this procession, with a file of polioe on each side of me, I was met by all the peo- L ple of my acquaintance in "three good opin ion I inrtieufarly desired to stand well ; my only hope was that they Would not re; cognise me, and such 1 aftenrarria found vim fortunately the ease. His Worship, with whom I was acquainted, after a good laugh at my expense, kindly tent me a suit of clothes ; gave me some breakfast, which 31,50 PER ANNUM TN ADVA NUMBER 58 , „ by this time raucheeaed; sent me , ome somewhat restored in egrtanlinliy. ish the story briefly, I was the taglrblttlfd whole community, until some cathwe and smokier too* mimed the public stink" . tion. Of nay clothes, watch, lc, I *ever heard more, nor of him who' appropriated' them but the horse was raw:leered with out haring sustained any serious injury, al though the owner thereof of oattrutdeolite ed it to be utterly ruined, and made me pay many a dollar for the convict's ride. I often bathed at that same spot after wards, both alone and with ootnpanions, butnever without many a nervous glazes towards the rock, both to assure myself of the safety of my clothes upon it, and that there was really no blue and yellow form there, with legs dangling lazily over its Ledge. DIBCOVItitY OF A CAVS is FLOILIDA.—The following account of the discovery of a re markable oave in Florida, is from a corres pondent of the New York Journal of cow coerce, tied comes with such appearance of circumstantiality that we copy it entire The structure of the under stratum of rock and earth in Florida is cavernous to a great extent. Indeed, as far as explotn tinny, have been made, the ground present,- the appearance of a honeycomb, 00, ac count of the numerous cavities which are found to exist. Those indentations in the surface of the earth called "sinks" abound here—come of them dry and other+ parti ally filled with water; while rivera disap pear under the ground and are been no more. Florida is not "the land of floirgra." but also the land of wonders. A few days ago Mr. Henry Wooten, of New York ci, and myself started on a bunting expedi tion, with the intention of carupiug out sevetai days, tin :Saturday, the 29th day of September, we pursued a deer into a hammock, and attempting tolide through it, Mr. Wooten's borne stumbled into a small sink. While. Mr. Wooten was en deavoring to extricate his horse I dismount ed, and was engaged in examlng a curious pile of Oconee which had attracted my at tention. On ono of them I an in seription, as it' graven with some steel in strument, but nearly obliterates] by the' ravages of time. Mr. Wooten by this thee bad led his horse safely out of the sink, and, on rejoin ing me, said he had discovered a cave.— After vaialy endeavoring to decipher (lie strange insition which I had found, we each coll ectedan armful of pine wood to ; serve for torchea On arriving at the en- i trance, we saw by the light of our torchee, that the bottom of the cavern was severs ! feet below us. Handing my torch to my l t friend. I prepared to descend. which I me complished with ease, therocks serving as steps. Wooten then Landed me down an armful of light wood and a torch, and pre pared to descend further. We now found ourselves in A mhternmeons passage ten feet high and fifteen wide. We pureued .this passage for nearly Lalf a wile, it grow ing larger at every step , and appearing to? ,Icend into the earth by an easy ,nouns- I tinn, when we unexpectedly found our selveb a cave of irnmetuse extent. We explored it to every euteriug stnall cavern , . which led elf from the main cave. We finally entered ;semi , of square doorway, and found oureetvea in t a cavern of most beautiful appeanume, the., reflection of our lights against the siting producing a magnificent effect. For the first time in my life I felt the full force of that beautiful deecription which Goldsmith But. the moat wonderful thing that met our view in this cave was a Latin inscrip tion stated that a party of Danes had visit ed this cave in the year 1060, and that a priest who had accompanied them had left this memorial of their visit., The name Of this priest was Marcus Poleus. It is *boo stating that those navigators had embark ed on a voyage of exploiation, 'awl had been driven far South ; also .that they had Visited many large Islands, and finally had landed in a thickly populated country, where the ticople reeetved them kindly. thinking them superior beings: that sev eral of their number. together with some Greek artisans and two priests, bad been left there as a colony. This is the substance "r the inscription a_s tar as could be deci phered. Now. does not this suggest :ui important inquiry to the antiquarian is it not probable that the islands: mention• eil - Iwere the West Indies, and may not the country where they landed be Nexico We alt know that the Ancient. Mexicans had a tradition that about tour hundred y, ass before the landing of Coach ata that country, - Children of the Sun," with white faces. came to theta and taught them the arts of c•ivtlzation, Is it not probable that this colony of th►nes and tireeks. with their two Latin 'tricots, were the persons referred to by tradition Perhaps many buried secrets concerning the early history of A meries. may be revealed by that strange device. This wonderful cave is easy of accets, and situated a few mild from the Florida nlilroad, and about ten miles front Waldo. A TOA:•T WELL BUTTIRICII.—A few weeks since, at Blisstield, Michigan, an old lady, one of the niothers in Democratic whew Wher was a soldier , in the Revolu tion, presented to the Democratic club of the village a Douglas banner wrought with her cnvn hands, accompanied by the follow ing toast: QuaN arm); I—Begotten amid the storms of the sixteenth century, its infantile movements were dim and indistinctly seen on board the Martower, on the rocks of Paymoth, at Jamestown, on the plains of Monongahela, and on the beighla of Abra ham. The capricious squalls of its infancy were heard in the tea party in Roston, in Paneiul Hall, on the plains of Ooneord, Lexington and Bunker Hill. in his boy hood he ran bareheaded and barefooted over the plains of Sera toga, Trenton, Prince ton, Moan:rut!) and Yorktown, whipped his mother and turned her out of doors.— In his youth he strode over the boundless West and called them all his own ; paid tzibuto to the despots of Barbary in powder and balls ; spit in his father's faee from behind the cotton bales at New Orleans ; whipped the mistress of the ocean ; revel led in the halls of Montesumaa ; Itraddied the Rocky Mountains. and„with one foot upon the golden sand and the other upon codtieh and lumber, defied the world. ITt manhood, clothed in purple and fine linen, he rides over a continent in eushicnved oars; rides over the ocean in palace steamers ; sends his thoughts on winp of lightning to the world around ; thunders at the door of the Celestial Empire and at the portals of distant Japan ; slaps his poor old de crepicf father in the face and tells him to be careful how he peeks into any of his pickeroons, and Ihreaterie to make a sheep pasture of all the land that joins him. What he''-!1 do in his• old age God only knows.— May he live ten thousand years, and never be less. ler A "progressive" =grata that in this age of improvement old Father Time I should be repremented with a Yankee clock ! in his hand, and seated on esteem mowing ' machine. stir A young msn who has rerently taken • a w ife, *Lys he did not find it half ad hard to get married as he did afterward to gel the furniture, DPID vla treed ; Miring — tio ' me," rid the 'Tooker : "t4to reddest I have attended tor years." • "UM elittingestar) "Row did he die I" ¶''2l2lllir's°lomoo44-Jaislife was am longsungtemilak thimrarl4 aad as ovary dhadvatitage; Tioittinelrad him all the while with gilder promises that were deatfatienenter to know fulfillment," Inlet he wiss patient and enduring," re maricedione of the company. _Patient ea a MrildUor--wedmrWg am a martyr," was the answer. "Poor man, he war worthyi of a better fate. He ought to . have attiloebded, for be deserved rutieem." • "DiSliseaotenecemir questioned theme Ittu) hini 'poison of his paneveranee and endurance. "'No, sir; be died poor, int I Lave just said. Nothing that he put his hands on ever sue method. A strange fatality seemed to at tend every eaterviae." "I wad with him in his last momenta," said another, "and thought he died! rich." "No, he has left nothing behin4" was replied. "The heirs will have no Ouasso as to the administration. of the estate.), "He left a good name," said on "and that is something." "And a legacy of noble deeds that were done in the name of humanity," remarked another. -Lessons of patience in suffering, of hope in adversity, of heavenly oonfidenoe when no sunbeams fell upon his bewildering Path." was the testimony of another. And high trust, manly courage. heroic forti tu de.," "Then he died rich"' was the emphatic declaration : richer than the millimetre who went to his long home the same don a m'serable pauper in all but gold. 'A sod funeral,' did you say? "No, my friend, it wasrather a triumphal procession Not the burial of a human clod, but the sere monist attendant of the translation of an angel. Did not suoceed Why, his whole life was a series of successes. In every conflict he came off the victor, and now the victor's crown is on his brow. Any grasping, soulless, selfish man, with a share of brains, may. gather in money, and learn the art of keeping it; but not one in a hundred can bravely cooquor in the battle of life as Ednionston has couquored, and step forth from the ranks of men a Chris t lan hero." A MVIIDIRER'S Convasstos—A. Wassiz, —C4ortlon. the young wan who murdered Gents al Deriver City a, few months ago, has been executed. In his confession, which he wrote himself, occur many ex pressions serving to show that he was bro't to lai i4naminiourend through intemper ntatv, 1w Crrte place he rentarita, after lipeaking of his mental anxiety :- 6..1 some time to find something to divert my mind. but found nothing that appeared to ease it at all but whiakey,sind about the 15th of March I concluded to go to Ihqiver to live, where I could easily ob tmiii what I at that time wanted the moat of allything—something that would drive trouble from my mind—and that was whiskey." Aain :—"To whiskey l'attribute alt my troubles and sufferings, and what I have caused other people. On a Wednesday night about the middle of July, I shot a man whose name I do not remember. The next morning when I awoke I was told of what I had done, and I did not behove that I had done it., until I went and saw the man, which I did after I ate my break fast ; he was shot iu the leg, and was in much pain. I told him I would pay his bills au.) time ; but I knew of no way to psy him for the pain which he was suf fering from my actions; I left the house. alter having talked with him some ten ,minutes ; but the man was before my eyes all the time, until I htul drank considerable whiskey, then I did not see him and did not think of him." or the day on which the murder was committed, he remarks:— . "All that day 'I was drinking enough to keep the drunk- enough to feel easy, ind the next day thalami • t, being and ao much Y di , not nod anything.— That Friday I have no doubt but what I killed John Gantt." From the hour of him arrest up to the time when he was led forth to execution, he begged that some friend would shoot him that he might not, to use his own words ; "be hung like a dog." Be never ceased, until, his death, to advise the young men about him to shun liquor, as, but for that he might have become a useful man. Porivoes Ar vet Wesr.—The Davenport toirs) Dosocrest says ; f any boydy wants to see potatoes by the cord—good measure —let them step down to the levee. There not shippinf enough at this time on the rpper Mississippi to move them away as fst as they accumulate,. Farmers complain a little that the price is too low, but they are the only party to blame ; if they want higher prices they must not raise so man) . The market price is from twelve to fifteen rents per bushel." A Count, Casa.—lt is rejorted that a sickly girl at Plytnton, N. H., a somnam bulist, with a strong propensity to want oil with things and hide them where they could not. be found. nor she herself remember, that at last it sas found necessary to lock her in ue.•urely at night, made off a few week- since• with a valuable watch. Then the family gave her liberty and watched her movements. in hopes that the same somnambulism that carried it off would find it again. The other night she started out followed by her brother. She walked places that he dare not follow but the moonlight helped to show her course, and he kept along. Finally she walked up the trunk of a tree that hung at an angle or forty-five degrees over a brook, stood firm ly at the end while the tree swayed be neath her, and, stooping down, brought out the watch. Returning to terra tirma the brother waked her, took the property and hurried hove. Box. Howsta, Cons.—The charges of disunion against Secretary Cobb are the mere inventions of the discharged clerk who gives them circule.tion. Gov. Cobb is a well known Union man, and in his late viutt to fleOrgia it is perfectly well under stood that he brought his influence to beer against the intense disunion sentiment which now exists there. iltir Sharps' Ride Company has made a contract with a foreign Government to fern - isti $200,000 worth of arms, with a proviso that it tnt4 be extended to $1,000,000, on giving the company ninety days' notice before the completion of the first order.— Said first order is for $12,000 carbines with bayonets. Ifaavostiocs—Just before the election in the state of Wisconsin, it happened that one Col. Wilson—a good Republican, a fanner. and a candidate for the Legislature / had lost a number of his hogs very myster iously ; and, after patiently investigating the matter, he at length discovered that they had been stolen by another &Tubb - can—oae Joe Jones, a fellow of some no toriety and a little political influence in the reig,hborhooli. The Colonel thought, the matter over, and then went ter see Joe up on the subject. "Now, Joe," said he "1 could have you indicted and put in prison for this, but see ing as how you are a good Repticilican, and fix the sitcom of the ticket, and harmony in 'the party if you promise you won't steel any more of my hogs 1' 11 let you off*and what's more, I'll give you a thousand pounds of pork every year," .Ibeecratched his head reflectively for a moment, arid then said: To tell you the trath‘Oolonel, I don't like to make that agreement, no how ; but seeing we are both Republicans, and for the sucee*s of the ticket, and har mony in the party, Pll do it ; knit darn me If 1 won't lose Hog's mast by the opera tion."