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'While she passes 'eeeth thy rod.
rre'a ri snit ace on the hillside
Of the noble " Peal rie Stale,'
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O'er it little rite
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lly its henrthstone. while he prtypth
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bat thine la tint the -,nll , heart
That bows in woe to-nieht,
Nor, thine the only strielten soul
That looks above for light..
Mut be ye •tr'nnß, end beer y, uP—
%Vo have not bled In Vali,—
Thn lettnrs we have etrint en ntl.,
Will no'er be f9r,_!ed
And had T now n thousand lives,
I'd nive them All for thee,
My native land, my preriou< home,
If they might minima thee free.
Then "wrap the fIDs, around nn•, boy=
The lied. the white and Mu".
ID every thought and evot y act,
To them I have hero true;
Living I fought heuoal h its foldx;
Dying my prayer than be,
That every char may typify
A e“untry truly ?ree.
V fll
THE ENFORCED DUEL
- • -Thomas.Gottley-Grattan,the-well-know.n
Irish author, has recently given t o th e
public a new work, entitled 'Beaten
Paths, and Those who Trod 'l'llent.” I t
consists of' a series of desultory sketrhes,
one of which we take pleasure in trans
rerting to our columns. During a some
what prolonged residence at Bordeaux,
acute years since, chiefly devoted to lite
rary pursuits, and to an extraordinary
duntte 'Otto revolutionary society, which
finally led to a hasty abandonment of the
neighborhood, Mr. Drattan made a visit
to Bagneres, where he was a witness to
the fullowing.extraordieary incident :
An Erich gentleman, whose name, like
any own, began with G tied ended with
N, was certainly one of the most auaiable
and least quarrel,3onm among the Vihitut i.
He neither drank nor gambled, our tallied
polities nor scandal, the great provoea
tives to disputation and ill Itleod, and he
led a most quiet and domestic. life with a
young and pretty helpmate., as unlikely l
as her husband to excite any feeling that
might involve hint iu danger.
Mr. ti—ti one day strolled into the
public billiard room witlt a friend of his,
a lieutenant in the British navy. They
found a table disengaged, took up their
queues, and began to play. S c ar ce ly
had they commenced their game, when
two or•three Frenchmen of good appear
ance Caine in, aid one of them, a young
man of military air, placed himself close
to Mr. G n, stared at him, followed
his different movements, and watched
every stroke he made with a marked and
most troublesome attention. The player
did not: know what to make of it, but
smilingly said something to his friend as
to the singularity of the stranger's beha
vior. The other thought it equally odd,
and as it was persevered in for some min
utes longer, Mr. G n felt irritated,
stopped, turned short, and begged his
friend (for he did nut himself speak
French,) to ask the meaning of this con
duct, now evidently intended as a perso
nal insult. The lieutenant, fortunately a
than of great coolness, and of some expe
rience in such affairs, fulfilled his mission
with politeness, telling the Frenchman
that he was convinced he had mistaken
Mr. G—n for some other person, as he
could have no reason for pursuing so of
fensive a line of conduct to a gentleman
who had never before seen him.
' "Pardon, Monsieur," replied the
Frenehmnn, with a perfect sang froid i
and an air of provoking politeness. "
am not at all mistaken. I know who
Monsieur G—n is quite well, and I
beg you will do me the honor to tell him
de nsa part, that ho is a colomniateur
and a"coquin; and there is my card, so
that he may know where to find me in
ten minutes from this time—and these
two gentlemen•are my friends!'
h was not easy to translate all this to
(3--1 with Out rousing him to knock
'down__ bid' unknown insulter with the
queue which ho still held in his hand ;
for mild and-humane men are at times
'very subject to:an excessof rage on great
'provocation. Air was astounded.
:3 - criet'v the meaning of - the two epithets
Proprietor
evidently applied to him, hut still he be
lieved as his f't lend had done, that he had
been mistaken for somebody else.
" Let us go out and think - what is to
be done," said he to his friend. They
look their hats, and went out on the
promenade (I forget the name,) in which
the Cafe-Billiard stood. Half the beau
utonde•of liagneres were walking or loung
ing about, ladies and gentlemen together.
The two friends, arm-in arm took a cou
ple of turns, discussing the strange and
embarrassing occut•reuce, when suddenly
the three Frenchmen met them and
stopped; and the one whose behavior had
so outraged Mr. G—n deliberately spat
in his face—a beastly form of insult then
rathermational in France clind very lately
resorted to at a scientific meeting in Lon
don by a traveled foreigner, and to his
own ureat disgrace) ;4aying :
"l'hope.N oil understand dui, if I was
not sufficiently explicit just now. That
requires no interpreter."
ti--n rushed at the fellow—he had
disinherited himself of his title if lie was
gentleinan born—but before he could
strike a blow, The two companions and
some other persons interfered.
"There is nothing for it now hut. an
immediate meetjog---explanation or apol
ogy tire out of the question. Let's fol
low them I" exclaimed the
Frenchtnan walked away.
"Stop a hit," replied the lieutenant.;
" settle tho matter in n mionte."—
nd he stepped after the party. Ile re
turned almost immediately to 1;--ti.
" all arranged—they' are going to
the old buryin ,, -ground—come to my
1 0( 10 1 , gs — ill y pj,1016 aro du
bout him ticiid.,"
The few words struck tcil ily an C. —n
They fell with an flininints sound on
his mind. Ife had never lived a pistol in
his life. The place of int oting was aw
fully su:yestive The IlaIllt! , )11 the card
wa, that of a young otlieer ett el / * Tem stt
/,i/i/e, a fitthirl.M, (41011.-i—the 1,0,4 Of the
neighborlmod—a crack ,1101., who haul
hided and w•lunded ,several, and Upuilted
oust wantonly boost every one he had,.
yuLultleci with. felt
d~,uund uric. Ile thuuaht tit his wire,
just expecting him home: for his then us
ual walk.
‘, Come iiuicker, - said he to his friend.
" There's not a moment to he
will lie sure to hear of it—every one saw
what passed—somebody IVIII, nu doubt,
!ell hoe. For slke, make haste
Ledge the p•ilice earl kino„ anythin; , '!"
G--n's iend Lad picked up an ac
quaintance as they hurried on, en
gaged him to stand behind 111111 :Islulll/,1
1 , //Win. 11 0, :weeded willingly to the
reipacst. Ile did not dislike a tight, and
Le said openly lie hoped to Heaven
would rid the neighborhood of its worst
disgrace. Poor to---n shreg.red his
shoulders, cast up his eyes towards Hea
ven, and on without saying a
word.
The eiMditkins were sling arran , ed.
Two lines were drawn at ten paces apart,
it walkini , cane was laid down vn each.
The -combatants.wilro-placed. en.
paces tat ther back than the respective
tines, so that they stood thirty paces dis
tant from each other. They were then
left to their own disci etion to tire when]
they pleased, with liberty to advanceJ
ea c h before doing so, up to the respective
canes, but on no account to put a trot
yond them, so that in any ca-e they could
not approach each.other closer than ten!
paces ; and supposing them to reserve'
their tire till they got to that short dis
tance, even then they might stand, take,
oitn, and shoot without, any signal when- 1 ,
ever they chose. This was a well-est:di
fished way of settling these affairs in
France, trying to the nerves of the cool-I
eat and most experiedeed duelist, terrible,
to the uninitiated.
Each of the parties were provided with
pistols. Those of the Frenchman were
of ordinary make, rather old and battered,
and both of them marked with two or
three blight, notches, to note the numb e r
of times they had been used by their
owner, (1---n's antagonist. lie poised
one of them carelessly in
- his hand. But
when his eye full on the beautiful Eno--
li:sh feather-spring weapons which the
lieutcnat,t took calmly out of their case,
it glistened with.delight and ferocious
longing.
" I must fight with one of those," said
"No, monsieur," replied the Lieuten
ant ; " we are not to provide you with
weapons." And he explained to the im
patient the request and his re
fusal.
" ! let hint have it,•for God's sake
—what matter 7 1)o go on quickly. She
will be sure to hear• of this, and—"
" Take it, sir," s•tid the lieutenant;
"toy friend is too generous:'
" He'll be a dead man in two minutes,"
was the fierce and ruffianly reply, as he
snatched th&roffered weapon. And the
four pistols were loaded by the seconds.
"Be steady, for Heaven's sake! On
no account fire till you both reach the
canes. The short distance is your-only
chance," said the lieuienant, as he placed
a pistol in 0--u's hand. An instinct
of common sense made him point it
straight before him; but he was:at-aid to
put his finger on the trigger, for ho was
was warned that the slightest touch on
the feather-spring would cause it to go off
prematurely.
The Frenchman flourished his weapon,
leveled it with a theatrical air, called out
loudly some words that G--n did not
Understand; but all was done clearly with
the object of throwing him off his guard,
and hurrying him into firing at the farth
est distance, with a certainty or missing.
Failing in this design, the Frenchman
then stepped-rapidlyup to the cape, his
barrier, his arm at full length, and G—n
could see into the barrel of the pistol lev
eled straight at him. fie had just-pres
ence of mind to reflect that a good shot
at twenty paces—the distance now be
tween thein—was sure to hit his man,
while he would be as certain to miss; sit
by a sudden impulse he ran impetuously
up td his barrier, giving the idea to all
I?&PAR, TOS A,REszae asaam.
the spectators that he had utterly lost his
head, and was 'rushing full tilt against
his foe, whom he covered straightly
enough. So thought the latter. And
he, astonished and startled by the extra
ordinary movement of his intended vic
tim, unconsciously pulled the trigger with
a jerk—the sensitive feather-spring threw
the bullet wide of its mirk—and at the
same instant the report of G--n's pis
tol told that he, too, had fired, having
stopped firmly and steadily at the barrier;
and with a scream of agony the desperate
duelist bounded into the air, shot through
the brain, and he dropped forward stone
dead, on one of the weed-covered mounds
whielr dotted the burial ground.
(3---n stood utterly stupefied Be
knew no difference between life and death,
or who had fallen, who escaped. From
first to last he had given himself up as
lust Ile never dreamt of killing his
enemy with his unpractised hand, nor of
having a chance of safety from the un
erring skill opposed to him.
'• Conte, come 011, come on ; don't you
see the wretch is dead Tl'le people
will tear us to pieces."
And so it would have been had not. the
two fri e i o k b o lted through the crowd
that,, nisattably .curious, thronged round
the corp,e ; and before they could disen
ga:re tin in'selve; to look for the two for
eigners, they had scrambled over the bro
ken wall, ran through Some narrow laces,
and found shelter in` : `,\ Ir. house,
where he met hi, wife, entirely i“-)ora»t
of ilk , f',.•at :.cene , that had been acted.
The ,ceond had escaped auuth
er route.
immediately tile yells of the
people were heard outside. Their fury
tie.lio-d the was roused to the
Itighe.4 pitch, and (amid not. he controlled
by the tens gentlemen who Were present
tit the i:ltaS:ll' , ,ph , ?, and not one or whom
',went,' it, tit, int in' I:tut_ti utt hint
who destined it, and who left Dona he
himb to 'mewl for him and
his friend la-tened up the doors and win
,lows as host they could but they would
tilt have long re.-isted the a.,-aults of the
crowd, had not• fortuttitrly a small de
tachment of mounted gendarmes galloped
up and surrounded the house.
err eouinianding It demanded admi s sio n ,
whodi was gladly givt,n to hint. Ills
oondoet was tt lluirable. I lis first. care
was to tran q uilii.c the lady. who, like a
trite woman, w.H calm, resolute, and ac
tive for her husband's safety ; generous
and un.elll-11 for herown. The officer as•
sured her of his pioteetion, and also un
dert,,ok to pli3raidOe the safety of the
tiontwiwit but as hr was nntibin to an
swer Mr that nt tie principal in the hom
icide, knowing the nature id the infuriated
mob and the state of national feeling at
the time, lie devised the only plan. for his
escape, in case they overpowered the half
dozen gendarmes and forced an entrance.
lie therefore called nn one of his awn to
come in-ide while the rest sat on their
saddles, sabre in hand ; and he made
t;--n at on c e c h a n g e clothes with the
stildicr policeman. This was done quietly
-and spet-dilp glum lctrdin him - to-"thr--
dour, he saw 111111 lIIM/rd the horse of the
man he personated, putting an apparent
letter hastily prepared into his hand, pro
lessedly feu the magistrate of the town
G--11 well played his part. Ile rode
calmly through the people, who offered
no rullialk, trotted tilong in the direction'
he was told to take, and very soon left
liagneres behind hint, relying on the
courage and chivalry of the Frenchman
who saved him, to protect, his wife, and
the friend less compromised than he was.
lie was
,joined on the same evening by
both those objects or 163 solicitude, who
came under safe escort, and he turned his
back forever on the place where he scent.
ed to have experienced such a fearful
dreann. And now r ou tes the explanation
of' the startling event.
Mr. naturally, for a man of
his quiet habits, was flind of reading,
He was a subscriber to the eirculating
library; and he one day had in his turn
a volume that touched on the great war
yainst Napoleon, and contained some
sentence rather disparaging to the French
army in connection with the battle of
Toulouse. Some reader of the book Maul
written in pencil a short remark on the
passage, approving its tone, and enforcing
its truth by a severe epithet. :Mr. U—n,
scarcely observed this, if lie saw it at. all:
but he in due time returned the book to
the library, and forgot all about it.
Passing' from one .subscriber to ano
ther, the volume fell into the hands of
the young fire cater whose unhappy fate
I have just narrated. flurried away by
passion, by furious hatred of all English
men, so indiscriminate, that he eared not
on Whom be vented it, he rushed to the
circulating library, inquired who among
the subscribers last had the volume, and
was answered vaguely ; but the name of
Mr. ---n was mentioned as one of the
last, and the person in the shop pointed
out that gentleman, who happened to be
passing at the, time. That was enough.
Tile self-doomed victim, the virtual sui
cide rosining on his fate, darted out, en•
gaged his two attendant friends to accom
pany hint, followed the two unsuspecting
Ithiglishmen into the billiard room—and
the reader knewt , the rest.
ge.l)' A gentleman from Boston chanced
to find himself among a little patty of ladies,
away down East, this summer, in the enjoy
meat of some innocent social play. He
carelessly placed his arm about the slender
waist of as pretty a damsel as Maine can
boost of, when she started and exclaimed,
"Begone Sirl don't insult!" The gentle•
man instantly apologized for his seeming
rudeness, and assured the half offended fair
one that he did not mean to insult her.—
" No?" she replied archly, "well, if you didn't
you may do it - Again I"
DM, There was a shrewd girl, and not de
void of True modesty either, who remarked
when other. gir s were making ,fun; of her
short; skirts and white hose and affected to
be much ',shocked at the exhibition .therebt
at n p a rty; "lf you'd only pull up your
dresses about your necks, where they ought
to be, they'd cas short as mine I" ,She
was not troubled any more.
CARLISLE, PA., FRIDAY, IaCEAIBER 19, 1862.
BEWARE! ,
I know n youth who can 11Irt and 13atter—
Take
❑n loses with the ladles to gossip aud chatter—
fie bee a voice of valying tone—
Take rare
It echoes many, beside thine own—
Ilowrire beware!
Trust him not—he is fooling thou:
Flo has a hand that is ann and white—
It pressed another than thine last night.—
Ilevrarol be
Is fooling thee !
Ills letters are glowing with lore, I ween—
'rake Care!
One half he writes hit does not mean—
Beware! beware I
Trust him not—ho is fooling thee
Ile talks of truth, and of deep devotion—
Take care!
Of !vying truly he 11U tin notion—
Ile ware ! Uowars!
Trust him lint—
lie Is fooling thee!
Your heart he N‘ ill gain with his dangerous wiles I
Take care
Of his 1r hispered siortl.s, and his sighs, nrul his nmilerr,
lir ware / br tva :
Trust hint not—he is fooling thn•r!
Stereotypes of a Plying Trip
MAT MAKES TILE DIFFERENCE
At the steamboat wharf in Washing
ton of Alexandria boas, two horses were
to be landed, and one Of thew fell frog
the gan...'way . into the water. The ex
citement .was interne among the hackmen,
and all rushed tot :We a horse in the wat er .
An i n t e ili, L , s e nt contraband, who drove a
pair of tri;tteri.i, value back to where we
we re stattding, and we asked if they would
rear the horse.
" (Ih, lord, yeA, captain," (they call
cvoryhody captain, the,‘ r•un
•• a Guv'ment
VIVID LETTER -
liosv-At it,'' itivirod a gention)an or
tvar vorn•-pninde»l, th,it V , Ii are ;Ode.
Olen a hid . *
cool and lucid :!xplanat ion 111 t ?"
that'...-; easy oto,oH; ; we f a t( to
lie oxtrome rear, anti write al.out, \Vita
o:oing on in front."
VOICES ()I,"1.11E
A sleeping car is of eomparatively re
cent date, and with the exception of -those
on the Erie railroad, where the broad
gouge enal,l wan to retire to his own
state room. (wily are closets aboard steam
boats railed shoe-rooms' This is not a
conundrum, but a querv,) there is but
li(tic comfort if' the weather is at all tong
',gy or tepid. One sleeps because he
cannot keep awake, and tiny miles arc
sometimes accomplished between two
nightmares, one of whitsh leaves you try
ing to crawl out the side of the ear to
gm. a drink of water, and the other finds
yo u trying to hold on to the curtain,
which you ignagine is a barn door flap
ping 3.1_1 in t h e face. A sleeping ear
now runs from Jl:re.Y CiLY, 10 - Mshing—
ton, crossing ferry-boats and bridges
without disturbing; the inveterate snoozer,
but the nervous traveler, who wants to
know what is going on, is apt to wake up
at every full stop.
Leaving Washington, we took a tiet of
elves, and consequently Ivire not much
crowded ; but the sleeping car on that
ty.casion was not occupied by a company
particularly inclined to pay their deve
tiona to i'lforpheus. Fatigue, however,
was getting the better of us, when two
gentlemen hung up ncxt to 6 began a
conversation.
" 110 you know, Joe, tl , at this car runs
across on two ferry boats, and just imagine
if we should get too' much impetus we
might pop off into the water."
" Is it deep ?'' asked Joe.
"about forty feet."
" Well, 1 don't think we shall to
night," replied Joe, emphasising to.night
as though it was quite likely they would
some other night, and in a few moments
-we alitua4 icishcil Joe might get a cold
bath, for he evidently was a very expert
snorer, and seemed to be trying to induce
the brakeman to brake up by an occasion
al nasal whistle. This 'colloquy was at
au end when the sleeping car overseer, or
conductor, or perhaps more properly mas
ter of the snoozers, opened the dour and
exclaimed :
Isn't theta a gentleman here who took
a double berth, who said he'd no objec
tion to sharing it with a gentleman r
" I'm the individ'," said our visa-via
or dos-u-dos.
_ .
" I should like it, then, for an officer
who has just got in."
" Trot him out, Mr. Overseer, and if
he's a decent fellow, he can stretch his
legs here."
" llow much do you want for it ?"
not, on my berth-sell: he may
have it fur just what I gave."
The officer Mitered, hung up his coat,
thanked his companion and assumed the
recumbent.
" Been
_to the war, air said_ the first
occupant.
" Yes, air."
" So have I."
" What part of the country ?"
" I was all the way from Yorktown to
Malvern Ilill and back again."
" So was L"
" Were you at Fair Oaks?"
" leS, sir."
" So was I."
`" Were you in the retreat?"
" Yes, sir."
" So wasi."
"Are you going to leave the army ?"
" No, sir; I'm on Gen. staff,
and I'm going to join the Banks expedi
tion."
"So at I," said occupant' No. 1, who
was joining a regiment bound for the
same destination. The conversation con ,
tinned, and though the two had probably
shared the game field for weeks, it was
reserved for them to form ao aequaint
ance aboard the sleeping oar. •
A pause of perhaps .twenty-five Miles
then took place, when conversation at the
=1
Trust bun rot,
Ito Is fooling thool
Take care!
Trust him not—
other end of, the car attracted attention
An. officer's head was projecting from
his roost, and he was , addressing a man
who had strayed into the car in some un
accountable manner, and was talking
about a ticket he had lost.
" Well, suppose you,-have lost your
ticket,..what do you' - want to come into
this car` and make such a fuss about
it. Here, conductor, put this man out."
As the, conductor didn't answer the
summons, it is presumed he was asleep
on a pile of wood near the stove.
" IF you've lot your ticket you can't
find continued the officer, who paus
el:: moment, and then resuming, said
" Arehrt you a sutler ?"
" Yes, sir, I am," replied the man.
"Ii thought so, you look like a
thief!""
This_ complimentary remark appeared
to rather discomfit the man, and he left
We fell Asleep wonder i ng how the officer
knew ho.was a sutler, and whether, tar
inc bbeu wronged by sonic sutler, he had
takehllioly oath to insult, all sutlers for
all time to come. They do say that sut
lers are , uot half so bad as sumo people
make them out, and that at times the
boys had rather be without, a colonel than
deprived or a" sutler; but this is private.—
Buthtin.
JACKSON AND CALHOUN
A. scene at the IVhim House in Is:tj, at
the 103in,gs of John C Calhoun the same
night, and a death bed scene at the Hermit.
age, were thus graphically pdrtrayoil by Sell -
tutor Cowan, of Potinsy Ivan ia. in the debate
on theTeonliscation fl 11. It is a eery strik
tag picture :
!%rit. PRESIDSNT :—lf Calhoun h a l hr en
exeented for his treason in 15a there wOt;6l
,ye been no rebellion now ; and !wimps he
cattle nearer his exeeution than un,st people
are (mare You well know the conspirators
in South Carolina proceeded to the Co:t mi
sion of the Overt :let.
Calhoun was the chief adviser. General
Jackson knew it Wel!, and determined that
th e law should be put in execution against
him ; not against the pot it misguided Inca
that followed, ha! i!l_tikittzt the elite( cunsptra
tor. Hu bad resolved un ' has prl/S , CUII,III
( . 0(IVICI(.41, his eXt,•lll..otl for
treason He said that if he had in Attar
ney General that would !tot draw an indict
omit, he would lied one that would. 'filings
were approaehitig thikerkis. Ciillt,on be
came aware of Jackson's determination, and
sent Letcher of Kentucky to confer with him
tin the: subject. and to fa int his real intim
times. -He went to the President's hitti.v.--
It was already late at night. The l're.,ideat
i.ccelered him with his, usual courtes ; hut,
sir, Tby.rtimildblue eye, whii It at times woidil
till will tears and overflow like ttat r, a
was hindled up that night with un
wonted lire. He reasoned with him fur a
while, then paced the floor. His indi. ; nation
became tally aroused. At times he stormed
in passion towering and sublime, till, rising
to us full height, his triune dilating and tioi•,
vering,, every feature glowing with the lit
lire within, with that oath which in 'dm never
seemed proboie, but the struggl e of a grout
soul - "to take hold of the Altniglity fur the
strength of his purpose, he declared to Leach.
yr that if another step was taken, " by thy
Etert al," he would try Calhoun fur treas.'',
anrlif convicted, he Would hang - Tiiin 'on 'a"
gallows as high us Haman's.
Lather could 110 L misunderstand lib; pur
pose lie saw that he was terribly in ear
nest. From that interCiew he hastened to
the lodgtilgii of C.:Mullin- IN hat ri•tireil to
his bed. lle knocked at his 11, , ,1 chaml
and was admitted. Ca/boun recHved
sitting up in bed, with his cloak around him.
',etcher detailed all that °centred, gn 11),.! tin
entire conversation between him and Jack•
son, aid described the old hero as he took
that oath.
There sat Calhoun, drinking in eagerly
e% cry word, and, As ',etcher Fin:ceded, Ile
became pale as death, and tremblifd like au
aspen leaf. Yes, sir, Calhoun, great a, liu
wit.; in intellect, quaked in his bed ! And
fir what ?• 'Was it Iron) fear or cowardice ?
Ah, no. Jr was the COIISOMISH eS3 Of guilt.
Ile was the arch traitor, who, like Sat.in in
Paradise, " brought death into the world and
all our woe," Within one week he (saute
into the Senate, and voted for every ,:erti
or Mr. Clay's bill, and General Jackson was
prevailed tipcin nut to prosecute Lim tat' his
crime. •
I have been told, upon authmitt,' upon
which I rely, that daring the last eays ui
Gen. Jackson at the Hermitage, while he was
slowly sinking under the ravages oiconsump,
tion—That mysterious disease, which, while
it wastes the body, leaves, Jr possible, 0.;
mind more clear, and nearer to inspiration
—he had a conversation with his family
physician and friend.
iVhile lying upon his bed ono day, and
speaking of his past Administration, he in
quired :
" What, act in my Administration, in your
opinion, will posterity condemn with the
greatest severity '?°
The physician replied that he was unable to
answer—that it might be the removal of the
deposits•
' Oh, no It' said the General•
" Then it may be the open s circular ?"
" Not at all l"
" What is it, then ?"
"I can tell you," said ho, rising up in his
bed, his eyes kin, hog up: "1 can teb you.
Posterity will condemn me more because 1
was persuaded not to hang John C. Calhoun
as a traitor than for any other act of my
life."
Sir, does not this seem inspiration now?
If Calhoun, the originator of this conspiracy
to dissolve the Union, and to build up the
Southern Confederacy, had been executed
for his treason, we would have had no rebel.
lion now.
A Mao Wmn.—Old Peter lived
in a one Story wooden house of not very ex
tensive dimensions, and when it was subject•
ed to the force of wind its powers of resist
ance were insufficient to withstand so great
a pressure, and it yielded the point without
a struggle; however it was not upset or torn
to pieces, but merely moved a few rods. In
the course of the journey, the stove wadup
act and the fire was spilled out, and the dan•
ger of conflagration was imminent. Old
Peter was too much excited to notice the
removal of his house, and selling the 'neces
eity of immediately applying water to the
burning-embers of--the ; -floor,-ho-t-izedp
buchet and darted out behind the house,
when great was his astonishment to find bb
traces
traces of his well obliterated. After looking
in blank astonishment a moment ho called
to his wife "Sarah, I'll be blamed if the
wind hailit blown the well clear, out of the
ISA! 'There is not so much as a stone left l"
ttgL.A pail of Milk :often drinks as
uritioh water ns a oow,
Man and the Monkey
It is true that no man can Stand before a
cage of mankies, or see a cleverly trained
one in the street without an awkward feel
ing of possible relationship. The imitation
is too close to be agreeable. But when a
careful comparison is made, this feeling
vanishes There is a wide difference be
tween the highest type of ,the Caucassian,
and the lowest Bushman or Australian ; but
he that pretends that the lowest human being
that walks the earth is a nearer relation to
the gorilla than to himself, has not given the
subject proper examination. Ile should go
at once to the British Museum, and inspect
the skeleton, and partien!nrly the skull of
the gorilla• It is the head of a beast. Its
brains are not one filth the size the small
est normal human brain ever exhibited. Ifs
skull is more like that of at tiger than of a
human being. With the first look at the
naked :skeleton all idea of relationship van
ishes. It is True that there are other :Teri-
M , Ins of OW monkey tribe, with larger brains
in propoiti.in to their sla t but there is no
resemblance at hich ran give one moimmt's
support to the idea that any ancesto:' of Ho
mer or Shakspeare was even ever a Shim
pqnzee. Place the skulls of all the varieties
of humanity side by isle iu tt deice ding
series, and we find a well marke , l gtadatiOn
iltprovement from the lowest to the
hilliest, and a degeneration frets the highest
to th e l o v, es t, No w , by the side of the low
-1,4 fiwin of at human head, place the hig , „heat
that ever exi-,ted io the dumb r,,ees iluu
mimic humanity so execrably, and tun have
insteal of a Tingle step in a gr ad nA l series,
an immense gulf, which it would require a
foul. , chain of gradations lit fill. In one you
haze a men glitVd inith Speeell and reason,
capahe .•dueation and improvemont, With
no inteill-ct iv ich ran expa..4l until it mea
sures the stars and inve:,ts systems of cth
todogr; in the other a brute, which man
never be capable of spoeuli, or reason, Or •
1,1111; ucuntintp brute perhaps, but not equal
In th , dog„or horse, or elephanyeither of
whwh More . re.-Tecialde
rel3tive , than the lin, , st specimen of lour-'
handed I.,vorites of the Zoological gardens
Tcleple. Dar.
A :\lrsrEity or THE CRNIS —ll trd Mlles
141 111,ill !Ix e 1, 1 ,1 ( ) Path
I , e r P.l.vhrott, and Hl lia/
/j,lv.rrvyet f 1131. 1101 , 1 i g od in other
cims is etiti.ttly triseerntble in the Sudo Cap
itol Rhos our contemporaries aitrit , l cow
pi , in of and-aro-puttied eivially ar
t tni•t our attention and confounds t,ur under
standing Tnere - nre some things . in the
world, which rho wisest cannot fully compre
bend or understand, 111,1 which It is difficult
to salve h, ony 14 , 44guir,1 m . ' le of reasoning
or rul? of c:.1.1,..r,ng 11,tri.d.ut
pr,-rlll time 1r4,-eilis one or ilooo. 1o•Tr1,11i1r
in view of tne prevaletwe 4,1 the war, the e.n
4,t.oitnitt prig e 4 charged for evety , 0 , 110-
hie 4yr wearatdo, in Hie 11•01 , y of 1,/1.)) . , hi/
1:00.'11 uonneeilen wnit 11,e eXpetelllgre that
pi r , atie every t - la -4 , eiety, The
Sii cets never nitete It finer tshihitiuu of-oeell
e,: , 1 it. only need, pleasitht
tther.,,,, to draw them f . .rtn. The markets
were UV , er hotter supplied, and even the high
prices charged do not seem inAho least to do
crease the patronage bestowed upon them.
Si,ks of the costliest- cli i ract er, and dress
good.; of Coo most vAlitab:e I.l.brie, are to be
round in tho ptildie promenades; and produeo
at the highest price goes home for :Duly con
sumptC•rn Foil r 1"gos fU exorbitant rates.
1 itior hat, are coniii ir t
tively low, yet, itprirently unwarranted
t ravag•inco cuutiun,•+ from day to ‘lay,
without any evidence of eg+sat
In the meantime, everything is taxied. The
- eh - rick - by which h lin "disiwA his inanely, Tien
not: uu Wilieli Ire 10:111:4 it, the protei.t which
sillities its nonipasiiii•nt. lie runtribnt cv to
the revenue rot every telegraphic deTatch he
irenil, EU entplire as to the heAlllt ut a sick
tiolitiive, and iiay,3 additional tI lie tithes a
the cal, to one lie limy never lie
hol.l again lie rus for tlic which
'ist tie IlniX0,1(11 the deed which cooVeyti to
huu poccha , ett properly, mil is charged an
ailibmitial taxi en the prupeity Inc has
Vet in spite of all this mlilitional taxation,
looney certainly seems no plentiful in our oily
:Ls in the most prosperous times. Everybody
is well dreStie.l. Every liana, almost, is or
namente,l , with jewelry —dinitimis sparkle on
bosoms that neve,' helm.° even dreamed of
their lustre. One of our principal jewelers
states that. his sales are larger now than ever
b e fore. lie also states that his info' !nation
from thoi.ti with NVIIOIII Ill` , 1e.11.8 in Now Volk
awl I'W:L.IO[MM, t, that the sales 01 dintonds
1111t1 taller preciou N stones had been larger in
thiise cities, than at any previous season.—
lie could not. account for it in no other
01,1 II that ltrllly contractors or employees,
urine: ly of limited means, hail aequired such
IVI!1111 11 m GoVv1 . 111111?11 (1%108;101011S 111111 hey
Welt, soiling up Ol t all Call! lISIVC scale, and be
ginning lite in a magnificent style.
tin we go. War is 11 source of aggran 17.0
111 ell 1 to NOIIIC, while to others it is a leveler
whose approaches cannot be withstood,— liar -
( - Is/Jury re levrv/t.
James A. Stone, n vita iv Edgrat on's
Battery, Ist Reg. 0. V. A., died or lever on
the 26th of uct.
"Jimmy Stone" was born and raised a
slave in Kentucky. Thirteen years rigs lie
ran away from his minuet• and found the pre
cartel's trite.dom which the infamous Fugitive
Slave Law has of lute years, allowe,d the poor
fugitive in Ohio. A mason by trade, be found
work awl a home in Oberlin He leaves here
a wife and live children, with a little home,
partly paid for by his own savings during the
struggling years of his freedom. Ile belonged
to the white slaves of the South. Hundreds
who knew hint never dreamed that African
blood coursed in his veins. Many of those
who were aware that he was tainted by re.
mote ancestry from the outcast race, never
suspected that he had been a slave. Nur was
it known to his comrades in arms. Why
should they know it I There was nabing in
manner of appearance to excite suspicion
But a soldier of the Union, colimanded by his
officers and respected by his comrades, it fell
to hint to revisit his native state to help to
put down the treason begotten by slavery, for
aught we know to re visit the very soil that.,
in the years of his bondage, drank the sweet
of his unpaid labor. In that service ho gave
up his life. One soldier, at least, has been
given by the despised, chattel race, to the
cause of the Union. Who doubts that thou.
sands of his. brethren, blacker though they
may be would not fight as well and bravely
for their liberi cs—and ours—were they al
lo wed Y= Oberlin (O.) News.
NOVEL WAY TO COKE A BREACMY House.
—A correspondent of the lowa Homestead
was out riding the other dity with a friend,
and observed that one of the horses had a
bole in each ear. On inquiring the cause,
be learned that it was to keep the horse from
jumping. " Why," said hC, " a •horse don't
fungi with his 6irs." "Yiiu are mistaken,"
replied his friend; "a horse jumps as much
with his ears as with his feet, AO mdess ho
can have free use of his ears lie cannot jump.
He ties the two ears together and bias no
more trouble with the horse-
ttek. An editor in Minnesota is determin
ed to break up housekeeping and go board
ing with his delinquent subscribers the re
mainder of his life• -
J $1 50 per annum in advent*
t $2 00 if not paid in advance
Report of the Secretary of the Natty:
The Secretary of the Navy devotee the
larger part of his report to the history of the
operations of the navy during the war. Al
most every engagement and reconnoissance it
described, which although interesting, is not
new. When he entered upon hls duties in
March. 1551, there were but forty two vessels
in service. Government has now afloat or
nearly completed four- hundred - and - twenty
seven vessels, of which one hundred and
twenty-three have been constructed, carrying
in all 3,2.68 guns. Mr. Wells claims suoceeg
in his bluckading service, the most formidable
one aver undertaken by any Oorernmetit.
He believes that Southern ports will be in
our possession at en early day, and thus re
lieve the vessels for other duties. Mr. Wells
declares himself in favor of League Island ae
a naval station, as in the matter of fresh water
for the laying up in - ordinary, our iron clads,
it, possesses superior facilties to New London.
The committee appointed to inspect the sited
reported, tour to two, in favor of New Landon,
hot Mr Wells demos League Island the bettor
place, and unless Congress should otherwise
direct, proposes to accept it for the purposes.
II is also in favor of the establishment. of
Government Iron Works, as private estab
lishments are unable to furnish the large quan
tities iaptired. lie advises continual con
structions of new vessels as a reserve naval
force, ready for all emergeneb.s. The: Sea
retary rogards the fitting out, of the Alabama
or 290, ns a breach of English neutrality, and
think, the lit lush government might well be
calls loa by o u r authorities to make up the
losses whieh our merchants have antlered.
The report is exceedingly lengthy, and the
abstract we have giveh hardly deserves the
name. The statistics show that Mr. Wells
has infused great energy and activity into'
this department., and bids fair to raise' the
nation to the tirSt rank of naval powers.
lltNr T., TOBACCO
A psper having started the inquiry, with
alarm, how in tt that there lITIS so mode
flier , young girls in our community unmar
ried, mot likely to remain .so 7" is answered
1,7 the Ithrenolegieltl Journal in otie'wOrd—
' Tobacco In old tittles, when you could ap
proach a young man within whispering die
tanee with t i t being neoseated by his breath,
he used—when bit day's work was over—to
spend his evenings with some good girls or
girls, either around the family hearth, or in
some pleasant walks, or at some innocent
:place or amusement. The young man of the
present day takes his solitary pipe, and puffs
!away all his vitality, until he in as stupid as
atimyrter, eint then he goes to some saloon
t to quench the thir‘t created by smoking, and
'sheds erocidileb.ears every tune his stockings
are out or the toes, that the girls now It
days are no exiravagant,,,a fellow cannot aft :
fold to get 'carried " Nine young men out
of ten deliberately give up renpectahle female/
(I) indmge solitary, enervating
!tatty of smoking, until their broken-down,
c-nit it wham clamor for careful nursing
!limn 'her cooly ask some nice young girl to
exelbmge her health, strength, beauty and
unimpaired intellect for their sallow faoe,
Initile.l blond aryl !Menai, and - irritable temper
and mental imbecility. Women may well
hair s , an' ink n.n.l smelters. NVe have known
the must gentle and refined men grow harsh
iu teuiper and uncleanly in their personal
habits under the thraldom of a tyranny which
they bad not love nor respect enough for
men to break through.
IT P.rya TO TARE THE, PAPEREI.—A capital
t try t, eot t of ea old farmer ut the northern
part of Lim courtly, who had been "saving
up" to take rip a mortgage of *2,000 treld
itiminst hint by a man nearer tho seashore.—
The Mime!: had saved up all the money in
gold, fearing to trust, the banks in these war
ittmes.i• Week before last, ho ltiggettdovraths
gold and pui i it over, when the fe!lowing col
loquy ensued:
•, Why, you don't mean to give this $2,000
in gold du you ?" said the lender.
Yes, certainly" said the farmer, "I was
afraid lithe pesky banks, and so I've been
saving up the money, in yellow boys for this
lung tulle ''
All light," responded the lender " only
1 thnught you ,11,1a't take the papere d that's
all
"Take the papers ! No, sir not 1. They
have gone on so since the war's been ageing
that L won't have one of the d—lish things
about. Bat the money is all right, isn't it?"
Yes, all right, .$21)(N) in gold, All right,
here's your note and mortgage."
And Well might ho haYed called it all right,
as the premium on gold that day was 22 per
eent., and his gold was not only worth the
Nee of the bond, but ~ ,' ,440 besides, enough
to h/2 p11;11 for his •illage newspaper fox'
himself and posterity for at least three Conte
rh,e. It pays to take the papers.—Nortralk
TUE LAsr ur Ti! E Thrnoxs.--The
dullness or London at this season of the
year, has berm relieved for the day by a
strange glintpse into the romance of the
peerage. Last week there died at Brigh
ten, at the early age of twenty seven,
Byron Noel, Baron of Ockham and Went=
worth. The heir of a large fortune, the
grandson and last direct representative of
the greatest of English poets, the young
peer bad—so the world might havojudg
ed—a brilliant career befi)re him. lie
was the son of Ada Byron, the poet's only
daughter, and this is almost all that is
known of him positively. For some cause
unknown, and only faintly surmised, the
young Baron never assumed his rank,
never took his seat in the louse of Lords,
never even made his appearance imam
fashionable world. Very early in life he
broke off his connection with his family,
willingly or not, served on board ship as
a common sailor, then supported himself
as a hired laborer in a Thames dock yard,
and became engaged (if he was not ad
' tually married) to a bar-maid in a sailor's
public house in Wapping. Then, in the
first bloom of his youn g life, be dies sud
denly by hemorrege of the lungs, and,
the court papers mention his existence
after years of silence. The last of the
Byrons is dead ; and the story of the la
test descendant of that strange race is
buried in the grave with him.—Lonami
Letter.
A NI: \V WILINKLE,.-- it. is becoming quilt,
common in New York to apOnd to marriage
notices in the papers. no cards sent," thus
obviating the mistiaderstanding and offence
which would necessarily arise among friends
and acquaintances from- Wrint'ot , knowledge
of the fact, and - ebea ping ihe responsibility of
the omissions anti discriminations always Wt
..
eident to the custom. • ,
DIED tnon _THE Ernloll_ol'. 30DUC0.,-;
Henry MeNash, the boy who was thrown into
a stole of lothark. from the effects of swat
lowing tr quid of tobaacm, on the late trip or
ihe steamer Cottage No. 2. died from tho ef•
feat of the poison, on Saturday previous, and
after working in convulsions for more than fi
day, a death like lethargy followed, front
which ho never recovered. The deceased was
shout sixty yearn of ago, and was about SIX.
teen years of ego, and was a most inveteratti
ohevrer.—PNaharg rleracete.
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