Zil i t '',,-:,.H.l'...tinitirtg,b/till WILLIAM BREWSTER, 1 EDITORS. SAM. G. WHITTAKER, * , flcct Vortrg. From the Knickerbocker. DO TIZEY MISS ME AT SOME. Do they miss me at home I—do they miss me ? 'Twould be an assurance most dear To knOw that my name was forgotten, As though I had never been there. To know that the tailor and landlord, And the banks where my paper is due, And hosts whom I now cannot mention, Had banished my form from their view. Do they miss me at home!—do they miss me? When the market for money is "tight." And collectors with haste are pursuing Their debtors by day and by night ? Do the friends who once loaned me a "fifty," And others who loaned me a "ten," Heave a sigh of regret as they miss me, And wish they could see me again? Do they miss me at home I—do they miss me? When no longer I'm teen upon 'Change. And to those who were wont to assist me, Say, "His conduct's infernally strange?" Does the Shylock who loaned Inc his money To bear me to regions unknown, Look in vain for occasion to dun me, And wish I again were at home ? Do they miss me at home !—do they miss me ? 'Twould be an assurance most dear, To know that my name was forgotten, As though I had never been there. But I know that my memory lingers Around the dear place as I roam, And while I've my wits and my creepers, They'll miss me, they'll miss me nt home. 600 b. From Dr. Harilett's Anglo-Saxon. DIY MERRY LITTLE WIFE. ['cahoot remember the time when I was not in loirewith Kitty Pleasanton. It must have begun when we were both babies I am sure 1 loved her as we sat togeteher by the roadside soaking our dandelion stems in the little puddles of water to make them curl. My passion was to nowise abated, when somewhat later, I climbed cherry trees at her bidding ; nor, later yet, when at dancing school I awkwardly made my new-learnt bow, and asked her to be my partner; nor, I am sure, was my boyish passion at all dampened, when, on my re turn from college;I found my sweet little Kitty changed, by some undefinable altera tion, from a lovely child to a bewitching young woman. She was almost the same as when I parted from her three years be fore—the woman was like the child—there were the same rosy cheeks, 'he same pout ing innocent mouth. the same curling hair, but some charm, grace or sentiment was added, which snide my heart thrill with new emotion as I gazed at her. 'Kitty,' said I to her. one day, after I had been at home a week or two, and I found I could restrain myself no longer, 'Kitty, I'm very much in love with you, as you know as well as I do. I've always been in love - with you, and I fancy you are in love with me.' I paused, but Kitty made no answer, and I said, 'You like me, Kitty, don't you 1' . 'First tell me,' said Kitty blushing, and an odd mixture of delight and bashfulness in her face, 'if you've made me what is called an offer?' , To be sure I have, my darling,' I replied an oiler which I trust and hope you'll ac- cept.' 'Don't . be too sure of that,' said Kitty Kitty. you love me !" I exclaimed. ''That's my secret,' replied the provoking little thing. 'But at any rate,' she conti• nued, could not possibly think of accep ting the very first offer I ever received—l should be mortified all the rest of my life if I did. No, indeed ;no girl of spirit would dream of accepting her first offer, as if she were afraid she would never have another. Excuse me Jami e, 1 can't possibly accept you till I've had at least one other offer.' .But, my dearest Kitty,' I began. 'Kitty ! Kitty ! Kitty !' she exclaimed, 'will Mr. llrant learn to oall me by my proper name? I confuss 1 did hope that on receiving my 'first oiler,' the person lea king it would address me with proper cour tesy, and in a manner befittingehe occa sion, giving me my name of Catharine, but now.you've gone and spoiled it all 'Oh, I suppose you wanted a -Ad, cere monious proposal in form,' 1 observed; 'but I'm no Sir Charles Grandison, Kitty—Ca therine, I would say; therefore, don't be foolish ; be content to know, in plain words, that my whole heart is yours ; and have the good sense to a ccept . your first offer, since your second may not be so good.' But in vain were my arguments and rea soning. Kitty was determined not to ac cept her first offer, and finding her resolute I changed my tone, and acquiescing in her views, confessed that, after all, I too had a certain prido on that point, and should be rather mortified to know that my wife had never had any offer but that I had my self made her ; and so I promised to sus pend my suit till Kitty should be so fortu nate as to receive an offer froin 801110 other quarter. Now, not far from when, Kitty dwelt,l therm was a favorite dell, or bower, or some thing of that kind, to which she daily re- paired with some chosen volume to sit and read. All my endeavors to persuade her to allow me to accompany her thither had always been quite in vain. Kitty was firm in preferring her undisturbed solitude and I was daily doomed to an hour or two of the mopes during her wood land visit. In pursuance with this custom Kitty set' out soon after the conversation I have sketched, declining, as usual, my offer of companionship. Not more than half an hour had elapsed after she had reached her favorite seat, ere her attention was attracted by a young gen tleman who was fishing in the brook which flowed near her. Kitty drew back a little on seeing him, but her curious eyes wan• dered occasionally towards the stranger, The latter no sooner perceived his fair ob server than he 'bowed with an air of great politeness, and advancing a few steps, ven tured to address her a few words of com monplace greeting. The young man's words were indeed commonplace. but his eyes were far more eloquent than hls tongue—they plainly informed the fair Kitty that she had found a new admirer. Kitty, highly flattered, received the stran ger's advances graciously, and the youth being by no means bashful, half an hour found them chatting easily and gaily on various topics of interest. Kitty's stay in the woods was something longer than usu al that afternoon. 'What is the matter, Kitty ?' I asked, on meeting her soon after her return home. 'Your eyes sparkle, and you look as plea sed as though you had meta fairy in your afternoon ramble ' 'lt is better than a fairy,' cried Kitty, breathlessly, 'it's a young nm.' 'lndeed 1' I ejaculated,• with a whistle. 'Yes, James,' she replied, end be is no handsome—so agreeable-co delightful, that 1 can't say how things might go if he were to make me, some of these days, my second offer.' 'You can't impose on me in that kind of way, sweet Kitty, so don't attemp, it,' I exclaimed. 'l'll be bound the impudent fellow, whom I won't object to speaking a bit of my mind to, is not handsomer or more agreeable : han I am myself.' Kitty laughed aloud in derision. 'He's a thousand times handsomer.than you are.' she cries, scornfully, 'and as much more entertaining us he is more handsome.' 'Come, Kitty, don't be too cutting, too cruel,' I began ; but Kitty drew herself up with dignity. 'They cull me Catharine, who do speak to me, sir,' she said. 'Catharine, fiddlesticks !' I cried. 'Kit ty is the prettiest and sweetest name in the world, and comes most natural to me--do not bother me with your Catharines.' '[ dare say you may like it,' said Kitty, pouting, half angrily, •but I don't. It's too free. How would you like it if I persisted in calling you Jim I declare I'll call you Jim, if you go on calling me Kitty.' 'Do so if you like,' I replied,'and it will soon sound to me like the sweetest name in the world. But may I presume to bog from my fair and gracious Lady Catharine a description of this wood-Adonis, she has been encountering ?' 'He's tall,' begun Kitty. 'Taller than I?' I interrupted. Kitty almost annihilated tne by a look. 'By at least half a foot—and of an ele gant figure,' she continued, with a marked emphasis. 'He was dressed in a fishing costume, which greatly became him.' ''l hare an old fishing blouse up stairs,' I muttered, sotto voce ; 'I think I'll get it out.' 'The young man's manners were un commonly easy and gentlemanly, and with al perfectly respectful and deferential,' continued Kitty. 'Having once ascertain ed my name, he never once forgot himself so far as to abbreviate it—his conduct con trasting favorably in that respect with some of my friends.' 'Well, Kitty, said I, 'what other perfec tions has your hero ?or havVou exhaus ted your list I' 'Far from it,' said Kitty, indignantly— 'He wears his hair parted down in the mid dle like a poet, or that charming Signor Pozzolini in the part of the Edgardo— .Or a Methodist parson,' I observed. 'And besides all that,' continued Kitty, 'he has a moustache.' 'A. lost best gift,' said I ; 'but, Kitty, that perfection, I hope, will not be very difficult of achievement. I'll begin to-mor row. Let, me see—tall—handsome—a greeable—good manners—elegant figure, and a moustache t On the whole, Kitty, I think I'm very much afraid of my new rival.' , You have cause,' Kitty replied, with grave dignity. "LIBERTY AND UNION, NOW AND FOREVER, ONE AND INSEPARABLE." HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1857 The next day when Kitty reached her little retreat, she found the stranger again in its neighborhood. I must do the little coquette the justice of confessing that she did look startled, and indeed, vexed, when she saw him; but perhaps thinking it too late to retreat, she advanced timidly. The youth met her with many apologies, and a plausible pretence for his intrusion, which she could not gainsay, while something flattering in his manner made her blush ingly divine that the hope of again seeing her had been the true cause of his reap. pearance. Be that as it might, the stran ger, perhaps to give Kitty time to recover her confidence, immediately sauntered off in pursuit of his sport, and Kitty, fancying she had seen the last of her new admirer, drew forth her book, and setting herself in a mossy corner, began to read, She, how ever, had scarcely succeeded in fixing her attention on its pages before the pertina cious stranger ro-appeared, and declaring that fishing was dull work, and the fish would not bite, he composedly seated him self at Kitty's feet, and begged to know the name of the book she was reading. 'fenny 'son's Princess,' replied Kitty, curtly. The imperturable stranger declared the book a great favorite of his, and began to talk so entertainingly of books and authors, that warmed by the subject, she forgot to be dignified, and an animated discourse of favorite authors ensued. Afterwards the young man begged permission to read her a few admirable passages from the book she held in her hand, and it so happened that tne passages he had selected were ve ry ones Kitty loved best; he read them well, too, and Kitty's bright eye sparkled with delight as she listened. Turning at Itiet to the exquisite concluding interview between Ida and the young prince, the stranger's voice became more and more earnest as he read, till coming to the words "Indeed I love thee ; come, Yield thyself up; my hope and thine are one; Accomplish thou my machood and thyself ; ' Lay thy sweet hands iu mine and trust to me" he suddenly flung the book aside exclaim ing, ly hat words ! what words ! What would I not give for courage to utter them to the being I love best on earth ! The stranger paused a moment, and then broke forth impetuously. "This forced silence is all in vain ; the words I would repress will come. In vain have I wriven to he prudent—cautious—to allow you time— not to startle you—lovely, bewitching Miss Catharine—you are yourself the object of my secret adoration, to whom I would say much if [ dared ," and thereupon the youth rather mole dmmaticallyafell on one knee, and forthwith proceeded to make Kitty a very plain offer of his hand. Meanwhile Kitty had risen from her astonishment, she drew herself up with dignity, and replied, hardly know, sir, what you mean by your very strange words and conduct. The liberty you have taken has made me very sensible of my own imprudence in havineallowed the advances of a stranger so presuming— an error I shall bo careful never to repeat. So saying, my proud little Kitt) turned from the stranger with a distant bow, and and walked directly home. I did not soe Kitty till some time after her return ; perhaps she was recovering her spirits in her own room, when I met her she was as full of mischief as ever she was. ' , Well, James, why don't you ask the about my adventures to-day ?" she inqui red. ..Because," I replied, " I do'nt suppose you would be so imprudent as to go again today where you would be likely to en counter the insolent puppy who presum• ed to address you yesterday." 'I didn't in the least expect him to be there,' said Kitty, blushing, and somewhat confused, 'but he was there.' , Of, course,' I replied gruffly. was your Adonis as handsome and agree able as ever ?" 'Mare so!' cried Kitty, recovering her composure ; 'he looked more Massaiello• like than ever in his fishing dress; and for entertainment, he first read me all the finest part of Tennyson's Princess, and then made a marriage proposal, and I don't think any man could be expected to do more in one afternoon.' 'I should think not, indeed,' said I ; quay what reply did you make to the ras cal I—that you had a friend at home who would be happy to kick him well for his insolence?' 'Far from it,' said Kitty ; 'what my re ply was, is my secret—and his; but for you, my poor James, I'm sorry for you— it's all over with you and your offer.' 'Why, you good•for.nothing, little, de ceitful puss !' cried I, losing all patience 'there never was a more arrant dissembler living. Behold how plain a talc shall put you dowll—for 10--1 myself disguised merely by a little paint—a blouse, a false moustache, and a change in the arrange ment of my hair, was in my own person this elegant, handsome, agreeable stran ger, whose praises you have so lavishly sounded 1' Poor Kity was completely confounded. 'How could I have been eo stupid 1' she murmured, 'and the voice, too which sounded so familiar all the time!' 'Yes, you're caught,' said I; 'and to punish you for attemping just now to palm a wicked falsehood upon me, I shall im pose a two fold' fine. First, you shall kiss me; and then fix our wedding day, which must be very shortly, for I am going to Paris in a month, and you must go with me.' Kitty gave a little scream, and decla red that she would never submit to ei ther of my penalties; but in vain she struggled and protested—l had her in my arms, and finding at last all her efforts to release herself fruitless, her jests and . laughter suddenly changed to earnest ten derness, and closing her arms around me, she said, as you will, dear—dearest Ja mie !' 'One month from to Joy, Men, my own sweet, darling Kitty,' I began. 'Catharine !' whispered Kitty ! 'Catharine, then,' I repeated, smiling at her pertinacity on this point, 'one month from to-morrow, my Catharine." 'You never put any adjectives before Catharine,' murmured Kitty, evasively, hiding her blushing and pouting face. "My own dear, gracious, winning, be witching, most kissable Catharine,' said I, 'shall It be as I say ?' 'lf mamma chooses ' whispered Kitty.— And so I persuaded the sweetest and pret tiest girl in the country to accept her first and only lover; and though to this day my merry little wife often complains that I defrauded her by my tricks of her natu ral womanly right of breaking two or three hearts at least ere she made one man su premely blest still she generally concludes her reproaches in ',manner most flatter ing to my vanity, by declaring that she had two offers in all, and that each of them was worth a thousand common ones. #lisrtllany. DRED SCOTT CASE. Dissenting Opinion oqudges Mc- lean and Curtis. We give below an abstract of the opin ions of Judges McLean and Curtis, which will well repay a perusal. Judge McLean expressed his views, as follows After stating the facts relative to the sub ject, the plea as to jurisdiction is radically detective. It had never been held neces sary that to constitute a citizen a man she'd have the qualifications of an elector, Fe males and minors may sue in the Federal Courts, and so may any individual who may have his own domicil in the State in which ho may sue. The most general de. finitton of a citizen is a freeman. The plea does not show Dred Scott to be a slave. It does not follow that a man is not free whose ancestors were slaves. it was said color. ed citizens were not agreeable members of society ; but this was more a matter of taste than of law. Several of the States had admitted such persons to the right of suffrage, and recognized them as citizens; and this has been done in slave as well as free States. On the subject of citizenship we have not been very fastidious. Under the late treaty with Mexico, we have made citizens of all grades, combinations and co lors. The same was done in the ease of Louisiana and Florida. No one ever doubt ed, nor a Court held that the inhabitants did not become citizens uncle) the treaties. They have become citizens without being naturalized. Throughout the continent of Europe, without exception, it has been held that sla very can exist only in territory where it has been established, and beyond that the master cannot sustain himself save by some express stipulation. There is no nation in Europe which considers itself bound to return the m'astei his fugitive slave, under the civil law or the law of nations. The slave is held to be free where there is no treaty, obligation or contract to return him to his master. In the case of Prigg a gainst the State of Pennsylvania, the state of slavery is deemed to be a mere 'mini cipal regulation, founded and limited to the range of the Slate which enaots it. This was the decision in the case of Surnersett in gn g la n d, which was decided before the American ft evolution. Congress has no power to interfere with slavery in the States or to regulate what is commonly called the slave trade in the several States, We do know that James Madison—that great and good than—was particular to regard slaved ) AMP" ~,,...; ~.„.. ~, ~ , . , 4..: -. , escaping from service or labor as 'persons' and not property. While he (Judge Mc- Lean) agreed that this government was not made for the colored race yet many of them in the New England States, exercised the right of suffrage when the Constitution was adopted ; and it was not doubtod that its tendency would be to ameliorate the condition of that race. Many of the States took measures to abolish slavery ; and it is a well known fact that the belief was cher ished by leading men, both of the South and the North, that the institution of sla very would gradually decline, until it aho'd become extinct. All slavery has its origin against natural right. If in making the necessary rules and re gulations respecting the public lands, ter- ' ritorial or temporary government is requi site, Congress has no power to establish it, The power to acquire carries with it the power to govern. Congress can exercise no power prohibited by the Constitution, nor has it power to regulate the internal concerns of a State. If Congress deem slaves or free persons of color injurious to a territory, it has the power to prohibit them from becoming settlers therein.— Where a territorial government has been established on slave territory, it has uni. form ly remained in that condition; so when the territory was free ; and this was ittten ded with satisfactory results. The sever- , eignty of the federal government extends , to all territory of the United States. If we have the right to acquire territory, we have the right to govern it; and this has always been exercised. The Constitution was framed for the whole country, and the pro hibition of slavery north of 30 deg. 30 min. was constitutional. Where there is no lo cal law establishing slavery, the master cannot control the will of the slave by forcu and the presumption is in favor of freedom. The master in going into a territory, does not carry with him the law of the State from which he removes. Slavery, or pro perty in human beings—does not arise from the international or common law, but from a mere municipal regulation. There was no just grouud for the argument that this was exclusively a Missouri ques tion. Dred Scott and his family were free under decisions given within the last twen ty-eight years. A slave who acquires his freeinoval to another State, cannot be redu ced to slavery by his returning to the State from which he emigrated. So far from this being merely a Missouri case, it is one which comes under the twenty-fifth section of the Judiciary act and therefore may be brought for the revision of this court from the Supreme Court of the State of 3lissou ri. Associate Justice Curtis gave his rea son for dissenting from the majority of the court. The question is, whether a person of African descent can beta citizen of the United States. The constitution uses the language, "citizens of the United States at the time of the adoption," of that in strument ; referring to those who were citizens under the confederation. It may, therefore, be safely said, the citizens of the United States under the Constitution. It is a fact that all the free native born sub jects of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York and North Carolina, descended from the African race, were not only citi zens, but possessed franchise of electors on equal terms with other or white citizens. Those colored persons were not only in cluded with the body of white persons in the adoption of the Constitution, but had the power to and did act in its adoption. Under the constitution every free person born on the soil of a State is made a cit izen by force of the Constitution. Hav ing stated the ground of his opinion and explained the provisions of the constitu- 1 ties, he said that every citizen at the time of the adoption of that instrument was so recognized, and no power was conferred to discriminate between color or deprive any ono of her franchise. It is true in point of fact that the constitution was made exclusively by and for white people. The preamble openly declares that the ponsi tution was formed in order to secure to the people of the United States and their pos terity the blessings of liberty, and as for the colored citizens in five of the States they were among those for whom the con stitution was ordained and established.— Color, in the opinion of the framers of the Constitution, was not necessary to consti tute citizenship under the constitution of the U. States ; and it might be added that the power to make colored persons citi zens has been acted upon in repeated in stances—in the treaties with the Choctaws and Cherokees, and Gudalupe in 1848. And lie arrived at the following conclusions : 1. That the free native born citizens of cacl! Statu at the formation or thu Consti. tution became citizens of the United States. 2. That the free colored persons born within some of the States, and citizens of those States, were also citizens of the Uni ted States. 3. That every such citizen residing in any State, has the right to sue and to be sued in the federal court of the State in which he resides. 4. As the plea of jurisdiction in this case shows no fact except as to African de scent, and as this fact is not inconsistent with citizenship of the United States, the decision of the Circuit Court for Missouri was incorrect. Ile therefore dissented from the opinion of the majority of the Court that a person of the African race cannot be a citizen of the United States.— He did not believe the opinions of the Court on questions not legitimately hefore it, to be binding. He believed however that the Court has jurisdiction in this case, and maintained that, under the law of Missouri, Dred Scott and his family were free persons on their return — to that State. There was nothing in history or in the language of the Constitution which res. trains the power to make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory of the United States, to such territory only as was owned by the United States at the adoption of the Constitution. lie was not aware that such a suggestion had ever before been made. Four distinct nequisi tions of territory have been made, and six ' States formed dpon them have been admit ted into the Union. Such a contracted construction as that to which he referred was inconsistent with the nature and pur -1 pose of the Constitution as expressed in its language. He would construe that clause of the . Constitution thus—Congress slain have power to make all needful rules and regulations respecting those tracts of country without the limits of the United States, end have or may acquire by ces sion as well of jurisdiction as of soil, so far as the soil is the property of the patties making the cession. Congress has the power to legislate with regard to the Ter ritories until they shall apply for admis sion into the Union as States. The laws must be "needful," and are left to legis lative discretion, There ore two classes of acts; and in eight distinct instances, be ginning with the first Congress and com ing down to 1848, Congress has exclu ded slavery from the Territories; and there arc six distinct instances in which Congress has organized governments for Territories, and recognized slavery and continued tt therein ; also, beginning with the first Congress and coming down to 18- 22. These acts were signed IT seven Presidents, coming regularly down from Washington to John Qincy Adams, thus including all who were to public life when the Constitution was adopted. This should have much weight on the question of con struction, and tt would be difficult to resist the force of the acts to which reference was made. His opinion was the decis , ion of the Circuit Court for Missouri should be reversed, and the cause remand ed for a new trial. For tho Journal. 'Tis fine to be talking of wedding, With nothing at all in the purse But I'm not to be easily led in Exchanging a butte; for worse. E'en nature herself gives ys warning, If we look ere the warning slip by For its scarcely at all like a morning 'Unless there's 80010 "gold" in the sky. Only look at the ways of creation, And learn while its truths you behold, Hills and valleys will tell you no station Can shine in this world without gold. Then cease to be talking of wedding, Sc. Life's beauties, alas I are depending On gold•light and sun-light alone; And beauty comes soon to on ending When the sun•god has quitted his throne. Then cease to be talking of wedding, &e. April 7, 1857. M. X. Seven Deadly Sins. 1. llefußinu to tgke n fist class newspa , per. 2 ; Taking a newspaper and not paying for it. 3. Not advertising, when your business would be greatly benefitted thereby. 4. Getting married without sending the printer any wedding•cake. 5. Making the printing office a loafing place. 6. Reading the tnanuscript on a oompo• actor's case. 7. Making it a practice of visiting tho printing-office for the purpose of reading exchange papers, talking to the editors, when busy, and otherwise troubling them. . ear A miss .Steed' a lady of brief stature, having lately married a man by the name of 'Curry' after a week's ac quaintance, Brown remarked that it was an exemplification of the old proverb— 'that a short horse is sushi curried.' VOL. XXII. NO. 15 A Witness from the other Side. We had a friendly call yesterday from Dr. Leib, of Chicago, formerly of this city who is on his retura from Washington, where he had been to see the powers that be. The Doctor was a strong Buchanan man, and had stumped Illinois for him du ring the last campaign, Be also publish. ed a German prper which had a wide cir culation and great influence, and was probably the cause of giving that State to Mr. Buchanan. Ile says thet in his pa per he pledged himself and the Democra cy that Mr. Buchanan would make Kan. sas a Free State, and give the North her full rights. Such was his own belief.— But he finds that he was deceived. Ile says that the appointment of Walker, hia Secretary, and those ultra pro-slavery bor der ruffians in that territory to offices, has settled the matter, and that Kansas 1, doomed to be a Slave State; for these men will go all lengths to accomplish that pur• pose, and the Administration have clothed men with power to carry out the object. Th.? Doctor was in Kansas when the troub les in that territory commenced, and la well acquainted with the condition of thinge there. He knew Mr. Buchanan, and was in the belief that he entertained the same opinion of hostility to the extension of slavery that he bad avowed some yearn ago; but he finds himself most grievously mistaken; and he prophecies that the course of the new Administratoin on this subject will utterly annihilate the Dela: , cratic party, so called, in the North, which was so terribly shattered at the election last year.—Lan. Augural! and Mary. Thrilling accounts are given in the MA rysville papers of the chase of two 'lovers' by an enraged third party (the parent,) who, as we take up the story, was follow ing them across the Yuba river : 'Augustus saw the fury depicted in the old man's face, and deeming discretion the better part of valor, made a dead halt in the road and concluded to surrender. Mt• ry was frantic. Leaping suddenly from her horse, and walking through tnud three feet deep, she gathered her husband by the legs and dragged him to the ground. Then grasping him tightly around thu neck, she shouted to her father, who was now in speaking dismisses : 'You shan't part us. Right hove up to our knees in mud wu will live and dm to• gether The old man started back in amaze ment. 'Yes,' muttered tho half-used up Augus. tus, 'we'll die right here in the mud.' 'But Maria, my ehild'—groaned the old man, 'are you not my daughter sill ?' 'Yes,' was the redly, 'and I'm his wilt And aro you married r 'We are,' exclaimed both , The old man looked daggers for a nip ment, closely scrutinising the couple as they clung to each other in the mud, and turning his horse's head toward the city, he started off, saying— 'That's all I wanted to know. You can now get out of the mud and come home P Invasion in Kansas. A correspondent of the Boston Travel er; writing from Kansas, mentions a ru mor that there has been secretly organized in Missouri about 3,600 armed men, to in vade Kansas and take possession of thu Shawnee, Miami and other Indian reserves that will be opened this spring for settle ment. The Shawnees have made their 'selections, and the remainder, containing about two thousand claims of 160 acres each, comprising some of the finest land in Kansas, 001 be open early in March. The Missourians it is alleged, have been selectieg claims for a month past. 'LAY STILL, GRANNY.' -A boy got his grandfather's gun and loaded it, but was afraid to fire ; he, however, liked the fun of loading, and so put in another charge, but still, was afraid to fire. Ho kept on charging, but without firing, until he had got six charges in the old pieoe. His grandmother, learning his temerity, smart ly reproved him, and grasping the old con- tinental, discharged it. The recoil was tremendous, throwing the old lady on her back ! She promptly struggled to regain her feet, but the boy cried out, •Lay still Granny, there are five more charges to go on yet.' SorAn honest Dutchman, in training up his son in the way ho should go, Ire quentlyexercised him in Bible lessons.— On one of these °cessions he 'asked him i was dat wint44 no sleep wit Roil. phe's wife 1" “Shoseph." "Ditt's gord boy. Vol vat sae de reason lie •vonld no sleep mit her 2" Don't know; 'spo,c he vase's shicepy."