BY DAVID OVEB. AMEB!CI\ SEYTIHRVT. Foi eisnlufluecce In the I . s.Scn ate. XvMe Speech if a Democratic U. S. Senator on the proposition to tu..'croi Ike Right of Suffrage to Until uratized t'crei truer it We commend the fallowing extract from a noble speech made by Gov. BROWN, of Mississippi, a few 'lavs ago io the U. S. Senate on a proposition to extend the right i of suffrage to Unnaturalized Foreigut-rs in j Minnesota, to the consideration ef all our i readers, but e-t>ecijii!y of American born j Democrats, it i* earnest and to the point. ! Gov. Brown we uiay remark is a leading ! Democratic Senator, a gentleman of high j character, decided talent, and of great in- • 2nonce. Gnv. Brown sail ME. I'aEsiDEXT" — '-I have no outery to maKe agaiust foreigners as a class. Many of them are excellent people, and when they havje been naturalized according to the law of the !at;J, I am as willing to see them vote ! as anybody t!se; and whether they vote for me or against me, I would not iu the slight est possible degree restrict their privileges. Congress has wisely determined that five years' ro-udence shall be accessary to make one of them a citizen. I think the right to vote is a very s-seutiui privilege of a citizen, iittu I -.in act witting to weigh tuy ballot at the box asraiiist any man of less dignity than \ a citizen. I care not who he is, how exaitei j •or Low humble soever he may be, if he be a citizen, he has an equal right with myself; hut I have no idea of going and putting my b.i Dot in the box, and then the next miuute sec a teiiow c.'.ue op and kill it, wbo is the mere instrument <.f some political trickster, without ku wing what he is doing. It was j for the purpose of giving foreigners the op- j portunuy required bv law, ■ f bring here long i ■eiiourrh r > learn -o,nothing of our language ; and laws, that I insisted in this Territory on i ■i full cxecuti HI of the Naturalization Laws j —for that, and uotuiof l else. I have no expectation of reversing the t judgment which the Senate has already j rendered. I consider by carrying the vote ; to reconsider this bill, the edict lias gone : forth that foreigners i:i this Territory are to j bo allowed to rote iu forming the State Gov- | eminent. I take If for granted that we are ! to reconsider this v • aud finally to come ! back t ihe pa- -age of the till and pass it, allowing all foreigners in the Territory to vote sit i!c f iruiit'ioTi tuo co&dtituMuQ* — }> it before th it i< <ioo • I desire, ait 1 uicaa, to enter my solemn protest against this whole proceeding from one end to the other. Fir, tiii- Is not the first time that I have observed thi* proceeding. V-'hen the Kan sas Nebraska bill was under consideration j here, the first vote in the Senate deo'ed to j t ireigaers the rigiit of suffrage iti those Tor- . litories. The hill went to the House of Representatives, sal 'hey disagreed with u>. It w.is sent back here, and we were told that there was ome great overruling necessity —tli.it uaJer tae necessity ot ttie casb we iuu.>: give iu, or the bill would be lost. For out-. 1 refused t<> yield. I was one who to ti.e bitter end stood oat agaiust that proposition; and it' during the four Winters i Lave served in the Senate, there is a:.y oav vote of which I feel especially j.r.-u 1, it is that one. The ■■uv'.i... Las been Lore ia other forms. Two days ago we were called upon to vote i;ooa si... saute ptopo.>itiou in reference to .•ibiii'-.-.ct.. The Senate, exercising its .an uiii-senced ;ad unbiased judgement defer-; tsioed tiittt no ue should vote it; the for* nation ff u State Con-iituri'.-u for Minnesota 1 who was no an American citizen. Tsv a i calm arid deliberate vote, after that was the-d<-Jtrmio itiori of the American i Senate. It was the determination of the j Senate, in my judgment, will always be, ; worn utiir.flueneed by pressure from other' quarters. But two Jays have passed away, ; and wc luve witaefcaed here this morning ! the reniaikabie exhibition of a reversion of ; • hut vole by almost two to oue—aot under i the pretence that was brought to bear upon : us in the passage of the Kuasas Nebraska' hill, that there was some powerful, overrul ing necef- ity for it: for no such plea is put I to t:ow. There i-- no pretence that this bill : is to hi lost, or that any great injury to the 1 -• ;u:t.ry is to b-. done if i be lost, unle-'s j ■ e amendment l*> rejected. Deliberately 1 ao i -.vT'ho rt erecse the judgment of the Seu" .•to Lis been reversed. Why, it would not Id decorous tuwsf.'s ti;i* augn-st body to sav ; but let me warn Senators that, iu :aj feeble ! judgment, if forttjrn injl tenet take* po#- j s #: jo <?/ th* .inerran Senate, the Jiattr- \ tr'tii jftoplt Ktii rise up and rebuke it. It 1 nuy {aire po£<?s.ion of other departments of j the G&varouieut, but the American Senate j i.as a regarded ia ihe country as the i .dei <>f American liberty—as the bulwark j that was to stand for the protection of j A ivtaat) rights. If th'i body cives way j li-. b th; sort o f pressure, I tell you the A Weekly Paper, Devoted to Literature, Politics, the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, &c., &c —Terms: Two Dollars per annum. American people will take this matter in hand, and they will set it right. What has occurred within the last forty-eight hours to prodnee this wondrous change in the Amer ican Senate? How does it eotne that a pro position carried two days ago by a respect able majority, is reversed to-day by a vote j of two to one. * * * * I protest most solemnly against thus pro ceeding; because it will make fine hundred i iousntd hnou *\\4hinq wits in the Union, and all the eloquence of the Senate cannot prevent U. Whenever the Senate is induced to reverse its judgmeut, formed calmly and | deliberately, nud after full discussion on ac | count of foreign influence, the lost citadel joi liberty in America has given way. if I j had the eloquence of the most gifted orator ! who ever spoke, I would employ it to-day agamst the doing of this act. If I could address my Democratic filends in an appeal that could reach tueir hearts, 1 won hi ap peal to tlietn in that eloquent voice to ab i stain from doing this act. Dm it, and you milt shake the Democratic party to its very foundation. Let it be once understood that foreign influence can invade ihe JJmerican Senate, aitJ lit forty-tight hours reverse a Judgment deliberately given, and the con fidence oj the -American people vytll be shaken in the firmness of that great party. As a Democrat—as one of a great aud powerful political party, which never had any alliance with any other party, as deeply and earnestly and sacredly devoted to its j ; success, I protest against thus proceeding: I protest agaiust it in the name of my party; i protest agaiust it in the name of a violated Constitution; I protest agaiust it iu the name of the rights of American citizens, I protest agaiust it in the name of American liberty- i j I protest against it on every ground which the American mind can possibly conceive a 3 an outrage upon us, upon die Constitution, the laws, and the privileges which we en joy. I have witnessed nowhere anything which struck uie with more amazement than the exhibition we have had to-day in the Sen ate. Where shall the American mind rest for security, to what poiut shall it turu for safety, if the judgment of the Feuate is to be thus suddenly changed ou a great ques tion whieL more than twice—ay, more thau live times, has undergone diicussion beie, ] end I am bound to say, has generally resul- ] ted, as :t is likely? to result new, in giving , way to foreign influence. In my feeble way, as an luttnbla Demo crat —as one of the humblest of American citizens, I have defended foreigners; I haTe defended their rights under the Constitu tion; I have defended their right to vote under proper circumstances; but, sir, as j God is my righteous judge, if this proceed- ! 'r.g is to go oti—if rights are to be given in ! viol*'lon of the delib irate judgment of the American Feuate, I can raise my voice no I longer. It is not the judgment of the Sen- I ate that this should be done. I say so be. i cause, only two days ago, after a calm and dispassionate consideration of the question* you determined otherwise. Influences, I am bound to say, to which lam not sub jected—and I pretend to be no more honest j aud patriotic or upright than other men— | bat it so turns out that, on this particular point, I seem to be a little firmer than other J men—some sort of influence has been in- j trodueed here which has changed the whole current of the Senate. A SPECIMEN OF VsiGlNlA OIfIVALRT. lu the Third Congressional District of Vir ginia, Mr. LIPSCOMB announces himself as a candidate in an address. He says he is a '■progressive Democrat," and promises, if elected, to •'cowhide the .Northern i aseal who dares to insult his constituents by making an offensive i-peecb ou the subjeet of slavery!" and that "he would like to have the pleasure of stripping the back of Bua- LISOAWR." He promises to '-treat the Northern bully worse than the lamented BROOKS did bis colleague in the Senate, old SUMNER!" LIPOCOMB, should certaiuly be eh ct-d by a triumphant majority, as he posses-.og all the requisites necessary for a Southern representative. Not long since, a youth, older iu wij than years, after being catechised concern ing the power oi God, said; "Ma, I think there is one thing God can't do" '•What is it, my son?" eagerly inquired the mother. -God can't mike Alf Jones' mouth any bigger without setting his ears back " A little girl observing a goose with a yoke on, exclaimed. "Why, ma, there is a goosa gut corsets ou. It walks like sister Sally." Blessed ate those wno are afraid of thun der—for they shall hesitate about getting married, and keep fiom political meet ing.*. The SandhiMersof South Carolina. Between the "down country" and the tipper country of South Carolina, lies the uiitldld or sandhill region. A large por tion of the tract that varies in breadth from teu to thirty miles, is covered with forests of pine interspersed here and there with other trees. Where it is under cul tivation the principal crop is cotton. Bu t the land is not generally fertile, and much of it is likely to remain for a great while a partial wilderness. The country itself pre sents but few iateresting features, but it is the home of a singular race or class of peo ple, to whom 1 may profitably devote a few paragraphs of description. In travelling Through the middle country I ofteu passed the rude and squalid cabins of the suiuihiiler*. All the inmates usu ally flocked to the door of the wiodowless domicile to state at me. And such a lank scrawny, Sithy set of beings I never be held elsewhere—not even within the pur liens of New York Fivo points. Their complexioa is a ghastly yellow white, with out '.he faintest tint of wholesome red.— The hair of the adult is generally sundv, and that of the children nearly as white as cotton. The cbiidreu are even paler than the adults, if possible, ofteu paiufully hag gard and sicaly looking. They are entire ly uneducated, semi-barbarous iu their hab its, very dull and stupid, aud iu general social position, tar below ihe slave popula tion. In fact, the negroes look down upon them with miugled pity and contempt.— They are squatters ou land belonging to others, either with or without theircousent. They sometimes cultivate, or rather plant a small piece of ground near their cabins, raising a little corn, a few cabbages, tneD ous and sweet potatoes. Their agricultu ral operations have never extended beyond this. Corn bread, pork and cabbage fried in lard, and whiskey, seems to be their prin ciple articles of diet. To procure the lat ter, aud the few clothes they require, they make shingles or baskets, or gather piuc knots, which they seli iu the villages; but beyond what is required to supply their very limited actual necessities, thry will u>t nrork. Their principal employments are hunting and fishing, aud their standard amusements drinking whiskey and fighting. Their ores- is as primitive as their habits.— The women and children invariably go bare footed and barelegged, their ou'y garment, apparently, being a gown of coarse calico. The men wear a cotton shirt, an 1 Dowsers of coarse homespun ciotb, with ihe addi tion, sometimes, of an nppcr garment, too rude aud shapeless to be described. I one day met a migrating family of these miserable people. Ou a most miser able, and almost flesh less substitute for a horse, wore paeked the entire effects of the family, consisting of a bed and a few cook ing utensils. Two small children occupied the to-p of the pack. Two large ones, each headed with a bundle, trudged behind their mother, who appeared to be scarcely more than seventeen years of age. The father, a wild, sinister looking fellow, walk ed a little n advauoe of the rest, with his long rifle ou hi* shoulder, and his hunting pouch at his side. A correspondent of one of the city pa pers thu* describes au encounter with a sandhill family: "Hereon the read, we met a family who have been to town. A little girl of fen years with a coarse fragment of a dress on, is sitting on the backbone of a moving skeleton of a horse, whieh has the addition al task of trailing aloDg a rickety specimen of a wagon, in which is seated a man—a real outside barbarian, maudlin and obfus cated with baldface whiskey, with a child of four years at bis side. Behind this, a basgxrd looking boy on another skeleton of a horse, is coming. What an odd, outland ish, low-wheeled cart the horse is pulling ! There sits the old woman, and be; grown up daughter, with nothing on apparently, except a very dirty bonnet ant a cows? dirtv 'two. The daughter ha* a basket by her side, and the old woman holds fast to a suspicions looking jug, of half a gallon measure, crowned v itb a corn cob. Your life on it, that is a jug of whiskey. The family have been to the village with a con pie of loads of pine knot*, which they have probably sold for a dollar, half of which has gone for whiskey, and now they are j getting home. Degraded as tbey are, you see it is the man who is helpless, and the wouian has to take ears of the jug, and con duct the important' expedition. There are hundreds of such people dispersed through these sandhills." ljow, iudeed, is the lowest class of white people in the Southern States, though no where have I found them quite so degraded as in South Carolina. "Poor buckrub," or "white trash," are the terni9 by which the ueg T o fjostgwates them, and 'poor' means 3 BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY. MAY 8.1857. | great deal in this connection. It includes not siutply pecuniary poverty, but igno rance, laziness, and social depredation.— The Southern negro never applies the tertu poor to any one wbo has the manner and bearing of a gentleman, however light bis parse. "Poor white mao" is a beiog whom he looks down upon —an object of pity and contempt. AN INTERESTING HISTORICAL ME MEMENTO. On the evening of the 13tb inst., Gran ville John Penn, a great grandson of Wil liam Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, pre- I senttf 1 to the Historical Society the great \Vampum which bad been given to the emi nent Quaker by the Indiai*. at the treaty at Shackatn&xon, iu 168211 A coteniporary j thus describes this interesting relio of title, ; and the only one which exists of the treaty I of amity aud peace the aborigines and tlie Friendly eniigrarife to this State: The Wampum Uelt whlh was presented to the Historical Socictf is certainly a great curiosity. It is aboss three feet long aud six inches wide. Itfis composed of leads, made of small pikes of muscle shell grouud into shape aid pierced, and then strung upon thongs of deer skin. The , strings are then fastened together until they are of sufficient width to form a belt. This great Treaty Belt Was of unusual breadth, in token of the importance of the compact it was intended? to seal. The beads are generally white, #d among ihera black beads are wrought tbto devices era bleuiatic of the treaty. I the eentre of the b#fv two figures are rudely formed with bead-. One of these figures wears a hat, aud it was, without doubt, intended to rep resent Onas, as tLe ludiaa? failed William Penn. The figures are in the act of sha king bands. There are alv* three bands, formed of black bv'ivas, wiich cross th# belt diagonally. Tue curio-s old relic is carefully preserved in a gfaMFosme, and it is in excellent condition. Mr. Penn, in making the gift accompa nied it with some interesting remarks. He said that the Belt liad been preserved in bis family four generations, and, although there was uo positive record that the Belt had been preserved in bis family four gen erations, and although there was no posi tive record that the Belt was the identical Wauipum which was given to his great grandfather at the treaty at Shackauiuxon, the devices upuu it, and its great size, suf ficiently indicated the importance of the event it was intended to commemorate. — '' here were other circumstances connected with its history which satisfied him that the Belt was the Treaty Wampum. Mr. Penn theu read copious extracts from the works of the historians of the North American ladiaus, to illustrate the uses to wiii-h wampum was applied, and the impor tance attached to it. The shells out of which the beads were made varied in value according to their color. Ttie white were given ia token of amity, trad the black were the symbols of enmity and war. These belts had devices and hieroglyphics worked upon then which have great aiguifieanee, and which were perfectly understood by the savages. Upon ordinary occasions, a simple string of wampum was given aud received as evi dence ola contract between parties; but as the occasion became important, the strings were tanked together until they formed a belt to commemorate such events as that which gave historical interest to the Treaty formed at Kensington. Henry I). Gilpin received the belt oa be half of the Society, and made a very ap propriate and interesting speech upon the occasion. The wampum now remains in the possesiioa of the association. It will ever be an object of interest to every true Pennsylvania!!, as it was originally intend ed to be a perpetual evidence. How IT LEAKED OUT. —".Ma, does pa kiss you because he loves you!" inquired a little Jicky of his mother. "To be sore, sonny; why did you ask that qaesion?" "Well, I guess he loves the kitchen girl, too, for I seen bitn kiss her more'n forty times last Sunday, wheu you was gone to meeting." Tnero was a fuss in the famiiy. Cornered Him. —"What has brought you here?" said a lone woman who was quite "Illustrated," the ether morning, by aa ear ly call from a bachelor neighbor who lived opposite, and who she regarded with pecu liar favor. "I came to borrow matches?" "Matches! that's a likely story! Why dou': you make a match yourself? 1 know w! at you camo for," cried the old virgin as she backed the old bachelor in a eoroer—"You cams here to kiss me al ino;t to death? But you shan't without you rre the strongest, and the Lord koows you are"' SLAVERY IN MISSOURI. POI ND REPUBLICAN DOCTRINE IN ST T.OHS. The following is the Inaugural Address of Hon. John 31. Wiuier, the Emancipation 3layor of St. Louis. .Mr. President and Gentlemen of the City Council: .My grateful acknowledgments are due, not only to those of my fellow citizens whose partiality lias elevated me to the position of chief magistrate of this city, hut also to those who. preferring another for thi3 place, Lave extended tc* me a forbearance and courtesy which does not usually character ize political discussions. I should ill de servo such tokens of the partiality of my friends, or the generosity of my opponents! if 1 did not feel profoundly sensible of their kindness. There is, however, another aspect in which this event is to be viewed, far more grati fying to me than considerations of personal elevation; because, iu my opinion it trans cends in its importance to the public welfare the elevation or defeat of any man, great or small, i allude, of course, to the emphatic endorsement of the great principles which I have been honored Ly being eba*ea to re present. It is an universally admitted truth, that labor is the only creator of wealth and ma terial prosperity. It Is equally true that skilled and intdiigeut labor of free white men is more productive than the compelled labor of slaves. Oirllized society owes everything to labor, upou which it is found ed and upheld, and for this reason all should unite in guarding the rights of labor and upholding its dignity, because in the same degree that its '.rights and dignity are maintained the prosperity of all is enhanced. There are those, however, so wedded to the pride of dominion that they prefer to see the interest of free white labor degraded by an injurious competition, which, while it minis ters to the pride of individuals, militate* against the prosperity of a state. The resolutions recently introduced into the Missouri Legislature were intended to bind our biate and city in all future time to a system of labor unsuited to our con dition, lowering bv its competition the labor of freemen of our own race, and tending to drive from us the emigration from Europe and the older States. The people of St. Louis have by their late action, rpbtiked the authors of these resolution*. They have calmly and fear lessly taken their stand. They have deci ded iu favor of the many agxiost the few. This declaration I am satisfied will never be reversed. There are none now who openly assail it. It is beliered that no man or combination of men can prewut its becom ing the polity of our pooplp. It is best for the State, that it should be peopled by white men. Commerce, manufactures and the mechanic arts should therefore be invi ted to oar C'ty, by a wise and consistent system of legislation, with an assurance that capital will fiud a sure and safe invest ment, and labor a liberal compensation. After Mayor Wimer had concluded, Geo. R. Taylor, President of the Board of Al derman and a uative of Virginia, responded in an address, from which we quote the fol lowing passage: "The great principle which you have ad vanced in relation to free white labor must meet the cordial approbation of every true friend of this city aud of the State of Mis souri. The principle is one which is inborn in every son of America, whether he be of the North or ths West, and is the one which will ultimately prevail all over our extended country; and despite sectional prejudices, insinuations and education.— Tbeie principles have been mine from my earliest recollection, and the only thing iu which 1 differ from yourself is, in the prop er time for carrying these principles into practice. No man iu bis sober senses can doubt that, eventually, Kansas will be a free State; aud engirdled as Missouri will be by free States, the institution cannot flourish to any great extent or endure for 1 any long time. The heat of our sou does not require an Afrcan to suiud beneath its rays, nooe of our agricultural productions demand his aid, aud cemiuiy our manufac tories do not need him." ME WITH TAILS.— AH the scientific re search bestowed on Afriea fails to confirm the reported existence of a cait'lglei race e! negroes in the interior of Africa. Mr. T. J. llowen, who spent several years in the interior cf Central Africa, as a missionary of the Southern Baptist Board, makes the following reference to the subject in his re cently published narrative. In speaking of Nassamu, the execution of the King of Lloiin (an interior city of at least 70,600 inhabitants,} and others with whom he con versed, he says.- The Moors and Arabs who had been ev ery where, had told them wonderful stories of still other countries and tribes far off in Ihe east.—Somewhere on the other side of Yakobn is a tribe of people called Alakere, none of whom are more than three feet in height. The chiefs arc a little taller than the common people. The Alakere are a very ingenious people, especially in workiug iron, and they are sojindusuious that their towns are surrounded by iron wails. Be yond these are a tribe called Alabiru, who have short inflexible tails. As the stiffr.ess of tleir tails prevents the Alabiru froln sit ting flat on the ground, every man carries a sharp pointed stick with which he drills a hole in the earth to reeive bis tail while sit ting. They are industrious manufacturers of iton bars, which tLcy sell to surrounding tribes. Ail the fine swords in Sudan are made of this iron. The next tribe iu order are the Alabiwne, who hive a small goat like Lcru projecting from the middle of their foreheaj. For all that, they are a nice kind of black people and quite intelligiot. A woman of this tribe is now in slavery at Offa, near Horrin. She always wears a handkerchief around her head because she is ashamed of her horn. There are other people in this 'Doko' region who ha ve four eyes, and others who lite entirely in subter ranean galleries. The winders were attes tesied by natives aD<I Arabs. NEW USE FOR THE FEMALE SEX.—A foreign correspondent on board the United States ship J.'hn Adams, in his Ic-ttcr pub lished on Saturday, remarks that the natives of the 31 <rque-a< Islands in the Faciti*, with whom he had been staying, are in .the habit of wooing the fairest damsels they can Sad, wedJi#g them, ar.d then eating them op. Our gallant conespndent is indignant at this sad misuse of so much lovelisesss'- especially as the native pork and game are good of their kind, and so plentiful as to make it obvious thab no man need pied Lis wife's ribs or cut steaks from her person from uecfeisty. We need not say that we toucur with our countryman iu this view, not only on humane but on hygienic grounds. Every medical man will vouch that the fl sb of female mammalia is less wholesome than that of males. We fear the people of the Marquesas must be injuring their health by their unwholesome diet. The most curious feoture in the business is that there is a large body of Christian missionaries on the islands, many of theui frc m this country. We are not led to sup pose, indeed, that the3e reverend gentlemen are in the habit of lunching off their tender spouses; nor even do we hear of their ac cepting invitations from the native chiefs to partake of a nice wife ham. or a rasher of voting girl broiled with breadfruit. But ♦hey are there, and from the popularity of these repasts, it is evident that the mission aries know of them, aud cannot prevent tbetu. We are aware that in 3lay next we shall have in the proper column of the usual report, an exact list of the number of the Marquesas souls converted to grace, and of those which are considered to be in a soft ening state; we think it woul be well to add in a foot Doto the classification of these for tunate converts according to their gastro noinical performances.—-V. Y. Herald. "MARRYING IS Fr."—Another instance of the foil v of "marrying in fun" is just now exciting the good people of Fonda. It seems that a banking officer in that town met at a ball a young lady from this neigh borhood, who was very good looking, spright ly, and atracttive. While waltzing with her, he proposed in jest that they should be married. The lady accepted Lis proposition and they a IjoiirneJ to a side room, where a person present was called upon to perforin the ceremony, which he did to the infinite amusement of all concerned. The gentle man thought no more of the matter until the breaking up of the ball, when the fair partner called upon him 10 conduct her to his residence. He demurred, and thought she had better go to her own residence.— She said the home of her husband was her home, "whither thon goest, I will follow thee." Ho diitn't hardly understand that she was his wife. She insistod upon her marital rights, and claimed that as the ceremony bad been performed by a Justice of the IV tee, it was a perfectly fair and le gal transaction. (ireutlcßMß inquired into the matters; fr.;;nd that her positions were correct, and that he was in a bad box. He is now endeavoring to ignore bis wiie and back out of tire bargain, with little prospect of success, however. The lady has before been married, and was it is understood, divorced from her former husband, but un der such circumstances as admitted of her marrying agaiu. THE COMET AND TOE VVEATHER.—There can be no question but that the perturbed state of the weather, wbicu has for weeks set at naught meteorological ealcnlftions, is produced, if not direcily at any ta'e a* VOL. 30, NO. 19. directly, by the huge comet which is now whizzing through space directly toward our planet. Similar changes of the cli mate have been observed befcre,during-tb-' passage of comets near the earth. The com et of 1550 is said to have brought with it a dense and unpleasant fog, which lasted for twenty one days; that of 1826 was ac companied by heavy rains and consequent inundations, ai,d every one must remember the unusually cold and severe weather prev* alent at the time of the appearance of the brilliant comet of March 18-18. The comet now approaching the earth is that of Charles \ , which Erst appeared in perehelion, in 1264. It may be seen in a clear evening near 1> Sagittarri, aud is evidently nearing the earth with great rapidity.—lts passage across our orbit, or its possibie collision, may broduee very iuportant and extraordi nary geographical changes. There can te no doubt that its meteorologies! effects are j already becoming evident. ON* SIGHT AXJV o.\ DEMAND.— One of "Poiitr,* ' staff is responsible for this an, j ccdotc: Juuge , a well known, highly respec ted Knickerbocker, or. the shady side of fifty, • widower with five children —full of tun and fiolic, ever ready for a joke—to | give or take, was bantered the otLer even iug by a miss of five ml twenty, for not taking another wife; she urged that he was hs'.e and hearty aud deserved a inatrimoni ,al messmate. The Judge acknowledged the fact: admitted that he was convinced by the eloquence of his fair friend, that he- had been thus far very remsss, and expressed contrition for the fault confessed; endiug with offering himself to the lady, telling her she could not certainly reject him alter pointing out to him his henious offence. '1 be lady replied that she would be most happy to taie the situation so uniquely ad vertised, and become bone otitis Kme and flesh of his flesh; but there was one, to Let, serious obstacle. W T\ ell, says the Judge, name it. My pro fession is to surmount such impediments.'' "Ah! Juege, this is beyond your powers. I have vowed if I ever tuarry a widower, he MIST have ten children." "Ten children." "Ou! that's nothing," says the Judge, "I'll give yon five now and my Dotes on demand in instalments for the balance." Fact? RELICS op ASTIQCJTV.— W* have be fore us a number of eoins, brought to this country by Rev. \\ . F. Williams, mission ary of the American Hoard at Mosul. (Jno of these is a got J coin, bearing the name and face of Asinoe Philadelphou, the sis ter and wife of Ptolemy Phiiadelphos, who ! together, founded the celebrated Alexan drian Library. It dates back to about two hundred and eighty years before Chris*.— It is about the size of a sovereign, is a beau tiful coin, and seems as bright aud fresh as if it had but just left the mint. The oth ers are silver st.iters, (the coin wbieh Peter took from the fish) and are of the coinage of Alexander the Great, and of the Syrian kings, Aatioclius Epiphanes who attempted to overthrow Judaism, and scattered swine's flesh about the temple, Autiochus Ever getes, Demetrius Soter, etc., the latest be" ing 160 years before Christ. There is also an >ld Athenian silver coin, found on the plain of Arbela, where the decisive battle was fongh: between Alexander the Great aud Darius. It was probably paid to soma Greek soldier who there uiet his death.— Mr. Williams has also a Roman coin with "Caesar's image and superscription."— .'lsierican .Messenger. HORRIBLE STORY.— The Tipton Adver tiser, published in lowa, contains a story apparently in imitation of Pope's "Case of M. Valdetnei." It is contained in a letter from one Dr. John Moretun, ami relates to the case of a patient of his who disagreed with his wife, she believed in spiritual man ifestations while he scouted them. She di ed telling him with ber last breath, that on his death bed she weald appear to him in the body. A few weeks after be died, Dr. John Morc'on being then present, and as he was saspiug hi? lasr, a most horrible body, through whose decaying flesh the wh'te bones gleamed, sndfiom whose rotten limb;: dropped loathsome grave worms upon the fieor, enter-d ihe room. This horrible form said, "Com?! William! they wait for you —I wait," and fell to the floor, where it remained the next day, aud the body of the husband being conveyed a vvav, the house wa btirued. This story is supported by two or t!,re affidavits, taken before James Msyter, no tary public for Grand Traverse county, Michigan. The man who was so forgetful, th-.t he forgot his honest debts, we learn, ht ho memory jogged by a "Justice of the Peace
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