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
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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*
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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