PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING. AT ONE DOLLAR A-YEAR, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. OR, $1:25 AT THE END OF THE TEAR CRULL'S ROW, FRorts-ST MARIETTA, PA. O FFICE ADVTRTISEHENTS AT THN USUAL HATES A large addition to the Jon PAINTING depart ment of " TIM MARIE:MAN " establish ment enables us to do everything in the Job line with neatness and dispatch, and at very low prices. From the Philadelphia Typographic Advertiser. LOST-SOMEBODY'S CHILD ST THOMAS MACXELLAR &met:May's child is lost to-night ! I hear the bellman ring; And the earth is frozen hard and white, And the wind has a nipping sting. I know my babes are long a-bed, A tender, motherly hand Laying a blessing on every head After their evening prayers were said— •'God keep the slumbering band ! Yet somebody's child is lost, I say, This night so bitterly cold. Borne innocent lamb has gone astray Unwittingly from its fold. "Bellfriati I ho, bellman, whose child is lost?" And I grasp my staff and cloak ; the ringer over the Word had cross'd Before I tardily spoke. The Neighbors soon gather, and far and near We pry into ditch and fen, . Bark ! an answering shout I hear— 'The rover in found again. Ali I mother, fond mother, your heart is light With Joe to your bosom bound; But many a child is lost to-night Who'll never, no, never be found. Ay!, somebody's child is lost to-night, While the wind is high and hoarse, And the scudding ship, like a bird a-fright Flies shivering on its course. She suddenly drops in the yawning deep Asl never to return ; She leaps atop the watery steep, A-creaking from stem to stern. Bold well, good bark ! for a score of lives Ostnprise thy costliest freight; Else loving mothers, and maids, and wives Will ever be desolate. And well she holds, with a single sail Outspread to guide her way, While all the furies of the gale Around her bulwarks play. The sailor-boy,. with a fearful heart, Sighs for.lies distant home, And the hasty tears from his eyelids start, And drop in the briny foam. in the months agone a father sigh'i, And a mother trembled with fears; But that father's law had he defied, And he scorn'd that mother's tears. The pitiless blast now mocks his grief And a huge and hungry wave Dears him away beyond relief, To the depths of ocean grave.,- The Ifrand is blazing upon the besirth, The work of the day 13 done, And the father's heart runs over the earth In search of the wandering son. "Oh! where is our poor boy to-night-- This High t so bleak and wild r" The mother shuts her eyes to the light, And inly prays for her child. The busy needles all cease their flight, While their heart's say, " Where islie ?" They dream not he has sunken from sight, Down, down, down in the, sea. The mother may pray, and she may weep Till she weep her life away, But never more will she find the sheep That wilfully went astray. • - Somebody's child is lost to-night! Oh sorrow is on the day When a virgin's fame is marr'd with blight That cannot be cleansed away. An humbled family sits in tho.gloom, Bemoaning their hopelesS shame— Would that she were safe in the tomb With honor upon her name! While deck'd in garments of satin and sin, The fallen daughter, I wren, is scorch'd with a fever of heart within, Though reigning as wanton-queen. 0 merciful Father! is this the child Thy hand created so fair, With eyes where simple innocence smiPd, ' And coy and maidenly air? Is this the promising morning -flower, The brightest its rivals among? Is this the bird that sung in the bower With sweetest and merriest tongue? Alt me ! this child is more than lost ; Far her low-fallen form, • On sin's voluptuous surges test, • Will prrish in passion's storm. And - the mother may 'sigh and she may weep Till she weep her lif e away, But never more will she Lind the sheep That wickedly went asttay. Somebody's child is lost to-night— A widow's only son, • With brow as light and eye as bright As you ever looked upon. "And he will be my staff and stay"— Her words were inly spoken— " When I am old, and my hair is gray, And my natural strength is broken.) , Her motherly soul with pride o'erran As the lad grew up to the estate of man, And she said, in her joy, That nobody's boy Could match her paragon by a span. Time stole along, and her locks were gray, But her heart had lost its pride, For the man had wander'd so far astray, 'Twere better the boy had died. A loathsome. vile, and gibbering thing, Stung by the fatal shill-worm's acing, Despised of man, ern teaming God, And gnasinq at the avenging rod wherewith AM passions scourged him sore, Till, fainting, be could feel no mote.— Ah I somebody's child was lost in him When he took up The wassail cup, And aipp'd perdition from its Then his manhood died, And the beautiful boy Of his mother's pride Spill'd in the sand the cup of her joy. Instead, she quatf'd. A wormwood draught, A sorely-smitten woman; ' Yet loved she still, Through every ill, The child so scarcely human. In weariness and watching! often, Unmurmuringly her grief she bore, unwrapt in shroud , of coffin, Her son lay dead before her door. Her sorrows bad come so thick and fast They cluster'd round her everywhere, Till, reason utterly overcast, The darkness hid away her care. Wet oiltirnes would she ask for one Long gone from tome, her beautiful son ; And while he chided Ida long delay, She would sigh t and whimper, and prey. 'That,motber will 'sigh, and she will weep Till she weep her life away; ;But never more will she find the sheep That wickedly Went astrisy. 14p.many chtbilren are lost to-night That I, even I, could weep Ati I hear the breathing, sott and light. From the crib where Tommy's asleep. ' And I strain my vision to pierce the clouds That hang over years to come; 31 - ut titter darkness the future shrouds, And the tongue of the seer is dumb. 'So I lay them down in the bosom of grace, • 'The Children whom God has given, Ttiiplin~ he'll bring them to see his face, The' fate of our Lord in Heaven. Ue who 'thinks he can do with out. others is mistaken; he who thinks Ahem, cannot 'do without him is still more mistaken. . , - On what ground may cop feetkmers pe'deemed very mercenary lovers? Be canie they sell their "kisses." - erirong folks,when falling in love With iaOil 0411'11.1E1st 449 CV, Pt to Pi_ L_ Baler, Proprietor_ VOL. 8. END OF THE JIM LANE EXPEDITION. Letter of Lane to the Kansas Legislature. The following document has been re ceived direct from Leavenworth, which will end all inquiry as to the General Lane expedition : Leavenworth, Kansas, Feb. 26, 1.862. There should be a perfect understand ing between you, the local Representa tives of the people of Kansas, and you'r Representatives in the national Con gress. To this end I make the following statement : On the 20th of January I left Wash ington, expecting to take command of a column designed to move in four sep arate bodies through this State south ward. It was understood by the Senate, and expected by the country, that a satis factory arrangement would be made with Major General Hunter. Such was my conviction. I caine to Kansas, therefore, intend ing to arrange matters with him ; to re 7 sign my seat in the Senate to you from whom I had received it,- and then to notify the President of the acceptance of the commission of Brigadier General, which was not to issue until the receipt of such notification. I made every effort which self-respect would permit to effect this arrangement with Major Gen. Hunter. I failed.— The correspondence, when published, will prove indeed that I could not have served under him in any capacity, how ever subordinate, without degradation. I had no military ambition beyond that connected with this expedition. I desired to surround the institution of slavery with free territory, and thus girdle the cause of the rebellion itself. Without fault on my part, as I believe, I have been thwarted in this, the cherish ed hope of my life. The sad yet simple duty only remains to announce to you, and through you to the people of Kansas, my purpose to re turn to my seat in the United States Senate, a purpose declared to the Presi dent through a telegram of which the following is a copy : Leavenworth, Kansas, Feb.l6, 1862. All efforts to harmonize with Major General Hunter have failed. lam com pelled to decline the brigadiership, I have nothing further to . say. I trust you will find me as ever faithful to the State and the country. All lam and all I have shall now as heretofore, be devoted to them. Wishing you health, happiness, and a safe return to your constituents, I remain your friend and servant, 3. H. LINE. or "We are on the eve of stirring events," if special dispatches are to be believed. The redoubtable Toombs, of Georgia, late the rebel Secretary of State, has been appointed lieutenant general of the entire Southern "forces." The doctrine of forces, with Toombs for its expounder, is to have a terrible ap plicability to the destinies of the North ern people. All the achievements of Flagstaff, or Hollins, or Pillow, for in stance, are to be thrown into the most tmbrageous degree of shade. Ohio and Pennsylvania are to be invaded. Our alters and our firesides are to be des olated and profaned by a ruthless and relentless f0e.. , -Everything, in fact, is to be done, that is any way awful ; each particular hair of our twenty million of loyal heads is to be, made to stand on end, like the quil of the fretful porcupine; (Mr twenty million of loyal souls are to be harrowed up in the shortie, Order—and Toombs is the man that is going to do it. 'The marriage treaty of the Prin cess Alice of England with the Prince Louis of Darmstadt has been published in the London papers. It provides that the Prince shall receive from John Bull a dowry of £30,000, to be put at interest, this, with the Prince's income' of 40,000 florins, will be their joint rev enue. Queen Victoria also promises her daughter £6,000 a year for her per sonal use, which can never be alienated or mortgaged from her by her husband. If the Prince dies before the Princess, the latter is to receive from the State of Hesse Darmstadt .a revenue of 20,000 florins "and a residence at Darmstadt, completely furnished, suited to her ex aulted rank." OrTwo hundred thousand barrels of ale are manufactured annually in the city of Albany. Under the new tax law that pity will pay on this article alone two buudred thousand dollars a• year. In tpt6tnt rennsEitrauia *urnat for fie 'ant Jar Cutle. MARIETTA, MARCH 22, 1862. TRIFLING WITU vu Dummy.—A young man who, would not be guilty of an, in delicate word to a lady, and much less an uncalled for assult upop one, was pas sing along a street in a Western • city, when he came in front of a retail dry goods establishment. Having an eye for dry-goods, he stopped to admire a cloak of the latest basque style, which was displayed, as he thought, upon a dummy or wire frame, rather neatly bon neted and fitted up in Wont of a show window. Seeing a friend advance, the young man called his attention to the article of dress, and playfully gave the dummy a nudge,, remarking, "I • wonder if the machine is alive I" "Phansy his phelinks" as he saw the suppesed dum my turn suddenly around, and face him with, an expression of.astonishment and indignation resting upon the unmistak able lineaments of a very handsome face. The machine was alive. Our friend blushed, stammered and explained.-- The young lady forgave and stepped in to her carriage. Our friend maintains a downward attitude upon all dummies hereafter. GETTING ROUND A LANDLORD.—"What do you charge for board ?" asked a tall Green Mountain boy as be walked up to the bar of a second rate hotel in New York—"what doyou ask a week for board and lodging?" "Five dollars." "Five dollars that's too much ; but I s'Pose you'll allow for the times .I'm absent from dinner and supper !" "Certainly ; thirty-seven and a half cents each."— Here the conversation ended, and the Yankee took up his quarters for two weeks. During this time he lodged and breakfasted at the hotel, but did not take either diner or supper, saying his business detained him in another por tion of the town. At the expiration of two weeks, he again walked up to the bar, and said : "S'pose we settle that ac count—Pm goin' in a few minutes."— The landlord handed him his bill.— "Two weeks board at five dollars—ten dollars." "Here, stranger," said the Yankee, "this is wrong—you've made a mistake; you've not deduCted the times I was absent from dinner and sup per-14 days, two meals per day; 28 meals at 34 cents each ; 10 dollars and 50 cents. If you've not got the fifty cents that's due to me, I'll take a drink, and the balance in cigars !" J. H. LANK ar When Surgeon White went on board the Hazel Doll, on her arrival at Cairo, with the wounded men from Fort Done!son, he found a man whose arm had been amputated and which needed bandaging. The boat was bunted over, but no material could be found that would bind the leg of a bird.. The mat ter was about to be abandoned in des pair when female ingenuity came to the rescue. A lady quietly disappeared in to a state room, and soon emerged with greatly diminished amplitude of form, beaiing in her hand some skirts which she blushingly presented to the doctor to be converted into bandages fok the wounded soldier. G ir Virginia is already ruined. With a debt exceeding forty millions before the war begun, with, her soil alternately threatened or overran by opposing arm ies; compelled, to support a standing army of her own, and at the same time to feed .a host of gratuitous auxiliaries, exhausting herself in erecting forts and batteries, for the tinitedStates hereafter to occupy, deserted by the population,of nearly half her counties, rich only in ne glected fields and unmarketable negroes. What has she to expect short of regen eration by the transfer of her soil .to more suitable and loyal owners. sr There is a lady at Deerfield, N. H. one hundred and three years old, (Mrs. Jenkins.) She is smart and active, makes her own bed and knits stockings. Last autumn she attended a military muster, was recieved with all ;the honors dne to the rank of a Major General, reviewed a regiment and was escorted to the• field and home by a cavalry company com manded by Capt. Ring. eir At Cincinnati, on Wednesday last, Colonel Horace Heffner and Col. G. C. Moody, both of Indiana regiments, were tried and convicted of engaging in a duel. They did not fight, it appears, the difficulty having been adjnsted on the "field of honor." The court fined them $5OO each. Cr Mrs. Nancy Sakai), Democrat, has, been elected Mayor of the. city, of Os kaloosa, lowa. Tit Raszt. Winz-Wonz.ixas.--The Eng- Valk Parliament has published, a long ar gument from Yancey, Rost, and. Mann, .Commissioners of the C. S.A., dated in August Just, to Lord Russell. -They boasted,:uf course, of their power, rich es, unanimity, and glorious prospects— expected Illinois and other Free States to aid if they did not join them—alluded fo " DTr. Lincoln's usurping Govern ment"—denied that Slavery is the cause of Secession, and assured that Slavery is safe under Lincoln—refused to dis cuss the Slavery question=but begged England to keep them •for the sake of Free Trade, especially as the, cotton picking_' time was at band. Lord Russell replied with a firm declaration of neutrality. A leading London paper says the Rebel Government have recently offered England, as a condition of its recognizing the Confederacy and raising their block ade, "Free Trade for thirty; years, pro hibition of foreign slave trade, and free dom to all colored persons born after the treaty was signed'" The London .paper, criticises most keenly this offer —requiring England to run all the risk and,expenses England to pay, in ad vance, to powers of notoriously bad character, for goods never delivered, and no security that they ever would be de livered ! The Repudiators of money and of oaths can hardly fool John Bull. To what degrading shifts the Rebels prostitute themselves in the hope to win the favor : of the "proud Abolitionists of Great Britain I" In America, ,the Rebellion is •waged solely upon the plea that Lincoln will war against Slavery, which they declare is the corner-stone of their edifice. In England, they declare the Union shields Slavery, and offer to abolish it them selves ! Duplicity and lying by the wholesale I D BYOUBED BY WOLVES.—The English papers contain a letter dated Bucharest, Wallachia, January 28th, which states that in consequence of the extreme se verity. of the weather, the wolves have been more than usually daring in their attacks. A woman named Madame Carisoglus, of great beauty,.and belong ing to a leading family, was returning to Buchurest in her sledge, when the horse, becoming frightened, overturned the vehicle, and the unfortunate lady was cast on the ground, and soon devoured by the wolves. A pedlar was attacked by a peck of these ferocious animals, but before lie was killed, two mounted gen darmes arrived.and set on them. They were frightened away for the moment, but notwithstanding the appeal of the poor man, the gendarmes left himwound ed on the road, and shortly after the wolves returned• and finished his suffer ings. Ten or twelve other cases have been reported. • MR. SLIDELL IN PAEIS.-A letter dat ed Paris Feb. 14, says, Mr. Slidell is living in magnificent apartments in the Champs Elysees No 30. He 'Pays 1,- 800, trances a month, and assumes all the importance of a 'regular envoy from the' United IStates. He is not; however, made a lion of, though it is said his taste would render such a position agreeable to him. He is doing all in his power to encourage Southeiners to take up their qqarters in. Paris during the season. COINCIDENCE—Robert H. Carroll, a Washington County, Pennsylvania vol unteer, who fell in the recent charge at Bloomery Gap,- was interred the other dai at Claysiille, on the Hempfield road, on the very spot where, seventy years ago, his two grand-uncles fell by the bloody hands of, he remorseless savage. Carroll was a brave man, .and his death was a source of deep regret to all who knew his,worth, .WELT LITERATURE IL—Poetry is said to be the flower of literature; prose is the corn, potatoes, and meat ; satire is the aqua-fortis; wit is the spice and piper; loVe-letters are theloney and sugar; let ters 'containing remittances are the apple-dumplings, . - Cr John Bell, late candidate for the Presidency, and subsequentlY traitor to his country, was one .of the principal proprietors of the• Cumberland Iron Works, which were destroyed by our gunboats anat' the capture of Port Donelon. ar Truth itself becomes falsehood if it is ,presented iliac its right re lation. There is no truth but the "whole truth:' hat berm s---CD - Jae Dollar a Year, SWALLOWING' A YARD OF LAND.—"Dick let's have a pint of beer," said•. a railway .Pnavie" - to his mate. "Nay, Jack, I can't afford to drink a yard of square .land, worth £6o'lo, an acre." "What's that you are saying,:Dick?" "Why, every time'you spend three pence in beer you spend whatwould buy a yard ofland. Look 'here: (Dick. takes 'a. piece of chak out of his pocket and begins to make figures on his 'paper.)' There are 4,840 square yards in an acre :. threepence is one fourth of a shilling; divide 4.840 yards by 4, that will give 1,210 shillings. Now divide that by 20 (there being 20s to the £1) 'and there you have £6o'lo, which is the 'cost of an acre of good land, at threepence a square Yard." LONGEVITY Or THE MAETAI A letter from Rome, alluding to a late rumor of the Pope's death, says the Mastai family, to which. the Pope be• longs, is remarkable for its-longevity.-- he has two brothers and a sister older than-himself—Count Gabriel, aged 82 ; Count Gaetano, 78 and Countess Isabel la, 75. Count Jerome, father of his Holineis, died at the age of 84, and the Countess Catherine, his.mother, died at the age of 82,*hile his grandfather, the Count Hercules, lived to the age of 96. It may consequently be averred with truth that they are a loog.lived family. A WIFE 'MANES TWO ATTEMPTS UPON HEN HUSBAND'S . LIFE.—The. Cincinnati Enquirer relates the particulars of a double attempt by o wife to take her husband's life. The names of the par ties, who are respectable and reside at Newport, Ky., are suppressed. The difficulny between them arose from the refusal of the husband to give his wife $2O, whereupon she poisoned his coffee with strychine, (which fortunately failed of its effects,) and afterwards attempted to dash a bottle of vitriol in his face.-- Steps have been taken to procure a di vorce. GEN'L. GRANT.—The characteristic of General Grant is his modesty. It is exhibited in his general deportment and also in the signature, which he gives to all his official papers--thus, U. S. Grant. The puzzle is with a great many what is shadowed forth by U. S. One suggests' that it means United States Grant; another, that it represents Union Saver Gract ; while a third, deriving some countenance from his answer to Gen. Buckner, insist that the' letters stand for Unconditional Surrender Grant. This ought to be satisfatory, inasmuch as it has passed into history. W. The bill.. introduced by Mr. Van Wyck, to tax the salaries of government officers, requires that all fees and per quisites'of office shalt be paid into the Treasury under oath. It taxes allsalar ies as follows :----One thousand , dollars and upwards, five.per cent; two thousand and upwards, ten per cent ; three thou sand and upwards, fifteen per cent ; five thousand and upwards, twenty per cent seven thousand five hnndred dollars and upwards, twenty per cent ; and ten thon and dollars and tipwards, thirty per cent. •It is the same bill introduced by Kr. Van Wyck at the extra session of Congress last summer. Jn a letter published in the . Transcript, from an influential English gentleman, occurs the following para graph. "Our sympathies are entirely with the North; but we want to see the abolition of slavery one of the.results of this frightful rebellion. Show us that you intend.thit, and there is scarcely, an Englishman who would not pray God to give you the victory." ar All the officers and privates, says the N. Y.. Tribune, who entered the ;to bacco-prisons at Richmond, Pro-Slavery Democrats, have returned, as far as can be discovered, Abolitionists. Our whole army except a few West Point officers, is said to be rapidly tending .in the salve direction. air A. correspondent in our arty in South Carolins,says thatour soldiers at Port Royal and Tybeu are having fresh shad and green peas, brought in, to them by the negroes. •It is as mann, •as•sum mer, and corn and grass are front six inches to a foot high. They will have green corn presently. fir Mr. Wilkinson,,of Winesota, in troduced into the U. S. Senate a, resolu tion to expel Lazarus W. Powell . , of Kentucky for treason. The charges are very grave; being no less than pre krcling at. traitorouz meetings'in Koh- In truth I loved her very well, And thought that she loved me; The reason why I cannot tell-- But when I wooed this pretty belle— 'Twos a mistake in me. NO. 34. Shea dark of eyes—and her sweet smile, Like some of which I've read, Is false—for she, with softest guile, Lured me ?rung rocks near lovestright . isle, And then she—cat me dead My vanity wag wonnded sore, And that T hate the worst You see a hearty look I wore, And thought :she could not but adore Of all men, me the first. Well, thank the fates, once more I'm free— At every shrine I'll bow ; And if again a girl cheat me, Exceeding sharp I guess she'll be— I've cut my eye-teeth now. toh I like the humble bee I'll rove Just when and where I please— Inhaling'sweets from every grove, Humming around each flower I love, And dancing in each breeze. ilfir Petitions have been received in Washington from Western Virginia, signed by Governor Pier.pont and other well—known loyalists, recommending Robert C. Karat:mai, Esq., of Ritchie county, as a successor of the late Judge Daniel, as Associate Justice of the Su preme Court, Mr, Kercheval has been a practitioner in the Circuit and in the Supreme Court of Appeal' for Virginia for over thirty years, is a man in full health and vigor both of mind and body, a gentleman of unexceptionable moral. character, and a Republican Unionist.— He was one of the seven residents of Ritchie county wbo gave their votes viva voce for Lincoln and Hamlin, in Novem ber, 1860, and he has since • the com mencement of the rebellion, secured the enlistment .of some three hundred Vol unteers in that county, which has some six thonsandinhabitants. -uaA case of scan. mag. took place before a Justice of Chicago. A Mrs. Harris, a lady belonging to upper ten don', plotted a conspiracy with a lady on State st. to entice Mr. Harris to com mit adultery, whereby Mrs. Harris could put in a plea for divorce from her liege lord. Mrs. Hills, the State st. lady, was offered five hundred dollars to do the job up neatly, and have it attested by two witnesses who were to come, in at the opportune moment, which was to be made known by a certain sign given by the lady. lac" A German who had been forced in the rebel service, lately escaped from Fort Pulaski, off Savannah, in a small boat, and made his way to our camp on Tybee Island. As lie approached he cried out, "Friend mitont de counter sign. Don't shoot, I come mid you," and was so happy to meet his country men in the Federal camp that he wanted to hug them all in turn. He said the Germans and Irish in Pulaski would all escape if they had a chance. Cr - Without the girdle of truth, you may fall into error. .Without the breast plate of righteoUsness, you may fall into lethargy. Without the shield of faith, you may fall: into apostacy. Without the helmet of salvation, you May fall into despair: Without tho sword of the spirit, you•may fall into cowardice.— And without prayer and watching, you may .fall into any thing however bad or dangerous. • It is said that they are so entirely out of salt in the Southern Confederacy, that the men have.to resort to , the ex pedient of scolding the women and spanking the children and making them shed their briny ~ tears in. the,beef and pork barrels.:And now the great ap prehension is that the criers, living en tirely, without salt, will soon..he Able to supply nothing bat fresh water frog their lachrymal ducts.—Louisville Jourpal. cir Oberlin, Ohio, hale new 'sensa tion. Two young ' ladies, attending a school • there, were poisoned by a third who was jealous of the attentions paid them by young gentlemen, and complaint was lodged againht her before a magis ,trate. But, ere she ,could appear . , for trial, she was assaulted by some men in disguise, and so roughly handled that she has since been unable" to leave her room er "Pat, you are wearing your stock ings wrong 'side outward." "Och, and don't I know it, to .be sure ; there is a hole On the other side, there is2' er "Zell bath no fur? , liky a woman - corned." ' The: original says "scorned;' but Nibbls.thinks' the line reads pretty well without the s. '• The Rebels at Fort Ponelson were sadly in:want of socks, and Grant gave them a sockdolager. THE USED UP_ The jig is up ! I have been flung Sky high—and worse than that: The girl whose praises I have sung, With pen, with pencil, and with tongue, Said " No"—and I felt Rat. Now, I will neither roar nor rant,. Nor my hard fate deplore : Why should a fellow look aslant, If one girl says she won't or can't, While there's so many more! I strove my best—it watvld not do ; I told her she'd regret; She'd ruin my heart—and chances too, As girls don't like those fellows-who Their walking papers-get.