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The Lake of he Dismal Svramp.

"Th«7 tell of young man who lost his mind npo-. the death of ft girl he loved, and who #udWnlv -Jinappearing from his friends, was never aftcrw.irN henr of. As he hod frequently said, in hi« rnvinjrs. that the frirl was not dead, but gone to the Dismal .Swamp, it is supposed ho had wnndrrcd into that dreary wilderness, and had died of hunger, or been lost in some of its dreadful morasses."—Asos..

"Tbov mnde her grave, too cold uud damp

For soul so warm and true

And her paddle I soon shall hear

Long and loving our life shall be,

Through many a fen, whoro tho serpent foods,

And man never trod before I

And when on the earth ho sunk to sleep,

If slumber his eyelids knew,

He lay, where the doadly vine doth weep

Its venomous tear, nud nightly 6teep .-

»*?The flesh with blistering dew

And near him tho bhe-wolf stirr'd tho bruko,

And the coppcr-snakbroath'd in his oar,

'1 ill he, starting, cried, from his dreum awaku,

Uh when .shall I see tho dusky lake,

And tho white canoo of my dear?''

lie saw the Litlco, nnd a meteor bright

(Juielf ovor i'n surfneo play'd

"Wvleomo." ho said," ''my dear one's light!"'

/.r.d the dim sOiora echoed, for many a night,

The name of the dcr.th-ci.ld maid it ......

'Till lie hollow'd a bout of tho birchen bark,

Which carried him off from Bhore

Far he followed the meteor spark,

'I he wind was high r.tul the clouds were dark,

v\r the boat rcturn'd no more.

J'tit f,f!" from tho In.linn hunter's carnp

This lover ni:d maid so true

Are seen, at the hour of midnight damp.

To cro?s the lake by a fire-fly lnmp,

And piddle th-ir v. nanoc

/T-fT" The Albany State Register, a strong Know Nothing journal, repudiates the nomination of Mr. Fillmore. It is said to be owned by George Law, bat that negotiations are making for its transfer to parties in the interest of Fillmore.

£-iy The Legislature of Texas, at its l-itc prssinn. adopted a bill donating to Mrs. Elizabeth Crockett one league of land.— .•Mrs. C. is the widow of the hero nnd martyr of Texas imU-pendencc, Davy Crockett.

i1???* L.mg Inland'Sound was closed during the past winter thirty days—an occurrence that lias not tak place since the inter of lfn' -(i. when navigation was enuly suspended f.»r lifry days.

jtt? A t.oi.n. cticul paper savs that there', ...

»«ri' twelve rhurches in a certain county in ,7-, R.

tl.-it St ito wi'.lmut ministers, tho former pieacdicrs having gone to Kansas.

A WOMAN MVIMMIXO TIIK MISSISSIPPI.— I.i.'vd's forthcoming steamboat directory •Jvcs a thrilling instance for the necessity if women knowing how to swim. When tlie ill fate I Hen Slicrroi was in flames on tiie Mh«isippi river and the lady passengors had thrown themselves into the water, ar.d were drowning around the boat, the wile of Captain Castleman jumped into the liver, with her infant in her arm*, and "iswam ashore a distance of half a mile, bethe only woman saved out of sixteen. iS 110 had learned to swim when a girl.

0^7- There is to be a convention of the oil soldiers at Indianapolis on tho 10th iu*t.

On the ^Oth of April next, the U.

S. Marshal will sell to the highest bidder -. ten thousand acres of the very best prairie land in Indiana. The sale will take place at Uensellear. As these lands must sell, pp culators will have a rare opportunity to

'make mor.ev. Let them look to it.

"FEET LIFT EASIER."—A witness in a •liquor case, at Manchester, New Hampshire, the other day, gave the following testimony: "Salsoda is ice and water, and soma stuff squirted into it from a concern. Don't Know whether it is intoxicating or not—it makes one feelgood—feet lift eas

ier.''

THE FIRST (Irs!—The first election since the nomination of Fillmore and Donelson, took place in Georgetown, D. C., last week, when, on tho largest vote ever polled, the Democrats elected their entire ticket by an average majority of 36. Last year the Know Nothing majority was rery larg®. ^1 jCHT Col. Renton has written a letter to ihe Xniiontil Intelligencer denying the statement of Mr. Greeley in th« Pittsburgh Convention, that be was in favor of aboli»hing slavery in Missouri. He arows that it was through hia influence that a clause was introduced into the State Convention forbidding the Legislature to emancipate slaves without the consent of the owners, his object being to "keep slavery agitation out of f.he State

', £7T The majority of the committets of the New York Legi-lature, to whom the bill for the repeal of the prohibitory liquor law was referred, have reported in favor of repi al—stating that the conflicting opinions of eminent legal authorities, as to the constitutionality of the law, should be considered a sufficient reason against its enforcement, ..

03~The Know-Nothing council at Freedom, N. H., after listening to a lecture from Hon. John S. Wells, gnsniomously voted todiiband,

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And sho crone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp,*

Where all nicht long, by a firc-fly lamp,

She paddles her white canoe.

"And her fsre-fly lump I soon shall ee«, •*•.•••

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And I "II hide the maid in a cypress tree,'

When the footstep of death is near ,i

Avny to tho Dismal Sffamp he ppcedo

His path was nipced and soro,

Through tr.ngled juniper, bedi of reedii,

KOSSUTH ON THE CENTRAL AMERICAN QUESTION. Kossuth, in a recent letter to the N. Y. Times in regard to the peace negotiations between the belligerent powers in the East, winds up with the following allusion to the difficulties between England and the United States:

In this juncture of affairs the appearance I see maintained by the British Government with regard to the differences with the United States has, in my opinion, an air surpassingly comical. They know that whether right or wrong in their interpretation of the Bulwer and Clayton treaty, the United States can and will never sanction that interpretation. Not if the British interpretation be wrong, because in that case it is wrong not if it be right, because in that case the acceptance of its provisions has been on the part of tho United States an unintentional oversight. It would have been absolute folly on your part to enter on the treaty such as England pretends it to be. Two travelers had but one horse one of them proposed an agreement on these terms: the first half hour you shall walk and I will ride the second half hour I will ride and you shall walk. Just such would ba the Central American party according to the English interpretation. They know full well that you will not accept it —they know full well that you will not, and cannot, consent to submit in this case to any arbitration, least to the arbitration of any king they know full well that you have the means of renouncing the treaty if you choose, and that they can't help it if you do so they know full well that the English pe9ple do not care a bit about all the Balizes and Iluatans ar.d they know full well that, if wright or wrong, President Pierce has made up his mind to consider Mr. Crampton a persona ingratia, and not to have him at Washington they neither can help it, nor could induce the people of England to go to war with you on that account therefore, it is evident thai since they neither do wish, nor have the will aud resolution of coming to blows, the wisest possible expedient would be to cut short the excitcment.— They, however, do just the reverse, to what purpose? may you ask. It is: that they like to have this dispute open to serve as an excuse for their dancing at the tune of Bonaparte in the Paris transaction, which they feel will cast disgrace on England, though they are far from realizing all the danger it implies to her.

TALL SHOOTING.

On Sunday morning last, a farmer in the southern part of this county shot a deer through the body nor was this all, for, on following the game, he found his best cow, a valuable animal, for which he had refused $30 the day before, stretched upon the ground, shot through the heart by the same ball. Tho distance between the man and deer was estimated at about forty yards, in a direct line while the distance from the deer to the cow was found to be eleven rods, diverging from a right line some distance to the left. The ball passed entirely thro' both animals, cuLting off several sharp pieces of brush beyond the cow. The deer was found in the woods hut a short distance

beyond, its wound having proved mortal.

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Grand liapias hnq.

Gov. Seymour relates the following

anecdote of a religious man who came to him shortly after he vetoed the Prohibitory liquor law, and thanking him for so doing, said: "lie had been long and thorough in his examination of the Bible teachings, touching the use of beversgos as therein taught, and he found many passages which either recognized or recouimendod the use of strong drinks but in no instance, save one, where water was recommended or called for, and that was by a man in hell, where he ought to be."

SEDUCTION BV A BROTHER.—An affair of the most revolting nature has just been made public, which cannot but carry eternal infamy upon the heads of the guilty parties. A brother, possessed of the incarnate spirk of a devil, not only conspired against the virtue of his sister, but succeeded in taking from her that only and irreparable treasure which nature had given her, and which to him should have been as sacked as the apple of his eye. It seems that about ten months ago the aforesaid brother, who is a young man, and his sister, a little younger, were living with their parents, when the brother seduced the sister. About two weeks ago, "the sister," as we shall now call her, gave birth to a child. The parents of "the sister," ignorant of the cause of their shame, intended bringing tho sister before a Court of Justice, to make her tell who was the father of the child. The brother employed a congenial spirit to take her across the river to this place, where she is at present. In the meantime the above facts leaked out, and the "brother," took caution to vacate the premises. He has not been heard of since. —St. Genevieve Plaindealer, 23J ult.

A YANKEE SHIP REVEALING THE MVSTERIES OF A IIAREM.—A late Constantinople letter says: "An American ship drifting Helplessly down the current of the Bosphorus, ran its bowsprit into that part of a nobleman's palacc devoted to his harem. The side of the house was crushed in, one balcony was torn off, whole divans were ripped up, one chandelier, swept from its fastening, shivered into fragments the frighted inmates rushed out into the open air in such impromptu costumes that the whole neighborhood felt scandalized. Turkish pride became deeply wounded, and our unfortunate compatriot found himself amenable to the disagreeable alternative of either paying about the double amount of the damage or becoming an inmate of a Turkish jail. At first the captain strongly resisted ths 'gross imposition,' but ultimately yielded to the gentler suggestion of bagnio fleas."

JSrFrom the report recently made to Parliament by the Crimean Commissioners, it appears that more than one-third of the^ British army in the Crimea died within the year.

O^-Ther# are two million teres of wild land in Maine. It ii held at sixty cents per acre.

A NIGHT WITH THE KNOW-NOTII-INGS OR, UNCLE JAKE'S EXPERIENCE.

BR HIS NEPHEW.

There niver was a better dimicrat than Uncle Jake Rodgers on the yearth, allers attendin barbecues and 6peechifyins every chance, and like the Parson, could give a reason for the faith that was in him—he has allers been looked up to as a sort of oracle in perlitical matters, and noes the history of the United States Baiik and its orful iniquities, the tariff and its oppressors, the distribution of the publick lands and all them measures the old Whiga used to try to fix on the people so hard. In fact Uncle Jake was a dimicrat from the top of hi* head to the sole of his feet, and from one side all thro' to the other, and Aunt Nancy, his wife, was just as rambunctious on the subject as himself, only a little mora so.

Now, Mr. Eastman, I don't like to expose Uncle Jake, but the thing is so good I'll have to tell you all about it.

Last summer thar cum in our settlement a nice young man, sent out, as I larnt, from your place, to make No-Nuthins, but he didn't let us all no what he cum for at first. Howsome^er,. he linked in quite a lot on 'em principally Whigs, and I larnt sum on 'em intended tryin thar hands on Uncle Jake. Thinks I, old fellers, you'll be barkin up the rong tree, sertin, but the fust thing I noed they got holt of the old man, treated him, told him that the Dimecrats was all a jinin' on me'—that it warn* no Whig, trick, nor nuthin' of that sort -that the Pope of "roam" was a cummii' here to use up our Government, to make preests of the boys an' nuns of all the gals—that all the other denominations would have to cave in, an'wear crossess and kiss the Pope's big toe—that the No-Nothins ware going to stope all these evil things—goin' to regenerate the land, and bring things back to the days of General Jackson—that the Gov Jackson's folks war all fur 'em, tooth and toe nail, and what with one thing and another, the fust thing Uncle Jake noed he was a regular ringtailed KTo-Nothin. They dun the old man at r.ite, and arter it was all over he started home, an' as he went along his mind was full of misgiving, how could ho face the 'oman? What would Ginral Jackson say if he was alive? How could he meet his old Dimicratic friends agin? And he suddenly recollected that The Union, (tho old watchman on the tower of our Political Zion, as he used to call your paper,) was opposed to it. All these begin to work in fcncle Jake's mind, till by the time he got home he was in a powerful awivet.

He found Aui.t Nancy a sitting up fur him, an' Uncle Jako never was ashamed to meet her before. "Well, Jake" says she, "what on yenrth has kept you out so late to-night?" for Uncle Jake was very regular in his habits "Why, Nancy, I been round—attendin a meetin to night," eays he, quite hesilatin like. "What kind uv a .meetin?" says she. "Wy—a sort u* a parlitical meetin," ses he, shiverin all over, fur he was powerful on easy by this time. "Well" ses she, "if you've been tryin to hed these no-nothins, I aint go no more to say, fur you couldn't be in better business, fur I learn that sum^ call themselves dinticrats, have jined 'em. 1 don't like''em no how, Jake, fur they don't cum out open an' above board, but ar pokin round at nite in alleys and dark places but I thank the Lord you ain't wun of 'cm, fur I no I couldn't live with wun 011 'em to save my lift. But wljat makes you look so, Jacob —are you sick,? Bless my life if you aint got a chill on*you, and your hands are as cold as ice. What's the matter, Jake?" "Nuthin much," ses Uncle Jako, "I don't feel very well to-nite ole 'oman, an I'll go to bed," so sayin he slipt into bed, and the old 'oman arter him.

Bimeby Uncle Jake, arter tossin and roll in about, gits to sleep, and dremt that all his dimicrat friends he used to be with so much wouldn't have nothin to do with him, and that he couldn't no longer vote his old ticket, for his old friends and his old principles, and he groaned in spirit.

Aunt Nancy waked him up, skeered to death, an' Uncle Jake had to out with the whole thing. Aunt Nancy jumped out of bed and declared that she shouldn't stay thar, that a no nuthin couldn't come a high her. Uncle Jake at last told her ef she would forcfive him, he'd go early next mornin find git out of the thing, but she told him no, she couldn't stand him till morniu, and directly Uncle Jake hauls on his close, and went out and got the President and sum more on 'em together, an' swore he must git out afore mornin or kill sum body. They let him out—and when he got loose, he sung, he shouted, he danced and capered like a boy—he run home and like to a squeezed Aunt Nancy to death she, good old soul, was mitily riled about it an' powerfully distressed, but sealed his pardon with a kiss of forgiveness, an' let by-gones be by-gone.

One man soon after hinted to Uncle Jake that he beard he was a no-nuthin, when he

pitched into the feller an' like to a walloped

hinct to death since that time nobody has ever, accused Uncle Jake of being a nonuthin.— Yicksburgh Sun.

MADRID.—The Madrid correspondent of the London Times, writing on the 4th ult.,

safs: •.„ We are now in the midst of the carnival and nothing but fun and folly seems thought of. Yesterday, as the worthy representa

on the horso behind him with a clever jump and pronouncing his name, insisted on accompanying him on his ride, in that position. Mr. Dodge, not exactly relishing making so public a display, and conceiving that the voice of his would-be companion nas not wholly unknown to him, got down pad consigned his horse to the discretion of mask, who, in due course of time, refned it by a messenger to the owner, giva fictitious name.

Eight members of one family are at confined in the county jail at Cin-

Kttt kti.

[From tlie Providence (R. I.) Post.] IS THE KNOW NOTHING PARTY AN AMERICAN PARTY!

We answer, confidently and emphatically Xo! We say that, in all its features and all its purposes, it is the very opposite of what it claims to be. Let us see if we speak more or less than the simple truth.

In the first place, look at its secrecy. Is there anything American in that? Is it American to belong to a society the very name and the very existence of which you are bound by an oath to keep a profound secret? Is it American to nominate men for high offices, and keep their nomination asecret until ft is revealed through the bal-lot-box! Is it American to shrink from an opert discussion of the claims and qualifications of candidates for high offices? Is it

through trap-doors and back-entries, with one eye over your shoulder, like a dog with a stolen breakfast, to guard against detection? Can there be anything peculiarly American in an association whose main features are resembled by nothing that has existed in America from the landing of the Pilgrims down tp the day that we numbered twenty-five millions of souls? Is there anything very American in a society of Jesuits? Is there anything American in a star-cham-ber court? Is there anything American in an Italian or Spanish inquisition? If not, then is there nothing American in KnowNothingism, thus far considered." *.

Look at its oaths. From the moment of taking them the victim ceases to be a freeman. He is sworn to look upon his brother who was born upon another soil, or whose religious faith differs from his own as an outcast. He becomes a bigot—bitter, intollerant, unrelenting. He is sworn also to vote for his party's candidates, be th^r who and what they may. No matter if the greatest knave, the most bare-faced villain, or the meanest scoundrel that ever walked the earth, is placed nomination, he must vote for him. There is no escape.— He has sworn that he will do it. He cannot listen to argument, for he is no longer free to act according to the dictates of reason and conscience. His only answer to the patriot's appeal must be. "We have a law, and by that law I must vote for my party's candidate, no matter who he is or what he is, saint or devil, it is all the same."— Is there anything American in this? And yet this is one of the features ofKnow-Noth-ingism. 1

Look at its purposes. It proposes to annihilate political equality—to rob labor of its dignity, and its means of defence, by robbing it of it3 strength at the polls. It

would make chatties or mere machines of'piece."

thousands of white laborers, and then open the door to still greater encroachment upon the poor man's rights. Is there anything American in this?

Look again. It would erect communities of foreigners upon our own soil, by driving every man of foreign birth beyond the boundary of American society, whether social or political. It would tc-acli a larger class of men, with families growing up around them in our very midst to hate, with a bitter and everlasting hatred, the institutions of our country, and the men who sustain them. It would shutout the children of foreign-born parent from all Americanizing influences, and leave them to grow up amongst us with those prejudices common to the land of their fathers. Is this an object worthy of Americans?

Look once more. It would offer a premium for religious hypocrisy, by excluding from office and the ballot-box every man

But enough. There can be but one answer to the question we have asked. The Know-Nothing party is anti-American in its organization and internal features—antiAmerican in its purposes—anti-American in its soul and in substance. With its mask off, it is a bald traitor—a heartless, recklcss enemy of American institutions.— Let t-ue Americans flee from it as they would flee from the pestilence that wasteth at noonday—avoid it as they would the poisonous viper—and crush it as true patriotism would crush undisguised treason.

SHE KNEW THE PATCH.—One evening last week, some person rang the door-bell of the dwelling house of Mr. Richard Booze, on Starr Alley, Baltimore, the summons was answered by the good lady of the house, who on opening the door discovered a bundle lying on the step, and on taking it up for examination, found it to be a newlyborn female infant, wrapped in a dress of mouslin de laine. The little foundling was taken into the house and kindly cared for, and some of the neighbors on being informed of the incident, repaired to the house to inspect the little innocent who had been thus abandoned. One lady on examining the dress in which the child was found

wrappe(it

MR. DODGE ENJOTING THE CARNIVAL IN the negative, and that she had gone to the

who openly embraces the Catholic faith.— isembling nails, but not so sharp as to penThe American doctrine has been, that every person should be allowed to worship God according to the dictates of his conscience. It would trample this doctrine in the dust, by providing jwnaltics, in the form of proscriptive disabilities, for all who worship God in any other than the Protestant form.

discovered a peculiar patch in it,

which led her to resolve that she would ferret out th« iiother. She repaired to a cer- \p

tain house, and ringing the bell, inquired if!

Mrs. was within. The reply was in

country. The visitor, however, offered some excuse for going up stairs, and on arriving in a chamber found Mrs. confined to her bed.

The visitor triumphantly exclaimed, "I thought so, I knew it, and you bad better send for your child The result was that

tive of thfi United States, Mr. "Dodge, was after the infant was comfortably cared Jor tn0wn. riding towards the Prado, a mask sprung

in the house where it had been left, it was

conveyed back and restored to the arms °fi

rts mother. The mother, we understand,

has a husband, but he has not lived with

children.

Jt^Mr. Greeley writes from Washington: "The nomination of Fillmore falls like a wet blanket on the Americans here. I cannot find one who ever believed in or wished to see a North, who sustains it. It saems to be generally felt, even by Know Nothings in earnest, that it is a grave mistake for a new party to seloct asits standard bearer a hackneyed and discarded politician."

CRAWFOEDSVILLE, MONTGOMERY: COlffiTY, INDIANA, MARCH 15, 1856. NUMBER 35.

FUSION TROUBLES.

There is quite a fluttering among the Fusion politicians since the Philadelphia nominations. Each wing of the party is in deep-consternation. In Indiana there is to be a diversity of sentiment, which we think will bo irreconcilable. Whether, in this State, it will result in the creation of two electorial tickets, time must determine, and that determination must result from the I amount of principal and conscience that actuates the different wings of the Fusionists. Mr. Fillmore was very obnoxious to the Abolitionists when acting as President. It was he who caused the Fugitive Slave Law to be executed in Boston, by military force and which drew forth from Massachusetts her State laws, in-opposition to the Fugitive State law.

He is now forced upon the

American to sneak to the Council chamber I North by the pertinacity of the South, not, the settlement, through a wild and gloomy for the transaction of political business however, without a strong expression of dis- wilderness. As the shades of the evening satisfaction on the parf of the North. The drew on, he commenced to retrace his steps,

That portion of the Know-Nothing party which were old Whigs, will adhere to Fill-

shape of an electorial ticket. A few days will show what papers take their positions on these nominations.— State Sentinel.

scenery, and dresses, and eberytin right. We plays dere beautiful." "What have you ever played?" "Why, l'sc played Hamlet, and Polonius, and de Grabe Differ, all in the same

"How do you manage to rehearse?" "Why, we waits till de work is done, den we all goes down to de kitchen and rehearses." "But what do you do for ladies?" said Mr. Forrest. "Ah dar icc stickf~ dies."

tions.

A HARD BED.—Sir George Stanton visiting a man in India who had committed a murder, and ua order to save his life, but what was of more consequence, his caste, he submitted to a penalty imposed this was, that he should sleep seven years on a bedstead without a mattrass, the whole surface beinsr studded with points of iron re-

etrate the flesh. Sir George saw him in the fifth year of his probation, and his skin was then like the hide of a rhinoceros, but more callous.

At that time, however, he could sleep comfortably on his "bed ofthorns," and re|resembled marked that at the expiration of the term of his sentence he should, most probably continue thatsystem from choice which he had been obliged to adopt from necessity.

jC^-It is a penal offence to deposit any postoflice, to be conveyed in the mail, an envelope or packet containing letters addressed to different persons. The law upon which the above is based is frequently violated by persons who perhaps are not aware of its existence. The thirteenth section of the act approved March 3, 1847, reads that every person offending in the manner indicated above, shall forfeit the sum of ten dollars, to be recovered by action qui tam one half for the use of the informer, and the other for the use of the Post Office Department. There is one exception, however, and that is in the case of letter* addressed to persons in foreign countries.

ANDREW JACKSON DONELSON.—The Washington Star speaks of this gentleman ai

follows: -O* He resided here for mar.y years, and is well remembered, especially on account of General Jackson's memorable saying, that everybody bad bis pest for his part, if it were not for Donelson, he should have

nothjnrr

wjf0i tj,e

cau5e

her for some two or three years and, fur-j^g turned

thermore, we are informed, she has grand- focos

in the world to'trouble" him. The

truth is, Donelson was his Monsieur MalaBeing a family connection of his General was forced to tolerate him about him, and to grin and bear with all

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the philosophy he could muster, the 'scapes and difficulties into which Donelson was constantly getting him. Donelson's most remarkable trait is an abiding want of common sense, which has prevented him, notwithstanding the prestige of his relationship to the wife of Jackson, from having the least political weight where personally

ra(ted

from the Democratic party be

President Pierce refused to take him

an{j certain

members of his family, for office

own

valuation. For months before

Up a

Know-Nothing, the Loco-

Nashville were cracking jokes

about his lamentations over his failure to get what he asked of the Administration and the undignified and impotent personal abuse showered by him at street corners for the benefit of street-corner audiences, on the President. His nomination is worth to the Know-Nothing cause in Tennessee, at least a clear loss of some 2,500 votes for the mental and political calibre of Andrew Jackson Donelson is well known throughout portions of that State.

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Anti-Nebraska, Freesoil, Free Democrat, as he supposed, through lands of Wm. SilAbolition party in Indiana, are numerous ver, of Philadelphia but he was disappoint positive and somewhat uncompromising men. They have newspapers and men of talent to lead them, and it remains to be seen whether these sub divisions, including the Quaker vote will be content with Fillmore as their candidate.

more and certainly unfurl his banner in the ling in the bushes close by, and on looking cautiously around, he beheld a huge bear coining towards him. To draw up his trusty rifle and shoot the beast, was the work of on instant. Bruin gave a fearful and awful roar, which awoke tho echoes of the gloomy solitude, and then was still. Fearing that the beast was only wounded, Clark hastily reloaded his guri with two balls, the

MR. FORREST AND THE COLORED ACTOR. A few days since, this distinguished tragedian was playing an engagements Baltimore. One morning,- while at breakfast, the colored gentleman who waited upon him thus last in his pouch, and discharged them into addressed him "Massa Forrest, I seed you play Wirginius de odder night—I golly, you played him right up to de handle. I tink dat play as good as Hamlet. Was it writ by tho same man!" "Oh, no." said the tragedian, amused at the communicative spirit of his sable friend, "Hamlet was written by Shakespeare, and Virginius by Knowles." "Well," said the waiter, "dey'd bofe mighty smart fellows. I'se an actor myself."" "You!" said the '"astonished tragedian: "why, where do you play?"

'Down in the 'sembly rooms," was the With these refleciions he continued to grope reply. "We'se got a theatre, stage, and his way through the laurel, hoping to find fill a path that might lead to a hunter's habitation, but in vain. The night was as dark as Egypt, and the howling of a pack of

A NIGHT OF HORROR—BEARS, PANTHERS,

&c.

Potter county, Penn., is, to a great extent, a howling wilderness yet the land is good, and efforts are making to have it cleared and settled.

Arvine Clark, an experienced woodsman, is an agent for parties who wish to take up lands in the wilderness and bring tb?m into market and in the course of h^ explorations he meets occasionally with rare adventures—of which the following is regarded by him as the most frightful that has ever befallen him during his long career in the backwoods. The story was related to the writer by Mr. Clark himself, £nd may be relied upon as being correct.

On the 4th of November last, Mr. Clark was exploring the route for a new road to

ed, and lost his way. He bccame alarmed, and as the dusky shades of night settled around, he found himself in a dense forest at least eight miles from the settlement.— Becoming very tired from rapid walking, he sat down on a log to rest and contemplate for a moment his situation. His attention was suddenly arrested by a rust-

the body of the monster, when he cautious ly approached and found that he was dead

He describes the roar of the beast, us he

received his death wound, as terrific, and calculated to make the stoutest heart quail and fear.

A dark and gloomy night was settling around him—be had no bullets for his gun —was far in the wilderness without food or shelter—surrounded by wild animals. He had no matches to kindle a tire—his situation was desperate, and to add to his further discomfort it commenced raining.— What was to be done? To remain there without lire was e.xceedingly dangerous.—

wolves greeted his ear. Being an old man, he soon became exhausted, and found that he would have to remain for the night.

Coming to an aged hemlock he seated himself At its roots for the night. Could he but obtain afire lie would be comparatively safe. The effort was made by collecting some dry materials, and loading his __ gun with powder hq fired the charge into

Wo can't get nc la- a dry cotton handkerchief. It was a faillure! As the gun was discharged, another

"Why, won'i the colored ladies play?" jbe&r apparently within twenty feet cf him, "Oh, no," said the colored ac'or, "doj gave a hideous and awful roar that made colored ladies think it too degrading." Clark's hair stand on end. Bruin was

The great tragedian asked r.o more qt-.es- terribly frightened by the discharge of the gun, and hastily scampered off, much to the relief of Clark, who now began to fairly realize the danger of his situation.

Here he remained, not daring to fall asleep. About two o'clock in the morning, to add to the horrors of his situation, the cry of a panther was heard. The beast approached—came nearer, every few minutes uttered a screech that froze the blood- in his veins! As a last, resort to defend himself from the attack of the savage animal, he re-loaded his gun, putting in some three cent pieces, and some steel pens (for he had nothing else,) which ho hoped might do some execution. The animal came so near that the glare of his eye9 in the darkness two balls of fire! Clark every moment expected to receive the fatal spring.

There he remained without daring to move, with the fiery eyes of tho panther fixed upon I him. In this dreadful situation, ex-

I pecting every moment to be torn in pieces,

he remained till break of day, when lie was releived from danger and the animal disappeared. Hungry and weary and excited, lie left for the settlement, where he arrived about noon, and related his thrilling adventure. A party proceeded to the place where the bear was shot, and brought in the carcass, which proved to be a very large one. It was dressed and forwarded to New York. It was several days before Clark recovered from' the fatigue, the fright and the excitement of that night, which will never be removed from his mind.— Poughkcepsie Eagle.

VIOLATION Or THE PRINCIPLE THE NEBRASKA KILL! The Washington Union maintains that

the principle of the Nebraska bill has been

violated by the Emigrant Aid Society of Massachusetts, as clearly as by the "border rufiians" of Missouri. It says: "When Congress adopted the principle that the people of Kansas were to have the right of regulating their own domestic concerns, it was clearly understood, that (he people referred to were all those who might become actual settlers, with the view of ultimately becoming citizens when Kansas should be erected into a State—it wis understood that Kansas would be settled in the ordinary mode of emigration to our new Territories, and by no unusual or forced means to control the result. Hen^e the real object of the Kansas law would be defeated by the use of associated capital which would hasten into Kansas a population which was carried there (not by the attractions of the climate and soil, and other usual inducements to immigration) by pecuniary facilities and considerations, furnished by capitalists, whose object was to prevent a fair decision of the question presented by the law. The spirit of the doctrine of popular sovereignty could be as effectually violated and defeated by dicecting capital in Massachusetts to that object as by the immigration of Mi^sourians, whose purpose might be, not to become bona fide settlers but temporary residents, with the view of controlling the election of territorial legislators. The moving considerations in both cases would be an evasion of the true intent of.the law."

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0^7~Mutilated quarters are in circulation mense Mormon emigration from the Nerfrh deprired of one-fifth their value. [of Europe, on the opening of Spring.

ARRIVAL

OF THE AFRICA-^

V- NEW YORK, March IG The steamship Africa arrived, bringing^ dates from Liverpool to Saturday, F«l* ry 23d. She brings no tidings of the missing steamship Pacific.

The middling and lower qualities of cotton are one-sixth lower. The sales for tho week were 50,000 bales, 7,000 bale* takett by speculators. Breadatuffs had slightly' advanced. Consols closed at 91.

Peace conference progressing favorably. The Rothschilds take the whole of the aeir British loan.

LONDON, Saturday, Feb. 23.

Russia is said to consent to the dismantling of Nicolaief, but tho report is regarded as doubtful. The editors of newspapers in Paris are ordered to write no more respecting war or peace while the confercnco sits. It was supposed the conference would meet on the 23d.

Count Orloff arrived at Paris on Thursday. The conference opened on tho 25th. Letters from St. Petersburgh and Warsaw in the German papers give details of preparations in progress for continuance of war, and state that on no point has the former energy of the military department been abated.

It is said that the amount of frauds, of which Mr. Sadlier, who recently committed suicide, has been guilty, is not much short of one. million francs in railway shares and

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COLLEGE INSURRECTION IN SOUTH CAROLINA. The correspondent of the Baltimore Ad' vertiser give3 the following particulars of tho rftcenLtcrrihlo nnd WOAJJ- accnes enacted Columbia College, South Carolina:

One of the students had been arrested and taken to the gaurd-house for drunkenness, and the following scene occcurred:

As soon as he was lodged there the cry of^' "College" was raised by the students, and in less than two minutes, 160 students wero present, all armed with pistols, bowie knives, clubs, swords, and hatchets, and rushed to guard-house crying "out, out." After cutting all the doors and windows into fragments, they rushed in upon the Chief, each student giving him a wound with a knife, bludgeon or sword and then threw him out of the second story window on tho brick pavement. The alarm bell was then rung to call the citizens together, but too late to be of any service to the police.— This morning about 10 o'clock, the alarm bell rang again. On arriving at the guard house, I found the students and some of the citizens "going in lemons" with pistols, swords, and bowie knives. Several of tho students were carried to their respective homes, dreadfully cut and b/uised.

The students had sworn to kill the policemen, and they broke into the guard-house, where he had been put for safety, and pulled him out in front of it, whore thoy each were irivinj him a blow with their clubs, and

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some of them cutting him with their bowio knives. The few citizens that were present rushed upon them, and they had a/lreadful muss. Tho alarm bell was again rung to summon the military companies, and in a short time five companies were present, including the artillery, clearing the sidewalk.

TUESDAY Night, Feb. 10.—The military are now stationed around the guard-houm and jail, prepared to give the students a •The students hare made

warm icctption

OF iseveral threats to-night, and the military will be kept under arms, 1 think, several days. The mayor says they shall notdis-

-v- 1 perse till peace is declared. The students

wi]l nQt submit tQ ftny pcacc pr0

posals till they hare murdered Bedell, the Chief of the police. One of the students died this afternoon, and others are expected to die to-night Bedell, I understand, died to-night.— Three of the police have been murdered by these ruffians since my arrival here.

THI RSDAT, 20.—The students have dispatched one of their number to Charleston, for the purpose of purchaning ammunition, finding the citizens of this place will not sell to them. They have also procured rifles from a neighboring town, under falso pretences, and were moulding bullets last night and all day to-day. The Mayor hav ing secured the key of their armory oa Tuesday, they sent a messenger to him this morning, stating that if he did not give up the key, they would break open the armo-

ry. He refused to do so, and they brose it open and procured the weapons therein. FRIDAY, 21.—The Governor went to the campus this evening, and demanded tha arms from the students, telling them that if they did not surrender, he would fire upon them. This being done, they gave up their arms.

At last -.^counts the exercises of the College bad been suspended on account of thoso proceeding®.

£5TThe story that the Cuban sugar crop will be short is discredited. It is supposed to be a devise of the speculators.

O^rlt »S supposed that there will be an ICQ

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Great anxiety was felt at the result of tho peace conference, but it was generally supposed that peace would be concluded, as France was very anxious for it.

There is nothing more in regard to tho difficulties between England and the United States, except that ths London Advertiser professes to know that Mr. Dallas brings very stringent instructions.

committed crimee

of the most diabolical description. A portion of the advance squadron of the Br.Itic fleet had steamed up ready for leaving Spithead on the evening of the 22d.

The money article of the Daily News of Saturday, says the taking of the new loan by Rothschilds at about 90, had produced a fall of about 4- per ccnt. in consols, although a part of this was subsequently recovered. The aggregate of subscription* to the loan reached £30,000,000.

The latest correspondence from tho Crimea brings nothing of interest. In Constantinople there was great commercial confusion, and a material declin* in prices.

The parliamentary proceedings in England had been unimportant. There is nothing of interest from France or other parts of Europe.