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RELIGIOUS.

The Bible. Within this awfal volumes lies The mytery of mysteries; Happiest they of human race To whom their Ood has given grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To lift the latch, to for ce the way; And better had they ne'er been born, That read to doubt, or read to scorn. !-cott. "l oiscourseES piaiuiy as possinie; ior i cesire mat tne commonest people, mat cnuoren,

that servants should understand what I say. j itary behavior at Puebla and the City of MexiIt is not for the learned we go into the pulpit; co, hasshowed himself incapable of apprecia-

they have tUeir books- I preach the p'ain lan.in . 1 .1 . ....1 ...... A mn 1 aH vuntr v liic iiuiiii uiiicamrn i--mmc, aim nniw . '. ,, ' m, ... ' pleases ail parties. There is nothing more a- ,, ' ri. ,i greeable and more useful to the common Peopie than to preach to them the law and plain ex amples. Disquisitions upon grace, and upon the 1 1,' articles of justification, however good m them- . T X -r w . , Luther s Table-talk. . i The SaWnih. ; ... , 1 here is one steamboat, savs the New ork v wr .. . . , ; , ; ? , , ? andM. Louis, which does not violate the Lord s , , ... , , ....

' . ,".-"- .uineumnenm capacitv such as he thought (and such as othman.s as we are informed, and has determined . entered the army, and that he was, for a consid- ers knew he possessed. He knew (for -what to stop Wore 12 o'clock Saturday night, and re- .; erab e period, the aid-de-camp of that disUn- ; man of . did ot know it?) t,,at u wont(, be main till after 13 o clock on Sunday n:ght. He gushed comman.ler. Worth early showed great a war of conaest,-witl. whatever profeed or a,.cws no ardent spirits, or even wine to be sold , rmlitary capacity and courage-was severly ' rea, pnr pose begun,-and that from its victories on his boat; whence the traveller is sure of an ; wounded in the leg during the war-and rose lsure to be won bv a s ior rare f,ver an hferi. orderly company and good treatment. , to the rank cf Colonel without a blemish on his 1 or, eren thcugh'incidental reverses miM.t occur The T World,. j rr;'nal character. Several years ago he ' lnust conle forth the flltl)re ruIer or or (,,e There is a world where no storms intrude-a , .n command at the U. States Arsenal, near American people. He thought himself the man haven of safety ngamst the tempests of life, a . VV wt Troy, and became the proprietor cf a very , for lat nnmy and he lpl,,,t ,hat , little world of joy and love, of innocence and j mansion about half way between Albany lpepp,e knew ,,,, ,'obe ,be wm . tranquillity. Suspicions are not there, nor ; and Troy, where he lived in very hospitable', Ud not know him to be such, it was not his jealousies, nor falsehood, with their d n,l,!e- ; vle, and after the fashion cf the fn,e old Fn- fauU. One thin, was clear to him, and that was tongne.norvemom of slander. Peace embra- Ch g-nt:-m,n" in the song, "kept it up at a'old Ztrhary Tavlor was not the man for that ecethitwith out-spread wings. Plentv brood-'; KooJ ol11 rate" with the powerful aristocracy, ' r,T,.,. " . . , , ,. . ,, : . ., , -"jinergency. A crisis must soon occur which eth there. hn a man er.tereth it, he forr.-t who ruled this State with such advantage to ! , , r ,, , , , ' i , , would precipitate the war so carefully phmned hs sorrows, ai:d carts, and cisrointments; he 'themselves nnd-r the ancient regime of the fi-. ... . , , w ,. , .. ... 1 ' ... ..... iliytne Acimnistration at alimg1on an I bv ".iKslvoIioapt In .irt,,R,l.,,,rt., 1 ... ... .. t.lmi Al!i:inT- l.rrnnc- will. nm 1....1 t.. .. i . -

. VT . """2""u I1'--""-,. Miiiuuii.etitt 1:1 remorse. 1 nis word is t :a , , ' home of a virtuous and amiable woman. j There ha world where the storm rag-,i,.d the trsts riot wildly. A world where love and , or ent-r not, and where innocence fli-th af- ; ir'g:ii.-u away. ,ea:ausy is inT, an.i an-r, andha'e. Slander and falsehood, twi 11 -sisters, ab:d. Pea-'e departs from it. When a man filter it. h returns not agiin, for the ',-ad are there. This world is the dwelling of a women whobas forsaken the guide of her youth, and forgotten the covenant other God; whoso house is in the way tn !:!', gn-rj down to the chamtia,J Nothing is rner j va' ,;iln; : .t is so easily . purchased, than a goo ! nature. A man of p'.-as-ant cisposition finds friends everywhere, and wakes file'ids where peoole of n rontr.rv n-

ture ste on'y enemies. Goodnature is one f thins, the sweetest gits of Providence. Like pure' Colon' 1 Worth was also, at diiHrent times, in sunshine, it c'i 'dens, enlivens, fhee-j. in the command at Sa kett's Harbor and at Buffalo, midst of h ite, revenge, sorrow, and despair, how where he was very popular among all classes, as glorious its effects. You can see its operatio-.i he ever had been at Albany, Troy and other laon the very countenance hear it in every voice, ces wiiere he had resided. At Uuil'do and Sa kand feel it in every sense. It is good nitur ett's Harbor he continued his eminently social that elevates, purifies and exalts; but the reverse ad hospitable habits, in the indulgence of that degrades, debas-s and destroys. Who wiil whkh, aud particularly i:i the entertainment of not strive to posss this glcjous trait of char- I'litish oihVcrs from the garrisons on the oppoaoter. si;e shore, he continued to lose less money than

1 hv Child nnd tUr nrrn. P -rfurchte .jrardener to F.li7.ahelh, consort of I pnierick II i had one little .laughter, with whose religious instruction he bad taken great pain. When this child was five years of ac the Queen saw her one day while, visiting the royal gardens at Shonhausen, nnd was so much pleased with her, that a week afterward she expressed a widi to see the little jrirl rga:n. The father accordingly brought hlsarthss child to the palace, and a page conducted her into the royal presence. She approached the Queen with unt aught coartesey, ki-ed her rolto, and modes:! v took her seat which had h-en placed for her by the Queen's order, near her own person. From this position she could overlook the table at which the Queen wns dining with the ladies of her court, and they watched with inter st to see the effect of so much splendor on the simple child. Siie looked careless! y on the cost'v dresses of the cnests; the gold and porcelain on the table; and the pomp with which all was conducted, and then folding her hands she sung with her clear voice, these word: "Jesus', thy blood and rightonn Are all my ornament and dress: Fearless, with these pure garments on, I'll view the splendor of thy throne." All the assembly were struck with surprise Rt seeing so much fading, penetration Rn l piety in one so young. Tears filled the eyes of the ladies, and the Queen exclaimed, "Ah, happy child ! how far are we below yo-!" Fpi--oopal Recorder. Mi niorf of n lolhrr.

John Randolph, some years siuce, addressed el"in,,"t military patron's operations in the p'e that never forgives a defeat be a sufficient to this very important question, whether the himself to an intimate friend in something like newspaper line Prevet Prigadier Genera! Worth jnstilication cf his displacement of the Adniinis- marriage with the sisUr of a deceased w ife, is or following: "I usid to be ca'ied a Frenchman, ' said to have taken care that his fame should trillion, who sought war only for their own ben- is not legal. The case has been argued during because I took the French side in politics, and not become obscured in the night of oblivion efit and that of their friends not for that of the past week, and yesterday Led Penman and though this is unjust, yet the truth is, I should which fell upon the unkown brave of ancient strangers. The people wi'l recollect that the other judges of the Court of Queen's Reiich. have been a French Atheist, if it had not been times, (earent quira Vate sacro, "all for the Worth's resignation was not accepted, though inmost elaborate judgements, decided that, actor one recollection, and that was the time when 'nt of" one notice in the papers. General he remained in Washington a considerable linn cording to the new law of thiseountry, such a my departed mother used to l ike mv litil ln.l Worth's name was kept before the public eve,' whi le it was on file in the War Peoartment. marriage is absolutely null and v.-id; and as a

in hers, and cause me on my knees to sav Father which art in Heaven.' " 'Our Humrtn Irlh-rhowd. The race of mankind would perish, did they cease to aid each other. From the ti-ne that the mother bines the child's head, till the moment that some kind assistant wipes the death-damp from the brow of the dirg, we cannot exist without mutual help. All, therefore, that need l :, have a right to ask it from their fellow mor- "-'"-' f'v' v t nam ti - cn refuse it without guilt. Sir W. Scott. RcflKtifHl ll.mn. hen morning pours its gv'.deu rays 'er hill and vale, o'er earth aud sea, My heart unbidden swells in praise, Father cf light aud life, to Thee. Il t-mpsts sweep the angry sky. Or sunbeams snide on iiowerand li ;oysand sorrowscim the eve I at her in heaven, I turn to TiW. tree,

BIOGRAPHY. CJcnrral William J. Worth.

i. a I the receipt of very recent intelligence from Mexico as to the irregular and insurborI,. , " dinateconouctof this officer, and the formal t censures consequently inflicted on him by his : mdKarvassoca.es and by his commander, there j was a universal disposition to overlook his formil misconduct and to consider his errors completely cancelled by his gallant and servicable actions at Monterey and in the various battles touglit under the command of General P cott. isut General orth bv his singular and unmil ting the leniency and generosity of the public; J . , J uuu uia arro'raui. COUrSe naS Phalli nut his ivl.nle . . - e""t'llnI,ul ni3 character in issue. n w r , , Ons. V w. Jenkins W orth has been partiou- 1 1 I hi , , . lar V ff? knovrn n tno .mUnf , Ci.. f V York for manv vears. He was born in Hudson - ,!. Columbia county, to which place his parents had 1

; . J ' -narlaas;ableto give it ve; and that's reason enough." inevard, Mass,) and passed his early life in ori i, , i,, , ., , ,,, , lr , '' , J tr It was settled that there should he war: and near Hudson. U hen a very youmr man, he be- w ,i i i . i , , . , 3 i orth knew it; but he was not satislied with came clerk in tne store of Chandler Ptarr. in I- 1 1 . . .. ,T . . , . , , ir, .vi ls prospective position nut. He saw that t

' "'-y as a ant. It has been said that he was a preatfa - .. . , . "- .' "'""'""i huuimic w uii? ri-iu. ii" 111 a ;i:mv and aler- ... -, , these lords of the land, the an Ha-', r - ns Marcy, Croswell, and the like, Colonel , orth, though originally and from spontaneous; ft - e'.inir a big, lame very friendly and social,' IflTtlllH!. W.li: -ti ' II IT I II -.1 TIBr ,..1 II ..a ' ,"" us., iroiu mere gooii teiiowsinp, lie us-.t ' t vote for Van Huron and his party, though nt professing their principles. It is said that, at his social parties, Worth sometimes ' !ot a good deal of money in friendly play with the-. tine fellows, and that at last, led nerhans 1. ......... . 1 i . 1 . . . . i 1 . in" nan examples oi some ot me slocR-ioh-h'tnz State company, tioin an-.i ti liank aristocracy, with whom he kep h tried his hand a little in spcciil.t nince. He is said to have beou a di r - r'.r of a certain Waterviiet Pank, which aft rwards made some sort f "s-na-h without ndding ar.y gr1 honor or n'nfit to its pm,.aro i.e iii-imufi "r'"-"v ill n:".e rl t:!'s r'n,r. 1... , . . . . among laes.iarp leiiows ot the old Urgency aristoeracy, at Aibnuy, geiil'eman," and like lie war. thouoh he "lived like a prince of a fellow," as ne. iiKe a' Y. , , . lu 1M I, he was ordered to take command ot he army employed against the Somino'os in' n. l ioru:a, wnere he ha Hie lienor, in a remark-, me saort t,me, to end taat te,aous and cisgraoetill StritO. IV hrincrinir t ... Ineeina inf. .,....T..t.. miiansiuto complete suhn isssion. The gratitude ol the country to lum tor t!ie sifrnal service, in winch lie so well wed displayod his energy of character and Ids h:g!i ' unlit irv r i.:,':. s. was hearty and universal

in-ore oi oi ing.o.eri.eneral with wliahtae it wov! I take vou a day longer to get the idea Government honored him was considered but through bis skull. Anostro iio-iouslv thick :i imperfect compensation for the benefit which ' ped man he isI assure von." And Hu so he had rendered by bringing the ruinous "seven things General Worth did not breathe in conyears" Floiida war to a final close. For the first fidenoe to intimates and friends, but uttered them time, he became a man of high national reputa- loudly and publicly to whomsoever chose to hear tion: aud his opinion of his own prospects very casual acquaintances and strangers. With naturally roe with his new fame, as did also his MU-h talk ns this, he went on his way to Wash-

aniliition. !t should he no.,ced that Worth having, nt the beginning of his military carver, been for sometime a sort of pupil and "pet" of Genera! Scott, and having been his most intimate persona! friend and warm a.lndn-r, without interimssion. for more than thirty years, had made him in many respects a mo.a-1. and Iran learned from him some cf his peculiar arts of acquiring populordy or notoriety. Scott lias a'ways bad a great idea of new spaper puffs as a means of making himself conspicuous, and of "keeping berore the people" his merits and the history of his public services. F.dified and encouragetl by the n-sultsof his ""'l ,n,'rits were enlarged upon, net only;

throughout his very servicable Florida campaign old dinner-table intimates and card-table com- riage are illegitimate. From what we under- , cuinstauc.eai II not cursed w ith M T pockbut continuously just In fore and from the be- panions were enjoying their leisure at Wash- stand, many parties will Ite placed in a most j PUg,t now XMN into the condition of ginning of the Mexican War, when be found ington. and waiting till the expected news of a unpleasant position by this decision; but, i s ,1(We Hr(,i,j t't .t go forward with N RG himself en the banks of the Rio Grande under disgrace or revers of the American arms should Lord Penman observed, they ought to have Wu ... , distresses of the ndv wiiho.it

, the command of a very quiet, tul rallier or- . . , . ., score old Colonel, (and brevet Rrigadier Generat, named Zichary Taylor. That there was to' ho a war with Mexico, somehow or other Worth j wvll knew. "If yon want to boat a dog it is j easy to find astick;" and he knew that Mexico, It I II U 111 I III" lUM.tiltT I 11 I tlx" J'VMllV II VI It" ll happy cur, destined to furtigation, could not escape a war "any wy she could fit it." the 1 Government cf the Fnited States bring "hound ! to have a fight ont of her anyhow." If she'

i rrew led aud bristled and showed her teeth at the organ of the administration, i i anticipation of man's name is Jesse R. Hull, nnd the statement Burleigh, the adolitiouist, and editor of a paArmerican army's adivance into her ancient an 1 new, s of Taylor's defeat, aud ti prepare the pub- ' that for some cause, supposed to be merely per iu Hartford, Con., made a gross attack

( unc.it-turbed possesions, she was to be beaten i for that. If she whined and beggi-d and fini'ily i turned tail aud run yelping away, (as her troops did after 1 sylor crosj. the Neuces,) she was l to be beaten for the iiinilt to American justice'

implied in tliat. If she had sat in dumb and motionless stupidity with the puns of Fort r......, i.,j j:..i ..:.. l,.,-.. oo in tl.a

pPaceab!e town of Matamoras, she would have 1 . . r . i i . . been beaten for not joyously and spontaneously reigning a! cIaim 'to everything which the Americans ever had taken from her 'or might yet desire to take from her. If she had -lain like log" under this infliction, she was to l,ra,pn r,lr ,.,!,: ,! ..,.,.,., ,,:,.

----..-. ... ...... .. . . j .... ... ...... .....j.i.... . - . i' i nil,; r II. , . III. ,'-!!lU9 , IM 1 1 1 1 I which she had ever done or ever threatened to reived this remarkable intelligence "with emodo, or ever failed to do to the United States or tions more easily imagined than descrited." A

anybody that ever lived or pretended to have lived in them. The claims which she had disputed she was to be beaten for being unwilling , to pay. Those which she aoknowleeged to be I ill3t. nnrt trtn-t .-.! '.oT.t In ...... d... 4 1... "... ..I... tjy M , UC " Ill U 1 . r i i . beaten lor being unidile to pav. It was a case of ... ".nanifest r.estmy. Do what she might bark . vn wrftwi nr : she had got to tuke, at any rate, for soma reab w..-. , ..n., ui iuuU i-viiiiii son, or for any reason, or for no reason at all, Ull) Ul IUI rt tl oth,.r than P baddy's, which is "jist bi-kase he's euten-jw.0!lMfun)ishflt.!(sfor the ,,evewnte,lt Bnj ' - - 1 e , , . . .cisplavof commanding and brilliant military those who contrived their elev.ition. Two bost-. ., , , . . 'de armies could not loug remain in such proximi, v wi.,,mit a collision-especially wh.n one .om;aluer vm ,nslrrted l0 wk tflat co!lis!ou amI ,,,e 0,er was ot illstructe(i tn avoill Ue counted overmuch on Mexican sluisliness and weakness, and on Zachary Taylor's supposed inactivity. To get the command of that "army of occupation" ("or invasion" as Zachary Taylor pha?ed it) was Worth's object. I'nt there was more than one difficulty in the way. In his eager-1 nessM attain a position from which lie mmht easily supplant Taylor, Worth claimed that he should rank next to hiin on the score of brevet rank rs Hrigaiiier General, though his commission (us colonel merely) made him far the junur ot L nlonel 1 wije, now Hrgaciier General. 1 1 (" this question, Taylor cf courre decided i in f ivor of T iegs as the senior, and superior in rank. This served him ns nronveiiieiit pretext for a nominal resignation of his rommi--ion n . ' . " i t ie moment when a hostile force was before him; and he at once left the scene of inevitable war end hastened towards Washington, where his complaints against Taylor and his represen tations of his incapacity could be poured into ; willing ears. Marcv, the crotary of War, was a old ivrsonal intimate aud familiar friend of Worth, and the jolly times they once had to-' Esther in Albany and vicinity. Tliroi.nl. I, i influence, the command in the Mexican war. a!...!.;.,. i. . 1. . i , . . , ,

j M.. .nn t-u ;ior.ousiy lerini nau u inej'"'" .v....... o. .Florida war s-emed easy nnd ready. "There is not au American upon the face of the ii.:.. ... . , ' i .1..., t.. r,:... ...... t,.,M 1

fort. on who l.n.i n-;.,ri.,ct- i , i. i ,i...: 1'' f..- A v.., n. .. i .. ........ ;-vs in .New iilean;. and there in the fullss of his self confidence and the blindness of hi ambition rave bis opinion freely, publicly and repeatedly, of Xachary Tavlor. Said In ..X- ... 1. r . , . ..... . . . . . . ' " ou have no idea what a th-Yk headed old ftlow Gen. Taylor is. It is almost impossible; to .:.... 1.:.., n : i.. in ..... i ., . rive him a new i.la. llu hen, I ij ilii.-L il, .i it won'.! take a r y to get an idea through his ( hitir; and, after you had got it through his hair, irrtmt nirit-d. lUorj K.;tAr,G.,n ,,f Taylor, and enforcing his testimonial of his iucompesencv. Worth's nominal and protonded resignation of his commission was meanwhile, "hung nn to dry" in the War IVnartment. while he and Marcv sat te-'ther waiting ment, while he and Marcv sat together waiting till Taylor should either by sh.ggi-hnoss sn.i stupidity, or from dread of the responsibility cf commencing the war. endure some in.ult which would justify the Administration in recalling a commander so obscure and so inoompotent to great and unexpected emergencies. or should, in some sudden encounter with the ' vastly superior Mexican force, known to be near him. meet with a reverse that would to a peoWhile Worth and Marcv (two comfortable . i . ... iiiruisn a proper occasion ior orin. ill a painotic burst or feeling to resume bis commissin, nnd fly to the rescue of bis country's im'periled, houo-, affairs on the Rio Grande were assuming a seiious aspect It wiil be recollected that the minnuistratiou, at the time when Worth ' ' w-m iih-hi iiu IIVl auillli I . L'tll 1" , their apprehensions or belief that Taylor (then completely surrounded by an overwhelming . Mexican force) had been cut otf and defeated. Tha whole nation shared in their alarm. The ,110, mind for a proper reception of it, came out t ce.iure of Gen. Tavlor for his i with a protnp imputed neglect of the measures necessary for his security and snroei. It wa under these irc'iiiist..tu cs that the

government and the nation received the astouuding news of the battles of the oth and !).hof, IT... KIC I.:u :. r ..! r

Palo Alto and La Resaca historical, and mate-', n . - . . , , ,, . . ' nally diminished the chances of establishing, to; the satisfaction of the people, the opinion that! Ziehary Tavlor was any more slu-ish, heedless, stupid or thick skulled than people in gen- ; eral. i pra, n.;., r... xr... ti w..,.. ' more awkward and ticklish predicament than! that iu which he had placed himself could not! be contrived. Iu his engreness to displace his j commander, he had deserted his post, and aba n.I,..,..,! 1,:-, ...... . .1.. r. f .1. - A . ' UVJIH U I 1 1 1 1 1 ril 1 1 1 1 1 1 I a. f OI Hit? eiieiMV. -l Hie verv moment when he was traducing and . p hack biting General Taylor, and ridiculing his :...,..., .,... f .., ...... faithful valiant, and skillful old chi. f was win- ' ii.ivinv.iuui m uh u iui iliimt(il Ullllf?. U ill 1 ' ning the victories that in tffe;t decided the whole war, fro;n that day, by breaking the spirit and destroying the se'f-coiiitdence of "the magnanimous Mexican nation," aud their "inViu ible army." Willi the least possible loss of time Gen.

Worth picked up his commission in the war ofr . . . r t- ., , ,. , . ' fice and "slid for Texas" and little beyond.

probably making the best time on record, over that route, so famous in by-gone d ivs for quick travelling Gone iu an instant, were all bis scruples as to brevet rank. Hushed forever were his sneers at the incapacity and stupidity of the "thick-headed" Gen. Taylor. Dimmed and darkened were the fond hopes of supplanting him in the command of the "Army of Occupa- , : ; ... ,, "ou ur ""as,uu' ! looming thearmyen the Rio Grande and resuming the command of his regiment, Gen. orth immediately showed the best points of ; Ins character in setting liim-lf honestly and dil- j igently to work to retrieve his reputation and ' regain the confidence of his innired rommamler. 1 more piacat.ie, guierous aim forgiving man than Gen. Tavlor does not live. He well knew I

the particulars of Worth's designs and attempts ; days on a jury, says he is so full of law that it is against him. He knew his plot and intrigues ' hard work for hiin to keep from cheating someto ruin his reputation, and his aspirations to find ' body.

"a way to work out his ruin." The fact that Gen. Taylor was thus informel is here made public from the statements given by Taylor himself, in his own hand writing. Still he received Worth kindly, aud furnished him opportunity to distinguish himself. And finally, at the seige of Monterey, General Tay- ; lor crowned his magnanimity towards his repeutaut f"f '" giving him the much desired post of j honor the command of the column wich made the assault ou the Ihshop's P..lace nn occasion which Worth so Well improved us to make it one rf the most splendid performances of the whole! war, and raise himself to a po ilion, which he j has ever since held, among the most honored of. the heroes of the Conquest of Mexico. IIi career from the time when he was trans'r.dto the Army undtr Got: ere I Scott, well known to need further notice. is too I .mid ItnMx ry Holdlv Advocated. Who does not recollect how the idea of holding Mexico by conquest was scouted at by the leaders of the nomocracy, when it was first ' c'1 irR' l' upon them that such was their design l.ven tlie "Mate Sentinel declared it to lie a "'"ff ,0k at t',e course of the ! President and those who sustain him. Senator 1 Hoi ston, at a meeting of the Democracy of ;v,. - V.,.L f.r. ... r,l!.. Aew oi k. lielil fort i as fo ovvs: i . li - ' Tt ; .1,.. f ,ni il...n .1, t , . 'l 's '"e t cl, tlivu.'li t s tv so only in my coarse m"ter. Groat applause. Your ancestors, ; when they landed nt Plymouth, were not long contented with that barren spot, but proceeded in 'their might, and went on progressing, and at JaiiKstown, too, till all the country was j.ossesse.I I,,-i!.e. e,l by ihem. From the first moment thev Ian- ' l! : they went on trading with the Indians, and ' chfatiug them out of their land. Now the Mexicans are no better than Indians, and I see no reason why we should not go on in the same course now, and take tin ir land. lint these countries wiil be benefitted by our occupation. Look at the Californias, Sonera, Western Mei- j co. New Mexico, c. All t'use vast regions, ' ' ' '' x hero only l few hundred thousand souls are living in such wid.e dominions where the wild Initn tis with immi ni t v Ti'm r:iv:nrfi. Hlld ' nm becked penetrates into the very heart of Mexico, even as lar as Potosi, spoiling and do - st roving as he goes along: seizing upon the women, wilh malicious hands, and incorporating them into their tribes as wives! Let the white man let the American interpose; let him say to the Indian, "Stay savage; we will protect these helpless poeple. V.'ewill do it." (I.oud applause) We are the majority, aud it must be done. It must be done for the sake of huinanity." ?lnrrinsr wilh n llmnwil VI i(V i!cr. ! Wc have to call the attention of our readers matter of course, all the children of such a inar11 !..:. 1 l..r ... . . 1 . . .1. .. ... 1 . 'n mmseu oeiore niey ioos such a step, which all must have heeu aware was at least possible to lead to most disastrous consequences. It uppears the case is to I taken to the House of Lords, but we should very much doubt whether the decision of the Judge of the Queeu's Bench "... - v . va. ' v i - .x 1 x. 1 A rtrnd in Unman sh..pe. man near Meiidon, Illinois, is charged A with starvii.g his own mother to death C t ' release himself of the b irdeu of keeping her, he shut his mother up iu a cold room, and kept her without food until she literally starved to death having first gnawed the paper from the walls.

FUX AND FANCY

Prnrrr of llictni irni lairfrn. Propitious Heaven! O! lend an earGive a kind answer to my prayer. I ask not honors, wealth, or fame Trifles like these f would not name. My prayer is Fhort O, grant it then i Tis but a word give m a man. Nor do I wish to pick and choose He who is sent I'll not refuse, Forgive me, if my tears do tell What sorrow in my heart I feel; iew with propitious eye my grief, And send a man to my relief. The Rrattlehoro' Eagle states that the ladies of Vernon, Vt, availins themselves of the time- , honored prerogative of leap year, made arrangements for a dance on Tuesday evening last, inv '' ,n JT,,n'''''ieii, gal lanted them back and i ' ' r" bills. Hee. O11 this, our Maine Fatmer brother savs:I "That was certainly doing the clever thing by the 'fellers.' The Vermont girls understand 1 1 tlieinselves. 1 his winter they will undoubtedly give the old stave the following reading: We'll dance all night, Till broad daylight, And go home with the'fellers' in the morning.' 'nrc lor 11 "Itrriidfiil fold." How often it is that a young lady, when pressed for a song, is aflPcled with a sudden cold. The best cure for this is to ask her sister to sing. It '!; f ja'iM'mtioti. Ma. My dear child, why don't you study , your lessons? Here'll be the professor within j an hour, and I declare you haven't struck a note the whole morning. Mk,. (12 ym oM-) T . . ,,e to p(lll,v ,he tim, you know u m onP: a,1(,besides. to te,l you the truth, (whispering) my head is so filled with young , ,hat Ifin,-,t im iWe to thi,lk ;f thing else! Itv Fruit. An nlilnr nn.av .!.,... . . . I. 1 " .... nun ii w-ari. win, R-rvp l ,i,,r JT"The politician who, in thse lunatic times hipes to adapt himself to all the changes of public opinion, should qualify for the task, by attempting to make a pair of stays for the moon which resumes a new form and figure every night." Turkish provf-rhs. It is not by saying honey! honey! that sweet comes to the month. F.TifU TTTK A lady who was a strict observer of etiquette, WmS utlul,e to ro to rlmrch on Sunday, sent her card. Hurrah tor ihr Riitrlirr. Out of fifty four Butchers in Lower Market this morning, fifty-three signed the cull for the Taylor Meeting which is to be held in the College Mall on Wednesday evening next! Tlx r rt c 1. 1 liltv-fonrlli nn. .tl.l r....A : i.... , - ii"-c "i;u, iiui sain . . .. , . i . . . . i.c wouiu c.o soio-morrow. ,N w murniiWu. set them all down for Old Rough and Ready. 1 he fact connot lw distinguished the people I are for him Cin. Chron. IKiily Sun TT-OI 1 1 111 you nave a uauy Mm:'' said a newshoy to Mrs. Partington. j "Will I have a daily son? Why you little1 - p.... ... w u. - ,oU .iinuaieagainsta lone woman from home No indeed, I guess I wont complain awfully when I presented bim with . '. -' r J "rnr ,,wu ' .. ... '. . ," , ,. irmijnni, .x uauy sou iinieeu: liegone you littTo upstart imp!" and the old lady calledfor 1., . ., , . , . vnrlrin u l -.u iiuiii r w mill i uv , I , . ..... ..... Recause it is farthest from the lurk. A ToiKl, The ship of our navy And the ladies of our land! May the former be well rigged And the latter well manned ! The Open hnnd. Two very pretty women, one hard of mi mj and heart, the other witty and very charitable, were discussing the characteristics of a beautifill hand. They did not agree, and refered to a friend who was present. 1 ro,,il1 not decide," said the latter; "but ask th" inifortiinate, and they will say that the ... ., ,..t, .. .' premesi iianu is rue iiim wincn gives.-' I'nmiT. Recently, a bill prescribing 10 honrs as the v 'ork in factories, was pas- ; - . "amP!',,Ir,, l'"g'slalure. A j 'J" r"nU' ,no,,vo for '"or,nB ,e JW' Fa;S' , . , ' " ""PP0" i" ion nonr inn is, mat the t actorv girls will then have time to garter their stockings in the morni nig, instead ol having so frequently to draw them up in the public streets.' Ilpisrni.i on the poliah Rnll. How Nature teaches curious souls Mhatall things act on mutual props! Thus hops we see depend on po'es, Aud Poles we see depend ou hops. "JNe 1. Cold winter is at SLT. Vegetation has P Kd, the beauties of the lahdscape have faded, .Sc. the earth now appears iu said R A. Old Roreas comes aud sings a mournful L F. G over the graves of the flours, and seem to glisleu Iroui a frosty firmament. The freezing blast pierces, ns with a , the half-clad bosom of want . while the tears of V T are congealed at their resuecive fountains. All U who R in K Z rir. w.,jijni, ror j. uucertain X P P N C and 1 ,ilereby merit the honor which the X L N C of i Blcfl an act R stows. The poor R 2 B found j eV(ry of our country it CT-i for mnlj j,,,, 0r ,iSeruble beggars who even N V the Kiil)v comforls 0( the hovel, old Gotham is without a I. Mthen the earliest opportui nity of paying that debt of chariT which V O 2 , a (,.ow caeature in distress, B 4 the 07- of .i k o v. .......... t.,. UCd.lt I'Ukll VI U . . . I 11..' . . . . . V. U I J . Die A Iruilin Office .'Vlolml. through his columns, last week, upon Lieut. Woodhouse, for volunteering to go to Mexico, which so i licenced the populace, that they at - i tacked his office, and would have lynched him

had he not eseed. good.

The old Tlon Iloqurnt. j It is a mouruful indicatinn that Mr. Adams' voice has become so feeble that he cannot make

: . . . . . i j,, , , . . . ' . '! . im-ria UCOIl, rUII, UUl lit lilM 111 li R-19 Upvu nun win sei upon one 01 the mosl remarK.11. .i anie men 01 me age. I - j Tv-an ancient law of France, every person 1 convicted of slsnder-whether male or female I -was comrl!..d to get do , on all-fours, and bark like a d8 for three hours. If that good ! law was revived and enfVced, crakie, would'nt I there de a bowwowing. , M .n-, Ire. j A woman was informed the other dav that ! her husband had been found floating in the river, "O dear O dear!" said sh-, "and he had onlv j, just put on a new suit of clothes " CTwhen is a chicken's neck like a bell? hen it is rung for dinner. T!c;irU. Not long since a marriage was to be eeiebra- I ,eJ the village church. The minister, after j making a ery eloquent and touching discourse on the duties muf rights of those who were alout to be united, suddenly exclaimed: "Those who wish to be married will rise!" and hhmediately after, shot up above the seated multitude the heads, handsome and otherwise of a crowd of young girls, who had understood the remark which was addressed the contracting parties as a general invitation to all who were desirous to to leave the selfish state of single blessedness. Iovc find rikhing. Two lovers stood upon the shore Of Massachusett bav, Ridding a sad farewell, before Seth tore himself away. "I'll marry you when I comeback, My Sally Ann." says he. And then he took a little smack; And went away to sea. A Itninmnlh I'nrtorT. The Naumkeag Steam Cotton Mill, in Salem. Mass., contains 27,fi00 spimiles, driven by an engine of 4(10 horse power. It employs 57" hands, who receive in wages ieO,Otl-l a year, and manutactures .-l.lKHl.tMMi yards annually. This mill, we ljlieve, is the largest iu the country, having a capital of J.ti()0,l)O0. Hj-P,iil Jones," said a bulging urchin to another lad, "the next time I catch you alone I'll flog you like any thing." "Well,, replied Rill, "1 Hiut often much aI lone, i commonly liaTe my legs and fists with me." Ilomnmir ;irl. I knelt before my Lizzie's feet, Iu all the anguish of despair, And vowed my true affection there. She cried in accents "short and sweet," "You winning fool, resume yours. at, What 'arye 'bout. asq ualtiu' thar?" A ,w 1 riuklr. A .iiit.t., l.... i.. . I v ....... ji.fi uinoe us appearance I ... J fpiuieri vvhu'h :i i . .. ' 0,her side.

0"Papa one of my schoolfellows says his I Pract'ce are corrected, and causes cf failure of brother wears mustaches; what are they?" J eroV made clear by the discoveries of moderu "Mustaches, my son, are bunches of hair worn j chemistry. That by it alone the rocks and on the lip by certain dandies, as a substitute'1''10"1811"11 lie in the way of agricultural imfor brains " "Well, pnpa, are those who wear provemeut are mapped out ; deeper and more di-

1 mustaches what are culled hare brained neoul?" , ? . a lnfa,)t Pciooi , Martial Kearney "Master, Ton, Ronton is , making faces at ine?" I -easier i om lieuton, did you make faces at r .r. ... . . pbj Kearnpy 1" i i, . ' T.'x- , , I ' "enton " 1 es, sir but he made faces at Rill I Fremont the other day." I :ran. Springfn ld RepubWhy should all girls, a wit exclaimed, Surprising Farmers be? Perause they're always studying The art of Husbandry. UTThe Rock River Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, at their last session, appointed a committee to inquire into the expedii nr-v P"r,'hasing the Mormon Temple it i v,'u,voo fr literary purposes. rVt-itv Fair. j N ow, hoys, y0u hear the country is in danger ! "ei.ipesKy .uexicatis; gird on your bright ' pwords. and rush to the field of battle. The I... r..l . : ..... ti , , . ...... v. ir Siu iuK mm snail oiuu your broii'ii, j and the hemp are in the field that shall hang Sanly Hannah. Rememlier Resky dla Plainar, Rony ii tory, and Sara Gordy! Three cheers for old Colomhy ! And, now, let's go arter that hen-roost in Widder Fisher's barn! A IlnpM Tin II. An F.astern caliph being sorely afflicted with ennui, was advised that an exchange of rhirts i with ama i that was perfectly happy would cure

him. After u long search he discovered such a' A knowledge of chemistry sufficient to enaperson, but was iuformed the happy fellow had ' ' u farmer to work understandingly in Natno shirt! j ture's laboratory, his own farm, requires only U n. n, The prri. j that he should study the nature of about thir-

General Cass, the nominee of 'the Pemocracv for President, we all know published a letter to a Tennessee friend, in which he gives iu his adhesion to the Southern slave doctrine, and dec 'a red his opposition to the Wilmot Proviso, Mark that! Last winter resol ution s passed the Legislature of Michigan, approving, in unqual - ifil terms, the Wilmot Proviso; and a corres- ' pon.lent of the Petroil Advertiser states, that j these resolutions not only bad the sanction of ' Gen. Cass, but the original draft of them was submitted to his examination and approval. He interlined and altered them so as to make the language declare a stronger opposition than did the draft, and that the copy, with the inserliueations in his hand-writing, have been preseaved. Now mark that; and put the two together. Ciu. Gazette. I'mplormrnt or (Evening. It is a question of gieat imporiance, especially to young men, how do you spend your evenings! If you have no regular employment, no fixed pursuits to engross your attention, aud operate as asiimulus to the mind when unemployed, you must of necessity have many leisure aud unoccupied hours; intervals when time will hang heavily ou your hands, and suggest the necessity of some means to relieve it of its weight. The very time which is dissipated in idleness, will enable younZ man to obtain em- ! incnce and distiuction in some useful art. i Jf-Father Matthew, the great Irifh apostlo of Temieraiice, is expected lo arrive iu Nsw York in the month of April next.

THE FAIOIKIt.

Agrirullnr'. ATr. Anilmoi fstwuanoAn - - c i e . I " - .... u. yjUisU UWKHr fJI I. 1,ouw r li"presentatives, aud afterwards Mi in- , ister to Eng'and, iu an address on agriculture iuVjr,qnia savg. ' . - ..... hat occupation more full of dignity, duties i ntnt-a r.iii r .1 , " T " l"nu l lf nugu.st, husband"'n ? When was it that man ever Tt ind to TT! 1 .'T CU,liva,ion- that "J n,0r elevated in his own esteem Then it is that an entire change takes place. Tliea it is, that reall"" no or abject spirit, he re p from tne soil a harvest of virtues. The sobriety of the father the economy of the mother the devoieu latior o the sou the chastitv of the inmt, are xue iruils 01 Uie gionous agriculture. And this is my answer to all who ..i,.... .1 . .. . . jueirj u. 1 pity tnose who know nothing, or re iu"BPable of enjoying that soothiug, eheeriuS anJ surp.is.sing iniluence which agricujtura sheds over the inind of man. "O! friendly to the best pHrswita of man; Friendly to thought, to irtnes,and to peace. Domestic life in rural leisure passed!" The Time for Praniag Vinn. Mr. I'uderhill, of Crotou Poiut, famous for the culture of superior grapes, announced ytterday iu the Farmers' Club, that the best time for pruning riues is in March aud April; that he never pruned iu February unless for convenience, aud then he employed artificW means to stop the bleeding; when pruned iu March or April, the vines were in no danger from bleeding N. Y. Cum. Adv. I'ruit in Obio. We learn, says the Cleveland Herald, that the cold had been so extreme, in the central and southern portions of our State, as to have destroyed nearly, if not quite all the peach buds. No iujury to fruit has, as yet, been cone in this section of the State, aud trees are loaded with blossom buds, presenting good proinine of an abundant fruit season. Ir our Railroad to Columbus were complete, we could supply the southern men with as fine peaches as they ever ate, and, by the by, we shall do this,thre years out of five, wlieu we once have ready acce to them. 13" A plain, blunt old farmer, dwn east, wrote to the Agricultural Society "Set me dowu on jour lit of cattle for a buJl." He wauled to purchase such an animal. U"p for Induiu Corn. Take' one pound of saltpetre (nitrate of potash,) and dissolve in 6 quarts of water: and 2 pounds of copperas (sulphate of ir&n) may be dissolved in 5 or C quarts of water. It your seed corn soak in the mixture from 24 to .Irt hours before plautiug, and it will uot only be less liable to tlw attacks of birds and worms, but the young plants will take au earlWr start and be more vigorous Iu their growth. The KrsiM-ctafciHtT of .turirultnr. An legant writer on the rural industry of I II. .11 i :.. iu reiauou 10 agriculture, "That the errors of I " Cl liiauuel brought to is' it. and wv mpth. mW .R(ekled, by whfch uol oul re known ends to be attained, more completely and more i economically thau b before, but objects also realI ..... - .. 1 1 . . . . , u ""-" "are niuierto ueen considered unattai liable. "The doctrine, economy, composition, preparnt'out d skiiful use of manures how won derfully have all these point been illustrated and developed iu late years! What the plant consists of how and with what substances it U fed what the soil naturally contains how it is to be improved, so that what is present iu itmny be made readily available to the plant, and whst it lacks to be in the best way supplied where the kind of food necessary to the plants are to j be obtained most abundantly, and how applied most profitabl y to the soil what effects climate. situation, and tillage exercise upon the fertility J t''" l-md, and upon the fertilizing virtues of j au-ver im mm upon or mixeu wun ii. inese, B,lJ hundreds of similar questions, all involving I nr f ....-. .... ......!:. I . f ... .. I t;t"ii'i ("iuh iiiuum w jimouir, am - j rising daily, where culture is prosecuted as an t advancing art aud they are solved especially by ! chemical research. They are all included, therefore, under what we term the chemical di vision of agriculture. "l-t a farmer avail himself of thisknow!edg. and he is unconsciously raised into the iutelhgent cultivator of a most interesting branch of ua,"ral science." , teen substances. Genesee Fanner. I'nMui ing WIm-mI The VI j. Our crop for the past season was a good deal ; injured by the fly, as well as by the winter; aud j the iuquiry arises, whether pasturing wilh j sheep wlieu the fly is at work in the spriDg Is i not a partial protection against the fly. I had j two fields that looked equally well iu the second j mouth aud part of the third. Iu one of thesn 1 turned nij sheep, and that field produced a fair : crop, while the other was so much injured that it did not produce a fourth part of a crop. Cleveland Herald. The Pip in f hickc-nn. This disease so common to fowls, consists of a white thin skin or film, growing upon, or under the tip of the tongue, which hinders the feeding. Il is supposed to aiiae from the driuking of foul water, or eating filthy meat; it is usually cured by pulling off the film with the fingers, and washing the port with a solution of common salt but we would also recommend the use of a piece of tallow candle halt an inch in length, forced down the throat, after tho removal of the film. ILT There are three sorts of folks in the world yea, four: Those that know one thing those that know everything those that know nothing and those that glory iu it. The first are ' " noDDy-nuers me one-we men; uie secoim ! are the quacks; the third are the believera iu the ' secoud; and the fourth are the unalloyed fools, twenty-two carela fine, L Com. Ridgely died in Baltimore on the fth iiisl., of gout in the stomach.