Weekly Reveille, Volume 37, Number 41, Vevay, Switzerland County, 4 April 1855 — Page 1

DEVOTED TO POLITICS. AGRICULTURE. TEMPERANCE. LITERATURE. MORALITY. AND VIRTUE.

VOLUME XXXVII.

VEVAY, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1855.

NUMBER41

Cu sting a DovJI om or Church. . Wo are indebted to oar friend, J. M. Ells, ofMaricttu, Ohio, for the following graphic sketch.. Wo are assured that the facts transpired substantially as narrated: **A Methodist clergyman who has been laboring in thu vicinity, was not dong iince, preaching jo; his people on the miraculous power of the Apostles’ over the demoniac spirits of their day; ] h AS he was pursuing liis tHcniC, the and wore suddenly startled Ky a from some one in the congregation demanding, in a half qnoralons, half enthofilive tone,. *Why do’nt preachers do suthlbingsnoiv a days?. In an instant every eye in the; house, was turned upon the individual .who hadtho effrontery thus to invade thesacredaea of tlieir sanclnaTy!' ; -

THE WEEKLY REVEILLE, ns 1817,) 14 PaMl*b*d Krcry %V«dne,d»7 Morning, AT VBVA7, INDIANA: MY FREDERICK J. WALDO.

I know not what prompted me to resistance; I was totally unarmed, and altogether unacquainted with the straggle of mortal jeopardy. Bat I did resist, and one instant saw my assailant in the posture I have described, the next he was disarmed and writhing beneath me. It seemed as if an infants' strength could have subdued him. ,

Uarnom’s Ba&y ; Show. .. Notwithstanding Barnum's Life- baa' been written, published, road cnl execraled, ha is still and full of humbug its ever. His Infest"clap-trap to draw at his Museum in XinvYork, is the advertising of a BaW Show to be held there:::, done 5,j>, 7 aad.S, 1S55;V. which tweu* ty-6ne Premiums aro to. be awarded, amotmting in all to Over 81,000. It is to be open to children tinder five .rears from >U parts of the "world; and retiring rooms, cradles, Arc.', will be. provided for one hundred' balnea and their attendants. Premiums for finest baby, under five years £100; under,one year 85.0; second. $15; third $10, From one- year fienest baby 860; second 816;_third 810.’ For twins, finest,under 5 years., 850; second 820; third, 15. ■ For triplets,; any ago, finest three at a birth, 870; second 825; third $20. For qn.i:.'rriPV anya}*;*, finest four at a i nth, 8250; second $150. For fit*test ..child nntltr sivtcen .yearn wfage, 850; t.v.-o;Vl $25. . Diplomas 'will also be awar.k.1 at discretion. - ,

T«rma of SatoKdpttoni Qua copy, I year, la advance, * - e I,C0 (To mcio will te entered on oar tooks unless payment la made In advance.

“Wretch!” I exclaimed, as I held his own pistol to his bosom, "what is your object? Are you a common midnight robber, or bear you ought of privato malice toward Roger Allston?” “Allston! —Roger Allcton!” repeated the wretch beneath me, in a voice which sounded like a shriek, as he struggled half upright even against tbe.threatniugpistol “Great God! has it come to this! Hell has no pang like this meeting! Shoot!” ho exclaimed, and there was a dreadful earnestness in his manner which sent the hot blood of indignation cold and icclike upon my he?it. “Shoot! you were once my friend. In mercy kill me!”

" * 'The speaker paused fordmomcni) and fixed his • penetrating, gaze Cfnl! upon. the fate of tho questioner. ’ There was an interval of- intense silence, broken it last by the speaker in resuming his subject. lie haft not p rdceeded for ‘ - with his remarks before- ho was again interrupted- by die same impertinent;inquiry.'Again; he paused for a timo; and again resumed his sahjoct;; Kot confentwith a silent rebuke, our redoubtable questioner demanded again ‘Why don’t the preachers do such things now.-a days? ami auling his lips with a .sneer of self-complacency,himself up pompously in his scat. . ! ; * 4 Onr reverend friend (who, by the way, is a young man of greatmuscular power,) calmly left thb dcsk dnd walked deliberately to tho pew Where tho' interrogator sat, and fastening bno h(md, firmly upon tho collar of his; coat, tho other on the’ waistband of his 'unramtioridblcs, ’ lifted him square out of tlicscat and; bbra.him down the aisle to (lie entrance. Pausing for a m omeui, there, ho turned his tyes upon his audience, and in a clear, full voice, said: .And they cast out the devil in tho form of a distiller,* and suiting tho action to the word, out went the knight of the mash 1 tub, a Iti leap frog fashion, into the street. good pastor quietly returned to his'desk and completed his discourse,— After closing the services, as he was passing out of the church the out-cast distiller, with an officer of the law, escorted our clerical fri endtothe -officco f. a magistrate, to.answer for an assault upon the person of saitfdistiller. After hearing the ease the m agistrato ’disniissed lbs clergyman, andaftcr-roundly reprimanding' thecorapldinauC fined him for molesting the serf vices of.tho sanctuary. ■ \ ' . - “Since that day wo believe ho has never for a moment doubled. the ; powoVrof Methodist preachers to cast|but devils, at Icnstwitliin .tho .limits oftlic Ohio Coriferenre.

Term* of Advertising., Ws hr to tuioptod, and ahrll rtrtcUy edhero to the follonirg ratM for ndrerUaeiaenu: Onaequara, (of 10 llttea or lest,} for on-) Iciertlca, SO com*; each additional Inacruon.esc'.'ntj. Yearly cdvertLiori may chanso tlialr advertisement! ' quarterly at tho following talo*: One square, 3 month*, .... (3,00 Ono jquire, l year, - - • • - S,C0 Ob# fourth ofa column, 1 year, * * ie,LO ' On# half of a column, I year, * * SC,C0 Ono column, 1 year, - W,00 ; On# column, I year, without alteration, - L‘2,C0 ■ AdTorU*ementa on tho Inside cxclujively. to bo charged attha mto of Si) per cent, in advance of above ntra —No largo tala will be admitted In lianJlug adverthamcnU, and no umunal dUntay made without extra charge IhcrcfW- —Legal advertise menu Lmsi be paid for In advance. Atantagca, Death*, and Religion* Notice* Ir.-crtcd gntbjWbnn not accompanied by remark*. — OMtuarlM,PiibUs Meeting*, Personal ExplsDiliQci.iC., (he., S$ eenta peraqnare for each Insertion. — Special Notices Inserted at BconU per line; and no unties tendl; g to .tie advancement of Individual enlerprtae nlll be phbUahCd vltbonl pay therefor.

A horrible suspicion flashed over my mind. I felt a sudden sickness at my heart, and the pistol fell from my hand. "Whoever you may be,” I said, "and whatever may have been yonr motive in attaching me, I would not stain my hands with your blood. Go, arid repent of your crimes”

I Irregularity of Attendance. ‘ From' one end of the State to tit? other, complaints corao nu of the irrtyHhrityhf s:It colaUenda nec,' ’ mid in some quarters it has been pronounced by school authorities one. of ilia *‘alarming” signs of iWtnhss. But it. is a cl* oc ring, not an alarming symptom! It is wcertifieata tc the, ihtogrity of nature. It shows that by this process (ho natures of children ’have not pecn transformcdintostolidity. Tho children can not stand it. They gctrid_of whnt thiy regard os imprisomon Vby excuses, 1 when* they liWhey. Whin they must. They do hot know why;^ 1 ther know the system is to-nmeh fqr them tJiaVit is iiEFCiixaxT. This is all wrong, for children delight in school! Properly managed,.it is as delightful id thera-as any other recreation -to which .they can ■ be treated. ■ By, the very lawti of their being, children and youth arc inquisitive,. Thyy want to kxow all * about' i L-" VIleacb thoy delight in tha acquisition * of facts—Gf things hew—of things nckno\ra;; , ‘ i; —

"You don’t k now in c, ” sc Id the robber ns with some difiicuUy ho regained his feet, "even you have forgotten me. Even you. refuse the only mercy which man can i\mv render me—the mercy of death —of niter annihilation!”

; . ■ ■ . ■ (For the V.’csiJy R<iro;l!j. TrllEtt I WOULD DlH. ’ av jo ns sizs-a. jWhcn Winter wraps our lovely land ,, In robes of dreary cloud, i And with his cold and icy band Clothes etrlh in snowy shroud, ' And sharp cold winds blow through theaey—- , : I would not die.

Actuated hy a sudden and half-defined impulse; I caught hold- ol the stranger’s arm and hurried him toward the light of a street-lamp. It fell full upon his ghastly and dealh-Iikc features, and on his attenuated'form and ragged apparel. Breathless and eagerly I gazed upon him, until he trembled beneath the scrutiny. I pressed rny hand against my brow, for I Iclt my brain whirl like the coming on of delirium. I could ■ net I;e mistaken. The guilty wretch before me was the friend of my youth; one whose memory I had. (.hcri'dird as the hoi iest legacy of the past. It was Henry-fit. Clair. Vos, it was St, Clair! but how changed since last wc had communion with each other! "Where was the look of intelligence, and the visible seat of intellect; the beamy of person and mind? Gone, and forever gone, to give place to the loathsomeness of a depraved nnd brutal appetite; to the vile tokens of a disgusting sensuality, and the deformity of disease.

Not when'comes Spring with milder light, s - And calmer,'warmer days, ’ Anc buds spring forth in beauty bright ’ And birds sing sweetest lays, ■ ■ And heartfelt thanks are raised on high I would not die;

When Summer comes with all ter flowers So lovely and so sweet,■ And with bet green and leafy bowers ' - To screen us from the heat, . And breezes bear awed fragrance by, I would not die.

.. .. A MilkStory. , A: traveller m Wisconsin t finding him self very thirsly ond day. called at chc'ct the little beta.in the suburbs of Kenosha, to purchasc a drink of miii:. -' On rating his errand known, Uio, ladyipf the houce sent, her daughter, a bloomiaggiil of jsictecn’slnnmcni, to niilk one of"the rojvs whiclrheV customer had noticed standing in' the yard.’ The damsel soon niade ’lier appearance; agaiir, arith a faH bnckcfpf' she sal down in-thomiddle of the .floor.Unfortunately, .her i mother who .wasjust' hurrying jicross" thetoqm with a basin' of yoiy* dirtjr water,- shill*c large portion of the - contents bf the basin into tlie milk.' “There, yoncareless jade;’* said she to .her daughter, * 'what did yon, set your bucket of ; miik down there for? ' Now, I shall; have to rtrhlz. i; for the gehticman.“, •/,• ‘ -

In Autumn’s melancholy hours ■ , All nature mourning wears, And every-wind that sweeps the lowers Their foliage witn it bears; And through'the air the dead leaves fly, Then let me die. Qurrnu Groce, 3/orcA 2S, 1 £55.

“Well'may you shudder,” said St. Clair, “I am (it only for the companionship of demons; but you cannot long be cursed by my presence. I have not tasted food for many days; hunger drove me to attempt your robbery; but I fee! that I am r. i;'. ia;r man. Xo lu::;'.an power can save me, and if there 1m .1 C. wen ire can [ not save me from myself; from thv imX* \ iag horrar* of remorse.” Snorkel by Ids words end still more by the increasing ghastliness of ids countenance, I led tbs wretched man to my dwelling, and, after conveying luiu to bed, and a! mini Bering a cordial to his fevered lips. I ordero.l r. physician to be called. But it v.r.s too la to —r:;e hand of death was upon h.im.

■ OCr.An v lipnest Dutch fanner of the Mohawk, iyaa aslced.his/opinion os jo which (denomination of Christians were in. tho way to Hsayeni-- ** Veil/den*' said ho “vcn.ve ride out wheal to Albany, some say disisde best vay, and porno say datlsde pest vay; but it don’t luakeinoosh difference wbicb'yoaid ’ve lake,* for vcn.vo get dare; day never ask Viehyay you comeand it iah noris Of; their -pish n css ~i/ qitr

. Soldiers is Erapral>~Tbe number .0: then bearing arinsof war at (his time in Europemay b£ set down*' thus: 230,000;Turkcy457,680; Prussia 580,OjOO; Austria 593,000; Anitria and Prossia 1,8.08,000; making the, whole number of soldiers now - nnder n'rms in Europe, five millions three hundred anil sixty-four thousand. rNo wonder ..the people emigrate to’othor countries. i : •

I now referred to the paper which had been banded meby the dying man. With a trembling hand I broke the seal of the envelope, and read the following addressed to mrself:

j AST'Tho tnic' piefnro of despair is a pig reaching through' a* hold in the fcnco to get at ,-a .cabbage: dying; only- o few inches beyond his n6se t - : -v ; ; 11 ' ■

“If this letter ever reaches yon, do not seek to find its unhappy writer. He is beyond the reach of your noble generosity—a guilty and a dying man. I do not seek for life. There is no hope for my future existence; and death, dark, terrible and mysterious as it may seem; is less to bo dreaded than the awful realities with which I am surrounded.

Inalienable rigbts'of Americans. Tho following aro not enumerated in tho Declaration of Independence: . * To know any trade or business whhuot nny apprenticeship or experience. To marry without any regard to fortune, state of health, position, or opinion of parents'or friends. ■ ; To have wife and ehiltlicn dependent on the contingencies of business, and in case of sudden death, have them wholly unprovided for.

ftiT* Col. W. P. Evans, of .Glasgow, Ky., will be & Candida to for Congress in the 1 bird Congressional District, at tho ensuing August election, ’

“Allston! X imro visited, ia that tearless agony which mocks at consolation, the grave of ray betrothed. She.dial of a broken heart. From that moment alt is dark, hateful and loathsome in my history. I am now reduced to poverty, bowing to disease, and without a friend. 1 have no longer the means of subsistence, and starvation may yet anticipate the la- j tal termination of the disease which is j preying upon me.” I Such was the tale of the onco gifted: and noble St. Clair. Let the awful lesson j i t teaches sink into the hearts of the young. | Let them remember that “Infidelity and i Intemperance go hand in hand,” and that I those who have once yielded themselves to the fascination of vice, are hurried onward, as by an irresistahle impulse, in! .the pathway of ruin, although; conscious j of their danger, and; knowing that the; gulf, of utter. darkness ia. widening and| deepening before them. .'' . - i

AS?* The onion, it is Enid destroys the attractive bony of the magnet. It hus tho finmo effect with young ladies.

I need not tel! the story of my friend's young years. It had nothing to distinguish it from a thousand others; it is the brief and sonny biography of one upon whose pathway the sunshine of happiness rested, unshadowed hy a passing cloud. We were happy in our friendship; but tho time of manhood came, and wo were parted by oar different interests, and, by tho opposite tendency of circumstances peculiar to each other.

"X have little strength to tell.yon tho story of my fall. Let mo ho brief. You know how we purled from each other. — You-know the lofty hopes and tho towering feelings of ambition which urged mo from your society—from tho enjoyment of that friendship, tho memory of which has ever since lingered like an upbraiding spirit at my side. I arrived at my place of destination, and aided By the introductory epistles of my friends and the influence of my family, X was at onco received into the first and most fashionable circles of the city. “I never possessed those virtue and moraldignity,, tho effect of which has been so conspicuous in your own character. Amid&t tho flatteries-.and attentions of those around ,me, and in tho excitipg pursuit of pleasure, tha kindly voice of .admonition was.*,unheard, and I became the gayest of -the gay—-a leader ip every scene, of fashionable dissipation.— Tha/principles;-'of my, new companions .were those- of infidelity, anembraced them withjpy whole soul. /You know my former disporition. to ,(|opky thaV was now changed-into a settled unbelief.

S3P The annual sweepings of the streets of Paris sell for 8700,000, after they are collected at the depot for manure.

To put bfTupon hireling strangers, the literary, moral and religious education of children.

He who reads and comes to pay. Shall head again 'another'day, • Hut he who "will not pladk the carh. Though his name is otir subscriptionbook, w« shall be compelled hoacvci reluctantly, to make s long — .

I To teach children no good trade, hoping they will have, when they grow up, wit enough lo live on' the industry of other people. To enjoy the general sympathy when : iriado bankrupt by reckless speculations. To cheat the Government if possible. To hold office without being competent to discharge its duties. To build houses with liino and six inch walls, and go to the funorate of tenants, firemcri and others,' killed'hy ’their fid 1, woaping over, the mysterious dispensations of,Providence. . . .. . .

It was a night of Autumn—a cold and starless evening;! remember it with painful distinctness, although year after year ■has mingled with eternity, that I had occasion to pass, on my way homeward, through one of tho darkest and loneliest alleys ofmy native city. Anxious to reach jay dwelling, I was hurrying eagerly-for-ward when; I-felt myself; suddenly-seized by the arm, and a vbic8;clDse'. f to my ear .whispered hoarsely,/‘Stop, ;or a you. are a dead ... \ Turning .'suddenly,■■‘I kfeard- tbo cocking 'of a pistol, and saw by a faint gleam from a neighboring .window the tall figure of a .man,, one hand grasping' my.left arm; the other bolding a weapon at my breast.

CT During Tyk-iV administration Congress passed a bill into a law itrspilc of the President's vtto.--If was. an act respecting the building'of revenue cutters. After the tcu> the vole in the Senate stood ayca -Jl, nccs I; in the Hodse tf.a vote stood ayes 127, noes 30Is there another* instance of. the .kind in' the hiitory.of. our Government? . * ’ ; ;

To build .up cities . towns, with opt parks, and call peUilenco a , visitation of God. ‘ : " ' " ‘

I * ] • * • J 't **•**«'- . i ,.,4 ■ # i ► “ilr.Showman,said 1 a. green one nb- a - menagerie, **can the' leopard thn pgc;kis ’spots?*’'. “Ye3 ; sir,’*. Was' the -gpls ,‘tijtHf *ot opp spot Ha cut easily ga .to-another;. Perapreb very often barbs the arrows of affliction.

'' CT The total indebtedness of,the various SteteJ of'iiro Ufiiotris aboGt'fwo hundfedand twcDtV-oriehiilllohiof dolieri. ■ ’ ‘

;43T.There is less than 58,000,000, inin meeting-houses in, the United States, and this sumwoaldnot havo.buHl 6t. Peter’s, at Kome. -England pays her idle.Queen more krone week than America pays her President in a. whole year.

■ JKTA new PeoretlOrder has been instituted in tho: “Temple .of Wisdom,IMhb mysteries and.ceremonies of which are conducted by a young lady.

: . CT There are shoot leren. oillica pcws'.i [ the body cf a roan of orciptty there were joined lengthwise, a tube would \r formed twcnly-tignl riifra long! ' . : ■*>*

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U BN It Y ST. CUAin. ! nr j. o. wmrriER. ! I Hessy St. Clair! How at the men- • tie a of that name a thousand dreams of| friendship and youth—and of the early 1 and beautiful associations which linger; like invisible spirits around us, to be call-' ed into view only by the magical influence ; of memory, arc awakened! How does the 1 glance of retrospection go back into lie?! dim images of the past—from the childish; merriment to the manly rivtdship—from : iha banquet hall and the pleasant losrivr.l. down to the silent and unbred;; ;: solitude | of the tomb! ; Wc were as brothers in childhood—tft.; Clair and myself—brothers f :o in the daw-; ning of manhood ; end a more ingenious ■ and high-minded friend I never knew.— ! Yet he was strangely proud—not of the; world's gifts— wealth, family and i-aruing, ■ but of his intol Ice turd power—of the greet | gift of mind which lie po-rrsM-d—the ,ar- • dent and lofty spirit which shone out in * his every action. And well might he bo ! proud of such gifts. I never knew a finer! mind; it was the embodied spirit of poe-1 try itself; the beautiful homo of high and I glorious aspiration?.

Henry St. Chir was never at heart a I ■Christian. He never enjoyed the visita-! lions of that pure and blessed influence I which comes into the silence ant! loneliness of the human bosom, to build up anew the broken altars: its faith, and revive the drooping ilo.wcrs of its desolated aSection. Ho loved the works of tho 'Great God with the love of ahenthusiast. Bnt beyond the visible and outward forms, tho passing magnificence of the heavens, the beauty and grandeur of the earth; and the illimitable world of waters, his vision never extended. His spirit never overlooked the clouds which surrounded it, to catch a glimpse of the better and more beautiful land.

He motioned mo to his bedside after tho physician had departed; he strove to speak but the words died upon his Ho thin drew from bis bosom a serded letter addressed to myself. It was bis his* effort. Do started half upright in his bed, uttered one gror.n of horror and mortal suffering, and sunk lark, still and ghastly, upen his pillow. I udl-.-'.ved the remain? of my unhappy friend to tho narrow place appointed for all the living: the damp and cold church-yard. I breathed to no one the secret of his name and guilt, but left it to Humber with him.

"The scene which followed, beggars description. The shriek of my betrothed; her sinking down m a state ofinrensihility; the tears of maternal anguish; the hon or depicted on iho countenance of the old man. All these things throng even now confusedly over my memory. 1 staggered to tie door. The reception I had met with, and the excitement produced thereby, had obviated, in some measure, the effect of intoxication, and reason began to assume her empire. The full round moon was up in the heavens, and the stars, how fair they phono down nt that hour! I had loved to look upon the stars, those bright ci idonccs of n holy and all pervad-1 ing intelligence; but that night their gran-! deur ami their exceeding purity came like; a curse to my weary vision. I could] have blessed those beautiful lights extin-1 guished, and the dark high clouds sweep* | ing over the fair face of the sky, and ; have smiled with grim satisfaction, fori the change would have been in unison! with my feelings. !

“I had been very-gay,-for there were happy spirits aroimdmc, andl had drank freely and* fearlessly for the first dime. There is something horrible in the first seiis a lions of dnm harness. Forrelief I drank ritll dec par,’ and I was. a drunkard. I was delirious and happy. .1 left the inebriated' assembly,, ami directed my steps, not to my lodgings, but to the home of her whom X loved, my adored, above all others. Judge of her surprise and consternation when I entered with a flushed countenance and an unsteady tread. She was reading to her aged parents, when with an idiot’s grimace I approached her. Slid started from her scat. Ouoglance told her the fatal truth, mid she shrank from me; ayo, j from me, to whom her vows were plighted j iiud !."r yoTing affections given, with fear, I with loathing and undisguised abhorrence. I Irritated ;.t her conduct. X approached her! ruddy, and snatched from her hand the! book :.hc hud been rcadihg; I cast it into! the flames'which rose brightly from tho hearth. It was tho volume which yon call j sacred. I saw the smoko go upward like; a sacrifice to the Demon of Intemperance; and there, even there, by that Christian fireside, I cursed the Book and its Author ?

V The Bishop would not consent; but demanded an instant reply, and insisted upon it,; despite qf all entreaty. The General then promised a beat in tlio cabinet. This. was not enough the agreenWnt must bo made in writing. ; Of course it was reluctantly yielded to; The knowledge of thetran section was intended-to be kept a secret among the ’ faithful. It ; was, however;; suQcrcd to give- so rnnch courage and confidence to certain Whigs of the Aidof' House; that Eoino Suspicion of the arrangement Wore aroused 1 in : the minds;ofThe Tammany Hall loadeff. By j getting some, of-the Whig partisans in a mellow state; the bargain was 'wormed out’ • Thereupon a delegation; was immediately sent to General who authorized his'fricndsto sccurb arepudiation of the 'Scott contract and the formation'of another ; hr his own.'favor,- by making the generous offer to the Roman j CatholicjAIUancoV of a Cabinet post; ft ' foreijm nnssioh,and the next to it office j in the President’s;gift; : ;'■’(■ This course- overset; Gen. Scott 'and i elected General Pierce, who redeemed his j pledge! by ■ makuig; Mr. ; Campbell his I Postmaster General; Mr. Soule, hisMinjister to Spain; and.Mr. O’Connor U. S. j Attorney: for the - ' Southern -District of j N. Y,—all the, three being of-Roman .Catholic faith/andonc of-them -at; least of foreign birth. :ihTo show, ‘ still further the truth of this statement it is only necessary to add, that after' the resignation of Mr. O’Conner,- iw pursuance > of his sympathies and co-opcralion in; the controversy of Collector Bronson with Secretary ;Guthrie—a controversy provoked by the adra misiration of * Mr. Pierce against the adamantine party—President Pierce was compelled to apppint another Roman Catholic in his place,'.namely i— John : McKeoh, .also an adamantine,— Why an adamantine should lako.the place of an adamantine who went .out of because ho was an naamantinc, is not explained. These chirge$ are now distinctly made, and it remains for the Pierce and Scott organs of .1852 to repel them, or confess Uicm*by default. ' ‘ :

and a bitter hatred toward all which I had once-been taught to' believe sacred, and holy. • ‘ “Yet. amidst tho baneful principles I j bad imbibed, one honorable feeling still' lingered ini my bosom, like a beantiful an-! gel in the companionship of demons.; There was one being—a young and lovely creature, at whoso shrine all tho deep auctions of my heart were poured out in I the sincerity of early love. She was in-, deed a beautiful girl—a being to bow! down to and worship, pure -and high- i thoughted as the sainted ones of Paradise, | but confiding and artless as a child. >Shc j possessed ever)' advantage of outward! beauty, But it' was not that which! gathered about her, as with a spell the! who knew her;'it was the! right of he* beautiful mind whkh lent the i deep witching of soul to her fine connten-! uncc—Hashing in her dark:' ■ere, and ; playing like sunshine on her lip/and crossing her fair forehead with an intellectual halo. ■„ ;

“Alls ton ! I look back to that springtime ofLovo with strange feelings of joy, even at this awful crisis in my destiny. It *s the only green spot in the wilderness of the part—an oasis in the desert of being, j She loved me, Allston; and a heart more ; precious than the gems of the East, was j given up to a wretch unworthy of its | slightest regard. , - ' ‘ j “Hitherto, pride rather than principle! Lad kept me above the lowest degradation i of sensual indulgence. But for one fatal j error I might have been united.to the' lovely being of my affections; and oh I if; sinless purity and. persuasive love could have had power over a mind darkened and perverted as my own, I might have been reclaimed from tho pathway of ruin;, I - might have been happy. ( “But that fatal error came, : and came ■ t no in the abhorrent shape of loathesomc , Drunkenness. I shall never, in time or etc rein*, forget that scene; it is engraven . on my memory in letters of fire. - It comes up before me like a terrible drcatrg but it ( is a dream of reality. It dashed from my > lips the cup of happiness, and fixed for- i ever the d-.:rir ii=pect of my destiny. j

Catboltc Intrigues In 1859, We h&vc soon in several of our exchanges, says the Philadelphia Sun, a | statement, very properly styled startling, i which appeared in the Frecdonia (N. Y.) i Advertiser some three weeks since':

The Rochester American says that though it has been widely republished, |and attention of those interested,in controverting its charge?, distinctly chnl- ■ longed, yet there is not one won! ofdentjed, defence or explanation.' The allegations contained therein must be . taken as ■ confessed. . . They come from a responsible and: respectable .source. -They are ■met with studied silence.. ,No friends of General Pierce or General Scott have ■ ventured to question their authenticity, i therefore they must: be held • cs trhe.— | Such facts aro make n profound public impression—*tliey speak for themselves, and accounts for much, tliat has been bus peeled, 'believed, but never before so explicitly revealed. >- The Advertizir states that atthe EHootvillo American celebration on the 22d ult., Col. R.H. Shanktand, nbw of the Otsego Examiner, an ardent Democratic supporter of the Pierce and King ! ticket in 1852, made some startling staleiments as" to the bargains made respectively and successively between Bishop ; Hughes on the one side, and General Scott and General .Pierce on the other. Col. Shank)and, in remarking upon the influence’ of thb.Roman ’Catholic priesthood exerted in bur former ejections, said it;was now well hmlerstood that General Scott, shortly after his nomination, had . an interview, with Bishop Hughes, at which tlio'Bishbp nsked the General what he would do for tho-Roman Catholics in case their votes : could bo secured to him. The " General' requested ;four jdav3; for consideration...

. TUc gccrct‘Out.' .. Whenever any person expresses in the presence of a Know Nothing* a strong desire tp become.a raembflr-of .the Order,.he is privately informed that he must he at a certain* corner at the hour of twelve, whistling Yankee D.oodle out of bnp corner of his mouth,'and Hail Columbia dbt .of .the other; *11131*110 must have,; a copy of'the Constitution the United States in-*one of his hoots,(or shoes, asthecasc maybe) thatwheiia pcrednpassc3him,dnaelduched hat, whistling the; Star Spangled Banner, ho (the candidate) mart follow., . He will bo Icd up a dark/stairway, intoa room,*. He will then;hd ‘ sworn by seine persons, whom .thb darkness conceals, never to reveal any that he may hear or see dnring tho After this oath; a light suddenly illuminates thc.rciom and five men in. mashs appfoacVthe candidate,: holding m .their .hands the American flag,, madocut of twelve htmd red yards afAmerican ail k, which they roll aronnd the candid atejc omple tcly-encasing him ,Tifterthe fashion of on Egyptian ■ .mammy. ; • The five then shoulder the candidate and carry, him into : lodge.—‘Though hp caimoVsee, lip cad hear, and the Great Grand Plum—the highest - officer—ad mi psle re a terrible

oath,.swearing the candidate, never to ; reveal, any of-the passwords, signs, tpkens, grip?, ]>rinciplc's, designs or private work of 'the Order, on penalty of being sent to the penitentiary or the Ohio Legislature! If thp casc is not too aggravated the violation would only be visited'npon the violator by-sending him to the penitentiary I but the exlrcraest' penalty for violation is the legislature. Abler taking this oath, the candidate is rolled around the room, this being the speediest way of unwinding the flag. Ho sees the members standing around him all in masks. The live principles arethen red to him, and after he has sworn to observe them, he is compelled to rim a prcvionsly taken from -a liberty polemic the index finger of his left hand, andf with (he splinter and his own blood, he I signs* the Constitution and By Laws of the order. Physicians on being admitted into the o rder are compelled totake an additional oath, to theefl’oet that they will mistake strychnine for calomel in administering medicine to Dutch and Irish Catholics, Lawyers have to swear thatthoy will abandon the-habit.of. lying and deception in dealing with native bom Americanclionts. Many Laity cfs have left.] '' *