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All Advertisements not having the desired number of insertions marked on the margin, will be contin' ned until forbid and charged actordtigly. Those desiring to advertse by the year can do so on liberal terms-it being distinctly understood that contracts for yearly advertising are confined to- the imnediate, legimaine husinuss of the firm or indiidual contracting. Transient Advertise Fnents must he paid for in advance. For announcing a candidate, Three Dollars, in advance. For Advertising Estrays Tolled, Two Dollars, t6 be paid by the Magistrate advertising. FATHER AND SON6 - THE CANSTERs& - It Was midnsight-a night of tempes. tuous convulsion. Oh, how the wind howled and shrieked through the desolate streets, now raving like a loosened fiend; onon bursting in fitful gusts as if spirits were combating in the air, and this was the e cho of their unseen artillery. The very houses rocked as it sailed down the deserted thoronghfares. The lamps gave forth an infermittent and. gasping light, 1 -which trembled at intervals on the verge of extinction, and then leaped up again I unconquered, only to be subdued once more. in slanting torrents fell the rain, splashing angrily-on the pavement, hurry- I ing in impetuous streams along the ken neAs. and reflecting the.unsteady flame of i the gas 1iilgt ing I -1'flasfies No otie - w,isabroad.;.inithe 4S and od tlie e'arth Guo n thrt . 4 - i: u . . . . . . . . . Thougnael watceh hadl I of ad.~ .1 t s-i-ow Nilsud he- aureh-o I - tR h OtlledAthe inststroke of t bitere%i~re still noisy voices to be 4ad "fWod a'. stately mansion- in the I trd destaliens; and the sound ol z ffig-apd tte.flash of festai lamps show-. i ji tHit tie revAllers vithin . cared little I orfej e f old Time. There was i ar 4-hcraeter . about this house, t mttnguishid it-ulike frot the hotel Ylif'the privatedwelling. The windows wr strongly faced- with iron bars, the I bliids were studiously closed in 'every roomdad the, entrance, instead of being in1 frout,. -as. in t' side street. ''o this i secretilooking portal a carriage now i 'oflid praid t.o %6menmuffled in cloaks, s'jed out. While one discharged the conveyance, the other knocked lightly at I the door. It was opened a few incies oy, by the porter, and a slight dialogue "sued in under tones, after which they -.were admitted, and the door was secured n.gi' Passing up a flight of stairs, they ncouitered another door with sliding * 'ings, which were covered with green bize. As they approached, it flew back without sound or visible agency, opening .to their. view a 'saloon furnished with ~ery ;object of luxury and convenience. ~cattered at different tables, were groups 'of metr, some lost in the fever of play, others converrsing in low whispers. Down the center of the apartment wveru three rouge et noir tables, lighted fraim above by shaded lamps; and beside these stood the mass-of the companiy, revealing in their haggard features every variety of the .gamester, from the flash billiard marker to some of the noble sciotns of the .'rtheac of France. Tetwo new comers did not linger here,: but passed through the saloon into a private apartment whikh was indicated by the footman in attendance. Their arrival seemed to have been anticipated, for as pile-of faggots blazed cheerily upon the hearth, 'and' waxen. bougies were burning- in bratnches from the mantle -piece. Casting off thveir' reekitng cloaks, they'each drew a seat towvards the glow-. ittg'embers; a bottle of Burgundy was, ~ordered and placed before them, and the wafter withdrew,. er ohn "si So o havehernohg?"si the one'who appeared the elder of the two. * Nothing, Signor Liotni," rep)lied the other -addressing his ,companion in -Italian; " he never escapied my vigilance from is mother's death, until now ; but begig Paris all trace has beeni lost." -'Qgon.t Andrea !" murmured Lioni;' "n poor-boy, his childhood haunted nsie a I was.. pennmless; and nzow, ~wh~4 Dwealthy, wheh my weary spii~ids~ his- llove, atnd his career migh be brightened by my gold-be is gone ! Is thr no hoper' he continued. 4N0i61 .~~i hisifriend,." unless you 9ould rieognize-the boy of ten years in the'nianaof twny- :efpr. that must be his present age.". Iis hopeless !"A.ighed-Lioni; and he bethis head between his.hands with an hair, grizzled with the passage of some fifty winters, fell heavily over his brow, and for one weak moment his whole frame trembled, It passed, however, as it came; he raised his head loftily, and turned his eyes upon the fire with the look of scornful pride that was habitual to him. Glacdmo Lioni had passed his youth amid all the riotous licenee. in which Italy is so fertile. The moderate patri mony inherited at his father's death soon vanished before the pursuits of one whose hand turned to nothing but the dice-box. Nights spent in gaming and debauch, and days in - continual brawl, t'endered him at last so infamously noto riotts that even his friends became dis tant, his enetildes noisy in his condemna tion, and the authorities themselves grew more implacable as the wealth, which had purchased immunity, dWindled away. To fly the scenes of his follies was at length his only resource ; and he would have re sorted to this long before, had not a tie of -a tenderer nature bound him to his native home. He had formed a connee tion, scarcely- judged criminal in the lenient south,-with a beautiful Florentine, named Beatrice, and a son was the off spring of their love. The possession of this child, whom he christened Andrea Lioni, had a softening influence upon his wild spirit; and as (he infant sprung into the boy, he made many a vow of refor nation, which, unfortunately for the ex nample it conveyed to Andrea, was quickly broken. Still he loved the mother, and watched over her welfare, and the ad rancement of their sons might have ar rested his wayward mode of life) had not an event occurred that was fatal to all. A midnight debauch led to a quarrel in lie streets of Florence, during, which Lioni stabbed his companion to the jeart. The friends of the de.id gamester 6vere powerful, and the murderer was 1ompelled to fly that very night, leaving ds mistress and son unproteted. As soon s he had crossed the frontier, he paused n his flight to wait tidings 4f those whom ik had left behind.<Upwardis or e nontine ' -- '' noken-bearted ;-thebogy A d died to one-knenu'whither~ :Ftom ti'it -tne, ears pissed pver Liuni mtiarid by the ieqaumet-ed- vissitudes of the galiiler's ate,,-until suddenly tle death of a rich elation, once more elevated him to luxu ious.independence, The efforts he had itherto made to recover his deserted son veerhen.redoubled, but in vain. Whether hey were baffled by the object of. his earth having changed - his name, or vihether he sitll survived, was not.known,1 ut the link between Lioni and Andrea cemed snapped forever. So here, ten years after his flight, sat n an apartment of the famous n the Boulevard des Italiens, the wan lerer Giacomo Lioni. Manhood had onfirned his youthful thirst for play, and he vice that had first . been his ruin and hen his support, was now a neccss-iry xcitement. While he gazed upon te ire In a mood unusually pensive, the doar re-opened, and fresh arrivals were an lounced. His brow immediately cleared, and he entered into conversation on the light topics of the day with the consum mate address of the man of the world It w~as not lng before the real object of the meeting" became evident. Fresh wine was ordered, the tables wvere draw'n out, and a box of unused cards having beet) placed before them, they were speedily immersed in the fierce delight of gaming. Loudly roared the storm without, but what wvas that to the hazard of the die ? In anugry floods fell. the rain ; the light ning crossed the casem'ent in vivid sheets ; ye~t hour after bour sat the players un moved by all, save the one devouring passion. .Night waned, and their cheeks grew wvan, their hands feverish, but still wine spurred on their flagging powers, and the gold chinkled, the dice rattled, and their eyes glared wvildly with suspense and rear. Lioni's opponent w'as a stranger, De Nervel, whose olive complexion rmnd ravemi moustache would have appeared to indicate ia southern origin, had not his faultless prorunciation marked 1dm to be a. Frenchman. -A t first, fortune wvavered between them in an impartial balance, but as they con tinued to play, a bewildering surpr-ise dawned upon the mind of Lioni, and he soon after turned it to a streaml of success. Their- game w-as one of skill, in which the wilyvItalian, by dint of. long~ study, hard formed a secret method of his own. Tro -his astonishment, Do Nerve! attempt ed the very same ruse de uerre - .Con cealing his wonder at a contretemps that had never occurred before, Lioni altered his tactics, and muet the unexpected wea pon with a foil. The result soon proved that De Nerve! was unable to cope with his subtle adversary, Hie grewv excited and doubled the stakes, while Lioni, artful and unimpassioned, baffled him at every turn, until the - two piles of gold which had risen on opposite sides of the table wvere merged into a single heap beside the Italian. Do Nervel then rose, declaring he would piy LIQ gan As the rest of the players had Telin ,uishe the tas they now began to separate in different directions. Consid erable sums of money had changed hands that night, and the -winners and losers were easily distinguishable by the varied expressions which tley wore. This was not the case, however, with De 'Nervel, who had lost more than any one-else pre sent. His countenance was indeed dead. ly pale, but Itghastly smile played around the mouth, the character of which was difficult to define. He asked Lioni which way he was going, regretted that his ho. tel lay In an opposite quarter, and haiing demanded his revenge on the following night, they parted on the Boulevards. Qwing to the violence of the storm, there was no conveyance in sight, so Li. oni was obliged to proceed on foot to his lodgitig in the Faubourgh St. Germain. Folding his cloak tightly around him, and slouching his cap over his eyes to shade off the dazzling glare of the lightning, he hurried through the conflicting elements towards Pont Neuf. Not a huniith being was alslble in his forsaken path) yet he carefully kept the middle of the rand In order to guard against surprise. Nothi," however, seemed abroad save the tempest and the shivering gamester. He now threaded the principle streets whidh Ied to the riv. er; before him loomed the bridge,-bnenth rolled the dark waters of the Seitte, and the elements raged with double fury in the open spaces The rain beat upon him like the blows of a hammer, the wind howled through his gartmants as if to warn him baek, but still he bore on with dogged perseverance. Two thirds.of the bridge -were passed, when suddenly a heavy blow struck him from behind-he fell into the arms of an assassin. . A -sudden movement had' averted In some degree the weight of the stroke. which would otherwise have felled hin to the ground, and he immediately closed with his adversary in the instinctive knowledge of despair. Grappling him like a vice Lioni pinioned his rival's arms, and thus -they swayed to and fro like one solid mass, now hovering n the ve e$ Mar mnk fIgire apeed from& a sieltered, nook and-creptistealdiiIv tdwards them. It wvas one of-thos6nvreiched bOnis who hUnt' the Parishin bridgest hight, anda nThose life is sustaineT by robbery and. the. casual reward gained by rescuing corpse fiom the river. le clung .closer. and cle.ser until 'ithin a few yards,.and then crouched agiin into the shadow. The combatants weie both. men of gi gantic personal strength, and the struggle of lilfe and death was 'one that called forth all their-power. As they w:ithed and twisted in 'inextricable fight,' the wind lulled an insta'nt, and a broad sheet of flame lit up the heavens, revealing to Li. oni the features of De Nervel, his antag onist. 6 What would you have?" gasped the for mer, in terror and surprise. -.Money !" said De Nervel, and his dark eyes flashed even through the mid night darkness. " My money -it was not won fairly-the devil must have ai ded you, or the dice were false; I will wring it back !" " Liar and cut-throat, exclaimed Lioni unloose your grasp-leave mie, I say, and your losses shall be relieved ! " Money !" cried De Nervel again, and as he spoke, the lurkinig figure glided nearer to the scene of strife ; "cast down your purse at my feet, or perish." "Ne.verl we wvill die together first!'' shouted Lioni; with deadly rage.. Throwing his whole strength into one supernatural exertion, he drove his enemy headlong against the parapet. Part of the, blow fell on himself, b~ut the brunt of it fell, on De Nervel. Slightly relaxing his gripe, he gasped out the exclamation, " Ah Christi!" and the blood spurted from his nose and eyes in blinding drops. Li oni was about to release his tottering foe, when De Nervel, summ6ning his expiring' energies, darted. in upon him once more. They leaned over the masonry of the bridge, they hang balanced so nearly that a feather nmighst have turned the scale, wvhenm another flash of lightning shone upon their struggle. De Nervel's dIress was loosened, and from the torn folds of his shirt hang a small 'amulet entwvined with hair. Lioni's eye fell upon it for an instant, and the heavens echoed with shriek of dread." It was too late! De Nervel, who was almost inse'nsible; did, not catch the words,. but dizzy in sight and sense, continued to press on. " Andrea ! shrieked Lioni again in ago :nizing- tones, "do you know mei For the sake of God, for the memory of Bea trice, hold!" *" Beatrice !" cried De Nervel, "then it is Ihe-O heaven,- my father !" . A~ long loud cry of unutterable despair escaped him; he strove to recover' his balancp', but in vain. Before another minute their struggling forms, clasped in a last -em brace, wvere flying through the sair, and the man who had silently beheld their contest then hurried with thefleetness of deer to the foot of the bridges Cutting the rope thait fastened a small skiffi.he pursued the drowning gamesters down the stream, -There was a loud splash a theye nar ted the waives convolsive scream, then thep .s ds grew fainter and fainter,'a Wtstill-ailI save the dirge- of4he id or" the distant .call of the.a " Three rain alls-all is tran quil-Parisi I on' Next mor iiie of Giacomo Lioii arni 'son Aidrea Iaj side by sid de netables of Le Morgue. sr Nore. Some -e{ M ien the state of Missotiri\- ed Far West," there lived on of the river of the same name.'F batantial far mer, whojy had aceumula ted a tde~a or: f caistings, owing. as lie p,~nn.1Uy to the fast that he did -i tersitid un yuns, butr te eorn. This far mer bearI*_ Noland "wis much eenper fart . "ididded to mdve there. AceD ibrved'- his son with -a good . aiia sufficiency of the needful v-i'trveling and contingent- ni' inistired him to purchasrt ndiedacres of good land, at theIo ossible price; and re: turn immediate om& The next day Jeens started rkansis, after some weeks returned e " Well, Jee I the old man," how'd you find land.i saS ' "TolerIbly dad." "You didn't or'n two hundred acres, did you 3 1" No, dai vecrtwo hundred, T reckon." "Flow. miAc" b. oney have you got \ceft 1 "Nary r d c eanediite out." "WhiV h d tiavellin' was so 'spe - i t ;es P . '1, ont the o our hw - '1 7 up, m Swe was b4h Aosame waj,-me and this i ideri piphiiid 'bout toon wojhitched ritters and set down aside- pv ta e hi -and-'wt to caten a snak h AI ve tddtthru, this eller -sez t'u e, 'rr a dr i p ov this ere red eye stranger 1 .W I don't mind, sez - But whars yo Osst Kumnin',tu- i liine'by, dad. So ie and this feller . tA, sorter torkin' and drinkins and. en ez lie, 'Stranger, kdt's plty -a little g .uvaeven up' a ta. kii' outov. lits p a g-eisy round cbrnered pack uv' Asdont' keer ef I duz, sezI. Soawe af s de uv a stump, and kummenced to aarte rIp, and I was slayin' him ion6 "But whar's yon Sis Kummin'-tulahin Bie.hy luck changed, and.he -' wiitiiin aiid purty soon I hadn't.nary 'q rteneitfiei. Then sez be, !Stranger,1 Feyoir a chance to git eveniandpl eifors game.' Wal, we-hoth play rite tite that game, I sware; and were six and six and Whrsyour ho -~* 'Kummnin tu him, ad.' We was six and six, dad,and 'ti is deal " Will youi tell~ ~ hr-your hoss r" said the oldj a fd. 'Yes, iwe ~p: . and h e turned up the Jack! .. - 'Whar's your hpoa "The strangferwoshnturfin' up'that Jack !" Ecowour .or Air.myTfere .is nothing; which go'es- f4 tbwiar-ds pla-' ing young, peopile'6yndtheImach- of poverty, as~0eeono1b h atiaunagenient of their. domestico airs.- It matters not whether a man furnihes little or tmuch for.liis family; 0 dis acontinual leakage in hts kitche ot'idzethe -parlor'; it runs, away he -kno nrot boa and thie demon, '1Vastered .m ord!"- like the hiorse-lech's .daughte{ ntil he that pro vided has ijo more to gve It is the hus band's duty to bring ito thie shouse, and it is the dutyof thee to-ise-that none goes wvrongfullys.out -t-niot the least article; however imtprtant in itself, for it establishes are~c uor under any pretonce, for it: op oe~er for ruin to stalki, and he sel davs an oppor tunity- unimfprYedt 35lagets a wife to look after his afu*dto assist him through life-toip ad prepare his children fdr a p!1l~ton in itfe, and not to dissipat .i. pe The hus band's initerest shoi -the- wife's care, and her greatest Mocir/yiher no further than .his %MnF hippiness, together with ti eBifadiin. 'lis thoiild behierskle - heltiatre~of her exploitsanthe t~gisiinl where she may do INtidrnia king r(foitunoegarh n 2thectqing room ofE.the,*wo B t-"s '-ot the monejrtIedAhat nsi tl&y; it is vwhat-eaed. hiI~~iwh. a sit of the fruits of his labor with his best friend, and if that friend be not true to him, what has he to hope I If he dares not to place confidence in-the companion, 6f his bosom, where is he to place it? A wife acts not for herself only, but she is the is the agent of many she loves and she is bound to act for their good, and not for her own gratification. Her husband's good. is the end'to which she should aina -his approbation is her reward. A Thrilling flketch AN ADVENTURE Ili A BARBER'S s110r. '.In the month of. October, 1820, my vessel was lying at Mobile. I went ashore one bright morning, to do some business with the house to which I was consigned, and As I passed along the street, it oc curred to me that I might as well have a beard of a week's growth reaped before I presented myself at the counting room. I stopped into a barber's shop and told the barber to proceed. He was a bright mulatto, a good.look. ing young fellow, not more than two and twenty years of age, it- appeared. His eyes were large black and unusually lus trous. His manner at first was quiet and respectfil. I thought lie was a long while lathering my face, and I told him he must have bought his soap at whole. sale price. Laughing, he replied that mine wqa a long beard, and that lie knew what he was about. "Are you the boss here, my man I" I asked. "Yes," he answered, "my master set me up, and I- pay him twenty dollars a month for my time." '- 1hat is a good interest on the capital invested," I remarked; " can you pay your rent and live on the balance of your savings I" "Oh, yes!and lay up someting be * !--* ing~1inimIsely. At list he conmenced shaving. me. Mfhead beingfthrown back, I was -able to keep my eyes fixed directly on his own. Why I did so I cannot tell; cer tainly I apprehended nothing, but I did not ,remove my gaze for a single instant while the razor was passing over my neck and -throat. -'He seemed -to grow more and more uneasy ; his eyes were as bright, but not so steady as when I first observed them. H4 could not meet my fixed and deliberate look. - As lie commenced shavinag my chin lie said abruptly "Barbers handle a deadly weapon, sir." "'True enough, my man," I replied," I " but . you - handle yours skillfully, although I notice that your hands shakes a little." . "'That's nothing.sir-I- can shave just as well. My hand shakes because I did not have much sleep last night. But I vas thinking just now," he added, with a laugh, "how easy it would be to cut your throat." " Very likely," I repiled, laughing in return, but looking sternly at him-" very likely, yet I would not advise you to try the experiment." Nothing more was said. - He soon finished, and I arose from -the .chair just as an elderly gentleman wvas entering the shop. The last comer divested himself of his coat and cravat, and took the seat Ilhad vacated. I went to the glass, wvhich did not reflect the chair to arrange my collar. Certainly I had not stood before it a single moment, when I heard something like a suppressed shriek, a gurgling, hor rible sound, that made my blood run cold. I turned there sat the unfortunate gentle. man, covered with blood, his throat cut from ear to ear, and the barber, a raving. maniac, dashing the razor with tremen dons violence in the mangled -neck. On the instant the man's eye caught mine, the razor dropped from his hand, and he fell down in a fit... I rushed toward the door called for assistance. . The unfortunate man wvas dead before we could 'reacht the chair. We secured the' barber, who I subse quently learned had been drinking deeply the night before, and was laboring under mania a potu. -His fate I never heard. " WIFE," said a tyraniCal husband, one morning, to his abused consort. " I wish you i would make me a pair of false be. sonas." " I should .think," replied she, "that one bosom as false, as yours is, would be suffi~eient," Locar, politics run high in the Western country. A -candidate for the County 'Clerk in Texas .off'ered to register mar riages for nothing. His opponent, undis mayed promised to do the same and throw in a cradle. '1~ "'ve lost flesh lately I" as the butcher Id,.when ,he sold~a quarter of beef'to a hd customer. PROPOSED RENEDY FoR DEAFNESS. What will not a person who is so unfor. tunate as to be "hard of hearing" try by way of remedy for deafness ? It is a ter rible affliction, and we have a friend who has experimented with one half of the doctors and quacks in this neighborhood, in his attempts to 6btain relief from this trying misfortune. A Mr. S. IW. Jewett has lately sent the following to an ex change, and vouches for its efficacy. We publish it for the benefit of the afflicted, and is-so simple that a trial of this exper iment, in similar cases, can certainly do no great harm to the Patient: At about three years of age, a daughter of the Hon. Daniel BaldVin, of Montpe lier, became very deaf in both ears. In conversation it was quite difficult to make her hear, and she continued in this wretch ed state until about eighteen years of age, when an Indian doctoi chanced to see her, who told the mother, Mrs. B., that the oil of onion and tobacco would cure her if prepared as follows: Divide an onion, and from the centre take out a piece of the size of a common walnut; fill this cavity with a fresh quid of tobac co, and bind the onion- together in its usual shape; roast it, then trim off the outer part until you come to that portion slightly colored or penetrated by the to bacco; mash up the balance with the tobacco and put it into a phial. Three drops of this oil, Mrs. B. informed me, she dropped into her daughter's ear after she had retired to bed, which immediately gave her considerable pain which lasted some time. Beior morning, fiowever, her hearing was so extremely delicate and sensitive, that she suffered by the sound and noise of common coversation ! This she soon overcame, and for more than three years past her hearing has been en tirely restor-ed, to the great joy of her W i f1_.i 184 self; he cannot butrejoice . in that- exis tence, which is so lately bestowed'upon - him, and. which after.- millions of ages, will be still new, and still- in its begiining. How many -self-cngratulations naturally arise in the mind, when it reflects on this its entrance into eternity-when it takes a view of those improvable faculties, which in a few years, and even at its first, setting out, have made so considera ble a progress, and which will be still receiving an. increase of perfection, and consequently an. increase of happiness? The consciousness of such a Being spreads a perpetual diffusion of joy through the soul of a virtuous- man, and makes him look upon himself every mo meit as more happy than he knows h6w to conceive. The second- source of chlrfulness to a good mind is, its con sideration of that Being on whom we have dur dependence, and in whom, though we behold him as.yt -but in the first faint discoveries of his perfections, we see every thing that we can imagine s great, glorious or amiable. W'e find ourselves everywhere upheld iby his goodness, and -surrounded wiith an im mensity of love and mercy. In short, we epend upon a Being, whose power quali fes him to make us happy by an infinity of means, whose goodness and truth en age him to make -those. happy who de sire it of him, and whose unchangeable ess will secure us in this happiness to all eternity. Cunrous LovE LETTER.-Madam: Most worthy of my admiration after long onsideration, and much meditation, of reat reputation you possess in the nation, I have a strong inclination to be become your relation. On your approbation of he declaration, I shall -make preparation o miove my situation, to profess. my ad. niration,and if such obligation is worthy f observation and can obtain commis seration, it will be an aggrandization eyond all calculation, of the joy and xultation of 'Yours, SANIL DEsISERATIoN. THE AswE.-Sir: I. perused your ration with mch delibei-atlon, and -a ittlecdnsternation, at .the great .infatua ion of your weak imagination,, to show such veneration, on so slight a forindation. suppose your animation was thefruit of rereation, or had -sprung from ostenta tion, to display your education by an odd eumer-ation, or rather inultiplication of words of the termination though of great ariation, ini such respective signification. Now, without disputation, your laborious application, to so. tediouis an. occupation, eserves coinm'endation, and thinking mitation ' sufficient gritification, .1- aml without hesitation, Yours, MaAR MODERATION. SURE CURE.-" Sea. se-pent, oil 's said to be a sure cure for consumption. To prove effectual, however it must be taken externally, internally, and eternally -o, until it kls o4P cures The -mied-stares amf Senator Shields,-from the. Caomittee on Military-Affairs, in theUniied Staie Senate, has reported a bill'(o improve 6e efficiency of- the Army, which; the Intel ligencer -states, proposes. to--abolishi all allowances of double rations,:ezcejiito the general officer commandiig separafe armies actually in the field'; .all owances to officers holding brevet commissioners, except majors and - captains rjnit.in the Adjutant General's a nd the Judge Advocate of the.Army, and all bounties to non-coinmissionsiofficers iid soldiers: " After the 1st of August 1852,'edo nels are to receive $90, lieitenant iolonels $75, majors $60, captains $5, firat3ie tenants $40, and second lieutenant. 60. per month, And all other grades asis-ow provided by-existing.laws, .witka pioviso that the $10~additional per mno*n toldIi cers in active command of companie'-is hereafter discontnued "Each non-commissioned offierar ficer, musician, or private who re-enlists one month after the expiration -of.-each term shall be allowed $2 pei:monthd' tional during the period of his second enlistment, and $1 furthei daring th.e riod of his.tliird enlistment, ad $. further subsequent to the period of his thir. en. listment,. and repeal all laws that authorize any portion of the-payof -the soldies-to be retained. Anthorires-the:Presidentof the United States to appoint fiom:ssh non-comnmissioned officers of- aitiHery-s shall be recommended by thir ie*'s two cadets of the United 8aieMili * Academy,.and fronmjthe sameo. cardry and infanti-y in like manner recmmerei one- cadet, provided thatAo nonb-nonPis sioned officer shall be eligibla-ov e three:years of ago. Ieade from time i-h -t 1. sot- S .n - an corp or regimet hie,"' gnI- iet'; 'nhVes bJ t authonze the Presided States to confiomi sig ed officer s-he'i therip a .promotebyrbrevete vet or certificate of meri- A corn -missioned officers and prinvteirholding certificates. of meit- *ho hae -~rmay re-enlist within air-months af tePas sage of this act shall be'allowed thi sine pay to which they would ha'bel:%ri tied if they had remained contiually jn service."_ 'ITLl'ING FAULTS.-Did any body ever hear the story of two-old bachelor br6th ers down in T7ennessee, ;who,, had lived-ka cat-and-dog sort of life, to their -6wn aid the neighborhood's discomfort, for a g'o many years, but who having been at a camp meeting, were slightly " convicted*" and concluded,to reform. "Brother Tom,".says one- when they had arrived at their home,."let -as sit down now, aMd.I'll tell you what we'll do.. You tells me of. all any faults, -and4t tell you of yourn, and so we'll know how to go about mendin' 'em." - "-'Good!I" says brother Tom.-; " Well, you begin." - "No, you begin; brother Joe." - " Well,, 'in the first place, you- know, brother Tom, you will lie." '----... . Crack ! goes brother; Torn's "paw" between -brother Joe's "blinkers," and cnsiderable of a "scrimmage"*ensues, util, in the course of ten inuates, i:40thei are able to ,"come. up to time:' and thss reformation ispostponed sine die.-N 1, Spirit of the Times. Tn -.To Sro.-Speaking -of court ing.remisids us. of alittle. incident-that occurred in our good city, "once upon -a time." A close-fisted old codgerfha liili likely daughter," whose openigehrns attracted the attention ~of a. eltain nice young man. 'After-some littlgenmanwv.r-i onh ventui-ed to opens a courtship On the first night of hisappearance iin the- parlor, athe - old man::after .dozing ink' ls chair-until 9 o'clock, arose, and put- - that tog burns but itine to bi!" . AN ,elderly lady, telling her a rs arked that she was horn onfi~e ot April. . Her husband who'was pms!mmt, observed, "1 Ialways-'thougt t~orvi born. on the first of-A' A '3~epill might well judge -so," espondid-thd 'mat roi, "in the choice. mide ot. 1hussn&" A modern-er thuiilis&e5ese ssO chrhgoing peo ; "Attendjyouro archl,"teprn'i4 T'o churchaeachr fait~ otid T1i6 bld go there to closs --Thegyoug to:eyeithdiec~hU. WEiastmot always speak ~tw* kniow,that were mere folly;bkt what nan says should be what he tinks, oth. we it is knavery.