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m .......r.. ,., a ... - *., - - -- "We will cling to the Pillars of the -T Liberties, and it it must falI ewl eih mdtSeRis F.'. PDURISOE & SON, Proprietors. -F, - 0 JULY9 * POUND DEAD. Found dead-dead and alone; Thee was nobody near, nobody near When'the outcast died on his pilow of stone - ionther, no brother, no sister dear, bot fiendly voice to soothe or cheer, T6t awiching eye, or a pitying tear. Found dead--dead and alone In theroofiess street, on a pillow of stone. bMiny a:weary day went by, [bread, - While wretched and worn he begged for - - ired. of life, and longing to lie --Piicefully down with the silent dead. Hunger and cold and scorn and pain, Has wasted his form and seared his brain, Till at last on a bed of frozen ground, ~ .With a pillow of stone, was the outcast found. Found-dead-dead and alone On a pillow of stone in the roofless street -Nobo-y heard his last, faint moan, Or knew when his sad heart ceased to beat. No mourner lingered with tears or sighs, - But the stars looked down with pitying eyes. ..And the chill winds passed with a wailing sound O'er the lonely 'spot where his form was found. Found dead-yet not alone; There was somebody near, somebody near To~elaimthe-wanderer as his own, And find a home for the homeless here. One, when every human door Is Closed to Ilis children, scorned and poor, Who opens the Heavenly portals wide; Ah!..God was near when the outcast died. THE MAIDE'S SOLILOQUY AT CHUCH. Oh.dear, oh dear, be's not yet here, - Although the prayers are done; The singing through, communiou too, And sermon just begun. I cast in vain, and sadly strain, - y eye around-the church, To every niook despatch-a look Stillfruitless is the search. I cannot hear, 'tis very clear, The preacher as I ought; That torment dear, who should be here, Absorbs my every thought. The man of God, my manner odd, blust certainly remark, - For ske I his.brow, so fair but now - asallat once grown dark. su l doT vacate thapew? hb, o.1 he may come yet n~idt.h may itstay andp pray - And cease a while to fret; But be where he cap, the plaguy -man, * Imuch would like to know; Hot gone, I hope, with Clara Pope, Aid payed the truant beau ? Oh! if it has come to pass, I'll never, as I live Unless he p'rove 'twas not for love-. The naughty wretch forgive ! His absence true I should he knew HRow eculd he treat me so? Im-not unkind, but I'll my mind Right well inike him to know. 2Twas my desire he should admire My pretty bonnet new, Made to his taste, supremely chaste- - Among the first to view In'style so fine, in shape divine, My fancy quits it took; * When wrorn with grace, it gives the face *A warmncome kiss me look. * here can he be; what doing he - - At such a. time as this ? - I will him kill--yet ! that I will * For being so remiss. 3Ts always thus the men trick us They're all alike provoking ; -I'll bet the fellow's getting mellow, Or a cigar is smoking ! "SIE HAS OUTLIVED HER USEFULNESS." Not long since, a good looking man, in middle life, came to our door asking for "the minister." When informed that be wvas out of town, he seemed disappointed and anxi ous. On being questioned as to his business, he replied: "I barte lost my mother, and as this place used .to. be her homne, and my father lies here, we have come to lay her beside him." Our heart rose in sympathy, and wve said, "You--have met with a great loss." * " WelIl-yes," replied the strong man, with h~sitamncy," a mother is agreat loss in general; *but our mother has outlive~d her usefulness; she was in her second childhood, .and her mind was grownu as weak as her -body,.so that she was no comfort to herself, and--was a burden to everybody. There were se'ven of us, sons and daughters; and as' we could not find anybody who was wvil hoig to board her, wve agreed- to keep her 'among us a year about. But I've had more than my share of ber, for she was too feeble to'be motved when my time was out;. anid that was more than three months before her . death.. But then she was a good mother in het day, .aid toiled very hard to bring us all Whotlooking atthe face of the heart less man, we directed him to the house of a * neighboring ,pastor, and returned to our nur. * fery. We gazed on the merry little faces which-smiled or grew sad in imitation of ours-those little ones to whose ear no word istourjabguage is half so sweet as " Mother," andave 'wondered mf tha~t day could ever come when they would say to us, " She has outlired her usefulness-she is no comfort Zn lie elf and-a burden to every body else !" -andl we hoped' that before such a day wvould *dawu;-we might be taken to our rest. God dobbid thik e shou'ld outlive the love or our .t6ilaiai Rather *lst s .die ;..while our 1ersi .a.prt efAheiriown,2that- our m waay~ teredriitlteark~-and our ~V~I~wtibieih pebiotaten. -- - * - al, we went to the sanctuary to pay our only token of respect for the aged stranger; for we felt that we could give her memory d a tear, even though her owb children had p none to shed. c "She was a good mother in her day, and Q toiled hard to bring us all up-she w;as no b comfort to herself, and a burden to every ii body else !" These cruel, heartless words ti rang in our ears as we saw the coffin borne n up the aisle. The bell tolled long and loud, ir until its iron tongue had chronicled the years if of the toil-worn mother. One -two-three f( -four-five. How clearly and almost g errily each stroke told of her once peace. o Ful slumber in her mother's bosom, and of d er seat at nightfall on her weary father's e knees. Six-seven-eight--nine--ten, rang h ut the tale of her sports upon the green. ward, in the meadow and by the brook. Eleveni-twelve--thirteen--fourteen--fifteen, ti poke more gravely of school-days, and little ousehold joys and cares. Sixteen-seven. teen-eighteen, sounded out the enraptured visions of maidenhood, and the dream of a early love. Nineteen brought before us the ti happy bride. Twenty spoke of the young o mother whose heart was full to bursting with the new strung love which God had a awakened in her bosom. And then stroke after stroke told of her early womanhood- g of the love and cares, and hopes, and fears b and toils through which she passed during F these long years, till fifty rang out harsh and i loud. From that to sixty each stroke told si of the wart-hearted mother and grand- < mother, living over again her own joys and 1. sorrows in those of her children and chil- a dren's children. Every family of all the o group wanted grandmother then, and the s only strife was who should secure the prize; v but hark! the bell tolls on !--Seventy--seven- 'I ty-one-two-three-four. She begins to si grow feeble, requires- some- care, is not al- t ways perfectly patient or satisfied ; she goes 4 From one child's house to another, so that no I one place seems like home. She murmurs e in plaintive tones, and after all her toil and ti weariness,.it is hard she cannot be allowed a a iome to die in ; that she must be sent, h rather than- invited, from house to house. I Eighty-eighty-one-two-thro--four--ah, 11 she is now a second child-now "she has , outlived her usefulness, she has now ceased s to be a do'mfort to herself or anybody ;" that fi is, she has ceased to. be profitable to-her b arth-craving and money-grasping children. ( Now sounds out, reverberating through tI ur lovelf'forest, .and echoing.' back -from ( )ur " hill of the dead," Eighty-nine! there si she now lies in the coffin,.cold and still-she d akes no -ntroule' now, dem ands no -soft ri words, no tender little offices. A look of ? atient endurance, - we fancied also an .ex- h )ression -of 'grief for. unrequited love, sat on g er marble features. - -Her children were j, here, clad'in weeds of woe, and in an irony c e remembered .the strong man.s words, u 'She was a good mother in her day." tl When the bell ceased tolling, the strange b ninister rose in the pulpit. His form was ri tery erect, and his voice strong, but his hair vas silvery white. He read several passa. ,s of Scripture expressive of God's con- 1< iassion to feeble man, and especially of his enderness when gray hairs are on him, and I iis strength failetb. He then made some S ouching remarks on human frailty, and of h lependence on God, urging all present to d nake their peace with their master while in o sealth, that they might claim his promises r, when heart and flesh should fail them. I ' Then," he said, " the eternal God shall be a .he everlasting arms." Leaning over the b Iesk, and gazing intently on the coffined* orm before him, he then said reverently, j ' From a little child I have honored the f, ged; but never till gray hairs covered my h wn head, did I know truly how much love a md sympathy this class have a right to de- s nand of their fellow-creatures. Now [ feel tl t. " Our mother," he added most ten- e erly, " who now lies in death before us, \ was a stranger to me, as are all her descen- c lats. All I knowv of her is what her son c sas told me to-day-that she was brought - to this town from afar, sixtynine years ago, ti happy bride-that 'here she passed most of her life, toiling as only mothers ever have strength to toil, until she had reared a large Family of sons and daughters- that she left s her home bore, clad in the weeds of widow bood, to dwell among her children ; and that p till health and vigor left her, she lived for you, her descendants. i - "You, who together have shared her love p and her care, know how well you have re- a quited her. God forbid that conscience should accuse any of you of ingratitude or mu murinug. on account of the care she has beena to you of late. When you go back to c your homes, be careful of your words and your example before your own children, for e the fruit of your owrn doing you will sur-ely Il reap from them when you yourselves totter r on the brink of the grave. I entreat you as I a friend, as one who has himself entered the a " evening of life," that you may never saf, a in the presence of your families nor of hea-t ven, " Our mother has outlived her useful ness-she was a burden to us." Never, a nmever ; a mother cannot live so long as that! e Np ; when she can no longer labor for her r children, nor yet care for herself, she can I fall .like a precious weight on their bosoms, r and call forth by her helplessness all the no- 1 ble, generous feelings of their natures. r " Adieu, then, poor toil-wvorn mother; there are no more sleepless nights, no more days of pain for thee. Undying vigor and I everlasting usefulness are part of thme inheri tance of the redeemed. Feeble as thou wert on earth, thou wilt be no burden on the bosom of Infinite Love but there shalt thou find thy longed for rest, and receive glorinus< sympathy frm Jesus and his ransomed fold." WoMIEN endure pain, poverty and the se verest nisfortune with more fortitude than' men, but melt at the first harsh werde from those they love. Wite her ow-n heart open before her, no true mother can speak harshly to her. child-the tone would rend 'the litile I tendrils nf affecti.6n. that are clinging to her, and:like vines in 'spring ruthlessly. eat, ihey aUil lied with a fatal hindrane, to health. MR. HEPPARD UTAINS "A LIFT." Every Tuesday, Capt. Lewis Pillsbury rives down from the Penitentiary, for the uarpose of taking up such prisoners as re aive 'condign' punishment at the Court of essions. On these occasions he pulls up is establishment, a large one horse wagon, i front of the City Hall. Captain P. did iis on Tuesday last. He drove down about Don, hitched his horse to a post, and went ito the jail, to ' burn a torch' with the Sher. r. Lewis smokes the best Havanna's, three. r a quarter. While he was lighting his ci ar, and taking a memorandum of the pris. ners, an old fashioned old gent with a bun. le under his arm came in. The old fashion. i old gent saw Officer Whalen, with whom D entered into conversation: "Whose wagon is this 'ere ' "A gentleman's who resides just out of s city." " In what direction ?" "West !" "Wonder if he would not give me a lift' ad let me ride as far as the Cherry Valley. irupike I I'm very tired, having tramped ver thirteen miles since morning." " Let you rideI of course he will-get.in ad take a back seat.' The old gent accepted the invitation and ot in. He was adjusting himself comfortar ly when Pillsbury returned from the jail. illsbury seeing an old man with a bundle in ks wagon, and an officer standing by the de of it, came to the conclusion tbat the rmer was 'under conviction,' while -the tter was keeping watch over him. In moment after this, the po:iceman marched at of the City Hall with three ladies and ven gentlemen-' convicts' going up for arious terms, from thirty days to six months. 'he ladies and gentlemen having taken theii ats, Capt. Lewis jumped in, introduced a venty shilling *hip to the attention of a 100 horse and started for the Penitentiary. he old gentleman talked with the new comn rs in a friendly manner, and thought-for the me being that he had got in the most agree ble society that he had yet met -with since 3 left 'Yarmont.' 'At the . toi of State treet the old gentleman said, 'hold on.' r. Pillsbury said,' silence.'. Old gent said, on't want to go further.' Mr. Pillsbury id, 1'qnite likely, but he must ask- him to nish up, the. ride.' Old gent insisted that asiness called him- to the eCherry Valley upie :Mr. Pillsbury said he would have .potpone it to aimore auspicious period. ld gent persisted in-.getting out; Mr. -P.' d if he undertook it he would 'shoot' him an.' Old geiit said 'such- conduct-is out. igeous,' and wVanted too kdo 'iratitneantl Ir. Pillsbury said- he would drop him a line y the next mail, and let him' know. Old at said if he didn't- stop the wAgon he'd imp out. .Mr. Pillsbury said if he did he'd buck him in again. The old gentleman dertook to jump but he was caught Iin te centie,' and made to take his seat in the ttol of the waggon. In this condition he ached the Penitentiary. What plaet is this ?" "A chair factory-jump out and take a ok." " Chair factory! I want nochair factories. tell you l've got business on the Cherriy alley turnpike, and can't fool my tine in oking at rat-tan. The protest, -holvever, id no good. The old gent was bundled at. lie was marched into the receiving >om, where he was ' astonished past belief.'. Is wvas undressed, and before he could enter protest, was soused into a bathing tub, rub ed down with a sort brick, and installed in the cussedest pair or trowsers he ever saw.' le was then registered and sent to the shop ur a job of work. Here his indignation roke out afresh, and was rapidly leading to rebellion, when one or the keepers propo. d togive him ' a showering.' Instead of at he was locked up in a'eell. This finish I up the business on Tuesday evening. On ednesday, Mr. Pillsbury was down street, Iled at the Police Offiee,,.and entered into onversationi with Whalen. "Got a queer old customer at the Peni ntiary !" " Who is he I" " That old fellow I took up yesterday." " What ! the old man with the hundle, who it in the back part of the wagon t" " The same. H e is the queerest acting risoner I ever saw." " Prisoner!1 Why he is no prisoner. He an old chap that got in the wagon for the urpose of riding to the top of Washington reet." "fow did he get in the wagon I" " I told him lie might. Didn't he tell you ?" " Of course not ; I would not give him a hance." he result of this interview may be very asily guesed. Mr. P. discovered that be d made a mistake, and made all speed to ctify it. As'soon as he could return to the enitentiary, he released the old gent, and pologised. The old man said, ' want no pologies ; mnan that shaves my head has got i pay for it.' Saying this, the old gent seized his bundle, lammed to the hall door, and came into the ity. He called at the Police Office and nde the acquaintance of Councellor Brice. Irice heard the story, and immediately com ened a suit for false imprisonment. H~e sys the damages at $5,000. The old gent esides in Burlington. His name is S. W. sheppard. Should the verdict be rendered tgainst Capt. P., Barny Whalen should at east ' go halves.' Let us hope that he wil .o so.-State Police Tribune. A SENvSTBLE WoMAN.-Dr. Abernethy, he celebrated physician; was never mnore lispleaed than by hearing a patient detail long account of troubles. A woman ~nowing Abernethy's love of the laconic, aving burned her hand, calleil at his office, nd showing him her hand, said :--" A burn." 'A poultice," quietly answered the doctor. rhe next day she returned aind said, " Bet. er." " Continue the poultice." In a week he made her last call, anid, her speech' was engthened to three words. " Well-; your -ee t"--" Nothing," sid -the" once pleased physician, "you are the :nost aeiihle. wo S~Ieer s=aw? * *" "is sTIL. still live! What a volume of s8 tfhought the-sentence creates-! I ti TheinfW-i from itshold on life as a bud befo~eju lossomed,- and carried away to a mor ring clime, where bloom. ingin joyit a" I still live !" - The noble y .Vhose heart is fil led with bright anti on, grasping with the world iaatern , and amid the prime of -his amibi the fated blow calls around .1 fellowr .comrades, who bear bij l- 'et ;grave,_and mould above his oos6 earth, while from out thattob the inspiring voice "I *still isel".. The wife o rtners bosom, droop ing. when butlt seasons of happiness have passed, an en fond-arms cling close around her pro lord -and all, all is promising-for th Sr ' But no endearing tie can TetainW. She too has withered before the rde' I.; ihd while the lone heart yearns- . e, for its loss, there comes the inoi 'ce "I still live r" The ima--- trer years cut down while his, ' - abee wishfully turned to him their ho community who tar ried at his co -d followed his directing hand, m6uiA - rpising. citizen. But comforIing to j." dowed heart owhile she directs the ey.%o fatherless ones to Him the giver of i1 d and who has promised to be thei ' o is the soothing. tone "I still live!". 'And the ange hen their. feeble step at last refuses.ifs a ind ripe in goodness, fll of yearsai ose aim has been the welfare -of-their ws; whose- wise counsel has never failed Rmonish the unwary.of the dangerdus ad when the grey hairs and faltering-v9 remet no more, 'tis well. to know thati l'the mortal has.turned o-dust, the-sou s,and from. its home in heaven calls -" I still live I" Wiosn ' ri"-" Will you give me. aiass of.- eise.?".asked -i rather seedish ,.o)with an 'old but ivell brshed coat a 1. oEt too shiny abit. It.was prd the bar-tender, cream ing over -the e e tumbler. " Thank. * t e recipient, as he placed it to-.bis Baving finished-it right off -at a swall smacked hip. lips and said, " That is e ale-nery. Whose is it " " It is Harmd "Ah l Harmob "! Well, give us one more glass.' It wasdone ing it up to. the Iight aind lookiihgthr git, the connoissent said. "'Pon my word'it is superb ale-auperb! clear as ladeira. I- must have some more of that. - Give me a mug. of it." The mug was furnished: but before put ting it to his lips,-the imbiber said, "W Whose ale did you say this was I" " Horman's," replied the bar-tender. The mug was exhaisted, and also the vo eabulary.of praise; and it onlj remained for the nppreciating gentleman to say as he wiped his mouth and went towards the door -" H arman's, ale, is it?" 'I know Harman very well; I shall seehim soon,- and -settle with hini for the two glasses and a mug of his incomparable brew !-Knickerbocker. "DYIN.G FOR A CoCK TAi,."-Davis has only one fault-he sets too high a value on " distilled liquors. This habit has reduced Davis to seedy trowsers and generalship. On Monday last, Davis was " dying for a cock-tail," but, as ill luck would have it, he had not the necessary funds to realize his desires. - Davis thought over the matter, and then made a rush for- Redmond's. He en tered the bar-room with his hair streaming out behind like a'cospet: " For heaven's sake,-hand me a glass of iquor-countryman ju'st fell dowli in State street atnd'cut his head open.so . that his life is despaired of." The bar-ke per flew around and. handed Davis about three gills of first quality bran dy. Davis seized the mnag.and rushed out. He returned in about ten iimmites, -and said the rnan was bfott'er, and hgd been carried to the hospitiit Barkeepei- said : "Glad to hear it," and felt like 'a Sammiaritan for the remainder of the day. In' about twvo hours ater this Davis was arrested for singing the "Star Spangled Banner" from a dry goods box in Broadway. Strange fellow, that Da vis ! -Don't mean any harm, but w~ill have his cock-tail An INTErREsTI~lO SToRY.-"-Shon, mine Shon," said a worthy Gbrman father to his heir of ten years,- whomn he lhad overheard Iusing profane -langusge. -"Shon, mine Shon !-come here, an' I ill tell you .von little storie. Now, mine Shorn, shall it be a drue story, or a makes pelieve I" " Oh, a true story, 'of course," answered John. '"Ferry vell den. Dere was 'once a goot, nie old shentleman, (shoost like me,) and ie had von dirty liddle boy, (shoost like you.) Andt von day he heard'-him shwearing like a young fillian as he vas. So he went to der winkle (corner) and. dook. aut a cowhides, shoost as I am toing now, andt he dook der dirty little plaelkguard by de collar, (dis way, you see !) and voloped him shoost so ! And den my tear Shon, he boll his ears, dis way, and smack his face, 'dat way, an' deli him to go mitout his supper, shoost as Iyou '-vilt dis efening." A stout red faced gentlemen, -in white beaver, blue coat and .buff' vest' offered to water a ten-pound note that he could close his eyes, and, by dhe tadfenkm any-kind of liquour in the house. 'be.bet was taken, and the process of u'inng or~Iosing com mned forthwith '. ' " This is'a genuine~ port?' .Said'- the fat gentleman tasting from- the wine glass " and thi-this is whiskey," anid 'so-on,- through the hotel's stock. .A wag then poured a' few- drop's of water intoa glass, and handed-it to the connoisseur. " Thsi-el-e-o Uet' me see, (tasting it again,) well---by Jupiter?. gint temn, I lose the bet Inever tasted thia From the Chester Standard. PEDMRS AND VAGRANTS For some years back our District has been infested by a swarm of Irish Pedlars, who have been selling pure and genuine linen, purchased in the manufacturing Irish markets of New York, Charleston and sometimes Chester. It has been estimated that these lawless fellows sell. the modest amount of $50,000 worth of goods a year, within the District of Chester. But this is not all. These goods, instead of being sold cheap, as the people imagine and as these fellows represent, are disposed of at 30, 50 and 100 per cent. more than the identically same quality of articles can be bought for at Cash rates, in the town of Chester. And that is not all: The money paid to these vagabonds is appropriated in drinking, lewd. ness and profligacy, or else taken off out of the country and used for purposes in which we have no interest. Recently there have been an alarming number of these County Connaught men, roving about our Town and District, "having no visible means of support" except a horse load of luggage on their backs. Furthermore, our merchants and traders have to pay a tax to the State on every $100 worth of goods they sell; or if they wish to peddle they have to pay $50 for a license for one District. But these strolling fellows pay nothing to the District or State in the way of tax or anything else. Be. sides, they are destitute of character, as a general thing, and are bad persons to be tampering and trading with our slaves. But our merchants are men of responsibility and character, who are tax-payers and suppor ters of the State and her institutions. Is it right then that these men should be brought in . competition with each other: the one skulking and living in continual violation of the laws of the land and the other acting openly under its sanction and protection I We think not, and we* doubt not but that every orderly well disposed person will con. cur-with us. On Monday last, however, our town was awakened and enlivened. by a faint ebbing of the tide, as wellas dawning of a better day. . Giles J. Patterson, Esq., on complaint duly lodged issued' his' warrant, as rumor hath it, for twenty vagrants, of all sorts of wild names. This document was lodged in the hands of Jesse, who soon brought W. 'Walsh and Thos..Connagham to taw.. The other parties having "smelt a. rat" *a few days ago and scattered off. A Jury consist. ing of W. F. Farley. H.- Anderson,;Rev L. C. Hioton, W. D. Hunt -and Dr. 3. W. Wilkes, were .empanneled to try ,the -said prisoners for -vagrancy. - They patiently heard the' evictence, which consisted of tea-, timony that-said Walsh - and Connigbam had been seen about Chester, 'with other parties supposed to be pedlars, for some weeks past; that they had received packa ges frointhe Railroad Depot, supposed to contain goods and merchandise; and that they had no ostensible, lawful and hono-a ble means of support. The Jury under these circumstances found a verdict convicting them of vagrancy and they were forthwith committed to jail. Here they will remain until.they give surety for their future good behavior: failing to do this they will be advertised for sale for one year's time. At the time of sale, if there be no purchaser, they will be sentenced to receive thirty-nine lashes, and turned loose, to be retaken and whipped as often as they may be found in idleness or violating the laws. The law upon the suhject is as follows: " All persons wandering from place to place, without any known residence, or re siding in any City, County or Parish, who have no visible or known means of gaining a fair, honest and. respectable livelihood; * * * all sturdy beggars ; and all unli censed pedlars-nre and shall he deemed vagrants, and liable to the penalties of this act. Every person of suspicious ceharacter coming to settle in any county or ' parish within this State, shall be deemed a vagrant, unless lhe produce a certificate from the Justice of the County Court of the County, or three Justices of the Peace of the Parish, in which he last resided, setting forth that he is person of fair character, and not an idle or disorderly person, or unless he obtain within the space of 5 days sufficient security for his good behavior,- for twelve months ensuing." Our people bave endured the encroach ments of these troublesome vagabouds with great patience, but at last they have risen in their might and gone to work with at will and spirit worthy of suclh an object. Trhe jail is nearly empty and has room for as many as can afford to come within the jurisdiction of our District officers, and act or live in viola tion of law and order. Before this time, however, in our opinion, the coast is clear, all these.lowv fellows having kited off to parts unknown. Since writing the -foregoing, two other persons, pne of the name of Isaiah-(a Pole) and the other named Frances Guller, (an irishman) have been arrested and com mitted to jail under a warrant for hawking and peddling. They will have to remain in jail until Fall Court, unless they find securi ty for their appearance at that time. The penalty for this offence is heavy, .being, we believe one thousand dollars fine. One fellow escaped, leaving his package, by out running the constable's horse, and thereby giving good leg bail. The news flies rapid. ly and it is not probable any more of them will be overtaken in this District. Guller offered resistance when first encountered, but speedily yielded to the majesty of the law, on finding howas obliged to do so. He deserves no sort'of commisseration. A SLIGIIT DlIISTAE.-.The Louisville Jour nal has the following nonchalant paragraph: We learn that a shooting affair came ofl'at Lake Providence about a week ago. A man named Jones shot a man named Pattefilon, mistaking him for one ,Penningtori.,. Patter. son after being shot twice,' one of the, balls lodging in hisabreast, drew.a 'pistol. atrd'was about shooting Jones, when the latter begged bij pardon~ saying-lehad mnistakenahis man. 'Paterson eaneronaly 'aepsted the apnoogy LETTER FRO TIM ION. P. 8. 1018. We find in the proceedings of the late Democratic ratification meeting in Charles. ton the following letter from Col. BRooKe to the Committee of Invitation. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 16, 1856. Gentlemen :-Circumstances of a personal character, and over which I have no control, 1 will prevent me from uniting with you in the ratification meeting in Charleston. The issue in the pending election of a President is the issue of Union or Disunion; for if the strength of the Fusionists, who now predominate in the lower House of 1 Congress, becomes augmented by Presiden. I tial power and patronage, as surely as there I is a heaven above us, the temple of rebubli. I can liberty, which our revolutionary sages I erected in moderation, wisdom and honor, I will crumble into ruins, and every fragment of the wreck will be stained with blood. It can never be that the people of fifteen sov. t ereign States will passively " walk under the yoke," while weapons of defence are to I be found, and there are the hands of white I men to use them. I regard it as the highest duty of every patriot in the land to contribute his beat energies to avert this fearful catastrophe, and am persuaded that it can be avoided only J by the triumphant success of the Demo. ratic party. . Mr. Buchanan- was neither my first or I second choice for the Presidency, but, as the representative of a type of principles, and standing boldly as he does upon the Baltimore platform, upon which Gen. Pierce I was carried into power-enlarged, improved and strengthened as it has been by the sup. plemental resolutions adopted at Cincinnati, and by which resolutions our principles, as c practically applied to the Territory of Kan. sas, have been re-indorsed by the American Democracy and by their nominee, I could not be unfaithful to the man without treache-. A ry to the principles be represents. . -.. We have reached the turning point in Ae experiment of the people to govern them selves. 'Ours is yet a youthfuf Republic,. and so far, we have made only trial. trips to i test the machinery 9f our government; but i the perils of..the ocean of uncertainty-are now to be encountered. and every manand every timber' of-the Ship, of Statewill, be' subjec.ted to the sevirest proof. Let us do ur'duty tothe.Costitution'and the.coun. try, in an darnesLand goncerted effortwith the maeabidig-and cdaser.vatfre 4anof every ~tte; indrivingo ofb' piratieal ew~s.. of BlackReptilieans whohoveraroundus with the embleis~-of -death at -theirist had and ruli or ruiafor. their motto. The high moral -duty -of forbearance,. when fortified by a consciousness of having, as far as is consistent with, honor, avoided the. necessity- of collision; will steel the arm of any man, with a soul in his body, to strike against every odds in resistance of insult or oppression. To this . condition of mind I hope to see brought every man in the South who is capable' of bearing arms. If, with the aid of the patriotic Democracy of the North-a Democracy which -is hon ored by having on its muster roll the names of Pierce, of Now Hampshire, Douglas, of Illinois, and Taucey, of Connecticut-the issue of disunion may be avoided, I will praise God for it; but, after doing our whole duty, if the issue of blood must come, why then we will be prepared to meet it, and I'll thank God for that. We have friends throughout the entire North who are true to us. Good and true men are confined to no one region, and not only the political fortunes of such are em barked in this contest, but in many instan es their social position and pecuniary inter ests will be affected by the result. Should .the Democratic army be victorious, they will become more zealous in guarding the outposts of the Constitution. .They will be brevetted and their influence increased. If it is defeated, many will have to fly before the fires of fanaticism, and we, in remembrance of their virtue and services; will throw open to them our hearts~and homes, and bid them come and dwell therein. I have the honor to be, Respectfully, your obliged servant, P. S. BROOKS. To Messrs. 3. J. Pettigrew, Trhos. Y. Simons, Jr., B. H. Rutledge, James Connor, Samuel Lord, Jr., Committee. MR. FfLMORE WILL NO-r DEeUN.-The New York Express has the authority of a letter from Millard Fillmore for saying that under no circumstances will he decline the nomination ten dred him. It was made by his friends, accepted from his friends, received without isking, and acknowledged without counting the consequen ces of success or defeat. Mr. Fillmore writes that nothing but the wish of those who gave him thre nomination will prompt him to withdraw his name. The Mtlowing is an extract from the letter : "In reference to the.efforts which have been used to drive me from my COurse, they wholly mistake my character. Ihis true I did not desire the nomination ; but my name has been placed before the public by my friends, and there it will remain, regardless of all consequences, unless they shall desire its withdrawal." BREACH or PRoMIsE-The Cleveland (Ohio) Plaindealer, of the 10th, states that on the pre vious day Charlotte Riley obtained a verdict against Anthony Keary, in the Common Pleas, of $3,000 damages, by reason of a breach of promise to marry. Keary, by the collision of ars on the C. C. &C.LR.R., lost his arm; the girl attended him during his illness; he promised to marry her. seduced her, and on his recovery of $6,000 against the railroad, refused to fulfil his promise. She had a child, sued him, and obtained a righteous judgeenn. She has re strained the payment of a part of the judgment duo him, and says she'll follow him to Rhode Island, where he now'resides. A SuaE REMEDT Foa A FEI.U.-It is said by somebody who pretends to know all about it, that the following is a sure remedy for a felon: Take a pint of common boft soap and stir it in airslacked lime till it is of the consistency. of. glazier's putty. Make a leather thimbleilt with this composition, and insert the finger. therein. Change the composition once intwen ty minutes, and a cure-Is certain. We happen to know.thatthe abovi isa anue :reuseyand. eommnendid ita tan owizi d trotid with that dirsheableu 'eutua The followingremarks correct a.mutreprsen of Mr. Wilson in- regr of South Carolina: - - Mr. Baler-I wishto e pable misrepresentation ~ tor from Massagusetts - is not here to-day. -I v was here; because,'if heas s . tainly place him in a posit0"IT ie would at be likely to q' M" I hold in my hand- remarks'pt iave been used by him Jat iniperadded after he coneldded -1 ay here, or misrepresentg 6rno stood, or published by t inow which. He is not' e -4 iot intend to submit for a moin hese palpable, gross sappealst lice of one section - of this uAion without that kind of censure *hich*: ive nature at least vould Iel - I quoted the Constitution of ina the other day, and I ier, the Senator from Mas0ahbiks is he undertook to do so, t at all correctly, and tiat tela - olowed the portion rema intirely the import of the eague, after perusing the Co i - iot been able to underta6di; i 'lly misrepresented it, -ordhsbe lorted-one or the other. gIr- Ee "Mr. Sumner asserted 2 titution, but there is an additio jo' ie did not quote." . He did not assert what-wa u ution, nor did he allude to theq tualifled the article.. As far s lid not quote it; and whotheu' nake a general propositiot is I It'was the a$U uggeiofali. Hedid .not or he misrepresented it. &es olleague [Mr. Wilson]rn k '-Thie Senator inh -~ 1anse-'did enot q-io "W _. 4 _. aot'qooted carries- anGulyth he spirit -of the,. iqqotd uber-of the House of-71 iouth Carolina it -is :ertain nnmbano er a lavesor$/1.0 ci a~o%,' - lie na1 such :he'rep'drierraid'ot Carolina; fer-that rema&def his-bd4n ply that a man, to fia eligibli iseat89 4he,Legislatuo,.mdst be iirfhlia t lpstI, 300 or..15,000 worih of -proeirty. - I d6 inot'iptend to' quotetheionsutg again.. I did say 'that the-:Constitsoa~ South Carolina does'not~. requbeM asti pualifieation as Massach'usetts. Ittiii a n lot entitles a young ma'ti g~j n the Legislature without any 'qeg ;~ the Senator from Massachuset~liI ion] has put it down here that heishastgha an income of $750. Where did-he gethat informationi I wish he were here&-F86 not intend to submit to this pieeahg the public one thing, and notIyigtrd the floor of the Senate. .He eihtd4b say it on the floor .of the Senatea -niw~ misrepresented by the'rprtr oe in since-he may take one of'eti.tesi' Lives. There is no resisting the'obnaw of design and ignorance, 'bectuefauT4 the constitution before -him .aa&b~d ait understand it, or, if he could uiE t. - he has misrepresented it. .Now - -ws~ this to go out to the count t~bpeI nothing-in the Constitution of SouthCsbe lina which I quoted in regardio that utt~ - and he has interpolated it after- riadina s constitution itself. .'." 44 OrN balby. in * family is a besin -- the family is small, and the baby and its wants are small. Nothing auiI the influence of-achild upon the acter of a businessman - He iduality entirely, forgets the week, and lives in an eilslnw otha~p'd" while plajing with his baby. .t Institution of a fChristian .ad tynlg kind. They draw tears,u ei U "M halo of happiness to a hsuse, auId home the etre of man's tiioaghts-the of a common man's a ambition. , p. - THERE is' chap out west so..es-D St - he boils two one buttons in a pint Tbis gruel lasts hin exactl on b has used the buttons o longha boiled all the holes out'of then. warm in the wintertime by..st54Ii his next door neighbor's gasaa.1 p TIRED OP FaEEDo3.The Ciarhesltiir Choe of th 0 6th nt. hatthe Mir. John S. Hart of this city reco kN6 days ago, his negro man Joe who rfawi ly two years ago. He was an& -n fiana a few miles from Hend ;7~~b place he was taken sand'lodga lu' S3 Joesashe has been allove -s~g Canaa but beings- free niraii it la supposed bymost of ce - be. H'e says he bieame entire - everything north of Maon' n ras on hiaway back tolakis tnainfeke - aken Up i Joe'is wmgh "ie TRE MoM-e OLzii Diilves nest.ualui Madame P. le iy4 of the Hebew onst Prussa.s Thin . alad 1tende e aeand 1ni1 -hiwh was to paittews el1,a treiaand - buee thavqe - -