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It appeared for the first time in the St. Helena Magazine, from which it was transferred to the London Sp:c tatur, and was supposed to have been written by a Brit ish officer in the East India service during a pe riod when pestilence was raging, and ' Death worked by night and icy, As when an earthquake smacks it- ,mnbaling lips O'er some thick people city." We meet 'neath the sounding rafter, And the walls around are bare, As they shout to our peals of laughter, It seems that the dead are there. But stand to your glasses steady We drink to our eomirndtes' eyes: Quaff' a cup to the deal already. And hurrah I f.r the next that diet-! Not here are the geblet= glowing: Nut here is the vint:ge sweet 'Tis cold as our heart's blood growing, And d:.rk as the dooem we meet. But <tanal to your glas stealy, And soon shall our pul.es rise A cup to the deual already Ilurra! fur the next that dies Not a sigh for the lot that .l:,rkles; Not a tear for the friends that sink We'll fall amid the wine.cul's sparkles, As mute as the wine we drink. So stand to your glasses steady! 'Tis that the respite buys: One cup to the dead already .liirr.a! fe.r the next that dies' Time was when we frowned at ot herst We thought we were wiser then Ha ! ha! let them think of their mothers, Who hope to see thetn again. Ni'o sanud to your glasses steady! The thoughtless are here the wise; A cup to the deael already : ilurra ! t..r the next that dies! There's many a hand that's shaking; There's many a cheek that's sunk ; But soon, though our hearts are breaking, They'll burn with tl;e wine we've drunk. So, stand to your glasse- steady 'Tis here the revival lies; A cup to the dead already iurra! for the n:xt that dies! There's a mi.t on the gl:ss tongaling; 'Tis the hurric:.ne's Eery bre ath And thus does the warmth of feeling Turn ice in the grasp of rieath. 1o! standl to your glasses steady! For a inomnent the vapor tae : A cup to the dead alrea-ly: iHurra for the next that dies Who dre"is to the dust returning: Who shrinks from the sal'e shore' . Where the high and haughty yearning Of the soul shall sting no more. No! stand to your glasses steady! 'The worl.l is a world of lies A cup to the dead alreahy JIurra ! for the next that dies Cut. ot from the land that here us Betr:ayed by the land we find Where the brightest have gone before t.-, And the dullest remain behind, tand ! stand to your glasses stetnds! 'T'is all we have left to pi.: A cup to thu dea.l alrealy And hurri ! for the next th:et the ! It)ow a Coat was:u Itentihietd. In the .Justice's Court, in this ciy, n is was recently decided in tl:e mnost n:ovel way. A coat was in dispte. antd the evidence was <iirect and positive, for both parte were Irish, full of wit, readier' to loo'e nil they: had than to give ip the cout. The afleit wats car'efully examuined, andme the e urt wams int U quandiar'y, nout knoinig who ha~d thme best right to the coiat. I lowever, am tainmnt befor.> tbe' judge waa4 :aot to sum ump the evid~ece, Pat P'owe:-, on of' the claimn. nut.s, made the following I r'apusitiu~a in order to settle the diffticuhy : "Now, Tizm O'Ph'ien, ye s'.uv tht tat lbe long to yersili; I .-ay it's ne' .wn- Now mitnd Tinm, that bo h av tus will take the coat an look it all over; the~ om.' tint finds his namei onit tis theI owner1. " Done,'' ai-h "'itm. a: An -ell .stivk to the bargain?" as~ked1 he. " Al' cojrse," as l-3 1asse I thme co it into the hands of' T'imnohy, whoi vai 1y ceart hed every patrt of' it to:- hi name. and finally p-lssedl it bac'< to P'atrick. sayh g: " An' uow let it se'e i!f you'll find the likes .ov yer' blaggatrl in aI e op. n a . a -m. t. ." ye'lil s~i.-k t , th , b argain" vs idi Pat. " Y a. the h- n' ,ri a ii a' .7was the re .ply. " Hould a ~it,'~ saiid Pat, as he drew out his ,pen knife a-id .p n-.i a org. r n lhe .-.; of th :co-:, :a' i i.r tlher,tonm to o v'ery' simall r.eas, exj Ahn:n, ! as I.e held t' e ami i I is hand: " Tl'ler'. dl's e see th it ?" A (v t* rs: I c:o. bui'-:i'tt av' it ?" said >-. de ti it ha-. I. ,e wi i i. i-.'s tm, t name -to he sure- ea fIrm P'nr'ck tiled pe a for Pow er'a. I.e ja:.here." Jft got the uaat?, rand I.e well deserve'l it too. A Snmoring W ife. Talk abtout y'our scoiliig wives ::nd your smcoky e'.daneys, but the:' :aii't noewhere-" theny si'tt a circumnatan'c. 1 wou!ed rather have a ehi:ar.ey fiin' renmits -tmoke' eiough to e-n'e the~ whole fanmily, :-d be fercedl to live with a dez~ '. .mntipuper all tep-thetr, than to havo to a put up"i with a snoring wife. O h! .the very idea makes a nerv.ous man tremble ft~ the teop of his sttivepipe liat to about a vsioa- below the soles of his boots! A snoring ..wife' .Boo-O o! Bit I starte-l out to tell a story, and I am goineg to dci it. Well, " In lif..s tnorning march, when tmy br'5,m n'as ci'ting, I wooed atnd won the bedatifull and ac.complished- Esi Ann M. n-a The dig'ienites of the courtsip I will not here enuimerate~, for they wvill not weave into the plan of this story, which is intended to be short-very short. The appointed time for the wedding ar- a rived, and hundreds of young people, from far and near, assembled at the mansion of the d old man Dash, :o witness the ceremony and to trip the light fantastin t.e." It was a brilli- ri ant wedding, and " IIappiness, our being's W end and aim," was ours. When a couple ( really lore their wedding-day' is the happiest of their lives, and if they should be unfor- of tunate in atier life. they look back to that day as a bright oasis in the desert of their memo ai ry. About two o'clock in the morning the company broke up and we went to bed. liefore I got to sleep my wife began to I was dumbfounded. " Ye gods !" I men tally ejaculated. "'is this a reality ? Is it poessib!e that I am hound up for life to a wo man who. snores ?" I was miserable. Here I had been just a moment before in t e stacies over the possession of, as I thought, ? a treasure. " Can I love her ?" I asked (f nmy heart, and the answer instantly came, i ' It is impossiule':" I debated with myself -th whet her or not I should secede," hut snoring w:s not a ground of divorce. It ought to be e - y you bet." I sat up in bed. and from in t :inking I went to talking. t " I can't and won't stand this ; I'll just get up an] leave, let the coisequences be what it (t' mav. I love her 1 know. but I did not know h that she snored." A bout this time I noticd that she had guit. 113 shoring, and was sl:akin;; the bed with sup pressed ilaighter, and I began to see thiat I was sold. There never was a poor devil, at bfiore i.or since, that rejoiced moe at dis- Nl covering that he had been sold. "' " i v,''ysaid she, -' I thought you pro- tI ined to take me taer Letter or for worse t bit here you ate n.ising a row, and threaten- th ing to leave moe at the first little fault you b tind ab it me." la Well, said 1, " I will make the same prc- at mise again, if vou won't snore ; but I'll he ti hanged if I woeuld live with a snoring wife tI ten minutes. tj; On Forming Friendships. si Every maan must have renarkelI the faicili- P tv with which the kindness of others is sone. imes gained by those to whom he never th e .uld have itnllarted his own. We ta o ir occnpation, eluc-ation, and hat its 'divided almost. in-o di;erent species, regard one another for the most part s-rt and malignity. Each , f t ise c o: the homan race has desires, Ieamr. c-nvcr;ations, vexations and merrimet ruliar to itself; cres whit h ti eii r e feel ; 1 leasures whie'i he car.not p:sari k( modes of expressing tven r: s.!:sat ion 1 he cannot understand. 'Ti at frolic which th shiakes one man w:th laugh'.ter. w::i eo .vtlse a~m:etr with in duinatiis n : t! e -train of jcw- a utarity which in oae pl:. e ehtaIs tir at and st pait ronage, would in art:o het it hl ar I with Ih indil'r..aee, an I inl a hirt with abhot rence. a To raise esteem we must bn:eit oilLers: to w p ocure love we :must- pleam: them. .Aistotle observes, that old men do n: i e.dily form i'endships, beeanse the y :.re net easily sus- 0: ceptible of pleasure. Ile that cat e contribti e d io the hilahrityv of the ts~aiit hour, or partake f. with eq ual gutt t ht'e vorite inmts'emet, he al whose mind is emptloedc on the saume obicts, awl1 who therefore ie--erci hara-ses t he undcer- ! stndin-' v~ it h u:;ae.:sionlu-d iih us, will be it welo:ne'd .sith ardor.:aid left wvith regre-.JI unles !.e destruoys thosec ret rsn.mnen Ia~i .1 bI i1 we'-e happy1 if, Ii: forn iendhip, vi!tue couid com.m inth pleasure ;hut the P ereatest pa~rt of' htiuian gri':ui~e.iios apprneh 0 o nearly to vice, that few.'. who mnakes the de'tht cC others thecir ruce of cor:duct., canI avoid iilisingrmoe, a uill ian.ces ; vet cetain i et he ht ,nifers himself' to i e d rivs-u or a! lI red fromn viirtue meistakes his s wnl iteet.''c iince he' pj:ins .wer':.~ sy miean.-, for t':Ieb is .;'eed. if ever le bet..m swirse. inu:"t scurf l Tf.'u:: I '.u:;U or -n: L.unw.-i .et partents nd teachers weigh vAell the sigifiicance sf the t'e!!iowing extrat: A tenstlema:n was walking over his farnim ithz a friend, exh~iiiting his crs. herds of' h -atthsand flocks of sheep, with till of which is frisend was higlyl pleased, lbut with noth' ig so inech av hi.. sh-ndid sh~e'p. Hie lhad ,ee the samte breed I're uently befo.st but hado never .eeen sneh noble specimtenS, and with gr at earine,n ss the asked to kmt,w hewvt i:e hadl saeceededl in produeling such ihseks. his s.imple ans~wer wa.., "I1 take care t.f myv iaibs..sir." Here was all the seeret of' hi. Iarge, heavy' Ilec'ed, fat shteep-he took care .' them when they we're lambs. k r a b arding htouse tatble, one dayc, a hcar a el r r- marked to his ieighbor:t "ITis imust be a htealthyv plasce f'sr c'hiel. " \hy ''" s::i 1 the ther.h " lheause I never se any (I ad ones abot t hi :e." ' C~i Jo' ~ :s.-:t is sail that Gekn. Magru ier, in en 'imta.d at Y'orkt.,wni, i.s nott a miem er of th :e.ntperamn e society, anud the boye 5, who tire someotimets rather dry, have not f..it ed to di crer~ ttha facti, and p'erhasps to speakb pe-ty C e'sey of it seilties'. Anmong.:hesed was I'i ivaite Winiship Stediman, of this town. sI lin the day after' Stedmnan ha'd performled an -'t of g. oat gaintry in thce sconting patr~y , 'romi lhethel C'hureb', lie w'as coenheiiid at a peloemtory ordler to appsear bsefore the Gener- t al, emnforced bcy a sect ion of soldiers. ie was nnaeble to decide whether he wats to~ he shot rs' 1 repimande], till he reached the Generatl's tet and was sternly addressed thus: "Pi vate Stednian, I understaind that you have e saidi that oldi Magrtudt r ~riieks all the liquor f ini Yorktown, and wonc't let you have a drop. You shiall sny so no0 lontger, sir. Walk in and i take a drinik. I commendl you for your brave- r the two Ileroities, MisieS K'rr and McLeod. The two noble heroines. Mis.e Abbie Kerr id McLeod, of Fairmont, Marion county, to rode from their hone; to Phillippai, a stance of thirty odd mile.=, to apprise our rces there oi' the approach of the enemy, ar. ed in Staunton by the Western train on 'ednesday night last, and remained till Fri y morningr, when they went. to liichinond. 'bile here they were the 4 o..etved of all server:," and were received with a cordial .esme. (:reat anxiety .was nanifes'ed by I to hear a detailed account if their inter Ling adventures from their own lips. They t F~airanmnt at IG o'clock on Sunday morn , and hastened, without escorts to Phil ,pi. They had not gone a great distance for.: they found that a shoe of one of the rses ne.:dpd flxing. They stopped at a tcksmith shor for that purpose, and while re a Union man cane up and questioned !m very closely as to who they were, and what mfi..5iotn they were going. Miss Mc 'od rtplied to his interrogatories.telling in that their surnatet was Fleuing, and at they were going to Barbour county to e their relations. Their interrogator seem to be very hard to satisfv. anl it taxed the genpity of .lks .1eod to inproviso a ry which would succeed in imnposing upon in. As soon as the horse-shoe had been :ed, they again proceded.Cn their way, but ,d not gone far before their evil genius, their terrogattr at the blicksnith shop, dashed them on horseback. They perceivel that his suspicions had not en :!ayed. and that he was gcing on in lvance of them to herald the approach of ics. They allowed hint t; pass out of sight advance, and then destroyed the letters cy had in possession, that the searrh of ir pereons, to which they then anticipated ey wonld be requirtd to submit, might not !tray then. Whi~en they arrived at the vil ge of Webster, they I. uned it in Coumiftion, A many persons were anxiously awaiting ir arrival in the eager ho.e of capt uring e spies. They were thtre :.thjeeted to a prouns cross-exa;nilation. The heroines Le chn anda self-p sseild-answering their e stions without he itattcy-and+ expressed a rfeet willinge.as to have their persons arched by any lady Ii:-y :night. select for at purpose. They were allowed to pass on. - I,,ed Iat sone tiIni., thouglh at tgnt or i ea. . en weet to the i, at-" of a Mr. Hluil, :ab n ile ar haf fr.,m Pilp;.i. iihre t1. tyed' :11 nait. The m xt i:irnig they -a' the rclgrt of th- tirinr t:i ilippi. Sin disgttise, tccpaellh:d;i1 b"y a Cuntry )naun, rettr::ed . P hilhi i n il iot t o seC hat had been the reilt. They mioved abonit am:id.,: ti., etIemy with i. eing, eteted or mo.-sed it: the l.. ist udl Jamte= Withrers,~ of IL lia'arige l r-.-, wl had cmtea!.ed hiiu:~.--el the:e to ie -t the enemiy frones 'pitring html. 'l.'he die inttted'ately al 1hime: tha~dt they wouldl L..e: h's rten ~e if he wo u'd trt~ tt tJ thin . dies diisgtised l.i n a<~ a er-mmtoj counutry' an byv furnish ing hi tn withI ."ae old clot hte. '.1ey hen gaete him~ a .ket of 5oap. with a -e~ipe foe nmakin e11i, tha; ho. :neight~ pass as diar of that ncssarv aert ii>. 'With the'se d C othes and~ htis ba!c.tatf soea p ont lis arm. 1. gdlhartdly mtounte~d U on a tnul-. :ICCoin-t tie I by, :eis'-tatrttian nune hr pa;ed safe thr',e.;h: th.e.rowd- of the enemyf: ande wvas uum ut his friend.< at likverly , aftr a cireui .t v.tre p.r-ons seidomc, if eve. rode he-. e. I iis diOw-'Pldijers a::d fr'ientl& re.ie vndy wheiiln he: arriveud, for they'. th..uight delad was alive, and the hest wa umu~d? e i. n~ow knrown in o::r camp ae:s the . pecdlar 'scap" The hereticeconuet of these ladlieas ill live in history, ande th~ev will becomate thie :roier, of many a thrilling story of fiction years to come.-Staunton~ Spectator. For gooed common~dt seniie, ~sring worth. xiinking, par alitie geiues, ati .aut t hat loves d seeks to exete:piify thI;e gob.n iu rukeomt -end us to the plaine, he:-p~hune mnh and we. en, whoa are not too jrould to work, nor tic evtd anal r fine d to lbe hones --meltnad omen who go ali ont Ibheir bunes, do their isess, atnd treat all wht-, behave themseleves mIeimbears of the same b~rotherhood, anal en, tIeda bey niature to egnal tights and privile. a-coatnmend us to thte biltt, lcerty out. okena men and womeni, whio are not nppre esive of reveadir.g somee secre~t ev'.ry time y lpeak. andl do noet stop to ae t he social Lt of th~e indiiviahi:aIlabeore theys address haim m.L the-v may he hang'aty and overhearing to 'art I hlat hble and weak, and fawning~ and ra~un; aic to vn:dsk the wealthy :nd iluenr at. ive us the plate, frank, opecn coute.i imeC, the haonest han I, the coarse andl worr et the tily clothes, an.1 the wVarmt heart that esie hypocrisy andm the petty deceitfn iits cf etiquette-the heart that is kind it 1 that is aruggmlin~g honestly through life -utlt] na oaf, butt intdignantt r'td full of rebukt wards 1o e Cwhao assumne the atI.am-hettr nn thon'' a'., aned prefer genteeli j lenes: ul legal robbing to honest indtustry and pro tetive lali.or. " hlow dreadful thatt cigr smxells," exclaim (1 Cusinig to a coampanion;l " whay, its an aw tl smlling thing.' "0, noi, it's nt the eiga; t Emuetts," w~as tho reply. d What i3 it ene' inquired Cuishing. " Why, it's you: o. that smll$, of course--that's what nosei ... mlad* *br." iThe Cotton-Spinning Interest of Eng laud. The following remarks on the interestinj subject suggested in the title of this artici are from the pen of a Southern gentlemai who is especially well qnalified to wr to upoi them: "FewN of your renders are aware of the im mrense loss of Southern wealth incident. to the transportatio' of the cotton crop to Enropi in the present 'raw' or 'lint' form. It is sen forward as a colonial product to England where it is spun into yarn (or thread) ant then re-exported to the C'. ntinent of Euirope to India, China, an.d South America, in im mense quantities and with a correspondinl enhancement in value. I is the cotton lini which makes valuable the coal and iron o: Great Britain. The great industry of Eng land is the cotton-spinning industry, and ir this branch of mannzrficiaring the Unite States are yet destined to supplare all rivals ': Georgia, North Carolina, \ . -ginia ani M.aryland are capable of becoming the cottor spinner.i of the world, and we may yet live tt ace the day when a bale of -lint cotton offer ed'for export to a foreign or coastwise port will he as great a curiosity as is now a bali of cotton in the seed. If the American cottor crop were shipped in the shape of yarn of thread, it would make a saving to onr nationa weahh in the items of waste and transporta Lion alone of 25 per cent. on the total crop or say fifty million, of dollars-a sum suffi cient to construct the Pacific Railroad, ani cut a ship canal across Florida. The Atlan. tic Southern Stat. s, from Georgia to Mary land, would receive an addition to their wealth, through the demand for coal, and iron. and water .oir, and the consequen activity in the inland railway interest. "The difference between the American cot ton crop in tl.e 'lint' and in the 'thread' is the d.Iference between a crop of 'low ordinary and 'strickly good middling,' or 24 to :, cent a pounl. For some very interesting data or t'is subject wo refer the reader to a calcula. tion made by Mr. G. (. Henry, of Mbuii!e While Mr. iHenry's pirelintinury data are ver' important. we have always found that hih plan of making each cotton grower or piantel also a cotton-spinner would be difficult of ac complishment. But, like all great improve mints, orig*inal ideas are seized by practica ninds anld tnrne" in o account. The idea u i shipping the A mericnn cotton erop in the fortr -e-- n or 't:rcml' is now receiving the r-,'ources so lavi.lily i:Psiitotd upon ti 1nem0 the biuntiful hard of nalure . We thereibr, wish the diret trade tuortemieii of the So''tl that measure of success to which every fai: '0cot1umercial enterprise is ettit led. If the cot ton crop cnn I.e spuln into thiead by thl .tlantic Southern States, it tfrnishes anothc bond of unity bnveen tie Stntes of the Soult. 4K in:; l'o t.i.. SIn thzis c'm:.n'eth.n v~ c think it pro er t av ide to th f. a ~~ t hat t ~he >ur'.&t or Indiai .eaitiones are vleles e:: tcijpt when use I wtil act Sj.i;:nilnC up 'our ercp :oi lingand, we ha. eti ed he'r grldma~lily V u ihi ro..iie. the .urti now wve Lb.d thatt .ver .-";'*n hundred thou .:nd bnl'es of S'ratt" are4 placed anuilallyi' la'ope. .Eviry lbe <t. 'hemba Si'ratf' cottot sumptiornfil tl~hough the aid of ouri goodl staple *y 0i 'spinit.'. or th: worl. displaces zi i':d of our1 lowe r or 'inif,-i'i trada. The conl seq.. nce o~f t bis poli.y -:now manifest a irol't l.il~ln i. l' ruhaiee .\meic1 cerrs ar no'the:Gkedn.le. Sihes ori' V'in e aving tordi the lm ra'trl ctton. ar ored to .take rote thnul:.nd b1'iss anre cin l. iiDoranyt ointer dbt tt thes it i hded tailhlooe d aftrhad be spmCS fulinooeto thmeca thi wodbe belt pleerd the erman. ous r octfrenei weave i toi the fol'imsv~ 'St' thread theyt uar foce to~.:Stii akefrom E nn i exitemen e crdinly imptrtat mte'trnetrnt tha1 hullci promotedli, t tind .Sthrateay behtl lome the spirert of o r 'iown on meror mn.,ting the worldCC wiythevrea' froml ps." crn eatesadn in front. of the re-treti. Churchze l'hieadepart Sada snehi hbo the arriva of riveer iong ae memh ingod tsad im of~ ocl the huch. itae that Mr. in g. paflrebelion tor thei iimmence ant the same time ermarken tht Col.lit ndcralewttof thevel ar irt, oneng shn Thisedhate th n w ee pitebmen an efge in a lrivate relon hTheiro riuht. ht he shoul tie rhetare uthatiCh was wr (as aphiceme, hovn tokhint a mat poi erg, ahn he uandervengt eainin shi fos reaordHny. ne xiemna ro masyordler toheave, allc the dit hatoh saoul rere truhat ot,hr was fa nlyoYoungtobi ong charge of aigt nui ou, ndee hes dscare uii Thendaymor fnwendh dewnt an ol exprsin m~s(lint~l.atib hadwtovsaytremrke tiht theire was hot a Yon tho bailcte o ,thechrgeoineiting o rd ment of making them known, he nevertmhe had the right to entrrtairt and express then i if he saw proper. He should he sorry to si an attempt made in Philadelphia to emulal the example of other communities, to abridg the freedom of speea'h. The expression of mere abstract opinion was not a violation law, though it might he very imprudent t tgve utterance to it. If the right of speee is denied to one to-day, it may he denied t another to-morrow. The mayor then ordere Mr. Young to be discharged. Distress in New York. The following is another example of th 4wondertul prosperity" which some paper lately endeavored to gull the public pervade the city of New York. It is from a late nun her of the Daily Kwirs : The flaunting of bright banners, the cot tinuons rattle of drums and ear piercing fife: nor all the bravery of gay trappings and di 1of martial instruments with which the Demo is wont to be-dazzle and deafen the heart and reason of his victims, will suffice to cot coal from the inquiring, truth-investigatin, eye, the terrible reality that our wealth an our prosperity are taking (tuick wings to i away. The professional man in his office, th merchant in his coanting-house, the tradesma at. his desk--ye, even the poor working gi in her attic and the day laborer on the stre( -tell you but one tale of terror. Everythin that has appertained to our days of glory i withering, and the hopes of ail hut those wh are apt. to profit by the human shamble tremble and sicken as they take birth. Tb skies and verdurp of spring, in this beautift region aye as bright as ever, and the after noon sunlight gleams as pleasantly on towe and steeple and roof. But could that light c God penetrate to the hearts of his creature: and make visible the secret repinings an tears of each to all, how soon would our pe< ple awaken from the frenzy which some ev agency, armed with an hour's control, now e: ercises over them. We will not ask our readers to visit wit us the homes of usual poverty and toil, bt simply direct their steps, even on the balm est of these spring days, along Broadwa alone. It is not an Unpleasant, walk, in man respects, and may prove, in some new sens a most instructive one. Starting from the Astor Iouse, let you eve range front each side of the street, you pass up towards Unio Square, and, be fore you have lone the distance of the 1~. vou will begin to realize some pro-l t"lsewhere of te ton an i m:y. -.. . t(ile inc .t e~it"':. styeucturi" t: -, i r t~~e avenue:. Frum the Astor I louse :U the u:ner o 1 street, 'uu miay this morning count I t these e~unercitl eiitaplh; : and if you .li qiekt. ito mny i a .splendil etab!ishmeu "the're plate gln v'ieLs with gildiung thr ti adorntme;nt of happier days, y'ou mayt; be tol itn at witer tl'~*Ihat bhin iren is ,td. amd ti place will sooni close. it, tL. n, at t hi-a sea-:onT. an~d with such pro~ nets anid taccumuhlationsl of mnotty ats we hr 1 I st y ear", r.:early o -t' hird cif the bit-ina sit. l: heLaye.t laurtionsn cf Br'oadw: le ab' edy hi otti g .rat the .-ignal of distres wh~tat nty we pqect whlen the purogress S -'an' lhter' shaill brint g increasa d levies ot met i ne ad Scalier ter ,:;:d ntrien1 it tever -h ousehold!' .tiny not ther e fligy in~ the Park yet dtang tere in tost all~pppiaLte p~reciner.ts to typi t lad ral ~ te of a Ginc.' gI I ious mtlart eboki ti death between a court rioom, a barrack at nu hinis-house - * t'- tuto, duin' I .Tlhe ErenIin!.s JIuOrn ayzts that a gentleman, we'l knownt to the ed tr, piassed through the city this mrnintg, d eect from 3Iubile~ andi Mein.phis. Ie hand porttnities of judging of the stretngth um condhiun of the Cotafederates, and he estimi ted the tiumbter encatnpeid between l'iekshm and Cairo at 30i,OQ.Q, all well armed. He sa: that they have a large number of Dahlgret guns. . lie also states that therc are at Mobile, nol . 0,000i Ilelgian mutkets, which had niot bet unboxed when he left. lie also says that fi rebel soldiers are erager to go to Cairo, or ant whe.re else where they cain light the feder stroop<, whotm thety thinik they ennl wipi en .ly. lie represents that the prosptects of t1 ,whett antd corn eropa in Tntnessee, M~sis rpi ad Alabat n, are in the highest dtegre Slatteiing. Brry: or A R~ATr.ESar. 0L':ut:t is-r Horat' s.--.The Petersburg Ex press publish, te following frotm a reliable correspondeni A carpenter while engaged a few days as in pitllinig down ant old house, anid removir asome of' the rotten timbers near rte gronn was bitten by a rattlesaike. In a f~iw mi mnt'is, his fittg'r wats swollen to four timti its ntura size, anti a red streak commenc< trunning up his hand and wrist. A deadl lungor canto upon hitm, atnd his vision gre il clearly indicating that the subtle poist that was coursing trongh his yeinrs was ra ,idly approaching the cttatdet of life, lint iremedy was tried, merely by way of expel -ment, which to the surprise of all preset tcted like a charm, the component parts which were ontion, tobacco and salt, cf eq~u parts inatde into a poultice;i and at the stin time a cord was bound tightly t.bot tl wrist. In two hours afterwards ho hada far recovered as to be able to resume b swork. 1 knew an old negro w~hio cured a b that had bteen bitten by a mad dog, by ti _same applicatiotn. SPhilosophers say that shutting the ev i makes the hearing more acute. o A wag suggests that this accounts for , -n ananosd eyes at church durin; the sermo s Statement of the Afair at Booneville. The Defeat of the Federal Troops, &c e Mr. T. S. Dask, who reached this city ye e terday afternoon, direct from St. Louis, ful e nishes the subjoined statement, which he say a was supposed to be true at the time he lef >f It confirms us in the belief that the black Re o publican control:ers of the Western telegrap b have wilfully misrepresented the facts: . et1t'iosii, Ca., June 21. d I left St. Louis on Wednesday evening last the 19th inst. We had received anuthenti news from the battle fought at Booneville o1 e the morning of the 17th inst. Gen. .yon, ii s command of 5,000 Federal troops, left, Si s Louis on the ]5th inst., for .lefferson City; at rived on the 1Ith; took possession quietl: without any resistance, where he left 2.000 o hiS troops under command of Co!. Botrnstein and he (Gen. Lyon) continued on 1i Boone n ville, 40 or 50 miles above Jefferson City. n When arriving near Booneville, Gen. Price s in command of the l,M State troops at ihn place. made a partial retreat, taking 1,000 c g them, by which he thus succeeded in decoving d Lyon and all of his men on land, save a fes v hundred on board the Latan. Gen. Price hay ' masked batteries in a small skirt of woods a from which he opened a brisk cannonade in -1 mediately after Lyon drew his men up in lin t of battle, which resulted in the repulse of the Federal troops with a loss of 300 killed an s .00 ttaken prisoners. Gen. Lyon himself wa o captured, and six pieces of cannon, and 801 s stand of arms. The steamor atan, with the e few hundred who were left on board, was sho i to pieces and sunk into the river, the remain .der, about 1,-00 or 2,000, retreated toward r .Jeffersrn City. All their boats were captured I Boernstein, who was in command at .efliersoi City, immediately after their defeat, telegraph ed to F. P. Blair, Jr., who had command it St. Louis. to send up all the forces he coup possibly spare. Upon reception of the de spatcl. he sent up 3,000 troops from St. Lou i.s the evening before I left, h Upon the receptir.n of the news from Boone t ville, the sece-sionists in St. Louis turned on about 3,000 to 4,600 in n umber, greatly ela y ted, and cheers for Jeft. Uavis, Beanregar y and Giov. Jackson. They expected to naki an attack upon the Duttch that night, wh were under command of Blair, at the 4rse r nal, and supio-ed to be about :.utspim in nu ter. The battle at Kansas City took place of Monday morning, the 17th. Thir:een hun ' red Federal trOlis made an attack up.o a,;6t ie same numb' rcf State troops. unde: 'I Perhaps Ihere is no movemnenit of tile Souti arn troops. since the eUannneumennt of th i"-e j ,Int cmpaignr in V irginia. that has elicite p nor.: di cu-,ion than the evaeuation uf Hai t, per's Ferry by Gen. Johnlon. e The follbowing e'itorial from the lHichuon d . aheri of Monday, evidently written wit ,. a noledtg.: of the facrts, from nuthori:a:iv sources gzives. we think, highly satistinclor .ra- ons for whbat app~earIld to be a ret ograd d moseiiint onI :the par it of ouir f. rces "We arne now at liberty, on the bec.it at thority, to make public the true mcot'es actuo <ting Genieral Johnsn in what the Norther amed some of t he Southern papers5 have calic the "Fvactuat ion of Harnper's FKrry." TI 'enierail, like oither military men of ednecztio1 ha d long, known that tlrpr'N VFeriy, . < ,dr; is .ihlly anid untenable, tfrom the facil y it uh wthicdi it ecm by tnun,.. [t lies as dwereC in the smaill end of a "funnel,~ ml dbroader end of whicb could with gre'at eaci be uccupied by the enemy, The i:ceadsd reeting the~ opern.iomns of the Yanikee forc< were well awar'e of this fact but forgot th: the're v"erc fully as a.atiie heads on our sidl Th i note anid able investigation~s of MKy' Wh it ing, cief ecigineer to Generacl Johnsoi hail satistied out leatder~s of the j;:stnces thiese viewis. it was well known that Gene al Scott's plan was to turni Harp~er's Fern by a column fromi Pennsylvania, uinder Ge gPatterson, etfect a junction ntear Winchesti or Strasburg with another columcn of McCh Ian's army passing through .Romnney, and ei off' Beauregard's and Johncsoni's armies fro ocach other. This pilan was com pletely foile e ndl the en emy cheockmiatedl at their ownm gami vas we shall explain. " On or ablew. Thjursday, the ifimh inst Ge ~neral Johnson, having waited at llarper i Ferry loing enough to make the enemy belie1 that he intened to contest that position1 e the last. and leariiing that they were adva ciig on Williamusport and Roney.v se~nt poto fhis force to Winchester by' rai o OnFriay e cotinedlisi movement,se back his tent equipage and other heavy bal Igage, his sick, &c'., set fire to, and burnied I Srailroad bridge, and sueh of the public buil ings as could be burned without endangerir private property, spiked such of the ha guns at Ha~rper's Ferry as conide not be in muoveid, anti on Saturiday m'ovedl, wtimh b, dwhole airmy, niarching on font, in the dire Stion of Wirchester, encamping about thr< and a quarter miles southwest of Charle n ton Thbe enemy, taking this mnovemnen as it was intended they shouldi take it, as aretreat, tcrossed a brigade of their advatu division, commanded by Gen. Cadwallade It, (who joined their forces on Saturaday morniing of which w.as cmoved torwards Martinsburg. aOn Sunday morning, however, Generi I Johnson changed his line of march at rig1 eC angles, and moved square toward Martin, o burg, encamnping at Bunker Hill, on the Wil Scheater and Martinsburg turnpike, twehi ~miles from Martinsburg, to offer battle ther eor advance and attaec if necessary. Th Imovement placed the enemy in a " predlica esent." H~e huad not crosred his whole forC and if the opposing forces had closed he mui to have been beaten in detail. Ho therefoi m. u.,."nc1kaowage the corn." turned tail and r trealte, reernsaing Ine river ant a-nuaeu . the valley, retiring beyond Ilagerstown. A lieutenant colonel and another (metnbe're of . the 8th Pennsylvania Volunteers) were taken s prisoners during the retreat. .\ day or two after this, Cul. 1ill, 13th Vir. ginia regimer.t, in command of a part of the h forees who had " retreated" from Ilarpe's Ferry, and who Lad been rushed forward to wards Homney, as our readers have learned from our Saturday's edition, sent forward to wards New Creek, on the Potomac river, eigh teen miles west of Cumbernd, four com' jianies of Tennessee and Virginia troop', un der Col. Vaughan, of Tennessee, w'.o found the Yankees posted on the Maryland side of the Potomac. Our brave fellows, in the face 1 of the enemy, forded the stream, waste deep, j drove them ct' in the utmost cnnfnsion, cap tnred two pieces of loaded artillery and a _ stanid of colors, destroyed the railroad bridge at that point, and returned to Romrtey, ma t king a march of thirty-six rilles and gaining a brilliant victory within twenty hours. Our readers will thus see what Ger. John son's "retreat from Harper's Ferry" has done. It has thoroughly broken up General Scott', paper programme, destroyed his whole west ern combination, and coms nlled him to re model his whole plan. If our " retreat" de j thus much, we wait with confidence to see: what our advances will do. In the meantime, we be beg leave to rec.all to our readers' re col!ection the old motto of this paper. " Nous verron.." aFun in Abe's Camp. - Some of the hordes of A. L. have fun in e' them, and seem to he living "in clover." Read the following Washington lettcr. I I am living luxurious'y, at present, on the top of a very respectable fence, and fare i sumptuously on three granite biscuit a ds , and I a glass of water weakened with brandy. A - high private in the 22-1 Regiment h;as peon ised to le ;Me hav, une of his square pocket handkerchiefs for a sheet the first raiuy night, and I never go to bed on my comfortable win t dow brush without thiuiking how many poor - creatures there are in this world who have to I sleep on hair nattrasses and feather beds all their lives. Refere the great rush of Fire Zouaves and the rest of tha inenageric com -menced, I boarded exclusively on a front - stoop in Pennsylvania : veniue and used to slumber. rcgardless of expense, in a well ern: ducted ash box ; but the military mnoipolize - all suct accommodatious now, and I give way for the sake of my country. r I tell you, my boiy, we're having high old . .4 1..... :,..3 .-m %,d ;r they set any l, they cou,. -. e snapping caps in It s than a minute. iI Then all tLe reportei telegraph to their -paper in New York and 'hilalelpl:ia, that Jeff. Davis is v:ithin two ntimcue' walk u jthe Capitul with a fe- millions of men." and b all the Stat.-tisendl ixnmore r-egimemts :tpiect e to crowd us a little more. 1 ,han't stuna y much mtore trov~inig, for my fence is fuli e now, and there wavis six apidications yesterday to rent an imtprovedi knot hole. My: landlord L- ays thati f more tLan three claps set up' -house k.:epintg con ore post. he'-ll he cJb~igel~ t n Iraise the roit. Tbh: greatest confide-nce in Gen. Scott Is efit by a!!, andi it would do you good to s - the py~ o-ld hero take the oath. lHe takes it - aftm*r e vr meal, arnd the first thing whten he - g'ets u in the miorning. t Tihtose 1Fire Zonares are fellows of awful e suteta:3 1 tel y.ou. .l u.;t f-or greens, I askL'd eonec ot thei' yrrdy wi..t he cameU he-iL fo1' 1 lt !" says he. sidlttng one eye, " W' scame -i-re to strike for your altars and volta ti ire-." <;n. Scott says5 thiar, if lhe w-ante . the.-e chaps to break t ra ngh the army of tht. r fee, he'd is e a lirec bell ru:g for some dis I trict ti ut ther side of the Rebels. lie u s~avs thait half a nmillion of traitors could no: r- keep' the Fire Zouaves out of that di'!riet five S minutes. I believe. hint, my boty. -r lue Rijdgeitailroald. - On the altth June. there 'wats a grand pie it nic at Walhalla in honor of the completion m of the Blue Ridgec Railroad to thit ilace. 1, Among the lktte'rs readt on that occasion we ecall attention to the followinlg; I Car.i;at.r.:gros, .rune 7, JSCI. ., bndkmt Yeur letter of the !!rd inst., '5 has jnist reachel mue. cot'taininag an invitation eto meet the citizeus of Walhalla on the 14th - inst.. and untime with themu in celebt atin~g the c ompktltion of the W:e Iidge Rlailroad as far a as youtr towin. No propt[-i could have been I. made to me moere in unison with my feelings: tand I beg yenu to conivey, in my behalf, to Syour fellow citizens, and to accept for your e selis, my grateful sense of ibis mnrmk of at I- tenttion. Circutmstances, however, combine g to deny me the graititicat-on of my feelings y on this occasion. 'I he invasion of our beloved ecountry bye the mercenaryv troops of a tyrani is cal and hateful foe. admnotnihes every man to 'remain at the post of duty and the piost of I duty for ine appears to be in Charleston. s- I sincerely regret my inability toe attend. , Those of us who hav-e faithfully adhered to a this great work, through good tepr, anad evil ereport, never had more cause~ than :.t present r, to hold fast to their convictions ot' the great .) commercial anid political truths uplon which their faith was founded. We must pause at -d Valhalla, it la true, but let us panse to take ibreath only. When the war shall be over, - and our liberties secured, there is a glorious i. future in store for the South ; and amontgst -e the first wvork's we shall then see achieved, eone of tht- greatest, in my opinion, will be the is completion of this great-highway of commerce, t- and bond of political and social union. eYours, most respectfully. t G. A. TRIAN!!0LM. -e To Messrs. W. H. Dendy, A. E. Normant, .. ind L. 1 n~. JoaCmmttee. fin a l.F~oN. .tnne 1I1. c:',L. nttlemen:. Your letter of the :2in in-tant, inviting tme to a pic ie, to be given at We-t Union, on the 14h instant, in re, bration of the Comp!fletio)n of the luillelre Ra:!ro to your n. ighborh.od, ai.d % hich yon .y ti -tn etome by the" u:Sfnimflns rreuat of vitr citi.i.-. has .nen received; but I have I) thank ynn, getllh-me. ad t Ih el:zen d ( Wbalhalln, for so kind : r nait ia. : n-. in an occasion .of o mich inieresut. I h::ve only to rxermss my rrgret that I canr.ot well i I ah-ert from the city at this time ; nr:dI must, tberefore. I' r.go the plea.ure of I.e in'g with y'.u. .ail my-elL f the opportunitr. however, to say, that ablhough the co:np!eIion of the road to Walhalla is but a step toward the great end Contemoplatedl by tho.e who ort isiu. ted this inpjortant work, still it is a -tep con pleted in Ihe tight direction : a:d if, by the well-known perseverance anl indust rv of your people, the resnarces of the cou:try shall he so devr:lopd as to furnikh a Iraffie that.will pay an intere: (n thie cO--t of tlis p--rtion of it. the coinlel: ion of t he reimrnin(i,. will, no doubt, follow at no ylv dirs:., t dir. .lore than tidity y( Cars agt) Ilhe learing minds in th: Sitnr.: ,without V.\ep tion, pl . jected and urged the construelic.n of rail. road across the- nmr"untaiuts, :Ind t hey bas5ed tbeir reasons for suich a connecti.n. on po'it i Cal, noat l-sA than Commntreial and 8sce.4 ground:. The neglect o: their conln.el has i.>t to the interior of the State, atntl to its commercial cnpital, a large trade that should have been ours, but which has gone elsewhere by the completion of other roads in advancce of us ;anl now, events are :n.lleily preeip. tated upon is whieh dem onstrtt., how pto litically ahort-'ighted we base been: as well amid if we cannut at this Inolment continue what has Leon commn'eued, they samonish.ua to resume the great work at the very earlies .uonent that we shoal be enaibh d to d 1 am, very resjpectfudly, your obedient s Mr vant. II. GOLURDIN. To Me:sir. W. 1I. Deindy, L. H. Johnson.. and . A. E.Notnman, Conuittee. Tr,"unt the ('iwrrtoat M1revr,... Proceedings of the Uanr. At a meeting of the Charleste.n Bar, ktH on. Tuesday, the 18th instant,- in the Equity Court itoni, the I1on. JTames Stions was "alled to the Chair, and A. A. Ah-motng re riue.ed to act as Secretary. The Chairman having stated! the oleet nf , ,he eetinugto e o) cxre the . lti en't f-the' liar on the death ' .Itlge F. .1. .)ardlaw. proceeded to pay a tribute to .the worth an I ;iar of Charleston are assenVlbled 1. . ,I-res h:'r appmreci:aion of his worth int thw Lull -."b::re ti:ey have been so "fien ::t:r.:etti hv the p-Wince and t):rtey wh.:h : re i.. t'ariatb charIni.rlc :i-tie, ::,:', y r:- afte y h..tve~ ;:dmired lthe woide.: fid .-.nI.h : :. .. ot <iie: ~ de:r nr 0t- . mu sau::d ,':. men~ztt, withi the letarnsi ; li onre:era, proiem-id and. every re.ady I'': the ocea*:li... which he~ bronght to the can.-ider::tion < I ever caiuse. llis recorded ooinieans will ever of the gni at law::.-rs 1 infan tos::n '.r ,-os:l:.yI have attained at iStinc i;m merel tf.impti'le. pm.. , precise and himuinon.s. A eciracy an11i elegance of e;:pres~in were no :meh a h.:l.i. that un: dr no circutmstainces dlid t hey '-rr appear toJ -lesert him. Ue is dtead, biut his opinions re mainm a rich legacy to the proitoin and to. *is e utryt'. lint whatter hi; i.d'b: meri., his memo1'ry will be, mt-t I :.i. etter i-ed in te hearts of those who knew wei his simp' je, ~incere, earntest. htoneCst. kiind'y. la:re l. Peac. e be to his as~hes Ja'..-ledo. Tlhat in to'ien of *our respeet fi.ra the miem~ory ofi the Ho::. F. II. \Eatrdla~, it, .'to.eiate -J udge of the' Court of ).pp:en!. low deceasedl, the Iar ct "harleston wil w.a.r the :ia;l ba~dg'e oIf mourn~1ing fr tirty! In'sedc. That the 'haih-man *.f tlh.isn~ m - ing he re1nested to .send t. copy of these pt eeedings to the family of th-e deceased. ReorThat tile At torneyv Genera) re-. port the preamble iad re olut ions adoptel by~ this meeting to thec Court of Commo~n Pb'aw and G3eneral Sessions, now aitting in this place, with the reinest that they b.e enterr.d u pon the mnu:ter- uf the: Cout. The !hJ1I ||'oo' ut has a, nur eft .a:nna rrlative to the late hiazh att ijet be.! t'hlureb'. -It i~s .ail byh somt'e that (,n. I',mler wast ridingu ablottI a iled iromi llamtiptont, wl .e!, Ila troops eame dasidug doa u the ioadl at L lI 3it. ltecognizing a Captain among them0, I B;,lernetonteJ him and ashedl what th~ey were running so for. The captain, pu.'i:n f;.r breath, tol himt "there i.- at uhr.e L.m of Sontihern Centlewan ehn1sin~ uts. Perr1~O D)owN Tile Inis.---he In Ir:-. dont of' the Virginuia and Tenntessee lI:ilroadf gives notice, that tinder no circumrdances will the intere'st on the company's bonds, held in. New Yorct. 13e paid. This is the way to p~ut down the breaks on the Yankecs. Tuz EIN EMY W~AsTIso PowDER. AG A N... The Fredericksburg RPelr says: O.n Wednesday 'night, between eleven and twelve o'elrek, a steam tulg, which had been keeping the P'ece company during the day, file.! two gtuns k aded with gr: pa abtot at Simm's battery, on the hill. The fire was not retured hy our side. for the reson tin;.t the tug was outt of reach of ectr grs andti ta Iher shot fell short. During the firintg, the Gordon Rifles, whlich Shad been sent to the spot by the ofileer com manding, Came tup in the rear, and we.re near -a being fired upon-the party atf the batteries spposing them to be a detachme.nt of the enemy which had landed. Th6s thi'ag ought to he providedl aainst in th j 'tura.