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Selected Poetry. FrO o he Meropnyiton Record4. SPRI IS 0OMIG. Ijy A. J. usQUIRIa. I kanow it by the hyaointb - Whichi now begin to blow, And flit-ting voices strang'ly swoot And trenalously low. BJy soinething purer In the tuxi, And softe 'in the air, Aml holier In lie twiliglt stars, That Spring olli soon be here. The Almanacs are well enou-git For garduets and for qooks I seek the seasons In the sky. And find thmow by. ihe brooks; I hear thein on the breezy htills, And, in the hollows, see The token ilowers and sigus that speak Their messages to apo. And thus I glean fr'om gerning Isles Of sunset in the West I From wavings of untiriog wings That will not go to rest ; From spoils of fragrance spiced afar, And poeing spears of green, And silver bugles in% the wind, The a'dvent. of a Queen I I know it by the hyacinth Wheh a o - b g 'is to blr, That, Winter, oh nih icy bed, Is dead, or. nearly so. And soon will come, with flaxou ourls, Lod by the laughing hours, Tni blue eyed daughter of the Stun, In glorifying showers! Stringing Pearls, We extract the following paragraphs from the National Intelligencer. They contain' truths very fitly and aptly writ. ten ; but we fear our respected cotem. porary is engaged in the unproitable business of stringing pearls to cast them before swino Mr. Harding might well say, as lc. did in the Houso yesterday, tibat ton years ago the most ignorant la w student in the country could not have been found pretending that there was any constitutinnal power for establishmg a military government within the limits of any State in this Union. Tle arbitrary arrest and persistent confinement of an Englishman, held by military orders in spite of the writ of habeas corpus, would convulso all Eng. land. Will tihe American people consent that, one half of their count rymen shall hold their liberty by the will of a milita. tary commander and his subordi iates. ? It is a maxim of law, that it is bet. ter that nine guilty men should escape than one innocent be punished. With an onlighted statesmanshipthat shouldmake all law-givers blush, the Congress of the United States would enslave a whole people, lost a few lawless man should go unpunished. Mr. Iaynard, of Tennessee, doclared that tihe portraits of-tihe founders of the Government should adorn the panels and their busts ill the niches of the House, that its members might, catch something of their patriotic and heroio spirit. They would look down. with pity and with scorn upon the degenerato men who, would gravely debate for an hour, much lessdays, the propriety of putting abso lite power over the life and liberty and property of one-third of its people into the hands of a military despot. A House of .1epresontatives that claims to represent the great party of freedom justiies this pretension by seek ing to impose oni the entire peo~ple of a State a complete oligareby, under the pretence of prep)aring theni for self-gov ornament. it voted yesterday to annihi Jade the laws enacted by a people, mn orddr to establisha those dictated by a Senate and 'enforced by the bayonet. Wll might Madam Rowland exclaim, ' 0 Libierty, what crimes ato committed in thy name I"' Military power is iho last resort of a decayed and dying republic, said Mr. 1saymnond. Thei words made a strong imipression, not only on Mr. 'Garfield who so easily .recalled them, hut on every thought ful nman in thmat House. Matial la w and republican institutions nre0 asincompatible as light and darkc nesas fire and water; amjd ho is no truo friend of his olmtry wvho, when no in vapion threatens our borders, when no rebellion convulses our territory, wotnhd hand the nation over tothe unlimited discretion of oven a Cincimnnatus or a W.ashmagton. Thaere are sixty-ono men in the H-ouse of Repro e n ativo.. who are willung that half t heir countrymnen shall hold their dibertilee at the will of a brigaidier-gene ral of the army. Are they willing to hmold their own liberties by the permit of a militairy conymander ? If thtey are, they are fit to be slaves, .ahd unmiit for the high duty of an Americnan represea tative. if they are mnor., with what jmi.. tice can they claimrto be true Democrats or honest fRepeblicans, who wvould im. pose an arbitrar'y autho'rtty on their countryrien, to which they thomaelves are uunwilhlg to submit? Was'rebellion a great oVtime ? If' so can we diot leave the people of time Sonth to find it outi? ~All our fierce contenation and angry controversies will niot add an iota to their apapreciation of its folly and its enormity. Nay, the freer we leave them to the discussion of the acts of those who misled tihe mOst likely they ar'e to arrivo at, time truth. Thelm attempt to coeree thme public opinion of the South by test oaths and pumitivo legislation, isa uti-r pubican anid hostile lai the spirit of our inatitutions. It shows a want of faith in the trutmh and its inev itable triumph that might''become an advocate of the' Inqgisition or a nje of the Stmblhie P'orte, but is utterly fbra einto die bivilzaton~ 9f the nineteenth eqotrp'y an~d the tolgrant .tetnper otthe American people. '' H'IONG LANoUAoE.--Vhile review. lng the Lioisiana bill, on Samturday night Mr.'D~oolittle said its title shaould be aiitnded so as to read, not - to restore eivil government, biut to- organnI hell in the0 Stauto of Lionminna.- [A hasa au the gaherics mingled with hiss es.] A Southern Editor's Reminisoonoes, The Memphis Avalmache indulges in the following bit of 'suntiiont ". Iato At night, whilo the are aind lainib burn low and dim, we iay down No. 10,032, Volume LXVIII of the Mtional itelligencer, and lean back to think, overcome by the many memories which its familiar caption calls up. We have read it coostantly for thirty two years, minus the four bitter years of civil war, and had the the good fortune to know its old editors, Joe Gales And Vm W. Seaton' both great and good men, now nmbered with the dead, but of immortal memory. Not only of theso princely gentleneo does tile Intel ligencer romind us, but of many, inaimy another whom we wero fortunate in knowing, and whom the county lan lost-Webster and Clay and Critten. don; Dawson, the Commodore, of Greor gia, peerless at the dinner table ; Rlusk and Ihonston, Floyd, kindest hearted of all living men ; that noble geAtfleinen, Butler, of South Carolina, Preniiss, worthy to be called Chrysotem, golden mouthed, and not only beyond compari son the most eloquent, but the most gonial And generous of men; large headed Tom Corwin ; Keith, gallant and good ; Badger, wise beyond other men, of' admirable wit, aid always enamored of the truth ; Sovier and Douglas, Cie. incus and Quiitman, with rnany a dear old familiar face-of others less known to fame and even more beloved, crowd around ns as we write; the dead min. gling with the living. Porter, of the Spirit, and Inman the artist,. and glor. oUs John Brougham, and Alexander Dimmitry, largo-souled a one of To, mer's heroes and wise as Plato; Breck. inridgo and Bonham, Boyco and Robert Johnson, four mon of like princely natures ; all these, and many like theoe, we met at Washington in the better times, when the Senate of the Unitud States sat in the old chamber, and that city was the capit.al of both tle North urn and the Southern States. JAlheu. negaces/ how the years drift away, and we become garrulous, and forget that tho long list of names, and the memories they call up, of Ithe reflections of the gods' and times gone never to return, and scenes already dim interest for no one but ourself 1 Nevertheless it. is written, it is a cry from the hear.. Let it stand. Thank God, neither power and malice can confiscate and sell for coin to knaves the happy or the sad- momentoos of the past." SURATT 1I4' WASUINOTON.-A des patch from Washington says: John H. Surratt was brought on shore late this afternoon, at the Wash ington Navy Yard, and delivered by Commander W. W. Jeffries, of the steamer Swatara, to Admiral Radford and by the Admiral transferred to Mar shal Gooding, who held a bench war rant, issued by Judge Fisher, of the Criminal Court, commanding him to "t-ake John H Snrratt, late of Washing. ton County, if he shall be found within the County of Washington, and him safely keep, and have hits body before the Criminal Conrt of the District of Columbia, at the city of Washington, immediately, to answer unto the United States of and concerning a certain felo. ny by him committed, as it is prescnted and so forth." Snrratt was dressed in the uniform of the Papal Zouaves. Stepping on the wharf, lie bowed respectfully to the~ Admiralh, and dcported himself wvitbh dignity and firmness The prisoner, wvith his custodians, formed a party larIge enough to-occupy thireecarniagcr. Evory arrangement was made for se curity and qiuiet, though a large Coin course of spectators gat hered at the jail to see Surratt upon his arrival. -The prisoner was transferred to W~arden Brown, and was then locked up in one of the thmreQ iron-clad cells of the jil, which are considered perfectl: secure, and left for the night. No on~e will be allowved to see him except his counsel and the officers of' the prison Surratt is appareitly .in exccellent health, and spealcs but vcry. little to any one. H is Zouaveunifoim~i was very much worn and faded. A t the time of the landing, the Swa tara lay in the stream, about fity yards from the wharves of the Navy Yard., and up to noon to-day no communic'a tion whatever has been had with her or from her, except that .Commander Jef fries, last evening, reported to Admiral HRadford a short time after her arrival, and left his despatchies for thme Navy Do partmeunt. Tihe mail. this morning, was taken on hoitrd, by a rope from t11c boat. S3urratt, wha'o on bom d theosteari o, was confined below decks, i t:-ongly guarded. GOnOROR WAsUINGTON-- l1'E~. It lpasses all human iimder-standing ta conceive how the North can still clinif to Washington's birthday. It should be abolished. Hlaving nuillifled every brinci ple of the man, his natal day hould, in common fairness, be stricken from'tihe calendar. . As a Rebel, ho i beyond the p ale of' loyalty ; as aii exalt. ed person wvho protested with pen and sword against despotism of every kind and especially the despotism which our Northern brethren force upon the South, making Great Britain n saint of frreedom in comparison--as sneh a person, lie genserves EX-comiunication and abhor ranic. .On tius lrty,- when the teschings of Washiington. has~boen apurned ; his glo fious exampl'e dented, and -hd Republic hie fbiunded destroyed, we have the pan.. tomlma of stars and stripes, the patriot Icairs, tle liarewel Addressythe nation. asl salutes, the fias'h parades, thes fire oraekers, and all other tokens of' remem branceo. Arise,, George Washington I and come to jndgment. Of GOmar It is recorded "Tie er: -usly elqin." The Nerth hase furnhehed Washingeon'8 epitaph : "ie was a Great Miatake.'.-.Augustia Constitut1ioncalist. 22nd. AN INGENIOUS MAcHINE.-Au ingo nious mecihatio of San Francisco, California, has recently invented a imacimlie for laying railroad tracks, which must work a rovolution in tlht character of labor, as it oun lay the ties and iron, and complete as it goes, a distance of two and a. half miles per day, with the iaid of twenty men only. The modol is now onl privato oxhibi tion here, and ha1s been examined by the inost experienced railroad men in the country, and pronounced perfect ly practienblo and simple. The road must first be graded, of course. Tile balance of the work is admirably per formed by the machine, and the only work to be o4ne behilld is the filling in or (clioring the ties. It is alleg ed that ex-O overlo' Sandford as> amllined it, and prolloullehd it perect ly feasible antd priacticaible, anid lie is considored high authority, lin in,g iid great experience in that iino of busi Hess. The maclhino will cost about $25, 00, complete. It not only lays the ties with mechanical proision, but cuts the grooves for the rails and lays thll, drives the spikes, and completes in the most inut(I particular, the en tire work. It carries its load of ties and rails, and occupies a space equal to about two platform caurs. Several of the Illost enterprising ca pitll ist:s havo taken the enterpriso in hand, and a machino for practical work is being built. DEATI o0- SHIMANT TiAV.--The Galveston Civilian, of the 6th, hkas the following announcement: Wo cro indebted to a particular friolld of this well known and falithfil old dog, fol the paitienlars of his death ad burial. After a long and eventful life, both in and out of' army, hie depait-. ed t.hose mnndane shores" oi t ie 4 thday of February 1867. In conseIquenc of the late order, prolibiting public demon. stratiois, the personal frienids of the deceased met privaltly at the Planters Ihonse yesterdaiy, no. 1 o'clock p. iml., interred him with military honors, by fring a Sahilte of one hunldred Chinese fire-crackers over his grave. It is well kinown in this comnaniunilv who "Old Tray" was ; but for tile info.nation of our distant readers, aid those agj'ininted with tile circulmstances, we woit1l state that hie was an a ttacho of Co. B. Cook's Artillery, and served lionorably aldl faithfully in tile "Lost Cause." ie is now gone to that'bourne from which no traveler Pro returns. In plain English, we say, "Peace to his Ashes." Tex FKNIANS RiSIN.-The Newy York Tines, of Tuesday, has the fol lowing cable despatch, dated London evenimg of the 18th The cause of the Fenian outbreak in the South of Ireland is yet. buried in ob. sou1rity, tholgh the telegraph lines which rin through tie disafTected dis. trict are again workmg and commiuica. tion has been restored. S me say that it was cause'd by the arrest of tile American officer, Ca1pt. Moriarity; whil otlers say that 1.i1s prompt. arrest prevenlted a general risitng of the Irish. The British Government had news of the affair early on tle 1 2th instliat. An upper servant in the holuseolobl of tile Earl of Keninore hid receive two anonym'rous nlotes statinig thiat a rising wvas planned in KillarnenCV andt that t he~ leader wold reachl Killariny from Cah.e irciveen that night. Constales were immediately sent to inltercept iml. 'They mlet a wagon, on which thev fondi dy, and upon searchinig is pesn found letters conhfiming the assertionls in the anonymous noi~es. Th'Ie F"enian plan1 was t~o at tack Kil lariney, captulro the plae, and then maireh to Cork. lut, the imniiediaito despatchl of troops from Cork toa Kililar nley by Genl les, anld the celerity of Col.. I [obsford's miovemernts, defe'atedl the whole pilot, and caused the insulrgenlt band to disperse. COTTON OPrilA TIONs.-A iss Chiar.. lotte Ilough has brought suit agpinlst a Boston firm for~ money du1e1 her from cotton speeulations during tile war. Shlo claims thlat sho was employed by themll during thle rebellion to buy cot ton in tile Southlern States, and to mla nipulate late GIoverlnent emp jloyees, so as to seure its passage in safety thlrough the-- military lines. ene' oral Butler is one of the council for 1,110 lady, and she states that the firm in qulestion mlade $100,000 by these speculations through her agcey,and~ now refuse to "divide." Thoro is an oxcelleut chance here for'sonic of tile ninerous Conlgression al lnvestigatinlg commiittees poralfnbu~lating tile coun try to extond tlieir journey to the town of Boston. IR8SUR OF ITIoN8 'TO Ti(E DKSTT TU-rE -Capt. SaneI Pla1ce, U. S. A., begapi the issue of raitionis to the dlesti tute of t~his Distict, Oil Monday, II th inist. During Lto six (liys rlucceeding thait date, alid enzding -Saturday last, hie iationed fourteen witel males, 106 whiite fomalos andmlahodren, t went.y six colored males and 1 55 colored f'emales and children. maiking 301 persons issued to. To thlese, in) the aggregate. (tho -ration's for tenl days,) 1.515 pouinds of pork, 1,200 pounds of corn meal and twenty bushels8 df corn ew.ro issn.; edi. Ca pt.. Place hmas now made regnlisii ion for j~ckets, pants, frock anid over coats, brogans, blankots at~d dross and tunderskirt., fot. irsite, sparingly to the deshitute.--Amten~r WVatchman, A communication sont to the Sen. ate Situt-day by the Seretary of W~ar, gives details of tihe enor'mous cost of sup plies dlellverod to troops. in the Rtocky Mountain region. Hlay cost~s $60 to $100 a ton, and corn 8) cents ajana a poid-.4.3c bue..i. ItalnaLoN IN ItaonbnosN.-The nerves of (he "Loyal North" have boon terribly sha ken by an atrocious outbreak of rebellion in the city of Richmond. General Granger, who was, unfortunately, absent from the post of honor andl danger, was promptly telegraphed, and returned as rapidly at steatn could bring him, to sec to the safety of his command. Unfortunatoly for him future glory, however, the battle had boon fought and lhe victory won beforo he ap. pearead on the field. The whole rebel army had been captured, with Its battle flags, arms, munitions and baggage train. The country breathes freely agidn. 0oneral ramiger, loubtless, issued congratulitory orders to his command, and the faithful, gallanit and chivalrous "forlor hope," wihc led the final and decisive charge. will, tic deubt. be brovettod for their distinguished service . OMI ia' di:,patcle furnish us with au. them i rut trns of the rwisoners, &c., cap lured. They 'oot up as follows: On- little buy, (wiito,) aged filly nine years One lttle hoy (colored,) aged fully eight anal a half y cat s. Ono rebel war Ilag of blue silk slashedi wht h pik. Stall to saen, iado of a poach troe switelh. One woorlcn musket, borne by the contra. band inftil Iy. One I in saibre, worn by tile cavalry hert of nine years. Onae tobacco -stick charger, ridden by the sam e. The General conimming ha's forwarded those trophies, by special ourier to Wash ington, to be deposted i t le Capitol. Thc prisoners. laftr taking the amtnesty onth, lave been pa roled, and Coigress has ap pointed Messr.s. Elliott and Shollabarger, a special committee to visit Richmond, invos. ligate the facts connected with the rebellion and tfram-Ca bill for the restoration of civil government in the Territory of Virginia. Lynclury New. Tho Washi tip'ton papers received last night itirot m uw tha t. lIto Tuosdlay night Sttrratt wan received fron the isteamor and delivered into the cusltody of Marsial Good ing. by whom he was conveyed to the coui ty jaiil and placed in a cell fitted up for his acommodati-m. Quito a large nunher of 'orsons were present, all onger to catch a glitopse ol' the prisoner. The presncee of t wo tidian chiefs in full war dress, and hearing t heir glilotning toaiiahtwk atitraced no little at tention, and onae excitable i ndi vidt: start e.l the rather improbable story that they had been seut thereby lhde War Departmenl, so that immediaioly upon land ing of Surlratt. he might be tomiahawked an scalped in the tmo'st. npproved Indiam style, 1anud thus all tohe expenses of the trial be avoided. Oin Iaiding SurratI was asked by Marshal Gooiliiig, "Is your nme Johnt ii. Surratt ? to which he replied in the allifimiative. Thc Mlarshal read to the prisoner the bench warran. for his arrest,while (lie hlutndreds of speclators present, inanay of whom were ladies, were colaoly seruitnizinag the coun tenaice atid dress of Lite prisoner. The appe.atrance of' Surrai(t, so far its his dress was conterned, was sernpuloimly neat, and even attractive. While standing on the wharf lie was exposed to the full view of tlie assenbled crowd. SurrAtt is a man about five fCet seven or eight ilaches inl height. rathicr spare built, thin and regular features, wi liight hair, mouetnolto and goaiteo. lie was dressed in a full Zouave ulniform of blueish gray cloth, trimed with red braid, a d.ark red Zouave skull cap, with a blte tasse'l, a crimson sash around his waist. and white leggings, lie appear od somewhat iepressed at first, seldom rais inglhikeyes except to cast a senrching glaneoc upon those upon lie wharf, as though try Ing to dutcet a familiir face. Fsit.% taI itisi'x.-The Now York Hra& of Frida'iy. has tiho following sl)ecial despatelh daled 1ibhiblin, 1111 itistant: Important news has seon received in this city from the South of Ireland, to (te eiec that the I- enntis made a rising," this morning at. K ilhtwney, in I tc coutiy of Ker iey, and tmarcierl towarls' Keunm.tre. Uitsh troops, with a force of ai'tiller'y, ni'e int pursu5it of thle enemy. Kei'ry is a mar'itimo C'onty in (lie R9outh. west of I i'elanid, with t hte estuat'y of the Shtannon River' as its Northerni boundary, the Altantic Oceant on its Western edge, and (lie Coauid ies Limnerick and Coi'k forming Its Southei'n andI Easter'n boumndar'y. Its popu. lationa is nhlout 200,000 persons, a large pr'oportion of' whom spealk oinly the Ir iishi tongne. Th'le region is extremoely wild, ruigged and mioutamiinous. Thlue t own ot'K illn rney, wh ere (lhe "rtising," is saiid to have taiken plnce is situiated necar the cetrt'of the Coutnty Korr'uy, on the fitnons lake of the samoe name. -t Ithas a populaltion of some (,000 or 7,000. l~itnate is ianotherca town int d Count~y Kerry, situated oh (lie high i'oad from Corkh to Unahiiruiveent, near' to (lie residence of the late D~aniel O'Conell. It, lies in a very isolated distrmict at. the htead of Kenmuare liny, annd hams a ceni'iietnt harbor and pier. it is appi'nehiable from thme ocean by vessels of' havy bauden. Wh'lile Shermian wvas on his ''granul marich thr'ough Winnmsbor'o, S. C., one of Is pious ellicers stole a silver conunion ser'vice from thue Presblyterianm church of that place. TJhe name of the church, anid the donor, n ladly niow dead, who engraved dtpon the pitehc'. The loyal tief brontghat tis eloy gain, service North. and precsented it toa loyal charistian church, whloso membheri nlow partake of the commiunion fr'omth stolen articles. Thae llev. Dir. Adger re cotly wrote to a clergyman of (lie North. "A certain congriegaitioni of your body now has that silvcr conmmunion sot,.whiceh'Capt. F present a I t o them, and are noit usinig It for their cotmtunion purposes with' thiose names of Sciotin'hu and Its dying sister stairing them in the fadeo as they oal tihe brn' a-l anda drink the wine wiIor se forth thec body and bloodi of our commori Macter'." Wonder if these loyal and piout partakaors from stolen properly over think a1 these words of Christ: "it. has been writ, ten that mty hotuse shall be called (lie hiousa of prayer, but-yo have made .It a den o: thieves I" LETT'rrst PnoM LA UlA K s syt .--.angabalin Written a letter contradIcting a statomont it r'eferenice to- Wilkes hluoth, whichl recentIh appeared intime papers. In justice to -(Ii lady we dolpy ai etraat.: "lie called (lie attontion of (1ie Qonora to thme fact that noe pr'otf baa ever bech mada hdnitfying IloAth with (lhe tanraer, exoepi (lae testimonouy of Lanra Koenme, ihe actress, who was a personal enemy of Booth." Edlitor of the Tribune San m Time above ext ract, from yourpapem of Fet-'ruary 7th, together withI tihe cosmmnum ieation of "Antiarop,"' ini this morning'z Issue, force me to the unplensant necessity of repliting t o both nnfoatn led sinndters.. I could niot be (he oftwmy of Johnt Wilkem Blooth,as I never met. hnm or saw hait int sa life. I nover' was called upon by , the au. (hioritios to ideutify "Doeth,''. neer' gait testimony against him, de any poison Whost name was conneoted wIth the assassiniitton, Dr. IHawley, (lho meudlosh examreiOer at th<n Anhbu'n (t'4. Y.)-Stat~b prisons Jias,, after o'.rolful examination of* indsley, th'e obildI whipper, prontomnod hin of uns jmng mind, in consequonoe ot a spinal'i disenust of many years standing. The effect of this decisiota was to eause the prisoner to be .placed at an avoationi that will ngt be Iaborlo... B"y and By." There's . music enough, in these words for the burden of a song. There's hoe) wrappod up in them, an articulate boat of the human heart. By and by. We hoard it as long ago as we on remember, when we made a brief but perilous journey from chair to table, and from table to chair again. We heard it the other day whon two parted that had ben "loving in their lives," one to Califor nia and the other to her lonely home. Everybody says it somchow or oth. or. The little boy whispers it when ho udronis of exclnging the little stubbed boots like a man. The man mrmurs it, when iii life's 'iniddle watch, when I o scos his plans half flinshed, and his hopes yet in the bud, waving the cold late spring. The ulk. man says it, when he hilks of changing the mortal for tho imnor tal, to-day for to-morrow. The weary watch for the morning, and while away the dark with "by nild I y."1 Sometimes it sounids like a song sOmietimes(1; there i. a sigh of a Sob in it. What wouldn't the w--.Id give to find it in alinack, set dowl Some whero, no mattor if in the dead of 1e comber, to know that it would surely coi ! But fairy-like as it is, flit ting like a simbeam over the dowy shadow of years, nbod y caln siaro it, and we look upon the ui:uy times those words have beguiled us, the memory of the silvery "by aid by, is like the sunriso of essian, pleasant but mournful to the soul.-Kewbrn Journll /' Commerce. WVSDOM AND WIv.-A represelita tive, in his maiden sp(eih on the floor of Congress, in reply to an opponent, by his telling hits and witty specelce and puns, kept the house in a roar of laughter for iearly hialf an hour, clos ing amid quito a demoniistration of ap p robatioln, and as ie thou;.;ht, with great success. What was hh; aston ishminieit, after having received the congratulationis of soveral friends [it the close of the day's proceedins, to be greeted by Mr. Benton, who taking him asido,said : "Sir, I have hcard your speeh. I have boenu hro many years. This is your first session. Will you por mit me to give you a bit of advice ?" ''Certaihnly,sir," was the roply. "1 shall foel hoiiored by your courtesy."1 " Well, sir, said Mr. Bienton, "your speech was execed'ngly brilliant ; it sparkled with wit ; it was funny ; they laughed heartily at it ; but nov or do such a thing here again if you wish to advance as a statosman and politician." "What I" said the astonished debu tant, "never make a speech ?" "No, sir, not that ; but don't mako peoplo laugh," replied Benton. Not make people laugh, Mr. 3cnton! Why it requires some genius to make a witty speech. "True sir ; but the public has a poor approoint,ion of genius. You miust gain a reputation for wisdom, niot wit. You can gain a reputation for wisdom in Cqngr3ss by not speaking a singlo word during the session ?11 "A reputation for wisdom ?" "Certainly. Sit still and look wise. Mankind is prone to reference the sol cmni ass !" Josn Thrimxs' Essa ONTO SwsNE.-IHogs generally arc quadri ped. Th~e extremie length or thoir antiquity has never hooni fully discovered ; they exist od a long lime before the flood, and hovr existed a long ime since. There iz a grate deal ov internal revenew - a iiog ; there ain't. miuch more waste in them than thare lz In an bystor. Evenu their tails can be wvorked up into whuissels. Ilog are good quiet, beordors ; they aiwus eat, what, is set before them, and don't, ask cny foolishi questions. They never hev einny lissenze but the meazles, and they never hev tha~t but once ; 01nCe Seems to satisfy thienm. Thiaro is a greate meniny breeds amongst. them. Some are a close corporation breed, and somio'are bilt moere apart, like a hemlock They use to her a breed In England, a few years ago, which they called the stiped heg breed; this breed was in high repte among. the lanloerds, almost every taveirn keeper hand one, which lie used tow sho0w tow travelers and brag e- him. Some are full in the face, like a lown clock, and some are as long and leath as a cow-catcher, with'a stcah picted noze on them. They kan awl rate well ; a hog that kant rule 'aell has been made in vain. TJhy are a short-lived animal, amid gene rally ie ns soon as they gir.fatt. Thio hog can be larnt, a grate mnnay omin ning thiungs, stich as liisting the front gafe off from Its hIngos, tipping ever the swill barreoll, and finding aIhalo i the fence tow gIt. into a corn flichl ; it ia awful hard work for thomn tew iliud the same hole tow git out at., espeshally ifyn are at a'l anxious they should. hlogs are very contrary, andl sclom drive well thle same way yu arie going ; they drive most rhe oilier way. tisi hnz 'neven bin fully explaIned, but speaks volumecs for the A VE.TO CERTAIN --The Preidont's organ-speaks onut. Hear' it : "All (,his 'whereas' is ]Runcomibo, and the only tendency of it is to iri tate. It is hanguage that Andrew IJohipson can never sign with honor and dignity to himself. Impoach ment would be preforable, aind in the end-far mnore proiltablo to him." Thus it speaks of the preamble de aming the Mate -governments illegal. JUsT So.-An editor speaking of the complaints of his readers that he don't publish all the looal ftems they desire to see, justly obsoesc, that It is often their fahlt in noet sending in the facts, Hle says he . don't like to piublish a birth after the child Is weaned, a marriage'after the honoy.. moon is over, or th i death of a man after his widow Is marrIed, The Amerloan. Institute has decided tohold a world's fair at Now York In 1878, beginning on the 4th of July, the cotnilof the signing of the Declaration of Inednaa . Gossip .with contributorm. No notice will be took-fron this date horoafterwards--o letters that hain't got a postage st amp onto thoim. Don't writo only 0) one side of manuskripit, don't write much onto that. Don't send a manusoript, unles you can read it your;elf after itgots dry. W e pay all the way l) h ill, fromi tcn cents to one dollar for contribu shunms, ackording tow heft. Aul sottlonit mado prompt at the end of the next ensuing year. Poetry and prose pieces respootive ly serlicited. The highest market price paid for awful raloroad isaes and elopinents with aimotheri maln's w ife. No swearing allowed inl our paper. laane.-Y uro article oi "frogs"' iz roeeived. It made m11e lafflike lightning. Yuro ideo "thait frogs might be in creased by propega tiol" is l'a lly. Yuro ideo '"that frogs waa dis;k iv crod by Christopher Columbus inl the year 1192,'' hind lip )jd mi imemorv. you also say "h(fat froges grow more bobtailed as they grow olde.'' Thi iz too cussed good to be entirely lIst. Noah.--We vcry lunnbly declinio your c:may oi (he flood. Yure remarks migh t po.:4<bly lead on mliore m11n11 to think az ypmfl do, and we don't want our collumli helil re ponsible for increasing the number of phools. The world has already got more phlols than thar iz any need of. Thare ain't no doubt inl ii mind but that file flood was'3 a perfect siuc Cesl, anld I lave thoilght thit another Jlist v1uch1 an1 one would pay well now inl >:ilo soktiolis ov the coll ry. P'ROFIT IN licE-K5EEPIN.-As a proof tIhat bec-koplling, a; a bu1ine , pIyS as Well 1.s or better than aniy hranh of horticulture, I would state that 1 now%' of0e'i.red for my hoe, $1500 cash. It is not vet' six veurs snco I paid $20 for tho~ four siands with which I commenced the buines. So this is h (li irelso of mly capial in livo seasonls, inyiaig iowi ingf of the bees, honey and wax sold ill (he imean time, or the pleasure derived from the businless. Now that I have so many hives, I find the profit increasing- (very year, without requiring more time and 1la bor than T bestowed oil a few. So far from there boing any danger of over stocking, T find that my bues have done bettor the two past seasons than many have done where there Were but few hives kept in one ple, and 1 am1) Convinced tOat where they aromanaged rightly, hundreds of uobt nics will do well where onec will. To accomplish this, however, it ill indis pensable to have them siroi and vigorous im spring, that they may take advantage of (he wholo honoy harvest.. - II S. Tjpper, ill Iowa . cultu ral Report. REUrNal FoIvs.-Mr. Albert C. Vose, nnea Manyille, presitucs what seems to us a reasmiable and profita. lla Couro inl koopinig fowls. lie h enclosed an aero an(d a <it r Eof land with a high fencte ; and in the rH enis lure hc keeps about a hsadred anud fift y henis. Ie inf'orms us (1M. tiring nino1 months olfltha year these fowls gave a net profit Eof two dudkr Is per!i day, or say flye huni~dre~ i1 ilars per yearl. Is; not this kceeping Cow' to someC purpose5 ? lIn M r. Vese'. enreo. uro is a ruining. ntream ande fruzit trees. Tf)ho trees a liord shade,0 whi e their fruit -Learing is impi-oving by the fows.-- W oons,,ech (t' tif!. T uont so-- i.s--,--. s The' New Yoik Tin104s, of Wetdnmesday hans tihe followinbg 1mrn 01 ant reve-'lation' tilA S la t s T.'iu~husiy lastL, the b)1 ill'~ acquire'd great stlrenlgth in tU~l'he[on by the deechoathmn of Mr. lFarniswortih thatt Grant favored it.; and the miembuer wh.o anniounice'd the news was rega rde~d, fo~r thle lime hei'ig, as5 an orancle to be re spcted. Owing to th~e imlpolrtatneo of thle mat tr; Grant Look the earliest op.. portunity t o inflormi a promlineint membliler| of thle tlouse thatL he hand Ioen 1nusrep. resqented---thlat hie did not favor (.he0 cree tioni of a despoiiti 11ithi himself a5 chiel ed thatL sneh a notlon should be attribn ted to himi. DECLINED.-Wo learn thant F is ][Ion.. or Mr. JusitiCo Inglis, has declined gov accept thme Proftssorship teindered him by the 'Board of Trustees of the Ulni versity. Upon an ex~fination of the queistioni,.h has coniclutded that there is a const itutional obstacle in the way (If holding a P~rofessorship) andi Judge ship. We deeply regret this decision. Te reputantioni of Judge Inglis as a jur'ist would haivo very- soon1 establish ad a high reputntion for the Law Suhiool of the South Carolina Univer sity, We learni that Dr. Obisbolmlhas also dolnod the P'rofessorshiip of the School of Medicine, tendeuo.1 to himt by then Board of TArustees at (lho same timho.--Caromnm'an, A~ vn n r . toF D n~ . I Jna'to.---Dr. Jaimes Ihmntcr. of FEair fiux Clout, dlied on the 9th inst., aged saxt-y-l wo years. Dr. Ihunter was ar rested by the Federala on the chiargea of harboring COl. Mosby--Whih was Irue---sent tothe slave pen in Alexan dria, aind subeennently to Fort Warren. It was during this irtisonmlent that his health was tmnderminedl. Mosbiy once stopped at the well of Dr. Huanter wvashed his hands, and .had a napin sont out to .wipe them. Thi was the offence that mefrited an impishonment jwhich slowly but surely worked lisa *deatiu,-Predrjcgcm n.,.,.. NATIONAL CEMETARIt.-A Wash ington correspondent of the Rocthes tor Democrat furnishtes the followhtig inform ation, from ofliuial s~ources: There are in tho cmmniud of (I on oral Thoms the followitug National cemeteries. At Natchez., one cf isix acres, con. tain iiing 2,500 doad. Vieksburg, one of twenty -five acres, coitaining about 1 5,000. Momphis, twenty-five acres, about 12,000 gravte. The dead from Cgy. Itul.mq, Ky., to Ifelena, Ark., alongL the Mispippi, re pathered here. From .1felena to Grand Gulf they are interred at Vicksburg. Coriuth h.a,% one of twenty lcres, con tain ing i6,00 gr'aves. Pi 1'.1urg Landing, twelvc aore. and 4,000 giraves. This coItnims t-h duad I rom up aol down the Tennessee riv er. Fort Douel.onm, twienty aires and 3,500 graves, containing the dead of that field and all along the Cumber. land below Nashville. Nialhville, sixty-two acros, 18,000 graves. This cont tains tho hodics from many, hospi tals and a wide region ofcountry. Stone River, sixteen acres and 5, 000 !ravos. Chattanooga, seventy five aores and iearly 12,00(1 graves. Knoxville, four acres and 8,000 graves. Marietta, Ga., twenty-five acres and 10,000 graves. * Andersonville, about 15,000 grven. Millen, 1,000 graves. Cumberland (hip, Ky., 350 graves; Loudon 100 ; Mill S )rings, over 500 Perryville, 1,200 ; Camp Nelson, 1,. 500 ; Lebanon, 750. Tin the city meteries thoro are collectel at Covington, Ky., 000 dead : LexingSto), 1.0001 ; R.icimond 500 ; 'ihmville, 4100. .\t Columlbiat", Tinnies , W there ire 1,200 g.avos. At Montgomery, Ala., about 500 gravcs ; in Mobile, 1,000. DE:ATH OF BRAND S sMT DAIUoi .rmn. -A someowhat remarkable Iidian blly died the other dy al, a place along the lake shore clld Wellingto iaro, a (ew mih-s from Hanikon. This per.. Sonage was Ms. (atheiet i John, the last mirviving daiuighter of Jguo.lh IhantI, h lihin linn chief wh6 fiomlt so brave Iy av tie Lime of tho Americnm llevoit ion, and coni inned fithifil to tho ritish Crownt, refsel t( talco part vil h the revohutionistp, nnad ibially u;el-l1vd in the Valley of the Mohawk, near lirant f -rd. Mra. John w-i' truily in estimable Woman, nMtd had won the esteemf *of Al wh'Iio knew her. She could tell mlny remarkable stories of the early settle. ment of tie country, and was very gon. rallyV known I htroughout the section in which she0 lived. IIer rennmnq were conveyed to Mohawk, and iterred with mill I ceremn my alongs.id, he grave of h-r father, in the fir.a churelhard that neer was enclosed in Upper Catia. dt. Tuir. T FURE 01.F 'ru. COUNTui. During the debate liln the villiamsma Reconlstruetiol Ji'll, Mr. Raintiks, of M3Iianh11usetts, after opposing that mensiOure on var'iousl grounada, sid "it VaS itiaposi.le that the (ovellinlit should go on for three years longer,or two amnd a alf years, or two y41arm, wi:lwnt !'pIroach ing the vergce of ruin. I.usmoes was suspendedl unow. Tihe pepl ere oJppress5ed with taxes. EnhoIrers were thrown cut of emloly meont. IEverythiingt was unsiettlod. Tew icte. man culd not look to tho liiIKure vithout aplpre*he~nsionm, if' not wi tiut fear:. Theli future wa~s full of dl ang'', a n d ri the(r (Init faceg' that dan .or for I wo aind a hlf or three years Ioager the repreentatives of thli pea p8le v;uld be chliged to conisider thie ogndit.ion of the country and whaut e >nrse of rcondut w as necessary for the safety of the Governmnent aund the inlterenats of the peCople.'8 Tin,: M.arv-I~cr'iE- oF MaIoi..1 one( Lh'nsg at lena5, lihe Amnoncamns have outst.nippedl the ro4 of theo world, andm t.ht ur l5a manuf wvt.1re of pnpe m i' lonev. it "rtis' a i n mhnical sill which is lavusheud up~n1 our bak no0t0s exo9g . t'iat ofaniy othor 'country on the faco of t.'i globe-h]e banuk notes of Enighe d a -o rude in comparrison'. Strange, as it mn y seenm, the flinest and best ste'el enj gravmg ia done im thbe city of Newv York a'id fo.rs1 O:imen'1s ex~hibited the .Ami ii canl l3fank NJotcecom~pany took thu fir (o .Gondon A a reward for their :1 nn ph of' -'km andi art, it many abnosma I o soid with trmth that the cit y o." New York, iihrough thmis one -salsmn funrnishes tlhe whole world with her a' note. Greece, Italy, Russia, andt ' and the11 South A inoria republics, too lnmerons to metnt ion, with Mexico aund the Ujnitedl States send their orders to this estabi.hmemnt, rec.8iving ia return money which commnands it-elf foi- ; a e3xceeding beaamvy. Tlhe .'alian ord.er for nmoney, next to that of tie Uniitd States, is the largest e. ever exceinted. Somne idea of its rizo hnay be formedl . ism giarr-d that "no hundred aind t .;en'y thousand ?Iboots, conItaliingm twentyge - notes each, are sentt off each week. STAMPs.--Tho following latter ox. plauns itself : OF FIe E INTERNA I, E.VENUE WVashington, Jan. 10, 1867. Bra: I reply to your letter of the 14th imst., that qit olain (heed, when~ 0ve as release of a mortgage by Stoe mortgagee to the inortgager, is fhot liable to stamp duty, as a oonvoyanog~ but,, if it oontains covenants, may be subject as an agreement or eontraeb. It is only upon convoyance of roalty sold that a stamp duty is imposoe' In the ease stated by you there Is no sale, but a inrofaamig of the le at record title im e~ same party holds dio equkertle 0b0, Very respoetfully, T. JIAlatat, nop at nmm 4