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VOL.2. GREENVILLE, S. C.: FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 14, 1855. NO. 31. . 11 11 : u'" ? ? ~ 11 :i?" ^ ; : 1 r* : JT u ~ i T" <&jlt 3>autijttti ?trarpnst, ? ^ REFLRX OF POPULAR EVENTS, j avwa&ra, J jMj IOITOR ANO PROPHIITOR. ' 'Wrm-amm. wjps. ' t ll 50. payable in advance ; $S if delayed. 1 CLUBS or FIVE and upwards 81, the money c lit ercrv in?t?nce to accompany the order. . AOVSItTWKMENTS inserts I conspicuously at the rates of 18 oente per square of 8 lines, and. " 85 cents for each sul sequent insertion. Con- t tracts for yearly advertising made reasonable. 1 awi"iae?s?MPe?aaa^aa?SM^a?wa r Jpflfrteii $nttri}. .. 1 ameHcgiig, U#lltj! J bt m u yimoinu rxncti. .. | Son of the bravel beware the foe I Hark to the murmur, deep and low, 1 Holliag up like the coming rtorm, lioaree a? the hurricane that broods la pace's far infinitude I Minute guns of omen boom Through the future's folded gloom? Sounds prophetic fill the air; I I tee 4 the warning and prepare I f ' WaleM be wary every hour? Mark the foeman'e growing power; Let Amerionne keep war.l? None but palriote on guard. . r _ ..> \ * u *: * ,:c; *i Hone of the soill a barrier staunch, Breasting the alien avalanehe. Manning the battlements of Bight; Up! for year oouotry, Ood and Right! ' Form your battalions stcadilr, A pi fight for n.bleodleM victory 1 Hurging onward sweep# the wave, Berried columns of the brave. Bawled 'neath the benieon Of the god-like Washington! / I Stand ! bat should a foreign sway Aspire to rttle America, Charge on Uie tyrant, ere he gain Our iron-arteriod domain! j - . - . . ? ... ^ont or the rreei wiicn i umuu irou Th? tide ttevolution, God looked front Ilia Throne on the "things of time," ' And two now stars frjtm tho world of Time He hods to burn in tho nsure dome? 1 The freemen's Love end the Freeman's Home, Holy of holies 1 guard them well. Baffle the despot's secret spell. And let the eliords of life be riven Kre you yield those gifts of Ilsaven 1 In paenn, trumpet noted Shake the air where your banner floats? In triumph! still wo see . j The land of the Brave is the home of the Free 1 | Slit Meeting J?tnnj. 1 , 1 From Arthur's Home MnnuinA. 1 lotionij 6oU. ! BY MM. 8. llfcPUL'RK 1IAYE8. 1 "I guess we will have to pat ont our John- ) ny,M said Mr*. Cole, with a sigh, as she drew | cioeer to the fire, one oold day irr Autumn. ( This remark was addressed to her husband, , a sleepy, lazv looking mau, who was stretch- c ed on a bench, with his eyes half closed. The f wife, with two little girls of eight and ten, j were knitting aa fast as their fingers could c fly; the baby was around asleep in the era- ? die r while Johnny, a boy of thirteen, and a ? brother of four, were seated on the wide , hearth muring a snare for rabbits. The a room they occupied was oold and cbeerlees ; f the WhHnth of the scanty fire being scarcely c Ash ; yet the floor, and every article of furm- j ture, .mean as they were, were scrupulously f neat and clean. The appearanoe of this family indicated f that they were very poor. They were all R thin and pals, roally tor want of proper food, j, and their clothes had been patched until k *?? difficult to decide what the original fab- (j rie had been; yet this very cimnnstsaes . spoke volumes in foror of the mother. Bbs c was a woman of great energy of character, un- j, fortunately united to a man whose habits u were such, that, for the greater part of the , time, no Was a dead weight upon her hands; although not habitually intemperate, be was n indolent and good-for-nothing to a degree, .1 lying in the sun half his time, when the v wnatW was warm, and never doing a stroke of work tiutii driven to it by the psags of hunger. 4s for the wife, by taking in aewiim koitUog and spinning for the former's families ti if tjft neighborhood, she managed to pay a 0 rent of twenty dollars for the cabin in which L> they lived while the end Johnny, with what r assistance they could occasionally get from I Jerry, her husband, tilled the half acre of ground attached; and the vegetable* thus t obtained, were their nain dependence dor- I ing the long winter just at hand. Having i VW lo oor reader, we t r " 1 y, \ ' , ,c k 'i pi *'rr^ .- "f ^ ?^| * "Why, what's got into tbo woman now ?" b nattered Jerry, stretching his arms, and a awning to the utmbat capacity of his nioutb. 'u 'he children laughdd at their father's ?n- d outb gestures, and even Mrs. Cole's serious g see relaxed into a smile, as she answered : a "Don't swallow >?? all, and I will toll you. lie winter is beginning early, aqd promises si o be cold. Our potatoes didn't turn out as ? veil as I expected and the truth is, we cantOt get along so. We won't have victuals f< nough to last us half the time; and, man- t! ige as I wilt, 1 can't much more than par b ho rent, T get so little for .the hind of work a do. Now, if Johnny gets a place, it will c naite one leas to provide for ; and ha will he fa earning to do something for himself." s "Yes, but mother," said the boy, moving :lose to her side, and. laving his head on her n cnce, "Yes, hut who'" help you when I am b jone? Wiioll dig the lot, and hoe, and s ;ut the wood, and carry the water f You s ;an*t go away down to the ipring in the Icep snow. And who'l make the nre in the < wM mornings !" The mother looked sorry enough, as her lprling boy?for he was the object around which the fondest affections of her heart had mlwined themselves?she looked sorry mough, as be enumerated the turns he ivas in the habit of doing for her; t>ut? woman-like, she could suffer and be still; to she answered cherfullv : "May be father will, dear; and when you grow bigger, and learn how to do everything, you'll be such a help to us all." "I>on't depend on roe," said Jerrv, now urou&ing himself and sauntering to tbe fire; 'I hardly ever feel well,"?complaining was ferry's especial forte, and excuse for all his nzincss; yet hi* appetite never failed;' and when, as was sometimes the case, one of the neighbors sent them a small piece of meat, >r any little article of food to his wife, unJer the plea of ill hoalth, he managed, to appropriate nearly the whole of it. He was telfidmesa embodied, and a serious injury to Ilia femittT Tam aamJ ^ ? ' * miaiij t lH iqn Mint w ?qop UIU1 up in Ills laziness. One evening, a few days later, Mrs. Cole, alio had been absent several hours, came in looking very tirqd, and after laying aside lier pld bonnet and shawl, informed them that she had obtained a place for Johnny. It was four miles apart, and the farmer's man would stop for him on his way from town, (he next afternoon. What a beautiful object was farmer Watkin's homestead, lying as it did on a slope of a hill; its grey done walls, peeping out from between the S'ant tree) that overshadowed ft, while every ing around and about gave evidence of abundance and comfort The thrifty orchird ; the huge barn with its over flowing granaries{*the sleek, well-fed cattle; even the low-roofed spring house, with its superabundance of shining pails and pans, formed an item which could hardly be dispensed with, in the tout ensemble of this pleasant Iiome. Farmer Watkins was an honest, hardworking man, somewhat past middle, age, with a heart not naturally devoid of kindness, jut, where his hirelimrs were conn>rnMl. itrongly encrusted with ft layer of habit*, t .hat they noted as an effectual check upon i iia better feeling*. Hi* family consisted of c \ wife, said to be a noteable manager, and f Ire or six children, the eldest, a eon at ool- a egc. In tbie household, Work, work, was ? be ?rderOf Che day; the former, with his 1 jteat brown fists, set the example, and the t ?tliers, willing, or unwilling, were obliged to t bllow his lead. He bad agreed to take t lohn 'Cole, ae he said, more, to get rid t f his mother's importunities, than for p iny benefit he expected to derive from hrm; t ind when be wag remonstrated with by his h rife for hie folly in giving her tlffi trouble of mother brat, He answered shortly: "Never a ear, FU get the worth of hit victuals and c lollies out of him." Johnny was to have f< lie boarding clothes, and a dollar a month, or two yean. This dollar a month was a _ freftf item in Mrs. Cole's catashrtions; ? welre dollars a year, she'argued, would al- ti ooet pay her rent, and when the tears stood A n Johnny's great brown eyes, (for he was a jiretty, gentle-hearted boy,) as he was hid- ^ ing them all good bye, and kissing the baby ; ver and- over again, she two aim auoiie iu? g noney haatoouki earn, and nerved his little u art with- the glowing repvasmta'iona, Q otil he waa able to choke baok the team, , nd leave home almost cheerfully. Horns, yas it was home; for they had ~ Ditch to redeem the miseries of want within j, hoae bam cabin walla, foe gentle hearts and ?j indly* smiles were them. Them ^ "Tlis mother sang at the twilight fall, b To the babe half lumbering on her knee." ? There his brother and sisters nlaved: the k lis associations, his hopes, his wishes, were il centred. When be arrived at farmer P VetbiWL and was sent into the large ear ?ted kifsben, everything was so unlike his b tome, that bis fortitude almost gave way, d nd it was as nftfch as he eou^l do, as he b old his mother afterwords, "to keep from d ursting right Mrs. Watkins looked k ery crpss, n^r.did ehtf hotice him, except, n ^ord^hllrijo stand out of the way of the d lie gretf disbex ef meat, abd platesof hot ? i ** a ' . < ^ j r. 7. ' ?? iscuit, but the odor of the steaming coffee, ltd had eaten nothing since morning, for he ras too sorry to ksare home to care about Inner. The girl, noticing that his pale face rew paler, laughingly drear her mutreafc' ttentioo to "masters new boy." 'Go out and bring in some wood for the tore," said Mrs. Watkins, sharply ; the air rili do you good." Johnny went out and, in a few minutee, tit retired. Looking about, he soon found tie wood-shed; there was plenty of woot|, ut none cut of a suitable length ; it was 11 in cord sticks. Taking an nxe be hopped an armfnl, and on taking it into the louse found the family had finished thoir uppers ; the biscuits and meat were all eaten. Come on here to your supper," said the naid servant, angrily. "What have you >een doing I" and, without wailing for an mswer, she filled a tin basin with mush and Irimraed milk, and set it before him. The ittle boy did not attempt to apeak, but sat lown and ale what waa given him. Imnediately after, he was sent into a loft to ted, where he cried himself to sleep. Ah ! vhcn we count the thousand pulsations that rield pain or pleasure to the human mind, what a power to do good or evil, is possessed >y every one; and how often would a kind irord or one sympathizing glance, gladden he hearts of those thns prematurely forced ?pon the anxieties of the world. But how ew there sre who care to bestow them. The jext morning, long before dawn, the farrajr's family, with the exception of the younger shildren were astir. The cattle were to be ed and attended to, the horses harnessed, he oxen yoked, and great was the bustle intil all liande were fairly at work. As for lohnny, he waa taken into the field to assist in husking corn. The wind was keen, ind the stalk*, from recent rain*, were wet, ?nd filled with ice. Ilia scantly clothing tcarcelv afforded and protection from the sold, and bia hand* aoon became so numb hat he could scarcely use them ; but, if 16 stopped one moment to rap them, or ireathe upon them, in the hope of imparting erne warm, the farmer, who was close at land, in warm woollen clothes, and thick luaking gloves would cry out: "Hurry up, hurry np, my boy; no idle jread must oe eaten here." And bravely did Johnny struggle not to wind the eoM and pain, but it would not lo; he began to cry, when the master, who lever thought of exercising anything bat severity towards those who labored for him, old bun sternly that if he did not stop his jawling in a moment, he would sendhiin lome. This was enough for Johnny; anything was better than to go back uid be a burden on his mother; he vorked to the best of his ability anil noon. At noon, he managed to gtet thoroughly warm, behind the stove, rhile eating his dinner. Still, the sufferings >f the child, with its insufficient clothing, vere very great; but nobody seemed to hink of the hired boy being an olnect of ympathy, and thus it continued. The rule eemed to be to get all that was possible out >f him; and bis little frame was so weary at light thai he had hardly time to feel rested, intil called by the dawn. A monthly Sunlay, however, was the golden period looked or ward to in 111* ronma ? V.a/1 tipulated by his parent, that on Saturday tvening every font weeks, he was to come lome and stay all the next day. And when he time arrived how nimbly did he get over he ground that stretched between him and be goal of his wishes. IIow much he bad o tell. But as soon as he began to cornJain, his mother would say cheerfully, alhough her heart bled for the hardships of icr child. . "Never mind, yon will get used to work, nd after awhile, when you grow up, you an rent a fisrm and take me to keep house >r yon." This was the impulse that orompted to ction. No one can be utterfy miserable rho has a hope, even a remote one, of bet nring his condition, and with a motive such s this to cheer him, Johnny persevered; oung as he was he understood the neoessiy. But how often during the four weary reeks that suooeeded, did the memory of the aturday night be had spent at home come p before his mental vision. The Iresh loaf f rye bread, baked in honor of his arrival, nd eaten for supper, with maple molasses -the very molasses ho had helped to boil n shares with the farmer Thrifty's boys i the Spring. What a feast they had I 'hen the long evening afterwards, when the lase of the hickory fires lighted up the timet* of the old cabin, with a mellow glow, nd mother looked so cbeerfal and smiled so iadly, as she sat spining in its warmth and .Li A I 1 J ? gut* aim hv? ?r?ou lauer nau neiped to op oorn io the iron pot. Ah 1 that was a time long to b? reraemered; and he had ample opportunity to raw companion*, for he had often thought i* matter eared more for hie cattle than he id for him, and it la quite probable he did; r while they were warmly housed, he was eodlesaW exposed, end hie oomfort utterly ^regarded. If there wae brash to cut, or mce to wake; or aay onbdoor labor to partem, a wet, oold, or windy day, I was ears to e silieted, while ia /tes mother, the wood rae required to be chopped, end, generally speaking, nil the work that oould l>e done; under shelter. we dare say. Farmer Watkina never tliought of the inhumanity of this, or the advantage he would himself derive by arranging it otherwise. Job* Cole had U*n living out, perhaps a year.' .He had not grown much in this period ; his frame had always been slight, ami his sunken cheeks and wasted limb.*, spoke of the hard usage and suffering of his present situation. The family had many delicacies V for themselves, but the work boy they knew , never was used to such things and they were indifferent as to what his fare chanced 11 to be. He generally managed to satisfy the / the cravings of hunger on the coarse food . given Irim, but that wa? all. About this time it happened that the farmer was dig- . ging a ditch, and as ho was afraid winter would set in before it was completed, Johnny and himself were at work upon it earlv and j late, notwithstanding the wind whittled, and , it was so cold they could hardly handle the the tools. While tlnlW employed, it chanced 1 that they got wet to the skin with a driz- f zling rain, and on returning to the house, the fSrmer changed his clothes, drank some 1 hot mulled cider, and spent the remainder of the eveuing in his high backed chair before I 1 a comfortable fire ; while the boy was sent to grease a wagon in an open shed, and at night crept to his straw pallet, shaking as though in an ague fit. Tlie next morning ' he was in a high fever, and with many a "wonder of what had got into him," but without one word of sympathy, or any other ' manifestation of good will, ho was sent home ! to his mother. Late in the evening of the \ same day, a compassionate physician was , surprised to see a woman enter his office ; her garments wet and travel-staiued, and, with streaming eyes, she besought him to , come and see her son. . "My, Johnny, my Johnny, sir," she cried, "he has been raving wild all day, and we 1 are afraid he will die " Mistaking the cause of tho good man'? ! hesitation, she added with a fresh burst of 1 grief, "Oh! I will work my fingers to the 1 bone to pay you, sir, if vou will only come. r. We live in the Gap !" A few inquiries were all that was necessary to learn the state of the c?*p Tlio ho?o- * volent doctor took the woman in his vehicle, and proceeded over a mountainous road of six-wiles, to see his patient But vain was the help of man ; Johnny continued delirious; it was work, work, always at work ; and pitiful was it to hear his complaints of being cold and tired, while his heart-broken parent hung over him, and denied herself the necessaries of life to minister to his wants. After being ill about a fortnight, he awoke one evening apparently free from fever, His exK1 ression was natural, but he seemed so weak e could not speak, his mother with a heart I overflowing with joy at the change she imagined favorable, bent over liim. With a great eflort he placed his arms about her neck; she kissed his pale lips ; a smile of strange meaning passed over liis face, and ere she could unwind that loving clasp, her little Johnny was no more. He had gone where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest; but her hopes were blasted ; her house was left unto her desolate; and as she watched, through the long hours i of night, beside the dead body, it was to Our Father who art in Heaven her anguished heart poured itself out in prayer. Thiuk of this, ye rich ! who morning and evening breathe the same petition by your own hearthstones. Think of it, ye who have authority to oppress I Do not deprive the poor man or woman of the Mewc lamb" that is their sola possession ; and remember that ho whose ear is ever open to the cr^ of the distressed, has power to avenge their cause. Shlbiiiop 101> o bi e. Ambition "the lost infirmitv of nnhl? c minds,' is the infirmity of a very second-rate c order of n ibility, and is but a poor account s of the career of any remarkable man. Men F of real intellect do not set out into life with r a fixed idea, of conquering greatness for themselves. It is greatness rather which 1' finds them, taken often no little pains to seek v them out Kvory man, as he passes into " manhood, has work ihurat upon him a? he r' is able to do it; and the able roan finds l?im- * self, as a matter of oourse, dragged up, he knows not how, from thing to thing, from w step to step, employment after employment forcing itself into the hands best, competent 0 to deal with it; till at last ho is on the sum- ' mit of the ladder, and the world moralizes on bis ambition. Ambition! The highost step of that ladder in tVolsey's time was an h indifferent place to be ambitious for. There b was usually bat one step more from it to the k flooring of tho scaffold. The Anne Bo- a leyns may be aunbitiou*, but not the Wol- I seys. k The Trial or Judoe Stuart.?Tliehigh- n ly interesting, important and protracted b prosecution Against Judge Stuart, of the New f York city Court, was brought to a close on t Tuesday night, by tbe jury returning with a s verdict of acquittal, coupled with, a unani- e mous recommendation that Judge Stuart 1 should resign. The Judge made an affect- n ing tpeeeh to tha audienoe, solemnly avow- ri ing bis innocence of currupt motive*. y J&iscfllatieaus IRmHiug. : Ihe Btnclric^O 9l*ddiff. J FROM A RWKSTLtCTCREBT O. 1r. CCRTIB. , I When we go out on Sunday afternoon* h o moralize and see the new houses, we stinlly take our youug ones by Aladdin's J 'alnce. Aladdin started l?y swopping jack* :nivcs ; then nutting the halves of broken narbles together and passing them off*a<? rhole ones. When he had gathered some >rass he went to school al! the summer te earn the golden rule of aritlunatic?addi ion for hiinselfnntl subtraction for his neigh* or. At nn early age Aladdin was considered o be pood at a bargain, which meant that ic could, always succeed in changing a worse ur a better?always keening the blind ye of a horse to tho-wall when 1-3 had to i ell it, and looking right at it when he Knight it; and the village said that Aladdin ertainly would succeed. When lie left "he | vill bo rich," said the village, with more ap- ( >roval than it would say, "he will be gener- : >us and true." To Aladdin the world was J >ut a market in which to buy cheap and , ell dear. For him there was no beauty, 10 history, no piety, no heroism. Vainly die stars shone over him, vainly the south wind blow. In the wake of tho great ship cYrgo, and which Jason and his companions tailed for the Golden Fleece; over the gleaning Mediterranean, where the ships, of Tvre, Itome, nnd of the Cruaadors had been before liim; through the pillars of Hercules, through nrhich sailed Columbus to find ? fame in a lew world, now sail* Aladdin to find fortune, ro him nil land* wore alike?no Honor sang 'or him in the vEgean ; he only curses the nrind that will not blow him to Odessa. No lyrens sing for him, but lie loves the huge >ath of the lively boatswain. With a Bible n his baud and a quid of tobacco in his nouth, he goes about the holy places in Jeusalem and "calculates" tlieir axact site.? Ie sees the land of Barneses and Ptolomies ; ind the reverend records of the Lybian desirt, whose echoes have slumbered since they verc trampled over by Alexander's army, ire now awakened by the shrill whistle of ~)ld Dan Tucker, lie insults the Grand Lilmnn, hob-mobs with great Mogul, turns lis back upon Emperors, nnd takes a pinch ?ut of the Popo's snuff-box. He chews with he Arabs, smokes opium with the Turks, md rides for a bride with the Calmuck Tarars. Aladdin comes home again, and the adniring village points him out to the young>r generation as a successful man : "My son, ook at him ; he began with nothing, nnd low see." "My sou ' docs see, and heholds lim owing a million of dollars?of all socieiea of which he is not president a director, dis name is good as gold. He has bought if&ures and stautes. He has also bought a tlrs. Aladdin and housed her in luxury, hut ie picks his mouth with a silver fork. He las a home for a poet, but he makes it his ?oast that he reads nothing but the news paler. He goes to church twice on Sundays, ind only wakes up when the preacher de lounces the sinners of Sodom and Gomorrah and those "touch old Jews" of Jerusalem. IT! . 1 J !- til 1 * iii8 ueau is oaiu ana sniny witn sermons which have 4hit it and glanced off. He :lasps his hands in prayer, but forgets to >pen them when the poor-box is passed iround ; and he goes home liko a successful nan, thanking God he is not as other men ire, and after dinner he sits before the fire u his easy chair, lights a large cigar, and ooks languidly at Mrs. Aladdin through the hick smoke. By and by old Aladdin dies. The con-entional virtues are told over as the mourn ng carriages are called out. The papers refret they are called upon to deplore the loss >f a reverend parent, generous friend, public- | pirited citizen, and pious man. Then the { >recocioue swapper of jack-knives, nnd the nodel set up to the young generation, is ( uid in the dust. Above his grave the stars io never saw now burn with a soft lustre : rliich no Imnps about a king's tomb can cmlate ; and the south wind, for whose breath poo hi# hot hmw he was never grateful, trews his last bed with Mnemonics and vio*ts that his heel crushed in living; and we , fho are to be formed upon that model, carc vssiy remark, as we stir our toddies, "So, id Aladdin has gojie at last, and, by-the-by, iow much did he leave?" The Louisville Timet estimates that at 3Ast one hundred thousand more hog* will , e killed in that State this season than were ! illed in that State last year, with an averge increase in weight of about 20 per cent, fp to Saturday evening last, 8,330 had been ! illed in Louisville, where the price then # rere9U,6U a 9<>,8(> net. Hie Mine pa|ter | otea purchase* of 20,000 or 25,000 hogs, I >j dealers at $5 gross, equal to about $0.86 rom the hooka* On Grof-n liver, in Ken ucky, extensive preparations are made for i laughtering. At Howling Green alono it is < xpeetodtbat 20,000 will be killed and about ] 0,000 at others point on the river. The < nmber killed on Green and Cumberland 1 ivers wflj be considerably in excels of last I ear. 1 * * r\ ' 'y ** flip ^ a -J?i-1 D Sholrf ?oiitllUeSelrftMflf. My Hrkkfiiiiino, I will take for my tex^ he same which was preached unto you bv ny brother, at Brandon, Mississippi, of which ou all have doubtless heard: "And ho dared on the harp ot. a thousand strings? perrits of just inen made perfic." . ifv breethren, there is as many strings to joThjx as there is to a lyre?an a good many iars to cny most every string ; then . their liu't but one on 'em all that rings out the music of the union to which every true patriot had ought to keep step?for "he played rm a haup of a thousand strings, sperrits of just men made i^rfic." Fust there's the know notiiino ! His name expresses the amount of his information, but it don't convey an idee of Iua resources. lie's the most extraordinary animal in the show?he is for and against a variety of topics : he's temperance nnd lie drinks ; he's for the Maine law so pcrvided he can violate it; he's fur and against fusion ?he's an abolitionist and lie aiu't an abolitidhist; lie's hero nnd he's tliar. nnd he will he no whare in November?for "he played r?n a harp of a thousand strings, sperrits of just men made perfic." Then there's the polittiklo cobbler, going round like a roaring green hay Jackass, seeking where he may humbugsoinebody. He's all the colors of the rainbow and more changeable than the Camclia Joponiky. lie is a whig and anti-whig, and know nothing and anti-know nothing, for furriners and agin furriners, for every body and agin every body ; but principally a long heeled, woolly headed, ranting, raving niggerist and abolitionist and disunionist?"for lie played on a harp of a thousand strings, speVi its of just men made perfic." Then thar's the straight out whig ; a respectable sort of character in contrast'with the precceding, who represents the fuaiouist. He don't want to see the Union destroyed, but be knows he can't help it if he funs on his own book?and be plays on a harp of a single string, but his execution is imperfect. Then thar's the liberal and the genuine old fashioned democrat. They dou't go whirling round in circun^bcndibusses ; they aiu't afraid to speak right out in meeting.? They ain't afraid of nobody nor nothing.? They carry their Union Hag aloft; they go for personal froedoin, for popular rights, for justice to all men and all parts of the coun try; for light instead of darkness; for open discussion instead of midnight cabal ; for self-government and not for oligarchy; and they go in to win, for their instrument is tuned with popular feeling?and they play on a harp of a thousand strings, and every string an honest principle.?Boston Post. i ? i 2 Good SijecOofe. We are told that the following conversation was heard among the volunteers of the Rio Grande. Scene, night. Two volunteers wrapped in blaukets, and half buried in the mud. Volunteer 1st?"Jim. ho* came you to volunteer 1" Volunteer 2d.?"Why, Bob, you see, I hare no wife to care a red cent for, and so I volunteered?and besides I like war f? Now tell me how you ourae here f" Volunteer 1st.?"Why, the fact is, you know I?I?I have got a wife, and I came out here because I like peace /" Hereupon both the volunteers turned over in their blankets, got a new plastering of mud, ?ud went to sleep. Not ix the Bii.l.?At a theatre in Boston, on Thursday night last, during the performance of the last act of 4Tbo Beauty and the Beast,1 a female dressed in black, rose from a front seat in the parquet and jumped upon the stage, where she seized hold of one i>t the supernumeraries and dragged hiin behind the scenes. It was soon discovered that the "super" was a brother to the female, who was indignant because ho had "attempted to di-grace the family by becoming a playactor," and she took this method of driving hiin from the profession. ' Immense Audience.?One Pratt, a supposed relative of the "great American Grid iron Traveller," announced a lecture in the Tabernacle, N. Y., on the feasibility of uniting all Ohri-tian sects with the Roman Catholic church. An audience of four per. U a i 1 * ? w -* miiis gjtiiitjrvu logfuier hi mo Hour npj>oinied. ? ? Av Tdha.?A friend of ours, says the Mobile Advertiser, says that lie never went to a horse race that it did not rain, and think* that if the Legislature will institute pertnnlent race* in different part* of the Stat$, pay lis travelling expense* and $100,000 a year o attend them, he can guarantee good rivers he year round. V ? Tna H'm. John M. Bott*, of Virginia, in eply to an tit gent request ofnundry citizens ?f the town of Tiinngli*, in Broome county NT. V, consenft to tfle u -e of hi* name aa a candidate of the Knov/ Nothing party for the Presidency, though he frankly onfe**** that lie thinks hi. nomination a h?gMv itnproVaL?Iee\t*ut. 0