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THE CHRONICLE. Printed Weekly en double-tnedtam sheet every , Friday morning, by ; ;; NEBLETJ & GRANT, ; Publishers and Proprietors. V. ,' ,f TERMS OF TDK TAPER, : $2 ; Per annum," in advance. 1. A TERMS , OF ADVERTISING. fOllONf,' 8Q0AEX0F TWELTS LINES OK Its, "One Insertion Two Insertions , Three Insertions One mouth ' Two months Tbree months . Six months Twelve monthi $4,50 6,00 9,00 15,00 , 1,50 2,(M) ,2,50 MISCELLANY. ,,,,,, . From the Nashville Banner. OKJf. W.'T. HASKELL. , Haskell in the Lunatio Asylum! One cf the brightest geniuses that have dawn ed upon this ago, a melancholy wreck and ruin) -; The most gifted and eloquent tongue in Americ&Vgivlng utterance to tho unmeaning gibbering of the raving manT aol A man whom nature has fitted to associate with tho greatest intellects of the world, and to adorn the most brilliant circles of society, an inmate of the mad man's cell, with the most lost and wretch ed of the sons of humanity for his com panions 1 When' the report first reached us that the groat mind of tho gifted Haskell had fallen, we refrained from making it public, in the hopo that it might not be confirm ed; but, aad and startling as was the in telligence, it was too painfully true, and jt is useless longer to conceal the fact. - The career of this gifted but unfortu nate son of genius is a peouliar one, and should be universally known for the im pressive lessons which it teaches. From his earliest boyhood ho has shown himself possessed of tho highest order of talents. While at college in this city, ho distin-i guished himself as a poet and an orator. His graduating fpecch is spoken of to this day by those who heard it, as worthy of the immortal Prentiss - in his palmiest days, and probably "not surpassed by any subsequent effort of his own. IIo has served his country on the battle field and In the halls of Congress. It was his resi dence at Washington that confirmed upon him those unfortunato habits from which , lie never recovered, and which have finally blasted his exalted intellect. True, he at ono time broko tho fiery serpent from his hands, and dashed it to tho earth. To make his own reformation complete, and kid in lifting up others who hud fallen, lite muiscit, no went through the Nate him, and thought it a privilege to stand in lecturing on temperance. Tho tour was the burning sun or drenching rain for four an eminently successful and brilliant one.'iong ii0ur8) )iMtcninS to' his enrapturing his lectures being fully equal to those of . eloquence. All along his route he was Oough, whoso unearthly eloquence has, greeted with tho most enthusiastic plaudits electrified thousands in this country and j 0f the people. Our readers will remember iu England. But his old habits gained well how brilliant was his reception in this the mastery of him again, and his subso-jcity. A long procession of military and quent life has been but a fearful struggle citizens escorted him through tho streets, between his appetites and his ambition and thousands flocked around his carriage a struggle in which, it must bo confessed, his appotitOB have generally triumphed. So great indeed, was his craving for arti ficial stimulants, that even whilo deliver ing his temperance lectures, ho made use of drugs, sufficient in quantity and poten cy to burn out tho vitals of an ordinary man. Bight bore is found tho true causo of his fall the rock on which his intellect has gono to wreck a love of excitement, amounting to an irresistible passion, coupled with a constant tendency to uiol anoholy and depression, thus inducing a seed of artificial stimulants to buoy up his drooping spirits, and lift him into that world of thoughtless and giddy reckless ness, in which alone he seemed able to live. So great was his proncness to dea pondoncy, and so insatiable his thirst for excitement, that he was scarcely ever known to bo quiet for any length of time. He preferred rather to bo tossed about in tho whirlpools of contention and strife than to sail on the calm sea of domestio peacoand tranquility. When not engaged in public speaking, he was constantly found in the convivial circle, which he never fail ed to enliven and delight by his presence. Wherever ho wont ho was surrounded by crowds of admiring friends, who were never so well entertained as when listen ing to his lively, eloquent and learned con versation. His conversational powers wcro indeed wonderful. Tho resources ol his mind wore inexhaustible , and his tonguo never faltered for a word. There was no subject whether ancient or mod ern, gravo or gay, upon which ho did not eoovcrseewith fluency and eloquence. lit paused, with tho most careless caao, from tho profoundest disquisition upon tho doc trines of thfcBiblo, the religion of Conl'u (dun, or the Baconian philosophy, to tin lightest literature of the day. His con versation, as well as his publio speeches abounded in the soundest philosopl y mixed with tbj liveliest wit, the bitterest sarcasm with tho uiobt laughter provoking I ynKftf; aqd- tjtttb cbnipM us t 9.3d, tho most, exalted religious' sentiments, with the most blasphemous irreverence, and the darkest Infidelity. , . '. "', ' , j ',' ' Altogether lie was one of the" most re markable men of this age. His character is an unwritten and unsolved enigma.- lie is, indeed,' man without a character, and almost without a fixed personal iden tity. Now, he is the impulsive child of nature, with a heart warm in its responses to the slightest touch of ku-dly feeling, and the next hour the moroso and gloomy misanthrope the dark and revengeful man-hater. One moment his tongue is melting in tenderness and affection for his friends and for all humanity, and the next instant it seems to burn and blister with the darkest curses and the most tcr rible threateniugs against all mankind. To-day He appears as tho religious bigot and the philanthropic enthusiast, and to morrow, we behold him as the reviler of religion, and the hater1 of his race, nis good qualities, however, predominate over the bad". ' Unlike most men, his, virtues seem inherent, while his vices are the re- suH of tho Circumstances of his life, and the temptations that have beset his path way. To his credit it may b said, that in spite of all the errors and misfortunes that have blunted his affections," tortured his heart, and .blasted his intellect, he still retains traces of tho inborn nobleness of his nature, and the transcendent gran deur of his genius. But the brightest phaze of his whole life is his career as a politician. In this alone he has been con sistent. No change or vascillation mars this feature of his character. Without undertaking to say -whether ho has been right or wrong in his political principles, We cannot fail to admire the faithfulness with which he has adhered to, and the eloquence and ardor with which ho has defended them. He has always belonged to the strictly conservative school of poli ticans. His speeches, and especially those of his palmy days, have always been re plete with the soundest political philoso phy. . Though beautified with the graces of oratory, and enlivened by the most inimitable wit and humor, yet they lave all been founded upon the grand substra tum of sound logic, and profound reason ing. His career as a political speaker forms one of tho brightest pages in the history of Tennessee oratory. During the iast two presi jcntilll contesU ha thrUA and electrified all who heard him. His tour through the State in the summer of '5G was brilliant almost to a fabulous de gree. It was a continued ovation from its beginning to its close. Wherever ho was expected to speak, myriads flocked to hear eager to shake him by the hand or catch a glimpso of his noblo face and form.' It was a spontaneous outpouring of homage tocxalted gonius, and a more hearty tribute of admiration and love was never accorded to any man. His speech on that day will be forovcr embalmed in tho memory of those who heard it. Put his lofty genius is overthrown. The mi.id that dived into those profound depths of philosophic reasoning, and that soared to thoso sublimo heights of poetic elo quence and beauty, is Ehrouded in the gloom and darkness of a hopeless insani ty. The tonguo that drew tears liko water from strong men's eyes, and wrought up to phrenzy whole multitudes at once; that held enraptured thousands in breathless suspon.se upon its lightest tono, and brought an entire State bowing in homage at tho shrino of its eloquence, is now hushed in silence, or can utter naught but tho un meaning and incoherent sounds of the dis ordered and unreasoning lunatic What a fearful commentary is this strange history upon tho danger of heed ing tho seductive voice of the tempter how impressive a lesson to aspiring genius. This noble vessel, that has gone down in full sail amid tho waves, may hereafter serve to warn others away from tho'whirl pools in which it is wrecked. While Raphael was engaged in painting his celebrated frescoes, ho was visited by two cardinals, who begun to criticise his work, and found fault without understand ing it. "Tho Apostlo Paul has too red a face," iKHll OIIO. v "Ho blushes to soe into whoso hands tho church has Allien!" answered the in dignant artist. u t5T An e xchango paper tells of a per son who prefaced bis sermon with "My friends, lot us say a few words bo- ore we begin." c This is about oqual to tho chap who took a short nay bbfete P tat t6 fofy Frera the National Intelligence. ; , : V a card, (2. : , In a recent political address General Pil low charged that Mr. Trist, with my assis tance, had, in Mexico, administered a bribe to President or General Sana Anna, &o. By a card in the National Intelligencer, I promptly replied that I wa morally cer tain Mr. T. had not paid a cent, in the way of a bribe, to any body whatever in Mexi co, and I solemnly added that I was per sonally totally ignorant of any bribo of any sort whatever, great or small, being paid to that high functionary (Santa An na,) or to any other, directly or indirectly, for his use or benefit, by or on account of any American officer or agent, civil or mili tary. My denial General Pillow calls (in a rejoinder) 'evasive," "a mere quibble," and he affects to support his first assertion by extracts from "tho sworn statements of Generals Quitman" and Shields,"! which, he says, he has "procured from the record of the, War Department." Entertaining for thoso Generals' (Q. & S.) high admiration and respect, I was in haste not that there was anything mate rial in the extracts to learn from the War Department the charter of the (to me) un known "record" quoted-by General riljow. I have but now received a copy of the document, and in some of its other aspects it shall, presently, recoive a passing notice. Suffice it to say, in this connection, that neither of the statements produced by General Pillow, with bo, much gravity, contradicts me in the least on the only point in question, viz : the ten thousand dollar bribe; for neither of those Gener als pretends to know to whom the bribe was paid, nor did any other Amerioan ev er hear me whisper the name or names of the receivers, until confidentially disclos ed oh the final settlement, at the War Office, of my secret disbursements. ., Gen, Pillow, however "most ignorant of what he's most assur'd" first assumes that he has had confided to him a great secret, and next betrays it by letting the world know that he had the honor of being trusted I The Mexican newspapers, I learn, have re cently been, filled with notices of Genera Pillow's denunciation of General Santa Anna, mixed up with tho inquiry, " Who U the most inavion f lie .tcho receives a bribe, or the functionary telw, in violation o hit own and hi country1 1 honor, discloses the mime of traitor?" But this case, bad as it is, docs not stand alone in our recent annals (and, of course, nothing so base could have occurred in our earliest history,) for Jan. 30, 1857, a pliant Executive was made, by the plastio hand of a malignant Secretary, to commu nicate to the Senate, for publication with out any conceivable purpose, but at the expense of national faith and honor, to give mc annoyance the entire account I had confidentially rendered to the War Department of my secret disbursements in the Mexican war I It is true that names had been suppressed, by me, in the written items; but many entries were rendered, and now stand so published in this man ner : "Paid messengers of the Consul 850;' "Puid an Englishman to report violations of the armistice, $200;" "Paid a member of tho municipality, $162 50," &o. Al ready in consequence of this publication, five highly respectable residents of Mexi co utterly guiltless of bribery, but liable to suspicion under those designations have, through a distinguished channel, made application to mo for exoneration. Gen. Pillow speaks feelingly of "great and patriotic statesman who was (in 1846) Chief Magistrate of the nation," his some time law partner, who had mado him a Major General; the same who, early in the war, sent for mc, and in the kindest and most beseeching manner solicited my personal sympathy as well as professional aid in conquering a peace, promising me his entire confidence and support; the same who, before I had reached Mexico, endeavored, first, to appoint a lieutenant general to supersede mc; and, fuiling in that, next thought of placing mo under tho samo party, appointed a major-general (and of course) my junior ; tho same who, it turns out, appointed Gen. Pillow a spy on tho conduct of Mr. Trist and myself; and the samo "great and patriotic states man" who, having failed in nearly every promise he mado me, finally, when the war bad beon ended, released from arrest three officers who had boon engaged in a con spiracy against me; restored them, with honor, to duty; superseded mo in the com mand of the army in Mexico, and ordered the three conspirators and myself equally before a court of inquiry I It so happen ed that only Gen. Pillow's conduct was directly investigated by that court; but its samo three members wcro confidential ly instructed from Washington no doubt at tho instance of tho spy to organize themselves into a new court of inquiry to investigate secretly that part of my con duit relating to the council of war held July 17, 1S17, at Pucbla, for the purpose, a ellog!, of pry chuln; a pcM, arid which council figures so largely in Gen. Tillow's recent publications. , This court had every characteristic of a secret inquisition ; it met undor confiden tial instructions; it was reorganized in my absence'and without my knowledge! where-. as, in Gen. Pillow s case (as always,) ho was not only present, but had the privilege of objecting to members, and I should have challenged the entire panncl ; and the court proceeded to tako evidence, begin ning with that of Gen. Pillow I also in my absence, whereas the law (91st article of war) expressly declares that the accused shall "bo permitted to cross-examine and interrogate the witnesses." Finally, when called before the bastard tribunal, I made my protest, and had nothing more to do with it; and had supposed, until Gen. Pil low recently published the statements of two honorable generals (Quitman and Shields,) that all the parties oonnected and Wlth this investigation had become asham ed of their conduct and had made no re port, as there was no publication of their proceedings. Nevertheless, the inquest found no allegation against me supported. 7 The next artiolo of war (the 92d of the same statute) declares, "as courts of in: quiry may be perverted to dishonorable purposes,' and may be considered as en gines' of destruction to military merit in the hands of weak and envious comman dants, they are hereby prohibited, unless directed by the President of the United States or demanded by the accused." Lit tle did the law-maker imagine that even a President might prove himself one of that class of commanders I A word - more. Two members of that famous court ' were breveted one a ma jor general, without other , connection with, the Mexican war; and the other a brigadier, professedly for some slight ser vice at Bncna Vista, and both after their attepts to white-wash Gen." Pillow and browbeat me as tho prosecutor in that caso. -. - WINFIELD SCOTT. New York, October 30, 1857. V P. S. In my former card I abstained, except incidentally and unavoidably, from criminating Gen. Pillow or defending my self, although overwhelming means for ei ther purpose lay before mo ; and I am en deavoring to be , equally self-denying on thj present occasion, leaving the due dis tribution of blame and praise among all concerned in the Mexican war to the fu ture historian. Nor do I consider it any violation of that self-imposed restriction to finish here one of Gen. Pillow's quota tions (in his recent reply to mc) from the statement of Gen. Quitman. Tho extract made by him (P.) was intended to impli cate mc in the project of purchasing, un der certain circumstances, a peace, to which he now says he was more or less repugnant from the first, and with that quotation he (P.) suddenly stops, being, no doubt, ap palled with the following sentence in the same statement, in which Gen. Quitman continues: "After some pause (in the coun cil,) Gen. Pillow gave his opinion in favor of waiting the arrival of Gen. Piereo, and expressed, in detail, his concurrence with the views of the General-in-Chief on the propriety of raising and applying tho mon ey as proposed, pledging his influence as an officer and a citizen to sustain the meas ure!" After this exhibition it probably will not be tbought'important by anybody whether Gen. Pillow has expressed any opinion at all, or a contrariety of opinions, on any given subject whatover. W. S. Operatives off fob Ireland. The Newbury correspondent of the Boston Traveler writes as follows: ' We are gratified to learn that every effort will be mado to keep our cotton manufactories in operation, and that, if accommodations are extended by the banks, they will not stop during tho winter. According to tho census of 1850, there were in 'the New England States 300,000 operatives engagod in manufacturing cot ton and woolen goods; in New York, 200, 000; in Pennselvania, 150,000; and in all other States, 300,000. Quite a number from our Irish popula tion arc returning Ireland. By industry and economy many of them have acquired means, and in view of tho favorable con dition of tho old country, start off with the determination of spending the re mainder of their days at their early homes. IttST An Hibernian was reproved by an officer for daring to whistle in tho ranks while going on duty. Just as the officer spoke ono of Russia's balls came whistling over the ravino. Pat cockod his eye np towards it, and quietly said: "There goos a boy on duty, and, by jabers, hear h w ho whistles I" Two Irishmen were iu prison, one for stealing a cow, and tho other for stealing a, watch. "Hallo, Mike, and what o clook is it?" said the cow stealer to the other. "And sure, Pat, I haveu't my timc-picco handy, but I think it is about milkfng . time,' GIVE ME A FAITHFUL HEART. .' I do not crave bright gems ( earth, Or gold of dazzling hue , But atk for something of more worth . A heart thtt'i pare and true..' . Thnogh earth my yield her obetly gene, That look e fair to view, . y - I atk not for euch a diadem, ' But for a heart tliafe true. A heart that glows with noble deedaj . Fer tbia I e'er will sue; T - ', , A guilelrat heart frojp envy freed . A heart that's pure and true. - , A heart like this Is real worth , t It nothing can outalilne; 'Tie all I ask for here on earth A heart that's pure and kind. Reuarkablk Marriages. Of the many Chinamen in New York, not a fow keep cigar stands upon the sidewalks. Their neighbors in trade are the Milesian apple women. Twenty-eight of these apple- woraen have gone the way of matrimony with their elephant eyed," olive-skinned eotcmporarics, and the most of them are now happy mothers in consequence. The physiologist -avers that the human be ing is improved, as is the domestic branch of the quadrupedal animals, by "crossing." If this be true and we suspect that it is the natives of this country ought to be remarkable for physical strength and beau ty ; for surely there never was such a mix ture of races in any part of the world. Representatives of all nations have located and married here. , We know of two Be douin Arabs, part of an exhibiting troupe that came to this . country several years ago, who married wives and are rearing offspring in one of the Hudson river coun ties. Siam has its representatives here in the famous twins, and in one of the up town streets a wealthy nativo of Morocco domiciliates with a Westchester county spouse. The mixture .of Dutch, Italian, French, Spanish, .English, Irish, Danish, Swedish, &c, is perfectly bewildering, but the amalgamation of the Irish and the Chinese is more than bewildering it be gets a chaos of ideas from which no ray of intelligibility can be safely eliminated. Imagine ka scion of this stock chatting gaily about "Josh" in one moment, and speaking of his father Ping Sing Chi, and, in the next, whirling a shillelah at a pri mary election, and swearing that he goes in, tooth and nail, or rather body and breeches, for the nomination of his moth er's brother, Patrick O'Dowd. Oh, what a country is this 1 N. Y. Mercury. iOf Away among the Alleganies there is a spring, so small that a single ox, in a summer's day, could drain it dry. It steals its unobtrusive way among the hills, till it spreads out in the beautiful Ohio. Thence it stretches away a thousand miles, leaving on its banks more than a hundred villages and cities, and many a cultivated farm, and bearing on its bosom more than half a thousand steamboats. Then joining the Mississippi, it stretches away and away some twelve hundred miles more,' till it falls into the great emblem of eternity. It is one of the great tributaries of the ocean, v hich, obedient only to God, shall roll till the angel, with ono foot on tho land, shall lift up his hand to heaven, aud swear that timo shall bo no longer. So with moral influence It is a rill a rivu let a river an ocean, boundless and fathomless as eternity. Soutliern Illinois ian. Kansas. Tho Richmond Examiner (democratic) conoludos a long article on the present posture of Kansas affairs, as follows : "It is all the legitimate result of attempt ing to make, so to speak, "a silk purse out of a sow's ear," of attempting to consti tute a sovereign State a law-observing, order-loving, constitution-respecting com monwealth, out of a heterogeneous motley of speculators, backwoodsmen, rowdies and cut throats. Kansas ought to be ruled with a rod of iron and tho strong arm of imperial power for a dozen years yet to couio, without so much as a constable be ing elected by "the peoplo" (God save the mark!) during tho whole time. Then tho polls might be opened and tho people left "perfectly free to frame their own institu tions in thoir own way." Then thore might bo an orderly, just and satisfactory settlement of all vexed questions by com petent suffrage. There cannot be until then." ' A Vr.o too Ilion. A feectious gentle man, traveling in the country, on arriving at Li lodging placo in tho evening, was met by tho hostler, whom ho thus address ed: "Boy cxtricato that quadruped from the vehicle, stabulate him, devote to him an adequate supply of nutritious aliment, and when the Aurora of morn shall illu mine the oricutal horizon, I will reward you with a pecuniary compensation fur your amiable hospitality." Tho boy not understanding a word, ran into the house, saying: "Mastor, here's a Dutchman Finis to ice you." Tu Grays or tns Beloved. Hew precious is tho spot to us where the re mains of a beloved friend or relative in whose society, we once took so much de light. 'The mother loves often thereto retire, and while standing beside thegTave of her beloved child, to call to mind the scenes of by gone days, when the loved one,' now reposing in silenco of the grave, smiled upon her, and 'called her by tho endearing hamo of mother. There the father spends hours in lookiiigback to the time when lie knew his beloved and promis ing son, whom none know but to love, was tho joy of his heart and tho object of his greatest care and solicitude. -The husband, or tho wife here come to mediato, aud mourn over tho loss of a departed com panion ; all, from the nearest rclativo, to the - warm-hearted and sorrow-stricken friend, here resort to meditate oq the hap py seasons of the past, and look forward to the future, when they too shall bo laid besido those whom they love and with them enter anothor stato of being. ' Th Flow ot G old. --G old is flowing nto the oouotry from all quarters, Since the suspension in New . York, less than a week ago, the receipts have been by the Northern Light, from California, $1,660, Q00; by the Black Warrior, from Havana, $185,000; by the Cahawba,'from Havana, $500,000; and by the Europa, from Eng land, $315,000; amounting in the aggre gate to $2,660,000. . This gold is being dissemiaaated throughout the country, ' finding its way from New Orleans up to St. Louis as a distributing point, and from New York westward to Chicago. " ... The flow has just commenced. 'It will continue for' several moths yet, as the financiers of the Old World are per fectly aware. : With the tide of specie setting thus strongly 'to this country, a resumption by the Bank &ught not to be delayed beyond "the lattor part of next Spring. St. Louis paper, i -'-" : , - . , . - Things to bi .Proscribed. Every State in the Union should henceforth most rigidly proscribe and prohibit theestablish ment of , the "MashroomV "Wild Cat," and "One-horse" banking concerns which havo produced so much tnisohief and bought discredit on all banking institu tions. The breaking down of half a dozen or a dozen of these bubble- banks at the commencement of our present financial troubles, spread alarm among the people and embarrassed the operations of the other banks. . The people in every part of tho country should set - thoir faoes against brokers' banks more shaving - shops whose issues have no substantial 6ecurtity for their redemption. Legitimate bank ing institutions should also, as a flatter of self interest, give no countenance to con cerns that only prejudice the publio mind against all eopneoted with banking opera tions. Ntuo York Sun. v St. Locia, Nov. , 5. A letter from a Democrat Lccomptoa, dated 2d iust., says that Walker had left there a few days be fore. His destination was thought to be Washington. 1 stated that Walker's ob ject in stationing toops at Lecompton was not exactly to protect the convention or to watch and be prepared for any action his slavery enemies might make against him, but because the Legislature, having a large free State majority, will probably repeal obnoxious laws and depose officeholders, in which caso a repetition of the bloody scenes of the early history of the Ter ritory is apprehended. Tho constitution will bo submitted to the people with tho slavery clause, which will be objectionable to the frco State men and too moderate for tho pro-slavery ultras. The Albany New York Esprts says that tho speaker of tho House of Repre sentatives, (in Congress assembled,) by granting the floor to certain members at certain times; and when, in point of fact, thoy are not entitled to it, can enrich him self to the extent of $100,000 in a single session! Moreover, 'we are told on the samo authority, that $10,000 is sometimes offered to the Speaker for the privilege of the floor I Can these things bo? Congressional Corruption. It is said that a Democratic member of Congress, who was himself ro-idy to offer $200,000 for tho Fort Selling Reservation, and would have considered it a great prize at that, will move for an investigation of the luto fraudulent sale. It is bolievcd that the disclosures will be altogether richer than those of tho congressional corruption at tho last session. DOT An exchange paper says, that tie girls In sumo parts of Ponsylvania, aro so hard up for husbands that they sometime', take np'witn'priu'ters and lawyers. Itjr There is a chap in, Illioois whose hair is so rod, that wheu he goes out bo foro day, he is Ulrn for sunrise, and the ' cocks begin t rmnr. 1 . Tns Flowers Orotino from a Tumb JACTioy. We mentioned, a fow days sicoo, tho cause of the hvl Northrop, at Ithaca, upon whose diseased limb there grew a singular formation, like to the passion flow vDr. Hawloy, formerly of Genova Col logo, has wri'.tcn a more detailed account of this caso, Tho lad Is lfrom 13 tol 1 years old, and has been subjeot to tender ness and disease of the hip joint, which at two years of age, resulted in extensive tumefaction; three years later a a absoess was formed, and finally the disoaso caused the dislocation of the hipjoint. For four months the patient had been unablo;U move an inch in bed; abscesses have formed in the abdomon, through .which the focal oontonts of his intestines are discharged; and his nervous sensitiveness has boea such that he would allow no one to touoh him or make any investigation, and walk ing aoross the floor has caused him to. cry with pain. The prolongation of his life was regarded as a miracle. , On the. 4th inst., thcro was projeotod from the right limb, which for a long tfme had beon great ly swollen, a atom, on tho inner sido, at the edge of the gastrocnemius muscle, rising at right angles with it, more than seven inch es in height, with a flower squarely set up on it, resembling the Passion Flower, OC the China Aster., On. Wednesday the boy felt an oozing from, what had been expoo ted to be an abcess, and exprossed great re lief. He did not permit any examination until Saturday afternoon, when a stem was seen arising at' right angles with the limb. at about tho height of three inchos, crown ed with pure white buds,' resembling the white buds of the orange! . On being ex posed to the light the flower expanded and assumed the color of a beautiful grayish.; purple. Iioch. t)em. t ' , DoroLAs Jerrold's Witticisms. --A' todious old gentleman meeting Jerrold in Regent street, and having stopped him, ' posed himsolf into button-holdin attitude, while preparing to grapple. "Well, Jer-.' rold, my dear boy, what is going on?" "I am," quoth the wit, instantly shooting off along the r ivement 1 ' A dull foreigner was indulging in rap- turous description of tho beauties of the ! Prodiyine. "As to one song in particular (naming the "son j) I was quite carried away," ' Is thore anybody here that can sing it?". ' said Jerrold. . .' , . Somebody told Jerrold that Ceorgo. Rob los, the auctioneer, was dead, "aud of. courso," added the gentleman, "his busi , ncss will go to the devil." "Oh, then, he'll get it again," said the wit. A literary friend, who has set up a neat . barouche with a pair of greys, drovo Jer , rol out ono day into the country. As ho passed through a village tho people came to their doors to behold tho pretty cquipago. I think they are struok with our nreyBi" remarked the charioteer. "I wonder what they would eay of our duns?" quoth Jer rold. ' ' . ' , . ' .' ExroBTS or Great Britain. .Th London Economist thinks that tho exports ' from Great Britain in 1857 will excood ' $600,000,000. The amount in 1850 was $579,130,000, against $478,440,000 in 18- 55. The chief increase during the first" half of the present year has token place in the exports to the United States, British India and the Australian colonics. A sailor dropped out ef tho rigging of a ship of war, some fifteen or twenty feet, and fell plump on the head of the first lieutenant. . r c "Wretch!" said tho officer, after ho had , gathered himself up, "whore the d 1 did you come from ?" "An' sure I come from the north of Ireland, yer honor." "A man can't help what is dono bohind his back," as tlin loafer said when ho was kicked out of doors. We understand that there is a man in this country who has moved so often, that whenever a covered wagon comes near his house, his chickens all march up, fall on thoir backs and and cro their legs, ready to be tied and carried to tho next stop ping place. ! Alabama. An cxebaiigo paper says the most digni fied, glorious and lovely work of nature is woman tho next mau aud thirdly the Berkshire pig. jrsu A drunkard lately tried to got a policeman to arrest his own shadow , His complaint was, that an Ill-looking scoundrel kept fbllowing him, B."Much remains unsung," as the torn cat remarked to tho brickbat, when il abrubtly cuts abort his seronada. . Tho cradle is woman's ballot-bx. Yes, and some of them deposit iu it two at once. Now, isn't that ilWalr1 The Democrats will bavu a majority f foity-sevon on the joint ballot I'l, ri nnylvnnvt l-'sluture.