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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.