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BY DAVID OVER. $t 1 rft 0 trq. ' Trust in o<l And Do tlie Right. Courage, brother ! <lo net stumble, Though thy path is dark as night : There's a star to guide the humble- Trust iu God and do the right. Let the road be long and dreary. And us ending out of sight ; 1' nit it bravely— strong or weary. 1 rut in God and do the right. I'erish '-{(olicy " and cunning, Perish ali tiiat fears the light; Whether losing, whether winning, Trust in God and do the right, < i rust no party, church, or faction. Trust no leaders--' in the fight. llHt in every word and action Trust in G-> i and do the right. Trust no forms of guilty pass l on, Fiends can loci; like angels bright : i rust no custom, school, or fashion. 1 rust in God and do the right. Some will hate thee, some will love thee, Some will flatter, some will slight; (Vase from man, and look above thee, • 1 1 * Abdi God and do the right. - Simple rule and safest guiding. Inward peace and inward light ; , j star upon our path abiding, '1 rust in God and do the right. AGRICULTURAL \ Few Things tbai Everybody ought to Know. A quart of peas, sown in a shallow box fifteen inches wide by eighteen long, at any time of the year, and car off when about four or five inches high, and boiled like spinnaeh, with a little salt makes a delicious dish. The tops pf Jerusalem artichokes, cut off about six inches long, and boiled like other greens, makes a capital dish, which partakes, in sotue degree, of the flavor of the root. Boiled watei cress also makes a wholesome and delicious dish. It muu :.o'> however, be over-boiled; for Impaired con* l,u " ' si >n> it is invaluable. In April and M}"i ' a,e potatoes should always be peeled so*e ten or j twelve hours, and steeped in cold sprinfi vatcr before they are cooked. This a L"" at ' m ~ proveuient; it makes the r' tato lK ' ar 'y as good j as those dug in Oocr. Ihe proper way to , make a cup of good tea is a matter of some im- ; portance. The plan which I have practised j for these twelve months is thi.: The teapot is •it once filled up with boiling water ; then the tea is put into the pot, and is allowed to stand five minutes before it is used: the leaves grad ually absorb the water, and as gradually sink to the bottom. The result is that the tea le sves j are not scalded, as they are when bailing water j is poured over them, and you get all the true , flavor of the tea. In truth, much less tea is required in this way then under the old and common practice. Jam s Cuthill, London. CULTIVATION OF TOMATOES. — A writer in the Gencseo Farmer thu.s describes the method of transplanting and.growing tomatoes. .My tnctnod is as follows: Cut with a long l laded kuife the dirt beween the rows of plants caeli way, to the depth of six or eight inches. Then, with a trowel oi spade, carefully take up each plant with as large a ball of earth as pos sible. Bo not trust their removal to careless hands. With a hoc, dig holes three inches deep, set in the plants wiih the earth attached, and finish by hilling up, making large hills. If th&wotk has been well done, the plants will scarcely wilt under a hot suu. By this meth od the roots are brought near the surface, to receive the influence of the SUQ. Ihe fruit is also well exposed to the sun, and my little mounds of tomatoes are not "forever and the day after" in ripening. No watering is neces sary, except a little in the holes before trans planting, and then only in a dry time. I rim ming off a portion of the side branches close to the main stem, will produce 1 tiger and finer fruit. Tomatoes give the greatest yield on a rich soil, but do not ripen fruit sosocn as when grown on a poorer cue. REMEDY FOR MILDEW ON GOOSEBERRIES. and sometimes one-half the goose, berry crop is destroyed every year by mildew. In the spring the hushes are lorded with ber ries, and a large yield is promised, hut before \ • : • r- ; - - ..... .... . . *" v ' i -' ekl 7 Paper, Devoted to Literature, Politics, the Arts, Sciencesjwgriculture, &c., &c—Terms: One Dollar and Fifty Cents in Advance. j the fruit is ripened a large portion of it is ! blighted by mildew. A remedy is given by a ; writer in the Horticulturist, some ye irs since. 'lt is simple and we think worthy of a trial.— | The ground on each sidj of the bush is covered | wiin salt hay to the depth of three inches.— I his, the writer says, keeps tho ground u.oist and cool, the salt tn the hay attracts moisture from the air and gives it to the bushes. This prevents the sudden changes from hot to dry, ; which almost immediately causes mildew. HEMEI.Y FOR THE CuHcui.ia.--An old far mer in Hsiverfcrl, informs us that ho has-dis covered a certain remedy against the ravages , <>f the Curculio, one of the most dangerous en emies to different kinds of fruit the farmer am.; the nurserymen have to contend with. His plnu is to take time and slake it to the cousis I fence of thin whitewash. This wash ho sprink les liberally over the fruit tress in the, moat! of May, as .soon as the blossoms fa 11, an< , while the dew is on, or the trees arc wet frot; a shower, ihe method of applying it is I t means of a common garden pump, or a syringe such as is used to wash windows. Our infer man states that, after an experience of sis year he is satisfied that it is effective. The oxpori umnt is easily tried, and the cost if it faiis, do not amount to anything. For peaches, pears plum® aud cherries, it is equally valuable. SEASONABLE THOUGHTS.- It will be well T. bear in mind that all auimii and vegetable mat 'or make manure. Everything that will rot it . the soil you may consider as furnishing foot for plants. OF course there is a great differ j encc in value, but that we will uot now sto to discuss. Use this spring all the manure vo' ; can scrape up, beg or borrow. In four or fu< months you will reap the r ward. Don't dh* w j " ur barn-yard manure to the Held a j before you intend to plow it under, or at leas spread it. Let the spreading be Ame t_ve •y Any dry time, and the sooner H J er/r, sow 'ft—— or von, clover and '*** Tilroe or four buehbis of unle clcd a*-—' than double this number vac ' lol '> P ® tluct a very desirablerfP*" ' '^ rcsi!in 8 0 ' meadows is an cxecl*" lo ™^ clta,c thorn. Good, weir< t,ca manure , , ce and tLoroughlv dragged >pread over the e - start that will very> likely as will give them f J tonidi you. •' me:i,ues Ui; vvc!l 10 seUtcr over a lit* 0 seed before dragging.- Where ,I,anurc ' s scarce ashes may be used, .j.j,. with or without m-inure, though we prc rt bOtU. After a good deal of observation and some experience we have come to the conclusion thur potatoes should be printed as early as possible. In inc season out of ten late planting might prove the best, but iu tho other uiuo a naucl better ciop will be.grown by plauting just as early as the ground ein be got iu order, ll you p'ant fe-r your own use only consult your own taste, but if for market grow only the best kiuds and such as will bring a high price, like the Mercer. Tf you have light land, and clover sod, you will need nothing better for producing a good | crop of sound potatoes. Nothing is gamed by planting corn to early, i To keep crows from pulling it up after plan'ing | a correspondent wishes us to say that there is nothing like tar, if used right. I'ut the eoru iiu a heap— say a bushel —then pour on it a i pailful of scalding water, and while hot add | half a pint of tar. Stir until mixed thorough > ly, aud dry with plaster. Those who wish to try the important question whether or not we can produce sugar at the North must not for get the Chinese cane. Do not forget to seatch thoroughly for the caterpillars' nests in the orchard. A bunch of rags daubed with thick whitewash will bring down the nest or destroy it . Kuril .Veo Yorker. GARBAGE GRANTS. —The cut-worm is fre quently a source of much annoyance to the gardener as well as destructive to plants. A vcty simple and effectual remedy against the onslaught of these pests is to provide yourself with a bunch of hickory leaves prior to setting out your plants, then, as you take a plant in hand, also take a leaf aud roll it loasc-ly around the stem of the plant, funnel like. The lower edge of the leaf should bo some little distance above the roots of the plants, so that about one-half the leaf will protrude above ground- This will form a barrier that thU boldest enemy of tbe worm species will seldom have courage to scale. As to going tbrongh the leaf, they will never do it, as they arc quite repugnant to such game. This is a remedy that I have al ways applied with success. It is accessible to all, therefore try it. Virginia, May, 1858. J. S. I'• Baltimore Sun. FLOWF.R BEDS.-— Tbe ladies should rcmetu- I ber that one of tbe prime causes why their an- BEDFORD, PA., FRIAY. JUNE 11, 1858. • uual flower #ecd will not come up is the vvi j of power to force their way through tho bail f or hardened surface of the soil. Care is t- j ally taken by the ladies in sowing their fav-„| ite seeds; they make the soil very nice, rake a little, and then wonJcr that nothing or net to nothing appears. It' they will examine the little beds they will find that the rains ha' battered down the soil so as completely to ei crust it, forming a banier through which it impossible for the seed to penetrate. To rei cdy this, take your little iron rake and bres up the surface finely after each rain; and, T the seeds were good when sown, you will (iro| them to germinate freely. SALE OF FOKT The Fort Soelling ease is &f down for con sideration iu Congress this yfek. The Com mittee's Report, with the ejAfaace on which iti is baaed, -has now been sertral the public, and, up to thi.ysaur, none of tho •statements on which the >Toimuittce*s conclu sions are based have ever been controverted. Not a single j jurnal has ven- to published eveo' ft synopsis of the lies port of tho testimony That remarkably indc-j pendent and plundfhating sheet, The j\ewl York Herald, tus.'Vintod tho minority's tedious) aud sophistical a/tampl to befog and pettifog the case, so as /y screen the depredators fromi put-lie reprcbfpi o ' l: it has never ventured to It its re?^ rs s . ce wliat the case is agains' which it ri N,l ' s ,0 'be defense of Secretary Floyd an* bis confederates. Let us, then, re fresh tj* public recollection of the leading points 'be case which arc not even dispu ted : , T . The Fort S&elling Reservation lies be- J t*ii>n the Rivers .Mississippi and Minnesota, at ,>eir junction, ad fcrm, unquestionably, the dnest sit*> for a great commercial city in all Minnesota. St. } ul; l, s j x mileg bclow r with tVe thr.ving towns surrounding tho Falls of >l. Anthony, six miles above, have now so g.-eat a r.tart that no city erected o u the Fort! -Mieiling location may ever overtake tlicui, but) its original superiority is manifest. The land ; is prairie, .some of it low and swampy, hut at ' least three-funks of the whole is high, healthy ' and- beautiful. Some of the soil h excellent, j partas-thin, overlaying a white sand, well adapted to cultivation", trow tbucu ij the. Reservation contains, has never been pub- j licly ascertained ; though Jlaj. Eastman of the j Army (who had long been stationed there, and j knew the ground intimately) was sent out to ] survey it, and did survey it in part, in April and ! May of last year. Before he? had finished the | job, however, he was notified that he had been | appointed, along with Mr. Wis. King Haskell of Virginia, a commissioner to sell the Reser vation, and, without completing the survey, they proceeded to sell it, as wc shall herein after set forth. The Reserve contains from seven to ten thousand acres, worth >2O to §OO per acre, in view of its proximity to several growing cities, if regarded as uot itself an el igible site for a city. If wo esteem it the proper site for the emporium of the trade of the Minnesota River country (which it certain ly was, if it is not still,) its value cannot be less than §1,000,000. .2.-Over two years ago, Mr. Franklin Steele, long resident on this Reserve as butler to the troops posted there, sought to buy it as a spec ulation. Mr. llenry M. lliee, then Delegate, now United States Senator from Minnesota, wrote on Steel's behalf to Jefferson Davis, theu Secretary of S f ato offering §is per acre for the whole, but estimating the area of the Re serve at only five thousand acres. Col. Davis answered May G, 185G, quickly and crustily, "The Reservation is still needed for military purposes, and Mr. Steele's offer cannot, there fore be entertained. His letter to you is here with returned " 2. Ton months thereafter, Mr. Rice procured the insertion, in the Military appropriation bill (March 3, 1857,) of a proviso authorizing the sain, by the Secretary of War, of such Milita ry Reservations as hjul become or thereafter might become useless for Military purposes.— No reference was tuade to the Fort Snelling or any other Reserve in particular, but a Senator, on the reading of this amendment, very natu rally asked, "llow are these lands to be sold?" —to which Mr. Weller of California promptly answered, "f public sale," which quieted sus picion, and the clause passed without objec tion. 1 4. Mr John B. Floyd, of Virginia, immo diatcly thereafter became Secretary of War, vice Davis, who went out with the late Presi dent. Very soon afterward, Dr. Arch. Gra ham, hailing from Virginia, called on his old friend the Secretary, (so the Dr. testifies,) and announcing that he was on his way to Minne sota tospeculate in lauds, asked il he (Floyd) could throw anything in his way. The Secretary replied that he could not, unless he cbose to undertake the sale of certain old forts iu that region. The Dr. promised to think of it and respond; which in due time he did, de clining the job, having privately resolved to dip into the Fort Snelling matter cot as a sel ler but as a purchaser. 5. Maj. Eastman was about this time dis patched, with only verbal orders, to survey the Fort Snelling Reserve; Dr. Graham had gone on intending to purchase it, und now the figure heads of Messrs John 0. Mather aud Richard Schell (now Senators) of this city, emerge from the* limbo of obscurity. Both were then private citizens; Mr. Schell a Wall street bro ker aud general speculator; Mr. Mather had filled the post of Uanal Commissioner, therein achieving notoriety rather than distinction, and was now nothing in particular but. a special crony of the two Schells, and au esteemed ac quaintance of Secretary Floyd. 11. Schell, Mather and Dr. Graham agreed to become j jointly interested in the purchase of Fort Sncl-j ling. Toward tho purchase money, $5,000 j was advanced by Mr. Augustus Sebcll; but | that, takes in the testimony the shape of a loan j to Mrs. Ili.jhard Schcll. Mr. John C. Math r i w*s appointed by Secretary Floyd, a Oouuuis- ' sioner, at $8 per day and expenses, to survey and prepare for sale another Military Reserve i in Minnesota, known as Fort liipiey. So be ; was present at Fort Snelling before aud after ' its sale, under pay from the Treasury. 6. Fort Snelling was all this time occupied j as a military post, and stilt is. No military authority Larl recommended its abandonment, i N-*.£on>pcteiit authority had even he: n asked | to give an opinion on that point. The Secre tary, who liad never till la :t March had any ; connection with Military affair?, and who was j merely authorized, not directed, to soli sueh \ Reserves as were no longer required, did not j deem it his duty to ask any one whether this ; WHS or was not required. lie did not let the j public know that fort Snelling was to be sold. > Letters of distinguished Democrats—among i them the Hon. Robert Smith, M. (J. elect from ll'mois, ami the lion. Paul Dillingham, cx-M. j C. from Vermont—inquiring whether Fort Snelling was or was Dot to be sold, and asking I ftir a cliauco to-buy part of it if it were, were never answered. Ail was dark, silent, myste- j rious us the grave "' 7. On the 25th of last May, Maj. E istnian s of the army,,( special crony of Steele's then ■ presumed to be survey-lug Fort Stud ling as aforesaid, aud Win. King Hmskel), of Abing- ; don, Virginia, an intimate friend of Secretary Floyd, were appointed Commissioners to sell j the Fort e ncUing Reserve if aud as they should ihiuk proper. ■ Twelve days thereafter, they Ipd sold at Fort Snelling, over a thousand from Washington, the whole Reserve, the , e ;rvey uncompleted, the area unascertained, to Franklin Steele, lor $1)0,000, of which only -ihUjOOO was to be p.iid down, and fbcrccpcn a free and clear title to be given; the remain ing s<lo,ooo to be satisfactorily secured (not m the property) and paid oue and two years thereafter. VVc challenge the production, from the whole history of our country, of any sale of public property on terms like these. 8. The sale was made ostcntibly to Fiankiir. Steele alone," hut Messrs. Richard Schcll, John C. Mather aud Archibald Graham were pri vately his copartners in the purchase. Steele paid SIO,OOO, Schcll and Mather $20,000 of ;!ie purchase uiouey, including $5,000 of Au aud is owner only of one-tweuty-scvcnth of the purchase, and is to have $5,000 per annum as manager of the property. Eastman and lltis kcll swear (bey did uot know that any one but Steele was interested in the purchase. Math er and R. Schcll cannot (or will not) tell how they learned (hat Fort Snelling was to be sold, hut Mather thinks he learned it from the Ses sion Laws ! which did not appear till long af ter he was deep iu the speculation, and said nothing relative to the sale of Fort Snelling when they did appear. In fact, the amount that Schcll and Mather "don't remember," "can't recollect,'' "don't know," Ac., about this whole business, is most blasting. 9. Messrs. Eastman and liciskell give no one but Steele & Co. the least chance to bid upon or purchase this property, or any part of it. Heiskell, whrn pushed by the Committee on this point, thought he had told the bar-ten der at his "hotel that he was there to sell Fort Snelling. As Eastman had been for some weeks surveying 'be tract, he should at least have ascertained the number o; acres, hut it does not appear that ho did. Before his col league had fairly found time to walk over the tract, they had sold it for $90,000, one-third cash, to the only person they had permitted to know that they were commissioned to seh. No body in St. Paul, in St. Anthony, iu Minneap olis—all then on fire with land speculation— nor even the eminent Democrats who, on sus picion that Fort Snelling was to be sold, had written the Secretary ot war, praying for a chance to buy-—were allowed to know any thing on the subject till the sale was consummated. And it is as morally certain as that there will be frost next winter, that, had Messrs. Last man and llciskell really wished to get a good price for the Reserve, they might have finished surveying it into forty acre lots, given each a number, and solicited scaled bids for each or all of those lots, the higncst bid for any one to take it if tho cash were duly forthcoming, aud could thus have obtained at least $-100,000 down, instead of $90,000. one-third down, the balance in one and two years, llicti the peo ple would have been tairly treated, and the Government not dishonored, contrary to what is now the case. Aud wbeu Eastman was ask ed by the Committee why they did not adver tise the property, lo made the ridiculous an swer that then it would not have been a pit vale sale ! 10. We have said that 'be green Secretary never sought nor took tho advice of the propct military authorities as to the expediency or practicalility of abandoning h ort bncliiog and it was only reserves no longer needed for military purposes that he was authorized to sell. Adj. Gen.Thomos visited the northwest posts officially last summer, and on bis returu report ed to Gen. Scott, bearing strong testimony against this unfortunate sale. Gen. Scott transmitted this Report to the Department, as was his duty. Socretary Floyd indorsed there on a most unfair and insulting commentary, closing thus: "When this Dcpartuiont is required to report to subordinates 'under what circumstances the post at Fort Snelling was sold,' or any other act was done, the duty shall be performed; but until then a 'military man'will probably un derstand that a superior iu authority is not to be called on for an explanation of any order. "J. B. FLOYD, Secretary of War. Now Adj. Gen. Thorn v.- had never n quired him to "report" anythiug whatever —hod no! I called on hiai for an explanation—had not ad- I dressed him at all. He had simply reported to I bis own superior, Gen. Scott, that the sale of ' Fort Snelling was.a sad mistake and wrong, . and th4t no military man could bavetecoie | mended it. Ar.d for this honest and obviously ■ true statement, the ex gratia "superior in au- I thority"' of several weeks' standing assails and j flouts the faithful officer who is precluded by : discipline from making any reply, But tlie j country will reply for him. He it understood, once for all, that we do j not bl tme Franklin Steele, Richard Seltell uor Archibald Graham for buying this property at one-fourth of its value. It was not their bus-1 iaess to judge whether this property was stili \ needed for public uses, nor to take care that [ it was not sold for less than its value. But that was the business of Mr. Secretary Fioyd j business for which he is honorably regarded j and liberally paid—and, in a subordinate sea set of Messrs. Eastmtn and Hciskeil likewise.— Mr. Mather, too, having resolved to dip into j this plum pudding, ought to have imitated the i fastidiousuess'of his man Graham, and refused . to take a Minuesota commissiouership at Mr. j 1 Floyd's hands. Nor, after the assurance gir- j ; en by Mr. Wujier in tbeSeuae, on the strength j of which the proviso was carried, wis the Sec retary morally at liberty to sell otherwise than j at public sale, or in >nu manner which secur >ed the fullest scope to competition. Congress, I as the Grand Inquest of the Nation, is now ; called t,review and judge this whole transac tion. Let the members discard prejudice, he j gin at the bgcmning, and draw the- inevitable j inferences from what the witnesses conceal as ' ! well as what they disclose, aud they must re- ! | alize that bore is a most reckless, deeph-pUn- I tied, profligate squandering of p^perty to satiate personal and pirtizan rajfacity. j if thev Lcsitate to pronounce the proper ver- j diet on the perpetrators, even to their chief, | the public will be less forbearing, aud will be 1 apt to include them in its judgment of eon i detonation.— W. Y. Tribune, Mty 25. SHADOWS. XJ IIY ELLA MEUWIN * It was catly morning in bright spring time. The sweet perfume of a thousand flowers stole through the lattice of a daikened room. — | Gently the light breeze swayed to and | fro the curtaiu folds, which loving hands had t arranged to drop low over each window j for j son"6csnhf •W^fvT a WriMcla_ttot euterjtbere. gloom. The angel of sickness hid entered, had Uid its blighting hand upon a fair form, bad basiled a little voice that was wont to mike sweet music there. Ah' ear th M a land ot ; shadows ! They fall on heart, in every home, i'hautoais of wrong and misery dark ' en the page of life, as if the heavy wing of night weie folded there. They steal with noiseless footsteps along the paths of childhood, mocking the sunshine of early dreams, as mists at morn obscure the RUU'S bright beam. They give token of their presence on manhood's thoughtful brow, and ago forgets to count them 'things that were/ Mingling with the sunshine, they come in our happiest hours, to send the beaming smile away, to hush the sweet lay of the free heart'? joy. 'Tis the vale of shadows we enter, when stern adversity wraps around us her tear stained mantle. 'Tis there cheerless sway our hearts acknowledge, when the breath of a cold world s scorn sweeps chillingly over the warm, gushing tide of affection. Shadows of sin, of sorrow- On.^'have fallen everywhere; and though we sometimes feel that wc are wrapped in theli misty folds, and lust in thick darkness then is light shining through them all, and it wc have not seen it, it is because we have not look ed. Light that has pierced the gloom of earth ! Light that will guide to a land where shadows never come ! CONTRADICTION —Col. Forney, ot the Phil adelphia. Press, contradicts, in the following language, a statement to the effect that lie was about to return to the support of the Adminis tration: 'The course of the Press on the Kansas question has not been a doubtful course; but the editoi of the New York Times lias admit ted a letter into his paper of Monday last, pur porting to have been written from Washington, in which it is distinctly stated, and with souii. attempt at detail, (which has surprised us in the Times,) that the Press is about to surren der tlie great principle to which it has been de- i voted for many mouihs, and to become the ! subservient tool of power. I\# have ouly to say, iu reply, tuat-the editor of the Times has been grossly imposed upon by some reckless knave. The story is an utter fabrication, it has no probability, uo possibility, to rest upon. We have nothing to surrender. It would af ford us great pleasure to agree with the gene ral Administration on this Kansas question ; but this will never be, until the Administration is true to itself, and to the pledges upon which it was elevated to power." A CONGRESSMAN OUSTED.—ID the House of Representative at Washington, on Tuesday last Lewis D. Campbell of Ohio, was ejected from his seat, and Mr. Vallaudigham voted in by a strict party divisiou. The contest between the two, at the last election was close, Mr C. hav ing a majority of only nineteen over his oppo nent. The seat was contested on the allegation that certain colored men voted for Campbell, which, however, was not substantiated A COMPROMISE WOMAN. —The Richmond South snys : Out pen recoils from the duty— yet it is our province to record the revolting fact that a white woman in Mecklenburg coun ty, Va., became the mother, a lew days ago, ot four children, two of whom were of her own color and the other two black. VOL. 81, NO. 24. | A )>GPLOKIBLt DKV.IKIRD. A Washington correspeadeat of the N. Y. Spirit of the Times, communicates the fo iow } log : ' Some years ago, Congress numbered among | its members several who were much given to a love of liquor, and were frequently seen about j' the atrcets of the metropolis "on a spree."— Such conduct on the prt of our law-makers didn'i impress the outsiders with such an ex alted opinion of M. (J.'s a# they once had, as the iucident I am about to relate will show, j One hot, moonlight eight, daring a long ses sion, a party of gentlemen, including several ,* Members of Congress, were seated around tho : door of the house of a frieuJ, tryiug to get | cool, when au old toper, 'all tattered uud torn, 1 known as Hill Scraggy, made his appearance in j their midst, and asked for money to obtain a ! night's loosing and something to cat. /The i Hon. Mr. W., a very kind-hearted and respec ■ table Member of the House, soouengaged Bill | iu Conversation, anl at once discovered that . he was an educated man, and remarked to him. j "My friend you appear to have seen better | days ; I would like to know something of your history." Bill dre-v? himself up, and after a | short pause, said : "Sir, i 'have seen better j days 1 My pareuts were well-to-do, they gave me a good education and a profession, and, at • one tim", my prospects in life were as bright as | any titan's hut, alas' sir, in an eval hour I I became addicted to drink, an J from that mo ment 1 hive bceu going down, down, until 1 ; have beeomej.in outcast, a loafer—of no account | -ft for nothing on this earth oat to be a '■ .Member of^Coitgiesi!" Tiic above jA true story ; for among | y Uosc who aud heard it, was tho V'V I 1 A Ht:i:oic SIAU>ES. —A few days ago a slide oc | currad at a cut-on tie Pittsburg and Couuellsvillc uU/pb a point on the Youghiogheny, a'tove ttf.M'Keesport, where there is a sharp in the river, and the track is laid wholly on Hue cutting. A Lug - rock fell and remained dt yeetly on the track. This was observe Iby a daugh- Xlif of Mr. J -:tin lh iv i, who iv-i 1•> on the oppo site side of the river. The male portion of the family were a esent at the time; and she, knowing that it ir is about t'ue hour when the cirs woul 1 pass that point, and that there was no time to be lost, ran to the river side, unloosed her lather's skiff", rowed across with all possible haste, and ran along the tracs. iu the direction of the approaching train, waiving a red handkerchief, and succeeded in at - trading the attention of the engineer, in the very nil kof time. The brakes were applied, the train ! of all on board thi'Cars.*' was so sharp that a collision would have thrown the cars oil" the track down the embankment into the river. ; The Company have shown a proper appreciation of the heroic conduct of the young lady, and the iwvaluabie service rendered, by presenting her with a pass over the road for many years to come, and ordered the train to stop at the point where she can most readily reach#) r residence, whenever she | happens to he on board the cars—a compliment and convenience at the same time, as it is a consi derable distance from her father's house to the | nearest station. Such reuuy presence of mind dm 1 prompt action, deserves reward, which in this in ' stance is generously and happly bestowed.—Pitts j burg Dispatch. | TERRIBLE PEATS. —The Omro (Wis.) Rc ! publican says: About tour miles west of this villiagc, oil the afternoon of Saturday la.-1 a man by the name of Mitchell was buried alive by the caving of a well. The first time that the dirt gave way it buried htm up to his knees but such was the pressure of the dirt that he could not be get out, even with the help of a wiudlas?. When striving to extricate him, tho sar.d caved again and buried him up to his waist. His brother-in-law sprang into the well and eomtucuced throwing the dirt from him, but it continued running in until he was buried up to the neck. His brother-in-law, seeing that tho dirt cauie in faster than he could throw it out, left hiui to got assistance. When the help ar rived, they found him completely eovored. Af ter digging some hours he was taken out dead. Mitchell was a young mau about *2l or 25 years of age, and leaves a wife and child. v DRUGGING A LOVER,TO CATCH A HUSBAND. A strange story is told by the New Haven Journal , which says that a young man of Beth any, •)( highly respectable connections, and an only son, being about tc leave his Louie fir South America, 1 a few calls upon his ac quaintances, wheu a young lady who was des perately attached to him, as her last means of gaining him, hud the meanness to plot with some of her associates io drug him, and have him takeu to a low justice of the peace, who is a disgrace to the office, where the niarriag'- ceremony vr>s performed. A strange murder was recently perpetrated in St. Louts. A man uauied Hugh Down.o went into a barbershop to get shaved. While on the chair, the boy who was attendiug to him, dropped some of the soap into his eyes, which blinded him for the time, when two other boys who were engaged iu the same shop, threw a vepc around his nock, and ha was choked to death Tho young murderers were actuated by a desire to rob their victim. They got but §SO from liitu besides bis watch and some oth er small articles. we could read the seeret history of our enemies, we should f.nd in each man s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm us of all our hostility. SE?~As Gen. Foley, of Indians, says he wa3 not very well when he wrote that letter, it is suggested he must have had a very bad spill. is a double shame to a man to have inherited distinction frotr his anccss'o:e, if bo bequeaths disgrtce to his posterity.