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BY DAYID OVER. 11!trt $5 or}rij. 'if The following Hymn was composed by a young man, n >w dead, who was insane ou every i .subject bu : im—on this be remained sane j until the lu,. . in. Nt of his life. The Hymn .s n . used by the congregated 1 thousands at the mid-day Prayer Meetings in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Oiuein nati, aud we think it will he a gratification to many of our readers to know at least one of the menus used in the extraordinary religious ex citement that is now so universal especially in tho Pities named. WHAT'S Til la SEWS! MTb re you meet, you always say— What the news f WTuFaJhe news ! I'rav what's the order of the d iy ? What's the news ? What's tLi news i 0 1 have got good news to tell, My Savior hath done all things Well, And triumphed over death and hell— That's the news! That's the news ! The Lamb wa3 slain on Calvary— That's the uews ! That's the news ! To set a world of sinners free— That's the news! That's the rtw>! Twos there his precious blood was shed ; 'Twos there he bowed his sacred head ; But now he's risen from tire dead— That's the news! That's the news 1 To Heav'n above the Conqueror's gone— That's the news! That's the news ! lie's pass'd triumphant to his throne— That's the news! That's the news ! And on that thtone he will reman, Until, as Judge, he comes again, Attended by a dazzling train— That's the news! That's the news! The Lord Ims pardoned all my sin ■ __ That's the news! That's the news! 1 feeTtfr. witness now within— And since he took my sins away, And taught me Low to watch and pray, I'm liappy now from day to day— That's the news! That's the news ! Ills work's reviving all around— That's the r.o-ws! That's the news - And many have redemption found— That's the news! That's the news ! And since their souls have caught thed! irae, They sliout Hosanna to his name; A lid all ar< und they spread bis fame— -1 hat's the news! That's the news! And Christ the Lord can save you now That's the news ! That's the news ! Tour sinful heart he can renew— That's the news! That's the news ! This moment, if for sins you grieve, This moment, if you do beliero— A full acquit.il you'll receive— That's theaews! That's the news! And now, if any one should say, What's the news ? What's the news J 0 toll them you've begun to pray— That's the news ! That's the news! That you have joined the conquering band, And now with joy, at God's command, l'ou're marching to the better land— That's the ncW3 ! That's the news ' tl RlOli7l III3IKS. What is earth, s.xton ' A place to dig graves. What is earth, rich man ? A place to work slaves. What is earth, grsyhoad ? A place to grow old. What is earth, miter ? A place to dig gold. \\ bu; is earth, schoolboy i A place for my play. What is earth, maiden ? A place to be gay. What is earth, seamstress 7 A place where I weep. What is carLh, sluggard 7 A good place to sleep. What is earth, soldier 1 A place for a battle. What is earth, herdsman ? A place to raise cattle. What is earth, widow I A place of true sorrow. What is earth, tradesman { ■ i 'll tell you to-morrow. What is earth, siek man 7 'Tis nothing to mc. What is earth, sailor 7 .My home is the sea. What is earth, siatesman 7 A place to win fame. What is earth, author 7 ITI write there my name. What is earth, monarch 7 For my realm 'lis given. What is earth, christian 7 The gait way of heaven. the search for female compositors, it is reported that the following dialogue took place "Good morning, Mr. licnpeck, Have you tmy daughters that would make good type "-iters?" "No, but 1 have got a wife that would make a very fine 'devil."' A Weekly Paper, Devoted to Literature, Politics, the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, &e., &c—Terms: One Dollar and Fifty Cents in Advance. VI AOKI, Or. the Faithful Maidcu. A STORY OF TARTARY IN OLDEN TIMES. Many, many years ago, near the borders of Like Baikal, there was a Tartar maiden of great beauty, who was courted by at least a dozen lovers. Among them were several per sons of great wealth, aud one who bore the ti tle of Khan, lie was in fact the chief of a considerable tribe who dwelt in the neighbor hood. The lady seemed not to fancy any of these persons, but at last a young man came to offer himself, who fairly won her heart, lie was a chief, but of a small tribe and destitute of riches, lie was, indeed, brave, and a fa mous horsemau, but the father of the maiden wished his daughter to umke a more ambitious match. Thus affairs went on for some time, until, at last, the maiden, weary of the importunities of her lover, and the impatience of her lather, proposed 10 incuut a fleet horse, and having the start of half a mile, her lovers might pursue, end he who caught her first should have her. This arrangement was finally accepted by all parties. The preparations for the ehase were soon made, aud the tribe all around assembled to witness it. The maiden, whose name was Maoki, which means the Flying Deer, was mounted on a small black mare, of the breed of Mount Liberius, celebrated for their swift ness. Ibe Khan, whom I have mentioned as one of the lovers, was mounted on a horse of iron gray, of prodigious strength and vigorous ac tion. When ho moved, it seemed like the working of a machine of iron. His step was high, yet direct, and far reaching. All who saw him, said in their hearts that his ma.-tci would win the piizo. Maoki herself looked with dismay upon the noble animal and his proud rider, for, of all her suitors, she liked him the least. Nay, there was something about him so hard, dark and severe, that she footed, if she did not hate him. The.other lovers were variously mounted, but ait had selected the most famous steeds knowi. in the whole country round, for theii speed and endurance. The young chief favor ed by Maoki, and who bnic the name of La drone, or the Whirlwind, came on a milk-white charger, his eyes beaming with intelligence and fire, while his dilating nostiils seemed like two blazing coals fanned by the. will'' As he cauic i • HMftleU ouU„ j x- i-v fPy* TV;'" 5 * As bo passed near her, she said lu a low tone, "I shall be the bride of death or the Whirlwind!" This met no other ear but ilij. _ j The arrangements all being completed, Ma- j oki set forward; and soon reached tho point fix- | ed upon as marking the adrAQCS B be was to have ( in the race. At the signal for iLc S'*rL all , the lovers bounded away like the wind, 't Uo ; course taken by Maoki was over a livid plain stretching out for miles. Her fleet black mare, ■ with long silky mane and tail, laid herself down and seemed to fly with the wings of a raven.— \ Ou came the thundering band along Lor track, some piercing the air with wild cries, aud some j lashing their steeds with the kuout. Soon the : ehase was only to bo seen in the di-tanee, and ( fiu.illy they till seemed on the remote surface of I the plains, like insects creeping along the edge ! of the horizon. The spectators long watched the scene with intense interest. At last there arose a wild shout, "they are cowing," they are coming 1" It was indeed thetn. Maoki had wade a wide sweep on the plain, and having eluded her pur suers, was flying back as if to take shelter at the point of her departure. Swift as a hawk she came, her beast reeking with foam, and her nostrils seeming to be on fire. Close at her heals was the Khan and hi 3 iron gray charger, j Next came the white steed of Ladrone, spring- ; iug and gatboiing with the facility of a moun- j tain deor. Then straggling far behind, but yet j with desperate efforts, came the rest of the pur- i suers. Maoki approached the place of their depart- j urc, and a cry of applause burst from the .as sembled spectators; but all .voudered what she intended to do. Just as she catue close to the crowd, she touched the rein, and her horse shot like an arrow. Two bounds behiud was the : Khan, nnd close upon him was Ladronc. It j was a fearful sight. The horses were gushing j with blood at the nostrils, and each breath they drew was like the spleen of hail against the frozen cover of a teut. Suddenly a cry of horror burst from the crowd. Maoki was speeding directly toward the cliff that beetled along the shore of the lake. She was already at its verge. Another bound, | and she, with her horse, had disappeared.— ' They had gone over the cliff! Iu an instant j the Khan followed with his steed, and, almost I at the same moment, L*drone was lo3t to view, i The people hurried to the shore, and there they j saw a strong swimmer in the waters of the lake, I mounted upon his steed, and approaching the : land. It was the Khan, and he was soon safe : on the shore, but all beside had disappeared, | and were never seen since that fatal day.— -V. | Y. Mtrcury. ; RECENT EARTHQUAKE IN MEXICO- The following interesting accouut of the re cent earthquake in Mexico, is contained iu the despatch from cur minister to that country, Mr. Forsyth: "On the 29th ultimo the severest earth quake of the preseut century was experienced in this city, and as far as heard from, iu all parts of Mexico. I was walking in the street at the time, with Mr. Fearn. My first imptes sion was that 1 was seized with a sudden verti go, and upon stretching out wv hand to my companion for support, I found him waking ' the same motion. The falling of the people ' upon tlwtf knee*, their audible pray;rs, the vi- BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1858. olcnt slamming of the doors and windows of the neighboring houses, soon admonished us tliat it was a temblor of unusual violence. - VVc were arrested immediately under tho tall spire of the Convent of the Profeaa. Looking up, and finding it swaying to and fro like the inverted pendulum of a clock, we moved away from its dangerous proximity and paused in the middle of the street. Tho motion was so great that it was "not easy to keep one's feet, altho' bracing them apart and planting a eaue to aid them. The motion produced upou the houses has precisely tho effect of a sea-swell, the spongy seal upon which the city is built yield ing to the terrific phenomenon in a series of long undulating waves. It lasted a minute and a half, though not with the, greatest violence all (ho time, for if it had, not one of the mas sive walls of which this city is built would have been now standing. As it was, there is baldly a church that has uot been more or less dam aged; some have fallen, killing persons and an imals, while hundreds are only kept up by the props which liavc been applied to thoin. My own house Ins a crack in one of the inner walls, from the roof to the ground, while a seam is opened the whole length of tho Jlzotea. For several days all carriages were, prohibited iu the streets, lest some house should be sha ken down. .Several churches have been aban doned as unsafe. The palace is very much damaged. It appears to have been more severe on the Pacific than on the Atlantic slope, as wo hear of several village,? totally destroyed in that region. If Mexico had been built in the fragile stylo of an American city, it would now bo a mass of ruins. With all its massive walls, it has had a narrow escape. The earthquake was un acompauiod by any noises except ihc creaking of beams and stone walls, and the 'furious hanging of open doors and windows. The heavy masonry of the Chapultepcc aqueduct was broken and wasting the water in more than a hundred places within the space of a mile and a half. No living person remembers a movement of equal violence ai.J duration.— Houses which have stood uuscathed a hundred years, have opened their seams to the fury of this one, and indeed, after experiencing its ef fects, one is amazed to look around and s - 3e any structure of human bands standing." VARIETIES. ITF'Genliiity is said to be eating meat with a siivcr.Uiiii whop' ' 33r~The last rain showed one ludicrous sight —at attempt to crowd two fashionably dressed women under one umbrella ' say that the quickest way of de stroying 'weeds' is to marry a widow. It is, no doubt, n most agreeable species of husband ry. is reported that Queen Victoria is lo become a mother and grandmother iu the same week. Guclph and SaXu Uoburg forever ! is said that a man who is Lilflg does uot pay the debt of nature, but simply gets an extension. says bo once saw a father knock down his beloved son, and thought it was the most striking illustration of sun down bo ever beheld. Every rose has its thorn. I never help ed to shawl "the flower of a ball loom without being convinced, by painful evidence, that sho had a pin about her HIT s "When Sheridan was asked what kind ot wine he liked best, he answered —'Olhcr peo ple's'--There are a great many Sheiidans now [ a-days. j KPTt is generally supposed that the value of foreign coins is fixed by law, but such is nut the case. The coins of foreign countries are not a legal lender in the payment of debts, though they are taken at their valuation at the mint. Q2P"What are the four qualifications that fit a sheep to beeomo a member of the Jockey club ? Because he is bred on the turf, gambols iu his youth, associates with blacklegs, and is fleeced a: last. [CP*A letter passed through the Cleveland post office on Saturday last, superscribed as fol lows— 'ln lowa there resides Lovina Sharpie's fair, IT. r post office is at Spriugdale And she rides on the old gray mare. [TJ*"Tbe friends of a wit expressed some , surprise that with his age and his fonduo6s for tho bottle ho should have thought it worth j while to marry. 'A wife was necessary,' he said they began to say of me I drank too much for a single mau.' QGr"""VVhcn a stranger treats mc with want of respect," said a philosophical poor mau, "I comfort, myself with the reflection that it is not myself he slights, but my old and shabby coat and hat, which, to say the truth, have no par ticular claim to admiration. $o if my hat and coat choose to fret about it, let them, but it is nothing to me." Qjp'A Virginia paper describes a fence down there, which is made of such crooked rails that every time a pig crawls through ho comes out on the other side. A GOOD WITNESS. Did the defendent knock the plaintiff down with a malice pre tense I No sir he kuocked him down with a flat iron. You misunderstand mo, my friend, I want to ; know whether he attacked hiin with an evil in tent. Oh no air, it was on the outside of tho tent. No, no; 1 wish you to toll mc whether the attack was at all a preconcerted affair. No sir, it was not a free concert was a ciicus. INCREASE OF POSTAGE. One trf'-'-'ho boldest attempts to oppress the people, an! especially the people of tho North was inadedne last days of the late session of Congress, ;y,ilie Loccfooo mojority of the Sen ate to ifeusuase tho ratesof postage. The prop osition was to increase tho present rate of 3 cents to o and 10 cents, according to distance, aud the vote in the Senate, on this oppressive proposition was as follows; Yeas—-Slessis. Benjamin, Bright, Broderiek, Brown, Clay, Clingmau, Davis, Fitch, Gwiu, Hunter, tTehnson, of Ark., J hnson, of Tenn., Mullory, Uoarco, Polk, Rcid, Sebastian, Thomp son, of K}\, and Yulee. Nays--Messrs. Bigler , Chandler, Clark, Doolittlo, Douglas, Fosseuden, Foster, Ham lin, King, Pugh, Rice, Seward, Stewart , Wil son aud V-right. Hero, it will be seen, every man who voted to increase the rates of postage was a Demo crat; while every Republican present voted against ir, five Democrats only voting with them. f J he proposition to increase the rates was in troduced by Mr. Johnston, of Ark. An ap propriate commentary upon his scheme is af forded ly;tho following statistics, which are ta kentiotuta pamphlet by Pliny Miles, apon the subject of Po3tal Reform. The number of let ters carried annually in the five States of New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Ohio aad Illinois, is 68,608,590; the number carried in the Site Southern States is 45,921,521. The expenses of the P. O. De partment, in the first five na med f:fetes, are $3,171,433 Revenue derived from thein, 3,370,356 Excess .of Receipts over Ex penditure?, $198,923 Expense? in the Southern • State . $3,840,333 Revenue 1.555,723 Deficit -* $2,291,010 Ihe c.Jy Slave State which pays its own postage gpeoui.t in full is Delaware, which an nually pilars into tho National Treasury, under this head, the magnificent sum of oue hundred and seventy-one dollars! Now York and Mas sachusetts alcno pay $750,390 per annum for p- stage; their expenses for this object during the same period, amounting to $1,123,305. — Ihe Southern and Southwestern States pay for their r.fvylMti. M v——< # -■* amounts' t'o $4,318,780. It will thu3 be seen that all the Southern States pay less for pos tage than two Northern ones, whiio their ex penses are three times as large ! The actual cost of carrying a-letter in New England and ' New York, is one cent and throe mills; in the Southern and Southwestern States, six ccn's and seven mills; in Arkansas, eighteen cents and three mills. Herein, if wo mistake net, will be found the entire milk of the cocoa nut which wo have opened. A reference to the record of vcas aud nays, by which the propo i sition to raise the rates of postage was adopt ed, will show that every member from a self sustaining State voted against, and that every member from a pauper o'lfte for tiie amendment. It was very natural uL't Mr. Johnson, of Arkansas, should mike r-uch a motion, because the burden of the increase would scarcely fall, in any perceptible degree, upon bis own ignorant constituenlF, but almost entirely upon the laborers and mechanics of the Nonh, who arc already disproportionately taxed.— Gettysburg Star. Scotland YSt Montgomery County. An accident'has transpired within a few days ! which, while it is more than disgraceful, fur- i nishes a remarkable commentary upon the Tar iff pretensions of the Democratic party, and should open the eyes cf the woiliingmen ot Montgomery Bounty and tho eutirc Urate, to tho true policy of the present Administration. An appropriation was granted by the late Con gress to erect water works f"r the City ot Washington, and a large amount of iron pipe was needed for the purpose. A heavy house in this county, Messrs. Colwell & Co., of Con sboeken, applied for the contract, which we learn called for 6000 or7OUO tons of iron pipe j employing in its manufacture at a reasonable estimate, four hundred and scoenty-five men one year, and would have set in operation one or two of tho seventeen or eighteen furnaces which aro now lying idle upon the banks ot the Schuylkill river. It was reasonable to sup pose that with a son of Pcuusylvuia in jhe Presidential chair, that if his Administration even refused to grant us that protectiou which our groat industrial iu!ereots demanded, a feel ing of State pride would have prompted him to ' prefer the labor of Lis own State especially when brought into competition wiih foreign cap ital. To tho utter disgrace of the government, however, this contract, which would have fed and clothed from 1500 to 1800 men wr-men and children, hero in Montgomery County, for ' an entire year, has been given to a Scotch house ; and will be manufactured by subjects of the Queen of England, while our own workmen art starving! The Democratic Administration of James Buchanan, will import for govero : mcnt work, while nearly every furnace in his i own State is idle and deserted for want ot cu ! eourageraent —and yet Democratic journals will prate about the love of Democracy tor | Home Industry ! — JVonutown Defender, INDULGENCES. — Forty days' indulgence be ■ ing offered to all who visit a new Kotuan Cath ! olfc church, tho Detroit Advertiser says Tim ! Herald ought to have rooommondod the Presi ! dent and Cabinet—in fact the whaj# Lecrvto ' ton portion of the Locofoco only 1 this church during the Octaaee for Lecompton place on ca. t>.wbere h-'Tiis is the only author could bu hoped. &r above the earth, that would Uy on '■ t0 grant indulgence for the uiuaifold if Loeofocoisiu. BILL MONTGOMERY.— The Louisville Jour- > nal which copies Montgomery's letter to South, ordering the whiskey for Buchanan (who drinks nothing stimulating but old rye) says that Montgomery "turns out to be one of the poor est, abjccts, and most mean spirited creatures that win ever suffered to live." It adds : "he r.kali not undertake to comment upon such a letter as that. It? tone is that of a men dicant holding out his hat and asking for cop pers or of a slave begging piteously to be let off from the expected application of a cowhide. Wc hardly know which is the more disgraceful —the writing of the notorious Foley letter or the authorship of this Montgomery thing." Tho Milwaukie Free Democrat copies the letter and says : "The lion. William Montgomery of Penn sylvania, famous for his connection with tho Montgomery amendment to the Kansas bill and fur his subsequent shuffiiog and evasion on tho same measure, has been writing the most ab jv'.'t letters begging for a re-nomination to his present piaco. We give below a sample. A man who can stoop to such abject whining to beg an office should never be entrusted with one, as he will be very mro to use it only for his owu personal advantage. It will be noticed that he proposed to send only a Iccg of that barrel of rye whisky to the "old chief." The balance doubtless is required for home con sumption." Wc may add that the letter is going the rounds of the press aud excites comments like the above, everywhere. THE WAY TIIKY DO IT.— Tho leading De mocrats have a great many ways of abstracting money fiom the public treasury. If they don't ram their fists right into the cash up to their elbows, and take it up by the band-full, they adopt means just as serviceable in transferring it to their pocket p. We have noticed of lato many instances in jfci h the treasury was rob bed by swindling purchases and sales of prop erty. Here is another case iu which the im maculate Gwinn, of California, is involved: SENATOR GWINN, ANI> THE "LIME POINT*; *"*—'b*B.'l'Lft .H! n !!,. 1; e - uoifrt.ds sfOcnau>r ISwiuu, in .its advocacy or tho attempt tc induce the National Treasury to : purchase a barren tract of lar.d for fortifica tions at the entrance of the harbor of San Frat- ; cisco, for the sum of twobindred thousand dol- ; lars. "It was," says the Bulletin, very justly denounced iu the Senate by Mr. Fcsscnden as ' an outrage. If, a & that gentleman stated, it is j absolutely necessary to have a portion of this property sufficient to erect a fortification upon, ■ tho Government has power to condemn, aod ob- ; taia possession at a fair rate, and uot to sub- 1 mil to so gross au onlrage and exaction. Mr. i Broderiek stated that the whole ranch, on which Lime Point (which we understand is directly op posite Fort Point) is situated, is not worth §7,- | 000. It is our opinion that, if put in the mar- ' , ket iC-uiorrow, without tho prospect of selling the site mentioucd to the Federal Government, it would not bring $5,000." j Books of Account- No tbiiTty bnsiness man (says the Juniata Sentinel) neglects to keep an account of his ex penditures, and if he finds the figures enlarging front year to year, the fact makes ar. impression j upon his mind, if not aclsnge in his habits.— | The same course should be pursued by a naiiou. Comparisons may. be odious, but they are often salutary. For example it is not pleasant, though it should prove profitable, for us to know that the General Government has spent more than twice as much money last year as it did seven years ago. The following table exhibits the annual ex penditures during the last ten years, including the Administrations of Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, and Buchanan 1849—Taylor, $16.798 007 82 1850 —Fillmore, 42.506.892 11 1851 —Fillmore, 40,504.422 12 1852—Fillmore, 36 552.080 37 ISS3 —Pierce, 43 544.202 82 1854-Pierce, 51.018.249 00 i 1855 Pierce, 50-305.393 00 1856 —Pierce, 60.172.401 64 1857 Buchanan, 64.878.828 85 1858— Buchanan, 81.000.000 00 There is every prospect that the present Ad ministration will, upon its retirement, leave a legacy of one hundred millions of national debt. .: So much for the loud professions of economy which characterized Mr. Buchauan's inaugural ; address. THAT WHISKEY LETTER.— Some of the Locofoco papers have undertaken to deny the genuineness of the Montgomery-whiskey letter now goiDg the rounds; but the \\ asbington Re view, the organ of Montgomery, admits its -genuineness. The Brownsville Clipper says the whiskey ordered for Buchanan from South never react ed Washington City; it was all guzzled ij* West Brownsville. Let Montgomeiy order kog' for Mho old chief.' it ia ' Buck should get Ait tie t| ic Carlisle We coiy the foP* .WAFFA BRECKINRIDGE AND FREE „J?'vs —This was the insciiptioti on the Lo cofooo banner during the campaign of 1850, but for the next campaign, the inscriptions are to read, Montgomery, Buchanan and old Rye Whiskey. Tho HOD . Win. Montgomery, of the Wash ington district, who, for the sake of getiing a re-nomination, has sacrificed the position VOL. 31, NO ?2. held at the close of the late session of Congress, has found out the President's weak side, and is trying, therefore, to propitiate him, by admin istering a dose of old rye whiskey* It old Buck is fond of 'old rye,' wo hope his friends will keep him well supplied. lie ought to have a hogshead full. How THEY WERE REWARDED.— The follow ing items tell their own story—and a sad sto ry, for our country, it is, too. No wendcr tho national treasury is dcplctcJ, and that the Sec retary of that departmental the government, is in the market, among shavers and money leaders, asking for additional loans, in order tc keep the wheels in motion : ''Senator J. 0. Jones, of Tennessee, (old line Whig,) had a contract to supply 1,700 horsos, at $159 oach, which will make the neat sum of §2< 0,000. It is stated that the horses wero to be of a particular color and size, but when they arrived at Fort Leavenworth, they were fouud to bo of all sizes and all colors, hut wro nevertheless accepted. '•The brother of Hon. J. A. Aid, member of Congress for the Cnmberland, York, and Perry district, had a contract to supply for tho army 300 mules, at $175 each, making $52,- 500; also, an order for 200 frtai Russell and Majors, Government contractors, at the sarno priec, amounting in all to §*7,000. The kind of mules delivered could Lo bought readily at §l2O each. It is unnecessary to add that Mr, ALI voted for Lecoinpton, and is a candidate for re-election. "Some of the other members of Congress from the rural districts have been providing for their friends at the public exponse, in the way of contracts for barley, at fine prices." This is a strong chapter on Lecomptonirm, and in time will prove a millstone at the Decks of tho3e who compose the present administra tion. The Latest Hoop Story. Quite a ludicrous scene ocourred in one of tho churches of St. Catharine, C. W., a few Sab bath since. One of the largest kind of hooped females, after sailing up tho aisle in splendid style, without accident either to herself or the worshippers, attempting to enter a pew, but "squirms,"licks, squeaks,'and*contortions of the fair occupant, were unavailing to iß|ve the 'consarn.' The sexton —who is a eolored man —and one or two of the church officers, per ceiving her difficulty, humanely resolved to re lieve the distressed damsel*, bat n was no go— she could neither be got in or out, so firmly | was she wedged in. They tugged find pulled and heaved until the sweat stood in large drops on their foreheads, and went trinkling down ; their noses ia ar. beautiful manner as the oil ! ran eff Aaron's beard, and when the case ap peared too desperate almost tot relief, short of cutting away a good many teePbf the pew, the colored gentleman's face sudd#ly brightened up with an idea, 'Let's cant her, boss—let's cant her." and the poor thing, despite her ex postulation, was canted accordingly, amid a universal laugh from the congregation, and : thus was she relieved from her troubles. PERFECTLY COBSECT. —The Trenton Amer ica u remarks very justly that the opposition parly is withoat any politicul issuo to go bcforo the people.— Evening Argus. Is not Bcehauan a political issue? Is not his Cabinet a festering sore? Is not his army of office-holders a political cancer? Is not the Lo co Foco press a political pestilence? Is not the Treasury Department a dyspepsia? and is not Lcompton a gangrene? But these issues all belong to the Loco Focos. The opposition are thaukful to have none of this kind.— Daily *\"ews. 7 DONE WITH DE RIVIERE.—The public wiil be glad to know that the 'Riviere Scandal' is quieted, for the present at least. Mr. and Mrs. Blount and their interesting daughter sailed ou Saturday in the steamer for New Or leans; Rivieie has modestly retired from the too pressing attentions of his creditors; llunckc is found aud fined; Jersey and justice arc sat isfied; the puppets have left the stage, the play is over, and so ends the latest N'iue Days \\ on der. What shall be the Doxt nonsense? —7Vt bune. ' „ AN INSINUATION. — A fashionable doctor lately informed his friends, in a large company, that" he had been passing eight days in the j country "Yes" said ono of the party, "it has been announced in one of the journals.' "Ah said the doctor, stretching out his neck, very important, pray, in what '•Why, as well as I can is r.\ ly in the following— ..seven Inter - "There were last jyoe* menti, Jees than, the ! e>uid a little follow, as he look | lifts father's face: "papa, does the ) fogwood they put in wine give i; its red color." "Yes ceitainly." "Well; papa, is it the logwood iu the wine : that makes your noso so rod?'' i "Hush your nensenso, child there, Betty, : get a cnttdle and put this child to bed." John Nugent, Mr. Buchanan's Envoy Extra ■ ordinary to the Fraxer River gold diggings, is jan Irishman. How long he has been over we j are not informed, but we have an idea That '<" mission to the boys who have gooo for gol. 1 will not ainonnt to much, and wu . , ",u ni l. i surprised if ho should come hack w.th . > nified flea ill his ear.