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P p i j I f sCl J - -j-- , TlnlE iELfWT WW, : B. R. COW EN, EDITOR & PROPRIETOR,! "tit WWQ Mm NOT Hft Hi STTRY PAM Fffifl M fTr, "'" ' IM a,; wV-tiu LW1 Wi.li li v ,..,. LUVfi TERMS $1,50 A YEAR, IN AOYANCI NEW SERIES, VOL. VII, NO. 26Q ST. CLAlttSVlLLE, OHIO, Tfn RSDA Y APRIL 5, 1855, WHOLE NO oil THE BELMONT CHRONICLE- PunLifiiiro evkrv rmmiDAT MORNING, Office on North Ride of Mnin Strret in the Ifeiv Masonic Hull, n few doors Eat of the Court House, nnt a lew door West of the Norton fa House. tirm or BiiMcRif rioft. If Mill within three mounts, a n tl panl altar tliattiuie, Syjj rajart disCMtintiaa only at Um option of the rilitiir, Viols arrearage are due. ' Tr.mn OFAOvnftttOtno, MO, "if, (II lliiranr ItM, Hirer, week, tint Every ailililinutl InMrtlon, 'a-, early advertisements one column, 8'liiiii Halt column, M Ml Quarter enluuin, l"wi I'rtoSaainiial lar.U 8tl per annum. in. All Inters aihlresscil to ilia oilitnr must lis riaiil 10 raiire altenlinti.Ji' )l V'No paper ihecnntinne I until all arrcarac-es arc yaul aaicaa at tiie Dption nl tin- editors , , POETRY. A DOLLAR OR TWO. Wiih cautious step as we trend our way thtotioh, This intricate world as o her Rltki do, May we still on our journey lie aula to view Tito benevolent face of a dollar or two. For an excellent thing Is n dollar or two. No Wend is so true As n dollar or two ThrouL'h tommy or town, As w pus up anil down, No password so cood As a dollar or two. j Would ynu road yours-lf out of tlin bachelor's crew ! Andlhshanl of a pretty female sue. You must always be ready the handsome to do, j Although it would cost a dollar or two. Love's arrows are lipped Wi'h a dollar or two. And nOixlions are untHcd Wild a dollar or two. The beet aid you can meet In advancing your suit, Is the eloquent chink Of a dollar or two. Would you wish your existence w ith faith to imbue, I And enroll in the ranks of the tan (titled lew. To enjoy a i;.ind name and well cushioned pew, You must (reel come ('own will) u dollar ur to. 7'he gospel is preached For a dollar or two, And salvation Is reached I liy a dollar or two. You may tin tomuilmos, Uut the Worst of all crimes Is, to find youracli s'ioi t ( If a dollar or two. .. i MISCELLANEOUS. From Putnam's Magazine. LIVING IN THE COUNTRY. BY MR. SPARROWGRAS. "Wv have an invitation to a parly," said; 1 Mrs. Sparrowgrass, 'on Friday next, and I j 1 think u party is a very pleasant thing in the ; country. There is more sociability, inor.e ( ' hospitality, warmer welcome, less dress, and 1 1 lees style, than there It in the city." Herejr Mrs. Sparrowgruss handed me an. engraved 1 card ol ruiher formidable dimension's, which,' 1 must confess looked anything but rural. ) I took the missive with some misgivings, for 1 I have a natural horror of parties "I won- 1 der," said 1, in the most pluylul kind of bit- " ter irony, "wl ether we frill meel out here,'' tbtt young lady that never sings herself, but 0 is always so passic nato'y fond of iiiusit: '" 1 Mrs. Bparrowgraea said -ho thought notjsbe ! aid she heurd she was married, " "And that gentleman," I continued, 'a ho was a stranger, lo me, thut always wanted to u be presented to some young lady that I didn't " know!' il Mrs. Sparrow-grass said she believed he J '' had gone to California. 'And that lady who prized confectionary 1 above good-breeding, und went home with r her pockets well atuffud with mottoes, in 1 defianeu of the eighth commitndnient, und the 1 laws ui propriety!' I Mrs. Sparrow grass suld she knew the la- a dy to whom 1 alluded, but she assured me -lit was yet in New York, and had not been ' aopn about our village. . I 'Then,' suid 1,'Mra' Sparrowgrass, -.ve will r go to the party. I'm niy best shir, und the1 ' white waist, oat in Monday'! Wash.' Never mind expense Oetme acr.uinb of bread.and 1 bring me my old white gloves. 1 um going I to be gy. ' i 'I Ibiok,1 said Mrs. Spnrrowgrnss, 'that a ' parly in town iswthing bu'. un embairass- ' euent.' "True," said I. i 'Don't you remember," said site, 'what a fuss 1 used to make ubout getting my hair l' fixed, mid ho.v put out I wus thut night when 1 you forgot the jsponioal' 'Certainly.' 'And then, when wo were all dressed and 1 tesdy, how we used to wait lor fear ol'Jget- ' ting there too early, und after we did reach ' the. house, how we always got inn Corner, 1 and made happy tvull flowers of ourselves, ' and some old Irieud!' 0 M "Of course 1 do:"' I 1 'Where nobody took any notice of us!' " 1 'Exactly.' 1 'Then what difference did it make how 1 1 was uresscd whether I wore Honiton luce!1 or cotton edging!' 'I am afraid,' said I, 'Mrs. Sparrowgrass.if you had made a point of wearing cotton lace you would not have boen invited.' At this palpable double entendre I felt that secret sat isfaction which every man must feel when lie hss said a good thing. It was lost upon Mrs. Sparrowgrass. 'Here,' she continued, 'we! expect a simple, old fashioned entertain ment,' Then I chimed in 'No gaa-lighls to make your eyes ache no patent leather to make your feet ache no fusaionabla lollies to make your heart ache and no oterheat et, ill-ventilated rooms, boned-turkeys, game, ice-cream, C'narluttc Kussc, pastes, chum pagne, and chicken -aolad, to make your head aclie next morning.' 'There will bt oysters) and ice-crentn'1 said Mrs. Sparrow grata, du-' IblrrtWljr, 'I wish,' said I, 'there una a prot I peel r apples and cider instead. The mo , mailt I gel inside the doors, and breathe the mingled minis of oysters und geraniums, it will carry me bark to town, ai d for one eve ning, at lest, ! shall forget that we are living in the ciuntry. J -mild be content. To see no o h -t verduio than its own; To leal no other brtalea than ara blown Though iis tall woo Is.' j but we must succumb; we will go like plain, j sensible people, won't we!' 'If you were me, what would you wear!' suit! Mrs. Sparrowgrass. 'Something ery plain, my dear.' Then,' naid Mrs. Sparrowgrass, 'I have ! nothing very plain, suitable lor a party, and tomorrow I must go to town and do a little shopping.' 't am afraM.' said I, fnfter the second day's huid shopping in town) -your dress is going to be too plain, r.iy dear. Every hour brings u fresh boy, witn u rrnh bun lie, and a Iresh bill, to my office." Mrs. Sparrowgrass said, 'that if I thought to. perhaps she had heller get Mini. .thing expensive when she went to ' buy li e trimming" I tlld her I thought I hertl.es.- Would do without trimming. She said it would b ridiculous wllhout (ilmp or galloon, but perhaps I would prefer velvet rib bon, un account of the BoUnOetl' I told her ! ah had better get the velvet ribbon, and o- I mit the gimp and galloon. M s. Spnrrow graas said, "r, ry well;' and the m St day an-1 other hoy brought mother bund e, and inuth- ' er bill, whleh convinced um ibit exir.ts fonn ' n important item in rural arohitecture 1 1 1 Den we had a dres maker lor several d.iysl 1 and the atltchlpg went on by sun-light andp lamp liht, and on the last day Mrs. S. dis- ! ' covered that ahe had nothing lor her he id, II and ihe new bonnet was taken to pieces to ! I get at the leathers lor a coiffure. Then when j I the ni,;ht fell, there fell, too, a soaking rain; ! t and 1 hud forgotten the curriage, 80 I was o-1 8 bliged to go a mile in the mud to order one 1 t Irom the village livery stable. Tiien I had : I to walk back, us the man said "it was out;" j f but he promised to send it lor us right olroight g off. Then I d lo get dressed over again , ' Then Mrs. Sp irrowgraia could 1 ot find her " beat handkerchief, and 1 dropped live spsr- ; I maccti biotchea on Ihe new silk dress look- ' Ing lor it. Then she found the hank. ri hief. t Then our girl said that the new d g had run off with 0110 of my boots. Then I bad to go ' out in the mud in my slippers after the dog. !h rhen I gut the boot und put it on so as to ff make that sure. Then we waited for the; 'I larnuge. We were ail dressed and ready n jut no carriage. We exercised all the pa-' p ience we could muater, on account of the b :arnage ,und listened ut the windows to see , ft f we could hear it. Two months have e-p speed, and it hasn't come yet. Next day j tl Vl heard that the party had bren tn elegant! a ift'.tir. That everybody was there, so that m ve Concluded the carriage had not been able 8' 0 c into lor us on account nl business. j ill I have bought me am titer dog. I bought! bi 1 ni on. a. c nint o li s line 1 mg eara,and beau-) ful silky Mil. He is a pup, and much ca-1 eaaed by th 1 young ones. One day he went fflo the butcher's and came back with no!pi nore tail th in u toad. The whole bunch of , oung f.parrowgraeaea began to buwl whenl e reached the cottage, on account of hial0 all. I did not know him when I came homo: 1 nd ho could not retogniaa ma he had lost of is organ ol recognition. Ho reminded meQU la dog that looked as if he hud been where, hey wanted utail merely, and hail taken his, 1 ' nd thrown the dog away. Of course I took , of iv stick, and went lo see lliu butcher. j 'fn lutcher said, "he suppose.! I weeomettling he f a dog-fancier, and would like to see my '0 og look stylish." I said on tie contrary, i ul I had bought him on account of his and.-oiue silky tail, and that I would g:ve I'n dollars to have it replaced. Then the lea ol having it replaced st-euud so ludic-j'' ou that I could'not restrain u smile, audi 1 hen the butcher oaug'it the joke, and aaldl, berg wus no way to do it except with fresh i nitty. 1 do love a man that can enjoy a joke u I took a fancy to that buteher. When I e" ;ot home and saw the dog, I thought less ol " he butcher, but I put a piece of black court- j duster on Ihe dog, and it improved his appli ance ut once. So I f rgavo th-but' hei and vent to bed at peacjwith all mankind. 1 lore to lie u h. d in these autumnal morn ngs, and see the eurly sunlight on those . trim old palisades. A vast stretch of rock, aunt and grjy, is not it cliearfnl view from he south window Shut your eyes lor a ew iniuutes, and now look. That faint red loroiee, reaching rougn-casl aiong the rug fed lops, ten miles or more, trom C'lostt r to PiUietedlem, is not unplatureaque. An i ul boegh we have not the odor ot srri"i! Hluc-i ! 11. d summer root's, breathing throutrh the ( .vindows, yet there is something not less de- j iglttlul to the sense in this clear frosty at nvapbere. Below, the manycolored wood . hat bourgeon on ihe sides seem to reluin the rerdurt of eurly s;iring in those cool depths . )l shadow. As the sunlight broadens on the . rage, the Illusion disappears, ami we beho d nice more li e briliian't vagaries of Vegetation .he hectic hints of yesterdty. I wish Ken- j lett could see that pure blue sky und yonder nelaaoboly sloop on the r.ver, working In r . pas age down with bricks from Haveistraw, J" ind a suil like an expanded rose leaf. It is 1 pleasunt thing to wutcb the river cruft in ;hesc autumnul mornings. Sometimes we tee 11 w hite-breasted covey aomUW UP 111 ''e ilataaee from shore to shore a sptead of di mity. II to and there are troops o( shining one with warm illuminated wings, and oth er' creeping along in s iaduw with spectral V pinions, like evil spirits. Yonder schooner is not an unfair image of humanity; beating up against adverse winds with one black ind One white sail. That dogged old craft, just emerging from obscurity into sunlight, is but ) a l pe of some curmudgeon passing from pov erty to atDjeuce, and there is another, evi di'iilly en the wrong tliok, scotching away . 'r un ' lie light of prosperity into the gl om of MUforluae? i do not love the country I J less because of her teaehingt by these sim II Symbols. There are many things lo be learned Irom watching the old wood-sloops on ihe river. Our neighbor has been making an improve ment in his house. He has had a drain made in the kitchen, with a long earthen pipe end ing in a cess-psol at the end ol his garden. The object of il is to carry off Ihe saperflu. ous water from the house. It wag a great convenience, he said, "on wash days." One bjeclion might be urged, mid Ihat Wee, alter every heavy rain, he found a gully in his gar den palh, und several cart loads of gravel in his cess-pool. Besides, ihe pipe was of an cqunl width, and one obstruction led to ano ther; sometimes il was a scrubbing-brush, a piece ol to'.p, snil a handkerchief, I raid lhat if he had made a srpia.c wooden trough, gradually widening from end to end. it wo'd have c. eared itself, oud then I thought it would be u good thing for m to have sin h u one irijlf. Thou I bad u ceaaMMl built at the bottom of the wall, under the bunk, which is about one hundred and fifty feet from the kit. hen, and told my carpenter to make a trough of ihat length. Carpenter akcd me how big I wanted ii !" u.ld him about right inches in diameter at the end nearest' 10 ihe heme, mi l then gradually Widening II the way for the whole length. As I said this, my carpenter smiled, and said he never beard of suc h a thing. 1 told him no, lhat the itlea was an original one of my own. He laked me how much I would like to have it Widened, I thought lor 11 moment, and said 'about half an inch lo a lout " He (aid Vf ry tell, and the nesl week became wi'h two lurset and an edifice in his e.urt lhat looked , ike a truncated shot tower. 1 ueked him vhat that Waal He said It was thu big end ny pipe. When he laid il on the ground on Is side. I walked through it, and could not ouch the upper side with my hand. Then eked the carpenter w hut he meant by it. ' nd he said it wus according 10 directions. I aid not at all, that I told him to increase I he diameter at the rate of half an inch to ' , he foot, and he had made it about a foot the not, as near as I could judge. "Spurrow- i , rass," said he, a little nettled, "jtst take our pencil und put down eight inches." . Well, that's the diameter ol the small end, ' ( believe!' I told the carpenter ho Was right i . 0 fur. Now, for every foot there is an in- t reuse of half ar inch in the Widththat's uc- ( nrding to the directions, loo, ain't it!' 'Yes.' j tV'ell (hen put down one hundred ai d fifty L all' inches, how much does lhat nuke, alto- g ether in feet!" Six feet eleven inches L low,' aeid he, jest you take my rule, and1,, it'iiiiire the big end of that ore pine. JC'ar-' p enter,' said I, ! see it all: the next time 1 uild an aqueduct I will be a little mine cure- v 11 111 the figures.' .Spurrowgruss,' said he,' oiutiiig to the pipe, -did not you tell roe a lat wus an originul idea of your own!' I H is.- tied ahM i bctic-rcit I i 'i s.k. . -.,. ark of that kind. 'Well,' said he, with a ,, irt of muthV'd laugh, 'tint is the first time t at I did s,-e a original idee come out at the gend." jf Washington's Opinions. It may not be umiss at the present time, to iblish some of the opinions of General 1 'asliinglou, upon the prop riely ami policy! appointing foreigners to office. The fol.J wing, are taken from Spark's publication' the Washington papers. s they all in Icafe sound and just doctrine, and such as e ight be expected from one whom the tongue I calumny dare not touch, und one who was, C st in war, first in peace, ami first in the 8 arts of his countrymen" Th"y are as fol- 1 9 vet MORRISTOWN, May 17th, 1777. lo Richard Henry Lee, D.tar Sir: I lake L liberty to ask you what Co gress ex- u cts lam lo do with the many foreigners ll sy have ut different limes promoted to the 'ti nk of officers, and iiy their last resolve two 1 d that ol Colonel. These meis have no at. 1 n .-huieni to tin? country, farther thun inter- b t binds them. Our officers think it ex- 1 y 'inely bard, uller they have toiled in the a nice, and huve susluined many losses, to g ve strangers put over them, whose merits, rhupa,are not epiul to their own, hut whose s. fruntcry wl.l take 1,0 denial; it is by the u al and activity ol our own people that ihe c use must be supported, and not by a few h ingry udrenturers. I am. Sic. t. G. WASHINGTON. Vol. IV p. 432. t I MIEDLEBANK, June 1, 1777. To tlie same You will, before this can ach you, have seen Muntleur Decendary ; ! hat bis real expectations were, 1 do not 1 1. now, but I tear if his appointment ie etuui'y 1 what I have been told la his expectation, I w ill be attended with unhappy consequeit-; is, 10 say nothing of the policy of entrust-) ( gthe department on the execution of which I u e salvation ol the army depends, to a for- ( gner who has no other tie to bind him to , ie interests of the country than honor. 1 c outd beg leave to observe that ty pulling s . D. ut the head of the artillery, you will j , jc a very valuable officer in G.'neral Knox, j -ho is a man of great military slanding.Hound I n ilgment and clear conception, he will re- u gr. If any one is put over him. . I am, &c. G. WASHINGTON. [Vol. IV. d. 446.] WHITE PLAINS, July 26, 1778. To (jov. alums, ,sq Dear air: 1 he de- c gn ol this is to touch cursorily upon a sub- , ict of very great importance to the well-be- j ig of these Slates; much more so thun will ppeur at first view. I raran the appnint lent ol to many foreigners to offi:e of high ink und trust in our service The lavish manner in which rank hashilh rto teen bestowed on these gentlemen will ' erlainly be productive of one or the other ' .f two e vils either to make us despicable 1 11 the eyes of Europe, or become a means of ' muring them in upon us like a torrent, and ' iddinrj to our preaenl burden J But it is neither the expenn- o- troub'eo them I must dread; there is an evil more ex tensive in its nature and fatal in ill ( nnae quencet to be apprehemed, and that is tin driving of our offi'trsoit of the service, ant throwing not only our own srmy but our mil ilsry councils, entire'y into the hands of for eio-oera. PHILADELPHIA Nov. 17, 1794. ie junn Auims, vie, president nf tin U S , Deal Sir; 5Iji opiiion with respect it Integration is. thai except of Uteful ni'-chon ic and some ptrliculsr description of met tnd pru'essiont, ttere ii no use of eneouf agement. I ni.fiie., G. WASHINGTON. MT. VERNON, Jan. 20, 1790. 1 o joiiii c AUiini, American M nieier si Berlin Sir, You know, my good sir, lhat i' is not the policy of this Government to em ploy foreigners wlntn il can well be avoldet either in 1 ie t vn Kaailitary v.-slks of life There ie a-p'jcft(aeelf imporiance in al foreign Inci rs ihtanhet be gratified with out doing inj list left, meritorious character, among our own chmtryincn, who conceive, and justly, Where here is no treat preponde rance o1 etperlrnle or merlt,that they are en titled 1 1 all the (It act in the gill of llteir Go vernment, lam, &c G. WASHINGTON. o.iuie 1, ne 10 a ereigm r applying I 11 ntu ta Dear Bin t i tt not accord w ith Ihe pol icy of this governnvnl to bestow offlcet, civ il or military, up-n foreigners, to the exclu- s on ol 1 ur owi. e leans, Vhkm. . G. WASHINGTON. WAR DEPARTMENT, Feb. 4 1799. instructions oltbe Secreiury o: War lo the Inspector Gcieral, for the ctvary. t .r the regolatfont rtstrict the recruiiing otlic ta lo engage none avcepi natives for this cor, , and those only v ho from their known t-hsr-icter and fidelity may be trustfd. The officers, my der sir, on whom yoi must depend ful fbe defence of this cause listingtiished by length of service and mili tary merit, will not submit much, If any I011 ;er to the unnatural promotion of men oer hem, who hat e nothing more then a liitle llaueibllity, unb'iunded pride und ambition, md u peraeveranct in the application to iup lort their pletensionai not lo be resisted but iy uncommon firmness, men who. In the list instance, lei) you they wi.-h lor nolh ng more th..n the honor of serving in so lorinus u cause as volunteers, the next day olicit runk without puy; the day following ant money advanced to them, and in course f a week want further promotion, The eX ediency anil policy of the measure requires 3 be considered, an.l whether it is consistent ritb justica or pru ence to promo'.e these lilitary fortune hunters at the hazard ol our rmy. Iloron Itiicuben, I low fn-d is alsu mntlng to quit tit inspectorship for a com ssssoat)a ' , 'Jiiio will he oroductive f much discontent. In a word, although I hink the Baron an excellent officer, I do lost devoutly wish that we had not a single o eigner among us, except the Marquis do j'ltuyette, who acts upon very d.fferent prin iples from those whicii govern the rest. idiru I um m st (incerelv vours. G. WASHINGTON An Interesting Letter. f.very reader, we doubt not, Will agree ri h us ihat Ihe subjoined let,ter is not only 11 intereating 01. e, but ihat the concluding antenceof it makea it a .remarkable one. t is an exact copy f a letter written by ieneral Win field Scott, then a captain in the rmy, during a sojourn at his home in Peters urgh. Va , on the 18th of June, 1311, ju-t lie year before tiie declaration Ol war. Tiie -iter was undressed lo an old Irieud in this ity. and is najy4u possession of the son, J. 1, Edwards, Ei-q. Great events make great ICR, It seems to have been the purpose ol ie young so.'dur to leave a service of inac on and return to the law. Wc are left in .-ubt whether' he would have become ns re owned ul tilt) bar us lit basin the field; but, a tha'. us 11 may, war soon followed, und the oung captain, by a course of service micx inpled in biiiliuncy and duration, has risen :ep by slep in the career of distinction, until t the end of forty-four years he finds him elf, on Ibis vein rated anniversary, crowned nil the hlgJieat military honor which the luntry can bestow. Truly has he "written is history will) his sword," 11 history tree oin a stain and which every American may r.id with prid--. Ininmniftlis fnlijet lioit'jri-us. THE LETTER. PETERSBURG, June, 1811. "I be ieve wc huve very little village news . give you, nor e'o I know whalwould pleuse oU lit mat 1 "Ol ' mi, m If that personage who fills so irge a space in every man's own Imagine ion, and so tn.ull a one in the imagination I every othor 1 cun suy but little perhaps iss would pleise you more. Since my re urn to Virginia, my time has been passed in asy transitions from pleasure to study, from tudv to pleasure; in my guyt-ty forgetting he sttident,Jiu thestudeut forgetting my gny ly. I have generally been in the office of iy friend, Mr, Leigh, though not unmindful I 'the studiel connected with my present iFofeeaion, but you will easily conceive my nililary urdot has suffered ubutemeiit. In cetl, il is my Jebign, us soon as circumstances vill permit.tolhrow the leather out of my cap ,nd resume iin asy hand. Yet, should war ume at last, my enthusiasm will be rekin lied; and then who knows but thut I may et write my hiatory with my sword! WINFIELD SCOTT. EDWARDS, Esq., Washington." To NAKcfiEMox DRors. Grate three !em ns, with ailargc piece of loaf-sugar, then icrspe the Sagai inlo a plate, ond add ha f a .easpooulul vf flour; mix well, and beet it in to a light ofkte, wiih thi white of an egg; irop it upon w hile paper, and 'put il in a moderate ui tn, on a tin plate. f Tin. Battle rut.n el the ..10 (llano A eorretpo'ndent nf the v. o. Pitari'ni ' writing frm Brownsviik In F' bruary list ! Iati I I have just returnee from a vis ; lo Ihe battle p,on, ds of Pt'o AUo and R--ci ,i Is Peine, but SCareely a reatige remains to denote Ihose fields which res' und so much to the gallantry tf our regular army. On the . fofnrrr field a cannon bull is Otcaatoitally pirked tip, which Ie the only indication that It was ovi r used, except for the peaeelol purpoaea of grating the largt herds which ut preaen' roam irter it. At ihe (leasee de la Patina the faint 0 -lines of the ri-doubt winch ihe Vefieena oc cupied on the west bank t t the R. ..ca are ; s,till visible, but so overgrown with brush and , umlerg-owih that they can rOarC'lf be lo'. . lowed. One Or t tie ireeattll sli .wmaiks I of the strife, and a few shrrds ol cloth, oid times ind an occasional battered CtntCtn are I also to be found in t1 e Chaparral j but ihero , It nought else to ahowthat hero wee Ihe 1 scene of the in t closely contested liuts of the war, where bayoneta w , r 0 ten eroased, and w here har d to hand bVhts w ere frequent as the scutteretl combatatita met beneath the shade tl -..!( .. i.-.i mimosa or amidet the tu nglt d brt ahWood Oid Fort Brown, where the first hoatilo cannon w as (in d. although in ruins, ia an object of much liitereeti I s magtiuea are tumbling in, itsnitches are filling up and the curtains, flanks and faces of its bastions are . crumbling a way 1 till it could Oaaily bo put in (Lining order should the Conduct "i our 'M x.can neighbor.-- Btabe it lieeesaury. This fori, together with n W Port B-o.vu and Brttwnsvine, lakes ' its nsmn Irom the gallant Major Jacob Brown, who tell mon al ly wounded in its defenee. He was struck by a cannon ball on the Othot May, but lin gered until 9th, w hen he expired w ith the distant booming of the guns on the field o ' Resaca de la Pulma, ringingjin his ears. He ws8 a moat gallant and accomplished officr, and hid he lived would have played an im portant pari in the war. His reply, while. , lying wounded, to the summons ut the Mex ican Generul .o surrender the Fort, is worthy of being remembered: "1 shall never snrren- der it," was his answer, "so long as there is ; 11 man left to w ork the guns," lie wai I111- ried within tht walls he so gallantly defe.ideJ, btitw hen it was sbai doned, I ia remaina were 1 j removed lo ihe new fort, some 300 yards I above the ola one, and deposited at the loot Jollhe flag-ataff,where each day the sume sta:s 1 I and siri pes under which he fell wave over,' i his humble grave. Alongside his grave jl . observed a liny mountl, and upon inquiry found that it contained the remains of one, I of his grandchildren. Major Brow n has left 1 but two tor- iing children, both daughteit, I and married to officers of '.he army. By a j 1 singular coincidence, botii have been -reaid- ( 1 ing at tills post for several years past. Mutamoras remains unchanged, ailuulugH the marked Want of eneroy in the Mexican people as compared with their Anglo-Saxon neighbors. Scarcely a single new building has been erected since the cify was evacuu tetlTry the American Army. Tha blanketed ' citiiena lounge on the corners ol the st eets, ' nioking 1 therr eigaretteot ani-epeeulating on the next rcvo utioni or aramb -ing" ihe barhari inaol the North, as they have done (lie las; p,utrteruf a century. CoN'iRECSlOSAL MoBALITr. The Louls-f. Viile J unial relates Ihe following! We were infinitely amused throe or four 1 weeks ag t by a practical j oka in Washington Ciiy upon it number of nice men ol Congreee. 1 w as loo good lj be lelt unpu -I a led. A couple of merry fell iwt, one of them a j iliatinguisbed member of Coogresa from 1 Southern Slate, and the uther, a distinguished . ex editor from Kentucky, concocted a letier.; purport i ng to be addressed by a young l idy- to a Very fine looking gentleman. It ws got up In firai-rate atyic. Tho pretended young j 1 lady set forth there 'u thai she had several i times seen the gentleman she Was address- ing, lhat she w is captivated by his fine face ( and manly form, that her heart waa deeply louche. I by all aha saw ami heard of him, thai she ntusl make his acquaintance beloro bis departure Irom the city, ihut ihe had ; iptd 1 and preyed be would forget her aeemlng'bold- 1 Hits us it was I lie first imprudent act III er life, 'bat the had a w ays moved in tlld high, el circles of the Capitol, that s e would be t n a certain square of a t ertain stret ctjpie ise Iy 1J o'clock un the lollowjng 'iy In a ' dres. which the deacri bed with great par en- ' larliy, and lhat she hoped and iruited he w ould meet her and ihus ff..rd her an ojijior- ' ! tunity of a brief intercourse with ihe 'Jul ul her heart, The wigs had between ihiiiy' and forty copies tl tins letter wlMn hv "11 femilj fricol of theira, and liter sent these eopiee lo between thirty and forty members of Congress, selccling theat of coursu who were known to entertain a very, exalted opinion of their own personal fast i- netione, Everything being thus arrangeJ, the two jokers culled upon us and another young gen tleman, explained whal they had dune, and invited 11a togtl into their carriage, ride , with them to the point of assignation, and see the sights. We unnceitatingly content ed, and we ;-aw sights sure enough. Riding UDOO the designated square, we beheld the I whole ol the thirly or lurty members, North- . ern men and Si tnhern men. Whig.-, Demo crals, and Know -Nothings, walking to and fro, all gazing earnestly in every direction and at every female figure lo discover the ob ject of tbeif anxious search. We concluded, that, if a few more copies 1 of the letter had been sent to members of the House ol Representatives, the House would have had to adjourn for the want of a quorum. , A VEBV MCE I'LAIN Rice Puddino. Take half a teacupm! of the be.t rice, put ii.'iu a small e,ie-diah with throe tahlespnoijfula of moist sugar. Fill up the dish with tniik and water in equal proportions, and bske very slowly , It cap. be rate 11 cold, J From the N. Y. Observer. LETTER FROM GRANT THORBURN. WRITTEN ON HIS 83D BIRTHDAY. Winsted. Conn. Feb. 18, 1855. mt. rnnteti rnia tat I enter on my e :-l ly.i. id year. RgCPpt the) my bearing ami sr. ing me not to Bl ute, ( um not II Bti ble of 1 ny mav-r al decay for the a( fi iv y, an During that fe ad, I have ba n on Iy one d.iy , ndned o 1 1 Itouee i,y ilchm ss; G lodn-as and mercy n e rellowcd ma .i thedayso: my li" : I awe tne giv, r of u i g -od a large debt of gruti'u . Ami a- here is but a al,-j between nc and death I ue it 10 gei traUeOS yel to c me, to tell what I saw and hi aru ot Tlo.inaa Prt M, Perhape ciice Keen r.o: a m .n on e irlh, who traced bin fr.,111 ii a ( rnrtl- to his grove, except Hyotlf, f'srver and I were f DowUborera in ihe same shop. Paine avl Cefver were bun. in the same town in Bog and , Pa ii- and I boarded with Ctreee, I OMei. beam Carver, h't w Ie, snd i'a.i. -, i.a We four sat hy tin ire on a A n er night, ie- bterea tne kerne ol nis i f -, l think i,c w it the worst member of th body pel:! c I near Matin all my journey through die. Hem.--ried a rrepecteble I dy, wlu died eleven no mi' s thefeOtter, in cons quer.ee o! rutal tr almei.t. He then unrr.e , a el it.gbte.- of the Co.l.ctor 1 the Poet ol Lewis) a.ier Ukree y,-are ahe obtargjM a tjfurce for iik treatment! In 1773, while be held an 1 Oca m the Cut 1 tom 11 rUse, (glvM him by his 1st! er-in-law.) h W is d t cted in Uknig bribes from t ie 1 emugglere, tnd fl-d to Ameri. a He w is 1 mode S'-c t-oy lo the pr c ,ie Comtl) t re ol i Congreat, i,d lo k an oath of 1 ffi .- lo k' p 1 their seer. t. He broke thil oath by r!;vul- g ng tho project of a Cecret mission :o the Court ot Franco ',y Silas Dean. He v.s ( diemietcd with diegraee. S.e ;ii J ur.ial t of Congress in 1774 or j ) T!r treachery ; wat the cause of much trouble in Congreaa, 1 and in tho Court of Louis XVI. ( We next find him in Paris, helping R ,b I esp'ene in 1,'s labors of love l eatabl -Ii the r freedom ol the Pies, and the right ot sp"ech. t by meant of tha guillotine. He quarrelled with R bbie, anJ was chalked lor the guillo t t.ne. Gjd, willing to make the wra'li ol i Paine to preiae Him, aent an angel wl.o de- 1 livered him cut of prison. 'For particulara I nf this miracle ,aee the Life of Th rbum, lOlat t P'?ft) Is In 1801, when KingThotpaa the First ast tended the throng ot nis kingd m, he In ttot-1 v ly deapatehed a national frigate to convey to ! a jur snores the venerated Thom ia Paine. lie I irrived early iii the year 1802, spoke with lim at the Cit; Hotel, Bowery, a few hou's ifler his arrival. He found letters urging lim on to Washington, (then a facr day's " numey.) He started 11 xt morning. At l UtorgetoWn a inessencer was sent lor.vsrd " to announce hit approach! a least wa. goi -ready, and a. I thoae of like 'h:nk ng were rited. Paine entered late, ?i!s trr' D id, hit beard unsborn, and rei ing ine a dru - 1 Itc-n man. A look of coinatefnation si. ne 1 forth from evi-ry face; mirth eeat i; ne ht' tnethay went ou', leeving Pain aim e on ' i i ciair last asleep. X xt ,1 ,y he re a ved 2 e tera and ina'.ructiona to r torn te New f,,rk. , t! W . 11 Aan n Burr return .1 from E jr ipe, vbither he hai fl -J after his duel with 11 U- 1 I'on, he kept his office ii X -sail street, e:'r ; ' ny seed store. From him I received .i.e ac-. ' Wont as ah.ive stated. 1 " Paine, on hie return, aa enable ti t odginge. Carver to jk imn in tor old r.c h juaioUnca suke. lie died at Greenwich, of -1 Iviiriuui tremona, in ISOD. n To ivturu Irom this oil Infilel to myse!',)'' air n .v ne-r the end o' my journey. It ia - 1 eoineiience worth noting thut ou the IStbi' il A, oil, 1734. I first sail d trcm Sco'l nd.j" ind on the 13 h of April, Lb."j4, I first enter- -id m;' dwelling in this place, being sixty I' -ears Complete. The y ird ol my dwelling is 1 h leparated irom the Preabvteritn cbureb and ta place of skulis by u loooe. If it so w ills ' leaven, here my bonvs w ill rcet "till time e thall be no more." c The partner Whom God bee given me, it a P ight to my paih m.ik.ug smooth my tra k o the Banki of Jordan. She imti, ' known be t)cr iptures from ber youth op." A thank ' ul heart compl t s my happ'uesa. I was 11 lorn It th February, 1778, Y. u a. &?. ,P GRANT THORBURN. UeRDcae tn the RoTal Kamilt or Rut- , iIA Wr extract the following interesting .( icoount ol muadre In the it y . l' .ini y ol B'i-iia, (run the Philadelpb a Ledger. Tne Srtt aurroise, on the annonnceaientof , ihe d. ath of the t zar, was that ht h id fallen 0 a victim lo some conspiracy. Titers would t reem, however, lobe no trmuds for this t oapician. Yet the almost univertal ouapi-1 . sion ol murder was nut extraordinary, wh ;u it is considered how 11 any of the royal III 0 ( Russia have died forcible deaths. What . with the dissensions among (lie Imperial , family, and wbal with the t'ooipiraciea 1 n. ihe pari 01 li e nobility to remove an 1 bnox- . ions Ctar.no t'yna-ty ofdviflBeJ riiicca ims ever s t.ll't r- so much from the tleel and , -ord, since Ihe days ol Ihe Roman CtesTs. ralleyi-omi's famous definition uf the chara tt er of ihe Russian Government, lhat it wns -u despotism tempered by attatsluation," as be true na it wee witty, 01 rather, siat ( viuy because of its truth. During t lie eor icr period nf Czarisin, nearly every emperor lestioyed tomo rival or was himselt e'e.troy , td. Even in the last century, the mu d r of 1 Russian prince almost, universally attended , r precedec the acressinn of a new monarch o the t r Be, The blot dy drama w as o en id by a father killing hit own son, and closed f iy a sou consenting to the murder of bit j ether. r Tha incident to which we first ollude, wss ;be secret rxeculioi' 'of ADxis, on'. -tn of j Pe'er the Greet, by rrJer of his father, A, D., 1713. Tha Prii c waa bo' ill) to 'be new measures introduced, by the Cja' lav.-r ii-glhe old Boy. t paily, wh. h tdhtre c the ancient usurps and eusloiua bl h a 11 - . try. For this t'eler reiulved to dts aht-iil ( l im. AlexV, knowing what thit meant, fled a'r-a,!. but b-ing discovered, aa dragged back to Riiisit, compelled to ren-mor tho auci eai on, tried b a-erei judges, an.l barba rt usly 1 t lo death. The next great tragedy Which Occurred in the itemmofr family, waa Ihercut erofPeterihe Third, by direction n hit wife, who Immttlately ssremied the ;' .one aft Catherine Ike Second. Thit wooi tu celebra dn eaa for .hcr profligtta life than foi li-, political griiius. was the grand mother of Nlchelte. Her itMrumnt in the iia isinaiion of her hnaband waa Pilneo a I aile 'iri fi, one of her paramooea, 0 man of B -ri,:' s atatore, U lobtequentiy enbletJt '"-i'y praded bimaefl ibruugh Europe, and -11 1 1, wei I w it . terror and curjuaity evarv where la the pareon who, when the Bmpf rur resitted, had thiotiled ihe unhappy vic lim ith hia own hand, A brother ef ihia m natal went te Italy, here a Princess of the Romanoff line reaided, whom Catharine -. n conequeme ofhef belter title to the throne, a d having inveigled the poor girl into a mock marri-ge, trapped heron beard a Russian fngite, and carried Iter a prisoner 10 Cronatadt. The miaorable viciim of this atrocious paifidy im drowned in her ce'l tubaaq ientty by an Inundation of the Neva. T ' w:,, ii we allude waa the mord r of Paul the F rsi, fathi r of Nicholas, with the knowledge If not ihe connivence of A' -x ittder, li e toedcressor ol the lata c'aar. Pan' was a "t Upon al night, in Ins c'asmber, tnd asaareinated after a prot scd atrujgle, In which he fought wPh ovsperate reflation, iii ugh unarmed end in hia ahlrt. At the pe rlo ; of Ihit bl mdy tragedy, Itt. h, as wss an nfant. But his eld-r bl other, Alexander, Oal a young n.an. ard was, it it genenlly lelieved, aware of whtt was about to occur. Rem re for tha act is said to havejBmbitter- td tha closin-days of Alexander. It is asser ed by some hia oriaps that even this Prince ell t victim ia 1 Violent death: ft is certain hat he died suddenly, when on a teur in the -rim--s, and as he l ad become quiie u ipopu ai With a large pirty in his domin ons, it it 101 iinpoteible that he was poisond. In all lies? cases of assassination, it was at first ?n out that the Ciar died of syop'exy, nor lid the truth appear uotil the lapse or years .ad rend -red harm'ess the -"iblication of the sets. In a deapetiam i ke Russia, when a 'rince it lo be depo-ed. titers io generally no ourte left but to take his li'e. He c-nnot afely be ask- d to abdicate, fur he would be a old man Who could thua 'bell the cat;' and i.ile he iivca, even after abdication, there is Iwaya dinger of revolution in hia favor. Ience Tai'eyran a't remark. Kanzas Again. Othtr queetioni may ba important which ew agit tie the public mind, but all of them ngetner are of not a lithe of ihe importanco I tha setl.eineniol Kai.zss as a Free State. Lud why Preeent tariflk, preaont Recipro- ty, Treatica.presi ut Atisntic Steamer lines u y b.' cf importonce lo those inteiested.but ie c inaiderntion ol tiiein can be postponed, .us.uj or averting temporary odvantage fext year, or ten years, hence, thtse ques ot s 1 an ait be legislated on, bjt allow Ktn as to be a v: and colonized by slaveh ,ld rs ana nv nc-d to ;. ol pu-poes, and lereaiter it ia too iate to prevent mischief. 1 1 iui n u .;. w un . is opened which never i'i be heult i. rhe Free States Will never . is true, admit -, slave S;te irom Kantae, 'hoy are it determined and fixed on ihat 1 . 1 a- .... y are agaiuat cue annexation of . kingdom of ) my. By pouring into .a it ...e wholii nor'hern emigration new, .. qnetliqnmay b.. setlied for al, time, h i-y be st:.-ltd .01 a tier ofBlatea reaching 1 Ca ...mo. It may ba Battled for New lex Co aa well s Kaiutae, for an area large Bough Lo embrac-u.be twelve la.-geet Staiea 1 the pr'i-nt Union. It iny b.' settled for fty miii.ns of people, wlio will som day op ,1 ita it, twice as many peopje as now in joil oiir IJ.iion. Not only so. but tne chir-dt-r o: '.i.eir ii.d.istry .their iulelligence.their oiiJition, their ia.vs, tReir habits, their poy rty or opulence, and the very grade of their ration, ean bo deteruiiued now by the ?"p!e of the N 'ith. We appreLend ihe press is inert. indiJar ilt, treacheroua to its dmy at mis juticiure. a.i ihe presses of the North -outd publish ilormation relative to the arraugemanta and lana o. the emigration anterpriaest it they -ould announce where iheol&eere and agents 1 u.J Be consulted; too price of paeasgethow .ie ccinpaaiet ctn be join- d, they can doub t the aulonisation, and give il aid and dtTeO; ion- We sdvlte the ttoloiiitta ta sellle nearest , M ,-suur;, along the very boundary line, in ider lo raite a barrier lo protect the wider eirito y. As fur danger, it it mere buga :tl. A quiet, modest man, last fall, offered . prraonata Eii Tuayer, (or whose head tha liesuuri bullies had oll'ered a price. The hivalry had no reward ta pay, but barj the tiujng rebuke which the offer c.ouveyed it h meckum and decency Thore may b-j it is, but let a tingle freeman be killed, by nen wiio put the pretended agencies of free nfeO at work to pollute a free land, and de grade a portion ot i's cultivators tu brutes, mJ ihe last nailie put in the coffin of the mtriarchal (!) inatitutiun which d sgrtcet md d' grades the whole continent. We nail with joy thep o;rts of th t army i." freemen, on Hie march la tx'.end freedom imd civilization ever a virgin soil. Tu pil ;r n t of thr. MayCo.tcr were brnt on ne ho ier. 110 more honorable missisr.. IndreJ.the aliant 11.00 who went ibelr way lo the vaat ilains at (Ceneee, realize what the founders f Plymouth did not, the certain 'and glorioua onstqoencea of their mittiun. Tha pro g ett of tbtss apostles of freedom, at every spot, at every city, along every river and ca ul, is wormy oi celebration, sa old John Uan.t tleclared iho Declaraimn of Indapen--nee to be, by "guns, bells, b mfires and l. j . i lalions." Toledo Blade. ...J7"The minsipn hous 1 of M,rahfield the .te ic-s d.-nce 01 Websieh, fc tome tcret of he homestead turroundiug if, nut included in be tale of property to take place en the Jdih