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              ft ill M i f ) i rir i mm VOLUME 22. MOUNT VERNON, OHIO: AUGUST 31, 1858. NUMBER 19. Ji)C It. 3Jeron 3kinc:iraSb iBqwr, 19 PUBLISHED EVEny" TtnESDAT MORS 10, BY L. UAIIPER. Office in Woodward'8 Block, Third Story; : TERMS Two Dollars pr aflnum, parable in ad- vanoe; $2,50 within six months; 1 3,00 after the ex-piration of the year. Clubs ef twenty, S1,S0 each. " '" o - - - XiTtl T ADTIttllllt: D 4 B o 5 c.'f c. $ c. c. $ c. $ c. $ . $ c. 1 J Mf, - "3 iquare.--4 tgnartt, - 1 00,1 25,1 75 2 25 3 CO S 50,4 50 6 10 1 75 2 25,3 25 4 25 5 25 6 00 6 75 8 00 . ' I ! 2 50 3 50 4 50 5 05 6 00 7 00 8 00 10 3 50 4 00'5 00 C 00.7 00 8 00.10 112 ...$15 1 tquare, changeable monthta, $10.: weekly,.., i column, changeable quarterly,.. ...................... 15 J column, changerble quarterly,. ..18 column, changeable quarterly,., ........ 25 1 colrnnn , changeable quarterly, ................... 40 ' ..--'gSf' Twelve lines of Minien, (this type) are coun- ed as a square. 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IT SAMUEL WOODWORTB, ESQ. - 'How dear to myhenrt are the scenes of my childhood, , When fnl rocotleetion present them -to view-Theorchard tbo meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood, And ev'ry lovM-pot whtvh my infancy knew; The wide-spreading pond, and the mill which stood by it, The bridge, and the rock wrrere the cataract fell, The cot of my father, the dairy-hou.e nih it, And e'en the rude bucket that hung in the well - . The old oaken bucket the iron-bound bucket Tho moss-covered bucket which hung in the well. 'That moss-covered vessel I hail as a treasure, ' For often, at noon, when return'-! from the field, I ftimtd -it a source of an exquisite pleasure, The purest and sweetest th;it nature can yield; How ardent I seized it, with hand that were glowing And quick to tee whito-pebbled. bottom it fell, Then soon, with "tee emblem offrruth overflowing. And dripping with.cooincss, it rose from the well The old oakec bucket the iron-bound bucket The moss-cofred bucket ajvio from, the well. -; " '- ' " '" - ' How sweet from ti:e gren mowy brim to reoive it, As poised on tire cord,. it inclined to my lips; Not n full-blushing gobli'couldterapt me to leave it. Though filled with .the liectur'that Jupiter sips. -And now far removed from the loved situation, The tear of regret will intrusively swell,-As fancy revisits my father's plantation; And sighs tor the bucket which hangs in the wall The old oaken bucket the iron-bound bucftet-The moan-covered bucket, whtuh bangs in his well.; : WOODMAX, SPARE Til AT TREE, BY GEORGE P. XORRIS. Woodman, spare that tree ! .' Touch not a -single bough ! . ' In youth it sheltered me,-. And 111 protect it now. 'Twas my forefather's hand That placed lit near his cot; " There, Woodman, let it stand; Thy axe shall harm it not! . 'That old familiar tree, Whose glory and renown Are spread o'er land and sea 7 And would'st thou hack it down? "Woodman, forbear thy stroke! Cut not itsoarth-bound ties; Oh, spare thaC aged oak, Now toweriag to the skies! - ' When bnt an idle boy : I sought its grateful shade; ' In all their gushing joy, - Here, too, my sister playeJL . My mother kissed me here. My father pressed my hand; '" Forgive this foolish tear, But let that old oak stand! :"My heart-strings round thee cling - Close as thy bark, old friend! Here shall the wild bird sing, And still thy branches bend. " Old tree ! the storm etill brave ! And, woodmaa, leave the spot, . . "While I've a hnd to save, Thy axe shall harm it not.- TIIE AXGEL'S WIIISI'CR. - IT I. LOVBR, ESQ. The following popular ballad from the Songs f the Superstitions of Ireland, and composed by S. Xovcr, Esq., alludes to a prevalent idea held by the credulous of that country, that when a child smiles in its sleep, it it talking to angels. A baby was sleeping, ; i Its mother was weeping, .For its father waa far on the wild raging sea, :, And the tempest was swelling ' Round the fisherman's dwelling, me." JLnd sh cried, "Dermot, darling, oh! come back to ; : Her beads wbile she nurober'd, The baby still slumber'd, And imil'd in her face as she bende4 her knee; "Oh! bless'd be that warning, My child, thy sleep adorning. For I know that the angels are whispering to thee." "And while they are keeping, - . Bright watch o'er thy sleeping, Chi pray to them softly, my baby with me,: And say thou would'st rather ; Tk.j i nil . h r.. n,. For I know that the angel's are whispering with thee." The dawn of the morning Saw Dermot returning, - - And the wife wept with joy her babe' father to ee, And clo-ely careseing Her child, with a blessing, thee." Cald "! knew that the angels were whispering with Horses Bubbing; their Manes and Tails. y In joar impre&sioa of June 19, I observe corre8potjdeDt has sent you a recipe for "horses rubbing their mane and tails," and you also recommend turpentine. Allow me to offer you the following recipe, which I have always used. and found thoroughly efficacious, and at ' the Mine time, most pure, cleanly, and simple: nlpbaric acid lotion oil of ritriol, 3 drachms; rain water, 1 pinu; to be well shaken together. 41 bis 18 a erj clean lotion to rub oa a horse when 700 find him rubbing and biting himself.) Eobtae lotion on the parts with a sponge two or three times a daj. " : . H B B o o o 5- S- - ? a at A ?SA mntom CHARACTER Otf GEJT. WASHINGTON aJi EXTRACT FROJt JtFFERSOS'3 XJXPUBLI3HED M1NC3CRIPTS, To Da. WaLTEa Jones: ' Mosticello, Jan. 2, 1814. Dear Sir: I deplore with you the putrid state into which oar newspapers bve passed, and the malignity, the vulgarity and the mendacious spirit of those who write for them; and I enclose you a recent sample, the production of a New England Judge, as a proof of the abyss of degradation into whicb we have fallen. These ordures are rapidly depraving the public taste, and lessening its relish for sound food. As vehicles of information, and a curb on our functionaries, they have rendered themselves useless, by forfeiting all title to belief. That this bas, in a great degree, been produced by the violence and malignity of party spirit, I agree with you; and I have read, with great pleasure the paper you enclosed me on that subject, which I now return. It i. at the same time, a perfect model of the style of discussion which candor and decency should observe, the tone which renders difference of opinion even amiable, aod a succinct, Correct, and dispassionate history of the origin and progress of party among u3. It might be incorporated, as it stands and without changing a word, into the h istory of the present epoch, and would give to posterity a fairer view of the times than they will probably detive from other sources. Iu readins it with great satisfactior., there was but a single prtssae where 1 wished a little more 'development of a very sound and catholic idea, a single intercalation to rest it solidly on true bottom. It is near the end of . the first page, where you. make a statement of genuine Republican maxims say. iiig, "that the people ought to possess as much political power as can possibly consist with the order and security of society," Instead of this, I would say, "that the people, being the only safe depository of pjwer, should exercise in person, every function which their qualifications enable fBetn to exercise, consistently with the order and security of society; that we now find them equal to the election of those who shall be invested with their Executive ar.d Legislative powers, and to act themselves in the Judiciary, as judges in question of fact; the rane of their powers ought to be enlarged," etc. This gives both the reason and exemplification of the maxim you express "that they ought to possess - as much political power," Jfc'c. I see nothing to correct either in your facts or principles. You say that in taking General Washington on your shoulders, to bear him harmless through tbe Federal Coalition, you encounter a perilous topic.; Ido not think so; you have given the genuine history of the course of His mind through the trying scenes in whi'ch it was engaged, and rf the seductions by which it was deceived, but not depraved., I think I know General Washing-ten intimately and thoroughly; aud, were I call-ed upou to delir.eate his character, I would do so, in terms much like these. His mind was great and powerful, without be iug of the very first order; his penetratiou was strong, though not so acute as that of a Newton, Bacon or Locke; and. as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention, or imagination, bot sure in conclusion. Hence the common remark of his officers of the advantage. he derived front coancils of war, -where, hearing ail suggestions, he selected whatever was best; and certainly no General ever planned his battles more judiciously. But, if deranged during the course of the actien. if any member of his plan was dislocated by sudden circumstances, he-was slow in re adjustment The consequence was, that he )ften failed in the .field, and rarely against an en emy in station, as at Boston and York. He was incapable of fear, meeting personal dangers with the calmest Rneoncern. Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never act-J ing antil every -circamstance, every consideration was maturely weighed refraining if he saw a doubt, but, when ohce decided going through with his pnrpse, whatever obstacles opposed. His integrity was most pure, his justice the most inflexible I have ever known, no motives of in terest or consanguinity, of friendship or hatred, being able to bias his decision. He was in every sense of the word, a wise, a good, and a great man. His temper was naturally irritable and high-toned; but reflection and resolution had ob tained a firm and habitual ascendency over it.- If ever, however, it broke its bounds, be was most tremendous in his wrath. In his expenses, he was honorable, but exict; 'liberal in contributions to whatever promised utility; hut frowning and exacting on all visionary projects and unworthy calls on his charity; His heart was not warm, in its affction but he exactly calculated every man's value, and gave him a solid esteem proportioned to it. His trson, you know was fine, his stature was exactly what one would wish, his deportment easyv erect an noble) the best horseman of his age, and the most graceful fig ure that could be seen on horseback. Although, in the circle of his friends, where he might be unreserved with safety, he took a free share in conversation, his coloquial talents were not above mediocrity, possessing neither copiousness of ideas, nor fluency of words. In public, when called upon for a sudden opinion, he was unready, short atid embarrassed. Yet he wrote readily, rather diffusely , in a correct style. This he bad acquired by conversation with the world; for bis education was merely reading, writing and common arithmetic, to which he added surveying at a later day. . His time was employed in at tb 1, chiefly, reading liule, and that only in agrieul-tureand English History. His correspondence became necessarily extensive, and with journal-izing his agriaUoral proceedings, occupied all, or nearly ail of bis leisure hours within doors. -On the whola, his character was, in iu masn, per feet, ia aothing bad, in few points indifferent aod it saej truly be said, that oever did natore and" fortune combine more perfectly to make a mws man great and to place him in the same constellation with whatever worthies have merited from man an everlasting remembrance. For his was the singular destiny ami merit of leading the armies of his country successfully through an ar. duous war, for the establishment of its indepeu deuce, or conducting its councils through the birth of a government, new in its forma and principles, until it had settled down in a quiet and orderly train, and of scrupulously obeying the laws through the whole of bis career, civil and military, of which the history of the world furnishes us no other example. How then can it be perilous for you to take such a man on your shoulders? I am satisfied the great body of Republicans think of him as I do. We were indeed dissatisfied with him on his ratification of the British Treaty; but this was short lived. , We knew his honesty, the wiles with which he was encompassed, and that age had already begun to relax the firmness of his purpose; and I am con t vinced he is more deeply seated in the love and gratitude of the Republicans, than in the Pharisaical homage of the Federal Monarchists. For he was no monarchist from preference of his judgment. The soundness of that gave him correct views1 of the rights of man, and his severe justice devoted him to them. He has often de clared to me; that he considered our new Constitution as an experiment on the practicability of republican government, and with what dose of liberty, man can be trusted for his own good; that he was determined the experiment should have a fair trial, and would lose the last drop of his blood in support of it. And these he repeaU ed to me all the oftener, and more pointedly, because he knew my suspicions of Col. Hamilton's views, and probably had heard the declarations which I had heard, to wit: ''that the British Coni stitution, with its unequal representation, corruption, and other existing abuses, was the most perfect government which had ever been estab lished on earth, and that a reformation of these abuses would make, it an impracticable govern-ment. : .'. I do believe that Gen. Washington bad not a firm confidence in the durability of our Government, He was naturally distrustful of miu, and inclined to gloomy apprehensions; and I was ever persuaded that a belief that we ' must at length end iu something like a British Constitu-: lion had some weight in his adoption of the ceremonies of levees, birth days, pompous meetings with Congress, and other forms of the same character, calculated to prepare . us gradually for a change which he believed possible, and so let it come on "with as little shock as might be to the public mind. -These, are my opinions of Gen. Washington, which I would vouch at the judg ment seat of God, having been formed on an acquaintance of :10 years. I served with him in the Virginia Legislature from 1 8G0 to the Revolutionary war, and again a short time iu Congress, until he left us to take command of the army. Daring the war, -and after it, we corresponded occasionally; and in four years of my continuance in the oftice of Secretary of State, our intercourse was daily confidential and cor dial. After I retired from that office, great and malignant pains were taken by our Federal Monarchists, and not entirely without some effect, to make him view me as a theorist, holding French principles of government, which would lead infallibly to licentiousness and anarchy. And to this he listened the more easily, from my known disapprobation of the British treaty. I never saw him afterwards, br these malignant insinuations should have been dissipated before his judgment, as mists before the sun. I felt on his death, with my countrymen, that "verily a great man hath fallen this day in Israel." More time and recollection would enable me to add many" other traits of his character; but why add them to you who know them well? and I cannot justify to myself a longer detention of your paper. Vale, proprieqne tuam me esse tibi persuade.. THOS. JEFFERSON. .TStilUJ C5. A Daguerreotypist's Adventure. ; We find in the pipers the relation of an Occurrence to an "itinerant catcher," that may for ought we know, refer to our Dr. Carr, who is ftwty from the city on or.e of his artistic tours," and the narrative we copy does not mention the. name of. the daguerreotypist. The artist in qtiestion, having found a picturesque view In a secluded and little frequented spot, 1 fixed his instrument and very s n had the landscape upon his plate. . Just as he had finished fining it with his chemicals, a heavy hand was laid upon his shoulders. Looking up, the artist saw a tall stout fellow, who demanded bis purse. It was useless to attempt to resist, and the store of the despairing daguerreotypist was .carried off. On taking up his pict ure preparatory to leave the unlucky spot, he saw a small human face daguerreotyped in the act of peeping through the foliage; A magnifying glass brought out the unmistakable features of the thief who had robbei him. The case was a plain ene; the "shadow catcher' was soon packed up, and its owner showed the likeness to the police of the neighboring townf , they knew the thief, arretted him, and found the money upon. him, which was joyfully received by the daguerrotypist.- Memphis Appeal. . A . Novel Business. Straws have always shown which way the wind blows, but they now have a new office, and point out unmistakably the way a vast quantity of liquor flows. Witness the following from a Western paper! Nearly all, if not all tbe drinking saloons in St. Louts, it is said, are furnished rith straws for the purpose of sucking juleps, by one man t who sells them from one dollar : and a half to two dollars a thousand, off of two acres of land upon which he grows rye annually. He sells about twanty four hundred dollars worth of straws. They are also packed ia barrels con-tainiug about twelve thousand straws, and shipped to New Orleans, St. Paul and the intermediate places, and the demand is increasing. warictn , . 'A Cat an Heiress. : : One of the most exquisite of musicians, in her time, was Mademoiselle Dupuy, of the French opera. Her playing upon the harp was the wonder of Paris. She was convinced, however, that she owed her artistic excellence to her favorite cat t And of this strange intimacv between a charming woman " and her quadruped favorite MonCrif, "her biographer, gives the following interesting particulars: '. " .- '; .-Of course tbe lovely musician's practisings, at home, were assiduous and constant. But as soon as she sat down, and began to prelude upon the instrument, she noticed that her cat assumed an attitute of intense attention. ; At the point of the instrument's arriving at any passage of peculiar beauty, the excited grimalkin went into a feline ecstasy; and, so well measured was this sensibility, according to the excellence of thejplaying and the pathos of the compose tion, that M'lle Dupny was able to judge of the quality of the music by the manifest emotions of her catl She became a devout Puieyite, in fact, believing thathe nervous creature was an exact prophet, foretelling precisely how music' would affect an audience. And she was grate ful accordingly to the -friend to whom she thought she owed mainly her artistic success. In her last illness, at the approach of death. M'lle Dupuy sent for the notary to make ber will. She had accumulated a fortune by her profession; and the first clause of her testament was the giving n f her town home and her coim try house to her cat ! She added to this annuity sufficient for the comfortable support of the four legged musician during its natural life; and to make sure that this, her last will and testament, should be respected, she gave several legacies to friends on the express condition that they should see to the fulfilment of her wishes. It was also a condition that they should several ly take turns during the week in going to see and keep company with the orphan puss ! Moncrif adds that the relatives of M'lle Du puy disputed the validity of the will, -arid a law suit was J he consequence Grimalkin vs. Du; puys. But the cat gained the case, and lived out her days with- the. genteel alternation be tween an elegant town house and her charming country hduse. The particulars of the final catastrophe are not given. A Romatic Reality -A White Woman ; Escapes from Slavery ! I.vTERESTt.vG Legal PKocEEDiXGS.nn God dard vs. Mary GoJdard. We copy the following interesting case from the Maysville (Ky.) Eagle, of Thursday afternoon: One of the most remarkable and intensely in te resting cases ever brought before a court of justice, was tried and disposed of in our Circuit Court last week. The plaintiff, Ann . Goddard, wa3 a handsome young white woman about twen. ty one years of age, perfectly white, with long luxuriant bair, graceful and easy in manners, and having all the appearance of. an accomplished and well raised lady. Her features bore the highest marks of European perfection, and there was not the slightest indication of African bliod in her veins. j , She brought suit here for freedom, allegihg that she bad been "forcibly arrested by the officers and lodged in the negro jail of the late James McMillan, under the claim of the defendant, Mary Goddard, that she was a slave, "when in truth she was a fiee white woman.' The suit was brought nearly two years ago by Hon. R. II. Stanton, and prosecuted by him, with the assistance of Hon. W. II. WadsWorth and Judge J. D. Taylor, and defended by Hon. II. Taylor and T. C. Campbell, Esq.: When the jury was sworn the only testimony relied on by the plaintiff was the exhibition of her own per son for their inspection, her counsel claiming that her appearance Was prima Jacie evidence of her freedom, and the presumption thus being raised, of course the burden of proof rested upon the defendant to prove her a slave. Au attempt was then made; by the defendant to prove her the daughter of a mulatto named Ma. tilda, by whom the plaintiff had been - feared from infancy, but in this they did not succeed ai no witness was introduced who was present at the birth of the child. -' The case Was ably argued on bolh sides, and much feeling was manifested in the community on behalf of the plaintiff." When- the jury brought in their verdict to the effect that she was a "free white woman." the Judge Was compelled to address the "audience upon the impropriety of any demonstration of applause in a court of justice, in order to keep doWn a universal impulse to show the satisfaction' given by the result. . '""...-"'-':' rv" ' . Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. The avenues in the Cave, thus far discovered number two hundred and seventy five, (275.) and their aggregate length is estimated at two hundred (200) miles. Mr. Holston, who was in the cave when the iron lamp was lost, still resides near its mouth. He is now SO years of age. Stephen, the old guidejlied last years The Green River Barrens, that fifty years ago were covered with grass and strawberries, nor-, ning glories and other pretty flowers, and the resort of immense flocks ot quails, and a multitude of rabbits, are now a great forest of oaks, hickory and chestnut trees. This great change from a field to a' forest has been made in less than half a century.. The germs of the oak, the chestnut and the hickory were in nature-sunless we give the great colony of squirrels the credit of planting the chesnut, the walnut sad the acorn, from their winter stbtes of these tuts collected in other localities. The temperature of the air of the care is at fifty nine: degrees Fahrenheit, the air dry and salubrious. No thunder is ever heard or light ning ever seen within the cave. A current of air is now corning out of the cave, and of sufficient force to '-blow out" the blaze of a torch. Within the cave combustion goes oa well, tor ches barn freely, and respiration is easy. Dart ness there is so thick that it- caft b felt, and silence so profound as to be impressive beyebd oeecrtptfoa. The Amount of Food Consumed by a xi an inuring- his iaietime. M. Alexis Soyer, the celebrated professor of the gastronomic art, entered into a calculation, whicb be published in tbe London Times, as to the amount of flesh, fowl and fish eaten by a man ia an average lifetime, and among the items we End the following enormous quantities: 30 oxen, 200 sheep, 100 calves, 200 lambs, 50 pigs; in poultry, 1,200 fowls, 300 turkeys, 150 geese, 400 ducklings, 263 pigeons; 1,400 partridges, pheasants and grouse, 600 woodcock and snipe, BOO wild pigeons and teal;. 450 plov era, ruffs, and reeves; 800 quails, ortolan and dotterills, and a .few guillemots ; and other for eign birds; also 500 hares and rabbits, 40 deer, 120 guinea fowl, 10 peacocks, aad 360 wild fowl. In the way of fish, 120 turbot, 140 salmon, 120 cod, 260 trout, 400 mackerel, 300 whitings, 801 soles and slips, 400 flounders, 400 red mullet, 200 eels, 150 haddock, 400 herrings, and 5,000 smelts; and some hundred thousands of those delicious silvery whitebait, besides a few hundred species of fresh water fishes. In shelfisb, , 20 turtle, 30,000 oysters, 1,500 lobsters or crabs, ; 300,000 prawns, shrimps, sardines, and ancho vies. Notes aYid Queries. 1 The Grain Crop of 1858. - . The Prairie Parmer gives the following estimate of the grain crop in the northwestern States: V:--..- ;j After a careful examination of the whole sub- 'AW ject we have come to this conclusion: that of the wheat crop of 1858, Illinois will not export more than six million buSels--perhaps far less; that Iowa will export less than one minion bush els perhaps less than half a million; that Wisconsin will export not more than three fifths as much as Of the crop of 1853; that Indiana will export in about the same proportion as Wisconsin; and that there will be a falling off in Ohio of at least three million of bushels. Bear in mind we offer these as very high estimates, A continuance of bad weather may reduce the amount for export to almost nothing. At present the quantity is wasting at the rate of many thousand bushels per day. How much old wheat there is yet in the country we do not know, but the quantity is certainly less than commercial papers estimate it. The corn crop will somewhat affect the priee of wheat, but there is no possibility of its being an average yield per in. habitants in Illinois or Iowa. A Singular Family. : A correspondent of. the Cincinnati Gazette, writing from the White Sulphur Springs, near Delaware, says: :; '"On the bank of the river" above. this place a-bout a mile, in a rude tenement built of stone, there lives a family whose history and character istics constitute a curiosity. The members of this family consist of "two brothers and one sister, ranging in age from seventy to eighty years. Jfone of them are married, and they have lived ; where they now reside over fifty years, and own two farms. None of them have ever visited Columbus, or even Delaware, the county town, or seen a railway, lo comotive, or steamer, through the Springfield and Mt. Vernon Railway passes within two miles On one of their farms. They have three old-fashioned flint guns, each of which they say has done good service in the slaying of deer and Indians, each gun being remarkable for some particular exploit in this line. It is almost needless, afier what I have written, to add that these singular people emigrated to this place from North Carolina. . Size of Ancient Cities. Nineveh was fifteen miles long, nine wide, and forty. miles round..-'. ..Its. -walls, were one hundred feet high, and broad- enough for three char iots lo be driven abreast. Babylon comprised sixty square miles within its. walls, Which were three hundred feethih and seventy thick. The city was entered by one hundred gates of brass. The temple of Diana, which Was two hundred years in building,; was four hundred feet high. The largest of the Egyptian pyramids is four hundred and eighty feet high, and one side of it is bix hundred and sixty-three feet in length; the base tf it covers eleven acres. The stones of which it is constructed are nearly thirty feet long, and three layers are two hundred and eight. The number of men employed, in its erection was three hundred and sixty thousand. The labyrinth of Egypt consists of three thous and chambers and twelve halls, The ruins of Thebes in Egypt are twenty:seven miles round. It had one hundred gates. (Jirthage and Athens were each twentv five miles round Strange but True. Mr.,Hahrey Cooper, of BloomingdalCj Passaic county, going lno one of his fields on Thursday last, in which there was a small pond, saw a crow fluttering in the water; on going nearer to discover the cause of its fluttering, he saw that the crow's leg was fast as be thought in a piece of stump, but on getting a stick and prying up the leg of the Crow, what was Mr. C.'s surprise to find that instead of a piece of stump which held the crow's leg it was a snapping turtle's head. Mr Cooper secured both bird and turtle, and found the latter weighed some fifteen pounds.-How the crow got caught is a mystery, though it perhaps waded in the water and was snapped up by the turtle. However it happened, it is a curious affair, and one which does not occur very often: Trenton True American. Ants and Fruit Trees. Many really suppose that ants are injurious to fruit trees. This is not so. Those acquainted with their habits know that they visit fruit tree infested with plant lice, both roots and branches. They are attended by ants, which seem to usa them as their milk kine. They are sought by the ants because of a sweet fluid furnished by these lice whicb supplies the ants with nutrition. This accounts for their being about fruit trees. Take Warning, then, when yon see the ants bus ily ascending mod descending in regular eucces sion, young fruit, trees, or others, aad iasscdi atelt apply ashes Of lime lo them wbea the dew is ont also applying one or loth about the roots ef tbe trees infested by tbets Jjjilitical. Ohio Must be Redeemed. From the formation of our government to the present time the Democratic party has kept on in the even tenor of Its way, the storms of ad versify that have overtaken it have but served as the refiner's fire to purify and renew it with redoubled strength. Party after party have arisen in opposition and in rapid succession they have been condemned by the overwhelming voice of the freemen of tbe land, while the old Democratic party of eighty years, dedicated to liberty and law, stands erect unscared by the enemy and un-im pared by the hand of time. Let the patriot look back over the history of the past to behold the Democracy, alike in prosperity and adversity, battling the corrupt minions of aristocratic power, the enemies of our country at home and abroad, on land and on sea, duelling internal dissensions and intestine feuds and standing up manfully against the raging billows of fanaticism and disloyalty, and he must but feel proud . to own himself a Democrat. All the elements of our national greatness owe their origin to the Democracy, by them every im portant statute has been framed, and the great machinery of our government has been kept steadily in motion. As they have been the guar dians of our country in the past they are the only hope for our people in the future. Four yean ago many of tbe old patriarchs or the party feared that the days of Democratic tri umphs were numbered, but the sober second thought of the people brought them back to the only ark of political safety. Ohio was carried by the opposition ' In 1854 by ...... J... ....82,000 In 1855 35,000 In 1856 17,000 In 1S57 " 1,200 With a proportionate gain the Buckeye State will roll up. at the coming election, a majority of at leasts 15,000 for Democracy. This will be done if we but do our duty. Up guards and at them. Ohio must be redeemed. Crairfcrrd Forum.. Shall Mulattos Vote? That is the question. Whether we Shall have a State government of black men and white, or of mixed, or of White only.. We go the full figure and say that the least tincture of the African degrades a man below the right of suffrage in Ohio. Some may think we go too far. But what is the test? General equality. The man who is recognized as an equal at the polls, should be, and is recognised as an equal for all puporesv A while man, may be low and degraded, but a possibility for himself and children to attain the bighest position lb the country, remains as long as he carries the white skin-. That possibility, every feeling and prejudice and Reason of the American people denies to the black man, or his descendants, by any mixture and without reference to merit. God has made a partition wall between the two races. That partition can't be torn down. - - Those who think that mulattos with more than half vvhite blood should vote, have only this question to settle. Could they under any circumstances make social equals,' of such? could they matry such, or could they admit their children to marry them, or their descendants? A-malgamation we regard with horror, but if black color is to deprive human beings , of the right of Suffrage in America, we would say, exclude all or none; make it all vitiating or none. We say to our Republican friends, that we present them, a breathing and throbbing issue in Ohio, shall negroes vote? Will they answer it? as a party as men generally even or will they say like boys and to be smart, that We can write only of the African. We have ever said one question at a time. When the Republicans change their platform, we will change the argument. While they talk of freedom and equality for negroes we will talk of the fitness and propriety of such course. We have got abolitionism pretty well out of the towns; we will hammer away till it is out of the Rural Districts. And in the mean time we will argue all other oues tions presented. CM to Patriot. the Cause of the Rejection of thl English Proposition. From thTK "VVyandotte (Kansas) Argus, An. 5. In accordance with universal expectation, the election on Monday last resulted in the rejection Of the ordinance presented by Congress for the acceptance or rejection of the people of Kansas. Just what the vote may have been will not be known Until the board of commissioners have performed their Work, which Will probably not be in several weeks. The causes which have conspired to produce this result are mainly as follows: 1st. The officers elected under the Lecomp-toh constitution Were chiefly extremists, in whom the people had no confidence, and to whom they were unwilling to confide the destinies of a new State. - 2d. The legislature which was to come into power had the ordinance been accepted was cbo4 sen when the notorious Lane was at the ienilh of his power-, and a majority of the members were understood to be pledged lo his election to the United States Senate. - To these two considerations may be attributed in the main the defeat of this measure. Other considerations of course had their influence.- Many of the people were of the cpfmorl .that we ought to remain a Territory until we Were better ab!epecaniariiy to assume the expenses of a State government. Others, again, desire the guardianship and protection of the federal gov eminent, believing property and life insecure should the government officers and troops be withdrawn. ProsaTery men very generally Toted against itj because they - preferred to remain a star Territory rather than become a free State-while many democrats voted against it for the takt of retaining Got. Denver, and the " ether federal appointees in oSce, as their places Wcnlld on the adoption of the ordinance have passed into tbe beeds ct the ultra fprnjfcTitraift ; Black Republicanism ia Connecticut. At the recent session of the Connecticut rg islature the Black Republicans passed the fol lowing amendments to the Constitution: 1. That each Town shall be entitled to one representative and no more. 2. That Negroes and Indians shall be entitled to vote upon an equality with the whites. 3. That all foreigners shall reside in, the State twenty one years before they can be admitted as voters. "Down with the Foreigners and up with the Negroes and Indians," is the favorite doctrine of the Black Republicans, and they never fail to carry it into practical operation whenever they have the power. . food for Traitors; It is a significant fact that all the acti-demo cratic papers of Pennsylvania draw largely from the columns of the Philadelphia Press, edited by John W. Forney, who is not only a bitter oppo nent of the present national administration, but is also exerting himself to the utmost of bis ability to defeat the State candidates of the democratic party. In Philadelphia he is not recog nised as a democrat by any body, being by common consent classed with the republicans; and yet there are papers in this State, professing to be democratic, that depend upon this same For- ney for most of their political matter! Let dem ocrats regard with distrust all such journals, as their object is to divide and ruin the democratic party. -Washington Ex. Missouri Congressidnal Delegation. The next delegation in Congress from Missou-ri will be composed wholly of national democrats a gain of THREE. - The majorities in the several districts are as follows: . 1st. J. Richard Barret.............. 425 majority-. 2d. Thomas L- Anderson......... .4,500 " 3d. John B. Clark, ...... 4,000 4tb. James Craig,. ........... v....4.000 " 5th. Samuel H. Woodson,....... 500 a 6th. John S. Phelps 5,000 " 7th. J. W. Noell...... ..........3,800 " Total majority in Ihe Stale,...21,426 SfpiUllllfllt. Common Sense Young Ladies. . If young ladies only knew it, they would be making themselves far more attractive in tbe eyes of sensible persons of the other sex, by showing that they are not afraid of performing a little 1 bor, than by a mawkish impression that they are above work. Young men of brains, while ot. course despising that slavery Wbich would continually keep the ladies at the washstand, or at '-. the sewing table, withont amusement or relaxation at all, love to see a desire In young ladies to make themselves useful, and in selecting a wife would vastly prefer such a one. It . is all a mistaken point that ladies seed be dressed in furs, silks and feathers, to win the admiration of young men. We know of a half-dozen renowned men who fell in love With their wives when dressed in planest clothing. At a late ball in Baltimore a gentleman (probably not one of the codfish aristocracy,) having danced with a young lady whose attractions, both personal and conversational, seemed lo have made an impression Upon his sensibilities, asked to hare the pleasure of seeing her on the follows ing evening. , ; "Why no, sir," replied the fair one, "1 6hall be - engaged to morrow evening; but I'll tell you when you can see me." "I shall be most happy," exclaimed the strick; en swain. "Well, on Saturday," resumed the lady, yoa can see me at the foot or Marsh's market, felling cabbage!" , The gentleman went, 6aw the usefulness of the lady, was still more enhanced with her, and they were married shortly afterwards- " "Asking Pa." I am not pleased with a paragraph which I read, to-day, in a paper of extensive influent aud high moral tone; This exceptionable par' graph plainly intimates that if "p" refuses hu consent to bis daughter's marrying tbe man she loves, then she is justified in marrying without his "consent," ,lat any sacrifice!'' Is that girl capable of securing to her hosbasi a life of happiness, whor can so far forget or tg nore her moral obligations to her parent as to outrage bis feelings when be is most eolicitou for her welfare? She who fails to see her duty to her father will soon lose keenness of vision id reference to her husband's bappibessj if the circumstances wbitb affect his happiness conflict with her inclination.-No matter what the civil law says about it, ht-s obligations to regard her parent '4 feelings, is a binding tow as it was ten years previous. And the man who could counsel the violation or thostf feelings, lover though be is, is not a safe deposit tory tor a woman's heart. We HaVe known many to act oil the suggestions which this paragraph gives, and ia after life either domestic bitterness aod distrust turned their lives to gall, or trial and mufortuas quenched the fire of their hearth, till they wished the grave to cover their woes. Then tbey cried in agony, "Thy judgment is just thy laws, (J God. are righteousl" Then they remembered their sin, and their advice was "Wait; if it it good for you to marry that one, your father will, after a time, see it, and cousent. But never marry in opposition to Lis expressed wish." GirUf listen! Be not deceived! Lady Taming. The great success of Rsrey in taming fractious horses in En eland, has suggested to a crafy Yankee the idea of applying the secret art to womea, especially those who have promised to obey, and. of course, never done so. He charges $50 a lesson. I leara that Mr. Pretty man has been invited to visit this metropolis. Here are some of his certificates: " "This is to certify that Ifr. Paul Pretty man has succeeded ia subduing my wife. He took het when in her most restlesa condition, and ia One hour she was cooking a beef steak with the placidity of an angel. JittKS P. Hoaxta Nrw Yoaty May 8, 183S." " "Mr. Prettymen has full liberty to refer to eVa, His art I consider tbe grat desideratum of isitv ried" life. He Quieted Mrs. Sirarkins, who wa always ogly la double harness, ti aecontpHsbevI wonaeri. Not a shirt buttoa has tsaa cllr sisce the data of his trial.