from Senate amended. Amendments ordered printed and bill made the order of the day on Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock.

Bill for the preservation of game; referred to Judiciary Com.

Bill in addition to an act concerning crimes and punishments; referred to Com. on Judiciary.

Bill for the protection of the planting of oysters came from Senate, who rejected the amendments of the House. Motion to reconsider and concur; lost -yeas 52, nays 83. Motion to indefinitely postpone; lost-yeas 79, nays 84. Com. of conference appointed, consisting of Messrs. Wightman and English.

Com, on State Humane Institutions on so much of Governor's Message as relates to the instruction of the idiotic, reported a resolution appointing Daniel Dorchester, Henry M. Knight and L. P. Brockett, a com. of inquiry in regard to idiots; resolution passed and report accepted.

Bill concerning crimes and punishments; referred to com. on Judiciary.

Resolution appointing Justin Swift State Director of Windham Bank; referred.

The order of the day was called for which was the appointment of Judges of the Superior Court. Mr. Perkins moved that it be postponed until Tuesday next at 10 o'clock A. M., claiming that it was the common interest of all alike to weigh this matter calmly and maturely; motion carried.

Report of Com. on State Prison, in favor of petition of Solomon Rowe, with res. granting his discharge from State Prison, on the 4th of July, came from Senate, who insisted upon their vote passing the res. and requesting a committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses. After debate by Messrs. Brooks, Knight, Maddox, Phelps, Roberts and others, vote rejecting the res. was reconsidered; the res. passed.

Mr. Davis was appointed in place of Mr. English, excused, on Com. of Conference in regard to the oyster law.

Bill for regulation of civil actions; referred to Judiciary Com.

Report of Judiciary Com. in favor of bill relating to conveyances and devises of personal and real esLate for religious purposes ("Church Tenure Bill"). Mr. Perkins explained the bill.

Mr. Hubbard made an inquiry in relation to the application of the provisions of the law to a corporation for the support of the Bishop of the Catholic Church. Mr. Perkins replied that it did not apply.

Mr. Hubbard said that he supposed the law was borrowed from New York, but it was not exactly adapted to this State. He had no sympathy with the Roman Church, nor with its jurisdiction or mode of tenure of church property. He should be giad to see a law passed which should touch its' temporalities, but this law discriminated in favor of the Methodist Church. It does not confer equal rights upon the different denominations of the State. It also vested in the State, property conveyed for religious purposes, which is protected by the statutes of the State and the decisions of courts. Mr. Hubbard offered an amendment that no conreyance to any religious society should be valid aless made to the lay trustees of said society.

Mr. Perkins thought the Legislature had full power to prevent the aggregation of property by church officers. This act was only an additional titate to carry out the time-honored legislation in regard to devises for charitable objects, and to prerent them from being perverted from their original Rient. The discipline of the Methodist Church is 1: open discipline and in conformity to the laws of Le State. The bill makes exceptions only for fase denominations which have applied to the Legislature for exceptions in their favor. Adjourned.

House met at two.

Afternoon.

Esolution fixing Friday next as the day for final journment; referred.

Bill relating to the State Reform School; refer<> Com. on Humane Institutions.

E for protection of sheep culture, came from ute amended. House concurred, and bill as eded passed.

for regulation of civil actions; referred to a on Judicia

Consideration of the "church tenure bill" was

resumed.

Mr. Hubbard read from the constitution which accords equal powers, rights and privileges to all denominations alike. The bill prohibits trustees holding any property for the benefit of a church, it prohibits giving any property for the support of a minister. The legislature has no power to take property given to a religious society, upon any conditions. The bill contains unconstitutional discriminations and will be disastrous in its effects.

Mr. Perkins said that the law was a general law, universally applicable. The amendment virtually defeats the bill; the bill does not take away the property from religious societies-it simply regulates the trust.

Mr. Train briefly advocated the bill.

Mr. Coe wished the further consideration of the bill might be postponed to next week in order that there might be time for reflection.

Mr. Speaker Baldwin (Mr. Train in the chair) said that the Catholic priests were enslaved; the bill puts the property of the Catholic churches into the hands and control of those from whose hard earnings the churches were reared. It is only an act of justice to a priest-ridden people, who call for this change; it is the first step to sever the Catholic church in America from the Romish church.

Mr. Perkins stated that the seven signers of the petition for this law had been denounced in the Catholic church-compared to seven devils, seven plagues, &c

Mr. Maddox thought the bill was got up simply for political capital.

The question was then taken on the amendment, which was lost.

On motion of Mr. English, the question on the bill was ordered to be taken by the yeas and nays.

Mr. Phelps offered an amendment to insert the word "association" after corporation, as many churches were not corporations, but simply associations.

Mr. Woodruff offered an amendment to include in the provisions of the bill conveyances for "burial purposes;" passed.

Mr. Perkins offered a further amendment that the law should not affect the rights of any existing corporation; passed.

Mr. Spencer opposed the bill, as it was, and offered an amendment making the State in case of escheat, trustee of the property; lost.

Mr. Hubbard offered another amendment, excepting the "Shakers," from the provisions of the bill; lost.

The question was then taken upon the bill as amended, which was passed. Yeas 124, Nays 47, and report accepted.

Res. that when the House adjourn this afternoon it adjourn to Monday at 2 o'clock, P. M.; lost. The "pauper bill" made the order of the day tomorrow morning, at 9 o'clock. Adjourned.

Saturday Morning, June 23.

House assembled at nine. Prayer by Rev. Mr. Fisher.

Res. raising a com. of three to examine into the circumstances connected with the purloining of the "Amusement Law" last year; passed.

Bill for the regulation of civil actions; referred to Judiciary Comi.

Res. appointing trustees of the State Reform School; referred.

Res. authorizing an appropriation to the Clerk for indexing and printing the journal; referred to Com. on Claims.

Report of Com. on Incor. other than Banks in favor of res. authorizing the "Humphreysville Copper Company" to change its name to "N. Haven Copper Co.," and its location to N. Haven.; res. passed and report accepted.

Bill to amend the charter of the city of New London; referred to Judiciary Com.

Bill in addition to an act for the suppression of Intemperance; ref. to com. on Humane Institutions. Bill in addition to an act for the suppression of intemperance; same ref.

Bill in addition to an act relating to Courts, changing the time of holding the Superior Court at New Haven; ref. to Judiciary com.

Res. appointing Levi O. Smith and State Directors of Phoenix Bank; ref.

Allyn,

Bill for the assessment and collection of taxes, relating to Savings Banks; ref. to com. on Finance.

Com. on State Prison on the bill to encourage the reformation of offenders, reported that it be continued to the next session of the General Assembly; so continued.

Report of Com. on Claims, referring a bill and res. to Com. on Military Affairs; so referred.

Report of Com. on State Humane Institutions, in favor of bill concerning Idiots, Lunatics and Spendthrifts, providing for the support and removal to the Retreat for the Insane of indigent distracted persons at the expense of the town, came from Senate amended. House concurred in amendment and passage of bill, and report accepted.

Com. on State Prison on the petition of Thomas Lawson, praying that his earnings may be appropriated to his family, reported a res. appropriating one half of his earnings, to that purpose, came from Senate amended, appropriating the whole of his earnings. House concurred in amendment and passage of res; report accepted.

Report of Com. on Sale of Lands in favor of res. dispensing with the necessity of Asa Turner's giving bonds as trustee of certain property; res. passed and report accepted.

The Chair announced Messrs. Coe of Killingly and Peters of Naugatuck the com. on the lost bill.

The order of the day was then called for, being the consideration of the bill for the support of paupers, reported by the com. appointed last year for this purpose. Amendment that the selectmen provide a "comfortable" subsistence to town paupers; passed. Several amendments proposed and rejected. Amendment imposing upon the State the support of paupers having no legal settlement in any town; passed. Bill recommitted to Com. on Judiciary.

Res. proposing an amendment to the Constitution, that two-thirds of a jury may render a verdict in civil cases; referred.

Res. making appropriation to Quarter Master General for extra services; referred.

Report of Com. on Sale of Lands, continuing to the next session of the General Assembly the petition of Edward H. Leffingwell; so continued and report accepted.

Res. amending the charter of the Mattatuck Bank came from Senate amended. House concurred in amendment and passage of res.

Adjourned to Monday at two o'clock P. M.

Monday Afternoon, June 25th. House assembled at two. Prayer by Rev. Mr. Patton.

Bill relating to salaries and fees of clerks of courts and States' attorneys; ref. to Judiciary Committee.

Report of Com. on Railroads, approving the report of Commissioners of Hartford and New Haven Railroad; reports accepted.

Res. proposing an amendment to the constitfition, that there shall be but one capital, situated either in Hartford, New Haven, Middletown or Meriden; referred.

Bill relating to courts, concerning actions before Justices of the Peace; ref. to Judiciary Committee.

Report of Judiciary Com. in favor of bill concerning salaries and fees of members of General Assembly; amended. Yeas and Nays ordered on the passage of the bill. Several amendments of an amusing character were offered and rejected. The question was then taken, and the bill passed, yeas 83, nays 62, and report accepted.

Bill concerning Communities and Corporations; ref. to Judiciary Committee.

Joint res. appointing Peter D. Irish, William H. Prentice and Ebenezer Carpenter, County Commissioners of New London County; laid on table.

Report of Commissioners on Naugatuck Railroad accepted, also of New York and New Haven Railroad, of New Haven and Northampton Railroad.

Res. that henceforth no member shall be entitled to the floor for more than ten minutes at a time, except by leave of the House; passed.

Report of Com. on Humane Institutions in favor of petition of Conn. Medical Society, in regard to insane convicts, with accompanying res. making an appropriation of not exceeding $15 00 for suitable accommodations for insane convicts, and appointing Dr. E. K. Hunt of Hartford, Jas. E. English of, New Haven, and the Directors of the State Prison

a com. to inquire into this subject; res. passed and report accepted.

Bill repealing an act therein named; ref. to Judiciary Committee.

Sixth annual report of Hartford Life Ins. Company; referred.

Bill relating to salaries and fees; ref. to Judiciary Committee.

Bill for the assessment and collection of taxes; same reference.

Report of Com. on Military Affairs, accepting the report of the Adjutant General; report accepted.

Report of Com. on Education, with substituted bill relating to moneys received from the U. States; bill amended and passed, and report accepted.

Report of Com. on School Fund adverse to the res. instructing the Commissioner to give preference to applicants from this State; res. rejected and report accepted.

Report of Judiciary Com. in favor of bill confirming the doings of a town meeting in Stafford ; bill passed and report accepted.

Res. fixing the time for assembling in the morning at 8 o'clock, until otherwise ordered; passed.

Res. restoring forfeited rights to Timothy B. Goff came from Senate rejected; House insisted and asked a Com. of Conference; Messrs. Brooks and Phelps appointed.

Report of Com. on Education accepting the report of the Superintendent of Common Schools; accepted.

Report of Judiciary Com. in favor of bill relatIng to Salaries and Fees of Clerks of State officers. Bill indefinitely postponed; Yeas 90, Nays 42, and report rejected.

Bill relating to oaths; ref. to Com. on Judiciary. Res. appropriating the sum of $10,000 to the Young Men's Institute of N. Haven; ref. to Com. on Education.

Res. authorizing the Commissioner of the School Fund to loan money at 7 per cent.; ref. to Com. on Finance.

Report of Com. on Banks adverse to bill relating to Banks. Bill rejected and report accepted.

Report of same Com. in favor of bill relating to banks organized under act of 1852, opening them to subscriptions of societies, &c. Bill passed and report accepted.

Report of Judiciary Com. in favor of Bill relating to Courts, that no aliens should be naturalized by the State Courts.

Mr. Hubbard offered an amendment that no alien should be naturalized by any United States Court, (Laughter.)

Mr. Hubbard claimed that the bill was a dishonest one, and designed to defraud.

Mr. Perkins said the bill was designed to throw impediments in the way of the too free naturalization of aliens.

Mr. Blackman read from the Declaration of Independence showing that one great burthen of complaint of our forefathers was that King George impaired the facilities of aliens becoming naturalized.

Mr. Perkins said that "times have changed" the character and amount of the emigrants at the time of our forefathers were very different, the amount of emigration has increased tenfold, while its character has depreciated tenfold, it is our right and duty to say who shall vote for our rulers. He read also from the declaration another passage.

Mr. Woodruff thought it was very proper for aliens to become citizens of the United States, through United States Courts; he had known our State Courts to travel around for the very purpose of naturalizing aliens.

Mr. Maddox thought the gentlemen inconsistent who favored the bill depriving white aliens, of citizenship, while they wished to give this privilege to blacks.

Mr. Perkins said that all aliens, whether black or white, were equally under the provisions of the

bill.

Mr. Blackman stated that the United States law recognized only white aliens.

Mr. Strong thought if "times had changed" principles had not, foreigners had assisted in achieving our independence and developing our country. Yeas and Nays on the passage of the bill, ordered. Mr. Train warmly advocated the bill. Amendment of Mr. Hubbard lost. Motion to adjourn. lay on table, &c.; lost.

The question was then taken, and the bill passed, yeas 98, nays 42; report of com. accepted.. Adjourned to 8 o'clock to-morrow morning.

Miscellaneous.

The Battle of San Jacinto.

[From the recently published Life of Sam Houston.] The night which proceeded the bloody slaughter of San Jacinto, rolled anxiously away, and brightly broke forth the morning of the last day of Texan servitude. Before the first grey lines shot up the East, three strong taps of a drum were heard in the camp, and 700 soldiers sprang to their feet as one man. The camp was busy with the soldier-hum of preparation for battle; but in the midst of it all, Houston slept on calmly and profoundly. The soldiers had eaten the last meal they were to eat till they had won their independence. They were under arms, ready for the struggle.

At last the glorious sun came over the Prairie, without a single cloud. It shone full and clear in the face of the Hero, and it waked him to battle.He sprang to his feet, and exclaimed, "the sun of Austerlitz has risen again." His face was calm, and for the first time in many weeks, every shade of trouble had moved away from his brow. He ordered his Commissary General, Col. John Forbes, to provide two good axes, and then sent for deaf Smith. He took this faithful and intrepid man aside, and ordered him to conceal the axes in a safe place near by, where he could lay his hands on them at a moment's warning, and not to pass the lines of the sentinels that day without his special orders, nor to be out of his call.

Morning wore away, and about nine o'clock, a large body of men was seen moving over a swell of the prairie in the direction of Santa Amma's camp. They were believed to be a powerful force which had come to join the Mexicans, and the spectacle produced no little excitement in the Texan lines.Houston saw it at a glance, and quelled the apprehension by coolly remarking, that "they were the same men they had seen the day before-they had marched round the swell in the prairie and returned in sight of the Texan camp to alarm their foe, with the appearance of an immense reinforcement-for it was very evident Santa Anna did not wish to fight. But it was all a ruse de guerre that could be easily seen through-a mere Mexican trick.

All this was very well, and yet Houston, of course, had quite a different notion on the subject. He sent Deaf Smith and a comrade, with confidential orders, as spies on their rearward march. They soon returned, and reported publicly that "the General was right—it was all a humbug." A few minutes after, Deaf Smith whispered quite another story in the private ear of the commander. The enemy seen was a reinforcement of 540 men, under Gen. Cos, who had heard Santa Anna's cannon the day before on the Brazos, and came on by forced marches to join his standard. But the secret was kept till it did no harm to reveal it.

At this juncture, a council of war, consisting of six field officers, was called, at their suggestion.The General in Chief, seated on the grass beneath a post oak tree, submitted the proposition whether they should attack the enemy in his position, or whether they should wait for him to attack them in theirs? The two juniors in rank were in favor of attack, but the four seniors objected, alleging such a movement as charging a disciplined army in position by a raw soldiery, advancing in an open prairie, without the cover of artillery, and with only two hundred bayonets, was an unheard-of thing. The council was dismissed. The troops were sounded as to an attack, and were found to be favorable, and the General at once determined, on his own responsibility, to give battle.

A proposition was made to the General to construct a floating bridge over Buffalo Bayou, "which might be used in the event of danger." Houston ordered his Adjutant and Inspector Generals and an aide to ascertain if the necessary materials could be obtained. They reported that by tearing down a house in the neighborhood, they could. "We will postpone it awhile, at all events," was Houston's reply.

In the meantime he had ordered Deaf Smith to report to him, with a companion, well mounted. He retired with them to the spot where the axes had been deposited in the morning. Taking one in either hand, and examining them carefully, he handed them to the two trusty fellows, saying, "Now, my friends, take these axes, mount, and make the best of your way to Vince's bridge; cut it down, and burn it up, and come back like eagles, or you will be too late for the day." This was the bridge over which both armies had crossed in their march to the battle ground of San Jacinto, and it cut off all chance of escape for the vanquished.

"This," said Deaf Smith, in his droll way, "looks a good deal like a fight, General."

The reader will not fail to notice the difference between Houston's calculations of the results of that day, and those of some of his officers. They bethought themselves of building a new bridgehe of cutting down and burning up the only bridge in the neighborhood. The fact was, Houston was determined his army should come off victorious that day, or leave their bodies on the field.

The day was now wearing away; it was three o'clock in the afternoon, and yet the enemy kept concealed behind his breast works, and manifested no disposition to come to an engagement. Events had taken just such a current as Houston expected and desired, and he began to prepare for battle.

over.

In describing his plan of attack, we borrow the language of his official report, after the battle was "The 1st Regiment, commanded by Colonel Burleson, was assigned the centre. The 2d Regi'ment, under the command of Col. Sherman, formed the left wing of the army. The artillery, under the special command of Col. George W. Hockley, Inspector General, was placed on the right of the 1st Regiment, and four companies of infantry, under the command of Lieut. Col. Henry Millard, sustained the artillery upon the right. Our cavalry, sixty one in number, commanded by Col. Mirabeau B. Lamar, placed on our extreme right, completed our line. Our cavalry was first dispatched to the front of the enemy's left, for the purpose of attracting their notice, whilst an extensive island of timber afforded us an opportunity of concentrating our forces and displaying them from that point, agreeably to the previous design of the troops. Every evolution was performed with alacrity, the whole advancing rapidly in a line, and through an open prairie, without any protection whatever for our men. The artillery advanced and took station within two hundred yards of the enemy's breastwork."

Those who expect a minute and accurate account of this engagement, from the writer, or any one else, must be disappointed; for no such description can ever be written. It was a slaughter, more than a battle. We can only give the reader an idea of the position of both armies when the engagement began-fill up the interval of the next few minutes with blood, and smoke, and cries, and slaughter, and then tell the almost incredible result. The two armies were now drawn up in complete order. There were 700 Texans on the field, and Santa Anna's troops numbered over eighteen hundred. Houston had informed Mr. Rusk of the plan of the battle, and he approved of it as perfect. The Secretary, it is true, had never been a soldier he understood little of military evolutions or the discipline of an army; but Houston knew he carried a lion-heart in his bosom, and he assigned him the command of the left wing. The General of course led the centre.

Everything was now ready, and every man at his post waiting for the charge. The two six pounders had commenced a well-directed fire of grape and cannister, and they shattered bones and baggage where they struck. The moment had at last come. Houston ordered the CHARGE, and sounded out the war cry, "REMEMBER THE ALAMO." These magic words struck the ear of every soldier at the same instant, and the Alamo!" "the Alamo !" went up from the army in one wild scream, which sent terror through the Mexican host. At that moment a rider came up on a horse covered with mire and foam, swinging an axe over his head,and dashed along the Texan lines, crying out, as he had been instructed to do, "I have cut down Vince's bridge -now fight for your lives and remember the ALAMO," and then the solid phalanx, which had been held back for a moment at the announcement,

launched forward upon the breastworks like an avalanche of fire. Houston spurred his horse on at the head of the centre column right into the face of the foe.

THE FARM AND THE GARDEN.

We have never known a time when the descent of the rain was the subject of such rejoicings as at present. Shouts of congratulation over "the rain, the precious rain," arise from every part of the land It is but a few weeks since that accounts were received from the South, particularly, of a scvere drought, and more recently the same story has come from the North. Now, there are before us accounts from Texas, Arkansas, North and South Carolina, Maryland, Ohio, Michigan, Missouri, and diferent parts of New England, announcing the recent fall of copious rains. All these successive rains will have their effect on many of our crops, and, though the season is cold, will still make some of the products of the soil abundant. Harvesting has already commenced in Alabama, and the wheat is coming in well.

The wool growers of Western Vermont are to have a public sheep shearing and exhibition at Elgin Springs, near Vergennes, on the 12th and 13th of this month. At the same time and place is to be an exhibition of horses.

The Maine Legislature has appropriated $500 to be awarded this season in premiums to encourage the growth of flax in that State.

The refuse of the cod fisheries on the coast of Newfoundland, &c., is recommended as being nearly as valuable a manure as guano. A French company has been formed, who deliver it in France at £5 per ton. The establishment employs 150 men. The North British Agriculturist says the value of labor has increased 50 per cent. within the last two rears, in Scotland. A similar increase is taking place all over Great Britain, owing to the immense drains of the war and emigration. It accounts parally for the falling off in emigration to the United States.

An Agricultural Department has been attached to the Tennessee State government.

A correspondent of the N. Y. Evening Post, from & Johnsbury, Vt., says that more seed has been at into the ground, in that region, this year, than al. May was an excellent month to plough and sin, and the farmers have taken advantage of it. There have been introduced from the south of France the seeds of the morocco-dressers' sumach z experiments in this country, the leaves and ranches of which are used instead of oak bark in ting leather, and are believed to be the same with Tch the Turkey morocco is tanned. It is exceedBy rich in tannin, producing more than double American sumach, which is already used in siderable quantities. It prospers best in a dry , though it will grow in any common garden or in the central and southern latitudes in the ted States. The Tripoli merchants sell the seeds & Aleppo, where they are in common use to produe an appetite. The taste of the fruit is very

and astringent, but does not possess the pois qualities for which some of the species of id genus are so remarkable.

broadcast, but the experience of many farmers inclines us to prefer it sown in drills. It grows quick, may be cut green any time during summer as food for working teams or dairy cows, and will, for either, be found more profitable than grass. It should be allowed partially to wilt before feeding, especially for working teams, as they can then obtain more food with less water. It is excellent in winter to alternate with hay as a variety, and better relished by stock as containing more saccharine matter. It should be cut and bound in very small bundles, having been allowed to partially dry before binding, and will be less liable to heat and mould if put up in small stacks than in a large body or barn mow.

STRAWBERRY BEDS.-Strawberry beds should be kept clean and free from grass and weeds-also the runners should be kept down till after the fruit is gathered. The ground close around the plant should not be disturbed any more than may be necessary to insure clean culture. Frequent and profuse watering, in case the weather should be rather dry, will be very beneficial-it will pay well for the labor expended, in the superior perfection, beauty and size of the fruit.

Before the fruit ripens, cover the ground between the roots with clean long straw-if such an article can be found after so severe a winter-or a coat of spent tan or saw dust will answer the two-fold purpose of keeping the ground moist and save the fruit from being spattered and defaced with mud, in time of rain. Plaster should never be applied to strawberries-we tried that useful commodity on a part of a strawberry bed once, and had the satisfaction of beholding a very luxuriant growth of foliage, but they produced nothing but foliage. It was applied when the plant was in blossom. We propose to make some other use of our plaster in future.

We understand it has been observed to have a similar effect when applied to apple and other fruit trees when in blossom. If this is so, it would be well for persons about to sow plaster in orchards to avoid doing so when the trees are in bloom.-Ontario Co. Times.

GUINEA FOWLS vs. RATS.—A correspondent of the Prairie Farmer, who was very much annoyed by rats, tried shooting, poisoning, and everything he could think of; but they defied the whole cat-egory. He then heard that they would not remain where Guinea fowls were kept, and procured several, and now says that for over two years he has neither seen nor heard a rat about the premises.

We doubt the above rat remedy, and should be glad to hear from others who have tried it, to know whether it is effectual.

The Miser and his Bag of Gold. Hawoja Yacoob was accustomed to sit by his money bag, wishing that some great spirit would endow it with the marvelous qualities of Fortunatus' purse. One night the voice of the bulbul was echoing louder than ever through the desolate old castle, and the miser's heart trembled with anxiety and fear. Somehow or other he had a secret presentiment that all was not right-that some unseen evil hung suspended over his head in the air. "Drat the bird!" quoth the miser, "her hateful song draws silly people forth from their houses, even at this late hour, till darkness and terror connected with this neighborhood are fast being overcome. "Drat the bird!"

"Ay, ay! what's that you say?" growled a deep unmelodious voice, close to the startled miser's ear "Drat the bird, sir? Why that bird is our sovereign lady, the Queen of the Forest."

The trembling old man could scarcely gasp for breath, as, clutching tightly with both hands his favorite sack of gold, he looked fearfully over his shoulders and saw a face and head,, without any body, floating in the middle of the room, with a pair of dreadfully ghastly-looking eyes staring at him full in the face.

"That's my gold," quoth the head, with a terrible oath.

Now, although the miser was ready to faint away with fright, the bare idea of relinquishing his darling treasure, brought him to his senses again: so he stoutly denied that any one but himself had the

--ghost of a title to a farthing's value of what he-possessed.

"But I do," said the head. "I lay claim to all the gold in the world; and to prove to you, that I am correct, I'll bet you that there are fifty millions of billions of doubloons in that sack, and a hundred millions times as many more."

"I'll take the bet," was the miser's reply, as his heart leapt for joy again, so confident was he of

success.

Well, it took him a long time to count before he came within fifty doubloons of what he knew the sack ought to contain-now he only wanted tennow only five-now one, and still the sack was as cram-full of doubloons as ever.

"There is some cheating here," quoth the miser. "I won't count any more."

"You dare stop, and see what I'll do to you," was the ogre's terrific reply.

And so the wretched miser went on counting and counting, and never came to the bottom of the sack, through, heaven only knows, how many long years; when the last crumbling ruins of his tenement fell in, people came to graze their cattle in the neighborhood; but the shepherds could never be induced to remain there over night, because they said the noise of people counting money, and letting coin drop and tingle again on the old stones, was really too awful to listen to, especially if the night proved to be particularly dark and stormy,

sue.

For Invalids.

In some advice to consumptives, Dr. Hall says: "Eat all you can digest and exercise a great deal in the open air, to convert what you eat into pure healthful blood. Do not be afraid of out-door air day or night; do not be afraid of sudden changes of weather; let no change, hot or cold, keep you in doors. If it is rainy weather, the more need for your going out, because you eat as much on a rainy day as on a clear day, and if you exercise less, that much more remains in the system of what ought to be thrown off by exercise, and some ill result, some consequent symptom or ill feeling, is the certain isIf it is cold out of doors do not muffle your eyes, mouth and nose in furs, veils, woolen comforters, and the like. Nature has supplied you with the best muffler,-with the best inhaling regulator --that is, two lips. Shut them before you step out of a warm room into the cold air, and keep them shut until you have walked briskly a few rods and quickened the circulation a little; walk fast enough to keep off a feeling of chilliness, and taking cold will be impossible. What are the facts of the case ? Look at railroad conductors, going out of a hot air into the piercing cold of winter and in again every five or ten minutes, and yet they do not take cold oftener than others; you will hardly find a consumptive man in a thousand of them. It is wonderful how afraid consumptive people are of fresh air, the very thing that would cure them-the only obstacle to a cure being that that they do not get enough of it; and yet, what infinite pains they take to avoid breathing it, especially if it is cold, when it is known that the colder the air is the purer it must be. Yet if people cannot get a hot climate they will make an artificial one, and imprison themselves for a whole winter în a warm room, with a temperature not varying ten degrees in six months. All such people die, and yet we follow in their footstops. If I were seriously ill of consumption I would live out of doors day and night, except it was raining or mid-winter, then I would sleep in an unplastered log house. My consumptive friend, you want air, not physic; you want pure air, not medicated air; you want nutrition, such as plenty of meat and bread will give, and they alone. Physic has no nutriment; gasping for air cannot cure you; monkey capers in a gymnasium cannot cure you; and stimulants cannot cure you. If you want to get well, go in for beef and out-door air, and do not be deluded into the grave by newspaper advertisements and unfindable certifiers."

WOULD HAVE SATISFACTION.-A young couple recently ran away, near St. Louis, Mo., and going up to Alton, Illinois, were married. The father of the young lady, after diligent but unsuccessful search for her, met with the father of the bridegroom, and thereupon beat that gentleman most unmerci ully.

1. The acknowledgment of that Almighty Being who rules over the Universe, who presides over the Councils of Nations, who conducts the affairs of men, and who, in every step by which we have advanced to the character of an independent nation has distinguished us by some token of providential agency.

2. The cultivation and development of a sentiment of profoundly intense American feeling; of passionate attachment to our country, its history and its institutions; of admiration for the purer days of our National existence; of veneration for the heroism that precipitated our Revolution; and of emulation of the virtue, wisdom and patriotism that framed our Constitution, and first successfully applied its provisions.

3. The unconditional restoration of that timehonored Agreement known as the Missouri Compromise, which was destroyed in utter disregard of the popular will; a wrong which no lapse of time can palliate, and no plea for its continuance can justify. And that we will use all constitutional means to maintain the positive guarantee of that compact, until the object for which it was enacted has been consummated by the admission of Kanzas and Nebraska as free States.

4. The rights of settlers in Territories to the free and undisturbed exercise of the elective franchise guaranteed to them by the laws under which they are organized, should be promptly protected by the National Executive whenever violated or threatened.

5. Obedience under God to the Constitution of these United States, as the supreme law of the land, sacredly obligatory upon all its parts and members; and steadfast resistance to the spirit of innovations upon its principles, however specious the pretexts. Avowing that in all doubtful or disputed points it may only be legally ascertained and expounded by the judicial power of the United States. A habit of reverential obedience to the laws, whether National, State or Municipal, until they are either repealed, or declared unconstitutional, by the proper authority.

6. A radical revision and modification of the laws regulating immigration, and the settlement of immigrants. Offering to the honest immigrant, who from the love of liberty or hatred of oppression seeks an asylum in the United States, a friendly reception and protection; but unqualifiedly condemning the transmission to our shores of felons and paupers.

7. The essential modification of the naturalization laws-the repeal by the Legislatures of the respective States, of all State laws allowing unnaturalized foreigners to vote. The repeal, without retractive operation, of all acts of Congress making grants of land to unnaturalized foreigners. The refusal to extend the right of suffrage to all foreigners until they shall have resided in the United States twenty-one (21) years, and complied with the naturalization laws.

8. Hostility to the corrupt means, by which the leaders of parties have hitherto forced upon us our rulers, and our political creeds. Implacable enmity against the present demoralizing system of rewards for political subserviency, and of punishment for political independence. Disgust for the wild hunt after office which characterizes the age.

These on the one hand; on the other-imitation of the practice of the purer days of the Republic; and admiration of the maxim "that office should seek the man and not man the office," and of the rule that the just mode of ascertaining fitness for office is the capability, the faithfulness, and the honesty of the incumbent or candidate.

9. Resistance to the aggressive policy and corrupting tendencies of the Roman Catholic Church in our country by the advancement to all political stations-executive, legislative, judicial or diplomatic of those only who do not hold civil allegiance, directly or indirectly to any foreign power whether civil or ecclesiastical, and who are Americans by birth, education and training, thus fulfilling the maxim-Americans only shall govern America. The protection of all citizens in the legal and proper exercise of their civil and religious rights and privileges; the maintenance of the right of every man to the full, unrestricted and peaceful enjoyment of his own religious opinions and worship, and a jealous resistance of all attempt by any sect, denomination or church, to obtain an ascendancy over any other in the State, by means of any special privileges or exemption, by any political combination of its members, or by a division of their civil allegience with any foreign power, potentate or ecclesiastic.

10. The reformation of the character of our National Legislature, by elevating to that dignified and responsible position, men of sober habits, of higher qualifications, purer morals, and more unselfish patriotism.

11. The restriction of executive patronage-especially in the matter of appointments to office-so far as it may be permitted by the Constitution, and consistent with the public good.

12. The education of the youth of our country in schools provided by the State; which schools shall be common to all, without distinction of creed or party, and free from any influence or direction of a denominational or partizan character. And inasmuch as Christianity, by the Constitutions of nearly all the States, by the decisions of the most eminent judicial authorities, and by the consent of the people of America, is considered an element of our political system, and as the Holy Bible is at once the source of Christianity, and the depository and fountain of all civil and religious freedom, we oppose every attempt to exclude it from the schools thus established in the States.

13. We advocate protection to American industry and genius, against the adverse policy of foreign nations; also, facilities to internal and external commerce, by the improvement of rivers and harbors.

14. The policy of the Government of the United States, in its relations with foreign governments, is to exact justice from the strongest and do justice to the weakest; restraining, by all the power of the Government, all its citizens from interference with the internal concerns of nations with whom we are at peace.

15. The union of these States should be made perpetual by a faithful adherence to the principles embodied in the Declaration of Independence, and confirmed by the Constitution.

16. We believe that neither nature nor the Constitution of our country recognize the right of man to property in man.

17. We believe that the stability of our institu tions depends upon the virtue and intelligence of the people, and whereas intemperance surely tends *to undermine and destroy that virtue, therefore,

Resolved, We are in favor of a legal constitutional prohibition of the traffic in all alcoholic liquors. 18. All the principles of the Order to be henceforth everywhere openly avowed; each member shall be at liberty to make known the existence of the Order, and the fact that he himself is a member; and there need be no concealment of the places of meeting of the Subordinate Councils.

E. J. NIGHTINGALE, Pres't of State Council of R. I.

H. N. CLEMONS, Secretary.

American Platform in Alabama.

The Know Nothing State Convention of Alabama, held at Montgomery on the 12th instant, promulgated the following platform of principles for the Order in that State:

1. Native Americans for office.

2. Amendment of the naturalization laws so as to extend the time for admission to the full rights of citizenship.

3. Opposition to the immigration to this country of paupers and criminals.

4. Opposition to the exercise of political franchise

by foreigners in any of our Territories prior to naturalization.

5. A protection to all persons "in the inestimable privilege of worshipping God in the manner most agreeable to their consciences;" but we are opposed to electing any man to office who recogni ses the right of any denomination whatever to exercise political power or any "higher law" than the Constitution of the United States.

6. The non-intervention with the subject of slavery by the Federal Government, except for the protection of our constitutional rights.

7. The perpetuity of the Union of these States upon the principles of the Constitution, and a strict regard for the rights of the States, and the full exercise of all privileges not delegated to the Federal Government.

8. The purity of the ballot box and the enforcement of law and order.

The State Guard, a spirited American paper, published at Norwich, claims to have the largest circulation of any paper in that part of the State, and says its subscription list is constantly increasing. This speaks well for the paper and the cause. As a sample of the editorials, and because we like the tone, we take some comments on the course of the Northern delegates to the recent Philadelphia Convention:

"They asked but the small concession that a great wrong should be made right; that the South should restore their ill gotten privileges wrested from us by the fraud and corruption of demagogues. They asked this as a right, and demanded it as the only basis for fair compromise. They were met as highway men, demanding the purses of their neighbors; as men to whom not even the right could be conceded, lest for the inch given they might take an ell.

James W. Barker and his colleagues from New York, who had fought the Anti-Nebraska sentiment of their own State, and upon that issue had been defeated,-who had wrestled with Seward and been thrown upon their backs-who had attempted a Union party with a Southern platform for the South and a doughface sentiment for the North-these men went into that Convention and attempted to force upon the nation a platform which, not only New York, but all the Northern States would despise and "spit upon" with disdain. The platform adopted, the Free States have already, in their Congressional and Senatorial elections, repudiated. The voice of the North has been heard, but in this Convention its influence was not felt-its voice was unheeded. Delegates from the Southern States, with one or two exceptions, came with their programme all complete, prepared, not to deliberate coolly in council, but to submit their terms. They held union and harmony in their keeping, and they simply announced its price. They said to Northern delegates, "Gentlemen, we wish for compromise to preserve union and harmony, in our order. By 'compromise' we mean penitence and pardon-for you repentance, for us forgiveness. The voice of your million of Northern freemen comes from wrong impulses, and we must not heed it. By retreating from the position you have already taken, and re nouncing forever the principles of Liberty, you can obtain what we so ardently desire-union, harmony and peace." These were substantially the terms of peace, and they were just such terms as could no be accepted. The North, through her delegates spurned, indignantly, the platform, and would no ratify the bill of sale. We rejoice that the issu has come at length."

There is a great deal of truth in the followin remark of the New York Evening Post:

"If Senator Wilson had yielded in the conte which is going on in the convention in Philade phia, he would have gone back to Washington insignificant a man as the majority of the senat‹ from the northern states have been for many ye past. He becomes, by the step he has taken man of mark, a leader, a person to be consulted man to whose opinions a certain deference is alw: to be paid."

We see by the Norwich Courier that not a sir indication of the presence of the curculio has b observed in that region this season.

"Is It Fat ??...--A Ghost Story.

One of the most remarkable cases of sudden cure of disease of long standing, was that of a rheumatic invalid, with which is connected an amusing ghost story. There was a couple of men, in some old settled part of the country, who were in the habit of stealing sheep, and robbing churchyards of the burial clothes of the dead. There was a public road leading by a meeting church where there was a grave yard, not far off on the road to the tavern. Early one moonlight night, while one thief was engaged in robbing a grave the other went off to steal a sheep. The first one having accomplished his business wrapped the shroud around him, and took his seat in the meeting house door, awaiting the coming of his companion.

A man on foot, passing along the road towards the tavern, took him for a ghost, and alarmed almost to death, ran as fast as his feet could carry him to the tavern, which he reached out of breath. As soon as he could speak, he declared that he had seen a ghost, a real ghost, robed in white and sitting in the church-door. But nobody would believe him. He then declared that if any of them would go with him he would go back, and they' might be convinced! But, incredulous as they all were, no one could be found who had the courage to go.

At length a man who was so afflicted with the rheumatism that he could not walk, declared that he would go with him if he could only get there. The man then proposed to take him on his back, took him up and off they went. When they got in sight, sure enough thefe it was, as he had said. Wishing to satisfy themselves well, and get as near as they could in the dim light, they kept venturing up nearer and nearer. The man with the shroud around him took them to be his companion with a sheep on his back; and he asked in a low tone of voice:

That was enough. The man with the other on his back replied:

"Fat or lean, you may have him."

And dropping the invalid, he traveled back to the tavern as fast as his feet could carry him. But he had scarcely reached there, when in came the invalid, on foot too! The sudden fright had cured him of his rheumatism; and from that time forward he was a well man.

This is said to have been a real occurrence, and it is not the only one of such cures of which I have beard. I once heard of a woman who had been bed-ridden, I think, for twenty years; and who upon the house taking fire, made her escape upon her feet, and was never so confined by the disease afterwards.-Phil. Courier.

Jesultism and Great Intellect. Look at the Catholics in the United States in comparison with the Protestants. In the whole of America there is not a single man born and bred a Catholic, distinguished for any thing but his devotion to the Catholic church. I mean to say there is not a man in America born and bred a Catholic, who has any distinction in science, literature, polities, benevolence, or philanthropy. I never heard of a great philosopher, naturalist, historian, orator ar poet among them. The Jesuits have been in existence three hundred years; they have had their pick of the choicest intellect of all Europe-they ever take a common man when they know it; they subject every pupil to a severe ordeal, in intelinal and physical, as well as moral, in order to Mertain whether he has the requisite stuff in him make a strong Jesuit of. They have a scheme deducation masterly in its way. But there has st been a single great original man produced in the company of Jesuits from 1545 to 1854. They tarb enough talent, but they strangle it. Clipped sks never grow large. Prune the roots of a tree ⚫th a spade, prune the branches close to the bole, nd what becomes of the tree? The bole itself mains thin, and scant, and slender. Can a man

be a conventional dwarf and a natural giant at the same time? Case your little boy's limbs in metal would they grow? Not a shrub, even. Put a priest, or a priest's creed as the only soil for a man to grow in, he grows not. The great God provided the natural mode of operation-do you suppose he will turn aside and mend or mar the universe at your or my request? I think God will do no such thing.-Parker.

AN AMERICAN MARSHAL IN PARIS.-Among the Americans who attended the late ball given at the Hotel de Ville, Paris, was Jack Spicer, of Kentucky. Jack rushed the dress somewhat strong, and wore epauletts on his shoulders large enough to start four Major Generals in business. Jack was observed of all other observers, and got mixed up with a party that his friends could not account for. Wherever the Marshals of France went, there went Jack; and when the Marshals sat down, Jack did the same, always taking the post of honor. The day after the ball Jack called on his old acquaintance, Mr. Mason, our Minister to France, who started up a little conversation in the following

I was, sir, and had a high old time."

"For which you are indebted, I suppose, to the high old company you got mixed up with. By the way, how came you associated with the Marshals?"

"How? by virtue of my office; they were Marshals of France, while I am nothing else than a Marshal of the Republic. I showed my commission, and took post accordingly."

'By right of your office; what do you mean ?" "Read that and see,"

Here Jack presented Mr. Mason with a whitey brown paper, with a scal big enough for a four pound weight."

"What in the name of Heaven is this?"

"My commission of Marshal"-I received it in 1850, when I assisted in taking the census in Frankfort.

"You don't mean to say that you travel on this ?" "I don't mean anything else. That made me a Marshal of the Republic, and I intend to have the office duly honored."

Mr. Mason thought that Jack was doing a large business on a very small capital. We should not wonder if the reader did the same. A census marshal of Frankfort mixing in with the Marshals of France, is certainly rushing matters in a manner that requires as much brass as epauletts. Jack, we are happy to say, is equal to the requirements.

SUPPERLESS TO BED.-The New Bedford Standard says that on Wednesday evening, a Providence gentleman gave a brilliant entertainment to a large company of acquaintances. As the hour of refreshment drew near, a bountiful and elegant collation was spread upon the table, and the host, after a hasty glance to see that everything was arranged to his satisfaction, re-entered the parlor to summon his guests. He was absent but a few moments; but upon returning with his company to the supper room, lo, what a change was there! The table which he had left groaning under the weight of all the delicacies of the season, was bare and desolate. Everything else remained undisturbed, but some mysterious hand had awaited an opportunity when the servants were away and the room was empty, to clear the board by one fell swoop, and furnish a practical exemplification of the theatrical phrase exeunt omnes. The fond hopes of the hungry guests were demolished, and the tempting viands which had been prepared for their palates were, in all probability, consigned to the plebeian stomach of an unscrupulous thief. The Standard suggests that the affair was possibly a joke prepared for the occasion by some obliging friend. We should think the perpetrator of such a joke would never dare acknowledge his connection with the deed. He would be withered by the treasured indignation of the disappointed revelers.

A SHARP IDEA.-Sooner than marry a woman of fifty, I'd take twò at five-and-twenty.

AN ANECDOTE FROM THE SEAT OF WAR.-The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser gives the following extract from a letter from an officer in the Crimea:

"A curious thing occurred yesterday. A sapper was brought from the trenches with his jaw broken, and the Doctor told me there was a piece of it sticking out an inch and a half from his face. The man said it was done by a round shot, which the Doctor disbelieved; but the poor fellow insisted and said, 'Yes, and it took off the head of the man next me. This was conclusive, and the surgeon proceeded to remove the bone; it came out quite easy, when the Doctor said to the man, whose face appeared to preserve its form pretty well, 'can you move your jaw?' 'Oh yes, sir,' was the repty.— The Doctor then put his finger into the man's mouth and found the teeth were there, and at length assured the soldier that it was no jaw of his that was broken, but that of his headless comrade, which had actually been driven into his face, inflicting a severe but not dangerous wound. Upon this the man's visage, which had been rather lengthened, rounded up most beautifully."

The head engineer at Sebastopol is Todleben. He is thirty-two years of age. His parents are poor shopkeepers in Riga. When the siege commenced Prince Menschikoff, it is said, asked the then head engineer how long it would take to put the place into a state of defence. He answered 'two months.' A young captain, named Todleben stepped forward and said he would undertake to do it, if he had as many men as he required, in two weeks. He did it in twelve days, and was made colonel. Since that time he has had the direction of everything in the way of building batteries, defences, &c. The other day the Grand Dukes called upon his wife, who is residing at St. Petersburg, to congratulate her upon her husband's promotion, for he is now General and Aid-de-Camp to the Emperor. Is anything more wanted to explain the painful discrepancy between what has been done by the Russians and by the Allies? The former will be bound by no ties of seniority or class; they take the man that will do his work the best, and they get it the best done.-London Times.

Old Knick musn't have all the baby stories. We have some of the finest specimens, this way, of whom we can tell stories. Our friend 'Cymon' has a little girl of four years-a child of much promise. She is a lady not only 'up' in the literature of the nursery, but can give 'readings from Shakspeare' in a manner worthy of older years.-The other morning she was cross and fretful, and her mother reminded her that she didn't look so pleasantly as she might that her swollen eyes and pouting lips made her look ugly.-The little lady paused a moment, as if making some stupendous reflection in her own mind, and then turning to her mother with a half-sunshiny face, she said, 'Well, ugly little ducks may sometimes be pretty swans!' The application of the nursery story of the ugly little duck was thus most admirably made.

Another case we heard of full as good. A little girl of four years had been brought up very properly with regard to correct speech, when one day looking at her doll's feet, she said, 'Papa, I know that feets is proper, but I do love to say little tooties.-Boston Post.

THE PUSTULE MALIGNE.-The disease, now attracting so much attention in New York, from the peculiarity of its symptoms, the rapidity of its course, and its fatal results, is said to be a disease known among medical men as the Pustule Maligne, or Charbon. It has been described by different writers under other names, as Anthrax, Buton Milan, Charbon, Charbon Malin, Puce Maligne, Feu Persique, and is a gangrenous inflammation of the skin, involving, more or less deeply, the sub-cutaneous areola tissue. There is much dispute among authorities concerning the identity of Pustule Maligne and Charbon. In New York several cases have occurred, which have defied the most skillful medical treatment. Some of the symptoms have won for it the title of the plague, though it is readily distinguishable by a scientific eye from the great Oriental pest.