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ST. CLAIRSVILLE, OHKVTtttJIlSDAY. APRIL 3, 1856. 1 WHOLE NO. 031 ii.i THE CURONIOLEl PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING Office on North side of Mnin Hirer In the New Mrnonic Hull, a lew door Vntt of the Court House, nnd a lew doors cM the Norton House.

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PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY. AN ACT. To amend the ad', erHUIed "an act to establish ft Code of Civil Procedure," passed March 11, Sec. 1. Be it enaclod by the Uonuriil Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section two hundred of the "act to establish a code ol civil procedure," bo so amended as to read as follows: Sec.

300. When the plaintiff, his agent or attorney, shall make oath, in writing, that he Bat good reason to and does, believe that any person or cor- poruiion, in said affidavit named, has property ol the delendant in his possession, (describing the same,) il the oflicer cannot gel possession ol such property, he shall leave with such garnishee a copy of the Older ol attachment, with inch written nonce that ho appear in court and answer as provided in section two hundred and tourteen. See. 2. If the garnishee shall not reside in the cotiniy in' which the order ol aitiichnient shall be issued, the proceBS shall he served by the proper officer ollhe county in which the garnishee shall reside, and the answ er ol the garnishee shall bo made be-1 fore the clerk ot the court of common pleas ol Iht I county in which the garnishee may reside, within the lime required lor the tiling ol answers by garnishees.

Anv spec ial examination ol such garnishee, which may be ordered by the court, shall in the Wunty "i which he may reside, and should suit be brought against such garnishee, under the provisions ot seen in two hundred and eighteen ot this ci, such suit shall be brought in the county in which the garnishee shall reside. Tho clerk ol ihe court of common pleas before whom tho answer aforesaid shall bo made shrill transmit the sime lo tho clerk ollhe court in which the suit shall be commenced, in tire same manner as depositions are required lobe directed and trnnsmutcd, and shall ro-heive for his services such fees as are allowed by law for taking depositions, and to clerks lor furnishing' certificates, wiih their seals of office attached. In all eases in which the garnishee shall admit an indebtedness to the delendant.and the court shall order the payment of the same, or any part llureol, totheplaiilitl.il the garnishee shell not pay the same according to sucn order, may issue thereon as upon judgments lor the payment ol mon- eyThe service of process upon sheriff, coroner, constable, master commiHsioner, marshal ol an incorporated city or village, or other oflicer having any money claim or other property ol lbs defendant in his posesion. or in which the delendant may have any interest, shall bind the same liout the time ol such service, and shall bo a legal excuse to such officers to the extent ol the demand ol the pla-intitf, lor not paying such money or delivering such claim or property to the delendant as by law, or the terms of the process in his hands ho would otherwise be bound to do. Original section two hundred of the act atoresanl N.

H. VAN VORHES, Speaker the House of Representatives. THOMAS H. FORD, President of the Senate. Dated March 17th, 1856.

AN ACT, To amend the sixteenth section or an act entitled "nn act relating to iho organization of Courts ol Justice their powers and duiles," passed February ly, 1S52. Sec. 1. lie it enacted by the General Assembly ol the Stale ol Ohio. That in every instance wnere ol the court of common pleas is, or shall uu interested in the event ol any cause, proceeding, motion or matter pending beloro Ins said court, in any county ot his district, or where there shall not be a quorum ol the judges ol tho district court ot any district by rsasun ol interest, on affidavit ot either party to said cause, proceeding, motion or matter pending, or his counsel, showing the lact ueh inierest, ii shall be the duty ol tho clerk ol said court, to enter upon ihe docket thereof, on order direciin" that papers and all matters belonging to said cause, motion, proceeding, or matters pending which said judge of the court ol common pleas or of said district court is interested, shall be transmitted to the clerk ol the court ol a county ol oneol the adjoining districts: or it both parties consent thereto to the clerk a county ol another suWi-vision of the same district, und when a gOMr ol said docket entry, together wiih all ihe tiles belonging to said cause, moiion proceeding, or mailer pending, shall be tiled with the elerk ol tho court to whom the same may he transmuted, said elerkishnll dock-et said cause, motion, proceeding, or matter pending and thereupon the same shall proceed to final judgment or determination, in all respects, as though the some had origiuully commenced 10 Bald court last nieniioned.

Sec. 2. That the sixteenth sect'on ollhe acl relating to the'orgauizationol courts ol justice, and iheir power and duties," passed February nineteenth, one thousand eight aud tilty-two, be und the Same is herebv reuealed. N. H.

VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS H. FORD, THOMAS H. FORD, President of the Senate. March 17, 1856.

AN ACT. To repeal the act entitled "an set to amend the ac supplementary to the set to pruveu'. uiiauthotued banking, anil the circulation ol unauthorized bank passed February 24, 1848. Sic. 1.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Slate ol Ohio, l'hat the "act to amend the act supplementary to ihe act to preveir. unauthorized banking, and the circulation ol unauthorised bank paper, "passed February 21, 1848, be. and Ihe same Is hereby repealed. Ssc. 2.

The provisions of lite act hereby repealed shall not operate upon, nor affect any contract made alter the "act to prohibit the circulation ot foreign bank bills of a less denomination than tun dollars," passed May 1, 1854, took effect and became a law of Slate. N. H. VAN VORHES, N. H.

VAN VORHES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS H. FORD, President of the Senate. March 17th. 1856.

Auditor's Orricx, Belmont County, March 27, 1856. 1 I hereby certify, that the foregoing acts are correctly copied from the copies certified tome by the Hecrelarv of State. JAMES F. CHARLESWORTH, County Auditor Cbackess, Half teacup of shortening, three teacups of cold water, one tablespoon, ful of salt, one teaspoonful of two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar, sou nearly 6 quarts of flour. Rub the shortening, sods cream of tartar and salt well into the flour, then wet up with the water the dough will be very stiff', needs no pounding nor extra kneading.

Cut out, prick and bake in a quick tven. UaiJ to bk at) eacelleut receipt. POETRY. From the National Era. THE BURIAL OF BARBER.

BY JOHN G. WHITTIER. Bear him, comrades, to his grave; Never ovr one more hiavo Shall the prario grasses weep, In the ages yet to come. When tho millions In cdr roBmi What we soW in tears, shall reap. Bear him up the icy hill.

With the Kansas frozen still As his noble heart, below. And tho land ho csme to till With a freeman's thews and will, And his poor hut roofed with sndw-. One more look of that dead face, Of his murder's ghastly trace! One more kiss, oh, widowed one! Lay vour left hands on his brow, Lift your right hands up, and vow That In- work shall yet be done. Patience, friends! Tho eye of God Every path by Mu rder trod Watches, Kdlcss, day and And tho dead man in hi i shroud, And his widow weeping loud, And our hearts, are in His sight, Every deadly threat that swells With the roar of gambling hells, Every brutal jest nnd jcor, Every wicked thought and plan Ot the cruel heart of man. Though but whispered, He can hear! You in sufii-ring, they in crime, Wait the just award of lime, Wail the Vengeance that is due; Not in vain a heart shall break, Not a tear lor Freedom's sako Fall unheeded: God is truo, While the flag with stars bedecked Threatens where it should protect, And the Law shakes hands with Crime, What is left ye hut to wail, Match your patience lo your And abide the better timet Patience, fricndB! The human heart Everywhere shall take your part, Everywhere for you Bhallpray; On your side are na'uru's laws, And God's lite is in the cause That you sutler for to-day.

Well to suffer is divine; Pass the watchword down the line, Pass the countersign: "Endure." Not to him who rashly dares, But to him who nobly bears, Is the victor's gurlaudsurs Frozen enrth to frozen breast, Lay our slain one down to rest; Lay him down in hope and laith, And abovo the Woken and; Once again, to Freedom's God, Pledge yourselves for life or death That the State whoso walls ye lay, In your blood and tears, to-day, Shall bo free from bonds of shame, And your goodly land untrod By the feet of Slavery, shod With cursing as with flame! Plant the Buckeye on his Fur the hunter of the Iu its shadow cannot rest And let martyr-mound and tree Bo your pledge and guaranty Of the freedom ol the West! MISCELLANEOUS. From 'the Voice of the KIT'S WIFE. AN O'ER TRUE TALE. On a slope of land, stretching towards the South, in one of the pleasant towns of Kentucky, there might once have been seen a comfortable cottage, whose air of neatness and thrift might well excite approbation of the passer-by. Such cottages crowning such fertile fields ought, it would seem, to be no unfrequent sight, and in many States, thank God, they are not.

A stranger, curious as to the indwell-ers of the houses upon which he gazed, would hardly have known what class uf Kentuckiuns to appropriate this cottage. It evidently did not belong to any of the many wealthy citizens, with whom this portion of the country is so unusually favored, and it was altogether too comfort a. ble in its surroundings, to neat and thrifty in its whole appearance, to belong to any poor white. Any one in the neighborhood could have told you, (had you chanced Jto have been the Inquirer,) that this ahouse belonged to Kit, and these rolling, mellow smiling fields rejoiced in the name of Kitville. Kit himself would have been delighted to answer ull your questions, and it is not long since orly on almost any fine morning iu the year, you might have seen him, tall, robust, cheerful, coal black negro thut he was.stand-iug in his own door, drinking in Jwith an eye never weary of the draught, the tweet sight of all hit- little possessions.

Kit had once been owned by a wealthy farmer, in Jthe neighborhood, and a "Very valuable piece jof property he was. But besides sll he did fur his master, he did thus much for himself: he made himself his own master. Once a free man, his after work was comparatively easy. Belore many years, he had purchased the land and built the huuee ol which we huve spoken. Then came the lust and crowning reward ot his labors he bought Mary his wife.

Now indeed Kit began to live. Mary was no drag on her husband. Enterprising as nisi-It, who can tell the satisfaction with which they added article after article, first the useful, ther the ornamental, to the furnishing of their little home? Many sim mers and winter's had they looked forward to the good time coming many hours of hard labor had the thought of liberty and home avee'eoed, snd now they seemed indeed to have entered into their rest. Kit worked with a will, and so did Maryand every year showed, in new snd sub. uutii) cumforiw elided" to their Utilo 4 main, thcit Incrcssirtg prosperity.

They had but one childi born after Mary hac been purchased by her husband. One of the pleasures Mary enjoyed with the rudst pride was inviting her lady friends to take tea with her and often and often was her old between whom and herself there existed a strong nttschment, happy lo visit her and no coffee was strongir, no btead i lighter, no coke richer, than Mary served up to her honored guests. So went by year after year, bringing its appointed sorrows to you jsnd me, it may be but to the Kits only an increase of com- fort, and honest, and we are sttc, excusable pride. But at last the visitor, who sooner or later enters every dwelling, csme to Kitville. Its master was seized with the cholera, and alter a lew hours of anguiah and agony, died.

Poor Mary was perfectly sppalled with terror at the tearful disease, and not until the breath ABljeft the poor body, over which she fiung with unavailing exertions for relief, did she once thinkjLber-self. Then as her tesrful eyes we4fjHng-eringly over the many household comforts which their mutual love and labor hud collected, snd on which they were tlo mute to look together, a sudden thought arrested, as it were, the very life in her reins, caused her fresh grief to sink into nothingness and forced such a cry from her lips as might have waked to life again the dead sleeper at her side. Kit had never made her free. Ho had always intended doing so, but as tho necessary steps involved considerable trouble, he had put it off rom time lo time, supposing always that he should have at least the warning of a sick bed before his death. But now he was gone, and supposing the law should tukc its course, whoe and what was she! She covered up her face, and bde the miserable thought be far from her.

Alter all these years of freedom and respectability she must live out tho remainder of her life a free woman, niistreas of herself and her iwn house. Poor Mary! alas! poor, poor Mary! Well might you think, wher your true situation was forced home upon you, that it were better had you never been born. God forgive you, that for a little while you almost listed the memory of your husband for his fatal neglect. You are not free your child is not free this house, these comforts are Hot yours. The law gives ihem sll to yuur husband's neurest heir, and a slave, were she the truest and f.ilthlul!et wife that was ever helpmeet to a husband, can be nu heir.

All theso treasures which you have been so long gathering Up, the swerter treasure which you vainly imagined yours, your liberty, the treasure far sweeter than oil, jOAt child, ama yt-ur husband's sister, a free woman uf color; and be you sure, that what the law allows and court awards, she will cl.iiin. And now curtie changed days, for grief stricken, hsll crazed Mary. The new owner moved into the valuable little dwelling, and shillless and lazy, she looked to her servant for support. So Mary is hired out; all day she bends low over her wash tub, the calt tears lulling unchecked and unrestrained, und at night she niu.it tell her earnings into the hard hand of her hated mistress for need wo tsy that the bondage which binds her to one of her own color seems doubly accursed to Miry! All that is wicked in her nature, jwould not be so roused up to chafe her spirit into almost unendurable impatience of her lot, were she now owned by her former kind old mistress. But to sit a osptive, wherc had reigned queen, to work ull day for one to whom she could ii, no way look up to feel herself as surely a t-1 as though owned by the richest lady in the land, this was indeed to drain the dregs from the bitter cup.

What wonder that the sympathy felt and expressed for her seemed an empty mockery! What wonder that from being one of the most active workers when ling for herself and family, she Decame, to use her mistress's phrase, 'a ffiost or'nary Every day her wages became less less every day the enmity between her Bnd the woman who calls herself her owner grew more and more bitter, until at length ihe dreaded threat of selling to tho South was lifted up against poor Mary. Only one nstural affection seems left to this wretched, fevered heart she loves Jher child she loves too tho scene of her lortner glory harrowing as the contrast between that time and the present is snd there are moments when her love for her husbar.d, and her longing te be with him, outrides and over- I whelms ull her other miseries, and such times it comforts her to think, that she can upon his grave So she toils through the long, long hours of the weary days, and feeds her soul I through the watches of her wakeful nights with memories of what has been looking forwurd no longer to hunblo paradise out earth, which she may beautify and adorn I as the abode of her happy family hopeless as to any relief this side Jof the grave but trusting with her broken heart, that since in her life-time, her 'good things'! have been taken from her, there is approaching an eternity, throughout the endless ages of which she shall be comforted. i A Whole Family in Heaver. The fol-! lowing eloquent passage is from tho pen uf Barnes: "A Whole Family in Heaven! Who can picture or describe the everlasting joy! No one absent. Nor father, nor mother, nor son, nor daughtei are away.

In the world below, they were united in faith; and love, und peuce, and juy. In ths morning of the resurrection they ascended together. Belore the throne they bow together iu united adoration On the banks of the River of Life they walk hand iu hand, and as a family they comenaed a career ol glory which shall be everlasting. There ii hereafter to be no separation in that family. No one is to lie down ob a bad uf oaio.

No one to wndr ihtemptaten. No one to sink in the arms of death. Never in Heaven is that family to move along in the slow procession, clad in the habiliments of woe, to consign ono of its members lo the tdtnb. God grsnt that in his infinite mctcy every family rany bo thus united." KANSAS MESSAGE. The following is a portion of Gov.

Rob-ison's Mcssago to the Legislature of Kansas. It is taken (rom the St. Louis Republican: It will bo remembered that a skeleton of a government still exists in our midst, under, the Territorial form, and although this was but the(foreshadowing of a new and belter convenant, collision with it should be carefully guarded against. A Territorial Government Is transient tin its nature; only waiting the action of the people to form a government of their own. This action had been the peonaf ol Kansss, and it omj remains for the General Government ti suspend its Territorial appropriations, recall its officers, snd admit Kansas binto ho Union as a sovereign State.

The reasohs wh the Territorial government should be suspended kand Kansas admitted into the Wnion as a State, are varicus. In the place it is not a gov-vernment of tho people. The executive and judicial are imposed upon the people by a distant power, and the officers thus imposed art foreign lo our soil, and are accountable not to the people, to an executive two thousand distsnt. American citizens have for a long time been accustomed to govern themselves, and to have a voice in the choice of their officers, but in a Territorial government they not only have do voice in choosing some of their officers, but are deprived of a vote for the officer who appoirts them. Again: Governments aro instituted for the good ai.d proterlion tof the governed, hut the Territorial Government of Kansas I has been, and stilt is, an instrument ol oppression and tyranny unequalled in the history of our Republic.

Toe only officers thut attempted to administer the laws impartially have been removed, and persons sustained who have aided our eubjuga-t tion. Such has been the conddct ol the officers and the people of a neighboring! State, ti'her intentionally or otherwise Kansas to-day is without a single law en-' acted by the people Of the Territory. Not; a man in the country will attempt to deny thut every election had under the Terri-1 tonal Government was carrieJ by armed invaders from an adjoining State, and for ihe purpvae of enacting laws in opposition' to the known wishes ot the people. The Terviiorlai government. be withdrawn because it is inoperative.

The officers of the law permit all manner of outrages and crime to bo perpetrated by I lie invaders snd their friends with Impunity, while the citizens proper are naturally law abiding und order-loving, disposed rather to suffer than to do wrong. Several of the most aggravated murders on record have been committed, but as long as the murderers are on the side of the oppressors no notice is taken of them. Not one of the whole number has been brought to justice, arid not one will be by the Territorial officers. While the marauders are thus in open violation of all law nine-tenths of the peuple scorn the recognize as law the enactments of a foreign body of men, and would sooner lose their right arms than Ixin an action in one ot their misnamed courts. Americans can suffer death but not dishonor, and Booner than the people will consent to recognize tho edicts of lawless invaders as laws, their blood will mingle with waters of the Kansas Bnd this Union be rolled together in civil strife.

Not only is the Territorial Government the instrument of oppression jand subjugation of tho people, but under it there is no hope of relief. The organic act permits the Legislature to preicribo the qualification of voters, and the so-called Legislature has provided that no man shall vote ia eny election who will not bow the knee to the dark image of lavery, and appointed officers for ihe term of four years to see thut this provision is can led out. Thus nine-tenths uf the citizens are dislranchiscd and debarred from acting under the Territorial Government. Even if allowed to vote; the Chief Executive of the conntry says he has no power to protect the fro invaders, and if the people organize protect themselves, his appointees intimate that they must be disarmed und put down, hence, whether allowed to vole or not, there is nu opportunity for the people of Ct Territory to rule under the present Territorial Government. Indeed, the luws a so made construed that the citizens of a neighboring State aru legal voters in Kansas, and of course no United Slates force can be brought against them.

They are by law entitled to invade ui and control our elections. a The settlers of have suffered severe losses aud injury, from repeated in- visions irom a neighboring Stale, and it is highly proper that Congress be memorial- i ized upon this subject. Especially should the General Government repair the injury 1 it has inthcted AH the invasions hsve been permitted by the officers of the Gov- eminent, without any toppositiou, while at least one was invited by them. It is the duly of the Federal Government to protect tnlaint Territories in their rights, but Kansas has not ouly not buen protected, bul it has been actually oppressed by those whose duty it was to defend it. It is unjust to any community to send among them officers, with Government pa tronage, whose political seutimsnti are opposed lo the sentiments uf the people, particularly 'when those officer mount the stump, and shoulder the rifle, for the pur-puea ol cruauiug out all who diil'er from them Hime of the federal officers of Kansas are clurgcd with undignified conduct, and ono ot them, at least, with high crimes, and it ia the duty of the Legitls ture to memoHalizo the President, thst our citizens may be protected in their lives and inalienable rights, and from unwarrantable interference of oflciala in the management of I hair internal affairs.

It is manifestly improper for the federal officers to ifictate into or out of Kantns an institution over which Congress professed to have no authority. It Is understood that the Deputy Marshal has private instructions to arreat the members of the Legislature and the State officers for treason aa aoon as this sddress is received by you. In such an event, of course, no resiltance will be offered to the officer. Men who are ready to defend their own and their otmr.t.y's honor with their lives, can r.ever object to a legal investigation into heir own action, nor to suffer any ptinUbnieVift tht'r enndtjet -Jhftjk merit. We should be unworthy the constituency we represent, did we shrink even fro martyrdom on the scaffold of It the stake, should duty require it.

Should the blood of Collins and Dow, of Barber and Brown, be insufficient to quench the thirst of the President snd his accomplices in the hollow mockery of "Squatter Sovereignty" they IN practicing upon the people of then more victims must be furnished. Law what will cctde, not a finger should be I raised sgainst tho federal authority until I there shall be no hope of relief but in re-1 volution. Gross Spirit of Slavery Ruffianism." We find the following letter in the last number of the Ironton Kttifter, one of the best and uios: reliable papers in Souther Ohio. Judge Rlckard, the writer, is one of the most respectable in that county. What are we coining to? Where will the rampant, aggressive spirit of Slavery stop! QUAKER BOTTOM, 1856.

Mr. Editor: For some weeks past the people of this vicinity have been holding meetings to consiter various matters of public interest, prominent among which were the moral churacter ol "negro stealing," the, rights and privileges that should be en-1 oyed by our colored population, and the condition and needs of the people uf Kansas. These meetings have been attended by persons holding diverse views on the topic? discusned, but the object was free discussion, and all who felt disposed were invi-t to participate. On last Friday evening at the close of one el these meetings, when most ot onr peoptr had dispersed, we were assailed by a bard of men from Virginia, armed with club6. We were not suspecting such an attack and were entirely unprepared for it.

One of our men A. S. Proctor, was assailed by a man, first with a club and then with an axe, swearing lie meant to kid him, others shouted "kill him," him, kill him," and when upon the ground struggling with his adversary, he was struck uver the head with a rail, and doubtless would huve been killed had not been saved by his friends. Henry Radford received a bluw upon the lorehead Irom a rock cutting it very severely. Rev.

Adams received a severe blow injuring him considerably. A young man, Nulhar.iel Hall was knocked down two or three times, others received blows. I myself was struck upon the head with a club, prostruting me upon the earth, injuring ny head considerably, from which I am now suffering. Although inferior in point of numbers and without weapons, we succeeded in defending ourselves so that no one was killed, though 1 the most fiend-like efforts were made, the 1 most horrid threats and imprecations uttered, 1 and yells that were heard at a long dis- 1 lance. During the affray the were hailed 1 from tho other side to know il they wanted 1 lielp, thus showing that it was a precon- 1 certed thing.

They dared us to hold another meeting, 1 saying Ihey would come over in numbers 1 sufficient to whip the whole of us. And I am informed that they now say that if men 1 enough can not be raised in Guyandotte, thut they can be procured from the country, and that we must be put down. Now, why this outrage! What is our of- 1 fence' Why, we have dared to claim and lo exercise the right to be free men to neet'and'discuss own way. This is aur constitutional right, our common birth right, which, if it bo striekeu down with impunity no no man is safe. Home of jur speakers have louchedjupon topics not pleasing to the slave power, hence the flaring outruge already and jthers threatened.

Not satisfied with gagging its own people upon the subject ol tluvery, rendering them bul half free, it seeks impose the same gags upon us, to be en-rorced by mob violeuce, and if need be, by murder. Is Ohio free Slate: Is this a Christian jountry! Do we live among a brave aud ree people and yet run such fearful hazards exercise the rights of free men) On Friday, the 38 I o'clock, P. there will be another meeting at this ilace to consider "our polilicsl relations, tud what is our duty in vijw of past, pre-lent, and probable future events." We neln to vindicate tho t'ight of free discus- I'ou, which nono but bad men and tyrants Iread, of will attemptto abridge. Truth never (ears investigation, never shuns the 1 ight while error loves darkness and relies 1 jpon brute force. While we shall trample upon no man's 1 rights, we shall maintain our own or die in the attempt.

Tba names the partiea. ao far aa I have learned them, who were engaged in perpe- tratin" the outrage, are Thus. Buffiugton, 1 Win. Buffington, Henry Miletead, L. Peters, Isaac Ong, Joseph Gardner, besides "many 1 eluer I so not kuow, Mr.

Editor, by giving tliis an Insertion in your paper you will greatly oblige Your friend and fellow-citiaen, SALMON RECKARD. A Beautiful Sentiment. Shortly belore the departure of the lamented Heber lor India, he preathed a sermon which contained this beautiful illustration: "Life bears us onliko the stream of a mighty river. Odr boat at flrst glides down the narrow channel through the playful I mur.Tturing of the little brook and the winding of its grassy borders. The trees shed their bluSiomfl over our youna- heads, the flowers on the brink seem to offer' themselves to our young hands; we are' hapy in hoe, snd wa grasp eagerly at the beauties around us but the stream hurrir.s on aril still Iktjkda are empty.

Our course in youth and msulioo is along a wider, and deeper nw, amid objects more etrisift? and magnificent. We are animated at the moving picture artd enjoyment god industry passing us; we ate excited at some short lived disappointment. The stream bears us on, and our jys and grief-are alike left behind us. We may be ship cannot ba delayed; whether rough or smooth, the river hastens to it home, till the roar uf the ocean fa in our ears, and the tossing of the waves is beneath our feet, snd the land lessens from our eyes, and the floods are lifted up around us, and we take our leave of earth and its inhabitants until our further voyage there is no witness sivs the infinite and eternal!" A Low Voice i.i Womax. Yes, weigree with that old poet who said that a low, soli voice was un excellent thing in woman.

Indeed we feel inclined to gojmuch farther than he bason the subject, and call it one ol her crowning charms. No matter what other attractions she rosy still hsve; she may be as fsir ss the Trojan Helen, and as learned as the famous Hypatia of ancient times; she may have all the accomplishments considered requisite at the present day, and every advantage that wealth can procure, and yet, if she lsck a low, sweet voice, she can never be really fascinali ig. How often the spell of beauty is rudely broken by coarse, loud talking! How often you are irresistibly drawn to a am, unassuming woman, whose soft, silvery tones render her positively attractive by the voice; the bland, smooth, fawning tone seems to us the broken deceit and hypocrisy as invariably as the musical, subdued voice Indicates genuine refinement. In the social circle, how pleasant it is to hear a woman talk in that luw key which always characterize the true lady! In the sanctuary of borne, how such a voice soothes the fretful ahiM nnrl r.heer i'ie wary husband! How sweetly such cadences flout through the sick chamber; and around the dying bed, with whut solemn du they breathe a p'ayei for a departing soul! Obituary. We announced, a few days since, the severe illness of Dr.

Thomas E. Bond, Sr formerly of Baltimore, and for several years the principal editor of the New I York Christian Advocate and Journal, the) leading paper of the M. E. Church. We were nut surprised, therefoie, to learn that he finished his useful career on on Friday.

Dr. Bond was a JMarylander by birth a native, we believe, of Hartford county and came to Baltimore about the year 1812. He pursued the practice of medicine for many years, being a portion of that time city physician. He was a very prominent; and useful member of the SI. Church a rid local preacher.

Some years since he was appointed by the General Conference to the principal editorship of ihe Christian Advo- catei the duties of which position he performed with distinguished ability, but, on of declining health, we believe, the editorial chair for a brief spssion. rile health becoming at least measurably restored, he yielded tu the solicitations of the Lurch clergy and Tsity to resume his positi-n as editor of the Advocate, which he held, luring the last 18 yearsj and up to the period )f his death. The Advocate has sustained i heavy loss in the dentil of Dr. Bond, lor he vaaaman of great versatility of talent. Ig lived to enter his "'6th yeur.

Baltimore i Senatorial. The following are the Sen-itors in Congress whose terms expire March 1, 1857: John B. Wellef, Csllforniv Isaac Toucey, Connecticut. James A. Bayard.

Delaware. Stephen R. Alallory, Florida. Jesse D. Bright, Indiana.

Hannibal Hamlin, Maine. Thomas G. Pratt, Maryland. Charles Sumner, Massachusetts. Lewis ('ass, Michigan.

Stephen Adams, Mississppi. Henry S. Geyer, Missouri. John R. Thompson, New Jersey.

Hamilton Fish, New York. Richard Brodhead, Pennsylvania. Charles T. James, Rode Island. John C.

Jones, Tennsssee. Soloman Foote, Vermont. Henry Dodge, Wisconsin. riire are also vacancies ib Califurria, Indiana and Missouri. Elected to the next Senate are Anthony Kennedy, Maryland, and Jefferson Davis, Mississippi.

Evektox TorriE. For a good Everton offie, tike one pound and a-half of brown lugar, ihree ounces of butter, a teacupful ind a-half of water, and one lemon. Boil he sugar, buiter, water, and fall the rind lemon together, and when sufficiently lone whice will be known by dropping into told waiar, when it should be quite orisp et it stand aside until the boiling has ceased in it stir iu the juice of the lemon, Butter a lish sod pour it in, about a quarter of an inch thickness. The fire must bo quick, and Hie tuffio stirred all the time COLLISON WITH AN ICEBERG. A NEW FOUNKERED.

fc QUI mi mm hi ii AND il i in ntl VES LOSTI Nine i v. of Horror in an Open Hoat. ONLY ONE SURVIVOR. THRILLING NARRATIVE. On the 30th of February the packet-ehip John Rutledge, Capt.

Kelly, or New-York, whi on her voyage from Liverpool to thin port, struck upon an Iceberg and sunk, (with the mate, carpenter, and 30 to 3S paasengera on board. Our information in regard to the dissster is derived from the only known survivor, Thomas W. Nye of New-Bedford. So lar as we have belt) able to learn, the subjoined narrative ofjains ail the facts in the case: The pschet-hip John Rutledge left Liverpool on the lJi ol January, with Isa passengers, and a crew uf officers and men numbering, all told, l'i persons. During the passage she encountered severe westher.

One of her crew was washed off, the bowsprit, and a male passenger was carried through the bulwarks by a heavy sea and drowned. Oa the 20th of February the John Hutleile was struck by an iceberg, and wen', dow n. From the log-book of tho mate, which was saved ia the boat with the boy Nye, we extract the following entries: "Monday, February 8 a. thick, foggy, with dritaly rata. Middle and latter pan, sir mg breezes and rainy.

Passed several icebergs on both sides. Ptssed one within ten ttel uf the weather side. Lat. dead 4b 34 Ion. D.

46 5fi 'Tuesday, 19th. p. m. Follows with light winds and haiy. The vessel was surrounded wi'h it lining very difficult to steer cl-ur of them.

Atbsaw'a forge field of ice ahead; tried to steer clear of it, but th re being little wind it got down to tha ship before we could get past it, and the wind dying away, we could not steer clear. At 1 1 the ship was completely wedged with dift-tct and Very large icebergs in alt- directions, and the breeze springing right aft, there was no alternative but to proceed through it. The further we got in the thicker the ice got, and the greater the number of icebergs Midnight, light winds and the ship making very little headway through the ice. 4, murn.Dg, the same. 8, steady breeze, and the ship making more headway.

Passed some very large bergs. At 9 the Here the log abruptly terminates. From this we infer that the collision with the iceberg touk place between 9 and 10 o'clock on tho morning of the 20th of February. And it would seem that the mate was waiting up his log when the fatal shock occurred. The ship was abandoned about six o'clock the same evening.

Before leaving the vessel, Capt Kelly, finding that she leaked badly, manned the pumps with passengers and aca-tnanj and as the leak cuuntinued to Jain upon her, bad about 100 bag of salt and a number of crates of crockery brokrn out of the fere hold and thrown overboard. Getting clear of the ice soon after, it was discovered that a plank was started from the forefoot, and an attempt was made to stuff the leak with blankets and rags. It appears that this was not very successful, as the captain subsequently decided to abandon (die vessel. There werj five large boats on buard, in which 13-4 persons were to be saved. How the captain bore himself at this time we could not learn, as the survivor lies in a very ctitical situation and il was as much as his life was worth to question him closely.

We only know that four boats put off betore that in wiiich Nye was. The captain's boat was the only one of the four which had a coin-sass. How Capt. Kelly distributed the pro-visiuns and seamen we could not learn. The last boat wiiich lelt the ship contained only thirteen persons.

It appears thut Atkinson, the mate put his wile into this boat, and, with the curpnter, wentto sound the pumps. While they were gone the boat was struck by a heavy sea, which broke her from her fastenings, ard she rapidly drifted from the ship, leaving the mate and carpenter, with from 30 to 35 passengers, on board. When last seen ihi ship was down to her mizzen in the water; and from the character of her cergo salt, iron ar.d crockery she probably went nowii iu a short time afterward. Of the thirteen pesons in the last bat, thera were four women, one little girl, five mala M-- Nye, a Scotch sallui.iad ihe coatsftaii, an Irishman whose wile resides in New-York. For the subsistence of lhasa people there were only one gallon of water and six or eight pounds of bread.

The tnata had placed a compass in the boat, but his wife, in leaping from the ship, had bruken it. Cast thus helplessly upon the open sea, a-mong the legs nnd mists of tin Banks tf Newfoundland, and surrounded by drift and berg ice, their prospect conld hardly hava been more my. Soon tfter the boat broke adr'ut, nigl-t came oa hew It passed may be imagined. From what we could learn, but little'waa said by any One, and probaly a 1 of them soon came to a realizing sense of their dreadful situation, fur ss soon as Mrs. Atkinson entered the boat she sened the ves.

sel containing the water, and being a large robust woman, fought off all who attempted to obtain a dring from it. Nye got only two or ihree Bwallowf the rest was drank by herself and What disposition was madeo! the bread does nut appear. The prebabiltty is that there was no organization whether among the little party, but every ono looked uut for himself. Hav-ing no compass, nor sign by which fo steer, they did not exert themselves, other than to keep the boat before the sea. Tha aailore were warmly clothed, aa wae alao Mrs.

Atchison, but the passengers, for tha most part, were veiy scantily attired, and suffered keenly from the cold. Day Btter dny only dawoed to raise the.r spirita anew.