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ml change* lime, <u conduct of tho pres of the year. Amoi.g otlic Jow-%? • ■ wit K» 4_. Jobo Kur^t^r^.,.^ sereriil ycnra>st tl, 7Cblumbu* Tjiruv*, Una •ffcolwl by Jam< , .. . . -'I“ n y argao that it will „or, Decausc •■iMial, occurred in tlio . i» !> 'n,„_ . ’, aC aUiut the heninnmrr ! . 11 cy T ,ouW ^member that Ut th ° b ° S,nR,n ^ «^on with the rest of the world is because it did not in particular information respecting the position of his adversaries, summoned the famed leader of the riflemen, Col. Daniel Morgan, to head-quarters. It was niglit,and the Chief was alone. After his usual polite, yet reserved and dignified, salutation, Washington re marked : I have sent for you, Col. Morgan, to entrust to your courage and sagacity a small but very important enterprise. I wish you to reconnoitre the enemy’s line, with a view to your ascertaining correctly tho position of their «ewly constructed redoubts? also of the en campments of the British troops that have lately arrived, and those of their Hessian auxiliaries. Select, sir, an officer, noncommissioned officer, and About twenty picked men, and under cover-of the night proceed, but, with all possible caution; get ns near as you pan, learn all you can, and by day-dawn retire and make your report to head quarters. Bat mark me, Col. Morgan, y mark me well; on no account are you to bring on any skirmishing with the enemy; if discovered, make a speedy retreat; let nothing induce you to fire a single shot; I repeat, sir, that no force of circumstances will excuse the discharge of a single rifle on your part; and for the extreme preciseness of these orders, permit me fo say that I have my reasons. Filling two glasses of wine, the General continued:—And now, CuL Morgan, we will drink a good night and success' to your enterprise. Morgan quaffed the wine, smacked his lips, assuring his excellency that his orders should be punctually obeyed, and left the tent of the Commander-in- Cliief. Charmed at being chosen as the exec utive officer of a daring enterprise, the .leader of the woodsmen repaired to his ^ rlers, and calling for Gabriel Long, the foi-' ,7"-" *•"/;,-«not now u-w, tciion ■ » wax then, and the Che . oiled by the laws which govern other-epidemfci being apparently uncontrolled jlijl, —I'TTr" too instance we have to record, the effects of the fire of the riflemen were tremendous. Of the horsemen, some had fallen to rise no more, while their liberated chargers rushed wildly over the adjoining plains; others, wouuded, but entangled with their stirrups, were dragged by the fu rious animals expiringly along, while the very few who were unscathed spur- expecta- off to give a cordial! j to head-quar- hand to the coalman?! red'hard to regain the shelter of the British lines. While the smoke yet canopied the scene of slaughter, and the picturesque forms of the woodsmen appeared among the foliage, as they were re-londing their pieces, the colossal figure of Mor gan stood apart. He seemed the very genius of War, as gloomily he contem plated the havoc his order had made.— He spoke not, he moved not, but looked discovered a party of horse coming' moved, Washington out from the enemy’s lines. They j their glasses, and ga r rnmmmmm queeze of the j wa lkin along in life moonlight, l passed er°in ° i *° ,s ^dies gentlemen* 1 heard The cloth ic up immediately to the spot where j varying toast, the Toft lay by the brushwood. There they trial, life toast of the ’evening o/dj i • i'fH hntifi h.s wests Gif fo ms only, hi ot die oices and saw sum made me think of lime I got to the Ho is the mischief. I j -j- .na^lnetl logo to/ Halted and gathered up together like a honored life amid tl/e shades of Mount'sIdnmeii^-in!I°navv*<>ffi eer s bi'the 1 next flock of partridges, affording me so. Vernon-.* All our friend Then, with ^Jwhat Ld . W mini home from tempting an opportunity of annoying Ins usual oM lashioneJ politeness, he a [o voyn»e,amI iliev was Urinkin wine my enemy, that may it please your Ex- ! drank to each guest by niiine.N When 1 ....j g n „j' f.’ „„ i, nm „ .:i morn- cel ency, flesh and blood could not re- j he-enme to ■ Col Morgan, your' ®»d.|i n " a1|;miikin speeches, and hreakin Atlhis rougb.yet frank, bold and mnnly j fy tame of tVe'^Xi muf agaiKl j f^^rtef lelX explanation, a smile was observed tn ] vorile soldier, while every eye in the; This momin'r luek-hnother Walk 10 pass over the countenances of several: pavilion was turned upon him. At an , took al |he scl ldiers. They hud a gene- ot the General’s suit. The chief re- ! early hour the company broke up, and ; raUnosterin nr ,W s l,ivelrv here to bury mamed unmoved ; when waving his Morgan had a perfect escort of officers j a office^ and I teltyou what’s a fact, is^quarters, ajl { Charlstoo can parade a pretty respecta- hand, he continued : * Colonel Morgan you will 'retire to your quarters, there to await further orders.* Morgan bow ed, and the military cortege rode on to the inspection of the out-post. Arrived at his quarters,Morgan threw himself upon bis hard couch, and gave as one absorbed in an intensity of 1 himself up to reflection upon the events thought. The martial shout with K "'* — A -— : ' H *’ "*— 'gn which he was wont to cheer his com rades tn the hour of combat was hashed, the shell* from which he had blown full many a note of battle and of triumph on the fields of Saratoga, hung idly by his side; no order was given to spoil the slain; the arms and equipments for which there wns always a bounty from Congress, the shirts for which there was such need, at that, the sorest period of our country’s privation, all, all were abandoned, as, with an abstracted air, and a voice struggling for utterance, Morgan, suddenly turning to his Cap tain, exclaimed, ‘ Long, to the camp, to which bad so lately and so rapidly ceeded each other. He was a ware that he had sinned past all hope of forgiveness. Within iwenty.four hours be had fallen from the command of a regiment, and being an especial favorite with his Gen eral, to be, what—a disgraced and bro ken soldier. Condemned to retire from the scenes of glory* the darling passion of his heart-forever, to abandon the * fair fields of fighting men,* and in ob scurity to drag out the remnant of a wretched existence, negleeted and for gotten. And then his rank, so hardly and so nobly won, with all his ing honors* acquired i ’ ' ilde blush- accompanying him to ,!) anxious to congratulate' happy restoration to ra£KTod pleased to assuie him ofl thei for his person and services. ".Ii V- e she win of the nation’s bull works.— * j There was sum fust rule companys and eein i a good many fine lookin officers among i ’em. The Guvernor was ihar in his ° I regimentals, hut I could’nt see General Going to Charleston. j Kittledrum. Ther was one little officer Maj. Jones has written many amus-i *har " hat had so much military sperit ing and withal Iruthful dcscriplions of; >" him,Thai it put him completely out , , ■ , i ot shape. Hcfuurnt slick more n bout men and places none, perhaps, more , „ lree lbel of hu b( ; nls ; a ,„, hl . | ooked truthful thatijihc following account of | like a jack-knife that was opened so far a visit to Charleston. , j that it bent over hack. Its a terrible After describing Hamburg and that *.P^y that die cooldn’tgrow^a little big- dreary waste and the imaginable \jU er ' or simmer down hts spent a little J ,, , it.-. J more, for the sword is certainly ton goons traversed by the SouiWCaroli"'> - . — • - Hail Road, the Major proce Nothing didn’t turn up of interest the way, and bimeby 1 begun to signs of town. The closer we go Charleston, the thicker the plantations hut ther They say lie*: ‘s. a little out and houses begun to git. "Bimeby could see the steeples; and in a few ‘ the skabhard | a fust rate officer, only h> j of proportion. The fact is we may §ay j what vve please, and laugh as much as i we’ve a mind to, 'bout Carolina shivelry slake about it, Caro ls a gallant little she’s got’s a soldic itate, aud every Bp _ _ his march across _ the camp.* The favorite Captainotey-1 th® fro2en wilderness of the Kennebec, j m inils more we was roffnlalontnjmong! ed, the riflemen, with trailed arms, fell j the storming of the Lower Town, and t i, c i; (t i e frame houses, til \ve got to j - iiuo file, and Long and his parly soon , the gallant and glorious combats of ( u, e j C p 0 . And now the fuss comment A ^i isicid H°rsc.—A correspondent “ ... - ... . Saratago. | e d. Sich a evcrlastin rumpus I never J the Providence Journal furnishes the The hours dragged gloomily away;’seed before. Soon as the gates was j following account ot a musical horse: night came, but.with it no rest for the 1 open here cum a gang of fellers with j “ A physician called daily to visit a troubled spirit of poor Morgan. The j whips in their hands, poppin and snap- j patient opposite to my place, of drums and fifes merrily sounded the pin about ’rnong tlie passengers, axin us \ dence. VVe had a pi soldier's dawn* and the sun arose, giv-itogo here anil go thar, and whar’: and wmsm the eye, to be more subject to the scythe of the Deal roycr. If the admiring eye of Nature’s sweet est flower could shield from harm the full-blown ros^, its leaves would uever wither, its fragrance never die. If friends could detain the blooming a?sphere where her virtues disappeared, but not before the hardy fellows bad exchanged opinions on the strange termination of the late affair.—* And they agreed, item, ion., that their Colonel was tricked, (conjured) or as suredly, after such a fire as they had just given the enemy, such an empty ing of saddles, and such a squandering of troopers, he would not have orderei bloom hut to perish, many Would live to have their old age irradiated by the lustre of well-spent years. But death must come. Beauty, it is true, belongs to youth, but not to youth alone. The matron who is the cynosure of the happy circle, the charm which lures to domestic hap piness the husband and the father, has beauty tod. Her heart is the centre of human af fection—her smile the reward of human hopes. - Age too—virtuous age hath its beau ty. Sanctified bj r lime’s sorrows, the aged toterer on life’s last brink, is beau tiful, for though the attractions of youth have fled—the splendor of life’s noon has vanished—there is a sunset* ghvy upon the brow prepared to bleiid gradually with the twilight of existence, succeed ed, it is true, by Night, but a Night des tined to retire before the dawning efful gence of another day. The thought is pleasant that Beauty attends all seasons of life. We may mourn the early Dead, We may miss them when the Christinas fire blazes on the hearth. We may feel lhat the leaves of the Rose, once so sweet and fragrant, have opened but to with er, but though the natural eye is closed in death..there is an eye in the soul of the survivor which still gazes upon the loved and early Dead, It is the aflection which seeks the playmate of fiis childhood, the friend of liis youth, the companion of his manhood. The fragrance of love is novy no long- met UecThorse, ken alive. He reinei the bank and gave hi the gallant animal v row, and approael such speed that he < margir,, but, with a furio|| off, rider and all, into t‘ nately, there grew a 1 tree at the foot of the 1 der of the river. The bushy thickly interlaced with vine ; into the top of the tree horse and its rider. The fall was pletely broken. The captain toppled into the stream, reached the opposite shore amid a shower nf bullets, and re- gained the land in safety.’/ t jj Tile World was made for all. In looking at our age, I am struck immediately with one commanding characteristic, and that is, the tendency of all its movements to expansion, to diffusion, to universality. To this I ask your attention. This tendency is di rectly opposed to the spirit of exclusive ness, restriction, narrovvness,monopnly, which has prevailed in pastTTges. Hu man action is now freer, more uhconfiu- ed. All goods, advantages, bqjjis* are more open ton'll. Thejmvilegql, pet- liis favorite captain, ordered him lode-.-- -—r-" 1 — : — v . -— —-- r ©— tail a trusty sergeant; and twenty prime his poor rifle boys from the field, with- give hope, and joy, and glad fellows, who being mustered, ami or*’out so much as a few shirts or pairs of it cheered not with a single t dered to lie on their arms, ready at a mo-1 stockings being divided among them.— «r«».« mcnl’s warning, Morgan and Long * Yes,* said a tall, lean and swarthy stretched their manly forms before the looking fellow, an Indian hunter from watch fire to wait the going down of the the frontier, as he carefully placed his moon—the signal for departure. A little after midnight, and while the rays of the setting moon still faintly glimmered in the western horizon— •up, Sergeant,* cried Long, • stir up moccasincd feet in the footprints of his file-leader, ‘Yes, my lads, it stands to Colonel is tricked.’ s ! dence. YVe had a piano in the room the street, on which a young lady ing 4 promise of a goodly day.’ And ! baggage, and if we was gwine^to the j daily practiseil lor several hours in the to many within the circuit of that wide-! boat, and more’n twenty thousand other j morning. The weather was warm ly extended camp did its genial beams;questions before we could answet the i '' ie windows w^re open, and the ' " while • fust-one. The fust thing I knoYvd a feh- ‘l» e h‘ ,rse caught the sound of tho ray the de- ler had one of my trunks one Way anti | pmnphevvoulddehherately wheel abom, spairing Leader of the Woodsmen. another one had tolher carryin.*it off in j crossriie street, place linn - 1 1 * " • 1 '•*" • ' * •— • - ♦- About ten o'clock, the Orderly on 1 another direction, \vhile two duty reported the arrival of an. officer' pull'm the life out of my of the staff from head quarters, and see winch should have ih Lieut. Col; Hamilton, the favorite aid j two fellers off my rpei; , with i erfeefc-and eVes dilating, would lie I sinui^ the \qutedy,.stand and listen till his nks monitrous as jest gwine to tiickle the had my. carpet hag, when Morgan followed slowly on the trail ‘ 1 know your errand, so he short, my j who should I see hut my old friep<|, Bill of his men. The full force of his mili-! <lear fellow, and put me out of my mis- j Wiley, \yhat used to live up to thfe old of the. Commander-in-Chief, entered the' quick, and ' marquee. * Be seated,* said Morgan, chap your men,’ and twenty athletic figures tary guilt had rushed upon his mind, i ery at ,1,1.;. ; n momeiit. Indi-‘ •««•*»« 1 know that I am arrest- Planters' Hotel, in Mad . Js a matter of course. Well, there gcner*IJy in^the ad-1 j 3 m y 3W ord ; but surely his Excellency ' * * r#1 honors me in deed,in these last moments were on their feet an file, march! and _ . VJU|CU with the quick, yet light and Stealthy ! cm y, or annoying" his flanks f the re'giineiu was. .... . i_ii step of the woodsmen. : thus much divided into detachments and dispersed of my military existence, when he sends They reached tho enemy’s fine,' overa vcr y wide fie,d ofaclion - Morgan was in [for iny sword by his favorite Aid, crawled op so close ,o the pickets of the ' SIS i a . nd m J n, "f ^X^Xwhatl Itjje Hessians as to inhale the odor of their I and warlike blast. This bo said was to inform hia ■ d “ r Hamilton, tl JOU knew what I have pipes 5 discovered, by the newly turned hoy*that ho was still alive, and from many piirts suffered since the corset! horse came out Mn earth, the positions of ther-Wtis : l» r ,he “d «'»" beholding their prowess; oikI like to tempt me to ray ruin.’ 'and by the. i Hamilton, about whose strikingly in- kW ^ “* "S mUi § cnt countenance Umre alwap lurk- I Why, hellovv, Majer,” scs lit, «is that you?” \\ “I blieve it is, Mr. Wiley,” «e^J|,il‘bt thar ah.t no tellin how long l'il^sl^lf don’t git away from thesi scamps.” “ Well,” ses he, your bag* Toiler me." I sbow’d ’em to I went with Mr. Wiley came fdx hiuV^.'i’his was his daily prac- i ice. Sometimes the young lady would stop playing wfien the doctor drove up. The horse would then remain quietly in his"placfTbut the first stroke of a key id tq^sl his aticntir oozen notes would i across the street. I Xeetjeverallimes.” , mid half ably call him eased the el- ■ 'Criticism.—Have you seen the opera of Ltrcreshy Borger, Miss Tinto. No; Majer, jest pint out! I baint bin yet, Miss Lingo. Well, it’s to Patrick here,.and then, real beautiful; all the heroes has mas ted individual.] human race are becoming more. .T^P multitude is rising from the dust, f^fice we heard of the lew, now we henraphe many; once of the prerogatives ol a part, now of the rights of ail. We. are look ing, as never before, through the dis guises, envelope meats of ranks and classes to the common nature Yvhich below them, and are beginning toJ learu that every being who partakes ofy n f i it has noble powers to cultivate, solemn 1 duties to perform, inalienable ^rigbli^i assert, a vast destiny to accomplish.—S The grand idea of humanity; of the ’ importance of man as man, is spread ing silently, but surely. Not that er visible to the out wa r d sense, bunhpri. - .. _ . . f is that within which detects the perfume l * ,e worth of the human being is tit led from the pious feelings of a pu: living now departed friend. When prosperity beamed she YVasthe participant of our sports. When adversity spread its pall upon the senses she encouraged Us to rise above the calamity which hung like a cloud over our morning sun. For her we lived, for her we wnbltf have died. But that earthly link is broken and another friend lias gone to a world not made with hands eternal in the heavens. But she is happy. Why then repine lhat Heaven has claimed her for her own. Let us rather be consoled with the reflection that while death has its sea sons as well as Hfe, there is a peroid at hand when the refreshing dewsofnal will be displaced ;by the df‘ and the Iivinjfancl ’thi again ‘top j will meet again fhen^tberewiil bean eternal Chris s to the soul.—San..Georgian. " of Henv- dead once ur forth the Pt oqfireworka an nstaerhers. and mustacUers l WhYcb is Gen. Taylo 1 doat j most favorite march ? | March thefifth. all understood as it should bet but that truth is glimmering through the dark-' ness. A faint consciousness of it has seized upon the public mind. Even the most abject portions of society are visitr i ed by some dream of a better condition, for which they Yvere designed. Tho grand doctrine that every human being should have the means of sell-culture, of progress in knowledge and virtue; of health, comfort mid happiness, of exej* eiaing die powers and affections ofij* man ; this is sloYvIy taking its plade v Ai» the highest social troth. That the War'd Yvas made.for all, and not for a Ioyv ) that society is to care for all; that no human being shall perish, but through his own fuult; that the great cod of government is to spread a shield over the rights of all,—these propositions arc growing into axioms and the spirit of them is coming forth in all the depart ments of life.'—Dr. C/uinniug. A modern Yvriter says lhat ill® dog iiasrhecnlhe companion of man formoru than five thousand yearsy and has learn ed hut one of bis vice#*fmvl that is iq worry his species when iu (iistre§§.