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Seated by a writing desk, in one ofthe Splendid hotels in Paris, Tyler was induing a letter to his aunt. “Soon,” mused he. casting his pen ou tbs table, “will toy fate be decided. R itierts will take a (vantage of my absence to offer her his hand, aud sh'* shall not know til" -M*t»«»g’« it costs me to gjya.her up." Kesumtag his pen, he w.ote j tli it Paris was the mast delightful place in i t the umilJ; tual ha was e.ij>ving tii>useii highly, and timLeueed not he expected ho.ae u:i!ii after acerta'n event in, l h pneii vl, (meaning the marriage ot 1) .cas ail Kaberts) ;!u couelus: in, lie he go. 1 to b. imisei'i.a'i to M irth i, Dorcas and i... mother. The letter he ea:*h>>c-*i*: :: b:u«\ e iv.da;*?, ail tie- day after th .*ut\'.s itioii of Dare as aid her urn-.*, •• arrireJ lie. lev tie. Mrs. Harris, herself, re; 1 fto TJore.v admit*e:f the uluiie in relaiittn to a certain eves! be “confirmation strung as pi > .. I iu'y .. r it,''mill wound up her tori me fv c.i.ira 'tiling her ‘-dear, forsaken daughter’ t' t.ic favor ami protection of the Almighty ; a > tg that if she was not to see 'Tyler be fore tilt? certain event, she would not see him alter it—lbr he shoulJ t.-ver cross tier ti.re.shheU as the husband ofSaiaLi Pub Her aim, her* horrid aim, was to drive Dorcas to the eoutinb-sioii of---si:.ude!--- She had uevar an idea of tint mental auJ moral greatness, that borrows vigor from be ing trampled one ami distils energy frotn despair. tl i tfig day following. Roberts, tre nbling with anxiety, called op* ,i Dorcas. Heart less libertine as ha was, he had felt how powerful is the holy alliance between vir tue and beauty. He had been accustom el to! iok upon the sex ns decorated wax dolls, made solely for the convenience of man, and subject to his caprice. But anew tig :t had broken in upon him the had been brought under influences to which lie had ever lief »re scorned a* the idea of being sub jected : but the same soulless hypocrisy— the s.v.na iinscripulousncss as to means, was stdl identified with his existence. He found Dorcas buried in though! bv the parlor (ire. As he approached she rose smd extending him her hand, endeavored to veil her emotions under the semblance of cordiality. Now and then a faint sini'e would wander over tier features, but it*o belied her heart that she rould with diffi culty restrain it from being followed by a gush of tenra. They, forawhile, conversed familiarly on their astral topics; but Rob ~.. **.‘--vored Step hv Me 1. 1. Dim tie con versation nearer home, mini open avowal of iiis love and unqualified offer of his hand. JiaJ a thunderbolt fallen from Heaven, it coul ! not hav* shocked more utterly ilie heart ql Dorcas. But, poor girl! ihund *r holts had fallen—and they hid so accu; torried her to endurance, that the pr*;o ,t shock was but one among the many. She lnd learned in the school of i command herfeelings, and rising from v< r chair, she-raid, with an ice-like calmness "Mr. Roberts, we hove m-t to often. I admire you as a man, and esteem vou as a friend, but we meet not again ar.d when lie awoke from ihc trance into which her word had thrown him, he found himself alone. It may seem unnatural that Dovrns, dur ing all this time, had fallen so unwarily in to the snares that weie spread forher. But it must be remembered that she was ape - feet child ol nature. She ha I been nurfur- Uv4 Its i* clioru.it hind, wh ic hoy T (l |, cr „„.i mother, sensible of the dissipations of Mast Indian society, had kept her secluded fr'.tri it, lest she might yield tri its enchantments. And here, we inav observe, is oio neat er vor of parents. Fearing lest their children may become victims to the world, instead of giving them an early knowledge of its temptations, and at the same time instruct ing them by example and precept how to avoid them, they immure them in ignorant solitude, believing that (he mechanical prin ciples here acquired, will avail them when removed from their own influence. Hence they have no trials of faith to work out pa tience; no gifts of patience to work out experience; no treasures of experience to enliven them with hops. 'The consequen ces of disagreeable follies have never taught them discretion : they have no knowledge of human nature to guard them agamst its deceits ; their whole minority has been pas sfd in the nursery, and when they leave its walls, their minds are the same unlettered, blank sheet, as when their eyes first opened cn tbo darkened light of Heaven. The re sult is that where one such, by a happy com bination of circumstances, is saved from de struction, thousands become the slaves of the vicious, the victims of the vile, or the dupes of the artful. Recovering frotn his stupor, Roberts ex claimed, “Rejected!-Meet notagain" But we do meet again, and that speedily." A-. ; he uttered this, airs. Harris, who had been awaiting, fivverishiy. the termination of their interview, entered th room; “Well," said she, advancing towards tvm; “What said inv pretty bird ?—But what! -—do v tic aft • —dejected ? Not uav, sure- i lv ?" “Keen so, madam;" and here he dis clos 1 the decided conduct of Dorcas. “You opened your attack too soon," said Mrs. Harris, who Inal now struck upon e new v#iu, and thought if Dorcas could be •farced to marry Poherts, her ends would h* accomplished, though her malice would not be so completely gratified “We hav* hut yesleiMay received certain intelligence, (or directly implied, if not certain,) that 'Tyler and Sarah arc to be married before their return, and sli» has not yet recovered from the shock. When she hears Chat they ore actually married—as she doubtless wtlliuarday or two—you will find h**r less impregnable;" and litre she handed him Tyler's fitter, with the envelope, telling him to read it at liis leisure. She had giv eii'hlm his clue, and knowing her man. was juste' well aware what l e would do with that envelope, as il th? future was uireadv before l.?r. He took the letter, pur ; t in his Mat, and before he was on his horse, his plan fix ed. Doing imiuodist *)y home, he, bv the aid of the letter in us possession, conn feir? I Tyler’s hand-writing -wrote that ,'d. in image ceremony having already I ■••■ u performed. the cou))le woi/d be home in a week, h’ .is latter he enclosed i*i the en velope w deli Mrs. Harris hid given him, of •* hu ll he had contrived to alt r the date ofthe post mark,’"d, thr<*e davs aft r, dcoo tied it into the letter-box of the neighbor ing post office. When Mrs. Harris receiv ed it, knowing well the source nheijc? it came, she went immediately to Mrs* Rthsl waito. aim Commenced in her usual wav ; “Mrs. EtHHiveit**, you arc my own Has - Land’s siMcr.” Th 1 * i.oor woman, wpII aware what was coming, sa. trembling in h.-r chair, and sim ply (.i.W.bU out,- “ "t ?(* e'°- v » -•*‘*3. Ethel v-a.t , ’ hav kept ('. It aJya,nt of jour’s K clt -too wc’.r, 1 fe.v, fqr m<- e.ujrn-M haying •; f or kcj'-, fi t» r Bible says the 'f f ?t , *g'rvr is as bad ;s the thief; 1 must now disc!os> it—and, first ut all. to Tyler. ’ Shr saw her sister was tainting, and handing tier the camphor bottle, raid, Come, come; nis no! tun to faint yet. Do you want me to 1 tell him ?■’ “lire ( heave i No!" i *• \\ ed, iisleii to me, Mrs. Kthelw.ite. : That boy of yours was my darling hope, j ! me ii:t him to marry my .Maltha, and he as 1 much as promised me lie would. He went ) 11 • India, and tin re fell in .me with tbatvt j per and lnd the impudence to vr.u and tell ■ of it. But he siiail net u any li r—l i sweat it ; am! you ate to help u.e prevent j “Bat. stster, he is going to marry Sarah I Roberts." j “it's ttlie! md it’s all mv doings. I es- J 'rui»';t‘.i hiuifrotu Dorcas— ! scut lum to ' i' .ce---! started the report—-1 shall soon •sty hu is already married, and at yi.ur peril l %.u a r e nut to deny it—nay, you are to a.firm it, if called upon.” * But, sister, 1 ciuinoi toll a lie." “Very well 1 then cau tell tire truth !” She east on h.cr a scowl ol the blackest malignity, and seemed about turning away. , Mr;. Elhelwaitt* imploringly raised her Land. “Your hand is up. Swe üby it thru, as | you bone for peace, that you ate tui e, to do i my pleasure. She signified her assent. “V/ell, then, have done with your folly. Your secret i* y t with tm*---hotv long, de pend,; upon ywuiself;” and so saying, sue wen; in search of Dorcas. “My tleatfir! i did not think to be, so soon, the bearer of such unpleasant tidings 1 —Tyler and Sar.iii are married— the heart** ! fcs3 ing: Her :is the e iiot i.is per ; flJy and she r -i toe letter. | Dorcas recclv and it- contents wjtha dumb lifeless grief, as :f the fouiitam ot her soul was already froze n. Both sat in silruce, till Mis. Harris iid “Dorcas be iwotn.irt! I mild not advise you to your harm- nut, be a woman ! 1 feel my own nat re out raged with yours. Consult your dignity, and if another inducement*!* necessary, save Tvler tiie remorse of having broken your heart." ‘How ?” “Y ou know Mr. R'lberts—lie is dying for you. Save his life and your own by mar rying him. Be spirited i” "Mv own life is of no consequence. I have another way of ending my griefs than that. Mary him ! marry any body ! —uo body but death"’ , 41 11 '” L ‘ **'“* UpcUwpe means to—; better !’* anil then said, “well my own child, I only a lvisi and you as a woman. No w let me aov se you as a < iiris iron* Remember"’ and here she j’Ointed heavenwards, and left her. Slto saw Roberts, and told him their, was no hope; Dorcas would di? s ion—and beg gfd r: rn to say nothing more about it. But he v.* is r.ot one to be so easi v baffled. Dor* :i* remained half *r!iv and half dead I ii !’ and the and;. v bidbr'* Tvler vis said to be u x ;o tt f rs 'nr. .r> e *iv morning si h to -' hope tnat she had destroyod h:ri- t; iind her fi‘s‘ demand ofthe servant was to know how she v. as; expel ling to receive mtel -! -’**»*'-**- But now »he. could wai; no longer. The fool has got no heart, ’ sni! she, as '■he. mixed a cup of p..iwn, intending to do | lier-'cll for Doiras, whar she thought her too 'pttsillanirnntt.s, to ittempt “But no; this is the last night sho m.i. have reserv ed !ier elf tor this. Let her kill hereseh if v! ’'' "A til. .trill thfn I flmll ho iovodou her soul too, if she has ot. •. B»t iff,he is alive to-morrow morning, her shroud shall be mad" bt so e nh hla’d," and with this hi dish design, she ;ut the dea ily mixture into the sideboard. Dorcas’ loom was an eastern wing of ifie house, and opened into the yard. Hither s' * repaired on that n o.nenfous night. Roberts, thinking this the most favorable time for his designs, hail stationed a carriag in the road, utult i the idea he could tit** i fie the mo.ee'.m v persuaded or compelled to abandon a place where she must die with misery, ari l retire to one ofseereev, where she could brood over her sorrows alone— without being irorl ed by the presence of Tyler, as therm-band of another This iva to be his pretext; hut once io his pow r. he intended to force her into a romphanc ■ with his importunities. He saw h -renter the room, and felt liis heart lad h.m ars she sank upon L r knees, and cn uniiti'd h *r ve’f to the Father of the fartberlcss. A noise disrurhed him, and hi* hastily retreated in an opposite direction, but still not so tar but that he could ee the i ardh* burning. He watched patiently for nearly an hour: still it burned on. He stole up closer, vet saw no one-- crept nearer-—nearer—-lifted the latch-—opened, entered tho door-—the room was empty ! Mold mrd with rage, lie ston 1 undecided for a moment, and then proceeded toward the carriage. *‘f’urse it!” muttered he,’ns he told the postillion he should have no more us" for him that night. “Lookin'' for a lady, master?” said the man. who had Lean etnrlo ed os: s chfiut es before ; “cause 1 feed one gnin to the tlil i gen re when it came -along, about a half an hoar ago." The thought struck him that Owens had ban'shed heiself from home. “1 he very thing !” said he ; “drive on • follow the dili gence, hut do not catch up with it. See where site gc*s out. anil then we part." T'.e hor- as dashi lon. Morning revealed the object ffh"ir pursuit about a mile a !. At fiver.' I'a-yhev .isecrtained that n j pale young bdv, closely wrapped up, was I , .... of the pnr c engers They followed on to Lander where it stopped ; and to the ii f Roberts, D rens left it and entered fir.te'. Towards evening, he saw ltu* th -v awav in a carriage, and was told that she had one oa board an American packet tlii.' wav to start the same night. At mid night, he hVi himself conveyed on board he same vcsvrl, ji.-t hi fore she weighed an chor, an i .left England— forever! fn the morning, when the passengers earn? on dec!.. Dorcas was thunder: truck ta I oha!d Roberts standing before her. lit nd ih'c-:«i*d her- “Mv dear ML* A dehnar, limv have wc met. • : , e l by your coldness of all that inn le | : and■: v. 1 last night left it forever. .-•ut .iuisi ..illin ’y shall ! endure the tr.tns-. ( partaf'.oti iie life, if my fair judge goes with j l me io help me bear the burden of h r own , sentence. ' “Mr. Rob r!~, this will .rot do." She j took a iii;: fit! st r < f Tyler from her belt, an and ( pointing to it, said, “Tliough l might b'ush |to own it. my heart is still there. lam sor- , rytlr.it anything from me has made you j ! desert your home. Return there, and be j happy, fin this vessel you address me not at a 1 1 , or oiflv as a passing acquaintance.'• In the meantime, solitary amid the gaieties j of Pat is, with them, btttnot of them, Tvler came to himself. “What if! have been un i just ?" said he after returning one night i , from a crowded saloon. The next dawn ’ saw him on lm wtiv to Bellevue. Ih aunt met him at the door. , “Where is Dorcas?" said be. hurriedly. “AC'J Huberts P ‘•Gone too --with her!” She intimated they uad tdopeu. Ty er wcut to his room with a stricken iieart. He turew himself on the bed ; and shortly after, an old woman, a house setvant orought a ietter, saying Mu* Dorcas had left it. With a haud he tore it open, and read— *T have not a w ord of reproach l io»e you too tv til to embitter oue drop iu your cup ot joy. Be happy with your bride; and sometimes, wiieti far separated from you by rfie waste of waters, cast a thought oa DditVA* " ;*>Uip:fied at fir.-t, and then frenzied, lte rnslied with the letter to his mother, and in an unguarded moment, drew from her the foul conspiracy. Snatching her by the arm, be dragged Iter to his aunt, whom he also seized iu the same mauner, uud thus coulVouted the guil ty pair. j “Speak!" shouted he; “confess !or rath er spare your confession you fiend ! My mother has confessed tor you, you foul hy pocrite i" Mrs. Harris condensed ber features into a w ithering expression of hatred, and te juined— “Your mother ? da you call that thing your motliet ?" “Yes!,and you are a woman, or you should be taugiit how to speak of her." “And who was your father !” Mrs. EihHwaite burst out iu a wild, pier cing scream, and fell dangling from (heuu relaxed arm of Tyler. “My father died before 1 was boru;but what is that to you V' "He might have been your father, but he never was her husband! But listen to me, Ty'lcr Ethclwaite.” Tvler did listen till she cast the foul blot on liis birth ; and then the thought flashing on him that it had becu involved in mystery, lie fiercely douched both liia hands round her throat, and flingl.ig her with all |»is might against the vva.nseotting, rushed front the uouse in a raging madness, and rode in a frenzy towards London. When Airs. Hams recovered from her stunning tall, she's aw no one in the room but her sister, "ti!l lying where sho had fallen when Tvler released her from his grasp. “Art.l so you though* pie a fool like your ; self, ty he trilled w ith and betrayed with im punity,” said she, touching her scqrinuity with !n*r foot. But immediately she started back iu horror— U- is; ter was dead ! She walked away mechanically, and open •*■*»-idutuim-.t _ Th«f« rn the fatal ou P die had prepared tor Dorcas. Like Judas Iscariot, site lelt that she had betrayed inno cence. 'The fired was done ! the scorpion was wanned into sudden beiug by the fires that were rag.ngin her bosom. These she sought, to quench in a moment with the dead !;> draught, and. “Sooner than the devils hoped, arrived in hell!” When Tyler reached London, he imme diately hastened around from quay to quay inquiring incoherently if any one had seen Dmras Repeated insults aroused him to a sense ofthe fVnitlessuess of his search, till when turning away in despai-, he. was met by one ofthe lover order of the police, who said to him significantly— “ Looking tor a ga!—eh ?” Tyler shuddered at his profanity and tur ned to leave him. “Look here, try larkey; may be you wouldn’t look so spitefuly, an’ you knew as tuut h t?» I He put a guinea in his hand and awaited his inteligence. “Well now, th?.t’s clever. Pale, and wrapped tip as if she didn't want nobody to see her ?” Tvler bow<'d assent. •*S-.'d her myself—went aboard the ship Caroline, nn ljs this minute three and ays out, bound for Ameriky.” Tvler hiving given him another guinea took chin immediately in another packet that was just starting for the same port. On the way, enlivened by the prospect of finding Dorcas, became more calm. He had a rough passage, and during a gsie was the happy instrument ufsaving the caplain's life. When the nilot came on hoard, the cap tain asked what news—and was informed that the Caroline had been wrecked during the storm, and every soul lost. “What’s that ?”said Tyler abruptly; “the ship Caroline !” •‘The very same.” ’•Anv ladies lost?" “Every soul! captain, crew, passengers and all. Three ladies aboard, and by this time eat up bv the fishes." “Where is that ship going?” said he, as one came out the channel. ‘•She’s the Emperor—bound to Russia.” “Captain,” said Tyler, “are you iny friend ?" “1 ought to be—yon saved nay life.” “We!!, then, put me on board that ship." “Aye, aye, sir ” and he \v..s on his way --to Russia, or any where else—-to lum it mattered not. Had lie kept on, he would have found that one of the passengers, a lady, had survived the wreck. She had been washed on shore and with difficulty restored to life. When askeil her name, site replied it was Dorcas Lindsay. Under this humble title she bu ried tin* proud old English name of Adelmar. She came to our village; spent her life in acts of charity and benevolence, and lelt n record of her worth not only on the w alls of on'- temple, but in the hearts of our villagers. Tvler. after wandering in other climes, came to America, where lie learned the fate and shared the graveofhis halove*!. But the saddest feature ofthe miseries of poor Dorcas, was that she never knew but that her sorrows were all deeply founded in reality. She wandered among us like a ban ished angel, never knowing how wronged, how injured she had been, until her soul expatiu;- in the ovftniscicucc of heaven. n. S. s. .•I Oi d,r Woman's S<roan. —Dear Fronds—-ThcVe are three things I very imtc't wonder at: the first is, that ehddron should t> > so fl.-oHsli as to throw up stones, brick bats, miil clubs into fruit trees to knock down fruit, if they would let i l alone it would fall it- S'df* The second is that in n shtild *be so foolish and even so wirked ns to go to war and kill oue another ; if they would only let on? another alone, they would die of them scL es; and the thud ard last thing which I wonder atis.th.it young men.should be so unwise as to go a 'ter th** young women, if the*' would onlv stay a* home the young wo men would coni • after them. Ann* fott efVi Farmer's Daughter —A few years ago, a farmer living a lew miles from Easton, sent his daughter on horseback to town, to procure ftomthe bank smaller notes in exchange for one of one hundread dollars. Whenslu arrived there, the bank was shut, arid she rnile;.'voi 'd to cflVct her object by offering it at several *f the stores, but *oulil not g"t her note changed She bad not gone • fiyr on herr 'turn, wh*n •; stranger rode up to i thibiiic'fLir aad vvccsted her with so much politeness that she had not the slight est suspicion of an ovil iuteiuou on his part. After a ride of a mile or two, employed * D social conversation, they came to a part of the, road, and the gentleman com manded her to give him the bank note!—* It was with some difficulty that she could be made to believe lum in earnest, his demeanor had been so friendly-—but the presentation ol a pistui placed the matter beyond all doubt or uncertainty, and she yielded to necessity. Justus she held tkeuote to him, a puff of wind blewit into the road, and curried it gently sevcial yards from them. The descorteous knight alighted to get it, and the lady whipped he r horse to get out of his power, and the hors e that had been left standing by her s *d" started olf with her. His owner fired <* pistol, which only served to accelerate thesseeP eet l of ail parties, and the lady arrived safely at home with the horse of the robber, on which was a pai r ot saddle bags. When these were opened, they were found to contain, besides a quantity of coun terfeit notes $1 500 in goood money ! The horse was a good uue, and when saddled amt bridled was thougt to be worth as much at least,as ihs bank note that was stolen ENERGY OF CHARACTER Energy of character is the philosopher’s stone of tljis life and should bee engraven upon each heart. It is that which has peo pled the temple of fame; that which has filled the historic pages with great names, aud the civil and military would ; which has brought a race from barbarism, drawn the veil from science, aud developed the wondrous powers ol nature. It makes men rich. First or last, it brings success. Without it Web ster would have been a New-Hampshire Lawyer; T. Ewing a buckeye salt boiler— and Ben Franklin a journeyman printer. A\ it hunt it Demosthenes would have stam mered on to his grave, and Cincinuatus died a common soldier, Shakespeare would have been shot for poaching ; Pope died selling ta pe—Reseo lived selling beer‘by the small;’ and Napoleon gone out of the world a Cor sicau j3il!!y. With it each one has not only done niueli ?ood for himself, but nr rh for the world, ijr the past, she present and|fhe future. Energy of character will do the same thing for any man in a small way that it hag done for those. Give the lawyer energy of char acter, and he will succeed at the bar without talents. It is the secret by which the mer chant, the artist,the scholar and the mechanic arrive at distincion arid wealth. fail once, they try again ; no contrary winds beal them down, «hoy will not stay down- The man who has energy of character will rise in spite of fortune, and in spite of opposition. Give a man energy, and he is a mads man, put him where you will, and surround him, by what you will. THINGS A FARMER SHOULD NOT DO. 1. A farmer should never undertake to cultivate more land than he can do thorough ly ; half tilled land is growing poorer; well tilled land is constantly improving. 2. A farmer should never keej more cat tle, horses, sheep, or hogs than he cin keep in good order, an animal in high order the first of December, is already half wintered. 3. A farmer should never depend on his neighbor for what he can by care and good management, produce on his farm ; he should never beg fruit while he can plant trees, or borrow tools when lie can make or buy, a high authority has said the borrower is a set 4. A farmer should never be so immersed in political t: atters as to forget to sow his wheat, dig his potatoes and bank up his cel lar; nor should he be so inattentive to them as to be ignorant of those great questions of na tional and state policy which will always a gitate, more or less, a free people. 5. A farmer should shun the door of a bank as he would the plague or cholera ; banks are for traders and men of speculation, and theirs is a business with which farmers have little to do. 6. A farmer should nCvcr be ashamed of his calling, we know that no man can be en firelv independent, yet the farmer should re member that if any one is said to possess that enviable distinction, he is the man. 7. No farmer should allow the reproach of neglecting education to lie against him self or family ; if knowledge is power, the beginniug of it should be early and deeply laid in the district school. 8. A farmer should never use ardent spir its as a drink ; if, while undergoing severe fatigue and the hard labor of the summer, he would enjoy robust health; let him be tem perate in all things. <5. A farmer never should refuse a fair price for any thing he wants to sell; we have known a tnan who had several hundred bush els of wheat to dispose of, refuse Bs. because he wanted 8s 6th, and after keepiug his wheat six months, was glad to get 6s 6d. for it. 10. A farmer should never allow his wood house to belemptied of wood during the sum mer season ; if he does, when winter comes, in addition to cold fingers, he must expect to encounter the chilling looks of his wife, and perhaps he compelled, in a series of lectures to learn that the man who burns green wood, has not mastered the A B Cos domestc e coromy It. A farmer should never allow a window to be filled w ith red clonks, tattered coats, and old hats, if he does, he will most assu redly acquire the reputation of a tnan who tal lies long at the whiskey shop, leaving his wife and children to starve at home. .Com. School Assistant. Heads.—Two Scottish clergyman who were not so long headed as they imagined, met one day at the turning of a street, and ran their heads together unawares. The shock was rather stunning to one of them. He pulled off his hat. and, laying his hand on his forehead, said, "sin a blow! my head’s a ringing again.” “Nae wonder," said his companion," your head was aye hoss, that makes it ring ; my head dis miring a bit." How could it ring” says the other,* seeing it is Craekit vessels never ring.’’ Horrible murder for Love of Hum. —AVe have to record heaven knows, crimes, and atrocities enough, that outrage the name of our country; but here is one of no appalling and revolting character seldom, if every sur passed. AVe take it from the Ftcmingsburg burg Kentuckian of January 18- i\ T f iv Yorlc Star. A Son murdered by his father--- More horrible effects of Intemperance— We are credibly informed, thata Mr. Hampton, of Mason vounty, Ky. was the murderer of his own sor. ! a boy about. 12 years of aue. He was habitually intemperate, and had sent his son to a neighboring house tor rum, who upon returning, informed liis father that he had accidentally broken the jug, and spilt the liquor. Upon learning these facts, the father became ennged, and procuring a rope hung him up to the ceiling until lift’ was ex tinct. Although this occurrence is said to have taken place eady last week, we have net learned that as yet, the perpetrator of thisUntl an J nohatiim! deed his been tir tcV.Ji AVe are indebted to a slip from the office ofthe New York Gazette of March 29, for the follow ug intelligence from Maine. From the Boston Duly Advertiser. IMPORTANT FROM MAINE. By the eastern mail of last evening, we have received the following which we copy from the Augusta Tri-weekly Journal. It puts an end for th<* present to all hostile measures ou the troutu r and sets at rest all questions of controversy, until further in structions shall be receivtd from the Brit ish government. The troops of Maine mil of course immediately return to their homes Major Gen. Scott seems to have acted in this afifair in the capacity of mediator. Head <iUarters, Fasten Division, U. S, r Augusta Maim March 21, 1839. ( The undersigned, a Major General in the Army of th • United States, being specially I charged with maintuinii: j the peace aud sa I ietv oftl. ■ entire Nort “rn and Eastern fr i.* I tiers, having <miv to apprehend a collision !o! arms between t ii- }:o nice forces of New Brunswick and the sate ot iaitie on tue dis puted territory wh.ch is claimed by both, his the honor, in the sincere desire of the United States to preserve the relations of peace and amity with Great Britain rela tions which might be much endangered by such untow j i colli' ion-- io invite from his Excelle cy Major Sir John Harvey, Lieu tenant Governor, Ate. Ate., a general ue c’aration to this effect. That it is not the intention of the Leiu tenant Governor of her Britannic Majc-tv’s province of New Brunswick, under the ex pected renewal of negotiations between the cabinets of London aud Washington oil the subject of the said disputed territory, w ith out renewed instructions to that effect from liis government, to seek to take military pos session of that territory, or to seek by milita ry force to expel the armed civil posse, or tho troops of Maine. Should the undersigned have the honor to be favored with such declaration or assur ance. to he by him communicated to his Excellency the Governor of the state of Maine, lhe undersigned does not in the least doubt that he would be immediately and fully authorised byihe Governor of Maine to cpnrijuuicate to his Excellency the (Lieu tenant Governor of New Brnnswi••!*., a cor responding pacific declaration to this effect. That s the hope of a speedy and satisf.ic tory settlement, by negotiation, between the governments' of IT. S. and Great Britain, and the principal or boundary question between the state of Maine and the province of New Brunswick, it is not the intention of the Go vernor of Maine, without renewed iustrue- 1 tions from the Legislature of the state, to at tempt to disturb by arms the said province, in the possession of the Mad.nva-ka set tlements, or to attempt to interupt the usual communications between that province and her Majesty’s upper provinces, and’that he is willing in the mean time, to leave the o’ies'ion of possession and jurisdiction a? they at present stand ; that i ;. Great Britain, holding, in fact, possession of a part of said territory, and the government of Maine de nying her right to such possession ; and tho state of Maine holding, in fact possession of another portion of the same territory, to which her rights is denied by Great Britain. With this understanding the Governor of Maine will, without unnecessary delav, with draw the military force of tlip state from the said disputed territory—leaving only, under a Land Agent, a small civil posse, armed cc unarmed, to protect the timber recent ly cut, and io prevent future riepredatiuns. Reciprocal assurances of the foregoing friendly character having been,made through the undersigned, all danger of collision be tween the immediate parties to the contro versy will be at once removed, and time al lowed the United States and Great Britain tos-tde amicably the grejtt question oflim* its. The undersigned has much pleasure in renewing to his Excellency Major General Sir. John Harvey, the assurance of his anci ent high consideration and respect. WIN HELD SCOTT To a copy of rhe foregoing, Sir John Har vy annexed the following: The undersigned, Major General Sir John Harvey, Lieutenant Govemorofher Britan nic Majesty’s province of New Brunswick, having received a proposition from Major General Winfield Scott, ofthe United States army, of which the foregoing is a copy, hereby, on hu q»art, signifies liis concur rence and acquiescence therein. Sir John Harvey renews with srreat pleas ure to Major General Scott, the assurance of his warmest personal consideration, re gard and respect. J. HARVEY. Government House, Frederickton, New Brunswick, March 23, 183 ft To a paper containing the note of Gen. Scott and the acceptance of Sir John Harvev Governor Fairfield annexed his ac eptance in these words: Executive Department, ) Augusta, March 25, 183 ft. s The undersigned, Governor of Maine, in consideration of the foregoing, she exigen cy for calling out the troops of Maine hav mg ceased, has no hesitation in signifying his entire acquies 'en e in the proposition of M;.j. Gen. Scott. The undersigned has the honor to tender to Major Genera! Scott, the assurance of his high respect and esieem. JOHN FAIRFIELD. We learn that Gen. Scott has interchang ed the acceptances of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor, and also that Govern or Fairfield immediately issued orders recal ling the troops of Maine and for organising the civil poose that is to be continue,!, (or the time, in the disputed territory The troops in tins town will also be immediately discharged. The two branches of the Maine Lngi*la tnre met at half past 5 o’clock on Monday morning. The House voted that when they should next adjourn ; t shorn! be without day, and in this vote the Senate concurred. The House notified the Senate that they noncoticttrred in th<* voir, indefinitely [>ost l oning the state tax bill. The Senate vo ted to adhere, yeas 10, nays 5. The Governor was informed that the two Houses were rearlv to adjourn. The Secre tary came in and notified the two Houses that lie ha !approved 180 acts and 126 resolves and that he had no further communication to make. Votes of thanks were passed to the President of the Senate aud Speaker of the House, and they made speeches of acknowledgment, and the two houses then adjourned. The follow ing are extracts from the offi cial oroceedings of the Board of Directors on the 29th of March : Upon Mr. Biddle’s withdrawal the fol lowing letter from him to the Directors was presented and read : To the Board oi Directors of the Bank of the United States. Gentlemen.— 1 exeeute a purpose which, as yon arc aware, 1 have long meditated, and which 1 intimated to tlis Stockholders at tlio.r fh'staieeting iindef th” hcwuliirfer V-* that ofretiriog from the direction oftlie Bank It is now more than twenty years since 1 m torvd its service. 1 h.y have been years of tut. use labor, aud they |.av 2 carried for me a right to claim the telation aud itp,.se which approaching age and precarious health »e --quire. i have waited anxiously tor the most appropriate moment, a: whu*h f coulu lie best spared ; but hitherto, whenever I have sought the retireiueut 1 so much need ed, some difficulty, in which my service was deemed usetul. always inlt rpo-.d to ... ta:r i me. None such exist now. All the pout ical oisseuiious connected with li.e Bank toi the last ten years have cta»c,; , ali its extr ordui .iy eiforis lor the protection ol our m tiouai interests are bapi iiy ended , and the Ban., has returned to its accustomed , faau ueU o 1 business in peace, i can therefore withdraw at length without inconvenience and l do it more readily heause I leave the ahaiis t t ilia institution in a state ot great prosperity, and in Hie hands ol ulne Direc tors and Officers. j his separation from friends with whom 1 have been so long and'so agreeably associa ted, is among the most painful acts ot ,„ v j hie; aud 1 pray you to accept, at partin® ; my sincere wishes for the personal welfare ot you all. U 1 .. . , RIDDLE, President. I htiadelphia, March 29, 1836. lt "; :is ‘ fae » by J. R. logersoL c.sqr. t.iat the Board do now proceed to the election oi a Dnector in the place ol N. Bid dle, resigned. V, u-n it appeared u* on the aimi that I lioinas Dunlap w;, s uu.iidmous- U elected a Director to supply the va, an. v. .-ii. DttnJap s resignation of lus office as be < oml Assistant Cashier, was presented to tne Board bv J. ( uwpeithuit, Esqr. Cashier and accepted. Whereupon, on ,notion, the* Board proceeded to tin* eh ctmn of « dent, and upon counting the ballots it an peared that Thomas Dunlap, L-q was unan imously electeo President of ihe Bank ofthe Limed Mates, aid the same committee were requested by the chairman to inform Alt. J Jan lap ol his i lection, and request his acceptance of the up, ointment. Greensborouch. 30th March, 1839. Kcssi'B Crrfeie ty Ormez • -entumen- -The publication ofthe en closed section* of tlie law passed the Ut session ol (on cress, making appropriations tor preventing and sunpressing Indian hos tilitie-, lor the year 1839," will be useful to many of your readers, and especially the volunteers who served under Gen. C. Nelson, iu the Florida campaigns. The other Editois will consider this request to them also. Very respectfully. mm. c. DAWSON. “I" or P‘lying the value of the horses and equipage ot the Tennessee and other volun teers who have at any time been in the ser vice of the United States in the Territory of r lorida and which were turned over to the Government by the order of the command ing General, or other commanding officers, said value to be ascertained by the mnraise ment of said value when the volunteers en tered the service fitly two-thousand dollars. ‘•That the provisions ot arts approved and in force at various periods since 1812. au thorizing payments for horses lost in the ser vic° ofthe United States, by rangers, mili tia aud volunteers, are hereby revived and extended for two years, from and after the passage of this act: and under the action of the Hurd Auditor t h»!l be deein o d to em bra r all cases not already satisfied, of hor ses 1,,., their swnrrs rtritr ns . jfo , ' n , 1 otherwise, when due care aud dnigimce be rendered manifest on the part of the owner: and if the death or loss of ran forage, it being at places where acting in o icdtence to the orders of the commanding of ficers. forage could not have been procured by proper vigilance on the part ofthe owner. No payment however shall he made for hor ses or other property lost or destroyed, when the !o«s or destruction shall have been ocra sioned by the fault or neglect of the owner, or when bv the terms of contract, the risk was upon the owner of the property.” 'I he following commentary on Col. La mar’s letter, which we published last week, is taken from the Augusta Constitutional ist, —a paper, which has ever been distin guished for its courtesy to political oppo nents : •‘The following letter is characteristic of the man High-minded, always firm and o pen henrtpfl, we have never known Col. La mar to conceal his political principles, to bo reserved, nor to practice deceit, if thereby some political advantage could he obtained or himself or his party. We have a candid ate of mir party for the office ol Governor, who will certainly receive our support ; but we frankly confess, that, if the exertions of our political friends were to fiiil in electing that candidate, our regret would be less, could such a man as Col. Lamar be the siirce--!*il candidate ot the opposition party. Honorable and high-minded as he is* we are not snrnrised ihat he shou and leave the polit ical field to those of liis party, “who are moic solicitous to sacrifice the repose of pri vate life, to the acquirement ofjutblic hon ors.” Men. of tliis description are to be found in the ranks of all parties." NEXT GOVERNOR. The State Rights convention, which will assemble at Milledgeville in May next will have a delicate and imporiant task to preform The course of some o'" the presses hitherto devoted to the success of the State Rights party, ufficiently, if not clearly, indicate a preference for Air Clay, while others prefer Mr. \an Buren. However much we re gret the exprssion of a preference at all, it is obvious that so linge of this character per vade the party, in some sections ofthe State, to an extent sufficient to disturb its harmonv. The great danger, therefore, is, that there may be delegates in the convention, who, in their preference for either Clav or Van Bu ren, in our opinion manifest but little respect lor their principles as State Rights men. VV ho will ateinpt to discriminate in their selectionof a candidate for Governor, between one who may favor the pretensions of one or the other ofthese persons. Such feelings I carried into the convention, and acted out, i would result in the dismemberment and j prostration of he party. Wc suggest, there fore, as the bettei course, Atid perhapes the 1 only Onewhich will give general satisfaction, ; the nomination ofsorvie person as a candidate ! for next Governor who stands indifferent in j the approaching contest; who is neither j Whig or Tory in the new fangled aecep tation ofthe terms, and who will make every necessary effort to preserve the unity and i integrity of the State Rights party. Columbus Enquirer. Th- Wandering Piper has piped his Ta«-t 'lay. He died in Dublin a short time since, but did not disclose his name to any one but his spiritual confersor. His statement was that many years ago he made a wager, iitu.- t ing himself to pursue that extraordiilitrjf ett :ir*er dffiro. 1