The American patriot., 1855-02-14
The Know Nothing State Convention for New

The Know Nothing State Convention for New
Hampshire met at Manchester on Tuesday, and
nominated for Governor Ralph Matcalf, instead Of
Rev John Moore. who is ineligible. Mr. Matcaf
has heretofore been Democrat He is lawyer
and president of a bank at Newport, where he
resides. The Boston Post says this is as formda-
bic nomination as could possibly have been made
against the Democrats, who will endeavor to coun.
teract it by increased, exertons in behalf of Gov.
Baker. The election will take place next month.
The dimissal from the Navy of the United
States of Lieut., Charles G. Hunter is announced
in the Washington Star He was recently in
command of the brig Banbridgc, on the Brazilian
station and, in consequence ola difference ofopin-
ion as to their respective duties between him and
the Commodore of the squadron, he brought his
vessel home without orders from his superior.
For this act of INSTRUMENTATION the President has
caused his name to be struck from the rolls Of the
Navy, which he entered twenty years ago. e..
A large and enthusiastic meeting of the citizens
of Noxubce county, Miss, was held in Macon, on
the 9th ult The Hon w. W. Roby, Hon. A. W.
Dabney, and eight other influential citizehs, were
appointed a committee to prepare and report res
buttons. The object of the meeting was to sus-
tain the course of Senator Adams, upon the SUBJ
iect of the naturalization laws. The resolutions
reported were carried unanimously. They APP
prove the course of Senator Adams declare that
he will be sustained by the Democratic party, as
well asby the people of Noxubec county, condemn
the administration for its appointment of foreign
10 49, o,,J
vote in favor of the INDECENT insane bill against
President Perces veto. "a,
BEAUTIFUL ExTRAcr-"Last evening we were
walking leisurely along; the music of the choirs
of three churches came floating out in the dark
ness around us, and they were new and strange
tunes but one, and that one-it was not sung as
we have heard it, but it awakened a train of long
buried memories, that rose to us even as thew
were, before the cemetry of the soul had tomb
in it.
ut was the sweet old 'Corinth' they were sing
ing-strains that we have seldom heard since the
rose color of life has blanched; and we were in a
moment back again to the old village church, and
| it was summer afternoon, and the yellow sum
beams were streaming through the west windows,
anu tIlc SilVeF HdT VI liic olu ucdCOn VINO sat
the pulpit. turned to gold in its light, and the
minister, who, we used to think could never die,
so good was he had concluded the application and
the 'exhortation and the village choir were sing
ing the last hymn, and that was 'Cornth'
at is ycars-wc dare not think how many
since then, and the prayers of David, the son of
Jesse, are ended and the choir arc scattered and
gone. The girl with blue eyes that sang alto, and
the girl with black eyes that sang ar-the ewes of
one like a clear June heaven ut noon
"Thcy both became wives, both mothers and
both died. Who shall say they are not singing
Corinth' still, where Sabbaths never wane and
congregations never break up? There they sat,
Sabbath after Sabbath, by the square column on
the right of the leader, and to our young ears
their tones the soul of music That column
bears still the penciled names, they wrote them
in those days of lifes June, 1S-, before dreams
or change had overcome their spirits ike a sum-
mer cloud.
"Alas that with the old singers most of the
sweeter tunes had died upon the air; but they
still linger in memory, and they shall yet be sung
in the sweet reunion of song that shall take Mace
in a hall whose columns are beams of morning
light, whose ceiling is pearl, whose floors are gold
and where hairs never grow silvery, and hearers
never grow old. Then she that sang alto and she
that sang air, will be in their places more
III K1rrel.
Russian and French Soldi6ls-A lively writer
from Paris draws parallel between the soldiers
ofthe different nations now fighting in Crmea
and first says of the Russians:
The vallor displayed by the Russians in the
night attacks an the allies has never been surpass
ed by the soldiers of any nation Or people what
ever The Russian soldiers lacks strategy and
quickness of movement, but he possesses a cour-
age almost without parallel remarkable strength
of body and great resistance to the exha,lsting
effects of wounds 1t has been common remark
from the day of Napoleon to the present moment,
that the Russian soldiers are the most difficult in
the world to put hors dn combat which are to be
met in Europe. Marshal Ney said: SIT will not
suffice to shoot Russian soldier; he must be
pushed over Remarkable instances of this
power of resistance to the loss of blood and to the
first impressions of a wound have been exhibited
since the commencement of the campaign in the
Crmea and it is no doubt due to the rude life to
which the Russian soldiers is subjected, not only
as soldier, but a peasant.
Next he says of the Frenchman:
While eating is nor part of soldiers life in the
Russian camp, in the French camp it is quite diff