IMI O 1111 NE I=l ..F.sREAD st H. H. FRAZIEILEDITORS. GENEYIEV`E. $r SAMV;L TAYLOR COttIITIN3g. Att. thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, • All are but ministers of Love, And feed his saireddlame. Oft w a king dreams do I Lice o'er again that happy bow,: When midway on the.m o unt I lay B6id. the ruined tower. The moonshine stealing o'er the seetie, Had blended With the lights of eve; And she was there, my hope, my joy, . My own dear Genevieve!' • She loaned against this armedman, The statue of the armed knight : She stood and listened - to my luirp Amid, the'lingering light. Few _sorrows bath she other oww, My hope, my joy, my Genevieve! . §he loves me best whene'er I sing The liongs that make her grieve. I played asoft and doleful air; • sang an old and moving storp-• An old rnde - so - ng thpt•fitted well The ruin wild and hoary. : , " • She listened with a flitting blush, With downcast eyes and modest grace; For well she knew I could not choose, - - But gaze upon her face. • I told hei of the Knigll that wot•e ; • rpon his shield a bWming brand.; And that, for ten long years.he wooed - The Lady of the Land. „told her how he pitted : and; alt! • -The IoW, the deep, the pleading tone, . With which I sang_another's lore, • •Interpreted my own. ; . , She listened with a flitting blush; . With . downeast eyes and modest grace; And she forgave me that I gazed Too fondly on her face! • Baru-he'll I told the cruel scorn ' • Which crazed this bold and lovely Knight, And that he crossed' the mountain woods, Nveste4 day nor night; • That sometimes from the savage den, And sometimes from the dark - some shade, • And sometimes starting up at once, • - In-green and sunny glade,. There came andloOked him in the flee, • An angel beautiful and liright; And that he knew.it was a fiend, - - Tiiis miserable Knight ! = And how, unknowing what lie did, ts. He leaped amid a murderous band ; And-saved from outrage wurse than death 'The Lady of the Land; • • . And hour she wept and clasized his knees, Anddiow she.tended him in vain— And ever strove to - expiate . • The scorn thaccrazed hlstbrain • And that shemursed him in agave; And how his madness went away I . When on the.yeilow forest leaves, •-` • A dying man, he lay; 'liis dying words—but when Ireached • - Phat tenderest strain of all the ditty, .I,ly faltering voice and.pansing harp • Disturbed her soul 'with pity! All impulses of soul and •sense had thrilled my guileless Genevieve, The music and the doleful tale, ,The rich and balmy eve"; - An;?liones, and fearithat kindle hope, . An undistingAshable throng! . And gentle wishes long subdued, • Subduol and cherished long l' She wept with pity and delight, She blushed With love and maiden shame ; And, like the murmur of a dream, I heard her bitathe my name,- ller lam heaved—she-stpped aside; As" - eonscious of my love, she stepped— Thensuddenly with timorous eye She fled to me and-wept. She,lialf enclosed the with her arms, She pressed me-with a meek embrace; And bending back : her head, looked up, • _ _ And ,gazed.spon.tey, cre. 'Twas-partly rove, and partly,fear, And partly, 'twits Chashful art • That I - might rather feel than see • . The swelling of her heart. ' . • I calmed her, tears ; and she Was calm; - And told her love with virgin pride; , And so I won my Genevieve,' My bright,anitbeanteous bride! , 01=1 . Frorntlie Scranton Republican. k RIIVOLIPTIONATtY , HEROINE. IM3I Mits. SARAH BEsJeurs, of Mount Pleasant, Wayne:county,. Ps., departed this life on the :oth ult., at. the extreme age of 114. years and 5 month.. This remarlutble wzon. has :it length gone ihr eventful life has extended through the most stirring scenes of the histo r,3- of this cg i vintry and i worthy of some ex- I tended notice.. She was born in Goshen, Orange Co., N. Y.:November 17th .1743.. 'Her father, Mr. Mathews, removed from Connecticut to Or= anje County, at an early day. . When -she was achild of seven or. eight years, he emi.; graled-to Penniylvania. Hifftro,ssed -the Debiware and settled on the litishktll. This was but four or five years after -the devEited David Brainard closed his very successful missionary labors among the Indiani. Here, ,-non the outposts of civilitation in that day, She .spent her - youth, amid' the dangers and adVentures of border life; she 'developed an active, fearless, and indomitable mind. This _ cast of mind conibin,ed with `great, cheerful? mess and a good share,bf wit, she retained to , the closing yearS of lier long lite. 'lt is to this feature of her , mind, combined with strove physical powers and a plain regular diet, that she is indebted for herextreme age. An incident related' of her mother , will ac count for thesequalities :in the . child. When_ a girl of twelve years, she was sent, about supset, to do an errand. Sheshad proceeded Let. a' few steps from the door, when she;call ed to her- rhother that a fox, ias coming out of the swamp, and expressed some fear. But -. the mother knowing no fear herself would not allow tk in %her children. She ordered the child - to go. 'But Ihe . fos.proved to be a panther. As he came up she sprang upon the cow hovel, and the ferocious animal sell-. •ed the dog . that had accompanied her. But the-mother, hearing the cries of her favorite dog in - the jaws of. - the' panther, caught- a small axe, and, quick as thought, buried its ..bhide in the braids of the animal, and deliv .7 .eled his prey. - As the report of this fearless exploit was noised abroad, it staggered the .faith.of even the oldest hunters \ of the neigh, borbtod. - Her youth was spent amid' the dangers of wild beasts and- hostile Indians. She 'maid recollect .the defeat of Ggn. Brad. dock; in 1755,- through the. lexciteatent which gr ew out of it. She - has often spoken - 0.1. an eveilf which 'occurred about the same time. A paryiy;of Indians invaded thg biitiisitilc set= tle,rnetir, but were: boldly '.resisted by the bons oriqr. Brodhead. Stu had- a distant recollection of the family, and of their stone hunic."of w hit& they - made a fort. . . .... • • . ... . . .• • • • • • • I •• . .• / . . • • . .., , -. J.C., ..:, . • . 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Goshen, and-was, an eye witness of many of the cruelties of the scene; - On the opening of the Revolutionary war, shelentered deeply into, its spirit. Such was her itempemment she could be no idle spiT tator. She was confident of its success; and feared no danger and shrunk from no hard- Shipd in.eftorts to secure it. She was then living with her first husband,. Mr. William Read, and was 32`yeirs of age. She took great pleasure in seeing him engaged in fight ing the bUttles of her country. He however soon died of a wound received in an engage ment-while in 'Virginia. Her second husband was 14fr". Aaron Os. borne, orGoshen, N. Y. , If& was 'also in the . army., and survived the' war, Durink the )atter . part of the war, she accompanied him in, the• army. During their marches. she made herself vkry useful ip preparing' food, and when not thus engaged,.in sewing for the officers and men. She, was, however, ready to do any work" theoccasion and cause required.. Hardship mid danger seemed .not to have en tered her mind. She never quailed before the face of man. Her resolute and indotrita hie spirit rose above all rank and authority. She could have. faced the • King itpon 'h . throne iii behalf of her country, and with th:. utmost deliberation amended her right.;.— She would have made, had circumstances fa vored it, a modern Joan d'Are. Nothing de-. lighted her so 'much as a military parade.— It-roused to'action all the. peculiar qualities of her mind. It would have been her natur al element to lead 'brave men intohattle, and to annihilate her enemy. These qualities of mind combined' with good humor and ready wit, gave her a commanding influence. It 'seems that General Wa-hington knew- and appreciated her, as will be seen from the fol lowing incidents. She has Always spoken in very 1411- terms of hint. She thu't hint a very. good man, and a very 4114141 an‘brave commander. Still she thought he WaAome times to lenient in the administration o'fJus• flee._ She was with -her husband in the Ar my - when at Kingsbridge on the Hudson.— ' They were loading some heavy artillery Qs:- tensibly to attack New, York, theri in the hand!; of the EngliA, and it being necessary to, do it in" the night, 'sentries were placed Ipram/41 lest they Should be taken 'by 'us-prise. 1 Her.hushaitd having beeti placed as a :s.tat /nel, she took his place with overcoat and gin], that' he'might assist the. men in loading- the artillery. Conscious of doing that. and that i only which was for the best luterests s of her 'country, her brii'Ve spirit knew no fear. It. I was not long before General Washington, with a' due caution for the safety of .his trobps, came round to examine the outposts, and-seeing something in one, of his sentinels a little unusual, he advanced to her and said, 'f-Who 1-laced you here ?" She -promptly replied, with a loud voice, in her own pecul iar manner, "Them that had a right to, sir." He, apparently recognizing her independent and patriotic -spirit,' . passed on. . :She had accompanied the army with her husband to the South, and was present at the seige of Yorktown nod 'surrender . of 'Lord Cornwallis. During fate haute she made her- Self useful in.earrying. Water. to tlie thirsty and relieving the wants of the suffering: Passing where the bullets of the enemy were flying, she met. General. Washington, who said to her, " Young woman, are. you .not afraid-of the 'bullet:o" She quaintly and plea aptly replied, "The bullets will never .cheat the gallows.", She slid the ,General smiled, and without a Word passed on. The writer has often heard her describe the scenes of the battle, the ceremonies of the surrender,, the appearance of Cornwallis and , -his lady,.their furniture. - and equipage, with great Minuteness. Even in the last years of her life, she would relate the events of those - days - with all the.vivacify of youth. It seem e'd impossible-that we were conversing with one who had ,witnessed events of a genera tion long since passed away. It seemed like a voice from.a past . •age. In . her childhood George Washington and John Adam's, the first, two Pre;idents of the United State. 'were boy-X.. Thomas Jefferson, the third PreAldenl,,,was born the same venr she was. In England, Geroge the Second. Was King of i Great ; Britian, and Pitt. and Fox. were just rising to power- in the British ' Cabinet.— Whitfield and 'Wesley were''.prominent act ors on both . continents. Witherspoon, Pres idents Davies 4nd. Edwards, and David Brai-. )nard, all men who la.-ft their iinpress 'upon that age, were in the• height of their labors. She has been spared to,,see a. little band of brave and hardy people become a great and mi , :hty•nation. She has lived to see the Most astonishing inventions—the most rap:d . ehanges in manufactares, in travel, in com merce, and in. secular and religious enter- . prises thb'world ever witnessed.. - liethuse; lab; with all his - centuries of years, was .a stranger to such changes and such progress, She returned from Yorktown and enjoyed the peace Which soon followed. She settled in Mount Pleasant with her third husband, Mr.• John Benjathin, in 1822. ' There is now living there. her grelit-great-srand child, a de kendfuit of her youngest daughter. These generations, in all fire, were present at her funeral: She has enjoyed remarkable health throughout her, long life. :She has never been knoun to have been confined taller bed with sickness. Hearing of her illness a year or two since, the writer called upon her arid ttound her 'suffering from rheumatism.- On :entering her room, she rose from her bed, and sad vertplayfully ; as we attempted to as sist her, " Don't touch me ; I am Crockery, 'and must not be - handled." She sat down to per wheel, where she had already spun, dur 'lng•the day, ten knots, 'and began to spin.— t Soon sheiuddenly 4topppd. from pain, and I exclaimed, "0, why ath I here -so long ! I Ham waiting to go." • But we are most of all happy to speak of her hopesrind joys-its a Christian. In- our effluent calls she has replied to our inquiries for her welfare, "I am waiting for the Mes senger."- On one occasion she said, while in ,'conversation, ' 4 'l wish I did not think so much:" " What," said I, "do you think of -so muclil" "I think most," .she replied, "how I•may please my Savior." But she continued, "At night I live over years and years long, long_past away; and think of • a great many lon. b since gone from earth."— She then descrlbed many interesting inci dents ofher you:o' with such distinctness -we seemed forthe itionient to forget 'we were living in•the nineteenth century. She also traced m any of her, five or slx generatitis. s , e i "She wkis unifornil interested in all re% gioas a d b&ievol nt efforts. When the children of the pro were taking shares in the tnis ionary . shi "Morning . Star," she playful, said she t ought l' a child of her age mg . shave a sh re in the good ship."— She joy airy Paid hit- money and .received her certificate.. It RS toublime spectacle to see a cotetnporary f David Brai n ard, Geo. Whitfield, John Wley, and President Ed wards paying the m ney of ' her daily earl ings for lone of the lost glorious cfrofts of modern missionary . /enterprise _ _ _ arly associates through She h l as long bee waiting fur the Savior and his coming , was welcome. The day pre vious tb her death e was as - well as usual. 'At night she fell in o an insensible state and ..on the fbllowing da • closed her long journey on earte to.go to t at world where ag,.e puts rtal youth and where the christian's are cxchan yid for a glorious r victo• on imln conflict THE SUN IN MAT. i nof May was right in middle heaven peal the sprorting forests, ant green hills, raid wheatditlds, in the-yellow light. apple-tree, here rosy,buds stored, read. to burst forth in bloom, warbledfor h Ills full (dear nom s, and wear' . I nq -, Within the woods, lung and Imf - transpai‘ent leaves scarce cast i gay circles- f 'anemones rowers n their stal s ; the 'shadlinsti white with d the glens, the new-leaved butter-nut ..ering poplar to.thcroving breeze alsamic frag nee. In the fields • poises of ti c gentle wind oung grass. , My heart was touched with joy tell beauty, ushing every hour Iler beauty. ' +. ' a [flaveur. The s Anti stet And em Upon th Stood cl The rohi For hou Whose 3 A shade)Danced Bri g hter And qt‘i! pace a saw th At so int Into a ft pes and Clanging' Press. T HE •s a thing or -two " about ho disciples of Faust; Jets 'er the fashion following : is no department of enter s are less underAood by " lino 11 11 :tion of •rhaps ther• ,-hose detai BEI The oc his pe “ p prise, intelligent people; than the' art preservative' —theachievemen , of the types, Everyday, their lives long, t ey• ate accustomed to read the newspaper, to find fault with its state-• 1 mentsl, its hrgun - •nts, 'its looks • to plume themselves upon be discovery of some rogu ish aniacrobatic type that gets in a frolic anti s ds upon is head ;'or of SOlllO word with al waste lett r or LVIU In It , but, t.t. t h e prose.`- by which he newspaper is made, of the yriads .uf , motions and thousands Of pieces ) necessary to its composition , . they ktpw !little and - kink less. They imagine they' tliscourse cf a wonder, indeed, viten they thlk of fhe sir, winie carpet woven fur thou,ght to walk Il i of ragsthat fluttered up -0.11 the back of th. begat .yesterday. But c t there.s, to us, 11 - imetliiity, more w.onderful still. i When we look at the hunored ane tifty-tWo little I, •es, something shaded with filigers, that compose the -e,' and watch him at . his noiseless *except the clicking ne by one they hike their wing line, we think we have el i. 4 the art. S , .rown in are thin parallelograms one good for a. single letter, en; a something that goes itten .Isinguage-T-the visible u,glit. upon carpets of rags. any fancies in fragmelts„ boxes ; how many atoms of tenet) the printer can pick up fhe tally-had a little chart 4 , whiny LetS in small hand y .truflis in. chaos. NOw he cattei..6d elements,- tintil he is a stanza 'of Gray's elegy, upon Grimes, • all' buttoned 'Now lie `sets up' a `Puppy fW `paradise- lost;' he -arrays [ _caps,' and a sonnet in ' non 'ounces that the languishing ne sentence ; transposes the , ires- the days, that are few and , t. A poor old jest ticks, its, inter's shand, like a little clock 'n ; and a strain of eloquence e 7 -letter by letter. We fan he-difference, by the hearing erhaps not. Tha types that yesterday, announce a burl -ipt, in the same letters. They the ttilich of ink) the printer's noiseVos work ; r of the types, as places in the grq "found the tinursi those' ) little bos of metal, every cornmao hypl to nuke tip NI foot-Prints of the! We think how thiire are in the poetry, and eloilt here and ihere,. to work by'; ho fuls ;; how than picki up the holds` in his han or simonody , down before.' mis,iug,' and nP a bird in 4 stnaq parell ;' he anti will live' in' - word, and dep . ' `evil' in the'ne way into the p just running d marches into li cy we can tell. of the ear, but told! a wedding al to:da3r ;per to make a. world of—those are the elemen !odd with something in it as ing, as rich as Summer, and tyN!s are; a beaatitul as S umn • flowers that frost can that shall,ripen for all time as grand as A 6ot:wilt ; frui _ . . The newspapel has become the log-book of, the age ; it te Is ut what -rate the world is ' running • we . .• finot find our reckoning with out,it. True, the grocer may bundle up a% pound of rand es in our last expressed tho'ts, but it is only , raping to ' base uses,' t'its 'betters have ne tittles innumerable. We console ourselves with tiiinking that one can male of that Vewspa-per what he cannot make of ribs of livirog pak—a bridge for tinie.— That he can fl ng!ortir.the chasm of the -dead year's, and walk safely back upon the shad -1 owy sea into he fur past. That 'the singer will not end is song, nor the trip soul be!' eloquent no . ore. The realm of Preis is enchanted rouad. Sometimes the, editor has the happi esS of knowing that he has de fendedl the ri ht; exposed the wrong, protect ed the weak ; that he has given utterance. to a Sentiment t at his cheered somebody's sot itary hour; de somebody happier, kindled a smile upon sad face, or a hope in.a heavy • h . eart. He is ay nret that sentiment months, years after; - t may have lost all traces of its paternity, bu he feels an affection for it and welcomes it: its a long absent child. . He 'roads it as fo the first time, and wonders ii indeed he .write it, for he has changed sir.ce then. Perb ps he could not give utterance to the senti I,- it how ; perhaps he would not if he could. It seems like the voice of his former self . Iling 'to his present, and there islsometbing mournful in its trine. He be- gins to thins to remember; remember when he wrote It :- d why ; Who were his readers ... 3 .1 then ; and iitbei. they have gone ; what he woollier', a how much he has changed.— ,So he mu, till he finds himself wondering p i i fftbat thou' lit of his will continue to float on after be is ead, and whether be is really ii looking ri somethiqg that shall survive him. And "then comes the sweet conscious- re ifz-nothing in the sentiment wish hail been unwritten ; Ahat ness that th that he coo r part of him ; a shred from the it is the be he - shall leave behind hint, when `innumerable caravan,' and, takes the silent halls of death." immortalit be joins th 6 'his pram in, ONTROSE, THURSDAY, MAY 20, Front the Toledo. BlatteJ THE GAME OR CHECKERS. "AUNT Molly,"lsaid Fanny Osborne n i ne evening, "did yo ul ever hear any one pop the question . V' " Why, c ertainly, child, I heard your un cle Charlie pep" it, as yowcall it." " Oh, yes, of course," said Fanny, "-hut one doesn't often tell their own experlefee. I mean, did you ever hear any one elsel", " Well, yes," replied Aunt Molly , slovily, " I did happen t0, , 09ce."` " 0 please tell me all about it," cri e d _ Fan ny, "I would so much like to' be Inouse in the *all, on such an occasion." Fanny was just turned of fifteen, and it Was very natural.that she should want tol be posted. ' " Very well," said Atuit Molly, " get yl ur work, then, fur I don't like to, talk to an idle listener." _Fanny established herself; and Aunt Mol ly began. "It was about ten years afteir I was married, and house ,keeping, that cousin Will Morris, uncle Benjamin's son, clime; to live with use that is,. he was a partner in your uncle. Charlie's store; Lind. boirded with us. You never saw W ill, did-you V' Fanny nodded her head, and . Auntlly went on, • ! " Ile was a whole-souled, straight-forward, substantial young man, not lacking in polish either; but very bashful, sit much so, that I used really to pity him sometimes, when we had young company. 'Annie Evans ilia an old school mate of mine, and just after I went t , ‘se keeping her parents moved to Oxford, at lived only a short distance\from us.' Annie used frequently to bring her work, and spend the evening with me, and uncle Charlie would go home with her.— Those were rare times„Fanny; and we en joyed them fully. Annie Was a real woman ; none 'of your nonsensical, love-sick girls, whose heluN are so full of beaux that' they won't hold anything elsse." Fanny blushed as Aunt Molly said this, but Amity looked very demure, and contin ued, • " And knowing her, and loving her as did, I felt particularly anxious that she should be well r. ettled in life." " That means, with a good •husband," 're marked Fanny, roguishly. " Certainly,", said Aunt Molly ; " and of ' ter Will came, and I became acquainted With him, I took it into , my betel Linn tso anal A ti .an ~.outtl make a capital match. But, some how, after he came, Annie did not come so ,often ; and` - Will, who , was very entertaining in his conversation when we .were alone, in her presence, was Silent, and awkward in his manner, as if under. restraint; and Annie took but little notice of him, only so far as politeness required, and requested me..pri- - vately to arrange, that uncle Charlie should still go home with hewhat is, if •be had no °Diet:Lions. 00 tile y'uts,.. 6 t ...„,,t _. - _, enc.-progressed slowly. Time and habit ar range these things beautifully, and gradually dry came to be more finnitar, so as even to call each other iv their Christian names. I helped about th though, for I could not bear the fornialit of Mr. •Mot ris and Miss• Evans. Just as expected. • W_III- became very much interested in Annie; for that meter he had admired her from the first,' but he was modest in his pretensions, and seemed to regard her as beyond his reach. At any - rate, he could not, summon courage to speak on the subject nearest his heart.' , "flow did you know that 1 Aunt • Molly," inquired Fanny, " OK - from observation," replied Aunt Molly, " and Annie did not help the matter any, for though she was quite friendly and social in his company, yet there was nothing in her manner that betrayed the slightest in, terest in him. Well, one evening Annie had been spending the afternocanewith me, and we were about talked Out, when Will came home' from the store, and I proposed their playing checkers. Uncle Charles had gone to a political Meeting. I sat some distance oil, sewing;and,w r ith one eye watching the game. They we both good players, and for a lbng'time moved silently; each appa rently intent on the game. At lenattyas if conscious that her success was hopcl4s, An nie remarked,indentifying herself with the man she was moving, "I see you are after rte, Will." " 1(1 catch yolt," spoke Will With !sudden energy, " will you leave me in undisputed possession 7" , Anniolooked up, startled by his Manner, and seeing in his eager face the meaning he had placed upon her words, paused, blushed deeply, hesitated, and presently replied " Perhaps so ; if you and Mary will promise . never to tell any . body that • I popped the question" . Will rose hastily, dropped the board—the checkers ran all over - the" , floor, and 'taking Annie by the hand, led her to me, !saying: " Cousin Mary, 'do you think I deserie this happiness 1" , • "Certainly; Will," I replied, " and I con gratulate you most sincerely, and, now, ,if you will come out of your happy state and 'pick up these checkers I will be much oblig ed to you.' „ Will and Annie laughed heartily, and be 7 gan picking them up with ,alacrity,• and as Will took up the board to put it away he remarked : " That was the pleasantest game of checkers I ever played \in iffy life," Annie said nothing,Aut looked very rosy and smiling. " And now," said Aunt Molly, " are you satisfied 7" K. Crtdous TYPOGIIAPRICAL ERROR.—Trench, in his latest work bu the English language, points out a curious error in the 24th verse of the 23d chapter of St. 'Matthew. The words which strain at a gnat and swallow a camel," the professor thinks eontaii) a miss. print, which having been passed over in the edition of 1641, has held its ground ever since. The translators intended tr , 84 9', " which strain. out a gnat:and swallow a cam el," that being the correct reading of the - or iginal, as appears in Tyndale's and Cranmer's translations, both of which have " strain out." It was the custom of the stricter Jews to strain their wine, vinegar, and other pots- Wes, through linen.or gauze, lest unawares they should-drink down some little unclean insect, as a gnat, and thus transgress the Law. It was to this custom the viour alluded, in tending ,to'say that the .ribes and Phari sees, while they strain out gnat from their drink, would yet swallow camel at a gulp. .-Mr"- Keep on good to your stomach, and your iv' Tics part w ch this little ed to play in t e diplomacy and the intermit lona' relatio peen :states, i: by no m • It is situated a , the Strait of completely cot 'manditig the Red Sea, and erefore the I. It is the key t. the southern with India, Chi 'a, and Japan! Turkey.' Eng .nd occupies cease to occup . it, for it neu gers from F ce if the Su • ecuted. Turk ..y will not se through the natantinople In treaty with England for confidently as • rted by late that France a d Russia hay: joint note ag. inst the En! and Turkey r uses to gran piercing of th Isthmus of '. England conti ues to hold diplomacy is rging Turkey demand of En .land's evacu There is evt nental nations strategetical a this apparent!, even said that land's continu It is one of th valuabl, bit of Gulf, standing Red Sea, whet tainous,.and t Sinia to Bab•e corner cf the promontories I meet at the it land of Peri and whoever to the channe will flow the . the stalwart ' Leaving, t journey arodi of the questi worthy of mt fine within tl I East. The i Asia, and Be for innumera the questio•. across theist the north of Is so called) i The practica demonstrat • ~ "wast.he Brea day; but its ing now. i electricity, i left Out of t least value ; overland rot especially w maw,. nee tou ty of tile to is already t by railways bility of the ment, and the A tlanti cific continu a M. de Li 'position of 1 had not airy If the Eu to prove tlil never be th eumstance ( from vessel again. W do uponAh undertakin The concep ple guaran Nature in seas, and against the so much f marched' them all. It is thialnevitable r has learn ei: to appreh t ed and eautio s Providenc years, op the pie would sho ten the dist India by ore than 7, foreseeing hat further canal will upon-the r the sewn. and on th:l give the w that are perpetuate t `Tent and e tl during than - king. ler object is t to impede the access of Indian po sessions and tion of ee im .is a bol It keeps urkey fro for piers g the Isth command of the Read the Whmus, whenev The contt ii entul nation gin to see the value of ' land•had briost clutel protest a ainst an occi tai r t r ly h no to right which there is &ill pr ze and the right of ! here s no need id, of l the Ot 'omen empir fought vt th Russia ttu was the hst object till in protec ing the "sic usyrpati n. The t• mere w p,rotec the same si Lion at t e - South. .V te.is we can o ly conjectm pearly d fined ; nor and pro , t against ti it soon ill be, Fra begibnin 7 to be arou alliance ngland wi war whi a India and illg.the putting forth, cure her conquestsin her com. eice with t item in ngland an so likely to provoke continued occupation Goon' lirr.--Sornl ren are pretty sharp the hardest, kind of is a specimen': A Western edito brethren of the quii remarked i that if th, " All flesh is grass,' must be a load of h " I 81 0Fect 1 am, are nibblinj at me, s with you= wife, ,scieuce. 858. it Me trito Yor • LARD OF Fro THE I Evening Part, PERIM. sland is dentin the commerce s of the Euro- a unimportant. Bab-1-Mandeb, entrance to the tbmus of Suez. channel of trade It be'l'ongs to t, and does not ralizes 'the dan. canal were ex -1 it, and denies resa, that she is its sale. It is French papers ; protested hp a dish oceypation, .a &man for the Inez so long as Perim. French to make a fornyal ion of the island. that the cowl -1 to the immense . I importance• of island, and it, is illook upon En os a tans 6elli. by far the most i e of the Arabian the month of the uniformly moun ous, from Mount he southwestern :ry indication! 'are d waking ni d comm'erci insignificant France wool possession smallest bu land this si as it does, a e coasts are ven precipi I-Mandeb. peninsulai of Egyptian outh of the is the link ssesses through wil l mumerce of, Vest. v e long. tedi d the Cape in, 'there . ar tion as likel eir limits t route throup oochistan, th Ile reasons, r . The grey mug of Sue; .yria and the of the Etiphi ility of thi in the slate route of tin practicabi I t irne, in thisl an elemenj ie account. now it is `a to will neve here two or Wily bea4 mer route in !, versed, as t .and no one canal (whicl bake the co the Medite Sus water,) sseps, even lord Palme ady 'made it Arabia and the lAhyssinia almost ~ed Sea. The Is- /that unites them, +, pos.esses the key. h,lti, fifty years, the old" East and s and expen4e Good Hope but two routes heriafter to cfm , e trade with the 'h Persia. Central 'ugh possible, • w wholly out of routes are that and that throtigh valley (incorrect ;tea and the Tigris. latter route. was •nth century, for it merchants of that Allen, proves noth age of steam and which cannot be .ben it.was of the important, . An be the great route, three reshipments 6ey Th onu e i its land portions, n doubt the G.:lsl. will save all reship munication between raneat,and the, Pa tter the , expositions f the strenuous ton for (or fifteen years lear. ,hrates quickest fo best for fr: the forced, to cars and look upon t .Pacific Rai -but it is ee l on and the of ultim heap up h an her .we i r that her gras s ence is ore : route were even • passengeis, it can :ight, from the air transfer of freight froni cars to vessels a Suez Canel as we . road—it is a gigantic Itain to be.achies;ed. ttempt are the am. I to success. Hoary (mountains, pour out , übtile forces strive as already wrested but the conquering or under, or through suit which England With a silent she has, for fifteen ring of Suez, which Ice from Europe to, )0 miles; and nou, 'pen opposition to the le has planted herself one side, looks to a chariots went down, I Orient, whose corn, balth and the Vower -dynasty more opti, any of the Egyptian 'le - same in eithervias, other nations to her trade. Her occupa and master stroke, granting the finnan us; and secures the Sea and therefore of it. 'the canal is made. kas we have said, be . the prize which Eng led, and are , uniting in 18 useless, si l l •ek which, oi re eharaf , h'i other to the , pation which she cer zercise, and in apology the magnitude of the le ight, say that the integrity for which the alliance bloody Crimean war, England' ha - d - ,in view man" from northern aty of Paris has not .k man from usurpa. hat the result will be for issues are not yet action in the ,matter, • wrong, so public as ce and Russia are only :ed,..tuld against such an not hasten to make hina are stilt derriand if all her powers to se• the one, and advance o other. There is no French complications, ostilities as , England's of the Isle of Perim. r editorial ,breth- Theyy give and receive raps oftentimes. Here , speaking of one of his , noted lot, hie fatness, Scripture proverb, that is true, then that man • . rem the ;way the asses replied the at man. I H. H. FRAZIEII,-, .PUBLISHETI.-7 I V4A. 4.,N0. VERMICULAR BELPREEROEUCTION. Every reader of '"Don Quixote" will re member with a smile, the unbounded -faith entertained by the Knight, in the virtues of certain balsam of Fiertibras, of which he had read in his hooks vat chivalry: "When I shall have mad and delivered - it into thy keeping," he szTyfa to Sancho Pan* " thou bast no more to d 9 when thou seest me in any combat cut through the Middle, which is an accident that frequently happens, but to snatch up that part of the body which falls to the ground, and, before the blood =shall congeal, set it upon the other . half that re-. mains in the saddle, taking care .to' join them with the utmost nicety and exactness; then making me swallow a couple of draughts of the aforesaid balsam, thou wilt see it in a twinkling as whole and as sound as an:apple." This is an apt illustration ,of the difference between the organization of men and worms. The belief, which is laughable from its absur dity when applied to the former., Is , actually true of the latter, who readily , repair such an accident as being cleft asunder, and that with out any aid from the balsam of Fierabrar.— NO more authoritative account can be given of the proeasj than that which4s contained in the lectoi•es of Professor Owen op " Compar ative Anatomy," a.work surprising both for its' range and its originality; though.it is-only one of the many titles to. fame -which have long place 4 him at the head of his own vast and thagnificent 'department of science. "-A worm cot in, two was• fourid to repro duce the tail at the cut extremity . . a the eep- . Italie half, and to form a head upon the Caudal moiety. Bonnet progressively increased the number of sections in healthy individuals of a small worm or nais, which he calls Lumbri cus variegatus ; and when one -of these had been so divided into twenty-six parts, almost all of them reproduced Ore' head and tail, and became's() many distinct individuals. The small fresh-water 'raids show great power -of repair and reproduction, There are some species found in sand or mud', such as those that - stain of a red color extbnsive tracts of the Thames mud at low water, which, when submerged, habitually prptrude the anteror half, of the body, NN hich.is remarkable for its regular, oscillating movemerit. Bonnet - cut off the head of one of the naids of this genus, which was soon reproduced; and, when per fect, he repeated the act, and again as often as the head- was reproduced. After the eighth decapitation the unhappy subject waS releas ed by death; ,the execution took 'Oct, the reproductive - virtue bird- been worn out.— Since many of the smaller kinds of naids fre quently expose a part of their .body, the 'rest being buried in the earth, both they and their enemies profit by the power of restoration-of the parts which may ,b 6 bitten (41„ 1 ,'—Orcien's Lectures on Comparative Anatomy, Inverte brate Animals, p. 252. winrWetArtcrsguifail!elvOleMPt is a from a whirlwind on land in `the fact that water, instead of objects on the surface of the earth, is acted on by the wind. The'. spout at the base ranges it diameter from a few feet to several Mindreds, and its - altitude is supposed to be often upward'of a mile. When an observer is near to the spout, a loud hissing noise is heard, and the interior of the column seems to be traversed by ,, ,a running stream. The successive appearances of a water spout are as follows : At first it appears to be a dark cone, extending from- the clouds to The water; then it becomes a column• unit ing with the water. After continuing for a little• time, the column becomes disunited, the cone reappears, and is gradually drawn up into the clouds. It is a common belief that water is sucked up by the action of the spout, into the cloud ; but there is reason to suppose that water rather descends from the clouds, as water which has fallen from a spout upon the deck of a vessel has been found to be fresh. Fur ther, there is no evidence that a continuous column of water exists within the whirling Tna CIRCASSIAN WIVES.—The Cireasslans do not rigidly seclude their women in the harem. The females go about in their villa ges and fields with unrestrained freedom. It' is a peculiar feature in their manners, howev er, that married persona-seldom see each otti er in the course . of the day. They have, a feeling that the habit of coneant intercourse would be effeminate, and unfavorable to' the continuance of that mutual affection, which they think is preserved in stronger odor by a systematic separation during the working hours of the day. So much is this the we, that. the woman who does not conceal herself from a stranger, will instantly hasten , to her own apartment to hide from her husband, if she happen to see him returning home before the usual hour of meeting. Perhaps it - is coquetry, .on her part, to cherish the romance of her antenuptial .dreams. Nor can it be denied that those orour firesides are gener ally the most prolific of delicious , repose; from which the huSband is detained by pro fessional duties during the hours' that inter vene between the morning and evening meals. A similar custom- existed' among the.Lacedie.: monians ; and , tycurgus, with a view to chase away all effeminacy from his commu nity, thought fit evin to enforce the practice , by' law-. BEAUTIFUL ANSWEEE.--A pupil of the Ab be Sicord, gave the following extraordinary answers : - - - ".What is gratitude?" . • " Gratitude is the memory of the heart." ".What is hope?" " hope is the blossom of happiness." "What, is the difference between hope and desire'?" ' ",Desire - is a tree in leaf, hope is a tree in flower, and•enjuyment is a tree in fruit."' " What is eternity '" - • "A, day without yesterday or to-morrow —a line that has no end.", "What is timen . " A line that has tiro ends—a path' which begins in th e -cradle and ends in the tomb." " Wliar is God?" " The neecssary .the son of eternity, the maehinest of nature, the eye of justice, the maich-maker of the . universe, the _soul of the world." " Does God reason i" " Man reasons bemuse he doubtis.; „he de 'liberates—decides. Grid is. omniscient:— He never doubts—He therefore never reit-. soils." =I 'Wiwi. is Gam Lbeii.---Gold lace ib 1201, I gold lace. It does not deserve this title, for `the gold is applied.as a surface to silver. It is not even silver lace, for the 'silver. is plied to a foundation of -silk. The silken threads for making this material are wound . round with gold wire, so thickly as to con- ' ceal the silk ; and the' making of this gold . wire is one of the most singular mechanical operations iniaginible. In the first place the •: refiner prepares a solid rod of Aker, about an inch in thickness ;• he beats this rod, ap plies upon the surface a coating of gold leaf, burnishes this down, applies another coating, burnishes this down, and so on, until the, gold is about one hundreth Part -the thkiness of • the silver. Then the 4•od_is .subjected to a train of processes whichbrings it down to the state of fine wire, it is passed through a steel s plate, lessening step by step, in diameter.--- . The gold never deserts the -silver, but adher es closely to it, and shares all its mutations'; it is one-hundredth part the thickness of - the silver at die beginning, and it maintains the same ratio to the end. As to the thinness to . which the geld-coated rod of Silver cart be" brought, the limit depends on die delicacy of , human skill ; but the most remarkable ex ample ever known was brought 'forward by Dr. Wollaston. This was an example of sol id gold wire without any_ silver.. He, pro-- cured a small rod of silver, bored a hole, through it from end to end,, and inserted in this hole the smallest gold wire be could pro cure • - he subjected. the silver to the usual wiredrawing process, until he had brought it to the finest attainable state- 7 -being, in 1. fact, a silver wire as fine ast , 2l hair, with a grild wire in its centre. To isolate this gold wire he subjected it to warm nitrousacid,by which the silver was dissolved, leriving a gold wire one-thirty:thousandth part of an inch in thickness—perhaps the thinnest' round wire - that the hSnd of man has yet produced. 'But Ihia-wire, though beyond all criparison finer than any employed in manufactures, does not approach in thinness the film _of gold on the surface of silver in gold lace. It has been calcUlated • that the _gold "on the very • fieest silver wire for gold lace is not More than one:third of one-millionth of an inch hi thickness ; _that i 4,, not .above one-tenth the thickness Of ordinlry leaf-gold. Sicutsa.—A eorrespcmde'nt sends us the followitig extract from the _ Duhim Universi• 41.3taptine, with a request that we decide upon the soundness of the principle it-incul cates : ' • • - "There is not a niore pernicious habit, nor one that growS more insensibly upon a man, than that of sighing. Besides wasting a great deal of good breath that se want for some thing better, it wears out the Ibngs; it induc: es irregillarity of respiration ; it quickens the action of the heart; and it depresses the spir its—just as a hearty laugh exhilarates thetn. . With some, too, it is u mere kibit. • I have ktutfiCsone . very eveu.tempered nien who blowing oif s superfluous whici3frinlq"stutlf chest ; and so itiveterate dues it. - grow upon them; that they come out, with their suspira lions at all' sorts of queer times and unsuit able occasions, treating, it may be; a..sihole company, who are listening to a witty rc.con trur, or a lively song, ,with a "heigh ho !" that is quite appalling. From 'whatever cause it arises, I pronounce - sighing to be 'it va'in, pestilent, and profitless operation, to be discountenancettalike by physician, philoso pher, and friend. If a man is down.4i2 the world, it will , not raise him; if he is eMpty ; it will not till him; and if he is poor , 'tis thek worst way in the world to raise the wind. - "A plague on sighing," says pleasant old Jack ,Falstaff, " it, blows a man up.like a bladder." It does worse, say I, it blowsy man of like froth from a tankard of ale; it 'blows- a man out, like the flame from thewick of a candle." The act of sighing is an effort to expand, the lungs and supply the blood with Oct.,- sarratmolaphere. -Hence it is not per se, in jurious, but rather remedial' and useful. It is the causes which produce the necessity for sighing that are' mischievous. If a &mon overloads the stomach, becomes greatly fatig. ued, sits or lies in improper bodily positions,' or fixes the'mintso intently on any object. , that the respiratory muscles are restrained in their normal action, there will be a. neces-, shy for those extra exertions to inflate the lungs which are called sighing. The-correct'lye should be applied to the cause instead of the effeet.=-Life Illustrated. ‘ HOW TO PROSPER IN Bustsass.—ln the first . place, make up ydrir mind to ' accomplish whatever you undertake - , decide ' upon some, particular c - mployment, and persevere in it. All difficulties are overcome by diligence and v asskluity. , Be not afraid to work with \ your own bands, and diligently, too. "A vat, in gloves catches no mice." , Attend to your business, and never trust it - to another. "A pot that belongs to many is illstirred and worse boiled." . • Be frugal. "That which will .not make , a pot will make a pot-lid.", Be abstemious. " Who.dainties rove shall beggars prove . Rise , early. poultry," Treat everyone with respect, and civility. " Everythiug is gained and nothing lost by civility. God . manners insure, swess." Never anticipate wealth from any p ,i/ther source than law. "He who waits for;dead mon's shoes may hsve_ to go a long time bare; foot." Heaven helps those who help them.. selves. It you implicitly follois these precepts, nothing will hinder you from accumulating. rir Wilson and Phinney are the leading *embers of the Washington county bar.— Sitting oppositeorie another in dinner tilde —They are always opposite in practice at the bar in the court house, and agreed ,as to the bar in the hotel—Wilson was describing the , et. fects of a speech he vade &few nights before in a great political Theeting in the *Mite where Phinney resides. • • "Indeed," said he, " I never saw the peo ple so filled with enthesiasin • " Filled whit what" cried Phinney. " With entbusiasm,".repeated Wilson. "Oh,tah l" said Phinney, I understand; but I never-beard it. called by , that namb be fore; we call It rum ' • jar The Ivaterjhat flows from . a , spring does not congeal id winter. So, tbose sonti wants of friendship which flow from the heat; cannot be frozen in ' MIME BR H "The sleeping fox catches no D MI
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