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SELECT POETRY.
, . HYMN TO THE FLOWERS. ' '
i BR HORACE SMITH.
Day-stars! That ope your eyes with morn
to twinkle,
From tainbow galaxies of Earth's Creation,
And dew-drops on het lovely alters sprinkle
, " As a libation. - r- .. : ,
Ye matin worshippers, who bending lowly
Before the uprising Sun, God's lidless eye,
Throw from your chulices it sweet and holy
lncenee on high.
Ye bright mosaic, lhat with storied beauly
The floor of nature's temple tessellate,
What numerous emblems of inslruclie duty
Your lorms create.
'Neath cloistered boughs each floral bell that
swirtselh,
And toils its perfume on the passing air,
Makes Sabbatl. in the fields, and ever lingelh
A call to prayer.
Not to the domes where crumbling arcli and
column . '
Atlest the feebleness of mortal hand,
But to lhat fane most Catholic and solemn
Which God hath planned.
To lhat cnthcdtal, boundless as onr wonder,
Whose quenchless lamps the sun and moon
supply. .
Its choir, the winds and waves its organ.
thunder,
lis dome, the sky.
There, as in snlilnde and shade, 1 wander
Through the green aisle, or slreuhed upon
tho sod,
Awed by the silence, reverently ponder
1 he ways ol U3U. - ,
Your voiceless lips, O, Flowers! are living
preacher ;
Each cup, a pulpit every leaf, a book,
Supplying to my Inncy numerous teachers
f rom loneliest nooK.
Floral Apostles! that in dewy splendor
Weep without woe and olusn wiinout a
crime .
Oh ! may I deeply learn, and ne'er surrender
lour luve suunme.
Thou werl not, Solomon, in all Ihy filory,
Arrayed, the lilhes cry, in robes like ours;
How vain your grandeur, oh! how transitory
Aie human flowers !
In the sweet scended pictures, Heavenly
Arti.tt !
With which thou paintest Nature's wide
spread hall,
What a delightful lesson thou impartest
Ul love, to nil.
Not useless are yo, Flowers, though made
1 f for pleasure,
Blooming o'er field and wave, by day and
night,
From every source your sanction bids trea
sure ,
...,.. - Harmless delight. - -
Ephemeial Sr.ces, what instructors, hoary,
For sucti.a world of thought could furnish
scope !
Each calyx a ' memento mori,"
Yet fount of hope !
Posthumous clories ! Angel-like collection,
Upraised from seed, or bulb interred in
earin,
Ye are to me a type of resurrection
And second birth.
Were I, oh, God ! in churchless lands re
mainine,
Far from all voice of teachers, human and
divine.
My soul would find in Flowers of thy ordain
ing,
Priests, Sermons Shrine. -
21 relict of ilje Resolution.
From the New Orleans Creiceiit
A MODEL WOMAN. .
Of that venerable relict of nobler days
and ol a husband one oi the most admirable
men that ever adorned and served any
country, we mean Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton,
we find in one of the Northern journals the
following notice :
"The widow of 'Alexander Hamilton
bas reached the great age of ninety-fire,
and retains in an astonishing degree her
(acuities, and converses with much of that
ease and brilliancy which lent so peculiar
a charm to her younger days. And then
the old lady, after passing the compliments
and congratulations of the day, insists upon
ner visitors taking a merry glass Iromuen.
Washington's punch bowl, which, with
other portions of his table set, remains in
ner possession.
Mrs. Hamilton completes, on the lClh
of August next, we believe, her ninety
sixth year. Slight of figure, rather small
in size, and originally of what seemed a
feeble organization, she has vpI nH tn
r present remarkable aze with an almost
total exemption from disease, iQ pite 0f
the severe misfortunes which overcast
her life in its very prime. , We allude to
the bloody doth first of her elde.t son
rnilip.a young centleman of treat
and soon alter, the fall of her beloved lord,
jr win ws Homing less than deliberate
ly rxecuted assassination ; lor Aaron Burr
knew when, upon the mere pretence of
quarrel, be summoned General Hamilton to
the field, that he would not decline to meet
him, but would never take the life of
fellow-being In private combat.
To return, however, to bis widow. Iter
admiuble virtues and sense, with the firm
yet grail courage and cheerfulueu which
these) bestowed, and a piety s simple is it
was unshaken, have no doubt goo far to
uphold, by the forces ol the mind, the
urtl wrsknrss of her body, When but we
saw her, mj than year siuce, the was
sttll in the baUt ol poing o loot, and unal
l.ndrd, l visit fritftds wb) lived balf
iU from br. Twa wars before we had
her, q t vry but summer's der, ar
rive at her own bouw, strttl, Wash,
i inglon, (the Maou buildtnis,) from mof
ing walk to Vsiit her old friend,1 Judge
Cranch, on Capitol Hill, to the east of the
Capitol. The distance which she had trod
lor this friendly purpose, is a good deal
above three miles. . - : -
She never was what the text which we
have, taken calls her, brilliant: for the
women who shine or blaze with that sort
ol light, seldom have the genuine one of
their sex; its gentleness, its pure warmth,
its sweet reserve, its sure womanly sense,
which rather perceives than reflects, and
sees at a glance all it is fit that a Woman
(nature's most delicate and ingenious work)
hould see. Though Very pretty, vivacious,
nd winning, Mrs. Hamilton was never
dazzling. Neither her manners, though
high-bred, nor her conversation, though
Dinted and lull of sense, were at all ol the
showy order; she never said a silly, she '
never said a brilliant thing in her life.
There was no flash about her ; she shone
only with the solt beam which radiates
from what in a woman not boys nor matu
re r coxcombs lispingly adore nor false ten-
imentalisls dilate upon, but what the heart
nd the . understanding of all, however
shallow or corrupt, own, with not mere
admiration, but love and awe, every thing
that is most leminine, which is, we take it,
a good deal better than angelic ; lor we
must confess that, so far as can be judged
from the most commendatory descriptions,
we look upon one woman as worth lull
forty angel.. ' '
In short, she was just the wife for one of
a spirit so high, faculties so powerful, a
character so strenuous, and aflections so
fond as those of Hamilton, and accordingly
there could be no tenderer union than was
theirs. Not only did her loving, serene,
and cheerful temper gladden whatever he
could snatch for brief intervals of repose or
enjoyment, but her perlect discretion made
her the confident and her admirable sense
the counsellor of his affairs) in many of
the weightiest of which he thought it "wise
to have such a woman's, opinion. She
shared, as far as she could, his labors ; and,
when she could not, often sweetened them
by her presence. His papers, in particu
lar, she kept in order for hi in ; and it is to
her zealous care of them we owe the pre
servation of that large and (in every sense
of either the merely curious or tne histori
cally valuable) precious body ol the Ham
ilton Mas., which our Government acqui
red by purchase in 1849, and'of which se
lected portions are now seeing the light in
a Congressional series of some nine or ten
volumes, edited by Mr- John Hamilton,
who had previously given to the world a
more limited selection, with a biography
of his father. Of the value of these papers
to the secret history of our public afl'jirs,
during the space of thirty years (1775 to
1804) which they cover, no one is in a
better condition to speak than ourself ; for
we were entrusted on the part of the lann-
ly wilh a choice, out of a slill vaster body,
of the fiftv-seven folio volumes which, after
excluding whatever was of no interest,
went into the hands of the Government
They give a prodigious idea of Hamil
ton's abilities, tiselulness, and the cor.fi
dence and the influence which these com
manded for him, almost from the first
moment, when a mere boy of nineteen, he
first drew, as the caplain of a volunteer
artillery company, General Washington's
attention to the superior discipline of his
corps and the skilful service of his guns.
Never did any man possess a more remark
able power ot mastering at once whatever
he set about. Introduced at the age of
twelve into the counting house of a consid'
erable shipping merchant in St. Croix, we
find him at only fourteen entrusted, during
his principal s absence in this country, with
his correspondence and the management of
all his operations of buying, selling, ship-
ping, aim an mat. Aireauy (as is seen in
his boyish letters to a young friend) he has
begun to look to the state of things rising
up in this land of ours, and to foresee in it
a country and a career which the West
fudies could never give him. At sixteen
he is in Columbia College, New York, per
fecting his boyish Latin and Greek. At
seventeen he is already writing lor the
public journals, in behalf of the csuse of
the colonies, papers so striking that they
seize upon the general attention, and are
attributed to the best writers.
Iu his nineteenth year be has not only
become a strong, popular orator, but bas
studied war as an art, more especially the
artillerist's part of it ; and, raising a com
pany, (chiefly at his own charge,) has
joined Washington's army in the Jerseys,
and made upon that cautious commander so
strong an impression that he transfers him
to his personal stall as chief aid-de-camp,
with the rank of lieutenant colonel. Here
it is well enough knowa that before he was
twenty he became one of Washington's
most efficient officers ; but, though equally
true, it has escaped attention that until
that veteran of science, Steuben, took ser
vice with us. it was Hamilton who first
supplied our systems ol tactics; and Ham
ilton who, besides drawing up many 01
Gen. Washington's important papers, wrote
the admirable instructions to John Laurens
a matter-piece of ability under which
he, when Dr. Frsuklin had foiled, brought
about the Armed Alliance of France.
Hamilton was then twenty-one. In 1781
perceiving that the struirtfe bad become on
our part one of finance, he turned financier,
and look charge, under Koberl Morris, 01
a part of that department, quickly display
ing in it lhat singular capacity which K'd
Morris to say, on the formation ol our pres
ent Government, thai there was bul one
man is) the country Aleiaader Hamilton
who mitf hl aa bVcreter of lb Treasury,
re-inUte the publio credit. it is well
known that the present Constitution la
really hia plan but lew are aware thai Ha
ordinal project (still In ciittence) was
drawn up by biw ia Ptft, wfc.o ba was
only tweutynvso ytaa eld. W could
111 muib snotc , bul si cca laili U
; . HARMONY Of COLORS I! NATURE.'
i Raphael was not more choice about his
painting than we find the sun to be. A
winter departs, Ihe modest violet first blos
soms beneath a veil of leaves. The modes
ty needs means of shelter. Protecting leave
radiate back upon the fragrant little flower
all ihe heat that departs from it. A tho
snows disappear, blossoms of other . flowers
open, which display themselves more boldly,
but they are blanched or nearly so. In the
passage from the last snows of winter to (he
first blossoms of spring, the harmony of coler
s preserved; hillsides and orchards are mid
wilh a delicate white, varied rarely by a
pink upon the almond-trees. Petals of ap
plo blossoms, floating on the wind, mimiothe
flakes of snow lhat were so lately seen. As
he warm season advances, colors deepen un
it we come to the dark crimson of autumn
flowers, and the brownness of the autumn
leaves. .This change is not only meant to be
beautiful it has its use. Why are the first
spring flowers all while or nearly white 1
Because, when the winds are still cold, and
the sun is only moderately kind, a flower
would be chilled to death if its heat radiated
from it rapidly. But radiation takes place
most freely from dark colors from black,
from the strongly-defined greens, and ablue
and reds. In the hot weather, flowers and
eaves so colored, cool themselves more read
ily of nights, and form upon their surfaces
the healing dew, or of facilities for pooling.
The delicate spring flowers are, therefore, of
a color that is least ready to encourage radi
ation. For the same reason, because white
substances give out the least freely the heat
lhat they contain or cover, arctic auimalsare
white as their native snows. For the same
reason, loo, the snow itself is while, when
cold becomes severe, fulls and hangs like a
fur mantle about tho" soil. If snow were
black, or red, or blue, it would still lei some
of the heat escape, which is retained under
its whiteness. Household Words
Viviparous Fish, formerly deemed such
rare and remarkable natural wonders, aro
now gulling known as abundant in various
quarters. The first were discovered on the
coast of California about a year auo. One
species ha since been said to have been ta.
ken in the Canadian waleis, and a United
Slu'.ys officer avers thai the stingray of the
Carolina coast is viviparous. Professor F.
Holmes subs'untiate this, and says that
(he Devil Fish also bears its young alive. A
singular discovery connected with this sub
ject in thus described by a Charleston, S. C,
paper:
"A discovery of very great interest has re
cently been made by Mr. Henry W. Raven
el, a young riaturalits, who has lately won an
honored name in the department of Botany,
In a limestone spring, in St. John's Durkuley,
he has discovered a species of viviparous
scale fish tho first that has been nulhenti.
cated as existing in fresh water. His speci
mens aru now in possession of Prof. Holmes,
from whom we may expect beforo long a
scientific descripiiou of this very interesting
species. , The largest of these specimens may
be li inches long, and it is as delicate as the
silver fish. At the season of breeding ihe
breast becomes greatly distended, and on
opening i', there is found adhering near to
the spine, a sack full of embryo fishes, which
exhibit unmis'akeable proofs of the devel
opemeul of animal form and life."
A Cheerful Heart. 1 once heard a
young lady say lo an individual, "your coun
tenauca to me is like the rising sun, for it
always gladdens me with a cheerful look.''
A merry or cheerful countenance was one of
the things which Jeremy Taylor said hi
enemies and persecutors could not takeaway
from him. .There are soma persons who
spend their lives as if shut up in a dungeon.
Everything is trade gloomy and foibidding.
They 0 mourning and complaining from
day to day, that they have so little, and are
constantly anxious, lest what they have
should escape from their hands. They al
ways look upon the dark side, and can never
enjoy the good. That is not religion reli
gion makes the heart cheerful, and when its
large and benevolent principles are exerci
sed, man will be happy in spite of himself.
The industrious bee does not stop to com
plain lhat there are so many poisonous flow
ers and thorny branches on its road, but
buzzes on, seleoting his honey where he can
And it, and paasing quietly by ihe places
where it is not. There is enough in this
world to complain about and find fault with,
if men have the disposition.
We often travel on a hard and uneven
road, but with a cheerful spirit, nnd a heart
lo praise God for hi mercies, we may walk
therein with comfort, and come lo Ihe end
of our journey with peace. Dtxtiy.
Qualification. Somebody very truly
remarked lhat a good wi esbibil ber love
fur herbiikband by trying lo promote bis wel
fare, and by administering la bis comfort.
A poor vs ''dears" and "my loves'' ber
hubd( and wouldn't sew a button on bis
eoat to keep him from fieeiiug.
A stusMi u'i t looks for ber enjoyment at
home a silly tei n'oaJ.
A triss girl woulJ win a lover by praoiislug
those virtues which scti adnitiaiton wbeu
per suns I aUiacliwos h failed.
A iinyf frl sitJestois leieeemmeudbef
solf by ihe etbibitioa of frivolous aeoontpluh
sneul aad mawkish ssnilmsut, wbicb art a
sbsllow as ber mind,
A good girl alwajc respaolc ksrasl', aad
tbrfei always osms Iba issretl f
etbsis-
THE GREEK CHURCH, .
The fundamental difference between the
Greek and Roman Churches consists in the
rejection of ihe spiritual supremecy of St Pe
ler, on the part of the former, and the denial
of any visible representative of Christ Upon
the earth. 1 it the view it takes of the Holy
Ghost il is also nt variance, not only with ihe
Roman Calholie, bul With Ihe Protestant
Churches. This variation consists in the
idea that the Holy Spirit proceeds , from the
Son alone, and not from the Father and Son.
It recognizes seven sacramen's, BU horlzes
Ihe offering of prriyer to the Saints and the
Virgin, encourages the nse of pictures, but
foibids images. Il holds in reverence the
relics and tombs of holy men. and enjoins
strict fasting and the giving of alms looking
upon them as works of intrinsio merit. It
rejects auricular confession, and holds that
modified form of the Roman doctrine of the
Eucharist which is denominated consubstan
liation. It Administers baptism by immer
sion, and many of ihe church services con
sist almost entirely of ceremonial observan
ces. The intrinsic doctrines of Ihe two chut,
ches do not differ materially, and the cause
of their separation was doubtless more owing
to ihe rival pretentions of Ihe two imperial
cities, Rome and Constantinople, than to any
serious disagreement in relation to doctrines
or ordinances. N. Y. Sunday Times.
Poetry.
It is rare that we meet with anything more
true lo nature than ihe following little gem,
descriptive of frontier life :
THE BACKWOODSMAN.
In the deep wild wood is a lonely man,
And he swings bis broad-axe like a slight
ratliin--
His card is uncouth, but this step is proud,
And his voice when he speakelh is firm and
loud ; "
The foiest recedes as his strong arm
swings,
And ho letteth in
kings.
light like the King of
His hut is of logs, and his infant brood
Tumble forth In rejoice in that solitude;
They chase -the honey-bee home to its
store,
And the old tree gives up what it never
bore; '
They hide in the brake, they rush thro'
the stream, ,
And flit lo and Iro like the things ol a
dreiriu.
The mother is pale like the sweet moon
light, But they say, in her youth no rose was so
bright;
She moves in the cabin with a gentle
crace,
And the homliesl things have their regular
place ;
She sines as she works with a sighing
' smile,
And her far-off home riseth in vision the
while.
A Beautiful Sentiment. The late emi
nent Judge Sir Allen Park, once said at a
publio meeting in London
"We live in the midat of blessings, till we
are utterly insensible of theit greatness, and
of the sources from whence thew flow. We
speak of our civilization, our arts, our free.
dom, our laws and forget entirely how large
a share nf all is due to Christianity. Blot
Christianity out of the pages of man's his'
tory, and what would his laws have been
what his civilization 1 Christianity is mixed
up with our very being and our daily life
there is not a familiar object around us,
which does not wear a different aspect, be.
; cause the light of Christian hope is on it
not a law which does not owe its truth and
gen'.leness lo Christianity not a custom
which cannot be traced, in all its holy)
healthful purity, to the bospel."
A Tcrkish Will! A testator left to his
eldest son one half of his hordes, to Ihe se
rond son one-third of hi horses, to his third
son one-ninth of his horses the testator had
seventeen horses, The executor did not
know w hat to do, as seventeen will neither
divide by two, by three, nor nine. A Der-
vish came up on hoiseback, and the executor
consulted him. The Dervish said, "Take my
horse and add him to Ihe others." There
were then eighleen horses. The executor
then gave tc the eldest son one half, 9; to
the second son one-third, I ; lo the third sun
one-niuili, 2; total 17. The Dervish then
said, "You don't want my horse now; I will
lake him back again."
"PasocNT Be awo PaocatANT Cbadlc "
As the person employed for the purpose on
the Hartford and New Haven Railroad was
examining Ihe freight ears a few days sinoe,
he found a tobin's nest, containing three eggs.
The nest was safely located in one of the
trucks, and every appearance indicated lhat
it had been there for a long period, but
whether the parent biid follows Us nttt in
in travels is an unwilled question. The car
bas been used regularly (or a year past. The
tie.l was not disturbed.
A LoT Would. The Dayton, Ohio,
Herald stales thai Dr Vsntuyl, oflhslciiy,
iu bis etteusiv geological cabinet, has an
arsolyie metoiio sione, which is aboa(
aigbteeu inches in diameter. Il is globular
in form, and potsosses all Ihe eharaeteiis.
Ilea v( miniature planet. It felt In a
swamp soma miles west of Dsyion owing
la wbivb sireumsisn ie il was not biok.a
Il was d "? red about seventeea (eel b.
neaib ihe auiUea. There ia ae knowing
be Wag Ihie liuls) woild weal ssr.sru g
lmoub iufleuv wild lightaing speed befoia
it cswe bum, vf siirti the ra
TUB RUSSIA! PEAS INTflY.
' Mr. Oliphant, in his book on the "Russian
Shores of the Black Sea," gives the following
not very flattering account of Ihe condition
and customs of the peasantry along the banks 1
of the Volga,'
i "Whatever may be the morals of the
peasantry in remote districts, those living in
towns and villages on the Volga are more
degrading In their habits than any other
people among whom I have travelled ; and
they can hardly be said (o disregard, since
they have never been acquainted with ordi
nary decencies. What better result can
indeed be expected from a system by which
the upper classes are wealthy in proportion
to the number of serfs possessed by each
proprietor! The rapid increase of the popu
lation is no less an object with the private
serf-owner than Ihe extensive consumption
of ardent spirits is desired by the Govern
ment. Thus each vice is privileged with
especial patronage. Marriages, in the Rus
sian sense of the term, are consummated at
an early age, and are arranged by the
steward, without consulting the parties the
lord's approval alone being necessary. The
price of a family ranges from X25 to 10
Our captain had taken his wife on a lease of
five years, the rent for that term amounting
to fifty rubles, with the privilege of renewal
at the expiration of it.
"Wolf's S-c-h-i-e, skee, d-a-m, dam, skee
dam "
"Slop, Isaac," said Mrs. Partington, hold
ng up her ringer, as Ike was spelling the
abel on a bottle of aromantio shnaps that
had been "subscribed for her embargo," aa
she expressed it. The juvenile had laid
malicious emphasis on the last syllable, and
the dame's ear, sensitive to profanity, was
shocked; the sound vibrated on her auricular
drum like Yankee Doodle upon a tin kitchen,
and she held her finger up as if to beat time.
"Stop, Isaac, and don't let me never hear
you say sich a word agin; it's agin scripter
and nater and everything. Why you never
hear the bruto beasts swear, and how dread
ful it is that a m'ttn should, or a nice little
boy, that can think and speak. Though a
curse generally follows dramming, we should
leave It lo speak for itself.".
Ike here got the stopple out, and Mrs.
Partington, first applying the case bottle to
her nose, and then to her mouth, said, as she
placed it again upon the table, "To my ol
factories, I b'lieve 'tis gin, and genuine gin,
too. But what do they call it snaps for! Il
must be that it makes the eyes snap of them
that drink it, like the toads undei the juniper
bushes."
Ike took down from the buffet the last
wine glass of the dozen once owned by her
self, and Mrs. P. smiled as she placed the
glass with a slight cough on the table, not
noticing that Ike was saturating his har.dker
cheif with the aromantio contents. We
expect a report of tho case of Mrs. P. and
the effect of Wolfe's shnaps in lumbago, in
Doctor Smith's Medical Journal,'
The Wild Tcrkev. We take the follow
ing from a work entitled 'The Hive of the
Bee-Hunter:' 'I rather think," said
turkey-hunter, "if you want lo find a thing
very cunning, you need not go to the fox, or
such varmints, but take a gobbler. 1 once
hunted regular after the same one for three
years, and never saw him twice.
"I knew the critter's 'yelp' as well as I
knew Music's, my old deer-dog; and his
track was as plain to me as the trail of a log
hauled through a dusty road.
"I hunted the gobbler alivays in the same
range, and about the same 'scratching,1 and
begot so at last thai, that when I 'called,' he
would run from me, taking the opposite direc
tion to my footsteps.
. "Now, Ihe old rascal kept a great deal on
a ridge, al the end of which, where it lost
itself In a swamp, was a hollow cypress tree,
Deiermind to outwit him, I put on my
shoe Arc's foremost, walked leisurely down
the ridge, and got into Ihe hollow tree, tuM
gave a call,' and, boys," said the speaker,
exultiugly, "it would have done you good tu
see that turkey coming towards me on a trot
looking at my tracts, and thinking I had
gone the other tray.
Buenos Avses This former province of
the Argentine Confederaffon, having set op
for itself as a Slate, the new constitution has
been proclaimed wilh appropriate eeremoj
nies, and on the 20ih of April ihe first elec.
lion for members of ihe Legislature took
plaee in an orderly manner, and, strange to
say, wilh any attempt en the part of the
government to iarluenee the contest. And,
stranger slill, the higher posts in lha edmin
islration were at a bsavy discount.
Captubk or Shamuiiai. In the recent
battle at Shanghai between the Eng ish and
Americans and Ihe Imperial!!, the lose of
the two former was, two men killed and
Ihirteeu wounded. 01 lha wounded, onC ot
the volunteers was moiially injured, and
several others, volunteers and Piilisb regu
lars, severely. The American parly suffered
lets Ihsn the British, though having lo en
eouuter the severest fire.
Sroca VtaMian. The Delaware County
RepubllBAO says ibat tbeia are al Ihe pres. ul
lime al least Iwenlv thousand bead of rstile
in Delaware and Chester eountiea in lha
bands of farmer and gris, who are feed
Ing them fwr aala le any p,m wh4 will rati
and buy them al fair piu. The Bpubli.
a deetee) ibel lb big pite asking it, ib
aW matteia arc caused b f-tuUiit sin
afJiin rfc iia
WHAT STROMG fiRlNK TV ILL. DOi .
The following dialogs between a fattier
a dissipated and extravagant man and hia
son, ns to how to expend five-and-twenty
hillings, which a new situation was to give) '
the former, Is both laughable and instructive.
Il rnns thus !
"Now, Johnny, my bdy," SaiJ (he old
man, "let me see : I owe eight shillings at
he porter-house, sign of 'The Saddle ;' well,
that's fftaf.' putting the amount On one side.
"Yes," says Johnny,
"Well, then 1 promised to pay a score at
he Ulue Pig Tavern say five shilincs.--
How much does that make, John 1"
"Why, thirteen shillings," says the boy.
counting on his fingers.
'But I mean, yon goose, how much have
I got left V
"How should 1 know 1'' stlyj John j
"count it yourself j you'vt got the money."
"But you ought to know," says the father,
with true parental authority. ' Take thirteen .
from twenty-five how many remain t W'hy
twelve, to be sure," countnig the balance slyly
in his hand. "That s the way you are neg
lecting your education, is it 1 I shall have to
talk to your schoolmaster."
"Yes, you'd brffer talk to him ! He told
me yesterday that On (ess you let him have)
some money 1 needn't come to school any
lore."
"Ah, true, my boy troe j you mustn't
lose your education, at any rate. Take him
round five shillings after dinner. 1 had a
pot of beer with him hist night, and he
agreed if I would let him have lhat much
now, he would be satisfied for the present.''
"I want a pair of shoes, falher." says John.
"I can get a capital pair for three-arid six
pence."
"You must get them for three shilling ,
we owe tne Dutcner lour arid ne must oo
paid, or we get no more meat j ihefe, thai
ends it," said the poor old man, with a sat'
isfied air; but his vision of independence)
was in an instant destroyed, by John's simply
saying
"You've forgotten the landlady, father!"
"Yes, John that's true so 1 have. She"
must have her pay, or out we go."
"She miuf," echoed John.
"John," says the father, "I'll tell you hoW
I-II contrive it. I'll put 'Tho Saddle' DlT with
four shilling, and upon a branch account
with 'The Vow-Tree' " (another drink'ing
house). .
Bui," said John, "we otd her a shilling
last week, and she paid for the washing."
"Oh! ay ; well how much does the wash
ing come to, John 1"
"Two and tuppence," replied Ihe boy.;
"Well, then, give her three shillings in'
stead of five," said the father.
"But then, father, that wont do; and we
want lea."
"Who wants tea? 1 don't care a
fig fof
tea."
"Gut do," replied the boy, with most
piovoking calmness.
"Yon want tea!" said the father ''you
young rascal, you'll want bread yet,"
"Bread ! that's true,' exclaimed John j
"you have forgotten the baker !"
The old man's schemes to pacify hi crod
itors with five-and-twenty shillings were all
dissipated by the recollection of the baker,
and sweeping the money off the labia Into
his breeches pocket, be roared onl, In a great
passion :
' Let 'em alt go ! I'll not pay & farthing
to any of 'em 1" , ,
How this may strike others tte do not
know; bol to oor mind it illustrates very
forcibly the denunciation of the Scriptures :
"Wo unto thera that rise tip in the morning
to pursue strong dring -who continue until
night j nntil wine inflame ihera !"
PeiciDx rnoM Domestic Troubti. On
the 19ih ult., Wm. Henry Huvok, hung him
self in his fathei-in-law's barn, at Wynants
kill, N Y., being driven lo tbe fata) deed by
family quarrels. B. U. Sharfthe farther-in-law,
who was the first lo discover the lifeless
body, instead of cutting it down and attempt
ing to resuscitate the wretched man, left thi
body hanging, and went to the holism of the)
father of the unhappy snicide to announce
hia untimely fate. The earner's jury in
their verdict, very properly denounced tli
inhuman witlch.
A yofttig frfnn should be prompt to heat and
patient to leceive further admonition, in'
atructions and counsels in all respects qual
ify himself to serve the publio In the best
manner. This Is far better than hastily td
assoma the office of feather dispute of
things beyond his depih and indulge In a
conceited, smiliing and lixpjaeious humor,
promising what he knows he rsnhot perform,
iri the vain hope of commanding success nr
applause In a community upon which be la
practising deer pi ion.
Am raroan aAtc: Ciattricita. - Mr.
Chuiehwelt, of Tennessee, publishes in Ihw
Washington I'uion a ojrd dcaj ing that, in
the teueui fracas In the House of Kepiewn
laiives, he drew a weapon. To substantial?
thi, be produce a number M rerlifieatr
fiom sneiuber who sal neat him, bul amor.
Ihem isoua fiOin Mr. Cieitf, which show,
eoiiclusivelt itul ha did wh ihe i. chsicod
with.
Xear tsy a siu.iib!, ,n. mhy Bf
a mii wbu is li)i..g ia s.U..re himself in
lb- WUlM b...lly 1,1 up.lybll,, f, ,,
likely u 'k 4, 1 ,kh jt yM
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