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For the American Presbyterian
DE PROFUNDIS.
Save me, 0 God; for the waters are come in unto my
soul. Ps. lxlx. I
Toss'd on the angry wave of life,
My sky o'ereast, my pilot gone,
Achill, a horror o'er me or.ep f
My trembling bark is on the deep,
Premed forward to a fearful leap,
And I am all alone.
Out of the depths to Thee I ory,
Save me, 0 Jesus, or I die.
To my affrighted ear there come
Strange whispers from a world afar;
And voices from the deep profound
Of doubt and unbelief, unbound,
Shriek with a. wild discordant sound
'Alone, thou art alone." •
Gut of the depths to Thee I cry,
SAqe,toe, 0 Jesus, or I die.
Helpless, exhausted by the wave
That struck my bark, and !we'd my hold
Of earth, and left me all bereft,
or joy and comfort nothing left,—
My wounded spirit sore distressed,
Moans, "I am all alone.'!
Out of the depths to Thee I cry,
Save me, 0 Jeeps, or I die.
Iluah'd the wild storm, the winds are still,
A heavenly calm steals o'er my soul,
A light celestial beanie around;
Jesus, my Saviour, I have found
All earthly good, an empty. sound,
Now I am not alone.
No longer from the depths I cry, .
Safe in thy blessed arms I lie.
NIAGARA.
BY ENV. L. B. GURLEY,
And thou art great Niagara,
The womler of the World; '
Where Hoods from western empires vast
In thunder tones are hurled.
I see thy deep, green waters pour,
I hear thy everlasting roar,
Where marshalled billows ever war,
"With rainbow flag unfurled.
Through Nature's realms I search in vain,
For aught to liken thee;
The cloud capped mount, the forest grand,
The blue and boundless sea,
Heaven's awful throne of &ailing fire,
The thunder of the eternal choir,
With angel harp, and seraph lyre,
May fitting emblems be.
Ere first, in Eden's sinless bowers,
A song of praise was given,
The peens of thy mighty harp
Broke on the ears of heaven;
And down the ages all along,
In depths of solitude, thy song
Amid these fadeless forests rung,
At midnight, morn, and even,
God wrote his glory on the stars
Which gem the midnight sky;
His goodness, on the fruitful fields,
Wbloh o'er earth's bosom lie;
Sublimity, on ocean's breast,
I And grandeur on the mountain's crest;
But here Omnipotence impressed
Its awful majesty.
FIRMNESS OF RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLE.
Frank Edwards, a young married man, em
ployed in un English manufactory, was converted.
His conversion was deep and genuine ; it reached
both heart and life. The change was complete,
and from being notoriously trifling and thought
less, he became a proverb for cheerful gravity and
serious deportment.
Very delightffll was the first experience, of that
young man. A good workman,
be enjoyed con
stant employment, with wages sufficient to procure
the comforts of life. He had a thrifty wife, who
was led to Jesus by his own influence. Their cot
tage was the house of prayer. Religion, ptenty,
health, and contentment dwelt with them; proba
bly there was not another home in England more
pleasant than that of the yoUng, pious mechanic,
But piety is not an effectual shield to defend
from trouble. It supports, gloriously supports, i
the sufferer; but his path to heaven s appointed
to lead through "much tribulation."
It 'was thus with Frank Edwards and his happy
fainily. In the midst of their prosperity, adversity
looked in at their cottage door; poverty sat down
at their table. Let us truce the cause of their
trouble.—One day a lucrative order came, and all
hands were set to execute it with the utmost haste.
The week was closiog, and . the work was un
finished. On Saturday evening the overseer en
tered and said to the men, "You must work all
day to-morrow."
Frank instantly remembered the fourth Com
mandment. He resolved to keep it, because he felt
that his duty to God required him under all cir
cumstances to refrain from labour on the 'Lord's
day. Offering an inward prayer to God, he re
spectfully addressed the overseer.
"Sir, to-morrow is Sunday."
know it, but our order must be executed."
"Will you excuse me, sir, from working on the
lard's day ?"
"No, Frank, I can't excuse any one. The
company will give you double wages, and you must
work. "
I am sorry, air, but I cannot work to-morrow."
" Why not, Mr. Edwards? you know our ne
oetviities,.and we offer you a fair remuneration."
"'Sir, it will be a sin against God, and no ne
cessity is strong enough, no price high enough, to
induce me to offend my Maker."
gg I am not here to argue 'the morality of the
question,Yrank ; you must either work to-mor
roW or be discharged."
"I cannot hesitate, sir, - a moment; I bare re
solved to please God. Oust what earthly price it
way, I will keep his commandments."
" Then, Mr: Edwards, if you will step into the
'odunthig room, I will pay you what the company
owes you, and you will then leave the establish
went."
To say that Frank's heart did not shrink from
ibiti trial would be to deny his humanity; but his
faith came to his help . Castitukbimself on God,
he gathered up his tools and entered the counting
room.
The overseer was extremely unwilling , to part
with Frank, for he was a superior workman, and
since his conversion, had been the most trusty
man in the employment of the company. He,
therefore, addresSed him . very kindly, while hand
ing him his wages, " Mr. Edwarde, had you not
better re-consider your resolution? Remember,
work is scarce, we pay you high wages, and it is
net often we require you to labour on Sunday."
" Sir," replied Frank, " my mind IS fixed. I
will net work on the Sabbath if I have to atarept."
"Very well, sir," was the cool answer of the
overseer, who not being , a. Christian, could not ap
preciate the noble heroism.of Frank's reply.
On reaching his humble cottage, the mechanic
could not forbear a sigh, as the thought flitted
across his mind, that possibly he might soon lose
his home comforts. But the sigh was momentary.
remembered the promise of God, and grew
calmly peaceful. Entering his house, he said to
his wife, " Mary, I am dischar. , ed I"
"Discharged, Frank W hat has happened?
0 what will booonie of us i Tell
me why you are
discharged I"
13e calm, Mary i God will provide i I left
the shop because I would not break the Lnrd's
day. They wanted me to work to-morrow, and
because I refused they discharged rue."
Mary was silent. She looked doubtful, as if
not quite sure that her husband was right. Her
faith was, not so strong as Frank's, nor was her
character so decided. In her heart she thought
as thousands of fearful disciples would under simi
lar eireeintstances, that her husband had gone too
fee, B u t although she said nothing, Frank read
her thnughts, and
g r ieved over her want of faith.
Sweet
was the hour. of family prayer to Frank
t o t eve 4eg; sweeter still was the secret devotion
the' closet ; and he never closed his eyes with
wore heavenly, calmness of spirit than when he
sank tO r /sh , ep on that'eventful evening.
fo!low i ng . we ek.brought Frank's character
to a betlere test. All fits friends condemned him;
even some members of his church said they thought
he had gone beyond the strict requirements of
duty. "It was well, "
, they said; " to honour the
Lord's day; but then a man like Frank Edwards
ought to look at the wants of his family, and not
strain at a gnat, and perhaps be to go
to the workhouse."
This was dastardly language for professors, but
there are always too many of this class of irreso
lute sight-walking disciples. Frank met them on
all sides, and felt himself without sympathy. , - A.
few noble,
enlightened Christians, however, ad
mired and encouraged him. Frank held to his
purpose with a spirit worthy of a martyr.
The cloud grew darker. Through the influence
of his former employers, who were vexed because
he left them, the other companies refised to eua,
ploy him. Winter came on ivith its.frosts and
storms. His little , stock of savings gradually dis
appeared. Poverty stared them in the face.
Frank's watch, Mary's silver spoons, their best
furniture, went to the auction shop. They had to
leave their pleasant cottage, and a small garret held
the little afflicted family, and the slender remains
of their cottage furniture.
Did Frank regret his devotion to God ? No !
he rejoiced in it. He bad obeyed God, he, said,
and God would take care of him. Light would
break out of darkness: All would yet be well.
So spoke 'his unyielding faith; his fixed heart
doubted 'not. The blacker the cloud, the more
piercing grew the eye.of bis triumphing faith.
With his Nary the case was different. Her faith
was weak, and, pressing her babes to her bosbrii,
she often wept, and beut before the - sweepibg
storm.
The winter passed away, and Frank was still in
the fiery fnroace, rejoicing r imwevcr r amidst the
flames. Some friends offered him the means of
emigrating to the T.Tilited States. Here was a light
gleuin. He rejoiced. in it, and prepared to quit a
place which refused him bread because he feared
God.
Behold him ! that martyr-mechanic on board
the eatigrant,ship. Her white sails catch the fa;
voring breeze, and with a soul &Hof hope '
Frank
looked toward this western world. A short,
pleasant passage, brought them to one of the At
lantic cities.
Here he soon found. that his faith had not been
misplaced. The first week of his arrival found
him not merely employed, but filling the station
of foreman in the establishment of some extensive
machinists.
Prosperity now smiled on Frank, and Mary once
more rejoiced in the possession of home comforts.
They lived in a style tar better and more comfort
able than when in the English cottage. " Mary,"
Frank would often ask, pointing to their charming
little parlor, " is it not.best to obey. God?"
Mary could only reply to this question with
smiles and tears; for every thing around them
said, "Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord
his trust, and respecteth not the proud. Surely
he shall not be moved forever!'
• But Frank's trials were not over: A similar
claim for labour on the Lord's day was made upon
him in his new situation. An engine for a rail
road or a, steamboat was broken and must be re
paired. "You will keep your men employed
through to-morrow, Mr. Edwards, so that the en
gine may be finished on Monday - morning," said
the chief overseer.
"I cannot do it, sir; I cannot break the Lord's
day. I will work until midnight on Saturday,
and begin directly after midnight on Monday
morning. God's holy time I will not touch."
"That won't do, Mr. Edwards. ' You must work
your men through the Sabbath, or the owners will
dismiss you."
o Be it so," replied Frank. " I crossed the At
lantic because I would not work on Sunday. 1
will not do it here."
Monday came and the work unfinished. _Frank
expected his discharge. While at work a gentle
man inquired of him..-I wish you to go with
Inc to , to take charge of my establishment.
Will you go ?"
" I don't know," replied Frank.. "If, as I ex
pect, nay present employers dismiss me, I will go.
If they do not, I have no wish to !ewe."
This is settled. They intend:to dismiss you,
and I know the reason. Lhonour you for it, and
I wish you to enter my establiihment."
Here twain our young mechanic saw the hand
of God. again
decision had again brought him into
trial, and God had come to his:aid. The new situ
ation for which he had just engaged was worth
much more than the one he was to leave.. God
had kept his promise.— The Ptah of Life.
AN APT ILLUSTRATION
It is well known that Thelwall thought it very
unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating
any opinions before it should , come to years of
discretion, so as to be able to choose for itself.
In reply to this absurd notion, Coleridge says:
"I showed him my garden, and told him it was
my botanical garden. "How so," said he, "it
is covered with weeds." "0," I replied, " that
is because it, has not yet come to its age of discre
tion and choice. The weeds, you see,. have taken
the liberty to grow, and I thought kunfair in me
to prejudice the soil toward roses and strawber
ries." •
We remember a man, of considerable property
and intelligence who thought. Solomon was a fool
and a bigot for exhorting parents to train up their
children. He determined to let his come up,
and the result was that after some twenty, years
his house was very much like Coleridge's sarden.
Eris wealth was squandered, his name dishonored,
his heart broken, and his hair, prematurely gray,
was brought in sorrow to the grave. Parents
cannot learn too soon, or remember too constantly
that their children are depraved, that only un
ceasing watchfulness and care, with the blessing
of God, can secure for them a virtuous character.
To trust to innate innocency, or natural amiability,
will lead to sad disappointment, it' not to utter
ruin. •
J . 1 24, loctitlantotto.
OIL WELLS
The Pittsburgh Christian _Advocate clescribes
'some - wonderful oil wells 'in Venango county,
Pennsylvania.-
The oil is , obtained by drilling the solid earth to
various depths with three or four inch augers, or
drills. When a vein of oil is, struck it begins•to
bubble up at the surfae,e of , the .earth, and flows .a
greater or less time without tbe , aid-of a purnp. • It
is`thought that wells may be found which wattling
flow continually. The Meadville editor characte
rizes one owned'by D. Irl. Williams of Warren,O.,
as remarkable. It is bored to a depth of 143 f'et,
and during the visit of the editor was yielding,
without pumping, 12 barrels of pure oil per day.
But after his return home he received subsequent
and astonishing accounts of the Williams well,
making it the greatest that has yet been discovered
It says:
seems the owners , of qbis well, -not =satisfied
with receiving 12 barrels per day with — out pump
ing, determined to bo . re still deeper,!and on Thurs
day last, after boring two feet deeper, struck the
very fountain head of oil. A gentleman who
was present and witnessed it, informed us that
when they removed the drill from the hole the oil
spouted into the air to the height of eighty feet,
and literally overflowed everythitm. Holes were
dug in the ground to contain it, as barrels could
not be had fast enough to hold it. It has con
tinued to flow at the rate of over 200 barrels per
day. 'The oil accumulated so fast that they at
tempted to stop the pipe up for a time, but not
withstanding all their 'efforts to do so, the oil
managed to ooze out at the rate of about three
barrels per hour.
Such wells, however are exception. Usually
after the oil flows bubblingly to the surface of the
earth for a time, it ceases altogether. Then a
pump is put in it, and it is lifted by suetion from
its cavernous depths. At the well of Messrs.
13ornstlell & Co., they pump about twenty-five
barrels,per day: When wells yield less than three
barrels per day they are bored deeper, and if they
do not improve are abandoned altogether. As the
pump discharges its liquid stream into a vat or
receiver, the water remains at the bottom, while
Central Christian Herald
a- ,, mltit-I-ItiLi .7 ftt . ,oittOilt
the oil rises to the top. The water is then
drained off through spigots below, and the oil
through spigots above. It is already in a state of
purity, ready for the market.
The rage for sites in the oil region is immense.
The #,gricultural interests of the county are almost
entirely neglected, while fabulous prices are of
fered for laud lying along Oil Creek. Yet ac
cording to the Meadville editor, out of 500 wells
on Oil Creek and vicinity not over 50 are paying
expenses, and probably a much less number.
Professor Hunter, of Allegheny College, in a
note to Professor Hammet, says: "I saw the
great oil well pouring out ten barrels per hour!
Fact! As great au oil well as ever Job had, who
said, .The rocks poured me out rivers of oil.' I
'dipped my foot in oil,' like Asher, only I did it
literally."
DEGRADED CONDITION OF THE
BUSHMEN.
On the flanks and in the• valleys of the Snow
berg or Snowy mountains, which form the Nortb
ern-boundary of the Cape, humanity is found in
the very lowest state of 'degradation in which it
bas ever been. exhibited. The Bosjesmaus or.
Bushmen, two or three specimens of which race
were brought to this country a few years ago,
present an exaggeration 'even of the hideous form
which characterizes the Hottentot. Hunger and
cold, and nakedness, and every description of pri
vatien_ and distress, have so dwarfed :their.,forms
and depraved their minds, that they „present a
spectacle painful to look upon. The statue of
these pigmy inhabitants of the desert rarely ex
-ceeds.fouy feet, or four feet two inches. Thieves
by profession, cruell - and 'treacherous, without a
fixed habitation, without 'society, without any
sort of-common interest or govertnnent, and li
ving Only from day to day, and from hand to
- mouth, they were objects of loathing to neighbor
ing tribes even helve Europeans had approached
their. country. The most civilized of the Hotten
tots and Kaffirs, more especially, waged a deadly
! war against them; and the'sight of one of these
diminutive savages said
.to •rouse the. passions of
that race to uncontrollable fury.. Many years
since, a Kaffir saw in the Government House at
Cape Town, among the other domestics, a Busb
than eleven years of age. With the impulse of a
'beast of prey he darted upou him, and transfixed
him" with his aggesai.
The little intelligence which the Bushmen pos
sess is displayed chiefly in robbery and the chase.
Rivalling the antelope in fleetness, and the men
key iu agility, they accompany their wild, half
famished savage dogs until they come within bow
shot of their game, or run down the objects of
their pursuit. Arrayed generally with a bow, a
quiver full of arrows, a hat and a belt, leather
sandals, a sheep's fleece, a gourd, or the shell of
an ostrich's egg, to carry Water, these puny crea
tures wander over their parched and• desolate
plains, supported by a :food, which, unless when
occasionally varied by the luxuries of the chase,
consists entirely of roots, berries, ant-eggs, grass
hoppers,' mice, toads, lizards, and snakeS.—They
smear the arrows which they use for hunting and
in war with a poison which, extracted 'from a
bulb, and mingled with. venom drawn from the
jaws of the yellow serpent, forms a compound of
the most noxious character, for no creature was
.ever pierced by 'a dart prepared with the deadly
virus•and lived. • They have another poison more
fearful in its "effects, which is extracted from a
caterpillar. The agony produced by it, Dr. Li
vingstone says, is so intense, that the person wound
ed cuts himself with knives, and flies from hu
man habitation a raving maniac. its effect on
the lion'is equally terrible. He is beard Moaning
in distress,' becomes furious, and bites trees 'and
the 'etoUnd in his race: They, are said to be to 7
tally devoid of 'natural afieetion; 'and there are
instances,' 'adds 'a missionary, (Mr. .'Kicherer,)
who liyed for some time in their neighborhood;
Hof parents throwing their tender offspring to the
hungry lion who stood roaring before their cavern
refusing to depart until some peace-offering. was
made to him.' They shun the face of strategOs„
concealing themselves amongst rocks and
,hushes,
and 'even :ihidiving, themselves over precipicvs
rather than fall into the hand§ of their enemies:
But they have been known,'when escape has been
cut off, to fight with the most' 'determined reso
lution. Religion they have none. They regard
the thunder as the voiceof an angry deMon, and
they reply to it, with curses and imprecations.
Thetr language is inarticulate to all but them
selves ; and there appears to be scarcely even a
possibility of either civilizing or converting them.
In the Northeast of Natal, where the Bushmen
appear in Oleic loWest type, they reside in - holes
of the earth scraped out with their nails, or, ra=
ther,.witiv their claws. 'They will not receive
kindnesS; says a close observer of theireharacter;
or if they do, they only, make a return of trea
chery, robbery and murder. No presents of cattle
or corn, no inducementsto locate and settle; can
Prevail upob them, to relinquish their wild life, or
to make any 'apprach ionardS civilization.' The
only satisfactory thonglit connected With them is
the belief Of their gradual . estinceiun. They et
iit in the meantime an awful proof of -the' depth
of degradation to which humanity, in its gradual
deterioration, can fall, and au instance of physi
cal and moral degeneracy probably unparalleled in
the world.
'EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY OF AN
ANCIENT PAINTING- PRESS IN INDIA::
When Warren Hastings was Governor General
of India, lie observed that in the district of Be - -
- bares, a little below the surface of the earth, is to
be found a stratum of a kind of fibrous woody sub
stance, of various thicknesses, in horizontal layers.
Major Roelifick, informed of this, went out to a
spot where an excavation had been made, display
ing this singular phenomenon. In digging some
what deeper for the : purpose ,of further research,
they laid open .a
.vault, which on examination
proved to be of some size, and to ,their astonish
ment, they 'found a kind 'of printing press, set up
'in the vault, and on_it movable types placid as if
0 . '
'ready for printing. Everyinquiry was set on loot
to ascertain the probable period at which such an
instrument could • have - been placed there,,for it
was evidently not of modern origin,.and from all
the Major could collectjt appeared probable that
the place had remained in the state in whiph it
was found for at least .one thousand years. We
believe
,the.worthy Major, on his, ~ r eturn to Eng
land presented one of the learned a,ssoeiations
a memoir, curious speculations
°tithe sUbject. Paper we 'know to have been .ma
naraatured in 'the, East many centuries before we
bad any knowledge 'of and we haie many
reasons to think that the - Chinese had been ac
quainted with the mode of printing they now em
ploy ,many, centuries, before Faust invented it in
Eiiiope. It certainly doeS no credit to theinven
tive`geniiis of the Romans, to know that while they
approached so near as to engrave in a * style not
be eqUalled.in the present age, on gems and stones,
and of course the taking of impressions from,tkem,
that they should still ,have remained ignorant of
the art which has bestowed so many blessings
upon mankind. . •
AXERICA VISITED FROM AFRICA BE-
FORE COLUMBUS.
Many years ago, in opening a' mound or ancient
burial place on Grave Creek, Virginia, an oval
stone was found, with three lines of inscription in
some written language. W. B. fJodgson, Esq.,
of Savannah, for a while Consul Th 'U
,Of e nited
States in Barbary, North Africa, and now of the
city of New. Yoik; aisigned to it'a Numid km origin,
in his Notes on "North Africa," and said:
" Near tine of the skeletons in thelipper vault
was-found the stone in question, with three lines
of alphabetic characters. It - is of an CM form,
three-fourths of an inch thick, and its material is
a fine sandstone. This is the only example, I be
lieve, of ancient alphabetic inscription in North
America„ The inscriptions on theAiiightbiciock,
and the pictorial writing ' of Mexico 'and' Yneatan
are symbolic not alphabetic. The historf of this
trilinear lapidary inscription, I had.;at.'first re
garded'as apocryphal. -Mr. Schooleraftlas, how
ever, confirmed it, and described the stone. Who
was the gorgeous
was found by hi
Canary Islands,
and language p:
lost Atlantis?
African vessels,
nate' or Canary
New World?
as likely to be
Asia. History
main avigation -
The Periplus
the subject of
historical indict
ages navigated
difficulty in sub
have been brou
LANGUAGE. .
. ..
Were the sage the primitive man,,we should
then find sava tribes furnished, it might be,
scantily enotig t ith ,the elements of speech, yet
at the seine ti i with its fruitful beginnings, its
vigorous, and - • lthful germs., But what does
their language tn close inspection prove T
_ln
every case wh - they are themselves, the reta
nant and I'M' . Of a better `and a' nobler past.
Fearful, indee is -the' impress' of degradation
which is scam t; on the languageof 'the aavage—
more, fearful, • rhaps, even than 'that which is
stamped upen slbrni. When wholly letting go
the truth, ,wh: long and greatly sinning against
light and cons ence, a people has thus gone the
• downward., wa • "has been scattered off .by some
violent leveltt ,; n" froth
,that portion of the'world
which' is the, . lit of advance and progress, and
driven to its+, rote isles and further corners, then
as one noble t , hiight,tine spiritual idea after an
other has t • iihed froth it; the words • also that
expressedth • have perighed too: as a people has
let go, one ha ,of civilization .after another,. the
words also,,NV oh: those habits. demanded • have
dropped, first,. 4 tof use, and then out of memory,
and thus after while have been wholly lost.
Moffat, in h Miss'ionory Labors and %Scenes
in South Air'.., gives us a .very remarkable ex
ample of the capp'earing.of one of the most sig
nificant words , tit the language of a tribe - sinking
over deeper in agery; and With the disappearing
of the word Of ourse the diSappearing as Well Of
the great spir al fact and truth Whereof that
word was a - , •e the vehicle and the .guardian.
The Bechuan Qaffre tribe, employed formerly
the word "Xi •.0," to designate ‘...Him, that is
above," or "$ ,
,that is in heaven," and attached
to the word th notion of a supreme divine being,
.
This Word, wi ' the spiritual idea corresponding
to . it, "Moffat Lund ~ to have vanished from the
language of t present generation; although here
anthere he , uld meet with an, old man,"seareely
one or two in,_ thousand, who remembered in his
youth to have card speak of " Morino:" and this
word, once •deeply significant,. only. survived
now in the -el . .
and charms of the;so-called rain_
makers abd . st '' t • rens, who misused it to designate
a fabulous gho „ of whom they told. theabsurdeet
and most eonti dietory thing S- - • '
And as th • .is - no . •such witneas to 'the degra
dation of the - vage. as thelinittil poverty of his
language, - So ' there nothing thot so effectually
tends to keep rim in the,depths to . which he has
fallen.' ' You. cannot impart to any . man more
than the wor . - Which he understands either now
contain, or 'ea be made intelligibly to him to
contain. Lang ge is as tri.t.y on' one side the
limit and' restra" tof thought; as'on the other side
that which fee and unfolds it. Thus it is the
ever-repeated'; mplaint of 'the missionary that
the very termldre wholly or nearly Whollywanting
in the dialect 4f the savage whereby 'to impart' to
him heavenly Iniths, or indeed even;the nobler
emotions of t . 14 human. heart.. Dolirizhoffer, the
Jesnit tuis:siotury; in his curious History of the
Atipenes; ten" us that neither they nor the Gus
du Ides, two Of the principal native tribes of - Brazil,
with whase languages he was iutiatately acquainted;
possessed . any ivord which in the least corresponded
to our "•ttnin ." Biit 'What wonder„ if the feel
ing of krati (kw was - entirely absent' from their
hearts, that: hey should not have - possessed the
correspondiritwird 'in their vocabularies? NUy,
how should o'l4 have -bad, it there?, And - that
that, is the trtikplataation iSplain froma fact 'which
the same wril,er records, that although inveterate
askers, they aever showed the slightest sense of
obligation or of gratitude, when they obtained
what they seght;
. never saying. more than, "This
m
will be usefu to e," or, "This is what Twanted."
Nor is it nip in what 'they have forfeited and
i
Lost; but als in what they have retained or in
vonted,-that hese languages proclaim their degra.;
dation arid- ti basement, and ho* deeply they and
those thatsp ak them have' fallen... Thual have
read of a ti e ia New Holland, *hick ;has no
word. to:siuni .God, but has a word to designate
a process .by bieh an unborn -child is destroyed
in : the bosom f its -mother. And- I have hedn'in
fortnedrouth authority of oneexcellentlyeapable
of knowing,, n English scholar .long resident in
Van,Diemen' Land, thatin the native language
of that islan ,there arefour words to express the
taking of h man, life—one to express a father's
killing of a sob, another a son's lilling of a father,
with' other varieties iof murder, and that in no
one of theSe')ies 'the Slighteat . umral 'reprobation,
or Sense . of the deep-lying distinction betv,men to
kill-and to untr'der; while at the same time; of
that.langnaie sO•riehlyand so fearfully provided
with express _ ps : from i this extremest -utterance, of
hate, 16 aIS report . that any word for ,love is
.
Wanting in 1, altogether. ,
London Quarterly
Yet with all this, 'ever and anon in the midst
of this wreck, and ruin there is that in the lan
guage of the , savage, some subtle distkm6mi, sowe
curious , allusion to a perished civilization, now
utterly unintelligible to' the speaker, or some other
note, 'which prochlims his language to'be-the re
mains of a dissipated inheritance, the rags . and
remnants of, a robe which was a , royal :one 'once.
The,fragmeitis of a broken sceptre are in his hand,
a s sceptre , Wl erewith. once he held dominion (that
is, in his pro.enitorg.) over large kingdoms of
thought, which have now escaped wholly from his
No man can cultivate' too earnestly 'a hearty
lov - e for flowtirs. We 'May not measure the - value
- of thetn , asite , measure merchandise,' for' the' in
fluence flowiag from them is ethereal and intangi
ble; ,yet 'not more necessary is pure air to a
healthy gyeWth and, broad , development of body,
than IS a loon g communion with these."sweetest
thoughts of Ood," -needful for all true upbuilding
and expansion of the mind.. The notion that,:it
is a weak and feminine thing—a thinglor women
and children—to - Merest one's ,self flowers, i s
utterly false. One of the most humanizing, and
therefore noblest things in `the world, is a derod
study of these beautiful Works of 'God, There
are granite leaks lifting:themselves bare and bald
with' forbidding lisped, which, though clothed
-with, grandeur, are neverthelesi the unloveliest ob
jects in Nature. , There , are• other peaks; which
have 'as much of majesty, yet: pealed in whose
rifts,; and elimbing np whose sides, many•colored
flowers unfold their beady, and ky their:soft hues
relieve, the sternness of the dull, harsh rock.' , He
is Om truest,nmu, whose eharacter thus combines
Strength and conciliating tenderness—whose prin
ciple§ are firm as mountains, yet, at the sameltime
are always adorned by the verdure of a gentle
charity. i?rom no 'source can man gather so many
gentle thoughts and unpolluted feelings; as froth
intercourse with &were. if the. Infinite it, ever
turning, from Alle care of circling worlds to -the
adornment of the ,violet, surely it cannot rbe be
neath the dignity of man' to follow his Maker
with a reverent step, and learn the lessons which
He-has written for him in the humblest flower.
I- W.Ho yt, in Rural New Y
,
GOOD STATE •FOR, MINISTERS.—Tbere is a
law in Maine exempting froinquxation ihe house
and"lot, not exceeding-lwo awes, owned and 06-
cupied`cby any minister of the Gospel in the actual
exercise of the"ptistoral finCtian."' The ,aat, at
i3ourse, applies alike to all"denonlintitionS.
t
. -
, eftairt.whoSe engraved signet
.3 se? Did he come from the
w re the Numidian characters
i
Ir) , led ? , Shall we recur to the
o d any of the Carthaginian. or
`h h usually visited the ' Fortu
s nds, have been carried to the
peopling of America is quite
I•
to Africa and gurope as to
.erves the memory of the cit.-
, friea by several expeditions.
• anno, the Carthaginian, was
ritten narrative. With these
ions that the Atlantic was in early
Mediterranean vessels, I find no
ming the stone in question to
tt thence."
it .1"- tit t
TEE LOVE OF FLOWERS
,
One hundred years ago; there was etatql. single
white man in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illi
nois territories. Then, what is now the most
flourishing part of America, was-as little known
as the country around the Mountains of the Moon.,
It was not until 1.799 that the " Hunter of lien
tuck," the gallant and adventurous Boone, left
his home in North Carolina, to become the first
settler of Kentucky. The first pioneer of Ohio
did not settle until twenty years after this time.
A hundred years ago Canada belonged to France,
and the whole population of the United States did
not exceed a million and a half of people. A hun
dred years ago, the great Frederick of Prussia was
performing those exploits which have made him
immortal in military annalts, and with his little
monarchy was sustaining .a single-handed contest
with Russia, Austria and France—the three great
powers of Europe combined. A. hundred years
ago, Napoleon was not born, and Washington was
a young and modest 'Virginia colonel: and the
great events in the history of the two worlds, in
which these great but dissimilar men took leading
parts, were then scarcely foreshadowed."
A hundred years ago, the United States were the
most, loyal part of the British Etnpire; and on the
political horizon no speck indicated the struggle
which, within a score of years thereafter, este
blighed the. greatest Republic of the world. A
hundred years ago, there were but four newspa
pers in America—steam enginea, had not been
imagined, and rail-roade and telegraphs had not
entered into the retnetestt=noneeption of man.
When we came to look baels.atit through the vista
of history, we find that to the century which has
passedi, has been allotted-more itnportant events,
in their bearing upon the happiness. of the world,
than almogt.any other Wadi has elapsed since the
creation.
GENEALOGY OF THE PRINCE dr - WALES—He
is the oldest son of Victoria, who is the - daughter
of the Duke of Kent, who was the son. of George
the Third, who was the grandson of George the.
Second, who was the son of Princess Sophia, \ who
was the sister of William and Mary. Mary was
the daughter, and William the son.in-law.of James
the Second, who was son of Charles the First,
who was the son of James the First, who was the
son of Mary, who was the granddaughter of Mar
garet, who was the sister of Henry the Eighth,
who was the son of Henry the Seventh, who was
the son of the Earl of Richmond, who was the
son of Catherine, the widow of Henry the Fifth,
who was, the son of Henry the Fourth, who was
the cousin of Richard, the Second, who was the
grandson of Edward the Third, wh o , was the son
of Edward the Second, who was the son of Henry,
the Third, who was somof John, who was the son
Of 'Henry the Second, who was the son of Ma
tilda, the' daughter of Henry the First, who was
the brother of William Rufus, who was the son of
William the Conqueror, who was the illegitimate
son of the Doke of Normandy, by a tanner's
daughter of Falaise.
.NEW' USE OE THE MAGNET.— A Parisian h
sieian has been Makin. , successful use of the
net in discovering foreign substances, such as
shell-splinters, fragments of needles, &c., in the
organs of the body. He hangs the magnet on a
string, and OH its becoming immobile, he brings
one of the poles near the region where he sup
poses the foreign body may be lodged; the devia
tion or immobility of the magnet confirms or de
stroys his suspicion. In'this this way he was able
to point-out the - precise localify In - the lea- fore
arm Of a voltigeur . where a shell-splinter bad
lodged, and: Which rprciduced a serious tedema=of
the whole member, lasting for over ten Months;
but in foundaysafterthe extraction.of the foreign
substance by, this means, he was quite cured.
, A PITTIkG REBUKE. —A clergyman in Eng
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clergyman was in the habit of preaching in un
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violating the .roles of the Church.of Engfand,
to which the Bishop returned the unexpected,
but,doubtless wholesouie reply, "Go, thou and
do likewise." ,
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THE FIRE IN CHESTIMT-STREET.
Letter front Theo.-.H: ,Peter lit, , .
Philadelphia, January 19, 1860.
MESSES: Pamirs., limunne -
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destroyed by fire on ttier.roorning of the,llth inst.
So rapid was the *Ogren]; of the - limnes; before we
could reach the stores the whole ipfierior wee one mass
of „fire. The Safe being„in the hack part of, the store,
arid Surrounded by the'lmic;st combustible-materials,
was
exposed, to great heat: „; .1t fell with,the walls of that
part of, the' buildinginto heat:,;;
and remained im
bedded in the ruins, forritiorelihan thirty honrs.--
The Safe was opened this morning in the presence of
a nudiber of gentlemen, and 'the contents, ccimprt
4:mo:moils, bills, receivable money, and. large , R4ncturq
of valuable papers, are all safe; not a Win , was touched
Respectfully, yours,
R. PETERS k 00.
The. abo7e Safe can be seen at our store, where the
- public are invited to call and examine it::
•PAARR I L, r ,IIP BRING*. CO.
No. 629 'OMekrigtri
.{34Yeee-Eialif,)
ILUTZ, CABINET WAXE4 - 00M5,,c0. ;
.11, • 121 801 1 TH ELEVENTH_ STREET.
Owing to the recent increased facilities m,the manu
facture of taliiiket,WAres;J beg leiveitii , eall the attention
of my frieridiUriit'ctiattimeth to my "presentatock of Fur
niture; comprising every variety of
PARLOR, LIBRIIWI7, - I:migw-gpcg. & CHAMBER
PRRNI-TE-
The latest style ilf Imitation EBOHY I BBRMTURR
With gilt crtinigivt,s; owbadd,`and made to'order.
cic.27ly
N ELEGANT PERSONAL
REQUISITR
AJXUREANT :AND SILKY HAIR.
there is ifotbing..that adds to the
lOn:trance ofladids, gentlemen, or
hitaien.„.ao muil'as a fine head of
there is no preparation for
Aling or,old that 30H-compare wi
A: I I6LLEN'S
AVORLD'S:-Hilklß - DRESSING
Or ZTLONIA LS ADIUM.
• Pride - In' large bdttles. 37 cents.
AptirtWe'd t liy . Cheriiists;"PhYrsfeilins and Clergymen,
and acirimerldgigell-,by,all-ta l im- superior to any other
pre a paralind for dressing, preserving and beautifying the
Hir.
It renders it , (liiinikmdjry)•soltoujity and glossy, and
is a sure preventive of SGtTRF and D,A.NDRUFF.
MRS. CLARK, Wife of- Rev- H. CLAIM, Cincinnati,
Ohio, writes: 4 4 have died ` Mrs. S. A. Allen's Zy
- lobalsamum will/311.1mb satisfaction in dressing my
own and children's hair. ; After trying various ar
ticles, I feel no "hesitatitin in' recommending 3ronrs
as the best I have ever used It gives the hair a soft,
glossy appearante, and retains - it in any position de
sired',., r
How elegant { is', a splendid Head of Hair! You can
have it-by using - Aim - above; and if yoar hair is gray or
thin, use
Ifp.B. - 8. A. ALLEN'S
WORM - Alt Mira IriSTORER:
mat a Dye.-
,Price, in large:bottles, $1.50.
- :The.oidyreliable,preparation for restoring. Gray Hair
to its original youthful appearance, without injury to
the scalp, and will not stain or sdil.
Gray' haired,lialiloir.pers6os with diseases of. ali', or
scalp, read the, following, andgive the articles a trial:
REV. 3, WEST, 'No. 6 We:shit:lmo-place, Brooklyn,
says" na' letter uI am happy to bear testimony to
the'value atilt eflicaepof %fp.- S. A. Allen's Woild's
Hair Restorer and' World's Bair Dressing, in the
Most liberal sense. They have restored my Bair
was .bald, ,, tutd"vhere grey to its original
REV. C. A. BUCKBEE, N r. City, As. Tr. Bible Union.
REV. Wri 7 CUTTER, liew York City.
REV. a MCKEE; 'brew yak' atty.
REV E. R. FAIRCHILD lfew York City.
ARthb - aboie, and many; otheri, recommend it.
DEPOT,` 195 GisMiniricw Sr., N. Y.
Al.!. }o ß SALE ` BY DRUGGISTS.
signeffocdbfiti. 'S. A. ALLEN'," with
tad i ink. Bewata of imitation s p ur p ortin g to be the
same.
Boyrt
I-so pitman Is was or arcoarorf
18- 14:hiTH - THIRD ST., PHILADELPHIA.
Tarp F100R! ABOVE MEEEARIES I BANE.
t r 'itilipiilliAttentiart is givehlo'the collection of Notes
andiDnifts: :Drifts on New-Writ, Boston, Baltimore ,
itae. : , , ,far sate. Stocks and Bonds bought and sold Oa
atnniission at the Board of Brokers. Business Paper,
Loans on Collateral„&c.,,Aegotrated. feb. 10-41 T
BLINDS AND: SHADES
B. J. WILLIAMS,
;No- fleWorth,,Sizth Street,
thq,MOST .EXTENWE-MA.NUFACTURER OF
VE-WITTAIf'BLINDS
wr-NPO s . HADES-
The IgrBe st amlAnest pr EC rtzyteßt in 'Os City, at the Inw est Vi c '
STORE ETUDES MADE APID LETTERED.
REPAIRING PROMPTLY ATTENDZD TO. 730"6MS
!N , P_ 29-1 Y