lIItGEO. W. BOWMAN
NEW SERIES.
Select (Joetry.
GOD'S WAYS.
Oh! it is bant to work for Goii,
To rise and take his part
I'pon the battle tield of earth,
Anil not sometimes loss heart.
He hides himself so wnndrously,
As though there were 110 God ;
He is hast seen when all the powers
Of ill are most abroad.
Or He deserts us at the hour
The fight is almost lost ;
And seems to leave s to ourselves
Just when we need him most.
HI masters good; good seems to change
To ill with greatest ease;
And, worst of all, the good with good
Is at cro-s purposes.
It is not so; hut so it looks :
And we 10-e rourage then ;
And doubts will come if God bath kept
His promises to men.
Ah! God is other than we think ;
His ways are far above,
Far above rea-on's heights, and reached
Only by child-like love.
The look, the fashion of God's ways
I.ove's life long study are;
She ran be bold, and guess, and act,
When reason would not dare.
She has a prudence of her own;
Her step is firm and free,
Yer there is cautious science, too,
In her simplicity.
Workman of God! O lose not heart, ,
But learn what God is like ;
And in the darkest battle-field
Thou shall know where to strike.
Oh. blessed is be to whom is given
The instinct that can tell
That God is on the field when he
Is most invisible!
And blessed is he who ran divine
Where real right doth lie,
And dares to take the side that seems
Wrong to man's blindfold eye !
Oh. learn to scorn the ways of men !
Oh. learn to love with God !
For Jesus won the world through shame,
And beckons thee his road.
God's glory is a^niTnsuTtTilng,
Mn-t strange in all irs ways,
And of all things on earth, least like
What men agree to praue.
Muse on His justice, downcast soul,
Muse and take better heart ;
Back with thine angel to the field;
Good luck shall crown thy part !
God's justice is a bed where we
Our anxious hearts may lay.
And, weary with ourselves, may sleep
Our discontent away.
From the New York Ledger.
THE (iIME IT CARDS.
BY MEEL LEE.
"The darkies am mine," said the gamester,
striking his fist upon the table ; "show 'em up,
and iet us see what they look like."
The young planter, who had lost, sent one j '
ol the boat servants below for John and Helen.
The passengers awaited for the appearance of
the servants, in silence, Fur a lung time ; but
they came not. The servant had informed
them of the change of owners, and they dread
ed to see their new master. They were attach- 1
ed to the young planter and his wife, arid did
not like to leave them : be-ide thev had children
of their own at home; and what was to become
of them ?
The winner began to wax impatient at the
delay, and exclaimed.
"Come Danton ; huriv up the niggers. They i
must move quicker that) this when I send for
em or they'll never know what hurt 'em."
The young planter's aristocratic face flushed
crimson at this rude and brutal exclamation,
hut lie made no replv. He was about to send
another servant for John and Helen, when his
purpose was stayed by the appearance of Mrs. '
Danton. Her husband had been gaming, and I
she had been weeping, ever since the boat left j
Cincinnati; and we were now far down the
Mississippi. No wonder, then, that she was
pale and wan, and that her eves looked as
though they had been nearly wept away : but
she was exquisitely lovely, nevertheless.
Although many years have passed since that
evening, I can see the sorrow stricken young
wife now, as she glided up to the table and
looked her husband in the eve. He could not ;
hear up under her gaze. He lost all their tno- j
Hey, and in a fit of desperation had also staked
and lost the two slaves. Laying her little hand
upon his arm, she said :
"Is it true, Charles, that vou have lost John
and Helen ?"
Her husband made no reply ; he could not
even look up.
Hie passengers were now fast gathering j
round, and the scene wasgrouing painful. My ,
lather (whocame North to fetch me from school, j
and was taking the longest possible way home);
was holding me by the hand, and T knew, bv
the tightening of his grasp, that he was becom
ing much excited.
As Danton did not seem inclined to answer ;
his wife's question; the gamster roughly said :
" J es, ma'am; John and Helen are mine ; and
want to see 'em, quick."
Danton sprang to his feet, and stooping across
he table, hissed in the very teeth of the game- |
ster:
"Villain ! don't you presume to speak to my i
wife again."
The look with which this menace was ac
companied was perfectly blasting, and made
the swarthy and pitted lace of the gamster fair
ly turned while.
How inconsistent is man ! That accomplish
ed and high-born husband could deliberately
jeopardize the property and corrode the happi
ness ol his wife, hour alter hour, day alter day,
and night alter night; but he could not bear
that the man whom lie had chosen for a com
panion should even so much as speak to her.
"Yes, Mary; John and Helen are lost," lie
said at last, as he let the gamester from under
his gaze ;—"they are lust, and it can't be help
ed now ; so don't let us have a scene aliout it."
"I sha.'l not let them go," said Mary, firmly ;
"and I will have a scene about it. I did not
say a word about the money , but now that you
have played them away—On, Charles!" and
she leaned her head on her husband's breast.
"Ah! here they come!" said the gamester,
as John and Helen approached.
John was a powerful and fine looking mulat
to; his face indicating unusual intelligence and
kind heaitedness. Helen was much whiter
than her husband, and remarkably handsome.
The gamester's evii-eyes gleamed as he surveyed
her, arid turning to a savage looking man near
him, he aid :
"I'll sell you John, in the morning, Ham
mond ; but Helen I snail keep—at least ior a
lew days."
"I'm agreeable," said the slave trader, lor
such he uas; "but I'd like the gal as soon as
possible."
A look of indignation ran around the group
at this brutal colloquy. My father's grasp grew
tighter still : and encouraged thereby, f whisper
ed to him to buy John and Helen himself; but
he shook his head, and motioned me to keep si
lent..
"J tell you, I shall not let them go," repeat
ed Mrs. Danton, addressing the stranger ; "they
were brought up in my mother's family ; beside,
they have children at home, from whom it
would be cruel to seperate them."
The gamster and slave trader exchanged
sneers at Mrs. Canton's sentimental reasons for
not letting the slaves go, and her husband
said :
"It can't be helped now, Mary ; let us go to
our room,"
"O, Missus! don't go and leab me wid dat
man," shrieked Helen ; "I shall die, or jump
overboard. O, don't leab your own true Hel
en, who sabed your life when you fell in de
by -GO."*
"I shall not leave you, Helen. D Aiot be
alarmed ; I "
"Rrrs de-Lord Fsr tiofinterrupted Helen ; •
I knows we're safe, now ; kase yvr alleis does
je* what vou says you will."
"1 think it's about time this nonsense was
stopped," said the gamester, rising from the ta
ble. "You acknowledge, Danton, tfiat these
niggers are mv property: consequently, they
are mine, and I have a right to do what I please
with 'em ; no bill of sale is necessary between
gentlemen. And now, you niggers, just come
along with me, and don't make a fuss, or I'll
have you Hogged and put in irons."
The scene now became truly exciting. John
drew Helen to his side, arid clenched his teeth
and fist, while their \oung mistress stood close
in front, as it with her feeble arm she would
protect them from the clutches of the gamester.
I was wild with excitement, and begged my
father either to buy the slaves or shoot the game
ster— I did not care which. A bloody fieht
seemed inevitable; when a young New Englan
der, who had been very quiet during the whole
trip, elbowed his way to the table, and asked
the gamester at what sum he valued the slaves.
'•Two thousand dollars," said he ; "do you
want to buy ?"
"1 have only a thousand dollars," the young
man answered; "I will give you that for
them."
"No sir: but T'l! stake Vin against your thou
sand dollars, and play you a game of poker lor
tile pile."
"I don't understand the game," said the New
Englander.
"What game do vou play !"
"I have plaved a few games at all-lours, but I
never gambled for a cent in my life."
"Well ; I'll play you a game of all-fours,
then, if you like, and stake the niggers against
vour thousand dollars."
To the surprise of every one present, the
young man accepted the challenge, called for a
new pack ofcards, staked his thousand dollars,
and the game commenced : the gamester hav
ing the first deal.
As the company drew more closely around
the table, it seemed as though a watchmaker's
shop were in our midst, so distinctly we heard
the ticking of the watches.
The first hand the New Englander made
three to the gamester's one, at which a buzz of
pleasure ran round the group. The second
hand the gamester made three, and his oppo
nent nothing : the third hand they each made
two, which left the New Englander two to go,
while the gamester had but one, and it was his
turn to beg. This was a great advantage, and
everybody seemed to give up the thousand dol
lars as lost.
The New Englander dealt the cards with a
steady hand, however, and turned up the jack
of hearts, which placed him even with his an
tagonist : but when he raised his cards I saw
that he had not a single trump in his hand and
his adversary was hesitating whether to "stand"
or "beg ;" if the former, the game was his to a
certainty ; if the latter, there would be another
chance for the slaves. After drumming on the
back of his cards a short time, he looked at the
New Englander, to see if he could determine
by his manner what it was best to do : but the
; young Hunker hill met Ins gaze without flinch
ing : and there they sat for a long time gazing
j into each other's eyes.
j "Run the cards," said the gamester, at last.
I could have hugged the man for his mis
take.
Hunker Hill again dealt, ami the queen of
spades was turned. Every lu art stood still as
the cards were for the last time lifted.
"They are mine!" shouted the New En- i
glander—"or rattier, they are vours, madam," i
said he, in a milder tone, to Mrs. Danton, as he ;
threw down the ace of spades.
The beautiful and impetuous Southron threw ;
her arms around the winner's neck, and three j
defening cheers (in which even the slavehof- j
tier joined,) told the satisfaction of the audi
ence.
Many years alter I again met the New En- i
glander on the Mississippi, and claimed his as- j
quaintance, on the score ol having been one of ;
the most enthusiastic partizans on the night df I
the well remembered triumph. He had pros- :
pered in business and become rich ; and j
making his auual pilgrimage to the family j
hearthstone—a stone which has more poteijt i
charms Fir good, than that at which kneel Mi- j
homedan devotees in the city of their prophet, j
He said he had never touched a card since that j
memorable game ; that the thousand dollars If
then risked, was the sum total of his savings fijr
manv toilsome years ; but that he staked it, anil
played the game, with a perfect conviction 41
sUCCess.
Danton had sought him out, and kept up t'tii j
acquaintance ever since ; arid Mrs. Datrloi j
could now travel the world over with her huj- I
hand without fear, for he had forsworn gumitu !
from that never-to-be-forgotten night.
Mia von : the name which the Southern rn- ;
groes give to every stream or body of wa
ter.
"i t'AVT SET IT CP."
BV F. 11. BTACFFEII.
While seated with the editor of a Philadei j
phia paper, a pretty little fellow, with an intc4 j
lectual forehead, and dark, spiritual-looking;
black-eyes, came into the office. In one haul
he held a composing stick, with some half <id-
Zen lines of burgeoise in it, while he Joyed vvitt
the button on his coat with the other.
"What is it, Charley?" said my friend
kindlv.
"I want some other copy."
'••Other copy ? I don't understand vou."
"Sir, I a n't act it ?//>, it is so touching !*' and|
the littie fellow hurst right into tears. "If fills,
me right up. Mv eves swim so with tears that j
I can't see the type. O, sir indeed 1 can't set
it up."
"Very well then." said the editor, wit's. %'
kind smile, "hand it over to Morgan ; here is
something else."
"That is a nobie little lellov," said my friend,
turning to m< alter the lad went out. "lie is
apt and intelligent bevond his years. lie pro-I
tnises to be one of the most rapid compositors a- !
bout thp establishment. His little sister, i j
sweet child of six summers, used to come in thf!
office and watch him as he worked. Ther i
were orphan chiidien. ami the hands all loved
them dearlv. A Fortnight ago the little guf i
died, and her hi .ther has taken it very hard.—- ,
Something about an incident that he wassettinr '
tip brought his sister to memory, and caused
this emotion."
Mv friend gave me a long, interesting history
of the boy, until I detected a tear coursing rluu o
my cheek.
Ah, he was ind-ed a noble fellow ! lie was j
a little hero—one of those whose daily sucrifi- !
CPS no world may ever write in imperishable j
light—the ashes of whose consumed heart, none j
may ever gather as a holy relic. His soul I hat
wanted but the touch of circumstance to stand j
mighty and beautiful befoie the world. No one
could measure the grandeur of that lad's spirit, as
he struggled upward through sorrow and ad- .
versity plucking from his child's heart with j
more than a chile's strength, the poisoned ar- j
rows of the world's scorn warning with a ho- [
ly faith and love the sensitive spirit chilled by :
the world's icy touch !
Power of Woman in Turkey.
A man meeting a woman in the street, turns j
his head from her, as if it were forbidden lo look j
orv her. They seem to detest an impudent wo- j
man—to shun and avoid her. Any one, there- ;
fore, among the christians, who may have dis- ;
cussions or altercations with Turks, il he has a j
woman of spirit or virago lor his wife, set her j
to revile and brow-beat them, and by these j
means not (infrequently gains his point. The
highest disgrace and shame would attend a Turk !
who should rashly lilt his hand against a wo- j
man ; all he can venture to do, is to treat her
with harsh and contemptuous words, or to march i
off. The sex lav such stress on this privilege !
that they are frequently apt to indulge their j
passion to excess, to be most unreasonable in j
their claims, and violent and irregular in the j
pursuit of them. Tliav will importune, tease '
and insult a judge on the bench, or even the j
Vizier at his divan. The officers of justice do
not know how to resent their turbulence; and ;
it is a general observation, that to gt rid of j
them, they often let them gain their cause. — i
Sir (ieorge LurpeuVs Turkey.
BEAUTIFUL AND TRUE.—Tn a late article of j
Frazer's this brief but beautiful pas- j
sage occurs: "Education does not commence j
with the alphabet. It begins with a mother's
look—with a father's smile of approbation or a j
sign of reproof—with a sister's gentle pressure J
of the hand, or a brother's noble act of forbear- 1
nnce—with hnndfull? of flowers in green and j
daisy meadow—with bird's nests admired but }
not touched—with creeping ants and almost j
imperceptible emmets—with humming bees and
glass behivej—with pleasant walks in shade
lanes —and with thoughts directed in sweet and
kindlv tones, and words to mature to acted be
nevolence, to deeds of virtue and to the sense
of all good, God, himself."
Freedom of Thought and Opinion.
BEDFORD, PA. FRIDAY MORNING, Dec. 21, 1855.
Romance of Real Lifer
The Chicago Times relates a storv. the in
cidents of which are said to he real, in a smail
i town in the interior of Ohio, lived a beautilul
young woman, whose father dying, willed her
the whole of a large fortune, which she was to j
j inherit when twenty-one years of age, on con
j dition that she should remain single until that j
j time. She obeyed the injunction for some j
j years, but her young affections became at length, i
i and some three years previous to the expiration i
j of the time mentioned in the will, the prey of i
j an artful man, of showy address, who removed
I Irom another place, and took up his residence j
' in the village where the young heiress resided, !
for the purpose of faying siege to her heart.— :
I He succeeded too well, and under pretence that :
: he was wealthy himself, arid did not require !
the young woman's fortune in order to live in j
: ease and elegance, induced her to consent to a
| secret marriage. The wary fortune-hunter had !
j been duped by his own urgency in pursuit of;
i the large property which the young arid credu
lous woman was supposed to inherit uncondi- j
I tionaily on coming to the age prescribed. He
made known the marriage, and at once was un
deceived by the guardian of the lady, who an- ;
nounced to him that the fortune was 10.-t to him !
and his wife forever, as by the terms of the will :
j the marriage of the daughter gave the property
jto another branch of the family. Maddened by j
i the destruction of his hopes, the rascal denoun- !
ced his wife for deception, although she had I
endeavored to make him understand the real
facts, and, as she fell fainting, he left the house j
and the village. Years afterwards the aban- j
doned bride received a letter fiorn Iwr husband, j
who had learned that she had become possessrd j
of the property designed for her by her father, j
on the annulment of the marriage, and trusting
to her retaining a lingering affection for him,
hoped that he might still gain the prize that he
coveted. He had not misjudged the strength of
the young woman's affection. She responded
to the letter, offering to unite her Fate with his,
and saying that she could now give him the in
heritance that iiad caused them so much trou
ble. In order that her guardian and family
should not know of her conduct, she sent tile i
letter to the office by a servant girl who took !
with her a little girl as a companion, and allow- j
ed her to carry the letter. The child, attract- :
ed by the bright color of the stamp, removed it, j
and the letter deposited in the office, was sent j
to the dead letter office at Washington. She,
of course, received no reply. Hut, a mouth la- ,
ter her guardian received a newspaper from !
Chicago, containing a political speech, which j
a friend in that city desired him to read. He |
laid down the paper, and the lady took it.— ■
Her jeye glanced first at the marriages, and,!
there stie saw the announcement oHfie "marriage'"
of her former husband. She fell to the floor 111 j
a swoon, and lingered onlv a few days, when .
she died —the victim of unscrupulous avarice, j
A Rati Habit.
"Oh, mother, I am tired to death?" said
Jane Mills, as she threw herself into a chair :
on her return from school.
" Tired to death !' : repeated her mother slow- j
ly. _ j
"Yes, mother, I am ; almost, 1 mean," she ad- j
ded. !
"No, mv daughter, not even almost," said
Mrs. Mil is.
"Well, at anv rate," continued Jane, "I ;
would not walk from here to school again to day, j
tor anything in the world !"
"Oh, yes, you would, my dear," said her
mother gently.
"No, mother, I am sure I would not; I am
! certain nothing would tempt me.
"But I am nearly certain you could be in
-1 duced to go without any urging," answered ber !
: mother.
"Well, mother, try me, and see if anything j
' could make me willing to go.''
"Suppose," said Airs. Mills, "1 should ofler >
;to take vou to the panorama this afternoon'? I i
j expect to visit it."
"Do vou, mother ?" said Jane, with great an- j
j imation. "May Igo ? You promised to take j
| me when you went."
"I intended to have done so," replied her
! mother : but the place where it is exhibited is a j
verv long way beyond your school."
"I am quite rested now, dear mother," said i
j Jane. "I would not fail of going for ail the i
; world ! Why do you smile, mother."
"To think what an inconsistent little daugh- I
i ter J have."
"What do you mean by inconsistent, mo- j
i (her ?"
"Why, when a little gi r ] says, one minute,
; that she would not walk a particular distance :
tor anything in the world, and in the next min- i
i ute savs she would not fail of walking still far
ther for all the world, she not only talks incon
sistently, but foolishly. It :s a very bad habit j
i to use sncii expressions.
"Yesterday, when you came home from
school, you said you were almost frightened out
of your life; and when I inquired as to the
: cause of your alarm, you replied that you had
; met as many as a thousand cross dogs on your j
| wav from school. Now, my daughter, I wish ,
j you to break yourself of this bad habit. V\ lien i
i you are tired, or hungry, or frightened, use the
| simple words to express your meaning. For in
; stance, you may be tired, or exceedingly tired!
! or you may be alarmed, or frightened, or terri
! fod
"From this time let your lips speak the thing
j vou mean. The Bible says, Let your yea be
j yea, and jour nay nay ;' and adds, that 'what-
I soever is more than these cometh of evil-'—
i Will you trv to remember what I have been
saying, and strive to correct this fault, my dear
: child ?" said Mrs. Mills.
j "Yes, dear mother," replied Jane, "for I
know it is wrong, and I feel ashamed and sorry
for it.
"Well, my dear," added her mother, "im
l prove! And now you may g~t ready to go
with me to see the panorama."— Teacher's Of
fering.
Always do ll'bai is Right.
The truly great are those who always do
what is right. To be withheld from acting
wisely-and conscientiously, by motives of tem
porary jiolicy or fear, is to behave like a traitor
to the principles of justice. A man should
| think less of what may be said of his conduct at
j fhe time, than of the verdict that may be pro
j nounced a few years in advance. It is by sac
i riticing principle to expediency, that character
jis lost; and character lost is with difficulty re
! gained. Besides the fisrt decline from right
I leads to others. It is like the start in sliding
i down hill.
But there is a worse feature than even in
succumbing to bareness, meanness, or wrong.
Habit soon drills the moral perception, so that
j in time men come to perpetualp, with a morse
pang, acts at which originally they would have
j been astounded. "Is thy servant a dog that he
j should do this thing?" is the indignant exclam
! ation of many a person who eventually commits
j the deed he abhorred. Arnold's treason grew
jup in his mind by slow degrees, nurtured by
i extravagance, and supposed neglect. Washing
ton, always being rigidly correct, left behind a
name that will never cease to be reverenced.—
; To say merely that 'honesty is the best policy,"
i and thus appeal to the selfish part of nature, is
j a poor way to educate men to do right consci
i entiuusly. Better the nobler aud higher ground
that right should be done for right's sake.—
j Ulg*.
A HUSBAND SOLD FOR s.oo.—The Cleve
j latid Plaindeaier tells the following ;
"A lady passed through here a few days
since in hot pursuit of her husband, who had
been smitten wit!) a smart attack of "passional
attraction," and had lan away with another wo
mon from Wyoming county, N. Y., to Loran
county. She took a brace of officers from this
ci'v, and went to Ehnyra. The gentleman
stiul.'irig the approach of danger, left his money
with a nephew to effect a diversion with the
; enemy, and took the cars for the South. On
j reflection, he suspected the honesty of his neph
! ew, and took the next train back to look after
his money. Here be encountered the pursuing
i party, and negotiations were opened. It resul
ted in the lady's selling out ail her right, title
and good will, in and to her husband, and his
j purchasing a dishonorable peace for five hundred
; dollars. The lady returned to Wyoming with-y
! out a husband, but with a pocket full of rocks.
A FASHION ABLE CHURCH IN NEW YORK.—
If"Fany Feru" did riot write the following,
' we <Jo not know who did":
"You enter the church porch. The portly
; sexton, with his thumbs in the arm-holes of his
j vest, meats you at the door. He glances at
j vou ; your hat and coat are new, so he gracious
!ly escorts you to an eligible seat in ttie broad
I aisle. Closely behind you follows a poor, meek,
| plainly-clad seamstress, deprived, from her
j tread-mill round, to think, one day in seven, of
; the Immortal ! The sexton is struck with sud
j den blindness! She stands embarrassed one
j moment : then, as the truth dawns upon her,
i retraces her steps, and, with a crimson blush,
recrosses the threshold which she has profaned
with lier plebeian feet. Hark to the organ. —
It is a strain from Norma, slightly Sabhathized.
Now the worshippers one after another glide in
silks rattle—plumes wave—satin glistens
diamonds glitter—and scores of forty-dollar
I handkerchiefs shake out their perfumed odors.
What an absurdity to preach the Gospel of the
j lowly Nazarene to such a set ! The elenryman
knows better than to do so. He values his fat
salary and handsome parsonage too highly. So,
; with a velvet tread he walks all around the ten
j commandments —places th-downiest pillow un
; der the dyiug profligate's head—and ushers
j him, with seraphic by inning, into the upper
j ten Heaven."
AX AFFECTING STORY—A CHILD LOST.—
I A child of Franklin Gray, of Preston county,
Vu., (two years of age) attempted to follow its
' father to it neighbor's, a mile distant. The
mother, missing the child, became alarmed, and
jat once instituted search. She followed her
husband, hut heard no tidings of the lost one.—
: Father and mother, spreading the alarm, joined
j by sympathizing neighbors, set out on a search,
! and all that day and night they continued the
j search, hut morning came, and still the little
wanderer was not found. Court was in session
!at Kingwood, (the county seat,) and on Satur
i day morning adjourned to allow all in attend
ance to aid in restoring the child to its anxious
i parents. The party numbering now about 200
j persons, searched the woods all day, but not till
the hunt had been well nigh abandoned, as
j evening was coming on apace, could any infor
j illation be had of the child's condition or where
j abouis. Mr. B. Hawley, as he was returning
home, and within half u mile of Mr. Gray's
house, found the child, hut it was dead! It had
perished from exposure, having been without
j food, wandering in tile cold dreary woods from
I Friday morning.
[Gr*No MOTHER. —"She has no mother!"
What a volume of sorrowful truth is comprised
in that single utterance—no mother ! Deal
gently with the child. Let not the cup of her
sorrows be everflowed by the harshness of your
bearing, or your uosympathizing coldness. Is
she heedless of doing ?—forgetful of her duty?
Is she careless in her movements ? Remember,
oh remember, "she has no mother!"
THE FUTURE. —How we sometimes yearn to
draw aside the veil which conceals futurity from
our view, and see u hat time has in store for us.
Alas! we know not what we wish! Few, per
haps, would have strength to press forward
through the clouds and darkness that often lie
iin the brightest pathway. Wisely and well,
•' therefore, are they concealed from view.
TERJIS, $2 PER YEAR.
iIHRRIAGE.
Marriage is certain!y an institution calculat
ed for a constant scene of as much delight as
our being is capable of. Two persons who have
Chosen each other out of ail the species, with
design to be each other's mutual comfort and
entertainment, have, in that action, bound them-
selves to he good humored, affable, discreet, for
giving, patient, and joyful, with respect to each
other's frailties and imperfections, to the end
of their lives. The wiser of the two (and
it always happens one of them is such) will,
for her or his own sake, keep things from out
rage with the utmost sanctity. When this u
nion is preserved, (as I have often said,) the
most indifferent circumstances administer de
light. Their condition is an endless source of
new gratifications. The married man can say,
"•It lam unacceptable to all the workfobeside,
there is one whom I entirely love, that will re
ceive me with joy and transpoit, and think her
self obliged to double her kindness and caresses
of me from the gloom with which she sees me
overcast. I need dissemble the sorrow of my
heart to be agreeable there; that very sorrow
quickens her affection.
A QIEKR REMEDY.—A good fadv, who had
two children sick with the ineaslits, wrote to a
friend f>r the best remedy. The friend who
had just received a note from another ladv, in
quiring the way to make pickles. In confusion,
the lady who inquired about the pickles, re
ceived the remedy fir the measles, and the
anxious mother of the children rend the follow
ing : —-'Scald them three or four times in very
hot vinegar, and spirnkie them well with salt ;
and in a few days they will be cured."
A WOMAN SWIMMING THE MISSISSIPPI.—
Loyd's forthcoming Steamboat Directory gives
a thrilling instance of the necessity for woman
know ing how to swim. When the ill-fated
Ben Sberrod was in flames on the Mississippi
river, and the lady passengers who had thrown
themselves into t!;.* water were drowning
around the boot, the wife ef Captain Castleman
jnmped into the river, with her infant in her
arms, and sw am ashore, a distance of half a
mile, being the only woman saved out of six
teen. Slit had learned to swim when a girl.
FROM THE BRIDAL CHAMBER TO THE GRAVE.
—Tiie Boston Mail says that three weeks since
Sabbath evening last, a seafaring man named
Field was married to a voung lady at South
and immediately ieft for sea. Oir-Myn
/fay the young bride was buried, she having
been attacked with typhoid fever on Friday, of
which she died in a few hours.
A BEAUTJFLL THOUGHT.—"When I gaze in
to the filers, they look down upon me with pity
from their serene and silent spaces, like eyes
giistening with tears over the little lot of man.
Thousands of generations, all as noisy as our
own have been swallowed by time, and there
remains no record of (hem any more, yet Arc
turns and Orian, Sirius and Pleiades are still
shining in their courses, clear and young as
when the Shepard first noted them from the
plains of Shinar I What shadews we are, and
what shadows we pursue!"— Carlyle.
CHILDREN DESERTED.—On the last trip of
the steamer Chicago from this city to Citi., a
couple of children, a boy and a girl, ten and
twelve years of age respectively, were placed
in charge o| Captain Shunk by a gentleman who
said lie was going to Cincinnati by railroad, and
would reclaim the children at that place. The
Chicago arrived in Cincinnati, but there was no
claimant for the children. Capt. S. concluded
to retain them on boaid until his return from
Louisville whence he was bound. He did so
but still found no one to father the children.—
Tht* supposition of course is that the juveniles
iwiv- been deserted by their unnatural parent. '
They are bright, intelligent children, and un
less claimed soon, they will be adopted into res
pectable families—two have already volunteer
ed, the one to take the hoy and the other the
girl.
MILITARY STATE CONVENTION.—It is pro
posed to hold a military convention is Harris
burg on the third Monday in January next.—
The object in view is the improvement of the
volunteer system, to accomplish which it is
proposed to obtain the enactment of a law pro
viding that companies hereafter organized shall
consist of at least sixty, rank and file—fixing
the militia fine at two dollars—the payment of
all militia expenses from the fund thus raised in
each county—providing penalties for evading
assessment of militia lax—a certificate of mem
bership in a volunteer company to entitle the
holder to a credit ol two dollars on his Slate
tax.
LLPMT will be gratifying to our Democratic
readers to observe tile prominent position which
Berks county occupies at Washington, in the
peison of her able Representative, Hon. J.
Clancy Jones. The admirable resolution offer
ed by him in the Congressional caucus last Sat
urday evening, was unanimously adopted, with
every token of approval. We agree with the
Penn&ylvanwn , that "nothing which has occui
red for a long time has given more satisfaction
to the sterling Democracy of Pennsylvania, than
this fearless avowal of national doctrines on the
pait of the Democratic party in Congress, and
we are glad to see that a Pennsylvanian was
selected as the one to present this eloquent dec
laration, to a meeting of the representatives of
the Democracy of the Union."
[LP" A horse dealer, who lately effected a
sale, was offered a bottle of porter to confess the
animal's failings. The bottle was drank, and
then he said the horse had but two faults.—
When turned loose in the field, h- was "bad to
catch," and he "was of no use when caught."
Base all y our actions ii|>on a principle of
right; preserve your integrity of character;
ami induing this never reckon the cost.
VOL XXIK NO. 17.