BY DAVID OVER. | r \ r r f p o rf r i]. OI"K t'SSII.DHOOD. RV 0. P. I'UENTICE. 'l is aci—yet sweet to listen, To the soft wind's gentl • swell. And think we hear the music Our 'childhood knew so sunny bright. When sii>il'-s were like the sunshine In the spring time ol the year— l.ike the cliangeful gleams of April They followed every tear! fhey have passed—like hope—away— And their loveliness has tl -d-- Oh ! many a heart is mourning That they are with the dead, l.ike the bright buds of Summer They have fallen from the stem— ' • o lane ..-oiii tartan' nK>* Tnem T And yet--the thought is saddening, To muse on such as they— And feel that all the beautiful Are passing fast away ! That the tair ones whom we love, Grow to each loving breast, Like tendrils of the clinging viae, Then perish were they- rest. And can we hut think of these in the soft and gentle spring. When the trees are waving o'er us, And tlie 1! >wcrs are b'ossotuing! For we know that Winter's coming With his col l and stormy sky— And the glorious beauty round us Is blooming but to die. Mr. BSair upon Mr, Buchanan and Col. Benton. Mr. F P. Blair publishes a letter in the N. A . Tribune, replete with political and histori cal interest, drawn out, in part, by the denial by Col. lUnton's son-in-law, William Carey Jones, of the well-known fuut of Colonel Ben ton s hostility to Mr. Buchanan's Administra tion, declare 1 to everybody after Mr. Buchan an's surrender to the Nullifiers. Mr. Blair says: "Mr. Buchanan's success in the game of intrigue induces him to ply his skiii with re doubled eagerness, now that his ambition i.s stimulated by the hope of restoring in his per son the Washington precedent— two terms in the Presidency. He has l: sway of the means of the Government to bring in aid of his genius for sly management; the coiiu try will therefore, for the first time, have a thorough test of the power of corruption, aid ed by Executive machinery, in the hand of an adept. hen .dr. Clay retired front the Senate, and, as he thought, forever, he brought a charge ot a corrupt attempt ou the part of Mr. Buch anan to mfluence a Presidential election by bartering offices. Mr. Clay supported his charge by a circumstantial detail, and cited Mr. Letcher, a colleague, to prove It. 3lr. Buchanan refused to allow the witness to tes tify, having, iu good time, bound him to se-#v sy. General Jackson, after retiring to the Hermitage, by a letter under his own band to Major Lewis, declared that Mr. Buchanan was guilty of making a corrupt proposition to him. Now, can any one doubt that the early instincts lor corrupt practice, which characterized Mr. Luchanan in the dawn of his political life, and which have marked it throughout, will be want iug to the last effort on which all his hopes converge? 'Mr. Buchanan's inherent weakness early in life impressed his native cunning with a -ense that lie could only rise on the strength ji greater and better men. The heroism of aekson, Clay and Beuton fouud no place in •mi Ilis scheme was, by subserviency to ie:n, to appropriate I'ueir power over public i °V men. It is remarkable that, by submission j atii fawning, after his first great failure at po itical seduction, he saved himself from Mr. [ ' lay's wrath and denunciation, until a sort of 1 amnesty, growing out of length of time, pro- : t'ctcu him; that, by deprecation, lie not ouly induced Gen. Jackson to take upon himself the ■ i'larrel originated with Mr. Clay, but by soli- ! tat ions, through Gen. MuiJenburg nnd other I A Weekly Paper, Devoted to Literature, Politics, the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, &c., &c—Terras: One Dollar and Fifty Cents in Advance. steadfast friends of Wen. Jackson, he procu- l red tin honorable exile in Russia, to cover him , from his shame; and by seekiog'Col. Benton I with complaints against .Mr. Polk and the rest of the Cabinet, deploring his connection, ask ing advice for his conduct, and making renew ed protestations of his own devotion to the j man whom he had despoiled of the honor of j the final Mexican campaign planned by him, he | obtained forgiveness, and a new hold on the generous and confiding Senator and soldier, that afforded the oppoitntiity of the last be trayal of confidence. When he died, Co). ' Benton, like Clay and Jackson, left a written testimonial declaring the forfeiture of his con fidence by Mr. Buchanan. In the sketch of his life, submitted to his revision, and sent, to j the press by him just before his fatal illness, he says that he had supported Mr. Buchanan | against his own son-in-law, Col. Fremont, and ! ; assigns as the reason a confidence that' Mr. j Buchanan, if elected, would restore the priuci- - pies of the Jackson administration, and the ap- j prehension that tire success of Col. Fremont ! would engender sectional parties fatal to the . preservation of the Union;' Out lie adds that, ; ! 'soon after, lie had occasion to change both ; i opinions.' Col. Benton's last political publi cation, and a brief note to me give the explana tion. But before bringing the proof from Col. j Benton's own pen, recording this condemna tion of Mr. Buchanan and the Administration, : D is proper 1 should advort to the cozontng pol icy of the conscious intriguer, through which he has contrived to evade the consequences by arraying on his side the sons of the great tncu i whoso confidence he had forfeited. ''The niode in which Mr. Buchanan lias at tempted to relieve himself from the weight of i the testimony home by the eminent men associ ated with him in public life, strikingly shows the plotting cunning on which he always relies, both to revenge and defend himself. | "When Major Lewis published the letter of Gen. Jackson, written at the close of 1 ii* *, re , affirming his condition that Mr. Buchanan was a corrupt man, having made a corrupt prop osition to him, the artful dodger takes no issue J upon it. His colleague in the Folk Cabinet, : Cove Johnson, is set quietly at Work to operate ; on young Mr. Jackson, (the heir adopted in infancy as a son by Gen. Jackson, being a twin child of a neighbor that could well spsje him;) j and this person, who owes everything to Gen. j Jackson' but •^^^J^'ts tfioos benefactor, by publishing in tlf news papers a declaration that he had liedfii iiiiil j speak in his family circle in the most exalted j terms of Mr. Buchanan, thus attempting to make the impression that his father's letter was false to his honest conviction. Mr. Clay's son ■ is of too elevated a character to express his ; personal confidence in a win whom his father accused of corruption upon his own knowledge. V et, young Mr. Clay's associations with tlie Southern party, which for party purposes, lias placed Mr. Buchanan in power, brings them ; together, and this- i.s converted adroitly bv the | latter, through his extreme deference to Mr Clay, into an appearance of confidential rela : tions, implying that the imputations of the fa ther have no weight with the son. To bolster himself with that portion of the public cher ishing a sort of idolatry for Mr. Webster, (who at an early day put his mark upon him in a published letter, and always held him at arm's 1 length,) he takes his son to bis embraces, and rewards him with a lucrative office to take off | the memory of the father's repugnance to J him. The attempt fo appropriate the influence and j honors of a long life of laborious patriotism, ' devoted by Col. Benton to the country, is in I keeping with this last exploit of patronage. - Col. Benton had turned aside from his great j work of condensing the debates of Congress, to ! support the Government rtgainst the shock giv jen it by the Nullifying party, using the 8n- I prcme Court as its battering ram. The decis ! 'on that slavery wa° carried by the Constitu tion into all the territories of the UniOu as a ' constitutional right which no local law could ; and the adoption of this decision. ; even in advance of its promulgation, by the • President iD his inaugural, as the basis of his Administration on this vital question, prompt |ed that examination of this Judicial and Exe | cutive usurpation which closed the political ef ; forts of one or the ablest afid most renowned of ; tho coiabcrers who maintained in our time the republicanism of Jefferson and the most inti mate associate of Macon, Randolph and Jack son, throughout the warfare, to assert the theo ry of our Government in its primitive vir tue. "In that thin volume, Mr. Buchanan saw the battle-axe of the lion-hearted Crusader raised to hew down his Administration. Mr. Jones arrived ten days before the death of the | hero of the true Democracy, who had thus ta- i ken his attitude against the enemies of the I principles of Republicanism. lie came in good time, and in fortunate circumstances for the Administration, having been its emmissiry in Central America on some undivuiged errand with accounts unsettled, aud it may be to be paid ad libitum out of the secret service fund. In taking possession of Col. Benton's sick r oom, lie became a very convenient expouent to suit his views to the necessities of tho Ad ministration." To this Mr. Jones's statements of Col. Ben ton a opinions, Mr. Blair opposes, not merely his own account of interviews with Col. B. but a letter written by Col. B. iu December, 1807, and the still more authoritative, because mote deliberate exposition of Col. B.'s views, con tained in his published examination of the de cision in the Dred Scott ease. Col. B.'s letter in December last, was as follows: * "C. STREET, Dec. 1. Dear Sit: —lf your health permits, I would BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1858. wish you to come in as soon as convenient, as I deem it very material that right leads should be taken at the beginning of the session.— Providence, and folly, aud wickedness, have fixed tilings to the hands of the friends of har mony aud the Union, and it is for them to avail themselves of the advantages. " Respectfully, THOS. 11. BENTON. "F. P. BI.ATR, Esq." Upon this letter, Mr. Blair remarks: "The 'leads' given me by hint to be submit ted through Messrs. King and liamlin to the caucus of the members of Congress rcpresent ing the Republican party, were embodied in two sets of resolutions heretofore published one organizing resistance to the whole system of Administration measures founded on the decision of the Supreme Court, to spread Slave ry over all the Territories of Hie Union, in virtue of the Constitution of the Unite ! States and another preamble, with a series of resolu tions designed to give effect to the principles of the Ordinance of 1787, in all newly acquired territories, beginning with Arizona, and pro hibiting the existence of Slavery therein. "These leads were recognised as the fixed polioy of the Republican party, and were urg ed in debate iu Congress to prepare public opin ion for their effectuation. Col. Benton found in the Republican party, to whom be appealed as 'the friemls of harmony and union,' a ready adoption of all his views, and his conviction that Providence had permitted this foolish and wicked Administration so 'to fix things,' that the lovers of our country and its institutions may avail themselves of its advantages, is now a prevailing belief throughout the country." Of Col. B.'s published examination of the Dred .Scott decision, which Mr. Blair properly styles Col. B.'s "fast testament" upon public affairs, Mi. Blair says; "He put a codicil to his last testament, be queathing to his countrymen his legacy of po litical principles, which proves that he believed the President and the Senate's oligarchy are 1 wanting in honesty to their official trusts. This is the last warning that ever fell from his pen iiu political discussions. It is addod as a note to his examination of the Dred Scott decision, | with the oiunious prefix marked in capitals: . —F .' V T.AST WORD. KA • *" - V . ~*mr attack which kept 1110J for two weeks, face to face with death, When I was writing this ex amination, and had to break off abruptly, leaving two heads untouched, and not eveu alluded to. Besides these two entire heads, now postponed, there was another, which 1 wished to bring before the American people, to wit : The conduct of an Administration and a Senate, (called Democratic,) which has done, and is doing, what no former Administration and Senate (whether Whig, Federal, Demo cratic or Republican) ever did! —that is to say, suppressing and concealing the evidence of a foreign negotiation, after the negotiation is all over and (lone with; which negotiation is sur rounded by circumstances whi oil connect it wflii a scheme to bring on a separation of the slave from the free Slates. I speak of the Gadsden negotiation, and of fifty millions he was authorized to give for a broadside of Mexi co, with a port on the Gulf of California, and railway to it, to suit the United States South, after the separation ; to which point all the schemes for a Southern Pacific railroad tend, while the credulous public are made to believe they are bunting the best wav to Cali fornia, where they mean it shall never go, be cause California rejects Slavery. Every Union loving State Legislature should post its Senators under instructions to bring those hidden nego tiations to the public view, thrugh with but little prospect of getting tho whole truth after so many years' suppression—tho saific reasons which have induced suppression thus far. be ing equally strong to make it perpetual ; so that much may be gofte part recovery. "'Washington City, Sept., 1857.' "Here the cha-ge is made by lien ton in t lie most solemn act of his life, that the so-called Democratic Administration and Senate 'has done and is doing' what amounts to the basest betrayal over perpetrated by the Government, in suppressing and concealing the evidence of a 'scheme to bring on a separation of the slave from the free States.' With all these schemes, it is seen thcro is a corruption fund attached. Every negotiation looking to acquisitions in the South to give preponderence to Slavery, is attended by millions from the Treasury, which owes its riches to free labor, and they are lavished to bribe the officials, foreign and do mestic, who make and ratify what may well be called slave-trade treaties—treaties to extend the area of Slavery and lead to new importa tions. The prrguant note quoted points the public eye to the hidden mine which threatens the integrity of the Union. Cupidity and ambition work with fearful advantage in tho secret sessions of a Senate, which has now be come'a mart of speculation in the public lands, public contracts, and public office, from the highest trf the lowest, and, as a consequence, speculation in the power of the Government, at home and abroad. "When the vast powers of this mighty count ry can be wielded in secret couolave—its money, power, and physical forces, given a direction invisibly, from which they cannot be diverted more than the waters of Niagara when the leap is taken—-Benton's dying denunciation of the A ministration for 'suppressing and concealing the evideneo of a toreigH negotia tion,' tending to destroy the Union, should make a durable impression, especially when that Administration is absolutely under the eoutrol of a Southern faction notoriously hostile to the Union." A patent has lately been taken out for clean ing fish, by giving them snuff, whenever they sneeze their scales fly off. PAT AND THE FROGS. Pat had taken a drap too much, and was on his rblufrt hbme, when he overheard a voice in the swamp, and supposing lie bad been recog nised by an oid acquaintance, something like the following conversation ensued : Frog: Ma gee! Mageei Magee! Pat: Faith, uud that's my name: give us yours if it is convenient intirely. Frog Hugh Uoulou! Hugh Coulon! Hugh Coulou! Pat: By sowl, you are a consiu of mine; when did you come over? Frog: Last Month! Month! Pat: What does ye find to live on here in tlrin bug sure? Frog: Chuukft! Chunks' Pai: By St. l'aterick, if ye repeate that same I'll knock ye down with my shillelah sure. Frog Dead drunk' Dead drunk' Dead drunk! Pat: ler a liar: a murtheriug, blatLingliar, (bone on, if yc dare, ye spalpeen ye.' Frog: Fight em! Fight em! Fight em! Pat: There more, tior ono of yes, ye high way robbers. I'm the boy that can lick ye.— Just tread on my coat tail wunst. Frog: Chase em! Chase em! Cbnse em. Pat: I'm ou ray way to Brawnsville, sure and if yecs follow mo to Jim O'Fiamiegan's store, I'll stand up wid ye, and so I will, and won't strike ye after yer down, t Frog: Kill em! Kill em! Kill cm! Kill em! Pat: Now ye wouldn't kill a poor man whose got a wife aud six children to feed wid pertntes. Frog : Moderation ! Moderation ! Modera tion ! Pal Now Darling, ye talk like a pros to.— Btip up and lake a drink wid me out of this flask, for yer a broth of a bov. Frog; Cold water! Cold water! Cold water! Pat: Is it one of Father Matthew's medals , )es got? 1 never jined the pledge. Frog: Go home, yer druuk! Drunk' Drunk! Pah Go to tho ilivii wi'l yer cold water, ye "lying sor.g of a gun* or by blazes I'll tache je how to be dacent. I'ui in for a scrinnuage wid ye now. sure. Frog; Come ou : Come on! Come on! {Pat climbs the fence and falls head furc i most iuto the swamp, but picks himself up j ens to send his opponent to a climate where j there is hot sufficient inoisiure to make a de ! sirahle place of residence, for the aquatic ani j mal lie was contending with. Hear him. Put: It's mvsclf that's here. Strike me it j yer dare, ye cold water bull. I'll pull every j hair in yer body out. m Frog. Good night! Gooduight! Goodnight! Pat- Good night, honey. Sweet siape and a wartu bed for yer, wid a good fiie for y<\ Frog: Bridget M.igee! M igee! Ma gee. Pat. Poor gowl, she's in Brownsville, wid Cuthleen and Patter. Frog: Go home! Go home! Go home! Go home! Pat: I'm off. Good luck to ye. May ye have plenty of bafe, pertates and whiskey, and may ye reform yer ways aud leave the high ways. Thus ended the colloquy between Tat and the Frog to bis water, until the former was drowned in a mill-pond, the latter was crisped on a gridiron. j Description of the Tonus of Hah. Silt Lake City contains about a third of the i population of the Territory, and ha 3 a great i many fine, and some elegant buildings, the prin j eipal of which are the Tabernacle, iu which all i Religious meetings are field; the Council House, | Endowment House, tlie Temple in course of ■ erection. Court House, Young's two mansions, : nineteen public school houses, together with | the costly houses erected for tho elders. The next settlement, north, is called Sessions, i eight miles from Salt Lake City, and contains | : several fine hotiscs. It is situated on the maiu | road; the houses are not compactly built, but , extends nearly five utiles. This settlement con tains the richest lands iu the Territory. Farmingtou city caines next —a very pretty little town —the county seat of Davis county: | it contains about 1000 inhabitants. Eight miles north is Keysville, containing I about the same number of inhabitants—here is some excelleut arable land, and a fiuc stock range. Weber river is about eight miles further north. On it has been built two forts, called East and West Weber Forts containing about live hundred inhabitants each. They are very pleasantly situated. Ogdeu City, one of the principal cities of the Territory, is about three miles from Weber. It lias many costly buildings. North of Ogden City, about two miles is a largo well built fort called Brigham's Fort. It ; has about seven hundred inhabitants, j Northeast of this, throe miles, is Ogden Hole |—a very pleasant locality, surrounded on all ' sides by mountains, with tbo exception of the entance. It contains about five hundred in habitants. North of tho 'Hole, twelve miles is a well i located fort, called Willow Creek Fort. In this vicinity there is fiue agricultural land, and the i heaviest crops of wheat in the Territory are raised here. Five miles north is Box Elder, or Brigham's City, being about eight miles south of Bear i river. This city is very handsomely situated. It is built upon a plain, about two hundred feet above the level of Bear river. It is inhabited principally by Danes nod Welsh, whose houses exhibit considerable skill in their ooastructiou, and taste In arrangement. 0o Bear river there are two small settle ments, and further north two others. These ato in Cache and Malad Valley, wlu ro the stock belonging to "the church" generally are kept. VARIETIES. "1 never complained of my condition," says the Persian poet, Sadi, "but once, when my feet were bare, and 1 had no money to buy shoes ; but I met a mad without feet, and was contented with my lot." Voltaire says that "faith is always blind." We have certainly heard of "the eye of fuitb," j bui perhaps it has no pupil now-a-dayp. It has been said that a chattering little soul : in a large body is like a swallow in a barn— ! the twitter takes up more room than the bird, j If a spoonful of yetst will raise forty cents worth of flour, how much will it take to raise funds enough to buy another barrel with. Whoever is honest, generous, courteous, and candid is a gentleman, whether he bo learned or unlearned, rich or poor. A scurrillotis Tenuessec editor wants to know if we will take up his glove. Oh, certainly.— Give us a pair of tongs. Oue reason why the world is not reformed is because eveiy mau is bent on reforming others, and Dever thinks of reforming himself. A citizen of Ilallowell has taken a fancy to i the head of a dog that howls in his vicinity,' and offers a reward of five dollars for a sight! of the head, minus the body. A negro passing uDtler a seaffoding where some repairs were going on, a brick fell from above 011 his head, and was broken in two by the full. Sauibo very cooly raislied his bead and exclaimed 'Hilloa, you white man up dar; ef you don't want your bricks broke, jest keep'em off my bead.' 'Whose pigs are these, my lad i' '\\ hoy, they belong to that there big sow.' 'No 1 I mean who is their master ?' 'Wlioy,' again answered the lad, that little 'un there ; he's a rara un to feight.' Plutarch says, in his Life of Alexander, that the Babylouians used, during the dog days, to sleep on skins filled with water. The Boston Times adds, that in these days men sleep on skius filled with bad rum. COOL.— An old woman lately fell off a bouse in Limerick, as the was sweeping the gutter.— j On being taken up she applied ber hand to her 1 P>d£St$ l ' ie romantic observation, 'Muslin, 'What is that dog barking at V asked a fop. • whose boots were more polished than his ideas. 'M by, replied a by-stander, 'because he sees another puppy in your boots.' Book, for your children, first, cxccllcnco in morals and manners; secondly, in boobs; thirdly, in their pcrsoha! health; but never neglect their health-—for they cannot etrcel in goodness 01 learning witnout health. A shoemaker, intending to bo absent a few da)s, lutnpUacked ashihgie with the following, witliotit dale, and nailed it upon his door : "Will be home in ten days after you see this ; shingle." The census shows thai there are five hundred thousand more men than women iu the Uuited States. So if either sex has a pretext for polygamy, it is the female. We go to the grave of d friend saying "A uian is dead but angels throng about him, I saying, "A man is born."— Beechrr. Perpetual Sunshine. 1 Bayard 'Jaylor, who last summer made a journey to the North Cape, writes from Hatu uierfest, Finirark, his impressions of the con tiuuous polar daylight of the Arctic latitudes, from which we extract the following : "I am tired of this unending daylight, aud ' would wiltiugly exchange the pomp of the Arc- ! tic midnight for the starlight darkness of home. ! We are confused by the loss of night; we lose the preception of time. One is never sleepy but simply tired, and after a sleep of eiglu hours by sunshine wakes up as tired as ever. His sleep at last is broken and irregular: lie substitutes a number of short naps, distributed thro' and finally gets into a state of general uneasiness and discomfort. A Ilammerfcst merchant, who has made frequent voyages to Spitzbergen, told me that iu tlie latitude of SO deg. he never kuew certainly whether it was day or night, and the cook, was the only per son on board who could tell him. "At first the nocturnal sunshine strikes you as being wonderfully convenient. You lose uotbiug of the scenery; you caD read and write as usual; you never need be in a hurry, because there is time enough for everything. It is not 1 necessary to do your day's work iu the daytime for no night oometh. Jfou are uever belated, somewhat of the stress of life,is lifted off your shoulders. But, after a time, you would be ! glad of an excuse to stop seeing and observing and thinking, and even enjoying. "There is no compulsive rest, such us dark ness brings—no sweet isolation, which is tie best refreshment of sleep. You lie down in ' the broad day, and the suuiuious 'arise." attends on the re-opening your eyes. 1 never went | below and saw my fellow-passenger: all around I me without a sudden feeling that something was wrong; that they were drugged, or tinder j some unnatural iufiuence, that they thus slept j so fast while the sunshine streamed in thro' the portholes. "There are some advantages of this Northern : summer which have presented themselves to me in rather a grotesque liglil. Think what an aid and shelter is removed from criine—how many , vices which oau only flourish in the deceptive ► atmospheres of nig'at must be cheeked by the j sober reality of daylight! No assassin cau dog the steps of his victim; no burglar can work iu sunshine; no guilty lovers can bold stoleu in terviews by moonlight—all concealment i.s re j moved, for the sun, like the Eye of God, sees VOL. 31, NO 23. everything, and the secret vices of the earth must be bold indeed, if they can bear his gaze. Morally, as well as physically, there is safety in light and danger in darkness—and yet. give me tlie dirkness atid the danger! Let the pa trolling sun go off his beat for a while, and show a little confidence in my ability to behavo properly, rather titan worry tne with bis sleep less vigilance. A FLYINO MACHINE. —j,ord UarlingforJ, who has for a number of years been engaged in constraeting a flying machine, has announced the success of his undertaking in a letter to the Kilkenny Moderator, in which he says: "Although I have not yet taken flight in tho achredon—which name I have given to my ®- rial chariot—l may with confidence and trutl) auuouace to you and the world the success of its principle from the results I obtained by an experiment three days ago. Having made some little improvement in the plan of starting the achedron, which consisted in applying a crook to the end of it, and then bookiug it to a cord supported between two poles, in the man ner of a swiug, and having raised it about two feet from the ground, and then drawing it back about two yards and giving it a slight pull for ward, it started off, then elevated itself a little in the air, and after going a short distance alighted in the most gentle manner. It acted in this way in consequence of the tail not hav ing been fastened down. By this experiment, it must be considered that the principle is ful ly established, as well the perfect manner of starting it. When I have made a few more ex periments and found on the "Weight the present extent of wing will be able to bear, and if found sufficient to carry a person without being put to any great speed, which I consider most likely to be the case, it shall be taken *o Dub lin wjthout delay, and there exhibited for char itable purposes, arid to the criticism of all." WHAT WILL RUIN CHILDREN. —To have parents exorcise partiality. This practice is lamentably prevalent. The first born, the onlv j son or daughter, the beauty or wit of a house hold, is too commonly set apart, Joseph-like. To be frequently put out of temper. A child ought always to be spared, as far as pos sible, all just cause of irritatioD, and never be published for wrong doings, by taunts, cuffs, or * To be suflerod fo go uncorrected to-day for j the very thing for which chastisement was in -1 ( flicted yesterday. With as tnuch reason might ; a watch, which should be wound backward half I the time, be expected to run as well, as a child thus trained become possessed of an estimable character. Io be corrected for accidental faults with the same severity as if those of in tention. 'J he child who duc*!l when he meant to do well, merits pity, not upbraiding. The disappointment to the young projector, attend ant on tho disastrous failure of any little euter prise, is of itself a sufficient punishment, even were the result brought about by carelessness. To add more is as cruol as it is hurtful. To bo made to feel that they wc-ro only bur dens. I/arents who give a child to understand i that he is burdensome to them, need not be sur prised should they one day be given to under stand that they are burdensome to him. They should bear with childhood. I POETICAL. — In a certain well-known city,, a genuine was hauled np for kissing a girl ami i kicking up a dust, and the following dialogue i ensued: Is your name Jay ? Ics, your honor, so the people say. Was it you that kissed the girl and raised j the alarm? Yes. your honor, but I thought it was no harm. You rascal, did you come here to make rhymes? No, your honor, hut it will happen some times. lie off, you scamp, got. right out of my sight. Thank'ee, your lictior, then I'll bid you gooi night. A QUICK QUARTER. —A boy worked hard all day for a quarter, he bought apples and took them to town and sold them in Federal street for a dollar. With the dollar bo bought a sheep. The sheep brought him a lamb, and her fleece brought another dollar. With a dol lar he bought another sheep. The next spring ho had two sheep, two lambs, and a yearling sheep. The fleeces he sold for three dollars, and bought three more sheep, lie worked, where he found opportunity, fcr hay, corn aud oafs, pasturiug fdr slidep. He took the choicest cure of them and soon bad a flock.— Their wool enabled hitn to buy a pasture for ♦ hem, and by the time he wis tweqty-one, he had a fair start in life, and all from the quar ter earned Su one day. n:aß} volumes might be written on the power of trifles' A single atom, like a cipher in arithmetic, may assume incalculable importance from its position. A spider web saved Mahomet from his pursuers. The frailty of Count Julian's daughter introduced the Saracens Into Spain. Cromwell C3tno near be ing strangled in bis cradle by a monkey.' Hen ry VIII. was smitten with the beauty of a girl of eighteen, and 10, tho Reformation. Thus, from a siDgle trifle, proceeds the destiny of many. A punster says: *My name is Somerset. I am a miserable baohelor. 1 cannot tarry; for bow could 1 hope to prevail on any young lady possessed of the slightest notions of delicacy to "turn a Somerset."