BY DAVID OVER.
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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 <vo H:
To gaze out on the even,
And the boundless fields of air,
And feel again our boyhood wish
To roam like angels there.
There are rurny dreams of gladness
Winch cling around the past
And form the tomb of feeling
Oi l thoughts come thronging fast -
The forms we loved so dearly,
In the happy days now gone.
The beautiful and lovely.
So fair to look upon.
Those biight and lovely maided
Who seemed so formed for biiss,
Too glorious and too heavenly
For such a world asW-hi* '
Whose solt dark eyes seemed swimming
In a sea of liquid light,
And whose locks of gold were Streaming
O'er hrows's > 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—
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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
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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."