BY DAVID OYER.
- ■ B?Qgt¥3?
DAVID C. BRODERJCK
[The following be&utiial lines sr.* from the pin of
the accomplished editor of that old and orthodox
Democratic paper—the Chester Bounty Democrats-
GzoaoE W. FEABCE, Esq., They have, the ring,
not only of the poet, but of the patriot, and will be
read with pleasure wherev :r the manly v irtues of
the lamented Broderiek are clicrishSd :]
The blood-houuds arc sc'ed, the jackals hive fled,
And the LioD is ole 'ping the sleep of the dead,
The blood is s ill fresh on the sward where he trod,
And, incense like, rises appealing to God.
The dews of the morn will not wash it away
Twill redden and glow in the noontide of day,
And iu rbe deep gloom, oi the storm.mantled night,
It will rise like a pilLir of Art >;i the sight.
110, brothers who si ted 1 y his patriot-grave,
And pour oat your griefs for the vuliaut and brave,
Lot bis death be the watchword to startle with
fear,
The tyrants who stiffened his hurts on the "tier,
Arouse from your lethargy, chll Iron of toil,
Ye sons of the anvil, the loom, and the soli;
Coinc forth as the winds in their struggling might
And wrestle till d ;cth with the foe.a m < f Right I
'Twas thus with your leader, the gifted ar.d true,
His life was a sacrifice given for you;
Every pulse of his heart, every nerve of his frame
Was to dignify Labor and give it to Fame !
He was peer to tho proudest who govern tho land,
But he stood by his class, aa a hero will stand;
And when the hot taunt, I ke an arrow jf ti-e,
Wus hurled at tile artizan craii of his sire-
How he sprang to the breach with halhcrt and glaive,
Defiantly moeting the lord of the stave*
Jio spoke for the workshop—the sweat on the!
trow,
Of the freeman whose swoid is the crest and the
plough.
Tnere are fountains of feelings we may not control,
They spring from the innermost depths of the soul,
And flow like a rivtr escaped from its be 1,
To freshen the f.ine of the glorious deal.
And thus as we stand on the r.mparts of Time,
B> the post wlaro a sentinel fell in his print-,
'•1 e open Use caskets our l-osoiea enfold,
And pout out a treasure more precious than go! ].
Oh, nun who look out from the far Golden Gate,
TV here the holucaust smokes in the embers of h ite,
Have you drank of the fl igons that nerved him to
stand
For truth as a rock on your ocean-beat strand?
Then rear to the martyr a shaft that slmll rise,
As a beacon of Freedom, fir up to the skies,
And write on the granite in letters of flinse.
IMMORTAL ! IMMORTAL .' the patriot's name !
SCHOOL EJTTE3S.
For the Inquirer.
Schools aiid gfhsol Directors-
"Be just, and fear not:
T.et all the cuds thou aim'st at be thy countiy's,
Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou lall'st, O,
Cromwell!
lhou fail's! a blessed martyr."— -Shalcpear?.
When I promised to write a series of arti
cles ou the subject of "school matters," for toe
Inquirer, 1 little thought that so uiuc'u useful
mid precious tiuie would have passed without
a diversion from the toit3 and turmoils of busy
life in favor of this the greatest of all earthiy
blessings. But alas, uiy desires are seldom
realized, and my shortcomings are ever and
anon reproaching me for my much detested ne
glect, hut says the maxim, "It is never too late
to do good," and, still further, in the old saw,
"better late than uever." I hope iheso incon
sistent though much re-pected adages may pos
sibly find a palliative apology fur what I have
to advuucu at this late moment.
Kuowiug the vcluo of space, I have no de
t\ eto trespass oo your irood, kiu i aud chaii
tabie nature by stringing these strictures to au
extent unwarranted; therefore, I shall com
mence by expressing my disapprobation of the
manner in which a large number of the Direc
tors shirk their duties, by shifting the respon
sibility upon irresponsible persons, and in no
case do the Directors more obviously shirk the
responsibility than in the selection of Hauliers
to till the various situations in the various Dis
tricts- To show tbo matiner in which this is
dune, is simply to imagine yourself capacita
ted for the ouerous duties of a Teacher, and to
present yourself to the Ditectora as an appli
cant for a certain school, whereupon tbo Di
rectors request you to visit the citizsns in the
locality of the scboolhouse which you have
proclaimed yourself an applicant for, with
what tbey term an "expression lis', asking au
expression of each individual's sentiments
in your behalf. Now, the applicant may uot
have the first principle of qualification requi
icd by the School Law, but he is the first to
make bia appearance with an "expression list,"
and invariably it is numerously signed, to the
exclusion of persons much better qualified as
teachers. No one has an idea to wnat extent
this evil has progressed, aud 1 hope tint the
Di.-tc.tors in future will make uso of the uisaus
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placed iu their Laud:? by the School Laws and
Decisions. The School Law, p. 14, See. 118,
clause 30, reads as follows:
"They {the Director.-) shall have the ap
pointment of ail the teachers of common
! schools in the di-trict, fix the amount of teach
ers' sal tries, and .say di-nrTs tbeui at any time
for i; competency, cr-mby negligence or ituuio
raii.y." la tnacyViu -HUCOS the persons ap
plying are incompetent to teach some one of
the branches required by See. 88, and under
such oirenmsunaes come before- the Directors
with their !is f numerously signed, becked by
persons incapable of discerning the capability
;to teach. Again, eu individual uiry be a fa
vorite of a certain number of citizens in a
' school district and receive their approbation,
although utterly incompetent, but by tbew'why
: washy policy of Directors, he must necessarily
receive consideration over the head and shoul
ders of his superiors in intellect and capacity.
! —J. R D arbor raw
Lydia Harh (hiid's Reply to ,
Wise.
[Mr,. Maria Child solicited the privilege,
from Gov. Wise, of Va., to go to Cbarlestown,
:o uur.-.e 01-l Joan Grown. Tho Governor re
p'.i-d to her tetter, and tho following era extracts
,a aukc fiota bar rejoinder. They arc to tho
oci ana wo t'a'uk, pi .era tho Governor, a<
well as tbe bouthar:: "chivalry" generally, fiors
da combai :]
In \i.ur civil but very diplomatic reply to tny
letter, t MJ inform me that I have a constitu
tional right to visit Virginia, for peaceful pur
pases, ia common wicb every citizeu of the U.
States. 1 was perfectly well aware that euob
wa9 the theory of constitutional obligation ia
the SI ire States - but I was also aware of what
you omit to mention, viz: that the Constitution
has, in reality, been completely aau systemati
cally nultiSei whenever it suited the conveni
ence or the policy of the Slave Power. Your
con titutiona! obligation, for which you profess
s r > much respect, has Rover proved any protec
tion to citiz-iii of the F:eo States who happen
ed to have a black, brawn, or yellow complex
i-'u; nor to any white citizon whom you even
suspected of entertaining opinions opposite to
your own, on a question of vast lmfmrtaoee- to
the temporal welfare and moral ex iuiple of cur
comma country. T.:is foul disregard of con
stitutional obligation baa b:cn manifested not
merely by the Lynch law of mobs in the Slave
States, but by the deliberate action of magis
trates and I'gislators. What regard W'.s paid
to constitutional obligation in South (Jaroi'.tiC;
when Massachusetts 3ent tns Hon. Mr. Hoar
there ss r,a envoy, on a purely legal errand?—
Mr. Liedrick, Professor f Political iiloonoiny
in the Uuiversity of North Carolina, had a con
stitutional right t. reside in that State. What
regard was psi 1 to tint right, when he was driv
ers from house, merely for declaring that he con
siders, d Slavery an impolitic system, injurious
to the prosperity of Starts* What respect for
, constitutional rights wis manifested by Alabama
a hen a bookseller io Mobile was compelled to
flte for Lis life, beosu-e he h id, at the special
; request of some of the citizens, imported a tew
| copies of a novel that everybody was curious
jto reau? Your own citizen, Mr. Underwood,
! bad a constitutional right to live iu Virginia,
j and vote for whomsoever ha pleased. What
i regard was paid to bis rights, when he was
j driven from youi State for declaring himself in
j fiver of the election of Fremont? With these,
j tad a multitude of other examples before your
eyes, .t would seeui as if the less that was said
ibuut respect for constitutional obligation at
the South, the better. Slavery is, :u fact, an
infringement of all law, and adheres to no law.
stive for its own purposes of oppression.
You accuse Cap:. John Brown of "whetting
knives of tutcbery for the mothers, 6isters,
daughters and hubeti" of Virginia; and you
inform me or the welt known fact that he is
"arraigned for the crimes of murder, robbery
and treason." I wiil uot here stop to explain
why I believe that old hero to be no criminal,
but a martyr to principles which he sought to
advance by methods sanctioned by his ow i re
ligious view-, though not by mine. Allowing
that Oapt. Brown did attempt a scheme m
which murder, robbery, and treason were, to
his own consciousness involved, I do not see
how Gov. Wise can consistently arraign him
for crimes he has himself commended. You
have threatened to trample on the Constitution
and break the Union, if a majority of the le
gal voters in these Confederated IStatos dared
to elect a President unfavorable to the exten
sion of Slavery, is not such u declaration
proof of premeditated treason? la the Spring
of 1842, you made a speech in Congress, from
which I copy the following:
"Once set before the people of the Great
V r ulicy the conquest of the rich Mexican Prov
inces, and you might- as well attempt to stop
the wind. The Government might send its
troops, but they would ruu over tbein like a
herd of burfalo. Get the work once begin, aud
I do uot know that this House would hold me
rcry long. Give me five millions of dollars,
and 1 would undertake to do it myself. Al
though Ido not know how to set a single
squadron in the field, i could find men to do it.
Slavery should pour itself abroad without re
straint, and fiud no limit but the Southern
Ocean. Ihe Catuanches should no louger hold
the richest mines of Mexico. Every goldeu
imago which hath received the profanation of a
faise worship, should soon be melted dowu into
good American eagles, i would cause as
much gold to cross the Kio del Ndte as the
mules of Mexico could carry, aye, and I
would make better use of it, too, than any la
zy, bigoted priesthood uuder heaven."
When you thus boasted that you and your
"booted loafers" would overrun the troops of
the United States "like a beid of buffalu," if
the Government sent them to arrest your inva
BEDFORD. PA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1359.
si in of a neighboring nation, at peace with tW
United States, did you not pledge yourself to
commit treason? Was it not by the murder of
unoffending Mexicans that yon expected to
advance those schemes of avarice and ambi
tion? What humanity had you for Mexictiu
"mothers and bii>*s," whom you proposed to
make childless and fatherless? And for what
purpose was this wholesale massacre to t#ke
place? Not to right the wrongs of au oppres
sed class: r.ot to sustain any great principle
of justice, or r-f freedom but merely to enable
"Slavery to poor itself fortb without restraint."
Even if Cap.t. Brown were as bad os you
pnitit him, I slinuld suppose he must naturally
remind you of the word* of Macbeth:
" We but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor : This even handed justice
Commands the ingredients of our poisoned chalice
To our own lips."
If Captain Brown intended, as you say, to
commit treason, robbery, and murder, I think
1 have shown that he could find ample author
ity for suoh proceedings in tbe public deciara
| tious of Gov. Wise. And if, as himself be
! Clares, he inertly intended to free tbe npprest-od,
! where could he read a mora forcible lesson tbau
L furnished ly the State deal of Virginia ? 1
| looked at it thoughtfully before I opened your
1 letter; and though it had always appeared to
me very suggestive, it uevor seeured to are so
! much so as it now did in connection with Cupt.
; John Brown. A liberty-loving hero stands
with his foot upon a prostrate despot ; under
! his slfcng arm, manacles ami cbaius lie bro
ken ; and the motto is 'Sit Semper Tyanni
; 'Thus he it over done to Tyrants.' And this
is the blazon of a tkate whose raost profitable
; business is the internal Slave-Trade 1 In
whose highways ccffLs of human chatties,
! chained and manacled, ;g:o frequently sor.n.'
And the Soai an i the Oeffles are both looked
upon by other chatties, constantly exposed to
the same late ! What if scmo Vez?y, or Nat
! furrier, sh uld be growiug up among those ap
; pareutiy quiet spectators ? It is iu no spirit
of tauut or of exultation, that I ask this
question. I never think of it but with anxiety,
sadness, and sympathy. 1 know that slave-
I holding community necessarily lives iu the
midst or gunpowder ; and, iu this age, sparks
of free thought are flying in erery-<!•"
Voir cannot quench the fires of free thought
and human sympathy by any process of cun
ning or force ; but there is a method by which
you cuu effectually wet tbe guispowdir. Eng
land has already tried it, with safety sad suc
cess. Would ti.at you could be persuaded to
est asilc prejudices of education, and candidly
examine the actual working of that experi
ment i Virginia is so richly cudowod by nature
that Free I .sriluti: ns alone are wanting to
ret) Jer h.r the most prosper ,J< * and powerful
of ibe States.
********* \ majority
of them would rej uco !■> Lave the Slave States
fulfill their oft-repeated threats of withdrawal
from the Union. It has ceased to be a bug
bear, for wo b-gin to despair of being aide, by
any other process, to give the world tho ex
ample a real republic. The moral sr use of
these States is outraged by being accomplices
in sustaining au institution vtcions tu ail its
aspects ; ami is uow generally understoou that
we purchase our disgrace at great pecuniary
expense. If you would only m ike tho offer of
n separation iu serious earnest, you would Lour
the hearty response of millions, "Go gentle
men, and
"Stand not U["oo the order of your going,
Jjut go at once !"
Yours, with all due respect,
L. MARIA CIIILD.
The Dissolution Threat.
The threat of 'dissolving the Union,' is a
favorite theme of Locofoco politicians, and i
just now being indulged iu very freely by these
gentry. Their propensity for this dates as far
back as 1818, aud then, as now, it was made
by men calling themselves 'Democrats,' who
were not williug to submit to the will of the
majority, if expressed against their party or
candidates. The Reading Journal copies from
a newspaper publinhed in Baltimore, called
The -Marylandtr dated August 2, 1828, tbo
following;
"A few days since, we stated on tbe authori
ty of tbe Richmond Whig, that Mr. Andrew
fchevenson, Speaker of tho House of Repre
sentatives, had within a few weeks, asserted
"that >J Mr. Adams would be reelected, the
Union would be dissolved."
"On the same authority, we stated that a
Judge of tbe Genera! Court of Virginia, bad
made the declaration ut Norfolk, that "/ Mr.
Adams was not put out bi< f the voice oj the Peo
ple, they [the Jackson men,) would be witling to
put him out by force."
Both these statements are corroborated by
responsible uamea, who oertify to their truth.
When Calhoun aud the South Carolinians
threatened to di-solve tho Union, says the
Journal, and actually utado the attempt, Gen.
Jackson soon brought them to their senses by
a counter threat to proceed agaiust them as
traitois, aud actually did proceed against them
a* such. Wi cau only add that hemp is as
plenty now as it was theu, and that should a
Republican President come into power iu 1861,
be will be fully as equal to any emergency
that may arise, of the kind indicated, as
was Old Hickory in the case of the South
Caroliua traitors, already referred to.
All men who do anything rnu-t endure a
| depreciation of their efforts. It is the dirt
which their chariot-wheels throw up.
THE IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT.
\\ e sincerely believe tbc worst enemies tbe
south now has in this country— not even ex
cepting the handful of abolionists scattered
over the land—are those selfsslyled democra
tic papers and office hunting patriots who are
endeavoring to create an impression that tbe
recent rebellion at Harper's Ferry is a result
of republican doctrine on the question of
•lavery, and that tbe scheme was aided and
abetted by republican leaders. These iguorant
or designing kuaves point toSoward's Roches
ter speech on the conflict between Free Ltbor
*jsd Slave Labor, and spare no terms in exe
cration of its author. Seward is no favorite of
ours, having always been too much of an ultra
"fa his views on slavery, but he is by no means
the author of the irrepressible conflict, as
every leader of impartial history ought to
know. The first man who promulgated that
doctrine after the formation of our govern
ment, and iu far stronger languago than that
employed by So ward, was no less a person thau
THOMAS JEFFERSON, whoso followers these
hypocritical politicians pretend to be. In bis
notes on Virgiuia, written iu 1781, Jefferson
sjjeaks as follows on the Influence of Slavery :
'•The whole commerce between master and
si ve is a perpetual exercise of the most bois
terous passions ; the most unremitting despot
ism on the one part, and degrading submission
o" tbe other, blur children see this, and
leave to imitate it; for man is an imitative,
ati-mal. This quality is the germ of all edu
cation in him. From his cradle to his grave
he is learning to do what he sees others do. —
If a parent could fiud no motive, either iu his
philanthropy or bis self love, for restraining
rite intemperance of passiou towards h s slave,
it should always be sufficient that his child is
P r estnt. Hut generally it is not sufficient.—
The parent storms, the ohild looks on, catches
tUo lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs
tu the cireie of smaller slaves, gives loose to
bis worst passions, and thus nursed, educated,
it-?!! daily exe robed in tyranny, cnnOot bat be
stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The
man must be a prodigy who can retain his
manners and morals uudepraved by suoh cir
cumstances. And with what execra'iou should i
the statesman be loaded, who, permitting one I
half the citizens thus to trample cu the rights |
of the other, transforms those into despou, and
thaie into enemies, destroys the morals of .ike
one part, and the amor patriot of the other !
For if the slave can have a country iu this
world, it must be aD* other in preference to
that in which he is born to live and labor for
another ; iu which he must lock up the facul
ties of his nature, contribute as far as depends
on his individual endeavors id the ev-HJish
rneut cf the human ruce, or entail his own
miserable couditiuti eu the endless generations |
proceeding ftoui him. With the morals of the j
people, ibcir industry also is destroyed. For !
in a warm climate no uuu will labor for him- |
self who cau make auotber labor for him. 'i his j
is so true, that of tha proprietors ot slaves a i
very small proportion tudeed are ever seen to
labor. And oau the liberties of a nation bo
thought secure when we have removed their
only firm basis, —a conviction in the niinds of
the people ttiat these liberties are the gift ot
God ?—ibat they are not to be violated but
with his vvr uh ? Incited, 1 tremble for my
country when 1 rejlett that God is just j that
his justice cannot sleep forever ; that, consid
ering numbers, nature, ami natural means only,
a revolution of the wheel of iurtune, an ex
change of situation, is amoug possible eveu's ;
that it may become probablo by supernatural
interference ! The dllmighty has no attribute
which can take side with us in such a contest.
"What au iu comprehensible machine is inaD,
who cau endure toil, famiue, stripes, imprison
ment aud death itself, iu vindication of his own
liberty, and tho next moment be deaf to ali
those motives whose p° WJr supported him
through his trial, aud iufiict upon his fellow
men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught
with more misery than ages of that which he
rose in rebellion to oppose! But wo must
wait with patience the workings of au over
ruling Providouoe, and hope that that is pre
paring the deliverance of these our suffering
brethren. When the measure of their tears
shall be full, doubtless a God of juttioe will
awaken to their distress, aud by diffusing a
light and liberality amoug their oppressors, or
at length by bis exterminating thuuder, mani
fest bis attention to things ot thia world, and
that they are not left to a bliud fatality."
If there is a Republican living who has ut
tered strouger language than this, we have
never seeu it; and it would therefore be quite
as reasonable to charge Mr. JeffcrsoD with hav
ing caused the Harper's Feny rebellion as
those Republicans who merely profoas to op
pose the extension of slavery iuto free trritnry.
If advocating free labor in this couutry once
becomes treason, or is made accessory to it,
then are we indeed retrograding in everything
that constitutes a free people.
Old Dr. Foster, who practiced iu the heal
ing art at Buxford, some years ago, was iu the
bibit of cooking up all sorts of roots and herbs
iuto ntedioines and specifies, and trying them
on bis wife. If they did not kill her, he was
ready for all his other parties.
A would-be Wit, having fired off all his
stale jokes without effect, at last exclaimed. —
"Why, you never Uugb whou I say a good
thing." ••Don't 1," retorted Jerrold "only
try me with one."
Death—What is it?
The article on "death," in the Cyclopedia,
has the following:
"As life approaches extinction, insensibility
supervenes—a numbness and disposition to re
pose, which do not admit of the idea of suffer
ing. Even iu those eases where the activity of
the mind remaius to the last, and where nervous
sensibility would seem to continue, it is surpris
ing bow often there hns been observed a state
of bappy feeling on the approach of death. 'lf
I had strength enough to hold apeD, I would
write how easy and delightful it is to die,' were
tbe last words of the celebrated William Hun
ter during bis last moments.
"Montuign, iu ODC of his erssys, desotibed an
accident which left liiiu so senseless, that he Was
taken up for dead. On being restored, howev
er, he says: "Metbought my life only hung
upon ay lips and I shut nay eves to help thrust
it out, and took a pleasure in languishing and !
letting myself go. A writer iu tbe Quarterly
Review records that a gentleman who bad beeu j
rescued from drowning declarad that he bad not i
experienced tbe slightest feeling of suffocation.
Tire stream was transparent, the, day brilliant
and as he stood upright be could- see the sun
shining through the water, with a dreamy con
sciousness that his eyes wers about to be closed
ou it forever. Yet he neither feared bis fate
nor wished to avert it. A sleepy sensation
which soothed and gratified him. made a luxu- :
rious bed of a watery grave.'*
True Courage.
A company of boys in street, Boston, ona
day after school were engaged in snow-belling. t
W illiatn had made a good hard snow ball. ID i
throwing it, he 'put iu too much powder,' as !
the boys say —he threw it too bard—and it went I
farther than he in'.eutied, right through a parlor j
window. All the boys sbouled,
'There, yo'll catch it now, Bill,. Run Bill, j
run.
They then took to their heels.
4 I shall not run.
He theu started directly (or the house where
the window bad beeu broken* He rang at the
door, acknowledging what be had done, and ex*
pressing his regret. He then gave bis name
and the name of bis father, and his father's
place of business, aud 3uid the injury should be
repaired.
Aas uot that noble? That w*s true courage.
It is cowardice that would lead a boy, alien he
has done an injury like that, to sneak away and
run to conceal jt. How uobie and brave it is
to sec a boy confess a lault, and not be aire id
to lace the cousequenoes. Such a confession,
though it o.int a great deal of courage, is usual
ly the quickest aud surest way of repairing any
wrong, and it briugs also peace of uiiud.
Autumn and its lessons are bcaulifuiiy pic
tured in the following stai.zi which just uow
CaicLv? our eye in the columns of a eoternp?-
rary :
"The leaves grow golden with the sail;
God's glory enters every one,
And gilds it with a heavenly guise ;
So may we, while the season dies,
Grow purer by its own pure skies !"
As we write, the subjoined apropos lament of
a horizontal loafer—a parody on Mrs. Hemaus'
well-known lines—turns up in auother of our
exchanges .
•'Leaves have their time to fall,
And likewise so have I ;
The reason too'a the same—
It cumes ol getting dry.
But here's the difference
-'Twist leaves and me j
I falls more harder
AuJ ntoro frequently."
That laiDtut desorves to be perpetuated.
LOVELINESS.— What constitutes truo loveli
ness? Not tho polished brow, the gaudy dress
nor tlia show and parade of fasbiouabto life.
A woman may have all the outward marks of
beauty, aud yot Dot possess a lovely character.
It is the benevolent disposi;ion, the kind acts,
and the Christian deportuieut. I; is in the
heart, where meaknoss, truth, affection, and hu
mility are found, where we look for loveliness,
nor do we look iu vain. The woman who can
soothe the aching heart, smooth the wrinkled
brow, alleviate the anguish of the mind, aud
pour tho balm of consolation in the wounded
breast, possesses, iu au eminent dbgree, truo
lovoliuess of character, She is the real com
pauion of mau, and does the work of an angel,
it is such a character that blesses with warmth
aud sunshine, and maketb earth to resemble the
Paradisrof God.
A NOBLE SENTIMENT. —Some true heart
has given expression to its generous nature in
the following beautiful sentiment;
"Nover desert a fricud when enemies gather
around'him—when sickness falls on the heart
—when the world is dark and cheerless—is
the time to try a friend. They who turn from
a scene of distress to betray their hypocrisy,
aud prove that interest moves them. If you
have a friend who loves you and studies your
interest and happiness, be sure to sustain bini
in adversity. Let him feel that his former
kindness is appreciated, aud that his love is
not thrown away. Ileal fidelity may be rare,
bur it exists in the heart. Who has not seou
and felt its powers ? They deny its worth
who never loved a friend, or labored to make a
frioDd happy.
A Philosopher, being asked what was the first
thing necessary towards winning the love of a
woman, answered, "An opportunity."
The surest way to looso your health is to be
very frequently drinking that of other .oiks.
VOL. 32, NO. 49.
SPLITTING THE DxrreaEscE.—A nice young gen
tleman in one of the Southern States, after a long
anil arduous courtship, fouDd himself, one bright
evening the betrothed of a pretty gtri tfje very pinlc
of modesty. On a certain occasion, he was aho tit
to take his departure, and after lingering about tho
door for some time in a fidget of anxiety he declar
ed and protested to Miss Nancy that he couldn't
and wouldn't leave until site had kissed him. Of
course Miss Nancy blushed beautifully red, and pro
tested in turn that she could not and would not do
that—she never had done such a thing, and never
would until she was married—so now he bad it.—
The altercation and debate became deep and excit
j ing until the betrothed bolfed outright, and declar
i ed if he couldn't kiss her ho wouldn't have her,
[ and was inarching off. She watched him to the gate,
' and saw "the fat was in the fire," unless something
was done. "Comeback,then;" saidsbe coaxingly,
! "I'll split the difference with you—yeu may squeeze
my baud!"
A BEAUTIFUL REPLY— A pious old man
Was one day walking to the sauctaary with a
New Testameut in his hand, when a friend who
met him said*
"Good morning, Mr. Price."
"Ah, good morning," replied he, "I am
reading my Father's will as I walk along."
"Well what has be left you 1"
'•Why, ho has bequeathed mo a hundred
fold more iu this life ; and in tie world tooome
life everlasting."
This beautiful reply was the means of com
forting bis Christian friend who was at the
time in sorrowful circumstances.
A WOMAN PASSING AS A MAN FOR FORTT
TEARS —A most extraordinary reveiatiou was
made at au inquest recently, before the coroner
for Salford, England. The body of a man was
found in the sluice at Mode Wheel, on the riv
er Irwell, and iu the evening an inquest was held
On inquiry, it was found that deceased, who
weDt by '.he name of Harry Stokes, was in faot
a woroamthat she had worked as a bricksetterfor
about a quarter of a century: that she bad been
twice married duriDg that period; had kept a
beer shop in Manchester during the early part
of her career; but in every way conducted her
self as a man. The jury, after an examination,
returned a verdict of "found drowned "
Judge D , a witty fellow, after spend'tsg
an evening with a young lawyer, whose tffioe
was in tho second story of a building, took
bis departure, and got half way down stairs,
when he stumbled and fell to the bottom. Tho
young lawyer, Leariog the noise, rushed out,
and seeing the Judge lying on his back at the
bottom of the stairs, inquired in a tone of
great ansiety:
'ls your hor.or hurt?'
The Judge by thie time had regained hia
feet, and looking up, he replted:
"No, but aiy leg* arc.'
A man in liedforJ county, Tennessee, wiitea
to tbe Postmaster at St. Louis, that there is a
girl twelve years old held as a slave in that part
of Tennessee, and that the girl claims to be a
daughter of Peter 31. Gregory, a St. Louis mer
chant. She says that she was at a boarding
school when a man came and took hsr away,
saying her father had sent for her. He took
her to Memphis and sold her as a slave. The
St. Louis papers say that there is a man named
Gregory, a merchant in St. Louis.
They that cry dowu moral honesty, cry down
that which is a great part of religion—my duty
towards God and my duty towards man. What
care 1 to sec a mun run after a sermon, if ho
cczen and cheat as scon as he comes home? —
On the other side, morality must not be
without religion ; for if so, it may change as
I see convenient. Religion must govern it,—
Selden.
Mrs. Partington asks, very indignantly, if the
bilia before Congress are not counterfeit, why
should there bo such a difficulty in passing
them ?
Lady Mary Wortley Moutague used to say
that the only thing that reconciled her to be
a woman, was that she wculd never bave to
HARRY one.
♦Do you like the game of daughters, mad
am V 'No; 1 don't like any game where I
can't take a man without having first to jump
over liirn,' wis the reply.
What are you looking after, my dear?*' said
a very affectionate mother to her daughter. Tbe
daughter looked around and thus replied :—■
•'Looking after a aon-in law for father."
At Oswego, N. Y., on tbe 30th ult., three
barns, together with forty-throe horses belong
ing principally to canal boats, were destroyed
by fire.
"Union is not always strength," as tbe tail,
or said wheu ho saw tbe purser mixing hi 9 ram
with wafer.
Four thiugs come not back: the broken
word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the
neglected opportunity.
A bead properly constituted can accommo
date itself to whatever pillows tbe vicissitudes
of fortune may place under it.
John C. Terrell, has been convicted in
Marlborough Parish, 8. C., of murdering bis
grandfather, and sentenced to bang
'Husband, 1 must have some change today.'
♦Well ftay at home and take care of 'he child
ren ; that will be cbango enough, anyhow.'