BY DAVID OVER.
■ ; .
' SPEAK TO THAT YOUNG MAN.
BY R. JOHNSON.
Speak to that youth ! tby timely warning
May save him many years of pain;
Though lie appears all counsel scorning,
One gentle word may him restrain.
Check that young man, but do it mildly,
Nor pass him by with cool neglect ;
For though he seems to rush on wildly,
Thy voic# may wake bis self respect.
Speak kindly, sister, he's thy brother,
Throw round love's fettem where he'd roam,
Thy voice and smile, so like none other,
May win the wayward to bis home.
Frown not, but smilo wheie'er you meet him,
For sorrow's cloud mav dun his day,
Sweet words of kindness, when you greet hiro.
May cheer him on life's gloomy way.
Stop that young maa; thy friendship proffer,
Let confidence his feet rtstrain ;
Should he, in baste, reject thy ofiTer,
Forsake him not, but try again.
Speak to that youth with prospects blighted,
And soul debased by hoarded store ;
Thou, parent, art the cause ; he's tlighted,
And should'st thou turn him from tny door ?
Speak to that boy, ere sloth has given
Its giant power to chain the soul,
Or fashion Folly's ear has driven,
Beyond the power of self-control.
Teach iiiiu respect for good behavior,
Show htm low vice engenders strife,
And, most of all, make the world's Saviour,
A pattern for his future life.
Move on. keep trying, never falter,
Do good every way you can,
For, though you may not wholly alter,
You may improve the Btate of man.
THE BIBLE.
Sitting alone in my study, I fell into a train
of reflections on the preservation of tho Bible
tn 1 its influence oo the history of man. Here
Before m? lies an unpretendiog little book. —
What a volume of thought does it suggest! —
It is by many centuries the oldest book iu the
world. .Mora than three thousand years ago
the first word of it was written in the desert
of Arabia; more than seventeen hundred, the
last word was written on the rocky isle of Pal
mo*. It has been read by more people than
all other books in the world put together.—
More of it is remembered by men than all the
books that were ever writteD. It treats ot
questions of the highest moment to all men,
and proposes to reveal that for which the wi
sest of all ages have sought in vaiu—the se
cret ot true happiness. These very letters
that pass under my eye are the same as those
traocd by the finger of God on toe tablets of
stone amid the thunders and lightnings of
Mount Sinai. The language in whieh the New
Testa m-. ot was written, is the same in which
Solon, Plato and Demosthenes wrote and
spoke.
This book has survived the revolutions and
changes of three thousand years. It has seen
Nineveh, Babylon, Memphis, Thebes, Tyro,
Sidon, (J.irtiiage, Home, Athens, and a tbous
aitJ o'her cities, rise, flourish and fall. It has
lived amid wars the most bloody, amid desola
tions the most complete, amid tyranny the most
grinding, amid darkness the most profound,
amid superstitions the mot degrading, amid
idolatry the most repulsive, amid blasphemy
tho most he.iven-daring, and has been agaiDtt
all these the great witness of God. This book
has outlived all the efforts made to shake the
faith of man in its revelations and to banish it
from the world. Celsus, Porphyry, Julian and
a host of others, fiercely attacked it in the first
eges of the Church, but it stiil lived; Hume,
Hobbes, Voltaire, Paine, and uiany others of
the rabble rout of infidelity, in modern times,
hut it still lives, while its enemies sleep iu dis
honored graves.
This book has laid hold of all classes.—
The warrior has carried it next his heart in
the storm of battle, and oftsn has tbe bullet
aimed st his life buried itself in tbe leaves of
his Bible. It has been laid upoo the throne
of >he monarch as bis safest guide book in the
administration of justice. It has bceo exalted
by the priest in the cathedral, amid solemn
chants and penitential confessions of sin. It
has been sought by tbe world-sick for its heal
ing balm; by the hermit in his cell for its con
eolations; by the poor mau for its promise of
more than earthly riches; by tbe homeless
wanderer for its promises of a "homo iu heav
en-," hy tho guilt? for jrs assurance of par
don. >.j the liviug tor its guiding principles ot
truth; by the dyiou for its password into the
'•heavenly places."
i iv book has been given to tho world iu all
its babbling tongues, in mor3 than two bun
df • i Lnguagc* and dialects it is read by a
nmfttl race. It has long been unchained from
♦tie aitars of grey old temples, and sent
out to all the tribes, nations, and people of
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the world, and yet it cannot be supplied fast |
enough, though a Bible is punted every minute I
in tbe day. j
This book has marched at tbe head of oivi- '
lization in all ages. It went with the Jews
into Palestine; it invaded Greece, Rome, and
all tbe States of the ancient world under the
preaching of the first heralds of the truth.— j
Its principles have been at the base of oil rev
olutions that have pushed forward the huuiao j
race. It was so iu Germany, England, Frauoe
and Scotland, aud in our own eouutry.
Tbe Pilgrims fled to American wilds that
tbey might enjoy the blessings of Bible truth
and Bible teachings unmolested aod unoppres- |
ed by tbe laws of tyrants. It was devoutly
recognized as a book especially needful for a
people struggling for freedom by the fathers :
of our Republic, la the darkest and sturuii- j
est hour of the Revolution, when money could
hardly be found to pay the starving, naked,
and bleeding soldiers of liberty, Congres3 iu
1777 appointed a committee to confer with a
printei*, with the view of striking off thirty
thousand Bibles at the expeuse of the Con
gress; hut it being difficult to obtaiu paper and
type, the Committee of Commerce were order
ed to import twenty thousand from Holland, >
Scotland and elsewhere. Tbey gave as the j
' reason that its use is so universal and its im- ;
porttuce so great.
Iu 1780 Congress appointed a committee to
attend to priuting an edition of the Bible ID
Philadelphia, and voted that they highly ap
proved the pious aud laudable undertaking as ;
i subservient to tbe interests of religion, andyb- j
j commended tbis edition of tbe Bible to tbe I
1 people of the United Sttes. la eight suoces- !
ive years Congress voted aud kept sixteen ua- j
tiooal feasts and thanksgivings. On the coua
, mittec whieh reported these bills were such :
men as General Livingston, of New York, B. I
H. Lee, of Virgiuia, Roger Sherman, of Coo- j
necticut, E*ias Boudiuot, and James Madison, j
■ Some of these signed tbe Declaration' of lade
-1 pendeoce, and moat of them were engaged iu
' procuring the Constitution, an 1 knew its true
spirit.
Thus was the Bible honored by these upos-
I ties of freedom. When these children, who >
j enjoy the fruns of tbeir labors, shall cease to
! cherish it as tse palladium of civil and reli
j gious liberty, that moment will the nation be
gin ii.vdownward march to rum.
From the J\. Y. Times.
Tbe liigbt of Secession,
; The Southern Disunion ist journals are laying
; great stress ou their assumed right to secede.
! Tbey are very fond of asserting that tbis is only
a partnership of States from which any one mem
ber iuay secede at will.
They forget apparently that this very ques
tion was raised aud decided before tbe adoption
of the Constitution. New York was unwilling j
to accept that instrument and join the Union I
which it created, unless she could terminate
| her connection with it at pleasure. Her pro
j posal was to join it for five or six years, with
tho right to withdraw if she desired. Alex
' ander Hamilton was inclined to favor the com- !
promise, aud wrote to Madison in regard to it
from Poughkeepsie, July, 1788, in these
terms:
"Y"U will understand that the only qwilifi
; cation will be the res rvation oj a right to secede j
j "n case our amendments have not been decided ;
; upon iu one ol ibe modes pointed out by the ;
I Constitution, within a certain number of years,
| perhaps five or seven. If this om, in the first j
, lustauce, be admitted as a ratification, 1 do not i
| lar further consequences. Congress will, I j
| presume, recommeud certain amendments, to :
! render the structure of the Government more i
secure. Tbis wiil satisfy the more oousiderate j
, and Lcuest opposers of tbe Coustitutiou, and
with the aid of them will break up the party.
Yours affecronately,
A. HAMILTON.
And here is Madison's reply:
NEW YORJC, Sunday evening.
My DEAR Slß: —Yours of yesterday is tbis
instant at baud, aud I have but a few minutes
to answer it. lam sorry that your situation
oblige* you to listen to propositions of tbe ua
ture you describe. My opinion is that a res
ervation of a right to withdraw, if amendments
be Dot decided on under tbo form of the Con
stitution within a certain timer, is a conditional
ratification; that it does not mike New York a
member of the new Union, and consequently
: that she should not bo received on that plan.
; Compacts must be reciprocal; this principle
would not iu such case be preserved. The Con
i sftlution requires an adoption m toto and FOR
EVER. It has been so adopted by the other
| States. An adoption for a limited time would
jbe aa defective as an adoption of some of tbe j
' articles only. In short, any condition wbat
j ever must vitiate the ratification. What the
! new Congress, by virtue of tbe power to admit
uew States, may be able and disposed to do in
such a case, Ido not inquire, and I suppose
that is not tbe material point at preseßt. I
have not a moment to add more than my fervent
wishes for your success and happiness. The
idea of reserving the right to withdraw was
started at Richmond, and considered as a con
ditional ratification, which was itselj abandon
ed—worse then rejection.
Yours, Ac.,
JAMES MADISON.
New York finally abandoned her claim, and
"adopted the Constitution tn toto , and FOR
EVER." And so did all tho other States. No
j one of tbeiu has any right to secede,—or to
i withdraw from the obligations and respoosibih
j tics of the Union. Io the language of Judge
j Spencer Roane, President of the Electoral Coi
| lege of Virginia in 1808, "it i p-treason to
seeede." ,
BEDFORD. PA.. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 21, 1860.
j Anecdote bf the late Col. l*rc*tou-
Many of our readers remember tho stately
j presence, the dignified bearing and imposing
manner of Col. W. C. Preston, of South Car
! olina. It was when all these qualifies wore in
their prime, aDd Preston reprcsvu'ed his State
'in the Senate of the Uuited States, that busi
ness or pleasure eailed him to tbe West, and
to take passage down the Mississippi river.—
In those 'flush times' tho steamers swarmed
with hoosiers, greeuhorn* and gamblers, the
| Utter politely designated 'sporting gentlemen,'
! the term 'blackleg* or gambler' eutailing on the
1 speaker a pistol sbot or a wipe from a bowie
: knife.
1 Tbe boat was on the eve of departure, and
[ our Senator, standing on tbe deok, aud holding
i a small mahogany box, was observing with
great interest and pleasure tbe busy scene on
the wharf, when an individual, luxuriating in
a rather ornate style of dress, approached him,
and iu subdued tones demanded:
'1 siy, old feller, when are you going to
commence?'
'Commence what, sir?' asked the astonished
Souator.
'Pshaw ! none of that gammon with mo!
The fact is, a few of us boys oo b<> r d want a
i little-fun, and we won't pile it cm too strong
for you; so come aod opcu act once.'
'Really, sir,' said Preston, 'I am totally at
a loss to guess your meaning; open what?'
'Open what? Why, tbe hank, of course.—
1 Maybe you think our pile isr.'t large enough to
make it an object. But we're not so poor as
: all that, any bow.'
The Senator meditated gloomily, but all-was
j dark to him: he was plunged in a eea of doubt
! aud bo had never met any problem, not even a
; political one, so hard to solve,
i 'Perhaps,' broke io his pertinacious friend
! again, after considerable pause, 'perhaps 501
| will say direotly that you arc not a sporting
I uiati?'
'I certainly am nothiug of the k'ud, sir,'re
joined Preston, rather angrily, 'and I cauT
imagine what put the idea ioto your head.'
'Not a sportiug uian ! Whew-w ! I never
heard of such a piece of impudence ! Weil,
if you're not a aportiug man, wtd you please
to tell me why you carry tbe tools about with
you?' and ha pointed to the mahogany box
which he still carried.
A light broke on Proton's tain i. 'The
mahogany box!' he cried. 'Ah, yes ! h, ho !
Very natural mistake, indeed, my good tor,
very natural indeed. Well, I wII show you
tho contents.' And laughing heartily, be
opened the box iu question, which vras, iu fact,
bis dressing case, anS displayed the usual pa
rade of brushes, combs, razors, soap, etc.,
wLioh usually fi'l that article of jraveiiug com
fort.
Cur friend looked at tbe case, then at Pres
! ton again. Theu he heaved a long sigh, ami
1 then he pondered.
'Well,' he broke out at length, 'I did take
you to be a .sporting geutieuK-n I did, but
j now I see you aro a barber, and if I'd known
it, hang me if Pda spoke to you ! and so s<sj
! iug, be vamosed.
I Fancy the feelings of our honorable Senator
as bo assumed these various characters iu the
eyes of au anxious stranger.
The Little Quakeress who was Des
perately in Love.
An amusing matrimonial story is told of the
olden time in New England. It to fell out
I that two youug people became very much
1 smitten with each other as young people do.
: Tbe young woman's father was a wealthy
I Quaker —the young ran was respectable.—
j The father could staud no such union, and re
! solutely opposed it, and tbe daughter dare Dot
disobey openly. She "met him by moonlight/'
when she pretended never to sec him, and she
pined and wasted away. She was really iu
love—a state of sighs aod tears, which womn
oftner reach in imagination tbau reality. Still
the father remaioed inexorable.
Time passed on, and the rose ou Mary's
damask obeek passed off. She let no conceal
ment, like a worm in tbe bud, prey OD that
damask cheek, however, but when tbe father
asked her why she piued, rhe alwaya told him.
The old gentlemao was a widower, and loved
iiis daughter dearly. Had it been a widowed
mother wbo bad Mary in oharge, a widow's
pride would have given way before tbo impor
tunities of a daughter. Men are not, how
ever, stubborn in such matters, and wbeu tho
father saw that bis daughter's heart Wi3 really
set upon the match, he surprised her one day
by breathing out—-
"Mary, rather than mope to death, thee had
as soon as theo chooses, aod whom
tbee pleases."
And then what did Mary 1 Wait till tbe
birds of the air had told her swain of the
chaDge, or until her father bad time to alter
bis mind again ? Not a bit of it. She clap
ped her neat, plain bonnet on her bead and
waiked direotly to the house of her intended,
as the street would carry her. She walked
into the bouse without knocking—for kuoofc
ing was not then fashionable—and she found
the family just sitting down to dinaer.
Borne little commotion was exhibited at so
unexpected and so unusual an apparition as
the heiress io the widow's cottage, but she
heeded it uot. John looked up ioquiriugly.—
She walked diiectly up to hiiu aud took both
his bauds into her's.
"John," said she, "father says I may have
thee/'
And John got directly up from the dinner
table, aod weot to tbe parson's. In just
twenty-five minutes tbey were man sod wife.
We once knew a tellow who fancied he was
a jaokass. The beauty of it was, he wasn't'
much mistaken.
Talleyrand and Arnold.
Thero was a day when Talleyrand arrived in
Havre on ioot from Paris, it was the darkest
iHijirof tbo Revolution. Pursued by the blood*
heonds of the reign of terror, stripped of
every wreck of property, Ttlieyrand secured a
parage to America in & ship about to sail. Ha
was a beggar and a wanderer to a strange laad
to oarn bis daiiy bread by labor.
Is there an American stopping at your bouse,
he asked the landlord of the hotel, 1 am going
j across the water, aud wouid like a letter to a
, pernon of influence ID America.
The landlord hesitated a uiomeut and then
| replied:
There is a gentlemau upstairs, but it is more
t'ian I cau tell whether bo is from America or
ii'lgl ind.
Ho pointed the way, and Talleyrand—who,
in his life, was bishop, prince and minister—
ascended the stairs; a miserable suppliant stood
before ihe stranger's door, knocked and was
admitted.
In a far corner of the dimly lighted room,
sat a man of some fifty years, his arms fobleu
an * his head bowed upon his breast. From a
window directly opposite, a flood of light poured
upon bis forehead. His eyes looked from be
uotiib the downcast brows, upon Talleyrand's
j fare, with a peculiar and searching expression.
His face was striking in outline, tie mouth and
uh::i indicative of an iron will. His form, vig
! orous evau with the saows of fifty, was clad
ia a dark bat rich and distinguished costume.
Talleyrand advanced—stated that be was a
fugitive—and the impression that the gentlemau
before bun was an American, solicited his kind
feelings and offices.
He poured forth his history in eloquent French
aud broken English.
lam a wmderer and an exile. lam forced
to the New World w.triout friend orshel- f
ter. Give me then, I beseech you, a Setter of
jodrs, so that I may be able to earn my bread.
I *;u willing to toil in any mauler —a life of
i bor would be a paradise to a career of luxury
it) Trance. You will give me a letter to four
friends? A gentleman Uko you has doubtless
many friends.
'the strange gentleman arose. With a look
ih.t, Talleyrand-.never forgot, be retreated to
ihe door of the uext chamber, his eyes s.iil
IbcCiug from beneath Lis dwrkwed brow."
1 am the only loan of the new world who can
r <i<? bis hand to God and say: 1 have cot a j
friend not one —iii all America.
Talleyrand never forgot the overwhelming
sadness of look which accompanied ihete
word*,
Who are you? he cried, as the strange man !
retreated into the next room—your uame?
.My uune, he replied, witu a smile that had
more of mockery tbau joy ia the convulsive
expression, my naina is iieneJict Arnold.
He was gone. Talleyrand sank into the chair,
gasping the words:
'Arnold the traitor.*
Thus he wandered over the earth, another
j Cain, with the murderer's mark upon his
j brow.
flow Sal "disgraced the Family."
A traveler in the State of Illinois, some years
ago, cerne to a lons, log hut, OD ths prairies,
uear Cairo, and there halted. He went into
the hou-e. It was a wretched affair, with an
empty packing box for a t?>bio, while two or
three old chairs and disabled stools graced the
receotion room, the dark walls of which were
further ornamented by a display of d:rty tin*
ware and a broken shelf article or two. The
woman was crying in one corner, ami the man,
with tears in bis eyes and a pipe iu his mautb,
sat on a stool, with bis dirty arms resting ou
his knees, and his soirowful-lookiug head up
poited by the palm of bis bands. Not a word
greeted the iuterloper.
'Well,' he said, 'you seem to be in ail awful
trouble here, what's up 1 '
'Oh, wo are almost crazed, neighbor,' said
tbe woman; 'and we aio't gat no patience to eee
folks, now.'
'That's all right,' said the visitor, not much
taken aback by his polite rebuff; 'but can I be
of any service to yoa in all this trouble?'
♦Weil, we've lost our gal; our Sal's gone off
aDd left as,' said tbo man, in tones of ucsp air.
'Ah, do you know what induced her to leave
you?' remarked the new arrival.
•Well, we can't say, stranger, as how she's
so far lost as to bo iuduced, hut then she's gone
and disgraced us,' remarked the afflicted
father.
'Yes, neighbor and—not as I should say it,
as is her mother—but tbere wun't a pootier
gal 'n the West than oar Sal. She's gone and
brought ruiu on us and ou her own hoad, now,'
followed the stricken mother.
'Who has she gone with?' asked the vis
itor.
'Well, there's the trouble. The gal could
have done well, and might have married Mai tin
Kehoe, a capital shoemaker, who, although be
has got but one eye, plays the flute in a lively
manner, and earns a good living. Then, look!
what a borne and what a life she has deserted;
she waa here sorrouuded by all the luxury in
the country,' said the father.
'Yes, who knows what poor Sal will have to
eat, drink or wear, now 1 ' groaned the old wo
man.
'And who is tbe feller that has taken her into
such misery?'
'Why, she't gone off and got married to a
critter culled an editor, as lives in tbe village,
and the devil only knows bow they are to aim
a living!'
A little boy being asked "What is tbo chief
end of man?" answered,
"The end what's got the head on."
A Commercial View of Secession,
We may as well have a word about seces
sion as about any other improbability, so long
as people make it a topic of talk. Without
toucbiug the political aspects of the caso in
this financial column, three or four plain mat
ters, which, in a business point of view, will
be likely to interfere somewhat seriously with
tbe South Carolina frolic.
1. If South Carolina has a right to
any other State has a similar right, or any
number of other States. Suppose, theu, that
of the present Thirty-Three iu the Uoioo.
thirty-two should secede, leaving ooly one iu
tbe Republic. To whom would the creditors
of the Government look to for tbe payment of
the National Debt? And if that single State,
for instance, were New Jersey, bow much
money would the creditors be likely ever to
get?
2. If South Carolina secedes, she aDuuls the
right of the National Government to send its
mail bags through her postoffices. What will
busitie.-s rneD say to this, who wish to bint oc
casionally to their Southern customers,' by
friendly reminders through the mail; that cer
tain notes for last spring's goods aro failing
duo ?
3. If South Carolina secedes she wiil c'ase
to py her custom-house duties. But if cue
State may claim this exemption every other
may. What then becomes ot tbe national
• revenue ? Ttie Government wiil end, and
trade wiil end with it.
4. If Soutb Carolina has a right to secede,
she has a right to secede at one time us well
as at another. 80 has any other State. Sup
pose, then, the Federal Government were to
pay §150,000,000 for Cuba, aud where to ad
mit the Island as a State. The new State
would have a right like South Carolina to so*
pcede at any time, aud might secede the very
| next day atter she was p ul for, and thosstheat
I the Government, by a gambler's trick, out of
I §150.000,000. JMtjgffl
5. It South Carolina secedes, she
I iy carries with ber (be publio worn' w'ujg*
1 staud upoa her own aoil. Now, what p, tfbeK]
| tho Factfic Railroad shall be i
j tbe whole eouutry uncounted sums ovS&a&f j
I —the Slates through whose borders it win run j
wore to aeoede and carry out of the Uuiodi as 1
tSfr iMt'Moaie prixw-ut ifeair- eeewHtten,
• whole iiue of tire raiDoad, thu* robbing the :
rest of the nation of that which they gave to
buiid it ?
No ; South Caroliua has 00 right to accede.
Si.a wilt amuse hereelf awhile by waiving
i. uimotto flags, and by wearing disunion coek
aues, hut sue has uot foigolleu that Geu.
Jackson once sont Winfield Scott to fire a gun
tt' io Fart Moultre, and that a single o*ol.oo
ball stopped the Seoession. We think the
present Secession will not need even a blank
caitridge to kill it.—J\f. Y. Independent.
THE HEART.
Few people hold close commuLiou with their
own heaits. It is a terriole thing to question
it continually—severely—aod feel the truth ot
its replies, wrung out fraction by fraction till
tbe questioner sees himself revealed and hum
bled ai tbe revelation. There is far more of
profound and far reaching knowledge than most
men ate wiiliug to perceive iri tbe exclauntion
cf the Hebrew poet —'The heart i 9 deoeitful
above all tbinga and desperately wicked.' And
yet men uead uot be. thus deceived. It is tie
cause they dare not learu the truth—they fear
to know themselves. I share in this fear.—
Once or twice I havo torn tbe tuak away, and
looked on tbe nakedness of the heart, but 1
shut my eyes and tried to cheat myself into
the beiief that there was no devil there. I
will confess it now. It is not a difficult mat
ter to know more of our neighbor than ourself
for we do not fear to study him. We read
him in an opeu book, and though we cannot
pry closely into every page, we can peruse tbe
table of coutents aud learu more thau he would
he wili+ug to tell. I thank God for the re
straining influence which he throws around
men, for his monitions without aud withiu tc
keep and cheri-h the spirit of good iu the hu
man heart, that it may not wholly dio. But
for these, how soon would tbe light of the tu
ner temple go out iu darkness, and a midnight
of de.-pair and horror wrap the sou'.
FOR THE BOYS. —'How do you like arith
metic?' said Mr. Puelps to John Perkins, as he
cams home from school with his slate under his
arm. 'Not very well.' -How do you get
along with it?' 'Well enough. Sam Brice
does my sums for nie.' 'Why don't you get
him to eat your dinner fotLjou?' 'I couldu'i
live without eating. 1 should not grow any if
I did'ut eat.' 'Ycur mind won't grow any if
you don't use it. It would be just ss reason
able for you to get Sam to eat your diuuer for
you, as to ask him to do your studying for
you."
A young lady, ia reply to her falher'a ques
tion why she did not wear rings upon her fin
gers, said:
'Because, paps, they hurt me when anybody
squeezes my hand.'
♦What business have you to have your hand
squeezed?'
'Uertaioly none, but still you know, papa,
one would like to keep thair hand io squoeta- i
hie order.'
'My wife tells tha truth throe times a day,'
remarked a jocose oid fellow, at the same time
casting a very mischievous glance at her.—
'Before rLiug in the morning she says: 'Oh,
dear, I mu*t get up, but I dou't want to ' Af
ter breakfast she adds,' Well, I suppose 1
must go to work, but I don't want t;' and she
goes to bed, saying, 'There, I've been fussing
all day, and haven't done anything.''
VOL. 33, NO. 51.
The Future Lad; of the White
Houne,
Mrs. Lincoln is, perforce, a persr-Bage to
whom just now the liveliest 'mterest attaches.
That she will adorn and grace even the exalted
position to whieb she bids fair to* succeed,
none who bare had the fortune to see her
eio douU. She is yet apparently upon the
advantageous side of forty, a face upon which
diguity and sweetness are blended, and an air
ot cultivation and refinement lo which famili
arity with tbrf courtly drawing-room of Lon
don or the aristoeratio saloons of Paris, would
hardly lend an added grace, the is admirably
calculated to preside oyer our republican
court. If oue were permitted to describe Lcr
personal appearance as to meet half way the
respectful "cariosity which is .generally felt
upon the subject, toe description would be
that she is slightly above the medium stature,
with brown eyes, clearly cut features, delicate,
mobile, expressive , rather distinguished in
appearence than beautiful, conveying to the
uiiDd generally an impression of self posses
sum, state]iness and elegance. I dietiost my
own opinion upoD subjects of the kind, but I
concur in the belief prevalent hereabouts, that
she will make as admirable a leader of the
stately daptcs and lovely demoiselles of the
national capital as the most fastidious social
martinet could desire.— Correspondence of the
<A. Y. World.
AN AWFUL MUDDLE.—A correspondent of
tfco Odumtias (S. 0 ) gives the following
melancholy illustration of the uncertainty of
the types. A young geutleman by the name
of COB key having teen united by the bonds
of wedlock, sent thewuarraige notice, with a
verse of his own composition, to the printer for
publication, as follows:
"MARRIED— At Gosbam, July 28, A. Coo
key, Esq., Attorney at LW,to Miss Eupbemia
fggias. both of Gosbam.
"Love is the union of two hearts
' ■ .Ti™t beat in softest melody;
g§ Time, Wj| its ravages itnpirts
No biubr lesion to its ecstasy."
kvcf&d with much anxiety for the
is.-:ac At the Gosbaai Sentinel, iu order to see
lib 'Mp iu priat. The compositor into whose
BplgPSbe'tiotioa was placed happened to be
a spree at toe time, and made some wonder
ful blunders iu setting it uj—thus:
"Ma.BR!ED—At G tham July 38, A. Dor
key,|Ksq., Eternally atLiw, to Mr. Euphenaia
Piggins, both of Goesedatu.
'Jcve is an onion of two hea l*
That belts in sofest melody;
Rime, with its savages, imparts
No bettor feed to an extra dray.'^
Pbaucey Mr. Alexander Uonkcy'a phelioxl
LET TIIE (JIIILDREN Sleep. —We earnestly
advise that all who think a great deal, who
have to work hard, to take all the sleep, they
can e-.t without medical means. Wo cautiou
pareuts, particularly, net to albw their chil
dren to be wksd up of inorDiu3— let nature
wake them up, she will not do it prematurely •
but hare a care that they go to bed ataD early
hour ; let it be early, until it is found that they
wake up thcmseivc3 tu full time to dress for
breakfast. Beiug waked up early, and allowed
to engage iu difficult or any studies late, and
just before retiring, has given many a beauti
ful and promising child the braiu fever, or de
termined ordinary ailments to the production
of water ou the brain. Let parents uiake
every possible effort to have their children go
to 6ieep in a pheasant humor. Never scold or
give lectures, or in aoy way wound a child's
feeliogs as it goes to bed.
Lot us buuish business and every worldly
care at bedtime, and let sleep come to a mind
at peace with God and all the world.
It turns out that the reported disturbances
in Kansas were entirely uidbuuded, or at least
grossly exaggerated. Uapt.Montgommcry com
mitted no offence against tbe Government,
neither injured the lives or property of any
pro-slavery man. The stories were set afloat
by designing Locofoco pro-slavery tricksters,
who had some object to accomplish thereby.
Such stories arc so utterly base that none but
Locofocos could he guilty of perpetiatiDg
them.
HON. GEO. MIFFLIN DALLAS.— "YioId away
the Constitution and the Union, and where are
we 1 Frittered into fragments, and not able
to claim one portion of the past as peculiarly
our own ! Our Union is not a blessing ; ills
a political necessity. Wo cannot exist with
out. Our liberties could not endure the inoes
sant conflicts of civil and conterminous strife,
our independence would he au unreal mockery,
our very memories would turn to bitnerness."
Mr. Dallas in defence of the Coniilitution.
A few days since a stranger called on Mr,
Lincoln, from Missouri, professing to be bis
cousin. Probably having been posted by some
bogus campaign "Life," he tried to call to the
remembrance of tbe President, elect the fact
that he (tbe cousio) was "present at his weds "
ding in Lexington, Kj." But I was married
in Springfield," said Old Abe. Since then
that cousin may be put in tbe list ot "not heard
from."
Trusting to luck is trusting to time, and time
is the most unreliable of all tbiags with its
fruits.
Tbe bread of hfe is love; tbe salt of life is
work, the sweetness of life, poetry; and tbe
water of life, faith.
Our wants expand with our meatts of grati-"
fymg them, but seldom eontraot with those
means
Be true to yourself, and you will command
the respect of others.