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9IARYLAXD:
"THE HEART OF OLR UK ION."
Unroll the NATION'S ciumpled chart-
Half rent, amid Disunion's jars —
AM! mark the State whoso loyal heatt
Beats for the Union stars!
Uniuil the Nation's bannered Hue,
And flash i's gules from bill to hill;
For MARYLAND, thank God is true—
True to tiie Union still!
Behold ! from Vernon's solemn gloom
Our FATHER lifts his guardian hand ;
Behold ! from Vernon's silent tomb
He points to MARY-LAND!
As if. in sooth, his Mother's name \
Could link co worth]* r sHI with fame
No need hast TL.ou, oh Baltimore!
Of storied shafts to crown thy shore!
WHILE roll the waves of Chesapeake
TL eir seaward toi g TL >' t:u:h shall speak.
And round our 1 < me, r< turning ship s
Cry "UNION STILL !" with eager lips !
For, high on Alleghany's edge,
And blue Oeloctiu's misty ridge —
And up the unci- lit V\ arriqr crags, ,
I see ten ibousam! starry flags ;
And. woven with every stripe and star.
IN scrolls of gioiy flashing far,
I SEE the UNION'S azure hand
Enlsp the zone o: Maryland !
lieart of our Nation !— nobly steeled
To b east ;;r,d I IFEE danger's shocks 1
TKIED, in the changing battlefield —
TRUF, at the ballot box !
lieart of the Union—Maryland!
Clasp its Banner in thy hand !
Let this thy faith repay :
WHERE Calvert's tolerant footsteps trod,
And good Charles Carroll worshipped GoJ ;
There — deep within thy hallowed sod —
Plant tie u that Flog — for aye!
From Susquehanna's joyous tide.
And where Patuxent's waters glide,
To Wicomico's sut.ht side,}
TE Southern maidens rise;
Go! crown with wreaths your patriot band —"*
Go ! bless tin brave who loyal stand !
Go! greet the sons IFF Maryland
With lips and cheeks, and eyes !
Faithful, amid the faithless now,
Oh Sister of the South ! thou art!
Henceforth our Fauner-Bearer thou—
Thy n. me —"The Union's Heart!"
Onr Flag shall wave— out Union S'.'.nd,
"While heats the heart or Maryland!
A. J. H. DCOANNE.
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Management of a CcH.
A correspondent ot the Country Gentleman gives
his method of imparting an education to a colt, as
foI'OWS : '
]n the first place, never intrust him to the care
of a person of ungovernable temper. Secondly,
he sbon'd be triated with kindness from the begin
ning until he is ready for labor. Since Mr. Rarey
hid his method of subduing the horse before the
public, I make the horse and his disease my study.
The colt should be commenced with when quite
ycur>g, acd bandied carefully, as he is quick to re-
Bent an ir.jurv. I begin as soon as he is able to
run about—get him so that he will not run away at
your approach—get his head in your hands—if he
wants to get away, let him—you can easily get
him again. After handling the head so that ho is
not alraid, pass on to tbe side and limbs. The
Booner he gets used to having bis legs handled, the
easier he will be to shoe when necessity requires it
to be done. See that the dam gives plenty of milk.
II she does not teach the colt to drink cow's milk ;
there is nothing better to promote the growth.
Great care should he obierved in not using the
.dam so as to beat the milk, as a great many colts
are rendered worthies*; by so doing. I should in
o cae let tbe colt remain with the mother after
be is five months old, as it gives her time to get in
good condition for winter, and it is also the best
lime for him to shift for himself; do not let him
remliD out after the nights get cold and frosty, as
if will do hiui no good but much barm. There is
plenty of skimmed milk at this season of the year;
give bim all he will drink , it wilf not hurt him.
After he ia weaned is tbe time to commence balter
breakiug bim."
MANAGEMENT OF A HORSE.— AMONG the
many excellent animals on exhibition at tbe Horse
Show at Springfield in September, was a mare own
ed by a gentleman lrom New York, the qualities of
which for kindness and easy management were
very remarkable. She was the admiration of the
many who witnessed her. This mare, as we learn,
is abont a years old, and hes been in the
possession of her present owner several years ;
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previous to which she was somewhat noted in the |
neighborhood where the was kept as a vicious, un
manageable animal, and the pest of the farmyard,
on account of an apparently unconquerable dispo
sition to bite and kick everybody and everything.
Her present owner was induced to purchase her at
a price to him seeming low, not knowing the worst
of ber disposition. He took her home, and turn
ing her loose witn his stock. Boon saw that some
thing must be done to break her of these bad
tricks.
As a matter of necessity she was stabled, and no
person was allowed to approach without something
to please her palate. Occasion was often taken to
fondle and talk kindly to her, and in fact much
patience and time were expended, as an experi
ment, to try and dispel the almost insatiate aver
sion of the animal to everybody. This had its de
sired effect in time, acd the once almost unmana
geable, Tery disagreeable and unsafe "old kicker"
was brought to her senses, and one advantage
gained over another, until she is now the pot of her
master and wonder of all who know her. There
appears to bo no secret about this ; only a little
patience, kindness, and, withal, a determined per
severance on the part of the would be-master, and
most vicious horse may be made the kindest of the
brute species.- Boston Alias.
CALVES WITH SHEEP.—To tbe editerof the
Gcrmautowu Telegraph : It is well known,
haps, to most of your agricultural readers, tha
late calves, when they come to the barn in the fill,
will, if confined in tue yards with older animals,
frequently sicken and become dsbilitated. Being
weak and small, they arc usually shoved about, and
deprived of their due share of fond, and in con
sequence "fall away" rapidly. Now I never ailow
animals of this description to associate or be con
fined with larger ones,but put them with my sheep,
where there is no danger of their doing or receiv
ing harm. Sick calves. I have observed, often
pick up and devour with avidity the hay and straw
from among the sheep dung. It is medicinal, and
I know of no article that has a more immediate
and salutary effect in restoring diseased calves to
healfh khan sheep dung. 1 have practiced this
usage for many years and have never lost an ani
mal, though I have had many sick when they came
to the barn.— A Chester Co. Fanner.
HOW CARROTS AFFECT HORSES—The
carrot is the most esteemed of all roots for its
feeding que lities. When analyzed, it gives but:
little more solid matter than any otlierroot, 85 per
cent, hting water; but its influence on the stomach
upon the other articles of food is most favorable,
conducing to the most perfect digestion and a*- i
simiUtion. This result, long known to practical I
aneD, is explained by chemists as resulting from the
presence of a substance called pectine, which op
erates to coagulate or gi latins vegetables or vege
table soluti ens, and favors this digestion in all cat
tic. Horses are especially benefitted by the use
of carrots. They should bo fed to thein frequently
with their other food— Marklant Express.
ARTEMAS WARD MAKES A SPEECH.
Arfemes Ward received an invitation to
make a speech on the 'Krysis,' at Baldinsville,
injianny. Of course ho accepted tbe iovit*- .
tion, and reported tbo speech himself. He
says:
On returuin to my humsted in Baldinsville,
iojianny, rcsuntly, my feller siticrzens extend
ed a invite to me to norate to 'em on the Kry*
si?. I excepted, &on lirst Toosaay nire I
appeared he 4 a 0 of upturn'dafaoes in the Red
Skool Hcusc. I spoke nearly as fellers:
Baldiusviilians, Hereto 4, as I hav onmer
ously obsarved, 1 havo abstrained from bavin
any sentimuuta or principle, o.y pollertics, like
roy reiigiou, bein of an exceedin aceommodat
io cbaructer. But tbe tack can't be loDger
disguised that a Krysis is onto us, & I feel it's
my dooty to except youi invite for one consec
utive cite only. 1 jjposa the inflaramertorv in
dividooals who assisted in prejuoing this Kry
sis kuow what good she will do, but I ain't
'shamed to state that I dou't eoacely. But
the Krysis is hear. She's been bear several
weeks, & Godnes nose bow long she'll stay. —
But 1 venter to assert that she's rippin things.
She's knoet trade into a kockt up hat aud
chaoed B'zoiss of all kinds tighter nor [ ever
chaned op any of my livin wild Beests. Ai
low mo to hear dygress & stait that my beests
at present is as harmless as tbe new born Babe.
Ladys & gentlemen need have no feers on that
pint. To resoom—Altho I can't exactly see
what good this Krysis caD do, I oan very quick
say what tbe origernal caws of ber is. The
origernal caws is our Atrik&D Brother. I was
into Barnim's Moozeum down to New York the
other day, & saw that exsentrio Etbeopian, the
What Is It. Sez 1, "Mister What Is It, you
folks air raisin thunder with this grate coun
try. You're gettin to be ruiber more numeris
than interest in. Its a pity yon coodeut goorf
sumwhares by yourselves, Si be a nasban of
What Is Its, tho if you'll excoose me, I shood
en't care abont marryin among you. No dowbt
jure txceedin charmin to bum, but yure stil
of luvliucss isn't adapted to this climit." He
larfed into my face, whtob rather Riled me, as
1 bad bin perfeckly virtoons nd respeotable
ia my observashuns. So sci I, turcio a littlef
red in tbe face 1 spect, "Do you hav the un
blushin impocdence to say you folks ha vent
raised a big mess of tbneder in this brite land,
Mister What Is It?" He larfed agin, wusser
nor b4, wbareupon I up and ses, "Go home,
Sir, to Afnky's bureau shores & taik all tbe
other What Is Its along with you. Don't
think we oan't spair your interestio pictera. —
You What Is Its air on the pint of smasbin up
the greatest Guvment ever erected by man, &
you aotooally have the owdsssity to larf about
it. Go borne, you low cuss !"
1 wos woikt up to a high pitch, & proceeded
to a Restorator & cooled orf with sum little
lishes biLed in ile— I bleeve tbey call them
•ardeeos.
BEDFORD. PA„ FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 22, 1861.
Feller Sittsrzans, the African may be cur
Brother. Sevral hily respectyble gentlemen,
and sum talentid ("emails tell us so, & for argy
ment's sake I might bo injooced to grant it,
tho 1 don't bleeve it myself. But the Afrikan
isn't our sister & our wife & our uncle. He
isn't several of our brothers and all our fust
wife's relashuns. Ha isn't our grandfather,
& our grate grandfather and our Aunt in the
oovntry. Soacely. & yit oumeris persous
would bav us thiak so. It's troo he ruos Con
gress & sevral other publio groaerya, but theu
he ain't everybody and everybody else like
wise. [Notiss to bizniss man of Vanity Fair.
Extry cbarg fur this larst remark. Its a
goak.—A. W.
But we've got the Afrikan, or ruther he's
got us, & now what air we going to do about
it? He's a orful noosanee. Praps be isn't to
blame fur it. Praps ho was created for sum
wise purpuss, like the measlss and new Kog
laud rum, but it's oiity hard to see it. At
any rate, he's no good here, &as I Btatid to
Mister What Is it, it's a pity be ooodeut go orf
souiewberes by bisself whar he could wear red
weskita and speckled neckties & gratterfy hiz
ambisbuo in varis interestin waae.
Praps line bearin down too bard upoo Cuf
fy. Cum to tbiuk oo it, I am. He wocden't
be aich an iufernal noosanee if white people
wood let him stone. He mite indeed be inter
estiD. And now 1 tbmk of it, wby can't the
white people let biui alone? What's the good
of coutiunerly .•tirrin him up with a ton foot
pole? He isn't the sweetest kiodof Perfooun
ery when in a nutral stait.
P'cller Sitterzons, the Uoion's in danger.—
The black devil disuoiou i truly here, starin
us squarely in the fase. Wo must drive him
back. Shall we make a 2i Mexiko of our
selves? Shall we sell our b>rtbrite for a mess
of potash? Snail one brother pu: th 6 knife to
the throat of another brother? Shall wo mix
our whiskey with each other's blud? Shall the
Star Spangled Banner be cut up into dish
cloths? btamiiu bete in this Skoolbouse, upon
my nativ sboar 'o to speek, I answer—N-.ry !
Oh you fellers who atr rai<in this row & who
in the fust plaee startid it,l'ui ashamed of you.
The Showuiun blushes fur you, from his boots
to the topmost bar upon his wcnerabla hod.
I say to the South dont seoesb ! I say to
the galyiant people of that sunny laud, jest
lock up a few buudrcd of thorn tsarin & roarin
fellers of yourn in soma stiong boxes, and
send 'eut over o Mexico. Aud we people up
North here will consine a ekal number of our
addle braned ripsuorterg to the same lokaller
ty, & thar let em file it out among theirselvos.
No koDockwente, not the slitcst, which licks
Why shooden't the people that got up this fite
do all the fitio? Git these ornery Glitters out
of tho way, & the seosible people of the North
& South Oan tix the matter up very easy. And
whan tis fixt let both secshuus resolve to miud
their owu biznese.
Feller SittotziDS, 1 am in the Sheer & Tel
ler leaf. I shall peg out 1 of these dase.—
But while Ido stop here I shall stay in the
Union. I know not what the Supervizers of
Baldiusville may conclude to do, hut for one, 1
shall stand by the Stars and Stripes. Under
no circumstances whataomever will J seeesh.—
Let every Stait io the Union sesesh & let Pal
metter flags flote thicker nor shirts on Square
Barter's close liue, still will I stick to the good
old fl,g. The country may go to the devil,
but 1 won't. Aud next summer when I start
out on ray campaoe with my Show wbarevor I
pitch ray little tent, you sbail see floatin prowd
ly f. out the center polo thereof the Ainerikan
flag, with nary a star wiped out, nary a stripe
lees, but the same old flag that has allerflorid
thar ! & the price oPadimshun will be (be same
it allers was—ls cents, ohildreu harf price.
Feller SiUerxans, lam dun. Accordiuiy I
squatted.
CURIOUS INDIAN LEGEND ABODT THE BOCKT
MOUNTAINS. —There is a quaint tradition
existing among the Indians of the Northwest,
in connection with the snow-peaks of Mounts
Baker, Haner, St. Helen's and Hood, of the
Cascade range of the Kooky Mountains.
Tbe lofty peaks were supposed, wheD the
world was young, to be Tyees— Kings—of tbe
lesser mountains of their respective districts.
Here they ruled in kingly grandeur, receiving
from their subjects such homage as is due to
great chiefs, aud in themselves acknowledging
no superior exoept tbe Great Spirit. For ages
their reign was an uninterrupted soene of peaoe
and happiness. Seas, lakes and mighty rivers
bathed tbeir feet, and their sides were olotbed
with evergreeD forests. Here the beasts and
fishes roamed in primeval bliss, fearing neither
the buuter nor tbe fisherman, for man was not
yet here.
But in time, like nations, discord arose
among them. Each chief assumed the quarrel
of bis subjeots, and an unrelenting war was the
result, in their rage they belchad forth fire
and smoke, and hurled at each other fiery
rooks, desolating their fair sides; cbokeing up
the lakes and rivers with their fragments, and
destroying tbe inhabitants of both land and wa
ter. For years this conflict raged with de
moniac fury, until tbe Great Spirit became
angry, and bade them cease their qoatrel and
close their very mouths. And to punish them
for tbeir folly and tbeir sin in laying wast*
their fair domains, he covered tbeur each with
an eternal man'lu of snow. From that time
peace has reigned among them, although oc
casionally they have muttered and given signs
of rebellion, but the Great Spirit points, with
a significant smile, to their snowy fetters, and
their burning spirits sink deep within their
bosoms.
An Australian says that oobwebs are a
complete cure for dysentery. He takes them
in pills, four a day., Tboy are also used for
fever and ague.
Olii XAXIOML AIRS.
So much bus been said and done lately, in
these stirring times of ours, about our good oM
national music, that we have thought it would
tvv Be urinteresting to our readers to refresh
their recollections of tbe history of some of
those familiar airs.
Aud first, a few words about tinie-bonored
and association-honored -"Yaukce Doodle."—
Much learned research has been expended on
the origin of this tune, and various are the
opinions that have been expressed upon this
point. One authority has it that the air was
composed by a British doeror, ono Shu;kburg,
as long ago as tbe time of the old French war
in Canada, when the British regulars and the
colonial troops fought side by side, and that it
was got up in derision of the old fashioned
niEuaers of the provincials as contrasted with
the more trim aud soldierly appearance of the
regulars. Others say that the air is as old as
Cromwell's time, and that it may be fouui iu
tha "Musical Antiquities of England." Ccr
tiioly it was well known in New England be
fore the American Revolution, and there wr*
word" to it about ''Lydia Fisher" and "Lucy
Lebkit " Aud tbe red coats who occupied Bos
ton iu 1775 ni 177G, male verses iu ridicule
of the people their presence insulted, adapted
to tbe time, for example:
• Yankee Doodle cime to town,
For to buy a firelock,
We will tar and feather him,
And so we will John Hancock."
When tha brigade under Lord Fercy, on the
morning of the 19'a of April, 1775, marched
out of Boston on way t" "oncord sod
Lexingtou, the drum and fife play oi. derisively,
this very air. On ibe rather rapid return of
whs: there was leftot them, tho? w *ro told they
b-d b on made to dance it. And from this
t'ujc out "Yaokee Doodle" was accepted ss a
een a of the first battle ot the Revolu
tion It was played on every bail c field in the
;;r*"t stri.'e for Atneriuun Liberty, from Bunker
HiU to Yorktown and the dPcdca. (8. C.) It
Wit hoard amidst the hurling of tho leaden
s rm of infantry aci air*!lory ou the plain of
Cualroette, on the banks of the Chippewa, "ltd
bcueuth tbe snowy sierras of Mexico; and tho
pulses of evory true American barrt, of what
ever St to or section, havo ieaped into accord
ant hrmouy with it for generations past, and
wiL Jo so fir generations yet to ouui3-
"H tl Columbia" has also a moA interesting
history.
This, the most popular of all the national
songs of America, was writteu by Judge Joseph
Hopkinsori, one of tbe signers of the Declara
tion of ludepeodence. It was written iu tbe
summer of 1798, when a war with Franco was
thought to be inevitable; Congress then being
in session at Philadelphia. Tho theatre was
then op'jti there, and a young aou>r, a tohool
mue ot Hopkinsoo, being about 'o t.ke a ben
efit, aked tbo Judge to compose for him soma
words tn the tune of the "President's March,"
which use then tho popular sir. This was on
Saturday; on the Monday night following tho
song wae ready, was euug with great success,
ana a', once took its place as a national air of
Aim rip*. As the Judge, writing of this song,
in 1840, said of it, "it wis truly American; aud
notbr-g else; and the patriotic feeling of every
Aroericun heart respouded to it."
We should add here that tbe tune itself—
"President's March"—was composed in 1789,
by a German named Foyles, on tbe occasion of
Geoerai Washington's first visit to a theatre in
tbe city of New York. A pretty fair pedigree
for "Hail Columbia," and one of which DO oue
born on American soil has any reason to be
ashamed.
The origin of "The Star Spangled Banner,"
as a national song, is less ancient, but hardly
less richly fraught with patriotio associations
than the others we have been treating of. its
history is familiar to our readers.
Tbe air is old Euglisb, and has been known,
time out of mind, under tbe name of "Anaore
on in Heaven." To this tune Robert .T r ° a ?
Paine wrote one of his best odes, during tbe
lifetime of Wasbington.
It was calleJ "Adams QDJ Liberty," and was
written for some patriotio festival dinner. Just
as the company were taking their places at ta
ble, a ftiend of tbe writer, to whom he had
shown his verses, told Paine be had forgotten
to name Wasbington in them. Whereupon the
ready poet oalled for pen and ink, and im
promptu threw off the best stanza in his song.
It was this:
"Should tbe tempest of war overshadow our
land,
Its bolts can ne'er rend Freedom's temple
asunder;
For, unmoved at its portal fhall Washington
stand,
And repel with his breast th' assaults of the
Thunder.
His sword from the sleep
Of its scabbard shall leap,
And conductjwitb its point, every flash to the
deep;
And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves,
While tbe earth boare a planet, or the se* rolls
its waves!"
And it was to ibis ssme air, that, in 1814,
Francis BoottKey, of Baltimore, then a young
man, and afterwards so eminent lawyer, corn
posed that we'll kniri lyric, "Too Star Span
gled Banner." It • happened that Key, un
der a flag of truoe, wont on Board a British
frigate, which was one of • fleet tb*t waa then
beleaguering Baltimore During his stay on
board tbo frigate, it was decided td pommeuce
the bombardment on Fort Mcflenry," and the
youDg Baltimoreen was compelied io bo H wit
ness of tho deadly attack upon tbe defonfes of
bis nativa eitj and his home. The Fort re
sponded gallantly, and the engagement betweeo
it aud the fleet lasted throughout tbe night.—
By
"The rocket's red glare,
And the bomb bursting in air,"
tho ardent youcg patriot could see
thro' tbo night,
That our flag was still there."
And when the morning came it was still plainly
discernible, flvin? proudly and freely.
"Iu the dawn's early -light,"
just as it was
"At the twilight's last gleaming."
This was the inspiration of the "Star Span
gled Banner," so called from the writer's des
ignation of,the American flag, in tbe chorus of
bis song. And far distant be the day wheD
the descendants of those who have shed their
blood on the battle fields of liberty, and when
the countrymen of those who have brightened
the page of our country's bistary by euch words
as these, and by the noble achievements that
suggested them, shall be ashamed of the song,
or of the fl*g that inspired it. And let us say
of these songs, as did the Jews in their captiv
ity. "If I remember oot these, let my tongue
cleave to tbe roof of iny mouth."
There hive been other songs writton by A
ruerican poets that may be considered as having
gained a place among the acknowledged na
tional songs of America. Gen. Morris' fino
stanza; "The Flig of Columbia Forever," may
ba named prominently among these, na well as
tie stirnug songs, "Columbia, tho Pride of tha
Ocean," the "Rod, White and Blue," and
others.
Eioqiieofly Patriotic.
We take the folio wing most eloquent and truly
patriotic passage, from a speech delivered by Ab
raham Lincoln the President elect, at Springfield,
Illinois, Dec. 1829 twenty-one years ago. Let
every man read it, ana then say, if he can, that
"Honest Old Abe" is not alt that has ere! been
claimed for bim, by the Republican party :
"Mr. Lamborn refers to the late elections in the
States, and from their results, confidently predicts
that every Stat- in the Union will vote for Mr. Van
Burcn at the next Presideti'ial election. Addrets
tliat argument to cowards and to knaves ; with the
free and tbe brave ir will effect nothing. It may be
true, if it must, let it. M any free countries have
lost their linutty ; and ours may lose hers; but if
she snail, t>e it my proudest ;.nniu, not that I was
tire last to desert, but that 1 iwrer deserted her. I
kuow :bat the great volcano HI Washington, .arous
ed ami directed by tho evil spirit (hat reigns there,
ia belching turth the lava of political corruption, in
a current broad and deep, which is sweeping with
frightful velocity over the whole length and breadth
of the land, lidding fair to leave unscathed no
green spot or living thing, while on its bosom are
riding like demons on (he waves of Hell tho imps
of that evil spijit. and fiendishly tauDting all those
who dare resist its destroying course, with tha
liftttslL'Sness. Qf their Effort; and knowing this, I
cannot deny that all may be swept away. Br< >kmi
by it, I too, may be, bow to it, I never wi?L The
probability that we may fall in the struggle, t t:ght
not to deter us from the support of a cause which
I deem to be just: it shall not deter rue I f ever
I'feel the sou i within mc elevate and expand to
those dimiiiskriß not wholy unworthy of its Almigh
ty Architect, it is when 1 contemplate tho cause of
my country, deserted by all the world besides, and
I standing np boldly and alone, and hurling defi
ance at hi r victorious oppressors. Here, without
| contemplating consequences, before High Heaven,
and in the face of tile world. I swear eternal fideli
ty to the ju>t cause, I deem it, of the land of my
life, my liberty and my love. And who, tint thinks
with me, will not fearlessly adopt tho oath that I
take. Let none falter, who thinks he is right, and
we may succeed. But if, after all. we shall fall, be
it so. We shall have the proud consolation of say
ing to our conscience, and to the departed shade of
our country's freedom, that the course approved
by our jo ignient. an 1 adorned by our hearts, in
disaster, in chains, in torture, ia deitn, wo never
faltered iu defending."
BBACTIFUL ANSWERS.—A pupil of tua
Abbe Sieord gave the following extraordinary
•msweis
'What is gratitude?"
•Gratitude is the memory of the heart.'
•Wh-t is hope?'
•Hope is the blossom of happiness.'
•What is tbe difference between hope nud de
sire?'
'Desire is a tree iu leaf, hope is a tree in
flower, aud enjoyment is a tree iu fruit.'
'What is eternity?'
'A day without yesterday or tq-morrow—a
line that has no end.'
'What is time?*
•A line that has two ends—a pafh which be
gins in the cradle aud ends in the grave.'
'What is God?'
'The necessary being, the sun of eternity, tho
machinist of nature, tbe eye of justice, tbe
watch maker of the Universe, the soul of the
world.'
'Does God reason?'
'Man reasons because he doubts: he deliber
ates—he decides. God is omuiscient; He never
doubts— lie therefore never reasons.'
ENGLISH COMPLIMENTS TO THE SECES
SIONISTS.— As Georgia and South Carolina
are to Übnd Commissioners to Great Britain,
it is interesting to consider tbe probable re
sults of their labors. In relation to this mat
ter, the following extract front a Ute Dumber
of the London News is perfeotly appropriate:
"It is not dssy for us to ooncnive of the
state of Blind which grows np uoder such con
conditions as those of slavehoiding life in a
Itepnblio in the nineteenth century, under a
gagged press, a corrupted pulpit, a scanty and
euiaeenlated literature, tbe pressure of general
pioverty, und the perverseness which grows out
of a seuse of exclusion from the sympathies of
general society. If the slaveholders were men
of tbe world and of cultivated reason there
would be no such quarrel as is now raging;
but tbey are not; and hence the fluctuations
which so embaras9 tbe general judgment."
On a certain occasion a noted infidel borrowed a
sum of money from the late Dr. Lathrop, of Weat
Springfield, Mass. Whan he came to pay it he
tlougbt to dose the doctor with argument from the
Bible.
"You ought not to tr.ke interest for this money
for the Jews were forbidden te take usury."
"Oh, no," answered the doctor, "you forget;
the Jews were, indeed, permitted to take of the
heathen."
The application was to direct to be mislakeu and
the man wis quite willing to drop tbe argument
and pay tbe tuoaey.
VOL. 34. NO. 8.
THE MOB SPIRIT AT THE SOCTH. —The
whole machinery of the Government at the
South is controlled by public enomio. A dis
patch scot in cypher, recently, to Pensacola.
was arrested at Mobile, ami the Department
notified to that effect. The telegraph company
have lost ail control of their own property,
and are compelled to submit to the prevailing
terrorism. This demoralization began under
Messrs Cobb and Floyd, and has ramified
through all the service. The Post Office and
other means of cozuro-'nioatioo are notoriously
perverted by the Disunionists to their owo
purposes, and the Departments have been com
pelled to employ special meseengers OH any
important business.
Hon. L. M. Iveitt, 'late' a member of Oon
i gross from South Caroline, who drew bis pav
up to the 4th of March, and than rushed out
of the Union with indignaut precipitancy, is
not, after all, thoroughly out—as letters were
last week received at VVasbingtou from him,
dated Charleston, bearing bts frank of "Froe:
Keitt!" In noticing this the Baltimore Clip
per 6:ys it reminds one of a celebrated stump
| orator, in bard money times, who fiercely de
j Douneed 'rag money,' and after producing a
1 bank note which he took from his pocket as a
worthless bit of paper, carefully restored it to
bis pocket again aud buttoned the flan thereof !
Mr. Parton tells us, iu his "Life of Jack
! son," of an interview between the President
and : Big Sam" Dale, at the height of the nul
| lification excitement. ID the course of a oon
versation on the subject, the President said:
! "General Dt>le, if this thing goes on, our coun
| try will be like a bag of meal with both ends
| open. Pick it up in the middle, or endwise,
! and it will run out. I must tie the bag an j
'•ve the country." There is no doubt of the
i tact that both end ot the bag are again open,
bet wo know not who win tie the bag and save
the country.
An Irishman met a bio her Panlander, who
had, but a day or two previous, entered the
matnmonia! State, and accosted him with—
•Well, Patrick, faiih, an' sure, an' I heard
ye'd got married; an' is it a true story they're
afthor tellin' on you this time?
•Ay, coorso it is, Dennis.'
♦liejibsrs! an who in this blessed land of
freedom, have you made happy—that is, who'd
you ye git married to?'
'Gob, blatfaeration, to rue wife, to be sura;
d'ye 'epose I'd be aftber marrvio' innvbodv
else's wife?' ' 1 9
LEAN DIBT.—A Methodist minister at the
West, who lived on a very small salary, was
greatly troubled at one time to get bis quarterly
instalment. He at last told the paying trustee
that ho must have his money, as his family were
sufiering for tho necessaries of life.
•Mouey!'replied the steward. 'You preach
for money! I thought you preached for the
ccod of souls!' .
'Souls!'replied the minister. 'I can't eat souls;
ana if I could, it would take thousand such
as yours to make a decent meal!'
A laay, writing on the cant of the day, as to
the improvement in female education, says:
'Let uien be what they shoald be as men, be
fore they pronounce judgment opoo us as wo
men. Until then, we shall gooD very much as
we have done. If we were as perfect as thev
wish, where should we find suitable huabaDds?
Wo should all of us live and die single, or else
be sadly mis mated. If they don't like us,
they muj do without us—if they can.'
Not the least of marvels of this marvellous
country, is the rapidity with which obscure set
tlements iu the West, expand into vast and
populous cities. A case in point is stated by a
correspondent of the Western Christian J/J*
vacate, who speaking of Superior city says:
"The location of the city is charming, superior
to any on the lake. Population'eight hundred,
subsisting mai-ity by telling lots to on# an
other."
A lawyer once jocosely asked a boarding
house keeper the following question:
Mr. , if a man gives you SSOO to keep
for him and he dica. what do you do? Do you
pray for him l '
•No, air,' he replied, -I pray for another like
him.'
'ln my time. Miss,' said a Hern aunt, tba
men looked at the women's faces, instead of
their ankle*!'
'Ab! but my dear aunt', retorted the lady,
you see the world has improved, and is more
civilized than ii used to be. It looks more to
the understanding.' •
A colored Una in Newark, N. J., having suffer
ed ome pecuniary embarrassment, recently closed
business, and the senior in em tier gave to the public
the following "notis 'Du disbolution of copar
snips heretofore resisting twixt me and'Mose Jones
in de barber profession, am beresofo resolved.—
JPussons wbo ose must pay in tho scriber. Dem
what de furm ose mus call on Jones, as de ftmn la
inaolred." ,
I'm glad this coffee don't owe me onytbiag,'
said Brown, a boarder at breakfast.
'Why?' asked Smith.
'Because, I don't believe it would aver set
tle.
A Dutchman being oalled upon for a toast,,
said—"Hore iah to de heroes wbo fit, pled aud
died at de Pa* !e of Pnnker Hill—of whom I
am one.
'Here's Webster on a bridge,' said Mrs- Part*
ingtoo, as she handed Ike the Dictionary 'study
it confoundedly, and you will gain a great deal
of iuflamation.'
Why is the letter 0' the most charitable letter
in tho alphabet ? Bocause It is found otteoer than
I any otbnr letter in 'doing good.'