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[The following poem was written by James
Hedderwick, a Scottish poet but little known
in this country. Who that ever lost a brother
or sister could read these lines without a fal
ter in the voice or tear in the eye:]
They tell me first and early love
Outlives all after dreams;
But the memory of the first great grief
To me more lasting seems.
The grief that marks our dawniDg youth
To memory ever clings;
And o'er the path of future years
A lengthened shadow flings.
Oh! oft my mind recalls the hour
When to my father's hdme
"Death came an uninvited guest
From his dwelling in the tomb.
I had not seen his face before —
I shuddered at the sight;
And I shudder yet to think upon
The anguish of that night.
A youthful brow and ruddy cheek
Became all cold and wan,
An eye grew dim in which the light
Of radiant fancy shone.
Cold was the cheek and cold the brow,
The eye was fixed and dim;
And there I moaned a brother dead.
Who would have died for him!
I know not if'twas summer then;
I know not if'twas spring;
But if the birds sang in the trees
I did not hear them sing.
If flowers came forth to deck the earth
Their bloom I did not see;
I looked upon one withered flower,
And none else bloomed for me!
A sad and silent time it was
Within the house of woe;
All eyes were dim and overcast,
And every voice was low.
And from each cheek at intervals
The blood appeared to start,
As if recalled in sudden haste
To aid the sinking heart.
Softly we trod, as if afraid
To mar the sleeper's sleep,
And stole last looks of his sad face
For memory to keep.
With him the agony "as o'er
And now the pain was ours,
As thoughts of his sweet childhood rose,
Like odor from dead flowers.
And when at last he was borne afar
From the world's weary strife
How oft in thought did we again
Live o'er his little life.
His every look, his every word,
His very voice's tone,
Came back to us like things whose worth
Is only prized when gone!
The grief has passed with years away,
And joy has been my lot;
But one is long remembered,
And the other soon forgot.
The gayest hours trjp lightly by
And leave the faintest trace,
But the deep track that sorrow wears
No time can e'er efface.
§pjM*ltaeoo.
GEN. SCHIiBZ' REPORT.
The following is the conclusion and sum
ming up of the late report of General Carl
Schurz of his examination into the state of
affairs in the South.
I may sum up all I have said in a few
words.
If nothing were necessary but to restore
the machinery of Government in the States
lately in rebellion in point of form, the
movement made to that end by the people
of the South might be considered sattsfac-
But if it is required that the Southern
people should also accommodate themselves
to the results of the war in point of spirit,
these movements fall short of what must be
insisted upon.
The loyalty of the masses and most of the
leaders of the Southern people consists in
submissiou to necessity. There is, except
in individual instances, an entire absence of
that national spirit which forms the basis of
true loyalty and patriotism.
The emancipation of the slaves is submit
ted to only in so far as chattel slavery in the
old form could Dot be kept up. But al
though the freedman is no longer consider
ed the property of the individual master,
he is considered the slave of society, and all
independent State legislation will show the
tendency to make him such. The ordinan
ces abolishing slavery, passed by the Con
ventions under the pressure of circumstan
ces, will not be looked upon as'barring the
establishment of a new form of servitude
Practical attempts on the part of the
Southern people to deprive the negro of his
rights as a freedman, may result in bloody (
collisions, and will certainly plunge South
ern society into restless fluctuations and an
archical confusion.
Such evils can he prevented only wr con
tinuing the control of the National Govern
ment aI the States lately in rebellion, until
free labor is fully developed and established,
and the advantages and blessings under the
new order of things have disclosed them
selves. The desirable result will be hasten
ed by a firm declaration on the part of the
Government that national control in the
South will not cease until such results are
secured. Only in this way can security be
established in the South, which will render
numerous immigration possible, and such
immigration would materially aid a favora
ble development of things. The solutiou of
the problem will be very much facilitated by
enabling all the loyal and free labor elements
of the South to exercise a healthy influence
upon legislation; it will hardly be possible to
secure the freedmen against oppressive class
legislation and private persecution unless he
be endowed with a certain measure of polit
ical power. -
As to the future peace and harmony of
the Union, it is of the highest importance
that the people of the States lately in rebel
lion be not permitted to build up another
"peculiar iustitution." whose spirit is in
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conflict with the fundamental principles of
our political systsm; for as long as they
cherish interests peculiar to themselves in
preference to those they have in common
with the rest of the American people, their
loealty to the Union wiH always be suspected.
I desire not to be understood as saying
that there were no well-meaning men among
those who were compromised in the rebell
ion. There are_ many, but neither their
number nor their influence is strong enough
to control the manifest destiny of the pop
ular spirit
There are good reasons tor hope that a
determined policy ou the part of the Na
tional Government will produce innumera
ble and valuable conversions. This consid
eration counsels lenity as to persons, such
so is demanded by the humane and enlight
ened spirit of our times, and vigor and firm
ness in the carrying out of principles, such
as is demanded by the national sense of jus
tice and the exigencies of our situation.
In submitting this report I desire to say
that I have conscientiously endeavored to see
things as they were, and to represent them
as I saw them. I have been careful not to
use language stronger than was warranted
by the thoughts I intended to express. A
comparison of the tenor of the annexed doc
uments with that of my report will convince
you that I have studiously avoided over
statements. Certain legislative attempts at
present made in the south, and especially
in Sonth Carolina, seem to be more than
justifying the apprehensions I have express
ed.
Conscious though I am of having used my
best endeavors to draw from what I saw
and learned, correct general conclusions, yet
I am far from placing too great a trust in my
own judgment when interests of such mag
nitude are at stake. I know that this re
port is incomplete, although as complete as
an observation of a few months would ena
ble me to make it. Additional facts might
be elicited calculated to throw new light up
on the subject. Although I see no reason
for believing that things nave changed for
the better since I left the South, yet such
may be the case. Admitting all these pos
possibilities, still I would entreat you to
take no irretraceable step toward relieving
the States lately in rebellion from all nation"
al control, until such favorable changes are
clearly and unmistakably ascertained.
To that end, and by virtue of the permis
sion you honored me with when sending me
out, to communicate to you my views as to
measures of policy proper to be adopted, I
would now respectfully suggest that you ad
vise Congress to send one or more "investi
gating committees "into the Southern States
to inquire for themselves into the actual con
dition of things before final action is taken
upon the readmission ofsuchStates to their
representation in the legislative branch of the
Government and the withdrawal of all na
tional control from that section of the coun
try.
TALLEYRAND AND THE COUNTRY
WOMAN.
In 1793, M. de Talleyrand was in Boston.
One day while crossing the ir.arket-place.
he was compelled to stop by a long row of
wagons, all loaded with vegetables. The
wily courtier, generally so dead to emotion,
could but look with a kind of pleasure at
these wagons, and the little wagoners, who,
by-the-by. were young and pretty country
women. Suddenly the vehicle came to a
stand, and the eyes of M. de Talleyrand
chanced to rest upon one of the young wo
men, who appeared more lovely and grace
ful than the others. An exclamation esca
ped from his lips. It attracted the atten
tion of the fair one, whose country dress
and large hat bespoke daily visits to the
market. As she beheld the astonished Tal
leyrand, whom she recognized immediately,
she burst out, laughing.
"What! is it you? ' exclaimed she.
"Yes, indeed, it is I. But you, what
are you doing here?"
"I?" said the young woman. "I am wait
ing for my turn to pas.- on. Tam going to
sell my greens and vegetables at the mar
ket.
At that moment the wagons began to move
along; she of the straw hat applied the
whip to her horse, told M. de Talleyrand
the name of the village where she was liv
ing, requesting him earnestly to come and
see her, disappeared, and left him au if riv
eted to the spot by this strange appari
tion.
Madame la Comtesse de la Tour-du-pin,
| (Mademoiselle de Billion,) the most elegaut
among the ladies of the court of Louis
XVltn, King of France, and whose moral
and intellectual worth had shone with so
dazzling a luster in the society of her nu
merous friends and admirers. At the time
when the French nobility emigrated, she
was young, lovely, endowed with the most
remarkable talents, and, like all the ladies
who held a rank at court, had only had time
to attend to such duties as belonged to her
highly fashionable and courtly life.
Let any one fancy the sufferings and ago
ny of that woman, born in the lap of wealth
and who had breathed nothing but perfumes
under the gilded ceilings of the royal palace
at V ersailles, when all at once she found
herself surrounded with blood and massa
cres, and saw every kind of danger beset
ting her young and beloved husband and
her infant child!
They succeeded in flying from France. It
was their good fortune to escape from the
bloody land where Robespierre and his as
sociates were busy at the work of death.
Alas ! in those times of terror the poor chil
dren themselves abandoned the parental
roof, for no hiding place was secure against
the vigilant eye of those monsters who thirs
ted for innocent blood.
The fugitives landed in America, and first
went to Boston, where they found a retreat.
But what a change for the young, pretty,
and fashionable lady, spoiled from infancy
by loud and continual praises of her beauty
and talents!
Mons. de la Teur-du-l'in was extravagant
ly fond of his wife. At the court of France
he had seen her, with the proud eye of a
husband, the object of general admiration.
Indeed her conduct hadalwaye been virtu
ous and exemplary. But now in a foreign
land, and among unsophisticated republi
cans, (1793) what wastne use of courtly re
finement ?
Happy as he was in seeing her escape
from all the perils he had dreaded on her
own account, still he could not but deplore
the future lot of the wife of his bosom.
However, with the prudent foresight of a
good father and a kind husband, he nerved
himself against despair, and exerted himself
to render their condition less miserable than
that of many emigrants who were starving
when the little money thev had brought
over with them had been exhausted. Not a
word of English did he know; but his wife
spoke it fluently, and admirably well.
They hoarded at Mrs. Muiler's a good
natured, notable woman, who, on every oc
casion, evinced the greatest respect and ad
miration for her fair boarder; yet M. de la
Tour-du-pin was in constant dread lest the
! conversation of that good, plain, and well
meaning woman, might be the cause of great
: ennui to his lady. What a contrast to the
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society of such gentlemen as M. de Nor
bonne, M. I). Talleyrand, and high
minded and polished nobility of France !
Whenever he was thinking of the transition,
(particularly when absent from his wife, and
tilling the garden of the cottage which they
were going to inhabit,) he felt such pangs
and heart throbbing as to make him appre
hensive on his return to Mrs. Muller s to
meet the looks of bis beloved wife, whom
he expected to see bathed in tears. Mean
while, the good hostess would give him a
hearty shake of the hand, and repeat to
him, "Happy husband ! Happy husband!"
At hist came the day when the fugitive
family left the boarding house of Mrs. Mul
ler to go and inhabit their little cottage,
where they were to be at last exempt from
want, with an onlv servant, a negro, a kind
of Jacko'-all-traaes —viz., gardener, foot
man, and cook. The last function M. de la
Tour-de-pin dreaded most of all to see him
undertake.
It was almost dinner time. The poor
emigrant went into his little garden to gath
er some fruit, and tai ried as long as possible
On his return home his wife was absent;
looking for her, he entered the kitchen, and
saw a young country-woman, who. with her
back to the door, was kneading dough; her
arms of snowy whiteness were bare up to
the elbows. M. de la Tour-du-Pin started;
the young woman turned round. It. was his
beloved wife, who had exchanged her mus
lins and silk for a country dress, not as for
a fancy ball, but to play the part of a real
farmer's wife. At the sight other husband,
her cheeks crimsoned, and she joined her
hauds, in a supplicating manner. "Oh !
my love," said she, "do not laugh at me.
I am as expert as Mrs. Muller."
Too full of emotion to speak, he clasps
her to his bosom, and kisses her fervently.
From his inquiries, he learned that when
he thought her given up to despair, she had
employed her time more usefully for their
future happiness. She had taken lessons
from Mrs. Muller and her servants, and,
after s>x months, had become skillful in the
culinary art, a thorough housekeeper, dis
covering her angelic fortitude.
"Dearest," continued she, "if you knew
how ea.-y it is ! We in a moment understand
what it would cost a countrywoman some
times one or two years to learn. Now we
shall be happy—you will no longer be afraid
of ennui for me, nor I of doubts about my
abilities, of which I will give you many
proofs," said she looking with a bewitching
smile at him. ' 'Come, come, you promised
us a salad, and I am going to bake for to
morrow; the oven is hot. To-morrow the
bread of the town will do —but oh! hence
forward leave it to me."
From that moment, Madame de la Tour
du-Pin kept her word; she insisted on going
herself to Boston to sell vegetables and
cream-cheese. It was on such an errand to
town that M. de Talleyrand met her. The
day after be went to pay her a visit, and
found her in the poultry-yard, surrounded
by a host of hungry chicks and pigeons.
She was all that she promised to be. Be
sides her health had been so much benefit
ted that she seemed less fatigued by the
fatigued by the h< pusework than if she had
attended the balls of the winter. Her beau
ty which had been remarkable in the gorge
ous palace of Versailles, wa i dazzling in her
cottage in the New World. M. de Talley
rand said so to her.
"Indeed!" replied she with naivete —
"indeed, do you think so? lam delighted
to hear it. A wornnn is always and every
where proud of her personal attractions.
At tnat moment the black servant bolted
into the drawing-room, holding in his hand
his jacket, with a long rent in the back.
"Misses, him jacket torn; please mend
him !" She immediately took a needle and
repaired Gullah's jacket, and continued the
conversation with a charming simplicity.
This little adventure left a deep impres
sion on the mind of M. de Talleyrand, who
used to relate it with that tone of voice pe
culiar to his narrations.
CONCERNING LAUGHTER.
[From the Saturday Review, Oct. 7.]
There are times when the body craves for
laughter as it does for food. This is the
laughter which, on some occassion or other,
has betrayed us all inta a scandalous, un
seasonable, remorseful gaiety. After long
abstinence from cheerful thought, there are
few occasions so sad and solemn as to render
this important revolt impossible, unless
where grief absorbs the whole soul, and low
ers the system to a uniformity ot sadness.
In fact, as no solemnity can be safe from
incongruities, such occasions are not seldom
the especial scene of these exposures—of
explosions of wild, perverse hilarity taking
the culprit at unawares; and this even while
he is aghast at his flagrant insensibility to
the demand of the hour. This is the laugh
ter so often ascribed to Satanic influence.
The nerves cannot forego the wonted stimu
lus, and are malignantly on the watch, as it
were, to betray the higher faculties into
this unseemly indulgence. Thus John
and Charles Wesley, in the early days of
their public career, set forth one particular
day to sing hyiuns together in the fields;
but, on uplifting the first stave, one of them
was suddenly struck with a sense of some
thing ludicrous in their errand, the other
caugnt the infection, and both fell into con
vulsions of laughter, renewed on every at
tempt to carry out their first design, till they
were faiu to give up and own themselves for
that time conquered by the devil.
There is a story of Dr. Johnson much to
the same purpose. Naturally melancholy,
lie was yet a great laugher, and thus was an
especial victim to the possession we epcak
of, for no one laughs in depress! on who has
not learnt to laugh in uiirth. He was din
ing with his friend Chambers in the Temple
and at first betrayed so much physical suf
fering and mental dejection that his compan
ion could not help boring him with reme
dies. By degrees he rallied, and with the
rally came the need of a general reaction.
At this point Chambers happened to say
that a common friend had been with him
that morning making his will, Johnson —or
rather his nerveous system—seized upon
this as the required subject. He raised a
ludicrous picture of the ' 'testator' going a
bout boasting of the fact of his will-making
to anybody that would listen, down to the
inn keeper on the road.
Roaring with laughter, he trusted that
Chambers had had the conscience not to de
scribe the testator as of aound mind, honed
there was a legacy to himself, and concluded
with saying that he would have the will set
to verse and a ballad made out of it. Mr.
Chambers, not at all relishing this pleasan
try, got rid of his guest as soon as he could.
But not so did Johnson get rid ot his merri
ment; he rolled in convulsions till he got out
ofthe Temple Gate, and then, supporting
himself against a post, sent forth peals so
loud as, in the silence of the night, to be
heard from Temple Bar to Fleet Ditch. > e
hear of stomach coughs; this was a stomach,
or ganglionic, laugh.
The mistimed laughter of children has
often some such source as this, though the
sprite that possesses theui has rarely the
' gnome-like essence. A healthy boy, after
a certain length of constraint, is sometimes
as little responsible for his laughter as the
hypochondriac. Mrs. Beccher Stowe, in
describing, and defending, a puritanical
strictness of Sabbath, observance, recalls the
long family expositions and sermons which
alternated in her youth with prolix meeting
services, at all of which the younger mem
bers of the household are required to assist
in profound stillness of attention. On one
of these occasions, on a hot Summer after
noon, a heedless grasshopper of enormous
dimensions leapt on the sleeve of one of the
boys. The tempting diverson was not to
be resisted; he slily .secured the animal, and
imprisoued a hind leg between his firmly
compressed lips.
One by que, the youthful congregation
became alive to the awkward contortions
and futile struggles of the long-legged cap
tive: they knew that to laugh was to be flog
ged, but after so many sermons the need was
imperative, and they laughed, and were
logged accordingly. Different from all these
types is the grand, frank laugh that finds its
place in history and biograbhy, and belongs
to master minds. Political and party feel
ing may raise, in stirring times, any amount
of animosity, even in good natured men; but
Dring about a between them, and
an answering chord 1:5 struck, a tie is estab
lished not easily broken. Something of
the old rancor is gone forever. There is a
storv of Canning and Brougham, after hat
ing and spitting one another through a ses
sion, finding themselves suddenly face to
face in some remote district in Cumberland,
with only a turnpike gate between them.
The situation roused their magnanimity,
simultaneously they broke into laughter,
and passed each on his separate way, better
friends from that time forth.
No honest laugher knovis anything about
his own laugh, which is fortunate, asitisapt
to be the most grotesque part of a man, es
pecially if he is anything of an original.
Character, humor, oddity, all expatiate in
it, and the features and voice have to ac
commodate themselves to the occasion as
they can. There is Prince Hal's laugh, "till
his face is like a wet cloak ill laid up;" there
is the laugh we see in Dutch pictures, where
every wrinkle of the old face seems to be in
motion; there is the convulsive laugh, in
which arms, and legs join; there is the wliin
cey the ventral laugh, Dr. Johnson's laugh
like a Rhinoceros: Doiuinie Sampson's laugh
lapsing without any intermediate .stage into
dead gravity, and the ideal social laugh—the
delighted and delighting chuckle which ush
ers in a joke, and the cordial triumphant
laugh which sounds its praises.
We say nothing of all the laughs—and
how many there arc! —which have no mirth
in them; nor of the "ha, ha!" of melodrama,
and the ringing laugh of the novel, as be
ing each unfamiliar to our waking ears.
the laugh, if it be genuine and
comes from decent people, it :e as attrac
tive as the Piper of Ilamelin. It is impos
sible not to want to know what a hearty
laugh is about. Some of the sparkle of life
is near, and we long to share it The gift of
laughter is one of the compensation powers
of the world. A nation that laughs is so far
prosperous. It may not have material wealth
out it has the poetry of posterity. When
Lady Duff Gordon laments that she never
hears a hearty laugh in Egypt, and when
Mr. Pal grave, on the contrary, makes the
Arabs proper a laughing people, we place
Arabia, for this reason, higher among the
countries than its old neighbor. And it is
the same with homes. Wherever there is
pleasant laughter there inestmable memories
are being ptored up, and such free play giv
en to nerve and braiu that whatever thought
and power the family circle is capable of
will have a fair chance of due expansion.
POPULAR FALLACIES.
The following is from Hall's Journal of
Health: That warm air must be impure,
and that, consequently, it is hurtful to sleep
in a comparatively warm room. A warm
room is as easily ventilated as a cool one.
The warm air of a close vehicle is less in
jurious, be it ever so foul from crowding,
than to ride and sit still and feel uncomfort
ably cold for an hour. The worst that can
happen p rom a crowded conveyance is a faint
ing speii; while, from sitting even less than
an hour in a still, chilly atmosphere, has in
duced attacks of pheumonia, that is, inflam
mation of the lungs, which often prove fatal
in three or four days. It is always positive
ly injurious to sleep in a close room where
water freezes, such a degree of cold causes
the negatively poisonous carbonic acid gas
of a sleeping-room to settle near the floor,
where it is breathed and rcbreathed by the
sleeper, and is capable of producing typhoid
fevers iu a few hours. Hence, there is no
advantage, and always danger, especially to
weakly persons, in sleeping in aa atmosphere
colder than the freezing point.
That is necessary to the proper and effi
cient ventilation of a room, even in warm
weather, that a window or door should be
left open; this is always hazardous to the
sick and convalescent. Quito as safe a plan
of ventilation, and as efficient, is to keep a
lamp or a small fire burning in the fireplace.
This creates a draft, and carries bad airs and
gasses up the chimney.
That out-door exercise before breakfast is
healthful. It is never so. And, from the
very nature of th ngs is hurtful, especially
to persons of poor health; although the very
vigorous may practice it with impunity. In
winter the body is easily chilled through and
though unless the stomach has been fortified
with a good warm breakfast, and in warm
weather, miasmatic and mularious gases and
emenations speedily act upon the empty and
weak stomach in away to vitiate the circu
! latioo and induce feaver and ague, diarrhea,
! and dysentery. Entire families, who have
: 'arranged to cat breakfast before leaving the
; house and to take supp jr before sundown,
have had a complete exemption from fever
and ague, while the whole community around
< theui was suffering from it from having ncg
i lected these precautions.
That whatever lessens cough is "good
! for it, and, if preservecftn, will cure it. On
the contraiy, all coughs are soonest cured
by promoting and increasing them, because
nature endeavores by the cough to help
bring up the phlegm and yellow matter
which is in the lungs, as the lungs cannct
heal while that matter is there. And as it
1 cannot lie got rid of without coughing, the
more coughing there is the sooner it is got
rid of —the sooner are the lungs cleared out
for the fuller and freer reception of pure air
which is their natural food. The only rem
edies which can do any good in coughs are
such as loosen the phlegm, and thus less
cough is required to bring it up. These
remedies are warmth, outdoor exercise, and
mything which slightly nauseates.
A coquette treats a lover like a bouquet —
carries him about a certain time for amuse
ment or show, and then quietly picks him
to pieces.
Doctor Mott used to say that roast beef,
serenity of mind, cold water baths, and an
amiable and pretty wife would make almost
any man healthy, wealthy and wise.
YOU ME 19; NO 4.
DURATION OF LIFE.
The aTerage duration of the life of man in
civilized society is about thirty three and a
third years. This is called a generation,
making three in a century. But there are
certain localities and certain communities of
people where this average is considerably ex
tended. The mountaineer lives longer than
the lowlander, the fanner than the artisan;
the traveler than the sedentary; the temper
ate than the self-indulgent; the just than the
dishonest. "The wicked shall not live out
half his days," is the announcement of Di
vinity. The philosophy of this is found in
the fact, that the moral character has a
strong power over the physical; power much
more controlling than is generally imagined.
The true man conducts himself in the light
of Bible precepts; is temperate in all things;
is "slow to anger;" and on his grave is writ
ten: "He went about doing good." In
these three things are the great elements of
human health: the restraint of the appetites
the control of the passions: and that highest
type of physical exercise, "'going about doing
good. " It is said of the eminent Quaker
philanthropist, Joseph John Gurney, that
the labor and pains he took to go and Bee
personally the objects of his contemplated
charitiesj so that none of them should be
unworthily bestowed, was of itself almost
the labor of oDe man, and he attended to
his immense banking business besides: in
fact, he did too much, and died at sixty.
The average length of human life, of all
countries at this age of the world, is about
twenty eight years. One quarter of ail who
die do not reach the age of seven; one half
die before reaching seventeen: and yet the
average of life of "Friends," in Great Bri
tain and Ireland in 1860, was nearly fifty-six
years, just double the average life of other
people. Surely this is a strong inducement
for all to practice for themselves, and to in
culcate it upon their children day by day,
that simplicity of habit, that quietness of
demeanor, that restraint of temper, that
control of the appetites and propensities,
and that orderly systematic, ana even mode
of life, which "Friend's" discipline incul
cates, and which are demonstrably the means
of so largely increasing the average of hu
man existence.
Reasoning from the analogy of the animal
creation, mankind should live nearly an hun
dred years; that law seeming to be, that life
should be five times the length of the period
of growth; at least, the general observation
is that the longer persons are growing, the
longer they live; other things being equal.
Naturalists say.
A dog grows for 2 years, and lives 8,
An ox " 4 " " 16.
A horse " 5 " " 26.
A camel " 8 " " 40.
Man " 20 should live 100.
But the sad fact is, only one man for every
thousand reaches one hundred years. Still
it is encouraging to know, that the science
of life, as revealed by the investigations of
the physiologist and the teachings of educa
ted medical men, is steadily extending the
period of human existence.
The distinguished historian Macaulay
states that in 1685 one person in twenty died
each year: in 1850, out of forty persons, only
one died. Dupin says, that from 1776 to
1843 the duration of life in France increased
fifty-two days annually, for in 1781 the mor
tality was one in twenty-nine; in 1843, one
in forty. The rich men in France live forty
two years on an everage; the poor,only thirty.
Those who are "well to do in the world" live
about eleven years longer than those who
have to work from day to day for a living.
Remunerative labor and the diffusion of the
knowledge of the laws of life among the
masses, with temperance and thrift, are the
great means of adding to human health and
lite; but the more important ingredient, hap
piness, is only to be found in daily loving,
obeying and serving Him "who giveth ua
all things richly to enjoy."— Half s Journal
of health.
A COUNTRY HOME.
The following tribute to the charms and
elevating influence of a rural life is from the
pen of the Hon. Horace Greely, principal
editor of the New York Tribune:
"As for me, long tossed on the stormiest
waves of doubtful conflict and arduous en
deavor, I have begun to feel, since the
shades of forty years fell upon me, the wea
ry, tempest-driven voyager's longing for
land, the wanderer's yearning for the ham
let, where, in childhood, he nestled by his
mother's knee, and was soothed to sleep on
her breast. The sober, down-hill of life,
dispels many illusions, while it developes or
strengthens within us the attachment, per
haps long smothered or for 'that
dear hut, our home, 1 And so I, in the so
ber afternoon of life, when its sun, if not
high, is still warm, have bought a few acres
of land in the broad, still country, and,
beiring hither my household treasures, have
resolved to steal from the city's labors and
anxieties, at least one day in each week,
whereby to revive as a farmer the memo
ries of my childhood's humble home. And
already .1 realize that the experiment cannot
cost so much as it is worth. Already I find
in that day's quiet an antidote and a solace
for the feverish, festering cares of the week
which environ it. Already my brook mur
murs a soothing even-song to my burning,
throbbing brain; and my trees, gently stir
red by the fresh breezes, whisper to my
spirit something of their own quiet strength
and patient trust in God. And thus do I
faintly realize, but for a brief and flitting
day, the serene joy which shall irradiate the
farmer's vocation, when a fuller and truer
education shall have refined and chastened
his animal cravings, and when science shall
have endowed him with her treasures, re
deeming labor from drudgery while quad
rupling its efficiency, ana crowning with
beauty and plenty our bounteous beneficent
earth."
Important Railroad Contract.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 10,
The contract in progress of negotiation
between the Atlantic and Great Western
railroad company and the Philadelphia and
Reading railroad company has been finally
agreed upon, and goes into effect immedi
ately. It provides for laying a line in the
narrow gauge upon the Atlantic and Great
Western railroad to Cincinnati, Cleveland
and other western cities, and also the imme
diate construction of a line of narrow gauge
railroad through Clarion, Jefferson, Centre,
Union and Northumberland counties to con
nect the Great Western with the Catawissa
road, thus forming, by means of the latter
road, ind the Philadelphia and Reading
road, a continuous line of narrow gauge
railroad from all the great cities West to
Philadelphia and New York. One immedi
ate result of this contract will be the estab
lishment of a line of steamships between
Philadelphia and England. for the building
and equipment, of which, the latter compa
nies have contributed half the amount nec
ffwirv
In the suit between the Catawissa and
Pennsylvania railroads, to be heard in the
Nisi Prius branch of the Supreme Court to
morrow, the Reading road becomes a party
with the Catawissa road,
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PROTECTION t'OMEXOF.IS TO ITS BT
AN ENGLISHMAN.
Mr. Handel Cossham, one of the English
capitalists now in this country, speaking at
the New-York Union-League Club Supper,
said,—
"No Englishman who hadnot9een Amer
ica with his own eyes could have any proper
conception of the magnitude of her resources,
the rapidity of her progress, or the great
power she wielded as a nation. He was not
disposed to make small beer of his native
land, for he be an unworthy son if he
did; but he had to acknowledge that Ameri
ca was far ahead of England in her resources
and her temtoiy. He thought that if A
mericans only developed their couutiy t re
sources in the future, at Englishmen had
Great Britain s their future would he great
I indeed
The very essence of troth, —the sum of
the laws of economy which underlies the
wealth of nations! How did Englishmen,
with the harmonious legislation of their
Parliment ever seconding their efforts, 'de
velop the resources of Great Britain?' 1 By
protecting the domestic manufactures of
their island against foreign competition for
centuries together, without suspension or
relaxation, by every device that lawyers
could frame, and practical spinners, smelt
ers, and weavers, could suggest. When this
persistent policy of protection was crowned
with the success at which it aimed, and
England had become the "Workshop of the
World," then, and not till then, did she
preach to the nations of the world her im
pudent doctrine of Free Trade, —that the
way for them to grow rich was to raise raw
products for her use at prices she should see
fit to pay, and to take from her in exchange
manufactured goods at prices she should
see fit to charge.— N. Y. Tribune.
A BEAUTIFUL SOLITUDE.
The common wayside road, tamest and
most trite of objects everywhere else, is ex
ceedingly beautiful in the Island of Borneo.
A recent traveller says he walked from the
wharf at Sarawak to the mines at Bidi, and
that his path lay through thickest jungle,
bordering the road like a jewelled wall, for
all along the vista blushed the peering heads
of flowers, rich and rare of tint, flowers such
as horticultural enthusiasts see only in their
dreams, dead silence reigns around, and the
traveler starts when it is broken for a mo
ment by the crash of some giant branch far
in the depth of the immemorial forest, where
the vast trees throw deep and solemn shadow
around. The song of birds is not heard
there, nor the restless rustling of gay-phim
aged wings. Thousands of butterflies glitter
and flit, like soul-endowed gems, in the
steady, kingly sunshine; but they are qnite
noiseless, and the traveler's is like a marvel
ous magic pilgrimage in a dream.
BEAUTIFUL SIMILITUDE.
God knows what keys in the human soul
to touch, in order to draw out its sweetest
and moat perfect harmonies. They may be
the minor strains of sadness and sorrow: they
may be the loftier notes of joy and gladness;
God knows where the melodies of our nature
are, and what discipline will call them forth.
Some with plaintive songs moat walk in the
lowlv vale of life's weary way; others in lof
tier hymns shall sing of nothing but joy as
they tread the mountain tops of lire; hut
they all unite without a discord or jar. as
ascending anthem of loving and believing
hearts finds its way ißto the chorus of the
redeemed in heaven.
NEVER KNOCK UNDER.—NO, never.—
Always rally your forces for another and
more desperate assault upon adversity. If
calumny assails you ana the world —as it
is apt to do in such cases, takes part with
your traducers, don't turn moody and misan
thropic, or worse still, seek to drown your
unhapiness in dissipation. Bide your time.
Disprove the slander if you can; if not, live
it down. If poverty comes upon you like a
thief in the night—what then? Let it rouse
you, as the presence of a reai thief would do
to energetic action. No matter how deeply
you may have got into hot water—always
provided that you did not help the Father
of Lies to heat it your case, if you are made
of the right kind of stuff, it is not desperate;
for it is in accord with the divine oraer and
sweep of things that life shou'dhave no dif
ficulties which an honest, dete.mined man,
with Heaven's help, cannot surmount.
FIVE DAUGHTERS.— A gentleman had five
daughters, all of whom he brought up to
some respectable occupation in life —These
daughters married, one after another, with
the consent of their father. The first mar
ried a gentleman by the name of Poor, the
second a Mr. Little, the third a Mr. Short,
the fourth a Mr. Brown, and the fifth a Mr.
Hogg. At the wedding of the latter, her
sisters, with their husbands, were present.
After the ceremonies of the wedding were
over, the old gentleman said to his guests:
"I have taken groat pains to educate my
daughters, that they might act well their
part in life, and from their advantages
and improvements, I fondly hoped that
they would do honor to the family: and now
I find that all my pains, cares and expec
tations have turned to nothing but a poor
little, short, brown, fujgg.
CONCERNING DOORS.—When you go into
a neighbor's premises, be sure to leave the
doors us you find them. If you find the
door shut you may reasonably suppose that
your friend wanted it shut, ami therefore
you have no right to leave it open; and if
you find it open, no matter how cold the
weather is, do you leave it open; for it is but
reasonable to suppose that it was left open
for some good purpose. And the same is
good for all places, whether they be houses,
stores. factories, offices, or whatever they
may be. Remember the rule —it has no
exception; leave the doors as you find them
if the owner of the door does not know how
he wants it. how do you know how be wants
it?
Two YOUNG MEN. —Two young men com
menced the sail-making business at Phila
delphia. They bought a lot of duck from
Stephen Girmrd on credit, and a friend had
engaged to endorse for them. Each caught
a roll and was carrying it off, when Girard
remarked.
"Had you not better get a dray?"
"No; et is not far, ana we can carry ii our
selves. '
"Tell your friend he needn't endorse your
note. I'll take it without"-
WOMAN is never so amiable as when
she is useful; and as for beauty, though men
inay|?all ia love with it. at a play.there is noth
ing to make them adhere to their love like
seeing them at work —engaged in the useful
offices of the home and family.
Human existence hinges npoatrifle#, What
would beauty be withoutaoap-
HAPPINESS consists in thinking you are
hajjjy; and misery in thiflfcingyeu