II a 1 . (t ' . t l ' I= s.,r. sz.oAN,.;iditor. VOLUME 20. ' Itttrt pottrtl. TUE onorm. 9r, raArLas: =2 Whem the waters ripple by me, And t h e birds about Me sing, In then);la r of early morning in the irshuess of the spring; Where t h e young leaves attic maple On my tate their shadorrfeast quiet thought ful, hot to happy, I I am dreaming of the past. Calling up the friends that with tee Uave talked of hopes and fears, !cloth's pleasant vale of bueaty, Since the springtime of my years. 0, this thick old grove of maple. ' - To heart its shades are dear, For nag tight of pleasant fates . Thai have looked upon me here. When the Mick woods of the winter 13arviro footprints in the snow! ‘Virett - thelirst faint,learca of-springtlnie Threw their tteiublinl shade below; Men the !Alibi ni heat Of suminer Made 'these heavy shOwere sweet, Or the red leaves of the autumn , Brioldly,drifted to my feet. Talking hopeful of the future; ' Uere'whathc irs.have been beguiled, Ever since these woods bulield Rut a little sinless child. Yet I nth not sad Or Lonesome, Though of Blends that I have known, Some are changed and parted (Com roe; Anne tioyed are dead gnd gone) Passed fromilfe's dhn AIM' for eVet; 0, I cannot weep their lot; . On the heavenly aide or Jordan, Are the groves that wither not, And the living, once so cherished, - Cast no shadow' on my heart; Had they loved, they had not left me: Better then to) ive Apart.— home Jourßal eifilire 31-s.iritellmtA. . (Front the Sunday Times.] JOHN 'IVIENEFEE4 THE FIGHTING DOCTOR. 1 Tho hero of the following short ;sketch was a na . tire of Kentucky. His lather wits a fernier in 'mod erate circumstances, living a few miles from Liouia ville, who managed by great labor and scrupulous economy, to give his favorite and first, born son an excellent education, embracing the degree of a doc , for of medicine. Young Menefee was'remarkable from the earliest period of his intellectual develop°. ment for an intense end burning ambition, soch , as could brook no rival in whatever he undertook, while the glorious gifts of a magnificent brain and mighty physical constitution ECCMC : a to furnish . the surest guaraittees for the filtimate reality of his every hope. -By prodigious exertions day and night,' be stood foremost in all his classes at-college, and graduated with an eclat that obscured the fame of all, competi tors, so that-had the rising star of genius rnet with I no adverse shock to hurl it away from its appropri ate and radient orbit, imagination can scarcely as sign a limit to the splendor it might have attained. But, unfortunately, a hostile collision occurred, at the very commencemento f his career, to arouse the sleeping volcano of his darkest passions, and project the course of his ambition at a dangerous tangent from the circle of a peaceful life. He had a young and beautiful siSter, who was se duced and betrayed by a fashionable villien from Louisville, James. Murray, a lawyer, and univer sally regarded as the most desperately brave due lilt that Kentucky—the, land so prodigal for, heroes— ever produced. r , sa Whlid the father and mother of the ruined girl were weeping tears ofdespair, John, then only twen years, armed himself and proceeded in search of his enemy. He found him in the court house, immedi ately after en adjournment, and without uttering a word, attecked and belabored hirri dreadfully with a cowhide. Murray,_eri his part, fought like a fiend, but in vain; for the fiery desperation of , fierce and concentrated wrath appeared to have given young Menefee the strength of a dokn. Ho blinded his antagonist with quick and countless blows, dashed from his hand'every pistol the-other succeeded in drawing from hie'pecket, and-flagellated him till he. was literally covered with blood. A challenge was the consequence: enefee'ae - cepted on these conditions: That the meeting'shouid take place on a certain spot the ensuing morning: directly after sunrise. , Three PistOis . , Were to be loaded—each foe should tale one and fire by turns at a mark ten paces distant. Whoever hit nearest the centre Should have th,e_rertifilning Plifol; nnd' • shoot at his adversary's head. • If he missed, the . other should be entitled to a shot, and so, on ,by ternation till one of them should fall dead.. These ferocious terms were mutually settled, and the,pritt-' ciliate and seconds met accordingly on the banks of the Ohio River, six miles below the falls. The sectride measured off ten paces,'and then made a black spot with moisonod gunpowder, about as high: as a man's head, on a slender.oak tree. They then, loaded the three pistols, handed one to each princi-1 pal, and retained the third to begiven to the success- : ful marksman. The antagonists then cut a pack of, cards for the first shot. Murray drew, the queen of diamonds, Menefee the ace of spades, and so won •' the first fire. ,He immediately. took his stand, turn - pd his right side to the tree, let the hand. which grasped the weapon, now at hill cock, fall until the' muzzle 'reached below Ids knee, fixed hie flashing blue eye stead* a moment on the mark, and then,' swift as thought, - raised and pulled the 'trigger. Unfortunately', the pistol hung fi'rei as it is 'called in the backwood—that is, the flash in the pan wail seen first, and then the explosion of the,load'in- the barrel, sounding long, like a double report. , Under such circumstances nest Orions would have !nissed the tree; hut. as it was ) Menefde's bullet barely cut the upper edge of the mark: An'ejteellent, shot! Murray now took his position. woe a famous level shooter ? having, previously slain three men in as Many duels, sending his ball directly through titele brains. He raised slowly, poised a deliberate tarn, stood motionless as the tree at which the muzzle Of his pistol was pointed, and fired. The crack was short and sharp as the peal of a bell; and when the blue wreathes of the curling 'monk eleireil 00y, the black spot on the oak was not' to .seen—the white bullet-hole bored into the splintered wood oc .cupied its place. - • , 1 ' * ' . , • , , I d. • t ~ m il B I i , . , i j. 71111. , i ; ... , (4,7 i il , ..i...1 ~.., ~., :,,,, I.A 7; . ~ 4 , 11 i.. 1 r ;0 I' ', A : Cig -' • ) - t 1 ;1 t ir r t 11; : -ill i ' ' ':' I -• !, .(:. .ii ,I;.; ' e t t: iv It "f . 1 ~•'' ' ',_ , , 1 — 5 0 ,: ' ,., .., . t .!:, ?, * i., * 62, - , .: ; ;7.1 ! 13:311. • _ _ 1 ...: - r,, :. ' t.F ..,,,,, r n , ... ..t ~ r: ~ • ~; t - , ,• • .. Ir. -- 5 1 . _L. ~ _, • • - .••••:1- •' ^,:..1••11 " •.•-.5:.!. i• • , ~-.• 14A •-• ,! , . 7 ~1. ; ; '- ' '., 1 - „:- fl 7, ••,-,;'„. ',..., iI; ' /a ^a i '' .. 1 ~%. 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Ho raised his right hand gradually, and fixed a mortal aim at. Menefee's head, in which posture he continued for meridian two-minutes. But Olenefee still betrayed no motion. Not ifneive shook face paled not. a shade. A bitter smile of Scorn writhed on his purple lip, and his 'gleaming blue eye, giiingtercely into that of his deadly foe, seemed to the wondering secundelik i e a ball of fire, so intense and Vengeful was its glare. At length he called out , in a voice piercing and shrill as the shriek' ofa trumpet— 'lliurray.'yOu 41--d coward, why don't you bhciott Areyou afraidto shoot?" , . And whether it was that the position of Murray's arm, so long extended affected the nerve, ,or that he became excited by the mocking taunt, 'or was sure prised at the terrible tones of his enemy's voice, or quailed with . preteniatural. dread before,tho light ning of his burning blue eye, it is impossible to say; but'at least, Whatever might he thecanse, a remark able change passed over his features.—His cheek grew - pallid—his pale lip quivered—his Nand shook. He fired!—The ball ineiely - ,grazed Menefee's left temple without injury. . Then the seconds reloaded the, pistol and placed it in the hands of 'Menefee, and the Parties. again assumed their proper stations. The youthful aven ger of a sister's shame waited not an instant. -lie was in too great a hurry to finish for suspense..Quich as the flash of a sunbeam; he elevated his weapon and fired. With the roar of the explosion, without a sigh or a groan, Murray dropped dead in his tracks: His left' eye had been elan out! Menefee lied the country, and settled in Conway' county, Arkansas. Thenceforth the whole current of his thoughts and passions appeared to be, changed. The earthquake of moral wrath which burst up from the profound abysses of his soul, had ploughed out a new passage for the march of ambition—a passage stained with ineffaceable blood! Before, his heatt had burned with unquenchable enthusiasm to excel in knowledge, in variety, depth; and extent 'of attainments; but he now coveted superiority only in desperate deeds—the ,bloody acheivements of brute bravery. Nor to say the ttuth, could he have selec ted a more appropriate field in the wide world, fur beligerent purposes than Arkansas then Worded. Political strife raged with incredible fury. No man could be a leader either in the partieri•of the state, or in those of a county, unless he stood ready at all' times to defend his principles at the point of the bowie knife and muzzle of the pistol. To enumo ratenll the duels fought by opposing cheifs'of the' different factions during that sanguinary era would stagger belief. , A faint idea of this,ba`rharous state of things may he conceived from the astonishing fact that Arkansas has never to this day' had a sen ator or representative in the councils of the nation, who has not once, if no more periled his life on the so-called "field of honor." • Honorable duels, how ever, formed scarcely a tithihr, of the co m bat s wa ged. Riots, affrays, and deadly rencontres by chance medley, were weekly and sometimes daily occurren ces. Doctor Menefee took a hand L 11, till, and yet he escaped from each ithout a scar, 'id his very name 'grew to be a thing of terror, r ; ~-„„„,1 o f which even bravo men trembled. , „ , ho had reached the summit of his new. fuL be, IL ILvl ;Li last fa tarambition. As a "famous fighter," hi , % - vas versaily acknowledged to be without an equal .and without a second, and that, too, in a country aboun ding with' bold spirits from every part of the Union. The Rectors, the Destine, Wilson, Conivay—the Most redoubtable heroes dreaded bile: r6tit. Noland himself feared the glare of his ferocious blue eye. it would have been a curious inquiry to analyse the motives and feelings of the terrible, duellist of this period. He deme not seem to have been actua ted by sheer and absolute cruelty. He did not, wield the bowie-knife,for the sake of inflicting pain; it was only the sharp instrument with which hector, ed hie way to notoriety. Ho fought, not so much to avenge insults as to achieve popularity. To excel, ascend, culininate, formed the goal of all his thotights and wishes; and to do this In his'present sphere but a' single path lay open—the path marked by fire and blood. Hat became a monomaniac, hope!esBl~ die= eased in the organ of deatroctiveness. Me lived on ly in a sort of ectsatia,,dream 'of bravery—a . dream overflowing with the consciousness, of ,surpassing power—the power, to 'make all eyes (wail ,und all hearts tremble. • , _ He devised extraordinary methods of displaying his courage and contempt of death. Ho Wai known, on .several' occasions, Without uttering a wolliw to approach sad' spit in the faces of notorious bullies, with whotn'ho, had no cause of quarrel, ,and fOr: the sole purpose of provoking a fight. Ono personal advantage however, resulted from this excessive de' speption: No other physician could bo found hardy enough to settle in Conway, where such d foe reigned, and as a matter of course :Menefeo_got all the practice. He even attended on his own wound ed—would cuts man open with his bowie-knife in the morning, and, if called on, sew him up with his needle in the evening. IHe realized ahandsome for tune by - his professional exertions, and deservedly too, fof he war's skillful and attentive doctor. In perilous 'Oases lie was sublinie, for his besiery urg edhint alWaytt to take the restionslbility Of 'aloft . , „ daring in :the promptitude and power of his rente- The old proyerb says, :'‘There must be an end to every thing,", and an end came at last to the reign of ‘ , Theyighting'Doctor," as he vedi Chrtsteiied in blood throughout ,Arkansas. Ile had a neighbor named Phillips, a peaceful inoffeniiire man,' Who , find never previously been engaged in a dif fi cOlty, with any human being, and hence ii that region was generally. deemed a coward.' From some cause which never publicly. transpired, feelings of hostili ty stew .bet Ween the two, and Menefee Sought' an early oiportUnlty to cowhiflo the other in the streets Of Lewisburg.. Phillips bore his chisiiiement with ant an eflhri'of , •resistance. Indeed, at the moment ht : had no Other olternatiie,' for he was altogether Unarmed, his' enetny held a pistol cocked et his Breast. SA'i'URDAY . ..WIQIINING, •DEPgif3Pll::.kP4o',i--:'t, • Immediately afterwards, kowever, Phillips Went and literally loaded !timid( With tpurifernus • Weap- • onv, and returned to face his, 6p on more, equal - • terms. They encountered in the public square while court was au session: never did the son of heaven ,shine on a more obstinate combat.. They first of all fired two rounds with pistols and at the second round Phillips was WOunded.in the loins. But this, instead of checking his furicurt artlor, only tended to inflame and madden him the more. He unsheathed his knife and bot)nded ,upon his enemy, who receiv ed his thru sts with 'a like' deadly blade. Milli, clenched teeth, i'uttm on their lived lips, panting chests, and blazing eyes, they fought like maniacs, till both were bathed in sweat and blood. At, length Phillips. ventured on a 'desperate manmuver. He dropped his own knife, and seizing the naked blade of his 'antagonist, snapped it in ;two by 'main strength, cutting at the sametime his own fingers to 'the boned ' Heiken drew' from' beneath his vest another knife, and 'iriddc'n fierce plunge . at'Mene fees heart; but:leliptee,'ln turn;' . en`ughttfiieharp blade in his bands and Lreitc: off' the point ' when lo! Phillips produced a third llowic-knife, 'pitch larger than the others, and plunged it ,up to the hilt in hip enemy's side, who fell to rise no more, ,M4nOree a be lay on the gory ground. looked up in the victor's face with a ,Sweet smile, and gasped iu a dying voice. ' • " - • , • yon' are•the• king Of Conway now, for you have killed • Tim PwirriNo• Docion:" FOit WIIAT IS A MOT/IRS RESPONSIIILENSII9 is responsible for the rearing of her progeny, for their physical •coristitut!ion and growth, their exerciso,and proper sustenance )12 life. A child left to grow up deformed 'or 'meagre, is an object of maternal negli gouge. " She' is'responsible for a child's habits, in cluding cleanliness, order, "conversation, eating, sleeping and general propriety and behaviiir . ; A child deficient or untaught in these partieularsi will prove's' living merriment of parents l disregard; be cause, generally speaking, a mother can, if she will, greatly control her children in these matters. She is responsible for their deportment—She can matte them modest or impertinent, clownish or po lite. The germ of all these things is inichildhood, and a mother (inn suppress or bring them forth. She is responsible for the , principles which her children entertain in early life. For her it is to say' whether those who go forth from her fireside shall be imbued with sentiment, as virtue, truth, honor, ho nesty, temperance, iudostry, beneVolence, oi„those of a contrary character. vice, fmitdolrunk: enness, idleness, covetousness. These will be found, to be the most natural growth—but on her is involv ed the doily, the:hourly task of weeding her little garden. of eradicating those odious productions, and planting the human heart l ivith the lilly, the roseand the amaranth, that fadeless flower, the emblem of truth: • She is to 'a very considerable extent, responsible fur the temper anddispositien 'of her children. Con= stitutionelly they may be"violent; irritable, revenge ful; but for the regulation. and ,correction of these passions, a motheris responsible, and for the intel 7 lectu al acquirements of her children; that Ist' alic•ia bound to do what she can for this object. Schools, acaderriiei and colleges open their portals through out the land; and every mother-is under heavy re sponsibilities to know that her sons and daughters have all the benefits which these can afford, and which these circumstances permit them to enj She is responsible fur their religious education. The beginning of all wisdom is the fear Of . Ged; and this every mother is capable, to a greater or less degree, of infusing into the miads of her offspring. THE DISSOLUTION OF THE UNION. We extract the following from an eloquent ad dress recently delivered at Cambridge, Muse., by Dr, George, W. Bethune: "Suppose, for one melancholy moment, this beauti l ful economy of exchange were broken up; that the Western valley- werFshut out from the sea by ad verse Government; that those on the coast were hemmed into their narrow limits by hostile. forts along the . MOuntairi ridges; that between the. North entitle Soittlirtherti wero'neither commercial nor moral syMpathy; thitt at every State line passports were demanded and* tariff set=whernustnot-ithrink : rem describing oe terrible, consequences; the, stag nation •, of trade; the silence of, brotherly consel; the constant feeds; the multiplication ofarmies, the Cain like exterminating wars; the overthrow of law by military dictators; the utter ruin oral( that makes us prosperous at home , and respected abroad; the sure catastrophe, metal and Malone! death! Oh! that those who for any reason talk - lightly - of dissiolving this'Union, would consider the beritensely' greate'r 'evilietiCh a rupture wniild inevitably cense, the aw: ful it, , wcitild bring epee themselves; IVltat ,ever may be cant of Words,, no, lover, of law could ever kindle the torch of such incendiarism, no lover of peace provoke such fratricidal slaughter, no lover of,freedom.plot fur such general slavery, no lover of God and man undermine the watch-tower whose light is now shedding over the world such bright prat - Oise or a universal' brothetitood: -Were it pos sible that an American womb could be So cursed tts to bring forth so diabolical a Monster, the malignant Eroistratus could tic successful, a loud, bitter; Heaven compelling ~ e ry would go up frore the earth, swelled,by generation until the final iire's'shall have swept to hell all trace of human crimes: "Anath tnar Anathema!, Marantim!" M.ARRiiING FOR MONRIrI.--11 th ousand, when • accompanied with a pretty face and other acccoin 7 plishments,,, pose* an-Atraction . which few men can look upon, notwithstanding the numberless war nings we have, both as living. examples , And writ ten testimony. A tnan.whomarries for wealth, weds himself to unhappiness and shame, if not to discord. Buiatees advice isOlFlifrom a bad upon the heart, On ' the geniusohe'energy, • the iride,_and spirit, ' whieli man4an'bear! fly from the c urseofowing every thing_ to a•wlfe! 'yeieriar of all nat . - , ur4 position,' it is a lilow ManhaOd:Withid Von„ know not, what it is I do . lily wife'n:fortniie 0/ me not,nptil, after my marriage. , i3ii far so ttre ll • ft saved my reputation from the chtirgo pr fortune,- hunting.: , But Ltell you fairly, that if it had never come at-all, I should bee prouder,. a , greater, nad it happier marrthani have ever been i,or ever can:be, ittlith all itti 'advantages'. Atlas been -a- mill-stone round tfigliiedq and yet DOM:sr never breathed tY Wordlhat WoultivetiniEtny pride;" • &-7)41 4714-D CIIANGE.OP :CLIMATE4 • ;- • ,• That dual. but ..Tell'PercoPTible ;Chrg9 yearly Ain place in the climate of tipper amide, must be apparent 'to all who notice such things.— This is the 16th day of November. Not 'olll.ild the day eta:mild and warm as the same day would be in Englatel,)l4 up to the:present hour not the alight est approach of Winterhis beeti visible. the steambpaes'are fair Motien..till • the Canals aro open, and'iliere B'll6 'talk of.the. former stopping, or the latter - abutting up. Only twenty years ago the lath of November was in the midst of a Can adian winter. No steamboat presumed to run after the let of Mb' month, seldom indeed - after 'the , 20th of October, and:, winter 'vehicles were' in constant run upon the roads., At that time the Rideua Canal was about being s finished, and among other arguments of its e?cpected,usefuloeis,, it Was stated, ,"that water cOrnmindeatien Would be kept open between the'Ot'- tawlif ana'the St. .Lawrencia until Netember."-- New-taiyia, a" full'inenth , might •be added to - the progneatitatiort. This gradual 'change in the cli mate of Canada is an important fact, deserving, of better notice- than wo have given h.—Kingston -1.10 „. : •,, ; • .1 A fovi days ago, there appeared in:the Newark Daily Rdeertiest‘, *111i" , interesting article, setting. forth the:gbfkening effects on our climate, of the an, neinitlon'tif Canada:' It was taken for granted that the peoinaleiton''of Canada would greatly increase af ter heti entrance Intaoer*Unkan, and that bercoun-- tiy wotile i be Mare' tepidly' put Oiler cultivation. In the exlittki:from'the Kingstciq Ini& - which are pub I ish' illzo;4; ini'vegiveci us , as if iii proOref the - cenjOcterWs ofthe seieetilie - .Terseyman, the'r6ttinik able , chcingo.(rom rigor,to serenity in the cliinate, parting flotOcrnea!, of our northern 'neighter:liiis ready,wrought. And when thst • *quadas arc fully peopled and their resources : more thoroughly deyel ; oped, 'the winds whielt.nweep from 1111MCO,10 Ile, will lose that biting chillnessavhicb hiddenics;and snow, In' out teivit country, owing to ittrapidiettlement the chat4elia . ertinbie perdeptrible: - Our springs ern eailiefl;;p*U'r,;fallOater," - our, winters' are shcirter, tlia hen our 6000 took'theii'sojoimi in"the wilderUess,, And though 'we niay,cppear from time to tirseteite going baekWand rather ilian forward in this particular, though for few : days in winter our air may,sting , like the colt! of the Arctic, yet year by year, the severity. of our 4limate lessens. „ .There isiat this Omen merked difference, bet wean the seine lititudes on the eastern and Weitern con tinents. The salt air of the ocean . which surrounds her, keeptibEifglend in• a sort of foggy eqtiability, but upon' theicintirient Of Er rlipe and far iretnute from Much railer and lesis 'cliangtt ble thctriisimilar or lower latitudes. Cincinnati and 111ap1pare in nearly the sameyarrallel, yet con sumptiveafrom the, ono get healing far 'their lungs in,the balmy-Ay of the ether. New, Orleans and Jo rusaluatare,optidieant friun theequator, yet over the gutters:of,the one ice frequently- forms in ~winter, while Saracen who defended the other, denied the ex istenceOf anew: -New-York is not much higher on the map than the sourthern extremity of Spain, while the inhubitaMs„if,our tuetropolis sit with closed doors and doub le wi4oiye t , inAgtOe'r • around coal fire. while w4h,bare ..,upcka and, tth'eml„heide the January air is brived by the "d, rk eyed girls of Cadix." .1 ' .„ • This great difference is partially owing to the pre valence.of westerly winds, but far tore to the new flees of the country- Gibbon tolls ad that 1800 years ago the Roman legions passed on tl4 Ice of theiDan ube with thelr.biggage wagonsi tc amunitions of war and that battles were fought upon its bosom. 'The lapse of so tnsny, centuries redeemed 'Getehan.V from barbarism, ven toihe'seed of the sower. Theforeati have been cut down and the light and heat letAnuperi,the earth, morasses have• been Arainedand the ,chilness;avrising,from damp ness destroyed. At the time wben, Gibbon wrote some dettntyleara ago, sogrsat had been the change that the•climate which once rivalled that •of Quebec in sternness, was not, able to cover the calmest wa ters of the Ds'nube with a film: • • Whathas been wrought there will by like causes be wrought here. An 4 the time must corne d when Our climate shall be one of the most delightfu tinier the sun. But eurchildrenta children will bo in their grave ere that blessed day. 7— Utica .41) rn. Her ald. FAMILY linwsrarsas.—Few persons have any just conception of the extent of their indebtedness to the papers for the itillmation they possess, and the moral . sentiments they cherish. • Compared with any past age.of the yiorld,.this is a remarkable en lightened period. A large portion of the people have a considerable share of correct information on all most all topics of, any real insportauce. Relig ion,•geography,. history, the political condition t‘f the world, astronomy, the important practical tea tures of national philosophy - , something of geology, chemistry is applied to altrictilture and the timbals: is arts; and many 'other objects, are familiarised to the piOnlat mind. 'Most persons can talk intelli gently about them without pretending to learning or research. :" But how did they' coinebYtheir knowledge? Net at school, not,from b00115 7 -generalfrapeaking-L-but by picking up, here a iittle„,and them a little, from the family newspaper, iminlParn9PtiblY small instal ments:' Let any one ask.himself where he obtain ed his knowledge, of any particular fact. No is probably 'unable to tell, becanso it dame silently, unpretendintly, in the_ newispa per. Tfo same is true in regard to our'best moral' ini: pressions and sentiments. They have been sug gested, rfiterated and fastened on, the mind I,sYY the amity, press. , The pulpit, doep, much; parental,in . - atruction in . many cases tioes much; but the presi; more thanseither, often. more than;both. Lst any reader of a well.conducted -family paper ppm) •its pa, tes, ay consider thbughtfully-its.contents.: ' There are i i it . shigle wirtiltor sometime's' from one hundred and fifty te` . tWO htindred separate and 'dis tinct articleS; Mich one conveying 'an idea, a fact or a Sentiiiiene.' rind stated illastraied sts'as•tolwti dime 'it'n 'erect, in' the' readers' 'lstere of knowledge, tor- giving a right, Oirection'y'lhoeght, ; feeling or action., en 4., ani in, tho„aggregntea, mighty, inileeriee uPon ,the reader? ,We think so. , , -No reflecting . man can fail -to see. that the fifty-' two visits )n 4-:Yeat,ofa carefully, conductOpaper t , ' intelligent,, correct , elevated , in moral and withal interesi int in its eonter(to, iriust't;*eifii great find, ptessa intiience - UP . Mi'diiinestic life': °Children erowink iiQ tinder atichintlnenees,Sre far more like ly to lib- intelligent,• correet in - their opinions and Morals, and better prepared for the acme „duties, of life, thati,,they could possibly have been without At r. ~ t t.. 111121 ===! P INTO FOVEtri'Y. ~~ OUGIAO, "All aboard! ' shouted the conductor, and with it Iwhistle.and a j rk we were again on our way, end ;Bonn the:trees r nd meadows,' brooks a tid hillromem edAilzing by' and the dust acid clndera llew thick l and fast. . But mid _the'rearing and joltipg of the Cars, sleep like minkiteri tog angel, came to my relief.• Gradually the' oleo was bushed, 'and the speed at which I rode in ;Arad &earns of a, lofty chmucter. ri It was a wad rotunda,,from which, led two halls on either aid - . , Many.. tall. COrinthian columns i i rose about me, j ewn from the whitest. marble, and • , their gilded cap tals werodighted from a stained glass &MC. The c ili rigs were adorned with carved words, images, nd.paintings;and in a short the mas ter pieces of the Grecian:Sculptors, 'nil of modern itr. Hats deemed to •*dorn end decorate the walrs nickes. But s carcely,' ad I begun to gaze upon the teaUtiee of the pile of a ilendor when a roar like that olmany oceans burst upon my ear, and I Concluded. - I was in the temple Lot thp ; gods' at , monk Olympus, until a mesa of polished steel,' andinias's arid .silver, rushed intoonctof the long,liallsi and passed out at the extremity Of •the other, followed by a train of what I called'spnie thirty pagan teinplee, all glitter ing With caned wood Ott iion; gilded eagles, uncles and spire% •No sooner than the train stopped out stepped a Yankesi (I kneW hint by his voice,) and shouted ' , llrtitford!" at the windows of each of the' 'cay.. A throng or. gentif4nen, ladies_ end children' poured from the opening doors and stood within the rotunda. Being very's:miens to view the - interior of the cars or: temples, end see the mt:tive power I entered one, and . had hardly reeoveied from . the slteck ; which ,the itazziiipg Awiguiflenee_ reflected, when Ihe Amin. which had been set in• motion again, 'stopPed. , in' a rotunda of the Barrie size end splendor with the first, and the Yankee coptaiwcried "Spring field!'' I staggered ton seat in utter unconCiousness and as lentleaVeured ro Incur myself on what ap peared to be a picture of New York, I sink to, my waist in a delicious sofa, which. again restored my senses.. Vie-twins and cities, lakes and Mountains once morelshoot in confusion by, as the conductor hurriedly tapped me on the shoulder and whispered "ticket." "Where are yOu boundrtsaid , • "Boston. Be there fn twent y,mi mites—Pare from Springfield, one dimefrom New Yorh, three dinies. I handed - him a "Behind the times," said he; "no such coin in cir culation." I had the good,luck to carry a gold' dollar as a i pocket piece, which I 'drew out, and paid my fare. ."Where ani , I, captain?" said I involuntarily. Ho smiled, and rushed front tho car, which had entered the third rotunda, shouted "Worcester" "Mister, Where am 11" said Ito the near Be eyed me ;with evident surprise a though - his eyes sparkled as he asked; "Beer I "Yea` sir: ' gOtto Ne w , Haven yet, or i "Tel I me the year:" said he, "It'a;lB4s of eouram—are you crazy t" lie topped me on the shoulder, and said slept a huridred years—it's 1919!—Several per. Thisbe the air-litre railroad from N o titer is, that are nu cu ut three corners, - which we turn in an it mehinery. All sorts of new inprovemen ays. Why, man! it'-!l take you all your o look at all the•patcnted, labor-wing t New blnglend, We do everything but slee by some no .bangled invention-or mhos! "Good! it must be so.. Yankee nation cannot Yankees and steam accomplish?"' se "SteamtNonsense, man—it's out ofdat: roadli. • This is Pozgnat's electro magnet!. eight day, twelve, foot driver, 800 horse i tery,silveiplated. self propeller—cost 025, thing which draws us now. This road c. O millions, and has paid forliself twice, an eea completed. hree years, they use the a• . penston bridge, Vulcan rail, which is laid 'all of stone seven feet apart. We go at • - ism miles and three quarters per minute, a ir!—you ire behind the times, indeed. W I vivo me to show you the ierinthan, (not el 'three weeker "Anything in my,Possession: lam a g or new things. • I'll see the leviathan eni lurrah! hur—" "Stop! here's Boston. Keep close to me, get a seat in the first elevated omnibus, for / hotel—beat house in the city. Come, we so quick we seldom carry bagoge." . I made fast to his coat tail, and my Yankee guide rushed through crowds, and temples and galleries, till we foUnd ourselves at last in the fl ying elevated electro'something omnibus, which was ani open car some 20 feet lend, on a railroad, elevated about thirty feet above the street. A double track waS laid all the way, end u e met several cars and omnibuses, rushing down,'propelled by.little I elect ric engines.— Selow the streetWai throged• with trucks, goods, merchants, one Carriers. On either side broad side. -Walks were filled with people, and above, the houses rose from, eight to ten stories, all constructed from iron, 'gilded and painted in the most costly and beau \ Will manner. r - ' 4.latit whOi we had come about ten miles in five minutes itLfast up bill as down, we arrived at what 1 1 should have supposed - to be Solomon's temple, re stored; but no, it was the Ocean lintel, Of our entry into . this place, the furniture, the carving, the gilding pd the painting, we will not speak, After visiting fashionable tailor shop, to lake a rest• preparitory 'to - seeittg-the elepArma—no! the leviali an; and to T -a,ke - .04 ttour • of the State: -, , i., itWhat IntaluipPened Mr. Jonathan, since 18.19r* Veld Ito a Yankee, who was gazing , at the sea of root' " 'Hci nearly'fairited at" the question - and said he could niPreey niention:ar feW of the principal ChtingeS and' inv'enticins . . ' '' , •"Gen:.Taylor," said he, was "President Waßttl't he? Yes, ho was t 'and wo'vehailtini 0)0 7 : We'ie a reptiblie now, and thb t' nit exter;;l'fro'rn the Artic Ocean to the Terra a and, in short comprises all Amer* ! k ! rg republic, and a yankee is Oeir`presitierat., -W i s tot une . kingdom, iti t tho Werla:si?Criais the tiaoslantio telegraph Was then out - aorta havn't hard for almost a week,front l epti4r . ei here! see that flying ear np there, *mit.. 'to San . francisee, the largest city' in -Ame s .1 11 P irtg,l4e# the same, It's out $l, 50 A 113 3 / 1 4,8, A.drinc'e.' but the great Aerial Electric Navigation Company arc building a ear that Will beat that—it's manatee turing in that machine shon'yander.“ said be, as he pointed tea building fourteen storieaand, a bon' high. 'There's generally', • continued he, 'universal peace on earth, and the last despatches from tits 'moon said that the revolution had been, brought to a close, and that bloodshed had ceased to stain,,that paradise. and while we speak of il, there'. a fellow Trent the moon, who came down on a• flying Lear, yesterday, but their sir is so difTerent.front Ones ' he can't stay, lung; and, be pointed to a very perfect in-_ tle man, about three feet high, 'But we'll go up to the moon by next car, and look.—(here I had recourse to the camphor bottle)-a b out town. Yes, tve there's some angels there-rseme they think ,everything of us Yankees. ~, H urreht• there's the California, the last steamer from Livet- , pool: She started day before yesterday. She "is Made of iron, gulta percha'and durus. 'DMus itt,n metals recently discovered in Greenland and amen, quantities are found'in Patagonia—a metal-which: _won't bend, break, or receive any Impressioni:except - when the greatest degree of li t eat,oaiiible tainod, is applied to it. She ran through an airfare on [wriest trip, bat di I nut stop, and you death:eta her to peices or sink her, no, you can't: - Sitet's iev enhun Ired fact long, aird twenty4ltie breitd;:fadei; ered with gutta porcita, made transparent ill, oVer s ; and runs under water half the time in a .etorm. There's the evening train of flying care -for New Orleans-pretty gond' load; the electric train cwrine More thOugh, this weather. More competition,.- on this route than any other in Atuaricai except , the New York and Rio Jarieiroivening lines; they - vun for fourdimes. See that builping, there! Ai l u ope end they drive in a thick of siteepipd this 'deer' is mutton market, and the other is a - ready made ,cloth ing store.—There is a printing office in the building, and here is a machine in it which will make a-spel-: ing book out of a shirt in seventninutes; but have to give it up, as there's one iu the very 'next house which will make a spelling hook from cotton batting in Six minutes. Fact, sir!' .1 applied camphor, to my temples and nose., I tell you the truth;.but the crack inventign. pf the day is gummbuggum gaii. Goes ahead.Of•Chios refOrm, altogether. "-Why, list nightiny brotherin New Orleans was smashed' to a pulp by tie - falli4 of a stone weighing twelve tens, but we immediate ly applied the extract of gold water, and gumbog gam, and when I left at two o'clock, he wart com fortably well. We dont die at all now, if "we can manage to get-hold of the extract of water (indium: buggum gas before heat leaves the body,. if sill the warmth has left the body, life has left it; but If not, life is perfectly safe. Now tea is ready; come let us get tea and then we'll have a ride.' At thoughts of supper I awoke, and We had just got to New haven. What stow, good for mottling cars and steamboats we have—can't go bat a Haile a minute! 'We are behind the times. ; , _ st man moment, ' asleep r TRADES AND P,ROVESSIOSS. There is good,aense and profitable inetrticikei r lit the following extract from the Philadelphia Inqui rer. replied. You've eve step w York I TN" and tent by , now-a (life -time achinery and eat C - , , What d i. '‘A correspondent in the interior of the State, in forms us that he has a son 'who is very anxious to become a merchant, a lawyer, or a member of means other polished and elevated profession. But, (adds the father) my, boy while quite as intelligent al' lade generally, is not . reinarkibly so: an I, inasmuch s as I luive but one son, and I am in a fair business ray self.--a country store-keeper—l Itesitate.!as to sub. mit him to the temptation of matreipolitan life. My own judgmenfis, that he had better toffee , Its the footsteps, of his father, become a useful member of society in the circle in which he now moves and mingles, and not, ,by false pride or a mistaken am bition, wander from his true sphere, and perhaps be"- come a victim to some habit of vice to which be ii now a stranger. Am I right! , Can you. give ; me any advice upon the subject?'' In our-judgment, our correspondent is perfectly correct. If his son, in addition to his ambition, had manifested extraor dinary talent's, it would have libeen the duty of his father to airord him a full opp l ortenity for their de velopment and cultivation, •ut, inasmuch. its Me' L d intellectual faculttes are but o i inary, he should not be tempted beyon: his proper sphere, .or indeeed - br o fatal vanity to venture into'the arena for thelear ful struggles of which ho is not suited. Trades in this country are too much neglected. It is another mistake in parents, to suppose that a boy, in becom ing a mechanic, unfits himself fur some higher, or perhaps we should Say,' more intellectual porsuit.-7.7 This is not the case. Talent, like water, will find its level. Some of the most distinguished men of the country—statesmen, philoSciphers, philantlim pistsstarted as humble mechi9iCS, artisans, tra ders, or farmers. This can be 'readily ascertained on turning to the early histories of many of the most eminent in our land. What a-boy most reqiiires, is,_, first, a props; moral ltsis—sec'old, habit's isylitittts - try. Give him these, with-a fair education, and his character will develop itself, whether he be a Anill-bOy' in Virginia, or a 'wagoner' in Ohio; whether born in one extramirtof 'the ifuion or the other. Oir me iof enterprise are, in nine cases out of ten, the children of poierty—compelled by the force of cireunistanCes to depend upon their own re sources, and to struggle against all the anxietiie s ditlicultieS and perils which beset the Upward r iiath of fame. 'The boy,' it should be remembered, 'is f.ttlier to the man' in more senses than onend therefore it is that early training, PrOperlibits in youth, an active, buoyant, determined opitit; are all important. It is said of the late stge of- Quincy, 1 . I t ha t his last words to hie son were, 'a Moot heart, a clear conscience, and never ilesitalf.'' Thie doctrine covers the whole ground. 'And 'yet potenti ate. ePt to make fearful' mistakes with regard to proper pur suits for their children. ' The careful.atid thought ful selectionef a calling or profession. is onitof the' most responsible duties Of.life. We Thus* once direct, in some reuse, 'the future' existertec : or beiogt 'aiet whoni•we have the greatest .cont i r4 amd whci naturally look upon us. with respect and MMfideoce. Now careful should we be not to commit it:mistake! -not to sacrifice a son's happiness upon thesiter . ef false pride; - IVho can't ,point .out intelfigeot-eiti zone in this immunity' who have taught iheir-eoes to despise, lehnr, to 'regard honest:jAnqty* a ro ,w)iat a false, what it Crirpinal error roach? Alas'', ---an error that may involve unhappineestor yeate ...:.poverty, dissipation, misery,. and their toilful at. tendauts." • on rail- pa tent, ! 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