Our Children. As the f rsgrsnce of the roses, At it floate upon the breeae t Ac the voice of fctthtred soogstsr, At it wtrbict from (ht tree* ; At the tinging of the brooklet. At it mnrmurt through the vale ; At the song of htnit tt even, Witli thetr toft ttti psnaiv* wall ; At the glory of the morning. When the tan •Uepelt the gloom . At the bettty of the landscape. When it's clad in etrly Uooiu ; A* the beauty of the diamond. When it sparkle* in the light,— Are the voice* of our children. At they weetly tty, " Good-night' AH Old Man's New Year's. Song. I will not stir tbroed to-day, Rot find at home what cheer I may. Old men like me are out of dale : Who want, to eee a gnarled pate ? If silver hair* were lock* of gold. I might he at I waa Of old ; For then my dead would all he here. And that would make a happy Year ! The old msn now, the young mail then Are we the same, or different meu ? One sits si home with slippered feet j The other braves lite driving sleet; His light heart waits itself with wine- It will not warm this heart of mine ; One sees the hri.Ul, one the titer, Aud each, in his own way, the Year. Where are the friends I used to know— Ned. Fred-not many year* ago, Whose glass clinked mine amid the dm Of— #M Iter est trad .Yor Y*ir ia f "Pead rhymes with Ned," the Master mU Himself among Ike Master* dead : Alack ! and drear, and fear, and tear ttethink* ahead wonts rhyme wuh Year Horn* one, perhaps. will ears for me Whan I no longer hear or see. 1 hope my hid* man of ten. Wbeu h* shah take my place with men Will ihiidk about me iu the grata- - If only for the gift* I gave- And say, " If fattier * as but her*. It would he such s happy Year !" I'esce. aid maa. peace ! and cease this •oug. Which Joes the merry season wrong. Too have the sweetueas of regret— The fmmfchip* yen rwsMmlwr ye( ; You have hat time will not destroy The love of your remembering boy ; These surely eie enough to cheer The morning ef the saddest Year. —K. 11. Siutttuko. THE COOK*S BOY. Our ship was lying in Gibraltar har bor. The day had been a remarkably pleasant one, and hundreds of people from the shore had been on board to examine our specimen of Uncle Ham's naval architecture. After the ham mocks had been " piped down," a knot ot old ocean's hardy sous collected be neath the topgallant forecastle, which place was their regular " forum." Old Ben. Miller, our second boatswain's mate, had been quite sober and tbonghtfnl during the latter part of the afternoon ; and upon being asked the occasion of it, he said that he had seen sometuing that brought to his mind a thrilling circumstance of by-gone d ays We knew there was a yarn on the tapis; and collecting about the old mate, we •waited its delivery. He knocked the ashes from his pipe, put it in his pocket, and then charging bis mouth with a generous piece of tobacco, he com- I menoed; and this is the yarn he I spun:— * M lt is now fifteen years ago that I was a foremast hand on board the old ship * Hnnter.' She was from New - "York, and b&iud to India. A man by the name of Adam Warren, who was one of the owners, had taken passage, and with him were his wife and daughter. The latter was one of the sweetest, prettiest little creatures I ever saw, only about twelve years old, and as blithe as a lark. They called her Judith. Oh, it would have done yonr sonls good to have seen her skipping about the deck !—now hiding in a coil of rigging ; now pulling at some rope, and then clapping her little dimpled hands as she repeated the orders of the captain. Her merry langh ran through the ship like the notee of our own native robin, and the sun seemed to envy her brightness. Her father was" one of your business men —a right down dollar hunter, who didn't seem to care for much else than the purchase and sale of his cargo; and as long as his child was well and happy, he seemed to take but Uttle notice of her; though, I must nay, he was a kind-hearted man when yon could bring it oak Judith's mother wan one of your city aristocracy—a proud, over bearing woman, who! seemed to think there was nobody of any consequence only herself—and the smell of tar made her sick. When she was on deck, she always kept a smelling-bottle at her nose, and I tell yon the truth when I tell yon that her noee was fairly cock billed by ber eternal snuffing at that name bottle. "We had a boy on board named Luke Winship, only fourteen years old, who had been pnt into the nllev to help the cook. He waa a noble little fellow, thongh we hadn't then exactly found it out " One evening, after we had entered the Bonthera tropics, Luke wax sitting upon a spar that wax lashed against the galley, and Judith War-en came along and sat down by hie aide. " • What makes yon look so sober, Lake?' she nked, in a silvery tone of real kindness. " *1 was thinking, Uisa Jndith,' ro tnrned the cook's boy ; ami a lie spoke, he gazed into the face of the girl as though she was one whom he could al most worship. " ' Don't call me miss. I don't like it, Luke. But tell ma what you were thinking about. If I ever have troubles, it always does me good to tell them to somebody. Now tell me yours.' "'ltcouldn't interest you, Juditb, to hear the story of a poor boy like me.' " ' Oh, yea, it could !' the little girl cried, chipping her hands together with much earnestness. ' You were thinking of your father and mother.' " * Alaa 1 I nave none.' " • No parents?' " ' No!' " ' Then you were thinking of your brothers and sisters.' " ' I have no relations on earth, Jn dith !' As Luke said this, he drew his greasy sleeve across his eyea to wipe away the drops that were springing forth. "The little girl gazed into Lake's face with a look of pity and sorrow that seemed to make her tender heart bleed. " • Tell me your story. Come, do,' she said; and she laid her band so affectionately upon the boy's arm, and looked so kindly at him, that he began to weep again. "• It is but a short story—a few words will tell it all,' Luke returned, aa be struggled like a giant to keep back his emotions. 'My mother died when I was only fonr years old, and before my father had taken the mourning weed from his hat, he, tao, was laid in the cold grave. They were both of them kind parents; and after my father was buried, I sat npon his grave all night long and criea. O Jndith, yoa don't know what-st is to lose a father or moth er ! but to lose them both ! Yes, you know something how yon would feel. In the morning they came and took me away from the little ohurchyard, and a man who lived near the oottage my father had hired, gave me some break fast " * My parents were very poor; and after the funeral expenses were paid there was not a cent left. I knew of no relations, I knew not that I had one on Mrth, and I was sent to the almshouse ! There I Btaid till I was nine years old, and during that time I suffered more than words can ever tell It wasn't bodily suffering, for I had enough to •at and drink, and clothes enough to FHED. 1C UKTZ, Editor und Proprietor. VOL. VII. wear; but it waa the suffering of the heart. I went to aehool part of tiro year; hut! wasn't like the other achool-boym. I was a poor house ehild, and they shunned mo. If they had done no more than this, I should have been content;- but they taunted roe with my misfor tune, and made light of my orphanage. If they hd known whet paiu their words gave me, I don't believe they would have spoken them; but they knew not mv feelings, sod whv should they I They had never suffered like me, and they realised nothing of the crushed spirit that was battling against the ©old crtwitv of their sneer*.' " ' Poor Luke!' murmured Judith; and when the boy looked into her face, he found that she waa weeping. " • At length,' he continued, after lie had wiped his eyes, *an old farmer took me from the almshouse, aud set me at work upon his farm. At first I felt very thankful, but toon found that I was worse off than before ; for I was ill treated, and I had to work like a dog. The farmer's wife was a hard hearted woman, aud she often beat me. That was worse than all the rest, for I neve r deserved it, nor did I openly complain. I staid with the man over four years ; but matter* grow worse and worse, and often, when I went up to my little bed in the garret of the barn, did I pray that I might die before I awoke again. But I lived on, and I lived only to suffer. At length I re solved that I would bear it no longer. One dark, stormy night I secure.! a few crusts of bread, ami after the folks had retired, I stole out from the barn and ran away. For nearly a fortuight I traveled*on, and although I reached the city of Sew York ; but eveu there I dared not remain, so I went down to the wharves to tee if I could not get some chance on board some ship. I found this ship waa ou the point of sail ing. I told my story to Captain Flaton, and he took me on board. lam well treated here, but yet I cannot help, at times, thinking of the scenes through which I have passed. I can see the sweet face of my mother as ahe breathed her dving blessing ; and I can see the pallid cheek and sunken eye* of my father a* h took j*e by th* hand and made me promise that I would ever be h.-uwsl and virtuous. God knows I havw most faithfully kept that promise, sad I always will.' " Lit Je Judith wept as though she had herself suffered all she had heard ; bnt she was not the only one who had heard Lnke'a story ; for, as he closed it, Mr. Adam Warren moved carefully away frem the other side of the galley, where he had been standing all the while. •• At thia moment, Mr*. Warren came np from the cabin, in a terrible lorry, in search for her child. " ' Where is Judith ? * " ' Here I am. mamma." " Mr*. Warren started forward, and saw her child just rising from the aide of Lake. "•What on earth are you doing here ?' " ' Luke has been telling me a story," returned the little girl, a* her mother led her ft. ill f| J f " ' Don't yon let me see yon talking with that dirty boy again. It's horrible, Judith, for TOU to" be contaminated with such low, filthy company !' " Lake heard those words, and I oould see the hearing of his bosom, and the quivering of his lip, as they fell upon his ear. He arose and went into the galley, and polled the door tc after him. "We doubled the Cape of Good Hope, acd were standing np into the Indian Ocean. It was in the afternoon. The old ship was under double-reefed topsails and reefed courses, with the wind blowing hard ou the lAT board quarter. Little Judith was on the poop, holding on npon the weather mizzen topmast backstay. Her father was there, too. and he was gazing npon hia child with a sort of calculating pride. The mate was throwing the log, and Luke Winship had been called np to hold the reel. Jnst as the glass was turned and the leg-line checked, one of the Men, who was looking off to the windward, nttered an exclamation of surprise, and in turning iu the same direction we saw one of those solitary mountains of water, that seem as though they had been months in collecting, rolling down upon us. Instinctively, those upon the poop grasped the rigging for support, drop ping the reel and log-line to taxe care of itself. Judith, I said, was at the weather backstay; but as slie saw the giant sea towering above her, she invol untarily let go her hold and started to ward her father; but she was too late. The ship was struck upon the quarter ; she reeled and staggered beneath the blow; Judith was dashed to leeward, and on the next moment she was over board ! Her father uttered a frautffi cry and sprang to the lee shrouds. The men gazed into the boiling surge where the broken sea was whirling in one wild vortex, but thoy dared not brave the mauntaintM-r* in Fee) en had not ret been *uppre**d by Ktug Cskobu'* trooji*. On the It* coast there liare lee some sharp fight*. In one of these, which occurred on the Ifitb of July, near N* Cut a, a mountain town, two while planter*, I'hilip Jack, of the Ba rirer, and Otwabam, of Uaki ltaki, were killed by the rebel*, and four other settlor* wore wounded. The Fecjee Tfcnus, in an acooiiut of thia fight, aaya there wore several native* killed and wounded on the Government side, and a great number also on the Kal Colo* (the mountaineer*). The force* had to make their attack up a steep [hill. Awaiting them, the Kal Colo* lay safely* ensconced until the troops ap proached, when a front and flank fire was ojtened on them by the mountain eer* ; and then the opposing force# met in a hand-to-hand encounter, in which bayonets, axr* and club* did deadly work. The struggle was too hot to last loug, however, and the Kal Coloa threw away their weapoua and everything they had" and ran lor their live*. Two or three whites, with a number of natives, followed them up toward N Cula, shot several in the chains and three in the town, which the Kal Cote* set fire to be fore the Government party reached it Three uativea of the Government force had been shot a day or two be fore, and tiikeu to the town to be cooked and eaten. Their heads were found stuck upon sticks, and their bour* placed on the aide of the path, in sight of every passer-by. There were hun dreds of bones in the town which had been eookad long before. The notori ous ltokooera and his uncle, who, it ia said, murdered Macintosh and Hpiers, have at last been killed and eaten. One of the N'a Lotu tribe (frieudhe*) came across one of these two, wounded iu the leg, and took sweet revenge for the Na Lotu man who had been driven ont of his home some years past by thia man and hia tribe. Na Lotu spat on bis hand and said : " You burnt my town, did vou V and then made a blow at hia heaA with a battle ate, and pur posely missed hi* mark, lie again spat on his hands, " Yon killed my people, did von ?" lie kept on tantalising his victim for aome time until he aaw more meu com ing up> when, for fear of having the pleasure taken out of hia hand*, be chopped off the poor wretch's heed, then his arms and logs, and cut hia body into convenient pieces for carry ing away. lie took the head to the creek, washed it, and brought it to the camp that the real of them might be satisfied a* to its identity. Kokoqera waa also cat up into pieces and brought in. One of the miaaionariea would have them buried, but at night the pieces were dug up and taken, with several other bodice, to a respectable distance from the whites and cooked, the bukola I*ll (cannibal drum> being] beaten all the time, inviting those who might feel mo lined to come to the feaat. It ia very evident that the Kal Coloe have Jot such a lesson that they never reamt of. They are already com mencing to quarrel among themselves ; those who had nothing to do with the murder* of the Burns family are ac cusing those who did the deed of bring ing all this trouble upon them by mur dering the white men. Intelligent Farming. At the aucual festival of the Norfork, Mass, Agricultural Bciety, this fall, president Clark, dating bi address, made allusion to the profits of farming, as curried on by a few of his acquaint ance*. Senator Bout well, who is away in Washington most of the year, man ages a farm in Massachusetts, and claims to have cleared 81.290 last year off his farm above expenses. Another acquaintance, a graduate of Harvard College, is msking batter that sells readily at seventy-five cents s }xmnd. He makes" the butter, skims his own milk, and is pronn of makings good living of farming. Then he feeds the skimmed milk with corn-meal to hogs, and soils the pork at twentv cents a pound to people who don't like to think of eat ing pork or lard that ia either raised or cured at the West. The thongbt of '• whole hog lard" ia not very appetiz ing to a weak stomach. Another large and intelligent farmer, near Worcester, keeps cows that give rich milk, which he sella pnrv to customers who are glad to pay nine cent* a quart in summer ana ten cents in winter, because they know it ia rich and pure, lie makes a good article, flxea a price that covers cost, and leaves a margin for profit, and finds buyers for all he mazes. The average farmers are too careless about the quality of their production. It costs really bnt a trifle more to raise and prepare for market a firat-claas article than it does to produce a second or third rate one, and the difference in the price obtaiued ia often very great. A bushel of large potatoes usually costs less for lalnir than a bushel of small ones ; while the large ones are salable at a profit, the small cnes often don't pay the labor bills. A fruit-tree overloaded with fruit will not yield a harvest tbst will sell for ss much money a* half of it would if the other half nail been removed at the proper time. A hundred pounds of ap ples or pears are worth much more in 100 than in 200 specimens. A thousand pounds of beef is worth in one animal from twenty-five to fifty per oent. more than if in two animals. A pair of plump well-dressed chickens will find a market at a much higher figure than a pair of blue, lean, naif-plucked ones will, even if of the same weight. Eggs are now selling in Boston markets st thirty cents per dozen for shipped, while fresh country eggs, brought in by farmers and sold direct to the consum ers, readily bring forty cents. The difference on a single dozen seems rather insignificant, but on a year's production from only fifty liens the difference would pay the subscription on all the newspapers the farmer's family wonld care to take. Last year the apple crop of New England was im mense. Thousands of bushels rotted because they were not worth the cost of gathering and marketing. The treoa were overloaded, and of course the fruit was most of it under size. At harvest-time s barrel of Baldwins, or greenings, or msseta, could be bought in almost any orchard for a dollar. At the same time, large, fair Western ap £le* brought from three to five dollars, a such a year the sale would, of oourso, be limited, yet there were buyers for such apples in every city. Not Very Sensible. A little tale in a Detroit paper illus trates the noble ambition of the nn feathered biped when he is animated by a great purpose and isspired by lofty determination. Sometime ago four men seated them selves around a table in a Lamed street saloon, to play a game of cards for a half-starved turkey that none of them would have accepted as a gift, paying fifty cents each for the privilege, the loser to pay the drinks for six persons. At midnight each couple had owned that turkey seven times, the bartender had collected 810.40 of the quartette, and the turkey was so nearly dead that he oouldn't say " quit," Basaltic'* l'lare of Seclusion. I'hi l.u *• Salute Maiiill--riic staw In lh liou Maak. Marshal Haiaine, of France, has commenced hi* term of 30 years' seclu sion, in accordance with the terms of the punishment tlsed by Marshal Mac- Malum. The Isle de Baiiite Marguerite, where he is to take up hia lengthened residence, is on the Mediterranean coast of France, Cannes and about two miles sua a half from the shore. It lies cloae to the Italian fron tier, and is one of the group of two iales called Lerins. Bte. Marguerite is of small extent, is covered with wood, and the climate, aa may be inferred from its position, is of a salubrious character. BsXaiue does not exactly go into txile, nor is he to suffer the iguo miny of beiug transported to a penal colony. He will always have in view the coast of France, and close at hand i are many towns and villages, where, before Ins eyes, can be constantly seen the industry and every day life of his fellow eouutrymen in one of the moat attractive portions of France. Bte. Marguerite was once before the prison of an individual whose life vraa of romantic interest, and whose history has been the subject of labored and extended reseatcb. The Man in the Iron Mask was confined on the island from 16M to 1 iitW, when he was removed to the Bsstile. The dungeon in which he was incarcerated is still pointed out. Ita solid windows are guarded by 12 iron bars. The only approach to it was through the governor's rooms. In the midst of a small garden is a square building with a door on each face, and evidently constructed with a view to strength and to prevent prisoners con fined in it from escaping. It is under stood that the condemned Marshal will be accompanied iu his seclusion by his wife and children, and that restraint on hia movements will extend to his safe keeping. In other respects he will have the privilege of moving about within the confines of the ialaud as much as he pleasee. The man in the Iron Mask was dif ferently treated. He was closely watched and not allowed to bold conversation with anyone aave his jailers. Various snrmiars aa to who this historical char acter really Aa have been thrown out At first it was contended that he was an illegitimate son of Louis XIV., by de la Valliere, who, having boxed the ears of his half brother, the Dauphin, was condemned to imprisonment for life. This assumption proved unfounded. It was again insisted that he was the Duke of Beaufort, " King of the Markets," and afterwards some believed that he was the elder brother uf Louis XIV., ' that he was the son of Anne ef Austria s by the Duke of Buckingham. The Queen, having the impression removed from her mind that she was barren, af terwards gave birth to the grand mon arch, who. discovering, on reaching ma turity, the condition of affaire, con signed hia elder brother to a life-long imprisonment. Conjecture has ex hausted itaeU to find out who the masked man was, but it has not yet been settled with anything like oer > tainty. He was trannfermT from oak place* of confinement to another, and on hia journeys wore s maak. He was re moved from Bte. Marguerite in lfKfci, i and confined on a litter to the Baatile, where he was treated with distinction. ! When the latter fell search was made for papers or relic* that might lead to his identification, but none were found. Marshal Baxaine mar not consider the Ei lace of hia aeclnion the most agrera ile. The old buildings cannot be sug gestive of the mowt cheering emotions, lie ia, however, close to Italy, and he haa the Medttfrraueaii expanse to the north, south and east. 11 deairoua to escape there cauoot fail to Ve manv fa vorable opportunites, bnt after all the Marshal may expect thai at the expira tion of a few years he may be permit ted to leave Bte. Margnerit* a free man. A fortune that did not l>efall the Mys terious Man in the Iron Mask. Chromos as Prices There is such a thing, says an ex change, as having anything too bad. Thia chromo business is having a great run among cheap newspapers, and it ia Incoming annoying to the people. We have stood the constant arrival of daubs, and paid express charges without a mnrrani, until this last indignity was hasped npon us, and now the lion with in as ia sronsed. A few days Ago the gentlemanly expressman entne in with a fiat package. Instinctively Wi knew it contained colored pictures of highly colored females, or impossible dogs, bnt we paid the charges, and at onr leisure opened the package. Not con tent with sending ns one there were three pictures in the package. We have boarded those hideous caricatures for three days. They have frightehed some of our best customers out of the office. We took one of them to the barn, and the cow saw it and has persistently re fused to give milk since. That picture is a terror. In the fore-grouiia is an old mare and two mule colts laying down, all unconscious that just shove them two wolves are jnst ready to pounce npon them. The artist seems to have thrown a good deal of soul into the ears of the smallest mole oolt, and the tail of one of the wolves is woven into his hind leg so perfectly that yon can't tell where the leg ends and the tail begins. The whole effect of the picture reminds the true artist of a jar of preserved huckleberries spilled on the cellar stairs and stepped in by a number eight female foot in a state of anxiety. (One of our frequent viaitors says the picture represents s sheep and two lambs instead of A mare ana two mule colts, and that instead of wolves there are two dogs. Well, there is no truo artistic eye bnt has its fanlta. It may be sheep and dogs, bnt we would have taken our solemn affidavit they were mules and wolvea.) But this is neither here nor there. What we want to illustrate is the check of that paper. Yesterday we received a letter from the supreme idiot who runs the paper in forming ns that the aforesaid pictures bad beer sent us, and that we were ex pected to- do advertising for them to the extent of S2O. Now we are nothing but poor, weak creatures, and don't want a row with a paper; but if worse comes to worse we will perish honorably, with our face to tho foe, before we will do one cent's worth of advertising—any more than this article—for those blasted things. Coughing Time. The Tablet relate# a story of a minis ter who had a coughing congregation, and who cured them thus: No sooner had he ceased to speak than, singular to re late, one ootigli after another died out until soon there was absolute silence in the church,whereupon the minister said something to the following effect: "My friends, I know that in this wea ther colds abonnd, and therefore it is difficult for yon to refrain frem cough ing. Still it is impossible for me to preach and for yon to cough at the same time. Let UB come, then, to s mutual agreement, so that yon may ooogh and 1 may preach without disturbing each other. I will speak, say, for five or ten minutes at a time; when I raise my handkerchief there will be an interval allowed for coughing. As soon as I let it fall, I will resume my sermon and you vour silence." The plan succeeded admirably." There i* something demoralizing about I New Year's, says !>r. Howaad. Nut ut *ll thui demoralization isthe main out ouine of the matitutiou ; but a man must IK* strong in the faith to withstand the fftn't upon Lia moral system of the knowledge (bat New Year's bring*, even to tbe beat of ua. For it in at thin sea i HOU of tbe year that a man, ao to spaak, ; take* stock of bimself. He take* bia good resolutions, his good deeds, bis bad impulses and actions, bia mixed I motives- in fact, bia wbole moral be longings and aoeomplisbmeuta, down from tbe shelves,dusts them,looks them : over, and enters them in bis booka. There may be profit, growth, advance ; but there is apt to be a melancholy aide to the fairest showing. For anpposr that, on the whole, we have reason to be encouraged by tbe i condition of affairs revealed—there are few of ns who do not find with each New Year's an increased sense of limi tation. For we are creatures of inheri tance, and of habit; the spirit may lie willing, but O, how weak the flesh f The New Year, It is not merely that we are too apt to fail in the spiritual, with all our striving ; but strange barriers loom along the intellectual horiaon. As we grow older, the very element of Time, which in our yonlh seems anch a vague, shadowy enemy—if not a friend of in finite large*** —comes (tearing down upon us, mighty, resistless - an army with banner*. Then en HO many thins* that for so many year* I hate bem hoping to do before each auooecding New Year's Day. The contemplated crusades of boyhood even yet haunt me aa thing* destined to fortunate occurrence. Bnre lv the raumrr day ia yet to eome when I ahall take up my adventurous march on the Croaswieks turnpike ; the aame night pitch my rag-carpet tent in the mysterious Pines; "sleep to the en trancing muaic of the hyena and the jackal, and sally forth the next day to alay a white Polar bear with my ivory paper cutter. Shall 1 ounfeea bow often, ainoe la*t New Year'a, 1 have atood looking over the railing of the ferryboat, and im agined that at laat the Moment had come : the Child had fallen into the water; I had handed ray coat to the benevoleut geffUemah with a Quaker hat and blue spectacle*, my gold watch to a celebrated atoek-p^mtder— t who ia ao much impressed by the generoua confidence, and the general sublimity of the acene, that he ia a reformed man from that moment*—and am only hesi tating whether to place my pocket-book in the keeping of the pretty laetory-gui with a pink paraabl, or in that of the clerical-looking gentleman, who may turn out to ! e a pickpocket m disguise, —before taking the final, heroic plunge. —ScribnT*._ A Ward la Stiwa. Once I had a pair of friend*—one man, one woman—who "married to gether." So I lout tbem ; for each re seated the confidenoe of the other .in me. For team I knew little of tbem ; but by-ana-by the wife came to me for Counsel and awlaUaee. She waa die satisfied with home and husband ; "ho" waa jealous, exacting, yet undemon a trail re ; and abe waa tiwd lo the aouL Investigation ahowed me that the blame of all tliia lay at her own door; her husband had not made ao rapid advance in the world aa abe had thought he woaia j marrying an ideal, abe would not bee* me reconciled to a reality ; per sistently locking for foreign attribute* in a practical nature, imagination came to grief, and fancy—not love—perished. Fortunately, my influence healed the breach ere it waa irremediable—and I regained my frienda. Thia is not the point of the story, however ; but the young wife may "draw her own moral Irom it She should remember that ahe haa choeen her own lot in life, and it ia her daty, therefore, to suit heraelf to her husband in all things; if he be haatt in temper, let her lerp her own under control; if he l>e selfish, ahe must teach him the nobility of generosi ty, and. more important than all, per haps, if he becomes embarrassed in cir cumstances, it is her duty to aid him by her kindnma, not to 'mutter or op press him bv her ill temper. Upon the mail sex the task of providing the means of subsistence is. in civilized so ciety. almost exclusively imposed ; and eonaeonentlv, when they become dis tressed, and have not wherewithal to provide for their partners, they suffer doubly. They have not only their own privations to" regret, but yonrs also; and the world'n frown, and the world's —sometime unjust—Censure falls en tirely upon the husband. The wife can hide from the world, bo', the husband must face its pride and prosperity. May all young wives be permanently pros perous, bnt for the honor of woman hood, we admotiiab them not to let adver sity, should it unfortunately lay its iron hand upon them, indnoe them to de part from that affectionate conduct, in word or deed, which they owe to their bnsbanda, and conduct themaevlea in anoh a manner as to do away with ths proverb : " When Poverty comes in at the door, Love flies out of the window." A Useful Item. Perhaps one of the most aggravating difficulties ever encountered by s busy housewife is that, attending the light ing of fires on atill, damp mornings. The stove st first won't draw ; even vig orous " blowing " will not suffice ; and then when it does start, it is with s sort of explosion or outward rush of air which fills the room with smoke and gas, oftentimes puffing the unpleasant fames in the face of the operator. The trouble ia caused by the difficulty en countered in overcoming the inertia of the long column of air in the pipe or chimney, by the small column of air that can be forced nn through the in terstices of wood sea coal, at the bot tom of which the fire is kindled. AU this msy be remedied by simply putting a few shavings or bite of dry paper on the top of the WIXHI or cost, and first lighting that. It immediately burets into a blaze, because the air haa per fectly free access to it from all sides, the heated air forces its way in the chimney, and establishes there an up ward current. The match can then be applied to the kindling under the fuel, which will readily light, and, if dry, bnrst into a brisk flame. The Manufacture of Iron. The antiquity of the manufacture of iron on a large scale ia shown in an article by Richard Mallett upon the working of iron in India, where, ac cording to this author, it had been car ried on upon a scale so stupendous as to rival the production of the largest steam-hammer in Europe at the pres ent day. Among other illustrations mentioned is that of a wrought-iron pillar at the principle gate of the an oient mosque of the Rutub, near Delhi, which ia as large as the screw shaft of a first-class steamer. This is slightly spindle-shaped, and is surmounted by s capital of elaborate Indian design carved by the chisel in the solid iron. The entire length is about sixty feet. Its diameter near the surfaoo is sixteen it contains abont eighty cubic feet of metal, and weighs upwards of seventeen tons. Near its middle is an inscription of sixteen lines in Sanscrit, from which its age has been assigned to the third or fourth century of the Christian era. Terms: 02.00 aIT oar, in Advance. The English Hen** of HotkachlUs. Nathan Mayer Bothschild. Mjn a writer, far exceeded hia father or any at liia brothers in commercial geuiua. Hi* attention *u early called to En gland aa an arena for action (be bad not then become a partner!, and thither he jonrueyed soon after reaching his majority. He commenced hia career in Manchester aa a money lender, with leaa than SSOO, the cotton interest being then in ita infancy there. Aa they eay in Briteiu, he got on. At the etnl of fire years he had sl,ooo,ooo—a rale of interest on hia original capital which ought to satisfy the archfiend of pawn broker*—and with this sum he went to London. Bo large were hie transac tions in the metropolis that one of the grandees of the eity, Levi Cohen, so -1 acted him aa an eligible candidate for the vacancy of eon-in-law. Cohen be came alarmed after the anion on ac count of Nathan's apparently desperate speculations, Inhering th young man moat aoon be rained. The letter calmed the paternal apprehensions, saying, " Yon have given me bnt one of yonr daughters, when it would have been an excellent stroke of business if yon had given me all your daughters. Then they would have died a great deal richer than they will now." Nathan speedily won hi# place in the world's capital. His ventures in the public funds always torned out luckily. He was aa bold aa' astute, entering into competition with the then immensely powerful banking hones of Qoldsmiii, slid undertaking what the Barings, Couttsee, and Hopes lacked the nerve to engage in. While ancient firms were timid or tottering, he had hia first transactions with the government Wellington, while actively engaged on the Peninsula, in IHIO, had made some drafts which the Treasury could not meet and which the banker, anticipa ting the result of the struggle on the Continent, purchased at a liberal dis count renewed them to the govern ment and finally redeemed them at per. It was a capital operation in every sense, bringing him into close and con fidential relations with the ministry, and vastly enlarging both hia opportu nities and connections. The govern ment employed him to transmit subsi dies to the Continental powers, and he faithfully performed the teak. He had the advantage of the earliest and moat trustworthy intelligence from Frank fort, and was in a position to return it in kind. Before long all ordinary moans of communication were insufficient for hia rapidly growing enterprise, and he de termined to use earner-pigeons and fast sailing boats of hia own for the transmission of new*. Reports in cipher of all important events were tied under the wings of the birds, wbieh were con stantly arriving at the London offices, while" hia agents were crossing the Channel in the stormiest weather under a perilous pressure of canvas. To this day the mail-boats between Boulogne and Folkestone follow the course mark ed out by the London operator for his own craft. When the wonderful Coratean return ed from Kibe, and all the armies out aids of France marched with secret dread against the one indomitable foe who had beaten them oh etery field, Rothschild once more traversed the Channel He went to Belgium, and even followed in the wake of Welling ton's forces, that be might be among the very first to know the result of the coming collision. Ilia intense eager ness induced him to expose himself to the dangers of battle. He felt that the fate of Napoleon and the florins of the Rothschild* depended upon Waterloo; but to him the cause of universal hu manity and freedom would not have borne the weight of a feather against the golden gams of hia fortune-bloated house. He kept so close to the British commander-in-chief on the memorable 18th of June that the Iron Duke, who did not know him, fancied him to be s spy or an asaaaatn, and swore, with one of his superabundant oaths, that he would hang that skulking fellow if ha did not clear out AU day long Nathan Rothschild sat on hia horse on the hill of Bougoumont, and with his glass to his eye anxiously watched the deadly struggle of the na tions. Until the snn was low in the west the plain waa buried in powder amoke. When the cloud had lifted the French army was seen in fall retreat. The greatest soldier of all time, hag gard, defeated, desperate, having failed with a single regiment of the Old Guard and a few piece* of broken can non to make a rallying-point for the de moralised fugitives, waa borne away by Soult from the disastrous field where he had wished hia life to end with his history. Rothschild took in the situation at once. True to hi> instincts, he aaw in the awfnl carnage only the shimmer of his gold. Chance had overcome the most heroic valor, the most stubborn resistance, the best-laid plana, and onoe more declared in the Hebrew's fsvor. He dashed into Brnssela, whence a carriage in waiting whirled lum to Oatend. At dawn he stood on the Belgian coast, against which the sea waa madly breaking. He offered five, six, eight, ten hundred francs to be carried over to England. The mariners feared the atorrn ; but a bolder fisher man, npon promise of twenty-five hun dred francs, undertook the haxardona voyage. Before sunset Rothschild landed at Dover, and engaging the swiftest horses, rode with the wind to London. What a superb special corre spondent he wonld make. The merchants and bankers were de jected : the funds were depressed ; a dense fog hnng over the city ; English souls had annk into their pocket*. On the morning of the 20th the canning and grasping Nathan appeared at the Btook Exchange, an embodiment of gloom. Ho mentioned, confidentially of conrae, to hia familiars that Blncher at the head of hia vast array of veterans had been defeated by Napoleon at Ligny on the 16th and 17th, and there oottld be no hope for Wellington with hia comparatively small ana undis ciplined force. This was half true, and, like all half truth, was particularly cal culated to deceive. * Rothschild was a leader among trading renarda. His doleful whisper spread as the plague, poisoning faith everywhere. The funds tumbled like an aerolite. Public and private credit wilted before the simoom of calamitous report. It was Black Friday anticipated in Lombard street. Rothschild bought through his secret agents all the consols, bills, and notes he could raise money for. Not before the afternoon of the 21§t—nearly forty eight hours after the battle-did the news of Wellington's victory ret ch London through the regular channels. Roths child was at the Exchange half an hour lief ore the glad tidings were made pub lic, and imparted them to a crowd of greedy listeners. The Bourse was buoyant. Everything went up more rapidly than it had gone down. Eng land was happy, as well she might be ; for she had stumbled into the greatest triumph in her history. After Waterloo Nathan Rothschild was more lucky and prosperous than ever. The gift of Midas seemed to be his. Even his injudicious investments sometimes swelled his already plethorio purse. He sold out his part in the English loan of 1819 and the French loan of 1823 before they went below par. Foreign loana were first popular ised in England by him by fixing the ritt ia starling, sr-d nuking the divi dends payable in London instead of to Continental capitals. His bouse be came era long the financial ngeat of nil the government of Europe, and the buainena of the London firm extended to every quarter of the globe. Nathan wan aa minute aa he van com prehensive. Reaching out to the far Kent and the remote Went for increase of income, he doted on the moat dimin utive details Prineely in bis entertain ments, he van penurious to the iaat de gree in dealing with subordinates and employee. While he was investing mil lions be wonld dispute s bill for a shilling, and keep overworked clerks on the verge of starvation. Lavish for his vanity,lie waa a niggard at heart. He recognised nothing bat percentage; and be is reported to have calculated to a penny the eoet of his marriage months bet ore he proposed to the daughter of Cohen, He wss not happy even in the midst of his overflowing coffer*. Naturally enough, he had number Usa cnemiea. In his later years be suffered from con stant dread of assassination. He was always receiving threatening letters, de claring that hu life depended on his sending certain soma of money to cer tain addresses. He scented murder in every breeze, suspected poison in every cup," In sleep, be had nightmare vis ions >f crouching things; in waking hoars, he started at every unexpected noise. One morning two strangers vers an notiueed aa baring important business with tb Imnker, and they wen shown into his private oflee, Ha bowed to then, and inquired the nature of their negotiation. They bowed and said nothing, bat advanced toward him, throating their fingers nervously into their pocket*. Rothschild'# alarm waa excited at once. They moat be seareh ing for concealed weapona ; their beard ed faces made H clear to hie frightened fancy that they were homicidal ruffian*. He retreated in terror babind a large deek, eeixed a ponderous ledger, horled it at their heads, and acreemod " Har der !" at the top of hit voice. k email army of clerks poured into the room, and laid violent hands on the stran- Ei. who proved to be wealthy Polish ken bringing iettrnof introduction to the i physically timid i lkm of loan*. Embarrassed byhu auriferoualy august jm-acnce—what ia there in a breath ing money-bag capable of inspiring awe?—4bey forgot their speech and their common coolness of conduct They were nearly aa much terrified aa the renowned Israelite ; and as it was their initial visit to England, they im agined that all foreigners were deemed robbers and desperadoes until the con trary waa established. The wretchedly rich Nathan never went out alone after dark,n*ver entered an unligbted room, had servants within call of his bed-chamber, slept with loaded pistols under his pillow. A fellow -Frankiorter, dining srith l>iy> one everting, and observing the lux urv of his booaehold, remarked, " lon must he happy, baton, with the power to gratify every wish." •• Happy, indeed I" waa the response. "Do you think it happiness to be haunted always by a dread of murder, to have vowr appetite for breakfast sharpened" bv a threat to slab yon to the heart unless you inclose a thousand guineas to some unknown villain V On one oocagjos, when the great fi nancier had been to an evening party, and had gotten into his carriage to go home, a friend, wishing to make an ap pointment, stepped out to speak to him. The timorous banker mistook his fa miliar greeting for s highwayman, and thrust a pistol out of the carriage win dow, with his fsvorite cry of " Mur der!" before be could be acquainted with the situation. Aa Rothschild grew richer and elder his fears increased. He became almost a monomaniac on the subject of assassi nation, and many of his relatives thoughthim in serious danger of insan ity through his constant apprehensions Most of the menacing messages were unquestionably sent him by nis ene mies, with whom he was plentifully supplied. Oonseious of his weakness, they revenged themselves upon him by inspiring him with baseless terrors. He was repeatedly told so, but he oonld not be induced to believe that he did not dwell in an atmosphere of poisons, poniards, and pistols. A good example of his manner of doing business was shown in 1831. It is a familiar fact that the supply of quicksilver baa always been limited, and at that time waa mainly furnished from the Spanish mines of Almaden and the IllTrian mines of Idria. The former had yielded richly for centuries, but the Napoleonic wars* withdrew labor from them, and so interferred srith their product as to diminish very seriously j the revenues of the Spanish crown. The kingdom required a loan, and re course was hsd to Nsthso, who agreed to furnish the money, provided he should have as security the Almaden mine* for a given number of years. They were duly made ever to him and his house, end"the price of quicksilver was immediately advanced one hundred per cent. The trade, amaaed and an gered, sent to Idria for the necessary metal, only to discover that the Roths childs had been before, had obtained possession of those mines, and fixed the rats there also. Public opinion and the proas con demned the firm severely for the united monopoly and extortion; but as its members realised $5,000,000 or $8,000,- 000 by the transaction, any laceration their feeling* might have undergone was hastily healed. James Rothschild, chief of the Paris branch, having married his niece, the daughter of ISolomon, and Anselm, the head of the Frankfort house, having married his cousin, Nathan's eldest daughter, Nathan conceived the idea of l'r|nt suiting the name and (power of the house by such consanguineous con nections—common from the earliest time with Hebrew families. With this view he called in 1836 a congress of the members of the household st Frank fort to oonsiderthe momentous question. They all favored it, and as an introduc tion'to the settled connubial policy, Nathan's eldest son, Lionel, was united to his oonsin Charlotte, the eldest daughter of Charles Rothschild. Nathan was overjoyed at the adoption of his matrimonial system: but on the very day of the nuptials, June 15, he fell alarmingly ill—he was suffering from a carbuncle when he quitted Lon don—and died in less than aix weeks, in the fifty-ninth year of his age. His mind wandered at the close. He im agined, as had been his habit, that he was hunted, for his life; and the last words he is reported to have uttered were, i* He is trying to kill me I" and " Quick, quick ! give me the gold !" Recent startling discoveries in Wash ing, Louisville, Baltimore, and other cities make it evident that the crime of disinterring dead bodies and selling them to physicians is much more com mon than has been generally supposed. Unless the criminals when arrested are severely dealt with, it will be difficult to stop the practice. What was intended to be a mock marriage at a Fond da Lac evening party has been found to be a legal one, and tbe fnnny pair find themselves com pelled to make the beet of it The Hey*. The tired mother, when night-fall 1 comae, can not help drawing a long nigh at the sight of her boys' torn jack ets and trowsers ; and her aching head may whirl as with ghwAtl shouts they i coma trooping into the room in rough and-tumble fashion. But with tost loving tenderness does she not onl; endure all their noise, but sympathi* in their sports, if she be a true mother Somewhat such feelings as these whic) are put into verse she bears in her heart : •• ■ Boy* wtll be boy*'- tout not fat tag! Ah. eonfei • tear shout as This thought how **ry woe our toy* WUtlssra todo wtthowi as! ! * How scwia bet <*o so 4 dsap-vaiosd mm Will grsraly mil us • Mother i i Or wa b* stratdUag ®p heem From On. world u> to* thr! I •'Nw*c*atir wa shoold etdds the *<•, And shoo night qnollo the atto huu-h in hot tovtag thoughts and JWW ! While maediag pants and JsetetJ Items of latersst. The Governor of claims that the State paid #1,804,07170 of its debt daring the peat year. A Mod tens man haa been exiled from the Territory under pain of pitch al plumage, for the crime of marrying a China woman. Hens wool work in Nevada without sufficient inducement, and hence trav elers have to pay a dollar and a half for two eggs out there. A woman living near Altoona recent ly entered a stable attached to the bonae in which aha lived, when • bone caught her by the nose and bit it oft The Rothschilds am worth about am thousand millions of dollars, as a firm, twelve of them, including their indi vidual fortunes. They wed not cry for gnat church festivals oocurred during the month of December. St. Thomas, 21st; Christmas, 25th; 8t Stephen, 28th; and Holy Innocents, 28th. s| u. ft Commiaeto- Douglass aa- Dounoes that the Ir tcrna* tnmm re ceipts during October and November were red need nearly #4,000/4* l by the Mrs. Lney Tenssy wse murdered la her bed, in "(Jrtftou, Maine, by bar hue band. Moaea Tenner, a blind pauper, eighty year* of age, wbo is now under MYttrtn There Is s young man ia Saginaw, Mich, who was stoles taken among the Indians when an infant, and lately escaped after twenty-six jsaisof sav age life. If yon want to mahe a good boy bad or a' bad boy worse, nag, snub, and rough him. Dont speak gently to the erring child if you would have lum keep on erring. The Howard Association of Memphis has struck s balance sheet, and finds itself the possessor of #3S,OWL which it has decided to bold in reserve for future emergencies. The London Titles estimates that 71,000,000 bushel* of wheat will be re quired from this country to supply the markets of Europe uatfl the crop of 1874 is harvested. A gentleman writing a lattar ocmclod ed it as follows : *' Give Everybody's love to Everybody, so that Nobody may be aggrieved by Anybody being for gotten by Somebody." Say* the Atehiaon Globe : " While the soldier* were digging up the dead at old Fort Kearney, a few day* sines, one coffin was taken up that waa liter ally filled with snakes. It is said that the late Prof. Agassis, having authority to name his own sue oassor aa President of the school at Penikese, selected his sou, Alexander Agassis, for the potiuon. B ia also announced that Mi*. Agsmm wiß pub lish soon the biogruphy of bar Into husband, which ahebegau several yearn •go. We do not expect to dissuade people from kindling their fires with the dan gerous sid of kerosene, though we have probably printed accounts of from 40,- 000 to 50,000 accidents, more or lee# total, the result of this incuutfeus ex pedient It may do no harm, however, to mention that a woman in Fort Wayne, Ind., wbo, a week or two ago, bed a pair ©f beautiful arms, ia now totally want ing in these useful limbs. Amputated, both of them ; and all because of kind ling with kerosene t NO. 2. Old D*via, of Oatfpee—the weU kaown shingle and clapboard autocrat of thirty year* ago—had a dog named Watch. The dog had beoqme old and a nuisance. Davis had threatened of ten to kill the brnto, and had a* often relented. _ One dav Sim Brown, the Concord peddler, drove op to Darin' store, bat Dams wanted to hay nothing. •' Can't I sell yon a dock f I*va got 'em assdbeep a* dirt, and Rial good ones." " I bavn't got the money.** " Drat the money 1 I'" take a fair exchange of anything.** Davis scratched hi* bead, whereat Brown oontiiraad : "Come, well have a bade somehow. You've got to have one of my docks. What have yon got to exchange for itf* "I've got nothing but a watch," •* Eh?—a watch r* cried the peddler, brightening up. "What kind of a Wftida f** " Taint, of course, a very good one, or I wouldnt want to trade it olt" " What kind o" caaea ?" "I can't say much for theTeaaea, bat the inaidee u in good order, and it runa well. It'll let yon know whan foedin' time comes, sartain." " How'll yon trader "Til give yon my watch for one of yoor docks, and call it a bargain with out any ' if*' or 'aads.*" " Donecried Brown, and he se lected * steeple-topped Connecticut dock ami brought it into the store. ".There'* yonr dock. Now, where'* your watch ?" Davis went to the door and whistled, and called: " Watch I Watch ! Here, old fellow, you're wanted !" The dog came in with a bound. "That's the watch. Brown. Youll find his in'ards perfect, and he can run like Sancho, ana when it comes meal time, if he don't let you know it, I'm mistaken in him." The peddler gasped and staggered, and be said something not quite proper to eers polite; but he dia not back down. He only said, as ho hitched the dog to the axle-tree of Jhi* wagon and prepared to drive off: ■ "Somebody'll pay me for that dock before night. v ' And I opine that there are hundreds of people to-day in that section of New Hampshire, who have a firm belief that they helped to pay old Brown for that dock. Rapidity of Thought in Dreaming, A very remarkable cireumetance, and an important point in analogy, is to be found in the extreme rapidity with which the mental operations are per formed, or rather with which the nude rial changes on which ideas depend are excited in the hemispherical ganglia. It would appear as if a wholo series of acta, that would really occupy a long space of time, pass ideally through the mind in an instant. We have in dreams no true perception of the lapse of time —a strange property of mind—for if such be also its property when entered into the eternal, disembodied state, time will appear to us eternity. The relations of space, as well sa those, are annihilated, so that while almost an eternity is compressed into a moment, infinite space is traversed more swiftly than by real thought. There we nu merous illustrations of this principle on record. A gentleman dreame&that he had en listed as a soldier, deserted his regi ment, was apprehended, carried back, tried, condemned to be shot, and at last led out for execution. After the usual preparations a gun was fired : he awoke with the report, and found that a noise in the next room had at the same mo ment produced the dream and awak ened him. A A Watch Tr4e.