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looking over the pages of an Album of a young
lady friend the two following pieces attracted our atten
tion as being worthy of publication. We hope we shall bo
.excused for the liberty we take in copying them :
DEDICATORY'.--TO MISS E. H.
Like the future of your years
Are the panes of this book,
The future, with its smiles and tears,
On which no mortal eye may look
As you turn that future's page,
Onward still from youth to age,
On this Album's blank shall be
Many a wish inscribed to thee.
Cheerful thoughts and kindly feelings,
Reseripts of the friendly mind,
All the tried heart's true revealings.
Prayers of friends and kindred kind
When in after years you look
On the pages of this book,
May you there with pleasure read
Answerings to the spirit's need,
That shall memory's fount o'erfill
With words of love and tones that thrill
So may tho pages of your life
As, day by day, you turn them o'er,
Be with pleasant records rife,
Each one brighter than before:
Huntingdon, Jan. 28th, 1857.
TO MISS E. 11.
Nerve thy soul with doctrines noble,
Noble in the walks of time,
Time—that leads to an eternal,
An eternal life sublime:
Life sublime in moral beauty,
Beauty that shall ever be,
Ever be to lure thee onward,
Onward to the fountain free:
Free to every earnest seeker,
Seeker at the fount of youth,
Youth exultant in its beauty,
Beauty fund in quest of truth
it-bruary 2.15t,1857.
Written foi The Globe.
Alk.i APOLOGY POE .t 64 STOLEN *KISS."
Dulda
-ascula, quae Venus
Quinec parte. suf. neclaris
What harm in love's first evidence—
The pure—the chaste—the virtnuus kiss
The toll-tale of one's confidence,
Apledge that angels love not less;
The balmy breezes kiss the Earth,
The dew drop lingers on the flower,
While all proclaim its heavenly birth,
And blush beneath its magic power.
A kiss: why 'tis the soul's good 11101 rov
Which like an angel whisper falls
Upon the spirit, bidding sorrow
Leave that spirit's gloomy halls.
Ohl Nvhen such intoreourse is mine.
When I can taste its thrilling bliss,
Delia, methinks on lips like thine
I breathe my soul out in a kiss.
Offix 1u July 4, 1857
TELTIZZA..
La =Watt° est au merit°, co quo les ombres sont dans
un tableau; elle lui donne de la force et du relief.
LA .tinuYarx.
1 EMI% her! and oh! shall. I ever forget
A likeness of something just born of the skies,
A 3 . - ision, whose loveliness haunteth me yet,
And all my description so proudly detieJ.
11.
Whose tresses no simile earth can afford
As darkling they hallow the place where they rest,
Whose glorious eye, I declare, on my word
With more than ethereal lire scented chest.
I envied her little gloved hand as it lay
On lips finely chiselled as Greece ever knew,
And thought what a heaven would crowd in Earth's day
If I were permitted to sip of their dew.
Iv.
3 cannot deecribe her! oh! Heavens? 'twere vain.
My muse with astonishment chained to the spot,
Such sacrilege surely would treat with disdain,
But /feel that her image can nc'er be forget.
AM. NS INCOGNITUS
Cbffa Run, JuLy 2, 1857
'4littrtsting Rtiscettm.
THE MORAL OP NEGRO SLAVERY
IN THE 'UNITED STATES.
LETTER FROST TILE lION. CHARLES JARVIS.
The following letter, addressed by the
Hon. Chas. Jarvis to a friend in Illinois,
prior to the November election, we find in
the Bangor Democrat:
MY DEAR FRIEND : It gave me pleasure to
know that my letter was what you 'wanted,
and that you had not surrendered your rea
son to the madness of the abolitionists by
whom you arc surrounded. The subject of
negro slavery has for many years excited a
deep and absorbing interest in my mind ;
aware that the deadly enemies of our insti
tutions in England had availed themselves
of it, as their last hope of subverting the
Union by exciting sectional prejudices in the
North against the South.
In the discussion of such a question, when
tequested by a friend who I knew had con
fidence in my sincerity, no fear of giving of
fence could prevent a full and candid ex
pression of my views, and as they have been
favorably received, the subject will now be
continued.
Having in my last letter confined myself
mainly to the constitutional question involved,
proving that the free States are in no way
responsible ;for negro slavery as not being
within the scope of the powers delegated to
the Congress of the United States; the mor
al of that institution will now be considered.
If the difference between the races is sole
ly that of color; if the negro race is intellec
tually equal to the Caucasian, it ought not
to be hold in a state of subordination ; for
those whom God has made equal, human
legislation ought not to make unequal. If,
then, the United States had any cognizance
of the subject, the abolitionists would be
right, and slavery should be abolished as
soon as it could be, without a convulsion of
the body politic. But if the negro is not
equal to the white race, if the capability of
the development of the mind of the one, is
not equal to that of the other, then the con
clusion is as irresistible that those whom
God has made' unequal, human legislation
should not recognize as equal. In other
words, that human laws and regulations
should be in harmony with the providence
of God. The abolitionist assumes the ()quail-
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Written fur The Globe
WILLIAM LEWIS,
VOL, XIIL (..,,,.--
ty of the races—l assume the contrary.—
Which assumption is founded in truth?
In support of my hypothesis, the condi
tion of the race, (for history or even tradi
tion it has none,) may be adduced from the
earliest ages ; the past and present situation
of Africa; a past and a present which leaves
no rational hope for the future. The stereo-,
typed expression of the abolitionist, his first,
his last, his only reason for the inferiority of
the race is, that the negro has been imbruted
by slavery. This is as false as it is foolish;
it is in direct contradiction to the experience
of the world. The only perceptible advance
ever made by the race has been in this coun
try, under the patriarchal control of the
whites at the south; there the race has been
in a measure humanized.
As the beasts of the field and the birds of
the air were endowed with instinctive pow
ers to enable them to fill their allotted sta
tion in the scale of being, without the capa
bility of making any advance, so was the
negro adapted for the situation of a slave,
and he is fitted for no other.
By the indiscriminate massacre of the
whites, men, women and children, the negro
achieved independence in St. Domingo, but
it was only to fall back into his original state
of barbarism when in Africa; and an island
once the finest and most highly cultivated in
the West Indies, is now fast relapsing into
a desert. In Jamaica the slaves were liber
ated by the English government and placed
in a state of political equality with the
whites; the result has been the abandon
ment of the island by the white population;
the cohabitation of blacks and whites in a
state of equality - will always be attended by
the destruction of the one or the other race.
The population of Kingston, the capital of
the island, in the space of twenty-two years,
has fallen off from 25,000 to 8,000, or over
two-thirds. Many of the plantations have
been abandoned for want of hands to carry
them on, the negroes live on the spontaneous
productions of the soil, spend their days
basking in the sun, and the exports of the
island have fallen off over three-iburths.
Slavery is the natural condition of the ne
gro race now, as it has been from time im
memorial, throughout the world. In our
country it is the only condition of the race
consistent, with its increase and improve
ment. Slavery in the United States, what
ever it may have been to the whites, has
been to the negro race a blessing, not a
curse ; abolish slavery, and the race would
be exterminated. The three millions of ne
groes now in our country as slaves, are bet
ter clothed, better fed, better cared for in
youth and age than any other portion of the
same race in the known world; treated more
like men and brothers than the laboring
population of England or of the continent of
Europe.
To the Caucasian race, never contented,
always aspiring, ever looking upward, slav
ery is indeed " a terrible evil."
The captive thrubh may brook his cage
prisoned eagle dies with rage.
But it is the natural state of the negro, his
appropriate sphere, that in which he is the
happiest and best subserves his own interest
and those of humanity at large. The pres
ent unfortunate state of our country has
arisen from the base, selfish, truckling spirit
of politicians, avoiding the question and not
speaking the plain truth. The negro is a
negro, not because he has a black skin,
woolly head, crooked legs, and his foot set on
near the middle ; not because he has a thick
skull and a thick skin, the first enabling him
to butt like a ram, and the second to endure
the full rays of a tropical sun; not because
of other characteristics too disgusting to
mention ; but on account of the mental infe
riority of the race, as recorded in history.—
To these marked distinctions are to be attri
buted the instinctive repugnance of our race
to the intermarriage of blacks and whites;
an instinctive repugnance enforced by law,
to preserve the superior race from unavoida
ble degradation ; hence the necessity in the
minds of the demented abolitionists for a
new constitution, a new Bible and a new
Cod.
The negro is indolent, and if left to him
self, he has no incentive to conquer that in
dolence; he is content to live on the sponta
neous productions of the earth, and having
gorged himself to satiety he lies down and
sleeps in the sun ; but he can be made to
work, and is improved by labor both in body
and mind ; nor does labor diminish the
amount of his enjoyments, for his task done,
he laughs, sings and dances with the great
est zest. In this respect the negro differs
from the Indian of the American continent,
who is every way his superior in intellect
and in inventive powers, but who cannot be
enslaved or made to work any more than the
partridge of our woods can be domesticated.
It was the knowledge of this. difference be
tween the races, the incompetency of the In
dian and capability of the negro to endure
labor, which instigated the goad Las Casas
to advocate the introduction of negroes into
the West Indies, in order to relieve the Indi
an. The aborigines of our country, where
are they? They have perished; but the
375,000 negroes which have been imported
have incresaed to over 3,000,000, the ratio
of increase having been greater than that of
the whites, and so much greater as to be
even a cause of alarm.
But though we may deny his equality, yet
that is no excuse for the abuse of the negro;
but as he can work without injury to him
self, ho ought to be made to work, it is for
his own advantage, as well as for the benefit
of the whole human race; without the en
forced labor of the negro the most produc
tive portion of the earth would remain un
improved. If a man and a brother, he is an
imbecile brother and must be cared for and
protected and profitably employed whore he
can be without injury to himself; such is
his situation at the South, and how prefer
able to that at the North, lvhore he is treated
neither as a man nor a brother, neither as a
freeman or a slave; and where his standing
is similar to that of the Pariahs in Asia.
Why the negro was made inferior is known
only to Him who created man; that he is in-
1-J .
ferior is a self-evident fact, and by facts we
must be governed in the management of the
affairs of this world. Constituted as the ne
gro is, slavery or subjection to the whites is
his natural condition in this country, the only
one compatible with the welfare, happiness,
and even existence of the two races. Stupid
as are the slaves of the South, even they are
conscious of the superiority of their situation
to that of the anomalous position of the blacks
at the North, with no one on whom to de
pend; with no one to whom they can look for
love and kindness in remembrance of past
services ; kicked, cuffed and abused by every
ruffian in the community, and no one to whom
they can appeal for redress of their wrongs ;
and the consciousness is evinced by their
common expression : "Poor, miserable free
nigger," when speaking of this degraded
class.
The abolitionists claim, " par excellence,"
to be philanthropists, and their right to the
assumption is as unquestionable as that of the
participators in the massacre of St. Barthol
omew to the appellation of Christians ; or
that of the Sans Cullotes and the fish women
in Paris in the days of the French revolution
to the rank of patriots.
The agitation of the question of negro sla
very, if it did not originate, has been foster
ed and encouraged from the other side of the
Atlantic. The insane excitement on the
question in the Northern States is to be at
tributed to the mental dependence of our
country on English literature, and to a want
of duo self-respect. If the aristocracy of
England take any real interest in the rights
of man there is ample field for its exertion
without leaving the island of Great Britain.
What good motive could actuate the Duchess
of Sutherland in behalf of the negroes of
America? a woman who could depopulate
hundreds of thousands of acres of her hered
itary possessions in the north of Scotland to
convert them into an immense sheep walk;
who could expel from their wretched tene
ments thousands of the dependents of her
family, and turn them out houseless and
homeless on the world, in the sordid expecta
tion of increasing the aggregate of her over-
grown income.
This act exceeds in atrocity the massacre of
Glencoe by the royal butcher Cumberland. ;
or the expulsion of the French settlers of
Acadia, by the orders of the English govern
ment; for the first were subjects who had
been rebels, and the last were alien enemies,
but the poor creatures expelled by this dis
drace to humanity and womanhood, were the
escendants of those who for centuries had
been the retainers of her ancestors, and had
always been ready to die in their defence.—
And yet this she-wolf of Scotland had the
effrontery to address a letter to the women of
America, invoking their aid to put down sla
very in the Southern States, and many of
those women were weak enough and silly
enough to give her credit for philanthropic
motives. In dread of the effect of our exam
ple,. the great object of the aristocracy of Eng
land is to sever our Union and break down
the institutions of our country.
From.. the height of their fictitious elevation
above the masses, they look down upon all
laborers as on a dead level, they make no
discrimination between black and white.--
Negro and Caucasian laborers may associate
and herd together, for they are equals in
their estimation, but no white laborer must
come between the wind and their nobility.—
In our own country the abolitionists are the
ignorant or willing tools of this English aris
tocracy, and here at the North those who feel
themselves superior to white laborers, who
despise the Irish as an inferior race, are the
most devout negro worshippers.
But whether on this or the other side of
the Atlantic, the hereditary or moneyed aris
tocracy who think at all, have one common
object in view, not to elevate the negro, for
that is beyond their power, but to degrade
the white laborer to his level and thus render
our form of government impracticable, by
the infusion into the mass of the people of an
inferior race of men who have evinced that
they were incompetent to sustain freedom.—
In this object I have full confidence they will
be disappointed, and that our country will be
rescued from the madness of fanaticism and
the machinations of demagogues and traitors.
A BRACE OF Boys' COUPOSITIONS.--A dis
tinguished Georgian lawyer says that in his
younger days he taught a boys' school, and
requiring the pupils to write compositions, he
sometimes received some of a peculiar sort,
of which the following is a specimen:
ON INDUSTRY. -It is a bad thing for a man
to be idle. Industry is the best thing a man
can have; and a wife is the next. Prophets
and kings desired it long, and died without
the site. The end.
Here is another :
ON TEE SEASONS.—There are four seasons,
spring, summer, autumn and winter. They
are all pleasant. Some people like spring,
but as for me give rue liberty or give me death.
The end.
THE LARGEST MANE IN THE WORLD.—The
West Tennessee Whig announces the death
of Mr. Miles Darden, near Lexington, in that
State, and says : " The deceased was, beyond
all question, the largest man in the world.—
His height was seven feet six inches—two in
ches higher than Porter, the celebrated Ken
tucky giant. His weight was a fraction over
one thousand pounds! It required seventeen
men to put him in his coffin. He measured
around the waist six feet and four inches.
BLACKBERRY WINE.—The Richmond Amer
ican gives the following recipe for Black
berry Wine: Measure your berries and bruise
them; to every gallon adding one quart of
boiling water. Let the mixture stand twenty
four airs, stirring occasionally, then strain
off the liquor into a cask to every gallon ad
ding two pounds of sugar ; cork tight and let
it stand till the following October, andyou will
have wino ready for use, without fUrther
straining or boiling, that will make lips smack
as they never smacked undersimilar influence
before.
-PERSEVERE.-
HUNTINGDON, PA., JULY 22, 1857,
William L. Marcy
One of the greatest statesmen of the coun
try has fallen ! William L. Marcy is no
more ! He began his long, brilliant and no
ble public career as one of a little gallant
band which, in the war of 1812, captured the
first flag that was taken from our enemy ;
and his last great duty was four years of as
remarkable administrative service as the an
nals of our State Department can show. In
all the varied stations he occupied, it is no
more than just to say that he fulfilled public
expectation ; and while he won the confidence
of his political friends, he commanded the
respect of his - political opponents. His sud
den death, at Ballston, N. Y., cannot fail to
produce a deep sensation of sorrow through
out our nation—we may say, throughout the
civilized world ; for no statesman of the pres
ent day was more widely known or more uni
versally respected. He achieved his great
reputation and exalted public positions by
his innate mental power, purity of character,
patriotic instincts, and indomitable industry.
Mr. Marcy was born in Sturbridge, Mass.,
in 178 G, and graduated at Brown University
in 1808, when he removed to Troy, New
York. In this place he studied law, and
commenced the practice of this profession.—
He took a bold part in sustaining the war,
and was one of the early New York Volun
teers to rally around the national standard.
Soon after the close of the war, in 181 G, he
was appointed Recorder of the City of Troy;
and five years later, in 1821, he removed to
Albany, - which has continued to be his place
of residence ever since.
This was the date of the commencement
of his brilliant state career, for in 1821, lie
was appointed adjutant general. Two years
later, when New York was prosecuting with
so much energy its system of internal im
provements, Mr. Marcy was transferred to
its finance department. It was at a critical
period, and all parties bore willing tributes
to eminent administrative talent which he
then exhibited in the maturing the measures
which placed the credit of the Empire state
on a firm foundation.
In August, 1828, Mr. Marcy was appointed
by Governor Pitcher, to the office of judge of
the supreme court, a selection most satisfac
tory to the bar and to the Democratic party.
His judicial career justified this partiality,
and three years later, when Judge Marcy was
elected to the United States Senate, he left
the bench with the general regrets of the
able and learned legal profession. At this
time he was the confidential friend of Martin
Van Buren; and was in the full maturity of
his great intellectual powers. A political op
poncnt—Judrrpe Hammond—pays to Judge
Marcy, at this period of his life, a beautiful
tribute. "He waft, scholar and a good and
ripe one;" of elevation of mind ; of integrity
and impartiality as a judge, and a most ac
complished and able political writer. Judge
Marcy, so far from seeking or intriguing for
the office of Senator, accepted it with hesi
tation and reluctance.
lle had hardly occupied this post two years,
when he was nominated by the Democratic
party for the office of Governor, where he re
mained six years. In this position Mr. Mar
cy, by his firmness and ability; by the just
weight of a high personal character, and an
already large experience, acquired the almost
universal confidence of the people. They
saw in him the quality of statesmanship; for
he was no successful wire-puller, who had
chaffered his principles for place ; but an 'hon
est public servant, who labored intelligently
for the common good. It was in 1836, when
the pestilential anti-slavery agitation com
menced, that Governor Marcy threw against
it, in a message, the weight of his official po
sition—uttering the views of a patriot and a
statesman.
After service as a member of the Board of
Commissioners to adjust the claims of our
citizens on Mexico, President Polk invited
Mr. Marcy into his Cabinet as Secretary of
War. Here he added to a large reputation.
To his wisdom and administrative talent are
the country largely indebted for the glorious
results of the Mexican war. Then his mili
tary experience in active service of the 1812
war, and as Adjutant General, were turned
to noble account ; and his State papers are a
monument of his comprehension of plan and
vigor of execution. We would not pluck a
leaf from the laurel wreaths of our military
heroes ; yet it was Secretary Marcy's iron
will that prevented the jealousies and quar
rels of some of our Generals from jeopard
izing, on the fields of Mexico, our National
rights and interests.
The last pre-eminent service Mr. Marcy
rendered, we have from time to time chroni
cled; we mean his four years administration
of the State Department in President Pierce's
administration. His masterly State papers
will be among the unimperishable records of
the country. His sagacity, foresight, accu
rate observation, sound judgment, untiring
industry, and admirable execution, have com
manded the praise and respect of the candid
and intelligent of his countrymen. lie has
added new glories to the American name ;_
and ho did it by his quiet way of asking of
foreign powers nothing but what was right
and of submitting to nothing that was wrong.
His vast knowledge of international law; his
keen and unerring logic ; his quick and grasp
ing comprehension, were exhibited in his of
ficial correspondence and other State papers,
in a manner that arrested the attention and
excited the admiration of all Europe.
Thus, at a ripe old age, has William L.
Marcy gone to rest. A great man has fallen !
Ono who has sustained, from youth to age,
the rights, interests and honor of his country;
whose personal integrity of character was
universally admitted; who added to a shrewd
knowledge of men the ripest and most varied
scholarship, and whose native talent and
thorough culture always enabled him to rise
to the mark of his responsibilities and his
duties.
Mr. Marcy was an ornament and a leader
of the Democratic party. He was of the
Jeffersonian school of politics, and since 1812,
has been with the great National party in all
its fierce struggles. Much has he contributed
to the success of the good old cause. But ho
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From tho Boston Post
"Head of the army."—Napolcon.
"I must sleep now." —Byron.
"It matters little how the head lieth."—
Sir Waller Raleigh.
" Kiss me, Hardy."—Zord Nelson. •
"Don't give up the ship."—.Lawrence.
"I'm shot if I don't believe - I'm dying."—
Chancellor Thurlow.
"Is this your fidelity."--Xcro.
" Clasp my hand, my dear friend ; I die."
—Alfieri.
" Oivo Dayroles a chair."—Lord Chester
field'.
" God preserve the Emperor."—Hayden.
" The artery ceases to beat."—Haller.
Editor and Proprietor.
has been ever an open and honorable parti
zan—never virulent towards his opponents.
He was one of whom the party was justly
proud. Throughout his varied career—in all
the exalted and responsible offices he held—
amid all the bitterness of party crimination
and recrimination—no one ba,s been so reck
less as to breathe an intimation impunging
his personal honor and integrity.
In his manners he was sometimes abrupt;
but, in all his acts, koncst. He was a Dem
ocrat by nature—a sincere believer in the
Jeffersonian doctrine of the capacity of the
people to govern themselves, and a despiser
of all that frippery, tinsel and display em
ployed to give oue man a factious superiority
over his brother man.
.He was quick to dis
cover and acknowledge moral, intellectual
and patriotic worth in whatever sphere of
life they were exhibited, and always anxious
for their just appreciation by others. As a
friend he was constant; as an opponent, frank
and bold ; in all the social ties of life, genial
and affectionate ; as a public servant scrupu
lously faithful and conscientious, and capa
ble, beyond rivalry. As a man, he has left
a bright example for the son, the parent, the
husband, the neighbor and the friend. As a
statesman, be has achieved a renown that
will endure as long as those glorious institu
tions of the country he loved so well, shall
stand as liberty's shield.
Wasteful Servants
In speaking of the high prices of articles
of food as increasing family expenses, we
touched but a portion of the causes which
make what was once a competence now an
insufficient income. Probably no small per
centage of this increased outlay might well
be saved, and with the reduction of the ex
penses of living, a great addition made to our
actual comfort. As we have already ventur
ed upon forbidden ground, and interfered
with the peculiar province of the ladies, we
we may repeat or increase our offence
without incurring any further rebuke from
them.
When two ladies meet, whose acquaintance
is more intimate than that of mere formality,
the chances arc ten to one that the conversa
tion will turn before the close upon the mis
eries and vexations which grow out of the
wretched incompetence of the class who offer
themselves as domestic servants. Nor is this
at all to be wondered at: The present state
of things is full of vexation and discom
fort.
Private families are subjected to all sorts
of inconvenience:and waste by the incompe
tency of the domestics. Wages are paid
which are quite sufficient to command good
service; and yet, while the average price is
even more than at public houses and hotels,
the labor performed is ridiculously dispropor
tioned to the price.
Any woman. who can speak Ilnglish feels her
self entitled to demand full price, whether
she knows anything of her duties or not.—
We remember a few years since that a lady
took in a fresh emigrant as servant, upon the
recommendation and interposition o f her gro
cer, a thrifty tradesman, long a resident in
the city, though a native of the same country
as Bridget. The woman proved entirely use
less; and, upon the lady's expostulating,
more in. sorrow than in anger, but quite an
grily enough, with the patron and next
friend of the new servant, the man replied;
"Sure, you needn't be hard on the woman,
for she never set foot on anything but a clay
flure before you took her in," "Why did yen
send her to me, then ?" "Sure she's quick,
and will learn."
The idea of paying "going wages" to a wo
man whom you have to teach the most simple
part of her employment, is quite as absurd as
it would be to give a man who had never seen
a ledger a book keeper's salary. Until ser
vant woman's wages bear some proper rela
tion to their usefulness, we must look for no
economy and no comfort in house-keeping.—
Poor servants arc the cause of endless waste;
and in this country, private housekeepers sel
dom obtain any other than miserable return
for extravagant wages.
Housekeepers must defend themselves by
being housekeepers indeed, after the old-fash
ioned thorough manner. They must insist
upon a proper performance of their work by
domestics, and if they are incompetent, dismiss
them, or retain them only upon payment pro
portioned to their capacity. American fam
ilies are entirely too much at the mercy of
their servants. These people come into the
house strangers, and remain scarce long
enough to become anything else. They have
often no attachment to the family in which
they are employed. Sure that if they lose a
place they shall be immediately caught up by
some other person in desperate haste to escape
the suspicion of being a day without atten
dants, the kitchen cabinet is absolute,
The family is under the terror of the ever
ready threat of the departure of the indignant
A_bi gait. It is the mistress who is usually
discharged, and not the servant. Of all the
hindrances of economy and thrift, poor dom
estic servants are worst, particularly when
the needful oversight is remitted or forgotten.
Prime beef at two levies a pound is too val
uable a commodity to be thus spoiled. And
yet how much is wasted among us in this
way enough of itself to keep up the price of
food.
Dying Words of Noted. Persons.
A death bed'y a detector of the heart;
Itere'tried dissimulation drops her mok,
Through life's grimace, that mistress of the scene;
Here real and apparent are the spite.
" Let the light enter."—Gcuthe.
" All my possessions for a moment of tifFic.'
—Queen Elizabeth.
" What I -is there no bribing death."•
dinal Beaufort.
" I have loved God, my father and liborty."
—Madame de Stael.
"Be serious."—Grotious.
" Into thy hand, 0 Lord I"—Tasso.
"It is small, very small, indeed," (clasp..
ing her neck.)—Anne Boyleyn.
"I pray you see me safe np, and for my
coming down let me shift for myself," (as
cending the scaffold.)—Sir Thomas Moore.
"Don't let that awkward squad fire over
my grave."—Bitrns.
" I feel as if I were myself Waf
ter Scott.
"I resign myself to God, and my daugh
ter to my country."--Thomas fejferso r
" It is well."— Washington.
"Independence forever,"—Adayts.
NO. 5.
" It is the last of earth,"—.T. Q. Adams.
"I wish you to understand the true prin
ciples of government, I wish them carried
out. I ask nothing more."—Harrison.
" I have endeavored to do my duty."--
Taylor.
" There is not a drop of blood on my hands."
—Frederick V. of Denmark.
" You spoke of refreshments, my Emelia
take my last notes; sit down to my piano
here, sing them with the hymn of your saint
ed mother ; let me hear once more those notes
which have so long been my solacement and
delight."—Mozart.
" A dying man can do nothing easy."--r
Franklin.
" Let not poor Nelly starve."—Charles
" Let me die to the sounds of delicious 1:44-
"—Mirabeau.
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ELOPEMENTS.—As a general rule we agree
with the writer of the following remarks on
"Elopements." Still there may be some pe
culiar eases in which a life's happiness de
pends on a moment's violation of the rigid
proprieties of life. We conceive, however,
that these cases are so rare as to bo the ex
ceptions :
Runaway matches seem to be marked with
Divine displeasure. I have never heard of £!,
happy one. Not far from us resides a widow
lady who eloped from an excellent mother,
when young, with a worthless young man.—
She is now the mother of three grown daugh
ters, every one of which has eloped and left
her—the youngest only last June, at fifteen
years of age—and she was left desolate and
broken hearted. Thus is the example of the
mother followed by the children ; and who ,
can she blame but herself? But the worst
remains to be told : The eldest has already
been deserted by her husband, who has gone
to California, and she had to seek shelter in
the home of her childhood ; the second (laugh
ter is slicing for a divorce, though she had
not been thirteen months married.
Ah, girls ! never la an unheeded hour,
place your hand in that of a young man who
would counsel you thus to leave your pater
nal home ! It is cruel to deprive those who
have nourished you, and with sweet hope
look forward to the day of your tpatTiage be
neath their own roof; it is cruel to rod then
of their happiness. It is their blessed privi7
lege to bless your union, to witness your own
and. your husband's joy. How can you rob
them of their participation in that joyous
bridal, towards which they have been sa
many years looking forward 2 Daughters
who elope, wrest iron?. their parents that
erawning dos- of n fats is and, sinottraCts Itt)a
—the gratification of seeing their daughters
married at their own fireside. A bridal else
where is unnatural, and God's blessing will
not follow it.
A SOFT PLIOE.—"I was down to see the
widow, yesterday," said Tim's uncle, "and
she gave me back-bones for dinner. I went
down rather early in the morning; we talked
and laughed and chatted, and run on, she
going out and in occasionally to see things
till dinner was ready, when she helped me
graciously to back bones. Now I thought
that, Tim, rather favorable. I took it as a
symptom of personal approbation, because
every body knoWs I love back-bones, and I
flattered myself she had cooked them on pur
pose for me. So I grew particularly cheer
ful, and I thought I could see it in her
too.
So after dinner, while setting close beside
the widow, I fancied we both felt sorter com
fortable like—l know I did. I felt that I had
fallen over bead and ears and heart in love
with her, and I imagined from the way she
looked, she had fallen teeth and toe nails in
love with me. She appeared just for all tho
world like she thought it was a coming, that I
was going to court her. Presently, I couldn't
help it, I laid my hand softly on her beauti
ful shoulder, and I remarked, when I had pla
ced it there, in my blandest tones, Tim, for I
tried to throw my whole soul into the expres—
sion, I remarked then, with my eyes pour
ing love, truth, and fidelity right into her—
" Widow, this is the nicest, softest place, I
ever had my hand in all my life."
"Looking benevolently at 1110, and at the
same time flushingup a little, she said in mei 7
ting and winning tones—
" Doctor, give me your hand, and I'll put it
on a much softer place."
"In a moment, in rapture, I consented, and
taking my hand, she gently, very gently, Tim,
quietly laid it on my head—and burst into a,
laugh that's ringing in my ears yet.
"Nov, Tim, I haven't told this to a living
soul but you, and, by jinks! you musn't: but,
mind, it musn't go any further,"—New
Spirit of the times.
THE SPIDER AND THE TO-ID—A CURIOUS
INCIDENT.—The following singular relation is
furnished by a correspondent of the Boston
Traveller, as having been witnessed by ape'',
son now living, though occurring more than
forty years ago, about sixteen miles from this
city: The narrator said, that while walking
in 'the field he saw a large black field spider,
considered of the most venomous species,
contending with a comnion sized toad. The.
spider, being very quick in its movements,
would get upon the back of the toad and bite
it, when the toad with its fore paw Foald
drive off the spider. It would Ilea hop to a
plantain, which was growing near by, and
bite it, and then return to the spider. After
seeing this repeated several times, and noti
cing that each time the, toad was bitten it
went to the plointain, the spectator thought
he would pull up the plaintain and watch the
result. ile did so. Being again bitten and
the plaintain not to be found, the toad sc t pn
began to swell and show other indications of
being poisoned, and died in a short tune:" If
the plaintain which grows so abluadantly near
almost every dwelling in this vicinity, was
such-an immediate and. effectual remedy to
the toad, for the bite of the spider, can we
not reasonably infer that it would be an ef
fectual cure for num for the bite of the same
insect ?
Wisdom and virtue are thj greatest.
beauty; but it is an advantage to a diamond,.
to bo wcll scL
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—Car-