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D. 1850 : Joseph Cunningham, farmer, Cass. James Chamberlain, inn keeper, Warriorsmark. Wm. Danghenbang,h, shoemaker, Brady. George Eby, farmer, Shirley. James W. Galbraith, farmer. Shirley. Samuel Gregory, farmer, West. David Hicks, Esq., blacksmith, Cromwell. Wm. S. Hildebrand, carpenter, Huntingdon. Elisha B. Hissong, potter, Cassvillo. Adam Keith, farmer, Tod. George Lamp, farmer, Porter. John Mnnnick, farmer, Dublin. William Miller, farmer, 'Henderson. Rudolph Neff, farmer, West. George Rudy, farmer, Jackson. Martin Shank, farmer, Warriorsmark. Washington Stewart, farmer, Franklin. Jacob Sharp, mechanic, Brady. Thomas Strickler, plasterer, Huntingdon. George Walker, carpenter, Alexandria. Adam Warfel, blacksmith, Brady. John Whittaker, sr., gentleman, Huntingdon. Daniel P. Knode, farmer, Porter. John Armon, farmer, Barree. TRAVERSE JURORS—FrRST Wranz. John Baker, Esq., mason, Shirley. Peter M. Bare, clerk, Union. Charles Ilowersox, Shirley. Israel Baker. farmer, Tod. David 13arrick, farmer, West. 'Hiram Brown, farmer, Springfield. James Condorn, laborer, Brady Thomas Covenhoven. farmer, Barree. Isaac Curfnmn, firmer, Tod. John Carver. farmer. Th—rea. Henry Cornpropst, Ifuntingdon. Isaac Donaldson, laborer, Hopewell. .Tames Duff, mason. Jackson. James Entrekin, farmer. Hopewell. Alexander Ewing. teacher, Franklin. ferry O. Etchison, iThoem aker, Cromwell. A. W. Evans, merchant, Cass. Benjamin Fink, farmer, Cass. Samuel - Friedley. farmer, Henderson. Jacob S. Gehrett, potter, Cassville. Caleb Greenland, farmer, Cass. .Tohn Gayten, farmer, Union. William Glass, carpenter, Jackson. Jacob Hight, farmer, Brady. Moses Hamer, farmer, Walker. - Robert 'Henderson, farmer, Warriorsmark. Williath 'Huey, farmer, Dublin. John lfagey, farmer. Tell. John S. Ifenderson, laborer, Shirley. Daniel Tisenberg,, farmer, Shirley. Tnhn Kesselring, farmer, Springfield.. J,din Morrison, farmer, Shirley. James McCartney, farmer, Henderson. Charles Cl. McLaughlin. blacksmith, Shirle3 Robert Morrow, farmer. Dublin. William Miller, farmer, West. Henry Myers, blacksmith, Shirleysbnrg. Richard Newman. mannfacturer, Franklin.' David Parsons, farmer. Tell. Thomas e. Stewart, farmer, Wel. John Shaffer, farmer, Morris. David IL Stonebraker. farmer, Jackson. .Tohn Shaver, Esq., farmer, Shirley. George B. Weaver, farmer, Hopewell. John Weight, fltrmer, Franklin. Caleb Wakefield, farmer, Brady. John Westbrook, Huntingdon. William P. Taylor, Carpenter, Clay. TENET:ESE JURORS—SECOND WEEK. Jacob Barnet, farmer, Cass. Daniel Beck, blacksmith, Morris. T. S. Berkstresser, merchant, Carbon. William Conch, farmer, Barree. Valentine Crouse, innkeeper, Brady. Nicholas Cresswell, gentleman, Alexandria Henry S. Dell, farmer. Cromwell. John Duff, farmer, Jackson. Levi Evans, Esq., J. P., Carbon. E. S. Everhart, boss, Huntingdon. Abraham Fultz, carpenter, Brady. Isaac Gorsuch, blacksmith, Cromwell. 'Robert Green, farmer, Oneida. James C. win, gentleman, Huntingdon. David Grove, merchant, Huntingdon. John Ilust, farmer, Barree. "Richard D. Heck, farmer, Cromwell. David householder, laborer, Walker. Solomon Isenherg,, blacksmith, Morris. John Ingram, farmer, Franklin. ICenry Jamison, grocer, Brady. John Knock, farmer, Henderson. John Riney, farmer, Franklin. John Love, farmer, Barree. A. J. McCoy. miller, Franklin. Isaac Martin, farmer, Porter, John Montgomery, mechanic, Brady. John Morrow, farmer, Dublin. Magee, farmer, Dublin. Wm. Oak., farmer, Barree. Thomas E. Orhison, merchant, Cromwell. John Shoop, Jr., farmer, Union. Valentine Smitt le, farmer, Tell. Levi Smith. farmer, Union. George Wakefield, farmer, Shirley. Milton Woodcock, grocer, Carbon. March i 3. 1S5;). TRIAL LIST FOR APRIL TERM, 1859. FIRST WEEK. Andrew Patrick, Jr. vs. Eby, Cunningham & nem JOllll Savage, vs. Smith & Davis. William Curry vs. Jona.McWillifuns. :Jacob Criswell vs. It. Hare Powell. Leonard Weaver vs. 11. &B.T. R. 11. Sr. C. Co. Joltu Garner vs. John Savage. Clement's heirs vs. Jno. McCanlese, et. al. -Tames Wall vs. Jones Wall. Glasgow & Bair* vs. Caleb Brown. Soil. Caldwell's admr. vs. B. X. Blair &Co John 13. Weavers, xi:to vs. Jacob Russle. Peter Etniro vs. Jno. Shope. SECOND WEEK. I3oker, Bro. Si . Co. vs. A. P. Wilson. Jno. P. Brock vs. John Savage. Jacob Russia vs. Jno. T. Shirley. Margaret 'Hamilton vs. James En triken. Valentine Creilse vs. G. W. Speer. Fleming Holliday vs. IL Sc B. T. It.. R. &C. Co Eph. Ross vs. Wm. McNite. David Foster - .vs. James Entriken. Kirkpatrick & Son vs. Wm. Hays. Jos. Kinsel's admr. vs. Cristain Price. Bell, Garrettson & Co. vs. Isaac Sharrer. David Rupert vs. Frederick Schneider. .1 as. Sart on for use vs. Nicholas Schank. Win. Weaver vs. Entriken & Drhero. D. limits, Assignee vs. duo. Y. Hay. Samuel Doreen vs. James Pattison. Tams, Jones & Co. vs. Jas. Entriken, Garnishee of Jno. Dougherty. Ann McMullin vs. Wm. McMullin. Same vs. James Findley. 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A collection of tunes adapted to the Psalms and Hymns of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, For Rale at ......$1 50 i 5 3 months. 6 months. 12 months. 50 $3 00 $5 00 .... :3 00 5 00 7 00 . 5 00 800 10 00 . 7 00 10 00 15 00 . 9 00 13 00 0 0 00 12 00 16 00' 24 00 LEWIS' BOOK STORE. WILLIAM LEWIS, VOL XI V. ,eit.ct Vottu. GOOD NIGI-IT. good night! a word so often said, The heedless mind forgets its meaning; 'Tis only when some heart lies dead, On which our own was leaning, We hear in maddening music roll That last "good night,' along the soul. Good night! in tones that never die, It peals along the quickening ear, ' And tender gales of memory Forever wait it near, When stilled the voice—oh, crush of pain— That r, -, r shall breathe "good night" again Good night! it mocks us from the grave, It overleaps that strange world's bound, From whence there flows no backward wave; It calls from out the ground On every side, around, above, Good night, good night, to life and love. Good night! oh, wherefore fildes away The light that lived in that dear word ? Why follows that good night no day? Why are our souls so stirred? Oh, rather say, dull brain, once more, Gond night! thy time of toil is o'er. Good night! now comet]: gentle sleep, And tears that fall like welcome rain, Good night! oh, holy, blest and deep The rest that follows pain; How should we reach God's upper If life's long day had no "Good night?" ,cittt [From the Red, White and. Blue.] THE POISONED ARROW. A STORY OF FRONTIER LIFE. BY CAPT. 3f. D. ALEXANDER, B. S. A. CHAPTER I. We would carry our reader back some thir ty years to the times when civilization was slowly approaching- the western wilds, and when the spirit of adventure led the hardy pioneers out from their native villages to the domain of the red man. One lovely morning in June, two travelers, both well mounted, drew their reins upon the banks of the Mis sissippi, where now stands the flourishing town of Red King. As their vision took in the Wide range of water, prairie and bluff that lay spread out before them, a look, of satisfaction seemed to light up the features of each, for surely their gaze never rested on a lovelier spot. After a few moment's silence the elder of the two dismounted from his steed, and motioned to his companion to do the same. " Nay, Barton, I prefer the landscape as seen from this position," answered his com panion, "I shall keep my saddle until you are ready to remount.' "We shall go no farther!" Barton replied, " If we are to pitch our tents in the wilder ness, brother mine, let it be here, for we may not find a greener spot, or one that we should like better. See this grove of pines ! a little labor will transform it into a rus tic palace, where Barton and Harry New son may find the rest they are in pursuit of." " So be it, then," _Harry answered, as he threw himself from his horse, and unslung the rifle from his back. " When we started, I agreed to abide by your selection, and I shall not question it now. • This is indeed a lovely place ! Surely no white man" has ever before set his foot upon this solitude, never pressed the rich soil beneath us.— Let us be the first to awake the slumbering echoes." Ere his brother could stop him, Harry raised his rifle to his shoulder, and pulled the trigger. From crag to crag, from valley to valley, the sound of the report flew, dis turbing the stillness that had hitherto been almost felt, and driving many a feathered resident screaming into the air. " You will learn better in time, Harry !" Barton said. " Never again waste a shot, even for a whim. You may need all your am munition ere long. We are now in the ter ritory of the Dacotahs, and must keep a care ful watch against surprise." " You surely are not alarmed at our ab sence from the settlements, or fearful of the Indians ?" "No I I only wish to meet them in the broad light of day, face to face. We shall soon make friends of them if they approach us thus; but they may not stop to form friend ships if they come upon us unaware." " I have felt your powers of pursuasion, and judging from their influence upon me, cannot doubt your winning qualities. For myself not being so gifted,l shall keep my rifle always ready to act as an interpreter." " Come, then, let us prepare a shelter.— We can so weave these boughs as to form a very respectable house for the present. Out with your hatchet man, and to work." " Suppose I make a fire, and roast this piece of venison. We shall be hungry when our task is done." " Always providing for the appetite ! Well, be it so. Be careful, however, that you do not let your fire get among the dry branches, else we shall have a general con flagration." "We will . postpone such a pyrotechnic display until the fourth of the coming month." In conversation like to this passed two or three hours, during which the brothers work ed industriously, and found that they had, when the venison was ready for them, provi ded a very comfortable cabin: " I will just dip my cup in the stream there," said Harry, " and try the properties of this .water, hold on I put up your knife until I return. We must start fair ! I ob ject to your cutting off the finest pieces in advance." " Nay, you need not indulge any alarm, you shall have the first cut; hurry then, for I am almost famishing." Harry sprang down the bank, and bent over the swift current. As he was in the act of dipping up the water, an arrow from some unseen bow piercedhis arm, and pinned rp A 41 •€ - - Ar 4 : 7 I®. it to his side. A sudden faintness seemed to seize upon him, yet with the other hand he scooped up the liquid, and commences the ascent. But ere he could reach the top of the bluff, he sank exhausted upon the sward.— Had not the large trunk of a tree intervened, he would undoubtedly have rolled down the mountain again. " This cursed arrow Must be poisoned !" he thought, " for I can feel its influence stealing through my system, numbing and paralyzing my every faculty. If I could but make Barton hear ! What ho ! brother ! Barton I" So rapid had been the action of the irrita ting agent, wherewith the weapon had been charged, that his voice seemed to have be come affected, and he could do little more than whisper. Meanwhile, Barton had be come somewhat annoyed at his brother's ab sence. lie had half a mind to commence an attack upon the venison which was fast growing cold, but he bethought him that he had better look down upon the , ifver, to see what detained the youngster. lie stood upon the edge of the bluff, but as far as he could see, there were no signs of the missing brother. Barton now grew anxious, he could form no satisfactory. reason for this .disappearanee.— There could be but one solution of the myste ry ; the Dacotahs must have been watching them, and succeeded in capturing Harry.— This conclusion arrived at, he turned to look far up the river, where arose upon the still air a tall column of smoke, that told him that he was near some Indian encampment. "Yes, it must be so !" he muttered, as an agony of feeling stole across his soul. "My poor brother has been made, thus early in his frontier experience, a prisoner, by those cursed savages. But he shall be rescued, or if tno late for that, avenged!" Without further delaTy, he unhitched his horse from the limb to which it had been fas tened while quietly grazing, replaced his sad dle, examined the priming of his rifle, and vaulted upon his animal. " Now Barbary," he almost shouted, "you must bear your part nobly in this enterprise. We must bring back my brother, or return not at all." Os the sound of the fleet footsteps died in the distance, and an unbroken silence brood ed once more over the spot, there shot from the opposite bank a light canoe propelled by the practised hands of a young and beautiful forest maiden. With the rapidity of light ning it sped across the waters and touched at the very spot where Ilarry had received his wound. As it grazed the beach, the girl sprang lightly from it, and ran swiftly up the bank to the place where the young man had fallen. She arrived just in time to see him stretch himself out with an agony of pain, throw his arms wildly above his head, and sink almost insensible back again. She bent' over him, and in a sweet whisper, said : "Come with me ! the warrior's arrow has wounded the white bird, who flew to our for ests for a home; but Ahtawahta will save the life of the pale face. Quick, to my canoe, or the chieftains of my tribe will discover us. I saw you fall from yonder grove, watched the movements of the Dacotahs, and am here to save you. Ahtawahta is not very strong ; but she can at least guide you to her hut among the bushes there. You will die if you do not come." With such gentle words the maiden strove to rouse him for the effort, and finally suc ceeded. lle had sense enough remaining to know that if he did not accompany her, his hours of life were numbered. He had heard of the medicinal knowedge that the Indians possessed, and he doubted not that she could aid him. "My brother 2" he said faintly. "Will return to this spot, and await your coming ; he has gone to se — el you. He will never leave until he meets you again. When the sickness has passed, Ahtawahta will bring you here. Come, ere the warriors of my race shall discover you ?" By a series of painful efforts Harry at last reached the canoe, into which he was assisted by his fair guide. " Now you must trust yourself to Ahtawah ta, who by the help of the great spirit will draw this arrow from your arm, and heal the wound. She would thus atone for the cruel ty of him who drew the bow." As Harry felt himself lifted from the frail barque, he cast a grateful look upon his pre server, and became unconscious. Pour months had passed ere Harry was amain able to leave the mats whereon he had reposed, in an utter prostration. The fever had at last left him, but he was very weak. Ahtawahta had clung to him with a singular devotion, and had been true to her promise. Aided by a couple of aged squaws, she had brought him from the very gates of death far on to health. We find her now, after the lapse of so many weeks, still by his side, either administering some restorative, or sit ting at his feet, listening to the strange stories of the white man's home. " You will soon leave the wilderness," sighed the maiden, "and I shall see you no more. Four moons have passed since I saw you—they have been happy days to -me, but 'O must part. Look from this door upon the scene without. Already the leaves are with ering and dying in the cool autumn blasts. Ere long the storm king will ride upon the wind, and wrap earth in its cold embrace. You will go to meet the warm hearts that watch you, while Ahtawahta, will grow cold as the snow. The winter will blight her very heart." Harry turned from 'the contemplation of the landscape to the bright eyes of the fair child of nature beside him. Ile read in their dark meaning, words that sent the warm flush to his cheek. His arm rested upon her shoulder and almost encircled her neck, join ing his hands he pressed her to his bosom. " Alitawalita," he whispered, " I love you, and must never leave this spot. Be mine, and let me here livo and die 1" • With a glad smile the maiden raised her moist lips to his ; but ere he could press them, a shadow stole across her face, her head droop- HUNTINGDON, PA., MARCH 30, 1859. CHAPTER 11. -PERSEVERE.- ed again, as she murmured sadly— " No, no !it must not be This has been a pleasing dream to the forest maid, but it cannot be realized. In a few moons Harry would tire of his Indian bride, and would long for the associations that be bad aban doned. Better leave me now than then." - " Ahtawahta believes that there is truth in the heart?" " Yes I but affection may grow cold—" " Listen to me dearest! My life was pre served by you, and to you it should be devo ted. Do not suppose that I wish merely to repay the debt—that I can never do ; but over and above all other considerations is the love that can be answered by possession. I could not breathe a word of harm to you! I have left no one in the far off home of my childhood, for whose society I can languish. Fear not, then, my truth, for by the light of that great sun I swear—" "No ! not for me! The great Manitou will not hear an oath. I am yours forever ! If in some future hour your heart should wander back to the friends of earlier days, I will bid you depart and lay me down to die. At least you will be mine till then." She did not longer hesitate, but with an impassioned gesture, clung about his neck, while Harry imprinted innumerable kisses upon her yielding lips. As they stood thus, the sound of horses hoofs falling rapidly upon the soft turf, roused them from their absorption—at the same mo ment one of the two squws that had been in attendance upon the youthful pair, rushed in and spoke a few hurried words to Ahtawahta, and left the hut again. " Wahpeta tells me that our warriors arc in pursuit of a white man, who is urging his horse towards the crossing here. Let us go forth, for we may save him." " It may be my brother !" exclaimed Harry with a glad smile, as they passed hand in hand out into the forest. Soon the pursuers and pursued appeared in the distance. Har ry at once recognized in the white man his brother. "It is he ! it is Barton. Heavens !he will be killed I" " Not so ! He is my brother now," an swered maiden proudly, " and not one of our trrlthall dare to molest him." As the horseman drew near, Harry . cried, " Stop, brother I Barton, do you not know me ? It is your brother Harry that calls." Although the rider heard the voice and recognised it, he could not check his steed untii•he had fairly reached the edge of the river. Ahtawahta placed herself directly in the way of the pursuers, and with a motion bade them pause. A short parley ensued at the end of which the Dacotahs turned their horse's heads and rode back from whence they had come. • Barton soon made known t us brother the various events that he had passed through as he followed for months the trails of different tribes of Indians in search of the lost one, until his hopes died out, and he turned to re trace his steps ; how ho had been met by those who were following him, and had to run for his life. Harry Newson and his Indian bride lived to see a flourishing town grow up upon the spot where they first met, for he never left her in life. . A Lesson for Boys and Girls. Young readers, do you know the little ani mals—birds, beasts, and insects, are good mechanics, skilled in business and building operations ? This is true ; and what they do is done systematically, with neatness and despatch. Nor do they idle, lounge about, or stop to play, till the work is done, and well done. The Otter and the Heron are the fishermen, though they use neither line nor net. The Otter we seldom see, for he works his traps mostly under water; but the Heron may often be seen standing with his long, thin legs in the shallow part of the stream, sud denly plunging his long bill below the surface and bringing up a fish. Ants are day laborers, and very industri ous in their calling; they always seem in earnest at their work. Catch them asleep in daytime, if you can ! They set us an exam ple of industry. "Ants freely work without disguise, Their ways consider and ba wise." The swallow is a fly-catcher ; and the num ber that he daily catches would astonish you. You often see him in his vocation skimming along the surface of the brook or pond. The beaver is a wood-cutter, a builder and a mason ' • a very good workman at all these trades. Ile fells the small trees with his teeth, and after he has built his house, he plasters it carefully with his tail trowel. The wasp is a paper maker, in his building. Ills paper is water-proof, and made of mate rials that no other paper maker would use. Look at the curious wasps' and hornets' paper dwellings—not patented are they? Singing birds are amateur musicians, and excel all others in harmony. 'Hardly can we decide which of them excels—the lark, the robin, the thrush, or the nightingale. "On the feathery wing they rove, And wake with horniony the grove." The fire fly and the glow-Worm are lamp lighters. The bee is a professor of geome try ; for he constructs his cell so scientifical ly, that the least possible amount of materi als is formed into the largest spaces, with the least waste of room. Not all the mathema ticians of Cambridge could improve the con struction of his cells. Nor can the best her metrical sealers among us preserve provis ions so well. The caterpiller is a silk spinner, far ex celling any other in his line of business ; in deed we could not learn an art that would supply any silk worth the name without him. With what wonderful properties and pow ers has it pleased our Heavenly Father to endow the lowly creatures Young friends, is not this wonderful, mar velously wonderful ? Who endowed these animals with wisdom ? God ! Who of us could make cells or honey like the bee, silk like the silk worm, or music like the singing birds ? Truly the goodness of God is seen in all his works. A little baby lay in the cradle, and Trope came and kissed it. When its nurse gave it a cake, Hope promised another to-morrow ; and when its young sister brought a flower, over which it clapped its wings and Crowed, Hope told of brighter ones, which it would gather for itself. The babe grew to a child, and another friend came and kissed it. Her name was Memory. She said "look behind thee, and tell me what thou seest." The child answered, "I see a little book." And Memory said, "I will teach thee how to get honey from the book that will be sweet to thee when thou art old." The child became a youth. Once when he went to his bed, Hope and Memory stood by the pillow. Hope sang a melodious song, and said "Follow me, and every morning thou shalt wake with a smile, as sweet as the pretty lay I sang thee." But Memory said, "Hope, is there any need that we should contend ? He shall be mine as well as thine. And we shall he to him as sisters all his life long. So he kissed Hope and Memory, as he was beloved of them both. While he slept peace fully, they sat silently by his sid,e weaving rainbow tissues into dreams, When he woke, they came with the lark, to bid him good morning, and he gave a hand to each. He became a man. Every day Hope gui ded him to his labor, and every night he sup ped with Memory at the table of Knowledge. But at length Age found him and turned his temnles grey. To his eye the world seem ed altered. Memory sat by his elbow chair, like an old and tried friend. He looked at her seriously, and said, "last thou not lost something that I entrusted to thee ?" And she answered, "I fear so ; for the lock of my casket is worn. Sometimes I am weary and sleepy, and Time purloins my key. But the gems that thou didst give me when life was new—l can account fur all—see how bright they are." While they thus sadly conversed, Hope put forth a wing that she had not worn, folded under her garment, and tried its strength in heavenlya fli g ht. The old man laid down to die, and. when his soul went forth from the body, the angels took it. And Memory walked with it through the open gate of heaven. But Hope lay down at its threshold and gently expired, as a rose giveth out its last odors. Her parting sigh was like the magic of a seraph's harp. She breathed it into a glori ous form and said, "Immortal happiness ! I bring thee a soul that I have led through the world. It is now thine. Jesus hath redeem ed it." An able writer expatiating on the well-es tablished truth that intellectual culture, car ried on without sufficient bodily exercise, will very soon of itself run down the finest origi nal constitution, especially if commenced too early in life, refers to some interesting facts by way of illustration, to which we would call the attention of our readers. Every year, he says, we perceive the evi dences of increased inattention to all sorts of means for the renovation of the physical con stitution in our large cities. In Boston, where twenty years ago, hardly a child was born without the seeds of consumption in its lungs, there is, in many of the best families, a mark ed physical improvement, the results of cul ture. At Cambridge, the Faculty are pat ronizing cricket and rowing matches, because they have found the tendency to a physical decay so strew , - among the best students, without something of the kind. The yacht ing clubs of New York and Newport, the bath ing in summer, and the skating in winter— in-fact, the general tendency everywhere to cultivate and. cherish sports and develop the physique, afford a proof of the felt necessity of more attention to health. Mere sports, though they may abate the tendency to decline, are not enough to avert slow and sure decay. A man's duties must be so arranged as to em brace a fair share of physical exercise, or else he mast become a mere sporting character. There is this great danger with many . of these sports in this country, they are not in digcnious ; many of them, like cricket, not adapted to the extreme heat of our summer weather, which is quite unknown in England, and many others, very apt to produce habits of dissipation, quite as injurious as the evils they would cure. But it is not so mucli in the physical cul ture of men as of women, that the chief de fect of our present social system lies. Our women.are pretty at seventeen and old at twen ty. The English nobility set a much higher value on beauty of form and figure than we do, and a really fine-looking girl without a penny or fortune, is thought a better match by the - most calculating wealthy parents, than a dough-faced specimen of fashionable breed ing with quite a fortune. It is by the intro duction of new blood that the stock of the most ancient families is preserved. Among ourselve while all invigorating hab its and sports ought to be encouraged, it is not from those cultivated as foreign sports that we have -most to hope. It should he rather the development of our national.re sources. NEW MUSIC.-" Do the ladies play music at the West, sir ?" asked a young lady of a western green-looking customer. " Oh, very universally, Miss," was the re- P l - " Indeed, I was not aware of that ; do they use the piano mostly ?" " Never, Miss. The instrument that we have out our way is the Swinette, and the Girls all play it." " 0, dear, I am sure, positively, that I nev er heard of that before; do tell what it is, and how they play it." " Well, the instrument is a small pig, and each one takes one of these under her arm and chews the end of his tail, and that brings out the music." Western "green" was tho lion for the bal ace of that evening. Editor and Proprietor. Hope and Memory. BY MRS. L. 11. SIGOURNY Physical Education xl,'•.Think twice before you speak A nice, respectable lady, not a thousand miles away, had long noticed, to her dismay, that her " worser half" was growing foolish ly suspicious and jealous of her. She resolv ed to teach him a leSson. Some evenings since, as he was leaving, she told him he need not hurry back—she would not be lonely—she wished her ducky to enjoy himself, etc. Benedict smelt a ver itable mice, under that hypocracy, and re solved to be avenged. About 8 o'cleok "an individual," about his size, might have been seen creeping cautiously along to the door, and noiselessly Benedict peeped in. Just as he expected, there they were—a pair of boots —a coat on the back of a chair, and a hat on the table. Benedict shivered like an aspen leaf, as he stopped, pulled of his boots, and drew a pistol from his coat pocket. With "resolution flashing from his eye," he made tracks for the bed-room. There he was kneeling at the bed-side, coat and vest off, and his head on the pillow. Miserable vil lain—his time had come. NO. 40. " Say your prayers, villain—your time la short"—and a flash and a report told that the bullet had sped on its fatal mission. "Help ° murder ! watch ! Oh, is thatyou?" and Madame popped her little head up from the foot of the bed. Benedict seized the body, and it was—a miscellaneous collection of old coats, vests, pillows, handkerchiefs, and the like, made un for the occasion. "I say, my dear, what does all this mean ?" exclaimed the husband, with a blank, sheep ish look. " Well, dear," replied the wife, " I did get lonely after all, and just amused myself by dressing up that puppet, and making believe you were at home. I'm sure, I didn't think you'd suspect—" " There, there," said the chagrined hus band, " say no more about it; I thought it was a robber ; dear creature, Pm so glad it didn't hit you." Benedict repeated, "Now I lay me down," etc., - and went to bed, resolved not to watch any more at present.— Chattanooga .Adrerti ser. How Poor Young Men May Succeed. Young man aro you poor and without the means of splurging in life, as you launch up on its billows? Is your father poor and un able to give you an outfit ? Be not disheart ened on account of all this. Take an earnest hold of life, and never regard yourself in any other light than that of being destined to a high and noble purpose. Study closely the bend of your own mind for labor or a profes sion. Whatever you resolve upon, do it ear ly ; follow it steadily and untiring ; never look backward to what you have encountered, but always forward to what is within your grasp. The world owes every Ain a com fortable living, and a respectable position in society ; means are abundant to every man's success ; and men have only to adopt will and action to them. To repine over a want of money and prop erty, to start out in the world with, and over the want of the props of influential relatives, is unmanly. Let a young man strive to cre ate a fortune, rather than seek to inherit one. It is an ignoble spirit that leads ayoung man to borrow instead of bequeathing means. Go forth into the world, young man, conscious of God within you, and his providence over you, and fight your own way to distinction to honor and to comfort. Pity in your inmost soul the young man who, without any change is unable to support himself, and is whining around, and begging the influence of others, to get him into employment ! Feel, under all circumstances, that it is more noble, more honorable to eat the crust you have earned, than to flourish with coppers inherited. You may lift your head proudly to face and con front the noblest among us, when you are concious of being the architect of your own fortunes. Young man areyou poor ? Be honest, be virtuous, be industrious; hold up your head, and say by your actions and looks, what the poet said in words : [From the New Haven News.] During sixty years resident in New York it was my custom when the birthday of Washington came round, to get the following anecdote inserted in one or two of the daily papers. A good story is not the worse for being twice told, nor a good sermon the worse for being twice read. In 1706, I heard the farmer referred to, narrate the following in cident. Said he : " When the British army held possession of New York, and Washington with the American army lay near West Point, ono morning I went out at sun-rise to bring home the cows. In passing a clump of brush-wood I heard 'a moaning sound like a person in distress. On nearing the spot I heard the words of a man at prayer. I listened be hind a tree. The man came forth—it was George Washington, the Captain of the Lord's host in North America." This farmer was a member of the Society of Friends, who, being opposed to war under any pretext, was lukewarm, and in some cases opposed to the cause of the country. This farmer was a tory. However, having seen the General enter the camp, ho went to his own house, and said to his wife, " Martha, we must not oppose this war any longer.— This morning I heard the man George Wash ington send up a prayer to Heaven for his country, and I know it will be heard." This Friend dwelt between the lines of the two armies, and subsequently gave Washington many items concerning the movements of the enemy,• which rendered good service to the American cause. From this incident we may infer that Washington rose with the sun to pray for his country, he fought for her at meridian, and watched for her at midnight. Now, Mr. Printer, I advise every editor of a newspaper between Montauk point and the Rocky Mountains, if three drops of Ameri can blood is running in their veins, that they insert this anecdote in their daily or weekly journal every twenty-second of February, {Washington's birth-day,) as long as trees grow and water runs. I voted three years•while Washington was President—l married three bonnie Yankee lasses—this, I think, is being naturalized enough, in all good conscience. I therefore hold myself an American to all intents and purposes. This day I enter my 87th year. GRANT THORD URN. New Haven, Feb. 18, 1859. PLEASANT YOUTH !-,—"lkly son," said a do ting father, who was about taking his son in to business, "what shall be the style of the new firm ?" "Well, governor," said the one and twenty youth, looking up to find an an swer, "I don't know : but suppose we call it John 11. Samplin i Father," A Smart Women "I scorn the man who boosts his birth, And boasts his titles and his lauds. Who takes his name and heritage From out a father's dying bands." Anecdote of General Washington.