' 4 d.O .vlr.ii'lkify. ir, 4 -r-dV: ‘tV BY JOHN B - BRATTON, VOL. 39., apoetitJtt. ' -'Folf'tlio Volunteer. 1 , :k.‘ !u;i ifi' i •■A'piCTDIIBi v ? s ru alovely picture, thai cottai'e small, ... With Itd flQvvor'wrcathcdporclutnt! vino clad wall, JrsroWlrtesbemlluginfi-agraor broom', ifilling.ibo oir with.tbeir rich pcrfUme. ?'ha marlin la twittering boncath thd caves, tt nost’hatf iiidby the clustering leaves; And.the bee'* lo\y hum in the lilly'• boll, Steals on tho heart.with a soothing spell* £Tls;mornlog*s boar, the san'e first rays • Dn the dewcom'd leaves in bcaaty blaze,. .wynoXho onole Hits Ilka a jewel bright' ' ’Mldtho.follbge,singing with wild delight. Jtijl (lio soul oflts beahty, tho noblest charm, ThAt bids tho JiAart throb’with deep feeling worm, ,Ts that young mother and infant puro.i ’JVoalh tlio fluWßiing shado at, tho coltago door. 'tier.fair lirow IsliVwith antctlrms light, -And its toughing btuo eyes with jay oro bright, While lU,tiny while hands delighted ploy . With the golden culrls o'er Its breast that stray. Xnd howJifcr soft eyes Ara raised'atinro. -In the,deep sweet faith of a mother's love, ~Asking of UcKven for strength to guide Iti'opening mindinllio way of right. U iswoll, young mother, this truth to know : Thy lutaro la veil’d with Its weal or woe: TVom tho seed you plant in its youthful nHnd,' You a harvest of happhieria dr'srfrrow must find. D.C " jf#Wccliamotifl. X Candidate for Church Membership, fiy A. JACK, ESQ. “Old Sieve,'" or “lying Stevens," as lie was fafaifiarly ckllod, by virtue of a strong original ge genius and an indefatigable perseverance end ap plication, had adqulrcd the reputation of being the greatest liar dial ever existed in the Slate of . Whenever ho made-his appearance, therefore, at muster or training, he was sure to bo surrounded by a host of eager listeners. He greatly excelled the renowned Muqchausen, who simply told ex travagant stories, and sometimes blundered on the truth. • Stevo on the other hand, never told a word of truth, even by mistake in his life, and lied cir cumstantially and in every particular. In a short time it came to him as natural as eating and ■drinking, or rather as breathing; for he had nut 'only lied to listeners, but oven when he had no other person 10 talk to, ho would tell lies' to him self, just to keep hiahand in. This fact was as certained beyond any doubt by his d’enylng it in iho,most solemn manner when somebody accused Jilin of tip? practice.,, Sloven’s misfortune, at one time? to loso a goodideal of money on a horserace. This made him feel uncommonly serious, so ho went to a camp faceting, which was held about five miles from his see if he could not mtfkp up a littlo by “shaking prop” with the boys. They happened'however to bo 100 much for him that time, and howascomnlelely clearcdout. This made him if possible feel more serious than over, and as there happened to be a powerful preacher (hero, Who'could make himself heard at the distance of a mile, ho thought ho would turn over a now leaf atonco. When ho got home, therefore, the first thing ho'dld’was io send for tho minister. The Worthy ntan came, and to hisexlromoamazement, found tha.lStovens wanted to join the Church I “i,have no hesitation In laying yodrproposition before tho brethren,"said the old man, trying to smother a-laugh. . “.Ofcourso you haio’t,” responded Steve, with fcroal confidence. “And if you givoeatifaclory evidence of amend faunt, Mr. Stevens,” continued the minister, urn phasifetng the word, “they might tako you on pro bation; at : any rato. wb have a meeting to-night, and ) can lei you know to-morrow.” ■i* Probation be d—dogged I” ejaculated Sieve, fie; ihe minister hastily retreated; “ why cau’i they, ley me join at once while X fed likp ill" The proposition as might have been expected, treated real sensation. There was hardly a member of the church, male or female,who had Hot,sometime or< other* been victimised by Steve’s slanderous tongde, add ihey could hardly bear hia name with pdtieneb. Some of them wont so far as to say that it he joined, they would leave, and that set tled the matter, for they were among tho “fore handed members” who could afford to spoaK out, because tho church could not'afford to loso them. However* id avolil-any trouble wiih an uhscfu fiUloufi follow like Steve* U was resolved to break ho matter to him as gently as possible. Two of iho J hibsl fespedtablo men In the church were ap pointed to call Upon him* arid It was generally un derstood that such was Ihetr known mildness of disposition that every possible excuse consistent with truth would bo made for not receiving him- The rest of tho story .must Uo told in Stove's bwn words. •• When old. Deacon Peabody oamo along, 1 sot in.tho back door whittlin'a hoe-bapdle, and 1 hope ip suffer if 1 wasn’t mad onongb to r.xro right up, A cousin of my wife’s, whoso sister was a mem ber, bad come pvor airly and told us all about it.” “ Good mornln’,” Mr. Stevens*’ says (bo old iiypotritOf with a face as long as a yard of pump water. “ I said nothin’, but kept on a whittlin'. “ I catno’ down to sod you this morning,’’'says ' “ Well* soys 1, how do you Uko my looks 1” “ Oh,” says ho, what 1 moan is, (hat I came down to labor With you.” 1 « Wdik awoy, then, why don’t you 1” was all thpt ho got out o’ mo. •» Out Mr. Slovens,?’ said ho very solemnly, “the church sent mo down hero to talk with you a min ute.” u Wol!, you’ve boon talkin’ for more’n five min* utcs, Deacon Peabody/* Bays I, “ and you’ve said nothin* yet; mow; whon aro you goin* to begin 1" “ Tho old Israelite looked mad onuff to blto my head off at a snap, but thought it boat to keep cool, po ho drew a long breath and wont on Nobody wants to .burl yonr feelings or make any trouble, Mr. Stevens, but tho church have come to tho conclusion, that, perhaps, on tho whole, under tho circumstances, and In vlow of every'* thing, it might possibly bo boat all around, and ta king'all thing* into consideration, for you nolJo bo hasty In applying jiat at present. They thpik on mature reflection that It might boos wall if yoa*d conclude to postpone il a little w(iilo, say for a year or eighteen months.” •“They dew! Wall, now, Doaoon, what makes thorn think sol Tho ohutcli ain’t full, Is UV* ■ *»Thls’waa a hard question. Tho old aarpint know very woll that U wouldn’t answer to say ho didn’tdenow—for ho know fast onuff—and know that I knew ho did. So says ho—. •* Mr. Slovens, I’m sorry that you aro s 6 riled ahoyl U—you’ve no occasion—l did not como to offend you, but you know ns well as I do, why (ho church don’t accept you,” il If I know I wouldn’t oak you to tell mo, Mr. Peabody,” Wall,” says he, •* can’t you know what large tlurica you’r In tho habit of lollin’.” ** Who says I toll largo'stories?" says 1,” it aint Untruth, and you can’t prove It ain’t. Now, gin’t it o elmmo, Doacon, for'you to go round spandolizin’o neighbor that way 1. What story did you over hoar that wasn’t truo h■> Como, Iny your Unger oa tho Aral story, and 1 won’t say another word.!’ ■ ‘ t. • “ Why, Ihero’s so many.on ’em,” answered the Deacon, ‘Hhot its a’most impossible to specify any one in particular. . But now I think on jt: don’t you remember that 'story you. told about your fathers bein’killed by a bear V* . . * • ,*‘My father’s bfein 1 killed by a bear says I, there it is now I That *is just tho’way folks lie about me! U’s ail bntruih like tho rest on’em, and you ,ought to be ashamed, DcaooriPoabody, to be rtlnnin* round tollin’ things that ain’t soI” ** Wellj” said ho pretty short, 141 you’ve made lhal ’ero observation about often enuff; if you diden’t say your father was kilted by a bear, what was it you did say 1” 11 ' 1 “ I’ll 101 l you, 1 said that father was one of the first men to bring sheep'ipto this’ere town, and that is no story, is it V*. , ’ “ No,” said ho,“ il-eih^.’’ 11 And one day,.l said that he lost ono of them ’ore .sheep in the woods; and that is likely if-It nin’t true—and wdion ho was looking for it, 1 said he eamo across a bear. The beargrowted at dad, ho hollered at, the boar, and finally the beast came at hitn, and tore all his insides nut, and then your father, Deacon ■ Peabody—who was a respectable man f eliVand never would ’agono about town scandellzln 1 hts neighbor—your father heard roy father holler, arid came up, and seeing, l\ow mat ters stood, ran for the doctor.’ When tho doctor came, the fust thing jbe did was lo catch a sheep and cut its insides out, and put them in tho place of dad’s, and I never said dad was killed by a bear! No, sir, I told the naked truth—l said ho grew as well as ever ho was, except that ho han«. kered after hay all the winter and had wool enough grown to make him on over coal in tho spring.— You don’t call that a largo story 1 hope. If you don’t let a feller jino tho church because ho tells tho troth, you Won’t find may docent members 1 gtioss I” Tho old man rhz right straight up, and walked owny wiihout sayln’ a word. What he thought I never could learn, for the old Christian haln’t never opened hid head to roc since. Is Not This too True! Tho guy will Jaugh When thoqait gone the solemn brood of care. Plod on, and each one as before will clmso His favorite phantom.— Bryant. A few friends will go and bury üb; affection will ronra stone, and plant o few (lowers over our grave; in a brief period the little hillock will bo smoothed down, and tho stono will- fall, and neither friend nor stranger will be concerned to ask which one of the forgotten millions of tho earth was buried there.— Every vestige Uml wo ever lived upon the earth will have vanished away. All the little memorials of our remembrance—-the lock of hair encased in (ho portrait (hat hung in our dwelling, will cease to luvo tho slightest interest to any living being. Tlio Iloucy Moon, Why is tho first month affer marrlago called tho "honey moon ?" Doubtless on account of tho sweet lunacy which controls the hoods of the parties during that brief ood delightful period. What a pity thev should ever got quite rational ogain ! that sentimen tality should give place to sentiment, sentiment to sense, love yield to logic, end fiction to fact, till the “ happy pair" ore reduced from the Eden of romance to tlio Sahara of reality—from lloavco to earth— and perhaps a peg lower. ■ , Sifango as it may seem, there have boon couples who have quarreled in tho first month of matrimony, and have gono back to their astonished parents be foro the good mother had fairly dono weeping (and rejoicing loo) at her daughters departure. Their "honey moon "soured at tho full-,of her horn, and become a moon of vinegar, instead. A bad o men that! There was much sonso and propriety in the text which an ancient clergyman choso for a wedding sermon. It was taken from tho Psalms nf David, and reads thus: "And lei there be peace while the moon endufelh." A worthy physician of our city, a member of (ho Society of Friends, has a favorite negro coachman who happens to bo a Methodist. Not only la Sam a Methodist, but ho is also a* bright end shining a light in the church as it is possible for such a ploco ,of ebony to bo. You know, I presume, how (ho blacks conduct their devotions. Well, Sam was in tho habit of selecting his matter’s kitchen os tho scono of tho social meetings which he led ; and these religious services yscro not conducted entirely on tho plan Which a Quaker Would altogether approve. Tho Doctor* however, is famous for his good.nature, and ho endured tho boisterous piety of his servant and his friends with wonderful equanimity. ' One night, however; when they had boon Unusually M powerful in prayer,” the Doctor thought to adminis ter a gentle, reproof. , So, tho mooting over, the zealous coacliman.was summoned before his master. “Sam,” said tho old gentleman “why doca thee makoao much noiso in prayer? Doesn’t thee known (hat the Almighty is not far off, but nigh dnio thco j neither is his bar deaf that it cannot hoar; 110 can hoar thco as well when thoo whispers as when thco roars.” “Mossa Doctor,” replied Sam, full of confidence in his superior theological loro, “you isn’t road descriptors wld no kind ob ’tcntlon.” “ llow so Sam ?’“• you dope forgot ’pears to mo, how it says clnr, plain as kin bo, * /tillered bo dy name 1’” The Doctor gave up Sam in despair, for there was no answering that argument. Tub BoV Ado tub Bitiot—A Fable.—A boy hoar, ing bis father say, ‘ 'twas a poor rule that did not work both ways,’said : *if father applies this rule about his work, I will'lest it in my play.* So setting up a row of bricks, three or four inches apart, he tipped over tho first, which, atriklng tho second, caused it to full on 'tho third, which over turned tho fourth, and so on through tho whole cour»o , until all tho bricka Jay prostrate, ‘Well, ’ said tho boy, ‘each brick knocked down his neighbor which stood next to litm; I only tipped one. X will >oo if raising one will raise all the rest.’ lie looked in vain to see (horn rise. - ‘Hero father,’ said tho boy, ‘'lie a poor ruto ’twill not work both ways. They knock each other down but (hoy will not raise each other up.’ ‘My son,’ said (ho father, ‘bricks and mankind aro alike tnado of clay, active in knocking each ‘other down, but not disposed to help osch other up." •Father,’said the boy,‘does tho first brick repre sent or resemble tho first Adam?’ Tho father replied in tho following moral: 1 •When men fad, (hoy love company; but when they rise, they love la stand alone, like yonder brick, and sao others prostrate below (hem. Bat, my son, ibis is .contrary lo'lhal Heavenly Charily which wo ought all to possess,.and never let it bo so with you.’ Tho Roy, Mr. E——,who lived not a thousand miles froth Portland, was preparing his discourse for tho next ,Sabbath,' Slopping occasionally to review what ho had written, end to erase that which hd was disposed to improve, ho was ocoostcd by his little sort, who had numbered but throe summers— " Father, does God 101 l you what to preach " Certainly, 'my child.*' “Then' what masks you scratch it out ?" • A Young Goose.—A market girl sold d gonllomon a fine fat goose, warranting it to be young. It turpod out, when roasted, to be unmanageably lough.— Tho next day tho gentleman said to tho market girl— " That goose which you sold me for a young one was very old,*’ "Certainly nett" said tho girl; “ don’t you cal) mo young?" ,• ‘ , "Yes." " Well, ! am but nineteen, and 1 hoard mother say often, that that goose was six weeks younger than mo." ’ • “OUtt COl/NTRY—MAT IT ACWAYS JIB lUQIIT—BUTIRIOIIT Cn:wi;ONQ,'Ot;iI,COUNTaY. T ’.'. 1 CARLISLE, I’A., THUESMY, JUNE U, Ml. , ■i. T From the NationaninlclUgcncor; > 7 THE EMPIRE OF JAPAN. As any thing which relates to Japan dt ibp present lime may bo interesting, I send you fbo following conoißtj,sketch of that kingdom. It.is called by the natives .Niphou, and was Jbunded,about six bundled and sixty five years’ before Christ, bySimmu.. From him lo Sineakin Ihdrb'appears' to'havA been sixty 1 000-Emperors. After this, period,-iii tho yo*r 1143, a change took place.' From tliis'limo a double chro nology cominancce, including' tho 'reigns of'.lhb Doarios and Cdbos. Tho Dearies' wora military officers,'and at ono period completely usurped tho power of tho Emperors;.but a general by the name of Jarotlmo being crowned, succeeded in’depriving the Ddarios of oli military power. At Iho present time tho kingdom of Japan is govoronod by an Em* peror, wilb full'military powers, a Doario with full civil powers, and.a Cubo, or a prlmo minister, who has’authority over certain cities, their Parliament, &,c. . - . Tlio kingdom ofJapan consists of three largo'Shd thirty nr forty smaller islands, situated off tho coast of China. Tho largest of those inlands is Niphon, tho next Jesßo. On tho Island of Bongo, southwest of Tonsa, is tho city of Nangaschi, and near that city is tho little artificial island, Diana, on which a Dutch factory Is built. Jeddo, or Yeddo, tho capital of tho empire, is situated in the midst of a fine plain, in tho province of Musaco. It Is built in tho form of a crescent, and intersected in almost every street by canals,' their banks being planted with rows of boautiful'troos,— Tho city is not surrounded, as roost Eastern titles arc,,by a Wall, but hss a strong- castle to. defend it. Tho river Tongag waters.lt, and supplies the castle ditch ; and being divided into five streams, has a bridge over each. Tho public buildings are on a magnificent scale. imperial palace is formed by three oinclurs, or circular piles of buildings, and encloses many streets, counts, apparlmonlo, pavilions, guard houses, gates, draw bridges, gardens, canals, &c. In it resides the Emgeru and his family, the royal domestics, tributary prinlls and their retinites, the Ministers of Slate, many, other officers of Gov ernment. and a strong garrison. Tho walls of this magnificent pa loco are built-of freestone, without cement, and the stones prodigiously large. Tho whole pile was originally covered with guilt tiles, which gnvo it a very grand and beautiful appearance. Many of tho s elaUly oppartments are formed and altered at pleasure, by movable screens. Tho prin cipal upparlmcnls are the Hull of Altcmlanco.tho Council Chamber, Hall of a Thousand Mats, &c. Tjio city is under tho rule of two Governors, who rule a year each. Tho next largest city is Mcaco. It is also a royal city, and is situ-ilcd.on a lube near tho middle of tho Island of Niphon, and surrounded by’ mountains, which give a remarkable and dclighllul prospect to the whole; the circumjacent country between the city and tho mountains is covered with temples, sepulcher, &c., and is embellished with a variety of orchards, groves, cascades and purling streams.— Throe considerable rivers water this fertile plain, and unitu their streams in the centre of the city, where a magnificent stone bridge facilitates tho communi. cation between (ho different parts of tho city. A strong oaello defends tho (own ; it is six hundred yards in length, has a lower in tho centre, and is surrounded by two ditches, tlio one dry, the other full of water. This splendid - city la twenty miles long and nine wide within tho suburbs, which aro as well populated as (ho city. Tho number of tho inbab hunts of tho oity proper is supposed to bo 539.01)0. The universities, Colleges, temples, &.C., ero almost incredible in number and magnificence. It contains twelve capital or principal sirocts, in tho- centre of which arc tho royul palaces, superbly built of marble, and adorned with gardens, orchards, pavilions, ter races, groves, &c. Tito ncxt|principal town is Ozcaco. Il is dccmpd llio chief seaport, is very populous, and lias on army of 80,000 mon always ready,at llio disposal and com mand of (ho Emperor. U is noar fifteen miles in circumference. The city of Nangaschi is the Japanese navnl do . pot ; but us they huVo not yet found any use for a navy, their vessels are only in tho rough tilulohiul, and stored away for emergencies. Tho Itukanaa or prison is hero. Tho name moans, in tho Japanese, hell; it lias ono hundred dungeons and cages. Tho history of these few cities gives a fair outline of tho. whole empire., Their private dwellings are smalt; bd'l neat and ornamental, with small gardens; in this they cxcoll, as they aro lho very best of horticulturists. A few feel of ground aro turned to the very best advantage,as the Japan* GBD understand, perfectly, the art of dwarfing plants, treed, fruits, and’flowers. They use neither tobies, bedsteads, nor chairs; but' sit, eat and stoop like mdsi eastern nations, on mats. Almost the first ttccomplislimcnl Icarncd-by them, is tho art and ’ grace of suicide J, tho bhlld in tho nursery stabs itself with its finger or a stick,’and/aha back imitative of death; the lover cuts out Ids intes tines before lus obdurate mistress and llio latter pour's out her heart's blood in the face of her faith loss lover; llio criminal executes himself, and, in fact, llio whole nation, from early youth revels In the idxury of suicide* Their trade is, at present, Under groat restrictions, as they only trade with tho Chinese and Dutch.— Tho Utter have always fostered, cho/ishod, and in crossed llio prejudices of llio Japanese against all Other nations, particularly the French, English, and Portuguese. The mechanics and manufacturers in Japan excel in their different branches, and aro oven far superior to the Chinese. Their silks and col|ons are excel lent, and their Japan ware and porcelain unequalled. Their exports are raw and manufactured silks, iron, .steel, artificial molaU, furs, teas, finer than tho Chi nese, Japan ware, gold, silver, copper, gums, medical 'herbs, roots, diamonds, pearls, coral, shells, ambergris, &a. Whatever goods tho Japanese want; they psy for in gold and silver. Tho Japanese worship tho (Wo principal-gods, Xuca and Amida. At Macao there is a stalely torn, pie, built to ono of these gods; it is of freosjono, as largo as St. Paul’s, with un arched roof,supporter) by heavy pillars, In which stands on Idol of copper, which rc&chcs as high as tho roof, and, according to a description given by Sir Thomas Herbert, his chair is seventy feet high and eighty feet long, the head is big enough to held fifteen mon, and-the thumb forty inches in oircumfurcnoo. Thera is an. other statute called after the gqd Dabio, mode of copper, twenty two fcoi high, lu a silling posture.— This shows that the Japanese understand the art of working in bronze, and fliey aro fur ahead of Chris tian notions iq this porliculor. They allow polyga my, and they often strangle their female children, but never the mates; Tho nubility extract the (tbo front teeth, and supply them with two of gqld, I ■, . Tho principal rivers aro llio Ujingavß and Aska gava—tho farmer so rapid and wide, lha) a bridge cannot bo built omit; the latter 'remarkable fat* itij depth and perpetual fluctuations. The chief Jake, called Oil*. is 100 miles long «nd 21 wide. A'Ufgo valley exists in (ho interior, filled with catbCnio gin, and called the Valley of (ho Upas. It is covertd with (ho skeletons of numerous wild and tamo boasts and birds. Tho Emperor, it is said, often sunt criminals to tho volley to bring away a precious gem of ines timable value, and the bonus of men also whiten its deadly sides. , v , ’‘ Acidulated lakes and lliordial springs dro common throughout several of Hid islands. Their groat souroo'of opulence aro their mines of gold and silver; but they have no. antimony, oulu* mind, sal ammoniac, borax, or clnnobar, (quick sil ver.) These articles are in demand, and brijig a high price. Birds, and dvory’klnd of ducks and poultry are plenty ; camphor trees arc abundant, and the cedars arc the finest in the worjd. - Few countries open so fair a Hold as tho Islands of Japan, for botanical and geological research. It is not nocos* sary hero to enter into tho detailed statistical account of the commerce of Japan. A direct trade to (hat empire would Ihorfhlse the commerce of this country about $200,000,000 annually, if nottnbro. It bus always boon in contemplation with this country to ntattb an effort id open audited trade’with Japan. 1 Comfmodoro Porter, as. Tar back as: 1815, addressed a Ihllor to Mr. Monroo on tho subject. • It was intendedJp fit out d frigate and two sloops-of war, and placi them tinder his'Command.’ Subse quent events \irovonlcd tho consummation of this design, but it hts been revived .from Limb to time, without being iarrriod out. But a-few years ago, tho undersigned, drew the attention of, lion. J. Y. Mason to’tho subject, by the recommendation of a steam lino id China, with a view of-lncldcnUl cbm. mcrcial' intercourse, and finally, direct Irado with Japan. It would require .but small efforts lo occom. plish cuinmorc ol inlercourso with- so shrewd a people as tho J panose, who ate alive to oomtnorcial feelings. A aoam'llno direct ffom Now York lo tho' lelfitmis'bo rig'olrcady In existence,' it is an easy matter,lo continue it to thoGallipagos, which islands abound in coal)? thcnco to tho Marquesas, and on lo Shangahi dr Jeddo. . (Bathing.—Dr. Mayo furnishes some hinla on ‘‘Bathing” (hut may bo read with advantage.at this season of the year. At nfght, warm water should be employed—in the morning, cold. Tho frame; after the exhaustion,of thb day, is In a con dition to bo better 1 for tho soothing influence of warm.ba hing. Tho ; wHd!o person should, pre paratory to retiring to rest, bo laved with warm water, and afterward a moderate glow should be produced by gentle drying with towels. It has been said that cold water used at night has the ad vantage of preventing the feet from becoming len der. Tho reverse is the fact. Tenderness of the feel is much sooner, and surely remedied by' tho use of warm water than cold. Tho direct purpose'ol bathing is better obtained by warm than cold water. Nevertheless,'there aro some who aro compelled to use cold water for their feet at nfght; if lhoy use warm water, there is no''reaction, and their feet and ankles become painfully chilled and deficient in circulation. But (ho morning Is the proper season for the employment of cold water; the temperature of which, however, should bear a relation to the lime of year and to tho tomptuature of the weather, ns well os to tho strength of the person using it. Sometimes, therefore, it is boiler to use water in the morning, tepid; just as at night it may happen, for various reasons, to bo de sirable to avoid tho relaxing effects of Water 100 warm, A-person in health and strength is the bet ter having tho entire person bathed with cold yvater in the morning, followed by sufficient fric tion to produce a general healthy glow. In these simple directions, two effects aro contemplated; one, niceness of the person; the other a stimula ting, or soothing influence on the nerves or on the system generally. Both of thoso effects aro ca pablo'of being attained to a still greater extent by the uso of baths. Demeanor in tub House op God.— Perhaps nothing is a surer sign of vulgarity ofbrceding than irrovalonl behaviour during attendance upon public worship. Not seldom have our hearts been pained'to boo young men manifesting initio house of God a total want of that reverent demeanor and attention to the service which is befitting tho Au dience chamber of Deity. Dal when wo see this tendency exhibited byyoong ladies, U argues a shallowness of mind and perverseness of heart that are appalling. Wo have seen youg ladles el egantly dressed, and bearing aft the .external marks of respectable parentage and decent associ ations, who seemed to consider tho services of the Almighty as requiring no more attention and rev erence than a concert of music. A well-bred gen tleman nr lady will always conduct themselves with propriety in n plaoo of worship, whatsoever may be his or her individual opinions, out of self respect alone. How Indkso 19 FhePaukd —The indigo is a shrub like plant two or ihruo fuel high, with deli cate blue (/teen loaves, which, at the.harvest time, about tho month of August, arc cut o(T close to the diem, lied into bundles,and laid in great wood* on tabs. Planks uro then Jatd on them, and great stones to causu a pressure, and then water is pour ed over them, anti after a day or two the liquor be gins to lurmoni. In this process of fermentation lies tho (principal difficulty, and every thing de pends on allowing it to continue just the proper lime. When the water Ims acquired a dark green color, it Is poured into othci'lubs,mixed with lime, and stirred with wooden shovels till a blue depo sit separates itself from tho water, which is then allowed (0 run bfl'. ' Tho. remaining .substance, tho indigo,‘lq, then put into linop bugs* through,which the moisture fibers, and as soon as llio indigo is dry and liafd, it Is broken Into pieces and packed up. Indigo is cultivated in (ho East Indies to a considerable extent. Drunkenness, Chime and Death.— The Cincinnati Commercial contains a brief but a fleeting and in structive comment on (ho career of Hon. E. A. Han negan, of Covington, Indians,la to American Minister to Austria. A man of superior lalcnlsand eloquence, a groat favorite with oil who knew him, ho rose rapidly to eminence initio profession of law, was honored oq the representative of Fountain county In llio Slulo Legislature of Indianajopd afterwards was sent, by tho oimosl unanimous voice of Ills district, representative to Congress, and on the expiration of hi* second Congressional term, was elected by the Lcgialaluro Sonalor in Congress, from whence ho : was taken by Mr. Polk, and sent Minister to Vienna. This'man by the Indulgence pfpno Victoria habit, has novy sunk himself into un obyssof mfstrfj and or lino which should (though U will not, except temporarily) a( U P 8 , Ql } effectual warning against, (ho use of ardent spirits.' 'Recently, while in a state bflnObriatlon, ho and a brother-in-law, ari intimate and endeared personal friend, foil Into a quarrel, in tho cqurso of which Hanncgan Blabbed and killed his friend. Tub Earth’s Bulk.— Tho bulk of our planet is so well adjusted, that wore it increased or diminished, the greater number of plants' would die, and (ho ani mals which did survive, would lead but a burdensome existence ; were It greater or smaller, denser or rarer, U would require a change in the structure of •11 the stocksof the flowers. Was oar earth as largo as Jupiter, motion would bo oppressive to nvory liv ing being ; the crawl liko the sloth, and the eagle Would have no higher flight than -tho chimney top. In such a esse, 100, the alr-;would become so dense that po animal, could breathe it—< perhaps noWimal could sustain Ho weight. Ansl Were the earth to bo as small as Mercury, or (he Moon, the animals would Ifo exposed lotho opposite Inconvenience—all our- motions, would bo unstable; like, thqso ofa drunken air would ha so (bin as to bo incijpfiblo of oupporling lifo, { Cathedral Clock*— A clock, on llio onilioUrnl ut Now Orleans is pronounced (o bo ahnoclianicat won. dor. It is an eight day clock and has three dials— ono ai.t feel ip diameter in fronl of the edifice, over a hundred foal from the ground i another of Ilia same cizo in the rear; ahd'n third of’a mnttll eizo in the interior—all moved by llio same machinery. The largo dials are of transparent glass, the.figures-anil (ho hands being painted white and back or the glass is a cloth of bluett Velvet, making tlio surface of the dinlsto'appoar black. Tliobo dials sro lighted at night by gas burners, which by an ingonioili arrange ment.of aro extinguished'daily, at a change of'timd conforming to tho length of (ho night. Tho clock occupies but'a small • apace ; strikes (he hours bo a deep toned boli,ond three quarters on two smaller boils; and is furnished,with, a-regular com pensation pindulmn,ntid besides Us regular weight, a small weight-acting solely ou thc escapement, which together render it 4ft almost Infallible time piece. Starvation of a oAptafa and Crow* I Tlio following melancholy narrative Ib taken from a private loiter, written February 25.1 hi 1853, at Val paraiso, on.boprd H.M. S r Dido t .. . ] Wo arrived at Valparaiso on,lhc,lOlb pro*.; wo eliduld lidvo bean hcrojmuch sooner had wo not dolay-, od-so much time looking after Captain'G<>rdlnuf, a gentleman of fortune .who had joined the Patagonian Missionary Society, and had gone to eomo small bar* 1 ren Island oiTlho Horn to enlighten tho, inhabitants, 1 wild as they wore. Wo-recoivcd'lntelligence from Rio that wo wore to. look after .Copt, Gardiner at (ho i Falkland Islands, whore wo proceeded, and bearing! there that a vessel had lofTVrovisions and clothing for him, expecting ha would call for them, vro resu. \ mod qor'soatch for him to Slalen, a small uninhabited : island; there wo.found nothing that,could load IoJ his discovery, but a largo boat moored to. a tree and i on lho hill was a flag saff, with a ploco of bedtiuk fur I a flag. Wo cut tbo name of our vessel on several trees,.and got under.weigh the next morning.,. Wo anchored at) Gilbert's Covo, about-llvo or three days' sail; there wo sent boats ashore, and cut on a tree was lids inscription : “Dig deep, under this spot you r will find a bottle.” Wb dug add 'found it, and | in it a note as follows : “Capl. Gardiner—You will! find us at Spanish Harbor, at a distance of about GO } miles from this place.” Wo proceeded (o (hat place next morning, after speaking to two canoes of strange looking human beings, quite naked ; they woro patn. ted, and colored shells hung round thorn.. Wo arrived at Spanish Ilarbor.lho same evening, and sent boats on shore as soon as wo dropt anchor, ' and then I behold a sight, which ! trust I shall never witness again. Strewed in different parts of tho beach were Cap(. G. and (wo of his parly. The first wo saw wasCapl. U. in a state of decomposition. Wo supposed it to bo him, by thoro being a watch hanging to his skeleton form, and some distance from him there was another. Wo proceeded some distance lo a oavb with a lantern; when wo entered (hero was a deadly smell dt the end of tho enve. whero wo, found tho remains of (ho others. Thoro was furni.j tore and cooking utensils, as though they lived thoro i some (imo. Tho boat's crows woro allowed to have tho clothes, &0., os they found a largo chest contain. • ing books and clothing s and on tho lid of it was [ nailed his will stating that’ (ho flr'et ship that found thorn should have them. Wo buried them with iho honors of war. And cut on tho wall was this in scription : '• Proceed on the beach about a inilo and u half, you will find three nforc ' do not delay for svo 1 aro starving. 1 ' Wo made tho best of haste, and found them dead, li appears they had been shunned by Iho natives, and had starved to death. 1 W. t). PoaTsn. Tut Bov.—A writer la one nf the papers describee a real boy thus : "lie is tho spirit of mischief embodied, a perfect teetotum, spinning round liko a jenny nr tumbling heels over hoad. lie must go through the process of leaping over every chair in his reach, make drum heads of the doors, turn tlio tin pan into cymbals, take tho host knives out to dig worms for bait,lose them, is soon companion of tho sugar barrel, noarching up all the pio and preserves left after supper, and cats (hem, goes la (ho apple? every ten minutes, hides his old cap ip order to get his best one, cuts his old bools accidentally when ho wards Id got a now pair, (cars his clothes for fun* and for ditto tracks your carpel and cuts your furniture, ilo Is romping, shouting, blustering, and in all his bent estate a terrible torment, especially to hie sisters, fie does not protend much ‘ until ho.is twelve, then tho rogo far frock coats an>) ) high dickies commences. At fourteen ho is too largo to chop wood, or do other chores; At fifteen ho has a tolerable experience of tho world, but from fifteen to twenty—may we be clear of (ho (rack when ho is in right; ho knows moro than Washing lon and Franklin together; in other wolds, lie koows moro then, than ho will ever know again.' Mn. Slow on Grave ToMcs. —** Dirnclcch,” said Mr. Slow, shaking Ms head with oracular ana owl like profundity, '* it Isn't well to know 100 much, my bay, your father never did—ho knoivcd (oo much for that. Thoughts is porpicxrn, and tho human mind, Bimclcch, is too precious a thing to bo worn out by friction. Don't abuse the gifts of natoro, my son, causo nalcr’s ono of'em, she is. Don't investigate anything now, my boy,'cause there's s thousand old things of more consequence to look after—llio first of which is number one. Now notions perplexes the mind, dear— there's.fuli enough foots in tho world who like to look after such things, without your trou. bling your precious head about 'em—’(wouldn't bo a cent of benefit to you. Call 'em all humbug and moonshine, arid (hem as behoves (hem lunatics nnd scoundrels, and that will save you a good many dis cussions, and give you a character for dignity am) prudence, and prudunl folks make money. • IM.close phy and scions and them things is humbug, and cv. cry thing is humbug but money, Mind I (ell ye.” Air. Snow ceased, overcome by Ills own eloquence. StANDKR,—Lot it bo graven upon your memory that a person who repeats a slander oven (hough ho give (ho riame of his author is -qo hotter, and Taf more mischovious,’ than Its originator. ' lip endorses tho lie by hia repetition of it, and as, without his endorsement, il never could have gained credit, ho is responsible for the mischief by llio law of God and man. Wo would tike a spurious nolo far moro read ily from un honest man than from a known counter feiter, and every additional hand it passes through adds to the deception. Because slander is moro ac cumulative than tho snowball. It is like a salad which every ono will season to Ins taste of those to whom lie offers il, dr liko* the kite of a child, to which additional exaggerations pro attached, each light in itself pul together forming u counterbalancing weight without which Iho airy Iriflo would fail again to the earth, when with eager speed ho run's to nuke if soar aloft. Amoks oil tlio strange reasons for divorce, we novor saw one urged that exceeded tho following. Wo copy from, a report of tho proceeding of tho Ripley Circuit. Court, in (he Versailles (Ind.) Whig i “Josioli Squires, also,-was divorced from his wife, FrmWcka Squifos. Tho causo of di vorce was, that tho reconciliation was hopeless, and hia wife had abandoned him from the fact, that ho states, he did not furnish her toilh as much liquor as he agreed to, nnd that they had been mar ried nearly two years, and ho had only purchased her one keg of beer*" Hatching Eoos dv Stbau:—-A Mr. Carman, of IJotdonlown, N. J., Is ongogo.d in hatching eggs by steam. Tho machine is placed on a (able about two nnd a half feet long by sixteen inches broad, and (ho water is heated by on oil lamp. 1 Thelna chine contains about a hundred eggs, and tho chick ens thus produced appear (oho as lively and heal* thy as those produced by natural means. Tits Nobler and GiutA-rea Motive.—A French officer, wlm was prisoner under his parole, at Read ing, England, met will) a Biqlc.. 110 read It, and was bo struck will; Us contents, (hat ho was convin ced of tho folly of skeptical principles aml the (ruth ufChristianity, dud resolved to bocuinu a Protestant, Whan his gay associates rallied him for taking .so serious a (urn, ho said, *n his vindlolion, “ I have done no muru than General U'lriudoUb, Who became a Lutheran. 1 * '• Yes, but ho became ao," said his associated, •• to obtain.a crown.” “ My motive/’#«id (bo Christian officer, “is Uio same; wo only dillvir as loplsco. Tito objuct of Ucrnudotlo la to obtain a crown in Swodon, mind to obtain a crown in boavon. 1 * Soma nwn posBoas,nioan».tbal arc groat, but fritter tlicm away In tlio execution of ooncopliuna ‘that uro litllo ; and (boro arc ulbori.wlio cun form groat con* coptiona, but .who allompl to curry ihom'lnlu oxuuu tloa wllfi litllo tnoune. Tliobo two disoripllony' 1 ot mon'mlght auccocd if united, but uo they uto aeual ly kept asunder by joulousy, both fait. :K7 j; AT,«J 00 PEB AMBIU Sad Bud of a Romatabe* A Cleveland Plalndealer, writing from'Saull 510 Mcrio, giy.es a narraliveof an ill-assorted. raarflpge,' with IU melancholy Urmia atlon. Soma fifteen yoMB_pgp, CalUn, Iho painter* exhibited a number of Indians la London,- whom waaCadottc, an interpreter, Sarah Haynes', then a beautiful cngllsh girl of'sixteen, became co amo.pdof.Cadollo.and they, .were married. On reaching America, the romance of tore waf overt for two or three years thqyroaidcd on, Ijio baok ,of tho river Si. Clair, on tboliftlo properly ~lb» bride : woe possessed of; aed aieoojbat at iheSsoU, where she taught French and rauaio.ttl.l the time of Ber decease. f She retained her baaulytmlho Uat, alj. though exposed to many;bardahlpB by living In a birch bark lodge .with an Indian husband. She died in he.SSlh year, fortunately leaving no, to mourn the sadcffects of anjinfatatled matrimonial match. TU»,Wir* ox Ocn,!Pl»r«a* Tho Boston Tithes say a: " Gen. Pierce is notv in his forly-eighth year—itt very prime and vigor of manhood and with bla 'commanding abilities at (heir ripest period. He 'is blessed -with an estimable wife, al quest..it ip said, ho has declined the many honors which his State wap always ready to award him ; apd wo learn that on Saturday she received Uiefnteh llgenco of her husband's norainalionfbr thd Presi dency with an air of sadness, It is (6 be hdpedj however, that her spirits will revive as the cam. paign progresses, and that- eho will neyor'havd reason to regret tho elevation of her nobld-hbftrted consort to the highest office on earth. ‘ t “ [ A Novel Dutii.— We find the following lathe Eddyville, (Ky.)Telegraph s ' , ••Two young bloods of ourcily becoming of fended at some imaginary insull.a chsllenge ! was passed and accepted, as both thought nobbing | but blood could wash'out (lie ihsull. * T/ie terms 1 on which the challenge was accepted ware these— that they should meet at Or. N.'a office* add bo bled until one or the other should be satisfied.— They accordingly roe,t and the. Doctor opened a vein lor thorn. They bled until both becoming ext tromely weak, and looking as white asthelrowd linen pronounced themselves satisfied. Cun e for the Gout.— -The following core for'"the gout, ia « orlh trying : First—Tho person must pick the pocket of a maid of h(\y years who lias never had a wish to change her condition. Second—lie must wash it in an honest miller’s pond. 1 Third— Ifo must dry it on o parson# hedge who never canted, and was never covetous. Fuiirili —tie indkl send it (o a doctor's 'shop who never killed a patient. Filth—lie moat mark it wilV a lawyer’s ink, who never cheated a client. Sixth—Apply it to (ho part affected, and a euro will speedily follow. • , Fire—Three Children Burned -po Death.— Addison, Washington Co. (Wis.,) June 21—Daring lust night the house of Edward McAnulty, - with su Its contents, burned to tho ground. Mr, MoAnultV ,H with Ids wirb and two children on a visit to New York, leaving five children si home, llircoofwboDi, a daughter 4 one* and two bods, one 3 and the other 5 years 'old, perished In tho flames. Tii» other two, with b young man Hiring in Ihb famil,y had bsrdy lima to b.ivo their lives by Jumping lUrbUgb the window. — Cor. Afif. iVict ct. (Cj’Tlic Philadelphia San, a paper that baa ably noted vvlili Uio Whig parly ever ainco ita exit* lonco, comments io l)jo following style apoa the pop* uiarity of Scott and Fillmore To Philadulbhie* It says : •• Our county four years ago gavo Miu.aiU> F|U,. more nearly ten thousand majority, and can do U again. Nominate Scott and Philadelphia county will bo Gvo thousand against him—the defame! of (lie American uorp, tlio cringing pandcror lo Roman Catholic supremacy, and (ho man who,to accaift * tow paltry votes, has libeled tho nobio volunteers who tamed ((19 huucla in Mexico which hq wear*. Jj«t him lake tho vote of tho lrlah who never turn.their backs on friends or enemies, ps ho falsely assorts,fur bu hung mtn'y as deserters ih Mexico; but (herb U no American who. feels, as an .American, who add vote lor Such a rccro&nU” A FHibaNTnaoppis^—Mr. Lewis Morpe, of Springfield, Ohio, lately deceased, left $70,000,- 000 to bo disposed of in tho promotion of popular education. Tho legacy lo lake effect afoot tHe decease of hia widow. A doivn.oaat miililia captain, on receiving 'a note from a ladv requesting tho** pleasure or)jiscoropany,’ understood il as a aomphmont to'(h'ota pddor bli command, and marched tho whole of (hem to (ha lady’s house. • Thirty-one guns were fired o( Ciheinnafi on (he reception of the news of tho nomination of Pierce and King. • ; Some poclidaJ genius says that ' alt lljo wqjld ia a show." Wo should like lo own it, provided we. could iiiro Bariium fur a traveling agent,'arid our*q selves fur Uio treasurer. An editor down South, who aerved Tout days on a jury; says lib's so full of law that it fa bird lo keep from cheating somebody. A late writer, In speaking of Bour-kfpul,*says:—- “It is the connecting Jink between damaged cabbage and pickled manufo." Neat compliment that lo our German population, Isn't Jt i . . ' ■ Miss Dubois says the first ilroo a coatsledye encircled her waist, she full as if she yrpb in.ft vilion Mil of rainbows, tho window sills of which" were Composed of, mllan harps. That young wo man should havo her feel soaked. Darnum, tho showman. was onco a poor “Jour printer," but ho got hold of a “ fat take,” and fa now worth his hundreds of thousand dol|ars.~ There aro but very few printers that “got uj>* J in (ho world os muoh as Ifarnum has. .. . 'i'lie best •* forget mo not” a man can JeaVq hfo wife is a baby. It beats wedding rings all hollow, i’eoplo about leaving for California willpleasa notice'. AOJORUKItIBRT OF CONGRESS.— -Th* HoUSO hlB passed a resolution to adjourn on tho 16tb of gust, and it is said tho Senate, will coneut« i; ' ■ • ■ Lobbing, the Gorman Philosopher, being remark* ably abueut, Knocked at hia own door one evening, when the servant looking out ofthc window, and not recognizing him. said, ‘Tho pro/biew is nolot hotyc.* ‘Oh, very well,’ oahf Lowing, cumpbaodly walking away, *1 hIiuII cull snnlbor time. 1 - r oll, Sambo,how do youUkoyour .cer-v j)Iaco1 * 11 0, bony Well; mass.” " Whui did you huvu for biookfaul Ihlsmoiij. "U! I" ■ ■ - “Why you sou missushilodtioodgguforhiJiSelf; and gib mu do brof.” l ' / >■ “ i “Mr. Drown,! owo you a-grudge, romßtdbW ihai.” i i ‘ ' u 1 shall noi ufc frlyhtonoil (hon, I- netif 4 know.you lo pay anything that ydu ovr.e.*tW' “ Ho you keep maiclu bV* asked a Wag of a ie laWnr.' “Oh, yes; all kinds,'* Vra* tho reply. “Then \'\\ lako a trolling*’ \\\ t -f , f *?• 3r , •,« NO.-3.
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