AMERICAN VOLUNTEER Published every Thursday jiobnino by JoUh B. Bi;atton. T.EKIIS _ hno Dollar and Fifty Cents, Soßsanre _ • Two Dollars if paid within the Lt/ll Two°bo T .!a?s and Fifty Cents if not paid within the year. Those terms will boTig fdiy adhered to in every instance. No sub scription discontinued until all arrearages are paid unless at tho 'option of the Editor, 1 Advertisements —Accompanied by the cash, and not exceeding one square, will be inserted three times for One Dollar, and twenty-five cents for each additional insertion. Those ofagreat ter length in proportion. , Job-Printing— Such as Hand-bills', Posting bills, Pamphlets, Blanks, Labels, &c., &e., exe cuted with accuracy and at the shortest notice. THE POET AND THE STARS. BY PRANCES BROWNE, A sago of thff starry science sat In his high and gudrdless tower, And swept the night-heaven’s boundless real With a glass of wondrous power: He saw whero.far-off suns gave day And the march of worlds went by. Till a.wandering poet came and spake To that watcher of the sky— A moment turn thy migjity glass Whefe the foamy Waters spread, A let it, wing an exile’s sight. To the land he may not tread. Tile skies are high and the stars are bright, But the bird will seek its nest; There lies the home of my happier years And the hearts that love mebest. The sago smiled cold os the winter niooh,. But he turned his glass of might. And the exile saw his country’s cliffs Like a mist wreath on the night. Ae saw, and went, and the tong years passed, As ever the years have gone,:— The, world around his watch tower changed. But the watcher still gazed-on; At length to his far-exploring glass The wanderer came again,— The love was cold and the home was low, And he turned to the bright stars then, I greet thee well, quoth the scornful sage, For an ancient art thou hast; When the world below goes ill with men They turn to the skies at last. m , The glass can reach, the poet said, To the planets’utmost goali ■ . Bat cannot give to thy sight the range Of the winged and wandering, sold; ■ Thotf hast gazed and reckoned many a year Where their distant splendors horned; , But the well-spring, of pi}’ song was there, .• And my heart hath but returned. Beside that fount !■ learned of them What never was known to thee, Till the light of an earthly home-fire came Between the stars and me ; For thus it is that the nearest.bond : Hath power on the spirit’s wings, And thus it is that'this weary world . IsJull of partod.tliings. ; The wise man parts, from wisdom here, Ah(J the true man parts from truth, -a The royal heart to clay conies down From its golden hopes of youth, The souls that were as brethren born Grow Old and die alone, ■— And the prophet love is not received ■ When he cometh to his own I . They are reckoned among many a race That pine for a far-off kin— They are growing gray in many a home That are strangers yet therein— They have set them down witli stock and stone, . They have toiled with herd and swain, Who.se birth-right wa/ fhejovqliest realm Of the graces fair domain^ So" is the world’s work marred and stayed, Fertile soul is out of place, ' And life is a. burdened heritage, And man is a troubled race— At. strife for the fears that downward -strain. For the hopes that upward go, <j(jK And haunted's! ill by broken dream ‘ ■ "" Of the time it was not so. The carfli grows cheerless in her age, For the parting time is long, And brave hearts break on the prison bars, Butthe bars are old and strong; They grow by fortune,' they grow by tune, By friendships and by wars. Yet never may one abide that parts , The poet from the stars. . , ftliwllumom Romantic Breach of Premise In fifteen hundred and thirty eight, when France happened to beat peace, and nothing was lalkid of at Court, say llicmemoif-wrhers, but festivals, tournaments, carnivals, masque yades, and so forth, one incident occurred to , supply the town folks with talk. This Was’no other than the action for brcaoh.of promise of marriage, brought by the Marquis Jehan Lays, of Saluces,. against Madame Philippes de Mon - tespedonr widow of Marshall Monte-Jan. who _ dlatf been governing Piedmont. Some of the ‘' details of this case are singular enough.to de serves narrative on their own account: others' are amusing chiefly because of their odd simi larity with sentimental passages in the lives of our own, country folks, from, time to time re, . vealed to us in courts of law. • Monte Jan died in Piedmont - , leaving no children. His wife was instantly beseiged with offers of marriage by various great lords of that State—a circumstance at wliich we are requested by the chroniclers ‘ not to marvel for Madame Pbillippes was a very respectable and virtuous lady, adorned with great beamy; arid in the flower of her youth : she possessed. moreover 1 , sixty thousand livers ot revenue in herown right, besides considerable expectations. First among the suitors who followed so closely on the funeral, was the above mentioned Mar quis of Saluces. who seems to have been a fool ish fellow, and who certainly was most scanda lously treated. -The narrator was on ihelady’s side, but he naively states very damaging facts. Madame Philbppes feigned to. acceptthe Mar quis’ services because it would be convenient to make use of his escort on the way back to France, whither he was going by “express order of the king. Despite of her riches, the fair widow seems to have been accidentally.without ready cash. She allowed her suitor to pay her expenses all the way from “Turin to Paris: and these cx- E tenses were by - no means light.- All the house old of her late husband, besides her-own, ac companied her. The Marquis thought tie had fhegomcin his own hands, and assiiriicd the tone of a matter by anticipation—intimated that the gentlemen, servants, and officers of the de ceased should be dismissed and half those of the lady herself, especially the women—for she had, besides dames and .demoiselles, femmes.de la chambre, and 1 others for different kinds of Work, as many as fifteen or sixteen. But Madame Phillippcs was so prudent that she ne ver, it is-alleged, allowed a word 1 to escape that would bind her:.-and yet so clever that she ob tabled all the assistance she wanted. The Mar quis, as soon as he got upon French ground, had Ordered (Italian that he was) all his people to be on the watch to prevent any communication being brought' from a rival ; for, he did not . do.ubt that such a rare pearlwou dbe eagerly Sought aftei\ ■Kt7iFspir(f“or - airpfeeamiortsr as soon as the party arrived at Lyons, aoourier came from M. de Viellevillo, a relative of the lady, and delivered his letters so secretly that no one ever suspected their existence. These letters contained the information that the court had heard of the proposed marriage with the 'Marquis of Saluces, and believed the couple were coming to Paris for the wedding. The BY JOHN B. BRATTON. YOL. 44. news had much pleased the king, because he had always heard that love bound a man to a country more them anything, and thought the . Marquis, having become a Frenchman by this alliance, would be more faithful ever after' wards. This was senlimentility not to be ex pected from Francis the First. However, said the correspondent, “ I think I '-3-011 are going to marry more for the good of your own country than your own good—if what I hear be true : hut Icanno believe it : for it is hot likely that 1 j’ou would, after having been so happy in .your first marriage, enter on another so hurridly without even warning your friends.” - Madame de Monte Jan in reply wrote a very characteristic letter.. Among other things, she said: I would rather die than do anydiing of which I might-have reason to repent: yet I will confess that the extreme necessity in which die death of the late marshal left me. almost made me trip in words. But Heaven has so helped me. that here I am arrived in France without being affianced, promised or contracted to any living man. , T am very much surprised the king should think I am going to bring him servants at the expense of my good fortune, and against my tastes. I will never be an Italian : and, if I were, the last man, I should choose to make the.so would be- the Marquis Johan Loy.s for 1 reasons which I will give you when we meet, but, especially, because ho is hot, and; never wil| be, a true Frenchman.’ 1 ■ But in spite of this declaration, the beautiful' Madame Phillippcs remained at Lyons, tinder the charge of this Marquis, who spent twelve days.in making preparations, intending to ar rive at court in magnificent style. When the party at length set out. their baggage was so eflormous, and their'train so numerous, that six great boats were filled. They did all their cooking oh board. ‘ With them they took a band of .fiddlers, engaged by that Marquis to amuse them on the river, and alleviate the cn nui of the ladv for the loss of her husband. They embarked on .the Loire at Ronahfie, and sent by land the horses and mules, which ar rived as, soon as they did at Briare. , M. de Vielleville.had news of their movements nearly every day, by the couriers who con stantly'passed on their Way. from Piedmont to their court ; he went’ out from Paris ns far as , Corbeil, with about eighty horses, one the even ing when the travellers arrived at Ersonne.— He sent a messenger directly to Madame Phil lippcs, informing her .of his movements, and got back an answer not to show himself until the next day. at the dinner that was io take place at Juirzy. The lady appears to have been afraid, that if the slightest suspicion of her .intention had come tp the Marquis, he would have seized her and married her by force. ' Y'ellcville politely kept out of the way until dinner was over, and'then rode up wjih his troop. There were great reverence and saluta tions : and all those men began to talk as well about the good cheer they had enjoyed by the road, as about the adventures that necessarily happen so long a journey. At a fitting opportunity I .' however, the ladv slipped away ; and secretly calling the Sieur Plessis an Chat, a Breton gentleman in her service; ordered him ns soon as they reached the-Eusie,, Saint . Marccau,, to. disen lam-le her train from that of her suite, and move along the inoaf. in he direction of the Pone Saint- Qhgnes, where they were to slop whilst she bade adieu to the Marquis, Soon, afterwards. every orre mounted. ladies and all-: and this gorgeous, brilliant, tinin ar rived in good lime ui Paris. At the galePles- I sis au-Cbal earned oilt. his instructions, and dexterously separated the lady’s people from the others. The Marquis, surprised, called out that they mistook the way. But now. Maoiimc Phillippcs pulling up, 'said; •• Sir, they are going where they ough : for ynuf lodging is in the Hotel dcs Ursins, in the Cloister of Notre Dame, and mine-is in the Hotel Saint Denys, near the Augustines. M.y, honor commands me not to lodge in your-hous'e. but to separate my self from you, which is why f now bid you adieu ; but not sir, without thanking yum ver humbly for your good company by the road.--' As to ray part of the expense, I have it, a] down in writing. Your Maistre d’Hotes and Plcssis-au Chat will settle matters so well to gether, that before a week is over we shall be ' quits: I mean as far.as regards money: fnr, my qbliga.ions to you will he eternal. Now, I beg you to consider that this is only a bodilv separation : I leave you my bean, which you will be pleased to keep.” Sp saying, she kis sed him, and said, ‘ Adieu, sir. we shall meet to morrow at ilie kings lodgings.” The Marq'nis was so as onished at this sud den change, ihat for a long time he could not utter a single word., His sobs and .sighs, how ever, showed his anguish and his sadness At last his presence of mind returned; and, looking at the lady in anything but a loving manner, he said ; “Madame, your adieu gave my heart a pang ; but your last words, and the kiss with which you have Itpnored me, have some what revived me, though this sudden change and prompt resolution seem strange. To-mor row. as you say, we shall-meet; but bear in mind the promise you havegivenme.” Then the two companions parted : and Ma dame Phillippcs joyfully took her way m liber ty to the Hotel Saint Denys. The same even ing Vtelleville bronght to iter and introduced as a suitor the Prince de la Rochesuryson. who was of royal brother to the Duke of Montpensier. “If you will believe me. make this gentleman, as soon-as possible, master of your person and your wealth, for all delay will be perilous,” tjaid he. The prince and Madame Phillippcs were pleased with one another, and exchanged promises. Meanwhile the Marshal Danncbtmd, who had , succeeded Marshal Monte-Jan in his governor ship. had formed the project of succeeding also to his widow and property. He therefore had written to theDaiiphine to plead his cause, and to represent that, by putting their revenues lo gether. they might make up a hundred t.hou for nnl TreS \ ye&r ’. a vcr y '“re thing in France withlbisl!* but a ,P rln J ce - TheDauphinecame with this proposal, and strongly spoke in favor ofDunnebund ' “ I know,” said* she, “ that mT qU,S -! ) - r SaU,ccs ,s three times as rich! but his position is more uncertain. Besides he is very disagreeable in person, with .a bic belly, fat, dirty, swarthy, and awkward Whereas my candidate, as you know, is averv presentable fellow.” . v, .savery To this Madame Phillippcs replied by con firming tier engagements with the prince, and the Dauphine accordingly withdrew her propo sal. and recommended her to marry as fast as possible, because the king laid great stress on the alliance, pnd might cxercise'his absolute au thority. ’ The Marquis never passed a day without calling to see his mistress ; instead of finding her alone ho always met the Prince de la Roch tsuryon, who thus became a very thorn in his side. By no means whatever could he obtain a tete-a-tete interview. So at last, unable to mt-np-withhrs-annoying-poßition-anyJongiuv 1C suddenly began a legal action, andarraigned , ” t^ore l * le Parliament of Paris. This ■ JJ e d, “ “Y express command of the king, who had the marriage very much at heart, though he did not like to use-.his own authority against * «f ln j CrCStS a P r ' nce °f Ids own blood. Madame Phillippcs was much disturbed bv the prospect of being; forced to ally herself with i her obstinate suitor ; and we may be sure there were anxious consultations at the Hotel Saint Denys. When the 'day of (rial came, she ap peared, accompanied by M de Ycilleville, and many other lords and gentlemen, ladies and maidens. Everyone expteted a long and scan dalous discussion. The First President began the proceedings by telling Madame Phillippes to raise her hand arid sWenr to tell the truth : one then ashed her if she had not promised marriage to Monsieur le Marquis Jehan-Loys de Saluces. then present. The lady, forgetting her bin’s and innendos. replied on her faith. No The President was about to examine her closely, and the greffler ltad taken up his pen, when the fair defendant, Stepped forward, and in a firm voice uttered the following speech :■ “ Messieurs this is the first time T have ever been before a court of justice and, therefore, T am afraid llnit timidity may make me contra dict myself in mv answers But. to cm short all the subtleties in wlfch von are proficient, T now say and declare,, before yon gentlenien'and all present, that I swear to (3nd and the King —to God on the eternal damnation of my soul —to the King on the confiscation of my honqj;. land my life—-that. T never gave tnv promise of, marriage' to Monsieur le Marquis Jihan-Loys of Saluces: and. what is more, never thought, of doing so m -rnylife. And if anyone says the contrary, here, (taking Mi do Yiclleville hyjhe hand.) here i,<my knight, who is ready, saving the honor of this court, to prove that heviHain bnslv lies!” This warlike .demonstration, so much in har mony with the character, of the period, and the chivalry.-which-Francis the First was trying 10 revive, met with complete success. , Here’s a business !” exclaimed the Presi dent, familiarly. “Greffien .you can pack up your papers. There is no writing to do. Ma dame la Mnrcchale has taken another road, and a mqch shorter .one.-” Then addressing the Marquis, he said: “ Well. sir. what observation do you .make on (his ineideut ?” The Marquis had glanced at his own portly person: and compared it with the martial as pect of the lady’s knight. I don’t Want it wife by force.” said ho, ’’if she won’t have'me, why I won’t have her; and there’s an end.” With these words he made a low bow and left the court. The M. de Yiclleville asked If the lady were not free to marry whom she liked, and being answered in the affirmative in vited the.whole company’ to. come.and be pre sent at the betrothal between. Madame Phillip pcs and the Prince de !a Rooliesuryori. whinh would take place immediately. But the wily lawyers did not accept; saying, ihey-must de liberate and -send a deputy to acquaint the king with what had taken place: One of them also whispered to the knight, “ You had a six. months trial before you if you had pot bcen so clover The Marquis had an interrogatory of forty articles prepared as to., expressions that had been publicly used'by the lady to him, and Ins pyople : as to the kisses she hhd- given him; by the way, especially the kiss at Porte Saint Jnlieri fa circumstance that would have gone much against her.) tlmtshc wnnld giye hiui . chain of (Tvehiitidrcfi eenVfor the wedding;” ' T . Well, well, said Yiclleville smiling, “ ail wo need ,say now is, that a French woman has outwitted a hundred .Italians.” Thereupon, the betrothal between Madame Phillippes and ; the prince immediately took placo: and in two or three days they were married at the Augustins without much cere mony, the bride being a widow. They lived happily together for twenty-five years, and had a son and a daughter: but the princess survi ved both her husband and her-children, and died in 1578, forty years after her curious journey from Turin to Paris. Lapland marriages. Every Laplander has his dozen or two doztn drer, and the Hocks of a Lapp Croesus amount sometimes to two hundred head. As soon as a young lady is'born—after having been duly rolled in the snow—she is dowered by her fath er with a certain number of deer which arc im mediately branded with her initials, and thenceforth kept apart as her especial property. In proportion -as they increase and .multiply does her chance .improve of making a good, match. Lapp courtships are conducted pretty much in the same fashion as in other-parts of the world: The. aspirant, as soon as lie discov ers tfiat hejias lost Ins heart goes off in search of a friend and a bottle of brandy: The friend enters the tent, and opens simultaneously,the bntridy and his business : while the lover re mains outside.'engaged in hetying wood, or some other menial employment.' "If. after the brandy and the proposal have been duly dis cussed . the eloquence of tiis friend prevails, he is himself called into the conclave, and the young people are allowed to rub noses. The bride then accepts from her suitor a present of a reindeer’s tongue; -and the espousals are con sidered, concluded. The marriage does not take place for two or three years afterwards, and during the interval the intended is obliged to labor in the service of his father-in-law. 'Truthfulness. 0( all the happy households, that is the hap piness where falsehood is never thought of.— All peace is broken up when it happens that there is a liar in the house. All comfort has; gone when suspicion has once entered—when there must be a reserve in. talk and reservation in belief. Anxious parents, who are aware of ..the pains of suspicion, will place general confi dence in their children, and receive what they say freely' unless there is strong reason to dis trust the truth of any. If such an occasion should unhappily arise, they must keep the suspicion from spreading as long as possible, and avoid disgracing their poor child while, there is a chance of its cure by their confidential as-' sistanr.e. He should have their pity and assid uous help, as if he were suffering under some disgusting bodil v disorder. If he can be cured he will become truly grateful for the treatment. If the endeavor fail means must of course be ta ken to prevent Ins example from doing harm : and then, as I said, the family peace is broken up, because the family confidenoe-is gone. . CT”. A Dutchman having enlisted in the ser vice at a military station, not a hundred miles from New, York, was one evening placed on guard. Seeing a couple of gentlemen ap proaching, he challenged them with "Friends withthe countersign,” was the re ply- “Veil, if you ish frents. and knows as 'Put' ler is de gounter-sign, de gounler sign is cor rect. Pass, frents, mit de gounter-sign.” A melting sermon being preached in a country church, all fell a weeping but one man, who being asked why he'did not weep withthe -rest—-uLbelong-tQ.anothcr.parish-" 0“ A Western editor much wishes (o know whether the law recently enacted against the carrying of deadly weapons, applied to doctors with pills in their pockets. • UTT 3 * Poverty is no disgrace, save in the eyes of fools whose forefathers were paupers. “pirn COUNTBT-tMAY IT ALWAYS BE bight—but bight on WRONG, oub country.” CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER'26,IBS7. Henry Ward Beecher on Boys. | , A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else,' anti deserves separate chap ters in the natural history of hian. The, real lives of boys are 3 - et to be Written. The lives o( pious and good boys, which enrich the cata logues of great publishing houses, resemble a boy’s life about .as much as a chicken picked and larded upon a spit, and ready for delicious eating, resembles a free fowl in the fields.— AVith some few honorable they are impossible boys, with increased goodness.— Their piety is monstrous. ;A man’s experience stuffed into a little boy, is Simply monstrous.— Arid we are soundly sceptical of this yliolo school of pa/e de foie pras piety. Apples.that ripen long before,their timo’are either diseased or worm-bitten. - i f So long ns'boys'dro hbw much they are cherished I But by-apd-by the cradle is needed for another. Frdnnthc time a baby be comes a boy, until ho is a -young man; he is in an anomalous condition, fonyvhioh there is no especial place assigned in nature. They are al ways in the way. They arc inquisitive as mon keys. and meddlesomojust d’licu you don’t wish r-t|iem fn bo. Boys have a period ol mischief as | much as they have measles :or. chicken pox.— They invade your drawers, mix up your tooth powder with hair oil; pull your laces and cpl •lars from their repositories ; upset your ink up on invaluable manuscripts) ? tear up precious [ letters, scatter your wafers, stick everything up with . experimental sealing wax,and spoil all your pens in the effort, at,spoiling your paper. Poor hoys I IWhat nro they good lor! It is a fathomless mystery that we'come to our man hood (as the Israelites reached Canaan) through the wilderness of boyhood. They are , always wanting something they must hot" have, going where they ought pot to be.- homing where they are not wanted, saying the most awkward things at the most critical fimeln They will tell .lies after infinite pains to tench {-lie obligations of truth, they give us the full benefit ot frankness and literalness by Muring ouf’sbefore compnny a whole budget of family secrets. Would you take a'quiet nap ? Slam banj? goes a whole bevy of boys through fhehouse I Has the ner vons-bahy at length after nil ’manner of sink ings. (rollings..southings, and Maternal bosom -opiates, just fallen asleep ? Bo sure an tiriman ncrly boy Will bo on band to Bawl out Ctff 'per mission to do something brother which' lie has been doing all day without dreaming ol leave. The restless activity of boysislbeirnecessity. To restrain it is to thwart nature.. Wo need- to provide for it. Not to attempt to find amuse ment for them ; but to give them opportunity to amuse themselves. It is astonishing to see how 1 if lie it requires to boy’s nature... First in the list, I piit strings. What grown up people Slid in a thousand tonus of business and society, a boy secures in a-slring 1 He ties up the door for the exquisife jJlcasijie of unty ing it again. Hb harnesses efiairs, ties up his own fingers,' baiters his neck, coaxes a lesser urchin, to become his horse, nmUirives stage— which, with boys, is the top oflimnan attain ment. Strings are. wanted for.snayes, for bows and arrows, for whips, for eats’ cradles, for kites, for (isbing.’nnd a hundred things more than I can recollect. A knife ft more exciting than- a string, but does not last long, and is not so various.,, After a short lpst,or.bro-. ken; or lms v cntd)tstnngersr" i instrument of endless Vicos, aud-within the man agement and ingenuity ofa'Goy. The first arti cle that parents should lay in, on going to the country, is a large ball of twine. ! The boys must notfchowit. If they soo'n whole ball, the charin' '•is broken. It 'must come tilltJi mysteriously, ' unexpectedly, and as if fhero'arbre no more. For indoors, next, wo should placo upon the list pencils and white paper., At least one hour ih every day will be safely secured by that. A slate and pencil are vety good. But as chil dren ; always aspire to do what men do, they count the usual half of a letter pud a hit of pen cil to ho worth tWipeas much "as any shite. Upon the whole, wo think a sale stream of water near liy affords the greatest amount of en joyment among all natural' objects. There is wnding'and washing; there is throwing of stones and finding of pebbles ; there is engineering of the most laborious kind,, by .which stone and mud are made to dam up the water, or to change the Channel. Besides these things, boys are I sensitive to that nameless attraction of beauty which specially hovers about the side of streams; and though they may not recognize the cause, (hoy are persuaded of the fact that that they are very happy when there are stones with gurgling ,'wpter around them, shady trees and succulent, undergrowth, moss'and cress, insect, nnd bird, aqd all the population of cool water courses. But hoys are not always hoys, All that is, in us in leak is in them in nind. • The very yearn ings. tlie rimsings, yea,the very questions which occupy our. latter .years as serious tasks, are found in the occasional hours of boyhood.'. We have scarcely heard one moral problem discuss ed in latter life that is questioned by children. The creation of the world; the. origin of evil, divine foreknowledge, human liberty, the ini mortalitv ot the soul, and various', other ele ments of elaborate systems belong to childhood. Men trace the connections of truths and,their ethical applications and relations, hut the am ple elements of the recondite truths seem to have gained in them very, little in tho progress of years. , Indeed,-all truths whoso root and life in the infinite and like the fixed stars,'which be come no larger under the most powerful teles cope than the natural eye. Their distance is too-vast to. make any appreciable variation in magnitude possible. They are a mere point of light. Boys have their soft aud gentle words too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could bo more foreign in their nature than romance and vague sadness, such as ideal ity produces in adults.. But boys have hours of great sinking sadness when kindnos and tender ness are peculiarly.ncedtul to them.' It is worthy of.notico, how soon a little kind ness. a little’ consideration for their boy nature, wins their to dldenco and caresses. Every boy wants some one older than himself.to whom ho may go in moods of confidence-ami yearning. Tho neglect of tho child’s want by grown peo ple. and the treating of children as rattling, noisy imps, not yet subject to heart-throes, be cause they are so frolicsome jn general, is a fer .Ho source of snfil-rlng. One of the -common joined, wc have not seen It.; forms of selfishness, is that which refuses to . Lord bless, and preserve that dear person recognize any experience asworthy of attention u .] lnm ((, 01l hast chosen to be mv husband ; let if it lies in a sphere below our own. this life be long and blessed, comfortable and A thousand things ai o blamed on them sim- . . . i et afso become a great blessing nlv because, measured by our manhood stand- “ ol ; v ’ a m lct 1 , ■ , “ b rclt oiessmg ard. t'my are unfit, whtfleas upon the scale of and comlori unto Inn. a sharer m ail Ins sor ehildhood they are congruous and proper. We row?- 3 meet help in all the accidents and cliau donv children’s requests often upon the scale ges in the world; make me amiable and forever of' our own likings and dlslikings. Wo attempt; dear to him. Umlehis heart tome in the dear to'govern them by a man’s regimon and not by : esi love and holiness, and mine to him in all its a child’s. . . I sweetness, charity and complacency. Keep me ; And yet badgered, and siihdi/ed and scolded from all ungentleness, all disconicntedncss, and on the one hand ; petted, flattered and indulged unreasonableness of passion and humor; and on the other—it is astonishing bow many chil- make me humble and obedient, useful and ob dron work their way up to an honest manhood servant, that I may delight in each other accor in spite ol parents mfr) friends; Human nature d j n g , 0 thy blessed word : and both,of us may has groat elements of great toughness in if-~ rejoice in thee, having for our portion the love When wo see what men are made of, our won- and service of God foiever.-” * der is not that so many children are spoiled, but i that so many are saved, ■--- T - . , The country is appointed of God. to bo the ( Cl/ If wo arc,to live after death, why don't children’s nursery ; the city seems to bo, made wc have some certain knowledge of it said a by malign spirits to destroy children in. They skeptic to a clerg3 ; mnn. ■» Wo cramped forroom. denied exercise, restrain- “Why don’t you have some knowledge of ed-of-wholoBoinc-Übcrfy-.ofJ)fldx._or t Jf_it iß_al-^_^hig_wQ I 'ld..before, you enmn iron ir 1" wns the lowed, at (lid risk of morals. . . . . caustic reply. Children are half educated who are allowed r J _ to ho familiar with the scones and experiences I ’ n _L D u ' of (ho open country. For this, if for no other u -y Funch says that the reason why editors reason, parents might make ah effort cvcrv year aru 80 t 0 have their manners spoiled, is be to remove (heir children from the city to the cause they receive from one correspondent and country. For (lie heat effect is desirable that another such a Vast amount of evil cotnmnnica thoy should utterly leave tho city behind thorn. , lions. It is absurd to go info the country fo’ find the * luxuries of n city. It is to gel rid of them Mint . an , d A youn man> who lvas in isolli awaU ing S4atS?.?3ttM» SS*?SI -k* r"', H r •"«» •« .«•<*», -» counfry education. Wc send them to the Poly- I J®? s * r * ct education that ruined me. I technique for eight months. But four months a.good home education, but I would beoul we send them to God’s school in the openness ? f l “ c * ,ousc and 6° ofi with buys in ihc street, and simplicityof the country. A diploma, in In l hestrcet;i learned to lounge.. Tntheslrcct this school will be of sendee to body and mind learned to swear. In the street, I learned to while lile lasts; • smoke.. In the street. I learned to gamble. In tile street, I learned to steal !” So you- see, my children, the 'street ruined . that youth. It seemed pleasant to him, as it , Above-all things there should be nogloom in ' d °“ t .° somc °f T? u - Jo spend his houre abroad, the home. The-shadows of dark discontent and J'.'th idle, lads. ]No doubt he tho t wasting freffulncss should never cross the Hires- hls ' atllcr and mother were too strict, too par hold, throwing their large black shapes, like licular, too notional when they wished him not funeral palls, over the happy youngapirits there, to frequent the street; and thinking so, ho If you will, your home shall he heaven, and ’ choose to have his own way even at the price every inmate as an angel there. If you will, of disobeying his parents.’ He did have his you shall sit on a throne and he the presiding own way. To what did it lead hipi ? To de household deity. 01 faithful wife, what pri. j struction ! I think he paid too high a price al vileges, what treasures, greater or purer than : together for having his own way. ' Do you "? o i, . - agree with mo in this-opinion ?If so, beware u nd .-° , ■ ma j a n d s , tnve *° forget llis oares ! how-you-imitate him. Beware-how, you chcr- narrow street, and , ish a loye for the street and street companions. d Sir * *• less” peihapsmd l u“e' , Deceu S ihe o r l gu"t d battks f You°may depend upon it, hoys and girls,that with the .worn skirts of his old overcoat, and Jo P?ss safely along the ways of life you must snatches with a rude hand and willing cry, at tho bc careful of , your, steps. It will not do for rusty haf that has servud him many a year. lie y° n to tread a pV b merely because flowers has been harassed, perplexed, persecuted; He grow’in it and you feel a’desire to pluck them, has borne with many a cruel tone, many a cold The most flowery paths often lead 10 the most word, and nerved himself up. to an energy so dangerous places. You must seek, therefore, desperate and depressed-; and. now his Timbs for the right rather than the pleasant, way. In-, acjie with weariness; his temples throb with the deed the right path is always the mogt,pleasant pain beat as caused by a too constant applica- in the end. ', t tion; he scarcely knows how to meet his wife To find-the right way, and thus lo avotd the )V ~ pJJ; Ciasant smile or sit down, cheerfully to dangers of the wrong one, you need a guide for much cl 1C lias P roVlded «» hs o, your feet. I have.rend somewhere. thati oh a *k ' part of theseashbreiii % Eng!and, there are steep £ SWftteSflSC * rv’-TV*? 5 * “S To w and tho tones me so soft and Had that hope like smugglers from landing foreign goods on which a winged angel flies right into his bosom and dutl — kavc not been paid, aguard is stationed nestles against his heart. to watch night midday. The men composing The latch is lifted and the smiling face of his f l,is S uard lla ve 10 ascend and descend the dills wife gives an earnest welcome. The shining in tlie-nigllt. The path is very narrow, and hair is over her fair brow; indeed she stoic a lit- runs dose to the edge of the cliff.. A single. No Gloom, at Home. tie coquettish glance nt the mirror hanging in its narrow frame just to see if she looked neat and-pretty before she came out. Iter eye beams with Ipvßj her. dress is Wasteful —ai]d —what ? Why l| ho forgets all the trials of that long, long day as he folds her .in his arms and imprints a kiss upon her brow. A home where gloom is banished, presided over by one'who lias learned to rule herseK'and her household, Christianity!—oh ho is thrice consoled for all his trials'.- He cannot be un happy. Theat sweetest, best, dearest solace is his—a cheerful homo. Do. you wonder that the man is strengthened anew for to-morrow’s* .cares?. 5 ; Simplicity of English Dress. In the families of many of the nobility and gentry of England, possessing an annual income which of itself wqiid.he an ample fortune, there is greater economy,of dross, and more „simolic > dtytfrthtrfnriljs 'thaw 'thtrte is in many of the houses .of the citizens who arc barely able to supply the wants of their families bj'the closest attention to their business. A friend of ours, who sojourned not long since, several months in the vicinity, of some of the wealthy landed aristocracy of-England* whose / ample rent rolls would have warranted a high I style of fashion, was surprlscd at the simplicity of manners practiced. Servants were much more numerous than with us, but the ladies j made more account of one silk dress than would < be thought here of a dozen. They were gener ally clothed'in good substantial stuffs, and a display of fine clothing and jewelry was reserv- ( ed for great occasions. The furniture of the 1 mansions, instead.of being turned out of doors every.few years for new and fashionable styles, was the same which the ancestors of the fami lies for several generations had possessed—sub stantial and in excellent preservation, but plain, and without any pretentions to elegance.’ Even the carpets on many suits of parlors, had been on the floors for fifty.years, and were expected to do service for another half century. Willf us lid tv different is the state qf things.' TTe ore wasting an amount of wealth in this country, on show and fashion, which, if rightly applied, ; would renovate the condition of the whole pop- i illation of the world, and christianize, civilize i and educate all mankinds— Culcndr.r» A Short Story by Dickens. Dickens tolls the following story of an Amer- ican sea captain : On his last voyage homo the captain had on board a young-lady of remarkable personal at tractions—a phrase I use as one being entirely new, and one you hover met with in the news: papers. This young lady was beloved intensely by live young gentleman passengers, and in re turn she was in lovowith them all very ardently, but without any particular preference for eith er. Not knowing how to make up the determ ination in this dilemha she consulted my friend the captain. The captain being a man of an original turn of mind says to the young lady. “Jump overboard, and marry the manwhojmnps after you.” The young lady, struck -with the idea, and being naturally fond of bathing, es pecially in warm weather as it then was, took the anyice of the captain Who had a boat mann ed in case of accident. Accordingly, next mor ning the five lovers being oh deckhand looking deyontedly at tho young lady, she plunged into the sea head foremost. Four of tho lovers im mediately jumped in after her. When the young lady and her lovers were got out again, she says to the captain : .“.what am I to dohow, they are so wet ?” Says the captain, “take the dry one?” And the young lady did and she married him. 4 Wife’s Prayer. If there is anything that comes nearer to the imploration of Ruth and Naomi, than the sub- AT $2,00 PER ANNUM “ The Wages of Sin is Death.” misstep would cause a man to fall over On to the beach, and be dashed to pkccp. ’ How do you suppose the men of that guard find their way up and down tl ose dills at night in safety ? If you.were tb examine their path, you would see a row of very white stones set in all the way up from the beach. These stones can be seen in the darkest night. The. men look for them, and thus traverse the giddy.- path with safety. Now, my* dear children, God meant this holy book to be to,you, on your life journey, what those white stones are to the men who guard tlje cliff in England. It tells you where to go anu where not to go, what to do and what 10 avoid. Ifiyou wish, then, for safety, you must both study and obey the Bible. If you will not, why, like the.young man in the prison, you must find paid, shame, and death in your pathway. —Sunday School. Advocate. A Speculator. A few days since, two gentlemen whoso coun tenances betrayed.the fact that they wcio inter ested in the condition of stocks, were convers ing, and standing, in Third street,'-near fhooor- I ner of Dock. One was a great speculator, de veloping the plan of a magnificent project, the other a dazzled capitalist, ready to snap at (lie bait. He hesitated a little, but was Just, yield ing, merely making a few objections for consci ence sake. Directly there, appeared, fn front of the show window of ,a tobacco' and cigar- store, a couple of newsboys, who begad'an intense scrutiny of the interior. “By thunder! I'd like to smoko a cent’s worth of Tobacco!” “Well, said the other, buy a cents .worth.” “Yes, but I hain’t got nairy cent.” . “Hold on, I’ve got two .-cents.” “That’s the ticket! just the thing—one for the" pipe, and one'for tobacco.” . “Oh yes!-but what am X-to do ?” ' ■ “You? Oh, you can be the stockholder and do the spiltin ?” It Was a flash of light. The capitalist thrust Ids hands into bis pockets and fled. The spec ulator cast a furious look at the ttvo newsboys, and turned down the street. 1 Aristocratic Wealth in England. ' The Marquis of Brendalbane rides out of his house a hundred miles in a straight lino lo the sea, on his own property. The Duke of Suth erland '.owns the country of Southerland, stretching across Scotland from 'sea to sea.— The Duke of Devonshire, besides his other es tates, owns 06.000 acres in the county‘of Der by. The Duke of Richmond has 40,000 acres at Goodwood, and 300,000 at Gordan Castle. The Duke of Norfolk's Dark, in Sussex, is 15 miles in circuit. . An agriculturalist bought lately the island of Lewis, in the Hebrides ; it contains 500,000 acres. Their laigo domains are growing larger. The great estates arc ab sorbing the small freeholds. Tn 1786, the soil of England was owned by 200,000 corporations and proprietors, and in 1822 by 32,000. ■ These broad estates, find room on this narrow island. All over England, scattered at short intervals among ship-yards, mines and forges, are the paradises of the nobles where the livelong repose and refinement are heightened by the contrast with the oar of industry and necessity out of which yon have stepped.— English.Trails, DC7' A man went to a photographic artist and said, “I want my head taken olt: and j’ou must do it immediately, ’cos I want to; send it by railway ?” O”An Irishman, who was troubled with the toothache, determined to have the old of fender extracted ; but there being no dentist near, he resolved to do the job himself; he fill ed the cjccavacalion with powder, but being afraid to touch ifoft, he put a slow match to it, and then ran to get out of the way. 03” “Young man, do you believe in a future state ?” “In course I does—and what’s more I intend entering it ns soon as Betsey gets her things ready.” “Go to, young man, you are in corrigible—go to,”;. “Go, two / If it wasn’t for the law against bigamy, whip mo if I would not go a dozen. But who supposed, deaconj that a man of your age Would give such advice to a young man just entering into life.” . An Irishman addicted to telling strange stories, said ho saw a man beheaded with his hands tied behind him, who directly picked up his head and put it on his shoulders in the place. “Ha, ha, ha!” laughed a bystander, ‘how could he pick up his head when his hands w.ere tied behind him ?’ ‘And sure, what a fool ye are?’ said Pat, “an’ couldn’t ho pick it up with his teethV To old Nick wid yer botheration!” • lt is impossible to-diminish poTtffrAjr ftp* Washington seldom indulged in ft joke the multiplication of goods ; for manage tis?wo or a sarcasm, but when ho did ho always made may, misery and suffering will always cleave to iniecTdeirinn I)TiTihg*tho , *dobafoin ; (he~eBfab dho-bordcr.of — lishment of the federal army, a jnembor of Con- ,* s ti lo government Of heaven‘W* gross offered a resolution, limiting it to three pleasures among men, and just is tbo '• thousand men; to which Washington suggested evoringil -„g law that hath wedded happiness to an amendment, providing flint no enemy should v j r j uo< ever invade the country with mono than two thousand men. The laughter which ensued OTP*It is pasy to look down on others; to. smothered the resolution. look down on ourselves is the-difficulty. | Shingling a Bme^ James fl wasa young man who cowmen. ccrl lift) with ovory flattering prospect, and a wile and lovely children soon blessed him. Un. liapily by alow degrees ho became—to make a long matter short—a drunkard. One evening lie loft his wife in tears, as was'fdo cOmraon, re. paired to fho house of a man vVho sold hitn the deadly poison, and drank so much thafho sank down in a kind of stupefaction easily.mistaken fo,r sleep. All his Companions had deserted him. Near midnight tho landlord’s wilp camo into file har-room and told him : “ I wish that man Would go hotne, if he’s got one to go to.” “Hush! hush!” says Hie landlord, “lie will call foi something else directly.” . ' “ I wish lie would make haste about il, then, for it is time every lionost .person was in bed,”, said Ids wife. NO. 24. “ He’s taking tho shingles off Ids house and pulling diem on ours,” said the landlord. At this time James began to .come to his ! senses, and comnioiiced nibbing ids eyes, and stretched’ himself, as if he had just awoke, aay- : ing, “I believe I’ll go.” . “Don’t be id'a' hurry, James,” said the land loard. “ O yes, I most go,” says James, “ so good nigiit 1” and dir he started. After an absence of soldo time, the landlord ono day met arid accosted him. ‘ . , “ Halloo, Jim, why hat'cfl’t y.oii been to SCO us ?” “ Why,” says James, “I harf taken shingles onougli off my house, and'it began t - leak, so l thought it was time to stop t|ie leak, and I’Ve done it I” • The tavern-keeper asldnishorf, went home to fell Ids wifo about it, and James has. s'iuftC - let rum alone, and attended to Ids own business.—. He is now irhappy man, and his wife add chil dren are happier than ever.. Says a writer in the Ohio CvUivald'r, and proceeds 10 argue the wherefore in this sensible wise:—“ln the course, of life I have s«;n a good many horse, some, too, that were called ugly horses. ; Now, it is my opinion that there is do use in owning what might be called an ugly horse. Use the whip and spur.less, and hi their, place put kindness. Three grains 6f kindness are worth all in the world in breaking ~ a colt.. There are a great many horse? injured’ - for want of kindness. . This I am sure, no otib will .pretend to deny. The colt has never been 1 handled. The man, with "several, others toll'd]) ' him. drives the colt into the stable.. Be then 1 forces a bit into his mouth, and if there iS otie among them that dares, he jumps upon his back, well armed with a stout.whip, and very often a spur: these he docs not forget to use. He clings, to thecolt’s back as long as he is able, but is finally thrown ofl.'. Dairies again ' and .again, until, completely exhausted, the' colt is obliged to yield, that is for the'time be ing. Is this, the way to break colts T No, t a be sure it is not.. The golden idle will apply here as well as anywhere. So be kind to your horses, my gentle friend. Printer's “Lingo.”—lt is well known that every profession has its technical terms and ns a matter of course it is expected that the Prin .tor has a “bit” which, is only intelligible to themselves. .We..will: for a moment imagine - our renders to be in a printing, office and hear the order of the foreman. “ Tom put George . Washington on the galley and finish the mur der of.the woman and two children in New Or leans.'.Distribute the Choloral and Small Pox. , Pitt up the great fire in Philadelphia. Be sure to get the great drouth in this week. John' take up Franklin Pierce and let the Devil prac tice on distributing, him.” 'That Faust was burned for-inventing the art of printing who wonders at it 1 Write down Your Experience.—Repeat edly we have suggested to the farmers who are constant readers of our paper, to'Write down ‘ their every-day experience in their’ lilisincss. so far as they may bo interesting and' useful to -oiboro r tmd-corriiimnicatc them to their brother farmers-and the: public, (and we can assure them they, will be read by nine-tenths of the community who arc not-fanners,) thro’ the medium of this paper. We devote weekly a large space to the exclusive benefit of farmers, and we think it ought to be their pride and plea sure to assist us in making it ns valuable and in teresting as possible. .We are satisfied that wo hare accomplished great good, in the qunrtcrof' a century we have ceaselessly labored to advance’ the farming inlertlts of pur country ; and U is our determination'to leave no means untried to increase this usefulness and lo deserve the help and sympathy of at least the farmers of Pcnnsyl- . Vania.— Ex. v Mvi.tum in Pa.rvo —lt is the general receiv ed opinion tliat fine,goods come in little packa ges, and, upon the strength of that dogma, lit tle women, jf they are handsome,- are preferred by many. For all such, the following verse is a settler; . , . - A little bee has Inaqy Sweets, but wh le upon the wing. If you attempt to change its course, you’ll find it has a s’ing. Audiso a little woman, if you dare lo “put her out,”' Will show a piece of devil, such as “ffe read about!” .. tCT" At a political meeting in Pike Go., Pa., while the,.committee were out writing resolu tions, a sturdy old' farmer roSe and addressed the chair. “Mr. President, roout I say- a Word ?” asked “The meeting will be proud 1 to hear from ■on, Mr, Subsoil. “Well, Mr. President, enduren of the time of the committee’s out, couldn’t yoii tell us all how yon’cc bedded your Inters /” There was a great laugh, at Subsoil’s ex pense, but his question involved a matlcr of more practical impoitancc than such as often come before political meetings. D~F~ When Judge Henderson, of Texas, was_ first a candidate, be visited a frontier in which he ws, except by reputation, a stian. ger. Hearing tbit a trial of felony would lake place in a few days,’ho determined to volunteer: for the defence. The prisoner was charged with having stolen a pistol; the defence was “ not guilty.” The volunteer counsel conduct ed the defence with great ability. Xleconfuscd . the witnesses, palawrcd the court, and made an able, eloquent, and successful argument. The prisoner was acquitted! he had not stolen the’ pistol. The counsel received the enthusiastic applause of the audience. His innocent client, availed himself of the earliest interval in tfo hurricane of congratulation to take his coiimol asi le. “My dear sir,” said he, “you have saved me, and I am very grateful, I have no mo ney, do not expect to have any, and do not ex pect, to see you again; hut to show yon tbit I appreciate your seiViccs in getting me off, “you shall have the pislol.” So saving lie drew from his pocket and presented to the astonished at torney the very pistol the attorney had shown he had never stolen or Jmd in his possession. Not Available. —“ Yon eiiH that good,'dont' yon t” said Mr. Funehaw, offvring a five dollar note on a Providence bank at the bar of one of onr hotels.. “0, yes,” replied the attendant, “it sgood, undoubtedly, but, Deacon Cfm fon’s piety when bo gets swearing mad, if is nb( immediately available.” ;V. IC7* Coleman, the dramatist, was asked if ho knew Theodore Hook. “Yes.” replied the wit, “Hook and eye are old associates.” (C r Four hoses governs the world—the cat ridge box, the ballot box, the jury box, and tho bandbox. Be kind to your Ilorscs.
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