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AN ANCIENT TO4ST. ■' it was a grand day in the old chivalrio time; r th‘o wine circling ,around a board in a noble hall and the sculptured walls rang with sentiment and song. , , , , The. lady of each nightly heart was pledged ■aloud by name; and many a syllable significant ■of loveliness hadTiecn uttered, until it came St. •fceoh’s turn, when, lifting the sparkling cup bn high— ■' «t drink to one,” he said, ! . -‘Whose imago nbver may depart, , Deep graven on this youthful heart, , TUI memory is dead. “To one whoso love for mo shall last. VVhon lighter passions long have passed. . glo holy ’tis, and true: To one whose love hath longer dwelt, Mora deeply fixed, more keenly fell. Than any pledged to you.” Each guest upstarted at the word; , And -laid a hand upon his sword, With fury flashing eye: And Stanlov said: “Wo crave the name, Proud knight, of. this most peerless dame, Whoso love yoit count so high.” St. Leon paused, as if he would Not breathe her name in careless mood. Thus,lightly to another : Thou bent his noble head as though To give that word the reverence duo, And gently said, “My Mother.” THAT SILENT MOON. nr o. w. b.oa.ve. ■That silent moon, that silent montl,. ■ Careering now through cloudless sky, Oi wlio shall fell what varied scenes Have pass’d beneath her placid eye, Since (list, to light (his wayward earth,. She walked in tranquil-beauty forth I How'oft has guilt’s unhallow’d hand. - And superstition’s senseless rite, Aud loud, licentious revelry Profaned her pure and holy light : Small sympathy is here 1 ween, With sights like these, that virgin queen ! But dear to her, in summer eve, By rippling wave, or tufted grove, -When hand in hand is purely clasped, , And heart meets heart in holy love, To Smile in quiet loneliness, .'And heajj each whisper’d vow and bliss. Dispersed along the world’s wide way, When friends are far, and fonds ones rove, How powerful she to wake the thought, ... ■ And start the fear for those we love, Who watch with ua at night’s pale noon, And gaze upon that silent moon. ■ .. How powerful too, two hearts that mourn, The' majic of that moonlight sky,- e To bring again the vanish'd scenes—■ The happy eves of days ?one,by; Again to bring, ’mid bursting tears, , The lost o(Tothn£^cers. T And oft she looks, that silent moon, . On lonely eyes that wake to weep In dungeon dark, or sacred cell, Or couch, w hence pain lias banish’d sleep, O I softly beams her gentle eyo On, (hosts who mourn, and-those who die! " But, beam on whomsoe’er she will, • And fail where’er her splendors may, There’s pureness in her chasten’d light,; There’s comfort in her tranquil ray : 'What'power is here to soothe,the heart— What power, the trembling tear to start! The dewy morn lot others love, . Or bask tliom'in tho noontide ray ; There’s not an hour but has its charm, , Prom dawning light to dying day;— But, O! bo mine a fairer boon— , That silent moon, that silent moon ! ■3®Wlaiitonjff. Tlie fairest Rose. The following sweet allegory is from the German of Hans Christian Anderson : . A great Queen oiice reigned, in whose garden bloomed the loveliest flowers from all parts of the world, at every season of the year. But above all other flowers she loved roses; and therefore she possessed the greater variety of these, from the wild hedge-rose, wiih green, ap-- pie scented leaves, to the most beautiful rose of Providence. They grew on the castle walls, twined round the pillars and over the casements of the corridors and saloons, and the roses va ried in scent, form and color. > ... But care, and sadness dwelt in that palace ; the Queen lay on her sick-bed, and the physi cians said.she must die. “ There is however a !remedy for her,” said the wisest among them. .*< Bring to her the fairest rose in the world— the one which is the expression of the highest and purest love—if that comes before her eyes ere they close, she will not die.” ' • And the young and old came from all lands with roses, the loveliest that blbom in every ■garden, but hone was the right one. The flow er .must be broiight from the garden of love ; but what rose could , be the expression of the highest, purest, love ? And the jioela sang of the fairest rose in the wdrld-Trcach' one named his 6,win And rocs 'sengora weroysent through all the countries .round, to every heart that beat with Ipye—to every rank and every age. “ No'one has.yetnamed theflower,” Said.the . wise man-; . “ No one has shown the place from whence itsprings in Us beauty; Uds not one Of 'the roses.from the bier of Borneo or Juliet, .or frSih AValburg’s grave, though these flowers ' will ’ever bloom in legends and songs. It is not oneldf these roses that,blooip forth from Wink -elrieff’s “blood-stained lance—from the holy blood which flowed in death from the breast .of the herq for the fatherland, though no death is sweeter, no rose is redder, than the blood which then flows. It is, also, not that wonder flow er, for the cultivation of which man gives his . fresh life away in years and days—the magic rose of knowledge.” “I know where it blooms !” said a happy ■ mother who came to the Queen’s 'couch with her tender bubo ; “I know where the fairest rose in' the World' is to be found—the rose which is the expression; of the highest, purest love. It blooms on the blushing cheeks of my . child, when it opens its eyes, refreshed by slum ber, and smiles at me with its whole love.” “ Yes, a much- fairer one,” said one of the women. “ I have seen it—a holier rose blooms not. But it was-pale, like the. petals.of ■ the tea-rose. I saw it on the cheeks of the Queen ; she had laid aside her royal crown, and :was nursing her sick: child in the long,- sad night. She wept and kissed it, and prayed to God for it, as a mother prays in the hour of anguish.” “Holy and wonderful is the white rose of sadness in its power : but it is not tho ono sought for." “ No I saw tho fairest rose in the'world bc- IlEirifOl BY JOHN B. BRATTON. VOL. 44. fore the alter of the Lord,” said the good old Bishop. “I saw it shine as though ait angel’s face had shone itself. The young'• maiden knelt there; she looked up to God with her whole soul ful! of purity and love. . That was the expression of the purest, highest love.” “ Blessed is it,” said the wise man : “ but no one has yet named the fairest, rose in the world.” , Then stepped a child into the chamber, the little son of the. Queen. Tears stood in Ins eyes, and on his delicate cheeks* He earned a lurge closed .book* bound in velvet, with large silver clasps. “Mother,”, said the little one, “oh hear.what I have read,” And the child seated itself on the bed, and read out of the book of Him who gave Himself to .die on the Cross, in order to save men, and even unborn generations. Greater love is there not! ’ • And a rose blush spread over, the Queen’s cheek’s : her. eyes became so bright, for she saw the fairest rose spring forth from the leaves .of the, book—the likeness of the one which bloomed from the blood of Christ on the Gross. “I see it!” saidshc. “They never diewho look oh this rose—the fairest in the world.” AB ASHLEY’S FEAT IN MELLON STEALING. < Ab Ashley, was a real live Iloosior, notori ous for everything in general, and stealing mel ons in particular. -in melon time he was the dread of the whole neighborhood for When he patch, he made it a rule never to leave until it was entirely destined. This was n singular trait in hjs character—something un accountable—for aside from that, he was con sidered one of the best fellows in the world.— Stealing melons, and plundering patches, seem ed to be part of "his nature, fur it was evident that it did not arise from any niggcrly disposi tion or selfish motives. He was'a real open heart kind of an individual, always growing more melons than anybody else, and giving them away more freely than anybody else,— They, were no object-lo him, and yet he could not resist the temptafion tostcal.from his neigh bors, just for the Tun of the thing. . But ns some one said. “Itis a long lane that has no turn and likewise had Ah followed the prac tice of stealing melons dll his life he would have got to he a melon thief of. long standing. But suchastate of things was not destined to last always—“A change canie over the spirit of his’ dream.” I recollect, once, jin melon season, some youngsters called at A|s’s house, and af ter telling him of the fine patch that Deacon Aikcrs bad. proposed to visit it. Ah was oh hand without a moment’s hesitancy', and so the company set out as soqn as it .was fairly dark. Before proceeding further, I may say of Ah. in the language of the poet. "He loved whis key,” qs well as' he did melons, and the boys in whoso company, hq was, had looked to the future and brought along a bountiful supply of the “good critter,” he was soon enjoying ■ him self hugely. Round and round went the com. pany. They soon got to bo very merry—so much so that apparently they paid no attention to.road or path, hut. went right through, the woods and brush, the same as if they had been walking. on. a barn floor. At length, after winding abou t in 'Wany trees and worm fences, that lay in their route, they arrived-at the patch ami'pitched over the enclosures. Ye gods what a sight!-. There lay the huge mel ons, so thick that oat; .adventurers could scarcely walk for them. There (ay grcat-.mca ly “ red cores apparently calling out in their own language "Arise,'slash and cat!" They w.ere none of your little Idnj^‘"wizzed up" things such as find their way to the market stands! and which one would suppose had fall en from the vine in a fit of the "blue devils but they were great, plump, jolly, good natured fellow's many of which were already showing their red interior, having apparently, burst their sides with laughter. Ab was right in his glo ry, and so, hauling out his jack-knife he fell to slashing round with a vengeance. . The others followed h|B example, and very soon there was sad havoc in the melon-patch. ■ Having satisfied his appetite. Ab fell to stamping and crushing all that came in his way. The other boys hesitated to participate at first,-, urging that it was really too bad to treat the old deacon in such a manner : but Ab swore that it was really good enough for the old hyp ocrite, and he would not leave as long as there was a whole ‘melon. Finding there was no stopping him, they lent a hand to the perform ance. and very soon every nylon was destroy ed: not only that, but the vines were pulled up and heaped in one corncr:6f. the patch. “Now,” said Ab. mounting the pile, which was someTir.e or six feet,” give me the black bottle, and let me drink the old Deacon’s health—that good man iii honor of whom we have Jiist erected this monument.” The bottle was passed up and Ab began, f * Deacon Aik.rs—may he live to planl many a patch like this, and Ab Ashley and his friends have the honor of harvestin’ il fur’ cm.” Hats went round three .times, after which the bottle started, and made a like number of revolutions. tQ Now fotolj me that pole yonder, till I erect a standard, to show that man has been to the summit, and the work will be completed,"said Ah.” : Thie pole was brought, and after tearing a strip oil an old cotton handkerchief, and attach ing it to the end of the polo. Ah stuck it up in the pile of vines, dismounted, and all started for home. In a space of time truly incredible, they arrived at Ab’s residence. Ab pressed his friends to stay till morning, hut they would not hear it. Some pressing business of course prevented, and so they set out leaving him to snooze off the effects of bad whiskey. Early next morning, Ab Ashley was aroused from hisdound slumber by one of his little sons running to his bed and calling out. “Papa, Get up. quick —quicker ! Some t n all nooks cr—’er water melons. ” *’What !” oxclaimed Ab. ” Why some some’n hooked ail’er- water melons, an mashed cm’up!" Ah arose cursing and swearing, vowing that' he’d find some clue by which’to identify the villians, and then they might look out for rough times. Ab went to tho patch—what a sight presented itself! not a whole melon, not even a vine, was left'—all met a total destruction. • ; ” Whero’n thunder and lightnin’ could I have been last night, that I didn’t.hear the infernal villains ? Its lucky for me I didn’t here ’em or some ofem'd been dead now. What could they have done with the vines!’’ said he. Casting his eye a along the fence, he discover ed the viiica nicely piled np like a small hay stack*. .From the top stood a pole, with a strip of red floating at the end of it. Ab started to wards it, but before he had proceeded many steps he stopped to think. Something seemed to be coming up in his mind. At last he mut tered, “ can’t it all be a dream or actually d'd I do it 1” Waiting a little longer he said, “ No, by thunder, its ho dream I- Them cussed boys has been play in off oh me. Blast their’infernal whiskey, I wish they had it in all their cussed inwards red hot I “ Mind, I tell you. I’ll bo even with ’em if it takes ine a hundred years from now, ” and then camp an-awful vollev of curses such as could never appear.in print. * He 0 fairly blubbered right out with rage. ' , It was, indeed, true—they had been playing off on him—for after getting him a little •• light,” they had brought him back to bis own melon-patch ; and under the impression that it was Deacon Aikcr’s he destroyed it. It is said that Ab Ashley was nerer known to as sist in the plunder of a melon patch after that eventful night. How Tom Conrin rid His Sister of on Obnox ious lover. Every end has beard of the eloquent,pathetic and humorous stump orator of Ohio. Some, twenty years ago ho used to tell, with great gus tp, the following story: ' A “In early life—so early that I cannot remem ber the removal—my lather ‘pulled up slakes’ .andcarrying wilfa-lihu the household goods,went from Bourbon'county, Kentucky, where I was was born, to Ohio. Notwithstanding a rough and tumble struggle with the world, be 'had a hard lime to get on; owing to a numerous and rapidly increasing family. Well,f«milymalters had not much improved when I had reached my thirteenth or fourteenth year. . ■ “At this time there lived in the neighborhood a young man named Pickering: Ho hud inher ited a wvll-sfocked farm, was gopd looking, and made a strong profession to religion. The last qualification caused him to find peculiar favor in the eyes of my father,who always was blinded by professions of extra piety. “This fellow had a strong hankering after one of my sisters, who was a very pretty girl; To her ho was peculiarly distasteful. She seemed always excessively annoyed at his presence. Yet ho was over at her side. She dared not dismiss him entirely, for fear of paternal anger. Things’went on in this way for a year or two, and as I partook largely of my sister’s hatred to him, I resolved to get rid of him in some way. I cast about for a plan for some time, but noth ing occurred that gave the slightest hope of suc cess. .■ • ' “At last, returning home Into ono summer night from the mill, I found the family nt their nightly devotions. Passing by the window of the room in which they were assembled,.l saw that Pickering was there, and pretty soon I dis covered that Tie was nodding, and finally his head dropped/ Now was my opportunity, I stole slyly into the hall, and reaching the hall door, which was sligtly ajar, and close by which lie was, on bonding knee,l reached in,and quick-' iy pulling his chair from under him, ho rolled heavily, as a sound sleeper would, upon the floor. The noiso alarmed all. The old gentle man stopped in (he midst of hit interminable prayer, and saw the position of Pickering. .AB the family laughed outright,- even my mother smiled. ' . “Pickering ehdeavored-fo.pick himself Up as rapidly as possible, hut ho had touched the old man upon his tendorost point. ft was evi dent, from the rubbing ol his eyes, that.ho had slept under the old gentleman’s ministrations ; and had not niy father a reputation far and wide tor the fervency of his ministrations, and. was hot Pickering his professing brother? It was too nwell.: Slowly, yet most digniliedty, did (lie old man approach hini. , ‘Begone,.hypo-1 crite I’he cried in thunder tones,‘never enter niylioiise.again/ / “Pickerjrig was thunderstruck. He felt that tfjr ttie"fnarilK’!7lle. /iad no ihspihidn of file exte rior force nhlchhsdhided him in .'his ffl-11. •-He nt once found his hat, took up his line of march, and. completely crestfallen, passed-by hi 6 as I stood grinning in tho shadow, of the porch. “At a suitable time I entered, got tny suppor, was told by a brother in hurried whispers what had happened,and then I stole off to bed, affect ing ignorance, and laughing most heartily, as X ensconced myself in the sheets, at the complete success of my plan. “Next day I cautiously imparted tho secret to my interested sister. She was in her room at the time, and she threw herself upon the bed and rolled in agonies and convulsions of laugh ter. She had been emancipated forever from the attentions of an obnoxious lover- Tho old gentleman did not hoar tho real state of the facta for full twenty years afterwards j but when he did ho laughed heartily.” Every ono who has read the Bible, has fre quently come across this seemingly unmeaning word standing, at the end of a verso, apparently disconnected from everything that has proceed ed it. The following iniormation in regard to its meaning from tho Bibliotheca Sacra, will be very acceptable aijdjgf m ueb importance to many of our readers : - . “The translators of the Bible have left the He brew Selah, which often occurs in the Psalms, as they found it, and the .English render often asks his minister or learpcd.frlend what it means. And tho minister or learned friend often been obliged to confess ignorance, because His a matter in regard to which, the most learned have by no means boon of one mind. The Tor gums, and most of tho Jewish commentators, give to the word the nicaning.of .eternally, for ever. Rabbi Kimehi regards it as a sign to ele vate the voice. 'Thoauthors of tho, Septuagint translation appear to have regarded it ns a mu sical or rythmical note. Header regarded it as indicating a change of nofo s Matliowson ns a musical note, equivalent perhaps to the word repeat. According to Luther and' others, it means, silence! Gesenius explains it to mean, •Let the instruments play and the singers stop.’ Woolier regards it as equivalent, to.s'nrcumcorda - up, my soul!., Sommer, after examining all tho seventy-four passages in which the word oc curs, recognizes in every case ‘an actual appeal or summons to Jehovah. They are calls for aid and prayers to bo heard, expressed either with directness, or it not in tho imperative,’ •Hear, Jehovah!’ or, ‘Awake, Jehovah!’ and tho like still earnest addresses to God that he would remember and.hoar, etc. The word itself ho re gards as indicating a blast of trumpets by the priest.' Selah, itself, ho thinks ah abridged.ex pression used for. Higgaion, Selah—Higgaion indicating tho sound of tho stringed instru ments, and Selab a vigorous blast of trumpets. TaUio is afraid of a lion. Dr. Livingston says, when tho breeding im pulse is upon these animals, and a man happens to pass to windward of them, both lion and U- oiness will rush at him, hut'under ordinary cir cumstances the lion is a cowardly animal, and never, attacks a man except stealthily, unless wounded. A very curious peculiarity about him is, that at the very last lie will not make an attack where he sees anything to. produce the suspicion of a trap. A horse belonging to Captain Codrington ran away, but was stopp ed by the bridle catching a stump.- He remain ed a prisoner two days, and when ho was found the whole space around was marked by the foot .prints of lions, which had evidently been afraid to attack the halted horse from the fear that the whole thing was a, snare. : It is a com mon belief (says Dr. L.) that (he.liun when he has once tasted human flesh v prefers it to any other, but the real state ofdhooaspis that,a man eater is always an old lion, who has grown too infirm to catch-game; he resorts to-villages for the sake of the goats, and if a woman or child happens to go out they fall a prey too. — This being his only source of subsistence,' he of course continues it until the villagers dispatch him—a work of little difflculty. ** OUR .COUNTRY —MAT IT ALWAYS BK RIGHT OB WRONG, OUR "COUNTRY., ■ ~ ; ” . “■ CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1858. it * a The Word; ScWi. JSnds. “lam afraid.” said a fricndhjT 6uvs inter ested in fruit growing, “that thfeopen weather, which has prevailed of late, wilhpaiise the buds to start, too soon for safety, and that there will be another failure of the fruit.” : How illustrative of the experience of human life! Slany arc the buds of hope that arc de stroyed by the frosts of adversity , ere the blos soms are fully blown, so that t|io fruit never comes. ■Sec that young mother, with first-born. It; is the bud of parental bliss to’lier. In her dreams of future, and of the fruiLOf its grateful love, she is. happy as mortal can lie. Its mo lion and its very tone are watohed-with delight, and the heaths of its countenance are as the rays from angel’s eyes ti her soulf. Would we could insure the unfolding of that bud even irtto the childhood’s blossom, to Say nothing of the fruit of a malurer fife! But we cannot 1 , Ere the spring-time is gone, the_ frost of disease may have nipped and blasted ft ut terly,- or (what is worse, left it lo oxiat as a dc crepid suflerer through lohg'i’ears of agony ! See that : bud of girlish , pro mises it gives of fruition, rich and’Ktro, in wo manhood. What exultant expectation on the part of scores of admirers. They .impatiently iwait the escape from the restraints of the school-room, and removal of the barriers' to her acquaintance and. favor. Alas! they may wait in vain !. That hour may never .vctime, See already the hectic flush .upon-her.yxping cheek ! It makes heyappear all the more beautiful. — But it points to the sepulchral vtfult rather than tlTe bridal, hall. Consumption has already been sent, as a messenger of Death-itself, to claim another victim. The fruit oft Ker matu rity will never come ! ; Ycrily, uncertain are all the fruitions prom ised by’ the buds of human hope.- | Humanity. ■I liavo .ever'thought that.thero is jn certain degree of justice due from man to the creatures, as from man to man, and that an excfcssivo use of the creature's labor is an injustice 10r which he must account. I have therefore noways cs tcemedit as part of my duty, and; it. has al • ways been my practice, to - be merciful to my beasts ; and, upon the same account, I have declined any cruelty to any of God's creatures, and, as much as I could, prevented it In others ns tyranny. I have abhorred those sports that consist in torturing them, and if any;noxious creature must be destroyed, or the lives of crea tures for food must be taken, it lias been my practice to do it in amanner that may be with the least torture or cruelty ; ever remembering that, though, God has given us a dorajmbhover his creatures, yet it is under a law of justice, prudence and moderation—otherwise wjs should become tyrants, not lords, over God's creatures: and theiefore, some of, those things which oth ers have, practiced as recreations, I hayfl avoid*, cd as sins.— Sir M.,Hale. V.v. Co-operation of-the ■ There is much good sense 'arid lnittwip the remark of a modern author, Jhatmo jmajsucver or rewords bis. JaboA-witb an cnUt-dnng..srniie, with What cdhHdence.wilt he. raer chnndiso or bis farm; fly over dands, sill over seas, meet difficulty mid encounter danger ; if he knows he is not.spending his,lime jii vain, but that his labors-will bo. rewarded by the sweelsof home ! . Solitude arid disappointment enter into the hisiory of ■ every man.’s life ; and he has not half provided for his voyoge, who finds but an (.associate for happy hours,' while for months of darkness and distress no-sympa thizing partner is prepared. The ‘•Sister;”, There is something lovely in the name, and its utterance -rarely fails to call up the Warm affections of l the gentle heart. The.thoughts that circle round it are all quiet, beautiful and pure. Passion has no place with it's associa. tions. The hopes and fears of love, those emotions, powerful: enough to shatter and extinguish life itself, find no homo there. The bride is the star, the talisman of the heart, the diamond above all price, bright and blazing in the noon-day sun ; a sister, the gem of milder light, calm as the mellow moon, and set in a coronet of pearls. Early Rising. There is no'time spent so stupidly os that which inconsiderate people pass in . a,morning, between sleeping and waking. He who is awake, may be at work or at play.; he who is asleep is receiving the refreshment necessary to fit him for, action ; But the hours spent in doz ing and slumbering are wasted, without cither pleasure or profit.; The sooner you leave your bed the seldomer you wjll be confined to it. — When old people have been examined ip order to ascertain the cause of their longivity. they have uniformly agreed in one thing only; that they “all went to bed, and all rose early.” Ladou A CoNsoLEn.-r-There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacrcdncss in work. Were he ever so benighted, forgetful of hllThigh call ing, there is.always hope in a man that actual ly and earnestly works ; in idleness alone is their perpetual despair. Doubt, desire, sorrow, remorse, indignation, despair itself—all these, like hell-dogs/lie beleaguering the soul of the poor day-worker as of every man; but.he’ bends himself with free valor against his task, and all these are stilled—all these shrink mur muring far oil'into their caves.- — Carlyle. A Bhaijtifw, Truth.-— Benj. F. Taylor, the author of “January'and Juno," once said that “she who Ims been a good daughter, a loving Wife and an old fashioned mother; is pretty near ready for an entrance in to‘the Kingdom of Heaven.. A homo without a girl .in it is only half West; it is an orchard without blossoms, and a spring without song.- A house lull' of sons is like Lebanon with its cedars, but daughters by the fireside, are like, the roses in Sharon.” (C7* Pride is ns loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing you want ten more, that your appearance may , be.all of, a piece ; bdt it is easier. (0 suppress the first desiro, thafi to satisfy all that follow it. — Fvuuklm. , Bovs Got AT Nioht.—Wo find the following truthful paragraph in one of pur exchanges,un der the caption of “Boys Outat Night.” “Night riir.hing is ruinous to the morals of boys in all instances. They acquire, under the cover of night,-an unhealthy state of ihind; bad,; vulgar, and profane language; a lawless and riotous bearing. Indeed, it is in the street after nightfall, that boys principally acquire the edu cation of’ tho bad, and capacity'tor becoming rowdy, - , disolute toon.” • [LTr.Thero is a family in Ohioso lazy, that it takes : lwo of them to sneeze. omT to throw tho head back and the other to ihalce the noise. K 7” • Among yo bo it,’ as the old lady said when She heaved the meat a strut lier children. Ifllatttffr. The Iron Horse ns Seen by, a Countryman. “When we got to the depot,.wont around to look at the iron boss. Thnndoration !it war n’t no raoro like a hosa than a meetin’ house. If I was goin’fo describe the animuio I’d say it looked likc-fiwell, it looked like—darned if I know what.it looked like unless if was a regular lip devil, snortin’smoko all around,and pantin’, and hbavin’ and. strollin’, and. chawin’ up red coals Jiko (hoy was good. A fellow stood in a house like, feedin’ her nil the time j hut the more-lie got the more ho wanted, and the more he snorted.. . After a spell the felleroatchod him by the (ail, and great, Jerico! be sot up a -yell tb t split tbe groundfpr.more’n a. mile and a half, and tbe next minif y found my legs a tvag gin’ and found myself- At t’other end’of -the string o’.vohiclos. I.wasn’t skeored but I had three chills and a stroke of the palsey in ..’ess than five minifs, and niy face bad a curious brownish yeller green bluish color in' it, which was perfectly unaccountable.' “Well,” says I, ‘comment is super Jlnous and I took a seat in tbo nearest wagin or car, as they call it—a consafned long, steamboat lookin’ thing, with a string of pews down each side, big enough' to hold about a man and a half. Just ns I set dowiT, the boss hollered; twice and started'off like a' streak, pitchin’ mo head- first at the stomaoii of a big Irish woman, and she gave a ' tremendous grunt, and then ditched mb by the | head, and crammed mo under the seat; the cars 1 was a.jumpin’and tcarin’along at nigh on to 1 forty thousand miles an hour, and everybody. 1 was a bobbin’ up and down like a mill saw, and 1 and every wretch on’em had His moiith-wide 1 open and’ like they was-laffln’, but I could not hear nothin’, the cars kept up such a racket. 1 Bimeby llioystopped all at once, and such an other laugh busted out o’them passengers as I ' never hearn before, Laffin, at mu, too, that’s ; what made mo mad, as X was mad as thunder, too. I vis up, and shakin’ my fist at ’em, says I, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, look a here I I’m a peaceable stranger’—and away went the darned J train like small-pox was in tho town, jei king .] mb down In.the seat with a whack like I’d been, 1 thfb'wn from the moon, and their.cuased mouths flopped open, and the fellers went to bobbin’ 1 up and doivnTfcaiii. I ]iut on an air of magnan- ; imbus contempßike, and took no more notice 1 of ’em, and very naturally went to bobbin’ up ; and down myself.” How Joe Won the Pencil. Joe B is unquestionably the-handsomest married man in Cincinnati. Joe sports a wife, besides several other crea ture comforts. -Well, he and his wife, Harry John —i and George—; , and their wives all boarded, at the samchotise. A day or two ago,; while they were at table, lux uriating upon ihd.detatchcd portions of a boiled turkey,.which had been, stuffed 'with oysters, the conversation turned. on Christian names, when Mrs. Harry— : —— contended that she could name more distinguished men who had borne the name of Harry, than any gentleman could of his own natrie ; and concluded by of fering a gold pencil as a wager against a suita ble equivalent should she win. . * ..The trial commenced, Mrs. Harry , started off with “ Harry of the West;” adding a,dozen others... , ; , Vi-. Wasiiingtbn/tho tour Georges of England, Lord George Franks, Ac, ■ •• Now'MK-Johftri__;—, what have-you to say ?”• said the charming Mrs. Harry. “ Oh ! I can give you a hundred—the two Adams, Lord Johri Bussel—John Tyler—John, John, bring me some water,” .“Stop, stop, you cant win. Mr. Jocsph .now your turn comes,” continued the juicy little gamstcr. Now,, if ever a bashful man lived, it is my friend Joe—he dared not lo.ok up. . lie had been racking his brain for an answer, but to no purpose, and in despair, he made oho grand efibrt, and raisirighis head replied— vMy dear madam, I have lost. I .cannot noW think of an y very distinguished man who ever bpro the nariie of Joseph cxceptthe gen tleman we read about in the sacred scripthres, he who was such a favorite with Mrs. Potiphar, but I will not offer him. for I think he was the fool X ever did hear of.” " Hero is the pencil,” said Mrs. Harry, toss ing it over to him, ns she and the other ladies scud out of the room. Newspapers, The Faribault Herald in the course of an able article on the subject of newspapers and their influence upon the towns in which they are published, says: . '' ' “ The announcement that a hcikSpapcr is published in a town, at once gives a reputation of importance. A newspaper adds to the value of town property in a town where it is publish ed. This is a fact not generally appreciated, but a fact, nevertheless, and hence every pro perty holder in a place is personally interested in sustaining a paper; no money that he ex pends during (he year returns him such a-pef cent. : as that which he pays for his homo pa per.” ~ Judge Louisstrcct, the newly-elected Presi dent of the South Carolina College,, thus sets forth the value of a newspaper : Small is the stint, that is required to patronize a newspaper, and most amply remunerated is the patron;. I cafe noteff&V humble and unpretending the ga zette which he takes, it is next to impossible to fill it fifty-two times a year without putting into it something that is worth the subscription price. . livery parent whose son is oil from home, at school,-should supply- him with a pa per. I still remember what difference there was between those of my schoolmates who had and those who had not access to newspapers- Other things being equal, the first were deci dedly superior to the last in debate and com position at least. The reason is plain they -have command of more facts. Youth will pe ruse newspapers with delight, when they will read nothing else. : Curious Punishments, —It is discoverable, from the “old records of Massachusetts,” that the following singular punishments were inflic ted in that colony, between the years IG3O and 1730: - Sir Richard Slastonstall, fined four bushels of malt for his absence from the couit. Josias Plaslow shall, for stealing four bas kets of corn from the Indians, return them 8 baskets again, be fined £5, and hereafter to be. called Josias, not Mr. as he used to be . JoyceDradwick shall give unto-Alexandria Becks 205., for, promising him marriage with out her friends consent,'and now refusing to perform the same. Thomas Peter for suspicions of slander, idle ness and stubborness, is to be severely whipped and kept in hold. Richard Turner for being notoriously drunk, was fined £2. Edward Palmer, for his extortion in faking 325. 7d, for the plank and work of Boston stocks, is fined £5, and sentenced to be set one hour in the stocks. . John Withe, is bound in .£lO to -be of good behavior, and not Como into tho company of his neighbor Thomas Bell’s wife alone. at S2,OOJPJSR annum. Return of the Poles from Exile. Wo learn from undoubted private authority that many-Polos, who bavo been exiled to Sibe ria in different epochs of the political movements of,their, native land, have been permitted to cross the Polish Russian frontier and .return to their homes; in compliance with the amnesty of the Emperor’s Coronation manifesto. . Others, it is true, wore only allowed to leave Siberia, without, returning homo, residences for them being assigned in the central provinces of Rus sia. . There probably was some apprehension of Jtlic effects of a crowd of Polish patriots simul taneously resuming their citizenship at home.— A baseless {fear we think, but a natural fear to Russians.' ’ - Every exile who had leave to return to the .Kingdom of Poland received $l6O as travel money Among the number was Count Peter tPysockij duct of thoinsnrrectionaiy movement o i 1881, who hadbeen condemned to the mining works at Fortcjiinsk, ip. Middle. Siberia, where ho labored for twenty-six years.' On his way homo .it; was intimated to'him by the, Russian Government that he should undertake not to en ter Warsaw. His former influence in the enpi tal may account for, and almost excuse thispro hibition. Some of the Polls exiles, have been able to amass .small capitals, of SA,OOO. to SG,ODO, by farming, fishing, or trapping. Those who pos-, sessed mcchanicat abilrtics have made consider ably larger amounts. Several who associated for hunting, trapping, and carrying .on thejur trade, wore very successful. Funning was less profitable, owing to tho high price of labor, not withstanding the excellent, rich, and fertile soil of South Siberia. A certain Mr. Pakicwski, with ability and tact, has a large share in the copper mines, and is also proprietor of several steamers, on the rivers Oby and Jenissy. In fact the Polish .exiles in. Siberia have generally done.well. . JULanj’ Poles, not allowed to return home, but located in tho interior of Russia, actually have preferred to remain in Siberia. They thought it would bo more agreeable, to .staj* where flioy had frlendl and prolitablo occupations. Among those who have thus remained is Gustavus Bhrchbcrg. Several of the Polish exiles, arriv ing at their former homes, after Iwenty-soven years of absence, found a how generation there. The place that had known’them once, knew them how no more. Feeling themselves stran gers In the scenes of k tlicir childhood and early manhood, they have voluntarily returned to Si beria—which had became # a second homo ,to them, and where they had .Tound or made-new homes, friends, and associations. The Czar’s next policy will he toabolish serf dom In Russia. .A diflicult thing this promises to bo, for. ho will ccftainly.be opposed, openly and covertly* by the higher nobility of his em pire. THowover, as ho is a man of firmness as well as of feeling, there can be llttlo doubt of his effecting great moral and political improve ments in hisextensive realm. ' CiviLtTT to FniENDS^—lt strikes one as rather absurd (remarks the Rosfou .Po.sf) that’ good manners are employed for ihe .most part as if .they were only proper in pur intercourse with, strangers and enemies !—rtliat -while we I are careful to “ keep a civil tongue in our head” for people whom we hate, we bestow pur rough words on pur companions and friends, as if in-. ; , civilities, wef*,^ ; :esivpcr'relKfe Andprovcs hy thumping onyourbaolc : . His sense of your great merit”— ' and a recent writer, whose name we would print if we know it, talks in the most sensible and striking manner on the subject of treating friends with kindness and courtesy. Here is a passage, so just and well put that it wouldn't be amiss to get the very words by heart:— “ Do not Hatter yourself that friendship au thorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates, On the contrary, the nearer yqu come into relation with a person the more no. ccssary do fact and courtesy become. Except in cases: of.necessity, which arc rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant truths from his ene mies ; they are ready enough to tell them. — Good breeding never forgets that amour propre is universal. When you read the story of the Archbishop and Gd Bias, you may laugh if you will, at the poor old man’s delusion ; but don’t forget that the youth was the greater fool of the two, and that his master served such a booby rightly in turning-him out of doors.” Astosisiiino PeIIFOII-MANCI! OP AN A.l IK nip AN Befoue. Queen ViCToniA. —On the 13th of Jan uary,at Windsor, Mr. J. S. Rarey, from the United States of America, had the honor of ex hibiting belore her Majesty, the. Prince Consort, and .Royal Family arid Suite, in the riding house, his miraculous power.over the horse. Several animals wore selected as subjects of his expork ments. IXo commenced witli a wild colt, 18 month's old, belonging to tho' Prince Consort, which was brought from Shaw Farm, and which had been chosen by Colonel Honorable A. N. Wood for tho occasion. After being alone with tho animal for about an hour and a half, the royal party entered, and found Mr. Rarey sit ting on his bach, without holding the rein, the horse standing perfectly quiet. ,Mr. Rarey thou made a low remarks in regard to his great expe rience in the treatment of this noble animal ; a drum was afterwards harided to Mr, Earoy, which ho beat with fury whilst sitting on the horse’s back, without the colt exhibiting any signs of fear- The royal party afterwards with drew for a few. minutes, and on their return found tho animal lying down, and Mr. Rarey knocking his hind logs together, one of which he put against his -face. Afterwards a restive horse, selected from Mr. Anderson’s stables in London, which Rarey .said he had before hand led, was placed at one end of the riding house alone. Mr. Rarey went to thp other-end, and at his command' the horse walked quietly up to him. Ho then made the horse lie down in the presence of the Queen, when Mr. Rarey crawled between his hind logs, and over him in various ways. Mr. Rarey then rolled tho horse on his back._ Tho horse was afterwards placed in va rious'positions, in which it stood without hold ing, and without a bridle. A third, horse, se lected by Mr. Meyers, tho riding master, as a very nervous animal, was then brought in, and in a few minutes afterwards it was made by Mr. Rarey to do all'which had been done by the other horses. At tho conclusion o( this exhibi tion of Mr. Rnroy’s wonderful power oyer the horse, his Royal Highness the Pririce Consort expressed to Mr. Karcy his graliilcation and thanks. The secret has been intrusted to Maj, General Richard Airey, in.cpntid.crice, who lias pronounced that there is nothing in the treat ment but what any hoyseman would approve of. A'Cdrrect-Idea of Liberty, Burke’s idea of liberty is capital. Ho says : “ Mon are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put chains upon their own appetites : in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity : hi pro portion as their soundness and Sobriety of un derstanding is above their vanity and presump tion : in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon the will and appetite is placed somewhere : and the less of it there is within, tho more there must be of it without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of in .temperate minds cannot he free. Passions forge their fetters.” At n recent meeting of tho 'Philadelphia So ciety for protecting .Agriculture,'Mr.- Fischer presented to the society specimens of.sugar, manufactured from the Chinese sugar Cane. by Mr Lovering, at his country seat on the ¥ot* Rond, about five miles from this city. The experiments prove that at a moderate estimate, „ 1,200 pounds of sugar Can'be grown on tfrt acre in Pennsylvania, and probably milch, mof£ in many soils and by means of improved culti vation. At 5 cents per pound, 1,200 pounds 1 arc worth §6O per acre. An acre will product, ■ moreover, 70 to 80 gallons of molasses of (the best quality—sufficient to pay the expenses of cultivation and manufacture—leaving the sff gar clear profit. In addition, the leaves of the plant,afford fodder for cattle superior to corn fodder, and also 30 .to; 40' bushels of ‘seed or grain, which cattle, hogd and poultry 1 fecd-oA with avidity. For both of these', SIO wopid be a low estimate, which, ndddd to the sugar, .would give a nett gain of $7O per acre for a moderate crop. There is Jittle doubt,. hpWCveri ■ as Mr. Covering informed me.that 1,500 pbupds might"easily be obtained. The result very favorably with other staple productions of our agriculture. Ah averdge crop df'whtat-Oli good farms, docs not exceed 20 bushels per acre, which, at the present price, is worth,S2sj From this is to bo deducted the expense'(if cul tivation and of preparation for market.; not.less tjian §lO, .leaving only $l5 profit, whilst, ,thq s.traw is inferior to the blades and seed of; the sugar , cane, for, feeding, and affords, probably less manure than the bagasse, or stalks, after the juice has been expressed. The. averhgd crop of corn is not higher than 50 busheli -pod acre! wortli about §3O, The expcnso.of culti vation is 510, which leaves §2O for nett gain, - less than one third the profit of the sugar caniv Mr, Emerson said that Air. Covering ■ hadi comntumcalcd to him one fact which was; not Ift his book, and that was, that in. boiling the syrup 2 degrees less 'in temperature was requi red than In tho West' Indies. Thdrc 240 Re gress were required, while Mr. Covering's cJr. periments showed that 0h1y.238 degrees werd required.. ;. ' •1. j j.pt Mr. Williams Baid ; that in, the West Tyidfes 5,000 pounds of sugar could he raised .on .a’jy aero, and in lhjs‘ country only 1,200 pounds could be produced ! In the West Indies jabbF was only 25 cents pdf day; while in the north' ern parts of this countny wages are much high* . dr. He did not believe that apy profit could be realized to the farmers of. this country, by the. production of this sugar;,' 'I '., Mr. Fisclief said the machinery used by Mr.', Covering, in making the sugar, could not have. cost much.oyer §OO, and any roan'• can ttako this sugar'easicr than, he can a pot of apple, butter. Mr. C, was .the first to make, exp,eri-. ments which would show.that every one could, enter into its manufacture; There wore noW about 150 sugar plantations in this country;!, and tho-pcoplo were taxed 30 per cent, on sir-' gar to keep up these planters; and if there should bq several thousand planters at the - North, with the same duty combined, yre might enter into competition with the Cubans' and others.’' . - NO. 88. Mr. Emerson said that if the farmers ocncr-i ally, entered into, its • manufacture, even’ in at small way, the aggregate production would be, enormous. A,gentleman from the West Indies who was on a visit to this citylaslsummer,, had. looked with great, interest upon the culti- 1 ration of ths Ghfnese sugar cane, and he ox pressed his opinion that it Could be produced! with moreproflt in Kentucky and Tennessce.- thnn.in more northern latlUudcs.. A ’resolution was 'passed, presenting the thanks of the spoiety, and 1 a'silver medal to-Mr. Lovering.. The annual report of the attorney general' 1 contains a tabio noting the names, ages, and. | birth places of 25 persons, \Vho, according to the .report o( Coroner Dannoy, have comnptted sni- - . ; &iip, J :d«ring, the- y£ar.dJki7,?,; ■ ; was ; tWelyOi, years of og'o, Francis Hde> a G'emian.. -The eldr, osf was Richards, aged sixty.six years. The av erage ago of the suicides was forty-one: years. Four ! of them wore women—iWaty Mahon, an Irish woman; Mrs. Sitfrin, a German; Eliza- Jommeson, a Virginian; and Helena Silliers, a; German. Oho was a native of Canada, one of, Michigan, tiro of Ireland, seven of Germany,' three of Virginia, one of Italy, one of Prussia, two of Louisiana, one of Switzerland, ;one of England, one of Spajn, one of France, one of .China, gnd. (wo whose birthplace was not known;.' One (Costello) killed himself with strychnine, 1 two by shooting,, six by. drowning, three cat their throats with razors,live hanged themselves, two poisoned themselves with arsenic,onejunlp od from a three story house, one severed'the brachial artery, two took laudanum, and two stabbed themselves. One of the. suicides was under the sentence of death.; Three destroyed themselves in a lit of delirium tremens, and four, in a lit of insanity. The report docs not men tion the mental state of the rest at the tiipe of : their salbdcstvudtion, but it may safely he as sumed that all of (hem. Were in some degree in sane at the lime. Could wo have particulars as to the circum stances, tile health, education, and habits of those who have slain themselves, it would' add interest to this feature of tho report. Suicides are increasing in nrimber in this country, fear fully, for wind cause it is impassible to diseov-- er, unless by a careful arid minute report of rill 1 tho attendant circumstances of each act of self-slaughter. Wo have no reason to suppose, that moral sense is relaxing, that religions bars are less, or that (lie average ills and pains olliftr are greater now- than in former years. • Thai dread of tile “undiscovered beyond the grave, a terror in all times, is just as much iv terror now. Man, iiy the gift of life, is sustain ed ,as a sentinel on this “brink and.shoal’’ of time, to do, to boar,- to’ jVait, and to. antler.. A right and healthy moral sense tqjls him to await hid regular dismissal; to end hivtask by his own hand is desertion. . There is nonpparenfroasoif wily this sense of responsibility is loss now than in folnier years.—-A r . O. Courier. Co Indians Swear? —This is a curious ques* lion, and the.answer by Mr. Schoolcraft should, put tho white man to tho blush. This gentle man, who has foi many years closely studied the characteristics of.the race, says: “Many things tho Indians may bo accused of, but tha, practice oi swearing they canpot. 1 have made many inquiries into the state of their vocabula ry, and nothing is more hitter or reproachful than match anneinoosh, which indicates, simply; a bad dog. They have terms to indicate cheat, liar, thief, murderer, coward, tool, lazy naan, drunkard, babbler, but I.have never heard of an imprecation or oath. The genius -of the lan guage docs not seem to favor the formation, of terms used in oaths, or for purposes of profani ty. It is the resulj of the observation of others as well as my own, to say that an Indian cannot curse.” Ahmt Movements. —Pursuant to the order of Lieut. Gen. Scott, a force of thece hundred recruits will bo sent from Governor’s Island,-on Wednesday, the 24,h ult., under charge of Major E. Backus. 3d infantry, to Jefferson Barracks, Mo., to fill up deficiencies in thellh infantry, now stationed in Kansas and.Ncbras? ka. This movement for the strengthening, of the 7th, infantry is made in expectation that their services will be required next spring fof the campaign in Utah. Tho recruits, on their arrival at Jefferson Barracks,will -bo assigned to the several companies in proportion to 1 their wants. , ... :.i Attempt to Escape.—Last Thnrsdar ■ing, while the prisoners at Sing Sing {Nt Y.) prison. Were marching towards their mess-room, five of their number ran to the dock, jumped on (he ice, and attempted to cross toe A heavy (ire front tho revolvers of the .keepers lodged five halls in Ihe body of John Spence,'a panel thief, four in that of a burglar -named Quinn, and two struck Pclcr Delvin, a receiver of stolen goods. They Were soon recaptured, and two who were unwounded were treated to a!-shower bath on their return to their! old quarter^;,-Spence and Quinn are believed to he tnbrtally wounded. ; mill MATTERS, Chinese Sugar Cane.. Suicides in Kc>V Orleans.
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