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THE LAND OF DREAMS.
by w. o. Bryant.
A might realm is the land of dreams.
With steeps that hang in the twilight sky,
And weltering oceans, and trailing streams
That gleam where the dusky valleys lie.
But over its shadowy borders flow
Sweet rays from a world of endless morn.
And the nearest mountains catch the glow,
•And flowers in the nearest Acids are-born,
'The souls of the happy dead repair
iprom fhe lowest of flight to that bordering
land,
And walk in the fairer glory there,
With the souls of the living, hand to hand.
<Dne calm, sweet smile in that shadowy sphere,
From eyes that open on earth no more—
One warning word from a voice pnee dear—
How they ring in the memory o’er !
Far otT from those hills that shine with the day,
And fields that bloom , in the heavenly gales,
The land of dreams goes stretching away
To dimmer mountains and darker vales..
There lie the chambers of guilty delight; .
• There walk the spectres of hope and fear;
And soft,* low voices that float through the niglii
Are whispering sin in the guileless car.
Dear maid, in thy girlhood’s opening flower.
Scarce weaned from the love of childhood’s
pl«y, . i .
Thatoars on whoso cheeks are the opening flower
That freshens tho early bloom bi May!
Thine eyes are closed, and over thy brow ,
Pass thoughtful shadows and joyous gleams, ■
And I know by the moving lips that now
Thy spirit strays in the land of dreams.
Light-hearted maiden, oh, heed thy feet I
Oh, keep where that beam of Paradise fails
And only wander where thou may est meet
The blessed ones from its shining walls.
So shalt thou come from the land pf, dreams
With love and peace from the laud of strife,
And the light that over its border streams,
'Shall lie bn the path of thy daily life.
OTsfEllamoM.
DOS. 18. EVERETT AT RICHMOND.
Aftcrthe inauguration of the-Washingtoh
statue at Richmond on the 23d, a grand dinner
was prepared for the guests of the city at the
new Custom House, where the evening was
spent both pleasantly and brilliantly, speeches
being made by Hon. James M. Mason, Hon..
Win. C, Rives, Hon. A. H. Dawson, of Geor
■ gia, Hon. Edward Everett, Hon. E. M. T.
Hunter, and various others. Mri, Everett was
called out by a seritiment in honor of “Massa
-1 chusetts in Virginia," and after n most cdrdfal
t greeUng'fronftis assemblage, spoke as follows:
Mr. Pkesipent and Gentlemen : I esteem'
: it a groat privilege and honor to speak on be :
.half- of Massachusetts on this most interesting
' occasion—of Massachusetts, Clio eldest of the
sisier States of Virginia in this great family of
republics. She knew and loved your peerless
son at an early day.- While the lilies of France
floated over the bastions of Quebec ; while the
red rose of St, George waved from Maine-to
Georgia ; while the bloom of youth was on his
pwu cheek, he visited Boston, theujhe residence
of the Commander in-chief of theKoyal force.
When the great appeal was made to the stern ,
arbitrament of war. and the all important ques- |
tion arose in the Continental Congress, who ■
should lead the patriotic sons of America, in ,
the doubtful contest: Massachusetts, repre- j
sented -by one whom your own Jefferson pro- (
nounccd the Colossus of debate in the great ar
gument of Independence—onefrom whom many ‘
of you afterwards differed in political opinion,
but whom all honored .ns true, warm hearted, j
patriotic—Massachusetts, I say, represented in
the Continental Congress by John Adams, gave
her voice arid her influence for the appointment
■of Washington. She had her own armies, her
r own generals in the field, in common with those
_ of the other New England States—the veterans.
|,'6f the seven.years’ war —Rogers’ provincial
5 rangers, Stark’s comrades—men who had
< climbed the heights of Abraham and stormed
the citadel of Louisburg—the men of'the 19th
of April and the t7th of June—led by Ward
and Warren and Putnam and Prescott—but at
the risk of touching the most sensitive nerve
that thrills the human bosom—the point of
honor.on the part of the soldier and gentlemen
—Massachusetts gave her vole and all her in
fluence for the “beloved” Col. Washington.—
If to Virginia belongs the incommunicable glo
ry of having given him to his country, may not
Massachusetts, under the circumstances to
which I have alluded, reflect with satisfaction
that she contributed all her influences to place
that noble son at the head of the American ar
mies ? She remembers, too, with interest, that
the newly elected Commander assumed his high
trust under the shadow of her ariojent Univer
sity at Cambridge; that, with his liead quar
ters established there, ho held the royal army
for nearly a twelve month's, beleaguered in Bos
ton, and that ho achieved his first great milita
ry success from the heights ,that now command
her capital.
Some foreign writers have denied thotnilitary
talent of Washington. Massachusetts knows
better. She witnesses the remains of the magni
ficent lines of circumvallation, twelve miles in
circuit, in which, with raw recruits inade
quately supplied for the field, without ordnance,
without munitions, he held the royal forces
closely invested for nearly twelve months. She
■ beholds eternal monuments of his military skill
.in tlie heights of Dorchester, where, by a mag
t .nificent strategic combination, he earned a place
I: (I appeal to the gallant chieftain, Gen. Swift,)
' among the greatest masters of war. A late
French writer hits said that Washington could
not have led the French grand army of 1812—
that prodigious array moving in thirteen paral
lel columns, each a host, led by tributary kings,
and heroes of a hundred wars—and got them
in safety in Russia. Ido not know that any
one has a right to assert this, or take for grant
ed that he, who did great things, with small
means, would not. have done proportionately
greater with ample means. .At any rate, what
ever superiority may be claimed for Napoleon
on the bare assumption'that Washington could
not have conducted his mighty force into Rus
sia, some deduction must ba made from that
superiority (or the historical fact tlmt’Napoleon
himself could not conduct that army out of
Russia.
At all events, sir, Washington himself, in
whose.heroic self-possession therq entered not
the slightest particle of arrogance or presump
tion, camly contemplated the possibility that he
might bo brought into personal conflict with
that dreaded Napoleon ; and in that belief ac
icomipand of the American army in
itUo. When, in the expectation of a war with
teems
|Wfal
In like manner when you see a shabby look
ing fellow in the dock, charged for example for
sheep stealing, the decision rests with yon, first
whether or not lljat individual is a ragamuffin,
and. secondly, how far it is probable that a man
ot that description ; would steal sheep. Of
course, as has been before said, you will al-
Ser°tlf,. by f hß but then,
whether the evidence is trustworthy or not is
“ mat I te . l ! for y?ur private consideration. You
may believe it if you choose, or you may disbe
lieve it; and whether, gentlemen of the iur v
you behove it or disbelieve it, will depend unm!
the constitution of your minds. If your minds
are so constituted that you wish to find "he
prisoner guilty,;perhaps you will believe it • if
they happen to bo so constituted that you do
sire to find him not guilty, why then very like
ly you will disbelieve it. You ore to free your
minds from all passion and prejudice if you can,
apd in that case your judgment will be unbias
sed ; but if you cannot you will return a ver
dict accordingly.. It is not, strictly speaking,
for you to consider what will be the effect of
your verdict; but if speh a consideration should
occur to you, and you cannot help attending to
it, that verdict will be influenced by it to a cer
tain extent. You arc probably aware that
when you retire, you will bo locked up until
you contrive 10 agree. You may arrive at unan
imity by fair discussion, or by some of you
starving out tho others, or by tossing up'; and
your conclusion by whichever of these process
es arrived at, will be more or less in accordance
with your oaths. Your verdict may bo right-
It °t ° [‘T d tbat U *iM : it may be wrong
-it is to be hoped it will not., 'At all events,
gent emen of the jury, you will come to some
conclusion or other, unless it should so happen
that you separate Without coming to any. .
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BY JOHN B. BRATTON,
YOL. 44.
mir lionorcd revolutionary ally, then distracted
in ner domestic counsels, Washington was ap-
Lieutenant-General—a tiilo and a trust
which America, but in a single other instanco,
has given to anyone of her gallant sons—he
more than once declared that, if the enemy in
vaded us, he must not be permitted so much is
to land on our shores. And in a letter to Pre
sident Adams, written shortly after accepting
his commission, ho makes the significant re
mark, that the French, (with whom we have
now to contend.) have adopted the practice,
with great and astonishing success, by appoint
ing generals of juvenile years to command their
armies. He had every reason to suppose at
that time, and, doubtless, did suppose,, that in
the event of a French invasion, the armies of
France would have been commanded by the'he
ro of Areola and Lodi, the youngest and most
successful of these youthful generals.
Sir, the occasion which- has brought us toge
ther is, in my judgment, of far greater impor
tance and significance than any mere popular
pageant; Virginia has been called, and justly
the mother of States and of statesmen ; but
this is an honor which she shares with her sis
ter republics. From Maine to Georgia, every
one of the old thirteen, has sent her children to
lay the foundation of new republics in the ri
sing West; every one of tho confederated Slates
has its list of the wise, the honored, and the
brave among its children. But to Virginia
aloae belongs the honor of giving birth to tho
one man, whose pre-eminence al! acknowledge
without envy, in whose fame ail other Slates
are proud as fellow-countrymen to claim a
share.
I rejoice in consecrating a monument to this
pure and bright name, you have found an A
mencan Artist equal to its conception arid'exe-'
cation. Oh, that he could have witnessed this
triumphant, day. May its success carry conso
lation to the heart of his bereaved partner!
■He has left behind him a monument to his own
taste and genius, hot less than to bis illustrious
subject. And. sir, when I contemplate the ca
reer of this gifted artist, from its commence
ment to Us close; when I trace him through
the earlier productions of his chisel ; the busts
of living cotemporaries, the lovely idolatries of
ancient my thology—Orpheus. Ganymede, Hebe;
his maturer creations, the statue of , Beethoven,
the group for the pediment of the southern wing
of the extension of. the Capitol ; the figures of
Henry and Jefferson, which adorn the ascend-,
mg platform of your great monument—when I
see him thus rising by steady progress to the"
summit of his an -and his fame, in the mofe
than imperial form and face of Washington—
his true eye guiding the cunning hand from la
im A? ~ or '- and from ’ triumph to triumph,
like Phidias of old, who “carved the cods and
came to Jove,” I can almost .fancy that the
delicate sense was overpowered, at last, by the
transcendent glories of that matchless counte
nance ; that the .-vision of. the accomplished ar
tist, beholding far mote than the ordinary ob
server under the same outlines and lineaments
—penetrating deeper into the mysteries of ex
pression—rising higher, with.wrapt gaze, into
the brightest heaven of thought, and feeling,
and character, as they flow through the portals
of sense—a revolution - successfully conducted ;
a .Constitution ,wisely, framed ;. a .Government
happily administered; faying out in -each' di
vine glance, I can almost fancy that the gifted
sculptor, like the gifted poet.
Saw. and, blasted with excess of light.
Closed his eyes in endless night."
Sir; I believe in monuments—l believe in
them even as works of art. To carve the
speaking marble, to mould the breathing
bronze, is one of the noblest efforts of genius
[ and tasto ; but a patriotic monument is a far
nobler work. It embodies patriotism, truth
and faith ; it gives form and expression to the
best feelings of our nature—and while the noble
work which you have this .'day inaugurated
•shall brave the snows of winter and the beams
i)f summer, that brazen arm shall point the un
erring road,to the weltare of the country more
surely than' any arm of living .flesh ; and a
fiercer thunder than that of the elements shall
clothe the neck of the monumental war-horse,
and strike terror to the hearts of the enemies
of the Constitution and the Union.
[Mr. Everett’s speech was followed by loud
and long continued applause.]
Punch's (Hfjflrge to the Jury,
The subjoined charge was copied from the
London Punch about fifteen years ago. Not
withstanding the antiquity of the document,
wo consider it in some respects, a “model”
"charge—it, at least, possessing the merit of
leaving the jury unbiassed in theirdeliberations
upon a verdict;
Oentleaien" of the Jolty—You are sworn in
these cases to decide according to the evidence;
at the same time if you have any doubt you are
bound to give the prisoner the benefit of it—
Suppose you have to pronounce on the guilt,of.
innocence of any gentleman accused of felony.
You will naturally doubt whether any gentle
man would commit such offence—accordingly
however strong may bo the testimony against
him, you will perhaps acquit him. -The- evi
dence of your own senses is, at least, as credit
able as that of the, witnesses; if, therefore,
your eyesight convince you that the prisoner is
a well dressed person, you have a right to pre
sume his respectability ;-,and it is for you to
say whether a respectable person, would; be
likely to be guilty of the crimes imputed on
him.
A Religions Courtship.
A young gentleman happening to ait at church
'n a pew adjoining one in which sat a young
lady, for whom he conceived a sudden and vio
lent passion, was desirous of entering into a
courtship on the spot; but'the place not suit
ing a formal declaration, the exigency of the
case suggested the following plan :
He politely handed his fair neighbor a Bible
° P oj'T?’'- th , a pin stuok in the following text:—
ltipistle of John, verse 5— ‘ And now I be
seech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new
commandment unto thee, but .that which we
had from the beginning, that we love one anoth
er.
' Skc rolurnod it, pointing to the 2d chapter of
Ruth, verse lOih;— •
‘Then she fell on her face and bowed herself
to the ground, and said unto him. why have I
found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldst
take Knowledge of me, seeing that lam a stran
ger?”. .•
kHe returned the book, pointing to the 12th
verse of the 3d Epistle of John.:
‘Having many things to write unto you, I
would not write with paper and ink, but I trust
to come unto you and speak face, to face.’
From the above interview, a marriage took
place the following week.
The True Gentleman.
Such gentlemen as a certain author describes
' 'h the following paragraph, are not to .bo met
every day ; and should any unmarried lady
chance to- find one, wo advise her to secure him
forthwith, as one of the most perfect -works
from the atelier of the Divine Architect
“ Show me a man who can quit the brilliant
society of the young to. listen to the kindly
voice of ago—who can hold cheerful convcrsalion
with one whom years have deprived of all
charms ; show mo the man who is willing to
help the deformed, who stand in need of help,
as if the blush of Helen mantled on his cheek ;
show me the: man who would no Sooner look
rudely at the poor s girl in the village than at
the well-dressed lady in the saloon ; show me
the man Who treats unprotected maidenhood as
he would the heiress, surrounded by the power
ful protection of rank and family ; show me he
that abhors the libertine's gibe—who shuns
him as the blasphemer and traducer of liis
mother’s sex—who scorns, as he would the
coward, the ridicular of a'woman’s reputation;
show me a man who never forgets for an inslant
the delicacy and respect that, is due to a wo :
man, in any condition or class,and you show me
a true gentleman. ” -
Courage in Women.
There is a branch of general-education which
.is not thought at all necessary.for women :as
regards which, indeed, it is \yeli.if they are not
brought up to cultivate the opposite. Women
are not taught to be courageous. Indeed, to
' some persons, courage may.scem as unnecessary
! fo>' women as Latin and Greek. Xct there are
■ few-things that would tend': to; 'mako women
• happier 'ill Ib'cinselvesran'dinbrS.'acceptable to
those with whom they live, than courage'.—
1 here are many women of the present day, ,
sensible women in, other, things, whose panic
I terrors are a frequent source of discomfort to
I themselves and those around them. Now, it is
I a great mistake to imagine that hardness rhtist
go with courage ; and that tile bloom of gen
tleness and sympathy must ail be rubbed oft
• vigor of mind which gives presence of
mind, enables a person to be useful in peril,
and makes the desire, to assist overcome that
sickliness of sensibility which can only contem
plate distress and difficulty. 'So far from
courage being unfeminine, there is a peculiar
grace and dignity ip those beings who have lit
tle active power of attack or defence, passing
through danger with a moral courage -which is ■
equal to that of the strongest. ,We see this in
great things. We perfectly appj-eeiate : the
sweet and noble dignity of an Anne Bullen, a
Mary Queen of Scotts, or a Marie Antoinette.
V\ e see that it is grand for these delicately bred,
high nurtured, helpless personages to merit
Death with a silence and confidence like his
own. Thereis no beauty in fear. It is.a mean, ,
ugly, dishevelled creature. No statue can be ,
made of it,that a woman would wish to see ,
herself like.
We may be quite sure that; without losing
any of the most delicate and refined of feminine
graces, women may be taught not to give way
to unreasonable fears, which should belong no
more to, the fragile than to the robust. ”
largest Colossal Slatao in ilnr World.
The model of the splendid colossal statue of
the Virgin Mary, to bo erected at Le Pqy, Sa
. partment. of tho Haujo Loire, , France, and
•which has been the subject.of.much talk the
last year as the largest colossal in the world,
•was completed the 2d ultimo, when the prepa
rations for the casting at once commenced!—
The local’ newspaper thus describes it: The
Virgin stands upon a sphere, around which
winds an enormous serpent—that ajlegorical
figure ot sin whose.head she bruises beneath
her feet. On her right hand she holds the in
fant Jesus, who is in the:act - of blessing the
city of LePuy. The length of'the serpent is
17 metres, (about 50 feet;) that of the Virgin’s
1 metre and 92 centimetres, (about 64 feet.)
The figures are absolutely necessary to an idea
of the real proportions of this Wonderful statue.
The length of the Virgin’s hair, which is thrown
back upon her mantle, is 12 metres. (64 feet.)
The forearm is not less than, 33 . metres long,
and the hand, from the wrist 16 the end of the
fingers, 1 metre, 2 centimetres. The whole
statue weighs, as it stands in plaster, 40,000
kilogrammes, 88,195 lbs.;) the figure of thein
fant Jesus, 18,000 kilogrammes,.(39, 685 lbs.)
Tho weight Of the whole in the castings will be
100,000'kilogrammes, (230,474 lbs.) that of
tho figure ‘infant,, Jes(is;»3o,ooo kilo
grammes. * The whole group; will consist of 24
pieces, but they will be so nicely put together
that it. will seem as one entire piece. It is be
lieved tho work of casting will take about a
a year, and the Bth of September, 1858, fete of'
the nativity of the .Virgin, and the anniversary
of the taking of- the Malakoff, has already been
nxcu upon for its inauguration.
Tic Qncons of Franco;
. The Dublin University Magazine, comment
mp upon the lives of the royal and imperial
wives of France, states that there are but thir
teen out of sixty-seven on whoso memory there
is no dark stain of sorrow or of sin. A cotem
porary, in summing up the.staiemcnt, says:—
‘ ‘ Uf the others, seven were divorced ; two died
by the executioner; nine died very young; sev
en were soon widowed ; three were cruelly tra
duced ; three were exiles; three wero ; bad in dif
ferent degrees, of evil; (he prisoners and the
heart-broken made up the remainder. Twenty,
who were buried at St. Dennis since the time of
Oharletoague, were denied the rest'of the graver
Their remains were dragged from the tomb, ex
posed to the insults of the revolutionary popu
lace, and then flung into a trench and covered'
with quick lime-” „
“OUR COUNTRY— MAY IT ALWAYS RK.RIOnT—RUT RIGHT OR WRONG, OUR COUNTRY.”
CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1858.
Td 1802 llie Czar of Russia will erect a mon
ument commemorative .pf the one thousandth
year of the Russian Empire. I'h'e natural life
of ten centuries has an imposing,, venerable as
pect. The government has always been the
same, —an autocracy ; the 'administration has
been varied according to the. character and for
tunes of each ruler. The devotion of the peo
ple to the‘sceptre is still, as heretofore, unlimi
ted, like the imperial powjer,—a loyalty reach
ing religious worship. The recent address of
the Metripolitan (the high prelate) of Moscow,
to Alexander H. on his visit to the .capital,
shadows out the relations between, the sovereign
and subject: ,v Most pious' sovereign, the heart,
of Russia, for you are in her bosom and heart,
the orthodox people venerate you; Peace will
facilitate your eftorts-to.elovafe and improve the
internal life of Russia, to preserve and augment
the good bequeathed to us’by our-ancestors.—
In your sacred person the ,orthodox’church re
verses the quality of her defenderand.proteoior,
onepf the greatest prerogatives of the Lord’s
annointed.” In the Chapel of the Convent of
Miracles, the Emperor and Empress remained
for some time on their knees before the relies of
St. Alexis. The Emperor, soon after mounted
his horse and reviewed the troops arid cadets.—
Egbert, the first sole monarch of England, be
gan his reign in 827: thus the mdrinrchy is up :
wards of a thousand years.- More than four
teen hundred are-claimed fordhat.of France.—
The Republic of ancient Rome did. not endure i
half so long,
India is a country that hasinerier belonged to
its natives.' Two thousand ycarV’igo Alexari
der and. his Greeks led dusky, captives in gol
den fetters'from the’nce'to Athens! • After him
it became the prize of Parthian bows and Scyth
ian spears. Then came Mahomiricd and his
Persians from Qhuznee, to teacbvby scimetar.
the new theology, “AllaiJ Allah arid',Mahommcd
in his Prophet.” Then the Alighan’s drove out
the Persians. Then the Tartars drove out the
Afghans. Then crime" Timdur, the terrible
Tartar, and the long and princely l : line of Great
Moguls—Baber and Akbar, Jckaugire and Au
rengzbe. The Mogul' Empire got, like the 1
British, too big too hold together.
Down; went the throne bf Delhi, and up
sprang a crop of Viceroys, Nizams, Kings.
Shas, Rajahs,, Newgubs and Nabobs, all over
the provinces. About'this - time 11. B. M. East
India Company came to trade, and stayed to
rule. By cajoling one prince, threatening an
other, invading a third, and prottc ing a fourth,
they got the whole concern! into, the hands of
John. Bull, and the lion' and the untebrn! ..If
the Sepoys succeed in:seouririg a native Hindoo
dynasty now, it will .be the first they ever had.
—Albany Journal. .. .
' We may venture'!ori a. tfelipato jshtyjeot, per
, haps, but. tlnrfollowihg brief extnfct’ from an
. old London magazine expresses-oil rviews too
! nearly to pass unnoticed
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I su bject of hair, in the" first piecewe can assure
I them,,most,confidently, tbat fiO-TAr, is. it from I
/.being.true (hat oils arid poinatumsjliOreose tho I
lustre of the hair. (heir effeot'is'to dmnnish t’’ai
polish- which Jt naturally possesses; while,
whatever gloss they may give to the hair, which
is dull, is false, and, like all other falsities, dis
gusting. Absolute cleanliness, by uua is of
water alone, to commence,, followed by brush
ing in ihe.direction Of the hair itself, in a dry
state, is the true method of giving to tl ehi ir
all the polish of which it is susceptible ; and it
is the effect of oils of all kinds to disturb or in
jure this, ,tp say nothing of the disgust and ne
cessary dirtiness of greasy hair,
.It is the effect of oils, also, to prevent it from
curling ; and this object is most effectually ob
tained, if without artificial,means,, by curling it
when wet, and suffering it to dry iri'that state.
And as it happens that almost all hair has a
tendency to curl in one direction rather than
another, it is useful to study that tehdenev, so
as to conform to it in tho artificial'textuisgiv
en. As to artificial application;, the jvhole of
the so-called curling -fluids are mere imposi
tions ; while one, which is really effectual, and
at tfio same time.inofiensivo, is ayye'ak .solution I
of isinglass, by which a very firm and pornia
nentform can be given to the hair; .V
Origin of “Humbug.”
This word is said to occur first in Fielding’s
Amelia, 1751. One writer suggests that it is a
corruption of the Latin Ambages ;<nnotherthat
it is derived from a man named Hume, who, in
olden.time in Scotland, succeeded; to the Bogue
or Boog estate, and was known as “Hume o’the
Bogue,” or “Aumeo’ the Bug,” who was so
inclined to the marvellous, that when any one
made an extraordinary statement, it soon be
came to style it *' a o' the hug.” Which
was soon shortened into humbug." "
Get a Home.—Get a home, rich Or poor, got
a home. and’lcarn to’ love' that home, and make
it happy to "wife and children by your beaming
presence; learn’to love simple pleasures, flow
ers, of. God’s own planting, and music of his
Own ; the bird, wind and waterfall. So shall
you hfclp to Stem the tide of desolation, poverty
and despair,'that comes upon so marty through,
the scorn of little things. Oh, the charm, of a
little hCme; Comforts dwell there that shun the
gilded halls of society. Live huiuble in your
little homo; and look to God for a.grand one.
DCT” How true is the following stray clipping
which wo And floating about: .
' “It is a noticeable fact that ,a, majority of the
business,people who have “gone to the wall,”
during tho late and present financial troubles,
are those who “do not see the good of adverti
sing in the newspaper.” Those who advertise
liberally, as a-general thing, flourish and pros
per in all sorts of times.”
Odeating- Pbintebs.—An exchange says
that a man who would systematically aiid wil
fully sot abQut cheating a printer, would com
mit highway robbery on a crying baby and rob
it of its gingerbread—fob a cliurch of its coun ;
forfeit pennies, tick the butter off a blind nig
ger’s last .“flitter,” pawn, his grandmother's
specs for a drink of whiskey, steal acorns' ftoin
a blind-pig, and take clothes from- a scarecrow
that ho may make a respectable appearance in
society. ' .
devil says the side-walks of our
(own should bo widened so that the ladies may
bqonabled'to “spread” themselves. The devil
is full of impudence—that’s a fact.
in?” A thing that should be remembered by
the ladiesA mouth that is kissed does not
lose its capacity hut reasons itself like the
moon'. • Ap.experiment will prove it!
Dir* The man who- was “moved to tears”
complains of (ho dampness of tho premises', and
.wishes to be moved back again- -
* IE7” “Lotteries arc illegal, and marriage is
tho greatest lottery in life. ” Ergo, it is against
tne livw to cbtjimit malriniony. *»•
Tlic Russian Empire,
India.
Treatment .of tlie. Eair.
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Circassian Beauties and Weddings.
, * saw an ivory wristed Circassian at (ho house
of a pasha, whose wife made a proud exhibition
o( the damsel. I was sealed in a room when a
heavy curtain (the undulations of which had
greatly, contributed to arouse my suspicions)
was gently moved on one side by unseen hands,
and a young Circassian girl entered. She wore
a veil, and as she paused timidly on the thres
hold, I detected a glanco of almost fear, as he*
largo bhtek eyes fell upon me. My lady friend
motioned her forward with an imperious ges
ture. She was magnificently dressed; her dark
hair sowed,with pearls and her light blue trou
sers, and turned’up slippers, heavy with gold
and pearls. Obedient to her gesture she
sat down on the edge of the divan, and certainly
she was very beautiful.
My rfoxt vision of beauty was in the house of
a slave dealer, where a young rose of the moun
tains was for sale. Turkish friend accompa
nied mo, with an English artillery officer; and
the Mohammedan gentleman proceeded to satis
fy himself that the lady was, tender and supple
as well ns fair. She submitted with sweet Im
milityThe artilleryman, who was a tine, hand,
some fellow, six feet in height, and a perfect
model ot strength, depending doubtless upon
us fascinations; next-approached (he.ladytint
hardly had he laid his hands upon her, when
j lull-on his devoted head.fell such a blow as
nothing but ocular demonstration could have in
duced mo to believe so fair a hand and arm
could havo bestowed; followed such a
torrent of abuse, such a deluge of words, that
; we were positively stunned. OurTurklsh friend
smiled gravel}*; but nothing could possibly ap
pease the insulted, fair, until we both left the
room ; and as we descended the creaking stairs,
the last sounds heard wore the angry exclama
tions of tbo lady. She, indeed, to haft been
touched by an infidel! a vile Christian I a dog
of a Giaour!
I will now give an account of an Armenian
wedding. The family being well off, tho rooms
wore- nicely arranged, and in part-were .carpet
ed, and a number of mnsicians were playing bn
tjio violin. I was conducted to the divan ; chi
bouks, wine, nuts and sweetmeats being plenti
fully handed.around from time to time. In the
centre of tho divan khelta boy richly dressed.
Tho violin players, every now and then, hurst
into a wild extempore song,accompanyingthem
selves o’n their instrumeits; —while the boy
would from time to time start up and commence
a violent kind .Of dance, beating castanets to
keep tiino with his motions. This went on al
most without intermission, for at least an'hour
and a half, during which time, overy-one smo
ked and looked bn, and. at tho end of that time,
fairly, tired out 'with the noise, I left.
The following morning the bride was taken to
churcb. I did. not see her go, but I witnessed ;
her,rcturn. She walked between two women—•!
her bridesmaids, I presume—and. her face was
concealed by a covering of crimson silk, orna
mented, with gold, and .terminated by rich gold
tassels. Silo was, preceded by singers, and fol
lowed by at least seventy women. As she ap
proached the threshold of her father’s door, a
sheep was thrown at'her feet, and she suddenly
-stopped with her bridesmaids, while its throat
was cut'with a sharp knife, and the blood flowed
in rivulets all round; the spot where she was
standing. Advancing a step or two, she fre
quently, stopped and kissed the hom of her fa-
Ivors nOnrotlurcd to her of rich.sifkfinnd cloths;!
/ and.theso she reocifed herqolf,handing them to
I her attendant womens while fli .■censor of-incense
iras round, her head by her
intlior. I conid not understand'tho custom of
slaughtering a-shoep on. .such an occasion; nor
did I speak enough of. the language to heable
to discover its purport.— [Colonel WalmsUy.
A Case of Imagination. ,
We were the witness of a very ludicrous ind
ent which occurred in this city a few days since,
lor relating which, wo crave tlie ihdulgenco of
the gentleman directly concerned—deeming it
too good a joke to be lost. ,
While sitting at our desk and laboring assid
uously with pen, paste and scissors, make to
ol ' t readable• paper for our patrons, we were
suddenly frightened from our propriety, by the
hasty entrance of a gentleman exclaiming:
*< For Rod’s sake, help me to see what is the
matter I’vo got some dreaiilul tiling—scorpion
or tarantula—in. the log of my pantaloons!—
(juice—-quick—help mo ! ”
We instantly rose from our chair, half-fright
oned ourselves. Onr friend had broken in so
suddenly and unexpectedly upon us, and was so
wonderfully agitated, that we know not whether
he was tn his senses or not. Wo looked at him
with a fort of surprise mixed with dread, and!
hardly knew whether to speak with or confine
him as a madman. The latter we came very
near.attempting. There ho stood quiveringand
pale, with one hand tightly grasped upon part
of the pantaloons, just in the hollow of the kneo.
“ What’s the matter ?” asked we at last.
The matter !” ho exclaimed, “Oh, help me!
I’ve got something here,-Avhich just ran up my
log! Some infernal lizard or scorpion, I ex
pect! Oh! I can’t lot it go j I must hold it.—
Oh, there!” ho,shrieked, “I felt it move just
then 1 Oh, those pants without straps 1 I’ll
never wear another pair open at the bottom as
long as I live. Ah,.l fool'll again.”
“Feel what ?” we inquired, standing at,(ho
same time at a respectable distance from the |
gentleman; for wo had just been-reading onr
Corpus Christ! correspondent’s letter about liz
ards, snakes, and tarantulas, and began to iraa.
gino some deadly object or reptilejn the leg of
our friend’s unmentionables, as they are some
times called. , . • .
“I don’t know what it is,” answered the gen
tleman; “ help mo to see what it is. I was Just
passing the pile of rubbish there in front of your i
office, and felt it dart up my leg as quick as
lightning,” he clenched his list more lightly
If it had boon the neck of an anaconda, wo be-1
lievo ho would have squeezed it to a jelly.
By this time two or three of tlm newsboys had
come in; the clerks and packing boys hearing
I file outcry stopped working, and editors and all
hands stood around tlio sufferer witli mingled
sympathy and alarm.
“ Bring a chair, Fritz,” said wo, “and let the
gentleman be seated.”
“O, I can’t sit,” said the gentleman; “I cnp.
not bend my kneo I If! do, it will bite or sting
me; no, I can’t sit.” . /
“ Certainly you can sit,” said we; “keep ybuf
log straight out, and wo’li see what it is you'
have got.”
“Well, lot mo give it one more hard squeeze;
Twill crush it to death,” said lip and again ho
put the force of an iron vice upon tlio thing.—
If it had any life left litis last effort must have
killed it.
Ho then cautiously seated .himself, holding
out his leg ns stiff and ns straight ns a poker
A sharp knifo was procured ; the pants were cut
open carefully, making a hole largo enough to
admit a hand; tho gentleman put on a thick
glove, and slowly inserted his hand, but jie dis
covered nothing. Wo wore looking on in al
most breathless silence,,to soo the monstrous
thing, whatever it might bo; each ready to scam
per out of harm’s way, should it bo alive, when
suddenly tho gentleman .became, if possible,
more agitated than ever.
“By heaven I” ho exclaimed,” it’s inside my
drawers. “It’s-alive, too-I feel i-quick
givo mo tiro knife again.”
A b°thor incision was made—in went (ho gen
tleman's gloved hand once more, and io, out
came ins wije’s stocking! 1
How the stocking over got there, we are una.
hip to-say ;.but there it certainly was, and such
a laugh that followed, wo hayon’t heard for many
ft day. Our Iriond, \\o know, has told tho joke
himself,, and must pardon us lor doing so. Al-
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readersdt is no yarn .'—if. Y. Dutchman.
Triumph of Mind over Matto
1 Dr. Elder, in his interesting biography of Dr.
Kane, relates that he once asked him after his
return from his last. Arctic expedition, "for the
best proved instance that he knew of the soul's
power over the body—an instance that might
push the hard baked philosophy of materialism
to the consciousness of its own iddey.” He
paused a moment, and then said, with a spring,
“The soul can lift the body oil t of its hoots,
sir. When our captain was dying—l say dy.
ing, I have seen scurvy enough to know—every'
old scar in his body was a running ulcer. If
conscience festers under its wounds correspond
ingly, hell is not hard to understand. I never
saw a case so bad that cither lived or died. I
Men die- of it ustiall}' long before they are so
ns he was. There was trouble aboard
there might be mutiny. So soon as the breath
was out of his body wc might bo at each oth
er’s throats. I fdt that he owed even the re
pose of dying to the service. 1 went down to
his bunk, shouted in his ear, ‘mutiny, captain,
mutiny Ho heard the complaint, ordered
punishment, and from that' hour convalesced.
Keep that man awake with danger, and. he
wouldn’t die of anything until his duty was
dune.”
, The Almond.
The Almond is a native of Persia ami Noi
•ern Africa, and is supposed to be a parent of
the Peach.. The tr.ee itself so closely resembles
the peach that they can scarcely be distinguish
ed by, the growth of the leaves or the wood ;
and the' two fruits bear a strong external re
semblance to each other. "U r e have ourself ob
served that the seed of the’Almond grown upon
trees Very near to peach trees changes its form
and’appearance so much.that it might bo taken
for a peach stone, and that the flesh,, which in
the almond is a mere dry woolly skin, becomes
thicker and, more juicy. .There are many vari
eties of the almond cultivated in the South of
Europe,.which would no doubt succeed and
prove profitable in our. Southern States.
The Soft-shelled Sweet or.Ladies’ Almond is
hardy as far north as Philadelphia; and the Com
mon, the Hard-shelled Sweet, and the Bitter
succeed and bear tolerable crops, without care,'
in the latitude of Now Xork.
The almond thrives best in a warm dry soil,
and its general cultivation is exactly the same
as that of tho peach. « .
Little Esther’s Grave.
She died with the flowers, and wo made a
litllo grave ’neath sheltering boughs, where the
groat oaks wave, towering majestic above the
mound where-Esther sleeps, in the clay cold
ground, each forest king to betoken his grief in
silent sympathy drops down a leaf, all spotted,
or yellow, or dotted With red, plucked from the
crown bri Ills leafy head. Sad wailing winds
sing a requiem deep o’er the grave where our
little cherub sleeps, like a faded flower or a
withered leaf, her days, alas ! .almostas brief.
The leaves in circling eddies play, chasing
each other, thedive long day like the feet offal*
phiJVtjH the stern.kiiigcomea and
1 drives them awayi
I sound, ha.njUts or acorns strike the ground,
rust/o along. or else.rebound, waking, slight]
nchoes all around, like a note of so |
startling, it makes, on the heart an impression. |
’Tis ailowly spot as can bofound ’midst tow-1
©ring monumehtsaround ; yet her mother loves
to Unger and weep for the. child with the golden I
hair. Sweet little dove, she found a rest for ;
her tcnder'fect dri the earth’s cold breast. G,
early called and early blest, rest in the ark of .
safety, rest!. Though our hearts have been riv- 1
cn by the blow which was given, a brightchain
ol love draws our souls hearer heaven. Hark !
the whispering transmitted with meteness befit
ted, keep these words close in view—<« You
may all come to mo, but I can’t come to you.’*
—Methodist ProUiiant
distressing Case of Hydrophobia.
Miss Maliala Witman, an amiable yoqng la
dy, a daughter of Mr. Peter Wilman, who re
sides in Chester county; died from' the effects of
the distressing malady, hydrophobia, on Wed
nesday morning last.. The Reading Gazette
says :
“About nine weeks ago Mias Witman was
bitten by a, dog belonging to her father. It
was not supposed, at the time, that the dog tVas
mad but the.family, being apprehensive that
such might bo the case tied him fast in the sta
ble,, where, during the night, he strangled him
self with the rope bp which he was secured.—
Two physicians of the neighborhood examined
the dog and pronounced him not'mad. Not
withstanding this positive opinion, however, on
Monday, the 14th inst., the young lady was
taken ill, and afterwards was seized with vio
lent convulsions, liaving*all the symptoms of
hydrophobia, and on Wednesday, the 10th, she
died in the greatest agony. Miss Witman had
been living with Miss Margaret Burcko as a
mantua-maker until within the last eight or ten
months, and was well known and highly es
teemed in this city.
■ Damoerocs and Ugly Nightmare A moat
singular occurrence transpired, a few davs since
on the Baltimore and Philadelphia Railroad
Mr. Higgins, ol Elkfon, took the-night train of
cars for Baltimore, and fooling quite . drowsy,
entered the smoking car, laid down on a bench
and went to sleep. Whilst the train was pass-,
ing over the Gunpowder river, he dreamed that
Ilia house was on (Ire,’ and acting under (he in-'
fiuenco of this dream, lie sprang up, ran out of
(ho car, and jumped from (lib platform.' He
landed on (lie tresael work that supports the
bridge, and in his efforts to catch himself, his
right arm was caught by the train and was
shockingly crushed, lie was then in a perilous
situation, being partly immersed in water; with
nothing hut his hold by ids left arm upon the
bridge to sustain him; whilst lie was suffering
intense agony from his crushed arm. In this
helpless condition lie remained for nearly thirty
minutes, when his groans attracted the attention
of tlio hridgo.teiider, who hastened to his assis
tance. He was removed to a place of safety,
and returned homo in the first train. Doctors
Evans and Treadwell were called in and found
it necessary.to amputate the limb. ,Ho now
lies m a critical condition, hut his physicians
have no doubt of ids recovery Baltimore Jl
merican.
An Editor s Audience.—Whom are you
talking to $ \\ hy, to.a much larger audience
thah the best conversationalist ever could boast
of, and to more than ever listened to him du
ring a month. ■ Ho/v few clergymen, how few
lecturers, how few-public speakers of any-de
scription ever . witnessed an audience half so
large as that to which the editor of the smallest
country paper preaches!—How many clergy
men are there who are accustomed to audiences i
of a thousand, and how few papers arc there I
which do not strictly and liberally find more
than a thousand readers.
017* The author of the following should bo
watched or he might “back' out.” ■
. , A bigg disiructic durk I’il hi,
. I’ll bid phafewell too every fear.
Then wipe mine weeping T,
Air knt mi throat phrom j r car to year.
AT S?,00 PER ANNUM,
•no. m
v iKZJPe )voman’s.baUot,ho!Sv Ye*. t
and- some 01-them deposit in, it. two baliotsnt.
once. Now, isn’t that* illegal - ?: ■■'*;••• ,
j Kp“Pastry-cooks seldom. advertise, because'.,
a largo portion of their goodd are’ pnfls In them* - '
selves. ; * •
I “ I nay, sonny, where does that right
hand road go to?” “It ain’t been'anywhere
since wo’vo Jived here,” was the hoy’s reply. .
Dy Why are lawyers'like a lay man in bed
in the morning?- ~
„ An f..— Because tliey lie first on one-side? and
then turn over, and lie on the other.'
OS’” An honest Indy when told of the death of
her husband, exclaimed—« Well, I do declare,
onv troubles never come alone t It ain’t a week
since I lost my hen, and now Mr. Hooper has
gone, too—poor man.”
■ , trs T4 t . a lnto Adding in Mass., the bride,
who had just espoused her third husband, re*
quepted the guests to sing the hymn of which
ner first husband-was “so fond,” commencing t
“ Hark from the tombs.” Pliancy the pheel
inks of the happy bridegroom.-- • ,
. A very fat man,- for the purpose ol nniz
zing Dr. ,of N~.— asked him tq pre
sciibo.for.his complaint, whfeb ho declared was
sleeping with liis mouth ojien. '
“ i! aiti Je Doctor, “yonr disease (s-iti
curablo. Your skid is too short, so that, when
yon-shut your cyos your month opens." - ,
Djr"'' “ How into is if ?” ■
“Look at the boss and see if I(o is drunk yet:
if he is not, it can’t be much after cloven o’*
cipek.” - . ■
“ Does ho keep'good time ?” -"
“ Splendid ! they regulate tho town clock by
ms nose.” a
Grandpa, did you know that the Uni
- . States.have been in the habit of encouraging
lories?” ■ °
.‘• Certainly not, Simon, what kind of tories?”
f ~,e ll' lni ' es ‘ ow give me some peanuts,
oi 1 II cutcU'tlic measles, and niako you pay for
’em.”
following is a apocoimcn of sharp
shooting between a coqltetto and lier lover :
“ r °» m °u are angels when yon woo Iho maid,
But devils when Iho. marriage vow is paid.” j
Tho-lover not to fio outdone, lepiied as fol
lows : ■ - - - - - ■
“ Tho change, dear girl, is easily forgiven, "
B e find wo are in hell instead of heaven.” •
.Kf Somewhere In the West, a sable knight
of the razor and brush hefd forth, and one day
received a ensipmef in tho person of a lean spe
cimen ol Hoosiqdpm.
The face of the lloosicr was duly « souped,”
and darkie’s razor was none too keen, as upon
the first scrapo, Rooster yelled out;
“ S,top, that Won’t.do!”
■ “ What’s the matter, boss ?” said darkey.
' "" hj your razor pul.'s.” •
“ Oh, never you mind drtt, aah. If tho handle
° „ lc t fl zor don’t break, tho beard must come
olf,” replied Soapy.
[IT/-“Do try and talkaliltlccommon sense,”
said a young lady to her visitor.,
“ Ah, but would tiiat not bo taking on un
fair advantage of you ?'*
DT7” A celebrated French woman lias well
said that the greatest blessing a woman can re
ceive on earth is the continuance of the affeclien
of her husband after marriage.
DT7* “ Sal,” said one girl to another, “ I’m so
glad I havtMio beaux now.” , ’
V Why I” asked the other.
“ Cause I can eat as many onions os I
please?” . >
ttTT” “ Don’t rob yourself,” as the farmer said
to thb Lawyer who called him hard names.’.
JT7’ He who rises ialo may trot all day, hut
never ovbriakes his business. / ■,
UT7”Xn what docs the American .Indian dif
fer from a modern lady T ' Tl;c,ono, whoops in
time, of battle, the other h'.Hijis in-time of peace.
HT7“ A, jolly old doctor paid that people who
were prompt in their payments always recover
ed in their sickness, ns.-they were ’good’.custo
mers, and physicians could not afford to rloso
thorn. ’ - •♦
flotation .of .Crops.
Uvcty 'farmer has .observed that after having
raised thn same Kind of crops upon’.the same
land, for several years in succession, it dogener r
ales and decreases In quantity. • Even manuring
will not enable him to produce the same grain
as abundantly as at first, though Without it,-ho
may obtain a full crop of some other grain or
Hnfi 8 « ° n l ,on '*ho same land. Nurserymen
vnnnot™ Ca ' Ulot I"'odu C o two Clops of OVQU
" pon . ,lle samo and they gene
" crons have "h" a "':’ Wpon wl,ich otllor
, ! '-“land. Though these facts
hosn f 1 - S ? n ’ a,ld - a ays'om of rotation had
been founded upon them, but (cW trouble tliem
, iff u <? i COn T S ( Uk ‘ r t! !° rc “ sons p PonAvi.icl, they
aro based. It may-bo thonhgt onough to know
that certain crops should follow each-other in a
certain ordeiy that grass should follow grWn,
and bo succeeded by com, &c.j but wo believe
that it is as important for the farmer as for tho
machinist, the mann/acturer.or'the professional
man, to understand the reasons and principle
upon which In's practice is hashed ; for it may be
possible that the best prdcr of rotation has not
yet been discovered, and if.anj* improvement is
to bo mado.it is more likely to be effected, by
intelligent application of well established prin
ciples, than (o be accidentally • established by
ladders in (ho old beaten track. .
The most common opinion is that the neces
sity for lotation is caused by the exhaustion of
substancesi necessary for the particular prop cul
tivated. Thus it is known that tho groin 'ro*
qtmes a certain amount of phosphates,.the po
tato amniiher root crops a supply of alkalis in
tno soil, &c., and it is evident - that by repeated
croppings the substances will bo exhausted, dr
so greatly reduced us to produce but little e l~. '
feet. j
Another theory is that plants throw ofTthrougli
tho pores of their roots such substancesas hayd
been taken into them and are not necessary for
their support, nor even congenial to them; just ,
as animals, a/ter oxtracting from their food all
the elements which they require, throw off, the
uselcss.and, -(o lhom T injurious residue. These
faces or excrements are .lodged in the soil and
jiavo been found, by actual experiment to bo
injurious to plants of thosanfo species as those ”*
jvhich cast them out, though they may bouse
ul to. others. - ■ ■ . J .
Sufferings op a Party on thk PeA'ina.—A
letter from the correspondent of the SL. Lbnfs
Republican gives an account of sufferings ot" a'
party on the Plains. It says f
*' our way down Capt. Humbcr was'very
ul, and I was apprehensive that- he might difl
before we reached Fort Kearney. When.with
m 100 miles of that post, to add to onr troubles
and. anxiety, the snow commenced' falling fast,
aud we were compelled to stop in the. timbers of
the Platte River two days. Hero the Captain ,
was very’ill and suffered much from exposure
and other discomforts.incideht to prali'ie Jife,at
the present season. ■* • . * • ‘
On tho Bth of, November, with a Worn qufc
team of starving mules, we resumed our jour*
ney, my companions and myself walking through
tlie deepest snp.w, as our tired animals could
scarcely draw the carriago with tlie sick Captain;
our provisions, guns, kc. On the 12th of No
vember our teams gave out entirely, and there
was no alternative 1 oil us but to abandon cat<
riage, mules,.and other property and walk to
I brt Kearney, a distance of some 18 or 20 mites.
Exhausted ourselves, and tho Captain scarcely
able to be out of, bed, it .was a dreary piospect.
not proceeded far when the Captain
threw himself oh the snow and said he could hot
go any furfher, urging us to go on and save our
selves. Wo got him on his feet and. on wo
trudged, making, slow and painful., prp&rosL
through the snow. Every, fifteen' or twenty
minutes the Captain would lay down hi' the
snow, begging us to go on and leave him?, wav
would then take him .by,the arms, carry hinv';
through the deepest drifts, and, in this way wo
made our weary march, until wo camo In.jdgHt
of a trading post three miles west onF'offc Kear
ney. This gave, us new-life/and after, a three
hours tramp .wo reached, that placo just aaLnight
set in, and so worn down thatwc could n6t havb
walked a quarter of a.mile further. •. »
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