I VOLUNTEER. % ■ jiußliidHGti EVE R Y'-T II rItSI> A YM 0 11 Ji IN G B 7 ■ ■ -; - ■ T Eftis ~ !'•; ' \ ■ Snnsoninwo.f.—One Dollar anil FiftyUlAnf*, Wiid in advance j TWO Dollars if paid within the year) and Two Dollarsand Fifty Cents, if not 'paid within the year. Those terms will ho rig ■idly'adhered to in every instance. No sub -1 scripfion discontinued until nil arrearages are -paid unless at the Option of the Editor. “ ' Advertisemenm—Accompanied by the cash, .and not exceeding one squhre, will ho inserted throe times for One Dollar, and fwonfy-flvo cents jfor.eaoh additional insertion. Those of agreat for length in proportion. ‘ Jon-PhiNirao—Such ns Hand-bills, Posting hills, Pamphlets, Blanks, Labels, &c.,&o.,exe .'cuted with accuracy and at the shortest notice. 7 7 THE ANGELS—A DBEAI* ST ÜBS. A. A. SABNE3. *• Alas! wo think not that wo daily see About our hearths, angels that arc to bo.” [Lehigh Hunt. m Si?**.'. But yesternight I saw the taco. Ol one moat dear to mo i I whispered to my startled sonl, “ An angel form I see -As o’er my dreaming spirit.qamo Tho spell of memory. , , a ~,. _' k3t; ~i'jt:, For well I know that I bad seen That loved (orni in' her shroud As ehadowy visions Of tho past. Catno flitting in a crowd: And nearer then I softly drew. And at her feet I bowed. £^AV; “Is itan angel, then, you seek?” Bethought she seemed to say— ■ 11 The children—frlondswhb lightyourpatb, ’ With love’s divinest ray, -And those porohanbo you daily ' Upon Life’s devious way : . *‘ May yet be angels in those realms Where dwell the good' and fair ' Bow little dream Wo hero below. We’ve angels.’neath our care 1 ' .Ah see that you do woll your part These angels to prop’aro. , ’ "My hands wore clasped in hors the whije —How radiant was her mein!— The ‘morning sun across my brow ■ •Now flung his brightest beam;— I started from my couch to find It had been ‘‘alia dream.” J&mlinmmx THE OLD HOMESTEAD- V'Thoso young,.glad,voicos flowed in song, Or childhood’s tale was told, . Or lips moved tunefully along Sojne glorious page of old. ” ■ The old Homestead! IldW many cherished memories of other days are called up by the mention of the old "home place. Methinks I now see its time-stained roof, with the ivy clinging to it so lovingly; and the woodbine and clamatis twining around the lattice on the .porch. I can see the benign agd smiling coun tenance of old grandmother, as she sits.among these flowers with her knitting in her hand. How I loved to bring my work, and sitting at her knee, beg her to tell me a story of her youth; and hour after hour would she thus be guile with bright legends of childhood’s early days. Dear old grandmother! much of the Jove i.ght died out from the Homestead when we laid her to rcst'among the green mounds of the churchyard. Aunt Betsey was a thrifty holiscwlfe, and the i thß_prido.of-.heri heart. In the man-’ f agement-of-thac dcparimont she taught me well, i ■ and there was nothing. I loved better than to be |- the dairy maid. O, those childhood days, spent in the faay-flelds with the merry workmen.--- xrora early dawn until set of sun; I spent ray .time roaming, over New England’s green bills .and,valleys, gathering the bright wild flowers, ■did wreathing garlands to deck myself and my pet lamb. That little lamb was all the play mate-I had ; but J Wanted-no more. The brightest picture In all my memory. is of a fair haired child, and a pet lamb, decked with na ture’s flowers, happy as the days were long, never dreaming of care or trouble—without a Borrow, without a pain. Seated in state upon the hay wagon, I would ride around the field tossing about the fragrant hey,, and laughing and singing gaily. The summer months passed gaily away; but even when winter’s mantle of snow was thrown Qround the earth, happiness crowned that coun try home. When the evening meal was,ended Uncle Daniel would pile the hickbry logs upon the ample hearth; and, gather around the ge nial flame, be would tell us stories of by-gone days, of school-hoy frolics, of the pleasures of early manhood and riper days. These tales Would ever be fraught with the deepest interest, apd told in a lively and exciting manner.— . Aunt Betsey had a soft, sweet voice, and would J slpg the songs of her childhood to help pass the long evening pleasantly away. - Thus the summer days glided away, bne Con tinual holyday and season of merry making ; and the winter evenings were hallowed seasons of home improvements and comforts. Years hate Bed, and naught -now remains bat cherished memory.- The grass has ■ long since grown green upon the graves of Uncle Daniel and Aunt Betsey, and strangers - gather In the grain, and sit around the hearth-stone, of fhe dear old Homestead. I aura pilgrim in a stranger land, but like Israel’s captives, f can never forget the home of my youth. The dear est boon a kind Creator has bestowed upon -us in memory. It is sweet, though sad, to sit down and-livq-again the days ef the past—to contemplate “joys that , we have tasted,” but which can return to ns no more forever. And thus it is that I recall the days spent at the old Homestead, arid Bnd in the contemplation a Jleasure melancholy though sweet —Methodist 'rotestant. “If I tfeie a Man.’' Don’t 1 wish that I were a man!' Wouldn’t J. sot the beaver-hatted population an example pf brilliant perfection. Woiildn’t 1 make my self generally agreeable to all the ladies, and talk to ’em ns if they had souls above bonnets! What a glorious man I should make! I wouldn’t stand on the hotel steps and pud clouds of Villainous tobacco smoko into the eyes ofall the pretty girls'that go past, nor spit on pirOTont? to spoil their little shoes and in jure their tempers. _ ■ (.j wouldn’t set. my huge heel down on the twins of their silken dresses, to tear ’em half ; off; and I think I’m not quite.s'uro, but I think t—l’d knock down the first brute who dared of the circumference of their gar ments! ‘ And when they come into a oar or omnibus, . I wouldn’t stick my nose into a newspaper, or look abstractedly out of the window, nor got U P grumbling, “ Always the way with wo-, men s ' Not a bit of it f I’d spring up like a '.patent India rubber ball, and if theold bach elor on the right hand sidohtid the spruce clerk on hand aide, didn’t compress them selves into the smallest possible space, to make roof for the crinolines, I’d know the reason vpy : And then, when I gel married (for to what end was I created, if not to pay- tho,milliner's bills of some blessed little bit of workman kind!! wouldn’t I make a model bus hand ! _D° you suppose I should bother her ; Bweet life out of her, by grumbling because a paltry button had dropped oil a shirt collar,-or • 8 j rI "? oil a dickey ?Do you think I’d ex plode like a camphcne lamp every time I found O n P in my gloves? I’d like to-see myself Stooping to any speh littleness! I WOuMn t consult the almamtc every time she fWtml Tijore are few birds that Lave more deceived arid puzzled the learned tkan'tbis. Seine have described it ns ah inhabitant'of.''the air, living, only upon the dew of heaven, and never coining down to earth. Others have acquiesced in the I latter part of its history, but' have represented it as feeding on flying insects. " Some have as serted that it was without feet, and others have ranked it among the birds of prey. The great beauty of this bird’s plumage and the deformity of its legs, seem to have given rise to most of these erroneous reports.. The savages of the .Molucca Islands, of which it is an inhabitant, perceiving the inclination the Europeans had fo* this beautiful bird, carefully cut off its legs before they brought it to mar ket. Thus concealing its greatest deformity, I they considered themselves entitled to rise in their demands, when they offered it for sale/ One deceit led to another. ” The buyer, finding the bird without legs, naturally inquired after, them; and the seller as naturally 1 began to as sert that it had none. Thus far, the European was imposed upon by others ; in all the rest he imposed upon himself. Seeing so beautiful a bird without legs, he. concluded It could only live in the air, where legs were unnecessary. Ihe extraordinary, splendor of its plumage as sisted this deception, and, as it had heavenly beauty, so it was asserted to have a heavenly residence. Hence its name, and all the false reports that have been made concerning it. Soon after this discovery had been made,this harmless bird was branded with the character of being, rapacious, of destroying all birds of Smaller from the amazing rapidity of its flight, as Well qualified foC a vast deal of mischief. The real history of this pretty crea ture 'a at present tolerably well known ; and it l is found to be as harmless as beautiful. i There are sever/il species of the Bird of Para dise. Some Of them are nS large as a pigeon, though m realty the body is not much larger than that or the thrush. The tail,, which is about six inches in length, is as long as the' bo-. A/* Th e wings aro large, compared'with the, the birds other dimensions. The head, the throat, and the neck, are of d pale gold color. Tho ; base of the bill, and tho side of the head and throat are surrounded by black feathers, which are as soft as velvet, and changeable,like those on the neck of a blackbird. Tho hinderi part ofjhe head is of a shining green, mixed with gold. , The body and wings, are chiefly covered with a beautiful brown, purple, and gold feathers. The apperfliost part of the tail feathers are of a palp yellow, and those un iT-u m wkkc * and longer than, the former,for Which reason the hinder, part of the tail appears .. 0 ykite. But what chiefly excites curi um *5? tW ° one ’ naked fathers whiclrspring (ail „nrt part of ‘he rump, above the loriK “'Thlsonr T about t,lre ® fee ‘ ill ese »re bearded only at the bcninnimr and the end whole shift, for aboit two feet nine inches,; a deep black, whfle tne fcalhci-cfl.extremity is 0 f a changeable col or. • , This bird, which for beauty exceeds all other species of this genus, is a native of the Molucca Islands. There, in the delightful and,.spicy woods of the country, these beautiful cr&turca fly in very large (looks, so that the groves which produce the richest spices, produce the finest birds also. The inhabitants themselves arc perfectly award of the great beauty of these birds, and give them the name of God's birds, as being superior to all others in existence. They live in large flocks, and at night upon tho some tree. They fly very rapidly, andare almost continually on the wing, in pursuit of insects, which form their usual prey. O* What is darkness ? A blind Ethiopian m a dark cellar at midnight, looking fora black cat. . . tCT" At a late trial, the defendant, after hear lD? ness ,’ j Limped up and said : knows it" aUegatora is ttnd the allegator . J^Opntwdiotfcd-^-The'report, that:a Yarn St of .thunder. Cda “ Wh * e ‘° tako th ° noiB * . . . • . . . . • BY JOIIN B. BRATTON, YOL. 44. bought a new bonnet, to see just how many weeks sne had worn the old one; and I would n t snarl like a cross tiger cat, whenever the coffee happened to be cold or the beefsteak rnW, just as if I wanted her to abuse hferaelf.;in dust and ashes ; and burn up her'rosy'littleifaco-be fore the kitchen fire, while! .sat- wiili tny' heels on the .table, reading ithe’JpilperV/ih :;lho next room. I wouldn’t use: profane language .when she.asked me to!button up h'er:sweet little gai ter-bootS; Or fasten her gloves, or even to carry herparcols down! Broadway, on a rainy day— whichdast I Consider to be an infallible test of patience and'meekness. I .wouldn’t gorge myself with wine, and oys tcrs, and cigars, at a fashionable down town restaurant, while my wife dined at home on cold mutton, and then look as black as an over changed thundercloud when the grocer's “ litifc bill came in ; I wouldn’t expend a small fortune in diamond shirt-studs, extravagant broad cloth and fancy canes, and, thed mutter about ‘■hard times!’ when she ventured to ask mo for half a dollar to buy check for the baby’s'apron ! inn " n ra l hc [. ll ! in , k *’ d B° shopping with her, too, when she hinted to that effect, instead of inventing excuses about Smith. or Brown, or the.olub aye, and pay her bills, too, without screwing up my mouth as if I had the cramp in my face! And .if she looked, into- a shop window and admired a thirty dollar collar, I’d walk strait in and buy it for her, instead of feigning to be absorbed in the signs opposite, and ‘‘ f « r E ettln g to hear" what she said. ■ When I came home at night, I wouldn’t make a boar of myself; behind'the evening pa per and answer savagely, when timidly asked Whatl was reading, “ women can’t Understand politics! No, indeed !■ I would read her all the anecdotes, play, with the childrch, pull the pussy s ears, and tell her how becoming her new silk was. . That’s the way to keep tbe’wo men good natured, take my word for it; and what prettier sight is there in the world than a good humored woman ? - Mind, I don’t ask the incorrigible'old bachelors; first, because it isn’t apy of their business, and second, because they re not judges of the article. But put the question to any,, sensible, fellow* betw'ecn.the ages of eighteen and' twenty-eight, and see what he 11 say ! , Fd make a point of always asking my wife’s advice before I went to vote, and doing just' as she said about it—then I’d be sure to be af ways right.. And if any bachelor friend of mine had the impudence to ask me to an oyster sup per, without including my wife in the invita tion, do you suppose I’d go?' Ask my moth er-m-law about that. ' I wouldn’t go- ;to evening parties, and flirt desperately with* other ladies; tmd talk about ‘ my poor, dear wife, whose ill-health precludes her enjoyment of society,” when I knew very well that she was Sitting at homo alone with the cat, and crying her eyes outoVcr ohe ofmy ragged old coats. .* J Good gracious! what a Wide field for improve ment there is among, the benighted sons of Ad am ! It puts me Completely out of breath to think of half the reforms I make. Oh, if I were ouly a man!— Sllirely. '.' THE-Blilp OP PARADISE,. Palaces anil G'rpim'ds of a Petty' Prince In ■; : . ' ■ '. India. : • .Tho New York Commercial Advertiser lias; a letter,from a corrospondenfia India,'dated'Cal cutta-, January 18, in which the writer' gives the following account of what llc-saw on a visit to the palaces and grounds of the Eajah of Burdwan, some seventy miles from Calcutta : Wcare acquainted with theKajah’ssecretary and manager, and ho kindly showed us over the gardens and.compounds, and two of the pal aces; the third and finest one was undoraoiriir repairs and closed to visitors. The estates of tins petty prince (a fine looking fellow of. thir ty-eight) is only seventy-live miles square, pf rich lapd, &c. In addition ho owns- bazaars, and considerable property in Calcutta. Twelve thousand men arc employed on all his lands, lour thousand in the'i in mediate vicinity of his palaces. His annual inoome is eighty : lacs of rupees, about four millions of.dollars, overfour hundred and fifty dollars per hour. With these great means he might become a formida-1 bte enemy to the East -India' Government, but seems very peaceably disposed, and doubtless nnds.it to his interest to remain so. , I I spent many hours in. pleasantly strolling about the grounds ; there are oyer seventy-five acres-of .gardens and.parks, intersperced With a number pf large tanks. One is the largest 1 have ever seen in India, being a full mile around its four sides, with many stone stairways lead ing down to the water. The entire compound is surrounded by a wide canal. "• There are largo and, separate parks for almost every class of animals ; in one wore three hun dred and fifty deer of different species. Anoth er was for a couple of ostriches and huge tor toises, one for half a dozen kangaroos; two for black bears, others for pelicans, flamingoes, rhinoceroses, crocodiles,. two stately giraffes, •j In most of these enclosures were tanks, and those containing tho larger animals were bunt around with high puokah walls stuccoed, with walks on the top. , Tho mepageriei Of sol id masonry, was well worth seeing; -the- cages were all capacious, and very secure. ' liithem Were tigers, leopards and ohcetus,. hyenas, fox es, wolves, porcupines, an enormous ourang outang. monkeys, baboons, boa-constrictors, Cco. Two, large (calories contained nearly a thousand ducks, of every variety. There were many other specimens of rare birds : that I can nol. now remember.. At Calcutta. I saw the King, or Oudo V tigers—thirteen‘enormous arii mnls, which the Rajah is about to purchase for his menagerie. ' The stud of the Rajah contains eight hun dred of the best horses that can lie-procured in India, and ho has besides about thirty-five ele phants in Ins stables. .We were offered the use ot one of them, if we would make up a hun ting party, at another time., . - . , In 'the ground is ah elegant and richly carved marble monument, with-a v temple built over it and an iron railing placed around' it to protect us sanctity; the inscription reads, “to tho memory of the Rajah’s best .friend and compan lion, He. , with a long catalogue of tiisjElcfiiro, referring to a faithful dog'Tie had lost. VTc Were .puzzled .'for.' ft' long. Unie'ih; a labyrinth made" of vipes trajnednn arbors. . Jlahy bf tlie tanks abound in Ssb, and furnish delicacies for the prince’s (able. -■ The monthly expenditure for the Support of all this.is about Tour thousand dollars, which seems to me not extravagant, although the na tive labor is. the cheapest part of it.-'. The pala ces were large and richly furnished, the walls covered with elegant paintings, mirrors, en gravings, &c._ Altogether wc were niuch pleas cd with all wo saw, and- tbe attention we re ceived. Value of Timcj When the Roman Emperor said, “I Have lost a day,*’he uttered a sadder truth, than if he had exclaimed, “I have lost a kingdom.” . Na poleon said that the reason why he-beat the Austrians was, that they did not know the value of five minutes* At the celebrated battle of Rivoli, the conflict seemed bn the' point of going against him. He saw the critical state of affairs, and instantly, took his resolution, lie dispatched a flag to the Austrian headquar ters, with proposals for an armistice. The unr wary Austrians fell into the snare. For a few minutes the thunders of battle were hushed. Napoleon seized the precious moments* and, while amusing the enemy with, mock negocia- I turns, re-arranged his line of battle, changed his front, and in a few minutes was ready’ to renounce the force of discussion for the stern arbitrament of arms* The splendid victory of .Rivoli.was the result.’ The great moral victor ies and defeats of the world often turn in five minutes. . Crisis come, the not seizing of which is rain. Men may loiter, but time.fii.es on the wings of the wind, and all the great interests’of life are speeding on with that sure and silen tread of destiny, A LCsson for Lffo,- A child went forthinlo a mountain ravine; ana while Wandering there ho called aloud to I. i “ le loneliness, and heard a'voicF whicV called him in the same tone. fie tailed again, and, as, he thought, the voice again mocked him. Flushed with anger, ho rushed to 'find th 6 boy that insulted him, but could find none; He then called out to him in anger and with alt abusive epithets ; allof which was- faithfully returned to him.' Choking with rage, the child ran to his mother, and complained that it boy in the woods had abused and insulted him with many vile words. But the mother, took .her child by the hand and, said, “My .child, these names were but the echoes of thine own'voice. Whatever.thou didst call was returned to thee from the hill side. Iladst thou called out plea sant words, pleasant words had returned to thee. Let, this bo thy lesson through life. The' world will be the echo of thine own spirit: j-reat thy fellows with uhkindness/and -they will answer with tinkindness,.with: love, and; thou shalt have love, Sendforth sunshine from thy spirit, and thou shalt never have,a clouded, day ; carry about a vindicative spirit, ahd even lli tliC- flowers shall lurk curses. Thou shalt receive ever what thou giyest; and' that - alohfc ", Always is that child in tlio mountain passes of mofor every reader is that child. J' T ?,W sll| h o n, on landing in this coiim .u°' vn t 0 their first dinner on “ n ffi° .table a dish o I prepared. tom Pn ?w ,ohn^‘ ho, ’ of them had, liappohed to meet before. One of them todls.a. spdonful tems V to nt ,^ V es' Cb qUi^ companion™ ab ° Ut? ” “I was crying at tho recollection of ihyWor lather who was hung about twenty years ago.- Tho dinner proceeded; and soon .tho other made a dip into the mustard, with a similar re sult. • “What aro you crying about 7’t was tho bravo inquiry of his companion. “I am crying because you,wore not hitng when your father was.” • • < O’ “ Come here my dear : I want toask all about your sister., _ Has your sister a beau ?” “ No, its the jaundice sha’s-got j the dootor says so.” ‘* 01711 COUNTRY—3IAV IT ALWAYS' BE RIGHT BUT RIGHT OR WRONG, OUR COUNTRY - . ** CARLISLE, r.V,; THI-Rsiav, MAY 13,' 1858, The Woman who lives wilhoul Eriling, We have, says the New York Evening Post, published several letters respecting this extraor dihary.case of suffering ;they arc important to scientific men, and: painfully interesting to all. Tha following is written by Rev. S. P. Williams to the Christian Advocate: ■ “Mrs. Hayes is .not yet dead. I have seen her several times. Aridiafter reiiding«all that has , appeared in fho, Advocate in Regard to her, venture to cpnirnmticalca few thoughts upon her ease., Before she passed into this pe culiar and affecting condition, her health was for sbmeilength of time extremely, poor., She ate but .little,and-that little a con siderable amount' of. suffering. Sometimes it throw 'her .into spasms. For nearly a year be fore she ceased to take refreshments altogether, She lived wholly, or nearly so; upon the juice of i dried rasberries, until that became a source of suffering. Then, for a liipo. she look occasion ally a small quantity of cold'water ; and it is now ndarly’a'year since she ’swallowed any li quid; to tho knowledge,of'any one. Indeed I haveno-doubt that n tonspoonful of liquid, put into her mouth, would./bo; the occasion of her death, UnleSs'the Spasmodic action of her throat should expel it. Any person to see her ten mihutes must be,satisfied dljat there is node oeption in her case-' -Hcr hend and shoulders, one or tho other,,are in,perpetual motion. She is frequently thrown forward, until she is near ly doubledtogether, and then’the head thrown back, And her neck literally doubled, and the body forced back,, and thojwhole face, chin and all, entirely buried : in.the,pillpw. This is done several times successively in less lime than I takein writing it. The last time in the series the face’will remain nearly, ; bnned in the pillow, and she does not breath? for ton or fifteen min utes. Once she remained sixty-two minutes without breathing. When this is over, and the Spasm passes off, she struggles for breath, and her head is rolled, (bom side to side almost with the velocity of lightning fora moment or two; the face becomes red with (ho rush of blood to the head, and the skin quite moist with prespi ration. Then the spasm subsides into a gentle motion of the jaw and’shmfrdefs,'keeping time, as one would think, with'The action of the heart. Her skin about the face, heck,' chest and hands is delicate and, healthy as,the skin of an infant. The pulsations of. the blood about the chest; neck, head and arms, thou&h exceedingly deli cate, are quite regular. /Her, hair does not grow, nor is it worn off hecJicad, as one would naturally suppose, .except a. little just upon the crown. The abtion.and state of the lungs are perfectly healthy. They have .been thoroughly examined by skilful physicians with The aid of a stethoscope, and are supposed to he perfect., Her nourishment is wholly from -the atmos phere.; Tho last nutrimept, indeed the last swallow of water she wds known to take, was in the last of. Juno, 1857.' The last tithe she was/kpown to bo conscious Was last December. When she comes out of, these long spasms, she seems to cry for a moment;,-like! an infant in distress. At snch .tlmes .her. -husband thinks she may-be cohsoidUS./lTisTabst distresSiSgto hear it. She is hot above, tho; ordinary laws of disease. Slip bps recently had. A thorough case 1 of.the,mumps*,precisely as olhers have them, Her nails Upon hoVti/igors; like her ham, do not grow at all.” ftapol'eon showed mo the marks of two frounds—one a very deep cicatrice above the left khco, which ho said he had received in his first campaign Of Hilly; and it was of so seri ous a nature; that the surgeons were in doubt whether it might not; be ultimately necessary to amputate.. He observed that when' ho was wounded, -it was always kept a secret in order not to discourage the soldiers. The other was on his too, and was received at Eokmtil. '• At the scige of Acre,’! coritiniidd iho, “ a shell thrown by Sidney Smith fell atmy feet. Two soldiers, who "were close by, seized and closely embraced me, one in front and the other on one side, and made a rampart of thfeir bodies for me, against the effect of the shell, which cx| lo [ploded and overwhelmed ns with sand. . We sunk into, the whole formed by bursting : one of them was wounded. I.made them both offi cers. One has since lost a leg at Moscow", and commajided at Vincennes when I left Paris— when he was summoned by . the Russians bo re plied, that as soon as they had sent him back the leg he had lost at Moscow ho would surren der the fortress;” “Many times in my life,” continued he, “ have I been saved by soldiers and officers throwing themselves before mo when I was in most imminent danger; At Ar eola, when I was. adamicing, Colonel Meuron, my aid-de-camp, threw himself before mo, cov ered me with his body, and received the wound which was destined for me. He fell at ray feet, and his blood spouted up in my face; He gave I his life to, preserve mine. Never yet, I believe, has there been such a devotion shown by sol diers aa mine have manifested for me. » Jn all my misfortunes never has the soldier, oven when, expiring, been wanting tome—neverhas man been served more faithfully by-his troops. With the last drop’of blood gushing out of their veins,, they exclaimed, “ Vivel’ Emporour.” ff you wish to make your neighbors and fam ily happy—if: you wish to sco calmness and evenness of temper developed in your children —if you would lighten the cares and-smooth the path of the companion of your Bosom—do not irritate, or scold, or be in a passion when your humor is crossed, hut remember that oth ers have hearts ns f-oft as yours, and let the sun shine of Christian meekness and gentlenses al ways beam from your eyes. How happy will be a circle in'such » case! Ah, this Christian temper is about-the only requisite to majceflro isides happy—places which husbands and,chil dren will regret to leave, and be glad to return to. Let the husband be indulged then to the' annoyances of his ever-woiking and often over working wife ; and let the wife always meet him whh smiles when he comes home perplexed with .the cares of business ; and let both bo for bearing under their mutual imperfections, and homei will be more as God intended'it. ■ Pride and Vanity. -It was a clqver remnrkof somebody—wo do not remember, who—that he was “ lob proud to bo vain!” Yet tho two are very commonly confused so as to almost loso their identity;— No person who has. much real pride can be foolish or. trifling. . Self-respect often prevents men frpm doing wrong actions, when morality, religion; or love of approbation of others, would be powerless from the same end. ■This love of approbation is the foundation of vanity, ' and , prompts tho most - insincere, thoughtless, and sometimes cruelly selfish con duct. ft should be avoided, as fatal to tho fi nest spirit. . It is impossible with independence, and makes slaves,-and cowards of all who suc cumb to its influence. Pride, on the other hand, if:it bo not haughty, is dno of the best of human , attributes. If a man thoroughly re spects himself, be sure that others will respect him also. ' . Bonaparte’s Wounds. Mo Scolding. Kiri [|l The Father of Waters. The vasfnesS of the great Mississipprrivcr is given by a newspaper correspondent, whawrites from Maiden’s Rock, Wisconsin : *j loch out upon the river* three miles wide at this point, my mind seems to take in at one grasp the magnitude of the stream*— From the frozen regions of theNorthlo the sun ny South, it extends some three thousand one hundred miles in length ; it would reach from Aew York across the Atlantic and extended from France to Turkey, and to the Caspian sea. Its average depth from its source; in Lake Ttas-. ca. in Minnesota, to its delta in the Gulf of Mexico, is fifty feet, and its width half a mile.’ Ihc trappefs on the upper Mississippi can take l the furs of Iheanimals.chat inhabit its sources arid exchange them for Ihe tropical fruits that are gathered on the banks below. Slaves are toiled at one end, of this great thoroughfare, while the free red men of the forest roam at the other end. The iioods arc more than a month traveling from Us source to the delta. . The to tal value of stcanicrs afloat on this river and its tributaries is more than six millions of dollars, arid numbers as many as one thousand five hun dred—more than twice, the •entire steamboat tonnage of England, and equal to that of all other parts of the world. It drains an area of one million two hundred thousand square miles, which is justly styled the garden! of the world. It receives a score of tributaries, the leaist of which is longer than ihe vaunted streams ofj mighty, empires. It might, furnish natural boundaries for all Europe, and yet leave for eve ry country a river larger than the Seine. It engulfs more every year tlipn the revenue pf many petty kingdoms,,nmT.rolls a volume in whoso depths the cathedral of Sc. Paul could be sunk out of sight. It ,discharges, in one year,, more A’ater .than has issued from the Tiber in five centuries; it swallows up fifty rivers, which have ho name, each of which arc larger than the ThanieSi The addition of the waters of the Danube would not swell .it half a fathom. In one single reservoir, (Pepin) two thousand five hundred miles from the sea, the naives of the world might ride at anchor. . It washes the shores of twelve powerful States,, and betwee its arms lies space for twenty more.” Rossini ami the Organ-Grinder. An Italian organ-grinder stationed himself in the courtyard of the house occupied by Rossi ni at the corner formed by the 'Boulevard and the Chansee d’Anlin; and began playing sever al airs from the rcpctoir.e of the great composer. He had played the serenade from the “ Barbi ere,” and was about to repeat it when Rossini, accompanied by a friend, passed through the court-yard. The maestro felt in hispocket for a few sous, and 1 whi[p doing so. ho inquired of the (nan if he was aware whose music ho was playing. “Of course Ido,” replied the man ; ‘it is' Tram your great Rossini.” “And. the air you played before. Also from Rossi ni,” said the man; “ I should not think of playing anything.but Rossini in -the serenade which lam how ottering, to him.”—“ You of ten h'-serenade to’Rossini! -And in quired the composer.—“ Because to-day is his b irth-day;” replied the man.—RossimVort hear, mg this reply, was deeply touched, and he turn- I? a £< ? f "3 companion and said, “ This poor feh low is ,the only person that remembered the date; .oil my friends have forgotten it—even I myself had done so. Belicvo- me when X say that the greatest triumphs of my career have not moved me more than the attention of this poor man.” And the maestro • drew from his purse a hundred-franc piece, and presented it to the organ-player, who v was in the -greatest astonishment at his generosity. “It is Rossi-’ himself who has spoken to you,” whispered the mend, when the.composer had turned his back. “ Rossini!” cried tho Italian, and run ning after the retreating maestro, he kissed tho hem. of his cloak; and- exclaimed, “Thanks maestro ; but it is not money you have given mo ; it is a medal, which I shall preserve all mv life. ” J Pigtail Economy. Old Deacon Biggs is remarkably close. His name lias come to be a proverb in ins neighbor hood, for snob an economy as ev.fr makes a man the subject of ridicule and contempt., One bit ter, cold morning a few falls ago, ho. bade the boys drive all the pigs that were to be fatted for the market, into aiirtkf yard just at the corner of the house. A pig was caught by one oj the youngsters ; the Deacon, with a pair of pinchers in one hand, and a sharp knife in' the other, seized the unfortuncite pig by the tail, and out it oil', close up. So on through the. whole herd, leaving not a pig with even a stump of a tail. Cork, who worked for his grandfather, stood by in amazement—his hands in his ,pockets, his toes turned in, his old fur cap over his ears, his lank body warped into a crescent by the cold,and his teeth jawing .against the outrage with a prodigious clatter. At last he stuttered out, “Grandpa, what you cuUin’ off those tails for ?” Sober and solemn was Deacon Biggs as be replied, “You never will be n rich man, for yon' do not know, my child, that it lakct.a bushel of corn to fatten an inch of tail!" Cork has gone to the West, and in the corn growing bottoms of Michigan, Iras taken, to the faising of tailless porkers. Tire Hooped Sarar and Baptism.— At Chi cago last wocknrntlicr amusing scene took place during the baptism of a y oung lady, by the pas tor of the Tabernacle. The Union says ; “The minister requested'her to assume the dress pe culiar to such occasions, but sho declined to take off her hooped skirttho minister told her o( tho inconvenience that must result from her obstinacy, but like a true female she persisted,- but when sho oamo to descend into the bath, tho inflated skirt touched the water and rose up like a balloon. Her head was lost to the con gregation, sho was swallowed'up in tho swell ing skirt, tho minister tried to force lief into the hath, hut she kept above the'surface by’the floating properties of crinoline, anrt Was buoyed up so successfully that it was not till alter much difficulty and many forcible attempts to sub merge tliolady, tile minister succeeded in bap tizing'tho fair one. J’inally it was oflocted, to the relief of tho’minister, and the seriously in clined audience, who could not keep from chuckling in their sleeves, and laughing in their pocket kerchiefs.” A Quiet Place.—ln one of our country ex changes wo find the following recommendation of a thriving little town :—A few days ago a gentleman, in conversation with some friends, was praising Woodville, Miss., to the skies, and remarked, among other-tilings, that it was the most quiet and peaceful place he ever saw ; there was no guarding nor rowdyism, nor fighting about the streets : if a gcnllemnninsulted an other. hcivas quicthj'shot down and that was the last of.it! O’ - An Albany man advertises for his run away wife—who is but fifteen years of age and of a loving disposition, and had on three rattan hoops. O" A Western Editor expresses his delight at having nearly been called ‘honey’ by the gal ho loves, because she saluted him as ‘Old Bees wax’ at their Inst meeting. j ha Women's’ Rights. Much~so3*s the Baltimore Sun —is said and written noW-a-days of women’s rights. What then arc her rights? , This is not only' just, but expedient to give her. Man defrauds himself when he withholds it. For is not woman to be J?‘® constant companion? Would ho choose that his companion should be destitute of ideas? Surely not. The conversation of ap educated a P er Pdual foasti It tho first pleasure °J !» to is action, tlio second certainly is And theta is almost as much pleasure fn.talking about things as doing them, A man Wants in a wife not only a but a counsellor.—-* *V° ono mind over saw all sides of nil subjects, nor oven all sides of one subject. And (he wisest suggestions not unfrequently come from the ieast.informed. The Pythoness, the Sybils* were women because women were always sup posed to enjoy a nearer access to the fountain of wisdom than man. Women have a right to a good husband; be cause most of them mean,to do the thing that is nearly right. When they marry they have a right that their husbands should be men and hot mere wrecks of debauched and dissipation.- Oh, ft is ono of the crudest of wrongs fora pure and innocent girl to throw herself away upon a broken down victim of licentiousness, who is more fit.for a hospital than to preside over d fa mily, the candidate for premature decay and early dead], . The mind and moral nature gene rally in such cases is. quite as much wreck ns the body. The freshness of life Is all worn off, .the gaiety of innocence is.forever gone. The life of.such a maiv is cold and hard, destitute of sentimehtand.enthusiasm. Woman, is cruelly wronged when she has accepted such a com. panion. . ■ L Woman has a right to the society of her bus f band. Home should bo his sanctuar}*, and hd i .ought to find his. happiness there, . It’ ho does i uot, there is something wrong. Ho has promts** cd to be the husband—that is the house-band— the band that-keeps together.*— His presence there is necessary to keep all right. If he wanders heedlessly, something is a pt to go wrong. His authority is often wanted to maintain order, to arrange business, to,super intend labor. , His absences 'ought to be lew and unfrequent as possible. Woman has a right to this, and her rights are grossly violated when her husband is often unnecessarily away. Lastly, woman has a right to the earnings* of her husband, for the support ol their families. Wo never saw a drinking saloon, from* tho -low £,roggery to the pretentious hotel,.without say ing to ourselves, here, after all, is the most out rageous violation of woman's rights, Wc some-! times get a glimpse at those apartments, and. who do we see there 7 Husbands and fathers,; who subsist upon their daily wages, spending 1 one-half, perhaps all their earnings in liquid poison, to ruin their health, spoil their temper, corrupt' their morals, make themselves odious and loathsome while their Wives are at homo earning, by the .slender gains of their, needle, the pittance which rescues their mutual oflsprlngsTrom- starvation. Oh! this is too bad to bo'secn and suffered in a Christian countiy. '. This outrage upon womau ? s rights.cries loud-; cat of all to heaven, and if there were a particle of chivaliy in these degenerate days, this is tho first abuse in our social economy which; would bo abated. Tell ns not of barbarisriii of the Malays, or the Fejce Islanders/who roast their •enemies and pick, their bones/ Their enemies oxpoiefit, and wbuiddotho like in return." ’But hero the crueltyis inflicted ,byafiiend-r- the one Ji* 10 r l f - 10 Poorest and,fenderosf of all I] ,Our boasted civilization and Christianity of the I nineteenth century—what are they 7 ‘ Is (be Sun Inhabited ? Sir John Herachel concludes (haf (ho sun is a planet abundantly stored, with Inhabitants.— His Inference being drawn from the following arguments: . On the tops of mountains of sufficient height, at nn attitude where clouds very seldom reach to shelter them from the direct rays of the sun, gre always found regions of ice and snow. How, if the solar rays themselves conveyed all the heat on this globe, it ought to bo hottest where their course is least interrupted.’ Again tero nauts all confirm the coldness of the upper roi gions of the atmosphere. Since therefore, even on our earth, the heat of any situation depends upon the aptness of the medium to yield to the impression of the solar rays, wo have only to admit that, on the siin itself, the elastic fluids comprising its atmosphere, and matter on its surface, are of such a nature as not to bo capa ble of any excessive afl'eotions from its own rays. Indeed this seems to be proved from the copious emission of them, for if the elastic fluids lot the atmosphere, ortho matter contained on tlio surface of the sun were of such h nature as to admit of any easy chemical combination with its rays, their emission wotild be much imped ed. Another well known filet is, (hat the solar focus oi the largest lens thrown into the air, will occasion no sensible heat in the plate whore it had been kept for a considerable time, al though its power 6f exciting combnstion when proper bodies are exposed, should bo sufficient to fuse the most refractory substances. Thus from.arguments based solely on,the supposed physical constitution of that. luminary, bo de duces the somewhat astonishing idea that the sun is inhabited. The Atmosphere. Tho atmosphere rises above us with its cathe dral dome arching towards tho Heaven. of which it is tlio mosniimillar s.vhon.vtno and symbol.— It floats around ns like that grand object which tho apostle saw in his vision: a «sca of glass like unto crystal.” So massive is it, that when it begins to stir, it tosses about groat ships like playthings, and sweeps cities and forests, like snow-flakes, to destruction before it. And yet is so mobile, that wo have lived years in it be fore wo can bo persuaded it exists at all,- and the great majority of mankind never realize tho truth .that'they are bathed in an oCoan of air.— Its weight is so enormous that iron shivers be fore it like glass, yet a soap-ball Sails through it with impunity, and then the tiniest insect It with its wings. Wo touch it not, but ittonches usj its warm south wind brings back color to tho pale face of the invalid; its cool west winds refresh the fevered blow and make (ho blood mantle our cheeks; even its north blasts brace into now vigor tlio hardened children of our ragged clinic.. The eye is indebted to it for all file magnificence of sunrise, the full brightness of mid-day, the chastened radiance of the glow ing, and the clouds that cradle near the setting sun. But for it tho rainbow would want its tri umphal arch, and tho winds would not send their fleecy messengers on errands round tho heavens. Tho cold ether would not shed its snow feathers on tho earth, nor Would drops of dew gather on tlio flowers. The kindly rain would never fall—hail, storm, nor fog diversify tho face of tho sky; Our naked globe would turn its fanned uhshadowcd-ttjrohcadtothosun, and one dreary monotonous blazo of light and heat dazzle and burn iip all things. Wore (hero no atmosphere, says tho Quarter ly Review, tho evening sun would in a moment set, without warning, plungo tho earth in dark ness. But the air keeps In.her hand n sheaf of his ra5 f s, and lets them slip but slowly through her Angers; so that tho shadows of evening ga ther by degrees, and tho flowers have time to bow their heads, and each creature space to And a place of. rest and nostlo to repose. In the morning, tho garish snn would, at one bound, burst from the bosonr of night, and blaze above tho horizon j but tho air watches for its coming; and sends at Orst but,oiio little ray to announce his approach, and then another, and by-and-by a handful, and so gently drawsasfdo tho curtain of night and slowlyletstho light tall on the face of the sleeping earth, till her eyelids open, and, like man, she goes/Orth again to her labor untij (ho eventide. EDS AT $2,00 PERANKD3I NO. 48 DS''“frffat was the use of (ho eClipSd aflfc od a young lady, “Oh, it gl t-es (he Sun (im6 for reflection," replied a wag, ■ K 7” From (ho (irae consumed by iadlbi, in “doing (heir-hair,” it is evident (but (hid Is (hd mane the business. tt?” Wliy is it easy to break into ad bid man's house? Because his gait is broken add liW locks are few. BF* 'Why didn’t you pocket some of those pears?’ said, due-boy td.another;- -’nobody,wad, there to see.’ ‘Yes, tlierowas—l was there to see myself, and I never want to see mVsilf do a moan thing.’ K 7” Henry the Eighth made a law that alltded except servants might read the Scripture’s: but no women, except ladies who - had lei-Stlrc to ask somebody the meaning. This (aw was repealed by EdWatd (he Sixth. ■ , ■ 07“ An entire Chinese regiment; for having abondoued an untenable fort during the roesflt aftaek on Canton by the French and English forces, has-been sentenced to WOaf tVoinei’4 clothes for five years. - , To DEsraor Cockroaches— Take pokewbedi boil it in water; wiiOn boiled - ponr in-dgdoil quantity of moiass.es, mix it well, then podr it into deep plates: set (hem about yonr days after. PEuisitAßLE MatebiXis.—The London Times SBJ’S that the average duration of a ship of war, built of British oak, in a seaworthy state, is on- - ’ ly thirteen .years of active service. It. takes seventy-acres of ground, add eighty years to ' -produce the timber;-’ If’on Is now Mpicljy taking'’ the place of wood in Ihe Construction of vessels. The TiJi’e to Mabbv.— Some Of our exchan ges are discussing the “proper time to Marry.!*; Our opinion on that point is, (hat a fnad should get married whenever ho feels inclined, has n cage for (lie bird; a good business, and good health - to attend to it. The proper time for la dies Is—whenever they can get a husband. O'Chaims—4 fortune of twenty thousand phunds. Counter Charms—pretty shop girls. BO’ In the way of the world, how often dowo see a man take all the pavement to himself. DO" A selfish man is like a pump with the handle pad-looked. DO" They have gut a fellow in jail in Chick* go, for swindling. lie dried snow and sold it for salt. DO" - Flour is said to bo selling in Knoxville/: Tennr., one dollar and a fiatf a sack, or three dollars a barrel. BO" A man in Kentucky, killed a cow a few days since, in whoso stomach were found a large brass ring, a hair-pin, a breast-pin, and a quantity of hooks and eyes. “ firindle” had probably swallowed the piilk maid. 03^. A bcantifnt inscription, it is said, may bo found in an Italian graveyard: “Hero lies Stalls, who transported a largo fortune to Heaven in acts of charity and ha* gorto (hither to enjoy it. CC? - When are peOpio’stoos Jiko oaks/ ■Tfhon they boar acAe corns. Rest satisfied with doing, and leave oth ers talk of you what they please. ' 'XT’ Gentility it neither In birth, wealth.mao nor.or fashion—hut in mind. A high sense ,of honor, a determination never to take advantage of another,an adherence to truth, delicacy and politeness to those with whom yon have deal ings, are its essential characteristics. OT~ Foung man, da you know what relation* yon sustain in this world »” said a parson to tt young member of the church. <‘Why, yoaair t i' replied the hopeful.convert, «I should think so —two cousins and a grandmother t but I ddn’( .intend to sustain them much longer.” ’ Ake . iintr Mo. E?~ It is not generous to blamo youth for the foiiios'of youiig men; p" Gold is universally worshipped, without a single tcrnplo, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite, ' I E?~ lie who slabs you with a pen wohid do tiiQ same with a penknife, were ho as safe thorn detection and.the law. , ; ' I , E?" To enjoy to-day stop worrying abbUVfo- I morrow. .Noxt,wcek will bejust as bop able -Of I taking core of itself os tin's one Is. " I. p-What kind of swcalmeSts wore most pro vident in A"oall’s ark.?, Preserved pairs. ~ - r E?” Tlio iast excuse for crinoline is, thattho “ttiiaker vessels” need much hooping. K?"Wo womah should paint except she who has lost the power of blushing. • n,n 6 01 a r °°l is known by there be ing nothing in it. hlSig ° a3 ° l ‘ Is ‘ IIO ,lrst - born » but faitb ilia the At ’ CAWTAt— The iitat capital to begin lift! on .s a capital wife. tli^r,^ 9pe ybur unkind reflections” as tin-old man said to the looking-glass. , pleasure in believing d • . otllct ' llalf fordrainingpockels/To^calledT^cw to the prevailing stylo of gentleme^h^ P” Good wiVes, like, filberts, Will i- OTn .L good for a long time. , It dll depends Votithd care you take Of them, and how you husband them. “Wheel of FortuneV ffliist hkVobri.; giimlly belonged (6 an omnibus; for It Is coiJtlo* Hally “takingup” an d“pu tti ngd 6 wn”pbo^le. , if you’!! ;get ray coat dorjd by Saturday, I shall, bo fbrerer indebted td you.” “If that’s yoUr gahie. It won’t bh dtfrid.” said the tailor. . * .. . > • Time is the mosbparadoxlcal of.all things; the past is gone, the future is not come-, and thd present becomes the past while wo attempt td define it. ;■ ; 1 late .Mr. iohn Jones {fb’in£ asked By a friend how ho kept from being involved in quarrels, replied, “ by letting the angry portion have all the quarrel to himself.”. ttp” Why is the letter*!! the gayest in the al phabet? Becauso.it is always in fan. Yes. but why is It thq most unfortunate In the alpha bet ? because it is always in trouble and diffi- Unit}'. . , ’ has been estimated by tlio timber-gM ters of the South, that a large pine, sufficient tor the spars or beams of a first class ship, re quires from t\yo to throo hundred years to grow. What is fashion ? A beautiful envelope for mortality, presenting a beautiful and polish-: cd exterior,' the appcaraiicc of which gives no cefttun indication of the real value of what fa contained Within. Tlie BufTaloe Express tells, a story of a. Quaker who was charged the exorbitant Sum of seventeen .dollars for a horse and baggy fora short drive, and Upon being 1 presented with the bill, siniply remarked, “ Thou mlstakedt me.— I do not wish to purchase thy vehicle; but only ' to hire it.” : > , . A good story is told of a country getttlemaij> who, for the first time, heard an Episcopal cler gyman preach. He had read much of the aria: tocracy and pride,of the chutch, and tfhen he returned home, ho was asked if- tjie people #efo stuck up.” “Pshaw, no,” replied he, “why the minister actually preached in hU shlrt seoveil.” A little mim observed that ho had;two negative Qualifications—which were that hfi never lay long iu bed, or wanted a great coat. A Sliocpiaker, has orie tage over most kinds of mechanics—llia goods'; whenever finished, aro always *«?