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A dream.
BT TLEH’A,
• I had a rosy dream—
I thought 1 wits again a child,
■ 'And in my shady, woodland homo
;i . Was -wafadering joyous, free and wild—
'• . Again T wore a garland bright,
... 6f sweet, wild flowers, rich and rare,
*, Tlmt sparkled like the royal gems
| Amid my locks of sunny hair.
■' Again I saw ray father smile
And join me in my happy play;
; And when a childish sorrow came,
! Ho kissed the falling tears away,
i’ Father, in life’s matnrer days,
' My spirit fondly turns to thee—
For that kind’ loving smile of thine
Will cheer me on life’s darkest sea.
Again beside my mother’s knee,
I knelt to lisp toy evening prayer,- -
And felt her, soothingly, smooth back
My flowing loeks ol golden bair.
Again I hoard her gentle voice,'
In accents holy, soft and mild—
And sweetly as a sunboaujjell
A benediction on her child.
Again those proud and daring boys—
The brothers of my infant years— .
Joined in my merry, childish plays,.
To share my joys and calm toy fears.
Again wo.wandered, free and wild,
O’ro mountain, valley, hill and dell;
Playing amid tho waving corn, ,
And drinking from tho crystal well.'
And, oh I that gentle, dove-like one—
A trusting sister, pure and fair—
The angel b( my childish years,
Was wandering sweetly with me there,-
Alas! the scene is real now—■
The bright, the rosy dream is o’er;
But oh!’ what would ray heart, not give
To boa happy child once more !
yet,fttill a father’s gentle voice
;' ' Como to my oar in accents mild j
f And still a mother’s blessings lull
Upon her thoughtless, wayward child ;
pi- And still those brothers claim my love,
if And guard my path from care and strife;
6 And still that gentle sister is
p , The guardian angel of my lift!.
I \ : ' : ~ ■ • ■
LOGS.
Will yon ever weep, love,
fe When I have passed away.
When cold in death I sleep, love,
£ Through many a weary dai ?
go .Will you place a wreath; love.
Ip;: ■ Upon my little mound ■
At evening’s holy hour, love,
When shadows Hover ’round f
pt
lliy-'.}!,'; Will you often comej love,
t To view my lowly bed ?
Will you plant a flower, love.
To ,blosaom>o’er i.py head ? •
;. 0, kneel beside my grave, -love,
And say—diere rests my all I
. And let one pearly tear, love,
Upon my bosom fall. ;
Mmtllmmuß.
WHY MRS. PHILLIPS, IS SUCH A SCOLD.
BY MBS. F. I). <3ACE,
in Wliai does make Mrs. Phillips scold so ?”
id slrs.\ Parsons to her husband, as they left
o homo of'the lady in question at nineo’clock
the evening, September 30,1858.
“ Oh, I don’t know,” answered M*. Parsons*
guess maybe she has some reason for It.” j
« I don’t see what, I’m sure; if I had as big
house as her’s, and everything about it so nice
she has, I would try to bo a little good- ha
red before folks, any how.”
« Well, I don’t know, wife* .that big bouse
n’t just tbo thing after all;”,
« She never was content in the other.”
“That’s so; blit there was a reason tor that
u Yes to be sure there was ; but that was too
tie tor anything. I don’t see how she ever
ood it.”
“But she did stand if eighteen years., and
Isod a family of nine children in ono room,
id-one bed room ten foot square, and a lolt.”
<f It was a shame—and he «6 rich.”
“'Yo's, that’s where she learned to scold.t
fs. Phillips was one of the smartest girls in
j til© country round, and when he married her
Id- five hundred dollars laid up in cash from
fiool keeping.”
You don’t spy. 7.”
If,-.*? I do, though.” .
S/«.Wb*t.ljBcamo of it ?”
f ,«‘TOat's just what I was going to toll you.”
vfiMad ho anything’?”
a dollar. . I loaned him money to get
tilslicense; hut she did not know it.”
nfftffhy Mr. Pafsons you don’t mean what you
. v / as .preaching. Her father, old Mr.
Qox,'gave her that farm, and her five hundred
wentV'to buy stock and tools to help along the
|?*W;itlrfl£year. Phillips, had been a little wild, but
in and worked-llke a good fellow, affd
made money faster in all Illinois than
But somehow he never seemed to have , a
to spare for his family, over and above
‘ * *]t kept them along. Ho added farm to
:ock to stock, till ho was the richest man
'.ountry, and yet she often had no help,
cabin was crowded and dirty, and not
enough to set a tabid," or wash tubs and
id kettles for home use.”
iy, Mr. Parsons I and they live so fine
at wasn’t nil. She never lin’d a door'yard
Jon • the -pigs would lay down on the
top and an old sow actually ran away
,o of the children.”
aho ll saw it in time and beat it off with
,’om stick —no thanks to him, though; ho
kept his hogs round the door. ’
lon’t wonder she scolded then.”
ir five years she had all her water to carry
[he creek— never a cistern or well; and
le dug the well, ho put it down at the
as to have it bandy for the stock.”
io old durmudgeonl”
have seen her packing wood from the.
timber to hake bread for the workmen, on her
oWn ehouldors; indeed, he seldom had a stick
for her to nso except old rails and
, jkjokan limbs, and never had a stick ahead at
that— -juat-cut enough in the morning to- lar,c
through the day, and often she was out' before
boon,”
<Vl'shbuld scold, too.”
’ * My’first wife used to say that if he was her
hnshoM sbo would never cook a meal of vio-
VthalS'Jwhilc his name was Jack Phillips if he did
not'dpbetter.”
« tod' would have served.hlra right.”
«Yos, but Ellon, as we used to call her, did
V' not,begin right. She humored him In every;
for lour or five years, and I used to think
fet# she made the little log cabin so comfortable
neat', that the old follow did not Snow how
jjapSwan it was.”
'§tmp&Si u Many a wife does that.”
Ayd, yes','and many a wife don’t do it.”
BY JOHN B. BRAXTON.
VOL. 45.
“ I know that too,” was the cheerful reply of
his wife.
“ Well, she had three or four children and
got clean worked down. Ho was always riding
round, hunting up cattle, or going to market, or
ofl'.making bargains, and she began to fret and
grow nervous, and the more she fretted and
worked the worse she grew. I must say that I
wonder that women don’t learn to know that
constant fretting don’t amount to anything—and
(hey always lose the sympathy of those about
them.”
« That’s true, Mr. Parsons.”
“ Well things went so for fifteen years. She
worked almost night and day, ns you may say j
and her tongue kept time with her feet and
hands. Ido believe it was all that kept her
alive. It gave vent to her over-burdened soul
and relieved her suffering heart just as groaning
and crying gives relief to a person having a sur
gical operation performed.”
“ Or just as it gives you relief to groan when
you have the toothache.”
<< Exactly so, that’s the philosophy of it.—
One that had closed her mouth and suffered in
silence would have died years ago. But five
years ago when everything was up to the high,
ost figure in the way of property, he took a no
tion to build that great barn of a house, and
furnish part of it as. you see. But Mrs. Phil
lips never has any relief from hard work. He
often says she Used to do ail her work in the
cabin, and now she.can’t get along without two
girls.”
“No wonder with such a house, and she so
poor and sickly.”
. .“ And the boys lived in tho old house till they
don’t know how to take care of anything, and
they know their father is rich, and spend money
and smash round, and never think of her; never
ask her to go. out with them; never bring her
any little present to cheer her; never relievo
any of her cares—and so she frets on and will
most likely ns long as she lives. For myself,
wife, I like Mrs. Phillips. She raised me as
you may say, for I lived with them after they
wero married. I always tried to please her,
and she never g%ye me a cross word in seven
years. I know her like a book and if they
would only be careful of her'happiness, she
would seldom And fault with them. But its too
late now the habits of the family are fixed, and
she poor woman, will have to bear all the blame
from those who don’t know tho past. Her love
of the beautiful and harmonious, her sense of
justice and truth, united to her earnest desire to
have things mado bettor, made her a scold.”
<• Well, I am really glad you told mo of'her
history, for if she is to bo my nearest neighbor,
I waufto.iiko her, if X can.”
“She is generous, kind, true-hearted, and
ready to do anything tor her neighbors. But
sho has suffered so much frpm his hands, (and
'still'feejs tlikt he does hot deal liberally with
her) that in his presence she always gives out
tho worse, parts of her nature. Poor Mrs.
Phillips, I wish there wero no worse women,in
tho world than stw with all her scolding.”
, ,Mr. and Mrs. Parsons had reached their plea
saht homo across the prairie. It was hone too
largo for their wants, and an air of comfort and
uniformity pervaded every part, that told of
harmony and hampiness within. .
■ With ono aolaind and careful as Mr. Parsons,
a wife could hardly find a place to scold.. No
wonder the habits of Mr. Phillips shocked and
grieved her. : - •y.j
Who of usi goiiflb readers, ddea I not Know; a,
Mrs. Phillips in the Circle of our acquaintance;
where the husband is so anxious to get rich that
he forgets to be good. -
The Power of Kindness.
A young school teacher had one lage-boy,
Joe Stanton, who was ringleader of all mischief.
The first day lie managed to make the school a
scene- of roguety and confusion. The poor
teacher went home with a heavy heart.
The next day she thought if she could- gain
the confidence of this boy, and have him on her
side she should have but little trouble with her
school. As it closed in thealternoqn, shospoko
kindly to him, and asked his help, in closing
the school room. , .
fie readily complied. As she turned, home
ward, Joe followed. At length she inquired,
“ Have you any sister, Joseph 1”
The right chord was touched : , •
“ I had one sister, little Mary, but she died ;
and thus encouraged by the ready sympathy
of his listener, he went on to tell that Mary was
his only sister, and that he used to take care of
her, and play with her, and carry her out doors,
and drag her in the wagon he had made for her,
and that she loved him “ fnoro than any one
else did,” and always used to run to the door
and meet him when he came home. “But she'
is dead now," he added, “and I have not any
body that takes care of me. She had a fever,
and she did not know me wnen I spoke to her,
and in just a week she died. Her grave is right
over here,” he continued, “and perhaps you
would like to see it sometime.”
The teacher willingly went with him asking
him still further about little Mary, they passed
along, till at length they approached, the grave
and sat down upon a stone near it. Poor Joe
could no longer wipe away the fears, as he had
done, for the fountains within were broken up.
He covered his face with his hands and wept
aloud. '
" She’s dead,” ho exclaimed again, “ and no
body cares (or me now.” !
“T will care for you, Joseph,” said the teach
er, as she laid her hand upon his uncovered
head, and then spoke to him of heaven, and the
happy meeting of those death had severed, and
of One who cares for us more than all earthly
friends, and who will help us if we wish to do
right. _. ' ,
Then as he grew calm and had risen to go,
she told him of her sorrow, of the father whom
she had lost, of her loneliness, of her wish to be
useful while she supported herself by teaching,
of bow hard the Westbrook school seemed to
her. and how she still meant to do the best she'
could for him and for all her scholars.
“ I’ll help ye. Miss Mason,'; responded Joe,
‘‘l’ll help ye, all I can and then the o.ld mis
chievous twinkle coming again, ho added, “ I
guess the rest of the boys won't trouble you
much. They’l do pretty much as I want ’em
to.”— N. Y. Teacher.
SiNOuiAn Case or Dt-AfsEsa. —A lady in Ohio
began to lose her hearing, and used every reme
dy that could bo heard of with the view of re
storing it. All proved unavailing. A few days
since she consented to have a physician examine
the ear, and, to her astonishment, a bug, about
half or three-quarters of an inch in length, was
taken out. It had remained there six years—
In all probability it found its way there while
the lady was asleep.
Tuinos Lost Foeevek. —The following words
from the pen of Lydia H. Sigourney, are full of
instructive meaning : (
' Lost wealth maybe restored by industry ; the
wreck of health regained by temperance i for
gotten knowledge restored by study; alienated
friendship smoothed into forgetfulness; oven
forfeited reputation won by patience.and vir
tue ; but who ever looked upon his vanished
hours, recalled his slightest years, stamped
them with wisdom or effaced from Heaven’s rd
cord fho fearful blot of wasted lime. The foot
print on the sand is washed out by the ocean
Wave; and easier might wo when years are fled,
find that foot prinfthan recall lost hours.
Cd?” Those men talk most who are in the
greatest mental darkness—frogs cease their
croaking when light is brought to the watersicfg/
Bo Patient With the Little Ones.
Be patient with the little ones.; Let neither
their slow understanding nor their occasional
pertness ofieud you, or provoke tho sharp re
proof. Remember tho world is new to thorn!,
and they have no slight task to grasp with
their unritened intellect the mass of facts and
truths that%:rowd upon their attention. You
are grown to maturity a.nd strength through
years of experience, and it ill-becomes you to
fret at the little child that fails to keep pace
with your thought. Teach him patiently as
God teaches you, “line upon lino, precept
upon precept, here a little, and there a little.”
Cheer him on in this conflict of mind ; in after
years his ripe, rich thought, shall rise up and
call you blessed.
Bide patiently the endless questionings, of
your children. Do not roughly crush the ris
ing spirit of free inquiry, with an impatient
word of frown, nor attempt on the contrary, a
long and instructive roply to every slight and
casual question. Seek rather to deepen their
curiosity. Convert, if possible, the careless
question into a profound and earnest inquiry.
Let your reply send the little questioner forth,
not so much proud of what he has learned, as
anxious to know more. Happy thou, if in giv
ing your child the molecule of truth he asks
for, you can whet his curiosity by a glimpse of
the mountain of truth lying beyond; so wilt
thou send forth a philosopher, and hot a silly
pedant into the world.
Bear patiently the childish humors of those
littje ones. They are but the untutored plead
ings of .the young spirit for pare and cultiva
tion. Irritated into strength, and hardened
into habits, they will haunt the whole of life
fiends of despair, and make thy little ones curse
the day they were born ; butcorrected kindly
and patiently, they become the elements-of
happiness and usefulness. Passions are but
flres that'may either scorch us with their un
controlled fury, or may yield us a needful and
genial warmth.”
Bless your little ones with a patient care of
their childhood, and they will certainly conse
crate the glory and grace of their manhood to
your service! Sow in their hearts the seeds of
a perrennial blessedness : its ripened fruit will
afiord yon a yerpetual joy. —Michigan Journal
of Education. ;
Didn’t Think.
Walking in the country one morning, in ear
ly spring time, we seated ourself to rest on a
large stone near an orchard-gate.' Very soon
we observed a large man hanging to the top
most limbs of a small apple tree with one hand
while with: the other he was cutting oft twigs
and branches. We bade him good morning.
He answered cheerfully ; and we ventured to
hint that tho tree had climbed bore a heavy
burden. ’ “Yes!” ho said, ‘'the trees, all need
pruning but loan only attend to, a few,of.
them. . The others wouldn’t bear my weight.-
“ Wby-ftOn’t you fasten your saw to a pole.
Stand on the ground, and prune such limbs as
•most require it X” we asked. .
I -“VVellfi declare,’.’ he answered, 1 ‘that would'
lesson in. that confes
sion—Vldidn’t think of it.” It explained
why, in. many respects. the farmer was .not
prosperous. ’ He was a hard worker,' Ho cn-‘
deavored to be economical; but he was always
behind. His orchard didn’t yield abundantly
—bis cattle had disease—his grain was, often
poor—anti he could only sell at a low price, be
cause he didn’t think. He had never learned
forethought—be did not understand how judic
ious head work assists hand work.
Didn’t think—that is the sorry explanation
of much error —of many a crime—of many a
failure—of many a hardship, and many an
abuse.
Little boys and girls, bear in inind that
whatever advantages you may have at home,
in school, in business of in society, unless you
think, your lives will bo sad and your efforts
unsuccessful Learn, then, while you- are
young, the'art of thinking. To bo great and
godd,-you must understand the art of reflec
tion, as well as appreciate the pleasure of mem
ory.
Kind Acts.
“Bessie, there is a peach for you, the finest
I have had this season,” said Mr. Kohler to his
little daughter. , . , ,-,
It was-very beautiful —so ripe that it looked
just rdady to burst through the red skin, aiid a
painter might have attempted' in vain to rival
the color. It was -very templing, for it was
the first one Bessie had seen this summer ; yet
she stood with it in her hands, seemingly lost
in thought. „ , .
“May T take it to cousin Mary ? she is siek,
and nothing tastes well to her, and she has been
wishing so much for a peach.”
“Yes, if you like.” And away flew Bessie,
cipherepiand of,love. - She went softly, into-
Mary’s.sick chamber, laid the peach before her,
and quickly glided from the room. ' ' |
As the parched lips were moistened by the
delicious juice, the little sufferer declared that
it made her feel “almool well.”
Now that little act of kindness made Bessie
feel much-happier than gating the peach,would
have done. Would you have acted like Bessie
did 1
Saturday Night.
'What blessed things Saturday nights are.
and what would the world be without them ?
Those breathing moments in thq broad and
garish glare of noon;, when pale yesterday
looked beautiful through the, shadows, and
faces changed long ago, smiling sweetly; again
id' the hush, when one remembers the old folks
at homo. :
Saturday nights make people human! set
th#iir hearts to beating softly, as they used
to do before the world turned them into wax
drums, and jarred them to pieces with tat
toos. ■■ ...
The ledger closes with a clash; the iron
doored vaults come too with a bang ; up goes
the shutters with a will: click goes the key in
the look. It is Saturday night, and business
branches are free again. The door that had
been ajar all' the week, gently closes behind
him, the world as shut out. Here are the trea
sures, and.not in the vault, not in the book—
save in the old family Bible-rand not in the
bank.
■ May be you are a bachelor, frosty and forty.
Then, poor fellow, Saturday nights are nothing
to you. Got a wife—get a home—thank God,
and take courage.
The dim and dusty shops,are swept, the
hammer is'thrown, the apron is dolled, and the
laborer hastens homeward.
■ ‘‘Saturday night," faintly murmurs the lan
guishing, as she turns wearily on her couch;
“and is there another to come ?”
“Saturday night at last!” whispers the
weeper over the dying; “and it is Sunday to
morrow!’!
A doctor up town gave the following
prescription to a sick lady, the other day, “ A
new bonnet, a cloth mantel, and a pair, of
Shanghai boots!” The lady recovered imme
diately. ■
’.-t'r-r.'u-'—V'v'’" 1
“ OUR COUNTRY —MAY IT ALWAYS BB RIGHT OR WRONG, OUR COUNTRY.”
CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, im\
■■ ,1 - 13 ;t-
One of Texas’ distinguished citizens, name
not given, who has flguremflargcly in public
life, first as a lawyer, then soldier in the
Mexican and Indian wars, anU then as a lead
ing politician/ has the following related of him
in a sketch of his life by; the New Orleans
Christian Advocate. Ho hid been put up by
his party in 1867 to succeed Heneral Houston
in the United States .Senate . pit feeling called
to the ministry, and distrusting his own ability
to resist the life,
was unwilling to accept thaitnbminalion. He
laid the case before his wife/deaving (o her the
choice between the United Sjaies Senate and de
struction to his morals; and!sf6 pulpit arid sal
vation : ■ ■ ■ : ■
“ Taking the letters nndVpapcrs from .all
parts of the State, giving earn assurance of
election, he went to his said: “ I can
go to the United States Semite. Here are the
evidences. If yout/wish it, LSvill go { But if I
go, hell is my doom.- I a drunkard
as certain ns I gtsb: Washington. I can yet
escape. If I pass-this ppintfl never, can. I
can enter the min|atry, \vhichfl ought to have
done long ago, arjd snvfe. mysflf from a drun
kerd’s grave, and'my soul frote hell. But you
shall decide.” His poof uuwilling tore
linguish the glittering, view, replied,
weeping, that she could not trio why he could
not be a great man and a Christian too. But,
after prayerful reflection, she/Avould not incur
the fearful ■ responsibility of'/dcciding against
his conscience, and told him w go into the itin
eracy and she would go with'him. To the as
tonishment of the whole State,-a letter from him
appeared in the papers; jusLbgfore-the meeting
of the Legislature, declining the office and an.
nouncing his retirement froth political life. —
The next thing that was heaftf of him was that
ho was preaching.”'
Universality of the Weaof Religion,
If there bo in man’s heartja Sentiment which'
is unknown to all other living beings, and which
always manifests; itself, whatever may be his
position, it is not likely that.this sentiment is a
fundamental law of his nature.
. Such is, incur opinion thef'religions senti
ment. Savage hordes, barbarous tribes, na
tions enjoying the full force of the social state,
those which are languishing in the decrepitude
of civilization—all demonstrate the power of
this indestructible sentiment.,
It triumphs over all interests. The savage lb
whom fishing or the arduods chase furnishes
an insufficient subsistence, consecrates to his
Fetish a portion of that precarious. support.
The warlike colony lies down its arms to reu
nite at the foot of the altar.,'sree nations in
terrupt their deliberations tpjinjoke their gods
in temples. Despots grant their slaves days of
intertiiission for the same purpose. ,
The passions, as well as interests, are sub
missive. When sujpplicnnts:em,Brace the knees
of sacred statues, hatred
is calmed, man imposes.siletfEtplpbn >”'■
impefipus desires. tPleasure
abjured»juvd..bp^preoimtatei
ucCT^KicA'l'xii--^I—- 1 —-
This sentiment is, howevCi,
all our needs and all our des|r'es. The citizen
invokes the Deity in favor country, the
lover,, separated from' the ojjj&kt of his-lovo, con
fides her to the Superintending, oaro of Prori
deuce. The prisoner’s prayerpierces the walls
of his dungeon; the tyrant upon his throne is
disquieted, harassed by invisible powers; he
can scarcely reassure himself in imagining them
necessary.
Did you ever go into the presence of one
whose face, hitherto, never failed to brighten
at your approach —of one whose features you
had never seen contracted by a frown, cold with
indifference, when towards you, only to meet
an aspect of cloud and gloom 1 If so, how did
it make you feel ? Was you not struck, in
stantly, with a chill ? . ,t( ■_
Yes, you can remember how it was —there
is little doubt of that; and you never want the
experiment repeated; There is no obscurity of
the heavens, there is no blackness of the night,
that make such gloom a? the veil that an angry
or a changed heart can hang before the face of
one you love, and who has, until now, always
seemed to love you. Anything, anything of
earthly anguish can be better borne than the
loss of thelove and friendship of one yoii love
and thoroughly believe in ; And when you
have had cause to dread that your friend was
changed. That, his eye, indeed, beamed fond
ly, and with the kind approval pfthe old : but
not on you, and when you have found that your
great and dreadful fear was, groundless—that
he was not changed, were you pot happy—al
most as if you had seen into Heaven, and heard
the dwellers there naming your name as one
that was written in the Book of life.
Friendship and love!,' true love—unchanging
and kind like that of Heaven —what would this
weary world be were these to forsake it and not
return I
Clear as Mud.—An editor had a bottle of
London'Dock Gin presented to him, after
drinking the whole of it,-he'Wfote a ‘notice 1 of
the article. Here is a specimen of the stylo :
. “Here’s to the ladies and other branches of
business [hie] in and around town —and espe
cially the Messident’s Pressago, Monington
Washument, etc., all of whiqh may be had
cheap at the Buck —*Drook —Brook and Duck
store of Biningcr’s old Londou-.Dock Gin, for
$2 a-ycar, if payment is delayed until the end
of theOablantic Able .”
Old Age.— lt is not well that a man should
always labor. His temporal as well as spiritu
al interest demands a cessation in the decline
of life. Some years of quiet and reflection are
necessary after a life of industry and activity.
There is more to concern him than incessant
occupation, and its product—-wealth. Ho who
has been a drudge all his days, to one monoto
nous mechanical pursuit, can hardly be fit lor
another world. The release from toil m old
ace-most men have the prospective pleasure of;
and, in the reality, it is as pleasing as it is sal
utary and useful to the mind. Such advanta
ges, however, can only bo gained by prudence
and economy in youth; we must save, like the
ant, before wo can hope to have any rest in the
winter of our days.
fty* Life is but a span—of horses; one is
“ Ago,” the other “ Prime,” up and down the
bill our course is: “Go in,” poines—“ make
your time.” Boyhood plies the whip of pleas
ure ; youtbjul folly gives the stroke ; manhood
goards them at his leisure: “lot cm rip,
“they’re tough as oak.” “Hi, ya. there,
the stakes we’ll pocket; to the wind let care be
sent; time. 2:40. “ Whip in socket’ give ’em
string’ and let ’em went.” On the sunny road
to fifty. “Prime”, is drowned in Lethes
stream : “ Ago” is left, lame, old, unthrifty :
life then proves a one horse team. “Age” jogs
on, grows quite unsteady, reels and slackens in
his pade : “ kicks iho bucket” always, ready ;
“ give it up.”—Death wins the race.
Porter’s Spirit.
To make a prelty girl’s cheek red, pay
,her a sweet compliment.
A Gomancc inrTdlilics.
Did you Ever.
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An Independent Caniidnle.
Our readers (says the Memphis^ Engle,) will
remember a circular published in 6(w columns
from Mr. James A. Jones, a candidaV> for Con
gress in Arkansas, in opposition to fir- Rust.
Jones was defeated by some six or seten thou
sand majority, and upon ascertaining the re
sult, came out in his paper, the Ouachi' a Rcr
aid, as follows :'
EEPAETED, Oil OP SAI.T EIVEE.
e'cave. ins.
“Notia vain should such examples be.”-t
Byron. . .
Wo—that is to say James A. Jones, editor of
the Ouachita Herald and late candidate for Co
ngress—are ingloriously defeated. To use a
classical and entirely original expression : " Wc
evidently oast our pearls before swine. Wo
magnanimously, and at a considerable sacrifice
of our habitha! self-respect, offered to serve a
people, wlip had no-appreciation of the offering.
We didn’t make the people, and are riot under
contract to supply them with brains. If they
were willfully blind to our merit, the fault is
theirs, If they are opposed to receiving indi
vidually a hundred and sixty acres of land
apiece, they have ri .right, to object it -, they
know whether or not they deserve it. If they
don’t want the rights of the south “ preserved
inviolate," why they may have them pickled
for all we care. We did our duty and our con
science is easy, At the enormous expense of
sixteen dollars and thirty two cents we printed
a multitude of circulars sufficient to elect any
man, with which we flooded this Congressional
district and a largo portion of the Cherokee
Nation. We wrote to our friends and to some
who were not our friends to rally to our jmp
port. But they didn’t rally. We concealed
ourselves as well as wc could at home, refusing
positively to extend our acquaintance, or to see
more of the public than the public did of us.—
With these precisions we deemed success cer
tain. A great many persons wrote to us that
we should get an overwhelming vole ; they were
not deceived; it was overwhelming. Many ored
ulous parsons told us that we should be elec
ted -, -we listened to them and were deceived.—
But we forgive them, for they made us feel very
comfortable —for awhile, and all earthly happi
ness Is transitory. We shall never become a
candidate again without consulting somebody
bn the subject first, and ascertain whether they
do or do not desire us to run ; for we are satis
fied that it is folly to be a candidate'unless
somebody does want you to run, and will vote
for you on the strength of that desire.
Wo are not without consolation. We are
not the Duly candidate that was defeated.—
There are numbers in as. bad a fix as ourselves
and, besides, greater men than we claim to he
have been as badlybeaten. Gen; Harrison, af
terwards President of the United States, was
once defeated, for comity clerk in-Ohio, and
James E. Polk was beaten for Governor of Ten
id company; and there-
which the people should
iKrTOnrtnffd;atanrnnm
ihqs as some of the aspi.
.led V quietly at home,’
and they so highly appreciated ;our modesty
that they hove given us the privilege of oootiii;
uing to do so. We are thankful for. snia’U fa
vors.
Among our numerous friends, cx-Qovernor
Drew is entitled to our warmest acknowledge
ments. His intention doubtless was to assist
us in beating Rust, by procuring a large and
influential majority of the Democratic parly
to vote for him. With this object in view he
made a brilliant canvass, ending in no less a
brilliant failure. .But, notwithstanding he car
ried of! a considerable portion of our vote we
honor him for his laudible intentions. Hereaf
ter,he has but. to command us and we will
obey—if it suits us to do so.
To the fifteen patriotic and chivalrous voters
who cast their suffrage for us in! Pike county,
we beg leave to tender our unfeigned gratitude.
Wb owe them a debt that will be difficult to
repay. As a slight evidence of our high appre
ciation and lasting regard, wo propose that, if
they will forward us a list of their names, we
will send them the Herald tor life—at the usual
price, $3 per annum, invariably fn advance. .
In conclusion, we desire permission to re
mark that the small experiment we have just
made is*eminently satisfactory. Whatever as
pirations we may have had for.glory are entire
ly subdued. The pursuit of a scat in Congress
“ under difficulties 11 is one in which we have no
desire to engage. We are satisfied that we
carry with us into the.rctircment the best wish
es of a gentleman though ungrateful people,
and arc content.
EYE SIGHT.
Milton’s blindness was the cause of over work
and dyspepsia. .
One of the most eminent American divines
having, for some time, been compelled to forego
the pleasure of reading, has spent thousands of
dollars in vain, and lost years of time, in Con
sequence of getting up several hours before day.
and studying by artificial light. : His eyes ne
ver got,well. ..-u
Multitudes of men and women have made
their eyes weak for life, by the too free use of
the eyesight in reading small print and doing
fine sewing. In view of those things, it is well
to observe the following rules in the use of the
’eyes:
Avoid all sudden changes between light and
darkness. . ,
Never begin to read or write, or sew for seve
ral minutes after coming from' darkness into a
bright light, , ,
Never read by twilight, or moonlight, or of a
very cloudy day. .
Never read or sow directly in front of a light
or window or door.
It is best to have the light fall from above
obliquely over the left shoulder.
Never sleep solljat, on first waking, the eyes
shall open on tho light of a window.
•Do not uso the eye*sight 'light so scant,
that it requires an effort to discriminate.
Too much light creates a glare, and pains
and confuses the sight. The moment you are
sensible of an effort to distinguish, that moment
cease, and take a walk or ride.
As the sky is blue and earth green, it would
seem that the ceiling would ho a bluish tinge
and the carpet green, and the walls of a mellow
tint..
Tho moment you arc instinctively prompted
to rub your eyes, then you should cease rubbing
them.
If the eyelidswe glued together, on waking
up, do not forcibly open them but apply the
saliva with tho finger—it is the speediest dilu
lent in the world —then wash eyes and face in
warm water. — Roll’s Journal of Health.
The Reason Why.—A small lad asked
permission of his mother to go to a hall. She
told him it was a bad place for little boys.
“Why, mother, didn’t you and father use ttf
go to balls 1"
“Yes, but wo have seen the folly of it,” an
swered the mother.
“Well, mother,” exclaimed the son, “I waul
to see the folly of it too. ”
AT 52.00 PER ANNUM
The President and Hie Farmers.
In an admirable address to a large assem
blage of agriculturalists at Washington, a fen
days since, the President, among other good
tilings, said:
- havc-cvcc-bcen, fomLotlngriculture itself,
though I have never had much lime to devote
to it practically; but I heartily rejoice that
the Secretary of the Interior and the Commis
sioner of Patents have assembled you here upon
this important missioff. The other interests of
the country are pressing forward. The farmer
slays at home, follows his plough, and minds
his own business, and we hear 'very little of
J him in public. Notwithstanding the energy,
the activity, arid the enterprise of our national
■ character, it is in agriculture very often inef
factually exerted without the necessary skill
! and science to produce the effect which is so
1 much desired ; for science combined with prac
-1 tical experience, when applied to the pursuit of
■ agriculture, must shed blessings upon the coun
try. lam very happy indeed to see here so
’ many practical agriculturalists, who-under
stand that science fully. And I have no doubt
that the great truths which will bo elicited by
the questions which are to ,be propounded to
agriculturalists in all parts of the country,
when they shall have been collected and bro't
here, arranged and circulated all over the na-.
tion, will-have the best ellect imaginable upon
the whole dountry.” ..
Whistling.
Wc believe in Whistling—wo love to, hear it,
and to do it. The boy or man at the plow
who whistles indicates that ho is contented, and
he will plow more than your silent, glum one,
who hath no music iu his soul, nor in his lips.
The Albany Times is right when it says:
“The man who don’t believe-in whistling,
should go a slop further, and put: a. muzzle on.
bobolinks and mocking birds. Whistling is a
great institution.. It oils the wheels of care,-
and supplies the place of sunshine. A man
who whistles lias a good heart under his shirt
front. Such a man not only works more wil
lingly than any other man, but he works more
constantly. A whisllihg cobbler will earn as
much again money as a cordtvainer who gives
way to Tow spirits and indigestion. Mean or
avaricious men never whistle. Who ever heard'
of a whistler among the sharp practitioners of
Wall st. ? Wo pause fbr an answer. The man
who attacks.'Whistling, throws a stone at the,
head Of hilarity, and would, if he could, rob
June of its roses—August of its meadow lurks.
Such a man should be looked to.
Winter Comforts nut! Drawbacks,
We ere amid the chilliness of winter, with now
and then a glimpse of what might be'called the
forerunner of spring. To keep the latter always
in your heart, says an exchange, learn to sing.
There is a great deal of merit in melody, more
merit than most pebplc.aro’aware of. A cob
bler who smoths hia waxed. cuds -with Bonnie
Doon or will do,' its much work
in a a r given to “cussing";
"SWFiff nathra weK. - .' 'Songs
are like sunshme—they run to cheerfulness ;
and so fill your bosom with buoyancy fbr the
time being that you feel like a yard of June, or
an acre lot,.filled with violets and bobolinks-
Try'it on and see. That may all he very well,
but will not wholly dispel the' following sum
mary of “winter comforts
Chilblains sore on all your toes,
loicleslmngfromycurno.se,
- Rlieumatiz’in alt your limbs, .
Noddle full of aches and whims.
Chaps upon your hands and lips,
• And lumbago m your hips. ■
To your'bed you shivering creep.
There to freeze, but not to sleep,
For the sheets that look so nice.
Are to you two sheets of ice. I
How to tell a lawyer.
A few days since, a gentleman, Being beyond
the limits of his neighborhood, inquired of a
pert negro-if the road ho was traveling led to a
certain place. Cuifee gave Ihc required infor
mation, but seemed curious to know who the
stranger was, aS well as his occupation. If or
the fun of the thing, the traveler concluded to
humor ebony a little, and the following dia-
logue ensued
“ Sly name is —, ami as to the business
I follow, if you-are at all, smart you can guess
that (rom my’ appearance—can't you tell that I
am a timber cutter .
“No, boss, you no timbei‘'culter.”
“ An ovcrseer. lhen ?”
“ No, sir, you no look iiko one,”
“ Wlmt say you. to my being a doctor ?”
•• Don’t tlii'nk so, boss. dey i-idc in sulky.”
" Well, hon’ do you think I will do for a
preacher?" ;
*• I sort’r spects you is dat, sir.”
“ Pshaw, cufl'cc, you are a greater fool (han
I took you for—don’t I look more like a law
yer than anything else?" ’
. .“No, sir ee, boss, don't dat.”
“Why, cuflee?” . .
“Why, now-, you see, I’so been ridiri’ wid
you for a mile, and you hain’t cussed any, aud
you know lawyers always cusses."
Marshal Key’s Death Scene.
The vengeance of the allied powers demands
some victims, and the intrepid Key, who had
well nigli put the crown again on JJonapartu’a
head, was one. to ho one of them. Condemned
to bo shot, lip was led to the garden of Luxen
hurg, on tho morning of the 7th of December,
and placed in front of a tile of soldiers drawn
np to kill him. One of the officers stepped up
to bandage his eyes, but he stopped him say
ing, “Are you ignorant .that for twenty-live
years I have been accustomed to face both ball
and bullet?” He then lifted his hat above-bis
head, and said in his same calm voice “I de
clare before Cod and man, that I never betray
ed my country; may my death render iter hap.
py. Vivo la Franco!” He then turned to the
soldiers and striking his hand on his heart,
gave the order, “Soldiers, fire!” A simulta
neous discharge followed, and the “ bravest of
the bravo” sank to rise no more.
“ Ho who hud fought five hundred battles fdr
France, not ono against her, was shot as a tra
tor!’*,
As i Iddked on tho spot whetc ho fell, 1 could
not but sigh over his fato. ■ True, ho broke his
Oath of allegiance i so did others, carried away
by their attachment to Napoleon, and the en
thusiasm that hailed his approach to Paris; still
ho was no trallot.
0= A married woman was brought before a
Virginia justice charged with larceny ol some
pewter plates. After hearing the evidence, and
deciding that the woman Was guilty, he ordered,
that ten lashes should bo inflicted upon, her
husband, who was then and there present, giv
ing as his reason that this Scriptures declared
that man and wife were one flesh, and. as the
wife Was tho .wcaker vessel, it was right that
the man-should bear half' the penalty.
rrs- At a dinner in Springfield, Massachu
setts, a lady sent tho following volunteer toaSt :
i‘Spruce old bachelors—tho cccr greens Of so
ciety.”
K 7” A, dozen printing offices ore now for sale
in Indiana. • v - ■
O’ A gang of buVgiara arc plundering tho
river twons along the Ohio.
IC7“ The Chicago, lowa and Nebraska Rail
road is completed to Lisbon, lowa.
(LT”Tho office of ,'City Marshal, in Cincin
nati, is said to be worth 320,000 a year. ‘
[C/ 3 Practice without - knowledge is blind,
and knowledge without practice is lame. • -
(LT*-*! kriow,” said Tipitey, “ water,is- a
fine thing, but is so dreadful linn.”
OCT” Horace Greeley will riot withdraw from
lie Tribune.
NO. 34.
(C7* Jlte daily sale of slaves, in Richmond,
Va., last week, averaged $85,000.
\rj~ Tii s tohaccorirop of Ohio for tlic current
ydar is estimated to be worth 53,000,000
O’- Moderation is the silken string running
-through the pearl-chain of all virtue.
Q^,o,irc,hpur_gaincdjb£^
a month of labor in the year. ' ~~
O” Were it riot forMie tears that fill otfr
eyes, what an ocean would fill our breast v ,
017“ Why is it easier to be a clergyman than
a physician ? Because it is easier to preach
than to practice..
(C7“A number of young men in Palmyra,
N. Y., have organized a company to go to
Pike’s'Peak in the Spring. -
K7* Woman—thc lnst and best of all the se
ries. If we have nna for a toast, we won’t ask
for any but her (butter.) - i
0” Heat rnriiics to such an extent that it
can be made to occupy 5,500 times tlic space it
did before. ,
(£7» Mynheer Drinkcnhoff, makes a distinc
tion thus : “ Too much whiskey- is too ranch,
but too much lager-bier is shoost right.”
OC7“ Of rill the delicate sensations the mind is
capable Of, none, perhaps, will surpass that
which attends the relief of an avowed enemy. .
ladies of Georgia,have palled a State
Fair to 6e held at Augusta, Feb, 15, to increase
the Mt. Vernon Fund.
(C? Tho next ipecling of the Pennsylvania
Editorial Union will be held At Harrisburg, ori
tho loth of Febauary.
O” The total distance between St. Louis and
San Francisco, by the new overland route, is
27C5 miles.
fl'T'.Mr. Alex. Duncan; of Providence, E. 1.,
has recently made a donation of $lO,OOO to the
Butler Asylum for the insane.
(C7* A correspondent of the Richmond Exam
iner, named Cralle, says that John C. Calhoun
was a Swedenborgiam .. ..
In England railroad cars are not warmed
at all. In Prance they ate. admirably warmed
by cylinders ot hot Water.
OCT* Quite a number of animals,have died ah
Elk ton, Md., supposed to have been bitten by
mad dogs.
BCTT.Why is it retired carpenter like a lectur
er i Because he is cx-plancr.
U^ii’OiiN r love.— The love of a lady for ad
officer who wears a love of a uniform.
OCT* “ You look as though you were beside „
yourself,” saida wag to a foil standing by a
donkey. , . ” . .
0“ What is-the difference between a good
soldier and a fashionable lady 1 One faces the
powder, and tho other powders the faces.
DCT - Every man mm t in a measure bo nlono
in the; world. No hear), was ever, cast in .’the
same mould as that Which we bear within us.
DC7* The House of Representatives of Ohio,
has refused to make seven per cent, the legal
rate of interest instead of ten. ■ ■
DCT* English papers report the recent death of
a woman in London, 92 years of age, who was
born in the room in .which she died, and never .
slept put of it for a night in her long life time.' '
OCT* Jerry Diggs remembered his miserly;uri-‘
ole in his will, for he beipiathcd “ to ray moth
er’s brotheragtin flint, and a knife to skin it
with.” :
DC7* The New York News proposes tho for
mation of the cities of Hew York and Brooklyn
into a separate -state. They should .be named
Sodom and Gomorrah.
A boarding-house keeper advertises to
“ furnish gentlemen with pleasant and comfort
able rooms, also one or two gentlemen with
wives.”
(HT” A company of young men are.organs
zing to start from Indiana' to Pike’s Peak, in
April next. They calculate the expense at
$l3O each. , - . ;
(£7* Those men talk most who are in the
greatest mental darkness—frogs cease’ their
croaking when light is brought to the water
side. ■ .
ttZr" A young, handsome, and hitherto re
spectable, married lady, of Buffalo, was recent
ly, arrested for public intoxication, and sent up
for thirty days.
Bela Squires, a widower, mafrfied Wary
Oronitxc, a widow, a Tew days, since, in Hart-'
ford, Conn. They commence their matrimoni
al engagement with 20childrun. ,
The Sabbath.—
A Sabbath well spent .
Brings a xveek of content.
And health for the toils of the morrow ;
But a Sabbath profaned,
Whatsoever be gained
Is a sure fore'runnerof sorrow.
(£7* The Royal Wail steamship Africa sailed
on the SOth inst,. for Liverpool, with the mails;
one hundred anti twenty passengers, and $474,•
590 in specie. '■ i
K 7” Two sinvesofeX-President Polk’s widow,
in Tollab-alohie county. Tenn., have been cori
vioted of a conspiracy to make insurrection, an
offense which is punishable with death.
AVaum Reception.—
Rnstiois wroto.a letter;to liis love, .
And filled it full of warm and keen desire;
ite hoped to raise aflame— and so he did;
0“ The value of food in New York
during 1858 is estimated at §12,000,000 and
the number 6( quadrupeds eaten was 191,374
beeves, 10,123 cows, 36,075 calves, 551,179
swine.
Fpigbau.—
A laborer in England riaffled Doc lately
lost his wife,.in endeavoring to,,eat ft {found of
raw sausage in two minutes. He had nearly ac
complished the disgusting feat, when the sau
sage stuck in-his throart, and caused his death.
A priest was called upon 1 to pray over
tho barren Acids ol hia.parishoners. He passed
from ono enclosure to another, and pronounced
his benediction, until ho came to a most un
promising case. He surveyed its sterile acres
in despair. “Ah!" said he. “brothcren-no
use to pray here—this needs manure!”
A French cbfaipany, organized at ‘ the
wish of the Emperor, ate about to purchase the
Collins steamers, to be placedwith others, as a
regular lino of paokols between Franco and Now
Fork, the French government having agreed to
pay to the company a yearly sum of §15,000,-
000 francs.
Yy~ The first newspaper in Ohio, was print
ed in 1790.
fete ; flnS ’fete.
Tlic lady pul his nonsense in the fire !
Fee simple, and a simple fee,
And all the fees in tail;
Arc nothing whqn compared to thee
Thou beat of fees—female.