!ar volunteer. lyifeßY THURSDAY MORNING. BT ii B. Braltom TERMS. One Dollar and Fifty Cents, j Two Dollars if paid within tlio Dollars and Fifty-Cents, if not year. These torips will bo rig , in every instance. Mo sub mtinued until nil arrearages are Iho option of the Editor. ents: —AocompaniedbythccAsir, ling one square, will bo inserted One Dollar, and twenty-flve cents onal insertion. Thoseofagrcat •oportion. . i—Such a? Hand-bills, Posting-, i, Blanks, Labels, &c.,&c.,eXe iracy and at the shortest notice. |WmL t THE BRIGHT SIDE. . . prithee, tell me why t i i vtfs«£SUways wear a smile: look wan and sad, ‘S<s'sdo you care beguile 7 doomed to care and penury, adThowing down with age, •ill light-hearted, blithe, and gay, tread life’s weary stage.” ,1 thee all, my youthful friend,” ;ood old man replied— co’er may hap, 1 always look i tho brightest side, the land, there’s not a man, hard soo’er his lot,, he will, can often find it and sunny spot. lived and toiled for many a year jath the summer’s sun, . i the winter cold and drear, labor still went oou i that varied course *f years much of ill betide, ill I always strove to look ih.tho brightest side. ;.' m sickness came, and hours of pain' *ged wearily along, lournings sad-and murmunngs vain ■ >ped from my feeble tongue, icarts were there, and kindly words softly on my ear, )ving Ones wore always nigh . tainting heart to cheer. through a long and wearied life learn’d this lesson well— this world of care and'strife, —.ore's more of good than ill; And o’er in poverty and toil, ’ Peace with us will abide; . Jlfan may be happy, if he will . But see the brightest side.” TUG ASPIRATION. .. . ■> ~-KiMy bark is On life’s troubled .sea, p I care not where it goes; . ft'V'i KWhat .matter life’s wild storms to me .7 *> Whafmaftor where it close 7 ||L(i. ‘ The best ot cartli, its hopes and joys, Are dreamy, lady things; SBjjT , V, c wislt, wo sigh, we grasp some prize (•feZ It flies on magic wings. V r . is not that I hate the world, i Or It has hated me; • . ‘' ■' It i s not that no eye hath smiled, r To light my weary way ■.■■■■ <r not because whate’er I loved, J « That death has loved it too : 1 " No, ’tis not tills that makes me sad, And careless where X go. , »<■ ;t . ■ i>vo madly loved, yet all in vain ; M. . still madly, still noblest, ■ mm.: ,- i love, and nurse the growing pam WBKjU'’;--.-That burnswithiqmy.breast., heart must weep, it will not break— rjiy, soul must writhe and bear— . Sfflßvi'. '3Lnd none shall know the inward ache, BHff, By word, or sign, or tear. P' XTnloved I como, unloved I go ; |p : , , , < What is there left for nie 7 h. ' What bitterness is yet to know, ■ B '' When gone for'ayo from thee 7 p ' When driven down life’s dark abyss, f' ■ - And death is hanging o’er, - S' '. I will not wish.l’d loved thee less, f I I Blit thou had’sf loved mo more. £ ' ' • BY I'. HENRY, i ffitarcllaneoua. tub Dorr of owning books. IT W-ABD BBECIIP' » N ' * V» form iudgments of men from little things f ilMut their houses, of which the owner, per : ‘ Imps, never thinks. In earlier years, when 1 ‘travelling in the West, where taverns Were fitter scarce, or in other places unknown, and flMfevelfy settler’s house was a houseof en^ t “"’' was a matter of some importance and »%lrihe experience to select wisely where,you put »®;'.,ihdwe always looked ,for flowers. If |||p''therewere no trees tor shade, no patch of Bow H C rs in the yard, we were suspicious of the place. |S? Bufe-ho matter liow rude the cabin, or rough ?l»Surrouhdiiigs, if we saw that the window held trough for flowers, and that some vines strings let down from the eaves, -confident that there was-somo taste jind wrefulnessin the. log cabin. In the new A:"fcountry:V w^ere have to tug for a living, it no one will take the trouble to rear flowers, un !l': less tbd love of them is pretty strong—and this If fciste blossoming out of plain and uncultivated p kpeople'is. itself, like a clump of hare bells grow ,v fnc*ont of the seams of a rock. We were sel misted. A patch of flowers came to sigm • Tv-Biha people, clean beds, and good bread. (Blit: other signs are more significant in other Ik slates of society. Flowers abopt a rich man s &V .houseimay signify only that he is a good gar ip', ‘denety fid that he has refined neighbors, and dobs what he sees them do. , , : Bufc.nien are not acciistomcd to buy books want them. If, on visiting the Ik-. . f'diS'elShk of a man of. slender means, I find the he hds cheap carpet, and very plain S®Mbrnilure, to be that he may purchase books, he iiiK<HjseSsA once ,in my esteem. Books are not but there is nothing else Sp'P ilhaclsdiibcautifully .furnishes a house. The plainest row of books that cloth or paper ever pfi covere'd’is more significant of refinement than yT most elaborately carved etagerc, or stde f' ‘lwanß a houso furnis hed with books rather thah'furniture! Both, if you can, but books , rate 1 To spend several days in a .V ‘ house, and hunger for something to y° u aro trea , ding . upon u°? tly car ; sittinir upon luxurious chairs, and flllhMphig upon down, is as if one were bribing mr tho sake of cheating your mind, '"j-sitnot pitiable to see a mam growing rich. ,T ind becoming to augment the comforts of V-'homerand lavishing money upon ostentatious nXolatery. upon the table, upon every thing hot wh«t the squl needs 1 ■ * We know of many and many a rich man s hodse whereit would not be safe to ask for the : ‘commbnest English classics. A few garish an ' 'hbald ’dii'thiß table, a jew pictorial monstrosities togelhcr with tho stock of religious books of hia persuasion, and that is all! No range of poets, essayists, no selection, of historians, no travels 9P ,biographies —no select fictions or le : but then, the walls cost three ‘^dollarsftjlroil. and the floors have carpets that '■ Cost fottCdollars a yard! Books are the win idoWs throtigh which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without windows* - i No man has a right to bring up his children , surrounding them with Ijooks, if ho has , f’JhiOßoans to buy them. It is a wrong to his , ,lMhily. He cheats them! Children learn to by being in the presence of books. The ‘ of knowledge comes with reading, arid BT HBKRT W-ABD BEECHER. aiumraalSP) o I uut f f r V '" ”UM BY JOHN B. BRATTON, YOL. 45 grows upon it. And the lovo of knowledge in the young mind is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices. Let us pity- those poor rich men who live barrenly in great bookless houses. Let us con gratulate the poor that, in our day, books are so cheap that a man may every year add one hundred volumes to his library for the price of what his tobacco and beer would cost him.- Among the earliest ambitions to be excited in clerks, workmen, journeymen, and, _ indeed, among all that are struggling up in life from nothing to something, is that of owning, and constantly adding to, a library of good books. A little library growing larger every year is an honorable part of young man s history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life. How to Bead with Profit. For tho sake of those who are not accus tomed to systematic reading, we make some suggestions as to the best mode of reading, so as to gain the highest advantage from the books they peruse; , 1. Ascertain tho aim of the author. Ton will thus know what to expect from his book, and may save, much time, which might other wise be spent in looking for what you could not find. An attentive reading of the title page, preface, and table of contents, will enable you to judge pretty accurately what the author is about. Some facts, too, which doat only among intelligent men, will aid you greatly in these matters. • 2. Read walccfuUy.md attentively, and with a determination to comprehend thoroughly the book yon are perusing. Read neither crcdu lovsly nor skeptically; but candidly ; ■ endea voring to go to the root of the matter; if possi ble. An hour of such reading is worth a wick of the superficial reading which is so com mon. „ 3. Read mlh n dictionary at youi^elbow, and consult it freely whenever you word you are not sure you understand. Webster and Worcester are the best in general use. We use Webster. Never pass an important word Without mastering its incaShg in the work you arc reading. In this way soon gain a stock of good words for your own use, while you .are learning the meaning of the book *yoU are reading. .... 4. After reading a chapter, close the book and try to recall- and state briefly in your own language* the substance of the chapter, id the order the author pursues- This is one of the most profitable exercises. It will show you just how much you have gained by reading. !f you cannot do this, just read ihe chaptcr again. The second rending will probably do < you some good. The first reading has been of little use to you, if you are unable to state what the main thoughts are. 5. If the book is your own—bu t not, if itis a borrowed one—you may mark with a pencil the most important thoughts. You will thus re member them more easily, and can refer to them more readily. . „ : - Adopting these suggestions, you will read slowly- but what you read will.become. ynufs. It will'stir up your own .thoughts, and proba bly develops your mental power as healthfully as any other disciple you can have. —Ohio Far mer. The Objects of Life. o Knavery may serve a.turn, but honesty is best in the end.” « Let not your tongue cut your throat. “ False friendsare worse than open enemies. , << Never carry two laces-under one hood. The Look Haven Democrat ven ture,,to say that there is ho person, even those addicted to misrepresentation, and go-between, busy-body-ism, but will confess that the above proverbs are true to the letter. • j We will consider this subject in two respects: Ist, the person who utters truth or falsehood ; and 2d, th? person.to whom spoken.. The per son who speaks concerning any occurrence, facts or person, should always speak the truth, because ho can, with the aid of his senses, have but a circumscribed knowledge of it. There fore he is under the necessity of putting reli ance upon others for much of this knowledge; and otten, he must depend entirely upon the ipse dixit of one individual. Now, consider for but a moment how vast and important concerns of life hang upon those words Which pass between individuals, and then you cannot but perceive how enmities, embar rassments, breaking up of social circles, and other evils, may often ensue upon a few words I spoken, perhaps carelessly. As speaking the 1 truth is a virtue of no ordinary merit, so a liar is held in the utmost contempt. Even the most degraded regard it is a great disgrace to be charged with lying. The liar always resorts to this vice in order to promote his interests m some way ; or else to injure some one at whom he has some spile; oftentimes these two motives are combined . ' No man ever, yet, for a laudible end, told a lie — it was always to gain a stealthy pace upon some unsuspecting victim by dishon est and dishonorable means. _ Both natural and divine law. obviously forbid wilful falsehood. Whv should men or boys He ? It rarely happens' that the lie is success ful. The liar is generally detected, and even if not, is as injurious to him. Suppose him' to escape both detection and suspicion he lives id constant fear that his secret will out. If he keeps the secret, still he feels that he is a har. He therefore soon looks like one. If no motive greater than self-interest prompted a man to speak the truth, this should; be enough; because the roan who is known-to lie, cannot bo behoved even when ho speaks the truth, and the moment after he has left the social circle, all join in de spising him.' . In, the courts of justice, his reputation for ly ing follows him, because ho who will not speak the truth in the common affairs of life, can ea sily be influenced in higher matters—twelve im partial persons will set his testimony aside. — Whatever the object be, lying generally fails. If it be to wrong an innocent man by a false charge, he falls into • the hands of the law for malice —or else is despised by the community at largo. If every criminal enclosed within our State’s, or other prisons, were asked, what was your first step from innocence and purity ? His answer would be, telling n falsehood.' In fact, the old adage is literally true—" show me a liar and I will show yon a thief." The boy or man who will deliberately injure, or attempt to steal an honest man’s character, will not dis dain to steal his or other people’s property, and thus associated ns the two vices are they become the parent of others. Therefore, let us say to . rich and poor alike, ■ u Honor and tamo from no condition rise, ,o Act wejl your part, there all the honor lies.” le- “Tell me, ye angelic hosts, Ye messengers of love,” Shall suflering Printers here below, Have no redress above 1 The angel bards replied— • „ To us in knowledge given; Delinquents on the Printer's books, Can never enter heaven! OCT" The culture of the social feelings, under the dew and sunshine of religion, is a duty ns well ns a pleasure. CAUDLE LECTURES. MU. CAUDLE HAS LENT FIVE POUNDS TO A FRIEND. You ought to he very rich, Mr. Caudle. I wonder whoM lend you five pounds? But so it is; a wife may work and may slave T Ha, dear ! the many things that might have been done with five pounds. As if people picked up money in the street! But you always were a fool, Mr. Candle! I’ve wanted a black satin gown these three years, and that five pounds would have pretty well bought it. But it’s nu matter how I go—not at all.. Everybody says I don’t dress as becomes your wife—and I donl; but what’s that to you, Mr. Caudle ? Nothing. Oh, no! you can have fine fieelings for every body but those belonging to you. I wish peo ple knew you as I do—that’s all. You like to be called liberal—and your poor family pays for it All the girls want bonnets, nntwu... iy are to cojne from I can’t tell. Half five pounds would have bought now they must go without. Of course they belong to you; and any body but your own flesh ■ and blood, Mr. Caudle. The man called for the water-rate to-day, but I.should like to know how people are to pay taxes, who throw away five pounds to every fellow that asks them; Perhaps you don’t know that Jack this morning knocked his shuttlecock through his bed-room window. I Was going to send (or the glazier to mend it, but after you lent that five pounds I was sure we couldn’t aflord it. Oh, no, the window must go .as it is; and pretty weather for a dear child ,to sleep with a broken window. He’s got a cold already on his lungs, and .I shouldn't at all wonder if that broken window settled him. If the dear boy dies, his death willbe on hjs father’s head; for I’m sure we can’t now pay to mend windows. We might, though, and do a good many more things, too, if people didn’t throw away their five pounds. . • I wonder where poor little Cherub is? While you were lending five pounds, the dog ran out of the shop. You knew I never let it go into the street, for fear it should be bitten by some mad dog, and come home and bite all the ohil* dren. It wouldn't now at all astonish me if .the animal was to. come hack with the hydrophobia and give it to all.the family. However, what’s 'your family to you, so you can play the liberal creature for five pounds! , " Do you hear the shutter, how it’s banging to and fro ? Yes, I know 1 what it wants as well as you —it wants a now fastening. I was go ing to send for the blacksmith to-day, but now it’s out of question;, now it must bang of nights, since you’ve thrown away five pounds. Ha ! there’s the soot falling down the chim ney. If I hate the smell of anything, it’s the smoll'of soot. And you know it is: but what are my feelings to you ? Sweep the chimney! Yes, it’s all very fine to say, sweep the chim ney—but how are chimneys to be swept—-how, are they to.be paid for by people who don’t care for five pounds ? • ... —Do you ...hear tha. mice running--o.bou.t the room?, I hear theth. If they were only to drag you out of bed, it. would, be no matter. Set a trap for them ! Yes, it’s easy enough to say—set a trap for em. ■ But how are people to afford the cheese, when every day they lose five pounds? . . .. Hark 1 I’m sure there’s a noise down stairs. It wouldn’t at all surprise me if there were thieves in the bouse. Well, it may bo the cat; put thieves are pretty sure to coma in some night. There’s a wretched fastening to the back door, but these. are not times - to afford bolts and bars, when foools won’t take' care of their five pounds." Mary Anne ought to have gone to the den tist’s to morrow. She wants three- teeth taken out. Now, it can’t be done. Three teeth that quite disfigure the child’s month. But there they must stop, and spoil the sweetest face that was ever made. Otherwise, she d have been the wife of a lord. Now, when she grows up, who’ll have her ? Nobody. We shall die, and leave her alone and unprotected in the world.— But what do you care for that ? Nothing ; so that you can squander away five pounds. “ And thus," comments Caudle, “ according ; to my wife, she—dear soul! —couldn’t have a satin gown—the girls couldn’t have new bon nets—the wafer rate must stand over--Jack must get his death through a broken wmdow; our fire insurance couldn’t be paid, so that we should all fall victims to the devouring clement —wo couldn’t go to Margate, and Caroline would go to an early grave—the dog would come baak home and bite us all mad—the soot would always fall—the mice never let us have a wink of sleep—thieves bo always breaking m to the house—our'dear Mary Anno ho forever left an unprotected maid—and with other evils falling upon us, all because I would go on lend ing five pounds!” . - : The Right Bird, Odd and good ia bid Dr. Nichols, who for merly practised medicine. ■ As the calls and fees did not come fast enough to please him, he added an apothecary’s shop to his business for the retail of drugs and medicines. Ho had a great sign painted to attract the wondering eyes of the villagers, and the doctor loved to stand in front of the shop, and explain.its beauties to the gaping beholders. One of these, an Irish man, who gazed at it for a while with a comical look, and then exclaimed: . “Och, by tie powers, doctor, if it is not Bne 1 But there’s something a little bit wanting in it . "And what, pray, is that 1” asked the doc tor. _ . , , “Why, you see,” said Pat, “you’ve got a beautiful sheet of water here, and not a bit of a bird swimming in it.” “Aye, yes," replied the doctor,“that’s a good thought. I'll have a couple,of swans painted there—wouldn’t they be fine!” “Faith, and I don t know but -they would, sir,”said Pat; “but I’m after thinking of another bird as would be much more appropri ate.” . ■ “And what’s that V’ asked the doctor. _ ‘.Why, I can’t exactly think of his namojist now, but ho is one of them kind of birds that when he sings he says ‘quack, quack U’ The last that was seen of Pat and tpe doctor, Pat was.running for life and the doctor after him. Fasiilt Failings. In many families where both love and good temper prevail, there is what may ho called an irksome rather than a sinful mode of carping at and contradicting one another. No harm is meant, and no offence is taken ; but what can ho more irksome than to hear two sisters, for instance, continually setting each other right upon some trifling points, and differ, ing from each other in opinion for no apparent reason, but contradiction ? And such a habit does it become that one may sometimes see persons who hare acquired it, contradict their statements, just mudo, the moment any ono ad vances the same opinion. It is generally on such trifles that this bad habit shows itself, so that it may seem needless to advert to it; but it is a family fault, it is an annoyance, though but a putty one, never to bo able to open your lips without being harrassed by such contradictions. <‘ OUR. COUNTRY —MAT IT ALWAYS BB RIGHT —EOT RIGHT OB WRONG, OUR COUNTRY. CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1859. Young readers, do you. knoi the little am mals—birds, bgasts, and insects, are good me chanics, skilled in business apdbuilding opera tion 7 This is true; and whaV they do is done systematically, with neatness, and despatch.— Nor do they idle, lounge about; or stop to play, till the work is done, and welffdono. The Otter and the Heron are; the fishermen, though they use neither lino bor net. The Ot ter we seldom see, for ho woths his traps-most. ly under water - ; but .the Herod may often he seen standing with his loll|ijr*UUi legs in the shallow part of the atreanf./snddenly plunging his long bill below this surfacK.’iitid bringing np a fish, ' . . . , ... Ants are day laborers, and jyhry industrious in their calling; in earnest at thoirwork. Catch thejn daytime if you can I They set $s an cxaiii jlo of industry. £(Ants freely work wUhoftlTdliguise, Their ways consider und bo ‘W'sa. ,) The swallow is a the nutter that ho daily catches would astonish you. You often see him in his yocation.skhoniiug along tilo surface of the brook or pond. The bearer is a wood-cutter, a builder ana a mason; a very good workman ot (ill these trades. He fells the small trees with hit teeth, and after ho hnjr built his house, bo it carefully withhis tail trowel. ■£., , r ‘ ' „ The wasp is a pape#mdker,;lwhis building.- Hls paper is water-prpof, and Wue of materials that no other paperr.maker.wftnld use. TLook at the curious wasps?, paper dwel lings—not patented are they?:!-. • Singing birds ana ex cel all others in harmony. Hardly can wo de cide which of them excels—theJark, the robin, the thrush, or the . id-ft’lero the' «On the feathery wing the&rovo, ; And wake with harmony <th(|'grove. The fire-fly and the glow-worm are lamp lighters. The hee is a of geometry j for he constructs his cell so';SCmDtiBca]ly, that tho least possible amount .of is formed into the largest spaces, with .waste of room. Not all the Cambridge, could improve the .construction;Pf his colls.— Nor, can the best hermetrical sellers among us preserve provisions so well. ,v.i / ... Tho caterpiller is 9.' aills:,spipiior>Tar expelling .any other in his line of business; indeed we could not learn an art that wbhld supply any silk worth the name without him#, With what wonderful properties and powers has it pleased our Heavenly to endow tho lowly creatures! ■ * * , Young friends, is not this. marvel lously wonderful ? Who endowed those animals with wisdom 7. God! Who,ofvps could make cells or honey like the bee, silk! like the silk worm, or. music like the singing .'birds? iruiy the. goodness of God is sepn in hjl his works.. Be Sure You Are ( The injustice done:.tb,.pBrA'S®ib<>rßas well ( as to ourselves by tioh of facts, Is perhaps ■ extent ol its baneful influencejB, J to.anyitem in the list of man’s inhumanities to map countless millions too readily lead, us to embrace ff£ ( without further , perhaps, only to wound nocont, and to suffer-ddrselvds upon conviotipn of our error. To, thp motivos.of our neighbors is a serious matter, and. tends- many times to very serious results* and they, who think to censure with impunity without, jpositive evidence of the wrong done, by the party cen. ; aured, must oven sutler the.sevcrest penalty^, Ho who acts deliberately, and conscientious ly. triumphs as certainly as truth is superior to error, and the consciousness of right in one a own heart gives a peace of .mipd; and affords that sweet rest which malignity cannot disturb. «Bo sure you are, right, then go ahead, and though falsified and maligned as you may he, your course will stand the teat of timoj and they who draw hasty and erroneous conclusions from appearances, and misrepresent because they have not fully examined the facts* must sooner or later acknowledge the truth and suffer that mortification which a candid acknowledgement of their error alone' can cure. Duties and Pieasckus of Women.—Great indeed is the task- assigned to women. Who can exaggerate its importance? Not to mato laws, not to govern empires, but to form those by whom laws are made, armies led and empires governed; to guard from the slightest taint of possible infirmity, the frail and yet spotless, creatures whoso moral, no. loss than physical being must ho derived from her; to inspire those principles, to inculcate those doctrines, to animate those sentiments which generations yet unborn, and nations yet uncivilized, shall leam to bless; to soften firmness into mercy, to cha sten honor into virtue j by her soothing cares to allay the anguish of the mind i by her purity to triumph over sense ; to cheer the scholar labor ing under his toil; to console the statesman for the ingratitude of a mistaken people; to com pensate for hopes that, are blighted, for the friends that are perfidious, for happiness that has passed away. Snch is her vocation. The couch of the tortured sufferer, the person of the deserted friends, the cross of the neglected Sa vior these are the theatres on which her great est triumphs have been achieved. . Such is her destiny; to visit the forsaken; amid the forget fulness of myriads, to remember; amid the exe crations of multitudes, to bless; whenmonarchs abandon, when' brethren and disdples fly, to re main unshaken and unchanged, and to exhibit in this lower world a fypo of that love, pure, constant, and ineffable, which m another world, as we are taught to believe, is the best reward of virtue. ' Evening Hours for MccHANioa.-Wlmt have evening hours done for mechanics who had only ten hours’ toil ? Hatkon to facts: t 6“ One o« fto best the Westminster Review could ever boast of,-and one of the most brilliant writers of the passing hour, was acoop er in Aberdeen. One of the editors of the London Daily Journal was a baker, in Elgin ; nftrhimq one of tho best reporters of tho London of the Witness was a stone-mason. One of the ablest ministers in London was a blacksmith in Dundee, and another was a watchmaker in Banff Tho late Dr. Milne, of China,.was a herd boy in Rhvne. The principal of the London Mission ary Society's College, at Bong Kong, was a saddler in Huntly. and One of the’ best arioa that over went to Indiawari a Keith. Tfio leading machinist on, tho London and Birmingham railway was a mechanic in Glasgow, and perhaps the veiy. richest iron founder in England was a workingman in Mo rap. ■ Sir James Clark, her majesty a physician* was a druggist in Banff. Joseph,Hum?.was a, sailor first, and then a laborer at the jportarand pestle, in Montrose; Mr. M Gregor, fho memfjer from Glasgow, was a poor boy, in.Rossniro. James ’Wilson, the momborfrom Westbury, was a ploughman, in Haddington,; and Arthur An derson! tho member from Orkney, carnodhis bread by the sweat of his brow in tho Ultima Thule. ' 0»lt costs a deal of money to be rich, and it is a question if so much is worth so little . After all, is wealth worth the cost, first in ac quiring it, next in supporting it, and lastly, in bearing up under it when you have lost it I. a . ■ Punch. o*Lifo runfi not smoothly at all seasons, even with the happiest; hut after a long course, the rocks subside, the views widen, and it flows on 1 more equably at- the end. — Landor . A Lesson for Boys and Citls. A Practical Memory. A clergyman in Wiltshire, walking near a brook, observed a woman washing wool in a stream. This was done by puttinglt in a scivc, and then dipping the seive in the water repeat edly, until the wool became white and clean.— Ho engaged in conversation with her, and, from some expressioh 'she dropped, asked her it she know him. > , T , , ~ « Oh yes, sir,” she replied, “and I hope shall have reason to bless God to eternity for liming heard you preach at W- »°w® fears ago. Yonr sermon was the means of doing mo great g °«X rejoice to hear it. Fray what-was the BU “ Ah/air, Ican’t recollect that, my memory is so bad.” «How, then, can the sermon have done you so much good, if you don’t remember even what it was about 7” . „ “ Sir, my mind is like this sieve; the sieve docs not hold the water, hut as the water runs through, it cleanses.the wool; so my memory does not retain the words X hear, but as they pass through ray heart, by God’s grace, they cleanse it. Now Ino longer love sin, and every day I entreat my Savior to wash mo in his own. blood, and to cleanse mo from all sin;” ' - A Speech on Scolding Wives. At a Young Men’s Debating- Society some where out in Illinois, the question of discussion was, “Which.is the greatest evil—a scolding wife or a smoking chimney ?’ After the np poinlants had concluded tho debate, a spectator rose and begged the privilege of making a lew remarks on tho occasion. Permission being granted, he delivered himself in this way : “Mr. President—l’ve been almost mart lis tening to the debate of these youngsters. Ahoy, don’t know anything about a scolding wife. Wait till they have had one ! upwards of .eight years, and-hammered and jnmmered and jawed at all the while-wait till they have been scal ded because the fire wouldn’t burn: because the oven was too hot; because the cow kicked over the milk; because,the sun shined ; because the hens didn’t lay; ,because the butter would not come; because they were too soon lor din ner ; because they were one minute too late: because they slapped the young ones; because they tore their trowaers, or because they did anything, whether they, could help it or not, beforo they begin to talk of the evils of a scot a 'wby[ e Mr, President, I’d rather hear the clatter of hammer and stones, and twenty tin pans, and nine brass kettles, than a din dm 01 £ scolding wife. Yes sir ce, thews my senti ments. To my mind, Mr. President, n smokj chimney is no more to be compared toasooldmg wife than a little negro is to a dark night.. CnißOGnAruY.— Good penmanship does not consist in sprcad-eaglo flourishes and five-story capitals I . True, there should bo a freenesa-of movement in the hand and arm, evinced by the pon-tracings, but never any We ■like a plain, round hand-writing., that is me boat phase of cbirography which is most easily read. Affected penmanship, like mock polish of any sort, is devoid oi grace and beauty. ~We.hear, of some groat men jwhoajenot .good penmen, hut their faulty penmanship does not make them great. Wo know of some halfr hatched- lawyers, and aspiring young men _oi other vocafions, who claim,to bo greatond dis tinguished in proportion ,to tho awkwardness and uninlolligibility ot their scribbling-ship.— And if such were the gange of guessing at great ness, how incomprehensibly great some men would be I ■ , • A good story is fold of tho wretched writing of a certain very celebrated. Railroad manager in Michigan. He had written a letter to a man on tho Contralrdute, notifying him that he must remove a bam that !h some way incommoded the road, under the penalty of prosecution.— Tho threatened map was unable to road any part of the letter but the signature! but he took it to bo a free, pass, over tho .road, and used it for a couple of years as such, none ol the conductors ' being able to dispute bis interpretation oi tbo E document! —School Visitor. The Fiust White Woman in Downikviixe, Oax..—Downieville, California, being perched high up in the mountains, was not gladdened by the sight of a white woman until a long time after the miners had been there: and ma ny of them,' hot having seen' a woman for many months, made the arrival of the pioneer of the fair sex the occasion for a grand demonstra tion, which is chronicled by the San Andress Independent. . The men all turned out. setting their best foot foremost. Several shirts were aported on the occasion, and a certain member of Congress, to mark his high satisfaction, drew from the bottom of his clothes box. an antique “ yaller vest,” that bad not seen the light for many a month. The-boys, dressed in their neatest duds, were grouped around in every part of the camp, eager to catch sight of the first p'etticoat that was to flutter in the moun tain breeze. Long, and anxious was the sus pense, but toward evening the new comer hove in sight. Cheer upon cheer greeted her. The rooks and hills fairly rang with their joyous shouts. The lady was pale, and seemed frigh tened nt the apparent madness oi such a rcccp tion : and her surprise was by no. means dimin ished when, again and again, ‘• three times three” was proposed and vociferated m her lie nor. Such was the reception of the ‘ • Pioneer Woman of Downieville.” \ry m The latest case of faithful Biddyism is chronicled by the Greenfield, Mass., Gazette :. An Irish girl was despatched to a neighbor s with a note, and directed to give it personally to-the person addressed. On ai rival, Biddy found that the neighbor bad gonotokorthamp ton, whither she wended her way. twelve miles, oh foot, and traversed the streets till she found the individual and delivered the note. She then started to return, stopping over night with some friends, and reaching home next day. when she told her mistress that she must give up her place, for she could not go any more such long errands. ny “There are few countries which," says Dean Swift, “if well cultivated, would hot sup port double the number of their inhabitants, and yet fewer where one-third of the people arc not extremely stinted even in the necessaries of life. I send out twenty barrels of corn, which would maintain a family in bread for a year, and f bring back in return a barrel of Wine, which half a dozen good fellows would drink in less, than a month at the expense of their health and reason." But what would the worthy Dean say could he Witness the criminal speculators’conduct now, by by which artificial scarcity id h hun dred fold increased. A Lowerin' a" Dilemma. — An unfortunat swain who has been duped by some fair mai den, thus"relates the cade: With whiskers thick upon my face, . 1 went my fair ,to see ;, She told mo she coiild never love A beau faced man like me., ~ I shaved them clean and called again. And thougt my trouble o’er, Sho laughed outright, and said I was More babe faced than bclore. IX7” Mexico had seven Presidents in of January. 1&T $2,00 PER ANN A Boy for the Times. We like an active boy : one who has the im pulse of the age-of the steam-engine nf him.— A lady, plodding, snail-paced Chap, might have got along in the world fifty years’ ago : but he won’t do for these times. We live in an age of quick ideas; men think quick—speak quick eat. sleep, court, marry, die quick—and slow conches ain’t tolerated. “Go ahead if you burst your biler, is the motto of the age; and he succeeds the beat in every lino of business, who-has the most of the do or-die in him. Strive boys, to catch the spirit of the times: be up and dressed always, no grasping and rub bing your eyes; as if you were half asleep, but wide awake, whatever may turn up—and you may be somebody before you die. Think, plan, reflect ns much as you please before you act; but think quickly and closely, and when you have fixed your eyes upon an ob ject, spring to the mark at once. But Above alf things bo honest. If you in tend to be an artist, carve it in the wood, chisel it in marble; if a merchant, write it in your day book and spread it in capitals in your ledger. Let honesty of purpose be your guiding star. Unconscious Influence. The very handling of the .nursery is signifi cant, and the petulance, the passion, the gentle ness, the tranquility indicated by it; are all re produced in the child. His soul is a purely re ceptive nature, and that, for a considerable pe riod, without choice or selection., A little far- ■ thcr on, he begins voluntarily to copy every thing he sees. Voice, manner, gait, everything which the eye sees, the mimic instinct delights to act over. And thus we have a whole gener ation of future men, receiving from us their very beginnings, and the. deepest impulses ot their life and immortality. They, watch us every moment, in the family, before the hearth, and at the table ; and when we are meaning them no good or evil, when we are conscious of exerting no influence over them, they are draw ing from us impressions and molds of habit, which if wrong, no heavenly discipline can wholly remove; or. if right, no bad associations utterly dissipate. Now it may bo doubted. 1 think, whether, in all the active influence of our lives, we do as' much to shape the destiny of our fellow-men, ns we do in this single article of uncdnscious influence over children. Rhymes, Curious and True. I have never before, says the gossiper of the Washington Stales, come across the annexed lines. Few, I dare say, have read them. They are worth remembering,-for they express as much as roanv poems: ' . What is earth, sexton 1 A. place for digging graves. „ , , . What;is earth, rich man 1 A place to grow 0ll \Vhal is earth, miser? A place for digging 6 °What is earth, school-boy 1 A place for my What is earth, maiden I A place to be gay. Whafts earth, seamstress WA place where I W< What is earth, sluggard ?A. good place to What is earth, soldier ? A good place for battle.' . . . . What is earth, herdsman ?, A place to raise cattle. • What is earth, widow ? A place of true sor row. What is earth, tradesman ? I’ll tell you to morrow. _ , ~ . What is.earth, sick mas? Its nothing.to What is earth, sailor ? My homo is on. the sea. What is earth, statesman 1 A place to win fame. Paying Legislators.—An Ohio paper re lates tte following anecdote, which is certainly too good to be lost: Mr. Joe Whitehill, of Columbia, formerly Treasurer of the State of Ohio, .was a rough jo ker, even in his office. Some twenty years ago, a verdant member of the General Assembly, called at the State Treasury and said ho wanted * some money.’ How much do.you want ?” said Whitehill., “ Well! I—don’t—know,"said the member. <■ How do you suppose I can pay you money, then, if you don’t know ?” ■ , , “ Well, then, pay me about* what I have i i) V earned. , . „ .. Earned! "said Whitehill, “ earned ! You area member of the Legislature, ain't you? and if that’s all you want, I can pay you oft “what you’ve earned" very easy. 'Bob! give this member that ten dollar counterfeit bill we t c had so Ion"." ■ (£7" Boys are queer institutions, and have a happy faculty of extracting fun out of every thing that comes in their way. which it would be well lor them if they could preserve and ex ercise after they arrive at manhood’s estate. A six year old- will take more genuine pleasure out of turning summersets in a snow bank, playing shinney in a mud puddle, or shooting marbles with the thermometer down to zero, than his daddy could in a life time, with the wealth of a Rothschild at his command. DC7* The wise men of Prussia are predicting a grand future for the little Prince of a week; because his birthday is the. same os that of Frederick the Great; because the constellation known as Frederick’s honor stood in the zenith of Berlin at the moment of his entrance to light, and because, half an' hour later, another con stellation, “ The Stars in Crown and Sword," culminated over Berlin. Difficulties.— Wait not for your difficulties to coaso; there is no soldier’s glory to be won on peaceful Golds, nosaiior’sdaringtobo shown on sunny seas, no trust or friendship to bo pro. vod when all goes well. Faith, patience, heroic I love, devout courage and gentleness, are not to be formed when there are no doubts, no pains, no irritations, no difficulties. The highly favor ed are they who amid rebuffs are meek, amid chastisements are resigned, amid pains are cou rageous, amid provocations are gentle, amid enemies aro full of love, amid doubts hold fast the faith, amid sorrows And joy in Christ. t£7* Byron is said to have remarked that “the greatest trial to a woman’s beauty is th 6 un graceful act of eating egfes.’' Some Yankee re marks that the poe£ coaid never have seen a la dy hanging on by her, teeth to a biasing hot corn-cob. ■ O' Some tiuie since, a Mr. Michael Brady, of Philadelphia, was bitten by a white pet fox. At the time nothing serious was expected to .re sult from' the bite. Recently, however, Mr. Brady was attacked with quite a serious ill ness and exhibited unmistakable symptoms of. hydrophobia'., Ife suflered tho most intense ag ony, and died soon afterward. r ttA child uttered a very beautiful thought I while looking at the comet. Ho said it was Hi “God's railroad car, in which ho went riding (.through the sky ?” [from 1 the JUckport Mverluer.J | SihgiM History—A Itlillidnarrc ft a Bnf falo Work House? We have had related, to us the- following .fair gular narrative of an event that recently pired, which is aiiqost too, remarkable '.for fcrer denqe. The chain df oircomstanccs .which Ira' to the fortunate discovery savors of the roman tic. It adds, however, another proof of the'ad age that “ truth is stranger than fiction.” , , f “Some two weeks since, a young, man of gentlemanly address, and who, from appear ance, bore evidence of having seen belter days, , - arrived at Tdnawanda, and, calling at the house of Mr. Browning, of that place, begged frit something to eat, and asked for a situation.— He gave a history of his circumstances as fol lows : He said his father was wealthy, lived in France, arid that ho bad left his. ho'me, in that country, on a pleasure trip to the United States,- bringing with him 503,000 for spending money and other purposes. . ' . .. “ On landing in New York, 4nd after sojour* ning in that city a short tirne, ho deposited $20,000 with a banker, who was a Jew, He: was then led by some.new made acquaintances; into scenes of dissipation and,gaming, Where, lost the remainder of his money.. To add. to hiS misfortunes, the Jew banker also failed! arid swindled him out of the money he had depost- 3 ted with him. His father, he said, had a- bari kcr in New York, from whom he might hare, obtained assistance, but ho determined, from,: motives of pride and chagrin, not to appeal to-* him in his extremity, by giving a Statement :of his condition. On receiving, with some doubts » of its truthfulness, the above statement, Mr. . Browning took the young man into his employ;' for a few days, and sot him to work " packing shingles.” He afterwards Went to Buffalo.^— Mrs. Browning, in the meantime, however, out’ of motives of curiosity, wrote a letter to the ’ above mentioned banker, whom the young mad . , had stated was doing business for his father,' inquiring of him in regard W the truth of the matter. “ The banker, on receipt of Mrs.B s letter, immediately repaired to Touawanda, and con- • firmed the truth of the statement, And also rela ted other facts in connection With thoease more , wonderful still. Ho stated that lie had recent- - ly learned of the decease of jthe young man's father, who had died, leaving the young, iriah heir to 52,000,000, and also that $60,000 had ’ already been remitted, and was in the bands of " himself. The bariker on receiving.the. nows, and not finding the unfortunate inheritor ofthtS.. vast sflm, advertised fdr hiin in the papers.- - ; The banker then gave Mr. Browning $25 to prosecute the search for him in Buffalo, where it was supposed he bad repaired. After two ; days spent, the object of the visit was found in i the Erie county’ workhouse, where he had been • committed a few days previous ns a vagrant.;— . He was very sick, and his disease Was pro pounced by the doctors to be incurable. He had two days longer to remain before the lime for which he was committed would expire. “ It maybe readily conceived that the neWS ■ of his good fortune, and the certainty not only, of immediate relief, - but of restoration to the , head of a wealthy estate, with all the surroun dings of case and"luxury, incited the most pdw-. orful efnotions in his breast. The Ibw days hri had yet to linger arttong the destitute. seemcd to him ages; but it was found impracticable to , obtain a release, except through the interposi tion of' the Governor. Accordingly it was ar; ranged that the Count remaid i until his time should expire without any fur- ; thcr effort being made to obtain his release.— t . After his release from the work house, he wa# ] brought to the house of Mr. Browning, at Ton-’ awanda, his forriicr place of abode, Where he. ; still remains very sick, under the medical at tendance of Dr. Locke. The young Count.has j since two more remittances fVom his banket and ■his condition is.as good under ■ the circuiristan-- • ces, as could be expected. Thus ends for the,, ' present the first chapter of, this strange, event r ful but nevertheless true history." NO. 41. Death.— Wo thought nothing new could to BBidib6bti:fleoth, but Tailor ofnthe ebitap? ■/oiirnai.h'nsthcfollowingideas:-:, r 'v There is a dignity about (hat going away alone, wo call .dying: that wrapping the mantle, of immortality about us; that putting aside; with a pale hand, thcasiire curtains that are drawn around this cradle of a world: that ven turing away from homo the first ! time in our lives, for we are not dead; there is nothing dead lo speak of and seeing foreign dourtlries hot laid down on aily maps we know about. Thera must be lovely lands starward, for none,ever re turn that go thither, and we very much doubt if any would if they could. (£7* A correspondent of the St. Louis Repub lican says -•• If you die on the Island of Cu-. ba, it will cost your friends 3600 before your, remains can he taken away. If you die poor, and those expenses are not paid, you am taken in the public dead cart and pitched into a diten among the remains of paupeis and those who have been executed. Q2P"The neat old lady in this place who scrubbed through the floor and 101 l into the cel lar, is bat one among the many of the very nice ■ females with which our countiy abounds. Wo know a good lady in Now Jersey, who white, washed all the wood she burnt; and another in, Connecticut, who used three times a day to; scour the nose of her lap dog to keep him front: soiling the dish ottt of which he ate his meals; The same good lady took her own food through a napkin ring to keep it from coming id contact with her Ups. (£7- •• Do you believe in second love, Mistbet* McQuade?” ,■ - •_ ' , “Do I believe in second love ? Humph; if a, man buys a pound of sugar, is’nt it swatc ? and when it’s gone, don’t he want ttno.her .pound; and isn’t that swate. loo? Troth Murphy,'l belave in second love !” ", , The curious student of human nature should be very careful whilst observing vice as it is exhibited in others, that he does not him self come, too-near the influence of its deleteri ous sphere, and thus suffer his moral vision, M bo obscured by the murky vapors which envel op it. ■ 'sy “Why don’t you wheel that bafrow of coals, Ned ?” said a learned miner to onoof his , sons; “it is not a very hard job; there is an inclined plane to relievo you." „“Ah,” replied Ned. who had more relish for wit than work, “the plane may be inclined; but hang, me if £ S r min, ng Leaf, Cgvsptfiffi. Con-, da gross, and Fine Cut Tobacco aha Smill', the best oc material. . , b 6 Peeling thankful to tho thus .noticed, by one of our exchanges: ,• % ” “Married, last week, Lolko Cobb to Miss' Kate Webb.” What a family of cob-webs may be the result! .• {“ Jeff, why BID you iike.de Cedar 1" “Jl guv’si it up, Sam ; can’t tell you-” ‘‘Casa you are green both Summer and Winter ' '• IC7* Shoemakers and milkmen good, sailors—they are both used to wording af the pumps'. - - iry, “if Infs' the use,” asked ah idle, “of a 1 man’s working himself to death to get a living.” .. ■ try- Stephen EllMj. «d«d BS. the oldest, of the " Light house ..tribe", of Indians, died'at Wirihstead.-Conn., oh‘ Monday, The re sides in four huts, and is a miserable remnant' of the once powerful-Narraganetts. ■ . ■ Semsibie.— Aunt Betsy has said many, good things, and among the rest, that a newapipoyig like a wife, because every man should have oho lot his ovrd’, ’ ■ >- ITT Airs. Partington has bought a horse SO spirituous that he alwaysgoesott ura dectm ter.’ '■ —,
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