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' l heart be beautiful,, -> l care not for the face, , ■*K that the form may want ? ido, dignity and grace. the mind bo Ailed with.glowing thoughts, the soul with sympathy, I care not if the chock bo pale, the ©ye lack brilliancy. • v$ though' the check be beautiful, ■ ■ must lose its bloom; ’ bright lustre, soon will fade, dark and silent tomb; glory of the mind will live, •£wugh the joyous life depart, > And 'the magic charm can never die - Of a true and noble heart.. i' foriirnl kind hearts. js that utter gcntlo words •o a beauty all their own,. . ' , loro I prize a kindly voice m music's sweetest tone; lough its sounds are harsh or shrill, te heart within boats free, jhoijs back each glad impulse, all the world to mo. THE SADIE OLD THING- ind <\n tho shore ,of a moonlit sea, ' Feat]*, tho myriad stars of n summer sky, sad are tho thoughts that come to mo, s tho sorrowful night wind whispers by. fcho samo old voices call, • le.samo old stars Vith thbjr twinkling eycsj same old moonlight silvers iljj nd the same old solemn thoughts arieiv igbfc In tbo sconce, baa changed for years, r avcs, nor stars nor moonlight fair, boro in my oyoa are the same old tears, »r tbo same old hopeless love I boar! ~ma!x> engineer. ling Narrative of . life on lire Mississippi. v the Father of Waters! Night with >il lowering over the: mourning city cans I . 11 roar of the escaping steam told ird-it, that the steamer .“Western . cast off her shore fasts, and' was in unchained bird, ready to start on ip the mighty Mississippi. ' a moment tod soon, for, ere I had . promenade deck, . the - gangway drawn in. '* Good bye” was said Uerod on thewharf—handkerchiefs the breeze,' waying an adieu, and rhen the cholera was raging so fear south-west, almost depopulating, js in a single day, and carrying desolation into nearly every lami- ic was at its height in Now ,Or ,4S&. jiness of all kinds appeared to "be ‘%fi£p|l* ; prostrated before the restless march <ff'i(Jie|aread destroyer. All, or nearly all, ;.-WwtK»4 friends or pecuniary ability, wore placing themselves or families at a from the deadly visitant. consequence, every boat or : f«thWconveyanco which had hot ceased ruh crowded with the flying hud fear-. i’afeaklKcitizenß. 'S|DOTsfSWeatorn Belle” formed no exception rule, and on this occasion, as off into the stream, ah observer seen that she was crowded capacity. Ere we had reached observed the captain hurrying to himself apparently in “ Had I only known before something must be done, that ' tWii- ' v, ut Yfhatjtr " (jiyo mc , Gj e molds .raised his oyos at tho iaraud sonorous but somewhat . that utteredvthc words, and dark featured and strikingly , who had hardly approached ite direction, and who, inatant md, exclaimed: “ Captain, the ift his post—gone upward— Sral” and his gestures were spoke. iy aware of the fact,” said the mxiety in his tone, “ hut why >uoh an interest in the matter ?” itary, stern gaze rested upon ,e r f* 10 ganger, whose; face iceaTed by a heavy beard and lossy blackness. •- itenant George Holtbn v of the but formerly chief engineer of Bird,” at your service !” said in a hurried manner, mention ibwn boat, noted in years gone sat speed and superior accommo- ■■was &o< object is to offer your services igtneer for the up trip ?” said wilds, inquiringly. “As you lyporceivcd.it is." “Sir—lieu iK you—doubly thank you—and )lf of your kind offer; accepting generous spirit with which it is mode) and’-without further ceremony,” said the cqptain, as he warmly pressed the hand of the other. “Knowing that the firemen . W/ green hands, I was hastening to pMayge ana manage, ns best I might, the en- depnrtmont —but now I shall feel at mo, at once enter upon my du- Sis no time to lose,” said the Lieu bore was a strange gleam in his and a nervous peculiarity in his oticed by the captain—or if he ly considered the idiosyncrasies i t hf an ardep| temperament—as ho replied, with (expressed in his voice: “ True, vtjfear you will find matters inji some -Btato > but y° u can send forward moment,” }}g3|MjSpossed beyond my hearing, and I loi : to the hurricane deck to on ;; and cigar for an hour, after which I sought out my state ; room—found, entered, olosef tho door—and was on the point of con gratulating myself on having been able to se cure it, when my nttontion was arrested by the earnest intonation of a voice of peculiar beauty one that could never bo afterward forgotten, though heard ’mid the wild, beauty and grandeur of an ocean’s storm—the roar and carnage of battle, or the discordant mur murs of an assembled universe I Spell-bound, I listened. “ Oh, sir, whatever you are, for the love of heaven, assist me to got out of this room—and at once! Our safety—aye the lives of every oho on hoard is pending on—l .shudder, to think—perhaps tho issue of a few moments!” There was an indescribable earnestness in the utterance of the words that thrilled mo to the soul. ■ To think was to act, andknowing by tho sound that a thin hoard partition sep arated me from the fair pleader—for that she was fair I would have staked toy existence— I immediately drew my heavy “ howio” and first assuring her of a speedy delivery, com menced cutting away at the top of one of the boards. • , In, two minutes it was loose—in four I took it out and stopped through the opening. What a picture was revealed! Seated oh a' low stool, with her auburn ringlets floating over her shoulders of alabas ter whiteness, , “In nil the wilderness of disheveled charms,” was a gloriously beautiful maiden of seeming ly, not over seventeen summers, and eyes as bright as the jewels of a regal diadem. Her hahds were tied behind, and in her struggles to free, herself, the delicate flesh was cruelly lacerated. ■ Ono stroke 1 of in jv knife, and the cords were severed in an instant, and observing the in creasing pallor of her features, quicker than it takes me to tell it, I had caught her in my arms, and borne her through the entrance which my good blade had effected. To dash open the window, and . to. lave her feverish brow with water, was but the work of a mo ment. She soon revived, and to my eager question ing as to the cause of her painful situation re plied that all. her family had fallen , victims to the cholera, with the exception of her eldest brother, who had recovered from the .disease only to exhibit symptoms of that dark anom aly of the human mind—insanity. That she, had Used her utmost influence with her , bnn thereto get him to visit the north, hoping that the chance of climate and travel would com pletely restore him to his former strong mind and health. That an hour before, he had come to her room with a stout cord in his hand,.and said in a playful manner, that ho must tie her up. Apprehending no evil, she had not objected to what she supposed, one of his vagaries, but when ho drew a revolver, and told her that the first words she uttered would bo her last! then she became alarmed, and begged to bo released. With a strange' calm ness ' and voice which brooked, tie Commanded her to silence ; : aud stating- that he was an emissary of Satan, duly commis sioned 'to drive .the steamer to hell,, looked the door and departed., She paused, and a faint .smile shown.thro’ her tears, like the sunshine in a midsummer rain. A light dawned upon my mind I Tha en gineer was, then, the brother of this angelic picture of loveliness, and he—l shuddered as 1 remembered to have noticed the increasing speed of the boat and the heavyroar of the exhausting pipe—was a madman I No time waste be lost. -Hastily tolling her the little I knew of the lieutenant’s move ments, I escorted her to the grand saloon, and promising to return the moment I found her brother, I went in search of the captain. Hardly had I reached the staircase, when mj- attention was arrested by a wild yell <of apparent exultation, which rose high and shrill above all other sounds, chilling in its 'domoniao intonation, and seeming' the dread harbinger of coming doom I I involuntarily raised my hands to my ears, as did others, to shut out the terrific sound. ' “In God’s name, what was that?” exclaim ed an elderly gentleman by my side, to an of ficer of the boat, who rushed past us in the direction of the engine-room, “The Mad Engineer! Our lives are in fearful peril! Follow, if you would know morel” ; ’ A moment after, and we were at the scone of excitement, and behold a sight to chill the blood in the stoutest heart. With coat off—eyes flashing menace—revol ver in hand, commanding the range of the - entrance; and the “ register” showing an amount of steam far beyond the rated capaci ty of the boilers—the engineer was seated upon the safety valve to keep if down I and giv ing occasional utterance to a wild yell, as his weapon threatened with death the : horror stricken crowd without. No questions wore asked—none wore nee ded—it was evident that the engineer had driven the firemen from their station soon af ter taking his new position—had transferred several barrels.of oil and rosin to the fire un der the boilers, and the sharp, shrill roar from the escape-pipes, as well as the quiver ing of the steamer from truck to keelson, as she leaped through the water with the impet uosity of a mad racer, told each and 'all the fearful nature of the peril which was momen tarily increasing. ' “We shall bo blown to eternity! : Shoot the wild beast down! Our lives are in the balance 1 , The words wore ominously echoed by the sharp click of a revolver. “ Stay 1 Hold! On your life fire not 1” And the voice rang like a clarion,'yet with all the sweet music of an leolian harp, as the crowd parted fight and left, and the maiden of my story—the sister, magnificent oven in her pallid beauty, rushed to the entrance.— “George, my brother!" “Virginia! You hero?’ The fire in the eyes of the madman burned with loss flame than before, and hand and weapon fell to his side. His 1 fierceness was gone in a moment, when her bright orbos gazed searchingly upon him. Breath lessly wo awaited the issue. “ Give me the pistol!” It was done. “Now come with mo 1’ “ But the commission from Satan ?” “ Has been fulfilled!” With her eyes calmly reading his, she took his arm and led him quietly away to his state-room. Captain Keynolds immediately ordered the dampening of the furnace fires, and by thus reducing steam we wore soon comparatively safe, I have but little more to add. We reached St. Louis in due time, and without any return of Lieutenant Holton’s malady, and, os may bo supposed/ it needed but little urging for me to accompany them to the house of their un cle—a wealthy retired merchant of that city —who gave hs a princely welcome, worthy of his generous bachelor heart, Under the careful treatment of several of the most skill fill physicians in the city, the Lieutenant was soon entirely recovered. And I? Need I .add that my friendship for the bedutiftil Vir ginia hod ripened'into something warmer'? — Into love /—Empire City. ■ ' - C 7“ It is a shame, if any pel-son poorer thftti you is moro contontod than you.- Nothing to do, THore is a class of people who profess a wil lingness to work, hut constantly assort they find nothing to do. That this complaint should ho so often made by the young, is in deed lamentable. There sits a healthy young friend; ho has lately fallen in possession of some thousands of dollors by the decease of his father. He is full of energy and hope, and the thousands of mischievous actions with which ho tantalizes others shows his capacity and desire to he bu sy—hut he has noihingio do. Some years ago the father of this same yCung man came to this city to find employ ment. He had no foolish pride, that this and that occupation would not be respectable—but he resolved to work. Tho first offer for em ployment was tendered by a bricklayer. It was 'accepted, and for tho small amount of fifty cents a day, for sis months, he pursued the business of mere tender to bricklayer and mason. : Then he became an apprentice, and so gradually up to a master workman; he contracted largely; prudence was his watch word,-and accumulation was the result. He married,a.notable woman, whoso thrift was only equaled by his own. Years passed away, and one of our heaviest capitalists was the prudent bricklayer. He was; however, cut off in the primeof life, and his large estate was mainly bequeathed to an only son.. But mark the difference between the getting and and spending of this property. The young gentleman we have just intro duced is that sonandhom Ho has just; grad uated without/toners at aneighboringuniversi ty, but ho cannot make choice of any profes sion, for till the world says to him, “you are rich enough; why should you work 7” So he will probably be loitering in the vineyard all his days,—-perhaps a spendthrift, with all his fine estate, a vagabond 1 And now comes the question, of what avail'is , wealth to such in heritors? Is not gold sometimes the curse instead of tho blessing, when thus perverted? One father anxiously toils day ana night to; amass the golden store; —he gains it—he dies' —his svccessor employs his, days and nights, in spending it Luxury, • amusement, idle- 1 ness, toisused powers dissipate it, and the wreck of a fair body and an immortal mind closes the history. Whore is the wrong? Is hot labor improp erly estimated by all classes of society ? Is not wealth unduly magnified 7 And who sows the seeds which creates this moral waste?. Fond fathers,-indignant mothers, teach your children early, the laws 'upon.which all .rue happiness depends—give, them, employment; let there ho no drones in the hive. Show them the true value of riches —-never pamper the appetite,' never flatter, a coxcomb pride of dress, but show them the great law of approx imation in the right direction, and having done thus, the class of those who yawn out existence; haying nothing to do, will gradual ly ,bccomQ..oxtmct.' ... A light Heart. ■ 1 There is truth in the remark that the phi losophy of many men originates in their liv ers. Those dark views of human nature and human lifo which ordinary pass for exalted wisdom, proceed from a diseased body or dis eased mind. The man who retires .from soci ety and professes to have found all its pleas ure, vaqity and vexation of spirit, would speak more truthfully, if ho confessed that, from some derangement of his organism he had lost his capacity for enjoyment. The lights of a ball-room are just ns brilliant, the dresses as splendid, the confectionary as sweet, the music ns. delicious, as when each of these contributed to his. delight. He has changed, and ho thence concludes that they are hollow and joyless as they appear to him. He cannot bring himself to beliovothat they ever did afford him sincere enjoyment. Hook ing back over his past life, his morbid fancy tinges all with its own sombre hue. He re pines at his existence, and quotes very gloom ily: ’ "Count,.o’er the joys thine hours have soon. Count o’ortho days from anguish froo, And,know .whatever thou hast been, ’Tis something hotter not to ho.” * There is no wisdom in all this. True wis dom does not look upon the world as cither, a paradise or a purgatory. Its maxim is to en joy the present, ,if it be bright, to endure it if it bo gloomy. So far from attempting to show its superiority by finding good in nothing, that it never complains.- When misfortune comes it never succombs at the first ap proach,, and sinks into hopeless despondence; but with a light elastic buoyancy, it makes an unyielding resistance, and breaks all the force of the attack. All 1 a fine thing in this world of trial and and sorrow, is a light hopeful heart. It alone possesses the stoutness which will carry one through difficulties, afflictions and persecu tions ; it can. climb mountains, penetrate des erts, and brave the-sea-tossed ocean; it can endure all the hardships-of the camp, and march unfalteringly with the forlorn hope to the cannon's moiith. When the proud man is humbled, and the strong man has failed, ho is light of heart, will remain unfearing and unhurt, triumphant over every obstacle, su perior to every difficulty. Paddy’s Idea of Perdition. Pat McCarty was “a broth, of a boy/ and altogether as “dacont” a map and as handy with a spade as any of the men who were at work upon the railroad, .Ho was a great fa vorite with the overseer, on account of his faithfulness and integrity of character —but he had one-fault.that sorely grieved his em ployer. Though as sober as a sexton for six days in the week, Pat could never resist the temptation of “pay-day," and when Saturday came round* never failed to got as “ drunk, as a lord." Having tried every other reforma tory expedient in vain, the overseer at length bethought of the priest, Tyho prevailed on I at to take the pledge, and sent him on. his way rejoicing, ;fentalas l the . next pay day was “too many" for poor Pat, who, staggering through the village at noon, mot no less a per sonage than the priest, who hud attempted to reform him. ' . , . “You're lost, Fixi—cntireli/ Jost, earn his reverence, with a sigh of genuine sorrow. Pat was bewildered for a moment, but hav ing stared about him until ho had fairly .as certained his whereabouts, ho oxolaunod tri umphantly “Lost? is it lost I am l~~tosi, m broad day light, half way between Jimmy Waarfo's and the coort house ?—away wjd your nonsense I" ' K7*lf 112 pounds make one hundred [weight, how many will make your wife wait? i , [£7* "\7hat tree represents a person who per sists in incurring debts Willow, {wilWwo.) ■ 327” A-Tennessee papetsays“The inaugu ration of the Governor whs celebrated by the’ firing of minute gunsevery half hour.- 1 K 7" A young lady \yho had 1 lost or mislaid her beau,-Was advised to hahgup her fiddloj- She said tho advice‘did groat violence'to her .heart-strings.- CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1860. SABBATH .READINQ. TIME. •• I came in the morning—itjwaftl Spring, And I smiled; I walked out at noon—it.Was-Summer, And I Was gljad; I sat down at even—it was Autumn, , . And I was sad; I lay down at night—it wos tVintGr, And I slept.:; It is true, said I, that I sit pn my study and shed tears over the human misery. I, weep over a novel. I weep oyer a tale of human woe. But do I ever relieve the distressed?— Have I ever lightened the loa£ of affliction?— My cheeks teddenedat thoqfiestion; a cloud of error burst from. ; my mint}. I found that virtue did not consist in feeling, but in acting from a sense of duty. You tell me I am only a . candle. ■ Perhaps lam less—a farthing rushlight, a glow-worm on an humble shrub. YpU Bfiy lam discon tented at not being the sun. 'No such thing! Discontent is not trait’ in my character. Give me but the consciousness that I.haye done all I could and ought to do, and you pluck out every thorn from my bosom..; I wish I could return your compliment, andjsny you were a candle. I wish'l could point to a man of my acquaintance and say so. - '. Philosophers tell us that a candle' fills with light a sphere of four miles diameter! Send; mo, the dimen sions ,of your sphere.: Mine-is fifteen feet by ■ten- . ' ■ ■ ■' -f. f'■ .! ■ ' A world would be too small a recompense for one sacrifice .of principle. Great objects make, great minds. . One general;rule is, are my thoughts pleas ing to God ? another is, are ijioy useful? . In the morning, r ; when Ilseo any of my friends after the night’s separation, let me receive them as new gifts from God. I wish that there was more attachment to the truth, and less to the matt who delivers it. Happiness, is the uniform sAronity of a well-: governed mind. ' ; i ’ j Some people rather than,lose a good meta phor or a fine sentence,' are .often tempted to ■assort what is not altogether'adeurate; and they have their reward;; they astonish but do not convince. •Divine,truth is infinite, and can never he exhausted. The wisest of us are but children; our views ore very dim and harrow,.andeven' where we discern the truth, how 1 faint are its practical impressions. , '. ,i I do- not mean that a minister must have lungs of iron and a voice of. thunder Noise and earnestness are very-different things. 1 only mean that the minister.'Should deliverhis message as if ho felt its infinite weight, as if his whole .soul were interested in its success; and this'he;may do without being a brawler. In the still,’ small, voice \we inay discern the language of the heart. r,aejjeat,-it,'this ex-: pression of the’heart, is the perfection of min? istorial eloguenoe,. ■>< v -V True religion is not to be measured by sub servience to a farther end ; blit! is the end of ends'itself. It is the health/-, purity, vigor, rectitude.of the soul; and edn too much of these bo possessed?— C/fqtminy. The following contains such wholesome ad vice to the female portion of the community, that we arc constrained to lay-it before our readers; that it may, bo-read and pondered over again and again. ■ ---. “ birds of beautiful plu mage, but sickly looks—pale pets of the par lor, who vegetate in on unhealthy atmosphere, like the potato germinating in a dark cellar, why dp you not go out' into the open air and warm sunshiuo, and add lustre to your eyes, bloom to your cheeks, and elasticity to your stops, and vigor to your frames ? Take early morning exercise, lot loose your corset string and run: up the hill on a, wager, and down again for fun ; roam the fields,, climb the fen ces, leap the ditches, wade the brooks, and af ter a day oif. exhilarating exercise and unre strained liberty, go home with an appetite ac quired by healthy enjoyment. ■- “ The blooming and beautiful young lady— rose-cheeked and bright-eyed—who can darn a stocking, mend her own frocks, command a regiment of pots and kettles, feed the pigs, muk the cows, and be a lady when required, is the girl, that young men are : m quest offer a wife. But your- puny, screwed-up, wasp wasted, , doll-dressed, consumption-mortgaged, music-murdering, and novqMevouring daugh ters of fashion and idleness—you, are no more fit for matrimony than a pullet is to look af ter a brood of fourteen chickens. -The truth is, my, dear girls, you; want less fashionable restraint, and more liberty of,action. More kitchen and less parlor; more leg exercise and less sofa; more puddingand less piano; more frankness and less mock modesty. Loose your waist strings, and breathe, in the pure atmosphere, and become something as good and beautiful as nature designed." An old soaker, who lived in "Weston, Mis souri, took it into his head one "day, and very sensibly too, that it was' about time for him to be considering his probable future condition, and forthwith repaired to the Rev. B , the respected pastor of the Baptist .denomina tion of the town aforesaid, to , obtain light. He was received with urbanity, and forthwith the following dialogue ensued: Old S--— : —-, “It's your doctrine, hoss, that a feller, to bo saved, must suffer .iinmershun, isn’t it?” . Mr. B , “Yes, Mr. S., it is a funda mental doctrine of our church, that a man to be regenerated, must repent of his sins and bo immersed?’ Old S——■ —, “Well, boss, after repentin’ ov his sins and bein’ slid under, ,if he flashes in tho pan, thonwhat?” v, Mr. B— , “ Although backsliding is much to be deplored, still if ho sincerely re pent of his sins and is again immersed; the church will receive him again.” . ' Old S— , “Well, s’pose he again kicks out of the traces after the. second time, (for you know what critters there are in this world, boss,) then what’s to pay?” Mr. B— —“Notwithstanding all this, if ho will seriously repent, and.splomnly prom ise to amond his future life, the church will again receive him into its bosom, after being immersed.” , Old S., after a few moments of deep thought, proposes the following interrogatory, “Well, boss, wouldn’t it bo a blasted good idea to keep such fellows in soak all the time?” Our informant did not say. whether old S. joined the ohuroh or not, but wdinclinO’to the opinion that if he did, the chances wore' pret ty good for his being kept in soak' all the time;- 1 A friend who dines at the different^ res taurants announces the discovery that at these places tendot meat is always very ngp Wo, supbose that tho mhn who, in the hour of danger, turns pale mad makes hisses tjflj}©,'may bo fiftid to Como pffwjtli.flying col ors,* . *' Thoughts, To the Girls. A Hard Subject. A Beautiful Moral law. No finer proof of provident legislation and benevolent design, in flic arrangement of the laws of nature, can bo named, says the Boston Transcript, than is afforded by the method by which ice is formed'. By a law of the physi cal universe water condenses and. grows heav ier, and as it becomes chilled to the surface sinks to the bottom under influence of cold.— Whenever the temperature is not below forty degrees, the coldest water is found at the bot tom part of a vessel or stream. Numberless' good effects are produced by this condensa tion. But if this law was not modified, it is plain that freezing would begin at the bottom of ponds, streams, and lakes. In this case the summer’s heat would not do away the effects of the winter air, and in process of time every northern river would become congealed and useless for navigation, the polar waters would become solid fields of ice, and the tempera ture of the world suffer a disastrous change. ■But, as if to remedy the evil, and make the skill of infinite benevolence more oquisite, and suggest to us palpably the Creator’s wisdom, this, law is modified. ;We find that when wa ter reaches a few degrees of the freezing point, instead of continuing to'condense if the cold increases; it suddenly expands, oven beyond its temperate density; The heavy cold strata which had sunk to the bottom, rise again to the surfooo and expand still further when they freeze, so that ice is lighter than its element aiid must always float. In this way, though all the beneficial results of contraction are E reserved, every bad effect is obviated. Thus y a sudden reversal of a law, at a certain point, in favor of the interest and comfort ;of mankind, dangers that might prove a final barrier against commerce are averted, and the temperature ;of the globe is distributed in its present moderate alternations and healthful variety; , : , • Winter Boles. Never go to bed with cold or damp feet. ■ In going into -a colder air, keep the mouth resolutely closed, that by compelling the air to pass circuitously through the nose and head, it may become warmed before it reach es the lungs, and thus prevent those shocks and sudden chills which frequently end in pleurisy, pneumonia,' and other serious forms of disease. ■ "~N6vor sleep with the head in the draft of an open door or window. ; ' Let more cover be on the lower limbs than on the body.. Have an extra covering with in easy reach, in case of a sudden and great change of weather during the night. : Never stand still a moment out of doors, especially at street corners after having walk ed even a short distance. ' Never ride near the open window' of a ve hicle fora single half minute; especially if it has been, preceded by a walk; valuable lives have thus been lost, or good health perma nently, destroyed. Never put on a new boot or shoe, in begin ning a journey, , . Never wear India rubbers in cold dry weath er. ’ If compelled to face a bitter cold wind throw a silk handkerchief over the face; its agency is Wonderful in modifying the cold. Those who are easily chilled on going out of doors, should have some - cotton batting at tached to the vest or other garment, so as to protect the space between the shoulder blades behind, the lungs being attached to .the body at that point; a little there is worth five timei the amount oyer the chest in front. 1 Never sit for more than a minute at a time with the back against the fire or stove. Avoid sitting against cushions in the backs of pews in churches; if the uncovorcd_board feels cold sit erect without touching it. Never begin a journey until breakfast has been eaten. , • After speaking, singing or preaching in.a warm room in winter, do not leave it for at least ton minutes, and oven close the mouth, put on gloves, wrap up the neck, and put on cloak or overcoat before passing out of the 1 door; the neglect of these has laid many a; good and useful man in a premature grave, . Never speak undora hoarseness, especially if it requires an effort, or gives a hurting or painful feeling, for it often results in a per manent loss of voice, or life-long invalidism. — Mall's Journal of Health. Monkeys and Sugar Caacs. One.tfeady-witted.Englishman succeeded in keeping the monkeys away from his planta tion for more than two years, and that with out using any violence, .or offending the pre judices of the natives, lie had planted a patch of sugar-canes, and.had seen his grow ing crops eaten by elephants, monkeys, and other animals, without being able to guard the ground from the robbers. The heavier animals he excluded by means of a deep trench" surrounding-the caue-patoh, and a strong palisading of bamboos just with in the ditch. But the monkeys oared nothing for moat or wall, and carried off whole canes in their hands, eating them complacently as they proceeded to the shelter of the. trees. For a longtime this state of things continued, and the planter was doomed to see the ripen ing canes devoured in his presence, and the chewed fragments spit in his face by the rob bers. This last insult proved too great a strain for his patience to endure, and after some thought, he hit upon a stratagem which answered oven beyond his: expectations. lie chased a flock of the monkeys into a tree, which he then felled; and by the help of his captured a number of the young, which ho convoyed homo. He then mixed some treacle with as much tartar emetic ns could bo spared from the store, and after painting all the young monkeys with his treacherous mixture, set them free. Their anxious parents had been watching for their offspring, and carried them away out of dan ger. The liberated captives were then sur rounded by the whole troop, who commenced licking the treacle; from their fur. Before very long, the expected effects made their ap pearance, and the poor monkeys presented a most pitiful appearance. The result-of the affair was, that the monkeys were so terrified at the internal anguish which their depreda tions had caused them to suffer, that they fled the place, and not a monkey was seen in that locality until long afterward. lioutledffe’s Illustrated Natural Histonj. o* The boy who loat bis balance on the roof, found it on the ground shortly afterward. O* Pleasure, like is bright and S hv If we strive to, grasp it, it still eludes us and still glitters. Wo porhops seize it at last, and find it rank poison. gy-'A sanctified heart i$ bolter than a sil ver tongue;' a heart full of gracois better than a head full of notions; a man : nay bo a-'great soholari'and yet a groat sinne". . CouPOßT,.—Tiie chief secret of comfort lies in’nbt suffering trifles to vox us, and in pru dently cultivating an undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few groat onbs, alas! are let on long leases.- Jolin C. Calhoun's Dream. A correspondent of the Mississippi Whig has cut from an anonymous pamphlet an ac count of a dream of Mr. Calhoun, about the time of the stormy sectional agitation which preoed the adoption of the compromise meas ures of 1850: Mr. Calhoun, it seems was drawing up a plan for the dissolution. of the Union, when; late at night; being very much exhausted, ho fell asleep and had the following dream, as 'related by himself: • _ ‘At. a late hour lost night, as I was sitting in my room writing, I was surprised at the very unceremonious entrance of a visitor, who came in and took a seat opposite me. ‘I was more annoyed, as I had given strict orders to the servant that I should on no ac count be disturbed. ‘The manner in which ho entered—perfect ly self-possessed—taking a seat opposite, me —without a word, no salutation—no apology —as though my room and all within it be longed to him, excited in me as much surprise as indignation. As I raised my,head to look at him over the top of my shaded lamp, I discovered • that he was wrapped in a tliih cloak, which completely hid his features from my view; and, as I raised my head, he spoke: ‘What are you writing, Senator from South Carolina?’ I: did not tliink of.his imperti nence at first, but answered him involuntari ly—-‘I am drawing up a plan for the dissolu tion of the American Union!’ ‘To this the intruder .replied in the coldest manner possible: ‘Senator from South Carolina, will you al low me to look at your right hand ?’ ‘Ho arose, and as ho did so the cloak fell, andJUbeheld — Great God! Gentlemen! I Bfi'llEl.D THE FORM OF GEORGE WASHINGTON 1 ‘As though I had no power to resist, I ex tended my right hand. I felt a strange chill pervade mo at his touch—he grasped it, and held it near the light, thus affording ine full time to examine every feature of his face, and particularly of his person. It was the face of Washington, and ho was dressed in the uni form of the Devolution. After holding my hand for a moment, looking steadily ,at mo, ho said, in a quiet way: ‘And with this right hand, Senator from South Carolina, you would sign your name to a paper'doclaring the Union dissolved?” ‘Yes,’ said I, ‘if a certain contingency arises I will.” , , Just at this moment a black blotch appear ed on the back of my hand; I seem to see it even now! “What is. that,’.cried lin alarm, ‘why is that black spot on m3'hand ?” ‘That,’ said he, dropping my hand, “is the mark by which Benedict Arnold is known in the next world I” ‘He said no more! but drew from beneath his clonk an object which he placed upon the table, on the very paper on which I had been [writing. The object, gentlemen, was a skel eton! . ; ....... ‘There,'’ said he, ■with; emphasis, ‘there are the bones of Isaac Hayhe, who was hiing by- British in Charleston. He gave his life to es tablish the Union. , And when you sign your name to a declaration of dissolution, you may as well have the bones of Isaac Dhynb before you. lie was a South Carolinian, and so are you; but no blotch was on his hand.’ ‘With those words ho left the room; I started from the contact with the dead man’s bones and awoke I Overworn by labor I had fallen asleep and been dreaming.’ . Many other instances' might bo recited to show that some of the most important events that have occurred since order was brought forth from chaos, and the Almighty rolled the planets from His palm and sot the spheres id motion, have been more or loss connected with dreams. May not this dream of Cal houn’s have a happy influence on the perpi tuity of our glorious and happy Union? Tim Smith Family. ‘ Qontlcmen,’ said a candidate for Congress, ‘ my name is Smith,’ and I am proud to say I am not ashamed of it. It may bo that no per son in this crowd Owns that very common name. If, however, there bo one such, let him hold up llis head, pull up his dickey, turn out his toes, take courage and thank his stars that there are a few more of the same sort. •“Smith, gentlemen, is an illustrious name, And stands over high in the annals of faino; tot White, Brown and Jones,' increase as the.v will, . Believe mo that Smith wilt out number them all.” “ Gentlemen,' I am proud of being an origi nal Smith; not a Smythe, but a regular natur al S-m-i-t-h, Smith; Putting a ¥ in the mid dle or nnE at the end won’t do gentlemen.— Who ever hoard of a great man by the name of Smith or Smythe?- Echo answers who, and everybody says nobody. But as. for Smith, plain S-m-i-t-h, why the pillars of fame are covered with the honored and revered name. AVho were thevnost racy, witty, and popular authors iof this century ? Horace and Albert Smith. AVho the most original, pithy, and humorous preacher ? Rev. Sidney Smith.— To go further back—who was the bravest and boldest soldier in Sumter’s army, in the Revo lution? A Smith. ' AVho palavered with Powhatan, gallivanted with Pocahontas, and became the ancestor of the first families in Virginia? A Smifh again. And who, I ask —and I ask the question more seriously and soberly—who, I say, is that man; and what is his name, who has fought the moat battles, made the most speeches, preached the most sermons, held the most offices, sung the most songs," written the most poems, courted the most women, and married the most widows ? History says, I say, and everybody says John Smith.” ! Echoes of the Valley of Life. “ Hear the story of the child that wont forth into the mountain ravine. Whilst the child wandered there ho cried aloud to break the loneliness, and heard a voice which called to him in the same tone. Ho called again, and as ho thought, the voice again mocked him.' Flushed with anger, ho rushed to hnd no one. He then called out to him in anger, and with all abusive epithets, all of which were faith fully returned to him. Choking with rage the child ran to his mother and complained that a boy in the woods had insulted him with many vile words. But the mother took her child by the hand and said: “My child, these names wore but the echoes of thine own voice, th ol Sr ' jend forth sunshine from thy spirit, and thou shalt never have a clouded day.' Carry about a vindictive spirit, and oven in the flowers shall lurk curses. Thou shalt receive oven what thou givest, and that alopoi” Always, said the'speaker is, that child in the moun tain passes, and every man and every woman is that child.” Bggf* “ Tommy, my son, what is longitude ?” “ A clothfes-lino, papa, because it' stretches’ from^olo'to pole.’' K 7” Next to acquiring goad friends, the 1 best acquisition isjtuttt of gqddbooks.' , , DC7* Wo suppose that a man who never speaks may bo said to koop;his word.' {From the Pennsylvanian .] Wliat Ims inti-Slavery Done i 1. It has divided; thb great Methodist Epis copal.church: i 2. It hos divided the New School Presbyte rian church. 3. It induced the Americon Board of Mis sions to abandon One of its missions among the Indians of our country., -• 4. It filled Kansas with blood and carnage.. 5. It led to the terrible scones at Harper’s Ferry. ■ ■ .', • ; ■ G. It has carried on for years an organised system of frcebootinc Upon our Southord States. 7. It has stolen the negro from his comfort able home, to leave him in the midst of pover ty and crime. ’ j .8. It has inflicted a deep wSund upon otif noble Medical Schools. 9. It is laboring to divide this magnificent Union. 10. It is at this hour staying tlttj'Jwheels of the general government to the untold injury of the nation. ■ 11. It is waring upon the interests df ouf merchants and business men, to the amount of millions of money. 12. It has alioniated the hearts of our coun trymen,, the one from the other, to a fedffd! extent.’ . . 13. It has made the press of our Northern and Western States to-groan with the Most infamous falsehoods against the South. ■ 14. It has desecrated multitudes of our pul 7 pits, and influenced many of the professed ministers of the gospel to become beligerehts instead of men of peace. . ■ f , But time would fail us to tell half the mis chief it lias done and is doing, and will con tinue to do, if the Eepublican-party should get into power, for then what appaling sights of human butchery must follow! What par ricado, and fratricide must and will follow 11 Union Sentiments in South Carolina. Col. Wade Hampton, in a recent speech in ' the Senate of South Carolina, said; No human foresight can predict the couse-, quenccs that would follow a dissolution-of, this Union. The ark of freedom may be over-, thrown; the city of refuge which we have ’ built up here in the wilderness of the oppres sed of all Christendom may be torn down, and Liberty herself may be forced to weep.over, the untimely grave of her youngest and fair est child; others may speak lightly of the ! disruption of this great Confederacy—of dis- - memboring this mighty empire, and forming . from its dejecta membra another, of more on-. during elements and higher destinies, as easi ly as a child knocks down its castles of cards, to rebuild them again as his fancy suggests; but I would not have my country, with rash hagto or.unprepared, venture on-any experi ment that must, under any circumstances, be one of fearful solemnity. . Nature shows us by what slow processes her mighty results are arrived at; and experience teaches us how easy and rapid is the work of demolition; The noblest oak of the forest, the pride of ouf woods, under whoso wide-spread branch es the red man may have taken refuge for centuries, and whose giant trunks, and deep set roots have proudly defied the storms of a thousand, years, falls in an hour before the axe of the heedless woodman. The Giant Architect of the Universe himself, He who could by a thought have called into existence all created tilings, deemed it not beneath his majesty and dignity to labor at it six days, ■ thus teaching to man, by the sublimest of lessons, that time and labor ore necessary to the perfection of all great work. As in na ture, so iu nations. A thousand years scarce servo to form a State—• : An hour may lay it in the dust; ond when Can man its shattered splendors renovate, ■ , Recall its virtues back, and vanquish time and fata? : Never, sir, never! Ignorant, reckless, or' vvieked men, may in less than an hour work ! the ruin of the proudest empire on earth; and , when once laid in the dust, history teaches us, by many a mournful example that never again, can man restore its shattered splendor or re-, call its virtues. Such seems to bo the desti nies of nationalist her sons protect the South from the danger of such a fate. The Fight between Keenan and Sayers.' —The long-talked-of fight between Heonan and Tom Sayers, the champion of England, ’ which is now positively fixed for the 16th of " April, is creating an immense excitement among the sporting fraternity of this city.— A larger amount of money will ho staked up on this contest than was ever before risked upon the uncertain issue of a prize-fight. The. betting, so far as we can learn, is governed entirely by prejudice; Old “ sports” who owe their birth to the little foreign island .are on-' thusiastio in their devotion to thb” cause of Sayers, while the wooden nutmeg supporters * of the P. E. as earnestly support the stars and. 1 stripes of the Benicia Boy, Wo learn from a reliable source that Keenan’s late opponent,, John Morrissey, is anxious to take bets to any amount against Keenan, lib has bets already out to the amount of $5,200, in different stakes,, that Heonan does not whip Sayers; and while he has not been at all backward in offoringto stake his, money on the result, thus far. he has found plenty of takers. Morrissey last week . received a letter from Tom Sayfirs, enclosing a draft for £5OO, which the latter desired Mor risey to stake for him to the best advantage.' It is also arranged between them that if Mor-,. rissey bets his own money at odds, and after ward, on seeing Sayers, is dissatisfied with him, Sayers is to take the' bets off his hands., Morrissey intends sailing for England on the 16th of March, in order to bo in time for.the, fight. If, after ho has seen Savors, and con sidered all his points,-ho'should be doubtful ', in regard to the rc’sult of th'e fight, Morrissey,; will “ hedge,” in 1 order to save what money he,, has put up.' For this purpose, or to continue his betting, should ho be satisfied with his' man, he will take over with him $25,000, part of which is entrusted to him' by.other persons,' to be used at hit discretion. Should Heonan.. siiccecd in conquering Sayers, and winning the champion bolt from England’s fistic hero,' , Morrissey will instantly challenge the victor,’ and insist upon fighting him in England at; the earliest possible m’oment, and before either shall return to'this country. Morrissey states it as his determination, however, to fight up" more battles in America. If out information' be correct regarding Morrissey’s intention to challenge Keenan in case the latter whips. Sayers, it will give additional interest to the match on the Ibth of April. There are many hbro who' are’ unwilling that Morrissey should wear the American laurels, and who feel grieved at his refusal to a'ccepftho challenge which Heonan sent him after their late fight in Canada. Any circumstance Which can briugabout another match botweon' t'hoso pu gilistic rivals, whether it takes place in this 1 cpiftrtry' or in England, would be hailed with delight by all who take an interest in thb P.-„ TB..—N. x. Tribune. B@“ Bald-headed'men take a joke the more easily because they are not at the trouble of “getting it through their hair.” NO. 35.
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