’ " ' '' ' :: ' ’ " ° UR cou;ilßY - MAY IT alVays BE OCB corojßY , ~ “ ~ ■ “ tßt* YOL ; ' ; ' . : CARLISLE, BeaMJond. , In « wo imagino thai - ■w^ 1 ” 1 ” »««r-*HOM»AT mohn,so dt * aloud is one of those exercises hri "tt 6 th ° B. BRATTON. combines mental and muscular effort, time, in keeping a \ ’ whence has a double advantage. It is an Bible-roadin/c g g f S leso wo J HBKskL \ TERMS. accomplishment which may, be cultivated from diverged would T* -One Dollar and Fifty Cents naid ' lloD , 0 ' po/haps better/ alone, than under a exaggerated and fancied AW/, gh ; apl ? onr 'HPr&SHI Two »°»a« if teachpr,, for tW a naturalness of intonation Iteviw. fanciful .-North American ’^^r^ rt^*o^ naraaidFift y Conts > ifn °tP ail l wiUlin 7 ■ - acclulred from instinct rather.than -' 1 ■'■ ' ' '. 1 V* h ' ™“«« terms wm bo rigidly adhered to in from art; the moat that is required being tliat ' „,. ■_ ~ ■ ■ /every instance N> subscription discontinued until the person practicing should make an pffni-t Speech Of Caleb Cashing. t ’''~&« aWgoa " Opaid IU ‘ IOS3 at tb ° option ° f th ° t 0 command the mind of the an'idm- - ° H f XbVErtiisfciiEViH—Accompanied by thecAFiir, and n^,^ 6 snbiect. , ■ .nCtdxceoairJtonc square, will lie inno-*--* *• JtHnrts for OihfiDhii - -- ■ upagno Old ]tj( otllej, kt K MAH Mutual count w full agemt itian Sta) (iolpl I|, or, S. into, id to nti) J P“nj ii J r's MillnW Carliilii m, Cnl tcfleriiln k, MtD;W| leniy Zuritn :kinsoa;jfu- In'ffilh, Eulij isW E»1 n, ShtpkiH f. O. Sailr ilr*r Sjip 'ortr; Jibu , TTaijif/oa\ .emperance lecturer down South the following anecdote to illus ..■.■i,.. of a bad example to the of Inbits minous in their effect. Adim and Alary hi s wife, who lived in the om States wore Ttiygood members of the ..cniiroh, good sort of folks anyway, quite in i tfustnous qnd tin bin,, m tho worlds and Ma a good deal of a, glass of toddy. 1 Whenever the minister called to make Mary 1 a Visit y htv is pifetty often, Isho contrived of good toddy made, and the refused to imbibe. After a c to following the example of to such an extent that ho be "d drank up everything he could get. Mary and Adam Jr in consequence of his fill ister's example so closely phut ter continued still to give him ly. One day he called in and as going away for a week— m Friday— and handed her a ' the catechism, and told her id he should expect her to an is, Mary said yes, and laid larefully; But Mary, like a Sr church members, thought look until the very Friday the as to return. “ What shall I “ the minister is to be here 'en’t looked in the' book he can I answer the questions ?” i,*’said Adam, “give me a me go over to Smith’s and im, and you can answer hint iddy.” ™W<;e, gave Adam a quar ’ °5, . started. After gef nbd on his way back, Adam ntwJT' ,9 n <> taste fol stumbled over a pile - 0 the jug and lost all the , .ftanagod to stagger homo. • *®. f lle house Mary asked Mr'for the bottle and rum— tlie bottle of rum, Adam?” im,managed to stammer out that id, over a pile of rocks, and broke id spilt the riim.” in a fix—Adam drunk— the min .g—the rum gono—and tho ques '•ped. But here comes tho minis- do for the man of God to ■drunk I So she, for the want of a e to hMe, sent him under the bod. vno was fairly under, in came tho Vfler sitting a few moments, ho lam fal??” “ nswor tJ, ° Question, id her head first one way, and KV and finally stammered out* ypr a pile of rooks;” )w the minister’s turn to look -he . ventured another question; he hide himself after his fall?” id at the minister, then at the ly she broke out with: , 10 bod, sir 1 There, Adam, yob he knows all about it !” linister retired—not: even- trait (ass of toddy— -Abstainer. f IIBIj hi tfo are;'at present about nine ia getting no longer fast. We lark days before Christmas have try and Littla Wool— an Afn born,- IBNTS—Accompanied by tbo oasit, and ■ono square, will bo inserted throo dollar, and twenty-five cents for each tion. Those of a greater length in j —Subh as Hand-bills, Posting-bills, anks. Labels, <fco. «fcc., executed with at tbo shortest notice. THE UNION. hy 1/Oxopellow. sail on, 0; Ship of State, 0 Union, strong aud great!, ity with oil its fears, II the hopes of future years, ;ing Breathless on thy fate I ow what master laid thy keel, workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, ia.de each.mast and sail and rope, ' 'Til’s ring,, what hammer’s beat, a forgo and what.a heat, tpod tho anchor of thy Hope! « each.sudden sound and shock, :ho wave and not the rock, tho flapping of the sail, « a rent made by tho galo! of rock and tompost roar, of false lights on tho shore, ' nor fear to broast tho son, 1 . ts, our hopes, our prayers,- oiir tears, h trmmphant o’er our fears, with thee-?—are.all with theo! “LITTLE BELL.” 10 beggar Bell, , i tho Irosty street, ■ tho cold snows fell i but naked tiny feefcl lo a crystal tear , • * b^r.dark lash congealed, >ho troubled tido •or httlo breast revealed, jhcd once she cried— mg now she criodi ■ the lofty door > cu.stlo Lode of Pride. ! the tears she shed, * ,gmg there for bread I' they gave her not; frowns sha got; 1 ■ -wiis ttUd throats Instead, io dreary night* 3n frozen hail and sleet *IIy winciH wore,borne.' this gloomy street, itAilhlasts,did play •iiijw ilalios as they lay, lollotr ' . ia On spirit hew away. little Bel'! ''"■'V td winds still repeat ' awful death dirge, they wail down the street; hit tired little soul ■ ' aod through the cold skies, ik 'ucath the sunlight •arm angel eyes 1 ■Minima tiling about Adam’s Fall. Reading aloud is one of those exercises which combines mental and muscular effort, and hence has a double, advantage. It is ah accomplishment which may be cultivated alone, perhaps better- alone, than under a teacher, for then a naturalness of intonation will be acquired from instinct, rather, than from art; the moat that is required being tliat the person practicing should make an effort to command the mind of the author, the sense of the subject. , Jo read aloud well, a person shonld not only understand the subject, but should hear his own vmco and feel within him that every syllable was distinctly enunciated, while there is an instinct presiding which modulates the voice to the number and distance of thehoar- P ul ; hc . s l? ea kev ought to bo able fWfto! r h rf r h . e JS., indist-nctly hoard by the farthest auditor m the room; if he is not, it tion ™nt of P ro per judgment and obsorva • ®‘j adln ?„ alou(l helps.the lungs just ns sing ing does, if properly performed. Tlio bffoot is to induce the drawing of a long breath every once in a while oftener and deeper than offending without enunciating. These deep mhalatins never fail: to develop , the the capacity of the lungs in, direct proportion to their practice. ' , Common consumption begins .uniformly with imperfect, insufficient breathing; it is .characteristic of the disease that- the breath becomes shorter and shorter through weary months, down to the close of life, and what ever counteracts that short breathing, what ever promotes deeper inspirations, is curative to that extent, inevitably and under all cirucmstancea. Let any person make tho ex periment by reading tbjs page aloud, and in less than three minutes the instinct of a long breath will show itself This reading aloud develops a weak voice, and makes it sonorous. It has great efficiency, also, in making the tones clear and distinct, freeing tlffim'from that annoying hoarseness which the unaccus tomed reader exhibits before he has. gone over half a page, when: he has to stop and hem, and clear” away, to the confusion of "S.- , a 3 muc b as that of the. subject. -Uus loud reading, when properly done, has a great agerioy in inducing vocal power; on the same principle , that all muscles are strengthened by. exercise, those of voice pui kmg organs being no exception to the goner-! 5* r ?ie. Hdncein many cases, absolute silence I diminishes tho vocal power, just as tho pro-1 traoted .non-use Of tho arm of, the liihdoo.de votee at _length paralyzes it forever. The general plan, in appropriate oases, is to read aloud in a conversational tone,' thrice a day, tor a mmuhf or two, or three at a time, in creasing a minute every other day, until half an hour is tjius spent at a time, thrico a day whioh is to be continued until tho desired object is accomplished. Managed, thus there is.safety and efficiency as a . uniform;results .As a means, then-, of -health, ,of averting: consumption, of being universal and enter yarning m any company; as** meads of slick ing the quality of, the mind, let reading aloud, bo oonsidered an accomplishment far more indispensable than that of smattering Trench, lispmg ltahan, or growiing Dutch, or. danc ngootdhons.galiopadcs. polkas, and quad nllos.—Hall’s Journal of Health. Know Thyself! The only commendable trait in the charac ter ot some men is a constant propensity to accuse other people pf the faults and failings which peculiarly belong to themselves. I'his propensity is a very singular one, almost unac countable,unless it may be taken as corrobo-: rating testimony in favor of the general theo ry that men s (aults are'nothing but develop ments of an unsound mental organization'" [in the shape of monomania; for what man m his senses would persist in the practice of what he condemns in others? or, if ho were conscious of possessing’ a certain failing— to call it by no harsher name—why, should he cherish it within his own breast while ho aims to exorcise it from the heart of his neigh- We say that this evident contradiction in the character of some men, regarding them as free agents," is almost unaccountable, and to most persons quite incomprehensible » and it seems that when mortal delinquency is coupled with strong critical proclivities, either the, hrst of these qualities may be the devolop ment ot unconscious insanity, or the last is but the working of an “ irrepressible” demon wit Inn the breast of a helpless “ medium." However, we leave the settlement .of this question to ..the' psychologist, and taking a practical view of a palpable truth, are vain to congratulate mankind generally on its exist once, its froquent exemplification, and its com parative utility.; If this-idiosyncrasy bo au oppressive; to its possessor; it is proportionably useful to his neighbors • for it ZZ a t 0 >“ blic Mention on hi own faul s and thereby to teach others how to avoid his machinations, or to repel his attacks. : how often do we find the man addicted to I protanity, berating it casual acquaintance for the same fault; or the mendacious libeller tree in his strictures upon persons who some times manifest a censorious disposition. Wo even find the life-long pensioner on the public service, or tho indefatigable place-hunter, loudest m his denunciations of inon whom ho suspects to be the victims of his own weak ness, or fears as successful competitors in the race of which he never wearies, and vet never completely finishes, ’ ' ■ 1 Influence of the Bible in Preserving the Pdeite of. the English Language : it requires no unpardonable amount of en ihni'fi?* 11 - m t,le American scholar-to believe of thn L O M-Tu t L , ? e 0 . 3 "? the P resent version time ?t n h A ßlb 0 havjn ? appeared at the + “.?■ dld ’ fa ad some providential reference to the wants of the new empire just then about to rise in the west. This version, des tined so long to be the oracle of the Anglo fnrn°rti» a pq "? 8 published just nineyears be fore the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth. Now it is safe to assert, and would have required no uncommon powers of prophecy then to forsee, that whatever new version might thereafter appear in England, the Bible which those worthies brought with them, which they read and prayed over in the Mayflowers out of which they derived the authority for ™?:L ne T-T al a " d . their old ecclesiastical pohhr, which was their palladium through all the dangers and trials of their early settle ments, on which their first civil officers had been solemnized, would have such a hold on and affections of their children and children s.children would be impossible here to supplant it by. any other foFmaflv v ? rBloa was one of suoh'oxool ' dt hoto«‘ W a l“ ot BU P.P ,ant<!d h J any other h ? 8 contlnue d to this day to teach the two nations, morning and evening, for two and a half centuries, along yvitji,.ifs lessons of love to God and love to man, : attachment—royeronoe almost—for the purest i and raciest English that can, be found i Hon. Caleb Cushing delivered his great speech, in accordance with the invitation of the citizens of Nowburyport, at that place on the 2Gth ult., before an immense, audience. We have only space for a few extracts. Mr. Cushing commenced his'address by stating the country to be in the midst of a revolution, and the South having taken the initiatory steps cannot go back unless induced by spirit and acts of just accommodation on the part of the North. He then asks: >*, * 9 an 'T® do anything for the security of the Union? Can wo do'anything to avert the dangers which threaten it? Alas! I rcpoat—alas, that such should be the question of the hour—the question wheth er it be worth while to try to do anything— and what that anything may be, to preserve the Union. . • The Union I The Union! How proudly have not ouf hearts been accustomed to beat as we contemplate the Union—the glories of the career of these States before tho Revolu . °n, during it, .after it—that birth of our Un ion on the field of battle—its baptism of blood mthearaia of victory—its great achievement or independence—its Upward rise into power, and fame-T-its overspreading of this continent —its lofty position of youthful nationality by' tho side, of the highest and greatest of tho ol‘d powers of Europe 1. • Ihe Union! How greatfully have we hot regarded that noble Work of our Fathers, by Which we are not hostile foreign. States, but a family of confederated Republics, without vev atious custoip houses ,of impqded conimeroial intercourse along our rospootiyp : .froritiers without conflict of commercial systems—witlr free in terchange of our respective productions, agricultural, mineral, marine or manufacturing —wdh righ tof passage-from one to tho otheKj and of freely following the pursuits of indus try and happiness in either—with complete' exemption at homo from all those horrors of .local war—-in a, word, specially privileged by our federal organization from all the terrible. 1 drawbacks on public and private prosperity j - c h, meanwhile, wasted tho resources and destroyed thepower.of all'tho rest of Christen dom! The Union ! How delightedly have we .not that .grand spectacle of the 1 American Constitution over-canopying our country, ft luminous .firmament of and.beauty, filled with all; beneficent emana- Sr cau 5 lllg t v wilderness;to blossom as.a 1 garden and now State aftpr State to, spring *un under the light and .heat of its radiant -«“d; tee.expinrive litehood of our/institutions, the NowWofl’d seemed to belong to us of right, and the namel t Anieuoans had come to be ours alone, and 1 ran on the ear as found and full (is ever that' ot Homan did in the palmier days of the fa mousost civilization of the Old. World. ’ i M-°, h 7 a3 th r T t ! nion which our Fathers es tablished,—a Union 'founded on the corner stone idea of the original independence and constitutional equality of all the States,—a i Union for the purpose of assuring each and all against foreign aggression, but not less to sure all and each in complete possession and, full enjoyment of its ow-n domestic rights; so ns to retain laws of religious conformity and.i compulsion, like Massachusetts, or to repeal ) them, like Virginia; so as to legalize entail-of land, like Massachusetts, or do unlegalize it 11-.I 1 -. AVg'nia; so as to maintain self-labor like' Virginia, or to exclude it like Massachusetts. the fundamental idea of the Path-' era. Without having the idea original, they oculd have created a Union, —without adhering to., that idea so long as they lived, they never could have transmitted tho Union to their sons. . ■ It was left to degenerate sons of theirs to begin.to undo that great work which they had not wisdom to eoriiprehend or virtue to main-’ tain m its pristine integrity and strength.' Mr. Cushing then eloquently traces, step by J stop, the origin and progress of that groat sec tional party of the North, which has in a few short years brought this once happy and uni ted nation to tho verge of dissolutiomand civil, war. The sacred pulpit has been infected with political Abolitionism as with an epidem ie plague. Churches are distracted, divided and broken up. , Current literature has oven I assumed a morbid, jaundiced, foulish black J hue. ■ Political power at the North can only be obtained by pandering to this unconstitu tional spirit. Mr. Cushing then spoke of tho authors of tho inroads into the Southern, States, honored and in some cases sanctified. Meanwhile, the expression at tho North of tne sentiment of opposition to slavery at the south, has produced among tho people of the liutor a sentiment of angry rejection of our omcioua advice, where it is advice only, and of mil angrier repulsion of it where it passes trom advice to,act, and becomes, according to their belief, unconstitutional interference with thou- rights in the Union. Exhortation on tho one, side produces retort on fho other; oh cioaohinent on the one side leads to reprisal ana retortion on the other; the innocent and iq guilty on both sides are confounded in the same feeling of reciprocal condemnation; wp ,, lua ,,) v ™ n K the South, and the South wrongs no worth ; fugitive slaves from the South are iun off or rescued'at the North, and offensive or suspected white men from the North are threatened or lynched at the South; States soold at one another from tho gubernatorial chair or the legislative halls, and at length proceed to legislate against one another ;,and S0 ‘ 11,I 1 , /’. become heated on both sides,; our blood is up, and all of a sudden we awake to the perception of the fact that we no longer have the common attachments of a common country ; and then it is but a stop—nay, it is but an accident of the error of some State, or the madness or some individual man—which separates us from civil war, revolution, con summated dissolution of the Union. . AO that point wo have now arrived; and it is a question of revolution, nothing else. _The Republican party, advocating the idea cf an “ irrepressible conflict," has inaugurated this revolution, and to it must the glorybdat tached. ‘ , , -j- ■ ■ Hero, then, we stand, under the benign in fluence of the Republican idea; ifi the midst ?l ° wI? U j? n ’ aS ea 'd in commencing, though bloodless ns yet; but who knows hoW MnnJl„T 3 °, r ?. ays !t " nh cont inue to be a bloodless revolution? We stand' for Hid mo r“-ln? ®I property, with cessation or curtailment of tho moans of subsistence 1 ; dizzied by the overthrow of everything; our t eyos-blmdodbytlie rising dust and bur oars ’ S O ,, i m , ded , b y tha orash of tho sudden down , mil of the edifices of industry and commercial i prosperity; nnd.eaoh man busy in saving what L can of himself fromthe general wrfck - •that will b,o forthomomout, but no longer We must up, and -collect our thoughts, and look around to see how-a groat catastrophe may he prevented from becoming greater, and whether after all .thoreimaynot be something lor us to do, and, sufficient inducement for us to attempt, to. do something to avert or dimin ish tho penis of the Union. In a strain of forvid'and impassioned elo .quenco; the orator'thenf advocated a return to the spirit and tenor of the 'Constitution, as formed by our fathers, as theonly escape from , this impending bloody b’ttsis. He continued ' speaking until a very late hour amid the deep 1 and earnest attention of his hearers. . 1 ' The Post Office Department. Poatm “ s , tor Oonoral’a report is an intelligible Us^en^M, 08 ?' 1 !? 0 . <ioo ““? nt >.. a nd, notwithstanding » ? th ' b ° th ‘“portnnt end interesting. The retrenchments which have been effected, and the increase of revenue in excess -of calculations, are icn o - i of l njniplaoont reference; though it ia considered certain thatif reforms heretofore fooom mended to Congress hid been adopted the accounts Th l A J o i would haT ° lookeil much hotter.. The total expenditures for tho Fiscal year have been Of which belongs to ISSSf Lpaving tUotofa! expenditure' for ’CO $11,874, r? 2 89 The total revenue for 1300 ■' 9,218,007.40 Exponaituro raci-o than revenue $5,055,705.40 llfflro is, however, by roaiion of appropriations from Tho treasury, a credit balance to thl ' lloyonuo account for 1$00„ , gr 2 j i 860 17 Of which is available, only ' ■ b9C,008.17 Xho balance \ *'lli in im U P of'ajroarasos from postnlnatera, aooumu- A 4 ® 4 °’ aud *Moli may ai well be charged to profit and loss. . The increase of rovonue for 1800 1 estimatod at four per Zt abort ■ n , d , I VC3 > however, to bo near seven nor cent •But m thei estimates for.lB6lSvhd 1862, it isLoLht ■ ™? st . f.? adb oro to the former oalotdafion of increase . fbo history of the dopartmeiit sinco 1853 shows an ■increase of expenditure of oboiit one million nor ™' onLil ISSB, and a similar increase of dcfici raw, oictpt WrandBSs ami. 1856, when the in -858 Li I°S59 the" bu ‘‘ BeS&n , nd I Bs ® increase of caob -ivas about two millions; since which period, although the cvnondi tnro has continued about tho has boon diminished by abont.-S660,000; The cati- in ISM. th ° hopp that merest . The total sum received for Itamps and stamnml" 782.35 ovoi thosales of 1859. ■ .More than two-thirds and h (bn r ° m '° ° £ i tb ° artm fJ(t somes from stamps, and tho accurate-management of this nart of tho accounts W and on other Huh of oW Pos !“f st °r General asks for the erca- -jThe statistics in re tlohs -with ’ tho and the nogotia hL^poX t 4^mll'°% th r^ s " bj “ ct of The latter ' w dl l» found of interest.— tho other side,- doom ■rdnsonabfefe?" it ( 'Report 0/ the Nary Department The. Secretary of the iViivy reports in favor of converting eight ships-of-the-line into first 1 ' e ass steam ships, l whiefi he sajs can be done rho^fne 1 ° f 5 ’ | 3 , 83 > 0 _ 00 each. The other shipsof and nl r U d n^ pay for expense, being old and nearly used up The frigates Sabine and Sanies are to bo left ns they are ted^into ™ malm ' lg ai * sh'l'ng frigates convex ? team siobps-of-war, and finally into: stpie ships. , N ew sloops-of-war should be brM 6 lep io- tboso built P«or to 1840. The I ° f \ he aetivo n avy is then re t lowed and commended. - The Secretary re- i ° f scre r ateam <r r s, and against | sidewheel-steamers, in case of war Am irounTthift t . le , nav > r is , demanded, on the 1 nf r t t .,r°: llavo n °w a navigating intor- LadL/ 0 - m,lllon;tons - aQ im P° rt and export trade of six or seven million of dollars and , A n oS n'J'^.- trade , of e( l u al extent and value. All additions to the navy, should employ , 1 rK ttantion is to thefadt ■Woof constitution prohibits individual l a nay y 6f riicir own. 1 Estimates are submitted for replacing all of, the promment navy yards of the - country in a condition of,full activity'. A high coninli-1 TthVhftvnl :efficicne / and discipl?no l 1 - Aoa<lem y. uu “ or Capt. Blake. 1 Tigures are given to show that the education of the pupils has improved. In the slave trade twelve vosspls have been captured this 3 O 0O b nB h ° Afn - an 8 9, u adron, and more than 1 8 000 negroes rescued. A strong, hint is I if® 1 ), s l Ten thaf the slave trade can bnly her‘ tLf 0 S TC Baed . b y England's enforcing rr'.hnL 0 !, 817 wlth . S P a ‘ n in reference to r? • t l 0 annexation of Cuba by the fnitod Statoß, ■ The bill introduced by Jeffer- IT S" i“ hrolnbitmg the purchase 0/patent t llr^i' 0 03 arm y and navy;is next at- Th o k si “'I lnjul,lous t 0 *e public : service, the secretary recommends that he bo given power to puroha e butter, cheese, flour and 1 and no°t W Privtite purchase, and not by advertised contract. The pres-, ent state and services of the various squad rons and ships .are then formally recorded, compliments being paid to Commodores Poor, Porter, and Broilt, for prompt action in right ing the wrongs. ,of American citizens. The Japanese Embassy, reports as to the marine corps, surgeons, and quartermasters, togeth er with brief statistics of the various oxplor ing expeditions, , from the main balance, of the Secretary a report, which closes with a summary of naval estimates for the fiscal BSSSfcf** “■ Report ofithe Secretary of War. : -This report aljudes to tho recent hostilities on tho part of the frontier Indians in Texas P„ 0W land,' Utah. The , Kiowa referred^!’ t0 ’- an ? Svako In(li ans are Spl of d 4 fa, % principal depredators, -The wern inffl states that while the appropriations wore sufhcient sustain tho army upon a FeTtddtn°p Dg a V Jrl0 » beoif fmb rv Vhr‘ : rPT* °! and. sanguina ry war. The report opines that the Indian fiureauishould Uo placed under charge of the iriL d f°i Partmorlt ’ smoo U is "npoaaiblo to im presa the savages into obodieVce by other TwT. y mo T 3 - Tho Quartermaster's Bureau has expended §24,000,000 since the Secretary won} into the Department, The march propx St. Louis to the Oregon river is strateliV 0 *t K - • H 0b J ect to demon! Strata the fact that a. line of communication could ho made available for removing largo military forces from, the Atlantic to the , Pa- Seoretatr alludes to a special ro port of a board of ordinance' and- artillery • They recommend that our cannon berine-grooved, and, adapted io, the use of James’., elongated expanding projectiles. The I Secretary , psks for an appropriation of I §50,000 for the experiments for tho improve- ( ment of arms. Ho also suggests the necessi ty for a national armory for the fabrication of cannon. ' During the year a large quantity of con- demnod muskets have been sold from the dilleront arsenals to make room for more modern arms. The Secretary holds it to be Wn n^ U T , M® CO - ( l my which Ben ds a soldier into the held without furnishing him with the best weapon that can be made. Ho be th.at * ho hreeoh-loading gun will shortly dme out of use those that load at the muz zle. Ihe explorations undertaken by the ? f Yr' 11 ’ - acrdss the 6reat Basin and the Rocky Mountains are referred to. the Massachusetts, a ship with auxiliary earn power, has been used upon Puget’s Sound and the adjacent waters, to resist tho incursions of Indians from the British and Russian provinces. Tho latter come down m canoes, which carry one hundred warriors, and move with great speed. They give no warning of their approach, and defy pursuit with ordinary , means;? The Secretary pro poses to sell the Massachusetts, and substitute a light sea steamer of considerable speed, i ort Wise is adverted to. This post has been erected by Major Sedgwick, among tho Ca manohoa aniPKiowas. to protect the emigrants 1 to Pike’s Peak. ' “ We clip from the Presidents Message the subjoined thrillingly eloquent and patriotic appeal. After stating that our Union rests upon public opinion, and, must live only in the affections of the people, or, if not, it must per ish. Mr. Buchanan adds: , $19,170,782.15 4,296,009.20 But may I be permitted -solemnly to in voke my countrymen tp,pause and deliberate, before, they, determine to destroy this, the grandest tenipld which has ever been dedioa-: tod to human freedom since the world began ? it has been consecrated by the blood of our fa-, thers, by,.the, glories of the past, and by the hopos.ot the future. . The Union,has already m -n-c S ■ ' 0 most prosperous, and, ore long, will, if preserved, render us the most power tuf nation on the face of the,earth.' In every’ foreign region of the globe thp title of Amen- 1 can citizen is held in tho highest respect, and’ When pronounced in a foreign, land it causes, the hearts of our countrymen to swell with honest hride. Surely when wo reach the brink of the yawning abyss, we shall recoil' tyitWorror ,from , the last fatal plunge. By WA? * c ad. catastrophe thp hopes of the friends of freedom throughout the world would bo destroyed, and a long.night of leaden dos potism would enshroud the nations. Our os ample for more than eighty years would noi only bo lost; but it would bo quoted as a con clusive proof that man is unfit for self "overn ■ment,” ■ PniMaorny of, Hain.— To mule"stand the philosophy of this beautiful and often sub lime phenomenon, so often witnessed since the creation, and essential to the. very cxist enoe of,, animals, a few facts derived; from ob servation and a long train of experiments -m^t-bo^«eme:n.b3i - cd< / 1. Were the atmosphere,- everywhere at.all times, at uniform .temperature, we should never have rain, ,or hail or snow:—The wa ter absorbed by it in evaporation from the sea and the earth's surface,' would descend in an imperceptible vapor, or cease to be>absorbed by the air when, once/idly saturated. I ihe absorbing power of the atmosphere aud consequently its capability to- retain the | humidity, is proportionally greater in the the cold than in the warm air. .3. The air near the surface of the earth is warmer than it is in thefegions of the clouds, the higher we ascend from the earth the colder do wo find , the atmosphere. Honeo the perpetual snow on the very high mount ains, in .the hottest climates!. Now, when by I continual evaporation the air is- heavily sat urated with vapor, though it bo invisible and the sky oloudlossj if its temperature be sud denly reduced by cold currents of air rushing from above, or from a higher to a lower lath tude,. its,.capacity to retain moisture is di minished, clouds are formed, and the result . 18 riun - ,£ ir condenses as it cools, and, like a sponge hiled with -water and compressed pours out. the water which is diminished ca ! paoity cannot hold. How singular, yet how simple, the phil osophy of rain ! -What but an Omniscience , could have devised such an admirable a" 1 rangomant for, watering the earth.— Set. m encan. A Thought for the Young Men.—‘More niay bo learned by devoting a few moments i daily to rending, than is commonly supposed. Jnve pages may bo road in fifteen minutes, at which rate one niay pefsuo twenty-six vol umes, of two thousand page's each, in a year." you say you have none’to guide you. The i best scholars and men of science w‘ill tell you by far the most valuable part of their educa tion is that which they have given themsel ves. A olumes have been filled with the bi ography of self-taught men. Think of Frank “I 1 ’ , J ,r!llter ’ kiune, the shoemaker.; ot John Hunter, the shoemaker; of Hershel the musician; of Donald; the weaver- Turn er, the printer; of Borritt, the Blacksmith. Love learning, and . you will bo learned. W here there is a will there is a way. • Begin at once, take time by the. forelock and remem ber that 1 it is only the first step that costs and, haying begun, resolve to learn something eyery day. Strike the blow and avoid the weakness of those who. spend half of their life m thinking what they shall do next. Al ways have a volume near, you which you can catch up at such odd minutes as are your own. It is incredible,, until trial, has been made, how much real knowledge may bo re quired in those broken fragments of time which are like the'dust of gold and diamonds! i 00 J l Bov.—Dontbo ashamed, mv lad, it you have a patch on your elbow. It is no mark of disgrace. It spooks well for you industrious mother., For my part, wo would rather see, a- dozen patches on your jacket, than hear one profane or vulgar word escape your lips. No good boy will shun you because,.you can not dress as well as your companions, and if a bad boy sometimes laughs at your appearance say nothing, my good lad, but walk on. Wo know many a rich arid good who was once as poor as you, Thorp is our next door, neighbor in particular —now one of our wealthiest men—-trim told us a short time since, that when a child hoi was glad to receive the cold potatoes from' his neighbor’s table. Be good, my boy, and if your aro poor you will be respected a.groat deal more than if you were the son of a rich man and .were addicted to bad habits. When you forgive the man who has pierced youijiheart, he stands to you in the relation of the sea-worni that perforates the shell of the musolo, which straightway closes tho wound with a peal. . . . . Senator Slidell and Louisiana.— Senator. Slibell declares tlmt Louisiana will eeoodo, ana that he did not loavo home until this fact was certain; An Eloquent Appeal, Provide them in all the yards whore oattlo or sheep are fed. The saving of hay will more than pay the expense. , Kill ns e al; iy as po j sible They will gain but little during severe weather. ■ b ■ i- T j P o ® sin K s of fine compost may bo an plied at this season when the weather allows! mi meeting produce, ■ r ,®i ka “Montage of the first paying offer for grain, etc., and remove from the granaries as early as practicable. ‘ binaries ns n . ’ SHEEP. pnoa‘ Vo ■ e l n sholter from storms. Provide coding racks, m yards or sheds opart from other stock. Give roots out fine with their hoy. Salt regularly, and let them have free w u e l ect and turn in the tost buck that can be had. Igriraltal Mltparimm DECEMBER, * n , ,)ca^ccl rows, drops dock tho spray, Whilo Phajbus grants a momentary ray, Bet but a cloud’s broad shadow intervene; And stiffened into gems the drops are seen. And down the furrowed oak’s broad southern side ■streams of dissolving rime no longer glide. iriTfu aPProaching, bids for rest prepare, Mill tho flail cohoes through tho frosty air, hi or stops till deepest shades of darkness come, pending at length the weary laborer home.” Bloomfield's Farmer's Bov. • We have now reached the shortest dnys of the year, and everything stands in striking: contrast .with the long bright days of Juno.— j >\e have bare, desolate branches, for the sea ot living green ; a robe of snow on every field, tor the verdant turf; sheeted ice on every stream and lake, for the rippling waters; cloud and storm for the sunny skies of summer.— JNauure bids us pause and look back over the ,?='!!p hed r monthS - 11 is a time to sum up tho a . yohr. not only to square business accounts with our fellow men, but to sit in judgment upon ,our own relations to the soil and to society. One’s manhood is measured [ ai ,? n as . mu< ? Jl . hybis/arming as by tho offices, he fills, by his plowing and sowing, by his building and adorning, as by his speech ma-! •mg and voting We maymeaaureourselves o q f officldplacS' 10 PloW3har ° Mby tho bad e e We can not well divert our minds from this I theme now. Ihe clod is frozen, and the plow will not turn it. All the-implements of hus bandry have gone into winter quarters. The flocks the trees, the shrubs, the grasses, are all hybornating. We can do little out of doors to advantage now, but we can do a large busi ness within, in those brief days of winter.— o. d%r at l V hutB US 10 “If-Cdmmunion and toreflection Upon the events of tho past. Hf " lnt Ci’ ,'"' lt h icy finger seems to interro gate every tiller of tho soil, what sort of far -1 mer art thou ? What sort of virtues does your business develop ?_ A .man’s business has something to do with his character, but the : principles on which he conducts it, have touch moie to do with it. You have reached anoth lor stage in life s journey, and have time.to con-; aider what yojir business and your mode of managing it, are doing for .you. ' • Are you a wise man, tested by vour busi !!c S l CaP T lty ? n In the s ° od old ‘foes, when no were boyij, they used to charge us with ha ving eyes lugger than the-stomach, and-the. heap of unused food upon the plate was an ar gument m favor of that position, rather hard to meet. Ihere is not a little farming shovy tog the same kind of wisdom.. The.tiller of. the soil is apt to have very largo eyes, suppo sing, that he adds to-his wealth as ho adda to ;;? acr f' |U ? °% capital enough to work, thuty acres, ho buys three hundred, and his.‘ large form keeps him a small, poor man asi lonfn 1 ? tV neß ri 116 si S hs for more land, arnV i ]p? ks to \ h,s ns the remedy of his poverty.—': ■ I!! ? f S |- pr ?? ta V lp - aore M cultivates, not psy Inn/ ten dollars above the. oxpen-' ses of working it, while his neighbor of Tow: apres, gets.one, and sometimes two' hundred: dollars an acre not. Every year the large lari-i wi,^r et ° r m Bm f ] ca P ita,!st - comes out' I / J t .?. or uotlnng: beyond' working espen- 1 ses, and this gives / sad coloring to Ins whole 1 llc su f ceeds in nothing that ho attempts: not the P ff‘° n / 01 ' more i .laud, when we have not the means to use a little well, wise? Is the reader related to one of these large land holders and poor farmers? Now ] S g a good to m sel °or v ° at ° T om ' reputation for wisdom;! to sell off your unused acres and to turn over a new leaf in husbandry. I ■ Are you a cultivated man? This is of infi nitely more importance than tho cultivation of your acres.. Are body, mind, and heart duly’ developed, so that all yourfriends know ancl esteem you as something more than a farmer V Docs this self-culture show itself in, the adorri °/, y 0 homo , ? . Tho former, of all men, has the best opportunity to cultivate his taste : and to make tho most of himself as a man.-i He is daily m the school of tho great Archi tbeSvhf l n r y ha '/ u co , ns . tan t communion with! if* *>s foughfost colors, and the ! sweetest sounds in Nature. Th’efading stars/ the purpling dawn and the rising sun? usher in Ins morning, and the gorgeous coloring of the evening with its ever new pictures of illu mined cloud, are his for a perpetual posses- Spring comes with its bursting budsand opening flowers and Summer with its garlands of roses its meadows of perfumed grasses, and its forests of freshest verdure, to Educate him n the love of tho beautiful. Of all ornaments, ; to a home, trees, shrubs and flowers are at 011C0, tho most accessible, and the most char muiß Without them, the master piece of tho architect in tho country is .incomplete: With’ them, tastefully arranged, the humblest cot-! /I”? ! s ft' ol ' l ugliness, and made a! plcdaing object in the landscape. Is your soul in th 1 ;. < r ultlV ‘7 tCf i t ,nt il ' laa found expression! n tl o tree-planted avenue ; in. tho lawn with lit t er s i I ? r ? st -. or of evergreens; in : tho.helhs, loaded with roses; and in the flow er border, peopled in its season, with a throne more gorgeous than tho attendants of princes ? lhasp are marks of tho cultivated farmer FARM. • The main work of tho month will be manu facturing, rather than cultivating. . The stores w ay a lf gram ! lre t 0 worked over into hoof, mutton, pork and manure. Practical skill is needed in these operations ns much ns n plowing, planting and harvesting. The a™°^ 3 BhOU d ' Je Bt . udiod and tHe most appioved apparatus jirovided. „ 9 attlo no "’ depend wholly upon the’care of their owners Keep them thrifty, by warm stables, abundant and varied food, plenty of bedding, and free access to wafer. Allow tliem to spend pleasant weather in tho yards, except at feeding time. CELLARS. Continue to guard against frost'; sort over ap ples or roots that may bo decaying. FENCING. Collect timber; prepare rails and posts. FODDF.H PACKS.' ' - HOGS. meadows, American Agriculturist, anb fnk ID” Yon had better pay forf one drink than run up a score. “ ID” By preparing for the tvorat, you' may often compass the best. . , ■' r ID* Ho who cannot keep his'.6wn secret ought not to complain if another,' tells it. , doubt it is a great deal" pleasanter to . , ,‘ 01 ' E °™e beautiful women- than to liye with them. ~ DD” A parent’s forgiveness of -a daughter when her heart is broken, is pardon after-ex ecution. ■ - -T he n m filignant writer cannot body else aUthor ' lvlt!lout reflecting on everjf- C 7“ Is there a Democrat in all this broad land who is not proud that lie is a ..Democrat now i • i • j -.. v „f7’ r T . llo i ,ast cure for consumption W have read of, is to swallow five frogs without ohow- iok^f^L"' I ?'’" 1 h ° W y ? u J ‘ est - Tho richest ble one. h may b ° a vcry uns easomi- [D =- A writer asks if any one can inform a Oerlai‘n'i n ‘'r ' v - ay to atart a nursery? Oertainlj. Get married, . . 0= Flowers are the alphabet of angels wherewith they write on hills and plains mysterious truths. 13 tuP r!}^ CU Io<>1? , for happiness in ; the, fu 'WW-Lcatren and edrtji sem to cmbiace in the distance. , r bo P ox is prevailing with great \V«t2 n ™‘ ) l 1S f t lr, poor inhabitants of thc \V estorn part of Philadelphia. ' ■ T *?“■' An independent Methodist Church in Louisville,-Ky. has gone over to the Episc™ ■palians in a body, church and all. h,FT The “ pdo ° f c!mrn ing in. Fayal, one of the Azores, is to tie the cream up in a goat skin, and kick it about till tho butter comes, • Petitions are being circulated in Micfl igan, asking the forthcoming Legislature- to s 7n P tute bo°or 80DaI lib6rty W " 0W ° ulha d/TPrincc Napoleon's trip to this countrir appears to.be fully decided Upon, ,llewiUb£ accompanied by several men of letters,, pfo^ lessors, add -artists. • ’*• ■ ,C?“ The United States consulship at Naples has been held hyone man.Va ,Mr. feametffor "$-° ne years. He entered upon his duties the very.year Lincoln was born; '.“ pST Go °?. dinners should begin at hoiaeV dri« 6n °r 1 !- l i 0t an {lrticle to bo worn in full dress only, to be put on when we pay or id ceive a complimentary visit. : ■ tno Ist Qt January last, nearly 200 children' and abou t one-fourth that number of adults’ have died in that ciiy of diptheria. ; ' „„ Pe > } ro “re told is a journey—arid to seeitjio way in which some people eat veil would iniagme they were talcing in provisions to last them the whole length of , the journey. D ZT Lieut. Col. lYin. Henry Walker 'has Army on lie . poBitio " in . the United States' Army on the issue of resistance to Lincoln’s rnony of a man who V cards hid thatVf'f l ced - 0m a P° siti °n of affluence to tluit or a crossing sweeper. . 1 ITT" Love one human being purely and varmh, and y 0„ will l ove aU . “/he this heaven, like the wandering sun sees nothing, from the dew drop to thf ocean, bdt a mirror which it warms and fills, • Kp"H u *nari doctrines cannot cure awound m the conscience. The remedy is too weak for the dmcaso. Conscience, dike the vulture w ‘ S -' ll he gnawing, notwith standing all that such doctrines can do,' ‘ ' ’ V r ' J; % e y. *he celebrated hirse- I shb 4 a Tr fr ° m Ebglandinthesteam smp dsia, and taken rooms at the Fifth Ave nue Hotel, where the notoriety ho has (rained as a tamer of wild and vicious 7 horSSed him to bo viewed with great curiosity. , K?" Q UI, P his wife had a bit of a con en tion the other day. “ I own you have mme brilliancy than I,” said the woman, “but I have the bettor judgment.” “Yes,” saidQuilp our choice in marriage shows that 1” Quito was informed that he was a brute, E J?T lh ? c P mi "E session of the Legislature will have before it the duty of electing a V. S, O “ '(l™ the second Tuesday of January. On the third Monday of January, the State Ticasurer will bo chosen, On the third Tues riUecl’Governor'’ C ° L Curtln . A ou-ntahv Slavery.— Lucy Andrews, a free negress, on the 28th ult., presented a pe titiou to the Legislature of South Carolina, praying to be allowed the privilege of-becom ing a slave.' Lucy is said to bo wealthy and the owner of slaves. Suit Decided. — The case of {he frill of (Mrs. Mary Ann Jones,'into of Dinwiddle co., I Va., in which $30,000 worth of slaves were I sot free, was decided in tho Circuit Court, at I Petersburg, on Tuesday week, in favor of tho slaves, who will now have to leave for the North. I The United States.— The present popn a non non nb ° Ut 30 > 000 > 000 . of whom abiut 4,000 000 are negroes. Our public schools arc attended by 4,000,000 of children • we owe about $200,000,000, of which 896,000’,000 are .nm) o nnn H T gnors ‘ - 11 takes 750 P«P« “die and -.000 steam engines to supply ior. pub lisnors of newspapers with printinc naner a cost of $27,000,000 per annum. PP ’ .. A Damper on Patriotism—About twenty young gentlemen of New Orleans, La., wish *"B lb display their spirit, detormined.to wear no cloth except what,was manufactured in a ■Ssgr ? tat T e - So ko “ght some pieces of Kentucky Jean, find had it made up into smts.but they discovered, when too late, that tho Kentucky jean had beon made in Maasa (musette 1 CcnE for Rheumatism.— many persons are at the present season troubled- frith this unpleasant disease, wo give 'publicity fo :/ the follpwing cure, said, to be Wery- effective; Bathe the parts_ affected inwator, in which potatoes with their skins onhavebeenboilcd,' as hot as can be borne, just before.goingi to I “b?: morning the pjiin frjllbe miioh relieved, if not removed., One, application of this simple remedy has cured the most obsti nate rheumatic pains." i .p;
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