’ " ' '' ' :: ' ’ " ° 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 - -- ■
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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."
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