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'Pirn,!
A flush of green'is on tho-e
A warm breath pantefch in the .
And in the earth a heart pulso there
Throbs underneath her breast of snow.
-«Lifo is 'astir.am'ong tho'woods, ■
And, by tUo moors and by the stream,
Thoycar, as from a torpid dream,
"Wakes in tbo suusbiuo on tbo buds;
'Wakes-trp in music, ns the song 1
Of woodland pool tbo gleam receives,.
Through bright flowers,overtraded,leaves
J Of broken sunlight, golden green. ‘
She sees the outlawed winter stay
Awhile, to gather after‘him
.‘Snow-robes, frost-crystalod diadem, *
And;then in soft Showers pass away. -
‘She cotild’not loyo Yough winter well;
And cannot choose bufc mourn him now;
So wears awhile on horyoung brow
Ilia gift—a gleaming icicle, '
Then turns her loving, to the sun»
. Upheaves her bosom's swell to his, ■■
And, in tho.joy.of his first kiss,
* Forgets for aye that sterner one; . ,
Old,winter's pledge front her ho reaves—
That Icy-cold, through glittering spar—
; And zpnesher with a green cymar,
■And girdles'round her brow with loaves.
(Cho'peimToso and wood-violct ■
■Ho tan glee‘in her shining hair,
And teaches.elfin breezes fair
To sing her some sweet -canzonet-
All promising long summer hours,-
When she in his .embrace shall fie,
Under the bread dome of brighter sky,
On mossy couches starred with, flowers.
Till she smiles bade again-to him, ‘ •
* The beauty beaming from -bis face.
And, robed in light, glows .with the grace
Of Eden palaced cherubim. ’. .
0 earth, thy glowing loveliness..
Around our very hearts has thrown'
An und.immcd Jo3'ancoaUits own,
And shunn'd us o'er, with happiness.
MMliiimm.
AN EARTHQUAKE IS INDIA,
A N’IGIIT OF TERROR.
The undulation of tbe earth, though fain
ter, still 'continuing, Janies proposed we
Should take refuge with Torollas for a time,
seeing tl;at the house had withstood the re
cent shocks, and not thinking we should have
any others more-violent. We rose, holding
■ each other tightly,- and making our way to
dho door as direct as we could, groped about
till wo had found the fastening, when we
• pushed it open, and felt our way along the
passage to the staircase. We knew our way
to the principal apartments and, wo made our
■way from one to the other of'these, notwith
standing the dead silence which followed my
• (husband's calls for Torollas., Wo had opened
the doors of several rooms and we were on
the .point -of leaving the house, supposing that
Torollas with his family had abandoned it,
when wo remembered a room which gave a
Hite -view of the city and the environs. In
. the.intonao darkness which had prevailed, ive
had-to grope a long time before we could find
the door, but when wo found it-and pushed it
open, the glare which rushed into our eyes
was terrible. 1 believe the-building was in
flames, but so horrible was the pain in my
eyes, and so great the bewilderment caused
hy the brilliant light-after being so long in
such pitchy darkness, that I could not have
fled it I felt the fire laying hold of mo. I
covered my face with iSfy hands and the pain
diminished, I parted my fingers little by lit
tle, and let in.the light gradually, till f was
able to open my eyes to the light without,
protection. Madame Torollas was most kind
in her attention fo me, even at such a mo
ment, and her daughters wore willing assist
ants. They brought water to wash pur
wounded feet; but my husband would not
allow the bandages to bo removed, for fear of
.pausing inflamation of the wounds, by expo
■Pingrthom to tiie air in such a hot climate,
.especially astwo might, within a minute. Have
; to run out of the house. ,We were glad en
,ough, however, to avail ourselves of their of
fered kindness in the matter of Clothing, and
•when these arrangements were,, completed,
■we wont to the window, and looked out.
The sight was grand and horrible. The
flames which now rose from iho houses on
both sides of the street lit up the tower of
the convent, which had hitherto resisted the
shucks of the earthquake, with a bright red
glow, and showed us every projection and
iorevioo, oven to the bird sitting on the tree
.near her nest, cither kept there by hormator
mal instinct or too bewildered to fly away.—
-A little below tins convent, the road widened
'several feet beyond what lay below us, and
•at the 'bottom it narrowed again, and was
•shut in .by o tanner’s yard. This factory or
store was blazing fiercely, and Torbllas told
■us that one part of the building was used to
store a largo quantity of saltpeter. Most of
'the inhabitants had probably made their as-'
cape ; but there wore still many in the street
who might have delayed their flight to save
something from the general wreck, but were
more like plunderers who were taking.advan
tago of coufusion and terror to help them
selves to the property Of others. If this were
so they paid dearly for their crime. A, repo-,
tition of the shocks, so violent that the
broad, solid building which we were in shook
and trembled, brought down the convent
tower, which crushed tho opposite houses on
the two aides of the street into one mass, so
that a low. Upt flaming barrier out off their
oscupo, and shut them in qn all sides. It was
a dreadful sight to soo the poor creatures
.“lining to and fro, seeking with frantic goa
urea sumo outlet and finding pone. Some
. } n 110 n, 'ddle of the street, insensible or
ami ’ a e 'T l° a P e d among the burning ruins
onnn"'(■ r ° Blt ber consumed or made their es
„.!,*{ °r they returned no more; but the
L , ' P arfc of them huddled together in the
auoat part of tho street, the stronger
struggling savagely to force themselves into
the centre of the group. 'JL'he intense heat
soon reduced strong and weak to one level)
and for some minutes before motion ceased
altogether, weponld distinguish nothing hut
a writhing mass. Soon a . pole bright flame
seemed to be hovering over it, like a bird of
prey over a dying camel in the desert, sink
ing loner and lower, till it suddenly seized
upon it and wrapped it in a shroud of fire.—
Ifaint with horror, yet with something like a
feeling of thankfulness in my heart that wo
had not wandered into this street in the ob
scurity, I turned away from the window, and
sat down on a couch, James said he intend
ed to get out of tho town ns soon -as it was
daylight; hot ffbrollas declared that his con
fidence in the stability of bis house was so
perfect that nothing would induce him to
abandon it, but that his wife and family were
free to go with us if they choose. At the first
appearance of daylight, wo all ascended to
the reof of the house, to get a more perfect
view of the damage that had been done. The
shook,? were still frequent, but less violent,
and we cd.mforted ourselves with the belief
that the worst was over. Our host brought
us some food ana wine, and bad gone down
‘to -get some cigars tC.r himself and James,
1 when a prolonged, dull rocr told us that an
l other shook 1 was approaching. All at once
f tho Vibratory motion changed tbi' one of up
heaval, tho'house parted in two, ana we felt
gur.’olvcs descending to tho earth with a ra
pidity took my breath away, and I
became for the first time 'wisonsihle. When
I recovered my’ senses my first -thought was
of mv i, osband. J opened my eyes and found
him still ai we, and, ns it turned out, with
limbs unbroke.’’• though greatly bruised Pie
was feeling my pJse ana looking anxiously
at my face for signs o. f recovery, and bis joy
when I opened my eyes, wa3 evldont eve "
my enfeebled vision. Afte.’” a.™onient, I
'thought of Madame Torollus anu her daugh
ters, and naked him in a faint voice “ they
were nil safe;ho only pointed to whn. a P’
peared a heap of torn clothing, arid I comprC"
hendbd that they—who, had, a few minutes
before, been standing on the terrace—had
been precipitated into the street below and.
killed. .
.When I attempted to move, I suffered in-
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tense pain in my right leg, which was so
helpless that I felt it must bo broken. My
husband examined it, and found that it was
fractured a Ijttlo below the knee, and that
any further walking on my part was quite
out of the question. He went away a minute
dr two, and came back with some strips of
■linen and pieces of rafters; which he smoothed
■and-out with his knife into splinters, and set
the bone-as circumstances would admit of.—
After ho had done this, he searched for and,
found some food which poor Torollas had
brought up, and made me swallow a few
mouthfuls; but I wanted water most, and this
ho. was unable to get without going some
■distance, wherefore. I preferred to suffer
thirst rather than lot him go out of sight.— ;
Daylight -mado'-no. difference in tlns vo.rity
of the shocks,, but shortly after sunrise they
became less frequent, and about uoori seemed
to have ceased altogether, and people began
to appear again in.the street. My husband
appealed to several who passed to assist him
in removing mo to a place of shelter, but they
all refused, or pretended not to hear him;
probably they had lost relatives the previous
night, and were tee anxious to discover
thing respecting them to pay attention to’tin
words of a stranger. It was impossible to
carry me himself in the condition I was in,
on account of the pain it gave me to move,
and wo were obliged, though with great re
luctance, to consent to a separation while he
went to Batalha, the horse dealer, to get a
mule to carry me, a vehicle of any kind be
ing useless in such encumbered streets. Eve
ry minute seemed an hour while I was wait
ing his return, and yet minute after minute
passed, and bo did not make his appearance.
I knew the distance was hot great, and, ma
king every allowance, as, I thought, for the
difficulties ho might have to overcome, he
ought to have been back long since, when a
darkening of the air, accompanied this time
by a strong sulphureous smell, gave notice
that another calamity was about to burst on
the devoted city. The O"onings of the ground
wore more frequent and far more terrible to
see, now that the daylight illumined them;
and showed their unfathomable depth. . One
of these split open so close to the ruins on
which !I was lying, that a portion rolled in.—
The sun’s rays fell directly into it, and I
shuddered as I gazed into the gulf which was
deeper than the deepest abyss I had ever im
agined myself falling into in the wildest
nightmare. I drew hack, trembling with
horror and fright, and buried my face in my
arms to abut out the dreadful spectacle. I
prayed for my husband’s return, hut lie came
not. I would have dragged myself along in
the direction in which he had gone, if I had
been able ; but 1 was entirely powerless ; and.
to add to the terrors of my position, I now
discovered that a circular stone building
(used, I believe, for the temporary confine
ment of prisoners) trembled with every shook,
and, cracked as.it was in different directions,:
threatened every instant to bury mo beneath
its ruins. ■ '
It will not be easy for any body to realize
my feelings as Day on this heap of.rubbish,
watching the quivering blocks of stone and
the powdered mortar which was grated out
from between them, and fell upon mo in a
shower of dust. -I entreated sevorrti who
passed to come and remove mo, if only for a
few yards, so that I might bo out of reach of
the building ; and some were about to help
mo, .but when they saw the imminence of tho
danger, they, like tljo Levire of old, turned
away, and passed by on the other side. The
good Samaritan came at last, however, in tho
form of a poor woman, carrying a baby in
her arms; In answer to my appeal, she laid
her babe tenderly on the ground, lifted me
up, and carried me beyond the reach of this
last danger; after which she offered to get
mo some water, an offer I accepted with a
grateful heart, for the pain I was induring,
and the anxiety I had undergone, had parched
,my .throat to tliat degree that every breath I
drew caused roe the most acute pain, height
ened, perhaps, by tho sulphureous exhala
tions which now filled the air. She was go
ing to carry her babe with her, but I took it
from her as she was stooping to pick it up,
and told her I would take cure of it. Poor
little innocent, it wanted no further care, It
seamed asleep, but it was asleep from which
it would never wake again ; probably it had
boon suffocated by the pressure of tho crowd
on the preceding night. This kind woman
soon returned with some water, and I raised
it to my lips eagerly, anticipating the most
delicious sensation from the refreshing cool
ness it sent through me the instant it touched
my lips, I found to my disappointment, that
contact between it and ray throat caused mo
so much pain that I could only swallow a few
mouthfuls, and I was obliged to content my
self with tho relief it afforded mo to hold It
in my mouth.
I questioned the charitable creature who
had so opportunely come to my assistance as
to wheroshe was going, and found sho had
no fixed idea beyond getting into the open
country, upon which I proposed that if sho
would remain with mb till my husband re
turned we would take her with ns.
Sho accepted my offer, and to my great joy
she had not long to wait before he returned
with two mules which ho had found in a sta
ble in the suburbs, the house to which ho
first wont having been shaken down. He
seated mo on the mule, and though wo had
still great difficulties to contend against, in
the form of clouds of dust, heaps of ruins,
and occasional gaps in the ground, wo grad
ually approached the outskirts of the town,
which wb ultimately succeeded in passing
through, and finally found a place of refuge
in a shopherp’s hut, which an earthquake
might swallow up, but could not shake down,
from its being built, except a few stones
heaped up round’the lower part, of stakes,,
wicker-work, and dried sheep skins with the
wool oh them.
•Wo did not return to Nanhuisaloo till
April, 1860, some raontlis after the catastro
phe, when we tound that traces of the earth
quake still remained in. the form ,of deep
chasms, which gaped in a way that forcibly
recalled the horrors wo had seen on that oc-,
casion.
Mining Under the Sea. •
Mining can hardly be a pleasant occupa
tion. The absence of sun and all natural
ligi.t. the dripping sides of the shaft, the
danger jf explosion from the fire-damp, of the
fall of jutting rocks, and numorous olhcr per
ils, invest it wit. 1 ' vague terrors to active im
aginations. But w.'.''m the shafts ran under
the sea, and the swell outlie, ocean is distinct
ly audible, and it must suggest many fears-to
the dilligent miners. The follo-Ttag graphic
description is taken from an Englis.'.' paper :
“ We are how fbur hundred yards out, un
der the sea, and twenty feet below the sea
level. Coast trade vessels are sailing over
our heads. Two hundred and forty feet below
,us men are at ,work, and there are galleries
decpOf yet below that. The : extraordinary
position', ( lown the face of the cliff, of tiho-en
gines and other works on the surface, at
Bottallie, is iiu'v explained. The mine is not
excavated.like ottu-v mines ; under the earth,
but under the : sea. Jlaving communicated
these particulars, the mi.ner next tells us to
keep strict silence and listen, Wio obey him,
sitting speechless and motion,css. If the
reader could,only see us how, dressed in our
copper-colored garments, huddled together in
a more cleft of subterranean rock, with a
flame burning on our heads and
enveloping our limbs, ho must certainly have
imagined without any violent,stretch of fancy 1
that he was looking down upon a great con
clave of. gnomes.,
After listening' a few minutes a distant'
and unearthly sound hooomes.faiutly audible
—a long, low, mysterious moaning, that nev
er changes, that is felt on the ear as well, as
.hoiml by.it, a. that iuip;hb proQo.cd fvom
some incalculable distance—from some far’,
invisible height—a sound' unlike -anything'
that is'heard on the upper ground, in; the
free air of heaven—a sound so, sublimely
mournful and still, so ghostly aud impressive
when listened to,in the subterranean recesses
of the earth, that rye continue insinotively to
hold our peace; as if enchanted by it, ;and
.think not of communicating to each other the
Rtrango awe and astonishment which ft has
inspired in us from the very first moment.
At last the .miner speaks again, and tells
us that the sound wo hoar is the surf lashing
the racks a hundred- and twenty feet' above
us, and of the waves on the beach beyond-.—-
The tide is now at the flow, and the 50a is in no
extraordinary state of agitation ; so the sound
is low and distant just at this period. But
when, storms are at . their height, when the
ocean hurls mountain after mountain of water
on the cliffs, then the noise is terrific; the
roaring heard,down hero in the mine is so
inexpressibly fierce and awful that the bold
est men at work are afraid to continue their
labor; all. ascend to the surface to breathe
the upper air and stand on firm earth, dread
ing—though no catastrophe has ever hap
pened. yet-—that the sea will break in oo
them if they remain in the cavern.
“ Heating this, we got up to look at the
rock above us. Wo are able to stand upright
in tlio position we now occupy ; and flaring
.our candles thither. and thither in the dark
ness, Can see tbo bright, pure copper stream
ing through the gallery in every direction.
Lumps of oozo, of the most lustrous green
•color, traversed by a natural net-work ot
thin rod veins of iron, appear hero and there,
in largo irregular patches, over which water
is dripping slowly and incessantly in certain
places. Tliis. is the salt water percolating
through invisible crannies in the rock. On
very stormy days it spurts out furiously in
thin -continuous stream.;. Just over .our
heads wo observe a wooden plug, of the thick
ness of a man’s log ; there is a hole thor.e,
and that plug is all, wo have to keep out the
sea.
“'lmmense wealth of metal is contained
in the roof of tills gallery throughout its en
tire length, but will-always remain untouch
ed-; the miners dare not tako it, for it
is part.(and a great part) of tho rook which
is thoir only projection against the sea-, and
which has boeu so far worked away hero
that its thickness is limited to an average of
three feet only 'between the water mid the
gallery in which wo now stand. No qno
knows what'might be tho consequence of an
other day’s labor with tho pick-axe on any
part of it.”
. Anecdote. —Not long since, Mrs. 35., smell
ing smoko, ran up stairs to sue from whence
it came, and on going into a front room, dis
covered her little “ hopeful” standing watch
ing a bag of shavings burning in thofireplaoo.
“ Did you do this, Eddy ?” said she.
“ Yes ma’am,” was the reply.
“ Come with me, sir,” was the stern reply.
■She, taking him out of tho room, brought
tho ” strap” with her. Ho commenced to
say—
“ Mother,, please whip mo quick, I want
to see the lire. Whip mo quick, ma! whip
moquiokl"
Ain’t it wicked to rob dis chioken
roost, Bob?” said a colored worthy to his
pal. “ Dot’s a great moral question, Jim;
wo haint no time to argue it now. Hand
down another pullet.”
“ So here I am between two tailors,” said
a fop at a public table, whore a couple of
young tailors wore seated, who bad just be
gun business for themselves.
“ True,” was tho reply, “ we are now be
ginners, and can only afford to keep one
goose between us.”
O - A man said to another, “ Which is the
heaviest, a quart of rum or a quart of water ?”
“ Hum, most assuredly, for I saw a man who
■weighs two hundred pounds, staggering un
der a quart of rum, when ho would have car
ried a gallon of water with ease.”
' “ OUR COUNTRY-MAY IT ALWAYS BE EIGHT— BUT RIGHT OR WRONG OUR COUNTRY."
CARLISLE, PA, THURSDAY, APRIL I
too low, seeking no sustenance, in a very
ecstaey of life, light and harmonious motion.
It is good to bo hero. Tlio path-glides
under the hushes ; flowering branches strike
against your face. As you advance, a low
, cry, a rapid flight, reveal to you nests that
your hand sets gently rocking as you divide
the branches before you.' From every nook
burst tho brilliant notes of the maestri of the
wood. Redbreasts, blackbirds, chaffinches,
wren—nil except the.'nightingale, who finds
tlio cite.too wild ; except the lark, who pre
fers -the open. sky of the fields ; -except tho
quail, who hides her brood,in thojiny ;—all
at the top of their voice; all, with throats
proudly distended, sing, trill, call 1 It is
a glorious fulness of harmony, which affects
vou like tho vibrations.of sunlight. -
' Marvellously fresh is the. song of the
blackbird. In tho springitifiilitely varied in
its tones, it gets shorter the summer ad
vances,- until,, by tho time- his nestlings
are hatched, lie loses his notes one after
the oilier, and remains - out short, rather
quizzical, rather embarrassed, and a good
deal amazed that ho can go no further. And
while the blackbird' whistles at random on the
top of a great oak-tree, the rod breast, perched
below on some thick hush, throws off a rain
of diamonds and pearls, scatters_ in the
air his orystalline notes, alj.full of light and
fancy. .Lower-yet, beneath the brilliant con
certos and bravura songs, thorp are murmurs
more intimate and charming still; tho whisper
ed talk of an enamored pair ; the chirping of
tho mother to her young -brood; Tho rest is
a mere affair.of display ;. herd there is soul;
hero thoro aro endless-narrations,
of joy, sago councils,' innocent surprises ;
sometimes, hut rarely, bursts cf anger ; lov
ers who lose themselves in ineffable repeti
tions ;■ children who speak all atrenco, and
little melodious beatified sighs, as if o bird’s
heart was not largo enough to hold so much
happiness.— Madame de Gaspann.
A Fair Start in Married Life. —For a
young gentleman just turned twenty-one,
and a happy bridegroom at that, the Prince
of Wales has fallen heir to an exceedingly
pleasant fortune immediate as well as pro
spective. According to the official report
which has just been laid before Parliament,
the net proceeds of the revenues of his Duchy
of Cornwall, now placed to his credit, after
the accumulation of twenty-one years, amount
to no less a sum than £584,075 —or within
a fraction of throe millions of dollars in our
currency. This sum has been invested ns
follows : In consolidated thrpo-por cent, an
nuities, £282,990 8s lid.; and in reduced
throo por-cont. annuities, £289,106 4s Id ;
molting together a sum of £572,075 13s of
stock in those funds. There was also a sum
of £12,000 reduced three-por-oont. annuities
derived from another source, which the coun
cil directed to bo transferred to the Prince s
trustees. With a clear capital of.throe mil
lion dollars, and a regular annual income ot
five hundred and fifty thousand dollars be
sides, the Prince and his wife may bo said to
have a very fair start in the’world.
O”. Effects of Drinking.— Ho who takes
too many glasses will bo likely to become a
tumbler.
Love.— The sun of life; most beautiful in
morning and evening, but warmest and stead
iest ut noon.
ROSSI’S PETIT lON,
All for killing a robin !
I thought 'twould bo very fino,
If from a plump little rodbicasl,
My darling kittens could dino.
So I climod high up in the treo-top, ,
And took him right out of his noaj,
A round-eyed and plump llttlo robin, -
'With down on his pretty breast.
Alllor killing a robin !,
Are they any bcjtcr than mice?
I heard one last night in the pantry.
And pounced on him in a trice.
And you called mo “ a nice old pusvy j"
Blit mousey wasslcek ahdfair,
And his eyes wore brighter than robin's.
And shiny and sleek tfus his hair.
All for killing a robin I ’ ■ •
Now, Jonny, pray do tell mo’ why
The robin is better than uimisey,
The reason X can not deticry.
I am sure, to that old mouto mother ■
• Her swoot littlo mouse is.a.sdcarj
As round-eyed and plump little robin 1
. To tho redbreast, with song-noto so clear*
All forkillirg a robin
0 listen, dear boy, to“my»w6e,
Now 'don't drown' ybur poor old pussy ;
• Como, come, let mo scamper and go.
Just think of my throe frisking kittens,
So cunning and happy at play ; .
They’!! mow for their old eat mother,
If she -does not come near them all day
All for killing a robin I •.
* There, Johnny, you merciful boy,'
I knew your kind heart would bo softened;
I 'll scamper away now for joy. ' ‘
T'II try and do bettor, dear Johnny ; ■
.. But if sometimes.l do.dfeyboy,
Romctnbdr, I'm only apussfy, '
Audmuko some allowances, pra3%
•iy - . Child's Paper
USfiRR ■THE. li.iKS.
The forest) the. real farost, lies before us.
Do you wish for songs ? let us. go under the
old oaks. Do. you prefer siluneo, with the
vague stir iu the. air, let us keep below the
pines. ' ...
First of all, then, under the oaks. ' There,
where tho grass.grows and,file brambles in
terlace ; where tho’. sweet-briar stops up tho
way and creeping plan tsKobound ; there,
along that shining track)twhere footsteps
have trodden dotfn the vegetation..
There it .*s that you.are fairly lost ; there
that exhale nil around nameless perfumes,
tresh emanations of the earth, of the old,
trunks, oif the yoiingfaliagc.' The very light
is-green, tho shade all interpenetrated with
sun,- Not a breeze; except every how and
then indeed a mere puff you know not whence,
which just lifts the branches,- wafts hero and
there still sweeter, scents, then dies away,
and leaves you 'half intoxicated with per
fume. - V
What charming mysteries there are in
these'nooks'!’ Millions of inaeotS) all .dow
ered with intelligoiio.o, a festival,
displaying, between-' the 1 hhyjies of, grass, the
■purple, the ebony, the uiizdmavtao ot -their
elytra; tl-.r 1 .-,--vrr ef rrv v>6;wt<i*-''- n-1 'n'id. de
licate ah'enncp, and little'feathered crests.
There are artiznns among them, who lead a
hard-lifer hewing, sawing, storing, night and
day. IT hey are idlers who go to and fro,
climb to tho top of a stalk, look_ Upon tho
world below, move right and left, withnut-nny
particular purpose take things as .they-iirid
them. There are thinkers, too, motionless
for hours beneath a sunbeam. There are
busybodios, who fly in haste, make sudden
starts, long-journeys, prompt returns, with
out very well knowing why. There are mu,
sioiuns, who for hours together go on repent
ing their monotonous songs, Thors are
swarms of ephemera Waving hither and thith
er in some brilliant spot, neither, to high nor
10,1863.
BBEyiTIES.
Wise Asir v O-r«ERiri3E.
; ;
If you want to\a®S(n'ted.go to a tailor; if
you want to be übfeauited, go to law.
Few, ladies aro<sq;'p.iodeiat as to be unwill
iug to sit in the lap. of luxury and ease. .
Ueneraliy the office-seeker who gets noth
ing gets what is good for him, and exactly
what ho is pood for.
It is better to be laughed, at for not being
married than to bo unable to laugh because
you are.
There is a. good reason why a little man
should never marry a bouncing widow. Ho
niight be called 11 the widow’s mite."
A sentimental young man thus feelingly
expresses himself; “Even as nature- benev
olently guards the rose with thorns, so does
she endow women with pins.”
No matter how many kinds of. lovely flow
ers a young woman may have in the garden
of her soul if she hasn’t ane-mpney!”
' After quoting John a blind
man took bis idea of scarlet from tho sound
of a trumpet, a witty fellow says that a hoop
skirt, hanging out of a shop door, reminds
him of the peel of a belie 1
“Why tho deuce'is it,” said a ypung swell,
“ that I can’t make my collar sit well ?” “ Be
cause it is a standing collar,” replied the per
son to whom the question was addressed.-
Small debts are like small shot': they are
rattling on every side; and can' scarcely be
escaped without a wound. Great debts are
like cannon, of loud noise, but little danger..
, A' lady, in . speaking of. the gathering of
lawyers to dedicate a new court house, said
she supposed they had‘gone “ to view tho
ground where they must shortly lie,”
“Billy how did you lose your linger ?”
“ Easy enough,”-aaid Billy. “ I snppose'.you
did, but how ?” ■ “ I guoss you’d have a loss
3'ourn ifit had been where mine was.”—
“ That don’t answer my,question.” •“ Well,
if you must know,” said Billy, “ I had to out
it off, or else steal tho trap.”
A young, prating lawyer orle. day.boasted
to a facetious counsellor that ho had received,
one hundred dollars for speaking in a certain
case. “And I,” said the counsellor,. “ re
ceived double that sum for holding my tongue
in' tho same case.”
Tub “ Devil.”
’ —Here is a description of
the mysterious thing called tho “ Devil,"
which the Confederates captured from our
■fleet at Charleston: , ’
, “ An iron frame floated to tho water edge
by pontoons, is pushed ahead of the Monitor
■as Bho.rnns.in. Its ledgth from tho bow of
tho Monitor'is from twenty to thiry foot. An
aperture is made next to tho vessel, of tho
shape of hoi- bows, intended to receive it.
The breadth of tho “ obstruction remover" is
twelve feet. From..cao.h. side of the extremi
ty a strong iron bar or shaft, runs down also
twelve feet, the" Monitor drawing from eight
to ton feet of water, thus rendering impossi
ble for any,’torpedoes-over'which this “ ob
struction-remover".passes to injure the ves-.
sol.
“ A number of Iron bars are used, nol
only to form the net work so as to either
push forwarder explode every torpedo less
than twelve feet-under, winter,' but also to
strengthen and steady tho. masts.. At the
bottom a heavy tie bar unites these two vor
tical-rods,'upon which rests .the percussion
torpedo, containing seven hundred pounds of
powder. Above this is a 'hammer which
catches in a-springso stiff as to require two
men to set it, but constructed so that the lever
which protrudes in, front, forming the handle,
or other.end of tho hammer-, will cause tlio.
spring to give with little pressure. This; is
to remove piles.”
This “Devil” was invented by Captain
Ericsson at New York, to 'clear, channels of
, torpedoes and other obstructions. Ho sent
four of the machines down, but three wore
lost in a gale. The other arrived safely,
at Hilton Hoad.
. Elopement ExTßAbaniNiav.—The Dum
barton Herald gives- au account of an elopC
mont from that town, tlio erring fair one he-
ing not a blooming maiden in her teens, but
a staid matron of 53 years, who had brought
her hnsbaiid a.goodly family of 13 children.
She had cast a longing eye upon a fellow
wlio had lived with her as a ‘lodger,. and ho,
on liis part, seems not to have rejected, the
the tender advances of the lady. An under
standing having been pome to,.the. ill-assorted
pair took advantage of the'husband's ab
sence to strip tlio house of everything valua
ble that eould easily be removed, not forget
ting the husband’s best suit of apparel, aiid
having got tho things exchanged at their
“ Unele’sV for current coin of tlio realm,
wont .nwrty on their wedding tour, no ono
knoww-hithor. 'The ill-used-husband applied
to the.police, but they; of course, could do
nothing in tlio matter. .When tlio finances
wear out, the soulless fellow will doubtless
leave the foolish' woman to repeat at her
leisure, and to find.her way back to her hus
band in tlio.best way she may.
A Prussian Peasant Wedding. —Tho
AVoser Gazette gives some details of h wed
ding which recently took place at Tcmpeliio,
,a small village in the neighborhood of Berlin,
inhabited by peasants of the hotter class.—
The guests numbered 120, and they consumed
GO fowls, 220 pounds of carp, 330 pounds of
cako. and 12 largo joints of roast veal, with
..which were drank nearly'3oo bottles of wino.
Tho bride and her young friends changed
their costume five times during the two days
that the festivities lusted. The custom is
that the bride cannot refuse a single dance,
only in inviting hor-tho dancer has to pay a
certain sum—a single man throe times the
amount of a married one—which is for tho
benefit of tho musician ; on this occasion tlio
amount collected in that manner was 105
thralors, or nearly 400f.' Ip tho evening a
torch-light procession in tho streets of tho
village took olaco, and on tho brido going to
her residence, she was accompanied by a guard
of honor of fourteen peasants on horseback.
Embalmed Bodies. —Some time since, in
clearin" out the ruins of an old chapel in
Warwickshire, Eng., several lead coffins wore
oxhumod, containing the embalmed bodies of
Countess and Sir Johns, which wore buried
more than two hundred years ago. The
coffin which contained the body of Lady Au
drey Leigh, buried in 1640, was opened and
thp body found perfectly embalmed and
in entire preservation, Jipr flesh quite plump,
ns if she wore alive, hero face very beautiful,
her hands exceedingly small, and not wasted ;
she was dressed in fine linen, trimmed all
over with old point lace, and two rows of
lace were laid flat across her forehead. She
looked exactly as if she wore lying asleep,
and seemed not more than sixteen or seven
teen years old ; her beauty was very groat;
oven her eyelashes and eyebrows wore quite
perfect, and eyes wore closed ; no part of her
face or figure was at all fallen ini
Longevity of the Antediluvians.
There are so very many causes contribu
ting to shorten considerably the length of hu
man life, that wo have completely lost every
criterion by which to estimate its original
original duration ; and it would be no slight
problem for a profound physiological science
to discover and explain from a deeper inves
tigation of the earth, or, of astronomical in
fluences, which aro often susceptible of every
minute applications, the primary, causo of
human longevity. By a simpler course of
life and diet than the very artificial, unnat-i
Ural, and ovor-refined modes we follow, there
are, even at the present day numerous exam
ples of a longevity far beyond tho ordinary
duration of human life. '-In'lndia it is by no
means uncommon to meet with men, especi
ally in the Brahminical-oaste, more, than a
hundred years of age, and in tho robust, and
even generative vigor of constitution. In the
laboring class of-Russia, whoso modes of life
are so simple, there aro examples of mep liv
ing to more than a hundred, a hundred and
twenty, and even a hundred and fifty years
of ago ; and, although those instances form
but. rare exceptions, they are move-numerous
there than in other European countries.—
There a're even remarkable eases of old men
who, after the entire loss of their -teeth have
gained a complete now sot, as if their const! tu ;
tion had received'a new sap of life, and a
.principle of second growth. '.What in iho,
i present physical degeneracy of-.mankind,
forms but n.raro exception, may originally
. have been tho ordinary measure of the dura
tion of human life, or at least may afford us
some trace and indication of such'a measure,
more especially as other branches'of natural
.science ofl’ur corresponding analogies. On
the other side of that great wall.of separation
which-divides us fiom the primitive ages, in
that remote world so little known, to us, a
standard for the duration of human life .very
difterent-fronrthe present may have prevailed ;
and such an opinion is very probable, sup
ported as .it is by manifold testimony, and'
confirmed by the sacred record of man’s di
vine origin. —Srhlcgel
Dewdrops of Wisdom,
Your life is a-mod, eternal "lory, is the
prize, grace und corruption lire the antagonists,
ami accordingly ■as either finally prevails,
eternal life is won or lost. .
Gud ims not made this life altogether love
ly, for then .it would bo too, short and hard to
leave ; mir yet altogether pitiful, for then it
would be too long anil hard to bear.
Each of us bears within himself a world
unknown to his follow being, and each may
relate of himself a history resembling that of
every ode, yet like that of no other man.
Observe tire order in which Providence
sends you mercies. See how one is linked
strangely to another; and is a door, to let in
many. Sometimes one mercy is inlroductivo
to a thousand.- : '
The' pleasures of the world are deceitful;
they .promise inure than'they-give. They
trouble us in socking then), they do not satisfy
us-when possessing them, and they make us
despair in losing them. '
As. the fire would have certainly consumed
and.the lions, without doubt,-have vended'
and devoured' Daniel, had not Qod, by the in
terposition of his own hand, ..stopped and
hinderod. the'effect ; so would the sin in uS,
and, the malice in others, quickly ruin out
souls and bodies, were it hot that the same,
hand guards and keeps us every moment!,
A Goon O.ve. —The New York lYorld re
cently published'brief extracts from the. wri
tings of Washington and Madison, in such a
manner as not to indicate the authorsi One
of the Abolition papers of that city rcfer.cd to
the extracts and.termed them, ‘‘ Copperhead
hisses” of the World. , The World then goes
back oh Mr. Abolition editor, and congratu
lates him on the compliment paid to the pa
triotism of \V ashington and Madison.
Cl7”Snmo Young men going from Colum
bus to -Cincinnati, Ohio, in the cars, wore
.getting rather noisy ahdprufane, when a Gen
tleman in a white cravat tapped one of them
on the'shoulder, with the remark; “Young,
man, do you know you are on the road to
h—l ?” “ That’s my usual luck, I took a
ticket to Cinciunati aud I’ve got on the wrong
train.”
JOS?* At a wedding, recently, when the offi
ciating priest put to the lady the question;
“Wilt thou have this.man to he thy wedded
husband?”, she drooped the prettiest court
sy, and with a modesty.which lent her beau
ty an aditional grace, replied, “ If you please 1”
OCT” An Irishman direct from the ard had,
got, into a muss,, and was knocked down,
“ And sure yon wouldn’t ho after batin’ a
man when be is down said Pat..
“ Certainly not,” said bis antagonist. , ,
“Faix, then I’ll just lay .whore I am.”
CCT'Fei-gnsmq.tlio poet, died of starvation.
A splonded. monqment adorns bis grave, and
on it is written: “lie asked for broad and
ye gave him a stone.” The finest sarcasm
ever uttered.
'K7’"\Vhtin S.’s wife kicked him out of bed
one cold night, says lie.: “ See hero, now, you’d
better not do Unit again ; if you do, it might
cause a coolness.”
DvsrEPfiA Bueau. —Tiiroe quarts unbolted
wheat flour, sifted'; ono pint ot milit and a
pint of water, warm but not hot; one g'll of
fresh veast; ono gill of molasses or not,
as may suit the taste ; • one tcaspoouful soda.
Tv” A nmu who covers himself with cosily
apparel and neglects his mind, is like ono
who illuminates the outside of his house and
sits within the dark.
Josey being rather remiss in his Sun
day school lesson, the teacher remarked that
ho hadn’t a very good memory. No,
ma’am,” and ho, hesitating ; “ but I have
a first rate forgottory !”
OC7” The young woman who “fainted
away,” has been told bor family that it
would bo more delicate for her to'faint at
home.
OCT" A cat of extraordinary intelligence
was recently seen feeding a kitten with
starch, to make it stand upright 1 This re
minds us of a maid who drank a pint of yeast
to make her rise early.
In life wo shall find , many men that are
groat and some men that are good, but very
few men that are both groat and good.
fiCT"Three things can never a^rco, —two
oats over ono mouse, two wives in ouo house,
and two lover# after one gal.
Controlling Temper.
■ Fools, lunarians, the weak-minded and the
ignorant, are irascible, impatient, and of un
governable temper; groat hearts and wise,
are calm, forgiving, and serene.
The most imperturbable and the ablest dis
putor of his ago was the Scotchman, Hender
son. When a glass of water was thrown in
his face by tho ungovernable rage into which
an antagonist had allowed himself to be
thrown by tire anticipation of inevitable de
feat, the Scotchman calmly wiped his drip
ping cheeks, and remarked with a smile,
"That is a diversion; let us proceed with the
argument.” ■ ■
It is said of one of tho ablest men of a past
century, that, having comnleted the manu
script of a work which ho’had been prepa;
ring for several years, he left his room for a
few moments to find, on returning, that a
.-favorite little dog had, in his absence, turned;
over the candle, and reduced his writings to
ashes; oh observing which, be exclaimed,
‘‘‘Oh I Diamond, little dost thou know the in
jury thou bast done ;” and immediately set
about the reparation of the damages. .
Philip tho Second, after having sat up to
a late hour in the night to complete some
important state papers, waked up one of his .
drowsy secretaries, who! was so flurried at
tliis breach of duty, that he dashed tho con
tents of tho inkstand over the manuscript in- ■
stead of tho sandbox. “It would have been
better to have used the sand,” was royalty's
remark, on sitting down to the reproduction
of the document.
Washington, when high in command, pro
voked a man to knock him down.. The next
day he sent for the person to appear at head
quarters, and asked his pardon! for in re
viewing. the incidents of the case, he found
that he was himself, at fault. A maghanimr
ity only possible to a. truly great mind ; but
it is a magnanimity, a self-control, a mastery
of temper, which it is -a nobility to" strive
for.— Hall’s Journal. . - • ■
Sun was Aran, Fooled ! —'‘You can’t do
it again 1’
‘ Can’t I V -
‘ No you cannot I You’ve April fooled mo.
now regularly for five years, but you can nev
er do it.again 1’ '
The above conversation was between 'a
ivortby couple at the South End, on. Tuesday
evening, March 31st. Tlie husband, a mer
ry, black-eyed man of, some forbfc years of
age, or thereabout, had been in the habit of
playing .off some practical little joke on his
lovely spouse, on the first of every April;
and the good woman had now resolved to
guard herself on the morrow, and thereby
turn the joke. , ’
The snow fell steadily and furiously all ,
Tuesday afternoon and evening, but in
the wee short hours of Wednesday morning
the storm ceased, the air moderated, and.the;
snow began to molt.'
, As the clock struck five Wednesday morn
ing, the snow began to slide from the roof in
! the city, in .largo quantities ! and as one
I immense mass struck, the shed of bur South
I End juker.it made so much noise that it
I awakened every person in the house.
I ‘ What’s that V screamed Mrs. JVI. , .
I ’ ‘ Good heavens J’ ejaculated-M. looking as
frightened, as a red-headed Irishman at a'
prayer meeting. • J —l—l forgot to bolt the
.kitchen window’s last night ; so good-by to
that turkey and all those nice apples,!’ ,
' ‘Do you think its a. burglar Y gasped •
Mrs. SI., looking as white as the frill on her
pretty night cap.
‘No doubt of it !’ .said’ M. ; ‘but which
shall Ido .; lie still and lose the' turkey.and
apples, ergo down;and.run the risk of being,j-i;
shot?’
‘ 0, I don’t core anything about the tur
koy-or-the apples,’ replied Mrs. M.; ‘but I
last.night carelessly left the spoons on the
kitchen table 1’
‘ Not the silver spoons V saidM., trying to’
look indignantly courageous. '
‘ 0 forgive me. husband'; but I did.’
1 Then I’ll save them or perish in the
attempt,!’ and with a bound, that would
have boon creditable to a frightened Oaraaa
cbo Indian, he leaped from the bed, grasped
the iron-poker and bed wrench, and fieri'
down stairs as if fur bis life, ' V.
Throwing open the kitchen door and ex
claiming ; ‘ Out of this, you villain !’ ha
commenced upsetting chairs and slashing
away on the wood pile as if engaged iii
a regular pitched battle. ... ' •
Almost frightened to death for fear that
her husband would lose his life in the en
counter, the good woman threw up her win
dow and screamed at the top of her voice.—
* Police 1 - police 1 for heaven’s sake, po
lice! Murder! Robbery! Fire! Po-loe-e-oe 1*
Her strength failing her,- she hero sank ou
the floor, upset, a.pail of water, and so
frightened the,baby that it set up a scream
1 on Us own hook,’ which drowned all oppo
sition.
A small lad in the house—who was Of
good stock,' and all grit—ran down stairs,
screaming—
* Stick to him','-uncle ! Ttero’s a pistol t
Clive him goudy, while I give' him a broad
side:’ , ; '
‘ Go back to your bed, my good boy, ’ skid
M., gathering around, his. stately liihbs
.bis prinmtivo white garment-. * Go book to
your bod, and say to your aunt, ns you pass
her door, that its the first of April, and I am
making the lire for an early breakfast!’
The good lady takes the joke kindly, but
with a sly twinkle in her eye, she says—
‘lts a.long lane that has no end; and
somebody will find eggs in their boots on the
first of next April.’ —Boston Paper.
CT” “Husband, I wish you would buy ma
some pretty feathers.” (1 Indeed, my dear
little wife, you look hotter without them.”—.
“Oli, no, sir, you always call mb your littla
bird, and how duos a bird look without feath*
ors?”
(£7* The French feed hens with bread
soaked in wine to make them lay. Soaking
bread and eggs in wine in this country, often
makes “ old cooks” lay—in the gutter.
O’"“I shouldn’t earo so much about the
bugs,’’ saiila thin, pale lodger to bia landla
dy, “ but the fact is, ma’am, I huia’t got the
blood to spare.’’
BSJ“ A man coasos to bo n “ good fellow”
the moment ho refuses to do precisely what
other people wish him to do.
ItßAßtfl.—Little rod things that men and
women play with for money,
8@"No mnn cun avoid bis own company
—so he had best make it ns good as possible.
Bay Gen. Sohonck has issued an order
forbidding the salo of secession musio fn Bol
tiinoro.
ICP*Byron said ho would rather have a
nod from an American than a suulf box from
an Emperor,
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NO. 46.