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Come Before.
Gaze not so tenderly
Gn thy fair dead,
Though, in thy sadness,
Tears will Is shed.
Bend not so mournfully
()VI., the bier,
She, Wlll,lll we loved so well
She is not here.
Where she now ilwelleth
In.ief cannot collie,
Joy is iiroinni liar,
14 arm's her lane!
Slip It nines no sorrow,
Safilll,S, nor tears,
Peace, lure surround her
Through endless year,
True. we shall miss her, •
Morn. 11 , J1.11,
that of our home
She was the light.
2,;,,w free from sorrow
Sickness and pain,
W.ould ye recall her
To earth again?
Nii, though in sadness,
'through lonely year'
We may lament her
With litany tears;
. .. 4 n II we think or her,
Anil know her
We may have loveil her
God loveti her hi“
literaq
Science
In a paper addressed to the Academy
Seienees, :\ Ir. Datieel adverts to a cir
etinstunee hitherto eonipletely °vet--
1(1(11;1,11 1)11()1(.,-1011:11 111(11 \do) have
made tho eure tolao-fily tlwir powtiliar
study, and which we think, may he of
interest to ntany persons desirous of
ridding thentselves of inconvenient eor
puleney. While eolleet hut - ollrfaa - vo-
I Wits concerning the (nie
111 1, he remari:ed that tinlso \rho, foal
101 l stil,f-otailia-.-4 vont foilliiitr litileorno loot,
or tali pose matter, did not ill
eorpulepey when they drank nutell, and
it ',trued: . hint tiUtt water atni xvatery
:substances niust favor ty. Tlll. I'o
- he mule proved this k , Le N
had, and he now exim—se- , urpri-.1. ill
1110 paper at finding Mat, among; the
tintity extferiftwllls, rioal 1,,r Illo
lug of animals, the \vale! . ulten ahsorhed
in eonsideral unatititio- Lc the sul,
jeets Ava.s never taken into at•I•1111111 ;
t 1 Lile he 110\V .howl NV:Ill•I' j/illy ,
great part, in producing ohe-ny, inay
be perceived front the follow her e peri
intuits :
Ainong the cavalry lionise- id the regi
tnent of the (lard,. de Paris, there We ,
one rent:Hl:aide for it ,
Mr. I)ancel's request, the \ i•terinary
surgeon of the regiment its
(fully ration of oats Ity :t kilogramme
awl :t Ii II without modifying it, ration
of ~llllii anti hay ; hut al time
lii• providell
water, into which, front tinie le time, a
little bran was put so as to up 1
total of a pound per day. (tit the . 22,1
of May last, this horse it °l bent line
hundred and tivelVe I:iltr:unnm on
17ril of .11111 e its Iveight to live
hundred and thirty-t \v/i kilogrammes,
heing an increase of eighteen I:iliigrant-
Ines ill t \venty-seven ilay,, although the
pound of brat per day \vie: no equiva
lent for the three pounds 111 .
served. In the Sallie. Yet...hie:lll the
'teas uu eXceeililigly fat 1111111•, 1 11111 could
scarcely carry its rider. and, like fat
people, used to large iitiantity
hater—as 11111011 as sixtv litres per
(lay. The quantity teas reduced t 4,
lif
teen litres per day, and the animal
tww lost its obesity, and has re-111111:d
fiirilier
It is still debated \vlietlier the imam
iiilluences the weather, the 111ii1
scientific (Jellying its t
wetttlier-wise insistin upon it. re
ei•ilt \\awl: liy the latter
lays iloNvii this rule, that there
is al Nvays atmospheric Ili<tlu I,uul•e v~ hell
the maim criis , e, the earth' ,
is at her greate , t distaiwe Ilion it. That
it the period or new
either these perioil,, it has a
intluenceoutheweather,
increased Itilde the await
lo pedigree.
If the blade of a troll-pylished knilc
la , dipped into a ha,..in wales, the
partieles of these t do not ,-eein
to eons in rontaet with eaelt other: for
when the Made is taken out the \\rater
slidt•s off, lea 11 11 1 1
leaving
if it had previously been ,ineared with
some greas- suhstanee. In 111, , same
way, if a 1,11111114 M (.dit• I laid
110riZ011taily 011 \Val , 'l% it NViII
1114 sink, but on
which it lies 111.1
proceeds front the little at traeti , i which
exists between the cold \valet. and pol
ish(l,l steel. It is iteeesr , ary that 1,,,th
the ktiile, in the former (•:, perinieffi,
and also the needle, al tumid 1, dry and
clean, otherwise the effect trill not he
lorothiced. 'Fite nee(lleniti-t he car,fuliy
•
placed on the surface.
Simplicity in St)le
A letter cell turn my in..k uhieli
Scotch servant girl had written to lint•
lever. its style ellarninil tot.
II was
fairly 11 Mita ble ;
I wondered in
her cimunstanees in life, she ',mid have
acquired so elegant ;tut! perfe c t
stowotl the letter ttt -tent, of i t ,y tit: r
ary.fitientk tit New Yerk., titttl they
unauiutou,;ly agreed that it NV:I , N model
of beauty and elegance. 1 then den-I--
milled to solve the mystery, and I went
to the house where she was
and asked her how it was that, in her
humble circutnstanc•es in life, she bad
acquired a style so beautiful that the
most cultivated minds i•ould lint admire
it. "Sir," she said, "I came to this
country four years ago. Then I did not
know how to read or write. 1;ot
then I hart• not yet learneiHiow to read
and write, but I have nut yet learned
how to spell ; so always, when I sit
down to write a letter, I cboosc those
words which are so short and simple
that I - am sure I know how to spell
them." There was the whole secret.
The reply of this sinfple-minded Scotch
girl condenses a world of rhetoric into it
nut-shell. Simplicity is beauty.
is power.—/li(z /foil,
The Three Printers
I heard what I considered to he a very
good story the other day. A lady of the
very highest fashion—"not to put io
tine a point on it," as Mr. Dickens' 3.1 r.
Sanghy would say—was anxious to re
duce the pretensions of a lady of the
publishing " connection," as :Mr. Abra
ham Lincoln would say, in whose
company she fount I herself. "My dear
Mrs. Dash," said the Marchioness to her
hostess, "I dined with dear old Lord
So-and-so yesterday. Wlhat odd people
you do meet at his house! I wonder
where he finds them. Why, one day
when I was there lie hail Uo•ce
to dinner." " Printers !" said the host ;
"my dear lady Blank, are you sore?"
"Oh, yes, quite sure they were printers.
Lady So-and-so told me so." Did you
hear their names, then ?" "Yes, their
names were—dear, I have such a sad
head for. names—oh ! I remember two
of them ; one was Mr. Hallam, and the
-other a Mr. Macaulay."
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VOLUME 65
A Pagan Temple in San Francisco
It is curious to reflect that, while
many denominations of Christians are
making strenuous efforts to propagate
the principles of our religion among the
people of China, they erect their tem
ples and fill them withddols in the very
shadow or Christian churches here.
There was one recently completed on
an alley leading south from Dupont
street near Broadway, and the devotees
of the reigning deity are having a very
"serions:Lwakening-." The Chinese peo
ple are not very particular as to what
particular Cod they worship. awl ninny
of their divinities, when they fail to re
spond Lo their worshippers, lose their
reputation, and are cast ;tide.
Arnow! those here, the chief deity is
called .losh or Joss, and, so far, inain
!Mos a fair reputation. The now temple
is three .stories high, and Josh sits in
the upper story. 'rite front of the temple
above the first story, is.tipen Mid finish
eilin the form of a lofty :tr , h. Iu the
front of the ground apartinent, is an
1/1)111 court where horn
lira o'raeker, vm•i , of, od es ' pyro
technic:A artieh, for Ilia purpo,-c of
pleasing-10 , h, or frightePiwz: away ni
tro,' vi• dcvi Is, Da the ir
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]able, iii die
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, 111 . 1 • 1 • HttlY thW kW."
rile
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till' 111111 , i/4 . d
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their VeII , r,IIPIP
nu' al 1.•:1-1 fns hil
P 4 111,T111 . .1.
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unl the :1:-Ileist hi ,
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k
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arrival td .
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atld , y1111 , a1 , , reed 1 , i1)(•.;
„ffirr.clJo<i~,liit'a ;_:mat
hand had
. 2.,t (tilt
41 . 111,•11' it kill:card- oil the
rill \`: , r - Psith. alter I , llxy:tr , l:. Tho
t•hol Hite
lt,tettc(l at the \\ 1)N . tilL•(1
mit tit' the te:111,1(•:iiid ,:it on stools
in the street, 1y Milo
atill the a \ve--trttel: \v:tg(,llel*
I'll,l the totn.ritz. 111. AI 111. Irft (,f
.111,1 C,
:I •i1'l•111-" ilt•
(01 Im4l()Ny I,•livvc that tht ,
11111 , I ilcyra I (XI • I Iv - VI
tj I H 11 11 •il II) i 11:1 1111' r ly , i s, •I -
ElI 1 , 1. nn: I, ILIIt i I W.. :1
ni,hl\ 111H:1111:w, hy liIII lip.m the
drum ;11111 II 111 . 1•-:11:11:111
the great 1”.111. the at teffilaitts
t 11,•
into the elwrt ilita , ze, and the
Ivr,r , hipper ,
011 ,, et, it \vas a sign:ll
6 , 1..1x,11 ICI i II . -unnumted. The drunt
NY:I-• till' 11/11,1, till' kit Intl
reed i)ipe. ,
till their , eetyled rezt(l\. tII httr , t,
and 111, 1r;111<.11' , 111111 tl` raIIII'I 111:1'
11111,1'.1'11W.
It niip,lll he t•Npi,•((,l that tltt•
\l hylli, diViltily. WIIII II
L'.•l iII II I III.VC:11 ,, 111141. hill if ' , NA
1111 rilit•kt . ll , Sven: (.. , k,,1:11111 arranifell
in Ittuttt , tit•,lttlitt.,t, 'u nu' (II them Itztint
fLirni,ll(,l Wit 11 likt • men, with
ettttl)ll hair houtllit•ts artilicittl
tit) \t . ttr... , in I Itttir tht , tnil
ttf tht. rtt:t•-•1 Hy: (.
roll HP'r. Tit(' .11 , •ttit ty:t , 11111 rtttt-ted,
Liu la: MI Li likc
11,11”11.11
I wi11".2; in
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tir~i;duff Ivit It it itrit—l at ctich halo! 11
rttty 111 thttiu 1111
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pritt-t It•It
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pilLiT 11 , i111 11'2:111 left
111>11, rt.pc,iling
till lu lew-11,1 the
I;•ct 10 . the Th,•r, \ll
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111111
hod ilt I,ulv, :ill Itlirinnt t , HIlc
,h, t vt•r. 101. 1li,•0 411 its cimp,,
, •verod t!u I llv m - n:tIllt•lw.fl
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Nvn,
cmilid ;; -
t•entl.\ - ; 1110 ,•I'llll ill
,•11I1111,111,
111 , 11 , 1111 lir :111d -till -111'-
rlillll4ll , i hy i,r,\V i 1 inlu the
licrphy it \vas I/11111(41 ;Hid 111,•1'1 . -
h\*
god , . Iturilr :ill this ti•ie iii
r,;;;;;tl : teas
full rrf-111111: r, ;Lid
till Ili, tzli , ;•nvlts and tilt
thaii hi. •_z.w, vest,r
d:Ly ; Lilt the gill t•;it
th4•lii kym.k
i,)111,1 !HUH/ time
nllll S/I:t( • e.IIi•li:t..1 ill s it l knurl.
awl rot.l . ,si.lll;&,iis ;Irt;
less I;icilszttl phtlits,
hut
[erities;nui r; , 11-;, with a disa
;;Tt;plthleass(wi:lti.iii I Nvii
~l's(.lit;
surrotinili,l I;y sage s.
Iliwk-kll , t'd astettiel e d a l . t h e i r
dur trine. Tliv Ir,lt, --11,urt pants, limg
;•;,tt and wall:itig-stit•l: ,if the fifteenth
eelltlll'yarll \Veil irliitatl`d i n illeSU:tiglln.'S.
Rut the I•stuession of cutifusintt winch
is giVell ,1111\1 - S a ludicrous ap
preciatimi harktriaii masider,
their tht,iries.
rpon eaeh side of the imageare ranged
wands, maces, spears and battle axes
while Josh himself reposes amid a pro
fusion of gaudy tinsel trappings and
scarlet silk draperies. Upon each altar
were large, colored wax tapers burning,
and some of them supported on the backs
of dragons, otherson diminutive Preneh
lap-dogs of brass.
The walls of each apartment are hung
with signs bearing inscriptions from the
sacred books of their philosophers and
"Good words for Joshee.' ' The institu
tion is a euriosity, and a fixed fact in San
Francisco.—San _Franc-LA) Fluy.
The Ruling Passion
An eminent French artist possesses a
monkey, very intelligent, very ugly,
but an immense pet of her owners.
Mademoiselle NOunine, however, pos
sess all the defects which the cynic con
siders to be particularly feminine. She
is lazy, inquisitive, excessively addicted
to sugar-plums, fruit-cake, &c., fidgety,
disorderly, touching everything, break
ing everything she touches, daubing her
master's pictures, twisting the necks of
his wife's canaries, and once upon a
time pulled every feather out of a splen
did parrot, in imitation of the cook,
who she had seen the day before picking
a fowl. A short time since, the artist,
having to go out, and dreading least
Nounine should perfOrm some new piece
of mischief during his absence, be
thought hi inself of a method of furnish
ing her with something to do until his
return. lie accordingly took the mon
key on his lap, dressed her in a gay
gown which had served as a model in
one or his pictures, in which figures a
maimi , of the time of Louis XIV.,
painted her cheeks white anil red, with
a Mack Latch under one eye, powdered
her head, hung a string of heads around
her neck, and then, having seated her
(in the door, in a corner (d• the u/di,,,
witll :1 "mall in her hand,
left her, not without some
and promising himself not to be long
away. ihit in-teal of returning early
thc•arti-it was intexiiecteilly detained,
and only got home the next morning.
Ile rushed to the r in terror, ex
pecting to find eVerythilig upside 1111W11,
:did hall his pictures spoiled.
I really must. get rid of Nounine,"
saiiltheartist to himself, as he anxiously
miliwked the door of the studio, " for
anon( let my work remain at the little
wretch ' s IllerCy !'' BM_ to his -iurprise
:Ind relief he fouml her sound asleep,
exactly where he had placed her, and
holding the looking-glass in her hands.
Not a thing had heel] touched Lv Lorin
he ; mkt', ;Ibsen, . " The tact is, -
continued' die eynic, " that the ugly
little ',east, It- vain as her -ex entitles
io he , had !well SO enraptilred With
tier ttN\ ll Is ratty, Ilia( Of her fillOry,
that -Ile hail remained through the en
tire d.ty, al,s,orhed in the contemplation
of her charming self in the little hand-
11`11 ine, - lie added, trinin
-1111:iiitly appealing in his listeners, "(hies
helieve that a stale 111011Itey
have paz,-ii•il it whole afternoon in
.iznig at liiinseli in a mirror, 111111 uan
any dont it, after such a proof to the
vanity is tit ruling
of the Female sex ?"
The Five Cradles
A Mali Who had recently liecame a
votary to Bacchus, returned home one
night in al intermediate state of hoozi
o,s. That is to say, he was comforta
bly drunk . , but perfectly conscious of
his unfortunate situation. Knowing
ilnit his wife was asleep, he decided to
attempt gaining his bed without dis
turbing her, and by sleeping oil his in
ebriation, conceal the fact - from her al
together. Ile reached the door of his
room vithout disturliini. her, and after
ruminating . a few moments on the mat
ter, he thought if he could reach the
bedpost, and 110111 On to it while he
slipped off his apparel the feat would
Ise easily accomplished. Unfortunately
for his scheme, a cradle stood ina direct
line with the bedpost, about the middle
of he floor. Of course, when his shins
came in contact with the aforesaid piece
of furniture, he pitched over it With
perfect looseness; and upon gaining an
erect position, ere an equilibrium was
established, he went over backwards,
Mitt' equally summary manner. Again
he struggled to his feet, and bent fore
most over the bower of infant happi
ness. At length, with the fifth fall, his
patienCe Imearne exhausted, and t he Ob
stacle was yet to he overcome. In des
peration he cried Out to his sleeping
partner:
"Wife! wire! how many eradli, Int\ e
you got in the liotNe": I've fallen over
!iv , . :wit here's another helm., nie!'
31:irried ihe Wrong 1,a(1)
Love is, a very uncertain thing, and it
t s nut safe to he too certain of the symp
toms until they are unmistakable. The
following will explain our meaning.
Vienna has been stii'red up, lately, by
d
the conuit' result of a strange fove
story. It a ltos that ill the house of one
I [err I(ulinc, a teacher or I,,nguages,
hurt, a young lawyer, happened to
make the tu•tmaintanee of a lady, bur
dened with some prot,erty and thirty
year,. The holy heing unmarried,
evinced particular interest in the young,,
shy, :Hid rather abashed man or law.--
made love to him, in i'act, very
strongly, and per , naded him to visit her
nt her hot alas! he loved an
other lady. true evening. while con
versing with the doelor, she said:
" tit your favorably idea of matri
monv, irtay I ask if you ever thought of
marrying yourself':
.
Dr. Kant sighed, and his eyes resting
on the groulid, hesitatingly muttered in
I have a I r,,uiy thought of marrying,
uuuie g•hoice, lint
intvrposed
; ;(111..1..1•. I :till ;irraid
cmilit harffiy aspire to her hand, and
ratiwr than allow m} - self to he taxed
with ,onlid designs, 1 will hury mypas
--iott in lily breast, 1111 , 1 leave it anvowed
At :in early hour the Cofttwing day
hwever, betook to a solici
tor, and in legal form, declared her wish
ti pre , ent and hand over as his property
the sum of 1. - sty H u i
to lir. Kant. \Viten the document hail
Leen signed, countersigned, and, duly
, iimpieled, she sat down in the ollice,
and, enelosing it in an elegant envelope,
a note to the following
/ear sir—l have much ibliiiaitire in en
; losing a paper which I hope will rt
move the obstacle in the way of your
marriage. Believe, me, irt., Alice
Martini." 1)r. Kant, for lie and no
other was the addressee, was the hap
piest man in the world on receiving
this generous epistle. Repairing at
mice to the parents of Fraulein Fisehel,
the lady of his hive, he proposed for and
Feet , ' veil the hand of a girl who had long
seen flattered by his delicate though
unmoved attentions. His reply to Frau
loin Martini, hesides conveying his sin
iierest thanks, contained two cartes de
visite, linked together by the significant
rose-eolored ribbon. Martini forth
with sued the happy bridegroom for
restitution, but, as no promise of mar
riage had been, uta le, the ease was by
pro suevessive courts, decided against
her.
.4..L , 7 -- The flashes of lightning often ob
served on a summer evening, unaccom
panied by thunder and popularly known
as " heat lightning," are merely the
light from discharges of electricity from
an ordinary thunder-cloud, beneath the
horizon of the observer, reflected from
clouds or perhaps from the air itself, as
in the case of twilight. Mr. Brooks, one
of the directors of the telegraph line
between Pittsburg and Philadelphia,
states that, on one occasion, to satisfy
himself on this point,he asked for infor
mation from a distant operator during
the appearance of flashes of this kind in
the distant horizon, and learned that
they proceeded from, a thunderstorm
then raging fifty miles eastward of his
place of observat4on. _
LANCASTER, PA.: THURSDAY MORNING, 'OCTOBER 27, 1864
Parental Authority in Marriage
Sons and daughters will marry. Sel
fishness alone would hinder any young
man from the lawful desire for a home
of his own, or if any young woman had
the natural instinct for sc.:me one dearer
than father, mother, brother, or sister,
however precious all these may be.
Every head and every :member of a
family who loves the other members
wisely and well, will not only not pre
vent; but encourage in every lawful way
the great necessity of life to both men
and women, a prudent, constant, holy
love, and happy marriage. One word
to parents,which ofepurse#heyoungpeo
ple are not intended-to hear. Don't you
think, my: good friends, that, parents as
you be, with every desire foryour chi ld's
happiness, it was a little unfair to give
your Mary every opportunity of becom
ing attached to Charles, and Charles,
poor fellttw, all possible chance of ador
ing Mary? Could you expect him to
see her sweet womanly ways, which
make her t he deligh6of her fat lier'; - home
and he tempted to Wish fter the treasure
ofldsown?
Is it. not rather hard now to turn
round and object to their marrying, be
cause, forsooth, you never thought of
such oc thing," or fary might have
done better," or "(joules was not the
sort of person you thought she would
fancy," or--last shift and a very mean
olio—you " rather 114ped she would not
marry al all, hut staNj: with her old father
and mother?" I hfid there! We will
not suppose any parents, in their sober
selcws, to be guilty of t such sinful selfish
ness. Let US pass to the next objection
emilmonly urged against almost all
marriages—that the2parties urn the last
persons ‘vhieli eticli was . expected to
choose. Expected 'by whom ? The
world at large or 114ir own relations?
The enough, and
cares less, about tliese matters. .\ud
sometimes strange t i a say, Iwo people,
who happen really it love ',Me
also know one anct her a little bet
ter than :ell their resfweted relations put
together--even theirporent,s. 'Phey have
made for ought to—for we are grartting
that Hie ease ill pido is 00 light fancy,
hut a deliberateattaeliment— there is no
meaning . in tit % old Tashioned word;
that solemn eleVioli binding for life,
and—as all true lovers hope and pray—
for eternity. "They have east their own
lot, and are ready M abide by it. All
its misfortunes or Mistakes, like its
happiness, kill be their own. (_five
your advice honestly , and fully; exact a
fair trial of affection, urge every precau
tion that your older ;leads and tougher
hearts may suggst,and then, 0, parents,
leave your children free. If there is one
thing more than another in which sons
and daughters, who are capable of being
trusted :It all, desery to lie trusted un
limitedly, it is choice in marriage.--..
hr )"cor Roioeq. '
Look out for Women
Young men keep your eyes open when
you are after the women. I f you bite
a naked hook you ore green. Is it a
pretty form or dress so attractive, or a
pretty nice even ? Plounees, boys, are
of no sort of consegnenee. A pretty
face will grow old. Paint will wash
off. The sweet smiles of the flirt will
give way to the scow Is of the terma
gant. Another and -tar different being
will take the place 4f tilt . : lovely god
who smiles anti eats your candy.
The ca ju - ttewilluots4lineinthekitchen
corner, and with the once,saark ling, eyes
and beaming countenance will look (lag
gets: at you.
Beware, keep yoc4. ey ; .ts open boy,
when you are after wqttigentt If she blush
es when found at her 'foinest it duties, lie
sure she is one of the elishrittg aristoercY,
little breeding and good deal less sense.
If you marry a girl who krtows nothing
but how to commit Winnan slaughter on
the piano, you have the poorest piece of
mushc ever got up. Find one whose
mind is right, and then pitch in. Boy,
don't be hanging around like a sheep
thief, as though you . Were ashamed to be
seen in dac time, but weak up like a
chicken to a dough pile,and ask for the
article like a man. '
Itt Lt.'s IDEA 01. — rtit: ANuEt,tt• STATE.
\ geut lomat' lately overheard the fol
lowina eunver-ation: ht tween a man
and a m. , man who appearNl as though
they lind just returnetl fr01 . .1 a pleasure
trip to some of the trait of town resorts:
Woman—" Blow tic, Bill, how tired
I feel ! 1 am as miserahle, too, as a
starved eat. What a miserable world
this is! I wish I'd nevei been born,
that I do, :nut iftiw that. I 8111 horn I
wish myself dead again !" Man—
" Wily, Bet, what's the matter with you
now? What are you grumbling abour."'
'Woman —" Why, don't I tell yer I'm as
miserable as a rat." Miserable,
indeed! Why, what on earth would
yer have You was drunl: on Monday,
and you was drunk again on Wednes
day, and I'm blest if that isn't pretty
near enough pleasure for yer, I don't
kn ow what . ts, 1 s'potie yot wants to be
a downright hangel 101.- iipon earth."
A Parts Inc Weill
A young boy of sixteeit.years of age
was brought before the tiolice court,
Paris, charged with steal i nrand begging
in the public streets. He 4t - as a bright,
tine looking boy but '',.ery poorly clad,
and when brought before the judge, he
fell upon his knees and begged him not
to put him in prison that leis mother
was sick and starving, and that alone
had driven him to ste4l ; that he could
not find work ; and ifUNVIIS imprisoned,
thedisgracewouldkilliiismother. The
judge seemed somew,iiiat moved at the
boy's story, but lie .14 - ,werOieless, after
hearing the evidence,:condenthed him
to six weeks imprison4Dent,
As the boy was beingled 4way, a poor
woman, pale, covereh with : - ags, and her
hair in disorder, forced:her her. vay through
the crowd, and tottering u i to the boy,
passed one arm around I)* and then
turning to the judge, Ipusdtd back her
long black hair, and e4daimed, " Do you
recognize me? TI rtedn years have pass
ed since you deserted me,:: leaving me
alone with my child and myshame; but
I have not forgotten you, and this boy
whom you have just cbudetuned is your
You may imagine the effect this an
nouncement produced on time bystand
ers. The judge, in a loud l'oice, ordered
the woman to be carried from the court,
and then left it himself; Mit joined the
poor creature in the slteetF. and carried
her and her boy off inla carriage.
A DECISION ON MANNERS.—The Paris
correspondent of the London Star says
that the Jockey Club; before whose de
crees the fashionable world bend, have
decided that the-English custom of shak
ing hands is henceforth to'be consider
ed the correct thing • and; furthermore,
in order to protect ladies from the an
noyance of having to _return the bows of
any man who may chpose to takeoff his
hat to theta in public, the English fash
ion is to be adopted of ladies bowing
Nisccilantotts.
THE CRITTENDEN COMPROMISE.
=II
PHILADELPHIA, OM. 5, 1:-44
lion. Simon Oniteron—Dear Sir:
I have just perused, for the first time and
with the utmost surprise, so much of your
late address, as Chairman of the Republi
can State Committee, as relates to the re
jection of the Crittenden Compromise ; and
while I am aware that the Hon. C. L. Ward,
as Chairman of our Committee, has already
answered your allegations conclusively on
the main points, I must he indulged whilst
I call your attention to the subject a little
more in detail.
In alluding to the present sad ronolition
of the country, and to the grave responsi
bilities resting upon those who ticg.leete,l ur
refused to avert these cal:unities by fair and
honorable compromise, you sac
" The question hinges upoia flu , responsi
bility of the rejection of the t'rittenilen Com
promise. it was rejected. By whom? lie
feron,e to page 41.10, of the Congressional
Globe of the 2d session of the Tlrrrty-sixth
(longress, Will place the responsihilify for
the rejection or that compromise where j.
It will he seen that the Crittendeo
Compromise was defeated by the suhstitn
lion in effect) what is klll/ \\ 11 as the
'Clark Amendment.' The record :h o c,
Chat the cute 011 lilt' Motion 0. sithsl.llll..
Was: yeas nays :11), The vote 1111 1.111/
:1111/116011 or lit, (lark proposition, taken di
rectly afterwards, was: yeas 2:',.
111, 1, 1111 W /MI AVIIIII,I 110, 11/11111 . :111y, that
if the south had votes enough to rlitt/ut 111,
Slll ,1j1,11,/, it ttouttl ;11 ,11 11,1V1 1 1•1111111411 to 1 . 1•-
• i4Vi IIII• 111 , 1111,i1i.111 when tfieretl
')'lyre ,vasa L lung gull
on the 1.....p.5i01011, t•..iftparef I
with that on the first motion to
sever \• , ,1,•5. This is :14,4111111V11 1111' 1/V
111, fact 111:11 I;ett . jatllin and Slidell
cd . Louisiana NVigfall 011 , 1 11.'1 , 11 , 11111, 11 t
Texas; Iverson, or I o•orgio, tool
5,,) ,„
h sfirdx ,11,1 r,yrr.Nrd In rote. t I
six Nnut he'll 1111/11 Vl/11 1 1! the /lark 1/1/-
ItllS/111/11 Wuul,l 1111V1 1 111 1 1•11 Ilefl . atl l ll Ily
fijiir volt's, awl the Crittetide!l
could 1 / 1 1 1 1 11 taken lip ..11.1
the It
ii. A motion to I...consider O a .
4 . ,/1 . 1 1. 1,11 :111/1 a 1111,1'1 tout
1111 1 111 the 1 , 1111 1 11 1 1111 , 0 W:1,1,110 1 11. Tlllllll.ll
- /1.• 11,1 i.ittgli• vole. Hut
for I X Scluil,r, ....II•rrod to voted un llcrl
)I,IIIY all 11 q . 11/. • ili hav i ng Willl
utt'tt\\nott It , , 1 . 1•1 , ,illt1 PIC 111,ir
Slillll, 11:1 1 1 1111 1 V 11 Vllll/ fitti
11 Wt l lll l l 1,,,, 111 1, 11 ;1111/10411,
"111 1 1 . 11it/I . loliiiirt in alluding to this 'nat
ter iv to show that i, hen, IfeCire the 11 \llll
1 1 11
11•11 1 1,:11' kku , eonuuilted , 111 , 5..11111 1..01
110. war, ,11.•,
&HI wrat..ly
than
01 . 11 W Malty versions :nut peryersillus ~I' .
ill l lll 111 .1 41,V1 1 legislative history w h ich
lane fallen under my notice, yours is the
most :Ind untruthful. It lurks
\•,ry like o n e of yi)111 . hell clTnrls ti/ V 1 111( 1 1,11
I,llll'l' thaut exhilth the trulil.
I ani right glad, hi, \vcver, that'yon soPHI
stid(ii the elaiiiis of your party iiir
continual confidence and support, to seine
extent, upon their efforts to avert dissolu
tion anil civil war I ly 111:114:rahle 1 . 1:111 . 1,,i011
ant] Slltlellll.llt, rot you thereby invite toil
and free inquiry into the silliject.
You say " the question hint,, tipm 1114•
111'11 0:111111 , 111ke... In a SI11 , 011111•111 part
of your address you define the qui..stiiin
hinged to Mean NV:tr. I :111111111H: ill
:ICI:tell 11l yOll CM' this
011111t1 candor and fairness inarkeil the re
mainder or the address, I SIIOIII,I 11:1,1
no ouCasi,,ll lu,tive it, :\ll% ( ;1 , 1•Iny
nl hers Of y4/111' 1 . 1'il•1111` , 11:1,VPs.tight toyscape
the resprinsihility hy that the pro
posed compromise would not hart hail] el
!alive. lint you have that it
and y.ci to lei
Prated it.
VOLI say the priteeetliiiuN ”r l'ut egress, as
1...0nit,1 n 1.:.!.0 Ina of the Collgre , sioll;tr
(;lake nil' the Neill plume the re-
Sponsitiiiity t'or the reh , etiou of that emit_
promise where it lielotigs. - But
. voti lutcc
I'a 11cn into it grave tirriirtilmiit dr , vote.
vitte iit iti:to NV:I,4M a 111MiM1 01 1)1.1 Anne,
:11111 there is nn =urh N"Mt , as 55 In:2t; but
is wit esawuial, as 1 shalt vi• Ilu
\site erirnsell . v, it sit , thtu, lin the
Ill' mi.. (1111. k .d•N, , Nv linmr,hire, to
the mitt t . .miso and insert eer-
Uun propositions nl Iris every !gel
hew) present to strike out
hin d every southern
wilt) voted un the Sllltjeet, and every
I teinhoriiiii• Seniitor front the NOIIII, viitot
V. sitstain it as 1)11)10x: In nIVM .
it Anthony, Baker , !thig
h:till, CliBillllll . ,
IJuuliltlo. Durkee Vim!,
I..,i,ter,t;riiiies, I
Slllllllol', Ten h:yel:.
\Viiile. IVikon
Again-1 alit 110 rtotiprmtii,•:
IS;ly;ird, Bright,
Critten,ll.ll. I),niglas, Fitch,
Green. 1111010 r .1.1111,,,ii of Tetini,s,..,
S:1111,-
lip. r‘di rmr op. pn,
n you. i,•
y toll 1,11)0e1.41 it) ,JII),V \kith :W1'111 ' 111:4
that .I . orrt/orrn
/ho ir:// , Seft U 11,111,111• 1,
1114' 41(.1 . .. 111 tho ototiprottlis4+.
(_;1.104.1'111; but it ha\ e heen quite 11,
e:l,\ 11. v,ll to, Itot e Shi , IVII,
.0 , 1 , 11l I/1 , , I 1 , 1/ . 11 ffi , l 11 , 1 11,
:111,1 1 , 111•1 . il. l'oj4`1•IiIIII. With 111 , 111 it 111 IS
11.11 • 001iy they 00111
lIlliti•dly,111111 , 1,l :111
Son Ilse
dill nut Vc,le 111 111, rather Ulan toi
who it. I kw),
11111 iori4le ht.iiw: a Man
hut I VIII 11111 stipi. , oll that you 111111
nerve enough 11l go I,elllre intelligent
public with such logi,• Mal.
01111 11 11 I .' l bite the " 11111 '
, 1111 1, hy 11,4. utninnion, 111011 :Irt.
\II 111:11. Illay 11.1 I,l.trilo. \\ - ilVdll
VI 1(1 111 110111 1.11 I• 111)11 wit till a 6.11'
,nt14.1- 1), d , r,ltt .r the cllnlpronli. , ~
Mt lb.'lnlß of .I,llll.lary, pal,
.V 0111,1.1 1 ., as
tholl;211 alarlll.l at LH I•ig111 11l 1.111.
respnn
sihililyasstine•d hy 11111. I , ;trly, 11111(1•,1 :I
111`tkc clll, I,\" 1114 ,
I,olprollliol , fell; that the vole on yolir
motion 1111' tabVint say, 5111111!
Wi , ekS:ll . lt•r\\ 111.115, but 1111 tlle IS , III, two day ,
111P1'1,111, , r, ;111,1 111111 Whilsl Messrs, 1111111,-
11M, J 01111,4011 of Arkansas. and Slidell, who
had wnllll,lll their \ ,itcs from the compro
mise on 111,, I , 4ll,'repentc,l the wrlllll4,
V1111••1 for the r.con:ideratio), 01,11, 1 , , 1111 ,
a 1111171•11,111 r•,,/, el yoltr•
won 1,1141911. to reconxidcr, 1111 11 11,10
rrrig Scilett,,, prr.vrtdl and
farther, that by this vote the compromise
was ,laced in precisely the position it occu
pied before the adoption of the t amend
ment, and so it st,loll to the close or the sI,-
sillll, ready at all times for favorable action.
(11l this VolO, 00111011 I,lli he I . olllld on page
143 of the tot vol. of the Globe, Messrs.
Bayard, Bragg, Clinginan, Crittenden,
green, 1 I unter, .1()Intsou of Arkansas, John
son of Tenness"e Kennedy, Mason, Nichol
son, Pearce, Yolk, Saulsbury,
Sebastian and Slidell, 1111 the part of the
South, - sustained thP compromise, whilst
.Messrs. Seward, IV - ado„ Simmer, your
self and every other Itepublican voted
against it. I low preposterous it is then
for you to pretend that the eompromise was
finally lost because six Southern Senators
withheld their VIII ,1111 one indirect ques
tion, Nvhich they 11011)0(1 to reverse within
forty-eight hours thereafter. lint, t;eneral,
if it Ivere a great wrong in the Cotton State
Senators, against whom yon complain so
much, to withhold their votes from the
compromise, what are you to say Mr v,alr
self and the remainder of the Republicans
who voted invariably against it? The truth
is, I ieneral, and you know it as well as 1 do,
you and your party friends defeated the
Crittenden Compromise, as you did all other
efforts for a settlement. If the responsibili
ty of peace or war hinges on the rejection of
the compromise, as you concede, then you
may as well call for the rocks and moun
tains to fall on you and hide you front the
indignation of an outraged people, now :is
at any other time, for the responsibility of
the war, , with all its attendant horrors and
afflictions, will be laid at your door ht the
impartial historian.
You tilled the Peace Conference with im
practicable men, for the avowed purpose of
defeating the patriotic and humane purpose
for which it had been called ; and when the
proceedings of that body came to the Sen
ate, Mr. Seward moved to strike out the
entire series of propositions, and insert
others of his own production; for no other
purpose, that any one could perceive, than
to manifest his contempt for effort at com
promise and adjustment. He seemed to
imagine himself equal in dignity and power
to a convention of States, and was evident
ly, beside, exulting in the delusion of a
sixty day wrangle, and nobody hurt.
- •
I don' tmean, by anything .T. xay, to miti
gate the folly and wickedness of the seces
sionists in this or any other matter, for I de
nounced their doctrines and consequences
at the time in the strongest terms I could
command ; but Mr. Slidell told me the only
object of withholding their votes was to
hring up the crisis—to discover what was
intended' on your side, for he said, what
was very true, that we could continue to
debate and vote down amendments to the
end of thO session ; and when three of the
six voted to reconsider, I saw no reason to
doubt the'sineerity of what he said. But I
kni2w, in addition, that Mr. Hemphill, one
ante Senators who withheld his vote, was
an open advocate Of the coot promise_ •
In referring to the final vote, which wits
taken on the :1 , 1 of March, poi say "the
propositicin was lost by a single vote." I low
absurd. it is true one vote would have
given it tunajoritv, but it would have re
quired 14 or I. have given it two-thirds,
the constitutional vote.
Speaking bf the lot ton state men, you
say, "hail they remained alld Noted for the
compromise, it would have been adopted."
It tries one's patience, tielieral, to seriously
notice sterli flagrant PerVer'SiOn , . Tilt.rP is
not one man, of either party, Nvlio served
with you in the Settitte, at the time, who
will sanction that ilssertirm. You kienv
perreetl‘ well that the Constitution natuire,
a vote of INvo-think in both houses of I. 'on
gress o 1 submit amendments tor the ratiti
cat ion of the States, as you also do,that the
vote or every Senator films the South, of
whatever pain y, uniting \vittt the vote or
every th•thocrati , Sunatur from. the North,
it ivould still have required eight or nine
IZepublican votes to have passed it by the
eumstililti m:11 majority, and as no Republi
can SI.IIN - Ne . eN"I.I . toted for IT, or declared
hi, intention to uo so, tilt It what Al.ll\ Of
11,1111 41111 NN,1111,1
11115, 11,11 auopteu had th, s-zouthern Sena
tur, vomd for it ? 111,411er words, as the
liepubli , mi;sentitorx itumbeicti more Wall
oln third ,I( I'llllllla N , ll'
live,thif(k 1 , 0,151 :11raill , S1 COW:en!?
Itnl -.1111111.,• (hi- 1. 011 , 1011(11/11 did lint re
qui', \ "r iw"-iiiirds. and south
..o nllitill uitlt thu
Ii nee ralic !...4•Haiur,-, had acloptutl it, ui
1,11 ,I•l*Vice u•c , 11111 such a uwasurt. havo
•.•n? That wuulti truly hayr been the play
or Hamlet, NN ilk (Ile 1,111 of Hamlet li•ft
tins t•WH”1 ,1 111i'- , nml s , ttll . llll-111
hl.-, \VaS 1101,-
k
s‘ :ird 1uiv,.1,(91:1, futile as Air. Ein
,.lll', froein.z slaves in di(
I Rl' 1 . 1• 1 / 1 . 1 ;11'111V. Tili•
\ , l` ' l "ini"lalmrtyand it ‘votilailav , '
7.,1111,71.,.1. Oulu attempt an
Iliat did
51119.1 • I 1071 M, lilt' 7 ,111111'y. •Thl ,
Irilli , ll . lllll \\
!, 11 . 1 . , 1 1i111i7":111 ,
awl li‘
In 4, 11 , 111 , 1. M, "111 e 1 . 111,.1
111 :111 1 1 1 1ITII2: 1111 -, 111IIIII . 1' IS It, 111:11
I. 111,. Ili•I war \\...")1.-
1,11-1, rh.•
, ‘ „ r. -•
ihffi 4.r
Ilk .•1 . 1...1 It. 0c1111....11.
I Ii1•11 . 11111.q .
I• telt us 11.11,1 the
11..11 :111 , 1 tcar lit :01,1 :11141
Willi ii Lill . 54111.111/11 1.11 1111 , V1 . 1',1y
\ 11,1 , 1 II! 111.41 \\MPH did they
lior 1111 1 . 1 • 111l . 11111.11 . ./111111 . 1111IISII, (ll' 114 -
I/1' ;illy ul l 1 ,. r etreetive measure?
I, 11 . 1,11 Nvit . \ did lit ialeimit to assuage
mai ll' tvlatt
thi• NulllL,a II metilliers
11111, it milt 1 , 1 . .1\ W 1 1:11 . ..1101111111/1.K.Ilekl,
111,11 of . 41111 SI . CIiI , IIS :Ole,' in
1.1 . 1•VI . 111 I . 4 , 111•PSSI.111 :11111
it wonlll only Show that th"
tts hutch.: you [Old.
1 . /111 how i.. 111;11 arg,ument 00
atuil con hi a couh,l witll the Northern
I , enloerno., Whose ill hifill
111 , •111 , WIVCS Io tho utmost
I avert di s ,„i ni ;" ;111 ,1 war, hy proper ad-
H stihent, in the slittate spirit in which the
I had: y.ll I:limy as
%, ell its that
.\ , lll' ullryntirnl as against
the Southern timanhers tzenerally is unjust.
Von 1:1100 that Messrs, Crittenden, Hunter
Powell, of We t -4 011th, vt , ted ftas tht -,0 111-
promise in the ( 'olitinittee of Thirteen, and I
1:now that Mr. T,„„, 0 ,, prop.,,,d 111 2. 1 ., 1*
;1. ir Seward and Wade and their
folh;«ers, un the other side, \\amid unite
v, ith them.; 1 kitolv this, for I heard them
make the proposition. You were presenl in
I lw the When Mr.
lanlglas , tivd ill the 1 . .111111 . 1(, .1 .
Thirteen, ere'rg u , rlLbry n'tim Ihp h,
those Prate lite
1)11N - is and Toonths, I expressed
(heir readiness to :weep! the prop.sitimi ref
my N.-Herald,. friend front lit-murky,
I scl 1,r0e,/ el' /lie londerell
sostained he the Itepablican menthers.
I lehre the 'sole responsibility our disti
:treemeat, -did the (adv . diiiieulty in the m
adjustment, is with the
1111! 1 . 11,, Ily 11111 yllll not rise ill
11111 . :11111 enulradiot 1.111•111? NVIIY (Vas
it 11,u1 no 1 1•1111111i1,111 niemlwr of the (font
-1110.111 of Thirteen did ally NVlty was 11 , i t,
the Itertildicali party 111 . .11110y vilidicat,d
;e4ailt,l these , ‘vetpingallegatiotts? Thean
swer is, the! leolefonee 111111(1 lle made. Mr.
Paglisal psetinentlystate4l 011 theSeltalisllC,or
;hat Mr. Davis had told him that he was
iiiittpz "in 11116111lin the Ilrion if that
re,eiVe the vote it militt to
relr•icl' front th.'”lll..r side Oflhe challi her...
\\ - ]n' did you negleet to deny that state
ment and maintain that it was the I{.•publi
-1,111 114(1 the southern members, who
In rmIll)I.4)111ise and seltla?
ll2Vis;:till the saute thing ill slllNtalice.
did I trailer, ISragg', :‘lall.ry alid
iliflt•ed, they all seoillt•d seillillps to
11'“ii t hi. :11)111i1111111 party, ( 1 511111
\ alld .101111,011. f rkansas,
wally 111,111 m ere its daily \'grates,
It \vas endhrsed by the Slate of Virginia,
and was the hash. 011 NN hieh -lie invited the
assetithling of the l'eaee Conicl-nee. It Wass
Hy 1111' 1. , ".2.1S1a1111'1 , of li (Flit W • kY
:11111 Mar\ 10101, :11111 I think that of T,11111',-
~ :11,1, 1 . 1 (111 , 1.1 . 1 . 11i0111 1 11 1 . 1/1' by a larger
from all se,•tions
( ~1 1111! 1 , 1:III 1.1 . 1 111 . 1)
/11.1 . 1)1 . 1 , .1111..21.1,4,
11111 111,,, , ,1ry 11/ my presoill purpose
to proposition itself, its vim iioll
- iu it
it ; : ,1 41111 1101111 1111'11 111 . 1.-
11,111 . 11 sillier ul hip itutny !wilding
propositions, iV:I, 1 , 4,111 , i• ii 1.101 the Cunt
""'" "1"14.r tho 1"1"' of
I 1i(d“4.2.1tw sin which laion
oloomd, olaililers 11,111 the
1 , 111111" H they loft thi•ir
slat hrhiw 1. "rho Supremo (lour( hail
ill, right or ( iingre.. In in
n•rd,..l tori - itory,
hul tho incoming party tviiro Modgoil
'I . I•H • the tv , iwitltstanding. :\ Ir.
I:iimvit his
ilotormination In stand • I,y that position.-.-
The South hold that doorisi Or 1111 -
I rill , I . ..llll ,r' p'd 1110 le. , than
11.11111111. iii the I nion, arid that limy could
sulimit to no 'moll humiliation. I lite nt the
Crilll . lllll . ll
tt an Vial il,tcaiti it the 1;111,iii that 114
lit' ra•riii..i °row torritm.y on
:lit
giVIIIL! 91/11,111111 I,t .
! ... : , cllll II :Mout our
111 , ,re than iittpitrtial umpire
euulil Lone awarded toots; aril it lints ap
your principles lu Ilireo-Murtlis of the
torritory n iluirid hy the common lilnuil mill
treasnris lint you \yore not ciatti-lit„.
Bin you . k 110 W we went further, and pro
posed to take a vote or he people for the
di
reetion or the cal lieu ion rat' the States. But
the. Republican members 01 Congress, in
Slll oil lit the propt,sition, would not ac
cept the ~itpromise for the hieople, though
petitioned f,ir beyond precedent, nor yet ex
tend to the people the opportunity oy ac
cepting it Inc themselves. I had the honor
or I,n:sewing that proposition, and you, for
vonrself, declared for it on the 14th of .lanti
iiry, thus " I say to the Senator front
i;eorgia, aud to all the gentlemen here, if
they will take the proposition of my col
leagne. I will vote for it, and eve will pass
it, if that Will give its twat:, and preserve
the 1 - nine," But you never gave it your
countenatlcV or helping hand thereafter.
You voted:unifornily against taking : up the
compromise until the day before the final
adjournment. I can well understand the
uneasiness you manifest outhesultiect, :11111
vOll straight the opportunity, 4;011 ;It
this late date, or making an effort to clear
the skirts if your party of the grave respon
sibility that rests upon those who prevent
ed an anthAll de adjustment of the sectional
Naltroversi. But, General, you can never
escape from it. It will stick to you like the
fabled shirt of Nesis, as will the recollection
of other omissions and conunissions, of
which Mr. Lincoln and his friends areguilty.
Had Mr. Lincoln raised his potential voice
against secession in December, 1550, after
his election-, by simply declaring his purpose,
notwithstanding his sectional election, to
act as President of the whole country, and
take the Ponstirution, as defined by the
Supreme Court, as his guide, secession
would have fallen in two-thirds of the States
110 W claiming to be out of the Union; and
he owed at:least that much to the Union men
of the South, because of the - damage he had
done them,by his Springfield speech. Had
your pa rtygiven the eon promi6e three votes
in the Committee of Thirteen, it would have
been adopted, and Stephens would have
defeated set'xssion in Georgia, and the whole
movement , would have fallen as a conse
quence. Rut, General, your party, led on
by the radicals, did persistently those things
calculated to prevent amicable settlement,
and you Must answer to the country for the
sad consequences.
Very truly your ob't servant,
at WM. BIGLER.
—lf yoli think it an easy thing to
square the circle, just go and settle your
wife's bill:for hoops.
NUMBER 42.
Curl uns Calculations.
The &ientigl.4inerican says the sim
ple interest of one cent, at six per cent
per annum, from the commencement of
the Christian era to the close of the
present year 1563, would be but the
trifling stun of eleven dollars, seventeen
cents, and eight mills ; but if the same
principal, at the same rate and time,
had been allowed to aecum latect com
pound interest, it would require the
enormous sum of 554,540,000,000,000 of
globes of solid gold, each equal to the
earth in magnitude, to pay the interest;
and if the sum were equally divided
among the inhabitants of the earth,
now estimated to be one thousand mil
lions, every Man, woman and child
would receive 54,340 golden worlds for
au inheritance. Were all these globes
placed side by - side in a direct line, it
would take lightning itself, that can
girdle the earth in the wink of an eye,
73,000 years to travel from end to end.
And if a Parrott gun were discharged
at one extremity while a titan was sta
tioned at the ither—light travelling 192,-
000 miles in a second ; the initial velocity
of a cannon ball beingabout per Sec
ond, and in this case supposed to con,
tinueat thesatne rate; and sound moving
through the atmosphere 1,120 feet in u
. second—he would see the flash after
waiting 1 0,000 years; the ball would
reach him in seventy-four billions of
years ; but he would not hear the report
till the and of a thousand millions of
centuries. Again, if all the masses of
gold were fused into one prodigious
ball, having the sun for its centre, it
would reach out into space, in all direc
tions, one thousand seven hundred and
thirty millions of miles, almost reaching
the orbit of Herschel or I7ranus; and,
if the interest were continued till the
end of t Ile present century, it would en
tirely till tip the solar system, and even
encroach live hundred millions of miles
on the domain of the void beyond the
planet Neptune, whose orbit, itt the dis
tance of two I housand eight hundred
and Illty millions of miles from the sun,
encircles our whole system of worlds.
A Strategic Coon.
We witnessed an amusing incident on
one of our surhurban streets last Satur
day. A fashionable young lady, got up
in the highest style of the milliner's art,
and arrayed in all the glory of a live
dollars-a-yard silk, a twenty-dollar bon,
net, and a three-hundred-dollar shawl,
was majestically sweeping along in the
direction of the Fair efrouud, while just
bellied a little boy was leading a pet
coon. A countryman, in a brown
slouched hat and 11 Linsey-Woolsey
" warmus," caine along, followed iiy a
" yallah " dog, whose nose was scarred
diagonally, transversely, and laterally
with the scars of many a fiercely-eon
tested battle with members of the rac
coon family. " Tige " no sooner saw
the ring-tailed representative of his 11n
vient enemy than he made a frnntic di VI,
for Itim , ZWellinpaniot by a furious bark.
Cooney comprehended the situation at
a glance, bolted incontinently, and
, ought sanctuary beneath the ample eir
cum ference of the lady's crinoline. The
young lady screamed, while the dog
made rapid circles, snuffling the air, and
evidently bewildered to know what had
Leconte of. the coon. The situation of
the young lady was critical and embar
rassing.. Sie was afraid to move, for
fear the coon would bite, and the coon
declined to leave his retreat until the
dog had retired. Finally the dog was
stoned off, the boy dragged the coon
from his hiding place, and the young
lady went her Way, With a lively con
sciousness of having experienced a new
sensation. As for the coon, he was in
stantly killed. He had seen too much
to live.—lndkolapolis
A Western Description of Waltzing.
A group of splendid ones is on the
floor, and lovingly mated; the gents
encircle their partner's waists with one
arm. The ladies and gentleman close
ly face to face. They are very erect,
and lean a little back. The ladies
lean a little forward. (Music)) Now
all wheel and whirl, circle and curl.
Feet and heel of gents go riip, rap,
rip, rap, rip. Ladies' feet ga tippety
tip, tipppety tip, tip. Then all go
rippety, clippety, slippety, flippety,
skippety, hoppity, jumpity, sumppity,
thump. Ladies fly Mt by centrifugal
momentum. 1 hmts pull ladies hard and
close. They reel, swing, slide, look
tender, look silly, look dizzy. Feet fly,
tresses fly, hoops fly, all Hy. It looks
tuggity, huggity, pullity, squeezity,
pressity, ruppety, rip. The men like a
cross between steelyards and "limber
jacks," beetles and
,jointed X's. The
maidens tuck down their chins very
low, or raise them exceedingly high.—
Some giggle and frown, some snear,and
all sweat freely. The ladies' faces are
brought against those of the men, or in
to t heir hosoms, toes against toes. Now
they are again making a sound, georgy
peorgy, deery-peery, etiy-pidy, coachey
poache3-. This dauce is not much, but
the extras are glorious. If the men
were women, there would he no such
dancing. But they are only men, and
so the thing goes on by woman's love
of
PATRICE'S B01)1" FOUND. — While
the workmen:engaged in the renovation
of St. Patrick's Cathedral, in Dublin—
the oldest church in Ireland—were dig
ging up a portion of the flooring in one
of the aisles, they discovered a large
stone coffin of curious workmanship
bUried a few feet below the surface.
The coffin, when opened, was found to
contain the skeleton of an ecelesastie,
supposed to have been buried there OW
years! The skull was perfect, and the
bones crumbled into dust when exposed
to the air. (in the lid of the coffin there
was a full-length figure of a Bishop in
his robes. It was inspected by sonic
antiquarians, including Dr. Todd, who
expressed it as his belief that it was the
original founder of the church, St.
Patrick. It is in good preservation,
and it is in every respect a most in
teresting relic. When the church is
finished it will be placed in a most pro
minent position, because there is no
more remarkable antiquity in the build-
The cure of diabetes is now eflbetcd
in asimple manner. It is this: Taking of
fresh barns or yeast three fr four times
a day, at the same time mbeting the
waste produced by the disease on the
system by the free use of Dublin porter,
and all the solid nourishing food the pa
tient can take. Cardinal Wiseman has
been cured of an attack by this method.
—A schoolboy in Hampden county
was caught stealing from the teacher's
desk, and his father was at once sent
for. He came, and after administering
a mild rebuke to his son, turned to
apologize to the teacher, saying: " You
see, my son has a mind so large that
he
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Practically Philanthropic Women
Some of our readers have, no doubt,
passed, in travelling, a remarkable mon
ument near Caine, in Wiltshire. The
story of that monument ought ever to
be freshly remembered; and the monu
ment is of a typical character. Once
upon a time a rural housewife in that
neighborhood carried her butter and
eggs to market, and every time she did
so she was troubled by a bit of bad road
which skirted ahill, receiving the trick
lings of water from it. The kindly dame'
put by part of the profits of her sales,
and left a sum at her death to make a
good bit of road in thtl place of the bad,
and to keep it in repair. As the value
of money changed, there was such a
surplus that a quarter of a century ago
it. became a question with the late Mar
quis of Lansdown and the other trus
tees what should be done with the ac
cumulation. They employed it well.
They erected a column, which is crown
ed with a statue of the ancient market
woman witii her basket of eggs on her
arm ; and thus future generations will
have this admonition to public spirit
brfore their eyes.
Again, there was a poor governess,
some five-and-twenty years ago, who
saw with concern the mischief of a de
acieney of water to the inhabitants of a
court in a town. A fter she had worked
as much as her duty to the relatives re
quired, she worked on till she had earn
ed enough for a legacy to the public of
that court. She left the wherewithal
to erect a pump, well supplied, and of
the best construction. The poor people
of the court managed to contribute
enough to inscribe the gift. with her
name—Jane Scott—and the date. When
such things are seen they are appreci
ated. There is really nothing wanted
hut that the minds of women should be
opened to the knowledge to that the
privileged life of members of society
imposes duties, and requires sacrifices,
however disproportionate they are to
the I renetits enjoyed.— London Sews.
Milton's House in Barbican
This interesting relic of the poet Mil
ton is now being taken down to make
way for the extension of the Metropoli
tan Railway. or late years such parts
of the house as remained intact—name
ly, the study, the schoolroom, and the
kitchen—have been used for mercantile
nu•poses, and the part of it which faces
iarhiean has long been a dyer's shop.
t is known as No. 17 in the street, and
s situated 0 few pales from the math-
east corner of' Idersgat, street, on the
right, hand. It was there that Milton
resided just 'odor to his Itt , voining Latin
Secretary to Cromwell, and about the
time or his re,wwilintion with his first
wife, Mary Powell. Fl was then about
37 years of age. "About this time
11645)," wrote Dr. Johnson in his me-
moir of the poet, " he had taken a large
house in Barbican Mr the reeeption of
scholars; but the numerous relations of
his wife, to whom he generously grant
ed a refuge lor a while, occupied his
rooms. ID tilllV, howover, they went
away, and the house again, said his
nephew Phi lips, now looked like a house
of the Muses only, though the accession
of scholars was not great."
The school-rom and study Were a
good way hack from the present Hue or,
the street, and were probably seleeted
by Milli o n on that account, as he had ,
previously chosen a house in Aldersgato
sheet, as Johnson tells us, at the upper
end of a passage, that lie might avoid
the noise. It is likely to have been a
house situated in a garden, of which
there were many handsome ones at that
time in the parish or Cripplegate, in
which it stood. All that remains of it
now :u.e detached portions of the oak
paneling, with which the sehool-room
11101 the study were lined, rind remnants
of latticed windows, the walls being
nearly razed to the ground. In taking
down the building a small coffin was
found embedded in one of the walls,
containing what is said to be the skele
ton of a monkey, in perfect preserva
tion. By an agreeable coineidenee,
while the house of the poet of " Para
dise Lost" is being destroyed in a Utili
tarian age, the venerable church of St.
rripplegate, hard by, in which
his remains are interred, is undergoing
a partial o ,r/au ruff's.
There is no model style. What is
pleasing in the diction of one author
disgusts us in a copyist. Every writer
is his own standard. The law by which
we judge of his swarm-es must be de
duced from ltis sentences. f the style
indicate the character, it•is relatively
good; if it contradict the character,
though its cadences are faultless, it is
still bad, and not to be endured. We
may quarrel with a writer, if we please,
for possessing a tasteless nature, but not
with the style which takes from that
nature its form and movement. The
tread of Johnson's style is heavy and
sonorous, resembling that of an elephant
or a mail-clad warrior. He is fond of
leveling an obstacle by a polysyllabic
battering-rant. Burke's words are con
tinually practising the broad-sword ex
ercise, and sweeping down adversaries
with every stroke. Addison draws up
his infantry in Orderly array, and
marches through sentence after sentence
without having his ranks disordered or
his line broken. Luther's word's :are
"half battle ;" his "smiting, idiomatic
phrases Set . lll to cleave into the vely
secret of the matter." Gibbon's legions
are heavily armed, and march with pre
cision and dignity to the music of their
own tramp. They are splendidly equip
ped, but a nice eye can discern a little
rust beneath their line apparel. Macau
lay, brisk, keen, lively, and energetic,
runs his thoughts rapidly through his
sentence, and k Mks out of the way every
word which obstructs his passage. He
reins in Ins steed only when he has
reached his goal, and then does it with
such celerity that he is nearly thrown
backward by the suddenness of his stop
page. Jeffery is a tine lance, with
a sort of Arab swiftness in his move
ment, abd runs an iron-glad horseman
through the eye belhre he has time
to close his helmet. Falfourds forces are
orderly and disciplined, and march to the
music of the Dorian flute. Those of
Keats keep time to the tones of the pipe
of Pluebus. Willis's words are often
tipsy with the champagne of the fancy;
but even when they reel and stagger,
they keep the line of grace and beauty.
Webster's wordsare thunderbolts which
sometimes miss the, Titans at whom
they are hurled, but always leave en
during marks where they strike. Words
are not, whew used by a master-mind,
the mere dress of thought. They are,
as- Wordsworth has happily said, the
incarnation of thought. -They hearths
same relation to ideas that the body bears
to, the - soul. Although embodied "and
embrained in fit words walks the earth
a living being.—E...P. Whipple,