vrewrin.. - Fla TOWANDA: ttlebitcsbap Stlontitir, , ,lanc 28, .1848. (From the Dublin Nation.) THE VOICE OF THE POOR. Wa.l Sorrow ever like to our sorrow ! Oh! God above ! Willi our night never change into a morrow Of joy and love! A defidly gloom is on us waking, sleeping; Like the darkness at noontide That fell upon the pallid mother, weeping - By the Crucified. Before us die our brothers of starvation Around are cries of famine and despair Where, is hope for us, or comfort or salvation— ' Where—oh ! where ! if the angels ever hearken, downward bending, They are weeping, we are sure, At the litanies of human groans ascending From the crushed hearts of the poor. When the ,human rests in love upon, the human All grief is light ; titoibends one kind glance to illumine Ohr life-long night The air around is ringing with their laughter— God has only made the rich to smile; But we—in our rags, and want, and wo—we follow Weeping the while. [after, And the laughter seems but to deride When, oh ! when Will fall the frozen barriers that divide us From other men ? Will ignorance forever thus enslave us, Will Miserfforever lay us low? All are eager with their insults ; but to save us! . None, none, we know. We never knew a childhood's mirth and gladness, Nor, the proud heart of youth free and brave ; Oh, a death-like dream of ‘eretehedness and sadness, . If life's weary journey to the grave. Day by day we lower sink and lower, Till The God-like-soul viithin Falls crushed beneath the fearful demon power Of poverty and sm. So toil we on, with fever burning In heart and brain; So toil we on, on through bitter scorning, Want; woe, andilain. , We dare not raise our eyes to the blue Heaven, Or the toil must cease— We dare not breathe the fresh air God has given One hour in peace. We naust toil7thongh the fight of life is burning, Oh, how dim! • We twist toil on our sick bed feebly turning Our eyes to Him Who alone can hear the pale hp faaitly saying, With scarced moved breath, ." White the paler hands uplifted aid the praying, "Lord, grant us Death!" The Ascent of Popocatapetl. CITY OF ' Nfrxiro, April 20th, IB4R On the 3d ef the, present month a party of about twenty-five officers of different corps, accompanied by several citizen;, both foreign and Anietican, with an escort of about seventy melt of dragoons ; mounted riflemen. and infantry, making the whole trent.±,th of the party over one hundredliersons. lelt I,his city to attempt the ascent of Popocatapeil Lieut. Stone, of the Ordnance, was the projector of the expeditition, and all the preparatory arrange ments were made by him. We took with us two wagons and eau, for the transportation of our pro vlsigns and baggage. "fhe object of the expedition ' was solely the gratification of our curiosity, and had consequently but little 'referenee to seiehtitic obser vation. It was much.. desired by Lieut. Stone and Alr..flagally, an English gentleman at present con nected with one of colleges of thecity of Alex :U.°, to take at barornrlrr, and every died was made tn procur; a suitable one, tart Without sue. cess. Two or three of the party carried thermom- The' first day we mawlied as far its Ayntla, on - the titaiii . rnail to Puebla; but as the only pmctica ttle ascent is by the southern side of the mountain. we quit this rrtaki chi the tress day, about Thar miles beyond Ayotla, and followed one which runs along the southern base. We halted a short time at noon at Mirallnres, at which place there is an excellent and flourishing catkin faNnre. The Director 9f the factory. Mr: Robinson, re ceived us with/ he most cordial hospitality; he .g:ive us: letters to the Alcal,lc% of the towns thr& Which we would pays, and in various ways render us friendly assistance. We left his house inbebt ed to him for his kindness and refreshed by abun dant good cheer, and passed the night tit Tlamin ;deo, a small town-about two miles beyond Mira- Early the nest morning a courier-came in from - the Alealde of'Ameika, another village about Kis miles further on, bearing a note from him, clai m: that he had heard of our approach, and assur ing us that we would be received with great con sideration, and that thp whole town was at our dis posal. We arrived al this place at an early hour. alma alter some consideration, it was derrined advi sable to leave our wagons, and proceed oil our iouniey with pack mules. To procure these, haw ever, would re9nire two or throe {tours, and 'we took advantage of the interval to visit a church sit uated uptni a pretty hill close by, and built over a small cave in which Christ is said to have appear cal to some holy ma n or other. There is an annual weekly finiitival held in the town about the time of the year that the Saviour is said to have made his appearance. I wits toll that during thefoStival, people mule front long distances to worship at this most holy place, and that' multitudes of sick haie miraculous cures wrought upon them. In. plaid English, that sorne devout hulaties come to pray and tray, a pea many sick to imagine that the marvellous efficacy eel holy brads, trinkets and ribbons have effected woodcrlul cures, a multitude of dissipated young ones to obtain lie -onset : , and the whole to be gulled rent of adman five thousand dollars at each recur r 'r,^e festival. - TheAlealde told us that the priests said die Lill ,LS artitioial j and had been built by the Indians to ret.ist Cortez, and that agreat and bloody battle hod {... 1 .ht Ito '• •:. • , . ' - , . . . . . J ~ . , - Ta •• . • . . . 111 11 1 . B . : ._..1, ~ ....:._ , .... , „, . c . L . , - .L:'• .1 , - 1 ti ...-.... , r7a . . . fz ..4. , .. • ~. .. - ' ' 4.- 01 •••• •1 , _ , ~... . • . . .., ... . . , .. , , . . . . ... , I • ~„ • - . •:. . ~ . . . . When'welkent up th the church, some one men tioned this of itrion of the Meal& in :the-hearing of a priest; whereupotOhe latter politely asserted that the Alcalde had het}... Not 'long after des . cendin,g from the hill the mutes arrived, and having com pleted our arrang,euiOts for commencing the ascent next day, we rode oil to the village of Asumba.— Soon after dark a violent storm arose, and it rained and hailed until near midnight. ,The next morning the mountain was white with snow two or three thousand feel lower down than it had been the day before, and even low hills about its base and around the valley, upon which we had newer before seen snow, were now clad in white. This was discouraging; .but, nothing daunted, we procured as guides a man ,named Francisco Pais and his brother, who acted in the same capacity to a party in 183 R, and determinell <in ascend to the Vacaria, a herdsman'ii hut, situated on the south side of the mountain, near the limit of ;vegetation, and next day to attempt the final ascent. The Va. caria is nothing more that( a small rude hut, not permanently inhabitated, but apparently only occa sionally used by the herdsmen when they pay vi sits to these regions, to look for their cattle. We found the path leading to the place sufficiently good, except that frequently the acclivity was so abrupt as to compel us to dismount and lead our horses.— We arrived at the hut at an early hour in the after noon, and flattered ourselves that round our camp fires of blazing pine knots We would pass a tolera bly comfortable night. Put in the evening a dark cloud gathered over the valley of Mexico, now far below us, and distant thunder announced the ap.' pro:tell of.a storm. We watched the heavy masses of vapor piling themselves about the base of the mountain, and rolling up its steep sides, until they broke, upon us with drying sleet and snow, and sent us shivering with cold to our tents. Our guides comforted us at first with assurances that the storm would not las i long; but all night the fierce wind, rumbling with dismal sounds along the ravines and whistlingthro . the torn branches of the pines around us, continued to drive the snriw upon us. Our fires wore nearly exting.tti-heil, and to complete the' gloominess of our situatinii, we were enveloped in utter darkness, save when the lightning cast its glare about us and threatened us by its arse proximity. ' At one time we were startled by an explosion like the sharp report of a long eighteen, and next morning we found a pine, within thirty paces of the place where we had been lying, shattered by the bolt. It had been our intention to rise in the morning at about one o'clock, and commence the ascent about two ; but at that hour there was no abatement in the storm. At daylight it ceased snowing, but the wind continued ; and whirled the dense clouds about us, .o that we could distinguish no landmarks, aud our guides said that it would be pure folly to at tempt mo%ing. Our impatience would listen to no reason, and at length, yiel:ling to our importunities and to the possibility of the weather's groWing bet ter after sunrise, they consented to lead us - on. It is worth remarking, that in no previous attempt had the itwent been successfully made when the snow lay Kroll the mountain, more than a thousand feet • from its summit on this side ; and now it had fal len loiver evea . than Our position and cowered quite six times that height. Leaving our escort and attendants ; except a few who wished to accompa py us, we quitted otir camp at six o'clock, and a brisk walk of an hour brought us to the limit of ve getation. The. Weatl.er had not grown more farm-aide, and our guides declined going any further. Seeing that the poor felloWs had nothing on their feet but san • dais, and that their backs were about as poorly pro tected, we could not insist on their accompanying us, but were satisfied with a description of the route that we ought to pursue ;:and, braving all obstacles ; we a.scrinded into the clouds of snow above us.— We were constantly lel on by the hope that the sun wordil presently find its way to us, and that we then might accomplish our object. After toiling throngli about two milq,; : and - gaining an elevation of about fifteen IrtiVred feet above the limit of ve getation, the cold 'became severely biting. and a tine sleet beating upon our faces annoyed us ex cessively. Some of our companions and attendants began to drop back and return ; lint others, more obstinate, pushed on.. At about live hundred feet ercater height the thermometer stood at 23.° Fahrenheit, and the weather continued to be as bail as ever. The frozen mist formed icicles on our hair, beards and eyelashes, and the wind seemed to pierce us through and through IVe had now, out i)f about thirty who had set out in the morning, only seven left, The wind had taken Lieut. Stone's hat from him, and sent it at railroad speed across the field of snow; and, continuing on bare-headed, he soot; bdrame completely chilled. %Vittlst we wet e stopping under the shelter of n eliffto rest our: selves. he stretched himself upon the snow, and fell asleep: Fearing that he was more nearly fro zen than he was willing to admit, we ',minted on leis g,etting up and returning immedtately, and Captain Sibley , 2d Dragoons, returned with him.— This lett but tire of us—four officers and a soldier. It may appear extriva,gant„ to speak of feeling the cold so severely, but it must be remembered that the transition from tropical heat to regions of eter nal ....now, and cold twelve degrees below Freezing point, was sudden ; and , that marry hod not made sufficient preparations toencoonter it. The remain ing tire ascended Ethan live hundred feet higher, 'and then, completely baled by projecting chi& and unable still to tlia•ern any landmarks, we reluclant ly gave np and turned to retrace our steps. The land-Mark which had served others as a guide was a vevy prominent corneal rock, shooting Up from the In nuuilniti side seventy or •eigity feet high, and . is situated about oikb thousand feet heloW the cra ter ; it is called the Pico del Frayle. Those who have previously made the ascent, - describe, by the assistance of this rock, the only practicable route so accurately, that no one could fail in following their MaiM MEI PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, AT 'TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA,, BY E. OItEARA GOODRICH. I:MiMiaNii REGMWL.r.43 Or DliNl t :314.2AT10.ii ASIT QILIATEU." we could not be very far from Fray le ; some thought that we had got above it even; but we could not be positive as to our position at that time. When we had descended about half way , to the pines, the sun suddenly came out; !taken looking back, we felt increased disappointment at discovering that we had been near the base of this peak, and we in stantly, resolved to urge a second attempt next day. The sun was now shining brightly above, but be low:us rolled a tumultuous sea of clouds, some times completely engulfing the lower world, and leaving us, like wrecked mariners upon a desolate island—sometime disclosing fleeting views ofland scapes lighted by a momentary ray. We remain ed catching the succession of beautifulcontrasts pre settled to us by this strange sight, until the tecollee tion of the long- and tiresome walk to camp forced us away. On arriving at the camp, we found that some of the• party had already given up all hope of success, and gone down to the village.of Asiimba, and by far the larger part of those remaining were for abandoning the undertaking. A few, however, were willing to make a second attempt next day, encouraged by the prospect of better weather. Of those who declined joining the mountain party, the majority decided upon a visit to Cuernavaca, and a beautiful cave about a day's ride from that city, while three or four were for an immediate return to the city of ;Mexico. We con tinued chatting around our fire until a little after sunset, when, sufliciently tired down, we turned in to our tents Etefore much time had elapsed, some faint complaints began to be made about inflamed eyes. To complaints succeeded groans, and final ly, towards midnight, all who had been up the mountain were fairly screaming with torture. I was not amongst those who suffered most severely, and yet I never felt such tormenting pain in all my lile before. The pulling of half a dozen teeth at one time would have been nothing to what we -enildr ed. No one slept a =mew. Most were unable to sit or lie still at nil, and were walking about near ly all night. I will venture to assert, that in no hos pital in Mexico was there that night as much keen suffering us there was in our camp: The next morning our guides prepared a wash for us, which allayed the pain considerably, and even enabled a few of those who were the least injured to open their eyes slightly, and to see a few paces before them. Of course our condition utterly forbid au) , thing like the renewing of our attempt, and we de scended to the town of Ameika, nearly all being *ill so blind as to require being led every step of the way. On our arrival at the town, we were kindly treat ed by the 'alcalde, who gave us a solution of acetate of lead, which soon reduced the inflammation.— The next morning our party split. More than half, .with Capt. Sibley, of the dragoons, and Capt. Por ter of the riflemen, went off with the mounted por tion of the escort towardisCiternavacit ; sonle six or eight others returned to Mexico; and seven offi cers and Mr. Ba;_-_ , ally remained at Aineika, deter mined on seeing the crater at Popocatapetl. The officers who composed this• last party were Capt. Bom ford, Bth infantry: Capt. Fowler, sth infant ry, Lieut. Newtten, rifles; Lieut. Stone, Ordnance; Lieutenants Kirkham and Buckner, 6th infantry, and myself. We remained until the morning of the loth, in Ameika, and being almost entirely recovered, we set out once again for the mountain. Profiting by onr experience, we went this time prepared with green veils and spectacles, warm gloves and thick sticks. Since the day of our fail ure we had had fine sunny weather, and a great deal of the , mow that had fallen then had melted away. In rea.scending to the Vacaria, Lien. New ton followed a wrong path, and we saw nothing more of him until we get back again to the valley. We left the escort at the Vacaria, and proceeded, with our attendants and a few soldiers who. wished to accompany us, to within a quarter of a mile of the limit of vegetation, whernme pitched our tents. The night was far different from the first, being as clear and calm as could be desired. We rose at half-past one o'clock, and were on our way at half - - past two: In order to save our strength as much as we coal for the tug above the Pico del Frayle, we determined to ride our horses as far as possible, and then send them back to camp. The volcanic sand which lies between the limit of vegetatior. and the region of eternal snow, and which, from its depth, is usually more fatiguing to travel over than the snow itself, was now fortunately fmzen so hard that our horses tarried us with great ease nearly two miles beyond the pines. It would have been quite practicable to ride still further, but we did not care to jade our horses by forcing them up the ascent : which was now becem iinz very steep; and, moreover, onr bent:matted fin gers and toes suggested that it wont& be more plea ?ant to climb titan to ride. It was not yet daylight, but we could see sufficiently distinct to avoid Our, former errors, and to gain the ridge which would lead us to the Pico del Frayle. Clambering up the steep slope was exceedingly toilsome, and we began also to feel die effect of the rarefaction of the air. We could not walk more than thirty steps without stopping to recover breath. The stm rose beautifully clear when we were at an elevation of nearly sixteen thousand feet, and we enjoyed at that =merit another singular striking sight, . Tao huge shadow of the mountain was throws across the valleys as its feet, over the range of 'mountains to the west of the valley of Mexico, far across the distant valley of Toluca, and finally van ished in a dimly blue point several degrees above the horizon. In the purple light which was spread riv.-r the country bovered by the shadow, only the hills and valleys and prominent features of the laud. seapes could be faintly distinguished : whilst on ei ther side every thing was ghttering in the bright morning sunshine. Far, away to the west we could eee the white cap of the snow mountain of Toltir and towards the soath our view extended over a irre, , sion of bilk: aril valleys. gradisillv grow- n ;'4.' ~ to vanish is a boundless sea. We had at this time no view towards the east, nor could we see any portion of the valley of Alexieo, except the extreme southern part. At this elevation the snow.lay a few inehesdeep. We were about one mile in distance, and about seven hundred feet perpendicularly, below the' Pico del Frayle. At half-past eight o'clock . we reached that point. From it we could see the extreme peak about a thousand feet above us.. Leaving the Frayle, we followed for about two hundred yards the ridge on which it is situated ; then, quitting this ridge, we descended to the small valley, or rather ravine, which separates the ridge of the Pico from the next ridge towards the east, and followed this ravine to its head. This brought us to,the final as cent. The snow was now much above our knees, and this, with the extreme rarefaction of tLe air, caused our progre, , s to be very slow. It was not possible to walk more than twenty steps- without stopping to recover breath. We felt no difficulty or pain whatever iu b.cathing when not exerting ourselves. On reaching the final slope of which I have just spoken, we directed our steps towards - a black nick situated near the edge of the crater, about the mid dle of its south side. At about ten minutes past ten o'clrek, Lieut. Stone was standing on the edue of the crater, exulting with huzzas at his complete success: and before the mat of us had arrived he had already fastened the stars and stripes to his staff, and planted thetwon the Very loftiest peak of the mountain—the highest point of our continent. Mr. Ba.:gally arrived soon after, and placed close by the cross of St. George. NoW for a peep at the crater. It appears to be perfectly cylindrical in torrn, and nearly half a mile in diameter. The plane of its month inclines from the south to the north, making the northern side about sixty feet lower than the southern. Its depth is from six to eight hundred feet, and its sides are as perpendicular as the walls of a house. In its bot tom on the north side are fifteen or twenty chim nies, apparently about five feet high, and a foot in diameter a their mouths. From these these is con stantly emitted a dense yellowish smoke. The chimneys appear to be pure sulphur, and all that portion of the crater is covered with a crust of the same. From a great many crevices and fissures in the sides of the crater smoke and gaseous vapor ate ascending,. From some they pour in continuous streams--; from others they come in regular and sud den puffs, as though caused by water drip nine on, burning matter. The smoke which comes from the chimneys is generally so dissipated before it reaches the mouth of the crater that it is not dis tinctly perceived there : but I have on some occa sions seen it from the valley of Puebla ascending quite densely. There is an abominably suffocating stench of gasses about the crater The odor of sill phuretted hydrogen is the most distinct and unplea sant. r From many different circumstances, we all ae.reed in rejecting, as perfectly absurd, the idea ot any body's ever having descending by any means whatever to the bottom of this crater. The only foundation for such a story is Corter's statement that lie firrrured sulphur from a mountain that burn ed with fire and smoke. But as a mountain may mean any mountain, we are quite sure that Popo catapol was not the mountain. IVe had splendid views towards the east and north, but clouds had begun to accumulate around the mountain. and were hanging over the other quarters. We saw Orizaba very . plainly, and had it not been for heavy clouds flying about its sum mit, we believe we might have seen the Gult.— Our view of Mexico was intercepted by clouds, but we could see Puebla as if at our very feet.— The unpleasant effects of. thugases did not permit us to remain long on the edge of the crater, and a few miivites after eleven o'clock we commenced our descent, and at half past two were again at our camp, having been just twelve hours in accom plishing the ascent and descent. The thermome ter stood at 26 Fahrenheit on the highest peak— that is warmer by several degrees than it had been two thousand feet lower down on the day that we failed. • Others who have ascended to the crater were either less fortunate in their. route than we, or else they maguiffed the difficulties of the ascent Vastly; but we followed their descriptions exactly, and therefore, could not have gone far out of their way, They speak of having to pull themselves over crack: and precipices with ropes. We met with no such obstacles. My careless servant had lost my staff, and I went up without any assistance from anything or person. They did not encounter snow until after passing Fmvle; we tell upon it . nearly a thousand feet below, therefore we had more to contend with. They also give nearly double what we give as he dimensions of the crater. They calla nearly a mile wide, and twelve or fifteen hundred feet deep. We place both these dimensions at about one-half, and think it grand enough, without needing exag,,,,,,era lion. There are no traces or signs of the crater having undergone any material change for centuries back. The elevation of the crater above the valley of Mekico is about ten thousand feet. This is about equally divided by the parts above and below the limit of vegetation. Without being at all stunted in their character and appearance, the pines suddenly cease at about twelve thousand feet ; very good and luxuriant grass grows also to this point. Beyond , vegetation, and to about the line of eternal snow, is a belt of deep volcanic sand, and above the sued hard compact lava extends to tliti crater. The ele vation of the crater above the level of the sea is, according to variens measurements which have been made and which agree very closely, about 0%840 feet, The precautions that we had taken this time sav ed us from feeling any ill enissegnences,.; and we carne dewn unscathed and delighted. Although you are a yortag man deem it no dis grace to be Balled er thought modest. Modes'y is a jpwel—a aer!:—a diamond of the first water. Pity NUM - , IlPront thr Dpb.m lit trd EONO 07 THE PIKE--BY AN IRISH REBEL Great faith I have in Moral Force, • . Great trust in Thought and Pen; I know the value of Discourse, To sway the Minds of men; By why should words our frenzy whet, Unless we are to written Our Despot lords, who fea: l l%.:i tiWeat, But reverence the Pike! • Besides, the dialogue is slow— It hangs, and always hung; Where one man argues with a Blow, The other with his Tongue. The man Who talks to me with Swords, Guns, Bayonets, and the like, Should not complain IT, shunning'Words, / answer with the Pike.• A bard, when asked what earthly sound , All music else surpasses, Replied, with sophistry profound, • l'he tinkling of the glasses;" But on my ear another noise More rapturously strikes And may we hear it soon, my boys! The crashingof the Pikes. Oh! do be wise ! Leave Moral force, The strength of Thought and Pen; And all the value of Distourse, To lillydivered men ; But, if you covet nut to die or Hunger in a dike— If Life we prize, or Liberty— A PIKE. A flag.! A PIKE! THE BOAT OF LIFE. Lees take this world as some wild scene. Through which in frail but buoyant bu'at, With'skies now rude and now serene, Together thou and I must float ; Beholding oft, on either shore. Bright spots where we should love to stay ; But Time plies swift his flying oar, And on we speed—away, away. Should chi:ling winds and rain come on, Well rare our awning 'irainst the shower— Sit closer til the storm is gone, And smiling wall a sunnier hour; And if that sunnierhour should shine, Vt'ell know its brightness cannot stay, And happy, while 'iis thine and mine, Complain not when it fades away. Thus reach we hhth, at last, that fall Down which life's current all must go— The dark. the brilliant. destined all .To sink into the void below Nor e'en that hour shall want charms, If side by side still 'fond we keep, AIM calml% in each other's arms ' Together linked, go down the sleep. ONE Goon or Wxa.—lt is a settled maxim in Constantinople that war and the plague never visit that city at the same time: mid this is fuundeLl upon an experience of five centuries. which has never once contradicted the law. The good yussulmans tell you that this arises from the special regard of Allah Pn,l . lii4 prophet for the faithful worshipper:': and that in recompense [or their pmfession of Islam, the Turk% will never be.exposed to two.scourges at once. Another, if note Letter reason, may be found in physical or physiological science: and it is a rea- Solt not confined to the limits of the sacred Cifv.— •' Pestilence, '' says a profound writer, " is one of the natural and appointed agetrtgfor preventing ex cess of population, and for removing that portion of community which have fallen off from the 'Mir , stock of organized society, and are only cumberers of the soil, and nuisances of creation...lt is a destroy- nig mill purifying influence; generated out of evil ' which it is its mission to temove';. and never finding an origin or a support, but in those circumstances which require its action. War, in its physical oper atiOn, si an appointment for the same purpose : and, as there is no necessity for both 'at the same time, they seldom appeartogether. The pestilence' which have risen, from period to period, anartioved over the face of the worled, have' almost invariably apiteared in seasons of prosperity and peace. Du ring times of general collision among the European powers, those visitations have been withheld. II thesefacts be so, may we not hope that the .31e:cl ean war will prove an antidote to the cholera, and thus save the country from the terrors of a domestic enemy, more frightful than all the hosts of the south. A Nom. Dertscrios OF A 1r ASt tr.-t.ks the Yan kees are creating no little excitement in the com mercial, political and military world, I hope my definition of a real genuine male Yankee may not be considered 'zrt• :—A real genuine nation, guided by de'e-mination, and - supported by educa tion. He LT= ,veneration corrected by toleration. with a lore of self-approbation and emulation and when reduced to a state of aggravation can assume qIC most profound dissimulation for the purpose of relation always combined, if possible, with specula tion. A real live Yankee. just caught will be found deficient in the folloWing qualities : is self-de. Hying, self-relying, always trying, and intti.every thing prying. Ho i 8 a lover of piety, propriety, notoriety and the intemperance society. He is a dragging, gaging, brazing, striving, thriving, swap-: ping, jostling. wrestling, musical, quizziCal, astro nomical, poetical, philosophical sort at a characte r ; whose manifest destiny is spread civilization to the remotest corners or the earth, with an eyo alwaya on the look out for the main chance. PAYING. lions A Stxsc.a.-sevFra years ago; in North Carolina, where it is not customary for the tavern keepers to charge the ifthiisters for lodging and refreshments, a preacher presumingly- stopped at diavem one evening, ard fade himself com fortable during the night; in the morning entered the stago without offering to pay for his accom- . modations. 'I be landlord came running ttp to the stoge and said, " there ig ouch! there who has tint settled his UV—the pa.4eng!rs ill said•they had, except the preacher, who soil he understood that ho never charged ministers any thing. " What you' a miniSter. of the gospel, a man of God," cried the •• you came to toy house ha-t night you :satdowit at the table without asking-a blessing I lit you up to your room and you went .to bed without praying to your Maker,"(for I staid there until you undressed ;) you - lose and washed with out FaVin2 Zrner, and :V: vim cam() to my house Mii P.tr Nlr.rtirithc.—The ti@h inin who ern ployS meebanin does , net Oftiacys how Now F.)ltch inormvenience, toss of time and eipenk- he etpo- See,' him - to', by negiecting, to Eitty` an niiili,lptited bill, on prisentallan. Wfthnot going tne'tfttiP into the .abject, let us pmpose a very simple example. (1f rottstant occurrence. A mechanic undertakes a job '.Or which his honest clia.*r fifty dollars. It is clone to satisfactitth of his employer. He expects his pay on the presentation of his bill. *fly itottld he not rereivel it ? Ile has no' batik credit; he pays cash for talait. lle tins been .fe t week-Ran that job, with. tatiet tliftve cothanymen, besides furnishing the saw materials, phyin:g shop rent and other exitensh-6 comingencieS. hy should bt.' inked to ;rail six mon lei or a tear for his looney. He Most pay ins liands.on .. , :ittnedtty, • pro vide fur bites family during the week, pay for his work, and lay up sometfiis4 against rent day. Is it reasonable—is it just, that his ready employer should ask him to wail pay until his con venient-tithe; when cash is not scarce, when three der vent a' month is not to be bad on the loan of money that belongs to others, or which ought to be nppmpiat.6a to the psymeirt of honest debts, instead cif sleeping anti fisting at interest otiposl notes-iLor contributing to the artificial wants AT bis family--Or gratifying, a reckless spirit of speculation in visioitart• stocks? Is it righteous, is it just, that a matrof stiP -posed wealth slatobi do this, alai leave the honest hard working trieChanie to the Itet?...4s of small creditors, the importunities of journey men and the rapacity of usurious extortioners ?—certainly not. NcivseAprat.—A newspaper in a family i 3 worth ten driPlitrs s year. Even the moß= barren paper brings something new. Children read the &indents, gain intelligence of the important aflairsoftlie world, and acquire useful itnOwledge, of more importance to than in life than a present of fifty acres Parents REV not aware of the vast itriphttanee of newspaper in a family of children. Wq fdte made the remark before, and repeat it that take' two fetni its of children etpally smart, and going to the same school—let one of them have free use of a newspa per, anti it would excite astonishment to mark the i del ence between them. Full one-half of educa tion, as it respects. the business of the world, and the ability to rise and make one's self respectable in it. is 'derived from newspapers. / What parent wochl not. wish td see his children respectable I-- Would he be willing to have his neighbor's children more intelligent than his own Yet how _trifling is the sum a newspaper costa. . • It is eivti in hard times absolhtely ecmteMpti ble in amount, und no man ewer lett it except in us beneficial consequence who paid the subxription reptlarfy once a year Tilt: IlvinucLic Ilstm.—The object of the hydraul ic ram is to raise water above its natural level / which is('M - 6' by' a simple hydrostatic principle. If a liar of ii on be made tersurnd Upright, it will press xvith u hole wei;slit on the point , on which it rests; but if a column of water:tic poured down a perpen dicular tithe, it exerts a force not only downwards but laterally, so that it would have nymdenry. if the tube was closed at the' bottom, to expand the bottom of the tube into a globular fortn, by pressing on each side equally. If the tribe be very long it must be capable of resitting a great pressure at the lower end or it will burst. If now - a stnall pipe be made to connect wi(h' this tube st the bottom, and a stop cock be placed at or near the poiniof June lion, the pressure', of the water will be very-great at the plate where the stop co - . 1 is. If the Crock be suddenly opened so great is the pressure that a jet of water will rise in this pipe to a considerable dis tance alcove the top.of the: other pipe. If the cock be opened and shut successively, a continued stream is obtained from smaller pipe. This is the. simple pi loci* of the Water Ram.—ScientOc .4m. THE SPIRIT or REPCIRM.—There is a spirit abroad mighty for good or evil, a spirit of active inquiry-- of keen and iearchinz, investigation, which will be mocked by no palliatives, and: put aside by no ex cuses. It is like the'fire which, guided by intelli gence, %id controlled by a skillfiil hand, warms and cherishes and parities all things; bar, left to its own unguidcdoperations,.or in careleskhands, pro ceeds with overwhelming violence, and leaves.be hind it but wreck and desolation. Eii.s will be a glorious destirty L vslio boldly availing himself of this mighty agency, ilotermine bonsstly to do all that is right, and to do no more,. shall comic)! :and direct to its legitimate objects, this aytakened spirit, which if he be mad enough to seek to stem or impede, will sweep hint along, with its irresistible eurreut. • Mymmtiors RitriplEvery bialy has heard of 01 the old woman'srecipre for testing indigo: Sprin kle it in fine power, on a•pan of water ; and if it is goo/ it will either sink or swim, and I don't know which!" This infallible test reminds ns of the lowing. tare for feMinine melancholy. from "The Mountebank's Ilecipe 7 Book "If any lady bo sieke of the Sullens, she .knower not where, let her take a handful . of simples. I know not what, and use them, I know not, how, applying them to the Ogee vieved,:t know not which, and she shall be eukttl, I know not when !u - • • Tut: Citot.r.ax..—lp several district:tot the Trans caucasian region, espeCially at Tillis and its vicini ty, it was remarked last summer, shortly before the appearance of the epidemic, that the bees displayed a.prodigious activity. The gardens ,and me:alows we ere covered with them. They were met hi - large swarms, carrying, ti a booty, a quantity of honey and wax : but the moment the malady (*dared it sett they kept themselves concealer in their hives, which they had hermit:ally e'crwil with wax. It would interesting to IIFCCIWIII if the wane phe nomena was observed in the other parts of Rtrsia where the cholera prevailed. - Opinions like ram.oytders, am ra3lloweil by the ma- , of inat!t-ind. NVise ono , etiew them fie:tr.:lnd =M ? ' 1.; PF . WIMrII r Mice!lanwllf; !~ !MI
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