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LOOKING BACK.
Over the moor the wailing
Was floating like a kuell.
Its mournful music on the eat
Like solemn dirges fell; j
Then to the soul 'twould genfly wafl /
A musical retrain.
That touched a chord like tialt of so
Almost forgotten strain.
Although the wintery wind without
Was wailing rouud the d"<J,
The welcome firelight bright witha
Was dancing on the floor t
In silence deep an old man sft
Before the fire alone,
He noticed not the cheerful Jght,
Heard not the wild winds moan.
But with a deeply mournful hrajt,
He wandered o'er the past,
And many olden memories
Came thronging thick ardfat;
Before the altar now be stol,
A loved one by his side, !
And vowed to love and ehejslfcer,
His young and happy brtlc
He felt her hand within hU ox,
1 Her kiss upon his cheek.
I Until he almost lost his brat
To hear his loved one sp-ak
lie saw the lovelight of her ev
Like that of Heaven's hue,
The iove of one pure hear wfais,
A heart sincere and true.
With spirit bowed the po>r ona.
Looked back through biiuig ters
To other days that long tad pt
Within the-tomb of yetrs ;
He saw the old familiar lous;
♦ That stood beneath the hit
And o'er the windows lor itemt . j
The woodbine clainbend st.
He listened, and he fhoiijht lieal
The music ot the strean,
Along whose banks his dibit loed
To wander and to dreni j
And then he went his hen card >y,
The toils of the day wre *,
His children met him attheite,
His wife was at the dor.
The old clock struck—Ate elfin id gone,
The old man s dream tad owit
lie found he still must juri# ou ;
Life's weary way alot •; |
lie felt he'd meet his *' >ve<andosl?'
With them would we'a eowa
When he had passed avy firm e.rtV
His life star had gondowf.
CELESTIAL JUISPRUDBJCE.
t is possible to haMoo aneh f even so
god a tliiug as civiliziou. Tba'hinamen
isi ease in point. It not fair j call him
It U , i>o lack, butjoperfluitv
•iehtftnents ot tne frittfluu ailtT
%s the political degraded of his coun
f-
We Yankeee barbarians ke outfit to leave
Otnctbing to chance. Wefledtkfjinconven
/enee of this, and certain c* or—-i 1 foes or
our friends' foes having suflrecfrci a chance
tread—exclaim violently, Irik oj viciously,
against this "imperfection ,of thirs. It is
what lawyers, with a sharjjeye'ofees, have
fouomiuated "the gloriousince*ttity of the
law"—a very troublesome fiinf i the indi
vidual sometimes, bat resting mitly in the
geucral good.
Now China is a eountryfiaisliednd fenced
(or walled) in, and of cwtse notljg can be
left to ehance there. CelAial safe, philoso
phers, end emperors have J-en tinjriiig away
at die Chinese law-code tlfee nan centuries,
until the result is the Cliia of |e present
day. ! I
Chinese legislation is, a/najih/ supposed,
the most complicated, thcboit,
the most barbarous, and ie ni c 4 absurd im
aginalile. Its great aim > ttjfivde before
hand for all possible or (toneribic circum
stances of crime or misdlmeiuf Its rerults
are, acuruberons, unmanlgedf code ; uldue
legal interference in such fary and perronal
affairs as are best regulated public opiiion,
custom, and private consfe I; and fina.ly a
barbarous severity uudiugioas variety of
punishments.
|U ... The bamboo is the ftroc punishment of
the Celestials. An old tfaier says : 'Of a
surety here men be al*vys eating or leing
beaten." In fact, th;se arthe two alttrna
tives in Celestial life. A (inaman's rise in
the world is just this—fonjeiugthe recipient
of the bamboo to being! itiadministrator. —
The viceroy bamboos t e nawhrins, these
•wmboo the inferior offic s.biseju turn bara
the common people e'en the last
Scwn e e ' a tory privili ;a for he hosband
-boos his wife, and t fatheriis son—no
matter what his age.
The chapter of accide s is lamlJtably small
among the Celestials, "( be sie, a China
tuau may break his wat jar or iekle pot, or
ev, - >r j bis leg or neck, wist beaming liable
W the bamboo. But thaiceroy if the prov
ince is personally responllc fo all beyoud
' !ese minor mischances. If a co Igration oc
'"r *'thin his jursidictioifit ista in for grant
that he has not exercisfl sutfu nt vigilance
r. Vei ' straw-thatched its of is subjects.
0 'he eroj {'ail ? His ;old-bitoned Exoel-
CJK-y u degraded : for In lie tain care, this
U ( 'U . 1101 of happened. toes apnnsual fall
Off IU cause river t overfld its banks ?
I l? 0^0 but n—anoberhaps the
beneath ; for was >t its o*r appoiut-
C ro y expressly to j eteut di der ?
Moreover, tne high o| cials ho their in
d'ors et i ua "y rcßjKß-;ibl for the i ety of the
in^t triJeDtß um * er tbeir < tm. TLt agjstrutes
rmmci U{,oD subordiuit police ore severe
lina]|p' m t at n l bey thfimelves r live ; aud,
the 1,:.', f ! c Ce , leStial I >Qc * na * 3 isits upon
- { 5 of the families utdcr his barge the
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transgressions of their wives, children do*-*
pigs, and ducks. ° '
The penal code of China is arranged under
no less than fifteen hundred and fifty-seven
h- ads. The punishments are barbarous and in
discriminating in the extreme. For treason,
not ouly the criminals but their families are
punished. Mandarins are degraded, stripped
of their riches, forced to do menial offices, or
bambooed.
The manner of administering justice in
China is exceedingly summary. For the ac
cused there is scarce any protection. The or
dinary tribunals have but one judge. The
accused remains on his knees during the entire
period of his trial. If a witness displeases the
mandarin who acts as judge, he also is whipped
and cuffed till his answers are more in accord
ance with his Honor's opinion of the case.
Thieves and rioters—as disturbers of the
natural and quiet order of things—are very
severely punished in China. Fines, the bastin
ado, blows on the face with thick pieces of
leather, the cangue or porable pillory, the iron
cage, in which the unfortunate prisoner is con
fined in a crouching position, perpetual exile,
and death by stranguh.fc on or decapitation—
these are the varijus grades of punishment in
flicted.
It may be curious to glance for a moment
at a few of tbe Chinese laws. The Celestials
are great office-seekers. They must at one
time have carried the matter to excess, per
haps worried to death some poor Emperor.
According to a law at present in force, it is
considered treasonable to send tc the Emperor
any recommendation of a third person to office
or honors. Death is the punishment for such
offense. Also, it is a punishable offense to
use in any address the name of the Emperor,
or to throw stones at the Imperial residence,
or to assume the Imperial name. The bamboo
cleanses of these offences. The bamboo, too,
is applied to the judge who has rendered a
mistaken verdict. But death is the portion of
that official who has (by accidentjsealcd a
mandarin's letter wrongly.
For fear that, after all the existing and
prospective laws and sub-laws, there should
still be eases which not even Chinese wis
dom could foresee, the following law is enact
ed.
"Whoever shall observe a line of conduct
which offends propriety, and which is contrary
to the spirit of the laws, ecen icit/wul any spe
cial infractions of any of their enactments, shall
be punished with forty blows, or eighty if the
impropriety be very great."
Of course this iucludes every body ; and
there is, therefore, no case in which a mnndaj
riu may not consistently administer the bam
boo, to the extent of at least from forty to
eighty blows.
To contumacious witnesses and to suspected
robbers the Chinese officials are severe. M.
lluc, one day on the road to Pekin, met a
party of soldiers, with an officer at their head
escorting a number of carts, in which were
literally piled up a crowd of Chinese who
were uttering horrible cries. Says he : "We
were seized with horror on perceiving that
I "*"] —:t^ re s were uaiied by the
fiahd'tb Tiie planks of the cart. A satelite
whom we interrogated replieif with frightful
coolness : "We've been routing oat a nest of
thieves. We had not chains enough to secure
all, and were thus obliged to contrive some
plan to prevent their escape. So you see we
nailed them by the hands." This fellow
thought it a very ingenious contrivance.
The Celestial's regulations concerning mar
riage are very strict. It is forbidden to nar
ry during "the period set of mourning" the
death of u father or mother. It is forbidden to
marry a person bearing the same name, or one
guilty of crime, or a musician, or au actor, or
a Widow, whose former husband has distinguish
ed bims If The inevitable bamboo is the
punishment for transgressions of these laws.—
Parties safely married, who cannot agree to
g•( her, may separate. Divorces are also grant
ed for the following causes : sterility, immo
rality, contempt of the husband's father or
mother, projiensity to slander or theft, a jeal
ous temper, or habitual ill health. A man is
allowed to have, but one wife by law, and the
law punishes him with eighty blows of the
bamboo for every aditional wife lie brings
home. The secondary wives—of whom there
are a great plenty —have no rights whatever.
The children of the legitimate wife wear no
mourning for tlicm at their death. But if
they should omit the mourning dress upon the
demise of their own mother, the inevitable
bamboo would be administered. The China
man takes care to use all the liberty left him
by the innumerable laws. His legitimate wife
hi dare not put away except for causts spc i
lied above. His additional wives the law does
not recognize, aud he therefore treats them as
he pleases.
Robbers are tortured. One of the modes
of torture is this : The culprit is suspended by
the wrists and heels to two ropes hanging from
the ceiling of the court room. His body is
thus thrown into the form of a bow. Beneath
stand executioners, with rattan canes and
stout leather straps. These are applied with
might and main to the body vibrating above.
Parricides are subjected to the torture of
the kuife. This is indicted thus : The execu
tioner takes out at random, a kuife, from a
basketful of these instruments. Each knife
bears the name of some portion of the body.—
This portion is cut off, and another knife
drawn out. The victim sometimes liugers
long under horrible tortures.
Next to the bamboo in frequency of appli
cation is the atngicc, or walking pillory, of
which a representation is given with this ar
tide. This is a heavy wooden frame, divided
iuto two parts, but connected at one side with
a hinge, aud (when shut up) fastened ou the
other side by a screw or bolt. In the centre
of this frame is a hole— i e," a semi-circular
piece is cut out of the internal sides of each
portion of the machine, BO that when closed a
circular aperture appears. In this aperture
the neck of the culprit is inclosed, so that it
forms, as it were, a huge collar ; aud when hi?-
hands are caught up in two small boles, one
at cacb side of the larger one his misery is
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complete. The fastening of the machine is
sealed by the committing mandarin, a paper con
taining the record of the poor wretch's crimes is
posted 011 the frame, and he is sent forth to
wander. Or, rather, he is sent forth at the
end of a chain, to be trailed by an official
every morning, into some public place—there
to stand, only too happy if there be be a good
comfortable wall to recline agaiust till night
comes, and he is led back to the jail. The
horror of the punishment consists in this : that
the cangue weighs from sixty to two hundred
pounds ; and it is sometimes never taken from
the culprit's neck for six month. It is com
monly worn for several weeks.
\\ here a number of criraiuals are to be exe
cuted at once they are brought to the scene
of death in wicker cages, out of which they
are emptied, just as a brutal fellow would
throw a pig out of a similar receptacle.—
W hen there is*but one culprit, he is generally
made an example of being led to the execution
place on foot. A flat lath, or strip of wood,
which is attached to his neck in such a man
ner as to project above his head, bears, in
Chinese characters, a description of his
crimes.
If he is to be decapitated, the victim is
compelled to kneel. The executioner's assis
tants then seize him from behind, passing their
arms beneath his, and giving him a swinging
movement. This causes him to stretch out
his neck. The executioner stands, in front,
holding his sword in both hands. Using ali
his strength, the sword descends up the out
stretched neck. A second blow is never need
ed, travelers tell us. "At every three or four
blows the executioner changed his sword,
which seemed to grow dull. The execution of
fifty-three poor wretches only lasted a few
minutes."
A more cruel punishment is the collar by
means of which the victim is garroted. He is
firmly attached to a cross, his feet and arms
being fastened by cords, and his tail or queue
serving to secure his head. A cord is then
passed about the neck, and gradually tighten
ed by means of a lever, at the back of the
cross till the sufferer expires. In the extrem
ity of his agony t lie blood gushes from mouth,
ears, nose, and eyes.
Finally the head is cut off, placed an open
cage, and hoisted to the top of a high pole, as
a warning to the public. The malefactor's
children are also brought to view the head of
their sire. Near the towns, and where rob
bers abound, and often fifty or sixty of these
heads, in all stages of decomposition, are lmng
up by the road side.
A RUINED CITY.
Petra, the excavated city, the long lost
capital of Edom, in the scriptures and profane
writings, in every language in which its name
occurs, signifies a rock, and through the sha
dows of its early history we learn that its in
habitants lived in natural clefts or excavations
made in the solid rock. Desolate as it is, we
have reason to believe that it goes back to
the time of Esau, the " father of Edom that
princes and dukes, eight successive kings, and
again a long line of dukes dwelt there before
any king " reigned in Israel and we recog
nized it from the earliest ages as the central
point to which came the caravans from the in
terior of Arabia, Persia, and India, laden with
all the precious commodities of the East, and
from which these commodities were distribut
ed through Egypt, Palestine, and Syria, and
all the comers bordering on the Mediterrane
an, even Tyre and Sidon, deriving their pur
ple and dyes from Petra. Eight hundred
years before Christ, Atnaziah, the King of Ju
dea, " slew of Edom in the valley of Salt, ten
thousand, and took Selah (the Hebrew name
of Petra) by war." Three hundred years af
ter the last of the prophets, and nearly a cen
tury before the Christian era, the "King of
Arabia " issued from his palace at Petra, at
the head of fifty thousand ineu, horseaud foot,
entered Jerusalem, and, uniting with the Jews,
pressed the seige of the temple, which was on
ly raised by the advance of the ltomaus ; and
in the beginning of the second century, though
its independence was lost, Petra was still the
capitol of a Roman province. After that
time it rapidly declined ; its history became
more obscure. For more than a thousand
years it was completely lost to the civilized
world ; and until its discovery by liurckhead
in 1812, except to the wandering Bedouin, its
very site was unknown.
Anil this was the city at whose door I
stood. In a few words this ancient and ex
traordinary city is situated within a natural
amphitheatre of two or three miles in circum
ference, encompassed on all sides by rugged
mountains five or six hundred feet in height.
The whole of this area is a waste of ruins
dwelling-houses, palaces, temples, and trium
phal arches, all prostrate together in undistin
guishable confusion. The sides of the moun
tains are cut smooth, in a perpendicular direc
lion, and tilled with long and continued ran
ges of dwelling housts, temples and tombs, ex
cavated with vast labor out of the solid rock ;
and while their summits present nature in her
wildest and most savage form, their bases are
adorned with ail the beauty of architecture
and art, with columns and porticos, and pedi
ments, and ranges of corridors, enduring as
the mountains of which they are hewn, and
fresh as if the work of a generation that had
scarcely yet gone by.
Iu front of the great temple, the pride and
beauty of Petra—of which more hereafter—
-1 saw a narrow opening in the rocks exactly
corresponding with my conception of the ob
ject which I was seeking A full stream of
water was gushing through it, and filling up
the whole mouth of the passage. Mounted
ou the shoulders of one of my lledouins, I got
uim to carry me through the swollen stream
at the mouth of the opening, and set me down
on a dry place a little above, whence I began
to pick my way, occasionally taking to the
houlders of my followers, and continued to ad
vauce more than a mile. I was, beyond all
peradventure, iu the great entrance I was seek
ing. There could not be two such, and !
should have gouc on to the extreme end of
the ravine, but my Bedouin suddenly refused |
me the further use of his shoulders. ' He had
been some time objecting and begging ine to 1
return, and now positively refused to go any j
further, and in fact, turned about himself. I j
was anxious to proceed, but I did not like ;
wading up to my knees in the water, nor did-1
I feel very resolute to go where I might ex- j
pose myself to danger, as he seemed to iuti- j
mate.
\\ liile I was hesitating another of my men
came running up to the ravine, and shortly af
ter him Paul and the chief, breathless with
haste, and crying in low gutterals, " El Arab!
el Arab !" The Arabs ! the Arabs ! This
was enough for me. I had heard so much of
cl Arab that I had become nervous. It was
like the cry of Delilah in the ears of the sleep
ing Samson : " The Philistines be upon thee."
At the other end of the ravine was an encamp
ment of the el Alouins ; and the sheik, having
due regard to my communication about money
matters, had shunned this entrance to avoid
bringing me the horde of tribute gatherers
for a participation in the spoils. Without
any disposition to explore farther, I turned to
wards the city ; and it is now that I began to
feel the powerful and indelible impression that
must be produced on entering through this
mountainous passage, the excavated city of
Petra.
For about two miles it lies between high
and precipitous ranges of rocks, from five hun
dred to a thousand feet in height, standing as
if torn asunder by some great convulsion, and
barely wide enough for two horsemen to pass
abreast. A swelling stream rushes between
them ; the summits are wild and broken ; in
some places overhanging the opposite sides,
casting the darkness of night upon the narrow
defile, then receding and forming an opening
above through which a strong ray of light is
thrown down, and illuminates with the blaze
of day the frightful chasm below.
Wild fig trees, oleanders, and ivy were grow
ing out of the rooky sides of cliffs hundreds of
feet above our heads ; the eagle was scream
ing above us; all along were the open doors
of tombs, forming the great Necropolis of the
city ; and at the extreme end was a large open
space, with a powerful body of light thrown
down upon it, and exhibiting, in one full view
the facade of a beautiful temple hewn out of
the roek, with rows of Corinthian columns and
ornaments standing out fresh and clear, as if
but yesterday from the hands of the sculptor.
Though coming directly from the banks of the
Nile, where the preservation of the temples
excites the admiration and astonishment of
of every traveler, we were roused and excited
by the extraordinary beauty and excellent con
dition of the temple at Petra.
Eveji in coming npon it as we did, at dis
advantage, 1 remember that Paul, who was
a passionate admirer of the arts, when he first
obtained a glimpse of it, involuntarily cried
out, and, moving on to the front with a vivaci
ty 1 never saw liiin exhibit before or after
wards, clapped his hands and shouted in ecs
stacy. To the last day of our being together
he was in the habit of referring to his extra
ordinary fit of enthusiasm when he first came
upon that temple ; an 1 I can well, imagine
that, entering by the narrow defile, with the
feelings roused by its extraordinary aud roman
tic wilduess and beauty, the first view of that
superb facade must prove an effect, which
could never pass away. Even now that I have
returned to the pursuits and thought-engross
ing incidents of a life in the busiest city in the
world, often in situations as widely different
as night from darkness, I see before me tne
facade of that temple. Neither the Coliseum
at Rome, grand and interesting as it is, nor
the ruins of the Acropolis at Athens, nor the
Pyramids, nor the mighty temples of the Nile,
are so often present to my memory.
Leaving the temple and the open area on
which it fronts, and following the stream, we
entered another defile much broader than the
first, on each side of which were ranges of
tombs with sculptured doors and columns ;
and on the bottom of the mountains, hewn oui
of the solid rocks, is a large theatre, circular
in form, the pillars in front falling, and con-'
taining thirty-three rows of seats capable of,
containing more than three thousand persons. I
Above the corridor was a range of don's open
ing to chambers in the rock, til seats of the
princes and wealthiest inhabitants of Petra,
and not like a row of private boxes in a mod
ern theatre.
The whole theatre is at this day in such a
state of preservation that if the tenants of the
tombs could once more rise into life they might
take their places on its seats and listen to the
declamation of their favorite prayer. To me
the stillness of a ruited city is nowhere so im
pressive as when sitting on the steps of its
theatre, once thronged with the gay and plea
sure-seeking, now given up to solitude and
desolation. Day after day these seats have
! o -n filled, and the :iew sileut rocks had echo
ed to the applauding shouts of thousands, and
little could an ancient Edomitc imagine that a
stranger from a then unknown would one day
be wandering among the ruins of the proud
and wonderful city, meditating upon the fate
of a race that lias for ages passed away.—
Where arc ye, inhabitants of this desolate day?
you who once sat on the seats of this theatre
—the young, the high-born, the beautiful and
the brave—who once rejoiced in your riches
aud power, and lived as if there was nograve?
where are ye now ? Even the very tombs
whose open doors a-e stretched away in long
ranges before the eyes of the wandering tra
veler, cannot reveal the mystery of your doom,
your dry bones are gone, the robbers have in
vaded your graves, and your ashes have been
, swept away to make room for the wandering
! Arab of the desert.
But we need not stop at the days when a
gay population crowded this theatre. In ear
liest periods of recorded time, long before this
theatre was built, aud long before the tragic
name was known, a great city stood here, when
Esau, haviug sold his birth-right for a mess of
pottage, came to his garden amoug the moun
tains of Teir and Edom, growing in power
and strength, became presumptuous and haugh
ty, until, in her pride, when Israel prayed a
passage through her country, Edora said unto
Israel, " thou shalt not pass by me, lest I
come out against thee with the sword."
Amid all the terrible denunciations against
the land of Iduruea, " her cities and the inhabi
tants thereof," this proud city among the
rocks, doubtless for its extraordinary sins, was
always marked as a subject of extraordinary
vengeance. " I have sworn by myself," saith
the Lord, " that Bozrah (the strong or forti
fied city) shall become a desolation, a reproach,
and a waste, and a curse, and all the cities
thereof shall be a perpetual waste. Lo, I will
make thee small among the heathen and des
pised among men. Thy terribleness hath de
ceived tlice, and the pride of thy heart, oil
thou that (lweliest in the clefts of the rocks,
that boldest the height of the hill, though
thou sliouidst make thy nest as high as the
eagle, I will bring thee down from thence,
saitli the Lord. They shall call the nobles
thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be
there, and all her princes shall be nothing, and
thorns shall eome up in her palaces, nettles and
brambles in the fortress thereof, and it shall
be a habitation for dragons and a court for
owls."
I would that the skeptic could stand, as I
did, among the ruins of this city among the
rocks, and there open the sacred book and
read the yords of the inspired penman, writ
ten when this desolate place was one of the
greatest cities in the world. I sec the scoffer
arrested, his cheek pale, his lip quivering, and
his heart quaking with fear as the ruined ci
ty cries out to him in a voice loud and power
ful as that of the risen from the dead. Though
he would not believe Moses and the prophets
he believes the hand writing of God himself
in the desolation and eternal ruin around him.
Steve its' Travels.
IIKADIXO ONE'S OWN OBITUARY. —The ten
ure of the Major Generalship of Massachusetts,
that of a good many offices in that ancient
Commonwealth, is for life or during good be
havior. The Bostou Transcript says that one
of the former lived so long that a wicked wag,
at his reported death, gave, as a sentiment at
a public dinner : " The memory of our late
Major General—may he be eternally reward
ed in heaven for his everlasting service on
earth." Judge of the surprise of the author
ot this toast, on learning, the next day, that
the report was false, and the veteran officer
still lived.
This reminds i-s of an oceutr met that took
place in the same State years ago. In the
days of old Mycall the publisher of the Ncw
buryport Herald, (a journal still alive and
flouiLhing) the sheriff of old Essex, Philip
Hugely, hud/ieen asked several times to pay
his arrears of subcription. At last he told
Mycall that lie would certainly " hand over"
the next morning as sure as lie lived. "If you
don't get your money to morrow, you may be
sure I aiu dead," said he.
The morrow came and passed, but no mon
ey, of the sh i ffs 1 c ings when on the
morning of the day after, lie opened the Her
ald, and saw announced the lamented decease
of Philip Bagley, Kq., High Sheriff of the
county of Es a ~ wth an obituary notice at
tuehed, giving tbe disease credit for a good
many excellent traits of character, but adding
that lie had one fault very much to be deplor
ed—he was not punctual iu paying the priu
tcr.
Bagley, without waiting for his breakfast,
started for the Herald office. On the way it
struck liiin as siugular that none of the many
friends and acquaintance he met seemed to be
surprised to see him. Tuey must have read
their morning paper. Was it possible they
eared so little about him as to have forgotten
already that he was no more ? Full of per
turbation, he entered the printing office to d J
ny that he was dead, iu propria prrsona.
" Why Sheriff'!" exclaimed the facetious
editor, " I thought yon were defunct."
" Defunct !" exclaimed the sheriff. "What
put that idea into your head ?"
" Why yourself!" said Mycall. " Did you
not tell me "
"Oil ! nli ! I see," stammered out the sher
iff " Well ! there's your money ! And now
contradict the report in tiie next paper, if you
please.''
" That's not neceessary. friend Bagley,"
said the old joker ; " it teas only printed in
you r copy!"
The good sheriff lived many years after this
"sell," and to the day of his real death al
ways took good care to pay the printer !
2V. O. Picayune.
ESTABLISHING; AV ILElß. —lion. I*.— K, lute
Prolate Judge of a neighboring county, was
w itcd upon o:;e warm aftern ton by a bu.v m
matron with a child in her arms, whose busi
ness was, as she
Mr. K. being a polite man, intimated his read
iness to learn her wishes. " Now," said she
hushing her baby, and squaring heself for a
regular talk, " you see, Judge, my husband
was a forehanded man, and left n good farm
well stocked, and just because I am a lone
woman in the world, his relations are going to
throw out -all but my third. Now, Lawyer
told me, some time ago, that if there
was an heir, he would take it all and I should
be his guardian."
" How long since your husband died 1" ask
ed the Judge. " About thirteen months,"
was the reply. " And how old is'the child ?"
" Four weeks, was the answer. " I am
afraid this enso is beyond mv jurisdiction,"
said the Judge, " you had better go back to
Squire ." " But," said the woman,
" if yonr Probate Court cau't establish an
heir, what is it good for
Kgc Boy with ragged trowscrs and rimless
chip hat, runs into Dr. Fuller's drug store with
a dipper in his hand : "Doctor, mother sent
me down to the shottacary pop quickern'n bla
zes, cos bub's sick as the dickens with the pip
euchox, and she wants a thimbleful of pollygollic
in this tipper, cos we hadn't hot a gottle and
kiut pup's got the bine witters in it. Got
any P
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VOL. XVIII. NO. 1.
WOMAN'S LAUGH.—A v.Oman has uo natu-
I ral grace more bewitching than a sweet laugh.
It is like the sound of Antes on the water.—
It leaps from her heart in a clear, sparkling
rill, aud the heart that, hears it feels as if bath*
ed in the cool, exhilarating spring. Have
you ever pursued an unseen fugitives through
trees, led on by her fuiry laugh, 'now there,
now lost, now found? \Ve have. And wo
are pursuing that wandering voice to this day.
Sometimes it comes to us in the midst of care,
or sorrow, or ii ksome business ; and then we
turn nwuy and listen, and hear it ringing
through the room like a silver bell, with po
wer to scare away the ill spirits of the mind.
llow much we owe to that sweet laugh I It
turns the prose of our life into poetry, it flings
showers of sunshiue over the darksome wood
in which we are traveling, it touches with light
even our sleep, which is no more the image of
death, but is consumed with dreams that are
shadows of immortality.
THE FINNISH WOMAN' ON* " Kissivo."—
Speaking of the Finns, in his last letter to
the Tribune, Bayard Taylor says that " while
both sexes freely mingle in a state of nature,
while the woman unhesitatingly scrub, rub and
drv their husbands, brothers or mala friends,
while the salutation for both sexes is an em
brace with the right arm, a kiss is considered
grossly immodest and improper. A Finnish la
dy expressed her astonishment and horror, at
hcuriug that it. was a very common thing in
Kugland for husband and wife to kiss each
other. "If my husband should attempt such
a thing," said she, I would beat him about the
ears so that he should feel it for a week."
PERMANENT VALUE OF KNOWLEDGE. — One
of the most agreeable consequences of knowl
edge is the respect and which it communicates
to old age. Men rise in character as often as
they increase in years ; they are venerable
from what have acquired, and pleasing for
what they can impart. If they outlive their
faculties, the mere frame itself i 9 respected
for what it once contained ; but wornau (such
is their unfortunate style of education,) haz
ards everything on one cast of the die ; when
youth is gone, all is gone. No human crea
ture gives his admiration for nothing ; either
the eye must be charmed or the understand
ing gratified. A woman must talk wisely or
look well. Fvery human being mast put up
with the coldest civility, who has neither the
charms of youth, nor the wisdom of age
tt&cA sick man, slightly convalescing, re
cently imagined himself to be engaged in con
versation with a pions friend, congratulating
him upon his recovery, and asking him who
his physician was, he replied ; "Dr. brought
me through." " Xo, no," said his friend,
"God brought you out of your illness, not tfte
doctor." "Well," he replied, "maybe he did;
but I am certain that Ihedoctor "will charge
mc for it."
Sr*f lie content as long as your mouth is
full and body covered ; remember the jioor ;
kiss the pretty girls ; dou't rob your neigh
bor's hen roost ; never piek an editor's pock
et, nor entertain au idea that he is goiug to
treat ; kiek dull care to the deuce ; black
your own boots ; sew on your own buttons ;
and lie sure and take a paper and pay for it.
Good practical advice.
THE SOUND OI SUXSF.T. —On the arrival of an
emigrant ship, some years ago, when the North
Carolina laid off the iiattery an Irishman
hearing the gun fired at suuset iuqured of one
of the sailors what that was ?
"What's that?"
Why, that's suuset! was the contemptuous
reply.
" Sunset ?" exclaimed Paddy, with disten
ded eyes ; "sunset! Oil Moses, and does the
sun go down in this country with such a clap
as that.— Porter's Spirit.
A young ladv returning late from the
opera, as it was raining, ordered the coach
man to drive close to the side walk, but was
st'll unable to step across the gutter ; "I can
lift you over it," said conchy. "Oh no," said
the miss, "I am too iicavy. "I.or mist,' re
plied John, "I am used to lifting barrels of su
gar." We wonder if it was John Dean per
petrated the above.
' II K.II PRICE or SLAVES. —SIave property is
now very high, ami rapidly increasing in value.
This is an evidence that the supply is wholly
inadequate to the demand. At the present
rate of increase, slave labor will soon be far
the most expensive that can be obtained. A
slave paper says that "at a recent sale of
slaves iu Fayette, Mo., a boy twenty four years
of age brought $1,550, aud a woman, with?
throe children, $2,350."
A GREAT FAVORITE. —"Your hnsband seems
to be a very great favorite among the ladies,"
said Mrs. Jones to Mrs. Butterwood, theotlur
day. "Yes," said Mrs. IF, "but for the life of
me, I dou't see where they find anything to
like—l never could."
BUT A donkey with salt was crossing a
brook. The water diluted the salt, and light
ened the burden. He communicated his dis
covery to a brother donkey, laden with wool.
The latter tried the same experiment, and
fouml his load double its weight.
JfeyAn Irishman observing a daudy taking
I his usual promenade in Broadway, stepped np
| to him ami inquired: "How much rent do
| you ask for those houses "What do you
; ask that for ?" "Faith aud I thought the
whole street belonged to ye."
yy Go it strong when you advertise—
business is like architecture—its bett suppor*
i rs art in columns.