tf DOLLAR PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. TOWANDA: Thursday Morning, September 30, 1858. js clttftb soetrj. INDIAN SUMMER. There is a time, just when the frost Prepares to pave old Winter's way, When Autumn, in a reveiie lost, The mellow daytime dreams away ; When Summer comes, in musing mind, To gaze once more nn hill and dell, To mark how many sheaves they bind, And see if all are ripened well. With balmy breath she whispers low, The dying flowers iook up and give Their sweetest incense, ere they go, For her who made their beauties live. She enters 'neavh the woodland's shade ; Her zephyrs lift the lingering leaf, And bear it gently where are laid The loved and lost ones > f its grief. At last, old Autumn, rising, takes Again his sceptre and his throne ; With boisterous hand the tree he shakes, Intent on gathering all his own. Sweet Summer, sighing, flies the plain, And waiting Winter, gaunt and griin, Sees mi-vr Autumn hoard his grain, And smiles to think it's all tor him. .AUTUMN. BY LONGFELLOW. There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Ju mellow richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of richest dyes, Pouring new glory on the autumn woods, And dipping in warm light the pillared clouds. Morn, on the mountain, like a summer bird. Lifts up the purple wing ; and in the vales The gentle wind—a sweet and passionate wooer— Kis-es the blushing leaf, and stirs up life Within tlie solemn woods of ash deep-crimsoned, And silver beech, and maple yellow-leaved,— Where Autumn, like a l'uint old man, sits down By the way-side a weary. Thr ugh the trees The golden robiu moves ; the purple (inch, That on w..d cherry and red cedar feeds, — A winter bird,—comes with its plaintive whistle, And pecks by the witch-hazel: whilst aloud, From cottage roofs, the warbling blue-bird sings ; And merrily, with oft-repeated stroke, Sounds froui the threshiug-floor the bu*y flail. Miscellaneous. BULWER ON THE DESTRUCTION OP JERUSALEM. A few weeks ago Sir E. Bulwer Lytton de livered a lecture in Lincoln, which citv he has for several years represented in Parliament, on the early history of Eastern nations. He gave an outline of the history ot the Babylonian, Assyrian, Persian, Egyptian, Greek and Jew ish nations, and closed with the following pow erful and dramatic de-cripiiou of the destruc tion of Jerusalem by Titus: '"Six years after the birth of our Lord, Ju ries and Samaria became a Roman province, under subordinate governors, the uio>l famous of whom was Pontius Pilate. These govern ors became so oppressive that the Jews broke out into relielliou ; and seventy years after Christ, Jerusulem was finally beseiged hy Ti tus, afterwards Emperor of Rome. No tra iled)' on the stage has tho sauie scenes of up palling terror as are to he found in the history of this seige. The city itself was rent by fac tions at the deadliest war with each other— all the elements of civil hatred had broke loose —the streets were slippery with the blood of citizens—brother slew brother—the granaries were set on fire—famine wasted those whom the sword did not slay. In the midst of ihese civil massacres, the Roman armies appeared before the walls ot' Jerusalem. Tnen for a short time the rival factions united against the common foe; they were again the gallant coun trymen of David and Joshua—they sallied forth and scattered t lie eagles of Rome. But this triumph was brief; the ferocity of the ill ■ ited Jews soon again wasted itself on each °ther. And Titos marched on —encamped his armies close by the walls—and from the heights the Roman general gazed with awe ou the btreogth and splendor of the city of Jehovah Let us here pause—and take, ourselves, a mournful glance at Jerusalem, as it then was The city was fortified by a triple wall save on i °ne side, where it was protected by deep and ravines. These walls, ot the most solid masonry, were guarded by strong towers: opposite to the loftiest of these towers Titus ■ad eucamped. From the height of that tower ■he sentinel might have seen stretched below the whole of that fair territory of Judea, about to pass from the countrymen of David. With 'o these walls was the palace of kings—its roof of cedar, its doors of the rarest marbles, 'U chambers filled with the costliest tapestries, M vessels of gold and silver. Groves and gardens gleaming with fountains, adorned with f-tatues of bronze, divided the courts of the Haee itself. But high above all, upon a pre t'pi'ous rock, rose the temple, fortified and ailoriied hy Solomon. This temple was as •strong without as a citadel—within more adorned thou a palace. Ou entering, you br- i '" 'd porticos of numberless columns of por- ; Rbyrv, marble and alabaster; gates adorned i W| lh gold and silver, among which was the ! w °"derful gate called the Beautiful. Further H through a vast arch, was the sacred portal w d[-'!i admitted into the interior of the temple sheeted over with gold, and over mng by a v j ne (ree g o | ( j i the branches of * '.eh were as large as a man. The roof of j ' € temple, even on the outside, was set over | S°lden spikes, to prevent the birds set- i '"g there aud defiling the holy dome. At a 'stance, the whole temple looked like a mount . A, 10 *' fretted with golden pinnacles. But 1 the veil of that temple had been rent by '• "'"Wpiaole crime, and the Lord of Hosts til "® l fight with Israel. But the enemy is uodering at the wall. All around the city use lmoicafe machines, from which Titos THE BRADFORD REPORTER. poured down mighty fragments of rock, and showers of stones. Toe walls gave way—the city was entered —the temple itself was storm ed. Famine in the meanwhile had made such havoc, that the beseiged were more like spec tres than living men; they devoured the belts of their sw. rds, the sandals to their feet.— Even nature itself so perished away, that a mother devoured her own infant; fulfilling the awful words of the warlike prophet who had fir>t led the Jews towards the land of promise —"The tender and delicate woman amongst you, who would not adventure to set the sole ot her foot ujon the ground for delicateness and tenderness—her eye shall be evil toward her young one and the children that she shall bear, for she shall eat them for want of all things, secretly, in the seige and straitness wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee at thy gates." Still, as if the foe und famine was not scourge enough, citizens smote and mur dered each other as they met in the way— false prophets ran howling through the streets —every image of despair completes the ghastly picture of the fall of Jerusalem. And now the temple was on fire, the Jews rushiug through flames to perish amidst its ruins It was a calm summer night—the 10th of August; the whole hill on which stood the temple was one gigantic blaze of tire—the roofs of cedar crashed—the golden pinnacles of the dome were like spikes of crimson flame. Through the lurid atmosphere all was carnage and slaughter; the echoes of shrieks and yells rang back from t lie Ilill of Zion and the Mount of OilVt s. Amongst the smoking ruins, and over piles of dead, Titus planted the standard of Rome. Thus were fulfilled the last avenging prophecies—thus perished Jerusalem. In that dreadful day, men still were living who might have heard the warning voice of him they cru cified—' Verily I say unto you all, these things shall come upon this generation. * * * O Jerusalem, Jerulusem, thou that killest the prophets and ston st them that are sent unto thee, * * * behold your house is left unto you desolate!' And thus w. re the Hebrew people scattered over the face of the earth, still retaining to this hour their mysterious identity—still a living proof of those prophets they had scorned or slain—still vainly await ing that Messiah, whose divine mission was fulfilled eighteen centuries ago, upon Mount Calvary." A COMFORTABLE ESTABLISHMENT. —A corres pondent of tiie New York Independent tiius describes the domain of the Duke of Devon shire, at Chatsworth: " The domain of the Duke of Devonshire would occupy oie of our largest counties.— The park immediately surrounding the palace is eleven miles in circumference, and contains three thousand acres. The principal garden lor vegetables, fruits, green-houses, etc., is twenty live acres. There are thirty green houses, each from fifty to seventy five feet long \V r e went ium three or 'our containing nothing hut pine-apples, ripe; others contained nothing hut melons and cncumh rs. One peach tree on the g!aOO, and in short every tropical plant that can he named. Sev eral of tiie palm trees are from fifty to sixty feet high. The smoke of the immense lire underneath is carried in pipes under ground to an outlet in the woods. The coal is brought in a tunnel six hundred yards under ground. One fountain throws a jet of water to the height of two hundred and seventy-five feet. THE WONDERS OF LIGHT. —Not only does light Hy from the grand " ruler of the day," with a velocity which is a million and a half times greater than the speed of a cannon hall, but it darts from every reflecting surface with a like velocity, and reaches the tender struc ture of the eye so gently, that, as it falls upon the little curtain of nerves which is there spread to receive it, it imparts the most pleasing sen sations, and tells its story of the outer world with a minuteness of detail and holiness of truth. Philosophers once thought to weigh the sunbeam. They constructed a most deli cate balance, and suddenly let in upon it a i>eain of light ; the lever of the balance was so delicately hung that the fluttering of a fly would have disturbed it. Everything prepared, the grave men took 1 heir places, and with keen eves watched the result. The sunbeam that was to decide the experiment had left the sun eight minutes prior, to pass the ordeal. It had flown through ninety-five millions of miles of space in that short space of time, and it shot upon the balunee with unabated velocity. But the lever moved not; and the philo.-phers were mute. SENSE. —A rough common sense pervades the following, in which there is certainly more truth than poetry: "Great men never swell. It is only three cent individuals who are salaried at the rate of two hundred dollars a year and dine on potatoes and dried herring, who pat 011 airs and flashy waistcoats, swell, puff, blow, and endeavor to give themselves a consequential appearance. No discriminating person can ever mistake the spurious for the genuine arti cle. The difference between the two is as great as that between a bottle of vinegar and a bottle of the pare juice of the grape." NOTHING elevates us SO much as presenee of a spirit similar, yet superior, t-o our owu. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TO WAN DA, BRADFORD COUNTY. PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH. Daring Exploit in the Mammoth Cave. The Louisville Journal gives the following description of a descent into a hitherto unex plored abyss of frightful depth, at the sup posed termination of the longest avenue of the Mammoth Cave. The hero of the adventure, Mr. Win. C. Prentice, determining to solve the mystery a few weeks since, was lowered into the pit by the means of a rope fastened around his body. We nave heard frcm his own lips an account of his descent. Occasionally, masses of earth and rock went whizzing past, but none struck him. Tnirty or forty feet from the top he saw a ledge, from which, as he judged by appear ances, two or three avenues led off in different directions. About one hundred feet from the top, a cataract from the side of the abyss, and as lie descended by the side of the falling wa ter and in the midst of the spray, he felt some apprehension that his light would be extin guished, but his care prevented this. He was landed at the bottom of the pit, one hundred : and ninety f.-et from the top. He found it al j most circular, about eighteen feet in diameter, with a small opening at one point, leuding to a fine chandler of no great extent. He found on the floor beautiful specimens of black silex. ; of immense size, vastly larger than was ever discovered in any other part of the Mammoth Cave, and also a multitude of exquisite forma tions as pur" and white as virgin snow. Mi king himself heard, with great effort, by Ins friends, he at length asked them to pull him partly up, inteMding to stop on :lie way and explore a cave that he had observed opening ; about forty feet above the bottom of the pit. Reaching the mouth of that cave, he swung himself with much exeniou into it, and hold ing the end of the rope in his hand, he incati tiously let it go, and it swung apparently out of his reach. The situation was -i fearful one, j and his friends above could do nothing for him. Ston, however, he made a hook of the end of ( his lamp, and by extending himself as far over : the verge as possible without falling, he suc ' ceeded in securing the rope Fastening it to rock, he followed the avenue one hundred and fifty or two hundred yards, to a point where ; he found t blocked by an impassable avalanche of rock and earth. R.-tuiuiug to the mouth of I his avenue, he beheld mi almost exactly similar mouth of another on the opposite side of the pit—but not being able to swing himself into it, lie refastened the rope around his body, suspending himself again over the abyss, and shouted to his friends to raise him to the top. The pull was an exceedingly se vere one, and the rope, being ill adjusted around his body, gave him the most excrucia ting pain. Rut soon his pain was forgotten in a new and dreadful peril. When he was 90 feet from the mouth of the pit, and 100 from the bottom, swaying und swinging in mi I air, he heard rapid and exci ted words of horror und alarm above, and soon he learned that the rope by which lie was up held had taken fire from the friction of the timber over which it pass -d. Several moments of awful suspense to those above, and still more awful to him below, ensued. To them and him a fatal and almost instant catastrophe seemed inevitable. Bat the lire was extin guished with a bottle belonging to himself, and then the party above though almost ex hausted by their labors, succeeded in drawing him to the top. He was as calm and self jios aessed as upon his entrance into the pit, but all of his companions, overcome by fatigue, sank down upon the ground, and his friend, Professor Wright, from over exer.ion and ex citement, fainted, and for a time remained in sensible. The young adventurer leP his name carved in the depths of the Mmlslrotn—the name of the first and only person that ever gazed upon its mysteries. TIMOVR AND THE FOOL.—The inhabitants of Xeapolis, hearing of the approach of the con queror, prepared to defend themselves with vigor, but Nasur counseled theiu to do uoth ing of the sort, lint to trust to him alone, and his mediation with Tiiuour. The people were doubtful of his success, but tliev yielded. Be fore proceeding to the camp of the beseiger, Nasur, who knew it was useless to approach the great chief without u present, considered what gift was likely io be most acceptable.— He resolved it should be fruit, but he hesitat ed between figs and quinces. " 1 will consult with my wife," said Xasur-cd-Doen ; and lie accordingly did so. The lady advised liiin to take quinces, as the larger fruit. " Very good," said Nasur, " that being your opinion, 1 will take the figs." When lie reached the foot of the throne of Tamerlane, he aunoun-ed himself as the ambassador from the beleaguer ed citizens, and presented, as an offering of their homage. Ins trumpery basket of figs.— The chief burst into a rage, and ordered them to be flung at the head of the representative of the people ol Jengi-Sclielier. The coin tiers pelted him with right good will ; and each time he w as struck, Nasur, who stood pa tient and immovable, gently exclaimed—"Now Allah be praised !" or, " Oh, the Prophet lie thanked J" or, " Oh, hdmiraMe ! how can i be sufficiently grateful ?" " What dost thou mean, fellow ?" a>ked Timour ; " we pelt you with figs, and you seem to enjoy it !" " Ay, truly, great sir," replied Nasur ; " 1 grateful ly enjoy the consequence of my own wit. My wife counseled me to bring quinces, but I chose to bring tigs ; and well that I did, for with figs you have only bruised me, but had I bro't quinces, you would have beaten my brains out." The ster-i conqueror laughed aloud, and declar ed that, for the sake of one fool, he would spare all the fools in the city,mule and female, them and their property. " Then," cried Nasur, " the entire population is sufe !" und lie ran homeward to communicate the joyful intelli gence.—Doran. " WELL, how do you do to-day ?" " Indeed, I am very ill," " What is the mat ter !" " I have a very painful sty." " O, that's all in your eye." " REM ARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER." Edward Everett at the Great Horse Fair, Springfield, Massachusetts. The Hon. EDWARD EVERETT, being called upon for u speech, delivered one of great beau ty and eloquence, from which we select the fol lowing interesting incident in the Life of the great Irishman, EDMUND BURKE : However this may be, Sir, if there is any one who doubts that the horse—the animal that most concerns us on this occasion—is unsuscep tible of the kindest feelings of our nature, I think he would be convinced of his error by a IUOSI interesting anecdote of Edmund Burke In the decline of Mr. Burke's life, when he was living in retirement on his farm at Beaconfields, the rumor went up to London that he had srone mad ; and the fact that was stated in support of this rumor was that he went around his park kissing his cows and horses. A frie d, a man of rank and influence, hearing the story, and deeming it of too much importance to lie left uncorrected, hastened to Beacon-field, and sought an interview with the view of ascertain ing the truth of the rumor Entering into con versation with him, Mr. Burke read to him some chapters from his " L'-tters on the Rci cide." II is friend immediately saw, that though the earthiy tenement was verging hack on its native dust, the lamp of reason and genius shone with undiminished lustre. He was ac cordingly more than satisfied as to the object of his coining down, and in a private interview with Mrs. Burke, told her what he had come for, and received fro n her this pathetic expla nation Mr. Burke's only child, a beloved sou, had not long before died, leaving behind him a favorite horse,the companion of his excursions of business and pleasure, when both were young and vigorous. This favorite animal was of course turned out by Mr Burke, the father,in to the park, with directions to all his servants that he should in every respeci be treated as a privileged favorite. Mr. Burke, himself, of course, in his morning walks, wojld often stop to caress the favorite animal On one occasion, as he was taking his morn ing walk through the park, he perceived the poor old animal at a distance, and noticed that lie was recognized by him. The horse drew nearer and nearer to Mr. Burke, stopped, eyed him with the most pleading look of recognition which said as plainly as words could have said: " I have lost inm too : and then the poor dumb beast deliberately laid his head u|>on Mr. Burke's bosom ! Struck by the singularity of the occurrence, struck by the recollection of his son, whom lie had never ceased to mourn with a grief that would not be comfo ted, over whelmed by the tenderness of the animal, ex pressed in the mute eloquence of holy Nature's universal language, the illustrious statesman for u moment lost his self-possession, and clasp ing his arms around the neck of his son's favorite animal, lilted up that voice, which had caused the arches of Westminster Hall to echo the noblest strains that ever sounded within them, and wept aloud ! Sir, this wasscen, this was heard by the passers bv, and the enemies of Burke, unapprised by his advancing years, ly Ins failing health, by his dome-tic sorrows, made it the ground of the charge of iusat itv. Burke is gone ; but, Sir, so help me Heaven, if I were called upon 10 designate the event or the period in Burke's dfe that would iiest sus tain a charge of insanity, it would not be when in a gush of the noblest and purest feeling | that ever stirred the human heart, he wept aloud on the neck of a dead son's favorite j horse. But, Sir.it shoaid rather be when, at ' 'lie meridian of his fame, when the orb of his imperial genius rode highest in the heavens, amid the scoffs of cringing courtiers, and the , sneers of hireling patriots, lie debased his glori ous powers to tliescrambiings and squubaliugs ' of the day, and, " Born for the universe, narrowed his inind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind." [Loud and prolonged cheering.] Mr. PRESIDENT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN : I I have only to renew my acknowledgment for I the kindness with which you have been pleased • to receive ine, and to express my best wishes j for the continued success of your most useful j and patriotic undertaking. [Enthusiastic ap plause.J A FARLE. —A young man once picked up a sovereign lying in the road. Ever afterwards as he walked along, he kept his eves fixed steadily on the ground, in hopes of finding another. And in the course of a long life lie did pick up at different times a good amount of gold and silver. But all these years, as he was looking for them lie saw not that heaven j was bright above him, and nature beautiful j around. He never once allowed his eyes to lo< k up from the mud and filth in which he sought the treasure ; and when he died, u rich oid man, he only knew this fair earth of ours as a dirty road in which to pick up money as you walk along. THE "OLD THEOLOGY " was probably nev er more forcibly presented than in the reply ola student at the recent examination of An dover Theological Seminary. Being asked "In what sense did Christ die for all ?"' lie answered, "He died for the elect, to provide away of salvation, and for the nou-eleet that tliey might be more effectually damned." Dr. JOHNSON has left it on the record, that as he was pa-sing by a fishmonger who was skinning an eelidive, lie heard him curse hiui because it would not lie still ! JBSf The Hull girls all sing. A friend lately from there, says they sang themselves to sl.ep at night, and he never heard anything like it since he wus beuighted iu swamp out West. TAKING shelter from a shower iu au umbrel la shop, is the height of iuipudeuce. GOOD men are the 6tars and planets of the age wherein they live, and illustrate the times. GRATITUDE is the music of the heart, when its chords uro swept by the breeze of kiuduess. THE man who plants a birch tree little kuows wbui he u conferring ou posterity. ADVANTAGES OF TREES. —We do not know the author of the following beautiful and cum preheusive notice of trees, but we think its p< - rusal will cause many of our readers to invo'- untarily and heartily respond to the familiar and popular song of " Woodman spare that tree":— How beautiful, most beautiful of earth's orn aments arc trees ! Waving out on the hills and down in the valleys, in wild wood or orch ard, or singly by the wayside, God's spirit and benizon seems to us ever present iu trees. For their shade and shelter to man and brute; for the music the winds make among their leaves, and the birds in their branches; for the fruits and flowers they hear to delight the palate and the eye, and the fragniiec that go'-s out and upward from them forever, we are wor shipful of trees. "Under his own vine and fig tree"—what more expressive of rest.independence and lord | ship in the earth ! Well may the Arab rev erence in the date-palm a God given source of sustenance. Dear to the Spaniard is the ol've and to the Hindoo his banyan, wherein dwell the families of man, and the birds of heaven build their nests. Without trees what a des ert place would be our earth—naked, parched. I and hateful to the eye ! Yet how many are thoughtless of the use and beauty of trees.— How many strike the axe idly or wantonly at i their roots. Above till other things iu the landscape we would deal gently with trees Mo-t beautiful where and as God plants them, , but beautiful even as planted by the poorest art of man, trees should be protected and pre served. If ho is a benefactor who causes two lilad' - of grass to grow where one grew before, how much greater is his beneficence who plants a tree in some waste place, to shelter and shade, to draw thither song birds, and to bear fruit for man Plant frees. O man, that hast waste land, and be cartful of those that are planted. THE DREAMERS AND THE EMPEROR —Charles | V., while hunting, lost his way and entered a j miserable roadside inn for rest and refreshment. ' He noticed four men lying ou a bed whose i countenances were by no means indicative of j good intentions. Iu fact they were thieves.— j Charles asked for refreshments, but he had scarcely swallowed a drop, when one of the ill looking fellows got up and approached him with the remark—" I dreamed you had a man tle that would suit me to a T." and thereupon he appropriated the garment. " And I," said the second fellow, following his Comrade's ex ample, " dreamed you had a buff coat that would fit me nicelv." At the same time he seized upon the buff coat. The third took his hat, the fourth prepared to take a whistle which the Emperor wore suspended from his neck by a gold chain. " Softly iny friend," said Charles, " let me show you the use of this whistle." Accordingly lie raised it to his lips, blew a shrill note, and the house was filled with his armed retainers. " Here," said j Charles, pointing to the riilfi ins, " are a set of I fellows who dream whatever they want. It is my turn now. I have dreamed all these ras cals worthy of a gibbet. Let the dream be realized instantly." The hint w-s taken, and without further delv or formality, the rascally quartette were swung up before the door, a signal warning to all unprincipled psycholo gists. NATURAL CURIOSITIES. — In the Baltimore coal mines, near Wilesbarre, Luzerne county, Pa , the superintendent recently discovered the remains of a forest of trees, which had been imbedded in slate of rock, above the large vein, fragments of which, by a fall, hud been detaeh ed and now lie iu confusion—stumps, roots, limbs and impressions of bark, in the mine.— Among the curiosities are two large stump-, as perfect as if just drawn from the earth by a stump machine, the roots cut off where they had entered the ground, and the surface look ing as if the bark lias been taken off while the sap was running. Iu the rocks above can be traced the ends of the logs, from which the stumps have fallen, and iu one place the body of the tree potrudes, the surface presenting the imprcssiou of the bark. HABITS OF SPIDERS. —The following curious fact is given on the authority of Mr. Spencer : Having placed a full-grown spider oil a cane planted upright in the midst of a stream of wa ter.he saw it descend the cane several times and remount when it had arrived at the surface of the water. Suddenly he altogether lost sight of it, but in a few moments afterwards, to his great astonishment, lie perceived it quietly pur suing its way on the other side of the stream. The spider having spun two threads along the cane, had cut otic of them, which, carried by the wind, had become attached to some object on the bank, und so Served the spider as a bridge across the water. It is supposed that spiders, when adult, always use similar means to cross water. PURE AIR —The Eclectic Medial Journal of Philadelphia, iu speaking on this subject, very properly remarks that it is not only ne c• s-ary that men may have a sufficient air to breathe, but it is necessary to provide air for the apartment itself in which they live, as well as for the persons who inhale it. The influ ence of impure air is not only exercised upon persons through their breathing organs, but the surface of their bodies, their clothes, the walls of the apartment—in short, the free sur faces of everything in contact with the air of the place becomes more and more inquire—a harbor of foulness, a menus of impregnating every cubic foot of air with poison—unless tlie whole apartment lias its atmospheric con tents continuously changed, so that everything animate and inanimate is freshened by a con stant supply of pure air. BOY, did you let off that guu ?" exclaimed an enraged schoolinasser. " Yes, master." " Well, what do you tbluk I will do to vou?" " Wb*' let me off " VOL. XIX. —XO. 17. Prinoiple and Industry. In great commercial community, the temp tat ons to moral obliquity mui practical dis honesty are so strong as to require great AU tclilillness on the part of the tempted to re sist the allurements. Muny have fallen. Many probably will hereafter fail, who would have stood firm, had they acted on principle. There is no guiding star like principle for a young man to keep his eye on, while so many doleful meteors are dancing liefore his vision. Principle may have often to contend with formidable difficulties, and must frequently practice self denial. Hut greut is its reward. Dexterity and deception may go around difficulties, or conceal them from view, but nothing is gained thereoy, not even the comfort of having striven well and of being invigorated in the process. Inherited wealth is not desirabie to our young nit-ii who go into business. The poor-st young man should i.ot be discouraged. We know such an one, whose father was an indifferent countryman, taking little interest in the moral and intellectual progress of his children, and barely provided for their bodily wants. His son, a lad of fourteen or fifteen, was soiled with a desire of being something. Hut he wore patched clothes, knew uothing of the world, had no apparent recommendation but his pov erty and gr.-ei u -ss R ally however, he had principle and industry. These were led on by resolution, uud these scarcely-developed at tributes were betttr to the youth thin a "for tune." He resolved to try his Innd in a com mercial city, started on foot with his pack, and walked a hundred uud fifty miles to " find work " —u thing aim- at always to be found in this happy country. The boy on arriving in this city, first directed his steps to the house of a citizen, who had some acquaintance with his father, or his father's friends. Tne gentle man was astonished at his temerity F.uding him without letter ol recommedation, without any specific pian, w.th little prospect of being acceptable to any one in the city, wearing, as h: did, patched pantaloons,lu- Wigal-oiL toad vise him to return houie, but thought he would at least make the trial lor a place. According ly, he started out, and inquired from shop to shop, but no one wanted the boy. At last, a common grocer consented to take him, to do menial jobs about the store —to carry water and the like. The boy entered upon his duties, humble as they were, with alacrity and hope. He summon, d to his support principle and industry. What lie did he did well, and he was content with his coudition, till a broader field should be opened. He was honest and active, studious of usefulness, ingenious in pro moting the interests ot his employer in various humble ways—in a word, filling the lowly sphere he occupied, as one who is " faithful i'u a little." This was the secret of his success. He was observed, and invited to a somewhat better situation. This lie felt it his duty to strive to fill still better, and he succeeded He began to tie in demand for business of a superior kii d. It was found that he was ca pable of serving the dry goods dealer with skill and success. All his patches hud disappeared, (though he k'-pt tiiu'ii privately, in remembrance of his |K>or mother ;) he was I about neat work ; he made himself pleasant to customer*, and profitable to employers, lie scorned the habits whichhuve ruined so many clerks, drank no liquors of any kind ; visited no places of play; kept no guilty secrets; sought his female company openly among t lie pure and virtuous of the sex. and u ut to church on the Sabbath. He began with principle, and principle grew into habit. He was sober, active, industrous lie could not conceal, though lie sought not to display, his silent qualities. .Men in solid and extensive business made him large offers, aud a noted firm even sought him in partner ship. We need scarcely add that the poor boy, now a grown and married man, is among the wealthiest in one of our commercial cities, and more than this, a really useful citizen. As he adhered to principles, his principles have exalted and promoted liiin. As he " wield -d the hand of the diligent," it liar h "made liitn rich," in a sense beyond that of silver and gold. L t our young men ponder this example Hunt s Merchants' M ■ gnzine. AU.IGTORS' N EATS. —They resemble haycocks four feet high, and five in diameter at their bases, being constructed with grass and her bage. First they deposit otic layer of eggs on a floor of mortar, and having covered this with a second stratum of mud and herbage, eight inches thick, lay another set of eggs 011 that, and so on to the top, their being commonly from one to two hundred eggs in a nest. With their tails they then bt at down round the uest. the dense grass and reeds five feet high, to prevent the approach of unseen enemies. Hie female watches her eggs, until they are all hatched •y the heat of the aim, and then she takes her brood uud-r her own care, do fending them a d providing for their subsist ence. I)r. Lutzenburg, of New Orleans, told me that he once packed up one of these nests, with the eggs in a box for tiie museum of St. Petersburg, but was recommended, before lie closed it, to see that there was no danger of the eggs being hatched on the voyage. On opening one, a young alligator wullked out and was soen followed bv the rest, about a hun dred, which lie fed in his house where they went up and down stairs whining and barkiujj like voting puppies.— LytlL, the Geologist. A sTtTrn in time saves nine. If therefore you feel one in your side, be thunkful, O friend. JONATHAN", where were yon going yesterdav, whet. I saw you, going to the mill ?" \\ liv, I was going to the mill, to be sore.' ' W ell, 1 wished I'd seen you, I'd got vou to carry a grist for me.' THF. woman who had a * fellow feeling ir her bosom' sued him :or assault. Poor thing AGRICCLTCBAL Fair—Farmers' pretty daugh ters. A wrFF. full of troth, hinoectteo and love, h the prettiest flower a mau cay wear ucxt to bis heart.