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Thursday Morning, September 30, 1858.
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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!a<s wall measures fifty one feet in
width, and fifteen feet in height, and hears one
thousand peaches It is the largest in the
world. The grape-houses, five or s;x in all,
are six hundred feet long, and such grapes !
We saw pine apples weighing ten or fifteen
pounds each. One green-house had only figs;
another only mushrooms. Hut what shall he
said of the great conservatory filled with every
variety of tropical plants? It is one of the
wonders of the world. It covers au acre of
ground, is one hundred feet high, of oval shape
and cost $500,000. It is heated hy steam
and hot water pipes, which are in all six miles
in length. The apparatus consumes six hun
dred tons of coal in a year. We saw banana
trees twenty feet high, with clusters of fruit,
sngar-cane, coffee irees. hum I >OO, 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.