~: OJ[ LIW PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. TOWANDA : — * fhursday Morning, December 2, 1858. "" r -.-^== r Original |lottrj. WRITTKS FOR THE REPORTER. EMPRESS EUGENIA, OF FRANCE. B • ■ _ , , n! impress ! Fair and lovely as a painted model. I y> r vision of the wildest poet's dream ! j- ,! blossom.' Rivaling in magnificence U v pireeens sister flowers whose 1 \ ; blooming, lading hours, have passed Mrtth the sunt>Y skies of France. 3 - i; varied thoughts suggest themselve concerning thee! j has formed thee passing fair. In loveliness - n - 4 cmient. And destiny has crowned thy lofty brow i j., ; iare l wreaths of Fame. Si rourtiers press to touch thy silken robes, J *" and princes bend the willing knee "PI ( ~ to thy beauty. Garlands are gathered Wt ij e ToH ng and innocent, and cast beneath thy feet, a is heralded from north to south, from east ~~ • rt *t and nature's stores and art's inventions 1 subservient all to thee. The choicest webs from N . the finest pearls from Ocean's briny depths ■ .veeie-: perfumes from the Orient climes, and most 1 . as fruits fr >m southern isles, are sought for thee ! V jury from any land but ministers to thy delight! - oue"ra so coveted sits gracefully upon thy crowned I v The rcsal ceremonial, and imposing rite, *aled thy name in conjunction with ninowledged sovereign of the vine wreathed realms Fnnce. Gar. sunny yet capricious, false, 3 -jwy France! whose national respiration • a series of convulsive throes, resembling much s *y sortings of the mighty deep, now sleeping ! urirssly in its solemn majesty : and anon lashed • ! y„i:'arv bv the thundering of the storm, God's I j*sjl voice. Beneath thy costly robe, proud Empress ! 1- & bosom covered o'er with gems and laces. I ' heart? A woman's gentle, loTing 1 i-t' Ah me !—and through tliy brain.pressed heavily | welled crown. sweeps there a woman's thought ? H Tin anrth and revelry are o'er, and pomp and I bffirt.-y are laid aside, and tired and weary nature [j die calm and sweet repose, as grateful and as u.cearv:.' the high and lofty, as to the humble peasant; : v ;;t with thee ? Is peace a dweller in thy bosom ? ;.h*lmy. tranquil sleep, rest on thy eyelids? And do ii-sfsidreams entrance thy wakeful spirit? -(there no sad and mournful faces to keep night ".- .-rsjnd thy royal couch ? Faces of chisselled .Vasty, nude ghastly wan with dreadful anguish! Ewaditn with sorrow's tears ! Disordered streaming :i> blanched white with sudden terror! And ht* of mortal paleness, whispering dread tales alUagcrowns, of tottering thrones, of -i-t 3 i*. and deeds of violence and blood ! lad does lore for him, the partner of thy greatness, - -eibv breast? And he, a wav-worn voyager - that sea. whose polluted waters, never Jttsm w.th pure affection for thy sex ? And r ;ec the little " King of Rome " disrobed of ?*•. trappings, and all the cumbering forms 'a: rex his tree young spirit, is gathered to is Mother's heart; comes there no yearning wish *• y him far away from party animosities, ?: :;ca! vexations, intrigues, and bloody feuus ? ud:s some quiet, safe retreat, lead his young : -t in paths of pleasantness and peace ? is:-?s> of France! we envy not thy greatness. V vret not thy honors ! Bnt to the God of Us.- oi. lift our voice in fervent invocation ! "V he may keep thee, in the hollow of his hand, ix that thy <un of life, may not go down in I*M! But when the scepter falls from thy itgrasp, ami earthly glories vanish : - c thy -ight. may he who reigns the King ' Sings, lead thee with loving hand, into His rberitance. and place upon thy head 1 Urrv crown, whose brightness fadcth Jatway. gftisctllantons. [From the Philadelphia Public ledger ] AFFAIRS IN JAPAN. iteresting Letter from Japan—Proceed ings of Mr. Harris—Progress of the Japanese. We arrived from Nagasaki on the 25th ult., tier a parage of 67 honrs. The distance is Jtff 600 miles. We found the Mississippi at Bcbor in the inner harbor and came too near ' hoping for a few days of qniet and lonsr T > i? back into the country. Our anchor was rtreely down, however, when the captain of I'usnssippi pulled alongside, bringing with ' >or Consul-General .Mr. Townsend Harris, ti his Secretary, Mr. Henry Hueskin. The nsul was at once closeted with the Commo ;and after an honr or so, it began to be '->pered around that we were to leave, in two tor Yeddo Bay, and possibly for Yeddo This was great news, and we talked ~wd!y lor seme hours as to how long we would in Yeddo, Ac., until suddenly another -per parsed around that we were only going - Kaoagawa to talk aboot a new treaty. Ka naka is seventeen miles this side of Yeddo, as we could not land there, onr trip did : promise to be sogrand after all. Wethere lit cigars and tried to blow away our dis- UAointment in smoke. In the meantime we heen boarded by several boat loads of Ja officials, who were equally sociable and well met, as had been those of Na- We gave them sherry and Constan -10 their heart's content, and after they had not a list of all the fresh provisions that *" -eaired. saw them iuto their twat and bow -j tbcm a polite adieu. After diuner a party dropped on shore for a Sunday evening * li ip d among other places visited the ba *here everything Japanese was collected ? sa.e It beiug Sunday, we admired them, PMred on. a °ow two years since we sent onr first Japan, in accordance with a provi treatv otKanagawa, made in 1854-5 Commodore Perry, lie was brought here f S steamer Sa* Jacinto, and "left hi glory," to the infinite disgust of the who told him to go away for a year come back, by which time they should f° r Being tbas una ieft their hands, they made the ( 4 bargain, howerer, gate him a - .empie to live in. servant* to attend npon . " htm with everything in the Japa fiae, and finally began to look up- THE BRADFORD REPORTER. on him and his secretary as rather pleasant ad ditions to their society. Messrs. Harris and llneskin now began to look aronnd them for amusement. They found the golden pheasant plentiful among the neighboring hills, and, when satiated with gunning and long walks, the former tnrned his eye in the direction of \ eddo. After a while he received permission to visit that city in his official capacity, and the first thing that we know, he has obtained the signing of an important Convention, and is again at Simoda. This Convention was publish ed in the United States, in January of this year, and so I shall let it pass. The manner in which Mr. Harris and his secretary went to A eddo is interesting. The Emperor sent him a body guard of 120 men, and had comfort able houses put up along the road to pass the nights in. He also sent him a large sedan chair, carried by twelve bearers, and so roomv that he put a matrass into it, and reclined at full length when he was tired of sitting. It is only about seventy five miles from this place to Yeddo ; but the country is so rugged, and the roads so bad the first part of the way, that they were seven days accomplishing the dis tance. Every night they stopped at one of the comfortable houses, which had been pre pared expressly on his account, and after an ear -1 ly breakfast, resumed their road. Upon reach ing Yeddo, they were lodged in the most com : modious quarters, treated with the greatest re ; speet aud attention, and granted interviews with the Emperor. The reader is, of course, 1 aware that every one, foreigner or Japanese, who has heretofore approached the Emperor, has been required to do so upon one knee. This custom they determined to adhere to in the present case ; but, somehow or other, it had never before been so difficult "to bell the cot." " 1 Vho was to speak to Mr. Harris about it ?" that was the question. Finally, a Japanese Douglass stepped forward, and offered to brace his hnge shoulders to the task. This gentle man was not the most determined man in Ja pan ; but then be was upon the most intimate : terms both of social and political interconree with " the American Legation." He therefore . called opou Mr. Harris, and commenced the attack by begging that he would not be offend ed by what he was going to say. "Certainly not !" says that gentleman. Bnt he has an inkling of w hat is coming, and a look ' of sndden aud unusual gravity causes Douglass to tremble. Instead, therefore, of broaching ! the subject—he begs once more that "His Ex cellency will not be offended at something, which he, Douglass, has been ordered to say," and then—coughs, and looks behind him. I "Certainly not?" and an increase of gravity in the Consular face. Corresponding increase ; of nervousness on the part of Douglass. Great ! tableau, in which the American Eagle is sup posed to dominate Final desperation of Doug lass, and out-bursting of the secret. Mr. Harris listemled quietly and kindly to all he had to say, and then replied with his usual judgment and firmness of manner He told him that he was anxious to do everything that was consistent with self-respect to do hon or to the Emperor, but that this thing was out of question, and had better not be referred to again. "Were NIP Sto send a Minister to my country," he said, " he might approach the President in any manner he saw fit. He might kneel and knock his head against the floor, or he might bow to him and shake hands. There we allow every one perfect liberty ; and it is but right, therefore, that I be allowed the same here." "Very well ! Very well ?" replied Douglass, haif apologetically. And thus was settled this question for ererr remarked Mr.H. Mr. Harris has beeu twice to Yeddo since he was landed by the San Jacinto, and remain ed some three months each time. He speaks in most flattering terms of the primitive sim plicity of the Imperial habits ; of the absence of everything like " magnificence " about his palace ; and of the general kindness towards him. He mentioned the case of one old lady in particular, who was even now engaged in the motherly task of making him some wadded silk shirts, to protect him from the approach ing winter. These acts are trivial, but they in dicate very plainly the nature of the Japanese feeling towards Americans. Even the Empe ror has loaded him down with kindness. When he was lying sick at this place, a special mes senger arrived daily from Yeddo, to ask after his health, and to bring him some present, ex pressive of the interest that was felt in his re covery The Impereal doctor was also sent to attend npon him. Such things as these have never before been known in the hi-tory of Ja i pan. Our able Consnl-General has a- very poor opinion about the majority of books which been written about the country. " When," — he queries—" when will writers learn to write only that which they see ? A man has no need of imagination hert —truth is strong enongh ! We lire in a world of romance, simply because | (referring to writers in general) the truth is not in them!" He, however, speaks in the highest terms of Commodore Perry's coarse while oat here, and mentioned many good re sults which are now flowing from it. "He was a man of great-good judgment, and accom plished as much good as any one oouid possi bly under the circumstances." He said: "L p on one occasion I thought differently myself, but accepted his judgment as more likely to be correct [throngh persoual observation) than 1 mv own." Speaking of Commodore Ferry, I asked him how the Japanese bad treated the expensive preseuts which that officer had presented them, on the part of the Government, three or four years back. "Well, I knew I'm going to sur prise you now," he replied " Yoa know that Commodore Perry gave tbem, among other things, a circular railroad, an engine and tend er, and a brass howitzer—one of the Pahlgren guns. They bTe a large house built for the safe-keeping of this railroad, and every now then take it out, lay the track, get up steam, and then away go a dozen or more high officers upon a circular pleasure trip. Jap'infseevgtnters kart chargt of ertrytking, and are never at a loss in the discharge of the duty. I suppose that they will soon have a track laid from Ka uagawa to Yeddo, but I doubt if a railroad PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH. will pay in any part of Japan ; the country is too broken. As for the " boat-howitzer," they have had one thousand cast exactly like it, and mounted them in the forts of their different ports. And now here is something else that will surprise yon. Upon both Fourths of Jnly that I have passed here, and once opon Wash ington's birth-day, they fired a salute of twenty one guns with these howitzers. Mr. Hueskin and myself attended, with the American flag flying, and the people exhibited the greatest good feeling and enthusiasm. One might have almost imagined them Americans." " What have they doue with the eclectrie telegraph that was presented tbern?" I asked. " Little or nothing, I think. But lam not certain. They are making astounding head way, however, in the ground work for future intercourse with the world. Five or six mouths since, they asked me, as a great favor, to be allowed to send a Minister to the United States." "My dear Sirs," I replied, "do not ask me this as a favor ; it is your right. Send a Minister, with as large suite as you choose, and you may be certain of a friendly reception." "And would the United States furnish us transportation from here to the Isthmus ?" he asked. "Certainly," he replied " and treat yon with the greatest attention and kindness during your whole stay." " Yes," I remarked, laughingly, " I can imagine a Japanese minister and suite in the hands of the New-York City Fathers ! YY'hat I a time they would have of it 1 How every theatre would throw open its doors for them, and the crowd they would draw; and how Japa nese reserve and love of quite would be driven to desperation by the attentions with which they would be surrounded. Are these Officers and and Princes rich enough to make a grand dis , play, or would they carry along with them their simple dress and tastes !" " They would be just as yon see them now," he replied. " YVe have no idea of the sound common sense, and want of everything like I pretension, peculiar to these people. Take the Emperor himself, for the instance. He is, as yon may suppose, very rich, and yet I am positive that his table and clothing do not cast him SSOO a year. YVhv that sum would not more thau pay for the gloves of a Broad , way dandy, with us. You have doubtless seen the thick, soft matting with which the floors of their houses are covered ! YY'ell, the floors of the palace are covered in the same way, and this matting serves as the Emperor's | bed, as well as that of the poorest house ser ves as the bed of the poorest subject. He stretc j hes himself out, with a wooden pillow under his I head, and sleeps a sleep rarely grauted to his brother Monarch?. To see a Japanese thus 1 sleeping, with his head abruptly raised five or i six inches, you would predict a stiff neck or , future spinal affection as a general result; and yet there is not a more healthy people living." " YY'hat does the Emperor look like ?"' one of as asked. " Quite a fine looking man, with a soft voice and pleasant smile. I suppose he is some thirty-five years old. In fact, I know he is, for as it is considered polite in Japan to ask one his age and how many children he has, I was, of coarse polite. Poor fellow ! He has what one of ns would consider a miserable life. He does not leave the palace but once in two years ; and then as he passes through the town every one must leave the streets and close the doors and windows of their houses. The custom does not allow them even to look at him. This is the temporal Emperor at Yeddo, of whom I now speak : the ease of the spiritual Emperor at Miaco, is even worse, for he never leaves his palace, ne is venerated so much that they cannot even run the risk of his being locked upon by the crowd." " How long has it been since yon received your last mail, Mr. HARRIS ?" asked another. "Oh ! as for the mails, we are not bothered wijh them. If we get files of papers and our letters once a year, we think ourselves fortu nate. As for my correspondence with the State Department, I do not know what to make of it. Mr MARCY sent me to Siam, where I made a treaty, and sent it home. I came here, and, alter much difficulty, got them to sign a convention—a very important ore— which I also sent home. One day, while I was in the weekly exj>ectation of hearing from the Government, a special courier arrived at Yeddo, where I then was, bringing me a bun dle of papers from Mr. RICE, our Y'ice-Consnl at H ikodadi. This man had been nearly a month on the road, during which time he had traveled over five hundred miles. Mr. RICE had read the papers,and forwarded them tome. Now bow do you suppose that he became pos sessed of them ?" " It is hard to imagine !" we answered. " He got them from an American whaler. Fortunately the captain was found of reading, and so when leaving Ilonoluln, S. I , for a cruise aftersperm whales, he filled his lociers with the latest papers. During his cruise, he touched at Hakodadi. and having then gone over them at least twice, passed them over to RICE. Through these I first heard of the death of Governor MERCY, and began to understand whv I bad not heard from bim. Now yon tell me that my convention with Japan was publish ed in January of this year—that is pleasant news, but I should like to know whether the State Department are satisfied with it." Shortly after Mr HARRIS arrived at Yeddo the second time, he was followed by Mynheer DOSKER CcßTiors, the Dutch representative from Nagasaki. I asked him if that gentleman had, as osual. gone upon his knees when ap proaching the Emperor, and he said no. That custom might he considered as extinct now, tbongh DO.VKER Ccwnoca was the first Dutch man who had escaped. Thus is Japan be coming more liberal daily. " About what time do yon think they will send us a Miuister 7" I asked, "and haTe they anv able men who would be equal to the post?" " As for the time, it is not yet settled opon : but as to tb t fact of one going, that is beyond all doubt. I suppose that vUhtna year frcm this date a Japanese Minister and suite of twenty or thirty will be in Washington HIGO NO-KAM: (KAMl— princa : 'no'—of H'go " RESARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANT QUARTER." Higa : PriDce of HIGA) is probably as able a man as they have and he is doubtless the one who will be selected. Yoa will see him in a few days—a fine-lookiog fellow." Mr. HARRIS speaks most interestingly of the feats of the jugglers, aud of the theatres of Yeddo, as well as of the extensive stores, ne says that the Prince of CINAVO, (CINANO-NO KAMI) to whose particular care it seems the Emperor confided his comfort and amusement, fancying that he was having a dull time in the immense house that had been appropriated to him, called np some of bis jugglers to perform him before him and help him pass it. One of them was the" Anderson "of Japan--hisfeats were so wonderful that I am almost afraid to write them, I wish it distinctly understood therefore, that I am only repeating what Mr. Harris told us, and what we consequently be lieve. Here are some of his feats. No. 1. He took an ordinary boy's top, spun it in the air, caught it on his hand, and then placed it (still spinning upon the edge of a sword near the hilt. Then he dropped the sword point a little and the top moved slowly toward it. Arrived at the very end, the hilt was lowered in turn and the top brought back. As usual, the sword was dangerously sharp. No. 2 was also performed with the top He span it in the air, and then threw the end of the string hack toward it with such accuracy that it was caught up and wound itself all ready for the second By the time it had done this it had reached his hand and was ready for another spin. No. 3 was still performed with the top.— There was an upright pole, npon the top of which was perched a little house with a Tery large front door. The top was spun, made to climb the pole, knock open the said frontdoor, and disappear. As well as I remember the hand end of the string was fastened near the door, so that this was almost a repetition of the self-winding feat. But feat No. 4 was something even more astonishing than all this. He took two paper outterflies, armed himself with the nsual paper fan, threw them into the air, and fanning gently kept them flying about him as if they had been alive. He can make them alight wherever you wish ! Try bim 1" remarked the kami (prince) through the interpreter. Mr. H requested that one might alight upon each ear of the juggler. No sooner ex pressed than complied with. Gentle undula tions of the fan waved them slowly to the re quired points, aud there left them comfortably seated. Now, whether this command over pieces of paper was obtained simply by cur rents of air, or by the power of a concealed magnet, Mr. H could not tell or ascertain One thing, however, was certain— the power was tht'r. Let us turn from jugglers to theatres. It seems that there are only four of the latter in Yeddo, and that they are ail alongside of each other. Hence, if a Japanese on the edge of the city wishes to attend one of them, he must take some foot exercise before being able to do so. I say that he mast walk, for no one but the princes iu Japan are allowed to ride, as a general rule, and they must ride, either in a chair or on horseback, as they choose. In the latter case, the horse is led by a groom on each side, and is never allowed to go out of a walk YVhile passing by these theatres, Mr. H. ex pressed a wish to attend a performance, but his princely conductor was very much shocked, telling him that none but the common people ever went to such places. If the nobility want ed see anything of the sort, they n:>de' the ac tors come to them. Speaking of the stores of Yeddo, Mr HAR RIS observed that we would be surprised at their size, at their contents, and at their great nnmber of salesmen, each of whom had his dozen or more shop-boys standing behind him to execute his orders. " Upon enteriug the im mense bnilding. you see no goods at all." he said. " They are all stored in fire-proof build ings in the rear. YYhen a customer enters and asks for anything, the salesman orders the shop-boys to apply at the fire-proof.the Keeper of the fire-proof checks against each one that which he takes, the salesman makes his sale, each shop-boy returns to the fire proof his part of what remains, and at night the salesman ac counts to his employer for the difference.— Thus is business conducted iu the large houses of Janan." I expect thaUhe " world of mariners" w.-.uld like to know if fresh provisions are yet to be obtained in Japan. The answer is—yes, as much as you a ant. At Hakodadi, fresh beef, Irish potatoes, buckwheat and wheat flour, fine fresh salmon, Ac At Simoda. chickens, egg*, fish, sweet potatoes, rice, Ac. And at Nagasaki, the same as at Simoda, as well as a few foreign articles through the Dutch of Desirua. And then the prices which they ask for all these thing?! Let me give yoa an example. I haTe jnst bought 275 pounds of the best rice in the world (1 except that of no country ) for $2,81 a fraction over one cent a pound. In China, at this moment, some of the worst rice in the world is selling at 4 cents. Comment is useless here ; but I may mentiou that China is but four days' sail from Japan. A. W. H. THE TRADE OF CHINA. —He mnst be a bold man, indeed, who would ventare to estimate narrowly and definitely the consequences of breaking down those time-observed dogmas of exclusiveness which the Chinese adopted for their rule of action. When the resources of commerce are fairly opened to a race number ing at least one-fourth of the total bnman spe cies—a people industrious, cumulative, moder ately endowed, too, with the representatives of wealth —it is probable that even the most san guine ideas already formed as to th© commer cial capabilities of China will be largely ex ceeded by the result. The vast expansiveness of China in respect of the production of articles, either peculiar to it altogether, or in what it excels, is illustrated by the history of silk within the last few years. Whilst the commerce of China labored coder a monopoly it was tbooght to be totally im possible to increase the qoanity of silk obtain- Ed from that country. The annual export was 2,000, and for 150 years it was thought to Ije the utmost that China coold supply for trans portation. No sooner was the monopoly bro ken up than the 2,000 expanded into 10,000. The latter quantity increased to 14,000 bales. AY hile the silk producing powers of Europe re mained intact, the Chinese silk supply, already developed more than seven-fold, was thought to have reached its maximum. Mark,however, the curious result. Last year the quantity of silk exported from China amounted to the en ormous quantity of 94,800 bales, showing that since the year 1810 the supply had increased forty-fold. Well might Mr. Crawford, at a re cent meeting of the Geographical Society, sav that in the history of foreign trades, there is not a more remarkable fact than this. It has been said by a celebrated naturalist that the physiological and geological condition of a country has more to do with its character, its liberty, its commerce, thau perhaps any oth er feature. The physiology of a Chinaman is a matter not half as obvious as the geographi cal configuration of China. A single glance at any map of China will suffice to make evi dent one reason of the dense population of that land. No country on the face of the earth is watered by so many noble rivers. In few countries, however, have the water econo mies been more assideonsly attended to by re gulating irragation from main river trunks, and by the construction of canals for purpose of in fernal communication. The population on the banks of the Yang-tse-Kiang alone is estimat ed to amount to one hundred millions of souls, or about three and a half times the population of the United Kingdom ; and, according to the estimate of Mr. Consul Alcock, there is a great er trade carried on between the coasts and the centre of China than between all Europe and the rest of the world ! This statement is as tounding, bnt when a member of theGeoprahi cal Society tried to impugn it, Mr. Alocok did not hesitate to return as follows to its defence: " I did not," said he, "speak altogether with out proof opon the internal trade of China. In the port of Shangae there have been as many as four thousand large junks at one time. It is estimated, and has not beeu called into ques tion for the last century, that from 300 to 360 millions inhabit that vast territory. There is a larger population than all Europe, to begin with, and taken as a whole, they are a commer cial and traficking race." In estimating the probable consequences of throwing China open to foreign commerce, it must be remembered that European articles of I barter can hardly yet have beeu seen in Cen tral China, even as curiosities. Most of the ; British goods are taken to Shanjrha- are sold | to pedlars, who carry them on their backs.— ; That merchants on this small scale, performing , the work of beasts of burden, should penetrate i far, it is difficult to imatrine. The interior of China may be regarded as a commercial terra | incngnitvi. The Yang-tse-Kiancr is to that in ferior what the Mississippi is to North America What would the latter be without her steam boats, and what might not the great Chinese river become under the auspices of steam ?" [From the Independent, N'ov. It.J What is to be done with our Charley! BV HARRIET BRSt HBR STOW It. Yes—that is the question! The fact in, I there seeais to be no place in heaven above, or ; earth beneath, exactly safe and suitable, except the bed. While he is asleep there our souls have rest —we know where be is and what he is aboat, and sleep is a gracious state; bnt then he wakes np bright and early, and begins tooting, ponnding, hammering, singing, med dling, and asking questions; in short,overturn ing the peace of society generally for about thirteen hours oat of every twenty-four. Everybody wants to know what to do with him—everybody is quite sure he can't stay where they are. The cook can't have him in the kitch en, where he infests the pantry to get flour to make paste for his kites, or melt lard in the new saucepan. If he goes into the woodshed, he is sure to pull the wood-pile down upon his head. If he be sent up into the garret, you think for awhile you have settled the problem, till you find what a boundless field for activity is at once opened, aqiid all the packages, boxes, bags, barrels, and cast-off rubbish there Old j letters, newspapers, trunks of miscellaneous contents, are all rummaged, and the very reign of chaos and old night is instituted. He sees endless capacities in all, and he is always ham mering something,or knocking something apart, or sawing, or planing, or drawing boxes and barrels in all directions to build cities or lay railroad tracks, till everybody's head aches quite down to the lower floor, and everybody , declares that Charley must be kept out of the garret. Then yon send Charley to school, and hope von are fairly rid of him for a few hours at least. Bnt he conies home noisier and mere breezv than ever, having learned of some twenty other Charleys every separate resource for keeping ! op a commotion that the superabundant vital . ity of each can originate. He can dance like Jim Smith—he has learned to smack bis lips like Joe Brown—and Will Briggs has shewn him how to mew like a cat, and he enters the premises with a new war-whoop, learned from Tom Evans. He feels large and valorous ; he has learned that he is a boy, and has a general impression that he is growing immensely strong and knowing, and despises mire than ever the conventionalities of parlor life : in fact, he is more than ever an interruption in the way of decent folks who want to be quiet. It is true, that if entertaining persons will devote themselves exclusively to him, reading and telling stories, he may be kept quiet; but then this is discouraging work, for he swallows a story as Rover does a piece of meat, and looks at you for another and another, withont the slightest consideration, so that this re source is of short duration, and then the old question comes back : What is to be done with him ? But after all, Charley cannot be wholly I shirked, for be ts an institution—a solemn and > awful fact ; aud OQ the answer to the ques- VOI,. XIX. NO. 26. tion, What is to be done with him? depends a future. Many a hard, morose, bitter man has come from a Charley turned off and neglected ; many a parental heart ache has come from a Charley left to run the streets, that mamma and sisters might play the piano and write let ters in peace. It is easy to get rid of him ; there are fifty ways of doing that He is a spirit that can be promptly laid, but if not laid aright will come back, by-and-hy, a strong man armed, when you cannot send him off at pleas ure. Mammn and sisters had better pay a little tax to Charley now, than a terrible one br and by. There is something significant in the old English phrase, with which our Scriptures render us familiar, a MAN child—a MAN child. There you have the word tl at should make yon think more than twice before you answer the question : "What shall we do with Char ley r For to day he is at roar feet; to-day yon can make him laugh, you ran make him cry, you can persuade, coax, and turn him to your pleasure ; you can make his eyes fill and bo som swell with recitals of good and noble deeds; in short, you can mould him if you will take the trouble. But look ahead some years, when that littlo voice shall ring in deep bass tones; when that small foot shall have a man's weight and tramp; when a rough beard shall cover that little, round chin, and the wilful strength of man hood fill out that little form. Then you would give worlds for the key to his heart, to be able to turn and guide him to your will; bnt if yon lose that key now he is little, yon may search for it carefully, with tears, some other day, and nerer find it. Old housekeepers have a proverb, that ono hour lost in the morning is never found all day. It has a significance in this case. One thing is to be noticed about Charley, that, rude, and busy, and noisy as be is, and irksome as carpet rules aud parlor ways are to him, he is still a social little creature, and wants to be where the rest of the household are. A room ever so well adapted for play, cannot charm him at the hour when the family is in re-nnion ; he hears the voices in the par lor, and his play room seems desolate. It may be warmed by a furnace and lighted with gas, but it is human warmth and light he shivers for : he yearns for the talk of the family,which he so imperfectly comprebeuds, and he longs to take his playthings down and play by you, and is incessantly promising that of the fifty improper things which he is liable to do in the parlor, he will not commit one if you will let him stay there.- This instinct of the little one is Nature's wan.iug plea—God's admonition. 0, how many a mother who has neglected it because it was irksouie to have the child about, has long ed at twenty-five to keep her son by her side, and he would not! Shnt out as a little Arab; constantly told that he is noisy, that he is awk ward and meddlesome, and a plague in general, the boy has foun 1 at last his own company in the streets, in the highways and hedges, where he runs till the day comes when the parents want their son, and the sisters their brother, and then they are scared at the face he briDgs bark to them, as he comes all foul and smutty from the companionship to which they have doomed him. Depend upon it, if it is too much trouble to keep your boy in your society, there will be places found for him—warmed and lighted with no friendly fires—where he who finds some mischief still for idle hands to do, will care for isim, if you do not. You may put out a tree and it will grow while you sleep, but a sou you cannot —>ou must take trouble for him, either a little now- or a great deal by-aod by. Let him stay with you at least some portion of the day ; bear his ooise and his ignorant ways. I'ut uside your book or work to tell him a story, or show him a picture; devise still parlor plays for him, for he gains nothing bv being allowed to sj>oil the comfort of the whole circle. A pencil, a sheet of paper, and a few patterns will sometimes keep hiin by you for an hour, while you are talking, or in a cor ner he may build a block-house, annoying no body. If he does now and then disturb you, and it costs you more thoughv and care to reg ulate him there, balance which is the greatest evil—to be disturbed by him now, or when he is a man. 01 all yon can give your Charley, if yoo are a good man or woman, your preseuce is the I est and safest thing. God never meant him to do without you any more than chickens were meant to grow without being brooded. Then let him have some place in your house where it shall be no sir. to hammer and pouud, and make all the litter his heart desires and his various schemes require. Even if you can ill afford the room, weigh well between that safe a-ylnm and one which, if deuied, he may make for himself in the street. Of all devices for Chariev which we have, a few shelves which he may dignify with the name of a cabinet is one of the best. He pick* up shells and pebbles and stones, all odds and ends, nothing comes amiss; and if yon give him a pair of scissors and a little gom, there is no end to the labels he will paste on, and the hours he may innocently sjiend sorting and ar ranging. A bottle of liquid gnm is an invaluable resource for various purposes, nor mast yoa mind though he vanish his nose and fingers and clothes, (which he will do of course) if he does nothing worse. A cheap paint-box, and some engravings to color, is another ; aod if you will give hire some rtal paint and potty to paint and putty his boats and cars, he is a made man. All these things make trouble—to be sure they do—but Charley is to make trouble, that is the nature of the institution ; you are ouly choose between safe and wholesome trouble, and the trouble that comes at last like a whirl wind. God bless the little fellow, and send us all grace to know what to do with him. He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is happier who can suit his temper to his circumstances
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