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(ME DOLLAR PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. TOWANDA: Thursday Morning, July 28, 1859. jirlettcb |)oftrn. [This translation from the German ballad of Baron Trttllilz is by Clarence M&ngan. It seems particulaih apropos at this time of European war, when one might well image the restless spirit of the first Napoleon hov ering over the moonlit fields which were the scene ot his military exploits.] NAPOLEON'S MIDNIGHT REVIEW. i. When midnight hour is come. The drummer forsakes his tomb, Aud marches, beating his phantom-drum To and fro through the ghastly gloom. He plies the drumsticks twain With fieshless fingers pale. And beats and beats again aud again A King and dreary reveUlt Like the voice of abysmal waves Resounds its unearthly tone, Till the dead old soldiers, long in their graves, Awaken through every zone. And the slain in the land of the Hun. Aud the frozen in the icy North, And those who under the burning sun Of Italy sleep, come forth. And they whose bones longwbile Lie bleaching in Syrian sands, And the slomberers under the reeds of the Nile. Arise with arms in their hands. 11. And at midnight, in his shroud. The trumpeter leaves his tomb, And blows a blast long, deep aud loud, As he rides through the ghastly gloom. And the yellow mooulight shines On the old Imperial Dragoons : And the Cuirassiers they form in lines. And the Carabineers iu platoons. At a signal the ranks unsheathe Their weapons in rear and van ; But they scarcely appear to speak or breathe. And their features are sad ami wan. lit. And when midnight relies the sky. The Emperor leaves his tomb. And rides along, surrounded by His shadowy staff through the gloom. A si'ver star so bright Is glittering on his breast : In a uniform of blue and white And a gray camp-frock he is dressed. The moonbeams shine afar . On the various marshalled groups, As the Man with the glittering silver star Rides torth to review his troops. And the dead battalions all Go again through their exercise. Till the moon withdraws, and a gloomier pal! Of blackness wraps the skies. Then around the chief once more The Generals and Marshals throng : And he whispers a word oft heard before In the ear of his aide-de-camp. In files the troops advance, And thvmAU' no longer -cen. The challenging waUhword given is " France !" The answer is " Sainte Helene 1" And this is the Grand Review. Which at midnight on the wolds. If popular tales may pass for true. The buried Emperor lo ids. l\\ isc r 11 anto us. A Visit to a Gunpowder Mill. On the front of an old-fashioned home in Lombard-street, London, are inscribed the ominous words " Gunpowder office " Du s y a< the people are in thut hu-y street, it is remaka ble to observe with what apparent care the passers-by choose the opposite side of the way in preference to steering 1 their barks close to so seemingly dangerous a f rt. But they need have no fear, for scarcely more than a few ounces of powder, byway of samples for mer chants.-ever there. Gunpowder is the guard-chain and strong bolt which keeps the barbarian thief from en tering the precincts of the peaceful and indus trious. and.is, indirectly, the great peace-eon stable of the world. Prior to this clever chem ical invention, the wars of sects, classes, or nations were vexatious!* prolonged. Citarle n ,gne spent a long r ;gu in perpetual war. Pur i 1 g the Roman empire war scarcely ceased,and - 1 it had been with all the preceding nations. The b -tory of the world is a history of shilt i 1 g wars. Prior to the invention of gunpow e r. or more correctly speaking, prior to its apt cation as a means of warfare, a prolonged peace, such a peace as the 40 years between the Napoleonic wars and the Crimean war.has scarcely been recorded. The fact i< that when nj-n discovered the terrible effects of this new engine for their destruction they began to think more serionsly of war. The oid battles.fought without gunpowder, were not half so much to be dreaded as a modern war. The battles of Ptolemy and Ramises. kings of Egypt, of Neb uchaduezzar, Babylon, and Xerxes, of Suss, were of a class that may be compared to a mighty host of robbers sacking a country with but little or no danger to themselves. What a contrast do such battles present to the ter r.fic encounters at lukermaoo and Sevastojiol, at which thousands of men were killed after but a few days' contest. All men fear and re spo t gunpowder. Nation-spend millions ot MNf in building fortifications, and in endeav or '■ g to : ake strongholds impregnable to the tffvets of this simple mixture, but ail their eff are without avail. No fortress that has ever been erected can bold together against I : d • Us, rockets, and balls flying through i P • lightning speed, urged on by gun | I fr The modus tptrar.di practiced in the nun a fact are of an article so destructive cannot : ■1 ' ■> in: rc?t everybody, and so we *-k the *• ad< r to accompany us on a visit Jo the great to •ut-.ctovy at Hcuuslow. liit tail cbtmaey stack; now in sight are a: THE BRADFORD REPORTER. the Gunpowder Mill ; so keep them in view, and you will be sure to travel right. A little walk and you are within hearing of the engine's groans. Now you are fairly within " blowing up" distance, so have a care ; if smoking, put out your cigar. Within a tract of land two miles square is another about half a-mile broad ; aud it is within the later that the mills are at work, ceaselessly, from morning to night to morning Sunday and week-day without end— until the next terrible explosion gives a little rest, when fresh muscles and new headpieces are quickly again directing this grim work.— The first thing that will attract a stranger's attention will be the enormous cords of wood —aiderwoodand dogwood—for a quarter of a uiile : the ominous words " fire-engine." letter ed on several, warns oueto beware. Now yon enter the niter-house, and here all appears harmless enough, boiling and steaming, filter ing, cooling and crystallizing. You will here be pleased enough to see how the dirty earthy saltpeter (niter) of India is washed and purifi ed till it looks as fit to eat as a lemon ice.— These large retorts are where the wood is dis tilled to convert into charcoal. By this pro , cess not only is charcoal produced, but hun dreds of gallons of tar, and also acid water. — This acid water, in plain truth, is weak vinegar and has only to be freed by a few strokes of chemical magic from the tarry particles nosv floating in it to become the white-wine vinegar so tastefully labeled at the great pickle-shops of Soho-square and Piccadily. Pass we on. Here the sulphur sold to ns be King Botnba, and vomited out from the earth's stomach by the fire-belching mountain Vesuvius, is ground, sifted, and rendered fit to enter the warrior's mixture. The niter, the charcoal, and the sulphur are all pretty harm less in their primitive state, but " when rogues meet, then let honest men beware." So now to the first mill house. The rumbling.the rattling, the clankling, the screeching, the heaving, the wincing of powerful maehiuery, 1 overcoming obstacles, are now about as pleasant to hear as an Atlantic steamship fighting against the storm-waves, and you on board of I it. An engine-house, boiler, furnace and chim ney in the very center of a guupowder mill ! But so it i- ; one mighty axle passes from the engine-house to six griuding-houses—three on the left, and three on the right. We will en ter one of them ; it is about the size of a small cottage ;on the floor is a monster chemist's mortar, and inside it, in lieu of pestle, there roll two might stone w heels, cased with iron tvres, weighing more than 2 tuns each. Forty pounds of mixture—sulphur, niter,and charcoal ; —are put into the mortar. Over end over this the wheels roll for eight hours before it is , considered smooth and fine enough. Every two hours it is " liquored"—that is, a little water is sprinkled over it from the rose of a watering pot. At the end of eight hours, i black-looking demons will appear and carry off this 40 lbs. of meal (is now called " meal ") to the corning house. Here the meal from all the said griuding-houses is brought together, and subjected to immense hydraulic pressure, so as to form "cakes." Each cake is then cut into slices, and each slice forced through a little sieve-like apparatus, which divides it in to "grains." Tne newly-made grain powder ! is, however, still too damp for use, and must be dried. To do this the powder is spread out on trays that hold about 10 lbs each, and I is then placed in the drying-house, which i;, in fact another cottage of wood const ruction. By the side ot this building there isasmallturuace and boiler for generating steam. The steam passes through convoluted pipes within the dry ing-honse, zig-zag between the racks that sup port the trays of gunpowder. Proper vales i are arranged so as to prevent the pipes becotn : ing too hot. Finally the powder has to lie made genteel aud respectable, with a bright polish on its face, fit to appear into society.— This is effected by passing first through the dusting i.oi-e. H re all the fairformed "grains" are sifted away from the "du*t and so very dangerous in this operation that a large wood on crecn is erected all round the house, in order to keep cloud-like dust being wafted by the wind towards anv of the boiler furnaces, for the lightest spark falling from tbechiinney stacks into the dusty cloud would explode the whole. It beirg thus necessary to keep the dust within a limited space, the nrm employed in the work are exposed4o its noxious influence. Lastly, the powder is carried to the glazing bouse. Here it is put into barrels of one Iniu ; dred lbs each, together with a few ounce® of black lea l. Each barrel is fixed on a kind of spit, and made to revolve on its axis until, by mutual abrasion, every grain has the bhu k metallic luster familiar to all who u-e the "shooting iron." We have said the powder is carried from this hon-e to the other house : cow, all these "houses" are but cottages, or rather enclosed wooden sheds, of the lightest po-sible construction : so built, for obvious reasons that should any accident occur the whole thing would blow away The "houses" are separated from each other by many yards, even distant an eight of a mile. By thus separating the buildings there is, of course,less danger iu case of fire. Through the land on which the Gnnpowder Mill is situated there flows a small river—the Colne—and from it are cnt several canals, winch by serpentine windings from wharves to several of the houses, so that when the pow der is sent trcm one to another it is carried by boats, a means of transit attended with the least danger to those transporting so danger ous a material. Advantage is taken of the abundance of water-power to do a great deal of the work at the nulls; indeed, before the demand for pow der became so great, the whole work was put into operation by the motor thus at haod. F >wuers ot various textures are here pro duced, which require grinding from six to eight hours tor each marge of 40 ibs. Every charge tbeu, as an average, occupies seven hours The different qisahues are known as sporting powder, military or government powder, turn ing or bla-ting powder, Ac. :40 lbs of pow der everv seven hours is equal to 960 lbs. a week j this multiplied by 10 the number of grinding bosses a: work, is ecfha! to 9,600 lbs PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH. a week, 85 1-2 cwt., over (or say) 4 1-4 tous j weekly, that is 220 tons annually—22o tons of gunpowder made yearly at one manufactory. The source of power in gunpowder lies in the saltpeter ; this substance, termed nitrate of potash, cousists of nitric acid and potash.— i Now, the nitric acid is, as it were, an immense volume of atmospheric air, coudensed into a solid, ready on demand to assume the air form i |by the touch of a spark. When sulphur and charcoal are mixed with niter (saltpeter), and ■ a spark is applied, the sulphur ignites, setting fire to the charcoal,and concentrated air is sup plied to the substance by the decomposition of the niter. The air condensed therein instantly unites with the combustible, and the result is an intensely hot gaseous compound, two thous and times the bulk of the original solid. The English government gunpowder is com posed 75 parts of niter, 15 charcoal, and 10 of sulphur. The Russian military powder con tains 73 3-4 of niter, 13 1-2 charcoal, and 12 3 4 sulphur. — MARRIAGE. —In the pressure that now weighs upon all persons of limited fortune, sisters, ncices, and daughters,are the only commodities that our friends are willing to bestow upon us for nothing, and which we cannot afford to ac cept, eveu gratuitously. It to have been the same, at a former period, in France. Maitre Jean Picard tells us that, when he was return ing from the funeral of his wife, doing his best to look disconsolate, snch of the ueighbors as had grnwn-np daughters and cousins came to b in, and kindly implored him not to be incon solable, as they could give him a second wife. " Six weeks after," says-Maitre Jean, " I lost my cow, and, though I really grieved on this occasion, not oue of them offered to give me another." It has been recorded by some anti conuubial wag, that when two widowers were once condoling together on the recent bereave ment of their wives, one of them exclaimed, with a sigh, " Well may I bewail my loss, for I had so few differences with dear deceased, that the last day of my marriage was as happy as the first." ' There I surpass you." said li is frieud, " for the ia*t day of mineiras happier LADIES HAVE I.ESS VANITY THAN MEN. — Although woman are accused of being much more vain than men, roy experience has prov ed to me. at least, the contrary. Only in a few instances have I found the ladies as exacting as the men Sontt times I have heard girls, gifted by nature with ail the charms of Hebe, say that they thought I had flattered them.— Now, a truly beautiful woman cannot be done justice to either by painter or poet, ;o that in these eases, instead of flattering, 1 was failing far short of the originals. Once, indeed, a la dy sat to me who considered that her figure was not good : so she asked a friend who had a fine figure to sit for her. The effect of the combination may be imagined. To an artist's eye, at least, it # was putting the portraits of two different persons in one stereoscope, for the figure, whether handsome or otherwise, always harmonizes with the head. Once a '"Spanish lady sat to me, w hen he had absolute ly ma tit ier face to such an extent with varnishes, cosmetics and paints, that she look ed more like a China doli than a human being. Her own complexion was of an exquisite olive brown, as I saw one day when she was not sitting to me. and it was a sin to spoil it in that way. I longed to tell her so, but that would have been a mortal offence ; for, of course, her object was to make me and every one else think that was her complexion." Stick to thf Farm. —lt is a peculiar part of the programme common to high pressure time-, when speculation ruins riot and drives reason and prudence into obscurity, that men forsake the plow and work-bench and resort to selling silks and la e-, toys and rat-traps, tobacco,e'e , for a living. It is useless for a man of prudence and experience to urge that bankruptcy is the fate of ail such ns forsake the farm and resent to the counter for a living. Inexperienced in the business, their failure is a mere problem in process of solution ; the first reaction in c>>;n ; met ■ • and currency will sweep them overboard and they will go down. A successful farmer possessing a family has no more r.ght to forsake hi- well-secured farm-boat for a leaky, shabby, cob web, lace-lined boat, than he has to resort to intemperance and gambling. Stick to your ; firms : your lands wi! never desert yon r r e-*ase to supply your wants, unless you first ue ?er: them. The mercantJe business is a hum bug to whoever s inexperienced in it. Lke gambling, it mn-t be understood to make it pay. and wo to him who l>ets on a card who cannot tell as well what it is by seeing the back as seeing the face. Sfiling a Jiii.r—Bob Harper, who lived on K.tie Creek, in Wilkes county, Ga.. was lined five dollars by Judge]Pooley during court week. B b wa-; a wag, and he said he would have the worth of his money out of the Judge, i It happened the Judge was on hi circuit on horseback in those days.) and passing by Bob's hoo;e on the creek, which was swollen by a heavy rain, he wanted to know if the creek w as swimming. " I reckon it is." said Bab, " tou will get a cold bath if you try it." " I'll strip and make my borseswim it if you will go up the creek and bring my clothes over" said the Judge. I Off went his nether garments and over went the Judge, his horse not going over his knees —the creek being broad but shallow. As the Judge got over, several persons were enjoying the fun from a store piazza, neither Bob nor his clothes making their appearance. The Judge was wraihy, cold, and shivering. Bob was still on his side of the creek bawled ont, i " Judge, you can have your breeches for five dollars." " Bring tbem over," said the Judge : "I'm cold ; ycu may fight at the next court all the week, and I'll not fine you at all." A married monster said he lately dream ed that he bad an angel by his side, but upon j waking found it was nobody but his wife. ' " REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER." [From the Independent, May 25th.] The Organ. BY HENRY WARD BEF.CHER. God has taken care that Religion, which is the mother of all things good, shall itself be served by the npblest servants. And, surely, in music, without which it would seem impos sible to express the deepest and divinest emo tious, He has appointed the worthiest servant of all. For music is itself the language that the soul talks in—the inarticulate speech of feelings too subtle and pure for expression In coarse words. And yet God has joined to music the divine thoughts of hymns. For what music is to feeling, poetry is tothinkiug. And of all poetry none is so spiritual and uni versal as a hymn ; —not alone those which are cast to the mould of some tune, bnt those other noble strains, hymns in spirit and not in form, irregular and untunable, scattered up and down through all fervent and deep relig ious poetry, and which move the heart to mu sic if not the tougue ; —such music as nature inspires in birds, in soft sounds of moving trees and murmuring brooks, wild, and not yet tamed and broken in to the bit and harness of the schools. A hymn is taken out of the hu man soul as Eve was from the side of Adam. And music is the paradise where voice aud hymn walk entranced. Likewise hath it been appointed to the Church of Christ to possess the sublimest in strument of the world—the organ ! It is not so much a single instrument as a multitude of thein, dwelling together—a cathedral of sounds within a cathedral of service. It would seem a.s if a Divine Providence had permitted men. in the outward world, to devise and perfect musical instruments for every quality of sound, and with every degree of power, that then they might be gathered up into one many voiced orchestra. The flute and harp for love, the trumpet for battle, the clarionet for the march, the violin and viols for festive gaieties, but all of them for n !ig ion, when gathered together and ranged by the side of other instruments without names, expressing all the sounds which Nature know s; some of birds, {some of sharp and piercing winds, flying high in the air or sighing around old and desolate places ; some of moving wa ters, of human voices, of nameless sounds, aud all tempered to a harmony with vast and thunder-rolling basses, so that every living thing and every object in Nature hears the sound ot devotion in his own tongue ! If that mysterious element which the hu man wili exents upon a single instrument or orchestra, and which makes a violin speak, like a spirit-voice, instinct with human feeling, lie wanted in an organ, so, too, in the caprice of irritable musicians, the wilful temper, the spiteful neglect, which have always made mu sicians the most inharmonious aud discordant people in the world. To the service of religion has this noblest of ai! instruments been preserved, without be ing defiled by any evil associations of secular service or perversion. And it stands in the churches, with its massive harmonies, to excite and express the noblest feelings which the human soul ever experiences ! But it is to be feared that, except in a few instances, this instrument is almost useless for religious purposes, ui.d in a great many cases positively injurious. Indeed, the me* that plav the organ, in hundreds of instances, seem utterly nnconscion%of its moral functions The service of the organ in nou-Episcopal churches is usually an opening piece or pre lude ; an accompaniment to the singing of choir or congregation ; interludes and a clos ing voluntary. What is the use of the opening organ piece? Is it amusement ? a musical Inxury ? When men enter the house of God upon the Sabbath, they come from care, from busi ness, from secular pleasures and duties. And the two things needed at the beginning of putdic worship, are, fir-t a transition from or dinary thought and feeling into a higher and more devout frame of mind, and, secondly, a unity of feeling; a fellowship in the whole assembly. Now, it is in the powef of music, to arrest the attention, to change the current of feeling, "to draw off the thoughts from common things, and to give to the mind, if not a religious tone, yet a state higher than before, and froiu which the tran-ition to wor -hip will be easy and natural. Nothing will hr ng men into a state of fet ling common to all sooner than fit organ music. This, then, is the object of the opening piece. Upon ca tering "he house of G d there as it were, a a screen of sonnd rolled down between the audience and the outward wor!! Every susceptible nature is drawnoofu f from sordid or sad thoughts, the careless arc inter ested, and the attention of all is attracted to a common influence which is moulding them gently to holy thoughts and fee'irgs. Of course this object will determine the fitness of an openitcr piece. It may be slow and -oft ; it tuay be grand and majestic ; it may be per suasive and soothing ; or it may be jubilant, as celebrating the incoming of Christ's IF.} 1 But the end to be gaintd is the hearts of the audier.ee. not the ears of connoisseurs ! That is good wiiich gains the audience to a prepar ation for worship, and ouiy that is good. No man that knows the almost omnipotent power of association, will greet the audience with marches, or opera airs, which take the thoughts right back to tl-e world. Neman either, who has religious sensibility, will take snch a time laboriously to perform intricate pieces, which are. perhaps, master-pieces of skill, Lot n hieh are about as fit for the church as Paradise Lost would be for a hymn. This opening or gan-piece. admits of as great a range of use fulness as any service ot music in the church. Ana it is a thing to be studied and remedied. If organ-playing is but organ diversion in chnrch. if it is only a stupendous method of gratifying the taste, the organ had better be silenced. But if the organist feels the power of the Sabbath day; if it lifts its Dgbt upon him as the day whkh brought salvation to the world, and fills his sou' with rejoicings and gratitode, be will be able upoe so stately an instrument to pour forth strains that will win the audience to sympathy with him. A BEAUTIFUL INCIDENT. —WiIIiam IV expir ed about midnight, if we remember right, at Wiudsor Palace. The Archbishop of Canter bury, with other peers and high functionaries of the kingdom, w ere in attendance. As soon as the "sceptre had departed " with the last breath of the king, the Archbishop quitted Windsor Castle and made his way with all 1 ; possible speed to Kensington Palace, the resi i deuce at that time of the Princess, (already by the law of succession, Qneeu) Victoria.— ' He arrived long before daylight, announced himself, and requested u interview with the I Princess. She hastily attired herself, and met the venerable prelate iu her room. He iu ! i formed her of the demise of William, and ' j formally aunouneed to her that she was iu law and right, successor to the deceased monarch. 1 [ " The sovereignty of the most powerful nation of the earth lay at the feet of a girl of eigh ■ • teen." She was de jure, queen of the only 1 realm, in fact or history, "on which the sun never sets." She was deeply agitated at tlie formidable words, so deeply fraught with bless ing or calamity. The first words she was able to utter were these : "I a;kyour prayers in my behalf." They kneeled together, and Victoria inaugurated her reign, like the young King of Israel in olden time, by asking from ! the most High, who rnleth in the kingdom of men, cn understanding heart to judge sogreat ' a people, who could not be numbered oreouut ■ | ed for multitude. The sequel of her reign has been worthy of such a beginning. Every throne in Europe lias tottered since that day. Most of thein 1 have been for a lime overturned. That of England was never so firmly seated in loyalty and love of the people as at this hour. Queen Victoria enjoys a personal influence, too—a heartfelt homage paid to her as a wife, a mother, a friend and benefactor to the poor, a Christian woman—incomparably milder and greater than that of any monarch now reign ing. She is loved at home aud admired abroad. STEADINESS OF PURPOSE. —It overcomes dif ficulties—not with a rush and a shout, but one by one they melt away before its incessant pre>;ure, as icebergs before the steady radiauce 1 of the sun. It gives one the strength of a happy con- 1 science. A weather cock of a man whittling about with everv breeze, cannot have true steadiness of mind. Self dissatisfaction wor ries and annoys him ; but a cheerful vigor and [ energy grows out of an iutel igent and unvio- j lating purpose. It gives dignity and honor to character Men cannot but admire the mind that marches stiadily on through sunshine and shade, calm ; aud storm, smiles and frowns ; glad of lavor, but pressing on without it ; thankful for aid, ] but fixed on advancing at mi events ; such tnen establish for themselves a character which can not but be seen and honored. It gives success. In any enterprise which is not dow : right madness, such a man must succeed. He will not reach his ends at a leap, but he will reach them. He moves nut rapid ly, but sorely. When you want to find him by-arid ly, you know where to look You wi.l look at the topmost rounds of the ladder of success, and you will find Liui about there somewhere. THE WAY LADIES OVERDRESS IN TRAVEL-ING I —Our wives aud daughters lose three-fourths of the plea-nres of summer travel, by the in- j excusable, the execrable perversion of true taste and common sen-e. in dressing for a rail car or a steamboat as if they were goini to a court reception. It docs seem that they have no more sense of the fitness of things than idiots. Cannot some few gentlemen hare their own wav for once, and thereby set the fashion ; by dressing their families for a summer trav.! ic plain, sid -Tantia! nmeats, allowing no ; member anything beyond what a small carpet I6g would contain, and x hich should be the j S't.e article which each one was to t;.ke care of? I>t us all "put ourselves U]on rmr he havior." and not on our dress. The fact is. the clerks and proprietors of hoteis, the cap tains of steamboats, and the conductors of ; railroads, see at the very first glance the real stmlus of a traveller ; the dullest chambermaid, the most stnpid cabin boy and the laziest wait er. are neither dull, nor stupid, nor lazy, nor erring, either, in the estimate they make of jeopte, as if by intuition A TRUE SENTIMENT. —Virtue, in the pre sent, life, perhaps never re-j]PO large and t x quisite a reward, a- when it goes to enhance the plea;ures of love. None but the virtue have power to admit more than a tran-ient, pa--ioab\ capricious joy ; a joy t lint alights i upon a honr ; and h uone in search of ot'ur sweets. Hut sou'- franz'it with goodness fi-.d. that every noble sentiment, every iiL'h pr ci ple, every generous energv. every grace, every -oftcess, ami every fparkling adornment of mind or person, when it meets its correspond ing sentiment, and principles, and purpose.and grace, and beauty, ;n the Leis g b< loved, be comes a powerjincalculab'y productive ;so that every pleasure.creates and recreates it=elf, a a thousand.time', at >i without end. If the beneficence of the Supreme i- seen, stiff .-ively sheddiDg its glories over the ample fields of the material world, and is mild'y reflected from myriads of points through earth and air, art not its beams brought to an intensity np a that circle, wherein virtuous love takes its Lh.-s?— T'.mp'e of Mildutrta. -•> 6®- "Shall I have, your hand?" said an exquisite to a belle, as the dacce w as about to commence " With all my heart," was the soft response. HEAET DISEASE. —An exchange say*, the bct care for palp tion of the heart, i to leave off bogging and kis-ing the girls. If th:s '* tba only remedy Hat can be produced, we for one, say let 'er pa'pitate ! VOL. XX. XO. 8. Circumstantial Evidence, Joe Brace WHS a farmer's son in the town of W , ami by his tricks, ami jjames, and wild pranks, caused his watchful " parientu" no little trouble, sometimes. It happened on one occasion, that Master Joe was caught in some misdemeanor, and as a punishment for the satne had been compelled to hoc in the corn-field until such time as the said " patient"' would judge proper that he should be released. Joe, like a dutiful son, took his hoe, and straightway commenced sad havoc among tt>c weeds which obstructed the corn. Dinner time came and passed by, and still no call for poor Joe, who began to think his punishment was " greater than he could bear," but still he toiled, expecting every moment to hear the summons which would release him, for a time, at least, from Ids task. But there was no such good luck for him. The old man determined that he should " sweat it out," us lie termed it ; and stretching himself on the lounge in the-back room, was soon fast asleep. Joe labored faithfully till three o'clock, when, hunger getting the better of duty, he resolved to get something to "stay his stomach *' at ail hazards. So dropping his hoe, he steered cautiously towards the house ; and entering J the back door, succeeded in reaching the pan try without detection—the old man being i asleep, and the other portion of the household being eugnged with company in the front part of the bouse who had arrived a few minutes before. On entering he commenced an attack on a mince pie that had been set before the j window to cool, being just out of the oven. When he had about half demolished the pie, and was thinking of some means to escape detection, his meditations were disturbed by something coming in contact with his l.mbs.— On looking down, he saw the favorite {Missy, who had stolen in at the door, and vmi rub bing herself, and purring, as if expressing her entire satisfaction at the prodding. Ou per ceiving her, he thought of a plan which he j immediately put into execution Grasping her fore legs, he daubed them about in the remain ing pai t of the pic, and placing her on the shelf, left the pantry, the cat jumping to the floor and following him. leaving her tracks of course both on the shelf and on the floor—- Joe now made immediate haste for the field, I refreshed by his " bite," and was soou diligent ly at work. lie had been hoeing but a short time, when hearing a noise in the rear, he looked up and saw the old man coming with Tabby under one aim, and his gun over his shoulder.— Neither spoke ; the old man passing by, and proceeding round behind a knoll which hid i him from ooe'.s view. Joe leaned on his hoe for a moment, listen ing. when the silence was suddenly disturbed by the report of a gun, mingled with the screeching* of a cat, plainly intimating what had been the fate of poor pussy. Jn a mo ment more, the old man re-appeared with his gun in his band, the smoke .-till curling from the barrel : and as he passed by his laboring hopeful, if he had not been a little hard of hearing be might have heard:— There got s imother viciim to circumstantial evidence. A N";:ORO Discvsstox ABOUT EGGS. —Geneva, the lovely village ou Seneca Lake, furnishes the following specimen of Parliamentary rul ing : '• In the fairest village of Western New Vo:k the "culled passeus," in emulation of their white brethren, formed a debating socie ty for the purposed improving their minds by the disenssion of instructive and entertaining 'topics. The deliberations of the society were presided over by a venerable darkey, who per formed his duties with the ntmost dignity pe culiar to his color. The subject for the dis cus-ion on the occasion of which we write was: "What rm de mnddir of de chicken*—de hen trot lay de eggs, or de hen wot hatchesdc chick T* "The question was warm'y debated, and many reasons pro and eon wire urged and . combatted by the excited disputants. Those in fuvor of the latter proposition wire evi dently in the majority, and the j resident made no attempt to conceal that Lis sympathies w-tre with the dominant party. At length an in teiidarkey ro-e from the majority sida anj begged leave to state a proposition to this (ffect: •• * Spose,** said he, " dat you set one dozen duck eggs under hen. ami dry batch, w h.cli am de mttddor—de duck or de hen ?" Tis w - a- a p'i-er. was well put, and ron | pln--cd the other : de. even staggering the president, who plainly saw the force of the argument, l ot had committed l:m*e!f too far to vield without a struggle : so, after cogita ting and scratching IJ.S w ola b-w moments, a bright idea struck him. 11: ing from his chair in ail the pride of coascions superiority, he announced. " ' Dnck am not lefore de house ; chickens am de question ; defore I rule de docks out and do it he did, to the complete overthrow of iiis opponents." HAmxr?? :>- C.'tiUHioOß —lt i woidsrfnl how hap: ice-- nsed to be. It lay alsiut, like the sunshine, within arm's length of every body. It G-ed to grow in the fieid ;we have fonnd it there, but rot lately. Some times five speckled egg- in a gr ■-▼ nest constituted it ; soaM-tian four beautiful ones it the I.lacs. It 'j-ed to vw'ro in the brook-, and turn up its sil very and mottled -id s, like a |M>iished little sul re spr.r kle I w ih the color of fame, which is gene: a"y understood to lie crim-on. We have found it many a time b*side a mossy stone, when it looked viry mr.ch I ke ? first spr.ng flower : we issve sen it rnsi* down in the showe-, and heard it dMmd in the ruin. What a world uf it usrd to lie r-iwded into a Satur day abe noon 1 An old emepnper. with cedar rib, a tail bke three hn&aw*. -• d a |eaoj' worth of twin-*, h ire c.TwtHimti i many a tune —that is, many sno'-/ time—ttve entire stock in trade of one jc rf'-crir I appy. T*:r most dng n-n- of wild beast* is a alar dvr * ; of flme o:.**, a fl.jr* r- r