OIE DOLLAR PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE TOAVANDA: Thursday Morning, September 29,1859. £ekrltV Poctrn. UNNOTICED HEROES. AYoaO* hare their btawomv which wc nu'er Iwliolil And skici their worlds wlunw lipht is never show n, Ocean Its treasures of anßoted p-id. And earth Ucr heroes that are aU unknown. You meet tlicw as you pass, a::d heed them not; You may not know what hosts before them fell; You may not couut the Yiattles they have fought— The wreaths that erowa them are invisible. Yet they have louglit ami c*>u<iuered : they have bent Night alter night beside tlas coach of pain. They have couffouted scorn and dealh, and lent Their blood to make the stricken whole again. They have 'been pilgrims to that desert shiinc Which S>rrows rears in the bleak realm, Despair; Oft have tfey struggled in tlut gloomy mine W here only dust is made the toiler's share. They have beheld their sweetest hopes decay ; Oft have they seen their brightest dreams depart; Have seen their golden idols turned to clay, And many bear within a broken heart. Their veiled and mighty scars they ever Iear Those scar* that lie decp-bnmed into the soul, Won where the darning eyes of vengeance glare. And the tumultuous tiros of passion roil. They have l-eeu victors! tlicy have conquered th Lis Earth's dreaded ll.uiiiibais could never w:u ; They have struck down the sword Ambition wields. And trampled l.u-t and chained the hands of r-Lu. They have won captives 1 their sweet tones have brought The erring !>ack to Virtue's flowery path ; Their own and others' hearts s-nhmission taught To Hod's high w ill, ar.d smoothed the brow of wrath. They drink the dregs of trembling ; but their moans And anguished wails they stitie ia the breast; They say there is au Ear that hoars their gioans, And in liis lo use the weary will liud rest. Want, grief, the scorn of men. on them descend— They only say it is Hi- righteous will; With chastened spirits to that will they bend. Relieving, striv mg. hoping, loving still. O, ilure are daily martyrdoms that we Heed not—the sufferers are to us unknown, lhit angels from the walls of Eden see How Hioriouaare the laurels tlrey have won! ifilisctlUitmis. Pagan Idea of the Divinity. Nature teaches the existence of a Supreme l'eitrg', but only as through a glass darkly.- Mythology, the Pagan theology, is nothing but a "transcript of human nature, expressed iu words. The passions which it delineates, are called gods by the Pagans, and worshipped as beinsrs ruling the events of the world, and the actions of man. Philosophers and Christians pay no homage to a heathen I'anthvon. bnt speak of it merely as a tbsue of ingenious fic tions. Probably. Homer did not behove that the Jove whom he described, was the Sover eign eternal God. for he assigns a place of birth to him. Every scholar knows that S o rates, I'lato, Xenocrates, aud many others, lom among Pagans, were opjiosed to iuolatry. One can safely assert, that Homer and his fol lowers were Deists iu principle, acknow icdg g one Gvhl alone : otherwise, how could they al low mortals to defeat Mars iu battle, or Jove in counsel? Yet this frequently occurs ; but the common people, in their ignorance, could not pierce the mist of metaphor,aud learn the truth that was glistening beyond. It wa-' re served for Christianity to reveal the nutty of the Godhead to the w >rld, without distinction of talent or know ledge. Christ has choseu the weak, the forsaken, the unknown, aud the ig norant as heirs of diviue wisdom. The real Mythological notion of Deity, is on! v an assemblage of various characters. The classic theology, was moulded entirely by the ooets. We must not expect to look lor theol ogi in a heathen Pantheon, but simply the em bodiment of human passion Each Deity, in Mythology, has generally one or two prevail ing attributes. Jove is the attribute of sover eignty, dignity and power; Apollo is refine ment ; aud Mercury is a watch-word of reason and enterprise. Venus Is the Goddess of Beauty, Queen of Smiles. Mother of Love, and Mistress of the Graces and Pleasures Juno is the ideal image of conjugal solicitude, often called Jealously,bat her jcaiuusiy is found ed oo reason ; aud shedispiays her iufiaeuce in endeavoring to remove from !kt family every intruder whose designs are not virtoous. N - tune, the G*xl of the Sea. is emblematic of eternity, and the other sublime thoughts con nected with tue troubled or calm deep. Ceres, the Goudcss of Agriculture, is typical of vege table nature, whose laws afford instruction from the loftiest cedar down to the mode-t lily, which without labor or toil, .-hiues mora brightly than the most glorious utouarah. Di ana. tbe chaste goddess, is au cmbietu of fo toalc sjirituaiity. Mars is the god of battle, aud the great arbiter of international laws, •and avecger of broken treaties, (wonhl it not please his majesty ihe king."or god of tbe lat tieg, Mars, to vail upon his Fretich majesty; Louis Napoleoo, tic vmp. ror, ar.d ask fr< :a him an explanation, why did he violate so tuaay Lrvaties aud solemn pledges, and aw: g ujmu him all the wrongs suffered by the lul jaus trorn the bands of this ptywr I) aud violated frontiers. V ulcau is the god o! fire, the euiblcru of hocest iai-or, as well of art, the friend of the mechanic aud suuth, and the patrooof tbe elemeutary geaioaof Vesta is the go*hhvs of the welcome tiraadeor hearth, she an eaif>K-matic of biHisehoW pie rity and domestic k>rc ; among the Greeks her pricstcssv? wi re widows. Beyond Uranus and Ti'oea. the plilosopbers p'acctt an niv kiiowit-od, to which as altar was erected at Athens. IwO first god- were net worshipped as much as much as the latter Piietry scoot ed to have chiefly adopted the ttdvc gods ot the re.gn of Jcuiter Tne uakuoau goo a-s coufiucd, almost wholly, to the ph.iosophcrs.— The eoujmou people, ou erecting the altar to the same, did uot reliuquiah their secondary idols. >'otwithstanding the teachings ot So crates. the populace adhered to the worship ot the Pagan Pautheou. It was reserved lor the Jews, that degraded and stiff-necked people, the jest and mark of the scorn of nations, to introduce the unknown god to the knowledge of the ignorant classes. When St. Paul, the great Apostle of the Uautilcn, visited Athens and proceeded to the Pynx, and casting his eyes upou Acropolis, that inouotaiu of temples and statues, and on that city, the field of shrines, to the Olympian gods, he turned to his audience and exclaimed : ' Ye uicn of Ath ens, 1 percieve that in all things you are too 1 superstitious 1" Such a statement as this, thunderstruck the proud Greeks. The mission ary of the cross condemned the use of build ings and images to the Lord of heaven and earth, lie said that he could even declare to j them, the unknown God whom they ignorant j !y worshipped. This announcement was doub- ; ly astounding to the multitude. St. Paul ad dressed his preaching chiefly to the ignorant, and such as were most oppressed by the ex pense and trouble of heathenish worship and sacrifices, lie consoled them with an idea of thel>eity, who required only the consecration of the heart. From that moment the uufor -1 tunatc slaves of Polytheism were liberated from their bonds. Instead of giving their earnings and the tribute of their labor to a set of idle priests aud Pythonesses, they preserved them for their family. St. Paul, who was well skilled in all the learning of the Greeks, did not scruple to quote authors of a mythological nature. In speaking of the Cretans, in the twelfth verse of the first chapter of the Epis tle to Titus, he cites a line from Epimenidcs : " Tne Cretans arc always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies." He calls Epimenidcs a brother ! prophet, but tLis word here, signifies poet. It ! is evident, that the object of the Apostle was, | to coulinc the adoration ot the world to one God. without sacrifices or other inventions of priest craft. Here we have a fine contrast of i the mythological aud Christian idea of Divio- i it v. The former is fictitious, the latter, real : the one reveals more human passion : the oth er declares the unknown God and Father in Heaven. Mythology, as a text book of me taphors, and figures of speech, is very useful. In literature and art. mythology, at the ores- ' cut day, confers attractions to the poet, and the chisseliug of the sculptor. Mythology, or the Pagan theology, in the hand's of Homer, was forced to contribute for the advancement of civilization. The igno- ■ ranee and superstition caused by Paganism, < was unable to check the progrcssof the mighty i analysis iu which its Thesopliy was subjected, flie multitude made sacrifices to retiueinent, j almost without knowing it. Homer s poems became objects of adoration, better guarded than many statues of the gods. His genius may be considered as the mainspring of Gre cian talent. Alexander the Great, carried the Iliad through all his campaigns, preserved in a golden bos. The consequence of thi< was that wherever the conqueror proceeded, -the nations were obliged to become civ or to pay a tribute. It is ludricoos to sec t e dif ference between the conquests ot Alexander and those ot Mahomet. luo former .-pre;..; civilization, the latter diffused lunatic..-ui, tyr anny, iguoruuee aud burbam-m, by the sciiue ter Let ns cast a glance at the third century before the Christian era, and watch the pro gress of the refinement propagated by the he ro of Maccdou. Ail nations that professed a love of learning and art, were allowed to re . taiu the privileges ot Greek citizenship.— Among the nations that were desiiuuse ; ad iug civil zatiou we find the Jews. Uudur the Syro-Macedonian empire the Israelites erected ! colleges in Palestine, aud pursued tue study of the classics. >Munv Greek cities were bai.t iu Syria, until the Hellenic language became - > ! common that the Jews themselves adopted it 'in their writings. The influence of these my riads of native Greeks in the Holy Land must not be overlooked. Many philosophers from i Greece cauve and resided around Mt. /ion Coder litis in A notice the iuvtsligaliou of the record aof autnjuity was renewed. Public de i bates were allowed, the temple itself became n place of dispute. Autioch, a great city tbe ' capito! of Syria, and the third city iu the , world, was the principal asylum and resort of i the followers of Christ, and here they wire first oatoed Christians. St. Lake and Saint i Chrysostom were natives of Autioch. i The advent of Christ not only satisfied the i expectations of the Jews, but crowned the ! longings of the heathen Sages, t .ugs, audi prophets, as the Bible asserts.h i! bo t> anx is '!v awaiting the birth of our Saviour. When i the Star of Belheihem arose, wise men came from the East to Jerusale .i, aud visite 1 the iu- 1 , carnation of God the Sou, the infant Il dceui , cr. lying in a manger. Homer's works are the earliest example of i the adaption of mythology to poetry, in a ; t erarv sense. Before his time, were hymns t > the goD. bat theo-e were mere Paean eonqwai- - f trotrs, exciting l no emotion but that of Idol a- j 1 trv. lie machinery, as an assistant to ( art, in revealing these springs of human char acter and action Though the inference of the ' gods is described as bcn.g open. still the cause , oppcars to the reason none the less secret an i I iuvidUe. Iu the brst bo*<k, Ap->l!o desccuds | to ac .ouipiish the prayer of a priest. I •- Vn< irjwd. Lite I AltA ir\* O uNU ty 1. ; a-hi-. the *'•:*- .at a.gnd; K. n< v<ii. hi- - 'mt -hafts rv>o>Ti.l. lirvathiujr fr-wnee, a tekhiea s b* sfiivaU, I Awl darfcwn*. iwth-d 4in.a he h-wJ. i rik- £>>'! ;u view, Wlf Ufci l tu Ao-uilv kW, And hissui-. i3> the roati..r.s! fate* Uth.w." In tlii- dewv'rip;ion, Apollois iutroluc 1 iu j glowing colors, before the uiind ot the reader, , t but at the same time, the Greeks, to wijotn the object of Apollo's revenge appear equal lv usuviw ous ami unaware of the vision.— Horuer in fact guides the death olow to t.:o 'divinityof the Pagan Deitv. by rendering them the there eoblftus of human passion, oc natural action. opioevd a..J often defeated by j mortal*.— IVrutt* f:r ike Jr.: PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWA.ND.L, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O MEARA GOODRICH. " K.EARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QEARTF-R." Practical Advice. HOW CAN A MECHANIC HE CERTAIN OF SHOCKS*. First lot him enter a trade for which ho has a love. Thou, let him resolve that he will be content with no subordinate position in that trade. Let him consider that t lie first duty that he owes to himself is to make himself em inent in his avocation, and make everything bend to the attainment of that eminence.— TYheu he has succeeded in this, constant em ployment, high wages, aud finally competence, if not wealth, will be sure to follow. Let us again caution parents that nothing is more destructive to their sons that to place ' them at trades and avocations lor which those sons have no natural tastes, if you wish your children to become skillful and expert you must furnish thein with employment which is congenial to their desires. A failure in doing so is the greatest mistake which can be com mitted. If parents have not sufficient intelli gence to discover what the natural tastes of their children best qualify them for, let them apply to those friends who have observed their children and who know their procivities bet ter tliau themselves. Were this doctrine car ried out, industrial society would soon change places, to the advantage of individuals, as well as that of the community. Mauv clergymen, physicians and lawyers, would leave positions iu which they never can be successful, and engage in something more congenial to their tastes, and wherein they could work with profit to themselves and ben efit to their fellow-men. Many a mechanic who is chafing at his ill-adopted employment, and who is conscious of a germ within hiui which might be developed in a different sphere of usefulness, would leave his shop and 4be come the adviser of his fellows and the ruler of iuen. The only res|>eetable occupation which there is for au individual is that for which he has the be>t natural adaption. It lie takes any other he can neither make himself respectable nor wealthy. What he can do best is the most appropriate occupation for him. Letter, far better is it to be at the head of any trade that at the foot of any profession. In the former position, there is usefulness and profit : in the latter, nothing but mortification, pover ty and uselessuess. Let our mechanics pon der upou these suggestions. Let tiieui resolve to make themselves eminent iu the trade to which they are engaged, and, our word for it, they never need complain or want of employ ment, or lack of rcuumeration. But if I hey couteut themselves with mediocrity they will certainly be unsuccessful, because skill, not mere labor, is the criterion of profit.— MtcM .1 <{ I'cnUl t{. IT'S WHAT VOL* SPEND. —" It's what thee 'll spend, my son," said a sage old Quaker, not what thee 'il make, which will decide whether thee's to be rich or uot." This was only Frank lin's advice in another form : " Take care of Luc p*.' ii.es, afiJ the pounds \s*il t iko care o! themselves." A eotemporary remarks; —"Men are continually indulging in small expenses, saying to themselves that it is only a trifle, yet, forgetting that the aggregate is ser. i-. that even the sea shore is uiailc up of petty grains ot sand, ieu cent- a day, cveu, i thiriv -'x dollars aud a half a year, aud that is the interest of a capital of six hundred dol lars. " The tnau that saves ten cents a day only is so much richer than him wi. > docs not, as if he ow ned a life estate iu a house worth six hundred dollars. Every sixteen years Mewts a day becomes six hundred dollars, aud if iti vested properly doc-s not take half that time Cut U-u cents a day is child's play, - uoe w ill exclaim. Well, then, Joliu Jacob Astor u-cd to say that when a man, who wishes to !>e rich, has saved ten thousand dollars, he has won half the lrnttic. Not that Actor thought leu thousand dollars much ; but he knew that, in uiak...g such a sum a man acquired habits of prudent ccouomy, which would constantly keep him advancing in wealth. ll.w many, h.<w evtr, spend ten thousand d-dlarsin a few year--, iu extra expenses, and ou looking back, can not led, as ituy say, 'where tue money went to.' To save is the golden rule to get rich.— To squander, cveu small sums, is the first step toward the poor house." "THE SHADOWS T.E O.is?. 9 —ln this great world i>f sunshine and shadow wc are constant ly casting shadows on thijsc around u?. and rtciiving .diadc-ws turn them iu rtturu. There is no pathway iu life which is not sometimes in the shade, and there is no one who walks over these paths, it matters not which way tfeev tend, who does not now aud then cast his shadow with the rest. How often do wc. by a ui re thoughtless word or a car*, it --s act, cast a shadow on some L art which is longing for sunlight. How often does the husband by a cool greeting. ca>t a g ■ n over tlie hajpy. trc.sting !Ji"C of his y* ,:xg fih, v* ,n> f il iii.iy be h;u> wailed auxiousiy for Lite first NBtd ot his fiNitstcjis t > give ...ui aj o i u> wGcoiue lo hi home. How often has the jmrcnt, by a I arsii re}>r.K>f, chilled the ever Rowing spring of con fidence and love which Lsbuhl ing up from the fonntaius of the he-irt of the Huiocent (walticr at hi< knee. How often are Lite bright ray s of te>r from the ciiagi: g grasp e>f the s uls v-f thetsc worn out by p .crty aud by the ncver-euding confliet eif 'c.fe, by the stiuging ridicule or the sordid avarice of w itom the world honors—aye, ' rt- to honor How often 1 docs the child—cv, u after it has grown to the fui! bloom of manl.ood, and is clad in garments of strength aud beauty—bring S-TTOW to the jxir* !:t already tottering oh the brink of eterni ty. Tlieu beware, lest you cast a ihsqvr shadow o'viW those which are already darkening his happiness. The shadows we cast —can we escape them ? Can we kx>k lek. sswe walk on in life's journey, ar.d sc-e no shadowy mark about our footprints ? M 'sos, seeing a chap hoeing ami anoth er mow: ig, su the same field, remark- 1 tnat their occupations were derided y S'-.-ervr-gea- Parting Interview between Emmet and his Betrothed. Emmot was nnfortuuatcly betrayed by ene mies, in nn attempt to emancipate his conn tryiiicnt from tyranny and oppression. He was therefore convicted of the crime of treas on. and .sentenced to bo executed. The evening before his death, while the workmen were busy with the scaffold, a voting ; lady was ushered Into the dungeon. It was j the gill who he so fondly loved and who had j now come to bid linn an eternal farewell. Ik was leaning iu a melancholy mood against the window frame of his prison, and the heavy clanking of his chains smote dismally on her heart. This interview was bitterly affecting, ami melted even the callous soul of the jailor. , As for Emmet, he wept, utul spoke little ; but j as he pressed his beloved in silence to Lis heart j his countenance betrayed his emotions. In a loud voice, half choked by angui-h, he be- i sought her uot to f rget him ; he reminded j her of their former happiness, ot the long past days of their childhood, and concluded by re- j ; questing her sometimes to visit the scene-; 1 • where tt>eir fancy was spent, and though the world might repeat his name with scorn, to j cling to his memory with affection At that mo- ( j meat the evening Del! |>calcd from the neigh boring church. Emmet started at the sonnd ; j i and be felt that this would be the last time i that lie should hear its dismal echoes, he fold- j ed his beloved still closer to his bosom, and > bent over her sinking form with eyes stream ing with tears of affection. The turnkey en tend -it the moment, and, as though ashamed of a temporal betrayal of sympathy, dashed the rising drop from his eye, a frown again lowered on his countenance. The man mean- j while approached to tear the lady from his j • embrace. Overpowered by his feelings, lie could make no resistance, but as lie gloomily ' released her from his hold, he gave iter a min iature >f himself, and with this parting token ' of attachment, imprinted the last kis.-es of a ; dying man upon her lips. On gaining the 1 door, she turned rental as if to gaze on the 1 object of her widowed love. lie canght her ' eye as .he retired ; it was but for a moment : : j the dinigeou door swung bark on its liingis, ' ] 1 and as it closed after her, iuformed him too ; 1 ! snrcly,-that they had met for the last time up- : on earth. ' i; ! ; Sii >oting Stars —lt has been the subject of considerable speculation, whether the bodies j kuown as shooting stars owe their origin to i | violent action at the moou's surface. Observ- j or- are agreed, however, that the surface of j the uioon offers no evidence of great agitation, j The indentations of the surface remained un changed, and nophcuoineuu have.itis believed, been seen, which indicate the existence of vol- . canoes, which might discharge small bodies i with great force, and thus give rise to the sat- |' effitW at the earth. The case is widely differ ent a< regards the sun. Changes of uioraious ! uiagnituJ are continually witness*. 1 on its sur- j face, which indicate the action of forces agila- j ting the mass probably in a st i!e of fluidity | If body were thrown up from the .-un's sur- ! , face, it must, omitting alt consideration of the ' pianets, describe an eclipse having the ceutr* 1 of the sun, iu oue of the ioei; and thus, Ihjw- j ever great the force by which the b ly may be s ipp >- 1 to h..ve been discharged, it must return to the sun, -and impinging upon it. woukl uot perform even one entire revolution. I; however, the action of the other jdancts eon | - *.ercJ, ami especially of Jupiter, it seems by 1 no meav.s imjs>--ih!e that, in returning, a bo*ly | , so di- '.arged m-ght clear the sun. and perform many complete revoiut ions around the primary, la explanation of the causa of the sudden dis app.aruuce el shooting stars, it is kuowu that > a miuufe brilliant sjot ot light is seen tutrav- 1 ! t r-e a portion of tbe heavens with great rapid itir. and it then disappears, often very sudueu ly. Turec hypotheses may be used to account i for this most curious phenomenon. First, the | ' lj*.Kiy shines by it own light, and thou explodes i ke a sky-rocket, breaking into minute frag I incuts too small to le any longer visible to the ; naked eve Second, such alxxly havingslione j by its owu light, suddenly eeuscs to be iutui- I 1 .- lu.rd, Hie body shiiica by UIC qcileetod ( | light of the sun, and cea-.s lo be v:-iblc by its | pr-.si; g into the earth's shadow, or, in other | word.-, is eclipsed. •" The Got den Days of \om;.— WHAT A feeling of regret steals over the heart, as tin I joyiuis days of y*>alii tiii as kawafte cire.nu- i acro-ss our imagination to think that they are i ! lost forever. When the rare opportunity offers ( i its-lf of snatching a few moments f*>r eontem plation from the toils of the bu>y world, how i readily do we embrace it, brief though il b*-, I to iaduigo iu tlie pleasing rcno uibrunce ui the i past, to compare it with trie present, and tru-t , ' For a bright realization of" things br ; g sighed j ' >r," in the futur* ! Wuat a triorioos thing is youth ! full of warm eeafiiiaacc, high Ik>{k-s, I and glorious feeling, from the heart l:ke a gu-ii of music from an ange.'s harp How keen are j its enjoyments, Imw exquisite its apprceia*i<a j of the tr ie au*l beautiful ! What music is j tin re to compare with the outpourings of a ■ ' y.v.:!ifnl aud gvueroos heart jntuuj ileal by a' n lie ambiliou iai|SMuie to climb ! liul tne , tr.uo.kut dream of youth -.><u fades away ; j a...s .' how soOti ; age coiues > rupzg on j ' us so imjwrcrptibty. that we start an I > : ghfor day" now lost, when we feel the icy hand nj j on u< that " comes to claim n- for it-. >v " j With time we begtu to analyze OaracMOtM j jt-xaiuiue the p>etais of the flower of our youth and let the odor:- escape, oue by one, tiw. fadc aud fall, and the withered stem u'oue is i ■ left iu the gazer's hand. IKY* It may seem a paradox, but it is nev ertheless the truth, that hit a man tqioa what j evtr of the b*.dy you will, the blow is sure . to go against tae stomach. Lord Byron once said: "Yoa n°*er know a man's temper until you have been a- i | prisoned oa board of ash. t with L.j;, o; a j I woaaa nctil voa Lave married btr." Forgive the Living. —We forgive those who have wronged us in thought, word or deed when they arc laid to their final rest —wi- spcak kindly, tenderly, even lovely —if we speak at all—removing the veil which has hitherto obsenred so much of their life's- harmony and sweetness, at the same time drawing it over those faults aud foibles, temptations and fail ures, which are strewn so thickly in our path way, written so indelibly in our heart's history. Wc never seek to penetrate this vail, nor even wish to. Aud why? 'limy have passed from earth forever. Their bodies are mouldering iu tlie cold silent tomb. This is sufficient. It seems to forbid all entertainment, much more expression, of aught but good-will and kindly sympathy for the dead. But this is real, true hearted, benevolent forgiveness? No! it is not worthy of the uainc. Forgive the Jiving —those who mingle with you in the daily walks and avocations of life ; they whose lives you may cheer, beautify, yea, ennoble if you will.— Forgive a light, an angry word, h*t it not rankle iu thy Ikjsoiii till a lire be kindled, which, if nourished, will burn thine inmost soul—unfit ting thee to go out among thy fellow men lest they imbibe of tlie unrest .and angry turbulence of thy spirit—nnfitting thee for all high, holy heaven-born aspirations—unfitting thee for life, death, and a blessed immortality. Forgive though a wound be made causing all thy future iu this world to be covered with a heavy pall. Forgive ! taking for thy cxanq V the nn ck and lowly Je-us, then shall be gathered in the "crown of thy rejoicing " jewels w hose lustre and brilliancy exceed ail mortal thought.— " For if ye forgive men their trespn.-.-e>. your Heavenly Father will al>o forgive you."—li - re, I AWr YorLrr. The Bank ok England. —The buildings j cover about three acres of ground. Many of its rooms arc copied from the classic molels of} Greece and lLiue. The employees number about one thousand. Several of the officers i reside in the bank. The notes redeemed each ; day are elteckcd, canceled and pnt away ia IMIXOS. After keeping them ten years thev are burned. The accumulation of the last ten years, now in the vaults of the bank, amount to three thonsand millions of |>ounds ; and yet any of these notes can be referred to iu a min ute. and the history of it- iisne and its return given. The bank does all its own printing.aud several presses are kepi busy. Everything is done by machinery—the note is not touched by the j>eu before it goes out. I held in mv j hand, yesterday, one note for a inilliou of sov ereigns I i Iu the bullion-room iugots of gold were piled i up like cords ot wood, and silver bars in vast ! mountains. The machines for detecting light j coin, and for catting them, are exceedingly ! curious and yet simple. Every banker's de }>osit is weighed and all the light pieces cut nearly in two and returned the next day. The -} -tem of the bank is as pcifeci an 1 exact as cloek-work. And yet in spit-, ofall precaution some small forgery is almost daily detected But since trie great forgery committed by A xtell lor A. Job, hot),the bank has uot iot many heavy .-urns; although iu capital puuisli ment for the crime was abolished, when the ** old fogies" pr licted that everybody 'hard up ' would turn forger. In the sjK-cie dej>artineiit of the bank there are bag- and boxes of sovereigns aud uaif sov ereigns enough to make a mi.-er mad ; there are mountains of mint drops, for which millions are • -igtiing and perpetrating all conceivable crimes! I was asked to lift a big bag of sovercigns.and for once, I must confess, I felt a sovereign dis gust for woiivY. — CW. Fn. cf. " I Dare Ukitse to Fight." —After school at night, George joined some boys who were amusing them-' Ives by -liding down hill ou their le Is. George had draw n his sled to the top of the hill, and was riding down again, when one of the loy>, to tease him, drew his sled directly in the path, so that when George's sled catue in contact with it he was thrown off into the snow. George was inclined to be an gry at first : but he soon recollected himself, and theught "if I do nt get angry luw, ftu will be a triuiuifli, I am sure." All the boys gathered arouui him and said, j " Give it to him, George ; George, give it to him. 1 would pay him well for that.*' " No," said George : "it he has done wrong that is uo rcsv-oa why I ritouid do wrong too.'' "It is because you .."z/y not fight me, that j you have grown so wonderful gi -I all at once.' | said the bov who had thrown him from bis sled. George felt his spirit begin to rl-e at this .taunt ; but Le knew lie was iu the r.giit of .t ' aud he answered taliu y : " I dare refuse to fight, notwithstanding your j =neers ; and I leave yon to judge wI; ch re quires- t .e greatest courage ' All tile boys km that George was right, and had displayed tile beat a.'id most d.ilicuit | kiud of courage j so Jtbey urg. d him no more j to fight, and even the boy who had thrown him ( from his sled could uot help feeling ashamed of his coudtct. ai Don'T Yoi" Learn a Hu . l question was iu our ho . iig, a few j daysnace, to a young :u.ui who had aeon for 1 several mouths aUgUOimAlly seeking i-mp?oy-! mem as a clerk or salesman in -*:? of ur! lea-Sing houses. Ccuip :ouqg of ills i.i-iuck, ' one of his friends, whokuewitu had amevhaa I ical talent, but doubted whether hecwuld make | himself u.-.-ful cither as a clerk or >a!c.-tuan, . put the intern gatory to him w h.ch we have placed as t!i* captiin of this art cle. Toe ro- ( ply w.is, "It is not so r-.-jieetable as a tner- ' cauliSe occnpati n." I o*kr 10..- dela-:e i.u-a, our stores are crowded with young rncu who j have no capacity iot bm-im -s,:ud !k, 1- cause of the faoried r* stability of *k>ing nothing 1 waste away their minority ihrni salaries which 1 < am, a 1 4y iiuni .ate u -.r ex. eL-e>. L..te, t too, in life, they d .-eov.r their error, atol be fore they re a:h the age of thirty, rasa vof them U/ok ita ei>y apon the thrifty r-- 1 --' o i whom, iu the days *c tte.r boy hood, tfcey #ti®! * xmitomed to deride ' VOL. XX. 3STO. 17. THE §KNRCKR. —Let t!ie seducer remember that he must stand with his victim and his partner in guilt, before the judge of quick and d< ad. Lev it be remembered that a female is a moral and accountable being, hastening with ns to the bar of <Jod ; that she is made to bo the centre of all that is delightful in the domes tic relations, that by her very nature,she looks up to her man as her proteetor, and loves to confide iu his hands her happiness for life ;a:id that -he can only be ruined by abusing that confidence, proving false to that reliance, and using the loveliest trail in her character astho instrument of her undoing. And then let us consider the misery into which a loss of virtue must plunge the victim, and her friends for ever ; the worth of Hint soul, unless a miracle interpose, must, by the loss of virtue, be con signed to eternal dispair ; and I ask, whether, in the whole catalogue of human crime, there be one whose atrocity more justly merits the deejiest damnation, than that, which for the momentary gratification of a lawless appetite, will violate all those obligations, outrage all those sympathies, and work out so wide-spread ing, so interminable a ruin. Dm WAVI.AXD. THE RIVER JORHAN*.—A correspondent of the Ltica I!trail gives this description of the river Jordan : " Aline of green low forest trees betrayed the conrse of the sacred river through the plain. So deep is its channel, and so thick is the forest that -kirts its banks, that I rode within twenty yards of it before I caught the first gleain of its waters. 1 was agreeably dis appointed. I had heard the Jordau described as an insipid, muddy stream. Whether it was the contrast with the desolation around, or my fancy that made its greeu banks so beautiful,! know not, but it did seem at that moment of its revelation to my longingeyestlic perfection of calm and loneliness. It is hardly as wide as the Mohawk at Utica, but far more rapid and impassioned iu its flow. Indeed, of all the rivers 1 have ever seen the Jordan lias the fiercest current. Its water is by no means clear, but it as little deserves the name of muddy. At the place where I first saw it tradition a--;_'iis the baptism of our Saviour, and also the miraculous crossing of the children of Israel on their entrance into the promised land. Like a] true pilgrim, I bathed in its waters and picked a few pebbles from its banks as tokens of remembrance of the most familiar river in the world. Three miles below the spot where I now stand, the noble river—itself the very emblem of life—suddenly throws itself ou the putrid bosom of the Dead Sea. THE VELOCITY OK LIGHT. —The velocity with which light travels is so iuconceiveable that we require to make it intelligible by some illustra tions. It moves from the the sua to the earth iu seven and a half minutes ; whereas, a can non-ball fired from the earth would require 17 years to reach the sun. Light moves through a space equal to the circumference of the earth, or about 25,000 miles, in about eightli part of a second. The swiftest bird would require three weeks to perforin this journey. Light would demonstrably require five years to move froui the nearest fixed star to the earth, and probably many thousand years from the most remote star bv the telescope ll.nee, if a remote visible -tar had been created at the time of the creation of man, it may not yet have become visible to our system — JZiuytlv piuiu. J3rii<inica. A THREE YEAR OI.JV —The Rome Sentinel relates that a little three year old girl accom panied her faiiier upon a visit to her graudjui rent- iu the country, where a blessing is iuvok cd by the white-haired pairiarch before each meal. The custom was one with which our little friend hail not been familiar a: h >mc, and of course ou the first occasion she was silent with interest and curious with w&tchfuluess.— Rat when the family gathered around the board the second time after the commencement of her virit, she was jrepared for the prelimi nary religion- ceremony, and obscrviug that her father did not K-CUJ duly conscious of the approaching solemnity, she called h in to or der by >iyiug, with stem gravity, "Distill, pc pa—grr.vJp/} ,'s gii g to t ill to kisfhik frd- If so&n m T: : F MILMONAIRS. —One w-ith a great many bags of gold,and five poor relations, not count ing the con-In-", to each bag. Said bag- cover a multitude of sins, ar.d entitle the owner to rent ration wniie living, and ever! s'ing memo ry after death. The members who turn out to the fu .. rui are t nly equalled by the crowds of in w re I: lions who turn tip at the reading of ! the will. The bags disanfieur faster than he collected them, and the gr.o-s on his grave is soou at high as his name on the tombstone. fr-sT 1 Neither manner w man can become u ..• they intend to l*- by carpeting their pro gr.with velvet. Real strength is tested by difficulties. A man who avoids matrimony on ae coiiiil of the cares of wedded fife, is compared to :■ ic v. . > w raid amputate a leg to save his toes from corns fc?*A lady who Ugau to weary of the c:.lk isins ot a party of gv.utii.jcti, on criio -e, .J, " !o:;g a- hoop d >k!rt> keep bx li-'i >j fe at a omvoiirnt distance, just 9o long will they tolerated n t-. - It may l e said ger.>ral'y of hn-hatwb. as the w-otian -aid of hers who had beat her, to a .fd ma i who reproached hvf for being ,-mli a f>H .i- to iiiam I.on : "To be sure he is uoi -> _ tit a hn-!aud as fie should be, but he's a jiowvrful sight better than none A I -J- The to.!• w ing is a good phrase, de-c n - tve of an energetic character: " Crotnwell ■V i t w.iii to - . ike until the iron wa a hot, i • ;> u r ifstn.iin-.* F —The greater tfc* diffieufrr, g'--v nrnnoanrmgw iskilfu' pikas _*v.. T'.e-r rer aTwtiotrfroia : toras tod 'wanest.
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