Otf DOLLAR PER ANN'JM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. D-A.: Thursday Morning, October 6,1859. £dttid jjKtrjr. THE WINTERS. We did nnt fear them once, —the dull grey morning No cheerless burdeu on our spirits laid ; The long night watches did not bring us warning That we were tenants of a house decayed. The early snow like dreams to us descended ; Tlic frost did fairy work 011 pane and bough ; Tleauty, and power, and wonder have not cuded— How is it that we fear the winters now? The house flies fall as bright on hearth and chamber ; The Northern starlight shines as coldly clear ; The woods still keep their holly for December; The world has welcome yet lor the New Y'ear. And far away in old remembered places, The snow-drop rises and the robin sings, The sun and moon look out with smiling faces— Why have our days forgot such goodly things ? Is it that now the North wind finds us shaken liy tempest tierccrthan its bitter blast ? And fair beliefs aud friendship have forsaken I.ike summer's beauty as that tempest passed? And life grows leafless in its pleasant valleys, The light of promise waning from its day, Till mists meet even in its inward palace— Not, like the outer mists, to melt away? It was not thus, when dreams of love and laurels Have sunshine to the winters of our-youth, Ili-fore its hopes had fallen in fortune's fir Time had bowed them with his heavy truth : Kre yet the twilight found us strange and lonely, With shadows coming when the lire burns low, To tell of distant graves and losses only— The past that cannot change, aud will not go. Alas! dear friends, the Winter is within us ; Hard is the ice that gathers round the heart, if petty cares and vain regrets can win us, From life's true heritage, and better part. Si .Lsous and skies rejoice, yea, worship rather : Hut nations toil and tremble, even as we ; Hoping for harvests they will never gather, And dreading Winters they may never see. litis nil a it tons. From the Tloston Traveler. The Chinese Execution Ground. YOU liave heard of Yeh, the late Governor of Canton ; the world has heard of him, and that name, like JVtro, and for the same reason, will be a familiar word in all future. Singu larly, as we were steaming over the Straits of Malacca in our outward bound passage a year ago, we came near falling in with a British man-of-war which had been made the prison <if Yeh, and was conveying him to Calcutta ; a few days before we left Hong Kong on our present cruise to Northern China, the British war steamer the Fieri/ Cross came into port, and anchored near us, having on board the I h/ of the fallen tyrant and butcher, which it was conveying to Canton for interment.— lie had been kept in confinement, but not in prison, in Calcutta, being treated with all in dulgence and kindness. But he took no exer cise ; he ceased to be an object of interest ; no one visited him ; no one, however poor, did him honor ; the game of life was up ; his race was run ; he could not recover his position ; in Calcutta he was in disgrace, and to return to his own country, even should he be libera ted, was certain death. Ilis mighty spirit, haughty as it had been, was humbled and even broken ; and turning upon itself like a vulture, preyed upon its own sensibilities, and at length lie died. His immense frame, his savage heart and indomitable will were obliged to yield to the inward horror which were pent up within him. There was once a Pasha of Acre, in Syria, ■if whom I read much aud heard much when residing near that celebrated old city, to whom the Arabic name of Djezzar , or Butcher, was given, so enormous were the cruelties he in- Jlictcil ; and, like him, Y'eh will be remember only as the "Chinese Butcher." Pity never entered his heart ; he was never known to for give, and human sympathies he had not. His only pleasure was in other's pain, and his only business in blood. I had read accounts of the ernes 011 the "execution ground:" I had heard recitals from those who had witnessed them— l.ittle did I expect to stand 011 the same ground and walk the flagstones on which the executed ki.rlt, and soak my shoes in the dewy grass which had been nourished by their blood ! But so it has been, f have been in this Gol gotha ; I have walked and mused in this Ac cMnma, and almost trampled upon human skulls. The place on the execution ground where two crosses were erected upon which .'ll and women were fastened, and then "hewn HI pieces" by a lingering process, I have stood upon, though the crosses had been removed.— J conversed with different persons who had witnessed those frightful butcheries, sometimes iivo hundred human beings being driven into liiese shambles, or else carried in baskets, as liiey carry living swine in China, for a single hccatonfb in a sacrifice, in which more than one hundred thousand were offered, and some say mar two hundred thousand. Upon the over throw of Yeh, and the capture of the city by the French and English, the executions, which ull continued numerous, aud even now are, were removed to another place, but not fardis ' int, aud very much resembling the old ground. Bv a natural mistake, a guide took me to the n w ground in the first instance, where for the irst time in my life I saw human blood shed m execution. It lay thick upon the pavement almost in pools in some places, and dried to a at in others, glittering in the sun with a hor rible redness. For a long time after English ccupancy, gangs were executed numberiug a iozen or more, at least every fortnight ; and the other day an American rcsideut informed me he had just seen twenty-five decapitated on the new execution ground. Life is nothing with the Chinese, there is such an excess of it; :::; d strangely, one seems not to care for bis • wii more than that of others. 1 lie old execution ground is situated about * - huudred yards from the river, and is of an THE BRADFORD REPORTER. oblong form, being about two hundred feet long by fifty wide. The entrance at the end nearest the river is only eight or ten feet wide, and was closed with bars when the bloody scenes were being enacted. The grand eutrance at the other end is twice as wide. On one side doors opened into bakeries and other small manufactories : but was now as silent as death. Not an individual was encountered—not one was seen ; and even the little children, who were at their sports in the great street into which this lane entered, apparently frightened by the scenes which they had seen or heard re ported, shunned placing their feet upon the soil, or even looking into the bloody arena.— It looked like a sepulcher above the ground. In the time of the executions, as my friend informed me, when he visited the bloody arena, as he often did, he was accustomed, as he ap proached the spot, to cncouuter Chinamen with their lingers pressing their noses, or else with their tails tied around their faces, to avoid the horrible stench proceeding from the blood and bodies, and carried like a miasmatic breath, far from the narrow area where it originated. On one occasion he found the ground covered with partially dried gore of the fruit of the last day's work There were no drains to take off the enormous quantity of blood ac cumulating from the butchery of five huudred and six hundred rebels, day after day, at cer tain periods of military success over them, nor was any substance used to slake or absorb it. A man was found, on one visit, digging holes for two crosses, on which he said,upou inquiry, four persons were to be tied and cut to pieces. An account of this day's proceedings, as rela ted by my friend, will illustrate all others, as they were mere repetitious. The execution had been fixed at noon. At half past eleven half a dozen men arrived at the execution ground, each armed with what resembled a cleaver rather than a sword, and preceded by bearers of rough pine boxes, dec orated with sides painted as if with blood.— These were coffins for the gang to be executed, which that day numbered one hundred and fif ty Geueral unconcern, and even a stoical in difference, marked the countenances of both soldiers and spectators,Jwho together amount ed to about one hundred aud fifty. A breeze sprang up, wnieh carried the intolerable stench from the quarter occupied by the foreigners, who, to the uumber of a dozen, obtained ad mittance to the top of one of the houses on the side of the street at the entrance of this "field of blood." Soon after the arrival of the exe cutioners aud the coffins, a division of the con demned appeared on the ground, consisting of ten individuals, speedily followed by the rest of unhappy wretches iu compauiesof the same number. Each prisoner had his hands tied behind his back, and a label stuck in his tail or long queue, while he was thrust down in a wicker basket, over which his chained legs dangled loosely, the body riding uncomfortably, and marked by a long paper tally pasted on a strip of bamboo thrust between the jacket of each condemned individual and his back. These "man baskets," as they are called, hung with small cords, were carried by bamboo poles upon the shoulders of two porters. As the prisoner arrived they were taken from the baskets and made to kneel facing the south. In a space of twenty feet by twelve were counted as many as seventy prisoners, ranged iu half a dozen rows. At five minutes to twelve, a Mandarin wearing a white button arrived, and the two individuals who were first to be cut in pieces were tied to the crosses which had been pianted. This was probably designed to increase the terror cf death to those who were about to expe rience it, just as though the natural bitterness was not sufficient. In the meanwhile that this frightening process was going on, the execu tion commenced, and twenty or thirty were headless before our friend was aware of it The sound to be heard was a cheep, cheep, cheep, as the executioner's knife or cleaver fell upon the neck of the victim. No signs of fear were seen in the faces of the prisoners, as they knelt and awaited the fatal moment. No en treaties were made ; no shrieks were heard.— One blow was sufficient for each, the head tumbling between the legs of the victim before the body fell. As the sword tell, the trunk, spouting with blood, sprang forward, falling on the breast, and was still forever. In four minutes the execution was complet ed, and one hundred and fifty human beings of all ages had passed into eternity. Thereon the other sections commenced a work still more barbarous aud horrifying ; it might said to be even devilish—for what could be more so ? The victims of torture were tied to the cross es which had been planted at one end of the area, when an executioner approaching, cut a slice from under each arm with a sharp, short knife, which he carried. A low, suppressed, fearful groan from each victim followed the gashing, but nothing like a scream or outcry. Dexterous as butchers a slice was taken suc cessfully by the operators from the calves, the thighs, aud then the breast of each. It may be supposed, <*r at any rate it may be hoped, that by this time the sufferers had become in sensible to pain, though they were not dead.— The kuife was then thrust into the abdomen, which was ripped up to the breast-bone, and then twirled round and round as the heart was separated from its holdings. Up to this mo ment, our informer said that having once set his eyes upon the victim under torture, they became fixed as if by a strange spell ; but now neither he could stand it nor they be riv itcd any longer. A whirling sensation ran through his brain, and it was with difficulty he could keep from falling. But this was not all ; the lashings were cut ; and his head be ing tied by the tail to a limb of the cross, was severed from the body, which was then disem bered of hands and arms, feet and legs separ ately. After this the Mandarin left the ground, to return however, with a man and wouiau, the latter, as it was said, the wife of a rebel chief, and the man a leader of some rank of the rcb j els. The woman was cut up in the tyay already i related, but for the piau a more horrible tor lui iug still was decreed lie was literally flay- PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH. " REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER." Ed alive. Our informant did not see the ope ration ; his overpowered sensibilities did not permit it ; but an American sergeant of mar ines did, who described the horrors of the scene. The knife was first drawn across the forehead, at which a piercing scream was set forth by the sufferer, and then the ficsh was pulled over the eyes, and so on till the horri ble butchery was ended. There is a temple in Canton which I visited, called the "Temple of Horrors,'' because in several apartments are the most horrible representations of the tor tures of the Buddhist hell. But nothing there was more infernal than what was seen here. Such were the tortures inflicted by Yeh up on 100,000 human beings in the city of Can ton. It is not surprising that the news of his death and the arrival of his body caused out bursts of exultation among the Chinese, who either had lost some of their friends under the operation of his cleaver, or else stood in con stant fear for their own lives. Thousands were put to death who were entirely innocent, ex cept that they happened to be the wives and children of others, or else had common famiiy connections. The calmness and even indiffer ence with which the Chinese meet death, are past belief, and unaccountable ; and yet, as the late war has shown, they are a nation of cowards. But cowardice ana cruelty usually go together. I was told an incident in one of these execution scenes which defies credence, and yet is affirmed to be only the sober truth. A young man was brought on the fatal ground with several hundreds who were to be behead ed the same time. All were upon their knees, drawn up in ranks, and awaiting the fearful signal for the commencement of the day's butchery. A fruit peddler happened to be pass ing, when the young man remembered he had a few ais/i, or farthing pieces, in his pocket.— He was hungry, for he had been brought a long distance in his basket, and he had gone without his breakfast. Eyeing the length of the rank to which he belonged, he cou'd cal culate the time with much exactness when the cleaver would fall upon his own neck. Noth ing daunted he bought some bauanas, and ate them kneeling ; the cleaver, however, almost intercepting them before they had passed from the throat into the stomach! Sometimes twenty five or fifty condemned rebels were at one time cast into the river together in their baskets, to save the labor of executing and in terment. These Chinese are a mystery ; I cannot understand them. TRUTH.—Nothing appears so low and mean ) as lying and dissimulation ; and it is observa- j ble, that only weak animals endeavor to snp- j ply by craft, the defects of strength, which nature has not given thera. Nothing is so delightful as the hearing or speaking of truth ; for this reason there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any design to betray, aud speaks without any iutention to deceive. Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out ; it is always near at hand, and fits upon our lips, aud is ready to drop out before we are aware, whereas a lie is troublesome, aud sets a man's invention upon the rack. Truth, in everything, is still the same, and, like its great Author, can be but one ; and the sentence of reason stands as firm as the foundation of the earth. Truth is boru with us, and we must do violence to our nature, to shake off our vera city. Now Ly tlic Gods, it is not in the pow'r Of painting or of sculpture to express. Aught so divine as the fair form of Truth ! The creatures of their art iuay catch tiie eye, liut her sweet nature captivates the soul. VALUE OF THE EARTH-WORM.—The common earth worm, thongh apt to be despised and trodden OH, is really a nseful creature in its way. Mr. Kuapp describes it as the natural manurer of the soil, consuming on the surface the softer part of decayed vegetable matters, and conveying downwards the more woody fibers, tfhich ihere molder and fertilize. They perforate the earth in all directions, thus rend ering it permeable by air and water, both in dispensable to vegetable life. According to Mr. Darwin's mode of expression, they give a kind of under tillage to the land, performing the same below ground that the spade does above for the garden, and the plow for arable soil. It is, iu consequence, chiefly of the nat ural operations of worms that fields which have been overspread with lime, burnt marl, or cinders, become, in process of time, covered by a finely-divided soil, fitted for the support of vegetation. This result, though usually at tributed by farmers to the "working down " of these materials, is really due to the action of earth-worms, as may be seen iu the innum erable costs of which the initial soil consists. These are obviously produced by the digestive proceedings of the worms, which take into their intestinal canal a large quantity of the soil in which they feed and burrow, and then reject in the fortu of the so called casts. "In this manner," says Mr. Darwin, " a field man ured with marl has been covered, in the course of 80 years, with a bed of earth averaging 13 inches iu thickness. "-BnrycJojxrdia Brilannica THE DIVINE MERCY.—However old, plain, desolate, humble, afflicted we may be, so long as our hearts preserve the feeblest spark of life.ythe preserve also shivering near that pale ember, a starved, ghostly longing for apprecia tion and affection. To this attenuated spectre perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year ; but when ahutigered and athirst to famine— when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine mercy re members the mouruer, and a shower of manua falls for lips that earthly nutriment is to pass no more. Biblical promises, heard first in health, but tlicu unheeded, come whispering to the couch of sickness ; it is felt that a pitying God watches what all mankind has forsaken ; the tender compassion of Jesus is recalled and relied on ; the fading eye, gazing beyond time sees a home, a friend, a refuge ig etcfiiity— Charlotte. Bronte. No Gloom at Home. Above all things there should be no gloom at home. The shadows of dark discontent and wasting fretfuluess should never cross the threshold, throwing their large black shapes, like funeral palls, over the happy young spirits gathered there. If you will, your home shall be heaven, and every inmate an angel there. If you will, you shall sit on a throne and be the presiding household deity. O ! faithful wife, what privileges, what treasures, purer or greater than thiue ? Aud let the husband strive to forget his cares as he winds around the long narrow street and beholds the soft light illumining his little parlor, spreading its precious beams on the red pave before it. The night is cold and cheerless, perhaps, and the December gust bat tles with the worn skirts of his overcoat, and snatches, with a rude hand and wailing cry, at the ruty hat that has served him many a year. He has been harassed, perplexed, per secuted. He has borne with many a cruel tone, many a cold word, and nerved himself up to an energy so desperate that his frame and spirits are weakened and depressed, and now his limbs ache with weariness ; his tem ples throb with the pain-beat caused by a too cjnstant application. He scarcely knows how to meet his wife with a pleasant smile, or sit down cheerfully to their little meal which she has provided with so much care. But the door is opened, the overcoat thrown hastily off. A sweet voice falls upon his ear, and the tones ure so soft and glad that hope, like a winged angel, flies right iuto his bosom and nestles against his heart. The latch is lifted, and the smiling face of his wife gives an earnest welcome. The shin ing hair is smoothed over her fair brow ; in deed she stole a little coquettish glance at the mirror hanging iu its narrow frame just to see it she looked neat and pretty before she came out. Her eye beams with love, her dress is tasteful—and—what? Why ! lie forgets all trials of that long, long day as he folds her in his arras and imprints a kiss upon her brow. A home where gloom is banished, presided over by one who has learned to rule herself and her household. Christianity ! oh Ihe is thrice consoled for all his trials, lie cannot be unhappy ; that sweetest, best, dearest so lace is his—a cheerful home. Do you wonder that the man is strengthened anew for to-mor row's cares ? THE MILKY WAY.—The milky way forms the grandest feature of the firmament. It completely encircles the whole fabric of the skies, and sends its light down upon us, accord iug to the best observation, from no less than 18,000,000 of suns. These are planted at various distances, too remote to be more than feebly understood ; but their light, the medi um of measurement, requires for its transit to our earth periods rauging from ten to a thou sand years. Such is the sum of the great truth revealed to us by the two Herschels, who, with a zeal which no obstacle could daunt, have explored every part of the prodigious circle. Sir William Herschel, after accomplish ing his famous section, believed that he had had gaged the milky way to its lowest depth, affirming that he could follow a cluster of stars with the telescope, constructed expressly for the investigation, as far back as would require 330,000 years for the transmition of its light. But, presumptuous as it may seem, we must be permitted to doubt this assertion, as the same telescope, in the same master hand, was not sufficiently powerful to resolve even the nebnlie in Orion. Nor must we forget that light, our only clue to those unsearchable regions, expands and decomposes iu its pro gress, and-coming trorn a point so remote, its radiant waves would be dispersed In space.— Thus the reflection is forced upon us, that new clusters and systems, whose beaming light will never reach our earth, still throng beyoud ; and that, though, it be permitted to man to behold the immensity, he shall never see the bounds of creation.— Marvels of Science. CURIOUS FACTS AIIOUT INSECTS.—The differ ent kind of insects very far outnumbered the species iu every class of the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms, Professor Agassiz says that a life-time would be necessary to enumerate the various species of insects, and describe their appearance. Meiger, a Ger man, collected and described GOO species of flies, wnieh he collected iu a distance of ten miles circumference There have been collect ed in Europe, 20,000 species of insects prey ing upon wheat. In Berlin, two professors are engaged in collecting, observing and describ ing insects and their habits, anil already they have published five large volumes upon the in sects which attack forest trees. A a English entomologist has stated that on an average, there arc six distinct insects to one plant.— Dr. Harris thinks this proportion is too great for our country, where vast tracts are covered with forests, and the other original vegetable races still hold possession of the soil, There are about twelve hundred flowering plants in Massachusetts, and he thinks it will be within bounds to estimate the species of insects that infest these plaats nt forty-eight thousand, or iu the proportion of four to each plant. AN ARTESIAN WELL.—WC learn from an exchange that they have an artesian well at Louisville, Ky., which is 2.08G feet in depth. Three years were occupied iu boring it. It is piped for only 90 feet, and the water pours forth at a rate of 238 gallons per minute. It rises in pipes 110 feet above the surface, and has a temperature of 16 1-2 degrees Fah. It is perfectly limpid on issuing forth, and has a specific gravity of 1.013, furnishing, accord ing to analysis, the gases, sulphurated hydro gen, carbonic acid, and nitrogen, containing most of the chlorides, sulphates, biearbonatcs, and phosphates, with iodine and brornid mag nesium. The taste is a combination of salt and sulphur. By touching some of the screws about the machinery, it throws a stream of water 120 feet above the pipe. A Jeep \ve|l and a tall throw, this Louisville well! We should like to see it. DEATH OF DR. GRAHAM.—A dispatch from New Orleans annonnces the death of Dr. Robert M. Graham, from the effects of a wond received in a shooting affray with Mr. Ernest Tolledane. The affray grew out of a political difficulty. This is undoubtedly the same Dr. Robert M. Graham who figured in the New York Courts in the year 1854, as the murderer of Col. Charles Loring, of California at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Col Lofing, with his wife, occupied apartments at the St. Nich olas, as likewise did Dr. Graham and his family —their respective rooms being contiguous. On the afternoon and night of Tuesday, August 1, Dr. Graham, under the influence of liquor, created considerable disturbance iu the hotel, but was induced to retire to his room, where he remained qnietly until towards daylight, on Wednesday, when he nro*e from his bed, and wanting water, left bis room, and commenced to ring the chambermaid's bell violently in the hall. Col. Loring, whose wife was ill, remon strated with him, and reqnested him to desist, but Graham paid no attention to his appeal, and at last Col. Loring weut down to the office of the hotel to obtain the removal of Graham. As he was ascending the stairs, OH his return, he was met by Graham, and an altercation ensued, which resulted iu the stabbing of Lor ing. The weapon used was the long blade of a sword-cane, which was plunged intoLoring's side with great violence, where it was twisted about and bent before it was pulled out. A corner's inquest was immediately commenced, which resulted in the committal of Graham to abide the action of the Grand Jury. The trial was commenced in the Court of Oyer and Ter miner, before Judge Mitchell, on the 3d of October, 1854, and continued uutil the even ing of the 9th, the jury, the next morning, finding a verdict of manslaughter in the second degree. lie was sentenced to the State I'rison at Sing Sing, but was pardoned by Governor Clark on the 4tli of March, 185G,after serving upwards of a year of his time. REMEDY FOR INSECT BITES.—When a mos quito, flea, gnat, or other noxious insect punct ures the human skin, it deposits or injects an atom of an acidulous fluid of a poisonous na ture. The results are irritation,a sensation of tickling, itching, or of pain. The tickiing of flies we are comparatively indifferent about ; but the itch produced by a flea, or gnat, or other noisome insect,disturbs our serenity, and, like the paiu of a wasp or a bee sting, excites us to a remedy. The best remedies for the sting of iusects are those which will instantly neutralize this acidulous poison deposited in the skin. These are either ammonia or borax.— The alkaline re-action of borax is scarcely yet sufficiently appreciated. However, a time will come when its good qualities will be known, and more universally valued than ammonia, or as it is commonly termed " hartshorn ; it is moreover a salt of that innocent nature, that it may be kept in every household. The solu tian of borax for insect bites is made thus : Dissolve one ounce of borax in one pint of water that has been boiled and allowed to cool. Instead of plain water, distilled rose water, cider, or orange flower water is more pleasant. The bites are to be dabbed with the solution as long as there is any irritation. For bees' or wasps' stings, the borax solution may be made of twice the above strength. In every farm-house this solution should be kept as a household remedy.— Piesse. TOUCHING AKFI.ICTION.—The Buffalo Repnb lic relates the following instance of sensibility, on the part of a boarding school Miss: A young lady living not over a dozen leagues from Buffalo, when at home, but beiug educa ted at a fashionable seniiuary east of us, last week received a letter from her mother with the usual marks of mourning upou it—black edged and sealed with black. She was almost overcome, and fainted twice flefore she could summon courage to attempt to dispel the fear ful suspense that was brooding over her. Fin ally she opened the letter, and therein written was the information that her brother—a young man about eighteen had died suddenly from au attack of the cholera morbus—she sank down in a flood of tears, while her fair companions grouped around, sadly endeavored to cousole her, but in vain. " Poor fellow," said she, with a succession of sobs, "my brother—my dear and blessed brother—oh," said she for the first time raising her head since the sad news arrived—addressing the weeping aud sympathising girls around her—" to think how unfortunate— and his meerschaum just begin ning to color su beautiful! i/ There was no consolation for such poignant woe as this, aud the girls left her alone to ner sobs and the ten der recollection of her dear aud only brother aud his scarcely tinted tobacco meerschaum. THE TEACHER'S AUTHORITY.—WhiIe chil dren arc at school, parental authority has passed from the hands of the parent to the i teacher, who is as supreme in the school room | as the parent in the domestic circle, and this • authority is as esscutiai to the welfare of tlie ! school s the other is to the welfare of the family and any interference is as unjust and injurious in the one case as in the other. If he abuses bis authority, he is rcspons'ble to his employers. When parents understand, and regard the best interests of their children they will cease to frustrate the plans of the teacher by unjust and indiscreet interference that is generally caused by some misunderstanding which is the result of some intentional or un intentional misrepresentation by the pupil. If parents would visit the schools, tbey would become better acquainted with the teacher and with his plans of instruction, aud would there by encourage both teacher aud pupils to labor more faithfully, and they would be amply re paid by the increased improvement of their childrcu. flaT An Ohio editor asks : " What can ho more captivating than to see a beautiful wo ; man, say about four feet eleven incites in di [ ameter, and thirty-four feet iu circumference, passing along tbe aisle just as diviue worship I eowuicuees't' VOL. XX.—IST O. 38. I BRANDING FLOUR. —The editor of the New ' York Examiner has been sojourning at lloch ester, where he visited one of the large flour ! mills, and was initiated into the mystery of branding flour. He says : " Branding, to us poor outsiders, has been a source of a good deal of mystery. In our simplicity, we have supposed a brand was a true indication of the place where the flour was ground, and the wheat It was made from. But this is an egregious error. " There are tricks in all trades but ours." Only the best flour is labeled by the name of the mill where it is ground. Inferior flour is branded Corinthian Mill, New Mill, or some other mill that is owned by the man of the moon. All these practices are known to the corn exchange as well as at the mills, but to us poor consumers, who buy a barrel of flour once a quarter, it may not lie uninteresting to know that all the best family flour is branded double extra su perfine, with the real name of the mill and manufacturer. Genesse flour is as obiqnitous as Orange county milk, Goshen butter, or rel ics of the ship Constitution among the curi ous. Genessee flour is for the most part made from Western or Canadian Wheat. FINDING A STOWAWAY. —In Southern port* it is customary, before a vessel sails, for an in spector to board the vessel and make strict search for runaway negroes. If none are found the vessel is allowed to clear. A short time since a vessel had loaded at St. Mary's, Georgia, for a Northern port, and wheu she was ready to sail, one of the gang of negroes that loaded her was missing. It was suspected he was on board. He had secreted himself under the forecastle floor, and the strictest search among the cargo failed to show his hiding place.— In this extremity the inspector, who was in the forcastle, remarked that the negro must be found if the vessel had to be burnt. The poor darkey hearing the remark, aud fearing that the threat might be executed, called out, " Xo, Marsa, John, don't burn de vessel, dare's no nigga here." This led to the discovery of tho poor fellow, and he was dragged out. TIIF. ROMAN SENTINEL. —Whe Pompeii was destroyed, there were very many buried in the ruins of it who where afterwards found in very different situations. There were some found who were in the streets as if they had been at tempting to make their escape. There wero some found in deep vaults as if they had gone thither for security. There were some found in lofty chambers : but where did they find tho Roman Sentiuel ? The found him standing at the city gate, with his haud still grasping the war weapon, where he had been placed by his captain, and there while the heavens threaten ed him, there while the earth shook beneath him, there while the lava stream rolled, he had stood at his post, and thereafter a thousand years had passed away was he found. So let Christians learn to stand to their duty, willing to stand to the post at which their Captain has placed them, and they will find their duty will support and sustain them.— licv. S Croley. FOLLOW THE RIGHT —X o matter who you are, what your lot, or where you live ; you can not afford to do that which is wrong. The only way to obtain happiness and pleasure for your st If, is to do the right thing. You may not always hit the mark ; but you should, never theless, always aim for it, and with every trial your skill will increase. Whether you are to be praised or blamed for it by others ; whether it will seemingly make you richer or poorer, or whether no other person than yourself knows of your action ; still, always, and in all cases, do the right thing. Y'our first lessons in tliia rule will sometimes seem hard ones, but they will grow easier and easier, until, finally, doing the right thing will become a habit, and to do a wrong will seem an impossibility. A Tote HINT, INCIDENT. —A few days since a lovely little child of four summers was buried in New Ilaven. On leaving the house of ita parents, the clergyman, Rev. Mr. Jay, pluck ed up by the roots a beautiful little " forget me-not,'' and took it with him to the grave. After the little embryo of humanity had been deposited in the grave, the clergyman holding up the plant in his hand,-said : "I hold in my hand a beautiful flower which I plucked from the garden we have just left By takirg it from its parent home, it has with ered, but 1 here plant it in the head ot this grave and it will soon revive and flourish "So with the little flower we have just planted in the grave. It has been plucked from its native garden, and has wilted, but it is transplanted into the garden of Immortality, where it will revive and flourish in immcrUl glory and beauty.'' tfrgf The man who passes the days of his boyhood without a mother, is like a l>ook with the table of contents torn out. You cannot tell how he will end till the last page of life is tnrned. How many a promising youth is wrecked on the shoals and quicksands in the ocean of life, in eoncequcnce of the abscucc of that faithful guide, a mother. A " wee bit of a boy" astonished his mother a few days since. She had occasion to chastise him slightly for some offence he had committed. Charley sat very quietly in his chair for sometime afterwards, no doubt think ing very profoundly. At last he spoke out thus : " Mnzzcr, I wish Pa would get anuz.z.er house keeper ; I've uot tired seen'you' round !" A mother was instructing her daugh ter in the duty of prayer, and the snre answers j given to believers, and proceeded to repent the Lord's Prayer. When she came to the clause "Give us this day our daily bread," tl o little one broke ont with, " Oh, mother, say cake, say cake." BsirWe have heard of asking for bread and receiving a stone, but a young gentleman may be considered as a great deal worse treated when he asks for a young ludy's hand and ge a her father's foot.
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