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Thursday Morning, October 6,1859.
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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-
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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.