(HE DOLLAR PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
TOWANDA:
Thursday Morning, November 24,1859.
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INDIAN SUMMER.
There is a time just when the frost,
Prepare to pave old Winter's way,
When Autumn in a reverie lost,
The mellow daytime dreams away ;
When Summer comes in musing mind,
So gaze once more on'hill and dell,
Tff mark how many sheaves they hind,
And see if all are ripened well.
With balmy breath she whispers low.
The dying flowers look up and give
Their sweetest incense ere they go,
For her who made their beauties live.
She enters 'neath the woodland's shade,
Her zephyrs lift the lingering leaf.
And bear it gently where are laid
The loved and lost ones of its grief.
At last old Autumn, rising, takes
Again his scepter and his throne,
With boisterous hand the tree he shakes,
Intent on gathering all his own.
Sweet Summer sighing, flies the plain.
And waiting Winter, gaunt and grim.
Sees miser Autumn hoard his grain,
And smiles to think it's all for him.
Ulisttllaituas.
Views of London.
Correspondence of the Worcester Spy.
LONDON POST OFFICES.
Let roe attempt to give you an idea of the
vastness of this great city. Tlie densely popu
lated portion of Loudon comprises one hun
dred and twenty square miles, and cantaius
marly three millions of people ; more than
one hundred times as many as there are in the
city of Worcester; inore than fifteen times
as many as there in Boston, and nearly six
times as many as there are in New York.
The city of Loudon, however, or that portion
comprised within the walls, contains less than
one square mile. London now comprises
many municipalities which were formerly sep
erute and distinct, but are now as closely con
nected and as much under one government as
are the different streets of Worcester.
The following are the names of some of
these municipalities, viz: liattersee, l'ad
dington, Poland, Camden Town, Islington,
Hoxton, Kingston, Bayswater, Kensington,
Brompton, Chelsea, I'imlico, St. James, White
rhapel, Ac. These districts yet bear their
uistiuct names, aud are as distinct in their ar
ruugemcuts as the seperates town of Massa
chusetts. A letter for example sent to an ad
dress in Loudon would no more reach its des
tination than one sent to an address in Mas
sachusetts, without specifying the town. In
deed the postal system in Loudon is as exten
sive as that of Massachusetts. There is a gen
cral post office, like that in Boston, which dis
tributes the letters to the various districts, as
Boston does to the counties. Then there is a
general post office in each district, like the
one in Worcester for example, where the let
ters are distributed to the various subordinate
offices (of which there is one in nearly every
.-•.reet) as theyare distributed from Worces
ter to the various towns. Every letter sub
scription then must comprise the district and
street. There is nowhere a "general deliv
ery,"—no place where a person can call for a
letter except when addressed to the general
post office.
A letter not properly addressed becomes a
dead letter at once, aud the only way to get
it is to record your name aud address on a
book at the general post office, when your let
ter will be forwarded to your own house. The
department exerts itself to the utmost to have
every letttcr reach its destination, and if not
successful, the proper officer opens it and re
t urns it to the sender. The post office system
is most complete and perfect, and here no hus
band can absent himself from his family, with
the excuse that lie "must go to the post of
fice," but as the post office comes to him, he
will rather wait at home, lest it should come
in his absence. The postage on a letter is a
penny, or about two ceuts, to auy part of the
United Kingdom.
TRAVELING IN LONDON.
Vehicles of transportation from one district
to another are numerous, for, besides the om
nibuses, a sixpence (or twelve cents) per mile
will convey you in a " hansom," or a hack,
flic former vehicle is peculiar in London, and
is very convenient and safe. It consists of a
strong body similar to a chaise body, placed
about six inches from the ground, on a pair of
wheels, with a driver's seat at the top of the
back, in such a manner that the driver is be
:iind and out of sight of the occupants. When
lie wishes any information of the occupants,
lie has but to raise a little trap door iu the top.
and be is at once in communication with them.
Should the horse slip, he eanuot fall, as the
shafts are sufficiently strong to hold hiin up,
audas there are " rests" on the shaft, near
•he body of the vehicle, the horse, in order to
fall, must overbalance the whole of the vehicle.
There is nothing peculiar in the other public
vehicles, except that the hacks are much
smaller aud drawn by one horse, and the om
nibuses are much more elcgeut and larger, ac
commodating many passengers on the top, to
which access is very easy by means of steps.
STREETS AND PUBLIC PARKS.
Every street in London is either fiuely mac
adamised or paved with the square stone, and
the streets and squares are so perfectly finished
that one can ouly thiuk of them as formed in
a mould. You can scarcely go ten blocks in
any direction without meeting &D elegant
square, with which, however, the New York
i-quares compare unfavorably London xcel6
• very city iu the world in respect to magnifi
cent parks—the pride of an Englishman, and
the wonder of all foreigner?. We may boast
of Boston Common, but it sinks into nothing
THE BRADFORD REPORTER.
ness, compared with the smallest London
Pmk. Here you may drive through long,
gracefully winding avenues, overshadowed by
magnificent forest trees, regaled by the per
fume ot myriads of rare plants, and exhilarated
by the fresh air of the country, forgettiug for
the time, away from the sight of stone and
bricks, that you are in the midst of the might
iest city iu the world.
HOTELS AND BOARDING HOUSES.
The hotels here are worthy of notice —only
for their meanness. The English are totally
iguorant of the system of American hotel keep
ing, and do not possess a hotel comparable
in size or convenience of the Bay State, or the
Lincoln House. A hotel is simply a collec
tion of rooms with a restauraut attached ; and
here too they are sadly deficient, for I have
been uuable to find a restaurant in any way
comparable witli the flrst-cluss restaurants iu
Worcester. As you enter a hotel you will in
variably meet first the kitchen, iu which there
is always a lady who will assign you a room.
She is the clerk of the house.
Everything that goes into the restaurant
must pass over the counter iu this "office
kitchen," and be accounted for by the waiter
who orders it. You find no reading-room ;no
smoking-room ; no drawing-room ; no offiee
room. Everything and everybody is dull
stupid, and uueudurable, aud any American
who can endure a London hotel for more than
two nights, might agreeably spend the remain
der of his life in atouib. Everybody, however,
who remains here any length of time, secures
apartments in private houses, and is furnished
with meals iu his room, or goes to a restaur
ant, as best suits bis fancy.
Every street contains several houses of this
kind, which are iu fact nothing else than small
hotels, containing from four to ten rooms.—
Here you enjoy all the comforts and conveni
ences of a home, after a week's residence you
become better satisfied and more' contented
than you could be iu an American hotel.
ENGLISH ETIQUETTE.
The English waiter is a peculiar character ;
courteous, kind, obliging, and of every indefi
nite answers to your interrogations, capable of
laughing at any joke, very attentive and obe
dient without being servile, and withal a very
agreeable person to have at hand. You al
ways find him in a dress coat, and the remain
der of bis suit to match, while the gentleman
more frequently dresses iu a roughest kind of
clothes, and never wears a dress coat except
when in the presence of his superiors, or at a
dinner or dress party. You are not allowed
formally iu the presence of any of the Royal
Family without the dress coat. For the same
reason, servants are not allowed to appear be
fore their supperiors, except in full dress. One
would be frequently puzzled to know which
was the master and which the servant, were it
not for the dress coat. Servants must always
wear white gloves when on duty, though this
rule does not apply to servants in restaurants
or hotels. This appears singular to Americans,
who permit everybody to dress as they please,
but it arises from the custom which requires
the inferior, no matter who he is, to appear
before his superior in full dress.
In order to appear before the 'Juecn, it is
necessary to wear a court dress, similar in
many respects to a military uniform. There
are numerous places iu London were court
suits may be hired at any time, at a moderate
charge, and during the proper season this be
comes a very lucrative business.
HAVE A PURPOSE. —Having once chosen that
calling which, then, becomes your main object
in life, cling to it firmly—bring to bear upon
it all your energies, all the information you
have variously collected. All are not born
with genius, but every one can acquire pur
pose ; and purpose is the baek-bone and mar
row of genius—nay, I can scarcely distinguish
one from the other. For what is genius ? It
is not an impassioned predilection from some
definite art or study to which the mind con
verges all its energies, each thought or image
that is suggested by nature or learning, soli
tude or converse, being added. That is genius,
and this is purpose—the one makes the great
artist or poet, the other the great actor. And
with purpose comes the grand secret of world
ly success, which some call earnestness. If I
were asked, from my experience of life, to say
what attribute most impressed the minds of
others, or most commended fortune, I should
sav "earnestness."
Earnestness and truth go together. Never
affect to be other than what yon are—neither
richer or wiser. Never be ashamed to ny,
"1 do uot know." Men will then believe you
when you say, " I do know." Never be
ashamed to say, whether as applied to time or
money, " I cannot afford it—l cannot afford
to waste an honr in idleness to which you in
vite me—l cannot afford the guinea you ask
me to throw away."
Once establish yourself and your mode of
life as to what they really are, and your foot
is on solid ground, whether for the gradual
step onward, or for the sudden spring over the
precipice. From these maxims let me deduce
another—learn to say "No," with decision,
" Yes,"' with caution. No with decision, when
ever it resists temptation ; Y'es with caution,
whenever it implies a promise. A promise
ouce given is a boud inviolable.
EDITORIAL LIFE. —But few readers ever
think of the labor and care devolving upon an
editor —one who vastly feels his responsibil
ity. Capt. Maryatt says : " I know how a
periodical will wear down one's existence. In
itself it appears nothing, the labor is not man
ifest ; nor is it in the labor ; it is in the con
tinual attention it requires. Y r our life be
comes, as it were, the publication. One week's
paper is no sooner corrected and printed than
on comes another. It is the stone of Sisyphus,
an endless repetition of toil and constant weight
upon the intellect and spirit*, and demanding
all the exertions of yonr faculties, at the same
time you are compelled to the severest drudg
ery To write for a paper is very well, but to
edit one is to condemn vonrself to slavery."
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TO WANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH.
" REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER."
THE HUSBAND WHO WAS TO MINDTHE HOUSE.
—Once on a time there was a man so surly
and cross, he never thought his wife did auy
thing right in the house. So one evening, in
haymaking time, he came home, scolding and
swearing, aud showing his teeth, and making
a dust.
" Dear love, don't be so angry ; there's a
good man," said his goody ; "to morrow let's
change our work, I'll go out with the mowers
and mow, and you shall mind the house at
home."
Yes ! the husbaud thought that would do
very well He was quite willing.
So, early next morning, his goody took a
scythe over her ueck and went out into the
liayfield with the mowers, and began to mow ;
but the man was to mind the house, aud do j
the work at home.
First of all, he wanted to churn the butter;
but when he. had churued awhile, he got thixs- i
ty, and went down to the cellar to tap a bar
rel of ale. So, just when he had knocked in 1
the bung and was putting the tap into the ,
cask, he heard overhead the pig come into the j
kitchen. Then off he ran up the cellar steps
with the tap in bis hand, as fast as he could, \
to look after the pig lest it should upset the ;
churn ; but when he got up, aud saw the nig j
had already knocked the churn over, and stood
there, rooting and grunting amongst the cream,
which was running uil over the floor, he was
so wild with rage that he quite forgot the ule 1
barrel, aud ran at the pig as hard as he could,
lie caught it, just as it ran out of doors, and
gave it such a kick that piggy lay foi dead on
the spot. Then all at once he remembered
that he had the tap in his hand, but when he
got down to the cellar every drop of ale had
run out of she cask.
Then he went to the dairy and found enough
cream left to lill the churn again, aud so he
began to churn, for butter they must have at j
dinner. When he hud churned a bit, he re- '
menfbered that their milking cow was still shut
up in the byre, and liad'ut a bit to eat or a
drop to drink all the morning, though the sun
was high. Then all at once he thought 'twas
too far to take her down to the meadow, so ;
he'd just get her on the house top —for the j
house, you must know, was thatched with sods,
aud a tine crop of grass was growing there - |
now their house lay close up against a steep
down, aud he thought if he had laid a plank
across to the thatch at the back he'd eusily get
the cow up.
Hut still he couldn't leave the churn, for
there was his little babe craw ling about on the
floor, and "if I leave it," ho thought, " the |
child is sure to upset it." So he took the j
churn on his back and went out with it ; but '
then he thought he'd better first water the cow
before he turned lief out on the thatch ; so he 1
took up a bucket to draw water out oi the j
well ; but as he stooped down at the well's
brink, all the cream run out of the churn over
his shoulders, and so down into the well.
Now it was near dinner time, and lie hadn't
even got the butter yet ; so he thought he'd
best boil the porridge, and filled the pot with
water aud hung it over the fire. When he had '
done that, he thought the cow might perhaps
fall off the thatch and break her legs or neck.
So he got up on the house to tie her up. One
end of the rope he made fast tothe cow's neck,
and the other he slipped down the chimney
aud tied it around his own thigh, and lie had
to make haste for the water now began to boil
in the pot, and he had still to grind the oat
meal.
So be began to grind away, but while lie
was hard at it, down fell the cow off the house
top after all. aud as she fell, she dragged the
man up the chimney by the rope. There he
stuck fast ; and for the cow, she hung halt
way down the wall, swinging between heaven
and earth, for she could neither get down or
up.
And now the goody had waited seven lengths
and seven breaths for her husband to come
and call her home to dinner, but never a call
they bad. At last, she thought she'd waited
long enough aud went home. But when she
got. there she saw the cow hanging in such an
ugly place, she ran up and cut the rope with
her scythe. But as she did this down came
her husband out of the chimney : and so when
his old dame came inside the kitchen, there she
found him standing on his head on the porridge
pot. — Da salt's Talcs from the J Vorse.
SPEAK WELL OF OTHERS. —If tlie disposition
to speak weli of others were universally pre
valent, the world would become a comparative
paradise. The opposite disposition is the
I'andora-box, which, when opened, tills every
house with pain and sorrow. Ilow many eu
mities and heart-burning flow from this source!
How much happiness is interrupted and des
troyed ! Envy, jealousy and the malignant
spirit of evil, when they find vent hv the lips,
go forth on their mission' like fool tieuds, to
blast the reputation and peace of others.—
Every one has his imperfections ; and in the
conduct of the best there will be occasional
faults which might seem to justify animadver
son. It is a good rule, however, when there
is occasion tor fault finding, to do it privately
to the erring one. This may prove salutary.
It is a proof of Interest in the individual which
will generally be taken kindly, if the manner
of doing it is not offensive. The common and
unchristian rule, on the contrary, is to proclaim
the failings of others to all but themselves.—
This is unchristian, aud shows a despicable
heart.
flSr Deacon Jones has always been remark
able for his meekness and uniform propriety of
conduct. On the occasion of a " militia mus
ter" the spirit of the day produced such an in
fluence on the worthy deacon that it attracted
the attention of the pastor and some of his
brethrein. The Pastor expressed his aston
ishment, and asked the cause.
" Why, Pastor," replied the deacon, "you
see I've been instant in season aod out of sea
son, serving the Lord for the last twenty yenrs,
and I thought, that just for once, I'd take a
day to myself."
From Russia to Pekin.
A French traveler communicates to the
North China Herald a rambling account of
an overland trip from the Russian frontier to
the city ot Pekin, in Chiua, which furnishes
some interesting, though not altogether satis
factory, information concerning that region of
country and the great Chinese capital. The
writer selected Kiahkat, which lies due south
from Lake Baikal, in Russia, for his point of
departure, instead of Nertchinsk, some dis
tance to the northeast, where the postal road
from St. Petersburg terminates, but for what
reason does not appear. From Kikat to Urgu
the capital of the Chinese province to Mougo
lia, and which is located near the northern
border of that province, the country is very
inouutainous; from Urga to the frontier of
China proper is a level, hard, sandy desert,
without a drop of water, or a house, but peo
pled bv hospitable Mongols, who live in tents,
furnish horses, camels, mutton, and water pre
served in cisterns, aud will divide all they have
with the weary traveler. Here the cold iu
winter is terrific, the wind blowiug iu hurri
canes, while during the short summer the heat
is quite African, and the sand storms .will tear
the skin off and blind the traveler. Of the way
thenceforward to the imperial city, and of the
city itself, we have the following animated
sketch :
At the frontier of China proper, 900 miles
from Kiakta, the desert stops short in such an
extraordinary manner as to make this one of
the most remarkable spots on the earth. After
a gradual ascent ot 2000 feet from Urga it is a
suddenly broken like cliff facing the south : an
immense amphitheatre of mountains, rivers,
trees, and farm houses suddenly bursts upon
the view, all bathed iu sunlight, and smoking,
as it were, with heat ; at a great depth below,
but twenty miles off and not yet visible, lies
the great town of Ciouan Huafou,called "Cali
gau " by the Russians, and beyond it bound
ing the horizon on the south, a four-fold range
of precipitous mountains rise far into the air ;
the first range of a chocolate coh>r, the two
next have a violet and scarlet hue, and the
last scarcely visible, and overhanging the plain
of Pekin on the north, is of a light and hazy
blue. Here, where we now stand, is a large
wall built ot loose stones, and a kind of mouu
mcnt wnich marks the actual frontier of China,
and this is most erroneously marked upon all
maps as the " great wall," although the latter
is one hundred miles further south aud is cross
ed at twenty-five miles from Pekin. From
Oallgan to Pekin the country may be called
a chaos of mountains, and wherever a house
can stand, an agglomeration of towns, all sur
rounded by high walls, some of which have be
gun to yield under the weight of twenty cen
turies, and others have been buried to the top
under the sand of the Mongolian desert.
After passing under the Great Wall,whence
the view is truly magnificent, the road sudden
ly goes down into a deep and narrow gorge,
all chocked with huge blocks of granite fallen
from the broken mountains above, and here
the descent for eight miles is so precipitous
that the Mongols themselves have to dismount.
Five or six minor walls are now passed and
they might equally be called a work of giants
for no matter what the slopes of the mountains
inay he, they rise from the bottom of preci
pices to their very summits, and are still fast
ened to them like so many serpents. When
the traveler emerges from this gloomy defile,
his heart must beat within him as he directs
his eyes towards the great and mysterious city
of Pekin ; but there lie will see nothing but a
boundless plain of sand, with a few scattered
farms, woods of cypress, little rivers and not a
patch of green, whilst every other point of the
horizon is shut up by an unbroken and majes
tic range of blue and dreary peaks, rising like
a barrier between two worlds, tothe height of
live thousand feet. However, as you approach
the city, of which nothing at all can be seen
until you have passed under its very wall, the
buzzuig, hi-sing, moaning of men, asses, camels,
gongs, and birds of prey, of monster kites,and
pigeons with melodious instruments attached
to them, and carrying back to heaven the ex
travagant inspirations of Chinese musicians ;iu
fact all the noises and smells that come float
ing upon the wind over this great wall, as if
all the animal creation were breathing withiu
it, are things so strange to a traveler, just ar
rived from Paris, that he cannot describe them.
Once he has passed under the ponderous
northern gate, measured tlie thickness of the
stupendous wall, and is fairly in Pekin, he will
lie entirely bewildered ; all before him is a con
fused and dusty mass of colors, men,mules,cabs
hundreds of camels, with the weary Mongols
in their once red gowu, enthroned and fast
asleep on their highest summit; and immensity
of wide, perfectly straight, and endless streets;
a living ocean of the inost degraded beggars,of
cooks, barbers, blind men beating upon kittle
drums, brilliant shops, cafes aud hotels, sur
mounted by long poles of all colors, wooden
walls beautifully carved and gilt all over ; in
fact, it is a scene so unique in the world, that
no dream could ever be so eccentric.
After traveling due south lor four miles,
leaving OD the left the splendid Tieu-Tsiu
street and its noble gat", towering like another
Babel in the misty horizon, and on the right
the eastern wall of the Imperial city, shutting
it out from profane eyes, but over which the
imperial hills, lakes, kiosques, temples and ced
ars may he seen at intervals, we come at length
to the uorthcru limit of the Chinese uAra.
jjgy What is fashion ? A beautiful enve
lope for mortality, presenting a glittering and
polished exterior, the appearance of wftich
gives no certain indication of the real value of
contained therein.
A§y Give a man brains and riches and he
is a king ; give him brains without riches and
he is a slave ; give him riches without brains
and of course he is a fool.
flgy* A little one, after undergoing the dig
agreeable operation of vaccination, exclaim
ed. " Now I won't have to be baptized, will
r!"
CURING, SMOKING AND KEEPING HAMS
Formerly I tried keeping hams, aud shoulders
iu salt, aud also in grain, but they would dls
solve the salt or mould in the graiu I then
tried keeping them iu pounded charcoal with
no better effect. I next tried dry ashes, but
unless hams were very dry wheu put up they
would taste ot the ashes. I then tried sewieg
theni up in coarse cloth and white washing
them several times over, as I had seen them
in that condition in market; but they did not
keep well—would either mould or the lime
would crack aud the flies get in.
For a number of years I have adopted a new
method and never failed to keep them sweet
and free from mould or flies. I prepare a sack
for eaeh ham. A yard square of good sheet
ing is sufticieut for a good sized ham. After
the hams are smoked, and before any flies
have infected them, I put them up, one in a
sack. I take sweet hay, and cut it (iu a cut
ting.box about one inch long, and fill iu the
sack and around the ham, so that the hain can
not touch the bag. Tie a cord around the
open cud and hang them up in the smoke-house
or some cool, dry place, and they can be kept
any length of time ; the bag and hay will
keep away Che flies anil allow the moisture to
escape so they will uot mould.
Hams should always be well cured before
they are smoked. I have seen several good
recipes iu the Rural for curiug hams. The
following is my method, aud I have often beeu
asked how I could keep them through the
summer and have them of 30 line a flavor :
RECIPE FOR CURING HAMS —TO one gallon
of water take oue and a half pounds of good
salt, one half pound of sugar, and half an ounce
ounce saltpetre—to be increased in this ratio
to any quantity required to cover the hams.—
As soon as your pork is cold cut out the hams
aud pack them closely iu your cask. Sprinkle
each layer lightly with tine salt—put on a
weight aud pour on the brine immediately,and
before the juice of the ham has escaped. It
will require from four to six weeks for the salt
to strike through, according to the size of the
hams. It will be necessary, perhaps, to add a
little salt on top of the hams ; sometimes, if
they are very large, they absorb so much of
the salt as to leave the briue so weak it may
sour. It would be well to take them up after
they have been iu a week or two, and examine
them, and if necessary add a little more salt.
Great care should be taken uot to salt too
much, as by doing so you lose the flavor of
the ham, and but just enough should be used
to keep them. As the ham absorbs the salt
from the brine it should be fed by adding a
little salt on the top, and the hams should be
well struck through. Wheu the hams are
large I take out the flat bone and cut off the
round socket bone with a cliised, leaving al
ways the large bone. With care I uever have
failed to keep hains sweet.
How TO MAKE A SMOKE-HOUSE. —Having
given you my method for curing and keepiug
hams, let me add my plan for a smoke-house.
No fanner should be without a good smoke
house, and such a one as will be fire proof
and tolerably secure froin thieves. Fifty hatus
can be smoked at one time in a smoke-house
seven by eight feet apart. Mine is six by seven
and is large enough for most farmers. I first
dug all the ground out below where the frost
would reach, and tilled it up to the surface
with small stoues. On this I laid my brick
floor, iu lime mortar. The walls arc brick,eight
inches thick and seven feet high, wi'h a door
on oue side two feet wide. The door should
be made of wood and lined with sheet iron.—
For the top I put on joicc two by four, set up
edgewise and eight and half inches from cen
tre to centre, covered with brick, and put on
a heavy coat of mortar. I built a small cbimnev
on the top iu the centre, arching it over and
covering it with a single roof in the usual way.
An arch should be built ou the outside, with a
small iron door to shut it up, similar to a stove
door, with a hale from the arch through the
wall o f the smoke house aud an iron •.rat- over
it. The oreh is much more convenient and
better to put the fire in than to build a fire in
side the smoke-house, and the chimney causes
a draft through into the smoke house. Good
corn cobs or hickory wood are the best mater
ials to make a smoke for hains. The cost of
such a smoke house as I have described is
about twenty dollars. ALKX.'BROOKS, Factory
ville, Tioga county, New Y'ork, Oetol er, 1859.
—Rural Xcxr Yorker.
OLD HUNDRED. —Y'ou may fill your choirs
with Sabbath prima donnas, whose daring
notes emulate the steeple, and cost most as
much— but give us the spirit of the Lutheran
hymn, sung by young and old together. Moth
ers have hallowed it ; it has gone up from the
bed of the saints. The old churches, where
generation after generation have worshipped,
and where many scores of the dead have been
carried and laid before the altar, where they
gave themselves to God, seem to breathe of
" Old Hundred" from vestibule to tower top ;
the air is haunted with its spirit. Think a
moment of the assembled company, who have
at different times and at different places joined
in the familiar tune. Throng upon throng—
the strong, the timid, the gentle, the brave,the
beautiful, the rapt faces all beaming with in
spiration of the heavenly of melodious sounds,
"Old Hundred !" King of the sacred band
of" ancient airs !" Never shall our ears grow
weary of hearing, or our tongue of singing
thee. Aud when we get to heaven, who knows
but what the first triumphal strains that wel
come us may be—
" Be thou, O God ! exalted high."
BSU'IKE came home from school very much
agitated, because he could not understand the
principles of Allegation, as laid down in Green
leaf. " There dear," said Mrs. Partington,
" don't fret about it ; you muat tell the teach
er that TOU ain't no alligator, and I know he'll
relinquish you." The lad was comforted ac
cordingly.
m p, -
AST Fours are like sponges—they wipe out
good resolutions.
VOL. XX. —NO. '*>o.
A BEAimrvL PicTUfuc —The man who stand*
upon his own soil, who feels that by the law
of the land in which he lives— by the laws of
civilized nations—he is the rightful aud exclu
sive owner of the land he tills, is, by the con
stitution of our nature, under wholesome in
fluence not easily imbibed from any other
source. He feels—other things being equal—
more strongly the character of a man as lord
of an animated world. Of this great and
wonderful sphere which, fashioned by the band
of God, and upheld by his power, is rolling
through the heavens, a part is his— his from
the center to the sky. It is the space on
which the generation before moved in its round
of duties, and he ficls himself connected by a
visible link with those who follow him. Per
haps his farm has come down to him from his
fathers. They have goue to their last home ;
but he can trae"e their footsteps over the scenes
of his daily labors. The roof which shelters
him was reared by those to whom he owes bis
being. Some tradition is connected
with every inclosure. The favorite fruit tree
was planted by his father's band. He sported
in boyhood beside the brook which winds
through the meadow. Through the fields lies
the path to the village school of earlier days,
lie still hears from his window the voice of
the Sabbath bell which called his father tojihe
house of God ; and near at haud is the spot
where his parents laid down to rest ; and
when his time has come, he shall be laid down
by his children. These are the feelings of the
owner of the soil. Words cannot paint them ;
they flow out of trie deepest fouutaiu ot the
heart ; they are the life-springs of a fresh,
healthy, and generous uatioual character. —
Everett.
HINTS FOR YOUNG LADIES. —If any young
woman wastes in trivial amusements the prime
season for improvement, which is betweeu the
ages of sixteen and twenty, they regret bitter
ly the loss, when they come to feel themselves
inferior in knowledge to almost every one they
couverse with ; and, above a'l, if they should
ever be mothers, when they feel their inability
to direct or assist the pursuits of their children
they find ignorance a severe mortification and
a real evil. Let this animate their industry,
and let a modest opinion of their capacities be
an encouragement to them in their endeavors
after knowledge. A moderate understanding,
with diligent and well-directed application,will
go much further than a lively genius, if attend
ed with impatience and inattention, which too
often accompany quick parts. It is not for
want of capacity that so many woman are
such trifling, insipid companions, so ill qualified
for the friendship and conversation of a sensi
ble man, or for the task of governing and in
structing a family ; it is often from the neglect
of exercising the talents which they really
have, and from omitting to cultivate a taste
for intellectual improvement. By this neglect
they lose the sinccrcst pleasures which would
remain w hen almost every other forsakes them
—of which neither fortune nor age can deprive
them, and which would be a comfort and re
source in almost every possible situation in life.
—.M/s. Chaponc.
THE NATTOXS WITHOI r FlßE. —According
to Pliny, fire was for a long tunc unknown to
some of the ancient Egyptians ; and when
Exodus, the celebrated astronomer, showed it
to them, they were absolutely in raptures. —
The Persians, Phrpnieians, Greeks and several
other nations, acknowledged that their ances
tors were without the use of fire ; and the
Chinese confess the same of their progenitors.
Poinponius, Mela, Plutarch, and other aucient
authors, speak of nations who at the lime they
wrote knew not the use of fire, or had just but
learned it. Facts of the same kind are also
a'testel by several modern nations. The in
habitants of the Marian Islands, which were
discovered in 1551, had no idea of fire. Never
was astonishment greater than theirs, when
they saw it on the descent of Magellan in one
of their islands. At first they believed it to
be some kind of animal that fixid to feed upon
wood. The inhabitants of the Pbillipine and
Canary Islands were equally ignorant. Africa
presents, ever, in our owu day, some nations iu
this deplorable state.
Di RAPIUTY OK TIMBER. —The piles under the
London Bridge have been driven 500 years,
and on examining them in 1845, they were
found to be little decayed. They are prine -
pally elm. Old Savoy-place, in the city of
Loudon, was built 650 years ago, and the
wooden piles consisting of oak, elm, beech, and
chestnut, were found, upon recent examination,
to be perfectly sound. Of the durability of
timber in a wet state, the piles of the bridgo
built by the Emperor Trajan over the
Danube afford a strikiug example. One of
these piles were taken up, and found to be pet
rified to the depth of three quarters of an
inch ; but the rest of the wood was not differ
ent from its former state, though it had been
driven 1,600 years.
EDWARD BATF> OX THE SI.AVF.RY QTESTION. —
A special dispatch of the Cincinnati Gazrttr.
dated St. Louis, Nov. 8, says an important
document has been prepared tor the press, and
published here today, presenting an author
itative exposition of the views of Hon. ED
WARD BATES on tne Slavery question. It ts of
a radical Republican character. He believes
that Slavery is not beneficial either in a polit
ical, social or religious sense, and he is unal
terably opposed to its extension into Free ter
ritory. lie favors the colonization of the free
blacks. It is a powerful article, und will pro.
duce a sensation.
flaf The meanest man in the world livee in
London. He buttons his shirt with wafers,
and. iook6 at his money through a magnifying
glas? v • v
OSr A young lady, whan told to exereiw
for her health, sa d sba woaid jump at of
fer, and run her own risk.