OFF DOLLAR PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. TOWANI3A : Thursday Morning, January 26,1860. I Stletttii |)ottrj. THE TIME FOR PRAYER. I, When la the time for prayer ? With the first beams that liyht the morning sky, K re for the toils of day thoa dost prepare. Lift up thy thoughts on high ; Comm-.id thy lored ones to His watchful care ! Morn is the time for prayer ! And in the noontide hour. If worn Isy toil or sad cares oppressed ; Then unto God thy spirit's sorr J w pour. And He will pise thee rest ; Thy voice sha I reach Him through the fields of air,— I Noon is the time for prayer! When the bright sun hath WUilst eve's bright colors deck the skies J When with the loved at. home, agiia thou'st nict,— Then Set thy prayer arise for those who in thy j oft an J sorrows share ; Kt e Is She tlrfe for prayer ! And wlien the ststrs come forth,— When to the trusting heart sweet hopes are giten, And the deep stillness gives birth To the pure £rcnis of Heaven,— Kneel to thy God—ask strength, life's ills to hear is the time for prayer! When is the time for prayer ? In every hour, while life is spared t > thee In crowds or solitude—in joy or care— Thy thoughts should heavenward flee At home—at mirn and eve—with loved ones there, Bend thou the knee in prayer! Miscellaneous. [from Once a Week.] HOW Alf ADVERTISEMENT GOT A WIFE. " Tobacco is the tomb of love," write? n tuodcru novelist of high standing; luit, with every rcsjicct for his authority, ] beg to say it was quite the contrary in my case. Twenty-one years ago, 1 was sitting bv my fireside, totting up innumerable pages of my bachelor's housekeeping book, taking exercise in arithmetic on long columns of " petty cash" —comprising items for carrots and bath-bricks, metal tacks and mutton chops—until, tired nud wearied, I arrived at the sum total, and jerked the book on the mantle piece. Nearly at the same time I placed my hand in the : pocket of my dressing-gown, drew out a leath er case, and lit a priucipe. Well, having lit (he priucipe, I placed my feet on the fend r and sighed, exhausted by the lonu job of do mestic accounts. I was then in business—'twas a small wholesale business then, 'tis a large on" now—yet-one mornings totting of carro's and bath bricks, of metal-tacks and mutton-chops, would tire me a thousand times more than twenty four hours of honest lodger-work I sighed, not from love, but from labor ; ;o tell the truth I had never ieen in love. Is this to go on forever ! thought 1, as I took my third whiff, and looked dreamily through the thin smoke as it ascended between me and a large print of'the capture of Gibraltcr which hung over the chimney piece. Am I to spend my prime in totting up parsnips, and computing carrots, and comutrolling washing bills ? I sighed again, and in the act, off How the but- j ton of roj neck-band, as though some superior power had seasonably sent the accident to re mind me of my helplessness. The button settled the business ; though as it slipped down insiJe my shirt, and ptssed with its mother o T -pearl coldness over my heart. It for a moment threatened to chill rut matri tr.cuiial resolution. I pitied my own lonely state, aud pity, we know, is akin to lore. Bat how was the matter to be accomplished?— Most men of my age would alrbadt have ad justed their iacl.u&tion to some object so that having tnade up their miud and counted the cost, little more would have remained to have . been done thau to decide tlfloil the day, and hold upou the licem*. This, however, wa* hot the case with me. I had been to much bccnpied.to be idle, or too indolent too devote the time or make the effort td "form an at tachment. n It was through no disinclination or difficulty to be pleased ; for lud any young lady of moderately agreeable powers taken the Iroubie, she might hate married me long ere the*. 1 should have even been grateful to her fd? taking the trouble of my hands ; but I was too bashful to adopt the initiative. I was a bashful man. This weakness cam? from the same cau-e as my Uncle Toby's— namely, a want of acquaintance with female society, which want arose from another eause In my case —namely, too close an application to business. Accordingly 1 thought of an advertisement; yet with no practical design of doing business, but, as I persuaded, for a joke. So I scratch ed *ith a pencil ou the back of a letter, the following : Wawrrn A WIFE —None but principals need apply. The advertiser does not require cash, but only a companion. He is six and twenty, and tired of siugle lift, he thinks he can settle down to married We. As men go, he believes he has a moderate share of temper, and want of time is his tjnly reason for bating recourse to the tiewsjmpers. He has enough means for . hifttself and a second party, a;id is willing to treat at dnce. He is quite aware that a great many attempts to convert Ms honest atten tions into an extravagant joke will lie mde. but he warns all rash intruders. If he finds a man hardy enough td ntakc sport of his af fections, he will thrash him—if a wdrtfan. he will forgive bef. He has a heart for the sin- Cere, a horsewhip for the impertinent. In either case, all applications Will l>e promptly attended to, if addressad to -P. P., to the of fice of this paper. I felt proud of toy composition, and puffed away my principfe With a vfgue glee and an ticipation of something coming oat of it. 1 , had no very great id** that anything but fan I Ji.l J. . L L- Jtliiiaa PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TO WAND A, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'sIEARA GOODRICH. would result; nud I certainly -hud not the slightest notion of involving myself in a per sonal collision with any on?. Still the pre sentiment that it was not destiued to be all a barren joke, pressei upou ine On Saturday the advertisement appeared, and I heard its style canvassed by all my friends, and it was jokingly suggested by more than one, that I was the domestically destitute individual who i pot it forth. On Monday morning I sent a boy to the newspaper office for P. P.'s letters. I expect ed lie might be followed by some curious ar.d inquisitive persons ; so I told him on his way back to call at a bachelor neighbor's of mine for a hook. The trick told. The lad was followed by some persons who never lost sight j of him until they ran hiin to my friend's, and i then went back and announced that he was the advertiser. I thus discharged in full one or two practical jokes which my neighbor had I played upon no. The answers Were of the , usual character—several seeking to elicit tny i j name, and stil! more suggesting places of meet-1 ing, where 1 was to exhibit myself with a bow- | ' cr in my button hole and a white handkerchief in lUJ hand. One only looked like business. I It was from a lady who proposed an interview ! in a neighboring city, about forty miles north. She said there was something so frank and j straightforward in my a"dvertiseineut, that she ! was convinced :t was real, and she could rtiy | upon my keeping her name secret, if after we met nothing came of the meeting. She would, therefore, see me at the , at , on u , certain day, and if mutual approbation uid not follow the interview, why there was no liarai j done Most people would have put down this as a trap to give me a journey lor nothing. I did I not. A presentiment impelled me to accept and keep the engagement. This was in the old coach ng days, when u man had time to make an acquaintance in for ty miles, not as now, when yon are at your journey's end before you have looked round your company in a railway carriage. Tiiere were but two insides—myself and a pleasant, ta kative, elderly gentleman. Shy and timi i in female society, I was yet esteemed and ani- . matt d anj agreeable enough amongst my own sex. Wo had 110 trouble, therefore, in making ■ ourselves agreeable to one another ; so much ; so, that as ill? coach approached G , and t the old gentleman learned that 1 meant to i stop there that night, he a-ked me to waive i ceremony and have a cup of tea with hirn af tor 1 had dined at my hotel. My " fair en-; gagement" was not to com? off ti l next day, and, as 1 l.ked the ol i gentleman, I accepted bis offer. After mv pint of sheiry, T brushed my liar and went ia search of tny each c mptni n and my promised cup of tea. Ihal no d :1a cutty in finding him out, for he vtns a matt ol j substance and some importance in the place. 1 was show i into the drawing-room. My uid j friend receive 1 in? be truly, a id introduced me j 'to h s wife an I lite daughters " All spinsters, sir. voung la ii —, whom an nnd-eriininat ng world seems disposed to leave apoi my hand- ' " If we don't sell, ppa," sail the eldest, who with h?r sister seemed to reflect hr fath er's fua, " it is-not for the want of p iffi ig, for j all your introductions are advertisements. At the meution of the lost word. I felt a ' little discom os:* 1, and almost regretted my engagement for the next day. alien that very night, perhaps, my providential opportunity . j had arrived. I need not trouble my readers with ah our sayings and doings during tea; sollice it to ' say. that I found luem a wry pfotflML friend iy family, and was surpri-ed to find I forgo; all my shyness and timidity, e.tcouraged by their goad tempered ease and Cvi vtr-u; .ou.— . They did tot inquire whether I was married or single, for where there were live ununited daughters, the question might seem invidious. I, however, in ihe freedom of the moment, ! volunteered the information ot inv bachelor hood : I thought I had no sooner communi ted the fact than the girls passed round a gianec of arch intelligen e from one to the other. I cannot tell you how odd I felt at the nloulent. My sensation was between pleasure and confusion, as a suspicion crossed my mind, and heijenl. I felt, to color my cheek. Pre sently, however, the eldest, with an air of in difference which cost her an effort,asked w here I was sttyitfg. " At the hotel," I answered with s::ne embarrassment. It waswith difficulty thoy restrained a laugh; they hit their lips, aud I had no longer any suspicion—l wis certain. So, after having some music, when I rose to depart I mustered courage, as I bid them good bye, to say aside to the eldest : " Shall P P consider this fhr interview ?" A blush of conscious guilt, I should rath r Say innocence, told me I had sent my random arrow to the right quarter; so 1 prtsstH the mutter io turther at that moment,'bat I d.d her hand I remained in at my hotel next day. until an honr after the appointed time, but no one made their appearance. " Then," thought I, brushing my hair and adjusting mv cravat, " since the mountain will not come to M thorn et, Mahomet must go to the mountain so 1 walked across to my old friends The young ladies were ail in. The eldest was engaged in some embroidery at the window. I had there fore ar Opportunity, as I leant over the frame, to whisper : " S S is not punctual." The crimson in her face and neck was now So deep, that a skeptic himself would no long er doubt. I need sat no iflore ; that ctening in her father's garden, she confessed that she and her sisters had conspired to bring me up to G on a fool's errand, never meaning. of course to keep the engagement. " Then," said I, " since yon designed to fake me in, too intra consent to make me , happy t" " And what did she say, pap* ?'" asks ray second daughter, who is cow locking over ray shoulder as I write. I " yoa Lille goose, she promised to be /oar mamma. *3i she b*s kept her word."* • Swimming for Women. As many persous are wishing to kuow how girls can be taught the use of their limbs in , the water, it may be interesting to them to hear how the art is taught at Paris. The wa ( ter is that of the Seine. This is the least agreeable circumstance in the case, ns the wa ter of the Seine is quite as unfragranl in the ; Summer months as that of the Thames, i Whether it is purified on entering the bath, I do not know. Let lis hope it is. The bath i is moored in the river, and the space occupied by water is 120 feet'in length ; a course long ' enough to afford room for all tlie exercises connected with swimming. A wooden piat i form, three or four feet uuler water, reaches to about the middle of the width of th? bath; and this is for the use of children, and mere bathers who do not swim. The other half is of a considerable depth in the middle, admit | ting of practice in genuine diving. The dress ,is excellent for the purpose. It is made of a light woolen fabric, which does not absorb much water. Tne trow-crs are loose, ar.d fas tened at the ankles. The upper dress, a!o loose, extends to the knee, and is belted round j the waist, and closed at the neck. It is just as decent a dress as English ladies used to wear when Bath was called "The Bith," and , when wigged gentlemen and powdered ladies used to wade about in full trim, and chut in the water. The first step in the process of teaching is to make the pupils understand how to keep on the surface, and how to sink to the ! bottom. Most people know that to spread . oue the limbs is to float, aad to doable ones'- self np is to sink ; but it is not everybody who knows that the quickest way of going t~ the ' bottom is to raise the arms above the head This is precisely what wome i do when they faH out of a boat, or find themselves over , board in a shipwreck. Up go their arms in | their terror ; and do wn they go to the bottom j like a --hot. Tills is the action used by divers i who want to reach that point by the shortest 1 way. From the eeiKng of the I'nris bath hangs a rope, which travels along on a sort of crane. Where this rope touches the water u J bro*d lvclt is attached to it. The belt is fos tcned easily about the pupil's waist, support ' | ing her in the water, and leaving her at libertv ' : to learn the action of the limbs in swimming I ; So? is made perfect in tin -e, and most then , try her powers without support. To render j her safe and preclude Tear, the instructor (who i- a master and not n mi-tress walks along ' i the edge, just before her. holding a pole with- 1 in her reach, which she can grasp inuii instant, ; jif fatigued or alarmed. It does not follow that we must have swimming masters in Eng land. The art is taught ali along the rivers of Germany, and invariably bv women in the women's bains. In that c;.-e the d>*e-s i< less i elaborate, and tiiere is more freedom and sim i plicity in the practice. It is ii remarkable j sight \vl. -ii the master is followed by 10 or "20 j pnpiN, his pofe reminding one of the magnet winch brings -wia is cr fishes to the bread in a basin of water, in the o! i fashion way which : astonishes children. The second pupil L.-a ; hand on the shoulder of the first, arid swims I with the other three limbs ; the third o:i the shoulders of the second ; and so ou, looking Ike a shoal of mermaids. When thorough ly at ease To amuse themselves for a long lime in the water, t!r la !•?$ sometimes grow hun gry ; aud then is s?eu another remarkable , ' sight, in! quite so pre'.iy. They ra-Ii from ■ the bath to n confectioner's shop, which opens npan it, and rn-iy hi seen presenliv swimming with one hand, and with the other eating their lunch, com; lately at ens?. A : r learning the art in fresh water, it is eay enough to gwim in the sea, from the density of the water, and s arceiv possible t > sir's A woman who know- how to lloat is safe f r many hours in the s?a, as tar a> keeping on tha aurfuce is concerned. Among breakers or sharks, or in extreme cold, the peril is not of drowning sim ply. Tne simple peril of drowning might be ri JuceJ to something very small if cvertbodv could swim.— Once a icrtk. Frv .AT lit ME —Pon't b? afraid of N Httle fun at home, good people ! Don't shut np your houses lest lite snu should lade your car pets ; and your hciirts, lest a hearty laugh should shake down some of the musty old cob webs there? If you want to ruin vonr sons, let them think that all mirth aud s cital enjov -1 ment must be left on the thrcshboid without, when they come home at i ght. When once a home is regarded as only a place to eat and drink in. the avork is begun that ends in gam bling houses a IKI reckless degradation. Young l?ojU- must bare fun and relaxation some where; if they do not find it at their own it arthstones, it wiil be suogth in other, and . perhaps h-s profitable places. Therefore let the fire burn brightly at night, and nuke the home-nest delightful with all those little arts thai parents so perfectly understand. Dox't repre>- the buoyant spirts of your children ; half an hour of merriment round the latnp and firelight of a home blots out the remembrance of tnany a care and annoyance during the day, and the best safe-guard they can take with them into the world is the unseen influ ence of a bright little doaiestic sanctum.— Life Idtisir&lrd. m BEARDS —I HAVE seen it stated somewhere that there is nu intimate connection between | the nerves and luuocle? df the face and eyes,' and aiiowiug the beard to grow rtrrnsrthens ' the eve. It is said that surgeons in the Frerocia army have proved, by experiments in Africa, , that sold . rs wearing the beard are much less I liable to diseases of the eye. and it is genera! iv conceded thai it is a protection from the ui- ! eies ©f the throat and Mugs. It is asserted that iu countries where it is the caast-ui towear the beard, the eye retains its uster and brilli ancy much Io iger. It maj be argued that , lemqles dor net suff r more than tn des from j diseases Of the eye, etc.. but it mu? be admit ted that the* a'e less exposed to the elements What did the Creator g.ve the lords of crea tion a beard for? Ccrtainij not to support the barbers. Tnere is just as maeh sense ia i shav;Bg the bead as the :fcta " RECAR-DLESS OP DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER." Under the Microscope. Some years agq a minute bit of nondescript something, looking more like a fragment of au old trunk, with a!! the hair worn off, than any thing else, was sent to an eminent uiicroscopist, to determine what it was The microscopic placed it in the " field," and pronounced it to be a piece of human skin —the skin of a fuir man—covered with the hairs which grew on | the naked parts of the body. Now, the frag , ment had been taken from under a nail on an j oid church door, in Yorkshire, where, just one i thousand years ago, the skin of a Danish rob- I ; ber, who had committed sacrilege, and been | flayed alive, had been nailed up, kitewL-e, as a j warning to ull evil doers. Time and weather I had long ngo 'destroyed all traces cf this j Danish Marsyas ; but the tradition remained in full force, when someone more anxiousthan i the rest, scraped away a portion of the door; from under one of the nails, transmitted the same to a uiicroscopist, aud printed the result as we have given it. j Another time microscopy was made to play ' even a more important part as evidence. In a i certain late murder, where the victim had hud I his throat cut, through both shirt and nceker- j chief, tlic prison r attempted to explain away ! the presence of blood on a knife which was; assumed to have been the instrument of mur i der, by saying tiiat he had cut some raw beef ! with it, and forgotten to wipe it afterwards The knife, with the blood upon its blade and shaft, was sent to a uiicroscopist. and the fo'- lowing was the chain of facts wlrch he educed j , from it : 1 The stain was blood. 2. It was not the blood of dead fiesb, but of a living body, for it hud coagulated where it was found. 3. It was not the biood of an ox, sheep or ! hog. 4. It was human 1/ood. 5. Among the blood were mixed certain vegetable fibers. G They were cotton fibers, agreeing with ! those t f the murdered man's shirt and neck- j ier chief, which had both been cut through. j 7. Tiierh were present, also, numerous tes ( selated epithelial cells. That is, the cells of the mucous membrane ' I (called epithelial cells) were tesse-lated. or ' disposed like the stones of a pavement, which p oved that they came from the lining of the | tiiiuat. For the raucous membrane lining the ( throat is composed of tesselated ceils ; that covering the roof of tha tongue of columnar ; cells, or cell arranged in tu!i cones or cylinders; and lint lining the viscera is ciiiated, or car- I rying small waving hairs at tee tips. THUS, I the microscope revealed beyond doubt that this knife had cut the throat of a living ho 1 which thm-it had been protected by a certain • cotton fabric. Tiie evidence tallied so exactly i with the actnal and supposed condition of i things, that it was held to le conclusive, and the murderer wa? hung Without the micro scope he might have escaped punishment al together. The human hai-Ga singularly beautiful ! tiling to look at under the microscope. It is j i made of successive layers, or overlaying cells, j gradually tapering to* point, like tiie thinnest-! and most infinitely twisted paper cone The edges are serrated with shallow -aw ike teeth; i: s perf c'' r tran<'•;••••?. and mark?] with a : great many transverse hr.es, oxeeeduiglyjrreg ular anu sinuous. bristles are more like hnman hairs than any ot' er animal's; but the sinuous lines are finer and closer, and no saw teeth are visible at the edges. Ti.p tYer hair* of tin,- horse and ass have the overlap ping plates about as close as in the human . liair.hut they arc strikingly d t; "eat ill the ar rangement of the IE bulla or pith. WHAT Ftim/v GOVFRMFVT L —lt is not to watch children with suspicious eye, to frown •at the merry outbursts of innocent h liritv. to suppress tluir joyous laughter, and to mould j then into melauciioly iiuJe modus of octogen arian gravitv. And when they have been in fault, it is not simplv to punish them Di account of the per sonal injury that yon have chanced tostiffer in eonsequei ee, unattended by iuconvenience to yourseil without re!"uk\ Nor is it to overwhelm the little emprit with j ' angry word- :to >t:i:i him with a deafening . noise : to call him by hard rames, which do not cxpuss his misdeeds ; to ioad h :n with epithet- \ahbh w old be extravagant if applied ' to a fault of tenfoid enormity ; cr to declare with p;is-io.natc vehemence tb-it he is the worst child in the wold, and de-tined for the g al lows. But it is to watch anxiously to the first i ri-ings of s.n, and to repress Ibe in ; to contract 1 the earliest work- of .-elti-hness ; to repress the j fir-t beginning- of rebellion ngain-t right'*;il authority ; to teach an implicit and Unqne-tion . ing and cheerful obedience to the wifr of the . parent, a- t;ie iest preimrntion for a future al -1 legiauce to the requirements of the civil magis trate, and the laws of the great Ruler and Father in ll?av.n. It is to prniish a fault because it is a fault : because it is sinful and contrary to the cora . mauds of God, without reference to whether . it may or may net have been productive cf im mediate injury to the parti t or others 1 It is to reprove with calmness and corrpo f -ore, and not with angry irr.tation ; in a few 1 words, fitly chosen, and not with a torrent of , abu-e ; to punish as'often as you threaten and threaten only alien you intend andean re ■ toemher to perform ; to say what you mean, and 1 infallibly do a- yen ny It :s to gOT?rn your family r.e in the sight of him who gave yi>u authority, who will re ward your strict fidelity with such biessiugs as i he bestowed on Abraham, or punish your cri j mnml neglect with such curses as he visited en Eli.— Religious H(rltd. LTTUE Teffffs.—Springs are little th'rg. bat tiiev are sourcesof large streana : a helm s a Ltiic thi> g. ut ii governs tiie course 0! the ship ; a hriu.giiit is a i.tUe tu.ug, bat, see ?)s use an I power • sails acd" pegs are Ht'le ' | things, hut they hold the partsof large buiid iugs together ; a word, a look, a smile, a frown —all are little things, but powerful for good *or evil. Thick of this, and mind the lillie things. Pay tbat littU debt—it's a promise, redeem it—it's a shilling, hand it over—you know not what important events hang upon it. Keep yccr word sacredly—keep it to jour children ; they will marg it sooner than any one else ; and the effects will probably be as luslii.g as life.— MlND THE LITTLE THINGS, £From tbe Times' Calcutta Corroepoaaest.] A Waterfall six times tlio depth cf Niagara, Did any of yoar readers ever hear cf the Fails, near Ilonore ? If not, they 1 will probably read a description which has ju-t appeared, with some pleasure. It is curious that a fall six tiu.es the depth of Niagara should remain aimcs! unknown. From tha village of i Gairsoppa reached by a river of the same came | the writer was carried for twelve miles up the i Malimuuch pass, and reached the Falls banga | low about three and a Lalf hours after leaving ; the too of the pass : " An ainpi theatre of wtmds.. and a river about ■ 500 yards wide, rushing and boiling to a car j tain point, where it is lost in a perpetual mist j and in an uncea-iug. deafening roar, must first be imagined. Leaving the bungalow oa the Madras side of the rive", and descending ta a position below the river Lve'. yoa work yoar ; way up cr.refuily and tecioisly ov ry slip; erv rocks, until yoa reach a point, where a rock about the size of a man's bouy juts out over n prec'pice. Resting flu upon this rock, aad I looking over it, yoa sec directly before yoa, ' two out cf the lour principal fails; these two i are called the "Great Fail "and the "Rocket." The one contains a large body cf wattr, tiie main body of the river.perhaps 50 yards across which falls massively and apparently sluggishly into thechasm below ; and the other coatainsu i - nailer body cf water, which shoots cut ia sue i cessivc sprays over successive points of rock,' ( till it Talis into the same chasm. Tim chasm i is at lea-: 900 feet in doptii.six times the depth I of the Niagara falls, which are about 150 feet : and perhaps a quarter to half a mile in width, j : These are the first two fa.is to be visited. T hen move a little below your first j ositioa and vou | will observe first a turgid, boiling body of I wat r of greater volume then the Rocket Fail, running and steaming down into the some : chasm, —this is the third fail, the "Roarer,"; and then carrying your eye a littfe further down you wiil observe another fall, the loveliest.soft- i est, and mo-t graceful! of nil ; being a broad cx- i pins? of shallow water fading like transparent t - her face over a smooth surface cf polished j rock in tnio sameohasam ; this is "La Dame • Biiscse,'' **d tbe Withe Lady of Atee!co Id ' not have been more gracrfu! and ethereal. But do not confine yourself to any one place in or-' der to viewing these falls. Scramble every-; where ycu can, and get as many views as you can of ti:em. and you wiil be unable to decide ] upon which is lhe most beautiful. And do you ' v. ant to have a faint idea of the depth of the ! chasm ii to which tiie glorious waters fall ? Tak? ou" your watch and drop as large a piece of rock as you can hold from your viewing plat;; it wiil be several seconds before you even lose j sight of tiie piece of rock, and then even it wilt not havi reached ti.e water at tiie foot or the ; cltastn, it will only have been lost to human sight ; <>r watch the blue p gcoiis whet-ling i and circling i.i utd out the Great Fail within ; the chasm, and looking like sparrows in size in the depths beneath JAM. But van have Vet , only seen oue, and that not perhaps trial iove lie.-i, and at lea.-t not the most comprehensive view of the fads. You must p:o.'eei two miles up tiie river above the talis and cro s s over at a ferry, where tiie waters are still smooth as: gia-s and sluggish as a Hollander, aad proceed , to tiie .Mysore side of the fails, waikii g first to , a point where you wi.l see them aii at agiauce aud then descending as near ts you cau to the foot of these, to be drenched by the spray, deafened by the noise, and awe-struck by the grandeur of th? aw.iv the effects of the winter a r, and in j.rocess cf time every northern river ttould become congeale4 and useless for navi gation, the polar waters would became s?!ire exquisite.and suggest to us palpably the Creator's wisdom, this law is modified. We Gml than when wat er reaches a few degrees of the free ring point instead of continiiing to condense, if the cold increase*, it suddenly expands, even bevond its temperate density. Th? heavy cold strata which had sink to the bottom rise again to surface and expand still further when thr-T freeze, so that the ice is lighter than its ele ment and must always float. Iu this way, though ail the beneficial rcsjlts of contraction are preserved, etery bad effect is obviated Thus by the sudden reversal of a iaw, at r. cer- , tain point, in favor of the interests and cora fort of mankind, dangers that might prove a final barrier against commerce are averted.and the temperature of.th? globe is d.stribnted in its preseat moderate aitercatioLS aad beallh- f fa! variety. • ' VOT.. XX. —NO. 34. ■ I MM ANCIENT ASSYRIA AND THE BlBLE. —Tbedis* coveries of Lnyard at Nineveh, tbeagh ca* rioas and instructivo in all respects, are moat important for tile light tiny throw on Scrip, ture. In reading the narrative of the bold explorer, we seem to be transported back to tbe days of the Hebrew prophet, for sabstan tiaiiy the same manners and customs prevail in Mesopotamia now as did three thousand veers ago. Tuere are stili the lodges in the cucumber garden l ", which Isaiah describes ; the oxen still tread out the corn ; the vessels of bulrudies may still be seen ; and the wild asses of thcdcaert, so poetically aiiuded to in Job, still watch the traveller from a distance, pause for him to draw near, and then gallop away to the shadowy horizon. To realize tha Old Testament, Layard shou d be read. That ancient portion of the Bible ceases to be the dim, far-off record it lias heretofore appeared; light gleams ail afeng its pages ; its actors live and move before us ; wc become ourselves sharers in the story ; and tho past, for the moment, is vivified into the present. Tne confirmation of the truth of Scriptore, derived from the sculptures of Nineveh, is not less icrnarkabie. The bas-reliefs on the wails of the puiaces, now just restored to light, af ter being c-ntombed for neatly two thousand i years, verify peraetdailj the Hebrew liii.Je. There is stiii to be seen the wild boll in the net, mentioned i:: Isaiah ; the Babylonian ! princes in verahhon, with dyed nttireou their heads, cescubei by hzekiel ; and warriors J bringing tne heads uf their enemies iu caskeut, to cast tiiun cown at the palace gates, as was done with the h.-aus of the seventy sous of A'nab. There, too, tre painted shields hong j on the wails of besieged towns, as we are told i by the J wish prophet he beheld at Tyre. | There arc* the forts built over against the be leaguered city ; the king placing his foot on lbs n.ck of toe captive princes ; and the idols of the conquered carried awr.y by the victors, precise v cs described by Ilosea and other -acred authors. There arc a.so the Assyrian j go.::, stiii the same as when their portrait was drawn fire and twenty cc-nturies ago— cntfrcm the trees cf toe forest, decked with silver and gold, fastened with nails, and clothed with purple and b'ue. Tue very star to which Amos aiiulis is yet on those palace wail 9, above the horned cap of the idol, tbongb tbo wor-kippers have been dead for thousands of years, uud though the wild boasts, as predic ted. have long made their lairs there. Evia the enormous circumference which Jonah gives to the wails of Nineveh is fully corroborated. The three day's journey of the prophet is stiii required to make the circuit of the great ruins on the east bank of the Tigris ' —for the people of Mesopotamia built their ; cities as the Hindoos still construct theirs. First, or,e k.ng erected a palace, around which grew up a town ; then a new monarch built one, for fresh nr, on the verge of the open country, whither soon followed another town ; and this process Was repeated till several con* tiguous cities were decaying and beingcricted, ah passed, however, under the general name, ami covering together tin extent of ground which would otherwise be incredible. The light thrown cn Scrip!ore, the confirmation afforded to tlie 15.tale, by these recent discov eries at Nineveh i- so remarkable that it al- I most seems as if that ancieut city, after being buried, had been allowed to be disinterred solely to confound the t ag nation oi Shikesjiear would l*s over-arched by the reality of human thought and feeling, as the flight of an eagle is encompassed be neath t!ie Wtidlng heaK'its. O.e of the most obvious reflections, per , haps, in respect to sickness, is its profound uiy-tery. Its effects are palpable and plain ; b'j' the mode of its operation—'he precise how —is t s inexplicable as the darkest providence of G>d No chemistry has revealed to us the wo k• f these 1 .viog crdeibies. The relation which nil tins • |bwcr* < Main to the mmd, to , that sp ritual e-- ncc which we lielieve capab e of supporting an existence indejaendent of co"• iit •> i-, hut now so tenderly attach'd ! even to the actioa of a muscle, or tie condi tion of the brain— all this is unfathomable. Tt.e no tl 3iid the immortal are so blended in th £ earthly mould to make the wondrous mixture man, that th? soul, capable of life in itself. anJ of glory and immortality through Svsns Christ, is of matter; the conditions of material forces; of ropes and pa'leys, and wheels and levers, aid fi-e and and water. T lis great mystery, revelation itself Ras not disclosed ; it does not till how the immortal becomes tlisenthra'led : and the great apostle imuly in this: "We sbafl lie changed." Bat the absence of health, in tho-e who are disposed to ront-m;I it®, brings (hem face to ince with this combination of material and spi ritual powers And many a shallow doubt and feeble skepticism have been dissipated in the presence of t'rs awful mystery of oar be ing In the midst of health, we do not get down to the facts of what we are. There is a sort of grossness in oar hfe, which ccaeeals the finer springs of being ; and it is r.ot until the veil is lifted by derangement in oar physical power*, that we clearly discern that there are any ether powers at all. It is th f mysterious relation between ourselves and our materia! power*, which sickness reveals, that makes the hoars cf a wenvy convalescence fre quently more fu'.l of thoughts than whole years of ordina-y life. The break between the body and the mind seem :o be gradually coming to g-iihcr, a;.d we feel our dependency npoo causes which w- ennne: ; sad ns tore, putting forth her wo.td-oos foree, kht dies acswrha of life 823 th^ist,