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TOWANDA :
Thursday Morning, February 16, 1860
Scledcii |!oefrj.
THE FRESENT IS THE GOOD TlI&E.
BY TV. G. MILLS.
I hate the whine of discontent
That marks the age we live in,
That speaks of olden times well spent,
To our forefathers given ;
Some sing their wealth and competence,
And some their worth are humming ;
While some despise their taste and sense,
And sing, " The good time's coming.''
What though the future may be great,
•Or past were good and pleasant,
"We have no share in cither state,
Our duty's in the present!
They'll have their wants and trials too ;
Their light is not still shining ;
And we've enough within our view
To keep us from repining.
The landscape's love'y to the eye,
When we from distance view it;
Yet there are faults we may descry
Whene'er we ramble through it;
But while the scenes before, behind,
With beauty arc abounding,
We may be able liere to view
Some charms our steps surrounding.
The times we have, with some regret,
To our seed will be " olden
And they, with unborn poets yet,
Will call this period golden !
And they may chant their graceful lays,
Their future bliss, up-summing,
Just as we sing of by-gone days,
And long for better coming.
Then let such murmuring feelings die.
That long for other ages ;
The blessings tliat we now enjoy
Will shine on history's pages ;
The lu-st philosophy for man.
Life's present cares enduring,
Is note to do the best lie can.
Thus future bli ks securing.
Wilson's Exposure of Disunion Threats.
What was said in 1856.
In bis able speech in the Senate, Mr. Wil
son brought together the disunion threats of
1856, and compared them with the threats
made at this time. He said :
Sir, when that uncertain contest was going
on, when Hie election of Fremont seemed to
the leaders of the democracy not only possible
but probable, the senator from Louisiana (Mr.
Slidell), one of the most skilful leaders of the
slave democracy—the acknowledged friend and
champion of Mr. Buchanan—declared to the
country that "if Fremont should be elected
the Union would he disolvcd." The bold,
dashing and out spoken senator from Georgia
(Mr Toombs), declared, with emphasis, that
"if Fremont was elected the Union wouid he
dissolved and ought to he dissolved." The
senator from Virginia (Mr. Maon), then, as
now, at the head of the Commit tee on Foreign
flairs, who avowed on the floor of the Son
ate that " the South has the right to the nat
ural expansion of slavery as an element of
political power," declared in a public letter
that, unless the aggression upon the rights of
the South, as he was pleased to designate the
resistance of the people of the North against
slavery extension, ceased, he was for " the
separation of these states." Mr. Butler, of
South Carolina, then a leading member of the
body, which placed him at the head of the im
portant Committee on the Judiciary, said :
"When Fremont is elected, we must rely
upon what we have—a good state government.
Kvery Governor of the South should cali the
legislature of his state together, and have
measures of the South decided upon. If they
did not, and suffered the degradation, they\irout<l
deserve the fate, of slaves. I should advise my
legislature to go at the lap of the drum."
Sir, I might quote other declarations of
senators, in which these ideas are expressed—
bat I must pass on In the House, as the
records will boar evidence, these sentiments
were profusely uttered by the men who upheld
the course of oppression in Kansas, and dic
tated the policy of the democratic party. Mr.
Keitt, in a fiery and vehement speech to the
peo: le of Lynchburg, Virginia, exclaimed, in
view of the apprehended election ot Fremout:
"I tell yon now, that if Fremont is elected,
adherance to the Union is tieason to liberty
[Loud cheers.] I tell you now, that the
southern man who will submit to his election
is a traitor and a ccxeard. [Enthusiastic
cheers J"
This speech, so contemptuous, so defiant to
wards the people of the North, so emphatic in
its avowals of disunion, was promptly endorsed
as " sound doctrine " by John B. Floyd, now
Mr. Buchanan's Secretary of War—a gentle
man of whom the Boston Post, the leading
administration organ in New England, in 1850,
said " henceforth he must be treated as a dis
uniooist, and the most dangerous of them all."
In the autumn of 185G, Mr. Brooks, of South
Carolina, received from the people of his dis
trict an ovation. Senator Butler, and the
senator from Georgia (Mr. Toombs) attended,
and other southern democratic leaders sent ap
plauding letters. To the assembled people of
bis district Mr. Brooks said :
" We have the issue upon ns now ; and how
are we to meet it? I tell you, fellow citizens,
from the bottom of my heart, that the only
mode which I think available for meeting it is
just to tear the Constitution of the United Stairs,
trample it under foot, and form a southern con
feeler aty, every stale of vhuh uul lea slave
holding stale [Loud and prolonged cheers,]
1 believe it, as I stundinthe face ot my Mak
er ; I believe it on my responsibility to yon as
your honored representative, that the only hope
uf the South is in the South, and that the only
available menus of making I hat hope effect ire is
to cut asunder the. bonds (hat tie us together, and
take our separate position in the family of na
j /ions. These are my opinions. They have
always been my opinions. I have, fee n a disun
ionist from the time I could think."
***** *
" I speak as a man—as a private gentleman
J —as a slaveholder ; and I tell yon that onr
hope is alone in the South ; and the only mode
of making that hope available, is for the South,
by some ad, to effect a dissolution of the Ameri
can Union. And I say this : that if John C.
Fremont is elected President of the United
Stutes, our people ought to have sense enough
to know that the issue is upon them, and can
uot be avoided." * * * *
" I speak on my individual responsibility :
if Fremont be el'cted President of the United
States, lam for the people in their majesty ris
ing above the laic and leaders, tr king the power
into tkeir oicn tinds, going by concert or not by
concert, and laying the strong arm of southern
freemen upon the Treasury and archives of the
government. [Applause.]"
These emphatic avowals of disunion were
applauded by the people who had, by a unani
mous vote, sustained his action, and coinmis
missioned him to speak for them in this Capi
tol. Well might the Charleston Mercury de
clare, as it has, that—
" Upon the policy of dissolving the Union,
of separating the South from her northern ene
mies, and establishing a southern confederacy,
parties, presses, politicians and people, were a
unit. There is not a. single public man irithin
her limits, not one. of her present representatives
or senators in Congress, who is not pledged to
the lips in favor of disunion. Indeed, we well
remember that one of the most prominent lead
ers of the cooperation party, when taunted
with submission rebuked the thought by saying,
" that in opposing secession, he only took a step
backward to strike a more deadly blow against
the Union.' "
Sir, tiie erratic, aspiring, blustering Wise,
who "would introduce slavery into the heart
of the North," who "would allow slavery to
pour itself out without restraint, and find no
limit but the Southern Ocean," in the autumn
of 1850 told the people of Virginia that—
" The South could not. without degradation,
submit to tire election of a Black Republican
President To tell nte f should submit to the
election of a Black Republican, unde r circum
stances like these, is to tell uie that Virginia
and the fourteen slave states are already sub
jugated and degraded [cheers] —that the south
ern people are without spirit, and without pur
pose to defend the rights they know and dare
not maintain. [Cheers.J If you submit to
the election of Fremont, you will prove what
Seward and IJuriingame said to he true—that
the South cannot be kicked out of the Union."
II e avowed his readiness to put t lie military
force of Virginia upon a war footing ; and
lie gave the valorous assurance to his disunion
associates that " the chivalry " of Virginia
" would hew its bright way through all oppos
ing legions." Rumor said, and I believe truly,
that this democratic aspirant to the Presidency
held correspondence with southern Governors,
to concert measures preparatory to disunion ;
that he and his disunion compeers organized a
plot to seize the arsenal at Harper's Ferry ;
to take possession of the Navy Yard at Nor
folk, and inaugurate rebellion, revolution and
disunion, in the event of Fremont's success. —
The Washington correspondent of the New
Orleans Delta, a journal high in the confidence
of the Pierce administration, wrote :
"It is already arranged, in the event of
Fremont's election, or a failure to elect by the
people, to call the legislatures of Virginia,
South Carolina and Georgia, to concert mea
sures to withdraw from the Union before Fre
mont can get possession of the army and navy
and the purse-strings of government. Gover
nor Wise is acfirelyat icork already in I lie mat
ter. The South ran ri/y cn the President in
the emergency contemplated. The question now
is, whetner the people of the South will sustain
their leaders."
Mr. Corry, of Ohio, reports Mr. Banks, of
Virginia, as having sa d to him, a few days
after the election in IBSG, that:
" The South would have dissolved the Un
ion if Fremont had been elected President of
the United States ; that Governor Wise and
the Virginia leaders were ready to take the
field—march on Washington, depose the fed
eral officers, take the treasury, archives, build
ings, grounds, ike.—declare the confederation
de facto overthrown. He said the thing would
have been easy ; there were thirty thousand
men ready ; twenty thousand cavalry ; sets of
accoutrements ; that the public mind was suf
ficiently exeited to overcome all domestic re
sistance, and that they could whip the North
iu the light."
Tlifs is the Mr. Banks who once edited a
paper in Virginia, who avowed that he hated
free schools, and everything that was free—a
gentleman who was supported by the democ
racy for Clerk of the other House, and who
was connected with the public printing for the
last Congress. ,
Evidence of the disloyal, revolutionary, and
treasonable course of Henry A. Wise is also
furnished by Charles J. Faulkner, late repre
sentative of the Harper's Ferry district, chair
man of the congressional democratic commit
tee in 1856, and now Minister to France. At
a democratic meeting recently held in A irginia
over which Mr. Faulkner presided, he suid :
" When that noble and gallant son of \ ir
gitiia, Henry A. Wise, declared, as was said lie
did in October, 1856, that, if Fremont should
be elected, he would seize the national arsenal
at Harper's Ferry, how few would at that time
have justified so bold and decided a measure ?
It i§ the fortune of some great and gifted
minds to see in advance of their cotemporaries.
Should William II Seward be elected iu IBGO,
where is the man now in oor inidst who would
not call for the impeachment of a Governor
of Virginia who would silently suffer that arm*
'UBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH.
" REOARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANT QUARTER."
ory to pass under the control of such au ex
ecutive head ?"
This " noble and gallant son of Virginia"
who, in 1850, '* saw far in advance o( his con
temporaries," who was ready, if Fremont had
been elected, " to seize the arsenal at Ilurper's
Ferry,*' is now looking with hungry eye to the
Charleston Convention,and is now the applaud
ed and favorite hero of a class of men ih the
North, who are stammering into the ears of a
doubting people their uxorious love of the Un
ion ; and this democratic orator, who would
demand -the impeachment of a governor of
Virginia if he should permit the arsenal at
Harper's Ferry to pass under the coutrol of
William II Seward, if elected to the Presi
dency, is nominated hy a democratic President,
and confirmed by the united voice of the dem
ocratic senators, to represent the republic at
the court of Louis Napoleon. This democratic
administration, and this democratic party,
which invokes the support of the Union-loving
conservative men of the free states, sent to
the proudest monarchy of the Old World, the
man wiio uttered this insurrectionary and dis
loyal sentiment. Yes, sir ; democrats, with
the accents of Union upon their lips, sanction
the appointment of a man who is avowedly in
favor of civil war ami disuhion. Let the real
friends of law, of order, of the unity of the
lit public, mark and remembar this want of fi
delity to the Union by the administration, and
the men who lead the democratic party.
Sir, the Richmond Enquirer, the leading
democratic organ south of the Potomac, dur
ing the canvass of 1860, avowedly advocated
disunion. That expoueut of the slave democ
racy said;
" Sumner and Sumner's friends must be pun
ished and silenced. Either such wretches
must lie hung or put in the penitentiary, or
the South should prepare at ouce to quit the
Union."
"If Fremont is elected the Union will not
last an hour after Mr. Pierce's term expires."
" If Fremont is elected it will be the duty
of. the South to dissolve the Union and form
a southern confederacy."
" Let the South present a compact and un
divided front. Let her, if possible, detach
Pennsylvania and southern Ohio, southern In
diana, and southern Illinois from the North,
and make the highlands between the Ohio and
the lakes the dividing line. Let the South
treat witir California ; and, if necessary, ally
herself with Russia, with Cuba, and Brazil."
Sir, this journal, which, during the canvass,
had avowed the rankest disunion sentiments—
this journal, which had been the trumpet of
the alarmists, aficr the election had been won
by the aid, the " material aid,'' of alarmed and
quaking conservatism, very naively announced
to the victims of this disunion panic, that
" Governor Wise threatened disunion only to
save the Union !" Yes, sir ; the valiant Wise,
ready to put the military force of his domin
ions on a war footing ; ready to hew his bright
way through all opposing legions ; ready to
seize Harper's Ferry, "only threatened disun
ion to save the Union !" Patriotic Wise !
Who, iu view of the sagacious patriotism of
that " noble and gallant son of Virginia,'' will
not accept the tribute of the admiring Faulk
ner, that "it is the fortune of sonic great and
gilted minds to see far in advance of their con
temporaries ?" May not shivering, despairing
conservatism indulge the faint hope that other
" noble and gallant sons of Virginia," and of
the sunny South, may, in humble imitation of
the far-seeing Wise, he " threatening disunion
only to save the Union?"
We are entering, Mr. President, upon anoth
er Presidential election ; another great strug
gle for supremacy in the national councils be
tween the opposing forces of slavery extension
and slavery restriction. The nation once more
presents to mankind "the interesting spectacle
of justice in conflict with avarice and oppres
sion." This " conflict" is stirring the country
to its profoundest depths. Conscious of their
waning power, the advocates of slavery expan
sion are again haughtily menacing the disso
lution of the Union in the event of their de
feat by the people. Again, in the public press,
in assemblages of the people, in state legisla
tures, and in these chambers, disloyal and rev
olutionary threats are made to intimidate the
people.
IVOLLIXG SNOW ON WHEAT FIELDS. —The
correspondent of the Toronto Globe, who ad
vocates this practice, under certain conditions,
is right. If the snow comes, as is sometimes
the case, before the gound freezes, and suc
ceeding tyiows follows so as to prevent the
after-freezing of the ground, winter wheat and
rye, tinder such a condition, are liable to witw
ter-kili, or rather, to smother. The plants
under the snmv, when the ground is unfrozen,
are in a growing condition, and use all the
oxygen within their reach. The snow prevents
the admission-of any more, and the plants be
come diseased, and soon after the snow melts
off' in the spring they die ; the leaves turning
white, resembling narrow white tape. One of
the essential conditions of the life of all organ
ized beings, whether vegetable or animal, ts a
supply of oxygen. But when the ground is
deeply frozen before the snow comes, then the
plants cease to grow, and require neither ox
ygen, nor any other element. If the ground
is not frozen when the first six, eight or twelve
inches of snow comes, the passage of a heavy
roller over the snow will so compress it that
the ground will freeze by the first cold weath
er, almost as readily as if there was no snow
on the field ; and the plants hybervate, as it
were, and will come out bright and healthy as
the snow disappears. I think, Messrs. Editors,
you have hundreds of farmer readers tvho can
corroborate the above views.
SEED CORN. —Every farmer should know
that it seed corn is frozen before it is dry, its
vitality is destroyed. If farmers will take
care that their seed corn is gathered in season
to get thoroughly dried before it freezes, there
will be uo danger of a strange uud mysterious
failure of seed corn, if the corn is ripe, or
i nearly ripe, when it is gathered.
Johnny Beedle's Sleigh Ride.
BY JOHN XEAL.
As I was going past Mr. Josh Barter's
tavern the other day, I heard a terrible noise
in the bar room, and thinks I, I'll just put my
head in, and see what's the matter. " Whoor
ah !" realed a heap of fellows, " liere'§ Johnny
Beedle, he'll go and that will make ten and
they haol'd tne in among them. " What's the
occasion ?" says I. " A sleigh ride, over to
Shaw's (every body goes to Shaw's that goes
a sleigh riding) with fiddle and frolic 1"
" Whoorah I" says I.
" I motion," says I)r. Patridge, " that every
gentleman go right off now, and get his sleigh
and his lady, and meet at Hank's corner
and with another whoorah, we burst out of
doors, and scattered.
I ran full spead to the widow Bean's. Her
daughter Patty is the handsomest girl in
Casco bay. I had given her some pretty
broad hints, and only waited for a good chance
to pop the question. And out it shall come,
this Very night, says I.
I bounced into the widow- Bean's out of
breath, and was near catching Putty in the
suds. She was just done washing, and was
wringing out, standing in the midst of tubs,
mops and kettles. She was struck all of a
heap at the sight of her spark, and would
have blushed nicely, I guess, if she hadn't
been as she could be, already. " A word in
your eur, Patty," says I, giving her the wink,
and stepping into the corner, I told her what
was brewing. " I'll run and borrow the dea
con's sleigh, and coine back right away," says
I. "O, you needn't he in such a tearing hur
ry," says she, " for I've got to shift froua top
to toe. Yon sec what a pickle I'm in."
" Ah, Patty," says I, "beauty when una
dorned's adorned the -." " Well, I vow,"
says Patty, says she, and o(T I shot, for how
was I to follow np such a bold speech ; but I
could not help sniggering all the way to the
deacon's to think how swimmingly matters
were going on. I was so full of this, that I
entirely forgot to make up a story to fop off
upon the old deacon, till 1 got almost to the
door ; for the deacon is a sworn enemy to ull
frolics, and so is his mare. " I'll tell him I
wan't to carry a gri-d to mill " But that will
be found out. "No matter so it is after elec
tion, as the politicians say."
The deacon gave a mortal squint at my face,
wheu I did my errand, but I was behind a
slrirt collar, lie then fell to chewing his cud
and considering. " Mother's clean out," says
I, "both rye and iiijun." The deacon spit.
" Well, neighbor, if you are afraid to trust a
feller, there's two shilling beforehand."
'• Rob, poh, John," said lie, walking tip and
pocketing the money, " not trust you ? hear
tiiat. Now, Joshua, tackle up Suky. You'll
drive the critter slow, John, and now I think
on't, yon may bring my grist, that is now at
the mill—and look sharp at the miller when
lie strikes the toll measure, John."
It was too late to stick at lies now. So I
promised everything, jumped in the sleigh,
and steered for the widow's with flying col
ors.
It i the lie'ght of gentility, you must know,
for a lady to make her bean wait as long as
possible, on such an accasion. I sat over a
heap of warm ashes in the widow Bean's
parlor, listening to Patty stamping about in
her stocking feet, in the chamber overhead,
for one good hour. Then I stood up to the
looking glass and frizzled up my hair, changed
my shirt pin to a new place, thought over
some speeches to make under the buffalo skin,
and finally laid a plot to lug in the awful
question in a sort of a slantindickular fashion.
At last I'atty appeared in all her glory ; I
was just crooking my elbow to lead her out,
when in coine Mrs. Bean.
" Where are yon going to, Patty ?"
" Over to Shaw's, sleighing."
" What, and leave your cousin Dolly all
alone, to suck her fingers f A pretty how
d'ye do that, after coming all the way from
Saco Just to see you 1"
Here was a knock down argument. All
my pluns of courting and comfort melted down
and ran off in a moment. I saw directly that
the widow was resolved to push big Doliv
Fisher into my sleigh, whether or 110 ; and
there was no remedy, for the widow Bean is a
stump that is neither to he got around or
moved out of the way. I said something about
the small size of the sleigh, but it would uot
do—she shut my mouth instantly.
" Let me alone," says she, " I went a sleigh
ing afore you was born, youngster. If I don't
know how to pack a sleigh, who does? Patty
Bean stow yourself away, here, and shrink
yourself up small. If there ain't room, we
must make room, as the fellows use to say.
Now, Dolly, hoist yourself in there."
She tumbled into the sleigh, like a shot
from a shovel, or a cart load of pumpkins into
a gondola It was chuck full of her. "0,
she's a whopper, I tell ye."
" Why, Johnny Betdle," says Mrs. Bean,
"in my days they use to pack us in, layer on
layer."
At this hint I tneaked round to Patty, to
begin the second layer on her lap. But the
widow was wide awake. She clenched me by
the collar, aud patting upon Dolly's knees.
" Here's the driver's seat,"says she. " Plant
your feet flit and firm, niece ; jump up
Johnny ; and now, away with her my lad."
By this time I had got so raving mad that
I could hold in no longer. I fell afoul of the
old mare, and if I didn't give it to her about
right, then there's none of me, that's all.—
The deacon counted the wells on her right
side a week afterwards, when he called on me
for a reckoning, which was made with chalk
upon the upper flap of his every day hat.—
Sukey not understanding such jokes, took the
bit in her teeth and shot off, right on end, like
a streak of new Connecticut lightcing ? Jim
ina I how we skimmed over it! And the
houses, and barns, aud fences, and the pig
styes, fiew by us like clouds by the moou.—
["Yonder is Hank's corner—whoora 1" and
" whoorah !" answered all the ladies and gen-
I tlemeu with one voice. Sukey, scared with
the noise, turned the corner with a flirt, and
the sleigh was bottom up in—- —!'"\Vhoa
there, whoa 1"
The first thing that I knew, I was in the
bottom of a snow bank, jammed down under
half a ton of Dolly Fisher ! I thought I
never should see daylight again, and when
they hauled me out, I left a print in the snow
very much like a cooked up hat knocked
into the middle of next week, as the sailors
say.
llowsomerer no bones were broken. We
shook our feathers, and crept into our nest
again, laughing as loud as the best of them
The sleighs w ere formed into a string, the
fiddler following, and away we started on the
| road to Shaw's, bells jingling, fiddle sounding,
and everybody hallooing and screaming for
joy.
Peter Shaw heard the racket two miles off,
for he was always on the look out of a moon
shiny night. He fell to kicking up a dust in
the best room, to put it to rights, and when
|wc arrived the floor was swept, the best
Japan candlesticks paraded, and little Ben
was anchored close under the jam, to tug at
the broken winded bellows. No fire appeared
but there were strange symp'oms of it, for
was no lack of smoke, and part of it, missing
the chimney, strayed about the room, which
gave me a chance to hit ©IT another compli
ment on Patty's beauty, as being the cause of
drawing the smoke. As soon as we had taken
a swig of hot stuff ail around, we sat the
fiddler down by the jamb, took the floor and
went to work, might and main, the fiddler
keeping time with the bellows. Not to be
prolix, we kept it up, frolicking and driuking
iiot stuff, till midnight, and while it lasted,
the fun was reul gcuuine, 1 tell ye. But as I
cast a sheep's eye at Patty, I took a notion
that she and Siah Holding were rather thick,
considcrin. Thinks I, site wants to make me
■jealous, to spur mc on ; so seeing them in
close confab, I poked my head between them
and cried boo ! But the cat was soon out of
the bag. We paid the reconjng, four and
sixpence a piece. Think of that. Everybody
grumbled, but Peter Shaw didn't care. Then
followed the crowding of sleighs, taking in
the ladies at the door. Such a hubbub and
confusion ! But when my turn come, lo and
behold ! Patty Bean was missing, and so was
Siah Holding ! Here is the end of my story;
and whoever wants to know the particulars
that happened on the road home, must ask
Dolly Fisher. " The Deacon, will tell yon what
a pickle Sukey came home in, and " how much
I paid for the whistle." Finally, whoever
went to oar meeting housejthe next Sunday
morning, knows very well how Patty Beau and
Josiah Holding are to square accounts.
VEGETATION ON T. E MOON'S SURFACE.— On
the surface of the moon are seen numerous
streaks or narrow lines, about one hundred in
number, which appear, perhaps, more like nar
row furrows than anything else. Sometimes
they spread themselves 011 the lunar disc in
straight liucs; sometimes they are slightly
curved; in every case they arc shut in between
stiff parallel holders. It has often been sup
posed that these furrows, the true nature of
which has remained hitherto unknown, repre
sent the beds of ancient dried up rivers, or
rivers that have not yet ceased to flow. Oth
er astronomers think they are streams of lava
which have been vomited by lunar volcanoes,
and *.hich reflect the light of the sun with
more intensity than the adjacent regions. M.
Schwabe, a German astronomer, endeavors,
however, to give them another explanation.—
He has published in the AslronotciscAe IVack
richttn some facts which tend to show that
these lines are the result of a vegetation 011
the surface of the moon. According to the
author, if the surface of the moon be examin
ed attentively with a good telescope and a
proper illumination, we discover between the
lines or luminous furrows of the high mountain
cal'ed Tycho, and on different other points, a
quant it j of very delicate parallel lines of a
greenish tint, which were not visible some
months before the observation, and which dis
appear a few months after, to return again in
the proper season. These lines, which are
darker than the adjacent parts, ere clearly the
result of vegetation which makes the sterile
parts of the moon appear as bright luminous
streaks. According to M. Schwabe, these
lines of vegetation are more particularly visi
ble on tire very bright parts of the moon which
are circninscribed by the mountains Hipparcus,
A ibategnius, Werner, Stocffier, Maurolyous,
Gemma Frisins, Piccolomini, Catharina, Abou
feda, Regio-Montarius, Hell, Gauricius, Wurz-
Elbauer, Heinsius aud Count Wilhelm.—Tko
tographic JYeics.
" HE n.\s NOT AN ENEMY IN THE WORLD."—
Hasn't! Well, we are sorry for him, for he
has mighty little character who has no ene
mies. He is nobody who has not pluck
enough to get an enemy. Give us, rather, as
our idea of virtue and manliness, oue who has
many enemies, one who has candor and fear
less love (or the thing lie sees to be right.—
The man of earnest purposes, strong will, and
love of principle, for its own sake, must have
enemies. But this, so far from being ill, is to
him good. The strong tree is more deeply
rooted and fastened in the soil by the blast
than the summer breeze. A man never knows
how much there is of him until he has con
fronted and braved opposition.
" Sammy, my dear boy, what are you
crying for ?"
" Dill hove the Bible at mc, and hit me on
the head."
" Well, you are the first person in my fami
ly on whom the Bible has made the slightest
impression."
" Yes, Mr. Robinson, men are tyrants.
Poor wives can't even make their wills before
they die."
Husband (resignedly)—"Well,never mind,
my dear, they manage to have their wills all
their lifetime."
VOL. XX. XO. 37.
Recreations and Amusements for Farm
ers and their Families.
No people need more better recreation than
the farming community, and no community
should be more careful to have their amuse
ments directed in the prouer channel. Re
creations and amusements lay the foundation
of the character, in too many instances.
Amusements often occupy the miud for a con
siderable time afterwards. If our amuse
ments are of a character that may, under ex
treme circumstances, run into unlawful and un
holy channels, the mind will also occupy the
same piound, and lead us into corrupt and
dissipated habits. If onr amusements are of
that character which would be likely to cul
tivate our physical and mental powers, they
would not lead us into indolence, carelessness,
or dissipation. However, recreations and
amusements are creatures of circumstances.
What would be a recreation at one time, would
be a tax at another, and what would be amuse
ment at one time, would be annoyance at aa
rther. Much depends on the state of the
mind and feelings. Still, certain amusements
may become habitual by careful training.
Parents, and farmers in particular, should
| select amusements which will lead the mind
' into the channel of their pursuits in life ; par
ticipating freely themselves, aud manifesting
great pleasure in so doing. Amusements that
would call the mind from home, or estrange
it from its occupation, should not be intro
duced. Agriculturists should adopt such
amusements as would teach lessons of economy,
frugality, industry, ambition, fortitnde, manli
ness, truthfulness, humanity, love, etc.; and
never indulge or countenance an amusement
which begets weakness or imbecility of mind.
Let every recreatiou contribute to elevate the
mind, rather than reduce it below its every
day standard. Recreations aud amusements
are useful, if wisely employed. If not, they
become traps and snares to the youthful mind.
As agriculture is the Lightest and most
laudable calling to which man can aspire, it
is safe to direct the youthful mind into that
channel. This lias no banefui influence on
any other pursuit, and of all men, farmers
have the means and opportunities to offer
amusements and recreations to their families,.
of the most ennobling character. Farmers'
sons can be indulged iu yoking and breaking
steer calve-, and at the same time cultivate a
taste for good oxen. They can have a piece
of ground to cultivate, and make a recrea
tion of the labor it requires. They may bo
indulged with a sled, cart, etc, and be taught
order and system with them. Their daugh
ters may be indulged with dolls, dishes, etc.,
to teach them order aud system. They should
be indulged in having their knitting, sewing,
washing, ironing, mending, cooking, etc , and
be under the superintendence of the mother
or eider sister, who should instruct and en
courage them. Farmers' families should ob
serve til! the holidays, and be particular in
making them interesting, by entering into tho
merits of them with energy and feeling. A
suitable daughter should be mistress of tho
feast, and the family treated as guests. Tho
son should wait on the table with all the po
liteness he is master of, and the conversation
of all should bo that of a visiting partj. On
another day, some others of the family to be
actors. Each member of the family should
have their trees, flowers, and green house plant 3
to cultivate. Some inducement should bo
held out in each department of work, so that
those who perform it may feel interested.
This takes from labor its sharp, servile edge.
A farmer can easily infuse a deep interest into
his family in ali branches of his business. Ho
can make himself useful and happy in partici
pating in all their amusements. Singing
should be practiced at set "times by the family.
Girls and boys should mingle in skating, ball
plajing, kite flying, etc. Make all the leisnro
time interesting in the family, and few will
want to go from home for a recess.
Farmers should make themselves particu
larly interesting to their families, so that their
presence would bo agreeable, under all cir
cumstances. Dispense with all austere, harsh
and arbitrary language and habits. Teach
the family to speak kindly to each other, act
gentcely, and to be courteous to each other in
all their intercourse and amusements. Teach
them, in kindness, the impropriety of a foolish
pride, the silley appearance of gaudy trap
pings and extravagant decorations. Teach
them to be above all indolent, base, demoral
izing, and siily fashions ; and you will shun
many extravagant, foolish, and pernicious
amusements. Make all the work and dutie3
go off with a zest ; keeping up good appear
ances, preserving a cheerful and tranquil state
of mind, and sympathise freely with each
member, be their conditions what they may.
Keep up this condition of affairs at home, and
recreations and amusements will be littlo
called for, and less sought after. You will
have no dissipated or absconded sons, no
abandoned daughters, or heart-broken wives.
The Diamond Mines of Braztt,.—A Rio do
Janeiro correspondent of the X.Y. Courier says:
The diamond mines of this splendid country
contribute to the mineral wealth of the world.
A few days ago, the royal mail steamer Tyno
left here for Southampton, having no less than
$750,000 worth of diamonds, collected, with
in a very brief period, from the e.\haustles3
treasures of Brazil. The greater part of this
shipment is from the celebrated mine of Siera
de-Frio, a rocky, barren locality, which is
guarded with great vigilance. In 1794, a
diamond weighing no less one thousand three
hundred and eighty-two carats, was taken
from Frio, and at different periods since, very
large ones have been found there. Indeed,
few nations send more of these precious stones
to England and the United States than this
—a fuct you do not often thiuk of when ad
miring breastpins and bracelets.
@-The human race seems to have been
engaged for thousands of years in trying to
i invent wings to fly with. They have a des-
I perate ambition to becomo an awkward Vuid
I of poultry