01£ ODLLAR PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. rbursaay Morning, Koveinber 22,1860. jrclcttcb |)octrn. THOUGHTS IN A WHEAT FIELD. Tbf harvest Is the end of the world, and the reapers ire the an?els." Ia the wide fields walks the Master, In his fair felds, ripe for lurve;t; Where tlie eteiiing sun sbints slant-wise On the rich ears hea*y bending. Saiih the Master t " it s time." Though no lead shows Vrowu decadence, And September's uijhUj frost Lite Only re ! lens the horizon It is full time." s Ath the MA- r, The wL-e Maker,lt is time." Lo. lie locks. That look compelling, lrt. his laoover- to the harvest ; ej .uk t y gather, as ;u autumn ;.>ids in cloudy edd'es Pr ;> iut > the sea -'.do field> : \VTit w • hive they, and white raiment, Vi 1 ■ f t-h h! with swift olvKlience. E.\ h lavs d urn his golden palm-branch, end uproars his sickle shining : •• > eak.O Ma-ter. .s it lime i" il'er the fields servants "i- en Where the hi".-t -etl c..r- dro > downwards. Humble with their weight of harvest; Where the empty ,ars wave upward. And the say t ires tluant in rows ; tilt the Siek.es. tie *haijer<-i i lSa. Flash new dawn a: ttuir.ippewriag, Sesgs are heard in earth and htuv c, I'ertlie neaju rs are the angc.s, A:. 1 :t is :!,e harvest time. O. Great Muster, at* thy foitstepa E.vi now upon tire munntains I thou walking in tby wheat tifcld? A tie suc.w v iuged reapers G ithering in the silent air 1 A i thy sig;.- a'.-r .d. the gh wiit? ;'..t J.staut sky. l-10-ni rc 1 ien'J A". I the rear fields, ti dd< n. i.h.otii*. C i.k J by gaudy tares '• "n; Vu* s:r .it r.. ,st be harvest t : . Who shal. k iow the lha '• - tr. ng Whit ,r it U uttiawror -r.n-e;. w'h: a Right dews we g d *a ti •• wLial teh; t : >. le in> •;! r des f '.h "t !:• atcn, s • . * Pes tin v:* w Hi* i vt! y v e. • d j - i ve'' e : e*p. • '-• ei.. . •>. An ' d ill eind el slie-ves si*V falling.— - ,h! : 'o ntv go; .- *. mi,-." WHIRE ECES I7ORY COIiIE FHt'Di i v 'r- r rr.*cr< Inrsr iv ir:'v t • eoa t i- il iv eith*i ;i the crude sate in ■ - . uriHtv) tr n tiie tnigi- elephant 0. ■ ■ • have been nt s-n ne > lins ' invts I • so-.trc: s- of Us -i: o- v. t 10 ue d I i tlie purjores v*hien it is Ws'.lr r' iwrv was nt a for* car y ytcrio 1 an I :e of trntho mid adornment, we have only ' iri. to Store.l W it, ..i - t- ?:.e ear.: -t '• fane poct< of ntitna'iitr SoiolMli >h.. s trtotfini:* la-fen with •' gold and silver, •r v n:,| n'.es an I peacock*:"' anil, " raore 'Kirtir made a great flir tie of ivory ' ii'i :t w Hi the *.•*{ h'd i David • Palo vv ' < i ?tr of " if cry pn feces/' and j 1\ •* K•ki . ;• aI: goff he hxnry "' I'rr,, xxvii—ti.' states that even the •>! xi " oenchts < f ivory. Homer te..s i ... r> f ()|o ea'ly and almost ■ .- (ireek prince*, ttr rh's" nartsiotn f- -• ;i f eh-;'ha!::s ruky. i run Africa, |*-rhaj s, tyre thaa ffoth l! fht leg iask- * v rc imported, tbok 1 f 1 ':te cjost spieuti.d fr.ra.r?:b cf Israci, * r .rr.pr chiefs of lieuaj thtiT i ,v --■itaifip Msv it not bo odor - - •at tire rr> -iot Any [ " s- J * chat' l 5 down the si!e. ai raoro a jmrf wlo-re gp>ld ami to be j '-vowed ? Until within n 1 ; ' •r'-.e Nile a :to>t;ofio!r-. now .Vervjv ' ; h. G >rman and nvrebinh j remoteAseooftees if that porj se of cionoe, bnt f.v Those ot 1 t' r.st roo-t of sales rtf I." lire 1. d orirter< of flits * d that 99,109 (AfMthyjtre : ■■ . . . ;v-—v soi l was " Kgvjw " s ' ;11 its war to civilization - V.-y; '■ • s- s-; v ,r}< r4 fK-it .Africa f t'. t>'iitt •?' teeth to tl*e . I ' • ! cf srolii and ivory. - ■'" • -.atorv of R vrae sat in ivory ' i! A' ra was the source whence I '• ' S< -if hern Europe drew their r n fr n Fiirv. the Yotmijef. .' < t st eontnTMtien cd ivory 'rt-y coarpelled the FV"fnsiis , " v • :-r hemisphere, "as Af . !l ~ ■ St lind ■' r ■ "ow r the U in; >n Empire, 1 between Europe and Africa . ' " v '.u'.i s _\t Ifii'th the E " ri'. the eldest daughter— |. "T -—of liiiuie. opeiiiai anew Africa Ti the laeauiime the ioruiy eie 1' • ej in his native foresHs"., and j - thss were I by the natives • •*-* "< * lie plrbeian ptrrp-ses of i "■ ■ r f'-nee of ooden idols • J E gi -btDan who serred - • • • i - sd Uieir idois of wvvjvi, fasliicMied a' i at the toot thereof was a i teeth, coatainiiij? f , " OUi theai It is a well . ; • I s'. the iuhabttaata of Angola p . , frV, s. Were fonod lo have pre ! anttdw of eiepnanta teeth, g." of muorifs. For s lo~.g ': ry w*s exported in vesadi of For i -- - PAR.T RI EUROPE, tt^ ; s ' THE BRADFORD REPORTER. I traffic formed one of the most lucrative bran ches of the earl v modern trade wit It Africa.— About the middle ot the 17th century this store became exhausted, and the sons ot Ethiopia were long instigated to imitate their ancestors in renewing the battle with the wide-eared, long-tu.sked "Elephas Africanus. To-day the amount of ivory consumed*in the workshops of Europe, America and India ; is immense, and yet, great as it is, the conti nent of Afria furnishes seveneisrhts Of all that is worked up into ornaments, toys, and cruci fixes in France ; heathen pods, boxes and fans io India and China ; biiiiard balls, boxes, miniature-plates, chessmen, mathematical rules, keys for j iano-fortes, or/aus and me lodious, fans, combs, folders, dooiitioes, and a thousand and one other things, in England, Germany, and the Tutted States. Portugal was the England of the G:u cen tury in more respects than one. For two ceu turies I'ortugal held, in the E ist and on the African coast, the power and influeuce now in the hands cf E nrland. I/'sbra nt tha f time was the he-Hi of the ivory mark-t ; t;cw Lon j don is tiie mart where ivory dealers most do congregate. It sometimes occurs that the Salem and other Americans merchants en gaged in the A ricati trade Ship their tu>ks ■or fri'fk in commercial pnrlnnee) to L-ondon : after they have brought to -ru from the Ztn zibare and .Mozambique coa.-;, to tlie United States. In the woiiu'.- great metropolis there . ; occurs at regular Intervals one of ti _• sales which furnish the manufactures with thctr stock of elephants' teeth, i \\ tide wo a-sociate ivory and India to gether, but very . liic ot tuc tonuer ciutics ■ from the latter, it is estimated that to sup ply ivory to the IJritish market, for the la-t [ , tew years, it lms repaired about 1,'.'00,000 lbs. j annually : of this quantity Ceylon— the great ilepbant paik of India—furuislies oniv doU 'T 000 puun ]'. T.iC ivory which is it down tin printed reports of sales at " Bombay." I in nitip cases oit of ten is shipped bv Ma hometan merchants fr..iu the east eoa*. of Af rica to the large Karth \V oteru commercial ! ernpqriam of Eombay. We do |ot mean, i how ever,to assert that no elephants' tusks come from Asia, for occasionally there w'l! Be small lots from Oeyioa an ! Sumatra. 'I I.re is also a large ivory trade between Zat.z.'-ar end China, ru liouibay. A great deal of ivorv we may state, bv the v ay, no* reaches tLe Uu.ted States directly from Af '. Ti. imu-tr- cj-mar ' for elephants* teeth . ;i of lat' 1 years increased the rnrp'r f .-m .;!! pnr'v of Africa. At the en i of the !a>* ceatary the annual avrruge impcrtatiou HitoS ici.-giaiiil *va> only lbs, in it I reached wuuld require i!ie death of at ha-; 3/ 4'.) . rattle el pi itits. I. j>- i, r ,. .• slaughter is much great- r, for the t-itk of tbe female eit-j haut ate very su-iii, . ,a iiurche i 11.> U> i-i 1i.5 Ail tCU!) trfiA *. IS, tlKlt C Hit*l with -me c! pliant im rr- who had sliot . twelve hdgefellows, which, however.altogethi t; proi iced no more than two pcuud of itorr. To pr- JKO 1,00ft,000, lbs of ivory, the pr-.>eut annual Ei gi.-ii import, we >honiJ re ire ->*• nat'ng each t'mk at 60 It>- th ! fife -f> 533 mate ele; hants. It is said that. 4 00 tn<k- r* suffer d -tth every r ar fc -c p.v the United States with combs, Itmia bale uward ' ; a..s, un, 4 A tz-ft wt .g ; g 7.i , .nr.! rj wards is i ■ nsi fered by d alers as Erst class. Covin " -rme-i at .i of the i"- ren.-arJ: b! tasks •f vvi. any a. i ;.,t ;. :s b -cn p.v ■. Th | largest on record was 891 wi ich was so] i at ! I AlMtefdaffl, which weighed three Nudr.'d a;d ' .ifly p<rands. In tiie late tales at L nd')n the iarge; of the " Earn .ay and Ztuzibaf was i 1 122 lbs j cf " Angola a d Liisbpn 09l ; of pipe of Good Ho; e and Nat!" 106. lbs.; cf Cir" 6 us' C ts'ie I. igos " A•, 114 lts.; of " Gaiiomt" PI lbs ; " Ivgw'iao " 114 i 3 Hut it rrtest not be inferred Iroui this I large tasks are now r.*re On the coo-1 '.riry, it is probable that more long and heavy tetth arc now brought t Market than fn st.y I prevkme teatnry. A short tine go dulias I'ra't *t Co. cnt cp. at tier estabhrhmeot Meriden, C . a toss that was iiioe and a iw.lt icct long, | inches in diameter*- nod which ' weighed oearlj two honored pounds. Tbe j s me firm hi !?5I s- rt to the " Wort,lV 17 r." L m l v. the wi , e<t. fines: nd largest p.ece of ivory ev-r s.e.i out. By \ n.:eifu! michiurry- iu~ nti d in their own factory, they sawed out .at; i the process of di I th- , • rk of pol slnig at the ssrn • time a strip of j tr v 41 feet !•>' ami l i s wiio It t -k the precedtnce of ail the sj-echaeus sent in IyK: g ami. Era: at 1 6 rnriuy, at \ re ceived rewarded attention f: otn t.ie commission. It may be d what can be done with .-uch an nutuiiis* piece of ivu.y? .We reply ti.at the time has 1 onte wl.cn : - ic-ut. ui n.au j ' rial can l-e used for pur;-oses of veneering, , at j w? shall soon doubt .ess see tables, bj rcan. writing desks, and other nteoibers cf tne fnni.'ture faniiiy rendered as resplendent as the turoae of Soioaiuu. We believe that it , is now contemplated by Steinway A Son? to j build a piano whes? key* s'r.all not be th: only prrion ir m th teeth cf the Africa a elephant, out an iastrcracr.t whose whole surface-hail be o! burr.is ei virgin ivory. Tin; wort costiy t oks. or 4k>r;ior.s cf t!,e tusks, are those which are usrd for billiard ' balls. What are termed "cut points *" of ; u-t the r gkt ate f>r MNfiftdl ball?, from 3 S-? to 3 58 inches w diameter, brooght thejiigb est price 4.03 fwr cut of any ivcry offered in the LOUGOU ui*rk:t at the late sa-es. Bti i.ard bail u -a ;g tws of fate become a very ioiperCatit item of manufacture h: this cowotry. The teeth from t;- - Wet with the exception of " Gabccn." are less eiast:r, sr.d capable ot bletuning, than tl.se l. at come from other portions ot Africa. The West coast tusks are much used lor kuife handles, tha Freiiv.h Lave possessed Algeria, France receives a considerable por tion of irorr from Centra! Africa by the large caravans that travel froai Tiaboctoo aorthward. ivory ;; alio fgrolfiicc by tie wallrae or PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH. - sea-horse, and commands a price equal to the best qualities of elephant ivory. It is, hovr -1 ever, too hard and non-elastic for many pdr r poses, and has the disadvantage of being too • small to cut up profitably. It would be interesting to trace this trade to its origin in Africa, to follow it in all its 1 i ramifications ; to see how many thousands of the human race make their gain from the giant of quadrupeds: but this would require the space of a volume rather thau the col umn ot a daiiy journal.— Journal of Com merce. WORSHIP .\T TRINITY. — A letter"from New York, in the Chicago Press and Tribune. burlesques the Trinity Church (New York) uff iir very effectively. " Eut'nauasia. Ara-. naiuta,*' a Fifth Avenue belie, is supposed to write it lo her " dearest, adorable Sabrina Jane " I am so glad new that ra kept his pew in ' Trinity. I wish you could I have been here last Sunday I t.l ink it was the most delici ous day of my l.fe. The Prince attended ser vice at Trinity, and you remember our new.— , It was so delightfully near to the royal partv. ; It was so much better than meeting hiru in a ball room, and there was just much style, yo:: : know, and more—and so exclusive, everybody in full dre*s. I was almost crazy with fear, lea-t I should get disappointed by the raiilinc-r and Madame i ianclie, out everything cause lioaie in time ; the sw.etest bounet yon ever s iff, with a Prince's plume ; and i enclose you ! a littla niece of the dres-, the new Renfrew robe. Uii": it lovely ? It m vie pa frown a lit tle when the bills came home, but ma extended to a!! that. 1 had pa ret ine the finest prayer . book lie could find ; crimson velvet with a heavy g !d clasp. ITow lucky that when we girls were at school at Madame IX-saix's Young Ladies' Ilypophonaphon, were r. ru larly drUed in our responses ia the church ser vice, to give the proper sweet expressiveness to liic ft .tares, it was *0 lucky ; and then, too, oa Sunday morning, 1 practiced before the glass, saying then: and the Lord's Prayer aloud, and was get tins aiong well, when that tea\ Alfred, who ra all !Ik> time hid behind ' the curtail:-, bftrsi Mt hifighing. end mid 'go it, sis, that high picas style of thing w:!! tak: 1 him,' just a? if t ! rs was rot a proper proprie ty even in saying the Lord's pray. r. But Alfred is not r-„ iigiou-.aui does not appreciate th se thing?. I never saw anytlilc.g more impressive in my 1 life. He came i. with Ids suite a little late. Everybody ios - and received him. tJur dear rec'.crs iiuo j; epar . a .c. ga.-Ui ..tue surpr.se -I two b Mut . li i.t" • pray -r bunks that lav :;K>U the cushion, the most exqnis:? bindings vi j v-r •at*. 1 : -r '< - a Albert Edward on* !r • .1 Trinity Chnr.-h, and the other from its :gy T .at ' *-\ Alfred, say- if he had ' known t! at th- dodge.' he would hare had a : box tf his favorit • I! I! tafrcw cigirs pat into • the pew, p:\-etit- J by tbe son of the VarJens lof Trinity, as pa is, you know. Bat Alfred j should not joke on such sacred things 110 w --vc t and bow touching to give a y-ung man away from home a pioas gift, i.ke a prayer book ! The choir all come out iu their new snr i-i; es, twenty-four in all. That tease. Alfred, wfeiaper-d to :ge ' Uonsiderabie surn'.as piotv in .-hurc'i.' I was provoked, but I had to . .ugh He s such a witch. I wendr-r tbe - irplices arc not everywhere lo use, they give such ar ligions looe. I said so to pa, bat he does not hit- - surplices; and gniSj, 'wc houi i come to candies soon.' Ti.° - vie - wer most im:>os:a7 Thev mn-t hare reminded the I'rince of his home, and the tears came to my eye* as I thought of :\ I -aw hin looking at nre hr-t thee,an imy ; heart but. There was a great many cl -rgy men present, an J several bishops, and they j t ok turns, aui all of them never appeared batt r. BMM . I iirtoaing wgs lovely, and . so full of piety -Ma sa.d rei.g.oa never seem ; ed o uiucii hke rdigioa as cm that day. a: 7 Alfred, the tease, sa. iit remmucii h.in a iittie : f -he Fourth of July, Lot Alfred isn't L-TOUS. ! yon know. Pa say- he never was prouder of : Trinity, sH i r. the snrplices in the choir. Eat ! : I ennr.ot t ' y J The lovely things of tin: I S today. The er:trcn trasrpk-ndid. My letter j Is ' r fhao I iuteo led, bit the re em ry of 1 ' Suudiy is sodefightfSl I wi.-h Too era!.l have | | bean here. llo* fortunate for N'ew York and • ' this enuntrj that th-r- is a Trinity where the ic.r Triacs c -al-i Le r.mb.d 1 of home. I | forgot to say that woUc ied h-ra cart fully in ail the res -rs - lam cettaki he pronounces . ' iike *. as. for instance, ' fake no* they Holy S: iriifr -n 13s.* 'A irv nt us Toy sa.va ; I wi-'i you cculd have heard him. It is better t K an dancing with the Prince to at tend chinch with Lim." MAKING A LZ- :NN;NO. —Remember, in all 1 things, if you do r.r.t begin you will never come j to an end. The first weed pulled in a garden the first seed set in the ground, the first shill ing put in a sarirgs bank, and the first mile t' ive ! -d cm a journey are a l important things: theT mike a begUn *g: and thereby a hope ?a promise :a p! ige : an assurance : that you are • in earnest with what you have undertaken.— | II * raar.y a poor, idle, err.cg, l.:s;tating,oat- j cast is r.ow creeping and crawling h'.s way through Ihi world, who might hare held up his head and prospered, if, instead of puttiog off his resolut.oa* of industry aci amendment, he had made a beginning. ray- r>-n"t think you are making a ba-gaiu when you cheat a customer ; for in the lore run all snrh operations wiil turu out quadruple losses. Don't lead TOST money at too great a shave ; for the bcrrcwer nrcst succeed, or he'll not be able to pav Don't neglect yoar regu-. lar business, thiokiag to do better at some out side enterprise ; the chances are ten to one TOO will not succeed. *gg* p5? ca i y to live after the imrld's opi nion ; it is eay in sol.tnde to live after vonr own _Lbat tha great nan is fce who. in She m.ds: of the crawi, keep* w.thjverfect sweet-1 teis tie Lei 0? so.'ituie 1 " RE3ARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER." ! Office Holders and Office Seekers. The incoming of a New Administration on the Fourth of March next, will produce a change in the employment of several thous and persons. Thore who are now holding of fices, and receiving salaries, as appoiutees of President Buchanan and his sub functionaries, will be removed, and others will take their places under the Administration of President Lincoln. The number of perjons who thus change occupations, will be double that of all j the appoiutees ; for where one gets out, an other comes in, and for every office two per sons must change their mode of life. This considerable change in the business of so large a number of individuals will have a considerable effect on tlie country. Of the re ' tiring appointees many doubtless kft lucrative , employments and good pretes<wis for the sorer ami perhaps more easily earned support of a Government office. Many talented yuung men who bad just commenced, or who were about undertaking the practice of pro fessions, trades and business occupations, have giTen up their prospects in this direction for the temporarily superior ad*antuges of a lu crative and unlaborions appointment. Most of these are now unfitted, from four year*' time spent in an entirely different occupation, for taking up successfully their intended pro fession or business. V> iili many, the golden opportunity that Fould have secured them a h'-gh position, or perhaps wealth, by steady perseverance and honest industry, has been lost in tiie pursuit of temporary ease and a certain fair income for four years. The condition of numbers of those who are now thrown out of employment must be melancholy. They have enjoyed a competency for slight Services during the past Presidential terra, bnt their bright, youthful prospects are in many cases now blighted. A good and sure salary lias, iu many in stances, induced habits of life that Lave un fitted the out-going Federal appointee to struggle with the d.faculties of life in the clr camstances which fell to hi? let. Some mav have saved of their i:icooe sufficient for their maintenance until they can get employment, and others may have enough with which to , commence bu-::ess ; but this must be the case with comparatively few. Providence is net t:aa! with those who rr? living on Govern ment bounties, and the National Capital in duces habits of liiing that require al! the sal ary of a federal offi e holder. A raaj-.-rity of ti " di-mis*ed app.intees will leave their po sitions with qni'e as smalt p n cunia*™ mean? ns they entered them. T- ■ habits of extrava gance end high livino - . induced in many cases, will be a serit us barrier to the success of a .large number of the retiring office holders. If those who conteropla 4 : seekir._ effiees and " th ■ new Administration wi'i but • ri •- iv regard tbe case of many of t'ueir predecess ors, we presume they will not be so anXiOtis for Government positions. We suspect, how j ev- r, that such considerations w il have little , weight with the expectant office hunters.— Four years r eens to them a long while, and to be sure cf a coc i salary for that length cf ti.ne is the extent of their provident csicuia t ons. But let them reflect that this period will soon pass, and then consider the case of those now retiring, bnt who, fonr years ago, were animated by the same motives a? them selves. The office seekers are in general to be more , pitied than th-* retiring office holders. The former are animated by the m:;t lively hopes, and many of them fee! certain of the accora ; ;.-hment of their desires, yet probably not mere than one fifth can succeed. Four filths, then, are doomed to bitter disappointment.— Far more ra lanchoiy is their case than that of the outgoing appointee, wlro has the satis faction of having e: joyed his tenor of office and his salary, and whose expiring term was a known certainty, and, therefore, net a dis appointment. Many depend upon pretended friends, whom they have assisted iu getting office, to ei! their plans. In many cares this reliance w;!l prove vain, for deceit nr,d dupli city are often characteristic of pofiticians j Heart-burning? acd misanthropic rtfleci.oU; j wiil resslt. How many at this time • Will fi-4 : 0 Lte that ces betrsy." To correct many of tbe evils reselling fro m Government appointments. Congress should ; as- a law greatly decreasing the salaries of the Federal under officers. If the saiary was not greater—ar. i it shoald be a little le-; than 1 u-=aat for socb services hi private business re- 1 iations—there won' 1 be fewer and less ardent s -Aer- for such posts, yet there would be no difßcqltX in finding enoagh to fill them. The I c.-rtuinty of a Gcver: raeut eppcintrcn* f:: fonr years and its regular refary, would be a sufficient inducement. ?uch a law should be passed at tie very text session of Congress, and take effect 00 the incoming of the new Administration. Those who can accept of fices w !! not be dfsappointed by having their raiarie? decreased during their term, and even one who reeks a-: appointment will know pre cisely what compenz&uoa to expect. PERIUXAXCK or LOVE AND HATRE:\ —The heart can never forget tbe object of its affec tion. The brow may wear a frown, and the eye mav turn coldly 00 the loved object, bat could the vision pierce tbrouzh the cacements of the heart, it would behold a different scene; 1 m lieu of coldness, a red hot farnace would be raging in its center And it is thas with its ; hatred ; it cannot forget ; yoa may separate from it the despised—years may roll cn ere h behotuS its form—bnt at the first giance of recognition, the wrong, the iasalt, the scoff, the cruelty of vanished years, will rash hke a ffood of lava throogh its chansels, and it will stacd on the same groend it occupied years before. DOUBLE OR Qrrrs —** I'll fiog yoc for an boor, TOO little vidian " " Father.'' instantly replied the incorrigible yoQug scamp, as he balauced a penny oa hi* 1 finger, " I will toss voq 10 suke it two hamrs ' or nothing " FAULTS POMPEY COULD'NT REMEMBER — A good clergyman wishing to be rid of his horse, 1 arid to try for a better One, directed his old 1 negro man to sell his beast for what b6 would fetch, or to exchange him for another, adding j at the sarrie time an anxious caution not to ' deceive the purchaser, and even enumerating > the faults of the animal, least oue should be r overlooked. [ " Remember, Pompey, he has four faults," ' " Oh, yes, tnassa." Pompey, jogging along the road, and count ing over the list to himscif, as the old lady did over her luggage 'big box, little 1 ox, band p box, bundle,' was overtaken by a man on ' horseback, who entered into conversation, and k i among other topics,made some inquiries about ' : the liorse. Pompey told his story, said his master had ' charged him to tell the horse's faults to the purchaser without reservation. 1 j " What are they ?'' said the stranger, who 1 ; had a mind to swap. ' 1 " IU-re is four, inassa," said Pompey, and I : don't remember 'em all very well just LOW ' 1 but—'' " Tell me those you do remember," said the ■ j other. , " One is cat do horse is white and de white • hairs get on massa's coat, and that don't look ' ; well for a clergyman." " And the next ?" * j " When lie comes tc a brook he ttil! put his ' nose down and biotv ia de water, and mas.-a . don't like dat." " What next V " Don't anyhow remember de oders," paid j Pompey, peering into the clouds with one eye I reflectiugly. The stranger concluded to strike a bargain and exchange his own horse, which had not quite so gentle an air as the parson's, for this unexceptionable animal. It was not long be fore the clerical steed stumbled and threw his into a ditch. Picking bicseif np as well as he could, he examined his new purchase a ' little more closely, and discovered that the ! horse entirely blind. Finding Pumpey again without much diffi culty. his wrath burst forth ia a torrent of re proaches. " You black rascal, what does this mean ? This horse is broken kneed, and as blind as a mole." "Oh, ye*, raassa," said Pompey, blandly, "dem's de odcr two faults dat I conldxt re member." A TILUCHT FOR YOUNG MEN. —Mere may b° learned by devoting a few moments daily to reading, than is commonly supposed. Five patres may be read in fifteen minutes, et which rate one may peruse twenty-six volumes of two thousand pages each, in a year. Y a say : you have none to guide you. The best schol- j ais and men of scien *e wiil tell you bv far the most va'oable part cf their education i* that j which they have given Volumes have beer, ulled with the biograr:-by cf self taught men. T .ink of Franklin, the printer: L'nne, the shoemaker ; of John Hunter, the ( cabinetmaker : of Herschel, the mu-iciun : cf Donald, the wearer ; cf Turner, the printer ; o! Borritt, the b'ack-mith. Love learning, | and yoa will be learned. Where there i- a ; will there will be c way. Begin nt once,take time by the forelock, and remember that it is j only the fir ; t step that costs, nnd having be j gun. resolve to learn something every day 1 Strike the blow and avoid the weakn-'-* of those who spend half of life in thinking what they shall do next. Always Lave a volane near you which you may catch coat *r,eh odd minutes as are your own. It is incredible. ' until trial has been made, how much real 1 knowledge may be acquired in these broken fragments of time, which are like tbe diiit of gold and diamonds. SLANDER —Yoa. ycu nass it elong whether you believe it or not. You don't believe one i sided whTpers against tha character cf another but you wii! irre yonr iofiueneeto bear i up the false report, and pass it on the enmtit. j j Strange creatnr-'S are mankind. How many benevolent deeds have been chilled by the 1 *hrng of a sfcoolder. How many individuals | Ma been shunnd by a paffi, mysterious ; bow many chaste lo OILS - griel at a single nod. How many graves be dr.g by false report. Yet you i.. keep i: above the water by a wag of your tongue, whea you j might sink it forever Lisp not a word taat may injure the character of another. Be dc- } lerraiutd to listen to no s!ar.d-r, that, as far you are ■concerned, it my die B:U te'l it once , and it may go a? on tbe wing of the wind, ia- ! i creasing with each breath, til! it is circal-ted 1 through the State, and has brought to the | grare one who might hare beea a blessing to j the world. A MTSCHJETOCS PARROT.— One day a party • of ladies paid a visit aboard, and several had 1 been hoisted on deck by the usual means of a I j " whip" on the main-yard. The chair hud df.! nended for another 'whtp." but scarcely Lad its fair freight been iifted out of tLe boat | alongside, when the nnlocky parrot piped, " Let go !"' Tne being instantly obeyed, tbe j cafortsnate lady, instead of being ccmfor a bly seated oa the deck.a? bad beeu those who ! preceded her, was soused over head ia tbe sea— of a Session. SoP* One John W J one?, who had been rent to prison for marrying two wires.exeused himself by saying that when he had oue, she fought him, bat when he had two they fought each other. Let the youth who stands at the bar with a glass of liquor in his hano, coc*ider which he had better throw away—the liquor or himself. Swinging is said by the doctors to be a good exercise for the health, bat many a poor wretch has eca? to hi death by it VOL. XXI. ICCO. (Situational Stparimmt. " Who Educates your Children ?" In the rear 1800, Bonaparte met the ac complbhed Madame I>e Stael, at Copet. She baring requested a private audience, spoke to the first Consul of the powerful meaus afford ed by his situation to provide for the happiness of France, and made un eloquent display of her own plans for the accomplishment of that object, which She was desirocs to have that giant among great ruen adopt in his manage ment of public affairs. He heard her patient ly, until she Lad finished her speech, when he , coolly asked, " Who educates your Children, j Madame ?" What must have been the effect of that very significant question upon the mind of that | great woman ! She had, ia the opinion of the discerning First Consul, neglected the most important of all duties—the education of her children, to wate the energies of her gifted mind upon a fruitless effort to ameliorate the condition of France. Her objects were laud able, but the sacrifice was too great,and there fore she found the most severe rebuke in the question, " Who educates your children V We have v.o disposition to censure the coarse tak a by that most accomplished lady, whose writings will ever live to adorn the literature of France. We wish merely to pat the same j question to every mother In the land, and re quest Ler serious consideration of its import, jit was on that Madame De Stael, the most j learned and accomplished woman of her day,- | cc uld not answer j she had neglected this first and most binding of obligations, and conse quently felt more deeply the sting of self-re i proach which Bonaj,art's question created.— She neglected the edocatiod of her children , that she might elevate her own position, and shine among the most eminent of French authors. But how is it with mothers in our country ? Is it not often the case that the j mo.-t trivial things upon which thehnman mind cau res', will interfere with the sublimest of i all the duties imposed upon the mother—duties which affect her own happiness and that of her children—duties which, if well performed, will bring the richest reward to society, and % confer iuest malle blessings npoa children and parents. How often we are told when asking mothers to visit the school, that they have no time, by those who will waste Leers in decorating their person to spend an evening at a party ? How much time is worse than wasted at home, which should b? devoted to the education of their c' Idren by those mothers who never in quire about the condition of the school, the character cf the Tea.' r, or the appliances by which tl sir OM an ! daughter! are to be qual ified f r an honorable and useful career in life? To them we submit iLe question, " who edu cates your children ?' T e .-tme moth r who can d n ny the child a nee ssary school book, or suitable reading at I home and who cm refuse to take a well con ducted paper for the im; rovement c! her family 1 will spend many times their cost for ribbons i and gewgaws to meet the arbitrary and fool i-li demands cf fa-Loanable life, and plead the ! necessity cf " keening up eppearances '' for her ' gross pervtr-ion cf the means God has given Iher to enrich the minds of these she loves.— To snch an one we say, when von stand before the da?* arranging your us ess ornaments, punier well the qu-tion " vho educates your rhiiir- 1 ?" Ceas n to deny t'..e the proper meaus of inr -ovemenis to y ur family—thatyou cay consume their cost in doing homage to the i -hriue of fashion. There arc thousands who pay the teacher most grudgingly and ask ilg>os" a gratuitous service at h.s Lands, and yet lavi-h coney most freely to gratify a sense less van.ty. Taey act as if the body was of more value than the seal, and as if a plea-are I party was worth more to society tnau a school. • Ta at mo'.her who can find mora enjoyment ' ia a ore? d.-p.ay.ng. gossip making assembiag ! than in the weli-condocted school to which ; her children are sent f r instruction, will feel, , nuk-s the God of tl.is world destroyed her • -en-_ ( ma: roal ligations, LO si ght rebuke i in the answer eh 5 gives to the question " who 1 educates your children ;' Yv oaljl yon give a satisfactory answer to this ' question, uo to the school and there learn what are the privileges it affords your children i —become acquainted with the Teacher—sus tain h mbv a g . and grateful sympathy tia uischarg ng t i. - • duties you have delegated ; to i.tm, and aid him L-y lib- rally providing for !the ed :catY::_ MU uf year children,and by faithfully devot.t g yonr time to their meutal and m.rai improvement when out cf school. 1 Act c ' so j.ri;. • • ]es in th r s matter j ar.J man .'est a- much let- rest in the adorning ! of the mini as you do for their bodily comfort yoa will be able to render au answer to ; the question, " WHO H-CCATES Tota CHILDEEX?" j that wi.! satisfy your conscience, and meet the i ?€qairea*cnt of yoar obligations to yoar child ' area and to sock'v. ' ♦ CBTIXTT TO CHILDEF.S. —There are few con- I tinnous acts of wickedness that one couid Dot ! Sooner pardon than the wanton infection of misery cn children ; cone that rests so heavy ion the conscience. To make the period of childhood miserable is a sin which the poor victim, however amiable, cannot forgive. In the very nature of thing- it is impossible ; its effects are enduring. Offences ia after iife may oe expiated— may be overcome by benefits— may be effaced by remorse and atone mect.bot cruelty to children I —no, it is not in nnman nature to forgive it ; those who are capable of : the atrocity, are almost aiways the aao-t das ! tard j cowards, and irben brought into con i tact in after life with the victims of ihtir cruel ty. er.deav .r to prcpr.-te forgiveness by the bases: servility. A Bmrnm. IWAGE —A deaf and dumb per nor. bei g asked to give hi- id- a of forgiveness to s a pencil and wrote-"" it ia the sweettesr which flowers yield whan trampled cpoo"
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