(IKE DOLLAR PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. ■ TOWANDA: Thursday Horning, May 30, 1861. fl Sflcdtb poetrn. YOU AND I. BY jrKNCER w. CONE. Van Ulievc in woman's love— iiH Ami so do 1; fa; *lut tire difference ii this— ■ You believe her honeyed kiss hH IS an impulse of Her l ,e!U 1 ' tfl I believe it is her heart. 'S you believe *he loves a man— -H You for instance. I' >' ou ca:i Fool yourself to such a lieiplit. -H bbe will scorn yon day aud night -fl And so will I. You have faith in woman's failb— And so have I : Hut vou fancy she will keep ■ flighted vow and promise deep ; -*■ I that oaths at midnight sworn he broken ere the morn. Iu her Until you think to dwell; i. H j;„y a house lor it to—seii : I rent " furnished, sure to move. You believe in faith and lo\o— And so uo I. Yen believe in woman's truth— And so do 1 ; 7m put the diiference is this : y* with love, and faith, and kiss. You lelieve. not that she's true, „ jiractly hut true to you ; j. that as tho diamond stone Onus, but keeps its Light it- own Woman's faithful to—herself b.; vou adore the lovely e.t S Iflisnlla neons. ~~ BOA Constrictors. The gloomy foresawfiich I witnessed what ■ I mn about to relate is situated a sko.t dis m ;ance from the town ol Dielky, iu the Last iu nH island of Timor*. Ou a small plot of ground where stands a M Kr o„p ofiibo.il fifty bnild.'HD '< wt fl '" UsUc ■ each surrounded by its own mclosures, I 1 J ■m' I uie a tow sickly Europeans and a nmn- J it of Malavs who blacken their teeth with be 3 tel. .inks, and lime. Here they live, and near ■ tbem —so near indeed that he can reach them ■ a single bound-lives the terrible boa con *■ strictor, "ho only devours myriads ol uisec's I . V |„. M ||,l happens not to have pounced upon a Th'e°biiualo is the boa's nalural food, The la "inetit lie lias siczed upon an animal of this vrintion, he drag? him toward one of the ordv giants of the forest, enfolds him, squeiz bio,"and stifles him, in spite of hn sharp r;ii.'his frightful bellowing and his sturdy B "inlders ; then covers him with slime, his i-h tongue seeming at once to caress and in- W.-etlns victim ; he kneads his body. h stretch- I tit out and pounds his boms, aud when i 'ie>e hideous preparations are completed, and his ' !e tells him tltat his victim is in a -■ r ; ic t0 go devoured, lie let? it foil, and pbic 'kX himself at fail length opposite the hleless ■ buCTalo's head, opens his jaws, the elasticity ot ir'l wlhch is almost beyond credence—till his rings 1 crtuk as they draw nearer each other, and then ;'J draws a long breuth, when the quadruped is S.B sncked in by a s-nes of jerks, and no sooner is I iu body hail engulfed than tiie voracious boa I grows culm, feel-drowsy, ivnd at icngtli fails >->rß n-!eep a< if wearied ly a struggle thai has ex liausted hisstrengtii. ■ ff the boa was alone before lie attached the I buffalo, and if his female is asleep at some dis fil tniice from him, you may then approach iufuli m confidence, for you have nothing to fear from iu? strength, his slime, nor his open jaws that lire yawning like some vast furmice. I have I sni'l that he is asleep, but it would be inorc cor • :t to -ay dead, for he is as iuseusibla as the tank of a tree. There is no glory as you may perceive in a ung the boa in the state of torpor iu which r? is thrown ut the beginning of his loathsome S repast, hut as no one thinks of glory in the ' iilv war waged against ibis hideous reptile, the best plan is to tuke him in the niidst of his m feust, and for several men to kneel down from ins head to tiie. middle of his body, as it lieiore some venerated idol, and then to place a pois oiied arrow on a string made of tiie eutrailsof I fish, and, at a given signal, to let fly sitnultn p.Ml neousiy ut this crawling Lucullus, who is struck by death in the midst of his feast. Hunting a boa is far more perilous, and, for part, I should a thousand times prefer at,- ■ lacking a tiger or a hungry lion in the desert, '••'"an the dreaded boa constrictor in the forest. I ballets are ineffectual against hitn—for how *ere it possible to direct them with u sure aim ' n the midst of his rapid undulation, as the dickering of a flume ? Yon funcv you hear , ni rustling under vour feet, wlicn, to ! he is U -ianriiijr by die last rings of his tail to some I "''ill branch, swinging to and fro ready to dart ■ you, and crush you to alums as lie would . 4 buffalo. It may be, as there is no sting to feared, thai you may have sufficient pre - tr 'ce of mind to divide the reptile's body witli -■ . To r sword ; but, for my part, I should give C: Y s *if np lIS lost the moment his slimy body iIB '' i encircled me in its folds, and I should only m tj f'ieve in the success of your attempt, if you :t r< H *5 sor e me you are born a Malay, aud inhabit tifiore. | ' bo depredations on the herds of buffaloes I seinnging to LurO|>eanB and to Rajahs tribu to the Resident of Dielky, committed by l boas of the forest adjoining this nnfortu -■ ia -o coio ( iv, find become so frequent and so fa '' 'bat the Governor, Jose l'uito Alcoferado ■ Azevedo Souzza, determined, at length '° ur S'inize hunting parties lor the pur- °f destroying, or at anyrate driving away dangerous reptiles. For this purpose he ""istd a uumbtr of RtDut-hearteM energetic j' r '. who were not afraid of entering thegloo- H*7 ' by day or by night, and making war J \ L / (> - Ijf . * IV' UIB J on its dreadful rulers. Their weapons consist ed of the formidable crisk, whose undulating blade is generally steeped in the yellowish gum of the upas-tree, and of short jagged arrows that are placed in the shape of a fan, on their chests, and which they dart at the monster whenever they surprise him asleep. But so many of the hunters fell victims to the reptile that they at length gave up this mode of at tack, for which condemned Telons were chiefly employed. Alter these unsuccessful attempts, which would have finished by depopulating the island far more rapidly than dysentery or the most pernicious fevers, Don Jose Pinto determined to set fire to the wood, even at the expense of a general conflagration throughout the island. He, however, adopted every precaution re quired under the circumstances ; and as soon as the buffaloes that were sent forward to he sacrificed to the reptiles, had given token of the presence of one or more of these monsters, he caused a quantity of trees to be felled in a circle round the spot thus indicated. And as tie se: petit remains in a state of torpor for some months after his repast, the courageous wood cutters had only to he on their guard against those reptiles which had not yet gorged themselves, but were not sufficiently bold to attack a troop of men ready to repel them. No sooner were the time honored trunks felled to the ground, together with the luxuri ant branches, so varied and so fantastic in their shapes, than whole arrufuls of dry leaves were cast into a heap i t the middle, these were set on lire, and the fire was continuilly fed by fresh fuel cast in from the outer circle, and then through the fitful undulations of the lambent flames, the dreaded boas might he seen writhing round aud round in the fiery cir cle, in their struggles to escape from death ; then leaping at a bound to the topmost branches of the trees, and attempting to clear the belt of flames that hedged them in—but in vain were their endeavors. They fell exhaust ed in the midst of the furnace, and breathed their last amid the most hideous contortions, expressive of the horrors of so agonizing a death. iSomo of them, however, as Don Jose Pinto assured me, contrived to leap beyond the scene of danger, rushed upon the intrepid Malays, several of whom forfeited their lives before tbe reptiles could be subdued. But it is when the boa comes forth from the gloomy and silent forests, and scours the plain to enjoy the light and the sunshine, that lui muii life is in the greatest jeopardy, even in the most securely closed habitations. The boa constrictor po*ses>es all the cunning and hy pocrisy of the juckal and the tiger; he crawls along stealthily through the fences, following all the sinuosities of the soil, so as not to make a noi>e bv striking agaius* any object that might impede his passage. He stoops his head beneath the leaves and branches of the shrubs, and theu raises it up again with due caution, having previously listened to ascertain wheth er there might be some easy prey near at hand, after which he crawls onward in the direction of the spot he aims at, when suddenly by a se ries of rapid bounds and evolutions, that can be compared to nothing more aptiy than the streamer on tiie mainmast oi a vessel dallying with the wind, he twists himself, now to tiie right, now to the left, then turns backward, and anon leaps forward as though he were seized with a vertigo. But in this fevered state the boa has marked his victim, and his greedy cy has at once discerned which auiuiai will afford him the largest digestion. Such of the natives of Timore as are em ployed on plantations open to the incursions of the boa, have therefore devised the following stratagem: They tie np a buffalo with strong ropes to a tree or rock, with cremated open ings, where they cau ensconce themselves in safety, while they are enabled to watch their enemy's manoeuvres. The boa now rushes up on its victim, and the suppressed roar of the buffalo soon proclaims the reptile'a triumph and the feast that follows. But it must not lie imagined that when the monster is impelled by hunger he nets in the cautions manner 1 have just described —just on the contrary; at such times his bearing is bold and decisive ; he towers prtiudly above the tail heath, uttering a hissing sound like the moaning of the wind in a tempest, and following as straight a line as an arrow shot out of a bow by some practical hand, 'ihen, oh! then, woe to the unhappy man upon whom this hideous reptile is about to rush! Nothing cau save him from his deadly grasp, utid tre quently have several fallen a prey to his vorac ity, when he stalks with a rapidity far exceed ing that of the most nimble tiger. It is difficult to comprehend the wonderful ehisiicy of tne boa's jaws. His head is no larger than a man's two fists put together, yet his jaws expand without any great effort, and engulf masses of astounding enormity. 'lhus when the whole body of the buffalo has heen consigned to his living tomb, you may see the boa's scalv skin distended by a number of domes, while the vLtun's horns rise up i'ke two sharp peaks, as if about to pierce through the hard wails of a prison. But of all the sights in the world, none is at once more curious and more frightful thau an encounter between two boas, which are con tending for the possession of a female or of a buffalo. Don Jose Pinto and I witnessed an encoun ter of this kind one evening, taking care, how ever, to ketp at a respectful distance. We took up our positions on a loftly Belvi dcre, from whence, though at a distance of about a thousand footsteps from the scene of action, wo couid hear the sonorous hissing-- more like gusts of wind than auytliiug else of combatants, about to enter the list. M e saw the scattered branches on the ground rising like whirlwinds in mid air, impelled by the rapid evolutions of the two infuriated combut iints, and flying like rockets in ail directions. Tbe two boas readied, at a bound, the solid brandies of a couple of tree? standing near each other; and then there was u kind of lull, only interrupted by the feverish rostling of the thick foliage, in which tbe terrible combatants lav ensconced PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY R. W. STURROCK. On a sodden the trees quivered all over, and two sturdy cables rushed at each oilier. These cables were the two inveterate foes hanging by the last ring of their tnils, each to a branch, entwined in each other's folds, like cemented stones of a bridge; and poised above the abyss below. Sometimes they formed a convex, and and at other timcsacoucave arch, and they re mained motionless awhile; yet even during their apparent immobility, they would crush and pound each other's rings, and under this seeming calm there waa rage, despair, and gnashing of teeth. The body of one of the boas must drop lifeless to the ground, and the other fail asleep beside his vanquished foe. The struggle had lasted for about a quarter of an hour, when the two champions, as if by mutual agreement, loosened their bold of each other' and retreated, each to his former station, till the hostilities should be resumed. The war cry was a kind of stilled hiss, but more pro longed than the two first we had heard, after which both monsters slid down the smooth trunk of 'he tree they had chosen for the field of battle, and theu followed a violent attack as rapid as lightning's fierce onslaught, and the last agonies of one of the combatants seem ed almost simultaneous. One of the reptiles had drawn his adversary within his vortex, and the rings of his tail were relaxing their hold by slow degrees. The bodies of the two monsters were now side by side, and stretched at full length. One was motionless; the oth er more agitated, and after carefully coiling himself round the tree, he at length stifled his adversary within his deadly embrace. The Temptation. Past twelve o'clock!—sang out the watch man, ns young DeJamerc staggered down Lib erty Street towards his lodgings. Ilis attire was of the finest material, but form there was none. He had been drinking, and had fallen once or twice, so that his elegant toilet was now most inelegantly disarranged. Still lie wis not drunk, by r.o means. It was the street comiuissiouei's|lau!t,there being so many obstacles in the way. liow conld lamps burn in such a smoky atmosphere? lie would com plain to the mayor, to morrow morning, and have Watchy removed for insulting him. ' Show him to his lodgings ? lie was paid to : rniud his own business, and not lor troubling | gentlemen. The watuhman, however, guided him home, assisting liitn in findine the key | hole, and departed, singing lustily, " Past twelve o'clock, and a cloudy morning 1" Lnte in the morning Deiaraere woke with a ' had headache—a parching thirst—a sense of i weakness—loneliness. The hoarders were ail i gone out. The servants were busy. lie washed in cold water, drank copiously of the ■ healthv beverage—met the landlady in the j hall, wiio, instead of scolding, mildly said:— i "I urn glad your mother did not see you ! last night." " So am I!" he Hgiit'y said, but the expres { sion was like a dagger in his heart. He was . then an object of pity. At dinner some of the boarders jeered him, j some cautioned him, a few advised him to per ! severe until he became more seasoned. Turn ing to one who was hir. friend indeed, he asked what he would advise in this interesting rise. "Sign tho pledge," his friend bluntly re -1 plied. I This was received with laughter by all the j '.est. " Oh! yes," said one, singing; " \vc have BO confidence in your resolution." " Does your mother know you ate out-?" sneered another. "The pledge has a magic power," exclaim ed a third; "it is so much more binding than your word of honor." "Sign," said his friend earnestly. "Yes, do," added the landlady. " 1 will," lie exclaimed, " this very night of the meeting." Ail was silent, now they knew his rcsolvo . was taken. " How did yon get home last night?" jocu ! lady asked the doggery keeper, as Delamere passed his door iu the evening, i " Your business is infernal," replied Dela , mere; " you drained me last night of twenty five dollars, and then sent me homo nnattend ed, caring not whether I was lodged in the watch house, or crushed by the locomotive. liow did you treat other victims ?" | Boniface was taken aback. Had he been air.an, such a speech would have excited re pentance, or brought on a fight, hut such crea ! teres are half friends so he merely remarked, " Come in and take a drink: we are all frieuds ' here." " Drop the r from the word friends." con temptuously added Delamere, " and you accu rately describe your crew." Delamere signed the pledge, and would have kept it against all temptations save one. On earth no influence, save one, could have shaken his resolve. I'oor fellow! One being could overcome any resolution of his. Delamere was in love! One of the prettiest and sprightliest of Eve's daughters had woven a net of siikaud gold around hitn, and might have led him any where! This beautiful creature had heard that her lover had signed the pledge, and was proof against all temptation, and conceived in Iter silly heart the desire to show her influence over him was paramount. "Take a glass of wine with mo, Delamere," she suddeniy said, at a party; "I feel fa tigued." " My d car, I cannot, iti honor; for I have signed the pledge " " Cannot! Fiddlesticks! do yon think I would usk you to do anything unreasonable ?"' Neither of these young creatures were aware of the fact, but amidst all of these lamps, dev ils awaited the result. Good angels gathered anxiously around the side-board. She drew him reluctantly to the tatnl spot, aud while the fiends gibbered, and the angels made signs of warning, siie poured out the deadly potion. They drank. In one moment she repented of her triumph, for he instantly filled again, say ing, " Drink now to my dishonor!" Laugh ingly he led her to a seat, arrd poured out all the eloquence of lore io praive of beauty and " REOARDI.ESS OF DENUNCIATIOM FROM AST QuARTER." wine. She became restless, feigned illness, and he took her home. Returning, the old land lord espied him. No resistance now 1 liis taste was excited. Honor no longer guarded the portal. Late at night the watchman assisted him to his lodgings. Next morning nothing but liquid lire would drown his conscience. Ilis career was rapidly downward. The ladv, what of her? \e angels and fiends who witnessed the temptation, what of her ? All ladies who read this article, as you fear Gon, and love humanity, sign the pledge. —Presbyterian Banner. Tiie Korror3 of Delirium Tremens, I was quickly suminond to attend Saltoun : in a severe attack of delirium tremens. There lay the strong man, raving of devils and snakes, as he expressed it, creeping things in- , numerable, both smal' and great ; his face j flushed, his eyes bloodshot and glistening, Ids ! tongue bitten through, and his black lips ' streaked with foam. He was struggling with all his strength against imaginary demons, and shouting at the top of his voice that he was devil possessed, nnd that his time'wns come to go to outer darkness. " 0 devils of tho air, ; iiow thev glare on me ! Messengers of Satin, j sent to buffet me, I'll have it out yet. Off, off! I sav, crawl, crawl, creep, creep.'' Then would issue a fearful paroxysm, and | he would make snatches at the bed clothes or ewwee beneath tlicm, or peep over tiie edge of j Ihe bed, with an expression of horror and j fright difficult to forget—murderous in its j terror. It required the utmost efforts of four j able men to keep him down in bed. Now, unless physical force le applied so as not only to bo perfectly adequate, but nLo to appear , overwhelming, I have always found it produc tive of more harm than good ; so after repeat-. Ed trials, I adopted the plan of keeping him in a recumbent position by means ot a strong webbing across his chest, which wa3 fasteneu down to the two sides of the bed. lie made j several attempts, when he broke loose by j accident, to throw himself out of the win dow. lie told mo afterwards that he perfectly remembered thi?, nnd that lie bid it, not lor the desire of suicide which he afterwards ex- | perienced but that he felt Ins conviction of being able to float pair.hssly ori tiie a;r. Ilis , screams and yells were awful, and when t'aey ceased he gabbled incessantly—it seemed a veritable diarrhoea of words, sometimes in sensciess soliloquy, sometimes in ejaculation | addressed to the imaginary being who crowded his chamber ; imploring their pity, or depre- i eating their insults. Throughout, concious ne?s was broken np into fragments, exhibiting an utter abseer.ee of that alternative continu ity which 1 have had occasion to remark present in genuine insanity In brain fever the same incohercncy is gen erally noticeable. When he became a little | more quiet, lie was a prey to a sort of univer sal dread, in which every form, every sound, a'.l the relation of the existence seemed to in- , spire him with a nameless fear. For tins lie did not attempt to a.-sign any reasonable cause ; and it was pitiable to sec how he would j start and tremble even at the shutting of a door, or the en trace of his servant into th • room. The delirium ran its course, leaving him in a state of settled ejection, for days he I would, if ailowed, sit dumb and motionless, j apparently without desire or will ; his arms < folded, his head sunk on his chest, and his j eves fixed on the gronnd with an cpression of j the deepest gloom ; the utmost that culd be j extracted from him in reply to any question was " VPS," or " no."— Horace Salton," in the I Corn/till Macaiine. J I FOP.TP AND FORTRESSES. —A correspondent of the iSavaunah Republican thus enlightens the i uninitiated public upon the proper significance i of these two words so often used synonymously: There is but one fortress in the United Stales —Fortress Monroe ; all tho other fortified plabes, defending our harbors, are called forts ; The distinction betwixt these two terms is very wide. All fortresses are forts, or l'brtified i places ; but nil forts are not fortresses. All ) colleges are schools ; but all schools are not colleges. The relation of forts to fortresses is that of runjor to minor. A fort may be simp- . ly an advanced work, to protect tiie extended lines or walls of a fortress. Generally, forties- . ses arc extenrive evcevintes, for the reception of garrisons, and built for the protection of cities. In the United States, no extensive for- j tified places, with large garrisons, have been constructed for the defense of cities. Fortifi-1 cations in this country have had reference prin cipally to harbor defence. Fortress Monroe, with its capacity for garrison, was constructed for the defense of the important Navy Yard of Gosportand Norfolk, now in possession of j Virginia and the Confederate States. The construction of the extensive walls of a fortress involves the highest science of er.gi- ; neering. Not so with forts. The former irn- \ plies polygons, bastions, cutains, glacis, cover- ! ed ways, olanks, scarps, revelins, redans, re deubts and the whole vocabulary of engineer- ! ing science. Add to this, the idea of a vast enrrinte or eircnnivahitiou to contain a large ! garrison of troops, and a fortress rises to its proportionate majesty. PREDICTIONS FOR 18G1. —The year 1801 will be a very eveutful one—to every maiden who gets married. Throughout the whole course of the year, whenever the raoou wanes the nights will grow dark. Whoever is in love this year will think his mistress an angel Whoever gets married will find out whether it be true. He that loses Bis hair this year will go bald. He that loses his wife will become a widower. If a young lady should happen to blush she will look red in the face, if she ureatns of a young man three nights in succession it will he a sign of something. fi&y He who never gives.advicc.and he who never takes it, art alike uuwdrtn'y of frfeud sfcip War Terme. T!it? Cclurabifld of Paxihan (pronounced pay-zan) is a large gnn, designed principally for firing shells—it being far more accurate than the ordinary shot mortar. A mortar is a very short cannon with a large bore, some of them thirteen inches in diameter, for firing shells. Phone in use in our arruv are set at an angle of forty five de gress,the raune of these shells is varied by altering the charge of jvowdsr. 'ilie shell is cr.nsed to explode at just about the liuan that it strikes, by means of a luse, the length of which is adjusted to the time of flight to be occupied bv the ball, which, of course, cor responds with the range. The accuracy with which the time of the turning of a fuse can be adjusted by varying its length is surprising ; good artillerists generally succeed in hav ing their shells explode almost ct the exact instant of striking. In loading a mortar, tUe shell is carefully dropped in, and when the piece is discharged, the shell is completely enveloped with flame", so that the fuse is nearly always fired. The fuse is made by filling a woodeu cylinder being of sufficient ltagt'u for the long est range, to be cut down shorter for shorter ranges as required. A Dahlgren gun is an ordinary car.ndn, ex cept that it is made very thick at tha breech for three or four feet, when it tapers down sharply to less that the usual size. 'lh:s form was adopted in consequence of the experiments of Captain Dahlgren, of the United States Navv, having shown-that whefi a gun bursts it usually gives way at the breech. The Ni agara is urmed with those guns, and at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, there are sixty, weigh ing about nine thousand pounds each, and six of twelve thousand pounds weight each, the former of which are capaple ot carrying a nine inch, and the latter a ten-inch shell a distance or two or three miles ; and there is one gun of this patent which weighs fifteen thousand nine hundred and sixty pounds, and is warratiled to seud an eleven-inch shell four miie3. A casemate is a stor.e roof to a fort made sufficiently thick to resist the force of cannon balls, and a casemate gun is one which is placed under a casemate. A barbette gun i 3 one which is placed on the top of the fortification. An embrasure is the hole cr opening through which guns are fixed from fortification. Loop holes are openings in walls to fire tans ketry through.— Scientific American. try The origin of ti.e term " Mtron and Dixon's line " was in this wise : Tbe gran tees of the State cf Pennsylvania and Mary land differed about the location of the line that divided their respective grants. On the 4:! i of August., 17(13. Thomas and Richard Penn and Lord Baltimore, being together at Londbn, agreed with Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, two expert surveyors and mathamaCcians, to settle an 1 fix definitely the bo'indarv between Maryland and Pennsylvania including tiie part of Delaware which joinstm the latter State. The two gentleman entered upon their work the same year, and establish ed the present line between ,the Ftales above named. This " brief" is tiie history o: "Ma soil and Dixon's line." It is now the dividing line on the Atlantic side between the free and siavo states, hence the frequent reference to it. PSy One communion Sunday, an oi l Ken tucky soldier, who had fought under General Jackson, at New Orleans, and knew wcllwhnt manner of man he had been, attended the Her mitage Church, and saw the aged warrior kneel reverently before the altar. lie was transfix ed with astonishment. After the service was over, he was observed to be unusaaiiy silent and thoughtful, and upon being questioned, re lai'd what lie had seen. He concluded his nar rative thus : "V. hea Isaw the man who had fought armies, parties, cabinets, and had nev er fought without conquering, get down on his knees in that church, 1 said to myself : " We!!, when Gen. Jackson kneels, I tell yon, boys, 1 think it's about time for me to knock under." Four weeks after lie joinsd the church, and fir ed and died an exemulary member. MOTHERS. —God lias ro ordered it that nost great men have owed their best qualities to noble mothers. The mother of Napoleon was distinguished for eouragp. The mother of Washington was famous for firmness. John Wesley's piety, firmness, and conscientiousness were traits inherited directly from his mother. Is any achievement in war, or art, or letters, greater than this of giving to the world a man whose deeds leave their impress upon the age? Can there he any object of ambition greater, nobler, more inspiring, and more purifying than this, which should animate the soul of every true mother so to train her child that in whatsoever place God may put him,he shall do a man's work in the world ? fog- Sidney Smith was on one occasion waited on by a lady, who lamented her inabili ty to make her child pronounce his words cor rectly, and said that in a Scripture lesson lately to him, tho youngster called Abraham and other noted characters in the Passage which he was reading-—instead of patriarchs —"patridges." "i see," responded Sidney, " the young rascal was making game of theru." STANDARD WORSHIP —The Romans worship ped their standards ; and the Roman standard happened to be an eagle. Our standard is on ly one-tenth of an " eagle"-—a dollar—but we make all even by adoring it with a tanfold de votion. He who feels his own deficiencies w;!i be a charitable man for his own sake. firS" It is rumored that ajealonsy exists between Davis and Beauregarg. Tho latter looks tip to largely for the Presidential milita ry aspiration, and there may result trouble utnovg the rebels m consequence VOX,. XXi. 3 (Educational jßrpsrhntut The Mischievous Boy. I resided in Philadelphia, ia Tha viclaity tff a market. One evening, as L was quietly eit tintr with my family, I heard a lonrl rap at tay front door. * I ismnediatcly went to the floor, aid was surprised, on Opening it, to tied to one thera. I shut the door and tnrned 4o go to the parlor, i had hardlyTitpeceded a ya?d before rap, rap, went the knocker again. b hastily opened the dbor, but no ona was Jo be seen. 1 concluded that seme tnischitvotis boy was disponed t"o hate a little sport at ray ex pense, bat as I was not willing to he ansoyed with mischief, I shut the door ar.d kept hold of it. Very soon the raps were repeated, i sudeuly opffnwl the door; but nobody was to be seen. The oveniug was dark, and as I stood in tho door, the rnps were renewed for a few seconds. I stood in astonishment; but upon patting my hand upon the knocker,the mystwy v. as unraveled. 1 found a string tied to it, and my little persecutor was standing behind one of the pillars of tho market, with one end ra hia had, operating upon my knocker at Lis pleasure. I closed the door, and went out back way, passed down the stftet oil tico toot wav, till J pot some u : star.co below t'Lie lad, when I turned and came up behind L&i. and took hold of kis arm. He was very raueli alarmed, and began to entreat me to let lota go, when the following dialogue took pface. "We!!, my lad, thou art amusiag thyself at rny expense. I want thee to go home jwi tlx me. - *' " Ob, Vda are going to whip rh; p'e£f=e let j mo fro, and I will never do eo again.' I " I will r;ot whip thee, but thou cr.cst go ! home with tee." After repeated assurances that I would not whip him, at length the poor Miow consented ' but'he hat] no faith in my promise not to whip him, and went ; n with the full ;pcctntion thnv he wft3 to lv; pnntsbed. 1 seated hiin in the : parlor, and took a seat by his side. Il was a fine, bright-lookipg little fellow, about thir j teen or fourteen years f ago. I asked him if be went to school. H replied tlat lie did. " Canst thoa read ?" I inqftir^l. " Y06." " Well, let us read a few chapters Ui tk Bible." ■f opened the Bible.read a chpeter, and tuen rave it hj P.im: and I was much pleaded to I discover that lie could read so well. We spent about an hour in that manner, ; when I remarked, that we had spent the even ing very plcasnfltly together,but 1 nowthought it was about time for him to go home, j "If thy father or mother inquires where thou hast been," I said, " tell thetn that then has been spending the evening with ure: and ! when thou feelesl an inclination to lie a littlo mischievous, call upon me. 1 shall 'always be j pleased to see thee.' He le4t my house rejoicing,aud fieYW troub 1 ' led me afterward. ISAAC T. EOPPSfc. j __ Tals-Bcariag ia Soliool. Never enconrsga in ur.y way odlbus ' practice of tate-bearing in school. It is the foundation ofies of a habit, that unconaei&ns i ly follow? its possessor to the very end of life, ; however various, and is everywhere the fruit ful source of mischief and misfcrlun". It couits, in some sou!, a perfect passion. I? ! then works evil for the mere leva of evil ; rt- I joicing in the excitation of indignant feeling in ! one mind,by the tzra'.Tioaticn of idle couriosity in another. Iu short, while yet the habit 13 ill-cstablißiied, and muiico lias no settled pre-, dominance in the matter,it is still the-fountain of extensive evil- lie that is commissoccd-or in any way encouraged to exercise the func tions o" a spy oer his fellow pupil*, will never ' fail, while lie excites their fears, at the saurn time to wake up against himself a plentiful sup ply of bitter antipathi*-. ** Children of a larger growth " hate almost instinctively the name, i person and character of an isfcrm.er., and there j is no reason to hope tiiu% the sprite thing Will not among the members ef a school aroue pr