(IKE DOLLAR PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
■ TOWANDA:
Thursday Horning, May 30, 1861.
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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<j
■ cisely tue samo feeling.
TEACH TOCR Cnn.r.nttN* Mrsic.—Yea wilt
start at a strange iTotion of mine : if it ap
pears even a mad one, do not wonder. Had
I children, my utmost endeavors should be to
make the*n musicians, < onsidering 1 have no
ear, nor ever thought of mnsic, the preference
seems odd; and vet i f is emhmced on frequent
reflection. In short, niadnwc, a* ffiy aire
would he to make thera hnppv, 1 think it th
most probable method. It is a resource which
will last fthem their lives unless they trrow-
Hen f ; it depends on themselves, and not on
others ; always amuses and sooths, if not con
soles ; nt.d of ail fashionable pleasures it is tha
cheapest. It is capable of fame and without
the danger of criticism—is susceptible of en
thusiasm, without being priest ridden ; and
unlike other mdrtal passions, is sure of being
gratified oven in heaven. — Horace Walpole.
THE MANNER OF DOING A SERVICE TO OTHER*.
—When your endeavors are directed
doing good to any individual, in otha; words,
to do him a service, if there le any option as
to the mode or way, consider and obserho
what mode is most to his taste. Tf you serTe
"him as you think and say, in away which i.t
yours, and not his, the value of any service
may, hy an indefinite amount, he thus reduc
ed. If the actiou of serving a 111*11 not in the
way he wishes to he served, be carried to a
certain length, it becomes tyranny, not beat li
cence ; an exercio of power for the satisfac
tion of self regarding affections, not an act of
benefioeuce for the gratification of the sympa
thetic or social affections.—7irw*v limthnvi.
PF.NS made ont of hones are NOW in
England and sell at the rate of fift* * or
cents, Tlvey ore prooourreed to h.i ** flexible
as ibe'cmjl], a"Ai fa^mrrotdhitfW*.