K 03LLAS AND FIFTY 0313 PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. TOWANDA : TlMirsday Morning, April 16, 18£3. Sdcttcb (From the Washington Daily Chronicle.) THE NATION'S TRAVAIL. BT U. U COBB. T-;<> pains we feel. the the pangs that rend, Pierede a nobler birth Than any since the world began ; In which all ancient good ahall blend With nil held iu reserve lor earth, Anil to accrue to man. The mingling doubts, and hopes, and fears. Of good or ill to come, Are monitors of coining change ; They whisper in unwilling ears Of facts and ultiinatcs, the suia Within man's finite range. The skies are daik, the fields are red. Our homes resound with wails ; The earth shakes with the tread of hosts, And gapes to swallow op the dead ; The sea is lashed by sulphurous gales Along our Camiog coasts. All faith in man,and higher things, Seems dying at the root, Blight by the canke: of distrust. And lies, aud hatreds, ail the springs Of human action so pollute, That Hope returns to dust. Tor, see : without, the open foe With arms assail the State ; While Brutus whets the traitor's knife Wilhin.aud waits lo strike the blow IJ j'.v can the nation wrest tront late Its dear, iiuj erilled li'e ? 'Tis thus man reasons. Were his sight Made limitless in scope, lie should In re reach all happenings, And i< ad (Jen's ultimate aright; A..d L.iLh should ri-e again, and Hope Miiould soar on tireless wings. \ All -t'fe i i healthful. 'Tis the growth Of MJII is, and grosser things ; I'hc germ tights upward to the sun ; And nature seais with nature wroth When tempests flip their awful wings, And earthquakes feud aud stun. For strife is life, and life i.* strife, And peace is stagnant death ; M ■ h wrestling makes the perfect man, And leads to high- r realms of life ; Acti--ii i-. made his vital breath !a the Almighty plan. ' ■ ;: v.sy. The e arc ccepa Within deeps more profound ; And li Tits supernal crown the heights Wh Lot mortal visi.>n sweeps ; A . In.'',-, beyond the outer bound That finite reason lights. The fathomless and open sea, That turges at the pol" 3 01 ill is mysterious being, laves The throne-foot <>t infinity ; And to that central point our souls Adventure ou the waves. Baffled by head-winds, tempest tost Menaced by angry skies. And breakers, smiting sunken reef*, II"pe dies the death ; then faith is lost; Ti: a reason stumbles ; theu arise Wild theories and beliefs. Bat this we know • Truth cannot die ; Ami Right is Truth's right hand , Truth's high emprise i- human weal : And all past records testily Tint what Truth will, to stand, EIIAI.I. ST.VND, Unharmed of fire, or steel. 11l is c 111 aiteo it s. Farming Hints For April. I EN'CES. One of the earliest tasks thai claims the fanner's attention is reps icing feu- C'S. Systematic managers, whose farms are divided by common rail structures, after hav lug determined how long they will continue, six years, divide their whole farm into six P'rts, mid repair a sixth each year; this keeps "ii in good order without further trouble, and without having too much to attend to in one seusoti, and but little another Board fences should b annually examined throughout their whole length, and loose boards nailed tight.— New board fences should never be battened ou the face or joints over the posts, as the practice tends to cause decay; but in the eour-e of fifteen or twenty years, when the ends begin to rot and become loosentd, bat tens will secure and make them stronger for several years longer. If farmers are able to replace their old worm fences by post and rail, hoard, or stone fences, they should begin cn one tide and construct a certain amount each Jear, keeping a register of the same. Then, iu f utnre years, when repairs are needed, they tan go through iu the same way aod in the same number of years. The importance of good fences is well under stood lay those who have observed the differ ence between crops safe from all intruders,and lho-e occasionally trodden down and ruined ; between moving on with the work without in ferruption, and the frequent annoyance of tapping important operations, to ruu alter in truding cattle, colts and pigs. •MEADOWS —As soon us these are dry enough to hear feet without injury to the turf, they should he carefully picked of all loose projecl- In g stones, which might injure a mowing ma chine, and then well rolled, so as to make the •Hllace as smooth and perfect as possible Stumps should be dug or pulled out, acciden tal brush or other rubbish removed, and small hillocks levelled down. The farmer who has 'een a mowing machine broken, at a cost of hve dullars, and a delay of a day, by a stone that might have been removed iu live minutes, will appreciate the importance, comfort and •coaotny of a smooth surface. There is some Satisfaction in the reflection that new farm rua chientry is going to copel the adoption of a smoother and more perfect kind of farming. Much is lost by the imperfect thin, and un seeding cf meadows. Bare spots and thin grass, amounting as they very often do, to one-fourth of the whole sin face, would make a total loss of five acres in every twenty acre meadow. Some times the los 3 amounts to much more. The importance of thick and even seeding is not sufficiently appreciated.— Thin or hare patches in existing meadows may be covered with grass by running over the m-udow with n fine tooth harrow the first day the surface is dry, then sowing a mixture of clover and timothy and rolling the seed in If the meadow has heen tup-Uresstd with fine manure in autumn or winter, the harrowing will mix it with the surface, and assist the ger ruination of the seed, as well us its subsequent vigorous growth. Meadows which were top dressed with coatse manure in autumn or winter, which was more or less spread in lumps, should be har rowed as early as possible, so as to break those lumps and spread the whole uniformly. Cat tle droppings, on meadows or pastures, should be Ouely beaten to pieces and we!! scattered over the surface, as soon as the frost will ad mit, and before the frost lias uli disappeared from the s<ff. It is scarcely necessary to men tion that no good farmer ever allows either his meadows or pastures to be touched by a hoof early in spring while the ground is soft. TEAMS. —Every good manager lias already taken care to have his teams in excellent or der for the heavy work of spring—but as they have not been much accustomed to hard and steady work, it would 'e advisable to plow on ly half a day at a time with them at first un til they become well accustomed to it, using them the other half days for job work, like teaming, <fce. A little care in this respect will often prevent sore shoulders and reduced con dition. The harness should be examined fre quently to see that it fits well and to prevent chafing. It will bo observed that when hors es arc plowing, the traces draw downward,ami when attached to a wagon, horizontally ; the back straps should therefore he lengthened a little when they arc removed from the wagon to tlie plow Pi. OVAING. Light or gravelly soils which quickly become dry may be plowed at aimo.-t any time ; but rich loams should be taken at precisely the right period. If plowed too ear ly, while yet wet, they may become poached and injured for the season. If left too late, the spring rains may have settled back what the frosts of winter have loosened. Plowing well saves much labor in subsequent tillage. Marrow furrow slices (except with sward) pul verize the soii more perfectly, and leave a beautiful mellow surface. Furruvs seven or eight i cites deep and only six inches wide are easy for the team and leave the land in a very line condition. MANURE. —This may be applied with ad van tiii/e to pr.::g? crops, il it is in such condition as to be pulverized finely. After spreading, it should always be thoroughly harrowed. — and broken and intermixed with the top soil befor" plowing under. Coarse manure she: Id lie used in compost heaps. If very strawy, throw it up into heaps in llie yard for remain ing during the summer : if less strawy, draw it out to the fields where it is to be applied, and make compost heaps by thin alternating layers of tutf or loam and manure. CARROTS —Failure often results with this crop by being planted to late—the seeds miss, the sun burns the plants, (ret them in early as possible, or as soon as the ground can tie made thoroughly mellow. IL does not pay to plant ennots on foal weedy ground. The labor of hoeing will be too great, but if the is clean rich and mellow, carrots may tie made eminently profitable. Farmers often think u necessary to turn their animals on early grass, thus injuring the turf ; but a supply of car rots in the spring wi'l give them all the ad vantages of early green food, and none of its drawbacks. BARLEY AND OATS —Sow these as early as the set d t an be put in, on well prepared land —we have known a delay of two weeks to lessen the crop quul to its entire net profit. POTATOES should also be planted early, for the great mass of experience is in favor of early planting to prevent rot. CALVES. —The great secret of success in raising calves, after keeping them clean and comfortable, is very regular and uniform feed ing, combined with nutritious food, aud avoid ing all sudden changes in their food. On the whole, it is uest to wean tliern very early, as they will then never suck the cow again, nor themselves. Their food may at first he new milk, then warm skimmed milk, then skimmed milk with meal intermixed, thus passing from new milk to common food with meal, and be ing especially careful that all these changes should be very gradually, aud almost imper ceptible WHEAT CROPS.— Red root and cockle should be pulled earlv, and jiot a vestige of either left, RAINY DAYS. — Clear cut all rubbish from cellars, and keep them clean and well purified. Examine and repair tools, and have them ail in perfect order for the busy season now about to commence. Grease waggons, oil harness, brush up stables, examine and render perfectly clean all seed for sowing and plant ing. Prepare account books, and keep an ac curate account with every field. ORCHARDS AND SHADE TREES.— The enter prising farmer should not forget these. Time for planting may vary considerably with cir cumstances— if they have been dug up early before tiie buds have swollen, and have been well heeled in, they may be set out safely, even after the leaves on standing trees have begun to appear. The great points is to take up the roots with them ; they ore commonly nearly all left behind : stems and tops are not of much value without roots. If this point has been carefully attended to, and the roots have been well spread out in every direction when set, and placed compactly in fine earth, they cannot fail to grow ; there is no use los ing ono in a thousand. After that, the great requisite is to Keep the surface mellow and well cultivated.-— Country Gentlemen. —They who weep t&r errors were not fram ed for crime, PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. 0. GOODRICH. WHAT THE SOUTH REJECTED, The Proposals of the Peace Convention. The following address and resolutions, offer ed to the acceptance of the southern leaders iu the Peace Convention held ut Washington, are referred to in our cditoral. " To the People of the United. Slates : "On the 4;h di.y of February, 18G1, in compliance wi.h the invitation of the state of Virginia, Commissioners from several other states met the Commissioners of that state in Conference Convention, in the city of, Wash ington. From time to time Commissioners from other states uppcared, appointed as were those who first appeared, some by the legisla tures and some by the Governors of their re spective states, until, on the 231 instant,twen ty-one states were then represented. The Convention thus constituted claims no author ity under the constitution and laws ; but deep ly impressed with a sense of existing dissen sions arid dangers, proceeded to a carefui con sideration of tiu-m and their appropriate rem edies, UIILI having brought their deliberations to a close, now submit the result to the judg ment of their fellow-citizens. " We recognise and deplore the divisions and distractions which now afflict our country, interrupt its prosperity, disturb its peace, and endanger the Union of the states ; but wc repel the conclusion, that any alienations or dissensions exist which are irreconcileable, which justify attempts at revolution, or which the patriotism and fraternal sentiments of the people, and the interests and houor of the whole nation, will not overcome. " In a country embracing the central and most important portion ot the continent, a raong a people now numbering over thirty millions, divercities of opinion inevitably ex ist ; and rivalries, intensified at times by local interests aud sectional attachments, must c? ten occur ; yet we do not doubt that the the ory of our government is the best which is possible for this nation, that the union of the states is of vital importance, aud that the con stitution, wh eh expresses the combined wis dom of the illustrious founders of the govern ment,is still palladium of our liberties, adequate to every emergency, and justly entitled to the support of every good citizen. " It embraces, in its provisions and spirit, all the defence aud protection which Any sec tion of the country can rightfully demand or honorably concede. " Adopted with primary reference to tLe wants of live millions of people, but with wisest reference to future expansion and development it has carried us onward with a rapid iucrettsc of numbers, an accumulation of wealth, atui a degree of happiness and general prosperity never attained by any other nation. " Whatever branch of industry, or what ever staple production, shall become, in the pov-ible changes oi' the future, the leading in terest of the country, thereby creating unfore seen complications or new coxS'licts of opinio i and iuteiest, the Constitution of the United States, properly understood and fairly enforc ed, is equal to every exigency, a shield and de fence to all in every time of need if, how ever, by rea>ou of a change in circumstauces, or for any cause, a portion of be lieve thev ought to have thier rights more ex actiy fit lined or more fuiiy explained in the constitution, it is their duty, in accordance with i\s provisions, to seek a remedy byway of amendment to that instrument ; and it is the duty of all the states to concur in such amendments rs may be found necessary to in sure i qua! mid exact j-stice to all " In order, therefore, to announce to the country the sentiments of this Convention, re specting not on!}' the remedy which should be .sought for existing discontents, but also to communicate to the public what we believe to be the patriotic sentiment of the country, we adopt tiie following resolutions : Resolved, That this Convention recognises ilie well understood propositin that tiie Consti tution of the United States gives no power to Congress, or any branch of the federal govern ment., to interfere iu any manner with slavery iu any of the states ; and we are assured by abundant testimony that neither of the great political organizations existing in the country contemplates a violation of the spirit of the constitution in this regard, or the procuring of any amendment thereof, by which Congress,or any department of the general government, shall ever have jurisdiction.over slavery iu any of the states. Resolved, That the constitution was ordain ed and established, as set forth in the pream ble, by the people of the United States, in or der to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general wel fare and secure the blessings of liberty to themselves and their posterity ; and when the people of any state are not iu full enjoyment of all the benefits intended to be secured to them by the constitution, or their rights un der it are disregarded.their tranquility disturb ed, their prosperity retarded, or their liberty imperilled by the people of any other state, full and edequate redress can aud ought to be provided for such greviances. Resolved, That the Constitution of the Unit ed States, and the acts of Congress in pursu ance thereof, are the supreme law of the land, to which every citiz<m owes faithful obedience —cd it is therefore retpectfully recommend ed to the legislatures of the several states to consider impartially whatever complaints may be made of acts, as inconsistent therewith, by sister states or their citizens, and carefully re vise their statutes, in vie-v of such complaints, and to repeal what ever provisions may be found to be iu contravention of that supreme law. Resolved, That this Convention recommend to the Legislatures of the several States of the Union to follow the example of the legisla tures of the states of Kentucky and of Illinois, in applying to Congress to call a convent ion for th proposing of amendments to the Con stitution of the United States, pursoaDt to the fifth article thereof." "REGARDLESS OP DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER." A National Fast, BY THE PRESIDENT OF TIIF. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS, The Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the supreme authority and just Government of Almighty GOD, iu all the'affairs of men aud of nations, requested the President to designate and set apart a day ; for national prayer and humiliation : AND WHEREAS, It is the duty of cations, as well as of men, to own their dependence upon ; the over-ruling power of GOD, to confess their j sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet 1 with assured hope that genuine repentauce I will lead to mercy and pardon, and to recog- I Qize the suolime truth, announced in the Holy I Scriptures and proven by all history, that ! those nations only arc blessed whose GOD is | the Lord : ! And, insomuch as we know that, by Ilis ' divine law, nations, like individuals, are sub i jected to punishments and chastisements in 1 this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now deso lates the land, may be a punishment inflicted | upon us for cur presumptuous sins, to the necd ; ful end of national reformation as a people ? ' We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved j tlie.se many years, in peace aud prosperity. J We have grown in numbers, wealth, and pow er as no other nation 11P.3 ever grown. But I we have forgotten GOD We have forgotten : the gracious hand which Las preserved us in | peace, and multiplied aud enriched and . strengthened us; and we have vainly imagin 1 ed, in the deceitfalness of our hearts, that all | those blessings were produced lay some superi or wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated j with unbroken success, we have become too j self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving graces, tco proud to pray to the GOD that made t;3 ! It behooves u, then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to contess our na | tior.al bins, and lo pray lor clemency and for j giveness. Now, therefore, in compliance with the. re quest, and fully concurring in tiie views of the Senate, I do, by this civ proclamation, desig nate, aud set apart Ty.UR.SI)AY, the 30th | day of APRIL, ISG3, as a day of national ; humiliation, fasting and prayer. And Ido hereby request all the people to abstain oc that day from their ordinary pursuits, and to unite, at their several places of worship, and ; ilitir respective homes, in keeping the day ho- I !y to the Lord, and devoted to the humble I din-barge of the religious duties proper to that i solemn occasion. i All this being done, in sincerity and truth, let us then rest humbly in the hope, authoriz ed by the Divine teachings, that the united cry of the nation will be heard on high, and i answered with blessings, t-o less than the par don of our national sins, and restoration cf our now divided and suffering country lo its former happy condition of unity und peace. In witness whereof, 1 have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to affixed. Dune at the city of Yfashingion, this thirteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousanu eight [L. S.[ hundred ami sixty-three, and of the independence of the United States tiie eighty-seventh. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. i By the President : Wii. SiiwAKD, Secretary of State. END OF GREAT MEN. —Happening to cast j my eye upon a printed page 01' miniature por i traits, the personages who occupied the four most conspicuous places were Alexander, j Hannibal, Cte-ar, and Bonaparte. I had seen i the same unnumbered times before, but never 'did the same sensation aiisc in my bosom as my mind hastily glanced over their several his -1 lories. I Alexander, after having climbed the dizzy I heights of his ambition, a:.d with his temples I bound in chapiets dipped in the Liood of count j less nations, looked down upon a conquered : world, and wept that there was not another 1 one for him to conquer set, Ore to a city, and I died iu a scene of debauch. Hannibal", after having, to the astonishment j and consternation of Rome, passed tbo Alps; | and after having put to flight the armies of the mistress of the world, and stripped three : bushels of gold rings from the fingers cf her i slaughtered knights, and made her very form dalion quake—lied from his country, being j hated by those who once exnitingly united his : name to that of their god, and called him Han* | niba! —died at last by poison administered by I his own hands, unlameoted and unwept, in a j foreign laud. Caesar, after having conquered eight hun dred cities, and dyed his garments in the blood of one milliou of his toes, after having pursued to death' the only rival he bad on earth, aos miserably assassinated by those he considered his earnest friends, and in that very place, the attainment of which has been his great ambition. Bonaparte,whose mandates,kings and popes obeyed, after having filled the earth with the terror of his name, after having deluged it with tears and blood, and clothed the worid in sack cloth, closed his days in louely banishment, almost literally exiled from the world, yet where he could sometimes see his country's banner waving over the deep, but which could not or would not bring him aid. Thus four men who, from the peculiar situ ation of their portraits, seemed to stand as the representatives of all those whom the world call great : those four, who each in turn made the earth tremble to its very centre by their simple tread, severally died—one by in toxication, or, as some suppose, by poisou min gled in his wine—and one in loueiy exile.— How are the mighty fallen. ESL. A gentleman residing near Syracuse, N. V., has a family of one daughter and four sons. The aggregate weight of the sons is eight hundred undeighty-eight ponuds 1 The " girl" weighs over three hundred, and the fa ther abent two hundred aud sixty I TOBACCO. —Few are awnre what a tobacco loving people we are getting to be, even in New England. V.'e not only smoke it, chew it and snuff it, but we grow the weed also.— Ten years ago Massachusetts grew only a tri fle over one hundred thousand pounds ; now she grows uearly four millions of pounds. In 1850, Connecticut raised something over one million pounds, now she sends six or seven million pounds to market. Thus in ten years the rate 3of increase in production in Massa chusetts was 2,SGI per cent, and in Connecti cut only 42G per cent. In glancing at the amount raised throughout the whole country one almost begins to believe Secretary Seward spoke the truth when, iu reply to why the luxuries of life should not bo {taxed, here marked. For in ISSO there were 99.G52.G55 pound worth 20 cents a pound or $39,950,531; in 18G0, 420.390, T7l pounds, worth $5,878.- 354. In IBGO, it cost this nation as much for tobacco us it did to ruu the national Gov ernment. These figures uro stupendous, but they are true. We are u fast people, certain Ij, in the tobacco line. Smoke on, chew on, snuff on, and grow on, O American ! and in 1870 yon may rejoice over a production of a billion pounds of tobacco, and condole your selves with the thought that $20,000,000 might lie spent in a more injurious way. Truly this is wisdom.— Greenfield Mass , Gazette. GOING WITH THF. GIRLS. —The entrance into society may be said to take place immed iately after boyhood has passed away, yet a multitude take their initiative before their beards arc presentiable. It is a great trial titheir for a tender or a riper age. For an overgrown boy to go to a door, knowing that there are a dozen girles inside, and knock or ring, with an absolute certainty that in a few moments all eyes will be upon him, is a severe test upon courage. To go before these girls and make a tour of the room without stepping on their toes, and sit down and dispose of his hands without putting them iu his pocket, is an achievement of which few boys can boast. If a boy can go so far as to measure off ten ycads of tap# with one of the girls, amd cut it off at each end, he may stand a chance to pass a pleasant evening. Let him not flatter himself that the trials cf the evening are over. Then comes the breaking up. The dear girls don their hoods and put on their shawls, and look so saucy and niischevious, so uuim pressible and independent, as if they did not wish anybody to go homo with them. Then comes the pinch, and the boy who has get the most pluck goes up to tiie prettiest girl in the room, with his tongue clinging to the roof of h.is mouth, and crooking out. his elbow, stam mers out the word, " Shall I see you home ?" She touches her linger to his arm, and they walk heme, feeling as awkward as two gos lings. W ESTERN.ELOQUENCE. —A suspicious look dog had been in one of the towns of Illinois— somebody cried mad-dog, and everybody be came alarmed. A public meeting was called, and a distinguished " Brigadier" was appoint ed chairman. After stating the object of tiro meeting in a not very parliamentary manner, instead of taking his seat and allowing others to make some suggestions, lie launched forth into a speech of some half an hour's length, of which the following burst cf fornesie splen dor is a sample : " FELLER CITIZENS : —The time has come when the overcharged feeiin's o! aggrawated human natur are no longer to be stood. Mad dogs is in the midst of us. Their shrieking yelp and fumy track can be seen an licered on our perairies. Death foilers ia their wake : shall we sit here like cowhards, while our lives, and oar neighbors' lives are in danger from their dreadful, orashus hidro'abio caiiiuety ? No, it kin not be ! Even now my heart is torn with conflicting feeiin's of wrath and weu geance ; a funeral pile cf wild cats is Lusting within me ; I have horses and cattle, 1 have sheep and pigs, I have a wife cud children, and (rising higher es the importance of the subject deepened in Lis estimation) I have monoy out at interest, all iu danger cf being bit by these infernal mad dogs," A TOUGH STORY. —The other evenirg, in our private crib,' there was a learned disserta tion ; subject : " Bed-bugs and their remark able tenacity of life." One asserted of his own knowledge that they could be boiled and then come to life. Some had soaked them for hours in turpentine without any fatal consequences. Old llasks, who had beeu listening as an out sider, here gave in his experience in coirobora tion of the facts. Says he, "Some years ago, I took a bed bug to an iron foundry, arid drop ping it into a ladle, where the melted iron was, and had it tuu into a skillet. "Well my old woman used that skillet pretty constant for the last six years, and here the other day it broke all to smash, and what do you think, gentlemen, that ere insect just walked out of his hole, where he'd been lay in* like a frog iu a rock, and made tracks for his old rocst up stairs !" " Bur," added he, byway of paren thesis, "By George, gentlemen," he looked mighty pale." "My nam? is Mike Heywood, and I live down in Maine. I'm cortin' a gal named Sail Jones, and I uever kissed her till the oth er night. This is the way it was : I wanted to kiss her right down bad, but hadn't" the pluck. Her lips had beeu a temptation of me vvuss'n red appler ever tempted a schoolboy, and at last I determined to try for it if,l broke my leg. So last Sunday night, as we sat to gether arter meetin' I looked her straight in the eyes, and sez I : " Sally, gin us a kiss, and be done with it." " I won't," says she, " so now there !" " I'll take it whether or no ' " Do it if you dare," ses she. Her arms fell down by ther side, her hair fell back over the chair, her eyes closed aud there lay ajittle plump mouth all in the air.— Lord! did yon ever see a hawk pounce upon a robbin ? or a bumblebee on a clover cup ? I say notbinj " VOL. XXIII. —X O. 46. EAULEV WALKING.— Walking, for young nnd active people, is by far the be.it exercise ; riding is good for the elderly,middle aged and invallids. The abuse of these exercises consist in taking them when the system is exhausted more or less, by previous fasting or mental labor. Some persons injudiciously attempt a long walk before breakfast, under the belief that it is conducive to health. Others will get up early to work at some abstruse mental toil. The effect In both instances is the same: it subtracts from the powers cf exertion in tho after part of tho day. A short saunter, or some light reading before this meal, is the best indulgence of the kind ; otherwise the waste occasioned by labor ra-ist be supplied by nourishment, and the breakfast will neces sarily become a heavy meal, and the whole morning's comfort sacrificed by a weight at th-c chest from imperfect digestion o ; food.— These observances apply especially to elderly persons, who are prone to flatter themselves into ihe persuasion that they can use their mental or bodily powers in age as in voulh. A FOREST AT NlGHT.— Darkness MAKES the brain giddy. Man needs light. Whoever plunges into the opposite of day, Lis heart is chilled. When tho eye sees blackness the mind sees trouble. lu an cclips, in night In the sootj darkness tin re is anxiety even to the strongest. Nobody walks alone at night in the forrest without trembling. Darkness and tree?, two formidable depths—a reality of chimeras —appear ir. the indistinct distance. The inconceivable outline itself a few steps from ycu with a spectral clearness. You see, floating in space cr in your brain, something strangely vague and unsize-able as the dreams of sleeping flowers. There rre fierce phantoms in the horizon. You breathe in the odors of the great black void. You are afraid and are tempted to look behind yon. The hoilowcd ness oftiie night, the haggardness of all things and the silent profiles that fade away as you advance, the obscure dishevelment, angry clump?, livid pools, the gloom reflected in the funeral —the 6epulehra!—immensity of silence, the possible unknown beings, the swaying of mysterious branches, the frightful twisting of the trees, long spires of shivering grass— against all this you have no defense. There is r.o bravery which does not shudder and feel the nearness cf anguish. You feel something hideous, as if the soul were amalgamating with shadow. This penetration of the darkness is i iexpress b y dismal or a child.— Vic! if Hugo. A SPUNKY WIFE.— The following letter, says the Harrisburg Tdtgroph, was rent to us for publication, by an officer in the army, as too good to be lost : JfoSTitosa, Feb. 32, 1533. CAPI. BROWN— Kind Sir :My husband is hero, well and hearty. I never saw him so fleshy before in my life, and he says he is net discharged ; and if he is not, just send for'lrm. Ho has boon in the army just long enough to make a perfect rascal of him. lie has not been any help to me since he came home,but is making me all the trouble he can. He says he is not discharged, and that the Govern ment owes him oue hundred and fifty dollars. He will do no good here, and so I say send for him and take him where be will have to do good or have his head taken off. lie has en tirely abandoned me and is flirting around with another girl, and leaving cm to get along and support the children as best I can, and for what GOD oulv knows. No more at pres ent. " MRS. L. M. S. N. B.—Send for Jeremiah cf your Company. * To THE GIRLS.— An exchange : in giving an advice to young ladies cn the subject of mat rimony : " Never marry a fellow who is ashamed to carry a small bundle ; who lies in bed until breakfast, and until his father has opened bis shop, store or office, und swept it out ; who frequents tavern?, bowling soloons, prizefights, Ac.; who owes his tailor, shoe maker, washerwoman, jeweler, barber, printer, and land lady, and never pays his debts—who is always talking about Lis acquaintances, and condemning them ; whose tongue is always running about nonsense ; who thinks he is the greatest man in t e neighborhood, and yet whom every one despises und shuns." This is good advice girls ; see that yea uou't over look it. WILD GAME.— A few days ago a steamboat stopped at a landing, somewhere in Arkansas, to wood. A passenger on board the boat took his gun and stepped on shore, hoping that dur ing the hour they were likely to stop he might bag a few birds. After traveling a few rods he came across a rough looking fellow, aud the following dialogue ensued : " How are you ?" " How are ye, stronger," replied the Ar kansas man. " Have yon any game in these parts?" " Oh, yes, plenty on 'era." " What sort of game?" | " Well, most any sort, but principally brag | and poker." It has often been truly remarked that in sickness there is no hand like a woman's hand—no heart like a woman's heart —no eye so until ing—no hope so fervent. Woman by a sick inau's couch is divinity impersonated. £*3- A young lady being asked by a femin ine acquaintance whether she had any origin al poetry in her album, replied : " No ; but some of ray friends have favored me with original spelling !" The New York Court of Appeals has decided that marriage under an assumed name is legal'and valid, and that the offspring of such marriage is legitimate and heir at law to the estate of the father who assumed tho name. £3* A down east eiitor says that modes ty is a quality that highl? adorns a woman, bat rain* a man. A painfully correal coa clasloD.
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