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.