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They will be entitled to 4 num. confined exclusively to their business, with privilege of change. | Advertising in all eases exclusive of sub ■ i q.tiou to the paper. ,!idi PRINTING of every kind in Plain and Fa n v .-elors, done with neatness and dispatch. Hand ■ i,ilis. Blanks, Cards, Pamphlets, Ac., of every va ■ i v and style, printed at the shortest notice. The B K. l the globe is denominated m t . 1, It ae Ocean. It is separated, however, into several divisions which are known, respec — tively, as the J'aciJie, tlie Atlantic, the In- Idian, the Arctic, and the Ant-Arctic oceans, j In a general sense the ocean is a unit, and j these divisions are formed by the configur- j ation of the countries and lands contiguous j and surrounding them. The depth of the ocean varies. As some | portions of the surface of the land are high- ! or than others, —here cast into mountains ; tad elevated table lands, and there having ' depressions and vallies, so is the bottom of j the ocean presumed to present the same ! variety of surface. Its average depth is 1 estimated at one-fourth of a mile, but sound- j ings in various places show a depth of from ! five to nine thousand feef, and if we judge of its lowest depth by the hight of our loft iest mountains, then it may even reach thir ty thousand feet In the brief remarks we are about to make we shall speak of the ocean as a unit, j What is common to one division is common • i all, they all have tides, and currents,and a -illness, and are the reservoios of the mil f lions of billions of tons of fresh water whieii are continually being brought down ■ from the heart of the great continents sur- B rounding them. They are all and each, ■of them hourly and daily, receiving front B the mouths of great rivers vast volumes of B > 'lid matter which having slept for centur- I! ies upon the loftiest peaks of the Andes, _ the Alleghanies, and the Himalayas, are I now being buried at the bottom of the ocean, there to sleep through another sleep of countless ages until they emerge again from the deep. It is known from the observations of our j i -t eminent geologists, that the Gulf of M xico is slowly filling up with the sedi ment brought down the Mississippi river. I .y.H's Geology, page 225, Ist vol.) "Great - \;-marine deposits are in progress, stretch ing far and wide over the bottom of the sea' • Tli has become extremely shallow not exceeding ten fathoms in depth." So also ; the 'l el low Sea oil the coast of China.— ■ Ami we have the highest authority for say ■ . .r that the Ganges annually empties more ■ I three hundred arid fifty millions of us of the Asiatic continent, or as much ■ >1 id matter as enters into fhe structure of ■ - \ty Egyptian pyramids, each one equalling B" greatest now standing, into the sea.— tifT is not a stream, great or small,which B'i not i sseu the hulk and weight of the ■ pre- nt e tit ineiit, nor which does not add I i .at future one, which, in its own time emerge frqm the deep. : Ihe sediment suspended in the waters of SB 1 Amazon is not only deposited tit the outh of that river, but is met with in the ni the Atlantic three hundred miles the coast. It not only floors the bot- H t "" 1 "ie Ail ad Atlantic but it is caught i 0 by tic- currents and swept into the live miles an hour, removing "in the tropics a vast column of heat 'ich is carried across the Atlantic, and iccurding tu Scorcsby even into the Polar Mt.a. It is well known that places upon B i n opposite coasts of Europe and America, u'rcspondiiig in latitude, vary remarkably B 'a temperature ; the European coast being lunch warmer than the American. The bull' Stream as it sweeps along the Amcri -1 ati coast is comparatively but as a river i" on its arrival on the banks of New : "midland, it curves directly across to the b.h ot Ireland expanding and Avidening 1 Us progress, when, having completed its ""''circle it rushes down past the countries Europe, a broad, wide, still expanding II 'cut, dispensing in every mile of its 1 "us.- the tropical heat of the gull". Still ' hot the straits of Gibraltar it meets E>c southern polar current, is deflected to ' I west, makes the transit of the South A 'antic Ocean as it did of the North At- Ijj N/ I' I 'I ■' E. O. GOODRICH, Publisher. VOLUME X\V. lantic and finds its place of beginning in the Mexican Gulf. We have here a vast revolving column or current of heated wa ter, a vast cauldron or whirlpool as it has been named, deriving its force of progres sion from the accumulated waters of the gulf, and from the peculiar configuration and position of the West India Islands,and circling the broad Atlantic as a belt of heat, dispensing life to the nations. But we cannot linger to notice the other currents which abound in the ocean, neither can we discuss the tides. We will however, say a few words upon the saltness of ocean water, though we know not its cause, not tWq/ Providence has so designed it. It has been presumed that the salt held in solu tion by the water of the ocean preserved it from putrefaction, and yet, the water at rest does become putresent. Any sailor will tell you that. As Coleridge expresses it, " the very deep doth rot." The water of the ocean holds in solution nearly four per cent, of its weight, of salt, and it is estimated, that the volume of its" whole mass is more than three millions of cubic miles, or a bulk equal to five times that of the Alps. Dr. Beck, of New York, says that it requires three hundred and fifty gallons of sea water to make a bushel of salt, while, of the brine of the Onondaga Salt Springs, it needs but from thirty to thirty-five gallons for the same object. Those portions of sea water nearest the the Tropic circles contain more salt than those nearer the Equator, or even the poles, and the Mediterranean sea contains more than the Atlantic. The evaporation from the surface is greater in the Mediterranean than in any other body of water of the same size upon tae globe, consequently, more salt is retained in the water which re mains in the bed, and if this be true, that sea is being slowly changed to a bed of salt. There are some parts of the broad ex panse of ocean which are comparatively free of salt, and these have even been known to supply ships with a fresh article when much needed. We can account for this only on the supposition that the ocean, just there, was shallow, and that a spring of fresh watdV was bubbling up from the bottom. The ocean is undoubtedly the source of the salt found beneath the surface, whether iu solid form as in the salt-mines of Poland, Spain, England, America, Ac., or in the brine springs of New York, and other places. It was probably deposited in its present beds by some old ancient ocean, that rolled its waters were we now stand, and told its existence only by the rocks, coals, metals and minerals it precipitated at its bottom, and which the energy and enterprise of man, millions of years later, is converting to the good of the race. Beside the sediment detatched from con tinents by the action of rivers, there is an other agent which is gradually obliterating or filling up the ocean bed, and one still more effective in the work. Tn some seas, especially those situated in the tropics, a minute animal is constantly absorbing the lime of the sea water, as well as the organ ic impurities with which it abounds, and leifh if building up islands in the midst of the watery waste—islands, which commencing front minute centers enlarge by the accre tive industry of these apparantly insignifi cant coral animals, and in long periods of time become great continents, clothed with verdure and the home of civilization and refinement. Is it not too much to say, that already the foundations of a new one is laid, and its outposts defined. In the Paci fic ocean there are groups of coral islands and reefs of coral rock of hundreds, and in a single instance, of a thousand miles in extent, the sole work of coralline zoophy tes, and in.my a good ship with its freight of human life, encountering a barrier of coral rock, lias been sent to the botton and made no sign. We not only know that by such means as these the bed of the ocean is filling with solid matter, but that the con tinent we inhabit was formed, in part, in the same way. In all the stratified rocks from the lowest to the highest, are found abundant traces of coral action and indus try, especially in all the limestone rocks artd chalk formations in every portion of the globe, whether in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, or in the chalk cliffs of England, Germany, and New Holland. Indeed,there is no doubt but that the mountain forma tions, everywhere, which arc not granitic owe their origin to the two agencies men tioned, to wit: the sediment of rivers de posited by and the coral zoophytes working their unceasing work in a pre-adamite ocean. A thousand million years will fail to meas ure the perpetuated life of this animal 1 This animal not only appropriates to its work the time it finds in the surrounding water,but it also seizes upon all the organic matter which arises from animal and veget able putrefaction, and in this way, the ocean is cleansed from all these impurities which in process of time would accumulate and poison its whole mass. We may close this paper by noticing that singular appearance of the ocean which, by some, has been termed its phosphorescence. In tropical latitudes, at night, the surfaeo of the water appears in a lda/.0, No spec? taele can be more imposing or magnificent than this luminous display—far as the eye reaches a lambent flame crowns each grand swell of the mighty flood, and the vessel's path seems a long line of fire. The ship, TO WANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., DECEMBER 15, 18G4. the sails, are lighted by the reflection, as if gas lights are burning below them, and when particularly brillant, one may even see to read. A bucket of this firey water is one mass of glowing light when stirred by the hand, and preserves its luminosity for several nights. By some this phenome non is ascribed to the presence of phos phorus, but by others to animalculae. The ocean is a common highway for tho intercourse of nations. It is a theatre upon which the fleets of the world engage in commerce, it brings in contact the dwellers in all climes, and being a common highway it is the common property of the world, as is the air, and the earth, and its entiro ap propriation by one people,would constitute a breach of national law. Upon its bosom a considerable portion of our race find em ployment. and from its depths another de rives food. To the air it gives humidity, to the earth heat and springs, and to the rivers a home for their waters. * CORIIESP ONDENCE. HAIUUNBUEG, December 8, 1801. MR. EDITOR :—On Thursday, Friday and Saturday of last week, I looked for the " BRADFORD REPORTER," but on the last two days I did not see it, on Saturday, when my mail was brought to me, I inquired with some impatience if the Northern mail was j not in, when told that it was, I looked in i vain again for tho " BRADFORD REPORTER," . and gave it up, concluding that 1 hud.been | forgotten. So 1 commenced opening my i letters and then reading my papers. After | a while I discovered that I was reading the ! indentical paper for which I had so impa tiently inquired, but so intielqwas it chang ed in appearance, and increased in size that I did not recognize either the head or the body of so old tin aquaintance. How a new dross improves a friend, es pecially if it be nicely fitted and neatly put on, and a new head dress, how it changes the looks of the face. I was really glad to witness such an im provement in the appearance of the organ of the Republican Party, in Bradford. With such a majority as we have in the county, we should sustain one of the largest couu ty papers in the State. The " REPORTER" should have at least live thousand paying subscribers, and I see you will take no oth ers, and an advertizing patronage that will make the labor of conducting a good paper pay well, The Republican voters of the county owe it to themselves and to the cause of right principles, that they have a first class weekly paper, well sustained and well conducted. On Friday the 2d inst, Lieut. Irvine, of this city, was shot while attempting to ar rest deserters in Columbia County. He was an estimable young man, in the prime of life, with the prospect of a course of use fulness and happiness before him, with a young wife and infant daughter dependent upon him. His death is the legitimate re sults of the trachery of some of the prom inent men in that section of the State. The same results are being produced in Fulton county, by the same kind of treachery. On Monday tiie sth, another soldier was sacri ficed to the careless use of fire-arms. In the barracks the men had received new ri fles, and one thoughtlessly exploded a cap upon his gun, which proved to be loaded. The piece was discharged and the contents passed through the bunk of a fellow soldier who was sitting upon it writing a letter to his wife and took effect in the bowels of the poor man. He lingered a few hours and died in the most excruciating pain.— How many brave men have thus been kill ed, just by carelessness. They have, many of them, marched undaunted up to the can non's mouth have stormed and taken fortifi cations, made and repelled fierce charges, defended and taken death-dealing batteries, and have dared death in every form that it can be presented upon the little field, where it is considered glory to die, and have come forth from all unharmed, perhaps to go home to be welcomed by loving families and grateful fellow citizens, and then to be shot in ones own hard bed, by mere care lessness is hard, to die thus, is to die a use less death. When will men learn to he careful ? The Presidential electors met in the Sen ate chamber on the 7th, at 12 o'clock, noon. Tl.e college was presided over by Hon. Morton McMichael, who was called to the chair on the motion of Hon. John P. Penny, of Alleghany. The president upon taking his seat, delivered a finely written address to his fellow members, lie made no use less apologies, made no excuses, proffered no thanks, did not say that he was unex pectedly called upon to preside, and he craved their indulgence, His address was written, and evidently was prepared with great care, and struck me, as I heard it read, as being one of the finest productions I ever listened to. The electoral college for 1864, was, for it uow ceases to le, a dignified body, most of ilie members were in the meridian of life, although there were two or three quite grey, and several whose locks were thickly set with grey hairs, and two whose heads were as white as the driven snow. It was to me a solemn sight. Those men were here to perform a most responsible act in the name of the voters of this Common wealth, The whole transaction was some what formal, but dignified and impressive. The act was done, Abraham Lincoln of course received the whole twenty-six votes REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER. ' for President, and Andrew Johnson for Vice- President of the United States, for the next four years. The electoral college for 18G4 was prorogued, or ceased to exist, and the members met at the house of Hon. Simon Cameron to regale themselves upon the good things which had been there prepared for them, after which they separated to meet no more on this side the river of death. ' X. WASHINGTON', Saturday, Dec. 3, 18C4. Members of Congress are arriving by every train, and by Monday, sth inst., noon, the time for the commencing of the second session of the 38th Congress, nearly every member will be found in his place. There is an expressed determination among mem bers to proceed at once, and with an ear nest determination, to the work necessary to be done at this session. It is understood that several of the chair men of the respective committees have been in consultation with Heads of Depart ments in respect to the more important measures to be passed this session. The revenue and appropriation bills will be re ported early from the Committee of Ways and Means, and the Military Committee will lie prepared to report early, a bill to provide for raising the requisite number of troops for the closing up the war, by crushing out all armed force in the rebell ows states. The policy which seems most in favor for replenishing the army with men, is to give two or three months for volun teering, and offering a Government bounty of two or three hundred dollars, after that time bounties to cease, and quotas not being filled drafting will bo resorted to sometime in March. Every thing concurs, so far as the infor mation we get from the army, and of the condition of affairs in the revolted States goes, to lead us to the conclusion that the force of the rebellion is nearly spent.— Thomas is taking care of Flood, and has just defeated him at Franklin ; and Sher man is dashing through Georgia, and will probably, within ten days, strike the Atlan tic sea coast at Savannah, three hundred miles away,from Atlanta, destroying ou his march, all the railway communications, with scarcely any opposition, other than a few squads of raw militia, showing almost conclusively that the rebels are powerless to dispute his passage. By this bold and masterly enterprise of Gen. Sherman, " the confederacy" will be as effectively divided by the line of the Savannah river, for mili tary purposes, as it is by the Mississippi.— It must also have the effect to ultimately compel the rebel army soon to evacuate Richmond and Petersburg, and in fact the whole state of Virginia, I have not many items of news to give you at this time, but after Congress gets fairly at work, will endeavor to give you such information of their doings, as will be of most importance to your readers. Yours, truly. COMB. THE FOOTSTEPS OF DECAY. [The following is a translation from an ancient Spanish Poem, which, says the Edinlmrg JfenVir, is surpassed by nothing with which we are acquaint ed in the Spanish language, except the "Ode of Louis de Leon."] Oh ! let the soul its slumbers break- Arouse its senses and awake, To see how soon Life, in its glories glides away, And the stern footsteps of decay Come stealing on. And while we view the rolling tide, Down which our flowing minutes glide Awayso fust, Let us the present hour employ, And deem each future dream a joy Already past. Let 110 vain hope deceive the mind— No happier let us hope to find To-morrow than to-day. Our golden dreams of yore were bright, Like the present shall delight— Like them decay. Our lives like hasting streams must be, That into one engnlpliing sea Are doomed to fall— The sea of death whose waves roll on O'er king or kingdom, crown and throne, And swallow all. Alike the river's lordly tide, Alike the humble rivulets glide To that wave; Death levels poverty and pride, And rich and poor sleep side by side Within the grave. Our birth is hut a starting place j Life is the running of the race, And death the goal ; There all our glittering toys are brought— The path alone, of all unsought, Is found of all. Kee then how poor and little worth Are all these glittering toys of eartli That lure us kate 1 Dreams of a sleep that death must break, Alas ! before it bids us wake, We disappear. Long ere the damp of earth can blight. The cheeks pure glow of red and white Has passed away, Youth smiled and all was heavenly fair- Age come and laid his linger there, And where are they. Where is the strength that spurned decay. The step that roved so light and gay, The heart's blithe tone ? The strength is gone, the step is slpw, And joy grows wearisome and woe! When age comes on. MEN of quick fancy more easily reoonoilo themselves t<> the loved one when she is absent than when she is present. A NIGHT IN THE PHILLIPINES. Next evening we had another bent at story-telling ; and after I had related one or two of my adventures in South Africa, Gapt. Manson proposed to give us a chapter of his experience, which proposition, of course, we were glad enough to accept. He told us as follows : "On the third voyage which I made in command of the ship Winthrop, I took in part of cargo of tea at Canton, and then slipped down to the Philippine Islands to fill up with dried fruit and spices. We cast our anchor in the harbor of Manilla ; but the articles we wanted were not delivered as I desired. There was much delay oc casioned by some trouble with the Chinese porters ; so that we were two weeks ie ac complishing what might have been done in four days One day while we were thus delayed, I went on shore with my rifle, and took a horse for a turn in the country. I went alone, but not from choice. My officers had an engagement with the officers of an English ship, which they did not like to break : and I did not urge them to do so. Still it was not unpleasant to ride alone, for sometimes 1 love to be by myself, where I can think and commune as 1 please. " On the present occasion 1 took a road that led to the eastward, towards the rice lands, and as the scenery was attractive, I cantered on until I was far away from the city and its surroundings. I had ridden, T should judge, fifteen miles, without seeing anything worth shooting, and was begin ing to think that I should carry back the same bullet in my rifle which I had put in before I had left the ship, when 1 heard a flapping close by ine upon my right, and upon looking in that direction I saw an enormous heron fly up from a rice bed and steer away to the southward. I had heard of those birds—l had heard that they lqjd been captured measuring over six feet in height—anil if 1 had doubted the statement before, I did not doubt it after 1 saw that fellow rise. I wanted hiui very much, and 1 was determined to have him if the thing were within the bounds of possibility. I might, had I been prepared, have taken him on the wing, but before I could get my rifle into position lie was too Tar away. I watched him, and saw him settle down behind some trees, about half a mile off, and after a lit tle hunting 1 found a path leading that way, which seemed linn enough to give safe passage to my horse. You will understand that the district of these rice-fields is low and marshy. " The path I had taken led through a thicket of small palms, and at length 1 came out upon the shore of a broad lake or la goon, which looked like some of the dismal swamps of Florida. I saw my monster heron upon an island, some two hundred yards distant, and I determined to fire at him, whether I got him or not. For this purpose I dismounted and hitched my horse to a tree, and then sought a place where I could find a rest for my rifle. While 1 was thus engaged I discovered a small boat made fast among s< >me tall reeds, not more than ten rods off; and as this gave me op portunity to reach the island, I made up my mind to be more particular in my aim. 1 found a good rest, and in a very few mo ments more the bird tumbled over with a bullet through the breast. I then hastened to the boat, which I found to be a sort of a raft-like gondola, almost as broad as it was long, furnished with a good paddle, and only fastened by a manilla rope. It cost me some little effort to get the thing into the water, but I succeeded after a while, and was soon on my way to the island, which 1 reached without further difficulty. 1 drove the boat up on the surface of the soft mud, and leaped ashore, sinking in to the knees where 1 had expected to find firm footing. But 1 did not mind this. 1 scrambled on, and was soon upon a better foundation. J found my bird dead ; and when I beheld his proportions, and thought what a valu able addition his stuffed skin would make to my museum, I forgot the labor and the mud. I was stooping to turn my prize over, when I fancied that I heard something moving behind me, and upon looking around I saw my boat swinging away from the shore. As quickly possible 1 leaped to wards the water's edge, but before 1 could roach the boat I was up to my middle in the soft mud. I stretched forth my hands, and made one desperate effort to seize the departing craft, but 1 failed to touch it, and sank deeper into the mud, and there I stood, almost up to my arm-pits in the slough, and saw my boat float lazily off, hopelessly be yond my reach. " A happy thought dawned upon me. I would get up out of the mud, and undress myself, and swim for my boat. 1 could leap far enough out to strike clear water. But we can't always do as we would ; and often times man's most promising plans are knocked in the head by circumstances be yond his control. I had just perfected the swimming plan in my mind, and was strug gling to free myself from the uiud, when something appeared to me that caused uie to hasten my movements in a most extra ordinary manner. This accellcrating pres ence was nothing more nor less than an en ormous crocodile. The ugly monster lay with his head towards me, ey ing me sharply, and evidently calculating how large a mor sel I would make. And he ii was probably that had disturbed the boat. The instinct of self-preservation gave me strength, and while I struggled up and back I splashed with my hands, and yelled with my lungs, making all the noise and commotion Icould The fellow did not attack me, and I finally succeeded in reaching firm ground, where I sat down to rest, for the effort of extracting myself from that sticky trap had used up the last atom of my strength. "When I had gained breath enough to en able ine to stand without an effort, I got up and looked about me. My position was surely not an enviable one. The island, of which 1 was at that moment lord and mas ter, was not more than five or six rods long, by about four broad, and was covered with reeds. There was a clump of low water bushes upon one side, but there was no such tiling as a tree upon it. There I was, in pos session of thp dead heron, and 1 felt that 1 liad niosl emphatically caught a Tartar. — The boat was drifting away before a gentle breeze, towards that part of the main above from which 1 had come, and for me to swim to it was out of the question. The croco dile had disappeared, but I knew that ho would very quickly find me if I ventured per A-iiiium, in Auvanoe. into the .water. lis too J there, contemplat ing tlie scene, until the boat had drifted upon the distant shore, and then 1 sat down again. My only hope of escape was that sumo one might come to the lake in search ot me. J3 ut what if no one came ? Bat what if those who sought me did not find this sunken hole ? The thought was a very unpleasant one. 1 was thus engaged when I noticed that my horse was uneasy. Some thing had frightened him. At length he gave a heavy pull and freed himself from his fastening, and in a few seconds more I had seen the last of him. " I had sat ttycro half an hour, or more ; and the sun was sinking so low that the shadows fell entirely across the lake, when 1 observed a commotion in the water be fore me, and presently two large crocodiles made their appearance, looking very hun gry, and betrayed an evident desire to eat me up. I seized my rifle and fired at the nearest one, upon which they quickly dis appeared. The suu went down, and the last gleam of daylight faded away. I sat beside my dead heron, but dared not go to sleep. When I felt the*drowsy spirit com ing upon me, I started up and paced 4o and fro across the narrow island But this could not be kept up. Towards mid-night, as I sat beside my bird, my head sank up on its soft, feathery breast, and 1 was asleep before T knew it. I do not think I slept long, however. Something oppress ed me, and 1 awoke with a suffocating sen sation, to find my nostrils inhaling a strong sickening odor. The moon had risen, and by its light 1 saw an enormous crocodile, with its horrible jaws not six feet from me. To cock a pistol and flatten a ball against his armor was but the work of a moment; and as J leaped to my feet with my rifle in my hand, the fellow turned arid scrambled for the water. " I slept more tliat night, and no more ! crocodiles visited inc. When daylight came i again 1 began to consider anew the chances of my being found by my friends. If they I inquired for ine at Manilla they would cer tainly learn which road I had taken from the city ; and if they followed that road as far as 1 had come, they might discover, by the tracks of my horse, where I had turn ed oil. Another thing, too, I considered favorable ; they would go to the hostelrie where I had hired the horse, and they would find that the animal had come home with out me. This would certainly lead them quickly to search for me. My first impulse, upon finding the daylight upon me, was to tire some signal guns ; but upon reflection I concluded that I had better wait until my people could have time to come out from the city, for 1 had not powder enough to load many times. 1 waited until the sun had been up two hours, and then I discharged my rifle. 1 was hungry and faint, and the dampness of the night had helped to waste my strength. By and by 1 tired again, potting in as much powder as I thought would bum with pro lit. 1 had fired thus, at intervals of about ten minutes, until 1 had but one charge left, and I was beginning to calculate anew upon my chances, and to think of what would be the result if I was not found,when a most welcome sight broke upou my vis ion I saw some of my men coming down toward the lake. I fired my last charge, and as they thus gained a knowledge of my wliereabouts, they hastened on, and were soon at the water's edge. 1 made them understand where the boat was ; and when they had found it, and I knew that! was safe, I sunk down, and was fairly asleep when they reached inc. "My friends had followed me just as I had anticipated. They had found my horse at the hostelrie, and having learned the di rection I had taken, they set forth. They might not, however, have discovered the place where 1 had turned off from the road, had they not heard tlie report of my rifle. I got back to my ship with a whole skin, where a small quantity of brandy and a very generous quantity of nourishing food soon restored me to myself. A skillful tax idermist, whom I found on the shore, pre pared the skin of my heron for mo, and it now holds a place in my cabinet, by the side of the Java Rock .Snake." J'HE SCHOOL HOUSE. —Teachers ami par rents should make it a duty to see that the circumstances under which children study are such as shall leave a happy impression upon their minds. Young scholars will gradually and unconsciously become like what they most look upon.—Little children are wonderfully suspeotible for good or evil. Shabby school houses induce slovenly habits. Unswept floors indicate cobweb by brains. 111-made benches not only warp and dwarf the body, but, by reflex influ ence, the mind as well. Why are children so often discouraged and even disgusted at school ? Because the school house seems a prison, ami the furniture as instruments of torture. Xo matter how old or unfashionable your school house—keep it clean. Iliile its sombre walls with pictures, embower its weather beaten exterior, with flower vines, and decorate its yard with shrubbery.— Then the birds will come singing welcomes to your children. Then the young immor tals that enter its dour will be won by love and beauty. They* will be enchained as if by sweet magic, and their minds will be awakened to learning and virtuous instruc tion, with links of gold brightening and strengthening forever and ever.— Easfoii Sentinel. SOLITUDE. —More and greater sins are committed when men are alone than when they keep themselves in fellowship. When Eve in l'aradise walked alone, then came the evil and deceived her. Whoever is amongst men and in honest company, is ashamed to sin, or, at least, he has no place or opportunity to do so. When to wais, he fell into adultery and murder ; and T have myself found that 1 have never sinned more than when I was alone. Soli tariness invitcth to melancholy, and a per son alone has often sonic hgavy and evil thoughts, so hath he strange thoughts, and construed everything in the worst sense.— Melancholy is an instrument of the devil, by which lie accomplished his wicked pur poses. The deeper a person is plunged in to that state, the more power the devil hath Over him. To live in an open, public state is the safest. Openly, and amongst other persons, a man must live civilly and hon estly, must appear to fear Hod, and do his ; duty towards men.— Luther. TIM STOOPS. 1 never undertook but once, said Tim, to set at naught the authority of my wife.— You know her way—cool, quiet but deter mined as ever grpw. Just after we were married, and all was nice and cosy, she gut me iuto the habit of doing all the churning. She finished breakfast rather before me one morning, and slipping away from the table, she filled the churn with cream, ami set it down where I couldn't help seeing what I was wanted. So I took hold readily enough 1 and churned until the lmtter came. She 1 didn't thank me, but looked so nice and I swept about it that 1 felt well paid. ■ Well when the next churning day came along, she did the same thing, and I foliow :ed suit, and fetched the butter. Again and ! again it was done just so, anc I was reg ularly set for it every time. Not a word said, you know, of course. Well, bv and | by this began to be rather irksome ; 1 wnn , tod her just to ask me, but site never did, j and I wouldn't say anything about it to ! save my life. So on we went. At last I 1 made a resolve that 1 would not churn | another time until she asked me. ''burning day came, and when my breakfast—she i always got nice breakfasts—when that was i swallowed, there stood the churn. I got I up, and standing for a lew minutes just to I give her a chance, I put ou my hat and walked out of doors. I stopped in the yard I to give her time to call me, but never a ! word said she, and so with a palpitating heart I moved on. 1 went down town, ami ; uiy foot was as restless as Noah's dove. I 1 felt as if 1 had done a wrong. 1 did not 1 feel exactly how—but there was an indes cribable sensation of guilt resting on me , all the forenoon. It seemed ;ts if dinner time would lever ' come, and as for going home one minute ! before dinner, 1 would as soon have cut my 1 cars off. So I went fretting ami moping j around town till dinner-hour came. Tl >me I went feeling very much as a criminal , must when the jury is out having in their . hands his destiny—life 01* death. 1 e> uldn't make up my mind exactly how she would meet me, but some kind of storm 1 expected. Will you believe it—she even greeted-me i with a smile- never had a better dinner fur ! lue than on that day ; but there stood the j churn just where I left it. Not a word was ! said : I felt confoundedly cut, and every mouthful of that dinner felt as if it would | choke me. She didn't pay any regard t it, I however, but went on just exactly as if j nothing had happened. Before dinner was lover, I had again resolved, and shoving i back my chair, 1 marched to the churn ami I went at it just in the old way. Splash, dip, j rattle—l kept it up. As if in spite, the butter was never so long in coming, I sup i posed the cream standing so loug had got J warm, and so 1 redoubled my efforts. Obstinate matter, the afternoon wore away while I was churning. I paused at last from real exhaustion, when she spoke for the first time. "Come, Tom, ray dear, ■you have rattled that buttermilk long enough—it is for fun you are doing it ! " I knew how it was "n a flash. She had brought the butter in the forenoon and had left the buttermilk in for me to exercise with ! 1 never set up for myself in house hold matters after that. HOW INDIA RUBBER SHOES ARE MADE. The New York Journal of Commerce, in an interesting article on the inamifaetur. s of Connecticut, gives the following account of the manner in which India Rubber shoos are made ; "Contrary to the general impression, India Rubber, in the process of manufact uring, is not melted, but is passed through heated iron rollers, the heaviest of which weigh 20 tons, and thus worked or km-ad | cd, as dough is at a bakery. The rubber is nearly all procured from the mouth of the Amazon in Brazil, to which point it is sent from the interior. Its form upon arrival, is generally that of a jug or pouch, as the natives use clay molds of that shape, which they repeatedly dip into the liquid caout chouc, until a coating of the desired thick ness accumulates, when the clay is broken and emptied out. The rubber after being washed, chopped fine and rolled to a putty like consistency, is mixed with a compound of metalie sub stances principally white lead and sulphur, to give it body or firmness. Those sln-els designed For the soles of sir os are passed tinder rollers having a diamond figured surface . From these the soles are cut by hand, and the several pieces required to perfect the shoe are put together by fe males 011 a last. The natural adhesion of the rubber joins the seams. The shoes are next varnished and baked in an oven capa ble of holding about 2000 pairs, and heated to about 300 degrees, where they remain seven or eight hours. This is called the vulcanizing process, by which the rubber is hardened. A large quantity of cotton cloth anil cot ton flannel is used to line shoes, and is ap plied to the surface of the rubber while it is yet in sheets. Not a particle of any of these materials is lost. The scraps of rub ber are remcltcd, and the bits of cloth are chopped up with a small quantity of rubber, and rolled out iuto a substance resembling pasteboard, to form the iuner sole. The profits of this business have been some what curtailed, of late, by Ute prevailing high price of rubber, which has varied with in a year from twenty to sixty cents per pound. The demand however is very large. A species of rubber shoe lined with flannel, is extensively used in some parts of the country as a substitute for the rubber shoe." A CAUTIOUS MAN.—As a pedestrian tourist was lately proceeding toward Trenton, he asked a man who was breaking stones by the roadside how long it would take him to reach that place? The man looked at him without speaking, and then resumed his work. The question was repeated with the same result, and at last the traveller walked on. He had not proceeded inoro than a hundred yards when the man called after him, and made a sign for him to re turn. When the pedestrian, reached the stone-breaker, the latter said to him: "It will take you an hour to reach Trenton."— " Then why did you not tell me so at first ?" said the traveller. " Why," replied the man, " it was necessary for me first to see at what rate-you walked, and, front the way you step out, 1 am now able to say that you can do the distance in an hour." EPITAPH on a celebrated Strategist who fell with Antietam ; At bis bead, a worn-out spade : At bis feet, a broken piteln-r ; TTcro, in bis il last ditch " is laid. Mac, the everlasting ditcher. A WIPE in San Francisco lately put a pe tition for divorce in the court 011 the ground that her husband was a "confounded fool." The court wouldn't admit the plea, because almost every married man would be liable to the same imputation. Did you ever? WHY is beauty like the engine of a rail way? Because she draws a train after her, scatters the sparks, transports the mails, (males) and makes us forget time and space. NUMBER 29.