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TERMS INVARIABLY CASH. fckcttil jfodnu SOONER ON LATELI. - .intr or Liter the storms shall beet i U a my .-dumber from head to feet: ..toiler vi '* -ter the wind shall rave in the long grass above my grave. i s ha!] not heed them where 1 lie, N'utkiug their sound shall signify, . ■thing the headstone's fret of rain, Nothing to me the dark day's pain. -outlet' or later the sua shall shine With tender warmth on that mound of mine ; S .oner or later, iu summer t 'lover and violet blossom there. 1 shall not feel in that deep laid-rest 1 lie sheeted light fall over my breast : Nor ever note in those hidden hours I'if wintl-blown breath of the tossing flowers. - .loner or later the stainless snows shall add tlieir hush to my mute repose ; -ooin r or later -hull slant and sliiit, \ml heap my bed with their dazzling drift. . hill though that frozen pall shall seem, its touch no colder can make the dream That reck- not the sweet and sacred dread Shrouding the city of the dead. Sooner or later the bee -hall come And till the noon with his golden hum : Sooner or later on half-poised wing The blue-bird's warble about me ring,— Ring and chirrup and whistle with glee, Nothing his music means to me ; None of these beautiful things shall know ii tv soundly their lover -lecps below. S >ner or later, far out in the night, Th<- st irs shall over me wing their flight, Sooner or later my darkling dews ■ i It the white spark in their silent ooze. V \ ri a ray shall part the gloom 1 11.at wraps me round irt the kindly tomb : ace shall be perfect for lip and brow tier or later, Oh why not now? HARRIET E. PKESCOTT. THE NEW OH LEANS It JOT. GOV. WELLS' ADDRESS IN FULL. V ORLEANS, Augusts. —The following - Mi-ess litis been issued by Governor Wells t the people of Louisiana : The bloody tragedy nacted in the city of N"\v Orleans on the 30th day of July, 1800, i t which more than three hundred citizens v killed or wounded, has, to the credit humanity, created profound sympathy it. ti.e breast of every man through the '■ • ;th and breadth of the land. T.. ' remote and immediate causes f this a e demand a thorough investigation ; explanation, and as Chief Magistrate State I feel a solemn duty resting n> give a plain, unvarnished state -*ii tof its origin and progress. In doing b'ti- it becomes necessary for me to coni ■"L e in the year 1804, at the re-organiza ' aof tlie civi' government in that por- j f Louisiana which had been wrested ! it :Q rebel authority. I regret in this con- j to t: m to be obliged to speak of myself, j It is not to gratify feelings of vanity that j i Jo so, for I fully realize that I am but an atom in the great cause of, lii.t lining and perpetuating the union of these States. Tin political history of the country teach- j - us that, under the policy of the late la- j Limited President, all the loyal citizens of, U misiana, in the parishes then within the ' .ion lines, were invited and authorized in 1 proclamation issued by the military; Liuiander of this department to hold an j < 'lion on the 22d of February, 1804, for j tte officers. The election was held, and ; men being a refugee from my parish, in I <■ ri'bel lines, in consequence of my Union iments, I was nominated by the Free- • c: ute party, as it was called, and by the < xtreme Radical party, of which Thomas •I ihiraut was the acknowledged leader, as ir candidate for the office of Lieutenant '• vernor. The first-named ticket, headed . y Michael Ilalin for Governor was elected. Governor Uahn served until the 4th of Match, 1805, when, by bis resignation, I succeeded to the office of Governor. In the meantime, by the virtue of milita ry authority, an election of delegates to a •State convention to amend and revise the constitution of 1802 had taken place. The convention met and framed a constitution declaring slavery to le abolished, which convention did not adjourn sine die, but subject to the call ol the president for any cause. A Legislature had also been elect ed, and was in session at the time of the assumption by ine of the duties of the of lii-t- of Governor. Shortly afterward the collapse of the so called Confederate Gov ' rumeut took place, and by the surrender T the forces in the trans-Mississippi De partment the entire territory of the State was restored to the lawful authority of the Umted States. When this event took place, what was my conduct toward the population of the eighteen parishes re claimed ? Although 1 had been persecuted and driven from home by the rebel authori ties, 1 suppressed all feeling of rancor so natural to the human breast under such circumstances, and, in the belief that a majority had been seduced from their alle giance to the old flag by the wiles of art bil demagogues, who brought on the re bellion, I determined to try the effect ol tenderness and conciliation in winning them hack to their first love. I addressed them proclamation congratulating tliern on mm ijallptl gorier. n. <>. (fOODBICH, Publisher. VOLUME XXVII. their restoration to the protection of the | Government, of law and order, and that as far as 1 v. as concerned, 1 was willing to forget the past. I begged them to submit cheerfully and unreservedly to the new or der of things, and assured them that al though the State government had been or ganized, yet I was anxious that a general election for its officers should be held, in which the whole State should participate. I fulfilled every word of my promises. I appointed the men recommended to fill of fices in the several parishes. I signed their applications to the President of the United States for pardons. I persisted in my course of reconciliation, notwithstanding the warnings and remonstrances of Union men, who believed my policy would be un availing in accomplishing the purpose in tended, and who predicted that at the very first elec'ion these men, in every parish where they held the power, would proscribe every man from office who had not been in tiie rebel cause. These predictions have been realized to the letter at every subse quent election, with the exception of my case, as is well known, for it was publicly avowed that I was put at the head of their ticket simply because I could be useful in securing a representation of the State in Congress. It is further well known that their platform, reported by the committee appointed for that purpose, to the Demo cratic convention held in this city, was a reiteration of the doctrine of the right of secession, and it was only through the ex ertions of a few of the more cautious and politic of the party that this platform was made to assume the form which was adopt ed, as in the same convention a well-known and live Democrat was publicly censured by resolution, because, in a speech deliver ed before that body, he said that secession was worse than crime—it was a blunder. Notwithstanding my nomination by the Democratic party, another candidate was put into the field in opposition to me, who had officiated as Governor under the rebel rule, and who, had he been in the country and signified his assent, I have no doubt would have been overwhelmingly elected. When the members of the Legislature met in extra session, in the month of No vember, 13Go, convened by me for the pur pose ol raising money to restore the broken levees, and to take measures to redeem the credit of the State, I found them more in tent on calling a convention to change the constitution of 1304 than to promote the general interest of the people. Their chief objection to that instrument was the char acter of the men who framed it, and the abolition of slavery. Having failed at the extra session to pass a bill to call a con vention, the attempt was renewed at the regular session held in the month of Janu ary, and more than half the time of that body was spent in discussing the question. Finally a commission was sent to Wash ington to consult with the President.— Through his advice I considered a conven tion inexpedient, and, for that reason, op posed it. 1 hud learned enough of the real sentiments of the people to convince me that if the new constitution was made in would be less in harmony with the views of the President and Congress than the constitution of 13G4, the result of which would be to lessen the chances for the ad mission of our representatives to urge these views on the members of both houses of the Legislature ; but they had no effect with the majority. I deprecated the city and parish elec tions, for the reason that I feared the re sult, because of the character of the men who would be elected, and because I had seen enough of public sentiment to con vince me that none but those who served in t. .( Confederate army or who had gone into the Confederate lines would be elected to office. 1 foresaw that such a result would be justly remarked by the people of the loyal States as showing a defiant spirit and as still glorying in a cause that had been sustained by tliern with such fearful loss of life and expenditure of treasure.— With numerous and repeated evidences of continuing an intolerant and rebellious spirit, and the manifestation of an inten tion of persecuting all who did not adhere to the fortunes of the Confederacy to the last, on the part of a large majority of the citizens, and with a press almost unani mously expressing sentiments of the same tenor, is it a matter of surprise that I should pause and commence to reflect on the consequences as regards the future se curity of the Government and the fate of the Union men in the South, if those men," who once attempted to break up the Union, succeeded in securing the pow- r of the na tion again ? 1 had seen that, while professing with their lips renewed allegiance to the flag and a;, obliteration of the past, which embod-1 ies the pacific policy of the President, they were becoming more arrogant, and dicta torial. They gloried in the apparent schism between the President and Congress in the ; policy of restoring the States lately in re bellion, and rubbed their hands with de light at the idea of a civil war in the loyal ' States. In view of all this array of strong, ; stubborn facts, 1 freely acknowledge my views of a conciliatory policy, in turning : back to allegiance those who have been en ' gaged in a war to destroy the Union, have undergone a change. The intolerant spirit ; engendered by slavery still exists. The ! loss of property and failure of hopes can never be forgiven ; and though I regard them as impotent to resist the constituted authority enforced by the presence of the military, yet 1 am convinced they would renew the rebellion to-morrow if they saw a pr spect of success. Impressed with the truth of these views, foreseeing the necessity for the future se curity of the Union men in the South that the amendment to the Constitution adopted by Congress and submitted to the several States for ratification should prevail, and fully realizing the fact that the amendment would never be ratified by the present Leg islature, I owu I was in favor of the reas | sernbling of. the convention of 18G4 as the only means of securing the ratification re quired, and thereby to insure the admission | of our representatives in Congress. The legal right of the convention to con tjjiue its functions is a question, 1 suppose, properly pertaining t > the courts to decide. Senators ard Representatives in Congress, of great learning, and men ot high attain ments in New Orleans, have expressed the opinion that, under the resolution of ad . journmeut, the convention could lawfully j assemble. A distinguished Democratic TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., AUGUST 23, 1866. Senator in Congress took the same view. For myself, if I had any doubt on the sub ject, I have deferred to the opinions of ab ler men. The total number of delegates composing the convention was 150. The number elected was 12. The quorum was fixed at To, this number being a majority of the whole. There were twenty-seven parishes unrepresented in the convention that were entitled to 51 delegates, and ad ding thereto ten vacancies to be filled would make 01 delegates to be elected. Resides, there were some ten or twelve delegates who, disapproving of the emancipation clause, refused to sign the constitution,and these may be ranked with the extreme con servatives. Counting the sixty-one dele gates to be elected to be of the same class, and the balance of the convntion to be radical, it will be seen that the parties would have been really equally divided. I have goue into these details to show the falsity of the charges that have been made that the convention would not have repre sented the whole State, and that it was in tended to be packed. Every parish would have been represented, about one-half hav ing elected their delegates in 1804, and the other half in 1800, making a just equi librium of those who opposed and those who sustaiued the cause of the Confed eracy. There are uo disfranchising clauses in the constitution of 1864. The rntich-abused members ol that convention had it in their power to have made a constitution as strin gent against those engaged in the rebellion as Tennessee and Missouri have doue. I They, however, pursued au opposite course, and trusted that these .men would be actu ated by a spirit of tolerance aud forbear ance in return for the liberality shown to ward them. How the members of that con vention have been treated individually by the very men whose good faith they trust ed iu, to say nothing of the sci.ru and vili fication fulminated against them as a col lective body, and against the constitution which they made, let the record ol the bloody doings at the Mechanics' Institute on Monday answer. lu keeping with the unrelenting policy to keep the power of the State in their own hands exclusively, they opposed the meet ing of the convention. They needed no better monitor than their own consciences to tell them that by their prescriptive con duct they had forfeited all claim to further liberty from the original members of that convention. They resolved that it must be put dowu and crushed out at all risks. The scenes of the 30th of July were confidently predicted in case the convention met. They i were the result of the letter of Mayor Mon-! roe to General Baird. Accompanying this communication is proof that it was the de termination, if every other means failed, to resort to force. Everything was arranged on Sunday, preparatory to this purpose. The police received their orders, and on Monday morning they were in large num bers at the corners of Canal and Dryades streets, each having one or more revolvers on his person. Why were they there, ex cept to commit violence? Among all that is charged against the speakers at Friday night's meeting, they can cite nothing more than that the blacks should come armed to defend the convention, in case the members were attacked. Admitting they were assembled for that purpose,what occasion was there for alarm, unless it was meditated to assault the convention ? The inference is irresistible, for the massing of the police was designed to break up the convention. For this purpose a beginning was necessary, and the opportunity sought for soon occurred by the arrival of a pro cession of blacks with music, on their way to the place of meeting of the convention. When the procession entered the street crowded with policemen and citizens, at the corner of Canal and Dryades streets, it was received with insults and jeers, which soon brought on a collision. A shot was fired, but the affair ended in nothing ser ious. The next act of violence was the ar est of a colored man by a policeman in front of the Institute, but for what offence I am unable to say. The crowd of colored per sons naturally became excited ; brickbats were then thrown and a shot fired, the tes timony going to show that it was done by one of the colored crowd. It was answer ed by several shots from the crowd of po licemen at the corner, and followed by rap- | id firing by the crowd of blacks, who re- i turned the fire as fast as they could, but j being overpowered, were driven from the i street and took shelter in the Mechanics' j Institute. If the object of the police was j simply to preserve the public peace, why did not they, after the men had taken re fuge, retire to their original positions at the corner of the street, which effectually ; cut oil'egress from the front, and placing a guard to watch the rear of the building, await the arrival of the military, who were known to be on their way ? The only reas on for their course is that it did not suit their purpose. They accordingly advanc ed on the front of the building and besieged it on all sides. Every negro who attemp ted to escape was murdered. Crowning the climax of these murderous and bloody acts, it is well known that when the white flag was hung out as a token of surrender, the police arrested the members of the con vention and other white citizens,and brought them into the street, where the most prom inent of those holding Union sentiments were shot stabbed, and beaten while in cus tody and in the presence of the entire po lice of the city. Why did not the Mayor or his chief of police station a guard at the door and for bid any person from entering, and then await the arrival of the military ? By these means the last and most deliberate phase of the bloody tragedy would have been avoided. It is also notorious that the police failed to arrest or attempt to arrest even one of the riotous citizens, who, ac cording to their oft-repeated statements, were continually attacking, wounding,and killing persons who had surrendered and were in their custody. I think I have fully shown that it was the design of of those opposed to the convention to break it up by force. The inference to be drawn from the letter of Mayor is that such a course was resolv ed upon, and the massing o! the police.and their willingness to rush into the fight I think fully establishes the fact that the cause of this exhibition of violence and mob law must be traced further back. It is the embers of the fire of the rebellious feeling which plunged this country into a desolate REGARDLESS OK DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER. civil war, and the flame is not yet extin guished in the hearts of the former slave holding aristocracy. Having failed in their first attempt to destroy the Govern ment, they seek to retain political power by the same spirit of political violence by which their chiefs had sustained their su premacy before the war. My deliberate conclusion is that if the military force be withdrawn the live of Union men who proved themselves conspicuous in main taining their allegiance will not be safe. The ultimate security both of the Govern ment and Union men of the South depend, in my opinion, on the ratification ol the constitutional amendment proposed by Con gress and the enfranchisement of the loyal black man, as he becomes educated and qualified for that important privilege. If the advocacy of these measures identifies me with the Radical party in opposition to the President, 1 must accept the situation ; besides, I cannot change my position in respect to my feelings. I deem it neces sary to preserve and perpetuate the Union. J. MADISON WELLS, Governor of Louisiana. THE ISLAND OK VAI.ENTIA. — The island of alentia, the Irish terminus of the Atlan tic cable, is about six thousand {acres in extent. It has three proprietors, of whom the Knight of Kerry is the chief, the others being Trinity College, Dublin, and Colonel Herbert of Muokross. The population is about two thousand ; but although the Knight is a staunch Protestant, his co-re ligionists do not number more than one hundred and fifty. The harmony of this little community, says a correspondent of the London Star, is, however, undisturbed by religious discord. The old priest, who is now between eighty and ninety years of age, has had charge of the parish for half a century, and his watch word has always been "Peace." The average value of laud is about fifteen shillings an acre. Much more of it is* used for grazing purposes than for cultivation, the principal article manufactured being butter. Most of the cottages are simply foetid hovels ; but there is a considerable number of a better class, and the peasantry have a well-fed, comfortable appearance. They owe much to the Knight, who spends nearly the whole of the income he derives from ibis property in improvements and in giving employment to the people. He is regarded with a feu dal reverence tempered by modern man ners. His traditional title gives him no precedence at court, but his ancient line age really places him far before the mush room creation of yesterday. The late Knight, who was a protege of Lord Cas tlereagh, and a distiuguished politician, being once addressed as "my lord" by an officious servitor,impatiently replied, "Don't call me lord ; I have no wish to be any thing of the kind." Perhaps he remember ed the Arab proverb, "The dog when he has money must be called, 'my lord, the dog.'" It is pleasant to be able to recon cile these relics of feudalism with the hu manizing claims of modern civilization. THE GREAT MYSTERY.— The body is to die ; so much is certain. What lies beyond ( No one who passes the charmed boundary comes back to tell. The imagination visits the realm of shadows—sent out from some window in the soul over life's restless wa ters, but wings its way wearily back, with an olive leaf in its beak as a token of emer ging life beyond the closely bending hori zon. The great sun comes and goes in the heaven, yet breathes no secret of the ethe real wilderness ; the crescent moon cleaves the nightly passage across the upper deep, but tosses overboard 110 message and dis plays no signals. The sentinel stars chal lenge each other as they walk their night ly rounds, but we catch 110 syllable of their countersign which gives passage to the heavenly camp. Between this and the oth er life is a great gulf fixed, across which neither eye nor foot can travel. The gen tle friend, whose eyes we closed in their last sleep long years ago, died with rap ture in her wonder-stricken eyes, a smile of ineffable joy upon her lips, and hands fold ed over a triumphant heart, but her lips were past speech, and intimated nothing of the vision that enthralled her. USELESS YOUNG LADIES.— It scarcely ad mits of doubt that the number of young ladies is constantly increasing who think happiness dependent of freedom from re- | sponsibility and labor, and wish to have nothing to do but to read novels, or give themselves to pleasure. A contemporary says : "The {number of idle, useless girls, in all our large cities seems to be steadily increasing. They lounge or sleep through their mornings, and parade the streets du ring the afternoon, and assemble in frivo lous companies of their own and other sex to pass away their evenings. What a store of happiness for themselves and others they are laying up for the coming time, when real duties and high responsibilities shall be thoughtlessly assumed ! They are skil led in no domestic duties—nay they despise them, have no habits of industry nor taste for the useful. What will they be as wives and mothers ? Alas, for the husbands and children and alas for themselves. Who can wonder if domestic ruin follow." ONE DROR AT A TIME. — Have you ever watched an icicle as it formed ? You no ticed how it froze one drop at a time until it was a foot long or more. If the water was clean, the icicle remained clean, and sparkled brightly in the sun ; but if the water was but slightly muddy, the icicle looked foul, and its beauty was spoiled.— Just so our characters are forming. One little thought of feeling at a time adds its influence. If every thought be pure and right, the soul will be lovely,and will spar klc with happiness ; but if impure and wrong, there will be final deformity and wretchedness. A FEW days since a gentleman called upon some lady friends, and was shown in to the parlor by a • ervant girl. She asked him what name she should announce ; and he wishing to take them by surprise, re plied, "Amicus" (a friend). The girl seem ed at first a little puzzled, but quickly re gained her composure, audjin the blandest manner possible, observed ; "What kind of a cuss did you say sir ?" The visitor was embarrassed for a moment, but recov ering, he handed her his card, and vowed never again to use Latin to a servant girl. THE FARTHER SHORE. BY MATTIE WINFIELD TOBRET. I The tide is deep and the waves run swift, With a ceaseless ebb and flowing ; ' Our guide star's lost and our bark's adrift, And a ruthless gale is blowing, We strive to pierce with a troubled gaze Tha dusk of the heaving ocean : The sea Is rough and its trackless waves Are lost in the wild commotion. Our hearts are filled with a thousand fears, As we onward move in sadness ; Our eyes are dim with the mist of tears, For we see no gleam of gladness. Y'et somewhere, still, on the farther shore, We know that a light is shining, And somewhere hovers, the waters o'er, The cloud with a silver lining. When the waves run high, and the storm comes To toy with the crested billow ; [down When the masts are bent at its dreadful frown, Like the boughs of the lithesome willow ; Then we gaze afar through the mist and spray, With hearts that are sad and fearing, To catch a gleam, through the darkness grey, Of the farther shore appearing. To that farther shore we are drifting fast, Each day we are drawing nearer ; We hope to enter its port at last, And to see its light shine clearer. We know that an unseen hand will guide. That an eye is watching ever, And we feel in our hearts, let what will betide. We have help that shall fail us never. CHURCH TITHING SYSTEM IN UTAH When a man joins the Mormon Church, as it exists in I t ih, he is required, as a proof of his sincerity, to donate to the tith ing office one-tenth of all his possessions— no matter what they are, or how extensive they may be. A man with SIOO,OOO in money must upon his entry into fellowship give the tithing office SIO,OOO of it This is the first grand principle of Utah Mor monism. If the man duriug the year made $40,000 by a judicious investment of his remaining SOO,OOO, he must give the tith ing office $4,000 of the amount. This is the second grand principle of Utah Mor monism. And upon these two principles hang ali the law and the profits. These two principles apply to all kinds of property. One-tenth of alia man pos sesses when he joins the Church, and one tenth of his yearly gains so long as he be long to the organization. If a man has uo money or other property lie is required to give one-tenth of his la bor to the tithing office—thus he labors nine days for himself, and the tenth day he gives to the Church in such manner as he may he directed. In this manner the church claims one-tenth of every laboring man's time—one-tenth of every trade represented in the territory—one-tenth of a man's life, talent, and industry. If a man engages in farming, and raises wheat, cattle, horses, sheep, etc., lie must calculate what he has raised—say 100 bushels of wheat at 20 day's labor—the tithing office demands 10 bushels ot that grain. Should lie be idle thirty days, the tithing office claims three days from him on the ground that he may do as he pleases with twenty-seven days, but has no right to idle away the three days belonging to the Lord. If he has one hundred sheep, he must give away one tentli of tliern—he must give one-tenth of the increase. If he has a cow, and the cow gives ten quarts of milk each day, the Church claims one quart. In fact, the Church tithing system penetrates the most abject abode of poverty in the Territory, and extracts from it one-tenth—if it only amounts to a hen's egg. (See Brigham on Tithing, page 111, volume 1, Deseret News, 1850.) Then, in addition to this tithing system exacted from the people, under penalty of excommunication if refused by them, are the Federal, Territorial, county and town taxes, a burden altogether, quite suilicient to continue any people, no matter how in dustrious, in comparative poverty. The tithing system is a source of large revenue. It is reduced to a science. Those who have the administration of the system manage to live well, own the finest farms, the best stock, and have the greatest num ber of women about their premises. It grinds down the people by its very oppres sive nature, and serves to build up the fa vored few who have the satisfaction of handling the funds. Now what becomes of all this tithing fund? Do the people who pay it ever know? Have they been furnished by the tithing firm with a balance-sheet of the same— showing how much has been expended, and how much remains on hand? Have the tax laws of the nation ever reached this fund ? We assert, with a full knowledge of what we are writiag. that at no time since the Mormon advent into Utah has any public statement of the condition of this fund been made to the people The men who pay these tithings are en titled to an exhibit of the disposition of them. Why are they not furnished with it ? How is it that the people who pay these tithings are always poor, while the men who receive them are the well-to-do members of the community ? These are pertinent questions, and worthy the atten tion of the people. Many of them have al ready asked these questions, and, as a re sult, have ceased the practice of paying ' one-tenth of all they have or may gain in to a treasury that never publishes a state ment of its condition.— Salt Lake Vedette. A would-be prophet down South lately said, in one of bis sermon,.s that "he was sent to redeem the world and all things." Whereupon one of his audience pulled out*a confederate sliinplas ter, and asked him to fork over the specie for it. THE last case of indolence is reported in one of our exchanges ; it is that of a man named John Hole, who was so lazy, that in writing his name he simply used the letter -J., and then punch ed a hole through the paper. A HUNGRY man is unmanageable. To be docile, he must, like a horse, have first had a bit in his mouth. " A stetiiescope," says a young medical ! student, "is a spy-glass for looking into people's chests with your own ears." LET your dress be modest, and consult your condition. Play not the peacock by looking vainly at yourself. FASHIONABLE. — The best style of bonnet has turned up. It is described as consisting of two straws, tied together with a blue ribbon on the top of the head, and red tassels suspended at each of the four ends of the straws. per* Annum, in Advance. A MOTHER'S LOVE. Some years ago, some English officers camping in the vicinity of Mulkapoor.went out tiger-hunting, and bagged a splendid tigress. Whilst returning home with the trophy, they found in a secluded spot, in the lee of a jagged rock, what evidently was the lair of a tiger, for there lay hones of both human and brute kind, shreds and rags of clothing. More interesting than all, however, was the discovery ot a tiny kitten, not more than a fortnight old, coiled in a corner, winking and blinking and gap ing at the intruders. The hunters at once decided that tin's must be the cub of the beast they had slain, and willingly took charge of the little orphan. Tiger kittens are not captured every day, so when the hunters returned to their quar ters, the excitement in their tent was con siderable. The newly acquired kitten was provided with a tiny dog-collar and chain, and attached to the tent-pole, round which if gambolled, to the delight of an audience numbering nearly twenty. About two hours after the capture, however, and just as it was growing dark, the good people in the tent were checked in the midst of their hi larity by a sound that caused the bravest heart to beat rather irregularly. It was the roar, or rather combination of shriek and roar, peculiar to the tiger when ; driven mad with rage. In an instant the gambling kitten became every inch a ti ger, and strained with all its baby strength at the tether, while it replied, with a loud wail, to the terrible voice outside. The company were panic-stricken. There was something so sudden and unearthly in the lour, that it seemed as though the great ti ger, brought in an hour before, had come to life agaiu. Certainly, the tiger in question was already flayed, but the picture conjur ed up, became not the more pleasent for that. There was, however, not nearly so much time for speculation to the sacred company as writing these lines has cost; for almost simultaneous with the roar,there lept sheer into the centre of the tent,a bold tigress, and without deigning to notice a single man there,she caught her kidnapped baby by the nap of its neck, and giving a jerk, snapped the little chain, and turning for the tent door, trotted off at full speed.— After all, it appeared that the little thing did not belong to the tiger that was slain, but to the brave mother that had tracked and recovered it. Sanguinary man-eater as she may have been, one can be scarcely sorry to hear that not a gun was leveled at the great rejoicing creature, as she bore off her young one. LENGTH OF GEOLOGICAL PERIODS. —AII the facts of geology tend to indicate an anti quity, of which we are beginning to form but a dim idea. Take, for instance, one single formation—our well known chalk. This consists entirely of shells and frag ments of shells deposited at the bottom of an ancient sea far away from any conti nent. Such a process as this must be very slow ; probably we should be much above the mark if we were to assume a rate of deposition of ten inches in a century Now the chalk is more than 1,000 feet iu thick ness, and would have required, therefore, more than 120,000 years for its formation. The fossilifcrous beds of Great Britain, as a whole, are more than 7,000 feet in thick ness, and many which, with us, measure only a few inches, on the continent expand i into strata of immense depth ; while oth j ers of great importance elsewhere are whol ly wanting with us, foi* it. is evident that during all the different periods in which | Great' Britain has been dry land, strata have been forming (as is, for example, the case now) elsewhere, and not with us.— Moreover we must remember that mauv of the strata now existing have been formed | at the expense of older ones ; thus all the flint gravels in the southeast of England have been produced by the destruction of chalk. This again is a very slow process. It has been estimated that a cliff 500 feet high will be worn aw y at the rate of an inch in a century. This may seem a slow rate, but we must bear in mind that along any line of coast there are comparatively few points which are suffering at one time, and that even on these, when a fall of clitl has taken place, the fragments serve as a protection to the coast until they have been ! gradually removed by the waves. The | W''aiden Valley is twenty-two miles in j breadth, and on these data it has been cal culated that the denudation of the Weald | must have required more than 150,000,000 of years. — Lubboel's pre-Historic Tune*. WHAT A MOTHER CAN DO. —"Twelve or tif- 1 teen years ago," says ex-Governor Briggs, ! "I left Washington three or four weeks du ring the spring, while at home, 1 possessed ; myself of the letters of Mr. Adams' mother, ! and read them with exceeding interest. I j remember an expression in one of her let- i tors addressed to her son, while yet a boy I twelve years of ago, Says she : "I would rather see you laid in your grave, than to ! see you grow up a profane and graceless hoy.' "After my return to Washington, 1 went over and said to Mr. Adams, 'I have found out who made you.' "What do you mean,' said he. "1 replied, '1 have been reading the let ters of your mother." "If I had spoken that dear name to some little boy who had been for weeks away from his dear mother,his eye could not have flashed more brightly, or his face glowed more quickly than did the eye and face of that venerable old man when I pronounced the name of his mother. He started up in his peculiar manner,and emphatically said : "Yes, Mr. Briggs, all that is good in me 1 1 owe to my mother.' WiiEn A DAY BEGINS.— Most nations begin j to count the hours from midnight ; but this j plan was not adopted by men in early ages I of the world, and is now used by three | fourths of the nations of the earth. Some • of the most ancient nations of the world,as the Babylonians, Persians and Hindoos be ; gun the day with thu rising of the sun, as Ido the Greeks of the present day. The I Jews and the ancient Greeks looked upon sunset as the commencement of the day.— The Egyptian day begins at noon. This mode of reckoning is still observed by as tronomers, because the particular instant called noon, cau be ascertained more nicely than any other part of the day. The Mo hommedans begin their day at twilight. FORWARD— -1. Bluteher the great Prus sian general, is said to have won many a hard contested battle through the inspiring influence of this motto. In his councils of war and on the battle-field, " Forward 1" was his watchword, aud he suited the ac tion to the word. The promptness and en ergy with which he planned and executed his engagements gave him the nickname of " Marshal Forward." 2. Pulaski, the brave Pole, who espoused the American cause in its infancy, and gave his life in its defence, and to whom as well as to Kosciusko, the American peo ple will ever owe a debt of gratitude, in one or more instances turned the fortunes of war in his favor by rallying his men with the war-cry of—" Forwarts, brudren, forwarts !" Often was the failing strength of the American soldier rallied and revived and his weary arm nerved with new vigor by the inspiring battle-cry of this brave officer, as in the thickest of the fight and above the din of battle, was heard in brok en English, " Forwarts, bruden, forwarts !" " So with the young, of whatever capac ity and calling, let their watchword be Forward! It will give life and energy to the doubting heart in the time of despond ency and trial, and united with proper en ergy and zeal, overcome every opposition and give it the victory 3. To the student journeying step by step up the rugged hill of science ; Your success lies in your own efforts to do what ever you undertake. I will succeed, has ac complished much. No great undertaking was ever carried through without t. The road to eminence may seem a hard road to travel ; roll the boulders aside, clear the track of trees, bridge the streams, and the way is clear. " With a stout heart, and a will to do and dare there is no such word as fail."— Clark's School \~ith fell together in.the stream. Each with much difficulty gained the shore, exhausted and shivering front a cold bath. Each consoled himself with the idea of " personal suffering for righteous ness' sake and both became bitter ene mies for life. While they were muttering revenge up on eacli other, two other neighbors, named Love and Kindness met in like circum stances upon the same bridge. It was a meeting of glad surprise. They exchanged cheerful and happy greetings, and each in sisted on yielding the right of way to his brother. Each desired to be lirst in the concession ; and to carry out each other's principles, both twice crossed the bridge together. Alter a friendly chat, they part ed company, finding in their experience a practical reason for the injunction " Let each esteem the other better than himself." SOCIAL IMPORTANCE OF THE FIRESIDE.— The fireside is a seminary of infinite importance. It is important because it is universal and because the education it bestows, bei g woven in with the woof of childhood, gives form and c dor to the whole texture of life There are few who can receive the honors of a college, but all are graduates of tie hearth. The learning of the university may fade from the recollection, its classic lore may moulder in the h - lis of memory ; but the simple lessons of home, enamelled upon the heart of childhood, defy the rust of year , and outlive the more mature but less vivid picture of after-years. So deep, so lasting, indeed, are the impressions of early life, that you often see a man in the imbecility of age holding fresh in his re collection the events of childhood, while all the wide space between that and the pres ent. hour is a blasted and forgotten waste Nou have perchance seen an old and half obliterated portrait, and in the attempt to have it cleaned and restored you may have seen it lade away, whiie a brighter and more pure perfect picture, paintedjbeneath, is revealed to view. This portrait, first drawn upon the canvass, is no inapt illus tration of youth ; and though it may be concealed by some after-design, still* tin original traits will shine through the out ward picture, giving it tone while fresh, and surviving it in decay. Such is the fire side, —the great institution of Providence for the education of man. SOLUTION OF HAUNTED HOUSES. —A haunt ed house is a tenement ot any number of ordinary stories, to which is added an extra-ordinary on.-, in the form of a Ghost Story. " JOHNNY, my dear, run to the store and get some sugar," said a mother to her precocious son of eleven years. "Excuse me, ma: lam somewhat indisposed this morning. Send father, and tell him to bring a paper of tobacco along." IT was a starving corset maker who thus vented his miserable complaint : " Shame that 1 should be without bread—l that I Lav. stayed tie stomachs of thousands." A YOUNG poet out West, in describing Heaven, says, •• It is a world of bliss, fenced in with girls." Where's the man that won't repent now? • A WITTY doctor of divinity, whose physi j cians had ordered him for a time on a purely vc-g --j etable diet, demurred, on the ground that "he 1 should uot be able to say grace before meat." WE should give as we would receive, cheerfully, and without hesitation ; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. To find out the number of children in the street, play a hand'organ. To find out the num ber ot loafers, start a dog fight. A Quaker in business in Philadelphia dis liking the "Esq." to his name, advised a corres pondent to direct his letters to him without any j tail, and received a reply superscribed : "Amos Smith, without any tail, Philadelphia!" A RAKER has invented anew kind of y<- isi. It makes bread so light that a pound of it weighs only ten ounces. A LIVING writer observes that " Gentle ! men who are mad about ancient de-scent should adopt the ragshop announcement, ' The be>t prie.- given for old bones.' " IRRITATING.-After rolling all night in your berth at sea till yon are miserably sick, to have a steward open your door in the morning, and ask yon if you'll have a fresh roll for breakfast. THE Rev. H. H. Wood, curate of Hemiug ' ford Abbots, Huntingdonshire, England, writes that " hay fever " may be instantly relieved by ; bathing the nostrils and closed eyelids with spirits j of camphor and warm water. CURIOUS ADVERTISEMENT.—A gentleman ad | vertises for "A horse, for a lady of dark color, a • good trotter, and of stylish action!" The horse ! " must be young, and have a long tail about tif | teen hands high !" SECTARIAN HORSES.—A French religions paper, speaking of Gladiateur's success on the j English turf, says : "We are delighted in our ! soul to see a Koiuau Catholic horse beating I'rot | estant horses," NUMBER 13.