BY lIENItY J. STAIILE.
38 13 YEAR.
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i-Offiee in South Baltimore street, direct
ly opposite Wamp ler's Tinning Establishment,
one and a half squares from the Court-house,
"CoaremElt" on the
~llc~~ce~ ~oefii~~
111031 E PICTtiIIE.
One-autumn night when the wind was high,
And the nun fell in heavy splashes,
A little boy sat by the chino - ley, fire,
A Poi,ping evil) in the ashes ;
And his sister, - a curly haired child of three,
Sat looking on just close to his knee.
The blast went howling round the house,
As if to get iu 'twas trying;
it rattled the !Itch at the outer door,
Then seemed it a baby crying !'
"'Cow and then a 'drop down the chimney came
And sputtered and hissed in the bright red tlathe
pop, pop ! and the kernels, one by one,
Canie out of the embers flying;
Via boy held a loik pine .stick in his hand,
And kept rt busily plying;
Ile stirred the corn and it popped the more,
Awl faster jumped to the clean swept floor.
ii -Part of the kernels hopped one way, •
And apart hopped out the other;
.Some flew plump into the a.ister's
,t'oute under the stool of the brother;
The little girl gathered them into a heap,
And - called then' a hock of milk white sheep
All at ones the boy sat its still as a mouse,
And into the tire kept gazing;
Ile quite forgot he was popping corn,
For he looked where the wood w blazing
Ile looked. and he fancied that he could see
A house and burn, a bird and a tice.
Still steadily gazed the boy at.theie,
And pus's gray bark kept stroking;
Till the little, sister cried, “Why, huh. -
Ouly see hoe,• the corn k smolOug !"
AOl ,ure enough, when the hoy.luoked hack,
The corn in thii usher ca burned quite black
"Never wind," said he, .:we shall have enough
zsrw let us sit back and eat it ;
carry the you the corn;
!Tin c.tri beat it !),
E•he took up the corn in her pinafore,
2,11.1 they ate it all, nor wished for more
A 'SANE IN TIIE SAND.
Alone I walked the ocean strand,
A pearly shell was in my hand ;
stooped and wrote upon the sand
My name—the year—the dal'.
As onward from the spot I pa:4,o3d,
(Me 11ugering . took behlrad 1 caq—
A %rave came rolling high and fast,
And washed my lines away;
And so, melltought, 'twill shortly bo
With every mark on earth from we ;
A wave of dark oblivion's sea
. Will sweep across the place
Where 1 hare trod the winds shore
Of 'Time, and been, to be no more;
Of me. my frame, the
, name I bore,
To leave nu track nor trace.
Anti yet.with him who counts the sank,
And.ll‘,l4l, the waters in 11:18
I kllfiw a lasting record sturls
luseribed against my name,
Of all this mortal part has wrought.
Of all this Clinic...lig soul has thought,
And from these fleeting momerits caught
For glory or for shame
elqiiiktil)toii.j.
Tilli PRATE OUTIVITTED.
Nmt ---- Tnarty mir:q v11(111041, tfri l - N -_
ever, for Bang;or to „rules np irom a littlewild,
uncouth lumbering village into a beautiful
city—there might finve been seen, one day in
, • • • • 3 -ft, 17---
.:ire - ant: - a. schooner Iv
_
jug at one of the rude hi: , wharveS, taking hi
a regular assorted cargo of pine lumber, po
tatotr., poultry, and cud-lish. If you step aft.
tool look over her stern,
_you can read her
haine—Sarali Ford ; Bangor. And that after
noon, after her cargo was all on hoard, if you
could have got a peep at her manifes,t and hilt
of 1:0E114, you would have set n that she was
commanded Ily Capt. Josiah Forbes, and
bound for St. Thomas..
Josh Forbes, as he was commonly called in
Bangor, was horn on the banks of the l'enob-
F,tot, and brought up at sea; and at this par
t' eular tilllo was just about twenty-three years
old, and master and ownor of the schooner
:Sarah Ford. Josh had named his little craft,
which was nearly new, after the daughter o f
Colonel Ford, a very rich, aristo-ratie mer
chant of Bangor. There was a perfectly safe
understanding betwee» Josh and Miss Sarah,
entirely unknown to any one hutorlanselv:
fOr Cob I'j:A would as soon have followed his
oily daughter tilil2gLave as consented ti
her marrying the skipper of a Down-East
coaster.
lleader, have you ever been to the island of
St. Timmas, in the Danish West Indies ?-2
"Yes." Well, I am glad of it; for you will
agree with me, that it is one of the I.veliest o f
all those, ocean garden—the Virgin Islands.
"N o Well then, come with me : it will cost
T o il nothing, and a short visit will amply re
pay you for your time and trouble.
The Island of
_
,"Zaomas belongs to Den--
mark. and is situated just far enough within
-the tropic, to enjoy a ll th e ad " rages of a
tropical climate, so liberal in its variety of
_frults and flower , , anti .; n , t far enough to wind
ward of the larger islands. to insure it against
the ravages of Yellow fever and other prevail
ing diseases, 'Which often rage with such ma
lignity during the summer months in the
West India Islands.
The island is about eleven miles long. and
five in its greatest width. The-city sunls at
the b.ttom ola beautiful bay, opening in from
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pearanee as von enter the harlvr. The fresh
trade winds. blowing entirely over the island,
render its climate co- , l and delicious during
the greater part of the 3 - can Abvut half a
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mile to the Westward of the town, there is an
old burying ground, which is a favorite
resort of the St, Thomas idlers.
One Sunday afternoon, about four weeks af
ter -wo had seen the schooner - Sarah Ford
alongsid6 the wharf in Bangor, :von mimht
lave discovered her comman er. Capt. Josh,
lying his fall length . on a black marble slab
that covered a grave - under a large tamarind
tree in the old burying ground:
Captain Josh was figuring away, with a biz
pier e of chalk in. his 'lingers, and the marble
slab for a slate, calculating the expenses of
the voyage and the actual profits to himself,
after having - paid for his cargo, which he had
bought in Bangor on credit.
After a while he gut through with his calcu
lations, and drawing forth his handker,chief.
he- irefully wiped the chalk - marks fro in the
polished marble, and lazily rolled. off the slab
into a perfeet little thicket of lilies and honey
suckles, which
_grew, up in wild _luxuriance
alongside of the tomb. His intention was to
t a k e a c omlor l able afternoon nap: hut, ust ai
he was about to close his eyes, the sound o - r
voices near by, and approaching, still nearer;
aroused him; and a moment after, two indi
vithials, whom he had often seen since his Iv
rival, seated themselves on the very slab
which , he had so' recently occupied.
These two persons were—one, his exeellen-.
ev Governor Yan Sholtonberg, ()ISt. Thomas,
and the other the captain of a beautiful aym
ed schooner under the New Granarlian flag%
which had for a week past been lying in the
harbor, well out towards' Prince itupe i rt's
Iloeks.
For several years past, the Governor of St.
Thomas had been suspected of: being,connect
ed with the slave trade. lima twice he had - been
called home to
. Copenhagen to answer charges
preferred against him. But he had each time
been able to prove his immcence, or the Gov
ernment had been unable to 'prove his guilt,-
which amounted to the same thing, and the
Baron Van Sholtonberg still retained the office
of Governor of St. Thomas.
Capt. Josh Was perfectly - concealed under
the friendly - shade of the henry-stickle and
lilies, and lying Very toilet, he soon le:true:l
from the, conversation of the two gentlemen
seated on the tomb, that his excelleney was
not only engaged in the Africatt slave trade,
but that he .was :Xo connected with a still
freer trade, in which the cruisers wore tlie
6/ac/,..f10y at the main pi yak.. lie also leartn.d
that the pretended captain of-the New Gra
nadian schooner was no less a personage than
Charles Mitchell, the celebrated Piruk I.lw
011/1:
Captain Forbes, heard a great many thing
that aqonished him: and when the two wor
thies left the ohl graveyard, lie crept out of
his place of concealment with a much poorer
opinion of the world's honesty than he had
when he rolled off the marble slab an hour
previously.
• The Oranadian schooner went to sea on the
following morning, firing a salute us she got
under way, whin IA as returned by the outer
fort.
Three days afterwards, Capthin -
ing he could not get a homeward cargo in St.
Thomas, got under watt, with tile in te;ttion of
rut nits'down on the iiouticide- of iluha, into
some of the little lev ports, and purehr. ,, ing hi
cargo of sugar and molasses: shrew:4lv eareu
latin7 that if he went into some of the
out of the way places, he .Ittall , l ! , et his cargo
much cheaper than he could in any of the
larger and wore frequented linrhors.
A s soon a. be made ( 'ape - -Maize, the Eastern
e.xtreinity of euha, he hauled, elo: , e in with tlo
, hint!, and . running along down to the AVe,t
wan ke kept-a, bright look-Jut for some. lithe
, ei
oh re inlet, which would snit his ii;;:irpo se.
•
lie passed Trinidad, and hegan to: think
than he should he ohliged to run round on the
North side. to.llayana or _Matanzas, when, one
af:ernoort, as lie was koopino• dose
s le -
a, ISltiltic oftilisle of Pine-:, eno•
I 'eaught the entraAt'e of :l little narrow channel
that looked just :Is it,would suit hit; purp,i;
Ttic• was put hard up. a tid
went - P - f;)rk.t the and in 1-iftren min
utes she was iitside of a little harbor., that prob
ably never was ri:-.:ited by an hune't .Anieriean
vessel before.
Captain Josh Forbes was not very often as
..
tolli%thed at al Ise 'saw, hut ht., was taken
all aback that afterno9n, for when he get
lout a quart er Of 8 mile up the narrow creek,
he (iHeo`•ered moored alongside of tho hank.
half a, mile 'further up, the NOW Granadian
sehoonei he had seen at St. 'Thomas. li
double quick time. the Sarah Ford was run
ning alongside the hank, end tied up to the
trees, which - grew close down to the. water':i
edge.
JAI, Forbes, for. onee in his life, was in a
quandary. •He couldn't get (tut to sea atrah , ,
for the wind was blowing tc pare into the'creek.
and lie knew that lief; tre the land Lreeze would
set in at night, the gentlemen from the `4 elov,lll-
er altove would pay him a visit ; and then
good bye to all hopes of marrying, his little
schooner's namesake, for all that lie was worth
in the world, and cons.iderahly more, was in
the . ye, , sel. lie lied with hint the vt-hole pro
ceeds of the cargo which lie Intd,
Thumas, aull which he was
. )Lt in debt for at
Bangor.
Pyr rive minutes the Yankee captain was lost
in a -deep study, when all at once a bright idea
seemed to ,(Tike him, for he brightened ult and
• r. 7 ' • „
addre , sed himself particularly to the young
man who acted as mate in. the schooner, Ingi
arren, do you think von can take then
.arali Ford home to Bangor?"
eap'n. I too," replied the youngster,
"but what are you going to do?"
"Me? oh, rin going home in that schooner
up there!"
Tito other looked at him in a ,, toni ,, hment
but all enquirier; were cut :diort 10; Camain
hr. again add iTssed hi:" mate as follow:-:
••Warren, •,-ou jump aft there, and take the
Loarin , ; of that vessel by Orrripal..s: and the n
take the compass out and- hriug----it-al-ing,f,,r
we must put for the bushes, if we ever want
to see Yankee land again. tell you my
plan after we get into the woods."
In two minat , .s the Sarah Ford was deserted
by-all hands. Capt. Josh took the compass
from Warren, and le , / hi; little crow back from
the crifek about a quarter of a mile, when he
shaped 14i; course by compass, so as t4o kt:p
a oaf: dp:iihout parafFF,fith - flie Junk. When
h, h e was abut.' t opp.e.ite the pirate.
he took the , advance and proceeded carefully
down towards the_ereek. In a few moment. ,
they cattle in sight of the pirate schooner, and
GETTYSIWRG, PENNSYLVANIA : MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1856.
at the same moment he made a grand discov
ery, which was that a little ahead of where the
schooner lay, there was an arm of the creek,
which ran off about west, and opening out in
the - bay, by .a different- channel from the one
he had enter 4 s .
the wind was, a Vessel could run out by this
channel with a free sheet. About the time that
Forbes' and- his crew came in sight of. the
schooner, the pirate had mustered all hands
and just started off down the bank of the creek
to overhaul the Sarah Ford.
As soon as
_their were out of sight in the
bushes, Forbes whispered to his men:
"2s;ow's our chance—out knives and cut her
fasts. Then jump aboard and shove off, and
then put sail on her."
The captain's orders were promptly obeyed,
and in less than ten minutes. the Nev Grana
(llan armed schooner Brandy-.-Ther favorite
cruiser of Mitchell, the pirate—was under all
sail, and passing rapidly down the Western
ehanni‘l.
At the moment that the pirates reached the
lon siqmoner, they saw their own ve;=sel
under way and going to Ica. Instantly
comprehendimy, the Yankee trick, tijid. boiling
with rage, they immediately got the Sarah
Ford under way and followed her:
In half an hour, both vessels were outside.
Forbes, with his new command, was running
away to the We:-tward, about it point free,
and keoping the lair of his sails lightening. s'
that she shouldn't no too fast through the
wa:or. The pirate was standing right on in
his Ivalm, crowding on all sail to overhaul
him.
leading them (4f ahout ten miles.
rapt. Follies sullenly tacked ship and stoofl
back on the other tack tor,ards the pirates,
and, passing them to windward, just out of
pistol shot, he hailed them:
"Now, gentlemen,.you will please keep on
as you are going. It you attempt to haul us
I'll sink von."
A yoll of mingled rage and despair rang out
from the pirates' detd:. atlinnuediately the
schooner's hilio was put hard down, in order
to go in stays.
Ana they diAtoO. 111 an instant the Fichoon
er%3 hehav,•ns put up, and .ire was kept off on
her course.
eapttiin Josh reefed his fore and aft sails,
so his vessel would just hold way with the
other schoOner, and then he kept on after her,
just within Hecht Maroc range; all through the
night—wl mu' ciel.r anti heauticul— t wii on
ever the pirates appt‘ared to forget their nrders,
tuld hegan toleen off, ~r intuit° off their course,
a gentle hint front Forbes' long pivot gun
brou,dittliein to their senses tlirectly.
Anti thus he drove them .all the way into Ha
vana, where they were secured by the authuri
tie4.
The Governor General of Cuba was se well
pleaAc4l with the affair, that - he gave the Bran
dy 'Cforch, Alp to Josh, ;just as she was. And
be also gave special orders that the Sarah Ford
was to pay no export duties On her cargo, nor
-was she to be subject to any port charges.
in a weel:; Captain Josh .F,,rbe.3 sailed for
i(nr!;.- ; aml i-fli,notind-rptit e -si T.
grild in his prize as Khld lani e , l along the coast,
ho fiannl enough to make him the richest man
Ihwn East; and Cul. Ford was perfectly' wi fling
that he shouLl marry his daughter Sarah.
11 n
.Expelh il t ,svarlilforbrea d.—One
peund of pour, three quarters of a pound of
-ul.;:tr, 110 f u paled of Mater, six eggs,_and
seasi,n to taste. Pour into shallow pans, and
lake half an liptir in a moderately hot oven.
Excvikat Plain, Tea, Cal,..%—One cup of
white hp.ri .. a 0A:1d of liuttpr, ()Tie elk)
SIVO('t )11,K, (WC egg, half tea , 4l)otaiful of sq.
41 0 , i m p 4 ) f cr(!lua of tartar, arid 11( 1 11r enough tfl
111:1k(' it like soft ginge,•lirewl. 1 7 1:0-ur with
the juiee of a sedan lolawi. This makes one
Hzwl
Errefient Cike.—Onoeny of hutter, ono
„r brown sugar, one of nuolas,es, one of HAVeet
three offiour„ and four eg , , , s. One and a
tcas , ,,oonful 4,f cream of tartar, and one
of s la. rwo poun.d:, of raiAus, chopped fine:
one 1 , utmeg, and a little 'oraiclv, if you choose.
111:s , • • ,
Iv :11 keop moist wit;ood li , pior—frout four to
week, v,-heit pmporly covered. '
Fruit ( 'die.--thte and a half pounds
of wie anti a ( i mlrter pounds 61' flour.
threr. guar...era of a 'pound o;* butter, six c'ggs,
:L ,il.l•L•c.et in; lk, one t:.a., , p00n of suleratus,
one witte, one of Ira ar4 Muidt
fruit a,“I y',ll rali laird, tio inure.
Cop C , il,/ , „ •.ups of flour, three cup,
of nice on , • cup of hotter, four egg . i.
(MC VIII) of ;2,- , o)(1 'buttermilk, with halerattn.
enough to bweetett it, one nuttae;,.
C(,okii , s.—olle cup of butter, two cups . of
sugar, our cup of cold wator, half a tew,pooa
of salorata , :, two egg ,, , hour enough to roil.
and no nlorp.
Giotiedirend.—Or,e eup c,f tnolagses.
one cup of ; , ugltr, one cop of one
egg, saleratus ;col
Mix prett:.•
(,'train! Cfr/.••.—One cup Of ereuni, one cup Of
sugar, two cup , . of flvur, two e;,,rg , , teaspoon of
saleratu., flavor with lemon, •
/Micah: Otke.—Nearly threu cups of flour,
ctip•, of sugar, three-fourths cup of sweet
nil of six eggs, one tea-poon of cream
tartar, half teaspoon Of soda, half a cult i:)
butter, icmuu for flavoring.
Craelc-r..—Onc, pint Of water, one teacup of
Lotter, one tea.toon of rania, two of cream tar
tar, flour enou:2ll to make a.: stitfa.•
Let thin :-tand in the ot - 'n until drie , l through.
7hey do not need pounding. - -
Torch_ Knorring.—The treat difficulty of
gyttlitg from astable-wh-erc.
mil lii,; o f conflagration; is , Weil
known, and that in consequence of such diffi
culty, arising from the animal's dread of mtir
ring from the s-cene of destruciion, many valua
ble hores have perished in the flames. A gen
tleman whose horses were iu great peril from
such a cause, having in vain tried to save them,
hit upon the expedient of having them har
nessed as thou ,, ii they were :ro_im . g;l , 4l : l e • 7
717071-IZ - , zti iii; u, hi a,t , ,niAuneat, they were
led from the witho•ut
pay -When the young laugh at the old, they
lauga at thernsel; es beforehand.
"TatTni mann°, AXD WILL rnEvAtt."
rzza
eicSe,:i - i)l6,sceiil4.
Family-Cakes.
It Made Him Fed Independent.
A man named Porter says he once had a
clerical firiend- between whom and himself
there existed great intimacy.
Every Saturday night, as Porter,was sittirm
h. a note Nr,'"
,ancing Ths cash. a note wimiliratite request
ing--the loan of a jic:e dollar bill 1" The mon
ey was always returned punctually at $ o'-
clock ,on Monday morning. But what puzzled
the lender "was, the parson always returned
the peril identical note he borrowed. Since he
discovered this filet lie had made private marks
on the note ; still the same was handed back
on Monday morning. One Saturdaf evening
Porter sent a five dollar gold piece, Instead of
a note, and marked it. Still the very same
coin was returned on Monday. Porterigot
nervous-and-bilious - about it; he could not
sleep at nights for thinking of itt he would
awake his•wife in the middle of the night and
ask licr.what she thought of such a strange
occurrence. lie was fast .boiling over with
curiosity, when a note came from the reverend
borrower, one Christmas eve, asking for the
loan often dollars. A brilliant thought stilte:
our friend. lie put on his great coat, resolv
ing to,eall, and demand an explanation of the
nwstery.
- When he was • shown into his friend's study
he foinal him plunged in the, profoundest mel
ancholy.
“Mr. ***,” said our friend, "if you will an
swer me ono question I let you have the
ten dollars.
"flow does it happen that you alwav9 repay
me the money you- borrow on B:lltursia.:7
night in the eery same coin or note on 31on
dav ?"
Tice parson raised his head, and after a vio
lent struggle, as though he were -about to tin-
Veil fhe . boarded mystery of his soul, said, in
faltering tones, "Porter, yon are a gentleman
seholar—a Christian and a New Yorker--
I know I can rely on your inviolable, secresy
—listen to th . e,secret of my eloquence. You
know that I tun poor, and when I have bought
my Sunday's dinner, I have seldom a red
cent left in my pocket. Now, I maintain that
no 111911 can preach the gospel and blow
up his congregationproperly-with , nrt hag
got soinffiilil?g in his pocket to inspire him
with contirlence. I have therefore borrowed
live dollars of you every Sttturdny that I might
feel it occasionally as I preached on Sunday.
Yon know how independently - 1 preach—how
I make the rich shake in their snoes well, it
is all owing to my knowing that I have a live
dollar bill in my pocket ! Of course, never
hawing; to use it for any itla:r purpose, it - is
not changed, but invariably returned to you
next morning. Now as Mr. george Law is
coming to hear me preach to-morrow, I thought
I would try the elfcet of a-ten dollar bill ser
mon on him!'"
Parr Grip ttnet the Entlertaker.
Peter Grip anatsgetl a large fortnn - e by loan
ing money at five tier eezit. a month. A short
time shim he waS afflicted with a F•evore -at
tack of pneumonia., 11is doctors had given-up
• -of—hig-re ,, avi .., rv, vommunicated
the fart to - him. lie immediately despached a
messenger for the , :rave dirger ; that, worthy
functionary attended, and the following. dia
logtle ensued between him and M(. Grip;
"Are you a grave digger?" •
"Yes, sir." .
"What do you charge for burying a man ?"
"Ten dollars, s;r."
"Ten dollars ! Will you give me a bill of
your charge , ; ?"
"It is easily made out.. 1 c h a rre f i ve dollars
for t4rave and covering it up, and_
live Jolla rs'for the hear-e."
"Five - dollars few hauling, a man from here
tn_ the graveyard ? 'Why. 1 never heard of
such a charge. I can get a hogshead ofyno
hvises hau!'ed- up front t. o wharf for twenty
tivo
_cents, pi - o_lllllf will- ten ii,tues—a-s.
1. Can't yon tok , , ?"
Inuc'a as a mar
"No : the city ronneil altow,4 me to charge
that much. and 1 think it little onoul4h."
" ✓ Tiv:
M 1
smart, any . In p au pl i i a comity, in North
Carolina, where I came from, they never
thought of ebnrg,ing• a man to bury him. I
suprrtse I ea , t't empl:ly a dray to haul me out r
"1. g nes, nut, for ir you trtil, the drayman
vs - ouhl 'oe sn'ojeet, to a hoe ton dollar.:•"
"Well, ,lii can't you fail a little?
thrleS 11.
"No', not one eopper, for I flues.; *hen the
sends for you, you'll lul,c to pay it,
11S I ' Vr no competitor."
"I ean't afford it. and T n in't a-p , ting, to,
neither sn you may travel, old Skinflint."
After the grave digger left, Mr. 6,-ip itoliltr
Al/iZed
"I don't earn what the 41.wtt,r.: say: if
to he shavel in that - way, I'll not (1 . ,e at ail."
And true enough, he is r.!rain to he soon sit
ting at the duts looking for some poor unfor
tunate man with a eomuable after him.
Rick rich ct+ract
from a sermon will he recognized at a ghoicc
by Fome of our readers hero at home. It lo , es
much of its humor, because cannot put in
print the peculiar sing -song styie and appro
priate gestures that a(' 11111 it;
"My friends-- - -S:n makes the young man or
01M13.11 of the world look ugly,al t . And I'll
tell you how I know-ah. I was coming up to
church to-day, when I saw sons : \ sung men in
the road-alt, and thought one iii h:11) was the
tours' man I ever saw in
.ktul I drew nigh unto them I dfseovered
that they were playing at marvels, and they
drew nigh unto a pi:tee they calk(' the taw,
and they marveled-ah. And thi , purty young
man was the last one to marvel-alt. And
when he marvehal, he jumped up and flapped
his hands like a rooster dot's his wings. ant;
says : wish I may he if rhain't
fat-ah And oh, my friowl , 4,then I thought
that,waq the ugliest young nein I ever saw in
my Life-. ja. 0.41-141-1 opened my--mouth and
spoke untlf him thus---sa:,s I, ✓ 'Young mate
this is
he: '(Jld hort3e, if you had honk "sulk ttted as
bad a. 4 I llavi!, you wouldn't waht t., hear talk
of salivation-2
"And now, my friends, when that ar young
man said he was fat he told a lie-ah, tbr he
was lean as that hungry-looking sister over
thar, that's always praying so piously when
the hat's be;n' passed round-ah.
"Awl, my friends, if that vounr: Mil"
m!ver could a mistuk
me, for an Old
tr-:.,#-Extern pore preaching. Is like. extenip , P.e
fiddleing—none Lilt the mo=t finished perform
er 6 bhould attempt it.
=I
=I
Method.
There are few persons, no matter how many
or how few the duties which devolve upon
them, who would not gain much by adopting
some systemof s:s.‘steunitiealt: -
ranging their duties, and properly distributing
their time. We believe the number of those
whose greatest anxiety is how they can' most
easily= "kill time," is fast passing away, and
we would gladly see the last of such a race.
While there are so many hungry to. feed,
fallen to raise up, ignorant to instruct, and
out-cast to redeem, there can surely be no
reason why time should hang heavily upon
the hands, even of those whom affluent cir
cumstances release from all care of providing
for their own wants. The most careless ob
servers - cannot but be struck with the vast dif
ference hi the households of their friends
where there seems to be - an equal .amount of
labor to lie perthrmed and care ,to.bn exorcised.
We aro no friends ,of that precision which
would sacrifice the comfort of all around,
rather than leave a certain piece of work un
performed, yet we think sonic general system
as closely conformed to as circumstances will
permit, would greatly diminish the care, and
equally enhance the enjoyment of many fami
ly circles—while many young ladies who now
accomplish little beyond the general routine
of HOCiety—might in this wayfind time - for the
performance of ninny duties now left undone.
,--Ladies! Eitfcrprige.
VA .— A week or so ago, the jail at Spartans
burp,' C., had ono tenant, who got off by
the help of his wife. as fellows: She went to
see the wife of the jailor, looking very flirlorn,
and watching the first ehanee took the jail
Rey, which was hanging in the kitchen, and
unlocked the door. She then .returned look
ing as miserable as ever, and kept the jailotom
Wife busy talking until the prisoner got clear
off. The next day the jailor'B wife and the
prisoner's wife vied with each other - in ex
pressing surprise at the occurrence.
=I
Oren:tot! 'ltainey, - of St.
Thomas' hospital, London, has written an ttr.
Lich. to the Laitcd, detailing the effects of ere.
osote applied to warts. Tie applied it freely to
an obstinate warty excresence on the finger,
then covered it all over with a piece of sticking
plaster. This eoueso he pursued every three
days for two weelis. when the wart was found
to 'have dissappearod, leaving the part beneath
it trite healthy, This is certainly a remedy
winch can he easily applied by any person.
Obl Time I%it. : ylr lilassarhusettm
arzeue, (d•lutte 1705, ,says hear
that t lie ladies, who, through the dirt' of the
last season or two, dragged out many a yard
of silk at their he'els, are now come the res
olution of displaying their industry, by intro
ducing gnwns so short, as may convince the
gentleman that they have no holes in the heels
of their stocking"."
terA teaeher had been 'explaining to his
- chugs the poiats of - the eompass, and all were
drawn up in front, towards the north..
"Now, what is before you, John ?"
''The north, sir."
"Anal what behind yon, Tommy ?"
"My coat tail, sir," said he, trying at the
Hanle timo to get a glimpse at it.
Pint Boot B.—A younp4ter H lio badjufit
risen to the dignity of the first pair of boots
with heels on, laid.. himself liable, through
some mimienteanor, tomaternal chastisement.
• After pleading to get clear to no effect, he
exeh t imed : "Well, if I've got to stand it, I
meat, to take off my hoots."
4 .Wlty ?" asked his mother.
"Because .1 / won't be whipped in them new
booni, no how. That'm
A Neumpayr.—Dr. Johnson, when in the
fullness of sears and knowledge, stud :—"X
never take up a newspaper without finding
omethiirg-l-w add have - dr.rem - ed it aloss nut
to have seen—never without deriving from it
instruction and amusement." -
At - LV-The best thing to give your enemy is
forgivenesm; to your opponent, tOleraMe t 4)
fr1( . .:141, your heart ; to your child, a good ex
ample; to your father, deference; to your mo
ther:- aoluet that will -akc hr lof you;
w:rycinuitic, Inn e or proof is
to yoarelf, roipea; to all inuti,-clutrity.
ra—The following question now before
the 11itchulwl,i,aekwaek debating society:
"Which has ruined the . most ( men—giving
credit or getting trusted." We should not
wonder if thiA led to, a considerable wrangle.
r.=•-;rlVe 1144111e' others for their fears and
failures and fear and fail like them in like Sit.
Witionti ; for manya path that looks smooth
at a distance, is !band to be rough when we
hav'e to travel it.
rcre-A fellow remarked that he wouuld Moto
know what, there was about nutsh and milk
tlu►t efaild bloat a man up so soon. He said
he never could eat ►wore than three_ or four
(nnrts without feeling eunsiderably swollen.
quite astoniAliiie.
t-c:irMother, Another, here's .Jake fretting
the baby. Make him cry again, Jake, then
mother will give him some t , ugar, and I'll
take it away from him—then he'll squal, aml
mother will give him some more, and you can
take that, and we'll both have seine.
« • ay in Alabama, that the Kelleher
was accustomed to distinguish the I and II
epistles of John by saying, •lohn with one eye
and John with two eye-4. It was a long time
before the people got the hang of it, hut when
they did the distinction answered very well.
Z•Sonie. men are like eats. You may Ftroke
the fur the rin•ht way for vear§iand hear noth nir
jut pnring: hut accidentally tread On the tail,
and all mentofy of former kindness is gone.
G PEix CifICKENS.-A small pinch of gun
powder, given to a chicken with the gape,
will effect a sure and complete cure in fruni
one to three hours' time.
re.'''"Can't Fay that I ailtaire your style of
playt , r, wilen she caught him stealing her
~l,v 31S.
4411e:11 ,from du) shuck of an earth
quake Intuit be a rare euriositT.
IM=l=l
TWO 'DOLLARS -A-XUAR.
• Saltt - ns a Manure.
In oni , of his works, CUTHBERT W. Jonivsorr
asserts that salt is at present much used by the
English agrieulturhsta in the formation - of
ec a, an I penirtii--EVI I,C.Lg
highly valuable' and effictitieus,-.especially.
sandy soils, . Every farmer is perhaps aware
of the fact, that the depredations of many in
sects which usually prey with great avidity up
on plants and tender vines, are prevented by
the application - of salt. A weak briue, hot
exceedni , * the strength of 'sea wafer, proves a
remedy for the, "squash destroyer," one .of the
insidious and persevering, well as yore:
ciously destructive climates with whiCh the
gardener and fruit-grower is called to contelid; -
It is also a most effectual preyentive_otap4._
des, or plant lice, vermin which prey upon the
cabbage and turnip tribes. Ili every instance
of the application of brine to these vegetables
that has-fallen under our observationots-ve- --
ceSs has been complete: '„No 'need' be
apprehended from a Very liberal application,
say a quart to a plant, if the solution be ofthe
strength indicated. All-the cabbage tribe are
liable to be attacked and fatally, aujored by
minute maggots, resembling, very nearlY,the
maggots in cheese,.and Which are doubileastie
/arra! of some fly. There is another enemy,
also, by which , they° are frequently : infested
—a small grub'), similar, in many. respects,
to those found in corn and, potatohillsOind
which not unfrequer - ftly 'prove very desti:tid
tive. Salt water applied to the hills willhavo
a tendency to arrest,their depredations, and,
the application be repeated frequentlY,, say
once in two or three days, it wilt effectually
destroy or drive them off. The water; herweiL.
or, should not be all Owed • to, come in cOntact
with the foliage, in this instauce,,but should .
be applied to the soil immediately around the
stalks, but without coining in actual contact
with . thorn:To destroy the' first namedin
soots-, it may be applied in estate sufficiently
dilute to admit of a perfect ablation of every
part of the foliage ; but as we said before, care
must be taken not to make it too strong; or it
will destroy the plant, —Every cook , knows, dlr
might to know, that the washing of cabbage.
lettuce, spinach, &c., in salt water before cook
ing-or preparing for the table, is Mire - O'O4A
every species - of insect which 'so freqtently
Seeks a habitation or a shelter in thesavege
tableB.--= - Germardona Telegraph, - . • „
bE'Owing to the fitet that the ground, lips
been covered with Nnotv for months, and tha
snow is an, absorbent of fertilizing dements
fur the earth, we haye
_reason to bpjivvii.tialkt
this will - be a great grain producing seiisc:k.
Let the people plant corn,
serJohn Calvin, who is not believed tohavp
been an intemperate or bad tuna, vith the same
habits at this day, wouldhardly' have - -ratiked
as a Maine La* .man. Something of the"- hitb-!
its of his time may be learned from his writ
ing: . •
- •
"In a scolding letter to the synodes or. m.
istiiteF.lef Geneva he complains that ,theyfhave
'1 do.not keep open honk; ho says, nor do I en
tertain inazn guests' at my table; and therefuM
the quantity ym have-sent me displeases me)
as well 89 the quality. I ~vialr, therefore, 'you
would take it away, and replace it with some-.
thing that I can drink: I. - do not want much,
merely enough for my own use and 'that of my
; u few barriques (barrels of about for
ty gallons each,) say four or five, will be•stAit:
emit for me once a quarter V!. '
BAVitt:J.ooi ""BUTTONS."—"Ifocir do youknow
he's a bachelor, aunt ?" I naturally Inquired.
—"Common Howie, my dear,"- replied Aunt
Deborah, sententiously.- "I judge Of people
by their belongings ; no lady could get into
that coal cart without goilingher dress against
the--wheell-atul--if—bo--had a wife, that hand.
soon© bay horse-would go with another in her
carriage instead of hie. Besides he , woifithe,t
be so fond of his pointers if he liwl anYthino.
--else=to-eare-for-minti-abomall, Kate," addeil---
my aunt, conclusively, "his silk handkerchief
wasn't hemmed, and he'd a button Wanting in
front of his shirt." - ---Frazer. --Z
Take a . Paper far Tbur Wile.—A friend,
says an exchange, told us a story in relation
to one of . our - subscribers, which contains ;s
- 7 - 7Ft — Tu3 an s, an( a so orris es an
example for wives w4iclr, is not unworthy (4'
imitation under similar circumstances :
The. subscriber referred to, said it had been
his intention to call at the office, pay up liisar
rears, and discontinue the paper.
•
llis wife very promptly asked :
"Why, do you intend to discontinue the
paner?"
"Because," said the husband, "Ism's° much
from home on business, and have so little
time to read, there seems to be little use in niy
taking the paper."
"Yes," replied she, "it may ha but little use
to roc, but it is great use to mi. I remain at
home whilo - vou are gone. If you discontinue
the paper, I will go straight to town and sub
scribe myself."
Poor Delirery.—A waggish fellow,"some-
What troubled with an impediment in his
speech, whose quibs and quibbles have 'been
relished by many of us, while one day sitting
at a public table, had occasion to use a pepper
box. After shaking it with all due vehemence;
an i tutming it in various ways, he found that
the rodied pepper-corns were in nowise in
choed to come firth. "T
-t-h-h-this p-pe-p9-
per ;lox," he exclaimed, with a facettousgrm,
"is something li-like myself."
"Why so?" interrogated a neighbor.
"P-poo-poor delivery," was the reply.,
ler.t. London Review, in answer to the
qui3stion, "What is man?" says: "Chemically
speaking, a man is forty-five pounds of carbon
and nitrogen, diffused through five and a half
pailfuls of water," slightly perfumed with
timu-lat-ifrg—beverngeK - In answer - to the
question, ‘•What is woman ?" a hachelorwag
says: Mechanically speaking, a woman is ohe
laintlred pounds ohlesh and blood, two pounds
of silk, ten pounds-of cotton and one pound of
whalebone, with an indefinite amount of `fuss
and feathers.'"
plivsician, pez , sing by a marble ma
son's sho ), Luwle l out—''Gooa , e
. art .at work. see. You finish your
tt , r tve-stone.4 as far as 'in netnory of,'. and
then wait, I , :tippose, to see who wantsanion
unwnt next ?" "Why. ye-t," replied' the 'aid
In:01. "unless montebody's sick and you aro
doctoring hini—then 1 keep right 0n.:14
NO. 31.