ME READ & H. H. FRAZ MI . Fr in flee - Posi on, Poi:. • PSALMOF LIFE.. e Heirt . of one Egg said to Anothei. What • REPORTED DY BROWNtELLOW Lc me not in mournful numberi, Life is but an empty - dream I . • iekens in their oral slumbers , Are by no means what they seem. e is real, life is earnesti- And this shell is not its-pen— • thou art,. and egg femainest, Was not - spolcett of the hen. .t enjoynient, and not sorrow, .. hour destined end or way ; - t to Sonia, that each fo-morrovi rind us fatter than. to-day, ' Art is long and time is fleeting, . ..I . Be our billi then sharpened well; . :, Notlike muffled drunis be beating ' li, the inside of the shell. • .. , - , . • lit the wcirld's.brixtd-field of battle, . ii In the great barn-yard of fife, :•Ile not like the lazy cattle- 7 i • Bea rooster in thg 'Strife! •."-. - rust no hawk, however plea..4ant;. ' . And yet never be .it said, Then - the bids of [trey-were. present,. .: . You-were skulking in the shed.. .Lives of old cocks all remind us We #•.:tn make our liv6 sublime; : And wliett, roasted, leave behind us I Bird tracks in, thesand_of time. - . . - • :WmPtriteks that perhaps another ' . • Chieken, drooping in the rain. :- OA forlorn.tmd"bettpecked brother, ' When- he .leesi shall crow again. I' • • . -.. let us tUn be after tinkling, • : - i With a heartfor every lue,. . •.' Byer erowing,.ever Scratching, , • _-. 1 Learn to-cackle and to prate. ' CITTY COLEMAN. % IT Ti r t, i E LATIS FAS. ScrosoN (FaNNT. IVIIRISTF.R,) : AN . larrant pie • o mischief wag that iiitry- IC,otertian, with her deep, iemildering eyes, titt said all sorts ot gt%ange things 'to your beart,lan'd yet looked so innocent all the time, as lihough conducting themselves • with the uttito# propriety, and hr ' vrarm ripe lips, o i. maki you think at - oncc of the "rose s. bed that a bee mould choose to ldremtlw.” Mid so wil :arid 'unmanageable , was \ she--oh. • it was s ocking for - proper people tetook at her ! And ;hen to - hear her, too; why, she actually laughed aloud,Kitly oleman did. I say Kit ty; !Amuse everybOdy called. lier Bitty' but her aunt MM.:ha.; she ivas an or4rly gentle woman, who disapproved 'of loud laughing, ramping; and. nick-naming, as she did Of oth er crimes, so. she always Said Miss Catharine. She thought, too, that Miss Catharine's hair —these nice ' long tresses, like the beatitiful .rays' of the: floating( sunshine, • wandering .about her shoulders, should be gathered ,up into'a comb; and the; littlehaby was once i •• i -so really ol)liging as to make a , trial of the' sch Ole, but at ,the firAhound she l made af ter Rover, the burnishalC.loud 6 bro, ke from !its l'irioble bondage, descending in 4 glitter . lag shower, and the-little comb nestled down in the deep-grass, resigning its office of jail er fbreve'. Oh, Kitty was a sid•rimip ! It •is a bard thing to say of one we all loved so ~,•sell-, but Aunt Martha said, it. and shook 'rter heaki 'that white and sighed ; and the ,'Squire, aunt Martha's brcither, ,said it, and hel out: his arms forhis - pet to spring into; andserious old ladies, said, and- said, too, what,a, pity it was that young people now-a -days had no more regard for propriety.— Eren.F / noch Snow, the great phrenologist, 'buried his fingers inthose dainty locks that • nerfebut a phrenblogist had aright to touch, .and, waitir.g only for a saifeession of peals-of nodal music, which interrupted his scientific TesCarches, to subside, said that her organ •of :mitthfaleeNs was very strikingly developed. This, then, placed the matter beyond all con 'troversy ;, and it was ,henceforth expeete,d that Kitty would do whit nobody else - could sfy ; - axid the sin of all, luckily fur her; Jo be laid on a strange idiosyncrasy, a pecu 'Lai. mental, or rather cerebral conformation, over .which she has.no control'. and so Kitty . "cis forgiven, forgiven by all but•—." We intc - e4 little story to tell., Ni ' - II 'ri'yle beard that Cupid Was blind ;Ai :hilt,-If do not - telte• yea word-indeed, 1 have • a Confirmation -strong, that the malicious lit, Ale - knave has the gift -of clairvoyance, aim , ifit At . hearts 'wVapped in the triple foldings • nfltelfislaallo 4 eo-neeit,and gold. But peo- Plsaid there was-one who had eacape.d. him, a hilLsorne gallant for: Wham t? but Kitty' C'Oleman had a bright glance and w gentle ward. As for Kitty, she cared n9i, a rush fel- Harry Gay, and sought-to annoy - hire all ' hillier power , and the gentleman in ‘ his turn stalked past her with all the dignity of.'a -tat mates ghost: Bitter, bluer ‘ enemies a ere Harry Gay and Kitty Coleinan. One evening, just because a pretty belle was pres , at, Harry took it into his head to be as stu pid-as a bloCk. or a scholar, for, aotwith landing his,promising name, our young itu fer could be-stupid. • /.- • . . y Kitty Coleman was . , very angry, as we's roper—for what right had any -one to be . , i , red in heir - presence "i'- Thelike was never heard of before. Kitt, in 1,4! indif7,l,oo4 laid he did - not know ot low to' be citil. ; and Shen she sighod,7ubtless at the boorishness ;f scholars in ge eral, and: this one in partid lar; and theu z she lanhed so long and nit"- . 'ioilly., that the lawyer; the schoolmaster, the pet, merchant, and- Lithper Liih • lila dandy, all joined in the churns, tho', for the life of them, they could not have told what the lady laughed at. Marry Gay drew 1 - Pp his'head with-as much - dignity•as though had known the mirth'wlA at his.expdrtse, least.'.etontentptuous glancesloward the group of nod-waiters, and then, to, shOW his 'own , (superior taste, atsrehed.bimself to the ugli: est woman in- the rooms. She disregarded • entirely the ispittion of 'such a disikisrge gen-, tlenian, but - she only 1- Auginal the louder. -' whee she saw that hews-h annoyed by it ;;, ‘ indeed,.his serious face e•meci.t.cp infase the ' . yery spirit, ay, the eonckntrated idouble.dis ' tilled essence •of mirth.iiito her ; and a more frolicksome creature neter ; existed than , she : I was, till,the irritated scholar, unable' to in. (re it any . lormer,disappeltied in the quietest ta ! Railer possible.. 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But Kitty insisted that Ter manners were .not ho3-denistri' and if her heart overflowed, it was - !.not her faultohe could not shut up all theglad feelings within her • they would leap-back - 4,4 the call of her kindred, gushing from ether bosuns, and •io all the beautiful things, of the creation, as joyous in their mute elequence as she was.— Besides,. the wicked little Kitty Coleman ,was always angry that Atint Martha should at temptlo govern her si:induct, by' the likings of Harry Gay ; she wOuldlot be dictated to by him, even, though' his :opinions received the sanction of her infailible:anet.-. • But the lady -made a trifling mistake On; the subject matter of his interference: 'He did not slan der her, and always, Waived thathennejof he 4 .- follies when her 'AiOlartha introduced ie . ; indeed, he noVer was heard to' speak of the belle, but once-=once- he swore. the -had no tint], (the shameless .Mohaminedini) a re- I 'mark which was only five minutes in . reaelf , ing its object. But Kitty Coleman, though very indignant, was not cast &own by She called Harry Gay more names than he, I scholar as he was., could 'httire'thinnihed in . a,„ 'month,ond wound up with it, remark no'-less" forinidahle than the one Which had: excited her ire. And' Kitty .was -right.' A pretty judge of soul, he, to he sure—a man that ne- Hver hiughed ! bow on earth can people who 'go through the world cold and still, like the clods they tread upon, ',pretend to . knoW any- thing about the soul i : 111 Harry Gay used- to • get 'to 'Squire 'Cole inan's very. often, and sit all the-evening, and talk with thet 'Squire and _Mitt Martha, while Ms-great -black eye turned slowly- !in the di reCtion-Kitty gloved-; but "Miry Weiild 'riot look at-him. What.riAt had a'stranger, and visitor ' t&i, to, make such a very great par ade Of his 'disapprobation? 'lf the did , 'not 'please him, why, she • pleased others ; and 'that was enough;; the would-not turn over herfinger to gain_ his good-Vill. So, Harry and Kitty. never talked 'together . ; and when he went away, (he never went till the con versation fairly died out and the lareps look •ed as if about to•joinit,.).;he bowed to the old • - ; people gracefully and: easily ; but to the young lady he found it difficult to bend at all. Conduct like. provoked Kitty Coleman beyond endurance ; and one evening,of ter - "Sonire,and S-pinster had left her alone, she sat dow•Woind-ie very spite, sobbed away as thotigh'her little heart woad 'break. 'NoW ithappenc4 that the 'Squire had lent his vis itor a ,book. that •OVening, which, strange e. nough•for suet' a seh6lar, he r had forgotten to: -take with hint; but Marry :remembered it before it was 'too late, and. turned, upon his heel. He-had gone out beta moment before and there, waS i tio ise in ringing; si s i he stepp ed at . once into the - parlor. Poet' Kitty sprang to her feet at the introion, and 6114. ed with her / fiegers two 'tears that were just ready to lanneh themselves on the- roundest and rosiest •cheek in the world'; but sIA bright have done bitter "her:Self, for her foot touched Aunt Martha's - fauteuil, and, in con aletronoc, he" _ It is very awkwaid to be siirprised in the ant-. . uriou:sindulgence of tears at-any time, and it is a trifle-more awkward still to fall down -and then be raised: by the very last person in the world you Would receive a 'favor from.— 'Kitty f elt.theawkwardness of her situation too meat to speak; and, .llarry, 'enemy tit he was; could not - release her until•he 'knew whether she was' Innt; it 'was certain that she was 'jot faint, for the crimson blo;zill the tips or her fingers,: nd Harry's face immediately Vok the same hue s probably from reflectioit Kitty looked down until a golden fringe rested lovingly on it glowing neighbor,ond Harry Waked clown ; too„ but his eiyes rested on kitty Coleman's face. ,if soul and heart are one and the saute-thing, as some metaphysicians tell t, Harry must now have diScovered thotnisAe : Jib once made, beneath" m commotion- tt - rose-nuer fell, as nothing but a -bounding; throbbing, -frightened heart, in, the wildest tumult of ex cited. feeling could make' it: And then, (poor. Kitty,must7have been Inirt.and needed sup -port)on aim stole softly around her waist,, dark lOeks mingled with.her sunny ones as a warm ~wreath swept over her cheelt,-and Kitty Coleman hid • her face, not in her hands. - • Harry forgot his book again that night, and hever thought of it until the 'Squire put it.into his head the next morning ; fur Ilan ry visited the 'Squire very early the next morning ; and . had a priory interview, 5,-2d the good old gentleman tap d him on the shoulder, and said, " With all my- heart. r— and Aunt Martha looked as' _glad as proprie ty w•Ailfl let her. As for. Kitty Coleman, she did hot show her face, not she—for she knew they were talking about her, the 'sober' old people and the meddling Harry Gay— but when the arrant mischief-maker , had ac complished object, and was bounding from the door, there carne a good rustling among Via rose•bushes, - insomuch that a shower of bright 'blossoms , descended -from then?, and Harry turned his face brimming over , ,jm joy t to the fragrant thicket, and shook down an 43ther Tragite - flower inseeking out, the cause of the disttirbance.. Now have, it, Kitty Oilerlian hidden front her enemy in this very thicket, and there the was discovered, all confusion, trembling and panting, and—l am afraid poor Kitty never • quite recovered from.the effects of fall= for the arm of H. rry Gay seemed very nec eesayy to her for ever after. VASILfiCGTON ' - SYII . IdETRICAL CLIARACTER. vindication of Waittington frorw .- --chargeof lacking 'genius 'contains a most felicitous 'figure. After saying that an order and, symmetry inconsistent : l%lth the startling predominance of any one tribute, always characterize the higher foams of ere ation;he remarks of the coMplaint against Washington, " You-might as Well_ complain of the Circle that it has no salient points, for= getting that its Wonderful perfection consista in the unbroken curve, &eq . :part of-which ui-distant from the centre." Ii iii mother was hugging tais kfssitt a four year when - she exclaimed— " charley, what does make you so sweet?" Charley thought a momeui, and haviarbeen taught that'he was made out - of the dust of the ground, replied with a rosy smile--"-1 think; mother ' - sod. mast have put a little Oval' in the, dust; don't scoirr ' mr- A train came into prTutibg (fl eo to beg paper, "..Because," said he; o .3ve4like to: Teed newspapera very, much, but our neighbors areali too stingy. to take one." E'46I 7 ROSE,,TI - IVRSPAEcFFORUARy . , ..25.; ',1.,5,' MORAL:ELTI9iR [The following , re tics on " Moral -Cul ture' are extracted f ?ku the annual report of Prof. J. F. Stoddaid as County Superin tendent of Schtittls n Wayne 'County, in 1855.] The condition of of sc . hoil houses and the' our•pupils, speak in a sunderstaod, of the in: ,to principles of propri id morality. In most nd improper language 'prohibited; and in a y, the exercises of the ciding a chapter in the general depintrnent latiguage:lult'to bo m creased 'attention paid ety, •► bill y, of oiirKOOls.profitne of &4 kinds, is entirel • few,, Lam happy to sal, day tire opened -by-rt, l'Vhilel am pieas hi to notice these; -itn provements,- which co,hld. 'scarcely be other wistotn'the midst ofW people distinguished `fur thehigh tone of 't eir moral sentiment ; still, I-feel as though "here is yet a great lack: of Attention to this seject, And that the tend-: ency'issto Cause, it t become still te n s; f Bence, the importan e ordirecting the pub lic mind, more partie daily, to this negleated department-of educaion. ! • . Moral instruction. deemed an indispen sable part of our atiopal education. - In .s most instances, if etf. youth do not receive morn' training while'nt school, they will be let`liiose‘in the' ectmlnunity; semi-barbarians., calculated ti) 'wo4.:out deep, wide spread, and incalculable••evil - - , •"The spotless . virtm,„ the 'pure, moral and rel4;ions character oour people, aided by ti free, literary and schintifickinstitutions, have hitherto impressed imontthe minds of all alio.lkave landed upon our shores, the spirit of freedom, the spi r it .of Americans; and have caused them discard the union ,of State and . -church,:nn -to deny man's superi-. ority over his4elloW Man, except that supe. riority'which arisesom superior intellectu al attainments,'co - 1n fined with integrity and uprightness -di ptire e, dc 4p :moral •princi i ples, an innate lovet,: .r justice and truth, and as true a hatred of i imorality, 'vice and des potic rule. .The m hty power which this nation possesses in ',loulding all classes of m en that corhe . witli:n its influence, to its lik ing, and of transfort ing them into a substan tial part of itself, arj - froth r the intelligence and the deep moral nd virtuous principles of bat people. . in-p ro portion as popttatiOn anti ext. same proporti(in the moral and in/el 'eur • nation increases in nt cif territory, • in. the a•our of to develop • tual nature of the , ris- . . i ing generation tne:ease, otherwise we are ' losing that power- ..hich has made us all we • =are, uid if roped , guarded, will make us all we ever hope to become. Notwithstand ing the weekly ace lons to our population of thousandsland . te4sßf thou Sands, composed of the discordant el ‘Tentis df every tuition in the world ;• Still by a due regard to the Mai al Mid intellectual tture of our youth, ive. shall not only :Ore I'e-the noblii• distinctive features. of republic nistn, but shall banish ,t 4,....... 4.......&:: iv.— - !:...:-... 4,,,:i.......;,..A of hv 41 nation or rotor t! Ics: nv ' The main ener. ,4 S: of our system of edema-' than, - tit present, is, evot&l to devitoping the powe'rs of the intellkt ; while there is a pru rient desire on the art -of many t.o exclude the Bible, the bd., of moral precepts and teachings, tfroni ou uehools. .Mature the Intel et, bring 'forth its pow ers, give theni ton variety arid scope,,while the Moral perwers are allowed 'to slumber, and its possessor ; ill as readily engage in the propagation of rror, the commission .of rice and `deeds of ruelty, and assist to rend assunder the Asond of :Society and civil gov ernment, Its to engge in - sowing broad cast the the seeds ofjusfice morality and chriStianity, • the source from W l ich individual and nation al prosperity and I, ppiness.flow. . On the other ha-d, if the moral and. re -1 tigi.ous part of our nature-alone, be educated, utnr man. 14.• Ittsi,le' tv, trinArtrie -s superstitious )est, capable of discover ,. but ,a small part of the ess of the.. Creator„. display s. Heoce, we. argue the , ,orough, systematic culture' inent principles of CM ' S ;never fail to produce the . od, an honest, intelligent fanatie,.a. being at ing and enjoyint; wisdom and good ed in all his wor, impoitanee of a t. of these two ,pro nature, whieli• can noblest work of man. The two e):es, the•twp arms, &e., in accordance wi(h nature's laws, developed simultaneously ; go.should the moral and hi telleetual facultie of man be devriciped,other wise he is not pr ared to act well his part in 'the broad arena'o Man's.duties as a reaseaut itle, thinking, ace untable being. • , The intellect i the - mighty engine that • plans and- cdrri ,forward every politiW change, every n Tonal, ,revolution and the moral power, th directing agent. Hence, - in [proportion . the deielopment of the moraXof a natitia, (their ihteilectual pow-, era batg the sat le,) irethail proportion will its government I tinduce to the prosperity and happiness (Al he people at large. • The immoral E tendencies 'of sectarianism are too generally; known and • felt, to allow any one, fora mimeet.,-t•¢ suppose that I. am favorable to ;nett; rating doctrinal or ,sectari an views: • This E ani aware would prove a withering curse tlour schools,now the guard- Jans• of lilttb, liberty ; it should, therefoie, be ca avoided. But; I do argue - that the B o ble should be read in the presence of onr, outh, daily, without cem meat. • . , The great tru i s respecting man's pbsition here., and his hv • untabiltty hereafter, should be imaressed, file the minds of every iyouth, 1 r as a- knowledge of these truths alone, can prepare him -1 usefulness and happiness here,, and pave is way to an eternity of in• creating joy be after, Among these truths which, in our o inion, should be taught in our schools; hot as a set - lesson, but when cir cumstances are he most favorable, are the i following : Tit existents of God l .l his Ulna its goodness ; i omnipotent and oVerrillitig poiver i and in 's accountability for all hts doings and say'igs ;.the immo lity: of the , soul- that- mi y and deg atioit are the result of viciott habits; and ha iness, use fulness and , go eeis;of virtue, integrity aqd industry ; and hat the only passport to re, speetdhility•an positibbs of honor and trust; ate virtuous pr nc4des and habits , which may be acquired by defy youth; h'owever hum ide his-cireurns amid: , es Sire - not it - eke-414)1Y our cannot ".do us ry nemies to themSeWes: 4r* Relati bes friends, b vri ..ut being y is a terra formerlyiused in an who paid' for his i newspa: he had on' flik baekV. pr. Hon the ',ease, of .a Per: and the RD -21101M1i 3 . --aopi-M.,@st.to[L.zawa.o.7::Aing.. • • Dr. Franiefin, in his autobiography,"tellsa story of a man who went one day to Ibiiy an ax, and,,having bought one, he' expressed a wish that it hiineen,bright instead .OrbliiCk ; on which the smith who had made the ax re- plied : " Oh, if you'll turn the grindstone 1 we'll soon make it-bright." No sooner said than done, kid they set to ; but pres ently the •pitrehaser felt tirea,Tor the smith pressed so heavily on the stone, the labor of turning made him sweat again, and he wanted to leave dr: • "'Keep on, said the smith, and . the man turned stowly,for short time longer, until, avercoinis 'With . fatigne he once more wished to stop. " Keepon .keep o n ," repeated the smith, it 'isn't 'brigh t, : 'yet, it's only 't peekled:" "Well, - never mind, answered thelilyer,. 4o l think like , a speck led at 'best." - In -this incident welave , ati exhinpfe or ti small seale, of .what takes place - all ovCrthe world on a large scale. And -it 'struck and one day, as I was thinking - about it, that the demand fur speckled. tikes is one, that :is 'al waystietive ; as though peoPleCould no more grow tirecy buying these useful instruments, than they can of eating bread. It was very curious, I thought; that, speckles should be preferred, to perfect brightness. While was cogitating thereupon, into my mind that perhaps sonic good might be don Oby setting down- a few instances of buyers having been content to take the infe rior article, when ; by proper' dare and judg inetit,:they might have the best. And here is the list. r - . ViThene - ver coo man striving from mere %lin' ley to make a name, and fancying 'diet lie Is made of different material fram'his .felloW- • creatures, ands that; he does them .a fitior „by: living among thentond who does not care. 'by what means he rises, so that he does rise ; • Whenever I see a matt tit hest-. , only 'on making money, as though that were the only thing worth living for, and not ear -Img what wrong_ may be carried on.-in his es ' Zablishment, not hew his customers may be tracked, so that he makes a profit ; then I say -1-he likes a speckled ax best. Whenever I see a'young.man in want of tr wife, choosing a par'tner for, life merely be cause/ she has a pretty &ix, or 'dances Well, or sits a nice song, or plays nimbly, on the piano, and 'never asking whether site make a shirt or roast a. leg s of mutton, or whether she is one Make hOmeitip py ; then l• say—ho likes it speckled `ax Whenorer I seenban fregoentingWe tap room, or the tavern parlor, tlght, after night-, as so many are in the habit:6f doing, and his wife kits at home, freith&ps darning his stock ings, or reakini, a frock for the little one, out of an ohlgown ; when I - see this man bent on his own selfish gratification, as though he had any more right to be wasting time or Money ihar. his wife has; then I. say—he likes a speckled ax best. - Whenever I see boys at school• looking up on learning and knowledge as something in vented for their torment, and forgetting that youth is their only seed-time, that their par ents frequently have to make great sacrifice to give them an education; and thinking it fair to deceive their master,' provided they be not • found •out, although :ignorance, -or . worse, may he the consequence of such con duct; then I sayz-they like a speckled ax best. Whenever I See ii ti - iiin'trying • to make himself believe that he may indulge in certain secret sins and vices, it- the ilresid does not know them ; that so king tis he can make . 1 people believe he is -good and vtikuotls, he may hug private wickedness , to, his heart; then I say—he likes a speckled ax best. Whenever Igo to a house where I seethe servants with, a kept-down look, and hear 'them 'speak ugly thing,s'of -.their master and mistress ; when Isee them stinted of food or recreation.; when I see the children - looking timid and unhappy, never laughing the merry laugh of childhood ; where the sunshine Seems less" bright thin elsewhere ; then I say--:- some one in this house-likes a speckled ax best, • • When I see a man refiise to do a good turn when the opportimity comes in his way, not speaking kgood word for his friend when his friend nee& it, thinking very much more about His ‘Oien convenience, and what the world hill say, thati of what conscience com mands; ihen l say -r-he likes a speckled ax bcst; ate' nd tHe last to many pag es Were it necessarY ; , bili hhin is. ennugh to show the speckled al still exists. It is not a pleaSing.list; .but it is Of , thitigs as they are,. and I cannot help hoping that 1 may not have lost my - time - in - wilting, I ain fully aware that We- people , to ;May not always continue isolikg the speckled ax best; but it, is to be feared that long habit will render it very difficult: ,or them to change, sha the' time eome - 41ien they wish fo do so. A DIRGE.; `DT GAIL lUIILTON OE= " The loredight of fond eyd,;' .A warmer gleatnAhan ever•benrnel Von' bake"' Southern skill*. • • tllips red u ruby wino, As dew-drops on the lily's cup, So pressed.thoie lips to mine Still—still—still— - The music of a toils, Whose softest cadence thrilled!rnisotil With sweetness ill;its own. Dust—dust--dust— t i An earnest, throbbing heart, Whose pulses waked a bliss nought else Can evermore impart.' • GOne—gone—gone—. ' Over that talent river • Home. hope, and hearte-Ilight , , tore, and life, Forever. and.kworer. .. And what ia7ef to me'? • • A tress of sunny . - A dark, dark . eartli—a - etad, cold sky, A memory•and THE SPECKLED-AL A grliatraft LAit.—There as a slip,cover ing Oneteen'hOdied acres in . county, lowa, about one litfOred end 64y, Miles west of Dubuque, _Which' iti'stii:Miinied.bY l ree • tar stone wall, five feet wide ti n t , k tie.top; ;and, in some places, where the water'. . w ould likely to overflow , the prairie, ten feet. high. As the' pioneers found the - wall there, the question arises, ' " Wh - o built it'lr • Another : 'remarkable fact that 'the lake do visi ble Wei of - • saw= OR 'ncnot • . . A warrEn gone-Rural Net 'the very; - feSpesisi?le nano of one, st.,wouid, seem ; who es yet for once. consented to hal just like, a great many mould. ple, says: Cot.. Moons :--Some year ;painted with one of . your edited the Fool Grower, and 'me in pilot. ,I•must flattered-by-seeing My name paper, with some things 1 S. didn't say, and we'have kept .t since. After all, everybody , fame, but some - are satisfied •amount than- others. editor any more to set me been thinking 1 would just try mould not,put me into the Ru hook—especially as I ' want . about my going to the: State the other day, • CO ' NCLUDEg TO GO—As It 'but what we wild go with mother and I concluded we :and have •a'weektto see the -i cousins we had•-not seen for Mother (that's -wife, You kni Might to•take something to t her .totike a!tub•di •butter, :didn't think it was-good , eno 'I might, take - some Of the 'thought it' 'would be a great ever, Sans was pretty strong we could beat everybody wanted. to 'take old Nance: smart beast, is that old mar Tend.. TAKES' TLIE' Ntaaat—Welli i Stun, fur I was willing to giv ;day. It does the 6oys great these kind of rairs,l dobelh all saw there. GPICS IN—We , got •sifely pight,,and .TueSday went l'ulr grounds to see-what got in and hunted up Sam gut the tnarc entered, and on her head, and a good sta comfortable. The animal ar first rate generally, and du ,of the Fair the supply of fod, I think that Maj. Patrick, body in managing things, al man.,- HEARS SOMETIIIN,O7—As' I near the business otlice.in a couple of !nen talking 'ati One said to the other : Are you an exhibitor 7' `c, *a s 9, and ve committees; Why sot' You see the Wynnaitte ftill, and if you .nre on ha) when, they, are called, it' friend, which is a mighty times.' mo^vz-u --1 am showing.a will maku - my fortune. And 1 am shoy'lliT-a tailed hens, and a premi back. Well, you gam - le - 4i ls and I wiltaiii . fne you for to , right ; go in to win Itrink:s I, tierhaPs if ti, thlni leans I may as well "seals: anybody else. E serf seems to be the rule So , off I streaked it to the Smith, who is my neiell Smith is in the patent bull dently means `improved'} you're showing bulls, and NanCe,and I guess if merit And that's the talk here told him what. I'd heard tee." . , that soil Exactly!. Well, I think old .Natil &the prd.' And yo'ce got the mound,' Then I to ld him .that the tent in time. Well, sure enotigh, ;NI ( I were alade 41 - tvis OS,. tees, - and he was on the,ni Tim Coniltrrzs ii.oics. ` took the book as had the i were all -int , i rodueed toe; down to look at the bulls, red - bulls. So -we' went I them, and I didn't say mi Smith's bull4and 4 ,looked -Fully, piffled is tail, punc his ribs, and! went thro i had seen the others. S that looks 'lke it. Sin' all over witlis fine-tooth him-witha hair brush, at for he was as fat as a ht saw,(.think Fitt at fitirs, I sai about Otarity, cot -, sins. • ; Gris mi WRNS row said that, the fellow wl next stall lif mes up to r says by : i „ ' What d 4 you klow i ' Well,' says . I,;•-l.thit are for in oily seOlun.' ' May 54 says he.,-. 1 mittee?' ,i' . ~,,, . - ' I have that bo.upl.; if ' Oh ! 'well,il4 male you ain't th y } man• I pip. ' Very 110ii,' eye ~ ' But4l , says Eii!,, • tha pedigrea.'. ~ , , . , ' Well' says I, ' he lir er, didn',Chtr ' Oh ! ,376; S)7lt then they were.';. , ',Well, tan O 4 144y,1 just as likely y our li ' But, sit; loo k at I c here it i sir. Pot n out of Ski failli-1.1.)y! I showed a Letring of of am; , I . ..... ' Well,' , "braCP) t, 11 to judge di pedigree ; o And their ,said,,' The, , ,‘ Then,''d 1. to t b4ll get b e t ; stock t ' Of co be will, a pedigree, and that b . 'W. 6 . 11 ; sa.Y 81 ,.`Your it o brag. f r :biro; and , . 1 Mini 4 . • •1• •I . FRAZtibilt•VVßiAlSll:kli'.=-iT:OI.J.' 4.11p', et. eeitain. And that sort oe knocked 4 Bite,' says I, 'l've known people who felt grand over their Pedigree,' and i%e been a heap of people who'couldn't go further back than their letter 'and mother that banged them all 'to pieces ;for Smartness: 11.1nd !pi, is, that handsqtne'drs,' says i , i'and the 'hymn-book says, rhan's'a man for a' that'. Pedigree go to'grass,Vgo in-fur the anim - al." • - ,• 'Smyrieslscu.,Wiss—When we frot•through and 'lo'ciked at our marks. the oth er two had Smiths bull second, .1 had hint first, -So we lanced it ∨ 'and finally, as They didn't care much about it, they altered , the figures and - gave .Smith the -first premium; which,l think was right. 'ANU it"Aak—lSmiih 'had attetit time over old Nance. It tUrnell 'opt itiiitt each Of the other two cotnmitteerneh had .friends''whose-tpares were to be judged, and they, pretty boon picked out their favorites. So he kept still and, the.T,boon got into a quarrel, and then they .app,e.aled.to Smith, and he kinder sided with one, hitt thought ri. old Nance Was the bemarit, and Nally to keep the other from .getting first; they sided with hitu,'and 'he wetit'in lorboth of theirs. Smith says he saw wale queer Iliingson that committee. • Yorker, over Plowiu;ndle, hews roguery,. p a hand in it, ibe-honext peo- ago I got ac. , triblitors who &used to put vvanity was ( tinted .in, the id and some I e'papers ever likes' a little ith a smaller ; I hale not the ut, so 1 have and 'tee if you bat my own to. tell you all `air at Buffalo 'was not so far our ,own team, would hitch up ights and some a Itmgctime.— w) thought We Fair. I told ut she said she 7h. but thought stock. But I bother. How. n the faith that '•horses, and She's a right e, you may de• You" see we 'got our premiures, hut you 4:1(0, -- see, perhaps, Col., as well us I de, that it. wants something more than -merit Ito be sure of winning.. . _ GETS IRRE•VEnE\T—The State' of New- York. is a great State, the biggest in tke Un-' ion,- aud , the New-York State Agricultural Society is a great institution. but if there ain't some of the .allfiredest big humbugs crawling around Its -Atirmal Fair, then 4'm a teapot I , w , e padite4 off the boy a hol , good to attend ve, after seeing want• lo tell you si heap Dore, but have used up so much pdper I fear you won't have patience to print my let ter. Yours to' count - tam], JOHN PLOWITANDLE. , F. town Monday up early to the assgoing on. I and found he'd ad got his card 1, and all things ingetnents were frig all the time er was . good. • ho was every-- trump sort of a We of the following from one of a series of articles being published in the Al bany Worming Express.., We think it . very . e t :beau et' 1. it is from the iieriof S. II: B arth mond ernierlY editor df the Albany - State Ilegi , ;.: • • , . :, , ' ' , " • .- , , , IwitnesseaashOrt time ago; in otie . dr our . higherconrts, , a - beautiful -illustration of 'the sirispl,k;ity mut power. of truth.• A little girl nine years of age was offered, as a witness rigainst a prisoner who was on trial for a felony committed in her father's house. "Now, Emily," said the coUnsel fur the prisoner, upon her, being _affixed as a witness, " I desire to know if you understand the na ture of an oath 1" ." I dip% know what you ' mean," i was the simplt answer. " ni,ere, yoUr Honor,"• said the counsel, addressing the court, "is anything further neccssrry to,. demonstrate ;the validity . of ; my objection ? This whims should be TiljeOted. She does net comprehend the nature of an oath." "Let us see," said the Judge. " Come hete,y daughter," Assured by the „kind steppe..--------.• .1f _the.ludge the din up in his face, with a.eatm, men. t y .. f t -1. I """*". V 1 a manner so 'artless and frank, that went straight to the heart. "Did you Overtake an oath?" inquired the Judge. The little gir l ), stepped back with ;a look of horror, and the red blood mantled in a blushl over her face and neek,tis she anawered, "No sir." She thought he intended to inquire if she had. 1 ever,blasheined. "1 do not mean that," J I said the udge, iiho Saiv,, her mistake, "I mean Were pm ever a Wl i tnesS before."-- 7 . " NO alt., I never., was in' court hefore," Was the answer. He handed her the Bible open. "Do you know that book, my daughter?" She looked at it and answered, "Yes air, it li is the Bible." "Do you ever read it?" he' asked.. " Yeii,,sii• ' , every evening." : " Glut you tell rile what the Bible is?" inquired the Judge. "It is the Nyord Of the great God," she assw.ered: " Well, place your .hand up, on this Bible,and listen to what I say," „and he repeated lowly and solemnly the ,oath usually administered to witnesses. "Now," said the Judge, "you have been sworn as a, 'witness, wilt you tell me what, Will befall you it you do not tell the treill?'.",`l shall be shut up in the State Priatm;"' ariswerfid the, child:, "Anything .els'al" :asked , the Jfidge. ''',!l. Shall never go to ~ liewiriii;" ;lie replied. I. • ...1 ; •' , - "how 40 yen know this?" asked the Judge again. The child took the Bibie and turning rapidly to the _chapter •Oontiiining the Com , ' rnundments, pointed ,to the..injunction', injunction,,';, shalt of bear falS:e witneimagainst thy neigh bor:'' "I learned that," she said; ".befure t could read." Has any one talked With you about your being a witness in court against this maul" enquired the Judge. " Yes sir," she replied.- "'My mother heard they want:, ed me to be .a witness, and last night she me to her room and asked nie to tell he - t• the ten commandments, and then we kneeled down together,tind ahe.ptayed that I might understand how wicked it was to bear leap witness .against my neighbor, au& that God .would help one, li little child; to tell the truth as if *as before him. And When, I came up here with father, she kissed Me, rind fold' me to remember the ninth-com mandment., and that God would hear every word that .I tiaid.:". "Do you belieVe this l' asked the :Judge, while a tear glistened in his eya and his lip quivered with emotion. " Yes, sir," said the, child, with a Voice, And . ' Manner_ that showed that her conviction of.- its truth was Perfect. ' God bless you,,my child," said the Judge, " yeti hrie a good mother. ' This-witnes is competent," he con- thiuid. " Were . 1 on trial for my life, and innocent of,the charge against me, I would pray, God- for , such a witness as this. Let her be.exitinined.". "il - .., • She told her story with the.simplicity•pfa child,.as she was, but there wia-ritdirectriesa . about it which carrie& conviction Of its truth to every heart. , 'She was, kiiiiity gross ei : amiued. ,The cOurniel, filed her with infinite and ingenious queiltißtiing, hat tate varied, from her first., statement in nothing. 1 The truth as spoken' fly that little child wast, 4„ sqb lime. ll'Asebood and perlaryhad,precoded her testiniony; I .rheiir,isoner,ly.il %intrenched himselfl,4" litli, tintit.he",:deented himsOf int - PreOit'te; . Witiie . se4 6 oad . filallied ' 60.8-in his.favor; and villa#l, had, manufactured for., him a sham dOfencot But before her.testi- - 1 roony, ,falsotiond- , wail, scattered like chaff.-- The_ little: i child, Jai, whom a Mother , WI prated- for §treng4t, to tat, givue her to speak 'the truth as 'it is .before God,' broke: th lwas standing up • erow,d, : t heard it premiums.— etter look to the s are never all d at the big teat easy to slip in a .nice thing some: , atent,tor tnaking nrAIIIVITI it en kind o boo rn Won't set me your committee, •hen you can.' 's the way the r takecare-of_ my, erYbody for him- these occasions. ttla pens to find r, you know.-- line. [Mr. i. evi -1 Says Smith, if am showing old nts we'ean win.' paper. Then I bout the coidrelt, 'o is - the best mate best btill -on the we must be up at ! I . ie t;ii eo u n t r4 nl it ii committees -coiiimittee. x—.4lie bead man ingasin it, and we qh other, and went We were on the long and looked at . ch till we came to at hitn pretty care-' . ed my fingers into A theenntionS na . I t ys I, !that's a, bull ' had combed him comb,,and brushed d he did Ink f g . Add from all.l ke what - the lawyer tra a, multitude of i b uni—Just a I u had a bull in the e pretty fierce, and wit bunic . r k knowwhat.they ou are en the corn 'mss , A difference, liut red' to see: says he. bull bain't;gdt'any father and moth nol)ody knows who -now& buA they were ll's parents.' iy hulf!a_petligree.--= 9iiported Shirttail, i /under, etc.' and he flies is long as your I \ - committee, rare'we animal ?' 1413341 ml oftiourse;', e 3 will yoilr gays e, ?o r Ile got .11 hain't:'' - olt lui! . gpt popebodr, he otheriisn't.diat TRTJTH. ? _any: ~ rr~- =IS M =MN conning,d,ai&mtsciftr.atured v' 1 , , ;_thtptecen like a potter's - vessel:, ~ T he strefigth*ThAttit4r tnotber prayed, .'.far: w 9, given her, and the sublime Juni' . ti;rrible ternplicity.,(tarrible) Mean to the prisoner and his perjured no ciates) with which she spoke was likea relr elation from God himself. 4 ‘i'97 the Lute crock , 74" Republiebri. MARY MAODM=.. 'rap. stars are. fading silently , befero .the .gray dawn, nod the moonbeams grow Palm- • and.-paler, It is ihe meaning of" the third . •• day." • %V ith• noisgtess steps a liUte:lFctup.•_: are hurrYntg:t9ward;the §epo/skres...anOr !"!" er and rinorh i cm,Thit,.'"still morning- air !011ie . - • broken accenai'ef senor:. • • . . 'List we tetheittarmured wordri • ota 'Moak 1 ' trial, a royal robe, a.croWit of:then:4;7'd the g - touching prwr '••".l.*ather, . forgive them. - .they knoW iite' What they ' . dir•-• , •••the agont*l wail, " God smy Golf! why • hast': Chpn forsaken mel"-•-serl ,the:442 voices - gritivi'in.. distinct ainid irks and tears... ;.• ;t r • More mourn f u l ; than all came .114'10W-cry' from the lips miry!, Mug4lette, kneeling so low at tile tomtr-:" They Ware•taken_alay my Lord, and[ iknow not.. Where they have . laid -him." 'The . increasing' light reveals , a . (ace of sur passing roveliness';,,large :dark .eyes, a brciw as,pale as Marian marble, :and „ eypiiitely chi Bled lips. There ere Artyps of bitter I:Mir:1 * o( deep repentance, 4 ll4l4t face, now so tear-bedewed, and the.,deli cate'&,irve of those sweet lipi;'biit there,hii * are traces of the peace Of the . . Now, tloutls and gre - armind • 'her —the light, the joy"of herlife , is - dead; ;nor - • gone, for while she veeps[no - angel comforts •her:— • - • "Fear not, I know 'that .seek Jeitis • which was-cruiffied. 'lle is not here; - ho •is . • ' risen. Come; Fee the place where the 'Lord lay.. And go quickly iind-tell : his - disciples / that he is risen from the dead, and;: behold,./ he goeth before you into' Galilee. * . there:ye shall see hire.", . 'f• . • , / How sweet - those few words';, how/they calm the sad' head 1. The niorniqglais,daivrt. , ed over her r.ight,•thia'Aiu " departs' ipiAry and with, great joy.l"f he light of - hope has • • come:haa t and in the ivotdions depths of „tier dark eyes, is' eathitatt 'dies:o44h%, • . of one, ‘.:.-he "loVeth Much." Ah; Marv; tiaou •neclest•not ever to 'fe'ar, for . He who - irt soul trusts is and true thy foot sometimes weary, :yAlspop,,snalt thou enter the rest' He ottrethlisbeluiTeo;' • There are Magdalenes wariderhig still in earth, - unforgiven ; yet seeking earnestly 'Apt • : fountain 'ot life. • The many are ever crush: lug 'out-the faint. aspirings'of the soul.-for, a truer liti, Are there any " tnitiistering an gels" to speak to such .repentint.Ones, tluito ~ sweet words—'`Fearifot ; tillow. teat ye seek Jesus. Though a whited sepulchro tire ever meting-stones,' yet the lowly, suf fering One came to seek and to save tboae• which were lost,'" • RossWirtVEnre-s. _Kr the Independent Riptiteikein LOVE . , are Soft, -white arms, tenderly tivi,n inv. around ray4wcitisiT.et, rosy. ipti.press 10V eS /Iva, . the long lashes, and " BAtv: gazes. .wonue. inglyain my face that thera.is answering• • smile. Ah ! tie sweet - ; hm. unlocked\ The sorio,ty..gates_. of my. t voice - seems but tiv echo of my " b:rdie's" song—l cannot stinlOl., . :pu l p ivas uhen dreamy blue ey es !ought mine, when p f i sh's(. head nettkidi r lovitity ; ip my bosom, and a 'voice whose like never - - beard - Vit. once, kept murmuring—"l love you." Sometimes, there was a-strange light on the fair face—aud I folded her slight form closer to my heart, saying pritudiy," She it • mine! mine !" - Ah ! I idolized the gict;but; forgot the • Giver ! •,, • Nell, the hours, &Red ;iWaY,,as hours aro always gliding, Otit one day, tri;:f bir was gone, for there ,w,pre, win,thidd9A4er the • ft:agile earth-garmeo: ish dreams, Izeglo:ft;:gol#cn hitirfinalkig,OlT . from'a spiritilal fitci, and I hear trix„Mcl4l 4 voice warbling, : " l line you." Anon,. ;the tiny tinge 4 so: tightly clasped in, miii:e,)lifreit, kind with the first gray . , light the lustrous eyes vaniili* as Stars fade away - • ' :When the 4141:11,p earth was itteopeA 4 o,yetlmy broken idyl, I reinan:tberedthe_slieflO,P.v- • • er ; and when the tempest r passed;if.lleard; a " still small ,voice=--" I , have, roved thee, - with . an cverlastinglove," •the tears 'Ali fast the edict - of my ttirdi's song, as% not all of sadness, tor- the white„Angei of Peace lyas his Wingi .in broken - 3 heatt—and • "0, wtto could bear.iit.4s itorroy doom' . Di 4 not Thy wing aloe.; .. Come, brightly. wetting through the :001).M Our peace-branch frost 'above ? ' " _ • " Then sorrow, touched hy Thee, trovtahtie.' With more than rapture's ray, .; As darknem - shows . us. *midi' of light • .• We never . saw.by•day:" .;, Ross Wri.v.utvoat-,, , .. A COBBLFII. ON THE ORIGIN,.. OF; ..OFINIO: .' You see,-sir," quell the cobbler;,, " thy,t ,ti- Inan's businets has a, deal-49.40 with ht's Mari ner of thinking. Very trride t itako, it c hss ideas as belongidg to it. Putchers.don's-Sekt -, life as bakgra.dc) lk, ain4 if you _tails, to,a dozen tallow-chandlers, hen to adozert blacksmiths,. , you will see tallnw-ehandlers are 4 pop,(lor, and blacksmitlia toe." ~'..You are-r- Rears el server," said-1,; „. " 'your -remark is new ..to me —l dard say. it .ts lege." ," 1 0311fr 4L I ;And the stars hire suniroat in,do leith is; for,:,if they order a . fliau;'s 4114, 4 :ftiptils..tcf.t* son that they order a, man's mint .PL- r it. Nowoi taikor„sits int hislioakd' wilh, k othars _ and is, afways,.a.taliting‘withl 'ern mid 4,read ing t h e news; .sheretor ‘ o,fie 4014, ps, his, fel.' lows de, a i ynart AO. sharp, .I(4g, ,up t o o, the day, hut nothirk or,iiiihal,. and -all, hia- own like. ; Ilia a coh4ler,', auttinued the nutiCof leather s with a majestic airi "sits by hisielf, and.talks -with fiksself; and what. he : -thinks gets into his head without being put there hy . another Man's 'torigue ? "..: "-You enlighten, me more and inore," J said our 'friend, 'bowing ~res peetfully •;. "a tailor, = is"gregarious, a oak. bier is, solitary.- The:. gregarious - gor witli4e,- future, ta„Solittri stick to. the fitst,',l l Mi: ), .derstand Why . ,Youltre.a tery,, and „parhalia apoet." .." Well, a} bit of une,litilltl the of 11 er, with n irori, smile. " Artil„tnitiii!ti the -eobbler 'he is a, poet---er dispyers marvel lous things,in a crystal:-.-whereas i st- tailor, ,sir," (spoken With, ,great contemps,) "qty., ses the upper' -1. of: the wiridNitthhiatt • rtifi.: !'-' -'' eta_, newspaper.' =I MIIIMEMI
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