WEIA 111 111 MEI MI a. F. REND H. H. FRAZIEicEDITORS. F or the Independent Republic w.' ' , 6, Ile gi eth beloVed sleep. ” BY Z. A. B. X How soft, how tranquil is the bed, Where th' good man lays his peaceful head ° He sleeps ; po fear ,of berm is then!, For. God hath heard his evening; pi•aver : He sleeps ; and a bright . Angers:wing Around his couch is hovering. And to the stricken child of God, • Who suffers tleath thechait'ning rod; 'Who learns in this sad world of care, • 'lbw much Of grief the heart can bear, • 'Tis sirect, ; .--tho'.lo day long to At night to find the balm of sleep. • The angels watch his eyelids close, And joy to. see his soft They bend, to whisper in his car i ,•: Dreams-of the sainted and the '4,ear ; ••_ . A holy spell arcaind they throe - ; And he.forgets the while his woe. • The erring heart; by sin distivis'd, With such calm 'sleep is foyer bless'd ; The sting of conscience tortures there, With keen remorse and. bitter cave. Ile dreams of ill; and danger near, And'Spends. the night in gloom and feir.. • Oh ye from whoth - sweet'ileep bath flown, Who through long, weary nights will moan, Turn to Ills breast., a Savior's breast, There ye shall find a quiet rest ; - Ile‘gives not sighs, nor tears .0 weep, ' "lie glveth-Ills beloved sleep r' Lrrimt, TO - A'YOUlte WRITER-WITH OBSERVATIONS. . . baste foci stein to: be ootnewliat, but not a great deal, wiser titan 1 was at. our age. I.dowt, wish to be understood as say ing too Mita; for _I think; mithout c9rarnit tittle-M.lEOi tb auk ottirtibri on My . present state, that -1 was:not- aSolomon -at that, stage itf development. You long to "leap at a since hound into celebrity:"' Nothing is so commonplace as to wish -, to -be -reniarkable. ''Fame' usually comes.to those who are thinkiligabout some thing else-:--very rarely to those mho:say to themselves, "Go to, now; let us be a cele brated indirhtual I" The.struggle fur fame, as sucb, obnimonly ends, in notoriety; - that ladder is easy to climb, lilt it Jeads- to the pillory which is crowded with fools who could not hold their tongues• and-rogues who could not hide their tricks. . If you•have the consciousness of genius,' do something to show it: The world is pretty quick nowadays to ditch, the- flavor of true originality ; if you write anything remarkri ble', the magazines and newspapers will find you out, as the `school-boys find out . where the ripe apples . and pears are. .Producetnyj -thing; really go - od,,sind - an intelE#ent :eslitor will jump at it. Don't flatter yourself c ilia : any article of yoursis„rejected_ because you' are unknoWn to fame:, Nothing pleases • an -editor snore than to-get anything Worth hav ing-from a new hand. • There is always a dearth realry . fine articles for a first-rate journal; ,for; of a _hundred piece's received, ninety are at or.below, Abe sea -level; some have water . eriough, - but no. head ; some head' enough, 'but no water ; - orily two' or thiee are from full reservoirs, high up that bill which is so hard•to climb, You may have r genius. The contrary is of course probable. but it is not demonstrated. lfyOn have ; tl,7\vorld wants you more-:.than you watt it. - It has not'only a desire, but. a passion, for every- spark of geniu . s.thaishows itself among us ; there .is no a bull-calf in our national pasture that can blest ,a rhyme but it is ten to one, among his friends, and no takers, that he is the ietkgenuine,ncr-mis take Osiris. . • • - - Qu'eat ce,gu'il a fait 1' What has he done? • That 'was Napoleon' s. test. What have you done V. Tarn up• the:faces.of your picture cards ; My•boys I -You-need' not make mouths at the public &cause it has not accepted you at your own. fancy valuation. Ihithe pretti est Piing Yon Elm, and wait your time. s For the verses you send me, I .Will , not say they are 4opeiem., and rdare not affirm that they. dual promise. `,I am not an editbr, but I know-the standard of 'same editors. You must not; expect to ". leap -with a •sinile bound" into the Society of those tr, hom it is not flattery to call your-betters. When she - Par;olian ha:s•paid you for a copy of verses (I can hirni.th you a list of allitemtivessigna-, . tures, beginning With .Annie Aursele and ending with Zoe Zenith,) when the : Ragbag has stolen - your piece, after Careftilly:,,sera - tchr • ing your..name oat; when the Nriicrucker .has thought - lon worth shelling, and strung - - .the kernel of your cleverest poetic, then, andsnitt till then, you may considerrthe *presumption against you; from The -fact y_r! . ur rhyming tendency, as called in quastibni mid let our • frienils hear from yon if you think it worth. You may . possibly' think .me too can- did, and even .atxuse me of incivility ; • but - let'me - assure-you - that 1 anilibt Nall so plain spoken as nature, nor halt so - ritde as r 'lf you prefer the. long jolting- of public opin-. . ion to the gentle touch of friendgliip. try • it f. ;like a man. Ohly remember. this,. that 'if a ,J„.4;hiishel ofpotatoes is shaken in a market cart `:;without springs to-it, the small..potatoes al ways get to the bottom. ._ • Believe e, • Ittlwa'ys think of verse-irritera when lam in titi,A•yin ; for these are by -far 'the,most exacting; eager, rielf:weighihg4estless,luer ulonsotrettso.nable literary -1 - ierssytis .ontr -is like to meet-with. Is' a -young, man Sit the habitTlf,writitig Verses? 'Then the pies mop , . • tion is.that ite.is. an inferior , person. For,. look you, there;:are at least:nine- chances in ten that IreAvitites - poor verse• Now- the habit of chewing on rhyrnes....withottt sense - and soul to match.them is, like that of any other narcotic, nt once-a• proof oL feeble- ness and a debilitating agent.., .A young man can getrid of the. presumption against him afiorded by his writing verses only by cow' lancing us that tbey are verses worth • Writ- ~. mg. • , - - .... , . ~.;',- • .-All this sounds .hard and rough, but Ob. Hierve-, it is nut _addressed to any individual, _. - end of ,course does net refer. to any reader of - these.Otges: I would. always treat any giv en young person_ passing .through the meteor. -!- is showers. which rain down on . the brief pe;• .• riod of adoleseenee with . great . tenderness.— God forgive us if-we ever speak harshly , 'to young creatures on the strength of these ugly. truths; andto, 'sooner or later, ,amite some tender.souled poet or poetess on the lips who ‘tutti , might lutve.sung - the woridir.to sweet ' ees, • had we not(silenced th . e matimsongsin it . rst • low. breathings l „just is *my heart' y rns . I tWer the unloved; just so it •SorroWs for the • In:Tilted - who are doomed.to the patigs of an tunieceived.Selkstimate. - 1 - have always tried ' to be gentle iltb the'most bopelees. cigles;". immilimomem - .. ~.*• . . . , . • . . . .* . . . . •--.- - - r ;1 . 1 0(s..1".-41b4 .171 4 , H i f _...' --"...... i.:.i. :'\'' . f r ' .", ;.., 1 - :. ..• . . ..• - . . -.... ?.- • .. _. , : .. _ _ ...: -• .' . .i.11 . 1%)'. ~ -; t-,;.? -:,„ . . . • f\ .- ' ktllle‘ - °*- -'— - - .'& 4 ' •.: . * • , . „_ . .•.. , r y ~,i 74, - e . , . ~ • .4- - :-. - ,, , ,1e r -ts"'"r2.',:s,.4l' - ..::1:. - ; :: H l' .: ': •-t, ' ------;..-;,,,,_,-i.,..--..!__ - _,--- , -,:-:-: - .._ ' ''''.' ' u. • ._• . ~•... ~_. . _ . ...._ ..... ... . . •, . , .. . :My experience, however, has not been en. tUuraging. X. Y. ; ret. 18,,a cheaply-got-up youth,with narrow jaws and broad, bony,cold,red hands, having been laughed at by thq • girls in• his Village, and "got -the mitten" (pronounced mittin) two or three times, falls to souling I and controlling; and youthing and trething, in the newspapers. Sends me some strings ,f verses, candidates for the Orthopedic In firmary, all of theiii, in which I learn for the millionth time one of the following fibs : ei ther that something about a chime is, sub lime,-or that something about time is sub. lime, or that something about a chime is con. cerned with time; or that something about . a rhyme is sublimepr concerned with time or with a chime. Wishes my opinion of le sum_e, with advice as to his future course. 'What ehall Ido about it I Tell him the whole truth,•and send him a ticket of admis , sion to'the Institution for Idlota and Feeble. minded Youth ? One doesn't like to be cru el, and yet one hates to lie. Therefore one softens down the ugly central fact of donkey. ism, recommends study urgood models; that writing verse should be att iheidental *dye lion only, not interfering With the hoe - ,' the needle, the lapstone,-or the ledger, and above all, that there should be no hurry in printing what is written. riot the least use in all this. -The Ptlettittet *ho has tasted type is dikie for. lie is like the man who hag ohte been a candidate for the Presidency.. He feeds or. the madder at his delusion all his d-iys, rind his Very bones gra* red with the glow. of ills to ellsh Not: a r e df these young brains is like a bunch of, Hulk eiiihii ers; once touch fire to it and it is best to keep liana off until it hills ,done popping, if ettr sitipsr I have vilijettefi do file ; one is a pattern of adulation, the other" linen& ' My reply to the first, containing the -best advice I could give, conveyed in courteous language, had brought out the see. ; pond. There was some sport in this,but dull. 1 tless is not commonly a game fish, and only sulks av er he is struck. You may set it down a truth which admits of few excep-• ~Wins, that tMse . who ask ypui opinibn real -Ily N..artt your !liaise, and will be - contented • with nothing else. There is another kind of application to which editors, or those supposed to have -ac -1 cess to them, are liable , and which often , prOves trying and painful. One is appealed to in behalf of some person in needy ciruum. stances what wishes` to make a hying by the pen. A manuscript accompanying the letter is offered for publication. It isnot common- OE brilliant, too often lamentably deficient. Rachel's saying it true, that - "fortune is I the itrenthte of intelligence," then poverty is 1 evidence of limited capacity, which it tockfre. quently proves:to be, notwithstanding a no ble exception here and there. Now an edit-' or is a person under a contract with the public to furnish theth with e the best things be can affrd for his money. Charity shown by the publication of an inferior article would I be like the generosity of Claude Duval and 1 the other gentlemen highdaymen, who pitied the poor so much they robbed the rich to have the means of relieving them. • .Though I am riot and neter was an editor, I know something of the triala to which they are submitted. They- have nothing to do 'but develop enormous callusei at every point of contact with authorship. Their business is not a matter'of sympathy but .of intellect. They must reject the. unfit productions of 6 those whom they lona to befriend, because it be• a profligate harity to-accept them. Ithie can not burn his house down to warm "the hands even of the fatherless and the wid ; ow .—Atlan tic Ifanthly. - Immortality. ' Tan following nable passage occurs in the Dies Borealis, or "Christopher Under Can- 1 vas:" - . . . Sorth—Oh, my friends, if this winged i and swift life be all our life, what a mourn ful taste have we had of a ~possible happi ness! We have, as it ; _were, from some cold and dark edge of a bright-world_just looked in and been plucked away again I Have we come to ~experience pleasure by fits and glimpses, .but interwined witti pain, burthen: . some labor, with weariness and with indiffer -etice ? Have we come to try the sblace and joy of a warm, fearless, and confiding affec _tion, to be then chafed or obliged by _bitter- de:is; by separation, by change ofheart, or by .ine dread sunderer, of loves--Death 1— Have we found the gladness and the strength of knoiledge, when. some rays of truth flaAtted in upon our souls, in the midst.df er ror ifnd uncertainty, pr amidst continuous, nrceseated uninstructive avocations of. the -UnJerstatiding—and is that alit Have we felt in a fOrtunate 'hour -the charm of the Beautiful, that invests, as a mantle, the visi ble 'et-dation, or'have we found ourselves lift ed above the earth by sudden _apprehensions of sublimity?' Have we'bad the .chnsciotis niss of such teelingi, Awhich seemed tb us as if they might-themselves make up -a life— and were they " instant , come and instant <gone ?" Dave we knolaxi the consolation of !doitor right, in the midst of much that we have done-wrong, and was that also a corus cation of a' transient eunshthe 1 . Have we lighted up our thoughts to see Him who is -Love, Light, and Truth and' Blias,, to be in , the next instant plunged into the darkness of I annihilation? have all these , things been -I but flowers that- we have culled .by . the side of la hard and tedious way, :and that, after i gladdening us fors brief seasori.with hue and color, wither in our hands, and are like our sel ves—.-nothh)g ! • 1. Thou shalt - have no other wife but me. • -2. Thou shalt not take into the house any beautiful brazen image, to bow down to her and serve her. 3. Thou shalt not lake the name of thy wife in vain. '4. Remember thy wife to keep her res pectable. 5. Hopor thy wife's father and mother. 0..Th09 shalt not fret. 7. Thou shalt not find fault with thy din ner.' 8: Thou shalt not smoke or chew' tobacco. P. Thou shalt not be behind tby neighbor. 10. Thou shalt not visit the--rum tavern ; thou shalt not covet-the, tavern-keeper's rum, nor his brandy; no'r his gin, nor his whiskey, fior'his wine, nor anything that is behind the • •. . 11. Thou shalt 'not visit bill iard balls, neither fur worshipping in chance nor heaps of soon th!lt i , lie_ oti,*.t4ile,,' "FPIEEDCM a'RE) 20ON'T aanum•lr @Lawsrav amp zußaman The Wife's Commandmots. MONTROSE, Lin ON THE pnrrisrene. IT will surprise very many even of our own people wliert we state that Kewaunee county and the southern portion of Door county are as densely populated as any oth er section of the same extent-in the State— that is, of strictly firming country. The people there are mostly Belgituis, and are settled compactly together—each family up on a forty or eighty—rarely upon a larger tract. They are just beginning to hew open ings enough among, the trees to raise what they need for their,own cousumption.. We can scarcely expect any surplus from them for some years, but it will come by and by ; and we are confident that the peninsula 0111 be one of the gardens-of Wi-s.nsin. . • probably no other race on 'this vontinent could have gone into the wo andpcombat ed the privations of forest life wit the pa tience, industry, and success w . hose peo ple have. They were poor,;*i few creep: tions, reaching here with exhausted purses aft4r running the gauntlet of emigrant swin, dlers between New York and the • West.— Thcputehase of forty or eighty acres of land genera: took all that was left-l—and. af ter throwing up tt rough. binds heinae, .the first question which 'presented UAW to the 'head of the family wasitow to get Pod for his little ones until an opening could be-made iti the trees, and the season roll around with the fruits of the eatth, Shingle making has generally been the resort in such edges j the bard times of last year and the general crash in everything reached even the shingle trade.. slo that' nbna but aßelgian pioneer could have faced the task of making a living •for his family by manufacturing 'shingles at the ruling prices. It was done, however.— The very best quality of shaved shingles were inane idige hintittitieti and -Sold for one dollar per thousand, and evch Ids!. An other thing. Some of them manufactured lumber by hand. The statement will hard ly be credited, but it is no less a fact that the Belgians have,. with a common " whip saw," manufaCtured' the , best pine lumber at a les.s price than it could be made for with all Out appliances of steam engines, muley saws and the most improved •styles of mills. As handsome lumber as we ever saw has been made by them and' sold at $5,50 and *6 per 1000 feed • In such ways as this—by hard and .pesistent labor—they gathered together the means of obtaining their daily breattand little else they needed for some di y 'bread and potatoes funned the bill of fare for six days in the week, and the seventh a little coffee, mixed with chicory, for economy's sake, made a sort of- holiday of Sunday.— Butter and milk and eggs, there were none, rot theft were no cows not hens; Last week we Were ill the Mill which does the grinding for probably half the County. It is the rudest , structure imaginable. An overshot wheel turns one stone slowly, and the bolting apparatus is propelled by a wo man. She stood there patiently the day long, turning the crank with one . hand, and with the other supplying the screen with the unbolted flour. The mill was thronged with customers, men, women, and children, -who brought the grain on their heads, and waited for it to be ground. Some of them come r l five, six, and eight miles,, bringing each a load of from fifty to a hundred pounds.— rAmong hundreds of families, there are but twO or three pairs of oxen, and we did ,not bear of but one horse in the whole settle ment. The roads, indeed, do not - permit of the use of wheeled vehicles to any extent.— They are nothing but trails. We saw, in one clearing, a man and a boy hitched to a wooden drag, preparing the ground-for next season's crops. Most of the tilling is done by means,-of a sort - of-grub hoe ; though lately the mere fortunate ones manage to get some plowing done. We met a woman and her son on the way to Green - Bay with 4 basket of chickens and some other little produce. They had al ready. walked eight miles, and had fourteen mo - l- k pa ; go—nuking twenty-two miles.= TheMprketing would bring them in town perhaps one dollar and a half. At one house where we stopped in, the, field hands were at dinner; a loaf of black bread and a kettle of coffee were-all that we SAW on the fable. - They dipped the read in the coffee, and seemed to be liking a comfortable meal. 'Ati anotic house we found a man cutting up a, pig. So Marked an instance of extravagance s prised us, un til we were told that a bear d killed it the night before, and they had escued it from his clutches. The bears e very trouble some,' carrying of pigs an calves. Some of 'them are killed occasion ly. We have already noticed the beginning of . a town on the Bay shgre—Dycksville— which is likely to be their principal post-on the western vide. Here are one or two tav erns, or places where the traveler may find rest for the night-4nd a very good store kept by Mr. Van Dyck. His establishment embracesfilmost everything needed in a new country, from wooden shoesto sacks of flour. -And not alone wooden shoes, for we noticed some fine shoes for' women and - boots for Men. Mr. Van Dyck seems to be doing a paying business, tuul he ought to—for he is a pleasant and sociable gentlelnan. Years tee, when - another generation shall have g own up'and taken the place of the present one, the solid and prosperous men of . the Pe ninsula will remember the stories of their fathers' hardships in the new country with wonder: The "gentle slopes and groves be.' tween" will bloom and blossom with all the wealth of, a rich country, and KeWaukee county will rank with the first in the State. —.-Green Bay Advocate.' Or The pious John Newton says : " I was once in a large company where•very se vers things were spoken of Mr. W., when one person seasonably observed, that though the Lord was pleased to effect conversion and edification by t variety of means, he had never known anybody convinced of error by what was said of him behitid his beck. This was about thirteen years ago, md it has been on my mina as a useful hint-ever since." Ear "Are you a skillful mechanic I" "Yes, air." " What can ion make r "Oh, almost anything in my line." "'Can you make a devil 'I" " Certainly-r-just put up your foot and I will split it in three seconds. I.never saw -a chap - in my life that required less alteration." jar The 'character that needs law to mend Is hardly worth the tiakering. HURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1858. . For the Independent Republican, TUE BRIDAL. I= PiErma through the lattice, Litughing through the door, Painting golden pictures 'On the eerald floor, Crossing them with shadows— Ellin ehadows o'er, Came the mellow sunshine, When the autumn breeze Brought perfume of apples, - Flushing on the trees, Where each leaf was dancing To the hum-of bees. , Flat a merry maiden, In that - golden Building airy castles, To a wondrous hight ; Wreathing all their turrets, With lore's garlands bright. • "Loves he r sighed the I.ollth-wind ‘, l Loves tee r sighed the mald,, "Varry thee r the flowers Whispered, in the shade; " Marty P'-her heart sang— " ifarry me," she prayed.-... • Orange buds are dreaming, In her raven hair; Bridal bells are ringing, throurli the'autumn air; - `alry litnds ti 6-ovine Flowers, rich and rate.,. THE ELEPHAHT FIGHT. Or the hundred and fifty elephants pos. sessed by the King of MO, there yrs& one with a broken tusk, that had bean -Victor is a hundred fights. His name was Malleer, and he Was a great favorite with the - , king. Ills tusk had been broken oil bit by bit in sever, al encounters, the elephants rushing against each other with such force as sometimes to snap off a portion br the whole of a ttsk.— liialleer. had lost his, as 1 have fatd, gradual- ly, He was a formidable black fellow, very terrible when in that excited steai - - must. • During the visit of the commander in-chief it was determined that a fitting an t.agonist should be, tound for . 111allger, and that he should once more make his appear- ance on the stage as a gladiator. It w•as for tunately: the proper season. Ala(leer was must ; tind --another gigantic elephotit, also black, and of course in a similar 'state, was elected„ to be his antagonist. At a signal given by the king, the two el• ephants advanced from oppdsite sides, each with his mahout ou his neck; Malleer, with his one tusk, looking by no•means so form idable as the huge blade antagonist whom he was to fight, and who was well furnished with ivory. The moment they caught sight of each other, the two elephant; as if with an instinctive perception of what was ex petted of them, put their trunks and tails aloft ; Mid shuffled up to each other with con siderable speed, after their unWieldy•fashion, trumpeting loudly mutual deflate. This is the ordinary attitude :of attack of the ele phant, He puts his`trurat up perpendicu larly. in order that it may be out of harm's way. -- His tail is similarly raised from ex -citement. 'His trumpeting consists of a se ries of quick blasts, between roars and grunt- Malleer and his foe rushed at each other impetuously,: The sound of their - huge heads coming into a violent - collision might have been heard at a distlmee: The first blurt; struck, both elephants now set them selves vigorously to push against each other with all their might. Mouth ttmonth, tusk to tusk, hoth.trunks still elevated in the air' perpendicularly, theii feet set firmly in mass ive solidity upon the ground, did they push and push, rAid shove and shove, not With one resolute,liorig continued effor*, but with re peated short strokes of their unwieldy forms. The-heads were not separated fur a moment; but the bacits were curving slightly and then becoming st=raight again in regular succession, as each shore and push was administered. The•maho seated on their necks, were not idle the ile. They shouted ; encouraging each If 'own warrior, with hearty good will. .4 . length the redoubted Malleer, , one tus&A thouglt he was, began to gain th ad• vantage. The fore leg of his antagonist was raised as if uncertainly, one could not tell Whether to advance or retreat, as he still stoutly shoved with all his might. But it was evident very soon that it was not to 0- ranee, but to retreat, that the leg was so raised. It had hardly been set down again, when the other was similarly raised will low ered. Tile mahout of Malleer saw' the movement, arid knew well what it indicated. He shouted more frantically than ever. - At this. time they were only a few yards froth , the banks of the Goomty, a little to the left of our balcony. The retreating elephant gave way step by step, slowly drawing Oar er,..to the river as he - did so. - At length with a sudden leap_ backwards, lie tore himself from his antagonist, and threw his unwieldy form down the bahk into the river. "'His Ma hout clung to the rope over his back, and was, soon seen safe and sound on his neck, whilst the elephant swam off to gain the op posite bank. Malleer was furious at this es cape of his antagonist. His mahout wanted him to follow, but he would. not take to the water. He glared 'round, wild with fury, to see what-he could attack. His mahout,' still urging hird, with no gentle strokes and with wild,shouts to *sue, at, length lust his bal ance in his excitement, •as Malleer turned savagely about, and fell to the earth ! - 'lie fell right 'before the infuriated beast whom he had -been rendering more and more wild and ungovernable. We were not left, in doubt as to his filtelbr a moment. - We bad just time to see that the man had fallen; and was lyinlk on his back, with his limbs disor dered, one leg under km, and the other stretched helpless out, whilst both arms were , raised aloft, when we saw the huge foot of the elephant placed upon his chest, and heard the bones 'crackling, as the whole body -of the man, was crushed into a shapeless mass! There was hardly time for a cry ; the swat . hig of his forth on the elephant'4 neek=his, fall—toesound caused by his - striking the• elastic turf—the foot plated upon him, and the horrid crushing whirl' followed--;all. was the work of an instant or two. But this did' not sate the enrriged Animal. Still keeping -his 'foot On the tqan's sliest, he seized one 'artri with his trunk and tore it from the body. hi another moment it vas hurled, high up in the. air, the blood spirting from it as it whirl ed. It was a horrible light. The other arm was then seized; and similarly dealt with.— • Scine4 in India. 'There is as much greatness in own ing a good turn, as in &dug it. PERPETUAL NOTION: _ MtnNo the numerous curious 'facts con nected with the history of the oft-exploded and oft-renewed search for perpetual motion, the following anecdote .is worthy of _perusal. It appears that some. years ago aiiXtnerican, named Redlieffer, contemporaneous with the celebrated Fulton, pretended to have discov ered perpetual' motion, and for a long time deluded the people s and realized reline sum ofrmoney. • It was almost universally ad mitted that-he had made a wonderful., discov ery, and men of learning and science formed various theories to account for this perpetual motion. • Mr. Fulton was an,unbeliever in Redhef fees discovery, and, although hundreds were daily paying their dollar to see the wonder, M. Fulton could not he-prevailed upon, for some time, to follow, the crowd. lie was at length induced by some of his friends to visit the machine. It was in an isolated house in the suburbs of Philadelphia. - .. In a very short time after Mr. Fulton had_ entered the room in which it was exhibited, he erlelaiined, " Why, this is a crank motion." His n ar had enabled him to distinguish that the achine was moved by a crank, which al. way/ gives an unequal power, and therefore 'an unequal velocity in the couise of each reirolution , t and• a nice and practiced ear may perceive that the sound is not uniform. If the machine had been kept in motion by . what was its ostensible movint , power; it ' l st have had an equable rotary b motion, - if a y d the sound would have always 'been - tha same, After some little conversation with the showman, Mr. Fulton did not hesitate to declare that the machine. was an Imposi tion, and to tell the gentleman that 'he was an Impostor. Notwithstanding the anger and bluster these charges eteited, Fulton assured the company that the thing was a cheat, - and that, if they would support him in :the at fertipt; he would detect it at the risk of pay. , mg any, penalty if he failed. Having ob tained 'the assent of till who were present, he began by knocking away some Ver.f thin lit tle pieces of lath, which appeared to" be no part of the machinery, but tic, go from the frame of the machine to the wall of the room, merely to keep the corner pests of the machine steady. It was found that a catgut string was led through one of 'these laths and the frame of the machine to the head of the upright, shaft of a principal wheel ; that the catgut, was `conducted through the wall and along. the floors of the second story, to a back cock- Nft, at•the distance of a it - umber .of yards from 'the roan which contained tl e machine --!and there was found the moping power! This was a poor old fellow with an immense beard, and all the appearance of having suf fered a long imprisonment, who, when they i,roke in upon him, was unconscious . of what had happened bedew, end who, while he was seated upon it stool gnawing a .crust, was With one baud turn ing a crank. - The pro prietor - of the perpetual.- motion seen . disap peared. The mob-demolished his machine, the destruction of which immediately put a stop to that which had been for so lung a time, and with so much profit, exhibited in Philadelphia..—Sqrgritt's Monthly, Flat-Footed Courtship. O,SE hing summer afternoon there came to Mr,Davidsoon's the most. curious spceimpi of an old bachelor the world ever heard of. He'was old, gray, wrinkled, and odd. Ile hated yrotneu, especially old maids, and wasn't afraid to say so. Ile and Aunt Pat., ty had it, hot and 'heavy, whenever chance threw" them together; .yet still he'came, cnd - , it was noticed tbat . Aunt Patty took unusual pains with her dress whenever he was ex• peeled. One clay the contest *aged unusu ally strong, Aunt Patty left him in disgust, and went out into the garden. "The bear!" she muttered to herielf, as she stooped to. gather a'blossom which attracted he r attention. " What did you run away for?" said a gr,,uff voice close to her side. " To get rid of you." ".Yon didn't do it, did you?" " No ; you are worse than a b_urdock bur." " You won't get rid of me, neither." "I won't, ,eh ?" "Only in one way." "And that V' "Marry me!" • , • " What, us two fools get married 1 What will people say V' '"That's nothing to us. Come, say yes or no: I'm in a hurry." - " IN ell, no, then." " Very well,' good-bye. I shan't tome again." " Stop a bit--what,a pucker to be. in !" " Ye.; or no V' !` I must consult"— _ " All right ;• I thought you was of age.— Good-bye." " Jabez Andraws, don't be a fool. Come back, come back, I say." Why, I believe the critter has taken me for earnest. Jabez Andrews, I'll consider"— " I don't want' no considering. I'm gone. Becky Hastings is waiting fur-me. I thought I'd give you the first chance. All right.— Good-bye." " Jabez--Jabez !, That • stuck-up Becky Hastings shan't, have him if I die for it. Ja bez—yes. Do you , hear ? Y-e-s!" Taurus FROM Puscu.—Every man should , keep the wolf from the door, and his moth er-in-law, too, Jr he can., 0 EveTy woman has a right to be any age she pleases, for if she were 'to state her real age, no one would believe her ' • , Every woman who makes puddings, has a perfect right to believe that she can make better pudding than any other woman hi :the world. Every man - Who carves hag a decided right to'think of himself by putting a few. - of the ,beet bits asides : . —.- Every woman has a -right to think her child the " prettiest little baby hi the world," - ..and it would be the gieatest fellY , to. deny her this right, fue she would be sure to take it. [ Every young • lady has , ti right to faint when she pleases,if her lover is by. her side to catch her. , I , Every foal . has a right to be on the best terms with hith4elf, no that-man is a 'great er fool who differs - With him about those terms. Every child Who. makes a noise, has • a eight to be turned out' of the rtietti - s and, - iiupposing . yob have not the 'right, you .are perfectly Justified; if ha parents: are: absent, in 054711 it. - .. '-• ' . - I H. H. FRAZIER:PUi3LISHRM.--V0L.4.--N9. 45. Educational:' - • %- Editor. M. J. C_IIRSE, " - learitTYY by study mysi b s e '2waa ne'er entetird fromsire to son." [Teachers and friendi of Education arercepectfut: - Iv itivited to contribute at thi4 department.] ' From the qrphtzli'e Friend. The Harirest-Motin. . . This celestial phenomenon must have at tracted the attention of mankind long before astronomy was cultiated -as a icience • for every conspicuous. anomaly of nature w ill ex cite the Avondex of the savage as powerfully as it will the curiosity of the sage. But when the agricultural was joined ,with the pastoral life, then this phenomenon was not only an object of admiration, but of utility. PsE4NrrtoN.,---The harvest-moon is the full moon that occurs at or nearest to the autum nal equinox; which tahes place on the 23d of September, and at has. its etignemen Iroht taking place in the' harvest monthri. What distinguishes this lunation from others is, that in the northern hemisphere, particularly in high latitudes, there is-but a small differ ence of time between its rising for several consecutive nighti:,hence its advantages to the farmer, as it Jengthens, his evenings when he is gathering in the products of his labors. Add to this, that during this lunation the dit ferchce betwixt the time of the' moon's set ting is greater for a number of days than at Any other full moon of the year. In Many rural districts, the various phe notnena of nature are put in.doggerel rhyme, and this for one - " The bonny harvest-moon Rises eleven nights alike goon:" Astronomers have found that this ntirriber .correct', and writers on the Globes have' adopted it in the problem which explains this phenomenon. , 7.XPLANATIAM—As the_ earth makes • one revolution round the - ecliptic in 365 days, 6 hours, -9 minutes,- 12 seebnds,.. it therefore re moves in its orbit about . 59 minutes'ln a Aay. The moon perfornis One revolution in 27 days, 7 hours, 43;minutes;. 5 seconds, and consequently the daily , motion the moon • will be rather more than 1.1 degrees, 10 minutes : therefore she gains daily on the earth about 12 degrees, 11 minutes,--or ex- , coeds the apparent motion of the sun by that quantity. From the above it appears that during the time the moon performs one revolution, the sun appears 'to have moved slime 27 degrees; therefore the moon has to move that mud more - before she completes a lunation, or synodical month, and to perform which it re quires. 26 days, 13 hours, nearly: cense queinly she must perform a little Mt - ire:than twelve lunatious annually, and must be once full in every sign of •the zodiac. _ As the Moon is never full but when in opposition to the sun, so when the sun is in Virgo,_ . or Li bra, the moon will be full in Pisces, or t 1 ries. lit high northern latitudes, the zodiac approx . ni lutes to coineidence with the hofizon of i such places till it exactly coincides with any ; place in 66 degrees, 32 minutes north: there- .i fore all points of the zodiac rising with the moon in• Pisces, or Aries, for several nights I before and after the full moon, will be but a I few minutes later each night., and the `differ- ' owe will not begreat if Aqarius and Tatirtis I-be included, in a high northern latitude. But that portion of.the zodiac. Opt nearly coin cides with the eaitein side of the horizon, when moved to the western, ems it leis ob liquely, or more nearly at right angles, and consequently the times of the moon's setting will- be the most different that can take place on any other point of-her orbit.. 'The same phenomenon takes place in the southern hemisphere, but at opposite - sea sons ; for the sun must then be in Pisces or, Ariesontil the moon in Virgo or tibia. - - The demonstration answers both: . From what has'been premised, is plain that when the full, moon happens when, the sun enters Libra, the most brilliant , wdl be the harvest-moon. The moon full on, the 22d of September, o few hours befoul the, sun enters Libra : therefore the moon on the -verge of Aries, and this - will he tine Of the grandest that der c.aticiecui•.'' To see it to The greatest advantage, wq should g o o from 10 to 20 degrees further north. . However, I would Advise my fellow citi zens to take note of the moon's rising front the 19;h to the 25th September next. I give this advice because many of them have never . read or heard of such a thing es the harvfst ttoon. . Auburn, Aug. 185,8. . ' CORRECT 'SPEARING.—We advise all young. people to acquire in early life: the; habit of using good language, both in speaking. and writing, and to abanmi; as carly.e.4 phssible, any use of " slang" sll - rds•sind phrases. .The longer they live, the-more difficult:the acqui sition of good language will be; ,and if the golden age of youth, - the - proper season for the acquisition of language, be passed in its abuse, the unfortunate victim of neglected ed- . ucation is, very -probably, doomed to talk badly tiir life: lioneyis not y.eacssary to procure this s education. ,Every- man has it in his power.' fle : bas merely to use the Jai gua:ge which he reeds,. Instead of- the- slang, which he hears; 'to form his taste,from the, test speakers and poets of the country ;.to treasure up choice: phrases in his . memory,' and habituate * himself toitheiruse—avoiding, at the same time,Out pedantic precision and bombast; which how-rather the weakness of a vain anAtition;'.than the ,polish of ati educat ed mind. . Doo-Dsve.—This name' is applied to o the days from about the 24th of. July to th - e, 24th of August. They are so called from the fact that. Siries, - or the Dog star,'rises at, or very near, the saree.time . as the sat. dur ing these days. • It was formerly'supposed.that the excess ive heat of this season,' was attributable to the fact of the Dog-star's being in eceijunc- tion With the sun. Some have sup Posed that the term Dowdays was applied because the weather during this period is' alwaytklnore, liable to suddep changes and veriatieas . :th4til, at other seasons, therein resembling tilsothe extent the shifting - eharacterispei of the ca nine species. This Opinion is - of Coarse un foutkded ; and it ia probable that Sirius ex erts but very little influence for weaPer wo ? in regard to the Weather, or any thirii else 'connected with the earth.. Tas Mass.—The press .penetratil every nook and torner , of-society ; it-Searches out and apprehends the most recluse and: the most unsocial-4n the city and in - - tbe field, in 'the palace and in-the cottage ; ,it steals un• awares upon the guilty and rebukes the con science • it is an o ffi cer , ofjustiee who does not nee d to seek out the offender, andlakes him to his home as a friend and \'w compan ion. Unlike the pulpit, the press preaches at home.and in secret . ; . the reader need, not dress and walk•one mile tn. five to chorih, in order to be addressed by the preacher of the press, for the preacher, comes ,to Km, and goes to ,bed with him if-he' pleases, or takes a walk with him in the garden,or by the river side, and_ into th intellectrial ears of his-visicirr,-t.W - r4owhich he has the commission to utter. - • OrEosmobt.—A certain amount of , oppo sition, says John Neal, is a great help to 'a man. Kites rise against and not with the_ wind. Even - a' head - wind is , better than Pone. No- : man 'ever worked his passage arfy where a dead calm. Let no: man wax pale, therefore, because of opposition. Op position is what 'he, wanted • and must have, to be good. for anything, Hardship_ is the native soil of manhood and self-reliance. He that cannot abide the storm without flinching, or quailing,-strips .himself in; the sunshine and lies down by the wayside - to be over lookedand forgotten. He who but braces himself to the win`d to struggle ,when .the winds blow, gives up' when they. have' done, and fidls asleep in the stillness that follows. = Eirl ,;.:., ', -:::•::. -,.'. ;f: :T.?". : !: P ORIGIN' OF " Ifir.4nuo."—This word is Said to occur first in Fielding's Amelia, •1751. One writer suggests that it is a corruption of the Latin Ambages ;smother that it is de rived from a man named Hume . , who, in old en times, in Seotland, succeeded to the Bogue or 13bog estate, mid was known as " Hume o' the Bogue," or " Hume o' the Bug," who wab so inclined to the marvelous, that, when any one made an extraordinary statement, it soon became common to styles - it "a hum o' the bug," which was soon 4hortened. into humbug. • A Worm TO Boys.—Begin', early in life, to collect libraries of your own, Begin with a single book, and, when you find or learn of any gopd one, obtain it if you can: After a while, another, as you are able, and-be sure and read it. Take the best care of your gooks, and, in this way, when you aro men, you will have good libraries in your heads, as weir as standing on yoursgelves. . When yotk,tum contrive a method by which a pound on one end of a lever whose fulcrum is in the ceriter, , will,raisemore.thari, a pound at thtr other end, 'yoimay with pro priety undertake , to get up a- " perpetual inotionl? machine; The principle does not exist in nature, and therefore' 'cannot be worked out in art. w Street educatiOn is proverbially bad. There are many associations, or rather bod., ies of young men in our 'town, wlm haunt the streets after nightfall, to the detriment of their own morals, and of those with whom they are brought,irkcontact. It is the - duty of ,every parent to keep his son at home in titer evening. Tina-way to do this is to make home-attractive,-but there are indeed tew who have vet learned the art'," t,42) 0 "Th0 attempt- to govern by loud speaking, stamping, thumping upon desks, of using an unnecessary amoyint of words, is vain. Subjection to,wbolesome..laws, - prop erly administered, is as much . a ;part of es sential education, as the knoWlndge; acquired from books and teachers.,, Problem A landed man two !laughter' had, And-both were ,very fair; To each be gave a piece oland, One round, the other stpiare. At forty dollars the titre, just, Each piece•its value had ; The dollars which encompased each, For each exactly paid. If 'cross a dollar bean inch, _ And jolt a half Inch more, • Which did the. greater portion have, That had the round or simaret. PP.OBLENI.—RRitired the: . length 'of the sides of a - rectangular field that 'contains' four acres, and'is entioied by one hundred and four rods of fence. , ' D. 17. 'The gentleman who furnished tho above giies tite following _ BOLUTIOS.—The field contains 4 acres, e. 640 square •rods. Let z = the length of .one side, then z the length bf the other, and 2x + l2B° = toi; the `• perimeter; but tiro Perimeter Is 104 roils, hence 2/4- 120-t-x=lo4; clearing , the equation of tractions and transposing the terms, I bare 24 4 -104a= 1280, or x3-b2 . = —640 ; completing the equine, harkxt - -52 x —616=36 ; extraedng the eapmre root of each Member of the equatlem, I have a.+26= d; therefore x=6.2 rods, the length of one aide ; and 6404-t2= 20 rods, the length of tb i e Other. „Ought re.not to, have,a, pronoun in :the singular naralaer,:suited te the masculine and-ferninine genders_at the - same time ? Wild will answer thisl The 'a I - ewer-to this - question will eOdily suggest.. welt, to anyone -who :.will ruse his -percepti e faculties properly. If any person .will but observethe many errors of public speakers ereii, in using plural pronouns with singular antecedents he will ' not long hesi tate to say,..that there should 'be a sin/War pronoun -6t common getider. - '_Expressions Yo(o:these we heat daily ; "Everybody buys their clothing,” &c.; "If anyone finds my book,lhey Will please return it." - --' STUDENT. • • tar Analyze .the following iitepos,sh. ow- ,- ing the relations of the 'parts ;;c144; pal clauses and, parsing , the worifi,,,in italics i/ 'Lit hint who' his , never in HAI don wrong; be allowed the privilege, of retniiiaii4 ,inexorabig." • • - tl4tPla a tierb,..in-lininwativrinode, agreeing with `flikos77tilricrst° o 44/ 1. -h ir,s" a pronoun, sod * UN ob ject s a / prepq,ition understood ." allowed7:is i(verto :01 the infinitive - mode, relating '6S/inviter+ ;" 7 - 4 , ,prieilqe Ilea noun, and the Oblideif let:;" "Inexorable"' is an alljective, Auilifying "hum."' 8.. 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