E~ - - - C. F. READ & H.-H. FRAZ I ER, EDITORS. • For the ndependent RepliMitath THE OLD ROXESTEAD. lIT IPA •PTO\ s I came atplain eve, all the wind its moan Sighedplaintive to the linden leaves, And sadly wailed the eld door-stone, - (Jr sobbed beneath the mossy eaves. jr! heart beat f.tst, as termsed the sill .. • And,stood within the damp old ball ; - - • Tor loud the clack of_the old stone mill - • . Was heard above the waterfall; , Ah! at that sound heti old inem'ries stirred: Again, a gladsome, romping boy, • With heart as free as aritumnler bird, I toss beneath the tide a toy, - ~ • - To see my dog !hake his jetty lock*, • • And headlong plunge beneath the have,.. To bear it out on the, moss-grown•voCks— • That folly dug . . Poor Bruno's grave. •Oh ! richer far than a monarch's r erown, • • To me, the water-lilies white, I wreathed amid sister's dark hair brown ; And decked my hat with pansies bright. Sweet, Eilery clear as a wood-bird's song,-. Or rain-drop in the mossy. wet ,. . Rang out her voice, as we skipped along • The f r agrant,elover-jewered dell. Peace, aching he.art! for her song is hushed ; • .And in death's vale - shes resting now— All beauty's bloom; that to'thee seems crushed, Beams brighter round her angel-brow. Alf me! alone, 'mid the gath'ring gloom, The last of our dear household hand; I turn my steps to my wtotAer's room, And in its death-like silence stand... The'green damp mould en,the crumbling wall, Seemed volumes written for my sight, Which *:rapt my soul, in a wintry is thick clouds wrap the chop . _. • The ja.tange crept through the broken pane, end hung ter jewels o'er the Sfll, Like ]amps of lore 'mid the heart's cold rain— -. Through gloom I trace Melt sunbeam stilL A ROMANCE OF CYPRIIP.. EVERY traveler who has: ever visited Cy pr‘iis has heard of Signor Bal4o Alatteo, the • — tbenezer Scroo r T of the, East.- While I. was •at Larnaca, a sad ads entare, famishing tun pie materials for a - melodrama, nearly ter ininated old Baldu's life and all his specula tiOns. His Only daughter arid heiress lost .herheart to a needy Austrian, %lib had come to Cyprus expressly to make his:fortune by marriage. Ilearing of the wealth, of old Bal: do, and of his - daughter ; he fixed upon him ut once; but Bald() was not to be easily caught,. and totally repulsed every advance. .The . Austrian grew desperate, and, as a final re course, became fanatically religious, attend int! the Catholic chapel, morning, noun, and o thi n g could exceed his r devotion to a certain-old priest troubled with'-the - cramp, on whose leg 4 sat;Wheneverit was attack-, el, till thepainy.ssed oft When, after this he tri him the sin:that preyed - Triost heavily Upon hi f; mind, which was his wish to possess riches, hat be might hestow.them on Mother Church, and hinted at a passion fa '3li,sßaldo, he received immediate- absolu-. On, and was next day dining at old Baldu's table, in company With the Padre Presidenti, and seated next-to the ( - abject in whom. all his hopes *ere concentrated. Miss Baldo was luckily placed on'his j;iglat, and heard with unspeakable rapture all his protesta tions of love add devotion. Had she been on his left ; these would all have been lost, as ahe had been perfectly deaf on that side_ from her birth. To be brief, the Austrian proposed, and was accepted, and all that he had now to ob tain was old Balbo's cunsent. Baldo, how ever, as a man of the, world, saw clearly through his designs; and knew him to be a Inst , c, though he had too much reverencefor, the priestly clique who had introduced the Austrian, to give a- decided. negative. All he asked was time-4 year to consider so im portant a metosure. _ This was accorded;: and Baldo devoutly prayed thattfefrue — charac ter of his daughter's suitor might before that time be unmasked. His prayer was granted, but in "a way heJeast'expectt;i, and certainly the least agreeable to himself. _ - The lover of - the Signorina 'Bafclo„ finding Ls exchequer rather low, and being lorrow, fully conscious of his idability - tii increase his wealth, so as to enable him to keep uptieces airy appearancesiicatuelo the desperate res olution of grasping, without farther delay, his intended wife's atone, by sending poor old Bald(iout of the wt!rld. Accordingly - armed with a double-barreled - pistol,:which he -eon reafed abouthis person, he proceeded to Mat. let's house at'rut hour when he knew he weo'd faid him alone, the daughter and servants be ing in the habit of attending mass on .Sunday mornings • and he knocked at the door, which after alittle hesitation was opened - to him.— Old Bablo, though believed lo be an honora ble man, and fair and just in his transactions with othrs, was asconfirmed miser. Ile had accumulated great sums in hariA cash, which, unseen by human eye, be Imeburied in his garden,*and hidden in various parts of his hous, The house - was vying to- ruin, and _-wanted whitewashing rind repairing in many parts 'The garden was a perfect wildenie:ss of weeds and thiistlt%; but these he set fuli -10 regularly once a year,.and by this means, to a certain extent kept them under, As for gardeneri armed with a Spade, which fnight tug tip and bring . to light all kinds of secret ° hoards—if there was one traideSaldo detest._ el, it was this. He kept the key of his Wall- - ed in garde; and on Sundays, when all his family were-absent, he strolled about it till them return. Ile Was thus ocenied 'when he admitted ht, would-be soti-in-law • -and the thing the promising youth did; wee to draw. forth his - pistol and take deliberate aim, _discharg ing it at thibtoreast of the feeble old man; rho, tottering backward a few paces, fell. to the earth apparently I corpse: I'w zus* the murderer took him; andiimoaltbag the* pia . 1 01 elosesby hit side,- to - Mga It appear -he lad died by his (Armband, be-mailed into the sweet, closing thesioor after bim. ' Running with iherliate ora.nutn. charged ; with sonic important news, sudden - IS es a gentleman attached to the. Austrian (maculate, wbstd - he breathlessly Informed 1 h at, passing near Baldo's -house, be had heard the report of a pistol followed by a sound - like that of some heavy body felling to the earlh ; that he had knocked at the door in tain for admiision, and that - be bad no.boubt, in his own mind, that some sad' catastrophe ' h d occurred. • In a few sesionda a perfect mob was Col lected at old Baldu's door which they broke open, and rushing in beheld-old Baldo stmt.*. upon the grotmd, hiatlolust ?rated with blood, and n °pita lying close _ by his aide. The assassin who Des' we dream ed that the old man was dim wit easid this . , • • , . . • . . TJ , • - „ ' • ..• ..• 't• • .. • .16" . „• . „. • • - • . •: • •. • _ • • . . • scene, with fiendish trintnph,: though, loudly lamentingthe loss of him whom he called his best friend on earth. But it . happened that the ball,though it gruel agailist a part where a teotind would have beconie mortal ; had came in contact with a sharp edge of a bone, which had turned it ano,ther direction, and it was now safely lodged between the skin and . spine. Baldo, who had fainted 'front fright endless of blood, now, to the aninsement of all, recover 4 his settees, and hearing the voice of his late assailant, alowlyiraised self up; and.denounced him on. the' spot • Having done thig, he fell back s and again be came unconscious. The wretch was imme diately seized and handcuffed, 'and safely borne-away 'to the Austrian consulate, where - he was placed in confinement • • Doctors Were now, assembled from all parts of Cyprus. and all examined the wound, and deeli;ed it fatal, expressing the greatest surprise that tlm.patient ;hi)* hate linger. ed so long. The blood being staunched and Baldo suffering from no injury, bat laboring under a sense of approaching dissolution, bey. ged that a confessor might he sent for. _ this confessor, he acknowledged, Among cab er graVe.ofiences,.the commissioa of one sin which weighed heavier than all the rest upon his guilty conscience. • • It appeared that his niece who was then married to a French ,merchant at Larnaca, had been left at a very early age : an orphan, and had become his ward. She hed,.howev er, been well - provided for "by her parents, and a large sum of money had been deposit. ect in his hands, which, after covering the ex penses of her ducation, board, 'dm, would still leave a considerable surplus as a mar rige portion. Now old Baldo, never forget ting his - thrift, had more than tWice turned this capital over before the date Of his niece's marriage, bathe had retained the proceeds as his own, banding over The principal to the bridegroom the nuptial day. • : But on the approach of death, as it seemed, he . felt con siderable -qualms .of conscience, and confessed his - unworthy stewardship, and indicated the. spots where the savings were concealed. The husband of the niece quickly dug •them up, and..cama into poSsossion. Scarcely was this done, when Baldo recovered, and would al tnost have forgiven the attempt noon his life, halt not, involved such serious results. The Austrian was, by the Turkish author ities handed over to his own consulate, and was eventually removed to Tiieste; bet_ I believe, for lack of Sufficient teStimony, es caped punishment. _Tun County of -, " ara 4 Y up in the mountains," boasts one of. the best Judges in. California, On the bench he is • firm, but his.head is so full of what he terms " judicial talk," that he frequently finds himself mak ing learned charges, and passing sentence, outside of the court rown. On a recent occasion; ht was called on •to exercise the " power and authority, in him vested," in the case of a young couple who desired' to have their hands united in the holy bond of wedlock. Of* course •he consented to perform the pleasing duty, and on the ap- pointed evening was promptly on-hand. The room yral - crowded by the beauty and fa:ih ion of the town. - - It is customary, on occasions of the kind referred to, for the good folks of the mount ain towns to Pass around the wine quitefree ly. The Judge is au ardent admirer of the fair sex, and that he should get a' little mel low amid the glorious scenes of the evening, was not to be wondered, at by those who knew him intimately. The wine had passed. . The music had ceased. The time for making Joseph Bow ers and Nancy Harkios one, had arrived.— Ei,ery heart throbbed with most delightful emotion=i The young gentletheit desired to know how Joe would stand it, and,the young lackeswere anxious to see how Nafice would suffer the shock. Others, again, who had closely observed the turn of affairs dur ing the evening, fixed their - attention upon the Judge, to see how he would come out of the scrape. • At.length the _trying moment was an nounced. The Judge aroQe very cautiously froth the chair which he had occupied in one corner of the room, and, casting his' eyes over the company, singled out the Sheriff of the county, who was present as an invited guest. The Judge had imbibed just enough to make him forget the nature of his basi ness. Looking sternly at the officer, he shouted.: " Mr. Sheriff, open the Court, and call or- der." . , A general titter followed this command, in the midst.of which the Sheriff` took the "Court" gently by !he arm, and led him to his seat in the corner, at the same time in forming that, august personage of the mis. tak e.l Everything now bid fair,.uatil another an- 1 noyanee, which was nothing else than the ab sence of the 'bridegroom, was observed. It turned out that he had just stepped across the street to join his friends in a parting Arink=, but, before his retuni, some: cold blooded wag had whisperetin the ear of our fogey the cause of delay in' the :proceedings. Instantly the chair in the corner; moved, . ° and_ in that direction all eyei were Fixed:. . f(Mr._Sheriff," alowly bawled' the Judge, •übring Joe into. Court 'on a supenar." The Judge bad his own way of pronouncing the word. Then addressing the bride, who stood in the foreground, and hung her heed in deep confusion, he added : "1 s'pose you are the Plain - tiff. Well, don't take on. Innocence -and virtue will be protected, by this 'ere Court." • . This was the saddest blunder of all. The Judge was again made to see *Ms mistake, and would bane been considerably . set - back, bad it not been for a Corrective in the shape of''forty drape of the critter,' which he in. stand,' applied. In a few moments all was reedy. -The brid ..., ..th had arrived - full of joy. The Corn any pressed forward. The excitement ' was intense. He evidently felt every inch.a Judge. - . - -_ “J.J.o.e 11.13..W00.we-r-ts,” commenced 1 the man of law, in the most dist:easing:style of speech with Which Jul was invariably' troubled whenfundeethe influence of liquor, "J=J-che B-o-w-c.r.s, stand. up. Have y•you 'anything to say why s-sentence--" "Stop! stop! stop! Judge ," shouted the .Bberif4 from the back . part -of the room, You are not going tO . hang-the . man, but marry hire . . NM JOE BOWERS'S WEDDING. "FREEDOKI aimo RIMMIr aanomoir @LAWERT amp mßomao99 The Judge drew a long breath, and blinked raptdly. but stood hia, ground well. nem'. eringOW, he proceeded JJ.o-e B-o-W=e-r-'9,. v-you t.take Nancy ILllarkins for your wife, so h-help von God - - - This was a tolerable effort, and Joe nod ded 11.5 mt. " - N-Nancy Haritin4, it tiow remains for this CCourt to--" Mere the again interrupted him, re minding him •of the real business of the evening. • "Miss N-Nancy," - resumed Oe Judge,. af ter being t‘et right," do y-yo.pi. t-take J-Joe B.Bowers: fur a husband, ,t-to the best of your knowledge and b-belief or do you not?" "YOu can bet I will !" answered the ,light hearted Nancy. • The Judge then took the bands of the hap py couple, and joined them, and wound up the business as ft llowsl "It now 1.-remains fur this h-here court to K ' ronounee vou, J Joe Bowers, and y-you, army Ilurkins, matt and wife, and—" (hero the y itidgd paused to wipe the perspiration froM his 'lace,) " and tn•inny God- h hate mercy on your &souls Sheriff, remove the culprits:". A Lesson for Suicidal Lovers. RICHARD Goan, a journeyman harness maker of: Ciheinnati, has himself 'been har nessed by Cupid and driven to the very gates. of desperation. • his enslater is a young la dy named Charlotte Matthews; whose moth. er keeps a boarding houSe on Elm street;and who appears to have made up. her mind to some more brilliant alliance than that offered Gould. But as Richard ha.' a very good opinion of his own merits and qualifi cations; he judged that Charlotte's coolness was mere coquetry, believing that, when it *le to the scratch, she would eaye in at a moment a w i ttrning. He resolved to melt at once the AMA of the playful nymph, and to surprise berAnto au avowal of her real feel ings. Fi - this purpose, he proceeded, shout twenty minutes past five o'cloelt yesterday afternoon to the dwelling of Mrs. Matthews and stretched himself out upon the front door steps, holding in his hand all empty vial, up. on mhich he had pasted 'a label of "strych- nine." 1 " Now: there ,will be an affecting scene ! when my captivating Charlotte comes out;" soliloquized Mr. Gould, ns he closed his eyes and composed his features to a corpse-like ~immobility. Presently Miss Matthews ap peared at the door with a broom in her band for the purpose of' sweeping the steps. On seeing the recumbent Richard she uttered an. • exclamation of surprise, and then tried- to stir Lim up wi± the broomstick ; but, finding that he did not move, ,she called out, "Moth er, mother, here's Dick Gould coiled up on our steps, and I don't know What ails him." " Dead drunk, I guess," said Mr. Matthews, as she also came to the front door. "No, 1 declare if he hasn't kicked the bucket in re ality," said Charlotte, spying the bottle and taking it out of Gould's 'hand. " See, the fool has bet.n taking strychnine !" " Poor soul," sighed the benevolent -old lady ;" how natural he hioka !" , " He looks about as well as he did when he was alive," observed Charlotte, "-and that's not: say ing . much for his 'beauty. - Ile never could hold a candle to Jimmy Hickman at any time." This Mr. Hiekman is a spruce young clerk who hoards with Mrs. Matthews, and who happened to come home at that very juncture. ‘Yheri he saw the supposed corpse, James offered t o go for the Coroner to hold an in quest over the " poor devil," as he called Mr.- Gould. ' " Well I don't like the notion of having coroner and jury felloWs poking about here," said Mrs. Matthevis. " No,' ' added Charlotte; " just drag the nasty crea ture on the cellar door of the next house, Jiriony,:and then wash your hands and come in to supper." Mr. Hickman took the corpse by the feet, to do as he was directed, when Gould dealt him a kick which doubled him up like a jack knife. The ladies shrieked; and Mr. Gould, starting:up, was beginning to upbraid Char lotte for; her hardness of heart, but the arri val of a policeman interrupted his oratory; and he walked iilvay a "sadder and a wiser maa."-HCin. Gaz. Working in the Music. ' TRUE to the life, and true to nature, is this beautiful sketch : A wee bit of a • philosopher is our little Mary, and the tr o ths which sometimes fall from her cherry lips are as good as the " pearls end diamonds" of fairy tale :memo-. ry. A few weeks ago, Mary and her mamma were sitting in the sunshine near au open window. ~M amma was sewing, and Mary, not in a very- , good huirror, with a slate and pencil to r her knee, was trying, with all ear nestness, to copy the straight trunk of a lo cust tree Whose flower-laden branches almost. touched, the window sill. Four or five times she had, brought the slate to mamma, asking, 'as she pointed to strokes as curved as rain- bows : " Ma, _ain't it right this time ?" , "No darling," mamma would say, rub. bind out the lints, " the real tree is straight, yours is very crooked ; try once agaiti." "NO, I won 4 t," said Mary, at last, petu lantly ; lam sick with trying; nobody could draw that old tree straight, and I'll just let! it alone." Manama sewed on very quietly. Mary poutedi prodigiously a few minutes, then without saying anything took up her blank slate and again sat down. A golden breast ed oriole was skimming thrOggh• the leaves like an' arrow of light ; she watched him a moment, thilt as her little white fingers again clasped the pencil she began to sing al most um( nsciousty. Now her eyes once more Isought the abused tree; her hand moiled, slowly over the slate, faster and more merrily sbe sang, quielter and lighter grew the pencil ifniches, until suddenly bringing 'her song to an abrupt finale, and springing t 6 her Imother's side she trimphantly dis played a correct drawing. " Mamma," she asked, after it bad been suf f iciently admired, "do you know what made it come right this time I just worked the music in !"--.E.r. - • • , garA dish for epicures was presented at a dinnr-table in ,this town a few days since-- eggs fried in butter with their shells on. The dish 4+ist,invented by a young lady from Ire. land, who said she could "do that and a dale kegad*" : • MONTROSE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1858. For the Independent Republican THE SNOW. 2Y A. A t. B. Ili. On the snowAs coming, the beatittfid snow, how softly it falls o'er the valley mild*, flow sweetly it wreathes round the mountain's dark • brow, And streweth bright pearls over each leafless bongo! So gently it lies o'er the violet's bed, Like en Angel's pure wing, in kindness outspread, *To shield the dear sleepers from frost and (remold, UT the warm taloa:id sunshine their beauties unfold. It throws round cur Cold genii a mantle of white To guard all its treasures froth Winter's OrtAd blight Eadh bud and each embryo safe will it keep, Till the soft clouds of Spring-time above them shall weep. • Then sigh not for flowers, or birds singing low-- %joke, oh rejoice o'er the bright falling snow! For Nature, refreshed by her Winter's repose, Will come forth iu glad Spring,new charms to disclose. Adversity's Winter, tho' hard to endure, ' By the same hand is sent, and as wisely I'm sure. The pure robe of God's love thy heart's shield shalt ie, And sweet are the buds that 'twill nurture for thee. I Joy in the sunshine, I Joy in the storm, At the chill wind of Winter, or Summer iiiverowarm, ror all of lire's changes bring blessings,l-find, To.a heart that's at !lento with Goti and. Mankind. WASHINGTON CITY. my. Ttttc Geogiapher of the Nashville Patriot gives the following vivid description of the capital of his country : Washington city, the capital of the nation, the,home during term time of the President, (and also the temporary. residence of five hundred and ten men who confidently expect to be President,) and the scat of the United States Gas Works, (technically called Con gress,) is Situated,in the District of Columbia --a territory covering a horizontal surface of ten miles square, and extending perpeudieu larly all the way through. 'As every , piece in the city is from three-quarters of a mile to a mile and three-quarters from everywhere else, Washington is called, in Fourth of Ju ly orations, and that-style of literature gener ally; "the city of magnificent distances." It derives its name of Washington from a cele brated continental officer who built the pine huts and forced his way through a very hard Winter at Valley Forge, and made Cornwal lis acknowledge the corn at York Town s -- The principal public buildings of the eitrare the Patent Office, where the Yankees are granted the exclusive right to manufacture and sell India rtibber bab y jumper, .double geared rattraps, i Xadway's Ready . Relief --which is warranted to relieve you of your , money, if nothing elso=•and other valuable inventions of the age; the General Post Of fit*, wherg they superintend the mismanage tnent of the various mail routes of the coun try ; the National Treasury, an irisUtution of learning which has graduated more rr.e& thetart of swindling the government than any ten similar or dissimilar institutions in the world ; and the City Jail, whiclils the only public building in Washington which is real ly devoted to honest s pnrposes, and that is de • voted to no purpose at all, both .the sperms cent and temporary residents of the city be ing too deeply engaged in their own ritseali ,tiei to think of punishing other people for theirs. • There are two monuments in Washington —one of red granite, erected to the memory of Smithson at his own expense, and a mon ument' to the folly, penuriousness, and grafi-, tude of the ?►merican peopli.--, The latter about sixty feet high, with upward (though hopeless) expectatjons ref ftve_or six' hundred li•et. It is commonly called the Washington or National Monument. General Taylor caught his death in 1850 at the laying of the curner•stone of this structure, It is hardly probable that any of his successorswill per ish at- the laying of the capstone. it is much More probable that Presidents will be done away with at least six weeks before 'that event The imports of Washington consist princi _pally of offieeseekers and pickpockets, (both of which, are frivently combined in one.) and fast women, who -indirectly make half-1 the laws that are put through. Its exports are disappointed politicians and whiskey.— , :rim latter is generally bottled in members of Congress fur transportation. Taking -it altogether, Washington is an ex ceedingly hard place. The public men there are all very honest and upright, however--:- that is, until they go home sand turn against the Administration, when, of course, they be come like Stephen A. Douglas and 'John W. Forney, the most consummate scoundrels unliung. We have the authority of a num ber of Administration papers for saying so. During the sitting of Congress though, limit_ merable murders and robberies are- commit• ted in the city ; but as everybody there is above suspicion, and wouldn't hurt a hair of your head, nor take,the smallest coin -from •the treasury under the most farvorable cir cumstances, the Perpetrators in ariably es cape detectiotr. Under these hen auspi ces, it is no wtinder that it cannot. or been said of Washington, as was recently said of a one-horse town hi Kentucky, that if; at the last day, Gabriel should .happen to light there first, the resurrection would be indefinitely postponed; for some one of the inhabitants would-swindle hinrout of his horn before be could make a single toot. • = CAPITAL SERMON.—A 'writer in the Sierra (Cal.) Vitizen. under the title -of " Young Men antilTree Frogs'? gives a better sermon, a better-lecture on morality, and a better es say on mental philosophy, all in a few lines, than are sometimes found in as many.vol umes of standard authors: "The tree frog acquires the color of what ever it adheres to for a short time : if it is found on the oak, it will bear the color of that-tree ;if on'a sycamore, 'or cypress, -it will be a whitish brown; and when it is found on the growing corn, it is sure to be green. Just so it is with young men; their companions tell us what their- character • is; if they associate With the vulgar, the licen tious and the profane, then their hearts' are already stained with guilt and shame, and they will , theniselves become like the vicious. The study of bad books or the Ipve of wick ed companions, is the broadest - and most cer tain road to'rui:t that young men can travel, , and a few well directed' lessons in either will lead them on step by step to the gate of de structiQu. Our moral and "physical laws show how important it is to have proper as sociations of every-kind, espeCially in youth, How dangerous it is to gaze on a picture or scene that pollutes the imagination or , blunt the moral perceptions, or- has a tendenoy to weaken woo of our dutrAuGo4 (pi it A GREAT LAW LORD. STAKDINO hi the narrow Gothic railed-oft space reserved for the public--the throne at the opposite extremity of the House+-you may see on one of the benches to the night, almost everts forenoonv—Saturday and Sun day excepted—during the session, it very old man with a white head, and attired in itt sitn. Ito frock and trousers of shepherd's plaid.— t is A leonine hett4and the white locks 'are bushy and profuse. So, too, the eyebrows, penthouses to eyes somewhat weak now, but that flash fire yet. upon occasions. • The , face Is plowed with wrinklerots- Well it may be, for the old hash *ill never see fotirscore years again ; and of these, threescore, at the very least, have ,teen spent in 'study and . the' hardest labor, mental and physical. ' The nose is a marvel—protuberant, mose, ag gressive, inquiring and defiant; unlovely but intellectual. There is a trumpet mouth, a belligerent mouth, projecting and seltassert ing ; largish ears, arid on the chin or cheeks no vestige of - hair. Not a beautiful man this on any theory of beauty, Hogarthesque, Rua kinesque, Winckelmanesque, or otherwise. (lather a shaggy, gnarled, battered, weather bettteft, Ugly, faithfur, Scotch-coney type.— Not a soft, linpittfiftg, pelding face. nether a tearing, mocking. pughacioiA ttattt of cotm tenance. The mouth is fashioned to the say ing of harsh, hard, pertinent things : not cru el, but downright ; • but never to whisper 'compliments, or simper out platitudes. A nose, too, that can snuff the battle afar off, and with dilated nostrils breathe forth a glo ry that is sometimes terrible; but not a nose for a pouncet-box; or a Covent-Garden bou quet, or a flacon :of Frangipanni. Would not care much for truffles either, I think, or 'the delicate aroma ' of sparkling Moselle.— Would prefer 'onions, or strongly infused malt and hops • something honest and unso phisticated. Watch this old map narrowly, young visitor to the Lords. Scan 'his fur rowed visage. Mark his odd angulhr ways and gestures passing uncouth. Now he crouches, very dog-like ion his crimson bench; -clasps one shepherd ' s. Plaid leg in both his hands. Botherem, Q. C., , is talking nonsense, I think. Now the legs are crossed, and the hands thrown behind the head ; now he , digs his elbows into the lithe' Gothic- writing•ta ble before hirnowkihuries the hands, in that puissant white haft' of his. ' The quiddities of Floorem, Q. C.,-are b yond human _pa.. tience. Then with a wre ch, a wriggle, ‘ a shake, a hall turn and b If start up—still very dog-like, but orthe ewfoundland rath er, now, he asks a lawyer or a ,witness a questiot). Question very shafp, and to the point, not often complimentary by times,and couched in that which is neither broad Scotch nor Northumbrian burr, but a, rebellious ' mixture of the two. Mark him well ; eye him closely ; you have not much time to lose. Alas! the giant is very old ; though with frame yet unfeebled, with intellect yet gloriously unclouded. But the sands are running, ever running. Watch him, mark him, store him on your mind tablets; then home;_ and in after yeatlll it may be your lot to tall your children that once at least you have seen with your own eyes the th mous Lord of Faux; once listened to- the voice that has shaken thronek and made ty• rants tremble, that has been a herald of de liverance to millions pining in" slavery - and , L captivity ; a voice that has given utterance,- ' in matt's most eloquent words, to the noblest, 1 I wisest thoughts lent to this man of men by Maven ; - a voice that has been • trumpet -1 sounding !hese sixty years past in defence of ' truth, and right, and justice—in advocacy of the claims's of learning andOn_dostry, and of the liberties of the greatVEnglish people, • from whose ranks he rose; a voice that I should be entitled to a hearing in a Walhalla of wise heroes, after Francis ,of Verulam I and Isaac of Grantham; the voice of one I who is worthily a Lord, but who will be yet better remembered, and to all time—remetn bored enthusiastically and affectionately—as the champion of all good and wise and beau tiful hutnsn things—Harry Bropgham.— The Welcome Guest. ,_ The Freedom of Debate. TnE,llon. Joshua B. Giddings lectured in Tremont Temple, Boston, on Wednesday evening. His-subject was " Twenty' Years in Congress." In the course_ of his lecture, according to the Allan, he related the-follow ing incident which will be read with' interest at this time : In Congress, they sometimes had to make speeches under' great, difficulties, of which Mr. G. gave an amusing illustration. In 1845, there was an unfortunate man in - the House, from Georgia, by the name of Black, who regarded himself as the especial champi- On of that State and of the "peculiar insti tution." ' When the Indian bill was 'under consideration, he (Mr. G.) took occasion, to refer to the c:ld matter Of the Creek Indians and the slaves that had been stolen by' the Georgians ; Black took fire and made a speech, in which he charged him with steal. ing negroes, and franking a dress to his wife. The Southern men gathered around him and: spurred him on. When he had concluded, he (Mr. G.) replied in mild terms, as would be imagined ; but. Mr. 'B. did not so regard it, and'coming round to within four feet: of him, with his heavy aword.cane in his hand, said," Repeat that, and I will knock you down." ".Well," said.- Mr. , Giddings, "I never had been knocked down; it would be a enriosity,,and so of cotirse I repeated it.— [Loud and .prolonged applausel - Some mem ber* tried to get him away,•but I told theta to let him alone; he was a poor, ,harcoless man." • - - Dawson, of Louisiana, a professed duelist, came along, and,• placing his handorkhii pis. tol and cocking it, said, " D -•-n hirn..lll sbog him r Mr. Giddings did not think he was in any danger, but others did, and a slave holder from faryland, armed with bowie_ knife and pistol, name over find stood, by his . side with his arms folded; John Slidell ;and other Southern men came over and stoodll Black; Kenneth = Raynor (who-, base been , called a " Know Nothing" since, but, who'. knew something , that •day,) who was fully , armed, came and took 'T.& position on his left; Charles nucleon rose quietly and put himself on bill, right ;', and Solomon Foot; feeling -hisvoldoorthern blocid stirrtkd sonie what, left his seat and took up his • position at the entrance of the aisle, and then and there they maintained_ the freedom of debate. [Loud applause.] ..• - : isirlYbi.. ii , New , lIPTs4,-Palle4 '` ,ll r Jerseys 1' 1 _. -, ? 7 .: .. --„,,, ,:....„,:, : ~ I H. H. FRAgIER; PUBLISHER-VOL. OH COME, CONE AWAN; O come, some Email the schooltell now is ringing, With willinehearts, from Mends we part -ocome, come away ! To school we'll haste without delay ; Where science will our toil repay, , • And cheer Os - day - by dm - 0 come,"come away! • Our schoolmates are there-all early in the morning, With harts so-light, and faces bright - O•come, came away! . • Our teacher too we there shall meet, . Who will our presence gladly greet, To cheer us day by day -0 come, come away ! There we all will join our social hymns, in singing ; With joyful lays, our notes we'll raise— () come, come away - Then to our studies veil repair,_ imptirre our time with studious care, , Observe this rule while theme -0 come, come awat f And when from our toilin,eve ajzain rettuting, To home so dear we'll haste with cheer—' 0 come, come away I When we again in merry glee, shall join In sweeter harrtiony, From toil and care set free - 0 come, come away! Shooting Stars—Meteors. VARIOUS brilliant bodies have been fre quently observed shooting through the heav: ens . lith a terrible — Velocity, creating alaim jri the minds of the ignorant, and exciting the wonder of' the - learned as to their myste, riot's origin. - The midnight traveler, far from the abodes of men, is sometimes start led with one of these bright lights fleeting for an instant -athwart the horizon, then as suddenly disappearing, leaving the, darkness yet moreiProfound. These meteors, as they are collet:1J are far from being uneentinon, or confined to any locality—they are seen in every part of our globe. 'Under the name of " shooting stars" they are witnessed in clear evenings during every month of the year, but hr this latitude they are more nu merous during, the month of August. They have the appearance of celestial rockets rush ing along (as has been measured) at the aw., 'ful velocity of 59.460 miles per hour. They are strange messengers of the skies, and no satiefaCtory theory - has yet been -propounded respecting their nature and sources. There are other meteors of a very differ ent character from the shooting stars, Which have the appearance of being incandesceui s olid bodies of various colors rushing with a less, but still a great velocity . , through our atmosphere. Some of these are of consid erable magnitude, awl in their passage leave a long trail of light behind ; a feW have been observed to burst into pieces, with a loud re. port, and then disappear. Men of scientific attAinments ao - nut agree, regarding their or igin, but quite a number entertain the opin ion that they have been projected from the volcanoe:s of the moon. In various parts of the globewliat are called " meteoric 'Stones" have been found. These are so different in their composition from any other stones found on .the surface of the earth, that it is not difficult to conclude they may have been shot from some celestial cannon, like the cra ters of the moon. This was the opinion of La Place, and is now entertained by our county; man, Prof. J. 'Lawrence Smith, of Louisville; Ky. He has analyzed several of these meteoric stones, obtained from different localities, and they appear to be of the same composition, thus pointing to a common origin.. In - zit& ture, form, and appearance they are foreign. ers to the Stones and rocks among which they have been found ; they are mostlytom posed 'of nickeliferous iron, with a very thin uxyd on the surface. Their c's]imponent parts are,-iron, 82.39; ,nickel, 15,02; copper, .09.; phosphorus, 16 ; siuliat, .46 ; sulphur, .08 ; tnagnesia, chlorine, .02. Some of the nickel and iron were combined with the phosphorus, forming a schrubersite. One of these mete- or stones, found at Knoxville, Tenn., was so hard that it was difficult to 'cut with s fine saw, and it .was very white in appearance, owing to the presence of so much nickel. It is supposed that thesp were projected during some great eruption in.tho moon, sin) being diiven far beyond the, sphere of our satell itee attraction may have been revolving in paths of their own for thjusands of years, until drawn within the influence 'of the earth, there at last to find a resting place. This is , mere theory to be sure; but to Dr. Smith, who belieses in, it, he can enjoy a quiet chuckle at having pounded a part of old Luna, in his mortar, and dissolved• a fragment of her body in his alembic. This theory is, the most plausible of any yet presented, but the subject deserves further investigation. In olden times, the 4.lnorant peasantry re garded meteors as a sign of death to conspic uous persons, such as chief' and kings; but now they urelitheld without much feeling, but not without wonder. Their mysterious origin imparts. to their appears:Ks a deep and impressive interest.—Beientifie Am. Mr SAND possesses the property, of ab- sorbing heat frourAirect applicatiun of fire ; from actual Contuct with' any heajed body,;or frorri the radiation of such _ bodies, - from steam.or hot currents of Air, or in, any , way by-which heat Can be apPlied, with far great er facility than any other heating medium, This property fenders it a safe - protection to any metallic casing that may surround it,and even muslin: will not - burn if in cloie contact with the sand, though the sand be heated' to a red heat.' Incredible and novel as; - the propositiori may seem; it is believed that, in recent experiments, gas applied to sand;• will• prove the most economical and,.best means of heating huildings, or .obtaining heat_ for any purpose% It itfalso thought that its ap plication for heating railroad cars will , be a decided , improvement upon any existing method.-. CUEAP BAttomaree.--lt is said by a act. entitle journal that's very cheap barometer is made by dissolving some camphor in _ nlce hol, and then throwing ,into the sula*Miome sods.. Thecampher precipitates into snowy . , flakes, which are coiledted by passing the Mixture through a filter, when they are to be put in a vial containing ..clear alcohol, in which there bas been .already dissolved si much camphor ; as it will, take.- The vial is t h e n tightly eorked end 'put where'it will not be disturbed, 'when it will be found to bti - an unerring Index:of the weather; lo One . vieath, er the precipitate will rest on the bottom, but on,the approach of s storm it, < will ris9 to the atria* with a tendency to, the quarter : opposim to that 'frem which the:Storm Is coming the flakes beingareeted-eltetrietillx; Whi l t end Wfiere are tb? antra Ports dft • TLIZ SEA AT GREAT Pr.preB.—Popalar ideas with regard to sinking 'of bodies in _the sea, have heretofere been vague; for the 'rea son, perhaps, that the laws which govern this descent, and which are derived from thewell' known laws of fluids, have never been fully defined in their application tOthe depths of . the °keen. Setne,imv,ine that ships which founder at sea sink to a certain depth, and there float about until broken to pieces; or thrown upon some bank beneath the . • sea and, indeed, a certain writer'in England has \ published a book sustaining this absurd no t Lion. Other!, gain, believe that the buoy. ant force of the water at great depths is enor mous, and due to the whole presstire of , the colum'n of waterabove,and that all bodies which are lighter than water at the. surface;` _ will, if-sunk to the bottom and detached from the sinker, shoot,upward with a great veloci ty ; or, in other words, that the density of • the water increases directly with the. depth. These views are erroneous, it is true the pressure increases with the depth, to the amount of fifteen pounds upon every square inch for every thirty-fourfeet in depth; but _ the density is not thereby 'Bernd* Increased, owing to the incompressibility of the water; so that neither the bu3yant force, norther , sistance to the motion of any body, are sens ibly increased from the surface to the bot tom. At the depth of three thousand i fath oms, for instance, the pressure upon a square inch is nearly eig ht! thousand pounds, but the column of eighteen thousand feet, of water is only shortened about sixty feet ; the dens ity Ic thus but slightly increased ; but the effect of this enormous pressure upon com pressible bodies, its 'air, wood, &c., is to con dense them into a smeller bulk, by which they may be rendered heavier than water, - and will sink of their own weight A' piece of wood cannot float at the bottont of the sea, but a very slight extraneous force will bring it to the surface. . , 11!=' TUE USEFUL AND - BEAUTIFUL.—The . tomb of Moses is unknown ; but. the traveler i3lakes, his iLirst at the' well of ,Jaeob; The gor-' geous palace of the wealthiest and• wisest of . monarchs, with the cedar and gold, - and ivory, and even the great. Temple ofJerusalem, hal lowed by the visible glory of the Deity 'him self, are gone, but Solomon's reservoirs are, as Ter lect as ever. Of the ancient architec teary ot,,the Holy City, not one stone is left upon another ; but the pool of Bethesda com mands the pilgrim's reverence at the present day. The columns of Persepolis-are mould ering into dust; but its cisterns and ague duets remain to challenge our admiration.— The golden house of Nero is a muss of ruins; but the Aquis Claudia still pours into Rome its limped stream. 'The temple of the . sun at tadmore in the wilderness has fallen ; but ..1 its fountains.sparkle as freshly in his rtlys, as when thousands of worshippers thronged - its ofty colonnades. It maybe that London will share•the fate of Babylon, and - nothing be , left to mark its site save mounds of crumb ling brick-work. The Thames will continue to flow as it does now. Acd if tiny work of art should still rise over the deep ocean of r time, we may well believe that it will -be neither a palace nor a temple, but some vast' aqueduct or reservoir; and if any name sho l d flash through the midst, of antiquity,. it 'will probably be that of a man - who in his day sought the happiness of his fellowmen raths er then their -glory, and linked his name to some great work of national utility-and-lie :nevolenee. This is the true glarywhich out , • lives all others, and shines with.undying. Ins tre from generation to generation ; itnParting to works some of its immortality and insnme . degree rescuing them from the ruin which overtakes the ordinary monuments othistor idil tradition, or mere magnificence.—Edin bur . - _ • Tne Tescruxo or_Parsicat. Setzacx.—lf the term education may be understood in 'so large a sense as to include all that belongs to the iniprovement of the mind,,cither by the acquisition, of the knowledge of others or by increase of it throuilt its own' exertions, vie Learn by these results what is the.kind -of ed ucation science offers to man. It teaches us to be neg'ecilui 'of nothing ; not to despise the small beginnings, for they precede of ne cessity all great things in the. knowleAlge of science, either,pure or applied. It teacimi continual companion of the null/ and great, and that under differences almost approach ing the infinite—fur the small. as- often con. • tains the great in principle as the great ,dow the small ; and-thus the mitt& becomescom prehensive. It teaches to deduce principles carefully, to hold them firmly, or io suspend. the judgment—to discover and obey kw, and by it to be bold in applying to - the ^ greatest what we know of the smallest.' It -teaches us first by tutors and. books to, learn ..,that - which is already known:to others, and thew: by thelight and methods which -belong- to= science, to' learn fur ourselves and for ; " others —so making a fruitful return to man in .the' - , future fey that which we have obtained from the men of tbe past., Bacon, in blainstitutes,' tells us that the scietttifie student 'bight not tote as Ile ant .who gathers merely,-4tor as the spider who spins from her own -bowels, but as the bee who both gathers and produeei—Prof. Faraday tm kief Electrical Telegraph in relation to Science as a Branch I of Education. , -1-Lunnici.—lt often happens \ that" :prople hear better with one ear than with the other,; and these, it is observed,- have what musi cians call a bad ear. Bulflin made many tri als on persons thus' circumstanced; and be always fnuntithiit their incapacity. - judging Properly of sounds proceeded from the ine quality of their ears.—florn , their receiving, by both et toe same time, unequal sensa tions._ In like manner sas such persons' hear ing is Wan, heir singing is also fake, with out their knowing it. They are also fro. ' (ineptly deceived with tepid to the aide' Isrlientie,the sound come" generally'. suippoa in_ it to come, on the part of the best ear. ~ 400,110 11g --.... TRIM -Z•.--Zi ~„ 1011110030 is the child of, knowledge. IV horse miml is full, like X winilesonse river, it is also clear. . Confusion and Obsenrity are much oftener the results of ignorance than of inefficiency. Few are the men who cannot express their tneating,when" the essmaion demands the energy; ke - the loWestewill defend their lives,with acuteness, and sometimes even with eloquence. They . are masters 'of their subject.- Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but, the results', even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own mind. To make Other's feel; we must feel ouraelvei ;-aad_to - lbel oar, *elven, we mist be appeler-D*Wii. - --- ' EZM ~~°=- BM MS Otial NEM =
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