CPSC Pan, Imprittors.:
tiert Vottr#.
Sparking Sunday :Nighie.
REsPECTI - lILLT niscRTEED TO 'MOSE WITO
GUILTY
Sitting in the cornet,
On a Sunday eve,
With n taper finger
Resting on yoursleeri
Starlight eyes are east
On our face their light
Bless me! this is pleas
Sparking'Stinday nigt
your'How heart is titumping.
i t,,
Gainst your SunttiA I.—v
How wickedly 'tis.wos ging,
On this day or rest ;
‘ b,....
Hours seem but minute . •
As they take•theiNlight
Bless me! ai a'i it p)easan
Sparking Sunday night?
Dad and Mam are sleeping
On their peaceful bed,
Dreznain7 of the things
The folks in meeting said.
"Love ye one another!"
Bless me! don't we do it--
Ministers recite:
Sparking Sunday night?.
One arm with',,fretitle pressure
Lingers around her . waist,
Yon sqnewe her dimpled hand, -
Herpouting, lips you taste;
She freely slaps your fatte„
Bnt more in lore than spite; •
Oh! thanderl—ain'titpleasant,
-Sparking Sunday night?
Bnt hark! the dock Is !striking.
o
it is two 'clock 1 snow !
As sure as I."m - n sinner, . •
Tho time to g 9 has COrile
YOU :ISli with ul
~ecern
if ‘ 4 , that old clock is right,"
And wonder if i; ever
Sparked on aSi ay night!
One, iNV 0, three sweet kisses,
Pour fife, six you ao ,, k—
But thinking that you roh her,
Give bat": 1; those yoir ,00k •
Then, as for 'Arne you hurry,
From the fair one's sight
Don't you v‘isli each tiny Was
Onli Sunday-night.?
onpuititicatiolls.
School.toverOmeol.
In the last number Of the Democrat, I ob
served from the pen of" A School 'Director'
of Lanesboro, a; . l article animadverting with
considerable acerbity, an
.opitai on expressed by
me, at the last meeting of the " TeaaersjAs
sociation," in reference to the - best Method
of governing schools;: and I . think it due to
myself that some cxp)anation be made - con
ceinin,-, the matter. • ,
I admit from the report of the "Associa-,
tiori" held in Gibson, the remark, "
would use my influence to procure the expub,
sion of refractory scholars from school," may
be so construed,:as to convey the inipiesaion
that I would do this on' the first exhibition of
a diSebedient inclination in the pupil, and,
before summoning "moral suasion" to my
aid 4 but this is an erroniour conception' of my ,
moaning. Whati remarked at thel Associ
ation in regard to.the matter, I will now re
peat. In substance it is this " Were a large
scholar, one who bad arrived at years of dis
cretion, to come to a/school that I was teach
ing, and manifest a refractory disposition, I
would first by mildness and persuasion, by
appealing to the tender sensibilities of ,his na
ture, by kindly representing the iMpOrtance
'of acquiring an education while young,. and
the.necessity of preserving orderin the school;
room, endeavor. to curb his waywardnesS, and
induce him to yield obedience to the rules of
the school ; but if after repealed attempts. to.
accomplish,this end; after rgerting 19 every
means in my power, other than, brute force
to obtain' the respect and obedience of the
scholar, and he still continued incorrigible, I
would then a.5,..a demier 'resort; endeavor to
have him expelled, and for this reason, viz: I .
do not beliare, and observation and experi
ence have fastened. upon me the conviction I
that scholars, say from the age offourteen to
eighteen and twenty-one years, .are as a get
eral thing, if disobedient, made any better by
.
flonginfr." • .• 1
Let nie . ask 'any sensible, intelligent person
if he or she is of the bpinion that a young
man would be very likely to respect a Teach- j
er who was accustomed to inflict corporeal
.
punishment *upon him l I assume the schol
ar - 17rUSi respect and repose complete confi,
dente in the Teacher before. he can make any_
progress in his studies:. This he cannot
. do if
he fears the Tutor.
But the idea of turning ungovernable schOl-•
ars from school, and permitting them to
grow up in ignorance, viciousness and crime,
to become candidate's for the penitentiary
and gallows, very justly excites the sympathy .
of "Director,", In my humble opinion, the
necessity fur expelling a pupil froth . shcool
will rarely if ever occur, nor need while
there, be governed by- the " believe
there is in the mind of every individual how
ever debased or humble, - a responsive chord,"
which if touched by a skillful hand, tiyill awa
ken the better and Liner etnotions.: of our na
ture; and the person Who ii so 'unskilled in
the scietice of " hannan nature" as-to be inca
pable of striking this chord aright, ought nev
er to be employed to train the youthful mind.
Again, "spare the rod and spoil the child"
says SoliMon and a School Director." Well
Solomon was unquessionably a philosoPher
and. uttered many wise and good sayingS, but
'because he practised • polygamy, and kept a,
:.Harem of seven hundred - wives and three
hundred concubines, w9ttldit be considered
expedient to incorporate such a debasing ens
tom into ourdornctic constitutionl
The idea which. originated in barbaric
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ages, that'" Loirte force"; was iudispensuble to
secure obedience to all . l a rva, however
unim
portant, thanks . .to the influence;of Christian,
tly, and an enlightened ;public •sentiment, . is
iapidly-.exploding.. The United States, by
'abolishing flogging in the Navy, have set an
example;-the world wotild do well to imitate,
- 1
and mitstTeachers of Mir • Comiuoni - Sehools .
Still be permitted to inflict upon their pupils
that kind :of punishment a Nation's 1 wisdom
'oniidered too degr adin g brutal for the
'go
i
government; of reeltless, abandoned Lea m en !
No, for sid,anu, nol - . •'
In my 'opinion iinauy children have been.
spoiled by an injudicious- application of the
'rod." A eltildlif posessed of a proud and
iighly sensitive tipirionust . fee; keenly the
iilegradad'ofi atadishame conliequeat 'upon -a
.1 • -.: -
se.
ivere chastisement, and as
.many ; a brive
tnanly spirit ha 4 been openly crushed, crush
-4 by the use of the lash; s'o likewise has the
ispositiou of many a promising. child been
warped and distorted by the same barberous
ineaw4. -
Law makes provision for the ialstructioa and
governmeqt of all, and makes no provisions
!for a refractory pupil." I grant the School
Law provides for the education of all abose
and imder a 'special age; but if I mistake
not, the State. Superintendent has decided,
and reason and expediency Would' seem to
.1' .
J i
x. stify his - decision,.that all ince rrigibly (Bs-
° -, die nt - :s.cholars shall be expelled from
i ,.
school.
ThO trii4sed cagi., , with which" Director"
close 4 his article, 1 , 6 d not be noticed inas
i • '
Much as, I!Airellimd, the ('Teacher. is not
Obliged to e a disorderly pupil from the
school-room, ho' authority be given hint by
hie board i:if directors to do so.
I since': 1y,1V.15.11
the aenthiman of Lanes
id .comlescend - to 'meet With the
l A' ssociation of this-County, and en
`:set,: its members rizht, in respect to
~of school n'overnmnut, wherein, in
, ~
they so grievouski err. .
S.- W. TiiWKSB cr, V. ~
c July 10085,5. - .
To routeg.Mpta.
boro won't
Teachers
deavor to!
that point
his .o.p.inio
' Young nan what trait ye-ror ?
! Whv - stand
• • !
any low*er idle? Know you not ! that yoU
have 4 destiny to meet ?_litjotie von not titht
Yon bare a part to play on the great sfage of
flint - Ilan action ? Know von not that you have
l i S,omc,.tfiing to do in the great theatre of life?
finOw'vOu not that'you cOtnit 011 C aMoug the
-
millions of earth ? ',.lllemol retentive, Intel
,frame :•troiiit . and rigorous,
form 'syrnmeri - eal, step elastic, hope linoyam
1 , and prospecs„ bright—all a're your:. Then
a 'cipher immensity? literals
yet before you to run . .:l Virtue is that'
race, ,ttii happiness is its goal. These hal
cyon days afast being bOrne-a - ayon the
wins of tine, t :he nuMbered with ages past.
The el ysi a n 'plains you t It] re almost tray 7
eresed over, but the brOaderlexpanse4t mid
dle life are' 'yet ah6ird. ThewheelS• of time
are rolling on with treMendous momentum.
Even now they haVe brought us to the very
threshhold of futurity. Every hour opens to
Our view its Stern realities. Every day tells
something of your - destiny find the aggregate
of human happiness. I>enerate if you scan
the dark veil that hides' the'Ziture fromithe
1\ • •
present and behold the !great events of tlifz
bursting rtipidly into birth as time. roll 3 on
and brings . them near; l itnagine yourself,
ten or twenty years hence:, cOinpelled.to breast
the dark tide of error, or to hellion the migh
ty. eatielysm:—compelled, .either to kneel
down and do homage to"the monster. of i4no
ranee, falsehood and vice, or to gird onithe
full panoply of the Christian soldier, and With
the sword of intellecx , truth -and virtue, hew
down the opposing Fiquadrons and cut your
I way to honor and toi happiness.
I,,lmagine yourself. ihrOWn upon a coM end
cheerless world with] a heart all corrupt, itud
a mind all untaughti; then in yourl F;o
-ber hours, sit,,down i, ,lin pensive solitude itnd
sadle'mourn ovCT numberless priyilfges
scornfully slighted.Liand :ten thousand adino
nitions unheeded,—And then let fall the ibit-
j ter tear of deep iegret.
-And yet bow prevent a fate so sad? ' The
path • is' cleat and the: way iS plain. • 'Lay. .isle
I.tbe foolish fancies and will visions of yo th
IPursue utopian schemes no further. opy
the example of the ;wise; the good and the
virtuous. Let the: dijirtes - of reason govern
, you tn every pursuit:---and in your every{ act
let the eternal !principles of justice, . truth
1. and etiuity be the basis. Reject with manly
,
etn,otions of scorn an d contempt the ceremo-
nimis hom:age Pai(t.to the haters of virtue
and. oviers !of vice. ; Snatch . a juiceless g . eut
from every passii . g . hour.: Cultivate that im
mom-It:mindati( fit it for its future state or
bliss.' Pluiige.itto the labyrinthine mazes of
i t
mYsti . e tholight, kind .dra,tv forth the hidden
energies of the soul. Choose some fitting avo
cation and 'pursue it. with commendable zeal.
4. 110. well your part there all the honor lies,"
and be c'onsoledi by the reflection that if no
recompense awaits : you. here, it does . await
you amid the pritises of pofterity. "tun with
patience the lac( of virtue set before you, and
merit the diadel i of happinesS i then, aluill
1
yon meekly receive the crown,` and 'mid ac
i
clama;ion of w Hest joy triuMPhantly bear
off. the palm of victory as You make your exit
to brighter. real s above. .1
' I
jr?: • A little Mina-boasted to one of her
littic friends " her father kept a car
riage." " lint," vitas the triumphant
ply, " tny'fatfler i/irives ,an otnuibus.!"
• -
"-Director" says, "The • Coiutnon School
Latino'
,
EEKLY
G. W. T.
lOURNAL---DEVOTED -To POLITICS, NEVIS, 1. / MATURE, AGRICULTURE
_SCIENCE, AND MORALITY.
Bontrose, c%usqltranita Vcint'a! TiljursinT 3,(ulg 20, 1855.
' • ' Anecdotes of Orators:
Lost) CiLtruass.—ln figure Loia Chatham
Was.erni4ntly dignified and commariding.---
Tlfre wai a grandeur in his'pers•mal appear
, -
mice, even in . his 'decline, which produced
awe and Mute attention; and though bowed
by infirmity and age;his mind showed through.
tire ruins Of his body, armed
. .hiS eyes with
lightning, and clothed his lip with thunder.
Bodily pain never subdued - the lofty daring
or the extraordinary activity of his mind.—
Ile even used•.his crutch as a figure of rhetor
ic. " You talk my. ;Lords," said he on one
occasion, "of conquering' America,---of your
numerous friends there, and your powerful
forces to disperse her army. 'I. might as well
of driving them before me with this
crutch." Sir Robert Walpole could_ not look
upon or listen to him without being alarmed
and told his fa ienttstthathe " taioutd be glad,
to muzzle thatterriNe cornet of horse."
• Mn. Par.—William Pitt, the younger son
of Lord "Chatham, wasa remarkably shy man.
I.le was on terms of the greatest intimacy with.
Lord Camden; and heirsg at; his house on a
morning visit, "Pitt," said his lordship, '.my
children have beard so much about you .that
they are extremely anxious to have a glinipsel
at, the great man. They arc just-now atdin
tier in thelgreat.room ;you Will oblige me by
'fl•oino• in with me for a moment." "Oh i ''
j. ss .
said Pitt " pray don't ask me; what on earth
could I ,say to them ?" And half led and Intlf
pushed, into the room the Prime Minister'
approached toe little group, looked from their
father to them, and from them to their father
remaiued several minutes twirling his hat,
without finding a single sentence at his dis
posal, and departed.
Loan ERSKINe.—When Lord•ENkine made
his debut at the bar, his agitation almost
overcame hint, and he just going to sit down.
"At that moment," said he, " I thought
..I
felt my little children tugging at my gown,
• and the idea roused me to an exeroon of
which I did not think myself capable."
EDMUND liCiiiiE..—Burke figured in a ntode
of metaphorical expression. When speaking
!on the liegum charge, on the trial of \ Has
' tings. and de:a:silting the happy - situation of
the provinces of Oude, Beuares„ and Gorruck
,pore, before they were under- the .I.h . istito,•, , s
protection, he used the. follo-Wing-:—"),Ile is
worse than Satan, for he. showed ;he king
dom of the world to itni Great Author of our
sacred TeligiOD, in order that he might enjoy
them; but he [turning to the bail gave the
province of Ilindoostan into the. possession ot
men appointed by him Self, for the - purpose of,
destroying' them." Again when be spoke of
treasures deposited wi it the Bee- u Ins, which
Mr. Llas . t.in.Ts setzed; Mr. Burke said:" The
prisoner at yptli 'bar,. s:,.Tping beyond evoi
the heatlieu mythology, was, in his own (kin
. ion, greater than Jove, is ho was esteemed the
• humor:Ltd god of the ancients; for - Jove
• coudeSeetalt , d to ein'untee a frail woman in a
s h owr of gold but Mr. Bastiligs paid more
im e r........te. ti:iratic.ii. in 1-1.. ...L.l Lis.giii;-is." . of
Clinic for the ptopose u:,,,i::;ii g . and stripping
them of their gold. Here, sanl he " is the dis
tinetion between' the Jove of the ancient and
• the Jove of the East Indies. But your lord
ships classical knowledge will convey to you
• that the first is fabulous, and I bust that the
evidence, adduced will convince your lordship
that the last is real."' • - .
• . Suaton.sN.—Manv instances are recorded
of Sheridan's nihrms eloquence. flue day a
gentleman and he had dined- together at Bel
tarey-,:, and Slieridar, having taken histillow
anee, gave his accustomed signal for a mote:
This - stgnal consisted of . the words, " Now I
shidl go down and sec.-what's 'doine: in the
House ;" which, in reality, meant,and was al
wars Iso interpreted by whoever dined in his
company, " I have drank enough; . my:share
of th e business is done; now do- yours ;
.call
for the bill and pay it." ' On this occasion
the usual course was poisued; , and the bill
having been settled by Sheridan'S friend, the
latter, hearing Op Sheridan, was "up," 'felt
curious to krawwhat lie conk' possibly be
at, knowing 0' glorious state" in which be
had just depaitied. On entering the House,
to his no sm4astoniAment, he found Sheri
dan iu a fit of 'Most fervent oratory, thunder
' ingforai the following passage . which has
since been so frequently -quoted ;—give them
-a corrupt,. House of Lords ; .. give] them a venal
House of Commons; giVe them: a tyranical
. prince; g-;ve them a truckling court; and
let me have but an Unfettered !press, and I .
will defy them to encroach a hair's breadth
upon the lilerties of England!'
Lonn • BßOUGlJAM.—Brouglialil's . extraordi
nary powers of endurance have often been
spoken of. H ile would-take an early case its
one-of the courts of Guildhall ; theri proceed
to the:House,of Loris to take part iu a case
of appeal ; then return to the city to take a
( hate case at Guildhall; then harry into the
r njldhall coffee house, .swallow down . a chop
borrow a clean shirt, to 'save the time and
- trouble of going- home to change ;flrive away
in a hack to the' house. off:Om:nous ; speak
there for an hour or two at Dearly midnight;
get home at two or three i n the; mornino., and
-.
be found at his chambers, examining unefs,
and taking direction froth solicitors, &c.,. - as
to os! and generally difficult cases. . •
• FO . •
A.ven6rable American judge- relates the
following anecdote :
The morning f J ollowing the battle of York
town, I had the curio4tv to attend the dre4-
ing of the woutpled: Among others whose
limbs were so much injured 41.5 torequire'am.
putation .was.a musician, who had received a
musket ball in the knee.. As was usual in
such eases, preperatioas were made to lash
him down to a table, to prevent the possibil
ity of his moving: Says the sufferer:
"Now doctor. -what would von be at i" -
"My fad; lam going to take off your. leg,
and it is necessary that you Fbouldlie lashed
down." "
"ill consent to no such thin,g. You may
pluck the heart Trout my bosom, but vu'll not
confine me. Is there a fiddle in the camp.?,
if so bring it to me."
A violin was furnished, and after tuning it
he: said :
Now,'doctor begin," and "he continued
to play until the operation, which took about
forty minutes; was completed,without missing
.a note or moving a muscle.
‘.‘ Quit spitting that fob:ulcer on the
floor, Jodi or I'll- w 1.1; p you." -
" La mother' why don't yon properly:
You should have said, cease eji!eting the of
fensive saliva of the Verzinia viet:d upon the
promenade, Joseph, - or I'slut.ll administer to
you a severe - castigation. Ahem
What a Kuow•Nothing Knows.
TX Qtr.! VI ;.'14.113r..
With such a queer naone;you.would hardly sup.
pose - -
How much,afterallot Knott-Nothing kriows.
He knows that hls country has nothing to hope
Till we:ye banished the papists and poisened Ebe
•
Pope; :
11., knows that all priest's are merely -tlie tools
Of the devil, to worry Know-Nothig,ns rind,
fools ;
That Sisters of Ch!rity" onglit to-be kissed:
That monk should be naurdered,.and nuns
should be llisa-ed ;
.
That the calendar saints oriineient renown
All
.pious " Americane.ought to "put down."
Till the last of the crew is imprisoned or dead,
And oven St, Nicholas yields to St. Ned !) .
Ile knows tfiat a ." farriner" ought not to go •
To the pol3S..thengb as brave - as -Do Kalb cir
De Soto :•..
Thinks good LafAyttto was the vilest .ofealtiffs,
An knows that " the Puritans" must have
‘en natives!
Ile k ows emigration's a dreadful expense
• That dosonl admit of the slightest defence ; •
Can tell to a peony,
exactly how mm-h
We lose . every ,I.ty by the pestilent Dutch
flow a pauper appears with his rags and - his
tatters on,
What it costs to feed Pat,. and board Mrs.
Patter-.on
Ntiu - , who, from this title, would ever suppose
I low many queer things, a Know-Nothing knows 3
*Ned Buntlinc # the base founder , of the vile
se pt of Know-N'oLhln.gs.
CEZZ~iic~~Y:
the 80-,ton'Aciverter
•
The Vahte Of a Man.
•
Two s i years ago the smuncipal iiistra
tion York was a scandal to America.
The finit citrof the republic was aniarently
given fiver to the list, and the lowest of meth
Sober citizens walked the stree:s in terror of
dust bit day :. and
.the fear of.4.leath by night.
The stranger on his arrival was ,beset by•
swarms of Imekmen and -touters more impor
tunate than. F.e.:yptain beggars and more inso
lent than Italian ;Tam:line. "Peter Funks"
lay .in wait for the unsuspecting at -every
corner, • and the infamons trades were piled
with an audacious assiduity and publicity quite
unparalleled in the cities of earth: Noise,
filth aml violence held- ceaseless saturnalia in
the great metropolis. Even tribunals ofjustice,
at least the inferior-ones, seemed to be perva
ded with the prevailing rotteneess. Clubs of
sturdy ruffians held the privileges of the blud
geon and the sluee-•-'mt • 0' eitl - q.ty , n of
. S.
old' held their privileges of 'the sword. This
.stab of things; so dangerous anti disgraceful
to the citizens of New York, was maintained
by them at an enormous eptlise.
The huithen of taxation •was _heavier in
New Ynrk . than in England.. In the mail ltd
ministration of the affairs of half a
million of people there was wasted a seat a
nearly six millions of 'dollars, a sum more than
equal to the annualie.xNndi:u re of the king
dery of Denmark. Corrupt contractors' and
shamelese Common Con m:ilmen, played open
iy:into each others hands, and the civic'
treasury was converted into a sort of "free
lunch" for politicians of the sort, who
like the boy visitors of Mr. Dickens. at Balti
more, w.O-e bidden "come in and bring all
their brothers." Public festivities, and .pub-.
lic §oleniiiitie.s, too, were made the occasions
of the grossest orgies god the niost pitiful
• phindering. At this day, a committee of en
quiry is engaged in the attempt_to:discoVer
what particular members of the city govern
ment purloined the cloth for the-funeral of
Henry Clay, to clothe therewith their own
corporate dignity.
It may be imagined that the enemies of.
reptiblicatt government were not
_indif f erent
to :tlie.spectacle exhibited by the greatest—
in size—of republican cities. From. London
to Havanna, the. details of the 'private and
'public life of a corporation, for whose comfort
and deleciatiog sit hundred dollars worth of
milk alone hadto be yearly provided at the
public .expense, were eagerly discussed and
dwelt upon. And by an'easy;•application of
Vico's well. known proposition, that "gov
erninents issue from the
_nature of the gov
erned," the egotism and incapacity," the
meanness and vulgarity of the rulers'of New
York, were found to justify far
from ffattering - to the influence of republican
institutions.. How should those cmielusions
beset.aside? • It,is.true that the character of
New York is radically vicious. A city sub
jected to the sway nine screrate execu
tive departments must be exposed to great
disorders. In the absence or a great controll
ing *authority, the fountain of all responsibili
ty, the officials of the city, had they been
the best of men; must baye been - liable to fall
into bad habits, into carelessness and indo
lence, at least. The police of the British capi
tal, IX•tOre the passage -of the tnetopol itatr po
llee bill, and the*administration of the Brit
ish war office in the present Crimean conflicts,
afford striking examples of the fatal effects of
a defective organization: 'lll defined duties
are a perpetual temptation, and divided re
sponsibility is practical impunity. But the .
disorders of - New York were. aggro-vated by
the recklesSness of Spirit with which the poli
ties of the city .were conducted. The men
put into muneipal 'office were notoriously
men of mediocre ability and indifferent char
acter., ReTectable citizens, by their apathy,
allowed'the gradual degradation of muncipal
office, till it became almost disreputable fora:
man to hold a seafln the city councils.
- -
The worth and intelligence of Srew York
really retired from active concerns in the ar
.of,the city. And what would be more
natural, therefore, than the failure °revery at
tempt at muncipal ? :Whenever au
"indignation meeting" was called to protest
against the misconduct or impotence of the
tnagistiacy,. and the plea was ready that a
change 41 the charter was the thing needed,
that eobody knew exactly what his business
was, ilxr , 4o could tell him
. what it- was,
nor to 17FlitAt he should be responsble for do
ing if the Commissioner of Streets was
assailed fov,ne , decting the highways,_ he was
prepa e d with - An answer that he had power
to t:Eitt , the streets of certain . eneumbrancts
andllefile*nts, but that it - canie within,the
province Oranother functionary tuftake away
Certain other particular kinds of alai and' of
still44c,,another -to supervise the-removal of
dead cats and dogs. - This is an ;tonal fact.
- Gradually the Goiltamit eS; seemed to resign
themselves to their fate. Meeting after meet
ing had been held, -all equally respectable,
and alit:la:illy impotent. During the year
1854, the nominal Chief-Magistrate, the May,'. midnight. Wind.'• But We' mtiat! say it sonic
or, made scarcely' au effort to control.thaaf- time: , for the grave, liei at; hand: yawning!
fairs of the city, but like the Loyd Mayor of through a bed of thorns or gleaming:like:4i I
London, during the Gordon riots, wrung his, l white avenue of hope:leaning against . : the . , ;
Lands in silent despair: ,Where was the stars: - •!!
remedY I Chance sutidenlY'reiealed it. Mr. 0 When lem dead-17. : Strange-- and learH
Fernando Wood was elected Mayo; and!l ful import bath it. to the: utterrer,
startled New York froth its apathy by the . i weak phrase only to others,the world.[ Who,
simple eiliibition of sound Anse and an iron' speak itl• many think the single going forth
quietly demonstrated that no scheme] of a soul will move none—all - Will
-At
of ' irovernment is too bad to be moulded to ' fore.. . • • " • ~1 !
I •
efficiency by a man , who knows his duty and . .When he, and you, and we gentle readers,
Means to do it. The election of this able of- are folded in our shrouds; friendsdea rist... and
Seer reflects no, credit upon ins fellow citizens. [those whO loved, ns best, Will dry their -tear*
They . can•clairo-no share in the honor which.' ere they have begun to SOW. The he' art that.
he has won and is' winning., For there was i beats with rapture against our. oWn will
a - general impression: itfNew York among the freeze abOveonr memory in brief ti
more respectable Climes, -that the election of ler than woman's trust or man's period of
Mr: Wood would be the greatest calamity that goodness. . . . •
could befal them—the last straw that:would j But it is well thus; 'tie the, world's ems
break the seatuers back; and Mr. Wood own- ! tom and nature's law. We weep not for the
ed his success to the terror whieh his nomina-•! dead but while they die. We shall soon be
tion inspired. Men,deserted their own party with them . ; and it may begood ,we go early
candidate to vote for-one or anothergentle- to their narrow home.
mail who was considered to enjoy the fairest
Chance of success and by Whose election only,
they were told, could the elevation .of Mr.
'Wood be prevented.. By! a. small majority
onlywas Mr. Wood (more behowled and be
hooted than his unhappy namesake of Dublin,':
immortalized in the pillory of "Dean. Swift's
satire) carried into
Immediately after his inauguration be iit.;
Sited a proclamation - which gave 'New York
assurance of a man.' He followed . . up his
word with deeds. The effect of his energetic
action was instantly and powerfully felt
The two thousand • three hundred drinking
shops which had poured forth riot and mad
ness into the streets of the city on the Lord's
day, were reduced almost at once to less than
twenty,. Like another Caliph Harounf Mr.
Wool. seemed to be übiquitous. Ile paralyzed
t be band of barkeepers grown bold with long'
impunity, - by the sudden revelation of his
name- and' office, and by the same tailsman
struck insolent policemen dumb 'in thenm
ment of their miscontltta or their negleeL-t-
Wheretier his authority, clearly extended, he
Made it. felt and respected, and be did-not:
hesitate, wherever that authority was doubt
ful, to take upon himself the responsibility of
decided action if the public g'ciod seemed to
•deMand his interference.
The very stones of Nevi-York bear witness
now to his courage and. his cenduct., The
strang,,,r blesses the resolute Mayor when he
lands in safety trout car or steamer, unsmitten
by the whips;•unclittehed by the hands of
raging Jehus—the "unprotected fetriale"
breathes a sweet wish for him, when the
Lsfotit arta and quick eye Of 'the. policeman
`have cleared for her at passage through the
thronz of coaches and of omnibuses • that
made Broadway as turbulent as the rapids,of
a cataract. There is a fair change come over
the face of the great metropolis, and that
change is . ane absolmelv and' solely to: the
simplefact that Mayor Wood does his , duty
-ike. a than; for the charter of New Yerk is
bad as ever it Was. : Mc ()Common cg - mneil;
en of New York are as-absurd and us t
ve
nal as ever, even if they do not just now fig
q
u re like their predecessors at the bar of jtistice,_
a spectacle of the downward tendency of the .
standard of qualifications for the public ser
vice. • .
,Such -is the value of a man. . - .
When I am Meadi
In the dim crypts of the heart, where -de
spair abided), these words seem. written. A
strange Leaning—a solemn imitation unfolds
itele at their uterance. Four simple mono
svi, bibles; itow much of ;loom le convey, I
IlOw ye speak in funeral tones of the extiu
znishment of earthly likw.—of the spirit that
has struggled in vain, and is painfully quiet
nOw
"When I am dead !".is uttered calmly hut
what A calm !--such as a tornado• leaves
when silence broods -over slesdation. `The
voice pronounciu7 -that despiaring phrase,baS
not all - its mournfulness from itself. The list
ening eat hear something -more ;• for from
those words the aspirations - is quenched,
and hopes pale and bleeding upoa the'sharp
rocks of adversity, come •up phantom-like,
amid the. 'ghastly .scenes of the buried past.--
" When lam dead I" We have. heard it
Often, like the pealing bell thatialls the body
of the departed to its final rest, The last
word "dead," lingers strangely, and echoes
sadly-in the ear; and, through the portals of
th e sympalhiAng soul. Dead—dead—dead
and the world grows gray, and the heart
sills, and the eye moistens,, - to that mysteri
otis sound. •
The
.t•pirit . trembles before the rushing
flood of conflicting emotions which follow
the dark echo, and essay to, glance through
its import: . But the echo fades amid encir
cling mist, and the spirit turns back confus;
ed with blindness.
Even the echo ofileath cannot.be'penetth
ted. The few feet of mould that' composes
the grave, are wider than the. globe, higher
than the stars. Not the mind's eye, noel the
atrzious soul . y,an glance through the barrier
—the boundary between Time and . Eternity.'
"When I am dead l" More or.less signifies
resignation ; or dependent wo, a •fulflitnent of
nature, or a perversion' of its end, may these
words expresq, though sad they - are at last..
• :When the aged Man; whose- steps shave
;;,own feeble in the walks of 'toodfiess, and
whose hands tiembled with the fruit of his!
oft: given charity, utters these words, they fall
froth the lips; as a prayer. to heaven: In
Them his will harmonises with his destiny.;
and the.tear that stalks for a superior. soul
about to leave its clay, glistens in the Light'
of happiness that gleams out of the heart, at
the prospective reward of the future.
The.lips,' too, that never premed the rim of.
the fount of Na tu re's Poesy,. in ay mu rtn ur . —
" When I atn dead !". but death to snob an
one is better, perhaps than life. His heart
holds . uo tuusic, chiming in cadences to weal
mid wo; Lis iuwai d existence is void, and the
rough stn face of his. being checkered, though
not: brightened by the' half stray thoughts,_
darkens.but little with the panoply of .the
tomb.
'How different, when youth, glowing with
beauty of soul and.heart, rich with the treai,
ure.s .
tniml,and warm with-sympathy for
all of loveliness, sighs like the . south wind,
"When I am dead',"_ A spirit seems to wail
its anthem, and an Nip se 'of ,the noontide
sun to fall upan,the pii.lture of a hie,. 'nature
checked in is purix)se=turned, from dulcet
wav tipop -a coral reef, against the roe!: of
a destructive shore.
"When I :in dead !",, is; mournful
as the plaint of aghost on the tetupest, and
Sayings of feorge
" Government being,. among other ptirpose,
instituted to protect the persons and the CON-
Sep. :NOES of men from oppressiOn i it certainly
is, the duty of rulers, not only to abstain from
it th6msefves, bUt according to their stations,
to prevent it iti others"
!*lf I could have entertained the slightest
apprehension that the constitution, framed in
the conyention where I. had the honor to pre,
side, might poy.ibly \ endanger the
. religious
rights of airy ecclesiastical .society, certainly
I woitlct never have - plueed my signature to
ii.,
I "If I could conceive, that the General
! GOvernment nzigia be even so administered, as
to render the liberty of conscience insecure, no
one, Would be More- zealous Ithan%myself, to
t.Otablisla etlec,tual.,barriers. against the-horrors '
i of spiritual tyranny,_ and every,,species of re-
ligious persecution." • .
1 "In this eUlightened age, and this land of
f equal liberty, it is:our b i.)trst that a rnan'.4
ligions tenets will Sot forfeit the protection 'Of
1 the larvi,:nor :deprive him, of the FIGHT of
!atabang / and holding the highest. office's that
are known in the - flniterl. States." -
1 - "-The liberty enjoyed by the peopleof these
!States, of worshipping Almighty God arrreca
bly to their consciences, is not only-the Arnie
est of their tdi'Sehirtt but also'of.their.rights."
St6;171111 MinSie• • 7
A Worchester(nass.) 'paper 'says one of.
their ingenious weelt:lmes has invented the
art of rendering steam whistles musical—thus
Making - those . nuisaactls quite as ornamental
as useful. What. an improvement that will
be, when .it conies into general use! For fit
stance, suppose we are a young Married 'man,.
(it requires somejmagination we admit,) and
have to leave. the .endearnients- of home for
business elsewhere. We, in to the.ea I's_
feeling dreadfully if not worse. , =.-the- bell
rings the parting Jinkle, the wheels rumble
slowly out of the &Tot; and at that tuoment
the whistle strikes up . 7 4)6, g',..tomib 1 dual t
you cry, for tne"—slionldn'i we be toughed,
and 'yet consoled 2 Then, further along, an
ignoramus, as' ignoramuses will, ,is seen
walking on the track, and immediately,
"'Get out of the way, Old Dan Tucker!"
Startles Min one - side.as promptly as the hiss
Of a male snake, but still with . - art agreeable
OhileratiOn. .Butaidog "is just to,he rim over
- , -the.thinn• is inevitable—but, there is some
I.
consolation in "Old Dog Tray," played, as a
4otnplimentary requiem. When not other
disec employed, didactic strains 'might giv
n, as ;," Wake up Jake the fire wants pok-
Mg'l, or . the night train Might
Ai r e wont go .home i till mornmg." And one
instance more:-Lthe young than, so ingenious-
ty supposed above, having got through his
business, is returniug—as the cars begin to
Slacken . their ,pace, what would be more
touchingly apprOpriate than " Home again,
home again," played within forty horse-pow
er pathos? We' have said enough—hurry
up the musical engines. „
Romance iaßeal Life.
A wedding took place at Bristbi, England,
a few weeks since, tinder somewhat romantic
circumstaires, realizing the
_old adage, that,
"Truth is stranger; stranger than fiction." • It
appears that a sister of Mra. N 4 who resides . at
Montpelier, same two or throe .years since,
married a merchant, and emigrated .to Cali
fornia soon afterward, with a view of betterin;:'
their fortnnts, taking with.thein alikeneSs of
an unmarried sister. .The piCtnre_ happened
to be hung in a very con.picuans part of their
houseiralalifornia and attracted - the . atten
tion of a rich resident of third district, who
happened f to pa y .visit to the house.
was enraptured with the image of. the fair
unknown and exclaimed, "ill' Jove,, Tll Mar
ry, that girl if - she to be found in ..the
.world."
Ile . .
a
.
, ~
was; told where she resided, and he post
ed to her la note enclosing - a present of forty
poundi sterling, and a few days sincelt knock
was heard! at the door and on the young lady
P•oi n..., o. to !open lit, agood looking, bronzed
featured .1 , I.
gentleinan rushed into the house
and gave a claq.te - salute,,exclaiming that be
had come 'from- the other end of the world to
find her,, at, the same time pulling out the
likeness which first led him to seek his at
traction. Of course they were married and
are to" live long and die happy," as usual:
.
11.Azaan;ocs ADVENTuar...--.Agentletnan of
scientific tittainineuts; recently passed-through
the Village of Sauk Rapids, S'liiinesota, on his
way by the route of Gov..Stevens' railroad
survey to fort Union, on the Upper Missoari
riVer„a dikance of seven himdrtul miles, all
of which be. designed to,- traverse solitary and
alone, taking no supplies With .hiM, and , re
lying Solely upon his gun and. MS skill as a.
1 hunter for 'the means - of- subSiStenee : oti his
journey. ;Ite _travels: 'olt - foqt, drawing in :a
small hancart his Meagre . outfit, consisting of
a gun, aMmunition, :blank boob, pen, ink,
-paper and 'rscienti fic . instrumetits. Iti this, way
ho _proposes
. - t( acquaint himself, ",tlioro . Ugh-,
ly with the topography of the r country, rts
climate,so.. ii
, geological eh:tracts:o.l36o ' -etc.,
i making a complete examination as he pro
seeds, and trlnsferring the: result, of his ob-
I servations to
_his blank books. .
Air An exchange says - that the
_various
telegraphic companies funned- in . - different
quarters, are in a fair way of "belting
the earth." Well,.as the earth is. verywick
i ed, perhaps it realidesertieS.it - goed belting I
" • DounrFt4.-17be prospects of " Sarn's'!
ler being
.distinguished fur his wit or wisdom.
; . : Ptinnt:'l.2" - ,'_:,Nitilo.o,-.311.
Getting 'nit - Invitatioiu
It was observed that a certain rich-man
never iniited any dna to dine with bun.
lay.agertakitra Wag ;,t,laan.get,,,"aft - invi7
from bin .". -
.
, The wager being accepted' be goes the next
day to the rich man's house. about the - lime
he was going to"dhie, and tills "the servant
that - he must'speak with his master imakedi-.
I ately for' he could' save 'hi& a ihous:init
pounds." , ,
" Sir,"'said the servant to his master,`" hero
is a man in a great husry, who says 'he can
save you a
,thousand pounds.
-Out came the master.
.
",what is that, sir Can you Eipse me a
thonsand tounds." ' '
-.Liu pounds.- .
"Yes, sir, I can; but I iee you are at din
per;, I go myself acid dine, a n d' call
ctgaiti."
" Oh pray, Sir, come in and •take, dinner
with me.'
"I shall be troubles*e r ,'
_ • •
"'got at all." 1
The invitation was accepted. As 813011 as
dinner was over, and the ilumi ly bad: retired,
the conversation was resuiPed. -
" Well, sir," said the mad of di
to your business. " Praytlet me.
I am to save a thousand pounds."
Why, sir," said the other, "
you have a daughter to .dispose
riage.,
"I have, sip."
" And . thati, you - intend to; i porti
' ten thousand 'pounds."
"I have, slir.". - .is
. •
" Why,then, sir, let me have. her and. I
will take her at nine thousand. . -
-The. inaste'r flf the house t i ros§ id - a passion
and kicked the fellow out of doors. 1 -
. .
aftnAT DivovzriV:—.lfercizVy taken from the..
llitment System by EledricflY.—Having heard a,
rumor on the. street that. mercury had been ex
tracted from the body of a sick than lithe forin
of qeicksitVer, and being anxious tin:witness such
an experiment, we accompanied Die. Youmans.
and Seltzer,"the operators, yesterday for the pur.l l
pose of judging fcir ourself of. the truth of the
statement. We fitund Mr. Jacob Hymrod, thsl
patient; living in the south part of the city; who'
has been . atilicted',with the chronic rheumatism
for the - last ten years, lying. Omit the bed in an,
enfeelltld state, who told 'IS that ho hereto,;'
'fore tried every kind of medical treatment with: :
out . sucimss. Ho had , swallowed. during his
sickness vast quantities of. mercury in the shaffq
of calemel and blue pills, from tfie-effhetsof
he bad nearly boat the use oChis, . .
Hq
showed us a..globtile of quicksilver larger than it'
good:::ized pea, which he said had been gathered".
from the bol!,om of the elestriebathhr.vhich hot
had been . placed.. : He had . been seated upon i
Inetalije stool in an insulated zinc bath, well eliat,
ed with paint, and his feet-immersed in acidulated.,
water. The galvanic batter' was then , •appliedi . --
the positive pole held in the hari& of the patiatt.,,
the negative pole being in the bath, It6.laimed
that the powor..orthc L-N-c-4•4?lty apt l n the iaystetri
is such as to eradicate every • metallic : splistance;:
and by means of the wire ;t is' deposited in the
bottom of the tub, - It reffuires some tWenty-font
hours for - the glotuleS to collect themselves sj
as to be perceptible to the naked eye, when theY\
may be seen: by thonsands clinging to the sidei
end bottom of the-bath.:We,were informed by.
the (lectors that three . drachiris of quicksilver had
already. - been taken from the'-patieut, who,- 0-
getlier With - his .friends and - relatives, present . ;
Confirmed the statement. Although this pump`.
in; quietsilvor oat of the body of a mr by ,the
f''eanS of
,a galvanic battery may rein strange_
bd smell a little ef hilmbng, we trust, our seen'
i
1 .1., .tie and medical men will not pass the espermien t
:
i: itbont. a tboreittli investigation--.-Columbu's
iv im no ,
17 IS THEME S ANY FOgG.TT; NG ?-:Or:'ash
_telly
us that when he wos called upon to attend, oit
their. .
veec . l.es, who, Tor forty,
fifty or .si:,t) years had lost the Use of their - mi.
tire tongue. the,lopt; stispetala faculty :Wong
be rerallcd in approaching death, ano . therwonl,.
talk, pray' and sing . "Swed!sh. lohnstio,
also when it came to his turn to die, spoke noL
in,tho_marelr or his own majestic rhetoric—prig,
ed by cten.the cadence, of itlelfit.,t,atin hymni.in
wt;ich he once loved to dwell-Ltut was heard
With .his singing voil:ci -muttering rhild's-praye'r
which he. had learned on 'his :mother'S.- - kneC.
- '
St, ttnrre t i
cked, idenee,-and yet er
wisely illustrative lee of_ time as an
element in the dig which thus brings
togethe( in !nystit theetwo ostreines
of human history—birth and death
- ifgr An Irishman in Models-land was
about marrying s girl who . ha I a . pfetty sum
of money.. Now the priest . hearing of thiS,
desired to get a piece of the money, and told
the 'bridegroo m he would . charge s2,sfOr per- -
forming . the marriage; ceremony. .
"117 s rather high, your reverence," saidthe
latter.. 7
"Then-I'll not harry you'," . replied the
priet.
." Very well, your reverenee, ru go to. some
,
other. priest."
"PII excon - ununionte von." _ •
can go to anotherehureb.
"Thee Vll not let the girl' have you."
"Ther''s .plenty_of Others, Sour reverence,
and I've . been" thinking, your
,reverence,. that
churches a:Ad girls are very much alike
—if one won? - 7.13 vet another will.' -
!=il=l
'AdloLn - W.ao cu.—Thii. Cleveland-
..flerald
offers to . stake -its rSputation for voracity,
that flour will be mown to .$0,50 per. barrel
-in thirty days.- 'says the 'crops never look
ed better in the State:of Ohio, and'. the.
pec.tia that thero-svi!:-the.flargest yield ev
or known inthat Shp: 3-There-are thousands
of bread-eaters %rho xoutd.re)oiOto the
'Herald :win iti• wagel, howfwer plentiful
the harvest - May. be, the time, is
,too short to
realize the prediction.Wi
- . rst new flour of
the season, from 'Charleston. was sold. io :New
York eTew_dttys.n4o for $13,00 per barrel.
-_. = -~-a
Wary Itirrorti.-;-4)uring Louis Napoleon's
visit to London, hAppening4o see-:Mr. Ba
ehanaiythe Ameritata Minister, at ono of-the
royal balls, he approached him - very stably,
any stated how - glad he was to make the
quaint:moo of the repraientative of a nation
he so tmnelr admire 'and-,whose nountry-h4'
had once visited foali short period.- - - Mr. Bu
chanan bowed, mid replied with a sly twinkle
in his eye : ".I trust your inajOsty-may nem
Lave any occasion, ti) visit dgutu
house, now
kknowhow,
hear that
of in mar-
on her With