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The ait it bath i own estate,
The mind it htith its wealth. untold;
Tt needs no fortune to be great,
While there is coin surpassing gold.
No matter which Way fortune' loans;
Wealth makes not . bappiness secure;
A little mind bath little means— '
narrow heart is always poor.
Stern fate the greatest still enthralls,
And miiery bath its high compeers
For sorrow erters palace
And queens are not exempt from tear%
The princely. robe and beggar's coat,
The scythe and sword,the plume and plow
Are, in the grave, of equal note—
?den lire but in the eternal "Now?"
Still disappointment tracks the proud,
• The bravest •neath defeat may fall ;
The high, the •rich.the courtly crowd,
Find thorea calamity for all.
' ris not ihe hense that honor:makes--
True honor is the thing divine;
It !s the mind precedence takes—
• It is the spirit makes the shrine !
So keep thou yet a generous heart,
A-steadfast and contented mind,
And not till death consentto‘part [hind.
. With that which friend to friend doth
What's 'uttered from the life within,
Is heard not from thelife without;
There's always Something to begin
'Twizt life in faith and life in doubt..
But grasp the truth,thongh bleak appears
The ragged path her , steps have trod ;
She'L be thy friend in other.spheres—
Conipanion in the world of God. .
Thws dwelling with the wise and good—
The rich in , thought, the great in soul
141sn'smission may •be understood,
And part.prove equal to the whole.
We know not half we may possess,
Nor what awaits, nor. what attends;
We're richer far than we may guess,
Rich as , eternity extends.
The heart it luith its own estate, .
• , The mind it bath its wealth untold;
Itneeds•not fortune to be great,
While there's a coin surrtssing gold.
isceilantous.
CHRISTIA,Ta'V'
, 7 :;
In the reign Of Octavius C.Tsar, master of
Rome, then mistress of the world, there ap
peared, inn small and obscure province, of
the Roman 'Empire, a man of
the
birth,
yet lineally descended from the Rings of du
des; born iu the stable of an inn, yet born
of a virgin, and announced to the world by
the voice of angels as The Saviour ofi man
kind. The result of his appearanceNpon
earth was then declared by a, multitude of
the heavenly hOst to be, " Gtory to God in
the highest, and on earth peace, goOd will to ,
ward man."
This man was the mediator of lr a new cove
nant between Gocl \ - and men. He was the
founder of a new religion.
He. proclaimed, by a special revelation
from Heaven, 'the immortality of the human
soul, and a future state of retribution, and-the
responsibility of man hereafter, for the deeds
done in the body.
AO He declared, that the enjoyMent of
felicity in the world hereafter would be the
reward of the practice of benevolence here.
His whole law was resolvable into the pre
cept of love; peace on earth,—good- will to
man, was the earthly object of his mission ;1
and the authoritative demonstintion of .the
immortality of man was that which constitu
ted the more than earthly tribute of glory in
the highest.
Such was the doctrine destined, by its"
power, to subdue'the masters of the
woad. Such was the kingdom founded up- 1
on *rock, against which He declared, the
gates of hell should not prevail.
13ut,by. what means, to what extent, thro'
what vicissitudes, against what obstructions,
and. within The compais of what time,the
tied dispensation is to have its entire sway
upon the moral and , religions Condition -of
the human family it is not within the pnr- •
looseti of Divine Provdenes to reveal. The ,
prediction, that the gates of hell should not
prevail, was a. prophecy no less clear than
that,the gates of hell should be armed against
its . -That it should make its way against all
the powers of earth e as well as' against Beel
zebub, the prince of devils,; was with equal
eiplicitness announced., Persecution, suffer
ance, and death were freely held out, as the
destiny of those who should devote them
selves to preach the Gospel of glad tidings to.
man. The Lord of glory was himself a man
of sorrows,.a,;d' acquainted with grief So
little in hirtniniY. were his doctrines and their
first-fruits, that be expressly warned his dis
ciples that he came not to send peace on
earth;.-but a sword ; and the first pledge of
the universal triumph of the religion of Je
sus was over the unsocial passiois of his dis
ciples.,. It elevated the standard of the hit,
man character in the scale of existence. The
christian was taught, dist the end' of his be
ing on earth was the salvation - of his soul
hereater. Compounded
, of never-dying spir
it, an of perishable . mat ter, he ,was t,aught to
subdue his earthly passions; to Purify- his
spirit by repentance ; to give his immortal
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part•eutire. control overther lusts of the flesh.; I
to Oveidiite the.wcrld of hia• own vices,. and
to sacrifiCe the earthly pleasures of sense -to
the apiritim) joys of eternity.•- On the Chris
tmanr opm of Morals, map is an immortal spir
it, confined \for a short space of time •in an
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darthly tabernaCle. Kindness to his fellow
-1.• I . i
mortals embraces the - whole compes of his
duties upon earth, and the - whole Ipromise:of
happiness to his spirit hereafter. The essence
if this ' lliOi f trine is, to exalt the spiritual over .
the. brutal part of his. nature:. 1 . .-;
Sucli was theidocitine of . Jesus. . Bit in
• • the ` doctrine ,
revea' li i g this system of morals 'to man, it was
'
not the design Of Providence to change. his
. , It deft tim as he had! been created
im 'withl II the passions and propen
i
r tleS o Ilia degenerate condition since the
fall. It was Consistent with-the Divine put ,
~ • I
'pose that ttte opetfatiOn of this system should
betlone> e. priAinted 11 - !that! it should be per
verted ..
by lieresies' and schisms ; that it should
bei;encumbired, with' the most portentious
an ,;1 incredible absurditieS; •that it Should be
-
.for; eel:A.4i oppressed a t tisl peis4.llted-; and
.
• , 1 • !,
that after leaving overcome princi alities, and
pow,, •
ers ; and, i iu defiance of Roma despotism,
seiited itself Upon' l the throne of the qesars - ,
itjhould endOunt'er the shock of 'a
vile - au&
i: - i
sordid iinposture.• It was consistent with the
sordid , 1 • . .
DiVine purpose that, by the operation of 'this
spitem, all. these,should bee - slowly -and grad:
S
nal 1y..0 vercotne. , • I
= • i .
In the seventh century of the Christian era
wandering Arab, of pe lineagl Of Hagar,
Om, Eg , l rptiai,- combining the posiers of t rang- .
cleadent geniuS with the preternatural energy
(ifla fanatic and the fraudulent spirit of an:
iMpostor, Proelaimed himself as a messenger
from :Heaven; and spread desolation - and de
,
Insion over an extensive portion Of the earth. ;
AdOpting,. irOut the sublime conception of
the Mosaic.biw, the doctrine - of one onmipO
tent God, he connected indissolubly with it.
the, audacious falsehood, that he was himself
his piOphei and apostle.
- -Adopti_n l g, from the
new revelation of Jesus, the - faith and hope of
immortal life, and . of - future retribution, he
humbled it to the dust by adapting all the
rewards and sanctions of his religion to the
.
gratification of the sexual passion; lie poi-
Soned Ithe sources of human felicity .at -the
fountain, by degrading the condition of. the
ft:male Sex, and the allowance of polygamy.;
1 1
and lie 4eelared' utt' distinguishing and eXter
minat'ing, war as a part of his religion. against
all the test of mankind.. • The; essence of his
-• 1
Voctrine. was violence and- lust ; to exalt the
i
'brutal over the spiritual part ;of Aumari:na-•
lure.
et‘i4en-these two religions, thus contras
ted in -tlieir characters, a war ; of, more than
twelve htindre3 Years -has already raged. : --
-That war is yet flagrant; - nor can ,it cease
but by be extindtur of
: that itnposture,which
hrts. been permitted by Providence to-prolong
the degeneracy of man.• ; While the merci
less and .dissolute are encouraged to furnish
motive to human action, there never can be
peace dim eat i
l-th and good `will toward m in.—
The band of Ishmael will be, against: very.
Man, every man's hand against him.
naittre
Heft
Fora period . Ota. thousand' years the im
posturelof-Mohammed - was permitted to in
mph. I The infidelity, of the last age sprung
to the Conclusion that this triumph was nev
er to"I r !e reversed ; and& storY-sighted his
torian of Romela decline and fall, sneering
alike at the itapoiturer;of the pseudo-prophet
and 4 the .goh)ell of eternal truth, after. aißr 7
ming that Mohammed; with the sword in one
hand and the Koran in the other, tad-met
ed halithrone on the ruins of Christianity and
of Roine, regards the . erent as a revolution
which` ,l impressed a. new and lasting char
acterl
on the.nations of the-globe.
In, „die frozen regions nr the north, on the
very d borders of the frigid zone, the dc,cend
the Scythians and•the Sarmatians of
fon4r ages whence issued in swarms the
barbatlian conquerors of imperial Rome, a na
tion has arisen, at once of European and Asi
rttie-Origin, but bowing at thq name of "Jesus,
retaining ji , be rites of the primitive, Grecian
Cliure4, l xiieving in the diiine inspiration,.
1
and V:teindispensable moral and _religious
obligations ot the sermon on the mount, and
of the parables of the good Samaritan and of
thy, son.:
It is 'this which constitutes them Christians.
They-believe in the three Arsons in the God
head; they beliive in the real presence of
the
,Encharist and the
. atoning •blood _of
Christ., and _that faith without works is dead ;
that Christ Crucified is the'power of God and
the wisdom of God ; 'that there abideth faith
, .
hope, and cnarity, and that the greatest of
these is charity.
The governmeus of this cation is as absa
lute. military monarchy, with a permanent
aimed force little 4, short of a millioU of men,
and with a discretionary power in the sover
eign to summon tb his service, for loffeusive
or defensive' war, * population of pear ten
million* of able,bOdied men, ready to march
fit his sninitirs, sad to stand or fall by his
banner, with"the - inflexible spirit ot martyr
dom. Thie l gigatitic power has been matur
ing fora long suc4ession of ages, litany cen
turies blVe .elapsed since the conversion of
the Sclavonia race to the Christian faith ;
but i is in ruddern times onlylthat they have
been nuinbered - arnengihe'Europeal4amilies;
and since the accession of the lhouse
!m of no
anoff, or, more . properly, sine. 4 the; sublime .
conceptions nd _creative' energies Of .Petei
the Great, that they have formed a part of
the political iystem ?f Europe."
Fr
!
Froutime;itame*ial- they - bare been in
a state a wzr i with tits
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cottrost, insquefraitirit Coantn, ?entea, T4ltrsall renting, 'Scherer 15,1855..
successors the Ottoman conquerors of Con
staniinople. It would be a repetition to
trace the causes of each renewal of hostilities
duri ; a succession of several centuries. The
"wee nt -of the Koran is, perpetual war against
all %/Ito deny that Mohammed is the prophet.
of eil. 'The vanynished may purchase their
_lives by 'the payment of tribute ; the victori-.
ous may be appeased by false .- and- delusive
promise of peace; and the ;faithful follower
of the prophet may submit to the imperious
necessities of defeat; but the command to
propagate the Moslem creed by the sword is
always obligatory when it - can be effective.
The - cotnmands of .the prophet maybe per
formed alike by fraud and forces
.• That the
,sovereigns of Russia, since the •
time of Peter the :Great, have occasionally-in
dulg,ed the just, and, wise; and humane senti
ment, that at some future day_ this execrable.
impostur'e of Molkamtn . ed, with its-sword and
its Koran, sltould be expelled at least from
Europe, is riot to be doubted., That this sen
timent was felt by Catherine the Second, the•
• name of Constantine, given ht; her direCtion
to the second of her grandsons, was received
as' no insignificant indication at the tiMe.--
The guide-post in the Crimea, ‘: This 'is the
road to Constantinople," was not less intelli
-1 •
gible; but this sentiment has been more pro . ,
- 1 • -
foundly spread in the, heart of the Russian
people than in that of their monarchs. In
the people it has been:a sentiment 'of justice,
of humanity, of Christian sympathy, perhaps
of national ambition. •In the imperial bre - ast
it has been shackled and trammelled by con
siderations of pOlicy, by the jealou • sies of en
vious and rival Christian neighbors, and by a
sentiment of respect Jo. that most specious
fraud, the necessity of a " balance of power.'.'
But-events have swept away that hollow
shunt; and. the Czar (deceased) found ' him
'self on the brink of an abyss,-his own people
behind him•goading him on, the finger of
Destiny raised to beckon him across, the
wings of Faith outspread to sustain his flight,
-and nothing on the other side to oppose his
passage, save the half-disciplined barbarians
of an' ianOrant and worn-mit despotism; , and
the contingent possibility of resistance from
that Liliputan nephew, whose Brobdignag
4ian uncle, the - Russian empire but then in its
infancy, sent back with shattered cohorts and
a ruined .• N
'fame.
The Emperor took the leap; an. unexpect
ed anA abnormal . alliance between France
and England foi awhile retarded, and may
yet awhile retard, the filial but inevitable suc
cess of Russian arms—. That eventual success
is. in.store for Rusia, none but the most pur
blind adorer of red-tape can question. The.
empire of. the Porte,. old and exhaustive and
exhausted ; that.of the Czar still in its earli
est years of manhood, progressive, expansive
and with a boundle,satnbition in the beaus
of its inhabitants—what special providence
of Mohammed can over sway such odds ?
- *Of MOhaminedan.good -faith we have had
memorable example's ourselves. When our gal
l:int Decatur had chastised the pirate of Algiers,
till he was ready to renounce his claim of trib
ute from the United States, he signed a treaty to
that effect; but the treaty waft drawn up in the
Arabic language, as Well.as in pur own ; and our
negotiators, unacquaintea with the
_language -of
the: Koran, signed the copieS of the treaty in
both languages, not . imagining that there was
any difference between' them. Within a year
the D.ey demands, under penaltyof the renewal
of the war, an indemnity itrmoney for the frig
ate taken by Decatur: our Consul-demands the
foundation of this pretension; and the Arabic
c opy of the treaty. signed by himself, is produc
ed, with an article stipulating the indemnity fois
ted into it, indirect opposition tothe treaty as
it had been concluded; The arrival of Chauncey
with a squadron before Al ,, iers silenced the fraud
ulent claim. of .the Dey, and he - Signed a new
treaty, in which it was abandoned - ,_ but he dis
dained to _conceit his intentions. "My power,'"
said he, ".has been wreAcd from my hands;
draw ye the trepty atyour pleasure, and I will
sign it ; but beware of the moment when I shall
recover my power, - .fiir with that moment your
treaty shall be waste.paper." fleavowKd what.
Mohatntnedans have always practised, and what
he "%could without scruple have practised himself.
Such has been the nniform character of the
Ottoman Porte towards their Rusaian neighbors;
arkd such is the spirit which governs the hearts
of men, to. whom violence and treachery are
taught is principles of religion.
. At a recent dinner-party in the Fifth
Avenue, a literau
,gentleman proposed the
following- conundrunt
".Why are most people who -eat tinkles
like bahies r
No Reply
" Because they are.fond of the brecat !"
At this answer, two middle-aged maids
fainted rifilit off, five married ladies fell into
fits of cacbinnatory convulsions, and the per
petratorof the pun was expelled from the
party for pitching so foul a joke.
jar Never ask a lady for her heart and
hand just before dinner. - An empty stomach
is a poor basis on which to seek divinity, sun
shine and prospective population. The ehan
pes are, if you violate this rule; that, instead
of a rase tinted, delicate vxs, you will
. recieve
a startling, burning, big xo. Beware.
EXTRAORDINARY FECUNDITY---A married
woman,in Pottsville, a few days ago, was
safely delivered of three children at a single
birth. Considering that her husband had
been absent in Calafornia ,for the last two
years, the result is a physiological phenome
non. But we suppose the wife was often re
minded of him by
t Charles Lamb hit •the .hydropathista
when he said," Water was as old as the del
uge, Only the first greatApplicatien killed
more than it cured." , .
jorPopular—splitn- in Know-Nothing
Cairngorm.
ElO T ANELLE.
. The email Chief. . .
.A correspondent of - the Missouri Democrat
at Wolfe River, Kansas Territory, writing un
der date of August 4th, gives the folloWing
account of the death of a celebrated. Indian
Chief—who Seems to have - been worthy to be
classed with truces, King,Thillip and Tecum
.seh : . .
Logan Fontanelle, chief. of tho Omahaa,
has just been slain and scalped at,Leup Fork,
by a baud of Sioux. Logan was a noble fel
low-, and in his lat mortal conflict, he dis
patched several of the enemy to the spirit
land before, to herald the coming of his own
brave soul. ' He fought long, desperately,and
with great effect, but numbers finally -over
came him, and his life departed through an
( hundred wounds. -- -He died a martyr for his
people, and his name'should be carved upon
fame's brightest tablet. • ,
He . was on his anual hunt with his nall'on.
A number of his lodges were pitched upon
the plains near Loup Fork. As a young war
'riot one day rode around the adjacent hills,
he espied a powerful baud of Sioux encamp
ed along a stream in a sequestered vale. He
hastened to inform; Logan of the proximity
and power of their natural foe. Logan or;
- dered his people to pack - . immediately, . and
proceed in 'a straight line with - all speed for
home; while he would remain behind, and
divert. the Sioux by -false camp fires, and oth
er devices, from a direct pursuit of them,
This was about. twilight.. The people got un
der way as soon as possible ; but not too soon ;
for scarcely -had they turned a high land
when several Sioux Warriors came in sight
Ind discovered the place of their recent' en, •
catnpment: They examined it -and found,
Omahas had b een there, and then they re-
turned to notify their chief, and bring win' d- I
equate force to purspe and:. t slaughter them. Logan, from a biding- place; saw :and .ikeeiv
that no-time was to be kat in driwing
. their
attention from the trail, which they' - would
-soon discover and follow, and mounting his
horse, he dashed'away at full speed across
the prairie, at right angles with the 'route his
tribe had taken, and struck a fire about eight
miles distant, on' an eminence where the Si
oux could distinctly see l it.. He bad hardly
done so defore a powerful band were upon
the spot.that he and hisl pebple had so lately
left, and whowithout-stOpping to distinguish
the trail, statted for the fire which they saw
r isin g against the clear, blue sky, and whet
they expected ireanother moment to imbrue
their hands in the-gore of their unguarded
tictims: - But Logan had not been unwary.
As soon as the fire was lighted, he again
mounted and- rode - on eight or ten miles fur
ther, and kindled another ' fire just -as they
reached. the . first. This- rather bewildered
them. They dismounted and examined the
ground. Logan anticipating. this, had trot
ted and walked his horse around it, so as' to
- Make the appearance on the grass of the
treading of a doien . horses;. and ibis 'drew_
them into-the belief that a small body had
lingered behind and kindled ..this. fire, and
then gone on to ' where' they could see -the
new fire burning ; and
,se they followed with
'renewed avidity. The same thing happened
as before. Logan had gone on, • and another
-fire had met their astonished gaze, while' the
same sort of foot-prints were ' aliout the. one
around which. they were r.ow gathered.—
Their suspicions were now awakened. They
examined the ground more closely, both far
and near.and discovered that a solitary horse
man hid deceived them, and they knew that
it• was for the sole purpose Of leading them
off from the pursuit of the party whose /
en
campment they had discovered. ,
Logan saw them going round with glars
inn . -torches, and understood their object; and
knew that his-only chance of safety was in
his immediate flight towards }xis borne;' and
be fur her knew that by the. time they could
retrace their way to their place of - starting,
and find the trail that his own people had
taken, they would be beyond the reach of
,da,nmer.• •
The Sioux in the meanwhile, nu. .divided
into smaller bands, the largest of which
,was
to return and pursue the Oinahaa, and .the
others to endeavor to capture the man who
• had Misled them.' They knew that he must
be an Omal, and that he would either - go fur
ther and kindle another fire,. or start for his
nation in a straight line ; and therefore _ one
party went on a little further, and :the other
spread out towards the Omab . country, for
ilie purpose of intercepting him. Logan .
'pressed forward as' rapidly. as -his jaded steed
could bear him, until be thought he had en
tirely eluded them; but as . the day dawned
to his horror and dismay, he saw his pursu
ers close upot , his track. ' He, turned his
course'for a ravine, which he distingushed.at
. a distance, eOvered with trees and under
growth. He succeeded in reaching it, and
just within its verge : be met an Indian girl
dipping-'water from a spring. She was. star
tled, and about to cry ,for help, when he has
tily, assured her :that he needed protectiOn and
assistance. With the true instinCt -of noble
wornan, she appreciated his situation in an
instant, and 'all her sympathies r were. with
him. Shedirected him to dismount and go
to a small natural bower - to which she point
ed him, in the verge of thewoods, while she
would mount his horse and lead his pursuers
away. He obeyed her, sod she mounted his
lonia and dashed an in a serp e ntine way
, thiongh the -woods, leaving marks along 'the .
bushes by which she could. be traced. - The .
pursuers soon followed. When she had g?t,
some distance &In 'the brizieli, abs nide ID-
. .
to. the water . and followed its descending I
course, for a few steps,making her horse touch
his sides and then leave foot-prints in that
direction, and then turned upflte bed' of the
stteani and rode above the place which she
entered it, without leaVing a trace, and back
to where. Logan was concealed. She told
him to mount and speed - away while his pur•
suers were goirig. in a contrary direction.
down the ravine. He did so, and got a long
distance out ofsight, and again thoUght hint
self out of danger s when ina valley just in
front of hint; he saw fifty braves coming up
the hill aiid meeting him. They *ere some
of those who were returning front the pur
suit of his people. He Changed his direction i
and tried to escape,. lint his poor itorSe was
too much exhaustedito bear him with eta
tient speed. With Pavame yells they plung
ed, es.
- their rowels in their horses sides and gain
ed tiPon him. As the foremost .approached
within good shooting distanc, Logan turited'
suddenly and sent a bullet through his brain.
Then, loading' as he_ gallopped, 0 1 / 4 1, be soon
after - Made another bite the dust ; and then
another, and another, until four were "strewn •
along the plain. Just then, however, .as be
was ag:iin relwiditig, his horse stumbled and
fell, and the band j rushed
.upon. him before he
had well recovered from the shock. Ho was
shot with bullets and arrows,' gashed with
tomahawks, and pierced With lances;
withstanding all which, be rose amid his-foes
and with his clubbed rifle and hunting-knife,
.he piked around him five , prostrate bodies,
and,fell With his back upon their corpses and
expired, - still lighting. •
He was scalped, aid Hundreds of warriors
hold a great war-dance - over hini.
' Thus Logan Fontanelle departed,. and his
I noble spirit was followed to the spirit land by
the sighs and lamentations of his nation, and
the sympathies and aspirations.° f the brave
of - every land. .
The Early Life-of Slr Isaac New
Men of great bearing and talents, whom
all people admire and Praise„are found to be
more modest - than persons not so - wise, and .
good. Sir Isaac Newton was one of these
great,'and at-the same !time modest men.—
When a little boy at school lie surprised eve
-body...by the curious little. machines which he
made with his ow I hands. He bad. a nuns
of saw's, hatchets, banitners, and other tools,
which he us,c-d very skillfully. A wind-mill
being put up near the place Where he lived,
lie frequently went to \look,at it, and priel'in
to every part of it, till he became thoroUghly
aquainted with it, and the Wily in -which it
moved. lie then began with his knife and
saws, and, hammer, and made a small wind
mill, exactly like_ the large One ; it *as.. very
neat'and curious piece of workManship. He
sometimes set it on the house top, thate.tha
,wipd might turn it around. He also con
trived to cause a mouse to turn his mill
little animal being put inside a hollow
wheel, itsiendeavors to - get forward turned
• the wheel and set the machine in motion.—
There was also some corn placed abont : '_the
wheel and 'when the mouse tried to get, at
the corn it made the wheel go rohnd: Ilav
ingla.ot an old box from . a friend, Isaac rnade
it into a water crock—that is a clock driven
by l a small fall of water. It is very -mach
lik4 our common cloCks, and about four feet
high. At the top Was a dial plate, With fig-
urea-of the hours. The hourhand was turn
ed by a piece of wood, - which either fell or
rose by, water dropping upon it. This stood
in the moth where he lay, and he took care,
every morning to supply it with plenty of
Water. - It pointed out
-the - hour so well, that
the people of the house would go to see what
time it was by . it. It was kept,in the "house
as a curiosity long after Isaac went Co tcol
lege.
.The room in which he lodged - . Was full
of birds, beasts, men, ships, and mathematical
fig‘tres, all neatly made upon the wall With
'charcoal. When Isaac grew a little older
and went to college, he had a great desire to
know something about the air; the water the
tides, and .the sun mobn_ and stars. One day
when lie was sitting alone in 'the garden, an
apple happened to fall to the ground. He
then began to ask himself. What is . the
cause of the apple falling down? Is it from
some power or force in the apple itself, or is
the power in the earth, which draws the ap
ple down! When he had long thought-up
.on this subject, be found out that it was the
earth, that attracted or dreW the apple' down;
and that this Power of attraction .is one of
the laws of nature. By it, loose objects
are retained
. mpon the surface of the earth, in
stead 'of flying abroad through space. You,
have learned, that thii earth is a globe, Which
turns over, day after day. his - attraction,
which gives weight to objects;. hence it is
sometimes called gravitation, which .nvans
nearly the same as weight. Isaac Newton
also discovered that all objects Whatever have
an attraction for each other, and \ always . in.
Proportion to their size and the distance at
which, they are placed., Thus the moon,
though a large globe, is under the attraction
of the earth, and the planets are:under the
attraction of the sun.. And it is by attrae . -
tioh they are All made to keep their proper
distances froni one. another.; These discover.
ies were justly Considered aithe most impor
-
tent ever made; and- - for. his. having, inane '
them, reflecting men will,venerate the name l
of Newton. He was also the first who show-. 1
ed that every ray of light from the she :con
sista of several different`Colors;.and he made
knOwn many other 'curious* and wonderful
things . wlsiah • were tieveriktiown bilfete.
. Ile was of a mild and equal temper,. and s
was •
was seldom or never seen in a passion. He
had a little dog which he called Diamond.
Ile wits one day called out of his study,
where all his papers and writings were lying
upon astable. His dog Diamond happened
to jump upon the table, and overturned a
lighted candle, which set fire to all his pa
pers, and consumed them in rtfew moments.
In. this way, Newton lost the labor of many
years. But when he came : Into , the study,
and saw what had happened,4 did not stike
the little dog, but only 'said, ":Ali Diamond,
Diamond, thou little knowest4 the mischief
thou had (loner,'
Though Isaac Newton was a yeti 'wise and
learned man, he was not proud of his learn
ing, but was very meek and humble, Ile
as kind, to all,even to the poorest and m6an
est man. Though he was wiser than most
other men,-yet he said, a little before
t he died
!.
that all his knowledge was nothing' when,
compared with what he had.yet to larn. Ile
was sotatimes so Much engaged in thinking,
that his dinner was often three hours ready
for him-before he could be - -brought to the
table: He died in th year 1727, at the, age
of eighty-five. ,
The Bigler Brothers.:'
It will be seen by the news from ',Califor
nia, that the Know Nothings of that State
have'elected their entire ticket.. JOus BIG
LEI:, the present Governor, who;. as a legisla
tor and a Chief Magistrate, has • performed
signal services in shaping the policy and di-
rotting the infant steps of the young and!
-flourishing Commonwealth—who had repeat.;
•edlydefied the.menaces of the gambler; and
spurned the demands of the money
changers and speculators—who had so often .
bY the judicious use of the'veto power, pro
tected her coffers against schemes of loose
Prodigal legislation, has . fallen at the hands
of the Know NOthing Order, as did his broth
er in this State, under similar circumstances;
a year. since.
WeAre not, it is true, entirely unprepared
fOrthis result ; for events in . Atlintic States
had admonished us of the poWer of- this Se
cret Order, in a first contrast, as instanced in
our City and State. • Its first blows have
been its most effectual ; and we venture the
.prediction now, - that it has gained
_i ts last
triumph in Califorii id, as all agrewit has in
Pentv:vivania; •
There is something touchingly interesting
in the career of the BIC:LET: - brothers; and
we cannot refrain -from a brief reference to
the most prominent features• in the - lives of
both on this occasion. They are Teunsylya
nians by birth, Protestant in their - religions
belief, and printers by profession:: They com
menced' the career of manhood without pe
cuniary means Or intittentialfriends,.and were
active' I politicians in boyhood. Practical,
sense, sOund judgment, great energy, indus
try, strict integrity, constant devotion to
Study, Ontl•fair speaking ability, are the lead
ing cha i racteristias of both. • The Calafornia
1
b;otheriltad a much longer editorial career
than 'lei of *Penns) lvania. By the year 1850.
. .. .
both had performed valuable-services ..
in the
Legislature of their• respecive States. In'
1851, the elder, JonN, was elected Governor
of the youngest State in' the Unien, almost .
on the shores of the Pa . cific. . Within a:i few
days Of the same time, the yotinger, Wnimm,
reached the same high trust in - their .:native
state on the Atlantic. In a terrible i struggle
against all the elements-c opposition -to the
1 1
Democracy in 1851 the 1 tter was . triT7-
antly sustained. In 185 , with all parties
acknowledging the' sound ess of his general
policy as governor, and. h s personaldevotion
to what he deemed to be ight, he was strick
en down by the Know-Nothing Order in- - a
distinct contest for the constitutional rights
of: the State, and civil and religious lib
erty of the people. The formerlad trium*Ph
ed in a'first and second contest, and in 1853 1
had
. maint.lined himself, with the entire Press
`Of the State united . against-
. hiin, and the
Combined influence of a Laud of reckless
speculators, who designed to . prostarate the
government to their base purposes. .At a sub
se4uent session of theLecislature, he signed
. -
a bill to suppre.ss th&vice of 'gambling in the
face of threats of 'violence to his persen.—
He also vetoed the famous Esrstl. bill, and
Many other measures calculated to entail an
iminensatieht upon the State, and .thr exact
ed. front all parties the :need : of praise due
a good - and faithful servant. In. the late cony
test, as in the case of his brother of -Pennsyl
vania, all . parties conceded to his administra
tion peculiar merits, and to himself honesty.
and purity.: of Turpose. Standing on the
ConStitutiOnal rights of ,the State, and, the
citizens of each irrespective of nativity or of
,religious persuasion, .as a distinct Platform,
with scarcely a sentenceSm thepress Against
him, be was made the victim of the Midnight
Order, headed by H. 5, Fporz, - H. Mausnaix, -
, . .•••
BAILEY PEXTON,.. and others. His ppponent,
Jouxsonr, - was elected 14,;about 4000 vote*:
As the Pennsylvania' 13tia um.. defeated the
Pennsylvania Jouxsolr, in 1851, so the Cala
fornia JOIDISON in turn worsted' he Calaforeiti
B/GLER in .1855. - `.
'On . what theater'the brothers will appear
next we know not; big we are mistaken
the general impulse!' of the 'Democracy
both states, if either should* be • permitted
live icing withoutwitnesslug a sigma -via
cation of his c!laiaitatsitid princsigleS,lgainst
the unjust proaciiptiOU the KuosicNeithl'
ing dimastyt9.enngYttialitin.....
- Sa',Pure' Benetolencei v ftoiter of raft
ap
gIII=MNNM
.: . ihtifte:l2; ..- Stoti*: ~.ik
. • . ,
.111 wits irolk the Fire-Shle: "'..
- -
The happiest . . beers of out peihAPl
are spent at `,a'; ; The lien:A . 4W )11iui
with the-societT of a- few . friends whom - wri
esteem, or whom we hayo not met for rtaiv. j
becomes the nucleus of , a world of enjoyMeW
, -
—even the very' badness of the food is, some- -
times, on such 'ma occasion, the shnrce ofeotn...
tented mirth and drollery ; but bad manners
can never ilease. - The , heart-.dislikes them
more than the palate dislikes sour bread or
Weak ale. Good , manners will sties hen.the ,
ale and sweeten the bread. .Moreover, good
,
Manners are of far more Importance at home •
than, abroad. it is usual for most people to
put on their best manners to strangers. - This
is wrolg. `'.Our best manners staid be worn i
eery ay stout own firesides. Letstrangers i .
he contented with something 'less' refined.-- , !*
What is it that-alienaies husband from ilk:-
xi-if° from, hukband, parent from child, chile
fromparent, and Makes brothers and, sisters
quarrel', and, ultimately dislike each other I
• -
If - you trace thie evils to the real seurce, you -
t it ' ' t -
will probably find some • appar,en trifle,,
Which is first disapo.oved of, then hated, and '
I
hated the .-113 Ore,- be:eauke, in atteMpting to
i . 1.
correct' it,/ it is th more persisted in.—
' Wherever,there is 'want of. will:to please,
I
an indifference to the feeling of our co-mates, '
and .'satisfaction in doing
,that._,which wet
have found to annoy thern„there is The begin-. -
sing of the domestic strife ;brother parts; with
. brOther, and finds anotheecompaniorsis ter
becomes alien from sister—wife -sets up .an -
interest of her -own, - ;and plots against her
hushlnd—and reuriien heComes impossible
by the train of offences which, follow in quick -
succession. We do not affiruathat such evil
are to be prevented Met ely hy correction-- of, ~
bad habits for which iwe have alluded, ,for
th'ey aro merely a peculiar class ofhad habits
and form only a part 'of the whole system of -
rudeness 'which are nothing more or less than
good manners,'which we enjoy. LOve
.and
friendship can only last while good: manners'
last. The lover and mistress show their , best
to one another. They do not Put on their
common attire when they meet,. bn't . array
th.unseAves ln their-charms ; and what charnis .
are more beautiful or more bewitching than
thoseUfgoed behavior' When they begin
to cool, they begin to nef, , ,lci the rules of eti
equette. The Lover divests himeeff of his chiv- .
airy, and therefore of his dignity and beauty
--the'spell is broken: The mist':finds it
gives way, and frets and' foseiher regard for
hi
hint. She now caresnot what h , thinks' of
her. She will -,-
beautify herself be re him.-
is
She does so. He 'makes anethe Idiseovery
—he' sees a deformity ; anotherilritakage ,
takes place, the illusion vanishes, '',.td- the
two parties, once so devoted; so polite, - are
now rude vulgar; and- even coarse to. each
other.-:-N. Y. Leader. ' . '
Sarcastic Sentence..
Old Elias Keyes, fOrmerly,first JUdgo - of'
Windsor county, Vt.,' was a strange ~.conipos
itionlof folly and good sense, of'natural
shrewdness and. want of cultivation. The
following! sentence; its is said, was pronounced
upon a Ivor ragged "pow convited of steal
ing a pair it
. boots from Geti.i Curtis, a Man.
-of considerable wealth. in the I town of . Wind- .
fI • -
" Wellr said the Judge; very] gravely, be-
fore pronoUncing the senten4;lf the court;
undertaking to read the feloW a lecture,
you're a fine fellow to be arruts , ,rted before the
,court for stealing. They sa?yrOu are .poor=-
no one doubts it who looks ai you; and how
dare you , being pOor, have the impudence to
steal` a par'of boots! Nobodyi but rich peo
ple have a right to take such 'thingit' with - on t
paying.' Then they say you
_are worthless: 7
that is evident from the - fact thitt no one has
ever asked justice to be done to you ;- all, by
unanimous consent, pronounced you guilty
before you are tried. Now4oir might know
yiCu - would be , condemned. A.nd now ,you
must know that it was a great aggravation
that you have stole thernin that large town .
of Windsor." In that ,large'' low n, town, to
commit such an! act is. most horrible. And
not only go into Windsor to. steal, but you
must steal from that great man, Gen. Curt is. This capslthe cliMax of your iniquity. Bise
wretch 1 N r by did younot go andyetenl the •
only pair of boots which some pOjr manhatj
or could got] jand then none , would have
troubled themselves about the ital. For,your
iniquity in stealing 1 in \ tbe, greit town- of
IVivsitnsr, rind froth the great Gent Curtis, tha
court sentences yOu to,three months' iMpris-
onment in the county.jail and May God.give
you something to .
' jam'" Ma , I want a sled. Ido want a sled
Can't I have a sled, Ma l 7" "sCutaitily,
son, I suppose so. Ask your father.",--- . :
" I don't like to ask, him, ms." " WhY,
what nonsense. Ask Win." " No, Ma—you
ask him—you've knotenkfm the 144ist!'''
rip'Thp don't you give'
Greek and Latin occasionally r asked conn ..
try deacon of ihe HOW 'minister.
• Why,_do ; you undertitand those - lingua-
No. ' But - we pay foi the best raid ought
_ .
to btive:it.' ' - -=-
In
of
to
A - man should tlrer. he 1 nelnitned - to
o that lin has been= in the wronejt iF
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only enying, in other word - s , u n it be -.4*
tfrdaY- than , bq was yeater,day.
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