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ling. Dimness of Sight or Giddiness, Disease of the Head,
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Stomach or Bowes-those Terrible Disorders slitting from
the Solitary Habits of Youth—those sECZET and solitary
practices more fatal to their victims than the song of Syrone
to the Migipere of Ulysces, blighting their most brilliant
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Especially, who have become the victims of Solitary Vice,
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to Co untimely grave thoneaods of Young Men of the most
/waited talents and brilliant Intellect, who might other-
Vise have eatramool lightning Satighla, With the Unladen
of eloquence or wakett to orMaerthe living lyre', may call
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Married Persona, or Young Men contemplating mar.
Plage, being aware of pbtilcal weakness, organic debility,
derormitim speedily eared.
He who places himself under the care of Dr. 3. may
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'ldeally rely upon Ida skill as a physician. '
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Immediately Cured and Fall Vigor Restored.
This Diallffiring Affection—which renders Life and Mar
tinge impossible—le the peachy poll by the victims of iMm
proper indulgences. 'Young persons ore too apt to oordtdlt
excesses from not being aware of the dreadful rause.
.quences that may ensue. Now, who that understand the
subject will pretend to deny that the power of procrea
tion ts lent eooner by those falling into. improper habits
Um by the prudent? Besides being deprived of the pious
use Of healthy eityring, the most MMUS and destructive
'symptoms to both body and mind arise. The system be
comes Deranged, the Physical and Mental Functions
Weakened, Lose of Procreative Power, Nervous Irritabil
ity, Dyspepsia, Palpitation of the Heart, Indigestion, Con
atitritional Debility, a wasting of the Frame, Cough, Con
sumption, Decay and Death.
Offices No. 7.Boath. Frederick Street.
Lett hand side going from Baltimore street, a few doors
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Lesion meet be paid and contain a stamp. The Doctor's
Diploma hangs in his office.
A MAXI IiIIirAULIIIANTED IN
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No Mercury or Nauseous Drugs.
3OBNSTON,
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, Grad
uate from one of the moat eminent CClieges In the United
Ratak aid the griat4ar peat of whom life bee been spent
in the hoSpltale of London, Paris, PialsolelpLis sad eta
where, has exacted some of the most eatonishing mtree
that were ever known; many troubled with ringing in
the head and ears when asleep, great nervousness, being
alarmed at sudden sounds, bashfulness, with freonent
blushing, attended sometime with derangement of mind,
were eared immediately. .
TAKE PARTZMI4I2. aroirzon-
Dr..J. addresses all those who have injondi theomelcm
by improper indulgence and solitary habits, widen nein
both body and mind, unfitting them for either busmen,
study, society or marriage.
Tom are some of the sad and melancholy affects pro
duced by:early habits of- youth, viz: Weakness of the
Back and Limbs, Patna in the Head, Dimness of Sight,
urea of siescalar Power, Palpitation of the Mart, Dys
pepsia, Dervoue Irritability, Derangement of the Digestive
Functions, General Debility ,Sy ptoms of Consum ption,&c.
Marro:LT.—The fearful effects on the mind are much to
be dreaded—Lose of Memory, Confusion of Ideas, Decree,
dons of Spirits, ball Forbodings, Aversion to Society, Self-
Distrust, Love of Solitude, Timidity, &c., are sortie of the
evils produced.
THOussrusi of persons of an ages eau now judge what
is the cause of their declining health, losing their vigor,
becoming weak, pale, nervous and emaciated, having a
singular appearance about the eyes, cough and symptoms
of coosamption.
YOUNG MEN
Who have ilijared themselves by a certain practice indul
ged in when alone, 16 habit frequently learned from evil
companions, or at school, the effects of which are nightly
felt, even when asleep, and if not cured renders marriage
impossible, and destroys both mind and body, should ap
ply immediately.
What s pity that a young man, the Lope of hie country.
the darling of Ma pareutes ehoula be Snatched from all
pr.:mph-Le and: enjoyments of life, by the colmquenee of
deli/W.3:g from the path of nature and indulging Ins nor
rain aecretbabit. Such persona ling% before contemplat.
ICLARRIAGE,
reflect that a soned mind and body are the most necessary
requisites to promote connubial happiness. Indeed, with.
oat dada the joulney through life becomee e Mary Fp
grimagei the prospect hourly darkens to the views the
mind becomes shadowed with despair and filled with the
melancholy reflection that the happiness of another ~bec
omes blighted with our own.
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When the misguided and imprudent votary of pleasure
ends that he has Imbibed the seeds of this palatal diteleitl,
it too often happens that an ill-timed Setae of shame, or
dread of discovery, deters him from applying to those who,
from education and respectability, Call alone befriend him,
delaying till the constitutional aymptoms of this horrid
disease make their appearance, mach as ulcerated sore
throat, dimmed nose, nocturnal pains in the bead and
limbs, dimness of sight, deafness, nodes on the AD:clones
and arms, blotches on the head, fun and eaten:oMM pro-
greening with frightful rapidity, till at last the palate of
the month or the bones of the nose fall in, and the victim
of this awful disease becomes a horrid object of commis
eration, till death puts a petted to his dreadful sufferings,
by sending Dim to w that Undiscovered Conntry from
whence no traveller Marna" •
In tee melancholy fact that thousands fall victims to
this terrible disease, owing to the nnekillfulness of Ignor
ant pretenders, whO, by the nee of that ;.1) may Poison,
Mercury, ruin the constitution and make the residue o
life miserable.
Trust not your liven, or 604144 to the we of MIRY Mi.
learned and worthless Pretenders, destitutetif knowledge,
name or character, who copy Dr. Johnston'. advertise
ments, or style themselves, in the newspapers, regularly
Educated Physicians, incapable of Curing, they keep you
raining month alter month taking.their ditby and rpoison
one compounds, or as long as the smallest fee can be ob
tained, and in deepair, leave yea with tabled 'hinilth
sigh over your own galling disappointment.
Dr. Johnston is the only Physician advertising.
His credentials or diplomas always hang in his office.
His remedies or treatment are Unknown to all others,
prepared from a life spent in the great hospitals of Europe,
the Ara in the country and a more extensive Private
practice thug imy etheryb eltdan in the world;
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The many thousands lured at this institution yeas after
year, and the numerous . important Surgical Operations
performed by Dr. Johnston. - mitnhesed by the reporters of
the 4. fine,” ..vlipper,".and many other papas, notime of
which hare appeared again and again before the public,
beside. his standing as a gentleman of character and re
sponsibility, is a sufficient guarantee to the 'filleted.
Skin Diseases Speedily Cured.
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Of the Madman Lock Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
May 23—ly
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Bed Ott
THE NORSEMA.N.
- •
E=7l
A swarthy strength, with face of light,
As dark molt-iron is beaten bright:
A brave frank look, with health a-glow,
Bonny bins eyes and open brow ;
Hie friend he welcomes heart-in-hand,
Bat toot to foot his foe mast stand;
A man who will face to his last breath
The sternest facts of life and death;
This is the daring Norseman.
The wild wave•motlon, weird and strange,
Rocks in him; seaward he must range,
For life is just a mighty lust
To wear sway with use, not rusk
Though bitter wintry cold the storm,
The Are within him keeps him warm.
Kings quiver at hie flag unfurled ;
The sea-king's master of the world;
Conquering comes the Norseman.
He hides, at heart of
,hie rougelife,
A world of eweetuess for the wife ;
From bie rude breast a babe may press
geft milk of human tenderness,
Make hie eyes water, his heart dance,
And sunrise in hie co..ii.ialiea!
In merry mood his ale he quaffs
By dre.light, and hie jolly heart laughs:
The blithe greet-hearted Norseman.
Bet when the battle•trumpet ringa,
llle enure a war twine clad wtth swinge I
Be drinks delight in with the breath
Of battle and the dada death 1
The axes redden, spring tbenparke,
Blood-radlant grow the grey mall-Barka;
Seth Islam might hatter, ae they full,
Heaven's gates.or bttresthe booms of hell t
So lights the fearless Norseman.
The Norseman's king must stand up tall ;
A head that could hi et o'er all;
Mainmast of battle! when the plain
Grew miry red with bloody rain;
And grip his weapon for the light,
Until his knuckle all grew white!
Theirbanner•etaff be bears is best
If double handful for the reek,
When " Follow met" cries the Norseman
Valiant and true, as sagas tell,
The Norsemen bated lies like hell ;
Hardy from the cradle to the grave,
'Twas their religion to be bear);
Great silent fighting men, whose words
Were few, coon said, sod out with swords !
One, saw his bean cat from his aide,
Living—and smiled; and, smiling died!
The unconquerable Norseman.
They swam the flood, they strode the nem,
Nor quailed when the Valkyrie came •
To kiss the chosen forlier charms,
With "Rest, my hero, in mine arms"
Their spirits through a grim wide wound,
The Nam doorway to heaven found,
And borne upon the battle blast,
Into the Hall of Heroes past :
And there was crowned the Norseman.
The Norseman wrestled with old Rome
For Freedom in oir Wand home
He taught ne bow to ride the sea,
With hempen bridle, horse of tree.
Rio spirit stood with Robin Hood,
By Freedom in the merry green wood,
When William ruled the English land,
With cruel Leer& and bloody hand;
For Freedom lights the Norseman.
Still In our race the Norse king roigns,
His best blood beats along our veins ;
With bin old glory we can glow,
And *aunty eleaat sehars ha could roar,
Is danger stirring? Up from eleep,
Oar war•dog wakes, his watch to keep
Stands with our banner over him,
Tract as of old, and stern and grim;
Come on, you'll dud 440 Norseman
When swords are gleaming yen shall see
The Norsemau's face gash gloriously,
With look that makes the foetnan reel :
Hie mirror from of old was steel.
And still be wields. In battle's hour,
That old Thor's hammer of Borst. joStesr;
Strikes with a desperate arm of might,.
And at the lest tag turns the fight
For never yields the Norseman.
Gutty sub Sistrits.
Rom the Baturhy &deb%
EXPLANATIONS.
There are few words that carry a heavier
weight of dullness, or are beset with more an
noying associations, than "Explanation," and
the verb "To Explain," in all its tenses. We do
not remember that the poets give them a place
in the armory of Discord ; but in their dull
hypocritical way, none deservd it better, for
every so-called explanation induces some element
of discordance and separation, and -puts the
speaker in a sort of opposition of sentiment or
inclination to the Juearer. The words have, no
doubt, an innocent use as applied to things ; but
when men come to explain a meaning that had
previously seemed too clear, or to give an expla--
nada 91 a questionable course of conduct, or to
seek an explanation of a line of action which has
diepleased them—above all, when, under the
privilege of intimacy, there is a mutual unfold
ing of motives and intentions with the professed
design of explaining away son e chance ooldnette
or difference—it is rare that mischief does not
come of it. And as for truth, which is the pro-.
leased aim, who was ever thoroughly satisfied
with himself, whose conscience ever came out
quite white and dean, after some - tooth-and-nail
explanation on some intricate, knotty point in
which his feelings or passions! have.peen engag
ed f The sense of failure after these encounters
Is, indeed, so general, that we believe the pree
tice would be about given up by rational people
but for a perversion of language which univer
sally-prevails. Wherever neighbors and acquain -
tanoen de not quite hit it, wherever there is
some alight breach or halt in intimacy, the state
of things is call a misunderstanding. The affair
is politely attributed to the respective parties not
knowing enough of each other's inner motives
and opinions. -it being assumed that the more
people know exactly what goes on inside each
other, the greater friends they will be. Now, of
course, if ignorance lies at the bottom of the dif
ficulty, an explanation has some chyme of ye
moving it; and thus the word "misunderstand
ing" suggests naturally the idea of explaining it
away. But if misunderstanding, as we believe,
always means Collision, the recourse to explana
tion is madifestly absurd; and that the word
does not convey this meaning, those at least will
not doubt who have, on the other hypothesis,
tried what an elaborate explanation of themselves
elan do. Pure, =tinctured mistake has not much
to do with human affairs out of novels. In fact,
all mihds brought into near °env are aware,
except where the ties of a life-long family affec
tion and unity ef interests blind them, of certain
incongruous elements and points of antagonism
which untoward circumstances occasionally bring
SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 30, 1863.
into prominence, There is some quality in each
unit of the most attached pair of friends, or even
lovers, which is not acceptable or agreeable to
the other,—whicb, when uppermost, causes a
rub, and results even in a sense of mutual blame
—but which neld not cause any lasting disturb
ance if reeognlted for what it is, an inborn dif
ference or defect, a spot come into sight: For
collisions are passing things—even serious colli
sions; if we weather the drat shock, we may go
on as before, merely learning a scarcely conscious
lesson of caution. But in impulsive minds a de
sire arises to do something. Self has to be
cleared, or another has to be called to account;
we must needs get at the bottom of things, and
see where the fault lies, and once for all make
things straight. Now, whenever this craving
arises, the friendship or familiarity has arrived_
at one of its inevitable hitches; and it is certain
ly wisest to go round it, if possible, not to make
too violent efforts to remove whatis deeper root
ed and harder to shift than haste and inexperi
ence will bellete. Clashes of feeling or opinion
must come, sooner or later, where there are hid
den differences. The warmest friendship must
be content With something short of absolute
unanimity—must now and then endure tacit dis
approval, must rely on a general estimate of con
duct, must eubmit to be what it calls mistaken, *
while in reality there is as good an understand— .
ing as innate differences and opposlug views and
interests will allow.
Few persons are aware how seldom they act in
the affairs of life on a formal array of reasons.
All people who are fond of explanations hapTe
more than half their reasons to seek on the spur
of the moment and in the heat of talk. In fact,
men act on tho principles that have formed their
characters, but very Seldom think of reasons till
after an affair is over. Hence all sorts of temp
tations to be disingenuous. The mind must be
very candid and transparent which comes out of
one of these explanatory duels lillCOneCietts of
suppressions and special pleadings, and of
glosses whioh a man may be sure his opponent
has seen more clearly than himself, and which
may unduly lower his opinion of his, sincerity.
When the Frenchwoman explained that she
wished for a divorce because she could practice
no virttie with the Dutchman, nobody would give
her credit for the particle of truth which was
possibly there. To persons who cannot follow
the causes of your conduct intuitively, your rea
sons evoked at a moment's notice are not likely
to make matters better, or better understood ;
for a reason which barely represents half your
motives to yourself is more to enter the other
mind in snob travestied guise as to convey noth
ing BB you intend it. A man's principles may
be good and the application of them nothing to
be ashmired of, but he has found them hardly
presentable without a little varnish. In feet,
motives of-conduct are such complex things that
they often refuse to be pat into words. In pri
vate and individual oases, moreover, they may
have no possible disarm in them, and yet there
may be a pardonable reluctance proclaim them.
Self-respect and want of appropriate language
drive people in these predicaments to the hypo
crisy of a higher ground than they have a right
to. Sydney Smith, arguing with "a good, honest
Tory," on Catholic emancipation, asks of what
importance it is to him whether a Protestant or
Catholic is made a judge ? "None," is the dis
interested answer; If but I am afraid for the
Church of Ireland?" "Why do you care so much
for the Church of Ireland ?" "I do not care so much
for the Church of Ireland, if I was sure the
Church of England would not be destroyed."
"And is it for the Church 64 England alone that
you fear?" is the insinuating rejoinder. " Not
quite that; but I am afraid we should all be
lost ; that everything would be overturned, and
that I should lose my rank and toy estate." In
politics, a party may be made to explain itself
in this fashion—may be driven to a confession of
-selfish as well as , pualic ends, without leaving a
soreness behind; but there are a hundred prliate
motives and considerations in social life which
will not bear such treatment, and which cannot
be forced into words and made distinctly visible
without a 'sense of humiliation, and yet which
are quite as lawful as the tory's regard for his
own estate. Conversation and all social inter
course is carried on under the notion of a certain
masonic comprehension more subtle thaw lan
guse, and nothing is so embarrassing to our
osMor and sense of truth as to find the freema
sonry at fault. Families, cliques, societies un
derstand one another with this electric rapidity;
wherever temper or opposing interests break the
mystic link, friends and intimates are in the
position of opposing classes, who have to lay
down everything in the way of formal explana
tion. Words are powerless to restore the old
flash of recognition, and it is very seldom wise
to have recourse to them, where there are such
hinderanoes on each side as impeded sympathies
and perception blinded by eager self-vindication.
People, indeed, who have faith in explanations
and periodioal repairs of their friendships, have
need of an exceptional amount of charity, or of
some Lethe of their own wherein to bathe their
memory after them; for we are comparatively
indifferent to being misunderstood, or even mis
judged, where it comes of our friends' blunder,
or his dullness to our merits; but nobody can
stand having his array of statements, his'proofs,
arguments, justifications, set at naught. It is
intolerable, after condescending to a laborious
vindication, to remain where one was—aftqy an
unanswerable display of grievances, to see one's
I friend unconvineed and impenitent; and yet .
some touch of this evil clings to every eiplana
tion, with whatever temper conducted. But
what temper can come wholly unscathed out of
the ordeal ? In many Lands, explanations, of
course, slip at once into mere recrimination, pro
ceeding to the scandal of a quarrel and mutual
loss of respect, even where reconciliation ensues.
But short of this, and where principle, self-con
trol, and politeness are never lost sight of, this
form of encounter brings out many awkward
revelations. Few natures ring true through
their whole depths. There is a savage, untamed
spot in most hettric. Education and the disci
pline of society do not subdue the whole man.
We do not slander humanity in saying that few
men are gentlemen under every conceivable trial.
Something rough and rude lurks, unknown, un
seen, in many an elegant, refined trom, civilized
by all that culture can do, and protff against all
attacks recognized as such, but which reveals
itself under the insidious temptation of one of
these friendly patiMigee at arms. Of all possible
forms of ibis evil, the worst and the most dan-
gerous is where members of the same household
or family, ceasing to tenet to instinct and expe
rience in their perilous intimacy, throw them
selves upon verbal explanation.
It may be observed, that people who keep their
felends, and live in a state of harmony With the
world, systematically deny.themselves the luxury
of explanations. Things go a little wrong, but
they wait patiently until they right themselves.
They trust to time, to patience, to the weight of
a composed and forbearing attitude, to the pow
erful ioiluences of reticence and self-respect.
While people are much and variously involved in
the world's business and pleasures, they hardly
recognize the temptation to this undignified form
of exculpatory vindication and self-assertion
Indeed, a fondness for explanations can scarcely
possess persgis in the brisk intercourse of life.
It demands ffire to brood. It belongs to pauses
in the hurry of existence—to the byways of life.
Women are more given to it than men ; dwellers
in small towns than in great. Even the Male
people take to explanations in the oountry which
they would never think of making in London
Apart from any sense of neglect or grievance,
there is a constant tendency in some minds to
e x pl a i n themselves and right themselves in the
eyes of the world. All people who do not come
up to their own idea of themselves, and are af
flicted with morbid misgivings that they. do not
do themselves Justice,have this habit.. A per
son of this sort will plunge into any depth of
new blunder in explaining away his last sole
cism. It is, in fact, the way conceit works where
it has rare occasions for 481,14, and wants a
field. Most people's conselousnas will tell them
that, if ever a fit of explaining themselves has
been upon them, it has been in some flutter of
self-loye, self-consciousness, `or self-interest.
This at once differs from, and is more pardonable
than that:solemn sense of importance Which im
pels some men to explain every step in their
course of action=to give a reason for every
thing they do, under the notion that they are .
examples.
There are dull prosers whose lips are engaged
all their lives in a running comment on their
actions—who, like Mr. Collins, cannot take a
hand at whist without detaining their hostess to
explain why they think such a step justifiable
and becoming to their position. Poor people are
very prone to obtrude tedious apologetic expla—
nations on their betters, sometimes to the sus—
pension of all rational talk—not fr . om conceit,
bat from ah inevitable ignorance of the small
bold which their chance ceremonial intercourse
has on persons remote from their ways of
thought, and full of other things. Nor does all
their desire to be civil preserve them from the
common Tate of explanations where self is neces—
sarily prominent; as where the rustic, eager to
atone for some fancied want of respect to a
stranger at the Hall, opens his apology, on
next meeting the distinguished visitor, with,
I'mure, sir, if I'd had ta l least notion as you
WAS a gentlemen." But indeed, in less clumsy
hands, it needs the geeatsst tact to enter on an
affair of this kind without making. worse of it;
and generally, to explain the why and because
of a failure in respect or appreeiatiorr is only to
commit a fresh and IWe offensive blunder, and
is not seldom taken for deliberate impertinence.
It may be noted that persons-who have the art
of managing others never explain themselves. To
give reasons for a course of conduct io at once
to expose it to criticism, and to deprive it of the
weight which belongs to action as the result of
character. The Times, for inetance, is as careful
never to explain itself as it is never to apologise.
Indeed, it way be doubted whether the most
powerful and influential wills explain reasons or
probe intowootives, even to themselves. They
have an instinct of working their way and effect
ing their purposes, which is the exact contrary
of the bore's Mote of mind—the man who influ
ences nobody—whom we have represented as
always employed in explaining to himself and
other peopie why he does things.
We started with the admission that some ex
planations are both innocent and necessary.
Children are entrapped,'as it were, by their trick
of questioning, into the trial of listening to for
mal explanations in answer. Some things must
be learned by this method, however little " sym
pathy it has with the will of man." Not seldom
we have seen a careless talker betray himself
into the same snare, and writhe under the pen—
ance which, through nobody's fault but his own,
he has brought upon himself. But we maintain
that orators, teachers, conversers, should, one
and all, be chary of the explanatory form, as
being apt in its nature not only to induce tedium
in the listener, but a dogged resistance. Thus,
between two preachers of equal power, the
quildion of popularity 3011 be decided by the
mode in which their toughing Is administered_
The man who explains tires his hearers. The
man who makes statements interests them. The
attention in his case is less arbitrary, and
given with less effort. In the one me t a man
seems full of his subject; in the other, os
own way of putting it ; and while there ma Wt
seem much in common between the " explana—
tions" of social life and the didactic explanation
of th e t e a c her, there is this likeness—that the
person engaged upon either of them is putting
his case in his own point of view, and requiring
us to see with his eyes.
LETTER FROM DR. FRANKLIN.
The following characteristic letter of. Dr.
Franklin is said to be inedited. The ingenious
manner in which he niskte the Getureencement of
his letter convey the temporary impression that
he lent with a parsimonious reluotanoe, is inim-
itable : •
April 22, 1784.
" I mend you herewith a bill for ten _Louis dors.
Ido not pretend to give enoh a sum. I only lend
it to you. When you shall return to your coun
try, you cannot fail of getting into some business
that will, in time, enable you to pay all your
debts. In that Citoe, when you meet with another
honest man in similar distress, you. muet pay um
by lending this sum to him; enjoining him to
discharge his debt by a like operation when he
shall be able, and shall meet with such . another
opportunity. I hope it may thus go through
many, hands before it meets with a knave to stop
its progress. This is a ifick of mine for doing a'
great deal of good with a little money. lam not
rich enough to afford much in good works, and so
am obliged to be cunning, and make the most of
a little. B. F."
Ifel" A ansTLEDIAN remarking upon a certain
disagreement on an eclesiastical question, called
it " a stupid schism," " Then of' course it is not
wittioism," said Quilp ; "aad t 40 111 want to
hear about it."
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THE DISCONTENTED PENDULUM.
A Friend has sent us for publication tbe an
nexed fable, by Jane Taylor. It is not new, but
contains a useful lesson to thosdirho yet need to
learn that, , sufficient unto the day is the evil
thereof."
An old clock, that had stood for fifty years in
a farriter's kitchen, without giving its owner
any cause of complaint, early one summers
morning, before any one of the family was stir
ring, suddenly stopped. Upon this, the dial
plate changed countenance with alarm, the hands
made a vain effort to continue their course; the
wheels remained motionless with surprise; the
weights hung speechless ; and each member felt
disposed to lay the blame on the other. At
length the dial instituted a formal enquiry, as to
the cause of the stagnation, when hands, wheels,
and weights, with one voice protested their in
nocence.
But now a faint tick was heard belotrfrom the
Pendulum; Whp thus spoke: " I confess myself
to be the sole cause of the stoppage ; and I am
wishing, for the general satisfaction, to assign
my reasons. The truth is, I am tired of ticking."
Upon hearing this, the old clock became so en—
raged, that it was on the very point of. striking.
"Lazy wire," exclaimed the dial plate, holding
up its hands. " Very good !" replied the pen
dulum, "it is vastly easy for you, I say, to ac
cuse other people of laziness ; you who have
nothing to do all your life, but to stare people
in the face, and to amuse yourself with all that
goes on in the kitchen. Think, I beseech you,
how you would like to be shut up for life in this
dark closet, and to wag, backward and forward,
year after year, as I do."
"As to that," said the dial, "is there not a
Window in your house on purpose for ybu to look
through ?" "FOr all that," resumed the pen
dulum,'" it is very dark here, and althollh there
is a window, I dare not stop, even for an instant,
to look out at it, Besides lam really tired of
my way of life, and if you wish, I will tell you
how I took this disgust to my employment. I
happened to be thinking this morning, how many
timee I should have to tick, in the course of the
next twenty-four hours; perhaps some one of
you above there can tell me the explanation."
The minute hand being quick at figures present
ly replied, " Eighty six thousand, four hundred
times." "Exactly so," replied the Pendulum;
" Well, I appeal to you all, if the very thought of
this was not enough to fatigue any one; and
when I began to multiply the strokes of one day,
by those of months and yearS, really itis no won—
der that I felt discouraged at the prospect. So
after a great deal of reasoning and hesitation,
thinks I to myself, rld stop."
The dial could scarcely keep its countenance
during this harangue, but resuming its gravity,
it thus replied : gg Dear Mr_ Pendulum, 1 am
really astonished, that such a useful, industrious
person as yourself, should have been seized with
this sudden weariness. It is true, you have
done a great deal of work in your time ; DO have
we all, and are likely to do; which although it
may fatigue us to think of, the question is wheth
er it will fatigue us to do. Would you do me
the favor to give half a dozen strokes to illustrate
my argument !"
The pendulum complied and ticked six times
at the usual pace. " Now," resumed the dial,
" may 1 . be allowed to enquire, if that exertion
is at all fatiguing or disagreeable to you ?" "Not
in the least," replied the pendulum, "It is not
of six strokes I complain nor of sixty, but of
millions." " Very good," replied the dial ;
"hut recollect, that although you may think of a
million of strokes in a emend, you are only re
quired to execute one ; and howtver often you
may hereager have to swing, a second will be
given you eaoh time, to swing in, which is all
the time 'you can possibly use." " That oonsid ,
erasion staggers me, I confess," said the pendu
lum. " Then I hope," resumed the dial plate,
.•.that we shall all return to our duty, immedi
ately, for the maid will be too late in bed if we
stand idling thus."
Upon this the weights who had never been ac
cused of light conduct, used all their influence
in persuading him to proceed; when, as if with
one consent, the wheels began to turn, the hands
began to move, the pendulum began to swing,
and to its credit ticked as loud and regularly as
ever ; while a red beam of the rising sun, that
streamed through a hole in the window shutter,
shining full upon the dial plate, it brightened up,
as if nothing bad' been the matter.
When the farmer came down to breakfast that
morning, upon looking at the nlook, he declared
his watch had gained half an hour in the night:
A GREAT MAN'S ADVICE TO A
YOUNG LADY. •
It was in the year 1758, long before the war of
Independence, that Colonel Washington, as he
who was to be the founder of the American Re
public was then called, crossing on business, a
ferry of Paniunka, a branch of the York River,
was stopped, by a request to partake of the hos
pitality of a Mr. Chamberlayne, the owner of a
domain in Virginia, where the name of the c9l =
onel was honored. The strict Washington insist
ed on pressing forward, but the Virginian Am
phytryon would take no denial; urging, among
other temptations, that he would introduce his
friend to a charming widow, then beneath his
roof. This was a Mrs. Coeds, (nod Dandridge)
aged twenty-six, who had married a gentleman
who was both a Colonel and an eminently suc
cessful painter. By
,his pomature death, Nub
Custis found herself at once a very young
widow,' and among the very wealthiest in the
colony. Col. Washington came to dine, and re
mained to woo, lie was faeoinated.by the widow,
and married her, lisfed—never to repent the step.
The no w Mrs. Washington, had a step son,
whsoe eon—Mr. George Washington Parke Cue
tie, a author of certain " Memoirs" of the
great man, just issued,—and his dater were
adopted by Washington. This young lady, Nally
Castle, when sixteen, and after her first ball, bad
told her revered guardian that she cared noth
ing for the "youth of the present day." The
sound and sensible advice then given by Wash
ington, at that time President of the United
States, to his adopted daughter, is of universal
application, to those who, as she then wee, a r e
tmengeged : Love is said to be an involuntary
passion, aid it is therefore contended that it can
not be resisted. This tE true in part only, for
like all things else, when nourished and supplied
plentifully with aliment ) it is rapid In lie pro.
gress ; but let these be withdrawn, and it may
be stifled in its birth, or much stinted in its
growth. For example, a woman (the tame may
be said cf the other sex) all beautiful and ac
complished, will, while her hand and heart are
undisposed of, turn the heads and set the circle
in which she moves on fire. Let her marry, and
what is the consequence ? The madness ceases,
and all is quiet again. 'Why ? Not because
there is any diminution in the charms of the lady,
but because there is an end of hope; hence it
follows that love may, and therefore ought to be
under the guidance of reason ; for although we
cannot avoid first impressions, we may assuredly.
place them under guard; and my motives for
treating on the subject are to thaw yau, while
you remain Eleanor Parke Coatis, spinster, and
retain the resolution to love with moderation—
the propriety of adhering to the latter resolution,
at least until you have secured your game, and
the way you may accomplish it. When the fire
is beginning to kindle, and your heart is grow
ing warm, propound these questions to it
Who is the invader Have 1 a competent
knowledge of him? Is he a man of good char
acter? A man of sense? For, be assured, a
sensible woman never can be happy with a fool.
What has been his walk of life ? Is he a gambler,
a spendthrift, or ale drunkard ? Is his fortune
sufficient to maintain me in the manner I have
been accustomed to live, and my sisters do HIV'
Is he one to whom my friends can have no reason
able objection ?' If these interrogatories can be
satisfactorily answered, there will be but one
more to be asked. That, however, is an impor
tant one : Have I sufficient ground to conclude
that his affections are engaged by me 2' Without
this, the heart of sensibility will struggle against
a passion that is not reciprocated—delicacy, cus
tom, er call it by whatever epithet you will,
having precluded all advaneee on your , part. The
declaration, without the most indirect invitation
of yours, must proceed from the gentleman, to
render it permanent and valuable ; and nothing
short of good souse apd an eaey, unaffected eon•
duct can draw the line between prudery and co
quetry. It would be no great departure from
the truth, to say that it rarely happens otherwise
tran that a thoroughly bred coquette dies in:celi
bacy, as a punishment for her attempting to
mia
lead others, by encouraging looks, words, or
actions, given for no other purpose than to draw
men on to make 'overtures that may be rejected."
LINCOLN ON POLK.
The New-York Leader disentombs a speech made
by Mr. Lincoln in Congress, in 1848, in which .
he discussed the message of President Polk and
the war with Mexico. Persona anion to jump
with the administration may perhaps get light,
in the darkness with which arbitrary arrests and
the suppression of free speech bare enshrouded
them, on the question what sort of talk Mr.
Lincoln will permit to be uttered concerning
himself:
"Let him (the Preeidiftt) answer fully, fairly,
and candidly. Let him answer with facts. and
not with arguments. Let him remember be
site where Washington eat ; and, so remember
ing, let him answer as Washington would answer.
As a nation should not, and the Almighty will not,
be evaded, so let him attempt no evasion, no
WIWI/cation.
" But if he cannot or will not do this—if, on
any pretence, he stall refuse or omit it—then I
alkali be fully convinced, of what I more than
suspect already, that he is deeply conscious of
being is the wrong that he feels the blocs; Of
this war, like the blood of Abel, is crying to
heaven against him; that he ordered Gen. Tay
lor into the midst of a peaceful Mexican settle
ment purposely to bring on a war; that origin
ally having some strong motive—what, I will not
stop not, to give my opinion concerning—to in
volve the two countries in a war, and trusting to
escape scrutiny by fixing the public gaze upon
the exceeding brightness of military glory—that
attracts the rainbow that rises in showers of
blood— at charms to destroy-..he plunged into
it, and as swept on and on, till, disappointed
in hie calculation of the ease with which Mexico
might be subdued, be now finds himself he
knows not where. how like the half Insane
mumbling of a fever dream Is the Whole Was pert
of the late message I
* . *
"All this shows that the President is in no—
wise satisfied with his own positions. First, he
takes up one, and, in ottempting to argue us into
it, he argues himself out of it; then he otizes
another, and goes through the same process; and
then, confused at being able to think of nothing
new, he snatches up the old one again, which he
has some time before cast off. His mind, tasked
beyond its Rower, is running hither and thither,
like some tortured creature on a burning surface,
finding no position on which it can settle down
and be at ease.
"Again, it is a singular omission in this mes
sage that it nowhere intimates when the Presi
dent expects the war to &mingle. At its be
ginning General Scott was, by the President,
driven into disfavor, if not disgrace, for intimat
ing that peace could not be conquered in less
than three or four mouths. lint now, at the end
of about twelve months—during which time our
arms have given us the most splendid success—
every department, and every part, land and wa
tar, officers and privates, regulars and volunteers,
doing all that men could do, and hundreds or
things which it had over before .been thought
men could.not do—after all this, this same Presi
dent gives us a long message, without showing
us that, as to the end, he has himself even an im
aginary conception.. As I have before said, he
knows not where he is. Re is a bewildered,
confounded and miserably perplexed man. God
grant that he may be able to show there is not
something about his conscience more painful
than all his mental perplexity."
ADDRESS OF HON. C. D. VALLANDIGHAM TO
THE DEMOCRACY OF OHIO.
MILITARY PRISON, CINCINNATI. OHIO,
May 5, 1868. j
To the Democracy of Ohio
I am here in a military biotite for no..other of.
fenceothan my petition' opinione4nd the defence
of them, and the rights of the people, and of
your constitutional liberties. Speeches made in
the bearing of thousands of you in denunciation
of the usurpations of power.. Infraction's of the
Constitution and laws, and of Military desp.ot
iota, were the bole cause of my arrest and top
prisonment. lam a Democrat—for Constitution,
for law, for the Union, for liberty—this ie my
only "crime." Fos no disabedienoe to the Con
stitution; for no vio l ation of law "for no word,
sign,.or gesture of eympatlip*Fith the South,
who are . for Alpitillititi,fiaml Southern indepen
dent*, bat in teritte to their, defland. as well
as the deniand.Cl.4torthern abolition. disunion
lets and traitors, I am hero ill'houde to-day ; but
"rorae, ak nets all
m eauw ir
~De o or u to of Ohio, of tote :North.
west, 01 4 04 : United Statee, be firm, be true to
your prineipleta 'la the Constitution, to the
Uniore,, and all will yet be will: As for myself,
I adhere to eteirprimelple, and will make good,
through imPrlsorunoilt; and life !itself, every
pledge and declaration - - width I have ever made,
uttered, or maintained ,frim the beginning. To
you, to the whole people, to Tun, I again ap
peal.. Stied &n`! Falter not an instant
C. L. VAL/IMP/OAK