El littgo4 ittattite. COVI' txtei. ' Little I ask:: mY 'feints are thw I only wild. atiutof stone , (A-very plain brown stone v1114°) That I may call my own: • And close at band is such a one In yonder street that fronts the , sun.' Plata fooalaCalte enough for Die: - Three Courses Are as good.,,acteni.. r If Nature easCaollalst onahretti • Thank HeaV en for threbi-tAmetit I alwav aabooglitnold-aicanals.4• 4 l, 3ly chofcf.irodld)e*sanuraa: - - 7 I care notntuelt, for gold or ' hive me a mortgage here and there, • Some good bank some notes of hand, , Or trilling rattrusd share: _ I ony ask- that Shan nd „ A tittle s than Ispend. '" 'Honors are Illy toys I know... • • And tttle arebut empty naniest , . I would. Is ratips, be Yienipo— ..‘: • , But.omy. near et. James; very sure I would not care To till our thibernator's chair. • Jewels are tummies; 'Us a sin To rare for such Unfruitful i hlngs; One good sized di sulocid in , aP. • • Some not so large. In rings, A ruby and a pearl or so. - • •• Will dg for Met I laugh ateshow. dame should dress In cheap attire,' • 030mi...heavy silks are never dear!. I own perhaps I might desire • - Some shawls of:true cashmere. •' 8 grime marrow, rrapes or China silk, - -,.Like wrinkled skins on scalded milk. ' Wealth'e wasteful tricks I t ar tot learn._ • • • Nor ape the glittering upfool; , Shall not Carved tables serve my aura, • But fttlinnst be otbuhl? , • . (live grssping pomp ill doable care r . I ask but ons r..mimbent - That humble letme live and or long for 'Midas" golden Louth: . If Heaven mere generourigtft deny, I shah not miss them much , Too grateful for the blessings lent Of simple tastes and mind contents.': '',•BILLIARIOS. • • BY Mai Y - itrAgD BEECFS„R.' I have received many. letters asking an opinion, of Billiards; 'and especially of the propriety of Iralulging_lti the game, ; A , As to the game itself, it must be regar ded as One of the most ' c h arming that was , ever invented. Unlike 'sedentary ' games, it incites an unremitted activity,- both of body and ofmind. The walking about. the table, the strokes, the 'various Postures • into which the body comes in adapting) = , the stroke to the position of the , balls, . at ford a gentle exercise of the most refresh . ing character. The mind likewise, without severe tax ation, hein aTiess, is keptalert and sharp: The viliolegame is manly; ingenibus, and' , eminently agreeable. I; , canbe played by men and women alike.l It isnot noisy like ten-pins; it requires but little space, compared with many other games; and is not so absorbing but than conversation may 1.311 Carried on,- and . the pleasure of friends and spebtatoft De'eonsidered. The only objections to - the use of bill . lards are intrinsic of the game ieself: 1. • , BilliartisaloOns are fall of tempta tions to ybung men." ' 1 This iavery apt tate true. lt is a gobd and-sufficient reason, for diesinuiiiia one, from billiards, ia acilof,_ 7 i 8 kert.frr , g 46, P, 141- poses of ,ths . game. •AA irtany ,plaCer, the billiard saloon is the very head ; qiarters * ' of village iniquity.' > There, one will meet • whatever in the neighborhood is the least restrained in-mortals or opinions. They are head-quarters , from whence issue•corrupting influenees. In even the most select and,elegantly furnished bib hard saloons o r f the city, young men will, if facile to,yemptation, find so many un favorable influences, that fathers • may well be : solictions of sons who frequent them' • . , - I . . /If the question be asked, Ought-, young / people play billiards ? I; should answer, / Yeatinhesitatingly. But if it be asked, Ought they to frequent , billiard sakonst Evenmore emphatically I should say, No! But, in private tllfelliiigs, or in halls of young men's associations, where there is no bor,'and where betting, and the asso ciatiOng which'usually accompany it, are scruptlously excluded, there seems no ' good reason why so noble a- game should not be used for recreation and exercise, especially in large towns, where one has but little choice; and indeed little thanee, of pleasing exercise. ' . = - • 2.-:Brit, it is asked, "Is it not a 'Waste of precious time, that might be better de ployed?". That depends upon - circum stances. Every one must forth a judg ment for himself. If one becomes fasci nated with-the'game, , neglects. 'milder _ _ • duties; and foakes the game a 'ccinsidera - ble part of his.buslness, he shenld be ashamed of such an abuse of an innocent .amusement. ' Bat ,when one/ eats too much, we do not exhort him to eat not at all, but to govern and moderate his In - ±lnlence. - • - Recreation is an important aid to indus try: He who has no amusement cannot . work as well as he who has one. There is llibilityld exi ess,. in two directiOns. Some over work and some Over play, and both:are to be guarded against. - There- is. no snore danger of Wasting time at billiards than at , base ball, or at rowing or riding, or any other manly ex ercise. The objection is not any more against billiards fiankkainit all pleasing. recreations whatayer. And a -bli;4 , at rational amusement is a blow;' at, ood mania. For, as society' is now'eonstli tilted, ` unless a channel be made for . the overflow, of the fancy, it will find one for itself, silently, elandestinel), danger ouily,; ' Secreted', amusements : are fall of daiiiker. Qpen,end manly amusements are-zefrishing. and wholesome " , 8.;!But If tine,`„ begins with -'billiards wait not Tail to cards; to the race-track, ' ' and tonalTishionable amusements?" • ' _ - It Indy. .13lit so may a school, • a church,: a ledure, a conrt,'or any other, place of concourse, be li ed as, a'point of . dcelltie aid - of "..ovil association- But . ~ there.ls nothing in a home game of Oil. bads that tempts to dissipation or irrek 1 nlarity. It Is .sin all free ' from all` " each excitement: - if ilblifit man can be • kept frsten evil only by ' : being , 'hilt off, &OM als teniPtatlOA, he should be iraPtis'-' °Add Ibillfe._,' Th 394414. not le order' the Worid ? , NeAsOliSS.lxt tempted; ,They ; . ' oie-to",:40 .11, 1 0* . t9 PTercolhe ., 00 11 7 ' feeling Its *Feßstitltc , it,..33egling pays by - employed .oo of $ lO l l temptation can,i cbrne, Wit one; must give up llffi4tself . Thetw os . 4 : , * le!lge4 and In ifOrk; *qv I s lertiptatlon in a ding. atA,lllean3A4L7 l . ie*,ll3 tem p t ati on IA 6 @;nv4l, Ihfeeung;ln *Wig; , action. gA° most le4A; ea WI .1 1, 0 AY /44in 1. litit" l3 ° , ~ 07_ ni/U ~, -,.. • 1 , . , _,.. JA. ,Vie theory, 1C ~ anKSelidntii /0 . 114t4 -,Cleai and simple. l But the praitiodof It it. • , complleated. "A 4 Ming! arelagifitl, but gposif, are nog eo4ll4ni? , The habits *copirannity; the statiof pnbll9Oidu ,, rii i on eouvletione and' even .tile i ,Preiu', , eesi of sodity; the occupations 0 tiiiin, L prevailing tendencies of different• , Com- , , . Moat , ties 'should betithealutii account, in. Aeterrldnlng what' niOseinentiare to be' , encouraged, and how far. 4,..tlikig may be expedient and safe in one - f.traneJ,Wb4lo, from social and local reasowsi in th*Yels, :33extf:iillsge the . itfittence44- . the lame' practice may benViL Therer.can be no untverial'"rule.• The' 'health and the very a':1• 01 4 tnunitylalie it desirable tha'thei number , of manly recreations Should be-U=36ed rather than diminished. Parents, guar dians, and teachers should hail every ra tional amusement as a friend to morality. And yet, no niatteillioii iilaocent practice is per se, as soon as any amuse ment,,. from local reasons, is found to lark practleinnisoldelirtiliffidlelisez, lowed. "7,t, • v. In fine, in regard Vo'hilirards;thesgaine lan noble one. it, Sheelodbiencotiraged Ut. all safe ways, and' discountenanced . only when' it-is surrounded with such evil associations as, will be likely, to per - vertlisimiomice and make it an harm rdent o f' evil. , • The nobler sortpf, Young men 'have it tin theirpow er to enfranchise many of he raper 'notable dairies and amusements ronkthe blight of betting. If every con eiderate gentleman would treat such ten denclei as positive vulgarities,they would soon , decline, and pass over into the hands ' -45 - those who are excluded from good society. It behooVeS -young men to vindicate'their own .amusements. —Noio York Ledger. Orgies of the Morgan-,llllters t ,, [From the Chte4go Sunday. Times.;`' St. John's is observid by those people who killed Morgan. Morgan is the man Wh; Was killed in time to carry an elec. initials . are G. E.,—Good Enough , Morgan. Having some curios ity to set the peoPle who killed Morgan, in order to carry, a New York election, I went out to the celebration at Haas' park. The men who killed Morgan had red plumes in their hats, which indicate their bloody character. They also all had swords. They are the same kind of swords with which G. E. Morgan was slaughtered. They also carry several im 'mense poles, which are pointed at one end. These poles are employed for the purpose of marking spots to be used for the graves, of those , whom the order slaughters. A. good many of the men had engravings of skulls on their breats. These are accurate likenesses of the skulls of men who have been murdered by the Masons. When a. Mason has killed three men, he is entitled to wear a likeness of his victims' heads, and to take-the degree known as Golgotha. This is the true explanation of these kutl badges. Of course the Masons do not owh it. They pretended that-titey wore these skulls on account of the Wet weather. They said a flood. might - come up, and they wanted tobe =tidy to skull them selves to dry land,