lllilillllillili i mm i .,t,..mmmtmit. ( .,.,,.,,, ,L1 , , L. , . , . .. jn.j .i.i.Lnii!.,.. .,1.11.111 .in nn.--.nrn 'i , .nfju . .j j lj JlT I? Hlcuotcii to ipolitics, jCitcraturc, Agriculture, Science, iWoralitg, anh moral Intelligence. VOL 15. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA. SEPTEMBER 27, 1855. NO. 44. Published by Theodore Schocli. TGRMS Two dollars per annum in advance Two dollars and a quarter, half yearly and if not' paid be fore the end of the year, Two dollars and a half. JVo.papcrs discontinued until all arrearages arc paid, except at the option of the Editor. '1C7 Advertisements not exceeding one square (ten lncs) will be inserted three weeks tor one dollar, and twenty-five cents for every subsequent insertion. The charge Tor one and three insertions the same. A liber al discount made to yearly advertisers. IE7VAH letters addressed to the Editor must be post paid. .ITOii PKIiTTISG. 4tav;ncr a general assortment of larye, elrpant, plain . juu! ornamental Type, v.c are prepared to execute every desciiptioimf vJards, Circulirs, Rill Heads, Notes, Bliink Receipts 1 1 .l - T- II. -jussices, L.CRH1 .inn uinei uihrks, rampmeis, &c "I Plead for the vital interests of your tions of the youthful mind, after the no Children." ble and the good, which ever adorn a vir A SERMON preached in the Methodist tuous life; it seeks to repress the growth -r. . 7 r, , n. ii i of evil, hy sowing early in the tender sipwopai wcif oi otrouusourg, oy goil of fc ;b?lds a tjblo nature tho the Pastou, and published by request, seeds of divine truth, wisdom and virtue. QO a The results may not immediately appear . ,iu everjcase but precious fruit shall " I rain tip a child in the way he should be gathored after many days." Fortu po. and when lie is old he will not depart from ' Dato the hand, head and henrt, which have'a share in sowing this good seed. IJut here, a question of practical inter- it. CONCLUDED. A.T THE OFFICE OF Home is where there is' one to love us. BY CHARLES SWAIN. .Your attention is now, more especially est may be started, is the Sabbath School directed to tho babbath School, a3 one of promotive of these soul-elevating and saving the instrumentalities assisting, to train up influences and results? We answer, by -JUMICUS, UU 11 .Mill uiiici umill:, 1 .iiuiuiiuis, au. , .1 j . ., , , , j lt ,., 11 1 , printed una neatness and despatch, on reasonable your children in tho way they should go. j asking, if not, then, why have they been &rm6' i An agency, through which, blessings have so universally adopted? This deserves been accumulating to the youth of Evan- remark, for they are of comparative re gelical Christendom, for the last seventy- cent date. Only a littlo over three score ; four years. There is very much said and years and ten have elapsed, since the first ; written upon the subject of education; Sabbath School was organized in Eng j upon the training of tho youthful mindland. The wise founder, Robert Raikes, J pud Heading the young idea Jioic to shoot" j with other benevolent men and women, , in this day, both, as it respects the com-, saw in them a rich inheritance for child , mon school system, of our several States; hood and youth. Their influence upon j the Seminary, and the College. The the present and the future, was distinctly old fashioned plans of our fathers, arc be-traced; which was a kind of universal , ing thrown aside, as worthless, new stimulus, has acted upon other benevolent 'plans invented, and new methods pro-(minds, until now like bright and beauti i posed, to bring these plans to the highest ' ful stars, these littlo seminaries of virtue i possible perfection; with the least possible appear shining, it is true, often amidst ; delay. We find no fault with this ; it is much, that is morally dark and forbid- ! right. We censure not the progressive ding; yet by their light, millions of youth- i spirit oi the age, but rejoieo at the discov- ful feet are directed to the babe of Beth Home's not merely four square walls, Though with pictures hung and gilded; Home is where affection calls Filled with shrines the heart hath builded! Home go watch the faithful dove Sailing 'ncath the heaven above us . Home is where there's one to love! Home is where there's one to love us! Home's not merely roof and room, ' It need's something to endear it; Homo is where the heart can bloom: Where there's some kind lip to chocr it! What is home with none to meet it? None to welcome, none to greet us I Hoiiie is sweet and only sweet Where there's one we lore to meet us! mercy and to walk humbly with Godi Our Father's God, to thee Author of liberty, To thee we sing ; Long may our land be bright, With freedom's holy light, Protect us by thy might, Great God our King." 2d. Are you a christian! Aye, process, I found it perfectly from anima- to know what becomes of the rats. These, culio. I therefore came to tho conclu- j also, are sold before they are caught or sion that this wiggle-tail is a species of! killed. Tho privilege of gathering rats the shark, who having dovoured wholo on 'battue' days is farmed out by the au tribes of animaculao, takes to himself thorities, and a profitable business it i3. wings and escapes into a different mcdi- These rats, sleek and fat as they neces um to torture mankind, and to deposit t sarily arc, fetch a highly renumerative eggs upon tho water to produce other - price the fur, the skin, and the flesb, wiggle-tails, who in turn produce other ' meet with ready sales, mosquitoes. all Any man who has 'kept house' with a Mr Editor : Some time since, vou suouiu bo christians,-it so, then wo mayhem in mo yaru, nas aouotiessiy on- bisbed ; ur papor an article with appeal to you in behalf of the Sabbath 'served the same effect every summer. J , f J . f school, for not only arc the children tho ' Open your cistern cover any morning in reference to the Yellow Fever at Norfolk: hopo of tho State, but al3o of the church the mosquito season, and millions of them , headed " Ministers deserting their flocks They are topreaoh,and'pray and send forth! will fly up in your face. Close tho win- j The flight of christians, ifc. the light of a pure christianityf when you! dows 0f your room at night at the risk of i rrat justice cay be done : will you hnm nv4 nvrxrt 4 1.,-. ,.nMJ i- U - i w have long gono to your reward in heaven. if the world is to have any good and use ful men, and women, in the next genera lnin oym linrni) Csym it. P nT. t ,-t : r. t i t i i insert m thi3 week s issue, tho following mg carlul at the same time to exclude ev-: ' . f ! from tho Philadelphia Presbyterian. M. tion, they must rise up from tho ohildren,er f that same cistern water in the room, be Korfolk Ministers and the Pestilence .l . m. . - . . ' J L Till 11 ?r.l auu uuougo win Dreaa irom ic aunng tne . Kareiy for years past has an alarming night to give you any satisfactory amount epidoa.io prevailed in ono of our cities, of trouble. In fact standing by a shal- but tbat sorac of tbe secuiar newspaper3 low half stagnant pool, in a midsummer's baye announced that the ministers of the day, you may see tho wiggle-tails become spcl bad fled? icaving their flocks uu perfectly developed mosquitoes, and thoy , ca d for intbc midst of sickness, sorrow. 1 cries of science, and hail them, not only as new indications of human greatness, but. as now, and heaven scut facilities of humau happiness, and moral elevation. lehem to Jesus, " the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of tho world."-Sabbath-Schools have continued to spread and multiply, wherever the Holy Bible is Like that wisest of kings, we would esti- loved, until their influence for good, is no : mate knowledge in these respects, at a ( louger a question, by any intelligent mind price lar above ruble?, and to be chosen rather than silver. But you must for- Few Days. Our country now is great and free, Few days, few days, And thus shall it forever be, We know the way. We'll teach the hosts that gather here, Few days, few days, 3'hat we'll protect what we hold dear, We know the way. CHOKUS. We'll battle innovation, Few days, few days, And fight against usurpation by a cunning foe For our guide is Freedoms banner, we know the way, The world shall see that we are true, Few days, few days, And that we know a thing or two, We know the way. As "Know-Nothings," we're hand in hand, Few days, few days. Our countless throng shall fill the land, We know the way. From East and West, from South and North, Few days, few days, We'll call our many legions forth, We know the way. The freedom that our father's won, Few days, few days, . Shall be defended by each son. We know the way. Then shout o'er hill and plain, Few days, few da's, Our Union shall its rights maintain, We know the way. We'll guard, we'll guard the ballot-box, Few days, few days, From foreign wiles and treason shocks, We know the way.- give, and call it weakness if you please, when we complain, that with many, very many persons of influence, and education intellectual training is every thing, and j moral training worth nothing or next to nothing in their estimation. We, who are seeking the moral elevation of the chil- of the present. The only hope-of the church is in these little onos. These are to bless the world, if it be blest at all, when you sleep in your grave, xney are toe only hope the world has, of any further regeneration, of intellectual and religious progress, of real moral power. Can will riso to the surface of the water, and and doatb a statement of this sort, ac- you then, as a christian, sit still, told up ny into your iacc anu sung you. v uat your hands, close your' heart against the jia necessary to know at this day is has Sabbath school, trust to others less auali-i there yet been discovered any positive ex- fled than yourself, to do tho work vou 'terminator of this infernal pest and dis- should do: and thus rob tho world, rob turber of nights slumber's the mosquito? tho church, rob tho dear children, and rob God and heaven of all you might Horses and Rats in Paris, thus accomplish of good I Nay, not so. A correspondent of the N. Y. Spirit of mi .i lit i i i i i 1 . . - .mis is not; to acc tne real ana aeciaea the Times cives an interesting; account of christian. JLiet yourselt be entreated to the manner in which the Parisian horse3 enter the Sabbath school at once, give it and rats are disposed of. He says : your support, your influence, your time TiW hundred horses die or are killed They find a place in every Evangeli- and energies. Thus you will assist to fill ;n Paris in one week. There is a common i i r. r' j' i i - : .i 11 i i ii . ... uui uuuruu, a irieuu in every true pni lanthropist. Philosophers, Statemen Poets and Divines, have plead their claims and sung their praises. The eminent, dren and youth ot our and, have sure .and success. They have seen m them, them the way to be useful and happy, and Uiie flcab reason to corupiam, wuen wo ueueiu pa- one or uie grana instrumentalities, wuicu holy. Who can tell, but in the xsorough certain rents spending their hundreds of dollars the "glorious gospel, wields in regenerat- ! of Stroudsburg, there might be found, wo l upon their children to have them trained jing the world from ignorance and sin;- i ; , j .i... i i J leges, when we can scarcely draw a single : dollar from them to assist us, in training their children in virtue and religion, in the Sabbath School; to do a work for those children, which but too many pa: rents, neglect at home. Do not miscon ceive our meaning. We would not put down intellectual learning, but we would elevate religious learning. TFc would But asks one, zvhatliave Sabbath Schools tho world with zealous christians, and Lound surrounded by a stone wall, cover- heaven with redeemed spirits. Go go UQt some ten acres. According to some ulations (there is an "ordi- crvthinf? in Paris all dead the gifter, the benevolent and tho patri- whom it may, in truth bo said, none care carcassos excent human bodies, mnsfc bn otic; have regarded them with admiration for their souls, go bring them into tbe brought to this general receptacle. The and pride; and have devoted their mflu- Sabbath schools, teach them to love God, enrnassof a horse is valuable for thpbnnp ence ana suDstance, ror tneir promotion their rellow-men and themselves, show the hide and the hair to say nothing of much prized, when fresh, m sausage manufactories. Butshould it till the horse has actuallv. shuf- another, who liko 'Morrison, or Cox, or fled 0f bj3 bairv con. VOu miaht miss a Roberts, or Judson, would go to distant bargain another of the trade precedes heathen lands, to carry there the soul, nnA nnmlmspq. TTpnrfl if. is imnnrfnrtf. fr accomplished ? Ah, that, is a question, f and mind, and body liberating gospel of buy the horse, as a dead horse, before he eternity alone, will be able to answer ad- , Christ. :s dead. it i9 a regular business in Par- 3d. Are you a parent ? The vital in- ,v y nnn fn Mmsn nnnf.s for thn general terms, that thoy have accomplish- terests of your children we now plead. If purchase of a dead horse ata glance; the ed results, the most brilliant and praise all others turn a deaf ear, still you should dros3 js that of an English groom, save worthy, results, which shall rejoice the hear, if all others turn coldly away from vignette on the visor of the cap, represent universe, and glorify the Savior; when, j this cause, still you should support it. jn a doad borse's head and cross-bones; the boasted achievements of Philosophers. You cannot treat indifferently the moral n nm,M.ninim n n cfnnm magnify the Sabbath School we tcoidd Statesmen and Military Chieftens: shall interests of vonr children, withont acfincr L,i r S i ' . .. . r . i ,- i -it i r i J ' a a"u liicuo ui uau.-nu uuiuuiuit; luc au- give U the first place, in first rank of cd- have perished and been forgotten, " or, 1 a most consummately cruel part towards COutrements. With scrutinizing eye he ucational measures. Our reason for this, but ill remembered, in the dim and them. They muBt be taught to know, fear tMi, th fWmVnhfnrpq nf Pris- lis, that however important the attainment shadowy visionsof the past," they havo , and love God, to keep his oommand- should a horse go lame break a log or or numan Ecience may De, tne attain-: insiructca tne ignorant. reclaimed the ments. to resneet narenta anthoritv. toU,, 1, B 1 . p j i i i r i 7 i ciTiv . Miuiiiu nil miun (Liiv n V 111 IfLIJllI.I III ninl'iol nrA nionnosn ,"3 1 ,1 1. 1! .1 ftl 1 . 1 .1 1 n 1 1 . njuacu uuu vcicc, iouicuitsu tuu uegu- reverence tue oaDDatn, tne nouse oi uou, distress in a word, anywhere or in any gence of parents, given the hopes, and 1 and to shun the way of evil, if not, bitter- wnv PVinop sirrns of thn mnnv illq tn wlunh comforts of the religion of Jesus, to many ly will you and they weep over such no- horse-flesh isTaeir, immediately is an offer poor neglected families, have sent their gleet, when tho terrible words "too late" mnip fnr nnimnl. rlnlirpr.ahlp wl, ri l ill n ti ,w.... . j. -i I J peaceiui anu uanowing mnuences, HKe will ring m your ears lor ever and ever. reany dead The bargain concluded, the streams of living, healing waters, over , For your children we plead, see their "signalement" of the horse and owner is nuwu wuiuuu.u, iuCJ Uac giuU lu- iuuuouuuo pieuus, muir ueaaDj, ineir carefu Iy recorded and a private mark is ido of tho foreleg with rse goes, perhaps, re- impinrr nn hia wnp tnr trorl?3. norhnns of the best members of Christ's sink in shades of an eternal nicht. ButL,..i?D :jf: How to Treat Children. ment of right moral principles, and re ligious habits, is infi?iitcl? more so. Let the moral, and religious training of a youth be neglected, and no matter how splendid his gifts, and intellectual accom ( plishment his graceful manners, his j social refinement, or the skill and ability with which, he may pursue any of the ' learned professions; we dare hazard the assertion, that ho is not fully qualified to ' meet, as they should be met, the great duties and responsibilies of this world, ! and is most certainly, and totally unpre- pared to meet the solemn scenes, and the ' awful destiny that will await him in the J world to come. A man with mental pow er and education, but without proper re lligious culture, is like a beautiful ship ' upon a stormy sea; she is gaily painted Be ever gentle with the children God has with every sail set, and streamers fly- giveu you, watch over them constantly ; re- ing and fluttering in the breeze; but with- prove them earnestly hut not in anger. In out a rudder a chart a compass drift- thc forcible language of scripture. "Be not ' ;Dg wjtb everr carrent, and driving with hitter against them "Yes they are good e wnd and deEt;Qed sooncr Qr jater hoys . j once heard a kind father say, I f ' d afc Qr be dasbed . talk to them very much, bur do not like to . . ' , - . ... beat my children-the world will beatthem." tb? rk,s- uttbe w.reck of the splendid It was beautiful tho' not elegantly express- ia vuui, uuiupaiuu wiiu cd. companied by severe strictures, having been published in reference to the terri- uie scourge wnn wmcn riorioiK ana tuo adjacent town3 is now afflicted, wo wrote our valued friend and brother, the Rev. Dr. Armstrong, pastor of tho Presbyteri an church at Norfolk, inquiring into tho truth of the allegations. We subjoin his reply, from which it will be seen that tho statements referred to are untrue. "Norfolk, Ya., Aug. 23, 1855. ands church on earth, and thousands more of thosj, of the church above, were nurtured, instructed and religiously educated in the Sabbath School. Within the last eight years, the Sabbath school has given to the MethodistE. Church over ninety thousand communicants. These are most happy results, and we doubt not, that tho Sab bath school is doing as much, if not more, for many other denominations. The Sabbath School is at work for the world. Many of the most devoted and successful missionaries of the cross, who are now laboring in tho distant and dark corners of the world, wore once taught in the Sabbath school. Doctor Morrison. when are tne seeds sown which will ripen fied after death at tho public Pravevard into fruits of glory and eternal life 7 for horses. Now, except in cases of fresh We answer now, just now, in child hood, specimens, as mentioned above, the first mi ji. ii i. .i i ii . n u ii r ' - 7 j.ueir yuuui, men, pieaus ior tne oaDDatu operation on a dead horse is to take off school. This season, with its bright joys the skin; then the flesh, to got at the bones. rn ino sKinnmg process is easy, and per and mellow soil, and shining hours, will soon, but too soon, pass away. " The beam of the morning, tho bud of the spring; Tho promise of beauty and brightness may bring; But clouds gather darkness, and touched by the frost. The pride of the plant, and the morning are lost. Thus, the bright, and the beautiful, ever decay; Life's morn, and life's flowers, O they quick pass away." formed with a dextority and rapidity tru ly astonishing. I have seen in the onclosuro spoken of, at ono time, over ono hundred horses skinned or being put through that pro cess. Tho next point is to divest the Yes, there is not one child in the circle the wreck awaiting him, who neglects tho that great and good man, who first trans around the table, healthful and happy as they moral and religious improvement of his lated the holy scriptures into the Chinese look now, on whose head, if long spared, the , soul. Go, read such catastrophe, in the!algUage and tbus unsealing tho Bible titorm will not beat Adversity may wither ' lannuace of the Great Teacher, "What'fn mn tlmn l l,nntr n,niinn. nf I VW VUWU VUAVW AWK4A&W them, sickness may fade, a cold -world frown 'gbaji t progt a man jf be an tbe wboie ' world, and loose his own soul ?" Oh, !the wreck, awaitins the necrlect of relieri- ; ous and moral training. A lost soul. The Sabbath School strives to proven tthis 1st By properly estimating the suscepti ble moral nature of childhood and youth. on them, but amid all, let memory carry them back where the law of kindness reigned, where the mother's reproving eye moistened with a tear, and the father frowned "more in love than in anger.' "What Champagne is made of. Some one has complained to Mayor Wood, of New York, that he had a pair of fine pat ent leathers ruined by walking past the door of a champagne manufactory. The favorite beverage is enlivened, it seems, by quantities of vitriol and marble dust, and the unfortu nate gpiitluman stepped into some of thescat tcrings of these first principles of good wine, and thereby lost his hoots. He is decidedly of opinion that a substance which will eat up leather, must make sad havoc with IheJin ing of live men mon, was once a little ragged boy, in the streets, neglected and wicked ; but, a fe male Sabbath school teacher, persuaded him into her school, and patiently taught j him. Uehold the result ! a translator of the scriptures, a missionary of the cross, a man of God, and an ameliorator of his The Sabbath School proceeds upon the (benighted fellow men I but this topic principle that this moral nature needs must bo dismissed, and in conclusion your training, hence contemplates its suscep-, regards are solicited towards the Sabbath tibuitics. its relation to the present and. school. And future world, and would seek to prepare : A new speculation has been started at Albany, where the potatoes grow so large that, they paint them green, and sell them for watermelons. That beats wooden nutmegs all hollow 1 "Ho.w few of us realize that as wo rise each morning, and commcnce.our various aypcations, we arc one day nearer our final home. -There is one crop that never nainely candidates for offioe. fails, Sgy-Wc heard the other day.of a young lady whose lips were ao sweet that she dared nofc go into tho garden for fear of j beoB. these moral powers, for the important responsibilities of the one, and the sublime and endless pleasures of the other. 2nd. By a simple, but efficient process. 1st. Arc you a patriot ? And who is not? Who will say he does not love tho country of his birth, or adoption? If you are a patriot, then give your influence and aid to that cause which strikes at tho di- The bible, the livins incorruptible word ! rect enemies of God and Liberty. We of God, assisted by the light and influence mean ignorance and sin. These, if let of the Divine Spirit, are the instrumen- loose upon us, must sap the foundations of talities used in the Sabbath School, to our civil rights and country's freedom. 8 train the youthful heart and mind, in tho, Our strength is not in fleets and armies, way tbe child should go. Are not such but in the intelligence and virtue of the means adapted to tho moral ends pro-'people, as amass. These are our safe posed? For by them, the child is taught guards, with them we fear no foreign to reverence and obey God, to hallow foc no civil discord 5 without them, no the Sabbath, to love parental authority, navaI power, nor no standing army, can and to treat their fellows with kindness preserve us in tact, as a country of and courtesy, by these sin is portrayed,' American Freemen. Let no man, there as the cause of misery, and an enemy to fore, dare call himself a patriot, a lover happiness, here, and hereafter, and a 'of his country's weal, who looks coldly warning voice is lifted against all impie-j nd differently upon the Sabbath school ty, and transgression. The Sabbath school , enterprise. Oh, if ever the fire of liber would seek to inspire your child with the ty is scattered from our altars, and an love of truth, virtue, wisdom, good-'other Jeremiah be raised. up to sing the ncss, and impress the whole with songs of funeral dirge over our Nation's grave,-r? praise, and supplications to God for his and it will be, because wo havo neglected aid and blessing. It seeks to implant oup Sabbath schools, where the children and inspire and assist the noble aspera- of our land are taught to do justly to love Life's morning and life's flower, O lbones of adhesive and often putrid flesh; they quick pass away. What is done "Ones are vaiueu in proportion as tney f.hnn for t.l.n mnr.al imnrnvAmpnf. nf vnnr are clear, neat and free from other mat- children, should be performed at once.- tc.r- , To ke off the flesh by hand is a The spring time, when the foundation for difficult and tedious operation. An m- fa nnA tr.f.r,v,a nunMn ; f t, i;,i genious Frenchman solved the difficulty. w;il Rnnn vorv snnn n.Rq. nAVnr fn rnhirnJUc noticed that rats are very fond of horse What your Heavenly Father commands ?eshi he advised the authorities to colon- you, do quickly. Train up your children Ize tne deaa norae pounu witn tnese ani in tho way they should go, and you will mala c catacombs of 1 aria furnished have tho consolation which none know tnem DJ ousanus. was uone, ana full W. fhna wfvrv linvn wn HitPPn. now-a-davB a dead horao s carcass, putin fill in bringingiog up virtuous and useful ovor 3 nothing but a neat and : stunt from (be first uppearance of tbe ol,;iflmn beautiful skeleton in the morning. Tho : fnvnv nmnn Q pecuniary saving to bono doalers from the ! :ti, far. "Rev. and Dear Sir Your letter of tho 1st reached me this morning. I have witnessed so many sceues of afflic tion in the last few weeks, tbat what man may say appears a matter of very little moment; yet, as you suggest, for the hon or of Christ's cause, such rumours as that to which you refer ought to be corrected. I send you the following statement of facts for you to make such use of as you may think best. Of tho settled pastors in the city of Norfolk, but one has left the place since the fever appeared among us. One of the Baptist churhes had just become vacant, in consequence of their former pastor accepting a call to another charge. The Reformed Methodist churchr the smallest organized church in the city, has for its pastor one who is at the same time President of tho Virginia Conference, and is required to spend almost all the summer in visiting the other churches of that Conference. lie has been absent for two or three mouths. The pastor of Christ's church, Dr. Minigerode, started or Germany a month before the fever appeared here; but his place is supplied by the Rev. Mr. Walke, who is at bis post, labouring faithfully m visiting the sick and afflicted. The pastors of the re maining four Protestant churches are all at their posts, and constant in labours, both m preaching the gospel and m visit ing the sick. For mvself, I have not spent one hour in my study for two weeks, being constantly employed in visiting the sick and afflicted. At the commence ment of the fever among us, I made the request from the pulpit that if any of those then present should know of any cast; among the poor in which I could bo useful, I would take it as a favour if they would inform me of it. And as soon as our Howard Association was organized, I offered them mv services in visiting tho sick or afflicted in any part of the city. I mention this, not as something singular on my part, but because I can state the facts in my own case, and I know that my brethern in tbe ministry of the gospel of Christ in our city have all acted in the same spirit As illustrating this spirit, I may mention that the day my nephew, Mr. Edmund A. James, died of the fever at my house, I could not leave him, and tho llev. Mr. Walke of tho Episcopal church, hearing of my affliction, came and offered his services to visit any sick in my congregation that I thought need the visit of a minister. these facts respecting the Protestant pas tors in our city, it i3 but an act of justice that I add tbat the Roman Catholic priest stationed here has been labouring con m ? rrli h o In stating Where Mosquitoes come From A writer on entomology, disoussing a bout these summer pests, thus handles the subject : "The mosquito proceeds from the ani maculoe', commonly termed the 'wiggle tail.' I took a bowl of clean water and set it in the sun. In a few days some half dozen wiggle-tails were visible. These continued to increase in size until they were about 3-16ths of an inch in length. As they approached their maturity they The fever, for several days past, ba3 been on tho increase among us; but I think from what I seo of it, assuming gradually a milder and more manageable over, s op there. It was natural to sup- nofc far from w ca3es jQ tbe pose that rats so well fed and provided ; oit? iand from fifteon to twenty deBthg a for, would rapid y increase and multiply; d - - ... th' r. tl. ,.,.. I -f I voracity and gnawing propensity of tho rat family is, I am fold, very considera ble, Our Yankee Frenchman did not, bow- hence tho necessity of regulating the mat ter. Every three months a grand '' bat- ; tue" is made upon tho aforesaid colony of rats, snd all caught above ground die the death of rats. The manner of doing this' amused mo. rrli not all . .f have been among the poor, and but for the kinduess of our sister cities, there must, have been extreme suffering among them.. Our streets present a gloomy appearanco and what may be before us for 1 Tt I a e t Horizontal and cylindrical tl roruaining two months which must in- remained longer at tho surface, seeming-; holes are bored all around, in and at the tervene before frot, I know not this on ly to live in the two mediums air and , foot of the enclosing walls tho depth and y I know, we 'have fallen into the hands-' water finally, they assumed a crysalis; diameter being respectively tho length of tbe Lord.' Yours in Christian bonds, form,, and by an increased specific gravi- and thickness of the rat's body. Upon ! George D. Armstrong. ty sank to the bottom of the bowl. Here, the morning of tbe "battue" men armed ; in a few hours, I perceived short blaok with tin pans, kettles, &c. rush in at the ; Hj1Thc latest, and perhaps tho fairr furze growing on every side of each, nn- 'peep of day and "charivari" tho poor rats, est estimate, of the population of the til it assumed the size of a minute cati- ; who, frightened to death, poke their heads world, makes it eleven hundred and Mr pillar. And thus its specific gravity be-'into the first opening. Of course, all ty millions. Of this snm total, six bundl ing counteracted,, or lightened, it floated those in tho wall holes have tails sticking red and 3eventy-six millions are Pagans;, to tho surface, and the slightest breath of out. The rat collector, with a bag over three hundred and twenty millions are air wafted it to the side of the bowl. In his left shoulder, now makes a tour of the nominal Christians, ono hundred and fori a very brief space of time afterwards, the' premises, and the scientific and rapid ty millious Mahomedan3, and fifteen mil warm atmosDhere hatched out the fly,! manner with which tbe rats aro seized by lions Jews. Of Christians, the Church) and it escaned. leaving its tinv house up- the tail and safely (both to rats and ope- of Rome numbers one hundred and sevi ' UlO- , ' -r-r 1 ..r 1 ' i 1 ' 1 r ,1 1 1, U, . .;..' f i , ii . . t tn. . .i r i- n -iTi . ater How beautiful yet how rator) transierreu to uie uag, cuauenges enty minions; mo vjreeK ana iJiastero admiration. It even surpasses tho "Chit- Churches sixty millions, and agoi5 a n; sv - .-ilk on t thero nd gone through this fonnier's' rng-picking. Perhaps you wih ninety millions of Protestanto. axe ir
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