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the public, that he constantly keep, on
hand large assortment of chi drens wtl ow
Coaches, Chairs, Crad es. market and ttavel.
ling baskets, and every variety of basket work
manufactured. u .
Country Merchants and others who wish to
purchase such articles, good and cheap, would
do well to call on him. as they are all manufac
tured by him inthe best manner.
Philadelphia, June 3, 1848. ly
CARD tt SEAiTeKGBATIKG.
WM. G. MASON.
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, Kagraver .1 BUSINESS It VISITING CARDS.
Watch papers. Labels, Door plates. Seals snd
Stamps lor Odd Fellows," Sons of Temperance.
Ire. &c Always on hand a general assortment
af Fine Fancy Goods. Gold pens of every quality
Dog Collars in great variety. Engravers tools
and materials. .
Atency for the Manufacturer of Glaziers Dia-
Orders per mail (po.t paid) will be punctually
attended to.
Philadelphia, April 1, t48 y
.--n BRnMniM PIANO FOBiES.
raVHE 8UBSCRIBKR has been appointee agent
I for the sale of CONRAD MEYER'S CFXE
BRATED PREMIUM ROSE WOOD PIANOS,
at this place. These Pianos have a plain, mas
sive and beautiful exterior finish, and, for depth
ol lone, and elegance of workmanship, are not
, surpassed by any in the United States
tl. : .m.i.i. ri hiuhlv annroved of by
the most emihent Professors and Composers of
Music in this and other cities.
For qualities of tone, touch and keeping ib
tone upon uonceri pncu, mej ...." i
aed by either American or European """
Suffice it to say that Madame Castellan, W. V
Wallace. Vieu Temps, and his sister, the cele.
brated Pianist, and many others of the most dis
tinquished performers, have given these tnstru
. , They have also received the flrst notice of the
u l. r-.u:u.i;. ..,d tha last Silver Medal
lore cuiu. ,,w... - -
by the Franklin Institute in 1843. was awarded
to them, wnicn, wiin oiner pr""
tame source, may be seen a me n.n-ivmu .
02 south Fourth st.
& si.u.r Mal waa awarded to C.
Meyer, by the Frahklin Institute, Oct. 1843 for
the best riano in ids uiuiuuh.
. ,k. xhinitinn of the Franklin Inatl-
H fm .
'' tuta, Oct 1846, the first premium and medal was
warded to C Meyer for his Pianos, although it
had been awarded at the exhibition of the year
that ha had made still treat-
' ar imprevam.nts in his Instruments within the
past 13 inan-.ns.
. L il, tt vkiKition of tha Franklin
Institute, 1847, another Premium was awarded
' taC Mayer, for the best Piano in the exhibition
. .1 u '. thai, la.t exhibition. Sent. 1847
C Mever received the first silver Medal and Di-
. . ... Di.idiUtli..BL;ii;i!..
' aloma. for ine oe aijuai. . . uih
. r ... :.. m-ill h sold at the nr.aanleetu.
inea r'""- . . .
rer's lowest Pbilsdelphia prices, If not something
lower persons are requr.r v.,. ...
' ine for themselves, at the residenc. , of the sub
friber. ftiJJ)' iv-
. Senbury. April 8. 1848
TEE CHEAP. :
nruth. Comb nd Variety
STORE.
1 BOCKIUS AND BROTHER,
BRVSH MAHirACTl'RER.
AND DEALERS IN COM BRA VARIETIES
Ml M North Third. Ulna Hat St. and North
raZVASBXJPKtA.
11 7 HERE the offer lor aa'a a eeneral assort
, vV an,at of all kinds of Brushes. Combs aad
varieties which they are determined to sell
. Lower than ran be purchased a sewhefa.
Country Merchants snd others Purchasing i
', the above line wil find it to their advantage to
' rail More purchasing elsewhere as the quality
aad prices will be full guaranteed against a
awas petit lea. ,
PbfWphla, an 3, 1841 1y
SELECT POETRY.
' From the Louisville Journal.
THE GOLDEN RINGLET.
Here is a little golden tress,
Of toft, unbraided hair,
The all that's left of loveliness
That once was thought so fair :
And yet, though time has dimm'd its sheen
Though all beside hath fled, ,
I hold it here, a link between
My spirit and the dead.
Ves, from this shining memory still
' A mournful memory springs
That melts my heart and sends a thrill
Through all its trembling springs ;
I think of her, the loved, the wept,
Upon whose forehead fair,
For eighteen years, like sunshine, slept
This golden curl of hair.
Oh, tunny tress, the joyous brow,
Where thou didst lightly wave,
With all thy sister tresses, now
Lies cold within the grave ;
That check is of its bloom bereft;
That eye no more is gay ;
Of all thy beauties thou art left
A solitary ray.
Four years have passed, this very morn,
Since Inst we fondly met
Four years, and jet it seems too soon
To let the heart forget
Too soon to let that lovely face
From our sad thoughts depart,
And to another give tho place
She held within the heart,
Her memory still within my mind
Retains its sweetest power ;
It is the perfume left behind
To whiscr of the flower.
Each blossom, that in moments gone
Bound up this sunny curl,
Recalls the form, the look, the tone
Of that enchanting girl.
Her step was like an April rain
'cr beds of violets flung ;
Her voice a prelude to a strain,
Before the song is sung ;
Her life, 'twas like a half-blown flower,
Closed ere the shades of even ;
Her death the dawn, the blushing hour
That opes the gates of heaven.
A single trees! how alight a thing
To sway such magic art,
And hid each soft remembrance spring
Like blossoms to the heart!
It leads me back to days of old
To her I loved so long,
Whose locks outahone pellucid gold,
Whose lips o'erflowed with song.
Since then, I've heard a thousand laya
From lips as sweet as hers;
Yet when I strove to give them praise,
I only gave them tears ;
I could not hear, amid the throng
. Where jest and laughter rung,
To hear another sing the song
That trembled on her tongue.
A single shining tress of hair
To bid such memories start 1
- But, tears are on its lustre there,
- I lay it nn the heart. .
Oh ! when in Death's cold arms I sink,
Who, then, with gentle care,
Will keep for me dark brown link
A ringlet of my hair 1 amilia.
0clcct $alc.
IPS AND DOWNS.
"Father," said Janette Oakely, a beauti
ful but vain young woman, "I have made
a call on Miss Fraster to-day, and what do
you think I saw there 1"
"Probably a giddy unthinking girl like
yourself, who is miserable till she possesses
everv new extravagance that folly sets
afloat," was tbe nail-gay, nan-grave re'
sponse.
. w. M ....
"Why, tatner," continued janeue," now
...a f . .a, . IT llkkt
ran you say so!" and assuming one of her
most witching smiles, she added, "Miss
Frasier has cot a new Piano Forte of supe
rior tone to her old one, besides being far
more richly and beautifully finished."
"Well, what then, child!" rejoined her
father, with nensive gravity
"Why, I was thinking hut you win ne
offended I fear."
"Not in the least, unless you do wrong
as well as think. So vou was thinking
that" '
I should like a Piano like Matilda's,"
was the half timid resrionse of Janette,
"I thought as much," continued ner
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father, "but what is the cost ot such an ar
ticle, mv dearl"
' "Only fifteen hundred dollars, father,"
and Janette crouched down by his side and
regarded him with a fond deprecating
mile.
Charles Oakely loved his daughter ; his
band pushed aside tbe rich tresses that sha
ded her polished brow, and imprinting
thereon a parent's kiss, he added, fifteen
hundred dollars is a large sum for such an
article, my dear, 11 it notT"
"True, father, but are you not as well
able to afford it as Mr. Frasier 1"
"It mav be so. but what say you my
dearf addressing his wife who had been a
silent but not a disinterested listener.
, "I am anxious that Janette should prevail
with you. She and Matilda are each to
give a party soon, and I have a desire not
to be eclipsed by her in the ornament of
tbe parlor,
"A most commendable pride," was the
eauivocal response.
"But," continued he, "what will you do
with the old or rather the present new
one 1 You surely do not want two.
"0, we can sell it td Gen. Chandler!
HAnt.f iMidi n A m rlnir it rrtWrh whilp hpte
veste
esterday, though she thought it rather ,
high priced," eagerly responded Janette,
who was happy to remove the only barrier
to the gratification of her then predomi
nant wish.
"Perhaps she too may wish a fifteen hun
dred dollar one! Gen. Chandler is surely
able to afford one even more costly."
"O, no father, she does not wish a bet
ter than mine, she has quite a plain taste
that way."
"How stupid she must be, Janette, must
she not?" queried Oakely. Janette's face
was crimsoned at his pointed irony, but be
fore she could frame any reply, her father
rose, and as he left the house said, "Let
Miss Chandler have the Piano Forte at her
own price."
Janette's heart leaped for joy. She was
not to be outdone by Matilda Frasier, and
she looked forward with exultation to that
day when she could astonish her friends by
such an unexpected display. Her mother
shared her fond anticipations, and it was
soon arranged between them that Miss
Chandler should be put into speedy posses
sion of an article they now wondered could
ever have found a place in their dwelling!
Charles Oakely commenced the world
empty handed, nor had he accumulated
much when he sought and obtained a part
ner to his poverty. Both were poor, and
although they lived quietly together, his
tfe was ever sighing lor the splendor ol
the rich. Though, in the main, a good sort
of a woman, she lacked that uncommon
sense so requisite to contentment in the
possession of little, as well as that know-
edge of that domestic economy, generally
important in the acquisition of more.
Janette, her only child, and so like herself
form and mind, was just verging to
womanhood, and being heir, as was suppo
sed, to an ample fortune, she looked for
ward to a splendid career in the circles of
gaiety and fashion. Had she possessed in
er mother a wiser counsellor, sne wouia
have been, at eighteen, a very different per
son. She lacked not the principles of an
opposite character, but under the false train-
n of her mother, they naa neen sunerea
to repose uncultivated, while the weeds of
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tolly were cnerisnea into un extensive
growth. These defects of mind were the
more striking, as they marked the more
strongly the contrast with a pleasing a
peakitfg eye, and a faultless form.
Her father possessed noneot tne invoiity
of herself or mother, and owing to the stern
ness of his integrity, and his industrious
habits, success followed his eflorts till the
time we have chosen tor his introduction
to the reader. He had been, what is called
down in the world, but now he is so far up
as to rank among the first in wealth in the
city of his residence. But the time has ar
rived to drop delineations and to group
them again before the reader.
"Well, father, Miss Chandler is to have
the Piano. She will send for it this after
noon," said Janette exultingly.
"At what price my dear ?
"The same it cost. When she found
you had left it to her to set the price, she
would not take it at less, uo you minK
the sale a good one !"
"Certainly the best vou ever made
being the only one."
"Here is the check for the money a
third of the cash for the new one."
"So vou will lose one thousand dollars
after all, will you my dear ?" was the grave
response of her father.
"What say yon," he continued, address-
ng his wife and daughter, "to a new car
riage the present one is somewhat soiled,
it not !"
"By all means," was the exclamation of
both ! "Let the new one be fashioned like
Judge Arnold's, though not so sparingly
mounted !"
Oakelv bowed, as if in assent, while
bitter smile played over his features for a
moment, when all was calm again. 1 ne
result of the conference was a resolve to
sell the principal part of the furniture all
ol a costly character, and replace it with
that more fashionably splendid. liotn
mother and daughter retired to rest that
evening full of importance which their
new display was about to give them among
their wondering neighbors. Alas for the
poor Frasiers. They were to be over
whelmed by a competition in nnery, wnicn
a fifteen hundred dollar fiano had provok
ed!
A few days sufficed to clear the house of
its most valuable furniture, i.nough was
left however for convenience and comfort,
and when this was donej the mother and
daughter were all impatience for that which
was to replace what Wat gone, liut two
days remained to prepare for Janette's par
ty. Evening came, but Oakely was yet
absent and nothing had yet arrived, tie
came, but much later than usual, yet he
atoned partially for his delay by the more
than usual kindness of hi- manner.
"Where can you have been, Charles, so
late " was the query of , his wile, as she
seated herself fondly by his side,
"l have had an uncommon share of bus!
ness to attend to, my dear, and I rejoice
that it is done. Come daughter bring for
ward the Bible and read a portion of it for
our mutual instruction."
The calm seriousness with which this
was uttered forbade any remark on hia usu
al request. It to happened that Janette
opened the book at the fifth chapter of
Matthew, beginning, "Blessed fire the pure
in spirit, for theirs ii the kingdom of Heav
en," and by the time sne had finished the
first paragraph her voice became choked
and unable to proceed, she gave way to
emotion in all the violence of grief. Her
mother from sympathy or other cause, Was
equally anected, nor was uakeiy tree irom
the same emotion. When hit wife and
daughter had become -somewhat composed
he knelt down between them with the sol
emnly expressed words, uLt tU pray !n
And he did pray in all the fervency of a
hrnkpn unirit. He acknowledged his forA
grtfulness of God, implored 1!!".
Ills UW11, HUM lur llltr Ollia ui mu uuu.iu lu
him by the strongest of human ties pray
ed that both he and his might expel from
their hearts the pride so long cherished.
Thanked his Creator for the gift of existence
the blessings associated with it, as also
for the hopes of an immortal hereafter, in
spired by the promises of the Gospel. He
commended the world to the care, of him
on whom all are dependent for the life that
now is, as well as that which is to come;
and so deeply did the spirit of his petitions
affect his wife and daughter that they join
ed with him in that most solemnly expres
sive phrase, amen.
That night a new spirit reigned in the
breasts of the Oakely family. And when
what they had been half led to believe, was
confirmed, when they were assured that
the wealth so long idolized was theirs no
longer scarcely a regret or a murmur es
caped the lips of mother or daughter, but
both seemed anxious to forget that misfor
tune had fallen on them. A situation more
befitting their means was procured, and
thither they repaired to enjoy far more real
pleasure than when rioting in what seemed
an exhaustless abundance. The party, the
carriage, the piano, and costly furniture
were forgotten. Economy and industry
took the place of fashionable folly, and
they are now prosperous And happy. Mrs.
Oakely lost her pride, but found content
ment. Janette lost the same, as also a fop
pish beau who had an eye to her fortune,
but she had found her own good qualities,
and has applied herself to their improve
ment, as well as the worth of a young man
ho sighed for her when rich, and who
adores her now while comparatively poor,
d whom she will doubtless reward ere
long, by surrendering herself to his care.
and keeping. Such is a sample of the "rp.s
and downs" ot life, and happy would it be
if all who toppled from the pinnacle of
fortune could gain as much by the descent
as did the Oakely family.
JOURNEYMEN AMD APPRENTICES.
Journeymen and apprentices, says the Me
chanic's Advocate, spend a deal of precious
time most foolishly. They have many lei
sure hours which they might devote to prac
tical improvement or mental acquirements.
They work hard to be sure but is there
not as much recreation to be found in
conning the pages of a cood book, or look-
ig practically into the mysteries nnd cuii-
sities of arts, sciences, and every branch of
useful mechanics, as in lounging about ' the
streets, rolling time, money, health and char
acter, in play houses, taverns, low groceries,
cock pits and race courses 1 There is every
thing substantial and valuable to be gained
in menial pursuits, such as are open to every
oung journeyman or apprentice in our coun
try but in the pursuits and habits of an op
posite character, everything is to be lost and
nothing gained. The former cannot fail to
make them respectable men and valuable
mechanics the latter course is just as sure
to bury their reputation, blast their hopes,
and destroy, sooner or later, their usefulness
11 their respective vocations. The history
of the industrial classes is crowded on every
page with innumerable and most melancholy
instances, which prove the truth of our re.
marks. It is a solemn fact and we are pained
with the observation of new and startling
confirmations. It is sickening indeed, to see
young active intelligent, healthy mechanic
choosing at the outset of his career, paths
which lead only to disreputable connections,
detestable habits of dissippation, disgrace and
poverty It is however, of so common occur-
rence as to pass almost without comment or
rebuke.
The Lead Cellar below the Dome at
Bremen. This cellar has the power to pre
vent all the corpses placed into it from cor
ruption, and to render them dry like leather.
The name, lead cellar, is derived from the
word "Zini," (lead) that was formerly pre.
pared here when the dome was filled with
lead. A fowl brought here, is diied up in a
se'eignt, and becomes like leather
1. In the first coffin here, is an old Eng
lish Major, who has been here 110 years
2. A student who fell in a duel, 170
years.
3. An old Swedish countess, 140 years
4. A Swedish General, with his aid-de
camp, who perished in tne tniriy years'
war. He was wounded in his throat. His
aid-de-camp got a ball.
S. A workman who fell down from tbe
steeple, broke his neck in the fall, has been
here 400 years.
6. An Enclish lady, who suffered of a
cancer at her chin, 190 years.
7. This one is the last, a workman, Con
rad Ehiers. He was carried in and placed
dowu here in order to try if the cellar still
kept its power; has been here fifty or sixty
vears.
8. In the great coffin here, is s Swedish
Chancellor, named Von Engelbreohteu. It
it not opened on account of his surviving
family. " .1
Tbe Catholio Priests in Austria demand s
separation of Church and State, in order that
they may have entire control of the church
revenue snd patronage. 1 .
Mosss't Telegraph CLAiM.JudgeCrsnch
of Washington hat decided that Mr, Bain has
a right to s patent for hit mode of telegraph
Ins. This decision it against the Morse
-a- -
monopoly., , i'
Too 8ics to ss Hcko. Tbe doctors sre
at work trying to curs up a man in South
Carolina, that ho may be executed according
to few. .... . .', , . ,. j
Speech of Got. McDowell, of Ta.
The most eloquent and thrilling speech
delivered during the late session of Congress,
was that of Gov. McDowell, of Virginia, on
the bill to form one or more states out of the
territories of California and New Mexico.
His appeals for compromise and concilia
tion on the slave question electrified the
House, and even drew tears from many of
the members. The whole speech is pub
lished in the Washington Globe, and occu
pies nine and a half closely printed col
umns. We regret that we have room only
for the concluding portion, which is as
follows :
As the powers of this Government, and,
therefore to a great extent, the dwstinies of
this country, are intrusted officially to our
hands, it is our duty to give all vigilance ol
ear and eye and thought to everything
that can' affect them. It is for us, then, to
be warned by that voice that comes from all
the records of all the past, and comes to
admonish us that lost republics are lost for-
ever; that though their spirit never dies,
but abides upon the earth to enlighten, to
mprove, and to oiess 11, yet mat 11 never re-
rives to regenerate themselves. Look at
the reptile and the tiger, as they ha'e dwelt
for ages in the inhabitations ol tne Holy
City : look at despotism, worse than either,
as it has nestled and brooded with its raven
ing upon the very bosom of buried repub-
ics.aiid be warned of that mysterious doom,
that evident ordination Irom on high, which when it comes, will come with a far keen
connects, in eternal fellowship, the privi- Pr crueller, and bitterer pang.
eges with the punishments ol nations, and
never allots the highest blessings but side
by side, with the heaviest woes. Let us
be warned by this fated conjunction to put
away all passion, and prejudice, and parri-
ide unacknowledged latent parricide
from amongst us, to gather round and press
to the side of our country ; to heal the cha- I
fings and wounds ot her spirit by tne unity
and fervor of our own ; to be ready our-
selves to sacrifice and suffer, if need be, that
she mav never sorrow or perish : and if
there is a curse in all our borders, let it
abide for the overwhelming ot mm wno
coming not up in the hour ot trouble to
succor, to defend, and to save;-yes, for the
overwhelming ol bun and such as him; lor
where, under frovidence, but upon tne army had been lost, when dispirited, beat
heart the constant and devoted heart en, wretched, the heart of the boldest and
where but upon the patriotism and the vir- faiihfulest died within them and all for an
tue of her sons in the country to rely in the
moment of adversity, or at any time to rely
against the perversion 01 ner own mighty
elements of. good into mighty engines of
evil!
Give us but a part ot that devotion
which glowed in the heart of the younger
Pitt, and of our own elder Adams, who in
the midst of their agonies, forgot not the
countries that they had lived for, but ming-
led with the spasms ol their dying nour a
last and imploring appeal to the Parent of
all Mercies that he would remember, in
eternal blessings, the land of their birth;
give us their devotion give us that of the
young enthusiast ol 1'aris, who, listening to
Mirabeau in one of his surpassing vindica- and representative of that same West Au
tions of human rights, and seeing him fall gusta, give to me as a banner the propitious
frnm hia alnnd. dvin? fas a phvsician OTO- men-air T hav endeavored to support, help
claimed,) for the want of blood, rushed to
the spot, and as he bent over tne expiring
man, bared his arm lor tne lancet, ano cnea
again, with impassioned voice 'Here take
it oh: taketromme; let me uie, so mat
Mirabeau and the liberties of my country
mav not perish!"
Give us something only of such a stunt as
Una Rnmethino- onlv of such a love of
country, and we are safe, forever safe : the
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troubles which shadow over ana oppress us
now, will pass away as a summer cloud.
Lyu mrasuic ui nnunauic wiu,
...... i n n,..nh . m..-.n nr man.
sure of unconquerable disagreement will
be pressed upon us here. Ihe latai ele
ment of all our discord will be taken from
amongst us. Let gentlemen be entreated
to remove it, as the only and solitary ob
stacle to our perfect peace. Let them be
adjured by the weal of this and coming
J J . . 1
acres by our own and our cnnaren g gooa
by all that we love or look for in the
progress and the glories of our land, to
leave the entire subject of slavery, with
every accountability it may impose, every
remedy it may require, every accumulation
of difficulty or of pressure U may reach to
leave It ail to tne inierest, vt me wisuuiu,
and to the conscience of those upon whom
the providence of God and the Constitution
of their country nave cast it. ieave u 10
them, now anl forever, and stop, While it
is yet possible to stop, the furious and blind
Headway of that wild and road philanthro-
. a . . V
py, wnicn is lignting up ior tne nation h-
self Ihe fires of the stake, and which is rush-
ing on, stride after stride, to an intestine
struggle that may bury us all under a hard-
er, and w;ickeder, and more incurableslave-
ry, than any it would extinguish.'
Nothing but asreravation of heart and of
lot have been hrought upon the podr slave in n0 graaii measure, indebted for their tuo
by the rash and unwarrantable efforts hich regarded by the new school of
have been put forth to relieve him. i They
have broken down the looting ne had reach
ed, crushed the sympathies he had won,
embarrassed and accursed the fortunes they
were intended to control. The generous
and elevating influence of our free inttitu- red in it. i Tbe fine arts were ail but preten
tions was relaxing hit bondage, bettering bed. The solemn peal of tbe organ was ss.
hi conditions, lining up lusti amticr, turn- perttilious. 1110 ii;iii muwu ui uu
ing upon him the public anxieties snd the wu't masques was dissolute. Half of the
uublic counsels, st a fit snd deserving ob- nna Dainiinirt in Encland were idolatrout.
ject of provident and public provision
wat changing, at an Pnis,irje aspeci 01
I r 1 I 1 1 ! '.. f A Wnl . ! w. a a n.
political snd fanatic, came from abroad to
tcourge him with . demon visitation, to
wrench him from the arms 0 his only true
nis me. wnen ine suuuui nuuimuumu.
snd onlv caroble benefactors, to throw him
back again u pon the earth, a thousandfold
more suspected, smretiv and tsrlorn for-
ever'; riveting upon him every fetter it
would loosen, poisoning eVcry blessing it
would bestow; and so filling his whole
case with elements of hopelessness, explo
sion, and evi, that the heart shudders whilst
it weeps to look upon it. What are they
who cherish and direct this spirit? Friends
of the slave 1 They are robbing him of eve
ry vestige of liberty he has left. Friends
of humanity? They are staking it, ruth
lessly striking it, upon the issues ot a massa
cre and convulsion. Friends of the coun
try 1 They are rapidly becoming its iron
homicides, cleaving down its Constitution
with a murderous arm, and tearing it limb
from limb!
Should it ever happen as the result of
any interference and action here, that some
insurgent ebullition of the slave will break
out among us, the blood of our people will
be made to stream in our dwellings, and
ooze up from the bosom of the soil that feeds
1 . ... at a a a
it. It will cry aloud, like that 01 aoci, ior
vengeance against the brother's hand that
sned it ; and vengeance would be had,
though every drop that was left should be
poured out in one anguished and dying ef-
fort to obtain it. Nothing but Heaven
could stop a people so lashed up to phren-
Zy by rage, and suffering-, and wrong, from
sending back upon the firesides and the
fields of the guilty that visitation of calami-
ty and death which had first been sent to
desolate their own. spare, on spare us tne
curse of a broken brotherhood of a ruined,
ruined, ruined country. Remember that
there are no groans like the groans of ex-
piring liberty no convulsions like those
which her dying agonies extort. It took
Rome some three hundred years to die.
With far deeper vitality than hers, our end,
Give up our common and united country
give it up at the call of some sectional
interest sacrifice it to the phrenzy of fa
naticism or of passion let it go down,
down, tinder some monstrous and horrible
struggle of brother with brother and you
will set it back as vou have it now the
home of happiness, the city upon a hill
towering up lor the light and lor the heal-
ing of nations you will get thus again
when the "shadows shall go back upon the
dial of Ahaz" when he who sent out the
luminary of day upon his march shall again
put forth his hand and stop him in his path-
way of light
it is said, sir, that at some dark hour of
our revolutionary contest, when army after
instant, seemed conquered except the un-
conquerable soul ot our father-chief it is
said, that at that moment rising above all
the auguries around him, and buoyed up by
the inspiration of his immortal work for all
the trials it could bring, he roused anew
the sunken spirits of his associates by this
confident and daring declaration : "Strip
mc (said he) of the-dejected and suffering
remnant of my army take from me all that
1 have lett leave me but a banner, give
me but the means to plant it upon the
mountains of West Augusta, and I will yet
draw around me the men who will lift up
their bleeding country from the dust, and
set her free." tiive to me, who am a son
me to plant it upon this mountain top of
our national power, and the land 01. v ash
mgton, undivided and unbroken, will be
our land, and the land of our children's
children lorever. ho help me to do tnis at
this hour, and generations hence, some fu-
hire son of the South, standing where I
stand, 111 this same honored Hall, and in
the midst of our legitimate successors, will
bless and praise and thank God that he, too,
f aI. - T . C I ..II
can say 01 mem, as x 01 you, aim ui uu
around me these, these are my brethren,
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TUE PURITANS.
FROM MACAULAT'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND.
Morals and manners were subjected to a
resemoiing tnato. ,e synagogue
tha BvnnnniTlin u-DB in ita worst titatB. 1 nO
-jo-t, -
dress, the deportment, the language, the stu-
dies, the amusements ot the rigid sect were
regulated on principles resembling those of
the Pharisees, who, proud of their washed
hands and broad phylacteries, taunted the
Releemer at a Sabbath-breaker ant! a wine-
bibbert jt was 08in to bang garlands on a
Mni a friend,8 heaUh, to fly a
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wear love-locks, to put starch
touch the virginals, to read the Fairy Queen.
Rulos such as these rules which would have
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spirit of Luther, and contemptible to the se-
rene and philosophical iutelleot of Zwingle,
threw over all life a worse than monastic
g,,,. The learning and eloquence by
wicn lhe great reformers had been eminent-
t jtincniiOiilrand to which they had been
Protestants with suspicion, if not with aver
n '- ...nnlo. ..tvMlt
sion. Borne precismua ww viuyi. -
teaching the Latin grammar, because the
names of Mars, Bacchus snd Apollo, occur-
and (he 0,her half decent. The extreme
purUan wal tt once known from other
men
., .. . . . , .. ,.
D' ';- ua"l
ton"rtr of hi. face, the upturned wh.t. tif
his eyes, the nasal twang wiih which he
tpoke, snd sbovs all, hit peculiar dialect
He employed, on every occasion, the imagery
land styls of Scripture. Hebraisms violently
introduced into the English language and
metaphors borrowed from the boldest lyric
poetry of a remote age and country, and ap-'
plied to the common concerns of English life
Were the most striking peculiarities of this
cant, which moved, not without cause, the
derision both of prelatists and libertines!
They interdicted, under heavy penalties, the
Book of Common Prayer, not only in churches
but even in private houses. It was crime in
a child to read by the bedside of a parent,
one of those beautiful collects which had
toothed the griefs of forty generations of
Christians. Severe punishments were de
nounced against siich as should presume to
blame the Calvin'stic mode of worship. Cler
gymen of respectable character were not
only ejected from their benefices by thousand
but were frequently exposed to Ihe outrages
of a fanatical rabble. Churches and sepul
chres, fine works of art, and curious remains
of antiquity, were brutally defaced. Tha
parliament resolved that all pictures in the
royal collection, which contained representa
tions of Jesus, or of the Virgin Mother, should
be burned. Sculpture fared as ill as paint
ing. Nymphs and Graces, the wotk of Ionian
chisels, were delivered over to the Puritan
stone-masons to be made decent.
Perhaps no single circumstance more
strongly illustrates the temper of the preci
sians than ihoir conduct respecting Christmas
had been, from time immemorial, the season
of joy and domestic affection, the season
when families assembled, when children
came home from school, when quarrels were
made tip, when carols were heard in every
street, when every house was decorated with
evergreens, and every tablo was loaded with
good cheer. At that season, all hearts not
utterly destitute of kindness, were enlarged
and softened. At that season the poor were
admitted to partake largely of the overflow
ings of the wealth of tho rich, whose bounty
was peculiarly acceptable on account of tho
shortness of the days, and of the severity of
the weather. At that season the interval be
tween landlord and tenant, master and ser
vant, was less marked than through the rest
of the year. Where there is much enjoy
ment there will be some excess ; yet, on the
whole, the spirit in which the holyday was
kept was not unworthy of a Christian festival
The Long Parliament gave orders, in 1GC4,
that the twenty-fifth of December should be
strictly observed as a fast, and that all men
should pass it in humbly bemoaning, the
great nntional sin which they and their fathers
had so often committed on that day, by romp
ing under the misletoe, eating boars head,
drinking ale flavored with roasted apples.
No public act of that time seems to havo ir
ritated the common people more. On the
next anniversary of the festival, formidable
riots broke out in many places. The consta
bles were resisted, the magistrates insulted,
the houses of noted zealots attacked, and the
proscribed service of the day openly read in
the churches.
A Strakce Animal. Col. Fremont has
recently despatched to Corpus Christi an ex
traordinary animal, which his party succeed
ed in capturing after a three day's chase, in
the neighborhood of the River Gila. A let
ter received from one of Col. Fremont's par
ty, by a merchant in St. Louis, describes it
asau animal resembling a horse in every
particular, except that it is completely cover
ed with aclose curly wool, resembling camel's
hair in color, and the fineness of its texturn.
It has no mane, and its tail i like an ele
phants. The animal possesses wonderful a
gility, leaping over obstructions ten feet high
Willi all case.
Something Binding on the Nodility.
None but Lords are allowed to receive the
Order of Garters We do not envy them,
for the Garter is generally considered a fit
ting ornament foi calves.
Croup The Journal of Ihdlth, in cases of
croup, advises instant, sudden and free ap
plication of tiie coldest water, with a sponge
to the neck Snd chest; then, after wiping the
patient dry, wrap in warm covering, giving
it freely of cold water to drink.
Whek Butter is to be made, if a little old
butter be put into tho cream, the butter will
come from much less churning. When soap
is to be made, if s little old soap bo put into
the ley and greaxej the soap will be made
with considerable less boiling.
Birds. It is proved that a pair of sparrows
during the time they have their young to
feed, destroy, on an average, every week,
three thousand three hundred and sixty cater
pillars. This calculation is founded upon
actual observation. V
WiVnOerstand, says s Philadelphia pa
per, that preparations sre in progress for the
coinage of new pieces named in the late act
of Congress, but that three weeks sr S month
will probably elapse before any of the dollar
pieces, will be ready. . -
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,Ths LuTHtHAK .CiiuiCH-r-There are now
in the U. States thirty synods of the Luthereri
Church, five of which are in Pennsylvania.
The first synod the synod of Pennsylvania;
wasclabliihrd iu 1747 j the next the synod
f New York, in 1785 ; and the third the
synod of North Carolina, in 1S03. Of the 3d
synods, 15 only sre connected wit,h the Gen-'
eral Synod. The whole embrace CC3 iniui
ten, 1604 churches, 200,000 communicant)
snd s imputation of 1,000,000.