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On Sauaie of in line, 3 timta, I 00 Every subsequent insertion, 45 On Square, 3 ruoiltus, 30(1 ftia months, 4S0 An year, lion Koalneia Cards of Five linea, per rmmim, 300 Marelieuts and nthera, advrrtiaiiur y the year, with tee privikRe of intern dif ferent advertisements weekly. 1000 nf lr(iot Advertisements, nt per sgreement. 'Ha B,1AS5E?., ' ' ATTORNEY AT LAW, SUNBUHY, PA. Business nttencled to in the Counties of Nor thumberland, Union, Lycoming ud Columbia. Iteivr to I P. & A. HtwouiiT, Low UK Si Uahmiih, NoKr.li rV. Km no m a, RiTKOLiia, MrKimiM' A Co. SraatKO, ''imiii oi Co., yi'Sihil. Tilt VCIU I.ATCST AUIUVAL. NEAV GOODS, AT THE STORE OF IRA T. C L EMail T, W1 fHO take this mptliotl of informing his frienda anil rustomora, tliut Isc ha iunl re- ceivrtl ond oiicned a aplciulid nssorlmcnt of NEW (iOODS, which lie ofl'cra to the public at the lowest prices' His stock consists of every vnricly nnd quality, necessary for the farmer, mechanic, and laborer, as well as the profcMsional man, viz: all kinds of 31 e ii s ' A ) pa re 1 . UCH AS CLOTil. CASS1MKIII.S, SATTI.NKTTS, VF.STINCf, 4c. A 1.80: a largo assortment of 'Calkoes, Memidine lie Laincs. Alpaccan, Ithrinns, Sltairh. Ifuiulkcrchitff, Glovn, oiscn. Checks, Cunxhrics, 'Ging' Aunt.., Ij'C. Also a lurye asforlnicut of Boats and Shoes, Jltis and Caps, Gun over Shoes, Also an AssoitTMCNT of ItEAUY MADE CLOTHING. A general assort mi-nt of Groceries, Sugar, Coljw, Tee, Cheese, Mo lassrs, Spices. An assortment of ilardwart, Hails, Steel end Iron. Liquors, Such as Brandy, Gin, Rum, Whinkcy, Sfc fjF Prodnco of all kinds will be taken in ex change, and tile liigho luurLet priue paid fdr tlie ante. Simliury, Nov. 30, 18,10. ly. GEEAT ARRIVAL OF NEW GOODS! , Market Street, Sunbury, Pa., JOHN W. ritn.IN(j rcietrully informs his friends and rtistomers thnt he has just re ceived a lurgr and hnndsome assortment of Dry Goods, Consisting of Cloilis. Cnssimcres, Sattinetts, L I.aines, Calicoes, Fancy und htaplo Guods. AUSO: GROCERIES of every description, nntv.s and mmjicixka ftTJEENSYTARE AND HARDWARE. Fish, Halt, risstcr nnd a general assortment of all audi goods as will suit all elussex J the far mer. Mechanic, Laborer and (ientli'iiu'ii of all professions. The L:nlic Will find a great variety of ull such articles as they will need for the present season, CV Country produce of all kinds taken in ex change at the highest market price. Sunbury, Nov. 9, 1850. MORE NEW GOODS At the iew More of JOHN BUYERS & CO., Market Street, Sunbury. WHO baa just received and opened a large as sortment of new and fashionable goods, of every variety, suitable for the fall and winter sea son, for all persons -, and to which he calls the at tention of friends and customers. Ilia slock con aiau in part of DUV GOODS. MUCH AS Cloth, Cauimrret, Sattinetts, Merinos, De Lames, Calicoes, SUaicls, Jimid kerchiefs, and all kinds uf wear, ing apparel. ALSO: Hardware, Queentiwnre, Groceries, Fish, Salt and Plaster, . Ana all articles that may be wanted by tba eoin raunity. ' The Ladies Will find, by calling at his Uro, (hat he baa not baan unmtiititul ol ineir wiuu, aim respecuuiiy invites them u axamiiio his selection. UT Country produce ef all kinds taken in ex change for goods at the highest market price, Sunbury, Nov, 0, 1850.-Iy, NEW STAGE LINE FROM I'OTTSVILLE TO SHAMOKIN. X 'new line of stages is now running daily be tween the above places. A comfortable two horse stags will Wave Ml Carmel for Hhauiokin, imme diataly after tba arrival of the Pottaville stage at that plaea, S4 will return the next day from Bhamokin, so to meet tba Pottaville stage on its return to PotUvill. From Shamokin to Trevortoa . there will be established a DAILY LINE by next apring so as to connect witnuus una at Bhamokin la the mean time urivata conveyances will be in read I new at btumofcjit on tba arrival of paaaen- VT . , CONRAD KER8HNE&, kin, Dec 14, 1850v-tt TNK-t-pKPfrSD'f celebrVcd and sO Con f res ink fpf Wlfl. wnW reWM by - , December J8, 1850. -w SELECT POETRY. The Blind Mother. BY ABDV ALLIN. Say, shall I nevpr ee t lay fur.e, my chili! 1 My heart is full of feeling utranite. ami wild ; A molher's hopes and heart full joys are mine, My soul is fil led with etmnjr half divine, And never more, my child, ntn I alone, Since thy young heart dolh echo to mine own. Bui shnll 1 never see tliee ? cmi it be, Thai all may gaze, my preeiuus boy, on thee, And yet eMie heart that loves tliee most tore, po, The denrest pleasnra other mothers know, This, this is anuuish, agony reliued ! Oh God, forgive me ! Buoy, 1 am blind. es, yes 1 never knew before The depth of my iillliclion nh, for power, For one short thrilling moment, child, to sraze On thy sweel liny face, llinl others praise, And yet I must lint murmur : (jud is kind But THIS IS DARKNESS HOW I KKEL TlTI blind ! Nay, do not start, mv child, it was a tear That wet thy brow; Ihy mother, boy, is here ; And tlionch I niav not see thee, vet 1 feel Thy velvet cheek against my bosom steal, And none ran harm thee there, nor hand un kind Shall touch mv darling, even thouah I'm blind'! List list it is thy fathr-r step I hear ; Now let me smooth my brow, press back the lear ; Ho shall not timl me weepins. when so bles sed, Willi tbe, my darling, cradled on my breast ; lint could I only see Ihee ! Yel God"s will, Be dune ! Peaoe, thiobbing heart be still. Wrt nre alone nsain. he never enessed What yearnina anguish filled thy mother's breast, When lie diil praise thy features half de fined, He quite forgot that his vonn?; wife was blind. And yet, when his lond arm was round us thrown. His lip half trembled, when it met my own f Oh, should he e'er repent him, he hath weil, A beini burdened wilh n woe so dread ; Should ha grow tired of one so frail and weak, My heart, in that dark hour, would joy to hreak ; Or should bis lip grow cold, his Hand un kind, God help me. badv, then indeed I'm blind ! Rut ehall I never see then Ye my bny. Some future hour my heart shall know that y ; It may not be on earih, bat in thp skies, l yet shall gaze, my itarlmg, in thine eyes, So I will patient he, for frod is kind, roi in yon heaven nol one eye is blind : Select Sale. From th (sftdic1 Nntlwul Mittjnzmr. BERTHA'S FIRST OF APRIL. 1IY MARY v. srExcnn. It was the evening before the first of April, and at the season was backward, a bright hickory fire blazed in the parlor of the Tiverton mansion. With her feet on a footstool, directly in front of the hearth, sat Miss Tiverton, the heiress of the stately old dwelling; and of hundreds of broad acres around it. She was apparently about twenty-five, with very blonde hair and very light ryes, and wilh a supercilious expression of countenance indicative of a haushty, if not an ill-tempered character. Perhops she looked more ill-tempered than usual (hit evening, for she had been in a bad humor all the afternoon, in fact all day. The reason was this. Miss Tiv erton had long made up her mind that there was but one person in the village, whom young Harry Warwick, the son of old Judge Warwick, and the most talented member of the bar in three counties, could posfibly marry and that person was herself. All tne other young ladies of the place, she had persuaded herself, were either too juvenile, too flippant, or loo vulvar', while she was rich and accomplished, and, at she nattered herself, exactly thp right age. Moreover the old iitdse and her mother had often talked the matter over. As the two families had been intimate for fenera. lions, Harry had always visited at the old mansion, anil this was an additional reason why Miss Tiverton considered him as her especial property. Laurriy, however, iiarrv had called ess frequently than of old, a fact which had considerably annoyed the heiress. She naa given no outward expression to her feelings, however, until alia had heard that he was a constant visitor at pretty Berths Howard's. Now the heiress, though she considered it impossible that a marriage could i take place between Harrv anda maiitua-maker, for that was Jlertha'i pro fession, yet was jealous nevertheless. She well knew that an idle fancy misht deprive her of her intended husband almost as effec tually at a serious one, Harry only in tended to flirt little, aha knew : his father would never hear of hit marrvinz t Door girl ; but still If he flirted with one. he might with another, and then farewell to her chance of becoming Mrs. Warwick. This growing uneasiness had been in creased to positive rsge at Berths, the day betore our story oegins. it nsd been Sun day, and in going to church, Miss Tiverton had met Harry. A somewhat loud chal lenge to him, as he walked abstractedly along, and a flow of unceasing small talk from which he could not have escaped if he had wished, had first brought him to her aids and afterward retained hint there. They entered the church together, and as Miss Tiverton invitingly opened her own pew-door, Harry instead of going into his father's, entered hers. Miss Tiverton cal culated, to a certainty, that, after this, Har ry would escort ber home ; but what was her indignation to see him, when the ser vice was over, hurry out before her. She heard, afterward, that he had been seen to join Bertha, but she was oa vexed and proud fo look for herself. However, she went home in ill-humor, rose the next day with a wors one, ond continued to grow more bad-tempered until evening. Suddenly she looked up, and addressed her continent, Miss Brooks, vho sat at one side of the fire-place. They had been talking about Henna, and the conversation, after a five minutes' silence, was now re sumed, "The girl ia a fool," she said, "to im agine, as 1 hear she does, that Harry is se rious. Her father was nobody, at Jeast only a mechanic, and his father before him used to chop wood for my grandfather; and now she goes about, from house to house, at fifty cents a day, making dresses." "A pretty bride for a young lawyer," replied Miss Brooks, with a scornful laugh." "But 1 hear she hasher head filled with all sorts of romantic notions; and fancies be cause she is pretty that some great prince will drive up to her mother's cabin, some of these days, and ask her in marriage." And, at this ironical picture, both ladies laughed. "She is coming here to-morrow, to alter one ol my dresses," said Miss I iverton, "but I've a great mind to send her away, telling her she won't do. I never did trust her yet to make up anything new ; and the last dress she altered 1 dont wear, it's such friu'ht." Aliss Tiverton knew this was an untruth, and that until she had begun to hate Ber tha, there was no dress she liked better. What will not an envious spirit dot "Slay," said Miss Brooks, "a bright idea has struck me. Keep this stuck-up man-tua-maker, by . all means, and we'll have rare fun with the romantic little fool. We'll write her a letter, as if from Harry, full of expressions ol passionate attachment, and concluding with an offer of his hand. She'll receive it here, before us, and we'll see how ridiculous she'll make herself. Oh! it will be great sport." J he cruel and inhuman proposition thus made was eagerly accepted bv Miss Tiver ton, who saw in it an easy way to crush and humble Bertha by making her ridicu lous. "What nn April-fool she'll bp," said the heiress, wilh an almost sardonic smile. "To think of her going home and telling her mother that Harry has offered himself: and then of the jeers at her when her folly is found out. We must manage matters, however, so that we cannot be suspected." "Never fear that," said the companion. "I am excellent at imitating handwritings, and, if you've a single scinpol Harry's, I'll write a letter that he'll almost pronounce his own, it shall be so like." "I've several' notes of his," said Miss Tiver'on, and she produced more than one, all written in answer to invitations. And then pen, ink and paper being brought, the two confederates sat down to their nefari ous task. The next morning, punctual to the ap pointed hour, Bertha made her oppearance at the Tiverton mansion. Any one, whose heart was not steeled against her, would have been won over to loving the orphan girl, by her gentle manners and kind heart. But her present employer only hated her the more for her good qualities. It was a painful morning to Bertha. In a hundred ways she was made to feel her dependent position, by the pitiless Miss Tiverton end her companion, Alas! none can be so cruel to woman as those of her own sex. About mid-day a knock was heard at the door, and a letter was left for Bertha,- Miss Brooks herself had answered the sum mons, and brought in the missive. "This was left, just now," she said, giv ing the letter a toss superciliously into B-- tha's lap, "by a strange boy, who asked if the mantua-maker was working here to day. 1 see it is addressed to yon." And then, with an insolent laugh, she added, "you must have very impatient correspon dents, miss." When Bertha's eye fell on the letter she blushed crimson and became excessively agitated. She did not, however, open the missive, but laying it on the table beside her, went on with her work. Her hand trembled perceptibly. After cruelly en joying this agitation for awhile, Miss Tiv erton said coldly, "Pray open your letter, miss; and never mind us. It may be, you know, a love-lel ter, and very important." And she gig' gled, looking at Miss Brooks. Again isertha blushed crimson; and her voice was low and tremulous and said, "Thank vou I can wait." "N'o, I insist on it," said Miss Tiverton, "Come let us go out of the room, Miss Brooks, since the young lady," and she pro nounced these words ironically, "cannot read the letter unless she is alone," . She rose, as if to go, but Bertha, with a proud effort, picked up the letter, and beg' ging her to be seated, proceeded to open it. 1 he fact was that uertha had recognised the handwriting, and hence not only ber conlusion, but her unwillingness to read the letter before prying eyes. Unly once before had she received a note from Harry, and then it bad been couched in but hill's dozen lines. Those lines, however, had been dearly treasured ; every word and let ter were indelibly fixed in her memory and, when she saw the present missive, she knew at once who it was that bad written it. ' She foreboded, loo, something of its con' tents.' Harry and Bertha had first met, at the judge's house, where Bertha had been making up dresses for bif sifter, Tbe gen tie manaers, intelligent mind and thorough good principles of Bertha had rendered her a great favorite with Isabel Warwick, who, with the enthusiasm natural to her, treated Bertha rather as a friend than otherwise. But though Isabel had been, for several months, absent in the city, Harry had not forgotten Bertha. A walk home with her, from his father's, one rainy night, had giv en him an excuse for railing occasionally. Unconsciously his visits had become mote frequent. Unconsciously also Bertha, so little used to the companionship of one so elevated in mind and manners, had tost her virgin heart. It had been many weeks now since Her tha first made this discovery, which had been brought about by a long absence of Harry from her mother's house. From the day that she discovered her weakness, if weakness it can be called, she had resolutely struggled to forget Harry, But yet there was frequently that in his manner which filled her with blissful hope; a sort of tacit sympathy with her evinced as much by his silence, or by a look, ns by words. In fact, Bertha was in a state of doubt more embar rassing, and almost as painful as hopeless disappoint rnent. To do Harry justice, he was not aware of the effect his vUits had produced. He had sought Bertha's society because it was a relief to him : there was something fresh and soothing in it to his overtasked brain or wearied heart. Of lore he had never thought, Had any one asked him if he in tended to marry a mantua-maker, he would have laughed perhaps, the idea was so op posed to the somewhat aristocratic habits in which he had been educated. But had any one osked him if he would marry Ber tha, he might have hesitated ', and it is a pity some one had nof, for he would then have either ceased his visits, or made up hu mind to wed her in spite of prejudices. Unfortunately no one spoke to him on the subject, and so, in perfect innocence, and thinking only of his own pleasure, he con-' tinned to call on Bertha, The reader can now understand why it was that Bertha, when she had opened the letter, and found that in it Harry offered himself to her, could not, .in spite of the knowledge that prying eyes were on her, restrain her agitation. She made a power ful pffbrt to control herself, and succeeded until she came to the close; but then the certainty, nevpr yet more than vaguely hoped lux, was too much for the poor girl, and she burst into happy tears. iliss I iverton winked at Miss 13 rooks, at which Miss Brooks drew down her face: and both for a minute, remained silent, At the end of that time Bertha hurriedly fold ed up the letter, placed it in her bosom, wiped her tears away, and began to stitch at the dress on her lap. But her torment ors were not willing to let her off" so easily. "Your letter seems to have affected vou," saiJ Miss Tiverton, "I hope it brought no bad news." "No," faintly answered Bertha. "It's very impertinent in me, I know," said Miss Brooks, "but may 1 ask if it was very good news. People only cry at very bad or very good news." Bertha felt that Miss Brooks wished to insult her; but her heart was too full to speak ; so she made no answer. This si lence was mistaken for tameness, and it urg ed the two pitiless women on. "Perhaps it was, as We suggested, a love- letter, after all," said Miss Tiverton. "I'm sure it was a proposal," said Miss Brooks. "And from Mr, Warwick, of course," said Miss Tiverton, 'eeringlv. "They say he's desperately in love with you." Bertha looked i'p, for an instant, with eyes flashing indignantly; and had hall a mind to fling down her work and leave the house. At this evidence of spirit the heir ess fired up. "lloity toity," she said, "you are as proud, miss, as a tragedy queen. But let me give you a word of advice, Mr. Henry Warwick would never marry a mantua- maker." This insolent and heartless speech roused the gentle Bertha, at last, to retaliation. She rose haughtily to her feet, letting her work fall on the floor, and said, lor the mo ment forgetting herself, "Whether Mr. Warwick will ever mar ry me, time will show, but he has, at least, offered to do so, and in this very letter." As she spoke she held the missive up. Then suddenly recollecting that the had exposed her secret, she became covered with confusion, stopped, replaced the letter in her bosom, and bursting into tears, ran out of the room. As she fled up stairs to seek her bonnet, resolved to leave the house where the had been so insulted, the loud and mocking laughter of the two confeder ates pursued her. she remained but a few minutes, only long enough to vent her first passion of weeping, and then, hastily drying her eves, hurried down stairs, hoping, by treading lightly, to leave the house unobserved. But her tormentors were lying in wait for her, to give the point to their bitter jest, and beard her footfall, soft as it was. Sud denly opening the door, as she approached, they stepped out before her, courtesymg mockingly. . , "And so Mr. Warwick has onered him self to you, in that letter, has he" said Miss 1 iverton. "A lawyer to a mantua maker. It looks likely, Jane, don't it!" And she turned sneeringly to her confidant. "But, perhaps, after all," she continued again addressing Bertha, "it would be as well to wait till Mr. Warwick comes in person, in a coach and four, to take you, Miss, for it's not safe to believe letters that irs dated on the first of April. Jhe blood went back upon Bertha's heart as she beard these words, for the whole cruel jest now became evident to her. She felt as if she could have welcomed an earth- 3uake, if it had come at that moment, to elive r per from her tormentors, wbof piti less and mocking, knowing that, for hen own sake, she dare not accuse them, stood i jeering at ber. But no eacthquake came. 1 Unabl to endure her agonji, Bertha, with a groan, rushed past ker inaulters, and gain-t ed the street. She was not even sensiblie of the direc tion Rhe took, so terrible vras the whirl of her emotions. She saw nothing, heard no thing, felt aothing, but that she had been, mocked, ia her deadest and most sacred' affections. . She did pot go far, however Before she had walked a hundred ya-pds her limbs tailed her, and she fell senseless to the ground. We have said she did not even know what directions she had taken ; she had in fact, gone the opposite way from the one she had intended ; and now, when she sank to the earth, she was where she wcAild least have chosen, in front of Judge Warwick's house. Harry himself was at the door, about to go out with bis mother. He saw Bertha totter, and rushed forward, but not in time to save her. Lifting her in his arms, he bore her into, the house, bis mother, with womai)lo sympathy, opening the parlor door herself, that Bertha might be laid on the sofa. Harry tenderly laid his burden down, but in so doing a letter fell from Bertha's bosom to the carpet. He picked it up, to preserve for her, when his eye caught what looked like his own handwri ting; and just nt that instant Bertha faintly opening her eyes, perceived him with it. "Oh ! give it to me," she exclaimed, scarcely knowing what she said, "I know yo did not write it that it was a jest played at my expense give it to mp and let me go I will go to my mother," she said, staggering to her feet, wilh a wild look, and shrinking from Harry's eyes, "let me g.j ti my mother." Her words, incoherent as they were, re vealed to Harry that some cruel jest had been perpetrated on-her, in which the let ter he held in his hand had been made to play a principal part. In the impulse of the moment he stepped forward, and took Bertha's hand. "Stay, dear Miss Howard," he said with emotion. "Yon ore without brother, father, or other protector, and if, as you hint, some one has been playing a jest on you, I will defend you. Pon't turn away from me, Bertha, dear Bertha mother, intercede for me, for you are a woman there has been some cruel, cruel insult here, by forging a letter in my name." He could lesist no longer, but, as Bertha sank sobbing on the sofa, where Mrs. War wick supported her, opened and read I he letter. "Now, in heaven's name," he exclaim ed, "this is too bad. But 1 will shame the perpetrators of this wicked jest, and pro tect you, Bertha, by endorsing what the letter contains. Will you really be mine ?" he continued, kneeling at her, and his mother's feet, while, with the rush of a whirlwind, came over him the revelation that he had long, unknown to himself, lov ed Bertha. "Will you accept my heart and hand 1 It is no sudden affection," he exclaimed, passionately. "1 have known you long. My mother and sisters appre ciate you and will welcome you to their midst. Is it not so, mother! Tell her for me she will listen to you." Had Mrs. Warwick been osked, that morning, if she was willing that her only son should marry Bertha, she might, per haps, have hesitated, much as she valued the gentle girl, for she had, like the wife of a judge is expected to have, very aristo cratic notions. But Mrs. Warwick posses sed a heart, and she was so indignant at the base trick played on Bertha, and wished so much to comfort the sufferer, that she pres sed the fair hand tenderly and became a more eloquent petitioner than even her con. What could Bertha reply! Her own loving heart pleadedly secretly in Harry's favor, and it was only pride that led her to hold back. However, after much entreaty, she was won to consent, which she did at last between blushes and tears. She felt, the next day, almost ready (o retract, fearful that Harry's pity, and not his love, had led to his declaration. But when the judge himself came to solicit the connection for he, too, forgot all minor considerations on hearing of the brutal jest and when Harry recounted to her how he had long loved tier, without really knowing it, she was fain to ratify her ooji sent. It was a bitter nay for Miss Tiverton when she heard how her jt had turned put. But our heroine has long since forgiven her. Occasionally Harry and his wife even talk, with a smile, or JJcitTiu's Fst of &rs.u Bostok pHiLaVTiiBorr. Some of the newspapers of Boston are rather aevere on the philanthropists of that city, who vwdd overturn the constitution and sunder the union for the take of ameliorating the con dition of those unfortunate sous of Africa, now held in slavery, and j-et allow an un fortunate white deUur, ia the last stages of consumption, to be eetit to jail and to die there. This was done under a law which, notwithstanding the detestation against sla very, is allowed on the statute books, and which gives a creditor power not only over the liberty, but, as in this jnance over the life of the debtor. , . . . ; ) II TmqColb Btrrr BrBBi.E.-The Placer Times calls the Gold Bluff excitement an audacious deception. . The effort is made by peculators to keep up the excitement, but the thing is decidedly dead, and those who were caught are decidedly "done." ; ' 1 . ). . Tsadb. Scene, a grocery storer-Exit customer with a jug Grocery keeper to his sons "4qna(hn, did you charge thai liquerl" Yes, sir." Joseph, did you charge that liquor V Yes, sir-ree."; All rigM so hay? J,." , EUILY LIFE OF BISHOP HUGHES, ( Ol (he tatholle t liuroh I A Washington correspondent of the N. Y . Sun writes ns follows of the eminent divine whose mime heads this reticle :; "Circumstances have Recently brought to my knowledge facts connected! with the for mer times of Archbishop llugbs, which go ing strong to illustinte the force of his char acter, can hardly fail to interest the general reader. A distinguished gentleman,, now of this city, distinctly recollects when tis cele brated, htarntd and powerful Divine,, suppor ted not wily himself, but an aged parent, by sodding, planting and trimming gardens, in Chambersburg. Pa. He has often seen him wheeling hie burrow, wilh rake and spade, from dwelling to dwelling, when engaged in this woik, for which he was usually paid fifty cents per diem. John flushes was one of the very best Latin and Greek liugu,ksls in Arrver ica, when just entering upon mntihood. Sub sequently, he made his way to Emmittsburg, Jld., and entered into the service of the cele brated Jesuits' College there as a grower of cabbage! The Institution, according to. the custom with the Roman Csitholio Colleges in this enntttry, has a highly cultivated small farm attached to il, and Hughes being em ployed as a laborer upon it, was placed in charge of the cabbage beds. On one occa sion, seeing one of the lads of the Institution, puzzling over his lasV in Cicero, Hushes re quested him to lei hirp look nt the book, nnd asking him to explain the meaning of a par agraph, to the astonishment of the youth, cor. reeled his rending, lin nlso diclosPil to the boy in the same way the fact that he was a proficient in Greek. .Shortly afterwards, the boy getting stumped on a lesson in !lomer( repaired to thn gardener nnd procured u translation, which when produced as his own, satisfied his tutor by the elegance and perfect correctness wilh which it was rendered int0 English, that it was not the work of llie boy. The latter was then questioned as to who had helped him on in the lesson, ond surpti sed all by declaring that it was '(only Johnny, the gardener lad." Hughes was instantly summoned before the faculty, who were in. credulous ns to the truth of the pupil's story. A Prelect onderlook to examine him, when it turned out that ho was by far the best Greek mid Latin scholar in tho Institution. Wilh the capital judgment of those who mannsa the affairs of the Jesuits everywhere, John Hughes wag instantly made to exchange his cabbages for his humanities, and at onoe became a lutor in the Institution. This was the commencement of the super structure of his fortune and fame, the foundar lion being his native intellect and (lisenergj industry and probity, from his earliest infan cy. Ilu soon became the lending spirit of the Institution, where he remained, until his fame spreading throughout the country, hi church authorities called him to labor in the wider and more important field of the world, Therq are lesous in these excerpt from tlje history of John Hughes, which, youth every where may treasure in memory to its gret futuio advantage." MOT IL ALONE. BY ALiftlC A. WATTS. Xot all alone; for thou const hold Communion sweat with faint u;)d sage ; Ami gather gems, of price pnlolJ, From many a concentrated page; Yon lh' d tenuis, the golden lights of age, Tim poel'a lore, are still thine own ; Then, while such themes tby thought engage, Oh, how canst tLou be ull aloue .' Not nil alone ; the lark's riWi note As, iiiouiiliutf up to heaven, lie sings; Tha thousand silvery sounds that float Above, below, on morning' wings : The softer murmurs twilight brjjigs The cricket's cferip, cicada's glee ; All earth, that lyre of myrjad strings, ts jubilant wilh fife for ih'.'e J Not all nlone; tUe whispeijiig twes., The rippling buxik, the rlarry ky, Have eni-u peculiar hutmouie To soothe, subiLie, nnd tauctiy ; Tb low, sweet beutb of .eveniw!'' f igh, Yor thee Jballi oft n fiieudly tone, To lift thy frateluj I hong at on fiit'll, And say thou art not asi ulwne ! Xot ij'l alone : a waicWul Eye, That note iho wondering spairow' fall, A paring baud i eer nigh, A yjoiioiis Power attend Iha call -When fadneos holds the heart in thrall, Oft i Ilia tenderest merries shown ; eek, then, iio balm vouchsafed to , Aud ihou canst never be alone ! A voesi: gentleman in describing ihe effect f bis tirst waltz, say Jie thOfjsht be was go ing to heaven on a baud of eiusic. For fif teen piinules he appeared Uf be swimming in n sea of rose leaves, with fi blue angel. This soon changed, he says, to delirium of peacock feathers, in yhich his bfiu nt an much mixed up with low necked (rick, musk and melody, thai o ia fed on flutes ever since. i Wash ron Apilk Tsee- Dissolve two pound of potash in a pail of water apply with a brush. It l a very eueciuai warn iestroyinc, if properly applied, most of the Insect tribe taking aheller under (tie bark, beside giving health to the tree by ihor oujh cleansing. Gsttino His Name Up. "I ay, Mr. High flier 'won't you lets feller go with you in that ere balloon 1' '-I could stot poasiidy as bommodate you my dear friend.1 Well, then, be kind enough to Ulr.a my card along, for 1 am determined to gel ro name p eom how or other." ' 1 ' ( Faib words breuk n bone, but foul wo'd manyaona. "" ' '' THE TIIUKE DEGREES Of MASOKRY.. As nn entered apprentice, a lesson of hu-. millity and contempt of worldly riches and enrlhly granduer, is impressed upon hisy mind by symbolic ceremonies, too important in iheircharHCtersevcr to be forgotten. The beauty nnd holiness of chniily are depicted) in emblematic modes, stronger and mora Insting than mere. language can express, and1 the neophjlo ixdirecled to lay a corner stone of virtue,, nnd purity, upon which ha is charged lo erect a superstructure, alilte hon orable to himself nnd the fraternity of which he is hereafter to compoap a patt. In the degree of entered: apprentice every emblematic ceremony is. directedi lo the il lustrations of the heart; in I hat of fellow craft, to the enlargement of the mind. Al ready clotheil in tho. while garment of inno-. cence, tbe advancing candidate is now invented with, the deep ard unutterable trutks of science. Ai length he passes the. porcb of the Temple,, and in his. progress to, the middle chamber, is tangHt the ancient, and unerring melhodl of distinguishing friend Irom a fo But it is not until the third or master' rank; V reached by arduous labor, by study and by worthy conduct, that full uinlimmed ef fulgence of masonry light upon llie enraptur ed vision. In this which is, the perfection of symbolic masonry the purest of truths are unveiled amid the sublime ceremonies None Lut he who has visitpd the holy of holies, nnd travelled in the road of peril, can have any conception of the mysteries un folded in this degree, lis solemn observance defuses a sacred awe and inculcates a lesson, of religious truth, nod it is not until the tieo phyle has rpaohed this summit of our rural, that he exclaimed wilh joyful accent, in, Uie language of the sage of old "Eureka, Eur,eka I huve found at last the long sought trea sure." hi the languaiie of the learned Hut chinson, somewhat enlarged in its illusion, the master mason is a man under the drip trine of love ; saved from tha grave of in iquity, mid raised to the faith of salvation. It is said that the English Governmeni recommended Ilia Pope, indirectly, lo with draw the offensive parts of the bull conslitu-. ting the Ilnmnn Catholic hierarchy in Eng land, particularly the tiliies of the bishops' sees. The Pope, however, turned $ dea,f ear to the recommendation. Rino for Ges.Cass. ring weishing six ounces has been manufactured nt fcan Fran cisco ns a present for Gen. Cass from George H. Make, one of the workmen j;i Jacks ond Brother jewelry establishment Tha tnp is constructed w i'.l, a box nnd glass containing four compartment-, wjth pftjmen fif gold from four distticis. Lake Fi-rr.RiGn. Trie CWsland Herald notes the arrival there of a pa, fly of persons, who have sppnl the past winter in 'he cupper legion. They bring lich nccoynts from ihe copper and iron mines, Ihe winter Iftqra having been very successful. Tiir. President of llie United Btatps, has recognise Jose Haria Gailen, a Consul Gen eial of the Republic of New Grenada, for the United Staves, and J. U flemery as Consul of Mecklenburg chwerin for San Fracisco, Csulornia. Vnitkb Statcs and osta Kica. M. Molliui, wiio arrived in this country, some week ago, was on Monday last presented lr tike President of tbe United Stales, in Ihe ca pacity of .diplomatic representative lo this government from she government of Costa Siea, and received as such. Tue Cot Accounted Fob. Tbe Boston fnst account for the recent cold weather by supposing that Sir John Franklin in going through the North-West passage, forgot to shut t&e front door nfier him. Nitpoleon slew more men in a month than, all tbe Doctor in Europe did in a year. To increase the price of mourning goods, it is supposed that one hero i wwth twu cholera. Nothing softens the heart like sorrow. We never feel so kind towards the distressed as the day we are ruined. Hearts are like op. plea, ihe power that crush I he in makes' itiem mellow. We know a lady who corrects her children when they nre disobedient, by threatening them with a do. of castor oil. When we- were a boy, the prescription for such disor ders was a dose of hickory oil. The Corernoio, Sardinian loop-3f-war, haa brought a cargo to England, for tbe great Exhibition, consisting nf live hundred packa ge of objects of oil, gold work, velvets and silk. The iMiAlirANT of tf Western High land of JJroijRiid, have been rraduallyt desceni!ng. in tlie FCalti of. civilization for thi last forty years. Cot iiH in Horsks. 1 iasaiJ that ihe tmai twigs of cedar chopped fine nnd mixed with, ' Ibeir grain, will cure a coojjh, ami shut il has been used with complete t.m.xets. A foreign mediesl wriija poaaeesing ran dor, ha lately aeied l bit, "phyaici lb art of amusing the patient, wkile nature cures the disease-" . lis that cotuideta how tyile he-dwellsspon the condition of others, will learn bow little the attention of others is attracted bj him self. It is a sign cf wiides lobe willing to rs- Ve instruction ; the raost iolslliiteuf sone- -stUi ased of it-
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